i INCE SS age NERY ON OS OS DS MIG BWR WFR POLI A ONE Ne NY AS \ 4 q es SOM \ LeSG SS My IAG AS) f-SMy o EP Og Bae OR RSE OE a 6 ; ax BI & a <4 ENING A : EH DD oe 2 e\/d S78 / AE (EASELS Cee Te! J. ey (Be RAS ine RA: OU es ) of SN ~ { SY XS NX UNAS VRS Le > WIZ LL a> A G5 SESS ON Thirty-First Year p TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS< MSCS OA GR PEED LAO OD cM SS GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1914 Number 1587 fue Observations of a Grand Rapids Philosopher If the Lord remembers half the wicked and mean things we do as we remember those done to us, a very small heaven will answer all purposes. The bee stores up more honey and man stores up more money than they need. Both are often relieved of the unnecessary surplus: There are much more effectual ways of convincing one of your friendship than telling him of it. Men and women are simply imitations of children. They need guidance and correction even more than the children and generally submit to it with a much poorer grace. Any man who attempts to build up his own reputation by smirching another’s is an enemy to society. We cannot all be great, but we can be good. Heaven is the final home not of the great but of the good. Many really good are not noted as great, and more the pity too many of the great can hardly be called good. Here’s a good one from Bruce Ismay: ‘“‘When a man is down, his enemies stop kicking him to give his friends a chance.”’ Did you ever see a real musician who was baldheaded? ‘‘The really happy seldom become great,’’ and I may add with equal truth, the so-called great are too often not really happy. Heman G. Barlow. nT. a 2] Good Yeast Good Bread Good Health Sell Your Customers FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST WHEN YOU SEE GOOD CANDY THE SIGN OF “DOUBLE A” Remember it came from The PUTNAM FACTORY, National Candy Co., Inc. Grand Rapids, Mich. 0 Rasen 1 pe eneesdA ods biota ocaeeenre o x 2 Just What You Need IT “Delivers The Goods” Distributed at Wholesale by Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. = i) NCA UY a rat <> N 27 x =) = Drs lc TMU LSS RRS He 5G =i) SSS Uy Til Y We Ul WM) i, V4, Hh whom order is to be filled. BUFFALO, N. Y., January 2, 1914. DEAL NO. 1402. pair U G0) Maa) Ot) odo Peeler Ua Se In Handy 1 Lb. Franklin Cartons With Inside Bag of Moisture Proof Paraffine Paper Packed 24 Lbs to the Container is one of our famous confectioner’s grades, packed in handy form for household use. It will appeal to your customers because of its cleanliness, fineness and purity, and because the moisture proof carton keeps it “free.’’ The 24 lb. con- tainers enable you to buy to suit your convenience. Other FRANKLIN CARTON SUGARS are packed in ORIGINAL CONTAINERS of 24, 48, 60 and 120 lbs. Franklin Carton Sugar is guaranteed full weight and refined CANE sugar. THE FRANKLIN SUGAR REFINING CO. PHILADELPHIA “‘Your customers know FRANKLIN CARTON SUGAR is CLEAN sugar.”’ SNOW BOY FREE! For a limited time and subject to withdrawal without advance notice, we offer SNOW BOY WASHING POWDER 24s FAMILY SIZE through the jobber—to Retail Grocers 2% boxes @ 3.75—%box FREE F. O. B. Buffalo: Freight prepaid to your R. R. Station in lots not less than 5 boxes. All Orders at above prices must be for immediate delivery. This inducement is for NEW ORDERS ONLY-—subject to withdrawal without notice. Order from your Jobber at once or send your order to us giving name of Jobber through 25 boxes @ $3.60—5 boxes FREE 10 boxes @ 3.60—2 boxes FREE 5 boxes (@ 3.65—1 box FREE Yours very truly, Lautz Bros. & Co. Thirty-First Year SPECIAL FEATURES. Page. 2. Detroit Detonations. 3. Honks From Auto City Council. 3. Merry Musings From Muskegon. 4. News of the Business World. 5. Grocery and Produce Market. 6. Financial. 8. Editorial. 9. Backward and Forward. 10. The Meat Market. 11. Not Telling the Truth. 12. Butter, Eggs and Provisions. 14. Clothing. 15. oo For Next Week’s Conven- ion. 16. Dry Goods. 17. Men of Mark. 18. Shoes. 19. Jaunty Jottings From Jackson. 20. Woman’s World. 22. Hardware. 24. The Commercial Traveler. 26. Drugs. 27. Drug Price Current. 28. Grocery Price Current. 30. Special Price Current. 31. Business Wants. howafactuing Meer. Menominee—The Dugas Motor Car Co. has been organized with an author- ized capital stock of $10,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Coldwater—Mrs. Hannah Smith has purchased the interest of her partner, J. C. Bisbee, in the Bisbee & Smith bakery and will continue the business under his own name. Ontonagon—Raymond Bergeron has sold his interest in Bergeron Bros. bak- ery to his partner and brother, Walter, who will continue the business under his own name. Carrolton—The Eastman Salt Pro- ducts Co. has been organized with an authorized capital stock of $40,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Alpena—Frederick A. Kimball and Howard L. Churchill have formed a copartnership and purchased the plant of the Alpena Excelsior Co. and will continue the business. Bay City—The Bay City Building Co. has engaged in business with an authorized capital stock of $1,000, which has been subscribed and $250 paid in in cash, Greenville—The Greenville Fixture Co. has been organized with an au- thorized capital stock of $6,000, of which $3,000 has been subscribed and 2,500 paid in in cash. Muskegon—The Johnson Milling Co. has been incorporated with an author- ized capitalization of $20,000, of which $10,000 has been subscribed, $2,853.66 being paid in in cash and $7,146.34 in property. Iron River—The Iron River Cream- ery Co. has engaged in business with an authorized capital stock of $10,- 000, of which $5,100 has been sub- scribed, $693 paid in in cash and $327 in property. Detroit—A. A. MacDonald & Co. have engaged in business to manu- facture and deal in all kinds of tim- ber products, with an authorized capi- tal stock of $10,000, which has been subscribed and $2,500 paid in in cash. Detroit—The Abbott Motor Co. has louse GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1914 merged its business into a stock com- pany under the style of the Abbott Mo- tor Car Co., with an authorized capital stock of $150,000, of which $75,000 has been subscribed and $32,500 paid in in cash. Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Spring & Axle Co. has merged its business into a stock company under the same style, wth an authorized capital stock of $100,000, of which $95,000 has been subscribed and paid-in in prop- erty. Jackson—M. A. gar manufacturers, Dibble have & Co., eh purchased the cigar factory and trade names of the late Thomas H Phillips and will continue to several Phillips make the cigars which Mr. made well known. Manistique—The W. E. Co. has been organized to manufac- ture and sell forest products, with an stock of $55,000 common and $20,000 brands of \villams authorized capital preferred, of which $37,500 has been subscribed and $34,890 paid in in property. Kalamazoo—The Michigan Motor Car Co., purchaser of the name and good will of the motor department of the defunct Michigan Buggy Co., has secur- ed an injunction preventing the Michi- gan Motor Parts Co. from doing busi- An illegal similarity of names is alleged. Detroit—The bankruptcy were filed in the Federal Court Monday: Jacob C. Stickel, manu- facturing jeweler, liabilities, $1,861.19; $2,497.63; George L. Hall, Bat- tle Creek, liabilities, $5,175.67; assets, $472.80; Cora B. Jayne, milliner, Jack- son; liabilities, $1,658.74; assets, $390.10. Saginaw-—-E. Goeschel & Sons, one of the pioneer mercantile houses of Sagi- naw, will this year celebrate its semi- centennial. The firm was established in 1864, engaging in the general mer- chandising business, and it was not until 1864 that boots, shces and footwear staples and novelties were made the ex- handled. —__~++>—___ Lansing—C. L. Persing well known among Lansing hardware dealers as a representative of Morely Brothers, will move his family Kalamazoo to Lansing. Mr. Persing, who has lived in Kalamazoo for the past ten years, declares to Lansing friends that this city is an ideal residence town for trav- eling salesmen, owing to its central lo- cation and interurban and steam road facilities. Mr. Persing says that many traveling salesmen have signified their intentions of making Lansing their home town on account of its several advan- tages. ness. following petitions in assets, clusive line from —_2+2>—____ Once in awhile we meet a man who is willing to leave the punishment of his enemies to the Lord. Brubaker Breaks Loose Again. Mears, Feb. 16—I tender you my most abject apologies. I have been to your beautiful village to attend the last wonder of the earth and age, the auto show, and did not call on you. I can imagine how disappointed you are this moment. Now, E. A. be- lieve me when I state that it really was my intention to inflict you with a short visit and had almost reached the door of your sanctum sanctorum when I spied Glenn Finch riding past on the water wagon. I felt it my tirst duty to pull him off the sprinkler, as he had been aboard since Jan, 1. | didn't have to pull so very hard either. Ile was on his way to see you, also, but somehow our intentions to visit you did not materialize. That's otr loss and your gain. You know the weather was cold and hazy on Wed- nesday afternoon, so | have a rather hazy recollection of the remainder of that day. | am inelined to think 1! had what is commonly called a large time. As to the auto show, it was simply salubriously, sublime. I met several people I knew and quite a few that I don’t recollect of ever hav- ing seen before. This was by far the best auto show I have ever attended; also the first one. In the evening I went to see “What Happened to Mary,” but nothing much happened while I was there. So far as | could see. Mary was a cracker jack at getting rid of punk ice cream. Maybe I didn't get a jolt when the Curtain went up on the first act. There was the front of my own store as true as life, and they had copied meas the character for Uncle Billy. Only I didn’t know I was so darn stiff-legged. But Billy had my own sweet disposition. As to Billy’s wife —let’s get on another subject. I noticed in last week’s Tradesman a reader wanted to know how much it cost Glenn Finch for the write up a couple of weeks ago. I can’t answer that, but I do know that he pays the Grand Rapids Shoe & Rubber Co. $10 a week for allowing his statue in their front show window, but why they have it labeled the Gorilla is past my ken, as they can’t fool any- one who has seen Glenn’s classic feat- ures. Glenn is all right in preaching Hood’s rubber boots, as he practices what he preaches by wearing them, and, for all I know, after he lett me Wednesday evening, he may have gone to bed with his boots on. That guy wouldn’t ride in an automobile if they didn’t have Hood’s. I went down to Kalamazoo to meet a brother from Montana who was vis- iting there, on the flyer. It was just like home on the Pentwater branch of the P. M. We went a mile a min- ute sometimes, but not many times. We stopped four times so the con- ductor could light up the rear switch lights which had gone out. Then an- other time we stopped and some one remarked that there was a hot box. I bet him a dollar that one of the wheels had frozen up and I won the bet. After thawing it out we pro- ceeded and arrived. at Kalamazoo at about 2:30. The train got in about 3, but I had gotten tired and sleepy and had gotten out and walked the last six miles. I believe the running time from Grand Rapids to Kalamazoo is two hours for the 50 miles, but they sometimes lose an hour, which makes it wearisome. I won't give the name of the hotel I stopped at in Kalama- zoo, as I don’t want to knock, but it was big enough so they put me on the Number 1587 sixth floor. Neither do I know if they had individual towels, but they sure did have individual sheets and no other covering. They also had the coldest steam heat in my room I ever felt. My teeth chattered so that I set a box of safety matches afire in my pants pocket on the other side of the room. Then I thought I could take a hot bath and warm up, but the hot water faucet was frozen up. I was disgusted and phoned down to the clerk and told him I wanted to leave a call to be called immediately. That just saved my life. I never got so much for $1.50 in three hours be- fore in my life and I don’t think I want to again. Too much is enough for me. In my former visits to the Rapids I have stopped at all the hotels. This time I tried the New Mertens and was so tickled with the place that I paid my bill so I could come again. Maybe the Kalamazoo hotel did not expect anvone to sleep that night, as the city had just installed the new boulevard lights and everyone seemed to be up all night to rubber, but we have had our city of Mears electrically lighted so long that it was no novelty to me. I entertained E. Welton, Chas. Ovitt and Herman Anderson, the rabbit hunter, and a few other fellows and some gentlemen on the way up from Muskegon with my ex- periences. hey were all interested until IT mentioned the fact that I had been in Kalamazoo six hours. Then they told me they had believed me until I said that, and I couldn't make them believe I had been in Kalamazoo and made my get away. As I have nothing further to say, [ may as well cut this short. Ches Brubaker, (The Chronic Kicker.) Youngstown, Ohio, grocers are said to be not much concerned with the combination of grocers in that section of the country for co-operative buy- ing. The is to interest stores in all principal intention of the promoters cities and the home company, to be capitalized at $10,000.000, to be known as the United Grocers’ Company, is said not to disturb them, nor the re- port that the concern has erected a large storehouse in Pittsburg, the subsidiary company operating it cap- italized for $1,000,000. According to well known business leaders in Ohio being advised not to place faith in the project. The plan, it is said, has not been put up to Youngstown local grocers are much people as_ yet, but in the meantime the tip above has gone forth. a ee A man who is clean inside and out- side: who neither looks up to the rich nor down on the poor; who can lose without squealing, and who can win without bragging; considerate to women, children and old people; who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat and too sensible to loaf; and who takes his share of the world’s goods and lets other people have theirs, is my idea of a true gentleman. —_—_——_>---—___ If all men were to get justice, more of them would be in jail. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 18, 1914 DETROIT DETONATIONS. Cogent Criticisms From Michigan’s Metropolis. Detroit. Feb. 16—Learn one thing each week about Detroit: The lare- est freight car works in America are located in Detroit, Traveling has its advantages. A candy salesman was held up _ last week by two bandits and repulsed them with a gun. Being a traveling man is where he accumulated his nerve, Chester R. Nye, who represented the Interstate Fire Insurance Co. and was a member of Jackson Council No. 57, was suddenly stricken on his arrival in Detroit a week ago Satur- day and died Sunday morning at the Woodward avenue hospit il. Mr. Nye who has traveled through Michigan for a number of years, was very well and favorably known, his death being mourned by numberless friends. Mr. Nye was unmarried. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nye, 53 Clairmount avenue, and a sister. The interment was at Cold- water, his old home. Death is a release from and an end ot all pains—Seneca. Far be it from us to enter controversy with our good Rockwell relative to our views re- garding the Made in Grand Rapids Exposition to be given under the pices of U. ©. T. Council. No. 131. With great interest we read the schol- arly written article of last week by Gabby Gleanings and must confess we are still far from being convinced that our views are wrong and we st'll maintain that the Association of Com- merce and the manufacturers who-re- ceive direct benefit should be ashamed to allow the traveling men to carry on their shoulders the burden of the exhibition. There are hundreds of business men and others who are members of the Association of Com- mierce and a committee could be se- lected from among the large number, if they showed the necessary enter- prise to carry on the work of giving a made-at-home demonstration. Most business men have a well-drilled or- ganization to carry on their business when they are absent. When a travel- ing man neglects his business for a minute, a day or a week, there is no one to carry on his business—but there are hundreds of other travelers who are ready to take advantage of every opening to gain more business. We do not mean to insinuate that the traveling men will neglect their busi- ness, but merely to draw a compari- son—to show that the business man who is home seven days a week is in a better position to carry on such work as the traveling men are now doing. Nor did we mean to insinuate that the traveling men are not quali- fied or are not business factors of their respective localities. The man- ufacturers themselves are the ones who should carry on the work, with the co-operation of the Association of Commerce and the traveling men who, with their well-known talents, could use their available time on the road to boost and advertise. The ex- position will be a success, because we know the men who are doing it, but, notwithstanding this fact, as we ee before, the greater the U. C. T. looms up the smaller and more insignificant the Association of Commerce be- comes. Grand Rapids for its many leading lines of manufacture is no- toriously weak when it comes. to making the names of their products a National t byword. Herbert Casson, in a lecture a short time ago, said that Detroit sold automobiles for seven years before it knew how to make them. It advertised. It adver- tised well. It built its business and built its city, ably assisted by its traveling men who did their work on the road. Detroit uses more full pages for ad- vertising in the great magazines than into any friend any other city of its size in the United States. No quest'on whatever but what traveling men can become factors in the business world. Didn’t many of us try it? Mr. Cook, manager for the Jay Thompson Co., of Bay City, graced Detroit with his presence last week. He visited the market in the interest of the concern of which he is man- ager, Don’t let your accident insurance expire. A safety first sign might drop on your head and cause you to do likewise. Forty salesmen, who constitute those who represent the Detroit branch of the National Biscuit Co., gathered at the Hotel Cadillac Sat- urday night to attend the annual ban- quet of the sales force. Many inter- esting talks were given by man- agerial experts and members. of the general sales force. Among the speakers were Frank Bush, manager of the local office; John D. Richardson, First Vice-Presi- dent of the corporation, A. L. Cam- eron, manager of the Mansfield. O., branch, C. A, Hildebrand and F. C. McClure, Chicago. Besides spending a most enjoyable ¢ evening the travel- ing Men were given pointers in sales- manship that should prove of in- estimable value to them. The real “Satety First’ to the tray- eling man is to carry accident insur- ance and “Safety Next” is to see that it 1s a. paid up. Which might open another chance for argument. Married men will, un- doubtedly, believe that safety first is to stay single. H. E. Shear, general merchant of Homer, who has been confined to his home with an attack of the grippe, is convalescing and is able to take daily walks from his home to his store. “Jerry” Moore (Burnham, Stoepel & Co.) has been given charge of the Toledo office and will, incidentaly look after the suburban towns of De- troit for his firm. In the selection of Mr. Moore to take up this work, surnham, Stoepel & Co. will have one of Detroit’s best salesmen represent- ing them in Toledo. Besides a sales- man of unusual ability, “Jerry’ is one of the greatest “traders” in the country—barring no nationality what- soever, It is no trouble to worship the ground a man walks on if he owns the ground and it is in Detroit. The store that sells strictly for cash and, consequently, suffers no losses from dead beats and otherwise should be able to sell goods cheaper than the merchant who does both cash and credit business. Such was C. W. Warner’s idea. Mr. Warner, who conducts a general store at De- catur, tried his theory out and reports 't entirely successful. When a merchant does not send out goods on credit he, at least, has the satisfaction of having the goods on hand for a cash customer and doesn’t have to re-order the goods, taking a chance on his customer paying him so he can, in turn, pay the jobber for them. We read nearly every day in the daily papers of some one _ breaking into stores and committing other depredations, but it really for the mo- ment causes surprise when we _ hear of two live, up-to-date merchants breaking into another store. That's exactly what Streng & Zinn, of Kal- amazoo, have done—but not for ul- terior motives. The business of this concern has grown with such rapid strides that they were obliged to lease the store adjoining theirs and have already started the work of breaking through the walls to connect the stores together. Thus we find, while the calamity howlers are squeal- ing hard times, the live merchants continue to plod along and grow. One manufacturer in Detroit uses about 25,000 yards of cloth each week in the manufacture of ladies’ skirts. Whoever suspected there were that many women in the world? Lino operator: W-e-1l-k-er— thanks; for once Charlie will have his name spelled correctly. Charlie, who by the way, is a department (so the clair- voyant says) manager for C. Elliott & Co., says every daily paper, police gazette and Michigan Tradesman that uses h's name always spells it “Walk- er’ instead of “Welker.” Lino punch- ers and the world’s greatest dailies please bear this in mind, because there is no telling when Charlie’s name will again appear in print. He is learning to dance the tango. Henry Sarbinowski, wife and party of eight, have left for a six weeks’ trip, in which they take in the prin- cipal cities of the South, returning by the way of San Francisco. Salt Lake City and Chicago. Mr. Sarbin- owski conducts a large department store at the corner of Livernois and Michigan, where he has been located for the past twenty-two years, start- ing in business in a very small way. He is a member of the West End Im- provement Association and is ever ready to affiliate with any association that will help in the progress of the west s‘de of the city. Detroit Council holds its regular monthly meeting Saturday night, Feb 21. In behalf of Senior Counselor Warner, we print his appeal to attend the meeting. It is a very concise and touching appeal as_ follows: PLEASE? Ed. Barnard’s smile—a new arrival for Ed. Why shouldn't he smile? His new Ford car arrived the other day. Mr. Barnard represents Edson, Moore & Co., calling on the city trade. Philip Rosenthal, lad‘es’ and men’s furnishing goods, 1010 Jos. Compau avenue, together with Harry Rosen- thal, have purchased the stock of fur- nishing goods of Ruhl & Reeber and will take possession of the — store Meck 1. 3efore a man is married he is called a bachelor. After he is married he is called—but we're not going to violate any postal laws. Percy Bowen, with the Cadillac Motor Co., has purchased a half in- terest in the clothing business of Mc- Cann Brothers, Tecumseh. Percy will assume his new duties in a short time. During the past few years that Mr. Bowen has made his home in De- troit, he has made many warm friends who, while sorry to see him leave the city, ate pleased to see him go where there is a much brighter future for him. That this will be the case no one of his host of friends doubts in the least. The firm name will be changed to McCann & Bowen. Dime novels may come and dime novels may go, but the movies are always with us. The store of Julius Stocker, 1780 Michigan, was robbed a week ago. The burglars were not content to take away what they were a ble to carry, but brought a wagon with them which they filled overflowing and escaped without being detected. Mr. Stocker conducts a dry goods and furnishing goods store and has been in his pres- ent location for a number of years. Hartwe'! Wilcox, famous as one of Grand Rapids’ leading citizens, drug salesman and C co booster, part excellence. was in Detroit last week. Hartwell is the original little anec- dote gatherer and was one of our best assistants when “scribing” for tlie Grand Rapids hustlers. One-fifth of the business failures, says Bradstreet’s last. report, 1s from causes beyond their control. The other four-fifths is because they could not help it. William Murthum, Warren; G. W. Bourke, Columbus: Mr. Marsh, Nor- walk, ©.; Elias B. Butler, of But- ler & Co., Morenci; J. Lester Bird, of Bird & St. Louis, Pontiac; Sam Fleishman, Auburn; Julius Ippel, Saginaw, and Fred Waggner, were some of the prominent out-of-town merchants who visited Detroit last week. One thing that the average mer- chant can’t understand is why a fel- low will write articles on how to run a store for a small salary instead of putting his money making theories into practice. That full page that Chrip'ng Crick- ets wrote must have caused his arm to develop a case of rheumatism. The department managers and city salesmen of A. Krolik & Co. were given a banquet at the Penobscot Inn last Thursday night, with the object of furthering the interests of the city business, with the co- operation of both the department managers and the salesmen. A man’s hopes, like an airship, are liable to have a slight mishap that will cause them to drop with a crash. Just when we were beginning to think that William Randolph Hearst was casting envying eyes toward us the mishap occurred. Here’s a copy of a lettter we received this week: “Dear Jimmie: I read a great deal and must say I read your ‘“Detonations” page at every opportunity. After reading your page I find that anything I read thereafter appears like a work of art in comparison. Also your page only makes the reading on the cover shine out all the brighter in comparison— A. E. Pennefather. The greatest satisfaction we can have in the matter of revenge on Mr. Pennefather is the fact that we both claim the same mother-in-law. The many friends of Erskine Mce- Leish, who was obliged to relinquish his work as department manager for Edson, Moore & Co., owing to illness, will be pleased to hear that he is slowly but surely recovering. The Smith Hotel, at Hillsdale, un- der new management, is undergoing repairs and is being remodeled into a first-class hotel in every particular. After the remodeling is finished the new management will undoubtedly accede to the law and add a_ few inches to the sheets now in use. To Cadillac Council, No. 143, Iri- day night, February 20, will be the biggest night of the year and it is making great preparations to have its predictions prove a reality. On this night the Council will give its annual ball at the Knights of Columbus hall. Undoubtedly further notice of the ball will be found elsewhere in the ‘Tradesman. News report says Atlanta’s Mavor heads a crusade against unsightly bill- boards. However, unsightly board bills prove more obnoxious to a great many. The Whitney Hotel, at Ann Arbor, has equipped three sample rooms on the ground floor. This is sure an age of inconsisten- cies. We know a traveling man who owns a fine full dress suit and_ his wife a beautiful expensive dress. They didn’t go to a certain party the other night because they couldn’t af- ford to pay the price—$1.50 per. John McMahon (Edson, Moore & Co.) says that it is best never to go against a father-in-law’s will. espe- cially if he receives favorable mention in the will. Johnny is the cut-up who made us sick in Mesick several years ago. John is just recovering from a several months’ sick spell himself. Over 100 retail hardware dealers, members of the Detroit Retail Hard- ware Dealers’ Association, left for Kalamazoo in a special car to attend the State meeting Monday night. The party was accompanied by some of the local hardware salesmen and their famous (?) home grown quartette. The convention is to be held from Feb, 17 to 20. Revised to date: The optimist sees the doughnut and the pessimist eats it whole. Fred Schultz, manager of the Ban- croft House, Saginaw, took the 32nd degree in Masonry at Bay City last Wednesday. For the present, how- ever, the rates at the hotel will re- main the same. 4 : 3 : ib AB i Mi BREE a casita A ib AB i Mi BREE a February 18, 1914 Nearly 100 attended the meeting of Cadillac Council Saturday night and an enthusiastic meeting it was, too. Senior Counselor Reattoir, with his usual vim and energy predicts that fully seventy-five will be in‘tiated at the next annual meeting and if every member would put forth a small por- tion of the effort that his Senior Counselor does, the number will reach over the hundred mark. Nine mem- bers whose names were received too late for this week’s issue of the Tradesman were initiated into the Council. The police are cleaning up (?) De- troit. Following in the wake of the clean up, comes the news that the Gideons are going to distribute 2,000 more bibles in the hotels. In time Detroit may be fit to have a U. C. T. convention. Tunis Johnson, superintendent of the G. J. Johnson Cigar Co., of Grand Rapids, stopped over in Detroit one day last week, enroute to his home. after a trip through some of the im- portant cities of the East. Word has been received that Thomas Griffin, of the Wayne Gar- ment Manufacturing Co., had slipped and fallen, dislocating his shoulder, while in Syracuse, N. Y. The injury is not thought to be serious and, as the letter indicated, Mr. Griffin is able to be around again, although it is not known if he is able to attend to his regular work. He is accom- panied by his wife. Last year Newark, N. J., $65,000 fighting mosquitoes ly somebody got stung. G. K. Coffey, Grand Rapids, stop look, read and smile. C. H. Jackson, aged 55, of Brockton, Mass., weighs 625 pounds. Gard Wallace, (Cohen Bros. & Co. Milwaukee) has been working in the Southern part of the State for the past few weeks and came home last week long enough to have a heavy