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Thirty-First Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY,

APRIL 29, 1914

Number 1597

 

 

 

 

| SONG OF THE MYSTIC

 

 

 

I walk down the Valley of Silence,

Down the dim, voiceless valley—alone!
And I hear not the fall of a footstep
Around me, save God’s and my own;
And the hush of my heart is as holy

As hovers where angels have flown!

Long ago I was weary of voices,

Whose music my heart could not win;

Long ago I was weary of noises

| That fretted my soul with their din;

Long ago I was weary of places
Where I met but the human—and sin.

I walked in the world with the worldly;
I craved what the world never gave;

And said: “In the world each Ideal
That shines like a star on life’s wave,

Is wrecked on the shores of the Real,
And sleeps like a dream in a grave.”

And still did I pine for the Perfect,

And still found the False with the True;
I sought ’mid the Human for Heaven,

But caught a mere glimpse of its Blue.
And I wept when the clouds of the Mortal
Veiled even that glimpse from my view.

And I toiled on, heart-tired of the Human;

And I moaned ’mid the mazes of men;
Until I knelt, long ago, at an altar,

And I heard a voice call me—since then
I walk down the Valley of Silence

That lies far beyond mortal ken.

 

Do you ask what I found in the Valley?
’Tis my trysting place with the Divine, .
And I fell at the feet of the Holy,
And above me a voice said: “Be mine.”
And there ’rose from the depths of my spirit
An echo: “My heart shall be thine.”

 

Do you ask how I live in the Valley?
I weep—and I dream—and I pray,

But my tears are as sweet as the dewdrops
That fall on the roses in May;

And my prayer, like a perfume from censers,
Ascendeth to God night and day.

In the hush of the Valley of Silence
I dream all the songs that I sing;

And the music floats down the dim Valley,
Until each finds a word for a wing,

That to hearts like the dove of the Deluge,
A message of Peace they may bring.

But far on the deep there are billows.
That never shall break on the beach;

And I have heard songs in the silence,
That never shall float into speech;

And I have had dreams in the Valley,
Too lofty for language to reach.

And I have seen Thoughts in the Valley,
Ah! me, how my spirit was stirred!

And they wear holy veils on their faces;
Their footsteps can scarcely be heard;

They pass through the Valley like virgins,
Too pure for the touch of a word.

Do you ask me the place of the Valley,

Ye hearts that are harrowed by Care?
It lieth afar between mountains,

And God and His angels are there;
And one is the dark mount of Sorrow,

And one the bright mountain of Prayer.

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Thirty-First Year

SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page
2. Upper Peninsula.
3. Bankruptcy Matters.
4. News of the Business World.
5. Grocery and Produce Market.
6. Detroit Detonations.
8. Editorial.
9. The National Guard.
10
11
12

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. Clothing.

. Big Rapids Branch.

. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
14. Financial.
16. Dry Giods.
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.

MUST REVISE THEIR RIDERS.

Fire Insurance Companies Caught
Violating the Law.

The suits now being prosecuted in the
United States Court for the Western
District of Michigan by John W. Blod-
gett against the fire insurance com-
panies which wrote policies on his resi-
dence and contents which were partial-
ly destroyed by fire some months ago
have brought out some very interesting
developments. (It appears that there
was no controversy in settling the loss
on the furniture, but when it come to
appraising the loss on the oriental rugs,
pictures and paintings, the two parties
were $22,000 apart. This discrepancy
was represented by the increase in value
that had come to the articles above
named since they were purchased. The
insurance companies relied upon four
words which they had surreptitiously
introduced in all riders of late years,
following the words pictures and frames

at not exceeding cost. This inter-
polation was an_ effectual barrier

against the recovery of more than
the owners had actually paid for in-
sured articles, although the market
value might have increased very much
in the meantime. The merchant might
buy a $1,000 worth of sugar, but in the
event of an increase in value to $1,100,
he could under this surreptitious act of
the insurance companies recover only
$1,000.

When these cases were brought
against the insurance companies Mr.
Blodgett’s attorney, Mark Norris, who
had previously represented the insurance
companies in nearly all litigation they
had had in this part of the State for the
past twenty-five years, concluded that
this qualification or restriction was illegal
and communicated that opinion to the
Commissioner of Insurance. That officer
referred the matter to the Attorney
General, who held that the interpolation
was illegal. The action of the Com-
missioner of Insurance is clearly set
forth in the following letter written to
the editor of the Tradesman under date
of April 27:

“I have your letter of April 25, and
am informing you that the Department

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1914

has held that the words at not ex-
ceeding cost printed on the riders of
many insurance policies is contrary to
the law and we have instructed insur-
ance companies to withdraw these four
words from their riders or ‘to substi-
tute ‘at not exceeding actual cash value.’
We do this because the Michigan Stan-
dard policy law provides that the com-
pany shall not be liable beyond the ac-
tual cash value, and it is not permissable
to change by rider the intent of the
main body of the policy.”

This means, of course, that the in-
surance companies must under penalty
of prosecution, eliminate these four
words from all riders hereafter, so that
articles covered by insurance which
have for any reason become more valu-
able than they were when they were
purchased may be appraised at their
actual cash value in the event of de-
struction or injury by fire.

The Insurance Commissioner has also
issued an order that all riders shall be
printed in 10 point type, instead of 6
point, as has been the custom for sev-
eral years. The reason for this ruling
probably is that, as the rider qualifies
and limits the policy, it should be set
in the same sized type as the standard
form, the use of which is obligatory
with all insurance companies doing
business in Michigan.

In this connection, it may be inter-
esting to recall the fact that the present
standard form owes its existence to the
old Michigan Business Men’s Associa-
ion, which accomplished more for the
insuring public during the five or six
years it was in existence than all other
mercantile and commercial organizations
combined. Prior to about thirty years
ago every insurance company used a
different form of policy, so that when
an insurer who had met a loss settled
with one company, in accordance with
one policy, he had to settle with another
company perhaps on a different basis
altogether. This fine print variation
was the cause of much annoyance and
loss, as well as extra expense, to the
insuring public, and the Michigan Busi-
ness Men’s Association decided to min-
imize this loss and annoyance by se-
curing the enactment of a standard form
that all fire insurance companies doing
business in Michigan would be com-
pelled to use. A measure was, there-
fore, introduced in the Legislature,
which was subsequently enacted into
law, providing for the creation of an
insurance policy commission to prepare
and promulgate a uniform policy. Two
of the members of the commission were
provided for by law, comprising the
General and the Insurance
Commissioner. Governor Luce, who
was then the official head of the State,
contemplated appointing an insurance
man for the third member of the com-
mission, because the insurance com-

Attorney

panies insisted they should have recog-
nition. Mr. Frank Hamilton, of Trav-
erse City, and the editor of the Trades-
man—who were at that time President
and Secretary, respectively, of the Mich-
igan Business Men’s Association—visit-
ed Lansing and very soon convinced
Governor Luce that the interests of the
insurance companies were amply pro-
tected by the Insurance Commissioner,
because up to that time every Insur-
ance Commissioner ever appointed had
graduated out of an insurance office
into the position of Insurance Commis-
sioner and had gone back to his old
job as soon as his term of office expired.
Governor Luce quickly saw the point
and requested his callers to present the
name of a civilian. They asked him to
appoint Mr, Charles Buncher, now de-
ceased, who was then credit man for
Edson, Moore & Co., of Detroit, and
had given the subject cf fire insurance
much study. This done, the Michigan
Business Men’s Association appropriated
ample funds to engage an able and
experienced attorney, so that the busi-
ness men of the State might be properly
represented at the hearing. The late
Niram A. Fletcher, of Grand Rapids,
was retained to appear in behalf of the
insuring public. The hearings covered
the space of two weeks and the pro-
posed standard form was closely fought
over, paragraph by paragraph, line by
line and word by word. The result
was the present form, which has never
been changed.

About four years ago the point was
raised that the present standard form
was illegal because the Legislature had
no right to delegate the lawmaking
power to a commission. The Supreme
Court of Michigan upheld this conten-
tion and the uniform insurance policy
was declared illegal. Fortunately, the
Legislature was in session at that
time, so. that the matter was
taken into the Legislature and _ the
standard form enacted into law without
the change of a single word.

It is quite natural that the insurance
companies should seek to evade, avoid
or minimize the provisions of this stan-
dard form, so as to be able to quibble
in making settlements, and it is for-
tunate for the insuring public that these
efforts have invariably been circum-
vented in an emphatic manner.

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Unexpected Death of A. S. Doak.

Algernon S. Doak, aged 66 years
died at Butterworth hospital Sunday
morning. Mr. Doak had been ill only
a few days. He was stricken with a
malady that rendered an operation
necessary and his advanced age and
general condition were such as to
make it impossible for him to recover.
He is survived by the widow and
four sisters. Funeral services were
held at the residence, 434 Ethel ave-
nue, Wednesday afternoon at 2

Number 1597

o'clock.
cemetery.
Algernon Sidney Doak was born
near Compton, Canada, March 27,
1848, and lived on a farm with his
parents until 22 years of age, when
he went to Horicon, Dodge county,
Wis., and entered the employ of M.
F. Tooker, general dealer, as clerk.
Remaining in this position two years,
he purchased the stock and business
of his employer and

Interment was in Oak Hill

conducted it
alone for a year, when he sold an in
terest to Mr. Tooker, and removed
the stock to Manistee. The firm of
A. S. Doak & Co. continued the busi-
ness two years when they were burn-
ed out in the first large fire that vis-
ited Manistee. Mr. Doak then en-
aged as book-keeper for Filer &
Sons, shingle manufacturers at Filer
City, with whom he remained two
years. He then formed a partnership
with W. W. Chapin and under the
firm name of W. W. Chapin & Co.
started in the shingle business at
Manistee, continuing operations there
two years, when he sold out to his
partner, forming another business al-
liance under the firm name of Fisher
& Doak. The new firm purchased a
tract of pine land near Manton and
put in a saw and shingle mill. Mr.
Doak subsequently purchased the in-
terest of his partner and removed the
mill to Edmore, where he cut on con-
tract for Graff, Little & Co, after-
wards admitting to partnership Julian
Howard when the firm name_ was
changed to Howard & Doak. On
closing out the Edmore investment,
Mr. Doak came to Grand Rapids and
entered the employ of Hawkins &
Perry as traveling salesman, continu-
ing with that house until it was merg-
into the Worden Grocer Co., with
which house he never parted com-
pany until the relations were sever-
ed by death.

Mr. Doak was a quiet, unassuming
gentleman who never intruded his
ideas on his trade and seldom offer-
ed a suggestion that was not acted
upon. He regarded his customers as
his friends and was always able to
hold their trade indefinitely. His col-
lections were given painstaking at-
tention and the results were invari
ably satisfactory. The fact that he
represented the same house for which
he carried his first sample case and
that his territory had not been chang-
ed since his first trip out are suggest-
ive of the esteem in which he was
held by his employers, the respect
entertained for him by his custom-
ers and his sterling worth as a sales-

man and a man.
_—2. oo

Joseph Hoodhood — succeeds M.
Malaley in the grocery business at
226 Elfsworth avenue.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

April 29, 1914

 

UPPER PENINSULA.

Recent News From the Cloverland of
Michigan.

Sault. Ste. Marie, April 27.—Now
that navigation is open, business is
beginning to have a brighter aspect
and conditions will soon be normal
once more here. The park at the
locks received thousands of visitors
from all parts of the country Sun-
day. It is always a special attraction
in the spring to see the boats once
more and the immense amount of
work that is being done putting in
the third and fourth locks affords
many interesting sights to behold.
The activity in business is being felt
to a marked degree already.

A. Harper, one of our energetic,
hustling young men in the’ grocery
business on Easterday avenue, who
in connection with his store has
been operating two restaurants, has
sold out his interest in the Daun res-
taurant to Mr. Daun, who has just
returned from a trip to Holland, and
has also sold his interest in the Foun-
tain House cafe to Mrs. McWilliams.
He will now be able to devote his en-
tire time to his largely increasing
grocery business, which demands his
undivided attention.

Lumbering operations are practi-
cally over in the logging districts
and the lumbermen report having had
a very favorable season. It is said
that there will be but few logs left
in the woods. The favorable snow
conditions in the late spring helped
them out considerably. The snow
was not deep enough to handicap the
work all through the winter and the
shipping of the logs to the various
mills has also been very satisfactory.
There were only two weeks during
the entire season that cars could not
be moved freely, but this handicap
was not a serious hindrance. It is
expected that the lumber prices from
now on will show a tendency to stif-
fen in almost every part of the Up-
per Peninsula. This is due to the
fact that much of the dry lumber is
sold out. Some fairly good orders
are being placed by the wholesalers
and a good business is expected for
the next few months. There seems
to be numerous buyers and it is prob-
able that more of the cut of timber
this year will be contracted for in
advance than in a number of years.
Many of the mills that have not been
sawing during the winter are start-
ing up this spring.

Neil McLean, the well-known pro-
prietor of the Superior Tlouse, pass-
ed away at Priceville, Ont., April 21,
while he was visiting relatives in On-
tario. His body was brought back
to the Soo for burial by his son, John
McLean. Mr. McLean was. ex-
tensively known in this vicinity, hav-
ine lived at the Soo for the past
twelve years, during which time he
had been continually in the hotel
business. At one time he conducted
the Tremont House, Gilbert House
and the Superior House. He _ has
conducted the last named hotel far
the past five vears. The deceased
was 48 years old and is survived by
a wife and six children. As Mr. Mc-
Lean was a man of sterling qualities
and pleasing disposition, his demise
will be the occasion of great regret
by his many friends here and the
community extend their sincere sym-
pathy to the bereaved.

Ernest Weaver. of Manistique, has
accepted the position as engineer for
the Mackinac County Road Commis-
sioners and will be a resident of that
county for a year or more. Mr. Weav-
er is an expert engineer and super-
intended the construction of the roads
in Schoolcraft county. As Ma
Weaver is a faithful, efficient and
honest official, Mackinac county has
made no mistake in engaging him.

James Troutt and Homer Hodge,
two of our well-known citizens, have
received commissions. signed by
Washington Gardner, Commander-in-
Chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, announcing that they have

been appointed aids-de-camp to the
Commander-in-Chief. They expect
to attend the Forty-ninth National
encampment of the Grand Army. of
the Republic in Detroit this year
from August 31 to September 5.

Ed. LaLonde has purchased the
second hand store on 353 West Port-
age avenue from Mathew Shea, where
he expects to continue the business.

We like the idea of the Detroit
correspondent making mention. each
week of something that Detroit can
boast about, and as a starter we will
mention that the Soo has the largest
water power in the world.

If the country roads keep on dry-
ing as they have been for the next
few days, it is expected that the
Pickford auto stage will be put back
into service, which will be a great
convenience to the traveling public
between the Soo and Pickford. Many
of the travelers have been figuring
their trips so as to make stage con-
nections from the Soo.

Miss Jean Taylor has returned to
Pickford where she is engaged at
the Pickford telephone exchange. She
is said to be one of the most profic-
ient operators in the State and the
patrons at Pickford will certainly ap-
preciate having her back on the job
again.

Arthur La Roue of Brimley, has
sold his business interests to James
Mills, who contemplates running a
hotel in connection with the saloon.
This will be a great improvement to
the town, where a hotel is so badly
needed.

A. W. Reinhart, one of Brimley’s
Pioneer merchants, has almost com-
pleted the rebuilding of his store. He
expects to install electric lights, which
will be a credit to Brimley.

An election for the purpose of vot-
ing for the incorporation of Brim-
ley will be held on May 2.

The old members of the former or-
der of the Michigan Knights of the
Grip read the report of the closing
up of the order in the Michigan
Tradesman last week with profound
regret, as the order has always been
loyally supported by true commercial
travelers who had the order at heart
and much good was accomplished
during its existence. The surviving
officers are to be congratulated for
the able manner and. business like
way in which the affairs were closed
up, which certainly is a credit to
them.

We understand the Delta County
Road Commission have purchased
heavy equipment and expect to start
work on the roads this season. The
Board has under its jurisdiction 195
miles of county roads, of which 164
miles are earth road and thirty-one
miles are macadam. About twenty-
four miles of new construction are
practically ‘completed and repairs of
a more or less permanent nature cov-
ering a large portion of the remain-
ing mileage will be undertaken. The
Board has purchased the following
equipment: one eight-ton Koppl lo-
comotive; forty 1% cubic yard Koppl
dumping cars: one 16-foot flat car;
two and three quarters miles of 20-
pound 24-inch gauge track complete

in 15-foot sections with steel ties;
two ten ton gasoline rollers; one

sprinkler; one small road machine;
elevator for unloading stone from the
cars into the equipment. With this
outfit a large portion of the expense
of delivering the stone can be saved
and greater mileage constructed than
would be possible with methods here-
tofore prevailing. They have or-
dered eighteen new road drags which,
with the ones already owned by them,
will cover the county thoroughly.
With these drags, in conjunction with
a system of patrols, it is intended to
maintain the earth roads in as good
condition as is possible for that class
of road.

Carl Krause, living in the vicinity
of Perch lake, was arrested by Dep-
uty Game Wardens Wilson, Gould
and Andrews, charged with trapping
beaver without a license and attach-

ing to the beaver hides seals belong-
ing ta a man in Indiana. Krause
pleaded guilty to the charge and, on
recommendation of Prosecuting At-
torney Waffen, was fined $10 and $15
costs. On recommendation of the
prosecutor, the fine was remitted.

John A. Doelle, superintendent of
schools of Houghton, has secured an
option from the J. M. Longyear Co.
on section 35, town 49, range 27,
Marquette county, and will proceed
to explore it in the hope of locat-
ing gold veins. The progress will
be watched with much interest in
Cloverland, as we'could utilize gold
mines in this part of the country to
good advantage at the present time.

There is much interest manifested
in the progress of the war with Mex-
ico and many of our young men are
filled with patriotism and would need
very little inducement to go to the
front in defense of the flag.

The Soo Lumber Co., one of our
leading industries here, is about to
change managers. C. J. Byrns, of
Ishpeming, will succeed H. R. Baugh-
man, who has been the manager for
the past six years. Mr. Baughman’s
business interests in his home town
in Indianapolis, where his family re-
side, make the change necessary. He
has made many friends during his
stay at the Soo who regret his de-
parture. Mr. Byrns has purchased a
part interest in the Soo Lumber Co.
and will assume the active manage-
ment May 1. He will act as Vice-
President and General Manager. He
is an old lumberman, beginning his
work in this line over twenty years
ago with Edward Fraser, whose yards
in Ishpeming and Marquette he man-
aged for three years, later going with
the Deer Lake Co. and was in charge
of their Ishpeming yards for six
years, at the end of which time he
bought out the Deer Lake Co., which
he operated for three years and then
sold to F. W. Reid & Co., and travel-
ed for the Wisconsin Land & Lum-
ber Co. for about five years. Mr.
3yrns has always taken an active
part in fraternal organizations, be-
ing in his early years head of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen
in Michigan. He was Grand Com-
mander later and was elected to rep-
resent the grand lodge in the superior
body for three terms. Returning to
Michigan, Mr. Byrns occupied the po-
sition of Head Consul for the Mod-
ern Woodmen of America for six
years and during that time he es-
tablished the record of building the
membership from 10,000 to over 43,-
000, previous to this time having held
the same position in Ohio. Later he
was one of five international directors
for the United States and Canada who
managed all the business. He resign-
ed as director to be Internal Reve-
nue Collector for the district of Su-
perior in 1910, being appointed by
President Taft. He held the collec-
torship until a year ago when the re-
organization took place, and for the
past year he has been a special rep-
resentative for the Equitable Life
Assurance Society of the United
States. Mr. Byrns is an active Re-
publican and from 1902 to 1911 was
a member of the Legislature. He is
regarded highly as a business man
and his many friends in the Soo are
glad to learn that Mr. Byrns intends
to move his family here and make
this his future home, as the Soo is
certaintly acquiring a citizen who is
wide awake and a hustler.

J. Peterson, one of our successful
grocers, has purchased a new delivery
auto which is a credit to his busi-
ness. Mr. Peterson is one of our
progressive men who believes in hard
work, ample enjoyment and time for
pleasure. He has one of the finest
cottages at the Shallows, where his
family spend the ereater part of the
summer. He has no bad habits and
gets the best out of life at all times.
Mr. Peterson is one of the ones who
does not cry hard times and only suc-
cess has crowned his efforts.

One of the Soo line bandits is now
in custody. Mention of the Soo line

robbery at Gladstone was made in
this paper two weeks ago. One of
the bandits, Joe Parent, was captur-
ed after a lively chase for more than
a week. This was the youngest of
the two outlaws. The other bandit,
Clyde Smith, is still at large and is
supposed to be in the vicinity of Es-
canaba. It is evident that Parent be-
lieved he was out of danger, as he
was standing on the platform at Nes-
toria when he was surprised by the
officers. He had an automatic rifle
and plenty of ammunition and blank-
ets and, undoubtedly prepared for a
long seige. This capture is consider-
ed of much importance, as Cloverland
will probably rest easier knowing that
the gang is broken up.

_Charles Kahle, proprietor of the
Charles House, at Menominee, is
dead as a result of heart failure

brought on by a blow behind the ear
which was struck by Gilbert Beland,
age 32, a lumberjack residing at Me-
nominee. The blow was the climax
of an effort on the part of the pro-
prietor to eject Beland, Walter Renno
and Joseph Poquette, all of | whom
were intoxicated, from his bar room.
Kahle died one hour from the time
the blow was struck and all three men
are now in custody.

The Arnold Transportation Co. ex-
pects to start the mail steamer Eva
this week plying between De Tour
and the Soo.

It was with profound regret that
citizens of the Soo learned of the
death of Alfred Noble, who died Sun-
day in New York, following an op-
eration. Mr. Noble was well known
here, being at one time engineer un-
der General Godfrey and had direct
supervision of the construction work
of the Weitzel lock here from 1873
to 1882. He was afterwards a mem-
ber of the first Nicaragua Canal Com-
mission and later the Panama Canal
Commission. For the past _ fifteen
years Mr. Noble has spent his sum-
mer vacations up the north shore of
Lake Superior on fishing trips, when
he was accompanied by George Kemp,

Magee and Judge Steer, some
of our prominent citizens. He was
born in 1844 at Livonia, Mich, and
enlisted as a private in the 24th Michi-
gan Infantry and served in the Army
of the Potomac. He was clerk in the
War Department and_— entered the
University of Michigan, graduating
as civil engineer in June 1870. He
had charge of the construction of the
tubes under the Hudson river and a
year ago was called by the Govern-
ment to supervise the construction of
the dry dock at Honolulu. Mr. Noble
was 70 years old, !

Chas. Miner, who recently sever-
ed his connection with N. Morrish
druggist, said he was going to.take
a much needed rest, but the “rest”
was of short duration. He could not
stay idle long and has taken unto
himself a wife last week and settled
down to housekeeping. He is to be
congratulated, however, as having
picked out one of the Soo’s best look-
ing young ladies and a bright future
is in store for them.

The M. E. church is rejoicing over
the fact that the indebtedness of $6,-
000 has been wiped out and a large
increase in membership added to the
church during the past few months.
This is good news to the members,
who have had a struggle on for years
to get the church out of debt. The
Episcopal church is also gaining
ground and it is expected that it will
also be out of debt in the near future.
We consider this a good showing at
the Soo. It is a sign of prosperous
times.

What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult to others?

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BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.

Proceedings in the Western District
of Michigan.

Grand Rapids, April 21—In the matter
of the Bel-Car-Mo Nut Butter Co., Grand
Rapids, the final meeting of creditors
was held to-day. The trustee’s final re-
port and account, showing total receipts
$538.40 and disbursements for adminis-
tration expenses of $30.50 and a balance
on hand for distribution of $507.90, was
eonsidered and allowed. The settlement
of the litigation with the Suffolk Peanut
Co. was considered and, no cause to the
contrary being shown by creditors, was
approved and allowed at $105.06. The
matter of making final order for dis-
tribution and directing final dividend
was held open, pending investigation
by the trustee as to liability of certain
of the stockholders for unpaid stock sub-
scriptions. The estate will pay a small
dividend to general creditors.

In the matter of Benjamin Van Raalte,
Sr., Holland, the first meeting of cred-
itors was held. Claims were allowed
and, by the unanimous vote of creditors
present and represented, Raymond Vis-
scher, Holland, was elected trustee and
his bond fixed at the sum of $300. The
trustee has accepted and qualified. The
schedules on file do not reveal any tan-
gible assets, but it understood that some
effort is to be made to show transfer
of real estate in fraud of creditors. The
meeting was adjourned to May 6 and
the bankrupt ordered to appear for ex-
amination.

April 22—In the matter of Simon Do-
sie, Boyne City, a special meeting of
creditors was held this date. The trus-
tee’s third report and account, showing
halance on hand as per second report
and account, $3,219.67; additional re-
ceipts, $10; disbursements for dividend
and administration expenses, $2,316.89
and balance on hand of $912.78, was con-
sidered and allowed. It was determined
that the third dividend should be de-
clared and ordered paid in amount 2 8-10
per cent. and that this would be con-
sidered as a. final dividend and _ final
meeting of creditors unless new develop-
ments made a further meeting neces-
Sary. This is the case in which the
bankrupt has absconded from this coun-
try, with civil accounting proceedings
and criminal indictment pending against
him in the event he can be served with
notice and apprehended. It is not he-
lieved that he can be returned, but the
estate will not be closed for some time.

April 23--William Bundt and Emil
Bundt, of Muskegon, have filed volim-
tary petition in bankruptey and the mat-
ter has been referred to the referee for
administration. ‘The schedules on file in
this office reveal assets of the amount
of $2.188.53 of rather doubtful value and
the liabilities are listed at $2,183.77. The
following are listed as creditors of the
bankrupt:

United Home Telephone Co.,

Muskefon .......:.-..--..- 8.25
H. J. Heinz Co., Detroit ........-.- 12.75
Morris & GCo., Chicago .......... 16.33
Moulton Grover Co., Muskegon | 26.50
Commercial Hoeking Co., Sturgis 16.67
National Rating Teague, Chicago 2.25
Wolf, Sayer & Hesler, Chicago 7.70
David Drinan, Muskegon ......-- : 4.55
Muskegon Packing Co. ...-..+--- 1,586.79
B. Smith, Muskegon .......-..-- 27.45
Chas. Vanderlinde, Muskegon 87.88
S. Steindler, Muskegon .......--- 10.18
J. H. Smith, Muskegon ........-- 15.00
J. Albers Sons, Muskegon ....--- 219.00
J. W. Smith, Muskegon ......... 95.00
M. Birch & Son, Muskegon .... 47.46

The first meeting vf creditors has not
yet been called in the matter.

In the matter of Appleyard & Johnson.
Grand Rapids, the trustee’s report of
sale of the equity in the real estate
owned by the bankrupt was to-day con-
firmed® The real estate was purchased
on land contract and the equity to this
estate to date is about $300.

April 24—In the matter of Holland
Holland, the adjourned
final meeting of creditors was held to-
day. The trustee’s supplemental final
report and account, showing balance on
hand as per final report and account,
$4,282.62; additional receipts of $1,696.53
and disbursements of $51.63 and a bal-
ance on hand of $5,927.52, was consid-
ered and allowed. The final order of dis-
tribution was entered and a final divi-
dend of 8% per cent. declared and_or-
dered paid to general creditors. This
estate has been in process of adminis-~-
tration since 1910. Large preferred
claims and many contested matters de-
pleted the assets materially and the real
estate of the corporation could not be
sold for more than the leins and was,
consequently, abandoned to the mort-
gagees. The receipts from all of the
machinery was also turned over to sat-
isfy mortgages.

In the matter of Bratigam  Bros..
Kingsley, the trustee has filed his final
report and account and the_ final meet-
ing of creditors has been called for May
11. The account shows the following:
Total receipts from the sale of the as-
sets of the bankrupt, $250; disburse-
ments for administration expenses to
date $24.98; balance on hand_ for dis-
tribution, $225,02. It is very likely that

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

no dividend will be declared or paid to
general creditors in this matter.

In the matter of Hans J. Fisher, Grand
Rapids, the trustee has filed his final
report and account The final meeting
of creditors will be called for some time
in May. The account shows the follow-
ing: total receipts, $873.88; disburse-
ments for administration expenses and
exemptions to the bankrupt, $375.70; bal-
ance on hand for distribution, $498.18.
The assets include a settlement of $50,
which is subject to confirmation of cred-
itors at the final meeting of creditors,
which is in liquidation of certain claims
of the estate to real estate alleged to
have been transferred in fraud of cred-
itors.

In the matter of the Interchangeable
Fixtures Co., the trustee has reported
offer of settlement of the suit com-
menced against E. A. Stowe and a
special meeting of creditors has been
called for May 9, to determine whether
or not the said settlement shall be ac-
cepted and the trustee authorized to ne-
gotiate the same.

April 27—In the matter of John H.
Kinsley, Grand Rapids, the final meeting
of creditors was held to-day. The trus-
tee’s final report and account was ap-
proved and allowed and a first and final
dividend of 5% per cent. was declared
and ordered paid.

April 28—Tovil Larsen, of Greenville,
has filed a voluntary petition in bank-
ruptecy and the adjudication made and
matter referred to Referee Wicks. Fred
Cole has been appointed custodian by
the referee and the assetS are now in
his hands. The first meeting of cred-
itors has not yet been called. The
schedules reveal assets of $669.80 and
liabilities aggregate $1,034.29.

 

St. Joseph Referee.

St. Joseph, April 20—In the matter of
William HT. Evans, bankrupt of St.
Joseph, the trustee has filed his final
report and account showing total re-
ceipts of $530 and disbursements of $69,
leaving a balance on hand for the pay-
ment of administration expenses and the
declaration of a dividend. The indica-
tions are that a small dividend of about
3 per cent. will be declared to unsecured
creditors. ‘

In the matter of Frank S. Shannon,
bankrupt, of Leonidas township, St.
Joseph county, a petition has been filed
by the bankrupt requesting that the
first meeting of creditors be held at the
referee's office on May 4.

April 21—In the matter of Abel Schip-
per, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, the trustee
has filed his final report and account,
showing no property of any kind or de-
scription, except such property as is ex-
empt, and -has requested that no more
meetings of the bankrupt estate be held.

April 22—In the matter of the Michi-
gan Buggy Co., bankrupt, of Kalamazoo,
the reclamation petition of Smith &
Schipper, by agreement with the trustee
and the petitioner, has been withdrawn
and the petition dismissed.

April 24—In the matter of Herman
Vetten, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, the in-
ventory and report of appraisers were
filed showing assets of the appraised
value of $4,838.33. The trustee also filed
his report of exempted property.  Pri-
vate bids were received by the trustee
for the sale of the assets and James Van
Male, of Kalamazoo, bidding the highest
amount, purchased the stock of the trus-
tee for the sum of $2,500.

April 25—In the matter of Frank S.
Shannon, bankrupt, an order was en-
tered by the referee calling the first
meeting of creditors at his office on May
11 or the election of a trustee, proving
claims and the examination of the bank-
rupt.

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What Some Michigan Cities Are
Doing.
Written for the Tradesman.

Night schools at Bay City were
more successful than ever before, with
a total enrollment of 457 students.
Basketry was the most popular sub-
ject, with 301 students in the course.

The contract has been awarded for
building a city hall at Negaunee at a
cost of $62,000.

A Carnegie library costing $10,000
will probably be built at Eaton Rap-
ids. The site selected is just south
of Red Ribbon hall.

The Alma Board of Trade is as-
sisting in establishing a farmers’. ele-
vator in that city.

The M. U. T. company will double
track the electric line from Jackson
to Vandercook Lake.

Ann Arbor will have four public
playgrounds this summer with com-
petent supervision.

Following the Kalamazoo plan, the

prisoners at the Genesee county jail,
Flint, will be put to work at road
building.

Burrel Tripp, Allegan’s new Mayor,
in starting in on the job, says things
that would well apply in any city.
“Let us look into the expenditure
of every dollar necessary to use this
coming year and bear in mind that
the unnecessary leaks, overcharges
and careless use of the city’s money
is the sole and only cause of over-
taxation. I am not in favor of cur-
tailing any legitimate improvements
or work which properly employs
home labor, and I am in favor of pay-
ing good liberal wages, but in return
I should demand a full-value day's
work and that there be no grafting,
squandering or overcharging in any
division or part of the management
of Allegan’s affairs.”

Mayor Horner, of Eaton Rapids, is
a friend of the shade trees and he
will not permit a single tree to be
mutilated or cut down.

The Stanton Forestry Association
will distribute trees and shrubs for

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to encourage planting in that city and
county.

Kalamazoo will centralize its park
development work, devoting its funds
this year to Crane park.

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Movements of Merchants.

Prattville—Phillip Wolf, meat deal-
er, was robbed of $75 April 25.

Howard Citv—Ray Burdick has
opened a shoe repair shop here.

Charlevoix—C. M. Hall has engaged
in the tea, coffee and spice business
here.

Hart—Leon Rolison has sold_ his
stock of groceries to Ralph Dukes, who
has taken possession.

Mancelona—E. A. Blair—not Bert
Blair, as previously stated—has opened
a bazaar store here.

Provemont—Plamondon & Odoi, gro-
cers, are closing out their stock and will
retire from business.

Hastings—Fred A. Merritt has en-
gaged in the confectionery and ice
cream business here.

Joseph—The capital stock of
the Sieber Oil Co. has been increas-
ed from $8,000 to $15,000.

White Cloud—O, E. Bunker, recently
of Wooster, has engaged in the restau-
rant and cigar business here.

Port Huron—The Forman, Mann &
Ballentine Shoe Co. has changed its
name to the Forman Shoe Co.

Traverse City—Joe Resignol has
added a line of fishing tackle to his
stock of cigars and tobacco.

Otsego—Monroe Bros. have engag-
ed in the interior electrical supply
business in the Moose building.

St. Joseph—J. B. Clinger has engag-
ed in the plumbing, steam and gas fit-
ting business at 612 Pleasant street.

Hudsonville—A. W. Sherwood has
purchased the M. McEackron drug
stock and will continue the business.

Ishpeming—Joseph Sellwood & Co.
dealers in general merchandise, are
closing out their stock of crockery
and tinware.

Alma—N. E. Saad has purchased the
S. Gallagher & Co. stock of bazaar goods
and will continue the business at the
same location.

Bellaire—The grocery and shoe busi-
ness of the estate of Chas. Weiffenbach
has been turned over to Mrs. Harriet
V. Weiffenbach.

Bronson—E. R. Clark has sold his
stock of dry goods and notions to
Roy E. Carroll, who will consolidate
it with his own.

Alma—J. A. Bartley has purchased
the store building, fixtures and meat
stock of P. T. Banghart and will take
possession May 1.

St. Ignace—O. C. Boynton has pur-
chased the Moloney block on State street
and will occupy it with his stock of
drugs about May 1.

Port Huron—The Michigan Cloak
& Suit Co. has leased the adjoining
store building and will conduct a mil-
linery store in connection with its
business.

Bellevue—The Bellevue Bank has
been incorporated under the style of the
Bellevue State Bank, with an author-
ized capital stock of $20,000.

Burdickville—E. Hilton has pur-
chased the general merchandise stock
of R. E. Atkinson and will continue
the business at the same location.

Sparta—C. A. Moore has sold his
stock of sporting goods and ice cream
parlor to N. R. Wright, who will con-
tinue the business at the same location.
- Kalamazoo—Frank A. Cowlbeck, who
has conducted a clothing store here for
the past twenty-six years, is closing out
his stock and will retire from business.

Otsego—J. H. Engles has closed out
his stock of cigars and tobacco and
leased his store building to Carroll Bros.,
who will occupy it with a tin and plumb-
ing shop.

Benton Harbor—The Collins Drug
Co. has been organzed with an author-
ized capital stock of $3,500, of which
$2,200 has been subscribed and paid in
in property.

Cedar Creek—E. R. Campbell writes
the Tradesman that the statement that
he has sold a half interest in his stock
of general merchandise to his brother,
A. L., is untrue.

Alto—Martin N. Naglekerk, for-
merly of Zeeland, has purchased the
Vos & Brutton stock of general mer-
chandise and will continue the busi-
ness under his own name.

Schoolcraft—Young & Adams, tin-
ners, have dissolved partnership and
the business will be continued by
Clevis E. Young, who has taken over
the interest of his partner.

Detroit—The Bituminous  Prod-
ucts Co. has engaged in business
with an authorized capital stock of
$20,000, of which $13,500 has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Pullman—William Armentrout, of
Kalamazoo, has purchased the Hoff-
man & Woods meat stock and will
continue the business under the man-
agement of Lemuel Armentrout.

Three Rivers—William
leased the N. J. Crawford store build-
ing and will occupy it May 1, with a
stock of women’s cloaks and suits under
the style of the New York Cloak & Suit
(oo.

Holland—L. Goldman, recently of
Chicago, sueceeds Joseph Brown in
the junk, rag and mill supply busi-
ness at 190 East Eighth street, under
the style of the Holland Iron Metal
Co,

Lansing—J. A. Holcomb has pur-
chased the interest of his partner,
Mr. Dupuy, in the Holcomb & Du-
puy stock of bazaar goods and will
continue the business under his own
name at the same location on East
Franklin avenue.

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Mulliken—D. C. Shuart has pur-
chased half of the interest held by
his brother-in-law, Will Barber, in
the Mulliken elevator. The firm will
be known as Barber, McNaughton &
Co.

