eS NERY SNS ARN) Gere ar feet ye Fm OA SS AOA? eZ NO Nove aay ake Pee COA Oa Beas 19S NOES DC Ge GCE EEC AN eG YA ST 2 KS} Ea é Scien ONE A by a ACK ONE &)) LO AJ) (57 ree (C= Nae 2 SMX Cee LZ yen ___ Leisure Hour Jottings From Jack- son, Jackson, Sept. 27——One vear ago last June the writer wrote his last letter from Jackson for the Trades- man before leaving the city. Upon taking up his abode here once more, he finds that Jackson is the same old progressive city, always reach- ing ahead in a sane and conserva- tive way. Commission form of government is in full swing and, with Mayor W. M. Sparks at the September 29, 1915 head, things are apparently working out to the full expectations of those who took the initiation for its adop- tion. At the end of the week the famil- iar processions of ambassadors of commerce are seen emerging from the depots, breaking file at the dif- ferent street junctions for their homes in the various parts of the city, for a quiet and peaceful Sun- day's rest with their families. Even one year’s time does make a change, though, in some of their homes. Just now the Will M. Kelly home on West Morrall street houses only three “Kellys” on Sundays and two during the wek, for Miss Mar- garet, the younger daughter, is at- tending school at Oberlin. Some- thing along this line will happen in another week at the home of Steven E. Lewis, for his son, Clark, having decided to be an M. D., has made all arrangements to take the six year course at ‘good old Michigan.” Geo. S. Hana’s fire circle will miss the presence of their daughter, Alice, for she goes to Ann Arbor, too, and you can all rest assured that each one of these young people will get a training that they will be able to make practical use of, even beyond the expectations of their parents. Each one of the nec are members of Jackson Council, St. GC. a. and have been ee as officers and workers for its growth and in the good results accomplished. Ever since our Council was organ- ized in 1894, we have had members who have been identified in various undertakings for a greater and bet- ter Jackson. We are now proud of the great achievement of W. B. Bur- ris, for after two years of hard and faithful work as general manager, he, more than anyone else, deserve the credit for establishing on a sound basis a big and successful county fair. The week of September 13 was the second one held in this county for a good many years and for six days and one evening the gates were thrown open to crowds which were enthusiastic and numbering thousands more than ever attended a fair in Jackson before. It was a common remark that Bill Burris deserve a medal, The writer was very much interest- ed last week, while in Ypsilanti, to know some facts about the firm of John G. Lamb & Son. This firm has a large and high class grocery busi- ness. The business was established in 1837, or the same year that Michi- gan was admitted into the Union, as C. King & Co. The firm has never changed but once during all these years. This change was made two years ago when, upon the death of Mr. King, John G, Lamb, who was the company of the firm, formed a copartnership with his son, Charles, and adopted the present name. They at once rebuilt the store, making it up-to-the-minute with modern fixtures and high class service. If this is not the oldest retail grocery store in Michigan, we would like to hear about the other one. The writer has continued to be a constant reader of the Mich‘gan Tradesman and = appreciates more than ever its value to the merchant, whether he be a wholesaler or retail- ef. Spurgeon. Don't forget that folks will be bor- rowing your duds “Dress up week.” Bennett Fuel & Ice Co. WHOLESALE FUEL Represented on Trade Excursion By H. J, MCLAUGHLIN September 29, 1915 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN It takes KNOWLSON’S COAL TO DO THE BUSINESS Just Ask Mr. Knowlson You’ll Find Him with the Bunch REPRESENTING A. B. KNOWLSON GO., Grand Rapids, Mich. Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts Over Forty Years the Standard SOLD BY ALL GROCERS Barclay, Ayers & Bertsch Co. GRAND RAPIDS Jobbers of Pipe Valves, Pumps, Roofing Materials, Hose Asbestos Goods And a Full Line of Mill Supplies Represented on Tour by C H. BERTSCH C A. AYERS Grand Rapids Bedding Co. 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This Plan Appeals to Every Movie Enthusiast which is only another way of saying that everybody likes it, because everybody likes the movies. People who won’t bother to save a thousand trading stamps can get twenty Universal Movie coupons with a few purchases and they’ll buy from the merchant who gives them this reason for coming into his store. Write immediately for full particulars of our plan. It won’t obligate you in any way and it costs nothing to find out about it. It is the most effective advertising plan ever devised; there is nothing hard to understand; nothing hard to do; but, it gets action and gets it QUICK! Write immediately, because we give exclusive distributing privileges and will give the preference to merchants who make application first. We want LIVE merchants and live ones always act quickly when opportunity knocks at the door. Robyn-Kander Movie Ticket Corporation rs 18 E. 41st St., New York MICHIGAN ey J ~ MM IDX od ARS eae R pa rae, HL S a) un S Movements of Merchants. A. Trumpower has en- gaged in the grocery business. Ionia—Decker Bros. succeed E. D. Decker, Jr., in the grocery business. ranch —> Lansing—J]. L. Harris succeeds N. R. Keeler & Son in the grocery business. the Palms closed by store of has Palms—The Hardware Co. been creditors. Hillsdale—The Central Co. has changed its name chanan Co. Stanton—The Stanton business in the Smith Dry Goods to the Bu- Produce Co. has engaged in 3ros. block. Gaylord—A. F. a bakery in connection with his fectionery store. McBain—E. J. Manton, the Sprik building. Van Dyne has opened con- Meek, has opened a general store in formerly of Hanover—Albert Larby has sold his hotel to A. B. Anderson, who has taken possession. Kalamazoo—James Van Woert suc- ceeds Charles V. Turner as manager of the Dairymen’s Milk Co. Giston_ The Gaylord Fuel Co. has been organized with W J. Merrick as manager. Ishpeming—William Gill has open- ed a confectionery, butter, and cream store at 118 First street. Traverse City—R. H. Smith & have purchased the grocery stock merly conducted by S. W. Hines. Ludington—J. H. Kane, of Grand Rapids, has leased the Fletcher Hotel for one year and took possession Sept. > Lumber & ezg Son for- Alpena — Isaac Mallach succeeds the merchant tailor- South A. Sinaberg in ing business on Second ave- nue. Jackson—Samuel A. opened a clothing store at street. Eaton Rapids—August Ruskowsky, of Jackson, has purchased the A. C. Allen shoe stock and has taken pos- session. Jackson—The Howard & Solan Co Schwartz has ready-to-wear West Main women's 140 is succeeded by the Howard Keeb- ler Co, in the wholesale grocery business. West Bay City — The Bentel Pickling and Canning Co. has _ in- creased its capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000. Morley—C. L. Hanson and Bert Meier have formed a _ copartnership and engaged in general trade in the Hunter building. Muskegon—A, N. Mosher and George Partlow, recently of Shelby, have form- ed a copartnership and engaged in the produce business. Comstock—Thieves entered the drug Harry McCormick Sept. 26 and carried away several hundred dol- lars worth of stock. Kalamazoo—C. B. Rogers has erected a brick store building at 112 Portage street which he occupies with his whole- sale and retail bakery. McBain—-Clarence Burkett sold his stock of meats and store fixtures to the former owner, John Bennett, who will continue the business. Holland—Misses Lulu Zwemer and Stella Girard have formed a copartner- ship and opened an art, lace and fancy work store on Pine avenue. Cadillac—Gust P. Nelson has pur- chased the stock of the Cadillac Gro- cer Co. and will continue the busi- ness at the same location. Kalamazoo — Nicolas Jouras has opened a confectionery and _ fruit store at 111 North Burdick street un- der the style of the Princess. Alma—W. S. Proud, recently of Charlotte, has purchased the C. L. Delavan stock of general merchan- dise and has taken possession, Battle Creek—Frank Hollman and E. C. Brown have formed a copart- nership and opened a cigar and to- bacco store on East Main street. Breckenridge — Burglars entered the office of the grain, wool and pro- duce elevator of Crawford & Co. and robbed the safe of $94 September 20. Crystal—Fred Elliott has purchas- ed the S. N. King feed mill and will continue the adding a line of feed and produce to sell at retail. Mt. Pleasant—J. F. Hileman has removed his grocery stock and bakery to the new store building he has erected one door west of his former location. store of has business, Cadillac—Nelson & Widgren, grocers, have dissolved partnership and the busi- ness will be continued by Joseph Wid- gren, who has taken over the interest of his partner. Royal Oak—The Lawson Lumber and Coal Co. has been organized with an authorized capital stock of $50.- 000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Clinton—J. R. Kimball has remov- ed his jewelry stock from Grass Lake to this place and consolidated it with the W. L. Smith jewelry stock which he recently purchased. Howard City—L. Leiter, of the L. Barber Co., of Edmore, has taken pos- session of the former Rudell Creamery Co. plant here and is fitting it up for a produce, egg and butter station. Lansing—E. C. Smith will open a pro- duce station and grain elevator in the hrick factory building formerly owned by the Ovid Furniture and Manufacturing Co. which he recently purchased. TRADESMAN Ishpeming—James P. Roberts has closed his tea, coffee and spice store at the corner of Cleveland avenue and Third street and will continue the business at his residence. Ypsilanti—George F*. Schaffer, has conducted a harness shop here for the past thirty-eight years, is dead at the age of 87, of illness brought on by his advanced age. Paw Paw—B. B, McKinstry sold his cigar and tobacco stock to C. C. Chappell and Harvey A. Sher- man, who will continue the business under the style of Chappel & Sher- man, Northport—Herbert John has sold his interest in the grocery and meat stock of John Bros. to Magtius Fredrickson and Earl Rogers and the business will he continued under the style of C. John & Co. Holland—Zoerman & hardware dealers, have partnership and the business will be continued by Jacob Zoerman, whe has taken over the interest of his partner, Tonia—Herman Hacker has _ pur- chased the grocery stock of Allen 3ros. branch store at the corner of East Main and Jackson streets and will continue the business at the same location. Amble—Gilbert Olsen and Richard Eucher have formed a copartnership and ate erecting a cement block store building which they will occupy with a stock of general merchandise about December 1, Lapeer—Thomas Hatg, nieat deal- er on Nepessing street, has sold his stock to Pulver who. will who has Verekee, dissolved store building and Georg? Davis and Clinton continue the business under the style of Davis & Pulver, 3erien Springs—John - Ingleright has sold his interest in the ice and fuel business of Castner & Ingle- right to Clayton Heim and the busi- ness will be continued under the style of Castner & Heim. Grand Ledge—Jack Hollens and C. Frank Wells have formed a copartner- ship and taken over the Blair Watkins Co. stock of feed, hay, and ce- ment and will continue the business under the style of Hollens & Wells. Ludington—Dr. E. N. has purchased for his son, store building and grocery stock of Lessard & Co., on North Rowe street. Russell Winegar will con- tinue as manager of the business. straw Baldwin Leo, Manistee—Nelson & Anderson, dealers in oils, paints, wall paper and_ school books for the past twelve years, have dissolved partnership and the business will be continued by Oscar Nelson, who has taken over the interest of his part- ner. Flint—The Martin-Zimmerman Co. has been incorporated to deal in re- tail drugs and kodak and photo sup- plies with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, of which amount $6,500 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Ovid—A. D. Mosser & Co., of Al- mont, have purchased the H. A. Pot- ter dry goods stock and will con- tinue the business. Mr. Potter, who has conducted the store for the past the ° September 29, 1915 fourteen years, will retire from busi- ness, Rochester—C. L. Barnes has pur- chased the interest of his partners in the Barnes Paper Co., established forty-five years ago by his father, the late W. H. Barnes, and will con- tinue the business under the same style. Hancock—Mits. N. A. Metz has sold her interest in the stock of the Metz Clothing Co. to M. Levine, who conducts a department store at Houghton and the business will be continued under the style of Moss & Levine with Harry Moss as manager, Allegan—Charles S. Hughes, who re- signed the position of district manager of the International Harvester Co. at Grand Rapids, Sept. 1, has purchased the A. H. Foster implement stock and store fixtures and will continue the busi- ness at the same location. Lakeview—Meach & White, Inc.. has been organized to engage in the general mercantile business with an authorized capital stock of $20,000, of which amount $17,700 has been subscribed and $4,700 paid in in cash and $13,000 in property. Kalamazoo—The B. & F. Motor Sales Co. has engaged in business to retail, repair and store automo- biles and motor trucks with an au- thorized capitalization of $4,000, of which amount $2,000 has been sctibed and $1,500 paid in cash. Manistee—John P. Anderson who has severed his connection with Nelson & Anderson, oil, paint and wall paper deal- ers, announces that with his son, Harry, he has engaged in the painting and decorating business at 10 Clay street, under the style of John P. Anderson & Son, Charlevoix—The Blanchard Hard- ware Co. has been re-organized as a stock company under the sub- same style with an increased capitaliza- tion. It is erecting a two-story sol- id brick store building on Bridge street which it will occupy when completed. Richmond—B. C. Preston, trustee of the Richmond Elevator Co., has sold the Emmet grain and bean ele- vators to the former manager of the plants, Frank Keough, who will open the plants at once. Negotiations are pending for the sale of the Rich- mond and Columbus plants. Dickinson & clothiers, Pontiac—Kessell, Dickinson, retail have merged their busineess into a stock company under the style of Kesseli & Dickinson, with an authorized cap- ital stock of $10,000 common and $5,000 preferred, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Jackson—Frank CC. Ganiard has leased a warehouse and engaged in the wholesale sugar, molasses, syrup, rice and coffee business. The office will be in charge of his daughter, Florence. He expects to begin op- erations October 15 and it goes with- out saying that he will achieve a marked success in his new undertak- ing, due to his long experience in the grocery business and the large number of friends he has made and been able to retain among the retail trade, 1Si- in ed er, yn- ne : vy September 29, 1915 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN e oa = ? nx ERY.