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Caro—The Hub Clothing Co. is clos- ing out its stock and will retire from business. Manton—The principal office of the Williams Bros. Co. has been changed to Cadillac. Greenville—Fred Northquist succeeds Clarence Dutcher in the restaurant and — cigar business. Lake City—J. F. Rathbun, of Man- ton, has purchased the jewelry stock of Eugene Cillaway. Montague—A. L. Ainger has _ pur- chased the Jacob Jager meat market and will continue the business. Lowell—The capital stock of the Lowell State Bank has been increas- ed from $25,000 to $30,000. Jackson— George E. McCann _ has opened a wholesale fruit store in the Lake block on Michigan avenue. Marquette—A. E. Peterson, dealer in dry goods and shoes, is remodeling his store building on South Front street. Kalamazoo—John Warren, — recently of Battle Creek, will open a wom ready-to-wear store here about Feb. 15. Tula—L. Jenson, of the Jenson Lum- ber Co., of Ewen, has purchased a con- trolling interest in the Tula Lumber Co. Tustin—Mrs. Carrie Provin has sold her stock of dry goods and millinery to A. A. Lovene, who has taken posses- sion, Peacock—-R. M. Smith has sold his store building and stock of general merchandise to Henry Bartlett, who has taken possession. Freeport—Miller & Harris have sold their furniture and undertaking stock to L. B. Rumsey, formerly of St. Louis, who has taken possession. Wentworth has purchased the drug stock of L. O. Went- worth & Co. and will continue the busi- ness under his own name. Oakley—Ray S. Babbitt, recently of Owosso, has purchased the Luther Y. Howell stock of general merchandise and will continue the business. Bancroft—John A. Watson, of Wat- son Bros., dealers in general merchan- dise, is seriously ill at his home, as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. Ionia—The Ionia Lumber Co. has engaged in business with an authorized capital stock of $25,000, of which $20,- 000 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Carsonville—L. 0. Fremont—H. S. Sayles has purchased the interest of George Powers, in the Sayles & Powers clothing stock and will continue the business under his own name. Redfield—Samuel Akin, who has con- ducted a general store here for a num- ber of years, was found dead at his store Jan. 9 as the result of an atttck of heart disease. Ypsilanti—Frederick M. Smith has sold his stock of harness and horse goods to FE. R. Schill, formerly of Sa- line, who will continue the business under his own name. Bellevue—Mason & Sharkey, dealers in shoes and men’s furnishing goods, have sold their stock to C. M. Kent, who will continue the business under the style of Kent & Co. Whitehall—Jacob Jager, formerly en- gaged in the meat business at Mon- tague, has leased the G. Berg & Co. meat market for a term of three years and will continue the business. Albion—The Frank E. Nowlin Co. has purchased the Springport Elevator Co.’s holdings. This gives the com- pany elevators at Springport, Parma and Marengo and the $20,000 plant here. Marquette—\. W. Lindstrom, who conducts a store at the corner of Third and Magnetic streets, has sold his stock to J. QO. Lewis & Co., who have added a line of meats to the stock. Sunfield—P. J. Welch has sold his in- terest in the P. J. Welch & Son stock of groceries, shoes and drugs, to Ben- jamin Barnum and the business will be continued under the style of Barnum & Welch. Charlotte—George T. Bullen and John Richey have engaged in the dry goods business under the style of Bullen & Richey. Mr. Bullen still conducts a store at Albion on his own account. Fife Lake—Louis Morris has sold his store building, fixtures and stock of gen- eral merchandise to M. H. Blumenthal, recently of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Mor- ris will devote his entire attention to his store at Kingsley. Grand Ledge—William Schavey, dealer in implements and harness, has purchased the William Andre cold storage plant and other buildings and will buy hay and wool in connection with his other business. Ewen—John Bergstrom, blacksmith for the L. Jensen Lumber Co., has for the past two years been working on a machine to be used for tendering meats. He has completed the device and a mod- el has been sent to the patent office at Washington. It is said that meat with bones in it can be run through the machine. Hiastings—Herman Bessmer, who has conducted a meat market here for the past fifteen years, has admit- ted to partnership, his brothers, Albert and Robert, and the business will be continued under the style of Bessmer Bros. Lansing—Chris J. Rouser, druggist, has merged his business into a stock company under the style of the C. J. Rouser Drug Co., with an authorized capital stock of $20,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in property. Benton Harbor—The Benton Fuel Co. has merged its business into a stock company under the same style, with an authorized capital stock of $15,000, of which $11,400 has been subscribed, $510 being paid in in cash and $10,890 in property. Benton Harbor—Osborne & Son, who conduct a grocery store on the corner of Pipestone and Britain streets, have sold their stock to A. H. Rowe, who will continue the business at the same location in connection with his other stores on Pipestone and Water streets. Holton—The Holton Mercantile Co. has been organized with an au- thorized capital stock of $16,000, which has been subscribed and $1,600 paid in in cash. The stockholders are as follows: Wm. Huntoon, $8,000; Herbert O’Connor, $6,000; Charles H. Wilks, $2,000. Kalamazoo—The Globe garage, lo- cated on North Rose street, has been purchased by George T. Waber, a wealthy farmer living near Kendall. The consideration involved was _ $7,- 000. The new owner will have charge of the garage and his son will assume control of the repair department. Sparta—H. V. Murray has sold his general stock to John Bermis, of Gob- leville, and Charles Selby, of Grand Haven. Mr. Murray has been in busi- ness here for the past ten years. F. E. Johnson who has been associated with Mr. Murray during the greater part of his business career here, will remain with the firm. Kalamazoo—W. T. Grant, manager of a New York corporation which conducts a chain of 25-cent stores in the East, has arranged to opena sim- ilar store here on South Burdick street, in the building now occupied by Van Peenen & Schrier, about Aug- ust 1. The company is planning to erect a 60-foot addition to the store building. Kalamazoo—Jay P. Potts, of this city, who for a number of years was travel- ing representative of the Niagara Choc- olate Co., of Niagara Falls, N. Y., has started a wholesale candy house in Kal- amazoo at the corner of North and West streets. He will carry a com- plete line of Falls chocolates and novel- ties and will supply this city and sur- rounding towns. Niles—Depositors in the First Na- tional Bank, which closed its doors in February, 1901, will receive an addi- tional dividend of 5 per cent. Deposit- ors have now received 80 per cent., the last previous dividend of 5 per cent. having been paid Nov. 12, 1904. So long a time has elapsed that many de- positors are dead and their estates are closed, and others have lost or destroyed their bank books. Owosso—H. H. Freeland, trustee, of Grand Rapids, writes to creditors here that an inventory has just been com- pleted of the assets and liabilities of the Brown Clothing Co., and that it is the intention to close out the Owos- so store and apply the proceeds in the payment of indebtedness. A summary of assets and liabilities attached to the letter indicates the assets of the two stores, in Owosso and Benton Harbor, total $14,797.03, while the total of lia- bilities is $8,699.25. Zeeland—The William De Pree Hard- ware Co. has hit upon a novel adver- tising scheme. Through the mails it is sending the citizens of Zeeland and vi- cinity a tag bearing a number. About a thousand of these numbers are sent out. It then attaches similar numbers to certain articles throughout the store. The idea is that all those receiying numbers must visit the store on cer- tain days and search for the prize bear- ing their number. In this way they in- spect the contents of the entire store. Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—The American Silicia Co. has changed its name to Flint Silicia Co. Detroit—The Wayne Belting Co., has changed its name to the Wayne Belt Co. Monroe—The Younglove Glove Co. has decreased its cap‘tal stock from $30,000 to $10,000. Tecumseh—S. J. Kerr has sold his bakery to H. D. Gill, recently of Flint, who has taken possession. Kalaraazoo—Blood Brothers Ma- chine Co, has increased its capitaliza- tion from $75,000 to $250,000. Jackson—The Frost Gear & Ma- chine Co. has increased its capital stock from $150,000 to $300,000. Ann Arbor—The Ann Arbor Pian» Co. has changed its name to the Ann Arbor Piano Co., and increased its capital stock from $150,000 to $249, 000. Detroit—The Safford Radiator Cor- poration has been organized with an authorized capital stock of $2,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Port Huron—At the annual meeting of the stockholders and directors of the Aikman Bakery Co., S. J. Watts was elected President, succeeding the late W. F. Davidson, Sparta—VThe Sparta Foundry Co. has engaged in business with an au- thorized capital stock of $5,000, of which $3,350 has been subscribed and $1,000 paid in in cash, Greenville—J. W. Maples, President of the Wolverine Tixture Co., of De- troit, has leased the old starch factory which went to the wall several years ago, and has began installing machinery for the manufacturing of store fixtures. A hundred men, it is expected, will be employed by March 1. Cheboygan—A woolen mill for Che- boygan is proposed by James F. Mo- loney, retiring President of the Che- boygan County Savings Bank, which was merged with the Cheboygan State Bank. Buildings on the bank of the river, erected thirty-three years ago and operated as a brewery, are being torn down, to make room for the proposed factory. Hetermemeriencesimesnermes au January 14, 1914 Review of the Grand Rapids Produce Market. Apples—Greenings and bbl.; Northern Jonathans, $5@@5.25. - > 3aldwins, $4 $4.25 per Spys and Bananas—$2.25 per 100 lbs. or $1@ 1.75 per bunch. 3utter—The market is very much lower than a week ago, Fancy creamery commands 33c in tubs and 34@35c in cartons. Local dealers pay 24c for No. dairy and 1%c for packing stock. Cabbage—90c per bu. Carrots—65c per bu. Celery—$1.25 per box containing 3 to 4 bunches. Cocoanuts—$4.75 per sack containing “00. Cranberries—The market has ad- vanced to $15 per bbl. for late Howes. Cucumbers—$2 per doz. Eggs—Receipts of fresh eggs are in- creasing considerably and the consump- tive demand is at present only moder- ate. There are still some storage eggs available, but the demand is light, ow- ing to the fact that the price is too close to the price of fresh. The future of the egg market for several weeks depends upon the weather. Local deal- ers pay 30c for fresh and hold cold storage at 25@26c. Grape Fruit—$4.25 per box for sizes. all Malaga, $6 per keg. Green Onions—40c per doz. for New Orleans. Grapes Honey—18c per lb for white clover, and 16c for dark. Lemons —California and Verdellis have declined to $3.75 per box. Lettuce— Eastern head, $2.50 per bu.; hot house leaf has declined to 15c per lb. Nuts—Almonds, 18c per lb.; Butter- nuts, $1 per bu.; Chestnuts, 22c per Ib. for Ohio; Filberts, 15c per lb.; Hickory, $2.50 per bu. for Shellbark; Pecans, 15c per lb.; Walnuts, 19c for Grenoble and California; 17c for Naples; $1 per bu. for Michigan. Onions—$1.25 for red and_ yellow and $1.50 for white; Spanish, $1.40 per crate. Oranges—Californias are held at $2.50 @2.75; Floridas are selling at $2.25@ 2.50. Peppers—Green, 75c per small basket. Potatoes-—-The market is without Country buyers are paying 45@50c; local dealers get 65@70c. change. Pop Corn—$1.75 per bu. for ear; 5c per lb. for shelled. ' Poultry—Local dealers pay 12c for fowls, 8c for old roosters; 9c for geese; lie for ducks; 14@16c for No. 1 turk- eys and 12c for old toms. These prices are live weight. Dressed are 2c per Ib. more than live. Radishes—30c per dozen. Spinach—$1 per bu. Sweet Potatoes—Delawares in hampers, $1.25; Jerseys $4 per bbl. Tomatoes—$3.50 per 6 basket crate of California. Veal—-Buyers pay to quality. bu. 6(@12c according ——_++.—___ The Grand Rapids Paint Specialties Co. has been incorporated with an au- thorized capital stock of $7,500 common and $2,500 preferred, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. The stockholders and the number of shares held by each are: Chas, L. Gor- don, 373 common, 250 preferred; C. Anderson Bradley, 372 shares and _ S. Eugene Hull, 5 shares. William Logie and Geo. J. Heinzel- man are in Boston this week in the interest of the Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie Co.; ditto Adolph and Samuel Krause for Hirth, Krause & Co.; ditto D. T. Patton for Grand Rapids Shoe & Rubber Co. Alonzo Herold, who was in Boston ten days for the Her- old-Bertsch Shoe Co., returned home last evening. ; 2. A. M. Young has purchased the interest of J. De Jonge in the firm of J. DeGroot & Co., manufacturers of spot and stain remover at Zeeland, and the business will be removed to this city and the name changed to the DeGroot Chemical Co. —_—_+-»—__ E. R. Dunlap & Son succeed Aykens & Co. in the hardware business at 1968 Division avenue. E. R. Dunlap was formerly a traveling salesman for the Michigan Distributing Co., of Lansing, and more recently a farmer near Belding. e+ —___- Horace Shields (Sherwood Hall Co.) is almost unapproachable these days, all on account of the arrival ofa second youngster at his home in East Grand Rapids. The lad will bear the cognomen of Howard Doty Shields. 0 The corporation known as the Ma- ple Products Co. is reported as dis- solved and Jacob Nathan will con- tinue the business individually, using the same style. He will manufacture and job syrup and maple products. —— ee James Wickham is re-engaging in the meat business at 1408 Plainfield avenue. He was formerly in business in the same line at 15 West Leonard, selling out to Louis Vanderveen about a year ago. —_>-___ Edwin Mosher is succeeded in the garage business at Lake Drive and Diamond avenue by W. J. Damoth. ICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Grocery Market. Sugar—-Raws are a little higher, but retined grades are quiet. All New York refiners are still in harmony on the fol- lowing basis: Granulated in barrels, bags and bales, 4c; other hards, 4.05c; soft grades, 4.15c; cut loaf, crushed and tablets, 4.25c. Michigan granu- lated is still sold by the refiners on 3.90c basis. Tea—The firm. market in Japans holds Stocks are not large and with no more to arrive, the prospect for gradual advances is quite sure to ma- terialize. Low grades which in the fall were offered at almost any price have been picked up and eliminated from the offerings except at advanced prices. Ceylons and Indias are strong and good grades bring good prices. Some grades of China Blacks are good purchases at present prices. Summer crop Formosas_ are strong. , Coffee—The failure of the Incor- poratora Company of Sao Paulo, Bra- zil, is important only in the fact that it controls forty-six small banks, through which it has been operating in coffee. The position of that com- modity is seemingly as bad as it was before the valorization scheme was undertaken. There is said to be an excessive supply, in consequence of which the growers can make no profit. It has long been known that affairs in Brazil were in a strained condition but it was toward promotion schemes, such as railroads, that most people had been looking, rather than to the coffee trade, for a breakdown. has been insistent for many months in its demands on London for loans. The demand is light, and the market is not strong, but fairly steady. Mild grades are very strongly maintained. Javas and Mochas are quiet and steady. Canned Goods—The tomato situa- tion is unchanged and not very en- couraging to holders. Tomatoes are in fair demand. Corn is unchanged, quiet and steady. Peas are unchang- ed. The supply of low grade peas is large and the market is heavy. Fu- ture peas, more especially the better grades, have sold with fair freedom. Apples are unchanged and quiet. Cali- fornia canned goods are unchanged and dull from first hands. Small East- ern staple canned goods are unchang- ed and dull. Canned Fish—Salmon of all grades are in seasonable demand at ruling prices. Domestic sardines are firm and quiet. Imported sardines are still very high. Dried Fruits—Spot peaches are still dull, and there is no prospect of im- provement in demand until the spring consuming season sets in, but some buyers look upon f. o. b. peaches at the prices now named as a good prop- osition and are inclined to anticipate requirements. As this fruit is the cheapest by far of anything on the list and therefore likely to attract a larger consumption than in other years, and as the South and South- west, which are only nominally sup- plied, are expected to come in soon with good orders, it is figured that the market is likely to show a sub- stantial advance within the next few very 3razil 5 weeks. Spot California prunes of the large sizes are selling better to the consuming trade, and the market shows an upward tendency in sym- pathy with Coast advices. Raisins re- main dull and nominal. Currants, ac- cording to advices by cable, are firm- er in Greece, but the market here re- mains quiet and unchanged. Dates are steady, with a quiet demand. Not much business is noted in figs, but there appears to be no pressure to sell, Cheese—Stocks are light and immediate change seems in sight. Syrup and Molasses—Glucose is un- changed for the week. Compound syrup shows no change and fair demand. Sugar syrup is unchanged and quiet. Molasses ditto. Salt Fish—Mackerel is in light de- mand at unchanged prices. no Cod, hake and haddock are steady to firm and unchanged. Provisions—Smoked meats are un- changed. Pure lard is steady with light demand and unchanged prices. Compound lard is dull at ruling prices. 3arreled pork is weak and slow, but unchanged in price. Dried beef and canned meats are steady and unchang- ed for the week, with light demand. ——__.-—_ Hamtramck—The Keny-Rusch Co,, manufacturer been of cement blocks, has incorporated under the style, with an authorized capitaliza- tion of $10,000, of which $5,320 has been subscribed, $4,333,98 being paid same in in cash and $986.02 in property. —_——+_>- William Boss succeeds J. J. Hartger in the grocery business at 716 Weal- thy street. Mr. Boss recently sold his business at Bishop, which he con- ducted for several years past. Clarence A. Fisher succeeds J. W. Kingsbury in the tea and coffee busi ness at 1206 Madison avenue. do business under United Coffee Co. He will the style of the A Koetz & Van Herp, in the wall pa- per and paint business at 955 East l‘ulton street, have dissolved partner- ship and Mr. Koets will continue in- dividually. John Van 1045 Grandville avenue, has sold his grocery stock to William Roberts, formerly employed as an engineer on the Pere Marquette Railroad. 2-4 Don’t be afraid to call the attention of your clerks to their personal ap- pearance. It makes a good deal of difference to you what they look like. Single, Frank Dettling succeeds A. G. Erickson in the bakery business at 134 South Division avenue. Mr Erickson has gone to Texas. —_—--—_. >> David F. VanderTill succeeds Frank Douwstra in the grocery business at 738 Thomas street. ——_2-2-.— John Dertien has sold h's bicycle repair business at 617 Eastern avenue to John Kuiper. a ee Ry has discontinued harness shop at 240 Hall street. _— It’s as hard to make a man a hero Pearce his as it is easy to unmake one. = ies = ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ Sa = MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 14, 1914 “FINANCIAL - veppr eed aa) eee yo Ui _ The more the Middle West bankers continue their discussion of the new Banking and Currency law, the more fully are they satisfying themselves of its relation to their own affairs. Especially have the country bankers been awakening to the actual effect it will have on their business, and a change has come over their opinions. It has been from the first no secret that the ‘Western country banks were generally opposed to the bill in its earlier forms, and that they foresaw many especially through refusal of National banks to serious _ effects, join, thus avoiding the law’s opera- - tion. But when the act was finally passed, they began to study it as com- pleted and they now have a different In many cities, meetings were held last week of all the bank officers with their attorneys, and the law was discussed, section by section. This resulted in a decision to accept it as workable and probably helpful. idea of it. The interior has all along looked upon currency reform as primarily in the interest of a crop-producing sec- tion rather than merely for commer- cial banking. The provisions of the law relating to rediscounts and the hand! ng of agricultural paper, if in- terpreted by the reserve association board in a liberal manner, will, it is believed, take away all fear of a cur- rency crisis, and enable the country banks to utilize their reserves more fully than they have ever been able Likewise the effect on interest rates is of much moment. The scarci- ty of money, at the time when it is most needed, has been one of the handicaps of interior banking, partic- to do. ularly outside the large cities. The average country bank, called upon to finance a wheat crop with a few weeks of stress, must seek its funds in competition with thousands similarly situated. Hience the customer is conpelled to pay a higher rate, simply because of the insistence of a demand based on of other banks the actual increase of wealth. With the power to. rediscount paper promptly and to furnish abundant currency for the needs of such a per- iod, there should, in the opinion of the country bankers, be less fluctua- tion in rates and the banker chould be able to care for his customers without the old-time plea of strin- gency. This attitude of the bankers is, how- ever, not to be taken as indicating that they expect to encourage un- limited borrowing. They are im- pressing this on their customers ear- ly. A leading bank in Western Mich- igan last week sent to each of its depositors a statement endorsing the law as “four-fifths good,” and predict- ing that the other fifth would be made perfect by amendments. He added: “It practically prevents commercial panics. But those who expect easy money for speculation will be dis- appointed. The wheels of commerce will be given increased activity, and the efficiency of credits will be in- creased.’ This banker was one of the opponents of the original bill. “In its practical working,” said an- other banker who serves a strictly farming section, “I do not anticipate that my customers will know much difference from present conditions. But we shall be able to loosen enough from our reserves to pay our mem- bership in the regional bank and have a larger sum with which to extend credit. It will be profitable for us and better for the community.” The banking interests have come REAL ESTATE IS THE FOUNDATION OF WEALTH AND INDEPENDENCE We can show you some of the finest highly im- proved farms, or thousands of acres of unimproved hardwood lands in Michigan, that are rapidly increasing in value. We also have the largest list of income prop- erty in this city—INVESTIGATE. GEO. W. BRACE & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. 