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Thirty-First Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1914 Number 1594
THE WASHERWOMAN’S FRIEND
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In a very humble cot, Just a trifle lonesome she,
In a rather quiet spot, Just as poor as poor could be;
In the suds and in the soap, But her spirits always rose,
Like the bubbles in the clothes,
And, though widowed and alone,
Worked a woman full of hope,
Working, singing all alone,
In a sort of undertone— Cheered her with the monotone
Of a Saviour and a friend
Who would keep her to the end.
‘“With a Saviour for a friend,
He will keep me to the end.”’
I have seen her rub and scrub
On the washboard in the tub,
While the baby, sopped in suds,
Rolled and tumbled in the duds; 5
Or was paddling in the pools
Sometimes happening along,
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I had heard the semi-song,
And I often used to smile
More in sympathy than guile;
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But I never said a word
In regard to what I heard, With old scissors stuck in spools—
As she sang about her friend She still humming of her friend
Who would keep her to the end.
Not in sorrow nor in glee,
Working all day long was she,
As her children, three or four,
Played around her on the floor;
But in monotones the song
She was humming all day long,
‘‘With a Saviour for a friend,
He will keep me to the end.”’
Who would keep her to the end.
Human hopes and human creeds
Have their root in human needs;
And I would not wish to strip
From that washerwoman’s lip
Any song that she can sing,
Any hope that songs can bring;
For the woman has a friend
Who will keep her to the end.
Eugene F. Ware.
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Thirty-First Year
SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page
2. Upper Peninsula.
3. Boomlets From Bay City.
4. News of the Business World.
5. Grocery and Produce Market.
6. Detroit Detonations.
7. Bankruptcy Matters.
8. Editorial.
10. Clothing.
12. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
14. Financial.
16. Dry Goods.
18. Shoes.
20. Woman’s World.
22. Hardware.
23. The Meat Market.
24. The Commercial Traveler.
26. Drugs.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
30. Special Price Current.
31. Business Wants.
THE PENTWATER BRANCH.
Where Every Merchant
Reads the Tradesman.
Pentwater, April 6—Whitehall has
an electric light plant, water works,
fire department, a good graded school
and eight churches of various de-
nominations. Among the important
industries are a tannery, planing mill
and chemical works, manufacturing a
sweeping compound. The Trades-
man is a regular weekly visitor to
most of the following business places:
Gee & Carr, hardware.
C. A. Johnson, dry goods and gro-
ceries.
District
R. M. Leighton, groceries and
shoes.
Geo. H. Nelson & Co. general
merchandise.
Geo. Haverkate, groceries.
John Baasch, meat market.
Mrs. J. D. Meinhardi, drugs.
G. Berg & Co., meat market.
F. D. Glazier, groceries.
W. C. Cotes, hardware.
John O. Reed, flour mill.
Mrs. M. G. Hollis, dry goods.
G. J. Moog & Son, hardware.
T. B. Widoe Clothing Co.
State Bank of Whitehall.
H. G. Marshall, general merchan-
dise.
C. G. Pitkin & Co., drugs.
Hotel Mears, under the able man-
agement of Alex. Gloeckner, is first-
class in every respect as to rooms,
meals and service.
Montague is located on the oppo-
site side of White River from White-
hall. It has seven churches of differ-
ent denominations, two union schools,
water works, fire department, an
opera house with a seating capacity
of 1,200, a flour mill, iron works and
fruit evaporator. Fruit growing is
extensively carried on in this vicinity.
The White Lake Inn, conducted by
Chas. Shierstaedt, is the commercial
men’s headquarters and their wants
are attended with neatness and dis-
patch. The Tradesman is a familiar
publication to these business men:
. P.. Jacobson, groceries
J. L. Langford, hardware.
L. G. Ripley & Co., drugs. |
Jacob Graf & Son, groceries and
shoes.
Farmers State Bank.
Montague Milling Co.
Cc. A. Wiard, furniture.
J. S. Potter, dry goods.
A. L. Ainger, meat market.
White Lake Creamery .
Chas. Ohrenberber, hardware.
T. E. Phelan, clothing.
Mrs. Lydia J. Grubb, millinery.
Fred Watkins, flour and feed.
New Era is 11%4 miles south of
Hart, the county seat. It has two
churches, a bank, a good hotel. and
several good stores. These business
GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1914
men are readers of the Tradesman:
James DeKruyter & Co., general
merchandise.
Westing & Borgman, general mer-
chandise.
Adema & Wolting, groceries.
Churchill & Webber, bankers.
J. G. Wickerink, general merchan-
dise.
Fred Zandt, shoes.
J. C. Ham, hardware.
John Vanderveen, meat market.
Elmer Van Dyke, New Era Hotel.
Postema Bros., hardware.
Shelby is lighted by electricity, has
water works, fire department, an
opera house seating 700, a bank and
a weekly newspaper. It has four
denominational churches and _ excel-
lent educational advantages. Among
its interests are two basket factories,
canning factory, planing, flour and
saw mills, fruit evaporator, barrel
and box factory, fruit package fac-
tory, etc. Shelby is located in the
Oceana fruit belt and over $350,000
worth of peaches, apples and smaller
fruit and potatoes are shipped annu-
ally from here. Shelby has a first-
class hotel—Hotel Shelby, conducted
by Mrs. F. E. Beede—well patron-
ized by the commercial men. Shelby
also has some good stores and wide-
awake business men who get much
valuable information out of the
Tradesman. Among them are:
Chas. I. Atwater, clothing.
Churchill & Webber, bankers.
C. E. Bechtel, drugs.
Jennie Bowerman, millinery.
Griffin & Morall, meat market.
Arthur Hunter, groceries.
O. J. Morse, hardware.
A, J. Rankin, hardware.
Runner & Spellman, general mer-
chandise.
C. S. Sorenson, groceries.
Jno. W. Boughner, groceries.
Conger & Tallant, produce.
Myers & Son, general merchandise.
E. L. Stevenson & Co., drugs.
C. L. Eesley Milling Co.
O. A. Wood, variety store.
Johnson’s Shoe Store. ,
C. W. Eader, shoes.
¢. A. Thomas, general merchan-
dise. /
Isaac Fisher, general merchandise.
W. H. Shirts, groceries.
F. E. Lewellyn, produce.
Mears has three churches, stores
and a warehouse. C. A. Brubaker,
the general merchant, is not only a
good merchant, but is an expert on
automobiles, a politician, a trout
fisher (in season), an entertaining
writer and conversationalist and is
very popular with all the people of
his acquaintance. The Tradesman
occupies the same place in his es-
tablishmnt as the M. O. catalogue
and Bible do in some others.
E. Reid, the general merchant,
has a good stock of goods and re-
newed his subscription to the Trades-
man.
Hart is lighted by electricity, has
water works, fire department, a $50,-
000 high school building, two banks,
saw, flour, planing and shingle mills,
canning factories and numerous oth-
er manufactories and _ business
houses. The shipments comprise
peaches, plums, small fruits, pota-
toes, lumber, flour, wheat, canned
goods and wool. The churches are
Congregational, Baptist, Methodist
and United Brethren. It is hard to
find a better town than Hart and
its business men are all up-to-date
and carry good stocks of merchan-
dise. Hart is one of the Trades-
man’s banner towns for subscribers.
The following are all live wires:
R. DeVries, dry goods.
Colby & Spitler Co., hardware.
Anderson Bros., groceries.
Ray W. Ardis, general merchant.
Fred L. Corbin, produce.
Chas. B. Eddy, dry goods.
A. W. Cotton, racket store.
Collins' Drug Store.
Jos. Evans, hardware.
Lyon Furniture Co.,
furnishings.
H. H. Menerey, Rexall Drug Store.
H. J. Palmiter, clothing.
Platt & Collins, clothing.
E. S. Powers Butter Co., creamery.
W. R. Roach & Co., canners.
F. Sanberg, restaurant.
S. S. Shelton, general merchandise.
Dempsey & Van Beeck, meat mar-
house
Led.,
ket.
B. S. Reed, retired druggist.
Geo. E. Williams, retired mer-
chant.
Jno. Bothe, meat market.
First National Bank.
C. W. Noret, drugs.
Geo. R. Bates, hardware.
L. P. Hyde & Son, shoes.
A. W. Morris, groceries and dry
goods.
W. J. Leicht, groceries.
C. Van Allsburg, meat market.
M. Hunkins & Co., shoes and fur-
nishings.
Wm. A. Straley, with D. B. Hutch-
ins.
Oceana Savings Bank.
Harry B. Tice, groceries.
Carl A. Peterson, clothing and fur-
nishings.
E. R. Hubbard, produce.
Husted & Wallace, produce.
Lewellyn & Wachter, produce.
Bert Purdy, produce.
Frank Smith, produce.
The Wigton House is the leading
hotel and is well patronized by the
traveling public.
Pentwater is dredged so as to allow
the passage of vessels drawing 16
feet of water. It is lighted by elec-
tricity and has churches of five dif-
ferent denominations, has excellent
educational advantages, a public li-
brary, an opera house, fire depart-
ment, water works, two banks and
a fruit canning factory employing
about 500 hands. During the season
of navigation a steamer makes two
trips daily to Ludington and in win-
ter communication is had by stage
with the same place daily. Ships
tanbark, fish and large quantities of
apples, peaches, potatoes and other
produce. The Tradesman has many
warm friends at Pentwater and the
following business houses receive it
regularly:
Sands
chandise.
Fuller & Duncan, meat market.
J. L. Congdon & Co., drugs.
W. H. Gardner, with J. B. Hen-
drick.
P. N. Lagensen, furniture.
Sears & Nichols, canners.
J. W. Arnys, bazaar.
Daggett & Harwood, groceries and
meats.
M. D. Girard, dry goods.
E. A. Wright & Son, drugs.
Jos. Tibbetts, harness.
G. F. Cady, groceries.
Fred Lagesen, bakery.
Pentwater State Bank.
C. F. Lewis, hardware.
W. H. Bement has recently taken
over the Hotel Arbor Rest and is
making a home for the commercial
men. W. R. Wagers.
& Maxwell, general mer-
Number 1594
Another Co-operative Store Bubble
Exploded.
Muskegon, April 6—The Polish Co-
operative Produce Co., in which up-
wards of eighty Polish families
possessed all the way trom $10 tuo
$25 worth of stock apiece, has ceased
to exist and the individual stocr-
holders are trying to recover what-
ever they can of the money they in-
vested in the enterprise. The Co-
operative Produce Co., which was
organized by the Polish people that
they might be enabled to secure their
groceries at cost price was located
at 186 Dale avenue and closed its
doors after a desperate struggle tuo
collect large sums owing it, as shown
on the books.
Some of the most prominent Po-
lish people in Muskegon sought ad-
vice in the matter from Justice B. G.
Oosterbaan. Because, however, no
articles of incorporation were ever
filed and no other customary busi-
ness procedure adopted the case is
a complicated one. The backers of
the institution desire to collect the
money due them for goods received.
It appears, however, that a number
of the stockholders anticipated the
ultimate failure of the concern and
quietly abstracted from the store
groceries to the amount of the stock
subscribed by them.
The question of wages is also in-
volved in the cost price grocery con-
cern. The treasury, however, is de-
pleted and no payment is_ forth-
coming for clerk hire.
Desirous of straightening the mat-
ter to the best of their ability, those
who have been in charge of the store
are seeking a way of forcing the
creditors to settle for the $800 which
appears on the company’s’ books,
that bills owed Ly the company may
be paid.
No definite course of action has
been decided upon, but it is not im-
probable that the officers of the com-
pany will collect what money they
can that appears on the books and
settle for the difference out of their
own pockets.
Many of the people who sub-
scribed stock and derived no benefit
therefrom are clamoring for the re-
turn of their money, which they be-
lieve is the least they should get
under the circumstances.
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Traveling Salesman Buys a Mine.
Marquette, April 6— Nels P.
Flodin, traveling salesman for the
Lake Shore Engine Works, of this
city, has purchased the McDonald
mine at Crystal Falls. Mr. Flodin
bought the mine at bankrupt sale
and believes that he has made a fine
investment. He is not prepared at
present to say whether he will work
the mine or dispose of it.
It is said that there is considerable
amount of ore on the property, which
was owned by Mrs. Hattie Bohrman,
of Chicago, and John B. McDonald
of Minneapolis. About three years
ago, the mine was leased to the Me-
Donald Mining Co., which did not
succeed in operating the mine at a
profit. The mine was closed in De-
cember, 1913, and a petition in bank-
ruptcy filed.
According to people familiar with
the mining district in Iron county,
the McDonald mine is one of the
best mines in the vicinity of Crystal
Falls. It is thought that if it were
properly handled, there would be no
reason why it could not be worked
at a profit.
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
April 8, 1914
UPPER PENINSULA.
Recent News From the Cloverlana
of Micihgan.
Sault Ste. Marie, April 6—W. C.
Cornwell, of Saginaw, President ot
the Cornwell Beef Company, F. J.
King, head of the provision depart-
ment of Swift & Company, Chicago,
and J. G. Kennedy, representative of
Swift & Company, South St. Paul,
were business visitors in the city
this week. They happened to arrive
during a temporary cold spell whicn
is common at this season of the year
here and were obliged to wear an
extra overcoat to keep them com-
fortable. They visited the Canadian
Soo and were surprised to note the
rapid growth there since their last
visit. They also remarked about the
good condition of the streets while
motoring through the city.
R. J. McMasters has purchased
the general store of W. E. Donne-
gon, at Algonquin. Mr. McMasters
also gets the post office in connec-
tion with the store. The transfer of
the post office from Mr. Donnegan
ao Mr. McMasters was made by
Postmaster Scott and the residents
of Algonquin will be pleased to note
that the station there is to remain.
The Brimley Produce Co., at Brim-
ley, will contract for 1,000 acres of
white field peas this spring, which is
good news for the farmers through-
out Chippewa county.
Wm. Bertram, of Brimley, has re-
ceived a carload of fine cattle. This
is the second carload he has bought
and the farmers around Brimley are
getting the dairy spirit, which will
naturally help Brimley and the sur-
rounding country. Brimley now has
a cheese factory and may possibly be
able to start a creamery there also,
as the business men are certainly a
lot of hustlers and are pushing to
the front.
A meeting of the Holstein cattle
breeders of Chippewa county was
held last Tuesday afternoon in the
Circuit Court room at the court
house here and a permanent organi-
zation of Holstein breeds was ef-
fected. There was much enthusiasm
displayed at the meeting and, after
the plans and purposes were dis-
cussed, a name was adopted for the
organization and an agreement signed
which will mean much to the live-
stock industry in Chippewa county.
The name of Chippewa County Cow
Club—Holsteins Only was adopted
and the following agreement signed
by the members: We, the under-
signed residents of Chippewa county,
hereby agree to form the above
named association for the purpose of
promoting the Holstein breed of cat-
tle in said county. We pledge our-
selves to use pure-bred registered
Holstein sires in breeding our cows
and will urge others to do the same.
We will not keep or sell unregistered
bull calves for use, but will castrate
them and will use our best endeavors
to prevent bulls of all ages and kinds
from running at large. ,
The local post office is having its
troubles with the parcel post busi-
ness. Postmaster Scott declares that
because of the many recent changes
made by the Department in the mat-
ter of parcel post rates, weights and
other details, all printed instructions
to patrons have been recalled and
that at present there are no circulars
available. This makes the work of
the postmaster and his aides difficult,
for they are obliged to instruct pat-
rons verbally and have to answer in-
numerable questions every day. One
of the greatest sources of annoyance
is the large number of broken and
crushed packages received at the
local office and the same conditions
undoubtedly prevails throughout the
country. All parcel post packages
are placed in ordinary mail bags and
the only means used in designating
the parcel post sacks is the use of
red cards attached to the sacks, and
these sacks are often placed at the
bottom of the heap and sometimes
there is a ton of matter crushing the
parcel post packages. The postmaster
suggests that some sort of hampers
that could not easily be crushed
would be the only solution to the
situation. He declares that many
packages are sent by express because
of the breakage by sending the pack-
ages by parcel post.
Distressing conditions prevail at
the Upper Peninsula Asylum at New-
berry, which is overcrowded. The
building was built to accommodate
750 persons, but now accommodates
880. The patients are being cared
for in hallways, smoking rooms and
other parts of the building not in-
tended for living rooms. They are
required to sleep with their beds
only a foot and a half apart. How-
ever, contracts have been awarded
for the erection of a tubercular ward,
an addition to one of the cottages,
a physician’s residence, a bakery and
an extension to the power house.
These buildings will cost $25,000. So
many patients are waiting transfer
to the institution, the new buildings
will not wholly relieve the conges-
tion. The Board of Control will ask
the Legislature for an emergency
appropriation with which to erect ad-
ditional cottages.
B. Blumrosen & Company, for a
number of years one of our leading
clothing and furnishing houses here,
have decided to sell their entire stock
here and Mr. Blumrosen is contein-
plating moving to Detroit, where he
expects to make his future home.
The store now occupied by them has
already been leased to the Soo Co-
Operative Mercantile Association,
which. is located next door, and will
take possession as soon as the Blum-
rosen stock is sold.
According to the opinion of At-
torney General Grant Fellows, re-
ceived by Prosecuting Attorney
Green here, the heirs of the late
James Sutton, deputy sheriff of Chip-
pewa county, and Allen Scribner,
who accompanied Sutton to the lum-
ber camp near Brimley, where both
men were shot and killed by Joe
Tobias, are not entitled to compen-
sation under the provision of the
liability law of this State. The law
distinguishes between an official of a
city, county or other political divi-
sion of government and an employe,
the former not coming under the
provisions of the act. Accepting the
opinion of the State's legal authority,
the county could not consider the
payment of compensation to. the
heirs of the murdered men. This
shooting affair may be recalled by
our readers, which occurred last
June when Joseph Tobias, a wooes-
man, murdered Sutton and Scribner
and successfully escaped without be-
ing captured and is still at large.
The Ladies Civic League are get-
ting ready for the summer campaign
to clean up the city, that promises
to eclipse anything attempted here-
tofore and we expect the Soo this
year will look like a garden para-
dise with its clean streets and well
kept lawns and sanitary alleys.
A resolution from the directors of
the Soo Business Men’s Association,
requesting that the City Council
authorize the mayor and the city at-
torney to attend the meeting of the
International Joint Commission at
Wishingtan next week, was unani-
mously passed by the Council. The
Council also placed itself on record
as endorsing the application of the
Michigan Northern Power Company
for constructing remedial works in
the rapids.
We understand that Morgan W.
Jopling, of Marquette, has purchased
three lots on Ludington street, Es-
canaba, on which he will erect at
once a modern theater building. We
certainly can congratulate Escanaba
on being fortunate enough to secure
so modern a place for entertainment.
What really sticks in our crop here
at the Soo is that some capitalist
does not build a good opera house,
where conditions are so _ favorable
and the need so great. ,
The trades carnival at the Soo last
week was a great success. The busi-
ness men were very much pleased
with the display advertising the vari-
ous lines of business and the ladies
of the Presbyterian church, under
whose auspices the carnival was giv-
en, derived very neat returns for
putting on the carnival. The exhibit
was given two nights to a packed
house at the armory, and so well
pleased were the committee in
charge that it has been asked to
make the carnival an annual affair.
The U. C. T. met at the Soo last
Saturday night at the Murray Hill
Hotel and was called to order by
Thomas F. Follis, where a class of
nine members were initiated. As a
number of the boys were not in the
city on Saturday, it is expected that
the next meeting will be a banner
one and that a large increase in
membership will be reported. The
local Council is now in a flourishing
condition and much interest is taken
by the travelers for the future suc-
cess of the order.
A leak in the pipes at the plant of
the Soo Gas and Electric Co. last
Tuesday night caused an explosion
which resulted in a fire which par-
tially consumed the building and
caused a loss to the company of
about $2,000. The supply of gas was
cut off for several hours, but the con-
sumers were able to prepare their
Wednesday dinners with the con-
venient fuel.
The Upper Peninsula Experiment
Station, at Chatham, in trying to en-
courage the livestock business of the
Upper Peninsula has added six pure
bred Holstein heifers to its herd.
These were purchased of McPherson
Bros., Howell.
Deputy State Game Warden J. B.
Eddy, who is in charge of the fish-
eries department, has returned from
a trip made to DeTour and Cedar-
ville, where he was colled to instruct
a number of the commercial fisher-
men regarding the change in the
fishing license law. This new law
provides a minimum license fee for
launches up to five tons $10 and $2
per ton for each additional ton. Sail
boats used for fishing purposes are
charged $5 a yearly license fee. The
new law went into effect April 1.
W. G. Tapert.
Detailed Report of the Soo Meeting.
Marquette, April 6—At an adjourn-
ed meeting of the Upper Peninsula
Council, No. 186, U. C. T., of Mar-
quette, held at Sault Ste. Marie on
Saturday evening, April 4, the fol-
lowing resolution was unanimously
adopted: That the acting Senior
Counselor, Thos. F. Follis, be and is
hereby instructed to write a news-
paper account of the present event
for publication in the next issue of
Michigan’s greatest trade paper, the
friend of all commercial travelers,
the Michigan Tradesman; that same
be written over his own signature,
together with the title of his office.
On behalf of the Council, I would
kindly ask that you comply with its
request, and I enclose you copy ac-
cordingly. Thos. F. Follis.
Marquette, April 6—Probably the
most auspicious and most enthusias-
tic meeting ever held under the aus-
pices of Upper Peninsula Council No.
186, of Marquette, was held at the
Murray Hill Hotel, at Sault Ste. Ma-
rie on Saturday evening, April 4. This
was an adjourned meeting of U.
Council held at Marquette on March
28 for the purpose of initiating a
large class of candidates who are
residents of the Soo. The meeting
was called for 8 o'clock, but the
extra large amount of clerical work,
due to the new application blanks,
several of the applications having
been filled out on the old form,
caused some delay. The meeting
was called to order at 8:30 with T.
F. Follis in the chair as acting Senior
Counselor; Charles Haase, of Osh-
kosh Council, as Junior Counselor;
John E. Krafft as Past Counselor;
Ed. S. Royce, Conductor; Charles A.
Wheeler, Secretary-Treasurer; Earl
Cameron, Page, and Jas. A. McKen-
zie, of Petoskey Council, as Sentinel.
Clint C. Collins exemplified the Ray
of Hope. After the necessary part
of the order of business was dis-
posed of, the Council chamber was
prepared for the reception of candi-
dates, when the following candidates
were announced: Frank Allison, G.
A. Hauptli, E. C. Flood, M. :
Shafer, G. W. Laub, Charles kL.
Field, Frank E. Jenks, Morley Stev-
ens, Chas. O. Pregitzer and Robert
E. Moran, who were each and all
duly and properly initiated into the
grand commercial army of travelers.
We were honored with the presence
of Mr. Clark, of Saginaw, represent-
ing the Calumet Baking Powder Co.;
Mr. Wiggins, of South Bend Coun-
cil; Charles Haase, of Oshkosh
Council, and J. A. McKenzie, of Pe-
toskey Council, and, under the head
of good of the order, each addressed
the Council. Mr. Wiggins was the
first speaker and made a telling
speech on the inspiration of contact.
We were then addressed by Mr.
Clark, of Saginaw, his remarks being
on Fraternalism. Charlie Haase gave
us a most instructive talk on the
National Biscuit Co.'s latest product,
pretzels, with a free sample demon-
stration. The talk was thoroughly
enjoyed, but the demonstration was
rather dry—of itself. We were then
delightfully entertained with a solo
by M. W. Shafer, entitled “Turkey
in the Straw,’ which was uproarious-
ly encored three times. The next
on the program was by all odds the
speech of the evening, Chas. A.
Wheeler being introduced as a char-
ter member of U. P. Council, an im-
portant factor in its inception, a past
Grand Counselor, the one man who,
as a Grand Counselor officer for sev-
en years, put Marquette on the map,
and who is to-day the most potent
factor in the growth and develop-
ment of U. P. Council. His speech
was largely reminiscent. It was a
thoughtful, serious, scholarly and, in
fact, an inspiring talk which was
thoroughly enjoyed by all present.
Clint C. Collins, also one of our
members for many years, spoke. He
also talked along reminiscent lines,
but broke into an automobile talk,
in which he thoughtlessly and un-
consciously told of the passing of
that old proverbial member of so-
ciety known, as the horse trader and
heralded the coming of a far more
dangerous citizen, the automobile
trader. John E. Krafft also gave us
an excellent talk on the possibilities
of the Soo bunch, which was well re-
ceived. J. A. McKenzie gave us a
live talk on not the largest but the
liveliest council in the State. Good
for Petoskey. Ed. Royce gave us a
splendid talk which aroused the mosv
intense interest, owing to the fitness
of his topic, on the signs and grips
of the order. He concluded his re-
marks by inviting us to the Soo again
and promised us the use of a regular
hall, provided we could come _ pre-
pared to put on the initiatory work
in full. Several of the candidates ad-
dressel the Council briefly, the prim-
cipal speakers being Charles Field
and Frank Allison. Mr. Allison was
also selected as the candidate who
would exemplify the degree work for
the edification of the other candi-
dates and he made a splendid candi-
date and stood for everything ana
fell for some things. The acting
Senior Counselor then addressed the
meeting briefly on the commercial
side of the U. C. T., as compared
with the I. C. M. A., the Iowa State
and other insurance organizations,
but the Chaplain pulled his coat tail
and looked earnestly and pleadingly
into his face and reminded him that
only twenty short minutes stood be-
tween us and 11 o'clock. JW:
McTavish, the landlord of the Mur-
ray Hill, was called in to sing a song,
which he obliged us with. Jt was
scenes netstat.
April 8, 1914
a masterly effort entitled, “Cats ram-
ble to the child’s saucepan,” and was
wildly encored. A resolution by a
rising vote was immediately adopted
that Mr. McTavish never be invited
to again sing within our council
walls. A rising vote of thanks was
tendered the popular landlord of the
Murray Hill Hotel for the courtesies
he extended to us in according us
the free use of not only his spacious
parlors, but also the halls and such
other rooms and furniture as were
needed. Thus closed one of the most
interesting and important sessions
that probably U. P. Council ever held
and it goes without saying that we
will all and always have a good word
for the Murray Hill Hotel.
T. F. Follis,
‘ Acting Senior Counselor.
——
Boomlets From Bay City.
Bay City, April 6—The members
of Bay City Council, No. 51, were
greatly shocked to learn that the wife
of Chester A, Keaghan, a member of
our Council, had died in Alberta,
where they had resided since last Jan.
Mr. Keaghan brought his wife’s body
to Alpena, their former home, for
burial and while en route to Alpena
he was met at the Bay City railway
station by a number eo UC Te
who, by floral offerings and words of
condolence, expressed to him their
heartfelt sympathy in his great loss.
The store recently vacated by the
E. P. Rowe Co., Bad Axe, will be
occupied April 15, by Littleton &
Heidelberg with a complete line of
dry goods, notions and groceries.
It was stated in the Detroit Times
last Monday that Saginaw Council.
No. 48, has organized a_ Boosters’
Club in the interest of the Pere Mar-
quette Railway. If this statement is
true it means that this railway system
has been adopted by Saginaw Council
and its future success is assured.
D. Gottschalk, Bad Axe, has
bought the remnant of the E. P. Rowe
MICHIGAN
Co. shoe stock and occupies the store
vacated by C. E. McConnell.
S H. Blakely & Co., pioneer shoe
merchants of the same town, are still
doing business at the old stand.
Blakely says. “Shoe merchants may
come and shoe merchants may go,
but we go on forever.”
J. A. Soelmer has purchased the
shoe stock of the Grandy Co., at
Elkton, and Mr. Grandy, of the above
firm, will engage in the piano business
at Sebewaing.
The general stock of merchandise
of McCaren & Co., Carsonville, has
undergone a wonderful transforma-
tion under the direction of Manager
Willard Kinde, formerly with Ellison
& Stull, Kinde. Mr. Kinde is an
expert in the arrangement of stock
and store decorations.