Munising—Henry Gollinger will oc-
cupy his new store building on West
Superior street with his news stand and
confectionery stock May 1. He will
conduct an ice cream parlor in connec-
tion.

Detroit—A new company has been or-

ganized under the style of the Velvet

Brand Ice Cream Co., with an author-
ized capital stock of $2,000, which has
been subscribed, $500 paid in in cash.

Holland—Van Dyke & Sprietsma.
dealers in hardware, have dissolved
partnership and the business will be
continued by Wiliam G. Van Dyke,
who has taken over the interest of
his partner.

Detroit—The Anchor Bay Lumber
Co. has been organized with an au-
thorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Negaunee—Rosen Bros. & Klein,
dealers in dry goods, clothing and shoes,
are closing out their stock and will re-
tire from business here, devoting their
entire attention to similar stores in
other cities which they conduct.

Jackson—The Robert Lake Co. has
engaged in. business to deal in fuel,
lime, builders’ supplies, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $25,000,
which has been subscribed, $100 being
paid in in cash and $24,891 in property.

Sault Ste. Marie—The National Serv-
ice Selling Co. has engaged in business
for the purpose of dealing in all kinds
of goods, wares and merchandise, with
an authorized capital stock of $10,000,
of which $5,020 has been subscribed’ and
$1,004 paid in in cash.

Eau Claire—L. O. Marble, of South
Bend, Ind., and W. G. Sharpe have
purchased the interest of J. F. Sand-
ers in the Sharpe, Sanders & Co. lum-
ber, coal and feed stock and the busi-
ness will be continued under the style
of Sharpe & Marble.

Traverse City—W. E. Wilson, man-
ager and buyer of the furniture and
rug department of the Globe depart-
ment store, for the past eight years,
will engage in the rug and furniture
business at 127 South Union street
under his own name.

Byron Center—M. McEackron and
Earl Peasley, both of Hudsonville,
have formed a co-partnership and
purchased the S. E. Morrill feed mill,
grain elevator and fuel business and
will continue it under the style of
McEackron & Peasley.

Hastings—Luke Waters, dealer in
grain, hay, etc., has merged his business
into a stock company under the style of
Waters Brothers Elevator Co., with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000,
which has been subscribed, $1.679.06
being paid in in cash and $8,320.94 in
property.

Jackson—Harold Ulricksen has sold
his interest in the Lake-Ulricksen fuel
and builders’ supply stock to his part-
ner, Robert Lake, who has admitted
to partnership his son, Robert Lake, Jr.,
and Benjamin N, Beaman. The business
will be continued under the style of
Lake & Beaman.

Bad Axe—E, H, Crosby & Co., gro-
cers, have merged their business into
a stock company under the same style,
to deal in provisions, farm produce and
general merchandise, with an authorized
capital stock of $10,000, which has been
subscribed, $241.74 paid in in cash and
$4,266.73 in property.

Battle Creek—The Dobbins Hard-
ware Co. has been re-organized and
its name changed to the Dobbins Co.
D. M. Dobbins and B. R. Petrie have
retired from the company and will
incorporate and retain the furnace
and sheet metal works under the
style of the Dobbins-Petrie Furnace
Co.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The G. E, Schwab Chandelier
Co, has increased its capital stock from
$15,000 to $20,000.

Adrian—The capital stock of the Bond
Steel Post Co. has been increased from
$100,000 to $125,000.

Detroit—The Bohland Structural Steel
Co. has been organized with an author-
ized capital stock of $10,000, of which
$5,000 has been subscribed and $1,000
paid in in cash.

Detroit— The Automatic Balanced
Valve Co. has engaged in business with
an authorized capital stock of $5,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Brown-Ahlers Co. has
engaged in the electrical appliance busi-
ness, with an authorized capital stock of
$1,000, of which $600 has been subscrib-
ed and paid in in cash.

Mulliken—The Mulliken Co-operative
Creamery Co. has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$2,500, of which $1,250 had been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Saginaw—The Schust Baking Co. is
erecting a concrete and brick build-
ing, 68x130 feet in dimensions and
five stories and basement in height,
which it will occupy about Sept. 1.

Detroit—The Lewis-Hall Iron Works
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $100,000 common
and $75,000 preferred, of which $165,000
has been subscribed and $127,500 paid
in in cash.

Detroit—The Schulte Soap Co. has
been incorporated under the same style,
with an authorized capitalization of
$15,000, which has _ been subscribed,
$1,500 being paid in in cash and $13,500
in property.

Detroit—The Pingree Co., manufac-
turer of shoes, has merged its business
into a stock company under the style
of the F. C. Pingree Sons Co., with an
authorized capital stock of $50,000, of
which $30,000 has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Bay City—Knapp & Scott, saw mill
operators, have merged their business
into a stock company under the style
of the Knapp & Scott Lumber Co., with
an authorized capital stock of $20,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Detroit—Lawrence N. Beaker, oper-
ating a planing mill and manufacturing
sash doors, has merged his business in-
to a stock company under the style of
the L. N. Beaker Co., with an author-
ized capital stock of $30,000, of which
$27,380 has been subscribed, $3,030 being
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Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.

Apples—The market is active, Green-
ings and Baldwins are strong at $5@6
per bbl.
$6(@$6.25.

Asparagus—$1 per doz, bunches.

Bananas—Prices have again declined
—this time to $2.50 per 100 lbs. This
reduces the bunch price to $1.25@1.75.

Butter—The market remains steady.
The milk supply has increased ma-
terially and it is doubtiul if prices
will rise. The demand at present is
for best grades for straight table use.

acking stock and substitutes are

very draggy. The demand is very
light. In spite of the large imports
of domestic goods, Michigan butter
is in good demand. Quality is re-
ported to be better than that of some
imported stocks that have been re-
ceived. Factory creamery is now be-
ing offered at 25c in tubs and 26c in
prints. Local dealers pay 17c for No.
1 dairy and 13c for packing stock.

Northern Spys and Jonathans,

Cabbage—2!4c per lb. for new stock
from Texas.

Carrots—75c per bu.

Celery—$3.25 per crate for Florida.

Cocoanuts—$4.25 per sack containing
100,

Cranberries—Quotations have been
withdrawn from the market after a sea-
son of very high prices. Quotations
were up during the entire season on ac-
count of early frosts in the East and
subsequent shortage of stocks.

Cucumbers—$1.50 per dozen.

Fresh Fish—The demand for frozen
fish is easing off a trifle and it is too
early for heavy demands for fresh, un-
frozen fish. Prices on fresh fish are
high. Pickerel are offered at firmer
quotations. There will be very little
business done in fresh fish lines during
the next two weeks. Quotations on
frog legs were down this week, as the
market has been overstocked.

Eggs—The market is a trifle firm
and is higher than a week ago. The
bulk of the receipts are at present
going into cold storage, and this is
steadying the market. The quality of
eggs was never better, as the weather
conditions are perfect. The market is
now fuling about the same as a year
ago, but if present weather continues
there will likely be good receipts of
eggs and a decline in prices. Local
dealers are now paying 17%c.

Grape Fruit—The market is steady
at $4@4.50 per box.

Green Onions—50c per doz, for New
Orleans, Charlottes; 15c per doz. for
Illinois; 12c per doz. for home grown.

Honey—18e per Ib. for white clover
and 16c for dark.

Lemons—California and Verdellis, $4
for choice and $4.50 for fancy.

Lettuce—Eastern head, $2.25 per bu.;
hot house leaf is steady at 10c per Ib.

Nuts—Almonds, 18c per lb.; butter-
nuts, $1 per bu.; filberts, 15c per 1b.;
pecans, 15c per Ib.; walnuts, 19c for
Grenoble*and California; 17c for Na-
ples; $1 per bu. for Michigan.

Onions—$1.75 for home grown red
and yellow; Texas Burmudas are now
in market, commanding $1.90 per crate.

Oranges—Floridas command $2.50@
3, according to quality. Californias are
in large supply at $2.75@3.

Peppers—Green, 65c per small bas-
ket,

Pineapples—Cubans are in fair de-
mand and supply on the basis of $2.50
per crate.

Potatoes—Country buyers are paying
45(@50c; local dealers get 65@70c. The
usual spring fluctuations in price have
been in evidence during the week. The
market on seed stock is about over, but
there will be carloads of Early Ohios
and Rose potatoes sold from time to
time. Farmers are busy seeding, and
shipments to market have been cur-
tailed. If there is a large volume of
potatoes still in the hands of farmers
ready to be placed on the market as
soon as the seeding season is over, a
depression in prices will probably be
experienced.

Pop Corn—$1.75 per bu. for ear; 5c
per lb. for shelled.

Poultry—Local dealers now offer 15
@15'4c for fowls; 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—25c per dozen.

Strawberries—$1.75 per crate of 24
pints, Louisiana.

Sweet Potatoes—Delawares in bu.
hampers, $1.40.

Tomatoes—$4.25 per 6 basket crate
of Floridas.

Veal—Buyers pay 6@12c according to
quality,

 

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C. Jonker is succeeded in the gro-
cery business at 1069 Sheldon ave-
nue by John Daverman. Mr. Daver-
man has been engaged in farming
and Mr. Jonker will return to his
farm. Previous to engaging in the
grocery business, the latter was a
farmer.

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The Powell Co., bookbinders, 1s
succeeded by the Powell & Tatum
Co., at 231 Pearl street. The new
company is incorporated for $2,000.
Edward Tatum is President and
Theo. F. Powell is Treasurer.

———__~» >> —__

J. D. Erskine, of Allenville, writes
us, “the Tradesman is one of our
family now, we cannot get along
without it.”

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The market is quiet, with
no demand to speak of from the re-
tail trade. The New York refiners
are quoting 3.85 on granulated, ex-
cept the Federal, which is offering
to receive orders at 3.80. This auto-
matically places Michigan granulated
on the basis of 3.75. Refiners are
looking forward to an increased dis-
tribution in refined sugar being of
assistance to them, and feel that the
lowest prices of the year have been
touched, and with normal weather
conditions the tendency of the mar-
ket will be in favor of gradual but
not rapidly advancing prices, although
there will, of course, be the usual set-
backs from time to time, due mainly
to the pressure of nearby sugars that
may arrive unsold.

Tea—Prices in all lines are generally
firmer. Some Japan tea importers have
already advanced their prices on present
stocks 1c per pound. Good grade Javas
are being held at 2c advance, the im-
porters of Amsterdam having informed
their American agents to that effect.
Stocks are scarce and Indias are being
used in many cases as substitutes in
blending. Stocks of all kinds are at the
lowest ebb ever known, with
three months yet before the arrival of
new Japans and nothing available from
Ceylon or China. The principal feature
of the American market at present is

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the possibility of an import “war” duty
in case war with Mexico should occur.

Coffee—Rio and Santas grades show
no change and the demand is slug-
gish. Mild grades have developed a
little firmer feeling on account of
the Mexican situation. The ports
are closed, so far as Mexican milds
are concerned, and the curtailment of
the supply of these will doubtless en-
courage the holders of South Ameri-
can grades to advance their own
prices. Java and Mocha are unchang-
ed, Mocha continues scarce and high.
Java is unchanged and quiet.

Canned Goods—Tomatoes are un-
changed, with good demand. Both
corn and peas are unchanged. There
is some demand for cheap corn, but
not a great deal, and very little de-
mand for other grades. Cheap peas
are also wanted, but are scarce. Cali-
fornia canned goods are unchanged
and dull. Future asparagus has chang-
ed somewhat in price since theopening,
because of various concessions made
by some of the packers, and the whole
line, including tips, now rules 5@10c
below last year. Small staple East-
ern canned goods show no change and
light demand.

Canned Fish—Canned salmon, with
the exception of medium red and pink
varieties, has been very scarce and
very high. The red Alaska flats are
about out of the market. The price
of red Alaska talls has been advanc-
ed from 40@60c per case. Sockeye
one pound flats are very scarce and
quotations are very firm. Domestic
sardines are very scarce and prices
are firm. More than half of the East-
ern packers are entirely out of the
stocks. The new pack will not reach
this market until sometime in June.

Dried Fruits—Prunes are unchang-
ed and dull. Future prunes are very
much excited and very high, by rea-
son of heavy droppings from the

nearly

trees, pointing to short crop. The
opening basis was 4'4c for the four
sizes, but this has now advanced to
534c, which is almost equal to the
present high spot price. Peaches and
apricots are quiet and unchanged.
Raisins are moderately active at un-
changed prices. Currants and other
dried fruits are seasonably active and
unchanged.

Molasses—The molasses situation
shows no change, the market being
seasonably slow with business con-
fined to withdrawals on contracts.
Grocery grades are steady at quota-
tions for New Orleans and Ponce.
Blackstrap is dull and unchanged,
there being less enquiry from the
manufacturers.

Rice—Foreign rice still has the call
over domestic and pending a large
crop of the latter is likely to con-
tinue to dominate the local market.
Conditions in the South continue un-
changed, a fair business being done
at firm prices, especially for fancy
head.

Spices—The small stocks in first
hands tend to keep prices steady as
a rule. Singapore and Acheen black
pepper are relatively scarce, the same
being true of chillies. There is a
little more pressure from Europe,
which tends to make buvers inclin-
ed to hold off.
gingers quietly pending the
movement of the new crop.

The trade is taking
active
Cassias
are steady, reflecting the low prevail-
ing level.

Cheese—The market is unchanged
and healthy, fancy makes being un-
changed. New cheese is coming in
and shows good quality. It meets
with ready sale at about 4c under the
price of old. Skim cheese is in am-
ple supply and in moderate demand
at slightly reduced prices. There
will be no marked increase in the
demand until warmer weather.

Provisions— Smoked meats. are
steady and unchanged, with only a
moderate demand. Pure lard is dull
at a decline of %c. Compound is
steady and unchanged, with a moder-
ate demand. Barreled pork, canned
meats and dried beef are steady and
in light demand.

Salt Fish—Mackeral are in just
about the position they have been in
for some time. Norways are scarce
and high, and the demand is cur-
tailed in consequence. Irish mack-
erel are neglected. Cod, hake and
haddock are unchanged and moder-
ately active.

—

The music house of Julius A. J.
Friederich has been merged into a
stock company under the style of the
Friederich Music House, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $125,000
common and $25,000 preferred, of
which $93,000 has been subseribed
and paid in in cash. The stockhold-
ers and the number of shares held
by each are: Julius A. J. Friedrich,
Sr., 760 shares; Julius A. J. Fried-
rich, Jr, 60 shares and Otto FP. T.
Friedrich, 50 shares.

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V. Van Keuren has engaged in gen-
eral trade at 151 Griggs street. P. Stek-
etee & Sons furnished the dry goods,
Rademaker & Dooge supplied the gro-
ceries and A. L. Joyce & Son installed
the sodo fountain.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

April 29, 1914

 

DETROIT DETONATIONS.

 

Cogent Criticisms From Michigan’s
Metropolis.

Detroit, April 27—Learn one thing
each week about Detroit: The largest
music publishing house in the world is
located in Detroit.

A great many traveling men who are
obliged to call on the trade located in
Flint ask us to mention the outrageous
methods pursued by the Hotel Dresden
in charging for a portion of a day.
Once before we mentioned that it was
nothing more than a hold-up game and,
sooner or later, the United Commercial
Travelers will find a way to bring the
management to time. We will not go
into detail regarding all of the com-
plaints, but will give the writer’s ex-
perience on his last trip to Flint. The
rate per day charged was $3.50 and the
day was up at noon. Now the charge
per meal is 75c, yet the writer did not
check out until after dinner and was
charged $1 for the meal which the
clerk called “one quarter of a day.”
By paying the bill before dinner and
re-registering, the meal would have
been charged at 75 cents. This is not
all. They charge $1.50 for the use of
the room for one, two or three hours,
but fail, as in the case of the dinner,
to call it also a quarter of a day, but
charge $1.50 for it. If the management
insists on calling one meal a quarter of
a day, thereby charging at the rate of
$4 a day for a $3.50 rate, why not do
likewise when a traveling man makes
use of the rom to exhibit his samples
for a short time? The writer has stop-
ped at nearly every large hotel in the
State and in none of them do they make
such unfair charges as at the Dresden.
Incidentally, the management was ar-
rested recently for serving skimmed
milk to his guests.

Brook trout will be another excuse
for a merchant not being on hand to
greet the traveling man.

Carl Hauser, National Cash Register
Co., Detroit branch, and district organ-
izer for the Order of Fleas, says his
idea of a life of ease is to be a clerk
in a country hotel.

. A. Grunwell, general merchant at
Smith Creek, was in Detroit looking
over the new styles last week,

George Netschke, the leading actor
“where fashion reigns,’ at the corner of
Chene and Gratiot (also known as
Snubb Junction), according to friends,
is to take his annual trip through Ire-
land shortly. George is one of Gratiot
avenue’s successful merchants, conduct-
ing an up-to-the-minute haberdashery
and shoe store.

The early bird catches the’ worm—
so does the foolish fish.

Mr. Cook, member of the firm of
Cook Bros., Gaylord, was in Detroit
over Sunday. Cook Brothers own a
large department store that is a credit to
a town the size of Gaylord.

“Billy” Morash, who has recently re-
turned from Florida and taken over the
management of the Morash Hotel, at
Carsonville, is making many improve-
ments about the place.

Like many other great men, President
Wilson will have to die in order to have
the Detroit Free Press say a good word
for him.

James J. Hickey, contractor and deal-
er in automobiles, is going to tour Rus-
sia in a new auto. “Jimmie” will not
ride in a machine of his favorite color,
as he will accede to his wife’s (who is
also of German extraction) wishes. The
new automobile will be painted green.

General C. R. Hawley, who has just
returned from a Western trip, was a
business visitor in Detroit last week.

Fverett W. and Roy E. Pingree, for-
merly with the Pingree Co., shoe manu-
facturer, have embarked in the shoe
manufacturing business under the style
of the F. C. Pingree Sons Co., having se-
cured space in the Holiday Box Co.
building at 32-34 Fort street, west. Both
are young men with plenty experience,
having worked themselves up in the
old company until they became officers.

Associated with them in the new ven-
ture is B. T. Boylan, who knows every
phase of the shoe business, having spent
thirty-two years in charge of differ-
ent manufacturing departments making
men’s shoes. The new plant started
operations last Monday. Their many
friends and acquaintances will watch
with interest the growth of the new
concern, for with such talent behind
it, the F. C. Pingree Sons Co. is bound
to grow, incidentally helping Detroit
become a greater mercantile market
than ever.

Having individual towels isn’t all that

is necessary to conduct a hotel success-
fully.
' The writer believes that if every
traveling man in Grand Rapids could
only realize what a friend they have in
Neil DeYoung, district passenger agent,
there would not be a Pere Marquette
knocker in Grand Rapids among the
boys. Mr. DeYoung is ever willing to
go out of his way to be of service to his
patrons, as we have good reason to
know. The Pere Marquette needs
friends—Nei]l DeYoung deserves friends
—and the traveling men are the friends
he should have.

A great many men who have become
successful since becoming benedicts still
insist that they are self made men.

A. Bailey, general merchant of Tren-
ton, was in Detroit last week.

G. D, Colburn, sales manager for the
Alumium Cooking Utensils Co., of New
Kensington, Pa., visited Detroit last
week in the interest of his company.
Clark Walborn, 80 Kellogg street, is the
local representative. Clark is also well
known throughout the State, having
traveled through the Lower Peninsula
for a number of years. Selling alumium
ware is but one of his pet diversions, the
other being to gather in fresh eggs
from a sanitary chicken coop every
morning—and evening.

Learn one thing about Detroit: The
year 1914 finds Detroit with some base-
ball team.

A. Blumeneau, one of Whittemore’s
successful merchants, was in Detroit
last week.

William T. Helfer, who has been con-
nected with the automobile industry al-
most since its inception, has accep:ed
a position as sales manager for the
Jeffry-Dewitt Co., manufacturer of
spark plugs, etc. Mr. Helfer, before
coming to Detroit, was connected with
the Racine Manufacturing Co., of Ra-
cine, Wis.

Next Saturday night, May 2, Detroit
Council will give the final dance of the

_ season at St. Andrews hall on Congress

street. Traveling men who will be in
Detroit on that night are cordially in-
vited to attend. As this will be the
last dance of the season given by the
Council, a good sized crowd is expected.

A fellow might slip on the ice, but
the ice companies in Detroit won't give
him a chance to slip on the ice bill.

Fred Wendland has taken charge of
the dress goods and silk departments in
the H. G. Wendland Department Store
at Bay City. While Fred is a young
man and has had but limited experience,
he has all the ear marks of a real
“trader’—a real chip of the old block,
as it were. H. G. Wendland, from a
very modest beginning, to-day owns
one of Michigan’s prominent department
stores.

C. G, Cole, of Bad Axe, was in the
Detroit market a few days ago in the
interest of his general store.

A woman down in Indiana owns a
quilt that is 100 years old: In Michigan
we have several hotels that are using
quilts at least that old.

George Drach, of the Adam Drach
Co., and Marshall Butters, Ludington,
attended the wedding in Detroit last
week of Miss Elsie McDonald and
Harry Hammond, also of Ludington.
Mr. Drach acted in the capacity of best
man to the groom.

Spain has 26,367,486 domestic animals.
The report does not state how many of
that number are married men.

We wonder if, when the Dresden Ho-
tel buys a half pound of something or

other at $1 a pound, they will give up
75-cents for it, or 50 cents for a quar-
ter pound?

Wesley Mills, who accepted a posi-
tion, recently as manager of the cloth-
ing§ and, furnishing goods department
for the Mihlethaler Co., at Harbor
Beach, is very well known throughout
a portion of Michigan, where he rep-
resented a Toledo house as _ traveling
salesman. Perhaps there is no man in
this section who is better versed in the
clothing business than is Mr. Mills, al-
though his knowledge is general of the
mercantile business, having spent the
greater part of his life at it. Before
going to Harbor Beach, he was con-
nected with the Oppenheim Co., Bay
City, in the clothing department. Har-
bor Beach is fortunate in having a
clothing, and furnishing goods man of
the caliber of Wesley Mills.

Statistical note: The United States
in the past three years produced 53,760,-
000 pounds of maple sugar. A large
proportion originated from the maple
trees, we presume.

Frank Dreese, well-known merchant,
formerly of Sparta, now conducting a
dry goods and clothing store at Gray-
ling, was in Detroit last week.

Harry Whitbeck, serious, elongated,
hard working salesman for Burnham,
Stoepel & Co., shoots this one straight
at us without even smiling: “Despite
the fact that fresh air is the best thing
for the lungs, many traveling men in-
sist on filling their lungs with hot air.”

W. Gardner, general merchant of
Rochester, was in Detroit on business
last week.

News reports state that the Harry
W. Watson Co., of Flint, has leased
the Metropole Hotel for a term of
fourteen years, beginning in 1918, when
the lease owned by the present owners
expires. The Metropole is located in
Detroit’s busiest section and the proper-
ty is very valuable. While the Harry
W. Watson Co. is very well-known and
has hosts of friends among the traveling
men, it would not need the patronage
of its personal friends, as the hotel,
which contains 150 rooms, is generally
taxed to its capacity, owing to its fine
location.

The spring fever must have attacked
the traveling men’s friend, Guy Pfander,
last week. Not a line from Foodville.

The man who really has a good time

is the one who stayed home the night
before. He can have a good time in
the morning counting the money he
didn’t spend.

Glenn Knight is the latest acquisition
to Detroit’s contingent of traveling men,
having accepted a position as representa-
tive for the Franco-American Food Co.,
Jersey City, N. J. Before goirig with
the Franco-American Co., Mr, Knight
was: connected with the Regal Motor
Car Co. He will have an able.instruc-
tor in the person of his father, E. G.
Knight, who for years has been one of
the most successful grocery salesmen
in Detroit, representing the wholesale
grocery house of Lee & Cady. Glenn’s
many friends wish him success in his
new venture.

Everywhere about the State is found
advertising literature and posters, re-
minders of the U. C. T. convention to
be held in Saginaw, June 12 and 13.
The activities being displayed by the
Saginaw Council in advertising the
Grand Council meeting speaks well for
the meeting itself. Incidentally, we
shall be pleased to receive any news
items of interest to put before Trades-
man readers, relative to the work being
carried on by the different committees.

All do not board at swell hotels who
write on said hotel’s stationery.

W. C. Acklin has opened an office
in the Ford building for the Acklin
Stamping Co., of Toledo, manufacturer
of metal stampings for automobile parts.
The business of the company has been
growing at such a rate that the opening
of a Detroit office was made in order to
keep in touch with its local trade.
Mr. Acklin is also Secretary of the
company.

* After all, many large bills are sold—
by hot air.

Donald Eade, a young man, found a
position about two years ago with the
Best Stove Co., manufacturer of gas
ranges. His first work was that of help-
er to the more experienced workers in
the factory. Later he was made ship-
ping clerk. A short time ago an open-
ing presented itself for a traveling sales-
man for the company. Young Donald,
owing to his youth, was, with many
misgivings, given the position. The mis-
givings have since turned to wonder
af his success. To-day Donald Eade
is one of the most successful gas range
salesmen in the State—all within a per-
iod of two years.

 

TERPRISES,

sure Cheap Power.

Address,

 

Pere Marquette Railway Co.

FRANK W. BLAIR, DUDLEY E. WATERS, SAMUEL M. FELTON, Receivers

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.

 

 

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April 29, 1914

Mr. Neddermyer, of the T. Nedder-
myer Co., of Richmond, was a Detroit
business visitor last week,

George Sattler is some automobile
builder. Of that everyone will agree.
George is some gardener also (?) <A
couple of weeks ago he made a garden
and to date, despite the warm weather,
coupled with plenty of rain, about the
only thing he has been able to raise
is several blisters—and then some one
else stole the credit for making the
garden.

Bill McFarland (Crowley Bros.) says
that too much fun to-day causes more
worry to-morow.

H. Adams, of H, Adams & Son, New
Boston, was in Detroit last week looking
over the new styles of summer.

Joseph Bauer, 64 years old, one of
Detroit’s veteran merchants, died sud-
denly in his home at 178 Tillman avenue
last Sunday. Mr. Bauer had been prom-
inently connected with the business in-
terests on the west side, where he con-
ducted a dry goods store for over twen-
ty-five years. He had held many offices
in prominent German societies. There
are seven surviving children, three boys
and four girls. Edward, who has look-
ed after the interests of the store for
some time, will take over the business.
The funeral took place from the Bauer
home on Wednesday.

Death is dreadful to the man whose
all is exteinguished with his life; but
not to him whose glory never can die.
—Cicero,

Joy & Netzorg, known throughout the
State as the “Irishman and the Jew,”
formerly of Kalkaska, are now safetly
ensconced in tehir new quarters in the
Wilhelm block, Traverse City. Mr.
Doyle, who was connected for a num-
ber of years with L. Glazier, of Kalkas-
ka, has purchased one-third interest in
the business.

Jokes are not always what they are
cracked up to be.

Miss Irene Carroll, chief telephone
operator and also chief of staff of the
reception committee for Edson, Moore

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

& Co., returned to her duties Monday,
after several days’ illness.

The J. W. Milliken Co., of Traverse
City, has joined the list of progressive
merchants and installed a bargain base-
ment in its store. Most of the larger
stores in the State have carried out this
new idea with great success and many
of the smaller stores (when possible)
are following suit. A bargain basement
is a department that will keep the stocks

in the regular departments in good
shape by taking over the slow selling

merchandise. Besides, it gives a store
the opportunity of buying a cheaper line
of merchandise than would ordinarily
be carried. Besides keeping the stocks in
good condition, a bargain basement
shows a good percentage of profit. The
new department for the present will be
looked after by “Jim” Milliken. By the
way, we are pleased to state that Bob
Johnstone, a Detroit boy, formerly with
Newcomb, Endicott & Co., wha recently
took charge of the dress and wash
goods departments of the Milliken store,
has made many improvements in them
and has made many friends during his
short stay in that city.

According to the many recounts over
the “wet and dry” election in Wexford
county, a person may be in “wet” ter-
ritory one part of the week and in
“dry” territory the other part of the
week—without leaving Cadillac.

Fools and their jobs are soon parted.

Sol, Present, of the S. Present &
Co. department store at Cadillac, has
sold out his interest in the business and
will join his brother in Lafayette, In-
diana. Harry Present, a younger broth-
er, will take over the interest held by
Sol.

We have received word from the
Wequetong Club, at Traverse City, that
traveling men who make that city are
eligible to membership. The dues are
$5 a year. This should prove an excel-
lent opportunity to the boys who call on
the Traverse City trade, as the dues
entitle the members to full privileges
in the Club, which include baths, tennis

courts, dance hall, billiard tables, etc.

Arrangements are completed for the
reception and entertainment of the In-
diana merchants who will come to De-
troit as guests of the Detroit Board of
Commerce on May 6.

O. A, Schreiber, for a number of
years with the Abbott Motor Car €o.,
has been transferred to Detroit, where
he will act as special representative for
the company. His headquarters will be
with the Detroit agents, Gaston &
Richardson, 1000 Woodward avenue.

.W. H. Gay, of Milan, general mer-
chant, was in Detroit last week.

Here’s one more for the calamity
howlers who claim business 1s going
to the dogs: The Banner Cigar Co.
is erecting one of the largest and most
up-to-date cigar factories in this sec-
tion of the country. The new building
will be modern in every respect, even to
the sanitation, and will be equipped with
receiving rooms and lockers and dining
rooms for the employes.

Detroit traveling men have among
their number a man who, back in the
eighties, was to the baseball world what
Ty Cobb and other ,stars are to the
baseball player. “Kit,” as every old
time baseball fan knows, was at one
time the leading catcher for the Chi-
cago National League team. He has
been connected with the National Cash
Register Co, for the past two years and,
as in the days of yore, he sizes up his
opponent or customer’s weak points
and bingo—he signals to the National
Cash Register Co., to put over a register
and is ready for the next victim, before
the last one realized it is all over. Mr.
Kittridge, besides belonging to many
German societies, is an active member
of the order of “Fleas.” His headquar-
ers are at 79 Woodward avenue.

Where all friendship ceases—in a high

power poker game.

Pleased to receive items of interest
to the Detroit readers of these columns.
Address 211 Columbus avenue, Detroit.

C. E. Warner, general merchant at
Decatur, has added a line of shoes to

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his stock. A short time ago Mr. War-
ner placed his business on a 'stfictly
cash basis and reports that he hag not
only held his own, but that his business
has shown a decided increase. The
merchant who has no dead accounts on
his books and receives cash for what
he sells can sell goods cheaper than the
merchant who does otherwise—hence the
increase in Mr. Warner’s business.

The father generally gives the bride
away, but oh, if some of the other mem-
bers of the family only dared!

Ivory Brothers have opened a drug
stere in Lansing. We presume that the
Ivorys will be solid with the trade.

Each week finds more stores added
to those which will close at 6 o'clock
on Saturday night, which is enough to
make some believe that the clerks must
be considered human after all.

Do not forget the dance Saturday
night to be given by Detroit Council.

A dead-beat was never known to re-
turn goods,

Who will be the hero who will wear
the first straw hat?

Some men are born for luck. Just
when we hear our mother-in-law is
coming for a two weeks’ visit the firm
sends us out on a two weeks’ trip.

J. M. Goldstein.
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Eggs, Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes at Buffalo.

Buffalo, April 29.—Creamery  but-
ter, fresh 22&25c; dairy, 20@22¢ poor
to good, all kinds, 12@1S8c.

Cheese — New ancy, 144@l15c:
choice 13@14c; poor to common, 6a
12e; faney old, 17@iiive;
@16c.

Eegs—Choice, fresh, 20@2Ic.

Poultry (ive)—Turkeys, 16@18c;
cox 12@13c; fowls, 17@18c; ducks, 18
(@20c; dressed chicks, 18@20c; fowls,
L7@18c.

Beans—Marrow, $3@3.35; medium;
ter, fresh, 22@25c; dairy, 20@22c:
poor to good, all kinds, 12@18c.

Potatoes—75(@80c per bu.

Rea & Witzig.

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CURIOUS WAR SITUATION.

The situation, as between the United
States and Mexico, is so peculiar as
to make accurate forecast difficult.
We are invading Mexico, but we have
not declared war. There are numer-
ous possibilities in the field. Huerta
may give up the fight. Our navy may
simply hold the sea-ports and await
developments. We may advance on
Mexico City and attack Huerta in his
stronghold. We may have the passive
or active co-operation of Caranza and
Villa in the north of Mexico, or we
may be drawn into hostilities with
them as well. No one is clear in
mind as to these points at the mo-
ment, and President Wilson and his
associates seem as much in doubt as
any one.

The action of financiers when war
breaks out, takes account of many
considerations. The first necessarily
is, what the war will cost, and there-
fore how large will have to be a be-
Government's! requisitions
on the investment market. If a war
bids fair to be long and costly, then
two inferences follow—one , that
large supplies of capital will be used
for it, which would otherwise be
available for peaceful industry; the
other, that prices for the new Gov-
ernment issues will be lowered to find
a market, which will usually draw
capital out of existing securities
whose price is relatively higher, with
a view to investing it in the invit-
ing “war loans.”

This is why question of the dura-
tion of war comes first; for in every
serious conflict of recent years (in-
cluding the Balkan War, the Russo-
Japanese War, the Transvaal War,
and our own Spanish War), the total
outlay of an aggressive combatant
has averaged at least a million dol-
lars per day. England spent a bil-
lion dollars in the two and _ three-
quarters years of the Tranvaal War;
Japan spent as much in the year and
a half of its war with Russia.

3ut this is not all that financial
markets have to consider, when the
war begins. There may be circum-
stances which will drag other nations
than the original combatants into the
melee. This, to be sure, has not ac-
tually happened since the wars of the
first Napoleon (unless one allows for
Italy’s voluntarily entering the Cri-
mean War in 1855), but it is always
a possibility.

ligerent

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

It is plain enough that if, as Wash-
ington has intimated, we might have
to raise 100,000 to 400,000 volunteers,
then our per diem expenses might
approach the familiar total. Our Gov-
ernment would undoubtedly, have to
borrow heavily and that may have
been at least one influence on the
mysterious collapse of the European
stock markets. But that, again, de-
pends on the course of events in the
near future, and it also depends on
the duration of the war. The cost
of our Spanish War averaged fully
one million dollars per day, but it
lasted less than four months, and was
financed without difficulty at home,
and without foreign lenders.

This is among the problems of the
moment. It will be remembered that
the Spanish War was a naval con-
flict in the main, the land operations
being of relatively slight significance.
A Mexican conflict would not be a
naval war, and it is wholly a matter
of conjecture what the land opera-
tions would involve. The Mexican
War of 1846 lasted nearly two years;
but that was because we began with
an invasion from the Texas border
and ended by entering Mexico, as we
did last week, at Vera Cruz. The
course of the markets, during the next
few weeks or months, will be mainly
governed by the financial and invest-
ing community’s impressions on these
points.

 

STILL SLOWING DOWN.
3usiness is no better, and slow-
ness is becoming chronic. Dry goods
houses are running behind in their
forward sales, as compared with last
year, as interior distributors are go-

ing slowly in placing orders. Manu-
facturers generally complain about

the limited orders and have reduced
their output to about 50 per cent. of
normal. At the rate business is go-
ing, it will reduce stocks down to a
minimum and place distributors in a
position where they will have to buy
in the near future.

What has most impressed our peo-
ple, in the face of recent Mexican
developments, has been the lack of any
considerable volume of liquidation in
the stock market, in the face of de-
velopments calculated to be at least
mentally depressing. This has induc-
ed many observers to take a rather
more cheerful view of the financial
outlook. This position is due, how-
ever, almost wholly to the interfer-
ence, based on the market itself, that
the worst has been discounted. It
is admitted that war, of even a minor
character, must involve economic
waste and destruction of capital. But
with prices of securities already at a
low level, there is some inclination
to believe that the immediate effect
of any broadening of war activities
in Mexico might operate to stimulate
rather than depress general business
and the financial markets.

In any case, provision for war will
enhance the demand for certain goods
required by the Government, and this,
in turn, must have some indirect ef-
fect on other lines of trade. One also
hears the argument that this con-
flict may cause legislators at Wash-
ington to turn their attention away
from plans for perpetual regulation

of business interests, and might pos-
sibly even cause them to be more
charitably disposed towards business
institutions generally, in the face of
this new National problem.

On the other hand, it is hoped that
the situation holds little possibility of
great disturbance. With the credit
of the Mexicans so low as to prevent
their levying on the world’s money
markets, and with the present world-
wide ease in money such as to enable
the United States to obtain any rea-
sonable amount of funds, there seems
little possibility of any considerable
financial pressure, through the influ-
ence of tight money, such as was wit-
nessed in the Balkan conflict. More-
over, there is lacking entirely that

fear of the conflict developing into

an international struggle of the first
magnitude the possibility of which,
in the case of the Balkan war, was so
largely responsible for making that
contest one of major importance in the
world’s stock markets.

 

THE MEDIATION PROPOSAL.

