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THE MAN WHO WINS THE MAN WHO FAILS

The man who wins is an average man; The man who fails is the sort of a chap
Not built on any peculiar plan, Who is always looking around for a snap;
Not blest with any peculiar luck; Who neglects his work to regard the clock;
Just steady and earnest and full of pluck. Who never misses a chance to knock.
When asked a question he does not “guess” — He is grouchy and slow when work begins;
He knows, and answers ‘“‘No”’ or “‘Yes;” When it’s time to quit he jokes and grins;
When set a task that the rest can’t do, He’s always as busy as busy can be,

He buckles in till he’s put it through. When he thinks the boss is around to see.

Three things he’s learned: that the man who tries He believes a ‘‘pull’’ is the only way

Finds favor in his employer’s eyes; By which he can ever draw bigger pay;

That it pays to know more than one thing well; And he sulks and growls when he sees his plan
That it doesn’t pay all he knows to tell. Upset by the “push” of another man.

So he works and waits, till one fine day He’s on the job when he draws his pay;
There’s a better job with bigger pay, That done, he soldiers his time away;

And the men who shirked whenever they could While the men who tackle their jobs with vim
Are bossed by the man whose work was good. Keep pushing and climbing ahead of him.

For the man who wins is the man who works, For the man who fails has himself to blame,
Who neither labor nor trouble shirks, If he wastes his chances and misses his aim;
Who uses his hands, his head, his eyes; He’d win, if he’d used his hands and wits;
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The successful grocer makes it a point to please
his customers. Have you ever noticed that all
of them sell FLEISCHMANN'S YEAST? They
wouldn't do it unless it pleased their customers.
They also consider the profit, which makes it

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WHEN YOU SEE

THE GOOD
SIGN OF CANDY

‘DOUBLE A’”’

Remember it came from

The PUTNAM FACTORY, National Candy Co., Inc.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FRANKLIN CARTON SUGAR

IS A LABOR SAVER

Grocers of to-day realize that they must work hard
enough without doing anything that is not absolutely neces-
sary, so they welcome the FRANKLIN CARTON which
takes all the work out of retailing sugar. FRANKLIN

CARTON SUGAR is READY TO SELL WHEN YOU =

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overweight. Use the time you would take for putting sugar
in bags to make a display of the neat blue FRANKLIN
CARTONS; they'll sell, because FRANKLIN CARTON
SUGAR is well known to the public.

You can buy Franklin Carton Sugar in the original
containers of 24, 48, 60 and 120 Ibs.

THE FRANKLIN SUGAR REFINING CO.
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any coffees roasted by Dwinell-Wright Co., Boston
and Chicago, whose well known brands find a ready
sale in all the markets of this country. Coffee
drinkers are perfectly aware that any package or
brand of coffee bearing the magic legend,

“DWINELL-WRIGHT CO.” on its container is all
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Thirty-First Year

SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page.

2. Some of the Beauties of Automo-
biling.

3. News from Jackson and the Soo.

4. News of the Business World.

5. Grocery and Produce Market.

6. Financial.

8. Editorial.

9. Hodenpyl Woods.

10. Window and Interior Decorations.

11. Barend Zevaikink Retires.

12. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.

14. Clothing.

15. Doings in Michigan.

16. Dry Goods.

18. Shoes.

20. Woman’s World.

22. Hardware.

24. The Commercial Traveler.

26. Drugs.

27. Drug Price Current.

28. Grocery Price Current.

30. Special Price Current.

DETROIT DETONATIONS.

 

 

Cogent Criticisms From Michigan’s
Metropolis.

Detroit, Sept. 15—Percy Palmer,
Canadian merchant,
paid Detroit a visit last week in the
interest of his new department store,
which is conducted under the firm
name of Palmer & Clarke. Percy had
the same old smile as of yore, but
smokes cheaper cigars since he has
no expense account to pad. The new
firm will have their formal opening
about Oct. 1 in Windsor, Ont. They
have the best wishes of their many
friends in their new venture.

Thousands viewed the down town
display of “Made in Detroit’' articles
last week, the merchants donating the
use of their show windows for the
purpose. It was, indeed, a revelation
to even those who have lived in De-
troit all their lives to find out the
great number of articles that are
made here. One of the signs that
impressed many and was placed with
all exhibits was: “If Detroit made
goods are good enough for the rest
of the world, they are good enough
for us.” There has been a brisk in-
crease in the sale of Detroit made
goods at home as the result of the
campaign inaugurated by the Board
of Commerce, to say nothing of the
great educational advantages engen-
dered.

Frank Minnie (Edson, Moore &
Co.) was in Detroit last week. One
noticeable thing about Frank—who,
by the way, lives in Port Huron—is
that he is the same old Frank he
was before he became a bond-holder.
His name may be Minnie, but he is
a whale when it comes to dishing out
merchandise to the merchants.

Some people are so_ strong for
righteousness that they don’t mind
maligning a few people in order to
help their cause.

N. Cohen, who conducts a clothing
and furnishing goods store at 1146
Russell street, tiring of single blessed-
ness, hied himself to New York—
possibly because the assortment was
larger—and brought back a_ lovely
bride to help share his joys and sor-
rows. My. Cohen married Miss

the blooming

 

GRAND RAPIDS,

Louise Stone, of New York City, last
week. The best wishes of their many
friends are bestowed on the happy
couple.

The firm of Wangrove & Schiller,
dry goods and furnishing goods, 1119
St. Aubin avenue, has dissolved part-
nership, the Schiller interest being
purchased by Harry Wangrove, who,
with his characteristic push, has
added clothing to his stock and will,
undoubtedly, make a success of the
business under his own name and
direction.

Here’s a chance for some of those
famous Grand Rapids U. C. T.
babies: Harry Rude, the live De-
troit merchant, has a boy’ two
months old whom he will back
against any kid up to six months of
age—to fight at catchweights. The
only handicap the Ruda kid has is
his name—Louis. That’s no name
for a fighter.

Jim Phillips, looking as hale and
hearty as of yore, was in town last
week on a business trip. Jim is now
a teal up-to-date village merchant
and holds forth at Barryton. In or-
der to convince the writer that he
also was some farmer, Jim showed
us a picture where he was picking
apples, but that was far from con-
vincing us that he is a farmer. We
also pick apples when we get near
a tree—and no one is looking. Jim’s
friends, whose names are legion, will
be pleased to know he has again re-
gained his health.

Which is some space to devote to
one citizen of Barryton—by the
sawdust pile.

Adam Diehm, of Diehm Bros., Re-
mus, not to be outdone by his friend,
Mr. Phillips, also spent the week in
Detroit on business, which, of course,
means it was also a week of pleasure.
Adam. like his illustrious namesake.
is also one of the first men to do
things, lively and aggressive—a little
man with a big mind. In behalf of
Mr. Diehm, we wish to state that his
conduct was exemplary while in the
city where life is worth living.

Which goes to show there is a
town named Remus in Michigan.

Traveling men, keep tab on those
hotels which are violating the State
law by using roller towels and re-
port it, if you are a member of the
U. C. T., to your council at the next
meeting. If not a member, tell some-
one who is a member who the guilty
party is and then get busy and be-
come a member.

Harry Thaw is persistent enough
to make a good traveling man.

Richard Swanton, former automo-
bile salesman, has taken a position
with the Nelson Blanck Manufac-
turing Co. This mew concern is
manufacturing a newly-patented drill

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1913

head that the manufacturers claim
will cut down the cost of drilling to
a great extent. “Dick” will repre-
sent the firm in Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin. This will be his first at-
tempt at a traveling position and his
many friends look to him to make
a success from the start.

Detroit Council, U. C. T., No. 9,
holds its regular monthly meeting
Saturday night, Sept. 20. A full at-
tendance is requested, as business of
importance will be transacted and
final plans submitted for the boosters
night to be held Oct. 18.

W. S. Lawton. Grand Conductor of
the Grand Council, U. C. T. of Mich-
igan spent last week in Detroit on
business. Walter is as well known
in Detroit as in his home village,
Grand Rapids. In discussing the
picnic recently given by Grand Rap-
ids Council, he stated that he want-
ed to go the worst way. We sug-
gested that the worst way we knew
was to go in R. E. Dewey's auto.
While in the city Mr. Lawton re-
ceived and accepted an invitation to
attend a clam bake given by the Re-
tail Druggists’ Association. At last
reports he was able to take nourish-
ment.

We presume the sandwich referred
to by the Mears humorist, Ches.
Brubaker, was a pretzel between two
beers. Speaking of beer, we notice
that he also has a “brew in his
name.

PON, merchant
prince of Beulah, spent a month in
and about Merrill in the interest of
some Grand Rapids jobbers. How-
ever, we believe that Merrill, unless
a relapse sets in, will recover from
the shock.

Reed, former

Ray Flarris, representing the Thos.
Madden Son Co., of Indianapolis,
was a Detroit visitor last week. Ray
used to be so thin that when he
worked in the Winegar furniture
store, in Grand Rapids, he was afraid
to get near the curtain fixture de-
partment for fear he might accident-
ly be sold for a curtain pole. Ray’s
home is in Grand Rapids, the City
of Virtue.

Ben. Spelman, who recently pur-
chased the general stock of the Case
Mercantile Co., of Benzonia, appear-
ed in Detroit all dolled up last week.
Ben, who has quite a reputation as
a lively youngster in and about Ben-
zonia, appeared very meek and mild
while in Detroit. P. S. Ben. was ac-
companied by his wife.

Streng & Zinn, the enterprising
dry goods merchants of Kalamazoo,
have completed and moved into their
newly-remodeled store, which now
places them on a par with the best
stores of its kind in the State.

John Caddy and William Rodney

 

Number 1565

Pike, of G. H. Gates & Co., and Dr.
Sell went on a fishing expedition on
the Au Sable river recently. They
had phenomenal luck during their
two weeks’ stay; in fact, their luck
was so great that they didn’t lose a
cent. Will Pike says they caught so
many fish that one day they were
obliged to throw away two of them.

I’. H. Buck, elongated representa-
tive for the Dr. Fenner Medical Co.,
was another Detroit
week, who hails from the town of
perpetual torn up
Rapids.

visitor last
streets—Grand

the roller
towel still rolls on in many places.
The special committee, headed by
H. D. Murray. has sent out a rous-
ing letter, calling on all members. of
U. C .V. Council, No. 9, to put their
shoulder to the wheel to make the
BIG NIGHT on Oct. 18 one to be
long remembered.

Despite the new law,

It is expected a
great class will be on hand to be ini
tiated at that time.

In reply to our critics hailing from
the Furniture City, we wish to state
that, contrary to what our beloved
better half calls us, we are not an
elephant, consequently we couldn't
be expected to always’ have our
trunk with us.

Both Detroit councils now have
real live
committees. Battle Creek has Pfand-
er, Traverse City -has a perpetual
Richter and now
Grand Rapids has the greatest boost-

up-to-the-minute booster

booster in F. C.

er committee in its history—all of
which speaks well fo rthe U. C. 1.
in Michigan. A little boosting and
enthusiasm works wonders for the
respective councils. Cadillac Coun-
cil, No. 143, offers a prize for the
member bringing in the greatest
number of applications.

Frank Hutchinson has been con-
fined to his home during tie past
week with a severe attack of rheu-
Frank, who is one of A.
Krolik & Co.’s veteran salesmen, is

matism.

able to be out at this writing.

John McMahon (Edson, Moore &
Co.) who has been ill at his home for
several months, returned to his work
Monday.

A. F. Rockwell, the new Grand
correspondent, stated last
week apropos to our losing a trunk,
that he could imagine us walking the
streets of Shelby and tearing our
hair. ‘“Rocky’™ must have some gi-
gantic stretch of imagination to fig-
ure us out as tearing our hair. Once
we did have hair, but we are mar-
ried now.

Rapids

Hundreds of merchants are paying
the manufacturing and jobbing con-
cerns of Detroit a visit this week, in-
cidentally taking in the sights at the
Michigan State Fair.

(Continued on page thirty-two)

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

September 17, 1913

 

Doings in the Buckeye State.
Written for the Tradesman.

Youngstown’s new hotel, the Ohio,
will be formally opened Sept. 29 and
the local Chamber of Commerce will
co-operate in the function.

Columbus is discussing plans for a
“Made-in-Columbus” week, to be held
next month.

Columbus merchants are getting
ready for the style show to be held
Oct. 1 to 4.

The “Good Roads” building was
one of the leading attractions on the
State fair grounds, Columbus, this
year and it is planned to double the
space next season.

All shoe shining stands have been
ordered forthwith from the sidewalks
of Canton.

O. K. Shimansky, a newspaper man,
is the new President of the Ohio
State Board of Commerce. Governor
Cox and many others believed that
the Board needs new blood.

D. C. Alexander, Jr., commercial
agent for the United States Depart-
ment of Commerce, has been visiting
large manufacturing plants in Colum-
bus and other cities and he advises
manufacturers to establish co-operat-
headquarters in China, Japan,
Java, and Austrailia to replace indi-
vidual offices or foreign agencies. He
suggests, for example, that several
non-competing manufacturers of mine
machinery combine, so that together
they will be able to equip a mine in
contract, instead of compelling
the native promoter to buy from 4
number of concerns. He urges com-
mercial patriotism as a factor in for-
eign competition, the patriotism which
is so highly developed to-day in Ger-
many.

Chas. McIntyre, of Troy, a trained
agriculturist, has been placed in charge
of all farm lands in connection with
State institutions and Governor Cox
expects that under this system the
State will effect a saving of $100,000
annually.

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one

still
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the states in
products, the

Ohio

output last year reaching nearly $35,-
000,000,
The
larging its docks and yards at San-
dusky at a
dollars.
Final reports show that the city
of Cincinnati made a profit of fully
$2,500 in operating several of the
private ice plants during the recent
strike. Almond Griffen.
——_.+.—____

News Items From Upper Peninsula
Points.
Houghton—Ellis George, dealer in
furnishings,
whose stock was partly destroyed by
fire June 13, will open for business

in the same stand.

Pennsylvania Railroad is en-

cost of over a million

groceries and women’s

Iron River—Gus A. Colberg, of Iron
River, formerly of Tower, Minn., has
filed a voluntary petition in bank-
ruptcy in the United States district
court for this district. He has liabil-
ities of $8,900.32 and assets of $67.57.

Marquette—A verdict for the Mar-
quette County Savings Bank, defend-
ant in a suit for $482.96, brought by
frank Johnson,a Skandia grocer, was
directed Saturday by Judge Flannigan
in Circuit Court. Johnson claimed that

he sold goods to the Peterson Lum-
ber Co. for $482.96, that he did not re-
ceive payment for, and that the Bank,
as mortgagee for the company, was
responsible. The contract between
the Peterson Co. and Johnson was
the most important evidence in the
case, and the entire suit hinged on
it, explained Judge Flannigan in or-
dering a verdict for the Bank. While
Mr. Johnson sold the goods, with the
belief that if the lumber company did
not pay for them the Bank would,
there was no such provision in the
contract, he said, and for this reason
the case could not hold.
Negaunee—Frank L. Streimez and
Louis Delfavero this week opened a
candy and cigar store on the corner
of Iron and Tobin streets, in the
building formerly occupied by M. T.
Murphy as a clothing store.
Marquette—Business America, the
Magazine of Fair Play, is the new
name of a monthly publication owned
by E. N. Breitung of Marquette, ani
issued in New York. Something over
a year ago Mr. Breitung purchased a
magazine devoted to banking, and
shortly after it came into his posses-
sion he determined to change its
form. Business American is the re-
sult. It has a popular appeal, is il-
lustrated and is in the hands of an
expert corps of publishers and editors,

‘who have been making rapid advances

with it.

Escanaba—Charles A. Childs, who
has managed J. Sellwood & Co.’s dry
goods department, at Ishpeming, for
the last seven years, has tendered his
resignation to Manager Matthews to
accept a position in Ed. Erickson’s
store here. Mr. Childs will have
charge of the entire first floor of the
Erickson establishment, which is the
largest of its kind in the city. The
first floor is given up entirely to dry
goods, notions, etc., the cloak depart-
ment being on the second floor.

 

Ishpeming—Roy Matthews, son of
Richard Matthews, manager of J.
Sellwood & Co.’s mercantile business
in this city, will succeed C. A. Childs
as manager of the dry goods depart-
ment on the first of the coming month,
when Mr. Childs will go to Escana-
ba, to accept a position in Ed. Erick-
son’s store. Mr. Matthews has been

‘employed in the grocery department

since he gave up his position as in-
structor in the manual training school.
—_.-+
Some of the Beauties of Automo-
biling.

Portland, Sept. 15—I recently re-
turned from an automobile trip to Pe-
toskey which was full of interest. We
left Portland Sunday noon, and ran
to Jonia, Belding, Greenville, Lake-
view, Barryton, Evart, Cadillac, Trav-
erse City, Charlevoix, Petoskey and
Bay View.

The road conditions were very good
all the way. With the exception of
a few miles of swamp corduroy roads
north of Barryton and a few miles of
sand between Evart and Cadillac and
a few hills that were some bad, there
was nothing to mar the delights of
this run. At Sherman there is a
hill which seems to be famous as a
bad one, but we found it not so bad
as represented. We would advise that

one take (in the ascent) a start on the
right side of the road then at the
middle of the hill turn to the left and
this will be easy climbing. It was
not bad when we went up, but was
more dry and sandy when we came
down, at which time I would suggest
that the driver take the reverse road,
which will be easier than the way you
would climb up the grade.

From Cadillac to Traverse City the
road is fine. Fine hard gravel. nearly
all the way and the new roads, of
which there are many miles not re-
corded in the road guides, are all
good. There are but a few places
which make the automobilist say
bad words, and these are few and far
apart, so that they do not mar the
happiness one gets from the stretches
of fine roads.

It makes me ashamed of road con-
ditions around Tonia county when we
ride over such beautiful stretches of
fine gravel and stone roads as are
found in some of the desolate wastes
of the North.

If you wish to traverse the funniest
road in the State, to the best of my
knowledge, try the one from Mecosta
to Barryton. I ran over it in order
to get home, and it twists and winds
through jack pines and low swamps
in a way to make a cork screw envious,
and in places one has to go into low
gear in order to get over stumps and
snags clear across the one track. The
road crosses a stub railroad (Big Rap-
ids to Barryton) some eight times in
two miles, and it is just a continual
succession of twists and turns, making
it impossible for a large part of the
way to see six rods ahead of the ma-
chine. I came over it in the night,
and perhaps this had something to do
with the weird effect the run had for
me. It would be advisable to enquire
at each town, of a garage man or
automobilist, as to the proper direc-
tions, as in some places they are work-
ing roads and I found the printed
guide to be faulty on this account at
one or two places, but I did not get
a bad direction from any one from
whom I made enquiry.

I am advising all my friends to take
the run. It is worth while to live
and be able to see what we have in
the State from the deck of a machine
and I would not have missed this run
for anything, as it has been a great
educator for me. Elon A. Richards.

The Switzerland of America.

Northport Point, Sept. 15—In going
from Grand Rapids to Grand Trav-
erse Bay, we decided not to go via
Greenville, but take the more direct
route along the G. R. & I. and wer2
quite satisfied with our experience.
We easily reached Cadillac by 6 p.
m. Excepting the roads from Reed
City to Tustin, we found little to com-
plain of.

Charles Mitchell told me that from
ten miles south of Cadillac to Manton
and Sherman and north to the coun-
ty line, thirty-four miles, would all
be fine roads another year.

With Mr. Pike and Mr.
started Saturday morning and
to Traverse City, Elk Rapids

Ward, we
drove
and

Charlevoix, arriving at Petoskey easi-
ly by 4 p. m., over roads on the aver-

age far better than Kent county. The
next day we drove to Harbor Point
and intervening resorts and back to
Charlevoix for dinner and to Traverse
City for supper.

Then, after two days of such beau-
tiful drives, the third day proved to
be the most charming. Heading for
Empire, on Lake Michigan, on the
outskirts of Traverse City we entered
a valley that for fine farms, beautiful
orchards on the hillsides and charm-
ing views of hills and valleys out over
the Bay to Neahtawanta and Old
Mission surpassed anything we had
ever seen and rarely equalled in Mich-
igan or elsewhere. Then, after a few
miles of less fertile country and poor-
er roads, we passed through Empire
and on to Glen Lake and Glen Arbor,
and—to our great surprise and delight
—found the prettiest views of all. I
shall never forgive you if you do not
improve your first opportunity to
drive there, nor will your old friend,
Walker, of Walker’s Inn, where you
will be warmly received and find cater-
ing par excellence. Don’t neglect it,
nor delay long in going and then I
shall expect you to do justice to the
scenic Swiss spot of Michigan by de-
scribing it for us in the Tradesman.

Gaius W. Perkins.
nm
Sold Goods in Court.

Iron River, Sept. 15—Merchants of
Iron River won their first battle with
itinerant traders when M. J. Darling,
of Escanaba, paid a fine of $5 and costs
for selling goods without a State li-
cense, instead of testing the law in
the higher courts, as he announced he
would do when arrested two weeks
ago. All the other street hawkers
packed their belongings and left
town when the lid was clapped on,
with the exception of Darling. He
rented a vacant lot in the rear of the
Bayington Hotel and continued sell-
ing. Prosecuting Attorney Waffen
filed a complaint against him upon
the affidavit of Councilman Miller.
Darling acted as his own attorney and
made an impassioned plea before the
jury. Tears rolled down his cheeks
as he pointed to his boy and told how
he was compelled to follow the voca-
tion for which he was arrested in or-
der to support his family. In response
to Darling’s plea of poverty Prose-
cuting Attorney Waffen called the
jury’s attention to a big flashing “dia-
mond” on the former’s finger and an-
other sparkler in his tie.

“You may have both of them for
a dollar,” said Darling, jerking the
ring off his finger and the pin out of
his tie.

“Taken,” replied Waffen, gathering
up the “jewelry” and laying a dollar
on the table.

Darling put the money in his pock-
et and smiled. It was the first sale
he had made for more than a week.

——_.--

Impress upon employes the fact that
the difference between a fair salary
and a good one is just the difference
between czreless service and caretul
service.

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Routine in the ordinary everyday
duties of the business makes things
run more smoothly. What becomes
a habit requires no special endeavor,

 

 

 

 

 

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September 17, 1913

Doings in the Hoosier State.
Written for the Tradesman.

The “Hills Says” haberdasher shop,
at Evansville, has been incorporated,
with $35,000 capital.

A bill has been introduced in Con-
gress which provides for the purchase
of a site and the erection of a half
million dollar Federal building in Fort
Wayne.

Mishawaka’s home coming celebra-
tion, which was conducted under the
auspices of the Business Men’s As-
sociation, drew an attendance of over
50,000 people. The exhibit made by
the manufacturers was one of the best
features.

The Ohio river is low and packets
operating out of Evansville are hav-
ing trouble in keeping off the sand-
bars. The river is under the four-foot
stage and is approaching the record
low water mark of two feet.

The General Electric Co. will start
work soon on its new factory building
on Wall street, Fort Wayne. There
has been delay on account of business
conditions.

The annual State apple show will
be held in Indianapolis Nov. 5 to 15
and a liberal premium will be offered
to the merchant who has the best win-
dow display of apples during the
show.

The Northern Indiana Editorial As-
sociation, in session at Laporte, ap-
pointed a committee to see if it is not
possible to secure foreign advertising
direct, instead of having to take it
through the agencies, who, they al-
lege, often arbitrarily set the price
and to whom a percentage is some-
times paid.

The Public Utilities Commission
has ordered the Indianapolis Gas
Co. to open its books and records for
investigation in the hearing on the
petition to prevent a merger of the
Indianapolis and Citizens’ gas com-
panies. The Commission hopes. to
get some idea of the earning power
and value of the private company.

The coming corn show and indus-
trial exposition, to be given at Terre
Haute under the direction of the
Boosters’ Club, will be a great event.
It will be a clean exhibition, with the
carnival idea eliminated, and there will
be great displays of fireworks on the
river, daily band concerts and pos-
sibly a flower show for the ladies.

The tenth annual flower and vege-
table show held by the city schools of
South Bend was the best ever given
in the city. The philanthropic depart-
ment of the Progress Club heads this
movement.

Bee keepers in Southern Indiana
report a fine honey crop this year.
One owner of an apiary near Evans-
ville will have 50,000 pounds to sell
and the market is around 20 cents.

Almond Griffen.
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News Items From the Soo.

Sault Ste. Marie, Sept. 15—The
traveling public will be pleased to
know that W. C. Sutherland, the
juvenile ticket agent at the union de-
pot here, has taken a much needed
rest and has returned to his duties
refreshed. Mr. Sutherland has the
reputation of being one of the slickest
tirket sellers on the line. No matter
how large a crowd is lined up before

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

his window, he is always able to
handle each individual in a pleasing
manner, giving the necessary informa-
tion on all enquiries without getting
cranky or cutting the patron short, as
is sometimes the case with ticket
agents,

Harry Phillips, representing the
Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., of Grand
Rapids, was wearing a smile while
calling on the trade here this week.

John Hunt, proprietor of the Harris
House, at Newberry, surprised his
many friends last week by announc-
ing his marriage to Mrs. Boucher and
the boys are falling in line to con-
gratulate him on their arrival at the
hotel and getting the usual cigar
which is only passed around on oc-
casions of this kind at the Harris
House. The boys were posted before
they arrived, so that it appears none
of them missed the opportunity of
congratulating him.

The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Darvos, who were drowned last Sun-
day at Cedarville, were found by the
searlhers after dragging the bay for
several days. The bodies were ship-
ped to the Canadian Soo, where they
formerly resided.

Geo. Watson, supervisor of Pick-
ford township, is somewhat of a prize
winner for choice poultry. He stat-
ed that out of his lot, 116 birds qual-
ified in the show at Marquette fair
last week. This is something of a
record for this section of the country
and Mr. Watson feels highly elated
over the affair.

David Ransom, one of our old resi-
dents and lumbermen and a pioneer of
this city for the past forty-seven years,
died of heart failure last week.

H. Osborn, of Pine Grove, Road
Commissioner of Chippewa county,
was appointed as delegate by Governor
Ferris to represent Michigan at the
annual meeting of the United States
Good Roads Association, to be held
at St. Louis, Mo, Nov. 13. Mr. Os-
born has the reputation of being one
of the best road commissioners in the
country.

Brother Hi. A. Hauptli, member of
the K. of the G., is wearing an un-
usual smile here this week, but none
of the boys have been able to ascer-
tain the real cause as yet. It is hoped
that he will confide in some of the
boys, so that they will be able to
rejoice with him,

A. Frazee, manager for Armour &
Company here, put one over on his
friends last week when he took a few
days’ vacation. It was learned after
he had gone that he had taken one
of the prettiest girls in the Soo along
with him on the trip. They were
married and friends are waiting for
them to return, when they will re-
ceive a warm reception. They are
to be met by the Soo band, providing
we can find out when they return.

W. G. Tapert.

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Jaunty Jottings From Jackson.

Jackson, Sept. 15—The meeting of
Jackson Council, No. 57, held last
Satnrday evening, showed something
of our strength, both fraternally and
socially. It was a little past 6:30 when
Senior Counselor Ray Pringle, let the
gavel fall. During the executive ses-
sion, three candidates were initiated

and the following men were proudly
added to our membership: A. A. Mc-
Connell, 816 First street; A. J. Tut-
tle, Addision, and Ira Girkin, 216 Lin-
coln street. We received also by
card, Chauncy Hummel, of Chelsea.
At 9 o’clock the meeting closed and
many of the ladies were waiting in
the parlors to join us in the enter-
tainment provided for the evening
which consisted of a continuous lunch
prepared by M. J. Moore and A. W.
Town, songs by Leon C. Hardy and
Norman Lyon, dancing and a good
talk from Deputy Grand Counselor
L. P. Tompkins, who is now living
at Dundee. Senior Counselor Pringle
was enthusiastic over the results and
said, “Let the good work go on,”
asking the committee in charge to
prepare for the October meeting along
the same lines. This committee con-
sisted of Frank S. Ganiard, Steven
E. Lewis and Nelson T. Eddy. We
are going after Grand Counselor
Welch to come in October and have
already secured the professional serv-
ices of George A. Pierce and Al
Brower, mysterious masters of magic
and slate writers of wireless messages
from the minds of those present. No
“blue goose” germs, by the real Presto
changes coming thick, fast and fur-
ious, using stage settings and appara-
tus, representing an expenditure of
hundreds of dollars. After working
hard on the committee of arrange-
ments, Junior Counselor S. E. Lewis
could not be present, owing to the
serious illness of Mrs. Lewis’ mother.

W. S. West, Past Grand Counselor,
local representative for W. H. Edgar

3

& Co., and charter member of Jack-
son Council, appeared just as young
Saturday evening as when the Coun-
cil was organized, about nineteen
years ago. In fact, many of those
charter members, like M. J. Moore,
Frank D. Page, James H. Russell, Sr.,
Dean S. Fleming and J. B. Heydlauf,
are holding their ages wonderfully
and are boys yet.

T. J. Hanlon made a special trip
to Birmingham Monday morning. He
is always looking for dark spots for
his lighting plant.
of Past Counselor
Frank A. Aldrich, goes to the Univer-
Michigan to take a course
that will fit him to be a marine engi
neer. Like his dad, he is always
tackling big propositions.

Donald F. Ganiard leaves Saturday,
for Howe, Indiana, where he accepted
a position as organist and master in
the Howe military school.

Now that war is declared by Su-
preme Counselor Duval and officers
have received their commissions from
Grand Counselors down,

Leonard, son

sity of

why _ not
show the fighting power of this grand
jurisdiction and tackle and capture
5,000 new members before next June?
Spurgeon.
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If you are going to give trading
stamps or premiums, see that your
plan is made to appeal to the women,
because they are the ones who will
save the coupons.

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One way to keep the boys on the
farm is to install a motor to turn the
grindstone.

 

 

 

POWDER

Absolutely Pure

It always gives the greatest satisfaction
tc customers, and in the end yields the
larger profit to the grocer.

 

 

 

 

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Movements of Merchants.

Northville—A. H. Taggert has en-
gaged in the drug business here.

Reeman—P. H. Boven & Co. suc-
ceed Boven & Co. in general trade
here.

Lapeer—Larry & Snyder succeed
R. D. Vail in the grocery and pro-
duce business.

Bellevue—David E. Stone has clos-
ed out his stock of meats and retired
from business.

Paw Paw—Joseph C. Allen suc-
ceeds Joseph Sherman in the confec-
tionery and stationery business.

Battle Creek—R. A. Harrington has
opened a men’s and women’s furnish-
ing goods store at 41 East Main street.

Gaylord—D. H. Hutchins & Son,
dealers in produce, are erecting a
warehouse and potato storage build-
ing.

Mendon—G. A. Knowles has sold
the Burdick Hotel and furniture to
Henry Markle, recently of Lawton,
who will continue the business.

Blissfield—C. O. Chilson and John
Sanders have formed a copartnership
and engaged in the jewelry business
under the style of Chilson & Sanders.

Ovid—Henry Shaw and William
Stevenson have formed a coparener-
ship and leased the Wilkie Hotel and
will conduct it under the same style

Alpena—John M. Worniak, dealer in
clothing and shoes, lost his store
building and stock by fire Sept 15.
Loss, about $10,000; insurance, $3,000.

Pontiac—Lewis & Crofoot, who
have conducted a drug and grocery
store here since 1882, are closing out
their stock and will retire from busi-
ness.

Saginaw—William Smith is closing
out his stock of pictures, picture
frames and art goods at 123 North
Franklin street and will retire from
business.

Kingsley—The Morris Cash Store
Co. has been organized with an au-
thorized capital stock of $3,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in property.

Sparta—M. Haas has sold his in-
terest in the meat stock of Haas &
Powers to E. Armock and the busi-
ness will be continued under the style
of Armock & Powers.

Sand Lake—F. E. Shattuck has ex-
changed his stock of general merchan-
dise for Pleasant View Farm at Man-
Grady C. Wilson is the new
proprietor of the store.

Charlotte—The Arthur J. Thomp-
son Co. elevator, which has been clos-
ed for several months, will resume
operations about Oct. 1, under the
former manager, M. H. Hiowe.

Lansing—The Freeman Hardware

o. has sold its stock to A. D. Wood,

celona.

who will consolidate it with his own
and continue the business at the corner
of Michigan and Pennsylvania ave-
nues.

Manton—The La Bonte & Ransom
Drug Co. has been succeeded by the
Cady Drug Co., with an authorized
capital stock of $2,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
property.

Kalamazoo—A delberg
who conduct a chain of 100 retail
clothing stores, have opened a sim-
ilar store at 304-306 North Burdick
street under the management of Ray
H. Fuller.

Coopersville—M. FE. Lawton has
sold his interest in the Durham Hard-
ware Co. stock to his partners, M
Durham,

& Berman,

 

linden, who will continue the business
under the same style.

Saginaw—Adelberg & Berman, who
conduct a chain of retail stores in
connection with their manufacturing
business, will open a men’s and wom-
en’s clothing store at 110 South
Franklin street Sept. 20.

Fenton—James Spadafora, who con-
ducts a fruit and confectionery store
at Lowell, has opened a similar store
here, which he will give his personal
attention, the Lowell store’ being
managed by Mrs. Spadafora.

Benton Harbor—John Sibley has
sold his stock of confectionery and
cigars to C. M. Devine and Mike
Havelin, who have formed a copart-
nership under the style of Devine &
Havelin and will continue the busi-
ness.

Saginaw—Charles L. Reinke, gro-
cer has merged his business into a
stock company under the style of the
Reinke Grocery Co., with an author-
ized capital stock of $2,500, all of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

St. Joseph—Edwin Blakeslee, form-
er State Senator, and for several years
chairman of the State Board of Par-
dons, was elected President of the
Commercial National Bank, to succeed
James M. Ball, one of the founders
of the institution.

Gladwin—Arthur C. Bollert has sold
his interest in the hardware, imple-
ment and jewelry stock of Capling
Bollert & Co. to his partners, E. A.
Coan and J. E. Capling, and the busi-
ness will be continued under the style
of Capling & Coan.

Kalamazoo—At a meeting of the
board of directors of the Consumers
Supply Association, Louis Haas wa3
chosen store manager. In addition to
conducting a retail grocery store, the
Association will supply the consumer
with potatoes and apples, in quant!-
ties, delivered direct from the car.

Porter Reed and H. Vander- .

in a

Mr. Haas, who conducts a grocery
store at 504 West North street, is
closing out his stock in order to give
his entire attention to his new posi-
tion.

Zeeland—The Wolverine Sales Co.
has been incorporated to sell and
operate automatic coin controlled
musical and vending machines, with
an authorized capital stock of $6,000,
of which $3,000 has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Trufant—V. Thomsen & Co. have
sold there general stock to Benjamin
J. Collins, formerly of Jamestown,
Ohio, but for the past three years
engaged in fruit growing in Oceana
county. Thomsen & Co. retain their
general stock in Gowen.

Charlotte—Following the resigna-
tion of H. Jennings as general
manager of the Beach Manufacturing
Co., Fred S. Beach, one of the ori-
ginal founders of the company, was
selected as his successor at a meeting
of the board of directors.

Grand Ledge—J. C. Walsh & Son,
who have conducted an implement
store, auto garage and coal and wood
yard here for the past three years,
have sold their stock to William
Schavey, recently of St. Johns, who
has taken possession and will con-
tinue the business.

North Adams—Geo. W. Morehouse,
dealer in general merchandise, has sold
his stock of drugs and groceries to
M. W. Jones, recently of Hillsdale,
who will conduct the business in the
Gambell store building. Mr. More-
will continue the dry goods
and shoe business.