cold doc- tored, after which he started on his regular trip North on Monday. A. B. Sanderson, general merchant of Hanover, has gone West for a few weeks’ trip. Glen Fillmore, of Quincy, has closed up the old Commercial House that he has been running for a number of years and has purchased the Quincy House, which he has refitted and re- modeled until it is on a par with any hotel in the State for the money. Henry Jordan (Burnham, Stoepel & Co.) says that most fellows find it a pretty hard job trying to live with- out working. We are at a loss to understand where Henry gets his in- formation, because he is one of the greatest little workers in Detroit. The position of Secretary of Cad- illac Council seems to be a very de- sirable office to hold. As we under- stand it, there are seven or eight can- didates in the field We’re willing to wager our last year’s hat on the pres- ent Secretary for first honors, with Harry Auger a close runner up. Talk is cheap, but they want cash for whisky. Wes Pearson, the dry goods mer- chant of Fremont, and the writer both believe in reciprocity. We'd lke some of his lean and he’d like some of our fat. The thirstier a person gets in a local option town, the dryer it seems to get. To J. M. Pauli, the Three Rivers merchant. we hand the palm. A sun- ny disposition is a great age reducer and Pauli sure has the sunny dispo- sition and plenty of it. Do you know, he can smile even when tramping the floor with one in his arms at— well, any old time. Incidentally. Mr. Pauli mentions that Grover Cleve- land had nothing on him. Somewhere in this good U. S. of ours there may be a better hotel than the Gilmer, at Jonesville. Somewhere there may be a better fellow and ho- tel manager than H. G. (Dad) Star- key. But you have got to show us. James M. Goldstein. spent Fvident- Se MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Honks From Auto City Council. Lansing, Feb. 16—lLearn a few things about Lansing this week: That spark coils manufactured in Lansng are being used on automo- biles, motor boats and other marine craft in every part of the globe. That last year 6,400 tons.of sugar were manufactured in Lansing. That 30,000 gas engines are being built yearly in Lansing. At an av- erage manufacturer's price of $80 each these are worth $2,400,000. That 800,000 automobile wheels, 200,000 sets, or 6,400 carloads were shipped from Lansing last year That Lansing automobiles are to be found in every civilized part of the world and in some uncivilized parts. Detroit has her share of them. Time is money, but the city treas- urer refuses to accept it for taxes. One day last week R. E. McHugh, Geo. Eaton, C. F. Poxson and one or two other ex-travelers were seated in Mr. Poxson’s office, when the conver- sation took a reminiscent turn. Sud- denly the office thermometer, which had hung in the same place and be- haved itself for years, took on a troubled appearance and finally burst. Some hot ar! The sympathy of the entire travel- ing fraternity goes out to Mrs. Krats and daughter, who are left widowed and fatherless through the death of our beloved and honored brother, A. E. Krats, which occurred recently at Harper hospital, Detroit, closely fol- lowing a surgical operation. At last Dan Cupid has won. Ray- mond E. McHugh, for several years a member of our Council, has taken unto himself a bride, and starts tomor- row on a honeymoon trip, which will last over four months, during which tme the happy pair will visit every state in the Union. Miss Isabell Mad- den is the unfortunate lady in this case and when they reach Wichita, Kansas, she will see that the Y. M. C. A. Joker Club casts not its influ- ence over Mac. L. L. Colton recently arrived in Cheboygan to learn that a wedding had taken place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Slambrook, near there. The Slambrooks are farmers, who certain- ly know how to entertain a hungry bunch of hunters. At the wedding was the old bunch, John Ganon, Leo Eddleston, Jim Duffin, Geo. Langdon and wives, also Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Hohler and J. A. Ganon’s r ght hand meat cutter, Joe Boulanger. Ganon has a lot of confidence in Joe, but had it shattered, to some extent, the night of the wedding, when John hap- pened to go out on the back porch and found Joe with his mouth under the faucet of a keg of beer, apparently imbibing too freely of the hops. John got Joe in the house upon convincing him that the beverage would soon be served inside When it came time for the spread and the tray was passed to Joe, he knocked over a half dozen small glasses trying to reach a big one. After the wedding banquet, cards and dancing were indulged in to some extent. Mr. Ganon, who does the calling, never has been known to take a drink of intoxicating liquor, but did take one glass of beer on this occasion just to be sociable, to the amusement of the crowd. It had such a telling effect on John that he wanted to call off all night and keep it up all the way home. Duffin and Eddles- ton, who usually engage in a few hot words when they go out on anv ex- cursion like th’s, owing to their dif- ferent nationalities, took Langdon, a big fellow, along to keep them from fightine. George got Leo play’ng cards with Mr. and Mrs. Hohler, and Jim to dancing. Everything ran along smoothly until Mrs. Hohler caught Leo cheating. Then the climax came. Jim wanted to take Mrs. Hohler’s part and Leo was willing that he should do so, but Langdon acted his part very nicely and soon everything was restored to peace and quietness. At a late hour preparations were made to return home, Leo kissing the bride and all declaring they had had the best time of their lives. Who put the note under the strap of C. E. Chamberlain's grip, asking about friends in Detroit and Lansing? Claude, who is a very popular fellow with his trade, spent a half day while in Cheboygan, calling on different people. EH. BD. Butlien. ——_2-2—___ Merry Musings From Muskegon. Muskegon, Feb. 16—Fully ten inches of snow fell in Muskegon Sun- day afternoon and _ night, making travel rather hard. Jos. .. haley was a Lansing visitor last week. John Porter has just completed his twelfth week of total disability since hs accident last November. Joshua Fuller, of Alma, seems ty have lost his temper over the roller towel deal. Better keep it, Josh. No one -lse wants it. Several members of Muskeoon Council, No. 404, have been going for us of late—Jos. Whaley, Wm. Engle, Herman Anderson and N C. Lulofs. Evidently they don’t like to be mentioned. L. W. Hoskins (Hiazeltine & Per- kins Drug Co.) was doing business in Fremont last week with a line of drug sundries. There is quite a lot of difference be- tween being an old joker and a rela- tive of an old joker. N.C. Eulofs not only can speak English-and Holland fluently, but is now studying Scandinavian. The executive committee of Mus- kegon Council has declared our office vacant. Pretty good judgment, we think. Bernard Flynn, a prosperous voung farmer of Alto, and Miss Celia Haley. book-keeper for the French Milling Co. of Middlev'lle, were married last week Wednesday. As both were friends of the writer, we wish them Godspeed. N C. Yhomas, of Caldonia, mer- chant, auctioneer and jokesmith, was telling a farmer who chanced to be Irish how glad he was_ not to be Irish, to which the son of Erin re- plied, “Well, the Irish are ~lad of it, too” Saturda-. Feb. 21, is our meeting night. We would be pleased to see a few new faces. We have import- ant business to transact so all come, boys. We are very sorry to state that a member of Detroit Council. No. 9, purchased a ticket in Grand Ranids last Friday night and, being in a bad state of intoxication, got on the wrong train for Detroit. Such fellows are a disgrace to the order and to the en- tire force of traveling men in general. It must be Ura Donald has frozen up. At least, we hear no more from him of late. E. A. Stowe says that the Trades- man correspondents are a lot of fine fellows. Well, he just ought to hear what some of the boys say about them. There is a hotel not a thousand miles east of Reed City. where the waitresses ought to take time, at least once a week, to comb their hair We wish some of the fellows who are hollering about roller towels would kindly refrain from smoking while riding in a closed bus. Cicar- ettes and pipe smokers, please take notice. Roy Tuttle says that Sullivan, Michigan, and John T.. have both seen their best days. We bet he won't dare tell Fred Shinneger that. E. P. Monroe. —_-++___ When business shows a_ decrease and expenses an increase the way to reverse the condition is not to cut down the advertising appropriation. —_>-+____ “Joy cometh in the morning,” says the wise man—and if you are not an early riser you have a splendid chance of missing it. Absolutely Pure It always gives the greatest satisfaction tc customers, and in the end yields the larger profit to the grocer. l MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 18, 1914 EV VSortHe BUSINESS WOR vil i | = ek ee Lc. o = Saar x Eq aa Ee oS SI Movements of Merchants. Reed Ciay—Ervin Upp has engaged in the meat business here. Temple—Charles Davis has engaged in the grocery business here. Lake City—Edwin Wieas_ has en- eaged in the meat business. Reed City—Charles P. Massey has engaged in the undertaking business. Falmouth—-Terpenning & Fuller have engaged in the harness business here. Williamston—Beeman Bros. have sold their meat stock to George Londerbur- ger. Iron Mamie millinery business River—Miss Swanson has engaged in the here. Lapeer—O. W. Morrice, Bagley, recently of has opened a grocery store here. Jackson—Henry Moraff will en-age in the business here about April 1. Otsego—k. J. Barnes is moving his drug stock from White Cloud to this place. Boyne clothing City—Wm. succeed Wm Drayton & Son Drayton in the grocery business. Mulliken—S._ F. Davids & business. St. Johns—Charles Spatofore has opened a fruit, and ci- gar store here. Davids Holland, in the succeeds furniture confectionery Boyne Falls—Stephenson Bros. suc-’* ceed Stanley Burdo in the’ grocery and meat business. Armada—George Steinmitz, recently of Williamston, has engaged in the clothing business here. Detroit—The Metropolitan State Bank has changed its the Federal State *Bank of Greenville—Roy name to Detroit. Van purchased the Chris Christensen grocery stock and taken possession. Jonesville—L. W. Sibbald & Co. suc- Frank HE. Guy & Co. in the dry goods and grocery business. Marquette—H. F. Handford, dealer, is remodeling his store ing both Wormer has ceed shoe build- outside and inside. Manistee—M. P. Nielsen has purchas- stock and will consolidate it with his own. Reed City—Charles P. engaged in the undertaking business in the H. K. Smith building. Muskegon—Veits & Congdon open a paint and wall paper store at 470 Lake street about March 1. Mass—-The farmers in this vicinity have organized the Mass Co-operative Store Co., with a capital stock of $15,000. Adrian-——Fred J. Westfield and Lewis A. Blazer have formed a copartnership and engaged in the meat business here under the style of the Maple City Meat Co. ed the Louis Bauer grocery Massey has will Ishpeming—I*. W. Potts succeeds T H. Howe as manager of the local branch of the Grand Union Tea Co. Marshall—Peter Wills has sold his stock of dry goods and notions to Miss Emma Goff, who will continue the busi- ness. Holland—Joseph Fabiano, recently engaged in the fruit and confectionery business, is succeeded by Joseph Fa- biano & Son. Ontonagon—Mrs. Alice Miles has pur- chased the Clara Roberts stock of mil- linery and dry goods and will take pos- session March 1. Laingsburg—W alter purchased the Floyd H. Stevens gro- stock and will take about March 1. Wright has cery possession Hancock—B. Arne, who has conduct- ed a clothing store at Negaunee, has removed his stock here and will con- tinue the business. Hastings—Wm. Schippers and Mar- tin Morse hive engaged in the dry cleaning business under the style of Schipper & Morse. Gaylord—H. E. Fox has sold his drug stock to Theodore Gutteridge, who has taken possession and. will continue the business. Lansing—N. R. Keeler and _ son, Lloyd, will engage in the grocery busi- ness here about March 1 under the style of N. R. Keeler & Son. Portland—Burglars entered the O. E. Robinson grocery and shoe store Feb. 15 and carried away goods and cash to the extent of about $50. Johns—Miss Catherine Stevens succeeds McConnell & Stevens in the millinery business, having purchased the interest of her partner. Redford—A bank has been organ- ized under the style of the Redford State Savines Bank, with an author ized capital stock of $25,000. Jackson—F. A. Kennedy, grocer at 117 North Jackson street, has sold his stock to Fred Stinch, who will continue the business at the same location. Lowell—J. M. Meyers has sold bie coffee, tea and spice stock and cream- ery agency to F. W. Braisted, who will continue the business at the same loca- tion. Sturgis—Horace Gage, proprietor of the Mound Springs resort, six miles west of here, died at his home, Feb. 11, after an illness of but an hour, aged 50 years. Manchester—Adams J. Wurster has sold his fuel and windmill stock, also two store buildings, to Charles Burtless and William Schafer, who have formed a copartnership under ‘the style of Burt- less & Schafer. The new firm will open a feed and produce store in one of the store buildings purchased. Trout Creek—N. W. Kieffer, who re- cently lost his store building by fire, has purchased the C. O. Ellis store building and will occupy it with his stock of gen- eral merchandise. Saranac—Otis & Vaughn, grocers, succeeded by Arden L. Otis and Dale K. Jepson, who will continue the business under the style of Otis & Jepson. Kalamazoo—Francis B. Drolet, drug- gist on South Burdick street, is install- ing a jewelry and watch repair depart- ment in his store under the management of Leigh C. Drolet. Port Huron—Fire destroyed the David MacTagegart Co. stock of books, stationery and photo supplies, and the ko S. & | D. Patterson Co: elry stock, Feb. 12 Montrose—William Hillier has sold his interest in the Hillier & Way stock of general merchandise to his partner, Arthur Way, who will continue the busi- ness under his own name. Bellevue—John H. York has purchas- ed the interest of his partner, Fred E. Green, in the York & Green stock of general merchandise and will continue the business under his own name. Marion—The Witter & Rule Co. has engaged in business to deal in mer- chandise of all sorts, with an author- ized capital stock of $5,000 of which $4,000 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Saginaw—A new company has been organized under the style of the Hub- bell Auto Sales Co., with an author- ized capital stock of $10,000, of which $5,000 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Sigma—Fred Narrin, recently engaged in trade at Grayling, under the style of Connine &. Narrin, has purchased the George Bice stock of general merchan- dise and will continue the business at the same location. Marquette—Hager Bros. Co. Ltd., have merged their business intoa stock company under the same style, with an authorized capital stock of $10,- 350, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in property. Detroit—The Model Family Supply Co. has engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business, with an au- thorized capital stock of $25,000, of which $15,000 has and paid in in property. Alma—lire damaged the J. Cohen & have been jew- been = subseribed Bro. clothing stock to the extent of about $15,000, the A. R. Smith shoe stock, $2,000 and the D. W. Robinson stock of dry goods about $500, Feb. 16. All the losses are covered by insurance. Eaton Rapids—Paul A. Hale and Harold Pettit have formed a copart- nership under the style of Hale & Pettit and purchased the J. J. & D. G. Vaughan furniture stock and will continue the business at the same lo- cation. Fowler—E. Breneman has sold his hardware and implement stock to Frank Whittaker, who has taken pos- session. Mr. Breneman will devote his entire attention to the Breneman & Sturgis hardware and implement store at Muir. Lowell—A big hound walked into a meat market here a few days ago helped himself to a nice string of frankforts and walked out as deliberately as though he had left the proper change with the butcher. As he passed down the street the weenies were sticking out of his mouth in all directions. Detroit—Trustee Corwin, was appointed to wind up the affairs of the A. T. Brennan Co., 274 Woodward avenue, has sold the stock to the Henry Blackwell Co. The merchandise inven- toried about $10,000, consisting of boys’ and girls’ clothing. Detroit—Samuel Cohen has merged his business into a stock company under the style of the Cohen Dry Goods Co., with an authorized capital stock of $3,000, which has been sub- scribed, $1,010 being paid in in cash and $1.990 in property. Owosso—D. M. Christian, conduct- ing a department store, has merged his business into a stock company who under the style of the D. M. Chris- tian Co., with an authorized capital stock of $50,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Eaton Rapids—J. J. & D. G. Vaug- han have sold their furniture stock to Paul B. Hale and Harold A. Pettit, who will continue the business under the style of Hale & Pettit. J.J. & D. G. Vaughan will continue the under- taking business under the same style. Marlette—Thomas Wilson, dealer in hay, wool, beans, etc., has merged his business into a stock company under the style of Thomas Wilson. Incorporated, with an authorized cap- ital stock of $20,800, of which $15,600 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Detroit—Putnam, Moore & Brown have engaged in the contracting and construct on business and to deal in materials connection there- with, with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, all of which has been sub- scribed, $7,500 being patd in in cash and $2,500 in property. used in Manufacturing Matters. Muskegon—The Harris Broom Co. has moved here from Chicago. Saginaw—The Modart Corset Co. has increased its capitalization from $175,000 to $225,000. Detroit—The American Brass & Iron Co. has increased its capital stock from $30,000 to $100,000. Marine City—The capital stock of the Michigan Salt Works has been in- creased from $15,000 to $33,000. Detroit—The capital stock of the American Butter & Cheese Co. has been increased from $50,000 to $100,000. Petoskey—The capital Cook, Curtis & Miller. lumber manu- facturers, has been from $200,000 to $90,000. Kalamazoo—A. B.| Sternfield has purchased the plant if the American Enameling Co. and changed its name to the Kalamazoo Enameling Co. Detroit—The L.inyo Brick Co. has changed its name to the Mercier- Bryan-Larkins Brick Co. and increas- ed its cap'tal stock from $30,000 to $60,000. Detroit—The Stock Of decreased Sweet Manufacturing Co. has engaged in business to manufac- ture and deal in. gas engines an acces- sories thereof, with an authorized cap- ital stock of $10,000, of which $5,000 has been subscribed and $1,000 paid in in cash. February 18, 1914 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 _— — os oe am ZOCERY» PRODUCE MARKET Review of the Grand Rapids Produce Market. Apples—The market is strong, Green- ings and Baldwins have advanced to $5 a6 per bbl. Northern Spys and Jon- athans, $66.25. Bananas—Have advanced to $3 per 100 Ibs. or $1.50@2 per bunch. Butter—Receipts of fresh are about normal for the season and the cream- ery market is firm at prices ranging about 3c higher than a week ago. The demand for fresh butter continues to be very good, absorbing all the receipts on arrival. The stocks in cold storage are very large and the demand is very. light for all grades of storage butter. The market is very dull. Local dealers are holding fancy creamery at 31c in tubs and 82c¢ in cartons, which is about the same as the price ruling in New York and Boston. Local dealers pay 22c for No. 1 dairy and 16¢ for packing stock. Poultry—Short receipts have caused an advance in fowls. Local dealers now offer for fowls; 8c for old roosters; dc for geese; llc for ducks; 14@16c for No. 1 turkeys and 12c for old toms. These prices are live weight. Dressed are 2c per lb. more than live. Cabbage—2'%c per Ib. Carrots—65c per bu. Celery—35c per bunch for home grown; $2.25 per crate for Florida. Cocoanuts—$4.75 per sack containing 100. Cranberries—The market is strong at $15 per bbl. for late Howes. Cucumbers—$2 per doz. Eggs—Prices are on the toboggan, local dealers having reduced their paying price to 25c for fresh, with every in- dication of still lower quotations before the end of the week. Grape Fruit—The market has declin- ed to $4.75 per box. Grapes—Malaga, $6 per keg. Green Onions—40c per doz. for New Orleans. Honey—18c per lb. for white clover and 16c for dark. Lemons—California and Verdellis are steady at $3.75@4 per box. Lettuce—Eastern head has declined to $2.25 per bu.; hot house leaf has ad- vanced to 16c 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; 17¢c for Naples; $1 per bu. for Michigan. Onions—$1.50 for red and yellow and $2 for white; Spanish, $1.75 per crate. Oranges—Californias are held at $2.50 (@2.75; Floridas are selling at $2.25@ 2.50. Peppers—Green, ket. %5e per small bas- Potatoes—The market is without change. Country buyers are paying 45 (@50c; local dealers get 65@70c. Pop Corn—$1.75 per bu. for ear; 5c per lb. for shelled. Radishes—30c per dozen. Spinach—$1 per bu. Strawberries—40c per qt. for Flori- da. Sweet Potatoes—Delawares in bu. hampers, $1.10. Tomatoes—$4.25 per 6 basket crate of California. Veal—Buyers pay 6@12c according to quality. Se The Grocery Market. Sugar—The American Sugar Refining Co. has advanced its price on granu- dated to 4.10c f. 0. b. New York. War- ner and Federal have advanced to 4.05c, but Arbuckle and Howell are still hold- ing at 4c. Federal is sold up five days ahead, Arbuckle one week ahead and Howell until March 1. All of the refin- ers are running close on supplies and it is intimated that slightly higher prices may be expected before the end of the month. Coffee—Rio and Santos grade are unchanged in price and not very ac- tive. Conditions are substantially as they were a week ago. Mild grades, however, are booming and very firm, on account of small spot supply. In the last few weeks the advance in some grades, notably Bogo‘as, has been 1@1%c. The present demand for mild coffee is good. Java and Mocha are unchanged and quiet. Canned Fruits—With first hands much below the average for the season and jobbers offering little, if anything, except to the regu- lar trade, the market for all varieties of canned fruits—Coast, Southern or Western—is firm. The demand, how- ever, is rather slow in all lines and on the hand-to mouth order. Canned Vegetables—Future toma- toes are not wanted except special brands. Expectations seem to be more or less general that spot goods will advance before the end of the season. At the opening prices so far made by Maine corn packers there is comparatively little business reported. Buyers look:for the discounts they have been allowed in previous years, but packers decline to meet them. The opening price was 97%c f. o. b. Portland, but it is not learned that any of the packers quoting that figure it more stocks in have been willing to shade than 2%c a dozen. In the finer grades of Western peas, for which the de- mand has not realized expectations of packers, the market was easy, and, while nominally opening prices pre- vailed, it was said in well-informed quarters that a considerable conces- sion was being made on Nos. 2 and 3 Alaskan. String beans, being in small compass on the spot, are firm, but no quotable is to be recorded. Canned Fish—Salmon of all grades advance in prices is unchanged and in fair demand for the seasen. sardines are unchanged and very firm. Mustards have advanced to within a much closer relation to oils than usual. Domestic Imoorted sardines are still very scarce and high. Dried Fruits—A strong feeling is noted in prunes, both California and Northwestern, with the trend of prices strongly in buyers’ favor as a result of the statistical showing. no quotable was recorded. Apricots, being scarce here and Coast holdings closely cleaned up, the market is strong, with an upward tendency. Not much in- terest is shown by the distributing trade in this section, but as Coast repor‘s reflect firmer conditions there, with a larger movement to the prin- cipal consuming markets, the feel- ing here is steadier. There is little if any demand for Coast Raisins from the local trade and prices are nominal. Imported raisins are steady and un- charged but are getting comparative- ly little attention here at present. Currants are dull, but it is claimed that the margin of profits for clean- ers is very narrow and most sellers cons:quently are reluctant to the concessionary prices named _ in some quarters. This weakness prom- inent factors believe to be only tem- porary and is attributed by them to However, change in spot prices meet the fact that some of the smaller cleaners have failed to have proper systems of cost accounting. Persian dates in bulk are easier owing to pres- sure to sell from The last this week. some quarters. shipment of Fards is due Smyrna figs are getting SCarce and the market is firmer. Bag figs are particularly strong and is diverting attention to California stock. Cheese—The market is firm, with a lizht are also reported market is firm. consumptive demand. Stocks o be light and the No change in price is expected in the future: Syrup and Molasses—Corn = syrup shows no change for the week and there- fore compound syrup is unchanged, the demand being seasonable. Sugar syrup is dull at ruling prices, molasses season- ably active at unchanged prices. near Provisions—Smoked meats are I4c¢ higher. Both pure and lard are steady with a moderate con- sumptive demand. dried beef and canned steady at unchanged prices. compound Barreled pork, Mmedts are Salt Fish—Mackeral prices remain steady to firm and are practically un- changed. Cod, hake and haddock are wanted in a fair way and show no change in price. The market 1s steady. —_—-o2o-o Niles—The Auto-Tractor Co. has engaged in business to manutacture and deal in machinery, with an au- thorized capital stock of $200,000 of wh'ch $108,000 has been subscribed, $3,200 paid in in cash and $25,000 in property. Fred W. Fuller Endorsed for State Secretary. At the regular meeting of the Grand * Protective Asso- ciation, held last evening, it was unan- imously decided to present the name of Fred W. Fuller to the coming State convention as Rapids Retail Grocers candidate for Secretary of that organization. It has long been felt by local grocers that the office of Secretary should be in stronger hands than has been the case for some years past and the election of Mr. Fuller would do much to restore the confidence of the members in the stability and in- tegrity of the organization. It was also decided to close all the grocery stores in the city on Tuesday FRED W. FULLER. afternoon so that all local members of the organization can be on hand to welcome the guests on the occasion of their first meeting in the city hall. It was also decided to enter into an arangement with the Nationally Adver- arrangement with the Nationally Adver- tising Goods Association to hold a pure food exhibition here the last week in July or the first week in August. This exhibition will comprise 140 different lines of goods. There will be about 150 people accompanying the affair, be- sides a band of fifty pieces. These ex- hibitions have been held in other cities with much satisfaction to all concerned and it is confidently expected that the exhibition will be an unparalleled suc- Css. —_———_>-.