The American hen has “come off
her perch” and is attending strictly
to business. Eggs are now more
plentiful and cheaper in price, which
is causing the good housewives to
rejoice.
Those who believe that a hotel can-
not be satisfactorily conducted with-
out a bar in connection ought to visit
the hotels in the Thumb of Michi-
gan, especially those at Croswell,
Deckerville and Marlette.
The members of Detroit Command-
ery are demonstrating that man is a
social being. By special arrangement
with the management of the Hotel
Griswold, they meet every Friday at
noon in the hotel banquet room,
where dinner is served at 50 cents per
plate. Visiting Sir Knights are made
honorary members.
Every traveling salesman has dis-
covered that there are many men
who spend a good deal of time kick-
ing. These faultfinders may learn a
lesson from the mule When he is
kicking he does nothing os because
he is attending strictly to the kicking
business; therefore it is evident that
when a salesman is kicking he is not
selling goods. This also applies to
TRADESMAN
the merchant, the farmer and many
others too numerous to mention.
Moral: If you can’t boost, don’t
kick. Pub. Com.
—___» +.
Commends Opposition to Corporate
Crookedness.
Battle Creek, April 6—What is this
world coming to!
I read with dismay and disgust in
the Tradesman of April 1, the account
of the decision handed down by the
Michigan Supreme Court in the case
of E. A. Stowe vs. U. S. Express Co.
Can it be possible that matters have
reached such a pass in this country
that a man has to spend several hun-
dred dollars to convince a common
carrier that it cannot make a delivery
to a consignee at a place where he has
not resided for a year, forge his name
to the receipt and then claim im-
munity from further responsibility?
I have done business with the ex-
press companies for more than thirty
years, during which time I have been
subjected to many impositions, an
noyances and dishonest practices, but
this case is about the rankest I ever
heard of; in fact, it is almost impossi-
ble for me to conceive of a corpora-
tion taking such an untenable posi-
tion and forcing a customer to stand
such a bill of expense in order to
vindicate his position and satisfy him-
self that he lives in a free country.
Thank God there are some men
who value money so little and per-
sonal liberty and independence so
much that they are willing to face
an ordeal of this kind without flinch-
ing and without complaining in order
to make the world worth living in for
his fellows! But for the existence of
such men, criminal corporations like
the express companies— speak
advisedly and understandingly when
[ class the express companies as
criminal corporations—life would
have few charms and the people of
the earth would be a race of slaves
and time servers.
Co-Worker in the Cause.
3
ORGANIZE
Merchants—Organize -
Get busy and join the
Retail Grocers’ and General
Merchants’ Association of Michigan
Write the State Secretary
for information and get the benefit of
the Card Credit System adopted by
the Executive Committee, March 24-25
Have a part in the distribution of a
ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR
Electric Coffee Mill
at the
State Convention, Lansing, February,
1915.
Our 1914 Slogan—
DOUBLE THE MEMBERSHIP
PR ESIDENT
Wm. McMorris, Bay City
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
J. A. Lake,
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
W. J. Cusick, Detroit
SECRETARY
Fred W. Fuller, Grand Rapids
TREASURER
Charles W.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Charles Wellman, Port Huron
Petoskey
Grobe, Flint
L. W. Schwemer, Saginaw
M. C. Goossen, Lansing
G. W. Faulmann, Detroit
Leonard Seegar, Cadillac
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they must be sure profit makers for dealers to warrant
continued advertising expense.
Dandelion Brand Butter Color has been advertised
for more than a score of years and has always been a
money maker for grocers.
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We guarantee that Dandelion Brand Butter Color is
PURELY VEGETABLE and that it meets the FULL
REQUIREMENTS OF ALL FOOD LAWS, STATE AND
NATIONAL.
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MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
April 8, 1914
Movements of Merchants.
Chase—Dr. C. L. Grant has opened
a drug store here,
Pentwater—A. L. Gifford succeeds C.
D. Pool in the billiard and cigar busi-
ness.
Ovid—Chamberlain Bros. succeed W.
W. Wooll in the bakery and grocery
business.
Owosso—George Tooley has closed
out his stock of meats and retired from
business.
Lansing—A. P. Austin is closing out
his stock of motorcycles and electric
fixtures,
Traverse City—-Miss Teresa Carey
has opened a millinery store in the Bea-
dle block.
Cheboygan—The J. H. Clune Furni-
ture Co. has changed its name to Clune
& Myers.
Kings Mills—William H. Jenkinson
lost his grain and produce elevator by
fire April 2.
Lansing—The Machus Co. has added
a soda fountain and ice cream parlor
to its bakery.
Big Rapids—Phelps F. Ferris has en-
gaged in business and will carry a line
of auto supplies.
Greenville—Robert Cornelius, Jr., suc-
ceeds Fred Northquist in the restaurant
and cigar business.
Manistee—Arthur Larson succeeds
Matt Jensen in the restaurant and con-
fectionery business.
Conklin—-Amos_ Stockhill — succeeds
Hass & Stockhill in the elevator, feed
mill and implement business.
Dryden—Miss Carrie Floyd lost her
stock of millinery goods by fire April
4. The stock was not insured.
Lapeer—C. M. Bagley has closed out
his stock of groceries and entered the
employment of the railroad company.
Evart—Mrs. Charles J. Mills, former-
ly a clerk for Davy & Co., has engaged
in the handling of women’s garments.
Muir—Joseph J. Hettler, recently from
Fowler, succeeds Breneman & Sturgis
in the hardware and implement business.
Calumet—Vertin Bros. & Co., oper-
ating a department store, has decreased
its capital stock from $200,000 to $100,-
000.
Battle Creek—Neale & Pulsifer have
opened a men’s furnishing goods, trunk
and bag store in the Post Tavern build-
ing.
Titus—John W. Braman, recently en-
gaged in business at this place, is con-
ducting a small country store on his
farm.
Delton—Edward Eckhart has pur-
chased the H. Green & Son stock of
general merchandise and has taken pos-
session.
Lowell—The Scott Hardware Co. is
closing out its stock, and will retire
from business. J. A. Scott, President
and manager of the company, has been
identified with the hardware business
here for the past thirty years.
Chesaning—William H. Hafner has
sold his stock of general merchandise
to A. H. Burk, who will continue the
business.
Charlotte—J. W. Munger & Son have
purchased the Barber & Barber hard-
ware stock and will consolidate it with
their own.
Carson City—George Walt has pur-
chased the meat stock and fixtures of
Walter Lawe and will consolidate it
with his own.
Bay City—The Louis Price Co., deal-
er in clothing and men’s furnishings,
has increased its capital stock from
$1,000 to $5,000.
Wexford—Geo. Furtsch, recently em-
ployed as a book-keeper in Traverse
City, has engaged in the grocery busi-
ness at this place.
Leonidas—G. O. Damon, dealer in
agricultural ‘implements and hardware,
died at his home March 30. Pneumonia
was the cause of death.
Onondaga—Beedon & Wendell, mil-
liners at Eaton Rapids, have opened a
branch store here under the manage-
ment of Mrs. A. W. Nisbit.
Dighton—Dr. George W. Brooks has
purchased the drug stock of the late
Thomas W. Davis and will continue
the business at the same location.
Sidney—Wm. A. Woodward, former-
ly engaged in the same line of business
at Sheridan, has opened up a harness,
shoe repairing and billiard room.
Kalamo—The Ira D. Smith & Co.
stock of general merchandise has been
sold to E. J. Barnabee, recently of
Parkville, who has taken possession.
Elmira—A. W. Stein has sold his
store building to Wm. Weaver & Son,
who will occupy same in connection with
their hardware and implement business
Kalamazoo—Smith & Hurst, piano
and music dealers at Traverse City,
have opened a branch store here under
the management of J. H. & B. A. Mon-
roe,
Belding—W. E. Snyder has sold his
interest in the Silk City Steam Laundry
to his partner, E, A. Thorne, who will
continue the business under the same
style.
Detroit—The Harvard Laundry Co.
has been organized with an authorized
capital stock of $30,000, of which $15,000
has been subscribed and $3,000 paid in
in cash.
Alma—The Mitchell Drug Co. has
sold its stock to W .Alex Brunner, for
the past fourteen years in the employ
of Sid V. Bullock, who conducts a drug
store at Howard City, as registered
pharmacist. Mr. Brunner will continue
the business under his own name,
Nashville—Menno Wenger has sold
his interest in the Wenger Bros. meat
stock to his partner, Noah Wenger,
who will continue the business under
his own name.
Lawton — Edward Desenberg and
Charles Stoker have formed a copart-
nership and purchased the J. H. Hall &
Son grocery stock. They will continue
the business under the style of Desen-
berg & Stoker.
Grandville—John Hage succeeds Van
Kammen & Scholma in the hardware
business. Mr. Hage is a farmer, but
will live in the village, turning his farm
over to a son.
Wakefield—The Wakefield Lumber
Co. will begin operations with an au-
thorized capital stock of $15,000, of
which $10,000 has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.
Battle Creek—-Stephen Speer and
Harold Holliday have formed a copart-
nership and engaged in the grocery busi-
ness on Maple street under the style of
Speer & Holliday.
Ionia—L. Seymour Clark has pur-
chased the jewelry stock of the late A.
F. Clark that had not been sold at auc-
tion and will continue the business at
the same location.
Byron—A. W. Stein has closed out
the Hattie Cole and Andrew Gillies
stocks at this place and will hereafter
give his personal attention to his gener-
al store at Fenton.
Morenci—McKenzie Seeley has sold
his interest in the Cottrell & Seeley
department stock to W. L. Cottrell and
the business will be continued under the
style of Cottrell Bros.
Grand Haven—Wm. Ver Duin has
engaged in the fish business on his own
account. ‘He was formerly in business
with his mother, under the style of
Wm. Ver Duin & Co.
Sparta—Clarence Moore and Norman
Wright succeed C. A. Moore in the sta-
tionery and wall paper business. They
will continue the business under the
style of Moore & Wright.
Lansing—Davis Furman, associated
with Charles S. Furman, his brother, in
the Great Four stores for the last four
years, has opened a clothing store at
525 East Michigan avenue.
Bay City—A. L, DeWaele has pur-
chased a half interest in the Beck Fur-
niture Co. stock and the business will
be continued under the style of the
Beck-DeWeale Furniture Co.
Alto—A. O. Hood has purchased the
interest of his partner, C. E. Farrows,
in the harness stock and shoe repair shop
of Farrows & Hood and will continue
the business under his own name.
Benton Harbor—Frank X. Duerr has
sold his interest in the stock of the
Public Drug Co. to John Rieber, recent-
ly of St. Joseph, and the business will
be continued under the same style.
Charlevoix—C. Danto & Son have
engaged in the retail grocery and meat
business, with an authorized capital
stock of $5,000, which has been sub-
scribed and $4,000 paid in in cash.
Detroit—Mathauer & Koester, whole-
sale jewelers, have merged their busi-
ness into ‘a stock company under the
style of Mathauer & Tulian Co., with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, of
which $6,000 has been subscribed, $1,550
being paid in in cash and $4.450 in
property.
Traverse City—The Musselman Gro-
cer Co, has recently furnished the fol-
lowing new grocery stocks: Mrs. A. F.
Thompson, Traverse City; Geo. Burtsch,
Wexford; J. C. Tillapaugh, Copemish.
Grand Ledge—Thomas West has sold
his interest in the grocery stock and
bakery of West & Baldwin, to George
B. Watson and the business will be
continued under the style of Baldwin
& Watson.
Bellaire—William N. Nutt has pur-
chased the interest of his partner, L.
G. VanLiew, in the grocery stock of
VanLiew & Nutt and will continue the
business at the same location under his
own name.
Muskegon—The Polish White Eagle
Co. has been incorporated to deal in
groceries and meats at retail, with an
authorized capital stock of $2,000, of
which $1,200 has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.
Manistique—Herbert T. Baker, cash-
ier and chief clerk of the Lake Superior
Tron & Chemical Co., has been elected
President and manager of the Manis-
tique Handle Co., which will start a
new plant May 15.
Deerfield—Fire destroyed the store
building and meat stock of E. B. Kings-
bury, the bakery of Mrs. Carpenter and
the store building and agricultural im-
plement stock of A, Clucas April 2.
Loss, about $20,000.
Bellaire—Medalie & Frank, dealers
in dry goods and clothing, have dis-
solved partnership and the business will
be continued at the same location by A.
E. Frank, who has taken over the in-
terest of his partner,
Detroit—A new company has been or-
ganized to engage in the grocery, meat
and provision business under the style
of the Detroit Cash Provision Co., with
an authorized capital stock of $5,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.
Shelby—Mr. Panghorn and Mr, Gil-
lisse, formerly employed by the Wine-
gar Furniture Co., of Grand Rapids,
have engaged in the house furnishing
business at this place under the style
of Panghorr & Gillisse.
Corrunna—Levan J. Fattel, jeweler,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy, plac-
ing his liabilities at $2,107.92 and assets
at $950. Fattel came to Corunna from
Plymouth and leased part of the build-
ing formerly occupied by R. A. Haugh-
ton, Fattel’s mother using the other
part of the store as an ice cream parlor
and for novelties.
Tonia—The F. W. Stevenson Co.,
dealer in dry goods and clothing, cele-
brated its fifty-fifth anniversary April
1. The business was established in
1859 by F. W. Stevenson, who is now
74 years of age and continues to give
the business energetic attention, al-
though the detail connected with the
management has been shifted to his son,
Charles M. Stevenson.
Gaylord—Fred E. Cook has re-enter-
ed the dry goods, clothing, shoe and
music business with his brother, A. A.
Cook, and the business will be continued
under the style of Cook Bros., the same
as it was prior to the withdrawal of
Fred E. Cook several years ago. A, A.
Cook takes back his former interest in
the store at Wolverine and the business
there will be conducted under the style
of Cook Bros. & Co., as formerly.
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April 8, 1914
MICHIGAN
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T. J. Haven has opened an electric
supply store at 1118 Wealthy street.
Wellington G. Sargent succeeds Albert
Meissner in the confectionery business
at 527 Birdge street.
Beverwyk & Bouwens are engaging
in the painting and decorating business
and will be located at 348 South Divi-
sion avenue.
Garrett & Gillcland has engaged in
the grocery business at Spring Lake.
The stock was furnished by the Rade-
maker-Dooge Grocer Co.
Mrs. Minnie Bedford, who has con-
ducted the Fountain House, at Charle-
voix, for some years past, is to have
charge of the remodeled Clarendon Ho-
tel.
A grocery store has been opened by
J. H. Diephuis at the corner of Division
avenue and Rose street. He purchased
his stock of the Rademaker-Dooge Gro-
cer Co.
H. J. Williams has engaged in the
grocery business at the corner of God-
frey avenue and the Holland Interurban
tracks. The Rademaker-Dooge Grocer
Co. furnished the stock.
Fred Woodwork has engaged in the
grocery business at Casnovia, purchas-
ing one-half of his stock of the Worden
Grocer Co. and the other half of the
Rademaker-Dooge Grocer Co.
Frank McDonald, of the McDonald
Hardware Co., 1210 South Division
avenue, has become a partner in Mc-
Donald & Cumberworth in the furnace
business, occupying quarters with the
McDonald Hardware Co.
Arthur V. Smithh is engaging in the
shirt business at 6 Giant block. Mr.
Smith was formerly of the firm of
Smith & Mooney, manufacturers of
shirts here, and was: later in the variety
line on West Bridge street.
The Eagle Painting & Decorating Co.
is reported as about to be incorporated
with a nominal capital, the proposed
stockholders being James Vanderwaals,
Peter Kroeze and Albert Oltman. The
corporation will be located on Huron
street.
Walter Baker, the veteran Kalamazoo
confectionery salesman, who was in
town Tuesday on business. He has en-
tirely recovered from the shaking up he
received in a wreck on the Allegan branch
of the Pere Marquette and has under
consideration several business proposi-
tions, one of which he will soon em-
brace. -Mr. Baker is a capable salesman
and an energetic business man. It would
require a large book to enro]l the names
of all of his friends.
R. E. Atkinson, who recently burned
out at Burdickville, has resumed busi-
ness at the same location. The Grand
Rapids Dry Goods Co, furnished the
dry goods and the Traverse City branch
of the Musselman.Grocer Co. furnished
the groceries.
Pearl & Thompson have succeeded
J. G. B. Sluyter in the meat business
at 621 Lyon street. Mr. Pearl comes
from Petoskey, where he conducted a
contracting business and Mr. Thomp-
son had been in the employ of the Stan-
dard Oil Co., of this city.
Boeskoel & Co. have opened a meat
market at 960 East Fulton street in the
remodeled Vanderveen block. Bert
Boeskoel was formerly employed by
Barclay & Howe, on Cherry _ street.
Harry Vanderveen and R. A. Stone-
house are reported as partners. The lat-
ter two are associated in the R. A.
Stonehouse Co., hardware dealers on
Fulton street. Vanderveen is. also
known as a contractor.
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Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.
Apples—The market is active, Green-
ings and Baldwins are strong at $5
@é6 per bbl. Northern Spys and Jon-
athans, $6@6.25.
Asparagus—$1 per doz, bunches.
Bananas—$3 per 100 lbs., or $1.50@
2 per bunch.
Butter—Definite information as to the
possible effect of importations on the
butter market is not available, but it is
certain that the danger in ocean trans-
portation is not to be considered as with
eggs and, therefore, heavy importations
are looked for if the American butter
market holds anywhere near the figure
that was prevalent in 1913. The 2%c
duty remaining on butter will, of course,
check importations to a large extent,
especially from Canada, but Siberia is
now such a large producer that it is
more than probable that we will begin
to receive steady supplies from this
source during the next few months.
It is a little early in the season to do
much guessing on the butter market
and the influences at work are rather
too remote to enable us to gauge the
probabilities with any considerable ac-
curacy. The market is now at a low
level, and it is expected that prices will
remain steady at about the present of-
ferings. Milder weather has an in-
fluence upon the milk supply and more
butter has been churned than _ usual.
Substitutes are being eliminated and the
demand for lower grades is very good.
Surplus butter is being stored. Factory
creamery is now being offered at 26c
in tubs and 26%4@27c in prints. Local
TRADESMAN
dealers pay 17%c for No. 1 dairy and 13c
for packing stock.
Cabbage—2% per Ib.
Carrots—75c per bu.
Celery—$2.50 per crate for Florida.
Cocoanuts—$4.50 per sack containing
100,
Cucumbers—$1.75 per dozen.
Eggs—The effect of importations on
the egg market is problematical and
there are those in the trade who believe
that foreign competition will have com-
paratively little, if any, effect. The
eggs which have been received from
Asia have been received in poor condi-
tion and it would seem that little com-
petition may be looked for in that direc-
tion, so far as whole eggs in cases are
concerned. Possibly they may complete
on bulk eggs, but it is doubtful if these
goods will pass our inspectors. Whether
the European eggs can stand the rough
handling of ocean transport and be laid
down in this country in marketable con-
dition is somewhat of a question, but
we believe that they can, as they have
been doing this for many years in cater-
ing to the British markets especially.
It is probable, however, that this year
at least, should any material quantity
be shipped to America, that it will have
an effect on the European’ markets
which will check exportation to any
considerable extent. The egg trade,
therefore, seems to be rather “at sea”
to know just how to figure out the ef-
fect of foreign importations on the
egg market of this country, and certain-
ly this should give an air of caution to
operations during the present spring.
Local dealers are paying 17%4c, and ex-
pect to see a lower range of values after
Easter.
Grape Fruit—The market is steady
at $4@4.50 per box.
Green Onions—60c per doz. for New
Orleans, Charlottes; 20c per doz. for
Illinois; 15c per doz. for home grown.
Honey—18c per lb. for white clov-
er and 16c for dark.
Lemons—California and Verdellis,
$4.25 for choice and $4.75 for fancy.
Lettuce—Eastern head, $2.25 per bu.;
hot house leaf is steady at 12c per Ib.
Nuts—Almonds, 18c per lb.; butter-
nuts, $1 per bu.; filberts, 15c per Ib.;
hickory, $2.50 per bu. for shellbark;
pecans, 15c per lb.; walnuts, 19¢ for
Grenoble and California; 17c for Na-
ples; $1 per bu. for Michigan.
Onions—$1.75 for home grown red
and yellow; Spanish $1.75 per crate;
Texas Bernudas are now in market,
commanding $2.50 per crate.
Oranges—Floridas are now in mar-
ket, commanding $2.50@3, according to
quality. Californias are in large supply
at $2.50@2.75.
Peppers—Green, 65c per small basket.
Pineapples—Cubans are in fair de-
mand and supply on the basis of $4 per
crate.
Potatoes—Country buyers are pay-
ing 45@50c; local dealers get 65@70c.
Pop Corn—$1.75 per bu. for ear; 5c
per lb. for shelled.
Poultry—The market is very firm.
Farmers have not commenced to thin
out flocks, although there have been
many shipments of roosters and heavy
hens to the market. The live poultry
is in best demand, as the birds stand
up better under shipment when alive.
Local dealers now offer 15@15'%4c for
fowls and springs; 10c for old roosters;
9c for geese; 14c for ducks; 14@16c for
No. 1 turkeys and 12c for old toms.
These prices are live weight. Dressed
are 2c a pound more than live.
Radishes—30c per dozen.
Strawberries—40c per quart for Louis-
iana.
Sweet Potatoes—Delawares in bu
hampers, $1.25,
Tomatoes-—-$4.25 per 6 basket crate
of Floridas.
Veal—Buyers pay 6@138c according
to quality.
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Mapping Out Plans For the Year’s
Work.
At the meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Retail Grocers and
General Merchants’ Association, held
at Detriot, March 24 and 25, it was
decided to issue tickets on the elec-
tric coffee mill that will be distrib-
uted at the next State convention at
Lansing. Every. organization will
receive one ticket for every dollar
paid to. the
dues.
It was decided to sell credit rating
systems to the local organizations of
the State on the basis of $15, $20 and
$25, according to the size of the
organization.
It was also decided to give each
association a Charter to remain in
force so long as the per capita tax
to the State organization is paid. The
possession of this charter will enable
the holders to receive reports on de-
linquents from other local organiza-
tions through the State Secretary.
J. C. Currie, chairman of the Legis-
lative Committee, was instructed to
enter into an arrangement with some
one at Lansing to scrutinize all bills
before the next Legislature, with a
view to detecting any proposed legis-
lation that would prove inimical to
the interests of the retail merchant.
The President and Secretary were
authorized to go into the field and
organize local associations, so long
as the funds of the State Association
hold out.
It was decided to sell honorary
memberships for $10 apiece to manu-
facturers and jobbers to help meet cur-
rent expenses of the organization.
It was suggested that a circular
letter be prepared, requesting mer-
chants to organize and to get in touch
with the State Secretary without
delay. :
It was decided to hold subsequent
meetings of the Executive Committee
in towns where the merchants are
lukewarm on the subject of organiza-
tion, with a view to stirring up in-
terest in the subject
The Committee met at the rooms
of the Detroit Retail Grocers’ Asso-
ciation, 45 State street, and was hand-
somely entertained while in Detroit
Two sessions were held on Tuesday
and one on Wednesday.
Secretary Fuller will take his first
lesson in organizing local orger’za-
tions at Caledonia this evening.
oo
Grand Ledge—Mrs. Kate Somerville
has sold her interest in Rathburn &
Somerville millinery stock to her part-
ner, Mrs. A. L. Rathburn, who will con-
tinue the business under her own name,
State organization as
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
April 8, 1914
DETROIT DETONATIONS.
Cogent Criticisms From Michigan’s
Metropolis.
wetroit, April 6—Learn one thing
each week about Detroit: There are
twenty brick making plants in
Detroit.
In last week’s issue of the Trades-
man, in announcing the Indiana ex-
cursion to Detroit to be given by the
wholesalers and manufacturers’ branch
of the Board of Commerce, we an-
nounced the date of the start of train
from Elkhart as May 8, whereas the
correct date is May 6. The train will
leave at 7:30 and the free excursion
will include all towns through which
it passes. As announced last week,
the representatives of the various
firms covering the territory through
which the excursion passes will be
in Detroit to entertain the visitors.
Detonations: In reading in your
columns last week of the experience
of my friend, Harry Bassett, and his
widespread reputation for strength
and experience in throwing the bull,
brings to mind the 20th century
aphorism as follows: Calves may
come and cows may go, but “Bull”
goes on forever.—C. H. B.
It isn’t absolutely necessary that a
traveling man carry a bottle opener
on his key ring in order to make a
success as a salesman.
Last Saturday night was to have
been the last of the series of dancing
parties for the winter season given
by Council No. 9, but the enthusiasm
and enjoyment was so evidenced by
the fine crowd present that Chairman
H. D. Murray called for a standing
vote to decide whether another dance
be given the first Saturday in May.
There was not a_ dissenting vote.
Even Windy Williams, who always
sits at a card table throughout the
evening, stood up.
Tom Elliott, manager of the Elliott
& Co. branch of the National Grocer
Co., has gone to Bermuda for a two
weeks’ vacation.
And to think the otherwise sedate
Harry Eberline ( Crowley Bros.)
should be guilty of this one: “A
living skeleton ought to make a rat-
tling good husband.” We _ always
thought so, because Mrs. Sid Pungs
always looks so happy.
Dave Seitner, Flint, and Morris
Seitner, Bay City, of Seitner Bros.
department stores. have returned
from a business trip to New York.
Irving Herzog (Schmitz & Shroe-
der) left last week for a trip to New
York.
It isn’t always because of a man’s
love for his wife that he brings her
home a box of candy He might
have been lucky in a dice game.
Ben Plotler, who for years con-
ducted and still owns a general store
in Harrietta, has cast his lot with
the business interests in Detroit.
Ben was one of the most popular
merchants in Harrietta and stood
highly with those of the traveling
fraternity whom he came in contact
with, always having time to show
them the courtesies which many mer-
chants seem to lack. He has opened
a dry goods and furnishing goods
store at 1212 West Warren avenue.
As Mr. Plotler is a good business
man, has an exceptionally pleasing
personality and is absolutely honest,
there is but one result in store for
him in his new venture—success.
Sol Mitchell, a brother-in-law, has
charge of the Harrietta store.
After sizing up the bills for the
Easter bonnet, etc., it becomes Easter
daze for us.
B. J. Elsie, clothing merchant of
Lapeer, was a Detroit business visitor
last week.
J. N. Krolik (A. Krolik & Co.), ac-
companied by his wife, has gone to
Atlantic City for a two weeks’ stay.
A fellow doesn’t use horse sense
when he bets on the ponies.
Charles F. Backus, who severed his
connection with the firm of Richmond
& Backus last year, after being at the
head of that concern for thirty years,
has again resumed active connection
with the firm and will assume the
general management, a position in
which he is one of the most qualified
men in the country to hold. Mr.
Backus has hosts of friends through-
out Michigan, as well as in Detroit,
who will be pleased to hear that he
has again allied himself with the old
firm. Richmond & Backus is one of
the largest concerns of its kind in
the United States, manufacturing
loose leaf ledgers, book binders, ete.
It also conducts a large retail depart-
ment store on Woodward avenue.
To date there has not been found
an occulist who has been able to fix
a person’s eyes so that he can see
his own faults as well as he sees the
faults of others.
Mr. Moreland, of Moreland Bros.
& Crane, wholesale confectioners and
cigar dealers at Adrian, has gone to
Florida for a brief vacation and will
return about the 15th of this month.
B. .Hickok, the Litchfield dry goods
merchant was in Detroit last week
in the interest of his store
J. Zill, Argentine. was another well-
known merchant who was in Detroit
last week.
We hear and read of this person
and that person leaving for Florida
during the cold spell and many times
envy crawls all through our miser-
able frame to think we have to keep
right on plugging away in Michigan.