Oxford—J. F-. Burroughs & Son, of
Flint, are suing Charles L. Randall &
Co., of this place, for $3,000 damages
for a

house

carload of beans which, it is
alleged, were shipped to parties in
Louisiana. It is alleged the beans
were not of the quality ordered, and
were shipped back to Oxford.
Manton—La Bonte & Ransom, con-
ducting a general store, have merged
their business into a stock company
under the style of La Bonte & Ran-
som Co, to open a department store,
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.
Hancock—Ojala Bros. have engaged
in the grocery and meat business on
West Quincy street. Abram Ojala,
Mayor of Hjancock, was for several
years with Eilola & Co.
His partner, Jacob Ojala, has been
employed in various capacities for the
last several years. Until recently he
managed the Ojala farm near the
Canal, the property being disposed of
recently when the brothers decided

associated

to open a grocery store and meat
market.
Perry—S. H. Wallace has begun

the construction of three new stores.
Morton Rann will occupy the corner
store with his stock of general mer-
chandise, and Cottrell & Son will put
department store in the other
two buildings. Mr. Wallace would
build five stores if he could secure
lots at a reasonable rates. A Grand
Rapids firm has written asking him
to erect a store for them but he will
not buy lots at the high valuation at
which they are now held.

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND

 

Chicago Schemers Relinquish Claim
to the Money.

Dec. 19, 1911, the United States
Land & Irrigation Exposition of Chi-
cago—51 per cent. of which was al-
leged to be owned by the Chicago
Tribune—instituted suit against the
Michigan Tradesman in the United
States Court, Western District of
Michigan, alleging $100,000 damages
for libel. At the time the suit was
started, the Harrison M. Parker
crowd in Chicago, which was then
promoting the questionable Fruitvale
Land & Development Co., flamboy-
antly asserted that the matter would
be pushed to the bitter end and that
no expense would be spared to bring
the Michigan Tradesman to a realiz-
ing sense of the great offense it had
committed against the peace and dig-
nity of the State in vilifying the
characters of the men who were al-
leged to be perpetrating an alleged

swindle. The matter has dragged
along nearly two years and in the

meantime the Tradesman has been re-
peatedly requested to retract its charg-
es, which it refused to do, because it
believed it had told the truth and
Was prepared to substantiate its state-
ments. The case was finally terminat-
ed Monday by the plaintiff discon-
tinuing its suit and paying all costs,
including the costs sustained by the
Tradesman as the result of the litiga-
tion.

The outcome is not a surprise to
the Tradesman or its attorneys, be-
cause the suit was regarded all the
time as a bluff. The Tradesman’s de-
nunciation of the alleged swindle has
been fully sustained by the develop-
ments of the past two years. It con-
tinued to keep its readers fully advised
regarding the questionable propagan-
da of the Chicago schemers and prob-
ably influenced many of them to re-
frain from investing in a proposition
which must necessarily result in loss
of all but the wily promotors of the
scheme.

The Tradesman may make mis-
takes, because it is made by
hands, but any

human
time its attention is
called to an error in a respectful man-
ner, it will meet the aggrieved partv
more than half way. Any man who
undertakes to work a bluff game or
resorts to legal proceedings before
seeking a correction in an amicable
Way must meet the issue and go all
the way around the ring; in other
words, be prepared to defend the mat-
ter to the court of last resort. The
Tradesman has unbounded respect for
the honest litigant who believes in
the justice of his cause and leaves no
stone unturned to sustain his conten-
tion, but for men of the Parker stripe
it shares the contempt that all righ‘
thinking men have for a bluffer and a
coward.

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Ludington—Lunde & Sons, boat
builders and repairers, have merged

their business into a stock company
under the style of the Lunde Boat
Building Co., with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $8,000, of which $4,009
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

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September 17, 1913

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Produce Market.

Apples—Duchess, Wealthys,
Rivers and Maiden Blush comman‘
$1 per bu. and $3 per bbl.

Butter—There is a very active
market for all grades of fresh butter,
and a good consumptive demand.
The market is firm at 1c advance
over a week ago. The make of but-
ter is somewhat lighter than a year
ago and the consumptive demand is
better. A continued good demand and
a firm market are indicated for all
grades of fresh butter. Fancy cream-
ery commands 33@34c in tubs and
34@35c in Local dealres
pay 25c for No. 1 dairy and 20c for
packing stock.

Cabbage—$1 per bu. for
grown.

Carrots—50c per bu.

Cauliflower—$1.75 per doz.

Celery—Home grown, i17c _ per
bunch.

Cocoanuts—$4.75 per sack contain-
ing 100.

Cranberries—$6.50 per bbl. for early

cartons.

home

_ Blacks.

Crap Apples—$1 per bu. for Hy-
slops.

Cucumbers—35c per doz. for home
grown.

Eggs—The market is firm at an ad-
vance of 1c per dozen. The recent
hot spell is still showing in the qual-
ity of eggs received in market and
the bulk of the receipts still grade
under strictly fancy. Fancy fresh
eggs are very scarce and sell readily
at a premium. If the present cool
weather continues, eggs will improve
in quality and reach the distributing
markets in better condition. This
will have a tendency to prevent fur-
ther advances. Local dealers now pay

23¢,
Eee Plant—$1.50 per doz. for home
grown.

Grapes—Wordens and Concords, 18c
per 8 lb. basket or $1.60 per doz. for
4 lb. baskets; Niagaras, 20c per 8 lb.
basket or $1.75 per doz. for 4 Ib. bas-
kets.

Green Onions—25c per dozen for
large and 20c for small.

Honey—20c per lb, for white clover,
and 18c for dark.

Lemons—Verdellis $6@6.50 per box.

Lettuce—Home grown head $1 per
bu.; home grown leaf, 75c per bu.

Musk Melons—Home grown Osage
command $1@1.50 per doz. crate, ac-
cording to size and quality.

Onions—-$1 per bu. for home grown;
Spanish $1.60 per crate.

Oranges—$5.50@6 for Valencias.

Peaches—Elbertas fetch $2@2.25
per bu.; Crawfords, $2.25@2.50; Pro-
lifics, $1.75@2, according to
Kalamazoos, $1.65@1.75.

size;

Wolf

Pears—Sugar, $1.2
ess, $1.50 per bu.;

25 per bu.; Duch-
pickle, $1.25 per bu.
Parsley—30c per dozen.
Peppers—Green, $1.75 per bu;: Red
25¢ per doz.

Plums—Lombards, $1.35 per bu.;

Guiis, Bradshaws and Green Gages,
$1.50 per bu.
Pickling Stock—Onions, $1.35 per

box; Cucumbers, 25c per 100.

Potatoes—75@90c per bu. for home
grown.

Poultry—Local dealers pay 12@13c
for broilers; 11@12c for fowls; 6c for
old roosters; 8c for geese; 10c for
ducks; 12c for turkeys. These prices
are live-weight. Receipts are light.

Radishes—10c per dozen.

Spinach—65c per bu.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginia stock is
now in market, commanding 80c per
bu. and $2.25 per bbl; Jerseys com-
mand $3.25 per bbl.

Tomatoes—75c per % bu. basket.

Veal—Buyers pay 6@13c, according
to quality.

Watermelons—$2.50 per bbl. for In-
diana,

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The Federal refinery is still
holding granulated at 4.60c, while the
other refineries are quoting 4.80c.
Shipments can be obtained second
handed at 4.60c. Raws are not very
strong, and the market is being ad-
versely affected by the oncoming of
the domestic beet crop, which will
this year be enormous, and the pend-
ing tariff change. Domestic beet gran-
ulated is being offered and will be
available sometime in October. It
will probably constitute an important
factor in the coming season’s market,
as the refiners will have large quan-
tities to sell and will probably push
for sale.

Later—Reports this morning from
New York are to the effect that stocks
of granulated held at second hand
have been exhausted, so that most
of the refiners are holding firm at
4.80. The Federal refinery intimates
that it will probably advance its price
from 4.60c to 4.70c within a few hours.

Tea—Japans are holding firm with
good arrivals of new crop teas. Stocks
are well reduced, with very few old
crop teas on hand. With the present
shortage, a later advance is looked
for. Ceylons and Indias remain firm,
especially for fine grades. Formosas
are unusually high in price for sum-
mer crop teas. Chinas remain about
the same, with a decreased American
demand.

Coffee—Rio and Santos grades are
weaker. The crop outlook in Brazil
seems to have improved, and values
are somewhat easier there. In this

 

country there has been no quotable
decline in Brazils; but the feeling is
slightly easier, except as to fine roast-
ing grades of Santos, which are
scarce and firm. Mild coffees are un-
changed, quiet and steady. Java and
Mocha firm.

Canned Fruits—Apples are strong,
but quiet. California canned goods
show no change and quiet demand.
Small Eastern staple canned goods
are without feature. Stocks are nor-
mal except string beans, which are
scarce.

Canned Vegetables—Tomatoes, both
spot and future, show an easier tone.
It is difficult to find buyers at 77%c
per dozen f. o. b. factory on full
grade No. 3s, and some buyers are
not willing to pay above 75c for the

 

general offerings in No. 3s. There is
a more free offering of No. 2s at

57'4c per dozen f. o. b. factory, and
a stronger feeling is noted in No. 10s
at $2.60 per dozen f. o. b. factory.
Reports differ somewhat as to con-
ditions at packing points, but it is
thought that the total pack for the
whole country will be considerably
below the last year’s pack. In No.
3s there has been considerable busi-
ness the last few days. All good
grades of*peas are wanted, and the
feeling all along the line is firmer.
Some sales of fancy No. 1s Alaska
grades have been made here at $2.25
a dozen, and on the average No.
2s are somewhat firmer, and the prices
favor the seller in most all cases.
Second and standard grades are quiet
and steady. There is reported to be
a large surplus in the lower grades of
peas. The corn market is firm on all
kinds standard. Maine style pack is
being less freely presented at 60c to
65c f. o. b. factory. Some sellers re-
fuse to accept less than 65c f. o. b.
factory on acceptable grades. The
1913 pack is now estimated at about
one-third of last year’s production.
Only a limited offering of New York
State stock has been noted, and
Maine packers are said to be practic-
ally at the market on all kinds. String
beans are only in fair demand, and
the tone is firm at quotations. The
deliveries on State pack No. 1 and
No. 2 are said to be short, but it is
expected that a fair delivery will be
made on No. 3 and No. 4 refugees.
A firm feeling is reported in spinach.
The Maine pack of succotash will be
light and is held more firmly.

Canned Fish—Salmon shows no
change. Sockeye is steady to firm
and those packers who named open-
ing prices below the others have rais-
ed to the uniform basis. Other grades
of salmon are unchanged and fairly
active. Domestic sardines are un-
changed but firm. The catch so far
has been light. Imported sardines
also show a shortage and are firm
and high.

Dried Fruits—Spot prunes are mov-
ing more readily and the feeling is
firm. Packers in California are not
offering October shipment prunes very
freely, and some are refusing to ac-
cept business at the advance to a
6c basis. They claim this will not let

them out whole, being unable to buy
stock from the grower at prices low
enough. As a rule packers are hold-

5

ing off until the early orders have
been shipped. With the California
raisin crop reported as somewhat un-
der the early estimates of 100,000 tons
holders on the Coast are higher in
their ideas. Interests connected with
the Association report a further ad-
vance is certain on 1912 and 1913 crop
in both seeded and loose. Sultana
raisins have been taken out of the
market and it is expected the Thomp-
sons seedless will also be withdrawn
shortly. The production is reported
to be extremely light. There is a
stronger feeling here in spot seeded
and loose raisins. Peaches are strong
and a good business is reported for
September-October shipments f. o. b.
from the Coast in 50-pound boxes on
a basis of 7%4c for Jumbos, 6%c for
extra fancy, 534c for fancy, 5%c for
extra choice and 5%4c for choice. A
good demand is reported for early
delivery 1913 crop figs. Apricots are
firm and unchanged.

Spices—The spice market has been
very strong. This has been chiefly
on account of the anticipation of the
duty
spices. shortly.

which will become effective on

Cheese—The market is firm, with an
active demand. Prices are unchang-
ed. Stocks in storage are lighter than
usual, and the market is very healthy.
If change occurs, it will probably be
a slight advance.

Syrups and Molasses—Corn Syrup
is unchanged. The demand for com-
pound syrup, and for straight sugar
syrup, is slow as yet. Molasses is dull
and unchanged.

Starch—Muzzy bulk, Best bulk and
Best packages have declined 10c per
100 Ibs.

Salt Fish—Cod, hake and haddock
are unchanged, but scarce and firm.
Mackerel of all varieties is scarce and
firm. It looks now like a short catch
everywhere. Buying on this side is
light, owing to the pending tariff
change, which if not sidetracked will
reduce the tariff $2 per barrel.

Provisions—Stocks of smoked meats
are reported light, but owing to the
lateness of the season prices may not
soon change. Pure lard is firm and
unchanged. Compound is steady at
about ™%c decline. Dried beef con-
tinues scarce and firm at another ad-
vance of tc per pound. Barreled pork
and canned meats are steady and un-
changed, with good consumptive de-

mand.

——_2.-—->——__—_
Ludington—Erie Lunde & Sons,
shipbuilders, will incorporate within

the next few days as successors to
Eric Lunde, who for many years has
been a boatbuilder in this city. Ship-
building and repair work on_ lake-
going craft has grown here under the
management of Mr. Lunde. It is the
company’s intention to erect a new
building 50 x 50 feet, one-story high,
to be used as a workshop and for
boat storage.
—_»->—____

The O. L. Sherwood Co. has engag-
ed in the grocery business at Orleans.
The Worden Grocer Co. furnished the
stock.

—_+-.—____

Detroit—The Hupp Motor Car Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$750,000 to $1,000,000.

 

 

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Michigan has 453 State banks and
six trust companies and an abstract
of the September statements shows
that the total savings deposits carried
in them are $216,741,180.52, an increase
of $1,628,998.83 as compared with
June and of $11,800,118.20 a year ago.
This is a very good showing of in-
crease, but the figures indicate that
the period from June to September
Was not quite so productive of sur-
plus to put into the bank as the pre-
vious nine months. Why there should
be this let up is not explained, unless
it be due to crop shortages or to the
high cost of living, or, perhaps, to
both. In this city the savings depos-
its have been decreasing, not alarm-
ingly but steadily, and here the ex-
planation seems to be chiefly the di-

version of funds into other invest- .

ment channels yielding larger income
returns than the savings banks allow.

 

The stock market is taking a more
cheerful view of life. Transactions
on the New York Stock Exchange are
gaining in volume and quotations are
at levels that come nearer the normal.
United States Steel, common, for in-
stance, which was kicking around 59
a few weeks ago, is now around 65
and seems inclined to go still higher,
and other stocks have been tending
in the same direction. The market
is still low as an average and a dozen
or more of the standard railroad and
industrial stocks can be purchased at
from 10 to 15 points below the quo-
tations of a year ago. The financial
conditions in the country at large are
reported easier, but the disposition in
banking circles is still to discourage
anything like speculation. In this
city there is a marked improvement
in the feeling regarding the local se-
curities and a greater activity in them
is reported. The quotations on the
local securities have advanced to some
extent, but are still considerably short
of what they have been in the past
and what they probably will be in
the future. October, it is believed,
will bring considerable of a revival
and the commission houses look for
fairly good business during the fall
and winter.

 

The banks have declared their cus-
tomary dividends, payable October 1.
The Old National and Michigan Trust
pay semi-annually and stockholders
will not receive a sugaring off at
this time. The Grand Rapids Nation-
al City and Grand Rapids Savings will
both pay 2% per cent., the Kent State
3 per cent., the Commercial 2 per
cent. and the Fourth and the Peoples
Savings will pay their customary 1
per cent. monthly. It is intimated

that there will be some changes in
the dividend rates with the new year.
The Kent State, it is said, may pay
taxes as well as the quarterly dis-
bursements of 3 per cent. and there
is a possibility that the Commercial
will go to 1 per cent. a month, The
Old National is now well over the
100 per cent. surplus and something
better than the 8 per cent. and taxes
is possible.

 

The law requires that banks keep
a reserve of 15 per cent. and how
much more than 15 per cent. they
shall keep available is a matter of
policy and business judgment. Som2
of the local banks aim to keep loaned
up as closely as possible, consistent
with the proper accommodation of
regular patrons. In others the prac-
tice is to keep a wide margin in liquid
form with a view to taking advantage
of the emergencies which arise al-
most every day in the business world.
The ordinary business pays around
6 per cent. The emergency loans and
sudden calls for funds may not pay
any greater return, but through them
it is often possible to make friends
that are very useful in a ‘business
way.

 

The Old National and the Kent
State will have new quarters in the
Pantlind hotel building and it is safe
to say that these new quarters will
be worth looking at in the matter of
artistic arrangement and finish. It is
something of a coincident that four
of the other banks want new quarters
and it is but a matter of time when
they will have them. In planning for
the future the Grand Rapids Savings
is, perhaps, the furthest along with
its 100 year lease of the Judd and
White properties at the corner of
Monroe and Ionia avenues. There
is one lease on this property that has
yet a year to run and until this ex-

 

A Word of Advice

Fundamental Business Conditions are
sound,

Prices of good securities are on rock bot-
tom, but they will not stay there.

It would be wise to take advantage of
the opportunity and buy NOW.

The 6% Preferred Stock of the
American
Public Utilities Co.

will yield 8%
Send for Earning Statements and Maps.

Kelsey, Brewer & Co.

Bankers, Engineers and Operators
Mich. Trust Bldg. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

The
Old National Bank

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Our Savings Certificates of Deposit form an
exceedingly convenient and safe method of invest-
ing your surplus. They are readily negotiable, being
transferable by endorsement and earn interest at the
rate of 3% % if left a year.

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS
NATIONAL CITY BANK

Resources $8,500,000

Our active connections with large
banks in financial centers and ex-
tensive banking acquaintance
throughout Western Michigan, en-
able us to offer exceptional banking
service to

Merchants, Treasurers, Trustees,
Administrators and Individuals

who desire the best returns in in-
terest consistent with safety, avail-
ability and strict confidence.

CORRESPONDENCE PROMPTLY REPLIED TO

 

 

 

 

Fourth National Bank

   
   

 

 

 

 

 

Savings oo Commercial
e tates e
its :

Depos Benpsiacy Deposits
Per Cent Per Cent
Interest Paid Interest Paid
on on

Savings Certificates of
Deposits Deposit
Left
Compounded One Year
Semi-Annually
Wm. H. Anderson, Capital Stock
John W. Blodgett, and Surplus
Vice President
ee $580,000
J. C, Bishop,
Assistant Cashier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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September 17, 1913

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

pires nothing can be done except to
get ready, and this the bank is doing
in a quiet way by obtaining as much
data as possible as to what banks in
other cities have done or are doing
in the way of building. No architect
has yet been regularly commissioned,
but Osgood & Osgood are helping in
the preliminary researches. The
Peoples Savings has been talking of
building on its corner for two years
past, but has not progressed beyond
talk. The Bank owns thirty feet,
which is hardly enough for a _ sky
scraper, but some day it may be able
to buy the adjoining description and
then the building plan will go aheal.
The Commercial is badly cramped in
its twenty feet frontage at the corner
of Monroe avenue and Lyon street.
It owns the adjoining twenty feet and
its expansion will be to occupy the
entire frontage. Whether this will
be done by the Bank itself or in con-
junction with the proposed union in-
terurban terminal has not yet been
decided. The interurban terminal will
not be built for three years yet. The
Grand Rapids National City owns the
property occupied by the City Trust
and Savings and is buying the Won-
derly building adjoining on contract.
Some day the Bank will occupy the
entire east frontage of Campau square
with a building that will be worthy
of the city and the Bank, but no de-
finite plans to this end have yet been
made.
mer added forty feet to its Pearl street
frontage and some day an announce-
ment of the Fourth’s intention to tear
down the old buildings and build some-
thing that will be a credit to that
commanding corner may be looked
for, but this announcement need not
be looked for until after the new
Pantlind is completed, which will
probably be a couple of years hence.

In all the banks during the summer
months high school and college boys
are employed as clerks to help out
during the vacation period. It is from
this source that the banks get most
of their recruits. Instead of going
back to school or college, the boys
who have made good as temporary
clerks are invited to remain and often
they do so. The banks usually keep
in touch with promising young men
who have made good in their “trial
heats” and when they finish college
manage to make room for them. The
banking experience they receive is
excellent for the boys in teaching
them the ways of finance and business,
and even if they do not take to bank-
ing as a profession what they have
learned will be useful to them.

—_—_—_222———
Bankruptcy Matters in Southwestern
Michigan.

St. Joseph, Sept. 9—In the matter of
James Ingersoll Day, bankrupt, of De-
ecatur, the trustee filed petitions to have
declared null and void a chattel mort-
gage given by the bankrupt to Mat-
thew P. Cady, of Decatur, for $500,
also a chattel mortgage given by the
bankrupt to Morris Wallburn, of Chi-
cago, for $1,500, within the four months
period. Orders were entered by the ref-
eree for a hearing on the petitions at his
office on Sept. 23.

Sept. 10—Based upon the petitions of
certain creditors, Frederick W. Hinrichs,
of Kalamazoo, was adjudged bankrupt
and the matter referred to _ Referee
Banyon, who was also appointed receiv-
er. The referee entered an order di-

recting the bankrupt to prepare and file
schedules within ten days and also made

The Fourth National this sum-—

an order appointing Walter J. Bristol,
of Kalamazoo, custodian of the bank-
rupt’s stock.

Sept. 11—In the matter of the Nation-
al Gas Light Co., bankrupt, of Kalama-
z00, the inventory and report of ap-
praisers was filed, showing assets to the
amount of some $15,000. The trustee
filed a petition requesting that the ref-
eree enter an order directing a sale of
the assets and the real estate of the
bankrupt be sold free and clear from in-
cumberance. Petition was considered and
an order was made by the referee as
requested by the trustee.

Sept. 12—In the matter of the Michi-
gan Buggy Company, bankrupt, of Kala-
mazoo, the examination of the officers
of the bankrupt to locate and discover
disappearing assets was continued until
Sept. 17 at Kalamazoo.

Sept. 18—In the matter of August
Peters, bankrupt, an order was made
confirming the sale of the remainder of
the bankrupt’s assets to Phillip Lynch,
of Benton Harbor, for $400.

In the matter of William H. Evans,
bankrupt, of St. Joseph, certain creditors
have filed exceptions to the trustee’s re-
port of exempted property, recommend-
ing that the bankrupt be allowed $122.50.
The matter will be heard before the ref-
eree Sept. 27.

Sept. 15—In the matter of Pricie W.
Perry, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, the trus-
tee having filed his supplemental final
report, an order was made by the ref-
eree closing the estate and recommend-
ing the bankrupt’s discharge.

renner
Quotations on Local Stocks and Bonds.
Bid. Asked.
Am. Gas & Elec. Co., Com 75 17
Am. Gas &Hlec. Co., Pfd. 4414
Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 350 355
Am. Light &Trac. Co., Pfd. 105 107

*Am. Public Utilities, Com. 47 50
Am. Public Utilities, Pfd. 72% T4%
Cities Service Co., Com. 73 75
Cities Service Co., Pfd. 72 74
Citizens’ Telephone 80 82
Commercial Savings Bank 215
Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Com. 57% 58%
Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Pfd. 77% 78%
Elec. Bond Deposit, Pfd. 65 5
Fourth National Bank 212

Furniture City Brewing Co. 59 61
Globe Knitting Works, Com. 125 135
Globe Knitting Works, Pfd. 96 100

G. R. Brewing Co. 145 155
G. R. National City Bank 178 181
G. R. Savings Bank 225

Kent State Bank 260 264
Lincoln Gas & Elec. Co. 28 32
Macey Co.. Com. 200

Macey Company, Pfd. 94 96

Michigan Sugar Co., Com. 30 36
Michigan State Tele. Co., Pfd. 90 95
National Grocer Co., d.

Old National Bank 205 207
Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., Com. 37 39
Peoples Savings Bank 250
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Co. 16 19
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Pfd. 70 72
Utilities Improvem’t Co., Com. 44 48
Utilities Improvem’t Co., Pfd. 69 71
*United Light & Ry., Com. 75 76

*United Light & Ry., 1st Pfd. 744% 75%
United Light & Ry., 2nd Pfd.

(old) 4 151%
United Light & Ry., 2nd Pfd.

(new) 68 10

Bonds.
Chattanooga Gas Co. 1927 95 97
Citizens Tele. Co., 6s 1923 101 101%
Com. Power Ry. & Lt. Co. 63s 97%

Flint Gas Co. 1924 96 9746

G. R. Edison Co.

G. R. Gas Light Co.

G. R. Railway Co.

Kalamazoo Gas Co.
*E)x-dividend.
Septemoer 17, 1913.

>>>

The fear of offending a customer by
refusing him credit is an overworked
bugaboo. There are plenty of people
who might better be offended than
trusted.

1920 95 100

 

 

Lewis H. Withey, President.

Willard Barnhart.
Darwin D. Cody.
E. Golden Filer,
Filer City, Mich.
Wm, H. Gay.
F. A. Gorham.
Thomas Hefferan.
Thomas Hume,
Muskegon, Mich.

Chicago.

Cadillac,

Edward Lowe.
W. W. Mitchell,

R. E. Olds,
Lansing, Mich,

3% Every Six Months

Is what we pay at our office on the Bonds we sell.

$100.00 BONDS--6% A YEAR

Michigan Trust Co.

Resources $2,000,000.00.
OFFICERS.

Willard Barnhart, Vice President.
Henry Idema, Second Vice President.
F, A. Gorham, Third Vice President.
George Hefferan, Secretary.
Claude “Hamilton, Assistant

DIRECTORS.

Henry Idema.
Wm. Judson.
James D. Lacey,

Secretary.

J. Boyd Pantlind.
William Savidge,
Spring Lake, Mich.
Wm. Alden Smith.
Dudley E. Waters.
T. Stewart White,
Lewis H. Withey.
James R. Wylie.

Mich.

 

 

 

The Compensation of an Executor
or Administrator is Fixed by Law

The services of this company, through its skilled, competent
and experienced officers, costs no more than the services of one
without experience or familiarity in the handling of estates.

[TRAND RAPIDS [RUST [,OMPANY

 

William E, Elliott, President.
Adolph H. Brandt, Treasurer.
Hugh E. Wilson, Secretary.
Melville R. Bissell. Jr.

Harold C. Cornelius.

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.

Robert D. Graham, Vice President.
Lee M. Hutchins, Vice President.
Joseph H, Brewer, Vice President.
Joseph 8. Hart.

Alexander W. Hompe.

Charles R. Sligh.
MONEY TO LOAN ON IMPROVED REAL ESTATE.
NO CHARGE FOR EXAMINING TITLE.

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When you are gone there is nothing can fill your place, but a nice Life
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Music Company

42-50 Market Ave. N. W.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

C. F, Sweet, President
J. D. Farr, Sec’y-Treas.

Monthly dividends never
less than 1%

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Kent State Bank

Main Office Fountain St.
Facing Monroe

Grand Rapids, Mich.
- $500,000
- $300,000

Capital - - -
Surplus and Profits
Deposits

7 Million Dollars

3 bs Per Cent.

Paid on Certificates

 

You can transact your banking business
with us easily by mail. Write us about it
if interested.

 

 

 

There were Five Hundred stock-
holders on the books of

United
Light & Railways
Company

on January Ist, 1912. On July
ist, 1913, this number had
increased to

MORE THAN
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED

The majority of these new stock-
holders are “Odd Lot’” owners.
In other words, they have bought
in less than 100-share lots, for the
income which the stock yields.
The FIRST PREFERRED, 6 PER CENT
CUMULATIVE Stock, at Present
Market Prices, YIELDS 7'¢ per
cent or BETTER.

Howe, Corrigan & Company
Investments
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THE SMALL TOWN WAY.

The building of the Kalamazoo in-
teruban will give the city its first real
taste of how big things are done in
In the past when any cor-
poration or public utility has desired
to do anything the city has had to do
something, too, in the way of grant-
ing privileges or concessions and
everybody has been satisfied to get
along with the make shift arrange-
ments such as small towns are accus-
tomed to. The two interurbans that
now enter the city both come in over
the city car lines under ordinances
which the Council was anxious to
grant for the sake of securing these
additional facilities for travel. This
arrangement is unsatisfactory and al-
ways has been. It has meant slow
entrances and exits for cars. More
serious still, the interurban cars, pas-
senger and freight, have added to the
congestion of the city streets. The
arrangement is essentially small town,
and accustomed to it the city was
prepared to make similar arrange-
with the Kalamazoo interur-
ban when it should reach the corpo-
ration limits. Instead of asking that
such an arrangement be made, how-
ever, the Kalamazoo interurban indi-
cated its desire to be left alone, the
only privilege asked for being the
right to do business. Instead of com-
ing in over the city lines it will use
its own right of way, and instead of
further congesting the traffic on the
city streets, its cars will facilitate in-
stead of interfering with travel. The
plans further contemplate taking away
what has become a nuisance in that
it is proposed to take the other in-
terurbans off the city streets and route
them into the city over the private
right of way. The plans under con-
sideration call for an investment of
between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000. The
private right of way from the city
line to the west side of the river will
approximately $500,000, includ-
ing the purchase price of the Powers
property along Front street and the
west side power. The necessary con-
struction, with a private bridge across
the river below Wealthy street, to-
gether with freight and other ter-
minals, will cost another half million,
and probably a million will be spent
in the development of the west side
water power. The plans contemplate

a big way.

ments

cost

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the purchase of the Nelson-Matter
Furniture Co. and adjacent property
on the east side for an interurban
union station and terminal, with a
private bridge across from the west
side. The real estate in this trans-
action alone will cost approximately
$700,000, of which $400,000 will be for
the Nelson-Matter Co. property, $210-
000 for the Monroe avenue frontage
and the remainder for the Breuer and
other properties. The development of
this property for interurban station
purposes, with new buildings on the
Monroe avenue frontage and the nec-
essary train sheds, tracks and bridge,
will cost probably a million more.
When the plans are carried out in
full all the interurban cars will come
in from the west side to the union
station. Separated from the city traf-
fic this will mean the saving of ten
minutes to half an hour in the move-
ment of every car from the heart
of the city to the city line. It will
shorten by just so much the running
time to Holland, Muskegon and Grand
Haven, and business men need not be
reminded what this will mean. More
than this, the way will be open with
the best possible facilities for doing
business for the entrance into
the city of any other interurban that
may be built. .

It would be assumed that with this
large investment of capital to give
Grand Rapids the very best interurban
facilities possible that the city author-
ities would do everything they could
to help. The aldermen, however, are
accustomed to thinking in the small
town way. They seem to be unable
to comprehend the magnitude of the
enterprise or what it will mean for the
city. Instead of helping, they are con-
stantly throwing obstacles in the way
and doing in a small way what they
can to make it unpleasant for the pro-
motors. This is not creditable to the
intelligence of Grand Rapids as a
city, nor is it a policy calculated to
help Grand Rapids grow greater as a
commercial center. Instead of being
obstructive the city authorities ought
to go out of the way to make it
easy for the company to carry out its
plans. It will be a long time before
another enterprise comes this way
with so much money to invest or with
plans what will be of such far reach-
ing benefits to the city.

 

GAYNOR THE MAN.
William J. Gaynor was certainly
the most interesting man in New
York. The nature of the interest h-
excited was not simple; it was com-
pounded of many elements. There
was admiration fer his courage; there
was appreciation of his originality;
there was delight in his wit and his
almost unparalleled power of ters>
and ptngent expression; there was
wonder at the comprehensive range
of his interests and sympathies, the
readiness of his response to anything
that smacked of genuine human inter-
est, from the plaints of a straphanger
or a push-cart man to the dreams of a
Tolstoy or the theories of a Henry
George.

In his public career, whatever its
faults—and they were many and grave
—the dominant note was courage. It

was his courage and success in fight-
ing Boss McKane, at a time when

bosses were far more difficult to fight -

than they are now, that first brought
Mr. Gaynor into public notice; and
it can be said without qualification
that from that day to his death he
never flinched from attacking what he
wished to attack or defending what
he wished to defend. Whatever posi-
tion he made up his mind to maintain
on any subject, that position he was
never deterred from maintaining by
fear either of criticism or of conse-
quences. Signal examples of this wil!
easily occur to any one. Among them
are instances which are not to his
credit, but which, in spite of the con-
demnation they aroused, unquestion-
ably served with many only to em-
phasize the identification of his per-
sonality with the idea of audacious
courage. Of this his course in the
Rosenthal-Becker police scandal an1
its sequels is the most remarkable
example. But his career abounded
with manifestations of courage and
firmness for which unalloyed praise
is due him. No politician or group
of politicians dictated his policy. He
was afraid neither of union labor or-
ganizations nor of newspapers. His
masterful dealing with the ugly union
garbage-men’s strike was a signal
proof of the former; and, though his
sweeping denunciations of newspapers
in general often overshot the mark,
the predominant feature in them was
a scathing contempt for yellow jour-
nalism. His undeviating and unstint-
ed hostility to Hearst is deserving of
special recognition and gratitude.

Another phase of his life which ap-
pealed to fair minded people was his
attitude toward the Roman Catholic
church. His parents were Roman
Catholics and he was educated in
Roman Catholic schools. While he
was studying for the priesthood, he
reached the conclusion that he could
not honestly espouse Catholicism and
joined the Episcopal church instead.
He did not denounce his mother
church or masquerade as a martyr.
Later in life he was deprived of many
political honors because his opponents
circulated reports that he was an ene-
my of the so-called “true church,”
but he refused to discuss the sub-
ject, taking the ground that his relig-
ion was a matter between himself
and his God and that the public had
no business to pry into an affair of
the conscience and _ heart.

His attitude toward his first wife
also placed him in the rank of heroes.
She was a crazy spendthrift and
plunged him into debt. She was ma-
liciously jealous and appeared to de-
rive fiendish pleasure by placing him
in a false light before his fellows
by unfounded charges and infamous
innuendoes. He was entitled to a di-
vorce on statutory grounds, but his
chivalrous regard for women led him
to permit her to obtain a divorce on
the ground of desertion. During all
those weary years of waiting he never
uttered a word against the woman
who had made his life a hell or in de-
fense of his own personal character,
confidently believing that time would
vindicate his position and re-estab-
lish him in the regard of his asso-

‘even seriously thought of.

September 17, 1918

ciates. His faith in the tenableness
of his position was fully confirmed
in later years.

Death has suddenly removed from
the whirl of Gotham’s life the most
striking and extraordinary figure in
it. He was snatched away at a mo-
ment when the part that his person-
ality was playing in the city’s affairs
was at its maximum of distinctive-
ness and perhaps of importance.

THE LITTLE PEANUT.

When people growl about the ex-
orbitant prices of butter, shove out a
can of peanut butter with the asser-
tion that “half a pound of this has
been proved by scientists as equiva-
lent in food value to a pound of beef.”
It is a simple problem in mathe-
matics to arrive at the economical
feature in this food. It is a pleasing
variety and a most convenient filling
for the sandwich which forms th2
main part of the picnic or school
lunch. Since this butter is now put
up in neat packages, instead of sold
in bulk, and the pure food laws now
approximate a guarantee of purity,
one may be assured of getting a sav-
ory bite.