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CORRESPONDENCE PROMPTLY REPLIED TO e e ® Are You Satisfied? | | Fourth National Bank Are you satisfied with a 6% real estate mortgage, when the interest on that . ° mortgage is subject to the Savings co Commercial income tax law? ° tates “ The dividends of the Deposits Depositary Deposits First Preferred, 6% Cu- mulative stock of 1 United 3 3% Light & Railways oo Per Cent Interest Paid Interest Paid Company = at Is TAX EXEMPT to the Savings Certificates of holder of that stock, for Deposits Deposit the reason that the tax Left Is paid at the source. Compounded One Year Write us for full ex- Semi-Annually planation of the subject. Telephone us for bids Ve : and offers for any securi- vn. =e Sor Capital Stock ties. John Ww. Blodgett, and Surplus Howe, Snow, ia $580,000 Corrigan & Bertles ©: Kantatant Cashier| i | | } a @ E # & “4 4 a ‘ & January 14, 1914 to a period in their development when they feel strongly the stress of sea- sonal demands. The country is no more a half-settled, partly developed section with limited demands on credit facilities. The growth of the country has vastly increased the amount of business and the high price level of all products means the handling of immense sums each year. Where one or two banks previously served, there are now many, and the aggregate of their business becomes imposing com- pared with the figures of twenty years ago. In the ordinary course of af- fairs there is little strain; but when all this volume of business swings one way at one time, the small banks call on their larger neighbors, and the ultimate demand brings frequent periods of uneasiness. With this removed, as the bankers believe it will be under the new law, and with rediscounts provided for through a simple process, with the improved currency and credit facili- ties, such stability should be establish- ed as will lessen the average money rate throughout the West, especially in times of large demand, but perhaps also in some degree throughout the year. At least the interior bankers outside the large cities expect to find their way made much easier, and their ability to care for their customers under all conditions greatly enhanced. The position in which the failure of the dry goods firm of Henry Siegel & Co. has left depositors in the sav- ings bank department maintained by that establishment strongly emphasiz- es the objection heretofore expressed by the Tradesman regarding business MICHIGAN TRADESMAN houses being permitted to conduct a banking business as a side issue. The gist of the Siegel receiver’s report is that something over $2,500,000 had been accepted on deposit, from 14,- 000 to 15,000 separate individuals, and that tue money thus received had been practically all loaned out to the three dry goods stores which failed last week. These loans had been made on ccllateral of the stock of the holding company which controlled these and some other dry goods stores; concerning which the Siegel receiver states that it undoubtedly has some value, but that “no one can tell what is the value of the stock.’ seamen omni pracenne mn Quotations on Local Stocks and Bonds. Public Utilities. Bid. Asked. Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 337 340 Am. Light & Trac. Co., Pfd. .106 108 Am. Publie Utilities, Pfd 72% 73% Am. Public Utilities, Com. 46 47» Cities Service Co., Com. 80 81 Cities Service Co., Pf 68 70 Citizens Telephone Co. 73 75 Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Com. 55 56 Comw'th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Pid. i7 78 Comw’th 6% 5 year bond 95% 97% Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., Com. 34 35 Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Com. 13 15 Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Pfd. 61 63 United Light & Rys., Com. 77% 79 United Light & Rys., 1st Pfd. 744% 76 United Lt. & Rys. new 2nd Pfd. 70% 71% United Light Ist and ref. 5% bonds 87% Industrial and Bank Stocks. Dennis Canadian Co. 99 105 Furniture City Brewing Co. 60 70 Globe Knitting Works, Com. 130 138 Globe Knitting Works, Pfd 97 99 G. R. Brewing Co. 150 3=155 Macey Co., Pfd. 93 96 Commercial Savings Bank 200 225 Fourth National Bank 215 220 G. R. National City Bank 1s 178 G. R. Savings Bank 250 300 Kent State Bank 258 Old National Bank 204 208 Peoples Savings Bank 250 January 14, 1914. —_——-—_->>>-___——— The “Grandfather man” may wear out the top of his head patting himself there, but he will never wear out the soles of his shoes carrying money to the bank. Bankers Buy Them ENGINEERS According to the report of the comptroller of the currency, banks in 1913 bought $721,300,000 public utility bonds as against $550,200,000 in 1911, an increase of 31.1%, whereas there was a decrease in railroad bonds purchased of 6.2% and of municipals 2.5%. We recommend the purchase of the 5% bonds of the American Public Utilities Co. and its subsidiaries to net 6%. Denominations of $100, $500, $1,000. Full information and price upon application. Kelsey, Brewer & Company BANKERS GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN OPERATORS Michigan Trust Co. Resources $2,000,000.00. OFFICERS. Lewis H. Withey, President. Willard Barnhart, Vice President. Henry Idema, Second Vice President. F, A. Gorham, Third Vice President. George Hefferan, Secretary. Claude Hamilton, Assistant Secretary. DIRECTORS. Willard Barnhart. Darwin D. Cody. E. Golden Filer, Filer City, Mich. Wm, H. Gay. F. A. Gorham. Thomas Hefferan. Thomas Hume, Muskegon, Mich. Chicago. RE Olds. Henry Idema. Wm. Judson. 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Extra copies of current issues, 5 cents; issues a month or more old, 10 cents; issues a year or more old, 25 cents. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice as Second Class Matter. E. A. STOWE, Fditor. January 14, 1914. PHILANTHROPIST OR FOOL? “Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad.” The recent action of Henry Ford in increasing the current rate of wag- es in his factory from $2.34 to $5 a day, irrespective of the efficiency or ability of the worker, is one of the anomalies of the age. Some think it is due to the fact that Mr. Ford is a philanthropist. Others attribute it to his love for praise and pyrotechnic advertising. Others say it was done out of revenge to defeat the organ- ization campaign recently inaugurat- ed by the Industrial Workers of the World. Others insist that it is due to the fact that Mr. Ford is insane literally “drunk with success.” The Tradesman is not in a position to ex- press an opinion as to which diag- nosis is correct, but one thing is cer- tain and that is that the move is an unfortunate one for nearly every one concerned. In the first place, it would be very much more appropriate for Mr. Ford to put a little more money into his cars, so as to make them more satis- factory to the users. He has pursued the ignis fatuus of cheapness to a point which is little less than ridicu- lous. Twenty dollars additional put into each car would change it from an uncouth mass of junk to something worth while, In the second place, he could select his selling agents with a little more care. Many of them are crafty schem- ers, whose sole object is to obtain the money of the gullible purchaser without rendering adequate service in return. Many Ford drivers are of the opinion that this is the weakest spot in the Ford system. His method of distribution is certainly about as wretched as could be devised. In the third place, the scheme is bad for the men as a class. In nine cases out of ten, those who receive the increased wage will immediately raise their ratio of living up to the new basis, so that they will be no further ahead, financially speaking, at the end of the year than they were under former conditions. When re- verses and disaster come—as_ they must come, sooner or later—the men will find it harder than ever to revert back to the old way of living. This will necessarily result in much dis- gatisfaction which will more than off- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN set any good results which may en- sue while the plan is actually in force. Possibly one man in ten will save the extra money coming to him through this freak of generosity or insanity or whatever it may be, but certainly nine out of ten will not be permanently bettered by the arrange- ment. One of the worst features of the matter is the dissatisfaction it will cause among other employes of other institutions all over the world. They will naturally conclude that if Ford can do as he is doing other institu- tions can do the same, whereas no other manufacturer makes the enor- mous profits that Ford does on his output. According to his own figures he made 181,000 automobiles in 1913. As his net profit for 1913, according to his own statement, was $25,000,000, he must have made a clear profit of $132.50 on each machine. If Mr. Ford was manufacturing flour or sugar or some staple article which would al- ways be made and sold and could so adjust his busines that it would make an abnormal profit of this sort—which would probably be impossible—he would, perhaps, be justified in making an arrangement of this sort with his employes, but his business 1s of mush- room growth and it is quite likely to go down some of these days as rapid- ly as it has come up. When this occurs, he will find himself quite as unpopular with all classes as he is now popular with the ignorant and unthinking. The Tradesman does not wish to dis- courage philanthropic ideas on the part of any man—we have too few men in this country even yet who have given this problem the thought and support it deserves—but sudden and freakish attempts to perform the impossible on the part of the New Rich are quite as likely to result in harm as good and, as is frequently the case, the ultimate result is most disastrous to the class the propagan- da was expected to help. The Ford episode is one of those cases in which it is a great deal safer to prophesy after the event than be- fore. Five or ten years from now, we shall know more about the way in which the new regime has worked out in the Detroit concern itself and about the way in which it has affected the conduct of other enterprises. All that one can do now is to note some of the factors that enter into the case. One of these is the phycholog- ical element involved in the immediate spectacle. In the past week or two, profit-sharing has been discussed by thousands of persons who until then had never so much as heard of the term. Among them are_ probably many employers who are thinking of it, if not as a practical probability, at least as something more than a mere academic fad. Some of these may go so far as to enquire into the history of the subject in France, in England, in Germany, in this country, and look up books or Government reports re- lating to it. In short, the idea of prof- it-sharing has received a tremendous advertisement, and there is no telling but that this will yield substantial and important results. In favor of the profit-sharing sys- tem, in one or another of its forms, a great deal is to be said. Its cen- tral recommendation, both from the narrowly economic and from the hu- man standpoint, is its capacity for infusing into the ranks of the work- ers the feeling that they have a per- sonal stake in the prosperity of the enterprise for which they are labor- ing. In that modification of the profit- sharing idea which is embodied in the method of “scientific management,” the case is somewhat different, for there the stake of each worker is expressly measured by the quantity of his own individual output. But whatever particular form it may tak>, the idea of introducting, wherever it is practicable, such a relation between employer and employed as makes for a keener interest in his work on the part of the worker, and a more human interest in the worker on the part of the employer, is one that is worthy of all encouragement. If the Detroit episode shall stimulate the study of the practical possibilities. of profit-sharing, it will have been of good service to the country. THE CHANGE IN SENTIMENT. It-is not the Eastern financial mar- kets alone which have turned sudden- ly from the lately prevalent gloom and despondency to a spirit of cheerful- ness. Business sentiment, here and elsewhere in the West, has changed radically in the past week or two, and the disposition now is to look ahead for brighter things. It is true, there is little disposition, on the part of those whose opinions count for anything, to expect a business boom; but the belief exists that there is to be slow but steady improvement from this time forward. There has been much. liquidation along certain lines and there is more to come, unless outside conditions change more definitely for the better in the near future. But the underly- ing position of the West is better than it has been at this time in several recent years and conditions are such that, with average crops this com- ing season, a really good business year should ensue. Until more is known of the crop outlook, it is not expect- ed that any very brisk business will result, but that things will move along, with a continued gain in cheer- ful sentiment. The consumers must have goods; that is evident. The country will not stand still, And meantime supplies are below the average, so that any decided enlargement in general buy- ing will start manufacturers to turn- ing out more goods, and create a rapid improvement in trade along all lines. Steel men, for instance, are getting more orders, and, although the aver- age size is as yet not large, they are accumulating in a way that makes for better feeling. Some of the plants now inactive are understood to be preparing for resumption of opera- tions in the near future. While there are still some uncomfortable features in the business situation, those are now expected to work out all right, given a little time. There are pes- January 14, 1914 simists to be found in the business and financial centers, as there always are, no matter what real conditions may be; but they attract much less at- tention than they did a month ago. The disposition is to smile, to ‘look pleasant,” and to -hope for better things. Jobbers are doing an average trade in dry goods. The clothing men who had lately to resort to bargain sales, because of excessive stocks and mild weather, are reporting sales of more goods than had seemed possible to them. One large house sold more clothing at its bargain sale last week than in any previous day in its his- tory. So far, sales of cotton goods for spring and summer wear have been 10 per cent. ahead of last year. In other lines they are about the same as in 1913, or slightly less. Traveling salesmen in most lines are out on the road after the holidays, and are meeting with average suc- cess. On present deliveries profits have been cut down; but on all for- ward sales of spring and summer: goods, full value is being received. Even the mild weather, of which the dry goods trade has been complain- ing, is not an unmixed evil. Through curtailing consumption of coal, it has saved a great deal of money to con- sumers and it has also helped the farmers. It has reduced somewhat the cost of feeding stock, but it has at the same time cut down the price of feed, so that farmers who had it to sell have received less revenue than they expected from the outlook three to four months ago. Bankers here and in neighboring territory seem to be satisfied with the new Currency law. Now that they have studied and analyzed it, they say it presents so many good features that they feel hopefully disposed as to its operation. It will take three to six months to put it into working order, but in the meantime the banks are preparing to enter the new system. Should there be an immediate and decided enlargement in the demand for money, they expect a contraction of credits and reduction in deposits. The New York Times begun two suits in the Supreme Court against the firm of Bloomingdale Brothers, dry goods merchants of New York City. In one suit the Times asks for an injunction to prevent the defen- dants from inserting, through the agency of newsdealers, unauthorized advertising pages in the editions of the Sunday Times. The second suit asks for $10,000 damages for injuries sustained by reason of past insertions. The defendant had printed large ad- vertisements of their own goods and then induced newsdealers to insert these sheets in copies of the Sunday Times as they were sold. The buyers of the newspaper were misled and made to believe that the defendants paid the Times for advertising space, when this was not true. Inserting the advertising pages in the newspaper was unfair to the publishers and to the advertisers who pay their good money to advertise their wares in the Times. — Zi ETA, January 14, 1914 DANGER OF THE FUTURE. Large Questions Which Confront the Business Man.* The subject which has been assign- ed to me is a very broad one. It covers a multitude of sins, not only of business men, but of profes- sional men as well. I do not desire to muckrake and delve around in the archives of the past to rattle before you the skeletons of dead politicians, who were politicians either under the guise of business men or as profes- sional men. Let the dead past bury its dead and look to the future. “This is an age of strenuous life, a life of toil and effort, of labor and strife. The highest form of success not to the man who mere easy peace, but to the man who not. shrink danger, hardship, or from bitter toil.” There t'me in the of our Nation and State when it was the belief that professional men, and comes desires does from from was a history especially lawyers, were the only men fitted to hold the higher offices. In other words, it was considered that the business man was not fitted for these offices, but that the lawyer, because of his learning, was better fitted. Many of you can remember the time when it was not considered proper for anyone but a lawyer to go to Congress or the State Legislature. The time busines; That day has gone by. has come men in, politics. when we need The man, because of his peculiar education and learning, is better fitted many times to occupy these positions than the lawyer or doctor or other profession- al man. It is not so much law that we need now days, as careful administration and the enforcement of laws already enacted. business The business man is an equitable man. He does not look to the strict letter of the law as it should be administered, but he looks at the spir- it of the law, and as to the result which will be eventually worked out under its administration, and in tis way he comes closer to the people and to the needs of the people than the lawyer or other professional man who by his teachings and by his work is taught to observe more nearly the letter of the law than its spirit. In other words, the lawyer says, “This is the law and it must be followed, re- gardless of the result.” The “T must give you this medicine, the results that it you, because I am taught good for your disease.” doctor says, regardless of may have upon that it is These men cling to their teachings, while the business man, who has no fixed, definite rule which he has been taught to and means with which to meet the exist- ing conditions which confront him, by taking advantage of any and all means which may be at his hands, in order to accomplish the result, and in politics he has met with great success. follow, devises ways We have heard a great deal about the business administration of the affairs of cities, states and nations oi *Address delivered before Hudson Business Men’s Association, December 9, by Clarke.E. Baldwin, of Adrian. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN late. This means the business man in politics. This means the. business man at the head of affairs in cities like Hudson, the same in the State and the same in the Nation, but with this new and new Mr. Man, a new re- sponsibility rests upon your should- ers; that responsibility is one of vast importance to the people of this grect Nation and the man must fit himself to meet that condi- By this I mean that the busi- ness man must not look at politics as he has in the past; that he must special ze, if I may use that word, anc prepare himself to be able to render the city, state or Nation assist- ance. situation condi- tion, Business business tion. Vhis is an age of specialists, and the more proficient a man is the better able to earn and lend aid to his Nation. By this I mean that the business if he t interest in the politics of his city, should do so with an object in view, not simply to be elected as an alderman, draw his pay and vote with the majority, and not be present at in his specialty, money man, takes an a council meeting if there is going to be a close question, but IT mean that he must fit himself for some particular not at- tempt to know it all, but know one thing well and keep at it. work; To make myself more clear, let him specialize on the highways of the city, for in- stance, or on the water system or on the electric ght system or on the school system or on the different branches that must come under the government of the city. If necessary, let him make some one of these branches his hobby, and when he finds that is defective and is not being operated properly or economically, let him set to work to remedy that condition. In other words, let him assume some responsib'lity and have an interest in the have a man some city. I shoot at special depart- would rather me a hundred with a shot gun than twice with a rifle, and my chances would be a deal better with a_ shot than The same example governmental ment of times skin rifle. the cities, great for a whole with a applies to bodies of gun our our states and, to a large extent, to our Nation. There are too few lead- and many followers. You the crying need all over the land that the city councils and other governing bodies do not succeed in getting for their cities the things they need. I will tell you the trouble is that their efforts are too much scat- tered. They not concentrated enough in order to procure the de- sired results. ers too hear are It is the duty of every business man and every professional man to take an interest in politics, and to do the best that he can to bring about a situation which is just and fair to all. In this day there is a certain feeling of unrest—a certain doctrine which has been termed socialism~-that has come up in this country. This doc- trine means not government by laws, but government by men. The funda- mental law of this Nation is found in the Federal Constitution, which is one of the finest pieces of man’s work that has ever been written into the history of a nation, and in the pre- servation of this constitution lies the safety of this Nation. To carry the example a I'ttle further, and bring it home: governed Mexico is by laws, governed by men. not a nation but is a nation They respect no fundamental law, no constitution, but every man has a constitution and a law of his own. Asa result, there is a continual conflict between men as to who and what shall rule, and I leave th's example before you because as we look into the future we hear a voice that is now heard throughout this Nation that we should do away with the constitution to a certain ex- tent and leave in the hands of the people the determination as to what is law and what is error. My friends, there lies the danger of the future. Do not for one moment lose faith in the old constitution that has stood so many years and has been so in- strumental in bringing about the high state of civil zation of this country. future and prosperity Look well into the political standpoint and determine whether you desire to from a live under a constitution where your life, liberty and property is safe- guarded or whether you desire to live under a constitution may be changed by a whim of the popu- where it lace upon a moment’s notice. These are the large questions which confront the business man, the professional man and every other man who takes an interest in politics, and it is a question which should be determined carefully and deliberately by every one of you, because the time is com- ing in this land when you and I must meet that question, and we must de- termine whether this Nation shall pur- the staunch and steadfast course it has pursued in the past or whether we are to break away from the moorings which have sue same steady, been so safe and launch out into the open sea of uncertainty; the old ship of state to be directed on her course, not by the rudder in the hands of her pilot, but her course to be directed and her path marked out by her crew as it may vote every day. ——_—_+ +. Some of the Benefits of Enthusiasm. Written ror the Cheesemaker. Enthusiasm is a tremendous factor in modern business. If merchandizing ability, business sense, or selling genius is the engine of modern the the enthusiasm is that makes business, steam in the boilers engine go. It’s enthusiasm that puts interest and snap and go into a business proposition ; and if, for any reason enthusiasm fails perceptibly, the whole works Enthusiasm has been called of business. It slow up. an asset is more than that; it is an essential. When, by reason of advancing age, ill health or waining interest on the part of the original founders of a busi- ness institution, the business begins to drop off, new blood is introduced. New blood means fresh enthusiasm—and it takes fresh enthusiasm to make the wheels go round. Enthusiasm is characteristic of youth, red blood, health, virility, and born masterhood. It sometimes makes mis- takes, but there is this redeeming thing 9 about it; it does things. Where enthu- siasm is linked to good common sense, guided by experience, and controlled by solid merchandising principles, enthusi- asm is justified by increasing sales and larger profits. In saying that enthusiasm is char- acteristic of youth, the statement should be qualified; it is normally so. But there are men are old, ossified and at the very extremity of their tether at thirty; while other young, virile, enthusiastic, pro- exceptions. Some men are gressive and and prosperous at fifty, sixty, beyond. It isn’t written in the code that a man shall give up his en- thusiasm simply because his temples are streaked with silvery strands. While enthusiasm is a thing of tem- perament primarily, it is laws and flourishes best ditions are right. with amenable to where con- Health has much to enthusiasm. If treacherous do Has a an abominable liver, ,it is difficult to be hopeful and cheerful and enthusiastic. one stomach or Some people are strong enough to rise above handi- caps of this sort, and keep sweet and cheerful and and sive in spite of physical infirmaties and disabilites; but most people thus handi- capped can’t. the admoni- tion: guard the liver with all diligence, enthusiastic ageres- Therefore for out of it are the issues of enthusi- asm. Fear God and eat moderately, and when thou art old, thine optimism shall not depart from thee. Enthusiasm is closely related to knowledge and masterhood. Our in- terest in a business proposition ordi- narily increases pari passu with our knowledge of it. The more exact, com- prehensive and incisive our informa- tion about the goods, the more active our enthusiasm in displaying, adver- Dull, dry-as-dust salesmanship usually springs out of the tising and selling them. matic, phleg- unenthusiastic and soil of a wide and deep ignorance con- cerning things that ought to be known. If you want to get one of your clerks interested in a certain line of merchan- dise, start him on the trail of special information about that line; encourage him to range far, spade deep, and smoke out every available fact with reference to that line—and watch his interest and enthusiasm grow. Superficial informa- tion, smattering knowledge and addled facts—these are foes to enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is infectious. The sales- man who is interested is pretty apt to be interesting. Out of the fullness of his information he speaks persuasively. Many indifferent and negative custom- ers who merely came to look remain to buy, when they find themselves face to face with enthusiastic an forceful, Enthusiasm is an important qualification in every vocation, but in storekeepng enthusiasm is abcolutely essential. aggressive, salesperson. Frank Fenwick. ——_.