It took Fred Sterling, senior member
of the firm of Sterling Bros. Co.,
Battle Creek, to drive all the envy
out of our system.
is what might be termed a rabid base-
ball bug and when he decided a few
weeks ago to take a trip to Florida,
he had visions of being perched
comfortably where the greatly adver-
tised Florida sunshine would kill all
the germs that had accumulated in
Michigan and, incidently, he would
witness some high grade _ baseball
games, thereby getting the jump on
his less fortunate fellow citizens in
Battle Creek. Mr. Sterling was dis-
appointed. however, having witnessed
but one or two of those advertised
days and one ball game. Everybody
knows what a splendid winter (for
poor people) we had at home and if
you want to hear a growl, just tell
Fred Sterling that you wish you could
eo to Florida instead of staying in
Michigan. After all, being too poor
to vacation in the South during the
winter sometimes has its advantages
also. The weather during Mr. Ster-
ling’s stay in Florida was miserable,
hence the ready growl.
Cadillac Council will hold a regular
monthly meeting next Saturday night.
At this meeting it is the intention to
further increase the lead as the lar-
gest council in Michigan by initiating
a number of real live up-to-date
traveling men,
We might advise Dick Pennefather,
who memorizes all the poems printed
on the Tradesman cover, if they do
not come fast enough he might write
the Tradesman editor to express the
contents of his waste basket each
week. Many of the poems sent in
for publication find their final resting
place therein. However, none written
by us go to the waste basket, because
we don’t write them (not by request;
just plain hints).
Harry Nichols, member of Council
No. 9, who underwent an operation
recently at a local hospital, is much
improved and was able to be removed
to his home last week. Harry’s many
friends will be pleased at this news.
David Schever, notion department
manager for A. Krolik & Co., is in
New York on business.
Abe Friedman, who for years has
conducted a clothing and turnishing
store in Belding, was in Detroit on
business last week, incidentally visit-
ing his many friends.
Ed. C Whitcomb, formerly of
Hattiesburg Miss., and a member of
a U. C. T. council in that State, has
moved his family to Detroit, where
he has decided to make his permanent
home. Mr. Whitcomb represents
Fred Sterling.
Bauer & Black, of Chicago, covering
a portion of Michigan, working two
weeks out of each six in the city.
He has signified his intention of
transferring to one of the local
councils, His residence is 634 Cass
avenue.
Where ignorance is bliss, why go
in debt for an encyclopedia?
Petitions are being circulated for
the traveling men to sign, asking the
President to appoint one of their
number, Charles Dye, postmaster at
3attle Creek. Mr. Dye, unlike his
name, is very much alive and has been
a successful salesman for many years.
At different times Mr. Dye has had
the opportunity of displaying his
executive ability as a member of dif-
ferent committees and as an officer of
different traveling men’s organizations
and has always come through with
flying colors and dignity. Mr. Dye
has the support of many of the Battle
Creek merchants and citizens and, we
believe, the traveling men of Michi-
gan en masse. If he is appointed
postmaster, the honor will not be
his alone, but will be considered an
honor to the entire traveling frater-
nity of whom Charlie Dye is an able
representative and a man whom all
are proud to call a friend and asso-
ciate.
Some persons wait so long for op-
portunity to appear that they fall
asleep when it does show up.
H. C. Rose, of Ashley, was a busi-
ness visitor to our city last week.
Mr. Fitzgerald, of Hawley & Fitz-
gerald. owners of one of Alpena’s
large department stores, has been ill
at his home for many weeks and has
been obliged to go to Hot Springs in
quest of relief. It is hoped by Mr.
Fitzgerald’s many friends throughout
the State that the Western trip will
prove beneficial to him. Rex Fitz-
gerald, who has had charge of the
store during his father’s illness, has
gone West to look after some lumber
interests, leaving the store in charge
of Wm, Johnson.
Not all dishonest people can lay
the cause of their downfall to the
other fellow’s umbrella.
It is rather hard to overcome the
spring fever delirium of wanting to
write a poem.
Mr. Hirshberg, clothing merchant,
3ad Axe, was in the Detroit market
last week.
Jack Blitz, representative for John-
son & Johnson, of New Castle, N. J.
was taken seriously ill while in Cleve-
land, a couple of weeks ago and was
obliged to take to his bed at the
Hollenden Hotel, where he stayed for
a few days before being able to
leave for his home. At the present
writing he is gaining in health
rapidly and expects to resume his
duties on the road within a few days
—minus about 25 pounds avoirdupois.
Trying to hide one’s light under a
bushel won’t keep the meter from
doing the regulation click-click. ~
The man who means what he says
very seldom has much to say.
The Toeller-Dolling Co., which pur-
chased the Hoffmaster department
store in Battle Creek about a year
ago, has remodeled the store until
to-day it is one of the finest, from
both architectural and convenience
points of view, department stores in
Michigan.
We wish to express our regret at
having been unable to clasp mitts
with Guy Pfander while in Battle
Creek. Guy, you know, came to the
hotel at 8:30 a. m. and, of course, we
had left to work the town about one
hour and thirty minutes before—and
still Harry Bassett is the champion
thrower.
Believing our good friend, Angus
McEachron, has forgotten our address
and, for the benefit of those who may
have some items of interest for these
columns, the address is 211 Columbus
avenue.
One feature of the Federal-National
league squabble in Grand Rapids is
that a great many people throughout
the country will learn that there is
such a place as Grand Rapids, Mich.
It is pretty hard for a married man
to be good to his mother and at
the same time get along with his wife.
Harry Gillette, who for a number
of years represented the John T.
Woodhouse Co., has resigned to ac-
cept a position with Sprague, Warner
& Co., of Chicago, and will work the
Chicago city trade. Harry leaves
many friends in Detroit and about the
State who will hear of his move with
regret, but hope it will prove an
advantageous” one. Lee Burnham,
another well-known traveling man,
who has been covering the territory
for the American Tobacco Co., will
take up the duties where Mr. Gillette
leaves off. Mr. Gillette closes his
connection with the Woodhouse Co.
Saturday, next
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has
prohibited the use of liquor on any
vessels in the navy, as well as in any
navy yard or naval stations. This
move is to increase the morality, etc.
Well, they certainly needed it, they
make such miserable(?) exhibitions
during war times. It took them
almost a week to clean up the entire
Spanish navy.
. J. Poole, of Algonac, was in
Detroit in the interest of his dry
goods store last week.
Charles E. Gray, clothing and fur-
nishing goods merchant at Kalama-
zoo, is remodeling his store and _ is
also having the store next to his
present place of business remodeled,
after which he. will occupy the entire
space, making a large and up-to-date
clothing store. Mr. Gray’s business
has been growing at such a rate that
the quarters he now occupies, which
also includes the basement, were far
too small for him.
Gordon French, Chesaning; H. E.
Trumball, Traverse City; C. W.
Gregg, Caro; KF. Armstrong, Wyan-
dotte; H. Nedermeier, Newport, and
C. A Jordan, Dundee, were among
the many Michigan merchants who
visited Detroit during the past week.
Not wishing anyone any harm, if
the Government must have a new
postmaster in Battle Creek, we hope
to see Charlie Dye in the position.
News has been received of the
serious illness of Mrs. List, wife of
J. F. List, well-known merchant of
Bay City. Mr. List and his good
wife have many friends among the
traveling men, who hope to see Mrs.
List among the well and happy at an
early date.
John Dietrich, Secretary of the G.
J. Johnson Cigar Co. of Grand
Rapids, spent a couple of days with
Guy Caverly, the Detroit representa-
tive, last week while en route to
Louisville, Peoria and Chicago on a
business trip. Incidentally, we might
mention that the fame of the Dutch
Masters which his company manu-
facturers is spreading through the
country like dust on a windy day.
W. S. Backus, one of the leading
merchants of River Rouge and all
round good fellow, says that any man
who think there is any satisfaction in
finding fault with the gas company
over the size of a gas bill must be
light headed.
Mrs. John Murray met with an ac-
cident last week, falling and breaking
her kneecap. It is not known at
this writing how Mrs. Murray is pro-
gressing, but it is the hope of her
many friends that she will recover
quickly. Mr. Murray is a charter
member of Detroit Council, No. 9,
and is yet one of the most active
workers in the Council. He is also
famous as being the father of the
world renowned H. D. (Buck)
Murray.
©. U. Fido Richter sneaked over
a few words in last week’s issue and
Guy Pfander promises us an increase
over last week’s assortment of
phrases.
May be he won't feel that way
after talking over finances for the
missus Easter bonnet.
On the other hand, according to
the suffragettes in Michigan
Men don’t have any consciences.
James Goldstein.
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April 8, 1914
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
7
BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.
Proceedings in the Western District
of Michigan.
Grand Rapids, March 25—In the mat-
ter of J. J. Van Zoren & Co., bankrupt,
formerly doing a clothing and dry goods
business at Grand Rapids, the final
meeting of creditors was held to-day.
The final report and account of the re-
ceiver, showing cash receipts of $124.83
and disbursements and expense incurred
but not paid amounting to $94.86, was
considered and allowed. The final report
of the trustee, showing total receipts
including that as receiver, $2,119.97, and
disbursements for administration ex-
penses, $256.12, and balance on hand for
distribution of $1,863.85; also showing
receipt of $206, proceeds of a certain in-
surance policy on the life of Albert Van
Zoren, one of the members ot fhe co-
partnership bankrupt, was. considered
and allowed. Petitions for fees and ex-
penses as attorneys for bankrupt, re-
ceiver and trustee were considered and
allowed. The petition of A. Krolik &
Co., Detroit, for the special insurance
fund of Albert Van Zoren by reason of
the personal guaranty of said Albert
Van Zoren on account of the partner-
ship was considered and the fund was
turned over to the petitioner, they being
the only. individual creditor of said Al-
bert Van Zoren. Creditors were di-
rected to show cause why a certificate
recommending the discharge of the
bankrupt should not be made by the
referee. No cause was shown, and the
referee reserved his decision in the mat-
ter pending an examination of the files
and records of the matter. Final order
of distribution was made and a final
dividend of 5%, per cent. was declared
and ordered paid to creditors.
In the matter of the estate of Edward
W. Simpson, the District Judge has af-
firmed the decision of the referee rela-
tive to the bankrupt’s exemptions. In
the matter the bankrupt claimed exemp-
tions from the fund transferred in viola-
tion of the Michigan sales in bulk law
and subsequently ordered transferred
back to his creditors. The referee held
that having transferred before the bank-
ruptecy he waived his claim to exemp-
tions.
March 27—In the matter of George L.
Hickox, formerly in the restaurant busi-
ness at Coopersville, the first meeting
of creditors was held to-day. Upon the
examination of the bankrupt it appeared
that there were no assets not claimed by
the bankrupt to be exempt and no trus-
tee was appointed. Decision as to the
exemptions of the bankrupt was with-
held by the referee pending investiga-
tion of the assets.
In the matter of Nicholas’ Baker,
Grand Rapids, the grocery stock of the
bankrupt was this day sold to G. J.
Hoeksema, of Grand Rapids, for the
sum of $192. The fixtures are still un-
sold. The dividend, if any, to creditors
in this matter will be very small. An
order has also been entered in this mat-
ter confirming the trustee’s report of
exemptions of the bankrupt.
In the matter of Harvey C. Daniels,
Grand Rapids, the final meeting of cred-
itors has been called for April 10. The
only assets of the estate consists of a
patent right on a dump box for hauling
dirt, ete., which patent right will be
offered for sale to the highest bidder at
the final meeting. It is not at all prob-
able that there will be a dividend for
ereditors in this matter.
In the matter of Van-L Commercial
“ar Co., Grand Rapids, the trustee has
filed petition for authority to intervene
in suit now pending in the Circuit Court
of Kent county in which the alleged pur-
chaser of the assets of the bankrupt
before bankruptcy proceedings, viz:
Commercial Service Truck Co., et al.,
are being sued. It is hoped by the trus-
tee that he may be able to show the
fraudulent sale of the assets and obtain
judgment in favor of the estate. At
present there are no assets in the es-
tate and if this suit is not successfully
brought there will be nothing for cred-
itors in the matter.
March 2—John A. Miller, of Grand
Rapids, has filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy and the adjudication made
and matter referred to Referee Wicks
for administration. The first meeting of
creditors has not yet been called by the
referee. The schedules on file at this
office reveal the following: No assets;
Liabilities $835.00. The following are
listed as creditors:
Heyman Co. ......... Bee eas Seeccs $ 117.0v
Young & Chaffee Furn. Co. 211.00
Donovan Clothing Co. .........+- . 18.75
Anderson Bros. .........--. toe e. 12950
St. Mary’s Hospital .............> 25.00
Charles W. Shumway .........-. 12.00
Jd; A (Van Zoren ........... Sossae 25.40
Albert Maller ................... 25.00
G HH. Southwick ..............-. 16.00
S A. Morman & Co. ............ 19.00
S: — Buttle «..............-...- 85.00
Mich. State Tele. Co. .......... 12.00
Ww. A. Miller, Montpelier, Ind. 50.00
Jacob Pot ...........--...-.. alate 18.00
Richard Morse .............++::- 4.00
Cc. S. Peterson Coal Co. ....... tee 3.50
Moon fake Ice Co ............-... 6.00
RR. Van Goshove ................- 8.65
Ming. 3.18) Water .................- 16.00
@ EL. Rebentisch ......:.......-.-. 3:50
E. L. May
CO
Bertha Wigman .......... iceee. TOGO
A. & Sebhmidt ........... Sec ce es 2.00
Norman Amon : 9.45
In the matter of Everett F. Northup,
bankrupt, Boyne City, formerly in the
drug business, the trustee has received
an offer for the assets of the bankrupt
in the sum of $1,500 and an order to
show cause why the sale should not be
confirmed has been issued by the referee
returnable on April 10. At that time
any further offer or offers in excess of
this offer will be considered.
March 30—In the matter of Gibson
& Greenfield, bankrupts, of Nashville,
the final meeting of creaitors was held
to-day. In the partnership estate the
trustee reported not sufficient assets to
pay the administration expenses in full
and no dividend was declared or ordered
paid. In the individual bankrupt, Em-
mett E. Gibson, the trustee made a
return of no assets and this was ap-
proved by the referee. In the estate
of the individual bankrupt Elmer B.
Greenfield, a final dividend of 26 per
cent. was declared and ordered paid by
the referee. The time for filing claims
has not expired, but it was found that
all creditors of the individual bankrupt
had proven their claims.
In the matter of Guy C. Longcor,
bankrupt, formerly doing business at
Elmdale, an order has this day been en-
tered approving the trustee’s report of
sale of a portion of the assets of the
bankrupt for the sum of $4381.75. In
this matter about $1,000 was paid to
some of the creditors before the bank-
ruptey proceeding which was later de-
termined to be a preference and ordered
refunded to the trustee of this estate.
The trustee now reports that this has
nearly all turned into the estate and it
is probable that a first dividend will
soon be paid in the matter. The referee
has also entered an order to-day con-
firming the trustee’s report of the bank-
rupt’s exemptions.
In the matter of Bob H. Dillard, form-
erly doing business at Grand Rapids as
the Stetson Shoe Shop, the trustee has
filed his final report and acount which
shows the following: Total receipts as
shown by report of December 10, 19138,
$6,986.31; receipts since that date, $338.88;
total receipts to date, $7,325.19; Total
disbursements to date, including admin-
istration expenses, first dividend, etc.,
$4,309.35 and a balance on hand for dis-
tribution of $8,027.84. The account
further shows that there are still due
and uncollected accounts of doubtful
value and that the trustee has received
a bid of $1 for the same and recom-
mending that the same be accepted.
The final meeting of creditors will be
called for some time in April and it is
very probable that a final dividend of
about 10 per cent. will be paid in the
matter.
In the matter of the Belcarmo Nut
Butter Co., bankrupt, of Grand Rapids,
the trustee has filed his final report and
account and the final meeting of cred-
itors will soon be called in the matter.
The account on file shows the following:
Total receipts to date, $538.40; disburse-
ments for administration expenses, court
costs, ete., $30.50; a balance on hand,
$507.90. The account also show some
few assets still on hand of doubtful
value.
In the matter of C. C. Rice & Son,
Portland, the trustee has filed his final
report and account and the final meet-
ing of creditors in this matter will be
called within the next few days. The
account on file in this office shows the
following: Balance on hand, as per last
report of trustee, 2,236.42; disburse-
ments since that dare, tncluding first
dividend to creditors, administration ex-
penses, ete., $1,539.28; a balance on hand
for distribution at this time of $697.19.
A small final dividend may reasonably
be expected.
Cassius R. Bunker, of Bailey, has this
day filed a voluntary petition in bank-
ruptecy and the adjudication made and
matter referred to Referee Wicks for
administration. The first meeting of
ereditors has been called for April 18,
at which time creditors may be present,
prove their claims, elect a trustee and
transact such other and further busi-
ness as may come before the meeting.
The schedules on file in this office reveal
the following: Assets: $973.66; liabili-
ties, $1,838.26. The following are listed
as creditors of the bankrupt:
Versa M. Bunker, Batley ......... $ 25.00
Judson Grocer Co, .........- ee 314.038
Mutual Dife Ins. ©o. .............. 381.00
Moulton Grocer Co. ........... eos 561.44
Ai Brooks & Co. .............- 18.58
Valley @ity Milline Co. ......... 12.46
National Biscuit Co. ............ - 27,25
Trent Milling ©o. ............-... 7.25
te SS Rusk €o -................ . 4.76
H. Van Eenenaam & Bros. ...... .80
Chas. Gould, Bailey ............ s. 25.94
Will Rasan, Bailey ...........-.- 60.00
Mary L. Bunker, Bailey ..... ..-- 182.05
Adella Pierson, Bailey ...........- 213.42
In the matter of the Ludington Manu-
facturing Co., bankrupt, the receiver has
filed petition for authority to intervene
in certain suits now pending in _ the
munecipal court, Chicago, and order was
this day entered authorizing the receiver
to intervene as prayed in said petiton.
In the matter of Wm. A. Reynolds,
doing business as the Enterprise Plumb-
ing Co., Grand Rapids, hearing was. held
to-day to determine the rights of cer-
tain creditors and to hear the report of
the trustee as to the funds now in his
hands. It is alleged that the bankrupt
made an assignment before bankruptcy
and these creditors are now endeavoring
to have the fund transferred to them in
compliance with this assignment. The
matter has not yet been determined by
the referee.
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Taking No Chances.
Tom McNeal, of Topeka, found
this story roaming round Kansas:
Two little boys in a Kansas village,
whose parents go out a good deal in
the evening, are left in care of a
grandmother who looks after them.
A few nights before Christmas the
boys were getting ready to go to bed
and were saying their prayers. Little
Jimmie was petitioning the Heavenly
Throne for a certain line of Christ-
mas presents and he was doing it in
a voice thae could be heard for a half
a mile. The noise annoyed his older
brother, who interrupted Jimmie to
ask: “What you prayin’ for Christ-
mas presents so loud for? The Lord
ain't deef.”
“I know it,’”’ answered
“but grandma is.”
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Pat’s Rejoinder.
One day an Irishman’ entered a
London butcher's shop and ordered a
pig’s head. The butcher, a rather
fleshy individual, always enjoyed hav-
ing a joke at the expense of an I[rish-
man. Having wrapped up the pig’s
head, he resolved to frighten Pat by
pretending to commit suicide. He
turned the back of the knife and pre-
tended to cut off his own head.
“Oh, no, thank you, sir,” said Pat,
“T don’t want more than one pig's
head at a time.”
Jimmie—
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Notice of Sale Under Trust Chattel
Mortgage.
By virtue of a Trust Chattel Mort-
gage executed by Frank G. Hudson,
of Paw Paw, Van Buren County,
Michigan, to William B. Holden, of
Grand Rapids, Michigan, as_ trustee
for all of the creditors of said mortga-
gor, dated the 19th day of December,
A, D. 1913, and filed in the office of
the Township Clerk of the township
of Paw Paw, Van Buren County,
Michigan, on the 19th day of Decem-
ber, 1913, and upon which default has
been made, I have taken and shall
sell at public auction, on Wednesday,
the 15th day of April, 1914, at 11:30
o'clock, A. M. at the store formerly
occupied by the said Frank G. Hudson,
at Paw Paw, Michigan, the property
mortgaged, consisting of all store
furniture and fixtures and his entire
entire stock of clothing, gentlemen’s
furnishings, shoes and rubber goods.
Said sale will be for cash, and im-
mediate possession will be given after
the sale.
The property is inventoried at cost
price as follows: Furniture and Fix-
tures $182.50; Clothing and Furnish-
ings $1,634.11; Rubbers, $145.79;
Shoes $637.03; Total $2,599.43.
Itemized inventory with trustee
and will be on hand at the sale.
WM. B. HOLDEN,
Trustee and Mortgagee,
Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dated April 6, 1914.
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THE ALMIGHTY FACT.
The most incorrible gossip partic-
ularly if his specialty be sociological
gossip, can generally silence criticism
by a virtuous protestation of his inter-
est in facts. If he ask foolish questions,
he is only “seeking light”; if he sticks
his nose into dirty business practices, he
is a devoted truth-seeker, trying to get
facts. The Almighty Fact has
become one of our lesser gods and bids
fair to be raised to the rank of the two
great gods, the Almighty Dollar and the
Almighty Ballot. Who is there that
dares to question the value of fact and
the superlative merit of the fact-seeker?
At the risk of sacrilege, it must be said
that facts are what the gossip, as well
as the scientist, seeks; with this differ-
ence; that the scientist values a fact be-
cause of its relation to some truth
which he believes to be of value, where-
as the gossip values it because of the
interest he can create by telling it to
somebody else. The unthinking world
has often mistaken the gossip for the
scientist, especially when they have
dealt with some of the same facts.
at the
How many Government commissions
of enquiry have we had during the last
fifteen years? Does anybody remember
now what they did or what they discov-
ered although at the time our ears ting-
led with horror at the facts brought out?
Has any real good come of any of them?
If one wants to know why these moun-
tains of published evidence have brought
forth so little, let him follow carefully
the hearings of any commission of the
present day. Let him try to determine
how much of their enquiry is mere eco-
nomic or sociological gossip, and how
much relates itself to any real problem
in any logical way. The theory seems
to have been that, if we can only pile
up a large enough mountain of facts, the
truth will, in some magical manner or
by some process of parturition, emerge.
Truth is not to be discovered in that
way. Suppose that a court of law, with-
out any idea as to what evidence was
relevant and what was not, should pro-
ceed to gather volumes of evidence,
valuing each fact for its own sake,
whether it had anything to do with the
question at issue or not, how long would
it take to determine the merits of even
the most ordinary case? What is es-
these enquiries is
some general ideas on the relevancy of
That is the only
thing which will prevent them from be-
pecially needed in
sociological evidence.
coming mere collections of gossip.
It has long been believed that when,
for any considerable time, there are
more laborers seeking employment than
are wanted by the employers, then labor
conditions are bad; but when, for any
considerable time, employers are look-
ing for more men than there are men
to be had, labor conditions are good.
Now, this is either true or it is not true.
If any commission doubts it, why does
it not test it out and determine, once
and for all whether it is true or not?
If it is true, it furnishes the key to the
whole situation. All that has to be
determined is how the number of men
looking for jobs can be reduced, or
how the number of jobs looking for
men can be increased. If your com-
mission cannot do that, ite had better
disband as incompetent to handle the
question.
It would be an interesting enquiry if
the members of the commission would
sperid half their time disguised as em-
ployers seeking unskilled labor, and the
other half as unskilled laborers seeking
employment. By this means, they could
determine whether it is harder for an
employer to find an unskilled laborer
who is willing to werk for him than it
is for an unskilled laborer to find an
employer who is willing to employ him,
or vice versa. If it is especially hard
for employers to find unskilled laborers .
who are willing to work for them, ob-
viously we should either have more un-
skilled laborers, or fewer employers, or
both. Most employers would certainly
agree to that, and they would probably
set themselves to get more unskilled
laborers imported. By the same reason-
ing, if it is especially hard for un-
skilled laborers to find employers who
are willing to employ them, most ob-
viously we should try to get more em-
ployers or fewer unskilled laborers. If
it is good policy to import unskilled
laborers when they are scarce and hard
to find, it cught to be equally good pol-
icy to stop importing them when they
are so abundant that they have difficulty
in finding employers enough to employ
them all. No one who is not willing to
do this need be taken seriously if he
professes interest in “labor.”
Our industrial system needs a balanc-
ed ration; but it seems to have an excess
of unskilled labor and a deficiency of
employers. Obviously, the ration can be
balanced up only by reducing the exces-
sive ingredient or adding to the one
which is deficient. Why not do both?
At the present time we are doing the
opposite in both cases. We are not only
importing vast numbers of unskilled
laborers, but we are discouraging em-
ployers by holding them up to public
odium and ridicule, especially if they
are unusually successful. When we need
more employers who can start new pro-
ductive (not acquisitive) enterprises and
carry them through successfully, we
should hold them up to public esteem.
Otherwise we are imitating the old
woman who threw clubs at her chickens
because they would not come when she
wanted them.
If we shall stop doing the obviously
wrong things, and do one or two ob-
viously right things, we shall need no
more, or very little more, “social” leg-
islation. Moreover, the sociological gos-
sips will be among the unemployed.
WAITING FOR WASHINGTON.
When the Tradesman attempts to de-
fine either the present or future of
general business or strictly financial af-
fairs, it becomes perplexed because of
the operation of two currents of a
positive tendency. There is a rather
general conviction that a forward move-
ment cannot be far distant; that judg-
ment being based, not upon theories,
but upon indications revealed by the
almost uniform requests for immediate
shipments in practically every line of
importance. It is mainly on this con-
sideration, along with cheap money and
low cost of raw materials, that the
Tradesman rests such hope as it enter-
tains of a later substantial development
of enterprise; but these things at least
give ground for trusting that, with the
first definite incentive, existing restraint
will relax. This view is modified in
most quarters by the. conviction that
no permanent or healthy progress can
ensue unless the country is relieved of
misgiving regarding drastic government-
al regulation of business affairs.
Looked at from any angle, there is
not much in the actual volume of trade
at the moment which is calculated to
inspire optimism. Such business as is
being transacted is the business which
must of necessity be done. There is a
lack of enquiry for distant deliveries,
and yet a willingness and a desire to
go ahead should the outlook becorie
less obscure. The position gencrally
taken here is that, on the present basis
of production and consumption, there
is at least little fear in the way of pos-
sible adverse happenings, but the con-
sensus of opinion is that industrial ac-
tivity is destined to contract further
before a change in the tide can be ex-
pected.
One of the chief obstacles just now
in sight is that purchasing power is
greatly curtailed by the forced idleness
of a large army of working people. This
is causing much dullness in mercantile
lines, and it is emphasized by the other
important influence of the compulsory
cutting of expense by railroads. This
is where the shoe pinches most. It is
not seriously doubted that this latter
policy was forced by the widening gap
between expenses and receipts of the
railroads. The consequent shrinkage of
gross and net income has necessitated
deferring of payments of accounts to
steel companies, some of these accounts
now being overdue two to five months.
In some cases, railroads are borrowing
in the open market to meet these obli-
gations,
It is certainly no surprising result of
this condition that railroads should for
the time at least be postponing or cutting
down their orders for rails, cars and
supplies. Orders that would usually
have been placed at the close of last
year have not yet appeared. This is
why so much stress is laid on the set-
tlement, one way or the other, of the
railway rate case. That settlement would
at least show the railways and the busi-
ness community what they have to reck-
The action of the Interstate
Commerce Commission in agreeing to
hear testimony of railway men on the
question of freight rates, instead of
waiting until later in the month, as
previously arranged, is construed as in-
dicating a purpose on its part to hasten
on on.
a verdict. This was therefore accepted
as a favorable development.
If one could assume that economic in-
fluences only must be dealt with in
forecasts of the situation, our people
would be disposed to predict more
wholesome business conditions at an
early date. But it is recognized as futile
to attempt to forecast the outcome of
existing unsettlement without taking in-
to consideration what Washington is
likely to do. What is meant by this is
the universal uncertainty as to what
course the Chief Executive may take
upon legislative questions pertaining to
business. It is very generally believed
that President Wilson is not unfavorable
to trade expansion, but his unfortunate
policy of inaction—‘‘watchful waiting,”
he calls it—is proving very destructive
to business. Much suspense also exists
on the further and more uncertain
question of the general policies of Con-
gress toward corporate management. If
this aspect of the situation could be
eliminated, and argument based upon
general economic precedent, the belief
would find wide acceptance that the
extensive retrenchment now going on
among the railroads should mark the
approach of the end of the spell of
retrogression. Such retrenchment is re-
garded as a necessary remedy before
sound basic conditions can be re-
established. Even the present retrench-
ment in the field of labor is in a way
a sequel to the disturbance of 1907.
HOW TO BOOST A CITY.
Houston decided that it was going
to become the money center of Tex-
as. It therefore announced that it
would not place cash upon its assess-
ment rolls for the purposes of taxa-
tion; as a result the bank deposits
have increased $7,000,000 in two years.
Houston decided that it needed
more buildings and better buildings
so it announced that it would
require the owners’ of _ build-
ings to assess them at only 25 per
cent. of their reproductive cost; as a
result in two years the building in-
dustry has increased over 50 per cent.
per annum.
Houston decided that it was impos-
sible to assess household furniture
equitably, and it also thought that it
was a good thing for people to have
household furniture—plenty of it and
of the finest grade—so it decided to
exempt household furniture from tax-
ation entirely.
Houston was desirous of reducing
the rate of interest so that those who
had money and who loaned it to
those who had none would not in-
crease the rate of interest because of
a tax upon credits, notes, mortgages,
bonds or stocks. Asa result the man
who has no money can borrow it in
Houston at a fair rate of interest.
Houston decided that it was be-
coming too difficult for those who
wanted homes to secure them on ac-
count of the high price of land, so it
announced that it would tax land at
its fair value for use. Asa result the
owners of vacant land have been im-
proving it and thus increasing the
number of buildings. Others who
have large tracts of land are getting
in the mood to sell it at a fair price,
all of which will tend to develop
Houston.
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stead of Two.
The average retailer of men’s ap-
parel has always regarded certain
lines as seasonal. Influenced either
by tradition or past erperience, he
has come to believe in arbitrarily
fixed limits to the period of useful-
ness of perhaps the major portion of
the stock you carry. These limits
may be divided into two classes, nat-
ural and imaginary. An example of
the first class would be the straw
hat. Here, indeed, is one of the
strange phenomena of your mer-
chandise—a line with “mushroom”
characteristics. By fashion it is de-
creed that this style of headgear
must appear first upon a certain day.
After a brief existence of a hundred
days, it is fashionably oslerized.
Short as is the time allotted to its
existence, the business done in straw
hats is increasing enormously sim-
ply because of the shrewd methods
of merchandising which dealers have
adopted. The other class of sea-
sonal merchandise is that constrained
by imaginary limits. A good exam-
ple of this is to be found by revert-
ing to several years ago when tan
shoes were considered salable in
summer. only. The idea of russet
footwear in winter could not be
imagined. With his choice of foot-
wear confined to one color, the aver-
age customer had no special induce-
ment to lure him into the purchase
of several pairs of shoes. However,
with the use of russet leather in
heavier shoes came an increase in
the wardrobe of the average man, so
that in place of one pair of black
shoes, he began to buy a pair of tans
and also a pair of blacks. Just re-
cently this idea has been carried
much farther by one manufacturer,
who advertises “a shoe for a pu
pose,” attempting thereby to double
and triple the shoe wardrobe of the
average man.
There are many analogous cases
in the clothing and furnishing-goods
business. Many merchants have built
up an excellent additional business
by getting away from the staple
commodities. For example, scorch-
ing hot weather offers an opening for
light alpaca coats. A timely adver-
tisement will call your customers’ at-
tention to this stock.
But these are the
possibiliies, the ones familiar to
nearly every merchant. There are
other big opportunities which as yet
have not been much sought after.
Take, for example, your underwear
department. Underwear has always
been generally considered a
season proposition. It
“summer” underwear or
commonplace
two-
was. either
“winter” un-
derwear. Summer underwear, donned
with the thermometer at blood heat,
was, and is, worn until several weeks
of frost have hinted broadly of win-
ter’s approach. Then came the change
to heavier garments, which were
worn by most men until dangerously
near straw-hat time. Figurativery.
it was either a feast or a famine;
there was no happy medium. But
one excuse existed for this delayed
change: the wearer feared “taking
cold." And no wonder; surely the
jump from one extreme to the other
allowed great possibilities for this
to occur. The long-suffering mortal,
therefore, endured many week’s dis-
comfort rather than risk a cold.
Both discomfort and risk of cold
could be averted if the dealer were
fully awake to his possibilities. Here,
indeed, is shown the need of a
medium-weight — superweight, they
are technically called—under gar-
ment. But how few customers are
told of such a thing! How seldom
has this text been taught by the mer-
chant. The months of fall and early
winter, and later, of spring, offer a
splendid field for the merchant to
build up a big trade on superweight
underwear—to bolster up the depart-
ments’ earnings when they would
otherwise slump. There is the pos-
sibility of three crops of profits
where there were previously but two
—and this with practically no addi-
tional investment!
What is true of underwear is true
of numerous other articles in your
stock which are hampered by this
seasonal handicap. During how many
months of the year do you sell
gloves? About three or four, prop-
ably—yet the increasing use of the
silk glove has given this department
all-year-around possibilities. Still
another example which has been fre-
quently outlined in these columns:
The average man wears one style or
weight shirt the year around. He
would buy more shirts if his atten-
tion was drawn to a light, cool shirt
for hot weather and the bosom shirt
or flannels for colder weather. A
moment’s consideration will apprise
you of numerous other opportunities.
What is necessary to produce this
third crop? A campaign of educa-
tion is the first essential—but such
a campaign means absolutely no ad-
ditional expense. Of course, you ad-
vertise—every successful merchant
does. Let us look over the under-
wear advertisements. A composite
photograph of them all would read
something like this: “We are loca
agents for Blank’s union suits. These
are the union suits that fit perfectly.
In all weights and sizes.” And so
on. This occupies about six square
inches.
Now suppose that it is about the
first of April and you were preparing
an underwear advertisement. Let us
devote those six inches to a different
purpose. Tell your customer, “With
these warmer days, heavy winter un-
derwear becomes a burden. It's too
chilly yet for our cool summer gar-
ments, but just right for one of the
medium-weight garments displayed
in our south window. You will be
more comfortable and less liable to
colds if you make this change.
Priced, etc.” That, indeed, is the
supreme function of advertising—to
lead a man to desire something
which he had never before desirea
You are not getting the worth of
your money merely to tell a man
through an advertisement that you
are agents for such and such a pro-
duct. Make him desire that particu-
lar thing by showing him how it
would be to his advantage! Then
you are utilizing your advertising
space in a thoroughly efficient man-
ner.
The way, then, to harvest three
crops a year instead of two is very
simple. It is not a matter of more
fertilization; there is no need for
more irrigation. It is simply a case
of timely sowing of seed. Your own
advertising, your own show. win-
_dows, is the seed. You have only to
see that this is sown properly at the
right time. In other words, let time-
liness be the keynote of your adver-
tising; don’t advertise umbrellas dur-
ing a drought. Dealing in “futures”
don’t count for much in the mer-
chandising game. But if you aim to
make the customer see that you have
something he wants at that very mo-
ment, you can cash in at once on
his “buy now” impulse. This is true
of all your lines. But, since it is
true of all, why not apply it par-
ticularly to the possibilities which
we have outlined above. Then you
would be assured of your three
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A young lawyer excused himself
from a luncheon party the other day,
saying: “I must go to my office.”
Said the hostess, laughingly, “We
didn’t know you had an office.”
“Not have an office!” he replied
“Why, if I didn’t, what would I have
to stay away from?”
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these goods in this sec-
tion, and would be
pleased to have your
order.
Sherwood
Hall G0., Lid.
30-32 Ionia Ave., N.W
Grand Rapids,
Mich.
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Michigan Sales Agent
415 Genesee Ave. Saginaw, Mich.
A Good,
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Buffalo Trunk Mfg. Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
TRUNKS, BAGS, SUIT CASES
127-139 Cherry St., Buffalo, N. Y.
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MICHIGAN
SAAT TIN
MADE
GRAND RAPIDS
Adding Machines
Adding Machine Tables
Advertising Novelties
Alabastine
Aluminum Castings
Art Needle Work
Art Leaded Glass
Asbestos Table Covers
Automobiles
Automobile Parts
Awnings
Badges
Baked Goods
Band Instruments
Bags
Barrels
Bath Heaters
Beds
Bed Springs
Benches
Bee Keepers’ Supplies
Belting
3elt Lacers
Biscuits
Blacksmiths’ Supplies
Blank Books
Blow Piping
Blinds
Boats
Boilers
Bookcases
Boots
Books
Boxes
Brass Goods
Buffets
Beer
Bread
Brick
Bridges
3ronze Goods
Brooms
Brushes
Building Materials
Button Fasteners
Buttons
Cakes
Carbonated Drinks
Canned Goods
Carpet Sweepers
arriages
Casters
Caskets
Catsups
Card Index Cabinets
Catalogs
Cement Blocks
Cement Machines
Cereal Foods
Cigars
Cigar Boxes
Chairs
Chamber Suits
Chewing Gum
Clocks
Clothing
Church Seats
Cider
Coal Bags
Corsets
Corset Accessories
Coal Tar
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Coats
Coffins
Coke
Confectionery
Cornices
Cotton Felt
Couches
Crackers
Crating
Coupon Books
Cut Stone
Dental Supplies
Desks
Dies
Dining Room Furniture
Doors ‘
Door Plates
Drafting Room Furniture
Drill Grinders
Drugs
Dust Arresters
Electric Batteries
Electric Dynamos
Electric Fans
Electric Motors
Electric Signs
Electrical Supplies
Blectrotypes
Elevators
Embalming Fluid
Embalming Supplies
Engines
Engravings
Engravers Wood
Excelsior
Exhaust Fans
Fertilizers
Filing Devices
Films
Filters
Fire Brick
Fire Clay
Fireless Cookers
Flags
Flavoring Extracts
Floor Compound
Flour
Feed
Fire Escapes
Fluid Extract
Fly Nets
Fly Paper
Furnaces
Furniture
Furniture Packing Pad
Furniture Polish
Furniture Supplies
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Gas Engines
Gasoline Engines
Gold Finish Furniture
Gas
Garments
Gas Machines
Gas Fixtures
Gypsum Products
Gas Grates
Ginger Ale
Gloves
Glue
Glue Pots
Grates
Graining Machines
Grill Work
Grinding Machines
Hair Tonic
Handles
Hardware
Harness
Hearses
Heating Systems
Hosiery
Horse Collars
Horse Shoes
Ice
Ice Cream
Iron Work
Iron Castings
Interior Finish
Jewelry
Knit Goods
Labels
Launches
Lawn Furniture
Lap Robes
Leather
Legal Blanks
letter Files
Lime /
Lithographing
Lockers
Locomotive Headlights
Loose Leaf Devices
Lumber
Machine Tools
Machinery
Malleable Iron
Mantels
Medals
Macaroni
Mattresses
Medicines
Metal Polish
Mill Supplies
Millinery
Mirrors
Monuments
Mops
Moulding
Musical Goods
Music Cabinets
Near Beer
Novelties
Office Fixtures
Office Supplies
Optical Goods
Opera Seats
Ornamental Iron Work
Ornamental Stucco Work
Overalls
Paint
Parlor Furniture
Paper
Paper Boxes
Pedestals
Paste
Perfumes
Photo Supplies
Pianos
Piano Cases
Pickles
Picture Frames
Pillows
Pies
Pipe Covering
Plaster
Plaster Board
Plumbers’ Supplies
Postal Cards
Poultry Supplies
Preserves
Printing
Printers’ Supplies
Propeller Wheels
Proprietary Medicines
Punches
Radiators
Racks
Railroad Cars
Reedware
Refrigerators
Road Building Machinery
Roads
Roller Bearing Axles
Roll Paper Cutters
Roofing
Roofing Materials
Rubber Stamps
Rugs
Saratoga Chips
Sash
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Sash Pulleys
Sample Cases
School Seats
Sausages
Saws
Saw Gauges
Sewer Pipe
Seales
Sectional Bookcases
School Supplies
Screens
Sheet Iron
Steel Sanitary Furniture
Steel Shelving
Steel Opera Seats
Shingle Mill Machinery
Shipping Packages
Shirts
Shoes
Show Cases
Sleighs
Soap
Souvenirs
Souvenir Post Cards
Sprinkler Systems
Stationery
Steam Heaters
Steam Turbines
Steel Ceilings
Stencils
Store Fixtures
Straw Board
Tallow
Tables
Tanks
Tents
Tile
Tinware
Tobacco
Tools
Toys
Toilet Preparations
Trucks
Trunks
Twine Holders
Types
Typewriter Desks
Typewriters
Umbrellas
Undertakers’ Supplies
Underwear
Upholstery Goods
Upholstered Furniture
Vacuum Cleaners
Varnishes
Veneers
Ventilating Systems
Vises
Wagons
Wardrobes
Wall Coating
Washing Machines
Water Motors
Weather Strips
Whips
Window Shade Adjusters
Wood Carving
Woodenware
Wood Working Machinery
Wooden Shoes
Wrappers
You did not know that these are all made in Grand Rapids
Did: you?
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They are.
Greater Grand Rapids Industrial Exposition
AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
Klingman Building, April 20-25, 1914
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ciation.
President—H. L. Williams, Howell.
Vice-President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.
Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Bent-
ley, Saginaw.
Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson,
Detroit; Frank P. Van Buren, Williams-
ton; C. J. Chandler, Detroit.
Fruit Pre-Cooling by Modern Pro-
cesses,
During the last thirty years, ever
since the advent of that “ice-box on
wheels,” the refrigerator car, the
business of making, storing and
selling frozen water has grown, until
to-day it has assumed enormous pro-
portions and has become an import-
ant factor in the economic life of the
nation.
Should a sudden ice famine descend
upon the country in the mid-summer.
it would be followed almost imme-
diately by a famine of fresh food in
the big cities, all of which depends
upon the refrigerator car and the cold
storage warehouse for a large portion
of the stuff that goes into their insa-
tiable stomachs. And yet, despite the
development of the ice industry, until
recently little progress was made in
the methods of handling the im-
mense amounts of freight shipped in
refrigerator cars. For thirty years
no fundamental changes were made
in these methods. For thirty years
these cars were filled with perishable
freigh*s and ice in the same manner
as the refrigerator on the back porch
and with results even smaller
until the “pre-cooling method” of
shipping perishable freight was
evolved and put into practical oper-
ation.
All refrigeration has for its object
the chilling and numbing of the multi-
tudes of bacteria and fungi present
in organic matter, so that they cannot
multiply and cause decay because of
their activities, and the retardation of
the zymotic
is filled
process. of ripening,
refrigerated stuff be
fruits, vegetables, fresh meats, eggs,
To retard these pro-
cesses in transit, the food stuff is
placed in the car at the point of
origin, and the loaded car is switched
to the icing platform, the bunkers at
either end are filled with ice, every
opening is sealed and the car is sent
off. The cold air in the ice-packed
‘bunkers, obeying the law of gravita-
tion, sinks to the bottom of the car,
absorbs some of the heat of the low-
est portion of the warm freight, rises
to the top as its temperature increases
until it re-enters the bunkers for an-
other circuit. Of course, air spaces
have to be left in the load of freight
to allow the cold air access to all
parts.
By this slow process of gravity cir-
culation of air the perishable fre: zht
whether the
butter or beer.
in the car is not cooled off sufficiently
to prevent decay or ripening, until
two, three and sometimes four days
after the start, according to the tem-
perature of the freight at the time of
loading. Even when the lower two-
third of the carload have attained the
required minimum, the upper third,
especially in the center of the car
furthest from the bunkers, is several
degrees warmer than the minimum.
Because the ice in the bunkers cannot
conquer this relatively high tempera-
ture in the upper part of the car, the
shipment of fresh deciduous fruits, of
peaches, grapes, berries and sensitive
vegetables, plums, apricots, melons,
and cherries, is restricted by the
distance over which the upper por-
tion of the freight can be carried
with safety, thus preventing the de-
velopment of the markets farthest
distant from the producer. As the
processes of ripening and decay pro-
ceed rapidly, immediately after fruits
or vegetables are picked, during the
first two or three days in the per-
ambulating ice-box, while the tem-
perature is falling slowly, the grow-
ers, could not, under the old method
of icing, ship fully matured stuff over
long distances. They had to pick
their fruits and vegetables green and
hard to prevent them becoming over-
ripe on the journey. As a result the
buyer received tasteless, flavorless
produce which hurt the reputation of
the producing district and the feel-
ing of the consumer.
Take a peek into the refrigerator
of Mrs. Jones, back porch any Sunday
morning in summer, when it is
doing its biggest business. You will
probably find a quart or two of milk,
a pint of cream, four or five boxes of
berries and fruits, two pounds of
butter, a five pound roast, some chops
for breakfast, a little cheese, toma-
toes, and other ingredients of a Sun-
day meal. Altogether the weight of
the food to be kept cool, including
the dishes and wrappings. will be
barely thirty pounds and_ usually
much less. o-o
There Will Be Something Doing.
Discussing the Chinese egg situa-
tion, a produce dealer recently re-
marked:
“T don’t take much stock in all this
Chinese egg scare. These reports
coming from the West sound big, but
they are only natural. They don’t
like the Chinese or the Japanese.
Why shouldn't they raise a roar about
Chinese eggs? I don’t have any fears
of the inroads of Chinese eggs. The
consumers, especially in the West
coast, will hate the eggs as badly as
they hate the people that produced
them.”
“That's a very gratifying view for
you to take,” replied another in the
group. “You don’t notice one drop
of water in a bath tub. But get
enough drops, and there is plenty of
water to take a bath, or drown your-
self in. Take it from me, please, that
if 500,000 cases of eggs—eggs that
can be eaten—from China or any
other place are dumped onto the mar
kets in America between the coming
September 1 and January 1, there will
be something doing. We'll feel it,
and we'll feel it so much that I don’t
want to be owning too many storage
eggs”
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Back From an Outing.
Philadelphia, April 6—C. M. Drake
of the firm of W. R. Brice & Co., is
back to his desk from a well-deserved
vacation at Stuart, Florida. There is
a well grounded suspicion that fish-
ermen as a class, develop an imagina-
tion which acts in the nature of a
magnifying glass when applied to the
size, weight and beauty of the fishes
caught by themselves. There is no
reflection intended of the high char-
acter for veracity possessed by C. M.
D. who claims to have landed a num-
ber of extremely large fishes known
locally as Jew fish, some weighing
over 300 pounds each. C. M. D. sug-
gests that the name Jew fish is be-
stowed on them from their habit of
devouring large quantities of gold
fish.
TRADESMAN
You don’t have to explain,
apologize, or take back
when you sell
Walter Baker & Co.'s
si Chocolate
Grocers will find them
in the long run the
most profitable to
handle.
ji They are absolutely
co €6pure; therefore im
Use Pae of conformity with the
pure food laws of all the States.
53 Highest Awards in
Europe and America
Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.
Established 1780 DORCHESTER, MASS.
Rea & Witzig
PRODUCE
COMMISSION
MERCHANTS
104-106 West Market St.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Established 1873
Liberal shipments of Live and
Dressed Poultry wanted. and good
prices are being obtained. Fresh
eggs more plenty and selling well
at quotation.
Dairy and Creamery Butter of
the better grades in demand. We
solicit your consignments, and
promise prompt returns.
Send for our weekly price cur-
rent or wire for special quota-
tions.
Refer you to Marine National
Bank of Buffalo. all Commercial
Agencies and to hundreds of
shippers everywhere.
Watson-Higgins Milling Co.
Merchant Millers
Grand Rapids ot Michigan
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The “Electric Daylight"’ Egg Tester fill a need
long felt by Merchants and Egg Dealers for an
efficient candler. It does away with the unsan-
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The “Electric Daylight’’ Egg Tester is made in
six different styles. Each style shows the en-
tire surface of the egg whiie candling.
Write for prices.
The Ann Arbor Sales Co.
Factory and Sales Dep’t
529 Detroit St. Ann Arbor, Mich.
POTATO BAGS
New and second-hanu, also bean bags, flour
bags, etc. Quick shipments our pride.
ROY BAKER
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HART BRAND CANNED GOODS
Packed by
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Michigan People Want Michigan Products
Satisfy and Multiply
Flour Trade with
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Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Keg g S Highest Prices for Eggs
Country Collections—Returns
day of arrival.
Zenith Butter & Egg Co.
Distributors to Retail Trade
Harrison and Greenwich Sts.
NEW YORK
Refer to your bank or
Michigan Tradesman
Eggs Eggs
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WHEN IN THE MARKET FOR
Potatoes
or have any to sell, call or write
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GRAND RAPIDS:
MICH.
236-248 Prescott St.
Write or wire us when ever you have
POTATOES TO OFFER
LOVELAND & HINYAN CO.
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During the past three months, the
three Government officials, to whom
was entrusted the task of deciding
which cities should contain regional
reserve banks, and what district each
should serve, has been holding public
hearings at all the principal cities.
The result was that practically every
city of any size eagerly asserted its
own title to the distinction, and that
the organization committee, instead
of making selections based primarily
on commercial, financial, and eco-
nomic grounds, has been forced to the
position of balancing between rival
claims. In such cases, the result
usually is that the dissatisfaction of
the rejected applicants is greater
than the satisfaction of those whose
applications are approved This
seemed to be clearly the case, on
the announcement of 3oston,
New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland,
Richmond, Atlanta, Chicaso, St
Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas. City,
Dallas, and San Francisco.
One consideration, however, may
fairly be kept in mind as offsetting
such disappointments. Selection, for
a district's banking center, of a city
which is not the financial or commer-
cial capital of the district, will not
necessarily obstruct the usefulness of
the regional bank thus located. In
the case of cities containing the
central money markets of a whole
great section of the country, such
omission might make trouble, because
time is in such localities a factor of
the first importance in financial oper-
ations. But the general function of
rediscount, and the function of hold-
ing together all banking resources of
the district in a real emergency, may
be pursued in one substantial busi-
ness center of most districts as well
as in another, even when the selected
city is not the greater commercial
center
The more serious part of the prob-
lem is bound to concern the delimita-
tion of the districts themselves, be-
cause rupture of the natural relations
of the every-day credit market, when
the work of rediscounting paper is
applied, may seriously obstruct the
This
boundaries, as
working of the new machinery.
question of district
arranged by the organization, will
consideration and
criticism. One obvious remark will
be, that the Committee has utilized
all the twelve districts authorized by
law, while placing no regional bank
in the enormous stretch of territory
between Kansas City and San Fran-
cisco. Another is. that is has cut off
from New York’s district the cities
call for caretul
on the opposite bank of the Hudson
—which was apparently no more
economically logical than if Brooklyn
had been included in the Boston
district.
Before the passage of the present
strict banking laws in Wisconsin,
starting a bank was a comparatively
simple proposition. The surprisingly
small amount of capital needed is
well illustrated by the story a
prosperous country-town banker told
on himself, when asked how he hap-
pened to enter the banking business:
“Well,” he said, “I didn’t have much
else to do, so I rented an empty
store-building and painted Bank on
the window. The first day I was
open for business a man came in and
deposited a hundred dollars with me;
the second day another man dropped
in and *deposited two hundred and
fifty; and so along about the third
day I got confidence enough in
th. bank to put in a hundred my-
self!”
The Farmers and Merchants Bank
of Lawrence, a_ private institution
managed by James L. Welch, has
closed its doors and gone into the
hands of receivers. The Circuit Court
appointed W. C. Mosier, of Paw Paw,
receiver. A new organization, the
New Home State Bank, is alleged to
have been partially responsible for a
run on the Welch Bank which was
unable to meet liabilities of $10,000
The assets are about the same. It
is believed the depositors will be paid
in full. It was understood that the
two banks were to consolidate and
that President Welch would be con-
Ask for our Coupon Certificates of Deposit
Assets Over Three and One-half
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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
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
The
Old National Bank
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Our Savings Certificates of Deposit form an
exceedingly convenient and safe method of invest-
ing your surplus. They are readily negotiable, being
transferable by endorsement and earn interest at the
rate of 3% % if left a year.
Fourth National Bank
Savings ag Commercial
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Deposits Denositany Deposits
Per Cent Per Cent
Interest Paid Interest Paid
on on
Savings Certificates of
Deposits Deposit
Left
Compounded One Year
Semi-Annually
Win. 8. Asdenson, Capital Stock
John W, Blodgett, and Surplus
L. Z. canse. $580,000
J. C, Bishop,
Assistant Cashier
April 8, 1914
nected with the new Bank, but some-
one started the story that the Welch
Bank had failed and a run ensued.
The $6,000 judgment which was ob-
Scofield, Pitter-
ville, Eaton county against the Grand
tained by George
Ledge State Bank, and its President,
William R. Clark, and Raymond A.
Latting and Bert R. Moore, in Feb-
ruary, 1912, has been reversed by
the Supreme Court. The action grew
out of the financial troubles of Wil-
ilam Andre, who operated at Grand
Ledge, and whose financial methods
were of such a character that a large
number of people were the losers
and he, ‘himself, served a period in
state’s prison. Scofield was one of
the losers in Andre’s dealings and
obtained assignments of the claims
of a number of other losers and
commenced a suit in Eaton county
against the Grand Ledge State Bank
and others on the claim that the
bank assisted Andre in bringing about
these results. The case was closely
contested in the Circuit Court, the
defendants claiming that they did not
profit by anything that Andre did, and
also that they had no knowledge of
‘Andre’s evil purposes when they per-
mitted him to do business with the
bank, After the judgment was taken
against the defendants in the above
amount in Circuit Court, these de-
fendants appealed to the Supreme
Court, which reversed the judgment
as to all of the defendants. The
Supreme Court was divided upon the
legal questions, Justice McAlvay writ-
ing a minority opinion and Justice
Ostrander writing the opinion of the
majority reversing the case. After
this judgment was obtained in the
Circuit Court, other of Andre’s vic-
tims began another suit against these
parties, hoping to be able to recover
what they had lost. All of these cases
will be governed by the decision of
the Supreme Court in the Scofield
case, so that the decision of the
Supreme Court is of considerable im-
portance to the parties interested.
The Illinois Bankers’ Association
will tour the Northern Michigan re-
sorts next summer and will stop at
Harbor Springs and Wequetonsing.
S. B. Montgomery, President of the
Association, has
Wequetonsing.
asummer home at
MICHIGAN
The Kalamazoo City-Savings Bank
will again be the city’s depository for
the fiscal year of 1914-1915. The bid
for the depository was 2%. per
cent. on the daily balances of the city.
The City-Savings Bank has been the
city's depository for the past four
years and again this year the bid
from this institution was higher than
the other three banks
Michigan State banks and _ trust
companies are in good condition, ac-
cording to the report of Banking
Commissioner Doyle, in’ which he
shows a gain in total business of
$2,018,722.89 since the report of Jan-
uary 13, 1914. Since the last report
was issued there has been a decrease
in loans of $1,196,970.47. Deposits
have increased $1,345,330.08, while
various State banks have increased
capital stock to the extent of $185,585.
The prevalent feeling, in this sec-
tion of the country, is fairly voiced
by one of the largest manufacturers
in the section, who recently declared
that he had never seen so much op-
timism and so little business. He
admitted, however, that optimism is
a good thing, and a necessary founda-
tion for active trade conditions.
Quotations on Local Stocks and Bonds.
Public Utilities.
Bid. Asked.