Salted peanuts offer another form
of consolidated food. Only a genera-
tion ago the peanut was a sort of
joke which always went with the cir-
cus; a good thing to keep boys en-
tertained. But its food value was not
Yet down
in the South hogs are being fattened
by the hundred on peanuts, the own-
er of the field not even taking the
trouble to do the harvesting, but just
turning the porkers in and _ letting
them help themselves.

Now we have found that the peanut
is as nutritious for people as for the
the beasts. There is much of protein
stored within the kernel, together with
a generous amount of fat. The trade
in this nut has increased wonderfully
within the last decade; but the end
is not reached. The last census re-
port shows that in Virginia alone
the increase in acreage for this cron
has been almost 25 per cent. within
the last decade, and only potatoes,
sweet potatoes and tobacco have yield-
ed a larger profit per acre. North
Carolina has produced almost 6,000,000
bushels in a year, with a value almost
one-seventh as great as that of all
its cereals combined. Even in In-
diana it has been found a profitable
crop to grow for family use. And
yet, much of the Southern product
goes to produce pork, instead of di-
rectly into the human system. Sure-
ly, we are just beginning to realize
the possibilities on the “goober pea,”
and what a trade may be built up for
it in our own community!

 

 

 

BRAWN AND BRAIN.

Time is measured by the hour, while
labor properly conducted is not count-
ed by the hour. With a good heart
and with a desire to achieve, one
may better work twelve hours a day
than perform eight hours of perfunc-
tory toil. Our laboring class must
look out for this drift away from hon-
or in achievement. It will never do
to create a short-houred race. What
we want is a perfect alliance of brawn
and brain. William Howard Taft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 17, 1913

HODENPYL WOODS.

 

What the New Park Means to Grand
Rapids.
Written for the Tradesman.

This city has a Garden Club, with
a membership of about fifty prominent
society women who are fond of flow-
ers and fond of growing them, and
who meet semi-monthly to exchange
ideas and experiences in gardening. A
recent meeting was given overto Na-
ture’s garden, to the flowers’ that
grow in the woods and by the way-
sides, and this brought out a paper
on Hodenpyl Woods and what it
means to Grand Rapids. In this
paper the writer recalled a trip by the
“inland route” from Petoskey to Che-
boygan as a pleasant incident of a
vacation excursion into Northern
Michigan. On the little boat that
plys this picturesque water way as
fellow passengers were several In-
diana ladies, from Indianapolis,
Evansville and Muncie. They won-
dered what was the flower that made
the flats through which the Crooked
river winds a flood of pale magenta
extending from the water’s edge far
back to the cedars and tamarack and
hemlock beyond. I ventured to tell
them it was the Joe Pye weed, a very
familiar plant in the wet places in
Michigan. And those dashes of color
along the banks, was that wild sal-
via they asked? No; that was the
cardinal flower, one of the most bril-
liant of our wild flowers. As they
seemed interested, I pointed out the
gay colored epilobium and explained
that it appeared so quickly in the
burned over districts in Michigan that
it was called the fire weed, and that it
was beloved of the bees because of its
rich secretion of honey. I identified
the blue blossomed pickerel weed for
them and the white spikes of the
arrowhead. At Topinabee we _ had
two hours to stay and after dinner
wandered into the woods back of the
hotel. “It tastes just like chewing
gum; what is it?” asked one of the
party when I handed her a bunch of
fresh wintergreen leaves, and _ the
huckleberries we found were the first
they had ever seen on the bush.

These ladies from Indiana spoke
the language of good education and
culture, but they were city born and
brought up. The knew nothing of
the wild or what grows there. To
them the flowers of the wayside, of the
fields and of the woods were no more
than patches of color, to be admired,
perhaps, but conveying to them no
nods of friendly welcome, no mes-
sages of good cheer. Because the
stranger among them knew a half
dozen of our commonest wild flowers
the ladies thought they had for com-
pany an escaped scientist or at least
a college professor.

I am very sure if I were so happy
as to be on an outing with the mem-
bers of this Club I would have to
identify many more than a half dozen
of the common wild flowers to gain
a reputation. But how would it be
with your children and mine? Would
they know the flowers that beautify
the rural road sides, that glorify the
marshes and make the woods’ so
charming? I shall not speak for

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

your children, but for my own I fear
the gifts of heaven would be strang-
ers to them. And the reason for it
would be the same as with the ladies
from Indiana. These children are city
born and brought up. The opportuni-
ty to see and know the wild flowers
has not been for them. They are the
victims of circumstances and
ronment.

envi-

When I was a boy the west ends of
what is now the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth
and Ninth wards was a marsh a quar-
ter of a mile or more wide extending
from north of Leonard street south
to the river. In the Eighth and Ninth
wards this was known as the Gunni-
son swamp, and the older residents
still refer to it as such. It was in this
marsh that I made the acquaintance
of the marsh marigold, the jack-in-
the-pulpit, the cat tail and other
plants that love the wet. At Fre-
mont street, south of Leonard street,
was Stocking’s woods, a patch of pine,
maple, beech, elm and other timber
of primeval growth and here I met
the trailing arbutus, the wintergreen,
the partridge berry, the dog teeth
violet, the trilltum and other woods
flowers. The old marsh has long
since disappeared, the woods are gone
and where they were is now dotted
with the cosy hames of city dwellers.
One summer day Prof. Milner took
a party of us school boys on a hike
to Saddlebag swamp, out East Bridge
street, and we returned with baskets
filled with pitcher plants, moccasin
flowers and lady slippers. This swamp
since then has been partially drained,
the fires have swept through it and
it has been pastured to cattle and
little is left of the floral wealth which
we found there then. In going to the
Saddlebag we crossed the swale that
originates in the chain of little lakes
in Plainfield township and extends
southward across Bridge street and
beyond. This swale is now cut up
into garden patches where celery and
onions grow. Mr. Garfield can tell
you of the flowers that used to grow
in the woods of Burton Heights and
how to search for them now would
be in vain. Grand Rapids has grown
and is growing. What were once the
waste places within the corporate
Imits have been transformed. The
suburban fringe of habitation is every
year becoming wider and_ denser.
More than this, with the city’s growth
the farm lands are becoming more
valuable and no longer can the own-
ers afford to let their acres run t9
brambles and bushes. Even their
wood lots, when such are preserved,
are opened to the grazing cattle or
sheep. We would not stop this city
growth and rural improvement and
development if we could. But if we
would renew acquaintance with the
wild flowers that we once knew or
make new friends among them we
must go farther and farther. If our
children would know them they, too,
must travel farther and farther from
the familiar city streets. Would it
not be simpler to bring the flowers
to ourselves and to our children, in-
stead of trying to seek them out in
Would it not
be easier to establish a home for the
wild flowers easily

their receding haunts?

accessible and

where all may go to see and admire
and to learn instead of trying to fol-
low their enforced retreat?

I assume that the members of this
Club have visited Hodenpyl Woods,
the beautiful natural park on the
north shore of Reed’s Lake given to
the city of his birth by Anton G.
Hodenpyl. I take it for granted that
you are familiar with its splendid
trees, its hills, its water ways and the
charming vistas though the wood and
out over the lake. Let me read to
you what Mr. Hodenpyl wrote into
the deed conveying this park to the
people of Grand Rapids for all time
to come: “It shall be used for a for-
est park where shall be grown the
trees, shrubs and wild flowers in-
digenous to the locality of said park;
the said land to be maintained and
preserved as a wild or woods park,
for the benefit, pleasure and instruc-
tion of the people of the City of
Grand Rapids, the intent being that
the people of said city shall always
have an opportunity of seeing in this
park specimens of practically all
worthy varieties of trees, shrubs and
wild flowers indigenous to that lo-
cality that can be successfully grown
on said premises.”

As the city grows in population, as
the farm lands around us become more
valuable, as the waste places become
fruitful, the wood lots disappear, the
marshes and bogs dry up and_ the
little streams fade away, through Mr.
Hodenpyl’s generosity we will still
have the Woods and to Hodenpyl
Woods we and our children and our
children’s children will be able to go
to find those wild
kindly Providence created for the
earth’s adornment. Improvement and
civilization may drive the wild flow-
ers away, but in this bit of woodland,
right at our door will always be this
garden spot of nature where the wild
flowers will have a home. I am sure
the members of this Club, lovers of
flowers and of nature, appreciate Mr.
Hodenpyl’s splendid gift. I am sure
you are in full sympathy with the
purpose and desire expressed by Mr.
Hodenpyl in his deed of transmittal.
I am sure you will regard it as a
privilege and opportunity to help
make this park, as the donor express-
ed it, a place where “the people of
the city of Grand Rapids shall have
an opportunity of seeing specimens
of practically all worthy varieties of
trees, shrubs and wild flowers indig-
enous to this locality.”

things which a

The soil and other conditions in
Hodenpyl Woods were described, the
heavy clay hills, the bottom lands
that are subject to drying out in
summer, and the mile or more of
canoe channel built through the park
throwing up all kinds of soil and of-
fering all kinds of conditions for
planting. And then some of the flow-
ers to be found in the Woods were
recalled, those that grow in abun-
dance, the kinds that are to be found
there, but of which more are needed,
and the kinds that should be there
but are not. There are twenty of the
first-class, including the hepatica, the
mandrake, wild geranium, jewel weed,
trillium, Joe Pye weed and the water

plants. In the second were about a

9

dozen varieties including cardinal
flower, jack-in-the-pulpit, bird foot
violet, wild roses and blood root. Of
the flowers that should be in the
park, but are not now found there, a
list of about forty was given, includ-
ing black eyed susan, spiderwort, field
daisies, bouncing bet, wintergreen,
partridge berry, the gentians, wood
and sweet white violets, the anemones,
and others that are
the road sides. In conclusion, it was
suggested that the ladies not only
could help plant wild flowers in the
park and thereby help in the fulfill-
ment of Mr. Hodenpyl’s purposes, but
could render valuable service in the
popular education for the saving of
the wild flowers. The wild flowers
are frail and quickly fade and picking
them not only destroys the beauty

familiar along

of the park, but gives no gratification
even to those who play the part of
the vandal. Detroying the flowers in
the park is usually mere thoughtless-
ness and the members of the Garden
Club can help in bringing about a
change.
—_+-.—____
New Idea for Good Roads.

The merchants of Stuart, Iowa, have
certainly gone farther than the gov-
ernors. of Missouri in
demonstrating the way for a commu-
nity to get good roads. In the an-
nual report of the State Highway
Commission the story of their little
enterprise is told. It is worth retell-

Kansas and

ing.

These merchants got together and
set April 30 as “deagw day.” They
agreed to give collectively $5 worth of
merchandise to every farmer around
about who came to town on that day
on a “drag.” This merchandise was
a miscellaneous outfit, but it was all
useful—there was coffee and cigars,
hosiery and hair tonic, groceries,
buggy whips, nails and so forth. Be-
sides this reward given to all, a cash
prize of $3 was given to the man who
came the longest distance.
cash prize went to the man who had
the best drag. A third went to the
man with the best team. The village
liveryman fed all the teams free of
charge and First National Bank gave
the drivers their dinners.

As the result of this little scheme,
the farmers poured into town, and
not only did a liberal amount of shop-
ping but also dragged over one hun-
dred miles of road. The spring rains
settled the roads and they have since
been, it is said in admirable condition.

The State Highway Commission has
studied the little enterprise with a
good deal of interest and is now ex-
ploiting the idea all over Iowa. It
seems a thoroughly workable little
scheme and one which is fairly con-
tagious. The commercial clubs in the
towns and villages of Michigan can
freely adopt without infringement of
copyright.

—_.-.

If you can be a “tight wad” without
anyone knowing, all well and good,
but if the public are going to find
it out and lay it up against your store,
better be a prodigal instead.

—_++2—____
If you are going to be a man with

one idea, be sure that that idea is a
good one and well worth following.

Another

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

September 17, 1913

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Window Trim Made Up of School ¥
Supplies.

For building this window trim of
school supplies, here is what you will
need:

Merchandise.

About $10 of miscellaneous school

supplies, including:

Pen and Pencil Tablets.

Spelling Blanks.

Examination Paper.

Drawing Tablets.

Composition Books,

Pens.

Pencils.

Ink

Pencil Boxes.

Rulers.

Book Straps.

School Bags.

Drawing Frames.

Pencil and Pen Sets.

Equipment.

5 rolls Red Crepe Paper.
2 rolls White Crepe Paper.
3 Ordinary Sized Wooden Boxes.
1 Six-inch
i Paper of Pins.
5 Lath
Plenty of Price Tickets.

soard, 30 inches long.

 

September is the time to get ready
for selling school supplies. The mer-
chant can make profit from this situ-
ation by offering school supplies ear-
ly enough in the game. That the big
rush in supply selling will
come at the last moment, or the first
day school opens, is to be expected.
However, all the school supply trade

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w@ the merchant can get before that time
will be just that much in addition.
Moreover, his early pushing of school
supplies will advertise his store
throughout the town and vicinity as
the place where these things can be
obtained.

Advertising With Your Window.

One of the best methods of making
his store known as the headquarters
for school supplies is to have a teal
window trim. To help you out in this,
as well as to suggest the merchandise
you should handle, we have arranged
this window trim.

In building the trim the first step
is to cover the background neatly with
red crepe paper. Then arrange a
fringe or border of white crepe paper
with shirred edges along the top and
down both sides of the background
This will make a fitting setting for
the display and one that will show
off the merchandise to the best advan-
tage.

Making the Background Display.

Now take four laths and nail them
to the inverted
“V” shapes, as shown in our draw-
ing Let the apex of the “V” extend
to the front. Then on each “V” pin
ten composition tablets of assorted
cover patterns. Your window may
be of such a size that you may have
to saw a foot off each lath.

Next mail a lath in the center, ex-
tending upward between the two “V's”

background in two

and pin upon it five composition books
of assorted sizes.
Under each “V” pin to the back-

 

 

 

Photograph of

Window

Trim,

ground three large pencil tablets and

on each side of the fixtures pin as.

many tablets as necessary. The num-
ber, of course, will depend on the
size of your window.

On the inner wall, pin one dozen
or more composition books to the
background.

Next cover the boxes with crepe
paper. Cover a six-inch board, thirty
inches long with white crepe paper
and put it on top of the boxes for a
shelf.
pyramids of four pencil boxes each.

Build at the back of this three

On the front of the shelf build a pyra-
mid of a dozen bottles of ink. On
each end of the board hang a card of
pencils or pencil sharpeners.

The fixture on the left comes next.
This is made of a box the same size

Michigan State Federation of Art As-
sociation, Grand Rapids, 21.
oc Federation of Women’s Clubs,

Grand Council of the I. O. O. F., Kala-
mazoo, 21-22-23.

National Association for the Promotion
of Industrial Education, Grand Rapids,
23-24-25.

Michigan Bee
Detroit.

Michigan Society of Optometrists, De-
troit.

Michigan State Teachers’ Association,
Ann Arbor, 30-31

November.

Michigan Association of Commercial
Secretaries, Bay City, 6-7.

Michigan Retail Implement and Vehicle
ee Association, Grand Rapids,
11-12-13.

National Baptist Congress, Grand Rap-
ids.

Michigan Bee Keepers’ Association, De-
troit.

Keepers’ Association,

December.
Michigan State Grange, Flint.
Michigan Knights of the Grip, Grand
Rapids.
Michigan Branch of the National Bee
Keepers’ Association, Detroit.
January.
Michigan Hardwood Lumber Dealers’

 

 

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Drawing of Fixtures.

as the center box and another box
proportionately smaller, as shown in
the drawing. Cover both these boxes
with white crepe paper. The arrange-
ment of merchandise on this fixture
is apparent from the photograph and
consists of seven large pencil tablets,
six boxes of crayons, three
straps, and- one box of steel pens.

book

The fixture on the right is made of

the same sized boxes and the same

merchandise.—Butler Way.
i
COMING CONVENTIONS TO BE HELD
IN MICHIGAN.
September.

Michigan State Fair, Detroit, 15-20.

Grand Circuit Races, Detroit, 15-20.

Michigan Federation of Labor, Kalama-
zoo, 16-19.

Michigan Association of Local Fire In-
surance Agents, Detroit, 17-18.

League of Michigan Municipalities,
Jacksen, 17-19.

Tribe of Ben Hur, Saginaw, 18-19.

Re-union Ninth Regiment Michigan
Veterans, Detroit, 19-20.

american Portland Cement Manufac-
turers’ Association, Detroit, 23-25.

American Road Congress, Detroit, 29-
October 4.

American Automobile Association, De-
troit, 30-October 3.

Eastman Kodak Grand
Rapids, 29-October 4.

October.

Michigan Association of Builders and
Traders’ Exchanges, Grand Rapids.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso-
ciation, Grand Rapids, 1-2.

Michigan Pharmaceutical
Association, Grand Rapids, 1-2.

Michigan Good Roads Association, De-
troit, 1-3.

Michigan Branch of the International
Order of the King’s Daughters and Sons,
Mt. Clemens, 1-2-3

Grand Lodge Loyal Order of Moose.

Baptist Brotherhood of Michigan, Pon-
tiac.

Order of the Kastern Star, Saginaw, 14.

Annual Conference on Vocational Guid-
ance, Grand Rapids, 19-20.

Exposition,

Travelers’

Association, Detroit, 4-6.

Modern Maccabees of the United States,
Bay City, 11-15.

Retail Walk-Over Association,
Rapids.

Michigan Poultry
Detroit, 26-Feb. 2.
February.
Dairyman’s

Grand

Breeders’ Association,

Michigan
Grand Rapids.
Retail Grocers and General Merchants
Association, Grand Rapids.
Michigan Association of County Drain
Commissioners, Grand Rapids.
Michigan Retail Hardware Dealers’ As-
sociation, Kalamazoo, 17-20.
March.
Michigan Association of Master Plumb-
ers, Grand Rapids.
United Brotherhood of
Joiners, Saginaw.
April.
State Bowling Tournament,
Michigan Cost Congress,

Association,

Carpenters and

Detroit.
Saginaw.

May
Michigan Congregational
Grand Rapids.
Michigan Letter Carriers’
Detroit, 30.
Degree of Honor,

Conference,
Association,
Flint.

une.
Michigan Dental’ Society, Detroit.
Knights of Columbus of Michigan, De-
troit, 10.
National Association Chiefs of Police,
Grand Rapids.
P. O. E., Petoskey.

G. A. R., Jackson.
Michigan State Bankers’
Alpena.

Michigan Unincorporated Bankers’ As-
sociation, Alpena.
July.
Barbers’

Association,

.

Michigan State
Flint.

Michigan Retail Jewelers’ Association,
Grand Rapids.

Michigan Association of Police Chiefs,
Sheriffs and Prosecuting Attorneys, Al-

pena.
August.
Postmasters’

Association,

Michigan
Grand Rapids.

Fifth Michigan Veteran Volunteer In-
fantry Association, Saginaw, 26.

Association,

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Some men work one day during the

week, rest six, and then wonder why
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September 17, 1918

Retires From Grocery Business After
Thirty Years.

Barend Zevalkink, who has been
engaged in the grocery business at
649 Grandville avenue for thirty years,
has sold his stock to Harry DeGraf;
who will continue the business at the
same location. Mr. Zevalkink was
born at Geldesland, Netherlands,
Set. 14, 1843, where he learned the
tailoring trade. He worked as tailor
for several years in the Netherlands
and at the age of 30 emigrated to this
country, locating in Grand Rapids,
where he worked several years as a

 

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tailor for Houseman & May. He then
worked in the factory of the Widdi-
comb Furniture Co.
as a trimmer. He enzaged in the
grocery business in 1883. He was
married in the
dying

eighteen manths

Netherlands, his wife
before he emigrated to this
country. [Forty-six years ago he mar-
ried Miss Ilannah Klanderman, of
Grand Rapids. Thirteen children have
blessed the union, of which seven are
still living, as follows: John, Ben,
Minne, Alice, James, Richard and
Gerrit. Vive of the children are either
married or engaged in business, the
two younger children being still in
school.

Mr. Zevalkink joined the Dutch Re-
formed church in the Netherlands and
has always been identified with that
denomination. On the organization
of the Grace Reformed
Caulfield avenue, he became a _ char-
ter member. He has never held pub-
lic office.
for a good horse,
tains.

church’ on

His only hobby is a liking
which he still re-

¢ ———--
Chirpings From the Crickets.

Battle Creek, Sept. 15—Chas. R.
Dye and wife left here Friday morn-
ing for Colorado, called by the death
of Brother Dye’s brother. One of the
boys heard the sad news and pur-
chased beautiful flowers, which Mr.
Dye and wife took West with them,
a little remembrance from Charles
U. C. T. brothers. Brother Dye and
wife arrived at their journey’s end
yesterday morning.

Clarence B. Whipple has a hors?
33 years old. Honest now, this age
is vouched for by Mrs. Whipple and is
not a Fred Barney yarn. Clarence
feeds the horse mighty good and this
past week Mr. Hoss ran away. No-
body hurt, but Mr. and Mrs. Whipple
and neighbors some surprised.

One of the boys told me last night
that a relative of his who belongs to
Kalamazoo Council wrote him to be

‘mazoo to see

‘ones on the diamond.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

sure to come over to Kalamazoo Sat-
urday, as the ball teams of Grand
Rapids and Kalamazoo Councils were
to play a ball game there. Why don’t
the managers of these two teams let
their brother counselors in this sec-
tion of the State know about their
game so we could turn out? Lots of
us saw these two teams play at Grand
Rapids last June during the State
U. C. T. convention and we would
welcome the chance to see them get
together again. Just a little notice
in the Tradesman would have brought
lots of out-of-town boys over to Kala-
the game. Maybe the
fellows did not care for a lot of out-
of-town boosters, but there is con-
siderable expense in putting on a
game and the fellows could just as
well have made a profit by the use
of some printer’s ink. As it is, we
don’t even know the score. We bet
Grolle did his part for Kalamazoo.

Battle Creek Council has some
good material for a ball team and next
season we may be among the live
Look to your
boys.

If Mr. Stowe has lived through all
the things his wisdom shows on the
front cover each week, his age would
be hard to compute.

The gentleman from Mears, Ches.
}rubaker, tells his Grand Rapids ex-
periences in a_ clever,
He cites three
cerns he deals with as having been
called upon. If he had got into Mr.
Stowe’s machine there is a possibility
he (Ches. Brubaker) would not have
seen his other two parties.

laurels,

entertaining

manner. business con-

All of page 2, issue of Sept. 10, cov-
ered by the clever newsy letter of
James Goldstein! Glad to see and
read same. Fine hint to some of us
other fellows who some weeks come
out with a short column. I thanked
Brother Goldstein last week for his
bouquet. The linotype man made it
read banquet. Well, never mind, they
are both good words and one takes
the place of the other all right in
print. If I ever see you in Detroit
of on tne road. take it from me,
James, you and I will never sit down
to a bouquet. There’s more of a dif-
ference on the table than there is on
a printed page.

The hay fever conventions are being
held North.

Battle Creek won the
the Southern Michigan League. We
are there with the goods.

Boost your home town.

300st your business.

Boost your boss.

Boost yourself.

Read the Tradesman.

Guy Pfander.
—~+2>—__
Come Now, Own Up.

“Say, father,” said little Fred, “did
you ever have another wife beside
mother?”

“Why, certainly not,”
er, “how do you happen to ask such
a question, my boy?”

“Well father,” continued the boy,
“1 saw in the old family Bible that
you married Anne Domini, 1882, and
I know that wasn’t mother, for her
name was Mary Parsons when she
was a girl.”

pennant in

said the fath-

Carpenter-Udell Co.
Increases Capital

Demand for the Company’s Spraying
Compounds Necessitates Increase

AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY

Two years ago the Caspenter Udell
Chemical Company embarked in busi-
ness here to manufacture and place
on the market a full line of spraying
compounds. From the very beginning
the career of the company has been
most thriving, so much so, in fact,
that in order to properly take care
of it, it has been found necessary to
increase the capital stock by $50,000
and stock to this amount is now being
subscribed for.

The company not only makes a
superior quality of compounds, but
it also gives to farmers and fruit grow-
ers a splendid publicity service, ex-
plaining the various difficulties en-
countered in raising fruit and other
farm products and suggesting remedies
for overcoming these obstacles. A
part of this service consists in pub-
lishing pamphlets treating of various
diseases. These pamphlets have prov-
ed so popular that some of them have
gone through a number of editions.
They have the distinctive merit of
beng instructive and interesting at
the same time. Here are some of the
subjects treated: Potatoes; Aphides
and their Control; the Control of Late

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an expert of wide experience. He has
charge of the publicity work of the
company. O. E. Arnold is the com-
pany’s auditor, and F. A. Roberson,
a graduate of the University of Okla-
homa, is chemist.

The Carpenter-Udell Company is
the largest concern in the United
States manufacturing spraying com-
pounds exclusively. It probably makes
more paris green than any other com-
pany in the country and its output
of, other products is very large. The

company’s plant is large and well
equipped and is admirably fitted for
carrying on operations on a large

scale. An interesting part of the
plant is a well furnished experimental
laboratory, where investigations are
always being carried on with the idea
of giving better service to patrons,
if that is possible.

Ready Sale for Products.

This company not only manufac-
tures its products on a large scale,
but it has no difficulty in finding a
ready sale for them. Carpenter-Udell
goods are sold all over the United
States and the management is just
now taking steps to enter the foreign
field. They find that people in other
countries are waking up to the fact
that it is time to abandon their an-
tiquated methods. They are begin-
ning to understand that it is nec-
essary to spt. P with tested com-
pounds and Carpented-Udell com-
pounds should be well received.

The management is also planning
on specializing in commercial fertili-
zer. The idea is to manufacture a fer-
tilizer for the particular crop which
is to be raised. They will furnish to
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Apple Scab, Coddling Moth Worms,
Bitter Rot and Apple Blotch. A bul-
letin on the Anthracnose of the Bean
is now on the press.

High Grade Men.

The Carpenter-Udell rary owes
much of its success to the high grade
of men connected with it. R. E. Car-
penter, who was instrumental in form-
ing the company, has had nearly a
l‘fetime experience in the business.
For a number of years he was con-
nected with a large New York con-
cern in the same kind of work and
he knows his business thoroughly.
>. S. Udell, who is heavily interested
in the concern, is well known in Grand
Rapids, having been in active business
here for thirty years. He is connect-
ed with a large number of local busi-
ness institutions, but he gives his en-
tire attention to the affairs of the

Carpenter-Udell Company. These
two gentlemen and E. A. Stowe,

Henry Smith and Alexander Dodds
form the board of directors.

The company is also verv fortunate
in commanding the services of a
splendid lot of traveling salesmen.
These gentlemen are experienced men,
practical fruit growers, who can give
valuable information to the fruit rais-
er. The sales corps consists of the
following men: W.  S.. Haliman,
whose territory is Michigan south of
Grand Rapids; George Wedge, who
works north of Grand Rapids; R. E.
Waite, with territory east of Grand
Rapids, and C. W. Ewing, who rep-
resents the company in Ohio.

The publicity service departments
and demonstration work, which are
important parts of the company’s ac-
tivities, are in charge of A. N. rca,

Splendid Plant of Carpenter-Udell Chemical Company.

meeded. lf he is
doesn’t want the same fertilizer he
would for peaches. This idea cer-
tainly has logic to commend it.

The company’s products are sold
under the name of Imperial Brand
Spraying Compounds and a very ap-
propriate trade mark has been adopt-
ed, carrying out the Imperial idea.
A crown and sceptre form an im-
portant part of the trade mark.

Among the various compounds
manufactured are: Lime Sulphur So-
lution, Arsenate of Lead, Pure Paris
Green, Bordeaux Mixture, Kerosene
Emulsion, Nicotine Solution, Kill
Weed, Whale-Oil Soap, Cut Worm
and Grub Destroyer.

Speaking of these compounds, Mr.
Carpenter gave a_ representative of
the Tradesman a number of reasons
why they are high grade in every par-
ticular. “First,” he said, “because
nothing but pure tested basic mater-
tals are used in their manufacture.
Second, because these materials are
compounded by e: xperienced workmen
according to scientific and chemical
requirements. Third, because by their
test in orchard, field and garden they
have more than sustained the high
standard of excellence claimed for
them.”

The Carpenter-Udell products have
certainly made a very splendid repu-
tat‘on for themselves in “he compara-
tively short time they have been on
the market. It is worthy of note that
90 per cent. of the prize winning fruit
at the recent West Michigan State
fair was sprayed by this company’s
compounds.

(Educational Publicity and Advertising)

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President—B. L. Howes, Detroit.
Vice-President—H. L. Williams, Howell.
Secretary and Treasurer—J. E. Wag-
goner, Mason.
Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson,
Detroit; E. J. Lee, Midland; D. A. Bent-
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Growing More Apples and Less
Peaches.

This city is not the great fruit mar-
ket it used to be. Quantities of fruit
are still produced here, beginning with
strawberries and going right through
the menu to winter apples, but con-
ditions have changed with the years
and to-day there is little inducement
for buyers from other markets to
come here. One of the changed con-
ditions is that which has been brought
about by the growth of the city.

Grand Rapids has a population of ap--

proximately 125,000, and probably 25,-
000 more live in the immediate sub-
This is about double the popu-
lation of twenty years ago and, as it

urbs.

is almost entirely a consuming in-
stead of a producing population, it
takes about double the old amount to
supply the local consumptive deman1.
With the local consumption so largely
increased, there is that much less for
shipment. The Grand Rapids market
absorbs not only all the small fruits
produced in this territory, but during
the season takes carlot shipments
from other producing centers. This
is especially true of strawberries, but
it applies to raspberries, blackberries
and huckleberries, although to a less
degree. Those who have had long
experience with the market can recall
when large shipments of these fruits
were made from here. With cherries
and plums in years of ordinary crops
there is usually a substantial surplus
for shipment, although there has been
a preceptible narrowing of the line
between supply and the local demand.
There was no surplus of cherries this
season, owing to crop shortage, but
there were enough plums for the local
market and to spare, and a fair shipping
business was done. In former years
Grand Rapids was one of the im-
portant peach centers in the State,
with a larger production, probably,
than any other place in Michigan. The
crop is short this season, but even
if it were a full crop there would
not be enough peaches grown in this
district to supply the local demand,
to say nothing of having any to spare.
The chief reason for this is that the
orchards have disappeared. Yellows
and the little peach have wiped them
out and the severe winter of three
years ago also worked havoc. On the
city market this season the local de-
mand is being supplied from Kent
City, Casnovia, Shelby and Hart to a
large extent, with receipts from the

Bentor Harbor and Fennville districts
to help out. There are local deliver-
ies, of course, but the home grown
represent but a small part of the home
consumption. The peach industry in
this immediate vicinity is said by ex-
perienced growers to be at about its
lowest ebb in many years, but it is
questioned if Grand Rapids will ever
again be the peach center it was once.
In the old days the farmers staked
everything on their peaches. Now
they are diversifying their crops. As
an illustration, one grower twenty
vears ago had an orchard of 11,000
trees. The yellows got into the or-
chard and wiped him out. After
three or four years he replanted, but
instead of putting in 11,000 trees he
planted only 6,000. The cold of three
years ago and the yellows wiped him
out a second time. He has no peach-
es on the market this year, but he has
begun replanting a second time. His
plan is to plant only 3,000 trees this
time, and to put the remainder of the
land in something else, thus reduc-
ing his hazard. This is the policy
that many other growers are follow-
ing and it means that in the future
there will be smaller orchards and
not so many of them, with a corres-
ponding reduction in the total produc-
tion. With the reduced production
and a steadily increasing local con-
sumptive demand it is easy to see
why Grand Rapids will cease to be a
point of attraction for outside buyers.
Up to date this season less than ten
cars of peaches have been shipped out
of Grand Rapids. There have been
reasons when a single buyer would
take ten to fifteen cars a day during
the season to send away. If Grand
Rapids has been fading away as a
peach center it has been growing in
importance as an apple center, many
of those who formerly grew peaches
having planted apples instead. The
early apples this year have been a
fair crop and there has been a good
shipping supply above the local de-
mand, and there is reason to believe
this condition will grow better with
the years, instead of decreasing. The
late apples will be short crop this
season, but there are so many more
trees in this district that there will
be some for shipment and in ordinary
years there will be a substantial sur-
plus.

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Illegal to Put Water in Canned
Tomatoes.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 15—There
seems to be a general misunderstand-
ing in certain localities regarding
what constitutes adulteration of can-
ned tomatoes, and for this reason
many may find interesting and en-
lightening a repetition of the Depart-

 

The Vinkemulder Company

JOBBERS AND SHIPPERS OF EVERYTHING IN

FRUITS AND PRODUCE

 

 

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

 

 

 

SERVICE

Our aim is to give our customers

 

 

the best service possible. Orders
are shipped the same day they
are received. This applies to
mail and telephone orders as
well as all others. If you are
dissatisfied with your present

service we solicit a trial order.

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ment of Agriculture’s Food Inspec-
tion decision on this subject.

The can in any canned food pro-
duct serves not only as a container,
but also as an index of the quantity
of food contained. It should be as
full of food as is practicable without
injuring the quality or appearance of
the contents.

Tomatoes are a food product which
may be canned without the addition
of any other substance, therefore, the
addition of water is deemed adultera-
tion. Pulp has been discovered pre-
pared from trimmings, cores and other
waste material, which was added to
canned tomatoes. This pulp is not a
normal ingredient of canned tomatoes
and is, therefore, adulteration.

If in the canning of a lot of toma-
toes, more juice is added than normal-
ly would be present, the same is con-
sidered an adulteration in the opinion
of the Board of Food and Drug In-
spection.

A number of decisions have been
handed down in favor of the United
States in suits brought against com-
panies that have shipped in interstate
commerce canned tomatoes adulterat-
ed with pulp or an excessive amount
of juice. To prevent any unwitting
violation of the law by others. who
may be ignorant of what adulteration
of canned tomatoes is considered to
mean, these particulars are once more
called to the public’s attention.

—_++2-
Need for Uniform Laws.

However much the grocery trade
may disagree with Dr. Alsberg, the
head of the Federal Pure Food ma-
chinery, as to his ideas on the manu-
facturer’s guarantee on the label, they
will unanimously sustain his views on
the necessity of uniform food laws.
In fact nothing is more needed in the
food trades to-day than state laws,
agreeing with each other and with the
Federal statutes. Representative as-
sociations of all sorts have been work-
ing toward that end for a long time,
but have usually run against the pet
hobbies of pure food extremists in the
several states; each official believing
himself a pioneer carrying the light
of progress and marking the path
which other state officials must fol-
low. The result is a wide variety of
vanguard outposts, so scattered as to
make a path which all may tread in
unison impossible.

The time is past when foods can
be packed solely for intra-state con-
sumption and traffic. Commerce has
outgrown state lines and the demand
of manufacturer, trade and consumer
is for conditions which will permit
the packing and labelling of goods
which shall move as freely in all
states alike as does Federal currency.
It would simplify production, distri-
bution and food law enforcement and
would materially reduce the high costs
of living. In the efforts to secure this
state of affairs, trade associations have
always run against the views of ex-
tremists and fadists. And, in the Dr.
Wiley days, there was little sympathy
available from him. In view of which,
Dr. Alsbetg’s ideas will be received as
a ray of hope when he says:

“It certainly would seem possible
for the states and the United States
to agree on a set of requirements that

would be stringent enough to secure
pure food and drugs, and yet entirely
just to the producers and _ flexible
enough for the peculiar conditions in
different geographical sections. This
does not necessarily mean that each
state must adopt identical statutes, as
many states will probably need addi-
tional regulations covering peculiar
products. But at least these statutes
could be fully inter-sustaining and
free from contradictory provisions.
One result of such uniformity would
be to relieve the several states from
duplication of costly analysis. If the
Federal laws could impose the same
restrictions as the states, proceedings
in inter-state commerce might well
save the state departments the very
costly duplication of legal procedure
in territories where Federal seizure
had been made and penalty secured
by enforcement of the Federal law.
It probably will be some time before
the states have agreed among them-
selves as to food and drug standards,
but the matter is so important that it
should be carefully considered at this
time.”