——__ In Better and Larger Quarters. Chicago, Feb. 16—It may be of in- terest to those of your readers whom we are trying to reach through vour publication to know that the offices ot our selling agency, the Moneyweight Scale Co., is about to move from its long-established headquarters at 165 North State street to newer and bet- t€r quarters at the corner of Ran- dolph and Madison streets. The move is necessary on account of the con- gested condition in which we find our- selves, after fifteen years of steady de- velopment. The Computing Scale Co. —_>- > ___ Duets. Mrs. Newrich (who has advertised for a Christmas pianist)—So you are the music teacher that answered my ad- vertisement ? Pianist—Yes, ma’am. Mrs. Newrich—Well, sit down and play a couple of duets, so that I can see what you can do—yYonkers States- man. ; $ i a : i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 18, 1914 -- FINANCIAL oes , 4s Ud pre esparnne ) After a spell of such financial en- thusiasm as that of January, there al- Ways comes a reaction of sentiment, due partly to the fact that the glowing ex- pectations are not realized as quickly and as had been imagined, but partly also to the gradual realization that there are still some questions left whose bear- ing is either doubtful or actually un- favorable. At such times, the new-born enthusiasm of the financial public gradually gives way to a cautious sur- vey of the general situation, in which all facts bearing on it are seriously considered, in order to get the bal- ance of probability clear in mind. It is this point of view which causes such reaction in stocks as occurred at the end of January. It also has its effect on genera] sentiment. Business throughout the State is gaining slowly but steadily. There is not the sudden rush that many pre- dicted thirty days ago, but there is a substant’al expansion that is pro- ceeding all the time. Those who were wildly enthusiastic over the prospects a month ago have sobered off, but they are quite content with a slow but permanent growth in the way that lasts. There is at least no doubt regard- ing the confident feeling that prevails in trade and industry; it is reflected in the increasing demand, especially for steel and iron products. Steel mills are now running 60 to 75 per cent of their capacity, an increase of 20 to 25 per cent, and in some lines even more. This is one essential ba- sis for the improvement in confidence and for the better feeling that is ob- servable in spots all along the line. Underlying everything else is the knowledge that the change which has taken place in money market c »ndi- tions, during the past six weeks, has been one of the most remarkable in many years. It is not only local, but has been world-wide, and the rapidity of the shift from scarcity to plenty is admitted to reflect returning confi- dence, and a loosening of hvoarded funds. This easy money continues to prevail throughout the West, with rates low: r than for more than a year. There has actually been some 4 per cent money put out by the banks this week. The most striking weak- ness has been in commercial paper, which has sold as low as 3% per cent for packers’ names, such as Morris and Swift, and there has been a de- mand for it at these low rates, though they are 2 per cent lower than the in- side figure at the close of last Decem- ber. Local and country banks are buying steadily, and the market is more closely cleaned up than for months. Interior banks meantime are paying off loans to banks here and increas- ing their balances. The demand for money is by no means urgent, here or in any part of the State. There are a few bankers who regard the situa- tion as one which points to advanc- ing rates inside of the next three months, who figure that there will soon be a turn, and who, therefore, consider it unwise to tie up their funds in low-rate loans at present, when a later improvement in the de- mand may bring better rates. Such people feel disposed to lose a month's interest, or even more, rather than miss a chance to put out their money later at better rates Meantime, bond houses are doing a large business, but there is a decrease in the public buying of stocks this week. The market has not acted in a way to induce the public to keep on buying. They want a market to ad- vance almost continuously, or if there are set-backs, there must be rapid in- cidental recoveries. But in the long run, it is larger considerations than the whim of the speculating public, which will govern the movement of a market. The matter of re-organizing the Citizens Bank of Bellevue which closed its doors two weeks ago, has been abandoned for the present. The closing up of the affairs of the Bank has been left entirely in the hands of Assignee Karl Kimberly, who will have the assistance of President C. E. Scott and Cashier B. D. Vaughan, in making the collections for settlement with the depositors, all of whom will be paid in full. The 455 state banks and six trust companies in Michigan showed a net increase in loans during the last year amounting to $14,357,080.68, and total increases in deposits amounting to $19,572,135.48. Of the increase in de- posits, $10,922,071.57 was in commer- cial and $8,650,063.91 in savings. Dur- ing the same period capital stock in- creases amounted to $1,975,270. The total reserve maintained by the state banks and trust companies was $71,338,806.05 on Jan. 13, 1914, or 20.68 per cent. The total cash re- serve amounted to $26,009,893.61, or 7.54 per cent, which makes the total Fourth National Bank Savings Deposits 3 Per Cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits Compounded Semi-Annually Wm. H. Anderson, President John W. Blodgett, Vice President L. Z. Caukin. Cashier J. C. Bishop, Assistant Cashier United States Depositary Commercial Deposits 1 3% Per Cent Interest Paid on Certificates of Deposit Left One Year Capital Stock and Surplus $580,000 Our Savings Certificates of Deposit form an exceedingly convenient and safe method of invest- They are readily negotiable, being transferable by endorsement and earn interest at the rate of 3% % if left a year. ing your surplus. The Old National Bank GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK Resources $8,500,000 Our active connections with large banks in financial centers and ex- tensive banking acquaintance throughout Western Michigan, en- able us to offer exceptional banking service to Merchants, Treasurers, Trustees, Administrators and Individuals who desire the best returns in in- terest consistent with safety, avail- ability and strict confidence. CORRESPONDENCE PROMPTLY REPLIED TO 4 — 4 a February 18, 1914 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN reserve carried by Mich’gan © state banks $16,685,659.18 over the require- ments of the state banking law. These figures are taken from the report of the state bank department, issued by State Banking Commissioner Doyle. The report shows that Miuichivan state banks and trust companies show a gain of $6,296,867.98 in aggregate business since Oct. 21, 1913. Since the October report there has been a decrease in loans in the state banks of $584,415.25 and an increase in de- posits for the same period amounting to $6,296,668.48. Capital creases, three months period, amount- ed to $714,990. stock in- Judge Clarence W. the United States District Court, at Grand Rapids, has decided that the $2,000 worth of stock in the Citizens’ State Savings Bank of Plainwell, which was contained in the list of as- sets on the schedule filed by Victor L, Palmer, bankrupt, should be turned oved to the Michigan Trust Com- pany, receiver for the former secre- tary-treasurer of the Michigan Buggy Company. The Plainwell Bank claim- ed that Palmer was owing that in- stitution money and that the amount should be deducted from the proceeds of the sale of the shares of stock. Judge Sessions ruled that the stock should be turned over to the Trust Company to be equally Sessions, of distributed among the creditors of the Kalamazoo man. —_—_~> +. Think of everybody you know and you will discover that there are lots thing to be anxious about is whether ——_2-22—___ Stinginess is the stepmother of dis- honesty. Quotations on Local Stocks and Bonds. Public Utilities. Bid. Asked. Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 353 355 Am. Light & Trac. Co., Pfd. 106 100 Am. Public Utilities, Pfd. 761% 77% Am. Public Utilities, Com. 51% 53 Cities Service Co., Com. 96% v8 Cities Service Co., Pfd. 75 T6 Citizens Telephone Co. Comw th Pr. Ry. & Eit:., Com. 57% 59 Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Pfd. 78% 80 Comw’th 6% 5 year bond 98 994 Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., Com. 46% 47% Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Com. 15% 16% Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Pid. 68% 69% United Light & Rys., Com. 83 United Light & Rys., 1st Pfd. 76% 77% United Lt. & Ry. new 2nd Pfd. 72 74 United Light ist and ref. 5% bonds 86 89 Industrial and Bank Stocks. Dennis Canadian Co. : 100 Furniture City Brewing Co. 60 75 Globe Knitting Works, Com. 135 141 Globe Knitting Works, Pfd. 97 100 G. R. Brewing Co. 145) lol Macey Co., Pfd. 93 96 Commercial Savings Bank 200 225 Fourth National Bank 215 220 G. R. National City Bank 173 178 G. R. Savings Bank 255 300 Kent State Bank 258 Old National Bank 204 208 Peoples Savings Bank 250 February 18, 1914. —_———-o-o eo Booker T. Washington’s Latest Story. Old Uncle Cal Clay invited the par- son to eat Christmas dinner with him. The parson accepted, and the spread was magnificent—sweet potatoes and celery, cranberries and mince pie, plum pudding, and a turkey so big and yet so tender that the parson had never seen the like before. “Uncle Cal, the parson said, as he spread the clear pink cranberry sauce slice of breast, ‘Uncle Cal, where did you get this wonderful turkey?’ “Pawson, said Uncle Calhoun Clay solemnly, ‘when you preached dat won- derful Christmas sermon dis mawnin’, did I ax you whah you got him? Nuh, no. Dat’s a trivial matter.’” ———_»-+. 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We especially recommend at this time the purchase of well- secured bonds for the following reasons: 1—Prices are very low at the present time; in fact, no lower price level has been reached in over five years. 2—The intrinsic value of good issues has steadily increased in face of decline in prices. 3—Underlying conditions are sound and money rates will probably be lower in the near future. 4——New currency law should equalize money rates and favor- ably affect bond purchases by financial institutions. We offer only such bonds as in our judgment afford absolute security for the principal and yield a fair return on the in- [;RAND RAPIDS [RUST [{OMPANY Both Phones 4391 tury. ments for your Safety First Is a popular phrase just now. It has been our plan of business life for nearly a quarter of a cen- We have for sale good invest- money. State, County and Local tax free. The Michigan Trust Co. The Preferred Life Insurance Co. of America POLICY HOLDERS SHARE IN OUR EARNINGS The reason for our large increase in business last year was our EXCELLENT CON- TRACTS combined with our NON-PARTICIPATING RATES ON WHICH WE PAY DIVIDENDS. WE HAVE THE BEST SELLER ON THE MARKET. Grand Rapids, Mich. Ask for our Coupon Certificates of Deposit Assets Over Three and One-half illion v cr a Gea DL GPIDSH AVINGSB ANIC 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., 64 Monroe Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich. Citizens 2506 Bell Main 1018 OFFERING 8 PER CENT GILT EDGED INVESTMENT A. O. SELF & CO. Business Brokers Dallas, Texas Kent State Bank Main Office Fountain St. Facing Monroe Grand Rapids, Mich. Capital - - - ~- $500,000 Surplus and Profits - $400,000 Resources 8 Million Dollars 3 bs Per Cent. Paid on Certificates Largest State and Savings Bank in Western Michigan & * pes peemermeesetas r sterar GA e & (Unlike any other paper.) DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BUSINESS MEN. Published Weekly by TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Subscription Price. One dollar per year, if paid strictly in advance; two dollars if not paid in ad- vance. Five dollars for six years, payable in advance. Canadian subscriptions, $2.04 per year, payable invariably in advance. Sample copies 5 cents each. Extra copies of current ‘ssucs, 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, Big Increase in Net Profits. The National Grocer Company, which operates fifteen grocery houses in Illi- nois, Indiana and Michigan, last year showed an increase of $195,722 in net profits after deduction of the preferred dividend of 6 per cent. and the com- In the year preceding the company, of which F. C. Letts, of Chicago, is President, had a surplus of $92,538. Gross pro- fits for 1913 were $1,040,670, while ex- mon. dividend of 5 per cent. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN penses, which included accounts charged off, were $720,055, leaving a net profit of $320,615. Deductions for special bonuses to managers and de- preciation charges for realty holdings were $38,077, preferred dividends were $90,000 and common dividends $100,000. According to the balance sheets of 1913 and 1912 the company had on hand $1,533,573 and $1,532,568 in merchandise and respectively $1,011,964 and $1,047,- 473 in accounts and notes receivable. Bills payable in 1913 were $1,085,000, accounts payable were $67,375 and the undivided profits were $513,745. The company has branch houses in Saginaw, Bay City, Jackson, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Traverse City, Sault Ste. Marie, Lansing, Cadillac, Escanaba and Port Huron, all in Michigan; Decatur, Ill, and South Bend, Ind. ————“o.. How Charlevoix Looked to a Tran- sient Traveler. Chartevoix, Feb. 10—Charlevoix is the capital of Charlevoix county avd enjoys a picturesque location on tie sheie of Lake Michigan at the en- trance to Pine Lake and its ideal at- tractions and multiplicity of charins have made it famous as a summet re- sort. Its situation is ideal and re- freshing and tonic-laden breezes sweep the town during the entire summer. It owns and controls its own electric light and water plants, has churches of different denomina- tious, a public sciiool system up-to- date in every respect, a public library, two banks, first-class hotels and sum- mer cottages, and is the home of three corporate resort associations which attract ten to fifteen thousand visitors here every season. The population 1s 3,000. A. E. Mason, the general dealer, is an old subscriber of the Tradesman and now occupies a large modern store building with a very complete stock of merchandise. ce Horace R. Fowler, the live wire gro- cer and meat dealer, is there with the goods. In the future we shall ex- pect him to contribute an article on the subject of handling fresh meats, which we believe will be of interest to dealers in this line. The Charlevoix Hardware Co. is an up-to-date establishment and_ the manager, H. L. Giddings, knows how to conduct it as such. L. E. Crandall, the grocer has a neat and well kept store. i J. L. Crane conducts an exclusive dry goods store and is a veteran in the business. F. L. Blanchard, the pioneer hard- ware dealer, has a good stock and gives it his personal supervision. Orlowski & Son, grocers, have very large commodious quarters. They are good buyers and you find no stick- ers on their shelves. McCann Bros., bakers, turn out a line of baked goods that makes you hungry to look at them. Martin Block, the reliable meat dealer, has a very complete stock of everything pertaining to his line. C. S. Dodge, recently acquired the store property and grocery stock of A. M. Burdick. Walter E. Taylor has succeeded McGeagh & Morse in the grocery business and in continuing at the same old stand. L. S. See is now devoting his time to coal and wood, having been suc- ceeeded in the grocery business by C. Danto & Son. W. R. Wagers. G. J. Johnson Cigar Co. S.C. W. El Portana Evening Press Exemplar These Be Our Leaders 13 Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter Color and one that complies with the pure food laws of every State and of the United States. Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co. Burlington, Vt. Satisfy and Multiply Flour Trade with “Purity Patent” Flour Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Watson-Higgins Milling Co. Merchant Millers Grand Rapids Michigan Make Out Your Bills THE EASIEST WAY Save Time and Errors. Send for Samples and Circular—Free. Barlow Bros. Grand Rapids, Mich. The Flavor Sells It Mapleine and supplies a much felt want, Order from Louis Hilfer Co. 4 Dock St., Chicago, Ill. Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash. Cre Li Scent a Rea & Witzig PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS 104-166 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. HART BRAND CANNED GOODS Packed by W. R. Roach & Co., Hart, Mich. Michigan People Want Michigan Products We want Butter, Eggs, Veal and Poultry STROUP & WIERSUM Successors to F. E. Stroup, Grand Rapids, Mich Now is the time for Buckwheat Cakes We are exclusive agents for the well known First Prize Penn Yann New York State BUCKW HEAT FLOUR JUDSON GROCER CO. The Pure Foods House GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 18, 1914 + SS CLOTHIN t CF 3 SS Ss = G@ 2S ZY ~~ aN Status of the Principal Clothing Staples. January was the best month exper- ienced during the present season by retai: clothiers, and this was entirely due to the cold wave which swept the country soon after the New Year began. An immediate demand was at once created for all kinds of heavy suits and overcoats, and, while the demand came late, it help- ed materially in reducing the stocks Judging from reports oft business conditions received from weight in retail stores. various sections of the country the “depression” among retail clothiers this months has been almost entirely due to climatic conditions, and as soon as zero weather arrived the “de- pression’ disappeared. which has both manufacturers and retailers has un- The pessimistic tone marked observations given by dergone a decided change during the past few weeks. During a tour of the various markets, the writer put the question, “How are you finding both business?” to every clothier, wholesale and retail, he visited. The inevitable reply was, “Well, we have nothing to complain of. Our busi- ness is better than we had reason to expect, but I understand that we are the exception and are therefore very fortunate. With everybody else in the business trade is bad, we under- stand.” The search for the man who would admit that his business was poor was unsuccessful. The conclu- sion was therefore reached that the season has been a fairly good one considering the which manufacturing clothiers have had to face, conditions During the latter part of January, retail clothing buyers began to ap- pear in the various markets, paying their semi-annual visits in search of complete their spring Some of these buyers had purposely left a large pro- portion of their purchases until they garments to and summer stocks. came to market, expecting by that time that -the low tariff would be re- sponsible for great price reductions and that the low priced suits prom- ised by political wiseacres would be awaiting them. So far the price of suits has not diminished to any ap- preciable degree, and these search- ers for bargains were disappointed. Such purchases as they made were regular and subject to no special dis- counts for any reason. It is expected that the house trade of manufactur- ers will continue well through Feb- ruary. There has been a lively demand for light weight suits for summer wear, and, of these, the Palm Beach suit seems to be foremost. This suit con- sists of but coat and trousers, and is of extremely thin texture and is con- structed with but little lining. It is made in a variety of grades and is sold at wholesale from $5.00 up. The demand for immediate delivery is, of course, from the extreme South- ern states, but generous orders have been placed for the delivery of these suits at various sections of the coun- try up to as late as July 1. While the Palm Beach suit has gained great popularity, it has not detracted from other light weight fabrics, and chief among them is the ever-popular mohair. Suits made of this material are shown chiefly in the _ better grades. It is an art to produce a properly fitting mohair suit. and one that will retain its shape, but the gar- ments are most satisfactory for hot weather wear and appeal to the taste of well dressed Atuericans. There probably has never been a season when so many different styles of overcoats have been shown as the heavy-weight season now drawing to a close. Great coats, semi-ulstters, Chesterfields, New Markets, Paletots, Surtouts, double-breasted form-fit- ting coats, Raglans, and, last but not least, the Bal Maccan, have each been offered as “the” coat of the sea- son. For a strict novelty, the Bal Macaan seems to have carried off the honors. There have been many ex- pressions given to this garment, each depending upon the conception of the individual designer. The Rag- lan type, however, is the general fa- vorite for style and this carries with it the slit top sleeve. A - special feature of the Bal Macaan is_ the “slip-on” armhole, and the excessive drapery, and general bigness. The Bal Macaan is a modified “kimono” coat, designed to “fall into” with the ease and comfort of a cloak. It has a Prussian collar, the pockets are put in vertically, with openings under the welt so that the wearer can reach jacket or trousers pocket without un- buttoning the overcoat—Clothier and l-urnisher. ———_.--.————_ Detroit—The EF. C. D. Inner-Tube Protector Co. has merged its busi- ness into a stock company under the same style, with an authorized cap- ital stock of $150,000, of which $75,000 has been subscribed and $25,000 paid ‘in in property. —_232. > The salesman who has not time to show his goods properly never seems to lack time to spend asking for more pay. ———_2. 2 The worry germ causes a lot of un- necessary trouble. to retailers who feature it. and $1.50, plied FREE, The TruVal means greater satisfaction and more shirt profit It is cut full and fits right. grade materials and splendidly laundered. Beautiful window display cards are enclosed in every 14% box. Electrotyped advertisements for local newspaper use are sup- The cover of the TruVal box as you see it above—in yellow, orange and blue—was designed for window display. The TruVal is made to sell to the retail trade direct and branch stocks are placed with jobbers to convenience retailers. M. KOBLENZER & SON 22Enanklin Sto NEW YORK CITY High Made to retail at $1 TruVal Shirts. RU VAL The Shirt of True Value One Hundred and eight job- bers carry branch stocks of This affords quick service—no delay—short hauls—low transportation charge. everywhere can secure supplies of TruVal Shirts from a branch stock carried by some near-by jobber. will gladly give you the names of the jobbers carry the branch stocks in your territory. Write for the names direct to Retailers We who #, x & ' i February 18, 1914 Programme For Next Week’s Con- vention. The following programme has been prepared for the annual convention of the Retail Grocers & General Mer- chants’ Association, which will be held in this city next week. Tuesday, Feb. 24, 10 a. m. Registration and reception of dele- gates at Hotel Cody. 2 p. nL Opening of convention by A. L. Smith, President of Retail Grocers and General Merchants’ Association of Michigan. Address of Welcome by Mayor Geo. E. Ellis. Response by Wm. MceMorris, of Bay City, First Vice-President Re- tail Grocers and General Merchants’ Association. Address of President— A. L. Grand Rapids. Repoft of Secretary—J]. T. Percival, Port Huron. Smith, Report of Treasurer—Geo. E. Lewis Jackson. Appointment of Committees on Cre- Ways and. Resolutions, Means, Constitution and dentials, By-Laws. Auditing, Press and Rules of Order. 6:45 p. m. Dutch Lunch at Hall. Wednesday, Feb. 25, 10 a. m. Report of Credentials Committee. Roll call of Associations. Report of Legislative Committee. Report of Rules and Order Com- mittee. Paper by J. A. Lake, Petoskey, Sec- ond Vice-President, on Merchandis- ing. Address, J. W. Helme, State Dairy and Food Commissioner. Question Box in charge of A. C. Neilson, West Branch. Evening Press 2 Pp. mM. John A. Green, of Cleveland, Secretary of the National Retail Grocers’ Association. Report of Credential Committee. Address by Lee M. Hutchins, of Grand Rapids, on Credits. Address by J. E. Linihan of Chi- President of United Cereal Address by cago, Mills. Address by Fred Mason, Niagara Falls, Vice-President and General Manager of Shredded Wheat Co. Addresses by visiting manufactur- ers and wholesale grocers. 8:15 p. m. Theater party at the Majestic. Thursday, Feb. 26, 9 a. m. Report of Committees on By-Laws, Auditing, Ways and Means, taries Meeting, Resolutions. Question Box (continued). Secre- 2 Pp. m. Address by Andrew Ross, Battle Creek, Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co., on Price Maintenance. Election of Officers. Selection of place of next conven- tion. Good of the Association. Adjournment. 2. Suitable Slogans to Be Displayed in Stores. Merchants should adopt -means at their command to combat mail order competition, both on business and MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ethical grounds. One of the best ways of of setting customers to think- ing on this subject is to display in conspicuous places in the store some catchy slogans, sim lar to the follow- ing: “Buy At Home.” “IT Want to See the Goods.” “Here I Live and Here | Buy.” “The Dollar 1 Spend at Hoine Works For The Community in Which I Live.” Any printer can be drawn on for an assortment of these slogans and it 1s not a bad idea for the merchants in a town to join together and have enough made so that each dealer can display them and divide the expense pro rata among the various store- keepers who adopt this methods of calling attention to the mail order evil. A merchant called at the office of the Tradesman the other day and an- nounced that on March 1 he would change his business to a cash basis. Several reasons for this innovation he embodied in a circular letter to his customers, but he said the funda- mental reason was that he found that customers he was trusting the most, dealing with the most. leniently and trusting the longest were buying most largely of the mail order houses. This he ascertained for him- self by sauntering over to the freight depot from time to time and noting from When he realized the shipments which came in mail order houses. how long many of these men had kept their names on the debit side of his books and how they had to pay cash in advance for mail order goods before they could receive any atten- tion at the hands of the mail order houses, he made up his mind to put an end, once for all, to extending further cred t to anyone who was us- ing the local merchant solely as a convenience. The circular letter above referred to is as follows: As I find it impossible to conduct my business as successfully as it should be conducted and do so much credit business, | have tinally con-, cluded, after due consideration, to place my business on a cash basis on and after March 2. | am forced to do this for several reasons. One is that I wish to discount my bills be- cause | find that | must do this in order to buy to the best advantage. Another is that [ cannot afford to Carry so large a proportion of my sales on my ledger. Il am, therefore, 15 going to do away with book-keeping methods altogether and sell goods for cash only except where | deem it wise to issue coupon books in exchange for definite receipts which | can ne- gotiate at the bank in order to raise money to discount my bills. | be- lieve this plan will enable me to sell goods cons derably closer than | have ever sold them before. It will also put an end to all losses so that | will not have to spread that expense over the cost of doing business and thus compel those who do pay to make up the losses of those who do not. If shall, therefore, close my books on Feb. 28 and when | open my store on March 2, I will do no credit business whatever except with such customers as | feel inclined to entrust with cou- pon books in exchange for definite promises to pay at a certain time. [ believe my customers will all ap- preciate my position and agree with me in the belief that this is the proper thing for me to do at this time. Citizens 4445 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 Lowest Our catalogue is “the world’s lowest market” because we are the larg- est buyers of general merchandise in America. And because our com- paratively inexpensive method of selling, through a catalogue, re- duces costs. We sell to merchants only. Ask for curren cata- logue. Butler Brothers New York Chicago St. Louis Minneapolis Dallas 536 intelligent selling. FR $3 3 cy 16 J Bi By intelligent selling. The Busy Grocery "THE busy grocery is the store where the most careful buying is back of customer wants, when she wants it, Is Ea the very essence of good merchandising. National advertising is directing con- sumers to trade marked goods, because the trade mark identifies worthy prod- ucts and is an implied guarantee. Keeping a full variety of National Biscuit Company products, in the famous In-er-seal Trade Mark pack- ages and in the handsome glass front cans, means intelligent buying. Meet- — ing the demand created by National Biscuit Company advertising means NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Having what the (ef e BES Ad Sr oe % 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 18, 1914 Which Is Better, Wholesaler or Man- ufacturer? Written fcr the Tradesman. Both are out bidding for your pat- ronage. Provided only that you have a reputation for meeting your bills promptly, you can choose between them. The general man from the big wholesale house will gladly have a motor truck load of heavy trunks brought into your store,and from mul- titudinous lines of samples you can select everything from babies’ hose to dress silks. Or the traveling repre- sentative of the various manufac- tureres, each with his small special line in one trunk or even in a case, will call upon you, very likely some months beiore the goods are made, and book your order for future de- livery. Which is better for the merchant to buy from, the wholesale or job- bing house, or the manufacturer, particularly the merchant in a small town? Of course we are here considering the dry goods merchant. For some lines of trade the jobber is the small dealer’s only practicable source of supply. Take a bazaar or ten-cent store for instance. We are not speaking of the synd cate stores of this class, but of small establishments where one man or one firm own a single store with a stock of a few hundred, or at most a few thousand dollars. It would be simply impos- sible for such a dealer to buy any considerable part of his goods of manufacturers. He can not send out to one maker for a little lot of hair- pins, and to another for a few dozen tablets, and to still another for a dozen cheap lamp-shades. His freights would take all his profits. His better plan is to buy in small amounts of a wholesale house, keep a diversified stock, and turn his money often. The small grocer also must depend largely on his jobber. In a few lines he may vary from this rule with profit, but still the great bulk of his goods may best be purchased from a reliable wholesaler. Even the dry goods merchant can not cut loose from the wholesale houses. The small merchant must have some place where he can sup- ply himself conveniently with a great number of lines of each of which he handles only a small amount. For the most part he must buy by dozens and single bolts, not in case lots. When all is said and done, the good wholesale house forms an indispens- able link between the manufacturer and the retailer. There is another connection which should be touched upon here, in which the wholesale house can not be spared by the dealer. It some- times stands in a relation to a dealer that can only be described as pater- nalistic. The wholesale house “car- ries” the dealer. Sometimes the dealer’s capital is so limited that he could not be in business at all but for this accommodation. Sometimes the wholesale house, very likely through its traveling rep- resentative, acts as the guide and ad- viser of an inexperienced dealer. if the house is of the very highest or- der of business integrity, great care will be taken not to mislead the green cousin in any way, not to load him up with goods that can be sold only at a loss. Until he is able to stand on his own feet financially, and has’ had enough experience to be the _ best judge of what is adapted to his trade, it certainly is very foolish for a small dealer to withdraw any considerable part of his patronage from a whole- sale house that has been treating him in the honorable manner described above. However, it must be