N He here ah Xie pe ! ew’ Wyre} ND 2 SG MK NAF FON 4 EvE= and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pierce mysti fied the large audience with their feats of magic. again. there will be doings of much impor- We hope to enjoy them At the meeting in November tance. Mrs. John E. in the hospital, is reported much bet- ter. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer M. Levy, after an extensive honeymoon, are settled Hurley, who has been in their home on First street. The interest in the warfare for new members is becoming general with the councils in our Grand Jurisdiction and we look for some interesting news from War Secretary Richter from now on. Many whole families are boosting for Jackson Council, No. 57. B. C. Franklin, Main street grocer, Albion, has moved into the block he recently purchased, only two doors from his old stand. The question 1s, what will Ben do with the money he has been handing out for rent? Ralph Freeman, of the L. T. Free- man Co., Chelsea, is back on the job again and his many friends are migh- ty glad. Ralph has charge of the gro- cery department, but has been laid up for some time with rheumatism During his absence his brother Chaun- after the boys are cey looked business and both of the erocerymen, with many years of ex- natural born perience. W. V. Shelly, of Shelly & Son, Grass Lake, says he will retire after this year for sure. However, he will not be without something to look afte when you consider that fine dairy farm of his just outside the village stocked with about forty head of registered Jerseys. This goes to show that if you take care of the profits in selling condensed milk, you can eventually GRAND have plenty condense. W.L. Bullen, grocer and meat deal- er, Parma, is convalescing froma light run of fever. of milk of your own to Jackson is to lose a prominent busi- nes man, IF. G. Johnson, who has had charge of the seed department cf the S. M. Isbell Co. He has purchas- ed a seed business in Cleveland an] will move to that city in November. Both he and Mrs. Johnson have been prominent in the substantial of our city and will be missed by many organizations. things If everyone was to boost and there was no one to knock, a happy life for all would be a safe bet. Spurgeon. ———+-_ 2 — Merry Musings From Muskegon. Muskegon Oct. 20—Bro. Hood has so far recovered from his accident that he was able to be on hand Saturday night. Come again, Brother. We hear Bert Waalkes has a new hat he won at the ball game. We are informed by our Senior Coun- selor, Herman Anderson, that Peter Rose will have a grand opening of his new candy store, on Isabella — street, Saturday, Oct 25. The Dutch band will be hired for the occasion. come all! Come one, We would like to see our genial Sec- retary-Treasurer again at our Council meeting. We are sure he was delayed by something, as Bro. foote is usually Johnnie on the spot. The resignation of J. H. Lee as Jun- ior Counseler gave a few of our broth- ers one notch nearer the chair Ye scribe has his eagle eye on the throne in a few months more. We think Pro. Ashley made a very generous offer when he was willing to take the higher vacancy and go one step lower each year. We had a fine turnout at our meeting Saturday. Oct. 18, but had to wait quite a while to get into the hall. as the janitor had forgotten us. Now, boys, remember Noy. 15 is our next meeting. We will have a lheht lunch and smoker. Bring us the applications and the candi- dates to be given the work at that time. 3oys, get busy. We understand a stock company has been formed at Middleville to rebuild the Hotel St. James. If there is any town in Michigan which needs a place to eat and sleep, it is Middleville, as the only restaurant there is a disgrace to the town and is badly infested with flies and is in a generally dirty and in- sanitary condition. Here’s hoping they build the new hotel and find a good man to run it! E. P. Monroe. —_+~+.____ Take your trade paper home with you and read it where you have time to think about what you are reading. —_—_2—2.__ Charity covers a multitude of sins —but they are usually our own sins. ADESMAN RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1913 NEW YORK MARKET. Special Features in the Grocery and Produce Market. Special Correspondence. New York, Oct. 20.—Quietude pre- vails in the market for spot coffee. Buyers are taking small quantities—only enough to do business with—and_ the situation seems to be a waiting one. At the close Rio No, 7 is quoted in an in- voice way at 1034@107¢ and Santos 4s afloat 1,693,335 atl i3'4@i3sac. In store and there are of Brazilian coffees bags, against 2,455,797 bags at the same Stocks of mild coffees are running rather light, but this does time last year. not create any activity. Good Cucuta, Is34%a 4c. Teas are meeting with very light de- mand. When sales of greens or blacks are made the full price is paid and But orders are for very small quantities and the country trade seems to take slight in- weakness does not appear. terest in the situation. Rice is well sustained. Supplies are moderate and the demand is probably all that could be expected at this time of vear. The condition at primary points in the South are not such as to indicate a lower range of values and good to prime grades are quoted at 5% CU BIRC. with the demand showing some improvement as the sea- Spices are steady, son advances. Quotations are un- changed in any particular and are firm- ly adhered to. The weather has for much demand and until we have a cold wave there will be little call. domestic, 35@40c. Syrups are in light supply and Molasses is quiet. been too warm Good to prime steady. Canned goods, as a rule, either for are quiet Tomatoes seem to be in ample supply and. stand- spot or futures. ard 3s are working out at practically 70c f. o. b. Baltimore. at all anxious to part with holdings at this price and prefer the storage ware- house, believing that better rates must prevail. The weather of the past fort- night has promoted the ripening of a good supply of late tomatoes and the quality of these is as good as any. So the pack of 1913 may, after all, not be so much below the average—a con- clusion of the year not without prece- dent. Standard firm and the tendency is toward a higher level, al- though the demand at the moment is not. brisk. Packers are not corn 1s Other goods are well sus- tained and show some tendency to ad- vance. Top grades of butter are firm and show some advance. Creamery extras, 30'14@31c; firsts, 2714@29%4c; held stock, 301%4@31c; imitation creamery, 25@26c; factory, 23'4@24%4c; packing stock, 22@23'%c. Number 1570 Cheese 1s quiet with top grades work- ing out at 1644,(@16'4c. Eggs are steady, with best Western 30@25ce and perhaps more for really desirable stock. Refrigerator — stock, 25@ 2c. —_—__ ¢<¢< Honks From Auto City Council. Oct. 21--Mrs. F. H. Hast ines is visiting at Muskegon this week and for this Lansing, reason Fred is having things very much his own way. John Hummelberger has his home on Chicago avenue nearly completed. John is bound to live on a quiet street, even if he has to build in order to do so. John Raymond has written his com- pany that he will report for duty No vember 1. It is nearly a year since he has been able to carry a grip and his many friends are pleased to know that he will soon be in the harness again. CE. Brantingham Robertson, of the Emerson Implement Co., is seri- ously ill at his home on Cedar street. been brought His present illness has about by overwork and worry in at- tempting to keep up with the red tape Evidently there is some doubt in the mind of our esteemed brother who writes Cloverland Zephyrs as to the average attendance of our Conucil meet- ings having been less than 50 per cent. We are in position to prove the state- ment, however, and we have always be- lieved that Brother Moody would rather tell the truth than anything else. No, do not circumstance attempt to connect one with another, but if the coat fits, by all means put it on. Being unable to secure all the busi- ness in Michigan or a satisfying amount of it, the Emerson Brantingham Imple- ment Co. will close its Lansing Ware- house Nov. 1 and ship the stock and repairs to Toledo. The Huber Manu- facturing Co, has leased the building and will occupy the same as soon as vacated. Rapid progress is being made on the new which, when completed will be an up-to-date eight- Tussing building story building, covering more ground than any other building of its kind in Lansing. We are expecting Marquette Council to submit to the next Grand Council an amendment to the constitution allowing the use of the janitor when necessary to make a quorum. We don’t care a rap how much Bro. Laird juggles the letters in spelling our We have a thousand times more for the animal which is direct- ly responsible for name. respect every porterhouse steak in the country than the person whose character might be indicated by juggling the letters in Laird. H. D. Bullen. ——_—__»+- Kalamazoo—The Lull Carriage Co. has increased its capital stock from $75.000 to $225,000. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1913 DETROIT DETONATIONS. Cogent Criticisms From Michigan's Metropolis. Detroit, Oct. 20—Mister Traveling Man, have you made a note of the hotel keepers who are violating the State law prohibiting the use of roller towels? State Board of Health would be pleased to hear from you if you have. C. H. Jury, well known in Grand Rapids drug store circles, has pur- 3raidwood drug stock, corner of Vinewood and_ Porter streets, and has remodeled the store until he now has one of the finest equipped drug stores in the State. About four months ago Mr. Jury took unto himself a lovely life partner in the person of Miss E. I. Meade, of Grand Rapids, the home of lovely chased the J. girls. We were married eleven years ago —just one year before we ever saw Grand Rapids. Mrs. Goldstein says the “lovely girls” are to be congratu- lated on this account. Alfred J. Secoir, the Irishman with the muskrat name who whiles away his idle time during the week selling hardware for Morley Bros., of Sagi- naw, is making a good reputation for himself as a salesman and good fel- low. Al., with the usual Irish wit, “Lung power does not always denote eloquence. For instance, look at the donkey.” Mr. Secoir resides says: in Saginaw and looks like a chap who might keep his Council and town 07 the map by using some of the Trades- man space. Albert Creaser, general merchant at Middleton, and about one of the finest men an order taker ever discourse ! a logical line of articulations to, says his idea of a talented salesman is one who has the ability to keep still at the right time. The way we understand it, even a rapid firing gun has to be reloaded. Verne Dickerson, the elongated took sion to belittle the upper crust of the druggist of Lakeview, occa- writer's cranium. To. our friend, whom we on numerous occasions danced in the same square with at the bi-weekly granary dances, we acknow!l- edge our defeat—there is little left on top. However, it is not what is with- out but what is within that earns the filthy lucre. For which we shall look for storms of criticism. Our salary is very small. George Steketee, who formerly ran a drug store in the village of Grand Rapids, is now in the manufacturing business in that city. Mr. Steketee manufactures a new breathlet called “Carma.” He worked in Detroit in the interests of his new creation for the past month and reports a phenom- enal sale through his distributing agents, the J. L. Marcero Co. Here's hoping that “Carma” does for Grand Rapids what “Pabst” did for Milwau- kee. The big booster meeting of Council No 9 is now a matter of history and the large crowd that attended the meeting on Oct. 18 will long remem- ber the evening as one of the enthusiastic U. C. 1. most meetings they Although but seven candidates were initiated, about thir- ever attended. ty applicants were voted on and ap- proved by the Council. Many who had their application in and accepted were unable to attend the meeting 1o go “through the paces.” To General Chairman Murray was due, in great measure, the success of the meetin;: from the attendance and entertain- | ment standpoint, but George J. Loria added the greatest touch of all h; placing before the hungry mob one of the finest repasts ever given by Council No. 9, and, we are told they have handed out some good ones 16 the past. This was to be expecte1 from George, as it is generally under- stood that three-fourths of his salary is expended for edibles. This meeting is but a mark of what is to follow with a batch of applications as large as a bunch of subpoenas to the congres- sional inquisition, to start on, and 3 promise from nearly every one of the huge crowd present to put their shoul- ders to the wheel from now on. The U. C. T. councils of Michigan are in- vited to watch No. 9 grow. W. O. Chase has moved from his old location at 264 Holden street to No. 259 on the same street, which is a brand spanking new store, besides Mr. Chase has added several new lines to his stock pbeimg More spacious. of dry goods and furnishings. A bill will be introduced in the next ievislature prohibiting hotel keepers from charging full rates to guests where more than one occupies the For example, the price The hotel keeper will, under the new law, if same room. of a rooin is $3 per day. passed, be compelled where two oc- cupy the room to charge but $1.50 each, or where three occupy the room, be ailowed to charge but $1 to each euest. At present if six were to oc- cupy one room, each would be com- pelled to pay the same rate as though occupying the room alone. The bill was pigeon holed in the last session of the Legislature, but, as is usually the case where the U. C. T. undertake to do anything, it will be “well done” and the bill will again be brougtht forth, despite the ravings of a high priced hotel lobby. Ike Krohn, the Carson City mevr- chant—also well known throughout Michigan—says the easiest thing he knows of is for a good looking widow whose husband left her a sizable life insurance to find a husband. When money talks not even a col- lege professor would attempt to cor- rect its grammar. John Dietrich, Secretary, Treasurer, and General Manager of the G. J. Johnson Cigar Co., of Grand Rapids, visited his local representative, Guy Caverly, last week, spending the great- Mr. Diet- rich cast envying eyes on our hust- er part of a week with him. ling, wide awake, city—but then that is not news to a Detroiter. Every From Detroit, Mr Dietrich left for Chicago on business visitor does that. before returning to Grand Rapids. Speaking of Grand Rapids, it might pe well for Teddy Roosevelt, the trap- per, to get Mayor Ellis’ receipt for re-elections. C. A. Weaver, the progressive Trumbill avenue druggist, has refitted his store with new wall cases and has generally remodeled the interior until row he has without question one of the finest equipped drug stores in Michigan. It only takes a few such as Weaver to make any town show up well on the map. To size up the candidates that were initiated at the booster meeting last Saturday night, one might be led to believe that they were a bunch of hus- kies awaiting an examination to be- come members of the police fore>. 3esides being men of good physical proportions, they are young men who are making a name for themselves on the road. “Jack” Lahey, especially, besides his ability as a salesman, is an orator of local reputation. Every one of the new members mean muc?) for the order of the United Commer- cial Travelers. Following is the list of the new members and the firms they represent: Fred Klaffke, Burnham, Stoepel & Co. Albert A. Rahn, A. Krolik & Co. D. W. R. Lacy, United Collar & Shirt Co. John F. Shirt Co. Robert E. Tyler, Burnbam, Stoepel & Co. John A. Lahey, A Krolik & Co. Lewis Ulanhoff, A. Krolik & Co. Mr. Streng, of Streng & Zinn, Kala- mazoo, went East, ostensibly on a buying expedition last week. There is no doubt but what Mr. Streng did purchase goods for their fine store, Gaynor, United Collar & but the very fact that he is an old-time traveling man leads one to believe that he was also desirous of viewing the white lights. Once a traveling man, it is pretty hard to rid the sy3- tem of the wanderlust. To any of the boys who have had occasion to go to Watervliet, we know that they will learn with pleasure that Albert Smith, who has been suffering from a run of typhoid fever, is entirely out of danger and is regaining his health very rapidly. Mr. Smith, who is man- ager of the Hotel Burke, is one of the most affable and accommodating hotel men to be found anywhere. What “Al” wouldn't do for the boys isn’t worth doing. Speaking for those who know him and have had occasion to stay at his hotel, we wish to congrat- ulate him on his recovery. On the other hand, some traveling men (some only) cultivate their brains into making ’em believe they are the greatest ever. Some of the scribes of late have been giving the names of different mem- bers of the traveling profession. who are about to join the U. C. T. It mig"t be well to remember that the U. C. T. is a fraternal order and before a man can become a member he must first be balloted on. Should one of these traveling men whose names are men- tioned be refused admittance to the order, it would, indeed, prove humili- ating. Pretty durn hard for a scholar to play hookey from the school of ex- perience. Enders & Geisler, of Watervliet, are catching the twentieth century idea of HIS broom rack displays 4 doz. brooms, 2 doz. large Martin Broom Rack (PATENTED) T. J. MARTIN Escanaba, Mich. brooms, 1 doz. toy brooms and I doz. whisk. It can display 3 doz. large brooms and 1 doz. whisk brooms if desired. It is so constructed it revolves with a light touch of the hand, mak- ing a very convenient rack. It is made to last. It is all iron ex- cept the base, which is wood. It occupies only two feet of floor space, and being on casters, it can be moved about at will; it’s days. of all orders promptly, large or small. a practical display stand and a neat piece of store fixture. Brooms placed in this rack wil] retain their shape always, and will help materially in the sale of brooms. I am now shipping a few racks and will soon be in shape to take care About December Ist will furnish this rack with iron base—the price will remain the same. All racks are packed one in a box and bills out at fifty pounds. $7.00 or from the factory.- Terms are 30 days net, 4% discount if paid in 10 Awaiting your valued orders, I am yours for business, Price F, O. B, Escanaba, Mich., T. J. MARTIN, Escanaba, Mich, ee fh moment ee fh somes Paso a ESE SNORT RTS A aS ITS October 22, 1913 merchandising. They are remodeling their basement into a bargain base- ment and will pface in this department bargains of all descriptions from all departments of the store. This is an idea that is carried on with great success by many of the city depart- ment stores, thus keeping that partic- ular class of goods by itself and not in anyway interfering with the regular stocks. Cadilac Council, No. 143, gives its next dancing party at St. Andrews hall on Saturday night, Oct. 25. Visiting members of the U. C. T. are cordially invited. Besides the regular dancing programme, refreshments will be serv. ed. We are quite positive that one Mid- dleton merchant will read this week’s issue of the Tradesman. The Meisel-Knox Co., of Port Hur- on, besides making vast improvements in the interior of its store, has had a new front built that extends clear around the front and side of the The Meisel-Knox Co. is among Michigan’s largest and most progressive merchants and a credit to Port Huron. Harry Whitbeck (Burnham, Stoepel & Co.) says his idea of real economy is for a feller’s wife to remodel her building. last year’s bonnet so he won't have to cut down on his consumption of 10 cent cigars. Cadillac Council, No. 143, the following trav cling men were initiated into the mys- At the last meeting of teries of the order: Meyer Ginsberg, Thomas |. ie Ryan and C. S. Shapiro. The Butter Makers Demand Dandelion Brand on Brand MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Right now let it be said, in lieu of the good members who have joined tie order in the past, that the “more the; come the better they look.” H. L. Marsh and C. A. Darwin were re- instated and many other applications were voted on and accepted. C. P. Caswell, member of Cadillac Council, No. 143, is ill at Grace Hos- pital, the last reports saying he is doing nicely. The exact nature of his ailment was not learned by the writer. Mr. Caswell’s home is at 224 Lincoln avenue. Undoubtedly all members of the United Commercial Travelers are aware of the fact that there is a fund from which flowers are to be purchased for sick members. It 1s urgently re quested that when a member hears of another member who is ill, he no- tify the secretary of his council. The Adrian held a miniature Mardi-Gras in their city last week. merchants of During the week, which was 1 gala one in every respect, each of the stores utilized their window space to exhibit “Adrian Made” goods. Adrian has set an example that many larger cities might emulate. B. B. Bradshaw, who succeeded Bill Freileigh as the Plantista booster for Michigan, brought with him from the wild and West a reputation for being a sharpshooter par excel lence. It that BP. M. Roach challenged Bradshaw to a test of skill with the rifle and defeated him. This Later wooly seems happened in Manistee county. both Bradshaw and Roach decided to go hunting and applied to the county clerk for a license, but were refused. Later, it was learned that the county clerk had watched the shooting con- test between these crack “marksmen” and decided that it would endanger too many lives if a license were grant- ed them. The Hotel Stearns owners at Lud- ington are to be congratulated on their selection of George Woodcock ag Manager. George needs no intro- duction through these columns, a3 there is no better known or better liked hotel man in the state. Mr. Woodcock will add much to the hotel by his pleasant and affable manner: and general aggressiveness. H. R. Patterson & Son have opened a ladies’ and men’s furnishing goods store at 1542 Beaubien street. While both Mr. Patterson and son are prac- tically inexperienced in the business both are hustlers and are sure to make a success of their new venture. If President Wilson was opposed to couldn’t have done more to injure the cause than by allowing Mrs. Pankhurst to land in this country. women's. sutfrage, he Henry Perry (Lee & Cady) has again taken to the cushioned seats, after a layoff of three weeks, during which time he home by illness. was confined to his “Bill” Smith, who sells men’s fur- nishing goods for Burnham, Stoepei & Co., says that if it weren't for the fools on this earth, how would the other tellows get rich? Eichhorn & Elogan of Port Huron, who carry a general line of dry goods, Stock the brand that 90 per cent of the professional Butter Makers use. -Stock DANDELION Brand Butter Color and make sure profits every day. 223 NATIONAL. The color with | = = C72 We guarantee that Dandelion Brand Butter Color is PURELY VEGETABLE and that it meets the FULL REQUIREMENTS OF ALL FOOD LAWS, STATE AND BURLINGTON, VERMONT Manufacturers of Dandelion Brand Butter Color s Butter Color the &olden shade WELLS & RICHARDSON CO. i 3 have moved into a beautiful new store which, with other items we read of Port Huron, leads us to believe that that city is not asleep—but very much awake. Ss. F goods store at 961 Mack avenue, has Harris, who conducts a dry added a line of men’s furnishing good: to his stock. In reply to E. B., we wish to state that we mention anything about wedding bells for Harry Rosen- thal, the will not Russell street merchant. {[t may not be true, and anyway, we have been married too long to see any joke about wedding bells. One disadvantage of having stean heat in the house is that a feller has to buy coal to make it. Howard Bierwert, Ludington, says, “A true friend is one who knows you are a liar, but tries to think it isn’t the way, is a well man—he so.” Howard, by educated young married a school teacher. We know a massa things about Eddie Nelson—gonna spring some next week. Five full columns and not a word said about the Hebrew hater. If some fellows could only size themselves up and then forget the re- sults. ’Twould save much vanity—or re- grets. Let’s and see what look around “Rocky” and Pfander have to say. And And “General” Richter. “Major” Ganiard. James M. Goldstein. ‘=m (Ch) a om MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1913 WSorm#e BUSINESS WORLD = = = = = o = ~~ = = = oe =— — — = = = Movements of Merchancs. Yale Bright succeeds L. H. Leslie in the grocery business. John Sparta—Arnock & Powers succeed M. Hass & Co. in Elmdale—H. J. Guy C. Longcor in Lowell—Glenn E. 1. @. Chubb in the srocery Cheboygan — Alex opened a restaurant at 416 North Main street. general trade. Lieffers succeeds general trade. Denise succeeds business. Simpson has Sparta — Hiarry Brace succeeds Henry A. Zwers in the ice and coal business. Lansing—William F. Rouse has en- the Franklin avenue. gaged in meat business on East Quartel, has engaged in the under- Vassar—John recently of Plymouth, taking business here. Plainwell—H. Hintze has purchased the old bank building and will occupy it with his shoe repair outfit. Kalamazoo—Louis Kosher, meat dealer on East avenue, is remodeling and enlarging his store building. Snover—John Clare, engage in the farm implement business Johnson and his son, have formed a copartnership to here. St. Joseph—Dr. 0. A. Eaton has opened a drug store at 807 Main street, having removed his stock from Mill- burg here. Vassar—N. Stilson, undertaker and T furniture dealer at Reese, has removed his stock here and will continue the business. Charlotte — Kollin C. Jones, tor many years a well known dry goods merchant here, died Oct. 20, after a lingering illness of cancer. Homestead— Voorheis Bros. have sold their general stock to G. W. Cauli- flower, of Beaverton, who will continue the business at the same location. Cloverdale—Elmer J. has purchased the Kelley Grant Dickerson store building and will occupy it with 2 stock of general merchandise Oct. 25. Saurium—The Laurium Harness Co. has engaged in business with an auth- stock of $1,500, all of which has been subscribed orized capital and paid in in cash Ironwood— The Tretheway-Darrow has been organized with an stock of $1,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid Fruit Co. euthorized capital cash. Negaunee—Hans J. closing out his in in Peterson is tailoring business and stock llers, has sold his and fixtures to Peterson & Wi date it with their own. Gladstone—Michael P. dealer, who will consoli- Foy, meat has filed a voluntary in bankruptcy. He petition schedules assets of $4,348.90 and liabilities of The principal aw Co. Cornwell $4,866.57 Armour the Sulzberger & Sons Co., the Beef Co. and the Escanaba Produce & Supply Co. Munisine—John W. meat dealer has been declared a bankrupt. The Swift & Co., $737.63; Packine Co, $901 Victor Co., $100. Hastings—Harry Brace has sold his creditors are Depew, creditors filing are Plankington 36 and the interest in the Loppenthien Co. stock of general merchandise to his partner, Itichard H. continue Loppenthien, who will the business under the same style. Traverse City—Charles S. Johnson has purchased the interest of his brother, Fred. L., in the hardware Johnson Bros. and will con- tinue the stock of business under his own name. Negaunee—Benjamin Arne, who conducts a department store at Han- cock, has opened a similar store here his time between the The the and will divide Negaunee store will management of A. two places. be under Steier. has chased the interest of the E. B. Buck & Bolton, Gavlord—Henry Stephens pur- Bolton estate in wholesale po- tate dealers, and the business will be continued under the style of Buck & Stephens. Lake Odessa—Tthe Lake Odessa farmers’ Elevator Co. ] 1) has engaged in musiness to buy and sell grain an with an authorized $5,000, which has $1,000 other capital merchandise, stock OL subscribed and been paid in 1. Cash. Eaton Rapids—The H. A. Good- rich Co. has been organized to buy, sell amd slip poultry, cream, exes and agricultural products, with an au- ipital $10,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid thorized stock of in im cash. Bellevue. J. Pierce, St Johns, bas purchased the KR. W. Elwood bankrupt stock of groceries, subject to the approval of the referee in bankruptcy, and will recently of open the store as soon as the necessary !egal formali- ties are conipleted. Hastings—L. G. Searles has half interest in the Hugo Wunderlich who recently pur- chased grocery business of . Claude [Taines, disposed of his interests in Mr. Wund to Mr. Wunderlich, the Palace of erlich’s store has. purchased Sweets, a confectionery store, of George Clarke, who will move to Indiana. Alpena—The largest inheritance tax in the history of Alpena and one of the largest in the State was last week paid by the estate of the late Frank W. Gilchrist, who died last spring at Memphis. The amount was $18,856.43, or 1 per cent. of the estate of deceased minus exemptions, the statement show- ing the estate totaled personal property valued at $2,060,020.68 and real estate estimated at $61.120.13. The inheritance tax is placed against the real property alone. Jackson—Mrs. M. L. McNaughton, proprietor of the Jackson Credit Clothing Co. and the Bay City Cash and Credit store, will have a chain of three stores, the third being located at Owosso. The latter will be known Model Clothing Co.. G. L. Fisher, until recently of this city, has been employed as manager. as the Ironwood—A. dividend of 10 per cent. was paid to the creditors of the estate of Fritz Karste (Bank of Iron- wood) on Oct. 22. The total disburse- ment $44,000, the aggre- gate of the claims filed and approved in the Gogebic county probate court amounting to a few dollars under $440,000. This is the first dividend that the estate has paid since the clos- ing of the Bank of Ironwood on May 28, 1912. Monroe—Saie safe in the amounts to blowers cracked the Joseph Nadeau store and got away with $300 in cash. A side door to the store was pried STOCELY off with tools stolen from the Grand Trunk storeroom, and a hole was bor- ed in the safe, through which a charge of nitro-glycerine was injected. The robbers escaped with a speeder which they abandoned at Plum creek. A man sleeping above the grocery store was not awakened by the explosion. Crystal Falls—Jacobs Bros. recently had it “rubbed in on them” Polish girl. by a young The girl entered the store early in the day and asked to see some pocketbooks. She one and called for After ex- amination she selected a pin and the watchmaker, whe was waiting on her put it in a pasteboard box. selected then neckpins. Later in the day Sam Jacobs went to the post- office for his mail and was handed ‘the identical box that his clerk had given the the had been mounted, young woman. In the box was card on which the purchased pin as well as a card used to mount a pin that had not been The girl had taken off the pins and then sent the box back to the firm to let the merchants know how “easy they She had_ stolen the second pin at some time during the inspection operations. purchased. were. Manufacturing Matters. Holly—Grinnell Bros., of Detroit, have taken over the Chase & Baker piano factory and will continue the business. Owosso—A. M. Olds has sold a half interest in his cement block plant to J. C. Holden and the business will be continued under the style of Holden & Olds. Benton Harbor—The Benton Har- bor Malleable Foundry Co. has in- creased its capital stock from $80,- 000 to $270,000. Grass Lake—Thieves entered the Grass Lake Creamery Oct. 19 and car- ried away two tubs of butter weigh- ing 54 pounds each. Detroit—The capital stock of the Michigan Salt Pickle Supply Co. has been decreased from $50,000 to $25,000. The office has been changed to Sagi- naw. Detroit—The Eclipse Welding & Cutting Works has been incorporated with an authorized capitalization of $1,500, which has been subscribed, $500 being paid in in cash and $1,000 in property. Detroit—The Sterling Detroit Mot- or Co. has engaged in business with an authorized capital stock of $105,- 000 common and $205,000 preferred, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in property. Marquette—M. Goldberg has sold the machinery and equipment of the Marquette glove factory to W. A. Ross and M. L. Casper, formed a copartnership and continue the business at 116 West Spring street. Blue Lake—The Blue Lake Co has just finished cutting its last stand of timber and is preparing to make a complete clean-up of its opera- tions. Manager White estimates that the Blue Lake mill has cut over 100,000,000 feet of lumber during its twelve years of life. Detroit—The Motor Products Co. has engaged in business with an au- capital stock of $100,009 and $50,000 preferred, of $85,000 has subscribed, $45,000 being paid in in cash and $40,- 000 in property. who have will Lumber thorized common which been Operations will be carried on at Chelsea. Detroit—The Detroit Steel Co. has engaged in business to manu- facture and deal in cold and all kinds of metals, ucts and machinery, Drawn drawn steel metal prod- with an author- ized capital stock of $200,000 common and $100,000 preferred, which has been subscribed, $20 being paid in in cash $299,980 1n property. Wood Prod- the plant of which was de- last merged with Manufacturing Co., of Detroit, consolidated concern will lo- Gaylord—The Saginaw wets Co. stroyed spring, has the Eby and the cate here. The Eby company pro- duced vaive handles, while the Saginaw concern made baseball bats , croquet There is stock the sets, tenpins, rolling pins, ete. of timber to plant in this vicinity. an abundance Manistique—In line with the move- ment for colonizing and developing land under the direction of agricultural ex- Lumber Co. 150,000 acres of land in Schoolcraft county to perts, the Consolidated here has given an option on Chicago capitalists for development pur- poses. The price asked is about $6 an acre, exclusive of the timber which the company retains. The land extends northward from Manistique almost as far as Munising. In the event that the option is not taken up the. company will itself colonize and develop the property, selling tracts of 10,000 to 15,900 acres to capitalists who will have the same end in view. Considerable development work of this character is being planned in the Upper Peninsula, settlers pur- chasing cut-over or wild land in Mich- igan for the purpose of establishing homes, being exempt from taxation for five years. The settler is required to live on the land and must improve at acres a year. least two October 22, 1913 RY» PRODUCE M MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 The Grocery Market. Syrup and Molasses—Corn — syrup Sugar—-The salient feature of the shows no change for the week. Com- y past week has been the renewed evi- pound syrup is unchanged and dull, = = x ’ Y s ‘ ‘ ‘ \ KET The Produce Market. Apples —.Wealthys, Wolf Rivers, Greenings, Baldwins, Snows and Wag- ners command $3.25; Spys, $3.50. PRutter—The consumptive demand for The receipts are about normal for the sea- all grades of butter is only fair. son, and the average quality is good. Stocks of storage butter are larger than usual and the demand is very light. No important change in price is in sight. Faney creamery commands 31c in tubs and 32c in cartons. Local dealers pay 25c for No. 1 dairy and 19% for pack- ing stock. Cabbage—75c per bu. Carrots—65c per bu. Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz. Celery—i8c per bunch. Cocoanuts—$4.75 per sack contain- ing 100. Cranberries—$7.25 per bbl. for late Blacks. Crab Apples—$1 per bu. for Hys- lops. Cucumbers—$1.25 pe. doz. Eges—Receipts of fresh have become larger and the quality has improved. The consumptive demand is only fair, and the market is steady at an advance of 2c. dmand and the eges continue in good market is firm at un- Stocks of storage eggs On the Local Storage changed prices. are lighter than a year ago. healthy. dealers pay 26c for strictly fresh. whole the market is Egg Plant—$1.50 per doz. Grape Fruit—$5 for all sizes. Grapes—Malaga, $5.50 per keg, Cal- fornia Tokay, $1.65 per 20 Ib. crate. Green Onions—20c per dozen. Honey—18c per lb. for white clover, and 16c for dark. Lemons—Verdellis, $6.50 per box. Lettuce—Home grown head, $1.25 per bu.; home grown leaf, 90c per bu. Onions—Spanish, $1.40 per Handlers are contracting for supplies of Michigan stock on the basis of 90 crate. (95sec per bu. The wholesale price is $1.10 per bu. Oranges—$5.50a6 for Valencias. Pears—Sugar, $1 per bu.; Duchess. $1.40 per bu.; pickle, $1.25 per bu.; Keiffer, $1 for large and 75c for me- dium. Peppers——Green, $1.25 per bu.; Red PI 20c per doz. Pickling Stock—Onions, $1.35 per 5 box. Potatoes—65c per bu. for home grown. Country buyers are paying around 50@55c. Pop Corn—$1.75 per bu. for ear; 5c per |b. for shelled. Poultry—Local dealers pay 10c for springs; lic for fowls; 6c for old roosters; 8c for geese; 10c for ducks; 12c for turkeys. These prices are live- weight There has been a good demand for hens and _ springs. Radishes—t5c per dozen. Spinach—90c per bu. Sweet Potatoes—Virginias com- mand 75 ¢ per bu. and $2 per bbl. Jer- seys command $3 per bbl. Tomatoes—75c per bu. Veal—Buyers pay 6@12'%c, accord- ine to quality. —_—__> ++ J. J. Van Zoeren and his son, Albert, who were members of the firm of J. J. Van Zoeren & Co., dry goods dealers and who failed last January, have been arrested on complaint of Wm. B. Holden, Man- ager of the Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co., on a charge of obtaining goods Sept. 24, 1912, they uttered a signed statement, set- ting forth that their net worth $15,050. Less than four months later —on Jan. 13 of this year—they filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, showing assets of $9,500 and liabilities of $: As this statement showed a variation of over $30,000, the credt- tors felt that there should be action taken tablish their rights in the matter. The $9,500, have been cash and Trustee Hlolden $2,106 in his hands with which to satisfy claims amounting to $25,314. on Plainfield avenue, under false pretenses. Was very properly some tO ES- given as into assets, which were converted now has It is expected by the creditors that the liabilties will be reduced to the amount of $3,716 by the court setting aside the claim of the wife of the senior partner, who alleges $3,716 as due her. Suit recently brought against Van Zoeren in the United States Court for viola- tion of the postal law, but this case was dismissed by Judge Sessions, who clearly intimated at the time that the matter was one for the State courts to adjudicate and not for the Federal court to pass uopn. —_++>—___ Rosenberg, operator cof a lum- was ES. ber yard at Alto, has established an- other yard on Kalamazoo avenue, near the Pere Marquette Railroad, and has been granted a building permit for the erection of a planing mill. _—_————--oa—— A transportation bureau composed largely of jobbers and manutacturers will be formed by the Columbus, O.. Chamber of Commerce, the aim being to obtain better shipping service. he. OR. burned —_~+-+>____ Atwater, who was recently QUuL at gaged in the grocery business at that place. The Judson Grocer Co. furnish- ed the stock. Austerlitz, has re-en- — +2 >—__ E. Baughner succeeds Mrs. R. A. Hall in the grocery business at West Fulton street. 355 dence of demoralization in the refined market, due to the keen competition for business. The fight between the Fed- eral and Arbuckle refineries resulted in prices for granulated dropping to 4.15c, until where they remained Saturday (Oct. 18), when quotations were ad- vanced to 4'4c all round. The infer- ence drawn was that refiners did not care to do business for the fun of the thing, the margin at the decline being only 59 points. It was rather significant that the did the move, and Michigan offerings were beet interests not follow withdrawn from territory east of Pitts- The American, War- ner and Howell maintained their prices at 424c. Hight, expected that refiners will close down early this winter. It note that the price of fine granulated is burg and Buttalo. Meltings are and it 1s is interesting to 64 points lower than a vear ago, while 1912. raws are 63 points less than in active Old stocks of Japans are pretty well clean- the ‘ea=Uhe Market is fairly and remains firm in all lines. ed up and new teas are giving good satisfaction. Ceylons are par- ticularly strong in good liquored tip- py teas. Formosas hold their strong China Congous are the cheap- the Rio and Santos grades have Stocks prices. est teas on market. Coffee advanced Me during the week. of Brazil this country comparatively light, and this is aiding The strong and alto- coffees in are the upward movement. primary Brazil market is very outlook is at least for a Mild coffees have also advanced during the week, probably as gether the steady market. much as %c. Java and Mocha are un- changed and quiet. Canned Fruits— Apples are higher and New York gallons now rule at $3 Cali- fornia canned goods show no change per dozen in a large way f. o. b. and there is a quiet demand from first Small goods are mostly firm by hands. staple Eastern canned reason of short pack. Canned Vegetables—Tomatoes con- tinue weak. All sorts of quotations are recorded, from 70c in a large way f. o. b. to The delivered. The pack is pretty sure to be large, and has even yet not been entirely ended. Corn and peas are unchanged on the same basis as last week. Canned Fish—-Domestic sardines are very scarce and firm, especially quarter oils. All imported sardines even more so. Salmon shows no change, except that red Alaska and sock-eyes are firm- er and some holders of sockeye have advanced 7'4c during the week. Dried record prices. Fruits—-Prunes are offered at Premiums are being paid for largest sizes, and these are the only demand. The trade is neglecting the smaller and stccks which seem to be in Peaches and apricots are both unchanged and quiet. There is a weak tendency in the raisin market. been mixed stocks. Very few new raisins have dis- posed of. It is freely predicted that prices will go lower in spite of the past indications that the association on Cur- rants in moderate demand at unchanged prices. the coast would maintain prices. though there is something doing every day. Sugar syrup is quiet at ruling prices. Molasses is dull and unchanged. No prices on new crop yet. Starch Best Best bulk declined 10¢ Muzzy bulk, and packages have per hundred ‘heese—The demand is light, owing to the high prices. As cold weather ap- proaches the demand will fall off, and if prices change they will probably de- cline shehtly. Salt Fish Norway mackerel have steadily grown stronger by reason of the same searcity which has marked the season from the beginning. Irish mack- for the same reason. haddock changed at ruling high prices. Nuts shell quoted at 19'%c as an erel are also firm Cod, hake and firm and un- Soft California walnuts were opening price. The price is about 2c above the last until offerings of European nuts about the last of imported year. will not arrive December. Prices on _ the stocks will be about 15@17¢ a pound. Provisions—Stocks of smoked meats are reported ample for immediate use, with no change in sight. Pure lard is firm and unchanged with a fair con- lard is Dried beef has advanced 2c per pound further during the sumptive demand. Compound slow and unchanged in_ price. week, barreled pork and canned meats steady and seasonably ac- tive. tl New Hands at the Helm. At an annual Retail held last evening, meeting of the Grand Ranids Grocers’ Association, the following officers were elected: President—W,. A. Wood. Kirst Vice-President—W. P. Work- man. Second Vice-President—Martin Deck- er. \ndrew Stevenson. Asst. Secretary ‘Teeasurer—A. L. Secretary- Frank Johnson. Smith. The following committee was = ap- pointed to make arrangements for the State convention, which will be held here in February: Wm. Andre, Ralph Andre, C. J. Appel. L. O. Harber, C. A Bertch, A. Botting, Ralph DeBoer, Jas. DeBoer, F. W. Fuller, F. J. Gaskell, Hanna, |. |. Harmg, |. J. Hart- ger, Frank Johnson. C. W. Ludewig., L. Maas, Norman Odell, L. J]. Parr. ©. E. Shirling, C. Smaliheer. Shaw. Witters, E. /. av Watkins, J. M. DeVries, Merrill, F. A. Rinveld, F. L Geo. Geo. W. PF. Worcman, Lf. fevalkini:, K L. Ritzema, F. ©. C. J. Seven, R Julius Bohr. eo Guy Pfander, the Battle Creek grip Franz, Soloman, carrier, has engaged to cover Central Michigan tor J. B. Weber, the South Mr. Pfan- der is a capable and energetic sales Bend confectionery jobber. man. A Mrs. Wm. Kaiser has engaged in the grocery business at Holland. The Worden Grocer Co. furnished the stock. J. W. Quinn succeeds Glenn. E. Denise as city order clerk for the Worden Grocer Co. FELCH 2 TY a puma ANCIAL MICHIGAN TRADESMAN — 7, vor nada) ’ - Cadre espa } October 22, 1913 For about six months the pending tariff bill was the more or less good excuse for the slump in the stock mar ket. The tariff is out of the way now, but instead of showing signs of recovery the stock market sags to still lower levels. The new disturb- ing influence is the financial legisla- tion now before Congress. Why this should make the business and financial world gloomy is not easily apparent, but it seems to be the fashion to be bearish in sentiment, to let things slide, to wait until there is certainty, and those who are compelled to sell their holdings find the demand light and quotations low. It is probable that few realize to what extent the slump in investment securities has gone, and the following comparative quotations will be of interest. The quotations are on a few of the stan- dard stocks, as they are now and as they were on the corresponding day a year ago. The quotations as given are in round figures, omitting the fractions: 1913 1912 Aicumnson, com, .....-.... 91 109 Amalaeated |. .......... 62 87 Sk © 92 107 (Amada Wacithe ........... 223 «267 Crest Northern .......... 121 139 Northern Paciic ......... 105 126 MY Central ............ O4 115 Penunsyvivania .........-... 110 124 Poutnern tacihe ........: 85 111 (SS Steel com ........ 5A. 79 inion Facihc ..... ag 72 The depreciation, it will be observ- ed, ranges from 15 to 30 points and the difference in market value agegre- gates millions of dollars. The in- trinsic value of the stockholders is as ereat now as a year ago and those who have their stocks paid for have only to wait for the market to turn to be as rich as ever, but the slipping away of the market value will not make inventories look good, The slump has not been confined to the securities dealt in on the stock exchanges. The utility corporation securities, which are such favorities for investment purposes in Grand Rapids, have shared in the slide. Here are a few comparisons on the se- curities that are most dealt in here: 1913 1912 Ag. Light and Trac. pret. 105 109 Am. Light and Trac. com. 340 432 Commonwealth, pret. ..-. 78 91 Commonwealth com. .... 55 69 Csited L. & RR pret .... 79 85 United L. & BR. com..... 81 80 Am. Public Utilities, pref. 74 89 Am. Public Utilities, com. 45 58 United Light and Railways common stock is one point higher now than it was a year ago, representing an in- crease in the market value of $52,875, but the preferred is off 6 points, or $300,000 worth. American Light and Traction preferred is off 4 points on the preferred and 92 on the common, or something like $12,- 000,000 in the market value. Com- monwealth is off 13 points on the preferred and 14 on the common, a matter of nearly $2,500,000 in market value. American Public Utilities is 6 points lower on the preferred and 13 on the common, as compared with a year ago, and this means around $630,000 in the market value. The securities of these four companies have a perfect market- value of some- thing like $15,550,000 less than a year ago, and this it may be suggested is going some. If this loss had to be pocketed it might make some of the brethren squirm, but those who have their finances in order have no need of worry. The value will come back with the improvement in times. It may take time, but this country will not stay in the dumps any longer than necessary. While investment and speculative securities have been going eglimmer- ing it is noticeable that the quota- tions on Grand Rapids bank stocks are at a higher average than a year ago, as the following comparative fig- ures will show: 1913 191? Old National ............ 205 202 G & National Guy .... 178 (280 Fourth National .......... 210 203 G Ro Savings §.......... 230 210 Kemt State :..........5... 260 263 Peoples Savings ......... 250 250 (COMmercial Sayings ..... 215 188 Grand Rapids National City and Kent State are slightly below a year ago, but this is due merely to a dull market, not to any real difference in intrinsic value, and a ten share buying GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK Resources $8,500,000 Our active connections with large banks in financial centers and ex- tensive banking acquaintance throughout Western Michigan, en- able us to offer exceptional banking service to Merchants, Treasurers, Trustees, Administrators and Individuals who desire the best returns in in- terest consistent with safety, avail- ability and strict confidence. CORRESPONDENCE PROMPTLY REPLIED TO Fourth National Bank Savings Deposits 3 Per Cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits Compounded Semi-Annually Wm. H. Anderson, President John W. Blodgett, Vice President L. Z. Caukin, Cashier J.C, Bishop, Assistant Cashier United States Depositary Commercial Deposits Per Cent Interest Paid on Certificates of Deposit Left One Year Capital Stock and Surplus $580,000 STOCK OF THE National Automatic Music Company Approved by the Michigan Securities Commission Under the New So Called “BLUE SKY” LAW This stock pays 1% per month LOOK IT UP — IT’S WORTH WHILE 40-50 MARKET AVE., N. W. Grand Rapids Michigan 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. LOR RRR EEE PETE TALON October 22, 1913 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN order in either would put the figures back to the level or still higher. The low level at which so many of the standard as well as the utility corporation stocks can be purchased it is stated has caused a large diver- sion of funds into these channels from the banks and from real estate and other investments. It 1s easy now to pick up investments that will net any- where from 6 to 8 per cent. and they are investments that have high rank in ordinary times, too. The real es- tate dealers are all complaining of dull business and they are almost unanimous in ascribing it to the diver- sion of money into investments, either stocks or bonds. The bank statements show there has been an oozing away of the savings and cer- tificate deposits for several month and they attribute it to the same cause When the market turns and the old values come back it is likely that those who have been buying when good things have been cheap will take their profits and then go ahead with their origina! plans. The Grand Rapids Trust Company has added six new directors to its board, making a present list of seven- teen. The new members are well- known Western Michigan business men and are: Thos. I. Carroll, Grand Rapids; Jas. K. Flood, Hart; Wm. C. Sturgis; Wm. Loutit, Grand Haven; Wm. H. Mann, Mus- kegon, and Edward J. Rankin, Kala- Grobhiser, mazoo. The directors have chosen as the executive committee A. W. Hiompe, Robert D. Graham, jos. 5S. Hart, H. C. Cornelius, and Jos. H Brewer. The stockholders will pay in their 50 per cent. for the surplus account on November 10 and then the company can be regarded as com- pletely organized according to the plans as announced at the beginning. It has been doing business for about six months now and is said to be get- ting nicely started. The capital stock is $300,000 and the surplus $150,000, instead of $200,000 and $100,000, re- spectively, as stated last week. Stephen B. Monroe, for many years President of the Kalamazoo City Sav- ings Bank, has resigned and Mayor A. B. Connable has been elected to succeed him. Mr. Monroe was a close friend of Victor L. Palmer, wrecker of the Michigan Buggy Company, and although not implicated or involved in any way with the wreck it was thought, owing to his social relation- ship, that a change in presidency would be advisable. The wreck of the Buggy Company is one of the largest that Michigan has had in re- cent years, with liabilities of some- think like $3,000,000 and all of the Kalamazoo banks are understood to have sustained severe losses from the collapse. The Grand Rapids Savings Bank has had preliminary sketches prepared by Osgood & Osgood, the architects, for a twelve story office building which it is proposed to build on the bank corner the coming year. Under its ninety-nine year lease it controls a Monroe avenue frontage of eighty- two feet, extending back to the alley. It is likely a building company will be organized to take over the lease and finance the building. The Bank will occupy the first floor and the Grand Rapids Trust Company the second, and the floors above will be for office purposes. The Bank can not get possession of one of the adjoin ine stores until next July, owing to existing leases and nothing will be done until then beyond getting ready. The plans can be completed, the con- tracts awarded and material orders placed and with these preliminaries arranged in advance much time will be saved in the building. The builders of the Pantlind Hotel are having their troubles in securing the desired foundation. The original plan contemplated sinking piers to the rock, about seventeen feet below the street level. When this rock was reached it was found to be merely 2 thin shell, with muck beneath and tests showed that it was not sufficient to carry the weight of the building. Then it was decided to sink cassions to real rock, such as is done in Chica- go, and two were put down as tests. These went down fifty feet through muck, quick sand and other unstapie material before rock was finally struck. The Pantlind will be the first building in Grand Rapids to rest on a cassion foundation. In building the old Sweets Hotel, the Pantlind of to- day, the contractors found the same soil conditions, but instead of trying to go down to rock, they dug as deep as they thought they could afford and then put in some heavy planking and laid the stone foundation on that. Frank Sweet, who saw the old foun- dations laid, thinks the plank will be found when the walls are torn down and in a good state of preservation. The plank was not put in to bear the weight of the building, but merely to hold the walls until the plaster hard- ened. —_++>—__ Most of the so-called theatrical stars are rockets. 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Henry Idema. James D. Lacey, Edward Lowe. W. W, Mitchell, Cadillac, Mich. J. Boyd Pantlind. William Savidge, Spring Lake, Mich. Wm. Alden Smith. Dudley E. Waters. T. Stewart White, Lewis H. Withey. James R. Wylie. Lansing, Mich, 3% Every Six Months Is what we pay at our office on the Bonds we sell. $100.00 BONDS--6% A YEAR PicricanfPapEsMAN (Unlike any other paper.) DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BUSINESS MEN. Published Weekly by TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Subscription Price. One dollar per year, if paid strictly in advance; two dollars if not paid in ad- vance. Five dollars for six years, payable in advance. Canadian subscriptions, $2.04 per year, payable invariably in advance. Sample copies 5 cents each. Extra copies of current issues, 5 cents; issues a month or more old, 10 cents; issues a year or more old, 25 cents. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice as Second Class Matter. E. A. STOWE, Editor. October 22, 1913. NO LONGER A DREAM. What the Grand Rapids Park and Boulevard Association has accomp- lished is what can be done through effort and persistent everlastingly keeping at it Ten years ago the boulevard to Grandville, following the natural levee along the east bank of the river, was discussed as a beautiful dream would be discussed—exceeding- ly desirable but unattainable. Lester Wm 1. others took this project in hand, rais- J. Rindge, Anderson and ed some money by popular subscrip tion and secured by purchase or dona- tion the right of way from Grandville to within a mile of the city limits. The Pere Marquette owned a stretch of river front and the many changes in control and management in_ the railroad delayed progress, but the last of the obstacles were overcome this season and, as soon as a cement bridge across Plaster creek now under con- struction is completed, the boulevard will be open to the public. It will be a seven mile drive along the river, vaith beautiful scenery along the en- tire route and in the shade of splendid natural forest trees. In addition to the boulevard proper are the Indian acres and which will always be a place of inter- mounds covering seven est. What was a dream ten years ago is to-day a realization, and not money but persistent effort has brought it about. Ten vears ago a boulevard around Reed’s Lake was one of the popular dreams and seemed so much a dream that nobody thought it would ever be brought about. Five years ago it was still a dream. Three years ago the definite The first evidences of reality of Hodenpyl Woods to intangible began to assume form. was the eift the Park and B Anton G. Hodenpyl, with its half mile of Lake frontage. Then John H. nell, owning a 240 acre farm on the oulevard Association by 30n- south side of the Lake, indicated his willingness to give the right of way along the Lake frontage for boule- vard purposes, and with it a woodland park of seventeen acres of low lands, covered with a beautiful growth of natural timber. This added nearly two miles to the boulevard. Then Chas N. Remington and Ben. E. West, owning land at the west end of the , Lake, donated the right of way across MICHIGAN TRADESMAN their holdings to connect up with the Hodenpyl Woods, and with it the low lands between the road and the water. The Pierces, owning the property east of Hodenpyl Woods, donated an ad- ditional half mile of right of way, carrying the boulevard to Manhattan Beach. The next owner to the east obdurate and when he is brought to terms, as he will be by condemnation proceedings if no other is still way is possible, the boulevard, will have been accomplished, so far as the right of way is concerned. Only about half a mile of right of way re- secured for a project which five years ago was looked upon mains to be as impossible, and thus far there has been no expense incurred for other than When this boulevard is completed, as it will improvement purposes. be in a year or two, it will be one of the show routes of the city—some- thing the entire city will take pride in and something few other cities will have. for the auto, for driving or walking, It will be a picturesque route with beautiful woods, charming bits of scenery and any number of places for picnics and loitering. If the theory that the Reed’s Lake boulevard was an impossibility had been accepted tt would still be a dream, but a few earn- est workers by persistently keeping at it brought it about. The Grand Rapids Park and Boule- vard Association now holds 110 acres of park and boulevard lands and when the Reed’s Lake drive is completed will have more than twelve miles of boulevard for the people to enjoy. What the Grand Rapids Association has accomplished can be accomplished by similar associations in other towns if the same earnest purpose be put into the effort, backed by patience and perseverence. ——————— Are you keeping an eye on the calen- dar? Thanksgiving day this year falls on November 27, and November 27 is only 36 days away. Christmas is but 64 days in the future. The careless mer- chant may think there is still plenty of time to get ready for these great fes- tivals, but the hustling, up-to-date and successful merchant is getting his lines laid ior the great trade opportunities which these seasons of good cheer and good will bring to the business men. The Thanksgiving specialties are mostly in supplies for the table and the day gives the grocer and the butcher their chances, but there is no reason why the dry goods folks and the dealers in clothing silverware and other merchandise should not share in the frolic, if only they go at it in the right way. Find out who will have family reunions, who will enter- fain guests from out of town, who are going away for the day. Those who will entertain may want new table linen or more dishes or silver or something new to wear and those who plan to go away may want to “be bearers of gifts. By keeping in touch with the — social doings trade can be developed. The Christmas festival will, of course. take care of itself—up to a certain degree— but the live merchant has great oppor- tunities to apply stimulants and now is the time to begin doing it. It is not too early to persuade the local news- and crockery and papers to drop occasional hints as to the advisability of shopping early. The early shoppers will, naturally, be after the staples, rather than the character- istically Christmas goods, and materials to be made up into fancy or useful articles, and it is these goods that should be pushed at this time. It might be suggested that there is a growing move- ment abroad in the Jand in favor of a sane Christmas, which means the elimi- nation. of a lot of the useless giving -.or rather the giving of articles that have no real use to anybody. It might be a local merchant to quietly size up local sentiment on this subject and be guided somewhat by it in making the holiday preparations. gocd idea for the An energetic movement has been started to secure for Michigan an ade- quate representation at the Panama Pacific [exposition at San Francisco in 1915. A bill was introduced in the last Legislature providing an appropriation for this purpose, but the bill was de- feated by a single vote on grounds of the need for economy. The present movement has been taken up by the ad- vertisers —clubs of Detroit, Grand say City and other The various clubs committees Rapids, Kalamazoo, cities—in the State. have appointed who will meet in Bay City early in November to make an informal canvass as to what should be done and how to do it. The present plan is to raise a fund of $100,- 000, or as much of it as possible, by popular subscription, and with this see to it that Michigan receives proper rep- resentation. The men and manufacturers in this city have taken up the movement with commendable zeal and ihe same spirit is manifested else- where. The Panama Pacific Exposi- tion will be a $50,000,000 affair in cele- bration of the completion of the Pan- ama Canal and will be a world func- tion. It is certain that Michigan will send thousands of visitors to the expo- sition, and at the gate they will meet thousands of people who have gone to the coast to make their homes. business Michigan It 3s certain the visitors from Michigan and the Michigan people now living in the West would be sadly dis- appointed if their home State showed no evidences of having a place among the states of the Union. many Michigan has many products which could be shown with advantage at the exposition and it is the argument of those back of the movement that the opportunity to advertise the State should not be allowed to go by. Of the other states in the Union thirty-four have made state appropriations and with so many in line Michigan’s absence would be noticeable, and unfavorably so. resources and The farmers up in Tyrone town- ship, Kent county, right spirit—a spirit not only the farmers but the town dwellers all over the State might adopt. Kent county voted $600,000 bonds for the building of good roads. The good road plans in- cluded a fair appropriation for Tyrone. The farmers of Tyrone want mor? good roads than the appropriation will provide, but instead of standing back as fault finders they are going to join hands—a hundred or more of them, with their teams and hired men have the October 22, 1913 —and do something in the way otf road building themselves, and no bill will be rendered to the county, the township or anybody else. It will be a free will offering of good work and good material to the cause of good roads. If this same spirit were mani- fested in other townships in the State, Michigan would soon be laced with good roads. It is such manifestations that affords the best kind of encouragment to State and county aid in local highway improvements. The usual disposition is to grumble because somebody else does not do something, but if the community knowing what should be done, will hustle out and do it, there will be no ground for fault finding, because the thing desired will have been accomp- lished and without loss of time. If the many small communities in the State that are practically cut off from the world in roads will follow the Tyrone example, in- stead of waiting for State or county to remedy the trouble, they could in a single season be out of the mire, and at no great expense either, if every- body will join in the effort. ; ——ee as this seasons of bad In 1909 New Jersey had the dis- tinction of being the leading state in the oilcloth and linoleum industry, reporting more than 40 per cent. of the total number of wage earners and 43 per cent. of the total value of pro- ducts. Pennsylvania ranked second and New York third. The average number of persons engaged in the in- dustry during 1909 was 5,557 and among the wage earners were only forty-seven children. The value of products was over $23,000,000. Each of the varieties of oilcloth and lino- leum in 1909 showed a considerable percentage of increase in quality and value except floor oilcloths, the out- put of which decreased 14 per cent. in quantity, although its value in- creased neraly 6 per cent. The de- crease in the output is explained by the increased degree to which linoleum has been substituted for oilcloth as a floor covering. ED Boys who read stories telling of deeds of heroism performed by youths no older than themselves often sigh and wish that such opportunities might come to them, forgetting that in real life there are alwavs more acts of heroism than were ever recorded by fiction writ- ers. A few days since a two masted schooner came into port at Boston and the captain told of a terrible storm all one day, when a 13-year-old boy lashed to the wheei steered the vessel safely. The mate was taken sick, and only the boy and the captain remained aboard. When the storm broke the captain had to leave the wheel to shorten sail, and the boy took his place. Great seas re- peatedly dashed over him, but the boy worked the craft along with the ski!! of an old sailor, exhibiting wonderful nerve and heroism in the face of dan- ger. never be guaran- After Lot’s wife had been turn- ed into a pillar of salt she probably kicked because she wasn’t a marble column. Satisfaction can teed. gnu ragpteaatoaed i i i UREN PRR Sng SEHR MR RTRARRIRS a October 22, 1913 MEN OF MARK. Wm. H. Anderson, President Fourth National Bank. There are many standards of suc- cess. Such a standard may be gauged from a material, intellectual or moral Very often it is riches which are sought. standpoint. Broad acres, a big bank account, an elegant mansion in which to live, are regarded by many as the highest rung of the ladder of life which can be reached. These ac- quirements give leisure, comfort, so- cial standing and influence. der they are so generally coveted. There are others natures thirst for prominence and power. If No won- whose these men can be governors, senators or congressmen, they grasp the posi- tion with a feverish avidity, hoping it may be a step to something higher Then we see others whose highest ambition is to lead companies, regi- ments, armies—to kill men. War alone stirs their nature. The devastation and suffering which follow in their wake are as nothing to them. Never having appreciated the sacredness of life they have no regard for it. In the intellectual world there are scholars and thinkers who care little for prominence, power and wealth. The midnight oil blanches _ their cheeks. It may be a poem that for years they are thinking out. It may be a musical composition. It may he an argument in answer to some other It may be a book that will mold opinion or drop dead as it falls argument. from the press. Then there is the inventor, the prof- it of whose life work, as a rule, goes His mind is full of wheels disturbed to others. and levers. His sleep is by possible combinations which he hopes may bring about unheard of re- sults. He excludes himself and dreams of the unknowable and unobtainable, often in the eyes of the world he be- comes a crank, doubted by friends and shunned by capitalists. In instances the almshouse or the insane asylum is kinder to him than the world has been, for it opens its doors to receive him. The writer of this once sat by the side of an astronomer in his observ- atory. While others slept this man was recording what his great glass revealed. At that time he was in search of a star—a star that in as- tronomical circles would be called new, yet which had been giving forth its light for millions of years. To tell the world something about the wonders of the universe was this man’s ambition. Society with its ar- tificial ways, politics with its intrigues and shattered hopes, war with its car- nage, creeds with their sophistry, did not attract him. Cold, exact science was the stimulant on which he lived. We tip our hats to all these phases and conditions of men. They are nec- essary else they would not exist, yet at the same time we must record the protest that none of them is the high- est standard by which a life can be gauged. That man who is charitable, who is hopeful, who is patient, who is full of courage at all times and a tower of strength in emergencies, who never swerves from his ideas of duty MICHIGAN TRADESMAN and responsibility and knows no such word as defeat—he is the king among men, although the world at large may see no gems in his crown which glit- ter. He may not be known outside his own township, no telegraphic no- tices of death may be flashed here and there, no monument may mark his final resting place, but the perfume of his life spreads and sweetens other lives, fitting the soil for flowers where before weeds grew. It is far wide from the intention of the writer to ascribe to any man those character- istics which he does not possess or to throw around him any glamour, but there are a thousand men who will say that the qualities enumerated in this paragraph are those which make up the character of Wm. H. Anderson, was its Cashier for six years and since then has been its President. Aside from his position with this institution, Mr. Anderson has many other inter- ests. He is a director in the Peoples Savings Bank, Commercial Savings Bank, South Grand Rapids State Bank, Grand Rapids Railway Com- pany, Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co., Anti-Kalsomine Co. and is interested institutions and manufacturing establishments. in many other financial Mr. Anderson has for nearly thirty years been identiliced with the gooc roads movement and is a_ practical and successful road builder. He was manager for four of the corporations which built gravel roads out from the city of Grand Rapids and which were a great factor in the progress of the Wm. H. Anderson. the subject of this sketch. By com- mon consent of all who know him they are his. William H. Anderson was born in Plymouth, Michigan, on September 6, 1853, and two years later came to Kent county with his parents and located on a farm in Sparta township. His early education was obtained in the village and country schools and he was brought up as a farmer’s boy. He followed farming until 1883, liked the vocation and was. successful in its pursuit and managed to accumulate considerable property. But he saw opportunities in the city for more rapid advancement, sold his farm property, moved to Grand Rapids during that year and engaged in the real estate and loan business. Since this removal he has been identified with some of the city’s most substan- tial interests. Mr. Anderson became interested in the Fourth National Bank in 1891, city, His lome experience in the building and maintainance of turn- pikes has made him an authority on all matters of road management in this part of the State. He directed the work of constructing the Grand River boulevard and has had charge of the creation of the beautiful roads in Hlodenpyl Woods. Mr. Anderson was prominently iden- tifed with the Grand Rapids Board of Trade for a number of years and three years was the executive officer of that body. In the organization of the Grand Rapids Clearing House he was very prominent, and his counsel in perfecting this organization so as to bring all of the banks into harmony with each other in their methods and movements was of great value. Mr. Anderson assumed the manage- ment of the West Michigan State Fair when its affairs and finances were in a deplorable condition and brought the organization up to a high state of efficiency. He retained the Presidency ten years, leaving behind him a most enviable record. After moving to Grand Rapids, Mr: Anderson quickly become interested in all civic movements looking to- wards the betterment of the city. While in no sense an offensive parti- san, he has taken an active part in politics, acting upon the well-ground- ed belief that it is every citizen’s duty to do his part in making the political history of the city and State. Some years ago Mr. Anderson again invested in farm property, and owns at present a highly improved farm of several hundred acres in Sparta town- ship, which is the wonder and admira- tion of his friends and neighbors. Mr, Anderson has developed a spir- it of philanthropy which is as broad as the world. He has given liberally to every cause which appealed to him as worthy of support. Among his benefactions is the presentation of 2 farm on Bostwick Lake as a summer camp to the young people of St Mark’s church, of which religious or- ganization he has long been a con- sistent adherent. If there is one characteristic, more than another, which appeals to Mr. Anderson’s friends, it is his courage. He makes loans which would stagger some of his neighbors in finance, but he seldom makes a loss, because his judgement is unerring, due to his abil ity to read men. He has such a com prehensive grasp of things that he is master of every situation and wins where others fail by reason of his remarkable capacity to calculate con- ditions and predicate results. The financial success which has \nderson at- tributes to his determination to keen out of debt. crowned his efforts Mr. He never speaks ill of his neighbors or competitors. The strictness with which he observes this rule of life accounts for his popularity and ability to make and hold friends everywhere. He is pre-eminently a man of affairs as well as a keen ob- server of men. To this may be at- tributed in large measure the success of his enterprises. His intimate con- financial undertakings, the executve work of his Bank and his nection with close attention to business have all aided in giving him that fund of in- formation essential to the expression of intelligent opinion—and no one who knows him will doubt his conserva- tism. In person Mr. Anderson has an ad mirable physique and enjoys the good health which induces a spirit of op- timism and courage. These attributes, together with his untiring energy, fit him for large enterprises and an easy dispatch of business so essential in the career of an active and successful man. —_2++2>—__—_ The Ingenious Neighbor. “Have you examined my piano?” asked the young lady. “Yes, ma’am,” answered the piano- tuner, “What's the reason it won't make a sound?” “Some one has lowered the soft pedal and nailed it down,” 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1913 Chirpings From the Crickets. Battle Creek, Oct. 20—A news item wired to a local newspaper, states that John Thorne, of Owosso, has been made _ hotel inspector. Mr. Thorne will find lots to report to his superior officers and we hope he is the man who will do it. Success to Mr. Thorne and if he was not all tied up with red tape, he could pockat some nice commissions selling indi- vidual towels (from sample) to many landlords he is going to call on and if he held his job he would, in a year, make eligible to membership in Council Tat would be as much to his credit as his political connections and he would himself Owosso connection find the boys willing assistants. As he now stands, he can look to the boys to make out a trip sheet for him which will show up a lot of roller towels. This is not a slam at the hotels which are living up to the law. If the coat fits, put it on. In a recently compiled mortality table, commercial travelers are listed among the men living the longest This statement can be taken show that lives. several ways. Figures they live to a good old age. Facts show they put several years of living into one year. Where will you find a happier family group than the trav- eler home from a long trip, ready to enjoy the week end with his wife and children? Distance makes the heart erow fonder and the few days each month that a traveler spends with his family is more dear and sacred to him than the regular three times a day and the evening at home. The daughter of Bro. Ed. McGee is laid up at home with a severe cut in her limb, caused by glass. Chas. Detroit, was in our city shaking hands with Bronaugh, now of his many friends Saturday. L. J. Hale, one of the star perform- ers for Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett, Chicago, and now a resident of Ur card with Hale anl family made their home in Kalamazoo bandale, still keeps his Kalamazoo Council. Bro. for a number of years and he is loyal to his old Council. We admire this loyalty, for we have boys who now live hundreds, yes thousands of miles Battle retain their name with No. 253. away from Creek, who. still We have a brother selling thresh- ing machinery in South America who belongs to No. 253. J suppose he wears the button and the _ natives think it is a charm against mountain fever or that it is a symbol of civiliza- Pertain- tion. Civilization is right. ing to its higher branches. Rufus Brooks attended our meeting Saturday. [1 months and the 1is brother was ill for several boys were all glad to see him out to our meet- ing. Please turn back to your Septem- ber Sample Case and note the blue sheets, printed and placed in the issue. There is a personal letter for you there, so look it up at once. We find some of our boys are not the Sample receiving their copy of Case. If you are not getting your copy regularly, report same to your Secretary, who will take Or else drop care local of the matter for you. a post card to Sample Case, Colum- bus, Ohio. If you have not received the September issue, a copy will be mailed you from the office of pub- lication upon receipt of your request. Carl W. Scott, traveler out of Mil- waukee for sash and doors, took the degree Saturday and is now one of No. 253’s boosters. He is armed with a blank application sheet. Carl has a L. L. L. after his name, signifying long, lean and lanky. Carl is sure some boy will make the Council a good member. Lid the thought ever strike you, as you sat in your Council chamber with the boys, the capital they represented lines they handled? 1 fourteen men Saturday night and they represented millions of capital and carried and dealt in the following lines: Sash and doors, pa- yer, meat, Jumber, stocks and bonds. groceries, crackers, candy, coal, paint, thread, cigars, machinery and drugs. Mr. Stowe had on the cover of his last issue a beautiful poem by James Whitcomb Riley, entitled A Dream of Autuinn, a beautiful thing, but at this stage of the game the average man has to think of the more serious and expensive side of life. The coming months will make it necessary for us to pay out onr hard earned coin for the comforts of the winter season. I think a man must have a well-stock- ed cellar and farder and safety deposit vault to see and enjoy the golden autumn, without getting a glimpse of the cold, unproductive months that must necessarily follow. No! I am not selling automobiles and have a case of sour grapes. Fact is, I have goods that are now in demand and “T should worry.” and varied picked out Probably the amateur poets who have given vent to their passions in these columns in the past have had a tendency to sour me on the poems, eood, bad and indifferent. “Stim.” from Muskegon, was on the job last week. Don’t let the Trades- man readers think you got your name from your contributions to this jour- nal. A daily newspaper at Jackson seems to take a great delight in Kalamazoo’s recent industriat failure. This spirit is unfair and not harping about worthy of a reader’s consideration. Jackson has had failures in the past and will probably have some in the future. Jackson’s newspaper should be big enough to be above such petty articles and to the outsider, it looks as through at heart, Kalamazoo had something on Jackson. Persistent M. C. rumors may be the cause. are good business centers and they need each other. Little old Battle Creek is between the two and is peg- ving along, trying to mind her owa business, which, by the way, has reached some proportions, thank you. The free spirit of the press is O. K., but the little glass house in the im- mediate foreground should not be overlooked by the local editors who seem pleased to throw stones at their larger neighbors. In the columns of this journal last week a news item appeared that a small city not a thousand miles from here had landed a new auto concern 30th which was going to build and market a new $3,500 machine. Dollars to doughnuts, they will build more than they will market. Every stockholder probably has the biography of Henry Ford committed to memory and the only thing that makes them anxious is that they will be unable to make one thousand cars a day. History repeats itself. Hundreds of Battle Creek people, some years back, thought if C. W. Post and others could make millions out of cereals thev could. Lots of those would-be cap- italists are now working for C. W. Post or would like to. The same thing is true in any line of endeavor Where there are big, brilliant suc- cesses, there are dismal failures. The survival of the fittest and the scien- tific placing of the natural talented man in the position that nature in- tended he should hold down is the secret of corporation success. As you have read some time back, our Secretary lost a purse containing $250. Norm Riste was in Leslie the other day, when a clerk in a grocery store told Norm that Geo. Steele was going to call on them the next day and he (the clerk) had an old purse filled with goodlooking counterfeit bills which he was going to hand George. Norm penciled a short note and put it in the purse and went his way. Next day George arrived and was handed the purse, read Norm’s little joke, emptied the worthless bills, filled the purse with sugar, put in cardboard and addressed it to Norm at his residence in this city. package “‘first- George marked the Don’t Wait To accumulate $500.00 or $1,000.00 before making an investment. You Can Buy $100.00 Bonds That are a part of exactly the same issue as those of larger denomination and can Keep Your Savings Earning 6% Let us submit you details and offerings. HOWE, CORRIGAN & CO. INVESTMENT SECURITIES Fifth Floor Mich. Trust Bldg. (As far as you can go to the right of the elevator.) makes the transaction. goods bearing the Clare- hose trade mark. Woolen, worsted. cash- mere, and lisle hose for men, ladies and children— all weights, colors and prices. We Make Clarehose of Such Certain Quality That the brand will remain in the mind of the customer. That’s why every sale may be regarded as an advertisement for the store which Our best efforts are spent in producing a reliable grade of hosiery, and we stand the full responsibility for the quality of YARN GLOVES AND MITTENS Write us for samples (ARE KNITTING MILLS SAGINAW, MICH. Kind You Have Been, Looking For enPP ND aac ee ee October 22, 1913 class,” put on a 2 cent stamp and mailed it. Mrs. Riste got the mail and had to put up 22 cents postage due. Now Norm tells that George’s joke was on Mrs. Riste and not him- self. Our Council put on a dandy sup- per Saturday night, which was enjoy- ed by seventy-five of the boys and their families. Afterwards Chas. R. Foster and Robt. Longman entertain- ed the company with some clever recitations. We played progressive pedro and in the smoking room some “rum.’ Dandy time and a repeater in the near future. Herb. has plan- ned some fine dope for the next meet- ing. Details later. Regards to all. Read the Tradesman. Guy Pfander. —____<>->-a—___— COMING CONVENTIONS TO BE HELD IN MICHIGAN. October. Michigan State Teachers’ Association, Ann Arbor, 30-31. November. Michigan Association | of Commercial Secretaries, Bay City, 6-7. Michigan Retail Implement and Vehicle Dealers’ Association, Grand Rapids, 11-12-18. National Baptist Congress, Grand Rap- ids, 11-12-13. Michigan State Sunday School Asso- ciation, Benton Harbor, 12-18-14. Michigan Bee Keepers’ Association, De- troit. December. State Grange. Flint. Knights of the Grip, Michigan Michigan Ravids. Michigan Branch of the National Keepers’ Association, Detroit. January. Grand Bee Michigan Hardwood Lumber Dealers’ Association, Detroit, 4-6. West Michigan State Poultry Associa- tion, Grand Rapids, 6-9. Modern Maccabees of the United States, Bay City, 11-15. Retail Walk-Over Association. Grand Rapids. Michigan Poultry Breeders’ Associa- tion, Detroit, 26-Feb. 2 February. Michigan Dairyman’s Association, Grand Ranids, 10-14. 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 Carpenters and Joiners, Saginaw. pril. State Bowling Tournament, Detroit. Michigan Cost Congress. Saginaw. May. Michigan Congregational Conference, Grand Rapids. Michigan Letter Carriers’ Association, Detroit, 30. Degree of Honor, Flint. June. Michigan Dental Society, Detroit. Knights of Columbus of Michigan, De- troit, 10. National Association Yrand Rapids. P. O. E., Petoskey. G. A. R., Jackson. Michigan State Bankers’ Alvena. Michigan Unincorporated Bankers’ As- sociation. Alpena. Chiefs of Police, Association, July. Michigan State Barbers’ Association, Flint. Michigan Retail Jewelers’ Association, Grand Rapids. Michigan Association of Police Chiefs, Sheriffs and Prosecuting Attorneys, Al- pena. August. Michigan Postmasters’ Association, Grand Rapids. Fifth Michigan Veteran Volunteer In- fantry Association, Saginaw, 26. September. International Association for the Pre- vention of Smoke, Grand Rapids. Michigan Association of County Super- intendents of the Poor, Grand Rapids. Michigan Assocation of Local Fire In- surance Agents, Grand Rapids. October. Order Eastern Star, Grand Rapids. —_—_——_—_.. a The Big Item. “Does it take much money to send a boy to college?” asked the Boob. “No,” replied the Cheerful Idiot. “It’s keeping him there that takes the coin. MICHIGAN Increased Annual Sales From $15,000 to $50,000. Written for the Tradesman. My father has run a general store in a country town as long as I can remember. I know I began to clerk in it as soon as I could handle the goods and make change and, natural- ly, I got to be as much a part of the store as a counter or a shelf. Up to the time when I was 24 years old ! believed our store to be an ideal es- tablishment and then I changed my mind. We were selling about $15,000 worth of goods a year and when [ be- gan to cut my wisdom teeth, [ dis- covered that $15,000 was being pro- duced by a $12,000 stock. Really we were just barely moving. The country was thickly settled, were prosperous, but most of their money went to the mail order houses. farmers Father couldn’t see things the way 1 did and all my argument couldn't move him. half began to take some things into my At 26 years of age I own- ed a interest in the store and own hands. Unknown to the senior member of the family I contracted for a store paper and began, one day, to change gradually, from a credit busi- ness to a cash basis. My plans were opposed in every possible way, but the store contract signed paper was and we couldn’t get out of it. Before the end of six months father had come grudgingly side and approved the move I had made. around to my Sales began to increase a little and we began to dig hard. About this time, I readily began to study the mail order house catalogues and by caret u study I discovered that certain items were not played up very strongly in the big books. It seemed to me that TRADESMAN 11 the valued lines were groceries, fur- houses or of our competitor next niture, clothing and other bulky lines door. He's an old fogy and the onl) © j ot jar ") 7. 2 } r rn = rere aud that popular priced goods were does to fi thing he ht mail o g order used largely as leaders. This gave Ere ; ; = = iders Phis Save competition is to pick out a certain me an idea and I began to “fight fire : : . . : oe : > line, cut the prices a little and then with fire. I built me what is now Me yoint it out to customers when they called a three decked display table and : filled it with an and 25 cent goods. come into his store. That his method assortment of 5, 19 : 1 dw feee ta eon has not been as successful as ours will : : fess that I didn’t advertise these goods at mist amd that had to find them for themselves. It wasn't not have to be proven to anyone who He still oc- cupies the ramshackle building that customers has seen the two stores. lone before women and men, too, Was built for him twenty-five years come around for 5, 10 and 25 cent ago, while we have a modern glass goods, picking up an item here and front concrete establishment 100x110 one there and the department’s popu- feet. That is all I have to tell except larity increased. that we are now selling about $50,000 To make a long story short, the worth of goods a year. Frank Stowell. 2 The Woman of It. “judge,” jury of ladies, original lines that occupied one single three decked table have now spread all over the north side of our store, ; : : : said the forewoman of the which by the way, has been enlarged a : : : we want to speak to and we really have a very sizable . : - : you about that sealed verdict we Just ie ~ < Oo cre s ‘The ’ stock of 5, 10 and 25 cent goods. The teudeved.® “Well, “Can we unseal it and add a post- increase in their popularity marked ladies2” | an increase in our trade and to-day mail order script?’ H. Eikenhout & Sons Jobbers of Roofing Material GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. we have no more fear of We carry a large stock of roofings, roofing materials and building papers. MARK PU Wvevors SPRAYING COMPOUNDS of Lead hp Kansas City Pure Paris Green + earth. C e OF ak Petoskey % Cheboygan OF >. Northport @ Charle ° ° Lime Minneapolis a } basis e Bay City Nicotine : — Frankfort | y City ‘ S 1 ti Sulphur _ B dmanistee # Traverse City 4 Saninan — olution ~ EC | a : a : M ) va | Le a Solution in __ Kegon poy ie © Port Huron “b Mi —e@ ~GRAT Omaha <0 _ghansing | Detroit _ __buiflo | Kerosene g ; e ey Des Moines RA mw 9S ackson Emulsi on Arsenate cc. ~ / Kalamazoo n St. Joseph Chicago su nent en Cleveland Quincy a Accessible to the largest fruit producing territory on oh le So. Bend a Kill Weed \ \ -} @ Columbus \ Whale-Oil Soap y \ Wayne Cincinnati Springfield Indianapolis @ St. Louis Louisville Pittsburg ® Cut-Worm onsignments forwarded by 5 Lines of Railroad. Bordeaux 2 through Lines of Electric Roads and by Lake Steam- and Grub Mixture ship Lines to Duluth or Buffalo and Intermediate Points. Destroyer e NUFACTURED a Carpenter-Udell Chemical Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1913 _—~ =— ~ Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso- ciation. 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- ley, Saginaw. Status of Refrigerating Industry in America. In a glance at the present status of the refrigerating industry in America one is struck at once by two points of salient interest to those engaged in industries utilizing artificial refrig- eration. One is the gradual and, dur- ing the past few years, rapid exten- sion of the ice manufacturing indus- try northward into the domain here- tofore thought to be the prerogative of natural ice, so that to-day we find great ice manufacturing establish- ments being erected in Portland, Me., 30oston, Mass., and in Montreal, To- ronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and other In New York City, where in 1904 less than 20 per cent. of the total amount of ice consumed was manufactured ice, by 1913 the ice machines furnished practically 65 per cent. of the total amount of ice con- sumed, and when plants now under construction or planned for erection during the coming winter, are com- pleted, the proportion will be nearer 7> per cent manufactured to 25 per cent. natural ice. In cities like Du- buque and Sioux City, Ia., and Minne apolis and St. Paul, Minn., where na- tural ice is abundant, easily obtained and cheap, plants have been or are being erected. cities throughout the North dealers in natural ice are considering the pro- priety of installing ice factories in- cities in Canada. ice-making In many stead of depending wholly upon the natural product. The other general outlook to awak en interest in the steady increase in the demand for artificial refrigeration as evidenced by the rapidly increas- ing output of existing ice machine manufacturing establishments and the starting up of quite a number of new manufacture As the machinery is establishments for the of refrigerating machinery. export trade in such small. the above stated fact is satis- factory evidence that the home field for refrigeration is extending, and this is true not only of the enlarge- ment of the field already exploited, but of the fields, which heretofore supposed to offer no opportunity for the introduc- opening of new were tion of refrigerating machinery. Another instance of interest in the development of the field of refrigera tion is the large number of inventions of small refrigerating both the compression and absorption machines on systems, intended primarily for the use of small stores, shops and for household use. In regard to the opening of new fields for the use of refrigerating ma- chinery, we need but to point out such interesting discoveries as that of the use of refrigerating machinery in the laundry to cool the starched col- lars and cuffs after leaving the man- gle and before they are passed through the shaper. It was found that linens not only preserved their shape much better in winter than in summer, but are less liable to become frayed at the edges; in short, would stand more washings in winter than in summer. What was more natural than to create an artificial winter during that part of the laundry operation which proved to be most trying to the goods after the washing. When put to the test of actual service, practice verified theory. Collars and cuffs laundered with the aid of the refrigerating machine prov- ed to be more comfortable for the wearer, presented a smoother surface, did not crack or fray, and lasted long- er than those laundered in the usual way. Another instance of new use for refrigerating machinery is found in the mining and metallurgical indus- tries. In the process of treating ores with chlorine gas on a large scale, the recovery and condensation or liquefaction of the chlorine becomes essential. The liquefaction of chlor- ine gas at atmospheric pressure takes place at—29 degrees F. (—34 degrees C.), and the recent installation of refrigerating plant capable of liquefy- ing 850 pounds of chlorine gas per hour is reported from a Western min- ing field. i Again, it was found that with the acid of refrigeration it is possible to extract gasoline from natural gas. Not all natural gas contains gasoline, but where it does its extraction yields without incurring cost of manufacture. In the paper-making industry re- frigerating apparatus is cvasoline being used to some extent—at one end in the where it is used to control temperatures during the treat- ment of the pulp, and at the other end in such operation as the manu- sulphite mills, facture of wax paper from plain tissue paper. In this process the tissue pa- paper is run over rolls, first over a hot roll in melted parafine and thence over a cold roll, which must be cold enough to prevent the layers of treat- ed paper from sticking together. To secure this and maintain the speed of operation necessary for economical manufacture, cold brine from the re- 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 Some in and see us and be convinced If You Can Load POTATOES APPLES OR KEIFFER PEARS Let’s hear from you. We will buy or can make you an interesting proposition to load for us. If you are in the market for these com- modities, glad to quote you delivered prices in car lots. H. E. MOSELEY CO. F. T. MILLER, Gen. Manager 30 IONIA AVENUE GRAND RAPIDS Loveland & Hinyan Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. We are in the market for car lots APPLES AND POTATOES BEANS CAR LOTS AND LESS Get in touch with us when you have anything to offer. il iJ — | i . October 22, 1913 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 frigerating plant is used in the cold roll. The use of refrigerating machinery in testing delicate machinery, such as automobile parts, gasoline motors, or complete motor cars, has been tried recently with valuable results. A room is provided where temperatures of zero Fahr. (—18 degrees C.,) or be- low, can be readily maintained, and here the performance of the machine is tested under the equivalent of most severe winter conditions and with different grades and kinds of fuel, in order to determine beforehand what particular combination produces the greatest efficiency. S. S. Van Der Vaart. —_———_2-—o———_ Retail Butchers’ Remedies for the Meat Shortage.* At the present time this country is confronted with a great shortage of livestock. This condition was fore- told some years ago by the United Master Butchers’ Association. We were laughed at by some of the “wise men” and cattle raisers when we tried to have legislation enacted to restrict the slaughter of calves and breeding cows, and every obstacle possible was use to prevent it. Columns printed in the newspapers blaming the retailer for overcharging the consum- er, but the truth of our assertion has materialized to a greater extent than was predicted. were The worst is yet to come. We have a steady increase in our urban popu- lation, and a constant decrease in livestock. This means that the price of meat will be prohibitive to the meat consuming public of moderate means. They are paying their maxi- mum price now, and any further ad- vance in prices means restricted con- sumption. You men assembled to-day, representing one of the greatest in- dustries in the United States, must assist in devising ways and means whereby your supplies can be in- creased. It is true the good range lands of the West and Southwest are gone, and the big herds of range cat- tle a thing of the past. This has been gradually going on for years, and practically nothing has been done to offset it. The exports of meats have diminished to a mere handful. Other countries are reaping the bene- fit of that trade now. Your home trade will follow along the same: line if the price of meat is increased much more. here What we want in this country is cheap meat, and plenty of it. The working man must have it, the moth- ers and the children must have it, if you want to sustain the vitality of the Nation. The resources of this country are not gone for the raising of livestock. The New England hills, where good grass grows and there is everlasting spring water, and where plenty of shade feed thousands of cattle and sheep. The Southern states, with the eradication of the tick, could take care of and feed an unlimited number of cattle and hogs. The growing of corn is an assured prevails, can *Annual address by John T. Russell, President United Master Butchers of America. crop there, and would soon take the place of cotton if they had cattle to feed it to. The worn-out farms in the Eastern states could be brought back to fertility again if lifestock was placed on them. The Middle West, the West, Southwest and Northwest farms could lend a_ big assistance in replenishing the supply . We then would and better fed meat better bred animals, and more pounds of the bullock than in the past. A great many of the cattle that were raised on ranges were bred for speed instead of food. They ate more, and the expense of marketing them was as much as a good “critter.” have All this cannot be done in a day. It should have been started years ago, when the ranges showed the first signs of depletion. I believe the Government should subsidize the raising of livestock where farmers do not have the means to purchase stock to begin with. New ideas in feeding material are being invented every day, and are proving to be very successful, so that it will not be necessary to have a large amount of land to raise stock on, as was the case formerly. New ideas and a system of education should be invoked in the raising and feeding of livestock. The necessity is upon us now, the invention must follow. Your own experience has taught you the value of improvements in the manufacture and marketing of your products. A few years ago you were letting gold run down the sewers, or you went to the expense of hauling it to the dump pile. But you woke up. That’s what the farmer and stock raiser will have to do. Caution should be used not to dis- courage the raising of livestock. Every effort and assistance that is possible should be given to reduce the cost of production. A ready and steady market should prevail, with a reasonable profit to the producer. Let supply and demand rule the market. I hope that the farmers will com- mence raising stock at once of their own volition. The necessity of it is apparent in every direction to prevent a famine in meat foods. If the pres- ent conditions are allowed to contin- ue, National Legislation will have to be enacted to compel the resources of this country to be used for the benefit of the people. There will be a bill introduced in Congress in the near future to stop the slaughter of calves and breeding COWS. The United Master Butchers’ Asso- ciation, through its officers, wrote letters to every Congressman and United States Senator, asking them to vote for the removal of the tariff on cattle. We also had our representa- tives appear before the Ways and Means Committee, urging the same issue. While this may only give us temporary relief, it may serve the pur- pose to partially replenish our de- pleted condition. It has always been our object to try and increase the supply when a shortage exists. —_2+——__ Hope is a pneumatic tire that is fre- quently punctured. What Life Means. It makes very little difference what you do, so long as you do it with in- tensity and enthusiasm. You must work hard, think hard, love hard. Make up your mind that your whole life will be a struggle, a struggle weakness and _ temptation, against sickness and misery, against against shams and falseness of all sorts. Every time you allow yourelf to be beaten, every time you fail to accom- plish the thing you set out to do, another step has been taken toward that bourn wither and shrivel up. where the incompetent All life, as far as we know, means strife. > . Don’t count on winning any very valuable medals by the waiting meth- od. The thing that most certainly comes to the merchant who does nothing but wait is a failure. FOR FINE WEDDING PARTY AND FUNERAL WORK TRY Crabb & Hunter Floral Co. 114 E, FULTON ST. Citizens 5570 Opposite Park Bell M 570 We want Butter, Eggs, Veal and Poultry STROUP & WIERSUM Successors to F. E. Stroup, Grand Rapids, Mich Hammond Dairy Feed “The World’s Most Famous Milk Producer” LIVE DEALERS WRITE WYKES & CO.S4 Rapids, Mich. Michigan Sales Agents Satisfy and Multiply Flour Trade with “Purity Patent” Flour Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. HART BRAND CANNED GOODS Packed by W. R. Roach & Co., Hart, Mich. Michigan People Want Michigan Products Watson-Higgins Milling Co. Merchant Millers Grand Rapids :: Michigan Rea & Witzig PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS 104-106 West Market St. Buffalo, N. Y. Established 1873 Liberal shipments of Live Poul- try wanted. and good prices are being obtained. Fresh eggs more plenty and selling 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- rent or wire for special quota- tions. Refer you to Marine National Bank of Buffalo. all Commercial Agencies and to hundreds of shippers everywhere, M. O. BAKER & CO. Want to Buy Winter Apples Write us what you expect to have i! TOLEDO, OHIO Wm. Alden Smith Bldg. Potato Bags New and second-hand, also bean bags, flour bags, etc. Quick Shipments Our Pride ROY BAKER Grand Rapids, Mich. The ‘“‘House of Quality”’ ASK FOR “WINDMILL” GRAPEFRUIT Heavy - juicy - best eating A. CASABIANCA & SON Grand Rapids, Mich. Both Phones 1217 When in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Potatoes, Apples call or write MOSELEY BROTHERS Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1913 14 y po. = > we 2 \ ‘ce. 2 2 4 “A = \ i¢&.e DRY GOODS, ; ES if & g . et r 7 oe Fe FANCY GOODS AND a { - — a — hae ye Cie 2 Why Customers Prefer a Daylight Store. Written for the Tradesman. Some four or five years ago a ladv bought for a much-used room an in- expensive rug of the kind that is popu- larly called Smyrna. Her purchase proved to have most excellent wear- and, despite a great deal of hard service, is quite a rug yet: but its coloring, a gaudy expanse of inharmonious reds and greens. and yellows that the brightest sunlight has failed to fade, has made it some- ing qualities, an eyesore to members of her who are artistically inclined. When these suffering ones have rub- bed it in a little on this lady for making so tawdry a selection, her re- ply always has been, “Well, I bought that rug in a poor light. At Carson’s, where I got that, they keep that class of rugs toward the back of the car- pet room, where the light is very dim. I think the salesman turned on the electric bulb, but of course no arti- ficial light could bring out the vivid- ness of those reds and yellows. Af- what of family ter it was sent out here and I had unrolled it and spread it on the floor I saw my mistake; but the rug was so firm and thick and cost so little that I didn’t like to make any fuss and decided to keep it—to my sorrow, it seems,” she whimsically adds. This lady is not one to take adverse criticism without defending herself. “Look at the rug in the reception hall,” she referring to one of the beautiful oriental pattern of tans says, and browns in combination with soft dull blues. “I selected that rug an‘l it is a joy forever, but I had a chance to see what I was doing. I bought that at Barker’s. Their carpet room is on the second floor in the front of the building, where you get the daylight on the goods.” There is nothing like daylight for showing colors and shades as they actually are. A skillful buyer, in se- lecting wool dress goods, silks, suits and wraps, colored drapery goods, carpets, rugs, and materials for fancy- work, always wants to get the day- light on the article under considera tion before coming to a decision. Bar- ring pictures and the like, the goods mentioned are the chief ones for the satisfactory selection of which good natural light is a necessity, although many others will suggest themselves for which it is very desirable. For expensive colored fabrics that are cut out of the store, it is imperative that the customer have the opportunity to see just what she is getting before her purchase is taken off the bolt. A black that is a little rusty when it is supposed to be be fore going a good jet, a navy that-inclines some- what to a purplish shade, or any other peculiarity or defect in coloring that will cause goods when opened up at home to look otherwise than they did in the dim light of the store, is bound to cause dissatisfaction and trouble. The remedy is not to have a dim light in the store, to have the light under which goods are sold as strong as that to which they subjected afterward. ily said than done, especially in these fall days, which are already short, and fast becoming shorter. Artificial light, although better than semidark- ness, will not show up shade like daylight. are likely to be This is more eas- niceties of The daylight in many stores is very limited.. Particularly is this true in those of the old-fashioned lone and narrow shape with windows only in front and much of the light from those impeded by the display backings. Daylight must be conserved in every possible way, and in the arrangement of the stock, goods that demand day- light for their proper selection should be placed where it is readily accessi- ble. A store on a corner or otherwise situated so that it can have extra good light may do well to make a talking point of it and advertise as a day- light store. Windows should not need- lessly be obscured by shades and draperies. Those that transmit 4 tinted light are especially objection- able and confusing to the customer. The direct glare of the sun must be modified, both on account of eye- sight and the fading of colors, but otherwise let daylight have sway. correct and fashionable in color adds to the value and selling quality of goods. It often is to be observed that great cuts in prices have to be made to move out “off” shades. Being Merchants who are careless in the selection of stock or make a specialty of buying up job lots of undesirables may prefer to sell their wares in a dim light. suing a mistaken policy. who Such are pur- The practi¢e of any deception destroys confidence and prevents the building up of the reputation for reliability which should be every merchant’s honorable ampi- tion. There is nothing morally wrong nor contrary to good business usage in selling a faded or ill-colored ar- ticle at a low price, provided it is done in a way that does not mislead the customer into supposing she is get- ting something better than she really is getting. Ugly and out-of-date ar- ticles will sell in broad daylight if priced low enough. When all is open and aboveboard there can be no rea- sonable ground for complaint. Surprising schemes occasionally are resorted to to sell colors that are stickers. A merchant from a small town in Michigan was in Chicago buying goods. Passing a large retail store he saw displayed outside near a doorway a piece of silk of a fairly salable shade of red priced 29 cents a yard. He considered it a great bar- gain and decided to buy twenty-five or thirty yards, believing he could sell it readily for at least 50 cents. Upon going in and asking for the goods, he was shown a piece that even in the rather dull light he could see was a sort of orange color that he could not use at any price. The salesman insisted that it was the iden- tical shade of that on display, but would not consent to making a com- parison of the two pieces. Of course the merchant did not buy, but doubt- less some careless or partially color blind persons were taken in by the little ruse, and, until they had gotten their purchases home did not know of the contemptible trick that had It is need- less to say that any such practice is been played upon them. suicidal to the growth and prosperity of a business. Fabrix. ——2>2> Doings in the Hosier State. Written for the Tradesman. The Meeks Hardware Co. has opened a retail store in South Bend. W. C. Meeks, formerly of Bridgeport, Ill, is manager. Evansville is talking of a guarantee fund for the purpose of bringing fac- tories to the city. Terre Haute’s second annual corn show will be held during the week of Nov. 10, with larger prizes offered than last year. Farmers in Vigo and adjoining counties are taking a live- ly interest in the show. The Evansville Furniture Co. has paid its creditors 70 cents on the dol- lar and the company has been absorb- ed by the Globe-Bosse-World Co., of that city, with an increase of capital stock of $150,000. The plant will oper- ate full time under the new manage- ment. Purdue University is conducting a better seed corn crusade among farmers. Almond Griffen. —_2+ +> A Long Wait. “Johnny, I don’t believe you've studied your geography.” “No, mum; I heard pa say the map of the world was changing every day, an’ I thought I’d wait a few years un- til things got settled.” We are manufacturers of Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats For Ladies, Misses and Children Corl, Knott & Co., Ltd. Corner Commerce Ave. and Island St. Grand Rapids, Mich. DOLLS! DOLLS! All Kinds Bisque Dolls, 40 and 75 cents dozen. China Head Dolls, 40 and 75 cents dozen. Kid Body Dolls, $2, $4.25, $6, $8,50 dozen. Jointed Penny Dolls. 90 cents and $1 gross. All Prices Wholesale Dry Goods Paul Steketee & Sons Grand Rapids, Mich. —_ The Standard Line of Gloves and Mittens which you will want to see before you buy. WRITE FOR SAMPLES WE WILL SEND THEM BY PREPAID EXPRESS The Perry Glove and Mitten Co. Perry, Mich. « Sens Ge ee watt aereggeytemanenne « mere, watt October 22, 1913 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 Little Lapses in the Store Service. Written for the Tradesman. You’ve heard the old saw about lit- tle foxes playing hob with the vine- yard. And it’s a pretty good old saw, too. Teaches a valuable lesson. Little leaks make enormous waste, if allowed to continue; and too many lapses in your store policy queer you. Keep a sharp outlook for lapses in the service. Cases in Point. In order to illustrate what I mean, I will cite some recent cases that have come under my notice. I knew the parties concerned, and the establish- ments in which the shopping was done. Case one is a young matron who bought twenty-four yards of ingrain carpet at 49 cents a yard from a large department store handling extensive lines of medium and popular priced goods. The lady had often traded at the store, and was personally ac- quainted with several of the sales- people. She had a charge account at the store, her husband remitting promptly on recepit of monthly statement, and her trade during the year amounted to an item worth while. After selecting her carpet, which she desired to use for runners in her upper hall, she instructed the sales- man to charge it and send it around on the first delivery. She explained to him that she was in a hurry to get the carpet laid as she was expecting company the following morning. The carpet came on the first delivery all right, but it came C. O. D. As the little woman didn’t have as much as $14 in the house at the time, and as she had no phone, and as the driver was obdurate, the carpet had to go back. You can imagine her peeve Two employes of the store were at fault. First, the salesman who drolly wrote C, O. D. when the little lady plainly said charge; second, the de- livery man, who should have gone to the nearest store and called up the head of the carpet department, the credit man, the shipping clerk, or anybody who could have helped him adjust the matter before he left the neighborhood. He should have ex- plained to the store that the little lady wanted her carpet. As it was he just stood out on the walk and looked un- perturbed. Can you blame her for being sore? Case two is a lady who bought a gas range from a furniture store and was promised that it would be install- ed on the afternoon of the same day. She needed it badly, for she had re- moved in a new flat the day before and hadn’t any means of preparing food for the table. The family had been eating temporarily at a neigh- borhood boarding house. Relying on the furniture people from whom she made her purchase, she ordered a thick steak for dinner, milk, butter, groceries, fruit, etc. and had her heart set on surprising and delighting her husband with a good home dinner that evening when he got in from the office. The afternoon shadows lengthen- ed, but the range didn’t come. She was a little uneasy, and if there had been a phone handy, would have call- ed up to see about the matter, but rather than bother the neighbors, she took a chance on their keeping their promise. The range didn’t come. Along about half past five, when the little woman’s patience was quite exhausted, she did go across to one of the neighbors and call up; and the salesman explained to her that the men had been so busy hat day installing ranges they simply couldn’t get around to her until the 3ut theyll be around the ” said the next day. first thing in the morning, clerk, Do you blame her for cancelling the order? Of course an absolutely letter-per- fect, uniformly infallible store service is an impossible achievement where our employes are mere human beings, but it is highly important to keep the service just as perfect as we possibly can, for good service creates good will. Frank Fenwick. —_+7->—___- What Some Michigan Cities Are Doing. Written for the Tradesman. The new electric line connecting Saginaw and Bay City is nearly com- pleted. Material for the loop at Bay City has arrived. Retail merchants of Jackson have organized, with eighteen charter members, and will affiliate with the Chamber of Commerce. Bellevue will hold a corn and appie show Nov. 4 to 7, in charge of mer- chants of the town The Commercial Club of Kalama- and farmers. zoo will issue a monthly magazine for the benefit of its members, the first number to appear Nov. 1. Kalamazoo’s new armory will be dedicated Nov. 19, with Gov. Ferris as the principal speaker. Owosso has been given title to eight acres of land for park purposes by A. M. Bentley. A big corn show open to St. Clair county will be held at Port Huron Nov. 7 and 8. Building operations are uncommon- ly brisk in Bronson. Pontiac authorities, including the sheriff and court officials, are urging a curfew ordinance that will keep chil- dren off the street nights. Completion of the extension branch of the Holland interurban road puts Saugatuck on the main line, instead of a branch, with through car servic? to Grand Rapids. The Benton Harbor Malleable Co. has voted an increase of capital from $80,000 to $270,000 and the plant will be enlarged. The office of the U. S. Weather Bureau at Saginaw has been moved to new and permanent quarters in the Arthur Hill trade school. Three extensions have been order- ed in Kalamazoo’s ornamental street lights, and lights will also be placed around Bronson Park. A feature of the Kalamazoo Com- mercial Club’s library is the direc- tories of different cities that are kept for reference and they are being free- ly used by the public. The Kalamazoo Advertising League will hold meetings fortnightly during the winter. The next meeting will be held Oct. 29. Frankfort is assured a new ware- house and passenger station this win- ter by the Northern Michigan Trans- portation Co. The Royal Frontenac Hotel will also be rebuilt and will be a modern, fireproof structure. Mt. Pleasant officials visited Grand Rapids recently to learn about chem. ical filtration of water. Installation of a similar plant for the treatment of Chippewa river water is being con- sidered. IIudson is getting for free mail delivery. ready While many towns are putting in hitching posts for farmers’ others are taking them out. teams, Caro re- moved her posts in a night recently and Lapeer is thinking of taking like action. A Flint ordinance prohibits the planting of poplar or willow trees but excepts Carolina poplars, which are declared by contractors to be the worst tree in the sewers with roots. category to clog Vassar has secured three new indus- tries and has three more in tow. Plainwell school men are inspecting model high school buildings about the State, preliminary to erection of a new school there. Adrian has secured a new manu- facturing industry—the Hobbs Con- crete Machine Co, of Detroit. Cadillac contains 6,000 names and_ indicates a population of at least 10,500. The Manistique Commercial Club The new city directory of has engaged a paid secretary and ts going right after a canning a commission warehouse, woodwork- facte MEY, ing industries, etc. The Commercial Club of Menom- inee is urging the Chicago & North- western road to build a new depot there. Menominee’s industrial pay roll for the year will exceed two millions dollars—an increase over 1912 of about $200,000. Landscape gardeners are at work on Wilson Park, Flint’s new beauty spot, and about 2,000 shrubs and per- ennials are being planted. The Clinton county fair at St. Johns was a complete success, with receipts of $5,400. ‘Never think of burning your leaves, rake them up ina héap and let them rot. They fertilizer economy make the best This is the message that a prominent in the world.” florist of Battle Creek is preaching to his home city. Cars are running over the new South Burdick street extension at Kalamazoo. A system of combining school work and practical work in shops and offices will be tried this year in Bay City. Boys and girls showing special apti- tude for any class of work will be employed at that work afternoons and Saturdays, with renumeration for same. Secretary Chambers, of the Me- nominee Commercial Club, names four fundamental things that are neces- sary to make a real city, namely: to organize for efficiency; work for the common good, realizing that the erowth of the community is more important than the growth of the in- dividual; to build up the physical plan; to develop the agricultural growth. turned in Grand Rapids & Northwestern Railroad, grading oper- Dirt is actually being construction of the ations having begun at Crystal Valley. The Weston-Mott Co.'s new fac- tory at Flint, is declared to be one of the finest buildings of its kind in the world. Almond Griffen. [DEAL CLOTHING GrAND Farias. MICH Well known among con- sumers. The line that’s easy to sell. AONORBILT SHOES OFFICE OUTFITTERS LOOSE LEAF SPECIALISTS Tue J (ich Hine Co. 237-239 Pearl St. (near the bridge), Grand Rapids, Mich, 139-141 Monro. St . re Cos GRAND RAPIDS. MICH THE QUICK AND EASY WAY To raise money, reduce stock or close out your business is by an AUCTION sale. The man who can get the high $ is E. D. Collar, Ionia, Mich. Terms reasonable. Write or phone. The New Stationery House Indoor Base Balls In stock to retail at 10c, 25c, 50c, $1.00. Better order a few. Inks In stock for immediate delivery the complete lines manufactured by Diamond Ink Co. Carters Ink Co. Stafford Ink Co. Powell Ink Co. Shipped at once and dated De- cember Ist. Will P. Canaan Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1913 “PARAM 95300 Mile G AUVi® Special Introductory Pric Paramount tires contain ONE MORE ply than make good everywhere—all the time. 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From all indications the holiday trade in footwear and allied merchan- dise now commonly carried by alert shoe dealers is going to be excep- tionally good during the holiday sea- son of 1913. In spite of a few occasional sporad- ic plaints that have come up from isolated sections, the fact remains that the whole country 1s inundated with prosperity, and almost everywhere the delectable swashings of it may bs heard. And country-wide prosperity, Imow, is obly another way of selling is going you saying the holiday to be good. The important thing for you, the boss of a fairly husky retail shoe busi- ness, to do is to sit down with your- quiet nook, and ask your- self this question; “Things being as they are, am I likely to get my share of this big and lucrative holiday trade in footwear and footwear accessor- Don’t say the game isn’t worth The profits on much self, in a ies?” the candle; for it is. holiday specials are ever so larger than they are on regular and staple lines. And there’s no use say- ing your trade wont fall for such things for your customers are, I dare say very much like other normal and naturally acquisitive the world over. And that means only that they are charmingly susceptible to the beauties and allurements of our mod- ern footwear specials, latter day foot- adornments, and current foot- persons wear wear accessories. Not to go into tedious details anent a large and many-sided matter, but merely by way of casually hitting the high spots, I will venture to say that the manufacturers of holiday footwear specials have this season easily sur- passed their own best previous rec- ords. In the matter of variety of holiday wares that may be purchased. in the goodness and showiness of them—in their sheer giftableness— they are simply fetching. Gone are the seasons of necessary prosiness when everybody's windows sparkled but the shoe dealer's; when the Christmas shopper's fancy ran to anything and everything rather than prosaic and matter-of-fact foot- toggery, and Christmas shoppers sel- dom darkened the shoe merchant’s door; when the holly and the tinsel, the festoons and the ribbons, the hol- iday merchandise, the holiday spirit and the holiday shoppers, were monop- olized by dealers in other lines. The retail shoe dealer or the merchant who handles footwear and footwear accessories in conjunction with other lines should now realize that the holi- days may be made to mean as much to him as they long have meant to certain other merchandisers. There- fore aggressive shoe dealers are getting in the game and going after this holiday business. Preparation Time. If you are not already engaged in making ready for the holiday trade it is time you were getting busy. Just five weeks now until Thanksgiving, and four weeks from Thanksgiving until Christmas! The time is short. And much depends on your being ready. Have you supplied yourself with sufficient quantities of Christmas spec- ials? Are you sufficiently stocked with traveling, comfy and bath slippers, for “the gentleman” and automobile boots for milady? Have you a few of those new, high grade, ultra smart and altogether desirable footwear creations for dress and occa- sional wear for grown-ups, and some of the season’s decidedly charming footwear showings for little people? Is your findings department strong on those new and serviceable commo- dities that ought to move lively dur- ing pre-holiday times? Have you an ample assortment of those new and dainty things in lisle thread and silk hosiery for adult wear? Have you laid in a supply of cut steel and rhinestone buckles—and, perhaps, a few heel ornaments and few “tango” sets? Have you an attractive line of pump bows, pom-poms for slippers, and such other footwear jewels and decorations, and seasonable shoe store accessories as, in your judgment, local conditions warrant your having? bootees Hiave you any time recently taken an inventory of your Christmas de- corations? Some of the bunting, rib- bons, and special window accessories may need to be brightened up or dis- carded: for dingy Christmas decora- tions aren't conductive. And you will, most likely, require quite a bit of fresh decorative material. Think the matter what you want so you can supply your needs before all the best materials and the warmest colors have been picked out by others. over and decide In order to deflect the stream of Christmas shoppers passing your doors it is simply up to you to throw out some decidedly bright and at- tractive inducements in the way of window trims. Your windows should fairly bulge with the Christmas spirit. And your interior trims and decora- tions should be in perfect accord Make your little old shoe shop one of the brightest places on the street. Let your reds with the occasion. be the warmest and richest reds ob- tainable, and your greens the softest and most restful greens that ever rested mortal eyes. I think the main trouble with sc many shoe dealers in other seasons lies in the fact that they have gone after the holiday trade rather tardily. Too often their decorations looks as if they were an after-thought—so hast: ily were they assembled, so crudely put together. It is as if many of them had actually forgotten that Christmas was coming until they were reminded of its approach by the increasing streams of shoppers on their way to other stores. Take time by the fore- lock. Set your heart on securing the biggest and most profitable holidav Cid McKay. trade you ever had. the way of quality. Have You Ordered Your “Rear Brands” If not, would it not be the wisest of business policy to order them now, so you will have them when needed? The Wales Goodyear (Bear Brand) Rubbers are the undisputed standard of quality, and if you are not handling them you are not getting all you should in Order to-day or send card for price list. Yet? ‘Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. (Distributors) Manufacturers ‘‘H. B. Hard Pan” and ‘‘Bertsch’’ Shoe Lines Grand Rapids, Mich. The Michigan People A Strong Shoe at a Low Price SOLID AS A ROCK No. 2340 with tip @ $2.00 No. 2341 without tip @ $2.00 Less 10% in 10 days Grand RapidsShoe & Rubber (o. Be JBscuican 5 he This shoe will make you many friends among the men who work. + Just the shoe for fall and win- ter weather. Grand Rapids “ge “ge October 22, 1913 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 Get Ready to Report Your Income. The attention of Collectors of In- ternal Revenue is being directed by the Treasury Department at Washington, to the administration of the personai income tax feature of the new tariff law. George Clapperton, Collector for the Fourth District of Michigan, esti- mates that, at least 8,000 persons in this district will be subject to this in- come tax, although a much larger num- ber will naturally be called upon for reports under the law. It will be neces- sary for citizens amenable to the law relating —____ The mail order houses get trade simply by asking people to buy from them and by asking them often. You can do the same. FOR THE BOY This Rouge Rex Shoe, made in both black and tan, is an ideal shoe for the boy or youth. It is solid leather throughout and put to- gether for service. Don’t overlook the boy. He'll soon be a man, and even now his needs in footwear re- quire special attention. If you satisfy him now you'll have the oppor- tunity to do so again. Write for samples of these shoes. Hirth-Krause Company Hide to Shoe Tanners and Shoe Manufacturers Grand Rapids, Mich. a Pola AINE VCS Ee The Hunting Season Is On patrons. Write us about it. | Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd. Grand Rapids, Mich. Whether you want six pairs or thirty-six we can supply the height that will surely satisfy your most particular ; & MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1913 STS SSE a ree Some Suggestions About Naming the Baby. Written for the Tradesman. “God hath blessed you with a good name” is an expression found in the writings of that epitomizer of all wisdom, Shakespeare. So widespread and firm is the belief that a good name is a great blessing and acts as a potent send-off in life, that parents are wont to ransack every possible source to find a suitable cognomen for each tiny newcomer. Much is depending upon the taste and wisdom exercised in the selection. When it is considered that the name bestowed now upon the lately ar- rived little wayfarer will be the desig- nation by which publicly and private- ly he will be known during life, that it will serve as the handle by which he will be introduced into society and business, and finally in sepulchral in- scription will stand on his tombstone to remind an unremembering world that he has been, something of the moment of the issues involved is real- ized, and it is seen that naming a baby is not a task to be entered upon lightly and unadvisedly. Speaking of tombstones, I lately saw a freshly chiseled marker holding up to an irreverent and fun-loving humanity this inscription — Miss Missouri Simpkins, 1859—1911. What, oh what, could that poor creature ever have done to deserve in life and in death so absurb an appellation? Just as for any manufactured ar- ticle a name that will take well has an almost unlimited commercial value, so with the individual, a name pleas- ing, euphonious, and possessing char- acter and distinctive individuality is a priceless personal asset; while an ill-sounding name or one of displeas- ing significance is a serious handicap. The choice of a name that will prove satisfactory to its now helpless and speechless little recipient, is made much more difficult by the fact that the patronymic or sirname, except in the rare cases where it may be so ob- noxious as to demand change by leg- islative enactment, is fixed and prac- tically unalterable. Consequently something must be selected that will go well with it, and this in many cases is by no means easy to do. No less a personage than President Wilson is credited with other things being equal, a man whose name consists of a dactyl and a spon. dee—that is, of a word of three syl- lables with accent on the first, follow- ed by a word of two syllables—stands the best chance for success in public life. His idea is that popular favor is more readily accorded to such a name as Abraham Lincoln or Theo- saying thar, dore’ Roosevelt than to one like George Washington or Andrew Jack- son. A little study of celebrities soon convinces one that many men man- age to arrive whose names are not of the favored dactyl-spondee compo- sition. That combination, however, is unquestionably very good. This brings up the whole subject of the euphony of names. Run over the list of our Presidents and see what a fine sounding lot they are. There surely is much in just the right kind of a name. A man with such a name as Grover Cleveland, for instance, could hardly have failed to amount to something beyond the or- dinary. In this matter of euphony, many thoroughly well-meaning parents err sadly. They choose given names the farthest possible removed from _har- monizing and blending in sound with the family name. The ancient Greeks had very nicely attuned ears. Many auditory atroci- ties that we moderns endure right along they wouldn‘t stand for. A suc- cession of two vowel sounds, one it the end of one word and one at the beginning of another, was especially displeasing to them and was called an hiatus, a gaping—it kept the mouth open too long. They had ways of avoiding the hated hiatus, by contrac- tion, by elision—dropping out the first of the two vowels—or, in some cases, by slipping in the movable consonant. The Greeks never would have allow- ed a boy to be called Alvah Arthur nor a girl Elsie Irene; nor is such a succesion of vowel sounds, either in two given names or a given name and the family name, pleasing in our togue. Space forbids any full treatment of this phase of our subject. Just enough has been said to warn against harsh and barbaric successions and combina- tions. A Christian or baptismal name that is very good with one family name may be entirely wrong with another. Ward McAllister is most pleasing to the ear. Not so Ward Dunlap. Mark Antony can hardly be improved; while Mark Kempton ‘s difficult to speak and has little to recommend it. The widely prevailing practice of naming children after famous men is responsible for some very illustrious names being attached to very com- monplace persons. If you must name your boy after a great man, you would better choose one who is dead; then you know his whole career. Otherwise you may find yourself in the position of that father who had fondly bestowed upon his son the name of the popular idol of the hour, and who, when that idol’s fame took a sudden tumble, frankly expressed himself as wishing he had named his youthful heir Anythinz Else! The custom of giving to a son the mother’s family name, or that other of bestowing upon him the Christian name of the paternal or the maternal grandfather or the names of both, has much to commend it; as has also that of the oldest son’s taking the father’s name and passing it down from generation to generation. although this last is open to the senior and junior objection. However, no one of these practices ever should be followed unless it will result in giving to the child a desir- able name. The main thing is not to honor well-loved ancestors, nor to pay for past nor to curry future fa- vors, but to give the baby a good title. As to nicknames and pet names, there is much to be said for and against. No one would want to de- prive the Scotch of their Sandys nor the Irish of their Pats and Biddys;: and other pet names seem a fitting part of the warmth and familiarity of home life. But names suited only to infancy and childhood often cling with bur-like tenacity. When a man ‘has to go through life known to out- siders as well as to his own folks as Willie or Eddie, or a young gentle- man or a young lady is greeted every- where as Babe, good taste is offended: The name given to the tiny baby should have enough of dignity for the mature man or woman. A childish name is a humiliation in middle age and later life. The mite of humanity that now tips the beam at only seven or eight pounds may some day serve on committees and be a member of executive boards, and possibly run for office, An item recently going the rounds of the newspapers tells how a Mrs. Nannie Somebody won out over her opponent in a hotly contested recali election. She succeeded in spite of her name. Her supporters must have been very loyal, for it certainly would go against the grain to whoop it up very hard for a candidate named Nan- nie. Virtues and abstract qualities are risky as names. Your Faith may prove an agnostic, your Prudence, reckless, your Grace, clumsy and awkward. Blanche may turn out a brunette and Ivy or Fairy develop into a person of the dreadnaught type. There are fads and fashions in names as in other things. Two or three decades ago, in some sections it was believed that about the only square deal toward a promising boy baby was to name him Earl. Of late years Dorothy has been a great favor- ite for girls. Some names have a staple quality and we do not tire of them. There can hardly be too many Roberts or Wal- ters, Emmas or Helens. There are other names that seem to be novel- ties; they are pleasing at first but do not wear well. A few Beulahs in a neighborhood and the name becomes hackneyed. There has been within the last twenty-five or thirty years a decided change for the better in the selection of names, particularly those of girls. Weak diminutives are not nearly so rites LONG DISTANCE SERVICE MICHIGAN STATE ] TELEPHONE. CO. Make Out Your Bills THE EASIEST WAY Save Time and Errors. Send for Samples and Circular—Free. Barlow Bros. Grand Rapids, Mich. THE FIRST AND FOREMOST BUILDERS OF COMPUTING SCALES GENERAL SALES OFFICE 165 N. STATE ST., CHICAGO e ALWAYS OPEN TERRITORY TO FIRST CLASS SALESMEN October 22, 1913 popular as they once were. There are fewer Maties and Millies and Dollies than formerly and more Marys and Margarets and Katherines. Taste has improved but the means for its exercise has not kept pace. Whoever is charged with the impor- tant duty of naming a baby soon finds that in good appropriate, euphonious names the range of choice is woefully limited. We never have orginated any names of our own, we always have borrowed from other races, and ‘t seems to have been a long time since we have negotiated any new loans. Our nicknames change from gener- ation to generation—some showing great originality and freshness. Not so with the names that can be given to a child as its formal title. To these we have made few additions since the times of our grandfathers. While we have coined technical and_ scientific terms and names for contrivances and inventions by the thousand, our re- pertoire of names for a baby is almost as limited as in the days of stage coaches. New names are needed for the new babies—names not borrowed nor begged from other nations, but names of our own, expressive of the live of genius of this country and these times. Quillo. —_++>—__ Have Specialty Salesmen Been Over- developed? Kalamazoo, Oct. 21—It is a self- evident fact that the specialty sales- man has been over-developed, and the result of his activities is frequently seen among susceptible dealers who have been overloaded, in conditions of unprofitable competition to get rid of slow or surplus stock at any price. The average retail grocer in good credit has ten to fourteen salesmen a day calling upon him. If the dealer is an observer he may extract much valuable information from these ubiq- uitous visitors, but this is the excep- tion, however, rather than the rule. They come to sell by hook or by crook, not to instruct. The sales manager demands results from his field force; must have them, in fact, to justify his own existence to his principals, an inevitable frenzy for orders possesses the unit salesman, he knows no speed limit; discretion is thrown to the winds; the commer- cial safety of the dealer is no element of consideration, so that stuffing and overloading become the rule rather than the exception, As a conseqttence most dealers find themselves carrying an excess of dead stock, which soon- er or later must find its way to the bargain counter. More than 50 per cent. of the aver- age retail grocer’s stock is sold at a gross profit of 8 per cent.; the re- mainder must earn a margin of 50 to 60 per cent. in order to pull out 2 living in the finals, as it costs the re- tailer 20 to 25 per cent. to do business in Michigan. Mercantile agency sta- tistics show that less than 10 per cent. of those who engage in the retail gro- cery trade succeed. The survivors who are capable enough to strive for volume on a cash basis win out. Those who do a promiscuus credit business fail. The specialty salesman is generally MICHIGAN TRADESMAN an adventurer who floats around from One manufacturer to another. He rarely knows anything intrinsically about the goods which he sells, but as he is operating on a salary and commission basis, he is going to get the orders somehow He plays one dealer against another, working shrewdly upon the cupidity of all and taking every chance of cancellations, rejections and returns. On Saturday morning, when he is on the carpet before the sales manager, his week’s result must show that he has made good. He is the slave of system, and gets to the end of his rope in due course, for, on forced sales the repeats come slowly if ever. Meanwhile the jobber who is made the clearing house for all this business is having his troubles trying to collect, or holding the bag between the dealer and the manufacturer on disputed orders, re- turns and accrued cartages, with all the incidental correspondence and ir- ritation involved. Before the wave of specialization and publicity which now’ envelops grocery interests struck us a com- mission salesman was a safe and sane proposition. He conservatively built up the units in his trade, selling the dealer his wants and growing with the expansion and success of his custom- ers. He was invariably a shrewd judge of merchandise and _ studied market conditions. His strength was largely in the advisory relation, which he judiciously took to his client. They believed in him; were guided by him, and their confidence was rarely abus- ed. He perceived the folly of dump- ing unprofitable or slow goods upon his customers merely to unload and make a showing. In other words, he was a merchant, whereas the specialty man as we now find him is merely an order taker, a bird of passage, here to-day, away to-morrow. Missionary work among customers is rarely de- pendable. The class of men who can- vass from door to door for orders are chiefly derelicts who as a last re- sort find refuge in the advertising department, which supervises this dis- tributive auxiliary. A large precent- age of orders taken in this manner are obviously faked and promotly re- pudiated, and meanwhile the dealer has been strenuously worked; stocked up to fill missionary orders, and load- ed to the limit to “keep the other fellow out.” These methods can have—do have —only one result—the demoralization of the retailer and his eventual failure, with stubstantial losses to jobbers, through whom his orders have been cleared. Deals and futures are alike systems of unsound merchandizing. Retailers become speculators, instead of being always in the market and buying for their wants as they go. The dealer who is known to regularly discount his bills has bargains thrown at him ad libitum, which his over- loaded and long-winded competitor cannot take advantage of, as he is “behind” with his jobber and “collec- tions are slow.” The logical inference of the whole situation is that the com- mission salesman has outlived his use- fulness. The man who sell goods profitably must hereafter enjoy a fix- ed salary, giving all his time and the best that is in him to his principals and to his customers. His success will be of the slow growth which mu- tual confidence, cemented by tried and trusted relations alone produces. He must study his business with patience and industry and stand as the honest broker between his principals and his clients. There is too much brazen super- ficiality in current specialization. This is being trimmed, however, by new conditions which demand at least a return to sound stable fundamentals. which in the frenzy of modern meth- ods may have been temporarily ob- scured, but were never really shaken. Railroading and merchandising run hand in hand; both have been tempt- ed to travel a little too fast, and each is learning over again the parable of the hare and the turtle. But mean- while a terrific price has been paid for knowledge thus obtained. Make of the specialty salesman a stable, intelligent and reliable factor in distribution, and as you sow so shall you reap. The over-zealous specialty man, in his wild rush to produce, and the commission sales- man, in his necessity to obtain orders, create a condition of inside competi- tion which in no small degree explains the trials and tribulations to which contracts and trade agreements on limited goods have been of late sub- jected. Besides, the small jobber who is unencumbered by an elaborate and costly organization, owns most of his goods and buys as cheap as the big fel- low, is in a position to advantageously divide profits and split rebates, which temporarily turns trade to him, at least until the commission salesman for the large house finds it out and proceeds at once to do likewise, as he must hold his business. Better methods, better merchants and better salesmen are the only visible remedy, and it is encouraging to know that we are surely if slowly working to this much desired end.—Retail Grocer. a Valor of Ignorance. Mr. Snibbles got out of bed and slipped on his shoes. “This must stop,” he muttered ir- ritably to his wife. “I’m going down- stairs to teach that young man to keep away from my house in the future.” “John,” cried his wife, “stop! Don't so7-—" But before she could say more he had slipped out of the door. She heard him steal down-stairs to the drawing- room; she heard sounds of a struggle and of the breaking of glass; she heard him drag his adversary to the hall and kick him down the front steps. Then when he returned she flung herself upon him and clung to him admiringly. “What's the matter?” he demanded. “Don't you know?” she answered. “That was a burglar!” “Great Scott!” he gasped, turning pale. “Why didn’t you tell me be- fore? I thought it was Ethel’s sweet- heart.” ———_s-2.> The best customers are the live cus- tomers. If you want live customers you must be a live merchant. 21 IT’S PURE! Tell the Trade Mapleine Is listed in Westfield’s Book of Pure Foods es) i may AM ; . sO Order of your jobber or Louis Hilfer Co. 4 Dock St., Chicago, Ill. Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash. 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. Registered U.S. Vat. off They are staple goods, the standards of the world for purity and excellence. MADE ONLY BY W alter Baker & Co. Limited DORCHESTER, MASS, Established 1780 LAMSON Since 1879 Lamson Carriers have met every demand of advancing requirements of modern store service until to-day they are found indispensible in more than eighty thousand American stores, ranging from the three-clerk shop all up the line. to the world’s most celebrated and palatial establish- ments, from Dawson to Mexico City, from New York to Manila. Ask Your Neighbor! Wire, Cable, Tube and Belt Carriers THE LAMSON COMPANY BOSTON, U.S. A. SERVICE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1913 MEN OF MARK. O. A. Fanckboner, Secretary of Will P. Canaan Co. Orin A. Fanckboner was born in Schoolcraft, Michigan, February 12, 1858. Hlis father was a farmer, and in the same occupation he passed his boyhood, obtaining meanwhile a good common school education. Farm work becoming distasteful he studied telegraphy and obtained a position as an operator in Chicago. He was called home in a few months by his father’s illness, and for one year man- aged the farm. At the expiration of that time he was free to return to telegraphy, but the salaries paid were too meager for the skill required, so for two years he clerked in the gro- cery store of his uncle. He then accepted a position in a drug store, which he held for two years, studying with great assiduity during his leisure time. He then decided to go West and take up land. He settled at Ree Heights, Dakota, in the fall of 1882, and soon after opened a small drug store in the town, which he con- tinued eight years. He then came to Grand Rapids and engaged in the re- tail drug business on East Bridge street, near the corner of Union street. In 1891 he removed to the corner of Clancy street, where he continued business twelve years, sell- ling out in December of last year to Tanner & Matthews, who continue the business at the same location. Mr. Fanckboner was married May 12, 1887, to Miss Florence Townsend. of Randolph, Wis. They have two boys, who are now grown to man- hood. Charles, the elder son, is lo- cated on a farm near Grandville, and Harry, the younger son, is connected with the Michigan Insurance Bureau. The family reside in their own home at 417 Prospect avenue, north. Previous to engaging in the drug business, Mr. Fanckboner took a course of study at the National Institute of Pharmacy in Chicago, in which he dis- tinguished himself by his zeal, enthusi- asm, systematic methods and prompt- ness in recitation. At the conclusion of his course he received the highest average standing in pharmacy that had been granted by that institution up to that time. Mr. Fanckboner is a member of the Masonic order, being affiliated with Valley City Lodge No. 86, Grand Rapids Chapter and Tyre Council. He is also a member of Kent Camp, Modern Woodmen. Mr. Fanckboner is a stockholder in the Commercial Savings Bank of Grand Rapids, the First National Bank of Franklin, Texas, and a direc- tor in the Herrick Piano Co. of Grand Rapids and the Standard Orchard Co. of Texas, which owns the largest peach orchard in that State, having 165,000 trees under cultivation. Mr. Fanckboner attributes his suc- cess to being everlastingly on the job, which is probably as good a reason to give as any other. Aside from this, however, he is endowed with a degree of shrewdness and 4 capacity for good judgment which will enable him to make his mark in any field in which he might enter. Mr. Fanckboner has joined forces with the Will P. Canaan Co. in the con- fident belief that he can assist in building up a large and profitable busi- ness and the best wishes of the trade go with him in his new undertaking. —_>+>__—_ Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids, Oct. 20—Many fav- orable comments have reached the ears of “ye scribe” from among the traveling men on the editorial in last week’s Tradesman headed Double Dealing Rebuked. The part of it re- ferring to the compact among busi- ness men and one of our leading dai- lies is very forceful. In reference to the policy of said daily in the pub- lishing of erroneous and seeminglv misleading statements and its failure a comment as Double Dealing Re- buked. L. E. Janney, who has been confined to his home for four weeks, is now well again and able to resume his duties. The Hotel Wright, at Alma, is surely adopting pretty poor tactics in securing business, judging from the experience related by a travel- ing man, who recently stopped there. It seems a telephone call was receiv- ed by the clerk at 5:30 a. m. and another later and the answer was that no such man was in the house, where- as he was there and had been since 6 o’clock the night before. As a re- sult, the guest, knowing nothing about the call, went to the next town, where he finally received the call, announc- Orin A. Fanckboner. to correct same with equal promi- nence and display as to space, we believe it often tends to destroy pub- lic confidence in the power of the While discussing the policy of this paper, we are led to believe that its high handed tactics are used by all papers under the McRae-Booth control. certain through the comments of the press. Scripps- This we as- trade in several cities having papers published by this combination. Con- trary to the general idea that the newspapers try to be reasonably fair, the continuance of this policy by these papers makes us believe they have copyrighted unfairness and propose to protect the copyright and we great- ly regret that the Michigan Trades- man does not go to every person in Michigan, in order that a larger niim- ber of the readers of these syndicate papers throughout the State might have an opportunity to read so frank ing serious illness in his family. He was compelled to drive back to Alma in an automobile to catch the train at an expense of $7. Hotels of this kind need the boycott treatment. We feel an irresistable impulse to write a few words about our elephan- tine brother, G. K. Coffey, in this week’s issue of the Tradesman. We tried to get his photograph, but he tells us he has not had one taken since adding the last 200 pounds of avoir- dupois and we don’t want a skinny picture. Mr. Coffey affiliated himself with the Crown Baking Powder Co. in 1896 and has been with it con- tinuously ever since, which makes it unnecessary for us to state that he “delivers the goods.” As G. K. sells an unadvertised piece of merchandise against strong competition, this is no easy task, but his success is explained by the fact that he is the greatest living contradiction to the phrase, “nobody loves a fat man.” Bro. Cof- fey has a host of friends, both among the merchants and “the boys,’ whom he has acquired by close application, integrity and agreeableness. He is getting a little advertising at present by the fact that his son, Glen. K., is one of the star players on the Central High foot ball team of this city. The boy is a chip of the old block for, although but 17 years of age, he is six feet, two inches high, weighs 180 pounds. Rather a large chip. We all unite in wishing you con- tinued prosperity, Bro. Coffey. Bro. Keane says it wasn’t absent- mindednes at all. He just didn‘t want to address these envelopes that night, anyway. Well, did you attend the dancing party last Saturday evening? If so, you are saying it was some party. If not, you missed a rare treat, for those who were there never will stop talking about it. Honestly, now, wasn’t it a record smasher? About sixty-five couple were in attendance and the best part of it is they were all live ones. Everyone entered into the spirit of the occasion with a vim and enthusiasm that made the three hours seem like about twenty min- utes and those gowns! Well, we are not going to try to describe them. They had to be seen to be appreciat- ed. Tuller’s orchestra was in atten- dance with its usually rich and varied selections—both instrumental and vo- cal. And the refreshments—well, we don’t know just what was put into that punch bowl, but its bacchanalian influence on some of the men was such as to make it impossible for them to keep to their feet. They claimed it was the slippery floor, but then we have our opinions about it. The whole evening, from every angle, was a most pleasant one and everyone present was thanking his lucky stars that he was a member of the U. C. T. or a friend of a member. We notice quite a few of our members bring an extra lady and also notice the absence of our members. Come up, boys, we will assure you a partner for every dance We note from Associated Press Dispatcher from Lansing that Bro. John W. Thorne, of Owosso Council, has been appointed State hotel in- spector. His duties, as we understand them, are to be the enforcement of the regulations prescribed for the proper conduct of hotels, as set forth in the Henry law, enacted by the last Legislature. We are very glad to note that something is being done with reference to improving the con- ditions of health and comfort of those who are obliged to spend a greater part of their time away from home. We extend to Brother Thorne hearty congratulations upon his appointment and assure him our earnest co-opera- tion. In a future issue we plan to deal at length and in detail with this question, giving credit where credit is due and frank criticisms where negligence is apparent. The next dancing party will be held Nov. 15. Bro. Hambleton, of Jackson Coun- cil, No. 57, has gone into the meat business at Albion. E. A. Clark and wife spent last a es October 22, 1913 week in Detroit visiting friends. Mrs. G. K. Coffey has been confined to the house for some time under the care of a doctor and nurse. Mr. Cof- fey says it is the first time he ever returned from his trip and found her unable to meet him at the door with the glad hand. We are pleased to report that she is convalescing. Trainer C. D. Lawton desires us to announce that he wishes to meet the members of the foot ball squad at Island Park Saturday night at 11:45 for secret practice. In the meantime the players are under positive orders not to eat any meat or starchy foods, but must subsist on a diet of break- fast foods, floating island, salted wa- fers and eggs. No player who ex- pects to join the team will be allowed to smoke, drink or play rum. These orders will be strictly enforced. Cof- fey, Beardsley and McConnell, please take notice. The “Banana Kid,’ who, for some- time has been expatiating on the vir- tues of the products sold by A. Casi- bianca, is now with the Quaker Oats Co, PS. The “Banana Kid’ is sometimes known as E. A. Clark. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Wykkel, have been taking a two months’ trip to British returned last Friday and report a good time. They who Columbia, visited the Canadian Rockies and, on stopped over at the Grand Canon, petrified forests anil other points of interest. Ed. who has considerable reputation locally at catching blue gills in Reed’s Lake, has some real fish stories now to tell about salmon fishing at Vancouver. their return, Among the visitors at the dancing party Saturday night were Bro. L. Fogelsong’s father and mother. The new dining room at the Post Tavern, Battle Creek, was opened to the public last week. This is said to be the best and most elaborate dining room in the State. The old dining room will be used for serving meals to small parties. The last seen of E. F. Scott after the dance Saturday night he was hang- ing onto a hot dog wagon. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Albert Keane were also seen chasing a street car the leneth of Monroe avenue and missed it. Mrs. Keane says if Jim could half sprint they could have caught it. The following hotels stick to the roller towel:. The Ryland, at Stan- dish, Dalton, at Jackson and Repub- lic) at Bay City. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Bolen and Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Cain were in such good spirits after the dance that they decided to have a “spread,” which was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cain. Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, earnestly requests all members to no- tify the Council in case of any mis- fortune befalling them. Unless you tell us you are sick or hurt or in hard luck, it is impossible for us to extend you the glad hand of good fellowship to which you are entitled. Mr. and Mrs. Hall, of Lansing, at- tended the dancing party last Saturday evening. Bro. Hall is a member of Auto City Council, but is about to transfer to No. 131. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Ellwanger have MICHIGAN TRADESMAN been making a two weeks’ visit among friends and relatives at DeWitt and Muskegon. Hf. W. Bradley, formerly with the American Tobacco Co., is now with the National Liquid Soap Co., of Grand Rapids. He says he is going to see that the boys get clean soap, if they do have to wipe on roller towels. Art. Borden left his compass at home last Monday morning and the result was that he boarded a train for Chicago instead of Lansing. John Schumacher is requested to install a Citizens telephone in _ his house. Only twenty-four days left before the next dancing party. ' And now we have to buy more coal. Allen F. Rockwell. —_—_»-2—____ Doings in the Buckeye State. Written for the Tradesman. Ohio will undertake to raise suffi- cient stuff on its valuable lands to feed the 10,000 inmates of its eighteen State institutions. Prospective extension of the city limits of Youngstown means an in- crease in population of over 5,000. Dayton will motorize its fire de- partment and also part of the service branch of the city, the sum of $119,- 000 having been set aside for the pur- pose. Youngstown is taking steps toward securing a lower fire insurance rate. Judge Rogers, in the Common Pleas Court, Columbus, decided that the law passed by the last general assem- bly restricting the sale of groceries and food stuffs to weight is uncon- Stitutional i Et. man, was Steube, grocery- under the new law and fined $10 and costs in justice court. He was ordered committed to jail until he should pay the fine, but filed habeaus corpus proceedings to question the validity of the law. The court held that the State constitution and bill of rights give a citizen an inherent and inalienable right to dis- pose of property in whatever way he may see fit and that the Legislature arrested upon these Almond Griffen. has no right to infringe privileges. Established in 1873 BEST EQUIPPED FIRM IN THE STATE Steam and Water Heating Iron Pipe Fittings and Brass Goods Electrical and Gas Fixtures Canaan Iron an THE WEATHERLY co. 218 Pearl Street Grand Rapids, Mich. WHY NOT HAVE BEST LIGHT ? Steel Mantle Burners. Odorless Smokeless. Make coal oil produce gas—3 times more light. At dealers or prepaid by us for 25c. Steel MantleLightCo. 27°" Toledo, 0. The Ad Shown Above Which is running in a large list of select pub- lications, will certainly send customers to your store. If you are not prepared to supply them, you had better order a stock of our Burners at once. Accept no substitutes. The genuine is stamped “Steel Mantle, Toledo, Ohio.”’ If your jobber doesn’t handle them, send us his name, and we will make quota- tions direct to you. Sample Burner mailed for 25 cents. STEEL MANTLE LIGHT COMPANY 310 Huron St. Toledo. Ohio 23 Foster, Stevens & Co. Wholesale Hardware ot 157-159 Monroe Ave. :: 151 to 161 Louis N. W. Grand Rapids, Mich. Percheron Collars The Famous “SUN-BEAM’”’ BRAND wy, Sou aun TRADE - MARK. ZZ Sun-Beam PRRCHERON Collars are properly fitted, and will do away with sore necks. It fits the collar bone, will not chafe or irritate as the straight collars do. The Percheron is scientific in construction. Let us send you particulars. Why not? Brown & Sehler Co. Home of ‘“‘Sun-Beam’’ Goods Grand Rapids, Mich. Reynolds Flexible Asphalt Shingles HAVE ENDORSEMENT OF LEADING ARCHITECTS Fire Resisting Fully Guaranteed pee teat tn Wood Shingles After Five Years Wear Beware of Imitations. Ask for Sample and Booklet. Write us for Agency Proposition. Distributing Agents at Reynolds Slate Shingles After Five Years Wear Detroit Kalamazoo Columbus Youngstown Utica Milwaukee Saginaw Battle Creek Cleveland Buffalo Scranton St. Paul Lansing Flint Cincinnati ate Boston Lincoln, Neb. Jackson Toledo Dayton Worcester Chicago Syr: And NEW YORK “CITY H. M. REYNOLDS ASPHALT SHINGLE C0. Original Manufacturer, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Klingman’s Sample Furniture Co. The Largest Exclusive Retailers of Furniture in America Where quality is first consideration and where you get the best for the price usually charged for the inferiors elsewhere. Don't hesitate to write us. You will get just as fair treatment as though you were here personally. Corner Ionia, Fountain and Division Sts. Opposite Morton House Grand Rapids, Michigan 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1913 Avs TN QIAO TN Grand Council of Michigan VU. 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. ‘ ee Treasurer—Henry E. Perry, De- roit. Grand Conductor—W. S. Lawton, Grand Rapids. Grand Page—F. J. Moutier, Detroit. Grand Sentinel—John +. Richter and Wendle in a New Role. Traverse City, Oct. 20—The suc- cessful traveling salesman of to-day must be a man of tact and resources. knowing that many of the buyers take some time for relaxation by attending the picture shows in the afternoon, Fred Richter and Wallie Wendle have a clever team stunt they put on in their customers’ stores to entertain them while they are getting orders. Last week their most entertaining number was the Littie Dog song, which made a tremendous hit. The spectacular part of the show is suc- cessfully pulled off by Fred and a loaded cigar which induced the buyer to order asbestos. Richter was called on for so many encores at Boyne City that a brother U. C. T. saved the county some expense by paying his hotel bill. Fred caught the train as it slowed up for a curve about a mile out of town, Kean Observer. evening. The Story of a Man Who Was Stung. Written for the Tradesman. : Not so very long ago a number of merchants who should have know1 better took on a widely advertised premium scheme. Each one had his fingers badly burned. Below is the tale of it “The Merchant From In- diana.” He came to me while his burns still hurt and told me a story that I take pleasure in repeating here. The salesman of the premium com- pany came to him with details of the gold mine which a merchant might have for the asking and painted such a rosy picture that Mr. Retailer finally put his signature at the bottom of a contract which for comprehensiveness and complexity had a fire insurance policy beaten to death. Like so many of his brethren, Mr. Retailer failed to study the contract before he signed. Iie also failed to study his contract after he signed and went merrily onto his doom. The goods he contracted for finally came and he began the ad- vertising campaign which the premium people had planned for him. Custom- ers were interested and lots of them took chances on the merchandise. Things went on serenely and business seemed to be booming. Then troubles came. Only one premium was to be given, and the conditions named in the con- tract were so displeasing to ple that they complained to tailer in no uncertain terms. powerless, the contract bound and so he had to sit and suffer. The contract guaranteed him against and also guaranteed a certain increase in his business, but this lat- ter guarantee was qualified by several conditions which never could have been fulfilled. When the contest end- ed and the results guaranteed failed to show up, the retailer demanded the forfeit from the premium company and then received a letter from their lawyer which stated that “Mr. Mer- chant” failed to live up to all the agreements of the contract. Now, too late, he began to study that contract and saw that he wa: cornered. All told, the premium con- test lost him the good will of about fifty customers and an amount of money approximately $325. Anderson Pace. —_2+. How the Minister Is Treated. Once upon a time a manager asked George Ade if he had ever been taken “No.” replied Ade, treated like one.” the peo- Mr. Re- He was him loss for a minister. “but I have been “How was that?” “T have been kept waiting for my salary six or seven months.” HOTEL CODY EUROPEAN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Best Beds That Money Can Buy G. J. Johnson Cigar Co. Ss. C. W. El Portana Evening Press Exemplar These Be Our Leaders _— October 22, 1913 CLOVERLAND. Zephyrs From the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Marquette, Oct. 20—We expect to report a most pleasant session for our next regular meeting Saturday even- ing, Oct. 25. We expect two or three candidates and when the business is over we expect our lady friends to call on us and entertain us with lunch- eon and a musical and literary pro- gramme. You bet we'll be there when the eats are on and when the ladies will be there. If we don’t have a 50 per cent. attendance I will miss my guess. How’s that, H. D.? Announcement has been made that the Stack Lumber Co. has been or- ganized at Escanaba and will take over all the property of the Escanaba Lumber Co. for the manufacture of timber in all of its branches. The personnel of the company will be pretty much the same as that of the old company, being as follows: John KK. Stack, Sr., President; John K. Stack, Jr, Wice-President. RB. Stack, Treasurer, and H. M. Stack, Secretary. The senior Mr. Stack will be General Manager, J. K. Stack, Jr., will superintend the timber and land departments. Rk. B. Stack will superin- tend the railway and logging depart- ments and TH. M. Stack will superin- tend the manufacturing and sales de- partments. The organization is cap- italized at $1,500,000, entirely paid in. The company 90,000 acres of hardwood lands in Mackinac, Luce, Schoolcraft and Delta counties. A large and modern mill, with two band saws, two re-saws, a planing mill, tie, shingle and lath mills will be erected in the early spring, either at Masonville or at Pike Lake, the site of which is to be determined within a week or two. The present plan is to operate this mill entirely by elec- tricity which will be generated by the company, arranged in unit system. This mill will be the first electrically operated plant of its kind in this por- tion of Cloverland and the plant in its entirety will represent in its con- struction and equipment the last and latest idea in modern sawmill con- struction. The company already owns a completely equipped railroad fifty- five miles long, which penetrates the heart of its immense tract of timber connecting the Soo Line at Pike Lake with the D., S. S. & A. at Seney, af- fording ideal transportation facilities in getting logs to the mill and in shipping the finished products. srad Webb, of Crystal Falls, the veteran hardware man, just found out that he is altogether too’sociable. The other day he visited at Marquette and left town on the 5:30 train for home, by way on theC.. M & St. P. All went well until he got to Ishpeming, when he thought he had a little more time than he had and with some friends on the sleeper going by the Cc. & N. W. to Chicago. Brad be- and he warmed up vo his subject so that he lost signt of the fact that his coach was moving. He thought lightly of it, thinking it was only switching, but after some kind friend told him that he was “on the way” he woke up and found him- Owns visited came interested MICHIGAN TRADESMAN self going back to Negaunee on the C. & N. W. and his suit case and gTip were conscientiously wending their way undirected toward Chicago on the St. Paul. Half an hour later he found himself back at Marquette, working like a Trojan to locate his grips, but at last accounts his. grips were “going yet,” while he muses in his up-to-date Crystal Falls hardware he smokes his corn cob, “When it comes to leaving my sleep- ing car, never again old boy, never again.” store, as Jim Campbell, of the Dunham House, St. Ignace, is making ready for the quiet winter season, after one of the most prosperous summer tour- ist season he has enjoyed for many years. Nobody need have any fears that Jim will close his hotel during the winter months this or any other winter, and only did so last winter in order to give Mrs. Campbell a much needed rest and the first one of any account she has had for eighteen years. Mr. Campbell very aptly calls this re- freshing, country homelike hotel the “My Wife and I” hotel and it is hard to tell which of them runs it the best. Since the burning of the Hotel Cad- illac, the tourist trade has come to the Dunham, so far as he could accommo- date them in a much smaller house, but he persistently looked to the com- mercial men’s interest and would never allow his tourist trade to in- convenience his regular trade among the boys on the road. Jim stays by us and we will stay by him. Taking it all in all, we have a pretty decent bunch of fellows representing the hardware trade in Upper Peninsu- la territory, with one exception, and it is with a good deal of humiliation that we are forced to confess that one of our number was recently seen on a railroad track not only intoxicated, but dishing up whisky from a quart bottle to several lumber jacks and oth- ers of his own stripe. We are grieved that the general standard of respect- ability should be thus lowered and dis- graced and we utter a Macedonian cry for a universally decent personality in our profession that will do credit to the houses we represent and to the organization with which we are con- nected. We are all watching with the deep- est of interest to see what is going to drop at Escanaba when the new Hotel Delta, now nearing completion, is thrown open to the public. It is with a great deal of pleasure that we can report that Wm. Anguilm has just about completed a fine three- story, twenty-four-room hotel at Rex- ton, on the Soo line, which is modern and up-to-date in every particular, being furnished throughout with elec- tric lights, steam heat and rooms with or without bath. The second floor will be used exclusively for the tran- sient trade, whose every comfort will be carefully safeguarded. This will be pleasing news to all the boys on the road who*operate on the Soo line, as it will be a convenient point to work from, both east and west, there being no hotel of any conse- quence nearer than Manistique on the west and the Soo on the east. An Irishman recently went before a judge to be naturalized. “Have you read the Declaration of Inde- pendencer’ “I have not’ said Pat. “Have you read the Constitution of the United States?” Honor.” “I have not, yer The Judge looked sternly at the applicant and asked: ‘What have you And Pat replied, “Faith, I have red hairs on me neck, yer Honor.” The cut of logs at the sawmill of Chas. Hebard & Son, of Pequaming, this year will be the largest in the history of the company. The cut was started on April 10 and will continue, in all probability, until Christmas eve. The logging is mostly done in the summer and Fred Hebard has brought that work up to such a degree of ef- ficiency that a log going through the read?” saw in the mill at a given hour was standing in the woods unattacked by the woodman’s axe only twenty-four hours previous. The €, M. & St. P. commenced work on a new passenger station at Iron Mountain. It will be 100 feet long by 35 feet wide and will be surrounded by It will be constructed of concrete and brick. Railroad has roomy pavilions. The modern and beautiful farm of Houwis Vanwinkle, at Vans Harbor, has just been sold to Isaac Bonifas for $27,000. The farm 10,000 acres of which acres are under cultivation. consists of 1,000 his is probably the largest single farm trans- nearly fer that has ever taken place in this vicinity. It is Mr. Bonifas’ intention to engage in the horse and stock rais- He has unlimited taith in the possibilities of Cloverland as ing business. a stock raising and farming region and regards this purchase as the most important investment of his business life. entire The receivership over the Marquette City & Presque Isle Railway, our lo- cal street car system, is about to be ended, but it is not stated in just what manner. Two courses are said to be open—one a foreclosure by the bondholders and the other placing the affairs of the railroad company in the hands of the old company. We hope it may be the former and not the latter. Then we may hope for some- thing, as we now have nothing at all adequate to the needs of a city of the importance of Marquette. starts in the middle of makes a size and The system the city, wealthy residence loop around the district and So far as popula- goes around the Island. tion goes, it serves not to exceed one- fifth of our 12,000 people. About the same is true of the area of territory it serves. Negaunee and Ishpeming have long desired an interurban serv- ice with us, but no satisfactory ar- rangements could be made_ here. There is a very large population at South Marquette, at the western and northwestern sides of the town, who are not served by the car service at all and its management has a sort of childish hobby that its great and only gold mine is to be found at Presque Isle, our summer resort. We hope that some more enterprising company may operate the road along more modern lines. Iron River is all worked up over a 25 hard problem. [t appears that a naugh” ty bad man kissed a school teacher, front of the school house or right on the mouth. What is racking which? either right in whether’ or If that naughty bad should come Iron River is, man to Marquette I'll wager he would run his legs off to get away when he saw the proposition he had to tackle and there would be no dis- pute. It may be surprising to some be- low the straits to know that Marquette produced this year, not only fine eat- ing peaches, but that several of our citizens are successfully growing as fine an article in grapes as has ever tasted. Ed. Quarters, North Fourth street, Arthur Jacobs, also of North Fourth street and Chris Nelson, been of Crescent street, have some splendid exhibits in the show windows of the Mr. Quarters gathered almost two bushels and says that he electric shop. has never taken any particular care of his vines whatever. They have been growing in his yard ever since he moved to the place, twelve years ago, and he thinks the twenty years old. vines are about Mr. Jacobs planted his Concord grapevine twenty-five years ago and it has been yielding fine grapes for about twenty years. He, but little attention to his Mr. Nelson gathered two and too, pays vines. one-half bushels this year. His vines are twenty years old, but have been transplanted several times. The Kelly Hardware Co., this city, has, in order to meet the growing de- mands of its business been obliged to vacant store adjoining its store, formerly occupied by the Dec- This Tt is now busily engaged in lease the orating Co. doubles its floor space. making the necessary alterations and will add a new line of Warren fix- tures, show cases and other furnish- ings and will increase its stock con- siderably when the alterations are made. The Kelly Hiardware Co. store will be as fine a hardware store as will be found north of the straits. What has become of Honks from Auto City Council? last week. We missed you ever and anon on the job with his usual full However. Sunny Jim is page. Ura Donald Laird. —_.2 > Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po- tatoes, at Buffalo. Bufialo, Oct. fresh, 26@52c; dairy, 25@27c; poor to good, all kinds, 20@22c. 22—Creamery butter, Cheese — New fancy 16@17%c; choice 15'4/@16c: poor to common, 6 (@10c. candled, 32@ 35c; cold storage, 25@26c. Poultry (live)— Turkeys, 15@22c; cox, 11@11%c; fowls, 13@16c; springs, 14@16c; ducks, 14@16c. Beans— Marrow, $3.75: medium $2.40: pea, $2.350¢2.40; white kidney, $3.50@ one db oo. Eges—Choice, fresh Potatoes—70@75c per bu. Rea & Witzig. —__+>+-—___ The installing of modern store fix- tures makes it possible for clerks to do more work in less time. It reduces the number of clerks needed. It saves you money in the end. ? MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1913 Bankruptcy Matters in Southwestern Dopoette an lame coe : i ea . S Kalamazoo the inventory and report of Total Fetes Soh $20,872.28 yo A = . f appraisers was filed and shows a total Property claimed as exempt. = > appraisement of $28,914.82, of which Household BOOdS oes eee e esse eee $ 120.00 AND amount $27,076.82 is for stock and fix- Wearing apparel ............... 120.00 tures. $600 for real estate, $750 open W CCC 10.00 accounts, $293 cash and the balance of a ep $195 in tools. The referee has entered Total ......e ces ee eee ee eee eee $250.00 a 5p

, i (Zz Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—Will E. Collins, Owosso. Secretary—E. T. Boden, Bay City. Treasurer—E. E. Faulkner, Delton. Other Members—John J. Campbell, Pigeon; Chas. S. Koon, Muskegon. Grand Rapids Meeting—November 158, 19 and 20. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa- tion President—D. G. Look, Lowell. Vice-Presidents—E. E. Miller, Traverse City; C. A. Weaver, Detroit. : Secretary—Von W. Furniss, Nashville. Treasurer—Ed. Varnum, Jonesville. Executive Committee—D. . Alten, Fremont; Ed. W. Austin, Midland; C. S. Koon, Muskegon; y. Cochrane, Kalamazoo; James Robinson, Lansing; Grant Stevens, Detroit. Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As- sociation. President—Geo. H. Halpin, Holland. Secretary-Treasurer—W. Ss. 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 Chairman; Henry Riechel, Committee—Wm. Quigley. Theron Forbes. How to Make Hot Soda Pay. handle Buy an apparatus that can business comes Bhock: = it buy in small pack- that no danger of spoiled goods. the business if your way. Buy good you are feeling your way, apes at first, so there will be Buy neat cups, mugs, and accessories. Keep the cold apparatus going, either partially er in full blast, according to your location. Hot soda will help you sell more cold soda, and vice versa. Give hot soda a little care in mixing; sloppy cold soda will sell where slop- py hot soda will not. Read up on the subject. Dont go into the business expect- ing to give it a month’s trial and then least a sea- throw it out. Give it at son's trial. Keep tab on your sales; if your business is growing steadily, right track. Let peo- running hot soda. If it has tried in neighborhood before, play up on the advertising Keep the counter and Have crackers, wafers, and napkins on hand. Taste time. you are on the ple know you are never been your strong. clean inviting. your own soda from time to Remember that business of this kind is business that you were not getting Remember that a successful new department not only makes mon- before. but increases your general and stamps you as a live ey itself, business man. don’t wait until field. If your customers are unacquainted with hot soda, hand out a free and there where it will do the most good. Talk hot soda. Believe in hot soda. Drink hot soda. Get accus- tomed to the idea that hot soda will lt will do it, And it more, what better start; your competitor takes the Get an early glass here pay your rent. it does nothing proposition do you want? Reasons for Running Hot Soda. 1. It adds nothing to cost for rent, light, heat and help. 2. You use the same space and practically the same equipment. 3. Your hot soda equipment will cost less than one-tenth of your cold soda equipment. 4. Your hot soda stock, bouillons, seasonings, etc., beef tea, will be less than one-tenth of your cold soda stock. 5. Your hot soda profits will be double your cold soda profits and your investment much smaller. A hot soda will show a profit of 3 to 3% cents and a 10-cent hot soda wiil show a profit of 6 to 8 cents. 6. Serving hot soda in the winter months you save greatly on ice cream, also on electric fans, 7. By serving hot soda you open up the possibilities of a winter lunch at the fountain and these two will help to keep your winter sales up nearly even with the summer sales. 5-cent cracked ice, etc. 8. Serving hot soda will keep alive your demand for cold soda and ice cream throughout the winter months even in zero weather. —_—_»+.+___ New Era in Pharmacy. Along with other changes that are taking place in present-day pharma- cy, there is a growing tendency in centralization of au- of the concerned, and pharma- cists in the State of New York, ticularly, the direction of thority where the regulation business is par- appear to be gradually but surely parting with their control over the purely administrative features of the pharmacy law. form” The quack “re- doctrinaires at Albany and elsewhere have the whip hand and are apparently determined to rank and file along paths of their own devising. No attention is any longer paid to the wishes or behests of the the State Pharma- ceutical Association, and the regula- tion of pharmacy affairs by pharma- cists has given place to the exercise of their time-honored privileges rights by officials of the Department, who are always prone to high-falutin methods in the ad- ministration of the law. drive the leaders in and Education It is time that a halt be called and ukcneeaae take more direct con- trol of affairs pertaining to the prac- tice 7 their calling. They should exert themselves to regain some of their lost authority, if they do not wish to see themselves regulated completely out of business by rules and regulations, laws, etc., of the public nostrum order which have been framed by outsiders. an order for the trustee to sell tne en- tire assets, except cash, at public sale. Oct. 15—In the matter of the National Gas Light Co., bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, the trustee has completed the sale of the bankrupt’s assets to Charles’ B. Hays of the same place, and it is under- stood that the company will continue business under the old name at Kala- mazoo, but its officers will be changed for the purpose of securing additional Oct. 16—In_ the gan Buggy Co., matter of the Michi- bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, after a three day session at the latter place. Referee Banyon further continued the examination of the bankrupt and its officers until October 29. The hearings before the referee have now continued for several weeks and many interesting and startling disclosures, as to the busi- ness of the bankrupt. have been re- vealed. It is now believed that the total liabilities of the bankrupt will exceed $3,500,000 with assets at the most not to exceed $600,000. Oct. 17—In the matter of Victor L. Palmer, bankrupt, former Secretary and Treasurer of the Michigan Buggy Co., bankrupt, the schedules of Mr. Palmer have been filed with the referee. An order has been entered by the _ referee, calling the first meeting of creditors at Kalamazoo on October 28, for the exam- ination of the bankrupt, filing claims, the election of a trustee and such other business as may properly come before the meeting. The schedules of the bank- rupt disclose the following assets and liabilities: Creditors holding securities. National City Bank, Chicago . $4,000.00 S. B. Monroe Kalamazoo ........ 4000.00 Kalamazoo City Savings Bank, PMAIMAZOO |... oe. kes. 1,402.00 Ea ee Mota) 22.5.0 5 ery ee ies cl. $9,402.00 Unsecured creditors. Kalamazoo National Bank, Kala- MAZOO CL $2,500.00 Creditors holding securities endorsed by other parties. Bryant Park Bank, New York $19,458.17 Dominion Trust Co., Pittsburg 70,000.00 Muskegon Sav. Bank, Muskegon 5,000.00 Old Detroit Nat. Bk., Detroit 17,443.94 Real Estate Sav. & Trust Co., PiCtSOUNE, ...066.60 2.1. 18,000.00 Kalamazoo Nat Bk., Kalamazoo 20,219.97 Home Sav. Bank, Kalamazoo 10,000.00 Continental Com. Nat, Bank, COONGRISO CFs 30,000.00 Citizens Central Nat. Bank, ‘ New Yore ............... 10,000.00 Kalamazoo City Sav. Bank, mRalamazoo 6.6.55) .360 0. 47,500.00 National Bank of Commerce, De- CTO 2) ee ses. A 21,478.81 Columbia National Bank, N. Y. 25,000.00 National City Bank, Chicago 45,000.00 W. T. Rickards Co., Chicago 259,000.00 National Park Bank, N. Y. 90,000.00 Bond & Goodwin, New York 42,000.00 First State Bank, Tekonsha Citizens State Bank, Duluth 5,000.00 2,500. 00 $737, 600. 0.89 Accommodation Paper. 3ryant Park Bank, New York $ 10,426.57 Old Detroit Nat. Bk., Detroit 31,148.21 Kalamazoo Nat. Bk., Kalamazoo 40,795.57 Continental Com’'l Nat. Bank, OMCaem of oe. Citizens Central Nat. Bk, Kalamazoo City Total 69,851.41 N. Y. 47,538.88 Savings Bank, RalsiMAZOO .......--....... 240,000.00 National Bank of Commerce, DWSTTOIE 26. . 47 Biol d National City Bank, Chicago 127,241.02 National Park Bank, New York 10,000.00 First National Bank, Allegan 4,086.82 EK. F. Gerber Co., Pittsburg 3,213.57 Allegan State Savings Bank, eran ec a. First Nat. Bank, Cleveland 152,453.94 Old National Bk., Battle Creek 32,000.00 Central Nat. Bk., Battle Creek 40,000.00 First National Bank, Petoskey = 5,197.46 Old National Bank Detroit . 25,459.52 10,000.00 Tort i... ek. $896,7 i26. 08 Liability on bond. Commissioner of Banking, Lan- SOR $ 10,000.00 Grand total of all liabilities 1,656,228.97 Assets. Cash om Wand ooo ee. $ 103.00 Cheek for dividend, Citizens State Savings Bank, Plainwell 18.75 Interest in Mich. Motor Car Co. 62.50 Stock in Citizens State Savings gank, Piainwell ............ 2,000.00 Stock in Kalamazoo City Savings sank Kalamazoo .......... 12, 700. 00 Unpaid dividend on above stock 50 Stock in Kalamazoo Park Club 100. 00 Stock in Kalamazoo Country Club Realty Co. .......... 25.00 Stock of Kalamazoo Pythian Realty Co oo) ic ee ..... 100.00 Bonds of A. M. Todd CGo., Ltd. 1,000.00 3onds of Village of So. Haven 1,300.00 Bonds of Bryant Paper Co. ... 1,000.00 Bonds of MecSinbar Paper Co. 1,000.00 Bonds of King Paper Co. ..... 500.00 Bonds of [linois Envelope Co. 500.00 Oct. 18—A voluntary petition was filed by Frank W. Flint, a merchant, doing business at Saugatuck, and he was ad- judged bankrupt and _ the matter re- ferred to Referee Banyon, who was ap- pointed receiver of the bankrupt’s as- se ts. The referee entered an order ap- pointing Otis Hauke, of Saugatuck, cus- todian, until the election of a_ trustee. The schedules of the bankrupt disclose the following liabilities and assets: Creditors whose claims are unsee ured. F. Mayer Shoe Co., Milwaukee $ 354.7 Apsley Rubber Co. Chicago .... 215 aS Herold-Bertseh Shoe Co., Grand Rapids: ose. Thomas Crooker Shoe Co., Boston 59.60 Guthman, Carpenter & Telling, Chicago 32.42 Wilson Brothers, Chicago ...... 110.80 Bush Hat Co. Chicaso’ |)... . 37.10 Hartman Trunk Co., Racine ... 23.15 99.34 ao Durant-Dort Carriage Co., Flint 141.49 Church, Hill and Alden, Campello 144.90 Sawyer Boot and Shoe Co., Ban- Sor OMe 55.85 Rindge-Kalmbach-Logie Co., Grand Mapas et Mohl Leather Co., Chieago ...... Doty Bennett Shoe Co., ee oO Agnes Bock, Manville. Te x... Noves Carriage Co., rilichart Ralston Health Shoe C o., Campe lo 36 Faunce & Spinney Shoe 'Co., Lynn Rice & Hutchins Shoe Co., Chicago Hirth-Krause Co., Grand Rapids Brown & Sehler Co., Grand Rapids 40.07 A. Ortmayer & Son Harness Co., Chicaeo 6. 5...5).0 30 a 97.63 Grand Rapids Shoe & Rubber Co.| Grand Rapids ........., 21.67 Standard Grocer & Milling Co., Holand 6. 100.00. Van fiyck-Weurding Milling Co., Hotlamd 2... 3.0..)40. 05.5. 100.00 Racin Trunk GCo., Racine ee 72.14 A. A. Putnam Chicago Sees 65.40 C. We. Marks: Ghicaso .......... 66.55 Wallace Smith Harness Co., Mil- WAMICO ee: 25.90 Jacob Meyer & Bros., Chicago .. 20.75 Smith- Wallace Shoe Co., Chicago 11.05 Sherwood Hall & Co.. Grand AMIS ee CS 29.60 Cluett Peabody Co., Chicago .. 215.00 Voigt Milling Co., Grand Rapids 120.50 Ayers & Son Blanket Co., Phila. 52.00 Hofstand & Rboinson, Toledo ... 134.00 Thomas Hayden, Chicago oa 118.00 Goldstein & Kaplin, Chicago ... 29.00 ose Bros, New York ...)...... 61.25 Gerrit Wedemer, Holland ..... 187.19 Mishawaka Woolen Co., Misha- Waka ee 10.00 United Shoe Repairing Machine Co, Boston = ...,....5.... 23.04 Henry Kleine & Co Chicago ... 3.00 3annigan Rubber Co., Chicago .. 23.50 MOG fc $4.2 325. 75 \ssets Cash On hand .:....)....5.2.0., $ 400.00 Stock im trade: 663003... 2 0110. $00.00 HUES ee. 100.00 ButidinesS oe ke 75.00 Open accounts: 9) ....635..0.6.05) 800.00 Le TOU eos $2,175.00 Property claimed as exempt. House and lot in village Saugatuck held jointly with petitioner’s WATE cee $1,400.00 Tools and machinery to carry on DUSIMNESS)) 60206. 75.00 300KS and pictures ........... 50.00 Hiousehola furniture ............ 250.00 Stock in trade, to be deducted from assets to enable petitioner to ' carry om business .......... 175.00 Mor) oot... a: bie 950. 00 Oct. 20—In the matter of Isaac Shin- berg, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, an order has been entered by the referee calling the first meeting of creditors at the latter place for the election of a trustee, proving claims and the examination of the bankrupt on October 31. From the schedules filed there are no assets except those claimed exempt by the bankrupt and, unless more assets are discovered, no dividends will be declared to the bankrupt’s ereditors and no_ further meetings held. —_—_> 2 + ____ Because Because of her looks she looks In vain to find a mate; 3ecause of her size she sighs; She waits because of her weight. 3ecause of her figure she figures The way to win a man; Because of her waist she wastes Long years with plot and plan. Because of her face she faces A sad and lonesome life; Because of her nose she knows No man will call her wife. Bachelors are “women’s rights,” and widowers are women’s lefts. : a ge ee ee o AV. oS 5 8 Se ee (0 BLO s eb er October 22, 1913 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Acids Acetic .......... 6 @ 8 Borie -..... -... £O @ 15 Garbolic ...:.... 19 @ 23 Citric ......... 70 @ 7 Muriatic ........ 1%@ 5 Nitric) ........... 5%@ 10 Oxalic .......... 13 @ 16 Sulphuric ....... 1%@ 5 Dartaeric ........ 38 @ 45 Ammonia Water, 26 deg. .. 64@ 10 Water, 18 deg. .. 4%@ _ 8 Water 14 deg. ... 34%@ 6 Carbonate ...... 13 @ 16 Ckloride ..:.... , 12 @ 6 Balsams Copaiba .... .. 75@1 00 Fir (Canada) .. 1 75@2 00 Fir (Oregon) ....40@ 50 Peru 2... cscs... 2 25@2 50 Tolu ......5.... 1 00@1 25 Berries Cubed .....-....- 653@ 75 ish o......00.. 5. 15@ 20 Jumiper ..........- 7@ 10 Prickley Ash .. . @ 50 Barks Cassia (ordinary) 25 Cassia (Saigon) 65@ 75 Elm (powd. 25c) 25@ 30 Sassafras (pow. 30c) @ 25 Soap Cut (powd. 25c waeees : Leics @ 20 : Extracts Ejcorice ......... 24@ 28 Licorice powdered 25@ 30 Flowers Arnica .........- 18@ 25 Chamomile (Ger.) 25@ 35 Chamomile (Rom.) 40@ 50 Gums Acacia, Ist ...... 40@ 50 Acacia, 2nd ...... 35@ 40 Acacia, $d......... 380@ 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. Pune: oo... @ 75 U. S. P. Powd. @1 00 Camphor ........ 55@ 60 Gualae ...02.0..; 35@ 40 Guaiac, Powdered 50@ 60 KONO 2.0.2... 000... @ 40 Kino, Powdered .. @ 45 MYEPh oo 66655. c... @ 40 Myrrh, Powdered @ 50 Opium: .. 2.5.5... 6 80@7 00 Opium, Powd. .. 8 75@8 95 Opium, Gran. .. 8 90@9 10 Shellac 28@ 35 Shellac, mieached 30@ 35 Tragacanth No. 11 40@1 50 Tragacanth, Pow 75@ 85 Turpentine ...... 10@ 15 Leaves Buchw 2.0.0... . -- 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 ...... io 50 Senna, Tinn. . 15 20 Senna, Tinn, Pow. 20@ 26 Uva Ursi ......... 10@ 15 Olls Amon’ Bitter, ewes so 6 00@6 50 Almond: Bitter, artificial ...... @1 00 —s Sweet, true 22... . 90@1 00 samend. Sweet, imitation .... 40@ 50 Amber, crude ... 25@ 30 Amber, rectified 40@ 50 Anise ...... AA 2 25@2 50 Bergamont ..... 7 50@8 00 Gajeput ......... 75>@ 85 Cassia . 1 50@1 75 Castor, bbls. ‘and Cane ...... ia 15 Cedar Leaf . 85 Citronella ....... @ 60 Cloves .:........ 1 50@1 75 Cocoanut ....... ped 25 Cod Liver ...... 1 25@1 50 Cotton Seed ..... 90@1 10 Croton ......... . @1 60 @Cubebs .......... @4 50 Erigeron ........ @2 50 Eucalyptus ..... 75@ 8 Hemlock, pure .. @1 00 Juniper Berries .. @1 25 Juniper Wood .. a 50 Lard, extra ..... 85@1 Lard, No. 1 .... 76@ 90 Lavender Flowers @4 50 Lavender, Garden 85@1 00 lemon! ......... 5 50@6 00 Linseed, boiled, bol @ 49 Linseed, bid less ..58@ 58 Linseed, raw, bbls. @ 48 Linseed, raw less 52@ 57 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, Reinga. green ...... 1 50@1 65 Orange, sweet ..4 75@5 00 Organum, pure 1 25@1 50 Origanum, com’! 50@ 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 80@ 90 Sassafras, artifi'l] 45@ 50 Spearmint ...... 5 50@6 00 Sperm ...... See 90@1 00 TAMSY ......0.0. 5 00@5 50 Mar USE ....... 25@ 35 Turpentine, bbls. @ 49 Turpentine, less 53 @_ 60 Wintergreen, true @5 00 Wintergreen, sweet birch ...... 2 00@2 25 Wintergreen, art’l 50@ 60 Wormseed ...... 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 Toqide =.......... 3 20@3 40 Permanganate .. 15@ 30 Prussiate yellow 30@ 35 Prussiate, red .. 50@ 60 Sulphate ........ 15@ 20 Roots Alkanet ......... 15 20 Blood, powdered 20 25 Calamus ........ 35@ 40 Elecampane, pwd. 15@ 20 Gentian, powd. 12@ 16 Ginger, African, powdered .. 15@ 20 Ginger, Jamaica 22@ 25 Ginger, Jamaica, powdered .... 22@ 28 Goldenseal, powd 6 25@6 50 Ipecac, powd. .. 2 75@3 00 Licorice ........ 14@ 16 Licorice, powd. 12@ 15 Orris, powdered 25@ 30 Poke, powdered 20@ 25 Rhubarb ...... 75@1 00 Rhubarb, powd. 7d@1 25 Rosinweed, powd. 25@ 30 Sarsaparilla, Hond. sround ...... @ 50 Sarsaparilla Mexican, eround ...... 25@ 30 Squills .........; 20@ 35 Squills, powdered 40@ 60 Tumeric, powd. 12@ 15 Valerian, powd. 253@ 30 Seeds Anise .......... 15@ 20 Anise, powdered 22@ 25 Bird; Is ......... 8@ 10 @anarmy .. 3... 6... 9@ 12 Caraway ........ 12@ 18 Cardamon ..... 1 75@2 00 Celery. ....... 6. 380@ 35 Coriander 2@ 18 DU ee 25@ 30 Fennell @ 30 Qe oo... 4@ 8 Flax, ground .... 4@ 8 Foenugreek, pow. 6@ 10 Hl@mp. ........... 5@ c Wobelia .......... @ 590 Mustard, yellow 9@ 12 Mustard, black .. 9@ 12 Mustard, powd. 20@ 25 POppyY ......-..- 15@ 20 pa Nese ce « 75@1 00 ame ..........- 6@ 10 Sabadilla eee cejciee 25@ 30 Sabadilla, powd. 35@ 45 Sunflower ...... 6@ 8 Worm American 15@ 20 Worm Levant 40@ 50 Tinctures Aconite ......... @ 75 AlOGS .....0...... @ 65 Arnica .......... @ 60 Asafoetida ...... @1 00 Belladonna ...... @ 60 Benzoin ......... @. 90 Benzoin Compound @_ 90 Buehp .......... @1 00 Cantharadies .. . 1 00 Capsicum ....... 90 Cardamon ...... 95 Cardamon, Comp. 65 @atechu ......... 60 Cinchons ........ 1 05 Colchicum ....... 60 Cubebs .......- 1 20 Digitalis ..... Sis @ 60 Gentian ......... @ 60 Ginger ......... : @ 95 Gualae .......... @1 05 Guaiac Ammon... @ 80 Hodine ........... @1 25 Iodine, Colorless @1 25 Ieee ¢.......... @ 7 Irom, Clo! ........ @ 60 iO... oo... @ 80 Myrrh. ...:....... @1 05 Nux Vomica @ 70 Opium ........... @2 00 Opium Camph. .. @ 65 Opium, Deodorz’d @2 25 Rhubarb ......... @ 70 Paints Lead, red dry .. Lead, white dry Lead, white oil Ochre, yellow bbl. Ochre, yellow less Putty -..0..05..02. Red Venetian bbl. 1 Red Venet'n, less 2 Shaker, Prepared 1 40 Vermillion, Eng. 90¢ RRR NmNyRATA QOHDOHHHHHOO9 _ se ee Vermillion, Amer. 15 Whiting, bbl .... 1 1% Whiting ..........; 2 5 Insecticides Arsenic. .......... Blue Vitrol, bbl. Blue Vitrol less Bordeaux Mix Pst Hellebore, White powdered .... Insect Powder . Lead Arsenate .. Lime & Sulphur onl QOH OOOO om ne aoow Solution, gal. 15@ 25 Paris Green . 154%@ 20 Miscellaneous acetareald eaee a. 30@ 35 AU ool. 3@ 56 Alum, powdered and esround ...... ( 7 Bismuth, Subni- trate See ee. 2 10@2 25 Borax xtal or powdered ... 6@ 12 Cantharadies po. : 75@2 60 Calomel ........ 1 20@1 30 Capsicum ....... 20@ 25 Carmine ........ @3 50 Cassia Buds .... @ 40 Cloves ......... 0 35 Chalk Prepared ‘ Chalk Precipitated 7@ 10 Chloroform 3 ; Chloral Hydrate 1 00@1 15 @oeaine ........ 4 20@4 50 Cocoa Butter .... 50@ 60 Corks, list. less we Copperas, bbis. . n Copperas, less ... “2@ 5 Copperas, Powd. 4@ 6 Corrosive Sublm. 1 05@1 10 Cream Tartar ... 30@ 35 Cuttlebone ...... 25@ 35 Dextrine ........ 7@ 10 Dover's Powder 2 00@2 25 Emery, all Nos. 6@ 10 Emery, powdered 5@ 8 Epsom Salts, bbls @ 1% Epson Salts, less 24%@ D Preoe .....0.... 1 50@1 Yo lurgot, powdered 1 80@2 00 ¥lake White ..... 12 15 Formaldehyde lb. 10@ 15 Gambier ........ 6@ 10 Gelatine ......... 35@ 45 Glassware, full cases 80% Glassware, less 70 & 10% Glauber Salts bbl. @ Glauber Salts less u@ 5 Gine, brown .... 11@ 16 Glue, brown grd 10@ 15 Glue, white ..... 15@ 25 Glue, white grd 15@ 20 Glycerine ...... 234%@ 30 OPS -2--) 1... 50@ 80 Indigo :......... 85@1 00 Foditie ........... 4 35@4 60 Todoform ........ 40@5 60 Lead Acetate .... 12@ 18 Lycopdium ..... Be 65 Mace ............ 80 90 Mace, powdered 90@1 00 Menthol ........ 60@9 00 Merenury .......... 5 7 85 Morphine, all brd 4 55@4 80 Nux Vomica .... @ 10 Nux Vomica pow @ 15 Pepper, black pow 20@25 Pepper, white .. 25@ 36 Pitch, Burgundy 10@ 15 Quassia ......... 10@ 15 Quinine, all brds ..25@386% Rochelle Salts ... 283@ 30 Saccharine ..... 1 50@1 75 Salt Peter ...... 7%@ 12 Seidlitz Mixture .. — 25 Soap, green ... 15@ 20 Soap, mott castile 10@ 15 Soap, white castile case Soap, white castile less, per bar 68 Soda Ash ........ 1% 5 Soda Bicarbonate 1% 5 Soda, Sal ..:..... 1 4 Spirits Camphor .. Sulphur roll .... 2% Sulphur Subl. .... 2% Tamarinds ...... 10 Tartar Emetic .. 40 Turpentine Venice 40@ Vanilla Ext. pure 1 cont 80 Witch Hazel .... 65@1 00 Zine Sulphate ... 7@ 10 DDOHOHHHSH9N on oes CON 27 Our Home—Corner Oakes and Commerce Our Holiday Sample line is the largest and most complete of any that we have ever shown. It is now on display in our sample room in Grand Rapids. 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GRAND RAPIDS SHOW CASE CO., Grand Rapids, Michigan The Largest Show Case and Store Equipment Plant in the World Show Rooms and Factories: New York, Grand Rapids, Chicago, Boston, Portland FOOTE & JENKS COQLEMAN’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. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing. and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however. are liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled at market prices at date of purchase. ADVANCED DECLINED Rolled Oats Index to Markets By Columns A Ammonia -...-....--- Axle Grease .........- B Baked Beans ........- Bath Grick ...........- Bluing. .-....-----+---+ Breakfast Food .....-.. Brooms ........--++se¢ Brushes ........--2-.-< Butter Color ........-.- Cc Candles ........-+---> : Canned Goods .......-. 1 Carbon Oils .........-- CatSup .....ccees-eee-s CHEEEP ...-----0-0+se00s Chewing Gum .......- CHICOrY 2.02.2 2cce20-s- Chocolate ......--+-+:+- Clothes Lines .......-- Speoe .....+-----6----- Cocoanut ......------- anwep oo... ese Confections ......-.-+- Cracked Wheat ....... CrackerS ....-.cs+ee-+e Cream Tartar .......-- D Dried Fruits .......-.. F Farniaceous Goods .... Fishing Tackle ......-.. Flavoring Extracts Flour and Feed .......- Fruit JarS ....----.e-- G . Gelatine ......+.-- Grain Bazs ....----00- H SigrGN . c4e.-es- > ae Hides and Paits ...-.-.- Horse Radish .......- J Jeuly fies ....-+--- M Macaroni ....-..-6- o° Mapleine ......-«.--. o. Meats, Canned ....... Mince Meat ......-.+- Molasses ........-+0- cc. Mustard ......--+-ee0- N Nets ...+--- cao scceee ° lives ......---.-->-.++ Pp Pickles .....<0-0-2+-c0s Pipes ....-.----------<- Piaying Cards ........ . Patagh ....-.22--.05++ Provisions .....--...++- R ea 8 Salad Dressing ..... cee Rigleretie ....---2.--0+ ao Ode ....--60- peo. salt Fish. i ey egg a ala ee ga BORD ooccccwcccencsnse- SO ee Spicem ....-cecessccecee Starch .....2-+2+++e ses SyrupSB ..-.ceescesceees T Table Sauces ......... Tobacco ...++---+ 11, 12 PWTING . occ sone crcc. +s Vv Vinegar ..cccccrscseree WwW WVickin® ......--+--.-- Woodenware .......... Wrapping Paper ..... v Tenet CARO ...---ccocse 12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box AXLE GREASE 1lb. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3% tb. tin boxes, 2 NAA eww ONyponmwco eooune 0 tease BAKED BEANS No. 1, per doz. ..:. 45@ 90 BATH BRICK MA Tim CO 0O CDOS OO COCO CONDO Condensed Pearl Small C P Bluing, doz. Large C P Bluing, doz. BREAKFAST FOODS Bear Food, Pettijohns 1 95 Cracked Wheat, 24- 25 Cream of Wheat, 36-2 Cream of Rye, 24-2 .. Posts Toasties, T. for) Grape Sugar Flakes .. Sugar Corn Flakes .. % Hardy Wheat Food .. Postma’s Dutch Cook eer Toasted Rice 02 0 Kelloge's Toasted Wheat 3 30 Krinkle Corn Flake .. ro se heat Flakes, . . +4 . ie et bet ND Rt EDO oe DO eR tC DO ee CO DS DD Mapl- Con Flakes Minn. Wheat Cereal Ralston Wheat Food Ralston Wht Food 10c Saxon Wheat Food .. Shred Wheat Biscuit Pillsbury’s Best Cer'l Post Tavern Special .. Quaker Puffed Rice Quaker Puffed Wheat Quaker Brkfst Biscuit Quaker Corn Flakes .. Victor Corn Flakes .. Washington Crisps 08 60 GO co OD 00 Panos, 4 String, "25 Ib. Standard Parlor Warehouse, 33 Tb. Common Whisk Fancy Whisk ......... 1 Solid Back, 8 in. Solid Back, 11 in. ee a ce cere eee errr sesee were er secseeerccens ee ee ee BUTTER COLOR Dandelion, 25c size 8 bee ee ee ee 20 CANNED GOODS Tb. menial gallons Beans Baked .......... 85@1 30 Red Kidney 85@ 95 SUT oe 70@1 15 WAX ..c5.525-60 75@1 25 Blueberries Standard ............ 1 80 Callen . 2.530.322... 7 00 Clams Little Neck, 1tb. .. @1 00 Little Neck, 2%. .. @1 50 Clam Bouillon Burnham's % pt. ....2 25 Burnham's pts. ....... 3 75 Burnham's gts. ......: 7 50 Corn AUT es 65@ _ 70 Ood ..0..6..-3. 90@1 00 TaAMCy Go oe. 30 French Peas Monbadon (Natural) per doz. ............ 4 36 Gooseberries Noe. 2, Hair ..... -1 50 No, 2, Hancy ........ 2 35 ominy Stan@ard ......:..05.: 85 Lobster 1. 256... «----1 85 Oo 1D. 53s cc. sec. o2.3) 1D Mackerel Mustard, IIb. Mustard, 2b. Soused, 116Ib. Soused, 21D .... Tomato, 1Ib. Tomato, 2tb. Mushrooms Hlotels ..:.-052... @ 15 Buttons, %s ..... @ 14 Buttons, is ...... @ 2 Oysters Cove, 11D: .......... @ 9 Cove, 2D. oe. @1 75 Piums PAS 90@1 35 Pears in Syrup No. 3 cans, per doz. ..1 50 Peas Marrowfat ...... 90@1 00 Early June .... 110@1 25 Early June siftd 1 45@1 55 Peaches Pe ot es 1 00@1 25 No. 10 size can pie @3 25 cee Grate@ .......5- 1 75@2 10 mliced .. 2.2.5... 95@2 60 Pumpkin NOIT eke ook. 80 GOOG ...525.2...5... 90 PONCY ooo. eeu se 1 00 Gaon ........2.5.. 215 Raspberries Standard —......; Warrens, 1 tb. Tall ..2 30 Warrens, 1 Ib. ger ..2 40 Red Alaska ...... 45@1 50 Med. Red Alaska i — 35 Pink Alaska ...... 90 Sardines Domestic, 4s ....... 3 25 Domestic, %4 Mustard 3 00 Domestic, % Mustard 2 75 Brench, 495 .,...... 7@14 French 468 ......... 13@23 Saur Kraut No. 3; Cans .......... 90 No. 10, cans ......... 2 40 Shrimps Dunbar, ist doz. ...... 1 30 Dunbar, 1%s doz. ....2 36 eyprehaat ’ Mai cl Sk. ? GOOG ....).:....... Maney 2..255..;.. 1 25@1 io Strawberries standard ......... 95 HAMCY . 2.256... 2 25 Tomatoes (OO .. 066.2036. 05 HAMCY, ........... 1 35 Mo. 10 ........0.. 3 25 CARBON OILS Barrels Perfection ....... @11% D. S. Gasoline .... @19 Gas Machine .... @26% Deodor’d Nap’a .. @18% Cylinder ....... 29 @W34% Mneine ......... 16 @22 Black, winter .. 8 @10 CATSUP Snider’s pints ...... - 2 35 Snider’s % pints ......1 35 Swiss, domestic CHEWING GUM Adams Black Jack .... Adams Sappota ....... Beeman’s Pepsin ...... Colgan Violet Chips .. Colgan Mint Chips .... 1 Sen Sen (Jars 80 pkgs, BCU) eee ccc. Spearmint, Wrigleys Spearmint, 5 box jars 2 Spearmint, 3 box jars 1 seme er eer cece sone see e reece eee eee German’s Sweet Premium, 16S ......... CLOTHES Hine Braided Cotton Galvanized Wire Ms & %s 15tb. case Scalloped Gems Bulk, sexes Bice clita 6 14 10 5c ae per case 2 60 26 10c pkgs., per case 2 60 16 10c and 33 5c pene. fe ree. ROASTED eee e rere ere eens eee em wwe wees e rene ee ay ava Private Growth A te ese cis -ceaI@an seeececscec ee B0@32 4 Mocha short Bean .......: 25@27 Long Bean .......... 24@25 Ht O. G. 22... 26@28 Bogota Hair 26.6 e. ae, cece Oe Haney 220.000 ..0.52 0. 26 Exchange Market, Steady Spot Market, Strong Package New York Basis ArDUCKIC ,...0....5.; 21 50 AAO cle eee 23 50 McLaughlin’s XXXX McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders’ direct to . B. McLaughlan & Co., Chicago Extracts Holland, % gro boxes - Felix, % STOSR ....... 1 1 Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85 Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43 CONFECTIONERY Stick Candy ve Horehound ............ Standard ......... a55 Standard, small ..... as by Twist, small ......... . 9 JUMHO .........2..65.. - 8 Jumbo, small Big Stick ....... Boston Cream Mixed Candy Broken ..........:.. -. 5 Cameo oo 0 5.6 .b. sc. 12 Cut Loaf... 50.66... seo 8 RANCY fc. ca. o. -- 10% French Cream ...... 9 Grocers. ..)55...5.... ses OM Kindergarten ..........11 Leader ....... cies cc. s Soe Majestic ...5......6.5.- 9 Monarch ..... bee cscs.. Soe Novelty .. .. 20.2... 10 Paris Creams ..... aes nO Premio Creams .......14 ROWAN ccc s secs c ete 1% Special oo... ee ec 8% pg al Creams ........12 Specialties Pails Auto Kisses (baskets) 13 Bonnie Butter Bites ..16 Butter Cream Corn ..16 Candy Crackers (bskt) 15 Caramel Dice ....... 2.13 Cocoanut Kraut Cocoanut Waffles . Coco Macaroons ...... Cofty Tofty ............ Cream. Marshmallows lv Dainty Mints 7 tb. tin 15 Empire Fudge ........ 14 Fudge, Pineappls ......13 Fudge, Walnut ........ 13 Fudge, Filbert ....... 13 Fudge, Choco. Peanut 12 Fudge, Honey Moon ..13 a. Toasted Cocoa- nu Bice ooo... 18 Fudge, Cherry ..... bce oak Fudge, Cocoanut ...... 13 Honeycomb Candy ....15 Kokays ..... Coes ets ae Iced Maroons .......... 14 Teed Gems .........+. 15 Iced Orange Jellies ...13 Italian Bon Bons ...... 13 Menehus ...6..060-5-6. 15 Molasses Kisses, 10 DOK 2..5.......- 13 Nut Butter Puffs Sec ee 13 Salted Peanuts .......15 Chocolates Pails Assorted Choc. ........ 15 Amazon Caramels ....15 Champion .........:.. 12 Choc. Chips, Eureka ..18 Climax .2.....5-..... . 13 Eclipse, Assorted .....15 Eureka Chocolates ...16 Favorite ...... tesco se Ideal Chocolates .... ; an Klondike Chocolates = Nabops 6 o.65......0.5. Nibble Sticks ...... ae 35 Nut Waters .......... Ocoro Choc. Caramels if Peanut Clusters ...... 22 Pyramids ......... sce ke Quintette .......2......16 oe iG lblelbeels sis soca a Star Chocolates ...... Superior Choc. (light) te Pop Corn Goods Without prizes. Cracker Jack ...... 3 25 Giggles, 5c pkg. cs. 3 60 Oh My 100s ........ 3 50 Sauah Drops boxes Putnam Menthal ... 1 00 Smith Bros. ........ 1 25 NUTS—Whole Almonds, Tarragona 20 Almonds, Drake ...... 18 Almonds, California soft shell ...... Bnazils : 65.2.0... @16 Milberts ........ @15 Cal. No. 1 ...... Walnuts soft shell Walnuts, Chilli .. @16 Table nuts, rancy @16 Pecans, medium .. @15 Pecans, ex. large .. @16 Hickory Nuts, per bu. OWO | 52.655 cecses.: Cocoanuts .... Chestnuts, New York State, per bu. ..-..- October 22, 1913 D Shelled No. 1 Spanish Shelled Peanuts ...... 12%@13 Pecan Halves .. Walnut Halves ... 35@38 Filbert Meats 30 Alicante Almonds @45 Jordan Almonds .. @50 Peanuts Fancy H P Suns Raw giw Roasted .2....:. H_ P Jumbo, Raw ., @8 Roasted .......2.. @9 CRACKED WHEAT Bulk ...0.... sae ess 314 24 210: pies: ........ 2 50 CRACKERS National Biscuit Company Brands Butter xes Excelsior Butters ..... 8 NBC Square Butters .. 6% Seymour Round ...... 6% : Soda NBC Sodas .......... 6% Premium Sodas ...... 1% Select Sodas .......... 8% Saratoga Flakes ...... 13 SAMINES: -..555........ 13 Oyster : NBC Picnic Oysters .. 6% Gem Oysters ........ -- 6% Shell ....: Resocecccse. 8 Sweet Goods Cans and boxes Animals 223.002.0000... 10 Atlantics Also Asstd. . 12 Avena Fruit Cakes ... 12 Bonnie Doon Cookies. .10 Bonnie Lassies ...... 10 Brittle Fingers ...... le Cameo Biscuit Choc. (Cans) ...0.5-.50.. Cameo Biscuit Aneta. (cans) ....:......... 25 Cartwheels Asstd. .... 8% Cecelia Biscuit ...... 16 Chocolate Bar (cans) 18 Chocolate Drops ...... 17 Chocolate Drop Cen- ters 3... oose 16 Choc. Honey Fingers. 16 Choc. Rosettes (cans) 20 Cracknels ........ - 18 Cocoanut ‘Taffy Bar . -. 13 Cocoanut Drops ...... 12 Cocoanut Macaroons .. 18 Cocnut Honey Fingers 12 Cocent Honey Jumbles 12 Coftee Cakes Iced ... 12 Eventide Fingers .... 16 Family Cookies ....... 8% Fig Cakes Asstd. .... 12 Frosted Creams ...... 846 Frosted Ginger Cookies 8% Fruit Lunch Iced .... lv Ginger Gems Plain .... 84 Ginger Gems Iced a. 9% Graham Crackers .... 8 Ginger Snaps Family .. 3% Ginger Snaps NBC Round 2.2.0.0... 66s -- 8 Household Cookies’ aale eo Household Cks. Iced .. 9 Hippodrome Bar .. Honey Jumbles ... Imperials ...... Seences Jubilee Mixed ....... 10 Lady Fingers Sponge ..30@ Leap Year Jumbles .. 18 Lemon Biscuit Square 8% Lemon Wafers ...... 17 Lemona ...... Sacecses GOS Mace Cakes ........06 Mary Ann ......... 8% Marshmallow Cte. Ck. 13 Marshmallow Walnuts 18 Medora ......... coc. oe SB Mottled Squares sees 20 NBC Honey Cakes ... 12 Oatmeal Crackers .... & Orange Gems ........ 8k Penny Assorted ....... 8% Peanut Gems ......... ¥ Pineapple Cakes ..... 16 Raisin Gems ..... cess ML Reveres Asstd. ....... 15 Spiced Ginger Cakes ..9 Spiced Ginger Cakes TCCG foc ce ck. aece AO Sugar Fingers ....... 12 Sugar Crimp .......... xy Sultana Fruit Biscuit 16 Triumph Cakes ...... . 4k Vanilla Wafers ...... 17 Waverley ..... eels ecle 10 In-er-Seal Trade Mark Goods per doz Baronet Biscuit ...... $1 00 Bremuers Btr Wafs. 1 00 Cameo Biscuit ...... 1 60 Cheese Sandwich .... 1 00 Chocolate Wafers .., 1 00 Excelsior Butters .... 1 00 Fig Newton .......... 1 00 Five O’Clock Tea Bsct. 1 00 Ginger Snaps NBC .. 1 00 7 oe na oe ww ee ee Sos Ce fo ae * Fe => wir ow Cn o@ er ee ee ee ee ee ee ee QW Hm & aa ww pee fal eld ae ee October 22, 1913 I GAN TRADESMAN Graham Cc q racke oe ac size pa FLAVO 8 Ovsteretics ce of foucae © EXTRACTS 9 Premium Sodas .. , 50 Terpeneles C Brand HIDES A pe eee 1) eee a ND PELTS 1 29 Saratoga Flakes ..... 1 00 No. 2 F box, per doz. 75 Green, N WiGes L 0 Social Tea ise Loe 1 50 No. 4 F box, per doz. 90 Green, No Pa. 3 Pure tn tar ard 11 Ss. Ss. pee oo | 1 00 No. 3 Taper per doz. 1 15 Cured, No 2 ee 11% Compound os ..12%@13 M : rca eee Doe Fie fer We 1 Gea ++ 10% 50 Th tubs iad a eee poe! ackerel eee? eee oe. | 50 Jennin per dz. 1 50 Calfskin, 0. 2.2... Lo a 60 Ib tubs .... advance 72 Mass. c lbs. Yo a anilla Waf r Wafer Ex os DCB Calfsk green, N <1 be 50 dine ....advan % Mes | 40 Ibs. . 110 6 ¢ ung Hyso Water oe : i No. oo Mexican ene Calfskin, green No. 1 1 20 Ib nae ace % io ‘ibe 7 20 hens a n Zu Zu oe Biscuit .. N F Box, pe anilla Ca in, cured . 2 18% 10 tb. ails ....adv e 4 N ae 8 IBS 1 90 ancy lone a 3 ee i Wo. '1de* 5,0, bails See et ee wait eae aa 100 Sele anes per doz. 2 ac Ola W Pelts “a 8 Ib pails aaa. i aaa Ce 00 Forme Ooling Be er Package Good 2 oz. Flat a doz. 2 00 ei) Sa fags 60@1 25 baie Diegioiing area ti , po ‘ 80 Eros, Wanes ' Chace aoe 50 FLOUR A perce 7 Shearlings cbt 6 no 2 a ioe 100 Ibs Whitefish : a0 Pocmess, Medium es er itee C ‘okens a. 2 Grand i ND FEE Hi: im i tb. . 19% @20 50 Ibs. tel eee ae L sd, 10ice . oe gx > sree 50 Rapids . D N ams, 16 av. 19 @ 50 IDS. sees eeeeeeeeee 9 75 cea 35 Famil rackers NBC Mill Grain & of Hams, th. av. 1 @1914 fo ee A Enoli Soda oo Package a illing Co. No. 2 H s, 18 Ib . 17% @18 © ae | 5 Medi glish Break ack DB .. 2 OO wi a | Gnied av. 17 roe Ss cieeteeeeeees 112 Mediun fast oa Pac NBC Pur nter Wh oe ried b @17 Sache Se ties 7 oe r++ 2 50 Seal of Tone al 5.25 ae bby cabtti cic eces, 22 pie 10 fe Le : 85 Fancy cteeeeeeeeeee 30@ be oe ae eee 3 00 Sunburst esota .. a 5 0 Inwashed, med. .. a Picnic ar ams ll pes a. 7 So ...lUm ae ea an @35 pecial Tin Packages wii aes a on cup aia a au eam ou, 6 Ot 8 ee an ip 40@ 60 oe per doz. Wisard Graham +. nee ge Boiled Hams «... 19%20 SEEDS __ 65 Ceylon, choic oy € isco 25 al plieleleie se] esi e 2 50 - ran seeee 00 ee ala alta ce Ha ieee a ¢ %4@27 nise ancy ’ 1 Le | habiccs, we |. 3 Wizard - Meal .. 4 5 J y Bacon m .. 8 a oes ls 30@35 Beg, ee 250 Ry Buckwheat oe 30 5tb. pai elly mon ..... 8° @13% oe le ee Eee oe BO nse at .. 6 oy Bae Be aT 6 an 6. y, Smyrn - 14 5@50 a 7 Lie oo 151. pails, per doz. .. 2 40 Sa an Ga eh Asses 7% TOB ee an cigese ee sigs nee Valley City Milli 40 30Ib. pails ee pail Le Bolvess usages Cel domom, Malat eae 10 ACCO Bent’s Ww. Sa 5 Lily Whit illing Co. JELL pail ... 110 wee ee 10%@11 i ony oo. alabar 1 20 Fine Cc ater Cra sae 50 Light EG 4. ae ancy, Peeled, pa a ae paper ae 4 79 totes oe fibre bxs. 1 a i a ee ent a Spices awee Gute aes 9 18 as : 7 etn MAP 0 , per b =e . 80@85 Al a e, Jamaic: : 5 “eet Cubs . G6 ...., 7 20 Lemon ree Quaker Buckwheat bbl 5 Ot 2 02 LEINE undle 2 ispice, lg G ca .. 94 Secct Guns 10¢ 5% , Americ 3uckwhea ) . bottle i ‘ _Uncol oe gE Gleccs Ig Gare 9@ 10 S wee + Cub Ce 6 Onaner ‘American +++ 12% Kansas Hard Hpbl.5 50° bottles, per on 3 00 ae Dae Butterine Cae Zanzibar " aa relate Subs’ Pe ie tin 4 a ‘ u r ’ 2 0 ¥ .... 12 @16 assia, Ci -- @26 cad Raneu. foil Cc Raisins Ke voy ae Pe MINCE ME 8 mire Molle .. foo Cassia, an ee 14@18 eucct Burley, 5¢ 1 a luster, 20 ¢: American Ei ici eal r case ... AT Canned Me 2% @18 Ginger oe dz @25 Swe Burley, 8 L&D 5 76 - 2 ee \ i i Corne Meat ae a 025 veet Bur 8 OZ. > 45 ose Muscat me ‘American Eagle. as ..5 10 weeeane 285 Cor d beef, 2 1 Ss Singer, Cochi 1... @ ot Srveet surley, 16 02 _2464 OM mee soe eee eS N OLASSES oar fo 4G i oi CG an oo ee aa 1 M. Se : 7 agile, %s ..! toas 7 ‘ Neiecd mang .... @ 14% sw int fon ‘@4 eed ee 1 tb. a Spring Wheat 7 Bove orien oe Roast neo oe Mixed, No. Ds... an Sweet Mist g oz. .... 1 ‘6 oe - c > NT ae . D6 09 ilix aN 6 2 ue : teesran oe . ea 90-100 2 Lgl Prunes 4 | Gold Roy Baker hoice Kettle .. 42 14 eat faa > 40 lixed, 5c pkgs. dz. a m, 5c a6 ae x “ baa oe iZ ’ pkgs. 016 a feos eo 80- 00 — boxes aa a Horn, famil Good .. ee ccee. 2 » Flavor, 1 am Nutmegs, ae @4s oo 5 78 e a t > ey y a Ea. 2 30 otted 1 1S .. i Ni : TOLSO 045 é base a ; 70- 80 251 boxes ...@ big Wiscot Horn, Foren 4 60 ir ..... Bacgece a 32 Fl Meat Ham | 50 : itmegs, 105 — @ot immele ec cans ; 00 60- 70 — boxes --@ o Le mnsin Rye s 470 Half barre Clete Bei avor, 1 am Pepper, Bl: 5-110 .. @25 3 ini 4 2 35 oe ae 2 ‘ Is 2 <7 20 eviled M ES. Pe slack 025 rela Daniel Ib 50- 60 25th. boxes @ § Tud 3 39 Red Hen els 2c extr led Meat, Ham 95 a Wa ( aniel, 1 ad tb. b -..@ 8 1dson Gr Red ’ 214 a Flav , Ham 5 Pe , hite 015 on _ 3 40- 50 25tb. Cee aw. oo ocer Co ted Hen po one 175 Devi avor, 4s Giver Caverne @ 25 [a a Raves Ot, | ae nots “S a Red Hen, YO. 6g ag eviled Meat, Ham 5 pi A oo “ FARINACEOUS on pa aa ig US eeeeess p 40 4 crea 10 1 a Bae ee aoe 0 ni iets na i lug sota, Se 5 cae tee ne = - Navy, 16 0:7 Californi Beans aa Worder 2 Se .o i. 6 Wm. ca vilisnai Tongue, zs i 30 ron pata no in Bulk br i = +0 1. ‘bet a Agta ia Lime . n Groc X sees 1 ; a 00 Sloves, wee aica.. @1: te Ties 2 co tine settee 7% = en ls ca - Bulk, 1 OLIVES : Faneyv RICE 3 : 95 on. oer i a - a 5 ib Nat. Leaf, 2 ” = : fa Peete es? 6 ngold 1 i ery 5 = ’ gal. keg: Jap: V stress : Finger Pranic ae > a umm« Sateen Brown Ce aaie "1225 Wingold, las ane a a mo 2 gal oo 1 00@1 15 Le at Pe 614@7 Mace eee 0 per oe Nat. Leaf 60 ce. e ing 2 1 5 x, Baal 3 5 : Oe 5 =3 N ' ang ali Sattle Ae cece 25 Farin co ecia Ws paper . ee Stufted a re o0Ot o Gattco o 3% @ Alt Nutmess os veecees O75 Battle AX ooo ove 96 5 1 tb pack 2 > ngold, 14S Dé ' 5 95 Stuffed, 5 02. @110 R OLLED 4 @4%4 epper, Black .... O35 acer, 6 and 12 Ib. .. 28 Bulk, ckages Bakers’ Pat paper ..5 20 § iffed, 8 tees eg tolled Aven OATS Pepper lack ... 35 Big Four, 6 12 Ib. s Oo per 100 Ibs. .... 1 50 atent |.) 5 20 Stuffed, 14 Gee aes 1 7 Steel Cut, 100 bbls i ep White ..... aig Boot sap lly and 16 Ib. 30 P Driginal Hollanc -.--400 ¢ Wyk vu Ga Pifiee a a. 25 Monarcl , 100 Th. sks 219 be mi Cayenne .. @27 Boot Jack, 2 Ib. . » = 3 oe 12 rolls to Sus sleepy aaa Co. 4 oo stuffed) -- 2 25 Me cecak bbls. KS. 2 09 prika, i D4 Bulli i per i 90 itainers (40 DSN Sleepy Eye. 3s cloth 5 Manvanilla, &§ o¢ Quaker, | 90 Ib 27: ++-5 50 garian @45 Pa 6 0Z hoes 3 ) rolis 3 Sleep} Kye. 48 C a zanilla, 8 OZ. .:-.. $05 G aker, 18 ». sks. 2 63 ST ‘imax, G ease ss . Pearl Hominy on ane hg os ane ooh Pa 10 = eu ee 90 Quaker, 20 opal 1 45 Shiv Climax ia Twins 48 Ngee 100 lb. sack Sie Eye, 4s pa no) 20 ene oe _ 135 SALAD milky .. 4 00 inest orn Climax, 7 Het a... a ccaroni an _. 2 00 Sleepy Eye, 4s aper ; 20 ueen, Mammoth, 19. 2 95 Colu ; DRESS M igsford, 40 It Days’ W OZ. +20... 4 a. 10 1d Vermicelli 48 paper 5 20 Oz. ammoth, 19 «i Colutabie % pt an uzzy, 20 Ib - ...i% Fee akg i & Wf Wb. 37 mported, 25 — box 160. Bol Meal ances. geese / hoa mrad... 2 25 _ ple ; oes au Derby de Menthe, 37 b te an 42 ee : ae : ngsfor vo oO lb. > P on. #0 a Ga i ee ’s, large 1 doz. 225 Silver Gloss,” tord Pee Sine eee 62 Chest earl Barley en Granulated |: 4 10 Gee ‘on ae 7 a Sni oe s, small, 2 oz. 4 50 Muzzy, 4 ss, 40 ilb. i eour it 4. os ter ... ed 1143 how, 2 cee is oS iene lavee 1 on 2 a5 . 40 llb. pkgs 7% a Roses, 1( oo 6a Pee 300 New a Wheat 2 per doz. doz. ee si yeies 62 2 slend. 12 8 oz... 32 No. . a faecal 9 ee = 1 doz. pny 1 45 hi 28, Rival eeeoy ve 15 Large, od ISH vasie enue 25 Spear tn 7 02. 44 No. 5, : A i Payee es Sparkling, ant 2 No. a, erie eerie ; 95 Small, whole ie . Halford. ka SAUCES ao Fload. SS sa. ‘ : cnox's Sparkli : . Bae aan? : ne? © alford, large Sa. aL 4 i 2 mn 6 a6 feet 11 Knox’s oo gr. 14 o No. 98 Pe aon onl i 50 Strips or ra a @ 83 Halford, email ee —_ oa eal, 7, 14 an ¢ 47 N cid 3 0 If 1 } rick Ve il f ) 28 Ib ao : eo] 2 Sy uid doz, 1 25 i 808 ae fin. 2 00 ollock a 060lUlU > 5 on tasta wr 1. 4 Te ae gece |... 1 Coa 25 No. 632 ae J salle 51 r : 30 Javy, 7%, 15 ‘ REE Bee Wak Be 18 No Tove Wiicé 2 28 Ch Habu pes eee eee io 5 22 Pee Z Y . tite eee ee a een 99 ‘Plymouth oe Shee ee POTASH BOS tees. 1g Sundried te en en ae 35 inen ock. Plai sbitt’s, 2 Gellsea tenvie ¢ Su oon medium s alk, 14 . Lin in ‘ 1 2 , oll : ndrie 942% Yanke : Oz Small es 90 doz. ve and Herri 19 & ried, choic ..24@26 nies GHt if & ae ee on ee GRAIN BAGS PROVISIONS | 170 ¥ Mok ween bbls. 12 ae finer . 30@33 12 & 24 30 Vege road Gauge Bar yv. M wh. hoop %b - 12 oc asket-fired y ! ..36@40 Ss SS 26 ae. 1g Clear Ba alee Pork Y M. wh. hoop bbls. 6 50 Basket-fired, medina 39 Al R —— u - Retna § Short ck ....21 00 ae poo oe a 9 All Red, 5e Bamboo oe é beets 19) | eee Cut Clear 18 uae 50 ae : oop Milchers % ins fired, fancy er Am. Union Scrap’. ik Bamboo, ., per doz. 55 age .. Bris La oe 17 0 09 Standard ee 80 wi @43 Zag Pipe, 5 crap .... 5 40 Ba , 16 ft., per . 55 Hops . Pee L sket, Clea 0@17 50 Standar , bbls. ae 80 * He a 30032 eo eee 5 mboo, 18 ft., per ppg 60 Laurel fo 15 2 Cee r 24 no" 50 ay % bbls. 10 25 Weiniees |. cas S0@12 ue a 5 88 oz. 80 Senna ao 2. 13 lear Family ........ 23 00 s Oey a Gunpo nee 14@15 Happy Thor a on... 26 es oy Geaeeens 26 No. Trout se eee 52 Moy wder elo DY 1ought, Ao ee 3 1 a8 9 P Bellies... 1034 °° No. ge ae 7 50 Moyune, CU Honey, Comb Sefap, § So's 78 ~..--144%@15 0. 1 10 a oe Moyu » € Ge ¢ 39 Mail P ap, 5c 76 . Ibs. eens 2 25 ne, fancy vee 8 ouch, 4 «see 4 OF No. 1, 2 lbs. ae sntens 90 hae ee ot ee a fous, Be doz. 5c 2 00 ducweas sue ce aa aa o me eo foe | 83 Polar Imes, % §T0. -. s cy 1...50@55 ie peeks ES. i aro ic Man ‘ae te. . 76 42 30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1913 CIGARS Excelsior, Blend, 1tb ..... aos ee Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand Excelsior, Blend, 2b ...... ae The only 12 13 14 Tip Top, Blend, lib ...... { 5 oya CNG oes. Pilot, 7 a a. Royal High Grade . Cc Scrapple, 5c pkgs. ..... 48 ilot, oz. doz. a%_ imeh, 5 BTOSS ...... 65 Superior Blend ........ Sure Shot, 5c 1-6 gro. 5 76 Pilot, 14 oz. doz. 210 Cartons, 20 2% doz. bxs 70 Boston Combination ....... Cleanser Yankee Girl Scrap, 20z.5 76 Prince Albert, 5c .... 48 — Egg Crates and Fillers Distributed by Judson x Cuaraateed to Pan Handle Scrp “er. 5 76 Prince Albert, 10c .... 96 fumpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20 Grocer Co., Grand Rapids; eamsene equal the Peachy Scrap, 5c .... 5 76 Prince Albert, 8 0z. .. 3 84 No. 1 complete ........ 40 Lee & Cady, Detroit; Sy- SCRUBS POLISHES ; y Pp, Dp } best 10c kinds + Taal 7 Prince Albert, 16 oz... 7 44 No, 2 ‘ mons Bros. & Co., Sagi- a Union Workman 2% 6 00 : No. 2, complete ........ 28 , Queen Quality, 5c .... 48 Case No. 2, fillers, 15 naw; Brown, Davis & War- 80 - CANS - $2.86 Smoking Rob Roy, 5c foil .... 5 76 Beta 135 S. C. W., 1,000 lots .... 81 ner, Jackson; Godsmark, : r Bob Roy, i0c gross ..10 52 Gore molium, 12 sete tie | Bl Pertene ....-.-.... 33 Durand & Co.,_ Battle SOAP All Leaf, 24% & 7 oz. 30 Rob Roy, 25c doz. .... 2 10 Evening Press ........ 32 Creek; Fielbach Co., To- Lautz Bros.’ & Co. BB, 3% 02. .......... 6 00 Rob Roy, 50c doz. .... 4 10 Faucets Wremplar, ........... -- 32 ledo. BB, y i) SS 1200 §. a ML, OC BYORS .... 5 76 Cork lined, 3 in a8 Acme, 30 bars, 75 ths. 4 00 BB, 14 02. ........... 2400 § & M., 14 oz., doz. .. 3 20 Gork lined. i. Worden Grocer Co. Brand Acme, 25 bars, 75 Ibs. 4 00 eogaee. ae aia eee Boitier Boy. be stone oo. Com lined, 10 in 90 Peete 35 Acme, 25 bars, 70 Ibs. 3 80 ger, o sea ecece : Soldier oy, Ce os. . ee UU EIGUNONR | 65 ais ole 0 0146 5 5 Badger, 7 oz. ....... ii 6? Eunir Hor i 4 75 Mop Sticks Perfection Extras ..... 35 mcrae, tO) cater --.->: 3 00 Banner, 5C .......... 5 76 Sweet Caporal, 1 oz. 60 Trojan spring ........ 90 WOnGres: 63660... ee 35 Big Master, 100 blocks 4 00 a ae . weocccevene : Sweet plese 3 eereee < . Eclipse olan spring 85 ie rene epg ad st cit sated = German Mottled ......8 15 se eceeres < Sweet Lotus, c 5L.. tar cece eeseces t Belwood, ace 10c 94 Sweet Lotus, per dz. 4 35 so 5 at Bb hrush holder g5 _uUritanos .......... i. 35 German Mottled, 5 bx. 8 15 Big Cait, 8% Os .. 600 Gaast Hass, oon .. 8) tsa hy lll 85 ee Finas ...... 4 German Mottled, 10 bx. 3 10 Big Chief, 16 oz. .... 30 Sweet Tip Top, 5c .. 50 91h. cotton mop heads 145 Fanatellas, Bock ..... _ German Mottled, 25 bx. 3 05 Ban Surname, BC ----- 5 85 Sweet Tip Top, 10c .. 1 00 BE RAP arenr rons "7 Marseilles, 100 cakes ..6 00 Bull Durham, 1l0c ... 11 52 Sweet Tips, %4 gro. .. 10 08 Pails Old M Coff M er . Bull Durham, 15¢ 17 28 sun Cured, 10c ....... 98 9-hoop Standard 2 00 aster Coffee arseilles, 100 cks. 5c 4 00 Bull Durham, 8 oz. .. 3 60 Summer Time, 5c .... 5 76 9_noop Standard 2 25 aT Marseilles, 100 ck toil 4 00 Bull Durham, 16 oz. .. 6 72 Summer Time, 7 oz. -. 165 3 wire Gable. ......, 2 30 Marseilles, % box toil 2 10 Buck Morn, Sc ------ e725 Summer Time, 14 of. 35) wipe .........------- 2 40 Bop Buck Horn, 1l0c ...... 11 52 Standard, 5c foil 5 76 40 gt. Galvanized .... 1 70 roctor & Gamble Co. at ae -, seaeee ie a Standard, 10c paper 8 o. 12 qt. Galvanized 1 90 er eel lee secs es 6 sc cic le 3 00 Black Swan be... 8 96 ie N rs ea 63 16 at eee - BY Apex Hams ..... se cceee Ivory, te be. Se . 6 73 Black Swan, 14 oz... 350 ‘Three Feathers, 107. 48 __ Toothpicks Apex Bacon ........ oe Sars Bes Bob White, 5c ...... 6 00 Three Feathers, 10c 1152 Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00 Anex Lard ..........- Trad Co.’ tt Spel ere fc. steeee 7 . Three Ee and | oe Ideal 23 ie 85 eee ees . elie irouars p aye pees 28 OY Pipe combination ol LL, eee RCC ISON IS we 2 + oe ac awk, one box 2 50 Brotherhood, 16 oz. 505 Tom & Jerry, 14 0z. .. 3 60 Traps Excelsior Bacon ....... Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40 Carnival, 5c .........- 5 70 Tom & Jerry, 7 0z. .. 180 Mouse, wood, 2 holes 22 Old Master ........... 81 Silver Star Lard .. Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25 Carnival, % OZ. ...... 2) Tom & Jerry, 3 OZ. .... 76 Mouse, wood, 4 holes 45 San Marto ee oe Carnival, 16 oz. ...... 40 grout Line, bc ..:..- 590 Mouse wood, 6 holes 10 Pilot {..............:.. Silver Star Lard ...... A. B. Wrisley Cigar ae aoe 30 Trout Line, 10c ...... 1100 Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65 TEA Family Pork .......... Ae sous. 4 00 igar Clip’g. Seymour 30 ‘Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 78 Rat, wood ........... 80 : rat Back Fok... Cuneo... sl. 2 40 ee ie paints : e Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags : Rat, spring .......... 15 evel Ce 40 Prices quoted upon appli- Soap P epatinental Cubes, 10c_ 90 tS coat Aaa snip 1 90 Tbs THE BOUR CO., cation, Hammond, Standish sg B gat alee Corn Cake, 14 oz. .... 255 puxedo, 80c tins... 16 on ee we ee ee & Co., Detroit, Mich ee ae Corn Cake, 7 oz. .... 1 45 Twin Oaks, 10¢ .....- 5 te fe oN, ae : : : Snow Boy, 6058 ...... 2 40 eee = 29 Union Leader, 50c .... 5 10 Ce Pe ee 00 cee SAFES Snow Boy, 100 5c .... 3 75 Crea, oe Pate age Upton Leader, 25¢ .. 28) Ie in! Cable; No.2... 700 Dwinnell-Wright Co's Bas eee ye ta , ce ee n seader, 10c Be RG Ae NG i s ei... Cuban Star, 16 oz pails 3 72 Union Leader, Sc ..... 6 00 Ce ee Kirkoline, 24 41. 2 80 ae ise ._ 10 24 Union Workman, 1% 5 : No 2 Bibne | 1:1. 9185 Bearing... 6.505... 3 75 Toki ee ee Ce Ne 6 ibe 8 25 ee 4 00 s » 28 : {/ Uncle Sam, 8 0Z. ...- 2 <0 alien earl 5 TK Baubitt's H(t A 8 75 Dilla Best, 16'on. <<." 78 UB Marine, Se <2. 8 76 Lange, Galvanised |. 9 op Roseine 5 63 eo ks oF > O. Bw eral caamiced _. eee ee oe ak Pe Pee ee 576 wan Bibber, 2 oz. tin e Seal (Galvamieca "a bs AUGMOUNS) .2.0........ 3 70 ; IX., BC .....- {5 velvet, 5c pouch Wisdom ............. 3 30 Duke’s Mix, l0c_ 11 52 velvet, 10c tin ......-- 96 Washboards Duke's Cameo, 5c 2) Velvet, 8 oz. Gn 3 84 Bronze Globe ........ 2 50 Soap Compounds Drum, 5c .........-.- > Oa Velvet, 16 02. can .... ¢ Ob Dewey 8. 1 75 Johnson’s Fine 5 10 A. 4 0Z. ........ 12 g3 Velvet, combination cs 5 75 youble Acme ........ 3 15 Johnson's KXK ...... 4 25 F. F. A. 7 OZ. ...... 6 00 War Path, 5c ...----- 6°? Single Acme ......... 3.15 cee ae Fashion, 5c ........-. § 0} War Path, 20c ......-- 160 Pouble Peerless ...... 3 75 Full line of fire and bur- Nine O'clock ......... 8 30 ig ed 16 0Z. .....- > 28 Wave Line, 3 oz. 40 Single Peerless ...... 3 25 glar proof safes kent in ee ae 2 ros., abe coer 10 po Wave Line. 16 oz. ..-- | 49 Northern Queen 3 25 stock by the Tradesman Scouring ive ent” Cc a og «Way up, 2%4 OZ. ...--- 75 Double Duplex ...... 3 00 Company. Thirty-five sizes noeh More a? On cent cut Plug. oF AW yay up, io oz. pails “* 2 9g Good [hick 2 75 and styles on hand at all ae organ’s Sons erence te 2. Wild Fruit, 5c ...----- Umiversal ........-... 3 10 times—twice as many safes Sapolio, gross lots 9 60 96 : a 10, coe oor hoses, 4 o _ Wild Peete, “a foe a" S Window Cleaness - are carried by any other Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85 ims eat oe... 48 he Se a Soe oe Toe 1 65 nouse ee cs State. If you Sapolio, single boxes 2 40 Gold Block, 10c ..... 0) oo Wan fib doe, 280 Wb i 1 85 ee ee ce ee Gold Star, 50c pail .. 4 70 : Sin 229 white House «im a Se Se erin Ce intl & Ax Navy, bc 5 76 TWINE oa Wim ee aoe y, wri or quo- eee 7 cakes ....1 80 eee +e ceeee eee. - Gotten 8 oly 61... 24 ee cp , oe aes \e courine, 100 cakes ...3 50 Growler, ee 1 85 ee a ie 14 5 0. BU +e ge iSjBne BC .....----... 5 76 Hemp, 6 Me. 13 17 in. Butter ........ 3 fc ti | P e 96 190m = atten 5... 6 00 t t Giant, ge aaa 3 Flax, ee pote . Agentiea 1006-417 3 Ot onserva Ive nves ors a ronize eee ee Assorted, 15-17-19 .... 4 25 : Honey Dew, 10c .... 12 00 ; VINEGAR T d Ad i Hunting, BC sereserees : 38 White Wine, 40 grain 8% WRAPPING PAPER raaqesman verrisers settee sceees White Wine, 80 grain 11% Common Straw ...... 2 I x a in pails ...... ; White Wine, 100 grain 13 Fibre Manila, white .. 3 oe ee . ste eeeee : 3 Oakland vineeot Pickle Fibre Manila, colored’ 4 Kiln Dried, 250°2..71. 245 qighland apple cider ..18 Steam Marta 200002 3 We Manufacture Eine Bird. 7 oF. ------ 2 1S Onidand apple cider -.18 Butchers’ Manila .... 2% King Bird, l0c ...... 11 52 State Seal sugar .... 11 Wax Butter, short e’nt 10 King Bird, Sc --.----- 2 12 Oakland white pickling 10 Wax Butter, full count 15 : © as yore Zo Packages free. Wax Butter, rolls .... 12 U 1C eating Lucky Strike, 10c .... — WICKING YEAST CAKE Le Redo, 3 oz. . 10 80 No. 0, per gross ...... 30 Magic, doz 2. 115 e ees & 18 oz. ae NOL ee sees 40 Sunlight, Sie. 1 00 Exclusively . , nee “ No. 2, per Ss Sunlight, 1% doz. .... 50 Myrtle Navy, 5c ...... 576 W Os 75 Tes 7 aiaryiand Club, es ad 3, per gross ‘ Ss eam, pages 1 , Churches We furnish churches of all denominations. designing and Mayflower, 5c ........ 5 76 WOODENWARE Za * ae ; building to harmonize with the general architectural apes’ 49 teense ‘ or as Baskets ss AXLE GREASE scheme—from the most elaborate carved furniture for the cathedral to the Nigger Hair, 5c ...... 6 00 Bushels, wide band .. 1 15 modest seating of a chapel. Nigger Hair, 10c .... 1079 Market ............-- 40 Nigger Head, 5c .... 540 Splint, large ........ 3 50 Schools The fact that we have furnished a large majority of the city peer eee, 79° so. 0 7 Srunt, Suet seeees 4 ) and district schools throughout the country. speaks volumes p OO eee ee Solint: small ....-..... 5 : . Old Colony, 1-12 gro. 11 52 Willow, Clothes, large 8 25 for the merits of our school furniture. Excellence of design, construction os ae h peace — 5 : ies Clothes, small 6 > and materials used and moderate prices, win. nglis urve 0z. 96 Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 5 Old Crop 5c :.........- 5 76 L d H Il We specialize Lodge Hall and Assembly seati ss t , Ing. pal age ggg etcee : gee ditig re 0 ge aus Our long experience has given us a knowledge of re- Se ot. spe BO S10 &% Mh. 250 ie crake ---- 35 a a, eee — ae ieee how to meet them. : oor in stock oe order, Pat Hand, 1 oz. ...... 63 % th., 250 in crate / ob Ga ee? including the more inexpensive portable chairs, veneer assembly chairs, an Patterson gear "1% oz. 48 1 th., 250 in crate ..... 49 3 lb. boxes, per gross 24 00 luxurious upholstered opera chairs, ¥ Patterson Seal, 3 oz... 96 2 tb., 250 in crate ..... 50 BAKING POWDER. Write D Y oo Seal, 16 oz. P ” : .. mad - oe Sloe e 2 Royal rite Dept. Y. Doce ese 5 76 i ce ose Peerless, 1c cloth .. 11 52 ire Had 1c six 90 . . Peerless, 10c paper ..10 80 3 yj, 950 in crate 35 a ‘oe { Peerless, 20¢ ........ 204 > yp. 250 in crate ic 41h cans 1 35 merican eatin Ompary Peerless, 40c ......-.. oF 8 ib. 260 in crate RS 6 oz. cans 1 90 oe > Epaonag hl ligne cs. eae © ib, 20 in crate 65 %tb. cans 2 50 Siow Boy, ic ...... 11 0 Churns %tb cans 3 75 215 Wabash Ave. CHICAGO ILL. Plow Boy, 14 9z. ...... 479 Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 40 1t cans 4 80 fatto, 10 .-..-.---- 11 93 Barrel 10 gal., each ..2 55 3tb cans 13 00 : Pride of Virginia,. 1% 77 Clothes Pins GRAND RAPIDS NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA Pilot, 5c 5 76 Round Head 5Ib cans 21 50 _~— Swe Se et ee ee ee eS ae wv ww ae a ee Ne en: } i October 22, 1913 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 SINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent continuous insertion. No charge less than 25 cents. Cash must accompany all orders. BUSINESS CHANCES. Can clerks, farms, 5 furnish retired business book-keepers and others acres and up to. 1,000, railway stations and good cheaply and on easy payments. Write for particulars to Stephenson Land & lumber Co., Oconto, Wis. 549 Drug Salesmen Wanted—In a_ have openings tor men, fine near markets i few states we experienced, first-class men to sell to physicians and druggists. Unusual high commission paid. Permanent position for good men. Hensel Chemical Works, Dept. 11, Sioux , lows A. 556 A farm in Oklahoma, 730 acres. fine bottom land. No overflow, grows alfalfa and corn. Big bargain. Black land. Sture investment. W. P. Poland, Ard- more, Okla. 555 For Sale—Harness shop, Landis sew- ing machine and Singer shoe machine. All small tools and other goods. Cheap, must sell. G. KE. Anderson, Evart, Mich. 553 To Rent—-Thirty room, steam heated, brick building, fine location for good hotel or Manistee, For Sale--Old eral hardware, located in rooming house. J. Hanselman, Mich. 551 established stock of gen- furniture and implements, as good agricultural and fruit country as lies outdoors; will inventory about $3,000. This is a bargain and will be sold on any reasonable terms. Ad- dress Jas. Sharp, Grant, Mich. 550 For Sale—Only barber shop confec- tionery and ice cream parlor in town. Doing good business. Good farming country. Box 73, East Leroy, Mich. 445 For Sale-—Farm bargains near Fruit- port, Mich., 40 acres improved, others with stock; cheap, terms; write for de- scription. LL. Dwelle, Box 43, Fruitport, Muskegon Co., Mich. 559 For Sale—Grocery Old established of 25,000 people in Did $68,000 business for selling, want to retire. Address No. 548, care Michigan Tradesman. 548 For Sale—200 acres, Newaygo county, Michigan, at a2 bareain. J. D. oe baugh, Monmouth, Ill. 545 stock and. bakery. business. Located in city Northern Indiana. last year. Reasori For Sale—First-clas shoe store in city of 40,000; established twenty years; has best class of patronage. None but bona fide buyers will be considered, Ad- dress Box - Lima, Ohio. 546 Wanted—To rent country store build- ing good location. J. B., 2220 Clybourn Ave., Chicago. 547 For Rent—Store with basement, 385x100, modern throughout, steam heat, located on principal any business. Bend, Ind. ~ Sale—Four retail street, Sam suitable for Grossman, South 544 burner, wire light- For Yale special, lamp inverted gasoline, hollow ing system, nearly new. For particulars write to G. B. Nichols, 1315 Portage St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 54S Merchants! Do you want to sell out? Guarantee you no loss. Have an auction. Address L. H. Gallaghar are Tre 1c ¢ 522 as well as the buyer Advantageous ex- 2-7» Cat ota man. oo ' changes for other properties are often Henry Noring, Reedsburg, Wls., ex- arranged. In writing, state fully your pert merchandise auctioneer and author wants. The Varland System, Copia of The Secret of Successful Auctioneer- Bank, St. Paul, Mi nn. ing, closes out or reduces stocks of mer- Cafas Opened—W. 7 Stocuui. “sages ae chandise. Write for dates and informa pert and locksmith. 97 Monroe Ave ; ion. 336 Grand Rapids. Mich. C4 HELP WANTED. FREE FOR SIX MONTHS—MY ames IAL offer to introduce my magazine “IN- Wanted—A_ registered assistant, or VESTING FOR PROFIT.” It is worth young man with several years’ drug ex- $10 a copy to anyone who has been get- perience. Give references from last two ting poorer while the rich, richer. t employers. Address No. 558, care Trades- demonstrates the REAL earning power of man. DOS money, and shows how anyone, no matter Wanted—At clerk how poor, CAN acquire riches. INVEST- for general handle once an store one experienced who can ING FOR PROFIT is the only progres- German trade and take charge of ad- sive financial journal published. It shows vertising preferred. W. A. Hauck, Sea- how $100 grows to ve aoe no forth, Minn. 535 and I'll send it six months free. -L. "Wanted_—Clerk for general store. Must Barber, 433, 28 W. Jackson Blvd., Chi- he coher and tiduetriaus add have some Ce 448 previous experience. References required. Cash for your business or pruyerty. I Address Store, care Tradesman. 242 bring buyers and sellers together. No “Wanted—Sober industrious grocery- matter where located, if you want to buy, wan Must have experience, give ref- sell or exchange any kind of business or geenace! Pee ai Sha start with, dda. property, write me. Established 1881. eee ga aac ade mane ae Ty chance for advancement to right party. Frank P. Cleveland, Real Estate Expert, E. A. Phillips, Anacortes. Wash 507 1261 Adams Express Bldg., Chicago, Ill. a ane Pe eee = ieee 326 SITUATIONS WANTED. Merchants Please Take Notice! We i ee : : ao have clients of grocery stocks, general \ anted— Position by big eh ooo sae stocks, dry goods stocks, hardware stocks, lings salesman, any line but oe 7 , drug stocks. We have on our list also a house of good reputation. Must, be neh few good farms to exchange for such (240 terry. References. Address i stocks. Also city property. If you wish do4, care radesman. 59 “Wanted—By position as to sell or exchange your business write experienced us. G. R. Business Exchange, 540 House- traveling and wife, and dem- man salesman man Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. 859 onstrator, Address Man, care Trades- Meat piaihat and grocery for sale; do- en. iL : a6 ing good business; fixtures in_ first-class Wanted—Position by experienced hard- condition; groceries all staple; worth ware and_ grocery clerk. Have had ex- about $1,800. Address Hagerman Meat perience in farm _implements. Address Market. Hagerman, N. M. 497 No. 521, care Michigan Tradesman. 521 our Kinds of oupon Books Are manufactured by us and all sold on the saime basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on applica- tion. bbs TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Siete eteeeecenpnecriepeneentetesnesttemnennenuniecinanecinnenicinnstneabeuetesiieitenhvonsnetticenieieinieentetanstetnentnncititasinasiasasannatanty 32 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 22, 1918 GOOD ROADS. Their Relation to Home, School and Prosperity. This relation is very close and im- portant. In fact, good roads are the parents of home, school and_ social prosperity. The reason that we are not better off socially is due to trans- portation, distribution and marketing. We hear much nowadays about mak- ing two blades of grass grow where one grew. This is rather of a green proposition. to. distribute A better proposition is the necessities of life so two persons shall get them where only one has been getting them. This means better transportation at th> grower’s point and better marketing at the consumer's point. The solution to a better distribution hinges upon better transportation and marketing. When you have solved this question you will hear less about Over-produc- tion, So long as tens of thousands of God’s children hunger and starve for the products of the farm there can be no Over-production. there is an under-consumption. The trouble is, Un- der-consumption is due to an inade- quate distribution and distribution is governed by transportation and mar- keting. Why should a bushel of po- tatoes sell in Michigan villages for 25 cents and in New York city for 10 cents a pound? Why should hundreds of thousands of men, women and children starve for apples and pota- toes in New York and Chicago, while these farm commodities ground in Michigan? cumber the There are three reasons: transpor- tation, distribution and marketing. We have been 129 years trying to set- tle the tariff question and it is still unsettled. Suppose we had spent the Same time and money on the good roads question. We would be a great deal nearer Heaven if we had. If the people of Michigan spent as much time making good roads as they do cursing bad roads, they would save their souls and mend their ways. Job once asked: “If a man die shall he live again?” If all the men on earth were really alive the living habit would become so strong Job’s ques- tion would answer itself. Not live again, but live right on. In the age of the Caesars out from the Forum at Rome proceeded the great highways north, south, east, west. to the center of every province of the empire, making each market town of Persia, Spain and Britain accessible to the soldiers of the capital. Good roads and good mothers kept Rome on the map of the world for a thou- sand years. A great through spite, was reduced to a path-master by the Roman senate. Roman general, It was a mark of servility. This Roman general ac- cepted the office and did the work so well that, thereafter, preferment com- menced with supervisor of roads. That is large, broad-gauged politics in re- lation to road-making. That is some- what different from our railroad his- tory wherein a man was given a rail- road and stole a system. The eco- nomic loss annually to Michigan is millions of dollars because of impos- sible and impassable roads, to say nothing of divorces caused thereby. The average pathmaster in Michigan is about as well posted in road mak- ing as the unspeakable Turk in home- making. You cannot have good homes and good schools without good roads. With these you can have prosperity that goes all the way round. Prosperi- ty and bad roads are as incompatible as smallpox and good health. The re- lation of good roads to home, school and prosperity; you cannot have so- cial prosperity without good roads any more than you can have an all around social prosperity with a tariff for big business only. Social pros- perity is for all, not for the few. “So- cial prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.” Good roads lead to prosperity, bad roads lead to—well, perhaps I hadn't better tell. The trouble with the road question is that we are paying too much for bad roads. Every community should be a so- cial community. From the home to the school there should be a good road that the school may be a social center of community life. Second Concert Course of Mary Free Bed Guild. Shall Grand Rapids become a musical city, a center where the great artists of the world will come? This is the ideal of all music lovers in Western Michigan. The question is, How may this be accomplished? There is only one way and that is by patronizing all the great musical events which come to our city and giving the artists such a cordial and enthusiastc reception that they will desire to again visit Grand Rapids. The second concert course of the Mary Free Bed Guild opens Friday of this week at Powers Theater. The first attraction will be that most charming little opera, “Il Maestro di Cappella” or “The Choir Leader.” Pini-Corsi, the principal basso-buffo of the Metropoli- tan Opera Co., New York, also known will have the as the “divine clown,” leading role. December 11, Mme. Alda, one of the leading sopranos of the Metropoli- tan Opera Co., who has been most royally welcomed at every performance in New York, Boston and other East- ern cities, will make her first appear- ance in Grand Rapids. With her will be the young cellist, Gutia Cassini, and that incomparable accompanist, Frank La Forge. Jean Gerardy, the world-famous cel- list, will be heard on January 12. With this celebrated virtuoso will appear Miss Alice Nielson, the prima-donna soprano, and Mme. Rosa Olitzka, the Russian contralto. This programme will include duets by these two great Metropolitan stars, accompanied by the celebrated cellist, Jean Gerardy. The Kneisel Quartet will visit the city January 28. This quartet has been most enthusiastically received in every large city in the country. It is a rare opportunity for Western Michgan to hear them, especially when in the same evening they will be able to hear the great Hungarian pianist, Yolanda Mero. This course will close on March 18 with an evening of Irish music. John McCormack, the silver voiced Irish tenor and the idol of the entire United States, will be assisted by Melville Clark, the Irish harpist. The profits from this course will be expended in caring for any unfortunate. ones who are ill and unable to have the proper nursing and food. Such patients will be placed in the Mary Free Bed in the U. B. A. Hospital and will receive the same care as the most for- tunate patients. Please remember the dates. Oct. 24—Pini-Corsi & Co. Dec. 11—Mme. Frances Alda & Co. Jan. 12—Jean Gerardy, Alice Neilson and Rosa Olitzka. Jan. 28—Kneizel Quartet and Yolanda Miro. March 18—John McCormack and Melville Clark. —_2-____ Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—The Michigan Foundry & Supply Co. has increased its capital stock from $2,000 to $15,000. Benton Harbor—A. O. Duncombe succeeds Elmer E. Rouse in the ice cream manufacturing business. Petoskey—The Petoskey Block & Manufacturing Co.’s mill, which was burned in 1908, rebuilt and again burned in January, 1912, has been re- built, this time with larger quarters and more modern machinery than _ before. The new mill, including the 130,000- foot-capacity dry kiln, is 450 by 60 feet, located on a tract of 9% acres. Cadillac—The Williams Bros. Com- pany’s plant, which has been shut down for several weeks to make repairs, has started its winter run and will receive a large part of its logs from Elmira, 65 miles north. The Cadillac Veneer Works is enjoying an unprecedented business this fall and orders are coming in from new territory, indicating an enlargement of their business. The Cummer Manufacturing Co. is running full time and not manufacture enough crates to take care of the heavy demand during the apple season. can and potato Work on the Cummer-Diggins new boiler house is being rushed as fast as possible in order to get the building under cover before the bad weather sets in. Sawmill No. 1 and flooring plant of Cobbs & Mitchell (Inc.) have been closed down for the installation of new boilers. The Mitch- ell Bros. Co.’s sawmill, flooring plant and planing mill, at Jennings, are also undergoing repairs to have machinery ready for the winter’s run. The Cad- illac Manufacturing Co. is rushed with orders for barrels and is operating at full capacity. BUSINESS CHANCES. Flour mill for sale. Only mill in Mid- land county. Must be sold at once. Big sacrific. Hasy terms. Esley & Son, Mid- land, Mich. 560 Salesmen Wanted—We have several open territories for enternrising men of good selling ability to represent us. Young men with experience in retail stores and a fair knowledge of the methods used in the conduct of a general store business are especially qualified to succeed in our line. Those men who would improve their eondition and increase their earnings should write for particulars to the Sales Department of The Simple Account Sales Book Co., Fremont, Ohio. 562 If you want spot cash for your stock of merchandise, address R. EK. Thompson, Bartlesville, Okla. 561 + | he ) Buy ‘“‘Lincoln Mills’’ Underwear and Hosiery now for Spring. The early buyer has the goods when the consumer wets them. :-: 7: 7: Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. 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