—_2+.—___
Ounce of City Hustle Worth Pound
of Luck.

There are lots of men in every town
who would not have climbed the lad-
der of successful business if the Board
of Trade had not steadied the ladder.
Our town is all right since the

knockers have left.

The development of this town ‘s
no one man’s duty.

It doesn’t cost any more to laugh
than to worry.

Our town begins and ends with our-
selves.

It is easier to make excuses than
to get out and dig for our town.

You are not going to make this
town by wishing.

The town that throws only a bluff
seldom hits anything,

The success of our town does not
come in bottles. It comes in cans.

Things in our town sometimes go
wrong. But we cannot stub our toes
kicking at ourselves.

There should be the initiative, ref-
erendum and recall of the town knock-
er.

Don’t do things on too small a
scale. An umbrella is a shelter for
one and a shower bath for two.

Don’t get chesty over our town.
Most flattery is found on tombstones.

It is pretty hard to underpay a city
official.

You never know how many tired
fellows there are in our town until
you ask them to work on a committee.

This town has broken many rec-
ords this year. It wouldn’t hurt to
break a few more—especialy the rag
time ones.

Too many towns run their Boards
of Trade on the hit and miss plan.
Like a stopped clock—correct once
in twelve times.

Lots of men in our town will take
a fifteen cent cigar when treated, and
smoke a pipe on themselves.

——+-- 2 —___.

It may be all right to pride yourself
on saying just what you think, but
it’s mighty poor policy to be as frank
as that if you want people to come
back to the store again.

Post to Collect Old
Debts.

A Kalamazoo merchant has found
a new use for the parcel post. When
the C. O. D. feature went into effect
on July 1 he hit upon an idea to col-
lect a number of small accounts which
he had been carrying for some time,
and which had caused considerable
loss during a period of several years.

Several small boxes were obtained
and filled with waste paper, and on
the top was placed a receipted bill
for the proper amount. A five-cent
stamp was required for each box,
and the C. O. D. fee was ten cents
for each package.

The next day the returns began to
come in, and in nearly every case the
debtor paid the amount, supposing
that the package contained something
of value, but of course, he was not
permitted to confirm his suspicion be-
fore opening it.

IMPORTANT

Retail Grocers

who wish to please
their customers should
be sure to supply them

™ with the genuine

Baker’s

Cocoaand
Chocolate

with the trade-mark
on the packages.

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Established 1873

Liberal shipments of Live Poul-
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being obtained. Fresh eggs more
plenty and selling well at quota-
tion.

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

Send for our weekly price cur-
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Shirts, Gloves, Neckwear and Hats
and Caps.

Already orders are being placed for
the shirt trade for 1914 and many
buyers interested in custom orders
are in the field. What has been will
be again, for there is no falling off
in the popularity of stripes whether
woven or printed. New effects are
being constructed according to the
originality and ingenuity of design-
but they run to. stripe
patterns. From present demand the
popular styles will include about 50
each of dark and light
and of these more than 75
are single, double and treble

ers, largely

pert cent
grounds
per cent.
stripes.

While of course, men’s furnishings,
like everything else, must be affected
to some extent by tariff conditions,
the collar manufacturer does not ap-
pear to be very much alarmed. His
claim is that while foreign manufac-
turers may hurt us when it comes to
the sale of novelties, they cannot
come into competition with us on
stripes. For this reason the claim is
made that there is no necessity for
manufacturers of collars to hold up
the naming of prices on account of
the tariff. They can go right ahead
and take care of their trade without
fear of being interferred with to any
serious extent.

Gloves.

Gray silks for men continue to sell
in gratifyingly large quantities, and
there is a good demand for “chamois
suedes.”’ The marked increase in the
popularity of men’s silk gloves may
be taken as another indication of the
growing tendency of men to pay
greater attention to gloves as an es-
sential part of their wardrobe. It
is not so long ago that the average
man little thought to handwear
other than as a means of protection
against the cold and made purchases
according to his bare requirements
for each season. There has_ been,
however, a gradual change from this
procedure during the past few years
and sales of men’s gloves have grown
larger in volume. Nowadays the man
who would be well groomed provides
himself with correct handwear for all
and the keen observer of
the trend of fashions can see in the
more pronounced demand for men’s
silk gloves the further development
custom which had made rapid
strides in a comparatively short per-
iod of time.

It is apparent that the prejudice of
against the wearing of . silk
gloves is being overcome, at least to
a considerable extent. Whatever the
true reason may be for the increased
demand for men’s silk gloves it is

gave

occasions

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approaching a magnitude that creates
genuine enthusiasm among manufac-
turers and retailers who see in tne
general adoption of the custom vast-
ly increased business in a line which
in the past has presented, at the
best, but limited possibilities.
Neckwear.

About the only point upon which
there is a general agreement of opin-
ion for autumn is the preponderance
of broad shapes. The narrow four-
in-hand has finally gone to the bin
Styles in scarfs always follow those
in collars, and the open-front, wide-
spaced collar is firmly settled in the
good graces of young men who are
the arbiters of fashion, because they

are the “spenders.”
With the complete vogue of broad
shapes, the opportunities for richer,

more daring patterns and colors are
greatly enlarged. Much of the crit-
icism of neckwear manufacturers dur-
ing the last few years aimed at the
lack of novelty in designs has been
unjust, for with small shapes to work
with, the latitude for originality was
very limited and there was _ neces-
sarily a monotonous repetition of pat-
terns. Next autumn, however, will
be a season of sheaves of novelties
both from home and foreign looms.
Besides all the familiar weaves, there
will be satins, velvets, moires, velour-
finished silks and raised-pattern ef-
fects, and many old-time favorites
are to be reviewed.
Just what is to be

“the thing” no-

body knows, and one guess is as
good as another. There never has
been so wide a divergence in man-

ufacturers’ lines as in those for an-
About everything under the
canopy is represented, and what one
house condemns another house com-
mends. The trade seems to be divid-
ing itself into specializing lines, that
is, each manufacturer throws his
strength to a particular silk and seeks
to be “headquarters” for it. As an
instance, one manufacturer shows an
enormous line of crepes which drawf
everything else he displays.

As foretold, imported silks will cut
a big figure in the demand. The or-
ders are in, and reasonably prompt
shipments are pledged—in about two
months, though it will take fully ten
weeks to land the goods. American
mills seem reconciled to a fight on
the basis of “value for the price.”
The foreigners’ first season will
serve to draw out their strength and
ought to show clearly what kind of
competition to expect from them in
the future.

Green is to be one of the fashion-
able colors in suitings next autumn.
This may be taken as certain. There-

tunin.

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fore, green also looms up as a com-
ing color in scarfings and in the high-
est-class lines this color is well rep-
resented.

In evening dress ties, the trend for
autumn is toward slightly wider
shapes to go with the deeper-tabbed
wing collars. The long, narrow ties
have gone out. Here, too, one finds
velvets, brocades and satins for Tux-
edo wear.

In speaking of the situation of the
men’s neckwear business a prominent

manufacturer of cravats made the
following statement: “During the
past ten years it has been the cus-

tom among
men’s

the manufacturers of
neckwear to send their man on
the road with their samples of fall
goods, just as soon as the months of
April or May arrived. The present
summer is an exception, however,
owing to the labor difficulties in the
mills operated by the makers of silks,
and the consequent difficulty in get-
ting out the fall samples in time. The
result was that in order to do some
business, the manufacturers of neck-
wear, pushed summer goods, such as
foulards, crepes, fancy wash goods,
etc., and a good summer _ business
was obtained. This demonstrates that
heretofore the spring and summer
season was shortened by the haste of
the manufacturers to show their fall
lines. It is a fact that manufactur-
ers were anxious to buy anything new
and novel that was shown to them in
foulards, crepes or other novelties in
light weight goods, and these were
sold as fast as made up. It seems
that the neckwear business could be
put in a more healthy condition by
pushing for summer business when
the time is ripe for this kind of busi-
ness. The neckwear manufacturer
can sell summer goods up to July 1.
and after that time be ready for the
fall business.”

Hats and Caps.

The big straw hat season which
was expected is upon us and retailers
who prepared for a demand as great
as the greatest have not been dis-
appointed. There is active sale par-
ticularly of high crown narrow brim
sennits in various degrees of rough
braid and those that appeal to the

young fellows are even rougher than
last season.
Salesmen have all returned from

their road trips with fall felt hats
and their reports confirm early im-
pressions that fall orders would be
light, and presage heavy late buying.
Buyers who have not placed adequate
fall orders are advised to “cover”
themselves on their early season's
requirements, for it is assumed that
the heavy late demand will tax the
capacity of the hat factories so that
prompt deliveries will be impossible.

In soft hats, high crowns, full tips
and medium brims are the propor-
tions, blues and greens being the
novelty colors, with pearls well fa-
vored in the South. In stiff hats
there is a decided tendency to bring
in the tops a bit, modifying the brims
and raising the crown dimensions.

A late development is the placing
of velvet bands on soft hats,
ing from the silk workers’
Patterson,

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it became exceedingly difficult to ob-
tain the grosgrain bands, necessitat-
ing the use of other material. The
velvet band gives the hat a beautiful
appearance if the colors are right and
in order to accomplish the proper
matching the hat and
band it being necessary to buy the
bands in stock

of colors in
colors, the best plan
is to color the hats according to the
velvet bands to be used rather than
to try to match the bands of the hat.

While’ the of velvet bands is
a radical innovation and there is no
means of determining the degree of
favor with which the public will re-
ceive them, the distinctive novelty
and the beauty of the effect will un-
doubtedly prove attractive and buyers
should not hesitate to order liberally
and feature these hats for the fall
trade.

The growing popularity of Pana-
ma hats continues unabated. This
soft, light weight, sightly article of
summer headgear makes a special ap-
peal to the desire for comfort and
ease and each season finds a greater
demand for them,

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15

 

What Some Michigan Cities are
Doing.

Written for the Tradesman.

Kalamazoo’s interstate fair will

open Sept. 22 and one of the leading
thrills on the programme is a head-
on collision of locomotives traveling
over 45 miles an hour.

More than 700 Detroit manufactur-
ers participated in the ‘Made in De-
troit” exhibition held in that city last
week.

A large sign has been erected at
Cassopolis by the Commercial Club,
calling attention to excellent factory
sites there.

Promoters of a _ trans-state inter-
urban line from Muskegon to Saginaw
will meet in Muskegon Sept. 25. Dis-
tance by the proposed route is 125
miles, which shortens the present rail
distance fifty miles.

Kalamazoo’s new armory, with con-
vention hall capable of seating over
3,000 people, will be ready for use
early in October.

Enrollment in the public schools of
Kalamazoo is 250 above last year's
record.

Members of the Retail Grocers’ As-
sociation of Jackson have voted to
close their stores Thursday afternoons
throughout the year, in order to give
their clerks who work Saturday nights
a holiday.

Otsego’s home coming and _ street
fair Oct. 8-10 gives promise of being
the biggest event ever in that lively
town.

Grand Ledge has purchased water
meters and each one of the 550 users
of city water will have a meter. Water
has been wasted in the past and there
has been an annual shortage.

The Commercial Club of Menomi-
nee has directed Secretary Chambers
to begin the publication of a month-
ly. bulletin, devoted to the interests
of the Club and the city.

The Bureau of Statistics of the Mus-
kegon Chamber of Commerce finds
that out of every twenty-four people
in Muskegon, at least seventeen are
native born. Out of a total popula-
tion of 24,062, there are 4,447 Hol-
landers, 2,065 Swedes, 2,048 Germans,
and 1,903 Canadians.

The Commercial Club of Marquette
and will open
a campaign for new members.

is showing new life

The Lansing Board of Health rules
that all groceries, meat markets and
other places handling milk must se-
cure licenses. It is expected this
action will greatly reduce the number
of retail milk dealers.

One of the State factory inspectors
has condemned the high school build-
ing at Plainwell as unsafe and insan-
itary ana recommends a new struc-
ture.

The annual farmers’ produce exhibit
will be held at Charlevoix Sept. 29
under the auspices of the Retail Mer-
chant’s Association.

The Goshen Shirt Manufacturing
Co. will build a $10,000 addition to its
plant in Manistee.

The turning on of new street lamps
at Coldwater was made the occasion
of a celebration, with auto
speeches and band concert as a part
of the programme.

parade,

Ann Arbor is taking first steps to-

ward providing a public comfort sta-
tion and lavatory upon the court
house grounds.

Cement has been made the regula-
tion material for new sidewalks at
Ann Arbor and no more tar walks
may be laid,

The Ishpeming Advancement Asso-
ciation has approved the recommenda-
tions of the committee
that street dealers’ licenses be denied,
that soliciting for charitable and
other purposes be regulated, that
stores be closed at 6 o’clock evenings
except pay nights and Saturdays and
that dishonest advertising be tabooed.

Merchants of Iron River have open-
ed a war on street dealers and one
arrest has been made for the purpose
of testing the law.

An amendment to the traffic ordi-
nance at Kalamazoo requires that
persons runing automobiles must be
at least 18 years old. It also provides
that lights on machines must be two
in front, which shall not shine at a
greater distance than 125 feet ahead,
a tail light, and a light which shall
illuminate the license number.

A complete school system was in-
augurated this week at Jackson pris-
on, whereby prisoners may be given
either high school, agricultural, com-
mercial or vocational courses. The
Deputy State Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction will supervise the sys-
tem. Books will be provided for the
inmates and the State Librarian has
promised to co-operate in bringing
the library system in the prison up to
standard.

Mayor Moore, of Muskegon, has
directed the interurban company to
operate its cars on a slower schedule
within the city limits, particularly on
Sanford street.

Niles is extending its Tungsten
street light system from Market
square, across the Broadway bridge
to the west side.

Shiawassée county bankers met at
Owosso and formed a club, one of the
purposes being to aid in agricultural
betterments in that territory.

Saginaw has adopted a pure food
ordinance regulating the handling of
meat and milk, control of same being
placed largely in the hands of the
Board of Health.

Petoskey will have a new city di-
rectory, which will also include every
city and town of Emmet county.

The Cadillac sawmills will not com-
plete their cuts for many years. They
have 30,000 acres still uncut in Wex-
ford county alone.

Supt. Warriner, of the east side
schools, Saginaw, is notifying the
stores and factories of provision for
part-time students, so that students
past the high school age can divide
their time between school and store
or factory. Almond Griffen.

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Most new schemes and devices are
new only because nobody ever thought
of them before. It requires nothing
more than a little study to evolve
new and valuable ideas for any store.

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advertising of goods sold in

your store—for the advertising of
goods that should be sold in your store.

Read _ carefully—memorize the selling arguments,
make the advertising part of your own stock of sales-talk.

advertising of goods sold by them will multiply their

wastes time in tiresome arguments needed to sell them,
has not a chance against the man who smilingly says,
“Oh, yes, it’s one of the N. B. C. products; here it is,
thank you"—and the sale has been made.

Now is your time to start in with N. B. C. products.
The In-er-seal Trade-Mark packages and familiar
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When to State the Way of a Good
Bargain.
Written for the Tradesman.

If you choose to give, during a cer-
tain day, seven spools of a standard
kind of thread or sewing silk for a
quarter, or to cut the regular price on
a very popular corset or some famous
make of hooks and eyes or dress
shields, it isn’t necessary to tell just
why you are doing it; in fact it would
be a waste of advertising breath to
state your reason.

The same principle applies when
your neighbor, the druggist, offers a
below-cost bargain in some old estab-
lished eye salve or sarsaparilla or face
powder; and when the grocer down
the street hands out an extra bar or
two of some well known laundry soap
for twenty-five cents, or a pound mofe
than usual of granulated sugar for a
dollar.

When an article is well known,
widely advertised, accepted by the
public as a thing of unquestioned
merit, and is commonly sold at some
one price, there is little if any ad-
vantage to be gained by setting forth
just why you, for the time being, are
selling it for less. If there are differ-
ent grades and kinds and sizes of the
article, then it may be well to state
that it is the fifty-cent size that you
are selling for thirty-nine cents, or
the dollar-and-a-half grade that you
are letting go at one seventeen; but
the public doesn’t care a rap just why
you are doing as you are. The brand
of the goods is sufficient protection
to every buyer, and most people are
too busy to investigate the underlying
causes of your business methods.
Those who know something about
costs may quietly observe to them-
selves: ‘“‘So-and-so is dropping a lit-
tle money by cutting the prices of
staples instead of spending it in other
forms of advertising; while the great
mass of people, who imagine that
storekeepers make enormous profits
anyway, will simply congratulate
themselves on their bargains and lug
away the goods.

The average woman, when she gets
calico for a cent or two a yard less
than she is accustomed to paying,
spends her time, not in any philosoph-
ic research into the cause of the
short price, but in going around and
telling the neighbors about her good
luck.

Under the described
above, giving a reason for a low price
is entirely superfluous. But there are
other conditions—times, places, cir-
cumstances—under which stating the
reason is absolutely necessary to
making a sale.

An acquaintance of mine recently
considered buying a business of an-

conditions

other man. The capital required was
not large, the location was good, the
rent reasonable, and the business
made an excellent showing on the
books.

“Why do you want to dispose of so
good a proposition?” asked my friend.

The other man was prepared for
this question and promptly brought
out from his desk an ingenious con-
trivance in the shape of a guard for
the point of a hatpin, something that
worked by a tiny spring and would
draw up into very small compass when
not in use.

“T have invented and patented this
hatpin guard,” he answered. “It is an
article of merit and will make a great
seller. I need all my time and all the
money I can scrape together to push

it. So I am ready to sacrifice on this ©

business.”

The man had a rather hard mug
and my friend decided to investigate
before biting at the bait offered. He
found that the real cause for the
man’s wanting to sell was that his
lease had nearly expired and the own-
er of the building would not renew
it. No other place near could be se-
cured without paying double the rent.
Further, the man had not invented
the hatpin guard at all—he had bought
it at a bazaar for the express purpose
of furnishing a tangible excuse for
wanting to sell.

The children of this world are in
their generation wiser than the chil-
dren of light, and the stranger of the
unpropitiating countenance had got-
ten firm hold of the idea that, in
order to sell what he was represent-
ing to be a profitable business, he
must give some plausible explanation
of his willingness to part with it.
The little fiction of the invention was
novel as well as clever—giving his
wife's health as the reason for want-
ing to sell would have been too hack-
neyed. This particular man was a
fake; but his idea, legitimately carried
out, is all right and in accordance
with correct psychological principles.

The story is told that Napoleon one
day met an old one-armed soldier and
asked him where he lost his arm.
“Sire, at Austerlitz.” “And were you
mot decorated?’ No, sire” ‘Phen
here is my own cross for you; I make
you chevalier.” “Your Majesty names
me chevalier because I have lost one
arm! What would your Majesty have
done if I had lost both?” “Oh, in that
case I should have made you officer
of the Legion.” Whereupon the sol-
dier immediately drew his sword and
cut off his other arm.

There is no particular reason to
doubt this story. The question is,
how did he do it?

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September 17, 1913

is likely to come into the minds of
your customers, whenever doubt will
arise as to the possibility or the prob-
ability of your being able to make
good on your offers, then be ready
with your reasons.

Poor humanity has been humbugged
so often that naturally it is on its
guard. So when you put out a bar-
gain that seems unbelievably good,
in a line of goods that not every one
feels well posted on, it is best to
state just why you are giving such
a surprising value. Let your rea-
son be the real reason, not some spec-
ious excuse conjured up for its super-
ficial plausibility.

Some weeks ago a rather large lady
was wanting to buy a suit. She has
to exercise close economy and as shez
is expecting to spend the winter in
the South, she decided that one of
summer weight would answer, and
began watching the end-of-the-season
sales. She had found nothing that
pleased her until one day she saw ina
window some suits that looked de-
sirable in every way, and which were
being offered at the extremely low
prices of $10 each.

Hesitatingly she went in, for she
did not know the place, which really
is a very reliable concern. She went
to the cloak room and soon a tactful
saleswoman had her arrayed in a suit
of a beautiful shade of pearl gray that
fitted her elegantly. The lady, though
large, finds light colors becoming, and
for her purpose this gray was not
objectionable.

“But I’m afraid to buy it,” she re-
marked to the saleswoman. “I’ve
been let down so many times, and
I really can’t see how you are able
to sell a suit as good as that seems
to be at so low a price. I’m afraid
it’s shoddy or something.”

The saleswoman then explained:
“It’s like this. We are closing out the
suits that early in the season sold all
the way from $20 to $35, at the uni-
form price of $10. This isn’t getting
back the cost—with some of them
not half the cost—but we would rather
take it than carry over.

“You see we haven’t a great num-
ber left, and what we have run to
small sizes in dark colors and large
sizes in light colors. Of course just
the reverse of this is the way suits
sell. We always aim to proportion
our stock so as to be heavy on the
light shades in the small sizes and on
the dark shades and the solid navies
and blacks in the large sizes, but of
course it is impossible to foresee just
exactly how the demand will run.

“This year a mistake was made by
the house that manufactures this line
that I have been showing you. They
sent us twice as many as we ordered
in 40’s to 46’s in light shades. They
were so excellent in style and matef-
ial and finish that our department
head decided to keep the lot, even
though it overstocked us somewhat.
Our sale on them has been large, but
we still have some on hand, so we
are offering them at the absurdly low
If it were a 36
or a 38 you were wanting in this
kind of a suit, I couldn’t supply you
We are entirely sold

price of ten dollars.

at any price.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17

out of the medium sizes in the light
shades.”

This explanation, which was the
simple truth, quited the lady’s appre-
hensions. She bought the suit, which
was exactly as represented, and has
seen no reason to regret her decision.

It may often be best when
offering an exceptional value to
state the reason for doing it in the
advertisement or on the show card
that first announces the bargain. This
of course when the goods are not
of a well known and widely adver-
tised brand, and particularly when of
such a nature that most persons will
fell a little diffident as to trusting
wholly to their own judgment in re-
gard to them.

A plain, candid statement, as,
“Overstocked,” “Failed to Sell at
Normal Price so Cut to This Figure,”
“A Little Soiled,” or “Slightly Dam-
aged,” will usually serve the purpose.

Truthfulness in this respect will
add to the reputation of the store.
Conversely the reliability of the store
will add force and convincing quality
to the reasons given for unusually
low prices.

An alleged reason that is not true,
that has been fabricated for the oc-
casion and with the intention of foist-
ing an unsatisfactory article upon an
unsuspecting purchaser, under the
guise of a bargain, seldom accomplish-
es its purpose. When it does, the
store loses more in reputation than
it possibly can gain by the iniquitous
transaction. Fabrix.

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Rules for Thunderstorms.

No place above ground is compleie-
ly protected against lightning, and
the thunderstorm is always a freak-
ish hitter, oftentimes putting its bolts
in the most unexpected and improb-
able places. There are, however, a
few suggestions, the result of practi-
cal experience, which may profitably
be borne in mind. Be indoors if pos-
sible during a thunderstorm, prefer-
ably in a large house rather than a
shanty or cow shed. Positions near
the doors and windows and in drafts
should be avoided. A barn contain-
ing cows and horses is probably more
dangerous than the open. Out-of-
doors, hedges, streams, isolated trees,
crowds of people, wire fences, pole
lines carrying wires of any sort, herds
of cows, or flocks of sheep, all seem
to have a slight attraction for light-
ning and are better kept at a distance.
Wet clothes, which have something
of a reputation as lightning deflec-
tors, probably offer no protection of
any value. So far as treatment of
lightning strike is concerned, there is
nothing better than artificial respira-
tion. The method is not of great im-
portance. Any series of movements
tending alternately to expand and
contract lungs so as to simulate na-
tural breathing will do. But speed
in applying them is of the utmost im-
portance, as is also perseverance. The
artificial respiration should be com-
menced immediately and continued
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September 17, 1913

 

 

 

 

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Meeting of Michigan Retail Shoe tended the convention as a part of

Dealers’ Association.

The ninth annual convention of the
Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers’ Asso-
ciation opened in the Griswold House,
Detroit, Sept. 9, when delegates from
all over the State began to arrive.

A meetine of the Board of Direc-
tors, which was scheduled for the
forenoon was postponed until after-
noon @wine to the non-arrival of a

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quorum of directors. The business

meeting scheduled for the afternoon
was also shifted to Wednesday morn-
ing, it being figured that the majority

ot the delegates would be

by that time.

present

Charles C. Weber was
the first arrivals, reaching the

President
one of
city Monday night. Leo Gruner, of
Ann Arbor, word that the
“Shoe String Indians” would arrive in
delegates

brought

full force Tuesday, while
irom other cities gave assurance of
good representation from their towns.

A number of traveling men were
on the scene early, setting out their
samples in their various rooms in the
Griswold House for the inspection of
the shoe One of the first
traveling men to put in an appearance
“Qn-the-Square’ Oster,
who was warmly greeted on all sides.

dealers.
was Dave

Veteran John McGruer was also “on
the job” early in the interest of the
Whitcomb and Weber lines.
Secretary Fred G. Clark, who greet-
they

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ed the new arrivals, saw that
were properly registered and tagge:
with the convention badge. Mr.
Clark informed his friends that this
convention will wind up his connec-
tion with the Association as Secretary,
as he is shortly to retire from the
shoe business. He intends to spend
the winter in California with his fam-
ily and upon his return to Detroit
next spring will engage in the real
estate business.

wine to the fact that the pro-
gramme was shifted ahead one day,
the delegates found plenty of time
to see the displays in the ‘“Made-In-
Detroit” exposition and the exhibits
by Detroit shoe manufacturers proved
especially interesting.

George Benzinger, of Buffalo, of the
New York made
the trip across Lake Erie to attend

State Association,
the convention.

Second Day.
Bode, of

tary of the Shoe Retailers’ Insurance

George Fremont, Secre-

Company, sprung a surprise on the
delegates Tuesday morning when he
announced that he was a bridegroom
and to prove it he produced the new
Mrs. Bode.
Fremont and Mr. and Mrs. Bode at-

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their honeymoon.

The convention was formally open-
ed with an address of welcome by
Mayor Oscar B. Marx. The response
was made by O. D. Allen, of Detroit,
who reminded the Mayor that the
Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers’ Asso-
ciation, which was the first state shoe
dealers’ association in the United
Detroit, and,
therefore, the convention in this city,
“Made-In-Detroit”
bing celebrated, is particularly appro-
priate.

President Charles C. Weber urged
the dealers present to devote

States, was made in

where week is

some
time to inspecting the displays made
by the traveling salesmen who were

present representing many of the big

shoe manufacturers.

Secretary Fred G. Clark reported
that 109 members were gained by the
Association during the past year mak-
ing the total membership 563, of
which 479 are active members, and
eighty-four honorary.

Charles S. Doremus, of New York,
made an address in which he discuss-
ed the style situation and made a few
predictions as to what the demand
will be next spring. He said that the
prevailing system of changing lasts
“over night” was brought about by
retailers constantly demanding some-
thing new. He urged the dealers pres-
ent to be conservative in their buying
of new styles. Mr. Doremus, refer-
ring to lace shoes, said that the wom-
en of the country don’t want them
with the cominz
He predicted that the
demand next spring and summer will
be at least 80 per cent buttons.

prevailing and
styles in dress.

Ralph Baker, representing the Ral-
ston Health Shoe Makers, Brockton,
also emphasized the fact that the mul-

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Treasurer E. Stocker made his re-
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Mr. Stocker was then called on tor

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Nominations—Messrs. Allen, Spen-
cer, Murray, Chase, Muffley.

Resolutions—Messrs. Bresset, Har-
mon, Allen, Lutz and Martin.

The convention then adjourned un-
til 2 p.m.

The afternoon session was featured
by an address by J. B. Howard, Pres-
ident of the Pingree Shoe Co., who
talked on the relation of the manufac-
turer to the retailer, from the manu-
facturer’s viewpoint. Mr. Howarth
said that he approved of organization
among the retailers. He discussed
the cancellation of orders and said
this practice was the big reason why
so Many sample shoe stores are able
to flourish. He also discussed the re-
turn of shoes and said that often mer-
chants impose on the manufacturers
in this respect. Mr. Howarth said
that manufacturers regret the con-
stantly changing styles because it
adds enormously to the cost of manu-
facture. He predicted that the busi-
ness is coming back to more staple
and sane styles and he urged the re-
tailers to assist the manufacturers in
discouraging fads and frills in shoe
styles.

Joseph Bresset, of Bay City, said
that he believed that one reason why
so many shoes are returned by dealers
is that the road salesmen are equip-
ped with samples made from _ the
choicest skins and that the © stock
goods often do not come up to the
same.

E. B. Mowers, who was the first
President of the Association and who
is now in the shoe repair business in
Saginaw, urged the members of the
association to adopt the plan of hold-
ing one secret session at each conven-
tion so that the dealers might have
“heart-to-heart” talks which would
remain absolutely confidential. He
said he believed that much more would
be accomplished if this plan were
adopted. He also urged the delegates
to do all the entertaining necessary
themselves and not to allow salesmen
to entertain them.

Klwyn Pond of Flint, proprietor of
the “Hub” store in that city, briefly
discussed several subjects, including
store management, leakages and em-
ployes.

Secretary Clark moved that a ques-
tion box be established and that such
topics as might be deposited in it be
discussed at the Thursday morning
meeting. The motion was. carried.

George Bode, Secretary of the As-
sociation’s mutual fire insurance com-
pany evoked applause when he stated
that the company now has a half mil-
lion dollars in risks. Since its organ-
ization a year and a half ago not a
single fire loss has occurred. He sug-
gested that the limit of insurance the
company might issue on any one
stock be increased from $3,000 to $10.-
000, providing the State
commissioner approves.

insurance
It was de-
cided to discuss this question later on.

The business meeting was adjourn-
ed at 4 o'clock so that the delegates
might inspect the samples displayed
by the various road salesmen.

In the evening the shoemen attend-
ed a vaudeville show at the Miles
theater.

Third Day.

At the closing session of the con-
vention, new officers were elected 4s
follows:

President—Leo Gruner, Ann Arbor.

Secretary—Edward Stocker, Detroit.

Treasurer—W. J. Kreger, Wyan-
dotte.

Resolutions adopted condemned the
practices of big mail order houses,
the operation “fake” shoe stores and
fraudulent advertising. <A resolution
was adopted asking manufacturers to
do away with the lasting tack evil.

Bay City was successful in secur-
ing the convention in 1914.

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In the District Court of the United
States for the Western District
of Michigan—Southern
Division.

In the matter of the National Gas
Light Company, a corporation, bank-
rupt.

In bankruptcy, No. 1191.

Notice is hereby given that in ac-
cordance with an order of this court,
I shall sell at public sale to the high-
est bidder on Saturday, the 27th day
of September, 1913, at 2 oclock in
the afternoon, at the premises former-
ly occupied by the National Gas Light
Company at Porter and Ransom
streets in the city of Kalamazoo,
county of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the
assets of said bankrupt, consisting of
real estate, factory building, machin-
ery, stock in trade, manufactured and
not manufactured, patents, office fur-
niture, and account receivable. The
inventory and appraisement of assets
may be seen at the office of Willard
J. Banyon, Referee in Bankruptcy,
St. Joseph, Michigan, and also at the
office of the undersigned trustee in
the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The
real estate, described as the east sixty-
six feet of lot number five of block
twenty-four of the original plat of
the village of Kalamazoo, Michigan,
and also the whole of lot number six
of said block twenty-four of said ori-
ginal plat of the village of Kalamazoo,
Michigan, will be offered for sale in
separate parcels, free and clear from
the lien of the mortgage, which now
encumbers said real estate. The sev-
of personal property
enumerated above will also be offered

eral classes
for sale separately. Bids will also be
asked for the entire assets of the
bankrupts as a whole. Said sale to be
for cash and subject to confirmation
by this court, and notice is hereby
given that said sale will be confirmed
within five days after filing my report
with the referee, unless cause to the
contrary be shown. A deposit of 25
per cent. of the purchase price will
be required from the successful bid-
der at the time of sale, the balance
to be paid at the time of confirma-
tion.

Dated, Kalamazoo, Michigan, this
13th day of September, 1913.

Charles L.Dibble, Trustee.
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is hereby dissolved by mutual consent.
William Engelman is sole proprietor after
this date and will pay all debts owed
by aforesaid firm and collect all accounts
due the same.

Dated at Howard City this
day of August, A D., 19138.

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Application of Business Methods to
Matrimony.
Written for the Tradesman.

When, a loan of money has been ar-
ranged at a bank, the cashier or the
teller, as the case may be, turns to his
discount tables to ascertain the exact
sum he shall deduct from the face
of the note to find the amount of pro-
ceeds to turn over to the borrower.

These have been. skillfully
computed and are absolutely reliable.

tables

so that any one accustomed to their
use can tell in a moment what will
be the interest on $739.47 for two
months and seventeen days, with only
a few scratches of his pencil.

The science of banking, as we know
it now, is new. The methods employ-
ed have been in use for only a com-
paratively short period. Has it ever
occurred to the reader how much
further along we have gotten in bank-
ing than in some of the other branch-
es of effort in which the human race
has been engaged for a much greater
length of time?

In matrimony, for instance, and
matrimony is something mankind has
been struggling with for thousands
of years, we yet lack a good discount
table, notwithstanding the imperative
necessity for such a device.

Take a case near at hand, like that
of Harold Smith and Myrtle Jones.
When Harold, faultlessly attired and
with a fresh carnation in his button-
hole, comes to call on Miss Myrtle.
he is affable, politely attentive to
every word she utters, anticipative
of all her wants and wishes. He
wears an air of irreproachable morals,
and has the easy yet not offensive as-
surance that seems incompatible with
any financial state this side of a com-
fortably large salary and a well-as-
sured position. No man can put any-
thing over Harold Smith as a lover.

3ut how is little inexperienced
Myrtle Jones, how are even Myrtle’s
folks to know exactly what valuation
they had best put upon this seeming-

virtuous Harold Smith? Common
horse sense should teach them—at
least her folks—that they must make
some deduction he can’t possibly

come up to full face value, for the
reason that the plumage of the very
birds takes on a more beautiful sheen
during the mating season than ever
before or after. The practical ques-
tion is, what rate of discount should
they apply? The banker can turn to
his tables and soon tell just what he
can afford to pay now for a note due
three, or six months; but
where can any trustworthy tables be
found that will aid the Jones family

in two,

in making a just estimate of Harold’3
character and disposition?

Very tenderly does Harold greet
Myrtle on these September evenings
in the softened light of the Jones re-
ception hall; but what will be his
manner toward her five years hence
when he reaches home at night, tried,
hungry, and worried out by the per-
plexities of his day’s work? He is now
very generous in supplying her with
long-stemmed American Beauties and
in taking her to high-priced entertain-
ments; but after the knot is tied will
he grumble and treat her to a var-
ied assortment of fault-finding pro-
fanity when she comes to ask for a
few decent clothes or a little pin
money?

Will Harold Smith prove to be as
meritorious an article as that widely
advertised kind of toilet and laundry
soap that is guaranteed to be 99 44/100
per cent: of what it ousht to bee
Will he be 90 or 80 or 75 or even 50
per cent. as good as he appears? Or,
when he is tried in the crucible of
everyday life, will it be found that
the courtesy and engaging manners
that now are winning the heart of
Myrtle Jones quickly evaporate, leav-
ing little except base metals and dross
—of the fine gold of manliness and
loyalty scarcely a trace?

