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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1913
Number 1548
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ous, defamatory. They are made by union
each of whom
and non-union people,
swears the other side’s product is made by vile
and filthy sweat-shop labor, and out of cabbage-
leaves, ground gum-shoes—and both
probably tell the truth. A statistically mad man
once began the tabulation of the various makes of
bog-hay,
cigars, but died of old age before completing it.
Cigars come in Puritana, Panatella, Perfecto
and Pantie shapes, with and without waistbands.
The only use for the latter is to provoke cuss-
words and line ash-receivers. Cigars are mostly
made with Conn. and skunk-cabbage or Sumatra
burdock broad-leaf wrapper, and oakum, ham rope,
back bay, and onion-top filler, with a few shreds
of tobacco for flavor. They are graded into pure
and impure Havana, Key West, Key Lost, domes-
tic, two-fers, five for a nickel, and campaign
brands, and sell from fifty cents each, according to
location, down to two for a penny. The usual
price is fifteen straight, three for a quarter, or six
for five cents, in many cases out of the same box.
Most of us who buy them cherish an illusion that
some other kind will taste better. This Ignis
Fatuus is the cigarmaker’s White Alley.
Cigars are also graded into color and come in
Claro, Claro Calf, Colorado, Colorado Dog, Ma-
duro, and Make-You-Mad shade. Like all fake
things they are packed in handsome boxes of
aromatic and zestful odor, and the more alluring
the actress’ face pictured thereon, or nearly nude
the senorita, the more like burning punk and rot-
ten onions the cigars will smell and taste. The
fact that about ten billion of these go up in smoke
annually accounts for so many thunder storms,
tornadoes and cyclones.
Cigars have various and very distinctive odors,
produced by spraying them with valerian, soaking
in rum, and in many cases by the use of asafetida,
aniseed, chloride of lime, and essence of tar or
stinkweed. So pronounced are some of these that
many a vicious dog has been driven out of a tan-
yard by them.
Our sweethearts and wives usually overlook
our smoking proclivities, an offense few of us
could condone in them, which is conclusive proof
of their more angelic and forgiving nature. Few
men of sane and sober sense would ever kiss a lady
after she had been chewing tobacco or smoking an
oakum and onion-top flavored cigar. Most of us
can recall with humiliation our first cigar and its
outcome—also with thankfulness, in case there
was no eyewitness to that episode.
Man is the only known animal who will use
tobacco in any form. Not even a distillery-drunk
pig will eat that weed to keep from starving! All
of which proves what a wide range of taste a man
has, and how far superior to the brutes he is. His
consumption of tobacco gives occupation to a
million or more who need it, however, which is
some extenuation. And a real fragrant cigar does
add cheerfulness to our association, and banishes
many a grouch after all! But such as these are
scarcer than hen’s teeth.
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tem will be extended out West Main Many a slow man develops into a to make some changes in satisfactorily without making a rec-
io McCamly park, and) out North sprinter when he has a chance to run in his drue store, due to the re ord of every transaction whether it is
Washington avenie to Ann street, the into debt tion of two of the women a large or a small one.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
May 21, 1913
BANKER AND FARMER.
Two Views of a Many Sided Man.
request that ]
words in regard-to the relations of
our friend, Lester J. Rindge, to finan-
cial affairs and institutions in Grand
Rapids.
It will be unnecessary for me to
speak of his long career and develop-
You write a few
ment as a business man in this com-
munity, for his life and growth along
business and financial lines has been
an open book Everything having to
do with the development of Grand
Rapids in a business way has had his
hearty co-operation and assistance
from his beginning as a helper when
a mere boy in the store of John W.
Peirce, on Canal street, up through
the various steps of growth as a
business man, taking on the honors
and responsibilities of a member of
the group of splendid business men
who have had to do with the upbuild-
ing of Grand Rapids, to the position
of mature honor and confidence as a
successful, trustworthy business man
of this city, in which we have known
him. The story of his life as a mer-
chant, a manufacturer, a large em-
ployer of labor, an official in the pub-
lic life of our city, a trusted manager
of large corporate interests need not
be repeated at this time, for it is all
familiar to the people of Grand Rap-
ids and of Western Michigan.
There is one aspect of his business
life of which - would like to speak,
and feel that I have a right to speak
because of my very close association
with him for many years past, and
that is his KINDLINESS in all his
dealings and relationships with others.
Possibly the circumstances of his
own life, growing up from boyhood
dependent upon his own exertions and
character, developed that disposition
in him, so that everyone thrown into
business contact and relations with
him—old or young, rich or poor
alike—were treated not only with fair-
ness but with such kindliness that the
hard lines of business life and busi-
ness affairs were relaxed and the per-
sonal element was given the important
place in all the business transactions
in which Mr. Rindge had a responsible
part.
tender that I would not feel at lib-
erty to refer to it, even to illustrate
the character of our friend, then his
relations with his partners and asso-
ciates and employes in business, al-
ways so fair and generous and just
that life was made easier and happier
and burdens lighter for all.
I believe that Mr. Rindge’s business
life taught the lesson that it is not
necessary to success to exact the ut-
termost farthing from a debtor in dis-
tress. | wonder how many men in
Western Michigan having dealings
and business relations with Mr.
Rindge in all the years of his active
life could verify what I am saying,
that Mr. Rindge never took advantage
of another’s misfortune or adverse
circumstances to increase his own
profit. How often, as I look back
over his work as a bank officer, I can
recall his courage and sympathy that
was sure to find expression in what
Mr Rindge would suggest, that per-
haps was needed more than financial
Beginning with a home life so
aid. He had faith in other men be-
cause he was true himself. His hon-
esty and courage were contagious. It
was a rare, kindly, helpful life that
went from us so quietly last week.
The memory of his cheery greeting
and kindly smile for everyone will
remain. Surely the proverb that a
gsood name is more precious than
creat riches is verified in his memory.
His place on the directorates of the
banks and corporations where he has
served this community so modestly
and so efficiently for all the years
past may be filled. His successor
may be named in public positions of
trust, but no finer illustration of
KINDLINESS in business life will
come to us than that lived among us
day by day all his life by Lester J.
Rindge. James R. Wylie.
In the passing on to the broader
life of Lester J. Rindge, our commu-
nity loses a type of public spirited cit-
izenship which has not yet become so
common as to be unnoticed in the
life of our city.
Combined with his extreme modesty
were certain sterling qualities of
character that made a strong impress
upon the thoughtful citizen, which
was both certain and salutary.
His judgnfents were quite clearly
defined: he had great tolerance for
the views of others who differed from
him; a tender sympathy for the un-
fortunate; a fellow-feeling for the
workers whose energies are expended
for the furtherance of the plans of
capital; he was always ready to lend
a hand without solicitation and had
unusual initiative in altruistic efforts
to ameliorate the conditions of the
unfortunate.
With this general word as an intro-
ductory, I desire to call the attention
of the readers of the Tradesman to
certain things in which Mr. Rindge
was deeply interested and through his
successful efforts in promoting them,
he made his influence felt in this
community.
For many years he gave a good
deal of attention to progressive meth-
ods in agriculture and specialized
in dairy husbandry. In the purchase
of his farm, known as Annahdale, he
was sometimes jocularly criticised be-
cause of the character of the land. A
considerable part of this farm is
coarse gravel and in many places the
soil can scarcely be seen because of
the stone upon it. The remainder is
river bottom, often overflowed. In
answer to criticism, he often said,
“Aimost anybody can make a success
in farming if he has ideal soil and
conditions, but the average farmer
must deal with soils and conditions
which are not ideal. There is a good
deal of gravel land tributary to Grand
Rapids and if I can show in a few
years, through my methods, that ex-
cellent crops can be produced upon
this soil, my experience may be of
value to other farmers. Many people
who have river bottom soil have used
it simply for pasture, having accom-
plished iittle with it and it occurred
to me that by using the best known
methods in the handling of this soil,
I might give the farmers an object
lesson of value.” :
Mr. Rindge gained, through his ex-
perience, valuable information to our
farming community and made his
farm a marked one and the influence
of his methods and success spread
quite widely through our community
Men who have visited his very com-
plete dairy barns have away
with suggestions which have been out-
lined in the building of their own
farm premises. Splendid crops. of
corn, oats, clover and wheat produced
on this stony soil have led to many
enquiries as to his method of hand-
ling the land and these enquiries have
resulted in a better practice among
a large community of farmers who
have. had to deal with this kind of
soil. He often said, “I wish more
farmers would think about the im-
portance of having some distinguish-
ing character that gives individuality
to their farms in the style of fencing
and gateways, the painting of the
buildings, the adornment of the door
yard or the planting of good trees.”
Having this in mind, he at one time
looked over all the varieties of trees
on my own place and said, “I believe
on our gravel soil the Norway Maple
seems tu do uniformly better than
any other kind of tree and I would
like to plant a few of these trees
about my farm home and make them
a feature”
He took a deep interest in all of
the out-of-door things and was a
special lover of trees. In his horse
back rides over the country, he be-
came acquainted with the location of
fine trees of various kinds and often
called the attention of his friends to
some striking development of tree
life.
The destruction of some of the
trees on the border of Grand River,
which to him had become dear,
aroused his interest in the preserva-
tion of the magnificent trees border-
ing on the river between the _ city
limits and Grandville, and his thought
led to the suggestion of developing
a river drive, which should forever
preserve these trees and make them
the distinguishing feature of a beau-
tiful boulevard to be owned by the
city and extending from the city to
Grandville on both sides of the river.
gone
This suggestion of his opened the
way to the formation of the Grand
Rapids Park & Boulevard Association,
of which he was made President and
was continued in this position for
many years. In speaking of some of
the values of these trees, he said, “I
want the children of Grand Rapids
who ate coming on and who have
never had the privilege of seeing our
primeval forests, at least, to become
acquainted with some forms of tree
life, which are yet preserved and
which give value and beauty to our
country. I have in mind a basswood
on the border of the river near my
place which has eleven trunks. Some-
time in the past a great basswood
tree was broken off and these sprouts
erew and developed into trees. This
combination is an unusual one and I
would like to have access to it so eas-
ily and naturally arranged that the
people of Grand Rapids and espéc-
ially the children, can learn to enjoy
it as I have during these years since
-of problems
IT discovered its location; and I would
like them to see the beautiful maples
and beeches and walnuts and espec-
ially the hackberries so clean and
straight and beautiful that adorn the
border of our river so close at hand.”
Mr. Rindge was never so happy as
in guiding a group of his friends along
this river border and calling their at-
tention to the trees which made a
special appeal to him.
One of these days this drive will
be one of the most beautiful in West-
ern Michigan and our citizenship can-
not better honor the name of Mr.
Rindge than by carrying to fruition
the plan which was so admirably out-
lined by him at the organization of
the Boulevard Association.
Once in talking about this Boule-
vard he said, “I wish every child in
the city could wander down this drive
at a time when the carpet of wild
flowers is at its best, during the last
of May and early June. I would like
them to learn to love these choicest
things that nature gives us and be-
cause of this love, help to protect
them from the vandalism which is
fast destroying many species of our
beautiful wild flowers.”
In the development of this river
drive, Mr. Rindge set an example to
others by giving the entire right of
way over his own premises, upon
which there were the finest trees. His
interest in things of this kind led to
his selection by our mayor as a mem-
ber of the Board of Park & Cemetery
Commissioners, upon which he served
faithfully and brought to the solution
of this Board a wise
leadership. It was also because of
his interest and helpfulness along the
lines of practical agriculture that he
became an officer in the West Mich-
igan Fair Association, in which posi-
tion he rendered splendid service dur-
ing all the years of his connection
with it. He was loyal to its objects
and never for a moment neglected
any service which he could render his
associates in the management in mak-
ing this organization a power for
agricultural betterment in Western
Michigan. Wherever he went he was
gathering information which would be
useful in carrying on the plans of this
Association and at the last annual
meeting resolutions were adopted
which paid a splendid tribute to his
efficiency during the years
connection with the society.
He loved a good horse and_ en-
joyed riding and driving above any
form cf diversion. He was not spec-
ially interested to know how fast a
horse could go cr how much he could
pull, but he was a keen critic of the
various gaits of horses and he de-
lighted in grace of movement and in
power of endurance as exhibited in
horses that came under his notice.
He was a firm believer in the truism
that blood will tell in horse flesh as
well as in manhood
It brings a pang of sorrow to part
with our friend who has been devoted
to so many worthy objects in the life
of our community. We_ shall , miss
his presence and the influence of His
example and the which
of his
inspiration
his spirit of service carried to us all.
We rejoice, however, that for so long
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a time he has been a factor in the
development of better things and we
are grateful for the beautiful memo-
ries that we shall always cherish con-
cerning his relationship to all of the
things which make for a better city
and a better country and a closer
and sweeter relationship between the
city and the country.
Charles W. Garfield.
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Special Features in the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.
New York, May 10—Spot coffee is
steady, but the general condition of
trade is dull; orders are for small
lots and buyers show little interest.
The range for Santos 4s is 1354@
1334c and some lots might be bought
for 13'%4c. Rio 7s, in an invoice way,
are quoted at 115éc. Milds are quiet
and the most important sale was of
1,000 bags Caracas. Good Cucuta,
13'4@1334c. In store and afloat there
are 1,937,271 against 2,165,536
bags at the same time last year
The tariff is still a barrier to a
lively sugar trade. Demand is mighty
light for this time of year and buyers
seem determined to put off as long
as possible the purchase of a single
barrel more than is needed for cur-
rent business. Certainly trade ought
to be lively with quotations at a very
low level—4.10c@4.30c, as to refiner,
with 4.20c the prevailing rate.
Stocks of tea in warehouse are not
especially large and dealers are await-
ine with some interest the markets
soon to be opened at primary points.
The prevailing belief is that the
market generally will show some ad-
vance, especially if there is any in-
crease in demand.
There are reports of a large yield
of rice as likely this season and prices
are steady. While orders are not
large there is a fair demand all the
time for moderate-sized lots. Prime
to choice domestic, 514@5c.
In the spice trade, pepper is of
most interest and quotations have
shown some advance, owing to decid-
edly short crops. Singapore black,
1034@11c; white, 18%,@18'%4c.
Simply an everyday market exists
for molasses, with a little interest
bags,
being shown in foreign sorts Good
to prime centrifugal, 35@40c. Syrups
are quiet and unchanged.
Canned goods, as a rule, are in good
request. This is especially true of
peas. Reports keep coming in of bad
crops and these are steadily disputed.
It is said that some good-sized lots
have been sold by Western packers at
about 75@80c. The quality, however,
is not of highest grade. Other grades,
better, have sold for 85@90c. The
tendency is toward a higher level
right along. Future tomatoes are to
be had at 77%c, but the quality is
said to be not up to the requirements.
Spots, 75@77%4c. Corn is held at
about 50c, but neither buyer nor sell-
er seems to be particularly interested.
Butter shows a_ steadier market
than prevailed a week ago. Creamery
extras, 28@29c; firsts, 27!4@28c; pro-
cess, 2714@28c; imitation creamery,
2%c; factory, 25@26c
New cheese is steady and in fair
supply. Whole milk, specials, 12%4@
18¢c.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
CLOVERLAND.
Zephyrs From the Upper Peninsula
of Michigan.
Marquette, May 19—You needn't
worry one bit about Will Pohlman,
Sunny. He’s on the job every minute,
one of the Upper Peninsula’s most
popular salesmen and one of its best
fellows. He has purchased a large
tract of land on the hills near Mich-
igamme and we are informed is or-
ganizing a stock company, with a
view to converting it into an Angora
goat farm. The fur is valuable, the
animals are hardy and easy to keep,
a goodly number of them are sold
alive for the purpose of household
pets and where they are used for
fur, the meat is a deceptive substi-
tute for venison. M. T. Thorsen, of
Escanaba, who has had some exper-
ience with a similar farm near Esca-
naba, is financially interested in the
project. Will is President, Thorsen
is Secretary and Manager, and Max
Freidman is Treasurer of the organ-
ization. Will always has a good
word for Sunny Jim and when Will
says Sunny is a good fellow, it is
surely so.
We saw the Northwestern sales-
man’s report of Armour & Company,
embracing the territory over which R.
L. Ruddick is sales manager, showing
the salesmanship standing of ninety-
two salesmen located all over the
Northwest, and our little bosom
heaved with satisfaction to find that
four of our Upper Peninsula salesmen
are all very close to the head of the
list, their standing being as follows:
Second—Fred Edlund, Marquette.
Fifth—M. O’Leary, Calumet.
Sixth—Ed. Boaler, Hancock.
Fighteenth—Robert Richards, Mar-
quette.
While we all feel proud of Fred
Edlund's splendid showing, we must
explain that Robert Richards is a new
man with this company of only a few
months’ service and, taking that into
consideration, his showing is most
creditable. The contest was on canned
meats.
We have a “comer” in this terri-
tory in the wholesale grocery busi-
ness in the person of Clifford Lafave,
of the Gannon Grocery Co., of this
city. He is one of the live wires and
will be heard from in the future.
John Bogue, a former Marquette
man, now a merchant at Ontonagon,
was taken to a Milwaukee eye spec-
ialist last Thursday for treatment. We
regret to say that John has almost
completely lost his sight. We _ sin-
cerely hope the trouble is only tem-
porary and that he may return with
his eyesight fully restored. He was
accompanied by Dr. McHugh.
U. P. Council, No. 186, has now a
fully fledged base ball team, which
is starting out full of enthusiasm and
hope, having had their first practice
game last Saturday with the Normal
School team. Our team bids fair to
be the most prominent amateur team
in the Upper Peninsula this year and
is ready for all comers. Its manager
is Wm. Pohlman and its executive
committee is Carl Krafft, C. C. Car-
lisle and Fred Edlund. Further or-
ganization will be completed next Sat-
urday. The working team promises
to be a particularly strong one.
The latest addition to our list of
U. C. T. automobile owners is Lester
A. Boyd, representing the Northern
Hardware & Supply Co., of Menomi-
nee. Lester has made headquarters
in this city for the past two years
and is a hustler and making a great
success of his territory. His runs are
such that the auto will be of great
use to him in making his territory.
He didn’t forget us on the very first
Sunday he had his new car and called
around and took your humble servant
and his family out around the suburbs
for a spin—an act we very much ap-
preciate Come again, Lester.
Chatham has an unfound genius in
the person of Louis Mikulich, who is
an Austrian by birth, only 20 years
of age, who is employed by John H.
Gatiss as a clerk in his general store.
This boy left his widowed mother in
Austria four years ago when only 16
to try his future in the Western
world, knowing nothing, seemingly,
of the talent that he possesses as an
artist in crayon and color work. The
attention of the writer was called by
Mr. Gatiss to some of the drawings
of this boy and for a peasant boy who
never had any instruction or never
read a book on the subject, his work
is simply marvelous. The first pic-
ture was that of a beautiful girl in
crayon work which he bashfully ad-
mitted was a girl from the homeland
who was raised with him in child-
hood and whom I judged was a girl
lover. The next was a color design,
representing an .\ustrian village high
up in the mountains, named St.
Maria Luskary. It was so strikingly
beautiful and natural that I gazed at
it at length. The next was a pretty
but familiar picture in oil of a St.
Barnard dog saving an infant from
drowning, of which I have seen the
original, and his reproduction of this
is as near perfect as an amateur
could make it. As to form and out-
line it was perfect. The expressiot
on the dog’s countenance, especially
the eye, was perfect and for an un-
trained amateur, the color effects were
exceptionally good He then showed
us a crayon of George Washington,
which was unquestionably the best I
ever saw. The last one I examined
was a colored picture of Francois
Joseph, Emperor of Austria. He in-
formed us that he drew the picture
of the dog saving the infant from
memory, as he only saw the picture
once two or three years ago and it
so impressed itself on him that he
was able ta draw it. Here is an un-
found genius where some _philan-
thropist has an opportunity to qualify
him to render to the world the ser-
vice Providence intended him for,
Hon. O. W. Robinson, former Lieu-
tenant Governor of Michigan, is en-
joying the evening of life in retire-
ment, spending his days pleasantly in
superintending . operations on_ his
beautiful farm at Chassell, in Hough-
ton county, and as one of his “side
lines” has indulged for the last eight
years in the pleasant experiment of
raising tomatoes most successfully,
some seasons selling forty bushels of
ripe fruit and from sixty to eighty
3
bushels of green tomatoes. He has
no trouble marketing them at good
prices in the copper country cities.
Thomas F, Follis has completed ex-
tensive repairs on his residence on
West Ohio street and also has im-
proved his other house further West
on the same street.
Ura Donald Laird.
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Jottings From Jackson.
Jackson, May 19.—The Grand Coun-
cil meets at Grand Rapids, June 13
and 14. A grand organization to meet
in a grand city, located on both
banks of Grand River, in the grandest
month of the year. Of all Grand
Council meetings held in our domain
during the life of our organization,
this, undoubtedly, will be the largest
and most enjoyable of any. The sil-
ver anniversary of the order of the
United Commercial Travelers of
America coming at this time will, of
itself, prompt our members to take
special interest in this meeting and
a retrospect ot the steady and sub-
stantial! growth made, the fraternal
relations brought about through its
teachings by the members, the sub-
stantial assistance received and given,
will be an inspiration for a large and
enthusiastic gathering. A grand rec-
ord has been made in these twenty-
five years of its life. Nearly four
million dollars paid back to its mem-
bers, nearly one-third of a million to
the widows and orphans under its
protection, and a reserve fund on
hand of over one-half million dollars.
Big figures, but the organization is
big in a healthy and well proportioned
sense of the word. So this meeting
will, naturally, be one of pride and
great rejoicing. Then, besides, there
is the anticipation of meeting the
from the North, South, East,
West, and ‘center of our great com-
monwealth of Michigan, with the ex-
change of greetings peculiar to travel-
ing men. Some jokes will be sprung,
some songs will be sung, but all this
will be merely incidental, for there
will be a business session that will
move with snap and vigor and the
Grand jurisdiction of Michigan will
not shirk its responsibility as a part
of the Supreme body. M. Howarn,
of the Howarn Cigar Co., Detroit, is
a member of the Supreme Jurispru-
dence Committee and will, naturally,
watch the deliberations with much in-
terest. Mr. Howarn is a strong man
in the Supreme Council meetings at
Columbus and if Michigan has any
definite policy in the proposed new
amendments, he will surely make it
known down there. In John Quincy
Adams we will have a capable presid-
ing officer who has worked hard and
faithfully as Grand Counselor for the
past year and will preside in a spirit
of fairness and dignity. Grand Rap-
ids Council is the largest council in
the State, with no dead ones and,
taken all in all, it cannot help but be
a “Grand” council meeting.
Spurgeon.
boys
Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color
. A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter
Color and one that complies with the
pure feod laws of every State and of
the United States.
Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co.
Burlington, Vt.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
May 21, 1913
Movements of Merchants.
Cascade— Lewis Bros. succeed
Smith & Waterman.
Vernon—J. W. Aldrich has opened
a general store here.
Bear Lake—Mrs. Fannie Richard-
son has opened a bakery here.
Alma—G. B. Hicok & Son succeed
N. E. Saad in the grocery business.
Unionville—John Daniels has closed
out his bakery and retired from
business,
Good Hart—Lowell Lamkin has
erected a summer branch store on
the lake shore.
Larium— Georce UHahoney has
opened a men’s furnishing goods store
at 333 Hecia street.
Howard City—Williams Bros. Co.,
of Detroit, is erecting a new pickle
salting station here.
Traverse City—Frank Cevenka is
building a two-story cement block ad-
dition to his bakery.
Hubbell—Miss Harry has opened a
confectionery store and news stand
in the postoffice building.
Rexton—John Anglium, who con-
ducts a hotel at Trout Lake, is build-
ing a $10,000 hotel here.
Pinconning—-The Farmers’ Eleva-
tor Co. has increased its capitaliza-
tion from $12,000 to $30,000.
Traverse City—Robert Slaby has
added lines of hardware and fishing
tackle to his stock of groceries.
Olivet—Walter R. Goff is closing
out his stock of shoes and bazaar
goods and will retire from business.
Greenville—D. C. Carlin is erecting
a store building on South Lafayette
street in which he will open a bakery
June 1.
Trufant—C, Rasmussen has
his meat stock to the former owner,
William Larsen, who has taken pos-
session.
St. Ignace—John F.
sold his grocery stock and fixtures to
Oliver Vallier, who will continue the
business.
Marquette— Allen Cowden has
opened a grocery, confectionery and
cigar store at the corner of High and
Michigan streets.
Owosso—Ebenezer Gould has en-
gaged in the fruit, confectionery and
cigar business at the corner of Main
and Washington streets.
Woodland—Leonard Wachter, re-
cently of Lake Odessa, has purchased
the Wallace Merriam meat stock and
will continue the business.
Central Lake—Hartford Taylor has
sold his general stock to E. & J.
Willson, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.
Millington—The People’s Store of
Millington has engaged in the gen-
eral mercantile business, wholesale
sold
Morris’ has
and retail, with an authorized capital
stock of $20,000, of which $15,000 has
been subscribed, $3,000 being paid in
in cash and $12,000 in property.
Allegan—Ray Vahue has sold his
interest in the stock of the Allegan
Hardware Supply Co. to Fred LaDue,
who has taken possession.
Jackson—The W. J. Dowsett Co.,
dealer in plumbing, steamfitting, heat-
ing, etc., has increased its capital
stock from $10,000 to $20,000.
Grand Haven—Smith’s Home Bak-
ery has changed its name to the
Smith Baking Co. and removed to its
new store at 603 Fulton street.
Thompsonville—Luther York has
sold has stock of bazaar goods to
Mr. Skinner, recently of Cadillac,
who will continue the business.
Howell—E. A. Bowman has sold his
stock of general merchandise to Wil-
liam D. Adams, recently of Ann Ar-
bor, who has taken possession.
Bancroft—J. Carmean_ has _ pur-
chased the Burrier & Cole stock of
dry goods and groceries and will con-
tinue the business at the same loca-
tion.
St. Joseph—J. T. Welton has sold
his store building and grocery stock
to James Yore who has taken pos-
session and will continue the busi-
ness,
Tyre—The Farmers’ Produce Co.,
of Tyre has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $7,000,
which has been subscribed and $3,500
paid in in cash.
Port Huron—G. W. English has
purchased the Robert E. French gro-
cery stock and bakery and will con-
tinue the business adding lines of gen-
eral merchandise.
Traverse City—Mrs, Ada Germaine
has sold her interest in the millinery
stock of Palmer & Germaine, to her
partner, Mrs. Clare Palmer, who will
continue the business.
Allegan—Frank FE. Stratton and
Wilford Beery have formed a copart-
nership and purchased the Kolloff &
McLaughlin grocery stock and_ will
continue the business.
Detroit—The George Ruttman Co.
has engaged in the jewelry business
with an authorized capitalization of
$7,500, which has been subscribed and
$6,500 paid in in cash.
Cedar-—-The bank conducted by D.
H. Power & Co. has been merged into
a state bank under the style of the
State Bank of Cedar, with an author-
ized capital stock of $20,000.