Am. Light & Trac Co., Com. 365 366
Am. Light & Trac. Co., Pfd. 107 103%
Am. Public Utilities, Pfd. 12 74
Am. Public Utilities, Com. 47% 50
Cities Service Co., Com. 91 93
Cities Service Co., Pfd. 74 76
Citizens Telephone Co. 78 80
Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Com. 60 61
Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Pfd. 81 82
Comw'th 6% 5 year bond 98 100
Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., Com. 39 40
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Com.
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Pfd. 70 72
United Light & Rys., Com. 76 78
United Light & Rys., 1st Pfd.
United Lt. & Ry. new 2nd Pfd. 71 73
United Light 1st and ref. 5% .
bonds 89
Industrial and Bank Stocks.
Dennis Canadian Co. 99 105
Furniture City Brewing Co. 64 70
Globe Knitting Works, Com. 135 141
Globe Knitting Works, Pfd. 97 100
G. R. Brewing Co. 130 86140
Commercial Savings Bank 215 «38217
Fourth National Bank 215 220
G. R. National City Bank 17s) | kit
G. R. Savings Bank 255
Kent State Bank 255° 265
Peoples Savings Bank 250
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Angel Food.
Mrs. Knicker—Do you have eggs
for breakfast?
Mrs. Bocker—No, but we have a
phonograph record of a cackle.
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The fruits of industry do not grow
on every family tree.
H-S-C-B
Citizens 4445 and 1122
Bell Main 229
United Light & Railways Co.
Write us for quotations on First Preferred 6% Cumulative
Stock of the United Light & Railways Co. This stock is exempt
from the normal Federal Income Tax to the holder, for the rea-
son that the Tax is paid at the source.
ing prosperous condition of this company.
Howe, Snow, Corrigan & Bertles
Grand Rapids, Mich.
H-S-C-B
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Denominations $100, $500 and $1,000
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For this reason securities issued by Public Utility Com-
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Importance of Making Good on
One’s Advertising
Written for the Tradesman.
Smith and advertise as a
They
making a considerable outlay in order
to impress on the public mind that
the:r shop is a safe place to buy. If
Jones
“Money-Back Store.” are
goods are not. satisfactory when
gotten home, if an article “doesn’t
suit the folks,” or if for any other
reason the purchaser feels sick of
the deal, all he or she needs to do
is to bring the goods back and the
money will be refunded. This is
what they claim they will do. The
only exception to the rule is made
regarding piece goods, which, of
course, have to be cut to suit the re-
quirements of the particular customer
and so are not classed by any store
as returnable merchandise.
Smith and Jones further make a
strong point of making it right with
the customer as to any goods that
are not satisfactory in the wear, that
do not prove in actual service to be
exactly what they were supposed to
be when purchased. That is, Smith
and Jones advertise to make every-
thing right. You might think to
read their printed matter that their
sole end and object in life was to
please their patrons, that margins and
profits, and large sales, were entirely
secondary and subordinate in their
estimation.
To the person of vacillating mind,
who finds it hard to come to a deci-
sion upon even trivial matters, that
permission to return an article is
very attractive. It often gives such
a one the opportunity to back up
his or her judgment with the opinion
of some more resolute soul after the
goods are taken home. It postpones
for a little time the necessity for
irrevocable decision. Moreover, the
custom of allowing the return priv-
ilege is so general among the better
class of stores that it has come to
be an almost indispensable factor of
successful store policy.
That other phase of the “Money-
3ack” proposition, the assurance
that if anything proves unsatisfactory
in use the matter will be promptly
made right, is also an effective in-
ducement with many buyers. Quite
a large proportion of customers pre-
fer to pay a higher price and have
the feeling that they can come back
on the merchant if the coat or suit
or material for a dress should not
prove satisfactory. This is especially
true as to articles that require an
expenditure that is a little heavy for
the ordinary pocket book.
So there are perfectly valid and
substantial business reasons for just
such advertising as Smith and Jones
are putting out.
3ut what is their practice when
their widely proclaimed policy is put
to the test? A customer brings back
a lace collar, we will say, or a parasol
or a pair of silk hose that she has
decided she would rather not keep.
The goods are in perfect condition
and are brought in not more than
two or three days aiter being taken
out. It is a case where it would seem
that there is nothing for Smith and
Jones to do but take the article and
refund the money. But this is never
done without an argument, which
often becomes heated and_ usually
gives rise to unpleasant and antagon-
istic feelings on the part ofthe
customer. There invariably is an at-
‘tempt to convince the lady that the
goods are just what she wants, when
after due consideration in the quiet
of her own home she has firmly
decided to the contrary. If the at-
tempt to argue her into keeping the
article fails, as it is sure to do if she
is a person of any spirit, the next
thing that is done is to try to induce
her to accept something else as a
substitute. In all probability she
looked over everything they had in
stock before, and the item she se-
lected came the nearest to meeting
her requirements, so if she is bullied
into taking something in place of the
other, she is not satisfied in so doing
nor is she likely to speak favorably
of their store to her friends. As
one woman remarked, “Sm'th and
Jones will pay back your money, but
it’s as much as your life is worth to
Pet it”
Merchants, make a note of this, if
you are advertising your store as a
“Money-Back Store,” let it be “Your
money back with a smile,” in good
earnest, with no cavil nor complaint.
Otherwise your practice will counter-
act and annul all possible effect of
your advertising.
If a garment or other article that
has proved unsatisfactory as to wear-
ing qualities is brought in to Smith
and Jones, their manner of dealing
with the case is not as would be in-
ferred from their advertising, but as
might be expected from their way
of handling a simple return of goods.
They are sure to assume that the
fault was not in the article but that
in some manner it has been misused.
or that as much service has already
been gotten from it as reasonably
could be expected, and this when the
customer is a reliable person, not
given to making needless nor unfair
complaints. If anything is done to
right the matter, it is done grudging-
ly and at the lowest figure that the
TRADESMAN
customer will accept. It is needless
to say that the Smith and Jones ad-
vertising of ‘money back and every-
thing made satisfactory to the pur-
chaser” is worse than wasted, and
rapidly is becoming a joke among
those who know the customs of the
store. i
Now, as has heretofore been pointed
out in these columns, the exchange
privilege often is abused by thought-
less and unscrupulous persons, and
it may be well to place certain limit-
ations upon it, and to- have these
limitations thoroughly understood by
all patrons. Also in regard to stand-
ing back of goods sold, it may be
necessary to handle some kinds and
grades that no dealer can afford to
guarantee. Make no secret of it that
such articles are sold at the buyer’s
April 8, 1914
risk. And as to other goods, it may
not be wisest to sell under the broad
general assurance to make everything
satisfactory to the customer. It may
be better as complaints come in to
treat each as a separate matter and
make such adjustment as seems fair
under the circumstances.
Whatever plan is adopted, let it be
carried out with thorough consist-
ency and let there be no discrepancy
between the advertised promises of
what will be done and the actual per-
formance when put to a test. It is
a good rule to claim all the merits
your store possesses. It is not less
important that it should merit all that
you claim for it. This applies to
other points of store policy besides
the two brought out in this article.
Fabrix.
Undermuslins That Sell
and Embroidery Trimmed.
write for further details.
all sizes.
Wholesale Dry Goods
That’s the kind you get when you choose from
our well selected stock. This will be the biggest
muslin underwear season in years—supply your re-
quirements now. Corset Covers, Drawers, Skirts, Gowns,
Combinations and Princess Slips, in Newest Styles. Lace
Give us a trial order or
All grades, all prices and
. Paul Steketee & Sons
Grand Rapids, Mich.
We figure that ages 4x 14, 5 x 15, 6x 15,
7x 14 and 10x 16 ought to keep any mer-
chant’s line of Knickerbocker sizes well bal-
anced. These are the size combinations we
carry and our stock consists of excellent
values to retail at 25c, 50c, 75c and $1.00.
Our salesmen are showing samples.
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GRAND RAPIDS DRY GOODS CO.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
April 8, 1914
The Clerk Who Hangs Back.
Written for the Tradesman.
Young Maitland was pretty close to
21 when he took his first job. He had
been a student all his days, and had
never mingled much with people. The
first day he was at work the telephone
rang. He had heard it half a dozen
times before but always there had been
some other clerk on hand, prompt to
answer. But this time he was alone.
For a long two or three minutes he
waited, desperately, hoping that some-
one might come in. And then he walk-
ed down to the telephone booth with
his knees shaking and with a trembling
hand took down the receiver.
And nothing happened—nothing at
all. But he had never talked over the
wire before, and he was filled with a
terrific, sub-conscious dread of the un-
known.
He has often laughed over that ex-
perience since then. But, in that ex-
perience, he represented just a peculiar,
exaggerated instance of a trouble which
many young clerks experience, and
which, in many cases, never seems to
entirely leave them. The em-
ployer, who sees the clerk
hanging back, thinks he is
lazy—a _ shrker—and feels like hand-
ing him the blue envelope on Saturday
night,
But the real trouble is timidity—fear
to go forward and speak to a stranger.
If the incoming customer is an old
friend, it is different. The timid clerk
goes forward, greets him by name, takes
his order and even tries to sell him
something extra—just in the hope that
if a stranger comes in meanwhile, he
will be engaged and another clerk will
have to wait upon the newcomer.
This form of timidity is far more
common than many employers realize.
Quite often the clerks whom they re-
gard as shirkers are really afraid—and
it is a real and deep rooted fear, despite
the fact that the object of the fear
is entirely imaginary.
It isn’t a fear that is confined to
clerks, either. I know merchants now
and then who are affected by it. They
are men who have gone through the
mill, who have sold goods behind the
counter for years, but who, now that
they have salesmen in their employ,
leave the latter to do the selling while
they, themselves, attend to the manage-
ment of the business. And, odd as it
may seem, such businesses are usually
well managed, from a financial point of
view. The man who shrinks from
selling goods to his fellow-townsman is
often singularly capable when it comes
to turning financial corners, or organ-
izing his selling force.
One of the best newspaper reporters
I ever knew—a chap who made a strik-
ing success of his work—confesses that
after a good many years’ experience he
is still haunted by this feeling of dread
whenever he goes out on a new assign-
ment, and that sometimes it is only
by a titantic effort that he can bring
himself to face a man whom he has been
sent to interview. Yet he has been
successful in securing interviews where
bolder men have failed, merely by rea-
son of the fact that, once he can bring
himself to talk to a person, he is singu-
larly tactful and seems to inspire and
invite confidence. Yet a superlative
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talent for “butting in” is usually asso-
ciated in the popular mind with the
newspaper reporter.
Theorists often hold that this form
of timidity is due to lack of ability. But
careful enquiry in a large number of
cases show pretty conclusively that
lack of ability has nothing to do with it.
The instance of the reporter, previously
cited, is typical. It is a well known
fact that many men well fitted for pub-
lic office shrink with absolute horror
from the necessity of canvassing, or
even of publishing a card soliciting sup-
port. In a good many cases it is not
that the candidate is proud—or “stuck
up” as the colloquial phrase is—but
merely that he is timid in regard to ap-
proaching strangers. Yet such men
very often make capable public officers.
And the man who once conquers his
first feeling of timidity as a rule makes
the best and most successful salesman
—simply because he is naturally more
tactful, and more careful in his choice
of arguments. He takes count of what
the man on the other side of the coun-
ter may be thinking, as well as of what
is running in his own mind.
But, before success can be achieved,
this timidity must be conquered. This
difficult task is merely a matter of will
power. The timid man is usually te-
nacious, once he gets into action; and
therein lies his hope.
Meanwhile, he needs encouragement.
A pat on the back from an employer,
a jolly “Go to it, boy; the customers
can’t eat you,” will often do more to
stir an apparent shirker into action
than any amount of criticism.
William Edward Park.
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Horseflesh Sold in Montreal.
The civic health authorities have
admitted that there are large quanti-
ties of horseflesh being sold as sau-
sages and beef is Montreal.
Steps are being taken to prevent it,
although medical men are not in
agreement as to its demerits as food.
There is an ordinance which for-
bids its sale.
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after her.
Second Passenger—The lady is my
mother-in-law.
First Passenger—A thousand par-
dons.
TRADESMAN
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For Ladies, Misses and Children,
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Grand Rapids, Mich.
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The Shoe Dealer’s Dream of Heaven. I notice the “sample shoe store” Shoes for Service
[ dreamed it was Monday morning across the street moving out, and
and as I] stepped into my store I upon enquiry I find they are forced We show here our number 849 H. B. Hard Pan three sole,
found a couple of young folks wait- to close owing to the enforcement of standard screw, full bellows tongue, plain toe Blucher.- $2.50
ing to see me, to whom I had sold the new false advertising law. The 838—Same shoe only unlined
shoes the week b fore and who prom- mayor call and tells me the council and 6 dnitle toe aad
ised to pay on Saturday night. They has passed an ordinance absolutely as ouple :
were both profuse in apologies and prohibiting the solicitation of any fap. ---- +--+ - sees $2.50
7 a “i bill. ie funds from business men for any pur- 909 - Same shoe only unlined
roing back to my desk jound a pose. i,
letter with check enclosed from the I have a date with a life insurance and has % double sole $2.30
Railroad Co covering a claim I had agent who wishes to deliver a $25,000 892—Is a tan elk skin with
made the week before. Another policy I have just taken out. I meet \“% double sole plain
letter contained a check from a cus- him at his office, hand him a check Blucher $2 35
tomer who had moved to Texas, and for the premium, and my good luck | #~"" °° = ||| .
still another from a fellow that owed continues, for on my way home I :
me and had joined church, but could try to dodge an automobile, but step You simply cannot go
not get full forgiveness for his sins’ directly in front of another and am wrong on the H. B. Hard &
until his account was paid. Glancing
at my bank book I saw a nice balance
with all bills paid.
shipment of shoes I had bought six
months before and they were better
than the samples—best of all they
were right in style. We marked
them up to bring 75 per cent profit,
and sold eight pairs while marking
them. The parcel post now came and
delivered a pair of lavender _ satin
pumps I had promised for Monday at
9 a. m., just as the lady stepped in
the front door: She tried them on,
they fitted, she complimented me on
my promptness, handed me $4 and I
wrapped up the pumps.
A family enters and the father tells
me to fit them out with the best
shoes and rubbers I have and he will
call again in a few minutes. One of
the girls weighs 200 and her foot
measures EEE. I have it. Another
is slender and takes a 3% triple A.
I fit them all out. Father returns,
hands me a check for $21 and tells
me I have such a splendid reputation
for selling good goods he thought
he'd change his shoe buying from my
competitor to me.
A trio of ladies enter, but only one
wishes to purchase shoes. I flash a
new kidney heel with pointed toe and
brocade topping. It doesn’t suit and
I pull down an old crab and show it,
and they all like it much better, and
so do I, because I have had it since
it was in style before. It was on
the bargain counter once for a dollar,
but since it’s back in style again it is
worth $5. I sell all the ladies silk
stockings because they have heard
my silks never tear.
A Jew enters and wishes to buy
my unsalable odds and ends, and,
owing to the advance in leather, he
offers me the same price I paid for
them. Do I sell? Well, I almost
hug and kiss that fellow.
In my second delivery of mail was
a letter from my rubber house. It
tells me they have decided to extend
the dating on all bills to May 15.
We opened a-
killed.
I find myself knocking at the Gates
of Heaven, and am asked my name,
residence and business, and just as
soon as I said I sold shoes the gates
fly open and I am royally received.
I meet Sam Swartz, of Muncie, and
Joe Fadely, of Anderson, and while
I am still wondering how it was I
gained admittance so easily, Swartz
says, with all the Hell a fellow has
on earth in the shoe business they
figure up here that he has~ had
enough. He said they let him in be-
cause he asked long profits and
Fadely because he lived in Anderson,
and he told me that in all the time
they had been there only two shoe
men had been refused; one that ran a
sample shoe store and sold $5 shoes
for $2.49, and the other a fellow that
didn't ask a profit.
talking,
While we were
were joined by an
numerable company of shoe men.
we in-
Our joy knew no bounds and just
as we were being fitted with golden
slippers and wings to enter into our
long life of happiness and peace, I
was awakened by the ringing of my
telephone. A lady wanted me_ to
come to the store and change a pair
of shoes. I had sent out both for
the same foot, one three and one
seven, and she wanted to catch the
4 a. m. train. I realized I was back
on earth in the shoe business, but
how I shall always remember that
dream of the shoe business as it
should be and as it would be if only
dreams came true.
Roy C Kanouse.
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New Phase of Shoe Store Service.
Written for the Tradesman.
The young lady who has full charge
of decorations in—well, never mind
the store, for she is one of your rather
timid girls who doesn’t care at all
for publicity; but it is a great big
metropolitan shoe retailing establish-
ment employing, I should say, at a
venture, forty or fifty salespeople.
We had been talking about artifi-
Pan Shoes.
like iron.
They wear
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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QUALITY TALKS
And quality means
MORE PROFIT FOR YOU
in the long run.
You can buy cheaper shoes than ours, and you can sell them
ONCE, but you need a consistent trade. You want your own little
army of satisfied customers: dependable trade that appreciates
SERVICE. WE ARE HERE TO GIVE YOU THAT SERVICE,
This is a good year for Goodyear Welts, and our welt depart-
ment turns out shoes that are the acme of good fit, good style and
good wear.
The cut opposite
is that of one of
our best sellers for
early spring trade,
and is a winner
among its kind.
Gun metal, half
double sole, Good-
year Welt. Made
in prices ranging
from
$2.25 to $3.00
Best by test of half
a century.
RINDGE, KALMBACH, LOGIE COMPANY
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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April 8, 1914
cial flowers. And this young lady,
by the way, makes—or rather has
them made under her supervision—
all the flowers used in her elaborate
decorative schemes. She invariably
makes the petals of all flowers out
of thin sheets of white paper just
like that wrapped about shoes, and
tints acording to the requirements of
the particular flower she is counter-
feiting. One of her recent decorative
schemes called for forty dozen Ameri-
can Beauty roses. Manufacturers get
$7.00 a dozen for American Beauties
—only the petals are of silk and the
stems of rubber. So you begin to
see how much she saves her firm
each year on the single item, artificial
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flowers. Her roses were just as rich
in color, and simulated the original
in every particular, quite as success-
fully as did the more costly product
of the manufacturers.
That girl, of course, has an eye for
color. It isn’t an acquisition with
her; it’s a gift. And when accused
of it by the writer, she modestly
admitted that it was so. “But,” she
hastened to add, “I love this sort of
thing so much, that perhaps accounts
to some extent for my success.”
“And what d’you do,” enquired the
writer, “besides superintend the mak-
ing of artificial flowers, planning and
executing decorative schemes, etc.?”
“Oh, lots of things,’ she mused.
“For instance—?” I queried.
“Well, for instance, I act as a sort
of arbiter on mootable style-matters,
upon which salesladies and_ their
- patrons cannot agree.”
“D’you mean to say,’ I returned
deprecatively, “that all women shop-
pers don’t know what’s what in foot-
wear appareling?”
“Huh!” she sniffed, “disannex from
the idea!”
“Really, then,’ I ventured, “some
of them do actually require a little
help— to—well, to keep from destroy-
ing the fundamental harmony of the
toilette ensemble by getting some-
thing that doesn’t fit in?”
“Precisely!” she corroborated.
“And this,” I considered, “is also a
long suit of yours—this coming to
the rescue in order that milady’s foot-
wear appareling may be comme il
faut.”
“M’hm!” she acquiesced.
“But just how?” I pursued, with
a man’s persistence for cases.
“Well,” she painstaking told me,
“in selecting buckles, for instance, to
go with particular kinds or styles of
slippers; or, it may be, tango sets and
ribbons; or rosettes. In such matters
many women are at sea. To be real
frank with you—which I perzaps
shouldn’t be, as you are almost cer-
tain to write it up—many of our
customers either don’t know what
they ought to have, and mince no
words in saying so; or they think
they want something positively
bizarre . You know,” continued my
entertaining vis-a-vis, “there are a
good many items comprehended in
footwear appareling for women.
There are many kinds of footwear
creations for many kinds of occa-
sions; and there are different patter.s
of buckles and sorts of footwear
jewels that go best with certain
fabrics and colors; and all these
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things must be considered; and the
color of the hosiery and the color of
the gowns—don’t you see,” she con-
cluded, “how easily a woman who
isn’t up on such matters might be
confused, and how grossly she might
blunder in her selections, if left to
her own judgment?”
“T think I begin to see a dim light”
I decided. “So you,” I facetiously
remarked, ‘‘are the arbiter of mooted
styles-questions; an advisory commit-
tee of one to help milady whose mind
is perturbed?”
“M’hm!” she smiled, “isn’t it
lovely?”
“Tt may be a bit tedious to you, at
times,” I conciliated, “but at all events
it is a fine thing for the store This
gives a new angle of an old theme—
the shoe store’s service-feature. I
think you are, without realizing it,”
I complemented, “a real pioneer (or
should I say, a pioneeress?) in a big,
new field. You are entirely correct
in your surmise. This light that you
have started is too precious to hide
under a bushel. You must let me put
it on a candlestick. There are, I
dare say, simply oodlings of retail
shoe dealers throughout the country
who ought to be doing for their
patrons just what you are doing here.”
And the manager of decorations
conceded that the interviewer had
spoken not ineptly.
Chas. L. Garrison.
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Encourage kindness—even if you
have to practice it on yourself.
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The dog in the manger is only one
of the chronic growlers.
TRADESMAN
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For the Hunting and Fishing Season
Glove Brand
Sporting Boots
Do not be mislead by the claims made for
boots offered at greater discounts.
If they’re worth less, they’re worth less.
Cheaper means poorer.
Poorer means dissatisfied customers and
loss to the dealer.
In Glove Brand boots, merit measures up
to the price. They are more than mere rubber
boots. They are perfectly satisfactory boots.
in weight, fit, comfort and service.
Conserve your profits by stocking
Glove Brand rubber boots of all
styles, hip, thigh and the regular
height or short boot.
Send for catalogue and price list.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Bravely Overcoming the Dread of
Old Age.
Written for the Tradesman.
There is a great fad nowadays of
keeping young. By
of exercise, by massage, by all the
arts of the toilet, by deftly applied
and indistinguishable-from-nature aids
we seek to stave off the physical im-
print of advancing years.
To a certain extent the more clever
We even lead
some of our acquaintances — most
likely those who do not have too in-
strenuous stunts
of us succeed. may
timate a knowledge of unswervingly
veracious family records—to believe
that we are five, ten, or possib' fif-
teen than really
are.
We
tions
years younger we
continue voca-
the
which certainly is far preferable to
being QOslerized at forty or fifty.
We set up a stubborn fight with age.
And yet, however flattering may be
the superticial success that we attain,
however completely we may for the
time being deceive our nearest
neighbors, beneath our enforced
gayety is an undercurrent of sad-
ness, for down in our hearts we feel
that we are playing a losing game.
In spite of our unceasing and zeal-
ous efforts, we realize that Mother
Nature can be put off only for a
limited period, that inevitably as time
rolls on our eyes will dim and our
muscles stiffen and we. shall no
longer have the peculiar grace and
beauty that belong to youth alone.
There are other causes for gloom.
One by one the friends and com-
panions of our early life, some trom
our customary
into sixties and seventies,
prolonged illnesses, others by sudden
summons, take their way to “the un-
country from whose
bourne no traveler returns.” If our
acquaintance is large, as we get on
toward middle life we attend
funerals. Ii of a nervous or melan-
choly temperament, we come to live
in a morbid expectation of hearing
at any time the fateful sound of the
undertaker’s horse stopping, if not at
our own door, then at the door of
some one of our rapidly diminishing
number of close friends and near
relatives.
discovered
many
The terror of an old age made dis-
mal by loneliness, by enfeebled
health, perhaps by poverty also, pos-
sesses countless souls who would be
most loath to acknowledge their
dread.
The specter of loneliness is more
common now than it was fifty or
Then large
the rule and almost
everyone had a considerable number
of near kinsfolk. The man or the
woman who has children and grand-
seventy-five years ago.
families were
children more naturally takes a nor-
mal and healthy outlook upon the
future, even when old age begins to
creep He or she has interests
centered in those who are coming up,
and does not fear a lack of com-
panionship. Not so the many child-
less married people and single men
and women of the present day. To
even the most independent and self-
sufficient bachelor maid, the future,
were she to acknowledge the truth
about it, begins to look bleak as she
nears forty.
on.
Is this terror of a desolate old age,
which commences to cast its gloom
over many lives before youth is fairly
past, a something which
exists in the nature of things, or is
it a bugbear which we have conjured
up out § of unhealthy imaginings,
something which, like the major part
of our fears and dreads, exists mainly
in the think?
In combating the old age specter,
let it be remembered that hopeful-
ness, optimism, gladness, are natural
to youth. If these qualities are en-
joyed in later life they must be
achieved, so to speak.
The animals show this tendency.
The kitten is play‘ul, the colt frisky.
The old cat and the old horse are
sedate of mien, although not necess-
arily spiritless and certainly not ap-
prehensive of the future.
A long step toward success is taken
when a strong resolve is made to
overcome the dread of old age. Make
a reasonable effort but only a reason-
able one to keep young in appearance.
Extreme exertions often defeat their
own ends. It is possible to worry
ones self into an early grave over a
few wrinkles and gray hairs. The
woman who makes a painful effort
to retain her girlish figure and com-
plexion is apt to become prematurely
aged.
necessity,
Be temperate in all things, eating,
drinking, work and pleasure. Control
your temper. Don’t worry.
To quote from Dr. Johnson, “Keep
your friendships in repair.’ Make
new acquaintances, and as you find
those who are worthy and congenial,
form intimate associations. As years
advance, the usual tendency :s_ to
become more and more chary of one’s
affections. This is a mistake. Inevit-
ably we lose those who have walked
with us by the way. It 1s no disloyal-
ty to them and only an essential art
of healthy-minded and_ philosophical
living to find others who will in
some measure take their places.
Cultivate not only companions, but
companionableness. Make a strong
point of what, for lack of a better
name, we may call the livable virtues.
Many very excellent persons are
doomed to isolation in old age, for
no other reason than because they
have thoughtlessly and perhaps a
little selfishly developed peculiarities
so unpleasant that no one can live
with them. They have become so
whimsical and cranky, so irritable or
sour-tempered, so exacting, so fin‘cal
about trifles, or possibly so careless
and slovenly as to appearance and
personal cleanliness as to make their
society unwelcome and even unbear-
able.
A fair amount of this world’s goods
tends to compose the mind of. its
owner and make him or her less fear-
ful of the future. This need not be
great wealth; but something to fall
back on when the earing powers are
lessened or fail altogether, is abso-
lutely necessary to the mental com-
fort of anyone gifted with a proper
degree of foresight and prudence.
Look to your headpiece. To keep
up the strength of the muscles they
must be exercised. In like manner
the mental prowess of the thirties
and forties can be retained only by
keeping the mental faculties in use.
Brain fag and all overwork and over-
strain are to be carefully avoided;
but the tendency of the mind to be-
come lethargic and shun the grasp
of knotty problems and to fall into
ruts and prejudices and to oppose all
new ideas and innovations should
never be indulged. Nor should the
habit so distressingly manifested by
many women of allowing the mind
to be filled with all kinds of gloomy
forebodings be permitted to get a
start. The dreaded childishness and
mental weakness of age will in time
be considered preventable maiadies,
except possibly with those who have
passed the fourscore mark.
Cultivate the resources of your own
nature. Be good company for your-
self, then the fear of loneliness will
vanish. Have a few comfort-giving
It will be all the better if
these can be changed from time to
time. Take up new sports and pas-
times and form new interests.
hobbies.
Believe that each period of life has
its own peculiar joys and pleasures.
Age is mo exception to this rule.
The gray dreariness which we dread
has no existence to the genial, happy,
sound-minded woman of
seventy, who marches up to the very
brink of the with blithe
Quillo.
man or
Beyond
heart and undaunted spirit.