Whatever may be the outcome of
the mediation proposed by Brazil, Ar-
gentina, and Chili, the proposal and
its acceptance by the United States
have, at any rate, served a good pur-
pose. For one thing the great pow-
ers of Europe will see in this effort
to find a peaceful and honorable so-
lution of a war situation in America
that when such a situation arises the
sister republics of the Western Hemi-
sphere have now such high respect
for the important positions of each
other .that they can settle their in-
ternational troubles among  them-
selves. This does not imply by any
means that we in the North or they
in the South wish to “flock by our-
selves” to the exclusion of Europe
in our councils if at any time the par-
ticipation of European Powers should
be bound up with the conventions of
international courtesy which we shall
always seek to observe. For another
thing, it must be pleasant for us to
reflect that when mediation was pro-
posed in the Mexican trouble by the
three strong South American states
they first said to themselves, so to
speak, “we will the three of us unite
in speaking to our Big Sister.” The
three countries thus addressing our
Government through their plenipo-
tentiaries at Washington is such a
fine and courteous act, quite apart
from whether their proffered good
offices turn out to be effective or not,
that it should have great effect in
promoting good feeling, and it is to
be hoped if pourparlers ensue, con-
tingent on Mexican acceptance, many
of our people may be brought to a
better realization of the fact that in
dealing, now or at any other time,
with the governments of such Ameri-
can republics as the three that have
united in proposing mediation, we
shall have to do with men whose skill,
competence, and courtesy in the con-
duct of international affairs are on a
par with what we take for granted in
the case of representatives of any one
of the European Powers with whom
we have had dealings or may have
dealings in the future. The school
of the South American diplomat, in-
deed, is Europe much more than it

April 29, 1914

is for our own men in the same call-
ing. The incident, as it stand, is one
upon which all parties concerned may
congratulate themselves, and regard-
less of what may be accomplished, it
should be productive of much good
in our inter-American relations.

 

NEARING THE END.

Reports to the Tradesman from
Battle Creek Sanitarium are to the
effect that the health of Jacob A.
Riis has become so impaired as to
require his retirement from the activ-
ities to which he has been devoted.
He is as yet only on the threshold of
old age, being not quite 65, and there
are not many men in the country
who have more fairly won the good
wishes of all “men of gentle will”
for many years of quiet happiness
after a lifetime of active effort. Mr.
Riis was one of the vanguard of that
army of men and women who, in
the past five and twenty years, have
been laboring to improve the lot
of the least fortunate of their fellow-
beings, and have quickened the Na-
tional conscience in this whole do-
main of thought and feeling and ac-
tion. In his work, and his talk, and
his writing, about condition in the
slums of New York, there was a qual-
ity of heartfelt sympathy, made all
the more moving by a kindly and gen-
uine humor, which was _ peculiarly
contagious. A certain simplicity of
mind, which in some matters that he
touched was not to his advantage,
only strengthened him in what he
said and what he did about the
wretchedness of Five Points, the cry-
ing need of downtown playgrounds
and parks, and other concrete things
that he fought for and won in behalf
of the poor of New York. He can
take to himself, in his retirement, the
satisfaction that goes) with having
done good work himself, and having
been the cause of good work, and
of good feeling, in others.

JUST RULING.

The recent ruling of the State Com-
missioner of Insurance, embodied in
a letter to the Michigan Tradesman
published elsewhere in this week’s pa-
per, is a very just one, as pictures
very often attain increased value in
future years. This value is easily as-
certained by appeals to experts. In-
surance companies are very skeptical
about the values of pictures and paint-
ings of this kind, as the ideas of the
real owner of the picture often ex-
ceeds the value placed upon same by
experts. The value of a picture is,
of course, greater in the estimation
of one person than another on ac-
count of some sentimental value at-
taching to same and which really has
nothing to do with the actual value
of the picture. It is so seldom that
serious losses occur to valuable paint-
ings that any discussion as to the
real value of the painting or picture
very seldom arises. Under the illegal
and dishonest subterfuge employed by
the insurance companies, the insurer
stood no show in dealing with crafty
and unscupulous adjusters and the
Tradesman joins with the insuring
public in expressing its thanks to
John W. Blodgett and his legal rep-
resentative for taking the initiative in
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April 29, 1914

THE NATIONAL GUARD.

Why It Should Be More Heartily
Supported.

Lansing—April 21—Captain John H.
Schouten, of Company K, 2nd Infantry
Michigan National Guard, of Grand
Rapids, has. called my attention to your
editorial, “National Guard and You.”

Permit me to express the thanks of
the Michigan National Guard for your
attitude as expressed in this editorial.
It covers our views regarding the ser-
vice in a most excellent manner.

The only trouble with the Michigan
National Guard to-day is a lack of un-
derstanding among the people of Michi-
gan as to the value of the organization
to them individually and as a whole. As
at present constituted the Michigan Na-
tional Guard offers a system of training
for young men which is most valuable
in fitting them for civilian life as well
as preparing them for service in case
the Nation needs soldiers.

A young man who serves in the
Guard finds that opportunities for ad-
vancement depend upon his own initi-
ative and his ability to make his way by
individual effort. Among several hundred
other young men dressed exactly as he
is dressed and living exactly as he lives
he finds that station in civil life means
nothing and that if he is to secure for
himself an advancement it must come by
effort and discipline or difficulties that
entitle him to leadership, It also incul-
cates the spirit of consideration for
others and a knowledge of men which
is very important.

Factory managers who have watched
the results of service: of young men in
the National Guard have frequently told
me that this service has been the means
of developing many young men in their
employ as foremen and other positions.

The Guard stands to-day as an organ-
ization of volunteers and this sentiment
is one worth the attention of the people
as an important means of perpetuating
the Nation. No young man can come
to a field service camp without becoming
imbued with a National spirit and a loy-
alty to the flag which means much to
the Nation.

The National Guard should have such
support among the people of Michigan as
would establish a system whereby every
young man would be expected to serve
at least one term of enlistment as a part
of his duty as a citizen of his country.
Contact with the spirit and sentiment of
the Michigan National Guard can not
help but impress one with the serious
purpose of the officers and men and the
value of the training in all ways to
those who participate in it.

It is through such editors as yourself
that we can hope to make the National
Guard mean to all of the people what it
now means to those who are aware of its
purposes and know all the work being
done. Rov C. Vandercook,

Adjutant General
From William Judson.

Grand Rapids, April 21—As an honor-
ary member of the National Guard, and
also deeply interested in the Guard as a
citizen, I wish to thank you for your ar-
ticle printed in the issue of April 15 en-
titled “National Guard and You.”

Your good article will go a long way
in correctly advising the public in refer-
ence to the Guard and the importance of
maintaining it in the highest degree of
efficiency.

I hope all the members of our next
Legislature will extend liberal financial
support to the Michigan National Guard.

They should have better meeting
places, better equipments and __ better
pay, and our State of Michigan is rich
enough to stand for the sensible support
of this important organization.

I wish to thank you for your timely
editorial. William Judson.

From Philo C. Fuller.

Grand Rapids, April 20—My attention
has been called to your article in the
Tradesman entitled ‘National Guard
and You,” and I heartily endorse what
the article states in regard to: the Na-

 

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tional Guard, especially where you say
“The real safety of all, poor and rich
alike, lies in the power of the people
to enforce their laws.”

The laws must be upheld or else mob
rule succeeds and where that occurs the
poor suffer most in the end. In fact,
in all wars the poor are the greatest
sufferers.

If the time ever comes when we all
live under the Great Law, namely, “Do
as you would be done by,” other laws
will not be necessary, consequently no
force needed to enforce them. Let us
all hope that that time and law will
come. Philo C. Fuller.

From Charles E. Belknap.

Grand Rapids, April 21—In the April
15 edition of the Michigan Tradesman,
I note your editorial on the “National
Guard.”

T have long been aware that a strong
undercurrent was working to defeat the
object of our National Guard and_ to
prevent its retaining full membership.

Every thinkingman—every man who
has in his heart a single spot of loyalty
towards his country—-knows that if this
grand country of ours is to stand, its
laws must be enforced.

If the Civil Government cannot or
will not enforce the law, then that duty
must necessarily fall on the shoulders
of our National Guard.

Any man or body of men who de-
liberately interferes with the National
Guard in its effort to protect life and
property is a traitor to his country and
should be treated as such.

Any man who discourages or deters
the loyal American from joining the
Guard, is a menace to public safety and
should be severely dealt with.

Our National Guard should receive
every encouragement from each and
every member of society, regardless of
any and all affiliations.

Your editorial is timely and is none
too strong. I realize that it takes cour-
age in these days to write as you have,
and want you to feel that what you have
said is appreciated by every man who
has live blood in his veins.

Charles E. Belknap.

From Otto H. L. Wernicke.

Grand Rapids, April 21—The leading
editorial appearing in the Tradesman last
week entitled “National Guard and You”
is a thoughtful and timely exposition
of a situation which challenges the
patriotism of every citizen.

As an indication of my attitude, I am
enclosing herewith, copy of a commu-
nication which I directed to the Grand
Rapids Battalion last September. You
may make such use of it as you may
think proper. ©. H. L. Wernicke.

 

Mr. Wernicke’s Letter to the Grand
Rapids Battalion.

Grand Rapids, Sept. 23—This after-
noon, Captain Hurley solicited my co-
operation to increase your list of hon-
orary membership as a means of more
adequate financial support, and I take
this carly opportunity to say that IT am
wholly and unreservedly at your serv-
ice.

I have drafted the outline of subscrip-
tion paper, of which I enclose a copy.
This expresses my sentiments and I
dowt give a rap who knows it. It
seems to me that you should be able to
secure no less than two thousand hon-
orary members of the best men in this
community, who, like myself, still es-
teem it their duty and great pleasure to
show the boys how much they are ap-
preciated and that they are backed up
to the limit.

It seems to me that a systematic can-
vas of a selected list of names should
result in securing at least three mem-
bers out of every five called upon, when
their eyes are opened to the real facts
of the situation. O. H, L. Wernicke.

Pledge Prepared by Mr. Wernicke.

We, the undersigned fesident tax-
payers of Grand Rapids, Michigan, do
hereby pledge ourselves to uphold, en-
courage and support of Grand Rapids

 

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Battalion of the Michigan National
Guard, and each for himself hereby
makes application for an honorary mem-
bership in said organization and prom-
ises to pay the sum of Ten Dollars upon
receipt of a membership certificate.

Our support in this manner is cheer-
fully given to this volunteer body—not
as a favor, but in recognition of the
debt that every citizen owes to this
excellent patriotic body of our young
men who so unselfishly qualify them-
selves to perform the duties of a soldier;
not only without compensation, but often
involving material sacrificés in time,
money, health and opportunities.

We cannot fail to recognize that in
every crisis this Nation has been and is
now almost wholly dependent upon its
citizen soldier. It is the only army now
possessed by the State through which
it is possible to ensure to its citizens
the constitutional guarantees of life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
whenever and wherever assailed in man-
ner or force beyond the power of local
authorities to cope with,

We are firmly convinced that the
State and Nation do not treat their citi-
zen soldiery with a degree of liberality
consistent with the importance of the
responsibilities assumed or the services
rendered, nor compatible with the per-
sonal sacrifices which such services in-
volve.

The lukewarm support of the State
Militia by the Legislature, is a regret-
table fact and is due in a measure at
least to organized opposition of numer-
ous voters who chafe under law and
order when enforced against their self-
willed defiance. Certain  anarchistic
bodies in this State styling themselves
citizens, whose members arrogate to
themselves special rights and privileges
which they deny to others; who enjoy
the protection and other great benefits
of social order; are openly hostile to the
National Guard and advocate its abo-
lition. Such un-American organizations
prohibit their own members from exer-
cising the glorious right of American
citizenship by enlisting in, or in any
other manner, giving help or encourage-
ment to the National Guard.

In view of these extraordinary con-
ditions fraught with real danger to the
very foundations of society and to every
individual person, and further, because
these influences in themselves tend to
make membership in our National Guard
constantly more irksome and annoying,
thereby arresting its effective growth
and potency, we ask every right think-
ing man in this city to join with us in
giving to the boys of the Michigan Na-
tional Guard their right hand of fellow-
ship, their moral encouragement and at
least the very little financial assistance
resulting from an honorary membership.
Let us show the Khaki boys that the
best people in this country are with and
for them;—that is the way to meet the
needs of the hour—real soldiers.

From Charles B. Kelsey.

Grand Rapids, April 21—I read with
much interest an article printed in
your paper on April 15 on the Nation-
al Guard. Having once been a member
of the Guard myself and being an
honorary member at this time, it ar-
rested my attention. I have never
been able to understand why there
should be antagonism to the Nation-
al Guard unless it was from the fact
that many of our new citizens are
from foreign countries and have a nat-
piral dislike to standing armies.

The National Guard is a citizen who
has volunteered to serve his country
in case of disturbances which get be-
yond the control of the police and
other local authorities. No citizen in
the pursuit of his legitimate duties is
ever molested by a policeman or a
member of the National Guard. Chil-
dren upon the streets of the city of
Grand Rapids have no more fear of
the police or Guardsman than of any
other person because they are con-
scious of the fact that there is no
reason why they should be molested.
No law abiding citizen should ever
have reason to fear the citizen sol-

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diery. They are never called upon to
exercise authority except where law-
lessness has passed beyond control of
the usual police authority or threatens
to do so. Their presence to preserve
life and property is at times neces
sary, and anyone who has given the
subject much thought is bound to ac-
knowledge they have almost univer-
sally been the means of preventing
great loss of life, to say nothing of
property and the preservation of law
and order, without which no govern-
ment can stand.

Any well ordered and reasoning
citizen who believes in law and order,
the preservation of peace, the lawful
pursuit and conduct of business can
have no opposition to the volunteer
soldier. Without him at times there
would be anarchy. Labor and capital
would both be without employment.
Until such time as all disputes can be
settled amicably, there will at times
be disturbances and riots and for the
protection of life and property of all
the people there must be the State
Militia.

[ cannot conceive what a govern
ment would do without some police
force. [| do not think the people who
Oppose the militia reason out what
would be the condition that might ob-
tain if people were allowed to go the
limit in disputes that sometimes
arise. It would’ bring about chaos
and conditions such as prevail in Mex-
ico at the present time, which no
loyal citizen of this country would
want to see. It will be a sorry day
for any state that shall abandon the
volunteer soldier.

Charles B. Kelsey.
From Huntley Russell.

Grand Rapids, April 26—I wish to
commend you for the article in your
last issue entitled “National Guard
and You. To my mind it seems as
if the public are very modest. to say
the least, in their encouragement
given to the boys who night after
night meet and drill, and perfect them-
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State with such meager incentives and
at such real personal sacrifice. After
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order, because they, while the others
slept, were mindful of their State and
were awake to the future needs of
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How to Meet Competition in the
Clothing Line.

In a previous issue of this maga-
zine the writer gave the results of
his cbservations on specializing in
the clothing business in a smali city,
to meet the competition at home and
the near-by trade center, Los Ange-
les. It is with pleasure that in this is-
sue | give the results of an investi-
gation of a clothing store that has
built up a good trade under far differ-
ent conditions, as to territory and
population.

In the cone case success was built
up in a small town on the ocean
beach, and in this case in a city of
some 35,000 inhabitants—reputed to
be the richest city of its size in the
United States—with the large and
flourishing city of Los Angeles but
a dozen miles away and a round-trip
carfare of but
Under the circumstances this is a far

twenty-five cents.

more interesting case for many of
our readers who are in a like atmos-
phere.

This broader field has been invad-
ed by a clothier of broad experience
from one of the larger inland cities
of the South, who, forced by health
conditions to seek a more equitable
climate, came to Southern California.
Upon his arrival here, some eighteen
months ago, he looked around for a
location to continue the clothing
business.

The city, where he was visiting
some friends, so pleased him that he
sought to effect a lodgment there;
but the field was covered by seven
large and prosperous clothing firms,
which catered to the wealthy clement,
with large and well selected general
stocks of high-class merchandise. To
eo into the trade with such old and
well established competition he well
knew he was taking a long chance;
not but that he was well equipped
with a thorough knowledge of his
business, but to fight is to lose money,
and he had no money to lose. With
the heavy fixed charges of fixtures,
light and big rents, to give an even
standing to his store he would have
had to spend thousands of dollars
in getting well started, and he felt it
to be too risky.

He Decides to Specialize.

Evidently a new angle to the game
must be found to attract the trade;
and then came the inspiration to “spe-
cialize.”” A new man or firm must
have a novel or solid attraction to
offer; without this the pull will be a
hard and long one, and he figured it
out that there are always many men
in a community, no matter how well
off per capita, who will practice econ-
omy in dress. In this out-of-door
climate it is common to see men

worth hundreds of thousaands of
dollars quite plainly dressed, driving
their automobiles, or even in overalls
and jumpers, enjoying the open air,
in making gardens, trimming lawns
or amusing themselves with raising
chickens. All these will buy substan-
tial clothing at a popular price.

To secure a community of inter-
ests a partner was found who was
also a clothing man. To him the
scheme was attractive, and the $15
suit store became an accomplished
fact. To make the idea stronger it
was determined to specialize on a
line of hats at $2, trousers at $3,
men’s shirts at $1, ties at 25 and 50
cents, underwear only at popular
prices

Knowing the Markets.

Having acquired an acquaintance
with the manufacturing markets of
the United States in their former lo-
cations, these men were better equip-
ped with a knowledge of how and
where to buy than the average cloth-
ier, and this is the keynote of their
success, for through this experience
they are enable to give most satis-
factory values to their customers.

A good location was found “just
around the corner” from the busi-
ness center of the city, where a
store was. secured, fronting north,
with a front of about thirty feet and
with a depth of approximately cighty
feet. Two good show windows flank-
ed the single door, and in the vesti-
bule at the front was an island plate-
glass showcase of generous size. The
finish was dark mission oak, and this
color scheme was carried out in the
plain but neat fixtures, consisting of
six racks on which to display the suits
on the right as one entered the store.

On the left were the shirts and the
other furnishings, on shelves of the
same dark colored mission oak. At
the rear of the house the hats were
arranged on shelves about six feet
high. Three tables occupied the cen-
ter of thé store, on which are dis-
played suits when selling them.

Glass showcases formed the count-
ers for selling the furnishings, as
well as serving to display shirts and
The walls were tinted
a soft cream, and with a high ceiling,
the store was most attractive. Pen-
nants were used to good advantage to
decorate the bare spaces on the high
walls, with pleasing effect.

small wares.

The rent is one hundred dollars per
month, the electric bill is but six dol-
lars on an average, the taxes are
about equal to the insurance: this
latter is at the rate of one dollar ten.

Policy of the Store.

In discussing their buying and sell-
ing plans, the senior partner of the
store said:

“Two hundred suits of weli known
makes were bought. to find out just
what the trade here demanded. All
these are carried under our own name’
because the customer only knows tbe
man from whom he buys, and the man
who buys popular-priced merchandise
is not ordinarily a very close reader
of National advertising. It may do
all right for a store handling high-
priced lines to carry advertised s iis,
but with us it is different.

“We hunted the country over for
extra values in $3 trousers, and our $2
hats are as good as many soid at far
more. We do not deceive curselves
with the false note of ‘imaginary
values,’ but we know that what we are
selling is the best in the market. No.
We do not take any long profits, but
confine ourselves to a legitimate gain,
which will build up the business on
a firm basis.

“We buy suits. hats and shirts in
the East, as California has not pro-
duced merchandise of this  so't to
meet Eastern competition. Ties are
bought here because they are of ex-
cellent value, and made xo suit the Ic-
cal market. Collars are bought from
the agency of well-known manufac-
turers who keep a supply house on
the coast. Small wares are bought
here.

Strictly Local Trade.

“Our firm does not use the parcel
post. The trade we have is strictle
local, and we use only the newspa-
pers as advertising mediums; we do
not appeal to the classes, but to the
community at large in the city alone;
we do not use personal letters or
circulars.

“The policy of this concern is to
sell, and not keep, the merchandise,
and to that end a special sale was
recently held, during which the stock
of suits was reduced two-thirds, and
the other stocks in proportion. We
take all discounts, because if we did
not it would reduce our prolits most
We would not have the
prestige of being cash buyers, and
many plums would not fall into our
yard.”

materially.

Thus, in a rich man’s town, this
plain, substantial $15 suit store is
meeting with financial success, and
is helping to prove beyond all ques-
tion that specializing pays here in
the West.

The plan could be followed more
rigidly in some details, as, for in-
stance, there are two lines of. ties,
25 and 50 cents, and two lines of
underwear. But it may be that some

“customers want to pay more for un-

derwear that is usually bought by
$15 suit customers. The good jude-
ment of the buyer will determine
this point, as he is a man of road ex-
perience, we can trust his discrim-
ination in this regard.

Full Line of Sizes.

“You can’t sell every customer,”
he said, “but you will sell more men
with a full line of sizes and patterns
at a price than when a large variety
of merchandise is stocked in small
quantities. In the one case you will
have fewer odds and ends; in the va-
riety store there is a stock of edds
and ends when the house is opened.

“There is no room for several spe-
cialty stores, at the one price, in a

 

community, because the chief attrac-
tion is lost when several make the
same claim at the same time. We
have the prestige of this town, and
some other clothier may come in and
try to do what we have done, but it
will not be a go. True, he may cut
up the trade and cause both of us
to lose money, but a man with com-
mon sense will avoid
which is not profitable.”

competition

Any clothier who reads this article
can analyze his own trade, or in
looking jor a location should consid-
er the main facts as. given above,
and use them as they apply to the
condition and situation. But when
you decide to specialize—specialize.

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BIG RAPIDS BRANCH.

Where Every Merchant Reads the
Michigan Tradesman.

Big Rapids, April 27—-Holton is a
village settled in 1860, sixteen miles
northeast of Muskegon, the county
seat, and thirty-six miles southwest
of Big Rapids. It has two churches
and a bank. Population, 300. The
Tradesman is a regular weekly vis-
itor to most of the following busi-
ness places.

Holten Mercantile  Co.,
merchandise.

H. A. O’Connor, drugs.

Pomeroy Bros, groceries and meats.

S. B. Murphy, general merchan-
dise.

J. S. Anderson, groceries and shoes.

Holten State Bank.

Holten Rural Telephone Co.

A. C. Nelson, produce.

3runswick is three miles from Flol-
ton, the nearest bank location. Pop-
ulation, 140. Stage twice daily to
Hesperia. George Hewitt, the man-
ager of McCallum Bros, general
store, is a valued subscribed to the
Tradesman.

Reeman, three and one-half miles
from Fremont, its banking point, has
a Christian Reformed church. Popu-
lation, 100. This is a busy little burg
and a very large volume of business
is done here annually. The follow-
ing business houses are readers of
the Tradesman:

3oven & Co., general merchandise.

Nick Tanis, groceries.

Albert A. Sneller, hardware.

Charles Boyd, produce.

Reeman Creamery Co.

Fremont, formerly known as lre-
mont Center, incorporated as a_ vil-
lage in 1875, later incorporated as a
city, is surrounded by some of the
best farming lands in the State and
the farmers find a ready _ sale for
everything produced by them. Tlas
an extensive canning factory, pickle
factory, cider mill, tannery, two flour
mills, saw and planing mills, munic-
ipal electric light plant and water
works system, asphalt streets, good
public schools, a county normal, six
churches, two banks and a very pro-
gressive lot of business men. The
Tradesman is a most welcome visitor
to the following business houses in
Fremont:

Fremont Canning Co.

Reber Bros., dry goods, clothing,
ete.

Frank TH.

Dallas D,
store. i

Pikaart Bros., general merchandise.

Geo. C. Sausman, groceries.

L. D. Puff, hardware.

W. W. Pearson, dry goods.

Sayles & Powers, clothing.

Win. N. Senf, mayor and meat deal-

general

Smith, department store.
Alton, Pioneer drug

er.
Vallier Grocery Co.
Vredeveld & Co., shoes and gro-
ceries.
G. Bode & Co., shoes.
A. C. Brink & Son groceries.
Fremont Co-Operative Produce Co.
L. J. Graves, bazaar.
J. Tloare, bakery.
R. D. Miller, groceries.
Jake Mulder, groceries.
L. E. Norton, drugs.
Old State Bank.
Fremont State Bank. |
Aneus Stewart, druggist.
G. E. Hain Co., hardfare and im-
plements. i
Earl Sherman, produce and feed.
H. Alexander, confectionery.
Osting Bros., implement dealers.
Fremont Lumber & Fuel Co.
C. I. Rathbun, jeweler.
Jas Stannard, cigars, tobacco, etc.
J. F. A. Raider & Son, hardware.
J. B. Ketchum, general merchan-
dise.
A. S. Nordholt, bazaar.
R. Vanderwerp, clothing.
R. J. Purcey, jeweler.
Henry Deters, shoes.
Ed Jacklin, meats.
N. Warmelink, bazaar.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11

J. L. Hillyard, produce.

E. L. Boyd, produce.

The Hotel De Hass, originally built
and conducted for years by
“Jackie” De Hass, the veteran hotel
man, is now in the hands of Fred
Kelloge,, who is no novice at the busi-
ness, having previously been mine
host at the same old stand and has a
large acquaintance among the com-
mercial men.

Van's Inn is a new hostelry recent-
ly opened up to the public. and, as
there is plenty of business for two
good hotels, is receiving a very sat-
isfactory patronage. H. N. Van
Sickle, or “Van,” as he is more com-
monly called, is a thorough hotel man
having conducted a summer hotel at
the lake for a number of years.

White Cloud, the judicial seat of
Newaygo county, .is located on the
White River, a water power stream,
forty-five miles north of Grand Rap-
ids. It owns and operates its own
electric light and water works plant,
has a fire department, local and long
distance telephone facilities, churches
of four denominations, public hall,
two banks, excellent schools and
goods stores. The Tradesman has
many warm friends among the fol-
lowing business places:

C. E. Wilson, department store.

Barnhard Mercantile Co., depart-
ment store.

Geo. R. Rosenberg, hardware.

W. S. Bird, groceries.

A. Q. Adams, hardware.

Mrs. A. L. Anderson, hardware.

E. H. Lemire, druggist.

Newaygo County Bank.

Kirst State Bank.

Hemily Lumber Co.

M. D. Hayward, farm implements.

J. Cohan & Co., general merchan-
dise.

E. B. Fitzgerald, flour mills.

Patterson Bros., meats.

A. D. Lemire, groceries.

P. J. Youngquist, shoes.

George Patterson, flour and feed.

The Atlantic Hotel is again in the
hands of George Blass, the veteran
hotel man and baseball player. George
is rather fat to play ball now, but
he can still make a home run when
it comes to attending to the wants of
the commercial men.

The Central Hotel, conducted by
Mrs. M. Gust, is another of the lead-
ine hotels of White Cloud and. re-
ceives a satisfactory patronage.

W. R. Wagers.
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Lipton May Grow Tea In California.

Reports emanating from California,
and said to have good backing, have
it that Sir Thomas Lipton is about
to undertake the growing of tea in
California on a commercial scale, be-
lieving that the climate of California
and the general conditions in that
State are extremely favorable for the
growing of tea. He has notified his
agents in that State that he has just
shipped several hundred three-year-old
chares of an

culturist to
small

tea plants im
experienced tea
San Diego, where a
experiment station will be established.
It is said that when Lipton visited
California two years ago he was much
impressed with the possibilities in
California for the growing of tea ona
Tt is the in-
tention to plant a small acreage im-

large commercial scale.

mediately and if results are satisfac-
tory he will send over a force of ex-
pert tea growers who will begin
operations on large tracts, with the
ultimate intention of supplying the
American market with teas of the Lip-
ton brand. i
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To Fathers an Mothers

_ The season is again here when boys and girls begin play-
ing in the streets. To avoid possible accident to your chil-
dren we respectfully urge you to

Keep in Their Minds the
Danger of So Doing

And give them strict instructions to particularly

Watch Out for Street Cars

The motormen are on the alert, but the children cannot
be too careful, and must be frequently reminded.

GRAND RAPIDS RAILWAY CO.
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President-—H. L. Williams, Howell.
Vice-President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.
Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Bent-
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Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson,
Detroit; Frank P. Van Buren, Williams-
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Preparing Poultry For Market By
Crate Fattening.

Some weeks ago the Tradesman
published a notice of a new bulletin
of the Bureau of Animal Industry,
giving the summary of a series of ex-
periments conducted by the Govern-
ment on the commercial fattening of
poultry. Werewith is published fur-
ther extracts from this bulletin cover-
ing more fully some of the results
secured:

A comparison of the results at the
various stations shows that the com-
mon practice of feeding broilers and
springs for about fourteen days dur-
ing the first part of the feeding sea-
son and separating -the lots of
roasters and broilers about the mid-
dle of September, while gradually re-
ducing the feeding period of the
roasters, is the most profitable prac-
tice, unless there is a special reason
for feeding the lots longer in the fall.

It would appear that by feeding
twice instead of three times daily the
grain was used more efficiently in
producing gains. At one station dur-
ing the greater part of the season
the birds received a light feed in the
morning and a heavy feed at night,
thus getting the bulk of their feed in
one meal. Some small tests in cram-
ming, the results of which were not
recorded, produced very good results
by feeding only once daily. The ad-
vantage of feeding twice as against
three times daily depends on other
factors as much as on the efficiency
of the use of feed, so that each feeder
must decide that question for him-
self. Very good results can be se-
cured by either method. There ap-
pears to be less danger of overfeed-
ing when feeding only twice daily,
but a more experienced feeder is re-
quired to regulate the amount to feed
in two meals than in three in order
to get the greatest amount of feed
into the bird. Apparently under
average conditions the birds will con-
sume more feed in three meals daily,
but will use their feed more efficient-
ly if fed twice, provided that they re-
ceive enough food.

A commercial preparation claimed
by the manufacturers to stimulate the
appetites of birds which are being
fattened, was fed in one experiment.
Later in the season the test was re-
peated. It did not appear to stimu-
late the birds’ appetite as the gains
of other lots, fed before and after
those which received this substance,

did not show there was any advant-
age in feeding it.

Oil of aniseed mixed with pure car-
bolic acid, and fed at the rate of one
tablespoonful to every 2,000 birds,
had been used by one of the feeders
in some previous work. It was
claimed to have increased the appe-
tite of the birds, but it made the
bones brittle, so that its use pre-
vented good dressing.

line salt was fed in one experiment
at the rate of four pounds of salt to
10,000 head, without producing any
apparent results. The feeders at
these stations believed that salt in
the feed kept the birds from picking
each other, so that when this vice is
prevalent it may pay to feed salt,
otherwise there is no advantage in
adding salt to the ration.

Grit was given to the birds in one
experiment twice weekly during the
first month of the feeding season, but
no grit was fed at any of the other
stations. At the end of the month
the feeding of grit was stopped with-
out any apparent effect, and was not
fed any more during the season.
Birds in good health, which are fat-
tened not longer than 16 days, do not
need grit, as grit increases the cost of
feed and labor without producing
better gains.

The marked growth of feathers
which occurs during a few days of
fattening ‘indicates that buttermilk
and forced feeding tend to renew
feathers rapidly. Chickens which do
well in fattening are almost invaria-
bly covered with pin feathers, and
this is an indication of good results
in the feeder. Apparently a large
amount of buttermilk in the feed
greatly stimulates the growth of
feathers, which fact might be noted in
connection with the feeding of lay-
ing hens during the late summer to
promote rapid moulting and the
growth of new feathers without forc-
ing the birds.

The No. 1 grade of poultry ordinar-
ily sells for 1 to 2 cents more per
pound than the third grade, so that
a feeding mixture which will produce
a greater per cent. of the No. 1 grade
has a commercial value Buttermilk
in the feed produces a bleach. An ex-
conducted to see
whether the addition of condensed to
ordinary buttermilk was_ profitable.
One gallon of condensed buttermilk
was added to ten gallons of ordinary
buttermilk from August 24 to Sep-
tember 18, and this test was repeated
from October 4 to the 18th. The
birds did not do well during the hot
weather, which occurred about the
middle of August. This is also
shown in the grading reports. Con-
densed buttermilk was fed at this

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time and resulted in an immediate
marked increase in the fancy grades
of dressed poultry. This increase
was greater than the relative increase
in per cent. of gain, showing that
the increased consumption of butter-
milk produced a larger per cent. of
fancy poultry, but when this con-
densed buttermilk was dropped out
of the ration on September 18, the
proportion of fancy poultry did not
decrease. This would appear to show
that the addition of extra condensed
buttermilk was profitable only during
warm or hot weather, and in fatten-
ing small birds. Condensed butter-
milk was used entirely in mixing the
feed at Stations 2 and 3, adding 1%
gallons of water to one gallon of the
milk at Station 2 and equal parts of
water and condensed buttermilk at
Station 3. This large proportion of
milk solids showed very marked re-
sults in producing a bleach in the
poultry.

A test in cramming chickens, con-
ducted by the feeder at one station
on ground Georgia peanuts with
buttermilk, produced unfavorable re-
sults. The feed was very laxative,
and the chickens, although eating
well, grew thin instead of fat. A ra-
tion containing about 6 per cent. of
peanut meal gave good results. The
peanuts flavored the flesh and _ pro-
duced a peanut-feed chicken which
sold at a special price, but the un-
favorable effects of feeding a large
per cent. of peanut made this ration
impractical.

A ration consisting of 60 per cent.
steel-cut oats, 40 per cent. corn meal,
with 34 of a pound of tallow and %
pound of fresh meat per 100 head
daily, mixed with buttermilk, gave
very good results, producing ex-
tremely fat chickens. The oats were
soaked in buttermilk a couple of
hours before feeding.

A test was made of cooked meal
obtained by adding boiling water to
corn meal and allowing this mixture
to stand for twelve hours. Some
condimental foods were added to this
feed, and milk was kept before the
birds during the day, but the results
were not particularly satisfactory.

Another test was made with low-
grade flour in place of the steel-cut
oats, and this produced almost as
high gains at $2 less cost per 100 head
on feed. Table or cottonseed oil
which cost 45 to 55 cents per gallon
was tried in place of tallow. Chopped
green alfalfa was added to the ration,
but alfalfa has a tendency to color the
flesh if fed up to killing time. None
of these extra feeds appear to be
either necessary to economical.

The milk was heated before mix-
ing with feed at the different stations
as soon as the weather turned cold
in the fall. The consistency of the
feed depends greatly on the weather.
During hot weather the mixture
should be made so that it will run
rather than drip. In cooler weather
it can be mixed with less milk to
good advantage, but should drip free-
ly. When thick condensed butter-
milk is used, the feed can be mixed
to a thicker consistency than with
ordinary buttermilk. The monthly
average of the per cent. of buttermilk
to total feed at one station was as

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

follows: July, 67 per cent.; August,
70 per cent.; September, 68 per cent.;
October, 65 per cent., and November,
66 per cent.

From eight to twelve birds were
placed in each compartment of the
portable batteries at Stations 2, 3,
and 4. Twelve birds were too many,
as the birds scratched each others’
backs through attempting to feed at
the same opening. Ten birds gave
good satisfaction at all of the sta-
tions, but eight birds seemed to do
better at Station 4 during hot
weather. Ten birds in a compart-
ment allows nine-tenths of a foot of
floor space per bird in the battery.
Later in the season, when the birds
were larger, only eight birds were
placed in each compartment. Bat-
teries of the size mentioned (2 feet
4 inches wide by 3 feet 10 inches
long) will hold eighty broilers or
medium-sized springs, or sixty-four
large springs or roasters without
crowding, but in very hot weather it
may pay to place only sixty-four
head in each battery, if enough floor
space is available.

If the chickens are carefully se-
lected before they are put into the
feeding station, so that no birds with
colds or apparently out of condition
go into the feeder, and they are only
fed for a short period of six to ten
days under proper conditions of ven-
tilation, it does not appear profitable
to employ an extra man to remove
“cripples.” The regular help, how-
ever, must watch the birds carefully
enough to prevent roupy conditions
from spreading through the coops, al-
though this is not likely to occur
during the short feeding periods.
Portable batteries placed a few inches
apart keep the birds scattered.

——_2> >> —___
Buttermilk to Cure Erysipelas.
Popularly, buttermilk has long been

believed to be a remedy for erysipelas.
Of late, it has been tested by p ysi-
cians and is now being warmly
recommended by them. The butter-
milk is applied in cloth moistened
with it and is said to reduce the pain
quickly. The fever continuing, but-
termilk was also given internally and
the temperature fell rapidly. The
progress of the disease was checked
almost instantly —Milk Plant Month-
ly.

——_-+--+-e

Buttermilk Cheese.

What bids fair to becoming a dis-
covery of importance has just been
made by John C. Phillips, of Imper-
ial, California. It is a new delicious
cheese made from buttermilk. If this
product becomes a staple marketable
commodity, and all indications seem
to point to that result, it will add
many dollars to the income of the
creamery.

—_~-->——_—_

“Once,” declares the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, which is dangerously
near being accused of treason to the
sacred cause of closed-shop labor, “the
paid lobbyists of the railroads sat in
every legislative body, but they have
disappeared. There is now an even
more dangerous paid lobby of labor
agitators who presume to pass in
judgment upon every legislative bill
introduced.”

 

Watson-Higgins Milling Co.
Merchant Millers

Grand Rapids tot Michigan

 

 

We can supply you with all kinds of
Southern fruits and vegetables. Write or
wire, Citizens Phone 5638.

A. J. PHERNAMBUCQ & CO.

138 Ellsworth Ave.,S. W., Crand Rapids.

 

 

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Flour Trade with
“Purity Patent” Flour

Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

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New and second-hand, also bean bags, flour
bags, etc. Quick shipments our pride.

ROY BAKER
Wm. Alden Smith Bldg. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Geo. L. Collins & Co.