Hart—Henry J. Palmiter has pur-
chased the interest of his partner,
Carl A. Peterson, in the clothing and
men’s furnishings goods stock of Pal-
miter & Peterson and will continue
the business under his own name.
Battle Creek—The Eccles Furniture
Co. has sold its stock to C. C. Dell,
F. D. McRae and Ray Altman, who
will continue the business under the
style of the Home Furnishing Co.
Escanaba—Raymond and Henry
Todd have formed a_ copartnership
and purchased the Henry Wilke gro-
cery stock and will continue the busi-
ness under the style of Todd Bros.
Detroit—Royce & Passmore have
engaged in the general mercantile
business with an authorized capital
stock of $7,500, all of which has
been subscribed and paid in in prop-
erty.
Allegan—A. J. Day and Mr. EI-
dred have formed a copartnership and
purchased the D. J. Tiefenthal argicul-
tural implement stock and will con-
tinue the business under the style of
Eldred & Day.
Leslie—H. M. Freeman has _ pur-
chased the interest of Mrs. Darling
in the implement and hardware stock
of the Darling & Freeman Co., and
will continue the business under his
own name.
Cheboygan— Buerger & Meyer,
dealers in agricultural implements,
have dissolved partnership and the
business will be continued by Vincent
Buerger, who has taken over the in-
terest of his partner.
Middleton--D, Marsh & Co. have
sold their grocery and bazaar busi-
ness, together with the building, to
D. E. Brackett of Lansing. The pur-
chaser will continue the grocery and
crockery business, eliminate the dry
goods and greatly enlarge the bazaar
department.
Marshall—Jacob Weickgenant, of
Battle Creek, has begun suit for $5,000
against Charles W. and Lulu J. Eccles,
of that city, for money expended by
him and alleged injury to his business
between Dec. 9, 1910, at which time
the Eccles furniture store was
launched, and April 13, 1913, when it
was closed by injunction. Eccles sold
out to Weickgenant and then started
in business again after agreeing not to
do so.
Eaton Rapids—D. Lewis, the pio-
neer jeweler, has closed his place of
business and retired, due principally
to his inability to attend to his busi-
ness. since being injured several
weeks ago when he was run into by
a bicyclist and knocked down. Since
the accident his eyesight has failed
him. Mr, Lewis has been in business
in Eaton Rapids for the past forty-
nine years, and is now past 80 years
of age.
Muskegon— Wednesday afternoon
as the uniform weekly holiday this
summer was the decision of the mer-
chants at the last meeting of the Re-
tailers’ division of the Chamber of
Commerce, and because of the popu-
larity of the movement in previous
summers, it was decided to extend it
to cover four months instead of three.
June, July, August and September
will see the mercantile establish-
ments closed up every Wednesday
afternoon, and a committee will be
sent out to secure the signatures of
all the merchants to the agreement
to close during these months. There
was a small attendance at the meet-
ing on account of the rain. The ques-
tion of street sprinkling was brought
up and enquiry developed that only
a few merchants along the street
were paying for this service, the re-
mainder of those benefiting by the
service contributing nothing to the
cost. Chairman Rosen, of the retail-
ers division, was finally authorized to
appoint a committee to investigate
the proposition and report some
scheme for a more equitable division
of the cost among the frontages
which are sprinkled daily.
Owosso — The determination of
Ebenezer Gould, fruit seller, to enjoy
the use of as much of the
walks as the
public
big merchants of the
town has precipitated a fine row in
Owosso. Gould has established his
fruit stand on the sidewalk at the
junction of the two principal streets
and refuses to budge until the city
authorities compel every other mer-
chant to vacate the walk. Many of
them have placed
bicycle racks, etc., in front of their
places of business. The Owosso
Council has split even on a vote to
permit merchants to use the walks,
and as Gould is armed with a permit
from the mayor which prevents the
police from ousting him under the
old ordinance the authorities are at
a loss what to do until Council meets
again next Monday.
gasoline tanks,
Bay City—The Common Council of
Bay City has invited representatives
of the Butchers’ and Grocers’ Associa-
tion to confer with the committee
from the Council in regard to the ap-
pointment of the new City Sealer of
Weights and Measures, a part of
whose duty will be to attend to meat
inspection within the city. The ac-
tion of certain city officials in ran-
sacking markets and groceries for
undrawn poultry a short time ago has
aroused the butchers and grocers of
the city until they have demanded a
hand in the choice of the next city
official to have charge of this work.
The Association is a unit in favoring
the proposed city regulation of their
business, but the members wish to
have the work done in a_ systematic
manner and under the supervision of
men amply qualified for the work and,
for this reason, desire a voice in the
selection of the proposed new officer.
Manufacturing Matters.
Ionia—The Ypsilanti Reed Furni-
ture Co. is building an addition to its
plant.
Crystal Falls—The Bates Iron
Company has increased its capital
stock from $500,000 to $1,000,000.
Pontiac—The Pontiac Machine &
Foundry Co. has been organized,
with an authorized capital stock of
$3,000, which has been subscribed and
$1,000 paid in in cash,
Detroit—The Detroit Ball Valve Co.
has been organized with an author-
ized capital stock of $100,000, of
which $65,000 has been subscribed
and paid in in property.
Detroit—The Wahl Motor Co. is a
new company, organized to manufac-
ture and sell motor cars and automo-
bile appliances, with an authorized
capital stock of $85,000, of which
$77,500 has been subscribed and $8,500
paid in in cash,
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The Produce Market.
Apples—Baldwins, $3.50; Ben Da-
vis and Russets, $3. The market is
strong on goodclass stock. With the
season fast growing to a close, the
feature of quality and appearance will
be the real assets that the future pos-
sibilities of apples will have to be es-
tablished on.
Beans—Dealers pay $1.60 for white
and $1.65 for red kidney. The Glean-
er bubble has burst, inflicting heavy
losses on the farmers who took stock
in the so-called Gleaner elevators in
the expectation of putting the regular
buyers out of business.
Butter—Receipts of fresh are in-
creasing as the season advances, and
the quality is showing some improve-
ment. The demand is active and ab-
sotbs everything at full prices. An
increase in the make can be expected
from now on, but as a speculative de-
mand will possibly spring up, the
chance is that prices may not decline.
ancy creamery is steady at 29c in
tubs and 30@31c in cartons. Local
dealers pay 24c for No. 1 dairy and
19c for packing stock.
Cabbage—$2.50 per crate for
bile or Texas stock.
Carrots—60c per box.
Celery—California Jumbo, 80c per
bunch; Florida, $3.50 per crate.
Cocoanuts—$4.75 per sack
taining 100.
Cucumbers—$1.25 per doz. for home
grown,
Eggs—The market is
about the
Mo-
con-
holding at
same price as quoted a year
ago, strictly fresh laid stock bringing
17c per doz. Supplies going
coolers have been quite generous dur-
ing the past month, but buyers are
not at all anxious for stock unless
they can be had at what they consider
reasonable prices for storage pur-
poses.
Grape Fruit—$3.75 for 36s, $4 for
46s, $5 for 54s and $5.25 for 64s and
80s.
Egg Plant—$2 per box from Florida
into
Green Onions—l5c per dozen for
home grown.
Green Peppers—50c per basket.
Honey—20c per lb. for white clov-
er, and 18c for dark.
Lemons—$6@7 per box for Mes-
sinas.
Lettuce—New Orleans head, $2 per
bu.; hot house leaf 10c per lb.
Onions—Texas Bermudas, 75c per
crate.
Oranges—$4.50@5 per box for
either Florida or Californias.
Parsley—30c per dozen.
Pieplant—50c per bu. for
grown,
Pineapples—$2.60 per box for Cu-
bans and $2.90 for Floridas.
home
hold old
Country buyers are
paying 25@30c. New stock from
Florida, $2 per bu. Reports from the
South are to the effect that the crop
is very disappointing, which wil] have
a tendency to strengthen the market
on home grown stock.
Poultry—Local dealers pay 14c for
fowls under 4 lbs. in weight and 15c
for fowls over 4 lbs.; 7c for old
roosters; 8c for geese; 10c for ducks;
12c for turkeys. These prices are
live-weight. Dressed are 2c higher.
Radishes—25c per doz.
Seeds—Clover $13.50 for either
medium or mammoth; Alsike, $13.50
@$14; Timothy, $2@2.25.
Spinach—$1 per bu.
Strawberries--Tennesse and Ar-
kansas stock commands $2@2.25 for
24 quarts. The receipts have been
heavy during the week and _ prices
have reached a very low point for the
time of year.
Tomatoes—$4.50 per crate of six
baskets—Florida.
Veal—Buyers pay 6@10%%c, accord-
ing to quality.
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Grocery Market,
Sugar—The price is the lowest it
has been for years, agencies holding
granulated at 4.10@4.20c, f. o. b. New
York. Local interests recognize that
raws are selling at around the cost
of production and, unless the Senate
modifies the Underwood bill, must
have largely discounted the reduction
in duty. It is now assumed in the
Washington dispatches that the Pres-
ident has the situation well in hand
and will put through his programme
substantially as proposed, which
means a cent for Cubas during the
next three years, when free sugar
automatically follows. The worst
feature of the situation is, of course,
the indifferent demand for refined
owing to the tariff uncertainty, since
the country refuses to anticipate. Pos-
sibly the hot weather will alter this
condition to some extent, but the
trade is looking forward to a quiet
summer. It is the opinion of some
who are watching the market very
closely that with refined and raw
prices so close together, and the
fact that prices in the United States
are about seventy points below the
European market that there is liable
to be quite a change in quotations at
any time.
Tea—The market continues fairly
steady and a little more active. Stock
on hand in New York warehouses
are smaller than they have been for
years. Some low grade Japans are
being offered at low prices. Better
grades of Formosas are scarce, while
Potatoes—Local dealers
stock at 40@45c.
low grades can be bought at very low
prices. The Formosa market will
open later than usual for new crops.
Indias and Ceylons are strong and
active, owing to unusually large Euro-
pean demand. Japan reports 5@10%
decline in opening prices.
Coffee—The new crop, according
to the inspired cables and advices of
the leading interests will be smaller
that predicted owing to the results
of frost last summer, 10,000,000 large
Santos for the maximum being es-
timated. But there are others who
look for nearer 12,000,000 bags. After
all, the indifference of the roasters
to bull allurements constitutes the
chief obstacle to the campaign of the
valorizationists so much in evidence
the past week, though it must be said
that the support lacked aggressive-
ness. The attitude of Washington as
shown by the activity of Senator Nor-
ris, was not liked, for it is realized
that Brazil must deal more circum-
spectly with the United States in the
future in its manipulation of coffee.
Duty talk finds little credence at pres-
ent, though it is realized that an im-
post would prove a fine revenue pro-
ducer. It would, however, inevitably
raise the cry of taxing the poor man’s
breakfast table, which usually proves
effective.
Canned Fruits—Gallon apples, on
which prices have held at a very low
point for some time, are moving a
little more freely, but not as actively
as might be expected at this season
of the year. California canned goods
show no change and light demand.
Futures are not attracting much at-
tention as yet. Small Eastern staple
goods unchanged and quiet. Whole-
salers are urging the trade to pur-
chase Hawaiian pineapple for the
summer months, as they fear there is
sure to be a scarcity before the new
pack arrives.
Canned Vegetables—Tomatoes are
at about the same point they have
been for some time and no immedi-
_ate change is looked for. The demand
is of fair size and about the only thing
which will cause an advance or de-
cline will be a change in the condi-
tions of the growing crop. Growing
peas have been hurt by the cold, and
so, to some extent, has corn been,
but the markets have not been af-
fected as yet.
Canned Fish—Imported sardines
are firm, scarce and moderately ac-
tive. Domestic sardines are un-
changed and dull. Packers are trying
to harden the market for the new pack
on the ground that fish are running
scarce, but this has had no effect as
yet. Salmon of all grades is in fair
seasonable demand at unchanged pric-
es.
Dried Fruits—Opening prices on
the 1913 crop of California raisins
are awaited with interest, but are
not likely to be made for some days
yet pending the settlement of terms
between the Associated Company,
representing a large majority of the
growers, and the commercial packers.
Many conferences between represen-
tatives of these two bodies have been
held of late, but up to the end of last
week no definite results looking to
the handling of the 1912 carry-over
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and the 1913 crop had been reached.
There is some talk of an opening
price of 6/4c on new crop fancy seeded
in 16-ounce cartons, but operators
here believe that such a figure is too
high, and will handicap business. A
price of 6c f. 0. b. is considered to be
about right, though some think this
a little too high. Evaporated rasp-
berries while not more than about
half the price they were a year ago
are higher than the low point touched
in April. Apples are still holding
around the low point, but they will
soon be put into cold storage which
will add %c per pound. After the
slight advance in prune prices of a
week ago, the market has held quite
firm. Peaches are holding up to mar-
ket quotations and meeting with a
fair demand from the trade.
Syrup and Molasses—Glucose is un-
changed and dull. Compound syrup
has retired to the background for the
summer, and rules dull at unchanged
prices. Sugar syrup and molasses are
both dull at ruling prices.
Rice—There is very little doing,
and it is expected that conditions will
continue much the same until the
tariff question ts settled. The South
is still asking full prices for supplies.
Cheese—A few old cheese are left,
and these will likely be used up with-
in the next few weeks. As the sea-
son advances, the quality of new
cheese will improve. It is thought
that the market has touched about
as low a point as it will reach the
present season and the market is
much firmer than a short time ago.
The big season for the production of
cheese is during May and June, but
any surplus made during these
months will be put into storage, so
that it will have no effect on the mar-
ket.
Provisions—Smoked meats are firm
and prices are about 4c above a week
ago. The demand is good. Both
pure and compound lard are steady
with a fair consumptive demand and
unchanged prices. Dried beef, bar--
reled pork and canned meats are tn-
changed with a seasonable demand.
Salt Fish—Cod, hake, and haddock
are dull and unchanged. Mackerel is
still very dull. The demand is only
from hand to mouth and small at that.
Prices still rule on a very low level
and the market throughout is in buy-
er’s favor. From the standpoint of
the large holder of mackerel, the mar-
ket is in bad shape.
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An Interesting Matter.
It will be worth your while to
write me if you wish to exchange
vour old scale or buy new ones. W.
J. Kling, Sales Agent, Dayton Money-
weight Scales, Grand Rapids, Mich-
igan.—Adv.
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J. M. Sell has opened up a grocery
store at Marlborough. The stock
was furnished by the Worden Gro-
cer Co.
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W.S. Sly has engaged in the gro-
cery business at Ionia. The Worden
Grocer Co. furnished the stock.
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Escanaba—Fire destroyed the saw
mill of the Mashek Lumber Co. May
15, entailing a loss of about $6,000.
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BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.
Proceedings in Western District of
Michigan.
Grand Rapids, May 15—In the matter
of Edward M. Andrews, bankrupt, of
Clarksville, the first report and account
of Ernest Nash, trustee. was filed, show-
ing balance of cash on hand $752.07; also
showing cash, accounts and merchandise
turned over to creditors holding con-
tracts reserving title as follows: Inter-
national Harvester Co., $2,673.41; Gale
Manufacturing Co., $32.91; Merrill Co.,
; American Seeding Machine Co.,
An order was entered calling a
special meeting of creditors for June 5,
for the purpose of declaring a first divi-
dend for creditors.
A vountary petition was filed by Martin
Rose, grocer of Muskegon, and he was
adjudicated bankrupt by Judge Sessions
and the matter referred to Referee
Wicks. The bankrupt’s schedules show
no assets not claimed as exempt and the
calling of the first meeting has been
delayed until expense money_ is ad-
vanced. The following creditors are
scheduled:
Hume Grocer Co.. Muskegon ..... $ 617.98
Moulton Grocer Co., Muskegon.. 61.86
Judson Grocer Co. .........------- 54.52
Jennings Manufacturing Co. 12.20
H. Leonard & Sons .............. 41.00
Francis Jiroch, Muskegon ........ 35.00
T. Schillaci & Co., Muskegon...... 25.00
John Stegink, Muskegon ........ 12.00
<. K. Hann, Muskegon .......... 12.00
Workman & Son, Muskegon .... 5.25
D. M. Roy, Muskegon ........... 25.00
Wolffis Brothers, Muskegon .. 2.25
John Mulder, Muskegon ........- 15.00
William Earnest. Nunica ......... 30.00
Wm. E. Gordon, Muskegon ..... 25.00
Walker Candy Co., Muskegon .... 84.32
John Damminga. Muskegon ...... 15.00
Castenholz Bros., Muskegon ..... 50.00
Chas. Schoenberg, Muskegon ..... 75.00
John S. Walker, Muskegon ....... 25.00
Herman Franke. Muskegon ...... 20.00
John S. Anderson, Muskegon .... 225.00
National Biscuit Co.. Muskegon .. 4.00
Charles Witt, Muskegon .........- 5.25
Neil & Alwynse, Muskegon ...... 7.25
$1.484.88
May 16—In the matter of John H.
Kinsey, bankrupt, of Grand Rapids, a re-
port was filed by the trustee showing
sale of certain fixtures and machinery ap-
praised at $154 to a. O’Rourke, of Grand
Rapids, for $140. Creditors have been
directed to show cause on May 28 why
such sale should not be confirmed.
May 17—In the matter of Lucas Broth-
ers, bankrupt, formerly merchants at
Maple Grove, the final meeting of cred-
itors called for to-day was held open.
pending decision as to eertain claims.
May 19—In the matter of John Cc. Cole,
bankrupt, formerly at Big Rapids, the
final meeting of creditors was held. The
final report and account of Don E.
Minor, successor trustee. Was allowed,
and a final dividend of 13 per cent. de-
clared for general creditors. No cause to
the contrary being shown by creditors,
it was determined a favorable certificate
as to the bankrupt’s discharge be made
by the referee. : :
Based on petition of certain of his
creditors, Albert J. Doyle, merchant of
Charlotte, was adjudicated bankrupt and
the matter referred to Referee Wicks,
who was also appointed receiver. An
order was made appointing Carroll Ss.
Brown, of Charlotte, as custodian, pend-
ing the election of a_ trustee. Geo.
Barney, John Hageman and James H.
Brown, of Charlotte. were appointed ap-
praisers. The first meeting of creditors
will be held at the office of the referee
on June 6. The following assets are
scheduled: e
Cash on hand ....-.----------+-- $ 67 .06
Stock in trade (appraised value) 12,613.13
Household goods, etc. ....-+++-+ 225.00
Store fixtures (appraised value) 1,000.00
Accounts receivable .......+-+++ 1,604.00
17% shares stock Duplex Power
Car Co.. owned jointly and of
doubtful value.
Deposit in bank .....+-+++e++eees 295.18
$15,804.37
On May 1. 1918, the bankrupt made a
general assignment of all his property for
benefit of creditors, without preference;
said assignment proceedings have been
abandoned and are superseded by _this
bankruptcy proceedings. No disposition
of any property was made _ under such
assignment. The following liabilities are
scheduled:
Preferred or Secured Claims.
L. A. Koepfgen, Charlotte (labor) $ 28.75
F. A. Lackey. Richmond ......- 1,631.25
(Secured by $2,000 insurance policy,
taken out in 1900. all premiums paid.)
Principal Unsecured Creditors.
Beyer & Williams, Buffalo ...... $ 102.10
Morris Boosin, New York .....-. 573.25
Birdsell Bros. Co.. Honesdale 88.20
3elding Bros. & Co., Chicago 114.36
i. S. Bowman, Buffalo ........-. 85.08
H. Brilling & Co., Detroit ...... 66.23
Chicago Rubber Co., Chicago 136.00
Cohn. Friedlander, Martin Co., .
MiNCAO 2.56. ee eee eee - 187.90
Edson, Moore & Co., Detroit 464.41
Elite Glove Co., Gloversville . 43.75
Robert E. Ellis. Detroit .......... 129.69
A. Jj. Elliott & Co., Chicago ... 50.00
The Elite Works, New York ..... 2.20
J. V. Farwell Co.. Chicago ...... 1,195.90
Fried, Keller, Kohn Co., Cleveland 732.50
Gory & Heller. Chicago ........ we 30.95
H. W. Gossard Co.. Chicago ..... 58.85
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
A F. Hoffmeister Co., Cincinnati 35.22
Globe Silk Waist Co., Philadelphia 25.00
Fred’k Hacker & Co., New York 76.82
H. Heyman & Co., Chicago ....... 74.25
Hirsch, Strauss Co., Chicago 108.00
Hirsch Brothers. New York ..... 93.50
Hull Brothers, Toledo ............ 47.70
Jackson Skirt & Novelty Co.,
SACKSON eee ee oe 139.95
Kops Brothers, New York ........ 149.05
Julius Kayser & Co.. New York .. 115.05
King Manufacturing Co., Toledo 26.00
Kiplinger-Kelly-Homer Co., Cleve-
si 133.75
A. Keolik & Co., Detroit ........ 535.31
Keach & Brown Mfg. Co., N. Y. 85.00
The McCall Company. N. Y....... 41.80
Herman & Ben Marks, Detroit
Lockport Cotton Batting Co.,
Lockport
Moyses & Dreyfus, New York.... 125.00
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago 18.37
Morris, Mann & Reilley. Chicago 2387.26
S. 1. Munson, Albany ............. 99.46
Northwestern Knitting Co.. Minne-
QOS oe ee eee ci. 96.50
Novelty Cloak & Skirt Co., Cleve-
BBG ooo eke
Nonotuck Silk Co., Chicago .....
Novelty Dress Mfg. Co., N. Y...
Nottingham Lace Works, N. Y... 4d
N. Y. Cotton Batting Co., Lockport 43.7
L. Nathan Mfg. Co.. Chicago .. 29.7
Chas. H. Osborn & Co., Hastings 24.2
J. P. Platte & Co., Grand Rapids 52.1
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Pictorial Review Co., New York 79.
Printz, Biederman Co.. Cleveland 650.
Prince. Wolf & Co., Cleveland... 32.50
R. & G. Corset Co., Chicago...... 118.78
Root & McBride Co., Cleveland.. 610.26
Reed Bros. & Co., Cleveland .... 39.00
E. A. Robertson Co., Saginaw 309.25
Steinhouse. Seimonhoff & Co., New
Tork |. .5.. se 107.75
Wm. Carter Co., Needham Heights 44.47
Francis T Simmons & Co, Chicago 219]18
Stone Brothers, Chicago ........ 53.17
F. Siegel & Bros., Chicago ....... 11.00
Stillman & Stillman. New York.. 40.00
Spool Cotton Co., New York ..... 285.49
Wm. Skinner & Sons, Chicago 33.36
J. K. Steifel & Co.. New York.. 55.19
FE. Schoenbrun & Co., Toledo .... 47.00
Sihley, Linsay & Curr Co., Roches-
$Or oe eee ee 71.21
Wayne Knitting Co., Fort Wayne 343.26
Wilson. Larrabee Co., Boston 149.75
Warner Brothers Co., Chicago.... 170.89
Yorkville Dress Co., New York . 242.75
Dudley Paper Co., Lansing ....... 6.36
Merchants Specialty Co., Lansing 35.00
WV & S&S. J. Stine, Charlotte .. 183.33
Sperry & Hutchins, New York 48.50
J. V. Farwell Co., Chicago ..... 2,000.00
Burnham, Stoepe: & Co., Detroit 625.00
Corl, Knott & Co., Be 61.01
G. i a1.
First National Bank, Charlotte 6,900.00
And numerous other small creditors
Total unsecured liability ....$24,478.03
May 20—In the matter of Brautigam
Brothers, bankrupt, merchants at Kings-
ley, the first meeting of creditors was held
and by unanimous vote Amil F. Nerlinger,
of Traverse City, was elected trustee and
his bond fixed at $1,000. Ambrose B.
Stinson, Ira D. Linton and Geo. W.
Parker, of Kingsley, were appointed ap-
praisers. Each of the bankrupts were
Sworn and examined and the meeting ad-
journed without day.
St. Joseph Referee.
St. Joseph, May 13—In the matter of
Adelbert A. Welcher, bankrupt, of Berrien
Springs, an order was made by the
referee further adjourning the first cred-
itors meeting to May 23. Attorneys for
the trustee, by agreement with the at-
torney for the bankrupt, in consideration
of the bankrupt waiving his personal
property exemptions of $250, have with-
drawn the petition for accounting, filed
for the purpose of ascertaining the loss
of some $8,000. There will be about
$823 to pay creditors and the cost of
administration.
In the matter of Elwood Lamore,
Charles Lamore and Lamore & Co.,
bankrupts, of Eau Claire, the referee
has confirmed the report of the trustee,
allowing the bankrupts’ certain ex-
emptions, which exemptions include
household goods and certain live stock.
May 14—In the matter of August Pet-
ers, of Benton Harbor, alleged bankrupt,
the creditors petition was granted, and
Mr. Peters was adjudged bankrupt by
Judge Sessions and the matter referred
to Referee Banyon, who was also ap-
pointed receiver of the bankrupt’s assets,
which consist of a small stock of pianos
and musical instruments. The _ referee
has made an order directing the bank-
rupt to file in court schedules of his
debts and assets.
May 15—In the matter of James Inger-
soll Day, bankrupt, of Hamilton town-
ship. Van Buren county, an order has
been made by the referee calling the
first meeting of creditors at his office on
May. 31.
In the matter of Charles W. Vander-
bilt, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, Trustee
George C. Monroe, of South Haven, filed
his first report showing cash on hand to
distribute to the creditors and pay the
eosts of administration, including $250
cash to the bankrupt, the sum of $423.26.
May 16—In the matter of Clarence M.
Jennings. Robert Jennings, and Jennings
Brothers, partnership, bankrupts of Law-
rence, the stock and fixtures of the bank-
rupts were sold to Burrell Tripp, of
Allegan, for $867.09. Mr. Tripp has leased
the store building formerly occupied by
the bankrupts and will conduct the busi-
ness in his own name, with Clarence
-trustee in
Jennings as manager. Certain creditors
have filed a petition, raising objections
and exceptions to the report of the trus-
tee, allowing the bankrupt, Robert Jen-
nings, his personal property exemptions.
An order was made by the referee that a
hearing be had on the matter at his office
on June 14. An adjourned first creditors
meeting was held at the referee’s office
and clai allowed to the amount of
some $3,500. The meeting was further
adjourned to allow’ creditors. to file
claims to June 14.
May 17—In the matter of Pricie W.
Perry, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, formerly
of Evart, the inventory and report of
appraisers was filed, showing that the
entire assets of the bankrupt consist of
an equity in a house and two lots at
Evart, purchased under land contract.
They appraise the equity at $39.69. An
order was made by the referee directing
the trustee, Elmer F. Birdsall, of Evart,
to sell the equity of the bankrupt in
the property.
Eastern District, Detroit Referee.
Detroit, May 17—In the matter of
Harry Barsky, bankrupt, Detroit. The
this estate has filed his final
account, which shows total receipts of
$540.71; disbursements, including first
dividend, $348.71; balance on hand, $191.29.
Final meeting of creditors called, for
May 27, to pass upon the said account
and fees of receiver and his attorney.