Steadily Growing
In Popular Favor
ame Mapleine
is a very necessary item
in all up-to-date
stores,
Order from
Louis Hilfer Co.
4 Dock St., Chicago, III,
Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash.
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TERPRISES,
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FACTORY SITES
AND
LOCATIONS for INDUSTRIAL
ENTERPRISES
IN MICHIGAN
The Pere Marquette Railroad runs through a territory peculiarly adapted
by Accessibility, Excellent Shipping Facilities, Healthful Climate and Good
Conditions for Home Life, for the LOCATION OF INDUSTRIAL EN-
First-class Factory Sites may be had at reasonable prices.
Saginaw Valley and Electrical Development in several parts of the State in-
Our Industrial Department invites correspondence with
manufacturers and others seeking locations. All inquiries will receive pains-
taking and prompt attention and will be treated as confidential.
GEORGE C. CONN,
Freight Traffic Manager,
Coal in the
Detroit, Mich.
anglefoot
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JUST RING UP THE SALE
Besides the trade-increasing and customer-producing value, you
will be surprised at the small amount of time required for the sale
of a Magazine or Periodical.
All that is necessary is to display them in a prominent part of
the store—your customers will make their own selection—hand you
the money and seldom ever request you to even wrap them up.
Time savers like
Magazines and Periodicals
especially where there is a good profit and no chance of loss, insure
dividends at the end of the year.
Why not let us send you full information how to start a profit
paying Magazine and Periodical Department? It places you under
no obligation and we will take pleasure in sending you facts and
figures. Tear off, sign and mail us the Coupon to-day.
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NEW YORK
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merican ews OmMmpany in regard to installing a Profit-paying News De-
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President—C. E. Dickinson, St. Joseph.
Vice-President—Frank Strong, Battle
Creek.
Secretary—A. J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.
How Pocket Knives Might Be Ad-
vertised.
There is no reason why a pocket
knife should not have the same in-
dividuality and universal usage as a
watch. There is not one, but many
uses for an article like a pocket or
pen-knife, for men, women an chit-
dren. Like a watch, a pen-knife is
universally used, from a small boy to
the old man eking out his days by
whittling.
Although cheap watches have a
world-wide fame, and their market-
ing has been brought to a high point
of development, there is not a single
trade-marked pocket knife univer-
sally known.
As a matter of fact, some rather
deplorable conditions exist in the
pocket knife field and are increasing
rather than decreasing. The oppor-
tunity is especially ripe for a manu-
facturer of pocket knives to have a
National selling basis of the possi-
bilities of his goods.
There are thirty-five or forty man-
ufacturers of pocket knives, none of
whom are especially aggressive, who
together manufacture about a mil-
lion and a half dozcn pocket knives
yearly. The total volume of busi-
ness annually in dollars is about
$3,500,000.
The excessively aggressive impor-
tation of foreign pocket knives made
it economic to protect the industry,
which the Wilson bill did from 1897
on. Prior to that the industry had
been rapidly shrinking and was fall-
ing very much behind, some factories
losing at the rate of 25 per cent.
yearly.
Since the Wilson bill, giving a high
rate of protection, the industry has
tripled itself, and is now in a fairly
strong position, though still suffering
from foreign competition to the ex-
tent of over two million dollars.
This means that one-third of the
pocket knives at present in use come
from foreign countries.
This is a proportion utterly out of
keeping with standards of quality
and the merit of the goods made in
America as against foreign goods.
In fact, a very raw fraud has been
perpetrated on the industry by the
fact that knives are sold and stamped
as American made, when as a matter
of fact they are made abroad. To pass
the custom house requirements of
stamping the country of _ origin,
markings with asphaltum are used,
which quickly disappear, or are re-
moved after passing the custom
house. These knives are invariably
poor in quality, and this high-handed
fraud accomplishes a _ prejudice
against American-made goods, which
is erroneous and belongs upon the
foreign manufacturers.
Two things have been largely in-
strumental in making the American
manufacturer of pocket knives un-
aware of his opportunity—first, a
lack of faith in the production of a
high grade article to meet the best
foreign competition on its own
ground, and second, a lack of under-
standing of the advertising idea and
of a broad National market in order
to fight with his own advertising ef-
fort the general ready-made reputa-
tion of foreign-made cutlery.
It is not a matter greatly disputed
that if only manufacturers will prop-
erly plan the merchandising end of
it, the marketing of high-grade
pocket knives is possible in a way
not only to compete with, but to
completely outstrip foreign goods.
The matter consequently
entirely down to a matter
sales and advertising, and
this point that the future
ment must hinge.
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of gooa
it is on
develop-
A good pocket knife manufactured
in large volume—larger volume than
any other pocket knife—could be
sold at such a price inducement
alone that the history of the dollar
watch would be to some’ extent re-
peated and its success duplicated. If
the blade is of really good steel and
the handle is serviceable, while th.
price and dealer profit are protected
and carefully planned, there is not
one less reason why a big business
could not be built than there is for
the cheaper watches.
The first care in such an under-
taking would be to develop a thor-
oughly clear and interesting individ-
uality, both of quality and price, so
that it would be immediately differ-
entiated from the general mass of
nondescript pocket knives. This is a
manufacturing proposition, but it
should be first based on trade and
consumer study of needs.
It is my opinion that retailers of
many varieties would welcome such
a line as this, for a considerable
variety of dealers handle pocket
knives now and more would if a
good line was built up. This is for
the natural reason that dealers like
live leaders. They want something
of universal appeal that will hold
the attention of the person walking
by, and make him pleased and satis-
fied so that he will get into the
regular customer habit, or at least
buy something else while in the
store. Ingersoll watches, or goods
of that sort, now serve such a pur-
pose, and a pocket knife would be a
welcome variety... A. pocket knife
every dealer knows could be sold to
almost any one. They are constant-
ly being lost and constantly being
needed, like umbrellas and pencils.
Consumers also know that most of
them offered are of little value,
therefore a National trade-marked
brand would be welcomed.
The methods of building up trade
and reputation of this sort for a
pocket knife will depend on the pres-
ent status of distribution and the
size of the factory capacity and
financial investment of the manufac-
turer. But, however small or large
he may be, it is possible for him to
begin at once on such a plan. And
however small or large he may be,
it will be important for him to see
that dealers get to see bis point of
view with regard to such a leader. It
will be essential to see that they ap-
preciate the practical merchandising
idea back of it, and make immediate
use of it to their own advantage.
If a house which manufactures a
general line of cutlery of a high
grade at present should put out such
pocket knives, so that it could bene-
fit from the correlated value of good-
will in its various products, the as-
surance of success would be greater
still.
Where is the cutlery house which
will discount the future and adver-
tise now?
There is far too much unknown
quantity in pen and pocket knives
for consumers to buy as many of
them as they naturally would if there
were more definite standards to steer
by. At present they must either pay
a very high price to be assured that
the knife is good, or else pay a small
price for an article from which they
expect little or nothing. It is a
definite fact that people buy more
often of an article of this characte:
if they know the standard is high
and the price low, than if they are
uncertain about what they are get-
ting.
A reputation built soundly through
good advertising will make the goods
as interchangeable as cash—and then
everybody, young and old, rich or
poor, male and female, will again
carry a pocket knife—J. George
Frederick in Advertising and Selling.
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A rich young widow and her weeds
are soon parted.
Largest and best equipped
vulcanizing shop in Michigan.
Standard Tire Repair Co.
15 Library St. Grand Rapids, Mich.
OFFICE OUTFITTERS
LOOSE LEAF SPECIALISTS
237-239 Pearl St. (near.the bridge), Grand Rapids, Mich.
THE QUALITY Sc CIGAR
AMERICANO
Order from your jobber or
A. SALOMON & SON MFRS.
KALAMAZOO, MICH.
Corner Oakes St. and
Ellsworth Ave.
Michigan Hardware
Company
Exclusively Wholesale
WV
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Foster, Stevens & Co.
Wholesale Hardware
at
157-159 Monroe Ave. _ ::
Grand Rapids, Mich.
151 to 161 Louis N. W.
April 8, 1914
MICHIGAN
THE MEAT MARKET
Refrigeration a Much Misunderstood
Benefit.
..Among the many problems now
facing municipalities none is more
fundamental to peace and prosperity,
and none is more complex than the
question of the food supply. To the
person trained to observe and elimi-
nate waste, the spoilage of foods be-
tween the producer and the consunier
becomes a public calamity. Also, to
a person so trained, good handling
and refrigeration, beginning at the
source of production, refrigeration
during transportation, and finally, re-
frigeration at the market, with dis-
tribution expedited by adequate
facilities for the work to be done,
means not only the saving of vast
quantities of perishable products that
are now absolutely wasted, but an
improvement in quality of all grades,
even those that are now the best.
You cannot pass along the market
thoroughfares of any city without see-
ing on every hand foodstuffs that
show deterioratoin in quality, due
chiefly to bad handling between the
time the grain was harvested, tne
fruit was picked, the animal killed or
the egg was laid.
There is one class of foods in which
decay has been reduced to such a
small amount that it is practically
negligible. I refer to the citrus fruits
of California, and yet ten years ago
the spoilage of the oranges and
lemons grown in California was so
great that it threatened the industry
with annihilation. Investigators from
the United States Department of
Agriculture, making the basis of their
work good handling and. refrigera-
tion, have in the short space of ten
years so lessened waste in the decay
of the product that the railroads, the
shippers and the Interstate Commerce
Commission no longer consider the
citrus crop a perishable one.
When the means of preventing de-
cay in citrus fruits were first applied
they saved to growers of California
more than $1,500,000 annually. With
the great growth of the industry there
has, of course, been an increased sav-
ing year after year.
The eggs of the United States are
worth to the producers, approximate-
ly $500,000,000 a year. Ten per cent.
of this sum is absolutely lost because
of spoilage, and a much greater sum
—probably over 20 per cent.—is
lost because of deterioration and a
consequent lowering of price
Dressed poultry is worth to the
consumer probably $250,000,000, and
here again we may estimate a 10
per cent waste
We are so ignorant of the fate of
the foods on the market that it is
j
difficult to get accurate figures of
losses, yet it is safe to say that many
other essential foodstuffs show a
waste quite as high, or higher, than
has been assigned to the articles men-
tioned.
Good handling of foodstuffs in-
volves many and various details, such
as gentleness, to prevent the break-
ing of the skin of the fruit or the
chicken, or cleanliness to eliminate
bacteria and molds that cause de-
composition. Of all the individual
factors, however, that go to make up
good handling, refrigeration is, for
nearly all products the most im-
portant.
To the laity refrigeration is gener-
ally synonymous with what is called
cold storage, that is, the preservation
of perishable products by means of
low temperatures continued thirty
days or more. It is on the subject
of the application of the refrigeration
in the form of cold storage that the
press of the country has gone quite
mad and concerning which there have
been reams of evidence presented to
legislators, to boards of health and
to chambers of commerce investigat-
ing committees of one sort or
another.
In reality, refrigeration plays a
double roll: it assists in getting
perishable products from the _ pro-
ducer to the consumer in good order,
and it enables us to hold the seasonal
over-production of a large number of
products until the season of scarcity
arrives.
Without refrigeration the great
apple lands of the Northwest
would never have been developed,
because the crop could not have been
distributed to every part of the
country as it is now. Nor could the
many thousands of boxes of apples,
ripened within the space of a few
weeks, be delivered month by month
to the consuming public until the
next crop arrives.
Without refrigeration the great
peach industry of Georgia would
never have existed, because there was
no way to get the peaches to market
in a merchantable condition.
The Rocky Ford cantaloupe of
Colorado would never have been
known in the East, had not refriger-
ation played its part in the marketing
of the crop.
It is refrigeration that enables us
to slaughter food animals at or near
the fattening station, where they are
in the pink of condition, and ship
the meat to the far distant consumer.
The best poultry now in our mar-
kets comes from the valleys of the
Mississippi and the Missouri, where
the poultry packers remove the ani-
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mal heat by hanging the dressed birds
in a temperature of thirty-two de-
grees F. for twenty-four hours, then
packing the birds in small boxes and
shipping in a refrigerator car, which
is closed at the packing house and
not opened until it reaches the con-
suming center.
The conservative, or badly equip-
ped, or near-by poultry man removes
the animal heat of the bird by im-
mersing it in cold water and ice and
finally packing it in cracked ice for
its trip to the market. By so doing
he causes the consumer to pay chicken
prices for 1,300 pounds of water,
which is absorbed by every carload
of poultry, and he loses to the people
about 300 pounds of the most nutri-
tious and appetizing constituents of
the flesh of the chicken, because they
dissolve out in the melting ice and
finally go down our sewers. In
dollars and cents, which is, after all,
a poor way of reckoning losses in
foodstuffs, this amounts to about $450
on every car lot; that is, 20,000
pounds of dressed poultry.
The lack of refrigeration in the
country is responsible for more of
the rotten eggs on the market—espec-
ially in the summer time — than is
any other single factor. The per-
fectly fresh egg, sent in summer time
without refrigeration to the market
which is but twenty-four hours away,
shows a greater amount of deteriora-
tion when it reaches that market than
does an egg shipped for six days’
haul in a refrigerated carrier. The
application of refrigeration to eggs
is, from an economic viewpoint, even
more important than its application
to dressed poultry.
The early spring eggs that reach
the packer before warm weather are
almost universally fresh. By apply-
ing refrigeration continuously and
promptly he can slow deterioration
to such an extent that the egg is
still edible at the end of nine months.
The eggs which are taken to the
shipper during the summer are, al-
most without exception, lowered in
quality by the prevailng temperatures.
Even with mechanical refrigeration,
deterioration having begun, cannot
be checked as efficiently as it can
be prevented, yet the gain in food
quality and the prevention of waste
when refrigeration is applied by the
shipper to hot-weather eggs means a
greatly increased and bettered egg
supply.
These illustrations merely indicate
how wide and important a part re-
frigeration plays in the marketing of
foodstuffs for the prevention of waste
and the betterment of quality. Re-
frigeration used for long periods to
conserve the over-supply is quite im-
portant, especially in the light of
the growth of the modern city. We
are piling our people twenty stories
high in restricted areas, and these
communities do not produce one
single thing that is edible. They
demand, also, the same diet all the
year round. They take no account
of the fact that the special article
desired may be produced during a
few months only of the year nor
that it is produced a thousand or
more miles away, and that the only
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means by which such wants can be
supplied is cold storage.
The public cannot have its present
widely diversified market supplied
without the aid of the low tempera-
tures for conservat’on. Industries
dealing with foodstuffs understand
this fact. It is conducive to the
welfare of the consumers that they
acquaint themselves with prevailing
conditions, face facts honestly, and
then choose deliberately whether they
are to return to the restricted diets
natural to the varying seasons and
different localities or to accept in-
telligently the great variety of foods
provided by the use of long-continued
low temperatures designated cold
storage.
It has been found by scientific in-
vestigation that when foodstuffs are
properly prepared for storage and
are put into the freezer’ or chill-
while absolutely fesh, they
can be kept in good condition from
one producing season until the next.
They cannot be kept _ indefinitely;
neither can cold prevent further de-
terioration if that deterioration is
well under way before hard freezing
is applied.
Here lies the danger of cold storage
and the point of its greatest abuse
in the past. Fortunately, the in-
dustry is learning that it ‘s to its
own detriment to put products into
the freezer in an
dition.
room
unsuitable
If the consumer, during the
season of scarcity, will demand the
cold stored rather than the
so-called “fesh,” it will work a rev-
olution of not only the quality of
cold stored goods but of their pr-ces
as well. The packer of high-class
goods is now more than willing to
put definite information for the con-
sumer on his labels.
man
con-
goods
The warehouse-
wholesaler is
willing, but the retailer cannot risk
giving the true story to the consumer,
because his ignorance and prejudice
would make him decline to purchase.
He would, however, go to the retailer
next door, be told the usual tale of
“strictly fresh and near-by,” pay a
higher price, and receive exactly the
same commodity as he had previously
declined.
desires it; the
The consumer does not realize when
he clamors for true labels on food-
stuffs that his own ignorance and
prejudice are the greatest bars to the
obtaining of his wishes. The con-
servation of foodstuffs is fundamen-
tal to our welfare.
M. E. Pennington.
——-—>-2
The man who is only as honest as
he has to be is as dishonest as he can
be.
Geo. L. Collins & Co.
Wholesale Live and Dressed Poultry,
Calves, Butter, Eggs and Country Produce.
29 Woodbridge St. West
DETROIT, MICH.
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Grand Junior Counselor—M. S. Brown,
Saginaw.
Grand Secretary—Fred C. Richter,
Traverse City.
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The late Edward Morris, the Chi-
cago meat packer, was worth over
$50,000,000, and contributed every
year to charity as much money as he
spent upon his home.
Mr. Morris, like most charitable
souls, had a host of anecdotes that
threw a quaintly pathetic light on
poverty. Thus, at a Christmas din-
ner in Chicago, Mr. Morris once said:
“Every eater of a Christmas din-
ner should think of the little urchin
who stood in front of a rich man’s
basement kitchen, inhaling raptur-
ously the rich odor of roast turkey
that gushed forth from the open win-
dow, and muttering over and over
to himself:
~ Gee, I wisht I had- a slice o
bread to go with that there smell.’ ”
Envelopes
We carry in stock all
grades and sizes of
COMMERCIAL
ENVELOPES
Will P. Canaan Co.
HAVE YOU GOT OUR
FIREWORKS CATALOGUE?
April 8, 1914
MICHIGAN
WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
Acids
Acetic 2.1.20... 6 @
BOniG 2 ......26. 10 @
Sambolie ...... . 146 @
Citric: .2...21.5 63 @
Muriatic ..:.... 1%@
NAUHCG .5......-. 54%4@
Oxalie ......... 13 @
Sulphuric ...... 1%@
Wartaric ....... 38 @
Ammonia
Water, 26 deg. .. 64@
Water, 18 deg. .. 4%@
Water, 14 deg. .. 3%@
Carbonate ..... is @
Chloride ....... 12 @
Balsams
Gopaiba ........ 75@1
Fir (Canada) ..1 75@2
Fir (Oregon) 40@
Peru ..... pose eee O0@2
Moly ........0... 1 00@1
Berries
©ubeb :...-....: 65@
MISO foc 15@
Juniper «<....... 7@
Prickley Ash ... @
Barks
Cassia (ordinary) 25
Cassia (Saigon) 65@
Elm (powd. 25c) 25@
Sassafras (pow. 30c) @
Soap Cut (powd.
20C oles. 15 @
Extracts
Iicorice ......... 24@
Licorice powdered 25@
Flowers
Arnica .....-... 18@
Chamomile (Ger.) 25@
Chamomile (Rom) 40@
Gums
Acacia, Ist ...... 40@
Acacia, 2nd ..... 35@
Acacia, 3d <...... 30@
Acacia, Sorts . @
Acacia, Powdered 35@
Aloes (Barb. Pow) 22@
Aloes (Cape Pow) 20@
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 40@
Asafoetida ..... @
Asafoetida, Powd.
Pure) 2.05.5... @
U. S. P. Powd. @1
Camphor ........ 55@
@uaiae .......... 35@
Guaiac, Powdered 50@
Kino ......5....- @
Kino, powdered @
Myrrh | 2.2.2.... 4. @
Myrrh, Powdered @
Opium | ....-... 7 25@7
Opium, Powd. 8 75@9
Opium, Gran. .. 8 75@9
Shellac ........ 28@
Shellac, Bleached 30@
Tragacanth
INO. ft ......:. 1 40@1
Tragacanth, Pow 75@
Turpentine ...... 10@
Leaves
Buchu. ....-..- 85@2
Buchu, Powd 2 00@2
Sage, bulk ...... 18@
Sage, %s Loose 20@
Sage, Powdered 20@
Senna, Alex 45@
Senna, Tinn. .... 1@
Senna, Tinn, Pow. 20@
Uva Ursi ........ 0@
Olls
aoe Bitter, i
true ....:.... 6 00@6 &
Atenas Bitter, :
artificial ..... @1
Almonds, Sweet,
TTUCG .6. aa. 90@1
Almonds, Sweet, :
imitation ..... 40@
Amber, crude 25@
Amber, rectified 40@
Anise ...:...-- 25@2
Bergamont .... 7 50@8
Gajeput .......- 75@
Gagsia ........ 1 50@1
Castor, bbls. and
CABS 2 .065.4.; 12%@
Cedar Leaf @
Citronella ......
Cloves: ...:.... 1 50@1
Cocoanut ...... 20@
Cod Liver ..... 110@1
Cotton Seed . 80@1
Croton .......-- @i
Cubebs .......... @4 50
Brigeron ....... @2 50
Eucalyptus 75@ 85
Hemlock, pure @1 00
Juniper Berries .. @i 25
Juniper Wood 40@ 59
Lard, extra 85@1 09
Lard, No. 1 .. 75@_ 90
Laven’r Flowers. 4 50@5 00
Lavender, Garden 85@1 00
bemon .....-... 3 25@3 50
Linseed, boiled, bbl. @ 54
Linseed, bdl. less 58@ 62
Linseed, raw, bbls. @ 53
Linseed, raw, less 57@ 61
Mustard, true ..4 50@6 90
Mustard, artifi’l] 2 75@3 00
Neatsfoot ...... 80@ 85
Olive, pure .... 2 50@3 50
Olive, Malaga,
vellow -..... 1 30@1 50
Olive, Malaga,
ereen ......- 1 30@1 50
Orange, sweet ..4 75@5 09
Organum, pure 1 25@1 50
Origanum, com’l 50@_ 75
Pennyroyal ..... 25@2 50
Peppermint 75@5 00
Rose, pure 16 00@18 00
Rosemary Flowers 90@1 00
Sandalwood, E.
Ee... 6 25@6 50
Sassafras, true 80@ 90
Sassafras, artifi’l 45@ 5)
Spearmint . 5 50@6 00
Sperm .......- 90@1 00
Wansy (0.5.2.4. 5 00@5 50
Tar, USP ...... 30@ 46
Turpentine, bbls. @56%
Turpentine, less 60@ 65
Wintergreen, true @5 00
Wintergreen, sweet
bireh ..:...... 2 00@2 25
Wintergreen, art’l 50@ 60
Wormseed .... 3 50@4 0
Wormwood .... 6 00@6 50
Potassium
Bicarbonate 15@ 18
Bichromate 13@ 16
Bromide ........ 45@ 55
Garbonate ...... 12@ = to
Chlorate, xtal and
powdered ..... 12@ 16
Chlorate, granular 16@ 20
Cyanide ........ 30@ 40
Todide ......... 3 20@3 40
Permanganate .. 15@ 30
Prussiate, yellow 380@ 35
Prussiate, red 50@ 60
Sulphate ....... 15@ 20
Roots
Alkanet -........ 15@ 29
Blood, powdered 20@ 25
Calamus ....... 5@ 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 59
Ipecac, powd. 2 75@3 00
Ticorice ........ 14@ 16
Licorice, powd. 12@ 15
Orris, powdered 25@ 30
Poke, powdered 20@ 25
Rhubarb .....-.- T5@1 09
Rhubarb, powd. 75@1 25
Rosinweed, powd. 25@ 30
Sarsaparilla, Hond.
eround .....:. 59
Sarsaparilla Mexican,
Srounad ....... 25@ 30
Squnls ......... 20@ 35
Squills. powdered 40@ 60
Tumeric, powd. 12@ 15
Valerian, powd. 25@ 30
Seeds
Amise ....:..... 15@ 20
Anise, powdered 22@ 25
Bird, Is ........ 8@ 10
Canary ..:..... 9@ 12
Caraway .......- 12@ 18
Cardamon .... 1 75@2 90
@elery ....... - 80@ 35
Coriander ...... 12@ 18
WON cee 25@ 30
Mennell ......... @ 30
Blake ..0..:..... 4@ 8
Flax, ground 4@ 8
Foenugreek, pow. 6@ 10
Fiemp .....---..- 5@ ti
Lobelia ........- @ 50
Mustard, vellow 9@ 12
Mustard, black 9@ 12
Mustard, powd. 20@ 5
POppy ....-.-... 5@ 20
oe eben cs 75@1 90
Rane <...........- 6@ 10
Sabadiila eee. 23@ 39
Sabadilla, powd. 35@ 45
Sunflower ........ 5@ 8
Worm American 15@ 20
Worm Levant 50@ 60
Tinctures
Aconite ........ @ 75
AIOGS .......... @ 65
Armies ......... @ 40
Asafoetida ..... @1 00
Belladonna ..... @ 60
Benzoin .......- @ 30
Benzoin Compo’d @ 90
MuUChU ........-. @1 00
Cantharadies @1 90
Capsicum ...... @ 230
Cardamon ..... @1 20
Cardamon, Comp. @ 80
Gatechu ........ @ 60
Cinchona ...... @1 05
Colchicum ...... @ 60
Cubebs ......... @1 20
Dieitalis ....... @ 60
Gentian «........ @ 60
Gimeer ......... @ 9%
Guaipne ......... @1 05
Guaiac Ammon. @ 80
To@ine ..:.....- @1 25
Iodine, Colorless @1i 25
Mpecae .........- @
Iron, clo. ..:..- @ 60
WOUNG 56 ccc ee @ 80
Myreh _......... @1 05
INox Vomicea .... @ 70
Opium ......... @2 v0
Opium Camph. .. @ 65
Opium, Deodorz’d @2 25
Rhubarb ....... @ 70
Paints
Lead, red dry .. ¢~ @ 8
Lead, white dry 7 @ 8
Lead, white oil 7 @ 8
Ochre, yellow bbl. 1 @ 1%
Ochre yellow less 2 @ 5
IPMGCY oo. n es @ 5
Red Venetn bbi. i @1%
Red Venet’n less 2 @ 5
Shaker, Prepr’d 1 40@1 50
Vermillion, Eng. 90@1 (0
Vermillion, Amer. 15@ 20
Whiting, bbl..... 1@ 1%
Whitine ........ 2@ 5
Insecticides
AAGSEGmIG ........ 6@ 10
Blue Vitrol, bbl. @ 5%
Blue Vitrol less 7@ 10
Bordeaux Mix Pst 8@ 15
Hellebore, White
powdered ...... 15@ 20
Insect Powder .. 20@ 35
Lead Arsenate 8@ 16
Lime and Sulphur
Solution, gal... 15@ 25
Paris Green 154%@ 20
Miscellaneous
Acetanalid ..... 30@ 35
Algo. 3. as 3@ 5
Alum, powdered ae
erouna ....... 7
Bismuth, Subni-
trate ........ 10@2 25
Borax xtal or
powdered oe 6@ 12
Cantharades po. 2 50@2 75
Calomel ...... 1 20@1 30
Capsicum ...... 20@ 20
Carmine ......-. @3 50
Cassia Buds .... @ 40
Cloves ..:..... 30@ 35
Chalk Prepared 6@ 8%
Chalk Precipitated — en 10
Chloroform ...... 48
Chloral Hydrate jo@1 15
Gocaine. ....... 10@4 40
Cocoa Butter * oe 60
Corks, list, less 70%
Copperas, bbls. ..