><-.—____ George A. Glerum, Cashier First State Bank, Evart: “En closed find draft for $1 in renewal of our subscription to Tradesman for one year. The inspiration which your first page brings to us each week is Savings worth many times the price asked for your good paper.” —_+- Once in a while a young man fails in love and lands on his feet. 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 14, 1914 News Items From the Soo. Sault Ste. Marie, Jan. 13—R. Wheat- ley, of the hrm of Wheatley Bros., one of the hustling Ashmun street grocers, has been laid up for the past week with neuralgia, while his brother Frank is looking after the business interests. R. Wheatley has been devoting much of his time while indisposed to the dry campaign which is scheduled to take place during 1915, as the fight has been given up for the spring elections on account of the Canadian Soo going wet in the recent elections. D. H. Moloney and wife left this week to spend the winter in Florida, where Mr. Moloney will devote most of his time to fishing and hunting. Mr. Moloney is proprietor of the men’s clothing store and a pioneer at the busi- ness, his store having the reputation of never having had a_ special sale nor quarter-off in the history of his career and he has certainly made a success of the business without the usual ‘slaught- er-sales” which are so numerous in that line of business. Mr. Moloney believes in enjoying himself during the — dull season, instead of giving away his mer- chandise in order to raise funds for his spring goods. R. W. Pearce, the popular Ashmun street druggist and owner of one of the finest speed launches on the river, 1s getting ready for the opening of navi- gation and is putting all his spare time on his launch contemplating a good time next summer. Not a bad idea. A. Goetz, the leading grocer of Gates- ville. and supervisor for his township, sent a wireless to the Soo last week for an auto to bring him in to the Soo, as Mr. Goetz’s own machine was put up for the winter. He reports a very pleasant journey, with only two blow- outs on the road in. As the tempera- ture was near the zero mark it is need- less to say that Mr, Goetz and party got their money’s worth out of the trip and a happier man, seated by the fire- side in the Murray Hill Hotel on the evening of his arrival that Mr. Goetz, would have been hard to find. While enjoying his cigar he met the repre- sentative of the Tradesman and renewed his subscription immediately. While at the hotel, he also met some of the traveling men who were figuring on making the trip to Gatesville in order to get Mr. Goetz’s order for his ad- ditional winter supply. Cigars were passed around by the boys who were able to book Mr. Goetz’s winter order without making the trip and losing two days’ time in doing so. Burglars entered the meat market of J. Agnew & Co. last Friday night and relieved the market of the loose change in the safe and register. It was found that the burglars rang up the register so as not to break it. Mr. Agnew thinks it must have been the work of ama- teurs, as they did not take any meat. Professional burglars would have taken meat in preference to currency at the present high prices. Chas. Fields. the popular cigar store proprietor and Comptroller, has out- grown his former place of business at 502. Ashmun street and has moved to larger and more commodious quarters at 214 Ashmun street. It is expected that the next move Mr. Fields makes will be to put up a large stone building of his own with a garage in the rear, as Charley holds the city championship for unique driving outclassed only by Max Schoeneman and Barney Oldfield. S. D. Newton, of the firm of Booth- Newton Co.. 1s a very busy man laying plans for the enlargement of their place of business for the coming year. It is reported that he is at his desk at 6 a. m. and it is not an uncommon sight to see him working by the dim lights in the smal! hours, his only hobby being dancing the light fantastic, at which he holds the record in that line. He is always ready and willing to forget business to attend a dancing party. Ff. Campenero has opened a grocery store at 300 Magazine street. It is an ideal location, near the union depot, and prospects are bright for him to get a good share of the trade in the west end of the city. Charley [ollis, the jovial proprietor of the Ye Toggery Shop, has entered the hockey team for this season. The boys are in good trim and some record- breaking games are looked forward to. The first military funeral held here for the past two years took place at the Soo last week, when J. Heaney, of Company M, Michigan National Guards, who passed away at the home of his parents on Ashmun street, was laid to rest. The funeral services were taken charge of by the members of Company M. The Company marched to the armory where military services were held and the remains interred at Pine Ridge cemetery. J. T. Bennett, the popular real es- tate man here and champion booster of Cloverland, has great faith in the future of the Soo and he is putting through numerous land deals and is losing very few opportunities where he can explain the possibilities and agricultural district where the farmer is king. We only regret that we have not more Cloverland boosters of Mr. Bennett’s type. If we had it would help to stop the immigration into Canada to a great extent. P. T. Mckinney, of the firm of Pep- pard & Mckinney, reports last summer as being one of the most successful in his business career. He is still handling the Hart canned goods and _ occasion- ally Swift’s Premium oleomargarine. Prosecuting Attorney Thomas J. Green sprung a surprise on the com- munity here when he asked for the res- ignation of two of our police com- missioners. While the charges have not as yet been made. public, it is understood that a general clean-up is about to take place and that the Soo in the near future will be transformed into a Garden of Eden. We note by the papers that Bay City has five women police officers who have been appointed to look after the dance halls and moving picture theaters. They have the start of us in that respect, as the picture shows at the Soo are con- ducted very orderly and patronized by the best people in the community, while the dance halls are also conducted on a respectable basis from all reports. The ban is put on the tango in general. Fred Everling, one of the Soo’s wide-awake insurance agents, has been called to Fon Du Lae by the illness of his mother. The proprietors of the Leader Store, Moses & Company, gave their annual banquet and ball to their thirty-five em- ployes in Odd Fellows hall last Wed- nesday night. It is reported that the event was enjoyed immensely by the employes and will long be remembered. Nordyke’s orchestra furnished the mus- ic. Much comment is expressed over the loyalty of the company to it’s em- ployes for their services. Word was received in the city from Mrs. John Gibson, of 69 York street, Hamilton, Ont., asking for information regarding the whereabouts of her hus- band. Mr. Gibson was a meat cutter hy trade and is supposed to be in this vicinity. Mrs. Gibson wishes to get word to him, 1f possible, because of the serious illness of their child. A new furnishing goods and_ cloth- ing store has been opened here by Cal- laghan & Kohn, near Ashmun_ bridge, and from the names it would appear that they will get the largest part of the trade in this community. The most direct way of correcting the defects and abuses of the Federal oleomargarine law, of which Secretary McAdoo complains, is to repeal the law and abandon the idea of taxation except in such form of license fee as may be necessary to establish and maintain a proper regulation of its production. If oleomargarine or any other substitute for butter is not a fit article for food, its production and sale should be pro- hibited. If it is fit for food and prop- erly manufactured and handled—and there can be no doubt as to that—it should not bear a burden of taxation prospects of the- any more than any other article on the poor man’s table. The oleo tax is kept on the statute books largely because of prejudice on the part of some consum- ers and of selfishness on the part of butter producers, or rather, the specu- lators of the butter market. The price of butter is high, due to natural and artificial causes, but instead of go- ing across the water to import butter, the more reasonable relief would be to remove the tax from any _ legitimate substitute for butter and to encourage its use, retaining only such restrictions on its production and sale as may be necessary to prevent its fraudulent sub- stitution. W. kR. Wagers, representing the Michigan Tradesman of Grand Rapids, was in the city last week calling on the local trade and from the amount of renewals and subscriptions taken by Mr. Wagers, it would appear that he has most of the leading merchants on the list. He reports good business in every part of the Upper Peninsula. The new school building at DeTour was opened last Monday with appropri- ate ceremonies. There was great rejoic- ing by the people in that community and they are to be congratulated upon the new school, which is equipped with all modern conveniences, well lighted and ventilated rooms, which are among the best in the country. The structure cost about $25,000. An interesting pro- gramme was carried out at the opening and the new school will be enjoyed by the residents of DeTour who have been crippled for school room for the past few years. Dan McLeod, the popular lumberman operating at Garnet, was a visitor in the citv last week. Mr. McLeod is full of business and is not crying hard times, but going right ahead with his operations. He states that he has every reason to believe that the mar- ket on lumber will pick up shortly and with the labor conditions as they are at present, he is able to get all the men that he wants—good huskey fellows of the right kind. He shipped up fifteen more men this week. Mr. McLeod has about three million feet of lumber in the yards, but he is going to take out every log he can get out so long as the snow lasts. The Loud Lumber Co., operating at Charles, began its winter haul — this week. It has been making ice roads until this last fall of snow. It expects to get out about two million feet of logs this winter which will be brought up by sleighs on account of the rail- road not operating during the winter. The longest haul is four and a_ half miles. Earl F. Coe, for the past few years immigration officer here, has been transferred to Port Huron. He is suc- ceeded by Thomas M. Ross, formerly of the tunnel service at Port Huron. Mr. Coe has been an efficient officer here and made many friends while in the city who regret to learn of his departure. Mr. Ross, however, comes highly recommended. We trust he will be pleased with his new home. The H. C. Johnson Co. of Kreeton. is lumbering extensively on Drummond Island this winter and is looking for a married man to manage its store, so if any of the boys know of a good man, have him communicate with Mr. Johnson, as this will be a good position. Thos. J. Green, formerly a member of the firm of Davidson, Hudson & Green, law firm, has withdrawn from the firm and gone into partnership with Merlin Wiley, former prosecutor. Mr. Green, although a young man, and now prosecutor of Chippewa county, has made a record since taking over the office. He is doing much to clean up the surrounding country and is getting the gamblers and evil doers wiped off the map and it is hoped that he will get enough support from the citizens to encourage him to continue the work. The boys on the road will regret to learn that “Dad” Wilson, representing the Cudahy Packing Co., was taken very sick at his hotel at the Soo re- cently. He was moved to his home at Green Bay, where it is hoped he will recover. H. Schiff is making the terri- tory during Mr. Wilson’s absence. The Central Paper Co. has started its mill at Nogi and expect to cut in the neighborhood of ten million hem- locks this winter. Travelers will be pleased to leara that Ollie Smith, of Trout Lake, has decided to rebuild his hotel which was recently destroyed by fire. The new structure is to be a three-story build- ing with fifty-seven rooms and will be modern in every particular. Work on the building will be started as soon as possible. W. G. Tapert. ——_>->-e Jaunty Jottings From Jackson. Jackson, Jan, 12—We are launched once more upon another year. The old year is gone and, while it is good to hold in memory whatever was helpful, it is also good to forget with its passing, the failures and disap- pointments. We do not know at pres- ent what the coming days of this year will present to us in opportunities and rewards, but if we live it one day at a time, with a firm determ‘nation to do our best to make it profitable, in the spirit of the Golden Rule, a guarantee of satisfaction is ours. Already signs of increasing activity are manifest and it would seem reas- onable to believe that we are about to forge ahead into a new era ol prosperity and achievement. At least, this is the local feeling in Jackson, especially in a manufacturing way, and already some very large con- tracts have been secured by certain local factories. A readjustment to new legislation is sometimes neces- sary, but this accords with the Yan- kee spirit and, after readjustment, the movement is onward. We are glad to report that Mrs. kk. S. Dean is recovering from a ser- ious operation. Mr. Dean is Chaplain of Jackson Council, No. 57, and also a Past Counselor. One of the important holiday func- tions of our c'ty was the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Russell, Sr., on Dec. 30. It was celebrated by an informal reception to the public from 4 until 10 p. m., after a much enjoyed family luncheon had been served at noon. Mr. Rus- sell is one of our veteran traveling men and a member of Jackson Coun- cil, No. 57.) Mr. and Mrs. Russell are both young in spirit and are held in high esteem by all who know them. On Dec. 31, just ten miles trom Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison B. Tripp celebrated their golden wed- ding anniversary by a cublic dinner and reception in the Masonic Temple. at Horton. Mr. Tripp conducts a hardware business. Mr. and Mrs. Tripp have brought up a family of seven children, all of whom are liv- inz. Among the children are Mrs. Wellman, of Horton, wife of E. A. Wellman, cveneral merchant, and George Tripp, of Garrett & Tripp dealers in. groceries and crockery, Iludson. ; Andrew R. Gfell, grocer, Ann Ar- bor, has changed the interior of his store and added an up-to-date office and equipment. Mr. Gfell is one of those hard working grocers who ever has an ambition to be progress’ve and maintain a large and growing patron- age through honest dealing, efficient service and high quality goods. This is the story of his success and will be in the future. ; . I. G. Lamb & Son succeed C. King & Co., Ypsilanti. John Lamb says it is forty-one ~-ears ago since he came to Ypsilanti and his whole life has been spent in the retail grocery busi- ness. The firm of C. King & Co., of which Mr. Lamb was partner and manager, built up a large business, so so that it must be a matter of pride to both father and son when Mr. Lamb takes his son Charles as part owner of this establishment. Duval night Saturday evening, Jan. 31, will be observed by Jackson Coun- Spurgeon. cil, No, 57, ie a i * 4 ie precept ea 9 wes 4 Pag age eR ERIN January 14, 1914 NEW YORK MARKET. Special Features in the Grocery and Produce Trade. Special Correspondence. _New York, Jan. 12—There is more life at last to the spot coffee market. Roasters are making money and so are retailers and if the latter will hus- tle more he will find the coffee coun- ter an active spot. Quotations are firmer and at the close Rio No. 7 is quoted at 93¢c and Santos 4s 12@ 12%\c. In store and afloat there are 1,931,517 bags of Brazilian coffee, against 2,672,876 bags at the same time a year ago, Teas remain practically unchanged. Buying is simply for everyday re- quirements. No changes are to be noted, but sellers are bound not to make any concession in price. Statis- tically, the article is in their favor and the-- are firm in their views. Orders have been received from London here for Congous and this has helped to improve the situation, The sugar market has and unchanged. At the general quotation of 4.10c. Meltings of large and refiners do carry large supplies reduction looming up just ahead. Rice shows a little improvement from week to week and the supply ot good domestic stock is only mod- erate, although there is no dearth. Former quotations are again made, prime to choice domestic being held at 54@5kKe. In spices there has been an advance in nutmegs and 75s to 80s are quoted at 14%,@15c. The general market shows improvement since the begin- ning of the year and holders are sus- taining rates very firmly. Grocery grades of molasses are well held, but the general market shows some slackening since the holidays. lormer quotations are repeated— good to prime centrifugal, 35(@@40c. There is reported a firmer feeling for canned 3s tomatoes and_ sellers are holding on tighter than a fort- night ago, feeling that the very bot- tom has been reached and that we are now in for a better market. De- sirable stock is sustained at 65c for Maryland and 72%c for Jerseys, f. o. b. Canned peas are showing improve- ment in demand, especially for the better grades, while corn is doing bet- ter. Little if anything is being done in futures. Butter is lower and the market is said to be in an unsatisfactory condi- tion for holders. Extra creamery, 34144@35c: firsts, 2814@33c held stock, 32@33c for extras and 28@31c for lirsts; top grades of dairy, 32@ 33c: tactory held, 22@23c; current make, 21@21'%4c; imitation creamery, 22U4@234c. Cheese is well sustained at 17'4c for ruled quiet close the granulated 1s sugar are not not intend to with the tariff best whole milk N. Y. State. Wis- consin daisies, 1634@17!4c. Open weather has sent in ample supplies of eggs and every grade is lower, while the demand ts only mod- erate. The range of Western is from 35(@39c: refrigerator stock, 28a 30¢. —__~++.—____ Boomlets From Bay City. Bay City, Jan. 12—Snow, — snow, beautiful snow reached here last night in large quantities. It came in gusts, clouds and swirls. R. A. Reed, of Alpena, who during the past four years has traveled the Northern half of the State for the Kruce Cracker Co., has resigned to accept the Minnesota agency for the Beatty Felt Boot Co., of Mishawaka, Ind. Mr. Reed will, in the near fu- ture, remove his family to M'nne- apolis. Our State’s loss will be Min- nesota’s gain. Matt Berhman, formerly of Detroit, has located in Bay City and will work the Northern and Western portions of the State for the H. W. Watson Co., of Flint, We welcome you, Bro. Berhman. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Van Tyle, with the Blackney elas Ca. Saginaw, will work faster th’s. year than ever before, as he now to be the pioneer commercial traveler working out of Bay City, and the fact that he has reached his 75th milestone sees his trade every three weeks. and is still as hale, hearty and happy If you are in doubt regarding the as he was twenty-five years or more quality of the Blacknew ciears, just ago is a source of satisfaction to his ask Van, legion of friends, not only in this Landlord Heyer, of the National city, but throughout the State, where Hotel, Owosso, is sure giving the he is widely known. boys their money’s worth. “No more In honor of h's remarkable career roller towels,” says Son. and personal worth Mr. Braddock was Harry Zirwes, with Symons Bros. elected president of the Veteran Trav- & Co., Saginaw, claims that cheap eling Men's Association, which meets sugar doesn't affect him, as he is each year in Detroit. Last year he sweet enough without it. Willard Robinson, of Purity flour fame, has severed his connection with the Chatfield Milling Co., Bay City was vice-president and at Tuesday's meeting he was accorded further honor by election as the head of the organization, and is still undecided as to the line Edward B. Braddock is a native of of work he will take up. Essexville, Conn., and came to Bay The office of the Bay City Board City in 1859, where he has grown up of Commerce has been removed to with the town and become a fixture more commodious quarters, wh‘ch in- of usefulness in the commercial life dicates that the members of this or- of the ganization are now ready to support Mr. Runyan, the efficient Secretary, in community. For many years he has been identified with the leading commercial concerns of the city. He his efforts to accomplish results that is now traveling salesman for the will be of practical and permanent Bay City Grocer Co. and for years benetit to Bay City. held a similar position for the pre- Bay City has the distinction of decessors of that company. He was being the home of one, who is doubt- a member of the old original firm less the oldest commercial traveling of Beebe & Braddock, then the frm man, from point of number of years’ became Beebe, Braddock & Bateman, service at least, in the State of Michi- and later on he was associated with ean. E. B. Braddock is conceded W. I. Brotherton & Co., which was 1l succeeded by the H. W. branch of the Jennison Smart-Fox Co., which Was succeeded in turn by the Bay City Grocer Co. Mr. Braddock has been on the road for fiftv-one years and during that pefiod has seen Bay City develop. to its present position of importance. In former years he many a time drove a team from here to Alpena to visit his trade, and still employs a similar method to reach remote © sections where his trade is located, and even yet drives over 250 miles of corduroy road. Next Sunday weekly custom, night, acording to his he will start out ona regular trip and cover a_ territory which will require his absence until the end of the week. Mr. Braddock is popular with the commercial trav- el ng fraternity in the State and there are tew that can show better records of sales than he, in his particular line of endeavor. He is one of Bay City’s popular citizens and des*ite his long years ot energy he enjoys a prospect of many more years of activity. Pub. Com. Oe Many a mans idea of a happy home is one in which his wite poses as a dressmaker, cook and maid of all work. Start the ee Make This Resolution:— ‘‘1—Better white bread. “IT know I am safe in doing this because the mill guarantees the above results and I can return the unused flour and get a full refund if it doesn’t.” It’s a good resolution and the guaranty still holds good. Grand Rapids, Mich. ‘‘2—More delicious, flaky pastry. Watson-Higgins Milling Company New Year Right... “I am going to have my wife try a sack of ew Perfection Flo and demonstrate for myself whether or not it will make AALS Lee et — et 4 ast fHtccins PNG q << MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 14, 1914 Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso- ciation. President—B. L. Howes, Detroit. Vice-President—H. L. Williams, How- _ and Treasurer—J. E. Wag- goner, Mason. Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson, Detroit; E. J. Lee, Midland; D. A. Bent- levy, Saginaw. Proposed Cold Storage Act for State Enactments. The Committee on Purity of Arti- cles of Commerce appointed by the National Conference of Commission- ers on Uniform State Laws has pub- lished a tentative draft of a cold stor- age act designed to serve as a model for state enactments after amend- ment in accordance with acceptable suggestions. The committee having this work in hand is as follo-vs: Walter E. Cote, chairman, Stam- ford, Conn.; Walter C. Clephane, Washington, D. C.: Carlos C Alden, Buffalo, XN. Y.: Harry E. Kelly, Den- ver, Colo.: Chas. McCarthy, Madison, Wis.: Cyrenius P. Black, Lans'ng, Mich.: Thomas A. Jenckes, dence, R T. We print below the work of the committee in its present form. In publishing this they make the follow- Proyi- ing statement: “The draft is merely for the purpose of securing the widest criticisms and suggestions of all parties affected by or interested in such legislation. The members of the committee will ap- preciate such criticisms and sugges- tions as will aid them in improving the draft, and in presenting a prac- tical and equitable statute. which will respect private interests, and at the same time adequately safeguard the public health and the public interest. Be it enacted, etc. 1. That for the purpose of this Act. a “Cold Storage Warehouse shall be defined as a place artilicially cooled to a temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit or below, and in which food intended for sale is placed and held for a period exceeding thirty days, but shall not be construed as applying to private dwelling houses or to refrigerating cars. The terms “article of food” and “articles of food” as used in this act shall be construed to mean and _ in- clude fresh meat and fresh meat prod- ucts, except in process of manutac- ture, fresh food, fish, game, poultry, eggs and butter. 2. No article of food intended for human consumption shall be placed or received in cold storage if diseas- ed, tainted or so deteriorated in any other way as to injure its keeping, or if not slaughtered, handled and pre- pared for storage in accordance with the law and such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State food Commissioner for the slaughter- ing, handling and sanitary preparation of food products for cold storage, un- der the authority hereinafter con- ferred. Any article of food, if in- tended for use other than human con- sumption, shall be marked by the owner before being cold stored in accordance with the forms prescribed or to be prescribed by the State Food Commr‘ssioner, under authority nere- inafter conferred, in such a way as to plainly indicate the fact that such article is not to be sold for human food. 3. No person, firm or corporation shall, by himself or another, place or store in any cold storage warehouse in this State articles of food as herein defined unless the same shall be plain- ly marked,.stamped or tagged, either upon the container in which they are packed, or upon the food itself, with the date of receipt: Provided, that all such food in any cold storage warehouse at the time this Act goes into effect, shall, before being remov- ed therefrom and within thirty days of the time this Act goes into effect, be plainly marked, stamped or tagged with the date when it was placed in cold storage or with the date when this Act goes into effect, No’ person, firm or corporation, shall, by himself or another, remove such food from any cold storage ware- house unless the same shall be plainly marked, stamped or tagged, either on the container in which it is enclosed or upon the food itself, with the date when such feod is removed from the warehouse: Provided, that when such foods are removed for interstate ship- ment, such marking or tagging shall not be required. 4. No person, firm or corporation as owners or having control — shall keep in cold storage, any article of food for a longer period than twelve calendar months, except with the con- sent of the State Food Commissioner, as hereinafter provided. The State ood Commissioner may, upon appli- cation, grant permission to extend the period of storage beyond twelve months for a particular consignment of goods, if the goods in question are found upon examination at the end of twelve months to be in proper con- dition for futher storage. The length of time for which further storage is allowed shall be specified in the order granting the permission. A report on each case in which such extension of storage may be permitted, includ- ing information relating to the reason tor the action of the State Food Com- missioner, the kind and amount. of goods for which the storage period was extended, and the length of time for which the continuance was grant- ed, shall be included in the annual report of the State Food Commission- er, Such extension shall be not more than sixty days: a second extension of not more than sixty days may be granted upon a re-examination, but the entire extended period shall be not more than one hundred and twen- ty days in all. 5. It shall be unlawful to sell, or to offer or expose for sale, articles of food which have been held in cold storage without notifying persons purchasing, or intending to purchase the same, that they have been so kept by the display of a placard conspic- uously marked, “Cold Storage Goods,” on the bulk mass or article, and it shall be unlawful to represent or ad- vertise as fresh goods articles of food which have been held in cold storage, 6. It shall be unlawful to return to cold storage any articles of food which has once been released from We Are in the. Market to Buy BEANS, POTATOES What have you to offer? Write or phone. Both Phones 1217 MOSELEY BROTHERS Grand Rapids, Mich. TPN IyCO)nt) DAIRY FEED A LIVE PROPOSITION FOR LIVE DEALERS Wykes & Co., Mich. Sales Agt., Godfrey Bidg., Grand Rapids M. O. Baker & Co., Toledo, Ohio Want No. 2 Barrelled and Bulk Apples. Correspond with us. Potato Bags New and second-hand, also bean bags, flour bags, etc. Quick Shipments Our Pride ROY BAKER Wm. Alden Smith Bldg. Grand Rapids, Mich. GRAND RAPIDS MICH. Loveland & Hinyan Co. We are in the market for car lots APPLES AND POTATOES. BEANS—Car lots and less. Get in touch with us when you have anything to offer. The Vinkemulder Company Jobbers and Shippers of Everything in Fruits and Produce Grand Rapids, Mich. The Secret of Our Success is in our BUYING POWER We have several houses, which enable us to give you quicker service and better quality at less cost. M. PIOWATY & SONS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Western Michigan’s Leading Fruit House eee co af seacoast os i a a go ae OO RT be. January 14, 1914 such storage and placed on the mar- ket for sale to consumers, but nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the transfer of goods from one cold storage warehouse to an- other: Provided, that all prior stamp- ing, marking and tagging shall re- main thereon, and that such transfer is not made for the purpose of evad- ing any provision of this Act. 7. Any person, firm or corporation desiring to operate or to continue to operate a cold storage warehouse shall make application in writing to the State Food Commissioner for that purpose, stating the location of his plant or plants. On receipt of the application the State Food Commis- sioner shall cause an examination to be made into the sanitary condition of said plant or plants, and if found bv him to be in a sanitary condition and otherwise properly equipped for the business of cold storage, the State Food Commissioner shall cause a license to be issued authorizing the applicant to operate such cold stor- age warehouse or warehouses for and during the period of one year. The license shall be issued upon payment by the applicant of a license fee of to the Treasurer of the State for each such warehouse. 8. In the event that any place or places. or any part thereof, covered by a license, under the provision of this Act shall at any time be deemed by the State Food Commissioner to be in an unsanitary condition, it shall be the duty of the State Food Com- missioner to notify the licensee ot such condition and upon the failure of the license to put such specified place or places or the specified part thereof, in a sanitary condition within a time to be designated by him, it shall be the duty of the State Food Commissioner to prohibit the use un- der his license of such specified place or places, or part thereof as he deems in an unsanitary condition until such time as it may be put in a sanitary condition. 9, It shall be the duty of any per- son, firm or corporation licensed to operate ~ cold storage warehouse, to keep an accurate record of the re- ceipts and the withdrawals of the articles ‘of food, and the State Food Commissioner shall have free access to those records at any time. Every such person, firm or corporation shall, furthermore, submit a monthly re- port to the State Food Commissioner, setting forth in itemized particulars the quantity of food products held in cold storage. Such monthly re- ports shall be filed on or before the fifth day of the following month, and the reports so rendered shall show the conditions existing on the last day of the month’ reported. The monthly reports so made to the State Food Commissioner shall be public records, and shall at all reasonable hours be open to inspection of the public. 10. It shall be the duty of the State Food Commiss‘oner to inspect and supervise all cold storage ware- houses in the State and to make such inspection of the entry of articles ol food therein as the State Commis- sioner may deem necessary to secure proper enforcement of this Act. He, or his duly authorized agents, in- spectors or employes shall be per- mitted access to such establishments and all parts thereof at all reason- able times for purposes of inspection and enforcement of the provisions of this Act. The State Food Com- missioner may also appoint and de- signate such persons or persons as he deems qualified to make the in- spection herein required. 11. The State Food Commissioner may make rules and regulat’ons with respect to the slaughtering, handling and sanitary preparation of articles ot food for cold storage, and the vio- lation of such rules shall be punished on conviction, as provided in Section 12 of this Act. Such rules and regu- lations shall be filed in the Commis- sioner’s office, and shall be published in stich newspapers as publish the MICHIGAN laws of the State, and such rules and regulations shall not take effect until thirty days after such filing and pub- lication. 12. Any person, firm or corpora- tion violating any of the provistons of this Act shall upon conviction be punished for the ‘first offense by a fine not exceeding one hundred dol- lars ($100) and for the second of- fense by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) and by 1m- prisonment of not more than six month or by both such fine and im- prisonment. 13. All Acts and parts of Acts con- flicting with the provisions of this statute are hereby repealed ——_2.2.. COMING CONVENTIONS TO BE HELD IN MICHIGAN. January. Retail Walk-Over Association. Grand Rapids. Michigan Poultry Breeders’ Associa- tion, Detroit, 26-Feb. 2. February. . Fifth Annual Automobile Show, Grand Rapids, 9-14. Michigan Dairyman’s Grand Rapids, 10-14. Retail Grocers and General Merchants Association, Grand Rapids. Michigan Association of County Drain Commissioners, Grand Rapids, 3-5. Michigan Retail Hardware Dealers’ As- sociation, Kalamazoo, 17-20. Michigan Association of Commercial Secretaries, Jackson. March. Michigan Association of Master Plumb- ers, Grand Rapids. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Saginaw. April. State Bowling Tournament, Detroit. Michigan Cost Congress. Saginaw. * May. Michigan Congregational Grand Rapids. Michigan Letter Carriers’ Association, Detroit, . Degree of Honor, Flint. June. Michigan Dental Society, Detroit. Knights of Columbus of Michigan, De- troit. 10. U. C. T. Grand Council, Saginaw, 12-13. National Association Chiefs of Police, Grand Rapids. B. P. O. E., Petoskey. G. A. R., Jackson. Michigan State Bankers’ Alpena. Michigan Unincorporated Bankers’ As- sociation. Alpena. July. Michigan State Barbers’ lint. Michigan Retail Jewelers’ Association, Grand Rapids. Michigan Association of Police Chiefs, Sheriffs and Prosecuting Attorneys, Al- pena. Association, Conference, Association, Association, August. Tribe of Ben Hur, Lansing. Michigan Postmasters’ Association, Grand Rapids. Fifth Michigan Veteran Volunteer In- fantry Association, Saginaw, American Pharmaceutical Association, Detroit, 24-29. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation, Detroit, 25-27. Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ Association, Detroit, 25-27. September. International Association for the Pre- vention of Smoke, Grand Rapids. Michigan Association of County Super- intendents of the Poor, Grand Rapids. Michigan Assocation of Local Fire In- surance Agents, Grand Rapids. Michigan Constitutional Convention, Grand Rapids: October. Order Eastern Star, Grand Rapids. Michigan Poultry Association, Grand Rapids. a State Teachers’ Association, November. Michigan State Sunday School Asso- ciation, Adrian. Michigan Assocaition for the Preven- tion and Relief of Tuberculosis, Grand Rapids. December. Michigan State Potato Association, Grand Rapids. Michigan State Grange. Battle Creek. Michigan Bricklayers, Masons’ and Plasterers’ Association, Jackson. —_+--+——___— The Queer Sex. “T always knew women were incon- sistent, but I heard of one to-day that takes the cup-cake.” “What did she do?’ “Chased her house with a cried husband out of the stove-lifter and then because he left her without lkiss'ne her good-bye.” TRADESMAN HART BRAND CANNED GOODS Packed by W. R. Roach & Co., Hart, Mich. Michigan People Want Michigan Products Satisfy and Multiply Flour Trade with “Purity Patent” Flour Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. 13 We want Butter, Eggs, Veal and Poultry STROUP & WIERSUM Successors to F. E. Stroup, Grand Rapids, Mich THE ONLY OYSTER HOUSE IN GRAND RAPIDS. We make a specialty of oysters, only. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS OF OYSTERS. LOCKWOOD CO., (W. F. Fisher, Mgr.) 8 Oakes St., S. W., Grand Rapids, Mich. Rea & Witzig PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS 104-106 West Market St. Buffalo, N. Y. Established 1873 Liberal shipments of Live and Dressed Poultry wanted. and good prices are being obtained. Fresh eggs more plenty and selling well at quotation. Dairy and Creamery Butter of the better grades in demand. We solicit your consignments. and promise prompt returns. Send for our weekly price cur- rent or wire for special quota- tions. Refer you to Marine National Bank of Buffalo. all Commercial Agencies and to hundreds of shippers everywhere, Make Out Your Bills THE EASIEST WAY Save Time and Errors. Send for Samples and Circular—F ree. Barlow Bros. | Grand Rapids, Mich. If you want any HIDES or FURS of any kind, tanned, call on us—we will do it for you. We also make ROBES. Give usa trial. Schwartzberg & Glaser Leather Co. Citizens Phone 1801 Grand Rapids, Mich. Grocers and Butchers A Demonstration Without Cost We will be pleased to show you the 20th Century Visible Indicating Automatic Standard Computing Scale. WRITE FOR INFORMATION W. J. KLING, Sales Agent (New and Second-hand Scales) 50 Ionia Ave., S. W., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SERVICE Our aim is to give our customers the best service possible. Orders are shipped the same day they are received. This applies to mail and telephone orders as well as all others. If you are dissatisfied with your present service we solicit a trial order. WoRDEN GROCER COMPANY Grand Rapids—Kalamazoo The Prompt Shippers MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 1914 January 14, Wnge , i ’ / | ec LI] lV]; AS / / / What the New Tariff Law Means to Clothiers. The year brings an evolution in the clothing world. It is an evolu- tion that will champion honesty, tor the help the merchandising, new work betterment and manufacturer, the consumer's retailer, and This evolution is the advertising sales- manship. new tariff law on men’s clothes. The new tariff law makes possible the importation and sale of tine, rich, foreign fabrics on almost the same basis as domestic fabrics. American manufacturers will be placed in open competition with foreign manufac- turers who, generation after genera- t'on, have studied, improved and taken pride in the design and crafting of until the toreign manufacturers now stands for foreign manufac- turers who have had the wide world’s market to —selected stuffs weaving product of these the ideal of quality, from Austra- undutied. America will materials Brazil, select raw from and elsewhere, weavers of lia, Ireland The to furnish clothes makers a product in quality, crafting, have design and coloring equivalent to imported at the same price. able to wear foreign fabrics as the men in Paris, Melbourne, American men will be the same range of London, Stockholm; not possible heretofore in the middle oc- Vienna, Berlin, and taves of popular prices, because of high duties. American of fabrics with the fine wools to manufacturers will have at their disposal, tariff revised, the same craft with as foreign weavers. this. tariff law will not lower the Now, do not misunderstand The new price of clothes, as a large of the believes. portion inadequately informed public Rather it increases the measure of quality in fabric, enhances the result of for the can only afford $25 for a suit to get a fabric in that revision. tailoring and makes it possible men who his garments, a foreign fabric, demanded $35 before the As to the actual reduction the new tariff law will be responsible for in the cost of imported raw wool mater- suit, ial in any one when made by American weavers, authorities agree it will range but from 75 down to 50 cents a suit. The consumer is not going to ap- preciate unless he its told And you are the man to bring what it means for him to his attention. this, however, about it. suit off the rack imported label on the on the customer the before has he imported When you pick that has an sleeve impress fact that able to get an been fabric at never such a price, and why. Explain the effect-of the new tariff law. And an- other thing. The better fabrics that will be used in clothes will accent the workmanship in their tailoring. A $25 suit with a foreign fabric in it formerly only possible in a $35 suit, will assist the splendid tailoring, elegance of finish in it, will increase the effectiveness of both, in looks and service. And by the way, I want to impress on you that not enough has been said to the customer about the workman- ship of the clothes we sell. I want the man who gets into a suit to be familiar with the part he doesn’t see—the crafting, the part that means so much, the part on which depends the satisfaction in looks and service when clothes are broken in, the part he kicks about when the workmanship falls down. Two houses may look practically alike outside, and one be worth $10,- 000 and the other $6,000. Their dif- ference being in the foundation, the skeleton, the jointing, the finish, the plumbing and covered interior lighting. Two suits may look practically alike and one be worth $25 and the other $20. The same in both, the difference preshrinking, the fabric may be used being in the shaping, cutting, thread, haircloth, canvas, buttonholes, lining and finishing, Your duty is to show this differ- ence. You are not through assisting a customer until you do show him; until you point out that a man not only gets the finest imported fabrics in the world, but fabrics crafted in the best way, the most sincere way the highest pa‘d tailoring the world knows of. You are not through until you explain the preshrinking, the way the front of the coat is made—the shaping of the garments—the pure silk sewing — finishing — fitting — buttonholes — wrinkleless backs. Otherwise what is the use of giving the kind of values we are giving? What is the use of the maker bending his efforts, what is the use of adver- tising, if you who are paid the best of wages do not let the know, not make him realize what we are doing for him. So you see we will have more in 1914 to offer the com- munity. customer , It is almost time for our mid-win- ter sale. I wonder if you have ever looked at our twice yearly sales as more than bargain events? I wonder if you have ever looked upon them as civic benefits. I'll tell you why In the first place the mer- chandise is guaranteed. they are. And not on- ly guaranteed, but new stock—less than a season old. Every sale is the means of reaching hundreds of people who do not come here any other time in the year. And we have an opportunity to benefit them as well as win their friendship and confidence. Many a man in this community waits for the announce- ment of the IF. B. Silverwood twice- yearly sales. Every man we get into our clothes at sale time and snatch away from the year-around-sale experts, is bene- fited. Therefore, our sales are benefits. civic With us a sale, while it sac- advantageous in that it cleans up the season’s stock and puts us in an independent position where we can take advantage of changes that may suddenly arise in merchan- dising. Where, if we allowed our cap- ital to become tied up in accumula- tions, we would be helpless. And at no time in the history of our business has this advantage been so clearly demonstrated as right now with the changes that out of the. new tariff law. By cleaning up our season’s stocks with a sale, we have our money ready to use to buy the new importeds and offer them at the new range of prices. Not only an advantage to us, but to the cus- tomer. better to “workable’—ready into imported cheviots, tweeds. rifices, is have grown have to put worsteds and I wonder what the merchants are going to do who do not believe in sales—who have had the cream of their lines picked through the son and have only the left? Before closing I wish to speak of the experiment of changing the sales- men from one department to another. The “shifting sands” things sometimes. as I realized at the changing would of the I am mightly How much our money sea- slow-sellers disclose peculiar While I realize, start that the in a sense lower the staff, glad it has been tried out. We have discovered that a good salesman efficiency entire selling y is a vood salesman wher- ever he is put—in comparison with the salesman who “soldiers” lific with excuses. and is pro- The experiment has brought out a great many admirable points that we little knew of in the good salesmen and uncovered some points of weak- ness in the poor salesmen that we had not noticed. | found that the law of average in salesmanship amongst you men remains practically the same in the experiment, although the entire scale is slightly lowered. I believe you now agree with me that the fewer excuses the better and that we had a pretty good line on the ab lities of the staff of the start. Why not get ready for right now New have inventory ‘n the lulls that will come? tickets where there are soiled Stocks ship-shaped for quick and ready ones, arrangement. Yes, even a mental tabulation of what you will have to “take” keeping it up as the stock fluctuates. You will be = sur- prised how much easier and quicker inventory will be done. G. E. Nagel. If all prayers were answered the majority of men would quit work. He Made a Mistake. Some years ago in a Western min- ing town a man found dead in his hotel room, hanged to a-bedpost by his suspenders. The jury of min- Was ers brought in the following verdict at the inquest: “Deceased came to his death by coming home full and mistaking himself for his pants.” coroner's —_——_2.