In the matter of the Auto Lock &
Specialty Co., bankrupt, Detroit, the
trustee’s final account, now filed, shows
receipts of $275 for all of the assets of
the bankrupt and disbursements’ of
$113.75. There is also an unpaid bill for
rent during time trustee was in posses-
sion, amounting to 456. It appears that
there will be insufficient funds to pay the
labor claims filed in full after payment
of administration expenses. Final meet-
ing called to pass upon the account on
May 27.
In the matter of W. A. Dusseau &
Son, bankrupts, Detroit, trustee’s final
account was filed and final meeting of
ereditors to pass upon the same called
for May 27. The account shows total
receipts of $980.97; disbursements, includ-
ing first dividend, $752.88; leaving a
balance of $228.14 remaining in the
trustee’s hands.
In the matter of Edward D. Ellis, trad-
ing as EB. D. Ellis Oil Co., ankrupt,
Detroit, trustee’s final account was filed,
showing total receipt of $1,699.69; dis-
bursements, including payment. of first
dividend, $961.65; leaving a balance on
hand of $738.04. Final meeting of cred-
itors called for May 27, to pass upon the
trustee’s account and to determine the
question of fees for legal services to
trustee.
In the matter of the Michigan Magneto
Co., bankrupt, Detroit, trustee’s final ac-
eount was filed, showing total receipts of
$5,874.52; disbursements, $2,559.95, includ-
ing payment of dividends, leaving balance
on hand of $3,314.57. In addition, the
trustee reports that there are a great
many small accounts owing to the bank-
rupt which he recommends be sold in
bulk. > >
Because the past season has been a
good one for the business is not the
least reason for thinking it needless
to work hard for the success of the
coming season,
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Your goods may be right and your
prices may be right, but if your de-
livery is all wrong you can’t expect
to have satisfied customers.
Doctors disagree—except as to
the size of the bill.
A. T. KNOWLSON
COMPANY
Wholesale Gas and Electric
Supplies
Michigan Distributors for
Welsbach Company
99-103 Congress St. East, Detroit
Telephone, Main 5846
Catalogue or quotations on request
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May 21, 1913
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
7th Annual
Merchants Week
Grand Rapids June 10, 11, 12
Every Retail Merchant in Michigan is Cordially Invited to Attend
Grand Banquet in Coliseum last year 1,800 people served with full course hot dinner in one hour.
Business Efficiency Day
On Wednesday afternoon will be held a Convention
Session for those merchants interested in how to make more
money, when addresses will be made by National experts
on such subjects as “Insurance,” “Window Trimming,” “Ad-
vertising,” “Business Efficiency,” Etc.
Thursday Afternoon at Ramona
Every visitor will be given free tickets on the street
cars to Ramona (Reeds Lake) and free admission to all the
amusement features including the theatre at 3:30.
Come along and whiz through the air on the Toboggan
Slide, sail like a bird on the Circle Swing, shoot through the
Mystic Shute, take a lake trip on the steamer, dance in the
big Casino, see the Panama Canal, ride the Ponies, do the
sia Wiggle and ride the grizzly bear on the Merry-go-
round.
Come while the coming’s good. Bring your wife. Let
her in on the joys of life. The fizzle and sparkle, the joy
andiun at Ramona will make her young again. Life is
short and the road is rough to say the least. A few days of
rest and fellowship will do you good.
The Grand Banquet
Will be held at the Coliseum Thursday evening, June 12.
at six o'clock sharp and will be over at ten o'clock.
It will be full of vim from start to close. Beautiful
music, witty toastmaster, famous speakers and other enter-
taining features.
Nothing like a big banquet of 2,000 people with its
music, lights and oratory to stir the hearts of men and thrill
the souls of women. Don’t miss it.
Send for Banquet Tickets Now
You must apply in advance for Banquet Tickets as we
have to know how many are coming to make proper prepara-
tions. No tickets will be issued for the Banquet afterJune 10.
All other tickets you can get after your arrival and we
need no advance notice.
Send applications to M. C. Huggett, Secretary Grand
Rapids Association of Commerce.
Wholesale Dealers Association
of the
Grand Rapids Association of Commerce.
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS
OF BUSINESS MEN.
Published Weekly by
TRADESMAN COMPANY.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Subscription Price.
One dollar per year, if paid strictly in
advance; two dollars if not paid in ad-
vance.
Five dollars for six years, payable in
advance,
Canadian subscriptions, $2.04 per year,
payable invariably in advance.
Sample copies, 5 cents each.
Extra copies of current issues, 5 cents;
issues a month or more old, 10 cents;
issues a year or more old, 25 cents.
Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice
as Second Class Matter.
E. A. STOWE, Editor.
May 21, 1913.
SAVE THE WILD FLOWERS.
The Park Board has started a cam-
paign for the preservation of the wild
flowers in the city parks, and espec-
ially in John Ball park. Placards are
being posted conspicuously in the
parks warning visitors not to pick
the flowers, and special officers will
be detailed to enforce the warning.
In flagrant cases those who violate
the park rules will be arrested and
subjected to the penalties prescribed.
The rules will cover not only the wild
flowers but the flowering shrubs and
trees that grow in the woods as
well. It is about time that some such
action as this were taken. When
Grand Kapids was a small town and
there were woods in all directions and
the woods were full of flowers, pro-
tective measures for the flowers were
unnecessary. But with the growth of
the city and the thicker settlement of
the neighborhood the wild places have
been moving tarther and farther back
and practically the only places where
the wild Howers can now be found
that are accessible for the people are
in the parks. Why the cultivated
flowers in the park beds and borders
should be respected is now generally
recognized, and the same recognition
must be extended to the wild flowers
to prevent their extermination and
to ensure their enjoyment for all the
people. The Park Board is spending
money and effort to make the flowers
grow and the people must be educated
in leaving them alone. Most of the
wild flowers are beautiful to look at,
but very frail, withering almost as
soon as picked. It is no uncommon
sight to see children and grown folks
as well come out of the park woods
with their hands full of flowers, and
the flowers are thrown away before
the car is taken for home. The only
pleasure for those who have picked the
flowers has been in the gathering of
them, and this pleasure deprives all
who come after of even the pleasure
of looking at them. Not only this,
but the ruthless picking of the flow-
ers not only destroys their present
beauty, but prevents their propaga-
tion. As instances of vandalism in
the woods, the Park Board last year
set out a lot of rhododendron along
the drives, with a view to seeing how
they would prosper in the different lo-
calities. This season only one small
clump remains, all the others having
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
been taken away by visitors who ap-
parently thought anything found in
the woods was free to be taken away.
The Park Board planted a lot of Bos-
ton ivy along the wall that borders
the drive, expecting it to cover the
wall with a mass of green; and most
of this has been taken away. The
weods used to be filled with trillium,
and last season the Park Board
planted several hundred bulbs to re-
inforce the few which still remain;
this spring the flowers have been
plucked as fast as they have appeared
and now more planting will have to
be done. There used to be a lot of
dog wood in the woods, with their
beautiful flowers in the spring, but
this has almost entirely disappeared.
Moccasin flower, lady slippers, marsh
and wood lilies, Jack-in-the-Pulpit and
other wood flowers used to be abun-
dant in the John Ball park woods and
ravines, but now they have practically
disappeared. Even the hepatica,
spring beauties and violets have been
raided until comparatively few of
them are left. It will take time and
effort to educate the people to be as
careful of the wild flowers as they
are of the cultivated, but rules against
picking the flowers are rigidly en-
forced in the parks of other cities and
they should be enforced here. It
would also be well if the educational
effort could be even wider than the
parks. Why should not the flowers
that grow along the country roads
and in the woods near the city be
given a chance to increase for the
pleasure of everybody, instead of
being ruthlessly plucked out by the
roots for the momentary pleasure of
the first person who sees them? Trail-
ing arbutus, the sweetest and dain-
tiest of spring flowers, once abundant
around Grand Rapids, has been almost
exterminated by pickers who _ have
pulled them out by the roots. We
have laws for the protection of fish,
birds, and wild animals. Why not
have laws for the protection of the
wild flowers?
LARGER SCALE THAN EVER.
June 10, 11 and 12—these are the
dates for the annual Merchants Week
entertainment this year. The enter-
tainment this year is to be on a larger
scale than ever, with new features
and new attractions for the visitors,
and the more who come the better
will the Grand Rapids wholesalers
like it. The programme has not been
arranged in all its details as yet, but
in a general way the first day will be
for reception and registration, the
second will have educational features
that will be of interest to every mer-
chant and the last day will be for en-
tertainment, culminating in the annual
banquet in the Coliseum. The morn-
ings each day will be open to give
the visiting merchants opportunity to
visit the wholesale houses and get
acquainted with what Grand Rapids
has to offer and the afternoons will
be for the programme which the com-
mittees are working hard to bring up
to a point of perfection never before
attained. The entertainment is for
the retail merchants in all the ter-
ritory tributary to Grand Rapids, and
the invitations sent out and the wel-
come that will be extended will be
equally for the merchant’s wife and
daughter as for himself. It is espec-
ially desired that the merchants bring,
their wives with them, for Grand
Rapids is as earnestly desirous of
being on friendly terms with the la-
dies as with the men and, in arrang-
ing the programme, special attention
will be given to making the occasion
enjoyable for them. The banquet to
close the festival will be short in
speech making, but long in entertain-
ing features and music and will close
in time to permit the visitors to catch
the night trains home. The _ retail
merchants of Grand Rapids will do
their part for the entertainment of
the visitors. They will have special
window and store displays and will
be glad to give the visiting merchants
any information as to methods that
may be desired. The retailers, in fact,
look upon the visiting merchants as
much as their guests as of the whole-
salers and the welcome sign and the
glad hand will be everywhere in evi-
dence.
JOBBERS OUT AROUND.
The first one day trade extension
excursion of the season is being made
to-day by the Grand Rapids wholesal-
ers to Muskegon. The trip is being
made by special train on the Muske-
gon interurban, which left at 8 o’clock
this morning and is due to arrive at
Muskegon about noon, with stops of
from 15 minutes to half an hour at
3erlin, Coopersville, Nunica, Fruit-
port and Muskegon Heights. The ar-
rival at Muskegon will be in time for
lunch at the Occidental. The after-
noon will be spent in calling on the
trade. In the. evening the Grand
Rapids visitors will entertain the of-
ficers and directors of the Muskegon
Chamber of Commerce, and this will
give opportunity to talk over various
topics of mutual interest. Some of
these topics will be the development
of Western Michigan, improving the
transportation facilities by interurban
building and otherwise and the Chi-
cago to Mackinaw automobile boule-
vard. This meeting of the business
men of two friendly cities will be
full of interest and value and should
lead to good results in the future in
closer relations and better under-
standing.
This one day excursion will not
lack enjoyable features, but its pur-
pose is not for a frolic. The Grand
Rapids wholesalers are going out to
see their trade friends at their homes,
to get better acquainted with them,
to study their needs and to learn how
they can better serve them. The trip
will be as beneficial to the merchants
visited as to the visitors,
The success of this first excursion
should lead to others later in the sea-
son. Spring Lake and Grand Haven
are worthy of a visit some day. Hol-
land and the thriving towns along
the way should be given a day before
the season closes. A trip to Ionia
with stops at the thriving towns along
the route would be profitable. The
completion of the Kalamazoo interur-
ban late in the summer or early in
the fall should be made the occasion
for an opening excursion over the
route. The tendency too often is to
neglect the near-by places under the
May 21, 1913
impression that we have a lead pipe
cinch upon their trade and to look
after them is unnecessary. This is
an unwise policy. We may have all
their trade but by going after it and
by encouraging the local merchants
to greater effort this trade can easily
be increased.
KNOWING HOW.
The Livingston Hotel property, re-
cently purchased by Chas. F. Young
and his son, Leland N. Young, will
probably afford another good example
of how property which has not been
particularly profitable can be con-
verted into a paying proposition. The
property, it is understood, has been
showing a return of about 3 per cent.
on its valuation of $200,000. It has
been used for purposes connected
with the hotel throughout. Under
the new ownership the bar room, bil-
liard room and other features on the
ground floor will be eliminated or
moved back out of the way and four
fine large stores will be made out of
the Division avenue frontage. At
least one large store or bank will be
put into the corner. These new rev-
enue producers can be taken out and
still leave plenty of room for the
hotel office and lobby. The dining
room now is on the top floor, and,
under the new management, this space
will be converted into bed rooms,
thus increasing the earning capacity,
and the dining room will be a hand-
somely furnished cafe in the base-
ment, now occupied by the barber
shop, toilet rooms and storage. These
changes will increase the income from
a 3 per cent. return to 8 or 10 per
cent. and the cost of the necessary
remodeling will be merely nominal.
Success in real estate ownership de-
pends very much on management and
knowing how. This has been shown
by the change in income productive-
ness which came in the change in the
ownership of the Board of Trade
building; from a poor 5 per. cent.
proposition it has become a good 10
per cent. income producer. The same
result will come with the change in
the ownership of the Livingston, The
difference is all in the know how.
A significant change in the hotel
under the new management will! be
the cutting out of the bar. The Liv-
ingston will be a cold water institu-
tion. The time was—and not so very
many years ago, either—when to con-
duct a hotel without a bar was
thought to be impossible. This idea
still lingers in many quarters. But
the traveling men, who are the larg-
est patrons of the hotels, are not in
this modern day consumers of red
liquor. Many of them are absolute
abstainers and those who hold their
jobs have to be moderate. The suc-
cessful business men are not patrons
of the bars. The whole tendency of
the times is toward sobriety. This
tendency is not sentimental or emo-
tional, but is dictated by sound busi-
ness sense. Long experience has
shown that business and drinking will
not mix and so many successful busi-
ness men have cut out liquor entirely
that there is no reason why a first-
class hotel in Grand Rapids should
not succeed without a bar.
May 21, 1913
Effective Window Trim of Straw
Hats.
Here is what you will need in mer-
chandise equipment for making this
window trim of straw hats:
Merchandise
About $10 worth of miscellaneous
straw hats.
Equipment.
Five rolls of
paper.
One wooden box, about 36 inches
high.
blue or purple crepe
Two wooden boxes, about 30 inch-
es high.
Three boards, 30 inches long.
One board, 36 inches long.
Five metal
Pins.
T-stands.
Plenty of price tickets.
A straw hat window trim is one
of the most seasonable that it is
pessible to get at this time.
Every merchant who
hats should make a bold, big splurge
sells straw
as early in the season as possible.
Fill up your window with straw
hats of all kinds.
Make people understand early that
your store is headquarters for straw
hats of every kind.
There is no easier window
list to trim.
on the
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
dow as many harvest hats as it will
hold.
The next step is to pin a straight
row of harvest or hats
around the top of the window, as
shown in the photograph.
children’s
Arranging the Fixtures
Now get your fixtures in position.
This will be a very simple and easy
matter.
‘The center unit should be trimmed
first. This consists of one. tall
and two and three
ot a relative size as
drawing. The
course should be covered neatly with
box
boards T-stands
shown in the
boxes and boards of
the same color crepe paper as used
on the background.
Trim this center
with
unit principally
misses’ and children’s trimmed
If you don’t have any trimmed
hats in stock it will be easy to trim
hats.
some with some remnants of ribbon
and The plan of this is so
apparent in the photograph that it is
useless to take up your time by ex-
plaining it in detail here.
flowers.
The left unit is made up of one of
the smaller boxes, a 30 inch board
and a T-stand. Pin two trimmed
hats to the T-stand as shown in the
photograph, two others in front of
the T-stand and two more to. the
front of the board.
fre
Drawing of Fixtures.
Just get some straw hats and go
to it. The hats themselves are dec-
orative at this time of the year and
you should put as many in the win-
dow as possible without overcrowd-
ing it.
The first thing in making this par-
ticular trim we are illustrating here-
with is to ‘cover the background
neatly with blue or purple crepe pa-
per. Thien cut strips about three
inches wide and produce: a_ ruffled
edge by pulling the paper through
the thumb and forefinger. The best
way to go about this is to cut the
paper from the roll before unrolling
it.
When you get the background
neatly covered and no rough edges
showing, pin to the top of the win-
The right unit is made substantial-
ly the same way and is made up prac-
tically of the same grade of
chandise.
inher
All that remains now
row
is fO Tun 2
of six straw hats along either
the left or right side of your window,
depending upon the way your win-
dow is arranged and to iix the floor
plan.
This floor plan consists of nothing
more or less than about a _ dozen
hats. A couple of small T-stands
will help you in making them bal-
ance properly.
This being a plain black and white
photograph we are unable to bring
out the color scheme which you
should try to preserve in a window.
An effort should be made to bal-
Trim
Window
ance the window by
where they belong.
A certain number of black hats on
either side and in the center would
be about right. These can be flanked
on either side by the lighter hats and
the brighter color effects can be at
the top.
Avoid Overcrowding the Window.
A poor trim of straw hats is worse
than none at all. Unless you are ex-
tremely careful not to overcrowd the
trim you will have in your window
the appearance of a_ store house
rather than a trade pulling display
of merchandise.
A straw hat window
having colors
and straw hat
booth working together can supple-
‘ment each other.
Above all be sure your straw hats
are displayed early.
This is particularly good advice
for the variety merchant. He is like-
ly to put out his hats in a rather
apologetic manner before the real de-
mand for them commences. Get the
early profits and then the late ones
will take care of themselves—Butler
Way.
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Collect Without Apologies.
No apologies need ever be made
for asking a man for money owed
at the time when it should be paid.
Do not bother with inventing ex-
planations. The fact that the money
is due is enough. The only man who
deeply resents being asked a second
time for payment, in the long run, is
the one who intends to let the ac-
count run until he is forced to pay.
In that case the “forcing” should be
done promptly and effectively.
the trade, if necessary. Customers who
do not pay promptly are more bother
and expense than their trade is
Lose
worth. Honest men like honest meth-
ods, and every man knows that the
other fellow can not live unless mon-
ey comes in regularly in payment for
Photographed.
goods delivered. Argument to any
cther point is unnecessary and useless,
Each day that an unpaid bill runs
beyond the day that it is due it be-
comes harder to collect it. A _ solicit-
or for a collection agency some time
ago succeeded in getting the business
of the largest concern manufacturing
electrical supplies in a certain
tion of this country.
in Ssec-
The credit man
handed him a bunch of accounts. The
solicitor looked at them and handed
them back, saying that they were so
old and represented a class of busi-
ness dealings which made them prac-
tically uncollectible, and he did not
wish to test the ability of his house
on such hopeless prospects. They
had resisted so many different at-
tempts at collections covering so
long a period of time that they were
not worth bothering with any longer
outlawed by time. If
ccunts had been properly handled at
the outset they would either
been collected or the firms in ques-
tion would have been supplied with
no more goods.
those ac-
have
Just here the dealer remarks: “It
is easy enough to say all this, but it
is mighty hard t» carry into practice.”
That is just as true as can be, but
it can be done, and it is worth while
doing, cost what effort it may, for it
is a big factor in success—sound,
certain, permanent
exchange.
success,
The man who fails to col-
Says an
lect his bills is running his business
at his own expense. The man who
collects promptly is running his busi-
ness at his customers’ expense. There
is no middle path. You need not
worry about the really “worthy” man
who is “down on his luck” and can
not pay. They are few enough in
number, and the dealer’s judgment is
sufficient to govern these cases. But
facts before
be sure of .your
make allowances.
you
TRADESMAN
May 21, 1913
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The Widower Considered as a Mat-
rimonial Proposition.
Written for the Tradesman.
Mr. Wellington Raymond some
weeks ago proposed to Cynthia Mans-
field. Mr. Raymond is the kind of
man to whom the local papers always
refer as “one of our most respected
citizens.’ He is a good, clean, up-
right sort of person, always courteous
and affable, well-informed and very
comfortably fixed financially. He is
about forty-five. Cynthia, despite her
thirty-seven summers, always is spok-
en of by her many friends as “a very
nice girl.” She is bright and intelli-
gent, is fairly good-looking, she
dresses well and has agreeable man-
ners. Still it has to be admitted that
very, very few proposals have come
her way. Seemingly less attractive
women have numerous admirers; it
may be it is the “come hither in the
eye” that Cynthia lacks—at any rate
a few observant and sharp-tongued
neighhbers just now are speculating
as to whether she ever before has had
a bona fide offer. Because her chanc-
es have been so scattering and be-
cause she is getting a little along in
years, and because Mr. Raymond is
in every way such an eligible and es-
timable gentleman, and is entirely
unincumbered by children—children
admittedly are an unpleasant compli-
cation in any second matrimonial
venture—because of all these things
Cynthia's friends just now are in a
quiver ot excitement hoping that she
will accept his offer.
According to the funny papers a
spinster of thirty-seven would lose
no time in accepting any kind of an
offer, and in the case of a man _ of
wealth and standing would be ready
to make a mad rush for the altar. But
Miss Cynthia hesitates and her lover
waits. Her friends fear that he wili
weary of her indecision and bestow
his attentions elsewhere.
“T shall have no patience with that
girl if she lets Wellington Raymond
slip through her fingers,” declares
Mrs. Alston, who is a distant cousin
of Cynthias “And 1 cant for the
life of me see what she is dillydallying
about. I believe she needs something
to jar her up and bring her to her
senses.”
To a person of Mrs. Alston’s prac-
tical, prosaic mind, to whom a spade
is just a spade and nothing more nor
less, Cynthia’s delay is inexplicable as
well as absurd. Only those who
know her intimately and in some
measure understand her, can realize
the causes of her doubts and uncer-
tainty.
To the sympathetic reader let it
be known that this maiden whom men
have been so chary of admiring has
borne all her life long “the white
shield of expectation.” Although
through her weary years of waiting
no lovers actually came to her, she
always was dreaming that some day
a most surprising Prince, in whose
eyes she would seem the fairest of all
women, would put in his appearance,
and that he would throw himself at
her feet and declare her to be his
true and only Princess, and that ever
after kiss would rhyme with bliss and
rapture with capture.
Now when a real man has come
upon the scene, he is not quite the
royal creature of her dreams. Nor
can she be absolutely certain, for all
his declarations of undying devotion,
that he is bestowing upon her the
supreme affection of his life; for—and
this is the fly in Miss Cynthia’s oint-
ment—Mr. Wellington Raymond, with
all of his blameless record and ad-
mirable qualities is a widower.
Had Miss Cynthia read Mary Jane
Holmes and Myrtle Reed less and the
great open book of human life and
experience more. some problems that
now are puzzling her sentimental
brain and causing no end of. dis-
tressing turmoil there would speedily
be cleared up.
She would know other
things that the average male creature
of the human species is far more cap-
able of a dozen, more or less, small
passions, one after another,
among
(some-
times alas! one overlapping another)
than of any one grand passion; but
that he can easily persuade himself,
and indeed in stupid masculine mis-
takenness honestly comes to believe,
that the last lady who has captivated
his fancy is the one supreme and only
idol of his heart. She would know
that the woman who inspires one oi
these fractional passions, so to speak,
if it be warm and true and undivided
until death do them part, may count
herself as iucky in this
most of her sisters.
respect as
She would real-
ize also that when two middle-aged
persons undertake to go the remain-
ing way of life together, that happi-
ness depends not so much on ecstacies
of emotion as upon innate harmony
in fundamental tastes and principles,
and upon the willingness and ability
to make some readjustments in small
personal habits and ways of living.
Love is necessary, but scarcely less
so is the being able to agree on such
things as what kind of breakfast food
to have of mornings.
Tt is undeniable that there is noth-
ing romantic about marrying a wid-
ower. You can’t make anything ro-
mantic out of it. Should Miss Cyn-
thia bring her virginal indecision to
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May 21, 1913
; MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
11
a timely end and accept Mr. Raymond
and be married in a trained white
satin dress accompaied by six brides-
maids, and should she and her hus-
band take a honeymoon trip around
the world—-still there wouldn’t be
and couldn’t be that indescribable
glamour of romance surrounding the
affair that there is when Billy Jones
aged twenty-one and Betty Mason
aged nineteen, without a dollar in the
world, just plain get married “in the
presence of a few relatives and
friends.” :
Concerning widowers a_ shrewd
writer has made a few observations
that are well worth quoting:
“A widower’s proposal is not so
much a tribute. to an individual wom-
an as to the general institution of
matrimony. With the lady to whom
he proffers his affections he may not
be violently enamored, but he is gen-
uinely and honestly in love with hav-
ing a neat, comfortable home and reg-
ular, well-cooked meals, and with
having his buttons sewed on and his
stockings looked after and a sympa-
thetic ear to listen to his trials and
troubles. A young man never thinks
seriously of matrimony till some par-
ticular girl enthralls his imagination;
a widower thinks seriously of it, de-
cides upon the step, and then casts
about among his acquaintances for
some feminine embodiment of per-
sonal comeliness, agreeable manners,
good temper, thrift, industry and
housekeeping ability. When he finds
what seems to him a likely combina-
tion of these qualities, he—ahem—
falls in love with it. If the first
woman to whom he pays the compli-
ment of offering his hand and fortune
does not see fit to accept, he is bound
to pass the compliment along.”
By virtue of her experience a wid-
ow, however young, knows all this
of which Cynthia with her thirty-
seven years is wholly ignorant. In-
deed, in some ways it seems more of
a square deal when a widower makes
love to a widow. He has no knowl-
edge of the foibles of women that is
not more than counterbalanced by
her insight into the weaknesses of
men. She knows exactly how to take
ehis declarations of devotion. If he
is diffident and does not say as much
as he means, she can mentally supply
the deticiency. If, after the ‘usual
manner of men, he says more than he
really means, she can apply just the
proper percentage of discount.
She understands that trait of his na-
ture already referred to
ables him to love
which en-
a dozen women in
succession and to make himself hon-
estly believe that each last one is a
little the best of the lot. No widow
bothers her brain a moment as_ to
whether she is her admirer’s supreme
and only love. She simply sizes up
his traits and qualifications, (includ-
ing his pocketbook) pronounces him
eligible or the reverse, and makes up
her mind decisively to accept him
and turn her attention to her trous-
seau, or else reject him—when she
gets ready.
A widow does not need to be told
that, generally speaking, a widower oi
forty-five is a far better matrimonial
proposition than a bachelor of the
same age. Barring a few largely fic-
titious masculine saints and _ arch-
angels who remain single in order
better to provide for aged parents or
younger brothers and sisters, the man
who is unmarried at forty is so be-
cause he has some grouch against
womankind, or because he is selfish,
or because he prefers his liberty and
pleasure to domestic restraints. Mar-
rying a middle-aged bachelor involves
all the risks and uncertainties that at-
tend buying a seven-year-old horse
that has never been even _ halter-
broken. If Mr. Wellington Raymond
with his full equipment of desirable
qualities should place before some
level-headed widow the _ proposal
which Cynthia Mansfield is now con-
sidering, the chances are that he
would not need to talk long nor loud.
* * *k
Since’ the above was written the
little jar that Mrs. Alston thought
might crystallize Miss Cynthia’s mind
into favorable decision has happened.
Perhaps it was a shrewd little coup
on Mr. Raymond's part. At any rate
at a reception Cynthia saw her lover
conversing very animatedly with Mrs.
Van Diemen. Mrs. Van lost her hus-
band some two years ago and_ has
since made a somewhat lavish expen-
diture of his insurance
clothes and jewelry.
deal of tact and men
very charming,
The mental processes by which
Miss Mansfield reached determina-
tion need not be recorded here. It
is enough to say that that very night
she accepted Mr. Raymond, and the
wedding will take place very soon.