*> PRODUCE MARKET; ts Review of the Grand Rapids Produce Market. Apples—Standard varieties, such as Wealthy, Twenty Ounce and Wolf River command 35@40c per bu. Bananas—Medium, $1.25; Jumbo, $1.75; Extra Jumbo, $2; Extreme Ex- tra Jumbo, $2.50. Beets—50c per bu. Butter—The market is active on the previously reported basis of price. Fancy butter is cleaning up on arrival and the consumptive de- mand continues very good. Receipts are about what one would expect at this season, but will likely fall off in the near future. This will prob- ably cause a slight advance. Fancy creamery is quoted at 26c in tubs and 27c in prints. Local dealers pay 21c for No. 1 dairy, 17¢ for packing stock. Cabage—40c per bu, or $1 per bbl. Cantaloupes—Colorado Rockyfords $2.25 per crate; home grown, 25c per bu. Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz. Carrots—50c per bu. Celery—16c per bunch for home grown. Cocoanuts—$4 per sack containing 100. Crab Apples—$1@1.25 per bu. Cranberries—$7.25 per bbl. for Cape Cod Early Blacks. Cucumbers—50c per doz. for home grown. Eggs—The market is unchanged for the week, with a very good con- sumptive demand, which is absorbing the receipts on arrival. The quality of the current receipts, considering the weather, is good. The market is healthy without any important change in sight. Local dealers pay 24c for No. 1 stock, loss off. Eggs Plant—$1.25 per doz. Garlic—20c per Ib, Grapes—$1.50 per doz. for 4 Ib. baskets; 17@18c per 8 Jb. basket. Moore’s Early is the only variety in yet. Green Corn—10@12c per doz. for home grown. Green Onions—Silver Skins, 15c per doz.; Evergreens, 12c per doz. Honey—18c per Ib. for white clov- er and 16c for dark. Lemons—California, $3@3.50 per box. Lettuce—Southern grown head, $2.25 per bu.; home grown leaf, 65c per bu, Nuts—Almonds, 18¢ per lb.; filberts 13c per Ib.; pecans, 15c¢ per Ib.; wal- nuts, 18c for Grenoble and Califor- nia, 17c for Naples. Onions — Home grown command 75e per bu. Oranges—Valencias are steady at $5.28@5.50. Oysters—Standards, $1.35; Medium Selects, $1.50; Extra Selects, $1.75; New York Counts, $1.85; Shell Oys- ters, $7.50 per bbl. Peaches—Elbertas and Crawfords command $1@1.25 per bu.; Prolifics and Engles fetch 75@90c; Chilis and Smocks, 75@80c. Pears—Clapp’s Favorite, $1.25 per bu.; Anjou, $1.25@1.50 per bu. Peppers—Green, $1 per bu.; red, 25c per doz. Pickling Stock—Cucumbers, 20c per 100 or $2 per bu.; white onions, $1.25 per 20 lb. box. Plums—Green Gages and Blue Damsons, $1 per bu. Pop Corn—$1.75 per bu. for ear, 4c per lb for shelled, Potatoes — Home grown range from 30@40c per bu. Radishes—10c for round and 15c for long. Squash—75c per hamper for home grown. Tomatoes—Shipping stock com- mands 75c per bu. for ripe and 60c for green. Turnips—s0c per bu. Wax Beans—90c per bu. ————- oo The Grocery Market. Sugar—The unexpected has hap- pened again, the New York refiners having reduced their price on gran- ulated to a 4.90c basis. Michigan re- finers are offering granulated at 434¢ for shipment on or after October 25. Every sugar authority is literally up in the air over the almost unparal- leled situation. Tea—The local market is quiet, but the feeling is rather more cheer- ful. Some thought that the bottom on black teas had been reached, pointing out that jobbers in the coun- try were carrying small stocks, and at the prevailing readjustment could afford to replenish the same. More- over, a cable from Shanghai — said that the market for Congous was a cent a pound higher on Russian buy- ing. Mail advices from Shanghai comment to the effect that Hoochow first crop was marketed at top prices for good cup quality. Pingsueys were two weeks later and business was brisk at high prices, desirable crops finding ready buyers. Most of the country greens shown were good quality and early teas found good enquiry. The later offerings were poor and consequently sold low- er. There was a fair demand for black, the second crop of Congous being mostly sold. The class of teas equal to Government standard was limited. Common grades unfit for American consumption declined, but were bought for other markets. A shortage of Government standard is anticipated. Coffee—Rio and Santos erades are unchanged, but the undertone is still somewhat easy on account of the fact that nearly three quarter of a million bags of coffee are on their way to this country, which is about twice as much as was afloat bound for here a year ago. What the owners of this do with it after it reaches here will determine the future of the market. Mild coffees are unchang- ed and quiet. Java and Mocha are steady on the ruline basis. Canned Fruits—All lines of spot canned fruits are very dull and buy- ing is being done only in very small quantities. Quotations are very low, but fail to tempt buyers. There is said to be a slowly growing feeling toward a stronger tone in 1915 pack California fruits, and moderate sales are being made with regularity, ac- cording to brokers. Canned Vegetables—Quotations on tomatoes remain practically unchane- ed, although maintaining the decided- ly strong tone which had character- ized them during the past week. Re- ports as to the 1915 pack reaffirm the estimates which have been made of a short pack in all sections of the country. The market is recognized as essentially a seller's market. The packers during the early weeks of this month sold limited supplies of tomatoes to finance their packing sea- son with and at the low prices which were being quoted to the jobbers very few bought to any extent, ac- cording to brokers. The buyers here cited the experience of the past two years as their excuse for failing to come into the market and buy. Both 1913 and 1914 were years favorable to buyers with a large pack and low prices. Early in the season, how- ever, an advance similar to the one which has occurred this year caused operators to purchase, only to find later in the season that quotations had declined and that they had pur- chased their stocks at high prices. This year the brokers report that the buyer is waiting. It is thought that he will purchase as he needs goods, paying the existing market price. It is certain at this time that very few factors have any extensive supplies of tomatoes in their posses- sion. The outlook is poor, and it is not likely that the pack will exceed 50 per cent. of last year, or about 7,000,000 cases. If this is the pack and if the consumption proves to be as estimated, about 9,500,000, a very firm situation will undoubtedly de- velop, and prices will be considerably higher. In fact, predictions are freely made that the market will be a dollar before Christmas. Corn and peas show no change for the week. The corn situation is inclined to be firm on account of the effect of the heat on the growing crop. Canned Fish—Confirmations con- tinued to be received slowly on the 1915 pack salmon last week, with the packers, according to Coast re- ports, generally showing a very firm tendency and being apparently con- 5 tent to wait until buyers met their ideas. On pinks some packers are displaying a slightly easier tendency. Domestic sardines are unchanged and quiet and so are foreign sardines. Dried Fruits — Heavy European demand for raisins of all kinds, and the heavy demand for Muscatel rai- sins, due to the educational campaign now being carried on by the Califor- nia Associated Raisin Co. has so decreased the raisin supply on the Pacific Coast that it has necessitated the withdrawal of 1914 prices. This means that no shipments of Mus- cats will be made from the Coast un- til the 1915 crop is ready for ship- ment, and orders are now only tak- en subject to prior sale. Picking re- ports show a shrinkage of possibly 10,000 tons from first estimate. This means an increase of only about 10 per cent. over last year’s crop, while an increase of from 20 to 25 per cent. was expected. Coast advices state that there appears to be a slightly easier tone in the prune market and quotations are being shaded by some California packers. Reports from are to the effect that there is only light buying in progress on the part of the packers. Advices received from Oregon reported that there has been a big shrinkage in the 1915 prune crop. Advices received by im- porters report that the statistical po- sition of Amalia currants is very strong and that the ability of the Greeks to maintain the market on the present high basis depends large- ly on the extent to which the crop has been damaged and the quantity of sound fruit which is now available for export. Advices received by large date importers are to the effect that the first steamer to sail with sup- plies of the 1915 pack would be the Seistan, which was due to leave Bus- sorah on September 23. The steamer will be due at New York about the first week in November. California apricots are being firmly held, al- though almost no buying is being done by the trade, and Coast advices report a quiet tone in the market. Rice—There has been a fair busi- ness in river rice, although the dis- tributors have now secured supplies and are consequently less urgent in their demands. Moreover, the higher tendency to prices checks the move- ment. At the same time the fact that the mills in the South are oversold, and find rough rice stocks strongly held, tends to sustain the market. Blue Rose will soon attract the at- tention of the trade, the crop being reported large and good quality. There is a steady tone to foreign rice, as the cheap offerings have been cleaned up and the pressure eliminat- ed, Cheese—The market is steady and unchanged. There is a normal pro- duction and a_ seasonable consump- tive demand. The quality of the cheese now arriving is the best of the year and considerable of it is being sold for storage. There is no export demand to speak of. —_+-~.__ John Kreuger suceeds O. A. Jen- nings in the grocery business at 1431 North Coit avenue. PROSPERITY WEEK. How It Will Be Observed in Kala- mazoo. Kalamazoo, Sept. 27—Plan our big celebration are prog in a very satisfactory manne space selling easily, exceeding our wildest expectations. As this is a main source of revenue, our pro- gramme is completely assured. Our contract for decorating the city has been let and all the down town streets will be beautifully dec- orated with flags, pennants and au- tumn leaves and at night 10,000 elec- tric lights will illuminate the city. Our two exhibit halls, the Michis State Armory and the Knights ot Pythias hall, are divided into booths and each room is decorated and the ceiling will be a solid mass of au- tumn foliage ime 2a Very: wne Ssitis appearance. The contests, s the window trimming contest, and princess contest, poster contest and doll’s queen contest, are progressing sfactorily. Our exhibi ing to be very fine. Nearly every manufacturer, retailer, jobber and wholesaler in Kalamazoo will exhi- bit during Prosperity Week. We are arranging now to have one of the finest jarm exhibits ever stag- ed in Southwestern Michigan. The farmers from all over Kalamazoo county are thoroughly awake to the great opportunity to make Prosperity Week possible to them and realize that the future prosperity of Kalama- zoo directly affects them. They are personally engaged at the present time in preparing to make one of the finest agricultural exhibits ever stag- ed in this section of the county. The Prosperity Week Commission has of- fered $600 in cash as premiums and we have also arranged with several of the big agricultural schools and implement factories to send their ed- ucational displays and charts here for this week. We have also arranged to have three of the very finest mo- tion pictures here showing scientific cultivation and turning of the soil and many other interesting features. It is almost certain now that the Detroit Tigers, if not in the world’s series, will play here against Pitts- burg or Cincinnati three days dur- ing the week. We are also assured that Ralph De Palma, Gil Anderson, Earl Cooper and several other noted race drivers will be here for our 100 mile automobile race. Our wild west show and military maneuvers. are an assured fact and there is no doubt this will be one of the very big at- tractions of the week. Another feature of the week just comes to my mind and I really think it is one oi the big things of the en- tire programme. It is a publicity stunt from start to finish as an ad- vertising feature. Here is the plan: Kalamazoo is the biggest and finest celery center in the United States and has long been famous for this deli- cacy. During Prosperity Week twelve boys about 13 or 14 vears of age will be dressed up as little Dutch boys with yellow legs and wooden shces and everything that goes with the Dutch costume. These boys will board every train coming in and out of the city and present each passen- ger with a stalk of Kalamazoo’s very Sest celery. This celery will be wrapped in vegetable parchment pa- per, which is also a famed product of this community, and around each stalk a cigar band will be placed bear- ing the inscription, “Grown for You in Kalamazoo, Prosperity Week, Oc- tober 4 to 9, 1915.” I certainly appreciate the interest that the Michigan Tradesman and yourself are exhibiting in this Pros- perity Week movement and I trust that I may be able to co-operate with you in some way or other to repay Sat MICHIGAN TRADESMAN you for the kind netices you have given us. PF. H. Pulfer, Director of Publicity. —_—_ + ____ Butter, Eggs, Pouliry, Beans and Po- tatoes at Buffalo. Buffalo, Sept. 29.