Copperas, less 6 5
Copperas, powd. 4@ 6
Corrosive Sublm. 1 05@1 10
Cream Tartar 30@ 35
Cuttlebone .:... 25@ 30a
Dextrine ....... 7@ 10
Dover’s Powder 2 00@2 29
Emery, all Nos. 6@ 10
Emery, powdered 5@ 8
Epsom Salts, bbls @ 1%
Epsom Salts, less 24%4@ D
TeMROL 6... cs... 1 50@1 75
Ergot, powdered 1 80@2 09
Flake White .. T2@ 15
Formaldehyde Ib. 10@ 15
Gambier ....... 7@ 10
Gelatine ........ 35@ 45
Glassware, full cases 80%
Glassware, less 70 & 10%
Glauber Salts bbl. @ i
Glauber Salts less 2@ 5
Giue, brown ..... 11@ 15
Glue, brown gerd. 10@ 15
Glue, white .. 15@ 25
Glue, white grd. 15@ 20
Glycerine ..... 234%@ 30
IMODS ........... 0@ 80
Indigo ......:... 85@1 00
Fo@ine ......... 4 35@4 60
Todotorm ) ...... 5 40@5 60
Lead Acetate ....12@ 18
Joycopdium ..... 55@_ 65
MSCG 2.00.05... 2. 80@ 90
Mace, powdered 90@1 00
Menthol ....... 4 25@4 50
Mercury ........ 75@_ 85
Morphine all brd 5 05@5 30
Nux Vomica @ 10
Nux Vomica pow @ 15
Pepper, black pow 20@ 25
Pepper, white 30@ 35
Pitch, Burgundy 10@ 15
Quassia ......... 10@ 15
Quinine, all brds 29@ 40
Rochelle Salts 23@ 30
Saccharine 1 50@1 75
Salt Peter ...... @ 12
Seidlitz Mixture ..20@ 25
Soap, green ... 5@ 20
Soap, mott castile 10@ 15
Soap, white castile
CHS@ .......... 6 25
Soap, white castile
less, per bar .. @ 68
Soda Ash ...... 1%™@ 5
Soda Bicarbonate 14¢ 5
Soda, Sal ........ 1 4
Spirits Camphor. @ 7
Sulphur roll... .. 2%@ 5
Sulphur Subl. ...2%@ 5
Tamarings ...... 10@ 15
Tartar Emetic .. 40@ 50
Turpentine Venice 40@ 50
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 00@1 59
Witch Hazel 1. 00
Zinc Sulphate .. 7 10
TRADESMAN
27
1914
Seasonable Goods
Linseed Oil ‘Turpentine
White Lead Dry Colors
Sherwin-Williams Co.
Shelf Goods and Varnishes
Shaker House and Floor Paint
Kyanize Finishes and Boston
Varnishes
Fixall Paris Green
Blue Vitrol
Lime and Sulphur Solution
Japalac
We solicit your orders for above and will ship
promptly.
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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
FooTe & JeENKS’ COLEMAN’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) _
Four Kinds of Coupon Books
are manufactured by us and all sold on the same
basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomi.ation.:
Free samples on application.
TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.
MICHIGAN
GROCERY PRICE CURRENT
These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing.
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.
liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled
at market prices at date of purchase.
ADVANCED
DECLINED
Wingold Flour
Index to Markets
By Columns
Col
A
Penmonia ;........... 2
Axle Grease ......... 1
B
Baked Beans ........ 1
Bat Brick ..........- 1
wean ow ees 1
Breakfast Food ...... a
Brooms ......-...---- 1
Berauienes 4... ja... 1
Butter Color ......... 1
Cc
Candles ......----+.-+ 1
Canned Goods ....... 1-2
Carbon Olls .......... 2
Cote =... woe. ee 2
MOMPESe ... eee es eos. ee 3
Chewine Gum ........ 3
GL OTOT en HS ERSTE SAE 3
Chocolate ........----- 3
Clothes Lines ........ 3
Coen 6.0.6.6. 3
[oconnue ......5.-... 3
nee eee. 3
Confections .....-.-.-- 4
Cracked Wheat ...... : 5
Crackers .........--. 5, 6
Cream Tartar ........ 6
D
Dricd Fruits ......... 6
F
Farinaceous Goods 6
Fishing Tackle ...... 6
Flavoring Extracts 7
Flour and Feed ...... 7
Eyuit Jars ......-..--- 7
G
Gelatine .....,...---+ 7
rain aes .......--.. 7
H
Sers «546. so ci 7
Hides and Pelts ...... 8
Horse Radish ........ 8
J
Jee ee ceekee 8
Jelly Glasses ......... 8
M
MIBCAPOUI ....65+----0- 8
Mapleine ......-...--. 8
Meats, Canned ....... 9
Mince Meat .......... 8
Molasses ........ cen oe 8
Misistard ..........--0. 8
4
8
8
8
8
8
8
weer 6 cc se 9
Rolled Oats .......... 9
s
Salad Dressing ....... 9
Saleratus ..... pee ceces 9
Sat oda .....:.---... 9
Reet 5 gt seek... y
Batt Fish .....:....... 9
Se a 10
Shoe Blacking ....... 10
rie ge 10
BOO ....---s.5s5.- ss 7
CLS i es Sy 10
res esa. ce se 10
BEBPOR .osencs ne beeeee 10
YETIGB onc ace sess. 10
T
Table Sauces ........ 10
“ee 10
TORACCO ......-. 11, 12, 13
MIME § cele esses. ce 13
Vv
WAQGRAR ... oo. cess. 13
7 OW
MUGCKID . 5 recta sess 13
Woodenware ......... 13
Wrapping Paper ..... 14
Y
Weast Cake .........-- 8
1
AMMONIA
12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box 75
AXLE GREASE
Frazer’s.
1Ilb. wood boxes, 4 doz.
1lIb. tin boxes, 3 doz.
3%tb. tin boxes, 2 dz.
10tb. pails, per doz.
15Ib. pails, per doz.
25tb. pails, per doz. ..1
BAKED BEANS
No. 1, per doz. ...45@ 90
No. 2, per doz. ...75@1 40
No. 3, per doz. ...85@1 75
BATH BRICK
AMPS 2.6.6.4. lk. 5
BLUING
Jennings’.
Condensed Pearl Bluing
Small C P Bluing, doz. 45
Large C P Bluing, doz. 75
BREAKFAST FOODS
°
‘8
oN ep te
So
So
Apetizo, Biscuits -. 3 00
Bear Food, Pettijohns 1 95
Cracked Wheat, 24-2 2 50
Cream of Wheat, 36-2 -4 50
Cream of Rye, 24-2 .. 3 00
Posts Toasties, T.
O 2 oo. 2 80
Posts Toasties, T.
No. 3 ..... Seeeen eee 2 80
Farinose, 24-2 ....... 2 70
Grape Mutts ......... 2 70
Grape Sugar Flakes... 2
Sugar Corn Flakes .. 2 50
Hardy Wheat Food . 2
Postma’s Dutch Cook 2
Holland Rusk 3
Kelloge’s Toasted Rice
Biscuit 3
Kellogg’s Toasted Rice
Miakes oo... se kk. 2 80
Kelloge’s Toasted Wheat
Biscwit ....,....... 3 30
Kellogg’s Krumbles .. 3 30
Krinkle Corn Flakes 1 75
Mapl-Wheat Flakes,
B G08) 2 ooo...
Mapl- eat Flakes,
2 GQZ, ..05-12.... 06
Mapl-Corn Flakes
Minn. Wheat Cereal
Algrain Food .......
Ralston Wheat Food
Ralston Wht Food 10c
Saxon Wheat Food
Shred Wheat Biscuit
arascwit, 18 ........-
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’]
Post Tavern Special
Quaker Puffed Rice
Quaker Puffed Wheat
Quaker Brkfst Biscuit
Quaker Corn Flakes
Victor Corn Flakes
ho
85
6 . .
ee . .
bt et DO RS om DO et CO DO RCO DO DO
a
o
Washington Crisps 85
Wheat Hearts ...... 90
Wheatena ........... 4 50
Evapor’ed Sugar Corn 9
BROOMS
Fancy Parlor, 25 tb. ..4 25
Parlor, 5 String, 25 th. 4 00
Standard Parlor, 23 tb. 3 50
Common, 23 Ib. ..... 3 25
Bpecial, 23 i. ...... 2 75
Warehouse, 33 Ib. .. 4 25
Common Whisk ..... 1 00
Fancy Whisk ....... 25
BRUSHES
rub
Solid Back, 8 in. ..... 75
Solid Back, 11 in. .... 95
Pointed Finds ........ 85
Stove
NO. @ 2.5065... 90
No 2 ooo. s eee. 1 25
No, t 2... 1 75
Shoe
Mo. 38 ...5............ 1 00
MO. 7 i .3 1.06. 1 30
No: 4 ............... 1 70
Noe 3 ...-........-25- 1 90
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 25c size ..2 00
CANDLES
Paraffine, 68 ........> 7%
Faratine, 128 ........ 8
WICKING || 3... 20
CANNED GOODS
Apples
3 Th. Standards ..
Gallen ......5....2. @3 60
Blackberries
SU: 2s. ee D1 90
Standard gallons @5 00
Beans
Baked ....)..... 85@1 30
Bloomingdale @18%%
Carson City @18%
Wax 2... 75@1 25
Blueberries
Standand ........2. | 1 80
Callen | 7 26
. Clams
Little Neck, 1th. .. @1 00
Little Neck, 2tb. .. @1 59
Clam Bouillon
Burnham’s % Pi ....2 95
Burnham's pts. ...._, 3 75
Burnham's Gos. 2.0... 7 50
a4 Corn
a 65@ 70
Good fee es. 90@1 00
Haney |... |. @1 30
French Peas
Monbadon (Natural)
Per doz...) 1 75
: Gooseberries
No 2) Pair | 1 50
No 2, Fancy 2 35
: Hominy
ptandard ......°..... $d
Lobster
“De 1 85
fe 2D ee 3 15
Mackerel
Mustard, it. 9... 1 80
Mustard, 2%. 4 2 80
Soused, 144tb. ....._! 1 60
soused, 21). ..... 1 2 75
Tomato, 110: 1 50
fomato, 245, 2 80
Mushrooms
Hotels @ 15
Buttons, \%s .... @ 14
Buttons, ls ....., @ 2
2 Oysters
Cove, 1th @ 8
weve, 2... /1 60
Plums
Hiums .. oo. 90@1 35
Pears in Syrup
No. 3 cans, ber doz. ..1 50
Peas
Marrowfat ...... 90@1 00
Early June .....1 10@1 2
Early June siftd 1 4501 5
: Peaches
Pie epoch ee elees. 1 00@1 25
No. 10 size can pie @3 25
Pineapple
Grated oe 75@2 10
Sliced .... 1. 95@2 60
: Pumpkin
air... 80
Good 2 90
BMMCY, 3. o lo 1 00
Galion 2. .:.. 2 40
Raspberries
Standard e
Salmon
Warrens, 1 Ib. Tall .. 2 30
Warrens, 1 Ib. Flat .. 2 40
Red Alaska ....1 55@1 60
Med Red Alaska 1 15@1 30
«
Pink Alaska .... 90
Sardines
Domestic, 4s 50
Jomestic, %s ....... 3
Domestic % Mustard 3 25
Domestic, % Mustard 2 75
Pech, 346 ... 21.0. 7@14
French, %s ........ 13@23
Sauer Kraut
No. 3, cans .........., 90
Mo. 20, cans ......2.) | 40
Shrimps
Dunbar, 1st doz. ...:1 35
Dunbar, 1%s doz. ....2 35
Succotash
Saag ol ko, 90
Geog ...66355 20
Memecy ........ 1 25@1 40
Strawberries
Srandarad ....,..: 95
MIAMCY 6.20.3... 2 25
Tomatoes
Gong ..,......... 1 05
MIQRCY 26.562... 1 35
Wo. 10 .;..... sues 3 25
CARBON OILS
Barrels
Perfection ..... @10%
D. §S. Gasoline -@16
Gas Machine ... oss
Vv. & M. P. Nap’a..@15
Cylinder ....... 29 @34%
Dagine ........ 16 @22
8 @10
Black, winter .
CATSU
Snider’s pints
Snider’s %
2 35
pints ....1 36
Prices, however. are
TRADESMAN
3
CHEESE
CMO oc lel eke. @20
Bloomingdale @20
Carson City ... @20
Hopkins ........ @20
Brick .... @18
ipeiden .......... @15
Limburger ..... @18
Pineapple ...... 40 @é60
Gam . 3.6... @MRB5
Sap Sago ....... @18
Swiss, domestic @20
CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack ....
oO
Adams Sappota ....... 55
Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 55
Beechnut ............. aN
Chiclets ............. 1 25
Colgan Violet Chips .. 60
Colgan Mint Chips ... 60
Dentyne ............. 1 10
Flag Spruce ab
Juicy Fruit
ov
Red Robin 55
Sen Sen (Jars 80 pkgs,
PE 55
Spearmint, Wrigleys 60
Spearmint, 5 box jars 3 00
Spearmint, 3 box jars 1 80
Trunk Spruce ......... 55
Wueatan ..:............ 55
MONO <2 ..0..--..5.-... 60
CHICORY
Buk oie 3
OG. be. le. i
Magle ....5.....5 eee 5
MrANCKS .:..0..5..... 7
Seneuers .....--.... 6
Red Standards ...... 1 460
Witte | 625....5....... 1 60
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.
German's Sweet ...... 22
Premium | ............. 22
(anacas .............. 28
Walter M. Lowney Co.
Premium, %45 <....... ae
Premium, #48 ........ 29
CLOTHES LINE
Per doz.
No. 40 Twisted Cotton 93
No. 50 ‘Twisted Cotton 1 30
No. 60 ‘Twisted Cotton 1 70
No. 80 Twisted Cotton 2 00
No. 50 Braided Cotton 1 00
No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 25
No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 85
No. 80 Braided Cotton 2 25
No. 50 Sash Cord ..... 75
No. 60 Sash Cord ..... 2 00
No. 60 Jute .......... 90
No 72 Jute ....:...... 1 00
No. 60 Sisal ...... sa... 90
Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 00
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
COCOA
Bakers (..0.:2..5....... 7
Cleveland <............ 41
Colonial, 4s .......... 35
Colonial, %s .......... 33
PUDDB oo sc ccc a ees es : 42
Hershey's, \%s ........ 30
Hershey s, 468 ........ 28
duyler ............ Ja.. Bo
Lowney, WS .......... 34
Lowney, 48 ......... 34
Lowney, Ys ....... 33
Lowney, 5 Ib. cans .... 33
Van Houten, %s ..... 12
Van Houten,, \%s ..... 18
Van Houten, %s ..... 36
Van Houten, Is ...... 65
Wan-tta ..........- «<1 Bb
US Oe 33
Waiber, 368 ....-..:... 33
Wilber, %s ........ aes oe
COCOANUT
Dunham's per Ib
%s, 5tD. cage ..... . 30
4s, 5Ib. case ....... 29
4s, 15Ib. case ...... 29
16s, 15Ib. case ...... 28
Is, lolD. Case ....... 27
4s & %s 15Ib. case 28
Scalloped Gems ...... 10
Ys & Ms pails ...... 16
Bulk, pails .......... 18
Bulk, barrels ....... 12
Baker’s. Brazil Shredded
10 5c pkgs., per case 2 60
26 10c pkgs., per case 2 60
16 10c and 33 5c pkgs.,
per case 26
COFFEES ROASTED
Rlo
eee eer ores
ee eececcee
eee ee rccrecece
Peaberry
Maracaibo
Java
Private Growth
Mandling
Aukola
seer er cece
30@32
eeveerererecece
4
Mocha
Short Bean ........ 25@27 .
Long Bean .......... 24@ 25
HT. ls. Bg ae she 26@28
Bogota Ȣ
Haan 3. 24
HANCY .. 1.4.5.0... 26
Exchange Market, Steady
Spot Market. Strong
Package
New York Basis
Arbuckle ........... 19 59
Lion 21 50
McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin's XXXX sold
to retailers only. Mail all
F.
Seem eee eee ee eeane
orders direct to W. .
McLaughlan & Co., Chicago
Extracts
Holland, % gro. bxs 95
Felix, 4% gross ....... 15
Hummel's foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Horehound ........... 8
prangard .......,..... 8
Standard, small ...... 8%
Dwist, small .....:.... 9
Cases
SUMO 260060...
Jumbo, small ........ 8%
Big Stick .......... >.. 8%
Boston Cream ....... 13
Mixed Candy
Broken .5..55...5 5... 8
@Wameo .............. 12
Wut Woat) ........0.... )
Haney . oes si. 10%
French Cream 9
Grocers ........ 6%
Kindergarten 11
Meader’ ............... 8%
Majestic’ ............. 9
Monarch ............. 8%
Novelty 6..........., 10
Paris Creams ....... 10
Premio Creams ...... 14
MOVON a Seek es 7%
MPCCIA eee se. 84
Valley Creams ....... 12
M1 Oo. es. 7
Specialties
Pails
Auto Kisses (baskets) 13
Bonnie Butter Bites ..16
Butter Cream Corn ..16
Candy Crackers (bsk) 15
Caramel Dice ....... 3
Cocoanut Kraut ..... 14
Cocoanut Waffles .... 14
Coco Macaroons ..... 16
Coffy TVoffy ......... 14
Dainty Mints 7 tb. tin 15
Empire Fudge ....... 14
Fudge, Pineapple ... 13
Fudge, Walnut ...... 13
Fudge, Filbert ...... 13
Fudge, Choco. Peanut 12
Fudge, Honey Moon ..13
Fudge, Toasted Cocoa-
OG ee ee. 18
Fudge, Cherry ...... 14
Fudge, Cocoanut .... 13
Honeycomb Candy .. 15
KOKAYS ..5....25-5... 14
Iced Maroons ........ 14
Iced Gems ......:... 15
Iced Orange Jelies .. 13
Italian Bon Bons .... 13
Lozenges, Pep. ...... 10
Lozenges, Pink ...... 10
Manenus ............ 13
Molasses Kisses, 10
L POX (2000... 8 13
Nut Butter Puffs ....°13
Salted Peanuts ...... 13
Chocolates
Pails
Assorted Choc. ...... 15
Amazon Caramels .... 15
Champion ........;.. 11
Choc. Chips, Eureka 18
Climax. =:..:.....,... 1
Eclipse, Assorted .... 1
Eureka Chocolates .. 16
PAvoOrite ........55,. 16
Ideal Chocolates .... 13
Klondike Chocolates 18
Nabobs .............. 18
Nibble Sticks ........ 25
Nut Wafers ......... 18
Ocoro Choc. Caramels 17
Peanut Clusters ..... 22
Pyramids ...:;........ 14
Quintette ............ 16
ReCRINA ce. 5. 10
Star Chocolates ..... 13
Superior Choc. (light) 18
Pop Corn Goods
Without prizes.
Cracker Jack ...... 3 25
Giggles, 5c pkg. cs. 3 50
Oh My 100s ......... 50
ough Drops
boxes
Putnam Menthol .... 1 00
Smith Bros. ........ 1 25
NUTS—Whole .
s.
Almonds, Tarragona 20
Almonds, California
soft shell ......
Bravils .......... 14@16
MUDerts. ..:...... @13%
Cat No. 3 .........
Walnuts soft shell @19
Walnuts, Chili .... 16
Table nuts, fancy 14@16
Pecans, medium @13
Pecans, ex. large @15
Hickory Nuts, per bu.
Ohio .....
Cocoanuts
April 8, 1914
D
Chestnuts, New York
State, per bu.
Shelled
No. 1 Spanish Shelled
Peanuts, New 10 @10%
Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled
Peanuts ..... 114%@12
Pecan Halves * @50
Walnut Halves .. 40@42
Filbert Meats @30
Alicante Almonds @55
Jordan Almonds @60
Peanuts
Fancy H P Suns Raw @61
Roasted ort
7
H. P. Jumbo, Raw A
Roasted ........ @9
CRACKERS
National Biscuit Company
Brands
Butter
Box
Excelsior Butters 7
sc. 8
NBC Square Butters 6%
Seymour Round ..... 6%
Soda
NBC Sodas .......... 6%
Premium Sodas , cose 1%
‘Select Sodas ......... 8%
Saratoga Flakes ..., 13
Saltines ......., Scece 18
Oyster
NBC Picnic Oysters .. 6
Gem Oysters .......,. #
Shell ....:..... tescee. S
Sweet Goods
: Cans and boxes
Animals
see cis ce 0
Atlantics Also Asstd. 12
Avena Fruit Cakes .. 12
Bonnie Doon Cookies 10
Bonnie Lassies ..... :
Cameo Biscuit Choc. 25
Cameo Biscuit Asstd. 25
Cartwheels Asstd. ... 8%
Cecelia Biscuit ...... 16
Cheese Tid Bits .... 20
Chocolate Bar (cans) 18
Chocolate Drops so
Chocolate Drop. Cen-
Ceres) 5.) eo! seeee 16
Choc. Honey Fingers 16
Choc. Rosettes (Cans) 20
Cracknels ......5.. 7° 18
Cream Fingers ..... 14
Cocoanut Taffy Bar .. 13
Cocoanut Drops .... 12
Cocoanut Macaroons' 18
Cocont Honey Fingers 12
Cocnt Honey Jumbes 12
Coffee Cakes Iced ... 12
Family Cookies ...... 816
Fig Cakes Asstd. .... 12
Frosted Creams ..... - 8%
Frosted Ginger Cook. 8%
Fruit Lunch Iced .... 10
Ginger Drops ....... 13
Ginger Gems Plain .. 816
Ginger Gems Iced ... 9%
Graham Crackers .... 8
Ginger Snaps Family 8%
Ginger Snaps NBC
Round .2..... tess. 8
Household Cookies ... 8
Household Cks. Iced .. 9
Hippodrome Bar ..... 12
Honey Jumbles ..... 12
imperialg .........., - 8%
Jubilee Mixed ...... 10
Lady Fingers Sponge 30
Leap Year Jumbles .. 20
Lemon Biscuit Square 9
Lemon Wafers ...... 17
emona ioe... 8%
Mace Cakes ......... 8
Mary Ann 8%
Marshmallow ; Coffee ys
ARC oo as aa)
Marshmallow Walnts 18 .
Medora
NBC Honey Cakes .. 12
Oatmeal Crackers .... 8
Orange Gems ...... - 8%
Penny Assorted ...... 8%
Peanut Gems ..... ~. 9
Pineapple Cakes .... 16
Raisin Gems ........ 11
Raspberry Dessert .. 17
Reveres Asstd. ...... 15
Spiced Ginger Cakes.. 9
Spiced Ginger Cakes
Teed . 3.0.0... sees. LO
Sugar Fingers ...... .. 22
Sugar Crimp ........ 8%
Sultana Fruit Biscuit 16
Triumph Cakes ..... 16
Vanilla Wafers ..... 18
Waverley ..... seccs, 20
In-er-Seal Trade Mark
Goods
per doz.
Baronet Biscuit ...... 1 00
Bremners Btr Wafs. 1 00
Carfieo Biscuit .......1 50
Cheese Sandwich ....1 00
Chocolate Wafers ...1 00
Excelsior Butters ....1 00
Fig Newton .........1 00
Five O’Clock Tea Bct 1 00
Ginger Snaps NBC ..1 00
April 8, 1914
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
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Label, oe ' ; :
ane ite, “tie aaa er LAVORING EX
Oystereticg Shee 50 Je cnc
en Sodas .... o0 peut o
i ae 100 Ext sit =e -
oe seit 18 | z mh 60@1 25
= ba oe ae ae hearlings ... 10@ 25 Bol Sausages
_ Biscuit Ye fate ewe RE ’ g a
a tie , xican No. 1 Tallow cay sere U%@12 Anise SEEDS
a Waf r100 N me pri "eee aa ioe i ae
Water Th afers ....4.1 o 1, Fb rice ae @ 5 Hoe 12% aac =
Z, hin Bisc 0) , oo oa Lc ee ic Cardo. eee :
aoa aa e - : t box, 1% 4 : Peed betcr @4 Tonsue oe eceeesccne: . cardomem, Stab a a
Clb eae ess : 4 box, 2 . washed, . @18 eadchee Teo Celery oS ~ 72 ugly Moen
Other Pa . 100 No. 3, 2 , 2% oz. 2 00 » fine .. — 11 wo ie 5 Bugle, os ao
= cage Goo 8 in Pi Pichia 2 00 Per oe aa Boneles: Beef sees 10 yee Bird - 5 se Beco py se
ocolate T is .. 50 FL 7 Met ...c) Be. ces R “new : a : a =
Butter C ‘okens 259 Gra OUR AN wo) 75 F Jel 2 90 ump, new . 20 00@20 ape. ae a a3 i
tae d D FEE Th. pail ly w ..24 50 Ra ee : ¥. Mail, I
ea ae Le 5 oS ED 15Ib Ss, per d Pig’ 00@24 50 be .... cence 9 ast Mail, 2 oz. 52
Soda Cra paeiene 2 50 Milling Co cain & | Gib. pails, per oz. ..2 40 % bbis g’s Feet s eee ee ayes 5 ree aa i"
eee 4 ‘. s ° eee HOE : % T g tha, 16 ' aoe. ’
Family Pack NBC Puri Winter Wh pails, per pail .. 55 % bbis., 40 Ths... u we) te :
Fruit Cak ackage 9 g rity Patent eat JELL pail ..1 00 % bbls. _ oo i ane Z au ae
e ge Guenee oo... 5 % pt Y GLAS 1 bb oe. ‘ 219 Handy x, large 3 x meg Oh oa
ee coe Ballpen: 10% PE in bbls SES i Seas 495 Bixby’ Box, sm dz. 3 50 o Limit, g 6 02. . 0
Tin Pack Wi Flour s-- 4 80 pt. in bbl + per doz. 15 seacaaacs eva Oe polish * § Sten at a
ages izard Graham .... 4 8 0z. S., per . 1b oo. © 50 Miller’ yal Poli 25 Ofji mitica 1
we a ve a ae 3 oz, capped - er doz. 16 rg ey — s Crown Polish 3. Shoes 8 pth ws 80
ni se 3 te Cie ii 1 care oo bbis., 40 Ibs. cesses, 90 Scotch gical Ojibwa, 106... on 40
— : el ee e oe , We serene. 0 Maccab adder HDWA, BC os eeccees 6
siecle ce ey Cit cose. 4 40 - bottle E 2... 3 0 F Taee oe 8 i Eat
Nabisco = bulk, per my ed Ww hia”. Milling Co. 1 oz. battles, ver doz. 3 00 Hogs, per Casings 0 French Hapsie ar eects a Pena 2 Chiet, 14 ont :
a Po 7 ee | MINCE r doz. 1 75 Beef, roun neat 35 s jars .. 43. Red h and Honey oz. 4 00
ent’s Water Crackers 1 . Grancne sasangeteseee be oe eae MEAT Bheen middles ia B08 Kess, i “ re ; 2 :
: en te te mid : 8G foe ween: ste , oll reer
B CREAM TARTAR oe een sco Moeel a a oe " -.,ungolored But se “7 — ‘: ae re Sweet Cuba, D fa 1 a8
ai sa che Dair utterin nn 4, Sweet Cc . Canister
a — fe ER 8) tie a rleans Country ry wees 12 e ICES Sweet Cuba, 5c er 9 1¢
Pa as . 33 Graham ng Co. 4387 Choice pen Kettle alls ... eKOre All Whole Spic Sweet a a. 5 7e
Fancy Caddi ee 34 Voigt’s Crescent"... 43 Good... 0002) 8 eed 4 = ; : aS :
o cB Wolet cues AOE erent ss 6G rned beef eats lispice, 1 aica .. 9 Ss et Cuba b. tin 4
oT a ye S hesca a ro... ect 35 ‘orned beef, 2 th. Cloves, - g Garden” 10 Sweet Burle % Ib. fol 50
DRIED FRU oigt’s Hygi et .... 641 ad oe Uhieaig bts - oo ef 2 I 48 & tee | = fe i
ITs Voigt’s ygienic 4 10 Red H fo a 20 R t beef 2 th. ||” 2 40 sassia, Can +: 2 Sw t Burley aoa
Evapor’ed Apples Wa Royal . 30 Rea Hoe No aoe extra Potte, beef, 1 % 2 a i : SS
3 E “1a , oc 15 Swe y, 45
ve ia eee ae oS Hed Hen, No a a “Fewer at, Hann 5 oe Attican az. @25 Sweet Mie ig’ ero. + 4 90
: ; : uckwhe : , : ao otte is ae it beam ? et. E :
ie 15@ Perfection a - 6 % Ib oe 1 65 » Vogl eel ™ irixed "No. 1 2 bar © S
aa a riot, cesses 6 00. 4 . box eviled Mi S .. Mixed. ; os ger, Ba ceca a<
Corsi Citron a2 ees Woes oo 95 Mixed, a: Hole Beni - E
ce ° 2 480 Bul a _otives 1 Deve MB seen 85 Nutmegs, bikes. a @ie hele 50 cans... § 00
cr oe. shall Rod ae of eo ee 1 00 P Flavor, \%. sane utmegs, 1 i. @ icle Daniel, th... €
ae : ts : ee n Grocer Co Bulk, 5 gal. kegs @1 10 ‘otted Tor = ...., Pepper, B 05-110 . 30 tet 0
i 2 ae en Gr oe gal. ke 95@1 05 Potted ngue, Xs .. 95 Pepper, lack + @25 - & 22
a : er, paps en | ed, 5 Zs 90@ Tongu a... & per, White ..... @15 Plu
: a aE a 1 05 e, 4S Pep te... A ‘ g
aa a oe tece € 10 St 6d Saez. 7 oe 9 ; per €a eos @26 m. N
s—Choic é Le see Fa RICE 5 Paprik hinge v a
ane : cer" kaa Biomed. aa 1 90 ney . ika, Hu -- @22 pple, 10 1 oz.