Really, honest-hearted Cynthia will
make him a far better wife than the
more sophisticated Mrs. Van Diemen.
It is to be hoped that Mrs. Welling-
ton Raymond that is to be will not
make herself miserable by comparing
her excellent husband with the impos-
sible Prince of her maiden dreams;
and that she will have the good sense
to erase the fact that for the middle-
aged, a marriage that compasses good
comradeship on the downward slope
of life and the comfort and quiet
happiness that result from mutual ten-
derness and consideration, should be
counted highly successful. May she
also know that the ardent bliss pic-
tured by the storybooks is rarely
found in actual wedded life even by
money on
She has a great
consider her
younger lovers. Quillo.
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26—June 7.
Michigan Women’s Press Association,
Detroit, 27-29.
State Professional Photographers’ As-
sociation, Detroit.
State Homeopathic Medical
Detroit.
National District Heating Association,
Detroit.
cone Lodge, F. & A. M., Lansing,
Society,
24-25
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Lansing, 30.
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Michigan Association of Assistant Post-
masters, Grand Rapids.
German Evangelical Synod of Michigan
Detroit.
oo of er Men, Port Huron.
. . Had O. E. Grand Lodge, Port Huron,
Grand Commandery Knights Templar,
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Motion Picture Exhibitors League of
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Lansing, 10-12.
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Lansing, 17, 18, 19.
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Grand Rapids, 6-7-8.
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Grand Rapids, 6-7-8.
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Ann Arbor, 18-22.
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Grand Rapids, 28-29-30-31.
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Central Grand
Rapids.
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Grand Rapids.
hs a Michigan State Fair, Grand Rap-
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Ann Arbor.
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troit.
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goner, Mason.
Executive Committee—-F. A. Johnson,
Detroit; E. J. Lee, Midland; D. A. Bent-
ley, Saginaw.
Tropical and Semi-Tropical Fruits in
This Market.
Written for the Tradesman.
Fast freights, warmed cars in win-
ter, cooled cars in summer, good old
Mother Nature at all seasons, give
Grand Rapids a grand procession of
fresh fruits—a procession that gives
almost every month in the year its
popular favorite in the fruit market.
The time has been—and not so many
years ago but that many of us can
remember it—when we had to wait
for the seasons to roll around before
fresh fruit was within reach. We had
to wait until June for our strawber-
ries, until September for our peaches
and when the summer fruits were
gone nothing but apples remained un-
til strawberries came again, except,
perhaps, for an occasional and high
priced and rare orange. But now
when we want fresh fruit we reach
out and get it, and this country is so
big, its climate so varied and_ the
transportation facilities so efficient
that we get almost anything we want
almost any time we want it. When
the new year dawns the new oranges
are just coming into market from the
Florida groves, and with them the
grape fruit. The Florida crop is
soon followed by the navels from Cal-
ifornia and until well into March the
orange is the market leader. When
oranges begin to pall on the taste and
the appetite craves something else the
pineapple begins coming, first from
Cuba and later from Florida. Pine-
apples are in market all the year
around, or at least are procurable at
all times, but the pineapple season
proper begins in March and reaches
its height toward the latter part of
April or early May. The pineapple
begins to lose favor when the straw-
berries become abundant enough to
be within the reach of the ordinary
pocket book.
Strawberries can be procured in
January, but they do not appear in
this market much before March, in
time for Easter, and the first offerings
are at about 60 cents a pint. The
first are from Southern Florida; later
they come from Northern Florida,
then from Louisiana, and then Miss-
issippi and then Tennessee, Arkansas
and the Carolinas. Tennessee - is
here from about the middle of May
and by this time they begin rolling
into Grand Rapids in car lots to retail
at around ten cents a quart. The
strawberry zone moves rapidly North-
ward and in early June the Michigan
berries begin coming and June is not
far advanced when our home grown
are on the market, and these last
through the month.
Before strawberries are far ad-
vanced the Southern grown raspber-
ries are in market. The
fruits of Southern growth
summer
average
two wecks to a month ahead of the
home grown, but this market prefers
the home grown, except in straw-
berrics, and the shipped in small fruits
are in comparatively limited demand
Besides, the succession is so. rapid
that the taste for one is scarcely sat-
isfied before the next is oftered. In
the small fruits strawberries are stc-
ceeded by raspberries, then in their
order by dewberries, blackberries, and
huckleberries,
Before the berry crops have run
their course, however, the tree fruits
begin coming. Cherries are in the
latter part of June and through July,
and then come the plums, and then
the summer apples, the early pears,
and in September the peaches and
grapes. In recent years many shipped
in peaches are handled in this mar-
ket, beginning to come in August
from Texas, if the Texas crop is a
good one, or from Georgia and Ar-
r the Michigan peach
crop was a failure and this market
kansas. Last vez
received almost its entire supply from
Texas and Arkansas, and they were
very good peaches, too.
The last of the fruits is the good
old apple, the Spies, Baldwins, Jona-
thans, Seek-no-Furthers, and other
varieties that our grandfathers were
fond of and that the poets have sung
about for generations. The summer
apples are fine for a‘relish, but the
fall and winter apples are fruit of
flavor and substance and can be put
away for use until the seasons are far
advanced toward the next strawberry
time. In other days the cellar was
the only storage for apples and apples
were gone in March or in April at
latest, but cold storage is now made
use of and good apples are still in
market in May and even in June.
packed
away for winter use, bananas begin
coming in quantity and the banana
season lasts until oranges come in.
Before apples are fairly
Bananas, however, are always in
season, the only difference that they
are a little more so at some times
of the year than at others. The ba-
nanas are mostly from Honduras, but
some, come from Cuba and some from
Porto Rico and Panama.
The volume of the fruit traffic in
this market is something remarkable,
and it is said to be growing rapidly.
Take pineapples, for instance, which
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Nest and incubator eggs will soon be
coming in, and the dealer who is not
candling eggs will be the loser. Buying
of eggs on a loss-off system is with us
and is sure to stay. Candle your eggs,
Mr. Merchant, before your customers,
showing them the bad eggs. They will
not ask you to pay for bad eggs. No
dark room or cellar necessary. Simply
\ | place our ‘‘Tester’’ on your counter.
Our ‘‘Rapid Tester’’ candles 36 eggs in
a minute. Can be used wherever elec-
tricity is available. On receipt of $5.50
we will forward to you one ‘‘Rapid Egg
Tester,’ transportation charges prepaid.
Use it ten days. If not entirely satis-
factory. return to us at our expense, and
we will immediately refund your money.
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Saginaw, Michigan
RAPID EGG TESTER CO.
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Can fill all orders PROMPTLY
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Grass, Clover, Agricultural and Garden Seeds
BROWN SEED CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
New Egg Storage Building
110 x 35 Feet, Four Stories
Added to our large present capacity makes us the leading EGG and
BUTTER STORING WAREHOUSE in Central New York. Lowest Insur-
ance Rates. Competing Railroad connections,
We solicit inquiries and guarantee satisfaction.
the Wholesale Trade,
All shipments of EGGS carefully inspected before going into storage.
Tke E. M. UPTON COLD STORAGE CO.
In close touch with
Rochester, New York
Potato Bags
New and second-hand, also bean bags, flour bags, etc.
Quick Shipments Our Pride
ROY BAKER
Wm. Alden Smith Bldg. Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Vinkemulder Company
JOBBERS AND SHIPPERS OF EVERYTHING IN
FRUITS AND PRODUCE
Grand Rapids, Mich.
ie
May 21, 1913
have just passed their high mark. A
few years ago the pines were shipped
from Cuba in barrels, ungraded as to
size or quality and in the markets
they were looked upon as something
rare. An enterprising Chicago com-
mission house sent crating materials
to Cuba cut to size and all ready to
nail together, and had the fruit graded
before shipment and then gave partic-
ular attention to hurrying the ship-
ments along. The traffic began to
grow immiediately and now it has
reached enormous proportions. This
growth began about the time of the
Cuban war, which was only a matter
of fifteen years ago. In those days
a carload shipment into this market
was unthought of. The dealer who
shipped in a iew crates from Chicago
thought he was showing great enter-
prise. This season the receipts in
this market will be approximately
sixty carloads of 250 crates each, The
pines are packed in three sizes, 24,
30 and 36 to the crate and during
most of the season the price per -
crate has been the same, regardless
of the size.
Grapefruit has had a wonderful
spurt into favor. These were first re-
ceived here about ten years ago and
were looked upon as curiosities and
the demand was scarcely large enough
to take up the dozen or so. crates
brought in during the season. Grand
Rapids people who went South for
the winter acquired the taste and
brought it home with them, and then
the home people sampled and liked
them. It is estimated that the con-
sumption this season has been about
twenty cars and dealers are looking
forward to a still larger handling next
season. Oranges and lemons come in
carlots the three first months of the
year and bananas come in carlots all
the year around. This year the Cali-
fornia fruit season was a failure and
we had to depend chiefly upon Flor-
ida for oranges, but for lemons the
American markets drew on Sicily and
it is from Sicily that the present sup-
ply is coming.
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Preventing Sweat in Refrigerators.
A letter from a subscriber gives a
plan that is very good for this pur-
pose. He says: “Having studied out
a plan to save ice and to prevent mold
and sweat on tiie inside of the ice
box, I submit to you a good idea for
butchers who use large coolers, which
during the warm months are entered
many times a day. A very simple
and inexpensive device for keeping
the temperature from being raised by
the frequent opening and closing of
the door of the cooler is a new wool!-
en horse blanket doubled and tacked
on the refrigerator door, across the
top and down on one side, extending
beyond the door frame some 6 or $
inches. When the refrigerator dour
is opened this blanket acts as an ir-
side door, dropping quickly when a
person enters or leaves the cooler.
The constant variation of the cooler
produces sweat on the inside, which
eventually develops mold, and_ this
can be almost altogether avoided by
the use of this blanket.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Unable to Serve Eggs as Wanted.
Three traveling salesmen, Gray,
Brown and Green, were breakfasting
at a hotel in the South, Gray ordered
coffee, rolls, creamed potatoes, bacon
and fried eggs; Brown told the waiter
he might duplicate the order for him;
and Green said:
“You may bring me the same, all
but the eges—-you may eliminate the
eves.”
In due time the waiter appeared
with the breakfast of Gray and
Brown, which he served, then, step-
ping round to Green he said, in a con-
ciliatory voice:
“We got fried eggs, an’ poached
eggs an’ boiled eggs an’ scrambled
eggs an’ om'let, sah, but we ain’t got
no ‘liminated eggs.”
“Well,” said Green, “my doctor
says eggs must be eliminated. Have
it done at once and hurry up my
breakfast.”
Presently the waiter was back
again, but without the breakfast.
“The cook says tell you, sah,’ he
said, “he jes’ can’t ‘liminate no eggs
dis mawnin.’”
“Now, see here,” said Green, in ap-
parent anger, “I never before was at
a hotel where I could not have my
eggs eliminated. Go tell the cook that
and tell him to eliminate those eggs
double sudden or I shall complain to
the manager.”
Away went the waiter, but return-
ed almost immediately, followed by
the cook.
“I come to ’splain to you mvse’f
bout dem eggs, sah,” said the excited
chef. “I ain't been here only a week
an’ I don’ wan to lose my job an’ dis
is de vey first ordah [ had for
‘lim’nate eggs since I come. I was
goin’ to ’lim’nate ‘em right off, but
when | looked round for de ’lim’nator
dey ain’t got none. Co’se I can’t ’lim-
‘nate eges ‘thout a ‘lim’nator, but I’s
goin’ to have the boss git one dis
vey day an’ if you'll ’scuse me this
mMawnin’ nex’ time you come I'll ’lim-
‘nate yo’ eggs better’n you’ve evah
had ’em ’lim’nated befo’!’”’
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An Ideal Match.
“So they are married?”
“Yes; they were married last Fri-
day in East Liverpool.”
“He is a champion golfist, I under-
stand.”
“Yes, he’s a champion golfist.”
“And the girl?”
“Is a champion bridge player.”
“Where do they propose to live?”
“With the bride’s father. He’s a
champion bricklayer.
We want Butter, Eggs,
Veal and Poultry
STROUP & WIERSUM
Successors to F. E. Stroup, Grand Rapids, Mich
Hammond Dairy Feed
“The World’s Most Famous
Milk Producer”
LIVE DEALERS WRITE
WYKES & CO. Sran¢ Rapids, Mich.
Michigan Sales Agents
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H. WEIDEN & SONS
Dealers in Hides, Pelts, Furs, Wool, Tallow
Cracklings, Etc.
108 Michigan St. W. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Established 1862
Fifty-one year’s record of Fair Dealing
Hart Brand Canned Goods
Packed by
W.R. Roach & Co., Hart, Mich.
Michigan People Want Michigai: Products
Watson - Higgins Milling Co.
Merchant Millers
Grand Rapids tt Michigan
IMPORTANT
Retail Grocers
who wish to please
their customers should
be sure to supply them
Baker’s
Cocoaand
with the trade-mark
on the packages.
Registered
U.S. Vat. off
They are staple goods, the
standards of the world for purity
and excellence.
MADE ONLY BY
W alter Baker & Co. Limited
DORCHESTER, MASS,
Established 1780
Co-operate with the
Housewife
Tell her about MAPLEINE
for Dainty New Desserts
and Syrup. She will real-
ize you are up-to-date, and
you will
Increase Yonr Sales
Order of your jobber or
Louis Hilfer Co.
4 Dock St., Chicago, II.
Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash.
Satisfy and Multiply
Flour Trade with
“Purity Patent” Flour
Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Rea & Witzig
PRODUCE
COMMISSION
MERCHANTS
104-106 West Market St.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Established 1873
Liberal shipments of Live Poul-
try wanted. and good prices are
being obtained. Fresh eggs more
plenty and selling lively at lower
prices.
Dairy and Creamery Butter of
all grades in demand. We solicit
your consignments, and promise
prompt returns.
Send for our weekly price cur-
rent or wire for special quota-
tions.
Refer you to Marine National
Bank of Buffalo. all Commercial
Agencies and to hundreds of
shippers everywhere.
SEEDS
Both Phones 1217
Can fill your orders for FIELD
SEEDS quickly at right prices.
MOSELEY BROTHERS
Established 1876
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
M. Piowaty & Sons
Receivers and Shippers of all Kinds of
Fruits and Vegetables
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Branch House: Muskegon, Mich.
Western Michigan’s Leading Fruit House
Come in and see us and be convinced
Car load lots or less.
139-141 So. Huron St.
WANT APPLES AND POTATOES
Write us what you have.
M. O. BAKER & CO.
We are now located in our own new building adjoining the new municipal wholesale city market
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Plans for Michigan Bankers Meeting
In June.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Bankers will be held in
Lansing in June and a large attend-
ance from all parts of the State is ex-
pected. The programme has not yet
been announced, but no doubt it will
include a review of the legislation en-
acted at the recent session of law-
makers, a discussion of Michigan’s
clumsy and as yet untried blue sky
law, and a consideration of the stand-
subject of currency reform
through congressional legislation, The
meeting will not be confined strictly
to business, as the Lansing bankers
and business men are planning to give
the visitors as good a time as possible
on the side and between sessions.
Association
ing
One of the important committees
ot the Association is that which deals
with agricultural and the farming in-
terests, and of which Robert D. Gra-
ham, of this city, is a member. This
committee does not make much noise
in the convention, but nevertheless
it has had much influence in the
State ir the matter of easier and bet-
ter financing of the farmers. This
matter of the farmer may not make
a strong appeal to the big city bank-
er, but in the smaller towns the bank-
ers fully realize the close relations
between agricultural and city prosper-
ity, and it may be said, without exag-
geration, that the bankers have done
as much and perhaps more in the ag-
ricultural uplift movement than any
other class. Their activity is not con-
fined to the mere dollar transactions,
but in many parts of the State the
banker is a leader in the movement
for better farming, as well as more
of it. This is especially true in the
fruit growing districts around Trav-
erse City, tributary to Ludington and
in the Kalamazoo district. In taking
an active and effective interest in
farming and farm promotion the
Michigan bankers are not alone. The
bankers are doing it all over the
country, in nearly every state, in
some states along similar lines as in
Michigan and in other states on new
lines. In Wisconsin the bankers
issue agricultural bulletins and dis-
tribute them through the banks and,
in addition, furnish the prizes for
seed contests and are active promot-
ers of the local, district and _ state
n Texas the State Associa-
tion has appointed a banker sub-chair-
and in seven
fairs. In
man in every county
counties demonstration work is car-
ried on, and this work is to be ex-
tended into every county in the State.
In Alabama the State bankers are
co-operating with farmers in carrying
out a plan for agricultural education
and development. In Illinois farm
demonstrators have been established
in many of the counties and the bank-
ers are backing a bill appropriating
funds for educational and vocational
work. Kansas is moving along sim-
lar lines. The bankers of Minnesota
held a conference with the farmers of
Minnesota and of North and South
Dakota last fall for the discussion of
agricultural topics, and an appropria-
tion has been secured from the Min-
nesota Legislature of $50,000 to carry
on demonstration work. New Jersey
has created a State farm demonstra-
tor with a deputy in every county to
advise the farmers and to help them.
Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,
Idaho, Oregon, South Carolina, Ten-
nessee and several of the other states
are promoting better agricultural
methods in various ways and encour-
aging the farmer along educational
lines, and in every instance the bank-
ers of the State are backing the
measures, both with their influence
and money. This work may not be
entirely unselfish. A poor farmer is
a poor customer for any bank, while
a progressive and prosperous farmer
is a good thing for everybody. The
banks are interested in having as
many good farmers in his district as
possible, and this is why the bank-
ers are doing all they can to help
the upliit. They may not be unselfish,
but what they are doing is a mighty
good thing for the country and will
add to the general prosperity.
The death of Lester J. Rindge
leaves vacancies on the boards of the
Grand Rapids National City, the City
Trust and Savings, and
Rapids
the Grand
Banks. The banks
will take appropriate action commem-
orating his memory and services, but
it is unlikely that the vacancies will
be filled immediately,
Savings
Louis Kanitz has been elected Pres-
ident of the Union National Bank of
Muskegon to succeed Wm. Brinan,
deceased. Mr. Kanitz has been a di-
rector 1a the Bank and its Vice-Pres-
ident since its organization in 1889.
The plan for the merger of the
Union Railway Gas and Electric, the
Springfield Light and the Michigan
Railways companies into the Com-
monwealth Power Company and Light
Company, announced April 26, has
been declared operative. The plan
provides for an immediate increase of
the Commonwealth capitalization to
$16,000,000 preferred, and $15,500,000
common stock and $5,500,000 common
stock to be issued later, and also for
$7,500,000 short term bonds convert-
May 21, 1913
GRAND RAPIDS
NATIONAL CITY BANK
Resources $8,500,000 :
Our active connections with large
banks in financial centers and ex-
tensive banking acquaintance
throughout Western Michigan, en-
able us to offer exceptional banking
service to
Merchants, Treasurers, Trustees,
Administrators and Individuals
who desire the best returns in in-
terest consistent with safety, avail-
ability and strict confidence.
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CORRESPONDENCE PROMPTLY REPLIED TO
Fourth National Bank
Savings United Commercial
Deposits States: Deposits
Depositary
Per Cent Per Cent
Interest Paid Interest Paid
on on
Savings Certificates of
Deposits Deposit °
Left
Compounded One Year
Semi-Annually
Surplus
Capital and Undivided
Stock Profits
$300,000 $250,000
24% Every Six Months
Is what we pay at our office on the Bonds we sell.
$100.00 Bonds—5% a Year
THE MICHIGAN TRUST CO. e
\
We can safely invest as low as
10% to net 6% or better
and in local securities with established earnings.
They are saleable should you want money.
Wouldn't it be well to consult with us?
Local Securities Department
HOWE, CORRIGAN & COMPANY
533-535 Michigan Trust Building
Grand Rapids, Mich *
Citizens 1122 Bell M 229
May 21, 1913
able into preferred stock after three
years. The proceeds from the bond
issue are to be used in building the
Kalamazoo interurban, buying the
Michigan Central branch from Alle-
gan to Battle Creek and electrifying
it and acquiring the Manistee water
power and development. The bond
issue was. subject to subscription
rights to the Commonwealth and Un-
ion stockholders to 30 per cent. of
their holdings and a high tribute to
the confidence of the investing public
in the company has been shown by
the fact that about 80 per cent. of the
rights were exercised. This is the
more remarkable when the conditions
of the financial market are consid-
ered and the fate that has befallen
some of the financing of the big rail-
road companies. The bonds not sub-
scribed for have been taken over by
a syndicate and will be marketed at
97°4, or 2% points above the subscrip-
tions. The success of this financing
will ensure the continuation of the de-
velopment work along interurban and
power lines in Michigan and thus will
be a good thing for the State.
Henry Idema is. planning a two
months’ automobile trip abroad this
summer, leaving in June with G. Von
Platten as a traveling companion.
An added cause of hesitation is the
new tariff and its possible effect upon
values. It is well understood that
the bill as passed by the House will
seriously affect many special inter-
ests, and there is strong hope that
the extreme cuts will be modified in
the Senate before the bill becomes
law. Business as a whole will not be
largely affected by the new bill. The
financial situation abroad has visibly
bettered owing to further improve-
ment in international relations. That
unsatisfactory monetary conditions
are not confined to the United States
is shown by similar situation prevail-
ing in Europe. A number of govern-
ment loans have recently met with
poor success, the latest example being
the Brazilian $55,000,000 loan, of
which the underwriters, the Roth-
childs, were compelled to take 90 per
cent. at a discount. The European
financiai situation is materially affect-
ed by payments for the Balkan war,
which are likely to result in at least
$500,000,000 new state issues. Added
to this is the tremendous burden of
armed peace, which a_ prominent
French economist has recently esti-
mated costs the principal govern-
ments of Europe not less than two
billion dollars per annum. Here is
an enormous wastage of capital, not
to speak of the two and a half million
men employed in the armies. and
navies of Europe and thus withdrawn
from productive occupations. The re-
sumption of gold exports to Paris
attracted some local attention, but as
this was part of a transaction to
strengthen the Bank of France and
does not mean any general efflux at
this season, it should not be regarded
as particularly important. A favor-
able feature and a good offset to
these conditions will be the gradual
release of the $3,000,000,000 of hoard-
ings that followed the Balkan war.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
George M. Reynolds, President of
the Continental and Commercial Na-
tional Bank, Chicago, believes the
present is no time for pessimism. He
says the bright spots in business pre-
dominate and trade is not experienc-
ing an unreasonable or unseasonable
recession. ‘‘Bonds and stocks are at
such a low level,” he said, “and the
country is so rich from its crop
yields that doubt should not exist in
the minds of people. concerning the
future of this country. Tariff chang-
es may cause a moderate halt in busi-
ness, but that will not be a halt. The
country is in a position to stand a
revision of the tariff and there is no
ground for apprehension. Our re-
serves are now in satisfactory condi-
tion, and 1 feel the banks will work
through the coming autumn without
serious disturbance, provided the pres-
ent policy of prudence in borrowing
and in lending is continued. Money
may grow a little easier, but will, I
think, be fairly close throughout the
remainder of the year. It is possible
that certain disturbing factors, to the
extent that they have contributed to
conservatism in business, may prove
of general benefit. Money has been
too easy. By this I mean promotions
have been facilitated to an undue ex-
tent, resulting in an output of secur-
ities on which banks are not warrant-
ed in extending much credit. We are,
however, trying to help along this
situation, though undeniably it is a
time for the banks to be less liberal
in their acceptance of security for
loans. Rates will remain relatively
high, Banks must have their day in
the general business reckoning, and
the present is a season for adjustment
of credits on conservative lines.”
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Quotations on Local Stocks and Bonds.
Bid. Asked.
Am. Gas & Elec. Co., Com. 75 80
Am. Gas & Elec. Co., Pfd. 43 45
Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 371 377
Am. Light & Trac. Co., Pfd. 106 108
Am. Public Utilities, Com. 60 . 62
Am. Public Utilities, Pfd. 73 76
Can. Puget Sound Lbr. 1% 2
Cities Service Co., Com. 105
Cities Service Co.. Pfd. 84 86
Citizens’ Telephone 93 94
Commercial Savings Bank 215
Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Com. 64 67
Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt. pfd. 85 87
Elec. Bond Deposit, Pfd. 71 75
Fourth National Bank 212
Furniture City Brewing Co. 591% «60
Globe Knitting Works. Com. 25 140
Globe Knitting Works, Pfd. 100
G. Brewing Co. 149 «155
G. R. Nat'l City Ban.. 180 + =©181
G. R. Savings Bank 223 0=—-225
Kent State Bank 266
Lincoln Gas & Elec. Co. 3 34
Macey Co., Com. 200
Macey Company, Oe 95 97
Michigan Sugar Co. 37
Michigan State Tele. ee Pta. 100 «101%
National Grocer Co., Pfd. 88 90
Old National Bank
Pacific Gas & Elec. Co.,
Peoples Savings Bank
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Com. 19 21
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Com. 17 19
Utilities Improvement Co.. Pfd. 70 74
Utilities Improvement Co., Com. 57 59
Utilities Improvement Co., Com. 60 62
United Light & Ry., Com. 74% 76
United Light & Ry., 1st Pfd. 78 80
United Light & Ry., 2nd lid.
: 207
Com. 49% 50%
250
(old) 5 77
United Light & Ry., 2nd Pfd.
(new) 1 13
Bonds.
Chattanooga Gas Co. 1927 95 97
Denver Gas & Blec. Co. 1949 9534 96%
Flint Gas Co 1924 96 97%
= Edison Co. 1916 98% 100
Gas Light Co. 1915 9942 100%
@ %. Railway Co. 1916 100 §=101
Kalamazoo Gas Co. 1920 95 10
Saginaw City Gas Co. 1916 9
*Ex-dividend.
May 21, 1913.
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The man who spends much time in
wishing he had a private office is
usually a man who wouldn’t know
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Cleanliness and Comfort in Rest
Room and Lavatory.
Written for the Tradesman.
“The merchant is not the boss of
the store. The real boss is the cus-
tomer. Her word is law, her will is
law. If there are no customers there
is no business, no business means no
store, no store means no clerks, and
so on. The basis of all things, as
applied to stores, is the customer.”
The idea contained in this para-
graph quoted from “Signs of the
Times,” an advertising journal, is
true and well expressed. The cus-
tomer certainly is the real boss of
every store and her will is or should
be law. But her manner of expressing
her will, unlike that of the usual man-
ager or boss so called, is indirect.
Ordinarily she does not tell any mer-
chant what to do—she just goes
where they do things in a way that
pleases her. She does not correct
mistakes in management—she simply
takes her patronage, or as much of
it as possible, where the obnoxious
mistakes do not occur.
Apply this principle to the women’s
rest room and lavatory. In every
large dry goods or department store
the question “Where is your Wom-
en’s Rest Room?” is very frequently
asked of the floorwalkers and of the
salespeople at the various counters
and tables. “What is your Women’s
Rest Room?” is a question which
every enterprising merchant may well
ask himself; for the rest room and
lavatory are prominent among the
adjuncts which place a store in a
iavorable light or the reverse with
women.