—Creamery but- ter, fresh, 23@27c; dairy, 21@~B3c: poor to common, all kinds, 18@2lIc. Cheese—Selling well, new fancy, 14(@15c; new choice, 14@14'%c; held fancy, 1514@16c. Eggs—Choice fresh candled, 28c:; fancy, 30c; at mark, 25@27c. Poultry (live)—Broilers, per 1b, 15 @19c; cox, lic; fowls, 13@17c; ducks 13@]}15c. Beans—Medium $3.50@3.60: pea. $3.20@3.25; Red Kidney .50; White iney, $3. $3.75@ 4, otatoes—New, 50@65c per bu. Rea & Witzig. —— +> >—___ Quotations on Local Stocks and Bonds. Public Utilities. Bid Asked Am. fight & Trac. Co., Com. 332 336 Am. Light & Trac. Co:., Pid. 108 114 Am. Public Utilities, Com. 31% 33 Am. Public Utilities, Pfd. 6244 65 Comw th Pr. By. & Let., Com. 50 52 th Pr Ry. & Bet. Pra 7736 80 Pacific Gas & Elec., Com. 48 51 Ter ssee Ry., Lt. & Pr., Com. 4 7 Tennessee Ry., Lt. & Pr., Pfd. 21 25 United Light & Rys., Com. 40 43 United Light & Rys., ist Pfd. 67% 70 Comw'th 6% 5 year bond 9814 100 ichigan Railway Notes 99 100 is Telephone 69 7 Michigan Sugar 60 63 Holland St. Louis Sugar 5 6 Holland St. Louis Sugar, Pfd. 7 8 United Light 1st and Ref. 5% bonds 82 85 Industrial and Bank Stocks. Dennis Canadian Co. 70 Furniture City Brewing Co. 40 50 Globe Knitting Works, Com. 130 140 Globe Knitting Works, Pfd. 98 100 G. R. Brewing Co. 90 100 Commercial Savings oo se Fourth National Ban 0 G. R. National City Bank 165 170 G. R. Savings Bank 255 Kent State Bank 250 260 Old National Bank 195 203 Peoples Savings Bank 250 *Ex dividend. September 29 1915. Thomson & McKinnon BROKERS 123 Ottawa Ave., N. W. Stocks, Bonds, Grain and Boston Coppers Members of all leading exchanges Telephone Main 218 Citizens 8063 H. N. Harris & Co. Stocks, Bonds, Grain and Provisions Private Leased Wire Suite 236 Powers’ Theatre Building Telephones: Bell M. 1900; Citizens 5843 STOCKS, BONDS AND GRAIN 305 Godfrey Building Citizens 5235 Bell Main 235 New York Stock Exchange Boston Stock Exchange Chicago Stock Exchange New York Cotton Exchange New York Coffee Exchange New York Produce Exchange New Orieans Cotton Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce Winnipeg Grain Exchange Kansas City Board of Frade Private wires coast to coast September 29, 1915 A Recommendation For Investors in Stocks The Consumers Power Company (Michigan) con- trols water power and steam generating and electric properties supplying electricity for light and power to a°* number of prosperous and important communities in the Southern Peninsula of Michigan. Each year since its organization the Consumers Power Company has been able to increase substantially its earning capacity, both gross and net. For the twelve months ending July 31, 1915, this Company had gross earnings of $3,602,490, an increase of 8.43%, with a net gain of 17.80%, and an increase of 36.38% in surplus over the preceding twelve months, after all charges had been paid. The duplica- tion value of the property of the Consumers Power Company is materially in excess of all of its outstand- ing bonds and preferred stock. The Preferred Stock at its present price of 94 and dividend is, we believe, one of the most attractive investment stocks in the market. Tax Exempt in Michigan Send for Circular E-43 which contains full information Hodenpyl, Hardy & Co. Incorporated Investment Securities First National Bank Building CHICAGO NEW YORK CHICAGO Correspondence solicited ‘Little Buster’ as a Salesman Naturally you are interested in pushing the sale of such articles as will repeat and will induce sales in other departments of your store. “Little Buster’? Popping Corn: does that. It is a constant, persistent sales force. The customer who purchases a package of “LITTLE BUSTER,” in addition to being pleased with her purchase, will buy butter, salt, chocolate, lard, eggs, honey, flavoring, etc. You make a handsome profit and give the customer the largest obtainable value for the money—16 full ounces for ten cents. Order a case from your jobber to-day. Full 48, half case 24—1 pound packages. y. Full cases THE ALBERT DICKINSON COMPANY Chicago, III. September 29, 1915 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7 The Best Customer is a Satisfied Customer E had more calls from retail merchants last (Fair) week than any other week since we have been engaged in business. They came from all parts of West- ern and Northern Michigan, bent on seeing the city and the Fair and, incidentally, calling on their wholesale grocery house which has so long been the source from which they have drawn most or all of their supplies. Merchants from a distance whom we had not had the pleasure of shaking hands with for years called to renew their personal acquaintance with the men in the house and to be shown through the establishment. They all expressed themselves surprised and gratified at the extent and variety of our stock and the volume of our business. They were especially pleased with the scientific and sanitary methods in vogue in our coffee department. They were astounded to see that the contents of our package brands are not handled by human hands, every detail being accomplished by the use of the most modern and up-to-date machinery. We are greatly pleased over the many favorable comments made by our cus- tomers—both old and new—on the prompt and satisfactory manner in which we fill their orders. Weare especially gratified over the hearty tribute they paid us in regard to the quality of our goods, which we have always aimed to keep up to a high standard. Many stated voluntarily: “We like to buy goods of you because we can always depend on receiving goods of a high standard and your prices are always fair,” All of our callers were warm in praise of the uniform courtesy which they receive at the hands of our traveling representatives, as well as the character of the letters they receive from our officers and department managers. Such commendation, instead of making us vain and self satisfied, serves to spur us on to repeated effort to merit a continuance of the patronage and goodwill of our customers on the most approved merchandizing methods of the age. We hope, in time, to receive calls from all of our customers, new or old, nearby or remote, and take this opportunity of promising them in advance that they will re- ceive a warm welcome and an opportunity to judge for themselves how thoroughly we are equipped to serve them well and faithfully. We sell the same goods, maintain the same service and extend the same courte- sies at our Kalamazoo establishment, where we hope to have the pleasure of welcom- ing a large number of visiting merchants during Prosperity Week. W/oRDEN (j;ROCER COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS The Prompt Shippers (Unlike any her paper.) DEVOTED TO THE BEST ts OF BUSINESS MEN Published Weekly by TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Subscription Price. One dollar per year, if paid strictly in advance; two dollars if not paid in ad- vance. Five dollars for six years, payable in advance. Canadian subscriptions, $2.04 per year, payable invariably in advance. Sample copies 5 cents each. Extra copies of current issues, 5 cents; issues a month or more old, 10 cents; issues a year or more old, 25 cents. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice as Second Class Matter. E. A. STOWE, Editor. September 29, 1915. THE PUBLIC BE ee The action of the G. R. & I. in ad- vancing its rates on fruit A produce to Upper Peninsula points from com- modity to class rates, has cost the fruit in this vicinity fully $100,000, because it effectually shuts them out of many remote markets which they have been able to reach heretofore and forces them to divert their shipments to markets glutted with stock or permit the fruit to rot on the ground—which has been the case with hundreds of fruit growers in this district. No more arbitrary action was ever taken by a railway than this summary, unexpected and unwarranted advance in a railroad whose management has frequently gone out of its way to deal Grand Rapids shippers a body blow at a time when the market needed co- operation and encouragement instead of being compelled to face unnecessary hardships and annoyances stich as some of the small headed and narrow minded officials of the G. R. & I. appear to take delight in creating and maintaining. Grand Rapids gave the G. R. & I. $100,000 when it agreed to locate its general offices and car shops in this city. It was a good investment, from some standpoints. We could now afford to present the Pennsylvania system with $500,000 more if it would supplant the gang of incompetents it maintains on its pension list in the general offices with men of broad vision and some know]- edge of the needs and necessities of a growing market and a progressive State. Such an investment would be the best one Grand Rapids ever made. The action of the G. R. & I. has served as a boomerang against the line, because it has deprived the road of hun- dreds of carloads of freight it would otherwise have been able to transport to the Straits. Local growers and shippers are still able to get to Upper Peninsula points by billing over the Grand Trunk, but as none of the fruit and produce houses are located on the Grand Trunk track, the element of drayage is involved—a matter of $15 to $20 per car, including the time of men necessary to watch growers rates by end load the car while it is being filled. In ordinary years this expense could be absorbed, but the low prices of fruit this season and the meagerness of the profit inyolved in handling it, together with iy i (| i! MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the heavy losses sustained by reason: of the fruit being in bad shipping condition on account of its being water soaked, all tend to render the Grand Trunk-trans lake route too hazardous to be employed to any extent. So determined is the G, & 1. to prevent our shippers using the Grand Trunk that it has trumped up an ar- bitrary charge of $10 a car for switching a car from its tracks to the Grand Trunk tracks at any time except once a day early in the morning—too early to give the shippers py to load and bill cars. When the G. R. & I. starts out to kill business, it oy accomplishes its purpose most effectually. INTERVENTION OR CARRANZA. President Wilson look- ed up to by the Latin-American countries as the one man to give them justice and a square deal, yet it seems that some departments oi the Government are determined to overthrow this influence, and, by one blow, bring to an end the friendly understanding almost accomplished. Mr. while Secretary of State, never committed an act which stirred up matters equal to that of the recent Pan-American effort to settle the case of Mexico. The med- dling of Mr. Bryan was in petty mat- ters, and, while causing irritation, yet brought forth no serious condi- tion. The act of the present Secre- tary of State was a direct effort to arrange internal affairs of Mexico, at least so looked upon, and resented not only by Mexico, but by the peo- ple of every other Latin-American country, for, if one may judge of thei- editorial comments, the with the Mexican affair means a pre- cedent for mixing in with their affairs at a later date. has been 3ryan, mixing in This attempt to meddle in the in- ternal affairs of Mexico has mainly resulted in prolonging the war, for it has given new courage to those who are opposing the Constitutional gov- ernment headed by Venustiano Car- ranza. Naturally, Villa and Zapata seized upon the proposition to have the A. B. C.s step in and save them (for so they looked upon it), believ- ing that it meant that Carranza also would be compelled to step down and out. If one will review press comments, leading articles in magazines, bearing in mind that these are read by the Mexicans, he will not fail to under- stand why Mexicans fear us and are suspicious of us. It is a mistaken idea that Mexi- cans have no patriotism and nation- alism. Their history for over a hun- dred years is a denial of any such assumption. Mexico has suffered by an inertia on the part of its people, and owing to this, has assumed a pas- sive attitude hard to understand, But for quite a number of years there has been a movement building up a middle class in Mexico, gradually overcoming this inertia, and_ this brought the revolution; for there was no other way to overcome the reac- tionary. At the present moment, Venustiano Carranza stands at the head of this -ers in March, 1913, he movement, pledged to carry out the reforms, and the fact that alt opposition has centered upon him in- dicates that the reactionaries at least believe him honest in his intentions, have had_ their follow- very would with a few eradually otherwise he support. Starting has overcome all forms of opposition, now dominates the country and is in a position to bring peace to his dis- tressed countrymen. In spite of the facts presented as to what he has ac- complished, we have the statements offered that he 1s a weak man. In the Mexican press he is called by those who oppose h-m the greatest tyrant Mexico has ever an incompetent and had, a dictator whose only idea 1s to rule his country, He is irritating the Administration by his up tor his country whether or no. members of the obstinate po- sition in standing against all forms of intervention, yet the Mexican press opposed to him tells us that he is bending ernment at Washington and is a trai- Mexico. to the Gov- tor to the cause of Taking actual facts, it is about time that Washington woke up to the ac- tual condition, and that it is intervention or Carranza. here is an explanation why the in- terventionist is so right now to discredit Carranza and still further involve the Administra- tion, for there is no question but that the financial element opposed to Car- ranza is dominated by the tionist, the one armed intervention in Mexico in order that his personal interests may be served through the blood of his countrymen. And, in this pious desire, he is ably seconded by the European element. either Perhap actively at work interven- who. desires The old element which formerly dominated Mexico would be glad to have the war ended, and, while hat- ing Carranza, would be satisfied to see him prevail, provided he had the moral assistance of the United States, for without this assistance no ele- ment will prevail in Mexico for very long. This element, at least openly, bitterly resents meddling in the in- ternal affairs of Mexico and is against any form of intervention; so they say, rather than intervention we are will- ing to agree upon anybody backed by the United States. With Carranza and the Constitu- tional element in their present stron position, one may well why it has not received this moral assistance along ago. One must realize that to establish any government in Mexico to which this element is opposed, would mean war, and the forces of the United States, not those of the “A. B. €’s’ would be the wage it. ask ones to The general opinion among those best posted is that a moral recogni- tion of the Constitutionalists. an em- bargo on arms and munitions of war. and a firm and decided stand taken against all efforts to start trouble in this country, will end the war in Mexico, enable that country to form a legal government, and restore its credit. jrasensasmasusnsnusuasunesmeeee ny ———— Hard work brings success—some- times. September 25, 1915 HALF A MILLION MURDERs. The statement on the Turkish mag. sacres sent out from Paris by rep. resentatives of the Armenian Church adds another document to evidence that is fast becoming overwhelming Again it is estimated that the numbe; of murders approaches half a mil- lion; again it is declared that “Chris- tian martyrdom has at no time as- sumed such colossal proportions.” The Church representatives refer to direct reports in their possession as the basis of these assertions. It js simultaneously telegraphed — from Washington that the records of the State Department are replete with detailed letters from officers in Asia Minor, giving harrowing tales of the treatment of Armenians by Turks and Kurds, and confirming allegations that a war of has been undertaken behest of the Kaiser. If the outrages have anything like the mag- nitude reported, the American ernment ought to register a formal and emphatic protest without loss of time. As Lord Bryce has said, our official voice is the only one that has any power. Ambassador thau is said already to have general representations: American Con- sular extermination at the Gov- Morgen- made backed by a full and official statement of the in- dignation with which the American people regard the Turkish crimes, —instigated by Germany—he might be able to put a period to them HOW MUCH WHEAT NEEDED? Statements from European author- ities, regarding import requirements this year, meet with criticism. One of them that the world requires 000 bushels this season, 000,000 bushels actually year, the principal reductions !: in France, Italy and Holland. Official reports on the two former countries make the crops 412,000,000 or 70,000,000 bushels ¥eat Ver considerable estimates only 416,000,- against 524,- } taken last bushels, than last requirements are less import estimated at only 64,000,000 bushels, or 91,000,000 bushels less than last year. The two statements do not go together. Even admitting that a part of France is held by Germany, and that the governments will un- doubtedly attempt to curtail con- sumption, bread is the cheapest of al! foods, and only such a reduction in consumption per capita. A prominent. statistican world’s import requirements at 545.