Now if Myrtle’s folks stand in
want, as they certainly do, of a trust-
worthy guide or authority to help
them make a correct score of Harold
Smith’s merits and defects, how much
sorer is Harold’s need of something
to aid him in sizing up Myrtle Jones.
In blundering masculine directness
and straightforwardness, a man, in his
efforts to show off his strong points,
is bound to expose his weaknesses
and failings to the sharp-eyed observ-
er. With women it is different. Lack-
ing the physical strength and mental
hardihood to set up a straight fight,
they have for countless generations
resorted to coaxing and  wheedling
and scheming to gain their ends, until
every mother’s daughter has become
an adept in finesse. How, oh how
can Harold, with only his own love-
blinded powers of discernment, know
what rate of discount to apply to that
demurely tantalizing little Myrtle?

Ignorant man! he does not know
how his charming fiancee really looks,
As she appears to view when well
gowned, daintily and becomingly coif-
fured, and with a complexion made
beautiful by a well-restrained use of
the arts of the toilet, he carries the
image constantly in his heart. But
can he imagine her as she might be
sitting down to breakfast in a soiled
kimono, with her scanty growth of
natural hair caught up in an untidy
knot on the back of her head, and
without having had time to “do” her

-anty against future

face? He is ready to swear eternal
devotion to the lovely apparition of
comelines and sweet temper that has
enthralled his fancy; but if the poor
deluded boy should find that he has
offered up his soul’s license to “a rag
and a bone and a hank of hair,” with
a shrewish tongue thrown into the
bargain, will he be able to make good
on his vows? ‘Talk about mining
stocks and lottery tickets as hazard-
ous propositions! They aren’t to be
compared to some of these artful, be-
witching little Myrtles and Gladyses
and Maries. Yet men can be found
who are willing to take a chance!

In winning Myrtle Jones, Harold
has had to depend upon his own initia-
tive, upon the magnetism of his own
personality. Myrtle, on the other
hand, has had her whole family to
help her. The house is arranged as
the background of the picture in
which she is the chief figure. Sisters,
brothers, even Dad, have been trained
to throw out little leaders about
Myrtle’s unselfishness and pleasant
disposition. While Mamma—well,
Mamma Jones gracefully refers to the
delicious menu of a family luncheon
or dinner as “Myrtle dear’s cooking,’
Harold Smith should not take it that
he has a trustworthy maternal guar-
steaks
and muddy coffee at the hands of her
daughter.

scorched

In the business world, if you confine
your dealings to reliable people, you
can know just what you will get be-
fore you purchase. You do not need
to apply the alkali test to a piece of
cloth—any house of high repute will

tell you whether or not it is all wool.
It has become an axiom of business
that it pays to protect the customer.

“How can you afford to be so hon-
est?” exclaimed a lady to a jeweler
who had carefully pointed out to her
a minute flaw in a diamond she was
about to purchase from him.

“I can’t afford to be anything but
honest,” he replied. ‘“Misrepresenta-
tion, or even allowing a customer to
deceive himself, is not only bad mor-
als but bad business. Every sale car-
ries Our express or implied guaranty.
If we were to put out an article not
such as it purported to be, sooner or
later it would make trouble and very
likely come back on our hands,

“Some years ago we lost the sale
of a beautiful $800 brooch because
the customer wanted it billed—it was
a gift—at $1,000. A competitor was
induced to accede to this requirement
and afterward, because of the cus-
tomer’s death, was virtually compelled
to take the brooch back, refunding
the full amount of the receipted bill,
although $775 was all he had paid for
it. And I consider that he got out
of it very cheap and easy,” conclud-
ed the jeweler.

Patres- and matresfamilias may well
gain a hint from this anecdote, to the
effect that a daughter palmed off in
the matrimonial market as something
better and more desirable than she
really is, is likely to come back on
their hands, to return in a short time
to the parental rooftree as an unwel-
come divorcee. And all young men
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ands of bitterly unhappy marriages,
that in affairs of the heart as in mer-
cantile transactions, it is best to deal
entirely on the square.

However, the matter which has just
been urged should not be left to priv-
ate honor and business acumen. It
should be taken up by the Govern-
ment, which certainly should do as
much to insure intergrity in things
matrimonial as it does to protect us
against impure foods and adulterated
whisky. The divorce evil is baffling
lawmakers and jurists. When either
party to a marriage is the victim of
gross fraud, a trip to Reno must be
expected as the natural result of the
swindle.

The reason we have gotten further
along in banking than in matrimony,
is because we have taken better care
of property rights than of human wel-
fare. Every state in the Union has
its system of records so that a buyer
of land may assure himself as to the
absolute validity of his purchase. But
nowhere is a man required to show
a clear abstract of title in himself
when he leads an innocent bride to the
altar, as the many distressing cases of
bigamy abundantly prove.

Much is said nowadays about scien-
tific mating in its relation to eugenics
and the improvement of the race. It
certainly is most important that all
the Harolds and all the Myrtles each
should know what is his or her prop-
er counterpart, provided, however,
that this knowledge can be correlated
with some reliable protection against
counterfeits and imitations. We need
a lot of research and some thorough-
going practical tests based upon the
undeniable proposition that any per-
son entering the married state has a
right to know exactly what he or she
is getting.

If this work is taken hold of with
proper earnestness, in the course of
a generation or two the United States
can write herself in the school books
of the world as “that great Nation
that first applied common-sense busi-
ness principles and methods to mat-
rimony. Quillo.

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Where They Were.

Sallie, a negress noted for being
an excellent worker, was visited one
day by one of her old employers. Her
little shanty was very small, consist-
ing of three rooms.

“Well, Sallie,” began her caller, “I
have not seen you for many years, but
I have come to ask you to do some
house cleaning for me. Will you
come to-morrow?”

“Oh, no, missus,” replied the other,
“} can’t come any mo,’ I’se married
an’ has a large fambly. I can’t come.”

“How many children have you, Sal-
lie?”

“Twelve, missus.”

“Wihere are they? I don’t see any
about.”

“Ya’sum, I have twelve—eleven in
heaben and one in de house of ref-

uge.”

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Strife Created by Premium Giving.
Written for the Tradesman.

There is a town of 3.000 people in
Michigan where the grocery business
comes further from being a bed of
roses than in any other town in the
State.

It is all because of premium-giving.

Several years ago a certain grocer
thought he would be able to slip up
behind some of his competitors un-
awares and steal away a big bunch
of trade if he would start giving some-
thing for nothing.

So he started.

He agreed to furnish the home free
of charge and began giving away per-
centage tickets with every purchase
of goods. He stole away the trade
of his competitors all right, but the
ones nearest to him in his end of
town began to fight fire with fire,
printed tickets of their own, put in
premiums a little finer than those of
their neighbor in trade and _ started
fighting the premium game tooth and
nail.

The merchants in adjacent districts
began to have a hard fight to retain
their own regular customers and in-
stalled premiums, until finally prac-
tically every grocer in the city was
giving premiums of so great value
that one would have thought prem-
ium-giving enabled them to live.

I was talking to one of these men
about a month ago and he said that
the average grocer referred to was
holding on to business only until he
could move to a town where premiums
were unknown.

In another town in Michigan, sever-
al grocers started the beautiful little
system of selling certain products far
below cost, in connection with a dol-
lar’s worth of staple groceries. Since
that time many grocers in the town
have either gone bankrupt or escaped
by the skin of their teeth. This is
premium giving of the most danger-
ous kind.

One of the merchants in this town
described the system to me and stat-
ed that the consumer soon began to
shop from store to store buying only
a dollar’s worth of goods in each one
and paying absolutely no attention to
anything else in the various stores.
That simply meant that each store
was selling goods at the rate of a
dollar per customer in conjunction
with slashed staples and the consumer
was supplying all his wares at lower
than mail order prices and driving the
individual merchant to the verge of
ruin. Anderson Pace.

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President—F. A. Rechlin, Bay City.
Vice-President—C. E. Dickinson, St
Joseph.
Secretary—Arthur J.
ity.
Treasurer—William Moore,

Scott, Marine

Detroit.

 

Smaller Merchants Cannot Exist
Under Present Methods.

(Concluded from last week.)

iS a percentage of men in
business of this caliber, but we are
glad to say that they lack some of
being the majority. What we are
trying to solve is this puzzle, for the
live dealer, study out a profit in his
business by getting a margin between
the cost and selling price, that will
profit beyond the cost
of doing business. Now, there is no
part of this partnership where the
chances are better to start something
than from the producer. When the
retailer is to blame, be candid in tell-
We don’t hesitate to tell
It may be more
but it is getting
acquaintance al-

There

admit of a

ing him so.
you what we think.
nerve than judgment,
us acquainted, and
ways develops a better understanding.
A man’s nerve does not always make
friends, but it always gets him some-
where.

All the evils that
hardware trade to-day could never be
body of men, even if

exist in the

solved by any
no more were added. The best we
and it must be recognized by
is tO cor-

can do,
all branches of the trade,
as far as we are able, on
as we are responsible

rect prices
such articles
for, and in so doing avoid any radical
steps that might lead to a misunder-
standing or failure. The retailer is a
gauge proposition if he tries
jobber from

1arrow
to prevent his favorite
selling his competitor at home, or
refuses to buy a brand of goods that
are listed in the mail-order catalogues,
These are the tactics of a decade ago.
If it is necessary to have these goods
to satisfy the trade, get them, but
get them at the price.

Always Will Be Trade Evils.

Trade evils will exist just as long
as business continues. The human
mind is a cretation of mistakes, and
Hence we are ap-
pealing to organization for 4a
remedy. If you cannot furnish it, at
least join us in a consultation, and I
jointly many

always will be.
your

am stre we can correct
of our perplexing sale-problems that
bear no profit.

A farmer comes
bill of goods, and the first item called
for the price is asked and if the price
his retail catalogue gives shows a dif-
ferential of over 10 per cent. I have
lost not only the entire bill, but his
and future trade,

to My store for a

confidence and in his
estimation am classified as a robber,

and his knocking will do more dam-

age than fifty loyal friends can patch
up.

The manufacturer has catered to
the man that went after the trade
with the price, and through this lever-
age this mail order firm has built up
volume and also price. And this was
at the time when quality was inferior,
a condition that does not exist to-day.
Hence, we are passing our troubles
up to the men responsible for at least
part of these conditions. If the price
is not the dictator as to which channel
of distribution merchandise follows,
then we must ignore the price and
avoid in our assortments of merchan-
dise any and all lines of goods that
are not protected by individuality and
brand.

Retailer Furnishes the Volume.

The mail-order house has been so-
licited with both price and quality,
until to-day, the retail merchant
stands amazed at the statement that
90 per cent. of hardware is_ sold
through retail channels. Yet, all we
ask is to be allowed a price that will
with a fair allowance for service, re-
tain our trade at a living profit. The
manufacturer must not forget that it
is the volume of business that pours
into his coffers every year
from the retailer and jobber that de-
clares the dividends. The advantages
held by these large interests are going
to do just what you all agree should
not be done, if allowed to continue
and grow as rapidly in the future as

steadily

in the past. Eliminate the retailer, not >

completely, but as an influence and
an asset to his community, the jobber
follows, and then what? The in-
crease of the already overcrowded
centers of population. Develop the
rural communities and you
wholesome conditions.
cities, and you breed filth,
poverty.
Now, don't
pessimistic.

produce
Crowd the
crime and

think we are overly
The prospects for the
year 1913 are very encouraging for
the retail business. Many of our
troubles are caused by a don’t-care
and listless manner of meeting them.
We admit it. But to be handicapped
by a barrier of selective valués that
our competitors enjoy, and surrounded
as we retailers are, by a system of
distribution that is at least double the
expense of their system, is a prob-
lem too serious for you men to pass
idly by. And, gentlemen, unless a re-
vision is started by those who control
the situation, there is going to be
only one finish in this drama

 

direct
buying by the retailers, who will join
together to purchase volume. When
this happens, at least half of the re-
tail merchants will be
tire from business, for the big retail-
ers will get bigger, and the small

obliged to-re-

 

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Wholesale Hardware
ot “se

157-159 Monroe Ave. :: 151 to 161 Louis N. W.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Stock up on

Guns and Ammunition

Be prepared for

Hunting Season

We carry

Remington and U. M. C.
Fire Arms and Ammunition

Winchester
Fire Arms and Ammunition

Stevens’ Guns +

 

 

Michigan Hardware Company

Exclusively Wholesale
Cor. Oakes and Ellsworth GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

H. Eikenhout & Sons
Jobbers of Roofing Material

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

BARRETT SPECIFICATION PITCH AND FELT
FOR ROOFING

 

 

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September 17, 1913

retailer by virtue of this handicap will
be a relic of the past.

Retailers Pay Better Wages.

In addition to paying excessive
amounts for the cost of distribution,
we pay better wages to our employes
than the average paid by the mail-
order house. There isn’t a channel
of expense from the time an article
leaves the factory until it gets in the
hands of the retailer but what pos-
sibly is necessary under the present
system of our buying. We are exist-
ing even with this enormous over-

head. This is serious enough with-
out the other great handicap—the
price.

I don’t criticise the system as much
as I deplore conditions. If we must
meet our competitors on equal
grounds bidding for the trade of our
farmers, and mechanics,
you producers must look upon the
retailer with the same consideration
that you do the mail-order house. If
this radical difference is going to con-
tinue, the retailer must take some radi-
cal steps to protect his interests. In
other words, cut through another
channel of distribution, for it is not
what merchandise is worth that caus-
es trade upheavals, it is what we are
If f had a differ-
to cents per 100 on a car
of nails over my competitor, it is evi-

merchants

paying for same.
ential of

dent who would sell nails in my town.

When a producer sells to the mail-
order house (who is a retailer) his
wares at jobber’s prices, he is under-
mining his own business, and why?
Tie cannot consistently
goods will be received with favor
or pushed by either jobber or retail-
er, for loyalty to any line does not
exist where the profit is not apparent.
It goes without saying that such tac-
tics always develop antagonism, keen
competition, and substitutes where
all suffer in the end.

Every time the salesman fails to
make the dealer a price to meet this
direct mail order competition, he is
only adding his mite to the up-build-
ing of co-operative quantity buying.

Cannot Help “Dead” Retailer.

To the retailer these condi-
tions are being carefully considered,
watching the
that makes
is these dealers that
the Committee on Trade
are banking on for support.

expect his

live
and he is awake and
movements of the
the goods. It

man

Relations

To the
“dead” retailer we have but one thing
to say—an earthquake would = only
rock him to sleep.

The trade of the small retailer is
largely with the farmer. The farm-
er, to-day, is not of the same caliber
he was twenty-five years ago. Let me
repeat what I said at Jacksonville,
about the average farmer being a
petter buyer than the average mer-
chant. If the farmer can get posted
as to values, the dealer with his op-
portunities must be asleep.

We encouraged to
send in mail orders, and many of our
jobbing friends advertise the wonder-
ful work of this department. My ex
perience does not warrant doing this.
Why?
mail
shown me that gave it.

retailers are

I must have the price, and no

order system has ever’ been

I want fo say just a word on the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

buying of goods through the Success-
ful Merchant of Chicago. Opposition
may be too strong for them to cope
with. They may fail through lack of
encouragement or through the pro-
tests of other trade channels, but I
predict that unless better facilities are
offered the retail merchant in getting
his goods at the right price, a system
will be installed before long that will
stand up under all fire and criticism.

His efforts have been to get the
price, and all comparisons have been
with house values. Then
why should any opposition develop
if, as we retailers have been told time
and again that our interests are mut-
ual. The retailer must have a profit
to live. We have waited for years for
the profit, and once in a while you let
us see it, but like a rainbow it disap-
pears when almost within our erasp.
Our Association direct, or through
our Committee of Trade Problems, is
not advocating or supporting any sys-

catalogue

tem, business organization, or manu-
facturer in any way beyond this point:
To any channel that is legitimate that
offers inducements to our member-
ship, that with service and quality
they can make the price, we will give
them all the moral support we

When that

at Chicago, we meant it.

can.
resolution
“That the
catalogue and

we adopted
prices made by mail
otder houses are those at which the
manufacturers are willing their goods
shall be sold to the consumer.” And,
if not willing why does it exist? We
as retail mefchants are striving every

day to develop a buying power, and

 

Lowest

Our catalogue is “the
world’s lowest market”
because we are the larg-
est buyers of general
merchandise in America.

And because our com-
paratively inexpensive
method of selling,
through a catalogue, re-
duces costs.

We sell to merchants
only.

Ask for current cata-
logue.

Butler Brothers

New York Chicago
St. Louis Minneapolis

Dallas

an influence with you producers that
will allow us the same privilege.

You need us. We need you.
juggle the question?

Why

I have tried in a plain manner to
give you the retailer's position from
my viewpoint, and I do not expect
that what I have said will meet the
approval of all our members. This
could not be expected under the most
favorable conditions.

Kindly accept all these criticisms
with the best of feeling. Nothing per-
sonal, and no motive beyond a busi-
We are all in

game for the profit,

ness connection. this

and to make the

work more pleasant and_ profitable,

we come together at these conven-

tions for mutual advantage and im-

provement. But, in many cases rela-

23

tive to price and distribution, a con-
fession is due from somebody, or else
this 90 per cent. volume of business
that is passing through the jobber
and retailer is a joke that has been
told so often that you have got the
believe it.

Ll ¢.

ee
It is easier to keep the stock up

retailers to
Abbott.

than it is to keep it down.
}

Any man
can

uy so much that he will be sure
to have enough, but it takes a good
buyer to buy enough and yet not have

any left over.
—————_°.~> -____
Don't expect to build up a big busi-
ness in a minute. When you find a

business that has grown big in a short
time you find one that is very likely

to shrink again just as quickly.

 

Don't hesitate to write us.

Opposite Morton House

Klingman’s Sample Furniture Co.

The Largest Exclusive Retailers of
Furniture in America

Where quality is first consideration and where you get the best
for the price usually charged for the inferiors elsewhere.

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

Corner Ionia, Fountain and Division Sts.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

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Lansing Flint Cincinnati Rochester Boston Lincoln, Neb.
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yracuse
And NEW YORK CITY

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

 

 

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Autumn is near at hand, and with it comes the steady sale of
winter goods, such as Fur and Fur-lined Coats, Blankets, Robes, Mackinaws. Gloves, Mittens.
etc. WE havea very large assortment of these goods on hand and are able to fill orders
promptly. Our new catalogue is being issued and will be mailed in a few weeks
given prompt attention.

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Home of ‘‘Sun-Beam’’ Goods Grand Rapids, Mich.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

September 17, 1913

 

 

 

 

 

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Grand Council of Michigan U. C. T.

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

Past Grand Counselor—John Q. Adams,
Battle Creek.

Grand Junior Counselor—M. S. Brown,
Saginaw.

Grand Secretary—Fred CC. Richter,
Traverse City.
: oo Treasurer—Henry E. Perry, De-
roit.

Grand Conductor—W. S. Lawton, Grand
Rapids.

Grand Page—F. J. Moutier, Detroit.

Grand Sentinel—John A. Hach, Jr.,
Coldwater.

Grand Chaplain—T. J. Hanlon, Jackson.

Grand Executive Committee—John D.
Martin, Grand Rapids; Angus G. Mc-
Eachron, Detroit; James E. Burtless,
Marquette; L. P. Thompkins, Jackson.

 

Michigan Division, T. P. A.

President—Fred H. Locke.

First Vice-President—C. M. Emerson.

Second Vice-President—H. C. Cornelius.

Secretary and Treasurer—Clyde
Brown.

Board of Directors—Chas. E. York, E.
C. Leavenworth, W. E. Crowell, L. P.
Hadden, A. B. Allport, D. G. McLaren,
J. W. Putnam.

 

Experience of a Dry Goods Salesman
in Europe.

Bay City, Sept. 15—An ocean voy-
age usually is pleasurable and doubly
so if both conditions and weather
are propitious. The latter, of course,
is beyond regulation by the passen-
gers; the former, however, can be
shaped by individuals so as to be in-
teresting or otherwise. Through the
combined endeavors of a most intel-
ligent passenger list the nine days
consumed by our good ship in cross-
ing from New York to Antwerp pass-
ed all too quickly, and friendships
formed during this time bid fair to
continue for many years. Perhaps
the most interesting day of the voy-
age was our Natal Day, July 4. As
patriotic citizens of the finest country
on the globe, it devolved upon us to
fittingly observe the birthday of our
Nation, which was done by an ex-
cellent programme of deck sports for
adults and children during the after-
noon and a fine entertainment, con-
sisting of vocal and_ instrumenta!
music, patriotic addresses, recitations,
monologues, etc., held in the main
dining saloon, in the evening, at the
finish of which our National anthems
were lustily joined in by the entire
audience. The writer had the dis-
tinction of presiding as chairman over
both afternoon and evening entertain-
ments and keenly appreciated the sig-
nal honor.

Landing at Antwerp, Belgium, we
soon were on our way up town, driv-
ing around the beautiful harbor—the
second largest in Europe—to our ho-
tel. Antwerp, aside from its fine har-
bor, is noted for its beautiful cathedral
and churches, its fine art galleries, and
particularly the beautiful flowers and
shrubs which abound on all sides.
Commercially, it is important for its
shipping interests. Here we visited
the first of the Herman Tietz depart-

ment stores, which sell _pratically
It took several hours to
go through this large emporium. This
concern has almost as many stores
as the Woolworth-Knox syndicate,
and we visited Tietz stores in Brus-
sels, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Frank-
furt and many other places. On the
whole, the method of doing business
in the European countries is much

everything.

of the city, surrounded by a beautiful
boulevard with a wealth of riotous
color in flowers and plants, the many
pleasure boats, the rare birds, swans,
pelicans, etc.—all conduce to make a
beautiful picture. Two new levithians
are in process ‘of construction for the
progressive Hamburg-American Line
—the Vaterland of 56,000 tons and the
Deutschland of 65,000 tons. Hamburg
has the largest harbor in Europe and
shipping from all parts of the known
world is constantly in evidence.
Berlin, the great capital of us Ger-
mans with its more than three million
souls, is all it is said to be, and more.
[t easily is the best dressed city in
the world. Not only the dear ladies
but gentlemen as well, are correctly
dressed. Many large stores were vis-
ited here, for to-day Berlin is an al-
most successful rival of Paris in ori-
gin of style. It also is the cleanest
city in the world, as the entire city,

 

 

 

 

E. J. Schreiber.

more crude than with us. Much less
attention is devoted to convenience,
efficiency and progress.

At Munchen-Bladbach we visited
factories and we thought we discov-
ered the fountainhead of the beautiful
Jacquard robes and Navajo blankets
so ecsstatically cracked up -by our
friend, Frank Hughes. At Crefeld
we saw them make high-priced worst-
ed dress goods and already the mills
are endeavoring to accumulate a sur-
plus to dump onto us as soon as the
new tariff bill with its free wool, be-
comes a law. All European countries
expect a great revival in their textile
business through the bars being let
down on this side to admit their
wares. Hamburg, the second largest
city of Germany (1,200,000) we
thought the prettiest city in Germany,
not excepting the capital city (Berlin).
A fresh water lake in the very heart

pavements and all, is literally scrub-
bed every day. Cleanliness is para-
mount in all German cities, and Amer-
ican cities could profit by their ex-
Perhaps the most notable im-
pression made upon Americans in
Germany is the discipline as observed
by the German. From early youth
he is taught this discipline—it is drill-
ed into him every day of his life.
Respect for authority is universal, a
mere ‘“Vervotin” sign is sufficient.
Laws are made to be observed and
therefore are observed. All public
utilities are owned by the govern-
ment—railroads, telegraph, phone,
etc., and the management is as near
perfect as mortal man can make it.
If the progressiveness of America
could be united with the discipline,
thoroughness and honesty of Ger-
many, what a glorious country it
would be!
Another notable

ample.

impression _ left

upon us is the strict observance of
caste. A servant is a servant, talks
like one, acts like one and dresses
like one; in other words, servants are
satisfied with their position in life and
do not ape the vices or follies of their
employers. The maid does not en-
deavor to dress better than the mis-
tress.. While wages are much lower
and the cost of living nearly as high
as with us, the thrifty German lives
within his income and is. satisfied.
This spirit seems to be general
throughout Germany and Switzerland.

It would require too much space
to describe, even in a brief manner,
the beauties of Switzerland, with its
beautiful lakes, mountains, rivers, its
Alpine roses and Edelweiss; the
wealth of the world is here represent-
ed by the many thousand tourists
who annually visit this little country.
Freaks in everything, both people and
dress, are here more plentiful than in
I.ondon, Berlin or Paris—a constant
dress parade from one resort to an-
other—to Karlsbad, Marienbad, Ba-
den-Baden, Weisbaden, Bad-Ham-
burg, etc. They go from place .to
place and back again. However, if
variety is the spice of life, we had
plenty of spice. After all, it takes all
kinds of people to make a world.

Much could be said about Paris and
London, but so much is written about
both of these great cities that our
humble opinion is of but little value.
Our observation leads us to believe
that there are more freaks outside
of Paris than in it and that it gets
credit for a whole lot more than it
deserves. It certainly is a beautiful
city and most interesting. In dress
it does not compare with Berlin—a
few gowns in extreme styles are made
and exhibited by living models on the
boulevards, then sold to New York or
Chicago, and our American women fall
over each other in adopting them.
Paris has less freakiness than New
York. About the wicked side of Paris,
the less said the better. That its title
as the most wicked city in the world
is well earned, no one who has visit-
ed it will deny. The large department
stores of Paris are worth visiting.
They sell everything and at fairly
reasonable prices.

The best thing in London is the
American store of Selfrige with
American methods. Among the many
high class shops, this one ranks high-
est.

That a European tour, aside from
the pleasure, is an education and
broadens people, no one will gainsay.
It also makes one more tolerant. Eur-
ope has many things which we can
adopt with profit to ourselves, as we
have many things which Europe can
and has adopted; but give us a hun-
dred years, yes, only fifty years of
progress such as the past generations
have developed, and we will overtake
Europe with its ancient and medieval
methods—for we think quicker and
work faster, doing both simultaneous-
ly, a thing they can not or at least
do not do. The great Statue of Liber-
ty in New York harbor looks mighty
good to a returning American, for,
after all, it is the greatest country that
ever sun shone on.

E. J. Schreiber.

 

 

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September 17, 1913

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Ye scribe received a very nice let-
ter from the editor of the Tradesman
last week, in which he says among oth-
er things: “We have long thought we
ought to have a page from Grand Rap-
ids Council, No. 131,” placing the
emphasis, we presume, upon the word
page. This will be an easy matter, Mr.
Stowe, provided you do not put your
lines too close together and provided,
further, that the members of the
Council will do what they can and
turn in the news items. This they
have done admirably well thus far and
whatever success the writer may meet
with in his efforts to make the Grand
Rapids news interesting, will be at-
tributable, in a large measure, to the
generous response of the boys along
the firing line. No one man, away
from home and council all the week
can alone make much of a hit with
the reading public through these col-
umns. Let us hear from you, Brother
U. C. T.s, any time you have an item
of interest, and do not let false modes-
ty interfere with your telling us about
yourselves. All sources of informa-
tion are strictly confidential. Tele-
phone news to Citizens 34384 or mail
it to 1422 Wealthy street.

Bro. J. B. Hagle, 1910 Jefferson
avenue, is using an automobile in cov-
ering his territory.

Mrs. Pete Anderson, who has been
visiting in Rochester, N. Y., for
some time, returned home last week,
which accounts for the smile on Pete’s
face. Pete says, “My wife is in the
country, hurray! hurray!,” is not what
it is cracked up to be.

Wilbur Brown, with Brown & Seh
ler Co., has promised to cross the
hot sands of No. 131 at the October
meeting. Mr. Brown was elected to
membership last March and we are
pleased to learn he is soon to be
one of us.

F. H. Buck and Fred E. Beardsley
were looking for winter quarters last
Saturday. A place to hibernate, as it
were.

The dance committee met last Sat-
urday afternoon at 15 Tonia avenue
and formulated plans for the ensuing
year. A series of six dances was ar-
ranged for, the date of the first dance
being set for Oct. 18 at U. C. T. hall,
Herald building. The proceeds of
these dances, in excess of the nec-
essary expenses of operation, are to
be used solely for the purpose of de-
fraying the expenses of a special train
for all members of No. 131 and their
families to the Grand Council con-
vention at Saginaw. The season tick-
ets will soon be placed on sale at $2
per ticket to all U. C. T. members
and their friends.

Sam Lubetsky, while auto driving
near Berlin last Friday, met with a
painful accident, resulting in the break-
ing of his collar bone. He is now ai
U. B. A. hospital and it is reported
that he is gaining rapidly.

E. Bottje says those were some tc-
matoes he got out of Harry Hydorn’s
patch last week. He does not state
whether he secured them by the wa-
termelon route or not, but those who
know Ed. says they bet he didn’t pay
for them.

Since our last issue, we are pleased

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

to report that Homer Bradfield has
been located and is all right and is
now on his Northern trip. His mis-
sion out on the country road, it is re-
ported, was that he was looking for a
goodsized club to use on F. C. Richter
when he finds him.

Grand Rapids Council U. C. T. and
Kalamazoo Council U. C. T. will have
a ball game at Ramona Park, Satur-
day, Sept. 20, which will be the sec-
ond game of a series of three to de-
cide the championship of the State.
All Grand Rapids Council members
are urged to attend.

A sign has been placed at Tustin
reading as follows: “On account of
the high cost of living, I am compel-
led to raise my rates to $2 per day.
E. Harmon, Prop.’ Vhat’s all right,
Ed., it’s worth it.

Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bradfield spent
a two weeks’ vacation in New York
State,

Look out for R. M. Richards. He
was recently seen leaving Kalamazoo
with a bundle of celery under his arm.
Doubtless he is working up his nerve
to put something over on somebody.

J. A. Ziesse, with the Phoenix
Sprinkler & Heating Co., is confined
to his bed.

The annual meeting of the Grand
Rapids Traveling Men’s Benefit Asso-
ciation will be held Saturday, Sept
27, for the election of officers and
other business. This Association was
organized about two years ago by
Walter S. Lawton, who is now Presi-
dent. Its object is to provide a death
henefit fund for its members. The
membership fee is $1.50 and there is
no further assessment, excepting in
the case of a death, when a collection
of $1 per member is made. The pres-
ent officers of the Association are as
follows: Walter S. Lawton, Presi-
dent; John D. Martin, Vice-President;
Harry D. Hydorn, Secretary and
Treasurer; John Hondorp, A. N.
Borden, W. D. Bosman and J. A.
Keane, directors.

There is at present a movement on
foot to organize in Grand Rapids,
among the U. C. T. members, an
Ancient Mystic Order of Bagmen of
Bagdad. This order bears about the
same relation to the U. C. T. Council
that the Order of the Mystic Shrine
bears to the Masonic order. It is a
secret organization, with more or less
mirth, some sentiment and plenty of
action,, having for its object to ex-
tend and increase social influences
among its members, promote good
fellowship and to assist the unfortu-
nate of its members and their depend-
ents. Guilds are located in all the
principal cities of the various grand
jurisdictions of the U. C. T. of Ameri-
ca. Michigan at present is without a
guild. Any member of the U. C. T.
wishing further information may se-
cure it by communicating with the of-
ficial scribe of the Council.

The Executive Council met last
week and transacted important busi-
In accordance with the recom-
mendation of the Booster Committee,
two teams were elected, their business
being to solicit new and desirable
members. The line up of the two
teams is as follows: First team—
W. D. Bosman, Capt., J. S. Bolen,

ness.

John Hondorp, Paul Berns, C. A
Young? W. S. Cain, Ira Gordon, J. I.
Spade, Walter Nordella; second team
—H. B. Wilcox, Capt., H. R. Brad-
field, ©. ©. Herrick, F. E. Scott, Claud
Lawton, H. P. Grady, Fred Kronin-
ger, Sam Westgate.

The base ball team of Grand Rap-
ids Council, No. 131, has arranged a
three games with the

Kalamazoo. The first
game was played in Kalamazoo
last Saturday, the Celery City
team grabbing off the big end of a
10-9 score. A fair-sized crowd was in
attendance, among them being the
Grand Counselor of Michigan. The
Grand Rapids boys report that they
were treated most royally. They
were met at the depot and escorted in
automobiles to their hotels and later
to the grounds. After the game they
were treated to an elaborate spread,
later attended Council meeting, after
which they were given another auto-
mobile ride around the city. The
boys have arranged a return game t9
be played next Saturday, Sept. 20 in
Grand Rapids. Let us hope we can
treat our visitors as well as our team
was treated by them, but don’t forget
to tttrn out and root for No. 131. It
is time we gave that
bunch a trouncing.

series of
Council of

Kalamazoo
The line up of
the Grand Rapids team was as fol-
lows: FE Punt, ¢; G. Church, p; EB.
Ryder, 1 b; H. McCall, 2 b: H. Peters,
# Db; El. Grady, s.s.; F. Mooney, rf.
fl; IL. Zismer, e. f£.

Owing to the place of meeting, that
dance committee might be in session
yet, had it not been for the timely
arrival of Mrs. Peter Fox and Mrs.
A. F. Rockwell.

Harry says: “Don’t forget to tell
the boys that assessment No. 118
is now due and payable’—emphasis
on payable. The time of payment ex-
pires Sept. 24. Remit to H. D. Hy-
dorm, R. D. 5.

Anyway we are not so loquacious as
some people or we might be able to
write that page.

Allen F. Rockwell.
—_—— oo
Winter Inn Open Again.

Greenville, Sept. 16—The Winter
Inn has been opened to the public
as a rooming house on the European
plan. The house is up-to-date in all
particulars, Judd Wood, Managers.

—~+s 2s

A Charlotte correspondent writes
Funeral services of Charles Stevenson
were held Monday morning at his
home in the fourth ward, Rev. Free-
man of the Baptist church, officiating.
He was buried at Eaton Rapids. Mr.
Stevenson was for many years in the
crockery business at Eaton Rapids,
but for forty years and continuously
since his retirement from the mercan-
tile field he had traveled for an Ohio
crockery concern and no traveler in
Michigan had covered the State more
thoroughly or was better known in
trade circles, especially in the smaller
towns, than Mr. Stevenson. He was
nearly 61 years old and had been in
poor health but a short time. He is
survived by his widow. He had been
a resident of Charlotte for the past
ten years.

Fe cae enc ee ose eee eter ee antares ee eee ae

25

Plenty of Time to Repair It.

One day a well-dressed elderly man
called at the shop of the local jeweler
in a small Scottish town, and asked:

“Is my watch ready?”

As the watchmaker had at the mo-
ment no remembrance of the man, he
asked him in turn:

“When did you leave your watch?”

“Oh,” replied the man, “I didn’t
leave it in this shop. Ye were ower
by Nelson street when ye got it.”

“Nelson street?” repeated the jew-
eler. “We left Nelson street seven-
teen years ago.”

“But I left it with ye, for a that.”

“Can you tell me the name and the
number of the watch?”

They were promptly given, as well
as a description of the watch, and it
was found. Exactly twenty-two years
had passed since it was left for re-
pairs, yet at the end of that time its
owner had called for it as naturally
as if he had only left it the preceding
week.

“Why have you not got your prop-
erty before?” asked the jeweler.

