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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1912

Number 1494

 

 

 

 

 

Che Minister’s Blunder

OW, you know, there are anecdotes and anecdotes, short metre and long

metre. I shall give you along metre one, with a snapper at the end. It is

about 2 Scotch-Irish minister who thought he was called to preach the
Gospel. He knew that he had the gift of oratory and he never missed an oppor-
tunity to display it.. An opportunity was afforded on the occasion of a christening.
There was a considerable audience, made up of relatives, friends and neighbors of
the parents. The preacher began by saying:

‘*We have met together, my friends, on a very interesting occasion—the
christening of this little child—but I see already a look of disappointment on your
faces. Is it because this infant is so small? We must bear in mind that this globe
upon which we live is made up of small things, infinitesimal objects, we might say.
Little drops of water make the mighty ocean; the mountains which rear their hoary
heads toward heaven and are often lost in the clouds are made up of little grains of
sand. Besides, my friends, we must take into consideration the possibilities of this
little speck of humanity. He may become a great preacher. Multitudes may be
swayed by his eloquence and brought to see and believe in the truths of the Gospel.
He may become a distinguished physician and his fame as a healer of men may reach
the uttermost ends of the earth and his name go down to posterity as one of the
great benefactors of his kind. He may become a great astronomer and read the
heavens as an open book. He may discover new stars which may be coupled with
those of Newton and many other great discoverers. He may become a distin-
guished statesman and orator, and by the strength of his intellect and eloquence he
may control the destinies of nations and his name be engraved upon monuments
erected to perpetuate his memory by his admiring and grateful country. He may
become an author and a poet, and his name may yet appear among those now en-
tombed at Westminster. He may become a great warrior and lead armies to battle

‘and victory. His prowess and valor may change the map of Europe. Methinks I

hear the plaudits of the people at the mention of his deeds and name. He may
become—er—er—he might—er—’”’ turning to the mother, “What is his name?”’

The mother, very much bewildered: ‘*What is the baby’s name?’’

‘*Yes, what is his name? :

The mother: ‘Its name is Mary Ann.” Mark Twain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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- Twenty-Ninth Year

SPECIAL FEATURES.

Page

2. Let in the Light.

3. Bankruptcy Matters.

4. News of the Business World.
5. Grocery and Produce Market.
6. Financial.

8. Editorial.

9. In Days Agone.

11. Detroit Department.

12. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
14. Dry Goods.

16. Window Trimming.

17. Trade-Marked Goods.

= Shoes.

. Woman’s World.
22. Hardware.
24. The Commercial Traveler.
26. Drugs.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
30. Special Price Current.

UP TO THE METHODISTS.

It is unquestionably true that the
rules of eligibility and government of
the conduct of its members formulat-
ed and enforced by any organization,
réligious or otherwise, are pre-emi-
nently their own affairs and some-
thing about which other people have
no call to worry. It is equally true,
however, that when these matters af-
fecting an organization of hundreds
upon hundreds of thousands of mem-
bers are up for discussion, at a gen-
eral conference or convention, outsid-
ers are permitted to discuss them
and indeed they are bound to do it
anyway. Hence it happens that there
is already very widespread comment
on the proposition which will come
up before the general conference of
the Methodist church, now in session
at Minneapolis, with reference to the
prohibition by the church of indul-
gence in certain forms of amuse-
ments, regarded by other denomina-
tions as harmless, such, for example,
as dancing, card playing and theater
going. The Methodists have been
more strict in this respect than any
other denomination and they have

_adhered very firmly to rigid rules

in their books of discipline. That
some have honored these regulations
more in the breach than the observ-
ance is also unquestionably true. In
doing so they have done violence to
the doctrines of the church and laid
themselves open to discipline.

It is inevitable that this subject
will come up for general discussion,
suggested by the statement in the
report made at the opening of the
conference, that despite an immense
amount of work and the expenditure
of millions of dollars, the Methodist
church membership had _ increased
less than 2 per cent. during the last
year. This the authorities regard as
alarming and, very naturally, thought-
ful, conscientious people would hes-
itate to profess an article of faith and
then avoid or evade its observance.
To this probably may be traced in a
measure, at least, the failure of the
Methodists to have grown as_ they
The rising gen-

eration of Methodists are bound to
be a little agitated not to say disap-
pointed and envious when they see

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1912

the members of other churches en-
joying themselves at the theater and

playing cards in their own homes,’

without apparently being any the
worse for it. Anyhow they are not
thereby violating the denominational
decree. It is pretty generally conced-
ed that whoever leads a consistent
Christian life will win the Christian
reward and that independent of the
mere matter of denominational pref-
erence. If they think that they can
enjoy themselves moderately here
without jeopardizing their enjoyment
eternally hereafter they are attracted
to the church which teaches that doc-
trine. That is not saying the Meth-
odists are not right, or denying that
all the other denominations are
wrong, but it looks more like a con-
dition than a theory. Of course, in
the last analysis, this is a matter for
each individual to decide, and so far as
it is a matter of church discipline, it
is for the representatives of the
Methodist church in conference as-
sembled to determine as the majority
shall decree.

 

SPARE THE WILD FLOWERS.

Some years ago a lady in Washing-
ton State found the business of sup-
plying floral lovers in various sec-
tions of our land with native bulbs
collected by the thousand from the
woods and fields. When a gentle pro-
test was made to this seemingly in-
discriminate uprooting, her reply was,
“T see in this the only possible sal-
vation of our native flora.”

Time has proved that she was at
least in part right. The ax and the
plow and the drainage system have
changed conditions so materially that
many flowers once locally common
are now rare or extinct. Others are
rapidly being decimated. Most de-
plorable of all is the fact that
thoughtless plucking and breaking are
hastening the ravages even more than
the changed surroundings.

There are blossoms which may be
plucked freely, with the assurance
that, like the widow’s cruse, there will
be a prompt replenishing of the sup-
ply. Notable among these are the
stemless blue violets, which bloom,
like pansies, the more freely for the
plucking. But there are others to
which this method is a fatality. No-
tice, if you will, the trilliums, the
lily-like forms of which adorn our
market places, and are all too nu-
merous in the Memorial Day deco-
rations. The triplet of large leaves
which encircle the stem midway from
the base are the plant’s supreme ef-
fort in the work of foliage making.
With the tearing away of these in
early springtime, the root can only
pine and waste away. Every time
we pluck the entire plant | system

which appears above the surface, we
as surely destroy that individual.

Many other plants have their doom
sealed by a similar thoughtlessness.
If you must pick the flowers, at least
select such as are not bound to in-
jure the future beauty of the plant
by their loss. Take pride in your
own park, rather than pleasure in
your aptness at dodging the police-
man and his rules. Nature despoil-
ed can never be the same again. Ev-
ery public park should become the
shelter for the dainty blooms which
seem destined otherwise to become
outcasts.

 

PASSING OF THE CHESTNUT.

The edict has gone forth that the
chestnut tree, one of the most noble
of American trees, is doomed. A
fungus growth is the cause of the
trouble, the spores insinuating them-
selves under the bark, carried by
birds or squirrels, and thus far all
scientific means of batt!e have avail-
ed nothing. The -work is done too
far from the surface for fungicides to
have a chance to work, even if one
can be discovered which will be ef-
fectuai.

The disease, which originated in
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, has
gained a footing in at least eight
states, and the battle is being waged
to extermination within a _ certain
radius of every infested spot. This
is done as a precaution against the
further extension of the trouble, as
every tree infected certainly dies.
Owners of magnificent groves are ac-
cepting the situation in a business
manner and in some instances saw-
mills set up in their mids- and the
trees converted into lumber while
still in prime condition.

With no host tree on which the
pest may propagate it is hoped that
the chestnut disease will die out of
itself, for it seeems that it attacks
no other species. The situation is
to every tree lover pathetic. ‘There
is so much of beauty in the stately
form, and especially in July. when
the trees are loaded with gracefully
curving creamy racemes. The chest-
nut has been a part of our poetry
as well as of our industry. The rail
splitting of Lincoln is a thing of the
past, but there are still many uses
for the tree. We must hope that a
remedy will still be found before it
it too late. Meantime all that we can
do is to watch for indications of the
disease, outwardly shown through the
dying branches.

oe

It is a clear waste of good material
to make sacrifices for a selfish man;
he will absorb all he can get, as if it
was only his due, and never thank
you. Force him to do without and
give place to others until he learns to
divide up.

Number 1494

According to the American Gro-
cer’s figures, there was not as much
drinking last year in this country
as there was in 1910. In the latter
year the per capita cost was $18.90,
and last year it was $18.84. That
means six cents less per capita. The
figures show that each person con-
sumed 20.66 gallons of beer in 1911.
The Prohibitionists will declare at
once that they did not drink a drop
of beer last year, but if they did
not, some one else drank up. their
share to make the figures come out
right. The per capita consumption of
spirituous liquors was 22.79 gallons,
the same quantity as in 1907, and the
greatest quantity on record. The
price of coffee advanced and its use
declined a trifle on that account, the
per capita in 1911 being 9.27 pounds
as compared with 9.33 in 1910. The
per capita amount of tea was 1.04
pounds. The report shows that mild
stimulants are being used with great-
er freedom and that there is more
temperance in the use of spirits.

es eee

Fast upon the heels of the de-
mands made by the locomotive engi-
neers come similar demands from the
locomotive firemen on the fifty rail-
roads east of Chicago. It is demand-
ed that their claims be submitted to
arbitration. This is striking the rail-
roads pretty hard, but the dear pub-
lic in the end will have to pay the
bill. If the demands made are ac-
ceded to it will cost the roads at
least $25,000,000 a year more to oper-
ate. This advance must be made
good some way and the only source
of revenue a railroad has is its rates
and it can be depended upon that
they will be higher if it has to add
millions of dollars to its payroll for
the engineers and firemen. The lat-
ter show good sense in asking that
their demands be submitted to arbi-
tration at the first instance, for that
is the proper process and theory in
such cases.

 

The editor of the Produce News
prophesies that next winter butter
will be selling for from 65 to 70
cents a pound. He says it is now 16
cents more than a year ago and that
next year’s supply is going into cold
storage at 16 cents more wholesale
to dealers than they paid twelve
months ago. The “strictly fresh”
eggs for next winter are now going
into cold storage at a higher price
than last year. He blames the Sulli-
van law which limits the time in
which butter is kept in cold storage
for the present high prices and says
the remedy for the high cost of liv-
ing is in the “back to the land move-
ment,” which will make more pro-
ducers. The prophesy is not a very
cheerful one, and everybody is hop-
ing that it is false.

 

 

 

 

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way and Power Co. needs a well ; : a : I on €en enlisted in any
equipped and well organized publicity bridge, then manager of the Grand Instead of a PEORD HON, sae other way than by the mergine of
bureau. In fact, this may be said to Rapids Gas Light Co., he purchased, prise became a “going concern”, with many interests, was putting itself out
be its greatest and most pressing one after another, the gas properties present earnings sufficient to pay oF danger of what floods or drouth
need and one that will become more jn Jackson, Kalamazoo and Pontiac interest. charges and prospective in- might do to the water Power or acci-
urgent as time passes and its field of | and when, through the application of | crease enough to warrant puting more dents to the long transmission , ires,
useful activity widens. The company modern methods and the investment money in for development purposes. It built costly steam plants at | lint,

owns water power rights on the
Muskegon, the Au Sable, the Grand
and the Clinton rivers, the gas plants
in half a dozen cities, the electric
lighting in a dozen or more towns,
the street railway systems in Saginaw,
Bay City and Grand Rapids and has
lately assumed control under a 99
year lease of what is known as the
Michigan United Railway, a system of
interurbans connecting Jackson, Kal-
amazoo, Lansing and Battle Creek,
with various side lines and extensions.
Put all these properties on a map,
with dots representing the gas, stars
the electric lighting, dashes the water
power and transmission lines and
something else the city and inter-
urban car lines---put all this on a map
and with it descriptive reading matter
and a catalogue of the capitalization,
and it makes a picture which the agi-
tator or demagogue could use with
fine effect as a means of. striking
terror into the hearts of the common
people. One of the Detroit papers
last week, under screamer head line;
and with all the emphasis of double
column type, ran just such a map and
such a catalogue and even the ordi-
nary sane citizen who did not know
better could not but feel the shivers
tun up his back at the idea it con-
veyed that a giant octopus was ex-
tending its tentacles over the State.
The purpose of the publicity bureau
should be to prevent wrong impress-
ions going forth and becoming fixed
as to what the company is doing, its
purposes and methods.

The Commonwealth Power Rail-
way and Light Co., with the capital-
ization of all its subsideraries, is easi-
‘ly Michigan’s greatest corporation,
representing capital to a total of
something like $75,000,000.

Its operations coveralarge portion
of the Lower Peninsular of Michigan
and relate closely ‘to the welfare of
many Michigan cities. But, instead
of being a greedy, grasping octopus,
seeking to throttle the State, it isa
strictly business enterprise and its
aim is to win success by giving the
people good service, and in carrying
out this aim it is spending millions
of capital in developing the resources
of the State and making them avail-
able for use.

The company last year spent up-
wards of $2,500,000 in construction
work, extensions and improvements
and its expenditures this year will be
nearly a million dollars more than
they were last, and not a town within
the zone of its activities but has been
benefitted. The development of the
company from ‘small beginnings is
one of the romances of the State, and
it is a romance that very few people
in the State know anything about. The
Commonwealth, as it is today, repre-
sents the merger of three independent

of needed additional capital, they had
made these properties good, they
merged them into what was known
as the Michigan Light Co. They
also purchased the gas properties at
Saginaw and Bay City, and with them
the electric lighting plants and the
street railway, but these were not put
into the Michigan Light. J. B. and
W. A. Foote, of Jackson, were at the
head of the second movement. They
had been conducting a small milling
business and in some trade acquired
the water power plant at Jackson. In
developing this the possibilities of
water power in the generation of
electric power dawned upon them.
Their financial resources were limited,
but they succeeded in picking up the
water powers at Kalamazoo, Plain-
well, Otsego and at other points, and
in time merged them into the
Commonwealth Power Co. George
L. Erwin was at the head of the third
movement. He was in the real estate
business at Muskegon and the panic
of 1893 left him without an occu-
pation. As a boy he had fished the
upper waters of the Muskegon River
and in the logging days he had
followed the drive its entire course.
He knew the river thoroughly, its
high banks and swift flow and he had
confidence in its value for water
power. He spent an entire summer
securing options along the river and
on what he thought would make good
power sites. His friends laughed at
what they regarded as his folly.
When he had secured his options and
his data he turned his attention to
the financing of what’ he _ believed
would be a great undertaking. He
laid his proposition before Anton G.
Hodenpy! and it was turned down.
He tried the Westinghouse Co., and,
while he received some encourage-
ment, he could get no money: He
tried others and met the same fate.
The water power was there in ample
quantity and the plan was entirely
feasible, but Mr. Erwin could offer no
immediate market for the power that
might be generated and, without a
market, the enterprise could not: suc-
ceed. At last a small syndicate of
Muskegon capitalists decided to take
hold of the enterprise. They ad-
vanced the money to buy the flowage
rights and land under option. They
had surveys made and plans prepared
for a power plant, but before be-
ginning operations they sought for ex-
pert advice and it was to W. A. Foote
who had made such a success of the
Commonwealth Power Co., that they
went. When he had. looked the
ground over he took an interest in the
undertaking and his work was to
supervise the construction. The orig-
inal plan was to transmit the power
to Muskegon to be used in the facto-
ries there. About this time the Grand

It then became easy to interest out-
side capital and what the Muskegon
capitalists had undertaken as a private
enterprise was then merged into the
Grand Rapids-Muskegon Power Co.,a
concern entirely independent of any
other in the State except that the
Footes had an interest in it as well as
the control of the Commonwealth.

The Louds of Oscoda, wealthy
lumbermen and capitalists, are said to
have furnished the inspiration which
lead to the merging of the Grand
Rapids Muskegon Power, the Com-
monwealth Power, the Michigan
Light and the other properties to
form the Commonwealth Power Rail-
way and Light Co. They had lum-
bered for years in the Au Sable dis-
trict and owned the cut over lands
along the river for miles. The lands
were useless for agricultural purposes,
the country tributary to the river was
a wilderness. The Louds knew the
value of the Au Sable water power.
For several years they had been try-
ing to promote its development, but,
lacking immediate earning capacity or
a convenient market, capitalists re-
fused to be interested. How it finally
reached Hardy & Co., is not stated,
but through them F. W. Clarke & Co.,
of Philadelphia, extensive operators
in electric railways and power proper-
ties, were reached and then was
evolved the plan of a general merger
of all the electrical properties of the
State. Hodenpyl, Hardy & Co., put
in the Michigan Light with its gas
and electric properties, E. W. Clarke
& Co., contributed the Grand Rapids
Street Railway and the two firms,
both interested in the electric lighting,
street railway and gas properties at
Saginaw and Bay City put them in.
Then the Footes came in with their
Commonwealth Power and then the
Muskegon capitalists who had carried
the Grand Rapids-Muskegon Co. to
success joined. The gas and elec-
tric properties at Flint and Cadillac
were acquired and other desirable
Properties were picked up. All these
properties were brought together to
furnish an earning capacity and a
basis for the development of Au Sable

and to provide an immediate market -

for the power that might be genera-
ted. The first dam on the Au Sable
took nearly two years to construct
and cost a million dollars. It was
completed early in the present year
and instead of having to hunt for a
market, as would have been the case
had it been an independent enterprise,
it had through the Commonwealth a
market waiting for it at Saginaw, Bay
City, Flint and Pontiac, and the
market proved so large that immedi-
ately upon the completion of the
first power plant a second was started
and is now under construction, with
the probabilities of a third and per-

Kalamazoo and in this city and this
year is building one in Battle Creek,
At the close of the present ye
company will have spent bety. en
$8,000,000 and $10,000,000 in develo;
ment work, extensions and in

fecting its system and Many mo

ar the

re
millions will be spent before its plans
are carried to completion. The vari-
Ous sources of water power and the
various steam plants all over the

State will eventually be hitched up
together and then, in the event of a
failure in any part of the system, all
the rest can be brought into play
supply the deficiency. The purpose
of the company is not to throttle the
State, as the agitators with the maps
may be endeavoring to demonstrate.
but to serve it. Its aim will be to
give the people a service for light or
power as reliable as coal and cheaper.
The laws of the State requiring the
company to secure local franchises
wherever it may operate and giving
the State Railroad Commission juris-
diction over the rates to be charged,
taken in connection with the taxation
power, affords the people every pro-
tection against possible evils.

The Commonwealth company _ this
spring took over on a long lease the
Michigan United Railway Co., an in
terurban system touching Jackson,
Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Lansing
and other points, and, no doubt, the
agitators will point to this as an-
other aggressive movement, but, as a
matter of fact, the property was taken
over to make certain of a good cus-
tomer for the power to be generat
ed on the Au Sable. The new con
trol will give the Michigan United a
modern, up-to-date management and
will improve the service and popu
larize it and make the property prof-
itable, but the primary. purpose, as
stated, was to secure a customer and
to make further development work
on the Au Sable worth while. Oper-
ated together, both properties will be
made more productive and profitable.

What the Commonwealth is doing
for the State will be of inestimable
value and considering the importance
of its interests the company would
be entirely justified in tooting. its own
horn wisely and judiciously instead of
letting the agitators and demagogues
have everything their own way. The
people of the State are intelligent
and reasonable and they have but to
be shown to appreciate what is be-
ing done and treating the enterprise
with fairness. Even the most intelli
gent of people, however, are not in
clined to patience when once they
gain the idea that corporate or othe:
interests are trying to put one over
on them, and there is danger that
with the aid of politicians and those
who have selfish interests to serve
such an idea may be acquired.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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May 8, 1912

BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.

Proceedings in Western District o
Michigan. !

April 30—In the matter of Walter
E. Tuttle, bankrupt, formerly mer-
chant at Petoskey, E. E. Gilbert,
trustee, filed his final report and ac-
count showing balance on hand of
$2,587.98, and an order was made by
the referee calling a final meeting of
creditors to be held at his office on
May 17, 1912, to consider such ac-
count and to declare a final dividend
to creditors. Creditors are directed
to show cause, if any they have, why
a certificate favorable to the bank-
tupt’s discharge should not be made
by the referee.

May 1—In the matter of Henry
Motor Car Co., bankrupt, of Muske-
gon, the special meeting of creditors
was held to-day and a first dividend
of 5 per cent. declared and ordered
paid to ordinary creditors.

May 2—In the matter of the Hen-
dershot Credit Clothing Co., bank-
rupt, Grand Rapids, first meeting of
creditors was held and Don E. Min-
or, of Grand Rapids, was elected trus-
tee by the creditors and his bond fix-
ed at $2,000. An order was entered
authorizing the trustee to sell the as-
sets at public or private sale after
giving ten days’ notice to all cred-
itors. The first meeting then ad-
journed to May 16, 1912, for examina-
tion of the officers of the bankrupt.

May 3—An order was made by
Judge Sessions adjudging John C.
Cole, proprietor of restaurant and

MICHIGAN

saloon at Big Rapids, a voluntary
bankrupt, and the matter was refer-
red to Referee Wicks. An order was
made by the referee appointing El-
bert J. Jenkins, of Big Rapids, as
custodian, and calling the first meet-
ing of creditors to be held at his of-
fice on May 21, 1912, for the allow-
ance of claims, election of trustee,
etc. The bankrupt’s schedules show
assets, including exemptions, aggre-
gating $1,779.28, and liabilities aggre-
gating $1,998, the principal creditors
being as follows:

Huebner Toledo Brewery Co.,
Toledo (secured by chattel
mortgage covering stock in
trade and fixtures, given to
said claimant on April 6,

AGT a ee ee $791.89
Woodhouse Co., city ........ 69.30
A. L. Royce, Traverse City 20.11
Robinson & Aronheim, Detroit 46.58
Harry W. Watson Co., Flint .. 20.50
Michelson & Bros., Cincin-

Hath ee 175.14

D. M. Amberg & Bros., city .. 396.37
Mayer Bros., & Co., Cincinnati 111.34

Anheuser-Busch Co., city .... 3.50
Stroh Brewing Co., Detroit .. 110.00
Big Rapids Gas Co., Big Rap-
MGS ee 48.37
Peoples Supply Co., city ..... 10.54
Geo. H. Seymour Co., city 15.05
Peterson Brewing Co., city 15.00
Cornell Beef Co., city ........ 17.60
Iroquois Co., Blint. ... 26032. 2 32.00
In the matter of - Harry Leach,
formerly a merchant at 31 West
Bridge street, the trustee, Don E.

Minor, filed the inventory and report
of appraisers showing assets of the
appraised valuation of about $1,226,
and an order was made authorizing
the trustee to sell the assets at either

TRADESMAN

public or private sale, after giving
ten days’ notice of such sale to all
creditors.

In the matter of G. W. Stevens &
Son, bankrupts, formerly hardware
dealers at Greenville, the bankrupts’
schedules of assets and liabilities
were received and an order made call-
ing the first meeting of creditors to
be held at the office of the referee on
May 23, 1912, for the allowance of
claims, election of trustee, etc. The
bankrupts’ schedules show the follow-
ing assets:

Real estate (one piece listed

at $1,800, claimed as
homestead exemptions, and

two pieces mortgaged, ag-

gregating $3,500) ........ $ 5,485.00
Cash om hand ............. 2.37
Bills, notes, ete, .......... 1,215.96
Stock in trade |: ... 222... 10,000.00
Household goods, ete., 156.00
Machinery, tools, .......... 100.00
Debts due on open accounts 700.11
Stecks, ef. 200. 700s 500.00

$18,148.54

The following liabilities are sched-
uled:
Secured and priority claims.$ 7,145.62
Unsecured: claim¢e .....:... 13,163.85

Notes discounted, which
ought to be paid by the
TAAKCTS oe ee a. 2,846.26

70.00

$23,225.73
Following is a list of the principal
creditors:

Accommodation paper .....

 

Commercial State Savings
Bank, Greenville ........ $ 7,001.30
(Secured by real estate

mortgages, Citizens Tele-
phone Co. stock and_ in-
stallment notes and con-
tracts.)

C. H. Werner & Sons, De-
CLOT eee
J. BP. Seymour Co. city

Eclipse Stove Co., Mans-
Held eo
Nat'l Trust & Credit Co.,,
CHigd@O 25 ee
Osborne, Boynton & Os-

borne, Betroit: -).... 2...
W. C. Hopson & Co., city..
Baldwin Stove Co., Cleve-

ANG ee ye es
Garland Refining Co., Cleve-

Ind oe
Excelsior Stove & Mfg. Co.,

Quincy oo),
Patek Bros., Milwaukee ...
Wm. Zumach, Milwaukee ..
'T. J. Peterson Co.,  Chi-

CAQG hee a,
Butler Bros., Chicago .....
Delamater Hardware Co.,
Detroit 24.335. 5,
Wm. Franklin Hardware
Co. Milwaukee ..2......
H. W. Johns Maniville Co.,
Dettori
E. A. Kemp, Greenville ...
Co-operative Foundry Co.,
moOcHeSsfer {2.5.02 3
Standard Oil Co., city

Bertha M. Satterlee, Maga-
li Cate 2 ee.
Greenville State Bank,
Greenville 4.2... ..... 22,

Jas. Callahan, Greenville
Mrs. C. S. Varney, Green-
Vil Gee ae
Don S. Stevens, Greenville...
Mrs. Martha Bailey, Green-
ville
Sun Linseed Oil Co., Rich-
WLGHNGE ee
W.' D, Sager, Chicago .....
C. W. Mills Paper Co., city
Benj. Moore Co., Chicago..
Foster, Stevens & Co., city
J. W. Masury & Son, Chi-
CAPO ae

180.02
41.86

59.40

113.02
80.36

TLLTS
120.30
101.25
160.02
335.93
120.30

380.09
291.40

686.03
110.11

91.70
153.85

1,248.20
49.30

3,702.92

225.00
290.00

300.00
1,434.60

100.00
78.52
524.20
80.40

75.27
472.58

105.31

 

 

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Movements of Merchants.

Ludington—C: J. Peterson has en-
gaged in general trade.

Brooklin—W. C. Thompson has
engaged in the grocery business.

Farmington—W. K. Armstrong has
engaged in the grocery business.

Mecosta—F. Patch succeeds E.
Burdick in the grocery business.

White Cloud—E. H. Lemire has
purchased the drug stock of A. G.
Clark & Co.

Battle Creek—George Noble has
engaged in the shoe business under
the style of the Noble Shoe Co.

Hudson—E. Garrison has engaged
in the grocery business under the
style of the Delmonico Grocery.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo City
Savings Bank has increased its capi-
tal stock from $200,000 to $300,000.

Mayville—H. C. Myers has sold his
general stock to Mr. Hays, of Cass
City, who will continue the business.

Detroit—Spencer & Howes, com-
mission produce, have increased their
sapital stock from $25,000 to $50,000.

Sault Ste. Marie—J. H. Roe has
sold his meat market at the corner
of Spruce and Johnstone street to J.
B. Frank.

Lake Odessa—Jason FE. Peacock
has purchased the grocery stock of
C. E. Batdorf and will continue the
business.

Detroit — The Dodson & Larsen
Co., plumber and contractor, has
changed its name to the Johnson &
Larsen Co.

Hillsdale — Harley Brandon has
sold his grocery stock to C. D. Mc-
Laughlin & Co., who will continue
the business.

Ionia—Geo. and Leo Rector have
bought the bakery formerly owned
by F. G. Lauster and will continue
the business.

Kalamazoo—A. McCabe has sold
his drug stock to G. B. Nichols, who
was formerly engaged in the drug
business at Martin.

Fountain—N. G. Nelson, formerly
of Fennville, has just moved his drug
stock to this place and will conduct
an up-to-date drug store. :

Detroit—The Central Cigar Co. has
been organized with an authorized
capitalization of $3,000, which has
been subscribed and $2,400 paid in in
cash.

Sunfield—The Sunfield elevator has
been sold by J. H. Palmer & Co. to
a stock company. George Triphagen,
of Mulliken, will be the new Secre-
tary and Manager.

Sunfield — The Sunfield Elevator
Co. has engaged in business with an
authorized capital stock of $14,000, of
which $7,000 has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Provemont — Egeler. & Putman,
who purchased a new grocery stock
of the Worden Grocer Co. about
two months ago, lost it by fire last
Saturday night.

Parma—E. C. Winslow has sold
his grocery stock to L. C. Howard
and Gipson Thomas, who will con-
tinue the business under the style of
Howard & Thomas. :

Detroit — John Marshall Hinch-
man, Treasurer of the Michigan
Drug Co., died Friday at his home at
the Pasadena Apartments. The fu-
neral was held Monday.

Dowagiac—The dry goods
of the V. E. Haywood Co. has been
purchased by August Richey and as-
sociates, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Eckford—W. C. Willitts has sold
his store building and general stock
to Geo. R. Forman, who will continue
the business. Mr. Willetts had been
engaged in trade here fourteen
years.

Decatur—E. S. Peterson has sold
his drug stock to Roy St. Germain,
who will continue the business at the
same location. Mr. St. Germain was
formerly employed in the West drug
stores in Grand Rapids.

Union—Joseph Hartman has sold
his general stock to John M. Cleve-
land & Son. Mr. Hartman is, with-
out doubt, in point of years of active
service the oldest merchant in Cass
county. He opened his store in
Union in May, 1866, and has given it
his constant personal supervision
since that time, except for a few brief
periods of vacation.

Alma—After being in the business
in this city for twenty-six years, G.
B. Porter sold out four weeks ago
to George Huntoon, of St. Louis. Mr.
Porter intended to leave Alma and
move West, but subsequently con-
cluded that Alma looked good to
him. He has leased the Mills build-
ing, on West Superior street, and as
soon as the building is put
shape he will move in.