Fa ancy, 25Ib. 2 sas Hard W itted (n Re 25 inna Sc 6 ca ac ao ,
es Fancy, 22m aay: cu ee Milling oo Man oe anes) .. 225 Broken oe eeeede 5 Oks, Anee oe la Sut sand 3 1p Nat. Leaf, 2 88
Lemon, A Peel Wo Mecenceces 4 Oo L zanilla, 86. Race ae ee ) a a ee | Sry
, Americe rden 0 unch, oz. .. 5 ROLL % Cassia, Zanzi + oe vet oe :
Lemon, american marr American Bagle, % Co. ae 18 _ ls 90 Pe eee oe Gna ou. -: on Battle - onenue ' -
st ay ere Eagle, is Oe ai ueen, Mammoth. 19° 35 Mona Cut, 100 Ib. s. ..5 00 Mace on wee 20 foe, fai 96
ae ea - esi a --5 20 Q Oz; oo. moth, 19 25 sean bbls. . sks. 2 50 Nutme enang ... @17 i Four ot ih 32
cut idiot ns ogee wt ence ..5 10 aps Mammoth, 28 4 25 qi is 4 as 75 Pepper, Biacl Shoda Oar Hoes Jack a 16 Ib. x
| : i » i oJ LL , AG . ~ 25 ’ « t ese > © aL ? I . eer
oa sit a's cada ga t Olive eesti a Quaker, 20 rae 4 45 Be uoce White ine pa Hllicn, 16 ag doz... =
‘ | iy ie . 368) 6c. : pe » *< - va 9 a eeee ” € , ~ '° a ee
- agalfornia Prunes, See 2 ae Siar eee Sou SI 4 PAPER ni gy Slinae gan ‘
a ce 7 ia, é 45 ‘li . % OZ.
oe ne erat . a NEES alr alata a haan 2 25 STARCH fae Pave “4
’ e Se ' 7 = ates . arr ium D e’s, la ~a.. £0 Corn’ Creme 2 @ 16 ib 3
: ; 25m boxes (ol ae Wieraen Geacer € 15 fen ate count ao aac 1 doz. 4 50 Bingatord. 40 b iy “hg és itentha. i 7
E 0 351" box s “1246 fingold, %s ocer Co. 5 gall S., 600 275 Ss er’s, larg , 2 doz. 5 25 uzzy, 20 1Ib S .... 7% 5 Bros . boxes’ . 62
= 60 25m. boxes au eee De oon ...5 60 allon kegs count 4 38 nider’s all : Dg 2 35 s Kin asta << 5% Four peas sa Ey Z
xes ..@12 ingold, s clo ae 1 9 , : = sa ae tke
FARINACEOUS GOOD Wingold, %s ens a 20 bela : Small 7 A Pound We ite ” sy. 0 a" ced : ei :
: > i oN a8 si etal — ke Wya a fans in box Argo, 2 oe és Gold Rope, 4 by 12 Ib. 38
= au : a sie 7 on keas .. |” 5 25 ndotte, 100 Me .. 3.00 Siver 24 5c pkgs G. O. P., 12 de Ib. 58
= ext EMS ooo “ao epy Eye, \%s Co. age 2 25 * SAL S 4s .. 300 Sive Goss, 16 2Ibs. 90 G © Ww Twist, 6 Ib .. 4
fed. and Picked ae aoe Eye, 4s ash 5 60 Easels Gherkins Granulated ocr r Goss, 12 sibs. -. 6% eo ae 10 Ib. ay «=. 46
. ob 180 gy gee ee ote CS alf barrels 1.1... 14 00 Granulated, Bhs. ----- go 48 1b te aii a bee oe ne 2 Ib. 4
: oe Slee ye, %8 pa 5 30 gallon kegs .. 2/777 65 ranulated, 36 lbs cs 5p ES 31D. packages Jolly Ts ip Twist 5&1 43
= =i i ye ae 2 40 So. 2 - ’ pkgs. .. 1 25 12 61D. packages ...... 5 | . a4 & 8 Ib 10 45
fa aie a es per 530 Barrel Sweet Sm SALT 5 50% . packages ...... 47% Gantione én 40
bu oe a 3 oe na e eee. all 100 Common G Wowen 6 Keystor y Navy, 12 Ib. 35
reed 2 rolls contarner Granulated"! 4 20 5 ie ee 16 a 8676 ‘ ib sacks rades elasaa tenes 3 Kismet " 7a 6 Ib. +
s 3 20 Ww si egs ...... 8 75 Diaseiee oo 2 — "adie
Pearl, we te ew Red chen hie alae 350 | 98 30 Ke Segue -..... 340 Barrels ia ne titi si
sg: ve pe. i. Ge te ES 56 lb. sacks ...... oc, lll boxes ....-.. Nobby Spi ow, 12 Ib. .. 28
Teed. on tee micelli yrich aa 93 Clay, T Pgs per box 1 75 86 Ib. sacks ........ 225 Blue barrels sess... a Paes 2 he eo aie
ed, 25 Ib. b - fichigan t Ob “all Count ee . sacks ........ 49 Blue K og veachey, 6 mea
Pearl B ox 250 Wess than oo wae. 44 Una Hn t 60 56 a. 29 ©«3Blue oe 2% Ib. .. = cen os tb. :
aaa a arley C arlots .... a5 No LAYING CARD 90 98 Fg Poy aw Blue o “i Woo 3 30 Haar aoa sib. ou a
Pegme i ecs. 15 Carlots orn No. 90, Stea S . dairy in drill ba: og Red Karo, " .... $3 Piper Helasiek, 4° 7 tb $9
Green, W aU Less than carlots .: 66 No. a Rival assorted 1 75 56 Ib. Pg ean bags 20 Fed Karo, Cs a cece a0 Palo. Heidsick, per doz. 88
a j “| ; ’ 7 ., Or | : :
ue uti ae es 1 6s a 572, er, cuamrd 4 40 Cc eee nace ag Red _ 214 Ib. ... 215 Redicut, [Zi per doz. 7
ore ioe, i Cariots oO y No. 98 oo a _ Granulated, Fine. Red Kant 5 Ib . 3 . Serapote 2 eo 38
mary : ; Hoos 15 0 0. 808 : in fin. i Aedi D ne lew ... 950 Sherr Cc oz. ee
aa 46 carlots 0 No , Bicycle n. 2 00 um, Fine «cece 2 O6 340 «6Spe ge a
East Indi sago "Str Feed -- 17 00 632 Tourn’t whist. 209 SALT FISH 110 Fair Pure Cane Stoene Head, 12 0 re
German fa wees tee e ees 43 SL aie Car Feed whist 2 25 SALT FISH ae Spear Head, 1 i a
ae a a 1 Cracked Com Oat Heed a Sie Large Cod Good .....s.eeeeseeees 20 Sa. Deal, 1, 14 a o
. ne : oarse Mm we. Se OF oo: Ss me * oe ceuag TABLE SAUCES 25 ree . 12, 0 -
et ae ef ae Small, whole ... @ 9 H TABLE SAUCE Standen buat 24 gg Ib. -
—— 100 ib. ae Aig a JARS +. 32 aoa rank bricks oo” ten “a ; r nF ee :
earl, 36 ke sacks .. 4% Ma » pts., pe Cles ol @13 rd, small... 2 28 oa a *
Minute, 36 eal aD oe son, qts., r gro. 420 S$ ar Back r énaci see CS Ul 225 Lown Talk ‘fa* f
FIS Aptos 8 Me oe pi ge phon ra oo ow crn’ te dees oo ule : mast, 7
HING , can tops 685 Brisket, Clear 18 50G 9 50 ‘ alibut . ee
gre TACKLE Coxe GELATINE 1 30 Be Glenr 26 cha: a Chunk Te er | “ :
(aoe 6 Cox’s, oz. la aoe a o aoe #3 : Ee é
os I Cox's, io rge 1 45 amily ier a ancy 28@35 Red, 5
: oe ’ . § Bike wag Bg. gg intend ee 1 B : Pe
aoa Knox’ acs Bg pelion S24 0) Holland Herring S Basket-sircd’ Sicdim 28@30 eee cc Se
ee ki a | . i ee . : Di Cutl fe
(eo LL 15 eae Acid ing, gr. 14 00 P Bellies eats Y. M. wh hoop bbls. 1 Boanct fire Choice 35@37 abe Sere petie
ous nox's a es 0 ---. 144%@15 Y. M . hoop . 1050 No. 1 red, Fancy 7 Globe Gh .. 88
i : ce 14 Ob @15 . M. wh bbls 5 fo. 1 Nibs y 38@45 | Scrap, 2 oz. .... 26
Cotton L logo al aan ar 15 Lard Y. M. wh. | hoop ke 50 Siftings, bulk ..... 30@ jappy Thot oz. .
e tered is Ban h. hoop Mailete, 65 Siftin a wk 9 32 Honey Co ought, 2 oz. 30
No = 15 ih teases is Plymouth te Diain 1 a cours “Lard e@12 eae « 65 . ee Ib. pkgs. wel aoe Scrap, be: - i
a. | : pound n , js oces un svhc oO , wie 5
a. ib feet 62+... 5. Broad eS ee oe fy tubs -sorddvance "2 ccna io “7 Movune, eo ' Old — oe
Dae et 10 ee 20 Tb. MBS --.-a@venoe % ; ee yune, Choi 38949 Bear, bo a ate
No. 6. 15 et... 11 B .e. « os Th. pails -.-advance 1 : | ae i a as =
ES = ; @ ..35@4 j ear, tL. 6
No. 7, 15 oe Se 1% Ge cae oes % Noi a0" oe ne te a oe, a
: TEE : nt 3 I. oo ae nee % No ft 40 ths ....:.. iz6o Pt g Suey, Choi m 25@30 Sc an Scrap ee 5 76
a 8 We feet 1... ose i. Eons one as . pails " acaaee 1 a is aa 2 25 ng Suey, Wanee aioe Sure She " Pee of
Line vee enna ea ae 15 Smoked el (7. toe ........ 90 Youn --45@50 Yankee Girl's £6 ae, | i
n Li H aa H M a. i 0 3 a 1
Small .. nes IDES AND PELT 25 an 12 th. av eats Mack 75 Choice .. — Ireachy. Ser a ar § ‘
sates: BS RS hg Peits “He em oe 1s gue Meas 8 fe ee oi: aie iis water aE
ee. 2 abo | ae Hams, . av. 15 L420 6.11... _° oe Ss ~ .
— : Noo i. s, 18 5% Mess, cate as F olong an 2
B Poles 4 Gured, No. 1.0. 12 Ham, ae bic, ate 10 Ths... 7h po ‘a 2 “ne
eta 14 ft Cc bed se 13% ean a eef No. 1, 10 ibe 190 fo mosa, Choice men fa re
amboo, 16 ft., per doz. 55 Ca: fskin, green, No. 1 216 alifornia Ham: 29 @30 No. 1, 4 ae ; ae a. a
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz, 60 alfskin, green, No. 1 15 Picnic B ams 12 @ No 1 Cte Engl y ...50@6) BRB, i.
fs er do. ca green, No. 2 18% Hams oiled 12% : 1, 10 Ibs... : Cana sh Breakfast BE. 7 0z.
alfskin, cured, Pky 116 Boiled Hams . 191420 Lake Herring ea ee = !
» No. 2 14% Minced H s ..24 @ 100 tb Herring Congou, Choice Boos, der,
Bacon am ..14 24% 40 5... Con u, Fancy oOae adger
el ae ou eo eee 4 00 gou, Ex. Panay see Rannen
1 Sceegcategs es Dew medium om ie
eee . eeee 5 to si 0 es . :
2 Bes jedi”. 28@20 renee GGG ccc caic
axon -28@30 od, Mixt a
. Fancy 40@50 Bis Sat noes 60
pi quiet. 2% oz. 6
io .... 30
30
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
BAKI
12 13 1 N ag ene Distributed by Judson SOAP
4 ya Grocer Co., Grand Rapids; lout Bea OG
Smoking Pilot, 7 oz. doz. 1 05 10c sixe .. 90 Lee. & Cady, Detroit; Sy- Acme, 30 bars. *
Bull Durham, 5c ..... 5 g5 Soldier Boy, 1 Ip. .... 4 75 Faucets %ib cans 135 awe Bros. & Co., Sagi- 4Cme, 25 bars, 75 Ibs. 4 00
Bull Durham, 10c ... 11 52 Sweet Caporal, 1 oz... 60 Cork lined, 3 In. ...... 70 race ee Ge B®
Bull Durham, 15¢ ... 17 28 Sweet Lotu ae ee 80 YM. ca ner, Jackson; Godsmark, Big M canes -... 8 20
S 60 ...-.- 600 Cork Hned, 10 in. ..... 90 ns 250 purand & Master, 100 blocks 4 00
Se ta Chee Lim, be... ee : : i> ante So nd & Co, Battle Cream Borax, 100 cks 3 85
Bull Durham, 16 oz. .. 6 72 Sweet Lotus, per dz. 435 Trojan ie Sticks ‘ih cane 420 gg Fielbach Co., To- Gore Lapeer .. 315
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MICHIGAN
continuous insertion,
No charge less than 25 cents
TRADESMAN
-BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT
31
s a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent
Cash must accompany all orders.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
Grocery and hardware, first-class stand
in richest farming community in Ohio;
last year’s sales $15,000; stock will in-
voice $3,500; only one competitor in eacr
line; tinning and plumbing business in
connection if wanted; up-to-date town;
natural gas; no poor or unemployed;
will sell building or rent; business can
be increased; mostly cash; best reasons
for selling; principals only. Address
Frazee Bros., Tiro, O. 92
First-class livery business for sale, 42
horses, 30 rigs and 30 saddles. In fact,
everything that is required in making an
up-to-date livery business. Will guar-
antee 30 per cent. on an investment of
$8,000. One of the best propositions on
the Pacific coast. Address W. J. Car-
ter, Montecito, Cali. 90
For Sale—Small fruit farm, nice cot-
tage, other buildings, good well, strong
spring, 100 trees bearing cherries, 280
large apple trees. Fine location, close
to market. Address No. 89, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. sy
For Sale—-8 x 10 ice box, Struns make,
good condition. Can use for meats or
vegetables. A bargain. Epley & Mc-
Lean, Mt. Clemens, Mich. 88
For Rent—A_ store building 24x 100
feet, on main business street, good loca-
tion, could be used for any kind of
business. Has electric lights and city
water. Rent very reasonable, at Boyne
City, Mich., I. Nurko. 87
Merchandise Location For Rent—Mod-
ern brick basement, wareroom, shelving
all in; best corner location, county seat
town; reasonable. J. A. Beckett,
Greensburg, Kan. 86
Wanted—Good man calling on hard-
ware, furniture, carpet and general
stores in middle states. Good commis-
sion. LaPorte Mfg. Co., Box 124, La-
Porte, Indiana. 85
For Sale—First-class stock of dry
goods, invoices at net cost, $6,000. Fine
location, town 6,000. Address Box 578,
Savanna, IIl. 9%
We have several first-class farms to
exchange for general stocks, from $2,500
to $30,000. What have you? Address bL.
E. Sherred, 69 Porter Block, Grand Rap-
ids, Mich. 97
Undertaking and real estate for sale.
Good stand, good reason for selling. Ad-
dress Frank F. Zessau, Farmington,
Mich. 96
“A few good quarter sections of land
in North Dakota and Minnesota to ex-
change for merchandise. Would con-
sider trade from merchants who are
over-stocked and could spare from $2,000
to $4,000 worth of goods. F. H. Helvey,
16 South 9th St., Minneapolis, =
Sale—Up-to- -date bakery with
building. Easy terms. Have other busi-
ness requiring attention. Jos. Loev, 1012
College Ave., yleton, Wis. of
Salesman— you. ‘want $12 a day
sideline working small towns on jewelry
premiums on punch board deals? _West-
er Jewelry & Novelty Co., Hunter
Bldg., Chicago. . 38
For Sale—The entire e outfit of the
John T. Beadle Co., of Traverse City,
Mich., must be closed out within the
next thirty days, consisting of saddlery
and saddlery hardware Sewing mna-
chines, machines and all shop tools,
office furniture and safe, counters, fix-
tures and show cases and all other arti-
eles belonging to this factory. A splen-
did chanee for anyone wishing to con-
tinue this business. 91 :
~“Wanted—aA tailor to locate at Mon-
tague, Michigan, from 3,000 to 5,000
people tributary. A good location for
a laundry and an undertaker. Address
Secretary, Business Men’s League, Mon-
tague, Mich. 84
For Sale—-At once, $12,000 shoe stock.
Reason for selling, death of the junior
partner and the ill health of the senior.
Been established thirty years. Hewitt
& Son, Coloma, Mich. 83
For Siale—One- half interest in the
plumbing and heating business of T. P.
Corboy & Co., Allegan, Michigan; must
be experienced man who wants to give
his time to an established business; stock
will inventory about — $2,000 E. W.
Stone, Admr., Allegan, Mich. 82
““arocery and meat market for sale,
stock and fixtures invoice about $1,200.
Address 920 Emmet St., Petoskey, _
An opportunity to engage in the drug
business in Grand Rapids. 2-2——____
Manufacturing Matters.
Perry—Clarence Ross, recently of St.
Johns, has opened a bakery here.
Coldwater—Jay C. Bisbee has open-
ed a bakery at 12 West Chicago street.
Detroit—The Ajax Brick Co. has in-
creased its capital stock from $100,000
to $150,000.
Detroit—The American Girl Garment
Co. has changed its name to the Super-
ior Dress Co,
East Jordan—The East Jordan Plan-
ing Mills Co. has changed its name to
the East Jordan Cabinet Co.
Detroit—The Thomas Forman Co.,
manufacturer of maple and oak floor-
ing, has increased its capital stock from
$300,000 to $1,000,000.
Petoskey—Anthony Piekarski and
Roy Kellogg have engaged in business
to manufacture cigars under the style
of the Uneda Cigar Co.
Otsego—H. A. Tiefenthal has sold a
half interest in his bakery to Lyman
Ehle, Jr., and the business will be con-
tinued under the style of Tiefenthal &
Ehle,
Detroit—The Eastern United Machine
Co. has engaged in business with an au-
thorized capital stock of $5,000, of which
$3,210 has been subscribed and paid in
in cash.
Detroit—The Moran-Long Electric
Co. has been organized with an author-
ized capital stock of $2,500, which has
been subscribed and $1,250 paid in in
property.
Hamtramck—The Western Brass &
Aluminum Co. has been organized with
an authorized capital stock of $3,000,
which has been subscribed and $2,000
paid in in cash,
Detroit—The Columbia Brass Co.,
Inc., has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capitalization of $30,000, of
which $20,000 has been subscribed and
$5,000 paid in in cash.
Detroit—Sievers & Erdman, manufac-
turers of carriages and wagons, have
merged their business into a stock com-
pany under the style of Sievers & Erd-
man Co., with an authorized capital
stock of $100,000, which has been sub-
scribed, $11,633.58 being paid in in cash
and $88,366.42 in property.
Sand Bay—The American Cine-Mul-
tiphone Co. has been incorporated to
manufacture and sell house furnishings,
stage and theater equipment, with an
authorized capital stock of $100,000 com-
mon and $25,000 preferred, of which
$105,000 has been subscribed, $300 being
paid in in cash and $104,700 in property.
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Muskegon Merchants Devoted to
Welfare of Trade.
Muskegon, April 7—Albin J. Swan-
son, who was recently elected a
Chamber of Commerce director has
been chosen head of the retailers’
division. Mr. Swanson was one of
the most energetic workers of the
division last year and was_ instru-
mental in having the credit rating
bureau put through. Abe Rosen,
head of the division last year, de-
clined re-election.
After a year’s lapse with no bana
concerts, Muskegon will again have
such concerts this year. Definite ac-
tion to this end was taken by the re-
tailers last night. The merchants,
although feeling that they get no di-
rect benefit from a series of concerts,
decided that it would be a good
thing for Muskegon and agreed to
raise the money among themselves.
Parsons’ band will be engaged for
a series of ten concerts. The bulk
of these will be given in the down-
town district, including Federal
Square and Hackley Park. Lakeside
will have at least one if the mer-
chants there contribute. The con-
certs will be gven in various locali-
ties as these localities contribute to
the fund to be raised. Work towards
raising the fund will be begun soon.
If more than enough money for ten
concerts is raised, the surplus will be
returned pro rata to the subscribers.
The division also decided upon the
purchase of a street flusher to cost
between $1,200 and $1,500. The mer-
chants will appear before the Com-
mon Council with the proposition
that the city operate the flusher if
the merchants buy at Tf the city
accepts the proposition, steps to
raise the fund will be taken at once.
A flusher can cover about three
miles a day, it was announced, and
will thus be able to take care of out-
Iving paved street as_ well as the
Western avenue business districts.
About three trips a week will be
made along Pine and Apple streets,
to keep these thoroughfares clean, it
is expected. The flusher throws a
large stream of water at a high pres-
sure, and makes a street “clean as a
whistle,” it is claimed.
R. W. Christie, Guy Caldwell and
Bert R. Terry are the committee
that has the matter in charge.
The executive committe was auth-
orized to go ahead with the Grand
Trunk advertising proposition. About
$200 has already been raised for this
fund. The plan is to erect billboards
at various places along the Grand
Trunk between Muskegon and
Greenville, and get people tributary
to the line to come here to do their
shopping. The advertising will be
for Muskegon as a whole as a trad-
ing center, rather than for any par-
ticular merchant or line of trade.
The matter of co-operative deliv-
ery in Muskegon was left to the
executive committee to be appointed
by Mr. Swanson and E. D. Magoon,
President of the Chamber of Com-
merce.
One of the principal discussions
of the evening was on Wednesday
closing, and the upshot was a deci-
sion to ask all the business men in
the city to agree to a three months’
closing schedule, continuing during
July, August and September.
Advocates of two months, three
months, four months, and even five
months closing were present and
talked. The need of harmony on the
closing proposition was particularly
emphasized, since when one line of
trade begins to quit Wednesday
afternoons, business is hurt for other
lines as well.
The dry goods people, who have
closed only two months, during July
and August. in the past, object to
any schedule beginning before July
1. June, they declare, is the best
month in the dry goods business, ex-
cepting only December. The three
months period beginning July 1 was
finally adopted as a compromise, and
efforts will be made to get all mer-
chants to line up for it.
The question of a revision of the
city license ordinance, to make it
more difficult for peddlers to come in
here and stock up local people with
goods without paying an adequate
license fee was discussed. A com-
mittee will be appointed to investi-
gate this matter and take it up with
the city administration.
Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans, and
_ Potatoes at Buffalo.
Buffalo, April 8—Creamery butter,
fresh 22@25c; dairy,20@22c poor to
good, all kinds, 12@18c.
Cheese-—New fancy, 17c; choice
161%4c: poor to common, 6@12c: fancy
old. 18@20c; choice WW@17%4c.
Eggs—Choice, fresh, 191%4@20c.
Poultry (ive)—Turkeys, 18(@20c;
cox 12@13c; fowls, 20@21; ducks, 18
(220; dressed chick 18@20c; turks, 20
(@24; ducks, 18@20c.; fowls, 17@18c;
geese, 15@16c.
Beans—Marrow; $3@3.35; medium,
$2.15@@2.20; peas, $2@2.05; white kid-
ney, $383.25; red kidney, $2.75@3.
Potatoes—70@75c per bu.
Rea & Witzie.
BUSINESS CHANCES. _ :
We will buy for cash any quantity of
men’s vests taken from suits. Also men’s
shoes and oxfords. Write at once what
you have. Roberts Sales Company, 10-
12 Crosby St., New York. 100
For Sale—Steam laundry, only one in
city, fine chance for someone. Cheap
for cash if taken at once. Reason for
selling, poor health. Address Lock Box
1, Onaway, Mich. 102
For Sale—Grocery, meat market and
fixtures, doing nice business. Best lo-
cation in city. Inventory about $2,500.
Address L. O. Folsom, 75 N. Saginaw
101
St., Pontiac, Mich.
Bazaar stock for. sale, price 2,500
eash. 300d reason for selling. Lock
Box 255, Fenton, Mich. 108
For Sale or Exchange—For stock of
general merchandise, 60-acre farm. 1,700
fruit trees, good building and soil, 1%
miles from town on stone road. Address
No. 105, care Tradesman. 105
Drug store for sale, only one in town.
Will allow 2 per cent. for cash or will
take part cash, balance time. Particu-
lars on request. Box 122, Grand Junc-
tion, Michigan. 104
Cash for your business or pruyerty. I
bring buyers and sellers together. No
matter where located, if you want to buy,
sell or exchange any kind of business or
property, write me. Established 1881.
Frank P. Cleveland, Real Estate Expert.
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for Gasolene or Kerosene Beckon
Trade to You
Every passer-by sees the sign and the pump—a black pump
for kerosene and a bright red one for gasolene—and you soon
own their business.
Oil Pull Engines are selling by the thousands, and each one
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in your vicinity is your legitimate customer for large quanti-
ties of oil. Lamps aren't all out of business either.
* Automobiles, gasolene engines, gasolene lighting systems
consume millions of gallons of gasolene and distillate.
This business should be yours, and it will come to you
with a Bowser system.
The cost is small. The profits are large.
and sure the year round.
Write us and we'll show you how to make money.
S. F. Bowser & Company, Inc.
Engineers and Manufacturers of Oil Handling Devices
Sub-Sales Office: 201-202 Abbott Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
Home Plant and General Offices
Box 2089, FORT WAYNE, IND., U. S. A.
Sales Offices in all Centers and Representatives Everywhere
The business is steady
Original Patentees and Manufacturers of Standard Self-Measuring Hand and Power Driven
Pumps. Large and Small Tanks, Gasolene and Oil Storage and Distributing Systems, Self-Regis-
tering Pipe Line Measures, Oil Filtering and Circulating Systems. Dry Cleaner’s Systems, Ete.
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Martha
Washington
Comfort Shoes
If you have never handled the Martha Washington
Comfort Shoe you have never felt the stimulating
effect that this heavily advertised line gives your
Heavy Advertising Campaign
Beginning in May
general business, neither have you experienced the
benefit and profit derived from having it in stock.
You cannot afford to deprive your stock of this great
seller. Get the offer that goes with a five dozen pair
order. ;
In accordance with our annual custom that we have
followed for years past, we will start a
HONORBILT
All the big daily papers of the territory will carry
Martha Washington Display Copy and your customers
will be told of the qualities of this Comfort Shoe.
It will create trade that you will lose if you are not
provided with Martha Washington Shoes. Get our
five dozen pair offer.
F Mayer Boot & Shoe Co., Milwaukee
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