“Weel,” man, “|
went over to America shortly after.
I kent the watch would be safe with
ye till I cam back, but I stayed a wee
thocht langer than I intended.”

responded the

——__+ + >___
Meeting of Michigan Federation at
Lansing.

Lansing, Sept. 16—It is our purpose
to get as many officers of the State
associations together as possible at
the annual meeting of the Michigan
Federation of Retail Merchants and
formulate plans for a vigorous cam-
paign through their respective asso-
ciations in an educational way that
will bring results to the retail mer-
chants of Michigan, as we find this
cannot be done through general mem-
berships without educating them up
to the benefits to be derived through

their home secretaries.

We shall have a short programme
and get down to brass tacks in the
shortest session possible. The meet-
ine is called for 1 oclock on Sep:.
24 in the Chamber of Commerce
building, in Lansing. If possible, it
will be closed in time for delegates to
take the evening trains home, if they
so wish. F. M. Witbeck, Sec’y.

—_+ +>
A Pilausible Deduction,

A Baltimore school] teacher had en-
countered such a degree of ignorance
on the part of one of her boys, in re-
lation to the recorded acts of the
Father of his Country, that she grew
sarcastic. “I wonder,” she began, “if
you could tell me whether George
Washington was a sailor or a sol-
dier?””

The boy grinned. “He was a sol-
dier, all right,” he said.

“How do you know?” the teacher
chailenged.

“Because I saw a picture of him
crossing the Delaware. Any sailor
would know enough not to stand up
in the boat.”

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Will E. es Owosso.
Secretary—E. T. Boden, Bay City.
Treasurer—E. E. Faulkner, Delton.
Other Members—John J. Campbell,

Pigeon; Chas. S. Koon, Muskegon.
Marquette Meeting—August 12, 138 and
14

Grand Rapids Meeting—November 18,
19 and 20.

Michigan State Panrenentinal Associa-

tio
rer en Geibene, Grand Rap-
i
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. W. 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. S. Lawton,

Grand Rapids.

 

Grand Rapids (Drug Club.
President—-Wm. C. Kirchgessner.
Vice-President—E. D. De La Mater.
Secretary and Treasurer—Wm. H.

Tibbs.
Executive Committee—Wm Quigley,
Chairman; Henry Riechel, Theron Forbes.

The Coming of the Hot-Soda Season.

There are still quite a number of
druggists and other dispensers who
do not handle hot soda. The writer
thinks that every dispenser ought to
give hot soda a trial, and an enthusi-
astic trial. Enthusiasm is needed,
for if you go into the business in a
half-hearted way, with the idea that
the venture is bound to be a failure,
you can hardly expect any pronounced
success. Some dispensers approach
a proposition in that manner. They
put in hot soda because their com-
petitors have it, but frequently they
declare at the start that they do not
see much in it, and they are appar-
ently not sorry when no great success
is attained.

Do not put in hot soda merely be-
cause your competitors have it. Put
it in because it will be a good thing
for your business, and then do all
you can to make it a success. Hot
soda must be dispensed with some
care. It must be good. A hot drink
easily becomes sloppy unless dispens-
ed with a reasonable amount of care.
Sloppy cold soda often goes fairly
well at a busy corner, because it is
cold causes a multitude of shortcom-
ings to be overlooked. Hot soda can
not be dispensed in this way. Every
cup must be good. Do not infer that
it will require too much attention, for
this is not the case. But a fair amount
of care must be assured.

Almost any druggist can do enough
hot soda business to show a profit of
two dollars a day, and this will usu-
ally pay his rent. Larger dispensers
can, of course, do much more. But
the profits in any case ought to pay
the rent. While two dollars a day

may not look very large, still a propo-

 

sition that will pay your rent is not
to be sneezed at. Rent is what eats
a big hole in your annual profits. Sup-
pose you had your rent free, wouldn’c
that be a big thing? Well, hot.soda
ought to do it for you.

But many experts consider that the
direct profits involved are secondary
in importance to the indirect profits.
Hot soda is a great stimulus to the
sale of cold soda. It works nicely in
conjunction with the cold apparatus
and prevents that part of the store
from becoming dead throughout the
winter months. The great object of
all dispensers is to keep the cold soda
department going all the year ‘round,
if possible, and hot soda affords more

help along these lines than anything.

else you can install. This makes it
a very important issue.

It doesn’t cost much to install hot
soda. The cost of a good apparatus
is very slight as compared with the
cost of a cold soda fountain. No
great stock of goods is required. Hot
soda costs so little to install, and of-
fers so much in return, that no dis-
penser should fail to try it.

Hot Soda Flavors to Stock.

Hot soda does not demand so many
flavors as cold soda. The fountain
offering thirty flavors in cold soda
will get along very well in hot soda
with six. Chocolate, as in cold soda,
is probably the best seller, certainly
with feminine trade. A good brand
of chocolate should be used. If you
have a satisfactory brand in your cold
soda department, a good hot soda
syrup may be made from this. Syrup
for hot chocolate needs to be slightly
heavier than that used for cold soda.
Some dispensers prefer a finished
chocolate.

Next in importance come beef tea
and clam broth. Care must be exer-
cised in selecting a palatable brand of
beef. Good beef tea makes a fine
drink; poor beef tea will drive away
trade. There are plenty of standard
beef extracts on the market which
will give perfect satisfaction, and the
same is true of clam broths These
drinks are favorites with men

Hot coffee must not be overlooked,
however, and some dispensers make
this drink the best seller of all It
can easily be done. A finished coffee
will give you a trade winner that may
alone make your hot soda department
a success, and also stimulate your
other business to a marked extent.
The restaurants get all or most of
this business in some towns, and there
is no earthly reason why this should
be the case. Thousands of gallons
of poor coffee are sold in these places
yearly, and a fountain dispenser with
a good brand of coffee ought to find

it easy to get business from the start.

These are the main sellers. Hot
lemonade, and hot ginger are al-
so added, and the manufacturers
offer a long line of wholesome an:l
delicious soups. Oyster specialties
work in well at the hot soda counter,
and we are continually offering sug-
gestions for other novelties in hot
drinks. If you wish to run a lunch
feature, hot soda will assist you ma-
terially in making a success.

Finished Restaurant Coffee.

To serve this excellent drink, you
will need a coffee urn such as are used
in the restaurants all over the coun-
try. These urns are not expensive,
they are durable and useful, and one of
them will last a long time.

Grind together one-half pound each
of selected Mocha and Java coffee.
Put this in the straining bag that
comes with the coffee urn, and pour
through the ground coffee two gal-
lons of boiling water. Draw off this
infusion at the faucet and pour the
hot water through the coffee again
and again, three times in all. Keep
this infusion hot in the urn and serve
with cream and sugar to suit. By get-
ting a good mixture of coffee, you can
easily prepare a high-grade finished
article, and such a finished coffee will
win pernament customers. Valuable
pointers in coffee brands may be pick-
ed up by talking to hotel and restaur-
ant men. Everything depends on a
good brand.

Ice Cream Cones.

The writer, while knocking around
the country during his summer vaca-
tion, struck several towns that had
never seen an ice cream cone. If
ice cream cones have never been dis-
pensed in your town, you have a valu-
able opportunity. They will arrive
sooner or later, and if you are the
first to put them on sale, you will
make some easy money and also get
some valuable advertising.

The ice cream cone should not be
despised. It is a novelty popular with
all classes, and rich people have beea
known to take to it with avidity. It of-
fers a clean way of serving ice cream;
there are no spoons or dishes, and
there is no washing of dishes. The
cone will not appeal to all, but it will
interest enough people to make it
a howling success. Cones may be
had from dealers at reasonable rates,
and a wide margin of profit is allow-
ed, even in thé five-cent size. If you
are the first to serve cones in your
town, call in about fifty children, give
each child a cone, and starting him
down the street, tell him to eat it
publicly. This procession of cone eat-
ers will make a hit, and give you some
easy advertising.

Do not let another be the first to
start this valuable novelty in your
town. If your competitor starts it,

you will have to fall into line. Let him
be the one to do that. The pioneer
gets the cream of the trade. The ice
cream cone is a valuable help towards
increasing your winter trade on ice
cream, something every dispenser
should consider.
Ordering Repairs.

Now is the time to order repairs
and new parts for the fountain. You
have had a hard summer season ard
you know now just what is out of
whack, and what ought to be repaired.
If you wait until spring, you may for-
get half of it.

Furthermore, the fountain manu-
facturers now have the time to look
after repair work. This is their dull-
est season, and to get the best work-
manship, send your repair work to
the factory now; not next month, but
now. If you wait until spring to or-
der repair work, you find every fac-
tory congested with new business, and
you will probably find yourself in a
disagreeable stew. We repeat this ad-
vice every year, for it is always val-
uable. Order repair work now.

W. S. Atkins.
——_>2.____

Buying for speculation may be all
right in its place, but it has no place
in the careful business man's cate-

Sorry.

——_-. <->

No doubt you may be able to fool
a lot of people, but there is always
some wise gt.

 

Memorandum

 

 

Things to be
Remembered

 

When in Grand Rapids
I must surely look over
the new Holiday and Sta-

tionery Lines carried by the

Will P. Canaan
Company

The New Stationery
House

 

 

 

The “‘House of Quality”

 

SUGARLOAF BANANAS

The Best, Cleanest and Sweetest
A. CASABIANCA & SON

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

September 17, 1913

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

Acids
Acetic ........ -- 6 @ 8s
Borie ......2.... 10 @ 15
Carbolic ........ 22 @ 27
Citric ........... 55 @ 62
Muriatic ........ 1%@ 5
INftric, (5. -....... 5%@ 10
Qxalic .......... is @ 16
Sulphuric ....... 1%@ 5
Tartariec ........ 38 @ 42
Ammonia

Water, 26 deg. .. 64%@ 10
Water, 18 deg. .. 4%@ 8
Water 14 deg. ... 3%4@ _ 6

Carbonate ...... i @ 116
Chioride ...:... 1 @ 15
Balsams
Copaiba .... .. 75@1 00

Fir (Canada) .. 1 75@2 00
Fir (Oregon) ....40@ 50

Peru ......... «2-2 25@2 50
TOI) 2... ec... 1 00@1 25
Berries
@ubeb .:.....-... 63@ 7a
Bish ............. 15@ 20
CUMIMER ooo. 7@ 10

Prickley Ash .. . @ 50

Barks
Cassia (ordinary) 25
Cassia (Saigon) 65@ 75
Elm (powd. 25c) 25@ 30
Sassafras (pow. 30c) @_ 25
Soap (powd. 25c) @ 15
Extracts
Licorice: ......... 24@ 28

Licorice powdered 25@ 30
Flowers

ATMICA |... 2... 18@ 25
Chamomile (Ger.) 25@ 35
Chamomile (Rom.) 40@ 50

Gums
Acacia, ist ...... 40@ 50
Acacia, 2nd ...... 385@ 40
Acacia, 3d ........ 30@ 35

Acaccia, Sorts .... @ 20
Acacia Powdered 35@ 40
Aloes (Barb. Pow) 22@ 25
Aloes (Cape Pow) 20@ 25
Aloes (Soc. Powd.) 40@ 50

Asafoetida ....... 75@1 00
Asafoetida, Powd.

Pure ......... @

U. S. P. Powd. @1 00
Camphor ........ 55@ 60
Guaiae .......... 35@ 40
Guaiac, Powdered 50@ 60
Kino ...... Me uee cs @ 40
Kino, Powdered .. @ 45
Myrrh ............ @ 40
Myrrh, Powdered . @ 50
Opium ...2..... 6 80@7 00

Opium, Powd. .. 8 75@8 95

Opium, Gran. .. 8 90@9 10
Shellac 28@ 35
Shellac, Bicached 380@ 35
Tragacanth No. 11 40@1 50
Tragacanth, Pow 75@ 85
Turpentine ...... 10@ 15
Leaves
Buchy .......... 1 85@2 00
Buchu, Powd. .. 2 00@2 25
Sage, bulk ...... 18@ 25

Sage, %s Loose. 20@ 25
Sage, Powdered.. 25@ 30
Senna, Alex ...... 45@ 50
Senna, Tinn. .... 15@ 20
Senna, Tinn, Pow. 20@ 25
Uva UWrsi ...:..... 10@ 15

Olls
a Bitter,

true ........
Adon Bitter,
artificial ...... @1 00
— Sweet,
tru escees 890@1 00
Aono Sweet,
imitation .... 40@ 50

Amber, ne ~-- 25@ 30
Amber, rectified . 40@ 50
Anise .......... 2 25@2 50
Bergamont ..... 7 50@8 00
@ajeépub ......... 75@ 85
Cassia . 1 50@1 75
Castor, bbls. ‘and

cans ...... 12%@ 15
Cedar Leaf ..... F @ 85
Citronella ....... @_ 60
Cloves ........ 1 75@2 00
Cocoanut ....... ao 25
Cod Liver ...... 1 25@1 50
Cotton Seed ..... 90@1 10
Croten ......... é @1 60

@ubebs .......... @4 50
Eirigeron ........ @2 50
Eucalyptus 6
Hemlock, pure ae @1 00
Juniper Berries .. @1 25
Juniper Wood .. 40@ 50
Lard, extra .....
Lard, No. 1 .... 1b@ 9
Lavender Flowers @4 50
Lavender, Garden
lemon ......... 5 50@6 00
Linseed, boiled bbl

 

Linseed, ble less 58@ 62
Linseed, raw bbls. @ 53
Linseed, raw less 57@ 61
Mustard, true ..4 50@6 00
Mustard, artifi’l 2 75@3 00
Neatsfoot ...... 80@ 85
Olive, pure ..... 2 50@3 50
Olive, Malaga,

yellow ...... 1 60@1 75
Olive, Malaga,

@reen ...... 1 50@1 65

Orange, sweet ..4 75@5 00

Organum, pure 1 25@1 50
Origanum, com’! a 75
Pennyroyal ..... 2 25@2 50
Peppermint 4 00@4 25

Rose, pure ... 16 00@18 00
Rosemary Flowers 90@1 00
Sandalwod, E. I. 6 25@6 50
Sassafras, true ae 90
Sassafras, artifi'l 45@ 50

Spearmint ...... 5 50@6 00
Sperm <......... 90@1 00
MANSY .........- 00@5 50
War UWSP ......- 25@ 35
Turpentine, bbls. @ 49

Turpentine, less 53 @_ 60
Wintergreen, true @5 00
Wintergreen, sweet

bireéh ...... 2 00@2 25
Wintergreen, art’! 50@ 60
Wormseed ...... 3 50@4 00
Wormwood ..... @8 00

Potassium
Bicarbonate .... 15@ 18
Bichromate .... 13@ 16
Bromide ........ 45@ 55
Carbonate ..... 12@ 15
Chlorate, xtal and

powdered .. 12@ 16
Chlorate, granular 16@ 20
Cyanide .:....... 380@ 40
Iodide :.......... 3 20@38 40
Permanganate .. 15@ 30
Prussiate yellow 30@ 35

Prussiate, red .. 50@ 60
Sulphate ........ 15@ 20
Roots
Alkanet ..... 15@ 20
Blood, powdered 20@ 25
Calamus Sacecac 35@ 40

Elecampane, pwd. 15@ 20
Gentian, powd. .. 12@ 16
Ginger, African,

powdered .. 15@ 20

Ginger, Jamaica 20@ 25
Ginger, Jamaica,
powdered .... 22@ 28
Goldenseal, powd. @6 00
Ipecac, powd. .. 2 75@3 00
Dicorice! ....-... 14@ 16
Licorice, powd. 12@ 15

Orris, powdered 25@ 30
Poke, powdered 20@ 25

Rhubarb ...... 75@1 00
Rhubarb, powd. 75@1 25

Rosinweed, powd. 25@ 30
Sarsaparilla, Hond.

 

ground ...... 50
Sarsaparilla Mexican,

ground ...... ate 30
Squilis .......... 20@ 35
Squills, powdered os 60
Tumeric, powd. 12@ 15
Valerian, powd. 25@ 30

Seeds

Anise .......... 15@ 20
Anise, powdered 22@ 25
Bird, ls ..2.....; 8@ 10
Canary . 0... ol. 9@ 12
Caraway 12@ 18
Cardamon 1 75@2 00
Celery eee ee. 45@ 50
Commander ....... 12@ 18
Di t.... 23@ 3
Hennell .......... @ 30

Flax, ground ue 4@ 8
Foenugreek, pow. 6@ 10

EOMD ooo. 0 ccs 5@ 7
Wobelia .......... @ 50
Mustard, yellow 9@ 12
Mustard, black .. 9@ 12
Mustard, powd. 20@ 25
Poppy ...-.-...- 15@ 20
Qumee .......... @1 00
Rape 2. 0....;3... 6@ 10
Sabadilla ........ 25@ 30

Sabadilla, powd. 35@ 45
Sunflower
Worm American 15@ 20

Worm Levant .. 40@ 50
Tinctures
Aconite ......... @ 75
MIOGS ...........- @ 65
PPUICH)  .. 6 co ec. = @ 60
Asafoetida ...... @1 00
Belladonna ...... @ 60
Benzoin' ......... @ 90
Benzoin Compound @_ 90
IUCN ...,-....: @1 00
Cantharadies .. . 1 00
Capsicum ....... 90
Cardamon ...... 95
Cardamon, Comp. 65
Catechu ......... 60
Cinchona ........ 1 05
Colchicum ....... 60
Cubebs ......... @1 20

 

Diattalis ......... @ 60
Gentian .... @ 60
Ginger @ 9%
Guaiac @1 05
Guaiac Ammon... @ 80
To@ine ........... @1 25
Iodine, Colorless @1 25
Tpecae ..... oo... @ 7
Thon, elo: ........ @ 60
img 21.42.50... @ 80
Myrrh ........... @1 05
Nux Vomica .... @ 70
Opi 20.2.6... @2 00
Opium Camph. .. @ 65
Opium, Deodorz’d @2 25
Rhubarb ......... @ 70
Paints
Lead, red dry .. 7%@ i¢

Lead, white dry 7%4%@ 10
Lead, white oil 7T%@ 10
Ochre, yellow bbl. 1 @ 1%
Ochre, yellow less 2 @ 5
IPUtEY 26.00.61... 24%@ 5
Red Venetian bbl. 1 @ a
Red Venet’n, less 2

Shaker, Prepared 1 40@1 50
Vermillion, Eng. 90@1 00
Vermillion, Amer. 15@ 20
Whiting, bbl ...: i@ 116
Whiting ........... 2@ 5

Insecticides

einente gece ceca. 10
ue Vitrol, bbl. 6
Blue Vitrol less ‘@ is
Bordeaux Mix Pst 8@ 15
Hellebore, White

powdered .... 15@ 20
Insect Powder .. 20@ 35
Lead Arsenate .. 8@ 16
Lime & Sulphur

Solution, gal. 15@ 25

 

Paris Green . 1%@ 20
Miscellaneous
foe ease 30@ 35
AlUIA ool. 38@ 5

Aine powdered and

SEOUNG ...... 5@ 7
Bismuth, Subni-

trate ....... 2 10@2 25
Borax xtal or

powdered ... 6@ 12
Cantharadies po. 1 apa 50
Calomel ........ 1 20@1 30
Capsicum « 0@ 25
Carmine ae @3 50
Cassia Buds .... @ 40
Cloves ......... 30 35

Chalk Prepared -- 6@ 8%
Chalk Precipitated we 10
Chloroform ..... 8@ 48
Chloral Hydrate 1 0001 15
Cocaine ....... 3 70@3 90
Cocoa Butter .... 50@ 60
Corks, list. less 70%
Copperas, bbls. ....@
Copperas, lesS ... 2@ 5
Copperas, Powd. 4@ 6
Corrosive Sublm. 1 05@1 10

Cream Tartar 28@ 35
Cuttlebone ...... 20@ 35
Dextrine ........ 7@ 10

Dover's Powder 2 00@2 25
Emery, all Nos. 6@ 10
Emery, powdered 5@ 8
Epsom Salts, bbls @ 1%

Epsom Salts, less 2%@ c
Hreot .......... 1 50@1 ‘>
izrgot, powdered 1 80@2 00

Flake White ..... 12 15
Formaldehyde lb. 10@ 15
Gambier ........ 6@ 10
Gelatme ........: 85@ 45

Glassware, full cases 80%
Glassware, less 70 & 10%
Glauber Salts bbl. @ 1
Glauber Salts less 2@ 5
Glue, brown .... l1@ 15
Glue, brown grd ee 15

Giue, white ..... 15@ 25
Glue, white grd 15@ 20
Glycerine Secs ees 23@ 30
OPS ....25.....- 50@ 80
Indigo (20... 00. 0. 85@1 00
Iodine 5@

 

lodoform
Lead Acetate .... 12@ 18

bycopdium ..... 55@ 65
MaiCe 2.00... 80@ 90
Mace, powdered 90@1 00
Menthol ........ 8 60@9 00
Mercury .......... 5@ 85

75 8
Morphine, all brd 4 55@4 80
Nux Vomica .... @ 10
Nux Vomica pow @ 15
Pepper, black pow 20@25

Pepper, white .. 25@ 35
Pitch, Burgundy 10@ 15
@uassia 23.3... 10@ 15
Quinine, all brds ..25@36%

Rochelle Salts ... 20@ 30

Saccharine ..... 1 50@1 75
Salt Peter ...... 7T%@ 12
Seidlitz Mixture .. 4 25
Soap, green .... 20
Soap, mott castile i090 15

Soap, white castile
€ase ........ @6 25

Soap, white castile

less, per bar 68
soda Ash ...... 1% 5
Soda Bicarbonate 1% 5
Soda, Sal ........ 1 4

Spirits Camphor ..

Sulphur roll .... 2% 5
Sulphur Subl. .... 2% 5
Pamarinds ...... 15

QH9HHOHO8O
a

a
oo

Tartar Emetic .. 4
Turpentine Venice 40@ 50
Vanilla Ext. pure 1 et 50
Witch Hazel .... 1 00
Zine Sulphate ... 10

 

 

 

   

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my Tl

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Our Home—Corner Oakes and Commerce

 

Our large and most complete line of holiday samples
will be on display in our sample room in our store in Grand
Rapids on and after September ist. Our Mr. Dudley is in
charge and we desire to emphasize the fact that we can give
the best possible service to the early buyers.

 

Grand Rapids. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO.

 

 

MERICAN BEAUTY?” Display Case No. 412—one

of more than one hundred models of Show Case,
Shelving and Display Fixtures designed by the Grand
Rapids Show Case Company for displaying all kinds

of goods, and adopted by the most progressive stores of America.

GRAND RAPIDS SHOW CASE CO., Grand Rapids, Michigan

The Largest Show Case and Store Equipment Plant ia the Werld
Show Rooms and Factories: New York, Grand Rapids, Chicago, Boston, Portland

 

 

FOOTE & JENKS COLEMAN’S (BRAND)
Terpeneless Lemon and High Class Vanilla

Insist on getting Coleman's Extracts from your jobbing grocer, or mail order direct to

FOOTE & JENKS, Jackson, Mich.

 

 

 

Four Kinds of Coupon Books

are manufactured by us and all sold on the same
basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination.
Free samples on application.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

cameras

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

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing.

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

 

ADVANCED

Holland Herring
Raisins

DECLINED

Rice—Broken

 

 

Index to Markets

By Columns

 

Ammonia ....-.-..--> 1
Axle Grease .....-++0. 1

Baked Beans .........
Bath Brick ............
Bling ......-----6 pea
Breakfast Food ......-
Brooms ...-..+++++- cc
Brushes ........-..22. :
Butter Color ..........

Cc

Candies ........-.-..- ss
Canned Goods ........ » i-
Carbon Oils ........ coe

Dt pa ak pe pat ft pt

eeing Gum cae ee
Chicory ...cccceseeees
Chocolate ......+-+----
Clothes Lines ........-
([OCOR ...--.--+-- Ss
Cocoanut .........-- a
([OOMECR ..--.-+---- 204-0
Confections ..........--
Cracked Wheat .......
CrackerS ...--.cceesre 5,
Cream Tartar ........

D
Dried Fruits ......-... &

F

Farniaceous Goods ....
Fishing Tackle ........
Flavoring Extracts ...
Flour and Feed ........
Fruit Jars .......-- cece

G

Gelatine ......c.eseeee
Grain Bags .....+--++-.

RM Clim 69 Co 09 69 09 69 69 69 BE OS bo

NAIA dH

an

eee eosesese

Herbs
Hides and Pelts ......-
Horse Radish ........

eo 60-2

eeersecseecee

Macaroni
Mapleine .......
Mince Meat ..........
Molasses .........+00- :
Mustard ......-.ccesee

@0 68 60 2 CO

.
.
~

CC sce 8

ae Seeese See ee eee
ADOE 5-6 e eee ese n-oee-
Pieving Carts .........
POMBE 2. occ cc ccsnsncne
Provisions® .....--...0%

SS
Rolled Oats ...........

@® 00 00 00 68

wow

Salad Dressing ........
Baleratus ...,....:-.--

 

Witieger .....---:----+- 13
Ww

WVACKINE «occ cece cesses 13

Woodenware .......... 13

Wrapping Paper ..... 14
Y

Went OCBKP ...cccccccce 18

1

AMMONIA

12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box 75
AXLE GREASE
Frazer’s.

1Ib. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00
1tb. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 35
34%%b. tin boxes, 2 doz. 4 25
10Ib. pails, per doz. ..6 00
15Ib. pails, per doz. ..7 20
25tb. pails, per doz. ..12 00
BAKED BEANS
No. 1, per doz. ....45@ 90
No. 2, per doz. ....75@1 40
No. 3, per doz. ..85@1 75
BATH BRICK
Hnelish .:........,.. 95
BLUING
Jennings’.

Condensed Pearl Bluing
Small C P Bluing, doz. 4
Large C P Bluing, doz. 7

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
der Toasties, T.

bebe eeess 5. - 2 80

Posts Toasties, T
ee a ee, 2 80
araniee, ea? ....... 2 70
Grape Nuts ......... 2 70

Grape Sugar Flakes .. 2
Sugar Corn Flakes 2
Hardy Wheat Food .. 2 25
Postma’s Dutch Cook 2
Holland Rusk ....... 3
Kellogg’s Toasted Rice
Bincwit ........5... 3 30
Kelloge’s Toasted Rice
Flakes . 2
Kelloge’s Toasted Wheat
BiRCwmte .. 4.05.50, 3 30
Krinkle Corn Flake ..1 75
Mapl-Wheat Flakes,

2 doz
Mapl- oWheat Flakes,

SB GOz: 2 oe. 2 80
Mapl-Corn Flakes ... 2 80
Minn. Wheat Cereal 3 75
Algrain Food ........ 4
Ralston Wheat Food 4
Ralston Wht Food 10c 1 46
Saxon Wheat Food .. 2 50
Shred Wheat Biscuit 4 60
Triscnuit, 16 ...-...... 1 &0
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 4 25
Post Tavern Special ..2 80
Quaker Puffed Rice ..4 25
Quaker Puffed Wheat 2 85
Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 1 90
Quaker Corn Flakes ..1 75

Victor Corn Flakes ...2 20
Washington Crisps ...1 85
Wheat Hearts ........ 1 90
MVneatena ........... 4 50
Evapor’d Sugar Corn 90

BROOMS
Fancy Parlor, 25 tb. . 4
Parlor, 4 String, 25 tb. 4 25
Standard Parlor 23 Ib. :

Common, 23 Ih. ...... 50
Special, 23 th. ........3 00
Warehouse, 33 Ib. ..... 4 75
Common Whisk .......1 00
Fancy Whisk ......... 1 25
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ...... 75
Solid Back, 11 in. ...... 95
Pointed Minas .......... 85
Stove
NO 2. o.oo oee ee: 90
No. 2 . 3. see esse... 1 25
NO 1 22055000262... 1 75
Shoe
NO 8 ees ees ese 1 00
MO. J coe cise cece... 1.30
No 8 |e... 1 70
INO. 8.650... eee ec 1 90

BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 25c size ..2 00

CANDLES
Paratine, 68 ..........
Paraffine, 12s
Wicking .....2-.,0...; 20

CANNED GOODS
Apples
3 Th. Standards ~ @

@ 90
Galion ......... 2 75@2 85
areertee

i. 1... o
seein gallons

Beans
Baked... 25... ... 85@1 30
Red Kidney .... 85@ 95
Sirine . 5.) . 7O@1 15
WOK .65500.0...5 75@1 25
Blueberries
Standard ............ 1 80
fasion oo 6 75
Clams
Little Neck, lIb. .. @1 00
Little Neck, 2b. .. @1 50
Clam Bouillon
Burnham's \&% pt. ....2 25
Burnham’s pts. ....... 3 75
Burnham's qts. .......7 50
Corn
MOOT oo eee. 65@ 70
eed 2.26... 90@1 00
MAnCY 2... c 2c... @1 30
rench Peas

Monbaton (Natural)

Per AZ |.) 1 75
Gooseberries
No. 2, Weir ...... .1 50
No. 2, Paney ........ 2 35
ominy
standard ..........:... 85
Lobster
6 1 foe. 1 85
2 2DS coco. eet 3 15
Mackerel
Mustard, 11). ......... 80
Mustard, 210. ...... ~.2 80
Soused, 14%. ........ 1 60
Soused, OID ...5.55255. 2 75
Tomato, AND. 2 eceecee: 1 50
Tomato, 21D, ..5 26... ~.2 80
Mushrooms
dtotels ......5..... @ 15
suttons, 38 ..... @ 14
Buttons, ig. @ 2
Oysters
Cove, 11. ...... 90
Cove, 21. ...... 1 60@
Plums
PIS. 4... 90@1 35

Pears In Syrup
No. 3 cans, per doz. ..1 50

Peas
Marrowiat ......;. et 15
Barly June ...... 1 25
Early June siftd 1 61 55
oe
Pie foo. 00@1 25
No. 10 size can a @3 25
nina
Grated ......... 1 75@2 10
Riiced ...:...:.. 95@2 60
Pumpkin
Hair ...... boone! 80
crc ee 90
PIANCY 2.052555 .5556 1 00
Gallen: 2.26... 215

pee
£tandard
Bien
Warrens, 1 Tb. Tall ..2 30
Warrens, 1 Ib. ici sai 40

Red Alaska ...... 1 50

Med. Red Alaska i 2 Ol 35

Pink Alaska ...... @ 90
Sardines

Domestic, %s ....... 3 00
Domestic, %4 Mustard 27
Domestic, % Mustard @6%

“ol

Hrench, 8S ........ 7@14
HMrencen 448 ........ | -13@23
Shrimps
Dunbar, 1st doz. ...... 1 30
Dunbar, 1%s doz. ....2 35
Succotash
oir) se. . 90

got ee 1
Haney .......... 1 25@1 40
Strawberries
Standara ......... 95
Haney ....... sie 2 25
Tomatoes
CoO a 15
HAM ooo k ec. 1 35
Mo. 10 2.......... 3 50
CARBON OILS
Barrels
Perfection ....... @11%

D. S. Gasoline .... @

Gas Machine .... a
Deodor’d Nap’a .. @18%
Cylinder ....... 29 @34%
PMeine ......... 16 @22
Black, winter .
CATSUP
Snider’s pints ....... 2 35
Snider’s % pints ......1 35

Prices, however, are

3

4

September 17, 1913

5

 

 
 

CHEESE

MC ....5..-... @17
Bloomingdale ... @17
Carson City ..... @17
Hopkins ........ @16
BMC (6... ls. @17T%
Leiden .......... 15
Limburger ...... @17%
Pineapple ...... 60
Gam fs...
Sap Sago
Swiss, domestic @20

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack .... 55

Adams Sappota ....... 55
Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 55
Beechnut  ....,......2; 60
Chielets 205.0000 250.., 1 25

Colgan Violet Chips .. 60
Colgan Mint Chips .... 60
DMentyNe ............. 1 10

 

Flag Spruce 55
Juicy Fruit 55
Red Robin 55
Sen Sg (Jars 80 pkgs,
S220) ccc ee ce 55
Spearmint, Wrigleys .. 55

Spearmint, 5 box jars 2 75
Spearmint, 3 box jars 1 65

 

Trunk Spruce ......... 55
Wareatan 660.636. 55
MONO eo eee 55
BU feck ce Bes 5
Red ooo... Sees 7
HWagie ........ Sie s 5
Franck’s 7
Scheuer’s 6
Red Standards 1 60
Woiite ...:.............- 1 60
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.
German’s Sweet .....
Premium .....-........ 32
Caracas ........¢...... 23
Walter M. Lowney Co.
Premium, 448 ........ 29
Premium, 1458 ......... 29
CLOTHES LINE
Per doz.

No. 40 Twisted Cotton 95
No. 50 Twisted Cotton 1
No. 60 Twisted Cotton 1
No. 80 Twisted Cotton 2
No. 50 Braided Cotton 1
No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 25
No. 60 Braided Cotton ;

1

2

No. 80 Braided Cotton 2 25
No. 50 Sash Cord ..... 75
No. 60 Sash Cord ..... 00
No. 60 Jute .......... 80
ONO: G2 SMe . 5... es 1 00
No: 60 Sisal .......... 85

Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 99
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10

 

COCOA
Baker's 37
Cleveland 41
Colonial, 35
Colonial, 33
MUDDS) 5 cs cae cc ee ccc sce 42
Hershey’s, 30
Hershey’s, 48 ........ 28
Ebi lss 2 cee. Ob
Downey, 48 .......... 33
Lowney, ae Reese ccc 33
Lowney, 446 .......... 33
Lowney, 5 iD. cans .... 33
Van Houten, %s ..... 12
Van Houten,, 4s ..... 18
Van Houten, %s ..... 36
Van Houten, 1s ...... 65
Wan-Eta .......... secs 36
Webp ....:....; soseee | OB
Wilber, 468 ........... 33
Wilber, “48 ........ cae eo
COCOANUT

Dunham's per Ib
1s, 5SIb. case ..... - 30
448, BID. CaSe ...... » 29
14s, 15. case ...... 29
1468, 15Ib. case ...... 28
a8, iJoib. Case ....... 27
Ys & Ws 15tb. case 28
Scalloped Gems ...... 10
4s & Ys pails ...... 16
Bulk, pais .......... - 14%
Bulk, barrels ........ 18%
Baker's Brazil Shredded

10 5c pkgs., per case 2 60
26 10c pkgs., per case 2 60
16 10c and 33 bc pkgs.,

per case .......... 2

eS ROASTED

Common ...........-. 19
OI ois. sec ke 19%

Choire . 6) 20

PANCY oes 21

Peaperry ........... 23

Santos

Common .........,... 20

War 20%

Gholee. .............. 21

MANCY ek 23

Peaberry ..........,. 23

Maracaibo
Mei oe 24
CUOICe 28 ee 25
Mexican
Give lr 25
PABOV | oie ce ec eek ks... 26
Guatemala
ONY ee ak. 5
MARCY 2... c6 cl... 28
Java

Private Growth ....26@30

Mandling ....... ....d1@35

Aukola ..............80@32

Mocha
Short Bean ........ 25@27
Lome Bean .......... 24@25
ak OG 2... 26@28
Bogota
Wal oe 24
WaAMey | 066k. 26
Exchange Market, Steady
Spot Market, Strong
Package
New York Basis
Arbuckle {0.20.07 21 50
Pion oe 23 50

McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold
to retailers only. Mail all

orders direct to W. F.
McLaughlan & Co., Chicago
Extracts
Holland, % gro boxes -

Felix, % grosg .......
Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Horehound ........... . 8
Standard ... scscssc 8
Standard, small secasse BOS
Twist, Small ........ wo
Cases
PMMNPO . oo ska: - 8
Jumbo, small ........ 8
Big Stick ........ seas. 3”
Boston Cream ........
Mixed Candy
Broken .....;........ °
Cameo ......:.........12
Cut oat ........... oc5. 9)

Wancy, ....-5.-.. 5.1... 1046
French Cream sccess oO
Grocers) .........2.:2). 6%
Kindergarten ..........11
duender! ........ 3...) . 8
Majestic ............... 9
Monarch ..