Wholesale Live and Dressed Poultry,
Calves, Butter, Eggs and Country Produce.

29 Woodbridge St. West
DETROIT, MICH.

 

 

Rea & Witzig

PRODUCE
COMMISSION
MERCHANTS

104-106 West Market St.
Buffalo, N. Y.

 

Established 1873

 

Liberal shipments of Live and
Dressed Poultry wanted, and good
prices are being obtained. Fresh
eggs more plenty and selling well
at quotation.

Dairy and Creamery Butter of
the better grades in demand. We
solicit your consignments, and
promise prompt returns.

Send for our weekly price cur-
rent or wire for special quota-
tions.

Refer you to Marine National
Bank of Buffalo. all Commercial
Agencies and to hundreds of
shippers everywhere,

 

 

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Makes Best Bread
and Pastry

 

Dear Grocer:

Who are you working for, Mr. Leaks or
Mr. Profit? This is not mere
TALK,
but a sincere business question. A
modern 20th Century Standard
Computing Scale connects you
WITH prosperity.

WRITE FOR INFORMATION

W. J. KLING

50 Ionia Ave., S. W. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter
Color and one that complies with the
pure food laws of every State and of
the United States.

Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co.
Burlington, Vt.

 

 

THE QUALITY 5c CIGAR

AMERICANO

Order from your jobber or
A. SALOMON & SON MFRS.
KALAMAZOO, MICH.

Make Out Your Bills

THE EASIEST WAY
Save Time and Errors.
Send for Samples and Circular—Free.

Barlow Bros. | Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Largest and best equipped
vulcanizing shop in Michigan.

Standard Tire Repair Co.
15 Library St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Use Tradesman Coupons

 

Write or wire us when ever you have

POTATOES TO OFFER

LOVELAND & HINYAN CO.

236-248 Prescott St.

We have seed potatoes to offer in local lots

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

When in the market to buy or sell

FIELD SEEDS

Call or write

MOSELEY BROTHERS

Both Phones 1217

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Use Tradesman Coupons

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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The final closing of the affairs of
of the late First National Bank of
Ironwood, will occur on April 30,
when the last dividend will be paid.
The amount will be 3.87 per cent. The
total dividends thus far paid to the
creditors are 35 per cent. and this,
with the final one to be paid this
month, will make a total of 38.87 per
cent. {it is said that it is a more
than usually bad failure when a Na-
tional bank does not pay 75 per cent.,
while in this case the total payment
is but a little more than half of that
amount. The total amount of the
claims against the institution was
$601,776.12.

 

Melvin W. Orr, a Manistique bank-
er serving time at Marquette, has
been granted a parole, by the Board
of Pardons. The case was consid-
ered by the Board at its meeting in
Jackson two weeks ago, but was pass-
ed for further consideration at Lan-
sing, as certain papers were not avail-
able when the Board took up the case
here. Orr was sentenced for a term
When the
ex-banker asked for a parole he pre-
sented a petition signed by 1,000 Man-
istique citizens.

of two to twenty years.

 

The Bank of Stephenson, in the
Menominee county town of that
name, last fall had a capital stock of
$20,000, as originally subscribed, and
a surplus of $21,000 accumulated dur-
ing the thirteen years of business. At
the same time a liberal dividend had
been paid to the stockholders each
year. Not a cent had been lost by
the Bank during its existence, and be-
cause of its good showing the direc-
tors decided to erect a new and mod-
ern building. This building is now
completed and has been occupied. It
is of the Doric style of architecture,
with two large Bedford stone columns
and trimming and pressed brick of
a harmonizing color. It is substan-
tially constructed with heavy  con-
crete foundation and solid brick walls.
The concrete vault in which the
money is kept has more than a mile
of reinforcing steel rods, a large
burglar-proof door of five-ply chrome
steel, weighing 5,000 pounds, and a
burglar-proof manganese steel — safe.
The vault contains safety. deposit
boxes. The latest report of the bank
shows the following condition; Capi-
tal, $20,000; surplus, $21,000; depos-
its, $169,028.78; loans and discounts,
$174,159.21.

 

The bank of Allen, Kimberly & Co,
at Bellevue, that has long been re-
garded as one of the prosperous in-
stitutions of Eaton county, will be-
come a State bank about May 15, an

application for a charter for that pur-
pose having been endorsed by Bank-
ing Commissioner Edward H. Doyle.
All of the old stockholders and a
number of new ones will be inter-

ested in the new Bank, all of whom

represent the leading business enter-
prises of Bellevue. H. M. Allen has
been President of the Bank for the
past twenty years, and C. D. Kim-
berly has been associated with him
as Cashier for thirteen years. It has
been doing business thirty
years.

nearly

 

A forged check drawn on the First
National Bank of Quincy was re-
cently cashed by the Allen
State Savings sank, A man
drove up in front of the Bank at
Allen and, getting down from a load
of household goods, entered the
Bank and presented the check for
$282. The man said he was moving
to a farm in Litchfield and gave that
as his reason for cashing the check.
The check was dated March 28 and
apparently signed by Boynton &
Houghtaling, of Coldwater. They
pronounced it a forgery and stopped
payment on it at the Quincy Bank
when it was presented by the Allen
Bank. A similar deal was recently
pulled off at Union City, in Branch
county, and it is believed the same
man manipulated both swindles, as
both checks were
Quincy Bank.

drawn on the

T. N. Brockway, who was recently
made Cashier of the Albion State
Bank, has been compelled to tender
his resignation, as it is necessary for

 

Ask for our Coupon Certificates of Deposit

Assets Over Three and One-half
Million

Gen RirisS AVINGSAANK.
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 is 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

United
States
Depositary

 
 
     

 

Savings
Deposits

3

Commercial
Deposits

1
3%

 

 

Per Cent Per Cent
Interest Paid Interest Paid
on on

Savings Certificates of
Deposits Deposit
Left
Compounded One Year

Semi-Annually

 

Wm. H. Anderson,

President

John W. Blodgett,
Vice President

Capital Stock
and Surplus
$580,000

J. C, Bisho;

Pp
Assistant Cashier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 29, 1914

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

15

 

him to move to Allen, at once be-
cause of the ill health of Mrs. Brock-
way’s parents. It is with consider-
able regret that Mr. Brockway sev-
ers his connection with the Bank. R.
EK. Schumaker, who has been chief
clerk at the Gale plant, has been
elected to take the position formerly
occupied by Mr. Brockway.

Charles Barrell, the Parma banker
died recently at University hospital,
Ann Arbor of a complication of dis-
eases.

The head of one of the largest pub-
lic utility operating firms in the
United States was speaking recently
of the underlying reasons for success
in his field. “There are a vast range
of problems involved in the success-
ful development of a public utility,”
he said, “varying from the efficient
use of labor in the boiler-room to
sound methods in world finance. Back
of the whole scheme of things there
must be not only an intelligent and
efficient management, but a broad,
sound, wise, and reliable manage-
ment, which, by its ability alone can
transform an unprogressive company
or community into thoroughly pro-
gressive economical units.”

 

The business of a light and power
company differs from that of an in-
dustrial or mercantile concern, in
that it is irrevocably wedded to the
locality in which it is situated. Should
it be in a moribund community, its
future must be dark, unless the com-
munity can be revived. On the other
hand, the more prosperous the com-
munity is and the brighter its future,
the better are the prospects of the
light and power company.

 

The old saying, “Competition is the
life of trade,” is being superseded
among the quasi-public companies, at
least, by a realization that co-opera-
tion is the father of mutual profits.
Railroads and public utilities have
long since departed from the attitude
of “public be damned,” and progres-
sive communities are coming to real-
ize that prosperous public utilities
can, in excellent service, render to
the communities greater profits than
are represented by the entire reve-
nues of the public utilities.

A prosperous and efficient traction

system, which is pushed out into su-
burbs, develops suburban real estate,
and the opportunities for healthy and
happy life in a community to a vast-
ly greater extent than the additional
revenues that this traction system
gets from its suburban service. <A
light and power company operated
along the most efficient and advanc-
ed lines of economics, is by its power
service and rates, able to draw into
the community manufacturing indus-
tries which otherwise would go else-
where. By its progressive develop-
ment it enables the merchants to
gain an increment of business great-
ly in excess of the total lighting reve-
nues of the company.

 

The interests of the public and of
the utility are in reality not oppos-
ed to each other, but are parallel and
mutual. Therefore, the development
of mutual conditions is of primary im-
portance in
public utility, and it is expected in
the utility field that the recent growth
of public supervision by state com-
missions will not be, as some think,
merely a policing of the utilities, but
will be a broad-minded development
of the mutual interests of both the
public and its servants. But in or-
der to accomplish the best commer-
cial or outward results, there is ‘recog-
nized to be the need not only of
broad-minded and efficient general
commercial management and_ public
relations, but also thoroughly effi-
cient operating conditions.

—_>22—____
Quotations on Local Stocks and Bonds.

Public Utilities.

Bid. Asked.

Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 335 340

Am. Light & Trac. Co., Pfd. 105 107
79

making a prosperous

Am. Public Utilities, Pfd. 72 74
Am. Public Utilities, Com. 46 49
Cities Service Co., Com. 89 91
Cities Service Co., Pfd. 74 16

Citizens Telephone Co. 78 SO
Comw'th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Com. 591%6 60%
Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Pfd. 80% 81
Comw’th 6% 5 year bond 98 100

Pacific Gas & Elee. Co., Com. 37 39
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Com. 14 16
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Pfd. 70 ire
United Light & Rys., Com. 75 Ge
United Light & Rys., Ist Pfd. 75 76

United Lt. & Ry. new 2nd Pfd. 70 72
United Light Ist 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 36140
Commercial Savings Bank 216 220
Fourth National Bank 215 22)
G. R. National City Bank 174 17s
G. R. Savings Bank 255

Kent State Bank 255 265
Peoples Savings Bank 250

April 29, 1914.

 

LOOK AHEAD

According to an eminent English Financier the present year
is an exceptionally favorable period for investors to purchase
strong stocks at attractive prices.

If purchased now, preferred stock of the
AMERICAN PUBLIC UTILITIES CO.
will yield 72%
It owns and operates 14 gas, electric light, heat and power
properties serving 525,000 people.
Write for earning statements.

KELSEY, BREWER & COMPANY

Engineers, Bankers, Operators
Michigan Trust Building GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

This Company through its de-
partments performs ifs varied
duties in a clear, simple, accurate
manner. Complete accounts are
kept and rendered which are easily
understood and open to inspection
of those interested. Trust funds
are kept separate and credited
with their earnings, estates care-
fully and conservatively managed.

[RAND RAPIDS TRUST [\OMPANY

123 Ottawa Avenue, N. W.
Both Phones 4391

 

 

 

H-S-C-B

Citizens 4445 and 1122
Bell Main 229

United Light & Railways Co.

H-S-C-B

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. Send for circular show-
ing prosperous condition of this company. :

Howe, Snow, Corrigan & Bertles
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Fifth Floor
Mich. Trust Bldg.

 

 

 

The Preferred Life Insurance Co. of America

THE PREFERRED LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA OFFERS

OLD LINE INSURANCE AT LOWEST NET COST
WHAT ARE YOU WORTH TO YOUR FAMILY ?
LET US PROTECT YOU FOR THAT SUM

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

6%

Bonds may be bought
from us as easily and
safely by mail as in
person.

Tax Exempt in Michigan.

We recommend them for
investment.

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Passing of the Time-Honored Wax
Figure.
Written for the Tradesman.

[It is predicted that the wax figure,
so lone recognized as the only cor-
rect contrivance for displaying ladies’
dresses, suits and wraps, must go. In-
deed it is asserted that it already has
gone in the swellest establishment
in New. York City and in some of
the most exclusive shops in Chicago
and over the country generally.

Whether the lady with the marvel-
lously brilliant complexion and the
set, insipid smile and the always-in-
perfect-order hair, has gone for good
from those places which have taken
the initiative in displacing her with
the far less expensive headless fig-
ure or with no figure at all, and wheth-
er she will gradually take her depart-
ure from other dry goods and special-
ty stores as soon as the stock of her
now on hand becomes too grimy or
too mutilated for further use, or as
soon as the style for discarding her
has spread so widely that her pres-
ence will mark a store as a back num-
ber—remains to be seen.

Such an innovation as relegating to
the basement the time-honored wax
figure sometimes meets with almost
universal adoption in a surprisingly
short time—sometimes such displace-
ment is brief and spasmodic and the
old device is again brought into use
with a stronger claim for utility than
ever.

The glass jars or vases of wonder-
fully graceful lines and good propor-
tions, which, filled with beautifully
tinted liquids, forty years ago invari-
ably had their place in every drug
store, and lacking which no reputable
druggist would have thought he pos-
sibly could fill a prescription,went their
way, perhaps no one can tell just
when.

Possibly wax figures have the same
lack of practical utility. Perhaps gar-
ments displayed on a headless dum-
my or simply on a rack or frame, will
sell as well. Doubtless a woman who
is studying some article in a window
display can tell just as quickly wheth-
er she likes it or not without that
lifeless smile above it. Certainly
merchants should welcome and adopt
any change that will cut out a need-
less item of expense.

Running expenses are distressingly
high at best. Some items are on the
principle of the standing army—so
long as one merchant maintains a
certain line of expenditure, his com-
petitors feel that they must also.

The only question regarding the
wax-faced lady is whether she is a
needless expense. If so, let her be

discarded without delay. In case she

goes, the making of displays on “liv-
ing dummies” for very special oceas-
ions doubtless will increase.

Avoid Premature Display of Goods.

Speaking of displays, it is a bad plan
to “rush the season” too much with
showings of thin, sheer summer fab-
rics) On bright, warm days bring out
a few pieces to let passers-by know
that you have them. When the weath-
er changes, whisk them back into
their wrappings. Keep your stock in
these lines fresh and clean until the
weather is warm enough to waken
an interest in buying. Who has not
seen in Northern Michigan on cold-
raw days in May, displays of lawns
and mulls and lingerie, that make one
shiver to look at them? Furs would
be more appropriate.

The Ever-Desirable Seventy Per Cent

“The Average Overall Wearer is
the Bread and Butter of Your Patron-
age. He is the man who gets a pay
check every Saturday night—and
spends a part of it with you if you
treat him right. He buys  50-cent
neckties, two-for-a-quarter or 25-cent
hosiery—he represents seventy per
cent of the apparel business. And he
doesn’t wait until the end of the month
to pay his bills. He is loyal, easily
and quickly sold to, and ‘stays put.”

This extract, taken from the adver-
tisement of an overalls manufactur-
ing firm in a clothing paper, is well
worded. The truth expressed applies
just as aptly to the dry goods busi-
ness, and indeed to the grocery and
hardware trade and to several other
lines as well, as to apparel merchan-
dising.

The average dry goods man will do
well to go right after this ereat and
desirable 70 per cent.

A man who recently opened a dry
goods store confided to an intimate
friend, the latter a retired merchant,
that he was not getting the business
that, with his stock and equipment, he
felt he had a right to expect.

To this frank acknowledgment the

old merchant thoughtfully — replied:
“Of course as yet your store is very
new, and you can’t expect that peo-
ple will all at once break away from
the places where they have been buy-
ing for years; that is, not in as ereat
numbers as you naturally want. You
will have these previous attachments
to contend with for some time. But
I believe that you are suffering great-
er loss from many people thinking
your place is to swell for them. They
have the impression that you have
nothing but the latest, most exclusive
and highest-priced stuff, and they are
afraid to come here. They feel that
they would better take their  hard-
earned dollars and go where they can
buy good popular-priced goods, and

April 29, 1914

 

 

“The Crowning Attribute of Lovely Women is Cleanliness”

 

The well-dressed woman blesses and benefits herself-—and the world—
for she adds to its joys.

NAIAD DRESS SHIELDS

add the final assurance of cleanliness and sweetness. They are a
necessity to the woman of delicacy, refinement and good judgment.
NAIAD DRESS SHIELDS are hygienic and scientific. They are
ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM RUBBER with its unpleasant odor.
They can be quickly STERILIZED by immersing in boiling water
for a few seconds only. At stores or sample pair on receipt of 25c.
Every pair guaranteed.

The only shield as good the day it is bought as the day it is made.

The C. E. CONOVER COMPANY

Manufacturers

101 Franklin St., New York
Wenich McLaren & Company, Toronto—Sole Agents for Canada

Factory, Red Bank, New Jersey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FALL DRESS GOODS

ES

In order to assure prompt delivery
on Dress Goods next Fall, we suggest
placing a future order now.

Our travelers are out with the
samples and we thank you in advance
for the courtesy you will extend to
them by looking over the line.

Storm Serge
Sponged Serge
Wool Diagonal
Wool Sacking

French Serge
Wool Crepe
Wool Panama

Henrietta) Cashmere
Poplar Cloth Cordette Suitings
Tricot Flannel Scotch Plaids
Shepard Checks

Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.

Exclusively Wholesale GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

April 29, 1914

where their humble wants will not be
regarded with scorn.

“Now of course you haven’t intend-
ed anything of the kind. But it’s like
this. You have here a big new hand-
some store, very fine windows and
Then
you have a certain amount of ex-

good furniture and fixtures.

pensive goods, some especially hand-

some things selected with excellent:

taste and judgment. The bulk of your
stock is medium-priced stuff, and in
this you are wise. But in all your dis-
plays you have given your high-pric-
ed goods prominence, to the exclus-
ion of the medium-priced. In your
advertising you have been talking to
the very wealthy alone, who consti-
tute only a small fraction of the whole
people, certainly less than five per
cent. You have had not a word for
the families of mechanics and work-
ingmen and men employed on small
salaries, for women who make their
own living—teachers, stenographers
and the like—in short, for the great
middle class who do nearly or quite
three quarters of the buyine that is

done in this town. Servant girls are

excellent customers. They receive
good wages and usually spend freely.
(Go night after the trade of alll

these people. In a large share of
your advertising, talk about the items
in which they are interested. Make
medium-
priced stuff, with prices marked im
And when you get any

good window. displays of

plain figures.
of these people into your store, be
sure to treat ’em right. Take pains
to make them feel at home, and do
not fail to let them know that you
really want their patronage and ap-
preciate it.

“Mrs. Artisan, the wite of the car-
penter or bricklayer or factory work-
er, is a far more desirable customer
for the average merchant than Miss
Moneybags, the daughter of the cxp-
italist, Miss M_—— is all right in her
way, but she is not only fastidious,
she is apt to be capricious as well,
Just when you think you have — her
solid, off she goes to the big city and
does her shopping for the season. It
requires a large stock of very high-
priced goods to handle her case at all
successfully; and then you can’t count
on steady patronage from her as you
can from the people who receive only
$12 to $25 per.” VFabrix.

> + +
Banana Statistics.

Enough bananas were imported in-
to the United States last year to fur-
nish peelings sufficient to give the
people one hundred slides per capita.

———_+-- 2 ___

Think as much of the advantage
your customer will receive from doing
business with you as you do of your
own profits, and think as much of the
rights of your firm as you do of your
own prerogatives. It is better to
make a fair sized sale and to know
that it was scientifically accomplished
than it is to bag a little bigger order
without knowing whether to credit
your business to mere luck or to plia-
bility on your customer’s part. Such
a sale helps you little in the future.

> + > ____

But when the millenium starts in
business the man behind the muck
rake will be out of a job.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Preparing For the Month of Wed-
dings.
Written for the Tradesman.

Foresight and preparation for the
future are essential to success in mer-
chandising. The merchant who, not
merely content with meeting the
problems of to-day, looks a month or
two ahead and makes his preparations
accordingly, is bound to secure the
advantage over the competitor who
finds himself compelled to meet the
public demand as best he may with an
ill assorted and incomplete stock.

The early part of May is not too
soon to prepare to cater to the trade
in wedding presents, which June al-
ways brings. In this utilitarian age
when useful gifts are coming more
and more into vogue, the hardware-
man, or the merchant who handles
certain lines generally associated
with the hardware store, stands an
excellent chance to profit by catering
to the demand for June gifts. For
gifts of an essentially practical nature
are a part of every modern hardware
stock,

The dealer’s business is to suggest
practical and appropriate gifts; and to
be in a position to supply the demand
for these when it comes. Undoubted-
ly the average young couple prefer
the practical—that is an important
fact for the merchant to ‘bear in
mind. With a house or apartments
to be furnished, usually from very
limited means, a kitchen range or a
carving set or a carpet sweeper are
much more welcome than = articles
which are ornamental to a degree
without being useful in the least. And
in many apartments there is little
room for gew-gaws; space is too lim-
ited. ;

“Make your gift practical” is a
good slogan for the man who sells
useful gifts.
featured in many
It forms an excel-
lent connecting link between the or-
namental and the useful. Here and
there cut glass is handled by hard-
ware dealers. In cut glass many arti-
cles of practical use on the table, and
yet which have a highly ornamental
value can be had. ‘Tumblers,  ca-
rafes, knife rests, butter dishes, and
similar handy things can be bought
at prices which satisfy both the pur-
chaser’s purse and his sense of duty.

Silverware is
hardware stores.

In silverware, bread trays, knives,
forks, spoons and many kinds of
dishes can be stocked. Similarly,

hammered brass is often advantag-
eously handled. Jardinieres, scuttles,
book ends and the like can be offered.
These lines, besides being in them-
selves profitable to handle, help to
attract the purchaser of wedding pres-
ents and bridge the way to the more
useful and less ornamental lines. A
silverware display, or a cut glass dis-
play which includes all three orna-
mental lines, makes a good leader
for the season, and can be shown
the last week in May or early in
June

From these lines there is an easy
transition to carving sets. A good
carving set is absolutely essential in
every home. The cutlery trade in
June should be exceptionally good.
Then, too, in these days when all
modern houses are wired for elec-

tricity, there are many handy elec-
tricial specialties which will prove in
many cases ornamental and in all
cases useful. A handsome reading or
piano lamp will always be acceptable.
In the more practical lines there are
electric irons, electric toasters, coffee
percolators and other

devices, to

numerous
electrical
which additions are being made prac-
tically every day.

convenient

Then there is always the range or
heater—if the nearest relatives do not
make these a wedding gift, the happy
couple will themselves have to
make the purchase. And there are
kitchen tinware, granite
A complete equip-
ment of kitchen utensils, in tin, gran-
ite or aluminum, or a series of com-

utensils,
ware and the like.

plete sets in all three lines, will make
a decidedly catchy window display.
It may be advantageous to display
these goods in May, well in advance
of the month of weddings. There
is a double advantage in this. First,
such articles are usually sought for
“showers,” and these take place sev-
eral weeks in advance of the wed-
ding. Second, these lines appeal to
housewives in that period after the
spring housecleaning when they are
in decidedly revolutionary mood and
on the lookout for more convenient
methods of handling the kitchen
Thus a kitchen
utensils in May makes a good follow-

work. display — off
up for the housecleaning season and
a good starter for the trade in wed-
ding gifts.

The windows can be used liberal-

ly during the month of weddings.

17

People are always interested in wed-
dings, and “For the june Bride” is as
catchy a sign as can be devised. Often
in small places the merchant,
through an alert clerk or book-keeper,
can secure notice in advance of these
happy events; and it is an easy mat-
ter for the clerk to personally sug-
gest to friends of the participants
this, that or the other useful gift
which might be appropriate News-
paper advertising is always in order
in appealing to this class of trade.
William Edward Park.
_——_2-2.-.—_—_

Ife is, to say the least, an unusual
man who doesn’t love himself any
more than he loves his neighbor.

——_2-.—___

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Some Reasons Why Spring Business
Is Late.

There have been springs when the
retail shoe business of the country
showed in sales a better three months
March
of 1914, but there has never been a

than January, February and
season when shoe dealers have been

more determined to conduct their
business along better and more pro-
gressive lines, which means that
while volume of sales is less than
a year ago, that they are making
better profits and, therefore, are 1
a much better condition to
come the conditions which have pre-

vailed.

over-

And these conditions, by the way.
are beyond the control of this or any
When winter fails to start un-
til January, and gets in its best licks
ia «6 Macch with blizzards and zero
weather that sends a chill along the

trade.

spinal column cf the country from
“usual
trade cannot rationally

Then there are labor
including strikes and
lock-outs that have affected all I:nes
of business seriously, to say noth-
ing of a late Easter and the gencral
uneasiness because of the continual

Michigan to Louisiana, the
volume” of
be expected.
conditions,

bnocking of business interests by the
Government. The hesitation of cap-
ital to loosen up has thrown thous-
ands of men out of employment, and
tue effect of this has been harmiul
to all lines of retail business.

The notable feature of the spring
lusiness ts the continued demand for
patent leather, which was anticipat-
ed, although very few retailers dared
anticipate all their wants owine to
the many variety of heels, lasts and
patterns shown. Colonials are lead-
ing in sales, and with the advent of
real warm weather it is expected that
their
stock departments, will find it diffi-

the shoe factories, even with

cult io supply the demand jor this
style.

Boots continue plain, with  lhittle
trimming, with ten to thirteen but-
tons the most in favor.
are being shown by all manufactur-

Lace beots

ers, but retailers do not seem to care
to speculate in them, for they are
afraid they will not sell. The lace
boot looks well with the — short
“French” vamp effect, but button
boots are all the go, with no call for
lace shoes, save for men an chil-
dren. As very few men’s shoes are
made in Western New York, the re-
ports written for this paper have to
deal principally with women’s styles.
“spotty, and
just now the bright spot of the coun-
try seems to be the South Atlantic
Coast States, where dealers are plac-

Business certainly is

ing both at-once and fall orders. The
reports will be found most interest-
ing and helpful——Shoe Retailer.
_——2oa>
What Shoe Retailers Are Doing.
Waiting for warm, settled weather.

 

In the cities, selling novelty boots
and shoes.

Town dealers doing the same, but
with more conservatism.

In boots, a stronger and growing
demand for turns.

Light, close trimmed welts lead in
sales of women’s footwear.

Colonials more popular than ever
before almost everywhere. Some
pumps selling in towns. Also
Dolls” in spots.

Patent by far the big selling leath-
er of the season.

Mat kid running ahead of dull calf
nearly everywhere.

Tans practically dead, save in scat-
tered spots.

“Baby

In high class shoes bronze is sell-
ing fairly well.

Brocaded velvet a successful fac-
tor in toppings and quarters.

Cloth tops extremely popular.

Medium and high toes with short
vamps_ still selling in small
Western trade.

town
Longer vamps and more pointed
toes favored in cities, with town trade
tending that way.

“Paris,” or french’ last to be sold
in large cities to some extent, but not
in small cities or towns.

Boot stocks generally low. Deal-
ers buying novelties from stock de-
pariments.
factor in
styles selling in

Heels are an important
shoe selling. All
greater or
tailer.

lesser degree—Shoe Re-

—_—__»-~+____
The Outing Shoe for Everyday Wear.

A shoe which is becoming very
popular throughout the country, par-
ticularly among the workin classes,
is one that was formerly considered
an outing shoe, and is, in faci, to-day
so-called by manufacturers who make
it.

“We have orders sufficient to run
a long time on tan outing shoes,’
said one manufacturer, “and we at-
tribute it to the fact that the shoes
are tough and can be used for every-
day wear and can be sold to the con-
sumer cheaper because they are un-
lined and lack some of the finish put
into the higher grade lines. It is a
popular shoes in localities where
‘rough and ready’ cuts more figure
than style. At first there were only
a few factories making this kind of
goods, but now there are quite a num-
ber in New England and the Middle
West and they find an active demand
for this type of shoe.”

 

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815—Youths’ same.. 1.65
816—Little Gents’ same 1.45
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Educating Wearers of Wood Heel
Shoes.

have always. given
less trouble and annoyance

Wood

more or

heels

to dealers in the past, and they will
continue to until women
better educated in regard to the prop-

become

er care that should be given them in
order to assure proper wearing.

dealers who do a
large business who have not had the

There are few

experience of having dissatisfied cus-
tomers bring back shoes or slippers
having wooden heels with the enamel
covering cracked and broken, or the
leather or fabric covering so damag-
ed that it was impossible to mend.
The woman in the case invariably
insists that she has worn the shoes
but a few times and that the
covering has broken through or that
the leather top lift has worn off en-

heel

tirely too soon for the price she paid
for the shoes; that the material must
be very poor or it would have given
Immediately the
The woman
listen
to an explanation and if the dealer

her better service.
dealer is up against it.
is not in a frame of mind to
attempts to make one she thinks he

is trying to take advantage of her
and oftentimes leaves the store with
an avowed determination never to
make another purchase there.

Now the remedy for this sort of
thing seems to lie with the dealer
himself. If he will instruct the sales-
people to explain to the customer
when they sell a shoe with a wooden
heel that the heel is wood, that in
order to preserve the life of the heel
it is absolutely essential for the cus-
tomer to watch the wear of the
leather lift, and when this leather lift
begins to wear down to the edge of
the heel to return the shoes at once
for new lifts to be put on. Tf dealers
will go to this trouble in the begin-
will and
their customers much time and trou-

ning they save themselves
ble in making adjustments and = ex-
often do not
work out to the advantage of either

planations which too
the dealer or the customer.

During the spring and — summer
there will be many sales of boots and
low cuts made with wood heels, prob-
ably more wood heel shoes will be sold
than Most

shoes will be worn on the

this season ever before.
of these
street, which is a severe test for any

wood heel no matter how good the

quality of the wood or the leather
top lift that’ comes in contact with
the pavement. The constant and

heavy contact of the thin leather top
lift with eranolithic or ma-
cadam streets will soon wear it down
to the wood. Customers should un-
derstand when this happens that it is
time to return the new
lifts to be attached.

brick,

shoes for

To neglect this simple safeguard
for the appearance of the shoes, as
well as the comfort of the wearer, is
to invite bushels of trouble.

Some dealers may think that it is
requiring too much of them to warn
their feminine customers of how they
should be careful of their wood heel

shoes, but this is a part of the ser-
vice that every successful dealer
recognizes as an obligation.

If customers are informed when

they purchase wood heel shoes that

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

they must not allow the top liit to
wear down to the wood, that if the
patent leather, celluloid or enamel
coating breaks or that it is
not due to imperfect workmanship or
a poor heel, that
wood heel shoes should not be worn

cracks

quality and
too long at any one time on brick or
granolithic sidewalks, they will be
protecting themselves from = unwar-
ranted claims for adjustments by cus-
tomers who expect a wood heel to
give the same service as one made of
leather—Shoe Retailer.
—_—__> <->

Valid Reasons Why They Married.

Postal cards having been sent out
to all the married men in a certain
town of Western New York carrying
the question, “Why did you marry?”
the following are some of the answers
returned:

“That’s what I’ve been trying for
eleven years to find out.”

“Married to. get
mother—but never have.’

“Was freckled-faced and thought
it was my last chance. [ve found out,
that
bad as hen-peck.”

even with her

’

however, freckles ain't near as
“Because I was too lazy to work.”
Sarah told me that five
other young fellows had proposed to
her. Lucky dogs!”

“The — old thought eight
years’ courtin’ was lone enough.”

“T was lonesome melancholy
and wanted make me
lively. N.
you bet!”

“T was tired of buying ice cream
and

“Because

man

and
some one to
$—She makes me lively,

’
and going to. theaters
and church and wanted a rest. Hlave
saved money.”

candies

“Please don’t stir me up.”
‘Because I thought she one
among a thousand; now T sometimes

was

think she is a thousand among one.”
then
experience | now have.”

“Because | did not have the

“The: governor was going to give
me his foot, and I took his dauehter’s
hand.”

“T thought it would be cheaper than
a breach of promise suit.”

“That's the same fool question all
my friends and neighbors ask.”

“Because [| had more money than
I knew what to do with. And now |
have more to do with than JT have

money.”
“T wanted a companion of the op-
posite sex. P. S-—She is still oppo-

site.”
“Tyon’t mention it.”
“Had difficulty in unlocking the

door at night and wanted somebody
in the house to let me in.”

“Because it is just my luck.”

“T didn’t intend to go and do it.”

“T yearned for company. We now
have company all the .time—her
folks.”

“T married to get the best wife in
the world.”

“Because IT asked her if she’d have
me. She said she would. I. think
she’s got me.”

22» ___
The Lazy Storekeeper.

When you find a man who is asleep
in his store, you find a man who is
complaining about hard times when
he wakes up enough to do anything
at all.

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Places in Which the All-Sufficient
Falls Short.
Written for the Tradesman.

“Speaking about a universal lan-
guage,” remarks a shrewd observer,
“what's the matter with money?”

In this age nearly all of us are to
some extent commercialized. It is
hard to resist an infection that is in
the air. We may not agree to the
sweeping proposition so oiten reit-
erated that “every man has his price,”
but, unconsciously perhaps to our-
selves, almost inevitably we fall into
the habits of thought and into the
vernacular that estimates all thines
We say

a man is worth so much, meaning of

of value in terms of money.

course our estimate of his holdings
in cash or other property. We have
no units of measurement by which
we can so readily or so accurately
size up his influence or utility in the
community, or the individual excel-
lénce of his character; and so deeply
imbued with the commercial spirit
are our ideas that seldom do we feel
the lack of any other standard than
the dollar mark.

Some fifty or sixty years ago there
lived in Michigan a family who were
notable for their peculiar modes of
speech and their childlike frankness.
One of the sons went West and for
some act of outlawry was strung up
to a tree, in accordance with the sum-
mary methods of frontier justice. A
brother of the deceased commenting
lamentable occurrence
drawlingly  observed—‘l'd — ruther’n
two dollars that Bill hadit
hung,” passed on

upon the

been
which remark,
from one hearer to another, pro-
voked the risibles of all residents for
miles around’ Yet the absurdity of
this outspoken remark lies rather in
the small amount named than in plac-
ing a price on bereavement. Do not
many to-day seek reimbursement for
their losses, whether of affection or
reputation or the lives of those who
stand nearest and dearest to them,
by money damages?

Money talks; and so permeated are
our minds with a conviction of its
potency that involuntarily we regard
its possession as the best remedy for
our every difficulty, the open sesame
to the gratification of all our desires.
Unless it is a matter of sickness or
death, we feel that our troubles would
vanish if only we could wave be-
fore them the magic wand of money;
and in the case of illness there always
is the possibility that even the stub-
bornest disease would yield to a
change of climate, to the most ex-
pert and consequently highest-priced
medical or surgical skill, or to the
constant care and luxurious surround-
ings that wealth alone can procure.

So great is our conscious or uncon-
scious faith in money that nineteen
out of twenty of us, could we tind in
the morning mail the joyful surprise
that we really would most desire, it
would be, not news that the love
afiair of two of our friends has come
to a happy culmination, nor that
some wayward youth of our acquain-
tance has taken a turn for the bet-
ter, nor thatas struggling genius we
have known has at last gained well-
carned recognition—not any of these,
welcome as are all such glad bits of
intelligence—but rather a good and
valid check—payable to ourselves of
course—for a million dollars, or better
yet, five million of dollars.

Far be it from tis to be selfish in
our intentions, and always associated
with our wish for wealth is some pet
dream of benevolence. [In our imagi-
nation we see sorrows vanish under
our hand, want relieved and merit en-
couraged, if only we had the means
at our command to perform these
gracious deeds.

lor anyone in these days to deny
the power of wealth as to material
things is shutting the eyes to an
obvious fact; for anyone to ignore
the need of at least a reasonable
amount of money is folly if not mad-
ness. But that in regard to things
not material we constantly are over-
estimating the true value of money,
exaggerating it in our minds away
and beyond its real worth, is a fact
soon learned by any person who goes
below mere surface appearances.
There are things, some of the most
precious things in life, that money—
even a great amount of money, es-
pecially a great amount of money it
may better be said—can not buy.

Money can not buy a happy domes-
tic life. Often it really seems as if it
could. In so many cases that nevere
come to actual disruption and divorce
but in which there is endless conten-
tion and jangling, the only cause of
disagreement between husband and
wife appears to be some phase or
other of the hydra-headed money
question.

Perhaps. the husband deems the
wife extravagant and continually re-
proves her for spending too freely;
he wants to accumulate and get on in
the world, she would rather enjoy life
as she goes. Maybe he is in straitened
circumstances and feels the necessity
for a constant curtailment of ex-
penses, and so is close and niggardly
with her; possibly he is mean and
small when there is no necessity;
perhaps he considers his income and
all that he has as his individual pro-
perty, and doles ont to her accord-

ing to his own ideas and caprices.

Or maybe the wife is never satis-
fied with the degree of financial suc-
cess that her really excellent and in-
dustrious husband is able to attain,
and constantly is chiding him for his
failures and  miscalculations; very
likely her people may be disappointed
in their son-in-law and rather abet
their daughter in nagging and fault-
finding; perhaps the wife may so de-
sire comforts and luxuries that her
husband can not afford that she goes
out and earns, neglecting her home
in order to do so, and to this the
husband objects. Or perhaps both
parties to the marriage bond, hav-
ing previously been accustomed to
a better style of living, can not ac-
cept willingly the deprivations which
the matrimonial experiment makes
imperative, and openly declare that
the whole thing is a failure.

Now as most of these unhappy pairs
are very well-meaning people, and
lack of money seems to be the only
trouble, it is natural to reason that
if the whole money problem could be
eliminated in such cases by the sud-
den accession of great wealth, that
all would be well. But a deeper study
will reveal the fact that the real diffi-
culty in almost every such instance
is an irreconcilable, or at least an
unreconciled difference in the way of
looking at things; or that there is a

lack of patience as to shortcomings
and of appreciation as to merits; and
that these elements of uncongeniality
would surely assert themselves in
some other form, if the financial pro-
blem were entirely removed.