- 000,000 bushels; but even this is below the generally accepted of the world’s exportable surp! In current estimates on that surplus no allowance is made for deteriora- tion of the winter wheat crop of this country or for the poor crop pros pects in Argentina. Some people ac tually seem to be looking for th: country to export 120,000,000 bushels hut present prospects do not poi! to more than. 80,000,000. ee If a printer’s mistake makes your advertisement quotes a price lowe: than you want to go, meet the quo- tation just the same. You can’t al- ford to go back on your advertisin at any price, a famine could cause estimates September 29, 1915 CS ~ — _ ~ a — MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ae Utd rae pegp oan President Law on the Business Situa- tion.* These annual gatherings are mile- stones which mark our banking pro- gress. Since our Richmond convention last October many events of vital import- ance have been crowded together, often too swiftly for realization and analysis, so seriously have they af- fected our lives and fortunes. A fur- ther perspective will result in clearer vision. We are meeting in the midst of strange and stirring days, saturated with the romance of world changes. History is being made on every con- tinent and new maps are being drawn with a pen remorselessly dipped in the blood of strong men and of in- nocent women and children. In Europe war has continued its progress with increasing military fe- rocity, economic devastation and loss of human life. In America the situa- tion has served to reveal the marvel- ous material resources of the United States. After recovering from the first paralyzing shock, our leaders be- gan energetically and resourcefully the task of repairing shattered confi- dence and effecting the resumption of normal commercial activities and in- dustrial operations. Transportation interruptions by sea and land were overcome. Emergency measures pre- viously provided gradually enabled banking transactions to proceed along the usual lines; the stock exchanges were opened on December 12 under certain restrictions after having re- mained closed about four and a half months, and international and domes- tic traffic have since been conducted under abnormal influences and extra- ordinary difficulties. During the year you have seen sterling exchange rise to its maximum price of two generations, and sink to its minimum. You have seen inter- est rates uncomfortably high and again discouragingly low; you have seen wide fluctuations in of our staple seen the values products; you have economy practiced until, as a consequence, retail trade suffered se- verely. Manufacturers in many branches have not been able simultaneously to meet the combined effects of tariff changes, the unusual shifting of prices of both raw material and products under war conditions, and recently the demoralizing competition for skilled labor by the contractors for war supplies. As soon as_ business is resumed on a large scale we are Address by William A. Law, of the First National Bank of Philadelphia, ana President of the American Bankers As- sociation before the Seattle Convention. going to face most unusual labor con- ditions. Practically no immigrants are coming in at the present time; our normal movement averages about 100,000 per month. Those industries concerned in the production and distribution of food stuffs have been least injured. Leather has been strong and active; the au- tomobile industry has been surpris- ingly stimulated, due in great meas- ure to the war. On the other hand, textiles have been irregular and diffi- cult. Construction and all prodticts purchasable by the railroads have been slow and dull. Our coal tonnage ex- ceeds the combined tonnage of the products of agriculture, forests, man- ufacturers and animals. The success of many of our railroads, therefore, depends upon manufacturing activity. The railroads have been suffering from a fourfold burden of decreased tonnage, decreased freight rates and the increased costs of labor and money, but they are pluckily over- coming their difficulties. As a whole, production is irresist- ibly increasing; unemployment is slowly and steadily decreasing; dis- tribution is quietly broadening. The unprecedented prices for some of our agricultural and industrial prod- ucts have revitalized stagnant labor generally, besides strengthening the position of our most important inter- est—farming. The United States has grasped its unique opportunity to be- come a larger factor in international finance and commerce. Every busi- ness man’s life has been affected more or less by these events. Some have used their opportunities to ad- vantage, while many others have sus- tained severe losses because they were so situated that they could not ad- just themselves profitably to the sud- denly changed conditions. New pol- litical problems have been thrust up- on our officials for immediate tion. solu- Last fall, when Europe needed the surplus of our two most bountiful crops, wheat and cotton, we harvested for the first time, by a rare coinci- dence, over 930,000,000 bushels of wheat and gathered over 17,000,000 bales of cotton; hence our amazing international credit trade balance for the year ending June 30, 1915, amount- ing to $1,094,000,000. This immense balance has created serious exchange problems for European merchants and governments. Let us not forget, however, that over $220,000,000 of this export excess as compared with the previous year was caused by the decrease in imports of raw material in connection with our retarded in- dustrial activity accompanied by idle- GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK CiIryY FRUST & SAVINGS BANK ASSOCIATED = i Combined Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits $1,781,500 Deposits Exceeding Seven and One-half Million Dollars Business firms, corporations or individuals requiring reliable financial information relative to Grand Rapids businesses or business opportunities are invited to correspond with the investment departments of either the Grand Rapids National City Bank or City Trust & Savings Bank, which have at their imme- diate disposal a large volume of industrial and commercial! facts. Where Caution Should Rule If your estate is small, consisting, possibly, of a few hundred dollars or a life insurance policy, it is all the more reason why it should be carefully handled for those you wish to protect. The appointment of this Company as executor, administrator or trus- tee will aff.rd this protection. Send for blank form of Will and booklet on the Descent and Distribution of Property. THE MICHIGAN TRUST Go. of Grand Rapids 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN September 29, 191 ness and suffering on the part of wage-earners in many of our manufac- turing centers. Several of our strongest assump- tions have proven erroneous. Our stock of gold was not exhausted by foreign shipments; in fact, interna- tional exchanges gradually turned in our favor. Our cotton exports were not cut in five as predicted, but ex- ceeded 92 per cent. of the previous year’s volume. Our copper industry was not ruined but has been stimulat- ed. Our stock exchanges have not been overwhelmed by a flood of dis- tressed sacrifice prices by European holders, but we have readily absorbed all of- American securities sold at ferings. Our issues of emergency cur- rency amounting to $384,000,000, and of clearing house loan certificates amounting to $212,000,000, nearly $600,000,000 in all, did not long remain and re- outstanding, but reduction demption took place promptly and they were practically all retired by the middle of January, 1915. The timely visit of Sir George Paish, the special representative of the British Treasury, paved the way for a per- fect understanding as to the sound- est and simplest methods of resuming international trade with and paymen: to Great Britain, who is our largest customer, buying annually from us, if we include Canada, over $1,000,000,- 000 worth of merchandise or about three times as much as our next best customer, Germany. Our fundament- als were never more sound than now. At the present time the iron market, the barometer of our National trade, is strong and active. We are witness- ing activities in metals, both as to production and fabrication, beyond precedent, and the producers of steel. copper, zinc and other metals have seen soaring prices as well as new records in volume. As always we have sold most of our products in the forms of raw material, other na- tions deriving the profit from manu- facture. The New York Stock Ex- change is vigorously celebrating its new lease upon life with a specula- tive orgy in some causing thoughtful men no little con- This is caused mainly by the issues which is cern. unprecedented plethora of funds con- -gested in New York City, where funds were loaned as low at 1 per cent. on Call On November 16, 1914, the Federal reserve banks were opened, starting too late to afford relief during the financial stringency, as_ the retire- ment of emergency currency was by that time in full swing. Unfortunate- ly, this contraction was not sufficient to meet the reduced requirements of commercial depression combined with speculative inactivity, and for the past six months at least we have been suffering acutely from redunant cur- rency, a condition in many respects more dangerous than a stringency. We have not as yet an elastic curren- cy. Contraction ceased when emer- gency issues were retired, and sub- stantial amounts of Federal reserve notes are being steadily put out, adding to the unhealthy plethora. We have witnessed rates so low that neither banks, customers nor invest- ors are benefitted. Cheap money in- duces speculation and unsafe credit expansion. The recent activities on stock exchanges would have occurred in some other class of securities even if the war stocks had not taken the center of the stage. Excessive specu- lation, as always in the past, will fol- low the presence of redundant money until the proper devices for contrac- tion are perfected and operated. The Federal reserve act provides a comprehensive plan for American banking co-operation. The responsi- bility for working out important de- tails rests upon the Federal Reserve Board. They are doing this admir- ably and conscientiously, and have exhibited willingness to make changes where trial has shown that they are mistaken, which is a most hopeful The principal features of the system will remain a part of our per- manent banking fabric, but in all probability there will be amendments to the act as their neces- sity becomes apparent. National banks located in the cities should be operate sign. various larger authorized to Our principal cities are growing rapidly in area as_ well as population, and oftentimes banking facilities are required in remote sec- tions where sufficient business does not exist at the moment to cover the overhead cost of first-class manage- ment for an independent institution. For the sake of economy and con- venience it should be possible for a National bank to have a reasonable number of branches in any part of the city in which it is located, if the population exceeds 200,000. The util- ity of such a plan has been proven by the experience of state chartered institutions in several of our cities— notably in Detroit, New York and New Orleans. branches. The strength of the Federal Re- serve Board in shaping the conduct of the twelve banks has given us in many respects. practically a central bank, but without its economy and simplicity. The advocates of a cen- tral bank have noted with approval arrangements made for contributions to the central gold fund in Washing- ton and the numerous regulations for the conduct of the twelve Federal re- serve banks laboriously perfected and promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board just as the head office of a cen- Kent State Bank Main Office Fountain St. Facing Monroe Grand Rapids, Mich. Capital - - - - $500,000 Surplus and Profits - $500,000 Resources Over 8 Million Dollars 3 Me Per Cent. Paid on Certificates Largest State and Savings Bank in Western Michigan Fourth National United States Depositary Bank | Savings Deposits Commercial Deposits 3 Per Cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits Compounded Semi-Annually 1 3% Per Cent Interest Paid on Certificates of Deposit Left One Year Capital Stock and Surplus $580,000 WM. H. ANDERSON, President L. Z. CAUKIN, Cashier JOHN W. BLODGETT, Vice President J. C. BISHOP, Assistant Cashier Manufacturers and Merchants Find Frequent Opportunities to Save Money by Having on Hand Available Cash Idle cash is loss. Cash invested is not always available. Certificates of Deposit draw interest, and the money they represent will be paid on de- mand at this bank, or at almost any other bank in the country. The Old National Bank Grand Rapids, Mich. 177 Monroe Ave., N. W. September 29, 1915 tral bank would have performed the same function, As yet nine of the twelve banks have had no general opportunity to demonstrate either their usefulness o- their earning capacity. They are all well managed by the practical and ex- perienced men _ selected as directors by their owners, the National banks of the country. It is certain that they will earn more than their dividends under normal business conditions be- cause they are operating under a dis- tinct advantage over other banks of similar size, in that they do not pay either interest on balances or circu- lating notes, taxes, or exchange charges, and have eliminated the more expensive and risky processes of mod- ern banking. The National banks have deposited a portion of their re- serves as required by law; the collec- tion system has been put into effect to a moderate extent and a reserve of about 250 millions in gold assem- bled. As indirect benefit the system teaches the superior value of liquid as- sets in the form of short-time com- mercial paper, and will in due course of time effect general co-operation in mobilizing reserves and stabilizing in- terest rates. The system has desig- nated official leadership in Nationa} finance, and later on will probably create a real international discount market, assisting