Novelty .. ..
Paris Creams ..
Premio Creams
Royal ..... Beis
SPCCIAN 6.65. otc we - 8%
Valley Creams ...... sole
x LO

ee eeececceccce

Specialties

 

Pails
Auto Kisses (baskets) 13
Bonnie Butter Bites a
Butter Cream Corn
Candy Crackers (bskt) te

Caramel Dice ......... 13
Cocoanut Kraut ...... 14
Cocoanut Waffles ..... 14
Coco Macaroons ......16
Coffy Tofty ............ 14

Cream. Marshmallows lv
Dainty Mints 7 Ib. tin 15
Empire Fudge ........14
Fudge, Pineappl; ......13
Fudge, Wal A

Fudge, Filbert .......13
Fudge, Choco. Peanut 12
Fudge, Honey Moon ..13
Fudge, Toasted Cocoa-

 

Fudge, Cherry ......... 14
Fudge, Cocoanut .....
Honeycomb Candy ...
Kokays ..... See cece ec ae
Iced Maroons ...... ose dd
Iced Gems ......

15

Iced Orange Jellies ae 2B

Italian Bon Bons ......13

Manchus ..............15
Molasses Kisses, 10°

5 DOK .....:.. aces

Nut Butter Puffs. sta secks

Salted Peanuts .......15
Chocolates

Pails
Assorted Choc. ........15
Amazon Caramels ....15

Champion | ..:........- 12
Choc. Chips, Hares A -
Climax .:..2...-...- aaa

Eclipse, Assorted .... 1b
Eureka Chocolates ...16
PAVOMITG ..655.62065-5-16
Ideal Chocolates ......13
Klondike Chocolates ..18
INADODS ooo. 8
Nibble Sticks .........25
Nut Wafers .......... 18
Ocoro Choc. Caramels o
Peanut Clusters ......

Pyramids .....+...+ eae ia
Quintette ............-.16
ReCiMa fos ck eee .
Star Chocolates ......

Superior Choc. (light) ts
Pop Corn Goods
Without prizes.

Cracker Jack ...... 3 25

Giggles, 5c pkg. cs. : .

Oh My 100s ........

Cough Drops

boxes
Putnam Menthal ... 1 00
Smith Bros. ........ 1 25

NUTS—Whole

Almonds, Tarragona 20
Almonds, Drake ...... 18
Almonds, California

 

soft shell
Brazils ..... @i6
Hilberts ......-. @15
Cal. No. 1 ......

Walnuts soft shell
Walnuts, Marbot .. @16
Table nuts, fancy @16
Pecans, medium .. @15
Pecans, ex. large .. @16
Hickory Nuts, per bu.

Chestnuts, New York
State, per bu. ......

Shelled
No. 1 Spanish ne
Peanuts ...... 12%@13

Be 60
Walnut Halves ... 35088
Filbert Meats ... 30
Alicante Almonds @45
Jordan Almonds .. @50

Peanuts
Fancy H P Suns Raw @6%

Roasted ........ @7T%
H P Jumbo, Raw @8y%
Roasted 5... @9%
CRACKED WHEAT
Bue aos 3%
24 21h. pkes, |... ... ‘2 50
CRACKERS
National Biscuit Compan
Brands ous

Butter

Excelsior Butterg aoodr .

NBC Square Butters .. 6%

Seymour Round ....,. - 6%
Soda

NBC Sodas .......... 6%

Premium Sodas ...... 1%

Select Sodas .......... 8%

Saratoga Flakes .... 3
Saltines

ee cecsles oka. 13
Oyster
NBC Picnic Oysters .. 6%
Gem Oysters ........_. 6%
Shell ..2....5.. Seeccoe 8
Sweet Goods
Cans and boxes
Animals)... 0.2355... 16

Atlantics Also Asstd. . 12
Avena Fruit Cakes ... 12
Bonnie Doon Cookies. .10
Bonnie Lassies
Brittle Fingers ...... 10

Cameo Biscuit Choc.
(Cans) ¢.20.)0.. foe

Cameo Biscuit Asstd.
(Cans) 2.006.000... . 26
Cartwheels Asstd. .... 8%
Cecelia Biscuit ....., 16
Chocolate Bar (cans) 18

Chocolate Drops ...... 17
Chocolate Drop Cen-
ECTS os so. sees 16

Choe. Honey Fingers. 16
Choc. Rosettes oeans s
Cracknels ........ Ao
Cocoanut Taffy Bar . se 3
Cocoanut Drops ...... 12
Cocoanut Macaroons .. 18
Cocnut Honey Fingers 12
Coent Honey Jumbles 12
Coftee Cakes Iced ... 12
Eventide Fingers .... 16
Family Cookies ...... : i”
Fig Cakes Asstd. ....
Frosted Creams ...... 3%
Frosted Ginger Cookies 8%
Fruit Lunch Iced .... 10
Ginger Gems Plain .... 84%
Ginger Gems Iced .... 9%
Graham Crackers .... 8
Ginger Snaps Family .. 3%
Ginger Snaps NBC
HOuUnd | fo60 kok. - 8
Household Cookies ....8
Household Cks. Iced .. §
Hippodrome Bar ..... 12
Honey Jumbles ...... 12
Imperials ......c...... 8%
Jubilee Mixed ....... 16
Lady Fingers Sponge ..3@
Leap Year Jumbles .. 18
Lemon Biscuit Square 8%
Lemon Wafers ......
LeEmOna ..--6ccc.cc tes SS
Mace Cakes .......... 8
Mary Ann ...... selec. Soh
Marshmallow Cfe. Ck. 13
Marshmallow Walnuts 18
Medora ...... cipcccccce B
Mottled Squares .... 10
NBC Honey Cakes ... 12
Oatmeal Crackers .... 8

Orange Gems ........ 8%
Penny Assorted ....... “i
Peanut Gems .........
Pineapple Cakes ..... 16
Raisin Gems ......... 11
Reveres Asstd. ....... 15

Spiced Ginger Cakes ..9
Spiced Ginger Cakes

ECCd) oe: acc. UO
Sugar Fingers ....... 12
Sugar Crimp .......... Ry
Sultana Fruit Biscuit 7
Triumph Cakes .......
Vanilla Wafers ...... rd
Waverley ..... foscae. 10

In-er-Seal Trade Mark

Goods
per doz
Baronet Biscuit ...... $1
Bremners Btr Wafs. 1 00
Cameo Biscuit ...... 1 50

Cheese Sandwich .... 1 00
Chocolate Wafers ... 1 00
Wxcelsior Butters .... 1 00
Hig Newton .........> 1 00
Five O’Clock Tea Bact. 1 00
Ginger Snaps NBC .. 1 00

 

 

enti

September 17, 1913

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

29
Graham Crackers Red FLAVORING EXTRACTS HIDES AND PELTS Lar oo
Label 10c size ...... 1 00 Jennings D C Brand Hides Pure in Siectee’ 12%@13 1 i Mackerel r Young Hyson
Lemon Snaps ........ 50 Terpeneless Extract Lemon Green, No. 114% Compound Lard 10%@11 ae ’ INE <seneess 17 00 =Cheice so 30
Oysterettes .......... 50 No. 1 F box, per doz. 75 Groom’ No 2 tee ee eee 40% 36 Th. tuba .... advance % a ; @ Ibe. 22.2... @20 Waney ...°....... ’ 40@50
Premium Sodas ...... 100 No. 2 F box, per doz. 90 Gured, No.1.......... 13°" 60 tb tubs ....advance i% psy , _ ayecerss 1 90 .
Roval Toast |... 11... 260 6No. 4 F lox, per doz 175 Gured No.4... : a 50 tb. tins |...advance %% mt 1s ae tet ee eee 1 60 Ooling
Saratoga Flakes ..... 150 No. 3 Taper, per doz. 175 Galfskin, green, No. 1 15 20 Ib. pails ....advance % No, 1) 40 ee Pee 1600 Formosa, Fancy .... 50@60
Social Tea Biscuit .. 100 2 oz. Flat, F M per dz. 1 50 [oN 2 10 Th. pails ....adva Reo ae Bg Mapes tose 6 80 Formosa, Medium .. 28
Calfskin, green, No. 138% p -..advance % WNW 0
Ss. S. Butter Crackers 1 50 Jennings D C Brand Calfskin’ cured. Wa “1418 5 tb. pails ....advance 1 @. f, 10 Ie ........ 1 80 Formosa, Choice .... 35
Uneeda Biscuit ...... 50 . es i api : 8 Ib pail d Whitefish
Ueesda Giieos Water 1 00 woe a ae Calfskin, cured, No. 21414 pails ....advance 1 100 Ib 9 75 Gael
z J oO. F OX, per OZ. 0 Smoked Meats = ik Pete ee eee se seee ng ish Breakfast
ee oe a 1 OMe. 2 Bos, cer doe 18 re woot 60@1 25 Hams, 12 tb. av. 19%@ ee reset OE MM ecco cccsscs 25
: oe No. 4 F Box, per doz. 2 25 : 7x Hams, 12 tb. av. 19 a, RM ee ee ee 2 Choi = ak
Zu Zu Ginger Snaps... 59 No. 37. a 2 00 WOAMMS 26s 50@ 75 va @ Is. .............. 92 ANG =e eee ses eae 30@35
Zwieback ............ 100 9 o7 Flat F'M per dz. 200 Shearlings ...... ne & To ic oy b qi $08 sc... 465 Fancy ...eeee esses, 40@ 60
2 oz. : Tallow ams, av. @1% 40 JOR. 000.2... 2 10
Other Package Goods FLOUR AND FEED Noo ft 0 @5 — dried beef 93 TG lis. 4... 75 India
Barnum’s Animals .. 50 Grand Rapids Grain & No. 2 ........... @ 4 California Hams 114%@11% 8 IDS. se eeeeeeeeeees 65 Ceylon, choice 30@35
oe eee an 2 50 Milling Co. Wool Picnic Boiled SEEDS WAney 2.01... 46... 45@50
x A Ps oe 2 50 Winter Wheat Unwashed, med... @18 Hams ......... 191420 Anise 14
Family Package ... 250 purity Patent ........ 5.25 Unwashed, fine ... @13 Boiled Hams .. 27. @27% Cana a oe TOBACCO
Soda Crackers NBC . Seal of Minnesota .... 5 00 Minced Ha. B @13 anary, Smyrna ..... 4” :
Family Package ... 250 & HORSE RADISH m .. mh Comuay ............. Fine Cut
Mrait Cake .......... (ee ee Be fee ARG cso 2 <ose-s 19 @26 Cardomom, Malabar’ 1 20 BO 1 45
In Special Tin Packages Wizard Graham ..... ‘oe . _  velly Sausages Coley vette eet e wees 50 Bugle, 16 om. .......... 3 84
per doz. Wizard Gran. Meal .. 430 _5Ib pails, per doz. .. 220 Bologna ........ 10 @10%% emp, Russian ...... 5 Bugle, ite ......... 11 00
BMestino, 4.).00... 0.00. 250 Wizard Buckwheat .. 600 15!b pails, per pail .. 48 Liver ........... 7..@ 8 ohare Dige se pac erstes 5 Dan Patch, 8 and 16 0z. 32
Nabisco 25e .......... 3 80 Oyo 1, 4 40 30% pail, per pail ..... 90 Frankfort ......- 2 Gi, Sere. Wie «..... ® Dan Patch, 4 of, .... 1 &
Nabisco, 10c ......... 00 ee JELLY GLASSES es Oi see teees 111, Dan Patch, 2 oz. .... 5 76
In bulk, per tin Valley City Milling Co. _ A et i Pele, per dom, 16 «Weel L.......-........ 11 APC ss ereeeceeeereace 22 Fast Mail, 16 Oz. 7 80
INabisco ©: 20.06... 5 Laly White ......... 5 25 % pt. in bbis., per doz. 16 Tongue ............... 11 SHOE BLACKING Hiawatha, 16 oz. ..... 60
esting 2.....5...25... 150 Wieht Doat .......... 475 8 oz. capped in bbls. Headcheese .......... 9 Handy Box, large 3 dz. 3 50 Hiawatha, be ........ 5 40
Bent’s Water Crackers 140 Graham ............. 2 20 per doz. ..14 18 ae taped 5. May Flower, 16 oz. .... 9 36
CREAM TARTAR Granena Health ..... 2 20 MACARONI Boneless 20 00@20 50 on. at eats 1 RE No Limit, oo 1 80
Barrels or drums ..... 33 OC ae ee eas Z ae Uncle Sam Macaroni Co. Rump, new ... 21 00@22 09 Miller's Crown Polish 85 Aas or 16 of ’ °
Boxes). 608s coe. 8. 34 oo ee rec Macaroni, 24 10c pkgs. 1 70 Pig’s Feet P SNUFF Ojibwa. ite “4 10
Sauare Cans .......... 36 Voigt Milling Co. Spaghetti, 24 10c pkgs. 1 70 % b 1 05 : . Oiiwa G0 1 35
Fancy Caddies ........ at) Granam oe .... 460 Vermicelli, 24 10c pkgs 170 4 pbls., to a aia ael 2 10 Eeoteh in bladders .... 37 Petoskey, Chief, ‘7 oz. 2 00
PRIED FRUITS —»-Volgt's Cresdend, “111.8 1@ Curve Cats, 24 100 ig Bhs. cweseesessess 428 Meme Magica aia'* $2 Petoskey Ghist! 14 om. 3 90
oO Ss ouroigt .....0 1U j=. PRES. eeceerececece v ars .. 7 ae
Evapor’ed ee. bulk 7 Wolete Hiysienta ye 4 60 Alphabets, 24 10c pkgs. 1 70 Be ir ags esses: om SODA he by and Honey, fe | 96
Evapor’ed, Fancy pkg. 8 -Voigt’s Royal ......... 550 Kurl Cuts, 20 Ib. pails 135 Tripe : oe pate cea cc a
7 7 Columbian ....... .... 5 10 Kurl Cuts, 25 tb. pails 137 Kits, 15 ths. .......... - eee a wna tcececancs 5% Hed Bell, 8 foil ...-.. 1 98
Apricots : c \%4 bbis., 40 Ibs 160 Kegs, English 44% Sterling, LL & Db Ge .. & 76
: mais Cale Tew .........-.. 480 Kurl Cuts. 50 Ib. pails 240 4 DDIS., Esse ; ee een ens “ Sweet Cub anister 9 16
a aes oer Watson-Higgins Milling Co. ae So ia = 1 80 a a“ SPICES Sweet Gute P daa 5 rt
Citron eee | Ie ee cee ce 8 Casings : as 7 , oS Ch
: - Perfection Flour 5 15 g Whol Sweet Cuba, 10c
Corsica 1. 15 5 ae Bulk Macaroni, 10 tb. Hlozs, per 1% |. /...... 35 ole Spices ae a gocess | oy
Cc t Tip Top Flour ae ; an eae aes 75 Beef, rounds, set 18@20 Allspice, Jamaica ..... 9 Sweet Cuba, 1 1 tb. tin 4 Se
urrants Golden Sheaf Flour .. 430 ping 5 — hetti, 10 tb. Eee ialadic eo Allsnice. ine Sides 41 Sweet Cuba, 4% ~ foil 2 25
Imported 1 Tb. pkg. ....8% Marshall's Best Flour 5 20 oe - , - Beef, middies, set .. 80@85 Alispice, large Garden 11 Sweet Burley, 5¢c L&D 5 76
Imported, bulk Cf ee hh 6hCOReR cee. 7 Sheep, per bundle .. 85. Cloves, Zanzibar .... 27 Chen oe pal
ee ; Worden Grocer Co. Hotel Hook, fibre bxs. 100 Yassia, Cant oces Dies: 2 .. 3
Peaches Wizard Flour ........ 4 70 MAPLEINE 5 “ wee Butterine Pease Be yee doz. _ a Sweet Burley, 16 oz. .. 4 90
Muirs—Choice, 25th. .. 9 flatter apen| 90. A Solid Dairy .... 12 @i6 ee oe Te oe Sweet Mist, % gro. .. 5 70
eS gs on pe Quaker, paper .. 4 ) 2 0% bottles, per doz. 300 Country Rolls ...12%@18 Ginger, African ...... 1% Sue wie son 11 i0
N s—Fancy, Quaker, cloth 5 00 ‘ 1
Fancy, Peeled, 25%. ::18 Quaker Buckwheat bhi. 5 59 1 0% bottles, per doz. 1 75 Canned Meats Mace, Penang --s.-.- 79) Sweet Mist, 8 oz. ..-. 35
Peel es Se ,_. MINCE MEAT ____ Corned beef, 2 Ib. ..... AG Macd, Not ......S 16%, scleeram, Se ......+. 5 76
T.emon, American ....2a%  Mgneas Hard Wheat Per case wsss.sesere. A ee ae Bee No 8 eS
range, American ....12% : 7 a , See eee 5 Mixed, k | ae iger, 29c Cans ...... 2 3E
. Flaleine ‘American Eagle, %s .. 5 10 MOLASSES Roast beef, 1 Ib. ...... 2 35 Mixed, 5¢ pkgs. a: 30 Uncle Daniel, 1 Tb ..._ 60
_ American Hagle, 4s .. 5 00 New Orleans Potted Meat, Ham Nutmegs, 105-110 .. 22 Uncle Daniel, 1 oz. .. u 22
Cluster, 20 cartons ....2 25 American Hagle, 4s .. 490 -Fanc en Kettle .. 2 Wlaver, 4S .....- 50 p r ae as
y Op ettle ss 4 Pepper, Black .... ;
Lp Muscatels, i pag ee Spring Wheat Chotee 2... .0!. sues 35 minke ae Ham 4 Pepper, white ....... 25 Plug
a ° 3 ee GOOG ....oieccce te ks 22 avor, So seeeee 5 -e Yr ‘ave Z , ~ ¢
L. M. Seeded. 1 tb. 8@8% Roy Baker A eeu a 2) Deviled Meat, Ham Ev. Vere ee “= Ag Nave  .... 8
California Prunes ae ee Half barrels 2c extra Flavor, 48 ...... 50 Se Apple, 10 Ib. butt ..... 38
100g bores gs | oy Bom, Pere Tf Red Hen, Mo 2% .... 1 75 wes Meet, Ham = ane, Tne Sak. oe eee
= seons VE See. « i pal , Ce f s a of € a < oO Ye eke se cule
ee ee TR kere amet, Wo) % Given tanutar [ae © Drummond Nac Laat ©
60- 70 25tb. boxes ...@ 8 Serscole ibe i 5 70 MUSTARD Potted Tongue, %s .. 95 Cassia, Canton ...... 12 nlc — settee teens 96
50- 60 25tb. boxes ...@ 9% Geresota See a 580 % th 6 Ib. box 16 RICE Ginger, African ..... 18 Be, oe fawd t oh br
40- 50 25tb. boxes ...@11 oe ea ' 7 Waney i... 0... 6 @6% Mace, Penang ........ e oe eee 6S
a oe Ceresota, 445 .........-- 5 90 OLIVES dona er aes 5 Osa Nutmegs, 75-80 oe 35 oe our, ce 16 lb. 7
. KCEOUS GOCRS Worden Grocer Co. Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 115@1 25 Broken .......... 3% @44 aoaee ina es Geees _ Beat “tack ‘per doz... 90
.. Beene Wingold, %s cloth ....5 60 Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 10@1 2 ROLLED OATS bee. Gace o. «Outs, 10 on...
oe ne tees 1% wipe oe bee 122d a aes gal. kegs 1 00@1 a Be aa bbls. ..5 95 paprika Hungarian .. 45 Climax, Golden Twins 48
am eimai Tingold, %s cloth 5 Stuffed, 56 62. 621.0... 0. Steel Cut, 100 tb. sks. 2 85 ' i 7 Nima 145 64 ....., 44
Med. Hand Picked .. 210 wWingold, %s paper ....5 45 Stuffed, 8 oz. ........ 1/25 Monarch, bbls. ........ 5 65 STARCH cies te ae oe 47
Brown Holland ...... 165 Wingold, %s paper ..|5 40 Stuffed, 14 oz. ....... . 225 Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks 2 70 Corn Days’ Work, 7 & 14 lb. 37
Farina Bakers Patent ........ 5 25 Pitted —_ stuffed) Quaker, 18 Regular ...1 45 a : . Creme de Menthe, lb. 62
¢ aker ? ilw 5* » Me | cease 6 re Li oe ‘ ae 9°
25 1% packages ..... 1 50 ees © Cog OR tee 25 Quaker, 20 Family 4 00 a a a gers Ls Derby, 5 Ib. boxes .... 28
. a LLY, . < eee M ce a
Bulk, per 100 lbs. ..4 00 Sleepy Eye, %s cloth 5 45 Manvuniia. $ OZ. 22... 90 SALAD DRESSING i : _ t 5 Broa. 47) ........., 66
Original Holland Rusk Dunc, 10 02 ........ 1 35 1 9 Kingsford Four Ros 10 90
* Sleepy Eye, \%s cloth 5 35 ; : = oY Columbia, % pt. ...... 2 25 oe “4 a our Roses, ide .......-
Packed 12 rolls to container Sie eue nue ‘+ loth 5 25 Euneh; 1602. ........ 25 Columbia, 1 pint 400 Sliver Gloss, 40 IIb .. (% Gilt dee 2 ib. ........ 30
3 containers (40) rolls 3 20 Sica Bye. a nance 5 gf Queen, Mammoth, 19 i Durkee’s, large 1 doz. 450 Muzzy, 40 a pkgs. .. 5 Gold Rope, 6 & 12 lb. 58
; Soe ’ OZ eee ee... 25 cee’. all. $ m6 On oss Gold R _ 4 & & Ib. 58
Poa, ne ee ce RY ee, Se Deere & 2 Queen, Mammoth, 23 eee eo auver Gu, ie he, .. o% GOOF RAM. a
Maccaroni and Vermicelli Meal | . OF cece seen ees 75 Snider's small, 2 doz. 135 ‘Silver Gloss, 12 6Ibs. .. 8% Granger Twist, 6 Ib. .. 46
ic c Bolted) (oso... 4 10 Olive. ‘Chow, 2 doz. ‘es. s Tf W., 10
Domestic, 10 1b. box .. 60 Bolted Ae SALERATUS Muzzy G , Ih. & 21 Ih. 36
Imported, 25 tb. box .. 250 Golden Granulated ... 43 per doz. .......-+. a7 Packed ¢0 ibs. in box 48 llb. packages ...... 5 Horse Shoe, 6 & 12 Ib. 43
Pearl Barley Wheat PICKLES Arm and Hammer .. 300 16 lb. peoee settee th Jolly "rar," en 5&10 a
@hester fl. 300 New Redo...) |. 89 Medium Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3.00 32 6lb. packages ...... Bal) Ce ee ee eee oe
Pmpine| 2.3.06. is. New White .......... 90 Barrels, 1,200 count .. 7 75 L SODA S0Ib. DOXeS .....+ee. eee 346 . a pa ue ae ne _ &
Beas Oats Half bbls., 600 count 438 Granulated, bbls. ...... 80 SYRUPS hou fou ca as
Green, Wisconsin, bu. 2 09 Michigan carlots ...... 47 5 gallon kegs ........ 190 Granulated, 100 lbs. cs. 90 Corn irises @ ib , : aa
Green, Scotch, bu 200 Less than carlots ...... 50 Small Granulated, 36 pkgs. .. 1 25 Waite wa) 27
ee ea 7 f SALT Barrels ..1:.......... 28 aple Dip, OZ. - see . 6!
Split, to 7... 5 Corn Barrels ............. - 16 50 : : aS 30 Merry Widow, 12 lb. 32
Sago ee a6 Half barrels ........ eee, ee ae 190 Nobby Spun Roll 6 & 3 58
Bast India 6 !)..)..... 4% Less than carlots .... 88 5 gallon kegs ...... - 3 50 Ti 4 sake |) «Gan «Hine Bare, No, 24% 230 ©Parrot, We ic icsecass 34
German, sacks tastes 4% Hay Gherkins 60 5.16 sacks |. 240 Blue Karo, No. 5 2 25 eve ae oe + — i
German, broken pkg. Carlots -.-.:-).--.... 18:00 Garrels 2... 14 50 eit ss 225 Blue Karo, No. 10. 2 15 veaoea a * . 2
Tapioca Less than carlots ... 19 00 Half barrels .......... 77 G4 1b geeks ........ 40 Red Karo, No. 1% 300 iver Bleldsitk 4A. 7 ib. 6
Flake, 100 Tb. sacks .. 4% Feed & gallon Kees ......... 28 Wh sacha ........ a Red Haro, No 7 ---- 215 Jer Faldsick’ per doa 94
oe ee Sect Cue Beco... & Sweet Small ‘ _ Warsaw ey Bee 2 ba fs ook, bee ae
Diode oe ee ba ee ee | 6b. ....,... 500 98 Ib: dairy in drill base 29 Red Karo, No. 10 1....240 Redicut, 12-3 oz. ...... 38
, 36 pkgs. ..... ak Gorece oy nee 39 Halt barrela ........ $00 7 : eae Rock aes 2 Pure Cane Scrapple, 2 & 4 doz. .. 48
FISHING TACKLE 7 ue "6 gallon Rega .......- We) Gq W sucess |........--- S ei... aq Shorty Gonbler, oa... &
1% to tim oo 0. 6. 3s... 6 FRUIT JARS PIPES Common an... 20 euear noo y a a
1% to 2 in. ....--..... 7 Mason, pts., per gro. 455 Clay, No. 216, per box 175 Granulated, Fine ..... OOS Choice .......55..5.. 25 Veen the oe 2
A x r ‘ Spear Head, 7 oz. 47
i fe 3 AM ee. . Mason, 2 gro. ‘e cay. T. D. full count Ee ae. Eee aa rf TABLE SAUCES Su. Deal, 7, 14 and 38 Ib. 30
oO Te soe e ce ews Mason, Pal, per ero. © 30 COD 2. .ce 4 eee ele . i
2 i ce... 15 Mason, can tops, gro.. 1 65 PLAYING CARDS Cod Halford, large ....... 3 75 Star, 6, 12 & ae is 43
Bim. eee ee eee eee ee, 20 GELATINE No. 90, Steamboat .. 75 Daree, whole @ 8 Halford, small ........ 2 25 tan y , 34
Cotton Lines : .- No. 15, Rival assorted 125 Small, whole ... @ 7% ion aw 8 & tin
Na 4 Meee Cox’s, 1 doz. large ..145 No. 20, Rover, enam’d. 150 Strips or bricks 7%4@10%% TEA aon ao ry 2 Ib =
No. 2) qe peek ee 7 Cox s, 1_ doz. small ... 90 No. 572, Special ...... 1975 Pollock .......... @ 4% Japan Waa Girl 12 & 24 30
Moa pa 9 Knox's Svarkiing, doz. 125 No. 98 Golf. satin fin. 2 00 i Halibut - Sundried, medium ..24@26 :
Mo. 4 fe... 0 Pee oe, er ONG. Ss, Bicycle ...... 200 Strips .............. 15 Sundried, choice ...30@33 Scrap
Nol ip feet (00) 11 Knox’s Acidu OZ. 5 No. 682 Tourn’t whist 2 25 Chunks ............. 16 gundried, fanc .36@40
; : : . y @ 7
No. 6. 15 feet 12 Nelsons. 3... 150. Holland Herring Fashot fred, wedi au7 All Red, Ge .......... 5 76
oo me ce: - Oxford: oe a. 75 POTASH Y. M. wh. hoop bbls. 13 00 . : i 5@37. Am. Union Scrap .... 5 40
No. 7, 15 feet ........ 15 Ply See 95 Babbitt’s, 2 d 1 75 : : 2“ Basket-fired, choice 35@37 2 o 40
a 46 foe |. 418 ymouth Rock, Phos. 1 25 abbitt’s, OZ. =... 5 Y.M. wh. hoop % bbls. 7 00 asket-fired. fanc 40@43 Bag Pipe, 5c ......... 5 88
ee : Ply h Rock. Plain 9 - ; ' 7 , y 1 eC. 88
Mo. 9, 16 feet ...... 20 ymouth Rock. Plain 0 PROVISIONS MM. GP Noo Begs) = 5s We... . «es cs, 30@32 Cutlas, 2% oz. ........ 26
Barreled Pork 7 we eep Meneses iftliigs .....-...-.. 10@12 Globe Scrap, 2 oz..... 3
Linen Lines Grain BAGS Clear Back 21 50@22 00 Megs wo enews ene ne 90 Fannings . . 14@15 Happy Thought, 2 oz. 30
Sal 20 Broad Gauge .......... 18 Short Cut Clear 20 50@21 00 Standard, bbls. .....- 200 82 LL : Honey Comb Scrap, 5c 5 76
Medium o/0...0000. 26 OSG A 19 Bean i | aa 17 50 Standard, % bbls. ... 6 50 Gunpowder Honest Scrap, 5c .... 155
Darga a! 34 Buigkot, Clear 24 we 34 50 Standard, kess ...... 65 Moyune, medium .... 35 Mail Pouch, 4 doz. 5c 2 00
: 'p a. Herbs . Fe ; : a 23 00 Trout Moyune, choice ...... a3 Old Sones, Ge ........ 5 76
Sieuhce to car cau cs Co eye al ee 2 wee 96 00 No 1, 100 Ibs. ........ 750 Moyune, fancy ...... 50@60 Old Times, % gro. .. 5 50
Boe ee ee aan 80 ie tee ee eee a settee a No. 1, 40 Ibs. ...... 2 25 Pingsuey, medium = Polar Bear, 5c, % gro. 5 76
anise is Pp _ oa a 4 eS ..:...... 5 . Dry Salt Meats No. 1, 10 Ibs. ........ 90 Pingsuey, choice .... Red Band, 5c % gro. 5 76
, » DP : enna Leaves ......... 25 SS P Bellies ..... 144%,@15 No. 1) 2 Ibm .......... 75 Pingsuey, fancy ... ‘so@se Red Man Scrap bc .. 1 42

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 
      

 

 

 

 

 