-~2.——___ No man has a record he is in the swim. clean just because [oEAL CLOTHING GRAND RaPios. Mice 70 REACH YOUR eam at aL USE &<—CHIGAN STATE. nM Oe cenOne G. J. Johnson Cigar Co. S.C. W. El Portana Evening Press Exemplar These Be Our Leaders FOR FINE WEDDING PARTY AND FUNERAL WORK TRY Crabb & Hunter Floral Co. 114 E, FULTON ST. Citizens 5570 Opposite Park Bell M 570 OFFICE OUTFITTERS LOOSE LEAF SPECIALISTS . 139-141 Monroe St , Roth Phonos GRAND RAPIDS. MICH Up-to-date Power Plant For Sale—Big Bargain One 14x36 Reynolds Corliss Engine with Condenser. Two Horizontal Boilers, 60x160 inches, in prime condition with feed pumps, piping, etc. One Hoppes Water Purifier. The above is at present in use in our mill and will be turned over to the purchaser in say, 60 days. Call or write early. THOMAN MILLING CO., Lansing, Mich. We Advertise the Many Uses of Mapleine arr rs . Cent nN 4 telling how deliciously it Many flavors cakes, frostings, a US Te ice cream, desserts and sugar syrup. Order of your jobber or Louis Hilfer Co. 4 Dock St., Chicago, Ill. Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash. APN SAS NOSE ROL CTE i + ) January 14, 1914 THE ANNUAL INVENTORY. The Best Method of Receiving Satis- factory Results. Written for the Tradesman. There are merchants who take an inventory when they begin business, in a more or less haphazard fashion, largely for the purpose of showing the fire insurance agent or other enquir- ing persons the amount of the stock. There are others who every year, follow a sort of ritual which may or may not have a meaning for them, proceed to take stock, as a necessary evil, for the purpose of finding out, theoretically, their profits. Besides these—those who take no inventory, and those who do the thing regularly, but with a very limited idea of its real value—there is a third and much smaller class which regards the annual stock-taking as a chance to get a really intimate view of the busi- ness and to profit by it. And with these, it may be remarked, the inven- tory is more than likely to be a semt- annual affair than an annual cere- mony. The reason why this is the case will sufficiently appear shortly. It might be illustrated, perhaps, by the usual way of taking stock and the usual re- sult obtained. With the merchant whose method is the perfunctory method of one who wants to get a disagreeable and tiresome job out of the way as soon as possible, the in- voices in his file are life-savers at this time—because they save him the labor of devoting his mind to the work. lor example, in checking over this or that lot of goods—canned goods, or dry goods, or stationery—it doesn’t make much. difference which—this merchant has only to compare what is on hand with the invoice, as check- ed by sales records or by his memory of sales, and set down the value of what he finds according to the invoice figure. This is very simple and easy. and, as suggested, saves thought. It is not always a good thing to thought, however. .>—____ Never Quit. “In the old days doctors used to bleed patients for most of the dis- eases.” “They still do, my boy; they still do. 21 Consider Carefully All Complaints. Written for the Tradesman. Where one customer complains about goods a dozen may be dissatisfied. The one who speaks may be the friend of the merchant who does so for the lat- ter’s good and not because of his own trifling loss or annoyance. So, be wise, and give heed to every complaint, even although it come from a chronic fault- finder. Others may refrain from mak- ing complaint lest the pleasant relations between dealer and customer be marred. They are kind to themselves, but not to the dealer. They fear he will not take it in the spirit intended and are not brave enough to risk his displeasure, or they fear to be regarded as close, exacting, over-particular. E. E. Whitney. IMPORTANT Retail Grocers who wish to please their customers should be sure to supply them with the genuine Baker's Cocoaand Chocolate with the trade-mark on the packages. i aa \ i AL aad i: Registered U.S. Vat. off They are staple goods, the standards of the world for purity and excellence. MADE ONLY BY Walter Baker & Co. Limited DORCHESTER, MASS, Established 1780 Citizens 8505 and 1122 Every Transaction in STOCKS AND BONDS Turned Over to Us Receives the Maximum of Attention The Business of our Brokerage Department is Built on Reliable Service HOWE, SNOW, CORRIGAN & BERTLES Investment Securities MICH. TRUST BLDG. Bell Main 229 NN ¥ A); ‘Ti GENERA GHA Y Crt THE FIRST AND FOREMOST BUILDERS OF COMPUTING SCALES GENERAL SALES OFFICE 165 N. STATE ST., CHICAGO ALWAYS OPEN TERRITORY TO FIRST CLASS SALESMEN MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 14, 1914 = SS = = - = = -_— — STOVES 4» Fs i Tee aay iia aS : (ail ra - xp HARDW: =| — ~”~ “ - — — — 4 - Michigan Retail Hardware Association. President—F. A. Rechlin, Bay City. Vice-President—C. E. Dickinson, St. Joseph. Secretary—Arthur J. City. Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit. Scott, Marine Posna the Job That Exactly Fitted Him. It was a large establishment; so there were various places into which a new harmless youth could be thrust without clogging the machin- ery. The store manager, J. L. tor, lived such a long distance awav from the that it took a pretty big clog to reach his atten- tion; and the entire force was in cahoots to avoid arousing him from his happy and Klep- machinery dreams. But Charles Lovering, Esq.. as he inscribed himself on his visiting cards —oh, he had them, in a genuine Ger- man silver cardcase—tried their esprit de corps, which is French for cahoots. from the minute he went in to bat. Charles’ first learner in miscellaneous, were as a which is guaranteed to take the p’nk gloss off the best manicured fingernails that ever handled hardware. The _ gloss began to go off Charles’ as per sched- ule: but, the same time, the polish went off the manners of Fred Backus, who immediate superior. Backus, ordinarily the kind- souls, furnished an imitation of the he hissed, in a innings about was his excellent viltan, when est of stage desperate aside to young Lovering: “If you don't get yourself changed to another counter, I'll just naturally kill you. You're not worth storeroom unless you're waiting on a woman.” On this hint. which he secretly ac- knowledged to be as well founded as it was emphatic, Lovering made haste to apply for a transfer to But Bill Mac- decidedly a young the house furnishings. Donald, of the species, looked him over scorn- fully and remarked: Sack) =€6[to.~—lothe Charles: the who was male junk for yours. women like a man.” That being the second mortal al- front he had suffered in one day, Charles offered to lick Mr. Mac- Donald for the cigars. “Tf you'd said cigarettes,” MacDonald, might have imagined you had the ante. But you shouldn't bluff Toddle and stop bothering me.” Charles, toddled choking wrath, until he cutlery, where Mart saddled with a rough- neck on whom he had been sore six months. The lovely contrast Charles offered to the roughneck fas- cinated Trueman. “All right.” he answered, retorted too much along now, therefore, along, down his the Trueman was reached for “T'll take you on here, if you can fix it for my assistant, Scotty. I think he'd like another line of work, anyway.” So Charles tackled the cutlery, which affords more frequent oppor- tunities of meeting the ladies, and calls for graceful demonstrations and courteous phrases when you do meet them. amount of Sut it demands, also, a certain virile and backbone to handle rushes of business in a big vigor store, with an accompanying readi- ness to acquire grimy hands in the re- arrangement of displays. Of off the grime; did wash it frequently and so scrupulously that, what with his exclusive devotion to the stray women customers, Trueman as tired as he Backus. | “See here, Lovering,” course, wash and of Charles you can course off—so he made had made he said to his assistant, aren't a bad chump as chumps go here, but you jump for a woman like a trout for a fly; and you don't let go of her any quicker. Suppose you ask MacDonald, in the house furnishings, to take you on.” What dd Charles do but go straight to MacDonald. “Tell you what I'll do with you,” he offered. “I'll fight you for a job in your department. myself, and everyone | tells me | think a to sell clothes wringers, from me, “you wanted it work under ought to have it. If I’ve you fellow has to be a white hope why you can any time or place you please, that I’m supplied with all the hope needful in your line of the business.” take it “Tt my trade was responded, name was Herod and my baby-k‘lling.”. MacDonald “it'd be a real pleasure to take you up. But you don't look right to convince a woman that our clothes wringers will digest Wilton rugs run child.” “What do you want me to do, any- way,” when by the smallest asked Lovering, “wear a blue shirt and chew tobacco?” “It wouldn't do you a bit of harm,” MacDonald rejoined. “You're darned dainty for this business, as T Maybe you can get fixed in the sporting He landed that. a store joke. They work oiling guns and too see you. goods.” put Charles to caring for the thousand odd and often heavy jobs that are incidental to a complete sporting line; and the full blooded patrons whom he happened to wait on treated him with disdain. Have you ever noticed that a hard- ware store may go the even tenor of its way for months and years, and then all of a sudden break loose with trouble? Forth, office the from his lair in the manager, Mr. private Kleptor, be- Michigan Hardware Company Exclusively Wholesale WV Grand Rapids, Mich. Corner Oakes St. and Ellsworth Ave. Foster, Stevens & Co. Wholesale Hardware a 157-159 Monroe Ave. :: 151 to 161 Louis N. W. Grand Rapids, Mich. 3ut it was merely Reynolds Flexible Asphalt Shingles HAVE ENDORSEMENT OF LEADING ARCHITECTS Fire Resisting Fully Guaranteed So ps ‘ Reynolds Slate Shingles After Five Years Wear Wood Shingles After Five Years Wear Beware of Imitations. Ask for Sample and Booklet. Write us for Agency Proposition. Distributing Agents at Detroit Kalamazoo Columbus Youngstown Utica Milwaukee Saginaw Battle Creek Cleveland Buffalo Scranton St. Paul Lansing Flint Cincinnati sont Boston Lincoln, Neb. Jackson Toledo Dayton Worcester Chicago Syr And NEW YORK “CITY H. M. REYNOLDS ASPHALT SHINGLE CO. Original Manufacturer, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. OUR OWN MAKE HARNES HAND OR MACHINE MADE Out of Number 1 Oak Leather. and stitched with the best linen thread. We guarantee them absolutely satisfactory. If your dealer does not handle them, write direct to us. SHERWOOD HALL CO., LTD Ionia Ave. and Louis St. Grand Rapids, Mich. Use Tradesman Coupons snsisemunaninianenssaiemn tty 4. tty January 14, 1914 gan to rage, averring that nobody in the place cared a hoot in Hades what became of the business so long as they all drew their salaries. Then heads began to fall—tlittle, im- portant heads, of precisely the un- noticed variety that made Charles shiver for his own. Almost before he knew it he was in trouble himself. For the first time in weeks, a bevy of girls intruded into the sporting department, seeking hockey _ sticks. Like a bee to flowers, all else forgot- ten, Charles winged his eager way to those pretty girls; and he sold-them hocky sticks to a fare-you-well. He escorted them joyfully to the door: urged them to call again, soon, and was blessed with a private tip from the tall blonde that she would bring her dear Papa in for a complete goli equipment. In the highest heaven of joy, Charles returned to his depart- ment, to find his chief overwhelmed with a rush of amateur Gridleys to the guns and only waiting for them to depart to say to him: “Lovering, the Big Noise has been blatting all around the shop about the rotten bust- ness this store has done for the past four years. And now you fly the coop the minute you spot a split skirt. I’m not going to loose my job for any petticoat chaser around here You quit.” Charles Lovering, Esq.. suffered the pangs of despair and humiliation un- til 5:30 p. m., when all, except Mr. KXleptor, were accustomed to go home, Of late, the manager had tak- en to burning the evening gas. lone- ly in h’s private office. There, with the calmness of who has nothing to lose and all to gain, he announced: one “T have just been discharged fo~ selling seven hockey sticks to seven eirls who came into buy two. I’ve been here a year, and T’ve been dump- ed in every department because IT can and I don't much to sell to men. sell to women care so I’ve tried every trip to get into the house furnishings and Mr. MacDonald hasn't any for me. Now, it appears to me to be use fool business to let out the only man here who knows how to sell to wom- en.” “What do furnishings?” you know about house asked Mr. Kleptor, with a glance like a gimlet. “Just as much as [ knew about mis- cellaneous hardware, cutlery and sporting goods when I was transier- And I nev- er lost a sale when it was a woman red to every one of them. who came to my counter. You can ask Backus, Trueman and Holt who has just fired me.” ‘ On Thursday, Charles received no- transfer to MacDonald's There was a sales slip the store and by the time a year had gone by, while changes went on in a way tice of his department. system in operation throughout that was re-organizing the whole force, Charles Lovering, Esq., still held on. What was summoned to talk with Mr. Kleptor, who said to was more, he hini: “T expect to release Mr. MacDonald this week, and I want you to take charge of the house furnishings. My advice to you is to play your depart- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ment for all there is in it. There may be more in it for you than you can perceive just at present.” Charles. in his element, took that sound and sensible advice. “The analysis of the business,” said ' the store manager a year later, “shows that the only department which has made a conspicuous advance is yours; and that advance is considered re- markable. I think, after all the changes I have made, that this store requires closer attention to the buy- than I have been able to give it: yet I can’t afford to devote myself wholly to that end of the work. I propose to make you store manager, acting for a time strictly under my direction. I hope to find you broad- ening with your new responsibilities.” Which was something Charles Lov- er'ng, ing Esq., who had recently found one woman to concentrate on, speed- ily and effectively did—C, Phillips in Philadelphia- Made Hardware. +> Popularity and the Credit System. Written for the Tradesman. The popular merchant is the one who grants credit to all applican‘s: who does not debtors with statements, reminders or requests to pay: who carefully conceals any anx- iety he may feel about deferred pay- ment of account: who appears just to meet delinquent debtors the cash customers: annoy as. glad as he is who is as ready to part with goods for prom- ises as for money. The popular merchant is the one who without recreation, forts and luxuries which his debtors goes com- indulge in: whose profits are mostly tied up in book accounts; whose mon- ey which should be on hand to meet current bills is in reality loaned but without interest, without security and without deltinite date of payment. The popular merchant is the one who has his nose on the grindstone all the counts while the debtors which such time: who works on his ac- accounts represent are engaged in entertained, reading, who social festivities,- being lounging, pleasure- carries the burdens of many others with but few resting, seeking, care free; thanks: who must meet his own obli- whether others do the same with him or not; who keeps gations on time his stock replenished so as not ta disappoint those who many times disappoint him:+«who in fact lives to please, to accommodate and to sup- ply all the customers without regard to the privations, the hardships, the extra labor or the in- justice to himself. needs of his Let such a one ask for money due him; let him settlement of accounts; let him demand fulfillment of promises: let him treat coolly those who have proven unreliable: let him refuse any credit or additional credit, and he soon becomes the unpopular merchant. He is insulted to his face; he is upbraided like a culprit; he is insist on slandered: attempts are made to di- vert the trade of good customers; debtors at once go elsewhere to trade and pay cash. All this and more in return for his kindness, his help- fulness, his accommodation, his ors. fav- If you do not wish to become em- bittered; if you do not wish to lose faith in your fellows; if you do not wish to hard-hearted, aus- tere, unfriendly; if you do not wish become to lose health. and happiness, fail in business or live as if you were pov- erty-stricken or enslaved; if you do not wish to unpopular merchant, then beware of credit busi- i E. E. Whitney. ——__2-o Flashlights on Advertising Matters. Written for the become an ness. Tradesman. while I hear of somebody who doesn’t believe in ad- Every once in a vertising. In the Southland there are pulpit pounding provincials, of African line- age, who believe the sun moves around the earth once in twenty-four hours, It’s queer what strange ideas find lodgement in the human mind! Of course the man who says he doesn’t believe in advertising belongs to a disappearing brotherhood. Merchandising can't get on without advertising any more than plants can live without sunlight or moisture. In the last analysis there never was a merchant who didnt act upon the (consciously or that it assumption uncon sciously ) pays to advertise. Of course there are some forms of modern publicity that and | that equivalent to saying that we don’t be- lieve in advertising. Slip-shod doesn’t pay, of course; and never did. But and merchants are getting away from that sort of ad- vertising. so-called you don't believe in: but isn't and inexpert advertising more more 23 This is an age of high grade, scien- tific, credible publicity. Business men are getting down to fundamentals in the about their supplying merchandise. telling facilities for public Old-fashioned buncombe and mere- ly picturesque talk is fast disappear- ing from the advertising columns of our papers. The sort of advertisement. that car- ries conviction and produces results in paying quantities is built out of selling talk. Instead of getting off smart things pretty, phrases—the —clever, catchy words and advertising-man gets down to elementals. He introduces a special—gives il- lustration, price, and tells why it’s a bona fide bargain at the price. \s you read the announcement you are not impressed that the advertis- ing-man is doing something spectac- ular. He talks in his advertisement much the you in speaks in shout at enormous black-face type. as a good salesman store: he doesn't And he doesn't act as if he thought you were from Kankamosa, Arkansas, and don't know. Believability is the big thing in present-day advertising. Frank Fenwick. ee Your employes are not human steam Don't the impossible, engines, expect them to do but to do the utmost of encourage them they are which capable. n Your Quest of the Best U. Beans uy o 6 They are Best Just That ! The Williams Bros. Co. ALL SIZES of Detroit adtiins Ue ef et ate MRI EASY 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 14, 1914 A = = Cima = — \3e S38 = = 2 = & = a = e = i7 = - ° ee, pce oe =: o = _— : —_ “Bes . oe =~ = Ss -— 4 \ MMERCIAL TRAVELE eco AUAuneeeag ee Ne yN VND NW 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. Grand Treasurer—J. C. Witliff, Port Huron. Grand Conductor—W. Ss. Grand Rapids. Grand Page—F. J. Moutier, Detroit. Grand Sentinel—John A. Hach, Jr., Coldwater. Grand Chaplain—T. J. Hanlon, Jack- son. Grand Executive Committee—John_D. Martin, Grand Rapids; Angus G. Mc- Eachron, Detroit; James E._ Burtless, Marquette; L. P. Thompkins, Jackson. Next Grand Council Meeting—Saginaw, June 12 and 13. Lawton. Michigan Division T. P. A. President—Fred H. Locke. First Vice-President—C. M. Emerson, Second Vice-President—H. C. Corne- lius. . 5 Secretary and Treasurer—Clyde = E. 3rown. Board of Directors—-Chas. E. York. s Ww. Putnam. A. B. Allport, D. G. Mc- laren, W. E. Crowell, Walter H. Brooks, w. A. Hatcher. Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids, Jan. 12—Last Satur- day was the twentieth anniversary ot the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. F. Eugene Scott and, for a long time they had been planning on inviting a few of their friends, betaking them- selves to a suitable spot and there fittingly celebrate the occasion, but after Gene became physically dis- abled in the auto wreck, they thought it best to forego this pleasure. But some of their friends, not to be non- plussed by so trivial a thing as the smashing of a few ribs and other minor injuries, entered into a con- spiracy to carry out the plans or die in the attempt. They accordingly hied themselves to the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Waite, 104 Quigley avenue, at whose domiciliary retreat the bride and groom of twenty years had been previously invited to spend a quiet evening. When Gene and his bride stepped into the house they were com- pletely surprised to find a dozen or more of their U. C. T. brothers, their wives and other friends assembled to greet them. For once Gene was speechless and even Mrs. Scott found speech difficult. After congratulations had been passed out, the company en- vaged themselves in a game of pro- eressive five hundred, at which the following prizes were won: Ladies— first, Miss Virginia Thompson; sec- ond. Mrs. A. F. Rockwell: consola- tion, Mrs.