The lavatory is really of greater im-
portance than the rest room. The
following conversation between two
dainty, refined, well-educated women
is illuminative:
“Isn't this lavatory just exquisitely
clean and so well appointed! It is
rare indeed to see one so nice.”
“It is the best in the city I really
think. At R~-’s they have one that
is fairly good, though not quite so
perfect as this. I always make it a
point to come in here to freshen up
when I am down town for several
hours shopping. At some of the
stores—even the large ones where
one would think they could afford as
good as there is—these places are un-
speakably shabby and poorly kept.
Foul-smelling toilets, messy bowls,
and littered, dirty floors are, so far
as my observation goes, the rule
rather than the exception.” :
This conversation occurred in a
large city, a city noted for its fine
stores and the volume of its retail
trade, one where at least a dozen
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large stores are competing for the
favor of customers.
The layatory in question is certain-
ly a gem and would bear comparison
with the very best to be found in the
most faultlessly
Itbraries, stores
equipped depots,
or other public in-
stitutions, or in fact with the bath
room in a well-kept private house.
It evidently was planned to satisfy
the requirements of fastidious wom-
en and two aims were kept sharply
‘in view—to offer every convenience
and to maintain perfect cleanliness.
It is clean, clean, clean. The plumb-
ing is the best—there is no odor to
offend the most sensitive nose. The
walis up five or six feet from the
floor are tiled with white glazed tile;
the floor, which is scrubbed every
night, is of unglazed tile.
good mirrors,
There are
hanging
wraps, and stands for holding pack-
ages and hand bags. Above the bowls
are contrivances holding semi-liquid
soap, of which each user obtains just
what she needs and no more. These
little fixtures make for both tidiness
and economy. The bowls are fre-
quently washed out by the attendant
and plenty of clean towels are pro-
vided.
I have before touched upon the
subject of rest rooms and lavatories
and have urged the merchants in the
smaller cities and towns to provide
these accommodations.
hooks for
Perhaps so
much elegance as that just described
can not well be afforded by any but
a very large establishment; but the
same principles of cleanliness and
convenience may be carried out in a
small room with linoleum on _ the
floor and walls enamel-painted or cov-
ered with white or light-colored oil-
cloth.
in the large city store where a
considerable number of women and
children may be in the wash room
at the same time, great care should
be taken to have all so arranged that
escape would be easy in case of fire.
There are stores in which the toilet
roomis are reached by a narrow passage
which may be up one, two, or three
steps from the adjoining room. - +
The A. B. C. of 5, 10 and 25 Cent
Goods.
Written for the Tradesman.
Did you ever see the crowds that a
syndicate store draws, Mondays and
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thurs-
days, Fridays and Saturdays?
Did it ever strike you that these
evidences of business done and profits
made could be reproduced in your
own store?
These crowds are not composed of
people who are constitutionally un-
able to buy goods outside a syndicate
store. But they are financially unable
to buy goods from anyone who does-
n’t specialize in popular prices.
Of course, a department of goods
to be sold for puny nickels, dimes and
quarters doesn’t loom very large to
some merchants, but it would loom
large enough to eclipse their own
business if one of these “chicken
feed” stores should bob up _ next
door.
These syndicate stores have a
habit of “bobbing up” in just those
towns where merchants show indif-
ference to 5, 10 and 25 cent depart-
ments.
These “specialists” have their eyes
fixed on coins of small denomination
and a town whose merchants scorn
small sales, or merely avoid going
after them, are usually the favorite
camping grounds of the “small sales
store.”
By the way, nickel and dime sales
don’t seem to “sicken” the cigar store
chains; street car companies manage
to stagger along; and the last finan-
cial statements of the syndicate have
a mighty profitable sound.
In fact, a great many shrewd people
have concluded that the nickel, dime
and quarter spender is a pretty good
thing to go after.
One of the principal recommenda-
tions is based on the fact that it often
changes the store installing it from
a slow turn establishment to one that
turns its stocks quickly. The goods
that go with 5, 10 and 25 cent de-
partments not only sell at a profit,
but have a habit of injecting ginger
into all the lines which come into
contact with them.
Here are two illustrations that need
no explanation:—they carry their own
record with them:
1. Scouts for the syndicate usually
“pass up” a town the stores of which
possess strong 5, 10 and 25 cent de-
partments.
2. An Eastern department store has
even gone so far as to install a com-
plete variety store in its main build-
ing.
Any merchant can imitate this store
by putting in a small replica of the
conventional 5, 10 and 25 cent estab-
lishment.
Paraphrasing the words of a famous
advertiser, “It will do the rest.”
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“How did Biggs take the news of
his wife’s running away?”
“Calmly enough. He seemed glad
that the man she ran away with was
Grafimann.”
“Why so?”
*Graftman, he said, was never
known to return anything yet.”
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It Is Ever Thus.
Just as soon as a man succeeds in
getting on Easy street somebody
comes along and begins to tear up
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LESTER J. RINDGE
Died May 15, 1913.
With heavy hearts we announce the death of our honored associate,
Lester J. Rindge, who devoted forty-nine consecutive years to the
upbuilding of the business of this house.
all who knew him as a devoted father, a loving husband, a zealous
business man and a patriotic citizen.
ment, rare executive ability and an unusually analytical mind, he
leaves an indelible impress upon every interest with which he was
identified. No eulogy can increase the lustre of his name or add to
the priceless heritage he has left us in the record of a well-spent life.
Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd.
His daily life impressed
Possessing exceptional judg-
Lester J. Rindge, prominent busi-
ness man and public spirited citizen,
died suddenly last Thursday morning
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Henry T. Heald, 538 Madison avenue
5S. E. Although he had been in poor
health for a number of months death
came uiexpectedly. Mr. Rindge was
in his usual state of health on Wed-
nesday and retired Wednesday night
without any appearance of illness.
Sometime during the night he passed
away, and was found lifeless in the
morning when an attempt was made
to awaken him.
The attending physician stated that
death was due to a blood clot on the
brain. It is thought that the death
of his business partner, William
Logie, last fall which was a great
shock to him, was instrumental in
breaking down his health. He had
been associated with Mr. Logie for
many years, and a strong bond of
friendship existed between them.
Deceased was senior member of
the Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co.,
Ltd., which remained his principal
business interest to the time of his
death. Mr. Rindge was President of
the Grand Rapids Paper Box Co.,
and Vice President of the Grand
Rapids Railway Co. He served as
director in the following institutions:
Grand Rapids Gas Light Co., Citi-
zens’ Telephone Co., Grand Rapids
National City Bank, City Trust and
Savings Bank, and the Grand Rapids
Savings Bank. He was the first
President of the Grand Rapids
Boulevard Association, which he
likewise founded, and aside from
being first Vice President of the
Board of Trade (now the Association
of Commerce) he was one of its or-
ganizers.
Mr. Rindge was one of the board
of directors of the U. B. A. hospital,
in which he was deeply interested.
He paid frequent visits to the Hos-
pital, even during the last months of
his life, when he was unable to de-
vote the customary time to business
cares, owing to failing health. For
several years he was a member of
the Board of Police and Fire Com-
missioners, as well as of the Park
and Cemetery Commission. He was
also a director of the West Michigan
State Fair Association.
Deceased is survived by two chil-
dren, Harry C. Rindge, 608 Windsor
terrace, S. E., and Mrs. Henry T.
Heald. Also a brother, William
Rindge, 227 Charles avenue.
Funeral services were held at the
Heald residence on Madison avenue
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Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. con-
ducted by Dr. Dan F. Bradley and
Dr. Edwin W. Bishop. The remains
were interred in the family lot in
Oakhill cemetery.
Biographical.
Lester J. Rindge was born 71 years
ago in Sherburne, Chenango county,
N. Y. Coming to Grand Rapids
when this whole section was a verit-
able wilderness, he literally “grew up
with the country.” During his boy-
hood educational advantages were
very limited, even in the older sec-
tions of the country, and on the fron-
tier were the crudest of the crude.
Not only so, but work was the order
of the day, for boys as well as for
men, and at an early age, Lester
Rindge left school and entered the
employ of Smith & Waterman, gro-
cers on Canal street, about opposite
Huron street. A few months later a
better position was offered him by
John W. Peirce, general dealer, cor-
ner of Erie and Canal streets, and he
accepted, remaining with Mr. Peirce
eight years. This was his last situa-
tion, as at the end of that time he en-
tered into partnership with George
Whitley, under the style of Whitley
& Rindge, for the sale of boots and
shoes. For fifteen months the firm
dia business in a small wooden build-
ing, 20x40 feet in dimensions, located
where the Nelson & Matter Furniture
Co.’s showrooms now are. They then
moved to the Clancy block, 8 Canal
street, and the firm name was changed
to Whitley, Rindge & Co., John
Bertsch and Isaac Cappon being ad-
mitted to partnership. A small job-
bing trade had been done by the
firm for some time, but now they em-
barked in the wholesale business in
earnest, and, in the spring of 1866,
Mr, Rindge went on the road. He
was the first traveling shoe salesman
out of the Grand Rapids market. In
January, 1867, the business was re-
moved to 16 Canal street, where
Rindge, Krekel & Co. are now lo-
cated. One year later Mr. Whitley
retired and the firm became L. J.
Rindge & Co. In 1870 Messrs. Cap-
pon and Bertsch sold their interests
in the business to Christian Bertsch,
Frederick Krekel, Godfrey and J.
George Kalmbach, the firm name re-
maining the same until 1878, when the
wholesale department was removed to
the corner of Pearl and Campau
streets, and the firm style was
changed to Rindge, Bertsch & Co.
This copartnership continued until
January, 1893, when Christian Bertsch
retired, and the firm name _ was
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changed to Rindge, Kalmbach & Co
The name was subsequently changed
to Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co.,
Ltd., and for the past fifteen years it
as occupied its own building, six
stories and basement, at the intersec-
tion of Fulton, Ionia and
streets. :
The firm of Whitley, Rindge & Co.
were the first shoe jobbers in Grand
Rapids, and among the very first to
engage in the jobbing trade in any
line in the city. L. H. Randall &
Co, were jobbers of groceries at that
time, but no member of that firm as
then constituted is now in the busi-
The late Charles N., Shepard
had quite a wholesale drug trade, but
he is gone, and the personnel of the
house is completely changed. W. D.
Foster did a wholesale as well as a
retail hardware business, but he, too,
has long ago joined the great Silent
Majority, and none of the old firm are
how in business, whereas Mr. KKindge
had been for forty-nine consecutive
years actively engaged in the
business.
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Though the style of the
firm has changed several times Mr.
Kindge’s name has never been elimi-
nated irom it, and has always occu-
pied a prominent place in it,
In an interview with the writer in
1894, Mr, Rindge remarked: “Not
many of the old timers are now in
business, and many of them have
closed their earthly books of account
altogether. 1 can hardly be called an
ola man yet, but it makes me feel
somewhat patriarchal to remember
that 1 antedate almost every active
business man in the city. Those were
the days that tried a man’s mettle,
and brought out the best that was in
him. No loafer or shirk could pos-
sibly succeed, for work—and the hard-
est kind of work—was the’ common
lot of all. ‘Rough and ready’ was
the watchword to which all answered.
We were compelled to pull together
in those days, too, and our customers
were our personal friends. The coun-
try was new, the roads were bad, and
the people poor, and it was often nec-
essary to trust much to the innate
honesty of human nature; and_ this
much can be said, we were seldom
deceived. Let me give you an illus-
tration of how some men did business
in those early days: One evening,
when on one of my trips, I got stuck
in the mud, and was compelled to put
up for the night at the log house of
a settler. After supper, we sat down
for a chat before going to bed, and
my host asked me if I knew W. D.
Foster. On my answering in the af-
firmative, he said; ‘I came to this
country with next to nothing. We
had no stove, and no plow—and badly
needed both—and had no money to
buy either. Finally, I made up my
mind to go to Grand Rapids and see
what I could do. I went to Mr. Fos-
ter and told him just how I was sit-
uated. After looking at me a mo-
ment he said, ‘My friend, you must
have a cook stove and you must have
a plow—take them along with you,
and pay me when you can. Did Mr.
Foster get his money? Of course he
did, and that man would never have
looked an honest man in the face
again if he had bought hardware of
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
any one else. This is only one of
many proofs of his kindness of heart,
which made him honored and loved
wherever he was known.
“In the fall of 1866, shortly after I
went on the road, the roads were the
worst ever known in this section, Be-
tween here and Newaygo they were
exceptionally bad, and‘no livery man
would let out a buggy. I left Grand
Rapids one morning in a skeleton
wagon with a team attached and
reached Newaygo at 5 o’clock in the
evening. The stage left Grand Rapids
about the same time I did, and about
11 o'clock at night the passengers
walked into the hotel, tired out and
covered with mud. The stage had
broken down about twelve miles out
and they had come in on foot. I was
accompanied on that trip by Julius
Houseman, one of the jolliest and
most entertaining traveling compan-
ions who ever lived. We got an early
start from Newaygo the morning
after our arrival, and reached Croton
in time to finish our business before
dinner. After dinner we started for
Big Rapids. About dark we reached
a place then called Rogers, but now
known as Mecosta, and put up for
the night. The ‘hotel’ was a log build-
ing, and we occupied a room with
twenty others, sleeping in bunks. We
left Rogers at 6 o'clock the next
morning and reached Big Rapids. at
3 in the afternoon, having made six
miles in that time, and for a mile and
a half of that distance the road was
good. The mud reached to the horses’
collars, and much of the time we
couldi't see the axles. A tug came
unhitched on that trip, and I, as the
younger man of the two, thought I
ought to get out and fasten it. Mr.
Houseman thought that was hardly
fair, and we sat there and argued
about who should get out in the mud
and hitch that tug. It wasn’t a very
desirable job, and so I finally suggest-
ed that we draw cuts. Julius pre-
pared the cuts and we drew—I
hitched the tug. On another occasion
I was accompanied by Julius House-
man, D, K. Hurlburt and C. M. Good-
rich. Night overtook us between Cro-
ton and Big Rapids, at a hotel called
Mitchell’s. It was two log houses,
side by side, with a passage way be-
tween, one side occupied by the fam-
ily and the other by guests. The
sleeping apartments were above the
dining room and were ranged around
the room like stalls in a stable. The
tables were simply rough boards
guiltless of tablecloths or napkins.
Rude benches were the seats. Our
evening repast that night was inter-
rupted by Charley Goodrich, who sud-
denly dropped his knife and _ fork.
threw up both hands, opened his
mouth, which was noted for its ca-
pacity, and excitedly exclaimed,
‘Look! look! at the same time point-
ing to the other side of the room.
Looking in the direction he indicated
we discovered the corpse of a man,
from which our waitress had, in pass-
ing, carelessly pulled the covering in
such a manner as to expose the lower
limbs. Did it spoil our appetite? Not
Any man who could eat at
that ranch was not likely to have his
digestion impaired by such a trivial
much.
May 21, 1913
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occurrence as discovering a corpse in
the room. D. K. Hurlburt and myself
put up one night at a certain hostelry
in Holland. The door of our room
had no lock, but there were two beds
in the room and we put one of them
against the door in such a manner as
to fasten it securely. That night the
landlord and another man_ robbed
everybody in the house except us two.
We heard them at our door, but they
could not get in and we_ escaped.
They skipped to Chicago that night
and were never heard of again. You
see, we would sell on one trip and
collect the next, and it was no uncom-
mon occurrence for me to be on the
road on a dark night with
thousand dollars on my person. I
carried a pistol, But I was afraid it
might go off and injure me, and so I
put it away down in the bottom of the
box under the seat. I never had oc-
casion to use it, and I was on the
road sixteen years when the country
was at its wildest. Speaking of be-
ing on the road, for a good share of
the time I traveled for the house, I
had to get out my own orders, packing
and shipping them myself when I got
home. But the first thing I did when
I got home was to go out into the
woodshed, strip and turn my pockets
inside out, and get rid of the bedbugs
and other acquisitions which I was
almost sure to pick up, especially on
my Northern trips. Those log hous-
es were -full of them. My wife would-
n't let me into the house until she
was sure I was rid of them.
“Grand Rapids had only one rail-
road when we began jobbing, most of
our goods coming across the lake
from Chicago to Grand Haven and
up Grand River to this place. If we
were in a hurry for them we _ had
them shipped by rail to Kalamazoo
and teamed the rest of the distance.”
several
Mr. Rindge enjoyed in a high re-
gree the esteem and contidemce of
the business community. His word
was as good as his bond. He was
beloved and honored by his associ-
ates and employes, and respected by
all who knew him. A good judge
of men, he gathered about him a
working force which for skill and ef-
ficiency would hardly be surpassed.
Mr. Rindge was in no sense either
a club or society man.
He was an excellent credit man and
was seldom called upon to compro-
mise a claim or close out a debtor.
He was always a leading spirit in
having for
every public movement
its object the enlargement of trade,
the improvement of the city or the
enhancement of the morals of the
people. Whether the work in hand
was the raising of funds for a hos-
whether
the duties to be performed were in
line with his avocation or were vol-
pital or a fair association;
untarily assumed for “the good of the
cause,’ he never failed to do his full
share nor to do it well.
tive to a marked degree and accus-
tomed to carefully consider
step he took, he acted with prompt-
ness and precision and his decisions
were invariably in line with progress
and good business policy.
Conserva-
every
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Personal Appreciation of the Late
Mr, Rindge.
Lester J. Rindge was a citizen in
the broadest sense and wrought well
for the public good. He encouraged
our manfacturing and commercial en-
terprises, fostered our industries, and
heiped to build and maintain our
schools and churches, not for the sake
of policy but from a purely unselfish
motive—a sincere interest in the pub-
He was, first of all, an
honest man, upright, unaffected, sin-
Cere:
lic welfare.
There was no duplicity in his
makeup. Ie was the same every day
and everywhere. In his home, in his
office, in his factory, among his busi-
ness associates, and away from home
in distant cities, he was the same
frank, honest, dependable man.
Ile was a man of admirable mental
poise. fle was resolute without stub-
bornness, and deferential without un-
due pliancy. Misfortune did not
greatly depress him and success pro-
duced ne undue elation. His conserv-
ward his business associates, just and
Magnanimous toward his employes
and kind and courteous to all. He
was popular, not because he sought
moral worth. He would have been
to bese but solely because of his great
so anywhere. Had he chosen to take
up his residence and prosecute his
labors in a great metropolis, where
genius is far more in evidence and
competition a hundred-fold more keen
than in a city like ours, such were
his abilities that he must, nevertheless,
have stamped the impress of his per-
sonality upon that larger community,
even as he has done here. A large
hearted, well rounded, manly man,
from his youth he enjoyed the un-
bounded confidence of all who knew
him and he won a place in our hearts
of which we ourselves were scarcely
aware!
He was a man of ideals, and his
ideals were noble, one of the world’s
practical dreamers, whose “heads are
full of empires and whose hearts are
full of millenniums.” His civic pride
and philanthropic spirit made him
ve
Portrait of Mr. Rindge, made from photograph taken twenty
years ago.
atism was far from inertia, while
his progressive ideas never ran to ex-
cessive enthusiasm. A man of fine
balance of judgment and_ excellent
self-possession, again he was a man
of unusual breadth. He was a citizen
of the world, in politics broader than
any party, in teligion larger than any
sect. Yet his was not the breadth of
shallow indifference. He had_ prin-
ciples and was not ashamed of them;
he had convictions and they were the
convictions of a man. He was a lib-
eral man—liberal toward the ideas of
others, their principles or prejudices,
their convictions or idiosyncrasies. He
never judged hastily nor rashly con-
demned. Liberal with his money,
every worthy public institution in our
city can bear witness to substantial
favors received at his hand, often in
the very nick of time.
He was modest and deferential to-
yearn for a better day in the State of
his adoption, a day of broader vision
and more intense commercial, intel-
lectual and spiritual activity among
the people. And he not only dreamed
and planned but he also lived and
wrought, in a whole souled, practical
way, for the attainment of these ends.
Concerning his own persénal plans,
he long ago had a vision, not a vis-
ion of fabulous wealth, of frenzied
finance, or of slavish devotion to the
endless grind of money-getting, but
a vision of a competency accumulated,
and a life of quiet retirement, a man-
hood spent in service and an old age
crowned with happiness.
In the midst of his dreams his use-
fulness and his achievements, the
grim reaper came, with relentless
hand, and plucked away his spirit.
His seemingly untimely death fills us
with amazement and sorrow; but our
21
brother is not dead. His memory and
influence live here in our hearts, and
his spirit lives in glory everlasting.
When the day goes out through the
sunset gates and night wraps its
somber mantle about the world we do
not despair. We know that the sun
will rise in the morning and bathe
all the hilltops with his splendor. So
as we watch our brother go out
through the gates of sunset, let us not
sigh and grow sick at heart, but let
us trust and hope and wait for the
morning, when we shall meet him
again, where the Sun of Immortality
bathes all the heavenly hilltops in a
blaze of glory!
Farewell, brother; farewell! May
the flowers bloom sweetly around thy
narrow bed and angels guard thy
sacred dust until the morning! We
will hold thee fast in our affections
while we walk the ways of men, and
meet thee where the sunlight never
Goodbye. Ss.
—_+--__
Give Credit for Ideas.
[ remember reading a poem once
in which certain types of architecture
were referred to as “dreams wrought
This seemed me-e
Poetry at first but as | think of it
now it seems to be the truth.
Take that tall office building yon-
der, with the light gleaming from
every window, tier on tier All that
was once the dream of one man. Be-
fore the first stone was laid, before
the architect’s plans were drawn,
there was a time when one man said
to another, “Let us put up a great
building there.” And before that
first audible expression the building
existed only as an idea, a_ thought,
or I might say, a dream, in the mind
of that man. He walked its corridors
when it was still a dream. But now
it is a “dream wrought in masonry.”
fades!
in masonry.”
bridge, railroad,
steamship, machine, book, organiza-
tion, or
Every building,
government in the world—
every one-—was once an unexpressed
thought like that.
Great credit: is due those who. {rst
conceive the ideas that underlie the
world’s work. Frank Stowell.
—_+-~<+____
China Wants Ideas for New Alpha-
bet.
Suggestions for a new alphabet
have been called for by the Chinese
republic with the intention of adopt-
What is
signs which are simple
in form, as few as possible, and ade-
quate to express all the various
sounds commonly used in the princi-
pal Chinese dialects.” A conference
of learned mandarins was recently
called by the minister of education to
work out the alphabet, but the schol-
ars finally agreed that they could not
solve the problem alone, and made
the recommendation for a_ public
competition.
ing the one which is best.
wanted are “
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Treasurer—William Moore,
The Proper Purpose of An Account-
ing System.
There is a live, industrious mer-
chant in St. Louis whose business
had been constantly growing for sev-
eral years. He is a resourceful man
and devotes his entire time and
thought to making his business grow.
The net results of his efforts were
very meager. His stock was not in-
creasing to any extent, and his bank
balance seldom got above the danger
line.
He knew he was doing a good busi-
ness. His expenses were moderate
and carefully watched. He was not
getting the profit he should.
He couldn't tell where the trouble
lay.
One day he decided to talk the
whole thing over with his jobber—
one of the largest wholesale hardware
men in the country and ask him
where and what the trouble was. In
explaining the situation, he said:
“T have done my best to follow
what I believe to be the best business
methods I have been careful in my
buying, and devoted my time selling
goods which pay me a profit on both
my capital and salesmanship.
“T have tried to create sture char-
acter and believe I have been success-
ful in so doing. The people in my
community have given me the best
evidence of it by trading with me.
“My business, as you know, has
been increasing year by year, and
more than my expenses have in-
creased. So, it seems to me that I
ought to be making more money than
I am.
“As you have been helpful to me in
many ways, I have brought my books
to you and ask you to show me if
there isn’t a screw loose somewhere,
and if so, where is it.”
Now the jobber knew that very
many business failures are due to a
want of right methods of bookkeep-
ing, accounting methods that really
show the actual results of efforts
expended, so he said:
“All right, let’s look your accounts
over and find out what we can from
them. How does your gross profit
compare with a year ago? Are you
averaging more or less than you did?”
“I don’t know,” was the reply. “I
don’t know any way I can find that
out.”
“How about your expenses,” con-
tinued the jobber, “have they in-
creased out of proportion to other
things?”
To this the merchant could only
say, “I don’t know.”
On looking over his accounts it was
found that they had not been kept
in such a way as to give him that in-
formation. Still. he had been doing
more work than was necessary to
keep his books correctly.
Where the money had come from,
or where it had gone, or in what re-
spect he had fallen back, there was
nothing to indicate.
His accounts didn’t account.
More work had been done than
would have been necessary to show
these essential things thoroughly.
To help out his customer the jobber
loaned him a bookkeeper, who knew
both the principles of accounting and
the details of his business. This
bookkeeper was able to apply the sim-
ple methods of one to the requir-
ments of the other. He made the
accounts account as they should.
The merchant learned that good ac-
counting is as important as careful
buying and skilled selling. He has
found it worth while to give his at-
tention to the matter of accounts.
When he began to do this and had
his books kept in a way to show him
the results of his efforts, he began
to be prosperous. He was very much
surprised to find how good bookkeep-
ing helped him to make his business
profitable.
And he also found that good book-
keeping does not mean complicated
accounting and a jumble of figures
hard to understand, as he had always
supposed.
Good accounting can be none the
less simple accounting. Right meth-
ods are more simple than those he
had been using, which failed to per-
form the chief function of accounts.
To keep customer’s accounts cor-
rectly is only a minor part of book-
keeping. To tell the story of what
the merchant ought to know about
his business to enable him to get the
best results, is the chief function of
accounts.
In order to know the actual results
of his efforts, it is essential that he
not only have reports of the condi-
tion of his business once a week or
once a month, but that he have full
and complete details before him every
day.
By means of daily stock reports he
now knows all times just how much
stock he has. This knowledge he
finds of great aid in buying.
His system tells him on what lines
he makes his best profits, and which
of his clerks is selling the most profit-
able goods.
He is certain when he closes up
and goes home that no goods have
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GONE BEYOND. of the best posted dry goods men in quet for John Q. Adams were listened will be quick to see and ready to
Joseph J. Finckler, the Veteran Dry
Goods Salesman.
Joseph J. Finckler, the veteran dry
died at his home,
443 lirst street, last Saturday after-
noon. He was taken ill last October
and did not start out on the road
again until March, when he was
caught in a storm at Suttons Bay and
contracted a hard cold which settled
on his iungs. Death was due to a
The end
He was
around the house Saturday afternoon
and partook of food and chatted with
the family. Within half an hour he
became seriously ill and passed away
without pain or struggle.
Mr. Finckler was born in
goods salesman,
complication of diseases.
was not expected so soon.
Grand
Rapids, Sept. 16, 1856. His father and
mother were both natives of Germany,
his father having been one of the pio-
neer retail grocers of Grand Rapids,
located for many
street. Mr.