the establishment of our trade with the other nations. In the meantime the discrimination against bonds by the Federal reserve act, coincident with the other diffi- culties of the railroads, has served to aggravate the economic changes which have caused enormous shrinkage in the values of securities held by Na- tional banks, The Federal reserve system has not yet been fully tested. The country still awaits the action of two most important factors in its operation, namely, the entry of the state banks as members and the removal of Gov- ernment deposits from the independ- ent treasury. It cannot be question- ed that all commercial banks, no matter where their charters are de- rived, together with the Secretary of the Treasury, should finally co-op- erate with the system if we are to co- ordinate all elements in our sphere of commercial finance. In completing the Panama canal, and opening it to the ships of the world, we have shown what American brains, resources and courage can d+» in winning where other nations have failed. To-day the people of the At- lantic seaboard are sharing with you the effects of this big undertaking upon exports and imports. In the construction of the waterway there is glory enough for all, and with the story of the Panama canal will be linked forever the names of Roosevelt, Stevens, Wallace, Shonts, Goethals, Gaillard and Gorgas. The digging of this fifty-mile ditch completed a plan that had been in the minds of men for over 400 years. It cuts in half the ocean distance between Seattle and New York, and in its creation of new values compares with the other two great trades made on behalf of MICHIGAN TRADESMAN this country—the one by Jefferson when in 1803 he made the Louisiana purchase from France for $15,500,000, and the other by Seward when in 1867, during the Presidency of Andrew Johnson, he bought Alaska from Rus- sia for $7,200,000. The complete ca- nal will probably cost $325,000,000, and aside from its commercial value and strategic importance in time of war will rank with the noted engineering achievements of the century. A few words about the near future. We have reasons to believe that our financial position will strengthen steadily as the European war _ pro- gresses; that our devoted President will be successful in preserving neu- trality. When war ends what will it mean to us as a nation? We shall be rich enough and generous enough to contribute liberally toward the help of the needy; to assist in the recon- struction of some of the ruined na- tions; to give employment to the mass of immigrants who will probably rush to our shores; to compete vigorous- ly with the stronger nations in seek- ing foreign trade. —2~-+___ Before condemning an employe for making a mistake, see whether you have done all you could to make that mistake impossible or unlikely. AQ x ABTA We ‘ee eA We want accounts of merchants and individuals in any form and will pay highest rates of interest paid in Grand Rapids _ Incorporated banks of Grand Rapids have never suffered a failure ccc Cc = Geno pies GS ancsBanic Incorporated 1870 Temporary Quarters Adjoining Corner Ionia and Monroe Ave. 11 GRAND RAPIDS SAFE co. Agent for the Celebrated YORK MANGANESE BANK SAFE Taking an insurance rate of 50c per $1,000 per year. Particulars mailed. Safe experts. TRADESMAN BUILDING GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN What is your rate? We Can Furnish ‘The Experience, Prudence and Business Judgment your estate will need because Administration and care of prop- erty are our business, just as merchandising, manufacturing or professional service is yours. [FRAND Rapios [RUST [OMPANY Capital and Surplus $450,000 Robert D. Graham, President Hugh E. Wilson, Secretary Most business men are called upon, at sometime, to adminis- ter an estate where the situation demands the selection of conservative investments with as good yield as goes with “maximum” security. Municipal and first mortgage, serial, real estate bonds and certain kinds of public utility bonds are peculiarly fitted for such investments. Howe SNOW CORRIGAN & BERTLES MICHIGAN TRUST “BLDG GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN INVESTMENT BANKERS will give you the benefit of their experience and the same competent counsel that has won for them the confidence of their large clientel and many banker patrons. 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. The Preferred Life Insurance Co. of America GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 12 September 29, 1915 FHTITU (|e A Friendly and Sensible Reminder to Customers. Written for the Tradesman. Posted conspicuously in the rest room of a large, fine and very up-to- date store, I recently observed a neat card reading thus: Your Jewels—Your Valuables—Are You Leaving Any Of Your Belong- ings?” “Your Money— It seems to me that this little re- minder, manifesting as it does ap almost maternal and_ solicitude for the welfare of customers, is some- thing that may well be adopted by every that caters to women. Or if not just this, then some other practical method of calling milady’s care store attention to the necesssity for mak- ing an occasional inventory of those loose possessions which she brought with her and which she is liable to get parted from. Besides money, jewelry and valuables, there is the umbrella or parasol, extra wrap, shopping bag and parcels, any one of which the tired and busy shopper is likely to find missing when she reaches home: nor is this enlarged list in any wise complete. it is not mention all these. Simply calling her attention to the items of greatest value, as done in the well-worded card just quoted, will cause any sane woman to look However necessary to after all her detached belongings. The rest room is the most appro- priate place for such a reminder, be- cause here the little freshening of the toilet, or the chat with a friend, or the few minutes rest, make it a place where things are especially likely to be laid down and forgotten. Also, the mind being somewhat relaxed from the tension of deciding on pur- chases, the shopper is more apt to heed to reminder here than elsewhere in the store. give such a Preventing, so far as possible, the loss of money or personal property has its humanitarian side. There is no honest and right-minded merchant who does not greatly re- gret any such losses when they oc- cur, and who will not gladly do all in his power to forestall them. All this from motives purely disinterested. There is also a business side to this matter. other It is decidedly best for the general reputation of a store and for keeping the confidence and good will or tne individual customers, that all losses of the kind spoken of be reduced to the minimum. A woman loses her purse or a brooch or a package of goods. She knows or thinks she knows that she must have left it in a certain store. If that store can not produce the missing article, there is likely to remain in mind a shadow of suspicion, that years of time may not eradicate. “I lost a ten-dollar bill, or my watch, or the material for a new silk dress in that place once, and I never like to go there,” expresses her feelings. Every one of experience knows that a pocketbook or anything of value left by a careless customer in the rest room or on some counter or table piled with goods, is more likely to be “swiped” by some one of light- fingered propensities who may hap- pen along, than items in the stock. Also, any such left-behinds present peculiar temptation to the salesgirls and other employes. her The reason in both cases clearly is that the checks and safeguards that protect the mer- chandise and make a theft of money belonging to the store very rare, are largely inoperative with regard to the loose property of customers. From considerations of every kind it is well to have such a reminder as that described. It can do no possible harm and will prevent Further, all helpers would be in- structed to call the attention of cus- tomers to otherwise, many losses. any article, valuable or that has been laid down and is likely to be left in the store. It perhaps is hardly necessary to mention that “found” article should be well cared for and all rea- sonable effort it to the owner. This is an essential fea- ture of good management, and ates a feeling of confidence in every made to restore cre- the trustworthiness of the establishment. In the referred to the room is on the second floor. store rest On a table near the rest room was a dis- play of jewel garters, which the read- er may or may not know are dainty little affairs of elastic and ribbon, to be worn underneath the stocking, and designed to furnish a safe place for jewels. This attractive display was well located to catch the customer’s attention just after she had been kindly reminded to see that her jewels were all right. Doubtless fre- quent sales would result. However, most women have ¢o lit- tle costly jewelry that keeping it safe is not burdensome. What is needed far more than any kind of a jewel garter is the yet-to-be-invented prac- tical pocket for women, some place where Madame can carry her money— all but a little small change in her hand bag—when she goes shopping or traveling. Fashion whimsically decrees pockets here and _ there. She had some in the skirts this sum- mer. But Fashion’s pockets are for We are manufacturers o UNTRIMMED HATS for Ladies, Misses and Children, especially adapted to the general Trial order solicited. store trade. CORL, KNOTT Corner Commerce Ave. and Island St. Grand Rapids, Mich. f TRIMMED AND & CO., Ltd. 199-141 Monro. ot LL eS GHAND RAPIDS SiC ti Spring prices have been made on dress ginghams and are very much Attention lower than last year. We have bou ght a larger line than ever before. keag, York and XX Seersuckers. In about ten days our salesmen will show a complete sample line of new spring styles. Do not buy until you have seen this line. Toile du Nord, A F C,S &S, Red Seal, Red Rose, Utility, Whittenton, Barnaby Zephyrs, Amos- Wholesale Dry Goods PAUL STEKETEE & SONS Grand Rapids, Mich. Michigan Knitting Co. Sweaters, Sweater Coats, Hockey Caps, Gloves, Mittens and No. 517 Manufacturer of Knit Goods Specialties LANSING, MICHIGAN The Michigan Knit Girl No. heavy weight, fashioned belted coat. Cardiganstitch. Made from excellent grade of wool. anycolor. High, close- fitting collar. celled for warmth and durability. garment for outdoor . winter sports, ing, coasting, etc. Sizes 34 to 44. Cap. Style No. 631 A—Heavy Jumbo stitch. best grade wool yarn. Supplied in all colors. Illustrated catalogue on application or sam- ple assortment sent on approval. 517--Ladies’ full Supplied in Unex- An ideal . skat- Made from + + September 29, 1915 looks only—they have no_ utility. What is wanted is some receptacle invisible to outward observation, causing not even the slightest bulge in ‘the lines of the costume, conven iently still safe and secure. Meeting these requirements it would prove a boon to womankind, It is hoped that lines may fall under the eye of some apparel mantiacturer or accessible and these dress- maker, who may be able to rise to the occasion. Not long ago I overheard a little woman with plaintive voice telephon- ing to a store, enquiring whether some money she had lost had been found. “T don’t know just the name of the department, but it was right there by the voiles,’” she told them. In answer to their enquiries it came out that the money was ‘in a big envelope.” The poor little thing had been carring bills, good money, legal tender and earned by the sweat ingenious of somebody’s brow, in an envelope in her hand! Fabrix. —_—_e~- 2. __ What Some Michigan Cities Are Doing. Written for the Tradesman. Muskegon reports three changes in fire schedules within a month and rates are now back on the old basis. Citizens of insurance Rochester are not pleased with a recent advance in fire insurance rates, said to range from “9 to 75 per cent., and have appealed to the State Insurance Department. Battle Creek will add a triple com- bination motor fire truck to its equip- ment, placing the new machine at No. 2 station. Membership in the new Chamber of Commerce at St. Joseph, has passed the 600 mark. The annual fee is $10. The Steelclad Auto Bow Co., of Chicago, capital $50,000, will remove to Holland, occupying the plant of the Holland Manufacturing Co. From twelve to fifteen men will be em- ployed at the start. Savings deposits in Pontiac banks show an increase during the past year of $116,623.85. The Rock Starter Co. has been formed at Jonesville and will manu- facture a_ self-starter for automo- biles. Owosso seeks the removal by Jan. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 1, of all poles in the business dis- trict. The present “cedar swamp” is unsightly and a menace also in the event of a big downtown fire. Three will open bids Oct. 21, for the constructon of a light and water plant, the cost of which without auxiliary plant is estimated at $55,000. The week opening Oct. 25 will be Rivers observed as trade extension week in Battle Creek. Escanaba has passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to spit on sidewalks or to throw banana _ skins or orange peel on walks, in the park, or floors of halls or in street cars. Iremont now has boulevard lights. Otsego will hold its fourth annual home coming and street fair Oct. 14- 15. The Hayes Wheel Co. is building a large addition to its plant at Al- bion, increasing its capacity one-third. The Belding Board of Commerce has distributed booster stickers among local people for use on out- going mail. On the face of the stick- ers are pictures of factories and im- portant places in the city. Battle Creek will take care of two State conventions Oct. 13-14—the Michigan postmasters and the Grand Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star. The Michigan State Implement and Vehicle Dealers’ Association will hold its annual convention in Kala- mazoo, Nov. 7-9. Almond Griffen. ——_>+ > Maeterlinck’s Arraignment of Ger- many. Through the whole course of his- tory two distinct will powers have been noticed that would seem to be the opposing elemental manifestations of the spirit of our globe, one seek- ing only evil, injustice, tyranny. suf- fering; the other striving for liberty, right, radiance and joy. These two powers stand once again face to face. Our opportuinty is to annihilate the Let us know how to be pitiless that we may It is the measure Of organic defence; it is es- one that comes from below. have no more need for pity. sential that the modern world should stamp Prussian militarism as it would be to stamp out a poison fungus that for half a century has poisoned its days. The health of our planet is the question. Maurice Maeterlinck. out —_—_»+-._____ A man who can dispose of his trou- bles for a consideration is a genius. 