-J. I. Wernette. Men’s—first, Pete Anderson; second Bill Sawyer: consolation, Walter S. Lawton. All partook of some dainty and palatable ‘refreshments, after which, just to show that their respective auricular organs had not been jostled out of position, the villians began to shower china upon the bride and groom, in the form of such useful articles as a set of Haviland china, hand decorated china, salt and pepper shakes and other things too numerous to men- tion, After this was over and Mrs. Scott had thanked the friends for this un- expected kindness (Gene was speech- less), the company was. favored with two pretty piano duets rendered by Miss Gatha Scott and Mrs. R. A. Waite. The entire company then united in singing popular songs and broke away just in time to catch that street car that is named after a wise old bird that sits in the oaks and sees things at night. We wish to urge our new members to send or phone us items about them- selves. Some of our older members are getting tired of being in the lime- light so much, but we must have something to fill up space with. Then, too, if we keep the same names in print all the time, folks will begin to think we are a clique or close corpo- ration which, in fact, is the farthest from our thought. Now, in order to make this your page and everybody’s page—which it is in fact—it is nec- essary for some of you members to send us in a few items. Also some of the old ones who never make them- selves known. As we have told you before, all source of information is kept in the strictest confidence and you needn’t be bashful about telling us about yourselves. Let us hear from you and give these old “grads” a rest. It is your fault if this page is not cosmopolitan. The dance committee met last Sat- urday afternoon and transacted much important business. Final arrange- ments-were made for the special dance to be given in St. Cecilia hall Jan. 31. Now it is up to vou who have been calling for a little extra fine party to come across with your dollar and buy a ticket. The committee has been to extra expense for the hall, music, refreshments, programmes, etc., and need your support. The dance is going to be both formal and informal and a good time is assured. The com- mittee will call on you to buy a ticket during the coming week and it is up to you to do your part toward mak- ing it a financial as well as a social success. N. H. Hazeltine (Hirth, Krause & Co.) has returned from a two week’s trip through the East. On his trip he visited his parents in Arlington, Mass., where he ate turkey and cele- brated the hol‘day festivities. Then he visited the shoe factories at Lynn and Boston and New York. He re- ports prospects for business in the East good and returns fully rested up and ready for his year’s work. Any person or persons. desiring valuable lessons in high finance would do well to consult Wallie Wendell. That he can qualify as an efficient in- structor is evidenced by the fact that on a recent trip to Detroit he took from his grip a leg of turkey and a bottle of beer and appeased his ap- petite, thereby saving his house con- siderable money by not patronizing the high priced dining car. Also we are told he won $1.60 in a game of “rhome” (rum.) Miss Gatha Scott, daughter of Mr: and Mrs. F. Eugene Scott, has the distinction of being the only lady engineering student in the graduating class of the Grand Rapids high school. Her popularity in a class of over 200 students is shown by her recent elec- tion as Secretary of her class. Con- gratulations, Miss Gatha. We would suggest to our good friend, Herman Anderson, that the next time he desires to shoot a cat and then try to palm it off for a rabbit that he cut off its tail. This will make the similarity a little more complete and the farmer might not so easily recognize the cat. We understand, however, that Herman has decided to give up hunting rabbits and hereafter will find his diversion at fishing near Pentwater. D. B. Kelly, President of the Cad- illac Chair Co., is in the city attend- ing the furniture show. Mr. Kelly is a jolly vood fellow and enjoys a good cigar and a good joke as well as the next one. Say, brother, did you receive one of those return postal cards that says on it “Assessment No 120 (first as- sessment for 1914)?” Well, if you didn’t get one, you can do so by applying to the Secretary But in any case, that two dollars must be paid by Feb, 5. Due warning. While in Kalamazoo last week, some of our theater loving U. C. boys attended a play entitled “Never again.” True to their names, they disbanded the following day for want of sufficient funds, went into a state of inocuous desuetude (whatever that is) and Howard Rutka, Harry Mc- Intyre, W. S. Lawton and D. L. Rob- bins had the heart breaking experi- ence of witnessing the heroes and heroines of the previous night weep- ing and sobbing and imploring aid with which to get out of town. John D. Martin (Cadillac Chair Co.) is putting in his time attending the furniture show. His display is on the second floor of the Keeler building. He says the number of arrival to date is about normal and prospects for business good. The Jolly Twelve Five Hundred Club met with Mrs. R. J. Ellwanger, 602 Franklin street, last Thursday afternoon. Refreshments were serv- ed and prizes awarded as follows: First prize, Mrs. Pete Anderson, sec- ond, Mrs.. C. W. Hall; consolation, Mrs. H. D. Hydorn. R. Plank, President J. R. Plank Flexible Shaft Co., has just complet- ed a fine home on Jefferson avenue, just north of Hall street. Ora Hayden, who two years ago traveled for the Worden Grocer Co., started out the first of the year as traveling salesman for the same house in their Northern territory. All those who have not yet done so are kindly requested to return their unsettled for dance tickets to Hl. W. Harwood, 1488 Lake Drive, or, better still, bring them to the next dance, Saturday night, Jan. 17, as the com- mittee is desirous of getting in all un- settled for tickets in order to close the books. The Cody Hotel will be headquar- ters for the Retail Grocers and Gen- eral Merchants’ convention to be held in Grand Rapids about the middle of February. H. W. Harwood has become so en- thusea over the Made in Grand Rap- ids Exposition that he sat up one night last week in a South Bend hotel until 2:30 a. m, discussing the project with some friends. Are you getting your mind fixed on that next regular dance to be given b- U. C. T. Council, No. 131, Satur- day evening, Jan. 17, at Herald hall? If not, you had better do so as _ we are going to have some party. Tul- ler's orchestra and dainty refresh- ments. Tom Stapleton (Cadillac Chair Co.,) whose home is in Detroit and who has been confined to the house with pneumonia, is getting better and ex- pects to be in the Grand Rapids fur- niture market in a few days. It is reported that the Pere Mar- quette Railroad Company contem- plates putting on another afternoon train on the Pentwater division in the near future. Mrs. Howard Damon and _ little daughter, Nell Jane, of Mt. Pleasant, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Barker, 520 Cass avenue. J. Hartger, who for some time has conducted a grocery store at 716 Wealthy street, has sold his stock to Wm. Boss. Maurice Steenman, former city salesman for Roy Baker, of this city, will cover the Northern territory for the ensuing year for the Voigt Mill- ing Co. After stopping at the Riverview Hotel, Watervliet, for several days, a close observer informs us that there is no better waitress on earth than Miss Agnes Shively. For convincing proof, ask Kelly. The stewards for the Grand Circuit meeting were here Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and, because of the fact that the Cody was filled with furniture buyers, Landlord Peck en- tertained them at his home. W. R. Thompson, 261 Cass avenue, has charge of the Judd building dur- ing the furniture show. He reports that all the space is taken and busi- ness prospects rosy. Bro. Monroe grew an. inch last week—six and one-half inches of space now.- More appreciative readers. Jaw still better. But, we miss Guy Pfander, Frank Ganiard, Fred Richter and Ura Don- ald. Too much holiday possibly. Or maybe they have joined the strike breakers or gone to Mexico. George Clark (Putnam Candy Co.) Petoskeyed Sunday. An old habit. Important places: Herald Hall and St. Cecilia Hall. Important dates: Jan. 17 and Jan. BL: Grand Rapids Knows How. Please send us your items—thanks. Home address: 1422 Wealthy. Citi- zens Phone, 34384. Allen F. Rockwell Preliminary Arrangements for Grand Rapids Convention. Port Huron, Jan. 13—The time is approaching fast for the convention of the Retail Grocers and General Merchants’ Association, which will be held at Grand Rapids Feb. 24, 25 and 26, and the local committee are already busy making the necessary arrangements. The programme will be published shortly and include such speakers as H. W. Schwab, President of the National Retail Grocers’ As- sociation; John A. Green, Secretary of the National Retail Grocers’ As- sociation, and Fred Mason, of the Shredded Wheat Co.; also others of National and State reputation. The different associations are electing their delegates and merchants from un-affiliated towns will be largely rep- resented, The following merchants have made application for membership and_ will be present at the convention: S W. Hubert, Highland. B. J. Liedel, Maybee. Frank Rathsburg, Imlay City. N. B. Sayles, Frankfort. M. H. Frederick, Frankfort. V. L. Pullman, Frankfort. C. L. Fosdick, Fennville. M. P. Compton, Leslie. Gundry & Son, Grand Blane. L. M. Kinney, Bangor. F. W. Titus, Grant. W. W. Ostrom, North Adams. Mark S. Johnson, Kalkaska. F. P. Van Buren, Williamston. Argus McDougall, Germfask. Geo. H. Nelson, Whitehall. M. C. Osborn, LeRoy. Judson & Hawkins, Clayton. Day & Putnam, Goodrich. W. R. Pursel, Frontier. H,. W. Pegg,: Morenci. H. D. Kelly, Lyons. James Reid, Emmett. Albert Schassberger, Maybee. E, W. Fenner, Martin. Headquarters will be at the Hotel Cody and the convention will be held at the City hall in the council cham- bers. J. @. Percival, Sec y. —_—— Treat your wholesaler as you would have him treat you, if not because it is right, then because it will pay. Be honest with him even when he is not watching. HOTEL CODY EUROPEAN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Best Beds That Money Can Buy a January 14, 1914 Newsy Nuggets From the Celery City. Kalamazoo, Jan. 13— Eugene A. Welch, of Kalamazoo, is present Grand Counselor of Michigan. Mr. Welch is one of the best known travelers in the United States and very much interested in all traveling men. He was elected Grand Counselor at the last State con- vention of the order, which was held in Grand Rapids, and is making a splendid officer. He has asked the Senior Coun- selor of each council in Michigan to hold a special meeting on the last Sat- urday of this month, as requested by Eugene A. Welch. Supreme Counselor Duval. It is ex- pected that fifteen thousand members will be taken into the U. C. T. on that night—something no other fraternal or- ganization has ever attempted. Through some unaccountable force of circumstances the news of the visit of the stork to the home of Glenn W. Stannard did not reach the office of the Secretary until last night. This news explains what Brother Stannard stated on the train yesterday morning with regard to the youngster and which we thought had reference to his former child. Congratulations just the same from all the boys, Glenn, and we under- stand this means another man on the road in the course of a few years. The newcomer made himself known in this world on Christmas Day and as the little girl put it: “It’s too bad he came just on Christmas, for he will have to have his birthday and Christmas pres- ents together.” The stork has also made his appear- ance in the home of Lewis Cook, who travels out of Kalamazoo for Armour & Co. A fifteen pound boy has ap- peared and you could hardly get near enough to Lou to shout congratulations. All he could say in reply was, “Some boy that!” J. J. Potts has opened a retail candy store at the corner of West and North Streets and will also conduct his road work, with this location as his head- quarters, selling both at retail and wholesale. Saturday morning J. W. Bischoff. with the local branch of the Worden Grocer Co., took the car at his home on the way to the office. His grip came open just as he reached the platform and as he stooped to close it, the car struck a sharp angle of the track as it was hurrying to make up lost time, and Brother Bischoff was thrown to the ground backwards, receiving the force of the fall on his back. We called in the afternoon and found him on a bed of pillows and he states that so far they could only tell that he had a badly wrenched back. As Brother Bischoff weighs in the neighborhood of 200 pounds, he was very fortunate that no bones were broken. It was necessary to assist him to his home, but he is trying to make the best of it and will get out again just as soon as it is pos- sible to safely travel. F. H. Bowen, local manager of Lee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN & Cady, is in Detroit the first of this week on business. The condition of Elmer Mills, of 3attle Creek Council, does not im- prove and it is necessary to have the services of the physician twice a day now. Just what complications have set in is impossible to determne at the pres- ent. : Saturday night Kalamazoo Council held a short business meeting and elect- ed to membership Glenn E. Warren, 522 Pearl street, representing the Rum- ley Products Co., of LaPorte Ind., and Carl B. Ely, 604 West Ransom street, representing the Heit Miller Lau Candy Co of Fort Wayne, Ind. These can- didates will be initiated with the class on the last Saturday of the month, Jan. 31. After the business session was closed, the orchestra appeared and the members of the baseball team, with Newton Root as chairman, gave the best party that has been given this season by the Kala- mazoo Council, United Commercial Travelers of America. There were over fifty couples in attendance and the ca- pacity of the floor was taxed to its ut- most during every dance. Now in regard to the special meet- ing on Jan. 31, it is expected that the United Commercial Travelers all over the United States are going to hold special meetings on this particular night to initiate candidates into the order and they expect thousands to receive their degrees in this special effort. There are several applications yet in the hands of the members who did not appear last Saturday night. According to a special dispensation from the Grand Council of Michigan, we will be enabled to accept these applications on the night of inita- tion, elect and initiate the same evening. This is a special privilege and should be taken advantage of by every travel- ing man who wishes to get his insurance quickly. Bring in all of the applica- tions that you have signed and let us use them that night. R. S. Hopkins. ————E The Poor Innocents. Little Anna was visiting the city for the first time. She had noticed the beautiful red and white swan- boats as they passed through the park in the morning, and her aunt had promised that after the shopping was done they should come back and have a ride. Early in the afternoon they return- ed and stood on the bridge over the lagoon, watching the boats below and listening to the cry of the barker as he tried to induce the passers-by to patronize his swan-boats. Anna clutched her aunt’s hand tightly as she moved towards the landing, and declared vehemently that she did not want to go. Her aunt was puzzled until she noticed the boatman’s call: “Come one, come all! Ride clear around the pond. Only five cents for ladies and gents—children thrown in!” ee Practical Enough. Mr. Blake entered his office rather wearily one summer’s morning, and in response to a cheery good-morning from his partner he grouchily replied: “T certainly had a shock last night. A young fellow telegraphed me he had married my youngest daughter at Grant’s Rock.” “Heavens!” returned his partner. “Well the only thing you can hope for now is that he may turn out to be a practical business man——” “Oh,” interrupted the fond parent, “T guess he’s practical enough. He sent his message ‘Collect.’” The Gripsack Brigade. Dry Goods Economist: E. A. Stowe, publisher of the Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rapids, has a great failing for poetry of all kinds, especially that which is written by traveling men. Any traveling man who is under the im- pression that he can write poetry will greatly oblige Mr. Stowe by submitting his efforts to him. George A. Olney, said to be the old- est traveling man in the United States, has formally “quit the road,” after a service of fifty-eight years. His home is in Brooklyn, but to celebrate his re- tirement he was given a banquet Mon- day night by Kansas City traveling men. Mr. Olney is 79 years old. M. Winnie, who has represented the American Candy Co., of Milwaukee, for years in the State of Michigan, call- ing on the retail and wholesale confec- tioners, will hereafter represent the same firm, calling on the manufactur- ing and wholesale trade in the States of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsyl- vania and New York. Hillsdale—Henry E. Jacox, the form- er Jackson traveling man who was charged with obtaining $100 from Lape Brothers, of this city, on a worthless check, was saved from prison by mem- bers of the U. C. T., who made good the sum. He was placed on probation for three years by Judge Chester, who stipulated that he could not leave the State without permission. Saginaw—Norman H. Slade, a_ well known resident of Saginaw for many years, died recently of shock following an operation. He had not been in good health for the past year, but was not confined to his home, 707 Millard street. until about two weeks ago. He went to the hospital Thursday and was able to be up and around there, his condition not being considered serious. eration was apparently successful and The op- he came out from under the anaesthetic, but was unable to stand the shock in his weakened physical condition. He was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, April 17, 1849, and was the oldest son of Horace T. Slade, who was an old resident of this city. The family moved to Saginaw in 1869, and he has since made his home here. He was married in this city about thirty-five years ago to Miss Sarah Bradley who died Feb- ruary 11, 1913, less than a year ago. His occupation was that of a traveling salesman, and as such he was one of the most widely known in Saginaw and Michigan. He was a prominent mem- ber of Saginaw lodge No. 47, B. P. O. E., and was active in its affairs. He was of a very generous and cheerful disposition, and had a large host of friends. He leaves one son, Leigh W. Slade, at home; three brothers and one sister, Edwin R. Slade, Slater, Mo.; George W. Slade, Detroit; Mrs. Me- dalla Slade Frazer, Detroit; and Lewis C, Slade, Saginaw. —_——o-e-o—————_ The company constructing the New Pantlind Hotel is in something of a quandary as to what to do in regard to a landlord. It has been planned from the beginning that J. Boyd Pantlind should become landlord of the hotel, but up to this time Mr. Pantlind has not seen fit to accept any proposition made him or consider 25 the matter at all seriously. He takes the ground that he has his hands full with his other hotel and that he is loath at his age to assume an obliga- tion that might impair his fortune. The hotel company offered him the Pantlind Hotel proper on a straight lease for ten years at $130,000 a year. This is at the rate of $250 per room per year, whereas in many _ cities landlords pay at the rate of $300 per room and the taxes and insurance in addition. The proposition of the ho- tel company contemplates the ment of the taxes and insurance and repairs by the owner of the building. An income of $130,000 from the hotel and about $40,000 from the rental of the stores fronting on Mon- total which pay- proper, roe avenue would aggregate a revenue of $170,000 a would be sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds, 6 per cent. on the pre- ferred stock, 6 per cent on the com- mon stock, pay the year, taxes, insurance and repairs and leave $10,000 a year to create a sinking fund. There is a feeling on the part of several of the directors that a younger man than Mr. Pantlind would, perhaps, be pref- and it that the operate the erable is not at all unlikely directors hotel under the direction of a manager who wiil No definite action, however, will be taken until February 1, when Mr. hotel conclude to themselves may be paid a salary. Pantlind is to give the company a final answer. —_+>-. In 1909 the glucose and starch United States gave more than 5,000 persons and _ paid over $4,000,000 in salaries and wages. establishments in the industry in the employment to Illnois was the most important state in the industry in that year, followed by Iowa, New Jersey and Indiana, in the order named. most materials used in the manuiacture of and starch. [he 1909 was and the amount of potatoes was 3,510,- Wheat important material. Corn and potatoes are the important elucose amount ol {0,009,088 corn used in bushels, 135 bushels. flour is also an The quantity and cost of arrow root and other roots used as material are combined with that of wheat, the total for these materials in 1909 amounting to 1,940,- 000 pounds. tured manufac- in only states and the value of the product was nearly $18,- 000,000. The starch product was val- ued at a little less. ———-> 2-2 Almost $2,000,000 more money was coined in the United States mint at Philadelphia during 1913 than during 1912, most of the increase represent- ing the manufacture of the new bufta- lo nickels. The coining of 1914 nick- els has already begun, these coins being the only ones thus far ordered by the Treasury Department. Although more money was coined last year than the year before, a great many people failed to get hold of the in- crease. Perhaps they had lost their grip, for those who do that generally fail to keep a firm grasp on coin. oO The Grandfather Man is satisfied to do business the way his grandfather did it. He will have to be satisfied with doing less of it. Glucose was four MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 14, 1914 — =~ > = = = = oe = = SUNDRIES - - = = ~ eS fs = } 7 «J 7 Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—Will FE. Collins, Owosso. Secretary—E. T. Boden, Bay City. Treasurer—E. E. Faulkner, Delton. Other Members—John 3. Camppell, Pigeon; Chas. S. Koon, Muskegon. Grand Rapids Meeting--November 18. 19 and 20. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa- tion. President—D. G. Look, Lowell. Vice-Presidents—E. E Miller, Traverse City. C. A. Weaver, Detroit. Secretary—-Von W Furniss. Nashville. Tre “r—Ed. Varnum, Jonesville. Executive Committee—D. D. _ Alton. Fremont: Hid. W. Austin, Midland; C. S. Koon, Muskeron: &. W. Cochrane. Kalamazoo: James Robinson, Lansing; Grant Stevens, Detroit. Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As- sociation. President—Geo. H. Halpin. Detroit. Secretary-Treasurer—W. 8S. Lawton, Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids Drug Club. President—Wm. C. Kirchgessner. Vice-President—E. D. De La Mater. Secretary and Treasurer—Wm. iH. Tibbs. Executive Committee—-Wm. Quigley, Chairman; Henry Riechel, Theron Forbes. The Druggists’ National Home. At a recent meeting of the trustees of the Druggists’ National Home at Palmyra, Wis., it was decided that a fee of $5 to join and $1 a year be asked from every druggist, and that a general effort be made to induce drug- gists to become members of the Home Association. A committee of three—of which J. J. Chicago, is the chairman—was ap- pointed to bring about the financing of the Hiome, and to bring the matter before the National Wholesale Kearney, of Drug- eists’ Association at the annual meet- ing of that body at Jacksonville, Fla., last month. Thanksgiving Day was appointed for a Thanksgiving dona- tion from all the druggists of the country. A number of changes were sug- gested in the regulations of the lfome, notably that admission to its privileges be regulated by the age of the applicant and the time he had been in the drug business, so as to give the most deserving the first op- portunity. But—the Home needs money! Such an institution as this is planned to be, a real home for the aged and in- firm druggist, requires constant sup- port, a dependable source of income. Were there a_ sufficient number of wealthy druggists who could see the advisability of joining together to provide an endowment fund, the in- terest of which would serve to pay the bills for maintenance, etc., the plans of the trustees could be carried out in detail to the inestimable benefit of wornout druggists in all sections of the country. Apparently such an endowment from such a source is not possible, al- though there have been a number of very handsome donations from prom- inent firms. Hence the next and most natural step is to secure the support of the druggists of the country as a body. If every druggist in the country would pay at one time the small sum of $5 and every drug clerk the sum of $1, the Home would be placed on a self-supporting, self-respecting bas- is. There should be no necessity for this constant appeal for funds to meet already contracted liabilities. The Home is your institution—you are at hberty to visit it and utilize its decided advantages. It is not a money-making institution, but a haven for the men of our craft who have labored long and earnestly for the common weal. By supporting the doing your. part to provide for those who have fallen by the wayside through age or illness or infirmity. To paraphrase a famous saying, “There but for the mercy of God lie I’—and no one of us knows when he may be glad to have such a veritable haven to which to turn. Home you are —_—_—_+-—____- Life Registration for Pharmacists. The announcement that the Ohio Pharmaceutical Association has _ be- gun a State-wide campaign for a law providing that pharmacists shall be registered for life, instead of for three years, as at present, again brings to the front the debatable question of the necessity for re-registration. Law- yers and doctors, having once quali- fied to practice their chosen callings, are not thereafter compelled to do anything to protect their prerogative except to be honest and straightfor- ward in the practice of their profes- sions. Pharmacists, on the other hand, not only must re-register, but they must pay fees, at least in some of the states (in Ohio $2) for the privilege. There are arguments in favor of re-registration of pharmacists that do not apply to the majority and which are well known. The same arguments would apply in even greater degree to lawyers and physicians. Without at this time passing upon the main question as to whether all three pro- fessions ought or ought not to re-reg- ister at stated intervals, it seems, nevertheless, to be adding insult to injury, that pharmacists in addition to being forced to re-register, should have to pay for so doing. Many board officials have claimed with considerable degree of reason that re-registration made it easier to keep track of pharmacists, and for board members to detect the fraudu- lent use of certificates of registration. To this extent, perhaps, re-registra- tion has something to commend it, but why should pharmacists be tax- ed to support boards of pharmacy? Lawyers are not compelled to pay tees to support the courts, doctors are not required to pay the cost of boards of health or examining boards, and this discrimination against phar- macists is plainly on a level with class legislation. The license fees of one kind or another the pharmacist is compelled to meet constitute an oner- ous burden, and that one exacted from him for re-registration is practically the penalty he pays for being allowed to practice an honorable profession. In Ohio, as in other states, there seems to be need of a readjustment of the relation of pharmacists to the Government.