That this is true is shown by the
great proportion of unhappy mar-
riages among the millionaires. Some
of the most sickening records of the
divorce courts, some of the gross-
est and most repulsive cases of mar-
ital clashing have to do with unions
where there is practically untold
wealth, and in most of these the
wealth serves to augment rather than
lessen the causes for disagreement.

Money, except in a very restricted
degree, can not buy physical health
and strength. It is freely acknowl-
edgeed that certain diseases take most
of their victims from among the very
poor. Right here let it be said that to
most natures penury is nearly or
quite as demoralizing, morally and
physically, as is great wealth; and
that in a country like ours extreme
poverty, in the case of a virtuous,
industrious person, is, rightfully con-
sidered, an anomalous condition that
never ought to exist. Returning to
our subject, it is further admitted that
change of climate, entire rest, or ex-
pert skill may restore to health an
occasional invalid who but for the ex-

 

 

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demand for National Biscuit Company
goods is created and maintained.

This means quick sales and a quick

Carrying a good assortment of National
Biscuit Company goods in the famous
In-er-seal Trade Mark packages and
the attractive glass front cans means

It is good business to be able to supply
any of the National Biscuit Company
products, whether known as cookies or
cakes, jumbles or bars, crackers or drops,
snaps or wafers—all have their fixed
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penditure of money would have to
die; also that the constant attend-
ance of a physician may sometimes
prolong a wasting life even for years.
But when you have said this much,
you have said all there is to say.

Observe wealthy people generally
and you soon are convinced that they
suffer their full share of aches and
pains and that to their by no means
few genuine ailments are often added
hypochondria and other imaginary
ills that luxury and leisure seem to
favor.

» Every hot spring that attains a
reputation for curative properties,
every spa, every mud bath, has its
clientele of wealthy patrons; while all
new and popular fads in medicine
or treatment reap their harvest from
rich seekers after lost health. Review
in your mind the people you know
who are best fixed financially. Tlow
many among them are flabby of mus-
cle, short of breath, puffy of eye, the
victims of disordered digestion and
dormant livers, obviously suffering
the results of over-eating and over-
drinking and lack of exercise. That
keen thrust “if you want to know
what the Lord thinks of money, look
at the people who have it,” applies to
their condition of body as well as of
mind.

True, there are persons of great
wealth that possess a certain fine
restraint that enables them to retain
their physical and moral fiber. These
are exceptional. The average human
being can not have honey and jam
constantly before him and never over-
partake.

Money can and does to a cer-
tain extent command the service of
the most capable minds and the most
highly cultured taste, but it can not
give its possessor the personal power
and magnetism and charm of individ-
uality that go with a keen brain anda
quick wit alone. There is a sense of
being at home in the upper air of lit-
erature and of art, that is the birth-
right of those who have some spark
of genius by natural gift. It is rare-
ly if ever attained by those who
must buy their admission into those
fascinating realms,

We see the children of rich par-
ents, young people who have _ had
every opportunity, for whom colleges
and private tutors and travel and the
entree into fashionable society have
done their utmost, yet a large pro-
portion of them are so ordinary in
mental endowment as to be a liv-
ing demonstration of the inferiority
of all extraneous advantages to a fair
modicum of natural brains. “If noth-
ing in the skull abide, then nothing
helps a man outside.”

Dad’s money can buy for the son
a certain position in the
world; it may secure for the daughter
a titled husband or otherwise place
her in some station of social renown.
3ut when Times makes out his honor
rolls of humanity’s good and great,
it is only those who have of them-
selves achieved something noteworthy
whose names are inscribed thereon;
and these are more often such as
have come up from the lowliest cir-
cumstances, with the odds of For-
tune seemingly all against them.

Great wealth does not bring its pos-

business

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

sessor freedom from care as to ma-
terial things. It is not only “The
more you have the more you want,” but
the more you have the more burden-
some the responsibility, and the more
troublous the perplexities that attach
to it. Riches do not as a usual thing
bring any adequate’ realization of
those dreams of benevolence which
figure so largely in the rosy imagin-
ings of every high-minded youth.
With ample means’ for beneficence
there is not always the will and the
generosity to give. And when these
traits are not lacking, it requires, in
addition, rare discernment and great
discrimination to make a gift of
money of real benefit to the recipi-
ent.

Space forbids anything like a full
enumeration of the things that money
cannot buy. It is hoped that the
short list here given, partial and in-
complete as it is, may furnish sug-
gestions for a fine line of philosophic
reflection to those really superior
souls who are rich in ideals and per-
emally short-up for money Such will
gain a proper sense of gratitude that
they are spared all the eaucheries and
vulgarities by which the parvenu rich
so often render themselves ridicu-
lous in the eyes of cultured observers.
While these aspirants after nobler
things may not lose altogether the
perfectly human desire for vast
riches, they will come to. see
that high thinking is best 9 sub-
served by very plain living; and that
a fine capable mind is far more to be
desired than a plethoric bank account.

Quillo.,

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

 

PRESIDENT
Wm. MecMorris, Bay City

 

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
J. A. Lake, Petoskey

 

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
W. J. Cusick, Detroit
SECRETARY
Fred W. Fuller, Grand Rapids

 

 

TREASURER
Charles W. Grobe, Flint

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Charles Wellman, Port Huron
L, W. Schwemer, Saginaw
M. C. Goossen, Lansing
G. W. Faulmann, Detroit
Leonard Seegar, Cadillac

       

   
 

  
  
 
  
  

   

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The wise grocer will not offer any substitute for

Shredded Wheat

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Shredded Wheat is in a class by itself. It stands alone,
unique and incomparable. The nutritive value of this
food is due to the shredding process—and the process is
covered by many patents. We are educating thousands
of persons to eat it every year. You are our distributor.
May we ask your co-operation in getting it to the
customers in a fresh and appetizing way?

TRISCUIT is the Shredded Wheat wafer
—a crisp, tasty whole wheat toast—delic-
ious with butter, cheese or marmalades.

Shredded Wheat Biscuit is packed in
odorless spruce wood cases which may
be readily sold for ten or fifteen cents,
thereby adding to the grocer’s profits.

MADE ONLY BY

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Michigan Retall Hardware Association.
President—C. Dickinson, St. Joseph.
Vice-President—Frank Strong, Battle

Creek.

Secretary—A. J. Scott, Marine City.
_ Treasurer—William — Detroit.

“Brighten Up” Good Warkiwand For
Spring Months.
Written for the Tradesman.

By the first part of May the hard-
ware store should be in first class
shape to attract trade. The day of
the gloomy, dingy, unattractive hard-
ware store is long since past. Dust
and neglect are not consistent with
the trade of women folks; and it is
largely in order to cater successfully
to that trade that the hardware deal-
er has brightened up. To sell quick-
ly a stove or range must look its best
and clean shelves and counters and
bright shining silent salesmen are em-
phatically in order. By early May
this clean up, for which the first part
of spring is a good time, should be
complete. Coincidently, the exter-
ior and interior woodwork should be
brightened with fresh paint or varn-
ish, as the case may be.

 

In order to cater satisfactorily to
the seasonable demand the merchant
must always buy well in advance. It
unsatisfactory at the
height of the rush to turn customers

is decidedly

away with the empty assurance that
“goods are on order—will be here
For such customers “any
time” spells no certain time and the

any time.”

alert merchant who has taken the pre-
caution to get in his stock early will
have the satisfaction of clearing it
out at the best figure, while the pro-
crastinating merchant will be com-
pelled to carry over or sacrifice.
Advertising and window display
must always, if they are to be effec-
tive, have a sufficient stock behind
them. To feature a refrigerator dis-
play with only a few nondescript re-
frigerators for the would-be pur-
chaser to select from is not good busi-
ness. The experienced merchant will
be able to gauge the probable de-
mand almost to a nicety. With his
stock early in hand, he is in a better
position to take advantage of the de-
mand when it is at flood tide, and if
the goods show symptoms of lagging,
he has more time in which to clear
them out by means of energetic sales-
manship. Past experience, plus a fair
knowledge of the local field, will
prove very helpful to the merchant in
ordering and wilt enable him to avoid
at once the Scylla of too much stock
and the Charybdis of just on order.
The windows should be used _ lib-
erally and energetically for the adver-
tising of seasonable goods. People are
less fixed in their store allegiance
than they were years ago, particular-
ly those who pay cash for their pur-

chases. The man who needs a rake
or hoe for his spring gardening will
purchase, as a rule, at the first store
at which he sees these articles dis-
played, and if there is the right sort
of salesmanship inside, he will pur-
chase seeds or rubber hose or maybe
a lawn mower before he leaves. The
timely display is the display which
draws trade and the window artist
who can inject into his display the
element of originality adds immensely
to its attractiveness

So too, with housecleaning lines,
which are still in season to some ex-
tent; fly swatting goods, such as wire
screens for the windows, and screen
doors, refrigerators and ice tongs, in
prelude to the hot weather, and the
many lines for which there is a sea-
sonable demand.

The building season is already
opening and builders’ hardware
should not be passed by. Not mere-
ly is there the new building trade to
which the merchant may cater, but
existing houses must be kept up and
landlords find it necessary to give this
item more careful attention now than
formerly. Lock sets, bolts and butts
and similar lines should in any event
be carried. A display of these will
prove very effective in catering to re-
pair orders. For the trade in sup-
plies for new buildings it is worth
while to resort to personal solicita-
tion; to interview contractors, archi-
tects and prospective house owners.
Paint is also eminently seasonable.

Meanwhile, boys on every corner
lot and public park are playing base-
ball and fans from one end of the
country to the other are studying the
big league chances. Sporting goods
are once more coming into’ their
own. Baseball is always the popular
game, but a sporting goods window
can afford to be comprehensive and
appeal to the devotees of cricket, ten-
nis and other sports as will as to the
ubiquitous baseball fan. Then, too
the carp and catfish are biting any-
way, and there is always in the fisher-
man’s breast the hope that more
worthy game may be attracted by his
bait. From

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fishing poles and. lines
and flies is any easy transition to the
summer outing; and, although sum-
mer is a couple of months away, the
outing is being discussed right now.

The timely goods should be featur-
ed in the newspaper advertising, the
window displays and throughout the
store. “Always up to the minute and
a little ahead” is the keynote of suc-
cessful merchandising. People usual-
ly discuss and ponder for days and
sometimes for weeks before they ac-
tually buy and the time to influence

them is while they are considering,
rather than after they have actually

reached a decision to purchase. The
price and the quality of the goods
you offer may be largely influential in
accelerating a decision so that it pays
to feature them a little ahead of the
time when they will be actually sea-
sonable.

Show the goods at every oppor-
tunity.
can see them. Your window space
may be limited, but the store inter-
ior itself offers many opportunities
for attractive display. While there
are seasonable goods to be pushed
out, there is little advantage in featur-
ing lines for which there is no im-
mediate demand, or giving display
space to goods which people know
you carry anyway.

Good work can be done by the
merchant personally and by his
This is particularly true in
regard to the handling of sporting
goods.

clerks.

The merchant who is presi-
dent of the city base ball league or
who gives his time to the busy
secretaryship or whose head clerk is
an enthusiastic tennis player has the
inside track over competitors who
take no interest in sports. In only a
slightly less degree this holds good
with regard to the entire trade. The
merchant who makes his personality
a decided factor in selling is the mer-
chant who sells the most.
William Edward Park.
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The way to make more money is to
add to your receipts without adding
to your expenses. See how your sell-
ing force can be kept busy all instead
of only part of the time.

 

Put them where the customer

Established in 1873.

BEST EQUIPPED FIRM IN THE STATE
Steam and Water Heating
Iron Pipe Fittings and
Brass Goods
Electrical and Gas Fixtures
Galvanized Iron Work

THE WEATHERLY CO.
218 Pearl Street Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

“Sunbeam” Luggage
Sy

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THEY WEAR AND WEAR.

The line is staple, a live seller,
and highly profitable. Right now is
the time to stock up on these excel-
lent values, with the spring and sum-
mer travel ahead of you.

Our trunk catalogue not only
shows you “What's what” in the
luggage line—but it actually places
these within your reach, at prices
that will surprise you. If you haven't
your copy, send for it today—NOW,

BROWN & SEHLER CO.

HOME OF “SUNBEAM” GOODS

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

Corner Oakes St. and
Ellsworth Ave.

Michigan Hardware
Company

Exclusively Wholesale

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Foster, Stevens & Co.
Wholesale Hardware
4

157-159 Monroe Ave. _ ::

Grand Rapids, Mich.

151 to 161 Louis N. W.

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 29, 1914

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

THE MEAT MARKET

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hints for the Retail
Butcher.

A retail merchant in a small but

flourishing Eastern town was doing a

credit business.

Pertinent

IIe was a hard work-
er—often he boasted of having lift-
ed eight barrels of flour in succession
from the ground to the wagon. Te
plugged away day by day. The one
thought foremost in his mind was:
“Tll work hard for three more
vears, and then sell out and retire
from active service.”
enough
money in three more years of hard
work to buy himself a small place in
the country where he and his wife
could enjoy the fruit of his labor.
Business was fine—that is, he sold
lots of goods; his clerks were always

He figured on making

busy; delivery wagons were contin-
ually on the go.

But, strange to say, his bank ac-
count did not increase in proportion
to the amount
doing.

When three years were up Smith
had not made his “few thousand” on
which he expected to retire. He was
still working the same ten hours a

of business he was

day, and still only ‘hoping, fle
didn't

for everything continued to look rosy

know why he wasn’t _ rich,”
and prosperous.

But | happen to know a few things
about Smith’s business which, [ be-
lieve, clears up the “mystery,” as he
was pleased to call it.

The first reason is: He never kept
an account and complete record of his
business.

Ile never knew how he stood on the
Ile knew he was selling goods
but to what amount or at what per-
centage of profit he never knew.

books.

If a customer came to Smith and
asked for a statement, Smith would
have to tell him, “in a day or two,”
Result: “In a day or

““

two” the cus-
tomer had spent the money The cus-
tomer was displeased, a bad thing for
Smith; or pleased, which was worse
for Smith.
Second—Smith trusted
Ile never asked for

everybody.
reference. Ags
long as he sold the goods he never
worried.

Third—Half the goods that went
out of Smith’s store were never
charged. When that happened he

lost the profit he should have made
on the sale, the time invested in buy-
ing, the time invested in selling, the
cost of labor in handling the goods,
the cost of keeping them on_ the
shelves, and several other losses, in-
cluding the big loss which such care-
lessness will cause in other work.
Smith needed to use his mind more
and his muscles less. A daily record

of his sales would have helped ma-
terially.

3ut Smith has “come back.” He is
doing business on a business basis.

Any time a customer wants a state-
ment of her account now she knows
she can get it in five minutes. Smith
has a mechanical device now for get-
ting out his statements whether they
ask for them or not—neat ones, ac-
curate ones, statements that collect
the bills.

Ile has re-organized his sales force
Ilis three old clerks have been re-
placed by two who know how to sell
goods, who are paid enough so that
every penny taken over the counter
goes into Smith’s cash drawer.

Ile has systematized his delivery
service so that instead of three wag-
ons on the go he has only two, but
they deliver more goods and give the
customer better service.

Ile no longer stocks up with un-
salable goods because they looked
like bargains. Ile buys as he needs,
and because he needs it, not because
its a barcain.

Every article that leaves the store
of that
takes care

is accounted for; he’s sure
now, because his system
of it.

At the end. of
knows just

Smith
stands. He
knows just how much each clerk has
taken in. He much
money he has to his credit. Smith
has applied scientific methods to his
business.

every day
where he

knows how

The way Smith is doing business
now he is going to make a “few
thousand,” though he has quit talk-
ing about retiring, because he doesn’t
have to work like a drayhorse and
he doesn’t want an easier job.

Smith says: “Business, when it’s
run right, is a pleasure. Who would
want to retire? I’ve just been born.”

1. T will not be a price cutter.

2. To this end I will study dili-
gently to know what it costs me to
sell my goods.

3. I will treat my creditor, my
customer, my competitor, my em-
ploye, and myself with absolute fair-
ness.

5. [| will endeavor to systematize
my business, and secure the co-op-
eration of my salesmen, so as to in-
crease my volume of business to the
maximum, and reduce my cost of do-
ing business to the lowest notch.

6. I will neglect no opportunity
to improve my own business knowl-
edge and condition, and to do what
I can to uplift the condition of the
trade; to this end lending my influ-
ence and support to all movements
for that purpose.

vy

7. I will actively support my as-

sociation, attend its meetings, serve
on its committees, if requested to do
sO; answer promptly all communi-
cations from its officers, and in all
other ways endeavor to promote its
purposes.

S I will carefully read my trade
papers, and see that my subscription
is not allowed to expire; and J will
Ireely write to the editor whenever
I am moved either to commend or
criticize; realizing that it is my paper
and its value depends largely upon
my attitude toward it.

9. I will thoroughly and systemat-
ically advertise my business, realiz-
ing that if I have something to sell
I cannot expect the people to guess
it unless I at least give them a hint.

 

In order to test the sincerity of the
people of his city, to find out whether
they actually want to buy cheaper on
a cash basis or prefer the old, ex-
pensive service system with its tele-
phones, delivery, solicitors, time pay-
ments, etc., a grocer and meat dealer
of Oshkosh, Wis., will operate two
The stores will be run under
the same management and the public

stores.

will be given to understand as much,
so that there will be no confusion.
The management will take the pub-
lic in its confidence and bluntly call
attention to the fact that in the one
case where credit is extended, gro
ceries delivered, telephones and_ so-
that the
costs money and that customers will

Kcitors employed, service
be expected to pay for it in the price
On the
other hand, the cash store, which will

of the goods which are sold.
be located immediately across. the
street from the credit and service-
viving store, will cater only to peo
ple who have the cash to pay for
what they get and who will take the
There will

goods away with them.

be no

telephones or other systems
employed, as the sole purpose is to
reduce expenses to a minimum.

The proprietor says he will give
this saving in service to customers
in the shape of lower prices and in
this way will test the attitude of
the public and find out whether the
cry of high cost of

of calamity

living is not

really the cry howlers

rather than that of the consuming
public.

In the cash store he will avoid
book-keeping, or at least a large
part of it, while the time of help

will not be taken up in answering
telephone galls and

and in addition there will be no loss

taking’ vorders,
from bad accounts. This experiment
will be of interest to the merchants.
BE. €. Witmyce.
+--+
To live long and prosper let the
other fellow worry
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For pointers on insect life consult
a bee hive.

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Tents, Horse and Wagon Covers, Ham
mock Couches. Catalogue on application.

CHAS. A. COYE, INC.

Campau Ave. and Louis St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Steadily Growing

In Popular Favor

Mapleine

is a very necessary item
in all up-to-date
stores,

Order from

Louis Hilfer Co.
4 Dock St., Chicago, Ill.

Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash.

F. D. COLLAR

Expert
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Our work gets results and gives
satisfaction

No open time until May 15
For terms and prices address,

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Grand Council of Michigan U. C. T.

Grand Counselor—E. A. Welch, Kala-
mazoo.

Past Grand Counselor—John Q. Adams,
Battle Creek.

Grand Junior Counselor—M. S. Brown,
Saginaw.

Grand Secretary—Fred C. Richter,
Traverse City. :

Grand Treasurer—J. C. Witliff, Port
Huron.

Grand Conductor — W. S. Lawton,
Grand Rapids.

Grand Page—E. J. Moutier, Detroit.
Grand Sentinel—John <A. Hach, Jr.,

Coldwater.

Grand Chaplain—T. J. Hanlon, Jack-
son.

Grand Executive Committee—John D.
Martin, Grand Rapids; Angus G. Mc-
Eachron, Detroit; James E._ Burtless,
Marquette; L. P. Thompkins, Jackson.

Next Grand Council Meeting—Saginaw,
June 12 and 13.

Michigan Division T. P. A.

President—Fred H. Locke.

First Vice-President—C. M. Emerson.

Second Vice-President—H. C. Corne-

and Treasurer—Clyde_ E.
Brown.

Board of Directors—Chas. E. York, J.
W. Putnam, A. B. Allport, D. G Mc-
Laren, W. E. Crowell, Walter H. Brooks,
W. A. Hatcher.

 

“I Can Get Along Without It”
“Mer.

along

‘
Call
J hat

admission

Blank, you tell me you

get without my line.

sounds to me like a tacit
of your interest in it. and your desire
to buy if you were only convinced
of the economy or practical sense of
such a measure. We usually apply
that phrase, ‘I can get along without
it, to things which we would like to
have, but which we are forced to re-
gard as an unwarrantable indulgence.
The words imply a measure of self-
denial,

“Now I am here to show you, not
how fine my goods are (that you can
see for yourself), but how much profit
there is in them for you. The econ-
best
How
I know it by the

omy of your business will be
served by your installing them.
this?
number of re-orders which my custom-
ers have turned in voluntarily with-
in the last six months. Surely they

have made a handsome profit on the

do I know

goods, or they would not, of their own
two, and
three, re-orders in the season.

accord, send in sometimes
mind
could

“There isn't a doubt in
that any of these
have ‘got along’ without this line. If
they had denied it to themselves as
well the profits that have accrued to
them from it, they would still have

been in business; but they would not

my
customers

’

be so well satisfied
present with the results of their busi-

ness.

as they are at

“If we are going to get along with
just the things we couldn't get along
without, there wouldn’t be any stores
or houses. The Indians didn’t have
these conveniences and thousands of
others which are important in
modern life, but still they managed to
get along. Now-a-days it isn't the
things we can get along without, it’s

our

how far ahead of the other fellow we
can get with the things that will help
us to get there.

“If your customers were to take the
same attitude and to them-
selves: ‘Well, I can get along without
this new thing or that,’ what effect
would such a line of reasoning have
Wouldn't

denying

say to

on your business? your

customers be themselves
many advantages within their reach?

“The you indi-
cates your commercial standing just
as a man’s clothes indicate his social
standing and

stock which carry

degree of prosperity.
You can eget alone without this new,
stylish, up-to-date stock that people
like to look at and like to buy, but
isn’t it your duty to yourself, Mr.
Blank, and to your customers to in-
stall the obtainable: in
your store—to be thoroughly
the
Tt is desirable

best goods
pro-
modern in all de-
partments you handle?
that people should class you as pros-
perous

trade.

eressive and

and enjoyinig a prosperous
Isn't it a matter of policy as
well as a matter of pride, to buy not
only the things which you cannot do
without, but also the things which
you can do well with?

“Tf all the different kinds of things
that the public buys for any purpose
whatever could be assembled in a
great heap, how large a part of that
mass would contain things which peo-
ple buy because there cannot’ get
along without them? It would be a
small percentage of the whole. The
great bulk of that heap would contain
things which people could live with-
out, with which they feel better, more
prosperous, more. progressive for
having, and are therefore willing to
pay their money to own - There is
more profit in catering to the tastes
and conveniences of a man than there
is in catering alone to his bare neces-
sities. His necessities are soon sup-
plied, but his tastes are an insatiable
appetite; and he is always willing to
spend money for conveniences which
will facilitate him in making more
money, or preparing to make more
money.

“There is profit in this line, because
it sells readily; it sells readily be-
cause it pleases people who won't
want to get along without it, once
it has been brought to their attention.
Don't practice useless or ill-advised
self-denial, Mr. Blank. Your competi-
tors, and not your business, will be
benefited if you do. Unquestionably,
you can manage to ‘get along without’
this line; and without the increased
profits which it would bring you. But

surely it is better wisdom to take
the line and the profits too.”
J. C. M.

“Tt Will Wait Until My
Improves.”

“Mr. Blank, you tell me you like
my line, and will be ready to buy it
as soon as your business improves. |
am much obliged for your kind opinion
about my line, but I think you have
overlooked one point

Business

It is a business-
bringer—not an extravagance to be
afforded future time when
you are well enough off to gratify
expensive wishes.

“You say that the goods I sell are
satisfactory in every particular, and
well worth the money. Thanks. But
let me tell you they aren't
worth a rush to you unless they are
a means to the end of improving
your business by bringing custom into
your store. If they can do this—and
they can—they are worth everything
to you now.

“Tf business needs to be improved,
there's only one thing that wili do it,
and that The that
will sell fast, and at a liberal pro-
fit, are the best means you can adopt
for improving business conditions.

“Let me tell you a little story which
I think illustrates my point: There
was a man I knew who could never
get up nerve enough to give his
very naughty little boy a licking. No
matter how many windows that boy
broke, or many cats he threw
down the well, or how often he
blacked his sister’s eye, the old man
would crawl out of licking him by
saying that Johnny was too little; he
guessed he’d wait till he got bigger
when it wouldn’t hurt him so much,
and then give him one terrible thrash-
ing to pay off all old scores.

“Well, that boy kept growing older,
and no better, and yet the old man
never got at it. He was tenderheart-
ed, and thought he’d wait till Johnny
was more experienced, and then may-
be he'd ‘know better’ of his own ac-
cord.

“Johnny
enough.

at some

 

is—sales. goods

how

got experfenced | fast
3ut it wasn’t just the sort
of experience that his father had fig-
ured on. After he’d forged the old
man’s check he was sufficiently ex-
perienced in pistol practice to shoot
and kill the policeman who tried to
arrest him. Johnny is doing life sen-
tence IT expect if the old man
had to do it over he’d lick the young-
ster into a state of regular blessed-
ness. Maybe the boy would grow up
and be a credit to his family, then.

“Now you're waiting for your busi-
ness to improve before you give it the

now.

stimulus it needs before it will im-
prove. I infer that if you won't buy
my line until business has swung

‘round and is all that you want it to
be you won't buy other men’s lines
for the same reason. You are defer-
ring the correction which any busi-
ness needs, just as Johnny did; when
it is not all that it should be. By and
by it will be too late. People will be-
gin to say, after a while, that your
competitors have newer and more at-
tractive goods. Business never will
improve under these conditions.
“Aren’t you sparing the rod and
spoiling the child in this case, Mr.
Blank? By economizing in the mat-
ter of a little profitable outlay now,
aren't you endangering the future of
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Chirpings From the Crickets.

Battle Creek, April 27.—Battle
Creek Council, No. 253, held a_spe-
cial meeting in their council cham-
bers last Saturday afternoon and put
John Bird through the mysterious
paths and over the rocky passes. Our
new Senior Counselor, W. I. Masters,
did himself proud and was ably as-
sisted by his new officers.

Our charter will be draped thirty
days in memory of John Reide, who
passed away a week ago. A letter
will be drafted and sent to his family,
expressing the sympathy and tender
remembrance of his brother counsel-
ors.

Things and cities always look dif-
ferent to the traveling man than to
the stay at home. To the man happily
employed at good money in a town,
it is a good town and a dandy place
to live. To the traveler making that
town, if he does no business there or
has no established accounts, it is a
dead town and he does not fail to
tell his fellow travelers and trade
what he thinks of the burg.

Met R. L. Hopkins, of Kalamazoo
Council, on the road last week. He
was enjoying good business and look-
ing forward to the time when he
could cover his territory in his car.

I met a fellow last week who had
not taken an order in ninety days.
Ite was selling suspension bridges.

The Grand Trunk is painting its
depot at Charlotte. Before the raise
in freight rates, too!

Jackson Council is planning on a
first division ball team.

The Wolverine Cigar Co., of this
city, is moving into a swell new store.

John Finlay, the East Main street

grocer, is moving to Monument
Square,
Chas. Giddings, Hartford, is play-

ing to crowded houses each night.
Charles works hard and is entitled to
the splendid patronage he is enjoy-
ing. He had strawberry shortcake
on his table March 19.

Yesterday was ‘“Men’s Day” in
some of the churches in this territory
and they turned out, too. Also the
ladies, with their Easter bonnets.

A man’s thoughts help to spell his
success or failure.

It is truly wonderful what a man
can do if he will only will himself
i be his own master. Little weak-
nesses in a man’s mental make-up
will often prove his financial undo-
ing if he does not catch himself and
build himself up.

’Tis human to err. Yes, but ma-
chines can’t do all of life’s duties.

If the salesman who comes to Bat-
tle Creek for J. L. Marcero Co., De-
troit, will call me on the phone the
next time he is in this city, | can give
him a tip that will help.

Our friend Wright comtinues to
place scales for the Stimpson people
of Detroit. Ability will win.

Bro. Johnson says our letters read
like articles from the Cosmopolitan.
Certainly not along the R. W. C
lines. I submitted a letter I had
framed for Mr. Stowe to Al Hensler
and Norman Riste. The boys show-
ed no special enthusiasm, so I tore it
up. Another masterpiece lost to man.
Possible, but not probable.

Norman Riste is in possession of
several trophies won from the Na-
tional Biscuit Co. for increased busi-
ness on his ‘territory. Norm picks
off prizes often. It will soon be hard
for him to beat his own record.
Harder for his co-workers.

Now the happy thought is, crop
conditions are good.
To-day it is wet,

ritory.

Clarence Van Liew is home from
a successful trip north for Marshall
Field & Co. and Clarence.

The newspapers are doing their
best to have a good circulation re-
port for April,

The camera fiends are
again.

It certainly pays to advertise, but
not in a war extra.

Lots of moving picture stars are

even in dry ter-

with us

better known than our Vice-Presi-
dent.

Lots of ball players have larger sal-
aries than college professors.

The only way some offices have of
knowing that their men covered the
territory is their expense account.
Even then, there may be a paper drive
listed.

Don’t plan too strong on a vacation.
It may be a premature and lengthy
one.

Don’t talk conditions. Work to
rise above them. Plan your work,
then work your plan.

There is a lot of popular music
that has lines which are no idle
boasts.

John Adams wants that poem back,
Mr. Stowe, if you are not going to
publish it. No, John did not write
it. Is that why you held it up?

Perry [ane is fast) tailing. | No
hopes are entertained for his re-
covery.

The boys of 131 did themselves

proud again. They are an example
for every council in the State—and
then some,

The peach crop has been stung.

lirst report.

Later—disputed.

About time for the Bard of Mears
to dash off some good original witty
Stuf, isnt it?

The papers tell us that the hotel
men of the State have gotten together
and exchanged views. Lead kindly
light. Let the strong tell the weak
what to do and have them do it at
once. Rates seem plenty high. l1o-
tels, I suppose, feel like the railroads,
however. Everything going up, rates
stationery. Well, hotel patrons are
like the railroad patrons, if rates are
stationary, they are ever on the meve
and generally in the mood.

Some houses are figuring, if busi-
ness keeps up, on equipping their
men with portable tents and ue
a piece of park from the city. Parks
with fountains preferred for running
water and bath. Have to stay with
Charles at Hartford, for his old park

has no fountain. Guy Pfander.
————E
No Test to Differentiate Cane and
Beet.

Lansing, April 25.—Permit me to
enquire if the granulated sugar made
by the Pennsylvania Refining Co. is
produced from cane or beet. The
jobbing house which sells this sugar
insists that it is made from cane, but
it would seem as though it would
fortify its claim by a guarantee on
the outside of the barrel or package.

Is there any way of determining
whether granulated sugar is made
from cane or beet Oe chemical analy-
sis? W. Skelton.

Quaker brand eee sugar is
probably made from cane. su-
gar because the amount of beet su-
gar that is used by Eastern refiners
is very small. The Eastern refiners
purchased last year 3,400,000 tons of
cane sugar and during the same pe-
riod purchased only 80,000 tons of
beet sugar. The Franklin Sugar Re-
fining Co., of Philadelphia, puts up
granulated sugar in barrels for the
Judson Grocer Co., of this city, and
places a guarantee that the contents
is made from cane sugar, on each
package.

There is no test by which the dif-
ference can be determined between
beet and cane sugar. Chemists have
spent many years in the endavor to
detect this difference, without result.

———>--

John Jasperse has sold his inter-
est in the Princess Juliana Cigar Co.
to his former partner, Joseph Steg-
huis, who will carry on the business

alone.
—_2>-2>—__

Roland Sehler has become a part-
ner in the Grand Rapids Trunk Co.

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, April 27—The first
Greater Grand Rapids Industrial Ex-
position is now a pleasant history. From
the standpoint of both the promoters
and exhibitors it was a decided success.
During the week, between 12,000 and
15,000 interested visitors were filled with
delight and amazement at the many and
varied exhibitions of Grand Rapids
made goods and products. They left the
building permeated with new and great-
er feelings of civic pride. Any business
man or traveling salesman who failed
to attend the Exposition missed an op-
portunity to better educate himself to
the greatness of that part of our beau-
tiful city which spells our commercial
success.

The show during the last hour re-
sembled the rummage sale and, through
the generosity of exhibitors of eatables,
all present were able to replenish the
larder with a week’s supply of canned
goods and the like.

A great amount of merriment was
created by chairman O. W. Stark, of
the Reception Committee, and J. Frank
Quinn, of the Quinn Stationery Co.,
who acted as a committee on special
awards to the most beautiful woman in
the most beautiful booth—and _ there
were many of them. Each one of them
received either a (g)old medal or a
valuable diploma. This afforded amuse-
ment to many of their followers.

Miss Esther Aubill, of the Grand
Rapids Clock & Mantle Co., was pre-
sented with a silk American flag for
her loyalty,

At the close of the show a post card
expression of the opinions of the ex-
hibitors was taken and they all seemed
greatly pleased with the attendance and
results. Many said they thought a post
card too small a space to pay tribute
to so great an enterprise and said they
would send in their opinions to the
committee later. The opinions thus ob-
tained will be published in the next issue
of the Tradesman.

Frederick William Blake, John H.
Millar, Geo. A. Newhall and Ed. Keyes
attended the funeral of Stephen D.
Thompson, at Newaygo. They made the
trip in Mr. Keyes’ automobile.

Say, members of 131, are you going to
the Grand Council meeting in Saginaw,
June 12-13. The Transportation and
Hotel Committee report reservations for
nearly one-half of our rooms. Was
your name among the list sent in? If
not, send a postal this week to John

Martin, 254 Henry avenue, for your
room reservation at the hotel. Remem-
ber, we must have a guaranteed unm-
ber to secure a special train, going over
Friday morning returning Saturday
evening,

For the first time since it was
built, Some _ forty-two years ago
the Evart House has gone out of busi-
ness. Its new proprietor, F. C. Rood,
having acquired both hotels, has de-
cided to keep open the Trumble House
as hotel, using the rooms in the Evart
House as may be required, and on Mon-
day dinner was served at the latter
place. The Trumble House has been
renovated and rearranged and will be
run as a first-class place.

Ward Morton has accepted the man-
agement of the Keystone Type Foundry,
of Detroit, succeeding John H. Taylor,
who takes charge of the Chicago branch.
Both Mr. Morton and Mr. Taylor are
members of Grand Rapids Council.

The Detroit members of the U. C. T.
are showing much interest in the Bag-
men of Bagdad. Several applications
have been received from members of
Cadillac Council to join Absal Guild.

Lee Warren says it would be better
to go to war than get married, as he
says he don’t think this Mexican fight
will last more than a couple of years.

Elmer Van Dyke, the New Era hotel
and livery man, has put in a new auto-
mobile and is prepared to give the boys
good service.

Lou Fuller and wife, of Manistique,
were Grand Rapids visitors Saturday
and Sunday. Lou covers Northern ter-
ritory for the National Biscuit Co.

Articles of incorporation have been
drawn up for the Greater Grand Rapids
Industrial Expositicn,

John Christensen has resigned his
position with the National Biscuit Co.
His territory will be covered by Earl
Warren, of Albion. Harry Hartwell,
from Saginaw, will cover Mr. Warren’s
old territory south.

Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Belser, of Chelsea,
are at a sanitarium in Grand Rapids,
where Mr. Belser is undergoing treat-
ment. Mr. Belser is a very successful
hardware merchant and is very popu-
lar with the traveling men who call on
him, all of whom wish him a speedy re-
covery.

One of the remarkable things about
the Industrial Exposition was the ab-
sence of any disturbance. Only one ar-
rest was made. A. F. Rockwell was
caught in the act of lifting what looked
like a bottle of ginger ale. He was taken
before the high tribunal of the Ancient
Mystic Order of Bagmen of Bagdad,
where some of his friends interceded
for him and he was let off with a severe
reprimand for being caught.

O. E. Jennings and friend, Mr. Hixon,
of Detroit, were Exposition visitors last
week, as were also H. B. Getter and
Wm. Ormsby, of Kalamazoo.

Harry Kibbie has been critically ill
with appendicitis and has undergone an
operation at Butterworth hospital. We
understand he is now on the rapid road
to health again.

J. W. Murphy, better known among
his many friends as “Bill,” has resign-
ed his position with the Michigan Gar-
ment Co. and is now covering the State
for D, F. Moore & Co., of Newport,
Vermont. He carries a full line of
raincoats and men’s furnishings.

Wm. Drueke, Sr., has had a relapse
and is again very ill.

There will be a meeeting of the An-
cient Mystic Order of Bagmen of Bag-
dad next Saturday at 1 p. m. at Herald
hall.

Edear J. Lybarker succeeds |. J
Hall in the grocery business at Sauga-
tuck. Mr. Lybarker is a man with a
very pleasing personality and has spent
a number of years in the grocery busi-
ness at Elkhart, Indiana. He will, un-
doubtedly, enjoy a very nice business in
his present location.