164-166-168 Jefferson Ave. “STYLES THAT SELL” SOFT THE CAPS, GLOVES & NEWLAND & STIFF HATS HAT MITTENS We carry a complete line of the latest styles for prompt shipment Mail orders solicited Newland Hat Company Detroit, Michigan 13 GREAT SCOTT. CANT You REYNOL SHINGLE It is not economy to buy cheap goods, neither is it good policy to pay more for an article than the service rendered will justify. Reynolds Shingles have accom- plished a great roofing economy by combining high quality with conservative costs of manufacture and sale. If your roof leaks, have your roofer put on Rey- nolds Shingles. If you are building a new house or barn, insist on having Reynolds Shingles. They give you durability. beauty and fire-retardant value for less cost to you than with any other roofing material. For sale by all Lumber Dealers. H. M. Reynolds Asphalt Shingle Co. “Originators of the Asphalt Shingle’ Grand Rapids, Mich. Write me for special delivered prices for September. J H. Smith Mine Representative 521-522 Ashton Bldg. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN HZ Sunbeam Mackinaws ’ SSSUN BEAM == A large assortment of attractive patterns, specially selected materials, combining style, finish and quality, correct in every detail. A better idea of the line can be obtained from our winter catalogue. Send for it to-day—NOW. BROWN & SEHLER CO. ‘‘Home of Sunbeam Goods’’ Grand Rapids, Mich. Overalls Versus Dyes The scarcity of Indigo dye is causing some of the denim mills to shut down, others to make up a substitute. The sub- stitutes are in most instances proving very unsatisfactory. Empire Overalls and Coats are made of the genuine Indigo dyed cloth. Our men wil be pleased to book orders while our stock lasts. Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. 20-22 Commerce Ave. Exclusively Wholesale Grand Rapids, Mich. 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN September 29, 1915 1S) . = oy om aera ee 4, AA IONS ule (ZS Wa AS Mail us sample any Beans you may wish to sell. Send us orders for FIELD SEEDS. Both Phones 1217 MOSELEY BROTHERS _ Grand Rapids, Mich. How Can Cheese Consumption Be Increased? The average American, in compari- son to the average European, is not a cheese eater, he is a cheese nibbler. Probably it was our liberal supply of cheap and excellent meat that spoiled our taste for cheese in thre earlier years of our National development. But cheap meat now appears to be a thing of the past and we are gradually drifting toward a time when the average American will find it eco- nomical to ease up on the meat and take cheese more seriouly with his meals. 3ut if we await the slow process of this evolution to material- ly increase our per capita consumption of cheese we will wait a lone time, and there are many things that the cheese industry can do to help boost consumption. It is not enough to tell the public the high nutritive value of cheese, its digestibility and the economy in its free use. This in- formation spread broadcast is un- doubtedly helpful and the U. S. De- partment of Agriculture has done the industry a good turn in disseminating such information and informing peo- ple more generally as to the many appetizing ways cheese can be pre- pared for the table. The industry and all those engaged in it should do their share in helping on such cheese publicity work as the Department has prepared, but they should do more. First and foremost they should en- deavor to produce types and varieties of cheese which the public will eat more of regardless of nutritive value. There are comparatively few healthy Americans who choose their ration with a single eye to food value. We have such a _ wide variety of wholesome appetizing foods con- tantly available that most of us let our personal tastes dictate our choice. And it is only by appealing more strongly to the American taste by turning out a greater variety of cheese that the masses like and teaching them ways to prepare these cheese in an appetizing manner that we can hope to largely increase the per capita consumption within our lifetimes. The “Welch rabbit” craze that struck many of our cities not so very many years ago was a big factor in futhering cheese consumption, and there is still a very large amount of American cheddar cheese consumed in this form. There would be more were the excellence and wholesome- ness of many of the concoctions of melted cheese, mixed with various other ingredients, more generally kown. Then the jar and roll cheese business which, in many cases, has American cheddar as its foundation, has helped cheese consumption to some extent. But when it comes to eating Ameri- can cheese “raw” we believe that the rate of consumption in many sections of the country is held down simply because the type of cheese frequently offered does not appeal to many con- sumers. We have taken the trouble to get the views of a good many peo- ple on this point and in a surprisingly large number of cases we have been told it is difficult to find “good” cheese on the retail markets. Now. of course, individual tastes vary widely in the case of cheese, but it has al- ways semed to us that there existed a tremendous amount of room for increasing American cheese con- sumption by a closer study of popu- lar tastes. We are forced to the con- clusion that a considerable part of our cheese is not of a quality likely to promote larger consumption and the endeavor to remedy this fault is the big problem before the industry if we are to make rapid and substan- tial progress in increasing the con- sumption of American cheese. Blue Valley Creamery Co. Largest exclusive manufacturers of Pure Cream Butter in the World Grand Rapids, Mich. The Vinkemulder Company Jobbers and Shippers of Everything in Fruits and Produce Grand Rapids, Mich. WHOLESALE Flour, Feed, Hay, Bags, Twine Bakers’ Supplies and Machinery, Waxed Paper, Bread Wrappers Dry Milk Powdered Egg Cooking Oil Compound Everything for Bakers, Flour and Feed Dealers ROY BAKER Wm. Alden Smith Bldg. Grand Rapids, Michigan Make Us Your Shipments When you have Fresh Quality Eggs, Dairy Butter or packing stock. Always in the market. Quick returns. Kent Storage Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Rea & Witzig PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS 104-106 West Market St. Buffalo, N. Y. Established 1873 Live Poultry in excellent de- mand at market prices. Can handle large shipments to ad- vantage. Fresh Eggs in good de- mand at market prices, Fancy creamery butter and good dairy selling at full quota- tions. Common plenty and dull. Send for our weekly price cur- rent or wire for special quota- tions. Refer you to the People’s Bank of Buffalo, all Commercial Agen- cies and to hundreds of shippers everywhere. SUN-KIST Prunes are the kind which makes folks say, “I never knew that prunes were so good’’—the kind they come back for—the kind you build business on and the kind you can always recommend. Only the best selection of the best prunes from the best district in California where the best prunes grow are good enough for the SUN-KIST Kind. NATIONAL GROCER CO.’S Houses September 29, 1915 BANKRUPTCY MATTERS. Proceedings in the Western District of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Sept. 14—In the matter of James Maroutsos and William Hiotes, individuals and copartners as Maroutsos & Hiotes, bankrupt, operating the Em- press Cafe, at Grand Rapids, prior to bankruptcy, the first meeting of creditors was held this date. Claims were allowed. Kirk E. Wicks, receiver, filed report through George S. Norcross, custodian, showing sale of all of the assets of the bankrupt to William C. Mounteer for $550. Out of the sale price certain pre- ferred and secured chattel mortgage and title contract claims are to be paid, leaving a balance on hand of this estare of about $190. The sale was confirmed by the creditors and transfer authorized. Creditors failing to elect, the referee up- pointed Charles H. Lillie, of Grand Rap- ids, as trustee and fixed his bond at $200. Hach of the bankrupts failed to appear for examination and the meeting was ad- jJourned to Oct. 14, and the bankrupts ordered to appear. The dividend, if any, for the general creditors will be extreme- ly small. Carl T. Clark, of Grand Rapids, has this day filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy and the matter has been re- ferred to Referee Wicks for adjudication in the absence of the District Judge from the district. The schedules on file at this office reveal that there are no assets not claimed as exempt and the following are listed as creditors of the bankrupt: Dr Beel ,Grand) Rapids ..../..... $ 2.00 J. N. Trompen, Grand Rapids .... 11.60 E. Bouwknegt, Grandville ........ 11.40 G. A. Crawford, Grand Rapids ... 29.50 G. J. Vanderwell, Beverly ........ 7.47 Groskopf Bros., Grand Rapids .:.. 11.85 Lane & Shaffer, Grandville ...... 32.3 Watson Brothers, Wyoming Park 26.00 Dr. S. L. Rosema, Grand Rapids .. 152.00 Beacon Shoe Co., Grand Rapids .. ooo Bell Chalmers, Grand Rapids .... 15.00 Hugh Schneider, Grand Rapids .... 10.00 Elston Storage Co., Grand Rapids 19.00 Dr. McPherson, Grand Rapids .... 5.09 The first meeting of creditors in this matter has not yet been called. Sept. 15—In the matter of the Matrix Service Co., bankrupt, Grand Rapids, the first meeting of creditors was held this date. Claims were allowed. Kink F. Wicks, receiver, made a written report of his acts and doing as receiver, show- ing the collection of certain accounts re- ceivable, taking of inventory and ap- praisal, etc., which, by vote of the cred- itors, was approved. By the unanimous vote of creditors present and represented, T. S. Etheridge, of Grand Rapids, was elected trustee and his bond fixed at $2,000. The officers of the bankrupt were sworn and examined and the meeting ad- journed to Sept. 28. The assets are cov- ered by a certain chattel mortgage, which the trustee has given notice of objection to on account of failure to properly re- cord. If this mortgage is valid it is not probable that there will be any dividend for the general creditors. The matter of the validity of the mortgage will be determined at an early date it is ex- pected. Sept. 16—In the matter of Edward Van Eenenaam, bankrupt, Grand Rapids, the adjourned first meeting of creditors was held this date. The bankrupt was re- called and further examined. The trus- teed filed his first report and account, showing the sale of the assets and the collection of certain of the accounts re- ceivable. It was determined that it was not possible to pay a first dividend at this time and the meeting was further adjourned to Nov. 15. The trustee will in the meantime endeavor to collect in further accounts receivable. In the matter of the Henry Motor Car Co., bankrupt, Muskegon, the trustee has filed his final report and account, show- ing his acts and doings as such trustee, and a balance on hand after payment of second dividend of 18 per cent. of $272.38; additional receipts of account receivable, $91.77; and the receipt of $627.86 from the National Lumbermans’ Bank of Muske- gon, being the net proceeds after deduct- ing expenses of successful litigation in the State and Supreme Courts of Iowa to recover $800 deposited by said Henry Motor Car Co. prior to the bankruptcy proceedings as security for a bond ex- ecuted for the bankrupt; also showing disbursements for administration ex- penses of $42.10 and a balance on hand of $949.91. The final meeting of creditors has been called for Sept. 29, at which time the final dividend for creditors will be paid and the estate finally closed. This estate has heretofore paid two divi- dends aggregating 28 per cent. The final dividend will be a very small one. In the matter of George B. Ferris, bank- rupt, Grand Rapids, the trustee has filed his final report and account and the final meeting of creditors has been called for Sept. 27. The final report and account on file at the office of the referee shows total receipts from the sale of all assets, accounts, receivable, etc., $1,132.49; dis- bursements as follows: preferred claims paid by order of court, $84.50; adminis- tration expenses, $142.06; attorney fees on account, $40; total, $266.56 and a bal- ance of cash on hand of $865.93; also showing a receipt for premiums of $16.50 since the filing of the final report and account, making total balance on hand of $882.43; also a doubtful claim against the insurance company carrying a policy on MICHIGAN TRADESMAN certain assets of the bankrupt which were burned prior to the bankruptcy pro- ceeding which the trustee recommends be sold to the highest bidder. The estate will pay a dividend of about 10 per cent. Sept. 18—Charles Spadafore, of Crand Haven, has this day filed a voluntary pe- tition in bankruptcy, adjudication has been made by Referee Wicks, in the ab- sence of the judge from the district. Kirk iE. Wicks, has been appointed receiver, Arie Van Tol, of Grand Haven, has been appointed custodian for the receiver. The first meeting of creditors has been calle«t for Oct. 4, at which time creditors may appear, prove their claims, elect a trustee and transact such other and _ further business as may properly come before the meeting. The schedules of the bankrupt reveal assets of $1,150 and the liabilities are listed at $2,162.50. The following are listed as creditors: Secured. Walker Candy Co., Muskegon, chattel MIOREPAZe «21 es. $659.00 Unsecured. M. Piowaty & Son, Grand Rapids $ 32.90 John Gardella, Grand Rapids .... 100.00 Worden Grocer Co., Grand Rapids 129.00 Putman Candy Co., Grand Rapids 267.09 Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids 26.00 Walker Candy Co., Muskegon .... 300.00 Cadiliae Cigar Co., Cadillac ...... 77.00 Basil, Russel & Co., Chicago ...... 45.00 Badger Candy Co., Milwaukee .... 30.69 George Zeigel & Co., Milwaukee 26.00 Duibune, (Cnicago oe 69.05 Edw. Seligman, Grand Rapids .... 12.0 Cy A Conner, Owosso). 200.0... 26.90 Puritan Candy Co., Milwaukee .... 3.90 Werner, Patterson Co., Detroit :. 80.52 Daily News, -@nicago: 60.05. ..0: 10.09 AY . Baker & Co; Chicago ...-.. 223.94 Fischer Bros. Paper Co., Ft. Wiaymles) Img) ese: 34.61 Blue Valley Creamery Co., Grand WUQDIOS oo so cca as eee ces 10.00 George Sangs, Muskegon .......... 20.00 An involuntary petition has been filed against the Charles E. Norton Co., Grand Rapids, handling dry goods, carpets, la- dies’ garments, etc., and the adjudication has this day been made by Referee Kirk E. Wicks, in the absence of the District Judge from the district. John Snitseler, of Grand Rapids has been appointed re- ceiver by the referee, with limited au- thority as to the operation of the busi- ness in the general way. William B. Holden, of Grand Rapids, Daniel Steketee of Grand Rapids, and William Cudworth, of Detroit, have been appointed to make an appraisal of the assets of the bank- rupt. The list of creditors is as follows: Bloom & Keller, Brooklyn ..... S$ 200% Arnold, Constable Co., New York 33.0) Burns Bros. Mfg. Co., New York Butier Bros, New York ......... Adelson & Bros. Ph., New York Annis INGwton,: Detroit .:........ Ash & Co., Jacob, Philadelphia Abrahamson & Co., A., Chicago .. Billwiller Bros., New York ..... 3urtworth Carpet Co., Chicopee, MaSSe oe ccs e. oe 224.09 Acorn Garment Co., New York .. 24.00 Alland Bros. & Co., New York .. 284.01 Booth, Bregman & Sumberg, N. Y. 145.00 Burnham. Stoepel & Co., Detroit 494 3- Biltwell Waist Co., New York .. 41.25 Brenner Hat Co., Philadelphia .. 