Canal
attended St.
years on
Finckler
Mary's school and finished his school
days with a term at Swensburg’s Busi-
ness College. He then went to work
in his father’s grocery store, where
he remained two years. Preferring
the dry goods trade, he entered the
retail dry goods store of William Kra-
mer, on Canal street, where he re-
mained twelve years. He then went
to the Springs Dry Goods Co., where
he had charge of the cloth depart-
ment. He was soon promoted to the
position of traveling salesman, taking
Western Michigan for his territory.
fle was with the Spring house seven-
teen consecutive years, remaining
there until twelve years ago, when he
resigned to accept a similar position
with Burnham, Stoepel & Co., of De-
troit.
Mr. Finckler was married June 20,
1886, to Miss Mary Lamparter. They
have had five boys as follows: Edwin,
26 years of age, who is married and
lives in the same house with his par-
ents: Joseph, who died at the age of
3% years; Richard, 20 years old, Leon,
18 years and George, 15 years old.
The family have resided for twenty-
two years at 443 First street.
Mr. Finckler was a member of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip, the U.
C. T.. Western Commercial Travelers’
Association and the Arbeiter Society.
tle was a life-long member of St.
Mary’s Catholic church, where the
funeral was held yesterday, the in-
terment being in Mt. Calvary ceme-
tery. The active pall-bearers were
Frank Elston, Sidney Pixley, Joseph
Major, Fred W. Wurzburg, Jr., Geo.
F. Owen and William Holden.
Mr. Finckler was a quiet, unassum-
ing man, who made many friends and
no enemies. He was thoroughly de-
pendable and absolutely reliable. He
was very gencrally regarded as one
the State, on account of his long fa-
miliarity with the business, as the re-
sult of thirty-nine consecutive years’
connection therewith. During the
twenty-seven years he traveled on the
road he made no change of territory
and very little change in customers,
except such as was made necessary by
the shifting of the merchants them-
His visits were looked for-
ward to with pleasure and his cus-
always felt that they were
given the best attention and the best
service and advice that Mr. Finckler
could command.
It might not be out of the way to
state, in this connection, that Burn-
ham, Stoepel & Co. have sent the de-
ceased a check regularly every week
since last October, although he had
done scarcely any work for the house
during that time. The generosity of
the house in this respect is
greatly appreciated by the family and
friends of the deceased.
~~
Chirpings From The Crickets.
3attle Creek, May 19—A company
of sixty U. C. T. people were enter-
tained Saturday afternoon by a trip
through the plant and offices of the
Postum Cereal Co. Mr. Bennett, Mr.
Post’s publicity man, had a_ special
car awaiting at the interurban sta-
tion and escorted the boys and their
families to the offices, where we were
placed in the care of Mr, Ernst, the
official guide of the Postum Co. and
who is one of the best in the business.
We were first shown into the private
office of Mr. C. W. Post, the man
who built up this enormous business.
Mr. Post received us with marked
courtesy and gave us a brief talk be-
fore we made our tour of inspection.
Mr. Post used to be a traveling man
and had to put up at some pretty in-
ferior hotels in the West. He saia
he determined, if he ever became fi-
nancially able, to put up a hotel for
commercial men that would be a
home for them and a spot to come
to that they would look forward to.
He has fulfilled his desire in the Post
Tavern, for the Tavern is know to
all the boys as a homelike place. We
were served a dainty luncheon by the
Postum Co, and spent two enjoyable
and instructive hours in their plant
and offices. This trip was thoroughly
enjoyed by each and every one of
our party and we are now fully alive
to the wonderful industry Battle
Creek has in the Postum factories.
We wish Battle Creek had ten more
men like Mr. Post and would like to
see some of the boys of No. 253 get
where Mr. Post is in the financial
world. Mr. Post used to carry a grip
and probably had no better position
than you or myself. He certainly did
not cover the good teritory some of
you boys cover. We truly had a
dandy time and we, as a body, thank
all the good heads who so_ finely
worked out the details of the trip.
Battle Creek Council, No. 253, held
its regular meeting in Arcade hal?
Saturday evening. All the regular
officers were in their places and a
goodly number of counselors. Con-
vention topics were in evidence and
short talks regarding the coming ban-
selves.
tomers
very
to with interest. Three candidates
took the work, which was put on
with a will, such old wheel horses as
John Adams and Orin Wright being
the ring leaders.
Richard J. Mitchell, Fred T. Rob-
bins and Earl Myers are now brother
U. C. T.’s of 253 and entitled to all
the privileges of the order.
Bro. Roy Lee, a Past Senior Coun-
selor of Kalamazoo Council, paid our
boys a call while in our city waiting
for an interurban west. We were all
glad to see Roy and trust he will find
it handy to drop in on us again. Bro.
Lee made a mighty fine Senior Coun-
selor, as he had all his work commit-
: ted, which adds to the splendor and
meaning of our work, as written by
the founders of our noble order.
Grand Counselor John Quincy
Adams reported the passage of the
Henry hotel bill. This bill was
fathered by Representative James
Henry of this city and its passage
means better hotel conditions
throughout the State for all road men.
F. W. Barney and J. Q. Adams were
on our. sub-legislative committee,
which worked with Rep. James
Henry.
Geo, Van Tuyle is home from De-
catur, Ill.
The sale of banquet tickets is
large. The banquet will be an_ in-
formal affair.
Bro. Kinyon was up to Council
meeting Saturday night. Come often
from now on, Murray!
Bro, Rufus A. Brooks continues to
improve and will start out on the
road again June 1.
Meet me in Grand Rapids June 13
and 14 is the word. Guy Pfander.
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Open the Door of Your Mind.
Whether or not you are on the line
traveled by any one of the very many
trade extension tours which go out
from various cities to visit the terri-
tory in which the merchants desire to
gain trade and which they believe to
be their logical territory, remember
that every time a business man comes
into your store to talk to you there
are possibilities of trade extension
arising from the conversation. Every
man who has had experience in the
business world may have bumped up
against something which it would be
to your advantage to know. He can
tell you how he walked around a cer-
tain obstacle or how he combated and
overthrew another one. These things
make valuable history. Traveling
salesmen who come to visit you may
do a whole lot more for you than
simply sell you goods. They can
bring you ideas fresh from the out-
side world which you would never
be in touch with except for their
company. A merchant who acts like
a grouch and refuses to give his time
and attention to visitors of this kind
is losing very much. The right way
to do is to open the door of your
mind to new ideas when they come
walking in unexpectedly from what
would seem to be almost impossible
sources. A good story well told some-
times contains a suggestive idea of
the right kind, which the keen per-
ception of the wide awake merchant
grasp. The wise plan is to give a
hearing to everybody who comes
along until he has proven himself to
be either an idiot, a fool or a bore.
You are a very busy man, but sug-
gestions received in this way may be
of such value as to save time for
you in the future and add to the
profit of your business,
—_——_»-2.————
He Knew What He Wanted.
The difficulties of learning and us-
ing a new language are many and
the .unfortunate Norwegian in the
story must have felt that his own ef-
forts were particularly unsuccessful.
A druggist was obliged to be ab-
sent from his store one day and his
wife took his place. A large Norwe-
gian, who spoke English with dif-
ficulty, entered and said: “Hi owe
de firm fifty cents.”
“Very well,” said the druggist’s
wife, “just pay it to me and it will
be all right.”
“Hi owe de firm fifty cents.”
“Yes, | understand. If you are
afraid, I will give you a receipt for
1
The man looked at her in astonish-
ment and walked out without a word.
Pretty soon he returned with a fel-
low countryman, whose command of
IXinglish was a little better, and who
interpreted his friend’s remark by
explaining, “He wants fifty
worth of iodoform.”
cents’
———_+--.
Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-
tatoes at Buffalo.
Buttalo, May 21—-Creamery butter
fresh, 26@29c; dairy, 24@27c;
to good, all kinds, 20@24c.
Cheese—Fancy, old 16c; choice, old
14@15c; poor to common, 6@10c.
New full cream, 12%4%@14c.
Eggs—Choice, fresh, at mark, 20@
20tAc.
Poultry (live) —Turkeys, 14@15c,
cox, 13@14c; fowls, 18c; springs, 30
@36c; ducks, 20c.
3eans—Red Kidney, $2@2.25, white
new $3.20@3.35; medium,
new $2.30@2.35; narrow, new, $3.25;
pea, new: $2.30@2.35.
Potatoes—55@65c per bu.
Rea & Witzig.
—_——_>-+ 2
Go to Allegan via Lake Shore.
Grand Rapids, May 20—Any of the
traveling men who wish to make AIl-
legan and want to get back the same
day had better take the Lake Shore.
The P. M. now runs a local freight
and passenger out of Holland at 8:30
a.m. You may reach Allegan at 11
o’clock or it may be noon. The writer
made the trip last week and got back
to Holland at 2 o’clock p. m.
W. D. Bosman.
poor
iNidney,
—_—_~+++>—___
Detroit—The Automatic Products
Co. has been organized with an
authorized capital stock of $15,000, of
which $11,000 has been subscribed and
$10,000 paid in in cash.
—___>2>—___
Look ahead before assuming new
obligations that call for either money
or work. Don’t bite off more than
you can chew, as they say.
——_——_++>>—__—_.
When you have a lawsuit to lose
you can afford to hire a cheap law-
yer.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
May 21, 1913
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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—John J. Campbell, Pigeon.
Secretary—-W. E. Collins, Owosso.
Treasurer—Edwin T. Boden, Bay City.
Other Members—E. E. Faulkner, Del-
ton; Charles S. Koon, Muskegon.
Michigan Scate Pharmaceutical Associa-
on.
eo eee Riechel, Grand Rap-
ids.
First Vice-President—F. E. Thatcher,
Ravenna.
Second Vice-President—E. E. Miller,
Traverse City.
Secretary—Von W. Furniss, Nashville.
Treasurer—Ed. Varnum, Jonesville.
Executive Committee—D. D. Alton,
Fremont; Ed. Austin, Midland; C.
S. Koon, Muskegon; R. W. Cochrane,
Kalamazoo; D. G. “Look, Lowell; Grant
Stevens, Detroit.
Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As-
sociation.
President—F. W. Kerr, Detroit.
Secretary-Treasurer—W. Ss.
Grand Rapids.
Lawton,
Grand Rapids Drug Club.
President—Wm. C. Kirchgessner.
Vice-President—E, D. De La Mater.
ry and Treasurer—Wm.
Tibbs.
Executive Committee—Wm. Quigley,
Chairman; Henry Riechel, Theron Forbes.
Patent Medicine as Legitimate as
Lawn Mowers.
Proprietary medication has been
the theme of oceans of long primer
in the lay press of late years. This
subject has had the ablest attention
of every scrambler of English from
the editor of the Bruceville Bladder,
which popular periodical boasts a
sworn circulation of a hundred and
thirty some odd, up as high as that
famous namesake of the former own-
er of the Garden of Eden who exhib-
ited through the columns of Squal-
ler's Weekly the most superb igno-
rance known
wise to the shells.
since the farmers got
And these moulders of the destinies
of men and nations have pasted the
skull and cross bones on everything
medicinal that is covered by a letter
of patent or protected by a _ copy-
righted trade-mark. However, it is
our humble opinion that if these edi-
torial nightmares were assayed for
either truth or intelligence they
would not run a dim trace to a long
ton of either.
Samuel H. may be able to jolly the
populace into nosing through his
elaborate delineation of the charac-
ter of the hero who got a good side
hold on the beautiful girl and made
her stand hitched until he could tell
her the old, old story that has caused
so many other young chaps to buy
bungalows on the installment plan,
but when it comes to suggesting
something real good for allaying the
stomachic pangs of the recent arrival
after the stork has flown, his advice
on the subject is about as valuable
as the views of a union brick layer
anent serum therapy.
The mere fact that a word juggler
is able to emit a shower of descrip-
tive adjectives on the slightest provo-
cation anent flowery fields,
shiny lakes, sloppy weather, etc., is
no indication whatever that
tell whether Febrisol is
moon-
he can
indicatd in
Vypho-malaria or a specific for disap-
pointed affections. The trouble with
these disciples of tan complected re-
form is that their mode of operation
is not unlike a blind dog in a meat
house. They do not know where to
head in. They are not wise enough
to classify the manufacturers who
have to determine the temperature of
the tabasco with their naked. souls.
These chaps, who are the roughest
joke that has been played on journal-
ism since the days of the Washington
hand press, proceed to stick Lilly, P.
D. and Stearns in the same class with
the gang of incorporated cutthroats
whose mission on earth is the manu-
facture of a liniment guaranteed to
cure appendicitis and according to
their measurements Harry 8. Mason
ranks along with the testimonial art-
ist from whose versatile pen comes
the story of the awful suffering of
Mrs. Jason Jawsmith, of Dalton, Ga.,
who was as weak as a scared rabbit
and so nervous she could not sit in
an arm-chair until she took
bottles, etc.
seven
The alleged purpose of these per-
verted preachings was to educate the
American people against the danger
and fakery of the modern nostrum,
but it listens like the real purpose was
to squeeze orange into the editorial
policy, increase the circulation and
send the advertising rates skyward.
Sgualler’s Weekly knows the value of
yellow because without it she would
be a sombre-faced financial fluke and
you could walk out of her circula-
tion in two hours on crutches. They
print it on good paper, clothe it in the
dinkiest of the lithographer’s art and
fill its editorial columns with the rot-
tenest that their corps of muckrakers
is able to produce. The advertising
department extols the merits of break-
fast foods that would grow brain in
a gas meter and put steady nerves in
a lamp-post, but if Dr. Kilmer meekly
suggests that his product will whip-
saw constipation and stop a pain in
the back he is promptly held up to the
world as the man who had Ananias
nine miles down the speedway with
a bent axle and a dead engine.
Legitimate proprietaries have suf-
fered most from the onslaughts of the
ignorant. They have been elaborately
crucified by space fillers who could
not successfully cover a dog fight.
And they have been picked to pieces
by false alarms who did not have
enough vocabulary of the decent kind
to enquire the way home.
These journalistic outlaws who let
their perverted mentality leak out
through a fountain pen have all taken
a turn at the products of legitimate
manufacturers who pay their advertis-
ing bills and stand religiously by
every promise they make to both the
retailer and the consumer but not a
whisper of disapproval have we ever
heard from any of these Socratic
champions of rectitude against the
methods of some of the grafters who
infect their own advertising depart-
ment; some of whom are more de-
structive to the prosperity of Kan-
sas than both drouth and grasshop-
pers. These chaps whose business is
reforming the world for so much a
line had about run out of danger sig-
nals. After they finished handing the
compliments of the citrus union to
the J. Rufus Wallingford class of
wild cat investment specialists who
were the other fellow’s advertising
patrons the field looked like a cotton
patch in January.
Even the old familiar “deadly cigar-
ette” that had helped the priests of
journalism get by since the days of
George W. Peck was barred by what
looked to be Harrison Fisher’s idea
of a perfect bovine specimen of the
masculine gender and a_ full
spread of cute
page
copy extolling the
thorough goodness of the contents of
the five cent muslin bag.
They could not tackle the proposi-
tion of telling young girls to grab
the Indian clubs and dumb bells and
grow a shape that would make them
look like feminine battleships, be-
cause Annette and Susanna had that
spiked with sixty pennies.
They could not romp on the itiner-
ant book agent because they were in
the business and had hundreds of
them in the field who succeeded in
doing brown every washerwoman
widow and cripple between Augusta
and Gaiveston. unloading on them
cartloads of good bindings the text
of which was valuable only
erary indicator to the chap who tack-
les the proposition of bringing the
world’s history down to date.
books were slipped to these unfortu-
as a lit-
These
nates as late works and they were late
because they should have had some
of them at least a hundred years ago.
{It was at this trying stage of the
game that these wops of the Water-
man began to look around for muck,
but it seemed that everything that
needed bloody murdering was labeled
“soft pedal” by the advertising de-
partment and they were about to
throw up their mits, forsake the
parchment and flee to the desert, or
appeal to Ringling Brothers for plac-
es as copy scramblers on the hand
bills when they bethought themselves
of Lydia E. and her seeming pros-
perity. Forthwith they were filled
with great joy as a light shone round
by which they seemed to see a corpu-
lent opportunity to hang their bat-
ting averages up around a million and
work Andrew for medals as large as
dinner plates that would © shine
among the penny-a-liners like a pay-
as-you-enter sign on a rainy night.
They proceeded to hand proprietary
that
phonographic reproduction impossible
medicine a line of talk made
except on asbestos records and slipped
the young American Mamma the tip
to flee from Mother Winslow as she
would from a mad rattlesnake. Said
tip further averring that all the little
marble shafts in the cities of the dead
throughout the country were directly
traceable to the greed of the Ameri-
can proprietary manufacturers. Which
statement was entirely beyond the
capacity of Ananias, he having lived
in an age when things were not done
on a large scale.
These modern stoners of Stephen
sought to crucify in black type pro-
prietaries, in which three generations
had found relief that they considered
worth the money.
The printed spiel of the crookedest
nostrom grafter on earth or else-
where is no more inconsistent than
that of the editorial policy of some
of these self appointed top-notchers,
because the policies of the editorial
and advertising departments resemble
each other, much as a ten-twen-thirt
billboard resembles the Ten Com-
mandments.
We do not undertake to defend the
grafter who has abused the patent
medicine or proprietary business be-
cause some of them are so crooked
they make a snake look like a straight
edge, but that is no reason why the
man who has worked years evolving
a formula or a process by which a
curative agent is made that is useful
in the alleviation of pain and the cure
of disease should be barred from en-
_ listing the protection of the patent
office and the help of the advertiser
for the purpose of
world with the result of his etfort.
The methods of legitimate proprie-
tary manufacturers products
are staples of the drug trade are no
more questionable than the methods
There are crooks in the
business who prey on the ignorant
(and most of the world is ignorant
in the matter of medicine) but the
crook of the patent medicine busi-
acquainting the
whose
of the press.
ness is no crookeder or more numer-
ous than the crooks of the press.
The fight on proprietary medicine
has been made under the guise of pur-
ifying advertising, but the very per-
iodicals that are yelling loudest
against proprietary medicine and un-
clean publicity, carry advertising that
would be the ripest fruit imaginable
for the iconoclast, but where is the
iconoclast who has the nerve to
tackle the proposition of sterilizing
publicity when his own advertising de-
partment is reeking with impurities?
Why should proprietary medicine
ccme in for such a drowning sluice
of editorial tabasco, when there are
grafters prevaricating about every-
thing, from pure white diamonds at
thirty-seven fifty each to motor trucks
without a defect?
Patented medicine is as legitimate
as patented lawn mowers and_ the
man whose liver pills give satisfaction
is as useful to the world as the in- -
ventor whose achievements are her-
alded to the skies, hence why pet the
devil and punish the witch?
W. S. Cousins.
——-o-> 2.
A wagging jaw may be a fine sign
for Mr. Wrigley. but it is not a good
sign of high-class salesmanship.
a
oe May 21, 1918
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| WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
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| MUDEDS sc. cs 5 cs Digitais .........
| eaten 6 @ 8 an cea eeea es 250 Gentian ..... Ae g 60
ae 10 @ 15 ee 75 ‘ - aoe Seb ecbeess @ 95
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| ob Oxalic .......... 18 @ 16 Lae oa ot 00) mane 8 @ 80
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‘ acute eee me ri Linseed, boiled oo Me Vomca o 70
d eee 98 @ 42 uinseed, . less 55@ 60 O La W:
Linseed, raw bbls. "@ 50 Goran Camph. .. @? oo
Ammonia ed. acl a, oe 59 Opium, Deodorz’d @2 25
Ll : r rue ..45 i ‘ @ 7
bead - = Ae 62@ 10 Mustard, artin’T Ba Le . RhubarD ...1:.... @ 70
ater, deg. .. 4%@ 8 Veatsfoo 80@ 85 Paints
, Wiicritde 64@ 6 Goo oe | 250@3 50 Lead, red dry 7™@ 10
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; i Bar area yee | S .ead, white oil dq
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Balsams Orange, sweet ul 4 ian a Ochre, yellow less 2 @ 5
Organum, pure 1 25@1 50 Ra a e2@ 6
Copaine Geese ae 75@1 00 Origanum, com’l] 50@ 75 a Je ve 7 oe
Fir (Canada) .. 1 75@2 00 Eo teeee ,2 25@2 50 Shaker Prepared 1 40@1 50
Fir (Oregon) ....40@ 50 Pe pe. ans o0@ts 75 Vermillion, Eng. 90@1 00
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Juniper .......... 6@ 10 ae oe ee 25@ 35 Blue Vitrol less 7@ 10
canny -, iurpentine, bbls. @49¥ ordeaux Mix Ps a 5
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intergreen, true @5 00 powdered .. 15@ 20
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Cassia (ordinary) 25 y Pe esa # Ua? 35 Tine & cae : 80 18
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Cassia (Saigon) 65@ 75 eee ee @6 00 Solution, gal. 15@ 25
Elm (powd. 25c) 25@ 30 ormwood ..... @8 00 Paris Green .... 15@ 20
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Soap (powd. 25c) @ 15 Bless pouate cae 15@ 18 aoe ilid 30@ 35 “ sii oo oa “ iis
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Yhamomile (Ger.) 25@ 35 Prussiate yellow 30@ 35 Capsicum ...... as id I i
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Acacia Powdered 35@ 40 Ginger, a ' ee i eect 7
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: Camphor . 55@ 6 Rhubée
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Gosias, Powaerea 40 2 Rosinweed, powd. 25@ 30 Ergot oo ae 2
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Canned Goods ....----- 1-2
Carbon Oils .......---> 2
Catsiup ....--- 2
Cheese ......-..- 3
Chewing Gum 3
Chicory ....-.-- 3
Chocolate .....+.-e-0- 3
Clothes Lines .......-- 3
"CREO Ns a 3
Cocoanut ...--.-++eee- 3
MUON CC... en eee ee 3
Confections ......-..--- 4
Cracked Wheat ......- °
CrackerS ......-----:- 5, 6
Cream Tartar .......-- 6
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Dried Fruits .........- 6
F
Farinaceous Goods .... 6
Fishing Tackle ......-. 6
Flavoring Extracts ... iz
Flour and Feed .......- 7
Fruit Jars ....------+- 7
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Gelatine ....... coke ee 7
Grain Bags .......+-+- 2
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Herbs .. lel. 7
Hides and ‘Peits” eee cee 8
Horse Radish .......-. 8
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Mapleine ......... pees 8
Mince Meat .......... 8
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Potash ........--0222-6 8
Provisions ............. 8
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Rolled Oats .........-. 9
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Salad Dressing ........ 9
POIPTAIGS ....--->--+-- 9
Bal SORA ..;.---.---.-- 9
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MWICHKINE | ......-...5.- 13
Woodenware .......... 13
Wrapping Paper ..... 14
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Weast Cake . .......... 14
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AMMONIA
Doz.
12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box 75
AXLE GREASE
Frazer’s
1lb. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00
1m tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 35
3141b tin ~oxes, 2 doz. 4 25
10Ib. pails, per doz. .. 6 00
15lb. pails, per doz. .. 7 20
25D. pails, per doz. ..12 00
AKED BEANS
No. i, per doz. ..45@ 90
No, 2, per doz. .... D1 40
No. 3, per doz. ...85@1 75
BATH BRICK t
English ......- Luce ee a
BLUING
Jennings’.
Condensed Pearl Bluing
Small C P Bluing, doz. 5
Large C P Bluing, doz. 175
BREAKFAST FOODS
Apetizo, Biscuits ...... 3 00
Bear Food, Pettijohns 1 95
Cracked Wheat, 24-2 2 50
Cream of Wheat, 36-2 4 50
Cream of Rye, 24-2 ..3 00
Posts Toasties, T.
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Grape Nuts ..
Grape Sugar Flakes ..
Corn Flakes ..
Hardy Wheat Food ..
Postma’s Dutch Cook
Holland Rusk ......
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Biscu 3
Kelioge's Toasted Rice
BIaKes ....:----<-2
Kelloge’s Toasted Wheat
Biscuit ....... - 3 30
Krinkle Corn Flake _1
Mapl-Wheat Flakes,
2 doz.
Mapi- Wheat Flakes,
3
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Mapl-Corn Flakes ....
Minn. Wheat Cereal
Algrain Food ........ .
Ralston Wheat Food
Ralston Wht Food 10c
Saxon Wheat Food ..
Shred Wheat Biscuit
Triscuit 18 ..---------
Pillsbury’s Best Ger'l
Post Tavern Special .
Quaker Puffed Rice ..
Quaker Puffed Wheat
Quaker Brkfst Biscuit
Quaker Corn Flakes ..
Victor Corn Flakes ..
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Washington Crisps .. 1 85
Wheat Hearts ....... 90
Wheatena ........-.-. 50
Evapor’d. Sugar Corn 90
BROOMS
Pavior ..:.-..- setceces Oo OD
SOWEL ...55.5.-..0--.. 8 60
Winne ; ses. & 2D
Whittier “Special . o-+.. & DD
Parlor Gem ......... . 8 75
Common Whisk ...... 1 00
Fancy Whisk ........ 1 25
Warehouse ........... 4 00
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ...... 75
Solid Back, 11 in. .... 95
Pointed — Spee cece 85
No. 3
No. 2
No. 1
No. 3
No. 7
No. 4
No. 3
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 25c size ..2 00
CANDLES
Paraffine, 6s ......... 10
Paraffine, 12s ....... - 10
Wicking ............. 20
CANNED GOODS
Apples
3 Tbh. Standards @
Galion ........... 50@2 75
Tb. 1
Standards gallons @5 00
Beans
Baked 265... 85@1 30
Red Kidney Sekee 5@
Sine ........ -» 70@1 15
WVaR ........... so@a 25
Blueberries
Standard ......... os. 4 80
Galion ............. 75
Clams
Little Neck, 1tb @1 00
Little Neck, 2tb @1 50
Clam Bouillon
Burnham’s ¥ pt. . 2 25
Burnhaim’s, pts. ...... 3 15D
Burnham's qts. ..... . 4 oo
. Corn
Amr oe -- 60@ 65
Good secscccces. 90@1 00
Maney .......; @1 30
ench Peas
Monheaar (Natural)
per Gog .......... 2 45
Gooseberries
No. 2, Fair 7.6.0... 1 50
No ad F ne peices 2 35
Hominy
standard ......:.... 85
Lobster
OO be terees 2 OD
ODE eee 4 25
Picnic Tails -....... 2 7b
Mackerel
Mustard, (ib) ........ 1 80
Mustard, 21. ......... 2 80
Soused, 14%tb. ...... 1 60
Soused, 2 Ib....... soso 2 1D
Tomato, 1b ...... - 150
Tomato, 21. ....... - 2 80
Mushrooms
Hiotels ......... 15
Butons, %s .... @ 14
Buttons, Is ...., @ 2
Oysters
Cove ib. ......
Cove, 2tb. ..,...1 60
Plums
Plums ....... 90@1 35
Pears in. “Syrup
No. 3 cans, per doz. 1 50
Peas
Marrowfat ..... @1 15
Early June @1 25
Early June sifted 1 45@1 55
i Peaches
B Looe @1 2
No. 10 size can pie @3 26
Pineapple
Grated ........ 1 75@2 10
Sliced .......... 90@2 60
Eenehin
MOAR oc 80
Good See ee 90
Haney ......... 1 00
Galion ........ 2 15
peeeberries
Standard ......
Sian
Warrens, 1 Ib. Tall ..2 30
Warrens, 1 Ib. wee” 2 40
Red Alaska ....16 5@1 75
Med. Red Alaska 1 35@1 45
Pink Alaska @ 9
Sardines
Domestic, %s ....... 2 75
Domestic, \% Mustard 2 75
Domestic, % Mustard ges
French, %8 ....... 14
French, %S oe aeees
Shrimps
Dunbar, ist doz ..... 13
Dunbar, 1%s doz. ....2 35
Succotash
Maino. 52s. 90
Geod ....:....5.
1 20
Fancy .......... 1 25@1 40
Strawberries
Standard ...... 95
FANCY ......-. 2 25
Tomatoes
“ped -........... 1 15
MaAnCy, .....2.... . 1 35
No: 10... 3.565... 3 50
CARBON OILS
Barrels
Perfection ....... @11%
D. S. Gasoline ... @19%
Gas Machine .... @27%
Deodor’d Nap’a .
Cylinder
Engine
Black, winter 8
CATSUP
Snider’s pints .......
Snider’s 1% pints ....
3
CHEESE
ENG civ @15
Bloomingdale ... @15
Carson City @15
HOPKINS .....5.. @15
um ce @151%4
eigen ......5..% @15
Limburger ...... @17
Pineapple ...... 40 60
LTE Te Ae 85
Sap ee lees | @22
Swiss, domestic .. @20
CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack ... 55
Adams Sappota ....... 55
Beeman’s Pepsin . 55
Beechnut ..... se. 60
(Chiclets ... osc... 1 25
Colgan Violet Chips ~»- 60
Colgan Mint Chips .. 60
Dentyne ...... SSAA AS 1 10
Flag Spruce ..... eos. 55
Juicy site delecies aoe. Oe
Red ORI oicickicw so. 55
Sen Wrigleys : 55
Spearmint, 5 box jars.2 75
Spearmint, 3 box jars 1 65
Trunk Spruce ........ 6d
Mucatanm .......- boner 55
Zeno ...... ee ceeeeeeee 55
CHICORY
Bi cs 5
eG «oc. cee ee pele. 7
Mee 2... see a. 5
HYAMCKS ........-..-- 7
Scheuers .....-..-.. 6
Red Standards bo 1 60
WMS oo. 1 60
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.
German’s Sweet ....... 22
Premium (2 .....\5.--.. 32
Caracas .....-------0- 23
Hershey’s Almond 5c .. 85
Hershey’s Milk, 5c .... 85
Walter M. Lowney Co.
Premium, Ws ....-..-.- 29
Premium, ¥%S .......-.-. 29
CLOTHES LINE
Per doz.
No. 40 Twisted Cotton 95
No. 59 Twisted Cotton 1 30
No. 60 Twisted Cotton 1 70
No. 80 Twisted Cotton 2 00
No. 50 Braided Cotton 1 00
No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 25
No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 85
No. 80 Braided Cotton 2 25
No. 50 Sash Cord .... 1 75
No. 60 Sash Cord .... 2 00
No. 60 Jute .. 80
No. 72 Jute . - 1 00
No. 60 Sisal 85
Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
COCOA
IBAKOrS oo coe sci ee koe 37
KNevelan@d ......-..--.- 41
Colonial, GS .....--. 35
Wolontal, 448 .........-- 33
[yo sl ge a 42
Hershey's, %S .....--- 30
Hershey’s, 28
Riggiee |. ee eae 36
Lowney, %s . 33
Lowney, 4s .. 33
Lowney, %S 33
Lowney, 5 tbh. cans ... 33
Van Houten, \s ...... 12
Van Houten, W481)... 2s
Van Houten, ¥%s ..... 36
Van Houten, SAS S55 65
Wan-Eta ...... SAAS 36
BVEDD .2.-.-.----4.-5-- 33
Wilber, 448 ..-.....0. 33
Wilber, 46 ........ ae Be
COCOANUT
Dunham’s per Ib.
lgs, 5YD. case ........ 30
4s, 5Ib. case ..... s- ae
4s, 15Ib. case ....... 29
1gs, 15tb. 28
1s, 15Ib. 27
case
4s & Ys 15iIb. case “A
Scalloped Gems .....
%4s & Ws pails .... 16
Bulk, pails .......... 48
Bulk, barrels ..... --. 11%
COFFEES, !|.OASTED
Rlo
Common ...... . Secee ao
BNONT oc. sss ce see | LOS
@hoice :...:........5. 20
MONCy 2.6 .-sc..-c.c. ok
Peaberry ......6-c005 Se
Santos
Common ...........-. 20
WONT cco cet se cece ee
Chotee ..5............ 28
HANCY, «0.6. csscccs cs ee
WeADCITy .....ccccces 28
Maracaibo
WOON ce cece. ee
Choice ...... peesosses Se
Mexican
Choice ..........-260. 20
PANCY) 63 ccs ee ae
Guatemala
MGIh cic e sco... SD
MUONCY 2 can cecssessece 28
Java
Private Growth .... -oreeee
Mandling ..... dle os eos
Aukola
-30@32
4
Mocha
Short Bean ........25@27
Long Bean ..... ~-24@25
Wis 0: G@. ..c ls, 26@28
Bogota
BUOAT oe cs ces c sinc sss OM
Fancy .... 26
Exchange Market, “Steady
Spot Market, Strong
Package
New York Basis
ae been sees. 22 50
Do) ae 23 50
McLaughlin’ Ss XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold
to retailers only. Mail all
orders direct to W. FE.
McLaughlin & Co., Chica-
go.
Extract
Holland, % gro boxes =
Felix, y, STOSS 20665.) af
Hummel's foil, % gro. 8
Hiummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43
CONFECTIONS
Stick wkend
Standard ......
Standard HH .
Standard Twist
Pails
- 8
Jumbo, 32 Ib. 8
xine, Eo oo. ee 11
Boston Cream ......... 14
Big Stick, 30 144 case
Mixed Candy
-. 8%
Grocers
x LO
Special
Conserve
Royal
Ribbon
Broken
Cut Loaf
MEPAGO, ee eis
iKGndergarten ........ 11
French Cream ........
Hand Made Creams .. 17
Premio Cream mixed 14
Paris Cream Bon Bons 10
Fancy—In Pails
Gypsy Hearts .......
Coco Bon Bons
Fudge Squares ..
Peanut Squares .....
Sugared Peanuts
Salted Peanuts ......
Starlight Kisses ...... 13
Lozenges, plain ...... 10%
Champion, Chocolate aaa
Eclipse Chocolates .. 14
Eureka Chocolates .. 16
Champion Gum Drops ‘
Anise Squares ........
Lemon Sours ........ 10
Imperials ........ 10
ital. Cream Bon Bons 12
Golden Waffles ...... 14
Red Rose Gum Drops 10
Auto Kisses .......... 14
Coffy Toffy . 14
Molasses Mint’ Kisses 12
Fancy—In 5. Boxes
Old Fashioned Molas-
ses Kisses 104%. bx. 1 .
Orange Jellies ..... .
Lemon Sours ........ 60
Old Fashioned Hore-
hound drops ..... 60
Peppermint Drops .. 70
Champion Choe Drops 60
H. M. Choc. Lt. and
Dark, No. 12 ...... 10
Bitter Sweets, as'td. 1 25
Brilliant Gums, Crys. 60
A. A. Licorice Drops 90
Lozenges, printed ... 65
Lozenges, plain ...... 60
Imperials .........%.- 62
M. Peanut Bar 60
Hand Made Crms s0@90
Cream Wafers ..... ‘
String Rock .......... 2
Wintergreen Berries . 60
Pop Corn
Cracker Jack ...... 25
Giggles, 5c pkg. cs. 3 50
On My 100s ...-... . 3 50
Cough Drops
Putnam Menthal ... 1 00
Smith Bros. ........ 1 25
NUTS—Whole
Almonds, Tarragona 18
Almonds, Drake .... 17
Almonds, California
soft shell ..... .
Bravdis 25 ....--. @12
Milherts ...... a, @15
Cal. INO) 22)...
Walnuts sft shell .. @18
Walnuts, Marbot .. @16
Table nuts, fancy @16
Pecans, medium .. @15
Pecans, ex. large .. @16
Hickory Nuts, ot bu.
Ohio ..:.....%.- se. 2 00
Cocoanuts
Chestnuts, New York
State, per bu. ....
Shelled
Spanish Peanuts 9%@16
Pecan WES... @65
Walnut Halves @35
Filbert Meats .. @30
Alicante Almonds @45
Jordan Almonds @50
Peanuts
Fancy H P Suns 74%@ 4
Roasted ......... 7@ 7%
Choice, raw, H P Jum-
b @i7
,Ginger Gems Iced
May 21, 1913
5
CRACKED WHEAT
BU ce co cece es
24 2b pkgs. eles
CRACKERS
National Biscuit Company
Brands
Butter
Boxes
9
top orted: bulk ....-..- 8%
Peaches
Muirs—Choice, 25%b. 5
Muirs—Fancy, 25tb. .. 10
Fancy, peeled, 25Ib. .- 18
Peel
T.emon, American .... 12%
Orange, American .... 12%
Raisins
Cluster, 2@ cartons ....2 25
Loose Muscatels 3 Cr 5%
Loose Muscatels 4 Cr 6
L. M. Seeded, 1 Ih. 7T@7%
California Prunes
90-100 25tb. boxes..@ 4
80- 90 25Ib. boxes..@ 6
70- 80 25tb. boxes..@ 6%
60- 70 25%b. boxes..@ 7
50- 60 25Ib. boxes..@ 8
40- 50 25tb. boxes..@ 9%
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
California Lima. .....- 1%
Michigan Lima ....... oT
Med. Hand Pickea 235
Brown Holiand ......- 1 65
Farina
25 1 tb packages . 150
Bulk, per 100 lbs. .. 4 00
Original Holland Rusk
Packed 12 rolls to container
3 containers (40) rolls 3 20
Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sack .. 2 00
Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 Ib. box .. 60
Imported, 25 Ib. box .. 2 50
Pearl Barley
@hester ¢0....25.5.-0.-. 2 60
Himpine ..-....-7......
Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu. 2 00
Green, Scotch, bu. .. 2 00
Split, lb. ...-..-....-.- 5
Sago
Bast Incia <........-. 4%
German, sacks ....-... 4%
German, broken pkg.
Tapioca
Flake, 100 tb. sacks .. 4%
Pearl, 130 tb. sacks .. 4%
Pearl, 36 pkgs. ...... 2 25
Minute, 36 pkgs ...... 2 75
FISHING TACKLE
% to lin. ...-. a 6
1% to 2 im. ..0--e--ee 7
1% to 2 in. ...-.-0--- 9
1% to 2 in. ...--.--- 11
DAR occ ese ence cs cs 15
MOAN, occ ec es ete ce = 20
No. 1,
No. 2,
No. 3,
No. 4,
No. 5,
No. 6,
No. 7,
No. 8,
No. 9, 15 feet ...... 20
Linen Lines
Small so. .2. cue. es 20
Medium . 26
TATES ....ceccececees 34
Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft.,
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80
per doz. 55
T
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings D C Brand
Terpeneless Extract Lemon
No. 1 F box, per doz. 75
No. 2 F box, per doz. 90
No. 4 F Box, per doz. 1 75
No. 3 Taper, per doz. 1 75
2 oz. Flat, F M per dz. 1 50
Jennings D C Brand
Extract Mexican Vanilla
No. 1 F Box, per doz. 90
No. 2 F Box, per doz. 1 25
No. 4 F Box, per doz. 2 25
No. 3 Taper, per doz. 2 00
2 oz. Flat F M per dz. 2 00
FLOUR AND FEED
Grand Rapids Grain &
Milling Co.
Winter Wheat
Purity Patent .......
Seal of Minnesota _.:
Sunburst ..... eee ceee
Wizard Flour ........
Wizard Graham .....
Wizard Gran. Meal ..
Wizard Buckwheat ..
VG oo... ct.cee esa. £40
Valley City Milling Co.
DMO He OT
e
o
Lily White eae 5 60
Eight Lost .......... 5 10
Graham) o....0....... . 2 30
Granena Health ...... 2 40
Gran, “Mea .......... 1 70
Bolted Med .:....... 1 60
Voigt Milling Co.
Graham .......... . &
Voigt’s Crescent ......
Voigt’s Flouroigt ....
Voigt’s Hygienic
Voigt’s Royal ........
Watson-Higgins ee Co.
heap baie Flour ..... 40
Tip Top Hlour......... 00
Golden Sheaf Flour ... 4 60
Marshall’s Best Flour 4 85
Worden Grocer Co.
Quaker, paper
Quaker; cloth ........ 5 40
Quaker Buckwheat bbl 5 50
Kansas Hard Wheat
Worden Grocer Co.
American Eagle, \%s.. 5
American Eagle, 4s.. 5 15
American Eagle, %s.. 5
Spring Wheat
Roy Baker
Golden Horn, family ..5 00
Golden Horn, bakers ..4 95
Wisconsin Rye ....... 3 85
Judson Grocer Co.
Ceresota, %s ........ 5 60
Geresota, Ws ........ 8 70
Ceresota, 445 ........ 5 80
Worden Grocer Co.
Wingold, %s cloth ....5 50
Wingold, %s cloth ....5 40
Wingod, %s cloth ....5 30
Wingold, %s paper ..5 35
Wingold, %s paper .. 5 30
Bakers’ Patent ........5 15
Wykes & Co.
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth 5 40
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth 5 30
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth 5 20
Sleepy Eye, %s paper 5 20
Sleepy Eye, 4s paper 5 20
Bolted ........ 3 80@4 00
Golden Granul’d 3 80@4 00
Wheat
Red ...°) 2... Seas ac. 1 04
White .......2....--- . 1 03
Oats
Michigan carlots .... 36
Less than carlots ..... 40
Corn
Coarigts .......-.....-. 62
Less than carlots ..... 64
Hay
Carlots .............. 11 00
Less than carlots ... 13 00
Feed
Street Car Feed ......
33
No. 1 Corn & Oat Feed 33
Cracked corn ........-. 32
Coarse corn meal ..... 32
FRUIT JARS
Mason, pts., per gro. 4 05
Mason, ats., per gro. 4 45
Mason, % gal. per gro. 6 80
Mason, can tops, gro. 1 40
GELATINE
Cox’s, 1 doz. large ..1 45
Cox’s, 1 doz. small .. 90
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 25
Knox’s Sparkling gr. 14 00
Knox’s Acidu’d. doz. 1 25
Nelson’s
Oxford ......... 75
Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 25
Plymouth Rock, Plain 90
GRAIN BAGS
Broad Gauge ........ 18
Amoskeag ..........-. 19
Herbs
SRSE occ... 15
EQS cece e cs ce ce anc 15
Senna Leaves ... TLD) 36
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
8
HIDES AND PELTS
Hides
Green, Wo. 1 ......... 11%
Green, No. 2 ......... 10%
Cured, No: i ..:....-- 13
Cured) No. 2 .:....... 12
Calfskin, green, No. 1 15
Calfskin, green, No. 2 13%
Calfskin, cured, No. 1 16
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 14%
Pelts
Old Wool ...... @ 30
vambs : 10@ 25
Shearlings Mae ee. 10@ 20
Tallow
No. Meee ite eiice @ 5
No. 2 .......... @ 4
Wool
Unwashed, med. @1
Unwashed, fine @
HORSE RADISH
Per doz.
Jelly
5tb pails, per doz. .. 2
ane pails, per pail .
30Ib pail, per pail ....
JELLY GLASSES
1% pt. in bbls., per doz.
% pt. in bbls., per doz.
8 oz. capped in bbls.
per doz.
MAPLEINE
2 oz. bottles, per doz. 3
MINCE MEAT
Per case
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle ...
Choice
Good .......--..----.-
Fair
Half barrels 2c extra
Red Hen, No. 2% ....
Red Hen, No. 5 ......
Red Hen, No. 10 ....
MUSTARD
1% ib 6 Ib. box ..-...
OLIVES
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 15@1
Bulk, 2 gai. kegs 1 10@1
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 00@1
bat et
20
90
15
16
18
00
Stuffed, 5 Om... eis 90
Stuffed, 8 af: Reece weee 1 25
Stuffed, 14 oz. . - 2 20
Pitted Gace “stuffed L
TA OZ oo eee 25
Mau: & oz. oes 90
Lunch, zo... ao. 2 a5
Lunch, is eeees ec. 2 25
Queen, Meaamotn, i9
OZ. 25
Queen, Mammoth, “38° i
OF cic c cca cece cess 0
Olive Chow, 2 doz. = .
per doz ...:.. : 2 25
PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count .. 7 75
Half bbls., 600 count 4 38
5 gallon kegs ........ 2 00
Small
Barrels ...--.e+--e: -. 950
Half Barrels cae os 020
5 gallon kegs ..... cee. o 00
Gherkins
Barrels) ..--+..+4..-- 14 50
Half barrels .......... 7 %%
5 gallon kegs ..... ‘
Sweet Small
Barrels ............-. 14 50
Half barrels ..... «.. 8 00
5 gallon kegs ......-.- 3 25
PIPES
Clay, No. 216, per box 1 75
Clay, T. D., full count 60
Cao .......... cake 90
PLAYING CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat ... 75
No. 15, Rival, assorted 1 25
No. 20, Rover, enam’d. 1 =
No. 572, Special ....
No. 98 Golf, satin fin. aa
No. 808, Bicycle .....
No. 632, Tourn’t whist 2
POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz. ...... i
PROVISIONS
~Barreled Pork
Clear Back 22 00@23
0
25
75
00
eben Cut Clear 2 aa 00
Bea
Brisket, Clear te ee
eecevee
Giese “Family | Oe eleee ce 36
Dry Salt Meats
00@18 50
50
3 00
00
S FP Bellies -..... 144%@15
Lard
Pure in tierces ..114%@1
Compound Lard ..
80 lb. tubs. ....advance
60 Ib tubs ....advance
50 Ib. tins ....advance
20 Ib. pails ....advance
10 tb. pails ....advance
5 Ib. pails ....advance
3 tb. pails ... advance
2
8%@ 9
9
Smoked Meats
Hams, 12 tb av.
Hams, 16 &. av.
Hams, 18 %. av.
Skinned Hams ..18 @18%
Ham, dried beef
SQES Goce. 21 @22
California Hams 114%@12
Picnic Boiled — @15
Boiled Hams . ae
Minced Ham 13 O13
Bacon .......... 174% @25
Sausages
Bologna ....... 10 @10%
liver ......... T%@ 8
Brankfort ...... 11 @11%
Pork <........ «. as @y4
Weal...) sie ee tenets. 11
TONGUE ........4.; sic aa ek
Headcheese ....... 9
Beef
Boneless ......20 00@20 50
Rump, new ... 21 00@22 00
Pig’s Feet
Sela ose c ce 05
% bbis., 40 Ibs. ...... 210
bb Secteccceccess 4 20
PeDOe coset. css sees ee 8 50
Tripe
mits, 16 Ibs) ......... 90
Y% bbis., 40 Ibs. ....... 1 60
% bbis. 80 Ibs: ........ 3 00
Casings
Hogs, per % ......... 35
Beef, rounds, set 18@20
Beef, middles, set ..90@95
Sheep, per bundle ..... 80
Uncolored a
Solid Dairy .... @16
Country Rolls . pee
Canned Meats
Corned beef, 2 tb ..... 4 20
Corned beef, 1 tb .... 2 20
Roast beef, 2 tb.
Roast beef, 1 tb. .... 2 20
Potted Ham, %s .... 50
Potted Ham, %s .... 90
Deviled Ham, \s .... 50
Deviled Ham, %s .... 90
Potted Tongue, us Me 50
Potted Tongue, %s .. 90
RICE
Baney |... secu. 6 @614
dapan Style ..... 5 @5%
Broken 605.0005, @4%
ROLLED OATS
Rolled Avena, bbls. ..4 35
Steel Cut, 100 lb sks. 3 00
Monarch, bbls.
Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks i 90
Quaker, 18 Regular ..1 45
Quaker, 20 Family ....4 00
SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, % pt.
Columbia, 1 pint
Durkee’s, large 1 doz.
Durkee’s, small, 2 doz.
Snider's, large, 1 doz.
Snider’s small, 2 doz.
SALERATUS
Packed 60 lbs. in box
Arm and Hammer .. 3 00
Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls. .... 80
Granulated, 100 lbs. cs. 90
me bo Ole DO
ou
>
Granulated, 36 pkgs. .. 1 25
SALT
Common Grades
100 3 T sacks ........ 2 60
70 4 1D. sacks ...... 2 40
60:5 ib. sacks ...... 2) 40
28 10 Ib. sacks ..... 2 25
56 Ib. sacks ........ 40
28) ID. Sae@KS) ......... 20
Warsaw
56 &. dairy in drill bags 40
28 Ib. dairy in drill bags 20
Solar Rock
56 Tb: Saeks) ...0.0...... 25
Common
Granulated, Fine .... 1 05
Medium, FPime ....... 1 10
SALT FISH
Cod
Large, whole ... @it2
Small, whole ... @7
Strips or bricks 74%@10%
Pollock ...... @ 4%
Halibut
Strips .-... naaeal Gees 15
Chunks ......, weed. 16
Holland serene
Y. M. wh. hoop bbls. 12 00
Y. M. wh. hoop ¥% bbl. 6 50
Y. M. wh. hoop kegs 72
Y. M. wh. hoop Milchers
73
Queen, bbls. ...... ee EL 00
Queen, % bbls. ..... 5 75
Queen kegs ........ us 62
Trout
No. 1, 100 Ibs: ....... 7 50
INO. 1, 40 Ibs. ........ 2 25
No. 1, 10 Ibs. ....... 90
No. 1, 8 Ibs. ......... 5
10
Mackerel
Mess, 100 Ibs. ........ 16 50
Mess, 40 Ibs. ........ 7 00
Mess: 10 Ibs. ........ 1 85
Ifese &Slhe .......... 50
Ne. 1, 100 lbs. ..... 10 00
ING. 1, 40 IDs. ........ 6 60
No. ft, 10 lbs ........ I 25
Whitefish
WGN IDS. oc. eke eee ee 9 75
SQ fs. .............. 5 25
HO Ws) . 2.62... 5. wees 1 22
Subs occu. e. a 92
100 IDS. ............. «, 465
BO ES nce ccs cance 2 10
MOINS) 2.5.5 aacen 75
8 IDS. ...-:.-..... : 65
SEEDS
AMIS@ 2 alec. Sacss 54
Canary, Smyrna ...... 6
Caraway 2.50.05... : 10
Cardomom, Malabar 1 20
@elery <.......-:..... 50
Hemn. Russian! oc... 5
Mixed Bird) .......... 5
Mustard, white ...... 8
POOuy ............... 16
WRaApe .... se cccuease.-s 5%
SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large 3 dz. 3 50
Handy Box, small CU 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish 85
Miller’s Crown Polish 85
SNUFF
Scotch, in bladders .... 37
Maccaboy, in jars ...... 35
French Rapple in jars .. 43
SODA
BOXES: 225. ) Cee , 1 : ; &
Cs 5 S @ M. 14 oz doz. . 3 20 Cork lined, 9 in. ...... 80 re ,
Badeer, 3 oz. ...-.... 5 04 ee ces ae : Worden Grocer Co. Brand .
7 59 Soldier Boy, 5c gross 5 76 Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90 Re
et be ee : 76 Soldier -Boy, 10c ....10 50 Mop Sticks : Ben Hur era Cleanser
SBC | eo ; a oe ,
Banner, 8 0Z. .......-. 160 Soldier Boy, 1 Ib. .... 47% ‘Trojan spring .......... 0 eee a = po Guaranteed to
Banner 16 0%. ...... 3 20 Sweet Caporal, 1 oz. 60 ikclipse patent spring 85 Perfection Extras ...... 35 Eneernine equal the
Belwood, Mixture, 10c 94 Sweet Lotus, 5c ...... 600 Ne eommnon | gp. womdres ...-............ 35 C ) SCRUBS POLISHES = hest 10c kinds
Bie Chief, 2%, oz. .. 600 Sweet Lotus, 10c .... 12 00 ie) 2 Gat rich older. 36 Londres Grand ......... 35
Bie Chief. 1 oc 30 Sweet Lotus, per doz. 4 . jacks. No os — gs seademl .....----7-... a ; q 80 - CANS - $2.80
é ie 5 99 Sweet Rose, 2% oz. : Sa fo eee . Puritans .............. 3 ] nie) tah
a Ge ao eb brect Tip Dep, be... po 7 COMO mop Bends 4) Deneeeten, Clore 35 see SOAP
Bull Durham, 15c 11, 18 48 Sweet Tip top, 10c .. 1 00 Pails Panatellas, Bock ...... 35 : Lautz Bros’. & Co.