A great feeling of sadness has marked
this week at the Worden Grocer Co., be-
cause of the death of its senior sales-
man, A. S. Doak. The Grand Old Man
who gave the best years of his life in
the service of his house, was universally
loved and respected by all who knew
him. Ed. J. Hart, who was especially
close to Mr. Doak the last few years,
said of him: “Algernon S. Doak, aged
66 years, died at Butterworth hospital
Sunday morning. This item published
in our dailies will announce to hundreds
of Mr. Doak’s friends a very sad piece
of news indeed. For years Mr. Doak
has gone away each Monday morning
on his trip North to do the work allot-
ted for him. His way was unassuming,
his manner courteous and cheerful and
no one ever heard him complain. Al-
ways hopeful, always considerate, he
went about his task of calling upon his
friends when his own heart was sad and
the pain of his life was heavy upon him.
To know Mr. Doak was a privilege, to
be called by him ‘friend’ an honor, for
he served his employers honestly and
faithfully. Never again will his friends
who bought of him have the pleasure of
knowing one so honest and upright with
the simply goodness of heart as ‘Our
Mr. Doak.’ We who have worked with
him loved him and his memory shall be
an example for our future lives. There
is a tear in my eye for him, a thought
in my mind of him and the words of
my lips are God bless him!”

Will E. Sawyer.
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Joseph Wisz succeeds Wieniewski
Bros. in the grocery business at 648
Fourth street. Mr. Wisz has lived
in that neighborhood for many years
and has been engaged in painting and
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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.

President—-Will FE. Collins, Owosso.
Secretary—-E. T. Boden, Bay City.
Treasurer—E. E. Faulkner, Delton.
Other Members—Chas. S. Koon, Mus-
kegon; Leonard A. Seltzer, Detroit.

Mchigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-

ion.
President—D. G. Look, Lowell.
Vice-Presidents—h, y. Miller,
erse City; C. A. Weaver, Detroit.
Secretary—Von W. Furniss, Nashville.
Treasurer—Ed. Varnum, Jonesville.
Executive Committee—D. D. Alton,
Fremont; Ed. W. Austin, Midland; (

Koon, Muskegon; R. W. Cochrane,
Kalamazoo; James Robinson, lansing;
Grant Stevens, Detroit.

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Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As-

sociation. :
President—Geo. H. Halpin, Detroit.
Secretary-Treasurer—W. S. Lawton,

Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids Drug Club.
President--Wm. C. Kirchgessner.

Vice-President—E. D. De La Mater.
Secretary and Treasurer-——Wm. r.

Tibbs. :
Executive Committee—-Wm. Quigley,
Chairman; Henry Riechel, Theron Forbes.

The Latest Sin of the Oldest Sinner.
About all the the
outside of real porch climbers, jimmy

crooks in world
artists and safe blowers owe their exist-
ence to the press. They could live about
as long without the press as it would
take Hades to scorch a celluloid collar.
Tt has been demonstrated time and time
again that the press will grab the taint-
ed coin and do anything in return for
it that can be done and still avoid the
black and white striped habiliments that
the government furnishes to people who
are unable to distinguish between their
own money and other people’s money.

This does not necessarily apply alone
to what is popularly known as the yel-
low press, as we have yet to see a sheet
that could not
familiar

from the
be streaked

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with the

tint if some well-rated grafter wanted

orange

to rob the unsuspecting populace legiti-
mately legally,
criticism or prosecution, providing, how-
that
grafter was willing to come loose from
the cash.

and without fear of

ever, the herein-aforementioned

this
statement of facts is found in our dear
old Holler’s Weekly, the
journalistic virtue and guardian angel
of the American home. She started out
to reform the world through the frantic
efforts of the lineal descendant of the
owner of that plot or parcel of land bet-
ter described as the of Eden.
This brilliant ignoramus was in erup-
The American
woman was appealed to through the
mental contortions of a female physician,
worked her and her
fountain pen overtime fighting acetanilid

A burning example supporting

paragon of

Garden

tion for quite awhile.

who mentality
because some of the legitimate manu-
facturers were making it into headache
tablets. She recommended in its stead
the use of aconite linument, and told
how much better and less dangerous
it was to blister the neck with aconite

linument than to risk one’s life with the
dreadful coal tar.
the
an awful drubbing.

The good old week-
manufacturers
Some of the best
proprictaries made in this country, pro-

ly gave propritar

prictaries that have been staples in the
drug trade for a score or more of years,
held up had_ the
painted hypocrisy removed

were and dreadful
mack of
from their festering countenances by
the deit hands, of the great writers, thus
their shameful faces to the

criticisms of a truth-loving world.

revealing

For a time it looked as though the
weekly was about to win a home on the
the American home in
juxtaposition to the “book of books.”
But, like an untrained surgeon, they
severed a large intestine when they
sold a quarter page of their sterilized
publicity medium to a bunch of bucan-

center table of

eers in Chicago who are letting the
“Deer Peepul” have a few tons of pink
borax worth about $9 a ton at three
ounces for 50 cents. Said pink borax,
supposed to whipsaw the dandruff germ,
grow hair on a gas meter, and make
one live happy ever afterward, to say
nothing of putting the manufacturers
in a position to fight the income tax
and buy a new automobile every day.

However, the prince of grafters, so
far as I have seen, hails from Dayton,
Ohio. He has the circus shell man hung
up nine weeks for repairs when it comes
to spreading salve and telling the easy
marks what to do. This illustrious per-
sonage is none other than Dr. Blank,
of Dayton, Ohio.
and has
and in a

He favors Socrates,
whiskers like General Grant,

ten double column space he
for
everything from dandruff to manhood

that is lost, strayed or stolen.

puts the yokels wise to specifics

from “Dis-
“My hair is so oily
and straggling that I wish you could
tell me something that would make it
soft and fluffy.
homely.”

He begins with a letter

tress,” who writes:

It makes me positively
Poor thing; it is something
awful to contemplate a woman who is
positively homely, especially if she ad-
mits it in a newspaper. Patient reader,
you must know that undoubtedly this
old girl is the queen of hard lookers.
But distress is the proper label, and I
guess she can’t be pinched under the
edict of June the thirtieth, nineteen six,
But Dr. Blank
is there with the big mitt and his heel
screwed into the bag, and tells “Dis-

for being misbranded.

tress’ to “Ask your druegeist for a
jar of Plain Yellow Minyol.”
The next victim of unkind fate is

I'red W., who suffers with headache, in-
digestion, and is thin almost to danger
point. Now, between the lines, we read
that Fred Kicked
into a cocked hat. Feels like he had

is all knocked out.

been starved through Lent, run through
a corn sheller, knocked in the head
with a casting and left for dead. And
would no doubt have rolled over and
took the count but for the life line cast
by the mysterious medicine man, who
tells him he can readily overcome these
difficulties by using Three-Grain Hydro-
nuclane Tablets, put up in sealed car-
tons, with full directions. He further
avers that they are recommended by
physicians. No doubt. Methinks I can
see the entire staff of officers and all
the committeemen of the American Med-
ical Association falling over each other
to get a chance to burn their John
Henry’s into this recommendation for
the wonderful Hydro-Nuclane Tablets
discovered and manufactured especially
for such cases as Fred’s. And we think
Fred should work his gratitude over-
time thanking the great physician for
snatching him as a brand from the eter-
nal burning,

Then comes “Fern,” giving neither
age, color, sex or previous condition of
servitude, but coughing like a motor
boat, and says: “I have suffered with
a bad cough for some time, and am also
weak and tired most of the time, which,
| think, is due to the severe coughing.
Can you give me a remedy?” No doubt
the commonplace — physician
would think tuberc, but not so with
this great annihilator of
comes right across with a specific for
the symptoms. He says get a two and
one-half ounce package of Mentho-Lax-
ene. Shades of Theodore Wurtz! Good
night, Professor Remington. You can
say Mentho-Laxene to the average lay-
man, be he prince or pauper, and get
his salary check for a year in advance.
In the matter of cooking up mysterious,
high-sounding, chemically inclined
names, Dr. Blank is some chef.

The lay world will probably never
surround medicine with mys-
tery and believe whatever is told them
regarding it. Any time you hit a lay-
man in the ear with a name he can’t
pronounce, or allow him to mix some-
thing for himself, you can sell him what-

average

disease; he

cease to

ever you offer him at whatever price he
happens to have.

The druggists of the country are un-
willing parties to the shady transactions
of such crooks as the press is continually
aiding in their efforts to separate Josh
and Cy from the last penny of their
hard-earned cash,

I feel safe in saying that there is not
a layman in the world who cannot be
into the
Once you estab-
lish the symptoms in his mind, the rest
is easy. Tell him to get a two-ounce
bottel of Aqua Gringham and mix it
with a pint of equal parts peppermint
water and sorghum molasses and take
ten drops in a wineglass full of water
forty-eight minutes meals for
bubonic plague, and he will not only
turn his pockets inside out to you, but
will

teased showing symtoms of

some terrible malady.

before

follow directions to the letter and
get well.

Once in my youth, when T was as full
of ethics as Detroit is of automobiles,
I determined to give this tribe of char-
latons the worst of it, feeling sure that
influence would put the
hummer for keeps. A minister, who
was one of the shrewdest as well as
one among the best educated men I

my them on

 

April 29, 1914

ever knew, came to my store one day
and asked for an ounce of Kargon
Compound, whereupon I proceeded to
vent the pent-up wrath of years on the
crooks who got their dirty money by
playing upon the ignorance of the un-
wise. My argument to that preacher
was a masterly effort, such as I never
made before or since. Invectives and
dared the
Christian gentleman

When I

logic to a frazzle and used up the Eng-

curses as |
of this
torrents.

as near use in
presence
came in had worn
lish language until there was not enough
of it left to cover the space on a local
view post the Union Stock
Yards, Chicago, he thanked me profuse-

card of

ly and walked across the street, where
he got what he asked for and was thank-
ed kindly for his 450 cents. I do not
see him any more unless I go to his
church. It was that day that I used
a stomach pump on my ethics and de-
cided that my bump of idiocy was ab-
normally developed.

lormerly the game of these crooks
was to have the patient write a personal
letter to the doctor, the letter being rife
with symptoms from dis-
turbances to vertigo and palsy, and pin-

stomachic

ned to a bank note of whatever denomi-
nation the doctor thought his victims
would stand for. The typographical
spread was marked (advertisement).
The patient received by return mail a
complete hand-painted diagnosis and a
small vial of specific.

But this method seems to have grown
gray haired, as the old mutts got leery
and the young suckers were not born
fast enough to keep the mill going.
So now the proper procedure for fleec-
ing the unshorn merinos is to tell the
patient to “ask your druggist for Plain
Duckhorn,” thus using the druggist’s
reputation and good name to promote
as dirty as graft as ever came down the
pike.

In many instances the advertisement
says, “ask your druggist about Foxtone,”
The druggist dare not argue against it,
because if he has it in stock he has it
there to sell; if be says there is no
value to it and that he does not carry
it, the customer forthwith concludes thar
the druggist is a back number and de-
cides to go where he can get what he
asks for, instead of getting a long-
winded argument and a didactic lecture
on a subject in which he is not inter-
ested.

Who, pray, is responsible for this an-
Is it the graft-
Blank and his ilk
only powerless, but
harmless as well. It is merely a new
old That
licking gold digger, the press, will bar-
ter its soul for the filthy lucre when
convinced that the dirty deal is beyond
the reach of the district attorney, and
will promote any kind of legalized rob-
bery with whoever splits the spoils.

noying statg of affairs.
No, No. Dr

unaided are not

er?

sin of an offender. boot-

The press not only accepts the crook-
ed copy, but helps the promoter by ar-
ranging it so that the word advertise-
ment appears outside the border, where
it appears as much a part of the Inter-
national Sunday School Lesson as_ it
does a part of the advertisement,

W. H. Cousins.
~~ 0

Many a good cigar has

match,

met its

 

 

April 29, 1914

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

 

Acids
Acetic ....:.... 6 @ 8
BOrie .......... 10 @ 1
Carholie ....... 16 @ 20
Cite 138 @ 38
Murmatic ....... 1%@ 5
Nitrie .....::... 54%4@ 10
Oxalie (..05 0.0. 12 @ 6
Sulphuric -...... 1%4.@ D
Tartaric .....-.. 38) @ | 45
Ammonia
Water, 26 deg. .. 64@ 10
Water, 18. deg. .. 44@ 8
Water, 14 deg. .. 3%@ 6
Carbonate ..... 13° @ 16
Chioride ....... 12 @ 16
Balsams
Copaiba -......- 75@1 00
Fir (Canada) ..1 75@2 00
Fir (Oregon) .. 40@ 50
Peru ....- Nelelg lore 2 00@2 25
POW) 6.0550 sae. 1 00@1 25
Berries
@ubeb  o....5:... 65@ 75
Bish ....-.... 4. 15@ 20
Juniper: ........ 7@ 10
Prickley Ash ... @ | 50
Barks
Cassia (ordinary) 25
Cassia (Saigon) 65@ 75
Elm (powd. 25¢c) 25@ 30
Sassafras (pow. 30c) @ 25
Soap Cut (powd.
COC cot ese. ee 15 @ 20
Extracts
Licorice ......... 24@ 28
Licorice powdered 25@ 30
Flowers
Arnica, ......... 18@ 25
Chamomile (Ger.) 25@ 35
Chamomile (Rom) 40@ ou
Gums
Acacia, Ist ...... 40@ 50
Acacia, 2nd ..:.. 35@ 40
Acacia, 3d ...... 30@ 35
Acacia, Sorts .... @ 20
Acacia, Powdered 35@ 19
Aloes (Barb. Pow) 22@ 25
Aloes (Cape Pow) 20@ 25
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 40@ 50
Asafoetida ..... @ 0d9
Asafoetida, Powd.
Pure ......... @ 6
U. S. FE. Powd. @1 00
Camphor 3........ 5d@_~ 60
G@uiaiae ...5...... 35@ 40
Guaiac, Powdered 50@ _ 60
IMO oe... @ 40
Kino, powdered @ 45
Myrrh ........ ‘ @ 40
Myrrh, Powdered @ 50v
Opium ....5:... 7 50@7 75
Opium, Powd. 9 DO@YI 20
Opium, Gran. .. 9 15@9 35
Shellac  ..:2.... 28@ _ 35
Shellac, Bleached S0@ 35
Tragacanth
INO, Eo. se... 1 40@1 50
Tragacanth, Pow 75@ 85
Turpentine Ne ota 10@ 15
Leaves
Buchw  ...05... 1 85@2 00
Buchu, Powd. ..2 00@2 2
Pare, Ou ...... 18@ 25
Sage, 4s Loose 20@ 25
Sage, Powdered 2@ 30
Senna, Alex --- 45@ a0
Senna, Linn. .... 15@ 20
Senna, Tinn, Pow. pe 25
Uva Ursi ..... 0@ 15
Olls
Almonds, Bitter,
true ...... 6 00@6 50
Almonds, Bitter,
artificial ..... @1 00
Almonds, Sweet,
true .;........ S0@t 09
Almonds,’ "Sweet,
imitation ..... 40@ 50
Amber, crude .. 25@ 30
Amber, rectified 40@ 50
AYIB® ....:.... 2 25@2 50
Bergamont -- 750@8 90
Cajeput ........ 75@ 85
Cassin ........ 1 50@1 75
Castor, bbls. and
Cans ......... 12%@ 1s
Cedar Leaf .... @ 85
Citronella ...... @ i
Cloves ........ 1 50@1 75
Cocoanut ...... 20@_ 2d
Cod Liver ..... 1 10@1 25
Cotton Seed .... 80@1 00
Crofton ......... @1 60

@Cubebs .........
Krigeron .......
Eucalyptus :
Hemlock, pure
Juniper Berries
Juniper Wood
Lard, extra

Lard, No ft ..
Laven’r Flowers 4
Lavender, Garden
Eeemon 60... 3

Linseed, boiled, bbl.

Linseed, hdl. less

Linseed, raw, bbls.

Linseed, raw, less
Mustard, true ..4
Mustard, artifil 2
Neatsfoot .......
Olive, pure
Olive, Malaga,

bo

@4
@:

75@

@1

@1
40@
85@1
75@
50@5
S5@1
25@3
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58@
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57@
50@6
75@3
80@
50@3

50

2 50

85
00
25
59
09
99
00
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50
54
62
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61
50
00
85
50

yellow ...... 1 30@1 50
Olive, Malaga,
ereen ....... 1 80@1 50
Orange, sweet ..4 75@5 09
Organum, pure 1 25@1 50
Origanum, com] 50@ 75
Pennyroyal .....2 25@2 50
Peppermint ... 5 00@5 50
Rose, pure’ ...16 00@18 00
Rosemary Flowers 90@1 00
Sandalwood, FE.
eel. 6 25@6 59
Sassafras, true 80@ 90
Sassafras, artifil 45@ 5)
Spearmint <<... 5 50@6 00
Sperm :.....-.. 90@1 00
Tansy ......... 5 00@5 50
Tar, USE... .. 30@ 40
Turpentine, bbls. @53%
Turpentine, less 60@ 65
Wintergreen, true @5 00
Wintergreen, sweet
birch: ........ 2 00@2 25
Wintergreen, art’! 50@_ 60
Wormseed . 8 D0@s 00
Wormwood 6 00@6 50
Potassium
Bicarbonate 15@ {8
Bichromate Is@ 16
Bromide ........ 45@ 5h
Carbonate ...... 12@ 15
Chlorate, xtal and
powdered....... 12@ 16
Chlorate, granular 16@ 20
Cyanide ........ 380@ 40
lodide ......... 8 20@3 40
Permanganate .. 15@ 3
Prussiate, yellow 30@ 35
Prussiate, red 50@ 450
Sulphate ....... 15@ 20
Roots
Alkanet ........; 15b@ 20
Blood, powdered 20@ 25
Calamus .......- 35@ 40
Elecampane, pwd. 15@ 20
Gentian, powd. <12@ 16
Ginger, African,
powdered ..... 15@ 20
Ginger, Jamaica 22@ 25
Ginger, Jamaica,
powdered .... 22@ 28
Goldenseal pow. 7 00@7 59
Ipecac, powd. 2 75@3 00
Eicorice ........ 14@ 16
Licorice, powd. 12@ 15
Orris, powdered 25@ 30
Poke, powdered 20@ 25
RbUDarh 2. oe... 75@1 09
Rhubarb, powd. 75@1 25
Rosinweed, powd. 25@ = 3v
Sarsaparilla, Hond.
ground ....... @ 65
Sarsaparilla Mexican,
ground ........ 465 60
Squilig ......... 20@ 35
Squills, powdered 40@ 60
Tumeric, powd. 12@ 15
Valerian, powd. 25@ 30
Seeds
Anise .........-. 15@ 20
Anise, powdered 22@ 25
Bird, 16 ........ 8@ 10
Canary ........ 9@ 12
Caraway .......- 12@ 18
Cardamon .... 1 (5@2 00
@elery,. ......; se 80@ 35
Coriander ..... « L@ 18
7 23@ 3
Fennell ......... @ 30
Gigs |...,..... 414 @ 8
Plax, ground ... 4%@ 8
Foenugreek, pow. 6@ 10
CMD  .....-.... 5@
Lopelia ......... @ 50
Mustard, yeliow 9@ 12
Mustard, black 9@ 12
Mustard, powd. 20@ 25
RPODDY .......... 15@ 20
ag Cece c ees 75@1 90
Rape: ccc. .c sk. 6@ 10
Sabadiila Secu. 23@ 39
Sabadilla, powd. 35@ 45
Sunflowe? ....... 5@ 8
Worm American 15@ 20
Worm Levant 50@ 60
Tinctures
Aconite ........ @ 75
AlOeSs: .....- 6... @ 65
APNICA §... 6... @ 60
Asafoetida ..... @1 00
Belladonna ..... @. 60
Benzoin ..:..... @ 9
Benzoin Compo’d @ 90
Buchu .......... @1 00
Cantharadies @1 90
Cépsicum ...... @ 90
Vardamon....... @1 20
Cardamon, Comp. @ 80
@Catechu ........ @_ 60
Cinchona ...... @1 95
Colchicum ...... @ 60
Cube eee cae ac @1 20

Digitalis ....... @ 69
Gentian ........ @ 60
Ginger ......... @ 3
Guage ......-.. @1 95
Guaiaec Ammon. @ 380
WOGine ......... @1 25
Iodine, Colorless @1 25
Tpeeac .......... @ . 75
ion: ¢lo. ...... @ 60
KRomnO .....24..---. @ 80
Myrrh .......... @1 05
Nux Vomica @ 70
Opium .........- @2 00
Opium Camph. . @ 65
Opium, Deodorz’ a @2 25
Rhubarb ....... @ 70
Paints
Lead, red dry . @ 8
Lead, white dry 7 @ 8
Lead, white. oil 7° @ 8
Ochre, yellow bbl. 1 @1%4
Ochre yellow less 2 @ 5
Putty .7........ 2%@ 5
Red Venetn bbl 1 @1%
Red Venet’n less 2 @ 5
Shaker, Prepr’d 1 40@1 50
Vermillion, Eng. 90@1 00
Vermillion, Amer. 15@ 20
Whiting, bbl..... 1@ 1%
Whiting ........ 2@ 5
Insecticides
AAPSENIC ........ 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, fal... i@ 25
Paris Green 154%@ 20
Miscellaneous
Acetanalid ..... 30@ 35
AU i ee 3@ 5
Alum, powdered and
BrOUNG) 2.0.2... 5@ q
Bismuth, Subni-
rate ...<....< 2 10@2 25
Borax. xtal or
powdered 6@ 12
Cantharades po. 2 50@2 7d
Calomel...... 1 20@1 30
Capsicum, ...... 20@ 20
Garmine| ....... @3 50
Cassia Buds .... @ 40
Cloves ...... : 30@ 35
Chalk Prepared 6@ 8%
Chalk eee 1@ 10
Chieroform ...... 38@ 48
Chloral Hydrate 1 00@1 15
Cocaine ....... 4 10@4 49
Cocoa Butter 50@ 60
Corks, list, less 70%
Copperas, bbls. @
Copperas, less .. 2@ 5
Copperas, powd. 4@ 6
Corrosive Sublm. 1 05@1 10
Cream Tartar au@ 46
Cuttlebone ..... 25@ 39
Dextrine ....... t@ 10
Dover’s Powder 2 0U@2 2»
Emery, all Nos. 6@ 10
Emery, powdered 5@ 8
Epsom Salts, bbls @ 1%
Epsom Salts, less 2%2@ 0
rset ......... 1 50@1 7
Ergot, powdered 1 80@2 09
Flake White .. H@ 15
Formaldehyde Ib. 10@ 1s
Gambier ......, t@ 10
Gelatine ........ 85@ 4e

Glassware, full cases 80%
Glassware, less 70 & 10%

Glauber Salts bbl. @
Glauber Salts less 2@
Glue, brawn ..... 11@
Glue, brown grd. 10@
Glue, white - 15@
Glue, white grd. 15@
Glycerine ..... 234%@
HOPS ........... 50@
Indigo .......... 85@1
TOdinG ....... -. 4 35@4
Todoform ..-... 5 40@5
Lead Acetate 12@
Dyeopdium ..... 55@
Mace ........... . 80@
Mace, pO MaerEe 90@1
Menthol ......- 25@4
Mercury ........ 75@
Morphine all brd 5 05@5
Nux Vomica : @
Nux Vomica pow @
Pepper, black pow 20@
Pepper, white .. 30@
Pitch, Burgundy 10@
Quassia ......... 10@
Quinine, all brds 29@
Rochelle Salts 23@
Saccharine .... 1 50@1
Salt Peter |...... 74
Seidlitz Mixture ..20@
Soap, green .... 15@
Soap, mott castile 10@
Soap, white castile

ease ......... @6
Soap, white castile

less, per bar .. @
Soda Ash ...... 1%@
Soda Bicarbonate 1%@
Soda, Sal ..... 1@
Spirits Camphor. @
Sulphur roll.. .. 24%@
Sulphur Subl. 2 -2%@
Tamarinds ...... 10@
Tartar Emetic .. 40@
Turpentine Venice 40@
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 a
Witch Hazel ....
Zinc Sulphate oo.

 

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

 

 

 

Japalac I ixall Paris Green
Blue Vitrol

Lime and Sulphur Solution

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 Werld
Show Rooms and Factories: New York, Grand Rapids, Chicago, Boston, Portland

 

 

FOOTE & JENKS’ COLEMAN’S GRanpd)y_

Terpeneless Lemon and High Class Vanilla

Iasist on getting Coleman's Extracts from your jobbing grocer, or mail order direct to

FOOTE & JENKS, Jackson, Mich.

 

 

 

Four Kinds of Coupon Books

are manufactured by us and all sold on the same
basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination.
Free samples on application.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

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These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing. CHEESE
ll : i : Aeme .......... @18
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are Bloomingdale @18
liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled aoe @18
at market prices at date of purchase. Buck 6.05.0 0..0.
ee Secs
4imburger ..
ADVANCED DECLINED Pineapple ..
: am ..... ee
Spring Wheat Flour peer Coffee Sap Sago seceeee @
° Swiss, domestic @20
Split Peas
CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack .... 55
Adams Sappota ....... 55
Saar Pepsin ...... =
eechnut .............
Chiciets ............. 1 25
Colgan Violet Chips .. 60
Colgan Mint Chips ... 60
Index to Markets 1 9 ele
WMO ..5..5..4.... 1 10
By Columns Juley Brut ccc. BB
AMMONIA Beans Be Roe Gb
De En 85@1 30 gen Sen ae "80 pkgs,
Col. 12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box 75 foe a S200) ie. 55
ars i @
of. AXLE GREASE we ols Spearmint, ‘utigleys | oo
Axle Grease ........- 1 Frazer's. Blueberrie Spearmint, 3 box jars 1 80
1tb. wood boxes, 4 doz.3 00 standard . ep triink Spruce ......... 55
B 1th. tin boxes, 3 doz. 235 Galion ........ °° °°77" 7 on Yucatan ....--..--....: 55
es ous ........ 1 Ib. tin boxes, 2 dz. 4 25 a " eno, 60
‘ fee sks 1 . pails, per doz. ..
i pete. 1 15Tb. pails, per doz. ..7 20 ee Abie tb. @100 pu pencil 5
Breakfast Food .....- 1 25Ib. pails, per doz. ..12 00 Little Neck, 2Ip. Cl we et 7
: an aaa ee: 1 Clam Boulllon 4 9 eg creebeas-
aoe i an ae oo Burnham's % a ee 25 ea eerte ere
Butter Color ......... 1 No. 2; per doz. ...75@1 40 Scaler apt aM teense 3.75  Scheuer’s .......... : 6
c No. 3, per doz. ...85@1 75 ae +--+ es 750 Red Standards ...... 1 60
: 1 Corn Wiite .....0:......... 1 60
Candles oe serene A _ BATH BRICK ee 65@ 70 CHOCOLATE
Cannes ope Ae eee 3 Rmesn 33200. ke ee: 95 ed BS teh ais icc 90@1 00 Walter Baker & Co.
onda sue eerie 2 BLUING OP beets @130 German’s Sweet ...... 22
oo. 3 Jennings’. French Peas Premium) 210002556. ..5 22
foe Gam cried de 3 Condensed Pearl Bluing Monbadon. (Natural) Cargecas .............. 28
ey cas 3 Small C P Bluing, doz. 45 Per doz... 6... 75 Walter M. Lowney Co.
Wiaolte 3 Large C P Bluing, doz. 75 : : ries Premium, %4S ........ 29
anihee Tics 9 3 BREAKFAST FOODS =e. 2, AVON 150 tremium, %s ..-..... 29
ono eee . Apetizo, Biscuits sa [oa Faney eee. 2 35 CLOTHES ne abe
FOCOANUT ..c-cccercce ‘ ear 00 ettijo ns 1 95 H s.
Goffee .....--- 2200200 3 Cracked Wheat, 24-2 250 Standara ™Y __ 6 ge es eee eee
Confections meaner ses * Cream of Wheat, 36-2 4 50 Lobster 0. 5 Tw ste otton
Cracked Wheat ...... - 2 Cream of Rye, 24-2..300 % tb No. 60 Twisted Cotton 1 70
ee 6 wo an. T. Ce ee 185 No. 80 Twisted Cotton 2 00
am Tartat [oer cep 315 No. 50 Braided Cotton 1 00
(eon Garter  . 00. Bae be PR Re tere cricce sca. '
S Benet eee settee Mackerel No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 25
Posts es zr. . raide otton
D ’ Mustard, 1fb. 80 N : 5
Ne 8 980 arco oD. -...... o. 60 Braided Cotton 1 85
Dried Fruits -........ 6 Bh cod ad so 2 70 aiestnrd, iy whee. 280 No. 80 Braided Cotton 2 25
F Grape Nuts ......... 2 70 Soused 2 = i 60 No. 50 Sash Cord .....1 75
8 a 6 Grape Sugar Flakes.. 2 50 Tomato, a. 2 (5 No. 60 Sash Cord ..... 2 00
Farinaceous Goo s & Sugar Corn Flakes |. 2 50 Come. eS oe 150 No. 60 Jute .......... 90
Fishing Packle . canes 7 Hardy Wheat Food . 2 25 Bt pe siee ais 5 2 80 No. 72 Jute ......... -.1 00
ae ee 7 Postma’s Dutch Cook 2 75 Mushrooms No. 60 Sisal ...... chicas 00
or one eee 7 Holland Rusk ....... 70) Moles = @ 15 Galvanized Wire
Fruit Jars ...-++.+e+-s Kellogg’s Toasted Rice | Buttons, %s ..., @ 14 No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90
G Biscuit ............ Buttons, iS ......, @ 2% No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
a 7 Kellogge’s Toasted sie” Oysters No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 00
cee fopeee ete 7 RNAS os 280 Cove, ip. 01.0. @ 85 No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
Grain Bags .......-- Kollbee’s Toasted Wheat Core, fie. @1 60 ocean
H Binctit ............ 3 30 Plums Baker’s q
7  Kellogg’s Krumbles .. 3 30 Plums ........., $0@1 35 G@leyeland 41
an lesa g Krinkle Corn Flakes 1 75 Pears in Syrup Colonial, %s .......... 85
Horse Radish ........ ae ee og EN ber doe .-1 gp Colonial, %8 ........-- 33
cae a ee 42
Mapl-Wheat Flakes, Pea BRE ere ace cece
: , soe ooo Ewe ...... 90@1 00 Hershey's, ee
ee ee g Mapl-Corn Flakes 280 arly June ...., S11 Geo ee 36
Jelly Glasses ........ . Minn. Wheat Cereal 3 75 arly June siftd 1 45@1 55 ae wo e.
M Algrain Food ....... 4 25 Peaches trae Coo
oc cinval g Ralston Wheat Food 450 Pie ..........., 1 00@1 25 ieee is. os
eee beets =e-- +e g Ralston Wht Food 10c 145 No. 10 size can pie @3 25 foe : od Faso se sa5e a
See + renee re g Saxon Wheat Food ..2 60 > ae ee
Meats, Canned ....... Shred Wheat Biscuit 3 60 Gr; ineapple Van Houten, %s ..... 12
a . reer 2 ee ae 1 wie ot 75@2 10 Van Houten, %s ..... 18
> gg eee en eens * g  Pillsbury’s Best Cer'] 4 25 on pene wees =
ee rere errr eee Post Tavern Special 2 80 oe
N Quaker Puffed Rice ..4 25 ee ert 36
eras 4 Quaker Puffed Wheat 2 85 a. ae r++ 83
its 5... eee. Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 1 90 ve AOS) coos... ses 33
oO Quaker Corn Flakes 1 75 ilber, %S ........ soe 32
tions g Victor Corn Flakes ..2 20 Raspberries COCOANUT
Arar eres eens Washington Crisps ..185 Standard ......, Dunham’s per Ib
P Wheat Hearts ...... 1 90 Salmon %s, 6Ib. case ...... 30
Pickles ie gS Wheatena ........... 450 Warrens, 1 Ib. Tall .. 230 4S, 5Ib. case ....... 29
Dias: ........--------- 8 SveDOTes Sugar Com 0 Warrens, 1 Ib. Flat .. 2 40 " IIb. case ...... 39
ying Cards ......-- 8 ed Alaska ....1 55@1 60 s, | Game ..--., 28
Playing Cards .... 3 BROOMS - Med Red Alaska I sgl 30 41s, 15D. case ....... 27
organ =... soe Fancy Parlor, 25 th. ..4 25 Pink Alael 30 Ks & is 151d. a: 28
Provisions .......-.. 8 Parlor, 5 String, 25 th. 4 00 Sie Scalloped een 10
Standard Parlor, 23 tb. 350 p i . are
R Comabn of i 3 95 omestic, %s ...... 350 %s & %s pails .....
pee eee : , fw fh 2 75 Domestic’ % Mustard 3 25 Bulk, pails .....
Rolled Oats 9 War, “apd (a = Domestic, % Mustard = 7 Bulk, barrels ....... 1
cpeeene tee arehouse, 33 Ib. .. 4 25 French, 4 Baker’
MS sock c ea er’s Brazil Shredded
Ss ee cee 1 _ French, %s |....! 115928 10 5c pkgs., per case 2 60
Salad Dressing ....... 9 ited or peers "Sauer Kraut 26 10c pkgs., per case 2 60
Saleratus Ss 9 BRUSHES No. 3, cans ............ 90 16 10c and 33 5c pkgs.,
ao... COD Scrub Mo. 30 came £40 = per ena .....-.... 2 6
ROAR csc tbe ese eee 9 Solid Back, 8 in. ..... 15 Shrimps COFFEES ROASTED
Batt = piece tees ; Solid nok, ii in... “ putes, pn ~~ ee . Rio
cb ibeece 1 Pointe mds .....:.. ’ OZ. ....2 ee
ee : n Dn Succotash Common 19
on Biacking ....... i ‘0 -; oi 90 ae Bee sinece sees... s - 19%
ee ee ‘eg ih @ee cookie
Be 10 No. ee eee ees 17% «Caney .....,.: gh) Po
Spices ...........-.+. : oe Strawberries
Siaeen .....-5....5-- MO Ss .2o.. Skee. 100 Standard ........ 95 Common = po 20
Serine ......2---.055- a0 Noo 7 6.88.2... : = Pancy .....3.5) 225 air ...... a 20%
+ er eee : Tomatoes Ss 21
i ee 10 - ook be eeee coe. : = ae Ser es=--coceece ae
ap BUTTER COLOR MCY, ..5...55... CADEITY .....-.0055- 23
cs Cece 11,12, 13 Dandelion, 25c size ..200 No. 10 .......... 3 10 Maracalbo
Potue a8 : CANDLES CARBON OILS Mein jo. ses. ees. 24
Barrels Choice .2. ic. ..:.5.. - 25
Parafiine, 68 ......-.- 1%
' , Paraffine, 12s 8 po een trees oi os Mexican :
poe eae 1 : Ae erfection ...... @ ICS nc upc sss. 2
Vinewer TE etter ree se Gas Machine ... 24 MAnCY ....5.5.52..... 28
Ww es . GOODS sat te thsg Nap’a os a Guatemala
MVACKUMe ..,.-...-.-.-- 13 Apples ylindger ..... a0 34 MOAT. esa cece ccs os 25
Greaicnwate se obicene 13 3 Mm. Standards .. @ 9% Engine ....... - 16 @22 Fancy pciedcscusa. 28
Wrapping Paper ..... a 6Gallon 2. ..:.... @3 85 Black, winter .. 8 @10 Java
Blackberries CATSUP Private Growth ....26@30
Y ee @1 90 Snider’s pints ..... Mandling .......... 31@35
Yeast Cake ........... 14 Standard gallons @6& 00 Snider’s % pints it mio .....52.52. ‘SD

 

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Mocha
Short Bean ........ 25@27
Dong Bean .......... 24@25
iB. OG. ........ 26@28
Bogota
Mair 2.2.0, 68000.. coe, oe
WORCV) oo. cae. 26
Exchange Market, Steady

Spot Market, Strong

Package
New York Basis
Arbuckle o:..0.......