25.00 Blumfeld & Bloom, New York .. 53.99 Brawerman Mfg. Co., Philadelphia 161.60 3ush & Terry, Jasper, Philadelphia 390.9! Amermaid Mfe. Co., Cleveland .. 1: 3arnett, Berkman & Co., N. Y 2 Brody Coat Co:;, New York ..... a Biltmore Waist Co., New York .. 52.59 Adjustable Housedress Co., N. Y. 54.00 pacer Mia: Co., New York ...... 44.75 Brody Max. New York ..0...5.7. 60.50 Beck & Co., S. N., New York .. 167.79 3arber Co., Meyer, New York .... 57.50 Arbetman Bros. & Blair, Chicago 143.50 Boomhover Corpor. Arthur, N. Y. 197.99 Albus, Morris, Philadelphia ...... 140.25 Barnard Rubber Company, W. H., Philadelphia, 2... ..52....2.-. 40.95 Asher €o.;) Mheo, Chicago: (. 12... 79.00 Apt & €o., Philadelphia .......- 68.50 Albus, Nathan W., Philadelphia 116.25 Brod & Co., L., Philadelphia .... 61.25 Bassett. McNabb & Co., Philadelphia 8.63 Arbus & Sons. I., New York 76.50 Alter Bras... New York:.......... 4.58 Biatter & Co., Titus, New York 300.15 3ernstein, Harry, Chicago ........ 257.25 American Feather Boa Co., Phila- Melpian ea oe 35.00 Beaton & Co., J. R., New York .. 112.20 Bronner Mie. Co., Philadelphia .. 791.67 Dustgarten, Abraham, New York 191.00 Ellis & Lovett, New York ...... 13.75 Cochrane Co., Chas. P., Phila- Gel pn ye Souci cet Grace 5a. 95 Dickler & Handelman, New York 97.50 Finkelstein, Irving, New York .. 98.75 Davis Co,, W. A. W., New York 97.80 Epstein Bros., Philadelphia ..... 59.50 Eisen & Son, New York .......... 40.00 Crippen & Reid, Baltimore, Md. 57.00 Federal Waist Co., New York .... 90.00 Edson, Keith & Co., Chicago .... 546.32 Copalin Mfg. Co., New Haven, Con. 18.00 Dobson, John & James, Phila- GeO eee as 386.67 Doob & Sons. M., New York ..... 48.96 Flaherty, Joseph B., New York .. 74.25 Watson-Higgins Milling Co. Merchant Millers Grand Rapids = Michigan “ane to because it is made with this kind of raisins Are You Getting Your Share? of the increased demand for raisin bread and package raisins which has been created by our nation-wide advertising campaign on California Raisin Bread, made with Sun-Maid Raisins? If you are, there is more to come. If you are not, do not delay another day to reap the benefits of it. What we have done for the raisin bread and general raisin business is only the first part of what we are going to do. We have planned other full pages in the Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies’ Home Journal. We are making millions of mouths water for Sun-Maid Raisins, and the goodies that are made of them. We are giving raisins a new impor- tance in the minds of the American people. They are ceasing to be merely an incidental de- tail of your business. You are bound to be helped by this campaign boosting raisins, whether you handle the Sun- Maid kind or not; but you cannot expect to get the full results possible for yourself unless you identify yourself at once with us and our prod- uct—the first raisin to be nationally advertised. How to Do It Let us tell you what this means, to you and to us. Let us tell you how we help our business by helping yours, and how we help your business by helping ours. Send for the full particulars of our plan of co-operation. Thousands of grocers all over the country are benefiting by it. You should be one of them. Send us the attached coupon at once so that you begin to make extra profits at once. CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATED RAISIN CO. Home Office, Fresno, California 113 Hudson Street, New York Hearst Building, Chicago. Please send me complete details of plan by which I can make more money through increased sales of raisin bread and package raisins. (21) INQMG se a doet ae wece nana Steeech ee ee Cor ee cn se so ne ee CE % [7A 15 . B a b 2 ae 2 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN D. & E. Dress Co., New York Cheney Bros, New York ...... Empire Corset Co.. McGraw, N. Y. Fashion Cloak & Suit Co., Phila- Gena 22.00 Fisher Bros. Paper Co., Ft. Wayne 19.50 Cohen ros, New York _....(..; 50.00 Dix Garment Co., New York .... 26.25 Fried-Keller-Kohn Co., Cleveland 310.00 Eclipse Cloak Co., Philadelphia .. 60.75 Carson, Pirie, Scott Co., Chicago 369.93 Frisch & Macher, New York .... 61.50 Frederick & Co. J. W.. Boston 3 misk & Co., D. B., Chicago ...... Columbia Mills, Chicago ........ Drourr, Dretzin & Co., France Co., Chicago Payable Mere: intile Coronet Mfg. Co., Flint Varnish Co., Cantor & Co., H., New York Trust Co., Chicago Portland, Me. 129.00 Rit 2: New York Charlop Bros. & Co., New York 51.00 Chicago Novelty Cloak Co., Cmicaeo Gintes) ; 2)... .... 3,708.91 Farwell & Co., (notes) Field & Co., ee Cerl, Knott & Co,. Corl, Knott & Co., Grand Rapids Te Cohen & Co., Henry, New York Flatan & Steiner, New Tork ..... Hertzberg Bros., New York General Mfg. Co., Columbus Improved Mfg. Co., Ashland, O. .. Hochheimer & Co., Albert. N. Y. Haber & Co., M., Philadelphia Gary Co., Theo. H., New York Gould-Mersereau Co., New York Greenwald Bros., Philadelphia oe Jackmans Sons Wm., Cleveland 159.00 Grand Garment Co., New York 1 Geismar & Co., S., New York .. : Graff & Co., Albert, a pe sna 268.23 Hightstown Smyrna Rug Co. Mirnictown, N. J. 2... .. 100.50 Harstman Co.. Wm. H., P ete _2.69 Haas & Co., Emil, New York .... 2 Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rpds 1,: 3 Grand Rapids Herald, Grand Rpds 380-20 Grand Rapids News, Grand Rapids - 762.14 Globe Silk Waist Co., Philadelphia 3 Gaiety Waist Co., New York art & Co., O. H., New York Harris & Co., L., Philedalphia Gross & Leibowitz, New York Gage Bros & Co., Chicago Herrmann, S., New York ........ Greenberg, Weimer & Co., N. Y. Hauser Shade Cloth Co., Chicago Gammond & Co., New York Gilbert Cloak & Suit Co., N. Y. .. Greenberry Co. Inc., Harry, NEY Guinzburg, Wm., New Work ..... Hirsh & Co., Maurice, Chicago Hirsch & Bro., New York Giobe (o., New York: 22.020... Horowitz Bros., New York Gorden, M. & H., New York .. Gladstone, Samuel, New York Hellenberg & Co., New York John V., Chicago Grand Rapids Jaffe, Morris, (Assigned to Hind & Harrison) New York ...... 20.33 Goldstein & Shapiro. New York 40.00 Goldstein & Falk, New York .. 213.50 Goldstein, Barnett, New York .... 4.00 Hardwick & Magee, Philadelphia 547.91 Herzberg, Goldstein & Leeser, CAPO rece 174.00 Jaceps, A. New. Work . 2.200000. 19.00 Gein Petticoat Co., New York 47 Genet Petticoat Co., New York Isdauer & Schmidt, Philadelphia 1 Itzkowitz Bros., New York ...... 1 Jacobus Bros. & Co., New York 236.25 Ginsburg & Bro., Simon, New York 135.00 Garten-Fisher-Wells Co., Detroit 112.00 Gross & Weiss, New York ...... 35.00 Grand Rapids Savings Bank, Grand Rapids (MOTES) ooo 21,500.00 Grand Rapids & Muskegon Power Co; sarang) Rapigs 2 foc. Levy, Charlies J., New York ..... Levy, Albert, New York Karagheusian, A. & M., N. Y. M.& ©. Skirt Co:, Boston Klafter & Co., Phillip, Chicago .. Moss Rose Mfg. Co., Philade ee Lobel & Tausick, New York Deviten Co., 0, Chicare :........ Manhattan Ribbon Co., New York Lipman & Beiner. New York . Lieberman & Dorf, New York .... Munson Co., 5. L., Albany, N. Y. Linde & Rubin, New York Lack Mfe. Co., Brooklyn .....;. Mermain Underwear Co., N. Y. Bloomsburg, Pa. Magee Carpet Co., Cleveland Knoll-Campen Co., . Miller Corset Co., Cortland, N. Y. Lerner Waist Co., New York Lindley Box & Paper Co., Gas City, Ind. Kennard & Sons Carpet Co., J., Si: eps: Meg Lasky & Levy, New York Kaufman Gros., Brooklyn ...... Louvre Waist Co., New York Kaufman & Rosenbery, New York McQueen Co., Cleveland Kaplon, I., New York Levy, L. & , New York Majestic Costume Co., New York Kognt & Ulius Co., New York Kayanee Waist & Dress Co., New York T.indeman, Mutual Garment Co., Gross & Hindes, N. Y. 272.2 New York 137.0 Philadelphia 62.25 “<9 Largeman, Brown Co., Lang & Klein, New York ........ 10. Mishkin & Grossman, New York 224.50 Kicin & Ungar, New York ...... 159.10 Levitt & Co., Jacob, Philadelphia 79.15 Markun Bros., New York ........ 81.00 Kandwitz. Rosen & Co., N. Y. 37.00 Lifshitz & Jacobs, New York ... 39.50 Kaufman, Auerbach & Co., Chicago 33.68 Morris & Co., Groveville, N. J. .. 7.80 Korostoff, Joe, New York ...... 239.00 Miller & Sons, S., New York .. 64.00 Leibowitz, Jacob, New York -) Blieb0 Myers. H. & E. & S., New York .. 63.70 tehman, J. & 1., New York .... 274.90 Kayser & Co., Julius, New York 8.68 Mirsky Co., M. D., New York 3.55 Moskowitz & Teitelbaum, Phila- G@elpnia 2.200 162.00 Magill, Samuel N., Philadelphia 130.50 Magidoff, Louis, New York .... 81.25 Mitchell Bros. Co., Chicago ...... 414.75 Keplinger-Kelly-Homer Co., famG eee ” 736.61 Michigan Garment Co., Grand Rpds_ 89.50 Martin, Mrs. Mary, Grand Rapids (Obed co eee ee es McKnight, W. F., Grand Rapids Puritan Skirt Mfg. Co., Boston > 2 a> = 3 Nanon, A 3.. New York -—..-_.. Nye & Wait-Kilmarnock Cor., AMDUrn, NeW ee 4.27 Prakin & Lebofsky, New York .. 67.00 Palruba Mfg. Co., Philadelphia 180.25 Olnecer, J. & ., New York ..... 158.10 New England Mfg. Co., Fitchburg, MGS ee ae 88.75 Peerless @Co., Boston .. 195.50 Notaseme y Co., Philadelphia 50.88 Phoenix Knitting Wor ks, Milwaukee 216.43 Nelson & Landesberg. New York 425.89 Plant & Co., Henry W., New York 200.74 Preferential Waist Co., New York 128.50 Propper Bros. Co., Cleveland Peariman Bros., New. York ....... on J. W., New York : *hila. Carpet Co., Philadelphia cee Lace Works, ee Potter & Schattman, New York ngston & Co., W. J., New York Orien tal Waist Co:, New York Ostrich Co. New) Work 220000000. New York Fashion Mea 6: , New Work ooo Obegi Bros. & Co., New York Pacyna & Jaspere, Chicago ..... Prince, Wolf Co., Cleveland ...... Otis Elevator Co., Cleveland Owen & Towsley, Chicago ...... Pidgeon Millinery Co., C. T., Fort WE cae Sternberger Gerber Co., New York Square Apron Co., Chicago ...... Rampion Cloak © Suit Co., WN. Rosenberg Co., H., New York Schwartzbart, L., New York Spears, CC. & 0. New: York 3... Stenton Mfg. Co., Philadelphia Slote & Schaffer, New York Rosebud Mfg. Co., New York United Skirt Co., New York Sanitary Feather Co., Chicago Smukler, H., Philadelphia Turner & Seymour Mfg. Co., Torrington, Conn. 5S. W. Waist & Dress Co, N. Y. Simon & Mendolsohn, New ee Renown Skirt Co., Philadelphia Stiles-Freas-Smith Co., Salem, N. J. Scott Co. Chas. H., Chicago .. Schumacher & Co., F.. New York Schoble, Jr., Frank, Philadelphia Sanford & Son, Stephan, Amster- : Gam IN ee ee 481.95 Swartz & Co., Sydney M., N. Y. 6.37 Sternstein Co.. J.. New York .. 56.00 Senner & Laplon Co., New York 136.50 Schneyer & Co. .A., Philadelphia 60.00 Seranton Lace Co., Scranton, Pa. 225.10 Rand Mig. Co:, P. & J., Phila- Megha ee es Stein & Co., Louis, Philadelphia Silberstein, Wm., New York ... 20senblat, New. York: (2.2000 oc). Seader Bros., New York Shohfi Salim, New York Sicher & Co. i B., New Schlang & Co.. New Vork ........ 2odbell Inc. G., " New York 4... Roslyn Waist Co., New York Royal Worcester Co., Chicago .. Swan & Son, Joseph, New York Rubin Benjamin H., New York Stead & Miller Co., Philadelphia Samuels & Co., Peter, New York Silberman, Ruben, New York .... Slater & Co., J. P., New York Samuelson, Jacob. New Y Sudhoff, Eggers, Buchanan, cinnati Silverman, I. M., New York ..... Rosenblum Schwartz & Co.. N. Y. 18.00 Cin- Star Petticoat Co., New York .. 54.00 Star Knitting Works, Grand Rpds _ -91.23 Sinclair, Rooner & Co., Buffalo .. 80.40 Reed Bros. & Co., Cleveland ....1,756.6 tisser Felix, New York .........- Stone & €o:, Chicago =.:..:..-... Spiere) Bros. Whicaro: ooo. Strouse, Adler & Co., Chicago Schreiber, Nathan, New York Stern Co., R. 5., New York Waidman, B:, New York ....5:.. Whitcomb, McGeachin Co., N. Y. Wellington-Pierce Co., Boston Wertheimer Bros., Philadelphia 19.50 Wimelbacher & Rice, New York 1.15 Wise, G. & A.; New. York. ..... 176.56 Zuinetbaum Co., I., New York 47.00 Weingarten Bros., Chicago ...... 98.47 Wiesen & Goldstein, New York 171.50 Wilensky & Sprayreger, New York 71.00 Weinberg & Weiman, New York ¢2. Woll & Co. P., New York ...... 25 Zelinko & Moskowitz, New York Wernheim Co., Max D., Cleveland 68. Western Shade Cloth Co., Chicago 161.13 Witt & Co., Max A., New York .. 32.70 Wilson & Son, P. K.. New York .. 206.32 Warner Bros. Co., Chicago ...... 263.13 Total lability 2302 2736. $81,840.09 Take advantage of the vanity of your customers and you will find it a great help in selling. September 29, 1915 O -emx-O er eon @) woo CaO GK © - > © - cam - CE - cum - CE - cme CE) - mm CE - me - CE Quality Delivery Boxes An Investment with Big Dividends Don't bother with poor, broken delivery boxes of odd sizes. Your most profitable investment, in both time and money, will be to install “Quality’’ Wire-Bound Boxes on each delivery They are made of the best material, and sold to you at unusually low prices. in uniform sizes, JOHN A. GRIER & CO. 1031-35 18th St. Detroit, Michigan FURNITURE of beauty and durability for discriminating people with a bent for economy. Klingman’s The Largest Furniture Store in America Corner Ionia Ave. and Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Michigan September 29, 1915 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 THE MEAT MARKET i. An Old Time Butcher to His Son. Although you may probably think that Iam an old fogy, I am a great believer in the modern way of doing things. I figure that the longer we are at a thing, the more we are going to know about it, and that therefore, what is considered the right way of doing things to-day has a good deal more chance of being the correct than the way we used to do things when I first went into business about forty years ago. What strikes me funny, however, is that many a butcher who considers he is up-to-date in sense of the word and that he is using the latest way of doing things in his market really has no idea whatsoever concerning of what modern methods consist, His up-to-dateness seems to consist of trying to convince a sceptical public that he is selling his meat cheaper than any one else in the business, and he is continually exercising every bit of ingenuity that every idea of he has to provide a decent explana- tion why he is able to do it. merchandising The modern passed that stage years ago. time when it was considered good practice to advertise cheap prices passed about a few years after I started in business. Nowadays, the best merchants and most. successful men in the retail business are the men who have discarded this time worn idea of business and subsituted the quality idea in its place. They are the ones who are really up-to- date, and the butcher who measures up-to-dateness by the number of special sales which he holds in the course of a year is the weather worn fossil. Now real your I said something about this to you in my last letter, but the subject is really important enough to give a lit- tle more space. Think a little about your own friends in the butcher busi- ness. Who are the more successful? The man who put quality first, or the man who put price first. Un- less the people down in your patch of the earth are a little different from those who I have been meeting all my life, it is the former, believe me. And why are they the more success- ful? Simply because they have kept in touch with the times and are run- ning their