Painesdale—John B. Dee has pur-
chased the interest of H. S. Goodell
in the South Range Mercantile Co.
and hereafter will control and man-
age the two establishments of this
concern. Twelve years ago this busi-
ness was established, Mr. Dee being
manager of the store at Baltic and
Mr. Goodell in charge of the one
at Painesdale. The business has
grown to be one of the largest and
most successful in the copper coun-
try. Mr. Gdodell will devote his en-
tire time to the oil trade. He will
continue to reside at Painesdale dur-
ing the summer, but plans ultimately
to make Houghton his home.

into

. stock

Flint—By a peculiar co-incident, the
lease which he held on the building
at 611 South Saginaw street, expired
Tuesday night just an hour before
death came suddenly to E. R. Sager,
aged 70, a pioneer furniture dealer of
this city, as he was working in the
garden in the rear of his daughter’s
home, on Asylum street. Mr. Sager
was injured two years ago when he
jumped out of a buggy in which he
and a daughter and granddaughter
were riding and averted a runaway,
when the horse became frightened at
a Pere Marquette train. The injuries
developed into typhoid, which caused
a hardening of the arteries and
brought death by inches to the aged
man.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Three Rivers—The Eddy Paper
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $85,000 to $160,000.

Holland—The Chas. P. Limbert
Co., furniture manufacturer, has in-
creased its capital stock from $100,-
000 to $300,000.

Escanaba—The King Lumber &
Cedar Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $40,-
000, all of which has been subscribed
and paid in in property.

Lansing—The Ajax Lighter Co. has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $6,000, of which $5,000
has been subscribed, $500 being paid
in in cash and $4.500 in property.

Owosso—The property of the de-
funct Western Dry Milk Co. has been
sold to the American Milk Co., of
Chicago, and the sale has been con-
firmed by Judge Angell, of the Unit-
ed States Court at Detroit.

Detroit—The Long Manufacturing
Co., manufacturer of auto  accesso-
ries, has merged its business into a
stock company under the same style,
with an authorized capitalization of
$300,000, which has been subscribed,
$2,181,25 being paid in in cash and
$297,818.75 in property.

Rochester—Charles_ S. Chapman,
head of the Western Knitting Mills,
died at the Pontiac State Hospital
Sunday. Death was the result ot
choking on a piece of meat. Mr.
Chapman suffered a physical break-
down two years ago, and a long trip
abroad failed to bring any improve-
ment. Recently his condition became
such that it was necessary to remove
him to Pontiac, where he has been
since. He was 48 years old.

Detroit—Two large deals in fac-
tory properties have just been closed
which involve an aggregate invest-
ment of more than $250,000 in land,
new buildings and plant extensions.
The Long Manufacturing Co. has
sold its property, on Cass avenue
from Burroughs avenue through to
Amsterdam avenue, to the Cadillac
Motor Car Co., and has purchased a
new factory site, 270x120 feet on the
north side of East Grand boulevard,
.betweer Cameron and Richmond ave-
nues, from W. W. Newcomb. The
Long company will begin at once the
erection of a new plant, containing
double the floor space of its present
quarters, plans having been prepar-
ed by Dayton architects. The num-

 

May ¢
ber of employes will be augn ted
and the output of automobile dig
tors will also be largely incre i

SS ae ei ee
Look Out For Him.

The Tradesman js authoriz, tg
warn the trade against a Man who
claims to represent the Grand Rap.
ids Safe Co, and the Herring '{ajj.
Marvin Safe Co. in this territory. He
was in Grand Haven a few day. ago
and sold a safe to a busines: ian
who was referred to the Grand Hay.
en State Bank, which Purchas: | its
equipment through the Grand pids
Safe Co.

The man has no authority ‘rom
either house to represent them :.: this
territory. He is described as nan
about five foot six, dark complexion-
ed, wearing spectacles and With one
or two diamond rings on the 4 Cers
of his leff hand. Any information

that will lead to his apprehensio) wil]
be cheerfully received and proniptly
acknowledged by the Grand snide
Safe Co.

~~... —___
After New Industries.
Bendon, May 7—The Bendon Im.
provement Association was formed
here on May 6 for the purpose o
ting industries to locate here and
the improvement of Bendon and \i-
cinity, with the following officers:
President—F. B. Reynolds,
Vice-President—B. H. Bennett.
Secretary—A. G. Anderson.
Treasurer—W. E. Widrig.
General Manager—A. Allen.
Directors—E. H. Cook, H. Mec
Lean, S. D. Burke.
A. G. Anderson, Sec’s

—
Bean Market Stronger.

The bean market has shown a ereat
deal of strength during the |
week. A great deal of interest
been shown in strictly choice hand
picked pea beans. There is a fair (:
mand for white seed _ beans,
brown Swedes, red kidneys and ot!
varieties seem to be very plentif:
Many farmers seem anxious to ¢:
tract their crops for fall delivery, |
so far there seems to be no dema
for future beans at anything like ©:
sonable prices. E. L. Wellman

——_+--.

May 6—In the matter of the
thuanian Co-operative Store |
bankrupt, the first meeting of cr
itors was held and Chas. V. Hildi:
of Grand Rapids, was elected tru:!
by the creditors and his bond fi:
at $4,000. John Boekhout, Felix b
linis and Geo. A. Anderson, of Grau‘!
Rapids, were appointed appraiser:.
The first meeting was then adjour:
ed to May 24, 1912, for examinatio’
of the officers of the bankrupt.

———_.-~+

Frank S. Coleman, of the Granc
Rapids Savings, and Adolph Bran‘.
of the Kent State, have gone to Lo-
Angeles with the Shriners. Clyce
Ross, of the Commercial, intended to
go, but the excursion left on April
30 and, as this would interfere with
going fishing, Mr. Ross cancelled ‘1's
reservation.

—_—__++ 2.

The Worden Grocer Co.
stock of groceries to Mrs. J. White-
fleet, who is to engage in that line o!
business mt Ottawa Beach.

sold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

May 8, 1912

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Produce Market.

Apples — Jonathatis, $5.50; Bald-
wins, $4.50; Russets and Greenings,
$4; Western box apples, $3@3.50 per
box.

Asparagus—$1.85 per crate of two
doz.

Bananas—$4 per 100 ths.

Beets—65c per bu. for old; 90c per
doz. bunches for new.

Butter—The quality arriving is
fully up to the standard, and the re-
ceipts ate meeting with ready sale
of atrival. The near future is likely
to see an increase in the make, and as
the market is very high and sensi-
tive, even a slight increase will’ prob-
ably bring lower prices. Creamery ex-
tras command 31c in tubs and 32c in
pritits. Local dealers pay 25c for No.
i dairy and 18¢ for packing stock.

Cabbage—$2.85 per bbl. for Texas.

Celery—Florida, $2.50 per crate;
California, $1.10 per doz.
Cranberries — Late Howes, $6 per

bbl.

Cucumbers—$1.35 per doz. for hot-
house.

Eggs—Receipts continue liberal
and the market is steady at %4c per
dozen off. The quality arriving is
the finest of the season and the de-
mand for storage is very large. There
has not been more than a third as
many eggs put into storage during
April this year as there were last
on account of prices holding so high.
Local dealers pay 16%4c, case count.

Poultry — Local dealers pay 13c
for fowls and springs; 8c for old
roosters; 10c for geese; 14c for ducks;
16@18c for turkeys. These prices are
for liveweight. Dressed are 2c
higher.

Grape Fruit—Choice Florida, $7 per
box of 54s or 64s; fancy, $8.

Grapes—Imported Malagas, $4.50@
5.50 per bbl., according to weight.

Green Onions—i5c per doz. for
home grown.

Green Peppers—50c per small bas-
ket.

Honey—18c per tb. for white clov-
er and 17c for dark. :

Lemons — California, $4.75; Mes-
sina, $4.25@4.50.
Lettuce — Hothouse, 14c per fb.;

head, $1.50 per bu.
Nuts—Ohio chestnuts, 16c per fb.;

hickory, $1.75 per bu.; walnuts and.

butternuts, 75c per bu.

Onions—Texas Bermudas are in
ample supply and excellent demand
on the basis of $2 for white and $1.65
for yellow.

Oranges—$3@3.25 for Navels.

Pieplant—$1 per 40 tb. box for
either home grown or Illinois hot-
house.

Pineapples—Cubans have declined

to $3.75 for 24s, $3.65 for 30s and
$3.50 for 36s.

Potatoes — Prices on old range
around $1.30 per bushel and new at
$2.50 per bu.

Radishes—30c per doz. for
house.

Spinach—$1.25 per bu.

Strawberries — The situation has
never been worse than during the
past month. Berries were of a poor
quality and receipts small. Rains in
Louisiana just at the opening of the
season made it almost impossible to
pick and what berries were gathered
were soft. Receipts have been larg-
er the past week and the quality is
also improved. Prices quoted ‘were
around $2.25 per case of 24 pints.

Sweet Potatoes—$6.25 for Jerseys.

Tomatoes—Six basket crates, $3.75.

Turnips—50c per bu.

Veal — 5@10c, according to the
quality.

hot-

——_$ so +___

Clarence U. Clark has been elected
President and Treasurer of the Na-
tional Piano Manufacturing Co., of
Chicago, and will devote his entire
attention to the business hereafter.
The factory will be removed from
Chicago to Grand Rapids, location
having been secured in the Leonard
building, on Market street. The
pianos manufactured by the above
named company are marketed by the
Automatic Music Co., which has sev-
eral stockholders in this city. The
accession of this new factory is a
valuable addition to the manufactur-
ing interests of the city.

—_—_+-—___

W. R. Roach, who was operated
upon at the U. B. A. Hospital nearly
five weeks ago for appendicitis, has
so far recovered as to be able to re-
turn to his home in Hart to-morrow.
The receivers of the Pere Marquette
Railway tendered him the use of a
private car for the journey, which
will make it comparatively easy for
him to take the trip at this time. As
soon as he is rested he and his es-
timable wife will go to Westbaden,
Indiana, for two or three weeks.

—_—_-

With total deposits of $2,283,850.90
the Peoples in its last statement
made a new high mark, beating its
best former showing by something
like $200,000.

——>+--____

A new_ grocery store has been
opened by John Jorden on Madison
avenue. The Worden Grocer Co.
furnished the stock.

—_2-+__

H. S. Harris has opened up a gro-
cery store at Saranac, the stock. be-
ing furnished by the Worden Gro-
cer Co.

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—Refiners’ prices are with-
out change. Prices at the present
time are quite reasonable, but the
fact that until the Senate either acts
on the pending sugar bill or ad-
journs there will be no speculation.
Many persons seem to be impressed
with the idea that there is little rea-
son to fear a change in the duty on
sugar during the present session of
Congress. The agitation of the beet

. and cane growers of the United States

against the removal of the duty has
had its effect in preventing legisla-
tion which might have been in favor
of removal.

Tea—The latest cable from Japan
confirms a higher opening market
than last year by about 1%4 cents per
pound, although later reports, as the
leaf continues to arrive, may change
the price somewhat. The local mar-
kets in this country are somewhat
stimulated. and dealers are buying
more freely on the prospects of high-
er teas for the new crop. Formosas
remain steady and Ceylons and In-

dias are firm. Gunpowders are very

scarce and high.

Coffee—All grades of Rio and San-
tos are steady on the same basis as
a week ago, with the demand pared
down to actual wants. Mild coffees
are also steady to firm and unchang-
ed in price. Java and Mocha are
quiet at ruling prices.

Canned Fruits—There has been but
little increase in demand during the
past thirty days, but the market is
firm on most lines. Prices were not
nearly as high in comparison as dried
fruits last fall and therefore have
sold about as well as usual. Gallon
apples, which usually advance at this
season, show no inclintion toward a
higher range as yet. California can-
ned goods are in moderate request at
unchanged prices, and the chances
are that spot stocks will be fairly
cleaned up before new are available.
Small Eastern staple canned goods
are unchanged and dull.

Canned Vegetables — There has
been a slight increase in the demand,
but not as much as was expected.
Peas are as firm as ever and there is
no doubt about the shortage in sup-
plies. Tomatoes are weaker, both in
the spot and future market, and job-
bers’ quotations are fully as low as
they can buy supplies at the present
time. Futures are lower, however,
and almost on a level with prices of
a year ago. Corn is unchanged.

Dried Fruits—Peaches and apricots
are unchanged in price, and peaches
especially are in good demand. Cur-
rants are slightly easier with fair
seasonable demand., Raisins are dull
at ruling prices. At the present time
prices are lower on evaporated apples
than at the opening of the season last
fall. The prospects in California for
a large crop this year have had the
effect of lowering prices for future
delivery. Some of the packers are
said to be carrying more supplies
than they care to and are making
price concessions in order to unload.

Syrups and Molasses—Corn syrup
is strong, but unchanged in price.
Compound syrup shows no change
and is dull. Sugar syrup is likewise

 

_to make sales.

5

very quiet and shows no change in
price. Molasses is quiet and  un-
changed.

Cheese—Thé trade is now being
supplied entirely from new cheese,
which is as good as can be expected
this early in the season. The quali-
ty is likely to show a further im:
provement every day, and the quanti-
ty will likely show further increase
and as a result the market will de-
cline. As a matter of fact, prices are
already 1@2c below a week ago.

Rice — The strength in primary
markets continues to develop and
prices are higher than a short time
ago. That these conditions do not af-
fect the prices of spot rice is be-
cause the majority of jobbers have a
fair supply on hand which was pur-
chased some time ago at lower pric-
es than prevail at the present time.

fish—Cod, hake and haddock are
unchanged and dull. Domestic sar-
dines are weaker, and have not yet
developed the demand which they
ought to be showing by this time.
Imported sardines are quiet and un-
changed. Salmon is scarce, firm and
high; demand is fair. Mackerel are
dull, and the market on most grades
is in buyer’s favor. Norway 1s are
about cleaned up, and other grades
are not in very large supply, never-
theless trade is so dull that most buy-
ers would probably shade somewhat
Irish mackerel are
comparatively cheap, as compared
with last year.

Soap—lInstead of giving free goods
which they usually do at this time,
some manufacturers have sent out no-
tices that an allowance of 15 cents
per box will be given with five box-
es or more.

Provisions—Smoked meats are firm
at 4c up on all cuts. Pure lard is
firm at %4c advance over last week,
and a good consumptive demand.
Compound is also firm at 4@'%4c ad-
vance, owing to high cost of raw
material and a considerably better
consumptive demand. Barrel pork,
canned meats and dried beef are in
fair demand at steady prices.

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The Inner Brace Chair Co. has
engaged in business for the purpose
of manufacturing and selling furni-
ture and furniture braces and deal-
ing in furniture patents, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $1,000, all of
which has-been subscribed and paid
in in cash. The stockholders and the
number of shares held by each are as
follows: Arthur B. Russell, School-
craft, 98 shares; A. M. Karr, Chica-
go, 1 share, and H. C. Winkleblech,
Chicago, 1 share.

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C. H. Alexander, Manager of the
Rapid Heater Co., has purchased the
residence property at 532 Paris ave-
nue and has already taken posses-
sion.

Oo

Morrison Bros. have engaged in the
grocery business at Fourth and
Broadway, purchasing their stock of
the Worden Grocer Co.

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Rodleder Bros. will engage in the
grocery business at Macatawa Park.
The stock was supplied by the Wor-
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Rule of Three Appears To Apply To
Banks.

There is an ancient superstition in
police circles and among the news-
paper men that events travel in threes.
If a murder occurs they look for two
more to follow. One fire is sure
to be followed by two more. And
so on down the list of crimes and
accidents. The same rule of three
seems to apply to the banks. Kryn
Van’t Hof, manager of the West
Bridge street branch of the Kent
State Bank, went wrong with a
shortage of two years’ accumulation
for his bondsmen to make up. This
had scarcely ceased to be a _ sensa-
tion when it was discovered that J.
Edward Johnson, Teller at the Mich-
igan Trust, was short in his accounts,
due to playing the bucket shop. And
now the third case develops. Frank
Sobiszeweski, Jr., Teller in the sav-
ings department of the Monroe ave-
nue branch of the Kent State, has a
shortage said to be about $7,000 to
explain. He was arrested in Chi-
cago last week, where he had gone
to buy an interest in a saloon, which,
by the way, is a queer shift for one
who started with banking as a ca-
reer. Van’t Hof got away with about
$15,000 and his method was to draw
checks on dormant accounts, using
his position as manager to cover up
the crooked transaction. Johnson’s
shortage is said to have been around
$62,000, and his method was that of
check or draft kiting. Sobiszewos-
ki’s method was a modification of that
used by Van’t Hof, except that he
took liberties with the savings de-
posits instead of those of a general
character. Van’t Hof used his steal-
ings in riotous living. Johnson pour-
ed his into stock gambling. The
third thief had a Chicago girl and her
influence was not for righteousness.
In all three instances the stealing had
been going on for some time. Those
who were engaged. in it knew that
detection must come sooner or later.
Yet they continued to pose as hon-
est men and to claim consideration
and standing as such up to the very
hour of their exposure. In the case
of Johnson he was brazen in insist-
ing upon his innocence until his guilt
was proven beyond doubt. It is easy
to understand how a man handling
money may yield to a sudden tempta-
tion and in a case of this kind he
may be deserving of sympathy. In
these three cases, however, the steal-
ing was long continued, carefully

planned and with all the appearances”

of having been done deliberately. If
this does not indicate moral turpitude
and premeditated crime, what does?
These men may be deserving of sym-
pathy, as all who go wrong may de-

serve it, but sympathy should not
stand in the way of the exercise of
stern justice against them. Their of-
fending is not against individuals or
against their employers, but against
the entire community because the
banks are public institutions, the de-
positories of the money upon which
business and industry depends, of the
savings of the toilers, of women and
children. The man who steals from
a bank is a menace to the welfare of
the community and should be dealt
with accordingly, not only as a pun-
ishment but as an example.

 

Now that the trinity has been com-
pleted, it is to be hoped that there
will be no more cases of shortage.
After many years of immunity from
such crimes it seems strange that
three should come within as many
months. That these cases have oc-
curred is not due to any laxity or
carelessness on the part of the man-
agement. No matter what may be
the precautions taken, it is necessary
to trust somebody and it just happen-
ed that three of those who had been
trusted proved unfaithful and their
villiany was discovered at about the
same time.

 

Two of these three cases occurred
in branch banks and this has given
rise to discussion among the bank-
ers as to whether the branch banks
are really worth while. The Kent
State has five branches, located re-
spectively at Monroe avenue and
Lyon, on West Bridge, West Leon-
ard, Plainfield and Wealthy avenues.
The Commercial has two, one on
West Bridge and the other an South
Division; the Grand Rapids Savings
has one, at Madison square, and the
City Trust and Savings one, in the
Porter block, at the head of Mon-
roe. The branches give the various
suburban business centers banking
accommodations, which means a han-
dy place to get checks cashed and
money changed, and they all bring in
more or less business. But after pay-
ing rent, the necessary clerk hire and
other expenses, it is.a question if
even the most profitable of these
branches pay enough to warrant their
maintenance. It is impossible to
keep the same careful watch over
them and the manner they are con-
ducted as over the main bank, and
they are always a source of annoy-
ance and worry. A large part of the
business that goes to the branches

» would come into the main bank if

the branches did not exist, and the
impression is gaining in banking cir-
cles that the branches could be clos-
ed without serious injury to any in-
terest and without any serious incon-

    

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venience to the people. The street
railway facilities are so good that
there is not a suburban business dis-
trict farther away than ten or at the
most fifteen minutes from Campau
Square and with such service nobody
would be seriously inconvenienced by
the lack of a bank at his very door.
At present the closing of the branch
banks is mere discussion, but it
would not be strange if it took on a
more tangible form.

 

The Committee of Congress inves-
tigating the alleged money trust
wants information upon which to
base some of its conclusions and to
gain it has addressed a series of en-
quiries to state and national banks
and trust companies all over the
country. A regular statement of con-
dition, as of April 30, is asked for
and in addition are the following
schedules:

Schedule A. Stocks,
other securities owned.

bonds and

Schedule B. Securities now owned
by the bank purchased or otherwise
acquired from any officer, stockhold-
er, individual firm or corporation in-
terested in, or connected with, this
bank.

Schedule C. Loans made to any
National, state, savings or private
bank, trust company or _ individual,
secured by stock in financial insti-
tutions.

Schedule D. A list of all syndicate
or underwriting operations in which
the bank has taken part in the past
five years, with a brief description of
the securities; total amount of issue;
price which the underwriters paid for
the securities; the price at which they
were marketed and the net profit to
the bank. If any stock, either com-
mon or preferred, was given to the
underwriting syndicate as bonus or
otherwise state in detail such fact.

Schedule E. Amounts due to and
from banks.

Schedule F. Miscellaneous resourc-
es and liabilities.

Schedule G. A list of officers, di-
rectors and stockholders, their stock-
holdings and loans.

Schedule H. Show whether an-
other banking institution occupies
the same office; whether it has prac-
tically the same officers and clerks;
what institutions are affiliated with
the banks; whether stock of affiliated
institutions is owned by stockholders
of the bank and if, as a corporation,
to what extent, also, if as to indi-
viduals, to what extent; does trans-
fer of one stock convey ownership of
the other; is stock held in trust for
benefit of stockholders of the bank;
how many banks have been merged
in the organization, either directly or
indirectly by the dissolution of other
banks and. the purchase of their busi-
ness and assets? Give the names of
these, absorbed banks, their. capital

stocks and the dates they were taken -

over. Answers to. the foregoing
questions must be sworn and_ sub-
scribed to by the cashier and three
directors of the bank.

The queries have not yet been re-
ceived here, but they have reached
the Eastern banking institutions and
in the East the disposition is to re-
fer them to the attorneys. The East-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ern banks claim they have no desire
to cover up any information that may
aid the investigation, but they con-
tend that the Committee is asking
for something it has no business to
enquire about and which the national
banking law expressly protects as of
a private nature. As for the state
banks and trust companies they fail
to see how the Congressional Com-
mittee has any authority over them
under any circumstances.

 

The Old National, according to the
city papers, is seeking options on all
the Monroe avenue frontage from the
Weston building, which it already
owns, to Lyon street, with the view
to making the hotel plan cover the
entire block. If this deal goes
through it will take the Kent State’s
Monroe avenue branch at the corner
of Lyon. ‘It is understood the Kent
State has given an option, or, at
least, has given it to be understood
that it will not stand in the way of
the deal going through if the other
property owners are lined up. What
price will be asked for the corner is
not stated, but on a basis of what
the others are asking it will be around
$60,000. At this price the Kent
State can write off its real estate
item of $60,000 as given in the state-
ments entirely and carry its West
Side branch property, at the corner
of Scribner street, as clear profit. The
Kent State inventories its furniture
and fixtures at $12,500, which certain-
ly is very modest when it is remem-
bered that it includes the outfits at
the main office and for five branches.
Except the Grand Rapids Savings,
the Kent State is the only bank in

town that does not own its own
home, but, no doubt, it will some
day buy something good. It is true

the Grand Rapids National City is
in leased quarters, but in due time
it will build something that will be
a credit to itself and the city on the
present site of the Wonderly build-
ing and the adjoining property now
occupied by the City Trust and Sav-
ings.

It may be three or four years and
possibly longer before the Grand
Rapids National City builds, and as
yet nothing like plans have been con-
sidered, but among the down town
merchants and among the real _ es-
tate dealers there is already talk of
what might be done. One interesting
suggestion is that the bank, instead
of occupying ground floor space
might take the entire second floor,
leaving the first floor for stores. Fac-
ing Campau Square ground floor
space for store purposes would be
preferred and would bring high ren-
tal, and as for the bank, with wide and
easy stairs and an efficient elevator
service, the second floor would be as
desirable and in some respects more
so than the first. In the larger cit-
ies it is not at all uncommon to have
the banks upstairs instead of on the
street level, and in Grand Rapids the
Michigan Trust Company has never
felt it a handicap to be on the second
floor.
second floor will be a question also
for the Old National to decide when
its plans for building are complet-

Whether to be on the first or

ed. The Old National’s problem is not
quite the same as that of the Grand
Rapids National City, but high ren-
tal for the ground floor space would,
no doubt, be quite as welcome in its
returns on the investment.

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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. 83, 88

Am. Gas & Elec. Co., Pfd. 46 48
Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 29914 30014
Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 299 300

Can, Puget Sound Lbr 3 3%
Cities Service Co., Com. 98 100
Cities Service Co., Pfd. 8814 90
Citizens Telephone 95 96

Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt. Com. 63 65

Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt. Pfd. 90 91%
Dennis Salt & Lbr, Co. 100
Fourth National Bank 200
Furniture City Brewing Co. 75
Globe Knitting Works, Com. 110 112%

Globe Knitting Works, Pfd, 100» =6101

G, R. Brewing Co. 210
G. R. Nat’l City Bank 178 =180
G. R. Savings Bank 185
Holland-St, Louis Sugar, Com. 9% 10%
Kent State Bank 260
Lincoln Gas & Elec. Co. 40 42
Macey Co., Com. 200
Macey Company, Pfd. 98 100

Michigan Sugar Co., Com. 92
Michigan State Tele. Co., Pfd. 100
National Grocer Co., Pfd. 89 90%
Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., Com. 66 66%
Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., Pfd. 91 9214

Peoples Savings Bank 250

United Light & Railway Com. 103 105

United Lt. & Railway 1st Pfd. 89 91

United Lt. & Railway 2nd Pfd. 80 82%
Bonds.

Chattanooga Gas Co. 1927 95 97
Denver Gas & Elec. Co, 1949 95 97

Flint Gas Co. 1924 96 9714
G. R. Edison Co. 1916 97 99
G. R. Gas Light Co. 1915 100% 100%
G. R. Railway Co. 1916 100 101

Kalamazoo Gas Co. 1920 95 100
Sag. City Gas Co. 1916 99
May 7, 1912.

 

Merchant’s Accounts Solicited
Assets over 3,000,000

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“Gea DAs DSO WINGS BANK :

Only bank on North side of Monroe street.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Kent State Bank

Main Office Fountain St.
Facing Monroe

Grand Rapids, Mich.

- $500,000
- $300,000

Capital - - -
Surplus and Profits

Deposits
634 Million Dollars

HENRY IDEMA - = S
J. A. COVODE - z
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A. H. BRANDT - - - -
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Paid on Certificates

President
Vice President
Vice President
Cashier
Ass't Cashier

 

You can transact your banking business
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if interested.

 

 

SURPLUS FUNDS

 

 

surplus.

Individuals, firms and corporations having a large reserve, a
surplus temporarily idle or funds awaiting investment. in choos-
ing a depository must consider first of all the safety of this money.

No bank could be safer than The Old National Bank of
Grand Rapids, Mich., with its large resources, capital and
surplus, its rigid government supervision and its conservative
and able directorate and management.

The Savings Certificates of Deposit of this bank form an ex-
ceedingly convenient and satisfactory method of investing your
They are readily negotiable, being transferable by in-
dorsement and earn interest at the rate of 314% if left a year.

 

 

New No. 177 Monroe Ave.

THE OLD NATIONAL BANK
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Old No. 1 Canal St.

 

 

 

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MORE ZEAL THAN SENSE.

Under the auspices of the city
Pastors a crusade against the social
evil has been started in Grand Rap-
ids. The opening gun in the cam-
Paign is a statement showing the
conditions that are said to exist in
Grand Rapids and pointing out the
This
paper is in hearty accord with every
movement designed for the moral up-
lift of the community or that will
improve moral or any other condi-
tion in-Grand Rapids or elsewhere.
In the present instance the Trades-
man’s disposition is to wait for de-
velopments rather than commit. it-
self in advance to all that may be
done.. Social conditions in Grand
Rapids are not ideal, nor for that
matter are they ideal in any large
city or even in the small towns, and
there have been cases known where
they have not been all that they
should be right in the sanctuary it-
self. But Grand Rapids is not that
awfully wicked city the pastors in
their opening statement would have
us believe. Vice does not run ram-
pant and not until tangible proofs
are produced are we willing to con-
cede that. the social evil is as deep
seated or widespread as represented.
There are rooming houses and other
places in Grand Rapids where no
questions are asked, so long as bills
are paid, but this paper is not willing
to believe that every place in .town
where lodgers are taken is of that
character or even that there are many
such, and making sweeping asser-
tions is quite likely to libel and in-
jure many honest and decent people
who depend upon what they receive
from their lodgers for their support.
This present movement is unfortu-
nate in that it is led by the clergy.
The Trademan has the highest re-
spect for the clergy and _ counts
among the pastors some of its best
and warmest friends. Individually
the clergymen, as a rule, are sane,
reasonable and intelligent, but take a
bunch of them and you have a lead-
ership that is exceedingly unsafe to
follow. The reason for this is that
the policies are usually shaped by the
narrowest minded and most painfully
pious few rather than by those of
broad gauge and who know the ways
of the world. A very large element
in the Methodist church sees no
harm in dancing and a still larger

need of regenerative activity.

‘iS sometimes

element believes card playing in the
home or the social circle is innocent
of soul destroying influence, and yet

the church continues to denounce

dancing and card playing because
a few straight laced brothers and sis-
ters who probably never danced in
their lives or played a game of cards
insist upon it. The Presbyterian
church still clings to the doctrine of
infant damnation, not because any-
body even in the church believes in
it, but because a few insist upon re-
taining the old creed. All the other
churches profess to believe things
which have gone into the discard
years ago and which, in actual prac-
tice, nobody accepts. That this is
true is not due to lack of sincerity
on the part of the pastors, but it is
because those who know better have
not the moral. courage to stand up
against those who adhere to the an-
cient doctrines. It is the same with
these modern moral and other cru-
sades when such movements are led
by the clergy. It is always the ex-
tremist who sets the pace,.the nar-
rowest minded, the most prejudiced,
those who are least experienced with
the ways of the world, those who
know least of what they are talking
about. It is to be hoped this present
moral movement will result in good,
but those who are engaged in it
should bear in mind that unwise zeal

more productive of
harm than benefit.
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MAKING ITSELF RIDICULOUS.

The Grand Rapids Anti-Tuberculo-
sis Society is in danger of making it-
self ridiculous in the eyes of sensible
people in its methods of campaigning
against the fly. The fly is a nuisance,
as everybody will freely testify. More
than this, it is a disseminator of dis-
ease and a menace to the public
health. It ought to be exterminated
and by energetic effort along right
lines could be exterminated as effec-
tually as the yellow fever spreading
mosquito has been wiped out in New
Orleans and Havana and Panama. In
the fight against the mosquito the
method that has brought’ success has
been to search for their breeding places
and apply the remedy there. The
Anti-Tuberculosis Society, supposed
to be sane and intelligent, instead of
following the Southern plan, is start-
ing its campaign with the offer of
a bounty for dead flies brought in
to its headquarters, and women, chil-
dren—everybody, in fact—is invited
to get into the fly catching game. The
bulletin of instructions advises those
who would catch flies to first get a
trap. Whether the Society receives a
commission on the sale of fly traps
is not stated. Having the trap, the
next thing is to properly bait it and
then set it out where the flies are
thick. It is suggested that in close
proximity to the garbage can might
be a good place. The humane way
to kill the flies that are caught is to
pour hot water over them, and then
they are to be carefully dried, put in-
to a paper bag and brought to head-
quarters to be counted. The bounty
is 10 cents per 100 flies and special
prizes will be given to those who
bring in the greatest number. This

a TE TT ITE TTT TT ne

_ that sanitary conditions

method of campaigning may be pro-
ductive of a lot of dead flies, but it is
not easy to see what permanent ben-
efits are to be gained. The fly is a
nuisance, but it is an effect, not a
cause. When we fight typhoid we
seek the source of infection; we do
not offer a bounty on the germs
that may be found in the victim’s
system. The fly breeds in filth. Its
presence in numbers is a sure sign
about the
premises are not what they should
be and that there is dirt and decay-
ing matter somewhere around. If the
Society wants to make an effective
campaign its efforts should be to-
ward a general cleaning up of back
alleys, cellars and similar places. Let
ordinances be asked for and, when
enacted, rigidly enforced requiring
that receptacles be provided for the
refuse from stables and that these re-
ceptacles be screened, that garbage
cans be kept clean and properly pro-
tected, that rake and hoe and broom
be used where they will do the most
good, that the whitewash brush be
applied where needed. Let the cam-
paign be to make Grand Rapids a
spotless town and then when there
are no breeding places there will be
no flies. There would be sense in a
campaign of this character and it
would produce results, but the plan of
offering a bounty for dead flies is too
purile to be worthy of serious con-
sideration, and it is difficult to believe
that anybody should expect it to be so
taken. In effect, it puts a premium on
filth. The man who has the dirtiest
back yard will have the most flies,
and the easiest catching and the most
bounty money. -The Society should
abandon its present plan of campaign
or the general public will gain the
impression that what it is doing in
other directions is of the same silly
type, and this would be to seriously
impair its usefulness.
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MORE UNION TREACHERY.

The Chicago papers will probably
not be such enthusiastic supporters of
organized labor—at least not for a
while. They are just having a lit-
tle taste of what others have to en-
dure when it comes to meeting with
the demands of the union. The press-
men on one of the Chicago papers de-
veloped a grievance—just' what it
is nobody seems to know. When
they struck the pressmen on all the
other papers also walked out. The pa-
pers have an agreement with the
union, made for the express purpose of
avoiding such conflicts, and the strike
as it related to the other papers was
in direct violation of the agreement,
but a little thing like breaking a con-
tract never bothers a union. When
the pressmen went out the union
teamsters driving the newspaper deliv-
ery wagons refused to handle the pa-
pers printed by non-union pressmen
and then struck. They also have an
agreement and contract, but that made
no difference. Then the newsboys
union struck and their strike was fol-
lowed by a strike of the stereotypers.
in both instances without the sem-
blance of a personal grievance and in
violation of contracts. The strike is
accompanied by the usual manifesta-

 

tions of union methods, beating
the workmen who come in to
the jobs that have been vacate
occasional shooting and other a
stances of violence. How it will 4)
end is yet to be seen, but one
portant result will be that the Chj
cago newspapers will in the furs
see the labor union from a new
enlightened viewpoint and it is j,
ly they will not be quite so wil
to insist that other employers \
met by union demands shall knu
down.

Speaking of labor unions and the,
demands, the expected js happen:
in the matter of the railroad engine
in the district east of the Mississi;
The engineers put in a demand for
increase in wages of Something mo;.
than 15 per cent. The demand w:
based not on the Plea that the pr:
ent wages are unfair or the work ¢,
onerous, but reduced to its simpl¢
form, it was that the engineers want
ed the money and thought themselye.
strong enough to enforce its pay
ment. The railroad managers showe|
that earnings would not Wafrant an
increase in the wage disbursements a;
this time and refused to make th.
concession. This framed an issue an:
a strike seemed imminent, when we'll
meaning representatives of the D.
partment of Commerce and Labo:
rushed in with a plea for arbitration.
After a reasonable amount of dicker
ing the arbitration has been agreed
upon, and the Arbitration Board will
decide what ransom the railroads and
the general public shall pay. As soon
as the engineers got arbitration the
other engine men, firemen, hostlers
and others, came in with a demand
just as large as that made by the en-
gineers, witr threats back of it of a
general strike, and they, too, want ar-
bitration. The conductors, brakemen,
switchmen and section hands may be
expected to come along with similar
demands in due time. Like the engi-
neers, they have nothing to lose, but
there is always tre chance of a
raise and whether the railroads can
afford to make the increase is no con-
cern of theirs. It is expected, of
course, that the railroads will abide
by the decision of the Arbitration
Board no matter what it may be, but
the union can always exercise its dis-
cretion and, if the award is not satis-
factory, the strike can still be used to
bring the railroads to time. That is
the philosophy of the union, and that
is why the first demand of the union
is usually for arbitration.

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There is a right way and a wrong
way to treat even tramps. You may
not be able to keep them over night—
that is not always possible or con-
venient; but you can be kind to them.
Many a man has been made better
just by the kindly words spoken
to him as he passed along the road.
It is the tramp that has been scold-
ed and kicked off the door-sill that
goes away to do you some damage
before morning.  Self-interest,
nothing else, should lead us ‘to deal
kindly with such men; but the best
motive is a good, kind heart which
prompts you to say, “God _ bless
you,” even although you must turn
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as

May 8, 1912

IN DAYS AGONE,

Facts About Early Newspaper Men
and Ventures.
Written for the Tradesman.

In the old days when the newspa-
per publishing business was not, in
many respects, so well developed as
in the present day, when schools of
journalism were unknown and the
high school graduate not to be con-
sidered by managing editors, the re-
Porters, special writers, department
Managers and staff’ correspondents
were recruited from the composing
rooms. The average printer had a
keen “nose for news.” He knew in-
tuitively the value of space, the value
of time, the commercial value of an
item and his command of the King’s
English was remarkable. He was the
superior of the college trained writ-
er and the high school graduate be-
cause his inside training had given
him a knowledge of the publishing
business that could not be gained
outside of the composing room. A
very successful reporter, city editor
and managing editor and a gentle-
man still engaged in the publishing
business, George E. Foster, was born
and received his grade and high
school training in Grand Rapids. His
father, Hon. Wilder D. Foster, who
founded the house of Foster, Stevens
& Co., and who, in the later years of
his life, was elected to fill the office of
Mayor of Grand Rapids and still lat-
er a member of Congress, sent his
son George to Yale College to com-
plete his education. The young man
was industrious and studious and at
the close of his fourth year graduat-
ed with the highest honor awarded
to his class. He came home to meet
and receive the congratulations of his
many friends. He met the able, kind-
hearted and eccentric Rev. Dr. C. B.

. Smith a day or two after his arrival.

Dr. Smith had been a graduate of Yale
many years previously and had kept
a record of many college men whose
acquaintance he made _ while a stu-
dent. Although his class was com-
posed of a larger percentage of men
who gained distinction in the prac-
tice of the professions, in politics and
in business than had ever left the
college precincts, before or since, he
knew that a great many graduates
had proven to be of little or no val-
ue in the doing of the world’s busi-
ness. Dr. Smith greeted Foster cor-
dially and congratulated him upon the
honors he had won, because he really
liked the young man and earnestly
hoped that he would prove to be of
use in the world. “You have acquit
ted yourself creditably, my young
friend,” the old doctor remarked,
“but” (the doctor emphasized the
word loudly) “the time and_ the
money you spent at Yale and the
hard work you performed will prove
of no value to you if you have failed
to learn how to think.” The old doc-
tor moved on, sputtering to himself,
as was usually his habit when alone.
During the vacation periods in the
years he spent at Yale Mr. Foster
sought the companionship of newspa-
per men and among those whose ac-
quaintance he gained he learned to

respect, then to admire and then to.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

feel a friendly interest in, was the
veteran printer and newspaper writ-
er, William M. Hathaway. Foster had
written a number of letters while at
Yale for the several local newspa-
pers and was so much pleased with
the experience that he resolved to
adopt journalism as a profession. Aft-
er his graduation he revealed to Mr.
Hathaway his purpose and the latter
advised him to enter a printing house
and gain a practical knowledge of the
newspaper business as it is conducted
on the inside. Mr. Foster accepted
the advice given by Mr. Hathaway
and by making an offer of his serv-
ices without compensation, he was
given a case, a stick and rule and an
instructor in the Art Typographic.

Foster was an eager and earnest stu-

dent and learned the details of the
work quickly and easily. The usual
tricks of the trade were played at
his expense by his companions in the
office, but he took the practical jokes
in the right spirit and both editor and
printers learned to admire him. He
went, by command of the foreman,
one day to a neighboring printery
with instructions to borrow an “Italic
shooting stick,” and on another oc-
casion he peered over a form well
soaked with muddy water to see the
“type lice” and received a spash of
the fluid in his face. Very few of the
printers of to-day would know how
to use a shooting stick, an indispensa-
ble tool of forty years ago, although
it was never manufactured in italics
and has been displaced by a better
tool. Mr. Foster remained at_ his
work in the printery a year or two
and then took employment as a re-
porter in one of the local newspaper
offices. A year later he went to New
York and found ready employment
as a*reporter on the New York Trib-
une. Promotion came fast. In six
months he was installed as assistant
city editor and the end of the year
found him the occupant of the city
editor’s desk. Later he was given
the night editor’s chair, which he fill-
ed ably. A great politician of New
York, William Dorsheimer, needed
an organ to promote his aspirations
for public office and Mr. Foster was
induced to join the man and a num-
ber of his friends in ihe starting of a
daily newspaper. Mr. Foster was
chosen to manage the editorial de-
partment and for a season, at least
in a literary way, the paper was bril-
liantly successful. Before he had
reached the pinnacle of his ambition,
although he had been successively
e'ected Lieutenant Governor of the
State and a Representative in Con-
gress, Mr. Dorsheimer died. The
newspaper was sold and Mr. Foster
engaged in the book publishing busi-
ness, in which he has been success-
ful. With old Dr. Smith’s remark
ever in his mind and the careful
coaching he received in the practical
work of the newspaper shop, Mr.
Foster won marked success easily in
his chosen profession. He is now a
resident of New York. Occasionally

he spends a few days with friends in

Grand Rapids.

I “took my pen in hand” for the
purpose of writing a line or two
about the old-time printer-reporter

 

 

 

 

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10

and his propensity for getting “dis-
gusted.” At such periods the only
means he could conceive of for ob-
taining relief for “his disgust’? was to
Start a newspaper. He was usually,
at such times, sore because his em-
ployer did not appreciate his work
and refused him the compensation he
thought he was entitled to. Some-
times his “disgust” presented a spir-
itual appearance, which usually disap-
peared only when he was requested
to hunt for employment elsewhere.
As I proceeded with my task, a
recollection of the experiences of Mr.
Foster was awakened in my mind,
and I deemed it so interesting that
I proceeded to diverge
purpose, as above.

from my

In the year 1884 two “disgusted”
printer-reporters resolved to start a
weekly publication that would cause
the people of “this man’s town” to

lie awake nights and think of its
contents. A few pounds of old type

were assembled and the boys “sailed
in,” determined to acquire fame, pow-
er and fortune. The paper was nam-
ed the Saturday Globe. After a few
weeks spent in the hard labor of
trying to gain recognition and pat-
ronage from an unwilling and an un-
interesting public, the property was
turned over to Nathan Church, with-
out consideration, and the “disgust-
ed” pair sought employment as sub-
stitute compositors in the newspaper
shops. .

A copy of the Saturday Globe, dat-
ed July 12, 1884, has been placed in
my hands. From its columns I have
gleaned the following items that may
interest readers of the Tradesman:

“The work of erecting the three
piers and the two abutments neces-
Sary to support the new bridge over
Grand River at Fulton street will
probably be commenced this. week.
The contract has been awarded to
John Olsen for this part of the struc-
ture for $29,400 and he is assembling
the materials needed. The steel su-
perstructure will cost $58,400. Work
on the new iron bridge at Bridge
street is progressing slowly. The oak
planking bought for the roadway has
been rejected and work had to be
suspended until new planking coulc
be obtained. The Gas Company has
laid a main across the bridge to be
used in supplying customers on the
west side of the river. It is expect-
ed by the city authorities that the
bridge will be opened for travel ip
about one month from the present
time.

“Upon the recommendation of the
Grand Army of the Republic and the
endorsement of many leading  citi-
zens, Dr. James M. Sligh has been
appointed an examiner of applicants
for pensions, to succeed Dr. Eugene
Boise. Dy. Sligh entered the Union
Army as a private of one of the com-
panies of the Engineers and Mechan-
ics under command of General Innes
and served four years. He returned
after his regiment was mustered out
with the rank of Captain.

“An Art Students’ League has been
organized with Mrs. A. C. Torrey,
Mrs. L. H. Randall, Miss Eleanor M.
Withey, Miss Mary Jones and Miss
Helen Miller as the Board of Con.

MICHIGAN

trol. Miss Withey is the Secretary.
The object of the League is the study
of art from life. Models will be en-
gaged and the charge for tuition will
be moderate.

“Eighteen cars will be added to
the transportation facilities of the
Street Railway Company within a
short time.

“The Grand Rapids Brush Co. has
elected officers t- serve during the
coming year, as follows: President,
A. B. Watson; Vice-President, N. L
Avery; Secretary and Treasurer, J. A.
McKee; Directors, A. B. _ Watson,
William H. Powers, N. L. Avery, Ju-
lius Berkey, F. B. Gilbert, L. D. Put-
nam and J. A. McKee.” (None of
these men, excepting Mr. McKee, are
among the living.)

“Nelson Hanson has commenced
Suit against the city of Grand Rapids
to recover the sum of $5,000 as dam-
ages claimed to have been sustained
to his goods caused by the defective
drainage of a sewer. The complain-
ant will attempt to prove that, ow-
ing to the change made in the grade
lines of Ionia and Oakes street, upon
the order of the Common Council,
the drainage water now runs, during
heavy rains, into the cellar of the
Hansen House, and that on one occa-
sion the water overflowed the gut-
ters, filled his cellar and caused dam-
ages amounting to $5,000. -

“The committees appointed to col-
lect material for exhibition at the
expositions to be held in Louisville
and New Orleans are making good
progress. A collection of grasses,
grains and other vegetable products
will be furnished by the State Agri-
cultural College and a large number
of specimens of agates will soon be
shipped ‘to Commissioner Carroll
from Petoskey and points in the Up-
per Peninsula. Michigan will make
a creditable display at both exposi-
tions of her natural resources.

“J. McCullough & Co., who have
been trading under the name of the
Grand. Rapids Spice & Grocery Co.
and occupying the Judd building, on
Pearl street, have made an assign-
ment. The value of the stock, fix-
tures and accounts and notes due the
firm have been appraised at $4,700;
the liabilities amount to $7,084.67.
The principal local creditors are: H.
Leonard & Son, $422.49; A. R. An-
tisdel, $200; Julius Rathman, $100;
Old National Bank, $200; Eaton,
Lyon & Allen, $22.50; E. A. Stowe,
$13.75; Philip Grove, $14.83. James
Gallup is the assignee.

“W. O. Hughart, President of the
Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, is
spending a few days on Mackinac Is-
land. 4196

“General Manager Atwood, of the
Street Railway Co., is jn Toledo on
business.

“The wife of Rev. Charles Ward,
formerly rector of Grace church, died
on July 4 at Yonkers, N. Y.

“A. D. Rathbone has commenced
rebuilding the old house on the south-
west corner of Park street and West
Park Place.

“A number of teams and thirty men
are at work in the river bed, taking
out rock which will be converted in-

TRADESMAN

to lime. The kiln men pay $1 per
load for the rock.

“A lawn tennis club of twenty-five
members has been organized in the
northern section of the city. John
D. Kromer is the President and Miss
Josie Cushing is Secretary and Treas-
urer,”’

An account of an accident caused
by the premature discharge of a can-
non belonging to the Valley City
Light Artillery Co., while participat-
ing in a celebration of the Fourth of
July, at Grand Haven, causing the
loss of an arm by Lewis Smith and
a thumb by Edward Downing, signed
by Joseph Babcock, Captain, and
Frank Gustine, Orderly Sergeant, fills
one-half of a column. A poor wood
cut portrait of Wilbur F. Storey, the
noted editor-printer of forty years
ago, and a short sketch of his life are
given much prominence in the “make-
up.”

The State census, taken in the year
1884, resulted as follows: Total pop-
ulation, 42,019. The first ward con-

tained 6,508; the second, 3,262; the
third, 7,911; the fourth, 6,020; the
fifth, 4,644; the sixth, 3,972; the sev-
enth, 4,410; the eighth, 5,393. The to-

tal population of the city in 1880
was 32,016 and the increase in four
years was 10,003.

Several columns were devoted to
the drama (Mr. Church’s fad) and the
remainder of the reading matter was
boiler plate stuff, cast in Chicago.
Mrs. Lord, a maker of hair goods,
Spring & Avery, dry goods, and Ar-
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New Company To Build Factory.

Detroit, May 7—Detroit’s latest
manufacturing company to conclude
arrangements to build both factory
and cars at once is the Century
Electric Motor Car Co., which has
been for some time in course of
organization by John Gillespie. In-

' corporation papers have been filed

for a capitalization of $100,000, of
which it is understood $80,000 has
been paid in. The
build in Detroit, but is not yet ready
to name the location. The officers
are: John Wynne, Jr., President, and
H. E. Weeks, Vice-President; Ed-
ward Atkins, Secretary and Treasur-
er, and these officers, with John
Gillespie, Philip Breitmeyer, W. A.
Jackson and Howard Streeter form
the Board of Directors.

 

The total value of new buildings
and additions for which permits
were issued during April is $3,086,405,
as compared with $1,930,115 for the
Same month in 1911, an increase of
$1,156,299. The number of permits
was 971, an increase of 442 over
April, 1911. The building for March
of this year reached a total of $1,328,-
005, showing a gain of $1,758,400 for
April over its preceding month. The
majority of the buildings for the
month were moderate priced resi-
dences, although there were several
large buildings in the list. The aver-
age cost estimate for each permit was
$3,178.

 

That the “Great White Way” re-
cently begun by the merchants of
Grand River avenue will soon be ex-

_ tended to embrace the territory from

Woodward avenue to a point sev-
eral blocks beyond the viaduct, was
the announcement of C. A. Coppock,
representing the Grand River Im-
provement Association at the last
meeting of the Federation of Civic
Organizations of Detroit. Mr. Cop-
pock declared that the two systems
of specialized street lighting install-
ed by the merchants will be united
soon by the erection of the con-
necting link. In planning for the dis-
continuance of its regular sessions for
the summer months the Federation
announced that the last meeting for
the spring will be held May 16. A
spcial dinner will be served on this
occasion and one of the efatures of
the discussion will be the subject of
street and alley cleaning in the city.
John J. Knight, superintendent of
street cleaning for the D. P. W., ha3

been invited to address the meet-
ing. The Federation indorsed the
Hovey domestic rubbish ~ordinance.

The first meeting of the autumn sea-
son will be held in September, with a
big banquet at which 1,000 delegates
from the various organization: will
be present.

 

The Scotland Woolen Mills Co.

has leased from Altx Y. Malcom-

company will’

son the four-story brick store build-
ing with basement at 212 Woodward
avenue, having a frontage of 20 feet
and a depth of 100 feet. The lease
runs for thirteen years and the rental
is understood to amount to approxi-
mately $14,000 a year. The property
is owned by the Armstrong estate

but is under lease to Mr. Malcom-
son.

 

The fact that the Michigan State
Fair has been a great educational
help to the farmers of the State in
modern road building may have an
important part in bringing the Na-
tional Good Roads Congress to De-
troit next fall. Charles Light, Chief
Field Inspector of the National As-
sociation for Highway Improvement,
declared, before returning to Wash-
ington, that this feature of the Fair
would have some weight in the con-
sidering of a convention point. Mr.
Light said he would also recommend
that good road building be demon-
strated at all fairs throughout the
United States. Road building has
been a most interesting exhibition at
the fair for the past two years. The
first-year 500 feet of road were laid
and last year 1,000 feet were added:
It is believed that 1,500 feet will be
constructed this fall. It is probable
if the Good Roads Congress is held
here, manufacturers of roadmaking
machinery at the fair will remain to
demonstrate their machinery and ma-
terials at the Congress.

——_—_e-~.___
Bacteria in Butter.

Discussing “The Story of a Glass
of Mak’ at the L. € C. Technical
Institute, in Vincent Square, S. W.,
W. J. Melbuish, lecturer in dietetics,
says that milk contained two dis-
tinct proteids—casein and albumin.
Of these casein was used not only
for cheesemaking or curds and whey
but even for making synthetic cellu-
loid’ for collars, brush backs,  etc.,
while it might be made so hard that
it was even used for paving stones
and for sculpture. Lactose milk sug-
ar was not sweet nor even fermenta-
ble, which gave it a particular use,
while it could also be made into a
very powerful explosive in combina-
tion with nitric acid.

Milk in its early stages was slight-
ly germicidal, but very soon the
germs began to grow in a remarka-
ble way, causing sourness, which was
necessary for making butter. At first
the amount of bacteria in butter was
appalling. A grain had been known
to contain fifty millions, but in one
day the fifty millions decreased to
twenty-six millions, and the numbers
afterwards rapidly declined.

In Holland, added the lecturer, they
were living in hopes of the day when
they would be able to make every
kind of cheese they liked—green, ripe,
walking or talking—just by dropping
into the right kind of bacteria. As
to the mineral ash in milk, he is hop-
ing to realize his ambition of util-

TRADESMAN

izing it as manure. Milk, he addea,
was not a proper food for adults, be-
cause the constituents were not in
To get suffi-

cient energy they would have to

the right proportion.

drink eleven or twelve big tumbler-
fuls a day, with the result that they
would be overloaded with fat and
flesh-forming food, but it could be
made into practically a perfect food
by .combining it with other articles,
such as bread, cocoa or a little meat
extract.

 

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Thinks the Sugar Duty Will Stand
Reduction.

Grand Rapids, May 6—Partly as a
pastime J have, in late years, given
much time and study to Michigan's
new and already mammoth industry,
beet sugar production, and as you
are interested in this great trade sta-
ple, I venture to hand you, herewith,
a brief statement compiled along the
lines of information I have been able
to procure
sideration.

At your pleasure I hope you will
carefully scrutinize this table and
criticise it wherever at fault. .

for your personal con-

 

Result One Ton

facts, the sugar company is getting
the “whole cheese” and can easily
stand a liberal regulation, downward,
for the benefit of the consumer.
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Lansing, May 6—I notice in your

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Contents Cost Value
Michigan Sugar Beets, % ib. Beets Sugar Beets Sugar

Crop 1911. ton ton ton tb. ton th.
Average stipar test). 2-2 16. 320 $5.83 $
Avcimee new sWenr ..........,..... 4. 80 56 .24c
Average net commercial sugar ...... 12. 240 2.43c 14.40 6.00c
Averape dry bect pulp ..... 2... 2). 65 130 1.30 .54¢
Average cost manufacturing balance. 1.50 .63c
a0tal cost and value 2.....-...... 221.85 7.33 3.06c 16.26 6.78c
Less wale pulp, mol. 6.22: 1.86 .78c 1.86 .78c
Net cost and value 2 263.26 D-47 2.28c 14.40 6.00c
Nea ein 163.4 8.93 3.72c

Net Results. .
yop 0010... 240 $5.47 2.28c $11.40 4.75c
MOL Gale oo 108.41 5.93 2.47¢

 

My desire is to reach the facts as
nearly as may be, at a fair average
and to do injustice to no one.

The basis for reaching the price
of beets is $4.50 per ton f. o. b.
works for 12 per cent. test and 33%
cents for each additional 1 per
cent., and as 16 per cent. was the
average test, $5.83 was also the aver-
age ton price. The average selling
price of sugar for the 1911 crop I
place at 6 cents and for 1910, 4.75
cents.

The above price of $5.83 for 16 per
cent. was the ruling price in the ter-
ritory east and northeast of Grand
Rapids for the crop of 1910, and so
far as I know in 1911.

In the Holland district the sugar
company has paid somewhat higher
prices for beets—I think 50 cents
more per ton—and so far as I know
they do not dry the resulting pulp
for feed.

You will please bear in mind that
the results, as shown in the table, are
not claimed to be absolutely correct;
in fact, conditions vary continually,
hence the cost of production varies;
to closely approximate is as near as
one can get, and is the goal I am
striving for.

I believe in reasonable tariff pro-
tection when necessary, but if my
efforts in this matter approach the

 

Many villages and cities provide
public rest This is one of
the greatest socializing, progressive
movements of the day. It unites the
town and country men in common co-
operation in the upbuilding of urban
and interurban interests.

We visited one of these
rooms, rather several rooms, and in
this instance we found a large -com-
mon room in which men and women
could rest, read (all the leading mag-
azines and periodicals were on a
reading table), write and eat lunches.
There were men and women lavato-
Ties; every convenience. There were
comfortable sheds for the horses and
accommodations for feeding them.
There was a large audience room,
where the town and country folks
jointly supported a lecture course,
where they mingled in entertain-

rooms.

have

. ments, ate together, touched elbows.

At the place referred to is a town
and country purchasing and shipping
agency at the producers’ point, and
a marketing agency at the consumers’
point. A mutuality of town and
country interests socially, education-
ally and financially is the mainspring
of the life in this place.
D. E. McClure,
Ass’t Sec’y State Board of Health.
enn
Truth is never out of tune.

 

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STROUP & WIERSUM
Successors to F. E. Stroup, Grand Rapids, Mich

 

 

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WOOL

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May 8, 1912

Activities in Some Michigan Cities.
Written for the Tradesman.

A sutvey has been made of Pent-
water by United. States engineers pre-
paratory to an early dredging of the
channel and repair work on both
piers,

Kalamazoo has adopted the dental
clinic plan in connection with its
public schools, having putchased
$500 worth of equipment for the
work. Thtee other cities of the
State support free dental work in
connection with the schools.

Kent City was wiped off the map
by fire five years ago, but the build-
ings have all been replaced and new
ones added. The canning factory and
chair factory have been enlarged. Main
street has been paved and there have
been many other improvements.

A new $50,000 Masonic temple will
be built at Battle Creek. It will be
located on Marshall street, near the
new city hall site.

Mvch activity along building lines
is promised for Alma this summer,
the work including business blocks
and several fine residences.

Flower and vegetable seeds are be-
ing distributed at Bay City by the
Civic League for planting on vacant
lots.

The’ children of Battle
Creek and vicinity were presented
with 5,000 catalpa trees Arbor Day
by the Schroder Dry Goods Co.

Harbor Springs will install new
Ornamental lights in the business
district. Building improvements there
this year up to July 1 will total $75,-
000.

Horace J. Stevens, who died recent.
ly at Houghton, did more to put
Houghton on the map than any other
resident of the town, through his
writings on copper and copper min-
ing.

The annual encampment of Span-
ish War veterans will be held at
Sault Ste. Marie July 9-11.

Benton Harbor is enjoying a
healthy boom, with unusual building
activity, new factories, extension of
car lines, new water works and many
municipal improvements.

Jattle Creek will establish a com-
mercial department in the high school
and is talking of building a trades
school.

The Standard Oil Co. will make
Portland a distributing center, hav-
ing leased ground near the depot for

school

large storage tanks.

Gaylord has granted the Boyne
City, Gaylord & Alpena Railway
right of way and a franchise through
the town for an extension of the road
to the east side, of the State, open-
ing up much new territory.

A new rule in Kalamazoo requir-
ing the payment of a nickel for every
dog carried on street cars 1s being

. enforced.

Tekonsha will install eighteen
lights of 1,000 candle power, boule-
vard type, at cost of $765.

Battle Creek has ordered twenty

ornamental street lights for South
Jefferson avenue.

Without regard to State law and to
advice of the City Attorney, the Me-
nominee City Council granted saloon
licenses to everybody who applied, or

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

forty-two in number, and the two
breweries. Nearly every city in
Michigan has had to reduce the num-
ber of saloons this year under the
Warner-Crampton law, but Menomi-
nee seems to be trotting in a class by

herself. Further developments are
looked for.

The Kalamazoo Civic Improve-
ment League has distributed 3,500

packages of garden seed to school
children.

Daily boat service between South
Haven and Chicago opened this week.

The Wm. Barie Dry Goods Co.,
of Saginaw, distributed 10,000 catal-
pa trees to the school children of the
city Arbor Day.

Bay county supervisors are con-
sidering plans for the erection of a
house of correction ‘at Bay City sim-
ilar to the one in Detroit. The De-
troit institution refuses to receive any

more Bay county prisoners after
Sept. 1. :
The Escanaba Manufacturing Co.,

the largest factory at Escanaba, is
turning out 1,200,000 butter dishes,
750,000 clothes pins and 75,000 _ pie
plates daily, consuming 30,000 feet of
maple lumber in the process. An ad-
dition to the factory, 160x200 feet, is
being built.

The Grand Rapids-Muskegon Pow-
er Co. expects to be furnishing Mus-
kegon with water power electricity
within ninety days.

An attempt was made recently to
install nickel-in-the-slot machines in
Battle Creek billiard and pool rooms,
but without success. The city au-
thorities have also placed a ban on
all dice shaking.

Two graduates of Eastern schools
have been engaged by the Lansing
Playgrounds Association to super-
vise the playgrounds in that city dur-
ing the summer months.

Over 5,000 catalpa trees were plant-
ed by the children of Pt. Huron, Cros-
well, Harbor Beach, Bad Axe and
other places in the Thumb. The trees
were furnished by Meisel, Hogan &
Eichhorn, of Pt. Huron, who will al-
so present a prize of $10 in June for
the tree which shows the best growth
and care.

Lansing is wet again and the State
Journal says: “It will be no longer
necessry for one with a _ parched
throat to quench his burning mem-

brane with concoctions of hair tonic

and gasoline.”

The fare by boat from Benton Har-
bor and St. Joe to Chicago is 60
cents this year, an advance of 10
cents over former years. The high
cost of living is affecting even the
steamboat people.

A mass meeting of boosters was
held at St. Joseph last week and a
proposition to bond for $50,000 for
new factories was favored.

Ontonagon will build a new high
school this summer at a cost of $45,-
000.

Fire destroyed the gasoline lighting
plant at Lawrence and the town will
now install an electric lighting sys-
tem.

Dowagiac has adopted a health or-
dinance of twenty-six sections. Some
of the provisions are as _ follows:
Street sprinkling must be done under

  
 

direction of the Board of Health;
scavengers plying their trade must
pay a license fee of $5 and work un-
der the direction of the Board of
Health. All ice offered for sale is
subject to inspection by the health
officer. Garbage, slops and_ stable
cleanings must go into fly-tight re-

ceptacles. Almond Griffen.
—_~++-___
A Concrete Example.
Dodds—As one grows older there
are certain things in which it is diffi-
cult to keep up one’s interest. Don’t
you find it so?
Hobbs—Er—yes—there’s the mort-
gage on my house, for example.
—_t+ > __
A Youthful Viewpoint.
“Tommy,” said his brother, “you’re
a regular little glutton. How éan
you eat so much?”
“Don’t know; it’s just good luck,”
replied the youngster.

 

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.

S.C. W. El Portana
Evening Press Exemplar

These Be Our Leaders

Hart Brand Canned Goods

Packed by
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“The World’s Most Famous
Milk Producer”
LIVE DEALERS WRITE

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MERCHANTS

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Liberal shipments of Live Poul-
try wanted. and good prices are
being obtajned. Fresh eggs in
active demand and will be wanted
in liberal quantities from now on.

Dairy and Creamery Butter of
all grades in demand. We solicit
your consignments, and promise
prompt returns.

Send for our weekly price cur-
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Refer you to Marine National
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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
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Setting Up the Right Kind of Com-

petition.
Written for the Tradesman.
“Who seems to be getting the

business in your Vicinity?” was ask-
ed recently of a rural mail carrier.

“Montgomery Ward and Sears &
Roebuck I should say from the mon-
ey orders that I get and send out
for my patrons along the route. The
amount of money that is sent away
is simply amazing. There is some-
thing wrong. Our home merchants
ought to be getting the bulk of the
trade all through this country and
they are not doing it.” :

Rural carriers throughout this
State and many other states could tell
a like story. Mail order house com-
petition is the most disheartening
phase of the business of the small
town and even of the large town mer-
chant—how to meet it successfully is
their most serious problem. Not
only are the two great houses
whose names have been mentioned
contending for business on the
ground which the local merchant
feels more properly belongs to him,
but any number of the large city
stores of New York; Chicago and
Detroit are in the fight for the same
patronage.

Particularly is this true as to dry
goods. The mails are filled with
small and medium-sized catalogues
whose tempting illustrations convey
to eager readers an idea of the bar-
gains offered jn piece goods of all
kinds, knit and muslin underwear,
shirt waists, suits, skirts, coats and
no end of other goods.

A few postal cards of enquiry will
bring a fat envelope of samples from
each one of as many large stores,
placing before the woman who iS
wanting a new waist or gown hun-
dreds of pieces of goods to select
from. Owing to the light weight of
dry goods in proportion to their
value, which makes it a matter of no
great expense to send them by mail
or express, and the ease with which
they can be sampled, the dry goods

- business is open to the severest in-

roads from the mail order people.

How to turn the stream of money
that is setting toward these houses,
so that a good portion of it will flow
into your store—this is the task to
which you shouldaddress your most
earnest efforts.

Look matters squarely in the face
and do not deceive yourself by any
sophistries. What kind of compe-
tition are you setting up against the
mail order octopus? Are your prices
gauged to attract shrewd, hard-hand-
ed, close-figuring cash buyers, or do
you hold that you must make a large

 

margin of profit because you have to
carry so many of your customers? If
your business is built on the old ex-
pensive, loss-involving system of
book accounts, cash trade (and the
mail order trade is all Strictly cash
trade), inevitably will leave you. Fur-
ther, if you can not get in line with
the newer, more economical methods
of storekeeping, so. that you can do
business on small margins, the day
is not distant when you will not be
able to do business at all.

Do not say that the mail order
houses sell only inferior goods, for
this is not true. Their better grades
are fully equal to the goods han-,
dled in the best stores. The people
who are buying by mail are not
fools. Do not speak of them as fools
nor treat them as such.

Do not rest satisfied that you are
meeting properly the competition of
the mail order houses until you can
say to their Patrons: “I challenge a
free and fair comparison of the val-
ues I offer with the values they are
offering you; this not on a few lead-
ers that I put out against a few lead-
ers that they put out, but value for
value through my whole line.”

The mail order houses get some
business because they carry certain
goods which the smal] merchant can
not afford to keep in stock on ac-
count of infrequent sales; some busi-
ness from the greater variety they
offer. A fastidious buyer occasion-
ally may be able to please herself
better to purchase from them. Mak-
ing full allowance for the patronage
they get from all such causes, the fact
remains that the big powerful rea-
son why people are sending their
money away instead of dealing with
their home merchants is that they
are convinced that they can get bet-
ter value by so doing.

People would rather .do their buy-
ing in a store. Never forget this, be-
cause it is the strong point of your
position. To shop in a pleasant,
well-stocked store, where she can
see just what she is getting in its
entirety and not in the form of a
tiny sample which at best gives but
an insufficient and unsatisfying im-
pression of the goods; to be waited
upon by tactful, deferential salespeo-
ple and buy what she wants and
take it home with her—any woman
prefers this to the bother of making
selections from catalogue, obtaining
money order or draft, and waiting
for her purchases to come by mail
or express or freight. If she does
not buy at a store and at your store,
for that matter, there is a reason.

A catalogue is impersonal. It has
no magnetism—no drawing power.

TRADESMAN

Its one argument is value—value of
beauty, style and
general desirability. Silence this one
argument of value and you ought to
be able to have your own way about
the patronage of your vicinity.
When you offer genuine competition
in values, do not fail to let people
know about it.

Make the most of the strategic

course including

May 8, 1919

 

points of your position as compared
with the catalogue house—of being in
personal touch with your customers,
of being able to give prompter sery-
ice, of the ease with which an unsat-
isfactory article may be returned and
exchanged. In the matter of al!
ready-made garments, this is a most
important point. An unbecoming
wrap or an ill-fitting suit bought in

 

merce and Island streets.
after May Ist.

GRAND RAPIDS

Exclusively Wholesale

 

Our new location will be at the corner of Com-

 

 

We expect to move soon

DRY GOODS Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

TRADE WARE

  
   
  
 
 
  
   
   
   
 
 
   
   

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only is used.

guarantee.

an introductory lot.

 

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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. Wecould
stint on the use of the fine material that goes for reinforce-

But we make these hose—to give you maximum comfort—
as good as they can be made.

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’

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

Notice to the Retailers:—The manvfacturers are doing extensive
national advertising to the consumer, which will 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.

EDSON, MOORE & CO., Detroit, Mich., Wholesale Distributors

HOSIERY

Combed Sea Island Cotton

No need
of this
Since he
wears
Bachelors’

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May 8, 1912

New York or Chicago sometimes is
kept and worn on account of the
bother and expense involved in re-
turning it and getting another. Lay

emphasis on the fact that it costs

nothing td return
store,

goods to your

Some women rather like to make
an extensive comparison of samples
before coming to a decision. Do not
allow the catalogue houses to put
One over you in this respect. Give
samples freely.

So far as possible have your stock
arranged so that customers may see
the goods, feel of them and handle
them without the attention of a sales-
person. This is just what the cata-
logue houses are doing when they
send out samples. But you can go
them one better. You can throw out
whole bolts for inspection, and also
a host of articles that can not be sam-
pled successfully.

Court enquiries,
tigation.

inspection, inves-
While never letting sales
that might be closed at the time slip
through your fingers, be ready to
welcome warmly and treat very gra-
ciously any persons who come in to
see what you have and are not want-
ing to make immediate purchases.
Do not make doleful plaint that
the local trade of right belongs to
the home merchant. Look at mat-
ters from your customers’ point of
view. Put yourself in their places.
Take the farmers, for instance. They
feel that they work hard for their
money—harder than the storekeep-
ers, they firmly believe. They very
naturally resent the idea that they
are under obligation to deal with
the home merchant, if they think they
can get more for their money else-
where. Show them first that you
will give them the full worth of ev-
ery dollar they spend with you; then

you will stand a better show in ap-.

pealing to their local pride and pa-

triotism. Fabrix.
—_~+~->___
The Springlike Touch in the Win-
dow.

Written for the Tradesman.

To me the miracle of spring is just
as fresh and interesting as it was
when I was a lad in knickerbockers.
I watch the greening grass, the en-
larging buds and the unfolding petals
with something akin to fascination.

When I observe cock-robin—that
handsome, dashing, debonair, exqui-
site specimen of the feathered tribe—
frisking about over the lawn with‘an
air of smug proprietorship; and when
I see the festive dandelions peeping
up through-the grass and glinting like
nuggets of gold in the sunlight I
know that spring has come.

Our abiding interest in
hinges upon the. fact that the change
from a period of frost-rimmed stag-
nation and death to a time of vig-
growth and _ development,
wherein every shrub and bough
seems fairly a-thril!. with life and
promise, is rapid and __ startling
Things seem to grow over night; and
there’s always something new and
different to claim the attention and
appeal ,to our sense of beauty.

Therefore we like spring; and the
person who pulls a wry face and

spring

MICHIGAN

speaks deprecatingly of spring show-
ers, spring poetry, and the amors of
young lovers who go a-wooing in the
springtime, is a bit out of gear with
the vast cosmic mechanism of which
he is a part.
tonic to tone up his system,

Pessimism of every sort seems
Strangely out of place in the spring-
time. Even those distinctive yellow
journals which delight in somber
tints and revel in a morbid review of
dead and rotten things, seem un-
consciously to green up a bit and lose
something of their odiousness when
days come.

Also the dullest and most phleg-
matic old merchandiser that ever jog-
trotted along the boulevard of
modern business simply has to prick
up his ears and jog along a little
more briskly. Can’t help it. You see
the thrill of life is in all things an-
imate; and where there’s life there’s
got to be expression.

Now that the asperities of winter
are yielding to the gentler sway of
spring, business, like everything else,
is taking on a new life. Of course
lots of merchandise of one sort and
another sold well during the winter;
for they were seasonable. Not for
a long time have we had such an
opportunity to clean up on dis-
tinctively winter goods. But the
man who thinks we have not had
enough winter ought to be made to
stand up on the prayer rug and make
a statement of his reasons. The
average merchant, even though a re-
tailer of furs and storm boots, is glad
to have a change.

The new season is touching into
activity a new world of wants and
desires--and these wants will express
themselves in calls for seasonable
merchandise; and we'll all go right
on doing business--only in different
lines. And we'll do more business
this spring than we did last winter.
And there'll be enough jowl-and
greens and other spring dainties to
go around. So let’s chipper up and
be gay.

And let’s make the store just as
attractive and springlike as we can;
tor this also is conductive to business.

Fill your windows with seasonable
merchandise--and then add a few
touches just to show that you are in
sympathy with the season—a little
something in the way of cut flowers
(or artificial ones, if you like) and
plants.

If you handle dress goods, milli-
nery, shoes, haberdashery, or ready
to wear garments for men, women or
children, you have just now big
opportunities. You can have a more
formal opening and you can have
special days--and then you ‘should
not only have flowers in your win-
dows but you should also give them
as souvenirs to visitors and_ pur-
chasers.

Last Saturday a single concern in
my own city gave away 20,000 flow-
ers--daffodils, tulips and carnations--
just one flower to the person. They
also gave a souvenir mug with each
purchase; and they gave away 2,500
mugs. You can imagine what a busy
store that was.

Another store next door--a_ store

Very likely he needs a

TRADESMAN

handling an entirely different line--
also laid in a vast supply of tulips,
daffodils and carnations to give to
its visitors and customers. The man-
ager of the second store didn’t ad-
vertise the occasion at all. “What’s
the use?” he exclaimed, “my friend
here next door has bought enough
publicity for both of us. He’ll have
hundreds of people thronging his
store all day long; and T’ll get all of
them my sales people can take care
of. But we'll have cut flowers the
same as he has.”

And it turned out just as he pre-
dicted. His store was crowded from
9 o'clock in the morning until 10 at
night.

It’s interesting how a tremendous
splurge of publicity helps not only
the man who makes it but also his
near-by competitors and all other
merchants in his immediate vicinity.
Now, take the case of the merchant
who used a full page advertisement
to announce this grand spring open-
ing at which he would give away cut
flowers and souvenir mugs, one of
his competitors across the street re-
ported the biggest day’s business he
had had in months. Scores of his
customers went over to the other
fellow’s store, listened to the music,
got a flower, and then went across
the street to buy from their regular
dealer.

But this doesn't prove the futility
of my argument for openings, cut
flowers, souvenirs and music. With-
out such things nobody on that
square would have done anything out
of the ordinary on the day in ques-
tion. Because of this big event that
was pulled off in a single store, all
of the merchants came in for a share
of the profits—but the big profits
went to the store that staged the
event. Chas. 1. Philips.

—_2+<-____
Belts Favored This Season.

Increasing interest in belts has
been a feature of this season’s buy-
ing. Fashion says they are the thing
for the smart dresser, and they are
principally patent and
suede, also in combination of leath-
er and dress material.

Further indication of the return to
favor of this old-time waist finish is
shown by the fact that dresses of
crepe meteor, satin and dressy mate-
rials are finished at the waist with a
tailored belt and bow.

shown in

 

    

TRADE MARK

 

 

15

The patent leather belts are used
principally on linens and serges, al-
though they appear to some extent
on other kinds of dresses brought
out for spring and summer.

—_2~-.__

There is no investment that pays
larger dividends, all things consider-
ed, than cheerful smiles and kind
words.

—_+~-.___

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ings Display.

A window trim of house furnish-
ings is just the thing to pull trade
in the spring or fall.

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women find one of their chief joys

 

 

A narrow strip of wood 5 feet long.

Two small pasteboard boxes.

Two metal T-stands.

Some nails.
A paper of pins.
Price tickets—plenty of them.

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The deal-
er who is well equipped with this

of living—house-cleaning.

class of merchandise then is one of
do not look upon
He does
not need to, as he is in for a good

the men who
house-cleaning with dread.

profit.

After the women wash their lace
curtains they are likely to find worn
They always can find room
for a few more small rugs. A new
pillow cover, a few small pictures, a
new tablecloth, a bedstead—there is
a demand for all these at house-
cleaning time.

The way to let the women know
you have these things for sale is
to make the right kind of a display
in your window. This is the kind
we are presenting in this article.
Copy it just as it is if you would get
the best results. It is simple and
easy, but the general scheme should
be followed closely.

Fixture and Equipment Needs.

Five rolls red crepe paper.

One roll green crepe paper.

Two curtain rods.

One small wooden box.

A barrel head.

places.

The Display Photographed.

TRADESMAN

trim this window, as there is very
little work to do. It is one of the
easiest windows of our entire series,
and yet it is effective and of the
trade-pulling kind.

In the first place, nail up an ordi-
nary brass extension curtain rod in
each corner of your window. From
each of these drape a pair of lace
curtains. Hang the curtains just as
they should appear in a house, only
put. green crepe paper under them to
bring out the pattern.

Nail a 5 foot strip of wood to the
back of a box, and to the top of this
nail a barrel head. Let the barrel
head slope toward the front, the
whole thing forming sort of an ex-
aggerated T-stand effect. j

Drape Bedspread in Center.

Over this drape a bedspread in the
manner shown in the picture. Merely
throw it over the barrel “head, leav-
ing enough slack for the corner to
touch the floor in front. Catch up
two other corners arid pin them to
the background behind the two lace
curtains. On top of this unit place
a folded bedspread.

On either side of the center unit
hang a panel picture to the top of
the background.

Now put a price ticket on each of
the articles you have put in the win-
dow up to this time and your back-
ground is finished.

Spread an ordinary small rug on

the floor immediately in front of the

glass.

Then, beginning at the left, rollup
two rugs, tie them and stand them
on end close together. Over these
place a lighter colored rug.

A little to the left of this unit,
near the glass, stand a folded table-
cloth on the floor, pinning it in po-
sition. You probably will need a
piece of cardboard in the cloth to
hold it stiff. Over the tablecloth lay
another tablecloth or some napkins.

To the right of the rug unit put
a piece of statuary, and in front of

May 8, 1912

this on the floor a small picture rest-
ing against a pasteboard box.

The center unit is a decorated pil-
low top draped over a T-stand. This
should be placed in front of the box
which is a part of the big back unit.

Curtain Rods in Tripod Effect.

Tie three curtain rods together and
place them on the floor in front of
the pillow top in a tripod position.

For the right side of the window
duplicate the rug unit you made on
the other side. To the left of this
put a statue and a small Picture, ar-
ranged as before.

Stop now and see if you have a
Price ticket on ‘each article in the
window, and give the trim any lit-
tle finishing “hitch” it may need,

Then build the last unit in the dis-
play. This is a folded tablecloth
draped over a T-stand on the right
side. Put another small tablecloth on
the floor in front of this and the
whole thing is done.

Easy, wasn’t it?

It is a real window, at that.—But-
ler Bros.

——_~++.___

Good Rules For Business Men.

Don’t worry; don’t overbuy; don’t
go security.

Keep a high vitality; keep insured;
keep sober; keep cool.

Be cautious, but when a bargain is
made, stick to it.

Keep down expenses, but don’t be
stingy.

Make friends, but no favorites.

Don’t take new risks to retrieve
new losses.

Stop a bad account at once.

Make plans ahead, but don’t make
them in cast iron.

Don’t tell what you are going to
do until you have done it.

——_———

Like the beacon lights in harbors,
which enables vessels to wander over
the sea, so, also, a man of bright
character in a storm-tossed city, him-
self content with little, effects great
blessings for his fellow citizens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ready for the Merchandise.

 

 

 

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May 8, 1912

TRADE-MARKED GOODS.

How They Help To Increase Sales
and Profits.
Written for the Tradesman.

When a man goes out and plugs
consistently, day in and day out, for
your store, you would call him a
prince, of a good fellow, wouldn't
you?

By the same token, if a chap came
into your store and said he would
be glad to settle all questions of
quality and price which might arise
between you and your customers,
you would certainly fall on his neck
and tender him the use of your pet
runabout (if you possessed one).

If you secured a certain cigar some
time which just hit you right in the
center of your sense of the eternal
fitness of things, you would hike
back to that cigar man and demand
the Hod Carrier’s Delight, or what-
ever the name was, again.

And you would know the name.

Our father, way back yonder—old
Adam, I mean—had a name—and
from that time to the present every
one has had a name.

You would not think of
your wife on the street,
“Woman, lady, female. Come hither
you of the gentler sex. Not much.
You gently breathe Anna, Bertha or
Dolly and the fair one responds at
once.

You do not call your offspring by
any such title as Kid. You say Wil-
liam or Claudia, as the case may be.

All this leads us straight up to
the vital importance of the trade-
mark.

What is a trade-mark?

Nothing more or less than a name
or symbol serving for identification
purposes.

Out of all the underwear in the
United States you can walk right
up to the counter and say Forest
Mills, or sock Holeproof. The gro-
cer knows that Ivory and soap mean
the same thing, although the honor-
ed Webster may not have so defin-
ed them.

What a chump a_= manufacturer
would really be who would insist on
identifying and boosting a_ trade-
mark on a poor line of goods! He
would not ‘last long.

It is a poor rule that does not dou-
ble up in the middle and if the trade-
mark pulls trade and serves to iden-
tify good goods, it will also serve
as a beacon light to steer folks away
from merchandise troubled with a
yellow streak of unworthiness.

Take a look back into the adver-
tising pages of a modefn magazine.
Every one of those advertisements,
all of those great publicity cam-
paigns, are simply out working for
you every day, every hour of every
day. Other merchants are also bene-
fited, but take the man or woman
who is imbued with the merits of the
line advertised. Will he or she find
the article displayed in your store
or are you trying the old shell game
of unknown bulk or shelf goods—no
names, no prestige, no nothing?

People are educated up to trade-
marks these days. They realize the
maker of trade-marked goods must
deliver quality and service. This little

hailing
shouting,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

trade-mark is just a good sort of
Protection, a little pledge of honor
on the part of the maker that he is
doing his honest, leved, hope-to-die
best to make as good an article in
that particular line as possible.

He goes out into the highways and
byways and sings his song. He
hammers away and creates a demand.
The dealer reaps the benefit.

Any dealer, whether drugs, gro-
ceries, hardware, dry goods or oth-
erwise, will realize, if the matter is

carefully considered, that trade-
marked goods have the call. Un-
known lines may yield more profit,

but what is the use of sending trade
down to Byjinks & Goit for them to
hand out the live wires!

Trade-marked, advertised goods us-
ually come attractively packed and
also have with them a line of win-
dow trims, cards, etc., all of which
add a little tone to the store and
help boost sales.

It is not the big fish alone who
are doing good with trade-marks, but
the wholesalers and jobbers are in
line. While we have come to identi-
fy trade-mark campaigns with Dutch
Cleanser, Royal Baking Powder, Vic-
tor Talking Machines, Keen Kutter
Tools, etc., you yourself can adopt a
little slogan or business phrase, such
as the well known, “There’s a Rea-
son,’ “Made to Wear” or “Ask the
Man Who Knows.” These slogans
should be short and terse. Just
spread the phrase around on all your
printer matter. Stick it on the side
of your building, on the fence posts
and in the papers.

After you have hammered long
enough and hard enough, every man,
woman and child in that vicinity will
unconsciously link your store with
the slogan and it means good adver-
tising.

Back up your slogan with a liberal

display of the better known and push-
ed trade-mark brands and the re-
sults will more than satisfy you that
the man who invented the trade-
mark builded a heap better, perhaps,
than he knew.

Be wise and get your share of the
help that is being passed out.

Hugh King Harris.

—_+--____

Chinese View on Business Practices.

“Those who deal with merchants
unfairly are to be beheaded.”

“Those who interrupt commerce
are to be beheaded.”

“Those who attempt to close the
markets are to be beheaded.”

17

“Those who maintain the prosperi-
ty of commerce are to be rewarded.”
—_~+->—___

You do not realize how many
shocking things there are in the
world unless you happen to be a
prude.

 

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Happiness comes not so much from

what we get as from what we exepct
to get.

 

Wilmarth Show Case Co.
Show Cases
And Store Fixtures

Jefferson and Cottage Grove Avenues
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Don’t hesitate to write us.

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.
You will get just as fair treatment
as though you were here personally.

 

Opposite Morton House

Corner Ionia, Fountain and Division Sts.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

Less in Price

Superior
in Quality

Write for Catalog

Fisher Show Case Co.
886-888 Wealthy Ave.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

IF A

HAND SAPOLIO

USTOMER

asks for

and you can not supply it, will he
not consider you behind the times ?

HAND SAPOLIO is a special toilet soap—superior to any other in countless ways—delicate

enough for the baby’s skin, and capable of removing any stain.

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Summer Footwear and How To
Treat It.
Written for the Tradesman.
Never before have we had such a

varied and _ attractive showing of
summer footwear as we have dur-
ing the present season. Indeed, it
would seem as if human ingenuity
had all but reached the end of its
tether in devising beautiful and
fetching and comfortable shoes for
men’s, women’s and_ children’s sum-
mer wear. But it has not. The
spring and summer samples for an-
other season prove conclusively that
invention is still on the job.

The evolution of the summer shoe,
by the way, is an interesting thing.
In the days when cowhide boot;
were worn during the fall and win-
ter, and for work days during the
summer, calfskin boots were worn on
Sunday and for dress purposes. Chil-
dren went barefoot during summer—
and frequently until the frost appear-
ed in the fall. Women’s everyday
shoes were correspondingly heavy
and cloddy, but a very light turned
shoe was used on dress occasions.

After the introduction of the
chrome process of tannage, the man-
ufacturers of leather really began the
process of developing suitable mate-
rials for summer shoes. The leath-
ers became lighter in texture, more
flexible and more porous. When
made up into shoes this leather felt
more comfortable to the feet than
cowhide, calkskin and split leather.

One of the first leathers to prove
its merits as an ideal material for
summer shoes was Russia tan. Tan
seems to be a most durable color—
the lighter shades having a tenden-
cy to deepen perceptibly in color as
the shoe is worn. The finish is
smooth and durable, the texture soft
and pliable. It is a cool, comfortable
shoe; and although the vogue of tans
comes and goes, there are quite a lot

 

 

of people who believe that Russia tan
is just about as ideal a ‘material as
can be put into summer shoes.

After tan shoes came white can-
vas. Now we have white buck and
nubuck. And the manufacturers of
leather are working hard on the
problem of getting out yet other new
and practicable leathers for summer
shoes. The end is not yet.

Since summer shoes are lighter
than other kinds of footwear, they
require careful handling and special
attention to insure the maximum of
service to the persons using them.
Impress this fact upon the minds of
your customers. They should know
that the heavier a shoe is (other
things being equal) ‘the longer it will
be able to stand up under abusive
treatment. Tell them to be a bit
more careful. with their summer
footwear than they are with their
winter shoes. :

Tell them how to clean the several
kinds of summer shoes that you hap-
pen to have in stock. Tell the wom-
an who is buying a pair of white
buck shoes how to wash and dress
them; and tell the man who is buy-
ing a pair of tan shoes how tan Rus-
sia leather ought to be cleaned. Ex-
plain to him how he can easily mar
the looks of a pair of tan shoes by
rubbing them with a rag that causes
too much ftriction—or by the appli-
cation of too much elbow-grease to
any old rag. Caution him about us-
ing a cleaning preparation or a polish
that contains acid. Tan shoes ought
to be washed with pure castile soap,
and they should be rubbed lightly—
and with a soft, clean rag.

In telling your lady customer
about the advisability of keeping her
shoes clean, you will have to use a
little tact, otherwise the good lady
may become offended. You can tell
her about “one lady you heard of”
(don’t mention any names) who

TRADESMAN

daubed a white cleaning preparation
over her white buck shoes without
going to the trouble of removing the
dirt. Result: A drab or grayish col-
or. You can also recommend a cer-
tain white polish or powder that you
have found specially efficacious in
cleaning white canvas and bucks. (It
should be a powder that you have
in stock—and you ought to have
some kind that you can recommend
in all good conscience.)

Shoes (like the home) require fre-
quent ventilation during the summer.

 
  

 

May 8, 1912

If the same shoes are worn during
the evening as well as the day, this
means that the linings of the shoes
are kept moist for a good many
hours each day. By all means put
them where they can be well venti-

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Year After Year

We have refused to substitute
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handle this line look upon it
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If your stock
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“‘H B Hard Pan” and “‘Bertsch”’
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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May 8, 1912

lated at night. If you can educate
your customer up to the point where
he can appreciate the economy of
having at least two pairs of summer
shoes—one for daytime wear and one
for evenings—so much the better. In
that case you have sold two pairs
where you formerly sold one.

By all means tell him what a ben-
efit it is to tree his shoes when they
are not in use. If you can sell him
an extra pair of summer shoes and
pair of shoe trees then you are get-
ting on, indeed.

It is an admitted fact that people
are more inclined to neglect and
abuse their shoes than they are any
other part of their attire—and_ this
appli¢és to hot weather footwear as
well as winter shoes. One wonders
why this is—especially when one
stops to consider that the shoes are
a most vital part of the toilette en-
semble. Assuredly it will help to
Minimize complaints about so-called
defective shoes if shoe dealers and
salesmen will make it a point to im-
part information about the proper
care of shoes at the time the sale is
made. My observation is the cus-
tomer’is rather glad to receive this
information.

Hot weather serves to accentuate
foot troubles of all kinds. Some-
times the customer is frank enough
to describe his “symptoms” to his
dealer. When he does so, it is a
good chance to offer some helpful
suggestions about the care of ‘the
feet. By bathing the feet frequently

and properly caring for them—as-
suming that the shoes have been

MICHIGAN

properly fitted—many foot troubles
will disappear. Sometimes an “alum
bath” is a good thing for the feet in
hot weather—especially if the feet
are inclined to be tender; and a good
foot powder is always restful and re-
freshing.

Of course tact is necessary in sug-
gesting these things, for people are
Strangely sensitive about their feet.

Cid McKay.
—_—_>-_

Activities in the Buckeye State.
Written for the Tradesman.

The J. F. Cherry Co., cigar manu-
facturers of Newark, have leased ad-
ditional factory space. At present the
company-employs 100 hands, but the
force will be gradually increased to
double that number.

Columbus has a municipal garbage
reduction plant costing $200,000, but
the first six months it netted the city
$14,000 over and above the cost of
collection of garbage and operation
of plant. Grease is extracted from the
garbage and such of the refuse as is
fit is made into a tankage that analyz-
es 1 per cent. ammonia, 7 per cent,
phosphorus and 1 per cent. potash,
which is the base for making fer-
tilizers.

Dayton collects its garbage and
puts it on board cars. A reduction
company then takes it, extracts the
grease and makes fertilizer of such
of it as is fit. No profit accrues to
the city. The street sweepings go
to the dump. No attempt is made to
utilize the sewage. The factory han-
dling the garbage and refuse from
the slaughter houses makes 50,000
pounds, of soap grease per month.

TRADESMAN

The cracklings analyze 16 per cent.
ammonia and are ground into 2 meal
and exported for use as stock food.
Meat from dead animals is cooked
and the lean parts ground into meat
scrap for chickens. The better por-
tion of the tankage is made into hog
feed. Hard bones are sorted out,
cleaned and sold for $45 per ton for
manufacture into piano keys, knife
blades, etc. The softer bones are
made into fertilizer.

Cincinnati pays $80,000 annually for
collection of the garbage by a re-
duction company. Street sweepings
and ashes go to the dump and ma-
nure from horse stables and_ stock-
yards is handled by local gardeners,
the price paid ranging from nothing
to 50 cents a load.

Cary W. Montgomery, of Newark,
who furnishes the above facts to the
Advocate of that city, adds that the
city of Paris is paid $20,000 annually
for the crop of leaves ftom trees
in the public parks. These leaves are
composted and used by the garden-
ers for soil improvement. There
should be a lesson in this for waste-
ful American cities, where leaves are
burned and nothing whatever realiz-
ed from them, when leaf compost
would easily bring $1.50. per load.

Seeds have been distributed by
the Dayton Vacation Schools, Play-
ground and Garden Association and
prizes will be awarded to the chil-
dren having the best kept gardens.
The larger children will have gardens
10x25 feet and the gardens for the
tots will be 4x5 feet.

19

The total tonnage of coal produc-
ed in Ohio in 1911 was 30,342,039 tons,
or a reduction of 12 per cent. from
the previous year. The decrease is
due to the fact that many of the
mines worked only part time. Then
there was an usually big output in
1910, due to the strike in Illinois.

Great latitude is given Ohio cities
under the Fitzsimmons home rule
bill passed by the Constitutional con-
vention. Cities may have any form
of government they wish and have
the right to frame their own char-
ters and to exercise all powers of
local self-government not prohibited
by general laws of the State. They
may own and operate all sorts of
public utilities; in fact, it is perhaps
the largest measure of home rule
possessed by any state.

Youngstown hopes to secure the
plant of the Glacier Manufacturing
Co., a refrigerator concern of ' Pitts-
burg,

Ohio ranks among the first three
states of the Union in the importance
and value of its manufactures and in-
dustrial products.

Henry Rothrock & Son, of Ada,
have purchased the hardware stock
and fixtures of the late D. R. Ball-
mer, at Fostoria, and will continue
the business.

Lakes and streams of the State are
being stocked with fish from the
State Hatchery at Put-in Bay.

Akron has four public playgrounds
and plans are being ¢ompleted for the
summer’s work. Almond Griffen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women’s and Children’s Shoes

Made by Tappan, of Coldwater, Michigan,
as regards true fitting features, shapeliness of lasts and
stylishness of design. We center our entire effort toward
making high class McKay sewed shoes that stand out
conspicuously as every day sellers in the best boot shops

of the country.

The HOOSIER SCHOOL SHOE for girls and young women is a
specialty which has attained great favor from the retail shoe merchant.
make them in heavy Dongola, Gun Metal Calf and Mule Skin, and we sell

them at prices that give the retailer a wide margin of profit.

Our fall line, now being shown by salesmen, is deserving of your order.

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Increased Cost of Children an Impor-
tant Problem.
Written for the Tradesman.

A certain trustworthy historian
tells ‘us that in ancient Egypt, ow-
ing to the remarkable fertility of the
Nile-enriched soil and other condi-
tions that made living especially
cheap and easy, a child could be rais-
ed from infancy to manhood or wom-
anhood for an expenditure of the
equivalent of about four dollars in
our money.

A Connecticut man is responsible
for a statement, published recently
in a well-known and widely circulat-
ed periodical, which reads: “I have
had one visit of the stork in my house
in ten years; both my wife and I
would welcome another, but the first
cost us over $1,200 with no special
expenses, and what would you! * *
I for one do not wonder that large
families are out of style. Another
baby would put us in the poorhouse.
a BY

A comparison of these two items
furnishes striking illustration of the
increased cost of children.

Perhaps we do not need to go back
so far as the civilization of ancient
Egypt for our comparisons. Let us
take the more recent times of our
own grandfathers, say sixty or sev-
enty-five years ago. People then liv-
ed mainly on farms. Children spent
less time in school. As soon as old
enough the boys helped with the
outdoor work while the girls knit
and sewed and spun and wove. Even
among the well to do and prosper-
ous it was thriftily calculated that a
strong, industrious boy or girl who
remained at home until 19 or 20 years
of age “didn’t owe the parents any-
thing.”

Times have changed indeed since
the raising of offspring could be con-
sidered a_ self-sustaining industry,
and children were expected to pay
their own way.

Just how much children cost now-
adays comes as a surprise, sometimes
as a shock to the uninitiated.

The Johnsons are typical young
people in moderate circumstances. A
year and a half ago they had been
reading an article on “The Cost of
Children,” when Mrs. Johnson threw
down the magazine and exclaimed: ea
just know it does not cost anything
like it says there to keep one or two
or three children! They can not eat

much and their little slips and dress- -

es and sandals cost only a trifle. As
to their education later, which this
writer makes such a bugbear of, all
you have to do is, as soon as a baby
is born to begin to put a few dollars
in the bank every month as a spe-
cial fund. By the time the boy or

girl is old enough to need it there is
plenty laid by for a college course,
and it has all been done so gradually
that you have not felt it.”

The Johnsons’ little Reginald is
now 10 months old. Although their
experience has been brief, they speak
very differently about the cost of
children. They have kept careful ac-
count and Mr. Johnson says the baby
stands them in at just $535. This
amount includes such items. as:
Clothes, $55; doctor, $35; nurse four
weeks at $25, $100; certified milk,
$20; the largest item of all is, maid,
$260. This includes her wages and
a moderate estimate of the cost of
her board and the additional wear
and tear, waste and breakage that her
presence necessarily involves. Before
the baby came Mrs. Johnson did her
own work.

Of course they could have cut
down a little on some items—little
Rex’s clothes have been rather nice,
a cheaper cab would have answered,
they have had more photos taken
than were absolutely necessary. Still
they have tried not to be extrava-
gant, and comparing Rex with some
of the babies of their acquaintance,
Mr. Johnson says he is. very moder-
ate priced indeed. Little Luella
Hemsted, for instance, only 9 months
old, has cost $700. She had a long
sick spell in the early winter and
some of the time two nurses were re-
quired.

The Johnsons have not put any
money in the bank for a college fund
since Reginald’s advent, nor, in fact,
for any other kind of a fund. They

re-assure themselves with the thought
that a child costs. more the first year
than it does afterward until ready for
its higher education, which is doubt-
less true in many cases. But in these
ten short months théy have come to
realize that for people in their cir-
cumstances the raising of a family is
a serious undertaking financially.
They know something of what par-
ents are up against.

There are any number of people
whose problem is just the same as
the Johnsons’ problem. They are not
the poverty-poor people, nor what
we call the laboring classes—if* by
the laboring classes we mean only
those who are engaged’in the coars-
est and roughest manual toil—but the
nice middle-class people, the people
of fine tastes and high aspirations
who unfortunately have only small
and medium-sized incomes. These
people are the very ones who, for
the good of the race, ought to have
three or four children to the family,
but who have only one or two o1
possibly none at all; not because they
want to spend their time and money
in the frivolities of fashionable  so-
ciety; not because they are lacking
in a sense of their duty as citizens
nor in love for their offspring; but
because they are unwilling to reducc
their own lives and the lives of their

 

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children to a mere grubbing for the
means to keep soul and body to-
gether. This it seems to them is
just what having a large family would
mean; they fear that, as so graphi-
cally expressed by the Connecticut
man, “another baby would put them
in the poorhouse!”

From an analysis of such facts and
figures as are obtainable, it is plain
that the enormous increase in the
cost of raising children is not due
wholly or even mainly to the increas-
ed cost of food and clothing. Un-
deniably people eat better food than
they used to; they wear better
clothes; and both cost more money.
But, on the other hand, all rich and
heavy foods are banished from the
bill of fare of growing children as
unhealthy; while expensive or elab-
orate dressing for the young is not
counted in good form even by the
wealthy. So as one practical and ex-
perienced matron puts it, “It is not
what they eat or what they wear
that form the appalling items in rais-
ing children.” The same _ shrewd
woman sums up the really appalling
items under four heads:

1. Care for physical well-being.
“Tf a child is sick nowadays we must
have a trained nurse. If afflicted with
some chronic ailment a high priced
specialists must be consulted and
paid. Why it costs as much now to
look after the teeth and eyes and
adenoids of the average child as it
used to to raise him! Then we know
so much more about diseases than we
once did. It was a sorry day for our
pocketbooks when germs were dis-
covered.”

2. Time of the mother. “The
woman who has even two children,”
this matron avers, “and who gives
them all the care and companionship
that up-to-date authority says she
should give them, simply has to have
help in the kitchen and help in the
kitchen costs money. Many child-
less women not’ only do_ their
own work but earn considerable be-
sides. The woman with children, if
she ministers to anything but their
mere physical needs, is absoluteliy
precluded from making money.”

3. The great American fetich of
education. “We can not feel satisfied
that we’ve done our full duty by our
children till they get their university
diplomas. If you keep track of
what it costs from-the time a child
is born till you get him through
college, youll find you have some
expense account.”

4. Giving a start in life. “Then
after you’ve boarded them and cloth-
ed them, and had them doctored and
given them your time and studied all
their tendencies faithfully as they
say you should do, and educated them
the best you can—after all this—the
chances are that you'll have to put
up several hundred or even several
thousand for each one to give him a
start in life. For you know it seems
to be getting harder and harder every
day to get a foothold in any calling
or profession.”

The clear-headed woman knows

whereof she speaks and she voices
the experience of countless numbers
of parents. :

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Whoever can think out*any feasible
method by which any one or all of
these four great items of expense in
the raising of children can be mate-
tially reduced without detriment to
the child, will confer an inestimable
benefit upon his day and generation;
for just this is one of the great pro-
blems of our times. Quillo.

———— +2 —____
Pearls From the Pen of Ed. Howe.

One reason young people think
they havé so many friends is that
they never need them.

A woman who cries a great deal is
usually a great kisser.

If you don’t like this world, com-
plain to the girl who is at home from
school for the holiday vacation; she
is running it at present.

When you get through with your
work, for Heaven’s sake go off and
rest; don’t bother the man who is still
busy.

A man or woman who reads poetry

will finally attempt to write it.

Almost every public speaker men-
tions his dear wife, and the fact that
he has been abroad.

Every man throws a rock now and
then that he would like to have back
in his hand.

Every great man must realize that
he is not as great as the newspapers
say he is.

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In a lodge, when a man looks par-
ticularly meek, subdued and crushed,
he is sure to have some awe-inspir-
ing title like Most Worthy Grand
Past Master of the World.

After a man gets along in years the
pockets in which he formerly carried
love letters and such like are general-
ly filled with spectacle cases.

You don’t need a very complete
list of funny stories to amuse a girl
who is gifted with pretty teeth.

Ed. W. Howe.
—_>-.—__
Education in Crime.

Medical men and others interested
in the psychology of crime under-
stand that crimes are often imitat-
ed. One sensational murder is fol-
lowed by another similar in charac-
ter. A society woman elopes with
the coachman and another soon “ol-
lows. One suicide jumps from some
high place, another will imitate his
example. One young lady disappears,
another is liable to follow. Thiev-
ing and hold-ups are so common they
seem to be contagious. Human be-
ings are followers of fashion in hab-
its and crime as they are in the
clothes they wear. From this stand-
point the newspaper publication of
all kinds of misconduct is open to
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sensational news and it is their duty
to furnish it is not based upon sound
reasoning. The publication of the de-
tails of crime or indecency whets
the appetite of the imitator, and may
be fairly considered an inciting cause
of crime and _  indecency.—Medical
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a “s gen, and which also deposits an i ee €
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0 mse 4 4 qualities of lead to sulphuric and sul- : :
ee My 3 Sy phurous acid fumes renders this proc- Galvanized Iron Work
of & YY) ess applicable to all metal parts ex- ee ee os I
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posed to such corrosive oe 16 Peed Se Grand Rapids, Mich.
specially i ectric railway work,
Michigan Retail Hardware Association. [t js well to be in position to meet especially in electric ?
President—Charles H. Miller, Flint. : oe :
Vice-President—F. A. Rechlin, Bay that demand.—American Artisan. :
City. ——_2-~-@____
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City. . . : : t
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit. Machine Digs Mile of Ditch.a Day. ( ] A R K- \Y/ E A V E R ( QO). I
The largest excavatine machine t
The Tinshop and the Hardware oe gee : .
ever built is capable of digging a mile W W E a
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Pies = nes a Se fe eet wide every day. It is employed in GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN f
pO ne hardware store! © very the construction of canals and lat- : : : ‘
question implies a doubt. But there erals comprising an irrigation system We ALWAYS Ship Goods Same Day Order is Received t
is no doubt in the mind of the hard- to water the 16,000 acres which com- :
ware dealer who has given to his tin- pose the Cudahy ranch, situated in ;
shop the attention it deserves and has the Imperial Valley of Mexico. The 4
received from it the profits of which conditions are identical with those
it 1s capable. A thoroughly equip- of the valley of the Nile, for this
ped and properly manned an ship ranch is of silt lands built up by the :
is not only the logical thing in con- ages of overflow of the Rio Grande. OS er e V ens 0. s
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nection with every hardware store, The machine weighs 100,000 pounds 9 ;
but it can be made to pay far better and covers an area of 25x60 feet. It E
dividends in proportion to the capi- is entirely of steel construction and Wholesale Hardware :
tal than any other department of the is propelled by two thirty horse pow- ;
business. er oil engines. The fore part of the
The only voice dissenting from this machine carries the engines which fi
proposition will be that of the hard- drive a shaft wheel, which, in turn, 4 h
ware dealer whose location is such by a series of cogs and chains, pre. V
that a tinshop is not practicable as pels the machine over the ground and : v
an adjunct to his business, or the at the same time operates the im- 10 and 12 Monroe St. 31-33-35-37 Louis St. D
dealer who knows nothing of: sheet mense circular digger carried at the : : e
metal work, is too busy to learn, and rear. This digger is equipped with Grand Rapids Mich.
will not put in charge of that de- scoops bearing sharpened blades of ’ p
partment a competent man. For the tee] Tt first picks up the dirt and, .
importance of the sheet metal busi- revolving upward, drops its burden t
ness now demands the best in equip- gy to conveyors which carry it to 4
ment and ability. The day when the  poth sides, depositing it upon the c
tinner was a mere tinker has pass- banks of the excavation. The ma- | i . p
ed. The sheet metal trade calls for chine is so nicely adjusted that it Boosting Another Man S ( ame! ti
mechanic of a high order, and it of- can dig a ditch from 2 inches up to e
fers tc f that class excellent 9 ¢.4 ; a of ‘ oe 3 : ;
fers to men of t 3 eat 8 feet in depth and fr om 4 to 12 feet RE you doing so by using ice for refrigeration? This expense may be ’
opportunities for prontap € work, wide, shaping and finishing the ex- avoided. Marketmen all over this country are realizing that ice for it
both inside and outside the shop. cavation as it proceeds. With this refrigeration is an expensive item in the conduct of their business. s
The hardware dealer who ignores machine seven men do the work of YOU CAN REDUCE expenses by installing AT ONCE a
this opportunity is neglecting an im- fifty scraper shovels hauled by 100 . =
portant branch of the business. It mules, with a driver for each team. Brecht S Enclosed ‘ 4
is a department that can hardly lose ———_---. 2 Brecht’s q g . :
money, yet may make much money, ° Non-Corrodible Metal Coating. Twin Brine Circulating System D
properly handled. It is a depart- A new process similar to galvan- Compressor
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i : toad : re ree lead dilov. bax System—the economical, practical and simple method of
hardware store, for people who cal coating one of lead or lead alloy, has artificial refrigeration. A few hours operation each day :
ges : eg ss: 3 2 is sufficient to maintain a } t ture, at MUCH
for tinning only may easily be in been introduced. The cost as com oo ie net ome ure, a
duced to buy other lines. People pared with galvanizing depends on Write us for complete information at once. e
naturally expect to find a tin shop in the character of alloy deposited, be- Wicute cae :
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their tinning stands a better chance may be secured. After cleaning by ; : : 3
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would if he had no tin shop. The be coated is immersed for a time not New York, Denver, San Francisco, Cal., Hansbace, Buenos Aires a
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for the overhead and track applianc-
es, including tie plates and angle
plates and the steel sheathing of cars.
A coating consisting of 100 lead and
1. tin suits most conditions, as it is
very pliable as well as very resistent,
but various alloys of lead, tin and
zinc may be employed according to
the use to which the treated article
is to be put.

——_+++—___
Display, and Price Tickets Sell
Goods.

Many stores are sa prim and neat
in the arrangement of goods that
there is little or’ no inducement to
buy. This may read like a paradox,
but the point is that, while neatness
and cleanliness are to be  recom-
mended, the goods must be so dis-
played and ticketed that they will in-
duce purchases. When goods are on
the shelves or under the counter,
where they can not be examined or
seen, people will only buy what they
come for.

If displays can not be made on the
counter, then a table or some other
stand should be set apart for making
seasonable displays of goods, with
price tickets on them. These dis-
plays should be changed every two
or three days.

By pursuing this policy you will
find that customers, as soon as they
have made their regular purchases,
will examine these displays to see
what you have new to. offer, and
many sales will be made which oth-
erwise would have been lost.

The important thing in these dis-
plays is the price ticket. An article
without a price ticket will win atten-
tion only from the person who is in
urgent need of that particular arti-
cle at that particular time. With a
price ticket it will get attention from
‘ten times as many people.

People do not care to ask the price
of an article unless they really need
it. Price tickets make the law of
suggestion work for, not against, the
merchant. Price tickets make sell-
ing easy. No matter how tempting
an article may be, it is seldom strong
enough to overcome the repugnance
people have to asking prices.

This mental attitude on the part
of buyers is caused through a fear
that the price may not suit their
pocketbook. If a low price is quot-
ed, an unfavorable opinion of the
goods is sometimes formed. The
price ticket, to a great extent, elim-
inates this defective mental disposi-
tion.

When goods are _ price-ticketed
there is often created a desire to en-
quire further into their merits. The
enquiry thus created by the price
ticket generally leads to a sale. The
matter of display and price tickets is
worthy the serious consideration of
the merchant.

—_——_» ++ ___
Device For Cuting One’s Own Hair.

A foreign inventor has patented a
device which, it is said, will enable
any man to cut his own hair. It con-
sists of a comb attachment that may
be placed upon any razor. The hair
is then combed with the razor, which
cuts off the ends of the hair at pre-
cisely the right length.

 

MICHIGAN

Activities in the Hoosier State.
Written for the Tradesman.

Active work has begun on the road-
bed for the Ft. Wayne & Toledo elec-
tric line between Ft.
Bryan, Ohio.
the road
months,

Wayne and
It is expected to have
In Operation within nine

The school census just completed
at Terre Haute shows 4 gain of 730
children over last year.

as E. Gates, Samuel Trembly, A.

- Mosher and John Gates, of Co-
ee City, will operate extensively
in onions this season. A large stor-
age house will be built at Etna Green,
which will be in charge of John
Gates. A.B. Mosher will do the buy-
ing.

The Danville Canning Co. has
been incorporated at Danville with
$25,000 capital.

The Beaver Valley Canning Co.
has been formed at Morocco,
$10,000 capital.

Thos. Nugent will build a tomato
cannery at Medora. He has formed
a company with $10,000 capital.

Kendallville will build a hospital
on the hill near Bixler Lake, the
building costing $10,000.

Evansville is the home of over 200
traveling salesmen.

The cigar business of the late Fred
Schneider, at Ft. Wayne, will be
continued by Mrs. Schneider.

The Wabash Railroad has complet-
ed its new freight terminal at Ft.
Wayne.

The Imperial Manufacturing Co., of
New York, maker of sewing ma-
chines, is considering a change of lo-
cation and prefers a city within a
certain radius of Chicago. The Fris-
co lines are trying to locate the plant
in Evansville.

Clean-up Day was a decided suc-
cess in Mishawaka. Even the Lake
Shore Railroad co-operated in the
work, sending a work train with forty
men to bring dirt and cover up the
rubbish along West Front street.

The new Foster Park at Ft. Wayne
will be dedicated July 4.

A sanitation campaign has open-
ed at Ft. Wayne, with careful inspec-
tion of alleys and backyards, and vio-
lators of the city ordinance will be

with

prosecuted. Almond Griffen.
—o---2
Manistee Forging Ahead in Good

Shape.

Manistee, May 6—In my work io-
day I talked with Harry J. Aarons,
of Manistee, and he mentioned the
time you came here to address the

business men. He wanted to call
your attention to some of the fol-
lowing things which have been  ac-

complished here since the time men-
tioned above:
A new Masonic Temple, which will

Open in about thirty days, which is
considered the finest in the Middle
West.

A live Board of Trade.

New postoffice building, costing
$90,000.

Four hundred and fifty thousand

dollars appropriated for river
harbor improvements.

New power dam on the Big Man-
istee River to supply abundance of
power and which is about ready to

be put into use.

and

TRADESMAN

Manistee has more paved streets,
Der capita, than any other city in
Michigan.

The Manistee Iron Works will em-

‘ploy over 500 more men than they
‘are at present employing.

Mr. Aarons deserves favorable
mention on his new clothing store.
He built and owns the building, which
is a fine one, with a central corner
for a location. The interior arrange-
ment is ideal and the fixtures are
in every detail and. department the
most up-to-date obtainable. The trav-
eling men tell him that it is the fin-
est clothing store of its size in the
country, and I believe it, for he cer-
tainly has not left a stone unturned
to make it as nearly perfect as pos-
sible. C. H. Perkins.

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The Alluring 5 Per Cent.

Many buyers make the mistake of
purchasing a larger amount of goods
than they actually need when the sell-
er offers them an extra 5 per cent.

Other buyers, in an effort to pur-
chase goods at an advantageous
price, buy less than they need of
some pafticular line when they are
refused an extra 5 per cent.

Both of these classes of buyers
are wrong in their methods; the first
named type often lose money because
they overstock themselves and the
second fail to make as much money
as they might because they are under-
stocked.

This business is a rock

“extra five’

  
  

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hopes are
wrecked. Buy all that you need and

on which many buyers’

no more than you need, at the very
best possible price, regardless of the
discount. Five per cent. does not
cut any ice when you have a demand
for goods and can not supply it, or
when you have a lot of goods and

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Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President—C. P. Caswell, Detroit.

Secretary—Wm. J.
Huron,

Treasurer—John Hoffman, Kalamazoo.

Directors—F. L. Day, Jackson; C. H.
Phillips, Lapeer; I. T. Hurd, Davison;
H. P. Goppelt, Saginaw; J. Q. Adams,
Battle Creek; John D. Martin, Grand
Rapids,

Grand Council of Michigan, U. C. T.

ag 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. :
we, Treasurer—Joe C. Witliff, De-
roit.

Grand Conductor—E. A. Welch, Kala-
mazoo.

Grand Page—Mark S. Brown, Saginaw.

Grand Sentinel—Walter S. Lawton,
Grand Rapids.

Grand Chaplain—Thos, M. Travis, Pe-
toskey.

Executive Committee—James F. Ham-
mell, Lansing; John D. Martin, Grand
Rapids; Angus G. McEachron, Detroit:
James E. Burtless, Marquette.

Devereaux, - Port

 

Mr. Hach Shies His Hat in the Ring.

Coldwater, May 6—I come to you
at this time with the announcement
of my candidacy for the office of

Grand Secretary, subject to the will

 

of the convention at Bay City in
June.

My candidacy for this honor is not
the result of personal ambition alone,
nor is it without regard and due con-
sideration for the best interests of
the order at large, but it is the result
of careful and deliberate considera-
tion of suggestions held out to me as
being in keeping with a rule estab-
lished by former conventions against
perpetuation in office.

The present encumbent, now serv-
ing his third term, by virtue of which
he is entitled to all the honors of
the Grand Lodge, leaves the field for
others who may aspire, and it is this
fact that has induced me to enter the
field and I trust you will accept my
candidacy in the spirit in which it is
entered and that I may share your

full confidence by your support and
valued influence.
John A. Hach, Jr.
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Commend the Candidacy of Grand
Secretary Richter.

Traverse City, May 6—We, the un-.

dersigned, wish to again bring to
your notice Brother Fred C. Richter
as our candidate for re-election ta the
office of Grand Secretary of Michi-

 

gan U. C. T. Having served two
years in this capacity with a record
that has never been surpassed, we do
not hesitate in asking the co-opera-
tion of every United Commercial
Traveler in the State, and we be-
lieve that every subordinate secretary
who has worked with Brother Rich-
ter will heartily endorse his re-elec-
tion. We believe that this office is
the most important of the Grand of-
fices and that a competent officer
should be retained.
Fraternally yours,

L. D. Miller,

Adrian Oole,

Ray Thacker,

Campaign Committee.
—_+>+>___
Some Peculiarities of the Drummer.
Drummers are omnipresent, omnis-

cient, positive, persistent, garrulous
and occasionally sarcastic.. Likewise
adroit, tactful, optimistic, and, if need
be, insolent. They wear up-to-date
raiment, smoke good cigars, assure
everybody “our house leads all com-
petitors,” pay their bills as if dollars
were brown leaves, play pitch and
poker as if they were professionals,
can time a horse race, make a stump
speech, lead in prayer, or discuss the
tariff like a politician. Also when it
comes to the fine art of evasion or
argument, can lie longer, louder, fast-
er, more convincingly, dive deeper,
swim farther and come out drier than
the advance agent of a circus!

TRADESMAN

Drummers demand “The best room
you have” of the landlord, but take
what they draw without a yip, eat
supper, write orders and wifey, play
pitch or bid whist until 11 p m., say
call No. — at 6:15, retire, sleep sound,
snore loud, arise with a leap, wash a
little, dress quickly, pocket what
matches are in sight and descend to
eat again. They bolt breakfast, pay
without a grumble, charge the house
50 cents extra for bath, light a two-
fer, hike for the train, skim the
morning paper, then start a game of
pitch, assuring the other fellow they
are soft marks and will get skinned.

When the next town is reached
they are first off the train, tell the
baggage mover to “get busy now ’n’
hustle that trunk down to D. S. &
M.’s store P. D. Q.” And unless the
buyer is steel clad, nickel plated and
flint hearted will land him for about
four times the goods he needs. Drum-
mers have many good qualities in-
cluding some nobody but a wifey sees,
but we shall not mention those now,
for business is a little off, hats cost
money, and we deem it ill-advised
to say things that will
quadruple the hat business. Then
again the one thing a drummer does
not need is enlargement of the cra-
nium. We like the boys immensely,
however, by reason of their morning
sunshine optimism, all around ability
to do everything, extract sunshine
from cucumbers, hear larks singing
in cloudy skies, and persistent efforts
to push the gospel of “my city,” “our
line of goods,’ and “cheer up, the
worst is yet to come” far and wide.
And these things are about the only
gospel they do spread.

It is related that one of them ar-
riving at the Golden Gate and look-
ing St. Peter over critically, thus
treed his mind:

“Say, Pete, old sport,” he said
benevolently and slapping him on the
back, “I’ve heard about you all my
life and what an important man you
were. But your togs are all out of
style, you need a hair cut and whisk-
ers trimmed, your halo is too big and
sandals are-no longer worn except by
fat legged ballet girls posing for cigar
box pictures. Don’t mind my free-
dom of speech,” he added, proffering
St. Peter a cigar, “it’s a way I have.
Now if you'll visit a barber and or-
der a new suit this afternoon, I’ll tip
off a few of the boys who have gone

 

 

 

 

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May 8, 1912

in ahead of me, we will buy a quart
of red eye, start a game of poker,
and give you the best time you have
had since Adam began earning an
honest living. And I’ve got a few
new stories that will jar you!”

It is also related that St. Peter im-
mediately fainted dead away.

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“What’s the matter?” asked the
barber; “anything wrong?” “I should
say so,’ answered the victim. “This
is the worst scrape I ever got into!”

 

 

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May 8, 1912

Jim Goldstein Rouses From His
Long Lethargy.

Ludington, May 7—Enclosed find a
few items, which wouldn’t surprise
me if you blue penciled. Have been
very busy since here, and to add to
my troubles Mrs. Goldstein has been
in bed, being ill since her arrival here,
but I am glad to say she is doing
very nicely and will be up in a day or
so. Regarding the business, the many
kind words I received on leaving
Grand Rapids (even if they did make
me blush) seem to have given me
courage and confidence in myself,
which to date I haven’t misplaced—
in myself. Seems when a fellow
works hard, puts lots of enthusiasm
into his work and plenty of confi-
dence mixed with a square deal one
can’t help but make good at any-
thing—with the possible exception of
newspaper work and singing. Can’t
say that I have all the above quali-
ties, but would more than make good
if I had. I really miss our weekly
visits, if only for a short time, and
hope to see you soon for another
visit.

We are nearly all settled—not the
bills, but the furniture—which I am
very thankful for. You will have to
excuse my pencil, as I can not find
the ink and I am afraid to ask Mrs.
G. where it is for fear I may have to
unpack something to get it. One nice
thing about Ludington is the Sundays.
They are about forty hours long,
which gives me a regular day for my-
self besides a few hours for devotion-
al exercises, etc.

 

Much ado in one of the Grand Rap-
ids dailies about placing the Bible
in the public schools. Those who are
in favor of this would be just the
kind of people that would force a
few of the best of us to eat pork
against our will.

We feel as though we were living
up to our.pre-managerial promises by
giving all of our 2,000 traveling
friends an order, judging by the way
the bills are rolling in.

What seems so strange to us is
the fact that, although we have mov-
ed away from the city that “knows
how” (but doesn’t always do it), the
granting of building permits shows a
decided gain.

The following traveling men who
make their headquarters in Grand
Rapids paid us a visit during the
week: Shellman, Braach, Ruth and
Seymour. And to think these lowly
traveling men had the temerity to
call us by our first name!

Reports from Manistee state that
the giant Dutchman, Louie Firzlaff,
who was seriously ill, is able to be
out and around again although unable
to assume his duties on the road. The
trout season opened up May 1.

The columns in this paper edited
by Mrs. Ryder and her two children
begin to look like the baseball col-
umns on a sporting page. '

Much as we would like to roast
Manager Fred Read, of the Stearns
Hotel, we will not do so, as Fred is
one of our good customers.

Judging by the quantity of news
in News and Gossip column last

week the boys must be helping the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Ryder brothers as much as they did
us when we were on earth.

We wish to thank the assistant
manager of the Tradesman for the
clipping sent us. At least one from
down home remembers us, who has
no wares to sell.

J.B. MeLain (National Biscuit
Co.), who resides in Manistee, de-
votes about 2% per cent. of his val-
uable time to us on Friday.

Ja Ludington they have a young-
ster with an inventive turn of mind,
one James Rye, Jr. When James
wishes to tie his dog so he won’t run
away he ties a string to the dog’s
tail and fastens the other end of
the string to the dog’s collar. The
dog may do a “Dervish dance,” but
never runs away.

And they expect to develop a few
Ty Cobbs in Ludington this year.

At the Hotel Stearns a short time
ago were five “New Yawk” traveling
men at the same table. We knew
they were from “New Yawk” by the
way they gargled their soup.

Forest Dickerson, erstwhile travel-
ing man, now bloated President of the
Ludington baseball team, is making
gteat preparations to place Luding-
ton securely on the map of baseball-
dom.

Faithful Freddy Richter always
finds time for a short visit with his
friends—and_ gets the necessary
amount of business to draw down the
stuff that jingles in the pocket be-
sides.

_ Ina recent issue the reporting Ry-
ders mentioned a few of the presents

_ that we received before we left te

serve our life sentence in Ludington.

Right now let us remark that we .

would rather receive gold buttons,
signet rings and umbrellas now than
posies after the final clamps were
pulled on our breathing. :

We are not yet so crusted that we
wouldn’t be pleased to see any of
our old friends who happen to be in
Ludington.

Even at a distance we would like
to see 500 members for 131. Why
wait a year to start?

Over 400 members in Grand Rap-
ids Council! Of this grand total we
have heard from the magnificent total
of one, aside from the few that
called.

To our good friend, Chas. Perkins,
of D. M. Amberg & Co., who recent-
ly collided with one of Ben Han-
chett’s cars:

Sticks and_ stones
Will break my bones.
In my life I’ve received many scares;
But just a jar :
From Ben’s street car—
Only forty dollars for auto repairs.
J. M. Goldstein.
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A Kalamazoo correspondent writes:
Kalamazoo’s large paper mill colony
has just been iacreased by the ar-
rival here of P. H. Prebles, of Chi-

-cago, who has joined the sales force

of the Monarch mill. He is an ex-
perienced paper man, _ having for
years been buyer for one of the large
printing houses of Chicago, and is
regarded by the Monarch people as a

* valuable acquisition to their selling

department.

Greetings From the Crickets.

Battle Creek, May 6—Clarence L.
Burgedefer has just returned from a
short trip of shoveling sunshine, in
his original and inimitable manner.
The next three weeks will be spent
in engagements in nearby towns, aft-
er which he leaves for the South to
fill twenty-six Chautauqua dates for
the Alkahest Bureau of Atlanta, Ga.
He will then go to Des Moines, Ia.,
where he has fifty dates with the
Midland Lyceum Bureau in Chau-
tauquas. The only trouble with Clar-
ence is that he is away from home so
much that we do not get as much
benefit from his smile and good cheer
as we would like. Well, anyway, we
are glad that our Council can boast
of such a member.

Battle Creek has a neat and novel
store which has recently been open-
ed at 931%4- Main street west. We re-
fer to the McKay grocery. FF. S.
McKay is one of the old timers in
the grocery business, having conduct-
ed stores on Calhoun and also on
Main streets. He has made _ this
branch of businéss a study for many
years, and one of the outgrowths of
his fertile mind is a store without
counters. Goods are displayed on
shelves in the usual way, but instead
of having much room taken up with
counters, he has wide counter-shelves
on either side of the store, with
scales, paper rolls and accommoda-
tions. for wrapping packages. This
innovation will undoubtedly be copied
by other merchants, as much floor
space is saved, and a larger number
of customers can be waited upon with
greater ease.

At one of the recent meetings of
Battle Creek Council, U. C. T., No.
253, the following poem (with slight
change) was read.. The author, Chas.
H. Spencer, was elected to the office
of Senior Counselor last year, and
filled this honor with credit to him-
self and the order until the time of
his moving to his present home at
Peoria, Ill. He still retains his mem-
bership and the boys are always glad
to hear from him. Not only was
Charlie a hard working, capable mem-
ber and officer, but Mrs. Spencer and
the children were always in earnest
when anything was needed to make
the occasional social functions a suc-
cess. We regretted very much _ to
have Brother and Sister Spencer and
family leave us, but they still have
our best wishes wherever they may
be. Here is the poem:

“Backward turn backward oh Time in
your flight, :
Place me in Battle Creek just for a night.
I’m lonesome and blue and all in the
For There Balncdas night is*the third in

the month : : é
And the boys will be gathering in the U.
€.-E: hall

‘ob. Na
And I‘d like to be there to shake hands
ith them all.
There's George Steele and John Adams
and Norm Riste, too
Al Henslar. Mark Blakeslee, Chas. Foster,

and a few

Of the loyal old guard who always are
there : : ;

To look wise and give counsel in all the
affairs

Of the Order, right or wrong as it may.

They each speak their piece and then
vote George’s way ‘

For he is the boss and why shouldn’t
he be?

For it’s well understood he owns the
whole U : :
He’s Secretary, too, and gets all the mon,
And the crusty old Devil, he wants all

the fun.
Wont let anyone else sign any of the
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But then it’s George Steele, so what
would you expeét

Of a man who’s so steeped in Unity,
Charity and Temperance

That of other religions he has scarce a

remembrance,

As I sit at my ease and with fond retro-
spection

Think of the past years, I can see the
reflection

Of many good deeds done by Two-Fifty
Three—

Their benevolence, Charity and it still
seems to me

I ee — ee good in the old

The face of each member I have in my
mind

And for their shortcomings an excuse I
can find.

There’s one tall, Stately fellow, you all
know whom I mean,

If he were a girl, to me it would seem

To worry a bit, he’d have very good
grounds

For since he’s been married, he doesn’t
come down.

3ut if his excuse you wanted to know

Just go to his home, he’d be delighted
to show

His highest ambition, best you ever saw

So here’s good Health and Happiness to
little Miss Bronaugh.

One crusty old duffer who’s there once in
a while

If ’'d mention his name it would cause
you to smile,

Tradition so says that once on a time

To the Governor’s chair he attempted to
climb;

He’s a popular man in every one’s eye

This same good old fellow, this same
Charlie Dye.

‘His friends they are numberless, his
enemies few’

He’s a friend to you all, even me, even
you.

There’s one whose delight ’tis wild. ani-
mals to tame

He’s there with the goods too, Frank
Maltby’s his name.

Lynn Johnson; Schoonmaker, Clarence
Whipple, Ed McGee,

As loyal good fellows as ever you’d see.

I feel uate forsaken, it make my heart
sic

To think of the friends back in old
Battle Creek.

So whoop ’er up boys, with might and
with main

And whoop ’er again, and again, and

again

Keep boosting the town, and all of the
folks

Hurrah for the Hub, to H--] with the
spokes.”’

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

Buffalo, May 8—Creamery butter,
29@32c; dairy, 22@28c; poor to
good, all kinds, 20@22c.

Cheese—Fancy, 17c; choice, 16@
16%2c; poor to good, 10@15c.

Eggs—Choice fresh, 20@20%c.

Poultry. (live) — Turkeys, 18@20c;
cox, 11@12c; fowls, 16@17c; ducks,
18@20c; geese, 12'4@14c.

Beans — Red kidney, $2.25@2.40;
white kidney, $2.75@2.95; medium,
$2.70@2.75; marrow, $2.90; pea, $2.65
@2.70.

Potatoes—$1.30@1.35.

Rea & Witzig.

The East End Plumbing & Heating
Co. has engaged in business with an
authorized capital stock of $1,000,
which has been subscribed, $132 paid
in in cash and $178 in property. The
stockholders and the number of
shares held by each are as follows:
A. F. Volette, 3314 shares; Charles
Lang, 33% shares, and O. E. Munn.
331% shares, all of this city.

If hicie & to bc connideed a place
only for eating and sleeping in, a
boarding house or a hotel would serve
the purpose equally well. With home
we associate consideration, truthful-
ness and a thousand other beautiful
things. Given these and home is the
most sacred place on earth and a fit
type of heaven.

About the poorest policy that we
know of is to see a man __ totally
blind and deaf to the welfare of a
friend until death calls, and then have
him try to square his conscience by
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President—Ed. J. Rodgers, Port Huron.

Secretary—John J, Campbell, Pigeon.

Treasurer—W. E, Collins, Owosso,

Other Members—Edwin T. Boden, Bay
City; G. BL Faulkner, Delton.

Michigan Retall Druggists’ Association.
President—D. D. Alton, Fremont.
First Vice-President—J. D. ‘—Gilleo,

Pompeil.
ee Vice-President—cG. C, Layerer

ney ity.

ecretary—R. W. Cochrane, Kalamazoo.
Treasurer—W. C. Wheelock, Kalamazoo.
Executive Committee—W. | ¢. Kirsch-
So Grand Rapids; Grant Stevens,
etroit; R. A, Abbott, Muskegon: Geo.
Davis, Hamilton; D., G. Look, Lowell:
C. A. Bugbee, Traverse City.
Next Meeting—Muskegon

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Assocla-

on,

President—B. w. Austin, Midland.
First Vice-President—k, P. Varnum,
Jonesville.

Second Vice-President—c. P. Baker,
maiBe Creek.

ird Vice-President—, P. Lipp,
Blissfield, =

Secretary—M. H, Goodale, Battle Creek.
Treasurer—J. J. Wells, Athens.
ecutive Committee—nr. J. Rodgers,
Port Huron; L, A. Seltzer, Detroit: S. ¢
aan, Hillsdale and H. G. Spring,- Union-
ville.

Grand Raplds Drug Club.
President—Wm. Cc,
Vice-President—4. D. De La Mater.
and Treasurer—Wm. H.

Executive Committee—Wwm. Quigley,
Chairman; Henry Riechel, Theron Forbes,
che’. Theron Forbes,
Logical Outcome of the Cut Rate

Drug Store.

Our Profession, one of the
ancient on earth, dating as it does
from the time of the Pharoahs, one
of the noblest hallowed by time and
circumstances away and beyond any
of its sister crafts—for what science
or art can be applied to better use
than the healing of human ills?—is
being prostituted and driven to a
premature grave.

In mediaeval times the pharmacist
occupied the highest position attain-
able. In the eyes of a social and
educational congregation, he reigned
supreme by reason of his knowledge
and power. His ability or integrity
was never questioned; his work nev-
er criticised. Everywhere he was re-
ceived with the respect due to the
dignity of his accomplishments,
Kings and queens delighted to honor
him—princes, peers and peasants alike
held him in
erudition.

most

awe by reason of his

The march of civilization brought
about in its train the evolution of
many subsidiary sciences, such as
medicine, botany, analysis, etc., many
of these latter being the parents of
others in their turn, as medicine is
the mother of surgery.

Pharmacy has been the progenitor
of all, yet paradoxical as the remark
may appear, it is to-day subservient
to its entire offspring.

The younger branche; of the par-
ent stem have intermarried with alien
crafts and have borne issue less gen-
tly bred.

What has been the zesult?

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.

We have encroached
leges of every branch
Taised in our midst a
monster
store.

on the privi-
of trade and
hydraheaded
called the cut rate drug

The old-fashioned medicine bottles
on display in our Stores of old. have
been replaced by heterogeneous as-
sortments of picture Post cards, pat-
ent medicines, hardware, etc., all of
which we sel] below cost.

At our present rate of progression
we may reasonably look to the time
when we shall install shoe shining
Parlors to add to our motley collec-
tion.

In a very short time department
stores in this country will inaugurate
Prescription departments, Where a
chemist will dispense Prescriptions at
a third of the price we now charge,
and prove to skeptical patients that
they are getting the highest priced
Materials.

This lamentable state of affairs ex-
ists to-day in other countries, and
now is the time for us to prevent its
Occurring here. [| Say now, for if it
gets a start great difficulty will rise
in its checking, if ever it can be pre-
vented. Clever men have endeavored
and failed to obliterate this system
in foreign countries.

Many have entered the ranks of our
profession with noble ideas, but un-
der the strain of temptation have for-
gotten their ancient heritage. Greed
and competition have led to all sorts
of abuses, substitution, short weights;
and even the omission of more or less
expensive drugs in the compounding
of prescriptions,

The confidence of the public has
been irretrievably abused. Standing
On a pedestal of honor, our integrity
is being attacked. Our golden en-
gtaved mottoes, “We Never Substi-
tute” and “Accuracy, Quality and Ef-
ficiency Guaranteed,” have become as
so many empty phrases.

Our degeneration has crept upon us
slowly, but surely. It has entangled
us so completely that extrication is
almost impossible. Indeed, some of
us have no desire to return like the
prodigal, seeing much more favorable
opportunities in the present unham-
pered system, and prefer to wander

into the other man’s garden and help,

ourselves to the fruits of his labors.
Is it not a fact that our modern

cut rate drug store is a monument

of imitation calculated to deceive?

Is it not a fact that the definition
of a lie is “willful deceit?”

Clearer than the first problem of
Euclid is the Quod Erat Demonstran-
dum that we are deceivers of the
deepest dye.

Having shown the poison, let me
proceed to point out the antidote.

There is a distinction between a
druggist and a pharmacist; why not
exercise it? Last week, in one coun-
try, “Ireland,” a druggist was fined
$125 for dispensing a prescription.
The advocacy of exclusive pharma-
cies and exclusive cut rate drug stores
will lead to as much success and
more safety for everyone concerned.

Is it not true that we have cheat-
ed ourselves of our birthright? Have
we not jeopardized the heirloom of
dignity bequeathed us by our pro-
genitors?

Guilty or not guilty, gentlemen?

The genial Roman satirist, Horace,
wisely said: “Nesutor ultra crepi-
dam,” “Let the cobbler stick to his
last.”

If we have any reverence for tra-
dition; if we are to keep our busi-
ness honor secure from the canker of
commercialism, let us cry “peccavi”
for the past; let us make preparation
for the future; let us be animated
with lofty purposes and high ideals,
and let us ever and always remember
that, even in this utilitarian age, pro-
fessional honor and dignity should
be our noblest aim.

Barry Murphy.
———
Plans Druggists Can Adopt To Pro-
mote Prosperity.

Along about this time of year a
window devoted entirely to the soda
fountain is excellent. You can have
a background of jugs of syrup, then
jars of fruits, some fresh fruits,
whatever may be available, daintily
arranged. Soda straws may be used
in a variety of ways as decorations.
Do not forget the fresh eggs. There
should also be things suggestive of
sundaes and ice cream. Placards of
course will help tell the story.

Getting Ready to Quench Your

Thirst.
Only the Freshest and Best Materials
Are Used at Our Fountain.

 

At this season of the year a timely
display might be made up of goods
apptopriate for the housecleaning.
Ammonia, borax, chloride of lime and
other

disinfectants, soap, sponges,
chamois, rubber gloves—anything

that might be called for along this
line. A placard or two will help the
display, such as:
Cleaning Up Time
Let Us Help.
Make the House Cleaning Easy.
The Things That Lighten Labor
Are Here.

 

It is astonishing what fine effects
are produced by a window filled with
boxes of the choicest candies, round,
square, oblong, encased in fluted pa-

per tied with satin ribbon and bear-

ing a silver or gold seal. A dash of
color is given by using red apples,
golden oranges, or some other bright
colored fruit. This display does not

cost a cent, but requires a designer
or somebody having a natural taste
and a keen eye for form and color
contrast.

When you combine color in your
window display be sure that you use
colors that do not fight each other.
If your windows are worth anything
to anybody they are worth most to
you. Let the theatrical] People find
room somewhere else for their pa-
per.

 

Neatness in the arrangement of
goods is a thing that always im-
plies freshness. A box nearly empty,
a few odds and ends of cartons or

boxes of confectionery or other
goods, creates exactly the Opposite

effect. However modest the display,
make the space for it accordingly and
keep it filled. If my olfactory and
ocular senses do not deceive me,
there is much room for improve-
ment around the ordinary soda foun-
tain. Hammer it into the boys in all
parts of the store; neatness, neatness,
neatness.
Live With
A
Lively Liver.
Use Our Dandelion Pills.

Dr. Woods Hutchinson says: “The
problem of whether life be worth liv-
ing—emphatically depends upon the
metabolic integrity of our hepatic
cytoplasm.”

If you feel that way try our
Liver Pills.

 

A good sign to put near the door:
We thank you for this call and
hope you will come again.

——~+-~___
Retaliation.
Little Boy—I want a dose of cas-
tor oil.
Druggist—Do you want the kind
you can’t taste?
Little Boy (anxious to get even)—
No, sir; it’s for mother.
—_~+2.____
A Common Ailment.
Giles—Pecken had a bad case of
matrimonial dyspepsia.
Miles—How’s that?
Giles—His wife doesn’t agree with
him.
eee ee
A full stomach often makes an
empty purse—except for the doctors.

FOR SALE

Complete set of

Drug Store Fixtures

including a good Soda Fountain which
is nearly as good as new. Will sell
fixtures or fountain separate. Bar-
gain if taken at once. Phone or write
M. J. O'BRIEN,
174 Ravine St.,
Battle Creek. Mich.

 

 

 

 

FOOTE & JENKS’ COLEMAN’S Dy
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.

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GAN TRADESMAN
WHOLESAL =
RUG PRICE CURRENT ee ee 99a? © Saccharum Ta's 20@ 20 Olls
m .. @ 170 Salacin ..........4 50@4 75 bbl
Acidum Copaiba 1 50@1 Macis DL. gal.
Ao 15 Sollee .. Catcce | TAG of Sanguis Drac’s| -. 40@ 60 Lard, extra - 85@1 00
Ja eae a > ies bens 4 =e e Fa @ 50 Magnesia, Sulph. 3@ Sane. G@ 2.02.5... % $5 Lard; No: 1 ...... 720 90
Soa ee ie Biktgercn Sees ka ae De ieee aes @ 50 tai Se Sulph, bbl. @ 4 S80, . Saeed ees 10@ 12 a pure raw
pee ae ge Ce ees ML ceseweees 50 . : apo, W ........ iQ 18 U4 oes ce ees. 85
Gee 4@ 30 Lvechthitos .....1 00@110 Prunus virg, @ 50 Morphic, wea q S008 0 Selalier” aiistire Ne SG aria ug $s
Hydrochlor .... 1%@ 5 Gaultheria ......4.80@5 00 Zingiber ........ @ 60 Morphia, SNYQ 4 ROme pee nomena 20@ 25 oe wae 80@ 85
Sects ae 5%@ 10 Geranium .... oz 75 Morphia, Mal ....4 80@5 05 Snuff, Ce wes “7 Turpentine less. 60@ 6
Oxalicum ....... 144@ 15 Gossippil Sem gal 60@ 75 Tinctures Moschus Canton.. @ 40 e Voes ...... f 54 Whale, winter .... 70@ 76
Phosphorium, “ail. @ 15 tHedeoma 250@2 75 “Aloes ......... 60 Myristica, No, 1 25@ 40 Snuff, S’h DeVo's g 54
en aaa : ‘eo = ie at a Alece & en. es a Soave po 15 260 a Soda, oo ee 5%@ 10 Paints
Tannicum ..... 100@110 Lavendula Anconitum Nap’sF Pepsin Saac, H & OA ok Pt ee a bbl. L..
wartacieek he 10 Doce ee spas ta ie 50 cs & atu —— et Pot's Tart 23@ 380 Green, Paris ....138%@ 20
«seee 88@ 40 Limons ......., aDSR  § 260 proto a, Carb ..... 3 a
hick sane Mentha Piper 375@ 400 Arnica ........., ie ota Soda, Bi-Carb 1 1@ 5 Green. Peninsular 13@ 16
Aqua, 18 deg. .. 3%@ 6 Mentha Verid ...5 00@5 25 Asafoetida ...... a ete | 69S Be eee tee tbo woot: A
a deg. = Be a ag gal. ..110@1 25 Atrope Belladonna 60 Pa aoe 80 g 65 Psp Cologne 1)" @8 00 ice wal pes 1 — :
aoe Wricia. |... s. ey eee @
Chioridum ...... 1@ 14 Olive 2.1 ie: ; 2 bes 3 raeus haat 50 Piper Alba po 35 @ 30 Spts, moa Bom? = Putty, comm’l 2% 24%@ 5
Picis tiatas ” aE Wig oy. 90 mo po 22 @ 18 Spts. Vini Rect bl @ 22 Red Venetian, bbl 1
icis Liquida gal. < 49 Benzoin ......... 60 urgum .... 10@ 12 Spts. Vi'i Rect %bbl & 1%... a
Ri Plumbi_ Acet 15@ s : a ys
ape ot stele ts oe > a Co... 3. 60 Pulvis Ip’cut Opil 2 a2 a oe wo oe * e Shaker Prep’d ..1 50@1 65
Rosmarini tee Le a meee 15 web, D, Co. don a as Sivohuia reer 1 00@1 30 Vermillion, Eng. 90@1 00
BN ecco esac 1 15@2.00 2 sent ee 50 ulphur. ol . %@ 65 Vermillion Pri
Aaa Santal 5.0005. : 4 soe 00 Cardamon ....... 75 Evrenthrum, Pv.. 20@ 30 Sulphur, Subl. ”:: 2% @ 6 American seine 13@ 15
oe. 0@ 15 Sassafras ....... 90@1 00 Caidaieen C5 5 . tg - teeeee 10@ 15 Tamarinds ...... 10 Whitng Gilders’ 1@
pea ee a Einapis. esa. os, o 60 nee 75 Quina, Y. ....214%@31% Terebenth Venice 00 50 Whit’g Paris Am’r @ 1%
Junipers ........ 6@ 8 Sueeini 40 Cassia Acutifol 59. «tina, S. Ger. ..2114@31% Thebrromiae 55@ 60 whit Paris E ce
Xanthoxylum G65 pee, earn ss+ 40@ 45 -: Quina, SP & W 212@315, Vagina aoe g ng.
Win@ 2....502; 50@ 60 Cassia Acutifol Co 50 Rubia Tinct 2 anilla Ext. ....8 00@12 00 Eee cases @ 1%
Ba. Thyme, a: 6 Gi <a netorum 12@ 14 Zinci Sulph ...... @. 10 Whiting, white S’n
Copaiba ........ 10@ 7 mygorromas .... 17@ 25 Catechu
Derk oo ea 00@2 25 BY ose e ec c. 1 60@1 70 Gynec a 50
Terabin, Canad. 65@ 75 inchona Co. .... 60
. Potassium Col
Tolutan .:1.. 2. 0@ 7 olumbia ....
a BbCarb ....-.:. M@ 1 Gunes “7
Cortex Bichromate . 13 Cubebae ......... 50
Abies, Canadian 25 peomnide eiueis. ag 30 ap tt eeeeeee 50
Wassiae .. 25.5... 25 MED ees ewes 12 SON ee pee
Cinchona Flava .. 20. Chlorate ..... po. Be 7 Ferri Chloridum Hy
Buonymus atro.. 40 Cyanide ......... 30@ 49 Gentian ......... 50
Myrica Cerifera 33 l6dide 9.2... 5@2 50 Gentian Co. 62; 60
Prunus Virgini 30 Potassa,Bitart pr 30@ 35 Gulaca.......... ; 50
Quillaia, gr’d. ... 15 Potass Nitras opt 7@ 12 Guiaca ammon ... 60
Sassafras, po 30 26 Potass Nitras .. io 12 Hyoscyamus ...... 50
Uimus .. 2:2. 25 6 brussiate 5...) . 23@ 26 eae, 1 00
Septem Sulphate po ..... 15@ 18 1 00
50
Glycyrrhiza, Gla. 24@ 30 adix 50
udycyrrhiza, po. 25@ 30 Aconitum ...... 7
Sess: Aa ng - Althae ..... eye 500 é0 80
aematox, tee =  Amchuga 25.50: . 2 00
spaenotn a De bh zn oo DO. oe ee. ae Z Opil.cafiphorsiea 75
ematox, 4s .. @ alamus 0... 20 40 pil, deodorized 2 25
Gentiana po 15. 12 15 Quaesig: oot: 50
Ferru _ Glychrrhiza py 15 12@ 15 Khatany ......... 50
Carbonate Precip. 15 Hellebore, Alba toa 99 Bel o... o.oo: 50
Citrate & Quina 1 80@2.00 Hyarastis, Canada )7 00 Sanguinaria ..... 50
Citrate Soluble .. 63@ 75 wHydrastis, Can, po 650 Serpentaria .... 50
Ferrocyanidum § 25° Tnul * RO on Stromoni :
i Mls, PO. ck cs 25@ 30 FEE es 60
Solut. Chloride Seg 15 Ipecac, HO 2 953 09 LOlutan ........- 60
ae — - 2 Iris Flora’ .. 20). 20@ 30 Valerian ........ 50
ee com’l, by | Ja@lapa: Pr. oe 40@ 50 Veratrum Veride 50
i -, per cwt. 5 Maranta, 4s ... 30 gn Sineiber ......... 60
Sulphate, pure . 7 Podophyllum po’ 15@ 25
— Bee oo... 75@1 00 Miscellaneous
Arniesi 700.002. 18@ 25 aoe oy see 1 7 : a nese: “pe Nit ae
Anthemis ..... ee ee ee ae fa cit: 2
= 1 ari, po 18 28 Alumen, grd po 7 3 5
Matricaria ...... 30@ 35 Scillae, po 45-60 20@ 25 Annatto ......... 400 50
Folla ooreee eer cree: @ 90 Soe po... 4@ 5
Barosma ....... 175@1 8 goypontaria --3-- @ 90 Antimoni et pot 40@ 60
Sra... @ 2 Antifebrin ......: 20
oe Soo, 15 “5 Smilax, offi’s H grd. G 45 Antipyvin ... 42). @ 25
Gassia Achtn <2 2 30 «Spigella_........ 90 Argenti’ Nitrasoz @ 55
Salvi fic rT @ Symplocarpus 30 Arsenicum ...... 10@ 12 ee,
greg emails, 20@ 25 Valeriana ....... ®@ 25 Balm Gilead buds 40@ 50 Sa i a
Uva ursi ....... 8@ 10 eee - ve ite » poe hahaa Ps N 10@2 20
ese rat ingiber Meh eane 8 Saleiu hlor, 1s od
| @ oe SS Gus New Home—Corner bensia and a
Acacia, ist pkd 40 Semen Calcium Chlor, 4s Al. se ee ee
Acacia, ond vad é 35 a bai ; g be eee Bus Po @ at 25 ee eee Cae
pium (gravel’s apsici Frue’s a
Acacie, sited st g - Bird, 1s oo... t@ 8 Capsici Frue’s po g 3 We solicit your orders for
Acacia. pos oe: 85@ 45 Cannabis Sativa one 5 Peedi No. 40 a4 00 S 1 h Li h d H a
Aloe, Barb ...... =) OOS ardamon .-..... 0 arphyllus ...... 253@ 30 — i
Aloe, Barb on 2@ 2 Carat po. 00@1 10 Carphyllus .;.-. 30 ulphur—Light and Heavy _ Lime and Sulphur Solution
5 enonpodium 20@ 30 Cat ee 5 i i
Aloe, Socotri -. 7 fT Gaon |. 10@ 14 Gentraria @ 10 Bordeaux Mixture—All Sizes
Asafoetida ...... 6@1 95 Cydonium:....... @1 00 Cera Alba 50 55 1 : oy os
foe tin Dipterix Odorate @6 75 Cera Flava 324 3 | Paris Green Arsenate of Lead—All Sizes Blue Vitriol
Camphorae ..... 55@ 60 oeniculum ..... Q TOCUS ..--e-c0. a 15 :
eshte @ 40 Foenugreek, po.. 6@ 9 Chloroform -.... 44 Stock complete Prompt shipments
Gala so Oo te cewis '§ $ See Ge 8p od
Gamb oe 5 , D oro’m Squibbs
Gee eS Lobelia. «+ ----.:. 45@ 50 Chondrus ....... 20@ 25 Respectfully,
Kino ....po 45c ‘@ 40 arlaris Cana’n a OCAING <....... 4 00@4 25 :
aA. oe See eo 6@ 8 Corks list, less 70% Grand Rapids. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO.
Myrrh .... po 50 @ 45 Sinapis Alba..... 8@ 10 Creosotum ”...... @ 45
Opium ..po 1000 7 75@8 00 Sinapis Nigra ... 9@ 10 Peles cone DDL 75 A
Shellac ......... 0@ 40 Creta, prep. ....
Shellac, bleached 35@ 45 Spiritus Creta, precip. . 10
Tragacanth .... 100@1 20 Frumenti W. D. 2 00@2 50 Creta, Rubra ... 10
2s Hrumenti .....-.. 1 25@1 50 Cudbear ........ 20
icrhe Junipers Co. ....1 75@3 50 Cupri Sulph. ..... 67% 10
Absinthium 25@ 30 Junipers Co O T 1 65@2 00 Dextrine ........ 10 @
Eupatorium oz pk 30 Saccharum N E 1 90@2 10 Emery, all Nos. .. ag 8
Lobelia oz pk 35 Spt, Vini Galli ..175@6 50 Emery, po. 5@ 6
fo -OZ ir = Boies a ea ciate ei 1 - Be i eee 1 80 1 40@1 50
ntra Pip, oz p 5 ini Oporto ..... 1 25@ *Sther Sulph, .... 27 40
a Ver oz ae a ‘ ae White... 12 -
ean cs oz p ponges GANA Us ces eve cs «
Tenacetum ..V.. 30 Extra yellow sheeps’ Gambler ......... § 9
Thymus V oz pk 30 wool carriage .. @4 00 Gelatin, French 385@ 45
M : Florida sheeps’ wool @4 00 Glassware, ae Ne “ce 80
agnesia earriage ...... Less than box 70%-10%
Calcined, Pat. .. 55 65 Grass sheeps’ wool Glue, brown ..... 11@ 13
Carbonate, K-M, ie 30 carriage ....... @1 25 Glue, white ..... 15@ 25 A
Carbonate’ po... i0@ i5 Hard, slate use .. @100 Glycerina ........ 2@ 30 re manufactured by us and all sold on the
a Nassau sheeps’ wool @4 00 ears Fone . @ a
eum carriage ...... MUIUS ...-... : : <)
Absinthium .... 8 00@8 25 Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydrarg Ammo’l  @1 50 same basis, irrespective of size, shape or
Amyegdalae Dule. 75@ 85 wool carriage .. @275 WHydrarg Ch..Mts @1 30 : :
Amygdalae Ama 8 00@8 25 Yellow Reef, for Hydrarg Ch Cor @1 25 denomination. Free samples on applica-
AMISE occ c ok. 2 15@2 20 slate uSe ...... 140 Hydrarg Ox Ru’m  @I1 40
Auranti Cortex 3 15@3 25 Hydrarg Ungue’m 60@ 75 :
Bergamil ....... 8 00@8 50 Syrups Hydrargyrum ... 88 tion.
expat ete: seo : ee a coe g PA oo Am. wont we
ryophilli ..... 1 25 Auran ortex .. MQIEO 66 sec ee
ar... S@ 90 ‘Ferri lod ...... @ 40 Iodine, Resubi ..3 25@3 60 TRADESMAN i i i
Chenopadii .... 6 50@7 00 Ipecac ........-. @ 75 fJodoform ...... 10@4 50 COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Cinnamoni ..... 150@1 60 Rhei Arom...... @ 50 Liquor Arsen et
Conium Mae . 80 90 Smilax Off’s .... 50@ 60 ‘ydrarg Iod. g 25
Citronelia 40 50 Senega .......... @ 50 Liq Potass Arsinit 10 15

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are
liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled at

market prices at date of purchase.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADVANCED DECLINED
Wheat Cheese
Flour
Hay
Beans
Fruit Jars
Plug Tobacco
Index to Markets I 2
By Columns
y AMMONIA Clam _ Boullion
Doz  Burnham’s pt. .2..2 25
Col 12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box 75 Burnham's pts. 3 75
A AXLE GREASE Burnham’s Pan Bessie s 7 50
Meamonin .........-1... 4 Tazer’s me ;
(22) 1 1. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00 Ti sscececcccess 75Q@ 90
Axle Grease ...... 1%, tin boxes, 8 doz. 235 Good ...." .-. 1 00@1 10
B a: tin boxes, 2 doz. 425 Fancy ........... @1 30
- palls, per doz...6 00 French Peas
Baked noone sane ee eens : 15%. pails, per doz. ..7 20 Monbadon (Natural)
~suen vac Food ........ 1. 25. pails, per doz, ..12 00 per doz). |. 5.0 45
roams ca ceccdcuscas BAKED BEANS Gonseberries
Sruenes 26. 1 No. 1, per doz. ...45@ 90 No. 2, Fair .......... 1 50
Butter Color ........... 1 No. 2, per doz. ----75@1 40 No. 2, PONCY .. 2... 2 35
No, 3, per doz. ---85@1 75 Hominy
c BATH BRICK Standard ..........._. 85
Candles paeee toes eeeeee .? Minglith 23.0 95 Lobster
penne one P- eee eee 2 BREAKFAST FOODS PRO. eee 2 50
Patan ... 3  Apetizo, Biscuits ..... 3 00 lib. Dee mitnint sabes s fs gli. 4 Zo
nase ee eee .-. 2 Bear Food, Pettijohns 195 Picnic Tallis ././)/777’ 2 75
Chewing Gum ._::: +++ 3 Cracked Wheat, 24-2 9 50 Mackerel
POOIe oo cota noe 8 3 Cream of Wheat, 36-2 4 50 Mustard, 1lb. ........ 1 80
KNGODIRTE. 20s. eee cess 3 Egg-O-See Wheat ....2 7 Mustard. 2%, 2.111777" 2 80
Cider, Sweet ......... - 8 Egg-O-See Corn Soused, 1141p. esceseesl 60
Clothes Lines 1.12.0... 3 Flakes ...... ae 275 soused, 2ip, 177777" *° 2 75
Opesn 2.62 3 Posts Toasties, T. Tomate, 1%, ......)_! 1 50
Cocoanut ........ oes 5 we -280 Tomato, 2m. .1)117°"" 2 80
offee ..... Sout eee cues. : oo Poastine, T. in Mushrooms
Confections ............ DO. Boece ee cet Hotels: 6 @ 15
Cracked Wheat ....... 4 Furimose, 24-2 |. . 2. 270 Buttons. tego @ 14
Crackers ........... 4, 5, 6 Grape Nuts ........” 270 Buttons. is a 25
Cream Tartar ......... 6 Grape Sugar Flakes ..2 50 a Dysters.
Sugar Corn Flakes .. 2 50 Cove, 11h *.. 85@
D Hardy Wheat Food .. 2 25 Cove, 2m), 117.2273 50@
Mute 2. 6 Postma’s Dutch Cook. 2 75 Plum
Dried Holland Rusk ........ a) an -
F Saxon Wheat Food .. 300 Plums .......... @1 35
6 simkle Corn Flake ..200 . , Pears in Syrup xs
Farinaceous Goods .... : Malt Breaxtast Food 4 50 0. 3 cans, per doz. ..1 50
Fishing Tackle ........ 7 Maple Flakes ........ 2°70 Peas
Flour and Feed ....... 7 Maple Corn Flakes ..2 30 Marrowfat ...... @1 25
Fruit Jars ............. Minn. Wheat Cereal 375 Early June _|).: @1 25
Algrain Food ......... 425 Early June sifted 1 45@1 55
G Ralston Wheat Food 4 50 Peaches
Gelatine .......-.5....., 7 Saxon Wheat Food ..3 00 ie 901 OF
Grain Bags ............ q Shred inv neat Biscuit 3 60 No. 10 size can pie @3 25
Wet, Be ok ;
H pues Bet Corl 425 eee tee 40
MIOODS 2. se ks 7 Post Tavern Special ..2 80 Sliced: oo 90@2 60
Hides and Pelts ........ S Voigt’s Cream Flakes 450 Sliced ........... .
Horse Radish .......... 8 Quaker Puffed Rice ..4 25 ‘ Pumpkin
Quaker Puffed Wheat 2 a5 Mer ee 80
J Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 1 90 0G oo 90
l -.. 8 Quaker Corn Flakes ..1 90 ANCY 1 00
eee hereto ( B Yietor Corn Makes -.2 20. Gouna "02777" 2 15
Jelly Glasses .......... Washington Crisps ...2 80 a eee,
M Wheat Hearts ......._ 1 90 Skandia Pp a
Wheatena ........... 250 ee eee eee @
Mapleine ............... . fe ; 400 Salmon -
pena micats ...2.....; ; Evapor’d Sugar Corn 90 Warrens, 1 Ib. Tall vro08 30
oe ROOMS Red Alaska -..- 1 8@i 99
N oS pe esc ccs ook : = Pink Alaska ....1 40@1 50
Cwel 25... oce ce
Sardines
pease ce eee o -s-e+ @ Winner .2.552 2: 25
— Whittier Special 2/7) 4 55 no - tase eee : S
° Parlor Gem ......... 3 75 omestic, % ac oes
Common Whisk ...... 110. Vomestic, % Mus. a
Olwes 2.6.0 ccs 8 ‘Whisk 150. French, Ys... 7@14
. eo soe ce? “450 French, %s ......]! 18@ 23
pec cee eee ecg a
— i ae ‘ — Dunbar, 1st, doz. s++ee1 20
Playing Cards 1.1.17"! 8 Solid Back, 8 in. ...... 75 Dunbar, 1¥%s, doz.’....2 25
POIeen) 22... 8 Solid Back, 11 in. 95 : Succotash
Provisions ............; 8 Pointed Ends ......... 85 on ose sokeaoe ao ; =
R No. 8 =_— ae 90 Fancy Lo ae 1 25@1 4
MM ees stresses et. 1 25 Strawberries
Rolled Oats ............ 2 We 8 2. ae 1 75 scaag ihe eG es : =
Shoe Sac seues sn. .
Ss NO 8. 1 00. Tomatoes
Salad Dressing ........ . ht ee ime: Good .,.....0.° = 1 35
Saleratus .............. o Mp 8 4:70 Funpy 22 1 50
cen Soda ............... 5, Me 8 iw No te UU 4 00
BOW whet oksweleccccece
; BUTTER COLOR CARBON OILS
sae lige eS . Dandelion, 25¢ size .. .2 00 Barrels
Shoe Blacking ........ 9 CANDLES Perfection wo sicne @10%
MONE occ hc 9 Paraffine, 6s ......... 10 . S. Gasoline .. @15
OOD .-. 6 14 Paraffine, 12s .. o. 40 Gas Machine .... @23
GR coe 49 Wicking ........... 20 Deodor’d Nap’a .. @13%
aiid tebe sebhge es ocsias : CANNED GOODS wen pepe Hi 622”
ORC og. pd eS D
pples %@1
BOTUNB 10 31D. Standards __ @ 90 Black, winter . 84@10
T Galion .2)..5...: 2 60@2 85 ee oe os
Table Sauces .......... 10 Blackberries Sindera i pints : : : : i d 35
Me 10 9 ih Se 1 50@1 90
Tobacco .......... 11, 12, 13. Standards gallons @5 00 CHEESE
ene 4. 13 Beans aces “pr eae oie
Baked ....2..... 85@1 30 oomingdale .. d
- : Red Kidney...) $@95 Carson City .!).. ais
MORO 13 String ......°.". 70@1 15 Hopkins ......... @171¥%
Wax 66 75@1 25 oe stteeeee Girt
Wicking ae eee 13 Blueberries ae - @17%
Woodenware ee 13 Standard Sane h esc. 1 30 Leiden .......... : @15
Wrapping Paper ee 44. Gallon |... 6 75 Limburger ...... @18
Clams Pineapple ....... 40 @60
Little Neck, 1tb. @100 Sap Sago....... @22
Teast Cake ..;.... 14 Little Neck. 2tb_ @150 Swiss, domestic .. @13

 

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CHEWING GUM
Adams Pepsin ........
American Flag Spruce 655
Beaman’s Pepsin ..... 66
Best Pepsin .....4... 56
Black Jacek 4.4.42... 55
Largest, Gum (white) 55

- K. Pepsin ......... 65
Red Robin. ..6-6i5c. HS
Sen Sen ...6..5511.,2. 88
Sen Sen Breath Perf. 1 00
Spearmint .

Seoese cc. 55
Spearmint, jars 5 bxs 2 75
Yucatan ........ cote. 55
ONO ot oe 55

CHICORY

Belk oe, ne
Med oo oS Ls Bess sas eac  "
ARIE ea 5
BUONCK Sic 6 ccc.
SCRCHEM BB oie ls OR
Red Standards .,..,...1 60
White .... 60

Bees i
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.

German’s Sweet ...... 22
Premium: 222002. 2: 30
(ANECAS 255200 28
Walter M. Lowney Co,
Premium, Ys 7 29
Prei.:itim, Soe oe 29
CIDER, SWEET
““Morgan’s”

Regular barrel 50 gal 10 00
Trade barrel, 28 gals 5 50
% Trade barrel, 14 gal 3 60
Boiled, per gal. ...... 60
Hard, per gal. ........
CLOTHES LINE
per doz.
No. 40 Twisted Cotton 95
0. 50 Twisted Cotton 1 30
No. 60 Twisted Cotton 17
No. 80 Twisted Cotton
No. 50 Braided Cotton
No. 60 Braided Cotton
No. 60 Braided Cotton
No, 80 Braided Cotton
- 50 Sash Cord ...., 1 75
No. 60 Sash Cord ..../.3 09)
No. 60 Jute |. .0.5 0. 80
No. 72 Jute sive sees ca ca O00
No. 60 Sisal fee ee 85
Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90

DO et ng et
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No, 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
COCOA
Bakers 00S 36
Cleveland ....02.. 0 41
Colonial, 4%s .......... 35
Colonial, %s .........! 33
DS ee cee 42
PAUVION eo 36
Lowney, %s .......... 32
Lowney, %s 2.0.5... 32
Lowney, Bisse 0
Lowney, 5 Ib. cans 30
Van Houten, \%s ...... 12
Van Houten, \%s ....._ 20
Van Houten, Se 40
Van Houten, Is ....... 72
WEDD 2 33
Wither, 468 0 6 33
Wilber, 4¢5 . 2200.0 32
COCOANUT
Tunham’'s per tb.
468, 51D Case . 2... 30
448, 61D: case 2... .. 29
“48, 15Ib. case ...... 29
968, 1oib. case... 1; 28

is, J51b. case ....... 27

-%s & is, 15th. case 28

 

Sealloped Gems-..... 10
4s & ls pails ...... 15
Bulk, pails ........- 14
Bulk, barrels ........ 12
COFFEES, ROASTED
Rio
19
19%
20
21
23
20
201%
21
23
23
Maracaibo
Pa 24
Choice: 2c. 25
Mexican
Choice: ..22 oe 25
PANCY = oo 26
Guatemala :
at ee ee 25
WANCY. 28
Java
Private Growth 26@30
Mandling .......... 3135
Aukola: -.25... 12.2 30@32
Mocha
Short Bean ....... 25@27
Long Bean ........ 24@25
mt. Oe 26@28
Bogota
Fair 24

Mie
Exchange Market, Steady
Spot Market, Strong

Package
New York Basis
Arbuckle 2250030 24 00
TAOR oe 23 00

McLaughlin’s XXXxX

McLaughlin’s XXXX sold
to_ retailers only, Mail all
orders direct to W. F.
McLaughlin & Co., Chica-
go.

Extract
Holland, % gro boxes 95
Felix, % gross ....... 115
Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43

CONFECTIONS

  
   

Stick Candy Pails
Standatd tbe s eee ee eee,
Standard H H ......°
Standard Twist .:.; ea

es

Jutnbo, 32 th. 8
istie Bo yo
Boston Cream |... 1)" 14
Big stick, 30 tb. case 9

Mixed Gandy
Grocers ...... sees ccs OF
AO oe 1%
Special se 18
CONBENVE 102 ee 8%
ROVAL 14
Ribbon ....., Sere 4
VORP ol 8%
ut io0ar 6 9%
PPOMEY 8%
Kindergarten ....)." 1
French Cream .....

a. 48
Hand Made Cream __ 17
Premio Cream mixed 14
Paris Cream Bon Bons 11

Fancy—in Pails

Gypsy Hearts ......... 15
Coco Bon Bons .._. | 7’ 14
Fudge Squares ...._..! 14
Peanut Squares ...__"° 17
Sugared Peanuts .._ 1.’ 13
Salted Peanuts ..... 17" 12
Starlight Kisses .)//'"" 13
Lozenges, plain ....."! ii

Champion Chocolate ..13
Eclipse Chocolates iss cad
Eureka Chocolates ||| /i¢
Quintette Chocolates --15
Champion Gum Drops 10

Moss Drops ......,.... li
Lemon Sours ........_! 11
dmperials (66.50). 12
Ital, Cream Bon Bons 13
Golden Waffles ....... 14
Red Rose Gum Drops 10
Auto Kisses ........,.. 14
Coffy Tofty 14

Molasses Mint Kisses ‘12
Fancy—tin 5tb. Boxes

Old Fashioned Molas-
Se8 Kisses 10Ib. bx. 1 30

Orange Jellies ...... 60

Lemon Sours ....... 65

Old Fashioned Hore-
hound drops ....... 65

Peppermint Drops .. 70
Champion Choe Drops 70
H. M. Choe. Drops ..1 10
H. M. Choc, Lt. and
Dark, No. 12 ...... 110
Bitter Sweets, as’td 1 25
Brilliant Gums, Crys. 60
A. A, Licorice Drops 1 00

Lozenges, printed ... 65
Lozenges, plain .... 60
Imperiale...) .5, 02,3. 65
Mottoes ..... Soi see ss. 2 BD
Cream Bar .......... 60

G, M. Peanut Bar -. 60
Hand Made Crms 80@90
Cream Wafers 15

String Rock ......... 70
Wintergreen Berries 60
Pop Corn
Cracker Jack ....... 3 25
Giggles, 5c pkg. cs. 3 50
Fan Corn, 50’s ...... 1 65
Azulikit 100s ........ 3 25
Oh My 100s ...0.0 2 3 50

Cough Drops
Putnam Menthail cond OO
sinith Bros. 2.3. 1 25

NUTS—Whole
Almonds, Tarragona 18

Almonds, Drake ...._ 15
Almonds, California

soft shel] ..... Geass.
SEAMS 8 @13
Piberts (506,50 12@13
Cal No: to
Walnuts, sft shell @i7
Walnuts, Marbot .. @15
Table nuts, fancy @13
Pecans, medium .... 13
Pecans, ex. large ... 14
Pecans, jumbos .... 16
Hickory Nuts, per bu,

Ohio, new 27020 oe 2 00
Cocoanuts: 25325205).
Chestnuts, New York

State, per bu. .....

Shelled

Spanish Peanuts 6%@ 7
Pecan Halves ..., 62
Walnut Halves .. @33
Filbert Meats ..... . @30
Alicante Almonds @40
Jordan Almonds .. @47
Peanuts
Fancy H P suns 6@ 6%
Roasted ......... 7@ 7%
Choice, raw, H. P. Jum-
RON

CRACKED WHEAT

Be 3%
o4 21): pKes 30k . 2 50
CRACKERS
National Biscuit Company
Brands
Butter

N. B. C. Sq. bbl..7 bx. 6%
Seymour, Rd. bbl. 7 bx. 6%
da

So
NB. ©. boxes 0 6%
Hremium 2.55 6 7%
meleCe 8%
Saratoga Flakes ...... 13
Zephyrette .......,..5. 13
Oyster

N. B. C. Pienic boxes 6%
Gem, DOXGR = 5. 6%
Shell .......

__ Sweét Geo
Animals Se. 16
Atlantics 12

Atlantic, Assorted ...” 12
Avena Fruit Cakes ...19
Bonnie Doon Cookies 9°
Bonnie Lassies |... 10
Bonnie Shortbread 20
Brittle obs ecess Bereaved t
Brittle Fingers | 11°!" 10
oe og eet Sweep 10
artwheels Assorte, a
Chocolate Drops .. . eae if

EO 16
Cocoanut Taffy Bar 2.2
Cocoanut Drops eccce sdf
Cocoanut Macaroons - 18

Coffee Cakes wececccccell
Coffee Cakes, Iced ....12
C*umpets ..,

Diana Marshmallow
Cakes ose «16
Dinner Biscuit ; 5

Dixie Sugar Cookies "|"
Domestic Cakes ;

Eventide Fingers .,._ "10
Family Cookies ..._° ++ 8%
Fig Cake Assorted ... «12
Fig Newtons betes ese. cde
Florabel Cakes: "' 235..12%
Fluted Cocoanut Bat | ig

Frosted Creams ooo. Se
Frosted Ginger Cookie -
Fruit Lunch, Iced 10

  

Gala Sugar Cakes oe &&%
Ginger Gems - 8%
Ginger Gems, Iced s+e- 9%

Grahatn Crackers ||) 1" 8
Ginger Snaps Family .. 8%
Ginger Snaps N_ B. c:

ROUNd yee, a. 8
Ginger Snaps N. B. G.

DOUATS oe By
Hippodrome Bar bese. 10
Honey Cake, N. B. CG. 12
Honey Fingers As. Ice 12
Honey Jumbles, Iced ..12
Honey Jumbles, Plain. . 12
Honey Flake /.-.... 7. 12%
Household Cookies .... 8
Household Cookies, Iced 9
Imperial .

Soe eesecese

Jonnie 5.550: Ae 8%
Jubilee Mixed ..0/ 07". 10
Kream Hips ois. 5

2
Leap Year Jumbles ...18
Lemon Biscuit Square g%
Lemon Thins 16

Lemon Wafer ...../".. 16
Lemona Get tcertcincss. SH
Mace Cakes .,..,.. a8
Mandalay be bss os tas 10
Mary Ann .. - 8%

Marshmallow Coffee
Cake tee ee seers e es 12H
Marshmallow Walnuts 161%
Medley Pretzels ... 0
Molasses Cakes ..-
Molasses Cakes, Iced .. 9%
Molasses Fruit Cookies
iced 3 .;: ec acee ha tds
Molasses Sandwich ... <12

eoee

Mottled Square . eae an 10
Oatmeal Crackers . a5. 8
Orange Gems ......... 8,
Orange Sponge Layer
Cakes. 0. son, ie
Penny Assorted ....... 84
Peanut Gems .,...___ |! 9

Picnic Mixed ssecvee AL
Pineapple Wafers eee ke
Pretzels, Hand Made se ®
Pretzelettes, Hand Md. 9
Pretzelettes, Mac. Md. 8

Raisin Cookies ........ 10
Raisin Gems ........ wedk
Raspberry Cakes ..._ 12
Revere, Assorted ...... 14
Rittenhouse Fruit
Biscuit 12

Rosy Dawn Mixed i
Royal Lunch ...... o 5

  
 

Royal Toast ...... <8
Rupe <2. 20552" Se scecs ans 8%
Shortbread Squares ..20

Spiced Currant Cakes 10
Spiced Ginger Cakes .. 9
Spiced Ginger Cks Icd 10

Sugar Fingers ......... 12
Sugar Cakes 2225: 8%
Sugar Crimp ..... oo. OMe
Sugar Squares, large

or small é

Seca ee | 9
Sultana Fruit Biscuit 16
Sunnyside Jumbles ....10

Superba ..... peace ccc ay 8%
Sponge Lady Fingers 25
Triumph Cakes ....... 16
Vanilla Wafers ....... 16
Wafer Jumbles cans ..18
Waverly) ee 10
In-er Seal Goods
per doz.
Albert Biscuit ......... 1 00
Animals: ...5.....:.5... 1 00
Arrowroot Biscuit 1 00
Baronet Biscuit ....... 1 00
Bremmer’s Butter
‘Wafers . 1 00

Cameo Biscuit ........
Cheese Sandwich

Chocolate Wafers .
Cocoanut Dainties
Dinner Biscuits ...

 
   
 

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Faust Oyster ...... 00
Fig Newton ..... ie 00
Five O’clock Tea . 00
PTOUANA) foc ose 00
Fruit Cake .... 00

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Sara Bis see CoE a O26 eet eee. 9 Top a oe RBS
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Suitar Tea kes 0204 4 i yo ae ) Senn ie ‘
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Soda srackers ey 00 feet HIDE SEs is Han moked (Me
= Ss. Grackers. B. = 150 Sm Lin Ce Sa eee 95 Hane 14 i. av. eats 10
Gascas Bisc Select i Mediu a - Lines Green’ No oe PELTS Hams, ps Tb. av. it oe
Fineeas aa : ers 15 lence Seeeeenees Cured, oe Skinned 8 tb. e 131, @141, 100 eb
Vanilla, Jinjer Wayter S bvteeseeeeeenes 2 Cured, ne 2 oa 10% aa | Hains Os h 50 IDs. wenense -
ao oe En ft 26 Calfskin, OD eeeeeerees 338 Califo ae hock on " IDS. eeeee eee, 11
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B Other, ee -+1 00 Eames ee Paltskin; cured, No. 2 ii Mince Baus ns 9410 10 Ibs. ae aS 2 oo
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Choe m’s A age Goc 1 00 ees . 55 O a a 2 a roar Gee es 92 - ec
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Nabiscn: Waters ...... 2 50 7 eee ot oa bee a 6 is ee ea ts 8 Blower, 16 os. 5
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Se taraait Per + fi? 00 Light eo : illing C 15Ib. pa Lv 90 bls. 40 ibs. . uae Ra; sie 3 Ag Ojibwa’ oe na 3 78
Lasers cae in in = epee oo 0. 30tb. pails, per do Ho ei, 95 ler’s Koval oe : a Petosice ae ate OZ. 6s
B one Bi ee 6 0 . pails, per ee oe --1 90 own ish 25 eto pomiag ace
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eae ‘ce Gbeopen i Ee olted wie! hoo 2 60 % oPELLY i pail “ee a ee Ibs ripe - 8 00 Maccab in oot 85 pe aa et ps 2 =
Barr AM T ers 1 40 Meals... 2 60 pt. in bbl LAS ces bbis., 40 bs. veieh is in ders a Bell, 1c oz. 3
peters me 2, pt. : : wee. rs . oe mo 90
ind i or ARTA Voi heetce Soge cf, S, pe SES ” 80 Ibs. a Rap Jars un = aay a e 5
S dru R Gr gt fee Z. Ca Is., rd : Ds, ae ota tr lace, 7 we g, I ane 76
a ‘oo ea eee oo Milling C " te a ae ney eee Casi rte Boxes so — ee - Sweet tL & D be” 3 96
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poe i Volets Plouroigt <1. ae WMAPLEINE 18 Beet, Imiglea get." ste ees 5th Sweet eee ee ae ie
Eva Ap UITS Ww. Royal - eons P M » per do s _Uncolo pundie Oe ee hale Soh Lee Suces Cuba, 1 tb. tin’ 93
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por’ed, Choic Perf -Higg --. 6 40 ase ME ountr airy utteri 80 see lar oa ere urle % Ib. foil 4
, Fan e bulk Ti ectio Mico moss AT ry Rolls ae oe rge Garde eee es y de L toil 2 35
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pk G 9 n M eee ‘ . 1s @ eee. é € u > 8 D 3
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sees all’ daa Chole: ° sorned eef, eat Singer. 5c, Pkg. doz... Swee ist, .
Corsi ue 16@18 Wo 8 Best Flour B OD Good Sete Rerue Hoses back > ae Mace, " Goohin ee "35 io i Z a 3 78
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oa 1 gurrante. Cake. ie paces 3 eee a Doe Hg 1 tb. 3 85 were. en DE oeeeeees 14% Hoe ees 36
Imp'd 4 Currants ++ 16 << aon 9. bites bee 32 Deviled Ham, 4s ...- oe ae Re 70 Gro Be ai 17" 57
ported Dalle © a. ag % Ib. 6 MUSTAR ie 2 Deviled Ham, es os. 45 Nutmees, pene ae e Daniel’ 1 ‘ect es
Muir ees 9% G abi Wheat . ero ylaee Potted Tonsn ca i Se ahi Am ia sa
tue cuales B sls a a Baker Lele ice 16 ed Tongue, oo 90 Pepper, White 07000 Apple, 1 a, ase
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Lemon Peel tb. —° Gu ‘iin si ae : 99 Stutfed, . L. kegs 90g) . eee eee - Allspice Ground in “80 eae Leaf, 2 33
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earl. 100 loc oe , gro, 5. SI Bac Po nes 2 aske d, fa ce - -24@2 Tank ‘alk, & 12 tb
Pat au0 a GELA . 1 40 ae — rik SS ee ney 1130033 eras ae FT
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Minto, Bs Th: aacks 8 gore SELATINE co oae 2 OH x, aetna fer ae ge tin 8
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% oon CG 28 25 k ox’s Si OZ. anon 4 ig Clear |. @19 50 Y M. wh hoop, bls. 1 Ty ES anes cy oe Ba . Uni 5c p
fut 1 NG rere’ nOxX’s ‘parkli an. 75 Clear Fam Beck. 17 . M. wh. hoop bbl 1 50 nnings . @43 g ha ae
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Special Price Current

 

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Banner, 5c... .3c 5
Banner, 8 oz. ........ 1
Banner, 16 oz, ........ 3
Belwood Mixture, 10c

Big Chief, 21, oz. ..6
Big Chief 16 oz. ......
Bull Durham, 5c .... 5

 

   
 
    

Bull Durham, 10c ....10 80
Bull Durham, ldc ....18 48
Bull Durham, 8 oz. .. 60
Bull Durham, 16 oz. ..6 72
Buck Horn, 5c ...... 5 76
Buck Horn, 10c ...... 11 50
Briar Pipe, 5c ....... 6 00
Briar Pipe, 10c ...... 12 00
Black Swan, 5c ...... 5 76
Black Swan, 14 oz. .. 3 50
Bob White, 5c ann 5 65
Brotherhood, 5c ...... 5 95
Brotherhood, 10c .....11 00
Brotherhood, 16 oz. .. 39
earnival, 5c ..,..... 5 70
Carnival, 314 oz. ..... 39
Carnival, 16 oz. ...... 40
Cigar Clip’g Johnson 30
Cigar Clip’g, Seymour 30
Identity, 8 & 16 oz... 30
Darby Cigar Cuttings 4 50
Continental Cubes, 10c 90
Corn Cake, 14 oz, .... 2 55
Corn Cake, 7 oz, .. 1 45
Corn Cake, 5c ...... 5 76
Cream, 50c pails .... 4 60
Cuban Star, 5c foil .. 5 76
Cuban Star, 16 oz pails 3 72
Snips, J0e 24... 0 7. 10 20
Dills Best, 126 oz. 79
Dills Best, 31% 0z. .... 77
Dills Best, 16 0z: .... 73
Dixie Kid; 134 foil .... 39
Duke’s Mix, ic ...... 5 76
Duke’s Mix, 10c ..... 11 52
Duke’s Cameo, 12% oz. 41
Drummond, ic ....... 5 75
Ee A 3 oz... “4 95
@ FA, 1202. .:.-. 2:2 11 50
Hashion, 650 ......... 6 00
Fashion, 16 oz. ...... 43
Five Bros, 5¢ ....... 5 60
Five Bros., 10c ...... 10 70
Five cent cut Plug .. 29
we O 8B 10c: 2.5.45. .; ll 50
Four Roses, 10c ...... 96
Full Dress, 1% oz. 72
Glad Hand, 5c ...... 44
Gold Block, 13, oz. .. 39
Gold Block, 10c ..... 11 88
Gold Star, 16 oz. .... 38
Gail & Ax Navy, 5e 5 95
Growler, ‘5c: .......... 4 56
Growler, 10c ......... 2 70
Growler, 20c ........ 2 3
cant Cts 1 55
Giant, 16 Oz. ......... 33
Hand Made, 2% oz. 50
Hazel ‘Nut, 5¢ ........ 5 76
Honey Dew, 1% oz, .. 40
‘Honey Dew, 10c ...... 11 88
‘Hunting, 134 -& 3% oz. 38
eX 1 50e 23. iki... 6 10
~ X L, in.pails ...... 32
Just Suits, 5c ...... 6 Ov
Just Suits, 10c ...... 11 88
Kiln: Dried, 25c .:.... 2 45
‘King Bird, 7 oz. ....25 20
King Bird, 3 oz. ...... 11 00
‘King Bird, 144’ oz, .... 5 iv
‘La Turka, 5c ........ 5 76
Little Giant, 1 thy .... 28
Lucky. Strike, 114 oz. 94
Lucky Strike, 1% oz. 96
Le Redo, 3° 0z, ....... 10 80
Le Redo, 8 & 16 oz... 38
Myrtle Navy; 10c ....11 80
Mytrle Navy, 5c ...: 5 94
‘Maryland: Club, 5c 50
Mayflower, ‘5c ......... 5 76
Mayflower, i0c ...... 96
Mayflower, 20c ..:... 1 92
‘Nigger “Hair, ‘5c ._...5 94
‘Nigger Hair, 10c ....10 56
Nigger .Head, 5c ..... 4-96
Nigger Head, 10c ....9 84
Noon. Hour, 5c ....... 1 44
‘Old Colony, 1-12 gro. 11 52
‘Old Bh ys BO! sated o's 5 os 5 76
Old English Curve 11402 96
Qld Crop, :86:.......... 5 76
"Old Crop,:-25¢ ....... 20
P.’S:, 8 oz., 30 Ib. es. 19
‘Pp. S.; 3 -oz. per gro. 5 70
Pat Hand, 1 oz.-.... 63
‘Patterson’ Seal, 1% oz, 48
‘Patterson Seal, 3 oz... 96
‘Patterson Seal, 16 oz, 5 00
Peerless, 5c....0.....2. 5 70
‘Peerless, 10¢ ........ 192
Peerless, 3 0%, .s.... 10 20
-Peerless, 7. 0%. -...... 23 76
‘Peerless, 14..0z. ...... 47 52
laza, 2 gto. cS: +.i.. 5 76
low Boy, 5¢ ..e....: 5 76
low Boy, 10c...:..: 11 00
lew ‘Boy, 14 oz. ::... 4-50
emro; 100° 3 v.62 iy: 80
e of Virginia, 124 _

f OG eka es Sh
ifotA % oz! doz. ov. 2.2.1 05
Pilot, 14 0z. doz...... 2 10
rince Albert, 10c .. 96
nce*Albert, 8 oz. ..4 82
P ce Albert, 16 oz. ..8 49
d n*Quality,-5¢ ..+. 48
Roy; -5c foil ....-5 90
"Roy,*#0c gross *..10 20
“Roy, -25¢ doz, .:2 10

  

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Rob Roy, 50c, doz..... 4 12
S. & M., 5c, gross .... 5
Ss. & M., 14 oz. doz. 3
Soldier Boy, 5c gross 5

Soldier Boy, 10c ....10 56
Soldier Boy, 1 th. ....4
6
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Sweet Caporal, 1 oz. .
Sweet Lotus, 5c ee

eet Lotus, 10c ....1
Sweet Lotus, per doz, 4 85
Sweet Rose, 2% oz. 30
Sweet Tip Top, 5c .. 2 00
Sweet Tip Top, 3% oz, 38
Sweet Tips, 4% gro 10 08
Sun Cured, 10c ...... i 75
Summer Time, 5c ....5 76
Summer Time, 7 oz. ..1 65
Summer Time 14 oz. ..3 50
Standard, 2 OZ 5 90
Standard, 38% Oz .... 28
Standard, 7° 0z. .... 7! 1 68
Seal N. C., 1% cut plug 70
Seal N. C., 1% Gran 63
Three Feathers, 1 oz, 6
Three Feathers, 10c 10 20
Three Feathers and

Pipe combination oe 2 aD

Tom & Jerry, 14 oz. ..3 60
Tom & Jerry, 7 oz. -.- 1 80
Tom & Jerry, 3 oz. .. 8 75
Trout Line, 5c ...,.. 5 95
Trout Line, 10c --..10 00
Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 76
Tuxedo, 1 oz, bags .. 48
Tuxedo, 2 oz. tins 96

Tuxedo, 4 oz. cart Ss 64
Tuxedo, 16 oz tins eoee 64
Twin Oaks, 10c ee 94
Union Leader, 50c oe
Union Leader, 25c alae
Union Leader, 10c a oad
Union Leader, 5c cone DOD
Union ‘Workman, 1% 5
Uncle Sam, 10c ..... 10
Uncle Sam, 8 oz. poeee
U. S, Marine, 5c ee 0
Van Bibber, 2 oz. tin 88

Velvet, 5¢ pouch 1 44
Velvet, 10c tin ......_ 1 92
Velvet, 8 oz tin ....._ 3 84

Velvet, 16 oz. can.... 7 68
Velvet, combination cs 5 75

War Path; 5c...) | 5 95
War Path, 8 oz. ...... 1 60
Wave Line, 3 BZ. 63: 40
Wave Line, 16 oz. .. 40
Way up, 21, oz. .... 5 95
Way up, 16 oz. pails .. 31
Wild Fruit, 5c ...... 5 76
Wild Fruit, 10c ..... 11 52
Yum Yum, be ...... 6
Yum Yum, 10c ...... 11 52
Yum Yum, iib., doz, 4 80
TWINE
Cotton, 8 ply :....... 20
Cotton, 4 ply .......... 20
Jute, 2 piv oe 14
Hemp, 6. ply -.2.. 625°: 13
Flax, medium ......... 24
Wool, 1 tbh. bales ..... 6
VINEGAR
White Wine, 40 grain 844
White Wine, 80 grain 11%
White Wine, 100 grain 13
Oakland Vinegar & Pickle
Co.’s Brands.
Highland apple cider ..18
Oakland apple cider ..14
State Seal sugar ..... 12
Oakland white pickling 10
Packages free.
WICKING
No. 0, per gross ...... 30
No, 1, per gross ...... 40
No. 2, per gross ...... 50
No. 3, per gross ...... 75
WOODENWARE
Baskets
Bushes 2 1 00
Bushels, wide band .. 1 15
Market ooo 40
Splint, large ......... 3 50
Splint, medium ...... 3 00
Splint, small 2 75

Willow, Clothes, large § 25
Willow, Clothes, small 6 25

- Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 25 «

- Butter Plates
Wire End or Ovals.

% ¥b., 250 in crate ...... 30
% Ib., 250 in crate ...... 30
1 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 30
2 tb., 250 in crate ...... 35
3 tb., 250 in erate ...... 40
5 Tb., 250 in crate ...... 50
Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each ...2 40
Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2 55
Clothes Pins
Round Head. :
4 inch, 5 gross ........ 45
4%4 inch, 5 gross ........ 50
Cartons, 20 2% doz, bxs, 55
Egg Crates and Fillers

Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20
No. 1, complete ....... 40
No. 2. complete ......
Case No. 2, fillers, 15

t

tS es sce, 1 35
Case, medium, 12 sets 1 15

Faucets
Cork lined, 8 in, ...... 70
Cork lined,- 9 ‘n 0

Oy, oS 8
Cork lined, 10 in. .:.. 90

: Mop Sticks
Trojan Sprins ... 5... 90
Eclipse patent spring 85
0. 1 common 80

No. 2 pat. brush holder 85
ideal No.7) ee.
12%b, cotton mop heads 1 45

Pails
2-hoop Standard ...... 2 00
3-hoop Standard |... 7! 2 35
e2wire Cable .... 2 10
Cedar all req brass ..1 25
3-wire Cabl6 ..... |. 2 30
Paper Eureka ....)) 7’ 2 25
wibre oo. 2 40
; Toothpicks
Birch, 100 packages ..2 00
eHPR ee 85
Traps

Mouse, wood, 2 holes 22
Mouse, wood, 4 holes 45

 

Mouse, wood, 6 holes 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65
Hat, wood... 80
Rat, spring .111127""" 75

: Tubs
20-in, Standard, No. 1 7 50
18-in. Standard, No. 2 6 50
16-in. Standard, No. 3 5 50
20-in. Cable, No. 1.2; .8 00
18-in. Cable, No. 2.7 00
16-in. Cable, No. 3 ....6 00
NO. 1 Mipre. 10 25
No. 2 Fibre . 017.77” 9 25
Nes Fire (7 8 25

Washboards

Bronze Globe ........ 2 50

VEN. oe 6 1 7%
Double Acme (2. 3 75
Single Acme (1/)''""' 315
Double Peerless ....._ 3 75
Single Peerless 3 2D
Northern Queen ...,.. 3 25
Double Duplex ....._" 3 00
Good Luck ....../7°7! 2 75
Universal? 3 00

Window Cleaners
ae a ee 65
a oe 1 85
a6 Ano ee 2 30
Wood Bowls

13 in. Butter ........., 1 60
15 in. Butter ....,77777 2 25
17 in. Butter .....777! 415

19 in. Butter 11.0777! 6 10
Assorted, 13-15-17 «---3d 00
Assorted, 15-17-19 Bite Cols
WRAPPING PAPER
Common Straw ...... 2
Fibre Manila, white cS
Fibre Manila, colored 4
No. 1 Manila ..,...... 4
Cream Manila .....___ 3
Butchers’ Manila ..._. A
Wax Butter, short e’nt 13
Wax Butter, full count 20

Wax Butter, rolls ..... 19
YEAST CAKE
Magic, 3 doz ......... 115
Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00

Sunlight, 1% doz, .... 50
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. ..1
Yeast Cream, 3 doz. ..1 00

Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 58
AXLE GREASE

 

1.Tb. boxes, per gross 9 00
3 Tb, boxes, per gross 24 00

BAKING POWDER
Royal

10c size .. 90
4b. cans 1 35
6 OZ. cans 1 90
%lb. cans 2 50
%Ib. cans 3 75
1m. cans 4 80
sib. cans 13 00
dIb. cans 21 50

CIGARS
Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand

 

 

S. C. W., 1,000 lota ....31
El Portana ........ 2

Evening Press .. os
Mxemplar .......,.......32

  

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Worden Grocer Co. Brand

Ben Hur
Perfection .....5...-.... 35
Perfection Extras ...... 35
Londres 203.5 35
Londres Grand ......... 35
Standard. ....5 0.6.05... 35
Puritenos .-2 2S 35
Panatellas, Finas ....... 35
Panatellas, Bock ... . -85
Jockey Club ............ 35

COCOANUT
Baker's

Brazil

Shredded

  

10 5c pkgs., per case 2 60

36 10¢ pkg. per case 2 60

i6 10c and 88 5c pkgs.,
per Cage = ..:5.. 05... 2 60

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White House, 1%. ........
White House, 2tb. .......
Excelsior, Blend, 1% .....
Excelsior, Blend, 2tb.

Tip Top, Blend, 1tb.
Royal Blend ..............
Royal High Grade ........
Superior Blend
Boston Combination

Distributed by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
Lee & Cady, Detroit; Sy-

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mons Bros. & Co., Sugi-
naw; Brown, Davis &
Warner, Jackson; Gods-

SAFES

 

Full line of fire and bur-
glar proof safes kept in
stock by the Tradesman
Company. Thirty-five sizes
and styles on hand at all
times—twice as many safes
as are carried by any other
house in the State. If you
are unable to visit Grand

 

Rapids and inspect the
line personally, write for
quotations.
SOAP
Gowans & Sons Brand.

Single boxes .......... 3 00
Hive box lots ....:...: 2 95
Ten box lots 2 90

Twenty-five box. lots | 12 85

Lautz Bros. & Co.
Acme, 30 bars, 75 Ibs. 4 00
Acme, 25 bars, 75 tbs. 4 00
Acme, 25 bars, 70 Ibs. 3 80
Acme, 100 cakes ...... 3 2

Big Master, 100 blocks 4 00
German Mottled ...... 3 50

German Mottled, 5 bxs 3 50
German Mottled, 10 bx 3 45
German Mottled, 25 bx 3 40
Marseilles, 100 cakes --6 00
Marseilles, 130 cks 5e 4 00
Marseilles, 100 ck toil 4 00
Marseilles, %bx toilet 2 10

Proctor & Gamble Co.
Lenox

  

PRE CRe see eee rE: 3 00
Ivory, 6 oz. ...._! --.4 00
Ivory, 10 oz. 6 75
Star 3 85

Tradesman Co.’s Brand

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

A. B. Wrisley

Good Cheer ......°,.. 4 00
Old Country.........../ 3 40
Soap Powders

Snow Boy, 24s family
Sine ci 8 76
Snow Boy, 60 Se ...... 2 40

Snow Boy, 30 10e aisle:
Gold Dust, 24 large ..4 50

Gold Dust, 100-5¢ ..._! 4 00
Kirkoline, 24 Mb ee 3 80
Featiines 222.272. o--.8 75
Bedpine oo i 00
Ba bitt’s 1776 ........3 75
Roseine ..............3 3 59
APMOuUrs 0 3 70
Wisdom =... 3 3 80
Soap Compounds
Johnson’s Fine ..,,... 5 10
Johnson’s XXX ...._! 4 25
Rub-No-More ......... 3 85
Nine O’clock .......... 3 30
Scouring

Enoch Morgan’s Sons
Sapolio, gross lots ....9 50
Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85
Sapolio, single boxes 2 40
Sapolio, hand ....... -.2 40
Scourine Manufacturing Co
Scourine, 50 cakes ....1 80
Scourine, 100 cakes ...3 50

 

Saginaw

  

Reynolds Slate Shingles After Five Years Wear
Beware of Imitations.

Write us for Agency Proposition.
Kalamazoo

REYNOLDS FLEXIBLE ASPHALT
SLATE SHINGLES

Fire Resisting
Fully Guaranteed

 

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Detroit Lansing Cleveland Cincinnati Buffalo Worcester Jackson
Battle Creek Dayton Youngstown Syracuse Scranton

 

Wood Shingles After Five Years Wear
For Particulars Ask for Sample and Booklet,
Distributing Agents at

 

 

H. M. REYNOLDS ASPHALT SHINGLE CO.
Original Manufacturer, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

Tradesman Company

Four Kinds of Coupon Books

are manufactured by us and all Sold on the same basis,
irrespective of Size, shape or denomination. We will
send you samples and tell you all about the system if you
are interested enough to ask us.

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BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

 

AUCTIONEER

Stocks of merchandise quickly converted
into cash by my special auction sales
methods. I obtain highest possible cash
prices. Terms reasonable. Sales anywhere
in the United States. Bank references.

Geo. P. Dykman, Auctioneer, No. 301 Al-
leritown National Bank Bldg., Allentown, Pa.

 

 

For Sale—An _ old-established restaur-
ant, or will sell fixtures and rent build-
ing. A bargain for the right party. Lock
Box 124, Hartford, Mich. 137

For Sale—Best long established exclu-
sive grocery in Owosso, Michigan. Splen-
did location, finest clean stock and trade.
A better opportunity cannot be found
anywhere. Address Grocer, Box 308,
Owosso, Mich. 152

For Sale—New stock of general mer-
chandise, cleared $2,500 last year. Chance
to make more this year. Good reason
for selling. Address No. 151, care Trades-
man. 151

 

 

Good paying gent’s’ clothing and shoe
business, most prosperous town in West-
ern Michigan, population 2,000. Two
large factories employing 700 men. Good
farming community. Good reasons for
selling. Stock and fixtures invoice abcut
$7,000. Will sell building cheap. Address
No. 150, care Michigan Tradesman. 150

For Sale—Indiana drug store; $12,000
year sales; write for particulars. W.
Bryan, Idaville, Ind. 149

For Sale—In British Columbia, 110,909,-
000 feet white spruce transportations.
$30,000, % down. Tibbits & Lewis, Mil-
linocket, Maine. 148

For Sale or Exchange—For clear or in-
come property, the Mosher house, Hills-
dale, Mich.; 45 rooms, furnished and dc-
ing a big and paying business; owner
must go into a manufacturing business
and will sacrifice; price $18,000, ine.
$6,000 equity $12,000. Harmar Kates,
Hillsdale, Mich. 146

For Sale—Good factory building, suit-
able for any small og peace ta 3 busi-
ness, also good place for steam laundry
or a splendid opportunity for opening
garage and automobile shop. Equipment;
steam power, steam heating, ° electric
light. Location, business center of city,
corner lot. (Will sell at a bargain. Ad-
dress P. O. Box 104, Menominee, cree

 

 

 

 

 

For Sale—Nearly new machinery cheap.
24 in. Double surface planer and match-
ers, 4 Shimer heads. Variety lathe,
chucks and tools. Vertical boring ma-
chine, adjustable table, surface sander
iron frame. Steel shafting, and boxes
1 15-16. Fare from Grand Rapids to
Hastings allowed to see it. Address Syl-
vester Greusel, Hastings, Michigan. 140

Popcorn Crispettes—Stop here. Write
me a letter for the story of my success
with popcorn crispettes. It’s a _ great
reading. The great big pictures illustrat-
ing my story are interesting. No matter
what you are planning or what adver-
tisements you’ve answered, get my story
anyhow. Unless you can make better
than $500 a month, you’ll be mighty glad
you sent for it. H. W. Eakins made
$1,500 first month in Louisiana on my
proposition. The crispette business is a
great thing—a wonderful moneymaker.
Now is the best time to. start. I tell
you how—show you how to get in right.
Write-me now—just a line. You’ll never
regret it. Address me personally. W. Z.
Long, 67 High St., Springfield, oe.

 

 

For Sale—Stock dry goods, shoes and
ladies’ ready-to-wear. Best location.
Good established trade. City 10,000 pop-
ulation, 25 miles interurban electric road.
Address Samuel Hart, 800 and 802 S.
Square, Marion, Il. 137

For Sale—Hotel, brick building, ‘located
in Central Southern Michigan on L. S.

M. S. Ry. Excellent business location,
fine established reputation. Twenty large
airy rooms, well lighted, well furnished
throughout. WHlectric light and gasoline
lighting plant. Large lot. Value of stock
$1,000; value of fixtures $3,000; value of
lot $2,000; building at least $13,000. Price
for everything Terms $8,000
down, balance on easy terms. First-class
town, up-to-date in every particular. Ad-
dress F. P. Ellis, Local Agent, National
Co-operative Realty Company, Bronson,
Mich. 136

For sale or trade for merchandise, 80
acres Van Buren Co., in the grape belt,
5 acres grapes, 20 good timber. Price,
$4,000. Robert Adamson, Colon, a ae
gan.

 

MICHIGAN

No charge less

For Sale—Thirty station Lamson pack-

age carrier system. We will sell all or
any part very cheap. Address W. A.
McNaughton Co., Muncie, Indiana. 135

Auctioneers—We have been closing out
merchandise stocks for years all over this
country. If you wish to reduce or close
out, write for a date to men who know
how. Address Ferry & Caukin, 440 South
Dearborn St., Chicago, II. 134

_Are you looking for general merchan-
dise business in fine location. Clean
stock that for good reasons can be
bought for nearly half invoice value? For
particulars address 133, care Tradesman.

 

 

Fine business location and fixtures for
lease. Always been occupied by general
department store. Dry goods, clothing,
shoes, carpets and draperies. Average
sales $80,000 a year. Situated in fine
farming community in Bastern Indiana,
city of 5,000, with weekly payroll of
$15,000. Only two good stocks in city.
Will lease for term of years. No junk
shop need apply. This will bear closest
investigation. Fine building, best locat-
ed and low rent. A. S. Kelley, Win-
chester, Ind. 132

For Sale—One of the finest equipped
grocery and meat markets in a city of
12,000 inhabitants, located in Central
Michigan in an excellent farming com-
munity. Good location and a good trade.
A bargain if sold at once. Good reasons
for selling. Address X, care Tradesman.

 

For Sale or Exchange—Stock of gen-
eral merchandise, also store and dwell-
ing. Will make good price for cash or
will sell on easy terms or will exchange
for desirable Grand Rapids property.
Good chance for someone who wishes
to get into a paying business. Address
W. B. Conner, Shiloh, Mich. 128

Brick store and stock of general mer-
chandise at half value. Good railroad
town, Central Michigan. Address No.
127, care Tradesman. 127

For Rent—Store, 523 S. Division street,
22x90, good dry basement under all, right
side of the street in heart of business
district of south end. Center of railroad
trade. Elegant location for anything. For
further particulars address or call B. S.
Harris, 521 §. Division St., Grand Rapids,
Mich. 125

80 acres of the best land in Kent
county to exchange for stock of mer-
chandise. Country stock preferred. Wm.
N. Sweet, Sand Lake, Mich. 124

For Sale or Rent—A new building
30x 80, with fine basement, electric
lights, furnace, just completed. It is
located in a fine business town in good
location. There is a good opening for
either a furniture and undertaking or
bazaar, dry goods and ladies’ ready-to-
wear clothing. If interested investigate
this. It will pay you. Frank Weber,
Saranac, Mich. 123

For Sale—For cash, Pringle’s variety
store, Lead, S. D. Good business, clean
stock, no. stickers. Population 10,000.
Center of gold mining region of the won-
derful Black Hills. No crop ueponvas

 

 

 

For Sale—Well paying clothing, fur-
nishing and shoe store in the liveliest
manufacturing city of Michigan, under
10,000 population. Stock nearly all new.
Will invoice $15,000 or better. Growing
trade, good location. "Would take a good
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Address No, 114, care Tradesman, 114

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business last year;) has run without
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best country store in this locality; reason
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For Sale—In Central Michigan, clean
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Merchandise sale conductors. A. E.
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For Sale—$9,000 general merchandise.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

May 8, 1912

 

JOHN SMITH’S CLERK.

What Came of a Helpful Woman’s
“Sacrifice.”
Written for the Tradesman.

There was a scandal in Emmetts-
town. Emmettstown is not on the
map, for it is not a large town, and
it wasn’t a town at all when the maps
now in use were made. It grew up
around a couple of sawmills and a
stave mill. Anyhow, it was large
enough at the writing of this veracious
history to hold a scandal.

The scandal was bigger than the
town. It seeped out of the exclusive
front doors of the lumbermen’s houses
on the sacred heights of Fine Hill—
where the women kept hired girls—
ebbed and flowed into highways and
byways, and tapped at the windows of
the room where the Emmettstown
Social Aid Society made red flannel
undershirts for the naked kids of
Borneo. From this room it spread
over the city, like water over the level
plain.

Anything in the shape of a scandal
that reached the windows of the
Emmettstown Social Aid Society
nevermore led a precarious existence.
It was there and then taken up by
the leaders of the society and sent
forth upon the world with the hall-
mark of the truly elect upon it.

Miss Harriet Martha Sibley had
hired out! She had not accepted a
position, mind you. She had hired
out. She had not consented to assist
Mr. John Smith in his Bargain
Center through a rush week. She
had hired out as a clerk in a provision
Store. She had been obliged to turn
her own well-manicured hands to the
task of filling her own scarlet-lipped
mouth with food.

And in the dear dead days she had
been such a love! She had been fore-
most in charity. The clock of fashion
had been set to her toilets. - When you
saw her walking down Mill street in
the sunny afternoon you knew what
time it was by the dial of fashion.
She had dwadled with the best of
them. She had talked of the lower
clawses. She had refused to handle
any money except bright, new, crisp
money, directly from the bank.

And she had hired out. She sold
candy by the stick. She weighed
prunes by the pound. She accepted
any old kind of money the dirty-
fingered mill men gave her in ex-
change for the things they bought.
The Emmettstown Social Aid Society
always knew it would come to this.
There had always been something
secretive—something not quite open
and above board—in Harriet Martha.
Ah, well!

“There’s that great lout of a brother
lounging about the Mason House bar
every day of his life!” ejaculated Mrs.
Matilda Swan Gilbert-Morse, who
had in the not so very long ago been
a cook in a lumber camp. “It is
enough to drive one crazy to think of
Hariet Martha working her fingers to
the bone in that dirty store to supply
him with diamonds and sixty-dollar
suits.”

“And her father!” cried Mrs. Sally
Howe-Simpson, who had started in
life as maid of all] work, and who had

snared a young man with prospects
which came true, and who led the talk
about the lower clawses, and thought
anything was good enough for the
greasy common people, and who—
“Why, her father is hardly ever out
of the house, Mrs. Sally Howe-Simp-
son said. “He sits there in the front
room day and night, and goodness
knows who it is that comes up from

town to see him. There’s hardly an-

hour when he’s not sitting there by
the front window shuffling papers or
cards. And that poor child losing her
youth and her chance in life to bring
home those long, black cigars he
smokes, and the wine he drinks from
the ice-buckets I often see being car-
ried in.”

And so Miss Clara Alberts weut
Over to Mrs. Slawson’s that evening
and told her that Harriet Martha
Sibley had hired out to do the heavy
lifting at Smith’s Bargain Center, and
that her brother Bob met her at the
corner of the dark alley every night
and, with blows and foul words, took
her hard-earned money away from her
and bought diamonds with it, and
spent the rest at the Mason House
bar.

And Fanny Yarrell went over to
Mrs. Slawson’s that very night and
told her that Harriet Martha Sibley
was working for Smith, and took
money out of his cash register as
soon as it got dark every night, and
took it home to her father, who-sat
in the front room of the Sibley home
and played draw poker with suspi-
cious-looking people who came up
from town,

So, you see, by this time they had
thinks going some, and Harriet Mar-
tha failed to catch the eyes of a sin-
gle one of the elect whenever she met
them on the street. And when a
brisk-looking young man from Chi-
cago drove into Emmettstown in a
touring car and took Harriet Martha
Yiding over the country with him,
the choice spirits of Pine Hill lifted
wrinkled hands to accusing eyes and
said the thing was not fit to talk
about.

“It is not a Proper subject for the
ears of innocence,” declared Mrs. Ty-
son-Parks, as she worked a red dog
on a blue slipper. “I’ve always
thought she never earned all the mon-
ey them lazy men folks are spending
by working in the store,” she added
as she motioned to the maid to pass
the cake to Mr. Carson Tyson-
Parks.

“Let the kid alone,” said Carson,
in his gruff way. “All she’s doing is
earning a living, and that’s what we’ve
all got to do—unless we can snare
some other fellow into doing it for
us. Besides, Smith needs her. His
Store is a different joint since she
went in there, and he’s begun paying
on his overdraft at the bank. She’s
business, that Harriet Martha js.
There’s more faculty in her little fin-
ger than in the whole John . Smith
family.”

And the scandal grew until the
women of Pine Hill used to watch
out of their windows every morning
and night, expecting to see an Officer
of the law lay a heavy hand on the

girl’s shoulders and drag her away,
bound hand and foot, to jail. Some-
how, in print, all officers of the law
have heavy hands, and the style has
been followed here.

So one night Richard, the hunch-
shouldered husband of the elegant
Mrs. Matilda Swan Gilbert-Morse,
called that queen of society into the
10x12 room called the library, and thus
exposed his hand:

“Matilda, I’m up against it. Lum-
ber is about as valuable as a money
lifter as a wax saw. I’ve got to have
credit for $10,000 in order to stock
the camp, and I’ve got to have credit
at the bank for the payroll. Yes, I
know you want a new hat and a new
diamond ring, and you’re going to get
them if this loan business comes out
o. k. See? Now, you and your clan
have been giving Miss Harriet Mar-
tha Sibley the backwash of your ele-
gant conversation for a long time, and
she knows it. So I want you to give
a swarry here and make her the
guest of honor.”

Mrs. Matilda Swan Gilbert-Morse
threw three fits at a time for half an
hour, after which time she limped
Over to Carson with painful move-
ments and a strong atmosphere of
camphor and other things which
fragile ladies who have been reared
in lumber camps affect when the deal
is going wrong.

“TIL die first!” she cried, prepared
to throw two more fits in the time of
one.

“All right,” said Carson. “Have it
your own way, only I thought I’d tell
you that old Sibley has bought out
Smith and all the other provision
joints in the town and set up some-
thing in business which ought to be
prosecuted under the Sherman law, if
not under the larceny statute. Also,
he’s bought the controlling interest
in the First National Bank, and sent
out notices that all overdrafts must
be cared for right quick—not soon,
but quick.”

The chair in which she had repos-
ed her languid Person was not half
straight enough for the back of Mrs.
Matilda Swan Gilbert-Morse.

“Why,” she said,
why—”

“Yes, why, why, why! That girl
I'm telling you about knows more
about the provision business and
banking business than the whole out-
put of the town: She went in Smith’s
to see what the concern was doing,
and why it wasn’t doing better. She
found out that there were too many
stores in town, and her old man’s
bunched them. She laid aside her
glad rags and went up to her dim-
ples in work just to help her father
and brother through with this deal.
Then, when she found what a snap
there was here she sent word to
that automobile chap in Chicago to
come out here and take over the
bank. And he did, and they’ve got
us up against a dead siding with cut
fires banked. Oh, yes, you may howl
if you want to,” he added, as Matil-
da, etc., etc, etc., made more work
for the laundry girl. “You may weep
all over the new rugs if you want
to, but old Sibley and the young mil-

“why, why,

lionaire Harriet Martha is going to
marry have got us down in the mat
vith our hands tied, and the wheels of
chis little old town go round no more
until they say so.”

“Oh, my, oh, my; oh, my!” said
Mrs. Matilda, etc., etc. etc.

“And let me convey to you the in-
formation, right here,” Carson went
on, “you'll have to tie the girl up
with chains and hitch wild animals to
her in ofder to get her to mix with
you again. You think a woman loses
cast by working! Now, let me tell
you that any business is all the better
for a competent woman behind the
scenery somewhere. I can run my
camp 25 per cent. cheaper if you'll
come out and cook for me and you
may have to do it. You won't be
one, two, three here now, anyway,
with the Sibleys running everything.”

When Mrs, Matilda, etc.,-etc., etc.,
regained consciousness, she was ly-
ing on a bed in a blue room, and the
Emmettstown doctor was Sitting over
her. This was the best doctor in the
town, and he charged three dollars a
Visit because he could get it. He was
a wise man of medicine. He knew

something that would catch breath
quicker than

for Matilda better and
drugs.

“Have you heard,” he asked, “that
Mrs. Howe-Simpson has sent out in-
Vitations for a reception, and that
Miss Harriet Martha Sibley is to be
the guest of the evening!”

Mrs. Matilda, etc., etc, etc, went
against the Tropes again and did not
come out until after the count of ten.
When she did recover She put on
her best hat and went over to see™
Harriet Martha, and was met with a
smile. The girl who had “sacrificed
her position in society” to help out
in a big deal had won, and it was up
to the others to assume the grouchy
atmosphere, Alfred B. Tozer.

TiN.

There was a time, after Horace
Greeley said it, when “Go West,
young man,” was a Piece of advice
generally heeded and in many cases
it proved profitable. Following that
example, which turned out pretty
well, the Southern States are now
industriously endeavoring to start the
slogan, “Go South, young man,” and
they have behind them the assurance
that there is some sense in what they
say. The South to-day offers a very
excellent opportunity for business and
there are attractive openings. There
is an awakening of enterprise and
enthusiasm and the Southerners have
sense enough to recognize that the
infusion of Northern blood will be to
their benefit. A feature of it, too, if
they. realize their ambitions, will be
the obliteration of the fast fading
sectionalism between the North and
the South and in a little while there
will be no more feeling there than
between the East and the West.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

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