admitted that any dry goods merchant who is so restricted as to capital and so lacking in knowledge of goods that he is obliged to depend upon his whole- saler, is laboring at a disadvantage and can not expect the greatest meas- ure of success until he can overcome these hindrances. The dealer who has enough capi- tal to handle his business easily, and who does not need to depend on someone else’s judgment in making selections, will do well, while still maintaining his relations with the wholesale house from which he will yet do a large share of his buying, to keep on the lookout for manu- facturer’s lines of special excellence and salability, and, as occasion offers, to include such in his purchases. A manufacturer's line is especially desirable in these sorts of goods on which one can run along perhaps a term of years on a certain kind, building up a trade on a particular ar- ticle. Among such may be mentioned hosiery, corsets, muslin underwear, knit underwear, women’s cotton house dresses, children’s dresses, and women’s suits. The list may be greatly extended, and in a large store naturally will be. Styles in most lines will change fre- quently, but the general character of the goods will be the same and the reputation which they make among one’s customers will be uninterrupted. The manufacturer, putting out a line or at most a limited number of Why Ipswich Hosiery Is Profitable For Dealers #3 PSWICH MILLS are the largest hosiery mills in the \ world. They are planned and equipped for manufac- They turn out twenty-five million pairs of stockings a year; and this tremendous output turing on a large scale. means economy of production. This gives you an opportunity to sell Ipswich Hosiery for less than equal quality of other stockings and still make a good profit per pair, and get an increased volume of busi- ness besides, by giving such high quality at a moderate In addition to this, we help you to further increase your sales by conducting a continuous national publicity price. campaign in leading magazines. We keep in stock constantly the best lines of Men's, Women’s and Children’s stockings you can get anywhere near the price; and they retail profitably at 12%c to 25c i a pair. Write for Selling Helps PAUL STEKETEE & SONS Grand Rapids, Mich. Wholesale Dry Goods FOR SPRING TRADE Ou Cham Om a Ei ptaes gi bre) an " Our salesmen are now showing samples and will be pleased to figure with prospective buyers. Lace Curtains Muslin Curtains Curtain Nets Portieres Extension Rods Wood Poles Pole Sockets Curtain Pulls Window Shades Etc. 4 GRAND RAPIDS DRY GOODS CO. Exclusively Wholesale se¢ Grand Rapids, Mich. ae #3 ‘ February 18, 1914 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 allied lines and selling directly to the MEN OF MARK. ways been regarded as the soul oi Boob Salesmen. retailer, is up against the problem of honor. The cashier of a Grand Rapids making these few they ought to be. If they win, he succeeds. If they fail to gain the favor of the buying public, he loses. So he concentrates his energies on bringing up his few items to the highest degree of desirability, em- bodying in them as many trade-win- ning qualities as he possibly can, im- parting to them a character and an individuality that goods bought from a jobber often lack. The manufacturer who sells to the wholesaler and jobbing house has a different problem from the one who supplies the retailer direct, and so does not go in so strong on individ- uality in his goods and genuine merit. The jobber’s success does not de- pend on any one line. He may be more interested in gettting a fairly good article at the very lowest fg- ure than he is in getting some- thing that will meet nicely all the ex- actions of the ultimate This year he may place his order for a given line with one large maker next year it may go to some other who makes a better bid. Altogether, it is next to impossible to build up a reputation on a partic- ular article bought of ajobber. Or, if you get the reputation built up, then the jobber has changed to some other manufacturer and can’t supply the goods your trade is calling for. It is far more practical to fill in and keep going on a line bought direct from a manufacturer. Get the exclusive sale in your town of some manufacturers’ articles of merit and push them. Judgment should of course be used in what you take hold of and particularly in the amount you buy. It generally would be unwise to load up heavily on something new and untried for the sake of getting the exclusive sale. But with a line that already has an established reputation in your com- munity, Or a line which has the merit on which a reputation can be based, things just what consumer. it is a mighty good thing for you if it can be gotten at your store and not at the other places. Such lines need not always be high- ly advertised goods. On an article that has real merit and can be sold at an advantageous price, a_protit- yielding reputation can be built up. Fabrix. —_—_22.2s___. Lansing—A new company has en- gaged in business to manufacture and deal in silos and other machinery un- der the style of the J. M. Preston Co., with an authorized capital stock of $25,000, of which $22,250 has been’ subscribed and paid in in cash. —_—___.-. Escanaba—The A. J. Kirstin Co., manufacturer of stump pullers, has been incorporated under the same style, with an authorized capital stock of $25,000, o fwhich $22,250 has been subscribed, $2,000 paid in in cash and $14,250 in property. You can do no successful direct advertising without a good mailing list. You cannot send out mail ad- vertising unless you know to whom it ought to be sent. Jacob Heeringa, Pioneer Merchant of Holland Colony. Jacob Heeringa was born in Dockum Province, Vriesland, Netherlands, June 11, 1841. He came to this country with his parents in 1848. They settled in Albany, N. Y., and lived there eight years before coming to Michigan. When the war broke out, Mr. Heeringa served in the Civil War as First Sergeant of Michi- gan Cavalry. He was in the service Company A, Third Regiment, JACOB HEERINGA. for four years and six months. Shortly after the war he engaged in the general store business at East Saugatuck, which he conducted for thirty consecu- tive years. During this time he was postmaster sixteen vears and Justice of the Peace sixteen years also. About ten years ago Mr. Heeringa disposed of his remil business and moved to Hol- land, where he formed a copartnership with his son Edwin, G. J. Schurman, George Schurman, and William Beck- man in the Michigan Tea Rusk Co., which has had a very prosperous ¢a- reer. Mr. Heeringa acts as Treas- urer of the organization. He ts also Treasurer of the Emeritus fund of the Christian Reformed church and is Treasurer of the School for Chris- tian Instruction. Mr. Heeringa was married February 22, 1864, to Miss Ida Allen, one year his junior, who was born in Overisel, Netherlands, coming to this country with her parents in 1846. She has been a strong support to her husband and is the mother of nine children of _which seven are still living, as follow: Mrs. J. Siebelink, East Saugatuck: Mrs. Dr. F. Brouwer, Holland; Ed- win Heeringa, Holland; Mrs Rev. W. P. Van Wyk, Grand Rapids; Mrs. Rev. W. P. Bode, Lincoln Center, Iowa; Jacob G. Heeringa, Grand Rapids, and Ida Heeringa, Holland. Mr. Heeringa joined the Dutch Re- formed church when he was a young man in Holland. Naturally, he united with the same church at Albany, but, on coming to Michigan, he just as naturally united with the Christian Reformed church, which he has serv- ed as elder for forty-one years. Mr. Heeringa never joined any lodge and has never found any pleasure out- side of the home circle and his church and religious relations. He has al- ot merchandise, both as to quality and value, and was long regarded as one of the most care- He is a good judge ful buyers and successful sellers in the Holland Colony. He rejoices in the companionship of his friends and never forgets a favor or fails to shield a friend. His word is as good as _ his bond. He was one of the first sub- scribers to the Michigan Tradesman and is still a regular reader of this pub- lication. Mr. and Mrs. Heeringa will celebrate their golden wedding February 22 and the Tradesman joins with their many friends in wishing them many happy returns of the day. ——_»-+ It Wouldn’t Come Out. Arthur was slightly ill and his moth- er called the asked doctor questions, and_ then, turning to the little boy, said: doctor. The several “Now, my boy, show me your tongue.” Arthur opened his mouth slightly, and looked up at the physician. "Oh thats not enough, said the doctor, smiling. Put it right out. Arthur began to cry. “Why, Arthur,’ said his mother, in surprise, “what is the matter, dear? Do as the doctor asks you, that’s a good hoy.” ta *.. ” “a Come, come,” urged the doctor, “no one will hurt you. Now, put tongue right out.” your Axcthur. ~ cos its fastened at the back!” "1 cant,” sobbed bank went into. a clothing store the other day and asked for a dinner coat. The affable clerk who was approach- ed enquired. “Do you wish a waiter’s coat?” A young millionaire entered = a clothing store on Monroe avenue yes- terday and asked for a chauffeur’scap. The clerk thus addressed enquired, “What size do you wear?” The look the young millionaire gave the clerk would melt a heart of stone. a Peter, Miedena has engaged in the meat business at 1203 West Leonard street. He has been a string butcher about twenty years. ——_+>- 2. The Wisen Cloak & Suit Co. is offering to settle with creditors at 25 cents on the dollar. here for FOR FINE WEDDING PARTY AND FUNERAL WORK TRY Crabb & Hunter Floral Co. 114 E, FULTON ST. Citizens 5570 Opposite Park Bell M 570 We are manufacturers of Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats For Ladies, Misses and Children Corl, Knott & Co., Ltd. Corner Commerce Ave. and Island St. Grand Rapids, Mich. EASTER GOODS Easter Chicks We have a complete line of Ducks Fancy Candy Boxes Booklets, Guest and Tally Cards— All on display at our Sample Rooms, No. 5 and 7 Ionia Ave., N. W., WILL P. CANAAN CO. Rabbits Post Cards Baskets Grand Rapids, Mich. yA Good, JULIUS R. LIEBERMANN Michigan Sales Agent 415 Genesee Ave. Saginaw, Mich. Medium-Priced Line Buffalo Trunk Mfg. Co. MANUFACTURERS OF TRUNKS, BAGS, SUIT CASES 127-139 Cherry St., Buffalo, N. Y. Strong, Write for Catalogue 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 18, 1914 ; WY\ NP yy 0 TH = rr = ¢ : WY) =r S : ms = Pat ts A Pot DOF Hh Ks wing ; Up dpairrs DUI Ussydktr i J S we) ok AS What is the Proper Stock Turn-Over. Hartford, Conn., Feb. 16—The sub- ject, “What is the Proper Stock-Turn- Over?” is a very important one, par- ticularly applicable to the retail shoe business, more so perhaps than to any other line: presenting, as it does, a question extremely difficult to an- swer. | am quite conscious of the belief that no definite answer is ex- pected in concrete form. If it were possible to establish any one partic- ular standard by which we m ght vovern ourselves and could estimate the qualifications of the buyers for their responsible positions, we should all welcome it. So many and varied are the conditions that enter into the stock turning proposition that only classified standards could be es- tablished, and of many divisions at that. To enumerate some of these con- ditions, we will consider, first, where only the higher grades of shoes are sold from $4 to $10, requiring five and six widths on each line and ex- treme styles. A stock of this grade to be turned once and a hali or twice would show a fair average, wh'le a stock of a cheaper grade, selling from $4 down, and depending upon job- bers to supply sizes at a day’s notice, could easily be turned five or six times. The medium class of stock, selling from $3 to $7, with a general assortment, might be turned two and a half or three time. To further classify, it must be taken into consideration that stocks of men’s shoes turn about twice as fast as those of women’s shoes, accord- ‘ng to statistics. In quoting the above figures, I do it on the following basis: If the to- tal annual sales of a business are $150,000 and the average stock car- ried is $50,000, and the gross profit on sales if 33 1-3 per cent, the stock has been turned twice. I know that some merchants figure it differently and claim that it has been turned three times. The total sales should be divided by the merchandise on hand at the selling price, viz.: $150,- 000 by $75,000, or the cost of the sales divided by the cost of merchandise carried, viz.: $100,000 by $50,000, giv- ing the same result. We can all readily realize that more frequent turning of stock means increase in net profits without an in- crease in selling price. How to ac- compl'sh this is the one large ques- tion. The cause of the disasters of many retail businesses may often be attributed mainly to an overstock due to the two following mistakes: (1) multiplicity of lines carried, (2) in- discriminate scattering of buying. The two remedies for these evils lie in (1) a systematic elimination of un- profitable lines; (2) the concentration of purchases to the least number of manufacturers who can supply re- quirements. Scientific merchandising is neces- sary for the application of these rem- edies. This requires a card system of stock-keeping which gives a per- petual inventory not only as a whole but of each department, and of each line of goods of each department, thus enabling a merchant to get at the very fundamental division of stock and to classify by grades. For example: ascertain from the system the number of lines carried to sell for $3, the amount of annual sales and the amount of average stock; get the number of times this erade has turned and endeavor to increase the turns by elimination of the slow selling Ines and keep the good sellers well sized. Employ the same process with every grade and good results will follow. This I be- lieve to be the only classification that can be established for accurate and just comparison to determine the proper stock turn over. With this view I would like to make the following suggestion: Inasmuch as we all must real‘'ze that great im- portance of “Stock Turn-Over” to the success of our business, that 10 per cent reduction of our average stock carried means 10 per cent less capital involved and consequently in- creases amount to be entered on the “Los and Gain Account,” at the sum- ming up of the year’s business, as “Balance Gain: inasmuch as by the elimination or lessening of the num- ber of lines would naturally mean a smaller accumulation of “fag ends” to be closed out at slaughter prices at each season’s end; inasmuch as the only data we have by which we can determine the “proper stock turn- over’ is gathered from what “has been,” and inasmuch as systems of scientific merchandising are being in- troduced and studied, would it not be of sufficient mutual benefit to the members of the National Shoe Re- tailers’ Association to warrant our entering into a “Competit.ve Class” for the discovery of the “Proper Stock Turn-Over” by classification of the different grades of goods, sell- ing at $3, at $4, at $5, at $6 and at $7. or further classification if desired, in both women’s and men’s goods, and recapitulate and report at our next annual meeting, when we may de- termine what should be the proper turn-over for each grade? If a resolut‘on embodying this plan could be adopted and, even if only fifty members entered the competi- tion and made the effort, scattered as they will be, | believe that the re- sult would be gratifying. To this end I would glady furnish a copy ot a card system that would minimize the labor and show by its records the turning of each individual line of each grade, so that we could intelligently make eliminations of slow sellers and adjust our merchandise without de- preciating our annual sales. IK. Knowles. _—_——-2-o-oa The Danbury Hat Co. is about to engage in business at 228 Michigan, West. Arthur Guidotti is the propri- etor and comes from Danbury, Conn. where he has been engaged in a similar business. ——_~++>—__—_ Stone, Burgess & Co., installment jewelers, are succeeded by Stone & Burgess. ——_++2——__—_ A, O. Frey succeeds E. E. lee in the grocery business at 363 Grandville avenue. —_—_+ 2 2—___ It is well enough to be a thinker, but thinks does Blakes- too often the man who nothing else. welt. ESTABLISHED 1864 Satisfy Your Customers How Many of Your Customers Come Back? The First Sales Are the Backbone of Your Future Success O insure repeating sales, you must give your customer absolute shoe satisfaction in style, comfort and service. This latter is the quality most essential in the entire shoe trade. Backing each pair of our shoes is the experience of 50 years along truly progressive lines, and when you sell our shoes, you do not sell an experiment, but a finished product, proven by honest competition. The cut is a reproduction of a Gun Metal Shoe, particularly adapted to the working man’s trade, in so far as it is built on a neat, stylish last, for dress wear, and of very substantial material for a working shoe when put to that use. The soles are of real oak, uppers of extra quality calf skin. Blucher and button, Goodyear OUR SALESMAN WILL POINT OUT THEIR SUPERIORITY Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN #, #, February 18, 1914 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 Mild Winter Hit Retailers Hard. were acted upon, twelve candidates Detroit, has a natural longing for a No woman ever looks at matrimony Written for the Tradesman. were fully initiated, others were anx- Polar expedition. Until such a time as {rom a man’s point of view. Immediately after the holiday some ious to be, but we could not handle he can arrange for such an extended retail shoe dealers began to announce the business, even though our equip- trip, he has to content himself by get- W% nN their mid-winter clearance sales. Some waited, devoutly hoping that a good, sizeable spell of genuine old-fashion- ed winter weather might suddenly turn up. to liven up business a bit, but in the Central Middle West there was smply nothing that line. torecast by doing in Blizzards contidently cheerful weather men egot side-track- ed. Other sections of the country, North, West and East were favored in this particular; but not the Central Middle West. As the weeks passed by, and each more. bright and salubrious than its predecessor, retail succeeding day seemed shoe dealers began to realize that they were simply up against it. Finding with a lot of hand, and ap- themselves wonter shoes still on preciably more than usual of the odds- and-ends and broken-lot sort, the only thine to do to make it move was to resort to drastic cut-price measures. And th’s Shoe store patrons should certainly they have done. have no kick coming now. Not in years have I seem such remorseless cutting and slashing of prices. And footwear embraces ‘ attractive shoes, in some of the very newest and the reduced price extensive lines of winter best approved styles, for men, women and children. reduction all along odds and ends, to find a pair off shoes that fits him, he can get them at a price not far There has been a big the line; and on if the patron is able removed from the cost of production. A friend of mine showed me a pair of patent leather kid tops, on a_ perfectly which he bought for $1.95. high grade Cincinnati's bluchers with mat good last, They were from one of department stores, and bore on the shank a cryptic word, is placed only upon shoes they sell at $5 and bargain, eh? Of store lost money on that friend was fortunate in being able to wear a narrow width; but the illustrates the des- perate lengths to which dealers are welt shoes best which, as I happen to know, upwards. Some course the deal: and of course my more than ordinarily incident driven to get rid of winter footwear. Admittedly, the dead weather has been against the dealer. And still there are multitudes of cantanker- who contend that the shoe dealers of this country are wax- ing fabulously rich! Cid McKay. shoe ous persons —_+-2—___. Jaunty Jottings From Jackson. Jackson, Feh. 16—We had _ the pleasure of attending a vaudeville show a short time ago with an old friend. The acts were all good and the last of all was a male quartette of especial merit. Just before they appeared on the stage, a stentorian voice cried out the words “and now we come,” and, like the announce- ment, what followed was extraordin- ary indeed. Jackson Council might well say the come,” same words, “And now we with .an achievement almost unpar- alleled, all things considered. Last Saturday evening, between the hours of 7 and 12 o’clock, a regular meet- ing of our Council was held in a regular way, according to the regular order of business for all councils. Fifteens applications for membership ment is first-class. We listened to two addreses by officers of the Grand Council, answered several long dis- tances, went from the executive ses- sion to a social session with our fam- ilies and friends, had a first-class lunch, plenty of time to dance and made elaborate plans for an annual meeting in March for the afternoon, with a banquet at the Otsego Hotel in the evening. Deputy Grand Coun- selor James F. Hammell, of Lansing, and Past Grand Counselor John Qu'n- cy Adams, of Battle Creek, were the visiting representatives from the Grand Council. We are always glad to have these brothers with us, but would suggest to them to bring their wives next time. We are rejoicing in the size of this class of new mem- bers, even though it does go up into two figures. They are all good men and we present them here as a strong asset, not only to Jackson Council, No. 57, but to the whole order at large knowing that they will endeavor to exempl fy .the teachings of the ritual at all times and here they are: John Henry Alles, 121 N. Gorham: street, manutacturer of high grade candy and selling his own products; Chas. G. Tullis, 167 Stewart avenue, represent- ing American Sewer Pipe Co.; Mar- tin C. Baker, 708 Randolph. street, representing the same company; Charles E. Baker, 708 Randolph street, selling silos; Bennerd E. Dewey, 126 South Hill street, with Kruce Cracker Co.; Arnold Thayer, 1009 First street, representing Wilson, Larrabee Co.; William S. Phillips, 1107 W. Wash- ineton street, Saginaw Beef Co.; Willie S. Allen, 178 Maple avenue, Oliver Chilled Plow Co.; Roy S. Mapes, 705 Fourth street, Crown Paper Co.; Geo. B. Cline, 319 West Mason street, New Ideal Spreader Go: Jay W. ee 406 Edge- wood street, with E. S. Bowman Co., and John S. Rapley, ca West High street, representing Ontario Drill Co. We are assurred of another 4arge class for the March meeting and Jack- son Council, No. 57, is after the 300 mark and that right soon. Max Nowlin, at the head of the Jackson Baking Co., furnished the sandwiches, cakes and fried cakes, demonstrating fully the high quality baking done by this company. M. Moore made the coffee and that is all that needs to be said. Our officers did the work well and Senior Counsel- or Ray G. Pringle knew right where he was at every minute. Those figures furnished by Grand Secretary Fred C. Richter m: ikes Michigan show up well, as compared with other grand jurisdictions, and let the good work go on. Jim Hammell says that “fraternity” does not mean using the same towel for all traveling men for all time with- out the towel seeing soap and water. If the steam roller split the Republi- can party, what will the roller towel, etc. Will H. Graham and family, First street, have spent the past three weeks in the South, also visiting Cuba, and Will reports a most enjoyable time. He is now hustling once more for business. It is hard to get away from old as- sociations. Steve Lewis has bought a a farm. Some would-be buyers are not buyers at all, they are just commercial gossip- ers. They ask you how you sell so and so and then inform you that they do not need any, but just wanted to know the price. “O piffle.” Scott & Helmer, Greenwood avenue grocers, are interested in a chunk of land in Southern Florida that is look- ing somewhat fruitful in a financial way. Myer M. Levy had a very long face at the meeting Saturday night. You see, Mrs. Levy is away from home for a short time on a visit to her people. E. A, Elliott, manager C. Elliott Co., ting out for a day at a time when the air is sufficiently icy. Last week Wed- nesday looked pretty good to him, so he made a fifty mile drive with his sales- man, Geo. Revdell, over on the air line division of the Grand Trunk and is anxiously waiting for another op- HONORBILT SHOES THE LINE THAT SATISFIES portunty. Spurgeon. > Get all the customers you can Keep all the customers you get That means a paying business for you. Glove Brand Quality is the kind that makes this possible. Glove Brand Rubbers Fit Glove Brand Rubbers Wear Glove Brand Rubbers Satisfy Satisfied customers mean repeated profits for you. You cannot afford to risk your pros- pects on goods of inefficient quality. Stock Glove Brand Rubbers Hirth-Krause Company Grand Rapids, Mich. A Good Many Retailers Have Found Out That They Didn’t Have Enough Wales Goodyear Rubbers and we’re getting a lot of re-orders—the Bear Brand Rubbers are the thing this year. You'll find it’s hard sledding trying to satisfy your trade with any other kind. Is your rubber stock going to hold out? If not, size in with this popular brand. You'll find your customers better satisfied. Drop us a card and a salesman will run in to see you with his samples for next season. No obligation whatever. HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 20 MICHIGAN = I> — — “WOMANS WORLD | The Toilsome Serving of a Modern Martha. Written for the Tradesman. The Helping Hand Church on Vin- cent street 1s a working church. Its pastor, Mr. Hardy, is an earnest, energetic man, devoted and enthusi- astic in the cause to which he has dedicated his life. forceful, compelling hand is felt on undertakes. He has He is one whose everything he ereat executive ability—he can plan out work for any number of persons, and thus supplement his own efforts by those of others to great advantage. He is the kind of man who, had _ he followed some secular calling, would have become a great captain of in- dustry, a director and utilizer of the exertions of other men. Naturally about himself helpers. such a man has drawn But even he assistants to can not find enough carry on all the activities which his tireless mind projects. Many of his church members make the excuse that their time already is fully occupied—the men plead their necessary absorption in business, the women their family cares. They feel that if they attend one service or at most two Sunday, that it really is all that can be expected of them. So it happens, as is not un- usual in such cases, that the larger part of all the great amount of work carried on by the Vincent Street church is actually done by a little band of faithful i number but of surpassing zeal and by no means services On devotees. few in diligence, who, while exempt from business responsibilities and home still feel that the cause of their Master has first claim cares, on their time and strength. Most notable among these is Mrs. Gordon, a w dow of forty years with no children. Mrs. Gordon earns her living as a stenographer in a down- town office. She is both rapid and accurate, so she has a steady posi- tion at very good pay. has to put in not only the customary seven to eight hours per day, but, owing to the peculiar requirements of the place, she has to go back two However, she evenings each week and work from seven till nine. Mrs. Gordon has a tiny suite of and gets her breakfast. Her housekeeping, Hght and abbre- takes a little time. She is obliged to two or three hours each week to keeping up her wardrobe. No one but a very busy woman whose time for a certain number of hours each day be- longs to her employer, knows how rooms own wiated as it is, devote hard it is to find even the few min- utes necessary for ordering a hat or a pair of gloves or a She must take the ever nec- picking out blouse. essary sttch in time in this garment and that, and put in an occasional hour with dressmaker or tailor for fittings and alterations. It will readily be seen that Mrs. Gordon's place in life is no sinecure. And then her church work. Mrs. Sab- bath school, having a class number- Gordon teaches in the ing some thirty girls from thirteen to sixteen years of age. It is need- less to say at times an almost crushing responsibility for their She scribes to the best helps and always that she feels spiritual welfare. sub- gives one evening of each week to the preparation of the lesson, and an- other to the Teachers’ Normal class. Besides all this, when not actually engaged in her office work or some other task undivided attention, she may be brain to requiring her said to be al- ways racking her devise means of attracting and holding “her girls,’ who it must be confessed are a light-hearted and frolicsome set ot young things, not at present fully appreciative of their teacher's almost painfully earnest efforts in thir be- half. Every summer she takes her class out on a picnic or an every winter she gives them a little banquet or dinner, in both cases pay- ing thte bills from her own pocket. excursion; Always and always “her girls” are on her mind and heart. One evening in the week studying the Sabbath School lesson, one even- ing for the Normal class, two even- ings at the office, prayer meeting every Wednesday Mrs. Gordon tind to do on the re- maining evening, which happens to be Friday? Sit in an easy chair and read an entertaining book, or enjoy night—what does a friendly chat with some congenial friend? Not Cordelia Gordon. Her energy is too relentless, her sense of duty too coercive to allow any such indulgence to inclination. She used to spend every other Friday evening attending the regular business meet- ing of the church, but lately she has taken upon herself another line of work that requires her services every Friday evening. The Vincent Street church, which is located near a large tract peopled mostly by factory operatives, recently has been enlarging its institutional activities. It has installed a gym- nasium and a reading room in the church annex, aiming to make the latter a sort of neighborhood center. Now to get this on its feet and make it a power for good, it must be