—Pharmaceutical Era. —___- + __— What Some Michigan Cities Are Doing. Written for the Tradesman. The Retail Merchants’ Board of Jackson has adopted a business pol- icy, which is substantially as follows: “Not to advertise in any publications except daily and weekly papers; not to buy tickets at any place of busi- ness for suppers or dances; not to make donations or subscriptions to any society or for any purpose not given a card of solicitation.” The annual banquet of the Holland Business Men’s Association will he held Jan. 26. Ann Arbor claims to have more than its share of tramps and hoboes, and its warm, comfortable jail, with three meals a day, is well patronized. The city is building up a very popular winter resort. The White Cloud Board of Trade has adopted an initiation fee of $1 and yearly dues of $4. New officers are: President, George Blass; Vice-Presi- dent, L. W. Fuller; Secretary, C. E. Morris; Treasurer, G. L. Rosenberg. The new dam and electric power plant at Gladwin are in commission. Gladwin is lighted with forty-seven lamps and the company is preparing to extend lines into rural districts. The municipal affairs committee of the Kalamazoo Commercial Club is arranging for a series of free Sunday concerts for the people during the winter. Residents of Comstock, Galesburg and Augusta are not pleased with the holiday gift presented them by the M. U. T. company of higher rates, which doubles the fares to Kalama- zoo. Comstock people are especially indignant and claim that the village has been built up on the 5 cent rate to and from the Celery City. Nearly 300 students are enrolled in the night school at Flint. The me- chanical drawing class leads with forty-eight students. Alpena hopes to forestall another epidemic of typhoid fever and mem- bers of the Board of Health will make a house to house campaign of educa- tion. “Boil the water’ is the slogan. Hillsdale, Coldwater and_ other towns of Southern Michigan, along the Lake Shore road, are still talking electric road and a line will probably be built some day provided the New York Central people are not as suc- cessful as they have been in York State in quieting threatening compe- tition. Retail lumber dealers of the State will meet in Battle Creek Feb. 2 and 3 and the Chamber of Commerce has arranged for a visit to the Postum plant, a banquet at the Sanitarium and other features. The Southwestern Retail Harness Dealers’ Association will meet in Battle Creek Jan. 23. Carnegie contributes $5,000 for building a public library at Newaygo. It will probably be located in Brooks Park and construction work will be- gin in the spring. A new public drinking fountain was opened New Year’s day on Main street, Eaton Rapids, by the Com- mercial Club. It is built of field stone in an artistic manner. The flowing well supplies four taps and the fountain is well lighted. Epstein & Carle, of Chicago, mak- ers of woollen skirts, are planning to open a branch factory at Coldwater. The Million Dollar Harbor Club of Ludington is planning for a monster celebration July 3 and 4 with a water carnival as the leading feature. New ofhcers of the club are: President, W. L. Mercereau; Vice-President, A. A. Keiser; Secretary, E. O. McLean: Treasurer, F. W. Hawley. The semi-monthly pay day has been in effect in Marquette for a short time, and while there is division of opinion on the subject it would ap- pear that the greater number of mer- chants are in favor of the monthly pay system formerly in vogue. The amount of savings at some banks has fallen off since the law went into et- fect and it is believed that most wage earners find it harder to lay up any money under the new system. The Marshall Board of Commerce will hold no annual banquet this year. A local paper says it will “cut out all such extravagances and use the mon- ey in a more profitable way. The evanescent enthusiasm stirred up at these feeds in the past has not war- ranted the expense incurred.” Battle Creek is seeking ways and means to provide industrial courses in the public schools. Muskegon will establish its first municipal playground — the summer. Allegan voted down the proposi- tion to bond for $15,000 for street, water and sewer improvements. A new electric light system is being installed at Perrinton. Ground has been broken at Sparta for a new fonndry building. The Michigan Trunk Line High- way Association will meet in Bay City Jan. 22. Calhoun County’s annual Lincoln Club banquet will be held at Elk’s Temple, Battle Creek, Feb. 12. A winter Chautauqua and farmers’ institute will be held in Ionia Feb. 17, 18 and 19. Lansing’s red letter event, the Zach Chandler banquet, will be held Jan. 20. Greenville has secured a new manu- facturing industry, the Wolverine Fix- ture Co., a wood working concern. Almond Griffen. coming —_2>>.>—__ A stitch in time beats two in the side. { : ; 4 ba January 14, 1914 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Acids Cubebs ..:....-..-. @4 50 Digitalis ......... @ 60 Erigeron ........ @250 Gentian ..... sees @ 60 Acetic .....-..-. 6 @ 8 fuealyptus ..... 75@ 85 Ginger ....... wee @ % Boric ........-- 10 @ 15 Hemlock, pure .. @100 Guaiac .......... 1 05 Carbolie 17 @ 22 Juniper Berries .. @1 25 Guaiac Ammon... 80 a Juniper Wood .. Sa 50) Lodine |. 0/200... 1 26 Citric .....---- 60 @ 67 fard, extra ..... 100 Iodine, Colorless 1 25 Muriatic ........ 1%@ 5 Lard, No. 1 .... 96 Ipecac ..........- @ 7 : Nitric 5%@ 10 Laven'r Flowers 4 ioe g; 00 Iron, clo. ........ @ 60 o ey >) 16 vavender, Garden 85@1 00 Kino ............ @ 80 Oxalic ...-..--.. 13 @ m emon, (2.00... 4:50@5 00 Myrrh ........... = 05 Sulphuric ....... 1%@ 5 f.inseed, boiled, bbl. @ sf ar Vomica .... oo x 45 Lniseed, bld. less 55@ _ 6( DIUM) .........<6 Wy Ta a ca Tinaced, raw, bbls @ 51 Opium Camph. .. @ 65 Ammonia Linseed, raw, less 54@ 59 Opium, Deodorz’d = 25 ‘ Mustard, true ..4 1303 . Rhubarb | ......... 70 Water, 26 deg. .. 64@ 1 Mustard, artifi’l 2 75 0 Water, 18 deg 4%@ 8 Neatsfoot ...... 80@ 85 Paints aun ae | Olive, pure ..... 250@3 50 Lead, red dry 7 @ 8 Water 14 deg. .-. 34@ © Olive, Malaga, || Dead; white dry 7 @ 8 Carbonate ...... 13 @ 16 yee oes 1 60@1 75 re, we on lf @ 8 29 @ 15 Olive, alaga, : Ochre, yellow bbl. 1 @ 1% ts : Cress >: ss : ereen ...... EOS Ms poe yellow less 2 @ 5 = ; iy Bp Orange, sweet ..475@5 00 Putty ............ 2%4@ 5 ‘ai ve, i ecuieaiae Organum, pure 1 25@1 50 Red Venetian bbl. 1 @ 1% 7 id d ” ART pp se; Copaiba .... -- 75@1 00 Origanum, com’! 50@ 75 Red Venet’n, less 2 @ 6 spony a ee Fir (Canada) .. 1 75@2 00 Pennyroyal ..... a 25@2 50 Shaker, Prepared 1 40@1 50 .2 fh TH THT MITnm ' oq 50 Peppermint .... 4 00@4 25 Vermillion, Eng. 90@1 00 or ad ner we wr ne Fir (Oregon) ....40@ Rose, pure ... 16 00 @18 00 Vermillion, Amer. 15@ 20 Be Nerd Peru... 054....-- 2 25@2 50 Rosemary or cae “ Whiting, bbl. .... 1@ 1% rt ARE RRDOSSE TENS @1 25 Sandalwod, 5 Whiting ........... 2@ 5 pee eee ET Pe kN ’ ius ale co se Sassafras, true 80@ 90 T a « wan pag rms! Berries Sassafras, artifi’l 45@ 50 Insecticides ai APS gree it rit : _ Spearmint .....- 550@6 00, any ‘ : vy | rh! ae @ubeb ue. 65@ 75 Sperm ......... 90@1 00 Senic .......... @ 10 Plea nh ae c 20 Tansy 5 00@5 50 Blue Vitrol, bbl. @ 6% ae Ye (ase. . BN 22... sec eee 15@ Tar USP oe 300 40 Blue Vitrol less 1@ 0 =>" "i wt Juniper ...-.---+:: 7@ 10 ‘Turpentine, bbls. @b54Y% Pores Mix Pst 8@ = 4 Prickley Ash .. - @ 50 ‘Turpentine, less 58@_ 65 c a cae bia | Lae ype Wintergreen, true @500 , Picea osuby: -+++ 1b@ 20 een ae Barks Wintergreen, sweet nsect Powder .. 20@ 35 € iq roa 2 00@2 25 Lead Arsenate a 8@ 16 : Cassia (ordinary) 25 Wintergreen, art’] 50@ 60 ee on . a: ' Cassia (Saigon) 65@ 7 Wormseed ...... 350@4 00 ,, Solution, gal. 15@ 25 . a ¢ 00@6 50 Paris Green ... 154%@ 20 ee ee Our Home—Corner Oakes and Commerce Ee Sassafras (pow. 30c) @ 25 Potassium Miscellaneous a Soap Cut (powd. * Bicarbonate .... 15@ 18 Acetanalid ...... 3 . : : “Bbc Coase. 15 @ 20 Bichromate .... 1@ 16) Alum oy 4 * To our Customers for 1914: The year 1913 is now a matter of history. PAOES ners 45@ 55 Alum, powdered and We have bidden adieu with thanks for all the good things which were Extracts Carbonate ..... l2@ 15 eround ...... 5 q i : f i jcevice 24@ 28 Chlorate, xtal and Bismuth, Subni- brought to our customers and ourselves. We have made ae or a corice ....+-.6- ‘ s , / i ‘ Z : powdered ... 12@ 16 trate 00000, 2 10@2 25 larger, more comprehensive and more successful business for the year 1914. Licorice powdered 25@ 30 Chie se: granular bee - Borax xtal or . There will be no changes in our traveling force and our sundry men, Mr. W. Wanide ......... @ powdered ... 6@ 12 Flowers fodide 3 20@3 40 Cantharadies po. 2 2592 50 B. Dudley and Mr. Fred L. oe will any gi a in . a — Arnica .|.._..... 18@ 25 Permanganate .. 15@ 30 Calomel ........ @1 30 in the interest especially of druggists’ sundries, stationery, books, sporting 5 = Prussiate yellow 30@ 385 Capsicum ....... + Oo 25 goods, etc. Please reserve your orders for them which when received by us Chamomile (Ger.) 25@ 385 prussiate, red .. 50@ 60 ‘mine 5 ooo : Seg G Carmine ........ @3 50 will have our prompt and careful attention Chamomile (Rom.) 40@ 50 pulpnate ........ 15@ 20 Cassia Buds .... @ 40 1 p p , G Genes ae uu 3 “— a ums valk Prepared .. 5 cee ant so@ 50 “Alkanet ....----- 15@ 20 Chalk Precipitated 7@ 10 Grand Rapids. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. cacia, Ist ...... 40@ Blood, powdered) 20@ 25 Chloroform ..... 38@ 48 Acacia, 2nd ...... s6@ 40 Calamus ........ 35@ 40 Pomatie Hydrate ae 00@1 15 Acacia, Sd ........ 30@ 35 Elecampane, pwd. 15@ 20 Ocaine ...... 10@4 40 = ; yee Gentian, powd. .. 12@ 16 Cocoa Butter .... 50@ 60 = CRCG, TEES +1: © _ Ginger, African, Corks, list. less Li ' Acacia Powdered 35@ 40 powdered .. 15@ 20 Copperas, bbls. .. Aloes (Barb. Pow) 22@ 25 Ginger, rosa 22@ 25 aopecrsS os 2 29 : “ y >; Ginger, Jamaica, opperas, ow Aloes (Cape Pow) 20@ op powdered .... 22@ 28 Corrosive Sublm. 1 0501 10 Aloes (Soc. Powd.) 40@ 50 Goldenseal, powd 6 50@7 00 Cream Tartar ... 30@ 35 Asafoetida ....... 75@1 00 Ipecac, powd. .. 2 75@3 00 Cuttlebone ...... 20@ sal Asafoetida, Powd Licorice .......- 14@ 16 BDextrine | ........ 7@_ 10 k : . Licorice, powd. 12@ 15 Dover's Powder 2 v0@2 25 Pure ......... @ % Oprris, powdered 25@ 30 Emery, all Nos. 6@ 10 U. S. P. Powd. @1 00 Poke, powdered a a ey, ees 5@ PS ‘ Rhubarb ...... 5@ tpsom Salts, s i ee 55@ 60 Rhubarb, powd. 75@1 25 Epsom Salts, less 2%@ 0 ae Guaiac .....+.+-. 35@ 40 Rosinweed, powd. 25@ 30 Ergot .......... 1 50@1 ‘to Guaiac, Powdered 60@ 60 Sarsaparilla, Hond. _ lurgot, powdered 1 ae? 00 Kino .....:....... @ 40 eround ....-; @ 50 #lake White ..... 12M 15 vl 45 Sarsaparilla Mexican, Formaldehyde lb. 10@ 15 Kino, Powdered e. @ i ground ...... 25@ 30 Gambier ........ 6 10 Myrrh .....-.--++- @ 40 Squills 320.01... : ao a Goerine ee og a 7der » 4 Squills, powdere rlassware, full cases 8 mista te = Tiimeane. powd. a a Glassware, ee & 10% sets cs ZoWi ¢ Valerian, powd. 5@ nlauber Salts @ 1 ‘ ¢ — Opium, Powd. .. 8 75@8 95 nee Glauber Salts less 2@ 5 ‘“@MERICAN BEAUTY” Display Case No. 412—one cas oy ae ee of more than one hundred models of Show Case, Shellac .... 28@ 35 ’ eG co cesses: oA) OF Glue, white .. 15@ 2 d Di 1 Fi d d b the Geoa Shellac, Bleached 30@ 35 Anise, powdered 22@ > Gije, white grd_15@ 20 Shelving and Display Fixtures designed by ’ ind: Is i200... Tragacanth No. 11 40@1 50 Canary ........... oe: Oe 234@ x0 Rapids Show Case Company for displaying all kinds Tragacanth, Pow 76@ 8 oe ae 1 502 7 Widen 2. ue 85@1 00 of goods, and adopted by the most progressive stores of America. ee ea $0@ 85 odoforia ".2.22...8 4098 60 GRAND RAPIDS SHOW GASE CO., Grand Rapids, Michigan ee Dill nesses eeeeee 23@ 30 i a Ae ae x The Largest Show Case and Store Equipment Plant in the World Buchu .......... A BiG) OO ECON +--+ >*>- . ace ee 90 Show Rooms and Factories: New York, Grand Rapids, Chicago, Boston, Portland Buchu, Powd. .. 2 00@2 25 Flax ............ 4@ 8 Mace, powdered sas ue Sage, bulk ...... 18@ 25 Flax, ground .... 4@ 8 tho 50@6 00 Sage, %s Loose. 20@ 25 Foenugreek, pow. 6@ 10 Moa seeeees 5 75 +4 Sage, Powdered.. 25@ 30 oe Gh = Morphine ail bra 6 vs 30 - Senna, Alex ...... 45@ 50 Lobelia .......... eM Te oe 10 Benne, inn 532 1G 2) Mustard oue”.. $8 by Nux Vomica pow § @ is ae Senna, Tinn, Pow. 20@ 26 oe Pepper, black pow 20@25 Se a eae ae cue COLEM N S Tene | Uva Ural .....:... 10@ 15 pea powd. 2 = Pepper, white! " 20 35 FOOTE & JENKS (BRAND ) a | Bopny .630.....e ot catia see ee os 7 on Rope. RG* I Quasia se. 108.35 | Terpenetess Lemon and tizhcrss Vanilla Almonds, Bitter, Sabadilla /....... 250 eo oS oo — ose%, ae ' Ee Bitter, - © cage a0 tp ci powd. a * ee cade 4 50@1 75 Insist on getting Coleman's Extracts from your jobbing grocer, or mail order direct to ade al tter, Sunflower ...... wees artificial ...... @1 00 Worm American 15@ 20 oot ea pas 88 2 FOOTE & JENKS, Jackson, Mich. Aleaoe. —— Worm Levant .. 50@ 60 e z Mixture .. 20 true ...--- 90@1 00 Soap, green ... 15@ amend Sweet, _ Tinctures Soap, mott castile 10@ 15 imitation .... “oe ms: Aconite te a a ee castile @6 35 ; Amber, crude ... eek... GS S:*(‘(‘<‘C‘C“C‘COSSSS. ce tes Amber, rectified . 40@ 50 Arnica ........-- 60 Soap, white castile F Ki d f C B k Anise .......... 2 25@2 50 Asafoetida ...... 1 00 ie aa bar ing ° our nh S O Ou on OO Ss Peer’ Beale 7 . o oe ee @ * aoe . oe aa ig@ 6 i aieput ........- @nZOin .....-..- : Cane .. «ee. 150@1 75 Benzoin Compound 90 oc. a eae: 19 a are manufactured by us and all sold on the same > va ar Poa 100 nIphe oll "24@ 6 basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. cans ...... 124%@ 15 Cantharadies .. . 100 Sulphur oil -<0- : . p ! -— a.) oe a8 Sk ag i t 15 Free samples on application. Citronella ...... 7» Cardamon ..... i a 2 Les Cloves ......-...- 150@1 75 Cardamon, Comp. 65 Tartar oO bs Goce ver 2c 1 28@1 80 Cinehona 2200000. 105 Vanitia ‘xt. pure 1 00@1 60 TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. C Cod Liver ...... ooo E 50 sae 100 Colchicum ....... 60 Witch Hazel .... 65@1 ‘ Grouse a 898i 60 Cubebs ........- @120 Zinc Sulphate... 7@ 10 j i i ; : i ii i i : ti } } 1 MICHIGAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing. and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled at market prices at date of purchase. Prices. however. are ADVANCED Canned Apples Canned Pumpkin Carbon Oils ea Wingold Flour Index to Markets By Columns Ammonia ........---- 1 Axle Grease .......--- 1 Baked Beans .......--- oe ‘Shaangahe coo bee eek ain’ ....-.----.+-+-6- Breakfast Food ....--. Brooms ......+-+---++: Brushes ........--+--+:: Butter Color ......---- Cc Candles .......--+-++-+> Canned Goods ......--- 1- Carbon Oils .......---- Catsup .......----e0e:- Cheese ......--2----2+5s Chewing Gum .....--- Chicory ..----+-++-+-- Chocolate .....-----+-- Cloines Lines .....-.-- eh teh th teed tek fel fed Coffee ...cceeerssceeces Confections .....---+-+- Cracked Wheat .....--- CrackerS ...--+++-++:- 5, Cream Tartar .....--- D Dried Fruits ....----+«- F Farniaceous Goods .... 6 Fishing Tackle ........ 8 Flavoring Extracts ... ; 7 MAMA Ci& CoG CWO WH NNN an Flour and Feed .......- Fruit JarS ....--+-+e-:: a Gelatine ...-.-cessecrs 2 Grain Bags .....---+-: 7 H Blerbe .. ...--cceces:- 7 Hides and Pelts ....... 8 Horse Radish ......-- 8 d bees Se eces 8 Jelly Glasses Cece Bec 8 M Macaron! ......--s.+> 8 Mapleine ..........++-. 8 Meats, Canned ......- ; 8 8 Mince Meat ......-.---- Molasses ....... see Mustard .......-.ce4- N Mest Ow. «ow oc cee--e 4 ° Qlive® .....-..----.- cee 8 P Eaore bol bose eeese . 8 Pipes .....-.----- scese- 8 Pibying Caras ......-- . 8 Pormeh ......---- ote 8 Provisions .....--....-. 8 R Boiled i” Gate ......----. 9% s Salad Dressing ......-- 9 Beleratus ...... ee 9 ROUm ....--+-6 cise 6 ; Salt Fish ....... Lee 2 Shoe Blacking ..------ 10 Smt ops e-- > beeeee 7 Boap ....-.-.-- resenenene TD 10 10 10 Table Sauces ......... 10 OS Sccceece, OO Tobacco .....---- 11, 12, 13 "IGS on 00 -scce ceeetees ae Vv Vinegar ......--.-. sooee 18 Ww Wicking ........ so--c. a8 Woodenware ........ . Wrapping Paper ..... 14 ¥ Weast Cake .......... 14 12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box x 1l. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3%4Ib. tin boxes, 2 “Id poco te 5 Little Neck, erg Little Neck, 2tb. BAKED BEANS Clam Boulton No. 1, per doz. No. 2, per doz. No. 3. per doz. BATH BRICK Burnham’s pts. Burnham’s qts. Condensed Pearl Small C P Bluing, doz. Large C P Bluing, doz. BREAKFAST FOODS Apetizo. Biscuits Bear Food, Pettijohns 1 Cracked Wheat, 24-2 2 50 Cream of Wheat, 36-2 Cream of Rye, 24-2 .. Posts oc aT Monbadon (Natural) ore to Farinose, 24-2 Grape Sugar Flakes .. Sugar Corn Flakes Hardy Wheat Food .. Postma’s Dutch Cook Kellogg's Toasted Ye . oe Toasted Rice Ko. Toasted Wheat 3b ee esac ese 3 30 1. sks: @1 Kelogg’s Krumbles Krinkle Corn Flake .. gre —— ne Pears in Syrup - 3 cans, per doz. Mapl- Gorn Flakes .. Minn. Wheat Cereal Ralston Wheat Food Ralston Wht Food 10c Saxon Wheat Food .. Shred Wheat Biscuit Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l Post Tavern Special .. Quaker Puffed Rice Quaker Puffed Wheat Quaker Brkfst Biscuit Quaker Corn Flakes .. Victor Corn Flakes ... Washington Crisps Wheat Hearts - 110@1 Karly June siftd 1 45@1 No. 10 size can iS . . pdm jt bed ND et bt BD Be BS fe et CS BO eo CO tS ¢ fe Warrens, 1 tb. Warrens, 1 tb. Flat Med Red Alaska 1 wg Pink Alaska ...... Evapor’d Sugar Corn Parlor, 4 String, 2 . Standard Parlor 23 Ib. ND OO OD OO te 1 Domestic, % Mustard 2 French %p ..... oo ciom “Whisk ressaee Fancy Whisk ....... : Solid Back, 8 in. Solid Back, 11 in. Dunbar, Ist doz. . 1 20 ee eee ee ee 1 25@1 40 eee sonar reese sere BUTTER COLOR Dandelion, 25c size . CARBON OILS D. S. Gasoline cs —_ GOODS Deodor’d Nap’a_ 29 . Tb. og Black, winter .. TSU CA Snider’s pints ....... 2 85 2 Standard ot Snider’s % pints . TRADESMAN 3 CHEESE Deme ......,.... @18 Bloomingdale .. @18 Carson City .... @18% Hopkins ........ @18 BMiCK «......,..... @17% Meigen. 2... 6c. @15 Limburger ...... @17% Pineapple ...... 40 @60 dam -......... @85 Sap Sago ....... @18 Swiss, domestic @20 CHEWING GUM Adams Black Jack .... 55 Adams Sappota ....... 55 Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 55 BeecennUt 2... kkk lle. 60 Chiclets .............. 1 25 Colgan Violet Chips .. 60 Colgan Mint Chips .... 60 DentyMe ..........-.. 1 10 Mlas Spruce .......... 55 Juicy Bruit ........... 55 Reqd Robin ........... 55 Sen Sen (Jars 80 pkgs, B220) sob ce este ee se Spearmint, Wrigleys 60 Spearmint, 5 box jars 3 00 Spearmint, 3 box jars 1 80 arunk Spruce ......... 55 Wucatan ................ 55 LAS VO 60 CHICORY Bulk oes ces. 5 Ree ......... cece 6 7 HACIC . 3. ..4 5.5. cele 5 Hranekis 2 .......5.-%. 7 Scheuers .....-..... 6 Red Standards ...... 1 60 White .......... ..6.. 1 60 CHOCOLATE Walter Baker & Co. German’s Sweet ..... 22 Premium ....0.......- 32 CATACKR ...-..5.0-555. 28 Walter M. TLowney Co. Premium, %8 ........ 29 Premium, 468 ......... 29 CLOTHES LINE Per doz. No. 40 Twisted Cotton 95 No. 50 Twisted Cotton 1 No. 60 Twisted Cotton 1 No. 80 Twisted Cotton 2 No. 50 Braided Cotton 1 No. 60 Braided Cotton : 25 2 1 2 No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 85 No. 80 Braided Cotton 2 25 No. 50 Sash Cord ..... 75 No. 60 Sash Cord ..... 00 No. 60 Jute .......... 90 No. 72 Jute ......-.... 1 00 No. 60 Sisal ........... 90 Galvanized Wire No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10 No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90 No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10 COCOA BARONS 6 occas ee 5s 37 Cleveland ............. 41 Colonial, Ws .......... 35 Colonial, %8 .......... 33 DVO) Os ee ee 42 Wershey's, Ys ........ 30 Hershey's, %6S ...-.... 28 mauyler 20... Bee eo sle es 36 Lowney, YS ... 6.65 33 Lowney, %8 .......... 33 Lowney, %s ....... cee 130 Lowney, 5 Ib. cans .... 383 Van Houten, %s ..... 12 Van Houten,, 4s ..... 18 Van Houten, s ..... 36 Van Houten, Ils ...... 65 Wan-iita ......-......- 36 WEDD .......5-. Se cies 33 Wilber, %s ........... 33 Wilber, BaS bocccae coe S COCOANUT Dunham's per Ib. ls, 5Ib. case ...... 30 148, bib. Case ....... 29 %s, 15Ib. case ...... 29 16s, 15Ib. case ...... 28 is, 161b. case ....... 27 4s & &%s 15tb. case 28 Scalloped Gems ...... 10 4s & Ws pails ...... 16 Bulk, pails ........... 144 Bulk, barrels ..... 13% Baker’s Brazil Shredded 10 5c pkgs., per case 2 60 26 10c pkgs., per case 2 60 16 10c and 33 5c pkgs., per case ........... 2 60 re. SeAStee oO Common ......... |) Hair... Recs cee: 19% MONOICR 5.6 cess us 20 MAnUCy 2.60.6... ssc ls 21 Peaberry ........... 23 Santos Common oe cee eee. 20 aire co... te. ecees 20% Choice beg ccee esc... 21 BONY ccs se cee - 23 Peaberry ...... edie clas 23 Maracaibo Hair ....... cberecsecs 4 Choice ....... See ces 25 Mexican Choice .6o63 600s eee. 25 MUCH) 65.35 ce tee ssl. 26 “Guatemala HOlG oc cs. e See te 20 Miancy ...5..,0555-0 -- 28 Java Private Growth ....26 0 Mandling ...........81@35 Aukola see ececcc eee e BO@32 4 Mocha Short Bean ........ 25@27 Long Bean .......... 24@25 mt Ol G. 6... 26@28 Bogota Pair 22... oc. 24 Ce eee meee ec ecee 26 Exchange Market, Steady Spot Market, Strong Package New York Basis Arbuckle .....:.... 20 50 THOM 2. eck... 21 du McLaughlin’ s XXXX McLaughlin’s XXX*X sold to retailers only. Mail — orders direct to W. McLaughlan & Co., Guieaas Extracts Holland, % gro boxes - Felix, \% STOSR 2°55... 11 Hummel’s foil, % gro. 8 Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43 CONFECTIONERY Stick Candy = Horehound ......... dee Standard ......... Seles 8 Standard, small ...... - 8% Twist, small ........ - 2 Cases OUIMHO .....5.....5.% t.c 8 Jumbo, small ........ % Big, Stick ...........4. - 8% Been Cream ........ 13 Mixed C andy Broken ..........:; poe 5 MAMSO oo 6655.6... se ‘ Cut Loaf ............. : HMeney ......... ne French Cream bactcs © Grocers 2.5.2.0: s.ce06 6% Kindergarten ....... sok ERAGON 2. os ccc. cess ce 8% Majestic ......... eaibis cis 9 Monarch ..........-.-. 8% Novelty .. Seale ees 10 Paris Creams .......... 10 Premio Creams ....... " ROyVAl o...ssees. sss ces o i% Special ¢......:....-.. 8% Valley Creams ........ 12 > 0 Ce 7 Specialties ails Auto Kisses (baskets) 'B Bonnie Butter Bites .. Butter Cream Corn ie Candy Crackers (oskt) 15 Caramel Dice ....... 13 Cocoanut Kraut ...... 