McLaughlin’s XXXX

McLaughlin’s XXXX sold
to retailers only. Mail all
orders direct to W. F.
McLaughlan & Co., Chicago

Extracts

Holland, % gro. bxs. 95
Felix, 4% gross ....... 1 15
Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43

   
 

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Horehound ........... 8
Standard ............. 8
Standard, small ...... 8%
Twist, small .......... 9
Cases
UMA | sce tc ek 8
Jumbo, small ........ 8%
Bie SUCK ..5..5........ 8%
Boston Cream ....... 13
Mixed Candy
Broken .:.3.......... 8
CAMEO ...5.65.055.45 12
Cut Woat ....:........ 9
Haney foo. se. 10%
one Cream ....... 9
Grocers, .......... 6%
Kindergarten 11
Leader ..... 8%
Majestic .............
Monameh ........-..... 8%
Novelty .2........... 1
Paris Creams ....... 10
Premio Creams ...... 14
ROVE oo. eee lek. 7%
Specials oo. 8%
he Greams ....... 2
Mm tO oo... sk. q
Specialties
Pails

ai
Auto Kisses (baskets) 13
Bonnie Butter Bites ..16
Butter Cream Corn ..16
Candy Crackers (bsk) 15

Caramel Dice ....... 13
Cocoanut Kraut ..... 14
Cocoanut Waffles .... 14
Coco Macaroons ..... 16
Coffy Toffy ......... 14
Dainty Mints 7 Th. tin i
Empire Fudge .......
Fudge, Pineapple ... 13
Fudge, Walnut ...... 13
Fudge, Filbert ...... 13
Fudge, Choco. Peanut 12
Fudge, Honey Moon ..13
Fudge, Toasted Cocoa-
MG ee ee 13
Fudge, Cherry ...... 14
Fudge, Cocoanut .... 138
Honeycomb Candy .. 15
MOKBVS ....555.....55 14
Iced Maroons ........ 14
Iced Gems .......... 15

Iced Orange Jelies .. 13
Italian Bon Bons .... 13

Lozenges, Pep. ...... 10

Lozenges, Pink ...... 10

Manchus) ............ 13
Molasses Kisses, 10

1D SDOX 2 on 13

Nut Butter Puffs .... 13

Salted Peanuts ...... 13
Chocolates

Pails

Assorted Choc. ...... 15

Amazon Caramels ... 15

Champion ........... 11

Choc. Chips, Eureka 18
Climax
Eclipse, Assorted .... 15
Eureka Chocolates .. 16
Favorite
Ideal Chocolates .... 13
Klondike Chocolates 18

INADODS ...:......2.%¢ 18
Nibble Sticks ........ 25
Nut Wafers ......... 18
Ocoro Choc. Caramels 17
Peanut Clusters ..... 22
Pyramids ..:......... 14
Quintette ............ 16
RRORING 25.5.5 0css000e 10
Star Chocolates ..... 13

Superior Choc. (light) 18
Pop Corn Goods
Without prizes.

Cracker Jack ...... 25

Giggles, 5c pkg. cs. 3 50

Oh My 100s ......... 3 50
Cough Drops

xes

Putnam Menthol 1 00

Smith Bros. ........ 1 25
NUTS—Whole

3.
Almonds, Tarragona 20
Almonds, California

soft shell ......
Bragiis .........- 14@16
Milberts ......... @13%
Cal. No. 1 .........

Walnuts soft aot @19
Walnuts, Chili . @16
Table nuts, taneee u4@i6
Pecans, medium os
Pecans, ex. large Oie
Hickory Nuts, per bu.

Cocoanuts

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Chestnuts, New York
State, per bu.
Shelled
No. 1 Spanish Shelled
Peanuts, New 11 @11%
Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled

Peanuts ..... 11%@12
Pecan Halves @50
Walnut Halves 40@42
Filbert Meats @30
Alicante Almonds @55
Jordan Almonds @60

Peanuts

Fancy H P Suns Raw @b6\%
Roasted @TY,

H. P. Jumbo, Raw @8%
Roasted .......... @9%
CRACKERS
National Biscuit Company
Brands
Butter

Boxes
Excelsior Butters .... 8
NBC Square Butters 6%
Seymour Round ..... 6%

Soda

NBC Sodas .......... 6%
Premium Sodas ..... i%
Select Sodas ......... 8%
Saratoga Flakes .... 8

Saltines

Oyster
NBC Picnic Oysters .. 6%
Gem Oysters
Shell

seeeccccccccccces 8

Sweet Goods

Cans and =
Animals .... 6...
Atlantics Also Asstd. 12
Avena Fruit Cakes .. 12
Bonnie Doon Cookies 10
Bonnie Lassies ...... 10
Cameo Biscuit Choc. 25
Cameo Biscuit Asstd. 25
Cartwheels Asstd. ... 8%
Cecelia Biscuit ...... 16
Cheese Tid Bits .... 20
Chocolate Bar (cans) 18
Chocolate Drops .... 17
Chocolate er Cen-

COTS coc. s ccc s 1
Choc. Honey * Fingers i
Cracknels ....
Cream Fingers
Cocoanut Taffy Bar .. 13
Cocoanut Drops
Cocoanut Macaroons 18
Cocont Honey Fingers 12
Cocnt Honey Jumbes 12
Coffee Cakes Iced ... 12
Family Cookies

Fig Cakes Asstd. «12
Fireside Peanut Jum-

bles ....5.:5:2 accce, 2
Frosted Creams ..... . 8%
Frosted Ginger Cook. 8%

Fruit Lunch Iced .... 10
Ginger Drops ....... 18
Ginger Gems Plain .

Ginger Gems Iced ...
Graham Crackers .... 8

Ginger Snaps Family 8%
Ginger Snaps ae
Round) ....0.0... 8

Household Cookies soo
Household Cks. Iced .. 9
Hippodrome Bar ..... 12
Honey Fingers ..... 12
Honey Jumbles ..... 12
Imperiais  ....5.......-
Jubilee Mixed ......
Lady Fingers Sponge 30
Leap Year Jumbles .. 20
Lemon Biscuit Square 9
Lemon Wafers 17

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Wemona ...:....:.. Soe
Mace Cakes :
Mary Ann . 8%
Marshmallow Coffee —

CAG oo occa ccs

Marshmallow Pecans 18
Marshmallow Walnts 4
Medora ...0..50.¢....

NBC Honey Cakes oe 2B

Oatmeal Crackers .... 8
Orange Gems ....... 8%
Penny Assorted ...... 8%
Peanut Gems ..... so. 9
Picnic Mixed ....... 12
Pineapple Cakes .... 16
Raisin Gems ........ 11
Raspberry Dessert .. 17
Reveres Asstd. ...... 15
Seafoam ........ s255. 1S

Spiced Ginger Cakes... 9
Spiced Ginger Cakes
Teed ........:...-.. 10

Sugar Fingers ...... Bal
Sugar Crimp ........ 8%
Sultana Fruit Biscuit 16
Triumph Cakes ..... 16

Vanilla Wafers ..... 18
Waverley ........... 10

In-er-Seal Trade Mark
Goods

per doz.
Baronet Biscuit ......1 00
Bremners Btr Wafs. 1 00
Cameo Biscuit .......1 50
Cheese Sandwich ....1 00
Chocolate Wafers ...1 00
Excelsior gia se ak -

10
Five O'Clock Tea Bet 1 0
Ginger Snaps NBC ..1 00

 

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Graham Crackers Red

Label, 10c size ....1™
Lemon Snaps ........ 50
Oysterettes ......... 50
Premium Sodas ...... 1 00
Roval Toast .....:... 100
Saratoga Flakes ...... 1 50
Social Tea Biscuit ..1 00
Uneeda Biscuit ...... 5
Uneeda Ginger Wafer : 00
Vanilla Wafers ...... 1 00

Water Thin Biscuit ..1 00
Zu Zu Ginger Snaps . 50
Zwieback 1

Other Package Goods
Barnum’s Animals... 50
Chocolate Tokens ...2 50
Butter Crackers NBC

Family Package 2 50
Soda Crackers NBC
Family Package ...2 50
Hroit Cake ..:...:..... 3 00
In Special Tin Packages
per doz.
Festino .......... ses 2 60
Nabisco 25c ....... : 5 50
Nabisco, 10c ......... 00
n bulk, per tin
Nabisco ...........- :
Festino

seer eee nee ene

1 50
Bent’s Water Crackers 1 40
CREAM TARTAR

Barrels or drums sala 8S
BOxes  .. 0. )005 6G. 34
Square Cans ......... 36

Fancy Caddies

DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Svapor’ed Choice blk 10%
Evapor’ed Fancy pkg.

Apricots

California ........ 15@17
Citron

Corsican .:.....5..;.. 16
Currants

Imported 1th. pkg. .... 8%

Imported, bulk ....... 8%
Peaches

Muirs—Choice, 25Ib. .. 7%
Muirs—Fancy, 25Ib. .. 8%
Fancy, Peeled, 25tb. ..15

Peel
Lemon, American ... 12%
Orange, American ....12%
Raisins

Cluster, 20 cartons ..2 25
Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr. 7%
Loose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 7%
L. M. Seeded, 1 th. 9@9%

California Prunes

90-100 25tb. boxes ..@ 7%
80- 90 25%. boxes @ 8%
70- 80 25tb. boxes ..@ 9%4
60- 70 25Ib .boxes ..@10
50- 60 25Ib. boxes ..@11
40- 50 25tb. boxes ..@12
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
California Limas .... 8
Med. Hand Picked ..2 20
Brown Holland ........ 1 80
Farina
25 1 Th. packages ....1 50
Bulk, per 100 Ttbs. ....4 00

Original Holland Rush
Packed 12 rolls to container
3 containers (40) rolls 3 20

Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sack ..2 25
Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 Th. box ..
Imported, 25 tb. box =. 2 50
Pearl Barley
Chester <............ 15
Empire ............-
Peas i
Green, Wisconsin, bu. 1 45
Green, Scotch ,bu. ..1 45
Split, Wb. .....-;:...... 04
Sago
Mast India :9::..:...- 4%
German, sacks ...... 4%
German, broken pkg.
Tapioca
Flake, 100 tb. sacks .. 4%
Pearl, 100 th. sacks .. 4%
Pearl, 36 pkgs. ...... 2 25
Minute, 36 pkgs. ....2 75
FISHING TACKLE
% to 1 im. ........-.- 6
104 tO 2 im. .2......... 7
126 to 2 im. 220... .. 9
ee tO 2 i. .......... 11
AM oe ee ee 15
SAN cece. eee 2
Cotton Lines
No. 1, 10 feet ........ 5
ING. 2, 16- feet .......- 7
No. 3, 15 feet .....-.-. 9
INO: 4 15 feet ........ 10
INo. 56, 15 feet ........ 11
INo. 6, 15) feet ..-..... 12
No. 7 15 feet ...-..... 15
No. 8, 15 feet ......... 1°
No. 9, 55 feet ....... 20
Linen Lines
Sma oo... cea: 20
Medium ...5<0...... 26
Taree . oes... css 34
Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55
Bamboo, 16.ft., per doz. 66

Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80

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FLAVORING €&XTRACTS
Jennings D C Brand

Extract Lemon Terpeneless
Extract Vanilla Mexican
both at the same price
No. 1, F box % oz. .. 85
No. 2, F box, 1% oz. 1 20

No. 4, F box, 2% oz. 2 00

ed 3, 2% oz. Taper 2 00
2, 1% oz. flat ....1 75
*ELOUR AND FEED

Grand Rapids Grain &
Milling Co.

Winter Wheat
Purity Patent ...... 5 10
Sumburst 2........... 4 80
Wizard Flour ...... 4 70
Wizard Graham ..... 4 80
Wizard, Gran. Meal 4 40

Wizard Buckwh’ t cwt : 40
IVC) 2.2.0 ..6.05..-.. 4 40
Valley City Milling Co.
Lily White .......... 5 15

Hight oat .......... 4 65
Graham .......... ace 15
Granena Health .... 2 25
Gran. Meal .......... 1 96
Bolted Med. ......... 1 85
Voigt Milling Co.
Graham ....:....... 30

Voigt’s Crescent 5
Voigt’s Flouroigt .... 5
Voigt’s Hygienic .... 4 30
Voigt’s Royal 5
Watson-Higgins Milling Co.
Perfection Buckwheat
MIOUE 6.2.55..... 6 00
Perfection Flour .... 5 00
Tip Fop Flour ....... 4 80
Golden Sheaf Flour ..4 20
Marshall’s Best Flour 4 75
Worden Grocer Co.
Quaker, paper ..... 4 60
Quaker, 47
Graham Buckwht bbl 4 40
Kansas Hard Wheat
Voigt Milling Co.

Calla Wily ........... 60
Worden Grocer Co.
American Eagle, %s_ 5 20
American Eagle, 4s 5 10
American Eagle, %s_ 5 00
Spring Wheat
Judson Grocer Co.
Ceresota, %s ........5 60
@eresota, Ys ......... 5 70
Ceresota, 46S ........ 5 80
Voigt Milling Co.
Columbian ......:... 5 05
Roy Baker, 9365
Golden orn family 4 9

aolden Horn,

bakers 4 8
Wisconsin Rye “

Bohemian Rye ...... 3 6
Worden Grocer Co.
Wingold, %s cloth ...5 60
Wingold, %s cloth ...5 50
Wingold, %s cloth ....5 40
Wingold, %s paper ...5 45
Wingold, 4s paper ..5 40

Wykes & Co.
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth 5 50
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth 5 40
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth 5 30
Sleepy Eye, %s paper 5 30
Sleepy Eye, %s paper 5 30

Meal
Bolted 35.3. --:.:...: 4 20
Golden Granulated .. 4 40
Wheat
New Hed ........... 93
New White ........ 93
Oats

Michigan carlots .... 44
Less than carlots .... 6

Corn
Carlots 22... 000. 00.
Less than carlots .. 75
ay
Carlots ............ 16 00
Less than carlots .. 18 00
Feed
Street Car Feed ...... 33
No. 1 Corn & Oat Feed 33
Cracked Corm ........ 2
Coarse corn meal .... 32

FRUIT JARS _
Mason, pts., per gro. 4 20
Mason, qts., per gros. 4 50
Mason, % gal. per gro. 6 85
Mason, can tops, gro. 1 30

GELATINE
Cox’s, 1 doz. large ..1 45
Cox’s, 1 doz. small .. 90

Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 25
Kknox’s Sparkling, gr. 14 v0
Knox’s Acidu’d doz. 1 25
Nelson's 22... 05:5...
Oxford
Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 25
Plymouth Rock, Plain 90
GRAIN BAGS

_
on
o

Broad Gauge ........ 18
Amoskeage .......:... 19
erbs
Saee 2.00.5... ee | LD
FEODS 5...........2.4- 15
Laurel Leaves ....... 15
Senna Leaves ........ 25
HIDES AND PELTS
Hides
Green, No,.1 ...3....-12
Geeen, No. 2 ......., 11
Cured, No. 1 ....44.% 13%
Cured, No. 2 ........ 12%

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

8

Calfskin, green, No. 1 15

Calfskin, green, No. 2 13%
Calfskin, cured, No. 1 16
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 14%
Old Wool ........ 60@1 25
MDS... 5... 10@ 25
Shearlings ...... 10@ 15
Tallow
INO. Fooc.e @ 5
NO: 2 206). @ 4
Wool
Unwashed, med. @18

Unwashed, fine .. @18
ae RADISH

Per doZ (|...
Jelly

5Ib. pails, per doz. 2 40

15tb. pails, per pail .. 55

30%. pails, per pail ..1 00
JELLY GLASSES
% pt. in bbls., per doz. 15
% pt. in bbls., per doz. 16
8 0z. capped in bbls.
per doz.

MAPLEINE
2 0z. bottles, per doz. 3 00
1 oz. bottles, per doz. 1 75

MINCE MEAT

 

Per case ../....5.... 2 85
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle .... 42
Choice 0, 35
Good 22
Mate 20
Half barrels 2c oe
Red Hen, No. 2% wee a5
Red Hen, No 57... ... Li
Red Hen, No: 10.2... 1 65
MUSTARD
46 ID. G Ib. box |... _. Ip
OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 00@1 10
Bulk, : gal. kegs 95@1 05

Bulk al. k
Stufted: ieee So -
Stuffed. 8 a Secs cue. 1 25
Stuffed, 14 oz. . 1 2 25
Pitted tees stuffed)

14 om 2 25

Manuanaia 8 oz. ...... 490

use Loz 6... I 35
Luneh, 16 oz. .../..) . 25
Queen, Mammoth, 19
OF cose eee. 4 25
Queen, Mammoth, 28
Oe wee. 75
Olive Chow, 2 doz. cs
per dom... 2 25
PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count 8 (D
Half bbls., 600 count 4 38
5 gallon kegs Ae ee 1 90
Small
Barrels (.00i 0 9 50
Half barrels |... . 5 25
5 gallon kegs ........ 2 25
Gherkins
Barrels ... 14 00
Halt) barrels |_| |. 6 50
5 gallon kegs ....... 2 50
weet Small
Barrels ........ 0. 6 60
Half barrels ....... 8 75
5 gallon kegs ....... 3 50

PIPES
Clay, No. 216, per box 1 7!
a: T. D. full count 60

PLAYING CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat ... 7

No. 15, Rival assorted 1 93
No. 20, Rover, enam’d 1 50
No. 572, Special wae gs 1 7%
No. 98 Golf. satin fin. 2 00
No. 808, Bicycle ...... 2 00
No. 632 Tourn’t whist 2 25
POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz. ...... 1 7%
PROVISIONS

Barreled Pork
Clear Back .. 21 50@22 00
Short Cut Cl’r a6 00@20 50

Bean ........ 8 50@19 00
Brisket, Clear 36 00@27 00
Big ooo. 23 00
Clear Family ...... 26 00

Dry Salt Meats
S P Bellies . 144% @15

ard
Pure in tierces 114,@12
Coupeane Lard 9 @ 9%
&

0 tb. tubs ....advance
80 Ib. tubs ... advance %
50 Ib. tubs ....advance 4
20 Ib. pails ...advance %
10 Ib. pails ...advance %
5 Th. pails ...advance 1
8 tbh. pails ...advance 1

Smoked Meats
Hams, 12 tb. av. 18 @18%
Hams, 14 Ib. av. 1684%@17
Hams, 16 Ib. av. 154%@16
Hams, 18 th. av. 16 @16%
Ham, dried beef

Sets .....4.-% 29 @30
California Hams 12 @12%
Picnic Boiled

Fiams |... 20.4... 191446720
Boiled Hams ..24 @24%
Minced Ham ..14 @14%
Bacon ......... 1% @23

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Sausages
Bologna ....... 12 @12%
Edver §...... 9%@10
Frankfort — weees 13 @13%
Fork .:.... oll 13 @14
Meat oct... 11
OURS CT 11
Headcheese .......... 10
ef
Boneless - 20 00@20 50
Rump, new ..24 00@24 5¢@
Pig’s Feet
Dbis. ..°........... 1 65
% bblis., 40 Ws, ...... 2 10
% bbis. eecacces 4 26
1 DbE ...... aleve 8 50
Kits, 15 EO tte ocee cs 90
% bbis., 40 Ibs. ........ 1 60
% bbls. 80 Ibs. ........3 00
Cagings
Hogs, per % ......... 35
Beef, rounds, set -- 18@20

Beef, middles, set .. 80@8

Sheep, per bundle

Uncolored ButterIne
Solid Dairy .... 12

5
85

16
Country Rolls .. ime

Canned Meats
Corned beef, 2 th. ....4

Corned beef, 2 Th. ....2 40
Roast beef, 1D. ....4 G5
Roast beef, _ Me. e 40
Potted Meat, Ham
Flav %a ...... &S
Potted ‘Meat, Ham
Flav igs acces. 98
Deviled. Meat Ham
avor, hs wecces | =6GS
wee beige rs Ham
acca. 95
Potted Teneme 8 .. 83
Potted Tongue, a -. 96
a RICE
Arey = .......... a
Japan Style ...... 5 Oc
Broken .......... 3% Qatt
ROLLED OATS
Rolled Avena, bbls. ..5 00
Steel Cut, 100 tb. sks. 2 50
Monarch, bbls. ....... 4 75
Monarch, 90 tb. sks. 2 25
Quaker, ‘18 Regular ...1 45
Quaker, 20 Family .. 4 00
SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, % pt. ...... 2 25
Columbia, I pint .... 4 00
Durkee’s, large 1 doz. 4 50
Durkee’s, small, 2 doz. 5 25
Snider's, large, 1 doz. 2 35
Snider's small, 2 doz. 1 35
SALERATUS
Packed 60 lbs. in box
Arm and Hammer .. 3 00
Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls. ...... 80
Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs. 90
Granulated, 36 pkgs. .. 1 25
SALT
Common Grades
100 3 Ib. sacks ...... 60
1 4 Ib. sacks ...... 2 40
60 5 lb. sacks ...... 2 40
28 10 Ib. sacks ...... 2 25
56 Ib. sacks ........ 40
28 Ib. sacks ........ 20
Warsaw
66 3D. sacks .:....... 26
28 Ib. or in drill bags 20
Solar Rock
5G tb. sacks .......... 26
Common
Granulated, Fine ..... 1 05
Medium, Fine ........ 110
SALT FISH
Cod
Large, whole ... @ 9
Small, whole ... @ 8%
Strips or bricks 9o13
Pollock ....... : @ 5%
Smoked Salmon
Sug Ee a
Halibut
Strips: 2. .2......- : 18
Chunks «............ 19

Holland Herring

Y. M. wh. hoop bbls. 10
Y. M. wh. hoop %bblis 5

 

Y. M. wh. hoop kegs
Y. M. wh. hoop Milchers
ORS ccs cucu es cce
Standard, 8
Standard, 4
Standard, kegs cre

Trout
No. 1, 100 Ibs. ...... 7
No. 1, 40 tbs. ........ 2
No. 1, 10 lbs. ........
ING: J, 2 Ihe ........
Mackerel
Mess, 100 Ibs. ........17
Mess, 40 Ibs. ........ 1
Mess, 10 Ibs. ........ 1
Mess §& Ibs. ........ 1
No: 1, 140 Ibe. ........ 16
No. ¥, 40 Whe. .....:... 6
No. tT, 10 Ibe ........ 1

SEEDS
Axiae ..... Wood ees eee 4
Canary, ne eeace 1%
CarvAWAY .......¢.....

Hemp, Russian ees 5
Mixed Bird ...... s+
Mustard, white ...... 8
BPOORY cec-cccccesee. 6
Rape ...... Wedacce <<. OS

SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large 3 dz. 3 5
Handy Box, small .. 1 3
Bixby’s Royal Polish 85
Miller’s Crown Polish 85

SNUFF
Scotch, in bladders .... 37
Maccaboy, fn jars ...... 35
French Rapple in jars .. 43
SODA
HOMES ................. 5%
Kegs, English ........ 4%
SPICES

Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica .. 9@10
Allspice, lg Garden 11

Cloves, Zanzibar .. @22
Cassia, Canton ....14@15
Cassia, 5c pkg. dz. 25
Ginger, African ... 9%
singer, Cochin .... 14%
wlace, Penang ..... 70
Mixed, Noe J .....; 17
Mixed, No. 2 ...... 16
wlixed, 5¢ pkgs. dz. Bis
Nutmegs, 70180 . @30
Nutmegs, 105- 110; os @25
Pepper, Black ..... 15
Pepper, White ..... oe
Pepper Cayenne .. @22
Paprika, Hungarian
Pure Ground In Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica .. @14
Cloves, Zanzibar .. 29
Cassia, Canton .... 20
Ginger, African ... @i7
Mace, Penang ..... @75
Nutmegs .......... @35
Pepper, Black ..... @19
Pepper, White ..... @27
Pepper, Cayenne .. @24
Paprika, Hungarian @45
STARCH
Corn
Kingsford. 40 bs. .... 7%
Muzzy, 20 1tb. pkgs. .. 5%
Kingsford
Silver Gloss, 40 1t. .. 7%
Muzzy, 40 1th. pkgs. .. 5
Gloss
Argo, 24 5c pkgs. .. 90
Siver Goss, 16 3fbs. .. 6%
Siver Goss, 12 6Ibs. .. 8%
Muzzy
48 1Ib. packages ...... 5
16 Sib. packages ...... 4%
12 6b. packages ...... 6
50M. bomes ........... 3
SYRUPS
Corn
Barrels ............. 27
Half barrels ........ ‘ 29

Blue Karo, 2 tb.

Secee 1
Blue Karo, 2% Ib. .... 2
Blue Karo, 6 Ib. .... 2
Blue Karo. 10 Ib. .... 2
Red Karo, 1% fb. ....3 60
Red Karo, 2 Ib. .... 4

2

2

Red Karo, 2% Ib. ....

Red Karo, 5 Ip .....-. 50
Red Karo, 10 tb 40
Pure Cane
Fair seca. weccue, 36
Good ....... Ga cccecece 20
Choice Wacegedcecce ee | 25
TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large ....... 3 75
Halford, small ........ 2 25
TEA
Uncolored Japan
Medium ...<./..... 20@25
Chojee ..........,. 28@33
OMGY ci cce cee ceae 36@45
Basket-fired Med’m 28@30

Basket-fired, Choice 35@37
Basket-fired, Fancy 38@45
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We. I Nibs ........ 30@32
Siftings, bulk ..... 9@10
Siftings, 1 Ib. pkgs. 12@14
Gunpowder
Moyune, Medium ..28@33
Moyune, Choice ...35@40
Moyune, Fancy ....50@60
Ping Suey, Medium 25@30
Ping Suey, Choice 35@40
Ping Suey, Fancy ..45@50
Young Hyson
@hoiee ........4... 28@30
Raney oc. 26.5.24; 45@55d
Oolong
Formosa, Medium ..25@28

Formosa, Choice ..32@35
Formosa, Fancy ...50@69
English Breakfast
Congou, Medium 25@30
Congou, Choice 30@35
Congou, Fancy ..... 40@60
Congou, = a 60@80
Pekoe, PP gy «+ +-28@30

@3
Dr. Pekoe, Choice ..30@35
Flowery O. P. Fancy 40@50

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TOBACCO
Fine Cut

Biet .........,.... dee
Bugle, 16 oz.
Hume. ie ........
Dan Patch, 8 and 16 oz.
Dan Patch, 4 Gm. .... i
Dan Patch, 2 Ge .... &
Fast Mail,
Hiawatha, 16 oz.
Hiawatha, Se .4......

ay Blower, 16 oz. .... 9
No Limit, 8 oz.
No Limit, 16 oz. se 3
Ojibwa, 8 and 16 oz.
Ojibwa, 10¢ 4
Ojibwa, 5c .......
Petoskey Chief, 7 oz.
Petoskey Chief, 14 oz.
Peach and Honey, 5c
Red Bell,
Red Bell, ‘a...
Sterling, L & D Be ..
Sweet Cuba, canister
Sweet Cuba,’ 5 SO visi
Sweet Cuba, 10c ......
Sweet Cuba, 1 Ib. tin
Sweet Cuba, % Ib. foil
Sweet Burley, 5c L&D
Sweet Burley, g oz.
Sweet Burley, 16 oz.
Sweet Mist,
Sweet Mist, 8 oz.
Sweet Mist, 8 oz. ....
Telegram Ge ...._._. 5
Tiger, 5¢ 6
Tiger, 25¢e cans
Uncle Danfel,
Uncle Daniel,

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Am. Navy, 16 oz.
Apple, 10 Ib. ba

Drummond Nat.
and 6 Ib.

per doz.
Battle Aw ..........
Bracer, 6 and 12 ‘bb. “a
Big Four, 6 and 16 Ib.
Boot Jack, 2 Tb. 4
Boot Jack, per doz.
Bullicn, 16 OM veacaus.
Climax, Golden Twins
Climax’ 1435 oz.
Cimas, 7 6m ..........
Days’ Work, 7 & 14 Ib.
Creme de Menthe, Ib.

See tweens

Derby, 5 lb. boxes ....
5 i 4 1.6.6...
Poi moges, 10c ..... +

Gilt Edge, 1a...
Gold Rope, 6 & 12 ib.
ane Rope, 4 & 8 Ib.
©. P., 12 & 24 Ih.
ie Twist, 4 ib. ..
10 th. & 21 Ib.
Horse Shoe, 6 & 12 lb.
Honey Dip Twist, 5&10
or Tar, 5 & 8 lb

5% & 11 Ib.

Qentucky Navy, 12 Ib. ..

Keystone Twist, 6 Ib.
Kismet, @ 1b. ..........
Maple Dip, 20 oz. ....
Merry Widow, 12 Ib.
Nobby —, Roll 6 & 3
Parrat, 12 WW. ........
Patterson’s Mat. Leaf
Peachey, 6-12 * — Ib.
Pi¢nic Twist, & Ib. ....
Piper Heldsick, : ‘& T ib.
Piper Heidsick, per doz.
Polo, 3 doz., per doz.
Redicut, 1 2-3 om. ......
Scrapple, 2 & 4 doz. ..
Sherry Cobbler, 8 oz. ..
Spear Head, 12 oz. ....
Spear Head, 14 = 3 oz.
Spear Head, 7 o
Sq. Deal, 7, 14 ona 28 Ib.
Star, 6, 12 & 24 Ib.
Standard Navy, ™%. 15
& 3G 0b. .......
Ten Penny, 6 & az Yb.
Town Talk, 14
Yankee Girl, 12 7 24

Scrap

AML Hed, G6 ......<<.,
Am. Union Scrap ....

Bag Wipe, Ge ......<..

Cutlass, 236 68 ........
Globe Scrap, 2 oz. ....
Happy Thought, 2 oz.
Honey Comb Scrap, 6c
Honest cared Ge ....

Mail Pouch, 4 doz. 5c
Old Songs, be degceacs

Old Times, 2 gra ..
Polar Bear, 5c, gro.
Red Band, 5c gro.
Red Man ‘Scrap. 6c ..
Scrapple, 5c pkgs. .....
Sure Shot, 5c 1-6 gro.
Yankee Girl Scrap, 2o0z.
Pan Handle Serp “sr.
Peachy Scrap, 5c ...

Union Workman 2%

Smoking
All Leaf, 2% & 7 oz.

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Bagdad, 10c tins .... 11
Bacmer, 9 OM. ......--
Bad@er, ¢ O48. ....... 11
Bammer, GG secececes: 5
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Bann