push- ed; so very naturally Mrs. Gordon TRADESMAN was selected as one of several ener- getic, dependable church who women of the certain number of hours each week to being each devote a in attendance at the reading room and furthering its interests. On Sunday morning Mrs. Gordon is at the nine to have everything in readiness for her class at nine-thirty. After Sab- bath* School the church serv ce oc- cupies the time until twelve. Then there is often a short conference with chutch promptly at superintendent or other teachers, so it is likely to be one o'clock or after when she leaves the building. Mrs. little missionary society composed of busi- Gordon belongs to a ness people like herself who are oc- cupied during they hold ther meetings once or twice a month on Sunday Mrs. Gordon is the secretary and aiways attends. regular week days. so afternoon. Sunday evening there is the Altogether, when Sunday night comes, the ever faith- ful, ever Mrs. Gordon is just as weary in body service. zealous, ever dependable and mind as she is of a week day evening. In add‘tion to carrying out the stren- uous programme just outlined, Mrs. Gordon is one to pastor and the church turn in their difficulties, often placing it whom the leaders in the upon her ready, active brain to work out a practical solution to the partic- ular problem at hand. She is posted on all the ins and outs of the church finances, knows where every dollar comes from that supplies its treasury. In short, she is one of the few that push and contrive and see that things go. This outline can not convey to the reader the intensity with which she labors, nor the expenditure of ner- vous energy she constantly is mak- She works harder than all the elders and deacons combined—harder ing. than the pastor himself, although he is, as has already been indicated, an exceptionally vigorous and effective worker. But like good executive abil'ty, Mr. Hardy has a habit of putting detail off on to others. He has found that it usually is better attended to by Also, like many other tives, he most persons of so doing. good execu- often does not realize the excessive amount of work requiring slow, painstaking performance, that he loads upon faithful and uncom- plaining helpers. Then after the manner of his sex, Mr. Hardy takes things more eas'ly and philosophically than is possible for a woman of Mrs. Gordon's tem- perament to do. by experience that he can keep him- And he has learned self more fit and accomplish greater and better results by occasionally taking a day off. going to the woods or the river and forgetting that there is any such organization as_ the church on Vincent street, shaking off for the time being all his perplex- ities regarding it and the sins and sorrows of its many members. Mrs. Gordon knows nothing about the joy of running away from work. She never has tried it. She keeps on and on, becoming each week a trifle thinner and paler, a little more jaded February 18, 1914 and haggard looking, and feeling a little more keenly the grind of it all. can see that a breakdown is nent. For years she has gone be- yond her strength. It is only that indomitable will of hers that her up. unceas ng Any close observer immi- keeps There is a story told in the Sacred Narrative of the ceived and household in Master’s being re- entertained by a Ittle 3ethany which had at its head an energetic woman named Martha. She is bered with described as “cum- much serving,” and was gently chided for being “careful and troubled about things.” The sister Mary who sat in quiet medi- tation at His feet was declared by the Master to have part.” many “chosen the good found a little bustling housewifery the occa- sion for a slight reproof, what could be His comment concerning such ex- If this so high authority those constant- ly performed by Mrs. Gordon. cessive activities as It may be urged in defense of the zealous worker of the Vincent Street church that the imper- fect; that Martha of old was chided, not for doing too much, but for at- tempting to do and wanting her sis- ter to aid in dong that for there was no need. analogy is which lfurther it may be argued that both men and women overtax their strength and _ strain their energies to the utmost to ac- quire wealth or to accomplish some other purely worldly end. Is it un- justifiable that they estly in the cause of Christ? labor as earn- Granting the full force of all these arguments, and also that times have changed and methods of religious and humanitarian well, this question work must change as still self with startling force—does such a presents it- life as Mrs. Gordon's really achieve the end for which she is so painfully striving? She aids in keeping certain means of religious propaganda going, but does mend the thinkine minds. outside the pale of the church? such bondslavery recom- religious life to She may for a time hold her Sun- day School class by sheer earnest- ness and will power, but does she in her own person exemplify to them the beauty and gladness of holy tliv- ing? Constantly goading herself on beyond her strength, can she impart to others an enthusiasm that in her overwrought condition she does not feel? Although consecrated to the herself unquestion- ably highest ideals, does she inspire others to bet- ter living? Quillo OFFICE OUTFITTERS LOOSE LEAF SPECIALISTS Tue ; Oa ALL ae a SUAS aL tL cHIGAN STATE TELEPHONE February 18, 1914 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 Go wherever you will, look up the leading merchants and 10 to 1 you will find they sell Hood Rubbers HOOD RUBBERS are the “‘back-bone,”’ yes the red blood, the SINEW of the rubber business of thousands of real MONEY MAKING merchants. The Reasons Why Are MANY Here Are a FEW: The Hood Mill is the largest in the world. Its product did tt. The People know that HOOD RUBBERS wear longest. The Merchants know that they can fit shoes better with HOOD RUBBERS than with the ordinary brands. We Give You Service---Unexcelled We save YOU 5% on your rubber bills. Plan now for 1914. Get our new special catalogue. No shoe merchant should be without it. Ne. Grand RapidsShoe ®Rubber® : THE MICHIGAN PEOPLE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. = 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 18, lv.+ <= — — — = = = — — 2 = - ess = = = S = = —— ae _— i eae eae" | STOVES «*> HARDWARE yd) 1) )) )) iy) a (LL SEESEEL SLI a Aus UCC (lel q AMA AK Wl Michigan Retail Hardware Association. President—F. A. Rechlin, Bay City. Vice-President—C. E. Dickinson, St. Joseph. Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, City. Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit. Marine Household and__ Selling Hardware. hardware—a Showing Household sufficient Ine of it—ais a sure antidote for the selling slump that is likely to strike your store during the winter months. This is true for several reasons. Two things, though, stand out prom- inently at the head of the list. Kirst, household hardware is made up of staple, everyday necessities that every household must have. Second, the price can be such that an unusually strong appeal will be made to your customers This easily will be seen to be a proposition that is sure to bring trade. Oifer the people they have to have at such prices they something cant get away from. The way to make a success with household hardware is to push it per- sistently and consistently. Push it by means of suitable interior dis- plavs. comnelline window trims and live wire advertising It would pay you to devote at leas one week to special efforts in behalf of household hardware. During that week a good strong window trim could supplement the handbill in an effective way. One built after the style illustrated on this page would be about right. In this window trim we have featured kitchen wire goods. This is only one part of household hardware, but it would pay you to zZive it prominence. To build this window you will need about the following: Merchandise. 1 doz. Wire waste baskets 1 Carpet beaters. i Sink straimers. Y% ” Dish drainers. 1; Soup straimers. i, | Percolators. 1 ” Vegetable ladles. 1s: Moasters. 1 Bee beaters. 14 ~~ Soap dishes. WA a Vegetable boilers. 1 ” Soap savers. 14 Flour sifters. 2 ” Assorted mixing spoons. i Khitehen forks and knives. lixtures. ive rolls of red crepe paper. Four small wooden boxes. Three boards. Plenty of price tickets. The first step is to cover the back- ground with red crepe paper. Then cover the boxes and boards with red Crepe Paper. These should be the same relative s'ze as shown in the drawing. Put them in the position indicated and get busy with the mer- chandise. At the top of the window next to the glass should be hung an assort- ment of various kinds of strainers, mixing spoons, basting spoons, coat hangers. carpet beaters and so forth, according to the amount of room you have. Hang two wire waste baskets bottom side up to the ce ling and let Ko Photograph of Window Trim Foster, Stevens & Co. 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CARPENTER-UDELL CHEM. CO., Address Dept. T., Grand Rapids, Mich. ~p ~p — February 18, 1914 them hang down next to the glass at equal distances. On the center unit build up a pile of two wire waste baskets and a dish drainer. Then fill in the vacant space with soap dishes or any other small articles that may be handy. To the front of the board hang a row of mixing and basting spoons and po- tato mashers. pins, Make a similar display on the right and left units, the only difference be- ing that instead of a dish drainer on each side of the waste basket you should put a flour sifter. To the front of these boards hang basting spoons the same as the center. On the left box immediately in front of the center unit put two wire waste baskets in the posit‘on-shown and in These can hang on MICHIGAN TRADESMAN sult that his holiday goods are never altogether fresh and up to date, and his store suffers in reputation, thereby. The January Reduction Sale of Hol- iday Goods ought to be a fine thing for the Hardware store, as well as any other store. I know of an instance where such a sale was literally a booming success. Even though holiday shopping, in volume, ceases on Christmas Eve, yet it is to be remembered that Christmas is more than the celebration of a day; it is a season of weeks—lasting well into January. And while the Christ- mas season lasts there is always the desire for more; the disposition to add to what we have gotten ourselves, to what we have given to others. True, the purse is lean; we ought not spend the money; but price-reduction— = Drawing of Tixtures. front hang three pot chains. three or four lang vegetable boilers in each corner of the window near the front. Stop now and see that you have plenty of price tickets on the mer- chandise. Price tickets not only will make the window trim look better but will make it pull harder goods. sell the All that remains is to arrange the floor plan which is quite easy. All there is to it is to lean a few carpet beaters against the center and. side units and then fill in the rest of the floor space neatly with small articles, such as spoons of various sizes, soap savers, asbestos mats, toasters, nut picks and so forth—Butler Way. —+- > Winter Reduction Sale of Holiday Goods. We are much amused at the purchases of Mrs. Bargain-Fiend as illustrated in the comic sections, because we appreci- ate the almost universal human fail- ing—the love of bargains. Great mer- chants recognize this, and have their periodical Bargain Sales. “Fresh stocks, new goods. Get rid of old stuff, even at a sacrifice.” This is the modern mer- chant’s slogan. The little behind-the- times storekeeper has had his Christ- mas display, and what is not sold is packed away until next year; and so in the past, year after year, with the re- the money saving—is the tempter that overpowers our frugalness; that justi- fies us, in our own minds, in our post- Christmas purchases. “Bargains” is the lure. “Bargains” crystallizes our desires, shapes our determination, makes us buy. “Ah! There’s something I want- ed for Christmas. It was a dollar; now it’s seventy-five cents.” And we buy! In one family, father had purchased a train of cars for his boy for Christ- mas. Consequently Jack was much in- terested in the after-Christmas display of tracks. cars, turn-tables, signals and what-not in the window of the hardware store, especially as a large placard stat- ed, “These goods at a fraction of their original prices.” After supper Dad was persuaded to go around to the hardware store and see the bargains. Result—the purchase of a_ turn-table, another freight and another passenger car—not to mention two additional bat- teries. Bill had expected to get a pair of skates on Christmas, but was disap- pointed; so as. skates down from $2 to $150 him a pair. were marked Father bought Then Father saw such keen looking razors on the next counter that he bought one of those. Uncle George had given Dad several “Yankee” tools, but there was one he needed, and didn’t get, so as he was in the store anyway, he’d look around ,and maybe buy that tool. He did. The demonstrator at Smith’s showed Mother how to make such appetizing croquettes out of left-overs of turkey, and it was so easy with an Enterprise meat chopper, too. Besides she saw the demonstrator grind up pumpkin in the chopper, and she realized it would save all that tedious rubbing of stewed pumpkin through a sieve. So, as Father and the children were fond of cro- quettes and pumpkin pies, she bought a food chopper. Dorothy, the grown- up daughter, said, “If everybody’s get- ting something, I think I ought to have one of those electrical curling irons.” So Mother bought that too. These sales were all to one family, and notice that, while a number of the purchases were made at the bargain counters, the razor, the “Yankee” tool, the food chopper and electric curler were not. The manager of the store told me that the January sales, 1913, were 30 per cent. higher than preceding years. These sales were not all bar- gains either, a large imcrease was noticed in staple goods as well. Said he, “The January reduction sale ot holiday goods is no longer an experi- ment in this store, it will be an es- tablished custom.”— Hardware. —__2+-._—__ Try It on the Dog. The friend had dropped in to see D’Auber, the great animal painter, put the finishing touches on his latest painting. He was mystified, however, when D’Auber took some raw meat and rubbed it vigorously painted rabbit in the foreground. “Why on earth did you do that?” he asked. “Why, you see,” over the explained D’Auber, “Mrs. Millions is coming to see this picture to-day. pet poodle smell that rabbit and get excited over it, she'll buy it on the spot.” When she sees her STATE OF MICHIGAN, The Cireuit Court for the County of Ionia, In Chancery. In the matter of the Portland Manu- facturing Company— William F. Selleck, Receiver. To the cereditors, stockholders aud other persons interested in the Portland Manufacturing Company and to all whom it may concern: Notiee is hereby given that pursuant to an order and decree of the Circuit Court for the County of f[onia, in Chancery, in the above entitled matter, made on the third day of February, 1914, and filed and entered in said mat- ter on February fourth, 1914, I will sell at public auction or vendue to the highest bidder on Thursday, the 2d day of April, 1914, at One O’clock in_ the afternoon, at the front door of the Place of business of the Portland Manufactur-, ing Company, on Bridge Street in the Village of Portland, all of the property and effects, both personal and real of the Portland Manufacturing Company. You will further take notice that it is further provided by the said order of the said court that if any person desires to bid for said property at any time before the day of sale they shall make a sealed bid or offer accompanied by ten per cent. certified check and if such sealed bid should exceed the amount of the highest bid offered at public sale then and in such case such sealed bid might be considered at such public sale. and be then and there pub- licly announced. In pursuance of the last above named provision of such decree I further give notice that I will accept bids for all of the property of the said Portland Manufacturing Company in sealed bids which said bids must be accompanied by a certified check for at least ten per cent. of the amount of such bid as a guarantee that the bidder will pay the amount of the bid as soon as the sale is confirmed by the court. I further give notice so that all par- ties may have an equal show that any person bidding at the public sale will Philadelphia-Made 23 in like manner by the receiver be re- quired to deliver a certified check or an amount of money equal to ten per cent. of the bid under the understanding that such money or check is received as a guarantee that the amount of the bid will be paid if such sale is approved by the ee Should any person or firm present sealed bids as herein provided and their bid should not prove to be the highest bid for such property then and in such case such certified check will be re- turned forthwith to the bidder, or to the party to whom he directs the check to be sent, and in case any sale made is not affirmed by the Court any check or money deposited aS a guarantee will be forthwith returned to the bidder. The REAL ESTATE to be sold at said sale is described as frollows, to-wit: all those certain pieces or parcels of prop- erty situated in the village of Portland, County -f Ionia and State of Michigan and described as follows: The south fifty (50) feet of Lot seven (7) of the original plat of the Village of Portland; also a piece or parcel of land described as beginning at the southwest corner of said lot seven (7) running thence westerly along Water Street to the intersection of Broad _ Street; thence easterly along Broad Street to Grand River; thence down Grand River to the south line of lot seven (7) aforesaid; thence westerly to the place of begin- ning together with the buildings thereon situated and all boilers, engines, ma- chines therein used, and shafting, piping and all other machinery thereto attached. Said real estate will be sold subject to a mortgage thereon of Three Thou- sand ($3,000) Dollars and six per cent. interest since May 17th, 1913. The PERSONAL PROPERTY is herein briefly described as all the goods, wares, merchandise, bills receivable, accounts receivable, manufactured goods, lumber and material for the manufacture of washing machines and motors, the man- ufactured goods being washing machines and motors, all of which property is itemized in the inventory taken January first, 1914, with the exception of the bills receivable and the accounts receiv- able and those items appear by the books of the Portland Manufacturing Company and may be seen by all prospective buy- ers at the office of the Portland Manu- facturing Company, Portland, Michigan, and the copy of said inventory is also on exhibition at the office of Portland Man- ufacturing Company, Portland. Michigan, and can also be seen at the office of the Register of this Court at the Court House in the City of Ionia, Michigan, intending hereby to include every article of every name -and nature including office fixtures and furniture and sup- plies of every description. Bidders will take notice that inasmuch as the Portland Manufacturing Company represents an established business and fully believing that a very much larger sum-can be realized by selling the entire plant and property on one bid that the bid solicited by this notice is for the entire real and personal property. Dated, February 7th, 1914. WILLIAM F. SELLECK, Receiver of the Portland Mfg. Co. Fixtures For Sale Cheap Safe, Cash Register, Protecto- grap Scales, Gasolene and Kero- sene Tanks, Lighting System, Show Cases, Scoops and Candy Trays. Write E. D. COLLAR, Mdse. Salesman, Ionia or Bear Lake, Mich. Dear Grocer: We'll wager a new hat that 75% of the weighings on your beam and poise scale are inaccurate—even if you do weigh the sugar when you are not busy. Investigate the automatic system as perfected in the Standard Com- puting Scale. WRITE FOR INFORMATION W. J. KLING, Sales Agent (New and Second-hand Scales) 50 lonia Ave., S. W. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. re a GRAND RAPIDS 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 18, 1914 . t treatment is accorded to all. It is _If the engine stops does the auto aE dy = a good place to stop at if you want tire? : L on... a eS warm comfortable rooms and a good Made in Grand Rapids Exposition, t g =>: = - meal. April 20-25. aa AS c z We are receiving several enquiries Don't forget the U. C. T. leap year 2 =E : regarding the nature of the new U. Party in 1916. : 7 SE C. T. accident insurance policies and Cheer up, Ramona will open soon. S ee 44 when they will be issued. These new Important date—Feb. 21, 1914. a policies will be a four-page instru- Important Pplace—Herald hall. z Cp qi . ment, embodying the application, by- Grand Rapids knows how. ffl Ki AS ——S laws and benefits accruing. Several Allen F. Rockwell. Sy ASH changes went into effect Jan. 1, among —_—_>-.___—_ i a : saa bein a payment of $10,000 in- Owosso Awakes From Her Long Kea SF i DPD stead of $5,000 for the loss of both Slacaber. Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids, Feb, 16—Last Satur- day was Valentine day. It was some- thing more than that—it was the birth- day anniversary of Mrs. John V. Rip- perger. John, whose middle name is also Valentine, did not propose to let this day go by unobserved and, ac- cordingly, he selected as many of his friends as he thought his house at 117 Pleasant street would aold and iny:ted them over to commemora:e the event. Of course, John could not invite all of his friends whom he would like to lave had come, for if he did, he would have to rent the Coliseum, for when it come: to the friend variety, John’s are legion. So he quietly spoke to about thirty-five, warning them not to breathe a word of it to Mrs. Ripperger, as he was plan- ning it for a surprise. Promptly at 7:30 the invited guests invaded the above mentioned domicile and proceeded at once to take possession, much to the consternation of Mrs. John V.who,al- though she had her suspicions aroused by some mysterious telephone calls. the nature of which were unsatisfactorily explained to her upon her answering the call, nevertheless had not thought of being invaded by such a hilarious crowd as that. However, she was equal to the oceasion and, together with John Valen- tine and the two sons, she demonstrated to all present that she was an entertain- er of no small caliber. After the pre- limiuary maneuvers of handshaking and greeting had been taken care of, the party proceeded to play five hund-ed, at which the following were the orize winners: First, Mrs. Chas. Tyler and R. J. Ellwanger, second, Mrs. Harry Hydorn and H. W. Harwood, third, Mrs. F. E. Beardsley and J. Harvey Mann. Miss Tracey Conley, who, by the way, 18S some artist at the piano, played several _ selec- tions and A. TI. Heinzelman_ fav- ored the party with a couple of vocal selections, all intermissions being fille l in with beautiful selections on the Vic- trola. Although John had purposely neg- lected to tell the boys it was her birth- day, simply calling it a Valentine paiiy, thereby attempting to head off any pres- ents, some of the guests got wise to it and, in spite of John’s precautions pre sented her with some beautiful and useful birthday souvenirs. During a day’s sojourn at the Ban- croft House, Saginaw, last week, the following U. C. T. buttons were seen: Cadillac Council, No. 143, Detroit; De- troit Council, No. 9; Grand Rapids Council. No. 131: Owosso Council, No. 218: Columbus Council, No. 1; Auto City Council, No. 505; Port Huron Council, No. 462; Jackson Council, No. 57: Battle Creek Council, No. 253 and Chicago Council, No. 30. Mrs. Herb Godfrey, who underwent a critical surgical operation at U. B. A. hospital recently. is reported conval- escing. We wish to caution all our traveling informants against reporting violation of hotel laws or giving any information desogatory to any hotel proprietor un- less they have visited the hotel quite recently. The hotels aré in what might be termed a metamorphosis state at present and should not be judged by conditions which prevailed two or more months ago. We find that many hotels are doing their best to conform to the law and it would not be fair to cen- sure these now, for it takes some time to bring about the desired conditions. We would recommend that not more than two weeks intervene between your visit and your report and that you even ascertain if possible, from the proprietor whether he intends to.conform with the provisions of the law in the very near future. We can, through these columns, do a lot of good work in bringing about desired conditions or we can do individ- uals a wrong by not being careful about our reports. So far as we can learn, our reports to date have been authentic, but during this transformation stage let us all be careful that we do no one an injury. We now say the “city of Kalama- zoo” for it is indeed a regular city. Last week they turned the juice on the new cluster lamps and in spite of the sting- ing cold weather, 15,000 people were on the streets to see the beautiful sight. You look fine in your new diamonds, Miss Kazoo, and we wish to congratulate you. And still the wonder grows that so good a hotel man as our friend, Fred Longwell at Schoolcraft, should ad- here so closely to roller towels and pay no attention to the law pertaining to individual towels. We hope you will fix this up, Fred, as Jim Hammell is Hable to get you if you don’t look out. And now our good brother Star- key has solved the high cost of liv- ing. He takes his lunch with him when he starts out for Chicago and other long trips on Monday morn- ing. We don’t know of any better chap to get his personal grip locked up because he came in late than Pete Anderson. For instance, if G. K. Coffey or Fred Beardsley had found themselves in the predicament Pete did one night last week at Elk Rap- ids, they would have had some diffi- culty fitting themselves to George Clark’s pajamas. Pete says they were a little tight, but thinks he could have slept fairly well if it hadn't been for George's snoring. We might add to the reply made to Mr. Williams’ letter to the Trades- man last week that it is not sufficient to have sheets just long enough to cover the mattresses. The law says they must be 90 inches long. If you want a modern illustration of what our Revolutionary forefathers fought for, just note this one on Hub Baker (Worden Grocer Co.). Hub was in Cedar Springs some time ago and the train came without his seeing a certain customer. Just as the train was rolling in the customer came running down to the depot all out of breath and excitedly yelled out “Hold on there, I want some goods.” Hub pulled out his order book and, tossing it to the grocer said, “There’s my book, write it up yourself” and took the train for the next town. “T vote the Democratic ticket, but I seldom talk politics, because all of my friends are on the other side.” —G. K. Coffey. The McElvain House, Vicksburg, is one of the bright spots in South- ern Michigan. Mr. Smith, the pro- prietor, has installed a modern sys- tem of fire escapes, individual towels and 90 inch sheets. Everything is clean and orderly about the hotel and, last but not least, courteous hands, both feet or both eyes. $12.50 per week for five weeks partial disability instead of $10, as formerly. The cause of delay in is- suing these policies is that they con- tain the application and where the full name of the beneficiary is not know, it has to be ascertained before the policies can be issued. Jesse Martin (Hershey Co.) came home Saturday and re- mained in Grand Rapids until after the wedding Wednesday, in which he played an important role. Unless the Cap'tol Hotel, terville, has done so within two weeks, we would advise them to wake up, clean up, and fix up. It would seem as though W. Hart has been in the hotel business long enough so that he ought to know that a dirty lobby, a filthy toilet and wash room, slippery elm towels and skimpy meals—the 25-cent kind— never make a hit with the average traveling man. We suggest that Mr. Hart get into the game and conform to the Henry act. There are other things not mentioned in the act that he would do well to conform to, also. We wish to make a few eulogistic remarks coneerning the day clerk at the Dalton Hotel, Jackson. In order that everybody may know who we mean, we will call him “Red.” Some folks call him Glen, but unless they are looking right at him when they speak to “Red” he seldom answers. Well, it isn’t because that he has red hair that we are making these re- marks, but the boys on the road like his gentlemanly ways and_ square dealing. Then, too, he is accommo- dating and never forgets to be agree- able. These are the traits that the boys like and that can't help but win trade for the hotel in whose employ he is. The hotel committee of Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, which has in charge the arrangements for hotel accommodations at the Grand Lodge convention next June, reports that it has definitely secured forty rooms— twenty at the Bancroft and twenty at the Vincent. It can give a descrip- tion of each room to anyone inter- ested and tell whether it is inside, with or without bath, the price and all about it. Invitations are out for the fifteenth annual ball of Cadillac Council, No. 143, at the Knights of Columbus au- ditorium, Detroit, Friday. evening, Feb. 20. Dance ticket, $2 per couple. About two weeks ago C. A. Young, 411 Lyon street, had the misfortune to fall off the steps and since then has been confined to the house part or all of the time. He is reported getting better at this writing. At the meeting of the executive committee last week, the claim of E. Vanderweigen, Hoboken, N. J., was Also for Chocolate at Cen- the last . allowed. John P. Owens, for State Oil Inspector, has purchased the Eastman Hotel, at Benton Har- bor, and will conduct a mineral bath house in connection. Now that the grand jury has clean- ed their city up a bit, we presume the Kalamazoo folks think they can stand the light. Only three days more before the next regular U. C. T. dance at Herald hall, Saturday evening, Feb. 21. Whittling Walt says: “If the ele- vator to success is stuck try the stairs.” some time Owosso, Feb. 16—Not having seen anything in print from our home town in several months, you may have for- gotten our location, but Owosso is still on the map, first station east of Burton, on the D., G. & M. branch of the Grand Trunk Railway. After having been frozen stiff for a week, the members of Owosso Council, No. 218, thawed out Satur- day evening and held a regular meet- ing. The event was enlivened by a large attendance and also the initia- tion of five new members, who were crowned as United Commercial Trav- elers and proved themselves good men and true, which was particularly noticeable at a banquet held at Con- nor’s Cafe after the meeting. “Saginaw in a bunch at the next annual convention” is the watch word. I notice that Joshua Fuller comes to the front on the individual towel question and says he has individual towels at every meal hour, which would lead the reader to suspect that Brother Josh has become confused on individual towels and napkins. You're all right, Brother Fuller, and run a good tavern. Don't let any low down cuss steal your towels. Honest Groceryman. —_———_>o--o—_—___—_ No More Victories. Pat and Danny were smoking a friendly pipe and telling past experi- ences. “Up until tin years ago,” related Dan- ny, thoughtfully, “Oi had bin inn one hoonderd foights an’ wuz niver licked.” “An’ afther thot?” queried Pat. “Afther thot, me bhoy,’ continued Danny, “Oi married.” Advertise Your Town By Uniforming Your Band Boys You can make no better investment Buy Uniforms Be That Every Citizen will be Proud of We make that kind Style Plates and Cloth Samples Free — Mention The Tradesman THE HENDERSON-AMES CO. KALAMAZOO, MICH. HOTEL CODY EUROPEAN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Best Beds That Money Can Buy Pe We oes Lo ee ee ee February 18, 1914 UPPER PENINSULA. Recent News From the Cloverland of Michigan. Sault Ste. Marie, Feb. 16—Many friends of W. S. Somerville, who a short time ago was proprietor of one of our principal cigar stores here, under the name of Somerville & Co., will be pained to learn that he was stricken with heart failure on his way home last Thursday evening. During Mr. Somerville’s business career here, he made many friends who regret very much to hear of his sudden death. While he was suffering for some time with heart disease, his death was ict wholly unexpected, but came as a shock nevertheless. The remains were shipped to Menominee for burial, that city having been his home before com- ing to the Soo. He is survived by his wife, daughter and stepson, Percy Shepard. From the statement given out by the Soo Co-Operative Mercantile As- sociation here, it appears that the Soo Co-Operative store is no longer a speculation, but that it has come to stay, as the dividend of 6 per cent was declared under the able manage- ment of Arthur Bailey, who has been on the job continually since taking hold of the affairs of the company. The total sales from April 1 to Dee. 31 last year amount to $40,002. Wim. Raub, the hustline salesman for the Musselman Grocer Co. here, put one over on Brother Hiauptlhi last week, as he was the only one of which mention was made by the Rud- yard correspondent. Mr, Rath is one of those quiet, unassuming sales- men who is always aiter orders, and while he does not always carry a band with him—with the exception of tie one on his hat—you can always tind him busily engaged on his territory. Last fall he contemplated moving West, but we are pleased to note that he is sull with us and may de- cide to remain here, as the prospects out West at the present time do not seem to be as favorable as it does in Cloverland. Peter H. LaLonde, alias William LaLonde, who was. arrested some time ago for the murder of Well:nen, mention of which was made in tlis paper some time ago, was found guilty by the jury and sentenced to life 1m- prisonment by Judge L. H. ead. The trial and its results did not seem to affect Lalonde, who still appears in the same reserved manner that he has since his arrest. T. Rowe, inspector for the Srate Dairy and Food Department, made a visit to the Soo last week and report the Soo in good healthy condition. The Inspector of Weights and Measure- ments was also here this week. We note by the Weather Bureau report, that the Soo was the coldest place in the State. While it cer- tainly was cold, we did not seem to notice it as much as would be ex- pected. It seems to have helped liven business and the merchants report satisfactory trade in consequence. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars more has been’ provided for the concrete work. The excava- tion was quite well along before the cold weather set in and, with ihe opening of spring there will be much activity around the Government works, which will help considerable to make business hum for the com- ing summer. An ice bridge is now formed be- tween the two Soos and the ferry has ceased running. We understand from the International Transit Co. that it contemplates building a new ferry boat to cost about $100,900. This boat will be built so as to run all winter, being equipped with a steel ice breaker. The business between the two Soos warrants putting on such a boat, and it certainly will appreciated by the general public on both sides of the river. Steelton holds the record for a name which it adopted for a club organ- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ized by members of the Methedist church. Jt is Pukkabatchee Club. We supposed we had a few jawbreak- ers in that line here, but we have given away to Steelton. It now holds first place. The Soo formed an Anti-Tubercu- losis Society last week at the Car- negie library. A Chippewa couuty branch of the National and Michigan Anti-Tuberculosis Society was organ- ized, with R. Hiudson, President; Mrs. William Rudell, Treasurer, and Chase Osborn, Jr Secretary. The officers were instructed to draft by-laws and a constitution and to suggest an ap- propriate name for the local organi- zation. It was the general sentiment of those present that some plan for a campaign of publicity and education should be inaugurated to bring about the formation of county organizations in neighboring counties, to the end that the organizations in this portion of the Upper Peninsula should work together in the movement to stamp out and prevent tuberculosis and con- sider the maintenance of a pavillion at fhe Prout Lake sauitarium. | As there has been no organization of this nature in this county, but little work has been done toward educating the people as to the proper methods of fighting the white plague and this is where a local branch of the Na- tional and State associations will be able to accomplish much. One thing badly needed here is a visiting nurse and when the local Society is well organized it should be able to secure one. We have been waiting for some time to hear what the Detroit peo- ple were going to do with the sani- tarium at Trout Lake, but this seems to be a thing of the past, as no men- tion has been made of any recent ac- tivity. It is an ideal spot for a sani- tarium of this kind and it is hoped that the public will be interested so as to further the interests and make it a success. I*. Sprague has accepted a position a clerk in the store of N. L. Field, Rudyard. The Zenith Lumber Co. has taken over the interests of the Nester Lum- ber Co. at Baraca. The new com. pany expects to cut and clean up the land and will put on a full force 1 men in the spring. We note by the report from Es- canaba that during 1913 twenty-eight cases for divorce were started in Del- ta county. This certainly has Chippe- wa county beat a mile and we are very much pleased to note that we are away behind the times in this respect. Another big timber deal was closed by the Jerry Madden Shingle Co., at Rapids River, last week, when the company secured 4,000 acres of tim- bered land in Delta and Alger coun- ties which was owned by the’ Garth Lumber Co. This will be good news for the people at Rapid River, as it will ensure the running of the mill for years to come. N. J. LaPine, representative for the Cornwell Beef Co. on the Gladstone division, was in the Soo office Sat- urday, going over business in gen- eral. The weary travelers had a record breaker of a night at St. Ignace, also the travelers who were caught com- ing over the Straits, last Friday night, as the train due to leave St. Ignace in the evening did not leave until the next morning, and it was one of those accidents which keeps the agent an- swering questions all night and not being able to give any definite infor- mation as to when the train would leave. Forty passengers, mostly trav- elers. waited for the train all night. They could not go to bed, as the train was expected along at any time. It was an evening long to be remem- bered and is one of the first subjects that the commercial traveler has been bringing up for the past few days when he wants to make. an ex- cuse for his feeling out of sorts and assuring the customers that it was not on account of his being out the night before. It seems that the en- gine jumped the track, which was the cause of the delay. It is pleasing news to consumers in general and business men in par- ticular, that Congressman Buchanan has a bill which provides for the re- moval of the tax on oleomargarine, both colored and uncolored, and pen- alizes both the seller of falsely la beled oleo and the buyer who know- ingly purchases it under‘a false label. Sooner or later the oleo tax will be removed or, at least, much modified. It should be. The law was passed at the demand of the dairy states and is a tax upon a wholesome food. It is a direct tax on the consumer. The serious fault with the oleo law as it stands is that it is intended and does favor one natural product at the ex- pense of another. Butter is colored and much of it needs it in order to be attractive to the eye. Oleo col- ored in order to render it attractive must pay a 10 cent tax. As both are 25 Boomlets From Bay City. Bay City, Feb. 16—-Fred L. Van Tyle, having withdrawn from the con test for Grand Sent nel, at the regu lar meeting of our Council last Satur- day evening, the Secretary was in structed to notify all the councils in Michigan that Past Counselor Wil lam T. Ballamy, a likeness of whom is presented herewith, is the anam eee choice of Bay Council, No. 51 and his name will be presented to the Grand Counc! of Michigan at its meeting next June in Saginaw for the othce of Grand Sentinel. Vom is one ot the best known and most popular salesmen in Northern Michigan ter ritory. He is not only popular wit! the U. C. T. as a fraternity, but ee ith his customers. In point of ser vice, he is a veteran, as he has been a traveling salesman about twenty five years. He » sold Jaxon soap twelve years, and remained with the house that manufactured th's soap until the business was discontinued. He now WILLIAM T. BELLAMY. wholesome products and both in large demand the justice of the tax does not seem particularly evident. The thing is to prevent fraud. The pure food law aims to do that, but it does not insist that food in packages snall be dyed or colored or changed or otherwise distinguished to the eye. It lays a penalty for adulteration. [i the penalty is sufficiently severe, the adulteration ceases when the law is enforced. This plan should be ef- fective with oleo as with other articles of food. Millions of consumers are injured by legislation directed against a clean, wholesome substitute for but- ter solely because butter producers protest against its competition. James Thompson, proprietor of Rosedale creamery, was in the city on business this week. negotiating for the re-opening of the creamery within the next month or two. lle reports conditions very favorable this year among the farmers and ex pects this to be the banner year for the creamery. Mr. Thompson is a hustler in that line and it is hoped that the farmers will give him all the support due him. Wm. Welsh, who recently attended the meeting of the Upper Peninsula erangers, held in Escanaba, reported the meeting a big success. [le was a delegate from Pomona Grange. Joseph Wright, of Grand Rapids, arrived in the city last week to ac- cept a position at the Neebish. John Agnew, Sr., father of Agnew Bros., butchers here, died Monday morning. Much sympathy is extend- ed the family by their numerous friends. W. G. Tapert. the ropeesen® the Saginaw Milling Com- any, of Saginaw, in whose employ fe has been several years. Ais a U. C. IT. he has always been a booster and an enthusiastic worker in the in terest of the order. During his term of office as Senior Counselor he se- cured more applications for member- ship than any other member and our Council had a phenomenal growth HF. O. Rockwell and wie and J. K. Hudson and wife attended a party in Saginaw and report a very enjoyable evening. The Saginawians are royal entertainers, H. V. Murphy has severed his con nection with the Fairbanks Scale Co. and signed a contract with the Toledo Seale Co. | The stork has brought a 12 pound boy to the home of William Worth. ‘Congratulations, Will. say City’s Board of Education war s still raging. The reports of the engagement of last Friday reads like Mexican war news. neither the Fed- erals nor the Constitutionalists scor- ing a decisive victory. Pub. Com. ee The Commercial Savings Bank of \lbion, has recently increased its cap- ital by an issue of about $15,000 in new stock All the stock was sub- scribed for in the city and speedily taken up. The Bank now has a capi- talization amply sufficient to supply the business needs of the city. OO We dislike to hear a man who doesn’t know one note from another attempt to sing his own praise, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 18, 1914 wy (ee = eo ¢ Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—Will E. Collins, Owosso. Secretary—E. T. Boden, Bay City. Treasurer—E. E. Faulkner, Delton. Other Members-——John J. Campbell, Pigeon; Chas. S. Koon, Muskegon. Grand Rapids Meeting—November 18, 19 and 20. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa- tion. President—D. G. look, Lowell. Vice-Presidents—E. E Miller, Traverse City: <. Weaver, Detroit. Secretary—Von W Furniss, Nashville. Treasurer—Ed. Varnum, Jonesville. Executive Committee—D. D. Alton. Fremont; Ed. W. Austin, Midland; C. S. Koon, Muskegon; R. y. Cochrane. Kalamazoo; James Robinson, Lansing; Grant Stevens, Detroit. Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As- sociation. President—Geo. H. Halpin, Secretary-Treasurer—W. 5S. Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids Drug Club. President—Wm. C. Kirchgessner. Vice-President—E. D. De La Mater. Secretary and Treasurer—Wm. H. Tibbs. Executive Committee—Wm. Quigley, Chairman; Henry Riechel, Theron Forbes. Detroit. Lawton, Exclusive Agency Goods vs. Drug- gist’s Own Make. This is a matter which concerns and is no doubt of interest to a good many druggists, and before airing my views I want to say by way of intro- duction that not alone do I think that the “exclusive agency” propos'- tion falls short of nearly every claim put forth by its promoters, but that it is decidedly of greater advantage, both for moral and pecuniary rea- sons, for druggists to put up as com- plete a line as possible of prepara- tions their own During the past six or seven years a ereat number of “exclusive agency’ lines have been placed upon the mar- ket, and an army of trained wires” has been let loose to beguile bearing name. “live the poor unsuspecting druggists into signing a wonderfully construed con- tract, under which he the manufacturer to carload of attractive These he places upon his shelves as a permits send him a cartons, perma- nent decoration, There is no demand for the goods, the druggist know a thing about them or their contents, and sometimes very presence is forgotten. once in a while he receives a copy of the manufacturer's jour- nal;” then he is filled with the nec- essary spirit (not spir. frument). and he emerges with new energy. When he reads how the Dopem Drug Company of Slow Town, Alaska, sold fifteen gross of the “Exclusive” mos- quito bite remedy on Christmas day, he becomes real enthusiastic; the “Exclusive” stock is resurrected and hammered away at for a while, but pretty soon he decides that the re- sults do not warrant the extra amount of labor which he imposes upon himself and all his pent-up en- ergy soon dwindles. doesn't about their Every “boost It seems to me that the average druggist is making a big mistake in allowing a line he knows little or about to predominate over his own goods; to my mind it is clear- ly a step in the wrong direction. Per- haps it is not too pertinent to ask what the status of the druggist would nothing be in case the manufacturer decided to discontinue his line, or perhaps sell it outright to one of the chains what would then become of all the demand the druggist has created f these goods? All the labor and time he has spent is prac- tically lost, and he will have to be- gin all over again, taking turns in roasting the line he formerly featured and endeavoring to push another line. Of course, you say, this is out of the sphere of possibility, but you forget ot stores; lor an event of only recent occurrence. when a well’ known candy house, whose products have been handled by one of the large chains of drug stores exclusively, passed into the hands of the traditional foe of these stores, with the result that they were no longer able to buy the goods, and those of their customers to the candies had appealed were obliged to go into the other man’s store to purchase their wants. All the money spent for advertising and bringing the candies to the attention of the public, all the years of labor and acres of space devoted to dis- plays, were practically lost. Hiad this firm instead been building up a candy business of its own, and under its own name, who knows but that by this time their trade in these goods might have assumed gigantic propor- tions. whom The retail druggist, more now than ever, is face to face with the condi- tion which causes him to rely upon his personality and individuality for success, and these cannot be enhanced by pushing another man’s goods. What satisfaction is it for an intelli- gent person to be told when shown a remedy for a cough, “I know this is good, because Jones, the manufac- turer, wrote me so, his agent said so, too; besides it tells you so on the label. See for yourself.” There is no more reason why the customer, from his point of view, should prefer Jones’ to any of the other advertised nostrums whose sale you are endeav- oring to avoid. How — different if you will hand out a neatly gotten-up bottle containing a mixture of your and say: Mr. Smith, this is something we make ourselves; we know and test every ingredient en- tering it, and you have the satisfac- tion of knowing that it is the best that can be produced.” own, In making these preparations it is well for druggists to remember that quality is paramount to everything else. Don’t consider how cheap you can make them, but word of how good. A caution is also needed in regards to coal tar derivatives in the making of headache powders. A good idea would be to try and elim- inate these harmful substances alto- gether, and then if you will lay stress upon this fact in your advertising I see no reason why you should not be able to build up a big sale on such a preparation. The “exclusive agency” line claims for itself a greater variety, but this is neither necessary nor desirable. Have as large a variety as your par- ticular trade warrants, and make up your mind to push them at every op- portunity. Do not be afraid to use the letter 1 top freely. Inry an] make people believe that you are “it,” and that your name on a package corresponds to the well-known mark on silver. The claim which the “ex- clusive line” manufacture often puts forth, that preparations put out by druggists themselves lack uniformity, does not hold fire. If it were true, it would be a sad commentary upon the pharmaceutical skill of our breth- ren. Fortunately for us, and for the public, druggists are still capable of compounding simple preparations, to say the least. Another myth which these houses put forth is the great advertising ad- vantages which they are prepared to offer. I have yet to see the store where a mixed window display of such remedies has brought about any appreciable increase in their sales. If, as they claim, in the the constantly shifting a favorable factor for the sale of their goods, then where on earth is the demand? Surely the people mov- ing into our section have had these goods sold to them at one time or other. Summing up, I want to say that from an unbiased standpoint drug- gists are extremely foolish in featur- ing and pushing the sales of another man’s goods when they can just as well push their own. Some _ things 1 will admit a druggist is compelled to buy (malted milk, milk of nesia, etc.) or others, such as syrup cities population is larger mag- of hypophosphates, ete. It is advis- able to have them made up into larger quantities with buyers’ im- print, but on the whole I am certain that druggists would be a great deal better off if they were to sell goods of their own, or bearing at least their name, than those advertising the name of the other fellow. Nathan Winter. ——_+> > —____ Illuminated Ink for Show Cards. lore ee 1 dram Alcongl =. 62..........:.. 1 dram Mucilage ....,/........... 1 ounce Water f.50 8.5 8 ounces SEOUL 00. 6s... Seok ee 1 ounce Rub the honey, alcohol and muci- lage together in a mortar, then add the water. To be shaken before using. ——— +22 Tt may be worth while to be afraid of your friends, but never fear your enemies. The Old and the New Way. Times have changed! In former years, the small corner druggist possess- ed the high esteem, in fact, the confi- dence of the entire neighborhood and was looked upon as the general advisor in little everyday ills. He knew father, mother and the children by name, and it was an ordinary occurrence for him to be the druggist during several gen- erations. He was the true family drug- In cases of sickness, he was en- trusted with the filling of the doctor’s prescription, and there was never a question as to substitution. The phar- macist in return for this confidence took special interest in the welfare and pro- tection of his customers. He advised them what to do for “sprains and pains,” and, of course, directed them to the physician when this was necessary. This corner druggist in disperising physicians’ prescriptions, would repeat the direc- tions how to use or to take the medicine to the patient, or to the messenger. He would furthermore call special attention if the medicine required to be shaken. In cases of strong or poisonous medi- cines, he would also warn the patient, would inform him of the poisonous na- ture, and tell him to keep the poisonous medicine or the one for external use separate from the internal medicine, etc., etc. The pharmacist was well aware that these words of and warning made a deep psychological impression upon patients, which had a much better effect than a “shake well,’ or “external use,” or “poison” label. gist. caution Those were the good old days when personality counted, when the pharmaceutical pro- fession was respected and honored. Sut how about to-day? We have the large stores, the so-called department drug stores, without any individuality and perhaps with a new manager every few months or even weeks. The modus operandi certainly changed! A prescription is handed to a clerk. The customer is given a check and in due time receives the medicine correspond- ing to the check, from another clerk. No questions are asked, no name is has given, no directions are read, and no words of caution are mentioned. It is an entirely mercantile transaction with- out professionalism, without personality or individuality. When a customer buys a poisonous article, he is not informed as to the poisonous nature or the danger, and he is not told to keep such medicine in a separate or even in a locked place. Just think of it! Poisons are being sold in an automatic manner! This, in the mind of the editor, is somewhat respons- ible for the careless way in which the laity keeps poisons, and this, further- more accounts for the accidents when bichloride tablets have been taken stead of headache tablets. in- a es oe Fy Proof Positive. Little Ada came in to her mother from her play, and asked: “Tlave gooseberries any legs, moth- ert: “Why, no, dear,’ replied the moth- er, “of course not. Why do you ask?” Ada looked solemn as she raised her face to her mother’s. “Why then, mother,” she said, “I’ve been eatin’ caterpillars!” 4 as: wm h- ??? ed February 18, 1914 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Acids Acetic ...-.. soe 6 @ § Borie .......... 10 @ GarboHe ...... 17 @ 22 Citric ......... 60 @ S67 Muriatic .....-... 1%@ 5 INTETIC 4.5.2.5... . 5%@ 10 Oxalic .......... 1s @ 16 Sulphuric ....... 1% @ 5 Tartaric ........ 88 @ 45 Ammonia Water, 26 deg. .. 6%@ 10 Water, 18 deg. .. 44@ 8 Water 14 deg. ... 34%@ 6 Carbonate ...... 13 @ 1 @bloride .....-. 12 @ 16 Balsams Copaiba .... .-. 75@1 00 Fir (Canada) .. 1 75@2 00 Fir (Oregon) ....40@ 50 Per ....-.4---- = 2 25@2 50 TOM ...-2 6255-6 1 00@1 25 Berries Cubeb ..:-......- 683@ 73 Fish ........-.... 15@ 20 Juniper .....--.--> 7@ 10 Prickley Ash .. . @ 50 Barks Cassia (ordinary) 25 Cassia (Saigon) 65@ 75 Elm (powd. 25c) 25@ 30 Sassafras (pow. 30c) @ 25 coe ei cows. Ssecass -15 @ 20 Extracts [Licorice .....---- 24@ 28 Licorice powdered 25@ 30 Flowers Arnica .........- 18@ 25 Chamomile (Ger.) 25@ 35 Chamomile (Rom.) 40@ 50 Gums Acacia, Ist ...... 40@ 50 Acacia, 2nd ...... 35@ 40 Acacia, @@ ........ 30@ 35 Acaccia, Sorts .... @ 20 Acacia Powdered 35@ 40 Aloes (Barb. Pow) 22@ 25 Aloes (Cape Pow) 20@ 25 Aloes (Soc. Powd.) 40@ 50 Asafoetida ...... @ 50 Asafoetida, Powd. Pure ....... @ 75 U.S. P. Powd. @1 00 Camphor ........ 55@ 60 Guaiac ......... 35@ 40 Guaiac, Poudaccs 50@ 60 INO) cee tes @ 40 Kino, Powdered .. @ 45 Myrrh ...... seccce @ 40 Myrrh, Powdered . @ 030 Opium ........ Opium, Powd. .. 8 75@8 95 Opium, Gran. .. 8 90@9 10 Shellac .... 28@ 35 Shellac, Bieachea 30@ 3d Tragacanth No. 11 40@1 50 Tragacanth, Pow 75@ 8} ~ tb ol © ~~ an oO Turpentine ...... 10@ 15 Leaves Buchu .......- -- 1 85@2 00 Buchu, Powd. 2 00@2 26 Sage, bulk ...... 18@ 26 Sage, %s Loose. 20@ 25 Sage, Powdered... 25@ 30 Senna, Alex ...... 2@ 50 Senna, Tinn. .... 16 20 Senna, Tinn, Pow. 20@ 25 Uva Urai ......... 10@ 15 Olls atmene Bitter, true ......-.. 6 00@6 50 Alene, Bitter, artificial ...... @1 00 — Sweet, true ........ 90@1 00 alnena. Sweet, imitation .... 40@ 50 Amber, crude ... 25@ 30 Amber, rectified . 40@ 50 Anise .......... 2 25@2 50 Bergamont ..... 7 o 00 Cajeput .......... 1 85 Cassia 1 50@1 75 Castor, bbls. ‘and cans ...... 12%@ 15 Cedar Leaf ...... @ 8 Citronella ...... @ tb Cloves .......... 1 50@1 75 Cocoanut ....... 20 25 Cod Liver ...-... 1 25@1 50 Cotton Seed .... -— 00 Croton .....-+... 1 60 Cubebs .......... @4 50 Erigeron ........ @2 50 Eucalyptus ..... 75@ 8 Hemlock, pure .. @1 00 Juniper Berries .. @1 2 Jeers Wood .. 40@ 50 Lard, extra ..... 85@1 00 Lard, No. 7 ... 75@ 90 Laven’r Flowers “4 50@5 00 Lavender, Garden 85@1 00 Lemon .......: 4 25@4 50 Linseed, boiled, bbl. @ —-4 Lniseed, bld. less 55@ 60 Linseed, raw, bbls @ 51 Linseed, raw, less 54@_ 59 Mustard, true ..4 50@6 00 Mustard, artifi'l 2 75@3 00 Neatsfoot ...... 80@ 85 Olive, pure ..... 2 50@3 50 Olive, Malaga, yellow ..... 1 30@1 50 Olive, Malaga, green ..... 1 30@1 50 Orange, sweet ..4 15@5 00 Organum, pure 1 25@1 50 Origanum, com’l 50@ 75 Pennyroyal ..... 2 25@2 50 Peppermint . 4 50@4 Th Rose, pure ... 16 09@18 00 Rosemary Flowers 90@1 00 Sandalwod, E. I. 6 25@6 50 Sassafras, true 80@ 99 Sassafras, artifil 45@ 50 Spearmint ...... 5 50@6 00 Sperm -....... 90@1 00 Wansy .....-.-.-. 5 00@5 50 Tar, GSP ...... 30@ 40 Turpentine, bbs. @ 58 Turpentine, ‘less 68@ 70 Wintergreen, true @5 00 Wintergreen, sweet Dirch ...... 2 00@2 25 Wintergreen, art’l] 50@ 60 Wormseed ...... 3 50@4 00 Wormwood .... 6 00@6 50 Potassium Bicarbonate .... 15@ 18 Bichromate .... 13@ 16 Bromide ........ 45@ 655 Carbonate ..... 122@ 15 Chlorate, xtal and powdered ... 12@ 16 Chlorate, granular 16@ 20 Cyanide ......... 380@ 40 lodide ........... 3 20@3 40 Permanganate .. 15 30 Prussiate yellow 30@ 35 Prussiate, red .. 50@ 60 Sulphate ........ 15@ 20 Roots Alkanet ......... 15@ 20 Blood, powdered 20@ 25 Calamus ..:..... 35@ 40 Elecampane, pwd. 15@ 20 Gentian, powd. ..12@ 16 Ginger, African, powdered .. 15@ 20 Ginger, Jamaica 22@ 25 Ginger, Jamaica, powdered .... 22@ 28 Goldenseal pow. 7 00@7 50 Ipecac, powd. .. 2 75@3 00 Dicorice ........ 14@ 16 Licorice, powd. 12@ 15 Orris, powdered 25@ 30 Poke, powdered 20@ 25 Rhubarb ...... 75@1 00 Rhubarb, powd. 75@1 25 Rosinweed, powd. 25@ 30 Sarsaparilla, Hond. ground ...... @ 50 Sarsaparilla Mexican, ground ...... 25@ 30 Squills ...:...... 20@ 35 Squills, powdered 40@ 60 Tumeric, powd. 12@ 15 Valerian, powd. 25@ 30 Seeds Anise .......... 15@ 20 Anise, powdered 22@ 25 Bird, is ....2.... 4 10 Canary ........... 9 12 Caraway ........ 12@ 18 Cardamon ..... 1 75@2 00 Celery .......; «. 30 35 Coriander 12 18 ill ieee 25 30 hennell ....<..... @ 30 MAX 6053.66... ie 8 Flax, ground ... 4 8 Foenugreek, pow. 6@ 10 Ete@men. 6.0.5... 68. 5@ 7 Lobelia .......... @ 50 Mustard, yellow 9@ 12 Mustard, black 9@ 12 Mustard, powd. 20@ 25 Poppy ..........- 15 20 Quince .......;. 75@1 00 RaAMe o..5.65 005. 6 10 Sabadiila ee ciaie 25 30 Sabadilla, * powd. 35@ 45 Sunflower ...... 6@ 8 Worm American 15@ 20 Worm Levant .. 50@ 60 Tinctures Aconite ......... 16 PlQCH ©... 2.c..... 65 Arnica .........-- 60 Asafoetida ...... 1 00 Belladonna ...... @ 60 Benzoin ......... 90 Benzoin Compound 90 Buechn .......... 1 00 Cantharadies .. . 1 00 Capsicum ....... 90 Cardamon ...... 1 20 Cardamon, Comp. @ 80 Cateehn ...:...... @ 60 Cinchona ........ 1 06 Colchicum ....... 60 Cubebs .......-- 1 20 Disitalis’ ......... @ 60 Gentian ......... @ 60 Ginger ....6...4.6 96 @uaige .......... 1 06 Guaiac Ammon.. 80 lodine .......:... 1 25 Todine, Coloriess @1 25 Ipecac Se aaa. @ 7 tron: clo. ........ @ 60 KWiO ies. c ll, @ 80 Miyrein .. 0.3.4... @1 06 Nux Vomica @ 170 Opium .......2... @2 00 Opium Camph. .. @ 65 Opium, Deodorz’d @2 25 Rhubarb ........