Bull Durham, Sof. ., 60 Sweet Tips, %4 gro. .. 10 08 2-hoop Standard ...... 2 00 Jeckey Club .....2...... 35 Acme 30 bars, 75 Ib 4
Bull Durham, 16 oz. .- 6 72 Sun Cured, 10c Po cee. _ 98 2-hoop Standard ..... 2 25 10 5c pkgs., per case 260 Acme’ 95 bars. 7s ao 4 ie
Buck Horn, 5c ...... 576 Semen Fe, ee --- : i 3-wire Cable ........ 2 10 Old Master Coffee 26 10c pkg., per case 260 Acme, 25 bars, 70 Ibs. 3 80
Buck Horn, 10c ..... 11 72 Summer te Si Pte ~ 8 se Cedar all red brass . 1 25 16 10¢ and 33 5c pkgs Acme, 100 cakes 3 00
; Maa Re _ § 00 Summer Time, 0Z. ..8 50 3-wire Cable ........ 2 30 ke eee ae ue Bie M: 700 Gincie 4
Briar Pipe “toe a : 2 in Sere hang aged 4 5 Paper Wureka —..... 2 25 ; Dey case --... 2. --.. 2 60 ornamentals oe 3 is
an be 7 ipa ce peper.....6 24 Eibre ... |... 2 40 titi oe sae
fiat aoe i. oz. 3 50 a. ere a 8 a 10 qt. Galvanized 1 70 oe ee = 3 °
mile 5c 5 95 Seal N. C., 1% cut plug 70 12 qt. Galvanized 1 90 Geren pe te one
Pheu ce 5 95 Seal N.C, 1% Gran. 63 14 qt. Galvanized 2 10 Me oe ge te
< : Z. 63 - S seen? we Su:
Brotherhood, 10c .... 11 _ ia Meters, io ne Toothpicks Marseilles, 100 cks. 5c 4 00
Brotherhood, 16 oz. 2 Oe) aise ethers and Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00 Marseilles, 100 ck toil 4 00
SGarnigal: 5c ...----.-- 5 . Pine ican acral 995 Ideal .........-.2.006- 85 Marseilles 1% box toil 2 10
Carnival, % OZ ..... ee ane aan T i
: : ~ Je 4 0z. ...3 60 raps Ge >
ae re Toleapn 30 Tom & Tere. : ue 11180 Mouse, wood, 2 holes 22 ' Proctor & Gamble Co.
igar ips J : ™ vy 3 02. .... %6 Mouse, wood, 4 holes 45 Old Master 6......-..... 33 BONO ees ke... 3 00
Cigar Clip’g Seymour 30 ee, © seed 5 95 Mouse, wood, 6 holes -70 San Marto ............. — IvOny, G02 2 20...) 4 00
Identity, 3 & 16 oz. a ne dee 9 Mouse, tin, 5 holes 65> Pilot 212s. ivory, 10 oz, 2... 6 75
“ope Gizar Cuttings 450 Trout Line, io; 10 00 3 se, an, 2 a re. i ea of UC) Ge ee Sta p
rial ( > * c Turkis > fi R76 sat. Weed ......:..... 80 TE TAT wee cece eee eee ease 3 35
Continental Cubes, 10c 90 Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 76 Bat ona 75
Corn Cake, 14 0z. .... 2 55 a 1 Oz. aa - “3 ae) oe . : tees Royal Garden, %, %& Tradesman Co.’s Brand
clr a eae eee. s- 2O8 20n. Biendark No.1 ge ” Sc a ene ber 2 20
. es eg > : Bee cece ce Q 20-in. Standard, : 5 Slack Haw y fi)
ae on 4 60 ‘Tuxedo, 80c tins .. ... 7 45 18-in. Standard, No. 2 6 50 THE BOUR CO., Black ioe ae ae 2 40
Guban Star, 5c foil .. 5 76 Twin Oaks, l0c ..... 96 16-in. Standard, No. 3 5 50 TOLEDO, O. et ae ee
Cuban Star. 16 oz pails 3 72 Union Leader, 50c .. 5 06 20-in. Cable, No. 1 .. 8 00 A. B. Wrisley
ae te 19 20 Union Leader 25c .... 2 25 18-in. Cable, No. 2.... 7 00 COFFEE : Good Ghe
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a a Wd . 73 Union aera, 1% 2 i. Ne 2 Fibre oe : 9 25 winnell-Wrig o.’s B’ds ota Soap Powders
iG aa : : 4g Uncle Sam, Cc ..- 80 No. 3 Fibre 8 25 pane es a Ss :
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Duke's Mix. 10c .... 1152 U. S. Marine, 5c .... 6 00 Medium Galvanized .. 5 00 Excelsior Bacon ...... Snow Boy, 60 5s... 9 40
Duke’s Cameo, 1% 0z. 41 Van Bibber, 2 oz. tin 88 Small Galvanized .... 4 25 ieee Sige tad ae oe ee ee
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Ge Agee. 1150 Velvet, 8 oz. tin 382 Tawey 0. 175 ey ee ee Kirkoline, 24 4%. 111. 2 80
Hashion, 5¢ .....-..--. 6 00 Velvet, 16 oz. can see e 68 Double Acme 3 75 Mat Back Pork -....... Pearline Mee ee cs - 3 75
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Tan Strike. if on 96 Packages free. YEAST CAKE
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Myrtle Navy, 10c .... 11 80 No. 1, per gross .... 40 Sunlight, 1% doz. : 50
Myrtle Navy. ko |. 5 94 Wo 2, per eress --.. 50 Yeast Foam, 3 doz. .. 1 15 : : : oe
Maryland Clb. sc’... 30 No. 3 per gross [11 75 Yeast Foam, 3 doz. :: 1 00 Churches We furnish churches of all denominations, designing and
Mayflower, 5c ........ 5 76 WOODENWARE Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 58 building to harmonize with the general architectural
aE wer me weteee : a Baskets AXLE GREASE scheme—from the most elaborate carved furniture for the cathedral to the -
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pieeer Hair aac csece 10 70 Bushels, wide band 115
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Nigger Head, 10c ....10 50 Splint) medium ...--- 3 00 ‘and district schools throughout the country. speaks volumes
a ashy eo = 4¢ 6Splint, small ........ 2 75 =~ for the merits of our school furniture, Excellence of design. construction
Old Mil. 22...” ... 5 76 Willow, Clothes, large 8 25 | |MICA and materials used and moderate prices, win.
Gil Boxiich Gurve 1% on 96 Wane lees. ame | ML
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‘sg ia ie Tee f putts Punter : Our long experience has given us a knowledge of re-
oy yes Oak oS 5) \& tb. oP ate... 30 quirements and how to meet them. Many styles in stock and built to order,
Pat Hand, 1 oz. ..... ".” 63 16 Ib. 250 in crate .... 30 1 Th boxes, per gross 9 00 including the more inexpensive portable chairs. veneer assembly chairs, and
Patterson Seal, 1% oz. 48 1 Ib. 250 in crate .... 35 3 Ib. boxes, per gross 24 00 luxurious upholstered opera chairs,
Patterson Seal, 3 oz. .. 96 2 > a in cme _—- BAKING POWDER Write Dept. Y
Patterson Seal, 16 oz. 5 00 3 Ib., 250 in crate .... 65 Royal ‘ae
Peerless, 5c ........... 5 76 5 Ib. 250 in crate .... 85
Peerless. 10c cloth cee 44 Wire End JO size 90 merican ea in oO
Peerless, 10c paper .. 1 Ib., 250 in crate .... 35 y or t m
Peerless, 20c ........ 204 92 jbh., 250 in crate .... 45 a cans 1 ie
Peerless, 40c ....... 408 3 Ib., 250 in crate .... 55 oz. cans 1 9) € cay
Plaza, 2 gro. CS. oa 5 Ib., 250° in erate .... 65 14M. cans 2 50
ae no oc 11. 00 Churns %Ib cans 3 75 215 Wabash Ave. CHICAGO, ILL.
Plow Boy, 14 oz. ..... 479 Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 40 1lb cans 4 80 ;
Pedro, llc ..... one eee eee hm 3Ib cans 13 00
Pride of Virginia, 1% f Clothes Pins Sih) cans 81 50 GRAND RAPIDS NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA
Pilot, DC ocecee-- eee
Round Head.
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May 21, 1913
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT
31
Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent
continuous insertion.
No charge less than 25 cents.
Cash must accompany all orders.
SUSINESS CHANCES.
For Sale—An ideal factory, suitable for
furniture, automobile or piano manufac-
turing, within one and a half hour of
Detroit, Michigan, on the Grand Trunk
and Pere Marquette railroads. _ Brick
and heavy mill construction. Perfect
sprinkler system and fully equipped with
mill machinery. Nothing better in the
country. For full particulars write to
B. J. H., 25 Jewett Ave., Buffalo, 7 Y
111
For Sale—General stock in town of one
thousand. Annual business twenty-two
thousand. H. T. Stanton, 18 Market St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 127
For Sale Or Lease—Modern, up-to-date
plant. two stories, brick building, over
25,000 feet of floor space. Equipped with
complete power plant, heating system
and dry kilns. Splendid opportunity for
anyone wishing to manufacture furniture,
automobile bodies or other wood-working
lines. Located at Henderson. Ky., near
Evansville. For information write Im-
perial Desk Co., Evansville. eae
25
For Sale—Clean up-to-date stock of dry
goods and ready-to-wear goods. Estab-
lished 15 years. Michigan town of 3,500.
Inventory $12,000. Must retire on account
of health. Address No. 124, care Trades-
man. af
Dry goods, boot and shoe and furniture
store; up-to-date stock; good paying busi-
ness in a manufacturing town of 3,000;
good surrounding country trade; only
stock of its kind in town; established 3
years; best of reasons for selling. Ad-
dress P. O. Box 332, New Hartford,
Conn. 23
sale cheap. Store building with living
rooms attached. Address Box 75, Kosh-
konong, Mo. 122
For Sale—Nineteen room hotel, steam
heat. Only hotel, town 800, All
3,250.
furnished. Address Hotel. Lawrence,
Mich. es
Exchange—My farm for grocery. J. lL.
Shigley, LeRoy, Mich. 119
For Sale—Meat business in a hustling
little town in Southern Michigan. Will
sell or rent fixtures. Address No. 120,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 120
For Sale-—A clean up-to-date stock of
dry goods, ladies’ and gents’ furnishing
goods: largest stock, best location in
city; inventory $15,000; a good cash busi-
ness; established 24 years; been in busi-
ness long enough. Want to get out.
Don't write, come and see. J. R. Rauch
& Son, Plymouth, Mich. 116
For Sale—Drug stock in good live Cen-
tral Michigan town, population 850. Ex-
cellent business. Reason for selling, poor
health. Address No. 117, care eee
For Exchange—240 acres raw land, $30
acre. clear, near Roscommon, Michigan.
A county seat and railroad town about
1.000 population. Want running stock
merchandise. A. M.* Kauffman, Lock-
ridge, Iowa. 114
For Sale—Bakery in town of 2,000 pop-
ulation. Doing good business. No com-
petition. Must sell. Call or write J.
H. Portz, Buchanan, Mich. 113
erchandise
Wanted — Stock general n
Nashville,
112
cheap for cash. 30x 223,
Michigan. :
For Sale—Stock of millinery and fancy
goods. Stock will inventory about $3.000
and will sell for $2,000 cash. It is lo-
cated in a Central Michigan town of
5,000 and is one of the_ best locations
in town. Address No. 110, care Trades-
man. 1
For Sale—Small well selected stock gro-
eeries and fixtures. Located in a first-
class town 5,000. Good building, good
stock and good business. Address C.
O. D.. care Tradesman. 128
Business Opportunity—-Modern _ store
vacant, center of Galesburg, Michigan.
Address N. G. Burdick, 78 LaGrave Ave.,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 98
For Sale—$1,500 stock of shoes, repair
shop in connection. Only repair shop
in good live town of 300 inhabitants in
Western Michigan. Address No. 96, care
Michigan Tradesman. 96
For Sale—A good live millinery store
in town of 1,500 inhabitants. Located
Western Michigan. Good reasons for sell-
ing. Address No 97, care Michigan
Tradesman. 97
For Sale—Only tin shop in town of
1,000 inhabitants. Best town in North-
western Missouri. Good reasons for sell-
ing. Address G. M. Green, King City,
Mo. : 90
For Sale—At a bargain, one 8x6x10
second-hand B. A. Stevens refrigerator.
Further particulars, write or phone A. R.
Hensler, Battle Creek, Mich. 982
We offer for sale, farms and business
property in nearly all counties of Mich-
igan and also in other states of the
Union. We buy, sell and exchange
farms for business property and invite
your correspondence. J. E. Thom & Co.,
7th Floor Kirby Bldg., Saginaw, Mich. 659
I pay cash for stocks or part stocks
of merchandise. Must be cheap.
Kaufer, Milwaukee, Wis.
For Sale—One of _ the
best variety
stocks in Central Michigan. Invoices
$3,800. If taken at once will sacrifice
for $2,500. Address No. 956, care Trades-
man. 956
Merchants Please Take Notice! We
have clients of grocery stocks, general
stocks, dry goods stocks, hardware stocks,
drug stocks. We have on our list also a
few good farms to exchange for such
stocks. Also city property. If you wish
to sell or exchange your business write
us. G. R. Business Exchange, 540 House-
man Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. 859
For Sale—Clean stock of general mer-
chandise, located in town 1,400 popula-
tion, doing $25,000 annual business. Good
reasons for selling. Address Box 205,
Yale, Mich. 30
For Sale—Confectionery, ice cream,
business lunch and bakery. Located op-
posite union depot and boat landing, in
town of 35,000 inhabitants on Lake
Michigan. Have other business to at-
tend to and will sell very reasonable.
Sales average $50 per day. 75 per cent.
transient trade. Address No. 941, care
Tradesman, 941
For Sale—Stock general merchandise,
invoicing $4,500. Cash business last year,
$22,500. Reason for selling, poor health.
Address Morrell & Lyle, Sherman, ue
$50 per week and up. How far up de-
pends on you. Enormous sums are being
made by Oxygenator Salesmen—one had
made $21,500 in three years; another
$6,000 in one year; another $4,500 in six
months. Western Oxygenator Co., Be-
atrice, Neb. 58
Get our list of ‘Lands and Business
Chances” in Grand Traverse fruit belt of
Michigan. If we sell your land or stock
of merchandise, the entire cost will be
but $25. Send for proposition. Pardee
Business Exchange, Traverse City, ie
Furniture Business For Sale—Will_in-
voice at about $12,000. Located in Tur-
lock, in the famous Turlock irrigation
district. Over 175,000 acres in the dis-
trict. Population 3,000. Growing every
day. Good reasons for selling. Sales last
year, $30,000. Address Box 217, Turlock,
Cali. 20
For Sale or Trade—Two ‘Thurman’s
vacuum cleaners, hand power, with all
attachments. Cost each $50. What have
you; Carl Grau, Taylor, Texas. 71
For Sale—Stock of furniture, fixtures,
rugs, carpets, wallpaper and jewelry. Is
equipped for undertaking business. Stock
will inventory about $5,000. Enquire A.
H. Blanchard, Shelby, Michigan. 2
~ General Store For Sale—Mainly dry
Write for particulars. Address
goods.
Kuehl’s, Wanatah, Indiana. 105
Wanted—aA live hotel man as a tenant
for the New National Hotel building at
Reed City, Michigan. Present local hotel
accommodations very poor. A good hotel
would have little competition. _ Address
Howard F. Withey, Reed City, ae os
For Sale—My stock of general mer-
echandise and good will, also my store
and real estate. Doing a good prosper-
ing business. Stock and fixtures about
$10,000, in strictly first-class shape. Rea-
son for selling, wish to retire after 21
years active service. For particulars ad-
dress Lock Box 57, Peshtigo, Wis. 107
"To trade Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas
farms for merchandise or city property.
Box 67, Hatfield, Ark. 106
Business Wanted—I am ooking for a
good opening for cash; agents and spec-
ulators need not answer; give full par-
ticulars in first letter. Address M.,
Tradesman, Box 1261 Cherry vanes,
nois.
I bring buyers and sellers together.
Write me if you want to buy, sell or
exchange any kind of business or real
estate anywhere. Established 1881.
Frank P. Cleveland, 1261 Adams Express
Bldg., Chicago, Illinois. 357
Canning factory and coal business for
sale or trade. Splendid reasons for de-
siring change. Address No. 919, care
Michigan Tradesman. 919
‘about $4,000
Grandfather's clock works, $5.00—
Slightly shop-worn, quantity limited,
others with chimes, all prices; also sev-
eral nice Grandfather’s clock cases, ex-
ceptional bargains. Clock Company, 1688
Ruffner St., Philadelphia, Pa. 93
For Sale—Stock general merchandise
and farm implements in small railroad
town in Central Michigan. Good farming
country. Expenses very low. Address
A. M., care Tradesman. i
Books and stationery for sale; good
book store, well located in best town
Western Colorado. Address Owner, R.
Culver, Montrose, Colo. 88
For Sale—Drug stock and fixtures, wall
paper, window shades, in live town of
4,000 population. Reason for selling, other
business. Inventory about $7,000. Ad-
dress W. & S., care Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 87
For Sale—Art needlework and infants’
wear shop. High-class, well established.
Only one of its kind in city of 35,000.
3est location. Invoice about $7,000. Il
health reason for selling. Address Ham-
mer’s Shop, 159 E. Colorado St., Pasa-
dena, Cali. 86
Window trimmer and card writer with
12 years’ experience in general mer-
chandising, is open for a position. Can
give Al reference. Address Emeil F.
Witt, Port Clinton, Ohio. 94
For Sale—Hotel in best small town in
Michigan. Rates, $2. Good business.
Will sell house and furniture or rent
house, pool room and soft drink in con-
nection. Rent reasonable. Reason, poor
health. Address Hotel, care Tradesman.
Location wanted for a variety store.
Live town, 1,200 to 4,000 population.
Brick building. Well located. Southern
Michigan, Northern Indiana or Northern
Ohio preferred. Address Hustler, care
Tradesman, 64
If you wish to buy, sell or exchange any
legitimate business of any kind, anywnere,
consult our Business Chance Department.
Its operation is national in scope and
offers unexcelled services to the seller,
as well as the buyer. Advantageous ex-
changes for other properties are often
arranged. In writing, state fully your
wants. The Varland System, Capital
Bank, St. Paul, Minn. 814
truck, 20
Jansen & Joos-
43
For Sale—Cheap, half ton
horsepower, solid tires.
ten, Flanagan, Il.
Hallow wire system gasoline lights
with twelve lamps and tank complete; also
eighteen gravity feed gasoline lamps for
sale or trade, Carl Grau, Taylor, Texas.
72
Extra good location for general store in
fine country town. Fine new brick block,
22x80 feet. Modern in every respect. One
of the very best business towns in the
State. I am closing out my business
because of ill health. Object is to sublet
my lease. I have one and one-half
years, with privilege of two more. Will
sell fixtures and balance of stock at
bargain.
Mich.
3
Address Box 193, Middleton,
80
For Sale—Sawmill property at Ford
River, Michigan, consisting of three band
sawmill, shingle mill, tie and post mill,
lath mill, docks and trams, blacksmith
shop and machine shop all stocked with
tools, large store and office building,
large boarding house, large barns, sixty-
three houses, lands, ete., all of which
will be sold at a bargain. Apply to The
I. Stephenson Co., Wells, Delta County,
Michigan. 78
For Sale or Exchange—Fine 80-acre
farm in Southern Michigan. Will ex-
change for shoe store. For particulars
address Charlie Corey, Route No. 6.
Bellevue, Mich.
a
For Sale—Good clean stock general
merchandise, located in best town 800
population in Central Michigan. Invoices
Fine business, excellent
farming country. Will sell at inventory.
Deal with owner, no agents. Address
No. 907, care Tradesman. 907
$3,000,000 monthly dividends now being
paid to investors in Oklahoma oil com-
panies: $2.20 returned for every dollar in-
vested last year. Oil production sur-
passes in value that of any other state.
Only state whose production is increas-
ing; $100 invested now may make you
independent; information free. Oklahoma
Oil Development Association, 419 First
National Bank, Tulsa, Okla. 8
Safes Opened—W. L. Slocum, safe ex-
pert and locksmith. -97 Monroe Ave.,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 104
Will pay cash for stock of shoes and
rubbers. Address M. J. O., care Trades-
man.
Grocery, well-located in business dis-
trict. Have done a large business for the
last 15 years, books stand investigation;
at $1,000, but will reduce stock to $500.
Address Grocery, care Tradesman. 84
For Sale—An up-to-date bazaar stock
in West Branch, Mich. Good reason for
selling. Address Jarboe & Co. 8
For Sale—Grocery and building on good
corner in Detroit. I have other business
requiring my time. Address F. A. Vogel,
601 17th St., Detroit, Michigan. 89
For Sale—Crockery and bazaar stock,
inventories $3,000 to $4,000. Doing best
cash business in city. No rundown stock.
Must sell account ill health. Snap for
someone if taken at once. Address _ 77,
care Tradesman. TT
For Merchandise—240 acres three miles
R. R. town of 1,500 and nine miles county
seat, Canadian county, Okla. 140 acres
in cultivation, 100 pasture. Elegant 10-
room house with hot and cold water; two
large barns. Improvements worth $5,000
to $6,000. Well located and very_desir-
able. Also 240 acres five miles good R. R.
town of 2,500. 1380 acres in cultivation,
balance pasture. Small improvements.
Good land. Will handle clean merchand-
ise up to $26,000. Might consider building.
If you want a good home and good deal,
write me now. W. J. Finch, El Reno,
Okla. 74
Automobile bargain for sale. My King
car with full equipment, tires 35x4% and
two extra tires and rims, quick detach-
able rims, Presto tank, storage battery.
Gabriel and Klaxton horns and full equip-
ment. If interested in a bargain see N.
Robbi Grand Haven, Mich. 81
For Sale—A good hardware and paint
business, with repair shop in connection,
$2,500. Monthly business over $500. Store,
Washington and Main streets, Los Ange-
les, Cali. Owner wishes to retire from
hardware _ business. Address W. E.
Johansen, 1843 S. Main St., Los fea
Cali.
HELP WANTED.
Wanted — Registered Pharmacist or
druggist. State particulars, salary want-
ed. H WwW. Zalsman, Northport, Mich.
126
Wanted—Clerks to learn show card
writing. Quickest, sanest and most suc-
cessful system ever devised. Low cost.
Address E. Kummen, Box 17, St. Paul,
Minn. 63
Wanted—Subscription solicitors who
have had actual experience in securing
subscribers for trade journals. State ex-
perience, length of time employed and
names of former employers. Address No.
897, care Michigan Tradesman. 897
Wanted—Clerk for general store. Must
be sober and industrious and have some
previous experience. References required.
Address Store, care Tradesman. 42
SITUATIONS WANTED.
Bread and pastry baker wants situation.
Six years’ experience. Single and re-
liable. Address Gust Anderson, Dela-
van, Wis. 121
AUCTIONEERS.
Auction Sale—Expert services guaran-
teed closing out or reducing stocks of
merchandise. For dates and information
write to Henry Noring, Auctioneer, Reeds-
burg, Wis. 115
Tanglefoot
Gets
50,000,000,000
Flies a year—vastly more than
all other means combined.
The Sanitary Fly Destroyer—
Non-Poisonous.
32
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
May 21, 1913
What Properly Constitutes a Grocer.
At first blush it may seem as
though the mere raising of the ques-
tion is a trivial academic diversion
er a basis for an ethical discussion,
but as a matter of fact it is coming
to the front more or less seriously
for grocers in several states, in the
light of certain well defined move-
ments to have laws enacted defining
just what a grocer may legitimately
sell and what not. If it continues,
it May important and
pertinent question demanding settle-
ment.
From various quarters come re-
ports that legislation, said to ema-
nate from druggists associations, has
been proposed this year to prevent
from selling patent medi-
cines, although in the original bot-
tles and underl the original labels,
just as prepared by the manufactur-
er. In St. Louis, it appears the Sec-
retary of the Missouri State Board
of Pharmacy issued formal warning
to retail grocers containing the fol-
lowing language:
become an
grocers
“Information has been filed in this
office that you are in violation of the
pharmacy law by selling drugs with-
out having a registered pharmacist
in charge. I do not want to be com-
pelled to prosecute you and will give
you a few days in which to adjust
the conditions in your store before
taking further action.”
In this case the grocer refused to
be scared, even when informed by
the Board that “business ethics
ought to prevent a grocer from sell-
ing remedies,’ and informed the
Board that he was openly selling the
remedy at issue—Castoria—and pro-
posed to continue to do so. And in
his determination the indications are
that the grocers’ association’ will
stand by and support him.
Quite aside from the merits—ethi-
cal or legal—of this particular case,
it indicates a rather startling frame
of mind on the part of druggists to-
ward what has heretofore never been
at issue—the right to sell proprietary
articles, whether they be drugs,
chemicals, foods or anything else. If
such restrictions are to be pursued
far enough, it is conceivable that the
grocer may be limited in what he
may consider merchandise until he
is legislated out of business alto-
gether.
Tf this was a case—such as the laws
probably contemplate—where the un-
trained and even ignorant grocer (so
far as pharmacology goes) was trying
to compound drugs or do other tech-
nical things which demand the skill
and knowledge of a druggist or chem-
ist there would be no question about
the necessity for prohibiting a grocer
selling medicines. But no such thing
is claimed here. The grocer merely
bought a proprietary article in its
bottle, never opened it or professed to
know anything about it, and its thera-
peutic qualities, and sold it exactly as
he would foods, or hardware, or
clothes-pins, or any of the other va-
ried commodities found on_ his
shelves. Wherefore the assault on
the grocer virtually means that he is
to be vised and restricted in what
he can call “groceries.”
Just what constitutes “groceries” is
a genuine question. Evolution has
heretofore worked out as close a defi-
nition as possible, but it has been a
definition which was_ constantly
changing. Once on a time the gro-
cer carried perhaps fifty or sixty
staple articles: to-day he carries on
his shelves probably 3,000 articles, and
to-morrow he may find it prudent to
sell 10,000. The late Finley Acker of
Philadelphia once said in an address
that he considered as “groceries”
anything which would sell at a profit
in his store and be worth handling.
He started at groceries, next drifted
to a bakery and delicatessen. then to
confectionery, next to certain table
decorations, to a soda fountain, an
afternoon tea room, a restaurant, and
finally to a certain extent to the sale
of domestic appliances.
Many of these were not “groceries”
at first, but became such by logical
association of utility.
In exactly the same way druggists
have found association of commodi-
ties in the convenience of the cus-
tomer, leading them away from orig-
inal apothecary limitations. Once on
a time the sole business of the apoth-
ecary was to sell drugs and chemicals.
Tt was logical that soda water should
originally attach to the drug store
and that toilet articles should grad-
ually seek company with surgical and
sanitary appliances. The soda foun-
tain begot the hot coffee and _ the
chocolate and wafer was a natural
evolution. So were the egg and the
lemon and other fruits, and, as the
coffee was delicious, the consumer of
a cup naturally wanted a pound of
the material to carry home for home
consumption and encouraged the
druggist to put it up for him. To-
day many a drug store has become
a near-restaurant, and, in certain
limited lines, a grocery store. In
the same way drug stores have added
toilet articles, stationery and candy
and a variety of sanitary wearing ap-
parel. It is as proper to challenge the
variety of sanitary wearing apparel.
it is as proper to challenge the
ethical right of a druggist to sell
groceries and clothing and crockery
and glassware and stationery on the
basis of “drugs,” as to sic the Board
of Pharmacy onto the grocer for sell-
ing patent medicines.
If the question involved a menace
to the public in having dangerous
drugs sold by irresponsible grocers
or $10 a week clerks were compound-
ing dangerous drugs, there might be
grounds for calling the matter in
question, but so long as it has to do,
not with “chemicals and drugs” as
such, but merely with “bottles” of
proprietary articles, where is the dif-
ference between selling olive oil for
salads or for medicine; sodium chlor-
ide as a drug or as a table salt; glu-
cose as a chemical or as “corn syrup”
for pancakes? Judged purely as an
ethical question, there appears no
more danger in having sauce for the
goose than for the gander in the mat-
ter of “keeping on your own side of
the fence.” On the contrary, it looks
as though certain druggists’ associa-
tions are trying to work a board of
pharmacy to squeeze out the legiti-
mate rights of a merchant in ways
which the anti-trust laws or the laws
of fair dealing would discountenance.
The grocer may be a grocer and the
druggist may be a druggist as a spec-
ialty, but in being such he does not
abandon his rights as a merchant to
sell whatever his trade will buy at a
profit.
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John Cowley was once a butler in
the home of an important financier
of New York. The latter was in the
habit of bringing other financiers
home to dinner and talking over the
stock market with them. On one of
these occasions he told how he in-
tended to buy in a lot of stock on the
following day. The butler overheard
the remark. So, first thing next morn-
ing, he drew out his savings and hur-
ried down to. Wall Street. There
he bought in as much stock as_ his
money would permit. An hour later
his master—Jay Gould—sent his men
into the exchange and began to buy.
The market went soaring. A week
later Cowley resigned his position
and went to live at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. When he died he left an es-
tate of several millions.
Ne
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The most unreasonable merchant I
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_ grocer who follows such old-fashioned
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