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Belwood, as “100
Big Chief, 2% oz. ..
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30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN April 29, 1914
BAKING POWDER Distributed by Judson SOAP
12 13 14 Royal Grocer Co., Grand Rapids; Lautz Bros.’ & Co.
10 Lee & Cady, Detroit; Sy- Acme, 30 bars ...... 4 00
Cc sixe .. 90 mons Bros. & Co., Sagi- Acme, 25 bars, 75 ths. 4 00
Smoking Pilot, 7 oz. doz. .... 1 05 Faucets %Ib cans 1 35 . Acme, 25 bars, 70 tbs. 3 80
naw; Brown, Davis & War- Acme. 100 cai 3 5
5 g5 Soldier Boy, 1 tm. .... 4.75 Cork lined, 3 in. ...... 70 6 oz. cans 1 90 . ; ec ee ae
Bull Durham, 5c ..... 6 Cork lined; 9 in. |. 80 “ith. cane 2 50 ner, Jackson; Godsmark, JBig Master, 100 blocks 4 00
Bull Durham, 10c ... 11 52 Sweet Caporal, 1 oz. .. Bork tine $0 in. 3b - cans Durand & Co. Battle Cream Borax, 100 cks 3 85
: 17 28 Sweet Lotus, 5c ...... 6 00 %tb cans 3 75 : German Mottled .... 3 15
Bull Durham, l5c ... ! Creek; Fielbach Co., To-
Bull Durham, 8 oz. .. 3 60 Sweet Lotus, 10e .... 12 60 Mop Sticks lib cans 480 joa5 ace fo 5bx. 3 15
a 72 Sweet Lotus, ner dz. 435 Trojan spring ........ 90 3tb cans 13 00 : lola eae ee
Bull Durham, 16 oz. .. 6 qi Eclipse patent spring 85 erman Mottled, 25 b. 3 95
Buck Horn, 6c ...... 5 76 Sweet Rose, 2% oz. .. 30 No. 1 common ........ 80 Sib cans 2150 o1bp MASTER COFFEE. ae Naphtha 100 ck. 3 85
1152 Sweet Tip Top, Sc .. 50 No. 2 pat. brush holder 85 pe ca Gakes © 00
Buck Horn, l0c ...... Marseilles, 100 cks. 5c 4 00
oo Sweet Tip Top, 10c .. 100 Ideal No. 7 .......... 85 CIGARS M ae ares OC
Briar Pipe, 5c ...... 6 Sweet Tips, % gro. .. 10 08 12Ib. cotton mop heads 1 3 . : arseilles, 100 ck. toil 4 00
Briar Pipe, 10c ..... 12 00 Sun Cured, 10c ........ 98 Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand Marseilles, % bx toil 2 10
rk Mean, bo... 5 76 Summer Time, Se 2. s 18 ae . diel a Dutch Masters Club 70 00 aoe & Gamble cae
Summer Time, 7 oz. .. -hoop Standar . BenOX 2.0... seo.
Black Swan, 14 oz. .. 350 Summer Time, 14 oz. 350 2-hoop Standard .... 2 25 Dutrh Masters Grande 68 00 Ivory, 6 024: ......., 4 00
Bob White, 5c ...... 6 00 Standard, Se foil .... 5 76 3-wire Cable ........ 230 Dutch Mastes, Pan. 68 00 Ivory, 10 ov. 61.0...) 6 75
Brotherhood, 5c ...... 6 00. Standard, 10c paper .. 8 64 Fibre ................ 240 Little Dutch Masters Star eee 3 35
SeeaenOn tc... 0 Female, Ma eee hw Oe 2) at eeu ---- 270 cen) Ain)... o> eee Veer
5 ; eat : : e Gee Jay (300 lots) ..10 00 Swift’s Pride ....... 3 15
Brotherhood, 16 oz. -. 5 05 Dhree Feathers, 1 oz. 48 14 qt. Galvanized .... 2 10 White Laund 3 75
Carnival, Bc .......--- 5 70 Three Feathers, 10c 11 52 uaa Ei Portana ......... 33 00 oe 6 oe | Ge
: e9 Three Feathers and oothnicks Ss WwW 32 00 Old Master Coffee .....81 Woo!’ i0 cc.
Carnival, % 02. ...--- 2 Pipe combination .. 2 25 Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00 eee ee 5 San Marto Coffee n of tae. ee
Carnival, 16 oz. .....- 40 Tom & Jerry, 14 oz. .. 3 60 Ideal’...........c.000. 85 epieaaile s nee * oc eee sour Co.'s Brand |
' 30 Tom & Jerry, 7 oz. .. 1 80 ohnson’s As Is ..33 00 é aw one box 2
Cigar Clips. ana a . pated co Ce Traps Black Hawk) five bxs 2 40
Cigar Clip’g. Seymou - wate 6... 5 90 Mouse, wood, 2 holes 22 worden Grocer Co. Brands Black Fa, ten bxs 2 25
Identity, 3 & 16 oz. ... 30 rout Line, 10¢ ...... 1100 Mouse, wood, 4 holes 45 aaah uk A. B. Wrisley
Darby Cigar Cuttings 4509 turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 7&8 Mouse, wood, 6 holes 70 Se Good Cheer ......... 00
Continental Cubes, 16c 9° muxedo, 1 oz. bags .. 48 Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65 Londres, 50s, wood .. 35 Old Country ...|.... 2 40
Corn Cake, 14 oz. .... 255 tuxedo, 2 oz. tins .. _ 96 Rat, wood ............ S0 fond 25s, ti 35 Scour
Corn Cake, 7 oz. - © Wises, 2 ......--.- 20) Hat coring .......... Se oe ee ee ee Sapolio ahi! nc
Corn Cake, 5c pepe : * Tuxedo, §0c tins .... 7 45 he Londres, 300 lots .... 1 Sepelic. fa io. a a
Cream, 50c pails ...- 4 (9 twin Oaks, 10c ...... 96 . Ra ee [eee Soe
Cuban Star, 5e foil... 576 tmion Leader, 50¢ ..-- 5 10 20-in .Standard, No. 1 8 00 becece ee ee Oe
Cuban Star, 16 oz pails 3 72 [inion Leader, 25c .. 260 18-in. Standard, No. 2 7 00 Scourine ‘50 cakes 1. 1 80
hips, _1ec eu” 10 . Union Leader, spe = - 16-tn. Standard, No. 3 . “4 Roasted : Scourine, 100 cakes 1. 3 50
s Best, 143 0z. .--- ‘{° Union Leader, 5c ..... 20-in. Cable, No. e i a , , Royal rden Tea, pkgs 4 : ee
ills Best, 3% oz. 77 Thien Workman, 1% 576 18-In. Gable, No.2....7 99 DWinnell-Wright Co’s Brds Royal Garde oo Soap Compounds
ills Best, 16 oz. 73 Uncle Sam, 10c ..... 10 98 16-in. Cable, No. 3 .... 6 00 THE BOUR CO., Johnson's Fine, 48 2 3 25
Dixie Kid, 5c .....- . 48 Oncle Sam, 8 oz. .... 325 No. 1 Fibre ........ 16 50 TOLEDO, OHIO. Johnson’s XXX 100 5c 4 00
Duke’s Mix., 5c ...... 576 ty g Marine, Sc .... 576 No. 2 Fibre . 15 00 Rub-No-More ....... 3 85
Duke's Mix, 10c .... 1152 van Bibber, 2 oz. tin 88 No. 3 Fibre ........ 13 50 SAFES Nine O'clock ........ 3 50
Duke’s Cameo, 5c -. 5 76 velvet, 5c pouch .... 48 Large Galvanized 5 50 Washing Powders
Drum, 5c .......---+- 5 76 welvet, 10c tin ......... 96 Medium Galvanized 4 75 Armour's (8. ..../... 3 70
F. F. A. 4 02. ....---- 11 ” Velvet, 8 oz. tin .... 3 - Small Galvanized 4 25 Berit 6 WG oo. 3 75
F. F. A. 7 0Z. ....-- 22 Welvet, 16 02. can .... 7 6 old Dust, 24 large ..4 3¢
Mashion, 6c ......-.-- 6 00 Velvet, combination es 5 75 Washboards Gold Dust, 100 small 8 85
Fashion, 16 oz. ...... 5 28 wrar Path, Be .......- 6 00 Banner Globe ........ 2 50 Kirkoline, 24 4b. ....2 80
Five Bros., 5c ..---- 5 76 war Path, 20c ........ 160 Brass, Single ....... 3 25 Lautz Naphtha, 60s ..2 4¢
Five Bros., 10c ....-. 10 53° wave Line, 3 oz. .... 40 Glass, Single ...... - 8 25 Lautz Naphtha, 100s 3 75
Five cent cut Plug 29 wave Line, 16 oz..... 40 Single Acme ......... 315 Pearline 0). 3 75
m=O B i0c ...----.-- 52 Way up, 2% OZ. ...... 75 Double Peerless ...... 3 75 Reseiie 9.0.0. 04 1... 3 bb
Four Roses, 19c ...... 96 Way up, 16 oz. pails ... 31 Single Peerless ...... 3 25 Snow Boy, 24s tamity
Full Dress, 1% 02. 2 wild Fruit, 5¢ ........ 5 76 Northern Queen 3 25 SIZO bes al. 38 75
Glad Hand, Sc ....-.. 48 wild Fruit, 10¢ ..... 1152 Double Duplex ...... 3 00 Snow Boy, 60 5c ....2 49
Gold Block, 10c ae : 2 Yum Yum, 5¢ ........ a 00 om oes see a es ea oe oy. 100 5c 3 e
Gold Star, 50c pail .. 7 |, 10c ....- be Universal ............ Snow oy, 20S ...... 40
ee ety, co ge Oe ee ae Full line of fire and bur- Swift's Pride, 248 1.113 55
ie bo ........-- 42 Window Cleaners glar proof safes kept in Swift’s Pride, see 3 65
Growler, ai eee eee : " TWINE : iW... beceee : & stock by the Tradesman Wisdom ............ 30
Growier, 20c .......- 8 «C . 1 ee ’
rk ce sue a oe 6 239 White House, 1 Ib ........ Company. Thirty-five sizes The only
Giant ic... ......... 3 96 jute, 2 oy so... Se ics White House, 2%b ........ and styles on hand at all
Hand Made, 2% a 58 Hemp, 6 ply a a bichon owe 175 Excelsior, Blend, 1b ..... times—twice as many safes 5c
: t, OC ..----0- a oy i : eeeececs Man aleias
cil el oe a. ec ou 9% 15 in. Butter Excelsior, Blend, 2b ...... as are carried by any other
che St ,.......- 38 , 17 in. Butter ... Tip Top, Blend, 1m ...... house in the State. If you Cleanser
[x t. . acre ‘2 a ae 19 in. Butter ROVAl Bleng :.:..,........ are unable to visit Grand Suersntecd to
, in pails ....-. j ine, rain : HS ua e
1. 1, In aca 5 oD ble Wine’ £0 en vs WRAPPING PAPER Roy al High Grade ........ Rapids and inspect the Mne = |}. anin!* Sanel the
Just Suits, 10c ...... 12 00 White Wine, 100 grain 13 Common Straw ...... 2 superior Blend <.......... personally, write for quo- tre erteat best 10c kinds
Kiln Dried, 25c ...... 245 Oakland Vinegar & Pickle Fibre Manila, white .. 8 Boston Combination ....... tations. oe 8@ - CANS - $2.89
King Bird, 7 oz. ...... 2 16 Co’s Brands. Fibre Manila, colored 4 : :
King Bird, 10c ...... 1152 Highland apple cider 22 No. 1 Manila .........
King Bird, 5c ........ : - Oakland apple cider if, ass fag ae coe 8 A j
fa Turka, 6c ....-... 76 State Seal sugar .... Butcne n cae “a
Little Giant, 1 Ib. ..... 28 Oakland white pickling 10° Wax Butter, short c’nt 10 C ns r t / t P t
Lucky Strike, 10c .... 96 Packages free. Wax Butter, full count 15 0 € Va Ive nves ors d ronize
Te Gedo. 3 oz, .... 10 4 Wax Butter, rolls .... 12 2
le Redo, 8 & 16 oz. 3 WICKING T d Ad t
Myrtle Navy, l0c .... 11 52 wo @ per gross ...... 30 YEAST CAKE ra esmani ver ers
Myrtle Navy, 5c ...... 5 76 No. 1, per gross .... 40 Maric, 3 doz. ....... 115
Maryland Club, 5c... _ 59 No 92’ per gross .... 50 Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00
Mayflower, 5c .......-. 576 No. 3) per gross .... 75 Sunlight, 1% doz. .... 50
Mayflower, i Ve eecee : ee ere Ze, 3 4 Be Ls ; FE
Mayflower, 20c ....... 2 WOODENWARE feast Foam, 1% doz. 58 P bl S f Il P
Nigger Hair, 5e’......_6 00 ee ublic Seating for a urposes
Nigger Hair, 10c .... 10 70 0 YOURS TRULY LINES.
Nigger Head, 5c .. 5 40 Bushels ser seerceeseee 1 00 ‘ i"
Nigger Head, We .... 10 56 Bushels, wide band .. 115 Pork and Beans 2 70@3 60 World’s Largest Exclusive Manufacturers
Noon Hour, 5c ....... 48 oT. eeececccsee os 3 50 Condensed Soup 3 25@3 60 Ch h F .
Old Colony, 1-12 gro."11 52 SPUN MEE 3 3) Salad Dressing 3 80@4 bu urch Furniture of Character
O} i Coo... 7 Ree cet ee E : i
Old English Curve 1ihoz, a a. ‘large § 23 clea ae one fe Being the only exclusive designers and builders of
old ee oP 29 Willow, Clothes, small 675 youu j ueeee Church Furniture we are known as an authority on this
P. S. 8 oz 30 Ib. cs. 19 Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 50 pions poles 10@ ee Your building committee should have our
, : 5 70 wD ewe tw ee ee e Oo 4,
ate... 8 pane Pa Herbs ............ @ % : '
Patterson Seal, 1% oz. 48 Ovals Extracts ........ @2 25 A St | S it D k
Aug ohana oy He He i? di = _ ih tree : Chili Powder . 85@2 12 merican ee anil ary es S
atterson Seal, OZ. ” beer i :
Peerless, Be geet B . : = 4 = = aes : oe seeees . : Built of steel to withstand strain. All parts are electric welded into one
Peerless, c clo o. 52 ” eosee Celery Sa ee
Peck, 10¢ paper ..10 80 4 Ds = . ore el cee 70 Fovliry Benepiine S504 35 indestructible unit. Your school board should have our illustrated book B- -C.
Peerless, Z0c ....,... 2 08 a mn crate ..... . ¢ :
Peerless, 40c ......... 4 08 : Prepared Mustard @1 80 M ti Pi t Th t t
ieee, 2 gro. cs. .... 5 . ab oe ven : Peanut Butter 1 80@2 80 0 Ion IC ure €a re Ca Ing
> Ray Se... 5 » eo0 in erate .. ..
sal aoe — 1 40 2 Ib.. 250 in crate .... 45 Rolled egg ++» 2 90@4 15 Highest in quality, lowest in price. World's largest manufacturers of exclusive designs in
Plow Boy, 14 )z....... 470 3 lb. 250 in crate .... 55 Doughnut Flour 4 05@4 50 opera chairs. Send floor sketch for FREE SEATING PLAN and book B- C1. ,
Pedro, 10c ........-. 193 & Ib., 250 in erate .... 65 aves nhicase
Pride of Virginia, 1% | 77 ees Lod e Fu it We specialize Lodge, Hall and
Pal Ge ese... 15 : g rni ure Assembly seating. Our long
Pilot, 14 oz. dog. .... ° 19 Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 40 experience has given us a
Prince Albert, 5c .... 4k Barrel 10 gal., each ..2 55 knowledge of requirements and how to meet them. Many styles in
Prince Albert, 10c .... 96 stock and built to order, including the more inexpensive portable chairs,
Prince Albert, 8 oz. .. 3 84 Clothes Pins veneer assembly chairs, and luxurious upholstered opera chairs. Write
Prince Albert, 16 oz. .. 7 44 Round Head for book B-C-2,
Queen Quality, 5¢ .... 48 4% inch, 5 gross ......
Rob Roy, 5c foil A Te = - 2% doz. bxs "0 ° e
Rob Roy, 10¢ gross ..10 52 gg Crates and Fillers a S ( ;
Rob Roy, 25¢ doz. .... 2 : ree ge-4 Dumpty, 12 dz. M4 american. eatin Ompan)
Rob Roy, 50¢ doz. .... 41 ©, 1 complete ........ :
S & M.Sc gross .... 576 No. 2, complete oo... 28 218 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago
Ss. ., 14 02., doz. .. 3: 20 Case No fillers, 15 :
os Sov, Ge week 516 dl 135 1 1b. boxes, per gross 9 00 Grand Rapids New York Boston Philadelphia
Soldier Boy, 10c .... 10 56 Case, medium, 12 sets 1 15 3 Ib. boxes, per gross 24 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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No charge less than 25 cents.

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Wanted—stock of groceries or dry Crispett; cost $219; will sell for $150;
goods (or both) in exchange for best 320 Cverything | lashes re eee
acre clay loam farm and fruit land in ‘heater, New Philadelphia, O. 160
Michigan. $20 per acre, cash or time For Sale—Light delivery car. Carter-
takes this bargain. tich new strong car just overhauled and in first-class
soil. Boston Store, Onaway, Mich. condition. Will sell cheap. Enquire

179 Cartercar, care Tradesman. 158

Por poale-Best location in Michigan For Sale—Grocery and meat market in
for variety or general store. Stock and small but live town, Southern Michigan.
fixtures nearly new. Rent free, building Clean up-to-date stock. Will invoice,
rents enough room to pay all expenses. with fixtures about $3,000. Trade last
If you want to go into business, here’s year $22,000. A splendid opportunity.
your chance. Lady or gentleman, or Write C. care Tradesman. 143°
both. Address No. 180, care Tradesman. ————_— —

180 Wanted—To hear from owner of good

+ _ dry goods or general merchandise store

For Sale—Small staple stock of gen- for sale Give full particulars. D. F.
Se merchandise. J. Adler, Twining, push Minneapolis, Minn. 157
a me - : ws For Sale—Blacksmith and feed grind-

Wanted-—Stock of merchandise in ex- jing puildings and shop, $1,700 Worth
change for land in North Dakota. Write $1.700 Worth $2,500. Living rooms over
what you have. D. S. Benson, Monte- hae pale Mich . ' i 181
1deo I ie Cee a sisi lay creteeeiatahetrenbannn Ie pes
wie — 7 aa oo Bal ~ For Sale—One of the best meat mar-

For Sale—Part interest in a good ets in Southern Michigan in a town of
manufacturing business in a live town six thousand inhabitants. ‘Well located
in Southern Michigan. A good proposi- ana doing a good business. A bargain
tion for the right party. Write Taylor, : - OFF TTilledala. ave '
85-87 S. Monroe street, Battle Creek, Address Box 255, Hillsdale, ee

th. ii ae
a MEN Seesieaecece cs canes ae If you are interested in selling or

Kor Sale—Hardware business’ estab- buying a grocery or general stock, call
lished 20 years, enjoying excellent trade; or write E. Kruisenga, c-o Musselman
practically no ecomptition; clean stock; Grocer Company, Grand Rapids, Michi-
invoice, including fixtures $5,000; fine lo- a : aq 154
cation; low rent Terms, cash or bank- &
able paper. Ill health compels sale. Ad- We buy for cash merchandise of all
dress Kuempel Brothers, Guttenberg, kinds. Discontinued lines or whole
Iowa. 175 stocks. Seasonable or not seasonable

- Salesmen’s samples, broken lines, stick-

‘Lamson cash and parcel carriers. One ers, etc Price the only consideration.

air line and three Majestic carriers. Also : i

receiving station. Will sell cheap on ac-
count of installng new system. In good
condition. C. |] Guggenheimer, Lynch-
burg, Va. 174
For Sale—To close out an estate, large
drug business, handling books, station-
ery, fancy goods, toys, sporting goods,
etc., in Western Michigan city of 30,000.
Fine opportunity for hustler. Satisfac-
tory lease. Price and terms attractive.
Address No. 173, care Tradesman. 173
For Sale—2,000 acres of Pittsburg Co.
coal bearing land in the oil,and gas belt.
Surface suitable for farming. $25 per
acre. J. E. Cavanagh, McAlester, Okla-

 

 

homa. 172
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. 11
For Sale’*or Trade—Forty acre farm
in Jamestown, for general country store
or city grocery. Address No. 170, care

‘Tradesm: in. a oe i
For Sale—A $1,200 salary and 15 to 25
per cent. on investment in a $10,000 man-
plant. Best proposition in

ufacturing
Northern, Ohio. $5,500 cash balance good

 

 

 

 

 

security. C. C. Carpenter. (18 Yates,
Toledo, Ohio. 169
For Sale—Dry goods and gents’ fur-
nishings store. Best suburban location
in Kalamazoo. Clean stock and cash
trade. Cheap. rent. Price reasonable.
Sickness cause for selling. Address No.
168, care Tradesman. 168
For Sale—Six wire revolving shoe at
ting chairs, with arm rests, good condi-
tion. Regular price $2.75 each. Our
price for the lot, $9. M. E. Peck & Son,
Belding, Mich. 166
Wanted—For cash, good elevator in
bean and oat district. Write with full
description of property to Hankins Bros.,
Flushing, Michigan. : 165
For Sale—Small stock dry goods, gro-

county seat town
Stock in

ceries, notions, in best
of 1,800 in Western Micnigan.
fine condition and doing good business.
Poor health reason,for selling. Address
No. 164, care Tradesman. 164
For Sale—An established women’s
eoat and suit business in Akron, Ohio.
Finest loeation in the city. Long lease.
Price right. Good reasons for. selling.
For particulars address W. E. D., care
Tradesman. 163

Sale—Two-story brick building
with five vear lease at good rental, lo-
eated in city of 8,000. Will sell cheap
or exchange for stock of shoes. Ad-

900 Grandville Ave, oO

 

 

For

dress. Star,
Rapids.

 

For Sale—-Good property in Cleveland
on West, Side, consisting of three store
rooms, one four-room. suite, two five-
room suites, one six-room suite; all mod-
ern, on paved street and car line; will
pay from 12 to 14 per cent on invest-
ment. H. S. Mathias, 137 W. Fair St.,
New Philadelphia, Ohio. 159

For Sale—Cheap, eleven 380-arm and
one 60-arm Best’s rug racks.

The Green-
Joyce Co., Retail, Columbus, Ohio. ane

 

Send us the.goods by freight prepaid
and we will make you an immediate
cash offer. If same is not satisfactory,
we will return goods and pay freight
going back. Correspondence invited. E.
Fantus Brothers, 525 So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago. 48

For Sale—Best grocery in Springfield,
Ill. Stock and fixtures all new and up-

 

 

to-date. High-class trade. Good loca-
tion and reasonable rent. Address E.
B. McAtee, Springfield, Il. 28

For Sale—A good establshed tea and

The only one in a town
Address O. A. B.,

coffee business.
of 20,000 population.

eare Michigan Tradesman. 110
Agency  Wanted—E xperienced sales
manager desires Eastern representation

for handling specialties of electrical na-
ture or otherwise; will spare no effort
to secure a wide and profitable market
for meritorious and salable article. Ad-
dress Milborn & Co., 1157 Marbridge
Bldg., New York City. 130
Wanted good second-hand cash reg-
ister, with credit key for grocery. H. R.
Klocksiem, Laporte, Ind. 132
For Sale—$5,000 general
located in oil and gas belt southern
Kansas. Burn natural gas. $26,000 sold
in 1918, clearing better than $100 per
month. If sold in next 30 days will take
invoice price. Address Owner, E. T.
Blackwood, Rest, Kansas. 133
Hoerner tobacco dust for garments,
rugs and chickens’ nests. Also clip-
pings and scraps. Sold by jobber. or
Hoerner Tobacco Co., Saginaw, —
oo
For Sale—Good clean stock of hard-
ware in Traverse City, Michigan, at a
bargain. Address, J. A. Montague &
Son. i 136

~ Notice—For closing ~ reducing

 

 

merchandise

 

closing out or
stocks of iaveha dice: get our proposi-
tion and compare with others. Mer-
chants Auction Co., Reedsburg, eee

‘

Sale—Largest and best place
of 30,000 population:

Cafe For
in Oklahoma town

doing paying business; $1,000 will han-
dle it. J. H. Keaton, 424 Equity Bldg.,
Muskogee, Okla. a i _139

Only hotel in growing
in healthy New Mexico;

young towr n
stone building;

11 rooms; $2 rates; genuine bargain;
$3,000. Mosquero Land Co., Mosquero,
N. M.. a a 140
For “Sale—A well | established, up- -to-
date clothing, men’s fur nishings and

shoe business. Best location in a grow-
ing city in Western Michigan, population
7,000. Stock about $9,000. Will lease or
sell store building. Address No. 930,
eare Tradesman. 3

 

Big Opening—Walworth, Wisconsin of-
fers an unparalleled opening for clothing,
dry goods, notions, crockery or a big
general stock. Town of 1,100, electric
lights, water system, fine schools and
churches, two railroads; in the heart of
the famous dairy country, rich and pros-
perous. Town has manufacturing, con-
densery and milk powder factory. 72
miles from Chicago, 76 miles from Mil-.
waukee. Nearest town 8 miles. Write,
G. S. Easton, Walworth, Wis. 141

Exchange—Two store buildings. Small
but live town Southern Michigan. Best
location in village. Always well rented.
Price $3,000. Will exchange for stock
general merchandise. Address, No. 142,
care Tradesman. 142

For Sale — Furniture, undertaking,

hardware and farm implement business.
Located on R. R. Division county seat
town of 3,000, with state normal school.
In brick building on corner. Low rent,
doing splendid business. Will sell lines
separate. Must retire. Address, Box r.
Chadron, Nebr. 148

For Sale—Old est iblished
medicine business;
firm on royalty,
net on $30,000

proprietary
handled by Detroit
paying seven per cent.
annually; price $10,000.

Will give $1,000 to person making deal.
D. R. Boyd, 1124 West Twenty-Ninth
St., a Angeles, Calif. 147

merchan-
shoes and
live city of 3,500. An
and profit paying busi-
ness. Will sell shoe stock separately.
Will sell or rent good two store. brick
building to buyer of stock. Stock about
$12,000. For particulars write, No. 151,
care Tradesman. 151
For Sale—A good paying hardware
proposition in a live city of 3,000 sur-
rounded by best farming country in
State, on main line P. M. Ry., between
Grand Rapids and Saginaw. The best
paying shop in connection in the coun-
ty. Business around $20,000. About $6,000
will swing the deal. Address No. 152,
care Tradesman. 152
Send ten cents for bulletin of hard-
ware stock for sale or exchange, giving

ge neral
goods,

For Sale—Stock of
dise, consisting of dry
groceries, in a
old established

 

Owner’s name and address, amount of
stock, business, fixtures and terms. <Ad-
vise choice of State. V. D. Augsburger
Co., St. Louis, Mo. 106

 

Do you want to sell your
cash? Send us a brief description and
we will advise you if we can handle it.
Our charges are less than 1 per cent.
Our system of service means quick re-
sults. System Service Co, St. louis,
Mo. 107

For Sale—Clean stock of general mer-
chandise in Kent county, gravel road to
Grand Rapids. Stock will invoice about
$3,000. This store has paid big for 19
years. Located in good farming section,
small competition, splendid chance for
good man to step right into paying busi-

“business for

ness. WHI rent or sell reasonable. Could
use unincumbered real estate. Other
business. Address No. 873, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 873
Merchants Please Take Notice! We
have clients of grocery stocks, general
stocks, dry goods stocks, hardware stocks,
drug stocks. We have on our list also a
few good farms to exchange for such
stocks. Also city property. If you wish

to sell or exchange your business write
us. G, R. Business Exchange, 540 House-
man Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. 859

For Sale leaii up-to-date stock of
shoes, dry goods, ladies’ spring coats,
waists, dresses, skirts, ladies’ and men’s
furnishings. Doing good business and
will bear the closest investigation. I)
health is reason for selling. Will take
good Grand Rapids real estate part pay-
ment. Address No. 120, care Trades-
man. 120

' Merchandise Sales Conductors. Stocks
Address

reduced or closed out entirely.
Jackson, Mich.
118

 

The Greene Sales Co.,

Stocks of merchandise wanted if
price is right. Address The Greene
Sales ackson, Mich. 119

For —Merchant 47 years in busi-
ness, wants to retire. Will sell his de-
partment store (no old stock), at in-
voice. Yearly sales $150,000. Fifteen
year lease. Best point for merchan-
dising in United States. New blood can
double present business. Further par-
ticulars write Edwin Gilpin Orr,* 1402
Oliver Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 115

For Sale—General merchandise store;
inventorying about $5,500. Long lease,
low rent; old business. Rich German
farming community. Price reasonable.
Write for particulars. Box 387, Wyatt,
Indiana. 124

Merchandise Location For Rent—Mod-
ern brick basement, wareroom, shelving

  
 

 

all in; best corner location, county seat
town reasonable, J. Beckett,
Greensburg, Kan. 86

 

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 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

 

For Sale—An up-to-date hardware in
a good country town in Central Michi-
gan. Write for particulars. Address,
No. 150, care Tradesman. 150

For Sale—Stock of notions and china.
You look up a location and write me. I
can put you next. I can sell you all or
part of it right. C. Williams, Plainwell,
Michigan. Also can make you terms.
Would consider real estate. 128

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.

Cash for your business or property. 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.
Frank P. Cleveland,
1261 Adams Express

Established 1881.
Real Estate Expert,
Bldg., Chicago, Mi.

26

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. Car-
ter, Montecito, Cali. 90
For Sale—A stock of general
chandise in hustling little town,
450 inhabitants, in a good farming com-
munity. Stock and fixtures inventory
about $2,300. An _ excellent opportunity
for a hustler. Wm. C. Rice, Riverdale,
Michigan. 123

sale

mer-
about

 

 

Undertaking and
Good stand, good reason for selling. Ad-
dress Frank F. Zessau, Farmington,
Mich. 96

For Sale—The
John T. Beadle
Mich., must be
next thirty days,

real estate for

entire outfit of
Co., of Traverse City,
closed out within the
consisting of saddlery
and saddlery hardware Sewing ma-
chines, machines and. all shop tools,
office furniture and safe, counters, fix-
tures and show cases and all other arti-
cles belonging to this factory. <A splen-
did chance for anyone wishing to con-
tinue this business.

Merchants! Do want to
Have an auction. Guarantee you no
Address L. H. Gallaghar,
tioneers, 384 Indiana Ave., Toledo,

the

you sell out?
loss. i
faa
952
Note
paid;

press,

head, envelopes or
Toe for 250; $1.90 per 1,000. Auto
Wayland, Mich. 65
Free for six months, my special offer
to introduce my magazine ‘Investing
for profit."". It is worth $10 a copy to
anyone who has_ been getting poorer
while the rich, richer. It demonstrates
the real earning power of money and
shows how anyone, no matter how poor,
ean acquire riches. Investing For Profit
is the only progressive financial journal

cards, pre-

published. It shows how $100 grows to
$2,200. Write now and I'll send it six
months free. H lL. Barber, 433, ”, a
Jackson Blvd., Chicago.

“Will pay cash for stock of aneea ana
rubbers. Address M. J. O., care eer
ma

 

  

afes Opened—W. L.
pert and locksmith.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

I pay cash for stocks or part stocks
of merchandise. Must be cheap. H.
Kaufer, Milwaukee, Wis. 92

HELP WANTED.

Wanted—Clothing salesman to open an
office and take orders for the best there
is in tailoring. An active man is cer-
tain to establish a very lucrative busi-
ness with this line. Write for informa-
tion. E. lL. Moon, General Agent, Col-
umbus, Ohio. ‘ 591

Wanted—Energetic salesman to sell
Superior ironing boards and _ Superior
clothes bars. Brook Novelty Co., Brook,
Indiana. 78

SITUATIONS WANTED
A live wire

“Slocum, wate ex-
97 Monroe Ave.,
104

 

 

 

clothing man desires to
take charge of men’s or boys’ clothing
department with some department store
which appreciates good results. Six
years of successful buying experience.
Single, high-class reference furnished as
to past ability. Address D. Lussman,
Frostburg, Ma. 167
Young married man _ desires position
as manager of general store in medium
sized town. Seven years’ experience and
will furnish best of references. Address
Box 2A, Ladysmith, Wis. 161

 

Wanted—Position as
Five years’ experience,
Swedish and English.
care_ ‘Tradesman,

grocery clerk.
speaks both
Address, Capable,

134

“Want ads. continued i on ‘next | page. :

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

April 29, 1914

 

GONE BEYOND.

 

Stephen D. Thompson, the Veteran
Newaygo Grocer.

The funeral service of Stephen D.
Thompson or Newaygo was held Sun-
day, April 19, at 2 o'clock. After a
long illness, Mr. Thompson passed
away April 17. The funeral service
at the house was read by Rev. David
(. Huntineton, of Grand Rapids.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Earl Cook
of Newaygo. The Masonic service was
Hundreds of rela-
tives and friends were present and the

used at the grave.
highest tributes of love and honor
were paid. The long procession was
headed by Samuel Judd Post of the
G A RR. of which Mr.
was commander at the time of his
death.
tributes.

Thompson

The veterans carried the floral
followed the Ma

sans. astern Star and hosts of rela-

Then

tives and friends.
Mr. Thompson was well known
throuehout the Siate, and lis loss

lhe Was tlic type

1

will be deeply felt, for
of man whose example lives on eter-
nally. An ardent patriot, he loved his
country and her flag with a devotion
that is becoming too rare in this gen-
eration. One of his last requests was

placed upon

that his flae should be
his casket.

He was a ereat nature lover and
spent hours in the woods fishing,
tramping and studying God's . great

out-of-doors. He knew every hird
and tree and flower and loved them
with simple open-heartedness.

Generous to a fault, it was said of
him that no one ever came to hin
for help or sympathy in vain. lor
years, on each Thanksgiving day, he
sent baskets containing a dinner to
all the widows and needy of Neway-
£0.

The great love and respect in which
he was held was evidenced by the
wealth of beautiful floral tributes sent
from all over the country and the
presence of friends and relatives from
all parts of the State.

At the time of his death Mr. Thomp7
son was a member oi the following
Samuel Judd Post, No. 133,

‘I

1A s
1:OaGLeCS:

Newaygo; Pilgrim Commandery, K.
No. 23, Big Rapids; Newaygo Chapter
No 36 Rk A. M.; Fremont Council,
R. & S. Masters, Fremont; Newaygo
Lodee No 131, F. & A. M.; Unity
Lodec No. 131, FO & AM. Unity

EF. S, No. 61,

Chapter, O Newaygo.

Stephen Decatur Thompson was
born in Madison county, Indiana, De-
cember 27, 1839. In 1845, with his
he moved to Grand Rapids,

parents, he

where at the age of 10, he was left

an orphan. When he was 13 years of
age he came to Newaygo and has made
this village his home continuously

until the time of his death.

Mr. Thompson was the first man in

   

ty torespondto the call

Newaygo cou
for volunteers in the war of the Re-
bellions and on May 13, 1861, he en-
listed in the United States Army. He
took part in the battles of Blackburn’s

of Bull Run,
Paar Oaks,

Ford, the first battle
Yorktown, Williamsburg,
Seven Pines, White Oak Swamp, Wol-
verine Hill,

} »

the second battle of Bull Run. It

Harrison's Landing and

was in this last named battle that

on Aug. 30, 1862, he was wounded

in the right shoulder and the left
arm. For two or three days he lay
upon the battlefield without medical
attention, then was taken to the Pres-
byterian church hospital in George-
town. From there he was taken to
Newark, N. J., where he was given
honorable discharge because his
wounds had disabled him to the ex-
tent of preventing further service.
He had served his country one year
and eight months.

Mr. Thompson returned to New-
September 30, 1866, he
was united in marriage to Adelia L.
Bennett. To them were born four
children: Irving, Maude
Amelia, William Grant and Howard
April 7, 1904, Mrs. Thomp-
son passed away,

aygo in 1862.

Louis

Stephen.
leaving him to

 

STEPHEN D. THOMPSON

mourn the loss of a good wife and
a taithiul mother.

August 18, 1908, he was again united
in marriage to Mrs. Jennie Lapham,
ot St. Paul, Minn. tis wite, Mrs.
Jennie Thompson, three sons, one
daughter, two sisters and a brother
survive him. Ihe sons Louis and
William reside in Newaygo and How-
His daughter,
Mrs. Benj. Gregor, makes her home

ard in Grand ledece.

im Michigan City, Ind. Vhe sisters,
Mrs. Mary Cantrell and Mrs. Mattie
Knapp, reside in Grand Rapids and
respectively, and _ the
brother, Wallace Thompson, lives in
Lansing.

Mr. Thompson engaged in the gro-

Greenville,

cery business in Newaygo in 1873 and
continued the business with his sons,
Louis and William, until the time of
his death.

He was a faithful member of the
Episcopal church and one of the
leaders in building the church in
Newaygo.

For such a man we know that there
can be no death, but only a re-awak-
ening into grander and nobler possi-
bilities; and while those who are left
must mourn their great loss, they
must also be glad for the greater joy
into which he has. entered.—New-
aygo Republican.

a
Manufacturing Matters.
Small 3rothers
sridge Co. has been incorporated
or the designing and construction
of bridges and other structures, with
an authorized capital stock of $8,000,
of which $4,300 has been subscribed
and paid in in property.

Lansing — The

J
f

Owosso—The Owosso’ Improve
ment Association has completed ne-
gotiations for the occupancy of the
Reliance Motor Truck plant by the
American Malleables Co., of Lan-
cester, New York, capitalized at $1,-
000,000. The company will expend
$50,000 in the next six months on new
buildings.

Saginaw—Lee & Cady will expend
$10,000 in reconstructing their building
on South Water street, occupied by the
Valley Coffee & Spice Mills, recently
destroyed by fire. The decision to re-
place the burned building and continue
the business here was reached after a
conference between Gilbert W. Lee,
member of the Detroit wholesale gro-
cery house of which this is a branch,
and General Manager Fred J. Fox.
straits brought on
sufficient
capital are explained by the Capac Pa-

Capac _Hinancial

by inability to get working
per Co. in a petition for a receivorship
filed in the United States Court. Arthur
B Cumtis of Capac, has been appomted
by Judge C. W.

sitting by designation in the

Sessions of Grand
Rapids,
absence of Judge Arthur J. Tuttle, as
receiver for the concern under a bond
of $75,000. According to the petition
the company is only temporarily embar-
The company is capitalized at
$1,000,000,

Ludington—The Ludington Wood-
enware Co., manufacturers of clothes
pins, wooden plates, butter molds
and wooden bowls, and in business
here since 1889, will have exhausted
its supply of available timber by next
October and will then move its plant
to Wilmington, Vt. There are many
people in Ludington who began work-
ing in this factory as children and
have practically grown up in it, with-
out ever having worked anywhere

rassed.

else. The company has owned large
holdings in Kalkaska, Lake, Osceola
and Mason counties, but has now ex-
hausted the timber from these lands,
brought in the very last consignment
of logs, and is rapidly disposing of
the cut-over lands. The removal of
the plant will throw about 125 per-
sons out of employment and deprive
the community of an average weekly
payroll of about $950°
2.2 ____

Tf we fall into a lone war with
Mexico, it will be one instance more
of the tragic lot which seems to pur-
sue Governments that come into pow-
er with liberal and humane principles.
They profess, and no doubt honestly,
to hate war with a perfect hatred;
yet sardonic fate seems to take de-
light in plunging them into war, per-
haps-oftener than their more belli-
No. states-
man ever avowed a greater loathing
for war than Gladstone, yet he was in
the Cabinet at the time of the Cri-
mean War, and afterwards, as Prime
Minister, had to approve of the bom-
bardment of Alexandria in 1882. This
he long insisted, and in a spirit which
suggests its own parallel, was not
“war, but only a military opera-
tion.” He might have pleaded, as
President Wilson can certainly plead,
that he did not create, but inherited,
the situation which led to war.

OO

Its a poor rule that hangs fire

when its maker tries to apply it.

cose politeal opponents.

Seek to Restore Their Rights.

Kalamazoo, April 28——The first
move on the part of the grocers and
butchers of the city to secure a re-
consideration of the weights and
measures ordinance, which was
amended by the Council a few months
ago, despite the protests of the retail
merchants, has been brought before
the aldermen in a petition from the
Grocers and Butchers’ Association,
asking the repeal of the signature
provision of the ordinance.

This section, which demands that
the name of the weighing clerk be
attached to every order bill where the
weighing is not done before the pur-
chaser was bitterly attached by the
grocers and butchers when it was be-
fore the ordinance committee and lat-
er when it was presented to the Coun-
cil.

Claiming that ft was.a hardship and
an injustice on the retailers, they
held out strongly against the adoption
of the amendments, but the measure
passed the Council with only one dis-
senting vote, that being registered by
Alderman Sutherland, of the Fourth
ward.

In their petition for the reconsid-
eration, the Association does not at-
tack the other provisions enacted at
the same time, but asks only the re
peal of that section governing the
signatures on the order bills.

The petition was referred to the or
dinance committee and the matter
will be taken up by that body.

oo oo

Even a mind reader couldn't hold
his head to suit the barber when he
is getting his hair cut.

—_——_2+-9—__—_

The McMullen Machinery Co. has
increased its capital stock from $15,
000 to $30,000.

—_++ >—___

To get soaked, invest in watered

stock,

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

For Sale—For cash, general groceries
and fixtures. Stock and fixtures inven-
torying $3,000; doing a business of $25,000
a year; rent $20 a month; good farming
and city district; 14 years of successful
business. Schindler Bros., Stillwater,
Minn. 183

For Sale—Two Al _ covered. delivery
wagons. Paul Steketee & Sons, Grand
Rapids. 121

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

For Sale—International motor wagon,
fitted with shelves to handle general
merchandise. Used only one season. In
first-class condition., Address No. 18.
eare Michigan Tradesman. 18
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

Wanted—A young man who is good
accountant, to take charge of book-
keeping and credit department of a local
firm. Must be able to invest five thou-
sand to ten thousand dollars in dividend
paying stock. eAddress No. 8238, care
Tradesman, 823

HELP WANTED.

 

 

Wanted—Two men to handle gloves
as a side line—one in the Saginaw Val-
ley and one in the Upper Peninsula. Mt.
Pleasant Glove Co., Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

82

 

Salesman Wanted

Hotel and Restaurant
Supplies
Must know how to talk and sell
coffee, Trade partly established.

A permanent salaried position for
the right man.

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| Hart Brand Canned Food

HIGHEST QUALITY

Our products are packed at five plants in Michigan, in the finest fruit and vegetable belts
in the Union, grown on lands close to the various plants; packed fresh from the fields
and orchards, under highest sanitary conditions. Flavor, Texture, Color Superior.

 

Quality Guaranteed
The HART BRANDS are Trade Winners and Trade Makers

: Vegetables:—Peas, Corn, Succotash, Stringless Beans, Pork and Beans, Pumpkin, Red Kidney
Beans, Tomatoes, Spinach, Beets.

| Fruits:—Cherries, Strawberries, Red Raspberries, Black Raspberries, Plums, Pears, Peaches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 
 
  
  
 
 
     
  
  

 
    
 

 
     

 
 

W.R. ROACH & CO., HART, MICH.
Factories at
HART, KENT CITY, LEXINGTON, EDMORE, SCOTTVILLE.
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Passer-by a 20 MULE TEAM BORAX
e Should be used with soap wherever soap is used.
Pro ctiv Tell your customers that BORAX is the best water softener known,
spe e O58 and should be used in water wherever any cleansing is to be. done.
not only softens the water but doubles the cleansing power of soap,
' and makes everything sanitary and wholesome.
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r on without additional expense.
b.. A You can get increased business on this profitable article by calling
24 it to the attention of your customers, and they will thank you for it.
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The American Household
Syrup

ROCERS everywhere are benefiting by the
G increased popularity of Karo as a table and
cooking syrup. Especially the successful ones
who are using the attractive Karo Store Signs,
cut outs and other designs to show that the store
is progressive and carries the goods the public

demands.

Our advertising of Karo is bringing business
into every grocery store that wants the business

and stocks the goods.

This picture shows one of the handsome

store advertising designs which you may have

FREE upon application.

Your jobber now has an attractive trade
offering on Karo. It will
be to your interest to get
it from him.

Send for our Special
Store and Window Dis-

plays at once.

  

 

  
  

This is Size No, 5
THE POPULAR SHAPE
Handled by all jobbers—sold by all dealers

 

G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO. Grand Rapids

 

 

 

 

 

 

YOUR CUSTOMERS KNOW THE
FRANKLIN
SUGAR

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We are constantly advertising FRANKLIN SUGAR
by the most effective means—giving your customers sam-
ples and Recipe Booklets, as well as newspaper advertising.
Women everywhere know FRANKLIN CARTON SUGAR
is pure, clean, sparkling and dainty; they know the sealed
CARTONS protect it from dust and dirt. -All these things
make FRANKLIN CARTON SUGAR EASY TO SELL
and it PAYS YOU to sell it because the CARTONS save
you time, work and loss from overweight.

You can buy FRANKLIN CARTON SUGAR in
original containers of 24, 48, 60 and 120 lbs.

 

 

  
   

 

 

 

THE FRANKLIN SUGAR REFINING CO.
PHILADELPHIA |

FRANKLIN CARTON SUGAR is guaranteed FULL WEIGHT
and refined CANE sugar.