30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN September 17, 1913
CIGARS Excelsior, Blend, 1tb .....
9 Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand Excelsior, Blend, 2th ...... aE The only
19 13 14 Tip Top, Blend, it 11.01.
Royal Blend ....5...... ae 5c
s k g Pilot, 7 oz. doz 1 05 : Ce ee ates
crapple, 5c pkgs. ..... 4 . » § OZ. Sees fee eee ich > EMORS: 62.0... 65 Superior en sicice esses en
fins REO Ge ich ene bE Pilot, 14 oz. 0%. --++ 210 Cartons,’ 20 2% doz. bxs 70 Boston Combination (cea Cleanser
Yankee Girl Scrap, 20z. 5 76 PR Beer OC ees Egg Crates and Fillers istribute y Judson
Pan Handle Scrp %gr. 5 76 Prince Albert, 10c .... | 96 ttumpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20 Grocer Co., Grand Rapids; Cae :
Peachy Scrap, 5c .... 5 76 Prince Albert, 8 oz. .. 3 84 No. 1 complete ........ 40 Lee & Cady, a oe Sy- :
ai ork ‘ 6 00 Prince Albert, 16 oz. ..7 44 No. ; best 1c kinds
Union Workman 2% 6 00 ee eee ae ee ee No. 2, complete ........ 28 mons Bros. Sagi-
oe ag dag el Sey a 48 Case No. 2, fillers, 15 Bee oo a naw; poles Davis & ae 80 - CANS - $2.80
moking 4 OY, § tee a Sets 66 ee 235 S: CW. Lt ots .... ner, ackson; odsmark,
ee cet ke Oe ee ee Case, medium, 12 sets 115 El Portana ..... -J.556. 88 Durand (© Co, Batts SOAP
ae V3 We 4, ‘ | 00 peti oo Ae ea ie : euoek Evening Press ........ 32 Creek; Fielbach Co., To- Lautz Bros.’ & Co.
eR y Om --------- +s 1200 S$ & M., 5c gross 1... 5 76 Cork lined, 3 in. ...... fe ee Acme, 30 bars, 75 ths. 4 00
Be es tos a ttseeees : - S. & M. sat oz, doz .. 3 = com Hepa, 2 in. ...5.¢ ) Worden oe Co. Brand Acme, 25 bars, 75 Ibs. 4 00
agda ce tins .... Soldier Boy, 5c gross 57 ork lined, 1) im. ...... en tiur A
Badger, 3 OZ. ........ 2 04 Eoigler Boy, ide ' 10 50 : Mop Sticks Eve ee ote 35 i oo a : i.
Bageer, 1 OZ. ...-..- °2 Soldier Boy, 1 th. .... £75 erfection moras | ol 35 : ’ : Seecms
Haier be .....:-- © 1 Guest Gepoe, ion |. Go Teeian epring ...... _ 2 Enoch |... . 3 Big Master, 100 blocks 4 00
Banner, 20 ....-..- -- 160 Sweet Lotus, fc ...... 6 90 iclipse patent spring 8 fondres Grand ......... 35 Goan Mottlea
Banner, 40c ......... 3 20 Sweet Lotus. 10c .... 1200 No. 1 common ...... 0 06©Staondard |... 01.1... 135 erman Mottled ......3 15
Belwood, Mixture, 10c 94 Sweet Lotus, per dz. 435 No. 2 pat. brush holder eS) Puritanos ..).........: 35 German Mottled, 5 bx. 3 15
Big Chief, 2% oz. .. 600 Sweet Rose, 24% oz... 3 Tdeal ae eu 3 Panatellas, Finas ...... 35 German Mottled, 10 bx. 3 10
= Py lk ave Tp Ter, oe . . ou ae — i ee m4 German Mottled, 25 bx. 3 05
an ae sara eae 7 eS Swe¢ c ‘Tip Top, ave .. 7 ails y See ee ieee Marcellies 100 cales _¢€ 00
Y = oe | oe sweet Tips, %4 gro... 1008 hoop Standard .... 2 00 5
a pornam. -c 7 = Sun Cuned, (0c ....... 98 9-noop Standard 1... 2 25 Old Mestet Coffee Marseilles, 100 cks. 5c 4 00
u urham, 8 0Z. .. 8 ®&0 Snimmer Time, 5c .... 5 76 j-wire Gable |... 28 fo Marseilles, 100 ck toil 4 00
Bull Durham, 16 oz. .. 6 72 Summer Time, 7 oz. .. 165 (Cedar all red brass .. 1 25 Marseilles, % box toil 2 10
Buck Horn, ic ...... 5 76 Summer Time, 14 oz. 3 50 2
Buick Elorn, 10c -_.... 11 52 Giandara 5c foil 5 76 swire oa Soeae oe ; i. Proctor & Gamble Co.
Briar Pipe, 5c ...... 600 Standard. 0c paper .. 864 wine, 9 OC os Lenox .
Briar Pipe, l0c ..... 12 00 Seal N. G.. 1% cut plug 70 ae Galvanized .... 1 70 Dory bee... i On
Black Swan, sc ...... 576 Seal N. C. 1% Gran. 63 49 qt. Galvanized .... 1 90 Apex Hams ..... seseces ivory, 10 67)... 6 75
ee fd OZ. ; “4 Three nen ers a a 48 14 qt. Galvanized 2 10 Apex Bacon ........... tA 3 35
o ©, OC seeeee Three Feathers, e 52 : :
Brotherhood, 5c ...... 600 three Feathers and - Toothpicks Apex Lard ....... ctl Tradesman Co.’s Brand
Brotherhood, 10c il Pipe combination 2 25 eet 100 packages .. 2 ee Excelsior Hams ....... Black Hawk. ane bak © 50
bide Sead ong 16 0Z. .. = 7D —S . aa it o. .. : _ at ee ae ee Excelsior Bacon ....... Bes ae five bxs 2 40
ival, 5C ....+..--- 2 Gam & Jerry, 7 02... 12 Old Maste Bee eke, ilv ‘ ack Hawk, ten bx 25
Carnival, 4 OZ 256: 88 Tom & Jerry, 3 oz. .... 76 Mouse, wood, 2 holes 22 a posted a Se nie . ae cao. dae
Carnival, 16 0Z. ...... Trout Lane, 5c ...... 5 90 Mouse, wood, 4 holes AB pot i iiver Star Lard ...... -. B risley
Cigar Clip'g. Johnson 3) Trout Line, 1c ...... 11.00 Mouse, wood, 6 holes 70 oui Ul Family Pork .......... Good Cheer ........... 4 00
Identity, 3 - 16 OZ. 30 Ede yd aay aig ; 48 ee ier 7 at 80 Royal Garden, %, %4 Fat Back Pork ....... ORO a ares a=
Darby Se ee ae ‘> Tuxedo 2 oz tins .. 968 Rat spring ...2...-.. 15 and 1 Ib. .......-.0.. 40 Prices quoted upon appli- Soap Powders
i 9 ™ 3 9) aa a onan 4 7
Soares! as ee ae Reet eae tHE ou, andl nn a 7an HDRES. SO" lon. Hamomona, stands show Boy, Ms tamil
Baca Cake 7 cx. 1 45 wale Gar 1c Oe oe. eden Hina Am ; : eS & Co., Detroit, Mich. aoe erate ieee ae : i
Corn Cake, 5c .....-.. > 19 inion Leader, 50c ....5 10 dean Giandara No 3/5 50 COFFEE : ' ny, D 5S . tees oe
Cream, 50c pails .... 4 70 3 Teade 950 S160 sete ee gy : iy Roasted SAFES Snow Boy, 100 5¢ .... 3 75
Y ’ Ais ; - ye Union Leader, coc .- 22 20-in. Caple, No. 1 8 00 aes Tri , , Gold Dust, 24 large .. 4 50
Cuban Star, dc foil .. 5 76 tmion Leader, 10c .. 1152 4g in’ Cable, No.2.... 700  DWinnell-Wright Co's B'ds Zold Dust, 100 5c . 4 00
Cuban Star, 16 oz pails 3 72) qynion Leader, be ..... 6 0) ig-in Gle No 3... ¢ op Sta eG fF
poe Pr hee 19 3s Union Workman, 1% 5 7% wo 1 Fibre ........ 10 25 Pearline | 3 75
pills ot 1% 2. 42 Uncle Sam, ape ue 10 Sue 2 tie, 9 95 <a 3%
ae eet, os Oe 73 Unele Gam, § cs -.-- 272 No. 3 Fibre .......... 8 25 Rawkus 1776 ........ 37
oe ao =e 4g U- S. Marine, Se -..- © eg Large Galvanized 5 75 Roseine ..... 5 pee ~3 50
Fare a 5 76 Wan Bibber, 2 oz. tin 4g Medium Galvanized .. 5 00 Ammouns ............ 3 70
sh iete Mix. nae oo 1 59 oe oe poet an Small Galvanized .... 4 25 Wisdom) ....... ccoees 8 30
S sla, 7 oo wie ee Telve : a nee 8 . v
Duke's Cameo, 5¢ .. 576 waar 8 ; '2 384 Washboards
Sei, 5 ee ee ee Beene Gioe 50 7 Soap Compounds
F. F. A. 4 0Z. ....---- 5 04 velvet, combination es 5 75 Dewey ...-..-eeeeeee 1 75 _ = Johnson’s Fine ...... 5 10
we FF A J oz ...... ee oe ok, Ge $90 Double Acme ........ 3 75 Hvala A Johnson's XXX _..... 4 25
Bashion, 5c .......... 6200) wee path oe 4.60 Single Acme ......... 315 Dee | Rub-No-More ....... . 8 85
Fashion, 16 oz. .....- 5 28 aoa Tine 9 oz 40 Double Peerless ...... 3 75 te eng nee Full line of fire and bur- Nine O'clock ....... | 3 49
Wive Bros, 5c ._.... 5 76 vn i Tine is aon 49 Simele Peerless .....- 3 25 7 glar proof safes kent in
Wive Eros. 10c ...... 10 53 vk eg Ot, bc...) 6 75 Northern Queen .... 3/25 stock by the Tradesman Scouring
Five cent cut Plug.. 29 woy up 16 oz. pails 31 Double Duplex’ ...... 3 00 OFFE cemony. tiny five blac: Enoch Morgan’s Sons
oni... Hee eae oe ee Goad Gee... 2 75 o and styles on hand at all a
Four Roses, l0c ..... 36 i Fruit ai 41.52 Universal ..........-- 3 15 aa Tecan en times—-twice as many safes Sapolio, gross lots ....9 50
Full Dress, 134 oz a tele ona 7 2 0 Window Cleaners paar aa as are carried by any other Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85
Clad Hand Geo... ap wut a de 11 52 oe 1 65 house in the State. If you  Sapolio, single boxes 2 40
ea Block i0c . 1209 Yum - a Ci ie tel ie 1 85 are unable to visit Grand Sapolio, hand ..... . 2 40
ol Gar, oe pall .. 2 ro Te Re ce Ul 2 30 Lo Rapids and inspect the line Scourine Manufacturing Co.
Gail & Ax Navy, 5c 5 76 TW5WH5ISE ee White Blouse, 1 Ib ........ personally, write for quo- Scourine, 50 cakes ....1 80
Growler, 5c i mm _ 2 ow 99 _ Wood Bowls White House, 2tb ........ tations. Scourine, 100 cakes ...3 50
iagior 0c 6. pa eee ee eee ae 13 in. Butter ........ 1 50
feted — 1 85 Cotton, Sg prec ree 14 15 in. Butter ........ 2 00
Giant, 30 eevee, oe oe sal . eee ee onservative Investors .
jant, 40c .........+-. S29 Wax, medium ........ 24 : as 47 8 0 t t t
- pal Cs ee uaa en Wau, 1 i. ubles ...-.. . ae 1119 1202 425 alronize
aze MG, DC wens 6 see od (6
Honey Dew, l10c .... 12 00 VINEGAR T d Ad ti
Hu nting, BC 6.6.5... 38 White Wine, 40 grain 8% Vea Peet ra esman ver ers
Le 1 be .-....---..- 610 White Wine, 80 grain 114% Common Straw ..... : 2
Zc & 1, in pails .....- 3 90 White Wine, 100 grain 13 Fibre Manila, white 3
SUSt Suits, 6c ....-..- 600 Oakland Vinegar & Pickle Fibre Manila, colored 4
Just cane apc ...... 12 rs i Co’s Brands. No. 1 Manila ...:..... 4 M f
Kiln Dried, 25c ...... 245 +fighland apple cider ..18 Cream Manila ........ 3 W
King Bird, 7 oz. ...... 216 Oakland apple cider ..13 3utchers’ Manila 234 e anutacture
King Bird, 10c ...... ai 32 State Seal suear _... 11 Wax Butter, short e’nt 13
Mine: Birk, bc ....-... 5 76 Oakland white pickling 10 Wax Butter, full count 20 © e
ae tes ag ‘ae ae Q Aa Packages free. Wax Butter, rolls .... 19 U 1¢C¢ eating
ittle Giant, 1. 28
Lucky Strike, 10c .... 96 WICKING ae — ii Sede 145
Le Redo, 3 oz. ..-. 1080 Wo 0. per gross ...... 30 MAGIC, 3 GOZ ...+--- o :
[hae Ba oe 8 oe Ge ross | ee Bunlient oe 1 00 Exclusively
Myrtle Navy, 10c .... 1152 No. 2) per gross .... 50 Sa aang needy ee 0
, Nav y Bee ee 5 76 7 2 . s a 75 eas "0am, « OZ. ow oO . . Z i
Berve Mar. fe gross 975 No. B ber gross 15 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
eee - wt eeeee \ = : __ Baskets sn AXLE GREASE scheme—from the most elaborate carved furniture for the cathedral to the
Nigger Hair, bc...... 600 Bushels, wide band’ .. 1 15 modest seating of a chapel.
Migeer Gair, 0c .... 10 70 Market ............. 40
wicwer ead, 5c .... 5 40 Sulini, lanee 2.26... 3 50 Schools The fact that we have furnished a large majority of the city
eal Sega ie .... 0 : Splint, medium ...... : 00 and district schools throughout the country, speaks volumes
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Ola Ml bes... 5 76 Willow. Clothes, small 6 75 and materials used and moderate prices, win.
Old English Curve 1%0z. 96 Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 50
i than Ge... 5 76 : H ll We specialize Lodge. Hall and Assembly seating.
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P. S., 8 oz. 30 Ib. cs 19 Ovals dies g nowicge Of re-
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So aa ot 1% 02%. as 1 ib., 250 in erate ..... = 3 Ib. boxes, per gross 24 00 luxurious upholstered opera chairs,
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Patterson Seal, 16 oz. 5 00 3 th., 250 in crate ..1... 70 wa vee ey
Peerless, 5c ao B76 5 tb., 50 in crate ..... 90 y r .
Peerless, 10c cloth 11 52 Wine Hud aon St
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Plaza, 2 gro. cs. 5 76 § ib., 250 in crate 65 1b. cans 2 50
tcl lo ee ce ee, i cone 27 215 Wabash A CHICAGO, ILL
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Pride of Virginia, 1% 77 Clothes Pins ete GRAND RAPIDS NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale by Frank P. Cleveland

Drug, paint and wall paper store lo-
cated in Iroquois Co., Illinois; sales av-
erage about $400 per month; cheap rent;
about $3,000 required.

For Sale—Drug store, store
and residence in rant Co.,
sales average about $525 per
business established 3 years;
$8,500 required.

For Sale—Drug store in Texas city of
about 35,000 population: sales average
$900 per month; business well established

 

building
Indiana;
month;
about

and a money maker; invoices. about
$5,000.
For Sale—Clothing and men’s ware

store in Preble Co., Ohio; stock and fix-
tures invoice about $20,500; sales aver-
age about $2,000 per month; cheap rent;

business established four years; price
right; will reduce stock.
For Sale—Stock of general merchan-

dise in Whitley Co., Indiana; sales aver-
age $1,250 monthly; invoice about $6,400.
Will exchange for a farm.

For Sale—Grocery store in

Randolph
Co., Illinois.

Also store building, barn,
out buildings, residence and two lots:
g00d opening for practical
about $4,000 required.

For Sale—Milinery store in Jersey Co.,
Illinois; business well establihed and
profitable; about $1,700 required.

For Sale—Controlling interest in a
first-class steam laundry in Lima, Ohio,

receipts average $450 per week: price
$5,200.

For Sale—Steam laundry in Pawnee
Co., Oklahoma; receipts average $700

per week; price $2,700.

Write me for detailed descriptions.

I bring buyers and sellers together.
No matter where located if you want to
buy, sell or trade any kind of business
or property, address, Frank P. Cleveland,
1261 Adams Express Building, Chicago,
Illinois. 459

For Sale—640 acres of land, ideal stock
ranch and suitable for farming. Sixty
acres cleared and will consider part
trade, at $20 per acre. Address John
Mahoney, Clare, Mich. 465

Wanted—Man with capital to join
with me in purchasing timber. Can’ se-
cure Oregon pine timber at right price;
500,000,000 feet in one bunch, also small-

er tracts. A rare opportunity to make
money.: Address W. R. Kivette, Box
207, La Grande, Oregon. 463

 

or Sale—Two saw mills complete. 15
and 25 M. Cap. Plenty ore, pine timber.
A bargain in each. W. R. Kivette, La
Grande, Oregon. 464

For Sale—Special offer while
last, good as new, latest
Oliver typewriters with
back spacer, $37.50. No. Model, $24.50.
All other makes at low _ prices.
send on trial W. H. Fox, 106 N. ia

they
Model No. 5
tabulator

Salle St., Chicago, Il. 462
For Rent—Store for hardware busi-
ness, best location in Pontiac. Used as
hardware store over 50 years. Two
floors and basement, 140x20 feet. Have

party who might take half interest with
satisfactory partner. H. L. Jacobs, Pon-
tiac, Mich. 461
Real estate business and office furni-
ture; established six years; large list
farms; over 1,200 letters now from pros-
pective buyers; commissions $5,000 to

$8,000; going West. Price $1,000. Ad-
dress Roberts, Richland, Mo. #60

 

For Sale—Manufacturing business, sell-
ing product to wholesale hardware, gro-
cery and woodenware houses. $1,500
will handle same. Trade marked goods
well advertised. Can be moved. Pay-
ing excellent profit. Other business,
reason for. selling. No time for letter
writers. For full details write L. B. 30,
Sabina, Ohio. 458

»?
Will trade for stock of general mer-
chandise or hardware and furniture, 640
acres of fruit land in the famous flat-
head valley. Trego River runs through
land, 4 miles from railroad town. Ad-
dress R. C. Rasmussen, Cut Bank, Mont.

467
For Sale—Well assorted stock men’s
and boys’ clothing, shoes and furnishings
in good location. Rent reasonable. Will
inventory about $10,000. Good trade and
moneymaker. Will give big discount if
sold at once. Address 125 West 7th St.,

Flint, Mich. 452

~~ $800 buys big paying grocery business,
located in factory district, low rent. A
big money-maker, stock clean, will in-

 

ventory. Big value for your money. Ad-
dress 202 S. Saginaw St., Flint, ee
eo

Oven—No. 2 McDowell portable bak-
ers’ oven, 12 sq. feet of baking surface.
A continuous baker. Practically new.
H. E. Hessler Co., 506-512 N. Salina St.,
Syracuse, N. Y. 457

merchant; |

 

For Sale—Shoe store, attractive propo-
sition, small manufacturing town. Rich
surrounding country. "Will sacrifice. Ad-
dress A, Care Tradesman. 451

 

For Sale—Thriving wholesale business
requiring $6,000 to $10,000 capital. Sales
last fiscal year closing July 1st, were over
$70,000. July and August sales of this
year doubled those of last year. Your
profits this year will pay for the business
and give you your living beside. Here
is an unusual opportunity for the right
man with some capital. If you have the
money and the hustle, communicate with
us. Lyon & Lyon, Real Estate and Brok-
erage, 89 Monroe Ave., Grand Rapids,
Mich. 450

For Sale—Stock of Red Man collars at

a price. Good styles, clean boxes. $40
paper press, good as new, $25. N. B.

 

Waterman, Hastings, I

FREE FOR SIX MONTHS—MY SPEC-
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Barber, 438, 28 W. Jackson Blvd., Chi-
cago. 448

Want to correspond with merchant who
has stock for sale. V. Hamilton,
Galesburg, Il. 447

For Sale—Fixtures, scales, cheese case
and cutter, barrel truck, grocery delivery
wagon, A. Wucherptennig, Arcola, I.

446

For Sale—Only barber shop, confection-
ery and ice cream parlor in town. Doing
good business. Good farming country.
Box 73, East Leroy, Mich. 445

Wanted—Experienced sash and door
men with capital to join us in the organ-
ization and operation of wholesale sash
and door business. We have ideal loca-
tion and large odd work mill now in op-
eration. No wholesale business of this
kind within a radius of about 600 miles.
In close proximity to all West Virginia
coal fields and best shipping facilities
over two trunk lines. ample supply of
spruce, white pine, yellow pine and all
raw materials close. Address Box 273,
Roanoke, Va. 443

Safeguard your ecustomer’s account
record against loss by fire. The point
that all ordinary systems do not cover.
The Edgar personal account ledger has
this feature, and all the other features
of high-priced systems, yet sells for less.
Address H. C. Wheaton, Gen. Agt., Iola,
Kan. 454

For Sale Cheap—One good 8x6x 10
refrigerator. Guaranteed condition. Bur-
meister & Son, Sturgis, Mich. 429

For Sale or Exchange—Stock shoes, in
good clean condition, invoice about $2,800.
Located in small live town Southern

Michigan. Splendid farming community.
Expenses low. Excellent opportunity.

Owner has other business. Would con-
sider exchange for residence property in
good town, or small farm. Address W,
care Tradesman. 419
Wanted—To purchae an_ established
drug business or information as to good
location for new drug store. J. C. Camp-
bell, Box D, St. Ignace, Mich. 453.

Get our list of properties with owners’
addresses or proposition to sell your farm
or business at cost of $25. Pardee Busi-
ness Exchange, Traverse City, Mich.

429

Hotel Wanted—A practical up-to-date
hotel family would take long lease of the
leading $2 commercial hotel in some good
town. Would contract to buy turnishings
on the installment plan later. Address
W. S. Hull, Lincoln, Ml. 423

Drug store for sale, excellent location.
Fine fixtures. Low rent. Must sell at
once. Can make terms to suit pur-
chaser. Grand Rapids Merchandise &
Fixtures Co., 803 Monroe Ave., Grand
Rapids, Mich. 4
For Sale—Grocery and market. Must
sell. Have good reasons. Will not trade.
Address Krueger Bros., Glenview, Ne
39
Wanted—To buy a general store with
an established trade, in a small town,
with good farming country. Address No.

395, care Michigan Tradesman. 395.
For Sale—Werlitzer rink organ, 20
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son roller skates. Cost over $1,000. Will
sell for $500. Address No. 433, care
ak Chad slate =

For Sale at a bargain, 1 6x 8x10 Stev-
ens cooler, 1 Power Enterprise chopper,
1 silent cutter, 1 200 account McCaskey
register, all excellent condition. Further
particuars write A. R. Hensler, Battle
Creek, Mich. 282

For Sale—New mill and twelve million
timber near railroad in Washington, at
an attractive price. For particulars ad-
dress S. Shaffer, Pineville, Ky. 440

Exceptional opportunity in one of the
best cities in Florida. Ladies’ and gen-
tlemen’s ready-to-wear furnishings; $10,-
000 average stock. Corner store on main
street of rapidly growing town; popula-
tion 8,000, with 5,000 tourists every win-
ter. Railroad center and county seat.

Best all the year round climate in the
U. §. Address Bix 175, Orlando, Fla.

439
Exchange for general stock, Northern
Michigan preferred, 20 acre chicken and
fruit farm, located just outside city
limits, good town in Western Michigan.
Eight room modern house, two. small
barns, large chicken house. Fruit con-
sists if four acres bearing grapes, three
acres raspberries, plenty apples, pears,
plum, ete. Will take stock up to $3,000.

Address No. 435, care Tradesman. 435
For Sale—A well located grocery store,
consisting of groceries and a few no-
tions. Doing about $15,000 a year. @.

F. Haywood, Big Rapids, Mich. 434

Wanted—Merchandise stocks in  ex-

change for well improved farms. Isen-
barger, 33 Union Trust Bldg., Indian-
apolis, Ind. 383

Drug store and practice for sale, in
one of the best Central Michigan small
towns. Property includes up-to-date drug
store, unopposed practice. brick store
building, residence. Price about $8,000,
one-half cash, balance to suit purchaser.
Address No. 410, care Tradesman. 410

For ‘Sale—Paying grocery, $900. *Coun-
try town. Address Lock Box 242, Mat-
thews, Ind. 382

For Sale—An old and well established
agricultural implement and seed busi-
ness. Reason for selling, poor health.
Address X. Y. Z., care Tradesman. 354

Cash for your business or pruyerty. I
bring buyers and sellers together. No
matter where located, if you want to buy,
sell or exchange any kind of business or
property, write me. Established 1881.
Frank P. Cleveland, Real Estate Expert,
1261 Adams Express Bldg., Chicago, II.

326
$30,259 stock of clothing, shoes. men’s
furnishings and notions, also two-story
solid brick building, worth $9,000. All
clear, to exchange for a good farm or
timber lands. Please do not answer un-
less you have farms that are clear. Ad-
dress P. O. Box 493, New London. Wis.,

where stock is located. 206

Merchandise Sales Conductors—Adver-
tising furnished free. Write for date
and terms. Address A. E. Greene, 116
Dwight Bldg., Jackson, Mich. 316

Henry Noring, Reedsburg, Wis., ex-
pert merchandise auctioneer and author
of The Secret of Successful Auctioneer-
ing, closes out or reduces stocks of mer-
chandise. Write for dates and informa-
tion.

e

Wanted for spot cash, stock clothing,
shoes or general stock. Address N. E.
Ice, Cuba, Mo. 280

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

Will pay cash for stock of shoes and
rubbers. Address M. J. O., care Trades-
man. 221

I pay cash for stocks or part stocks
of merchandise. Must be cheap. H.
Kaufer, Milwaukee, Wis. $2

We pay CASH for merchandise stock
and fixtures. Grand Rapids Merchandise
& Fixtures Co., 803 Monroe Ave. 235

If you wish to buy, sell or excnange 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. 14

Wanted—Clerk for general store. Must
be sober and industrious and have some
previous experience. References required,

Address Store, care Tradesman. 242
For Sale—$1,500 stock general mer-

chandise (mostly new), in inland town,
fine farming section. Sales $10,000. No
trades. L. E. Quivey, Fulton, Mich.
432
Safes Opened—W. L. Slocum, safe ex-
pert and locksmith. 97 Monroe Ave.,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 104

 

HELP WANTED.
Wanted—Registered druggist. Must
furnish references from last two em
ployers. Address No. 468, care Trades
man. 168
Wanted—The Economy Wall
Paper Co., Detroit’s new wall paper job-
bing house, needs another traveling
salesman for Northern and Central Mich-
igan. Salary or commission. Can be car-
ried as a sideline. We shall be glad to
negotiate with one acquainted with the

Salesman

trade on this territory. Our trunk sam-
ples are both new and attractive. Ad-
drss O. W. Booth, Economy Wall Paper
Co., Detroit. 141

 

SITUATIONS WANTED.

Wanted—Position by young man, three
years’ experience as window-trimmer and
card-writer. Now wishes to work as as-
sistant in

some large store, under good
head trimmer. Address 428, care Trades-
man. 428

Wanted—Position as hardware. sales-
man, with six years’ experience as sales-
man and stock man. Best of references
furnished. Address No. 456, care Trades-

man. 456
Wanted—Permanent position in small

bakery by sober and _ reliable married

man, with 20 years’ experience. Wife

can help. Address No. 466, care Trades-
man. 166

 

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DETROIT DETONATIONS.
(Continued from page one)
Among other merchants who were
in Detroit last week were a number
of shoe dealers who came to attend
the convention of the Michigan Re-

tail Shoe Dealers’ Association.

Leonard Frawley (Burnham, Stoe-
pel Co.) returned from his vacation
last week, after an extended trip
through the United States, having
taken in New Baltimore, Fairview
and Waterworks park.

Speaking of New Baltimore, that
village has a prominent merchant by
the name of Herman Reinecke, shrin-
er and ex-traveling man. Herman,
who “enjoys” single  blessedness.
was obliged to give up the road be-
cause the girls made so much fuss
over his beautiful curly hair. Al-
though buried in a village, Herman
is not forgotten by his many friends
about the State.

At the rousing meeting of Cadil-
lac Council, No. 143, Saturday night,
five applications were balloted on and
accepted and Samuel Fengel. Arthur
C. Laffery and George E. Houghton
—all splendid, healthy and good look-
ing candidates—were presented with
a button and for good measure a bit
of high life was also presented to
each in turn.

One of the most _ inconsistent
things in the world, a¢cording to L.
P. Tompkins, member of the Grand
Executive Committee, is for a bunch
of traveling men to work their heads
off to have a law passed prohibiting
the use of the roller towel in ho-
tels and then complacently use the
said maligned roller towel without
raising a murmur.

Unless, of course, we told all we
knew about Fred Richter.

Phil Black, who has represented
Edson, Moore & Co. for a number
of years, has been abliged, owing to
poor health, to resign his position.
He has rented a store in Lima, Ohio,
at which place he will conduct a dry
goods store.

Not having policemen in some of
the smaller towns, it is now the prop-
er caper for country merchants to
tell their troubles to the Tradesman.

All the world loves a lover, but
the guy with lots of cash can get the
most assistance. Meditations of H.
Leroy Proper, the sage of East Lake.

Traveling men may not be the best
judges in the world, but we never yet
have seen a waiter or a porter who
wouldn’t take a tip from one.

Boost—and you'll be placed on a
U. C. T. committee.

Knock—and you'll be refused ad-
mittance to a first-class (?) hotel.

It pays to advertise. Even poor
advertising pays—the other fellow.

Once when we were young we had
a quarrel with a little Swedish boy.

Of course, because we had that
quarrel every Swede should be ex-
terminated.

Just to humor the ignorants.

Such is life on a large farm.

Council No. 9 meets Saturday
night!

Also assesment No. 118 is now due.

And coal to buy, too!

James M. Goldstein.

NEW YORK MARKET.

 

Special Features in the Grocery and

Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Sept. 15—All over the
route traveled the same reply is made
to enquiries as to the spot coffee situa-
tion. Stocks in the interior of the
country among grocers have become
well reduced and there is, in conse-
quence of this, a rather better de-
mand. A steady run of orders is in
evidence. The amount taken individ-
ually is small, but the aggregate is
satisfactory. There is a firmer tone
on the Coffee Exchange, too, and this
helps spots. At the close Rio No.
7 is worth, in an invoice way, 9c, and
Santos 4s, 12c. In store and afloat
there are of Brazilian coffees 1,548,-
417 bags, against 2,148,088 bags at the
same time last year. Mild sorts are
steady at previous quotations.

Granulated sugar is quoted by the
Federal refinery at 4.60c. Others are
10 points higher. There has been a
better demand than existed last week
and quite a volume of withdrawals
under previous contract. No change
of importance can be looked for, how-
ever, although rather lower quota-
tions may be made when beet arrives.

Stocks of tea are certainly running
light, taking the country at large, and
dealers are firm in their views of val-
ues. An advance of about 2c is to be
noted in Pingsueys and Gunpowders,
owing almost altogether to small sup-
plies.

Holders of rice are laying low.
They seem to think that if they re-
tain the recumbent position long
enough they will see an active market.
Just now, however, matters move in
the old rut and no change is noted in
quotations.

Spices are firm. Jobbers are doing
more business as the season advances
and look for a good fall and winter
trade. No weakness is shown in the
entire line.

Molasses is steady as cooler weath-
er comes apace and prices are firmly
sustained, although no advance has
yet taken place. Syrups are steady
and in light supply. Fancy stock,
20@25c.

Canned goods are about steady. It
is hard to find an instance of toma-
toes bringing 82!4@85c, as buyers
simply refuse to be interested. In
fact, they seem to think 77'4c is the
very top and the usual value is stated
to be 75c. A light pack is still “prom-
ised,” but the matter will be in doubt
for a fortnight yet if we have good
weather. Peas are firm and the bet-
ter grades are quickly taken. Lower
grades are too much “in evidence”
and work out at low figures. Corn
is firm and the pack will most cer-
tainly be very light, so we are bound
to see better figures. Other goods
are unchanged, but, taking the whole
situation, packers can find a good deal
of encouragement.

Butter shows little if any change.
Creamery specials, 31@32c; firsts, 28
@30'%c; held stock, 31@32c; imitation.
25@26c; factory firsts, 2414c; process,
26@27c.

Eggs are very firm for desirable
stock. Best white Western are worth

32c; refrigerator stock, 251%4@26c.
The market is in favor of the seller.

Cheese is firm and is showing a
tendency to further advance.
grades, 16@16%c.

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LEGISLATION NEEDED.
The American people certainly are
patient under afflictions. They may
grumble at times and at times may
kick over the traces on election day,
but, as a rule, they are long enduring
and seem to have the grinning habit
when suffering is put upon’ them.
There is the Harry K. Thaw case, for
instance. This degenerate escaped
from the Matteawan asylum a month
ago and because his family have mon-
ey and can command the services of
a corps of lawyers it is possible to
take advantage of every crook and
wrinkle in the accumulated lawmaking
of a century and a quarter to save
him from a return to the custody he
ought to be in. More than this, his
crazy mouthings and actions are given
scare head publicity in the newspapers
and he is lionized in the public print
and the notoriety he loves so well is
given every play. And the American
people endure it all. Thaw should be
summarily dealt with on this side of
the border as he was by the Cana-
dian authorities. He is an undesirable
of the most pronounced type, not
merely because of the crime he com-
mitted, but by reason of his entire
life history. Instead of trying to
stretch the law in his behalf, the
stretching should be done to keep

him in retirement.

Right here in Michigan will be
found another instance of public pa-
tience. The State is paying upwards
of $1,000 a day for the services of the
State militia in maintaining order in
the copper mining district in the Up-
per Peninsula. The sole issue in the
strike that has been in progress for
nearly two months is whether or not
the western federation of miners shall
be “recognized” by the mine owners.
The miners have no grievances that
could not easily and quickly be ad-
justed by direct conference with the
mine owners, but a few professional
labor leaders, non-residents of the
State and with nothing at stake, are
able to keep the district in - turmoil
and the State under heavy expense
and for no other purpose than to
serve their personal interests. If

these trouble makers were taken by.

the scurf of the neck and thrown out
of the State, the strike in the copper
country would be at an end, but in-
stead of taking this very sensible
course, the policy is to treat them with
the utmost consideration, just as
though they had the right to dictate
what the mine owners should do and
upon what terms the miners shall re-
turn to work. These non-residents
continue to incite the ignorant min-
ers to acts of violence and to rioting.
They continue to make it impossible
or at least hazardous for honest men
who have families to support and who
want to work to return to employ-
ment, and the State stands for it,
and foots the bills. With a rigorous
Upper Peninsula winter in sight and
with wages of an entire summer gone,
it can be imagined what the condition

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of the miners and their families will
be when the cold weather comes, and
all because of the greed and personal
interests of a few outsiders who shoulg
never have been permitted to come
into the State. What Michigan wants,
more than anything else, is a law
prohibiting grafters and murderers of
the western federation stripe from
crossing the State line. If we had
such a law, union troubles would soon
cease and we would develop the most
prosperous commonwealth in the
world. The money sent out of the
State by union dupes to support union
officials in idleness would keep thous-
ands of families very comfortably.
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Manufacturing Matters.
Hartland—The Crouse & Parshall
Dairy Products Co. has been incor-
porated with an authorized capitaliza-
tion of $10,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in property.
Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Motor
Vehicle Co., formerly the F. G. Clark
Motor Truck Co., of Lansing, has
moved into its new plant at the cor-

 

‘ner of Kalamazoo avenue and Church

street.

Fremont—The Darling Milling Co.
has merged its business into a stock
company under the same style, with
an authorized capital stock of $10,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Adrian—The Page Fence Co. has
closed contracts for the manufacture
of 40,000 windshields, thus introducing
the first auto accessory industry in
Adrian. The new branch will fur-
nish employment to 200 men.

Detroit—The Auto City Bow Co.
has engaged in business for the pur-
pose of manufacturing bent goods
of every description, with an author-
ized capital stock of $10,000, of which
$5,000 has been subscribed and $3,000
paid in in cash.

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

Buffalo, Sept. 17—Creamery butter,
fresh, 26@31c; dairy, 22@27c; poor to
good, all kinds 20@22c.

Cheese—New fancy 16c;
15'4c; poor to common, 6@13c.

choice

Eges—Choice, fresh candled, 24@
27c, at mark 22@24c.

Poultry (live)—Turkeys, 12@13c;
cox, 12c; fowls, 15@17c; springs, 15@
18c; ducks, 14@16c.

Beans—Red Kidney, $1.75@2; white
kidney, new $3@3.50; medium, $2.25
@2.30; narrow $3.40; pea, $2.10@2.15.

Potatoes—New, $2.25@2.35 per sack
of 150 Ib. Rea & Witzig.

 

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Mt. Pleasant—Jesse. Struble has en-

gaged in the meat business here.
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Publicity is the mother of much
charity.

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.
For Sale Or Rent—Building and stock

of groceries about $1,500, in this city.
For particulars write W. B. Nowell,
Columbia, Mo. 469

For tent—In Grand Haven, Mich.,
modern store room, 45x 85, with addi-
tion 24x 110, will rent either separately.
Fine opening for dry goods or house fur-
nishing store. This has been a dry goods
store for 85 years and is too good a
stand to remain idle long. This is a
live manufacturing town of over 6,000
population, ras only two dry goods and
two furniture stores. Rent very reason-
able. Address G.. Vanden Bosch Be

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Place Your Fall Orders at Once For

   

(REG. U.S. PAT. OFF)

Y OU can’t afford to be without liberal stock of this quick-selling, profit-paying staple. The demand is
greater to-day than ever. This season promises to be our biggest. Karo season will shortly be at its
best—the home preserving season for Karo (Crystal White) is now here.

sz) Our reputation is staked on the quality of Karo—our extensive national ad-
vertising campaigns are your guarantee of quality. We cannot afford to ship a
single can short in quality or weight.

      

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How About Your Printing?

} ‘HIS QUESTION is a very pertinent one for business men, because every day Business Printing takes on added signifi-

 

 

cance as a factor in trade. Time was when any sort of printing would do, because not much was expected of it, but
nowadays printing is expected to create and transact business. For this reason, good printing is exceedingly neces-
sary in every line of business.

We have been producing good Business Printing for years. We have kept pace with the demand for the best in printing.
As a consequence, our printing business has grown splendidly. We have been compelled to enlarge shop facilities, to increase
equipment quite regularly. We have the requisite mechanical equipment, and with one of the best equipped, as well as the
largest printing establishments in Western Michigan, we are in the very best position to give to the business man the highest
standard of good Business Printing.

This includes everything, from envelopes to the most elaborate catalogs.

We respectfully solicit your patronage, giving the assurance that all orders will not only be promptly executed, but the
printing will come to you in that quality of excellence you desire and, withal, at as reasonable a price as it is possible for us, or
anyone else, to deliver good printing.

Orders by letter or by phone will receive prompt attention, and if you desire, a qualified representative will wait upon
you without delay.

 

 

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Going Out of the Jobbing Busine
Our entire $50,000 stock to be sacrificed that we may give our entire at-
tention to the Publishing branch of the business. This includes such lines
as all our new Books purchased for the Holiday trade, and all Leather
Goods, Ivory, Silver and Ebony Toilet Goods, Toys, Dolls, Games, Etc.

Why pay regular prices when we give you this opportunity of purchas-
ing your entire stationery stock or holiday lines at greatly reduced prices.

Those who we disappointed the past week for lack
of attention we would like to make appointments with,
and it will well repay you.

All things are now ready.
Come at your earliest convenience

Grand Rapids Stationery Co.

42-44 FULTON STREET GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

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Use Your Head Instead of Your Shoulders

“Many a man goes through life with his shoulder at the wheel, who would
have gone farther and with much less friction had he hitched his head to the
tongue.” — W. L. Brownell.

 

A man in business if he would be successful must use his head. In

others. Every business man whose bump of caution is normal realizes
that he is running a great risk when he leaves his

 

books of account on a shelf or under the counter
when he locks up his store at night.

Did You Ever Investigate and Find Out
For How Little Money You Could Buy
One of Our Dependable Safes?

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about your safes and name us some prices.”

GRAND R APIDS SAFE CQ, Tradesman Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich.