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When the twilight had Giemned to darkness
They gathered from far and from near,
Old farmers who plodded the distance
As pilgrims their shrines to revere;
At the shabby old store at the ‘‘corners”’
They met and they entered the door,
For the Mecca of all these old cronies
Was the stove in the old village store.
It was guiltless of beauty or polish,
And its door was unskillfully hung,
But they made a glad circle around it,
And the genial warmth loosened each tongue;
And they talked of the crops and the weather,
Twin subjects to gossip most dear,
And the smoke from their pipes, as it blended,
Gave a tinge to the whole atmosphere.
Full many the tales they related,
And wondrous the yarns that they spun,
And doubtful the facts that they stated,
And harmless the wit and the fun;
But if ever the discussion grew heated
It was all without tumult or din,
And they gave their respectful attention
When a customer chanced to come in.
When the evening was spent and the hour
For the time of their parting had come,
They rapped from their pipes the warm ashes,
And reluctantly started for home;
Agreeing to meet on the morrow
When the day with its labors was o’er,
For the Mecca of all the old cronies
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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1913
Number 1572
SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page.
2. Bankruptcy Matters.
3. Grand Rapids Items.
4. News of the Business World.
5. Grocery and Produce Market.
6. Financial.
8. Editorial.
9. Mercantile Crisis.
10. News From Battle Creek, Kalama-
zoo and Lansing.
12. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
14. Jackson and Muskegon Items.
16. Dry Goods.
18. Shoes.
20. Woman’s World.
22. Hardware.
24. The Commercial Traveler.
26. Drugs.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
30. Special Price Current.
31. Business Wants.
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.
An Early Selling Campaign Induces
Early Buying.
Written for the Tradesman.
“A Christmas cake or pudding is
the better for being kept two or
three weeks, anyway.”
The foregoing remark of a
old grandmother who has kept house
for close on forty years might fur-
nish the text, along in November
for some interesting grocery adver-
tising, designed to bring out early
Christmas trade.
With all its possibilities of larger
sales the Christmas season isn’t usu-
ally viewed with undisturbed enjoy-
ment by the grocer and his helpers.
lt represents, not merely a busy
time, but a very burdensome time,
a time which concentrates into a few
days just before Christmas a_ tre-
mendous amount of business which
could be far more comfortably han-
dled if people would only think to do
their shopping early and spread their
Christmas buying over two or three
weeks, instead of ieaving it all to tie
last moment.
For the most part, the
early Christmas shopping business is
up to the grocer. If the trade is tc
be brought out early, it is for him
to take the initial step toward bring-
wise
however,
ine it out. This looks difficult:
nevertheless, merchants who have
tried the experiment state that they
notice an appreciable improvement
particularly where their campaign of
education is carried on through a
succession of Christmas seasons.
The outstanding feature of any
early shopping campaign is for the
merchant to “talk Christmas’ a week
or two ahead of time. If he starts
earlier than usual, the buying will
usually start ahead of time, too. Al-
lowance should always be made for
the generally recognized fact, that
public response to advertising of anv
kind is rarely instantaneous, and that,
especially in advance of the usually
recognized season, it takes time to
stir up interest in Christmas and the
goods pertaining thereto.
The merchant who keeps a mail-
ing list of his customers and makes
regular use of it will probably find it
an advantage in connection with his
Christmas campaign. Here 1s) th
modus operandi:
Prepare a carefully worded circu-
lar letter to the housewife. Start
that letter, not with a vague general
discussion of Christmas but with a
specific talk regarding Christmas
goods, and, in particular, the mater
ials for the Christmas cake and the
Christmas pudding. Cite the recog-
nized fact that these are much the
better for being made ahead of time
and kept a while before being cut.
Any housewife of experience knows
this, but it makes a good clincher for
your letter. And, in conclusion, urge
an early purchase of the materials
for the Christmas cake and pudding,
to give them a chance to “ripen”
and to enable the housewife to cook
them before press of other Christ-
mas interests prevent her from giv
ing them proper attention.
In the same letter, incidentally,
urge the early purchase of Christmas
candies and nuts, and other acces
sories—refer to your high grade con-
fectionery, suitable for gift boxes—-
call attention to the growing popu-
larity of Christmas bells and Christ-
mas crackers, which you handle—and
close with a final word regarding the
advantages of buying early, before
the rush renders an unhurried selec-
tion impossible.
Such a circular letter will, if prop-
erly prepared, prove a business get-
ter, anyway. In a good many cases
it will help to bring out the business
early.
Many merchants make a practice
of doubling their
during Christmas
recognition of the
holiday business;
advertising space
week. This is x
importance of the
but the results
would probably be better if the same
amount of space were distributed
over a longer period, allowing an
earlier start with the merchant's
“Christmas talks.”
Here, too, it is advisable to get
away from vague generalities and
to get right down to the specific. In
the newspaper space, the arguments
suggested for the circular letter,
earlier referred to, could be repro-
duced, not in identical form, but with
the same effect. And talk up the
Christmas goods. The reader is far
more likely to be interested in the
suggestion of some definite article
as a Christmas present for a friend
than in the indefinite slogan, “Christ-
mas is Coming. Do your Christmas
shopping early.” If the advertiser
can show the reader specifically why
early shopping is desirable and where
he (the reader) will benefit thereby,
results are likely to accrue. And a
straight-forward, logical talk re-
garding the Christmas cake will ap-
peal to the housewife directly and
immediately, conjuring up before her
mind, not a vague Christmas vision
but a definite picture of duties to be
performed, and to the performance
of which a purchase of Christmas
groceries is an essential prelude.
The most direct means of appeal to
many buyers is through the window
and interior decorations of the store.
Early buying will be stimulated by
early Christmas displays. These need
not be elaborate. Too often’ the
elaborate display does not bring re-
sults commensurate with the efforts
put forth; largely because these elab-
orate displays are usually reserved
for the last few days before Christ-
mas, when everybody in town. is
Christmas-mad and doesn’t need to
be reminded that Santa Claus is due
in twenty-four or forty-eight hours.
A series of simple and easily pre-
pared displays of seasonable goods.
with a Christmasy touch in the
background and in the incidental
show-cards, will do a great deal to
interest the public in Christmas buy-
ing. First impressions are most last-
ing, and the merchant who is first
in the Christmas field, though he may
feel lonely, is also due to reap good
returns from his foresight.
The gist of the entire “early shop-
ping” campaign, however, lies in the
merchant interesting the customer in
Christmas goods a week or
ahead of the usual time.
“You can’t interest
the question. The response to your
first efforts will be just as slow if
you delay another week in getting
started, simply because the average
man needs a little warming up be-
fore he is willing to get into action.
If Joshua had quit because the wialls
of Jericho didn’t tumble the first day
he marched around them, the walls
of Jericho might be standing yet.
An early selling campaign is the
best method of inducing early buy-
ing. It presupposes, of course, thet
you have stocked up with Christmas
stuff well in advance, and are pre-
pared to offer the customer a com-
plete selection and to fill orders at
two
To say that
them” is beside
once. It is an interesting fact that
people who buy early quite often
think of other necessary purchases
which, if they left off their first buy-
ing until close in toward Christmas,
would be completely overlooked.
In most localities the newspapers
will be glad to help the Christmas
selling campaign along more general
lines. From the humanitarian point
of view, early buying is in the public
interest. If possible, the newspapers
should be urged to refer, also, to the
business advantages to the buyer of
securing a better selection and avoid-
ing the rush and disappointment in-
evitably resulting from postponing
Christmas purchases until the last
possible moment.
In some places ladies’ organiza
tions—such as the W. C. T. U., the
ladies’ aid
churches
societies of the various
and other bodies—have
taken up the matter of
and passed
pledges
early buying
and
individual
resolutions secured
from members
Their interest in the good cause will
often prove
far more potent than the
But it
is usually for the merchant, looking
casual observer might think.
ahead to Christmas, to set all these
various influences in motion.
William Edward Park
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Reducing the Freight Expense on
Shipments.
Written for the Tradesman.
A progressive merchant told me
several weeks ago that freight alone
cost him 10 per cent. of his selling
eost. Lhink of that! Three times
as much as his advertising, one-third
than l
as much as his
more his cost for help, twice
own salary and ten
the
light and insurance. Yet he
times more than cost of heat,
was the
kind of merchant who bought small
and often, had goods continually
trickling into his store and also
bought where the best prices were
offered.
He knew everything there was to
know the
money on
about buying except best
way to do it and to save
his freight.
His
$10 worth of notions, paying
in buying
the 100
twenty-
pounds of
boosted
method consisted
pound freight rate on those
five or thirty-five mer-
t
chandise, which his freight
expense to a prohibitive figure.
After talking with him for a while,
convinced that
the
him
in one bill” was
Wwe “many lines
solution of his
difficulty and to-day he has cut his
freight expense from 10 per cent to
4 per cent.
When he
includes a other needed
lines, until he has built up a 100
pound shipment and has his freight
expense of $1 distributed over a $50
order.
orders notions now he
number of
This business of buying small and
often—or, rather, too small and often
—has its dangers and it is extremely
advisable that everyone
freight expenses pass the danger
point find out if he isn’t paying too
whose
high a rate on petty shipments.
Anderson Pace.
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Every customer you have can teach
you something about how customers
should be treated, if you are willing
to learn.
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In hiring a clerk, leave nothing to
his imagination. Tell him in the first
place all about what you want him to
do.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
November 5, 1913
BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.
Proceedings in Western Districts of
Michigan.
Grand Rapids, Oct. 20—A_ voluntary
petition was filed by George T. Apple-
yard and Charles T. Johnson, copartners
as Appleyard & Johnson, building con-
tractors of Grand Rapids, and they were
adjudged bankrupt by Judge Sessions
and the matter. referred to Referee
Wicks. An order was made by the ref-
eree calling the first meeting of cred-
itors to be held at his’ office on Novem-
ber 3, for the purpose of electing a trus-
tee, proving claims, examination of the
bankrupts, ete. The following assets are
listed in the partnership schedules:
Real estate, purchased upon land
contract, equity ............... $ 950.00
Tools and machinery .......... 3,000.00
mice Turnitare ................. 25.00
Accounts receivable ............ 7,838.90
Unliquidated claim against D. W.
DWCe 6. eck ee 2,500.00
The following creditors are scheduled:
Glendon A. Richards Co. (se-
cured by chattel mortgage)
Marquette Lumber Co. (secured
--$ 376.91
by mechanic's lien) ........... 4,000.00
A. Geitelt Iron Works .......... Bia
Jonm Ackerman Co. ............ 10.90
MI. Hrau@gy & Sons .........-...- 391.73
wrod f. ively 6... i... 841.21
Chas, A. Cove ..............-... 9.50
Pret Clancy. 2.0... ...e5-5e ee. 9.50
Detroit Steel Products Co., Detroit 273.00
Foster, Stevens & Co. .......... 493.01
Golden & Boter ................. 33.90
Grants Brick Co. ............... 794.38
Grand Rapids Brick Co. ....... 2,342.04
Pred Wirth .. 2... nas se. s ee 488.00
A. Himes Coal Co. ..... Se ee ee cas 249.56
menny Knapp & Co. .......-.... 103.25
S A. Moorman & Co. .......... 971.95
Page Hariware Co. ............. 28.69
Marquette Lumber So. ......... 3,825.62
Pulte Plumbing & Heating Co. ..118.13
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. .... 1,144.67
Rempis & Gallmeyer Foundry Co. 31.90
Glendon A. Richards Co. ...... 2,446.92
Stonehouse Carting Co. ......... 6.00
Stiles Brothers .......... bebe. 59.02
Son Sewen 2... os. 114.76
Valley City Stone & Gravel Co. 25.20
Van Dorn Iron Works Co.,
Clevelana =... 8... ee, 138.00
Universal Floor Co., Chicago.. 242.19
$19,673.67
Oct. 21—In the matter of Louis Levin,
bankrupt, formerly tailor at Grand Rap-
ids, the final meeting of creditors was
held. The final report and account of
Don E. Minor, trustee, was considered
and allowed and a final order of dis-
tribution entered. It appearing that
there were not sufficient assets to pay
the administration expenses in full, no
dividend was declared for general cred-
itors. No cause to the contrary being
shown by creditors, it was determined
that a favorable certificate as to the
bankrupt’s discharge be made _ by the
referee.
Oct. 22-In the matter of EE. C B.
Judd, Incorporated, bankrupt, of Muske-
gon, the first meeting of creditors was
held. By unanimous vote of creditors
present and_ represented, Edward B.
Dake, of Muskegon, was elected trustee.
His bond was fixed at $10,000. Tne trus-
tee was authorized to continue the pusi-
ness in the same limited manner as the
receiver had been authorized for a period
of sixty days. The inventory and report
of appraisers was filed and shows the
following assets:
Mont estate 60. $ 9,700.00
Office furniture and fixtures 178.50
Machinery equipment ......... 3,782.18
Process and finished stock .... 5,205.04
Trimmine material ............ 234,11
$19,099.83
The first meeting was then further ad-
journed to Nov. 12
Based upon the petition of certain of
his creditors, Bob H. Dillard, proprietor
of the Stetson Shoe Shop, Monroe street.
Grand Rapids, was adjudged bankrupt by
Judge Sessions and the matter referred
to Referee Wicks. An order was made
by the referee directing the bankrupt to
file schedules of his assets and liabilities
on or before Nov. 3. On receipt of such
schedules, the first meeting of creditors
will be called.
A voluntary petition was filed by
Frank Stearns, a painter of Grand Rap-
ids, and he was adjudged bankrupt by
Judge Sessions and the matter referred
to Referee Wicks. The bankrupt’s sched-
ules show no assets not claimed to be
exempt and the calling of the first meet-
ing of creditors has been delayed until
money is advanced for expenses. The
f-llowing creditors are scheduled:
Geo. E. Watson, Chicago ........ $ 20.48
Charles Wilhelm, Traverse City 60.00
Heystek & Canticid ..........:.;. 68.00
i. & Stationery Co. ............ 35.00
Cc. RR. Behool Supply Co. ........ 18.00
3ugbee Company, Traverse City 5.00
Dr. Ted Thirlby, Traverse City 5.00
John T. Beadle, Traverse City 35.00
a. ©. Cede —.....2.32... 6)... 32.60
Miss Annette Pollin, Lowell ..... 55.00
Or Me ee ee. 12.00
Dr 1 Wit aw 8... 1.75
Roland Doglas, Traverse City 3.50
Brosch Meat Co., Traverse City .. 6.09
Henry Broadhegan, Traverse City 15.00
J. W. McGarth,, Traverse City .. 5.00
7 . Moteary ......... 32.255... 7.00
Donovan Clothing Co. ........... 20.00
7: Kea oo... 8... 12.00
Winegar Furniture Co.
$437.83
Oct. 28-—In the matter of Interchange-
able Fixtures Co., bankrupt, of Grand
Rapids, the first meeting of creditors
was held. Francis D. Campau, of Grand
Rapids, was elected trustee by the cred-
itors. His bond was fixed at $10,000. By
vote of creditors the trustee was auth-
orized to continue the business of the
bankrupt to the extent of filling orders
for material now on hand up to Nov. 138.
The first meeting was then adjourned to
Nov. 13, at the office of the referee,, at
which time and place the officers of the
bankrupt company were ordered to ap-
pear for examination.
Oct. 24—-In the matter of Charley F. M.
Larsen, bankrupt, of Holland, the first
meeting of creditors was helu. By vote
of creditors Otto P. Kramer, of Holland,
was elected trustee. His bond was fixed
at $100. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined and the meeting then adjourn-
ead to Nov. 11
Oct. 28—A voluntary petition was filed
by the White Lake Transportation Co.,
a corporation of Whitehall, and it was
adjudged bankrupt by Judge Sessions
and the matter referred to Referee
Wicks. An order was made by the ref-
eree appointing Rex R. Royal, of White-
hall, as custodian, and calling the first
meeting of creditors to be held at the
office of the referee on Nov. 10 for the
purpose of electing a trustee, proving
claims, examining the officers of the
bankrupt, ete. The following assets are
scheduled:
Cash On pamd ooo. cee $ 30.00
One propeller steam vessel, called
“Syiph,’’ and her furniture and
fixtures.
One warehouse frame building at
Whitehall.
Accounts receivable, of about 100.00
The following creditors are scheduled:
Nufer Cedar Co., Whitehall ...$1,784.00
A. i. Dickinson, Whitehall ..... 5.85
Vernon A. Chapman, Muskegon 1,000.00
Charles F. Smith, Whitehall 1,000.00
$3,789.85
A. voluntary petition was filed by
Ernest W. Preston, a commission dealer
of Grand Rapids, and he was adjudged
bankrupt by Judge Sessions and the mat-
ter referred to Referee Wicks. An order
was made by the referee calling the first
meeting of creditors to be held at his
office on Nov. 11, for the purpose of elect-
ing a trustee, proving claims, examining
the bankrupt, ete. The following assets
are scheduled:
Cash on band _..........;.2.... $ 231.32
Contract right in certain real
Oerete eck, 120.00
Household foods, ete. ............ 150.00
Automobile and sieieh ........... 130.00
The following creditors are listed:
Secured or Preferred.
City of Grand Rapids, taxes : 18.50
John W. Powers. Grand Rapids,
(balanee due land contract) .. 1,703.25
Francis §. Hull, Middleville, (bal-
ance due on automobile secured
by chattel mortgage) ....5....- 380.00
Young & Chaffee, Grand Rapids
(goods purchased on reserve title
eontract) - 2. sea 8 59.20
G. R. Gas Light Co., Grand Rapids
(stove bought on contract) .... 12.50
Rhodes Furnace Co., Grand Rap-
ids (furnace bought on contract) 50.00
Unsecured.
South Grand Rapids State Bank $150.00
Gaiser-Brummeler ©o. .......... " 50.00
sacob Westra ................... 100.00
Himer Walstrom ................. 60.00
Gaiser-Brummeler Co. ........... 10.93
Standard Ol Co. ........,........ 14.19
Jacob Homerich, Bvron Center 50.35
Mrs. J. S. Warris, Bailey ....... 15.60
Thomas M. Vincent, Caledonia 33.64
Ptanton & Co... Caledonia ....... 24.30
Jasper Norris, Walkerville ...... 86.45
Chas. H. Kinsey. Caledonia ...... 5.91
Dan Mckersy, Dutton .......... 7.30
3. S Pierce, Dulton .._......... 23.48
o- ©. dim, Caledonia .......... 4.05
Dr Jonna Mi. Wrieht ©. ......... 150.00
Michigan Trust Co., Receiver for
Wuille-Carrol] Co. ......: foe 143.87
A. Cassabianca & Son .......... 386.78
Guarantee Vulcanizine Co. ...... 28.42
Wo > Vendecar 2.7002. 26.87
Michiean Auto Joint Co. ........ 34.80
Stroup & Wiersum ............. 288.00
$4,084.93
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Bankruptcy Matters in Southwestern
District of Michigan.
St. Joseph, Oct. 21—In the matter of
the Michigan Buggy Co., bankrupt, of
Kalamazoo, at the adjourned first meet-
ing of creditors held at Grand Rapids at
the District Court room, the bid of
Samuel Winternitz, of Chicago, of $225-
000 for all the personal property of the
bankrupt except accounts receivable,
was approved by Judge Sessions. It is
understood that Mr. Winternitz within
the next ten days will offer the property
for sale at publie auction, and unless a
reasonable bid is received for the as-
sets, the same will be sold in parcel and
the plant dismantled. The Commercial
‘4 of Kalamazoo and the former heads
of the several departments and employes
of the bankrupt are making a determined
effort to secure the buggy, vehicle and
hlanket department for the purpose of
keeping the same in Kalamazoo. Ed-
ward EF. Gerber, of Pittsburg, head of
the Pennsylvania sales corporation, made
teas se: 1.50 -
an offer of $265,000, including the real
estate, and it is understood Mr. Gerber
will be in Kalamazoo next week for the
purpose of raising his bid when an auc-
tion sale is held by Mr. Winternitz.
In the matter of James Ingersoll Day,
bankrupt, of Decatur, an adjourned first
meeting of creditors was held at the
referee's office and the trustee was in-
structed to settle the controversy of sev-
eral secured creditors holding — liens
against the property of the bankrupt,
preparatory of calling a final meeting
of creditors for the purpose of closing
the estate. From the present outlook,
unsecured creditors will not receive a
:vidend of more than 1 or 2 per cent.
Oct. 22—In the matter of Frank W.
Flint, bankrupt, of Saugatuck, an order
was entered by the referee calling a first
meeting of creditors on November 4 at
ANegan for the purpose of the allowance
of claims, the election of trustee and
other matters of business.
Oct. 24—In the matter of The Na-
tional Gas Light Co., bankrupt, of Kala-
mazoo, an adjourned first meeting of
creditors was. held and preferred claims
to the amount of some $8,000 was ordered
paid by the referee. The report and ac-
count of the trustee, showing cash on
hand of $15,289.58, was approved and
allowed. o_———————
What Some Michigan Cities Are
Doing.
Written for the Tradesman.
The Grand Trunk Railroad will build a new
depot at Cassopolis next year. Carson City is
also asking this road for a new station.
Kalamazoo business men met and took first
steps toward forming a convention bureau.
The Celery City hopes to land the State Teach-
ers’ Meeting next year.
The Bay City Board of Commerce is looking
into the plan of establishing an experimental
farm near town and expects to have the co-
operation of the Federal agricultural depart-
ment, the State Agricultural College and Bay
county in the work,
President Linton, of the Saginaw Board of
Trade, has named a committee of fifteen to
promote the campaign for pure water.
Title to the Governor Blair homestead at
rector of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic ehureh
Jackson has passed into the hands of the
and a fireproof hospital costing $100,000 wi.l
be built on the site.
Enrolment at the night schools at Jackson
is fifty ahead of last year to date and classes
have been formed in sixteen branches of study.
Belding is discussing public library plans.
vey proposed to place the library in the city
ral).
Advertising men of Saginaw ‘are planning to
organize an advertising club.
takes effect in thirty days.
Pontiac has passed a curfew ordinance which
The Merchants’ Delivery Association of Por-
tiac has discontinued the 7 a. m._ delivery,
making four deliveries for the day.
Oceana county people will vote at the spring
election on the queston of a bond issue of $100, -
000 to build a new court house at Hart.
The Elk Rapids Board of Trade has elected
the following officers: President, Sam Goldfarb:
Secretary, W. E. Olds; Treasurer, Edward
Durkee; Directors, Lowell Sours, George Jack-
son, George Hockridge, L. W. Hooper, BL.
Pfeiffer, John Dockery, M. Hahner and ©, I.
Wood. Total receipts at the recent harvest
home fair were $207.45 and the balance on hand
is $64.29.
Luther will have electric lights. Poles have
been set for twenty-three street lights and con-
tracts signed for lights in business places and
homes,
A large manufacturing concern of the west
side, Saginaw, has notified the Arthur Hill
trade school that it will pay the tuition of all
its employes who attend the night school
classes in any department.
Building operations are active at Menom-
inee. Many new homes will be erected in the
spring.
Ingham county’s — tuberculosis
opened this week at Lansing.
Prisoners in the jail at Flint may be com-
pelled to assist in the good roads programme in
Genesee county. Supervisors are working on
the plan.
The contract has been awarded to an Allegan
firm for building the $10,000 Carnegie library
in that city.
Nearly 3,000 people attended the recent con-
vention of Odd Fellows held at Kalamazoo. This
meeting ranks next to the teachers in size as
an annual State gathering. Sixteen thousand
dollars was paid the delegates per diem and
most of this money was left in the city.
Mayor Connable is urging an improved garb-
age disposal system for Kalamazoo.
Savings accounts in St. Joseph banks have
increased over $207,000 in the past three
months. This healthy inerease is due in large
part to the marketing of the fruit crop.
Ann Arbor is investigating the different sys:
tems of street lighting with a view to adoption
of some modern system.
Edward A, Daley, a newspaper man of Cairo,
Tll., has been elected Secretary of the Mar
quette Commercial Club.
Cattle yards are being built at Boyne City
by the Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Railroad
and that city will be made an important cattle
shipping poinf.
The Saginaw Canoe Club is building a $20,0°°
club house in Ezra Rust Park, Kalamazoo, Mr.
Rust contributed $10,000 to the building fund.
The Michgan Railway Commission has _ noti-
fied the Pere Marquette Railroad to get busy
in the erection of a new depot at Pt. Huron.
The company is given until Jan. 15 to complete
the building.
Arrangements have been completed for the
corn and apple show to be held under the
auspices of the Battle Creek Chamber of Com-
merce, Nov. 11-15. Almond Griffen.
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Doings in the Buckeye State.
Written for the TralJesman.
Friday, Nov. 14, has been set apart by Gover-
nornor Cox as School Day in the common
schools of the State and he suggests that dele-
gates be chosen at these meetings throughout
the State to attend an Fducational Congress
to be held at Columbus, Dec. 26. Betterment
of country schools and rural life and stopping
the drainage of the rural population by cities
are among the main purposes in view.
Adoption of simpler spelling is favored by
a majority of the colleges and higher schools
of the State. The Ohio Teachers’ Association
has been making an investigation.
Cleveland people are more well to do than
in 1910. At least the per capita deposit in
savings banks now is $369 or $40 greater than
it was three vears ago. The total money de-
posited in savings accounts is approximately
sanitarium
$232,302.000 and the city’s population is placed
at 629,000.
Cleveland jis taking first steps toward the
proposed subway terminal for surface cars in
the downtown section. Four tracks will be laid
in each tube.
The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce is
giving a series of dinners to promote civic im-
provements and the first one was attended by
200 men who boosted better street lighting and
the elimination of grade crossings.
Almond Griffen.
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The New Age.
Of the iron age we often hear,
And the fabled age of gold,
But now the income tax brings near
An age of wealth untold.
November 5, 1913
Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids, Nov. 8—tIn all the annals
of Grand Rapids U. C. T.ism, it is
doubtful if a more enjoyable time was
ever chronicled than the one had at the
regular meeting held last Saturday even-
ing. This is accounted for, in a large
measure, by the fact that the members
were accompanied by their wives, who
share in no small measure the reputa-
tion long held by the traveling salesmen
that they are a ‘“‘jolly bunch.’’ The fact
that the ladies were invited also helped
swell the attendance and, as a result,
about seventy-five members responded
to the roll call. At the opening of the
lodge every officer was present except
Senior Counselor Stark, who appeared
on the scene shortly after the recess.
His chair was occupied by Junior Coun-
selor Beardsley, who added his usual
dignity to the occasion. Wm. Bosman,
member of the Executive Committee,
was absent. Six candidates were suc-
cessfully conducted over the hills and
lofty mountains—and_ veritable heroes
they proved themselves to be, for not
once in the trying ordeal did one of them
flinch or manifest a desire to turn back.
These brave heroes and the firms they
represent are as follows: Wm. E. Mer-
sen, Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.; Walter
B. Kelsey, Rumelz Products Co.; Geo. A.
Eggleston, Michigan general agent for
the New Home Sewing Machine Co.;
August Kaser, Peck, Johnson & Co;
Harrison J. Kibbey, Kent Storage Co.
and Sanitary Milk Co.; Fred De Cou,
Rueckheim Bros. & Eckstein, manufac-
turers of cracker jack and kindred prod-
ducts. When the name of A. Drum-
mond, representing Brown & Sehler Co.,
was read for re-instatement, a long and
generous applause went up from the
members, which eliminates all element
of doubt, if any ever existed, that Dave
occupies a high position in the esteem
of his fellow salesmen. Some very use-
ful prizes were handed out to the ladies
who occupied their time playing progres-
sive pedro. Mrs. John V. Ripperger_car-
ried off the first prize and Mrs. R. A.
Waite second, she being obliged to draw
cuts with Mrs. F. EB. Scott. Mrs. E. A.
Rottje won the consolation prize. Among
the visitors were Brother Wendell S.
Mills, of Dayton, Ohio, member of Cro-
ghan Council, No. 320, Fremont, Ohio.
Mr. Mills makes this territory regularly
in the interest of Heukel Manicure Cut-
jery Go. and it is hoped he may visit
us often.
The many friends of Harry D. Hydorn
will be interested in the following let-
ter recently sent out to the various
councils of the State:
“To the Subordinate Councils of Mich-
igan Jurisdiction, U. of America:
Grand Rapids Council No. 131 at their
last regular meeting voted unanimously
to place before the membership of the
Grand Council of Michigan the name oO
Brother Harry D. Hydorn as candidate
for the office of Grand Secretary for
Michigan at the next regular meeting of
the Grand Council, to be held at Sagi-
naw in June, 1914. In advocating the
candidacy of Brother Hydorn, we beg
leave to call your attention to the fact
that he is a U. GC. T. booster at all
times and for the past six years he has
made an efficient Secretary of our Coun-
cil. We, therefore, believe that, judging
by his past record, he would make an
excellent Grand Secretary. We earnest-
ly solicit your support for our candidate.
Fraternally yours,
Arthur N. Borden,
Boosters’ Committee,
730 Prince St., S. E.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
It is generally known that there is a
bunch of mighty good fellows living at
Tolland who are traveling salesmen and
ought to belong to the U. C. T. There-
fore, at the meeting of the Boosters’
Committee last Saturday afternoon, it
was voted to delegate Homer Bradfield
Secretary
and Ed. Bottje to go down to Holland
with a view to rounding up a few of
these gentlemen. Ye_ scribe knows a
number of them and knows they would
be excellent U. C. material.
Genial KE. J. McMillan should be more
careful of his ministerial acquaintance
in the future. Ask Ed.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Clark and son,
Orlando, are going to Florida to spend
the winter. :
Walter Ryder was at the meeting
Saturday night for the first_ time since
his matrimonial venture in June. It is
a safe bet he had to put up for a new
hat before Mrs. Ryder would let him_ go.
Brother H. C. Harper took the Con-
sistory and Shrine work at the recent
meeting held in Grand Rapids.
We were glad to see the smiling coun-
tenance of Howard YDamon._ Brother
Damon recently moved his family to Mt.
Pleasant, where they took up their resi-
dence. Howard says Mrs. Damon and
Nell Jane are enjoying the best of health
and Howard is looking pretty husky him-
self. We hope Mrs. Damon will insist
on coming with him to the next meet-
ing and take a hand at cards.
Will some enterprising druggist up
state please interpret the following prose
recently presented by a small boy at a
nearby drug store: Hawltarquar cuar.
M. IL. Evans, of Coldwater Council, fell
recently and broke his leg. Mr. Evans
represents the Michigan Wire Fence Co.
Anyway, they set us up in large type
even if they did put us on page 109.
But then, come to think it over, soup
always occupied first place on the menu
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
card so we don’t care if we don’t get
on the first page.
All were present at Brother Stowe's
birthday party except Ura Donald Laird.
Editor Stowe says ‘‘there isn’t money
enough in Grand Rapids to buy that can-
celled note.’ We think he would hesi-
tate some if we offered him the U. C. T.
football team.
We understand the proprietor of the
hotel down in Detroit has_ recently
thrown out roller towels. Congratula-
tions, Mr. Landlord. You are doing a
good work. Detroit will soon be placed
on the list with other good hotel towns.
Two business changes were made at
Blissfield last week. J. E. Wilson sold
his stock of implements, harness and
buggies to E. W. Sherman and the Geo.
Palmer Furniture & Undertaking Co.
was sold to Otto Tagsold.
Osear Levy, one night last week, took
his family to the Columbia theater and
occupied seats on the front row. During
the programme the union leader of the
orchestra—in the playlet—desiring a
nickel, asked Oscar for a loan, which
was promptly refused, as Oscar had noth-
ing smaller than 10 cents and didn’t
propose to take any chances on getting
his change back, notwithstanding the
fact that he and his family ate up all
the peppermint drops on the stage.
We clip the following from a Green-
ville paper: Brother Harry Hydorn came
to market one day last week with a fine
outlay of ‘relishes’? (expensive), which
he sold to the Hotel Phelps.
There will be a regular meeting of
the dance committee Saturday after-
noon, Nov. & at 2 o'clock. It is hoped
every member will be present, as the
committee has some very important mat-
ters to discuss. Place, 15 South Ionia
avenue.
H. W. Harwood one night last week
entertained at Jackson, a small party of
his friends, comprising R. M. Richards
Tra F. Gordon and Doak. After luncheon
they had an_ experience meeting, at
which each related hair raising remin-
iscences of the Hallowe’en pranks in
which he had participated in the past.
We will bet it was behind closed doors
and that none of the pranks are for pub-
lication.
D. M. Bodwell, at one time with the
Putnam Candy Co., of this city, but
more recently with the McKenzie Co., of
Cleveland, selling Old Hickory candy,
was recently made sales manager of the
latter concern.
Why that worried look on Brother Wil-
cox’s face, do you ask? It was because
he was caught at Tustin one day last
week with a string of birds on his per-
son and no license in his pocket. It is
alleged the sheriff is looking for him.
Mrs. E. F. Wykkel was called to De-
troit last week on account of the serious
illness of her nephew, Eddie Fitzgerald.
We think it would be well for Sentinel
Tommy Driggs to keep an eye on those
caps. Bill Mersen was seen last Satur-
day night, half wav between the Coun-
ci® chambers and the union depot, with
one in his possession, but was appre-
hended in the act and forced to return
it to the Council chamber. As Bill is
a new member he has many things to
learn, among them being that we pro-
pose to protect our property at all haz-
ards.
Bishop Quayle, of the Methodist
Church, has compiled some statistics on
fat and lean men. He says: ‘‘Man when
he is lean, takes himself too seriously
and squeaks when he” walks. He is
wicked and has not half the chance the
fat man has of being’ good.” Respect-
fully referred to the fat men of No.
131 and also our good friend, Hditor
Stowe.
Our Senior Counselor, O. W. Stark, was
unable to get up to the meeting Sat-
urday evening until after 9 o'clock, but
Junior Counselor Fred E. Beardsley open-
ed the meeting and presided just like
an old veteran. No. 131 has some offi-
cers coming.
All hail to the largest package of cof-
fee in Michigan! It has been several
moons since Geo. K. Coffey has heen
with us at our meeting. Come often,
Brother Coffey. We like your presence
and, to be candid, the Council room
looks ‘‘better filled’? when you grace it
with your presence.
A goodly number of the ‘old guard”
were at the meeting Saturday night ana
they are always full of counsel and good
advice for U. CC. T. in general and No.
131 in particular.
There is a large list of names on the
several ‘‘petitions for charter’ that have
been passed out for the Guild of “The
Ancient Mystic Order of 3agmen. of
3agdad,’’ and these lists have been turn-
ed over to John D. Martin. The special
dispensation has been received and it is
necessary for the brothers who want to
ecome in under this special dispensation
to send check or other form of remit-
tance to John D. Martin, payable to his
order. John’s address is 254 Henry ave-
nue, and just as soon as the required
number come across with the $5, the
Imperial Clerk of Records will arrange
for the organization of the Guild and if
all respond quickly this can be done
early in January, 1914. We must have
fifty. We want 100 charter members and
remember when this charter closes the
initiation fee will be $10.
There is a first-class hotel in Athens,
Ohio, run by a negro and negro waiters
are in attendance. It is a rule in this
hotel that there shail be no tips and any
waiter accepting a tip is promptly dis-
missed. Some of our white
please take notice.
We note Traverse City Council will
have a candidate for Grand Secretary.
We wonder who it can be?
landlords
_How times have changed! Sometime
since a certain landlord was asked to
to take advertising space in a U. C
publication. He refused and the reason
given was that the only profits he made
was from over the bar and he got mighty
little over the bar from the U. ¢. T
boys. Our wives please take notice.
Some landlords pride themselves on
running a first-class hotel and then per-
sist in using the condemned insanitary,
germ laden, unlawful roller towel. The
Wigton Hotel, at Hart, would be a fav-
orite stopping place for the boys were it
not for the roller towels found there,
which we all love—nit.
Bill Ingersoll, with the Woodhouse Co.,
is sporting a brand new complectioned
rain coat.
We wish to state, for the
ment of our readers, that
Stoepel & Co., so frequently referred to
on the front page of the Tradesman, is
a prosperous wholesale dry goods and
men's furnishing goods house in Detroit.
The way Brother Hydorn stammered
and blushed in his effort to read that
communication last Saturday night pre-
eludes all possibility of the idea of his
running for the Grand Secretaryship ever
originating in his mind. If he is elected
to the office he is still eligible for re-
election in Grand Rapids Council in
March.
Why doesn’t Brother Richter out with
it and give us the name of that hotel
that didn’t deliver the telephone call?
Possibly he thought that as we gave the
name in the issue of Oct. 22, it wouldn’t
be necessary for him to uo so.
Quite a commotion was caused at the
garbage reduction plant recently, when
one of the pigs tried to eat a roller towel.
The pig was promptly fumigated and
isolated and at the last report was do-
ing nicely.
The boys certainly appreciate the ac-
tion of the Pere Marquette Railroad in
not taking off the extra summer trains
on the Pentwater branch.
Assssment No. 119 is now due and
payable. Remit at once to Harry D.
Hivdora, RK. F. D. No. 5.
Only ten more days before the next
U. ©) ©. dance in Herald Hall, Nov. 15
—Detroit Detonations.
If we don’t stop writing,
type for us.
enlighten-
3urnham,
it will be fine
Some paper, that birthday edition.
May you have many more of them,
Brother Stowe!
Will Brother John Schumacher kindly
notify us as installs that
telephone?
Read ‘“‘Chirpings From the Cricket on
the Hearth’’ by Guy Tradesman Pfander.
Paul Berns is back with his old con-
cern selling Globe soap. At the present
time he is covering Wisconsin, but the
first of the year he will be transferred
to lowa. This will give him the posi-
tion of State Manager for the Globe Soap
Coa. Paul intends to move his family
over to Iowa, also.
The last Legislature passed a law pro-
viding for an inspection of hotels, but
the lawmakers inserted a joker in the
bill by failing to make any appropriation
to carry out its provisions. The measure
was drawn by a committee of traveling
men and thev were instrumental in its
enactment. The bill provides that all
hotels be equipped with fire escapes and
that coils of heavy rope shall be placed
near the windows ready for emergency
in two-story buildings. The law _ pro-
vides further that an inspector be ap-
pointed at a salary of $1,000 a year and
the traveling men have petitioned the
Board of State Auditors to pay the sal-
ary of the inspector. Attorney General
Fellows has been asked for an opinion
as to the authority of the 3o0ard of
Auditors to pay the ‘salary of the in-
spector. Late information is to the ef-
fect that John W. Thorne, of Owosso,
has been appointed Hotel Inspector and
begun his duties Nov. 1. His salary will
be taken care of O. K. Now, boys, if you
have any kick coming Mr. Thorne is the
man. We have had the man appointed
now do your duty and see that the hotel
you stop at is equipped.
The Holland Interurban has completed
the cut off from the main line at Jeni-
son Park to the Saugatuck line and will
soon be ready to make the change that
will place Saugatuck on the main line,
instead of a branch. It is expected that
by the first of next week work will be
commenced on moving the rails from the
old line to the new and that it will not
take more than two weeks to complete
the entire change. In the interim the
interurban cars will run as far as Knoll’s
Crossing and busses will take passengers
to the main line.
We are very sorry indeed to report
the death of Suzann Jane Carpenter, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ned Carpenter,
who was born April 1, and spent the
first seven weeks of her little life in an
incubator at St. Mary’s Hospital. The
baby was sick but four days of acute
nephritis. Otherwise the child was in
perfect health and was_ doing _ fine.
Though a little late, Grand Rapids Coun-
soon as he
cil extends their sympathy to Mr. and
Mrs. Ned Carpenter.
George W. Woodcock, former. assist-
ant manager at the Occidental Hotel, in
Muskegon, is now in charge of the Hotel
Stearns, in Ludington. Under his man-
agement several important improvements
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have been made both in general accom-
modations and service of the hostelry.
The Hotel Ancell, which burned in
Muskegon Heights recently and from
which a score of persons narrowly es-
caped, will be replaced by a more mod-
ern and larger hotel. While the former
building was valued at $6,000, the new
structure will cost about double that
amount and will have accommodations
for about 75 or 100 guests.
The St. James Hotel at Middleville is
now a certainty. The old St. James
Hotel burned to the ground March 15,
and the business men of Middleville re-
cently held a meeting and decided they
wanted a building that would be mod-
ern in every respect and a credit to the
town. The business men_ subscribed
about $7,000. Shortly after this the hus-
tling little village at once laid plans for
the construction of the new hotel. F. P.
Allen was engaged as architect and fin-
ished the plans this past week. It will
be a beautiful brick structure, bearing
the name of St. James Hotel, and will
be 60x 76 feet, two stories in height with
a large porch across the entire front. The
first floor will contain a lobby, parlor,
two living rooms, sample room, barber
shop, dining room, kitchen, pantry and
toilet. The floors throughout will be
hardwood and the
be plate glass.
On accoun of the
the Griswold House, in
duced the
front of the hotel will
reduction in. tariff
Detroit, have re-
price of their business men’s
lunch from {5c to 50c.
The Dawley House, at Athens, is one
of the best hotels in the State for the
size of the town. Mrs. Dawley states
that there has been a story circulated to
the effect that there is no hotel at all
in Athens, but as a matter of fact,
Athens can boast of a mighty fine little
hotel. Mrs. Dawley looks after the boys
in person and that the boys go
away with a full stomach and have a
soft bed to sleep in.
Frank H. Blanot, 50
for the past eighteen
sees
years
years
old,
has
who
been
connected with the International Har-
vester Co. as field representative, died
Saturday at his home, 145 Gold street.
His death was very unexpected, as
health had been very good until a
days ago. Mr. Blanot came to G
Rapids in 1896 and had been a resic
of this city ever since. His wife and
one sister,
Mrs. &.
cago, survive.
Whitmore, of Chi-
Allen F.
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Special Features in the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.
New York Nov. 3—Not for thirty years has
this town been so upset by politics. For the
time being business is given over to
the pros and cons of the campaign and callers
at business places all around the city will
‘ry apt to find more talk of Tammany and
anti-Tammany than of dollars and cents, It
has been so all this week and even for a fort-
night but the ‘‘tumult and the shouting’’ are
now over and matters will soon be moving in
the usual channels.
Spot coffee is steady as to price.
usually of small lots, but
frequent and the total amount taken by the
interior dealers has been very respectable. In
an invoice way Santos 7s are worth 10%e¢ and
Rio 4s 18144.@13%,c¢. In store and afloat there
are of Brazilian coffee, 1,727,183 bags, against
2,547,642 bags at the same time last year.
Milds are without change in any respect. Good
Cuecuta, 14e.
The demand for sugar has
No great change is
Rockwell.
even
Sales are
have been
orders
] been very light.
anticipated in the near
future. The trade bought pretty freely at
4.25e and are not inclined to invest at the ad-
vanee since made to 4.35e,
The tea market is slnggish—decidedly — so.
While the statistical position of the artiele ap-
parently warrants buying on present basis, there
is very little snap. Not a few have expressed
the opinion that general business conditions
are not favorable to this market and say that
no special improvement can be looked for be-
fore the end of the year.
Rice is in only moderate
market is firm, but with
rather small proportions.
mestie, AKcCM@5\e.
Spices are in moderate supply. Quotations
well sustained and tend to a little higher level.
The demand has shown some improvement and
the general situation seems to be in favor of
the seller.
Molasses {fs quiet and likely to remain so
until arrivals of new crop begin to count for
something. Quotations are unchanged. Syrups
are steady.
The bottom seems to
quotations for standard
the trend is now upward, according to good
authority. At the price stated packers, of
course, ‘‘lose money,’’ but the same story is
told every year. At any rate goods that are
really standard are worth 70e f. 0. b. factory
and canners are not anxious to part with goods
at this unless they must. Corn is well sus-
tained and the better qualities are not in
large supply. Peas at SO@S85e seem to be in
better demand than the very top-notch stock.
Other lines are firm and, in fact, the whole
line of canned foods is assuming a more satis-
factory aspect from the packer’s standpoint.
Extra creamery butter remains firm at 32%
firsts, 27%4@30c; held stock, 27@3Ic:
imitation creamery, 25@25%e: factory, 23@24e
Except for the finest grades, the market is dull.
Cheese is steady, with top grades of New
York State held at 15%@16c.
Eggs are quoted all the way from 20 to
55¢e per dozen. Probably a fair range for West-
ern whites would be 33@38c.
supply and the
actual business of
Prime to choice do-
have heen reached in
tomatoes at 67%e and
Oma.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
November 5, 1913
Movements of Merchants.
Mt. Pleasant—W. H. Carpenter has
engaged in the meat business here.
Dowagiac—Frank First has engag-
ed in the harness business here.
Whitehall—George Pappas has en-
gaged in the fruit and confectionery
business here.
Ontonagon—C. L. Marley has open-
ed a cigar and confectionery store in
the Dowd building.
Durand—Fraser & Pickell have en-
gaged in the grocery business in the
Opera House block .
Eaton Rapids—F. Rorabeck & Son
succeed Ira L. McArthur in the cigar
and restaurant business.
Durand—Peter De Rose has opened
a retail fruit store in connection with
his wholesale business.
Webberville—W. F. Patrick has re-
moved his hardware stock to the new
store building he has erected.
Bay City—Wilton J. Simmons, re-
centiy of Gaylord, has taken the post-
tion of manager of the Perkins Fruit
Co.
Grand Ledcee—8. 8B. Simons has
added lines of confectionery and bak-
ed goods to his stock of groceries and
meats.
Albion—The H. A. Goodrich Co.,
butter and egg dealers at Charlotte
and Eaton Rapids, has opened a sim-
ilar store here.
Battle Creek—P. Hoffrnaster &
Sons, dealers in general merchandise,
have dissolved partnership and wil!
retire from
business.
Urbandale—Edward Coe has pur-
chased an interest in the general stock
of Jacob Weickgenant. The new firm
will be known as Weickgenant & Coe.
Lyons—J. D. Hale & Sons have
sold their flour and feed mill to the
Commonwealth Power Co., who will
take possession July 1, 1914.
Alma—Joseph E. Page, recently of
Clare, has purchased the Caple Hard-
ware Co. stock and will continue the
business under his own name.
Ann Arbor—Percy L. Mack, recent-
ly of Schoolcraft, has purchased the
John A. Tice Co. drug stock and will
continue the business under his own
name.
Detroit—The Yeomans-Diver Co..
wholesale dealer in lumber and manu-
facturers of crates, boxes and shooks,
has changed its name to the Yeomans
Box Co.
Detroit—The Delray Drug Co. has
engaged in business with an author-
capital stock of $1,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid
ized
in in cash.
Charlevoix—L. S. See, who has con-
ducted a grocery store here for the
past twenty years, has sold his stock
to Charles Danto, recently of Detroit,
who will continue the business at the
same location under the management
of Henry Jacobs. Mr. See will de-
vote his entire attention to the wood
and coal business.
Hillsdale—Fire damaged the Frank
L. Farnsworth dry goods stock ts
the extent of several thousand dollars
Oct. 30 The loss was fully covered
by insurance.
Elwell—The Elwell Elevator Co.
has engaged in business with an au-
thorized capital stock of $7,700, all
of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.
Beulah—M. Peterson and Joseph
Rice have formed a copartnership un-
der the style of Peterson & Rice and
engaged in the wholesale and retail
meat business here.
Parma—Julius E, Clapp has sold a
half interest in his stock of shoes,
hats and caps, to L. H. Godfrey and
the business will be continued under
the style of Clapp & Godfrey.
Kalamazoo—Thieves entered the
William C. Wheelock drug store on
North Rose street, Nov. 4, and car-
ried away goods to the amount of
about $40, as well as about $3 in
cash.
Owosso—Ernest Cummins, grocer
on East Main street, has sold his
stock to E. D. Horne, who will con-
tinue the business at its present loca-
tion as a branch to his Shiawassee
street grocery store.
Chippewa Lake—Fire destroyed the
general store of E. P. Forbes, H. A.
Tiffany & Sons’ grocery store, R. G.
Abbey ‘& Son’s hardware store and
one residence owned and occupied by
Mrs. Scofield, Nov. 4.
Elm Hall—Thomas J. Blair, who
has conducted a general store here
since 1874, died at Mayo Bros. hos-
pital, Rochester, Minn., Oct. 25, as
the result of an operation. Mr. Blair
was 69 years of age.
Ludington—Carl Seward has sold
his interest in the Stram & Seward
drug stock to his partner and the
business will be continued under the
style of Stram & Co. J. N.
will manage the business.
Walhalla—Barnhart & Trumpower,
who conduct the hotel, livery stable
and general store here, have dissolved
.partnership and the business will be
continued by Bert Barnhart, who has
taken over the interest of his partner.
Conklin—M. D. Bunker has solid
his hardware stock to Minor E. Law-
ton, for the past four years manager
of the Dunham Hardware Co., of
Coopersville, and will continue the
business at the same location. Mr.
sunker retains the implement, vehicle’
furnace, plumbing, engine
business.
Taggart
gas and
windmill
Battle Creek—Wynn & Briegel,
who conduct a sporting goods store
on North Jefferson avenue, have dis-
solved partnership and the business
will be continued by Mr. Wynn under
the style of the Wynn Sporting Goods
Store.
Pewamo—R. J. Merrill, who con-
ducts a clothing store at St. Johns,
has formed a copartnership with Cyrus
Palmer, under the style of the Pewa-
mo Clothing Co. and opened a store
here which will be under the manage-
ment of Mr. Palmer.
Ironwood—The Gogebic Bank is to
have a home of its own in the fall of
1914.
around for a site for some time, and
finally have taken an option on the
lots at the southeast corner of Suf-
folk street and Mcleod avenue.
Battle Creek—Schroder Bros., large
erocers, will test the State law pro-
viding that fifteen pounds of potatoes
shall be given to the peck. They were
Sealer of
Weights and Measures, charged with
The officers have been looking
arrested recently by the
selling twelve pounds to the peck.
Greenville—Plynn Lyman has pur-
half interest in the Chris
Hansen implement business, the new
firm being known as Hansen & Ly-
man. Mr. Lyman plans to not only
add to the present stock of vehicles
and agriculture implements, but to
sell motor-trucks and automobiles.
chased a
Onaway—E. J. Annibal, grocer and
meat dealer, has sold his grocery stock
to John McEvoy and Peter Levan-
doski, who have formed a copartner-
ship under the style of McEvoy &
Levandoski, and will continue the
Mr. Annibal will devote his
entire attention to the meat business.
Ontonagon—Creditors of the On-
tonagon Lumber & Cedar Co. are
receiving their final dividend checks
in payment of the indebtedness of
that company. The checks are being
mailed from the office of the Michi-
gan Trust Company. This dividend is
for 9.43 per cent. and, with the
previous dividends, makes a total of
91 per cent. paid.
business.
Detroit—A new plan to aid the
Saturday night closing movement has
been evolved by the Retail Merchants’
Association, which is now urging
manufacturers and all large employ-
ers to close at noon Saturdays the
year round. The employers are also
asked to pay on other days than Sat-
urday and a thorough canvass is being
made to obtain co-operation.
3essemer—The directors of the
State Bank of Bessemer
decided to erect a fireproof
building on the site now occupied by
the Puritan Hotel. Besides quarters
for the bank, a large storeroom will
be provided. The building will be
two stories high, with office rooms
upstairs. The hotel will be moved
to the corner opposite the Bessemer
Lumber Co.’s office and remodeled
into a modern hostelry. It is estimat-
ed that the bank building will cost in
the neighborhood of $35,000.
Calumet—Louis Sibilsky, a pioneer
merchant of the copper country, died
at Red Jacket a few days ago, after 2
People’s
have
lingering illness. Mr. — Sibilsky
was born at Eagle River, Ke-
weenaw county, and he lived all of his
life in this district. He was the son >f
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Sibilsky, early
residents of the Keweenaw peninsula.
For a number of years he worked in
the Sibilsky store at Eagle River and
about eighteen years ago came to
Calumet and engaged in _ business,
conducting it until about five years
ago. Since that time he had been a
commission merchant.
Reed City—Nathan A. Stoddard, an
honored citizen and pioneer business
man, of this place, died suddenly last
week of heart failure. He had been
ailing but two days, and had attempt-
ed to arise and dress, when death
overtook him. Mr. Stoddard was
born in Detroit sixty-eight years ago,
and had been a resident of this place
since 1873, when he became a mem-
ber of the well-known hardware firm
of Stoddard Bros., which continued un-
til 1905. Since that time Mr. Stoddard
was engaged in the furniture retail
trade. Mr. Stoddard was prominently
identified with Masonry, having beea
a member of every degree of the an-
cient fraternity from the lellowcraft
degree of the blue lodge to the thirty-
third degree of the Scottish Rite, in
most of them being chosen to the
highest places of honor.
Manufacturing Matters.
Detroit—The Michigan Optical Co
has increased its capital stock from
$120,000 to $180,000.
Frankenmuth — The lrankenmuth
Milling Co. has increased its capital
stock from $40,000 to $50,000.
Oscoda—Fire destroyed the plant
of the Youngstown Turpentine Co.,
Nov. 3, entailing a loss of $50,000.
Detroit—The capital stock of the
Michigan Machine Co. has been de-
creased from $150,000 to $100,000.
Lake Odessa—R. J. Stahelin has
engaged in the canning business in
connection with his apply drying.
Traverse City—The Acme Tie Com-
pany of Michigan has increased its
capital stock from $5,000 to $10,000.
St. Joseph—Percy Maynard © suc-
ceeds Walker & Schneider in the
blacksmith and wagon manufactur-
ing business.
3ig Rapids—W. W. Mann has sold
his hat factory and retail hat stock to
B. J. Montague, who will continue
the business.
Detroit — The Morse-Beauregard
Manufacturing manufacturer of
motorcycles, has decreased its capital
stock from $100,000 to $20,000.
Detroit — The Conway - McLeod
Foundry Co. has changed its name
to the Conway-McLeod Co. and in-
creased its capital stock from $5,009
to $50,000.
Frankfort—E. A. Field has sold his
interest in the Frankfort Flour &
Feed Mill to J. B. Trowbridge, who
will continue the business under the
same style.
Durand—The Durand Creamery
Co. has been incorporated under the
same style, with an authorized capite!
stock of $20,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.
Co.,
Jackson—The Jackson Gas Engine
Co. has. been organized with author-
ized capital stock of $10,000, of which
$5,000 has been subscribed, $300 paid
in in cash and $2,400 in property.
November 5, 1913
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Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.
Apples — Wealthys, Wolf Rivers.
Greenings, Baldwins, Snows and
Wagners command $3.25; Spys, $3.50
(03.75.
3utter—Receipts are fairly liberal
for the season, but due to the good
consumptive demand the market is
firm and unchanged. The quality of
the receipts is about up to the aver-
age of the season. Withdrawals from
storage are reported light and un-
changed and no radical change is in
sight. Fancy creamery commands
32%c in tubs and 33%c in cartons.
Local dealers pay 25c for No. 1 dairy
and 19c for packing stock.
Cabbage—75c per bu.
Carrots—65c per bu.
Cauliflower—$1 25 per doz.
Celery—18c per bunch.
Cocoanuts—$4.7
ing 100.
Cranberries—$8 for
$8.75 for late Howes.
Cucumbers—$1.25 per doz.
5 per sack contain-
late Blacks;
Eggs—There is a continued good
consumptive demand, both for fresh
and storage eggs, and the market is
firm at an advance of 1@2c. No in-
crease in receipts seems likely soon.
Local dealers pay 28@29c for strictly
fresh.
Egg Plant—$1.50 per doz.
Grape Fruit—$5 for all sizes.
Grapes—Malaga, $5.50 per keg; Cal-
ifornia Tokay, $1.65 per 20 Ib. crate;
Emperor, $1.90 per 20 Ib. crate.
Green Onions—20c per dozen.
Honey—18ce per lb. for white clov-
er, and 16c for dark.
Lemons—Verdellis, $5.50 per box.
Lettuce—Eastern head, $2.50 per
bu.; hot house leaf, 12c per Ib.
Onions—The marke is srong on
the basis of $1.10 for red and yellow
and $1.25 for white; Spanish, $1.40
per crate.
Oranges—$3.75 for all sizes of
Iloridas; $5.50 for Valencias.
Peppers—Green, $2 per bu.
Pickling Stock—Onions, $1.35 per
box.
Potatoes—75c per bu. for home
grown. Country buyers are paying
around 60@65c.
Pop Corn—$1.75 per bu. for ear;
5e per lb. for shelled.
Poultry—Local dealers pay 10c¢ for
spring and fowls; 6c for old roosters;
8c for geese; 10 for ducks: 15¢ for
No. 1 turkeys and 13c for old toms.
These prices are liveweight.
Radishes—25c per dozen.
Spinach—90c per bu.
Sweet Potatoes—Virginias com-
mand 75¢ per bu. and $1.80 per bbl.
Jerseys command $3 per bbl.
Tomatoes—$2.50 per 6 basket crate
of California.
Veal—Buyers pay 6@12'%c, accord-
ing to quality.
—_+->—____
From Association Work to Banking.
Martin Charles Hugegett, for two
years past Secretary of the Associa-
tion of Commerce, has been elected
Vice-President and Ira Blaine Dal-
rymple for some time past
Teller and a elected As-
sistant Cashier of the Grand Rapids
Savings Bank, has been elected
Cashier of the City Trust and Sav-
ings Bank and will enter upon their
duties, Mr. Huggett as soon as he
can arrange Association of Commerce
matters and Mr. Dalrymple when he
returns from his wedding trip. The
new officials, it is expected, will add
new blood to the City Trust and Sav-
ings Bank and make its pursuit for
business more active and aggressive:
Mr. Huggett has been Secretary o:
the Association of Commerce since
its re-organization, two years ago, and
has a wide acquaintance among bus-
ness men and manufacturers. Before
taking up association work he was
secretary to Senator William Aldea
Smith and still further hack was en-
gaged in business here. He is a genial,
Paying
week ago
'a good mixer and a diplomat, but has
not had previous experience in bank-
ing. Mr. Dalrymple came here from
Washington about a year ago to be-
come Paying Teller of the Grand
Rapids Savings Bank and last week
was advanced to Assistant Cashier.
He is a young man with experience
in the Washington banks, being cash-
ier of the Washington Southern Bank
before coming here. Although here
only a year he has succeeded in win-
ning the heart of a popular Grand
Rapids girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Jewell, to whom he was mar-
tied Tuesday evening. His record in
this respect is equalled only by that
of Heber A. Curtis, of the Kent State,
who won his wife in less than a year
after coming down from Petoskey.
Mr. Dalrymple will take the place of
Frank Welton, who resigned a few
months ago to go West. Mr. Hupg-
gett will hold a Vice-Presidency that
the directors created for him.
The secretaryship of the Associa-
tion of Commerce, made vacant by
Mr. Huggett’s retirement, has not yet
been canvassed, but the office is like-
ly to go to Lee H. Bierce, who has
been Assistant Secretary for the past
two years and who had several years’
experience in such work in Iowa be-
fore coming here. As Assistant Sec-
retary he has had special charge of
the retailers and wholesalers activities
and has been very efficient.
The Grocery Market.
Sugar—All the New York refiners
have advanced the price of granulat-
ed to 4.35c, f. o. b. New York, and
the market is steady on that basis.
The prospects favor stability for the
immediate future, for the refiners have
several weeks’ orders on the books.
Then, too, there is the fact that the
price of raws does not permit a profit
on much lower quotations for gran-
ulated. Meltings are light, and it is
expected that some of the plants will
close down in a few weeks, thus eli-
minating some of the keen competi-
tion for business. Beet refined is held
at 4.25c east of the Mississippi and
10 points lower west of that point.
There is still no pressure from the
Michigan manufacturers, although
this will come later when stock ac-
cumulates.
Tea—The Japan market is strong
and all first crop teas are picked up
from first hands. The shortage is al-
ready having its effect and prices are
fully up to last year, with still fur-
ther advances expected in the very
near future. Summer crop Formosa
Oolongs are unusually high. The
quality is the best in years. The tea
crops of China were larger than the
average this year, the green tea ship-
ments to the United States
more than doubled over 1911 and are
conforming to the American stand-
ards in purity. The black tea trade,
with this country has suffered a de-
cline which is attributed to the in-
creased demand here for India, Cey-
lon and Java teas.
Coffee—Rio and Santos grades are
higher. Future of Brazil coffees is very
uncertain. Rumors from
strong. The demand is
coffees are steady to firm
having
Brazil are
fair. Mild
and show
no change for the week. Mocha and
Java are both firm by reason of small
supply, this being especially true of
Mocha.
Canned Fruits—Apples are some-
what easier, but the demand is lighi.
California canned goods are dull at
ruling prices. Small Eastern staple
canned goods are quiet but steady to
firm,
Canned Vegetables— The tomato
market is the lowest it has been for
a long time and is unquestionably be-
low actual cost of packing. The rea-
son for it is the pressing need of cer-
tain packers to sell some of the'r
goods to raise money. There is no
certainty that the market will not go
even lower, as buyers are apparently
not interested no matter what the
price is. Corn is unchanged in all
respects from a week ago. Low and
medium grade peas, which constitut-
ed the bulk of the pack, and which
have been easy on that account, have
stiffened up by reason of scarcity and
prices can be said to be around Sc
higher.
Canned Fish—Domestic sardines
are scarce, firm and high. Imported
sardines are all this and more. Salmon
of all grades is unchanged and dull.
Dried Fruits—Table raisins, figs
and dates are offered at fair prices
considering the shortage of stocks
that obtain in some localities and the
tendency of the raisin association to
maintain a strong market. Stocks
5
of the table varieties have been re-
ceived earlier than usual and jobbers
are having brisk demands for goods.
Prunes have weakened a small frac-
tion during the week, due to lack of
demand. This applies especially to
large sizes. Peaches and apricots are
exactly as they were a week ago. Cur-
tants and citron are unchanged and
dull.
Rice—Advices
from the South,
along the Atlantic Coast, note fai-
demand with no material accumula-
tion, so that prices hold firm. At
New Orleans, the demand keeps close
up to the output and therefore prices
remain strong.
Cheese—Prices remain unchanged
and steady on the basis of the last
two or three weeks. Stocks are re-
ported somewhat lighter than usual.
Provisions—Smoked meats are '%4c
lower. Pure lard is steady and un-
changed, with a good consumptive de-
mand. Compound demand is only
moderately wanted, prices unchanged.
Barreled pork is unchanged and firm.
Dried
high.
beef is very scarce and very
Canned meats are quiet at rul-
ing prices.
Salt Fish—It is probable that prices
for Holland herring will soon be at
the level which
years.
former
Since the high opening there
have been declines and it is predict-
obtained in
ed that further decreases will be in
order before long.
is still
Norway mackerel
and high, there
being almost no offerings from the
other side. Prices are very firm.
Irish mackerel are neglected, and de-
spite the small supply are inclined to
be easy.
Very scarce
—_++.___
‘Most Successful and Purposeful.”
The Michigan Tradesman of Grand
Rapids is this week celebrating the
completion of its thirtieth year with
an edition of 120 pages. The Trades-
man is
one of the most successful
and purposetul trade journals pub-
lished in the country. The Herald
takes especial and personal interest
in its success and high standing, for
it is the journalistic alma mater of
the Herald publisher, who holds in
pleasant memory the years of his as-
sociation, which were the days of that
journal's struggle for existence and
When the writer
received employment in the
first
office,
recognition.
which now occupies three floors of a
large building, it was housed in one
small room on the third floor, off a
dark hall, the room affording but two
windows which opened onto an alley.
There were half a dozen newspaper
enterprises in the building and this
the youngest and least known, but
through the energy and foresight of
its directing genius, Mr. E. A. Stowe,
it has outstripped them all. Some,
indeed, including what was then the
city’s most prosperous. daily, have
passed out of existence and from the
memory of many.—Shelby Herald.
—_—__> 2-2
C. Thorn:on, who has been cover-
ing the Upper Peninsula five years
for the Johnson Candy Co., of Mil-
waukee,
pital at
is confined to the Delta hos-
Escanaba, where he submit-
ted to an operation a few days ago,
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The new income tax law is not
likely to prove immensely popular
except, perhaps, to that class of citi-
zenship which has nothing or which
has incomes safely within the exemp-
tions. Mere popularity is not a good
standard by which to judge laws,
however, and that phase of the new
income tax need not be discussed, be-
are other phases of it
that can be talked about to better
purpose.
cause there
That provision of the new
law which provides for the “collec-
tion at the source’ is one of these
other phases, and the first to be
given practical application. The in-
terest on bonds falling due Novem-
ber I was subject to the income tax,
although it is not easy to see how
in justice this could be done. It is
true the interest may be paid on No-
vember 1, but this interest represents
the earnings on the investment for
six months, while the income tax
law has been in effect less than a
month. This is making the tax re-
troactive, but this is a detail for the
lawyers to pass upon.
law went into effect persons owning
bonds clipped the coupons and passed
them in to the bank with their checks
3efore the
and drafts for deposit, or forwarded
them to the source of issue for re-
mittance. This was easy, expeditious
and satisfactory. Under the income
tax law persons holding bonds must
accompany the coupons when pre-
sented with a statement of ownership,
and a declaration of whether’ the
owner is subject to the income tax or
exemption, as the case
The banks will not accept
the coupons as deposits any more,
but will take them for collection only,
and the cash returns will be delayed
a week or a month, according to the
time it takes to get returns. The
red tape involved and the delay wih
be irritating to those who own bonds.
and to most people to be annoyed is
almost as bad as being mulcted. To
be compelled to make any sort
of an income disclosure to other than
Government officials bound to secre-
cy will be unpleasant to most people.
This provision of the tax law, as it
can ciaim
may be.
relates to bond interest, was apparent-
ly inspired by a desire to make the
trust companies and _ bond
issuing corporations agencies for the
collection of a portion of the income
tax without cost to the Government,
but it is certain to cause such wide-
spread dissatisfaction that there will
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be no economy in it.
banks,
It is a mistaken idea that all the
bonds issued are held by persons of
wealth. In recent years there has
been a very wide distribution of
bonds among people of limited means.
Modern finance has discovered tha:
“many a mickle make a muckle.”
Bond issues are now very often, in
whole or part, in denominations of
$100, $250 and $500, instead of being
in the old standard denomination of
$1,000. These small denominations—
baby bonds, they are called—are for
the benefit of the small investors, and
there is every reason to believe that
the small investors have responded
very liberally to the appeals made to
them. The big railroad and indus-
trial corporations and the public
utility corporations have many issues
of baby bonds. Timber, building, real
estate and other forms of bonds ar2
often in small denominations. Mu-
nicipalities, when in trouble in mar-
keting bond issues, often put them
out in small denominations and seil
them over the counter to the ordi-
nary citizenship. The Government
itself issues small bonds. These small
denominations been taken by
small investors—by widows, women
who work, but those who have saved
a little money and want returns bet-
have
ter than the savings bank allows.
These bonds represent high grade
security, easy convertibility in the
event of need, income return of 5 to
6 per cent, and it has been good
public policy to encourage their sale,
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November 5, 1913
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
instead of leaving persons of small
means open to the temptations of the
blue sky promoters. Under the in-
come tax law all these small holders
of bond investment, whether liable to
the tax or exempt, must go through
the same vexatious formalities to get
their interest money as the capital-
ist. This will not tend to popularize
the law.
In matters of income from trade,
industry, ability, dividends from
stocks and other sources, the Govern-
ment depends upon its own resources
to collect the tax, and it ought to do
the same in the matter of income from
bond investments. The law, as_ it
stands, is so complicated and per-
plexing that no two of those who
should be regarded as authorities
upon it agree exactly as to what it
means or how it should be applied.
In view of this the repeal of the ‘“‘col-
lection at the source” provision might
well be regarded as the course of wis-
dom and good policy.
The Michigan Trust Company has
put on an additional clerk to handle
the income tax problem for the estates
the company represents and_ the
trusteeships it holds, and a second
clerk may be necessary. The banks
are handling the coupons that come
in the best way they can with their
present forces, but it is adding greatly
to the work to be done.
The Grand Rapids Trust Company
is gradually getting under way. The
recently issued statement shows that
it has $267,504.94 of it resources at
work, $95,077.36 in collateral and real
estate mortgage loans and $172,437.58
in bonds. Assuming that the loans
are at 6 per cent. and that the bonds
will average 5 per cent., this indicates
a present earning capacity of about
$14,300 from investments. The com-
pany has accumulated deposits of
about $15,000 in trust and other funds.
Getting a new trust company under
way in the face of long-established
competition is not the work of a sin-
gle day, but the Grand Rapids Trust
seems to be doing very nicely. It
has at least one advantage and that
is good bonds just now are cheap.
For several weeks past systematic
efforts to “knock” Commonwealth se-
curities have been made by interests
which a few months ago were fore-
most in boosting these same securi-
ties. The Commonwealth common
stock has been especially subject to
the bear movement. The reason for
this is not apparent, unless to satisfv
a few personal grievances. The Com-
monwealth earnings make an excellent
showing and are steadily increasing,
as compared with a year,ago. It is
true the company has a large pro-
gramme of construction and develop-
ment work which will call for large
amounts of new capital, but the in-
crease in earnings have been more
than keeping pace with the increase
in interest charges. The more or less
personally conducted bear raid has
brought the common = stock from
around 58 down to 52, but at the
same time American Light and Trac-
tion common, which these same in-
terests have been boosting, has drop-
ped from 360 to 330. It is possible
those who have been exerting them-
selves to depress Commonwealth may
have been doing so with a view to
getting in again at a lower level,
having sold out when the quotation
was still high.
American Light and Traction is
still depressed. Large interests in
the East, it is stated, have been let-
ting go and, although Grand Rapids
has been a good buyer, its buyinz
capacity has not been large enough
to absorb all the offerings. That this
stock should be dumped is not nec-
essarily a sign of weakness. When
a man needs money he usually dis-
poses of what he can sell easiest and
quickest and which will bring in the
most money. American Light and
Traction comes in the class of easy
sellers, with large returns, and those
who are letting go at even so low a
figure as 330 are turning a substantial
profit. Only five or six years ago the
stock was knocking around at par or
thereabouts and the stock dividends
have added probably 50 per cent. to
its volume.
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OMIT THE JOKING.
The dinner and lunch meeting sea-
son has opened, and right at the be-
ginning of the season it might be
suggested that there be a large elimi-
nation of the funny story from the
speaking programmes. In the past
it has been customary for the toast-
master or presiding genius to follow
the coffee with a funny story or two
aS an opener, and then to relate a
“good one’ on the speaker. The
speaker, following traditional meth-
ods, rejoins with a “good one” on
the toastmaster, and then any where
from two to half a dozen more “good
ones” on other people before getting
down to brass tacks on the subject
assigned him. All this is very amus-
ing and it is pleasant to hear the
laughter, but it wastes a wonderful
valuable time. Most of
these dinner and lunch meetings are
of business men assembled to discuss
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amount of
topics of a sober business nature.
may help to mingle a little nonsense
with the serious discussion, but too
the little is carried
to such an extreme that the regular
programme has to be curtailed or the
last speaker has only empty chairs
to keep
their heads clear and their health good
feel the need of getting home and
to bed at a reasonable hour, and it
is an imposition upon them to fill an
when they
have come to learn something that
may help them in their business. The
lunch meetings are held at noon and
the business man in a hurry to get
back to his desk is again imposed
upon if the speaker instead of talking
right off the bat wastes a lot of time
in “kidding.” At the beginning of the
new season somebody should set the
example of talking business right from
Those who want a few
can get them by
comic section of
some of the metropolitan dailies, and
helping themselves between courses
often nonsense
to talk to. Business men
evening with nonsense
the start.
]
laughs thrown in
bringing along a
THE WANING STRIKE.
The strike in the copper country is
still in progress, with recognition of
the union as the sole issue, now as at
the beginning of the trouble last June.
Not much of it is left, however, ex-
cept the power and willingness to fol-
low the usual tactics of unionism 01
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
the part of a reckless few last ditch-
ers who may have other than patriot-
ic motives back of them. The sober
and industrious and the men of fam-
ily have returned to work and out-
side workers have come in to take
the places still vacant, but there still
remains enough of the true blue union
men to beat up the helpless, terror-
ize the families of those who break
away and to shoot from ambush at
those who feel the responsibilities of
families to support. The strike has
lasted about five months, and holding
steadfast to their determination not
to recognize the union in the slight-
est degree, the mine managers are
winning at every point. Why they
have been so determined in their
stand against unionism can be under-
stood by reading the dispatches that
are now filling the newspapers of
what is going on in Colorado. The
Colorado mines are under the domina-
tion of the western federation, and
Colorado to-day is in a state of civil
war, with the entire militia called in-
to service and with no safety for life
or property in the disturbed districts.
Unionism to-day is only another name
for riot and law breaking. This is
illustrated by the criminal statistics
of the copper strike in Michigan. In
connection with the copper strike
there have been three murders, twen-
ty assaults with intent to murder, eigh-
teen assaults with intent to do great
bodily harm, fifty riot cases, twenty
assault and battery cases, seventy-five
cases of intimidation and _ several
cases growing out of the dynamiting
of railroad trains. These are only the
cases that have received official recog-
nition in the form of arrests made.
There have been innumerable cases
under all these classifications, except
absolute murder, in which no arrests
have been made and which therefore
do not go on the books. And all this
bloodshed and riot has been not to
right any wrong, not to remedy any
evil, not to gain improved conditions
for the miners or to win for them
more money, but solely to secure
recognition for the union.
Irving J. Bissell has thrown up his
hand and quit as a “fancy farmer.’
Three years ago he purchased a farm
of 160 acres just west of town and
it was his ambition to make it a
model dairy farm. He bought high
grade and registered Holsteins. He
built the latest model barns and
buildings and installed the most mod-
ern equipment and methods. He went
in also for fine poultry and pigs of
pedigree. He is now selling out his
stock and when he has disposed of
the farm he will have shaken off the
last of the enterprise. It: is var-
iously stated that his “back to the
land” experiment has cost him from
$15,000 to $25,000, but, fortunately,
he has an income that makes the loss
incidental to his general prosperity.
He attributes his failure to the im-
possibility of securing competent help
to run the farm. Having a city resi-
dence he was compelled to depend on
hired help to run the farm and, with
only a salary interest in the enter-
prise, the hired help neglected those
details so important to its success
Of course Mr. Bissell, paid the bills.
No doubt the young man made his
mistakes, but this matter of compe-
tent farm help is no joke. It is, in
fact, one of the most serious prob-
lems which confronts the farmers to-
day. The scarcity of competent help
is one of the important factors in
the growing cost of living. Farmers
are paying more and more in wages,
but they all say that as the wages
go up the efficiency is coming down.
Such help as is available either does
not know how or does not care. The
reason given for this is that the
young, ambitious and energetic men
of the farm are coming to town, leav-
ing only the shiftless and the ne’er
do wells to do the work. This may
be too broad a statement for absolute
accuracy, but it is the tendency and
the farm is suffering in consequence.
The help problem on the farm is one
that has yet to be solved, and with
each year it is becoming more and
more acute. It is not confined to any
one location, but seems to be gen-
eral, in the East and the West, the
South and the Middle States alike.
Wisconsin has actually begun the
experiment of State life insurance in
this country. The law providing for
it was passed in 1911. It issues seven
different kinds of policies, but at pres-
ent they are limited: to a maximum
of $1,000. When two thousand pol-
icies have been issued, the amount
will be raised to $2,000; and when
three thousand have been issued, it
will be increased to $3,000, which is
the limit under the law as it stands.
Premiums may be paid monthly, and
profits are eventually to be returned
to policy holders. Care has been
taken to keep down the cost of oper-
ating the system. No paid agents are
employed, but applications will be
received by city, town, and county
clerks and treasurers, officials in banks
that receive State deposits, and Stat»
factory inspectors. No new offices
have been created in connection with
the plan. State insurance is not a
new thing for Wisconsin, as it began
to insure its public buildings, includ-
ing those of the University, in 1902.
The burning of the Capitol in 1905
left a deficit in the insurance fund of
$190,000, but the State stuck to the
system, and the accumulation in the
fund since then have wiped out the
deficit.
San Francisco should hang her
head in shame over her treatment
of the Japanese. The celebration of
the 400th anniversary of Balboa’s dis-
covery of the Pacific brought out
displays of civic spirit unequalled
since the earthquake. Yet not the
Merchants’ Associations, or the ship-
owners, or the public utilities com-
panies contributed so generously a:
the local Japanese-American Asso-
ciation. It gave $6,000 for the royal
ship used in the ceremonies, and em-
ployed thirty Japanese decorators for
ten days in beautifying the city. But
it was of two well-known Japanese
artists to whom the decoration of
Union Square was entrusted that the
hundreds of thousands who took part
in the celebration manifested a strik-
ing sense of appreciation. If the cele
November 5, 1913
bration did nothing else, it demon-
strated the worth of the contribution
that the Japanese can make to Ameti-
can art, and the good
which even Californians
with
show
sense
can
that they know what it means.
The value of fertilizer has been
shown by a series of experiments
made on a Western New York farm.
The crop raised was One
plot treated with muriate of potasi
per acre, the complete fertilizer plot
yielded at the 1,020 busn-
els per acre, an incomplete fertilizer
plot yielded at the rate of 912 bushels
per acre, and a plot where no fer-
tilizer was used yielded at the rate
of 600 bushels per acre. The onions
on the potash plot ripened more even-
ly and earliest, and were the best.
The complete fertilizer seemed to
delay the ripening of the bulbs, and
there were many “scullions” on the
incomplete fertilizer plot. Where no
fertilizer was used the onions aver.
aged very much smaller in size.
omons.,
rate of
After forty-four years a strange
man has relieved the prickings of his
conscience and paid a debt of $1 with
interest. He states that forty-four
years ago he drove through a toll
gate on the Penn Yan and Branch-
port highways. The toll was 4 cents.
Ite tendered a bill, and in giving
change the toll gate keeper gave him
$1 too much, which he kept. Ever
since his conscience has pricked. The
man figured that the $1 with com-
pound interest for forty-four years
amounts to $14.53, and he has paid
this sum to the widow of the son
of the toll gate keeper in Penn Yan.
The lady is glad to receive the money,
and the stranger will be happier for
having settled with his conscience.
Postmaster General Burleson is
making a bid for fame, for he is the
author of what he believes will turn
out to be at least one of the six “best
sellers” of the coming year, if not
the very “best seller.” His book, too,
will cost only 73 cents. The title will
be “24: 1c-2c.” The reading matter
will be limited, but the steel engrav-
ings illustrating the volume will be
the finest made. They will consis‘
of twenty-four 2-cent stamps and
twenty-four 1-cent stamps, all bound
round, not with a woolen string, but
with a neat cover. The new book will
soon be on sale, but purchasers eager
to secure a copy of the new publica-
tion should apply at the post-office
instead of the book stores.
ee
The big men dare and the big men
do; they dream great dreams, which
they make come true; they bridge the
rivers and link the plains, and gird
the land with their railway trains;
they make the desert break forth in
bloom, they send the cataract through
a flume to turn the wheels of a
thousand mills and bring the coin to
a nation’s tills; the big men work,
and the big men plan, and helping
themselves, help their fellow man.—
Walt Whitman.
ssunumesemnassnenanmemmme ns end
Every time you have to say to a cus-
tomer “We're just out of that,” you do
a good turn for the other merchant who
has the goods.
ip
November 5, 1913
MERCANTILE CRISIS.
Anti-Trust Doctrine Arouses Manu-
facturers and Merchants.
The formation of three association3
in one week recently is about as sig-
nificant a sign of the times as it would
be possible to find. Coupled with
the “Sanatogen” case decision of the
United States Supreme Court and the
Federal proceedings against the Quak-
er Oats Company, at the same gen-
era] time, it would seem to indicate
not only that the evolution of popu-
lar sentiment on mercantile questions
is developing fast—whether wisely or
unwisely may be debatable—but that
the Ict of the merchant nowadays is
not a happy one.
In the formation of the “National
Fair Competition League” by thirty
or forty of the leading manufacturers
of proprietary brands in the country,
not confined to the food trades at all,
there is a note of desperation;.an ap-
parent determination to stand and
fight for what manufacturers believe
to be their legitimate rights, which
they feel have been trampled upon.
In the formation of the National Co-
operative Society, advertised widely
of late, there is evidence of an un-
rest among consumers, or at least an
attempt on the part of the promoters
to float their enterprise on the
streneth of a popular discontent they
profess to believe exists. As to its
prospects of success, opinions may dil-
fer, but so far as its prospectus proves
anything, it is not unlike scores of
similar, though less ambitious enter-
prises, based on a belief that elimi-
nation spells profits saved, without
any too incisive study and analysis
of contrary claims.
When the Sherman law was enact-
ed, probably not one of its sponsors
had the slightest idea it would ever
be made to accomplish the effect it is
accomplishing on legitimate business.
The recently unearthed opinion which
Senator Hoar (who drafted the law
in cominittee) gave his client within a
year after its enactment, clearly shows
that he, at least, believed its pur-
pose was to aid business, even to the
extent of permitting “prudent” agree-
ment among competitors, as to restric-
tion of output and agreement = on
prices. In fact, he expressed surprise
that anyone should ever think of en-
acting a law which would challenge
such “legitimate and necessary’' prac-
tices. In his own words, the common
law, on which the Sherman law was
based, “did not prohibit such arrange-
ments as were made upon good con-
sideration and were necessary to the
reasonable protection of healthy and
legitimate business.”
The average business man always
understood, until quite recently, that
the purpose of the Sherman law was
to protect the small merchant from
the crushing power of the monopolist.
It was, to his mind, a sort of motherly
wing, under which the helpless small
dealers could gather for mutual pro-
tection. Now, when manufacturers,
acting in behalf of the small mer-
chants in suppressing the unfair ad-
vantages which accrue from the great
buying power of big antagonists, seek
to enforce equal opportunity among
“merchant.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
distributors and enforce uniform sell-
ing prices—not for raising prices un-
fairly but to prevent big price cutters
from depressing them unfairly to the
point of their becoming profitless—
they are assailed as violators’ of the
low.
From the standpoint of the manu-
facturer and owner of proprietary
brands there is no desire to restrain
the free movement of goods in trade,
but to promote widespread distribu-
tion by making the goods profitable
and protecting the small merchant in
his recompense for distributing them.
The manufacturer’s whole success in
trade rests on having every merchant
possible carry his goods, and, since
the distributors cannot legally agree
ameng themselves, he makes himself
the “competitor,” assumes the direc-
tion of the goods and takes the chanc-
es of their competing with other
brands of similar woods. {i he can-
not do this, much of the incentive for
his creating a brand and giving it an
advertised reputation ceases. And, if
he has already expended millions in
trade marks introduction, he claims
the right to protect himself from the
“piracy” of price cutters, who wouid
use his reputation for their own ends.
But the Supreme Court has said this
is tllegal—at least, so far as the pat-
ent law grants the owner any rights.
It is such considerations as_ this
which have roused the manufacturers
to realize the menace to their fondest
ideals and has brought them into the
"Fair Competition League.’ As_ to
its being “oppressive” and “tyranni-
cal” toward the subjugated merchant,
it is somewhat significant that every
representative trade
wholesalers and retailers is in sympa-
thy with the manufacturers in the
matter.
The plans of the new association
are as yet incomplete, but it is under-
stood that they propose to start a
“backfire” against this unexpected in-
terpretation of the supposed “reason-
able restraint” of the Sherman law.
They will probably seek to influence
the administration leaders in the fair-
ness of their position and urge upon
the leaders the fairness of the recently
enacted New Jersey “fair trading”
statute. This, it will be recalled, for-
bade a merchant, “for the purpose of
attracting trade for other goods, to
appropriate for his own ends, a name,
brand, trademark, reputation or good
will of any maker in whose product
said merchant deals,”
of forced sales.
This subject of
association of
except in case
the oppression to
legitimate practices—or at least prac-
tices which are intended for the bet-
ter prosperity of the trade at large—-
is arousing much attention of late, and
many of the country’s brightest minds
are coming to take sides with the
In the case of the “Fair
Competition League” it is understood
that Louis D. Brandeis, the
known reformer, has voluntarily tak-
en up the cudgel of the manufacturers,
because he believes they are right and
that tie time has come to check the
socialistic use which is being made
of the Sherman law to protect legiti-
mate competitors from “illegitimate
cut-throats.” It is said that the asso-
well
ciation has resources not only with-
in itself but outside, which will make
some very lively times shortly.
The movement for the organization
of the National Co-operative Com-
pany,” with capital (expected to be
raised) of $50,900,000, to combat the
high cost of living by being ‘“con-
trolled and operated by the people of
the United States” and eliminating the
unspeakable “middlemen,” is hardly
worth discussing very analytically, be-
cause it is not strikingly unlike many
other ambitious reforms of the same
sort and rests on no more stable con-
siderations than those did until the
weakness of their economic founda-
tions were proven by collapse.
Tike most of the others, this one is
floated under the names of a number
of wel) known men as an “advisory
comniittee,’ among them John D.
Crimmins, Rev. Dr. Charles H. Park-
hist, Colonel G N. Whistler (U_ S.
A., retired), L. H. Healey, of Connec-
ticat; IN. P. Hall, of Michigan, and
J. Arthur Sherwood (the three latter
chiefly famous from one time having
been past-masters of state granges of
farmers), and with Col. Whistler as
“treasurer pro tem.” Without pass-
ing on the ability of these gentlemen,
it is the opinion of the men who have
most carefully studied merchandising
that the economical distribution of
food is a tull-sized job for a business
man, and it does not necessarily fol-
low that because one man may be a
good preacher or moral reformer, an-
other an honored soldier, and others
good leaders among the agrarian con-
tingent, that they measure up assur-
ingly as a coterie likely to put to
flight the logical and natural evolu-
tionary commercial growths of gen-
erations of competition.
Reformers have a way of forgetting
that our presert mercantile and dis-
tributive methods are born of experi-
legitimate
ence and necessity and competitive
fitness. If they are to be swept aside
it will require a programme rich in
something other than theory,
One cannot read the prospectus of
the new without
struck with its superficiality.
poses a hundred cold storage plants,
2,000 retail stores, 2,000 refrigerator
Cars, 2,000 live stock cars and a few
such items—laughable to the man who
being
It pro-
company
now finds it hard to etfectively supply
the Nation with many times this
equipment. Just how far these 2,000
retail stores, for instance, can take
the place of the existing 350,000 gro-
cery stores fed by 3,000 wholesalers
is not altogether assured by a capi-
tal of $23,000,000, even when backed
by “working capital’ of $22,000,000.
The grocer is bound to smile when
ke learns that it is “proposed” to pay
dividends from the “surplus earned
available for dividends’—7 per cent.
per year to stockholders, 15 per cent.
of the balance to employes and one-
half the remainder to share-holders
on their purchases, and the other hali
on stock; a snug little total of $15,-
000,C09 to be distributed. Surely,
there is some reason to congratulate
the promoters that there is a whistler
in the outfit, even if not further than
“oro tem.”
The formation of another associa-
9
tion at Atlantic City last week—the
“National Food Law Conference”’—is
perhaps the pinnacle of cu-operative
eflort on the part of the trade, in
harmony with the officials, for fur-
thering the effectiveness of food laws.
Embracing, as it does, delegates from
practically all the great food trade
organizations— producing, processing,
marketing and advertising—it is com-
pletely and, when
brought into harmony with the pub-
representative
lic authorities, can make tremendously
effective the efforts of the Govern-
ment to give the public safe, sane and
economical foods.
The reason for the combination of
al! these food associations is the ne-
Manu-
facturers really have little ground for
cessity ior uniform food laws.
opposing reasonable food laws: it is
less important to them what the laws
are than that they know what they
are and that thev be the same in all
Manufacturers
can adopt their methods of preparing
labelling and marketing foods to the
parts of the country.
law, but when goods, once packed,
may he shipped into any of the 48
states, it is of vital importance that
what one state permits or prohibits
absolutely the
contrary by some other state. The
great
may not be treated
trouble in the past has been
that “cranks” have a way of getting
into office as state food officials and
each thinks his own pet hobbies are
far better than those of his neighbor-
ing state or of Congress. Uniformity
requires that overnice hobbies be dis-
carded in the interest of uniform es-
sentials; anything else being almost
confiscatory of any National manu-
facturers goods.
The whole nub of the story was
well expressed in the opening address
of Chairman Louis Runkel, when he
said:
“The enactment and enforcement of
the pure food laws protect and aid
the honest manufacturer equally with
the consumer. Wholesome and hon-
est competition is the life of trade,
but we are all opposed to that compe-
tition which is based upon cheap imi-
tation clothed in standard garb. We
are engaged in a necessary and legiti-
mate business. Regulation and con-
trol of the manufacture and distribu-
tion of food products is necessary and
beneficial, but unduly burdensome
regulation is beneficial neither to the
consumer nor to the manufacturer.
“Vhe public will receive the great-
est possible benefit from such laws as
accomplish their purpose—i. e. pro-
tect the consumer with the least pos
sible interference with the machinery
of manufacture and distribution. M%he
expense of necessary and proper reg-
ulation by law is a necessary element
in the total cost of manufacture and
distribution, and undue and unncces-
sary expense arbitrarily added tends
against economy and facility of com-
merce. and so tends to increase the
cost at retail.
cost is to be deplored and guarded
Any increase in that
against and elements tending to fa-
cilitate commerce and lessen the cost
earnestly
welcomed by the trade and the pub-
lic.”
of preduction should be
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
November 5, 1913
Chirpings From the Crickets.
Battle Creek, Nov. 3—Hill & Flint, of
Galesburg, have placed on the marker
a fender for autos and commercial
trucks. These gentlemen have a patent
pending on their fender and large manu-
facturers of commercial and_ pleasure
ears have endorsed their product. Har-
vey Hill is well known to the travelers
who make Galesburg regularly and we
all hope his invention will prove very
profitable to him and Mr. Flint. Ex-
perienced road salesmen looking for a
good proposition will find it to their in-
terest to see Mr. Hill and his product.
The field is large and in many of the
Eastern cities the common councils are
passing ordinances, making it necessary
for owners of commercial trucks’ to
equip with a fender.
Considerable interest is beine shown in
Eaton county over the wet or dry elec-
tion in the spring. Hotel interests think
now it will go wet.
Louis E. Zacharias, traveler for O. P.
DeWitt & Son, St. Johns, starts north
on a hunting trip this week. Lou works
hard and is entitled to the rest.
As you know, Battle Creek is one of
the classiest, enterprising and progres-
sive little cities of its size in the coun-
try. Hallowe’en was a big night here
and some two thousand of its people
turned out for a small Mardi eras.
Masked figures, dressed fit to kill, par-
aded the streets and bands played, horns
tooted and everybody went in for a good
time. This downtown celebration kept
the young people entertained and the
loss of fences, gates, ete., was away un-
der the figures of former years.
In Brother Goldstein’s newsy letter he
speaks of Claud Hiser and Ann Hiser.
We wonder if Claud used a Goldstein.
Brother Goldstein features the credit
man in last week's issue. The credit man
and his duties are often misunderstood
and it is a position that the average
salesman could not hold down success-
fully. The salesman is out to scratch
his book and, while he does not aim to
sell people his house can not collect from,
he solicits and books business that the
eredit man will not ship. It pays to be
conservative on the road and in the
office, but just how and where to draw
the line is a puzzler. Many salesmen in
the smaller lines carry statements and
collect as they sell. Many people who
have no rating are prompt pay and many
people who have the coin and good rat-
ing are slow pay. -t is all up to the
salesman and I think, as a class, they
will get money a credit man and his
letters wlil not collect and leave a better
feeling and sell an order on the next
trip. I am strong for the boys who eall
on the trade and, by square dealing and
gentlemanly treatment, win the confi-
dence and good will of the patron. This
patron will protect the salesman py pay-
ing his invoices and be no trouble for a
credit man. As for the credit man, I
have not much to say, but I have known
several who have spoiled more trade than
an army of salesmen could get back.
There are ‘lemons’ in all departments,
but the credit man has more of a chance
to develop into one than some of the
other executive men.
Mr. Stowe can well be proud of the
issue of Oct. 29. Grand Rapids should
be proud of the issue last week which
carried the story of the city’s growth
to all parts of the country. It was a
“Greater Grand Rapids” edition and a
credit to all who had a line between its
two covers. Mr. Stowe has always been
a friend to the traveling man and JT am
sorry to see that none of the friendly
and complimentary letters that were pub-
lished, as they were written by his
friends and patrons, did not speak of this
quality in his make-up. If Mr. Stowe
had only told his traveler reporters about
his special edition, we would have been
pleased to have made a special effort to
have had some special article that would
have been appropriate for the edition.
Guy Pfander.
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mazoo.
Kalamazoo, Nov. 3—The Secretary has
plenty of enlistment blanks for those
who are about to engage in the army
for the securing of a larger membership
for our Council and the order as a whole
and he will be very glad to furnish these
as fast as they can be used. Sign your
enlistment blank and forward to Claude
Duval, Supreme Counselor, 4380 West
35th street, Kansas City, Mo. Then,
after you have secured your new member
or secured the renewal of a former
member, and have been honorably dis-
charged, re-inlist and get another and
as many more as you can. Let us all
get a hustle on and double our member-
ship before the next meeting of our
Grand Council. The Secretary can af-
ford to urge you on, for he has his new
member voted in and he will be initiated
at the November meeting. feceiving
his honorable discharge, he will forward
another enlistment blank and go for the
next one who is already lined up.
Assessment No. 119, the last one for
this year, is now levied and in order
to keep yourself in good standing, this
must be paid to your Secretary before
Nov. 24. Failure to do this may cause
you loss of indemnity in case of acci-
dent after that date. The Secretary has
to attest to the fact in every claim that
the member was in good standing when
he received the accident. If your as-
sessment is not paid Nov. 24 you are
not in good standing and will be sus-
pended at the next regular meeting un-
less some good friend comes forward
and pays for you. This brings a bur-
den on your good friends which they
should not be called on to assume. You
have thirty days in which to get this
paid and don’t overlook it.
Cc. B. Whipple and wife, of Battle
Creek, spent Saturday evening and Sun-
day in Kalamazoo, the guests of their
cousins, the Secretary and his family.
In the afternoon Sunday they drove out
to Texas, Schooleraft and Portage, re-
turning to Battle Creek on the evening
train.
Last week Tuesday, the representative
of the General Electric Co. took a ride
over the South Haven division of the
Michigan Central in conference’ with
some of the officials of the road with
reference to the use of electric equip-
ment on this division. While a more
frequent passenger schedule would be
appreciated by the traveling men who
work this section of the Michigan Cen-
tral, it is a question whether the travel
would increase enough to warrant the
placing of extra trains and also the ad-
visability of substituting electric driven
locomotives for the present steam
equipment.
Our Past Senior Counselor C. GC. De
France has handed the Secretary his sub-
scription to the Tradesmon and it is
being forwarded to the editor to-day.
Let the good work go on. The boys are
getting more and more interested in the
U. C. T. news and are recognizing the
fact that we have been granted a great
favor by Mr. Stowe in the use of his
paper for our letters. Do it now. Don’t
forget it, boys. Send in your subscrip-
tion at once and keen in touch through
the columns of the Tradesman with the
boys all over the State.
Brother Follis recently told the Secre-
tary that the only thing that the Com-
mittee on Railroads and Transportation
had to complain about was that they
were not furnished material on which
to devote their efforts. If you have any
matters pertaining to passenger or freight
service of the transportation companies
of the State, drop this information to
Brother T. F. Follis, Marquette, and he
will guarantee you the matter will have
prompt attention.
One of the members of our Executive
Committee, returning from Battle Creek
via the Michigan United Railway, did
not receive his transfer to the Kalama-
zoo City line and took the matter up
shortly with the conductor. The result
was that an argument took place, the
brother receiving a transfer only after
threatening to report the number of the
conductor. The conductor then threat-
ened the brother before witnesses that
if he reported him he, the conductor,
would get him, as he knew the brother,
where he lived, ete. This transfer mat-
ter is a continual bone of contention be-
tween passengers and interurban con-
ductors entering Kalamazoo. Taking this
matter up with the loeal superintendent,
we find that he has taken it up with
the authorities at Jackson and it rests
with them to adjust the matter satis-
factorily. The conductors evidently have
some reason to try and issue as few
transfers as possible from interurbans
and we are waiting the answer. Here’s
hoping it may be favorable to the users
of the M. U. Tf. lines!
Brother Jennings, of Cadillac Council,
No. 143, was on the train en route to
South Haven to-day and was very proud
over the possession of a special U. Cc. T.
button showing his enlistment in the
army at Detroit. If the other brothers
are aS earnest and enthusiastic in se-
curing new members as he is, Detroit
will certainly secure a large addition
to their membership. We were. very
glad to make the acquaintanceship of
Brother Jennings and hope to see him
again soon. R. S. Hopkins.
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Honks From Auto City Council.
Lansing, Nov. 3—Miss M. Paradise, of
Detroit, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. F.
Hf. Hastings this week.
Brother Flack, of Saginaw Council,
was a welcome visitor at our Council
meeting last Saturday night. Brother
Flack expects to move to our city within
a short time and has’ expressed his
willingness to transfer to Auto City
Council, provided we can fix it with
Saginaw Council. We have promised to
have Brown, Mercer and Ranney com-
mitted to some insane asylum, if neces-
sary, to bring about the transfer.
M. FE. Sherwood has just returned from
a suecessful hunting trip in the Northern
part of the State and is closely followed
by a story as to how he tricked $10. out
of a deputy game warden who, to all
appearances, was an ordinary unsuccess-
ful hunter and wanted to buy some birds
of which Morris had plenty and _ to
spare. The matter of violation of the
law in selling birds was discussed to
some extent and it was finally agreed
that the warden was to buy some birds
for $10, but delivery was to be made
after dark at a certain place on the
cross road, and the birds were to be
enclosed in a grain bag. Instead of pay-
ing $10 for a chance to make an arrest
the warden found that he had bought
some quarter grown chickens which had
been purchased of a nearby settler and
it is said became somewhat angry be-
cause of the deception. Morris’ will
select other grounds for his next hunt-
ing trip.
Hotel Steel, at St. Johns, still retains
the roller towel.
H. L. Alschuler, of Grand Rapids
Council, paid our Council a visit last
Saturday night and when called upon,
spoke optimistically of the order in gen-
eral and Grand Rapids Council in par-
ticular. Brother Alschuler has been a
member of the order for four months
only, but during this time has secured
six new members. Wish he would trans-
fer to Lansing.
Brother and Mrs. D. J. Riordan will
take their baby to Ann Arbor this week
for an operation on one of its hands,
which was seriously burned last summer
while visiting at Chicago.
Last Saturday night was a_ record
breaker in the way of combined social
event and business meeting of our Coun-
cil. Nearly a hundred of our members,
their wives and sweethearts sat down to
an elaborate Bohemian supper prepared
by our Ladies Auxiliary, at 6:30 p.m.
Much of the Hallowe’en spirit was pres-
ent and the table decorations were
thoughtfully planned and fitted the oe-
casion. After the supper was over, a
business session of the Council was held,
which overlapped tue time limit as an-
nounced, but closed within an hour and
the balance of the evening was spent in
dancing and other amusements. Much
credit is due our Ladies Auxiliary, for
this enjoyable event and it is hoped
they will come again in the near future.
H. D. Finley, one of the members of
our Council, living at Howell, is a candi-
date for United States Marshal for the
Eastern district of Michigan. Brother
Finley has the unanimous endorsement
of our Council and it is hoped he will
receive the appointment.
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Vice-President—H. L. Williams, Howell.
Secretary and Treasurer—J. Wag-
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Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson,
Detroit: E. J. Lee, Midland; D. A. Bent-
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Working an Improvement in Farm
Eggs.
The great egg and poultry produc-
ing territories of the United States
can be divided according to the geo-
graphical location and the character
of the industry into three quite dis-
The first of
Northeastern states,
including New New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Mary-
tinct sections. these
comprises the
England,
land. This is a section in which
the poultry industry is one of im-
portance and where many large and
specialized poultry farms are locat-
ed. Inasmuch as it also happens to
be the greatest consuming section ot
poultry local
tion of eggs does not supply the de-
products, the produc-
mand, and large quantities are
brought in from other parts of the
country. The proximity of the poul
try farms of this section to the large
markets enables the poultrymen to
dispose of their products readily, an
it is natural that they should cater
to the discriminating trade demand-
ing a fine quality of fresh eggs. The
whole tendency, therefore, is for the
eggs to be shipped in small lots by
express or fast freight, so as to reach
the market in a short time after they
are produced. These are consumed
in a relatively brief time, and com-
paratively few eggs in this section
find their way into cold storage.
The second egg-producing section
states bordering the
comprises the
Pacific. Here the conditions are in
many respects identical with those
@t the frst section the eres pro-
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duced all find a market in the cities
of those states and the quantity is
not sufficient to supply the demand.
Here, also, many large poultry farms
are located.
The third section comprises prin-
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cipally states lying in the Mississippi
Valley. It is in this great section
eggs or
that the vast majority of the
the country are produced. Yet the
character of the poultry keeping is
quite different from that in the other
two sections discussed. There are
in this whole stretch of country few
termed “poul-
farms which can be
try farms” or where poultry raising
can be considered to be one of the
main branches of the farm work. The
great bulk of the eggs is the product
of the flocks of hens which are kept
on practically every general farm
throughout the whole area. These
farms are devoted mainly to grain
erowing and live stock, principally
cattle and hogs, so that the poultry
kept is incidental, and the eggs pro-
duced are really in the nature a by-
product of the farm.
Not much systematic care is given
to the hens on the
creat
eggs come in the spring and summer.
farms, and, as
a result, the majority of the
Also, this section is not one of heavy
consumption, and in consequence,
during the summer and spring, many
more eggs are produced than need-
ed locally. Only a few years ago this
great surplus production resulted in
such a elut and lowering of prices
that in many instances it did not pay
to take the eges to town during the
spring and summer, while in the fall
and winter eggs were scarce and very
high. With the cold storage of eggs
the conditions have changed. Dur-
ing the spring, when production is
heavy, the eggs are brought up and
placed in storage, to be taken out
when the period of scarcity comes in
the fall and
storage,
winter. As a result of
there has been a greater
equalization of supply and demand
throughout the year, and, what is of
most umportance to the farmer, the
majority of whose eggs are produced
in the spring. a maintenance of
prices during that period much above
what they were before the days of
storage.
Due to Faulty Methods.
ln spite of the fact that
formerly
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they
are betier than were
the producers are not receiving as
much for their eggs as they should,
considering the ultimate prices paid
by the consumers of these eggs. This
is not the result of any combination
en the part of ihe buyers to keep
prices down, for competition is usu-
ally sharp enough to cause as much
to be paid as the buyers can afford.
The real reason lies in the fact that
the system of marketing and buying
section is
eggs in this faulty and
Causes a good deal of
preventable
loss and deterioration. This is main-
ly because no incentive is offered for
care and expeditious handling of the
product. In other words, the careful
farmer who markets good eggs as a
rule gets no more for them than his
careless neighbor who markets poor
ones. As a result of this loss, prices
paid to producers must be depressed
to cover it, and this accounts for the
difference between the prices paid for
these eggs and the prices charged
the consumers.
At first glance it might be thought
that this loss and deterioration were
slight and of minor importance. Quit
the contrary, however, is the case.
rom a careful study made of the
situation, it appears that the annual
loss resulting from these sources in
the egg trade of the country totals
about 15 per cent. of the value of
the product, or $45,000,000. In the
State of Kansas alone, where the in-
vestigations of the department have
been principally carried on, the an-
nual loss is estimated at more than
$1,000,000.
Common Method of Marketing.
To explain the reason for this loss
and deterioration it is necessary to
outline briefly the usual method of
marketing eggs in this section.
The eggs, as previously stated, are
produced on the general farm. The
income from these is considerable and
very welcome, but is, after all, inci-
dental. The care and attention given
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the fowls and the products are there-
fore usually incidental also. The
farmer gathers the eggs whenever
convenient; sometimes each day,
sometimes two or three times a week.
The eggs are brought to the house
and kept until there is a a sufficient
number to take to the village, or
until the farmer makes a trip to the
village for some other purpose and
takes the eggs along. No particular
attention is given to the conditions
under which the eggs are kept in
the meantime. They may be kept
in a pantry or cupboard of the kitch-
en, where the temperature is com-
paratively high and where the eggs
are bound to undergo considerable
deterioration in quality or to reach
a more or less advanced stage of
actual spoiling. Even in those cases
where the importance is realized and
an effort made to secure this by plac-
ing the eggs in the cellar, there is a
likelihood that the cellar may be
damp, and the eggs in consequence
become moldy. Likewise, no parti-
ular effort is made to obtain clean
eges by proper attention to the nests
and by frequent gathering, or to sep-
arate the clean from the soiled eggs
when taking them to market.
As a result the farmer may start
to town with a basket of eggs, part
of which are fresh and wholesome,
part of them dirty or smeared and
part of them shrunken or stale, or
even wholly spoiled. During the
drive to town, it is a common occur-
rence for the eggs to be exposed to
the direct rays of the sun for an
hour or two and subjected therefore
to a temperature greater than the
normal temperature of incubation,
103 degrees F. These eggs the farm-
er takes to the village store and re-
ceives for them a certain price per
dozen, which is usually given in trade.
The village storekeeper is not a deal-
er in eggs from choice but rather be-
cause he feels it necessary to take the
gs in order to keep the trade of
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the farmer. If he does not take the
eggs he fears that the farmer will
offer them to one of his competitors
and will in consequence be likely to
give that competitor the bulk of his
trade. For the same, reason, the
merchant believes that he must ac-
cept the eggs as they run—good or
bad, fresh or stale, clean or dirty-~
for if he does not his competitors
will. This system of buying by the
storekeeper is known as the case
count system.
The merchant holds the eggs until
he has enough to make a shipment
to some egg dealer or shipper from
whom he gets regular quotations.
The delay here may be anywhere
from two days to a week or even two
weeks. Usually the conditions at-
tendant upon the shipment of these
eggs up to the time they reach the
packing-house are such as to cause
a still further deterioration in
the eggs. After they reach the
packing-house they are assembled in
great enough numbers so that more
attention and care is given their hand-
ling, and although the eggs go
through one or more sets of hands
from this point before they are plac-
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ed in storage or reach the consumer,
the deterioration which they under-
go is not so great proportionately.
Delay in Moving Eggs.
It will be observed that the one
unfavorable factor which stands out
most prominently in this system of
marketing is the delay in moving
the eggs. There is delay in gather-
ine the eggs, delay in taking them to
town, and delay on the part of the
storekeeper. When these delays are
coincident with high temperature,
serious loss and deterioration result.
This is evidenced by the poor qual-
ity of summer eggs.
The spoiled and deteriorated eggs
compose. several well recognized
classes, most common among which
are the following: Heated eggs,
those caused by the development of
the embryo in fertile eggs; shrunk-
en eggs, those in which a part of
the water has evaporated from the
white, causing a large air cell; rots,
those which are totally spoiled; spots,
those with localized areas of bacterial
or mold infection; dirty eggs, those
soiled with mud, droppings or the
contents of broken eggs; and checks,
those slightly cracked.
While there is some deliberate de-
lay in the fall, caused by the farmers
holding their eggs on a rising mar-
ket, the majority of the delays are
due simply to indifference and conse-
quently are preventable. The country
stores are directly responsible for the
delay, because of the case-count sys
tem of buying which they employ.
This system has nothing to recom-
mend it aside from the fact that it
is a little less trouble to the store-
keeper. On the other hand it en-
courages carelessness and delay on
the part of the farmer, because it
inflicts no penalty for poor or bad
eggs. It has even bred in some farm-
ers (who would not expect to sell
damaged vegetables or grain for full
value) a feeling that an injustice is
being worked on them if a_ buyer
candles the eggs and refuses to pay
for those which are rotten.
As a result, therefore, of the de-
lays and carelessness, coupled with
high temperatures, there is in con-
nection with the handling and mar-
keting of eggs in the Middle West,
a great loss, which because prevent-
able in a great measure, is a wanton
waste. This loss is borne both by
the producer and consumer, but falls
mainly on the former. The consum-
er suffers in being unable to secure
good palatable eggs in sufficient quan-
tity, and in consequence, there is a
curtailment of consumption. It is
only fair to state, also, that these
inferior eggs which find their way
to the tables of city consumers are
often mistaken for a cold-storage
product, and the storage industry is
thus unjustly discredited.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
November 5, 1913
Jaunty Jottings From Jackson.
Jackson, Nov. 3—The “Strenuous
Life,’ Theodore Roosevelt; the “Wine
of Work,” E. A. Stowe. We like the
latter expression best.
Correspondent Goldstein asks who
put the first four letters in the signa-
ture below. We are not authority
on orthography, but when it comes to
putting those first four letters into
the life and not into the word we
might say that there are many force;
playing their part, among them being
the word made up of the first four
letters of his own name, of which we
do not possess very much.
A monument to a life, a credit to
Grand Rapids, an asset to Michigan
and an influence reaching far into the
future—last week’s issue of the
Tradesman!
The committee completed its plan
for the next combination meeting cf
Jackson Council, No. 57, last Satur-
day afternoon. It will be held Sat-
urday evening, Nov. 8.
Our Senior Counselor, Ray 4G.
Pringle, will only use one room of
his home this winter and that all
alone. Mrs. Pringle and son start
this week for Jacksonville, Florida,
to remain until next May.
Jay Cox, Greenwood avenue, is
rapidly recovering from a run of
typhoid fever. His many friends will
be glad to see him back at his old
place of business.
Michigan is showing up well in
the campaign for new members and
this is bound to be a big year for the
United Commercial Travelers.
One of the important factors in the
grocery business of Ann Arbor is the
f Lamb & Spencer, located on
State street. They have had a suc-
firm <
cessful career, covering a period cf
over sixteen years and every year one
of progress and growth. Here is an-
other partnership based on method
and system. Mr. Fred Lamb looks
after the details of the office, payinz
every bill every Monday and not for-
getting that essential part of looking
after bills receivable. Mr. Lew Spen-
cer is buyer for the concern and his
success in this capacity is due to the
fact that he constantly studies his
trade and knows their fads and fan-
cies as well as necessities.
After all, it 1s a great thing to be
a grocer, in the big sense of the word.
Spurgeon.
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Merry Musings From Muskegon.
Muskegon, Nov. 3—As soon as the
new turn tables are put in at Ashley
and Muskegon, the new ninety foot
car will be put on that run. We hope
the venture will be profitable, as the
traveling public will be greatly bene-
fitted by it.
N. C. Lulofs left on his trip to Cad-
illac and vicinity Monday. Nick
seems to think it is not fair to tell
about his being sleepy, but if you
could see him you could not help it.
Anybody wishing to know all about
the fun of a punctured tire on a rainy
night, just ask John F. Charles, 21
Young & Chaffee Co. He can tell you
all about it.
The Dr. J. O. Bates drug store will
be moved from 17 Arthur street to
261 South Terrace street.
We are pleased to learn that Wm.
D. Keiper, of Fremont, is again able
to be out on his trip, after being laid
up by an accident for some days.
E. G. Hientschel, who went to
Europe some months ago in quest of
good health, is reported to be on his
way home very much improved. Bro.
Hentschel was always a very active
U. C. T. member and the news of his
restoration is gladly received.
We are informed that the wash
room of the Pacific Hotel, at Bald-
win, is in a very filthy condition; also
that the only towels supplied are the
unlawful roller kind.
We are indebted to A. N. Stevenson
for a greater part of our brief notes.
We hear that A. H. Withey, of
Sparta, has resigned his position
with the McClure Co., of Saginaw.
Mr. Withey is well known by his wit
and repartee and will be missed by the
boys on the road.
The writer had the pleasure of get-
ting home at 2:30 a. m. Sunday morn-
ime on the 1. 5. & M dhe Ann
Arbor had a freight wreck and was
only eleven hours getting one car on
the track; hence the delay.
We understand that the bonus fund
for the Muskegon & Manistee inter-
urban is being paid. We hope one
year from date cars will be running
E. P. Monroe.
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Doings in the Buckeye State.
Written for the Tradesman,
The trade expansion committee of
the Columbus Chamber of Commerce,
in conference with Western railroads
to decide on a route to the Panama-
Pacific exposition in San Francisco in
1915, decided to make the trip early
in the year, probably in April, the time
not to exceed thirty days. A route
will be picked out later.
The United States, Cuyahoga, Cleve-
land and Central Union telephone com-
panies of Cleveland deny that they are
attempting a consolidation, this an-
swer being filed with the public util-
ities commission in response to the
complaint of a Cleveland citizen. It is
asserted that all negotiations have
ceased since Attorney General Wicker-
sham ordered the American Telephone
and Telegraph Co not to acquire either
the Cuyahoga or the United States
companies.
Not only road building but mainte-
nance of good roads is now recognized
as a big problem and State highway of-
ficials are visiting Eastern states in
quest of useful information on the sub-
ject. In many places neglected high-
ways have had to be built over and
counties are staggering with debt.
The Ohio State University is prepar-
nig to do more extension work in carry-
ing education to all the people and the
work that is being done along these
lines at the universities of Michigan,
Illinois and Wisconsin is being investi-
gated.
The city of Canton has passed an or-
dinance issuing bonds for $260,000 for
a sewage disposal plant.
Almond Griffen.
Sod always gives us strength to bear
the troubles of each day; but He never
calculated on our piling the troubles
past, and those to come, on top of
those of to-day.
Ten-Cent Store for Negroes.
What is reported to be one of the
largest commercial ventures of the
Negro race in the South is a four-
story, 10-cent store owned and oper-
ated by colored people. This is the
outgrowth of a small company that
started years ago, and by dollar sub-
scriptions raised $20,000. Recently, it
has enlarged its space, and is now
covering four floors.
The store is patronized by both
races and gives employment to twen-
ty-five colored persons, and two white
girls, who have been employed in
other 10-cent stores and who act as
managers in the different depart-
ments.
The store is well kept, and the grade
of merchandise sold is equal to any
for the money. It is not only the
largest but the only store of its kind
in America.
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Be Sure to Get Enough Profit.
Some years ago two young Min-
nesota retailers came into my office.
They were going into business in a
small town in the Southern part of
the State and wanted information
about an advertising service that the
organization with which I was then
connected sold to retailers.
They had learned the business in
a large general or department store,
knew values fairly well and had
“ideas.”
One of these ideas was that goods
ought to be sold at a straight margin
of profit. They figured that by doing
this they would be able to outsell
every competitor in town, because
ever so many of the articles would be
priced below what the other retailers
charged for them, and it proved use-
less to persuade them not to start that
way. They had made their decision.
A couple of years later I was in their
section of the State and, remember-
ing our conversation, stopped off to
call on them.
Their store was inviting. Modern
show windows with attractively ar-
ranged displays suggested, that inside
the looker-on could secure things for
ornament or comfort, good things to
eat, handy things for the housewife.
Each item was ticketed with a neat
price card.
The interior was just as attractive.
The stocks were well kept. The
ledges were nicely trimmed, and there
was an air of cleanliness, comfort and
cordiality about the place which tend-
ed to induce the right condition of
mind on the part of the visitor.
The proprietors remembered me,
and when I asked them how they were
getting along and how the straight
margin plan was turning out, Hen-
ning turned to Nelson with a smile
and said: “John, how long did it take
us to find out our mistake?” “Just
six months,” said John.
“Tn fact, it didn’t take us that long,
for we noticed in less than three
months, that certain lines didn't
move as fast as others, nor as fast
as we thought they ought. To make
them move we had to reduce the
price and besides, when we had a
special sale, of course, we must re-
duce on other items, so that when we
took inventory for the first six
months’ business we found that we
had barely paid expenses—in_ spite
of the fact that we had only drawn
$15.00 a week for our own salaries.
“The inventory showed us where
we had been wrong, for many of the
staple items we found had not-been
selling in the quantity or rather pro-
portion, that we knew they ought to,
so the only remedy we could apply
was: to reduce the margin. And
many of the more fancy articles had
also failed to move at the proper rate
—thus proving to us that customers
did not appreciate the lower prices
at which we offered them—because
they could not judge as to their ac-
tual value. Many of these we ad-
vanced in price, and to cap the cli-
max, we made special provision in fig-
uring our “laid-down cost’ for a cer-
tain percentage, in order to make up
for “mark-downs” during special
sales.
“The result is that our business has
not only grown considerably, but we
have been able to show a fine profit
balance each season—not in unsea-
sonable goods, but in actual cash in
the bank.” 2s _____
Made Six Moves in Thirty-Six Years.
It was back in 1877 when Barlow
Brothers started in two little back
rooms over the then Democrat news-
paper office. M. H. Clark was editor
of the paper and Tom Fletcher, the
of to-day,
We re-
frequently
veteran newspaper man
was then the chief reporter.
membered Tom as he
lounged into our little saop and, with
his heels hooked into the lower rung
of our only extra chair, leaned back
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
against the wall and gassed about
the world in general.
We only stayed in these quarters
about a month, when we moved ‘to
larger quarters on the third floor of
the Ledyard block. Perched up on
a bank eight to ten feet high, where
the Michigan Trust now stands, stood
the private residence of Wm. Hal-
dane, with the old bell tower directly
on the corner, to which came trot-
ting daily the beautiful white faced
little mare of Gen. I. C. Smith, then
Chief of our Fire Department, after-
wards Chief of Police. The General
would often send the little
alone to this corner from wherever
he might be, and it was a common
sight to see her come trotting down
Monroe street with a bridle loose and
swing around the corner of Monroe
and Ottawa at E. R. Wilson’s drug
(afterwards Muir’s, now
Schrouder’s), and trot quietly into
her open stall in the base of the bell
tower.
mare
store
Irom the third floor we moved in
a few years into larger rooms at the
store 101 Ottawa, where Frank Quinn
holds forth to-day. At this time we
purchased the Grand Rapids
Box Co., and, needing still
room, rented double floors in the
buildings facing Monroe street and
occupied later by the
Paper
more
Baxter Co.
Our next move was into the store
and basement of the Houseman build-
ing, occupied to-day by Roseberry &
Henry, and next door to us on the
north was our old friend, the Demo-
crat. Old residents may remember
the sign which we found it necessary
to hang in our front door—‘‘No, this
is not the Democrat.’ The public
seemed determined to mistake our
door for the newspaper, which was
controlled at that time by Frank Ball,
with Harvey O. Carr—our present
efficient Chief of Police—as foreman
of the job department. Tom Fletcher
was still on the staff. It was a morn-
ing paper and the writer remembers
running into the office one night
along about 12:00 o’clock. Tom was
alone for the time being and seem-
ed to have more than fourteen things
to do in twelve seconds, while tc
help him concentrate his mind, the
telephone on the wall was keeping
up a constant jingle.
tO
Tom danced
around the room from one thing to
another and, suddenly straightening
up his big six foot length, he shook
his fist at the jingling phone on the
opposite wall and
damn you!
shouted “Yes—
[ hear you!”
We moved down the river—still on
Pearl street—in the Wilmarth .&
Morman building, now occupied by
our friends in similar business lines,
the Tisch-Hine Co. We had sold
our paper box department before this
to W. W. Huelster, the
being known
business
to-day as the Grand
Rapids Paper Box Co.
Next, we moved back to our form-
er neighborhood at the upper end of
Pearl street, this time taking the fifth
floor of the then Weatherly & Pulte
Building—afterwards the — building
being sold to the Board of Trade—
and now comes our final move from
this point to our new quarters in the
John B. Barlow.
Campau building.
Red Bottles for Milk.
The discovery is said to have been
made that milk kept in red bottles
will remain sweet and pure longer
than when kept in
other colored bottles.
plain glass or
Experiments have been made with
the spectrum to determine which of
the rays of light affect milk, and it
has been found that it is the rays
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toward the violet end of the spec-
trum that do the mischief.
The red ray is stronger and more
penetrating, and probably has some
neutralizing effect upon ‘he lacteal
microbe. If experiments confirm the
theory that the red bottle preserves
the milk better than the bottle now
in use the red bottle should be adopt-
ed generally.
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Have You Ordered Your
“Bear 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
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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?
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Some Things Men Might Learn From
Women.
Written for the Tradesman.
This title is worded advisedly. It
is not “Some Things Men Are Likely
to Learn from Women.” There is an
implied condition. When it comes to
being taught by the sex that throug”
long tradition they regard as_ in-
ferior to their own, most men will
not take kindly to the idea. Only
such as are exceptionally far advanced
morally and spiritually will be willing
to assume that docile attitude of mind
that is the first requisite of learning
anything. It is because the
readers of the Tradesman are large-
ly made up of this very superior
class, that I am encouraged to believe
that this little will not fail
of its purpose as it would be likely
to were it directed to men generally.
In further explanation of the title,
let me say that it is not to be taken as
conveying the idea that women have
any monopoly of good and desirable
knowledge. Far from it. Nor are
all the dominant traits of the sex
worthy of praise and imitation. In-
deed those who have followed these
pages closely will recall that some
time ago I wrote for this department
an article entitled “Some Things
Women May Learn from Men.” As
in that I spoke of certain things re-
garding which men have saner, heal-h-
ier, and than
so in this I shall speak
only
sermon
more practical ideas
women have,
of certain other things that are
with
feminine
seen
truer vision from the
than from tae
clearer,
viewpoint
masculine.
Economically speaking, the
be learned from woman-
kind is that of conservation. By na-
ture man is destructive, reckless, prod-
igal, extravagant; woman is cautious,
careful, saving, preservative.
great
lesson to
This difference is pronounced even
in infancy. The boy baby is far hard-
er upon playthings than the girl baby.
Indeed very often the chief delight
the young manikin finds in the toys
given him for his amusement, is a
wild joy in smashing them.
In one of her delightful humorous
poems Carolyn Wells describes a
dolls’ party. With a single exception
all the guests at this unique function
were beautifully attired and evidenced
elaborate care and attention. That
one, dirty, scantily clad, bereft of all
hair, and with eye and cheek battered
in, gave metrical explanation of its
forlorn and unkempt condition in the
following lines:
“I do not wish to tell my griefs
To any living toy;
3ut—dwell upon your mercies!—I
Was given to a boy.”
The passion for destruction, for de-
molition, so manifest in the young
boy, increases rather than lessens
with the years and strength of man-
hood. The savage takes to the hunt
and the chase as the means of liveli-
hood. The civilized man, when he
can do so, pursues these same bar-
baric activities as diversion from his
regular toil. Or, if he manages to
content himself without annihilating
life, he must for his amusement make
way with something, and do it on a
large scale. It may be gasoline and
not gunpowder that he employs as
the means of his recreation, but it
must be something of value, some-
thing that has cost either money or
effort.
Endowed with splendid physicai
prowess and endurance, a man is wont
to risk life and limb in reckless and
needless hazards, and to waste health
and dissipation and ex-
cesses.
strength in
lie can achieve much, but how
foolishly he squanders the results
of his toil! A young man often has
twice or thrice the earning capacity
of his sister, and more frequently will
be “broke” for ready money. Is it
not the exception rather than the rule
for a young fellow, even though
spendidly educated and equipped for
getting on in life, and unhampered by
any responsibility save taking care
of his lone self, to accumulate much
of anything before he marries and set-
tles down?
Man despises the small frugalities
in which woman fairly delights; he
has none of that faculty for making
the most of things, for extracting the
full measure of enjoyment and con-
tent from the merest trifles, that is so
much a part of the normal womanly
nature.
That strange masculine trait of
lightly and thoughtlessly letting go
of what has been bought with the
highest price is fraught with gravest
consequences. To obtain our politi-
cal liberties our forefathers poured
out their blood and treasure like wa-
ter. The system of suffrage adopted
committed the trust which they lett
to men. How has that charge been
fulfilled? Ever ready to spring with
the sword to the defense of the Gov-
ernment, as to that vigilance which
is the liberty in times of
peace, men have been so remiss as to
the ballot upon ignorant ne-
egroes and foreigners of the most ob-
jectionable types, and have allowed
corruption to flourish until our boast-
price of
bestow
sometimes has seemed
little better than a farce.
ed freedom
Men often accuse women of being
fool-
wasteful and ex-
spendthrifts. Some women are
ishly and wickedly
travagant—that is extravagant as
compared with the normal frugal,
economical type of woman. Very few
women—that is very few in propor
tion to the whole number— can just-
ly be accused of being extravagant
as compared with men.
A woman in moderate’ circum-
stances pays say twenty-five dollars
for just the sweetest little hat. Of
course she has no business to do it
and her men friends read her some
strictures upon her extravagance.
But how far will a paltry twenty-five
dollars go in meeting the upkeep of
a machine, or in paying dues
fashionable club, or in just being out
a little with the boys? When you
think of the base ball outlay, the auto-
mobile expense, the stupendous an-
nual tobacco and cigar bill, and the
still more appaling drink bill, doesn’t
it seem a little queer that any man
ever dares prate of the extravagance
of women?
Ethically speaking, the great lesson
might learn from
certain consistency in
The average woman doesn’t have one
set of principles and another and an
entirely different set of practices. She
men women is a
fine conduct.
lives up to her light.
By a strange inconsistency of his
nature, a man often has a very clear
perception great
and admiration for rectitude in oth-
of tight, a respect
ers, and at the same time a great
aversion to keeping in the straight
path himself. Many a
tippler can deliver a most excellent
while the liber-
tine often is equally good at descant-
of chastity.
and narrow
screed on temperance,
ing upon the beauties
This incongruity between what men
preach and what they practce has a
most lamentable effect upon youth.
The average boy wants to do just as
“dad’’ does, or just as the other
grown men of the communty do, and
the great trouble with very many boys
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November 5, 1918
of the present day is that they are
following in their father’s footsteps.
Most men are willing to do any-
thing in reason for his children ex-
cept—set them a good example in the
matter of personal habits.
So we not infrequently witness the
pitiful spectacle of a father trying to
keep his young sons from stunting
their bodies and weakening their
minds with cigarettes, while he him-
self is hopelessly tied to his pipe or
cigar; admonishing the boys to keep
straight and steady, while he takes
his daily nips and perhaps indulges
in even more reprehensible vices.
Whatever may be the shortcomings
of the average mother, she is at least
a living exponent of the principles
she is trying to inculcate. There is no
. yawning gap between the standards
she sets up for her children and those
of her own conduct.
In so brief an exposition as this it
is of course impossible even to men-
tion all the things men might profit-
ably learn from women; but perhaps
enough have been suggested to an-
swer for one lesson. Quillo.
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Cheerfulness as an Asset.
Written for the Tradesman.
A merry heart doeth good like a
medicine; but a sour countenance
driveth away trade. Not only will
one’s digestion be better, but the an-
nual net profits of the business will
be larger, if one consistently cutivates
the habit of cheerfulness.
Yes, cheerfulness is a habit. All
fruitful moods are subject to control.
We can deliberately induce and we
ean voluntarily terminate them. We
can make up our minds to overlook
the minor ills incident to the day’s
work, or we can exaggerate mole-
hills of annoyance into mountains of
provocation. We can just smile and
let it pass, or we can develop symp-
toms of violence.
Cheerfulnes is one of those simple,
elemental things that aren't very
analyzable or definable. Sort o’ like
sunlight and love and truth. All you
got to do is to say the word, and we
get you.
Of course you don't have to smirk
and giggle to be cheerful. Cheerful
dispositions aren’t being worn that
way this season. For synonyms of
cheerfulness, both plain and fancy, the
reader is repectfully referred to Peter
Mark Roget and D. Webster.
Negatively considered, cheerfulness
is like unto charity—doth not behave
itself unseemly; and on its positive
side, cheerfulness also parallels charity
in that it beareth all things, hopeth
all things, endureth all things. But
there the parallel ends.
Misguided cheerfulness is facetious-
ness, and acute cheerfulness is hilar-
ity. But, under most circumstances,
it’s better to be moderately cheerful.
When a man gets boozed up on cheer-
fulness, he’s temporarily disqualified
for business. Also there’s apt to be
a reaction.
Cheerfulness is a lense through
which dark days appear bright and
bright days radiant. Cheerfulness is
a tonic for tired bodies and jangling
nerves. Cheerfulness is infectious.
When you've got a real case of cheer-
fulness, everybody about you—hope-
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
less immunes excepted—is going to
Cateh 1.
Cheerfulness makes customers tract-
able and enables them to disannex
from the coin with less pain.
Chas. L. Garrison.
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Golden Wedding of Pioneer Mer-
chant.
On Monday, September 15, Mr.
and Mrs. G. H. Walbrink celebrated
their golden wedding at their home
in Allendale. There were present all
their eight children, with their re-
spective wives and husbands, twenty-
three grand children and two great
erand children, also Mrs. Westfall
and Mrs. H. D. Walbrink, sisters-in-
law of the groom, and Mrs. Jenkins,
sister of the bride. The honored
couple were the recipients of many
cards bearing congratulations for the
past and good wishes for the future;
also a number of presents consisting
The happy
partook of dinner, after which Mr.
Walbrink expressed his gratitude to
those present for their kind thoughts
and further gave a brief but interest-
ing account of his life since his wed-
ding. Much amusement was caused
in the afternoon when the brothers
chiefly of cash. family
and sisters vied with the brothers- and
sisters-in-law as to which party would
make the best picture. Ice cream and
cake was served on the lawn after
which the guests departed, all agreeing
that a most enjoyable day had been
spent.
Mr. Walbrink has passed his 77th
birthday, while Mrs. Walbrink is 70.
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Dogs Barred From Food Stores.
Dogs are no longer allowed in gro-
cery stores and meat markets in Den-
ver, Colo. The commission of public
welfare in that city has ordered the
following notice to be displayed in
every grocer’s establishment:
“Notice! Dogs are not allowed in-
side the store. By order of Commis-
sioner of Public Welfare.”
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Whoever said that there is a reme-
dy for every ill never was a dancer
and lost a leg.
21
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TRADESMAN
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Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—F. A. Rechlin, Bay City.
Vice-President—C. E. Dickinson. St.
Joseph.
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott,
City.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.
Marine
Developing New Sources of Harda-
ware Trade.
Written for the Tradesman.
First of Five Papers.
I live in a city of approximately
five hundred thousand people. And we
have, as you may well imagine, hard-
ware dealers of many sorts and hard-
ware establishments from the least
aspiring to the most aggressive types.
But among them there are two or
three that are conspicuous for the
extensiveness of their lines, excel
lence of service, methods of going af-
ter business, and the volume of busi-
ness that they are doing. And I have
taken it upon me during the last few
weeks to cultivate the men back of
several of these successful hardware
establishments in order to discover, if
possible, the methods that they have
used with such evident results in con-
ducting their businesses.
In writing up these articles for the
Tradesman I am going to refrain from
mentioning names; for the men I have
interviewed and the
policies I propose to describe would
rather I wouldn't. Neither am_ I
going to describe methods that are
accidental, or for evident reasons in-
capable of adoption by others. Such
concerns whose
excursions might be interesting and
amusing, but it is not my purpose in
these articles merely
tertainment. I want to get down to
vital facts and factors. And whether
you are an exclusive hardware dealer
or merely carry hardware
other lines; whether you are located
in Oshkosh, Kalamazoo, Keokuk,
Kankakee,—the things that are record-
ed in these articles are
you.
“I think the secret of my
if you will pardon me the egotism of
that remark,” observed a
dealer from whom I learned a good
many things, “lies mainly in the fact
that I have made it a rule to develop
new sources of trade rather than just
try to get my competitors’ custom-
ers. Years ago when I was clerking
for my first boss this idea came to
me. If I’ve done anything out of the
ordinary in selling hardware, it’s be-
cause I have consistently clung to,
and worked along, that idea.
“T was 19 at the time, through high:
school, and had been with my
less than a year. But I took to hard-
ware like a duck to water. And I
was fairly itching to make good.
“My employer had a first class
stock of goods for a town of six
to provide en-
along with
meant for
SUCCESS,
hardware
boss
thousand. We carried high grade
tools and cutlery, builders’ hardware,
paints, oils and varnishes, stoves and
ranges, farm implements, and such
other lines as were customary in the
general run of hardware establish-
ments of our class. And we had a
fine class of people to deal with—-
principally well-to-do farmers who
owned their farms, and operated them
chiefly through tenants.
But my boss was an easy-going
merchandiser of the old school—a
shrewd buyer (you couldn’t fool him
on anything made of metal), but lax
in many things that go to make a real
merchant. He could chew as much
tobacco during the course of the day
as any man I ever knew, and chew it
neater’ and he could’ discuss. the
weather, politics and local happen-
real finesse; but when it
to turnovers, cost accounting,
advertising and such other matters
that enter into successful hardware
merchandising, he simply wasn’t there
with the goods. He hadn’t
brought up that way.
“He couldn't have told you what
his overhead expenses were, actually;
he couldn’t have computed his net
profits on anything he sold; and, if it
didn’t move this season, he wasn’t
particularly disturbed about it, for
he figured it was pretty apt to move
next season. His advertising was lim-
ited to church and lodge programmes
and our two country papers; and
advertisements were
giving his name, lo-
cation and lines. You can imagine
about the old stereotyped an-
nouncement read. You will find sim-
ilar ones in some of the little country
weeklies even to-day.
ings with
came
been
the so-called
business cards,
how
“My boss was making a comfort-
able living out of the
had been for years,
wasn't
business, and
but the business
growing. All in the world
that was needed to put him out of
the running in short order was just
one wide-awake competitor. But his
competitors, fortunately for my
were of the same sort—geared low.
A Hling at
“One day along
of September,
boss,
Paints.
about the middle
when I had been with
three months,
and re-arranging
my boss some
dusting
I was
some paint
cans, when I accidentally ran across
a batch of folders and booklets on
paints and painting, supplied by one
of the concerns from which the bo3s
bought mixed paints. This ‘dealer
literature’ had gone the way of much
dealer literature of those days. Tt
was put effectually out of the way of
any possible reader, and forgotte1
by the one who hid it. It was thickly
coated with dust.
Foster, Stevens & Co.
Wholesale Hardware
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157-159 Monroe Ave. :: 151 to 161 Louis N. W.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Stock up on
Guns and Ammunition
Be prepared for
Hunting Season
We carry
Remington and U. M. C.
Fire Arms and Ammunition
Winchester
Fire Arms and Ammunition
Stevens Guns
Michigan Hardware Company
Exclusively Wholesale
Cor. Oakes and Ellsworth GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
H. Eikenhout & Sons
Jobbers of Roofing Material
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
We carry a large stock of roofings, roofing materials
and building papers.
Use Tradesman Coupons
November 5, 1913
‘Being of an acquisitive turn, I got
to reading it. The booklet was good
recding. It told about the ingredients
>of svod paint, how the minerals are
ground up by machinery, and mixed
by people who know how, and all
that sort of thing. It was all new
to me, for I didn’t know beans about
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Annual Address—President W.. L.
C. Reid.
Reading minutes of the last con-
vention.
Completing
ments.
Introduction of questions for dis-
cussion,
committee arrange-
Adjournment.
Meeting of the new Board imme-
diately after adjournment.
When this year’s convention meets
in Grand Rapids, ten annual meet-
ings will have been held by the or-
ganization, as follows:
1. Lansing.
23
The accidental use of bichloride of
mercury has caused many deaths
within the last few months, and if
Legislation will be effective in pre-
venting these accidents it should 4:2
forthcoming.
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No man ever learned it all. No man
ever knew too much about his busi-
paint. But the thing that got me Short addresses on _ association 2. Lansing. :
most was the little htuman-interest topics. 3. Grand Rapids. ness. There is always plenty more yet
element that the advertising man had Discussion until 5:30. 4 Jackson. to be learned. Study!
injected into his story. It gave a lit Adjournment. 5. Flint.
a tle sketch of the man back of the Question box at the door. 6. Saginaw. Established in 1873
business—the president of the com- Wednesday Morning—Open Session. 7. Jackson.
pany. Told of his big ambition as a Song—Special. | & Lansing. BEST EQUIPPED FIRM IN THE STATE
young man—to produce a tip top Report of Secretary—F. M. Wit- 9. Saginaw. Steam and Water Heating
mixed paint; how he struggled on beck. 10. Grand Rapids. Iron Pipe
to ultimate success etc. Report of Treasurer—C. A. Slay- : Tee = 44s
“Then it came to me we weren't — ton. ‘ S| Biesemtatre aon es Fittings and Brass Goods
selling enough mixed paints. And | Report of Insurance—Isaac Van eb a bill in aie eine for Electrical and Gas Fixtures
bel te wondeee way Elc cole = “Dyke abe ee ation o interstate trade in Galvanized Iron Work
: : ; : i i . yichloride of mercury. He suggests
tion was simple—we weren't pushing Discussion | of same. s iide bale Gad ’ pe 8§ i
paints. We merely supplied people National Federation—J. F. Foll- [ ai - : [oe 4 eee o_o 8 THE WEATHERLY CO.
with paint who came in our store and mer. . a the inside, which hie 218 Pearl Street Grand Rapids, Mich.
asked for paint. So I got to won- Address — “Cost, education and ‘?*° it difficult to remove a cork.
dering if something couldn’t be done value of local clubs” as recommended
to make people want more paint—in by the Manufacturers’ Association— ELEVATOR S Up-To-Now Grocers
other words, to create a bigger local FE. W. McCullough. Sell Up-to-the-Minute
demand for paint. When I had thought General discussion. fe ee fh] Hand and Power Delicacies
the matter over a couple of days Adjournment for dinner. For All Purposes e
went to the boss with my plan. Wednesday Afternoon—Closed Ses- Also Dumbwaiters Mapleine
| He smiled at my enthusiasm; but as | sion. Cideoalh Maite i as
— the scheme didn’t contemplate much Song—Michigan, My Michigan. P | ‘ Siwiia ven taek?
outlay, he told me to pitch in and sell Report Complaint Committee—F. oe a.
all the paint I blamed please. And! M. Witbeck. poeta Se ae ge spehoet os. o
sure sold some paint. Report of Legislative Committee— exact needs. « Teck St, Chics, 10.
“The first thing I did was to fix Hon. C. L. Glascow, chairman. | i
ap a ace oe Gin, using inca Dbecsicg Gf come. Sidney Elevator Mfg. Co. :: Sidney, Ohio. Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash.
paint as the big feature, with a series Address “Out of Business’—Hon.
of window cards, fourteen by twenty- C. L. Glasgow. :
eight inches (I changed the cards Discussion of all question. Reynolds Flexible Asphalt Shingles
daily), in which I gave free play to Wednesday Evening.
my fancy and got t lot of cn Banquet at the Furniture Exchange HAVE ENDORSEMENT OF LEADING ARCHITECTS
with my hading pens. The boss let at 6:30 p. m. tS .
me prepare copy for the weekly pa- Geo. G Whitworth will act as
pers, and you can take it from me [I toastmaster and responses will be
talked paint. I told the farmers made as follows: 0
they’d save big money by painting Waste—Hoon. C. L. Glasgow. 2
their houses, barns, fences and out- New Thought on an Old Subject— a ¢
buildings; and I told them they’d Hon. Horatio Earle. 2 =
miss it not to buy our paint; and fi- The New Spirit in Business—Rev. g 6
nally I ventured to prophesy that we A. W. Wishart. x bs
~~ wete going to have an open fall, the Ladies theater party in the after- x z Se
' best time on earth for painting. noon under the auspices of Ladies’ Re |
“There was nothing so clever in Reception Committee. a a
anything I did or said, but 1 was aw- Thursday Morning—Open _ Session. ta
fully enthusiastic about selling paint, Song—We'll plant our standard ; ;
and I got farmers, and town folks everywhere.
as well, interested in paint. And that Discussion of the following ques-
fall barns and out buildings that had tions: Reynolds Slate Shingles After Five Years Wear Wood Shingles After Five Years Wear
long needed painting, got painted. Fire insurance. Beware of Imitations. Ask for Sample and Booklet.
We sold everything in the paint line Co-operative buying. Write us for Agency Proposition. Distributing Agents at
we have in stock, and 300 gallons of Dealers’ openings. Do they pay? Detroit bb Gio Vanneeicon Utica opener
fresh stock—more paint than my boss Notes vs. Contracts. Fp a one Creek event inl a bl is
had sold in three years! After that Will co-operation with farmers Jackson Toledo Dayton Syracuse Worcester Chicago :
my boss let me have pretty much my make local clubs successful? CC And ween |.
own way in putting on sales and try- Opening of question box by ap-
ing out eee pointee of the President and general H. M. REYNOLDS ASPHALT SHINGLE CO.
Chas. L. Phillips. discussion of any subject of interest Original Manufacturer, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
——_2+>___—__ to the dealers.
ast: Programme Prepared for the Imple- The National Federation of Retail
ment Dealers. Merchants explained by Wm. A. :
The tenth annual convention of the Decker, of Grand Rapids. Wy P h C ll
Michigan Retail Implement and Ve- New business. \ ws erc eron O ars
hicle Dealers’ Association will be held Adjournment for dinner. ss ve. Zz The Famous “SUN-BEAM” BRAND
: see : / \ a ‘Thursday Evening—Open Session. == SUNBEAM =—
in this city Nov. 18, 19 and 20. The i ‘
Lasinees sessiane will be held in the Song—Rally_ round the flag, boys. Sun-Beam PERCHERON Collars are properly fitted. and will do away with sore necks.
: : | Report Auditing Committee. It fits the collar bone, will not chafe or irritate as the straight collars do. The Percheron is
city hall and the banquet in the Fur- Pesan on neceolesy. scientific in construction.
niture Exchange. The programme Benen of Recaletiona Coimmitice. Let us send you particulars. Why not?
arranged for the meeting is as fol- Report of Nominating Committec. |
lows: a a Brown & Sehler Co.
Tuesday Afternoon—Open Session, Selection of next meeting place. Home of *“Sun-Beam’’ Goods [ Grand Rapids, Mich.
Opening song—America. Unfinished business.
24
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
November 5, 1913
Grand Council of Michigan U. C. T.
Grand Counselor—E. A. Welch, Kala-
mazoo.
Past Grand Counselor—John Q. Adams,
Battle Creek.
Grand Junior Counselor—M. S. Brown,
Saginaw.
Grand Secretary—Fred C. Richter,
Traverse City.
é Grand Treasurer—Henry E. Perry, De-
roit.
Grand Conductor—W. S. Lawton, Grand
Rapids.
Grand Page—F. J. Moutier, Detroit.
Grand Sentinel—John >>
Wafted Down From Grand Traverse
Bay.
Traverse City, Nov. 3—A number of
our officers and members visited Cadillac
last Saturday afternoon and_ conferred
the degrees of our order on four candi-
dates—Frank Cornwell, D. A. Anderson,
and Cavenaugh, of Cadillac, and Alva
Blossom, of Traverse City—-making our
membership now 135. A number of our
Cadillac brothers attended the meeting.
After the meeting all attended the vaude-
ville and the boys report a fine time.
Six more weeks before Christmas.
Rumors have been afloat that the
Hotel Elston, of Charlevoix, would close
during the winter months, but we are
advised by Mrs. Noble that such will
not be the case, as they will keep open
all the entire year.
Assessment No. 119 is called and did
you notice the Grand Commercial Army
volunteer blank enclosed with same? Get
busy now and fill it out and send it in,
by so doing you will give your council
a boost and demonstrate that you are
a live one. The effort is not so great,
but it all helps to build up this Grand
Commercial Army and you will be grant-
ing a favor on our Supreme Counselor,
after you have filled it out, got a new
member and got your honorable dis-
charge. Let every member in Michigan
boost.
John W. Thorpe, a member of Owosso
Council, has been appointed hotel in-
spector. Now get busy, boys, and get
your grievances to him. It might also be
well for some of the hotels to take notice
before he pays them a visit, for we note
that some of them are still clinging
to the roller towel.
It has been reported that we will be
favored with a new P. M. time table,
effective Nov. 16. We will have a morn-
ing train north through to Petoskey and
one in the evening. Nothing north in
the afternoon. Trains from the north
will run about the same as now; also
all trains leaving here for the south and
those arriving from the same direction.
Mr. Buttermore, of the firm of Willi-
son & Buttermore, of Falmouth, is con-
ferring a great favor upon the boys by
opening his home to them for meals
since the hotel has been closed there.
From all reports the homelike meal that
Mrs. Buttermore serves is second to none
and surely all the boys appreciate her
kindness.
Chas. Van Riper is able to be out
again, after being confined to his home
for a period of about three weeks.
While Charlie is not looking his best yet,
we all hope that he will be himself again
soon.
We note in last week’s Tradesman an
article written by our friend, Ernest A.
Stowe, which is headed, ‘‘The Wine of
Work,’”’ and we must suggest that the
Tradesman surely makes a nice little
drink for anyone. After thirty years of
work it has become the leading commer-
cial -edition of this country and Mr.
Stowe is deserving of a lot of credit for
his untiring efforts. Let’s all boost for
the Tradesman in the future, aS we
have in the past, and extend to Mr.
Stowe a hearty vote of thanks for his
long-time kindness to the traveling man.
Mrs. I. K. Jacobs is spending a few
weeks in Buffalo, visiting relatives and
friends. J. K. claims the reason she
presented him with that straight han-
dled umbrella was so that he would not
leave it hanging on some church pew.
Mrs. John Cheney visited friends at
Kingsley, which accounts for John dining
with Jack Arata.
The Walton Inn, at Walton, is under.
going some changes, papering, painting,
ete., under the management of Mr. and
Mrs. Kinney. These people are there to
please the public and they come as near
to it aS any one we know of. Let others
follow.
Now we presume some of the boys will
complain on the new P. M. train sched-
ule, but do you realize, boys, that the
managers of this road are a bunch of
business men trying to do just the same
as you would do if you were placed in
their positions? They want to do all
they ean for the public and have a
little left at the end of the year to show
for their efforts. Did you ever realize
that this road ‘pays out monthly in
Traverse City about $25,000 to its em-
ployes and that this same amount is
spent with the merchants of our city
and these same goods are sold by the
traveling men? Now suppose for some
reason or another this road would change
its headquarters to some _ other point,
would this not cut off the sales of our
merchants more than $300,000 per year?
This would surely cut off the traveling
men’s sales also. Think it over and if
you have any grievances to offer, go to
the right parties and we are sure you
will be given the proper. attention.
Boost, a knock never got any one any-
thing.
Have you enlisted in the Grand Com-
mercial. Army? Fred C. Richter.
Assignee Sale
Notice is hereby given, that the stock of
men’s and boys’ clothing and furnishing
goods, hats, caps, trunks, valises, umbrellas,
shoes, rubbers, etc., contained in the store of
B. E. Black, and amounting to the sum of
two thousand dollars and upwards, will be
sold in bulk, at public sale. to the highest
bidder, at the store in Bellaire, Mich., on or
after Tuesday, December 2, 1913, at two
o'clock P. M.
Bids by mail accepted and correspondence
solicited.
AUSTIN B. WOOTON.
Assignee.
Bellaire, Mich.
HOTEL CODY
EUROPEAN
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Best Beds That Money Can Buy
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A test case is to be made of the
so-called flag law passed by the last
Massachusetts Legislature. The law
provides that “no red or black flag
or no banner, ensign or sign having
upon it any inscription opposed to
organized government, or which is
sacrilegious, or which may be de-
rogatory to public morals, shall be
carried in parade within the common-
wealth.” The Socialists claimed that
the law was aimed directly against
their party standard. Last Saturday
the Socialists of Boston had a big
parade and determined to test the
new law. Two large standards were
carried in the line, one the red flag
of the Boston Socialist Club and the
other a duplication of the red ban-
ner carried by the American Revo-
lutionists at the battle of White
Plains. The flag bearers were ar-
rested, appeared in municipal court
Monday and found guilty. An appeal
is to be taken, for the Socialists pro-
pose to fight the case to a finish.
—_2-.____
Answering his wife’s charge in a
suit for a separation that he drinks
highballs to excess a New York City
electrical engineer admits that he
takes a highball occasionally, but hag
to do it because his wife seasons the
food she cooks so highly that he
must take a drink to quench the fire
in his stomach. This is a uniqu>
reason, but doubtless will not satis-
fy the peppery wife.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a7
WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
Acids
Acetic ...)..56.; 6 @ 8
Borie ...2...... 10 @ 15
@arbolic ........ 19 @ 238
Citric <:....... 70 @ 7
Muriatic ........ 1%@ 5
Nitric .:......... 5%@ 10
Oxalic <......... 13 @ 16
Sulphuric ....... 1%@ 5
Vantaric .....-:. 88 @ 45
Ammonia
Water, 26 deg. .. 6%@ 10
Water, 18 deg. .. 44%@ _ 8
Water 14 deg. ... 34@ 6
Carbonate ...... 13 @ 16
@ktoride ...... / 12 @ tb
Balsams
Copaiba ...; .. 75@1 00
Fir (Canada) .. 1 75@2 00
Fir (Oregon) ....40@ 50
Per 2. 6....5-..-- 2 25@2 50
Mola ......0...- 1 00@1 25
Berries
Gubeb ........... 65@ 7
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Juniper ........... 7@ 10
Prickley Ash .. . @ 50
Barks
Cassia (ordinary) 25
Cassia (Saigon) 65@ 75
Elm (powd. 25c) 25@
Sassafras (pow. 30c) @ 25
nese Cut (powd.
Iuicorice .:....... 24@ 28
Licorice powdered 25@ 30
Flowers
Arnica, 022.2... 18@ 25
Chamomile (Ger.) 25@ 35
Chamomile (Rom.) 40@ 50
Gums
Acacia, Ist ...... 40@ 50
Acacia, 2nd ...... 35@ 40
Acacia, 3d ........30@ 35
Acaccia, Sorts .... @ 20
Acacia Powdered 35@ 40
Aloes (Barb. Pow) 22@ 25
Aloes (Cape Pow) 20@ 25
Aloes (Soc. Powd.) 40@ 50
Asafoetida ....... 75@1 00
Asafoetida, Powd.
Bure ........ @ 7
U. S. PB. Poga. @1 00
Camphor .;...... 55@ 60
Guaiae .. 5.0. ... 35@ 40
Guaiac, Powdered 50@ 60
Kino ....... oe aaes @ 40
Kino, Powdered .. @ 45
Myrrh ............ @ 40
Myrrh, Powered - @ 50
Opium ......... 6 80@7 00
Opium, Powd. .. 8 75@8 95
Opium, Gran. .. 8 90@9 10
Shellac .... ... 28@ 35
Shellac, Bleached 380@ 38
Tragacanth No. 11 40@1 50
Tragacanth, Pow 75@ 85
Turpentine ...... 10@ 15
Leaves
Buchu .......... 1 85@
Buchu, Powd. .. 2 00@2 25
Sage, ie. 18@ 2
Sage, %s Loose. 20@ 25
Sage, Powdered.. 25@ 30
Senna, Alex ...... 45@ 50
Senna, Tinn. .... 15@ 20
Senna, Tinn, Pow. 20@ 25
Uva Ursi <........ 10@ 15
Oils
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diene Bitter,
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Amber, crude ... 25@ 30
Amber, rectified . 40@ 50
Anise .......... 2 25@2 50
Bergamont ..... 4 50@8 00
Cajeput ....... 75@ 85
Cassia 1 50@1 75
Castor, bbls. ‘and
cans ...... 12%@ 15
Cedar Leaf ...... mS 85
Citronella ....... 60
Cloves ....-..... 1 5001 75
Cocoanut ....... ao 25
Cod Liver ...... 1 25@1 50
Cotton Seed ..... 90@1 10
@roton .....-.--,. @1
Cubebs ..... ae ale @4 50
Brigeron ........ @2 50
Eucalyptus ..... 75@ 85
Hemlock, pure .. @1 00
Juniper Berries .. @1 25
Juniper Wood .. eo 50
Lard, extra ..... 5@1 00
Lard, No. 1 .... 15@ 90
Lavender Flowers Le 50
Lavender, Garden 85@1 00
Eemon'....... 5 50@6 00
Linseed, boiled, “pol @ 49
Linseed, bid less ..b38@ 58
Linseed, raw, bbls. @ 48
Linseed, raw wey 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, aaes
Ste cee 1 60@1 75
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Olive. Thies.
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 ......... 90@1 00
Tansy ..... 5 00@5 50
Tar, “usp 30@ 40
Turpentine, bbls. @ br
Turpentine, less 55@_ 60
Wintergreen, true @5 00
Wintergreen, sweet
birch .....; 2 00@2 25
Wintergreen, art’l 50@_ 60
Wormseed ...... 3 50@4 00
Wormwood 6
Potassium
Bicarbonate .... 15@ 18
Bichromate .... 13@ 16
Bromide ........
Carbonate ..... 12@ 15
Chlorate, xtal and
powdered ... 12@ 16
Chlorate, aa 16@ 20
Cyanide ....... ‘ 30@ 40
Nodide ........... 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 ...... 13o 16
Licorice, powd. 12
Orris, powdered 25@ 30
Poke, powdered 20@ 25
Rhubarb ...... 75@1 00
Rhubarb, powd. 75@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. 25@ 30
Seeds
Anise .......... 5 20
Anise, powdered 22@ 25
Bird. is ......... 8@ 10
Canary ........... 9@ 12
Caraway ........ 12@ 18
Cardamon ..... 1 75@2 00
Celery .......:.. 380@ 35
Coniander ....... 12@ 18
TOU esc eee: 25@ 30
Fonack Meectt cece @ 30
Hiax 2....... <: 4@ 8
Flax, ground .... 4@ 8
Foenugreek, pow. 6@ 10
Hemp. .....5..... 5@ «
Hhobelia .......... @ 50
Mustard, yellow 9@ 12
Mustard, black 9@ 12
Mustard, powd. 20@ 25
FPOppY ......:..- 15@ 20
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Loewe. 6@ 10
Sabaatita 253@ 30
Sabadilla, powd. 35@ 45
Sunflower ...... 6 8
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Aconite ....... as @ 175
Aloes <....:....... @ 65
Arnica .......... 60
Asafoetida ...... @1 00
Belladonna ...... @ 60
Benzo ........- @ 90
Benzoin Compound @_ 90
Buehu .........- @1 00
Cantharadies .. .° 1 00
Capsicum ....... 90
Cardamon ......~ 95
Cardamon, Comp. 65
Catechu ...... sae 60
Cinchona ........ 1 06
Colchicum . 5 60
Cubebs . ..c.s-s 1 20
Digitalis ........; @ 60
Gentian ......... @ 60
Gmger ......0... g 95
Guaiae ......... 1 05
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Todine .....-....-- @1 25
Iodine, Colorless @1 25
Tpecae ........... @ 7
Irom, ¢1O: ........ @ 60
KINO, 2... 2.2... @ 80
MVEER ...05.....6 gt 05
Nux Vomica .... 70
Opmm ........... - 00
Opium Camph. .. 65
Opium, Deodorz’d s 25
Rnubard ........2 70
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Lead, white dry 7
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Red Venetian bbl.
Red Venet’n, less 3
Shaker, Prepared 1 40@1 50
Ver million, Eng. 90@1 00
Vermillion, Amer. 15@ 20
Whiting, bbl. ecoe 1@ 136
Whiting ..00.....2. 2@ 5
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ATSEMIG ........-. 10
Blue Vitrol, bbl. 6%
Blue Vitrol less ‘@
Bordeaux Mix Pst 8@ 15
Hellebore, White
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Insect Powder .. 20@ 35
Lead Arsenate .. 8@ 16
Lime & Sulphur
Solution, gal. 15@ 25
Paris Green ... 15%@: 20
Miscellaneous
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UW cc. 3@ 5
Alum, powdered and
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Bismuth, Subni-
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Borax xtal or
powdered ... 6@ 12
Cantharadies po. 2 00@2 25
Calomel ........ 20@1 30
Capsicum ....:.. 20@ 25
Carmine ........ @3 50
Cassia Buds .... @ 40
Cloves ......... 30@ 35
Chalk Prepared .. 6@ 8%
Chalk Precipitated 7@ 10
Chloroform ..... 388@ 48
Chloral Hydrate : oe. 15
Cocaine ........ 20@4 50
Cocoa Butter .... 50 60
Corks, list. less as
Copperas, bbls.
Copperas, less ... “2@ 3
Copperas, Powd. 4@
Corrosive Sublm. 1 05@1 10
Cream Tartar ... 30@ 35
Cuttlebone. ...... — 3of
Dextrine ........ 7@ 10
Dover's Powder 2 00@2 25
Emery, all Nos. 6@ 10
Emery, powdered 5@ §&
Epsom Salts, bbls @ 1%
Epsom Salts, less 2%@ 05
Brezot .......... 1 50@1 7
Ikxrgot, powdered 1 80@2 00
rlake White ..... 124 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 2@ 5
Giue, brown .... 11@ 16
Glue, brown grd 10@ 15
Glue, white ..... 15@ 25
Glue, white grd 15@ 20
Glycerine ...... 23%@ 30
HiGpS ...:........ v0@ 80
Indigo _......... 85@1 00
Todine | ........... 4 35@4 60
Todoform ........ 5 40@5 60
l.ead Acetate .... 12@ 18
Lycopdium © oeaee ae 65
MaGe 2.5 0.5...... 0@ 90
Mace, aca 90@1 00
Menthol ....... 50@6 00
Mereury ........;- 75 5
Morphine, all brd 4 55@4 80
Nux Vomica .... @ 10
Nux Vomica pow 15
Pepper, black pow 20@25
Pepper, white .. 30@ 35
Pitch, Burgundy 10@ 15
Quassia ....:.... 0@ 15
Quinine, all brds ..25@36%
Rochelle Salts ... 23@ 30
Saccharine ..... 1 50@1 75
Salt Peter ...... T%@ z
Seidlitz Mixture .. 20@ 2%
Soap, green 15 20
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Soap, white castile
less, per bar 68
Soda Ash .... 1% 6
Soda Bicarbonate 1% 5
Soda. Sal ........ 1 4
Spirits Camphor <:
Sulphur roll .... 2%
Sulphur Subl. - 2%
Tamarinds ...... 0
Tartar Emetic .. 40
Turpentine Venice 40
Vanilla Ext. pure 1 00
Witch Hazel .... 65
Zine Sulphate ... 7
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during November an assortment that will be entirely satisfactory.
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ee us : =". s Deod Machine La @l1 a : bnracuis a 4 pryeneay 1 ole Spiced Ginger ae vo da
ce ee Black 90 Te clei gd f @l aoe naeewe . preieceny co Ib co oe cu 3
Bas! a berries 1502 85 oe ene - Gaui an ae oo, oe - on Sugar a - Giles 9
saline 50@ Engine s+ og O18 oe ‘as . Bee shell a. oe aS +
is QO 8 aes 84% Dey ea Biers 0000000" Sultana HIM 2 a
00 Snider’ CATSU 22 reny aati Milberts +0... um Oe ern i
8 er’s TS 8 ir Gunton , 2 raterite bees Vani ph Bisco
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pints eee 2 35 eee oe Table nut ee agecitad saad ne 16
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pie ii wth . Pecans, ¢ neaium . ae
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MICHIGA
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Graham Crack 8 29
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LUmbel le size ...... sag, “RAMORING EXTRACTS HI 9 10
Coe eee euee 50 Jennings D C Brand DES AND PELTS | 1
oe eos 0 2 Extract Lemon G Hides Pus fa Lard oe
Royal Toast ce to ae i 2 Wee a Geto, _ aaa 12 Compound os on ieee ao Yo oe
aratoga oe Na x, per doz. 90 Cured. No. eects ge Ee 80 tb. tubs 9% Mess. Be 5.34. ke OG ung Hyson
Socal Pea Bisculé 150 W F box, per doz. 175 C 1 NO. 1 ..,..--- 134% 60 Ib tub -+.. advance \&% ess, 40 Ibs. .. oi Cisies
Ss. scuit .. 1 00 0. 3 Taper, per d ured, No. 2 ne ibs ....advanee 1} Mees, 10 Iba. ........ 2 ee ee 30
oe ee Doz. Flat FM per az, 19 Calfskin, green, No. i 15” oe oes Mess, | 8 Ibs. 0.1... 1 90 IP ssessenennsers 40@50
i oe a Pit oo... 50 Jeaninas & © Be oS car crcen Wa § ay 10% pails ....advance % Wo. 3. 400 ts, .-..- 1 60 Oolin
ae Wafer 1 00 ~—- Extract Mexican =. a cured, No. 116 5 tb. pete ....advance % ine 1, 40 Ibs. a = Formosa, Fa 7
ae Thin Biscuit .. 1 100 No. 2 r o per doz. 90 a pele No. 21416 8 Ib pails “tease i igh ae 1 80 Formosa, Medium ee
u Zu Ginger Snaps .. ox, per doz. 125 O elts s a Whitefish ormosa, Choic :
Zwieback pe... 80 No. 4 F Box, per do 1d Wool .... 60@ H moked Meats 100 Ibs. . ’ eo. 35
gen ne ing No 8 Sener oe tale @1 25 ams, 12 tb. av. 19 ee ee 9 75 :
“ip Gee ecvees on. ea doz. 200 Shearlings ....: 50@ 75 Hams, 12 fb. av. eee, eo «ss G 26 English Breakfast
i eee ge Goods per dz. 2 00 . 5O@ 75 Hams, 16 fp. av. 17 21914 < ihe eee es- se 112 Medium
One go 1c) BO FLOUR AND FEED No. 1 Tallow Hams, 18 tb. av. way sek ee cases 7 Oe cca 25
Butter Se cae 259 Grand ae Grain & ee ere . @ 5 ee dried beef Bee 4G Wee occu, 30@ 35
ne ackers wee ee 4 ona ae 29 @30 1 ie rl
ge «os 2 50 Wi Wool alifornia Ham u%, Site eeene 15
ee awe Purity a F yee med... @18 oe Boiled s 10%@11 HB. eae c eee rece 65 Ceylon a
waamily Package ... 2 50 Seal of fo oe oe fine... @18 Boiled Hams .. 19%@20 Ant SEEDS wa Gee
ee. Sunburst Te RSE RA D mie | ORIG as Lo... eS
In Special Tin Packages Wizard Flour ...--- | Per doz. ........ me 90 Plot Ham .. oie Canary, Smyrna eo 14 TO
Festino per doz. ae — 2 80 oa Jelly - (Pa deee ee 17 @25 Caraway ee if BACCO
Se 2 50 izar ran. Meal 4 4 pails, per Sau omom, Malabar | ise
Nabisco, “ibe ee 2 50 ae Buckwheat .. 6 00 sate nee per doz, <4 a eae ee i cotecscttes wi : 20 Biat eee " 145
Pa log AVG acccers ceca s 44 . pails, per ue DIVER os osc we a etn ’ ussian pee ugle, 1 hg al lta ay
Nabisco In bulk, per tin Valley Cit : 0 a pail wes £20 Frankfort ° aint Mixea Bid... 5 Bugle —" eee eeceese 3 84
ee ee olla ee ile por dae Menatort ...:. We@is «Mustard, white --.... 5 Dan Patch, 8 and 16° we
ee. Gili tcp Mee Wile .--..----- 510 % pt. in bb ee ha tte WOE ceo ncn cena: ee Dan Pater and 16 oz. 32
ater Crackers 1 40 Light Loaf ..... aa 684 ae ote Telimue .........0- 11 Rape 0.2 9 Han Paton Oz. .... Ti 62
CRE Gphew ia z. capped in bbls. oo. a hhh. 5% F atch, 2 oz. .... 5 76
Parrels a ee Granena oa 2 cH per doz ...-.....-... 18 CCSE .....-005- 10 : SHOE BLACKING tiagathas ie om. .... 7 80
Boxes a aq Gran. Meal ...... 2 MACARONI. Bee Handy Box, la Hi: (oe es 60
ONCE aan ecesets ee 1 wees oe fn nce mcm Gols Ee aa ta a, 5 40
Fancy Caddies ........ . Voigt Milling C ae a ie cane i 70 mp, new ..24 06@24 50 aes Reel Sia * ae Ne Lintt, so OF. «00 3
DRIED FRUITS — Graham ae 5 4 30 Vermicelli pr lies 170 % bbis Pig’s Feet r’s Crown Polish 85 Ho Lint, Oe ; =
cia Apples i a Crescent, ce 3 i0 Curve € Cuts, 24 aa gs 1 70 % bbls. a 1 05 i WM yeoely lines, i 16 oz. 40
: eG, & ee bulk OSS Sees fe 10. ya eee esas os A , Ole es _.. 7 ee a Strats ees 1
Evapor’ed, Fancy pe. 3 vole 2 ae L430 Alphabets, 24 10c pkgs. : iw... eo 25 oe ie Jars ..... : 3 Gna Oni sa cea.s i 33
Apricots Gicanian AL ccc neces 5 50 K ir uts, 20 tb. pails 1 eh 50 7 pple in jars : 4: Pet Neko jief, 7 OZ. 2 00
eae url 35 Tri + 43 oskey Chief, 1:
California ae wei Cale Ue te 5 80 Kurl oe - = cc 1 37 a me... a he SODA See and Haney on. 4 00
ron Wats ay Ege Noodi . Baia 1% Det. 40 te... ROxeS 6.60.68. ted Bell, 16 oz. . ‘
“ye Corsican ././........- 15 Watson-Higgins Milling Co. oo 24 10c aM toe 6 fe. ........ : - Kegs, English ........ rt, a cane” S08... : a
Currants Tip Top Flour esee co Macaroni, 10 Tb. Casin encase © Oe 4 S er ing, IL & D a 5
i tones gy, Golden Sheat el a Co. 4 Ue ver @ ovale 95 es ee a i8
mported, bulk ..... 8% Marshall's Best Flour 4 65 Bulle 8p: ‘Spaghetti, “10 th. S ee ee. Set “""ig@90. Allspi Ye Spices aco Cue ae 5 76
Peaches Worden Grocer Co. _—«-:-HMotel Hook, fiire bx euene ee dles, set .. Oaen Z SDICes amaica .. 9@ Sucet Cuba C eceeee 5
ees oe Orth 8 Wizard Se aes Co. a Hotel Hook, fibre bxs. 1 00 Sheep, per bundle cm . = a lg Garden "oh awest ee 1 1b. ‘tin 4 50
a eG 251d. ..10 Quaker, paper .....-- 4 90 MAPLEINE . _Uncolored Butteri Cassia. Zanzibar .. @22 Sweet Burle fe. bg foil 2 25
ancy. Peeled, 26h. ..18 Quaker, cloth oo ee 2 oz. bottles, per doz. 3 00 aw Dairy 1 ne oo cou ... 14@15 Sweet Burley. 5e L&D 5 76
L Peel Quaker Buckwheat bbl. 5 50 1 oz. bottles, per doz. 1 75 ountry Rolls ...12%@18 Ginger, Tne dz. @25 Sweet Burley, ts - [fo
Feo American ....12% Kansas Hard Wheat MINCE MEAT Cc Canned Meats finger, oan 2. @ 91% Sweet id i wa -- 490
range, American ....12% Worden Grocer Co Per ease 1.01... 0 2 85 eae Ler 2 tb. 4 65 wc. Penang. sees @l4% oer Mist, 8 oz. .. 5 79
Rai americ ‘i oe ect i ‘ Mixed, N ool. @70 Sweet Mist, eee 10
cnet Umass even Bate, 8 24 MOLASSES Gemet meet fee @ Mined Ne 8 Biv” Telegram, be veel. 8
ace e S : Be as c + tees E oe INO. 2 seeaee 18 oo ce 7
Loose ascatels, Ss ay ee eee 4 ee Bemey S oo Potted oo wees 40 ee pkes. dz. ois Peas a tiseanayiess 6 00
4 uscatels, Sprin : n ettle ... ‘ F 3 y 6 oe , tate F CanS ....4. 2 35
ogee Maicd 1 ibe 8i4@8% he ee * 33 Potted Meat Ean” “hee 25 Gnele tae ae 7s 60
90- ome Prunes Golden Horn, family 4 65 Weir cues. s 5 Seas ee 2 DH Flavor, 4s sg 9 Pepper, Be Sips setae @15 » 1 oz. .. b 22
) 0 251». boxes ..@ 6Y, Golden Horn, bakers a AE rrr ope 20 eviled Meat, Ham it Pee Caves @25 o
at 00 Gee Bose @ $4 Wisconsin Rye 3 35 Red Hen, a a. extra tae Ys 50 Pakrika, ie aaarial @22 , lug
(07 80) corp, DORKS ae R «- 1 75 viled Meat, Ham rian Am. Navy, 16 0:
onl 10 251b. boxes = Judson Grocer Co. Red eet a 5 eee. 1 75 Flavor, A aici . Pure Ground in B Apple, oat eee sce 22
40- 60 25tb. boxes ..@10 Ceresota, 148 ... 5 40 [Me 101... 265 Botted Zonaue ie 95 Allspice, Jamaica um Drummond Nat. Leaf, 2 *
- 50 25tb. boxes ...@11 Oe oe ae MUSTARD Potted Tongue, %s | - a Zanzibar .. @ a I and 5 Ib. psa aes . 60
FARINACEOUS GOODS eresota, 6S .---+++- 5 50 4 Ib. 6 Ib. box .... 16 Fane nee oo Se a Leat
rT y ee Ca : ' seas .
Californi pees = oo Grocer Co. a OLIVES Japan a aa Wace, Guanes oe @ii Battle a 96
‘alifornia Lima ..... 3, Vingold, %s clot ulk, al. Brok eae psy Nutmege.....-...- Ge racer, 6 and 12 Ib. .. ;
Michigan Lima 230 6% Wingold, 14s cloth -..5 69 Hulk, 2 gal Rees 9501 16 re 3% 4k Repper, Black “1... @$3 Big Four, Sand 18 tb. 32
Med. Hand Picked 2 25 Wingold, %s cloth 5 30 Bulk, 5 gal. kegs aa 10 : ROLLED OATS Pepper, White tees @19 Boot Jack, 2 1b .
Brown Holland ...... 163 Wincold, is ee dee Ge ce cat. 100 te. coke. @ de Revper, Cayenne, -. on. ates 10 oa an. Ge
Gaines Wingold, %48 paper aoe Mped, © Ga oo... cca i. 4 el Cut, 100 tb. sks. 2 65 prika, Hungarian @45 sullion, 16 oz. .. ee
25 1 ‘Tb packa Bakers’ Patent tuffed, 14 oz. .------. 25 Monarch, bbls S. 2 65 @t9 Climax, Gold access 46
BeOS... ee ca ee 5 15 P a ctie ccc a 2 25 Mo mC. DOES. se ceee 5 2: STA chine zolden Twins 48
Bulk, per 100 lbs. Ww itted (not stuffed) a narch, 90 Ib, sks. ..2 ps RCH Climax 14% 02
c- . Original Holl . -4 00 Sl ykes & Co. 14 64 Quaker, 18 Regular see 50 Corn Climax, 7 Oz. an deeeese 44
°, Packed Soa eee Seen Te. Ms eloth 5 40 Manzanilia, 8 Seas a _ Quaker, 20 Family 7 aa ienaare 40 Ibs. 1, pied Work, 7 & 14 Ib. :
containers (40) rolia 320 SIcePY Eye, %s cloth 5 50 bak is Ss t2 ce. —— pkgs. ..5%4 Soe Cale Menthe, Ib 3
P Hominy S eepy Eye, %sS paper 5 20 Queen, a coeeece« 2 35 Columbi ; we De. oc. 5ee 2 95 Silv Kingsford 5 Bros. 4 Ib Ones .... 2
earl, 100 Ib. sack oop Sleepy Eve, %s paper 5 20 e | moth, 19 : Barkeea. sun ac, 409 at Ce oe: iM hee eB
Oe aciatcarn Queen ae 25 Durkee’s, s1 om 450 , 40 llb. pkgs. .. 5. anita 90
Domestic, 10 Ib. t Meal , Mammoth, 28 irkee’s, small, 2 do : cee ndge, 2 Ib. ..... 50
Tpclied) a6 & box DMO aan Ole One i es vay Snider's, large, 1 doz. 5 25 Silver Gloss, 16 3lt Gold Rope, 6 & 12 Ib. 5
pean ell 2950 Golden Granulated .. 4 40 olive chow, 2 doz. a 75 Snider's small, 2 an 1 33 Silver Gloas. 3 ftbs, i oa GO er. 1%, 8 Ib. 38
Chester ee 2 25 SALERATUS . ee ae 4 Gr: ange o 2&4... &
ee : T D
ee ooo 30 pti Pies ii A ag ake 48 Ub. packages ...... 5 6 70, aba Tb. 38
eg ece tee. 90 ediu : mmer .. >. packages ae orse
eo woe Oats Barrels, 1,200 oa ae Wyandotte, 100 %s ao 12 6lb. vackiace 75 Pe & Oat Feed 33 6. au ; ances ee 20 Red Karo, 7. : “ Picnic Twist, § Ib Ib. 40
ack Ph ee 23. B 5 _ Warsaw aro. sree 21 iper Heidsick, 4 & 71
‘. ao TACKLE Coarse corn meal ..... Be ee ese eeeeee 18 50 a Ly os - - bags 40 io Karo, tg 2% =< 2 = AL ag Heldsiek, co B Pg 69
Me cee tee se OS ees ee iz + Ge n dril e car % tee olo, ; , .
a 7 PRUEY Jane 5 gallon kegs ...... 380 56 Solar Rock gg eine ag fatiet, 1h Ges.
> fie to FO. bo --- nce 1 Mas pe, bee ee 6 PIPES 56 Ib. sacks ....... Fai ure Cane Scrapple OR as 449 38
. 1% to 2 oaa. Mason t : 55 Clay, No. 21 Cus. 25 WE eee ccace , 2 & 4 doz. 4
oO in fe. 11 M » qts., per gro. 4 95 Cl ’ . 216, per box 1 75 Gra ommon Gadd <. 56 Sherry Cobbler, 8 oe 8
9 in oo 15 ason, % gal. per gro. 7 30 ay, T. D. full count 6 anulated, Fine .. ee OPO cela 20 Spear Head » 8 oz... 32
oe _ oS gro.. 1 65 COD ....--seeee 90 Medium, Fine ...-.... 1 10 Pe ee eee 25 Spear Head, 4 a a
Semele ee oe 4 ’ . t ses 4 oe SALT oa. ¢ oz. 44
eo Bes cr oie Ne © eee. a6 E ag TABLE SAUCES Spear Head, 7 og, 345
ge er fee ee Cox's, 1 doz. .large 4 45 No. 15, Rival as oat .. 75 ance whole .. @ 9 eo large ..... 37 Star, 6, 12 2 and 28 Ib. 30
No. 3, 15 pay ee A bean small ... 90 ~~ 20, Rover, ea. i 50 ete ée ape . @ 8% alford, small ........ 2 ie Standard avy. tie. 15 "
co 6 i feet 1. Bmore Sparkling, doz. 1 25 jo. 572, Special -150 Boilock ricks . 9@13 TE CL Lerner
ea cnox's Sparkling, gr. Bes BAN, So ors 1 75 MU cccicues A wee ema ar ete i
> a i at i eee ae ‘ 28 es 808, oe . : be Strips Halibut o* . Japan Town “raik, - e Ib. 35
No. 7, 16 feet ee ae ames 1g) No. 682 ‘Tourn't ee te | CNMRR 3-560 24.--..: a ae Ter er Yankee Girl, 12° 24 30
lg Bee le 18 Plymouth Rock, Phos. 19 POTAS Holland Herring Sundried, ice ...380@33
No. 9, 15 feet ...... 20 Plymouth Rock. pales 1 a Babbitt’s, 2 a cu a bg = hoop see 12 oC ee ee i eee Scrap
Linen Lines GRAI PROVISIONS 7 heap ig ba. 6 be | Roaket Sree. choice & 56 «6All Red, Se .... .
Small N BAGS B ¥. . wh. hoop kegs 15 Basket-fired, f @37 Am. tiniun Ga 5 76
ge Se 20 Broad Gauge .... ; (tear Sree Pork Poss wh. hoop Milchers a. ; fancy 40@43 Bag Pipe, 5c crap .... 5 40
Po 26 Riddehcae ©... ....... 8 Sh ck ....21 00@21 50 standard, bbls. .-.. Gttuee 30@32 Cutlas, me te st tsseees 5 88
Bee a ee EM atcecapeatas re Naa 1 oe ort Cut Clear 18 50@19 a einaard. a = hae ola ee cle 10@12 Globe ‘sae on. aie ceeas 26
B Poles Sa Herbs Brisket, cesta. 17 00@17 50 een tl! Gunnowder 14@15 Happy Tho. 2 0%. .... 30
amboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55 Seee sucoee Cee 15 Clear 24 00@24 50 Standard, kegs ..... 62 Gunpowder Honey Co a 2 oz. 30
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 6 a. 0 Cie Pees ......, 23 0 Trout : Moyune, medit . Hou mb Serap, Se 5 7
Bamb 0 Laurel L soe 0 Gisat Fa mil oc N M A .... 3 est Scra 76
| mboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80 Senna pray eal 15 Mmily Joc... 26 00 Ph 4, 100, The. eoecen. © OO ig choice . 33 Men aa 2 “tes 1 55
ee oo B. seeese e, fa any 5 .
"8 og Pp Bellles ns ide No. 1, 10 Ibs. .... +2 les, medi <1 3 Old ‘Times ie fois © 5 te
...144%@15 No. 1, 2 Ibs. ......- oo 2 oe To fear eet a te
ngsuey, fancy "" "s9@ee Eee Band, ’ en if = 5 76
an 5 76
Scrap 5c .. 1 42
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
November 5, 1913
SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT
12
Scrapple, 5c pkgs. ..... 48
Sure Shot, 5c 1-6 gro. 5
Yankee Girl Scrap, 20z. 5
Pan Handle Scrp ‘sr. F 76
6
Peachy Scrap, 6c .. 76
Union Workman 2% 00
Smoking
All Leaf, 24% & 7 oz. 30
SS 846 OE. ....-.5--- 6 00
mE 7 oz. .........-.. 12 00
Bagdad, 10c tins -- 11 52
Badger, 3 OZ. ........ 5 04
Badger, 7 OZ. ....... 11 52
Manner, BC .-.+..s--- 5 76
Banner, 20c .......... 1 60
Manner, 40c ......-.. 20
40c 3
Belwood, Mixture, 10c 94
Big Chief, 2% oz. .. 6 00
Big Chief, 16 oz. .... 30
Bull Durham, 5c ..... 5 85
Bull Durham, 10c ... d
Bull Durham, 15c ... 17 28
Bull Durham, 8 oz. .. 3 60
Bull Durham, 16 oz. .. 6 72
Buck Horn, 5c ...... 5 76
Buck Horn, 10c ...... 11 52
Briar Pipe, bc ...... 6 00
Briar Pipe, 10c ..... 12 00
Black Swan, 5c ...... 5 76
Black Swan, 14 oz. .. 3 50
Bob White, 5c ...... 6 00
Brotherhood, 5c ...... 6 00
Brotherhood, 10c .... 11 10
Brotherhood, 16 oz. .. 5 05
Carnival, 5¢ .........- 5 70
Carnival, % oz.
Carnival, 16 oz.
Cigar Clip’g. Johnson 30
Cigar Clip’g. Seymour 30
Identity, 3 & 16 oz. .. 30
Darby Cigar Cuttings 4 50
Continental Cubes, 10c_ 90
Corn Cake, 14 oz. .... 2 5d
Corn Cake, 7 oz. .... 1 45
Corn Cake, 5c ........ 5 76
Cream, 50c pails .... 4 70
Cuban Star, 5c foil .. 5 76
Cuban Star, 16 oz pa 5 ie
ning, te ....:.....- 0 30
Dills Best, 1% OZ. ....- 79
Dills Best, 3% oz. .... Ti
Dills Best, 16 oz. .... 73
Dixie Kid, 5c ...... 48
Duke's Mix., 5c ...:.. 5 76
Duke’s Mix, 10c .... 11 52
Duke’s Cameo, 5c 5 76
orm, bf .....-.-+---- 5 76
wm oF A 4 oz. .....-.. 5 04
we A 7 OZ. ...-e. a1 52
Peepion oC .....-...- 6 09
Fashion, 16 oz. 5 28
Five Bros., 5c 5 76
Five Bros., 10c ...... 10 53
Five a. cut Plug.. 29
m9 6 i0e .........- 11 52
Four ae: IOe i -. 96
Full Dress, 133 oz. .. 72
Gilad Hand, Sc ...... 48
Gold Block, 10c ..... 12 090
Gold Star, 50c pail .. 4 70
Gail & Ax Navy, 5c 5 76
isrowier, be .........- 42
Growier, 10c ......... 94
Growler, 20c ........ 1 8
amt, pe |... 6..... 5 76
Mian, (0c ...--....--- 3 96
Hand Made, 2% oz. .. 50
Taevel Nit, Se ........ 5 76
Honey Dew, 10c .... 12 00
oss Be eee. 3
BC coe e ee. 6 10
i x i, in pails ...... 3 90
suet Suits, oc .....-.. 6 00
Just Suits, AOC ...... 12 00
Kiln Dried, 25c ...... 2 45
Hine Bird, 7 OZ. ......
King Bird, 10c ..
King Bird, 5c ..
La Turka, 5c
Little Giant, 1 lb. .... 28
Lucky Strike, 10c .... 96
Le Redo, 3 oz . 10 80
Le Redo, 8 & 16 oz. 3
Myrtle Navy, 10c .... 11 52
Myrtle Navy, ic ...... 5 76
Maryland Club, 5c ... 50
Mayflower, 5c ........ 5 76
Mayflower, 10c ....... 96
Mayflower, 20c ....... 1 92
Nigger Hair, ic ...... 6 00
Nigger Hair, 10c .... 10 79
Nigger Head, 5c .... 5 40
Nigger Head, 10c .... 10 56
Noon Hour, 5c ....... 48
Old Colony, 1-12 ero. 11 62
O06 Mil, Se 4... ...... 5 76
Old English Curve 1%oz. 96
Ola Crop bc .......... 5 76
Olid Crop, 25c ........ 20
P. &S., 8 oz. 30 Ib. cs. 19
Pe. 8., 3 ov., per ero. 5 70
Pat Band, 1 oz. ...... 3
Patterson Seal, 1% oz. 48
Patterson Seal, 3 oz. .. 96
Patterson Seal, 16 oz. 5 00
Peerens, SC ....-...-. 5 76
Peerless, 10c cloth .. 11 52
Peerless, 10c paper ..10 80
Peerless, 20c ........ 2 04
Peerless, 40c ......... 4 O08
Plaza, 2 gro. cs. eis
Plow Poy, 6c ........ 5 76
Plow Boy, 10c ...... 11 40
Plow Boy, if oz. ...... a 70
Pedro, 10c .........- i 93
Pride of Virginia, ix 77
Pilot, Gc .....--..--:s- 5 76
13
Pilot, 7 oz. doz. 1 05
Pilot, 14 oz. doz. > 10
Prince Albert, 5c .... 48
Prince Albert, 10c .... 96
Prince Albert, 8 oz. .. 3 84
Prince Albert, 16 oz. .. 7 44
Queen Quality, 5c . 48
Rob Roy, 5c foil .. 5 76
Rob Roy, 10c gross ..10 52
Rob Roy, 25c doz. .... 2 10
Rob Roy, 50c doz. .... 4 10
S. & M., 5c gross .... 5 76
S. & M., 14 oz., doz. .. 3 20
Soldier Boy, 5c gross 5 76
Soldier Boy, 10c .... 10 50
Soldier Boy, 1 tT. .... 4 75
Sweet Caporal, 1 oz. .. 60
Sweet Lotus, 5c ...... 6 00
Sweet Lotus, 10c .... 12 00
Sweet Lotus, per dz. 4 35
Sweet Rose, 2% oz. .. 30
Sweet Tip Top, 5c .. 50
Sweet Tip Top, 10c ..
Sweet Tips, 4 gro. .. 1
Sun Cured, 10c .......
Summer Time, 5c ....
Summer Time, 7 oz. ..
Summer Time, 14 oz.
Standard, 5c foil .
Standard, 10c paper ..
Seal N. C., 1% cut plug 70
Seal N. C. 1% Gran. 63
Three Feathers, 1 0z. 48
Three Feathers, 10c_ 11 52
Three Feathers and
coclw eo OR
a ery
oO
Pipe combination .. 2 25
Tom & Jerry, 14 0z. .. 3 60
Tam & Jerry, ( 02. .. 1 80
Tom & Jerry, 3 0Z. .... 76
Trout Line, Se 5 90
Trout Line, i0c .....- 11 00
Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 76
Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags — 38
Tuxedo, 2 oz. tins .. 96
Tuxeco, 20C «...-.----- 1 90
Tuxedo, 80c tins 7 45
Tin Oaks, 10c ....-- 96
Union Leader, 50c co. 3 10
Union Leader, 25c gz 60
Union Leader, 10c 5. da be
Union Leader, 5c ..... 6 00
Union Workman, 1% 5 76
Uncle Sam, 10c ..... 10 &¢
Uncle Sam, 8 02z. 2 25
T. S. Marine, sc .... 5 fo
Van Bibber, 2 oz. tin 88
Velvet, 5c pouch .... 48
Velvet, 10c tin ........ 96
Velvet, 8 oz. tin 3 84
Velvet, 16 oz. can .... 7 68
Velvet, combination cs 5 75
War Path, 5c .....--- 6 00
War Path, 20c .......- 1 60
Wave Line, 3 0Z. .... 40
Wave Line. 16 02. .... 40
Way up, 2% OZ. ....-- 5 75
Way up, 16 oz. pails .. 3
Wild Fruit, 6C ......-- 5 76
Wild Fruit, 10c ..... 11 52
Yum Yum, 5c ...----- 6 00
Wum Yum, We .....- 11 62
Yum Yum, 1 Ib., doz. 4 80
TWINE
(Cotton, 3 ply ...-...- 25
Cotton 4 ply ....---- 25
Jute, 2 ply ..0-++---- 14
emp, 6 ply ..-......- 13
Flax, medium ........ 24
Wool, 1 tb. bales ... 91%
VINEGAR
White Wine, 40 grain 8%
White Wine, 80 grain 11%
White Wine, 100 grain 13
Oakland Vinegar & Pickle
Co’s Brands.
Highland apple cider ..18
Oakland apple cider ..13
State Seal sugar .. 11
Oakland white pickling 10
Packages free.
WICKING
No. 0, per gross ...... 30
No. 1, per gross .... 40
No. 2, per gross .... 50
No. 3, per gross .... 75
WOODENWARE
Baskets
Bushes .......-.--... 1 00
Bushels, wide band .. 1 15
Miarket ......4;+-2.-.- 40
Splint, laree .....-.. 3 50
Splint, medium ...... 3 00
Splint, small .......... 2 15
Willow, Clothes, large 8 25
Willow, Clothes, small 6 75
Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 5(
Butter Pates
Ovals
Y% Yb., 250 in crate .... 35
% 1b., 250 in crate .... 35
i 1., 250 in erate ..... 40
2 tb., 200 in crate ..... 50
3 ID., 2b0 in Crafe ....., 70
5 id., 250 in crate ..... 90
Wire End
1 I®., 250 in crate .. ..35
2 ib:, 290 in crate .... 45
3 ib., 250 in erate .... 55
5 ib., 250 im erate .... 65
Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 40
3arrel 10 gal., each ..2 55
Clothes Pins
Round Head
14
4% inch, 5 gross ...... 65
Cartons, 20 2% doz. bxs 70
Egg Crates and Fillers
Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20
No. 1 complete ........ 40
Wo. 2, complete ........ 28
Case No. 2, fillers, 15
SOtS) 26 6s.
Case, medium, 12 sets 1 15
Faucets
Cork lined, 3 in. ...... 70
Cork lined, 9 in. ...... 80
Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring ....-... 90
Eclipse patent spring 85
No. 1 common ........ 80
No. 2 pat. brush holder 85
Ideal No. 7
12lb. cotton mop heads 1 45
Pails
2-hoop Standard 2 00
2-hoop Standard 2 25
3-wire Cable ........ 2 30
Mire ....:........... 2 40
10 qt. Galvanized .... 1 70
12 qt. Galvanized .... 1 90
14 qt. Galvanized .... 2 10
Toothpicks
Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00
ideal... og ee. 85
Traps
Mouse, wood, 2 holes 22
Mouse, wood, 4 holes 45
Mouse, wood, 6 holes 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65
Rat, wood
Rat spring .........- 75
Tubs
20-in .Standard, No. 1
18-in. Standard, No. 2
16-in. Standard, No. 3
20-in. Cable, No. 1 ..
8
7
6
ao
18-in. Cable, No. 2.... 7 00
16-in. Cable, No. 3 .... 6 00
Wo. 1 Bibre .....-0. 10 25
Mio. 2 Hilere .......... 9 25
No 3 Fibre ........-- 8 25
Large Galvanized 5 75
Medium Galvanized .. 5 00
Small Galvanized .... 4 25
Washboards
3anner Globe ........ 2 50
brass, Single ......- 3 25
Glass. Single .....-. 3 25
Single Acme ......... 3 15
Double Peerless ...... B iD
Single Peerless ...... 3 25
Northern Queen 3 25
Double Duplex ...... 3 09
Good Emough ....... 3 25
liniyersal | ..0 5.0. ..: 3 15
Window Cleaners
12 im. ........25.2.-.- 1 65
d4 tm 2s. 1 85
26 10. .-:4.-s5---e---- 2 30
Wood Bowls
23 in. Butter |..--..- 1 50
45 in. Botter ....-... 2 0¢
17 in. Butter ........ 3 75
19 im. atter ........ 6 00
Assorted, 13-15-17 .... 3 00
Assorted, 15-17-19 .... 4 25
WRAPPING PAPER
Common Straw ...... 2
Fibre Manila, white .. 3
Fibre Manila, colored 4
Wo. 1 Manila ......... 4
Cream Manila ........ 3
Butchers’ Manila .... 2%
Wax Butter, short e’nt 10
Wax Butter, full count 15
Wax Butter, rolls .... 12
YEAST CAKE
Maric; 3 Gez ....:.. i 15
Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00
Sunlight, 1% doz. .... 50
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. .. 1 15
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 58
AXLE GREASE
1 lb. boxes, per gross 9 00
3 lb. boxes, per gross 24 00
BAKING POWDER
Royal
10¢c sixe .. 90
Y%tb cans 1 35
6 oz. cans 1 90
%Tb. cans 2 50
%tb cans 3 75
ltb cans 4 80
3Ib cans 13 00
5Id cans 21 50
15
16
17
CIGARS
Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand
SS
S. C. W., 1,000 lots .... 31
Hi Pertana ..........5. 33
Hvening Press ........ 32
Exemplar ........... oe oe
Worden Grocer Co. Brands.
Canadian Club.
Londres, 50s, wood .... 35
Londres, 25s, tins .... 35
Londres, lots, 30s ..... 10
Old Master Coffee
Old Master
San Marto aA
Pilot 22:2... eee
TEA
Royal ee %, %
ang 4 1b... 6... 40
ae BOUR co.,
TOLEDO. O.
COFFEE
: Roasted
Dwinnell-Wright Co’s B’ds
White House, 1 tb ........
White House, 21p ........
Excelsior, Blend, 1Ib .....
Excelsior, Blend, 2tb ......
Tip Top, Blend, 1% ......
Royal Blend .:........: Sie
Royal High Grade ........
Superlor Blend ...........
Boston Combination .......
Distributed by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
Lee & Cady, Detroit; Sy-
mons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
naw; Brown, Davis & War-
ner, Jackson; Godsmark,
Durand & Co.,_ Battle
Creek; Fielbach Co., To-
ledo.
Apex Hams ............
Apex Bacon .....-.eee.
Apex Lard ..... coeese
Excelsior Hams ..... sc
Excelsior Bacon .......
Silver Star Lard ......
Silver Star Lard ......
Family Pork ..........
Fat Back Pork .......
Prices quoted upon appli-
cation, Hammond, Standish
& Co., Detroit, Mich.
SAFES
Full line of fire and bur-
glar proof safes kent in
stock by the Tradesman
Company. Thirty-five sizes
and styles on hand at all
times—twice as many safes
as are carried by any other
house in the State. If you
are unable to visit Grand
Rapids and inspect the line
personally, write for quo-
tations.
The only
5c
Cleanser
Guaranteed to
equal the
best 10c kinds
80 - CANS - $2.86
SOAP
Lautz Bros.’ & Co.
Acme, 30 bars, 75 Ibs. 4
Acme, 25 bars, 75 Ibs. 4 00
Acme, 25 bars, 70 tbs. 3 80
Acme, 100 cakes ...... 3
Big Master, 100 blocks 4 00
German Mottled ...... 3 15
German Mottled, 5 bx. 8 15
German Mottled, 10 bx. 3 19
German Mottled, 25 bx. 3 05
Marseilles, 100 cakes ..6 00
Marseilles, 100 cks. 5c 4 00
Marseilles, 100 ck toil 4 00
Marseilles, % box toil 2 10
Proctor & Gamble Co.
Wenox 2. 3.60.0... 3 00
Ivory, 6 OZ. .........., 4 00
ies M0 OZ. foc. e es 6 75
Bee sete cee oe 8 35
Tradesman Co.’s Brand
Black Hawk, one box 2 50
Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25
A. B. Wrisley
Good Cheer ........... 4 00
Old Country .......... 2 40
Soap Powders
Snow Boy, 24s family
SIZE os... 3 75
Snow Boy, 60 5s ...... 2 40
Snow Boy, 100 5¢ .... 3 75
Gold Dust, 24 large .. 4 50
Gold Dust, 100 5c ..... 4 00
Kirkoline, 24 4m. .... 2 80
Pearline 2. 226.2022 - 8 75
HO@DING ..........6 0.4 4 00
Baubitts 1776 ........ 3 75
Roseine ....... ‘ 3 50
ATMOUN'S 2... cccce sc 3 70
Wisdom ....... acs 8 80
Soap Compounds
Johnson's Fine ...... 5 10
Johnson’s XXX ,,.... 4
25
Rub-No-More ........ 8 85
Nine O'clock ......... 8 80
Scouring
Enoch Morgan’s Sons
Sapolio, gross lots ....9 60
Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85
Sapolio, single boxes 2 40
Sapolio, hand ..... A 0
Scourine Manufacturing Co.
Scourine, 50 cakes ....1 80
Scourine, 100 cakes ...3 50
Conservative Investors Patronize
Tradesman Advertisers
Churches
Lodge Halls
We Manufacture
Public Seating
Exclusively
We furnish churches of all denominations, designing and
building to harmonize with the general architectural
scheme—from the most elaborate carved furniture for the cathedral to the
modest seating of a chapel.
Schools The fact that we have furnished a large majority of the city
and district schools throughout the country. speaks volumes
for the merits of our school furniture,
and materials used and moderate prices. win.
We specialize Lodge. Hall and Assembly seating.
Our long experience has given us a knowledge of re-
quirements and how to meet them. Many styles in stock and built to order,
including the more inexpensive portable chairs. veneer assembly chairs, and
luxurious upholstered opera chairs,
Write Dept. Y.
American Seating Com pan
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GRAND RAPIDS
215 Wabash Ave.
NEW YORK BOSTON
Excellence of design, construction
CHICAGO, ILL.
PHILADELPHIA
November 5, 19138
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31
BUSINESS-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.
Entire cost is $25 to sell your farm or
business. Get proposition or list of prop-
erties with owner’s addresses. Pardee
Business Exchange, Traverse City, Mich.
596
For Sale—General merchandise hard-
ware, implements, lot and _ buildings;
about $11,000 cash. Fine location. Es-
tablished 20 years. Seven miles from
Kearney. Address Edward Nolting,
Route 1, Kearney, Clay Co., Mo. 594
Waka Fo Bel a stock of general
merchandise, or furniture, shoes or hard-
ware. stock. TL. in. Short Co;, 701 S.
St. Clair St., Toledo, Ohio. 593 __
New patent. burglar alarm. Agents
make $5 to $10 per day. Sample ‘post -
paid, 38c: C. & Lee Burglar Alarm
Co., 1417 Belleplaine Ave., Chicago, bor
For Sale—One of the best furniture
businesses in the state of California.
Located in the famous Santa Clara Val-
ley. No competition. City of 6,000 pop-
ulation. Part terms. Address Owner,
Box 277, Santa Clara, Cali. 587
For Sale—A bazaar stock in a town
of 800 population on Michigan Central
Railroad. Good farming country. Poor
health reason for selling. Good chance
for a lady with small capital. Address
Lock Box Millington, Mich. 589
“For Sale—In Wallingford, Conn., large
three-story brick building and _ barn.
Store on first floor and tenement above.
Good opportunity for business in growing
town of 15,000 inhabitants. Price low.
For particulars apply to J. M. Harmon,
Meriden, Conn. 588
a $12,000 stock in fine condition;
Liv ery
paying 30 per cent. on investment, first-
class funeral equipment and no competi-
tion in this line; live Kansas town of
20,000; half cash, balance land or income
property. Owner wishes to retire. Box
227, Parsons, Kan. 586
For Sale—One of the best drug stores
in Lapeer county, town of 500 population.
Stock inventories little over $2,500. Can
be bought at a bargain. Party wishes
to engage in other business. Very low
rent. Address H. T. Carver, care Far-
rand, Williams & Clark, Detroit, Mich.
a 585
Manufacturer of ladies’ garments, de-
sires to dispose of business. —___.
Late News From the Celery .City
Kalamazoo, Nov. 4—Owing to the fact that
the lease of the present location of our lodge
rooms has expired and the Modern Woodman,
of whom we have been leasing our hall, have
sold their lodge furniture, Kalamazoo Council
will hold their next regular business meeting.
November 8 in the Maccabee hall, second floor
corner of North Burdick and Eleanor streets.
The Entertainment Committee brothers, C.
C. DeFrance, F. W. Warren, C. W. Sipley, W.
S. Cooke and C. H. Camp, gave the members
the first of the informal evening parties at the
new location in the Maccabee hall last Sat-
urday evening. Quite a large number of the
members turned out and they certainly had a
very delightful time. Mrs. Mondey furnished
the music for dancing and those who did not
eare to dance were furnished cards. The Com-
mittee had a nice lunch, consisting of dough-
nuts, pumpkin pie and cider, spread out in the
dining room and this appeared to have as
much attraction as any one feature of the eve-
ning’s entertainment.
Saturday morning the Secretary received a
visit from W. F. McMichael, the local ticket
agent of the Michigan Central Railroad, who
was the subject of an article in the Tradesman
three weeks ago in the Kalamazoo news. We
were very much pleased to have the chance to
become better acquainted with Mr. McMichael
and he certainly made us feel that he had the
interests of the Michigan Central and the trav-
eling public very much to heart. He does not
desire to make enemies or to have trouble
with anyone and for that reason he called on
the Secretary to explain the circumstances
which were the cause of the misunderstanding.
As soon as he learned of the article in the
Tradesman, he called up the house and called
at the office the first chance he had to find me
in the city. This was very much appreciated
and we feel that Mr. McMichael has’ done more
than his share towards healing a sore spot
which would have grown larger as time passed,
and we are sure that if any differences arise
between the public and Mr. McMichael it will
not be because he has left anything undone
that he could do to make it right.
We have our eyes on Frank Warner, of
Lawrence, who represents the Kalamazoo branch
of the Worden Grocer Co. He is a very desir-
able man for our Council, one who stands high
among the grocers upon whom he calls, and
one who is held in close friendship with very
many of our counselors. He is eligible and we
want him. R. S. Hopkins.
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Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-
tatoes, at Buffalo.
Buffalo, Nov. 5—Creamery buiter,
fresh, 26@32c; dairy, 25@27c; poor to
zood, all kinds, 20@24c.
Cheese — New fancy 154%@16c;
choice 15c; poor to common, 6@10c.
Eggs—Choice, fresh candled, 35@
38c; cold storage, 27c.
Poultry (live)—Turkeys, 20@22c;
cox, 11c; fowls, 12@15c; springs, 12@
16c; ducks, 15@16c.
Beans — Marrow, $3.75; medium
$2.40; pea, $2.25; white kidney, $3.50
@3.75. Red kidney new, $2.50@2.75.
Potatoes—80@85c per bu.
Rea & Witzig.
—_»>+.
Detroit—The Palmer-Paul Co. has
engaged in business to manufacture
and deal in and vend all kinds of sil-
verware, jewelry and other merchan-
dise, with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, which has been subscribed,
$750 paid in in cash and $7,750 in
property.
Extinguishing Fire With Bombs.
Grand Rapids, Nov. 4—I have never
before seen the use of bombs contain-
ing acid to extinguish incipient fires
advocated in any paper and the near-
est approach to it is at the manu-
facturing plant of the H. M. Rey-
nolds Asphalt Shingle Co., where /[
find carefully installed at convenient
intervals a number of large bottles
filled with pyrene chemical, so they
can be thrown into a fire, rather than
use water, which would only scatter
the asphalt product like oil.
I see no reason why bombs filled
with some substance like pyrene,
which is perfectly harmless to the
most delicate fabrics and other mer-
chandise, could not be successfully
used and save much destruction that
is caused by water. It is a fact that
in many fires the greatest destruction
is from water.
I appreciate the interest you take in
the reduction of fire waste in the
country and thank you for calling my
particular attention to this editorial,
although, I am pleased to state, I had
read it before receiving your letter.
Frank G. Row.
—_+ >
Notice and Invitation to Veteran
Travelers.
Port Huron, Nov. 4—On Tuesday,
December 30, afternoon and evening
in the Board of Commerce building,
Lafayette Boulevard, Detroit, there
will he held the fourth annual re-union,
smoker and dinner of the Veteran
Traveling Men’s Association. We in-
vite all travelers who have had fifteen
years’ service or more to join with us
in good fellowship. Our Association
is purely social and costs but $2 per
year, which includes all entertiain-
ment and a seat at the dinner. Extra
plates, $1.50 each. Smoker and busi-
ness meeting at 2 p. m_ sharp, fol-
lowed by the dinner at 6:30 p. m.
Come with us and meet again your
old friends of long ago. It will do
you both good.
Don’t forget to bring the wife. She
will enjoy it and is entitled to have
a day off once in a while.
On receipt of your check for $2.
mailed and made payable to Samuel
Rindskoff, Secretary, 50 lLafayett:
Boulevard, Detroit, you will receive
a membership card which, on presen-
tation, will entitle you to all the
good things in sight at the re-union
Frank M. Mosher, Pres.
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The Boys Behind the Counter.
Allegan—Stein & Griswold have en-
gaged Conrad Vander Bosch, of Grand
Haven, a dry goods clerk of nineteen
years’ experience. His father was one
of the successful merchants of that
city many years and the son was one
of his dependable assistants.
Owosso—Chas. A. Byerly has se-
cured a position as salesman in the
Leeds Woolen Mills store here.
St. Joseph—Prewitt Johnson, of In-
dianapolis, has taken the management
of the Trick Bros store, succeeding
Harold Comstock, who left recently
for Greencastle, Ind., to reside.
Grand Rapids—L. J. Hamilton, con-
nected with the Kraft Drug company,
has resigned to accept the position
as manufacturing pharmacist for the
Schrouder Drug Co.
Marquette—John P. Snider, lately
employed in Delf’s grocery, has se-
cured a position with Ormsbee & At-
kins. He is in charge of the shoe de-
partment and also assists with the
general clerking of the store. Prior
to taking employment at Delf’s gro-
cery Mr. Snider worked in the shoe
department of the Getz store.
—_~++—+__
Quotations on Local Stocks and Bonds
Bid. Asked.
Am. Gas & Elec. Co., Com. ..75 77
Am. Gas & Elec. Co., Pfd. 45
47
Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 328 331
Am. Light & Trac. Co., Pfd. 105 107
Am. Public Utilities, Com. 50 53
Am. Public Utilities, Pfd. 74 76
Cities Service Co., Com. 76 78
Cities Service Co., Pfd. 69 71
Citizens Telephone 78 80
Commercial Savings Bank 215
Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Com. 51 53
Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Pfd. 75 G7
Elec. Bond Deposit, Pfd. 63 67
Fourth National Bank 212
Furniture City Brewing Co. 59 61
Globe Knitting Works, Com 125 135
Globe Knitting Works, Pfd. 96 100
G. R. Brewing Co. 145 155
G. R. National City Bank 178 181
G. R. Savings Bank 240
Kent State Bank 260 264
Lincoln Gas & Elec. Co. 25 2
Macey Company, Com. 200
Macey Company, Pfd. 94 96
Michigan Sugar Company Com. 30 36
Michigan State Tele. Co., Pfd. 90 95
National Grocer Co., Pfd. 85 88
Old National Bank 205
Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., Com. 33
Peoples Savings Bank : 250
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Com. 15 a7
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Pfd. 67 69
Utilities Improvem’t Co., Com. 40 42
Utilities Improvem’t Co., Pfd. 60 62
United Light & Ry., Com. 79% 80%
United Light & Ry., 1st Pfd. 78 79
United Light & Ry., 2nd Pfd.
(new) 12 74
Bonds.
Chattanooga Gas Co. 1927 95 97
Citizens Tele. Co., 6s 1923 101% 102
Com. Power Ry. & Lt. Co. 6s 97%
Flint Gas Co. 1924 96 97%
1916 98% 100
1915 99 100
1916 100 101
1920 95 100
G. R. Edison Co.
G. R. Gas Light Co.
G. R. Railway Co.
Kalamazoo Gas Co.
November 5, 1913.
_—_—>->-o
Getting Even.
“Why do you insist on trying to
sell me beefsteak and beans and buck-
wheat cakes?” demanded Clarence
Baker, the Peninsular Club’ barber.
“T told you all I wanted was twe
fried eggs.”
“Well, I was in your shop yester-
day,’ restorted the restaurant man.
“All I wanted was a shave, but you
bulldozed me into a shampoo, a foam
fizz, and a tonic rub.”
—__++.—___
Detroit—The Craig-Millard Co. has
engaged in business to manufacture
and deal in boilers and engines, boil-
er and engine specialties and sup-
plies, with an authorized capital stock
of $5,000, of which $3,000 has been
subscribed and $1,000 paid in in cash.
————--— ea
Hartford—H. J. Dodge has sold his
interest in the Dodge & Keeney
flour mill to L. P. Walker and the
business will be continued under the
style of Keeney & Walker. Mr. Wal-
ker will continue to operate his saw
mill.
—_++ 2 —____
Benton Harbor—The Benton Iron
& Brass Foundries have engaged in
business with an authorized capital
stock of $15,000, of which $10,000 has
been subscribed, $2,400 being paid in
in cash and $7,600 in property.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
For Sale—General stock, $4,000, all
staple goods. Live town 800, Central
Michigan. Good paying business. Ad-
dress O. R. W., care Tradesman. 597
For Sale-—-Fine clean stock of general
merchandise between $1,100 and _ $1,200,
located about 70 miles from Chicago in
live country town of 5,000 inhabitants.
Cash
598
For particulars write The Spot
Store, Woodstock, II.
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Boston Breakfast Blend
Always Uniform
Exceptionally Good
Blended by an Expert
JUDSON GROCER CO.
The Pure Foods House
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Knowing vs. Guessing
Meats
THE SAFE WAY
This is the cheese cutter that makes it possible for you to make a profit
on cheese instead of selling it at a loss, because you don't have to guess at
the size piece of cheese you cut. Saves you from losing by overweight.
If you want something handsome, something that will draw the trade,
get in touch with us.
QUALITY? No one questions the High Quality of the SAFE Cheese
Cutter. All who have tried it are well pleased and we know you would be.
Put your finger on the leak. Don’t give away profits on cheese.
The best for ten years and the best to-day.
A matchless cutter at a matchless price. Made a little better than
necessary,
The only inducement for you to buy the SAFE is to better yourself.
May we tell you more about it? Write for prices.
Computing Cheese Cutter Company
Anderson, Ind.
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For How Little Money You Could Buy
One of Our Dependable Safes:
Just drop us a line to-day and say, “Tell us
about your safes and name us some prices.”
igen “Many a man goes through life with his shoulder at the wheel, who would
2 iis wh have gone farther and with much less friction had he hitched his head to the
nS tongue.” — W. L. Brownell.
ine A man in business if he would be successful must use his head. In
y Kl some men’s heads the bump of caution is more fully developed than in
en others. Every business man whose bump of caution is normal realizes
(\ that he is running a great risk when he leaves his
books of account on a shelf or under the counter
GRAND RAPIDS SAFE CO. ae Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Makers
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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