14 Cocoanut Waffles .....14 Coco Macaroons ......16 Coty Totty ............ 14 Dainty Mints qT tb. “tin 15 Empire Fudge ........14 Fudge, Pineappls ......13 Fudge, Walnut ...... 18 Fudge, Filbert. ..... Fudge, Choco. Peanut “12 Fudge, Honey Moon ..13 Fudge, Toasted Cocoa- MUG | ts cc eee ss 13 Fudge, Cherry .........14 Fudge, Cocoanut ......13 Honeycomb Candy ....15 OKAYS ......0.2.22... 24 Iced Maroons .......... 14 Iced Gems ........ «. 2D Iced Orange Jellies’ --.i3 Italian Bon Bons ......13 Mancnns ............ 13 Molasses Kisses, 10 box ‘asscces Ae Nut Butter Puffs ose eee 13 Salted Peanuts ...... 13 Chocolates Pails Assorted Choc. ........ 15 Amazon Caramels ... — Champion ............ Choc. Chips, Bureka 7 Climax .....:..2.;..-. -13 Eclipse, Assorted ..... 15 Eureka Chocolates ...16 HAVOVUO «ccsccss- sess ck0 Ideal Chocolates ......13 Klondike Chocolates ..18 WNabobs. .........-...4. 18 Nibble Sticks ....... ..25 Nut Wafers .......... 18 Ocoro Choc. Caramels . Peanut Clusters ...... Pyramids Quintette . ROMINA oc. cas sacks Star Chocolates ....... Superior Choc. (light) iz ae Corn Goods ithout prizes. Cracker Jack ...... 3 25 Giggles, 5c pkg. cs. 3 nA Oh My 100s ........ 3 5 Cough Drops boxes Putnam Menthal ... 1 00 Smith Bros. .... 1 25 NUTS—Whole Almonds, Tarragona 19 Almonds, California soft shell ...... rave .......... 14@16 Fiiberts ......... @13% Cat. No. 1 ...... Walnuts soft shell @19 Walnuts, Chilli . @16 Table nuts, fancy —T Pecans, medium .. @13 Pecans, ex. large @15 Hickory Nuts, per bu. al mc oeatresenens eee New York State, per bu. .... January 14, 1914 D Shelled ee 1 aver Shelled eanuts, ew ..9@ 9 Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled a Peanuts ...,. 10%@11 Pecan Halves .., @50 Walnut Haives - 386@38 Filbert Meats .. 30 Alicante Almonds @50 Jordan Almonds , @60 Peanuts Fancy H P Suns Ra . — Ot (ie. Jami Raw 4, Roasted . ss eo Sec heiae @ Wi, CRACKED WHEAT Bue 3% 24 2Ib. pkgs. eccccee od 50 “ CRACKERS National i ; eo Company Butter Excelsior Butters Soagie . NBC Square Butters -- 6% Seymour Round sees 6% Soda NBC Sodas .......... 6% Premium Sodas ereeee TH Select Sodas tecereesee 8G Saratoga Flakes ....., 13 Saltines ......... | see 18 Oyster as NBC Picnic Oysters .. 6% Gem Oysters ...... coe. OMG Shell Sweet Goods Cans and boxes Animals ........:.. ~- 1 Atlantics Also Asstd. . 12 Avena Fruit Cakes ... 12 Bonnie Doon Cookies. .10 Bonnie Lassies ...... 10 Brittle Fingers ...... 10 Cameo Biscuit ae (CANS) see ccc. Cameo Biscuit A (Cans) 6.60.55. acces ae Cartwheels Asstd. .... &% Cecelia Biscuit ...... le Chocolate Bar (cans) 18 Chocolate Drops ...... 17 Chocolate Drop Cen- Ceres... 6. coes 20 Choc. Honey Fingers. 16 Choc. Kosettes (cans) 20 CLACKNEGIS .cccccccccce SO vucualut Latly Bar .. 46 LUCUGMUL LITUDB ..c065 £6 vucualul Macaruluns .. 10 weucwul Houey bk ligera 12 cocut tioney Jumbies 14 culcee Cakes iced ... 12 wventide Fingers .... 16 ramily Cookies ....... 8% tig Cakes Asstd. .... 12 «rosted Creamg ...... 8% trosted Ginger Cookies 84, fruit Lunch Iced .... 10 Ginger Gems Plain .... 84% Ginger Gems Iced .... ¥y% Graham Crackers .... 8 Ginger Snaps Family .. 3% Ginger Snaps NBC Round .. tieces 6 Household Cookies Lecce Household Cks. Iced .. 9 Hippodrome Bar ..... 12 Honey Jumbles ...... 14 Imperials ...... desccsc Som Jubilee Mixed ....... 10 Lady Fingers Sponge ..30 Leap Year Jumbles .. 18 Lemon Biscuit Square 8% Lemon Wafers ...... emona .......... - 8% Mace Cakes .. Mary Ann ........... 8 Marshmallow Cte. Ck. 13 Marshmallow Walnuts 18 MEGOrG .5..sccccccesces 8 Mottled Squares .... 10 NBC Honey Cakes ... 12 Uatmeal Crackers .... ou Orange Gems ........ Penny Assorted ....... Hid Peanut Gems ......... 9 Pineapple Cakes ..... 16 Raisin Gems ........- Il Reveres Asstd. ....... 16 Spiced Ginger Cakes ..9 Spiced Ginger Cakes [ced .-.. ccc... 0666 7. Sugar Fingers ....... Sugar Crimp ....... 1% Sultana Fruit Biscuit ‘16 Triumph Cakes ..... oe Vanilla Wafers ...... i Waverley ..... wiceeces 10 In-er-Seal Trade Mark Goods per doz Baronet Biscuit ...... $1 Bremners Btr Wafs. 1 v0: Cameo Biscuit ...... 1 50 Cheese Sandwich . 1 Chocolate Wafers ... 1 Bxcelsior Butters .... 1 00 Fig Newton ...... nied Five O’Clock Tea Bact. 1 0 Ginger Snaps NEC .. 1 0 i * | J ? j i | Janu ary 14 , 1914 Grah am M Lab Crac I ee 7 CHIGAN eae FLAVORIN TRA eee ING EXT 8 DES Saratoga I : a . Jennings D RACTS MAN eee Haein HIDES AND . eu Sm A Ace. yd a ca a _ Extract on Terper Green, Hid PELTS 9 ee Eo moe ise t Vanilla neless Green, io. Pieni ~~ anilla Se Wafer 50 noth at t la Mexica Cured, No. 2 eceeee H ec Boil aoe Hy es wie ka ean wel » Cured, No. 2 oe Boiled ni 10 u Zu Gi n Biscuit .. 100 N ; © box 7 > price Calfski oe - it Min Hams .. 19 aaa ae 11400 ao 2, F box % OZ. 8 Calfskin, green, No. ai cp Sha el os aa . s Ls] ees Be QO. ’ cy 5 a ’ , ; : i mote Package oot S) No. 24 om i on 1 cape Ray Pe aogna St 7o, a su ost. Rarnum’ age G Fey Yy 4 oz. 2 , cured, 0 Y olo au 5 uaa eee” : ant ho m’s An i oods 2 oz. F oz. Ta 2 00 red, N 1” Liv gna . sages C away yrna 3. 14 oe Beare Ac 2 ert Se ses To as Bape a Sept be mug meee — amil ckers NBC 250 UR 175 Shea ae rankfort |... %@ fan Hua abar | ot nec Soda ra Pack NBC Grand AND einae | ie POrK .....0e.- 12 10 Mixet Haas 1 20 Hila 1 ut FE gs eee ay... ¥%@1 fixed -USS1a eeeee gle, 16 oz. . Fam rackers age ...25 Rapid ED ee Veal eeeeereees 13 3 Mu Bird n . 50 Bu . 16 oz a. Eee a ace - Milling Grain No. 1 Tallo Headch A @14 lila maoniie : 5 a 6 OB. -eeeceeee 1 45 ge Cake .. eee ... 2 90 Purit Winter aL e& No. 2 Ae ae iw UG ooseereeeseeee 11 ta yh a. 5 Dag Patch, 6 and 6 be 3 84 pecial a 3 00 eo Patent —eer @5 i et, 7 a | uceaes a 8 Dan eee, 4 a 16 a 11 00 Festi Packa Wiz rst_. sees Unwa Ww @ R neless Beef de ke - & Fast hee 2 ce. 32 N no. ges Ww ara Flour... 4. 5 10 Un shed ool 4 ump ae Ha E GE cue Gag Hia Mail, “a 11 52 Nabisco 5... per dos, Wisi Greta = 480 washed, med... @ig wo Lass! Handy Rox, large ¢ dz, Hiawatha, 18 oa. 2.5 18 sco Be es... 50 W. ard G oo me OF HORS eo. 018 bb Pig’s F 00@ 50 Bix y Box arge 3 Ma “nh a a econ 7 90 ? ee 2 50 izard eal Meal | 48 er d RSE . @t x, 1s. s Fee 24 50 xby’s x, sm dz. 3 Ne y Flows fA Nabis In buik, p 1 Rye Buckwh’ eal 4 0 OZ. . RADIS 3 % bbls. 40 It t Miller’ Royal all 50 'o Li wer, 16 oz. . 60 eae ulk, per oe veeeees h’t cwt 3 a. H % bbls. OTN ale 1 s Crow naa | ig ae dt a to Festina 00 “valley City Millin ie ue — 90 a ee eee: 0 Ss pat Poli 85 i 4. ot a BEING Cracker 175 Lil y City Mi -. 4 40 5Ib. pa S, per IS. seeeeereencees 2 10 Scotch, i NUFF sh 85 Ojib a, 8 02. +e. 1 80 BSc tasted ee _ A , JibW a teens oF ean sae 1a Elghetoa LEU BRL RIE Be aon, .. 240 Sb a Secsetaae pte aie ee z rels AR rah ‘ Cceueece JE ’ r ue 4 bbl s. o ch Ra a a io male Sereeenss Boxe or dru TAR Gr am : 510 % Pt LLY pail 5% z., 40 Ibs. apple Irs .. 37. Peto no nyt ice aot 11 10 @aiare Onn me oN Hentie o. 460 2 pt. in Db! ee 00 bbis., 40 Ibs. «1.2... 90 lane ons Caine’ oi ao Fancy, ae = Gaeea a aaa fa n.. per dos alae Boxes SODA , gdlgmeane ‘= serune Choice. ae old songs, Se doa. “ge i 63 i. es ymot Bock wae’ 50 50 taba... adv 9 a Pin uey, -— - oon Imes, % ara. 00 Medion 0000000-. . oS Bhos'1 28 0 Le ‘ DKgS <1 @ Bamb Oo, 16 ft. per do S cee 18 pails advan % N , 100 Ss. . + $9 ncy tees ‘ankee Gil Se 1-6 ar Be ta 6 Bee oa i eis ae ce 1 0. 1, 100 Ibs... ee ae 28 Pan Handle ee gro. 16 : t doz =a s ams ked vance No. 1, Cte 19 Oolong @30 n Hand Scra . 67 +» per doz. 60 . ee eee ek Ham , 12 Ih Meat el . i, 10 ee 16 0 Fo Oolo .. 45@5 Peach le Se Pp, 202 6 pa. Ss urel = uoaa ices cis Ha s, 14 tb. av. 190 oC 6 0 e rmosa ng 5 Unio y Sera rp 4g . 5 76 enn ceweg 15 ne ib am oe @ 1 a ‘eo 2c » Med i. Wake 2; 7 el Leaves «20.0... - 2 ea a. 1i83@19” i - hitefich 1 80 Formosa, oe +l eran ik te 8 : Ha 8 15 19 a h sa. ice 5@2 2% 6 ee 15 m, a . av. %@ 1 a. 5 ome ee ” Fan _ sa 8 s 6 0 [96 sets Hed bac 16 16 0 TDS. ss. eeeeeeeee 9 Engli cy . @35 All Le mokin 0 California Fs: ws a Ibs. Sones a3 Congou ae eaene laa eat. 2% - ia Hams = @30 pe lbs. iesteen «st e8 1 * Congou, — ast be q — a eae 7 og. 30 2 @1% 8 Ibs. eteeieeeeen 2 Gungow, a ser loc ae @ Woes III” 10 ie Panay Hae Badger, $0 spp Hm ee 15 Pekoe, M eylon 0@80 ea * = _ ne 65 Flo > we cae 5c ° 5 04 wery , Choi ae Ban r, 20c ad oO. P ce 30 ner a : , mee i 35 Belwood 40¢ ase — Bis ae = 9 Chief, i> = es oz. . . € a oa nannies Aparna teat nN it Smoking Pilot, 7 oz. doz. .... 1 05 Faucets ner, Jackson; God. rk i] Bull Durham, 5c ..... 5 85 Soldier Boy, 1 tb. .... 475 Cork lined, 3 in. ...... 7 oo Durand & o “Battle Cleanser i Bull Durham, 10c ... 11 52 Sweet Caporal, 1 oz... 60 Cork lined, 9 in. ...... 80 *atb. cans 2 50 Creek: Fielbach Co. To- Nt Guaranteed to | Bull Durham, se... 17 28 Sweet Lotus, BO oo 6G. 6 00 Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90 %Ib cans 3 75 ledo f n ( Gegersecreay b be — i Bull Durham, 8 oz. .. 3 60 Sweet Lotus, 10c .... 12 00 Mop Sticks Ib cans 4 80 : wi oa oe Bull Durham, 16 oz. .. 6 72 Sweet Lotus, ner dz. 485 Trojan spring ........ 90 3Ib cans 13 00 PROVISIONS, aay lane ere i Buck Horn, 5c ....-. 576 Sweet Rose, 2% oz. .. 30 fclipse patent spring A oe fone ft ee SOAP r - 828=——“—stsSS Bc’ orn. 100 ...... 52 Sweet Tip Top, Se .. 50 No. 9 nat brush holde Lautz Bros.’ & — | —— yori - 7 bo Sweet Tip Top, 10c .. 1 00 a oo holder = CIGARS Acme, 30 bars ...... 4 00 | Boer Bins, ie |... 1800 Src Caen, see gs Te: Otten soon Resta Oe a eee 7) hee 6 08 | Black Swan, 5c ...... 5 76 Summer Time, Se .... 5 a8 Palls pane gee 70 Ibs. 3 80 Summer Time, 7 oz. .. 2-h s.cme. cakey .... 3 20 Black Swan, 14 oz. .. 350 Simmer Time, 14 om. 360 g-noch grndard .... 2 00 Big Master, 100 blocks 4 00 Bob White, 5c ...... 6 00 Standard, 5c foil .... 5 76 3-wire Cable ~~ oe Get wee a es Brotherhood, 5c ...... 6 00 Standard, 10c paper .. 864 Fibre ................ 2 40 : pea cks 3 85 Seal N. C., 1% cut plug 70 40 qt. Galwanisca . German Mottled 3 15 Brotherhood, 10c .... 11 10 qt. Galvanized .... 1 70 , - Seal N. C. 1% Gran. 63 42 gt. Galvanized 1 90 = German Mottled, 5 bx. 3 15 Brotherhood, 16 oz. .. 5 05 Three Feathers, 1 oz. 3 io Gen a Sons SS . A : Carnival, 5c .......--- 5 70 Three Feathers, 10c_ 11 52 = vanized .... 2 10 German Mottled, 10 b. 3 10 oe : g Three Feathers and Toothoicks S. C. W., 1,000 lots .... 22 Loe n eee ee 2 oe Carnival, % OZ. ...... 3 ice pomninetion 2 25 7m Gorane 33 autz Naphtha 100 ck. 3 85 a9 p ee a 100 packeges .. 200 =e caeee oe. tate secs: 3 Marseilles, 100 cakes 6 00 Carnival, 16 oz. ..... Tom & Jerry, 14 oz. .. 3 60 Teg Evening Press ........ : M fe 1 (cer Clips. Johnson 80 Tom & Jerry, 70. .-10 0 wa Mxenpiar ....,........ reali iy oe ng ea i Cigar Clip’g. Seymour 44 — oe Oz. ee C Traps Canadian Club, 300 lots io - Marcetlias. \, He sie 4 i dentity, 3 & 16 oz. rout ne, 5c .....- Mouse, Apex Hams ........e-+> te : a ey Cigar Cuttings 450 Trout Line, 10c ...... 11 6¢ Sieace eee oo e Vee ee ce te. Apex Bacon Proctor & Gamble C Continental Cubes, 19¢ 90 Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 768 Nfouse, wood. 6 holes 70 Canadian Club. Sescesseees Gamble Co. Gorn Cake, 14 oz. .... 255 Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags .. 48 Mouse. tin, 5 holes 65 Londres, 50s, wood .... 35 Apex Lard ........... Lenox ..-...+.- eee 3 20 Corn Cake, 7 02. .... : . Tuxedo, 2 oz. tins .. y . Rat, wood ..... 2 go) Londres, 258, tins 35 Excelsior Hams ....... Sas i, ee ae ciseenee 76 Tuxedo, 20c ........-- Ae : : gee , Sole. (6 ae Bem Cake, ee “hee - cote cae tab 7 45 Rat spring .......... 75 Londres, lots, 30s ..... 10 Excelsior Bacon ....... Star 8 35 Cuban Star, 5c foil .. 5 75 Twin Oaks, 10c ...... 96 Tubs COFFEE Silver Star Lard ...... Tradesman Co.’s Brand Cuban Star, 16 oz pails 3 72 Union Leader, 50c .... 5 . 20-in .Standard, No. 1 8 00 ineted Silver Star Lard ...... Black Hawk, one ee 9 50 Chips, 10c ......-..-- 10 . se ed Lng al a ‘a 18-in. Standard, No. 2 7 00 nine wae oa wa Family Pork .......... Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40 Pile pat Bt vo a Union confor, Be ..--- 6 00 a ee, a 3 : ae i oot oe S Fat Back Pork ...... Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25 Dills Best, 16 oz. 73 Union Workman, 1% 5 76 4g-in. Cable, No. 2.... 7 00 Prices quoted upon appli- A. B. Wrisley ees — 22 ager E +4 see sapling Ayal soe .° - 18-in. Cable, No. 3 .... 6 0¢ cation, Hammond, Standish Good Cheer ......... 4 00 Duke’s Mix, 10c .... 1152 U. S, Marine, 5c z- 8 76 ee ee & Co., Detroit, Mich. Ola Country ........ 2 40 > ke’s Cameo, 5c .. 576 Van Bibber, 2 oz. tin = INO: s Hipre .......... t “toni Be .....------- 5 76 Velvet, 5c pouch .... 48 [Large ecicahicca 2 =P SAFES . foamy Powders 3 rE A. 4 ov. ........ 5 04 Velvet, 10c tin ....... . 86 Medium Galvanized 475 ATMOUPS 2. eee sees 3 70 aA To |... 1, 52 Welvel. & oe. tin... BSE Secu ieksaricea 7 a ce Gables ue a2 Fashion, 5c .........- 6 00 Velvet, 16 oz. can ...- 7 68 © Gold Dust, 24 large ..4 30 Fashion, 16 0z. ...... 5 28 Velvet, combination cs 5 75 Washboards Gold Dust, 100 small ..3 8p Five Bros., 5c ...... 576 Wer Path, 6c ...-...- 6 0° Banner Globe 2 50 Kirkoline, 94 Ath... 19 80 Five Bros., 10c ...... 10 53 War Path, 20c .......- S08 Grass Giseie 3 95 Lantz Naphtha 69s ..2 40 Five cent cut Plug.. 29 Wave Line, 3 oz. ...- 49 Glass, Single 3 25 = a Naphtha, 100s 3 75 re OB 0c .....----- 11 52 Wave Line, pt oz. .--- 409 Single Acme 3 15 oe ea Rice Four Roses, 10¢ ...... 96 Way up, 2% OZ. ....-- 575 Double Peerless .....-. 3 75 oe oer bk a Full Dress, 126 02. 12 Way up, 16 oz. ‘pails --, Si Single Peerless ...... 3 25 ee Hand, 5c ...... 8 Wil ru CG oo.ese-- Northe : - : Sac es pees 24 ciety i 12 00 Wild Fruit, 10c ..... 11 52 a i. as Naan a Tenn Snow Boy, 60 5c ..... 2 40 Gold Star, 50c pall .. 470 Yum Yum, 5 te Geol Mhougn --.-.-. 3 5 ee RD ere Bee. 2h) oe Bt en - -~ Navy, 5e 5 2 at oe ci aoe go Universal ........-+6. 3 15 nn taeaeee Full line of fire and bur- Wisdom ..... a 33 oles. — . Window Cleaners glar proof safes kent in Growler, 20c ........ 85 TWINE cin. oe 165 White House, 1 fb ........ stock by the Tradesman , Soap Compounds 76 y 26 i ose. i ‘ son's Hine, 48 2 ..3 25 ae ee a ee ee re oP Company. Thirty-five sizes Johnson's XXX 100 561 00 CC res Siac «6b sake $ ply --...----- 14 ae Bee, Ub .-.-- and styles on hand at all Rub-No-More ....... 2 86 Haze) Nut, 5c ........ 6% emp, 6 oly ..-------- 13 Wood Bowls Excelsior, Blend, 2m ...... times—twice as many safes Nine O'clock ........ 3 50 Honey Dew, 0c 8. 2 00 Flax, eee eee 7 4 ~ Saad steele 1% Tip Top, Blend, 1f) ...... as are carried by any other Scouring — nag pc 6 10 : : ae 17 in. Batter ........ 475 moval Blend .............. house in the State. If you Sapolio. gross lots .. 9 50 1 X L., in palis ...... 3 90 “Lifes hag oe 19 in Butter ........ 7 50 ciel ge TAGE ........ are unable to visit Grand Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85 - Sha ag S pees ee a 4 ne dd hs corse i WRAPPING PAPER “egiaie Blend 72. 0....3. Rapids and inspect the line en ey boxes 2 ts Kiln Dried. 25¢ ...... 2.45 White Wine, 100 grain 13° Common Straw ...... 2 oston Combination ....... personally, write for quo- Sobcrine, sO cakes. T xi King Bird, 7 oz. ...... 2 16 Oakinnd er Pickle oe oe mee a : Distributed by Judson tations. Scourine, 100 cakes .. 3 50 ig Bird, 10c . ~- A138 o’s Brands. y : mine Bird, cs ee 5 74 Highland apple cider 22 No. 1 Manila ......... 4 ~~ Te Tike, be ........ 5 76 Oakland apple cider a ean ggg aes 4 e 3 iant, 1 Ib. .... 28 State Seal sugar . utchers’ Bate ens ‘ C t | t P t pecull oil 10c .... 96 Oakland white pickling 10 Wax Butter, short c’nt 10 onserva Ive nves ors a ronize Le Redo, 3 oz. . 10 80 Packages free. a ee pac count : Le Redo, 8 & 16 oz. 38 ax Butter, rolls .... T. d Ad ° , WICKING 10c .... 11 52 m t Myrtle pary, se oe 5 a No. 0, per gross ...... 30 st oe rd esman Iver isers Maryland Club, ic .. 50 No. 1, per gross .... 40 Magic, 3 doz. .... Mayflower, 5c ........ 5 78 No. 2, per gross .... 50 Sunlight, 3 doz. ... Mayflower, 10c ....... 96 No. 3, per gross .... 75 Sunlight, 1% doz. Mayflower, 20c ....... 1 92 WOODENWARE Yeast Foam, 3 doz. 1 15 e e Nigger Hair, 5c ...... 6 00 Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 58 Public Seatin for all Pur sail oa ws ---- 10 - sheds Baskets 100 YOURS TRULY LINES. poses g2ger ea . c sl o eer eee eee ee eee o Nigger Head,’ 100 .... 10 36 Bushels, wide band .. 1 15 ba and Beans 2 70@3 60 World’s Largest Exclusive Manufacturers °o i eo iV TROL wsccceccvecces x ns ‘ 25 . ge ie pe 1-12 gro. 1152 Splint, large ........ soo Sone 2 aye Church Furniture f Ch Old Mill be 5 74 Splint, medium ...--- 300 Salad Dressing 3 80@4 bv Oo aracter i fare iii 2. 96 Splint, small .......... 275 Apple Butter .... @3 80 old Piro be oe Te 76 Willow, Clothes, large 8 25 Catsup .. 2 70@6 75 Being the only exclusive designers and builders of Sta ‘eat “Ie ea aad 39 Willow, Clothes, small 675 3tS¥P_ -------+- ee ie Church Furniture we are known as an authority on this P. S. 8 oz. 30 lb. cs. 19 Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 50 nase cteeeee On ee subject. Your building committee should have our 5 70 ee ee see @ 8) Pat Hand 7 gs Butter Pates tn. @ 75 pees es Patterson Seal, 11%4 oz. 48 Ovals Extracts @2 25 A ° Patterson Seal, 3 oz... 96 % Ib., 250 in crate .... 35 ee oe m t S t y D k Patterson Seal, 16 oz. 5 00 % Tb., 250 in crate 1... 35 Chili Powder .. 85@2 12 erican ee diiltar eSKS aad etre ae = : _ “4 - = Javed : ae a seeeee 2 a nied — to withstand strain. All parts are electric welded into on Peerless, oe paper ..10 3 Ib., = in crate ...... 70 pouiry a ee el ndestructible unit. Your school board should have our illustrated book B-C. a Peerless, 20c ........ 2 5 Tb., 250 in crate ..... 90 ; ee : Peerless, 40c ......... 4 08 Wire End Prepared Mustard @1 80 Motion Pi t Th t S et ee se, oo boo cov ee eee icrure eaire eating Plow Boy. Oc 11 40 2 lb.. 250 in crate |... 45 Rolled Oats ... 2 90@4 15 Highest in quality, lowest in price. World's largest manufacturers of exclusive designs in Plow Boy, 14 9z. ..-:-- A 70 3 1lb., 250 in crate .... 55 Doughnut Flour 4 05@4 50 opera chairs. Send floor sketch for FREE SEATING PLAN and book B-C-1 Petro, t0e .....-...- 3 5 tb., 250 in crate .... 65 : : e — Ra Virginia, in 2 Ciaran AXLE GREASE Lod e Furniture We specialize Lodge, Hall and et tb ce Ak «250 Beret, Baal, ooh .. 200 Sey Aime Out none Prince Albert, 5c .... 4% Barrel 10 gal., each ..2 55 knowledge of requirements and how to meet them. Many styles in Prince Albert, 10c .... 96 Sites tle stock and built to order, including the more inexpensive portable chairs, dec re lg ~ s : 4 ck or. | rho eae chairs, and luxurious upholstered opera chairs. Write rince os i) Queen Quality, 5c .... 4k 4% inch, 5 gross ...... 65 Rob Roy, 5c foil _ 5 76 Cartons, to 2% doz. bes 70 ° e Rob Roy, 10e gross ..10 52 gg Crates and Fillers q : S Rob Roy, 25c doz. .... 219 Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20 f merican eating Company Rob Roy, 50c doz. .... 4.10 No. 1 complete ..... --- 40 S. & M., 5c gross .... 5 76 No. 2, complete ........ 28 218 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago S. & M., 14 oz., doz. .. 3 20 Case No. 2, fillers, 15 : : Soldier Boy, 5c gross 576 setS ..............4. 1 1 Ib. boxes, per gross 9 00 Grand Rapids New York Boston Philadelphia Soldier Boy, 10c .... 10 50 Case, medium, 12 sets 115 3 lb. boxes, per gross 24 00 30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 14, 1914 SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT 12 13 14 15 16 17 BAKING POWDER Royal 10c sixe .. 90 %% cans 1 35 Grocer Co., Grand Rapids; Lee & Cady, Detroit; Sy- mons Bros. & Co., Sagi- naw; Brown, Davis & War- ; ; ; 4 i 4 ; January 14, 1914 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT 31 Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent continuous insertion. No charge less than 25 cents. Cash must accompaagy all orders. BUSINESS CHANCES. $1,400 will buy stock of groceries and fixtures, well located in best city in State of Michigan. A dandy proposition for man and wife. Rent cheap. Nice living rooms above store. Address J. M. Wood, Flint, Mich. 768 Odds And Ends Sale—Mr. Merchant: If you have any odds and ends, stick- ers, articles that don’t sell, my ten day auction clearance sale will turn these into money, will increase your monthly business, leave your. stock clean and fresh and bring you a lot of new cus- tomers. All correspondence free. W. D. Hamilton, Galesburg, Ill. 767 No Sale! No Charge! Have _ several buyers for small stores. Send full de- scription. Leon ___ A Trial Balance. I hke to think that my mind is one which makes a trial balance each night, and squares itself up. The profit and loss may be under assets, or it may be under liabilities. That's for the next day to overcome or add to, as the case may be; but at night, when the lights are out, and you go to sleep, is the time for you to put by the things of the day which have irri- tated you and realize that you are only one of the infinite number of human beings, and if you can’t square yourself with yourself and make the footings of the asset and liability col- umn alike, it is time there was a change, Harry H. Blunt. BANKRUPTCY MATTERS. Proceedings in Western District of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Jan. 6—In the matter of Maynard & Andrus, clothing merchants of Sparta, the adjourned first meeting of creditors was held. The bankrupts were present and were examined by attorneys John G. Anderson, Cleland & Heald and Boltwood & Botwood. Claims were al- lowed as follows: Fox River Garment Mfg. Co., Aurora, TM ce. 33.99 W. L. Douglas Co., Brockton, Mass. 42.00 The final report and account of Charles J. Rice, receiver, was considered and allowed. Hearing then adjourned with- out day. Jan. 7—In the matter of Oliver J. Cook, general store, Grand Rapids, the final meeting of creditors was held. The bankrupt was represented by Rogers & Rogers; creditors by Ben M. Corwin. Claims were allowed as follows: Renfro Bros, Chicago .........., $ 31.50 Grand Rapids Electric Co. ........ 5.80 A. J. Barnes, Grand Rapids .« 112.59 Consumers Ice Co., Grand Rapids 40.03 C. W. Mills Paper Co., Granada RADIOS 02036 15.28 There was not enough assets to pay any dividend to general creditors and no dividend was ordered. The final meeting was then adjourned indetinitely to allow attorney for creditors to file objections to the bankrupt’s discharge. Jan. 8—In the matter of Eugene D. Tangney, merchant, Ludington, the ref- eree has issued an order directing that the surrender value of insurance policy held by bankrupt amounting to $484 he turned over to the trustee for the benefit of creditors. Jan. 8—In the matter of Maynard & Andrus, clothing merchants, Sparta, the referee granted the petition of the Mishawaka Woollen Mills Co. for the reclaimation of goods sold on reserve title in the sum of $811.96 and the goods have been turned over to petitioners. Jan. 8—In the matter of the Inter- changeable b.ixtures Co., of Grand Rap- ids, the trustee has filed report of sale of all the assets of the bankrupt to Don A. Cawthra for the sum of $14,400 and the sale has been confirmed. This sa! will provide funds to pay the mortgage indebtedness and leave a balance for general creditors and it is probable that a first dividend will soon be declared. Jan. 9—In the matter of the Grand Rapids Motor Truck Co., the referee has issued an order to show cause as to why the trustee should not be author- zied and directed to sue stock holders for unpaid stock subscriptions. The return date of the order is set for Feb. 18, and the list of those to be sued includes some of the largest and most influential business men of the community. Jan. 12—In the matter of the Simpson Automobile Supply Co., the referee has issued an order and findings holding that the purchase of the assets of the bank- rupt did not include cash on hand, re- ceipts from books accounts and return premium on fire insurance policies, mak- ing a return to the trustee for the benefit of creditors of a sum of about $425. Jan. 18—In the matter of John Gold- berg, stone manufacturer, at Grand Hav- en, the final meeting of creditors was held. The report of the trustee shows assets on hand of the amount of $52.50 and there not being enough cash on hand to pay the administration expenses the referee directed that no dividend be declared to general creditors. A certifi- cate favorable to the bankrupt’s. dis- charge will be issued. 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