- @ 70 Paints Lead, red dry i @ 8 Lead, white dry 7 @ 8 Lead, white oil i @ 8 Ochre, yellow bbl. 1 @ 1% Ochre, yellow less 2 @ 5 Putty -¢.......... 24@ 5 Red Venetian bbl. 1 @ 1% Red Venet'n, less 2 @ 5 Shaker, Prepared 1 40@1 50 Vermillion, Eng. 90@1 00 Vermillion, Amer. 15@ 20 Whiting, bbl .... 1@ Ik Whiting ........... 2@ 5 Insecticides AYTSENIG .......... 6@ Blue Vitrol, bbl. 6% Blue Vitrol less 3 Bordeaux Mix Pst @ Hellebore, White powdered .... 15@ 20 Insect Powder .. 20@ 36 Lead Arsenate .. 8@ 16 Lime & Sulphur Solution, gal. 15@ 25 Paris Green ... 15% @ 20 Miscellaneous Acetanalid ...... 30@ 35 Alum ............ 3@ 5 Alum, powdered and. Bround ...... 5@ 7 Bismuth, Subni- trate ea. . 210@2 25 30rax xtal or powdered... 6@ 12 Cantnarades po. 4 50@2 75 Calomel ........ 20@1 30 Capsicum +e 25 Carmine @3 50 Cascia Buds .... @ 40 Cloves ......... 30@ 35 Chalk Prepared «- GO@. Sk Chalk Precipitated 7@ 10 Chioroform ..... 38@ 48 Chloral Hydrate 1 00@1 15 Cocaine ...... 410@4 40 Cocoa Butter - 50@ 60 Corks, list. less 70% Copperas, bbls... Copperas, less ... "2@ 5 Copperas, Powd. 4@ 6 Corrosive Sublm. 1 05@1 10 Cream Tartar ... 30@ 385 Cuttlebone ...... 2o@ 36 Dextrine §........ 7@ 10 Dover's Powder 2 ow@2 25 Emery, all Nos. 6@ * Emery, powdered 5@ Iipsom Salts, bbls @ We Epsom Salts, less 24%@ Brot ..... 65... 1 50@1 “ Lirgot, powdered 1 80@2 00 lake White ..... 12@ 16 Formaldehyde lb. 10@ 15 Gambier ........ 6@ 10 Gelatine ........: 35@ 45 Glassware, full cases 80% Glassware, less 70 & 10% Glauber Salts bbl. @ J Glauber Salts less 2@ 5 Glue, brown .... J1@ 16 Glue, brown grd 10@ 15 Glue, white ..... 15@ 25 Glue, white grd 15@ 20 Glycerine ...... 23%@ 30 Hops ............ su@ 80 Indigo .......... 85@1 00 Todine ....,...... 4 35@4 60 lodoform .......; 5 40@5 60 Lead Acetate .... 12@ 18 Lycopdium ..... 55@ 65 Magee 2. 6c. cw: 80@ 90 Mace, powdered 90@1 00 Menthol ...... 4 50@5 00 Mereury .........- 1 Morphine all brd 5 “<— 30 Nux Vomica .... 10 Nux Vomica pow 15 Pepper, black pow Gar Pepper, white .. 30@ 35 Pitch, Burgundy 10 15 Quassia ......... Quinine, all brds ..25 Rochelle Salts ... 23@ Saccharine ..... 1 50@1 75 Salt Peter ...... 7%@ 12 Seidlitz Mixture .. 20@ 25 Soap, green ... 15@ 20 Soap, mott castile 10@ 15 Bene as castile Soan, “aan castile less, per bar 68 Soda Ash ........ 1% 6 Soda Bicarbonate | 1% Soda, Sal ...... 1 Spirits Camphor . Pe Sulphur roll .... Sulphur Subl. .... § Tamarinds ...... 15 Tartar Emetic .. Turpentine Venice 40 50 Vanilla Ext. pure 1 00@1 560 Witch Hazel .... 1 @0 Zine Sulphate ... 7@ 10 oo bo ae BIDHHHOS9 am an ee oo ory | ORF FoF, OG wr Pe He See Our Home—Corner Oakes and Commerce To our Customers for 1914: The year 1913 is now a matter of history. We have bidden adieu with thanks for all the good things which were brought to our customers and ourselves. We have made arrangements for a larger, more comprehensive and more successful business for the year 1914. There will be no changes in our traveling force and our sundry men, Mr. W. B. Dudley and Mr. Fred L. Raymond, will call upon yeu in the near future in the interest especially of druggists’ sundries, stationery, hooks, sporting goods, etc. Please reserve your orders for them which when received by us will have our prompt and careful attention, Grand Rapids. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. FOOTE & JENKS C(QLEMAN’S Terpeneless Lemon and High Class Vanilla Insist on getting Coleman's Extracts from your jobbing grocer. or mail order direct to FOOTE & JENKS, Jackson, Mich. (BRAND) epoca ere ns ’ sy . ; MERICAN BEAUTY” Display Case No. 412—one of more than one hundred models of Show Case, Shelving and Display Fixtures designed by the Grand Rapids Show Case Company for displaying all kinds of goods, and adopted by the most progressive stores of America. GRAND RAPIDS SHOW CASE CO., Grand Rapids, Michigan The Largest Show Case and Store Equipment Plant in the World Show Rooms and Factories: New York, Grand Rapids, Chicago, Boston, Portland Four Kinds of Coupon Books are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. 28 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing. and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however. are liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled at market prices at date of purchase. ADVANCED DECLINED Golden Horn Flour Lake Herring Index to Markets 1 9 and lumns By Co AMMONIA Beans TD: Baked .......... 85@1 30 i 2 -, Red Kidney .... 85@ 96 ol. 12 02. ovals 2 doz. box (5 Ze y sod A c AXLE GREASE tring bebe s coe us 70@1 15 aie ; Frazer’s. : : WAX oo 3... k 75@1 25 ce eee sees ltb. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00 Axle Grease ....------ A ie Ge bores 8 Ge 22 gaa ee B S441. tin boxes, 2 doz. 425 Galion ... |. 7 25 i. 1 10Ib. pails, per doz. ..6 . Ginna oe Bake eans ......--- 15%. pails, per doz. ..7 2 : Bath Brick ..........-- : 25%. pails, per doz. ..12 00 a oe ae. o Pt - Suing .......---------« . . Paes Breakfast Food ....... i No. Poa. —. 90 | Clam Boullion Brooms .......+--+-++- 1 No. 2, per doz. 111.7501 4) Burnham's i pt. ....2 Zo ee [ No 8 per do: mon ae Eumeeme oie oe SaTH GRICK : 3 ams gts. .......7 5 c Mingish ............- 95 Fair Corn ae as. ..-..------- 1 it 90@1 00 : BLUING et oe ote Leoeseee ar Jennings’. Haney ........... @1 30 ates Co 5 Condensed Pearl Bluing_ French Peas oS 3 Small C P Bluing, doz. 45 Monbadon (Natural) atas Gun (occ 3 Large C P Bluing, doz. 75 per Aoz. |... 1 75 Chicory ......------..-- 3 BREAKFAST FOODS : Gooseberries Chocolate ...........-- : Apetian. Biecuits 3 00 34 2, ood wees -1 50 ee” . 2 Feney ......_| co” fines: ......-.- 3 bear Food, Pettijohns 1 95 , ancy 2 35 achat : 3 Cracked Wheat, 24-2 250 Hominy ea re 3 Cream of Wheat, 36-2 450 Standard ............. 85 Gontections ........... #@ ‘Cream of Bye, 24-2 -.300 . Lobster Cracked Wheat ....... 5 Posts Toasties, T. “4, Bee eee ee 1 85 ee 5. 6 NO 2 .......525...52 80 % t. |... 1.0020... 3. 8 16 cece li te cee 6 ao oe Je L a a Mackerel sees e tee ee eee ov ustard, lib. .........1 80 oO Farinose, Paes oo 2 10 Mustard, BI ee 2 80 aried Mruites .......... 6 Grape Nuts .....-.-.- 2419 Soused 1m |... 1 60 cues i. ore oe 1 2 24 Soused, 2 ee 2 75 Sugar Corn akes .. 200 Tomato, 1ib. _........ 1 50 Farniaceous Goods ..... 6 Hardy Wheat Food .. 225 Tomato, 2%. .......... 2 80 Mishing Tackle ........ 6 Postma’s Dutch Cook 2 75 Flavoring Extracts ... 7 Holland Rusk ........ 3 00 Mushrooms Flour and Feed ........ 7 Kellogg's Toasted —. is at i ee cee 2 - Pru Jars .......-.--- 7 Biscuit 2. ..5..---.. 3 RS; ce ..... Kellogg’s Toasted Rice Buttons, is ...... @ 2 G Raices 66). 5..0. 6. 2 80 Oysters GOIQMINE .....-00-+0- : 7 Kellogg’s Toasted Wheat Cove, Mb. .. oo 2. 9 Grain Bags ........-.. 7 Biecuit .. 6... 6.5... 3 30 Cove, 4). ee 1 76 Kelogg’s Krumbles ...3 30 Plums H Krinkle Corn Flake ..175 Plums ........,. 90@1 35 Echo ba beca ther tne geet Wheat Flakes, | wae Pears in oye oe es an e. peeseee ee Oe Lets s owe 6 6 ai oO. cans, per doz. .. Horse Radish ........ 8 Mapl- Wheat Flakes. e Peas coe M , , Mapl- Corn Flakes". 2.80 arly June's..." 1 10Q1 36 cue boos inn. eat Cerea 3 io Aa ae Jelly Glasses... o> = R Abeein Se 425 Marly June siftd 1 45@1 65 M Ralston Wheat Food 4 56 - Peaches Ralston Wht Food 10c 1 46 Pie ............. 1 00@1 25 Macaroni ........ . 8 Saxon Wheat Food .. 26( No. 10 size can ple @3 25 ee etna” eee ; Shred Wheat Biscuit ae . - Pineapple eats, Canned ....... Tyanciwit, 15 .......... rated ...5.5.2: 1 75@2 10 Mince Meat .......... 8 Pilisbury’s Best Cer’l 4 25 Sliced .......... 95@2 60 Molasses .......... «++» 8 Post Tavern Special ..2 80 Pumpkin Mustard ............ -- 8 Quaker Puffed ae 3 e se Ul 80 Quaker Puffed eat Popa : Gj ” Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 190 Perey V0 io Nut@ ......0e-seee0-- . * Onpker Com Flakes ..375 Gatton |” 2 40 oO Victor Corn iran : ‘oe aepberrics — Washington Crisps f oe WON ogee eee es 8 Wheat Hearts ........- 1 90 Standard ........ Wheatenh ........-.. 4 50 Wace ig sae ap Pickles ..... pecheere > b Eeepord Bae Com 8D a Ipe® ...-... sess seeees 8 BROOMS _ Red Alaska ....1 55@1 60 Kearse Cards ........ - § Fancy Parlor ,25 tb. 425 Med Red Alaska 1 6@1 30 Potash ......-.+- teense Parlor, 5 String, 25 Tb. 400 Pink Alaska ...... 90 eta ss apoenheseesee 8 Standard Parlor 23 Ib. 3 50 Sardines R Common, a - toes . 25 oe gg 50 Special, 23 Bo eee se 2 75 Domestic \% ustard 3 25 a i. ; Warehouse, 33 Ib. ....4 25 Domestic, % Mustard 2 75 _ ats ..... pete ce Common Whisk saseeel ee Prench, WS ........ 7@14 8 Fancy Whisk ........ . French 4668 ......... -18@23 Balad Dressing ..... _ : BRUSHES — caper Kraut “s eratus seoee Scrub Os sereeccece Sal Soda ..... sesceeess 9 Solid Back, 8 in. ...... 75 No. 10, cans .........2 40 De bcece eee eee 9 Solid Back, 11 in. ...... 95 Shrimps Salt Fish ...... coeeee = Pointed Ends .......... 85 eee er hae saeeee 4 4 eeee ... 5+ -.---- eocve Stove Jar, OZ. .... Sieos Minckine ........ 10 Wo 2 .... 1.0... 05. 90 Succotash amie ec cckccesceess EP Noe 2 22: qo, Beir .........-... 90 GRD poco esscperccosee- AF “ea : EG 1 7B God ...6.....,... 1 20 Soda .......-...- cceece tO Shoe PaAney .......... 1 25@1 40 Spices ...--.eseseeeeeee > wee... a 1 00 Strawberries ate poe eee ee cae’ “4 No fo. 1.30 aaa bobo cece . YTUPB ..-. eee ee eens Ne € (1.05). 1 70 NCY .........-. 5 T MO 8 8. eee eee ee 1 90 Tomatoes ROOM 6 ooo aces ss ess 1 05 Zable Gauces ......... 18 BUTTER COLOR Pay 1 35 Tobacco -......0 di, ia, 13 Dandelion, 25c size ..2 00 No. 10 .....-... s+. 8B 26 TWADO oo cee ese ee neces - 13 CANDLES ‘ — Vv Paraffine, 68 ..........- Ww Sot @10% Paratine, 1268 ........ 8 Vinegar .....02...5--+5 — wae 29 \D.S. Gasoline .. @17 Gas Machine ... @ 29.7 WwW CANNED GOODS Deodor’d Nap’a - @16% bees er ee 18 Apples ylinder ....... W@34% es cee ee ... 18 3 tT. Standards . @ 90 Engine ..... sees 16 @22 Wrapping Paper ..... 14 Gallon ......... 3 00@3 10 Black, winter .. 8 @10 Biackberries CATSUP Y se je. 150@1 90 Snider's pints ...... Yeast Cake .......... 14 Standard gailons 5 00 gnider’s % pints ......1 35 CHEWING GUM Adams Black Jack .... Adams Sappota seeman s Pepsin ...... Colgan Mint Chips .. Sen Sen (Jars 80 pkgs, 2.20) Spearmint, 5 box jars 3 00 Spearmint, 3 box jars 1 80 eve ee ece ees nc ee sie + Red Standards German's Sweet CLOTHES LINE ' Pr Twisted Cotton Twisted Cotton Twisted Cotton Twisted Cotton Braided Cotton Braided: Cotton Braided Cotton Braided Cotton Re Re RR Dee ~ Galvanized Wire ee etre wear eer sores a eee e eet emer sens Scalloped Gems 10 6c pkgs., per case 2 60 26 10c pkgs., per case 2 60 16 10c and 33 bc pkgs., per case ......... ae COFFEES ROASTED Rilo ee ed eee emer ewer ere asene Fancy ..... ie Die eos 28 vet Growth fag renee g@ RE 4 Mocha Short Bean ........25@27 Long Bean .......... 24@25 Ht ©O..G. ....... 26@2s Bogota LAY Ul sO ee 24 MANCY ee eo. 26 Exchange Market, Steady Spot Market, Strong Package New York Basis Arbuckle McLaughlin’s XXXX McLaughlin's XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all F. McLaughlan & Co., Chicago orders direct to W. Extracts Holland, % gro boxes 95 Felix, % STORS ....... 115 Hummel’s foil, % gro. Hummel's tin, % gro. 1 43 CONFECTIONERY Stick Candy Pails Horehound ............ 8 Standard ........ Standard, small ....... Twist, small ........ «9 SUWMDO =... eke. Jumbo,’ small Big Stick ...........- ~- 8% Boston Cream ........ 13 Mixed Candy Broken ............ s-. 8 CAMO@O. 2.05.2... 6 lec 12 Out Loaf .........5... co MANCY . cbc. 5 2 6c, gc 10% French Cream ...... Grocers ............ ace b% Kindergarten ....... oon Deader ..........< sess Soe MAICBTIC 2.05... .0.e0e5s : Monarch ..... bc oeccece INNovelty ..) wc ss cecce "10 Paris Creams .......... 10 Premio Creams .......14 Royal ......... Secteecs Coe Special ........ -- 8% ee Sebel ce ‘ Specialties & Auto Kisses (baskets) 13 Bonnie Butter Bites ..16 Butter Cream Corn ..16 Candy Crackers (bskt) . Caramel Dice ......... Cocoanut Kraut ...... i Cocoanut Waffles ..... 14 Coco Macaroons ...... 16 Coffy Tolfy ............ 14 Dainty ohne 7 th. “tin 15 Empire Fudge ........14 Fudge, Pineappls ......13 Fudge, Walnut ........13 Fudge, Filbert. ....... 13 Fudge, Choco. Peanut 12 Fudge, Honey Moon ..13 sha Toasted Cocoa- ‘“ Fudge, Cherry . 5 Fudge, Cocoanut . ssc eels Honeycomb ee coe cle KCOKMVR ...66.05---s006 28 Iced Maroons .......... = Iced Gems ....... Iced Orange Jellies a is Italian Bon Bons ...... Lozenges, - Pep. ...... ie Lozenges, Pink ...... 16 MaAneCDUs ....6.. 06606 13 Molasses Kisses, - DOE o.4....55..5 13 Nut Butter Puffs ...... 13 Salted Peanuts ...... 13 Chocolates Pails Assorted Choc. ........16 Amazon Caramels ....15 Champion .......:... 11 Choc. Chips, Eureka ..18 Climax .............. A Eclipse, Assorted .....15 Eureka oe eee Mavorite .......... sages Ideal Chocolates - specs cde Klondike Chocoiates ..18 INADOUS «662-256. -552 18 Nibble Sticks ....... ..25 Nut Waters .......... 18 Ocoro Choc. Caramels . Peanut Clusters ...... PYTGUMMOB ......-..055: i Quintette .......... «os 0 kO TGGIOG «wk eee an, 10 Star Chocolates .......13 Superior Choc. (light) 18 Pop Corn Goods Without prizes. Cracker Jack ...... 3 25 Giggles, 5c pkg. cs. 3 2 Oh My 100s ........ 3 5 Cough Drops boxes Putnam Menthal ... 1 00 Smith Bros. .:......- 1 25 NUTS—Whole i. Almonds, Tarragona 20 Almonds, California soft shell ...... SPARIN oo... 3.56, 14@16 Hilberts ........- @13% Cal: No. 1. ...... Walnuts soft shell @19 Walnuts, Chilli . @16 Table nuts, fancy ete Pecans, medium .. @13 Pecans, ex. large Gis Hickory Nuts, per bu. ID ccccecocssecce eeeseesaeen Sete c ee 20 50 THON ee. 21 bu February 18, 1914 dD Chestnuts, New York State, per bu : Shelled No. 1 Spanish Shelled _ Peanuts, New 10 @10% Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled Peanuts ..... 11%,@12 Pecan Halves ... @50 Walnut Halves ..40@4z Filhert Meats ... @30 Alicante Almonds @55 Jordan Almonds . @60 Peanuts Fancy H P Suns Raw @6% Roasted 7% Hf. P. Jumbo, Raw @8&\% Roasted ........ @9% CRACKED WHEAT BU 3% 24 21D. pKgs. ..-..... 2 50 CRACKERS National Biscuit Company rands Butter xes Excelsior Butterg ..... 8 NBC Square Butters .. 6% Seymour Round ...... 6% Soda NBC Sodas .......... 6% Premium Sodas ...... i% Select Sodas ........ o. 8% Saratoga Flakes ...... 13 DalCINeS 6.06003... 1s Oyster i. NBC Picnic Oysters .. b% Gem Oysters .......... 6% Shen oo... oe eee es ot Sweet Goods Cans and boxes AMUMAIS .....:-:....5 30 Atlantics Also Asstd. . 1z Avena Fruit Cakes ... 14 Bonnie Doon Cookies. .iv Bonnie Lassies ...... au brittle Wingers ...... av Cameo Biscuit Choc. (CAMB) (o...2044.55 essa 20 Cameo Biscult Agsta. MOM) oc esac esas e «- 40 Wes tr asCuw ADDL wwe Amen vuuse WaUANaALS DAL (ruwy VlUCUIalLS ALUPS 220006 ae UChuCcviate Vivup Ucm- MOM Sac cisigice sic oso 6 au Chow. Honey blugers. ae Choc. Kuseltes (caus) av CVaCkKnels .6.5655.5... Le Cocoanut ‘lafty Bar .. 16 Cocoanut Urups ...... 46 Cocuanut Macaroons .. ia Cocnut Honey Fingers 14 Cocnt Honey Jumbies 12 Coffee Cakes Iced ... 12 Eventide Fingera .... 16 Family Cookies ......, 8% Fig Cakes Asstd. .... 12 Frosted Creamg ...... 8% Frosted Ginger Cookies 84% Fruit Lunch Iced .... 10 Ginger Gems Plain .... 8% Ginger Gems Iced .... 9% Graham Crackers .... 8 Ginger Snaps Family .. 8% Ginger Snaps NBC WROUNG «ccscccccccecs 8 Household Cookies ....8 Household Cks. Iced .. 9 Hippodrome Bar ..... 12 Honey Jumbles ...... 13 Imperials: ........+cccee $% Jubilee Mixed ....... Lady Fingers Sponge . 30 Leap Year Jumbles .. 18 Lemon Biscuit Square 8% Lemon Wafers ...... ILOMIONA (564.6566... > -- 8% Mace Cakes ........02 8 Mary Amn ...c--cesce Marshmallow Cte. Ck. 13 Marshmallow Walnuts 18 Medora ..... baasasoeesa Us Mottled Squares .... 10 NBC Honey Cakes ... 12 Oatmeal Crackers .... 8 Orange Gems ........ $i Penny Assorted ....... 3 Peanut Gems ..... Pineapple Cakes .. Raisin Gems ......... ll Reveres Asstd. ... . Spiced Ginger Cakes cae Spiced Ginger Cakes NGGd «0 ce cee 10 Sugar cae” baa cae. . Sugar Crimp .........- Sultana Fruit mine ” Triumph Cakes ..... «. 46 Vanilla Wafers ...... 17 Waverley .........-.. 10 In-er-Seal Trade Mark Goods per doz Baronet Biscuit ...... $1 00 Bremners Btr Wafs. 1 00 Cameo Biscuit ...... 50 1 Cheese Sandwich .... 1 Chocolate Wafers ... 1 00 Excelsior Butters .... 1 Fig Newton .......... 1 Five O'Clock Tea Bact. 1 09 Ginger Snaps NBC .. 1 0@ wv Fe Se eR Re SR ¥ 4 j i ~p February 18, 1914 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29 Graham {crackers Red | FLAVORING EXTRACTS HIDES AND PELTS Picnic Boiled SEEDS TOBACCO. | @ cle. seh Hides Hams ....... -. 191420 j pemen Boies eseesee 50 Jennings D C Brand Green, No. 1 ........ Boiled Hams ..24 @24% ae supe: 7 os ee Premium Sodas ...... 1 00 Extract Lemon Terpeneless ocr _ 7 ‘ Bacon ai - i6%o2d coraes weet: 10 Bugle, 16 0z....... : : s oe : le secee SOO GOH Os Ya rdomom, , eee ee tenee ee aes a. i 50 Extract Vanilla Mexican oe, No. 2 Sausages €clery (10.1. oheeurin : 50 ig ag Ser eces 11 00 Social Tea Biscuit ..100 poth th i alfskin, green, Bologna ....... 11%@12 Hemp, Russian . ... 5 Da ch, 8and 16 oz. 32 oo ei eee Calfskin, green, Liver %@10 Mixed Bird . S te meee ae Uneeda Biscuit ...... a Me 4 B hee hon. O Game ouee ae 116,, Erankfort <.2.. wois Mustard, white “...... i poerue 7 ta Uneeda Ginger Wafer 100 No. 2, F box, 1% oz. 1 20 Pore 0). 1... Poppy ........ seus 8 Hiawatha, 16 oz. ....- 60 Vanilla Wafers ...... 1 00 ‘ 2 2 00 Weal ................. Nepe ................. G% Hiawatha fe Water Thin Biscuit .. : « a : ee OX, - Oz. a. Spc aa cee ceece cogi a ee eeseece SHOE BLACKING May Flower 46 on sees °2 Zu Zu Ginger Snaps .._ o. 38, 2% oz. Taper SB eeeeeeees eadcheese. No L ; oo Zwieback .....---+++: 100 9 om Well Menane ..175 [HSORIRER --.-- 50@1 00 - Pont ee ee Oe EM Ro fone 3 60 é Vv : ma : 5 a. * + eveeee Other Package Goods N Fallow Boneless ..... 20 00@20 50 Bixby's Royal Polish 85 tee ee 8 Rarnum’s Animals 50 rEOUR ane Pee No. ee ai @ Rump, new ..24 00@24 50 Miller's Crown Polish 85 ae BD ose sennees 1 1¢ .* i Be eee eee ee a s ibw 5 cenceies Wokene .... 250 Grane Ee Pd & i. @ . Pig’s Feet enuee Penalty cnict’ ats 1 8 Butter Crackers NBC Unwashed, med. . @18 Pat nsec ssiees + 105 Scotch, in bladders .... 37 Petoskey Chief, 14 oz. 4 0¢ Family Package ... 2 50 Winter Wheat % bbis., 40 Ibs. ...... 210 WM , Peac A“ Soda Crackers NBC Purity Patent ....+.- 519 Unwashed, fine... @13 % bbls. ........002. 78 Foie on © he ae Family Package ... 250 Sunburst. ...... LET 480) HORSE RADISH Wee oc. ears Gag enet Mapole ie deme. ES a eon 198 Fruit Cake .......--- 300 Wizar Our ....... a @r doe oes. ae, Tripe SODA Sterling, I. & D be .. a In Special Tin Packages eae oe .o ae ie -_, oe We .......... ag 6«~Boxes 04... 8.8... 5% Sweet Cuba, seeds 9 ie oo per dos, Wissnd wuckwn't owt 846 18m: Salle, fer Oeil <2 ap bbls’ ob tbe, 2.200 eeregg “% Suest Cane 0 uy Nabisco 25c ....--+-+- 6 OR er 440 30%. pails, per pail ...1 00 Casings SPICES Sweet Cuba, 1 Ib. tin 4 50 Nabisco, 10c .......-- 100 valley City Milling Co. JELLY GLASSES Hogs, per % ......... 35 Whole Spices Sweet Cuba, % Ib. foil 2 26 In bulk, rere Lily White .......... 5 10 ¥% pt. in bbls., per doz. 15 Beef, rounds, set .. 18@20 Allspice, Jamaica .. 9@10 cue Burley, 5c L&D 5 76 Nabisco ......-----+:: Tit (ast |... cs 460 % Pt. in bbls., per doz. 16 Beef, middles, set .. 80@85 Allspice, Ig Garden @11 Sweet Burley, 8 oz. .. 2 45 Seige Pov cics Crackere : . Graham .......- fa 7S ees in bbls. Sheep, per bundle "85 peat Zanzibar @22 ace Mist. 3 ao oe ent’s Water Cr Granena Health 2 10 per doz |... 0... ... 18 Uncolored Butter! assia, Canton ....14@15 Sweet Mist, % gro. .. 5 70 eeccee ‘ n . : Sw is e CREAM TARTAR Gyan. Meal ....-.-.- 1 80 MAPLEINE Sa they... 1 aie Gee: eee oe (a2 Suest Mat ea. !. r drums ..... 3: + tee eee : , r doz. 3 ry Rolls ...12 tec cr ose Pellegr : ‘ ; Bareela © 33 Bolted Med 170 2 oz. bottles, per doz. 3 00 Country Roll 214@18 ringer, African Cm ca... i 35 ee 34 1 oz. bottles, per doz. 1 75 Canned singer, Cochin .... @l4% ‘Tiger, 5c... ..22.l1 'n -. 36 Voigt Milling Co. ned Meats wace, Penang .. 70 IBer, DC oe. ese eee eee 6 00 oe genie eee es , Gedam ........-..-. 430 5 MINCE MEAT oad foe 3%. ....465 Mixed. No 1 ae o Miger, 20¢ cans ...... 2 40 ‘ancy Caddies ....---> Toigt’ eae Per case occ). 00 2 85 rned beef, 1 th. .... Mixed, No. 2...... > Uncle Daniel, DRIED FRUITS Voces moccret 5 O Bo bee a ate Ateca Go peas a @18 Uncle Daniel; 1 on. 1.'5 22 gt’s et ....5 f MOLASSES R calc wixed, 5¢ pkgs. dz. @45 , on .. & 2 Apples Voigt's Hygzenic ....4 30 oast beef, 1 Ib. ...... 240 Nutmegs, 70180 @30 vapor ‘ed, Choice bulk 9% Voigt’s Royal ........- 5 50 New Orleans Potted Meat, Ham Nutmegs, 105-110 .. @25 Plug Evapor’ed, Fancy pkg. S. W. Columbia .... 5 00 Fancy Open Kettle .... 42 Flavor, 48 ...... 55 Pepper, Black ..... @15 © Am. Navy Apricots K. W. Calla lilly . 260 Cholee ..........7..... 35 Potted Eonont. Ham Pepper, White oe @25 Ate 10 Tb hate 38 California ....---- 15@17 watson-Higgins Milling Co. cae Sette tee eee eee e ees 22 Deviled Paeet Sette 95 Pepper, Cayenne .. @22 Drummond Nat. Leaf, 2 Qir oc... am Pakrika, Hu ana | Cltron Perfection Buckwheat Hale bovccis 3 i: 20 Flavor, %s 55 ’ ngarian and 6 16. .......... 60 Corsican ..---+-eees: 16 : Blour ..2.......- 6 c Red Hen, No ly ex “ ie Heviel Meat Hin” Fuve Greund in Gelk Drummond Nat. Leaf Currants Sila cage leh ye Red Hen. Ma a... 1 75 Biavor, %s ....... g5 Allspice, Jamaica .. @14 Heel doz. Oot eecaaae 96 Imported 1b. pkg. ..-- 8% p Top Fiour .....- Red Hen, No. 10... 2 Potted Tongue, %s .. 58 Cloves, Zanzibar .. @29 uh” ee ee aa 28 p Golden Sheaf Flour 4 20 +... 2 Go Aekin 6 Bracer, ¢ 112 “ orted, bulk ....- 814 Bi pe Ge Potted Tongue, %s .. 95 Cassia, Canton .... @20 oo eee. & Imp Marshall’s Best Flour 4 75 MUSTARD RI 5 Ginger, African @17 Big Four, 6 and 16 lb. 32 aie oe oe. 1M Wer Grocer oe ‘ % Tb. 6 Ip. box .... 16 Fancy “6 6%@7 ace Pendne ..... @75 ee — 2 ” A vile, 90 a oe Wizard Flour .....-.. 7 J ese oo ee ‘ : NUlInégs! 0.1 5...... @35 Jt Jack, per doz. 90 Muirs—Fancy, 251p. .. 3% Quaker OLIVES Japan Style ...... 5 @5% > : eee he Bullion, 16 | paper ......- 4 90 4 Fepper, Black ..... @19 sh 2 40 OZ, o- wasee 46 Fancy, Peeled, 25tb. ..15 A eh, 5 00 Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 00@1 10 Bromen .......... 3%@4% Pepper, White ..... @27 Climax, Golden Twins 48 Peel Quaker Buckwheat bbl. 5 50 Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 95@1 05 ROLLED OATS Pepper, Cayenne .. @24 Cee AA OR sass: 44 Lemon, American ie Kansas Hard Wheat Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 90@1 00 Rolled Avena, bbls. ..4 80 Paprika, Hungarian @45 CHmax, 7 0%. o----.-. se At Orange, American ....12% : ati Stufied, G oz, 20.000. 99 Steel Cut, 100 th. sks. 2 40 Days’ Work, 7 & 14 lb. 37 Rataine Voigt Milling Co. Stuffed, 8 oz. Ve 125 Monarch, bbls. .......4 50 ST AnH Creme de Menthe, Ib. 62 Cluster, £0 cartons ...2 25 Calla Lily -...+-+ ase 460 Stuffed, 14 of) (1000. 925 Monarch, 90 Ib. sks. 2 10 Corn Derby, 5 Ib. boxes .... 28 Toole WGuaeatela 4 Cr. 1% oe Grocer ta Soe Pitted cae stuffed) P corrapa 18 Regular ...1 45 Kingsford. 40 bs. Ty ene mm : stteeeeee es = Se ‘ pase, ws )..0 20 | (Ta om est 95 aker, 20 Family 2Zy, 2 be ed “our Roses, 10c ....... Loose Mescatels, 3 Cr. ie American Hagle, 4s ..5 10 Manzanilia, 8 on...” e 90 r a oa. fe ee ee ON GI ee, 8 . 30 L. M. Seeded, 1 Ib. 8%@ American Eagle, %s ..5 00 Lunch, 10 oz. .. 135 Gal ALO? DRESSING . _.Kingsford Gold Rope, 6 & 12 Ib. 58 California Prunes R Fake Lunch, 1éioe 35 Gala pe... 2 25 Silver Gloss, 40 1th. .. 74 Gold Rope, 4 & 8 Ib. 58 90-100 25tp. boxes ..@ 6% Oy ear Queen, Mammoth, 19 SOlumbia, 1 pint 400 Muzzy, 40 ib. pkes. .. 5 G O. FP. 12 & 24 Ib 40 80- 90 25tb. boxes -..@ 7% aia ae beat ae op al sy 9 ge ee ee 1 doz. 4 50 _ _ Gloss Ganser Feit tn) 644 , olde “n, family ..4 9: Sl eieldle ele e sais gs 6 45 f ; » sme a Oe Argo, 24 5e K2S ny; " nm : G0. 10. 251. mee 2 ae Golden Horn, bakers 435 @veen, Mammoth, 28 Snider's: large, 1 doz 2 a3 Siver Goss, 16 abs... 8% Sock Gea eau & a bi ng Loci Oia Wisconsin Rye ......-3 70 obo Gee a 75 Snider's small, 2 doz. 135 Siver Goss, 12 6Ibs. .. Sl, Honey oi Twice ante a 40- 50 25tb. boxes ..@11% Judson Grocer Co. per doz. | 9) or SALERATUS Muzzy Jolly Far,6 &@ Sib. .... 40 Ceresota, 4s Ue. 5 50 oe oo Packed 60 Ibs. in box 48 1. packages ...... 5 a T.,, Se @ 1 i. . 35 FARINACEOUS GOODS Ceresota, re 5 60 PICKLES Arm and Hammer .. 3 00 16 3Ib. packages ...... 4% Qentucky Navy, 12 lb. . 32 eens ax Ceresota, 368 ......... 5 70 ee oe woe ee [goo 12 or packages ...... 6 nee ne Twist, 6 Ib. 45 California Lima ...-- te Voigt Milhng Co. ; count .. 7 75 DA SUID. BOxees ........... 3 Sismet, @ We ....sccce, 48 chicas ae oF 2 Caneen aut ia ba 5 0p foie 600 count ; 38 Geuisied vat eae. 80 SYRUPS ee one 20 om. ..c. 28 Med an icked .. 2 10 é m Kees 2.05... 1 90 zranulated, 0 S. cs. 90 Merry Widow, 12 lb. $2 Brown Hollana .....- 1 65 a woe oo o i Small Granulated, 36 pkgs. .. 1 25 = parrels Core 57 Nobby Spun Roll 6 & 3 58 ingold, %s cloth .... Barrelg ........... ALT ee tat tt ts «if Parrot, 12 Th. woes. 8 ee 150 Wingold, 4s cloth ....5 40 Half barrels a 3 3B Common Grades aid Inset lah ea 29 Patterson's Nat. Leaf os 25 1 Ib packages ...-- Wingold, 1 loth an fo ee ft eae 100 “ aa Blue Karo, 2 WD. ..... 1 80 eae * €.99 & Bulk, per 100 Ibs. ....4 00 Jingold, %s cloth ....5 30 5 gallon kegs ...... 995 100 3 Ib. sacks ...... 2 60 Peachey, 6-12 & 24 lb. 40 Original Holland Rusk Wingold, %S paper ...5 3 70 4 lb. sacks ...... 2 40 Blue Karo, 2% Ih. .... 2 30 Picnic Twist, 5 Ib. .... 45 Packed 12 rolls to container cera Bar peper + .D ae esis Gherkins ue a . - sacks ...... 2 40 oe ere. 5 Yb. 225 Piper Heidsick, 4 & 7 lb. 69 20 akers’ atent ...... 5 PURVGIS) ooo. 0 2 | Sacks ...... 2 95 ue Karo. 10 tb. .... 215 Piper Heidsick, per doz. 96 3 containers (40) rolls 3 Wvkes & Go Half barrels .......... 17, |66 Ib. sacks ........ 40 ted Karo, 1% Ib. 360 Polo, 3 doz., oar doz. 48 mem oy are sleepy Eye, %8 cloth 5 40 5 gallon kegs 2...... fe 28 Ib. sacks ........ 99 Red Karo, 2 Ib. 215 Hedicut, 12-3 of. ...... 38 Pearl, 100 lb. sac Sleepy Hye. %s cloth 5 30 i Warsaw Red Karo, 2% Ib 255 Scrapple, 2 & 4 doz. 48 1 and Vermicelli p y Sweet Small BR : : 9 5 Maccaron ‘at. pegs 60 Sleepy Bye, %s cloth 5 20. Barrels 6 50 56 Tb. dairy in drill bags 40 Red Karo, 5 Ib -... 2 50 Sherry Cobbler, 8 oz. .. 32 oo 95 Ib Vo. “9 59 Sleepy Eye, %S paper 5 20 Half barrels ....... 8 75 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags 20 Red Karo, 10 tb. .... 240 Spear Head, 12 oz. .... 44 Imported, 25 Ib. Dox -- Sleepy Eye, 4s paper 5 20 5 gallon kegs ...... 3 50 Soar hae Pure Cane sees eS Pearl Barley ee ee ae 56 Ib. —_ Sees ics c 26 «Fair 16 Spear Head, oz 47 @hester (osc... 00 Meal PIPES Common Gana 20 Sq. Deal, 7,14 and 28 Ib. 30 ee foe So ‘fc a ae eS nor vee a ean, Hine ..... 1 05 Gite 25 Star. 6, 12 & M4 ib. .. & ne ne Slay, T. D. full coun edium, Fine ........ 1 10 Standard Navy, 7%, 15 A : “ Wheat Cob a an 90 TABLE SAUCES & 301 Green, Wisonsin, bu. 1 50 \ i: a‘ : SALT FIS MW OU ID. wc cceerccescces 34 fey gcctch, ba... op eee i 93 PLAYING CARDS Cod " Halford, large ....... 375 Ten ho é & 12 bh 385 oa eee ie ata > New White ........ 93 No. 90, Steamboat .. 75 Large, whole .. @ Halford, small ........ 225 Town Talk, 14 oz. 31 ; A el Oats No. 15, Rival assorted 125 Small, whole . @ 8% Yankee Girl, 12 & 24 30 a ty Michigan carlots .... 44 No. 20, Rover, enam’d. 1 50 Strips or bricks . 9@13 vee ast Indi ee i (Less than carlots .... 26 No. 572, Special ...... 17 Pollock .(.... @ 5% Uncolored Japan Scrap a Loken phe = Sass Corn oo a pluie Li fin. 2 00 Smoked Salmon Medium ..........- 20@25 All Red, Sc .......... 5 76 a 7 vO. . cycle ...... 2 GOH String) 2... g Choice .......eeee- 28@33 Am. Union Scrap .... 5 40 ne “7 44 sess than nl OCS ...-. 1 No. 682 Tourn’t whist 2 25 Helibut Fancy 86@4 Bag Pipe, 5c 5 88 a e, sac s oe a ali u eee S560 57° ty . we weer eens Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks .. 4% Carlots ...... ae 17 00 i, POTASH BI fac ncce sess: jg Basket-fired Med'm 28@80 Cutlas, 2% 02, »-...... be os eae Be ee WRG, 2 ee... 295 CH +n. . 000s. / 9 Baemetaree, Cum ee = (lobe Bere, 2 ess S Borne 6 ok ae : 7 Feed p Basket-fired, Fancy 38@45 Happy Thought, 2 oz. 30 Minute, 36 pkgs. ... oe u ROVISIONS Holland Herring No. 1 Nibs .......-30@32 Honey Comb Scrap, 6c 5 76 FISHING TACKLE 7 esa eo a ss Barreled Pork Y. M. wh. hoop bbls. 10 50 Siftings, bulk . .... 9@10 Honest Scrap, Sc .. 1 55 ; : ae i ee 3u Clear Back ..20 50@21 00 Y. M. wh. hoop %bbls 5 50 ~~ Siftings, 1 Tb. pkgs. “12@14 Mail Pouch, 4 doz. Se 2 00 % to . cece ceca a 6 pra COrM ........-- 32 Short Cut Clear 19 00@1 950 Y-. M. wh. hoop kegs 65 Gunpowder Old Songs, Ge ........ 5 76 1% to 2 in. ....------- a oarse corn meal ..... 4. Bean |...) 50@19 00 Y- M. wh. hoop Milchers P Old Times, % gro. 5 50 1% to 2 in. ........--- 9 RUIT J Brisket, Clear a 00 bees 9.00. 65 Moyune, Medium - -28@33 , . val Mi F ARS @27 00 | Polar Bear, 5c, % gro. 5 76 a to 8 in... 2. s 1 i a a i Bie 3 99 Standard, bbls. ...... 50 Moyune, Choice ...35@4¥ Red Band, 5c % gro. 5 76 ; ceccre eas 20 Mason, ats., per gro. 4 40 Cleat Wamatly oo 0.4... 26 0» Standard, % bbls. 4 50 ge ve is a - Red Man Scrap 5c 1 42 lene Mason, Ba gal. per gro. 6 75 Eley Galt Meat Standard, kegs ...... 54 foe Goer aa. aEO40 Scrapple, 5c pkgs. ..... 48 io 1 8 —— oe 3) SP Beliles .....14%@15 be ie 59 Fins Suy. Fancy :45@00 yankee Girl S oe bi oom ty feck ........ 7 Cox’s, 1 doz. large ..1 45 > on oT i] Young Hyson fan fandie Sern har. © 14 No. 3, 15 feet .......-. § Gove iden ene... © Cotte eae, eb 8 os “2 die ....... se g8q@30 Peachy Scrap, bc «+. 8 76 Ne. 4, : re bee ed a. _ ae ee or 2) oa tebe . i, 2 Wo 1. 2 lbs. .......... Te EWAnCY ~<..-.-.<-i.<. 45@55 Union Workman 2% 6 00 BO tiesto. | Mnex'a Aciawa [2 is a ee oes Mackerel Pa Smoking Me. 7. 15 fect ....:.-- 460 eects soc. roo So oe --- Saree & Meee, 108 Ibe. ........ 17 09 Formosa, Medium ..25@38 all Leaf, 34 & 7 os. . 30 NO! 8 $6 fect .1:..... 18 Oxford 18 gah Con, 1 eae = Mee 469 ie. ........ 729 Formosa, Choice ..32@35 BB, 344 oz. 00 ts 8 th feet ..---: 20 Plymouth Rock, Phos. 125 5 1p. bails to-e@ueuee 9 Meas, 10 the ........ 190 Formosa, Fancy .. 50@60 BB, 7 0z. .... See cl Plymouth Rock. Plain 90 8 tb pails teye e bewebe 1 Mess, § ibs. ........ 1 60 English Breakfast BB, 14 Oz. ne a GRAIN BAGS Smoked Meats No. 1, 100 Ibe. ........ 16 00 Congou, Medium ...25@30 Bagdad, 10c tins .... 11 52 Se - Broad Gauge .......... 18 Hams, 12 th. av. 18 @18% Wo..], 40 fbs. -........ 6 80 Congou, Choice ....30@35 Badger, OM, .1...55- 5 04 coe Li cia clels ces @ - Amoskeag ...........-- 19 Hams, 14 1%. av. 1e%e@lT INo. 1, 10 Ibe. ........ 180 Congou, Fancy ....40@60 Badger, OM ccceccs 11 52 MO occ cece ees Herbs Hams, 16 tb. av. 1b5Y%@16 bisa Hesei Congou, Ex. Fancy 60@80 Banner, Ga «......--. 5 76 Poles Sage ....... eae +--- 15 Hams, 18 tb. av. 16 @16 ee eee ae wre tse ess .o Ae : . av. me 100 Ths 1.5...) .4 00 Ceylon 2 Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55 Hope ......scccs-ss eee 15 Ham, dried’ beet 40 Ib : Banner, 40c ......... 3 20 Bamboo, 16 ft, per doz. 60 Laurel Leaves ........- 15 8 29 @30 Om ‘3s Dee Bonen Cuales 8 Bis chief. 2% 0%... 6 00 amboo’ 18 ft.. per doz. 80 Senna Leaves ......... 25 California Ham See | fee a rT, Fekoe, oice .. g ef, 2% om .. €0 Pp 25 célitornia Hams 12 @12% She . 2... ie... 50 Wowery O. P. Fancy 40@60 Big Chief, 16 oz. 30 30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 18, 1914 BAKING POWDER Distributed by Judson ae Caco ee ba 13 14 ee Grocer Co., Grand Rapids; pa The only 10c sixe .. 99 Lee & Cady, Detroit; Sy- 5c Smoking Pilot, 7 oz. doz. .... 1 05 Faucets ¥%tb cans 135 ™ons Bros. & Co., Sagi- Sialy Abuse, Be .,... 5 g5 Soldier Boy, 1 I. .... 475 Cork lined, 3 in ne 6 oz. cans 190 "2W; Brown, Davis & War- Cleanser Bull Durham, 10c ... 1152 Sweet Caporal, 10z... 60 Cork lined, 9 in. ..:... 80 aoe ee G Bull Durham, lic ... 17 28 Sweet Lotus, 5c ...... 600 Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90 %Ib cans 375 Durand & Co. Battle ee sas Bull Durham, 8 oz. .. 3 60 Sweet Lotus, 10c .... 12 00 Mop Sticks 1% cans 480 Creek; Fielbach Co., To- het 10@c kinds Bull Durham, 16 oz. .. 6 72 Sweet Lotus, ner dz. 485 Trojan spring ........ 90 3Ib cans 13 00 ‘edo. - CANS - $2.80 ey 576 Sweet Rose, 2% oz. .. 30 ficlipse patent spring 85 5th cans 2150 O1pD MASTER COFFEE SOAP Buck Horn, 10c ...... i 52 Sweet Tip ‘Top, be .. 89 Wo. $ cee tk” 80 ‘ EF sag Briar Pipe, 5c 6 00 ak ae Top, 10¢ .. 100 Yaea) No. daa holder > CIGARS Agee ob nica & S a Cee eae weet s, ro... S008 fom nee 2 a ae , » OV Dars ...... Briar Pipe, 10c ..... oo Ch oF tab. cotton mop heads a ip | OR e Cieee ee Prand Acme, 25 bars, 75 lbs. 4 00 Black Swan, ic .....- 5 76 ae. ca Pr : 4 Palls Acme, 25 bars, 70 Ibs. 3 80 Black Swan, 14 oz. .. 350 Giver Time, 14 oz. 3 50 cee Shige ee 2 00 Acme. 100 cakey . 3 20 Bob White, 5c ....-- 600 Standard, 5c foll .... 576 3-wirs oo 2 25 Big Master, 100 blocks 4 00 Brotherhood, 5c ....-- 6 00 Standard, 10c paper .. 864 Fibre... .. Cream Borax, 100 cks 3 85 Brotherhood, 10c¢ .... 11 10 ot of ma otha ng . ‘ at. Galvanized .... 1 70 German Mottled 8 15 Brotherhood, 16 oz. .. 5 05 ‘Three Feathers, 1 oz. 48 Ve es soe. 290 German Mottled, 5 bx. 3 15 Carnival, 5c ......---- 550 Thee Fonte oe t1cR 0 eres ---- FO German Mottled. 10 b. 3 10 Carnival, % 0Z. ....-- 3 — bli! ae da _— Toothnicks S. C. W., 1,000 lots .... 3g Old Master Coffee ..... 31 oe Mottled, 25 b 3 05 Carnival, 16 oz. ....-- 40 tom & Jerry, 14 oz. .. 3.60 fog 100 packages .. 200 El Portana ............ 33 San Marto Coffee ...... Marseilles, 100 eee : a Puc Gin, Jonnen «688 Ton BO geey, Toe 1 85 Evening Press ........ 32 Marseilles, 100 cks 5c 4 00 Cigar agg a | =. ide ro 3 OZ. --. a Traps Dxemplar ........ 32 Marseilles, 100 ck toil 4 00 ty, 02 ‘ ue TMs Ge OD ek eck ee a se arse 7 il 3 peer “Cigar Cuttings <2) Devt tine, tic... i ae Se a Canadian Club, 300 lots 10 ae ie as 90 Turk 5 3 Fok gee , oles : Continental Chies, ioc, $0 Turkish, Patrol, 28 8 7% Mouse, wood. holes 49 Worden Grocer Co, Brands ae Corn Cake, 7 oz. ||. 145 Tuxedo, 2 oz. tins .. 96 Rat gets B holes .... 65 Canadian Club. Ivory, Fags Se eb cis cise res fee, (eke, GC ..-.--+- B96 winpao Ble ....-..--- i ee See 80 Londres, 60s, wood .... 35 Ivory, 10 oz 6 = Gream, 50c pails .... 4.70 Tuxedo, 80c tins .... 7 45 ee sapere 75 Londres, 25s, tins .... 35 Star .. : 2 25 Cuban Star, 5c foil .. 5 76 Twin Oaks, 10c ....-. 96 Tubs Londres lots 30 ee ( a S.hmhmhU oe Cuban Star, 16 0z pails 3 72 TInion Leader, 50c .... 510 90-in Standard, No. 1 : 8, S ..... 10 Tradesman Co.’s Brand Chips, 10c ......----- 10 20 tnion Leader, %c .. 260 48-in. Standard’ No. 2 oe Black Hawk, one box 2 50 Dills Best, 13% oz. .... 79 Union Leader, 10c .. 11 52 16-in. Standard. No. 3 6 00 COFFEE : Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40 Dills Best, 3% 02. 77 Union Leader, bc ..... 600 90-in. Cabl ee 00 Roasted Roval Garden Tea, pkes 4 Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25 Dills Best, 16 oz 73 Tnion Workman, 1% 5 76 4¢-in_ able, No. 1 .. 8 00 : ve / eid ea, pkgs 40 oe ike Mid, bc ------ 48 Uncle Sam, 10c :...- 1080 44-in. Cie mace oe THE BOUR CO., A. B. Wrisley Duke's Mix., 5c ...--- 5 75 Uncle Sam, 8 oz. .... 225 No. 1 Fibre ........16 50 TOLEDO, OHIO. Good Cheer ......... 4 00 Duke’s Mix, 19¢ .... 1152 U. S. Marine, 5c .... 576 No. 2 Fibre "15 0 Ola Country 2 49 Duke's Cameo, 5c .. 576 Van Bibber, 2 oz. tin 88 No. 3 Fibre = eS aK CL ,,.””mLmlmrmrmUmUmUCLLUC 2 Drum, 6c .....------- 5 i. Velvet, be pouch ..-. a lames Galvaniied | & ED c+ So SAFES Soap Powders BFA Oo vovooneey M4 Velvet, 1 tin 0-4 SF Meditm Galvanized’. 4 15 TEHO ae. 5 5 7 i oeeeee de elv § sole : Pere Se mein ee ce 600 velvet. 16 oz. can ..-- 7 68 Small Galvanized 4 25 vn Tes Babbitt’s ve ....... 3 75 Fashion, 16 oz. .....- 5 28 Velvet, combination cs 5 75 Washboards Gola Due AG large ..4 30 Five Bros., 5c ...--- 5 76 War Path, Se ......-- 600 Ganncr Ginbs 5 ch Mireoline 2 fa all --3 8d Five Bros., 10c ...... 10 53 War Path, 20c ...----- 160 Brass, Single ....... 3 25 Lautz Naphtha. 60s. 2 : Five cent cut Plug 29 Wave Line, 3 oz..... 40 Glass, Single ......: 3 25 Lautz Naphtha, 100s 3 75 FOB 10c ........-- 2 Wave Line 16 02. .... 40 Sinela Apme 0 | 3 15 ois aphtha 100s 3 75 Four Roses, 10c ....-- 96 Way up, 2% 0%. ....-- 5 75 Double Peerless ...... 3 75 Roseine (i ee Full Dress, 1% 02. 72 Way up, 16 0z. pails ... $1. Single Peerless ...... 3 25 Snow Boy, 24s famil eae Glad Hand, 5c ...... 48 Wild Fruit, 5c ......-- 576 Northern Queen .... 3 95 ar y, 24s family . Gold Wiock, 10c ..-.-. 12 09 Wild Fruit, 200 :.... 11 52 Double Duplex oe 2 On nae pov es eee: 3 1D Gold Star, 50c pail .. 470 Yum Yum, 5c .....---- 690 Good Enough ....... 3 95 t : Slaw boy aa 2 40 Gail & Ax Navy, 5¢ 576 Yum Yum, 10c ..... 11 52 Universal ...... 3 15 eat Tae ; Snow Boy. 20s aa 00 Growler, 5c .....----- 12 Vien Yum, 2 ib. doz 480 ' sae naeoo Full line of fire and bur- Wisdom ............. oa Growler, 10c ......--- 94 Window Cleaners = g SGQOm foe. 3 30 Growler, 20c 1 85 TWINE 19 in 65 ethane glar proof safes kent. in Giant, 5c he comen poh 1 85 a stock by the Tradesman Soap Compounds Ginot, d0c .....-..-.-- 3 96 Coton ft oly 2... 4 16 an 2 239 White House, 1 tb ........ Company. Thirty-five sizes Aidit — Go s 25 Pare i paaealls 5 76 pep. 6 oy as - Wood Bowls ” a ee Pee nnn ine on Nee at of Rub-No-More .._... ie 3 85 fisuey Dew, ttc .... 1200 Wiax, medium ........ 24 iS in| Butter’ ........ 1 75 oe Blend, 1%) ..... times—twice as many safes Nine O'clock ........ 3 50 Hunting, 5c .......-.. 38 Wool 1 tb. bales ... 9% 16 in Butter ........ 2 50 Seer Blend, 21m ...... aS are carried by any other i ret Se a WNEGAR 17 in. Butter ........ 475 Tip Top, Blend, If) ...... house in the State. If you sapolio sagen ae sat era oh ot PoP Whlic Sying, 0 ciclo Eb See eee i a0 syd Piend § 20... lk. are unable to visit Grand Sapolio, Ralf ero. bots 4 85 Just Suits, 10c ...... 12 00 White Wine, 80 grain 11% RAPPING PAPER Royal High Grade ........ Rapids and inspect the Mne Sapolio, single boxes 2 40 Kiln Dried, 25c ...... 245 White Wine, 100 grain 13 Common Straw ...... 2 Superior Blend ........... personally, write for quo- Sapoile, hand ...... 2 40 King Bird, 7 02. .....- 4 16 a vine = Pickle ae tela white .. 3 Boston Combination tations. : ee , cakes 1 80 King Bird, 10c ...... 11 52 o's Brands. ‘ibre anila, colored 400 9 0 Scourine, 100 cakes .. 3 50 King Bird, be .......- 576 Highland apple cider 22 No. 1 Manila ......... 4 : La Turka, 5c -...---.- 5 “se Oakland apple cider : aac Manila ........ 3 Little Giant, 1 lb. .... 8 State Seal sugar .... utchers’ Manila .... 2% = e Lucky Strike, 10¢c ...... 96 Oakland white pickling 10 Wax Butter, short ec’nt 10 t t P t Tie Redo, 3 oz. --.- 10 80 Packages free. Wax Butter, full count 15 onserva Ive nves ors d ronize Le Redo, 8 & 16 oz. : 38 WICKING Wax Butter, rolls .... 12 t Myrtle Navy, 10c .... 11 52 T. d Ad Myrtle Navy, ic ...... 576 No. 0, per gross .....- 30 YEAST CAKE ra esmani ver ers Maryland Club, 5c ... 50 No. 1, per gross .... 40 Magic, 3 doz. ....... 1 15 Mayflower, 5c .......- 5 76 No. 2, per gross .... 50 Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00 Mayflower, 10c ....... 96 No. 3, per gross .... 75 or 1% sve. «ses oD Mayflower, 20c ....... 1 92 east Foam, 3 doz. icer Hair, 5c ...... 6 00 gees a Yeast Foam, 1% doz. : BB Public Seatin for all P Nigger Hair, 10c .... 10 70 askets 24 Dp Nigger Head, bc .... 5 40 Bushels ee ass 1 » YOURS TRULY LINES. urposes vi H 10c .... 10 56 Bushels, wide band .. 115 Pork < : 10@ ’ : Nigger Head, 100... oo ‘ heathen ele : a World’s Largest Exclusive Manufacturers Old Colony, 1-12 gro. 11 52 Splint, large .....--. S350 |. oe ae ° 018 MI, Ge ....- ee je 876 Splint, medium ...... 309 Salad Dressing 3 80@4 bu Church Furniture of Character Old Bagiieh Curve 1%40z. 96 Splint, small ....-..... 275 Apple Butter .... @8 80 : i) : Dil Crop be ..--...-.- 5 76 ° ae oo oa : 23 Catsup 2 10@6 75 6s Heap A the only exc'usive designers and builders of gg Crop, a 20 Willow, Clothes, sma a we : thurch Furniture we are k 3d i is P. s. “gig 30 Ib. cs. 19 Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 50 Macaroni ....... 1 70@2 35 ahieck Y (eas nown as an authority on this P. S.. 3 oz., per gro. 57 Spices .. 40@ 85 subject. our building committee should have our Pat Hand, 1 0z. ..... = Butter Pates a. @ 7 book Y-4, he elo Seal, Ts OZ. “4 Ovals ao @2 95 ° . tterson Seal, 3 oz. .. Lb woo... ...... ' A St I S t D k Patterson Seal, 16 oz. 5 00 % tb., 250 in crate .... 35 Chili Powder 85@2 12 mericafi ee anil ary es S Peerless, 5c ........-- 5 76 1 tb., 250 in crate ..... 40 Paprika ........ 5 ; o Z Lens : ates 10c cloth .. 11 a 2 tb., 250 in crate ..... 50 dics Salt . i esl eae 2 slg ae Henn All parts are electric welded into on eerless, 10c paper ..10 80 3 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 70 ee ; ible unit. our school board should h illus e Peerless, — 2 04 5 ib. 250 in aed inae 70 Poultry Seasoning 85@1 25 ave our illustrated book B-C. Peerless, 40c ......... 4 08 : Prepared Mustard @1 80 e e . Plaza, 2 gro. cs. .... 5 76 Wire End ‘ = t P t Th t S t Plow Boy, 5c .....-.. 5 76 lb., 250 in crate .. ..35 dea ae : ea i 0 Ion IC ure ea re €a ing Plow Boy, 10c ...... 11 40 2 lb., 250 in crate .... 45 ats ... Highest in quality, lowest Ww: fo ee ay 9%. ....-- oo 3 Ge 5 = coe tee Doughnut Flour 4 05@4 50 opera chairs. Send Alo orn he FREE SEATING PLAN ond beck BCL. — ens coeewecneere oO ve . a e ee Vv 77 ae a churns piso neg Lodge Furniture Ss:osis'stee- di" ang Pilot. 14 oz. doz. .... 210 Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 40 Asse inbly. seating “Our long 3arr & Cc 1as e-in pana —. . . 3arrel 10 gal., each ..2 55 knowledge of requirements and how to meet them oe in -Eclooniti cme 6 5 ws Clothes Pins stock and — to order, including the more inexpensive portable chairs, Prince Albert, 16 02. "7 44 Round Head forbook BOL and luxurious upholstered opera chairs. Write Queen Quality, 5c .... 48 4% ineh, 5 gross ...... 65 a Rob Roy, 5c foil . 4 76 Cartons, 20 2% doz. bxs 70 Rob Roy, bo 1 ggg “4 s Egg oe and Fillers (meric S ti Rob Roy, 25c doz. .... « umpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20 ¢ iS Rob Roy, 50c doz. .... ed sg 1 compicte ........ 40 an eatin, Ompany > & M., 5c gross .... No. 2, complete ........ 28 3 ae & M., “is 0z., doz. .. : 2 Case No. 2, fillers, 15 ee 218 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago Soldier oy, 5c gross t BOIS oo... .t eee ck. 35 9. boxes, per gross 9 00 Grand Rapids New York : s Soldier Boy, 10c .... 1050 Case, medium, 12 sets : GC 8 ees ew Yor Boston Philadelphia February 18, 1914 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent continuous insertion. No charge less than 25 cents. Cash must accompany all orders. BUSINESS CHANCES. For Sale—Store building opposite Business Chance—-Por sale, general $25 to sell your farm or business. Get depot, with small stock groceries. Good store in good factory town; have other our proposition or list. Pardee, Trav- 2 be naa location for lunches and_ soft drinks. business. Box 176, Yorktown, Ind. 850 erse City, Mich. 740 4 Pe 3 > x > y . ye - vile e > ay 7 anaes Gay foods aud aillincey Hagia Rapin West End Grocery, Fremont, Mich. 890 _ For Sale—Good, new, clean stock of Safes Opened—W. L. Slocum, safe ex- Enquire of Box 156, Dimondale Mich, For Sale—A good. well-established millinery in a good town. Enquire of pert and locksmith. 97 Monroe Ave., . i aa ee "835 : grocery and meat market, stock and Box 156, Dimondale, Mich. 835 Grand Rapids, Mich. 104 SE ee L at fixtures about $3,000, in one of the best ~ Prue stock for s 00 ore. Notice—If a : ; We are going to open fifty branch locations in Kalamazoo, Mich. Address i oe for ale. A $1,200 or. more, _, Notice If you want casn for your : Fe a ees rs : rs : or $1,000 cash; only drug store in two stock of merchandise, write to the Mer- clothing stores in Michigan and want E. R., care Tradesman. ; Sha addninine: ¢ Re eae ee Wawel : fifty managers in towns from 1.000 in- of Se ae abe or three towns adjoining; am 68 years chant’s Auction Co., Reedsburg, Wis., habitants up Tl voullainet Have $500 Agen Send four cents for bulletin of =a old. in poor health; must sell; a fine it will pay you. 655 ae security Ws ‘big a cuek oe er vou, ware stock for sale or exchange, giving opening for middle aged or young man Deu Sto “a Sor dale-neioe 17.006 ie 235 < 2 8 “ ros ‘ ‘ res ¢ of . y - So Ts Tis R99 rus < ce 7 seale— y 4, Ul Preference given to merchants who are owner’s name and address, amount of Pioneer Drug Store, Waldo, Wis. as 5 > * eash business, in best Lake Shore city in stock, business, fixtures and terms. Ad- x mera : : 4 Western Michigan. Stock in first-class : : ‘ For Exchange—Farms, vantations, vise choice of State. V. D. Augsburger : ' a> houses and vacant lots; for stock of already in business who can divide their store space witn us. Our big advertising = zr g A a r condition. Brand new $2,000 soda foun- system will bring thousands of custom- g oon Ohio. ‘ a merchadise or vice versa. We own our tain. Satisfactory reasons for selling. ers to your store. Address Francis C. , Wanted—To rent, a good vacant store propositions. Maxwell Trading Co., 7th Terms, cash or negotiable paper. For Lindquist Stores Co., Greenville, Micz. In a_ wideawake town. Address Lock and Victory, Little Rock, Ark. 828 particulars address No. 784, care Michi- ee ee wkd Bor 2 oe Mich. Ce _ 870 : A good clean stock of dry goods for gan Tradesman. 78 For Sale—About $6,000 general mer- For Sale—Clean stock of general mer- sale in live town in Central Michigan. a chandise in good condition, well located chandise in Kent county, gravel road to Will inventory about $8,000. No trades. atc Ehtih Gi ed ee hardwi are oe in town of 800, on ‘Katy’? railroa e Grand Rapids. Stock will invoice about Address No. 827, care Tradesman. 827 about $4,000, in good farming community. Nn f 800, on “Katy” railroad. ten vi Thi ; ; ¢ : : \ddress No. 869, care Michigan Trades- miles south Missouri River. Good propo- $3,000. This store has paid big for 19 Acres—Exchange 158 acres Pecos Val- we . 889 sition for cash. Lock Box 25. Pilot years. Located in good farming section, ley; well watered; good alfalfa; 7-room —S a Grove, Mo. 888 small competition, splendid chance for house; will trade for merchandise; price HELP WANTED For Exchange—Three residences in good man to step right into paying busi- $20,000; farm clear; offer clear goods s Kansas City, no incumbrance. price "€S* Will rent or sell reasonable. Could only: best tubercular climate in U. S. Wanted — Experienced salesman for $8,000. for. merchandise or good farm. use unincumbered real estate. Other W. B. Clark, Agt., Lakewood, N. M clothing, dry goods, carpets and shoes ee ln ae ee : : business. Address No. 878, care Michigan ee a 7 one = OY SCC, Cree See Se. Hi. J. Grundmeier. Barnard, Kan. 884 Tradesman 873 Lo o : 26 Must come well recommended and best Okmulgee, Okla.. Property For Sale— — For Rent--Modern store with sales- , For. Sale—A Star coffee mill, No. 18. pe ere: Address No. 891, a One of the best rooming houses in a live oe ee ef trout 120 deep: Hess Practically new. Write for price. Ad- radesman. ss ‘ ‘ oan i : > ; tte igs AS , 4 : “ ’ x rece (7 ny “Are ichigo: ao ‘ : oil ane ee 8,000; | house is ~ location; suitable for ladies’ and_gents’ ohio C. C. Co., care Michigan Tr: ue A good paint and varnish salesman et it ue eee ey ares | Teaco weer Gry goats ete. Ponuis- si i can always get a position at good salary. ae meee ae ge Looe ao ee whege tion doubled last ten years; now 20,000. Wanted—A young man who is a Learn how we help men_ to do this. Punters 200 Js) oo cee ree) Some siete Nearest lareer eity 200) miles | away. accountant, to take charge of book- Write for Book No. 1. The Cleveland ipa cottage in rear that rents for Country and climate the best. Geo. keeping and credit department of a local School of Paint & Varnish Salesmanship. $25 per month; house has 19 rooms. in- Tudwigs, Walla Walla, Wash. 854 firm. Must be able to invest five thou- Caxton, Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. 796 cluding bathrooms; strictly modern and eo ; aan - sand to ten thousand dollars in dividend : : ee has both gas and electricity; furnished paving stock. Address No. 823, care _Young men of ability | and honesty, throughout; a bargain; investigate, Mrs, WANTED—EXPERIENCED SALES- Tradesman. 8223 wanting to engage in business and take G. W. Weekley, 807 S. Grand, Okmulgee, AN TOR @ = NT 2 Ta ~ - full charge, write us. Must have cap- MEN FOR SILK AND DRESS GOODS PF Sale—Good r ry b ass ir : ae = ; Okla, DEPARTMENT IN LARGE. GRAND t or ? 1.200, 00 grocery usiness in ital and experience. Safe investment : IPs ME } Z AD own of 1,2 Blacksmith shop for sale, county seat RAPIDS DEPARTMENT STORE. ONLY located in best farming guaranteed. Address, Michigan Sales town, 45 miles of Kansas City; invoice MEN OF EXPERIENCE IN THESE Ge ed Roa ee a — tools and stock and lease property. Ad- LINES, ABLE TO FURNISH GOOD tablished. Good opportunity. Don't Wanted—Clothing salesman to open an dress Wm. Lowler, Paola. Kan. 886 REFERENCES, NEED INQUIRE. PER- write unless you mean business. Address office and take orders for the best there Jewelry store, doing good business, MANENT POSITION FOR THE RIGHT No. 814, care Tradesman. 814 is in tailoring. An active man is cer- $500. Look this up. A. De Moisy, Mad- MEN. ADDRESS, GIVING EXPERIENCE } “nn | (Gale =e a oA Le tain to stablish a very lucrative busi- isonville. Ohio. 883 AND SALARY EXPECTED, M, CARE For Sale- Red Ball garage, 24 x 70 ness with this line. Write for ‘tnforma- TaN see rere Ue a ee Ee ibenau nn TRADESMAN 879 Kawneer plate glass front, good location ‘oy WL. Macon Ge 1A t. Col For Sale—Clean stock grocer’s hard- ae : on Waubonsie, Red Ball & Blue Grass )\0" Ohio. oe eee “591 ware and queensware. $1.000 casn. Bal : CO trails, Bowser auto filtering station on us, 10. ance on easy terms. Address M. J. Rid For Sale—-A new Oliver typewriter, curb line. Doing good business. Good der, Painbury, Mh SSI cost $100, will sell for $65. Has never reason for selling. Will sell my home SITUATIONS WANTED For Sale—Very. clean stock general been used. Address Chas. J. Wack, property, hot water heat, hot and cold Wanted—Position as clerk in general macenamaice. about $4,000, in absolutely Little Falls, NS 850 bath. Also 165 acres land in Colorado, store, country town preferred Address the best town of 1.000 in Central Michi- For Sale—Do you advertise locally? will sell at bargain. Answer Lock Box Clerk, eare Tradesman. $87 gan. Excllent farming country. Can re- I am not an advertising man. I’m a_ 8. Donnellson, Ia. 811 Position Wanted—Window _ trimmer duce stock. No agents, no trades. AGd- grocer, just like yourself. But I have a For Sale—Best and only vacant busi- and card writer. Experienced. Up-to- dress No. 880, care Tradesman. asf series of thirty advertisements, written ess corner lot in best little town in Tus- date stores answer. E. A. Whitman, “For Sale—Twenty-three acres of land for me at a pretty steep figure by an cola Co., Michigan. Splendid opening for 101 S. Detroit St., Bellefontaine, Ohio near railroad, joining a village of 1.000 expert and I'd like to sell them to some general store or bank, or both, or small S77 population in Clark county. Wis. All grocer, They have done mighty well hotel. Wet county. J. P. Ryan, 928 Pll climes ascsiee cle Ganted bere clear. good soil. will make a splendid for me and they will do the same for Unity Bldg.. Chicago, Tl. 805 aden "position ae ae aatane to the truck farm. Will so at a bargain iz you. You can have ten, twenty or all For Sale—My general merchandise right man. State age, experience, place tuken soon, Address Alex. A. Kriewalat. of them at $1 each. Write C. S. Schlos- puginess, also good will, sture, real es- last employed and salary expected. Lock Birnamwood. Wis. S78 ser, Morristown, Pa. 857 state. Doing a good prosperous business. Box 368, Soo, Mich. : 862 ~ Business Builder—That’s what you I want a hardware stock for a farm, Stock and fixtures about $10,000, in strict- will say re my book of 52 grocery want a farm for an elevator in _a good ly first-class condition. Reason for sell- advertisements. An advertisement for railroad town. Address Phillip Lippert, ing, wish to retire, after 21 years’ busi- every week in the year from this book. Stanton, Mich. 856 ness. Marinette Co., Northern Wiscon- Price $1. Send your check to-day. Geo. For Rent—Brick store building, equip- sin, population 2,000, surrounded by pros- Safes That Are Safe | oumeton. Montezuma, Towa. S76 ped with shelving, counters, — electric pering farming country. Ne ae “For Sale—Buyer wanted for general lights and water. Good farming vicin- dress J. H. Stibbe, Peshtigo, Wis. 92 merchandise business located on the best a Hany Mrs. H. P. Lindberg, woah ‘for your pasinces * proserty. a corner of Broadview, Montana. Stock of ton, Mich. 1 eee yring. buyers an sellers together. o $12,000; good clean merchandise of good Drug Store For Sale—Invoice about ™atter where located, if you want to buy, quality and staple styles. Turn stock $3,000. Only store in town. For par- sell or exchange any kind of business or four times a year. Salesroom is 50 x 60 ticulars address Box 122, Grand Junc- property, write me. Established 1881. feet; just enlarged and remodeled, et- tion, Mich. 866 Frank P. Cleveland, Real Estate Expert. tractive and convenient interior, airy Totel_For sale, lease and furniture of 1261 Adams Exrvess Bldg., Chicago, Il. and with abundance of light. Building the only $2 ney day hotel in county seat; = has full basement and warehouse’ on 3,000 population; main line of Burling- I pay cash for stocks or part stocks same floor as salesroom. But one com- ton and cross road; 20 passenger trains of merchandise. Must be cheap. q. a. ja Oy chine ee th bree daily; 3 story brick, 85 rooms; steam Kaufer, Milwaukee, Wis. 92 mushelS of gra Ss IOC *( POX 1eWw ui ; a Panes ne 4 * , : this season. Will be nearly double that rated Aaa ee el seca Free for six months, my special offer amount next year. Reason for wishing ee ‘ os es ree 864 to introduce my magazine ‘Investing to sell such a good business, I have or- Se ee for profit.” It is worth $10 a copy to ganized another business which will en- ce peas farm. to eet ur emere who has ne fe poorer able me to be out of doors more and ware SUOCK. ine r re: S; e while the rich, richer. t demonstrates r it needs my entire attention. Address of land; county seat five miles. One of the real earning power of money and SIMPLY ASK US J. FE. Muzzy. Broadview, Montana. the best farms in the Saginaw Valley. shows how anyone, no matter how poor, L : : 875 ae worny ia ee As ania Will a can acquire riches. Investing For Profit Why do your safes save their Ro. ; : change for gooc rdware or genere is the only progressive financial journal s 112°" eee mn ines at ene. one 4 merchandise Stock of ten to fifteen published. It shows how $100 grows to contents where others fail? Townsend, 711 Portage St., Kalamazoo, thousand dol ars. Prefer good town in ¢» 900. Write now and I’ll send it six Bho liens 974 Southeastern Michigan. Address Land eeathe free. H L. Barber, 433, 28 W. SAFE SAFES ee oe : ee Co., 806 First St., Bay City, Mich. 862 Jackson Blvd.. Chicago. ‘ Free—The Mining News, devoted to an a Sale—18, a eres timber land in i say cash for stock of shoes and exceptional ao eee re ol St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. 76,770,000 ae ool MT 6. care Seadea. Ins BEWws, Wit pe Fene tnree monies ae feet of timber. Land subject to cul- = man 2 to get acquainted. Tne Mining News tivation after timber is removed. For ——— — \, 2510 W. 37th Ave., Denver, Colo. 895 particulars apply to J. E. Dunlap, Pla- Merchants Please Take Notice! We Do you want to sell your business for quemine, La. il Lc 861 have clients of grocery stocks, general cash? Send us a brief description ana Good growing variety business, in- stocks, dry goods stocks, hardware stocks, we will advice you if we can handle iv. voice about $1,600. Good manufacturing drug stocks. We have on our list also a Our charges are less than 1 per cent. county seat town 5,000, Central Michi, few good farms to exchange for such Our system of service Oo ee ite a gan. Failing health, reason for selling. re re ee toe =. Ss. rste Servic —___ He is a near-thoughtless man who thinks only of himself. BUSINESS CHANCES. Drug and book stock. Find a bargain by writing to Box 75, Ypsilanti; reasons poor health and 80 years. 7 808 For Sale-—-Chance of a lifetime, black- smith shop continuously for thirty years. Big paying patronage. Owner retiring after 17 years with ample profit. Will continue business for one month. Buy now and enjoy established business. Shop would rent at profit of 15 per cent. net as investment. Buy quick and have flying start. M. H. Donahue, Brooklyn, Mich. 897 For Sale—Cheap, terms if desired, ele- gant mahogany drug store fixtures com- plete, wall case, show cases (undivided bevel plate glass), scales, ete. Russell B. Thayer, Saginaw, Mich. 899 MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT SALE Variety, Bazaar, 5, 10 and 25c goods and fixtures, Dowagiac, Michigan. Best location in City—long lease if desired. Inventory about $4,000.00. Sealed bids with check $50.00 received on or before February 27, 1914. CARL D. MOSIER, Trustee and Mortgagee. H-S-C-B Send for circular show- Fifth Floor Mich. Trust Bidg. 4 aia OF ee Si St CO = Frye ee Ad Four words tell the story of “GOLD DUST,”’ it ‘‘Sells, Satisfies, Keeps Selling’’ because of the combination of PALF. ME GS A SPSS EEE Poets 2 72, % igh Fh y2 oe ee Be. % wide usefulness and extensive, persistent advertising. Just be sure to keep it where your customers can SEE. it. That’s enough! RAISE LM NaPCNND LENIN CN ASAE OCALA LIPTON IO POONA MO PLOTS | z e e 2 OC) SST ONIN OI II. Soaaetatcntateeteasereceserereeriteetarantiseerecetcesesesarceteeretenceres <— 26 aS [RAAOO SSS CE £5 KX 3 : ee + =.- ae PPI . . Ie 5 c : OAS? 62 OSES < very | Ee 55 a OG asser -b a Think of it! Every person that passes your door or en- ters your store is a prospective Borax customer. Every e .. Prospective one of them—regardless of age, occupation or station — Customer in life. 20 tran BORAX TEAM is a harmless antiseptic cleanser. Finds a hundred and one uses in the Laundry, Kitchen, Nursery, Sick Room and Bath Room. It’s absolutely pure, perfectly safe. Cleanses quickly, thoroughly, hygienically. Saves no end of time, trouble and work in the home. It’s a “self-seller’” when given achance. Giveit achance. It'll pay you. Pay you to display it—to keep it in sight where customers and prospective customers can read the directions 4 wS and many uses printed on every carton. Tryit. Try it now, to-day. PACIFIC COAST BORAX CO. CHICAGO, ILL. 4 UY NY. SS ~ Ss N AN a» eS =~ ~ ih SSS SRE “ 4 Oe A io RRQ Noe ee SSO 4 Ys Y RG OR OX 4 POST SS SS ~S We Sell It for You We not only do the baking in our two-million dollar sunlit bakery, thereby saving the housewife the work and worry, but we do the merchandising for the dis- tributor. We aim to sell Shredded Wheat before it goes on your shelves. You haven't time to talk Shredded Wheat. We do the talking for Williams Beans you in the newspapers in nearly every city and town and in the leading magazines of large national CY are C Ss circulation. Shredded Wheat is the best advertised cereal breakfast food on earth. TRISCUIT is the Shredded Wheat wafer —a crisp, tasty whole wheat toast—delic- ious with butter, cheese or marmalades. Shredded Wheat Biscuit is packed in & SLL odorless spruce wood cases which may be readily sold for ten or fifteen cents, thereby adding to the grocer’s profits. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. dives of Detroit GROCERS In Your _ . the Best The saicpailen ee Company The Williams Bros. Co. CASH PAYMENT FOR THE DISPLAY OF afro (REG. U.S. PAT. OFF) py’ your jobber to explain to you the cash inducements we have author- ized him to offer you for the live display of Karo in your window and store. Karo business is more active than ever. Retailers are taking advantage of our cash bonus offer to make their displays more prominent. The displays are capitalizing the popularity of this great household syrup. The demand is so large that we are actually two weeks behind on our shipments. To insure your full profits on the big volume of Karo business this spring, you want to order liberally. Order plenty for the next ninety days. For quick delivery, order to-day. CORN PRODUCTS REFINING COMPANY NEW YORK ———-—. ————