markets in the proper up- to-date fashion. Remember the young fellow I told you about the last time I wrote you? Now he is convinced that he is the man with modern ideas, while his boss, the man he used to work for, is nothing more or less than an old fogy. If the truth is to be told, the situation is just the reverse. The old fellow discarded the ideas that the young fellow has years ago be- cause he found that they were out of date and no longer brought trade; the young fellow is going right back to them under the idea that are something new and the latest discovery in retail merchandising. Funny to find the young fellow the conservative and the old progressive, isn’t it? they fellow the Modern merchandising, the only kind that can be wholly successful in these days, consists of selling an article strictly on its merit. Of course, it most be good value for the money paid out for it, but the money, or rather the price, is not the whole thing by a long shot. The quality is there, and the quality has a lot to do with the sale, take it from one who knows. A woman doesn’t object to paying a good price for a steak providing she gets a steak that is good enough to mean full value for her money; in fact, the vast majority of them would prefer to do that rather than to pay a lower price and find themselves serving up a poor piece of meat on the family dinner table. You may consider that some of that phsycology stuff that we read about in the papers, my boy, nevertheless, it is true as it can be. Remember when you were small. stores had a habit of labeling them- selves “Cheap John” and other such names. Such a name brought trade and good trade in those days. The man who called himself that had a very good reason for doing it then, for it was the up-to-date way of doing business. What does the label, “Cheap John” attached to a store nowadays, mean? Just enough to make the average person keep away from that store. It means poor quality goods, something that most people avoid when they can, especial- ly when it comes to buying food stuffs. Yet many a butcher continues to use “Cheap John” methods of doing business while considering himself a first-class merchant, one that it in the advance guard of retail merchan- dising as we have it to-day. And, b’gosh, he is the first to call me an old fogy when I open my mouth. Why, I left that sort of butcher far behind me nearly thirty years ago.—Butchers’ Advocate. —_+-+___ Logical. Knicker—What becomes of the boy who wants to bury his grandmother? Bocker—He develops into the man who sits up with a sick friend. G. B. READER Successor to MAAS BROS. Wholesale Fish Dealer SEA FOODS AND LAKE FISH OF ALL KINDS Citizens Phone 2124 Bell Phone M. 1378 1052 Ottawa Ave., N. W. Grand Rapids, Mich Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter Color and one that complies with the pure food laws of every State and of the United States. Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co. Burlington, Vt. HART BRAND CANNED GOODS Packed by W. R. Roach & Co., Hart, Mich. Michigan People Want Michigan Producte Every Housewife likes a change. Suggest Mapleine for delicious flavor where flavor is needed. Makes fine syrup. Order from Louis Hilfer Co. 1503 State Bldg. Chicago, Ill. CRESCENT MFG. CO. Seattle, Wash. LSA ae BN Usage ($e STCHIGAN STATE TELEPHONE A J Mr. Flour Merchant: You can own and control your flour trade. Make each clerk a “salesman”’ instead of an “order taker."’ Write us to-day for exclusive sale proposition covering your market for Purity Patent Flour We mill strictly choice Michigan wheat, properly blended, to producea satisfactory all purpose family flour. GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN & MILLING CO., Grand Rapids, Michigan your old scale. good asnew. Work guaranteed. re-enamel It would make it Let me overhaul and W. E. HAZARD, 95 Monroe Ave. Grand Rapids I do all work for Toledo Scale Co. in Michigan BOATS Graham & Morton Line Every Night bacon and fresh eggs. those who want the best. PEACOCK BRAND Breakfast Appetites can be encouraged and well satisfied with a nice rasher of Go to your grocer’s and get some of the famous Peacock mild cured bacon and fry it, pouring off the grease as quickly as it forms. This makes it crisp. Pea- cock Hams and Bacon are cured by a special process—brine is not used—so they are not salt y. They are especially pre- pared by Cudahy Brothers Co., Packers, Cudahy, Wis., for Cudahy Brothers Co. Packers Cudahy, Wisconsin ‘Mothers Del ight” “Makes Bread White and Faces Bright” VOIGT MILLING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ESCENT FLOUR 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN pA sNP\ V5 r/ 2] ( yy) on / 7 win +) ) ta((7 ayy) "7 oa or tHE SHOF MARKET \ ey ye hs BEE £9 > — i” —_ car Se = ~~ = S 2 = > — x = ae = 3 — = A — x = - c pete eae AY me Ty eS 2 Ad = (ZEJ Cie ri Adjusting Claims in the Retail Shoe Store. Written for the Tradesman. Human nature is a funny sition and, tail shoe many quirks and weaknesses. to know propo- as observed from the re- exhibits dealer’s angle, It would be interesting how it came about that people who are ordinarily fairly reasonable about almost all other kinds of merchan- dise that they buy, should so often exhibit weaknesses that are fairly child-like in the matter of footwear purchases. That there should be a certain per- centage of just and valid ciaims on the part of shoe store patrons who, for one reason or another, are not satisfied with the wear or something else about the shoes they have bought, is inevitable; but the num- ber of unjust, absurd and unreason- able complaints is out of all propor- tions to the number of just and valid ones. What troublous imp or sinister spirit of the perverse hath wished all this unnecessary trouble and worry on those honest and harmless men who are trying to make a decent liv- ing selling shoes at retail? A Handful of Examples. An irate parent went into a down town shoe store exhibiting a pair of shoes bought for a 10 year old girl. “Look at ’em!” she exclaimed in- dignantly, “bought ’em here only six weeks ago! Paid $2.50 of perfectly good money. for ‘em, and the sales- girl told me they were good shoes!” “Well, weren't they—aren’t they?” pleasantly enquired the young man who adjusts claims. “You can see for yourself!” snap- “look at the soles!” through,” mut didn’t you say you got them six weeks ago. According to your own _ statement you owe us 50 cents for an extra pair of soles. Three weeks is all you are really entitled to without half- soling. Many active children of 10 get through a pair of shoes in two weeks. Three weeks is a good av- erage.” “T don’t believe it!” was the dis- courteous retort. The young man flushed under the sting, but because he is a gentleman and a man of in- finite self-control, overlooked the in- sult. “How long do you wear a pair of shoes?” he asked. “From six to eight months,” she replied, “Shall we say, then seven months on an average?” ped the woman, “I see they are worn said the young man, “1 And the woman admitted that sev- en months was a good average. “All right,” proceeded the claims man. “Now multiply ten. That gives you sixty lifty-two weeks in a year. Accord- ing to that ratio, your shoes should wear a year and eight weeks.” “What d’ you mean?” enquired the woman, forgetting for the nonce her alleged grievance. “Precisely _ this,” claims man. six weeks by weeks. continued the “Your little girl takes ten steps to your one. She’s just ten times ag hard on a pair of shoe soles as you are: and shell wear out ten soles while you are wearing out one. If your soles last you thirty weeks, as you say they do, your little girl’s entitled to one-tenth of thirty, or three weeks’ wear. Besides,” and the young man paused to glance at her shoes, “your shoes are much higher grade than hers. Paid about $5 for them, did you not?” “Six,” informed the woman in a perceptibly calmer mood. Well, not to prolong the account of the incident, the woman was con- vinced that her demand for more wear was unreasonable. And, be- fore she left the store, she let him have the repair job. Another woman angrily walked into a retail shoe store and called for the manager of the woman’s de- partment. She claimed that, after a month's wear, the sole of the right shoe had let go under the ball of the foot, ex- hibiting a break of some inch and three-quarters in length. She con- tended that the shoe was no good, and demanded either a new pair or her money back, While they medium priced the claims man ad- mitted that there was perhaps some inherent weakness in the sole that behaved so badly. To make sure he looked up the sale and assured him- self that the customer was correct in the length of time she had worn the shoes. He also discovered that the lady had a weakness for tight-fitting shoes. And she liked a very light, airy shoe, although she was a strong, active woman weighing at least 140 pounds. She refused to let the house re- GONORBILT yy SAOES In Demand Everywhere were only shoes, Made for Wet Weather Wear K, re GRAND RAPIDS Pia R. K. L. Napoleon Shoe No. 833944—Men’s Heavy Chrome Blucher: Best Grade Chrome Upper; Heavy Half Double, Reinforced Sole. Plain Toe. No. 8318—Same with Tip. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie Company “*Makers of Shoes that Wear” Grand Rapids, Mich. September 29, 1915 There’s something in a name when the name is Rouge Rex There is assurance of satisfactory quality to the wearer. There is prestige and increased sales for the dealer. This is the experience of others. It may be your experience if you will. Order a sample case of No. 470 and be guided by the result. This is an eight inch bicycle cut, made from our re-tanned stock especially for farm wear: has a full bellows tongue, and double chrome sole. Price $2.65. You will be pleased and your customers delighted. HIRTH-KRAUSE COMPANY Hide to Shoe Tanners and Shoe Manufacturers Grand Rapids, Mich. September 29, 1915 pair the shoe free of charge, and in- sisted on a new pair. She was even unwilling to pay for the month’s wear she admitted she had enjoyed. Rather than lose her business—for it evidently meant just that—the store allowed the claim, gave her a new pair, and turned the old shoes back on the manufacturer. Who Is to Blame? Of course shoe manufacturers and shoe operatives are just men, and mistakes are liable to happen. And, as everybody knows, leather and other materials out of which shoes are made, vary more or less. Even in the best regulated factories, in spite of the most careful inspection, mistakes will be made and defective shoes turned out. But the percentage of valid and al- lowable claims is far less numerous than fancied or alleged grievances. And retail shoe dealers often al- low claims that are flatly unjust and unreasonable. They do it because competition is fierce amongst them, and they are afraid of losing a cus- tomer. In this department stores have set a bad example. When an indignant patron of the shoe department finds her claim turned down by the shoe manager, she carries the matter to the man higher up; and he, looking over her accounts, finds that she buys two or three hundred dollars’ worth of merchandise from the store during the year. So they don't want to lose her trade. Granted that her demand for a new pair of shoes, or a considerable allowance thereupon, is altogether unreasonable—they let her have her way. And the returned shoes or the allowance is charged up to the shoe department. The shoe manager may kick, but what does it get him. He simply has to stand for 1. And so a bad custom gets itself es- tablished, and shoe dealers, who must make all their money on shoes, have to suffer accordingly. And the only way the evil can be corrected is for the dealers of a com- munity to get together—and stand together—and flatly refuse to allow unreasonable claims, Cid McKay. —_+~--_____ The Worst to Come. The Passenger—Say, can't you drive a little more carefully? When you plunged into that ravine you nearly broke my neck. The Jehu—I am driving carefully. Unless I kinder trained you up to stand the stretch of road we are com- ing to, you might want to break my neck, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 In a Class by Itself. The Michigan Tradesman is in a class by itself in that it is the only trade journal in the world which has been published thirty-two consecu- tive years without change of editor- ship, ownership or business manage- ment. Our contemporary celebrated its birthday at the same time as the American Grocer, founded September 15, 1869, celebrated its forty-seventh birthday, and the Tradesman on Sep- tember 15, 1915, its thirty-second an- niversary. We have traveled togeth- er during those thirty-two years and a finer companion in trade journalis:n than E. A. Stowe, its editor and prin- cipal owner, would be difficult to find. We congratulate him upon the suc- cess he has attained by hard work, and faithful service. He remarked ‘to the writer, nearly thirty years ago, in speaking of the Michigan Trades- man: “I ground it out of my flesh anJ blood.” He is a great worker be- cause a great lover. He is like Bolles, the famous hoe maker, who said: “I eat, drink and sleep hoe.’ And so Stowe does with the Michigan Trades- man, to the great delight of its read- ers, No trade journal has greater influ- ence in its field than the Michigan Tradesman. The merchants of Grand Rapids, its home, made him President of its Board of Trade for several terms. We might say in truth, he has been the backbone of mercantile Organization in the commercial life of the State. He has done royal ser- vice, many times with wonderful courage, when it seemed as if devo- tion to principle would be costly, and disastrous. But pluck and the right always wins. As the anniversary is- sue of ninety-eight pages says: “Instead of scolding at the mer- chant from the front of the counter, the writer wrote from the viewpoint of the retail dealer behind the coun- ter, thus treating every question, great or small, from the vantage ground of the participant and part- ner, rather than the preacher. The teacher and outcome is now a part of the mercantile history of the Middle West.” We trust during the years to come the Michigan Tradesman will con- tinue to maintain the high standard and retain the high favor it now en- joys and that its generous, big heart- ed editor may be spared to serve the State of Michigan and the city of Grand Rapids with health and pros- perity and good will as his portion and reward.—American Grocer. Public Seating For All Purposes Manufacturers of American Steel Sanitary Desks In use throughout the world World's Largest Manufacturers of Theatre Seating Gmerican Seating Company General Offices: 14 E. Jackson St., Chicago; Broadway and Ninth St., Grand Rapids, Mich. ASK FOR LITERATURE Nearly Everybody (Both Dealer and Consumer) Knows the Great Value in Hood’s “Plymouth” Rubbers That accounts for our distribution of over 20,000 pairs of these rubbers along in the past 12 months Plymouth Waverley (Storm Front) Plymouth Over (Low Cut) Both Extra Quality Plymouth Plymouth on —— 0 1 OMe cces ic $082 UL ee 60 56 Meee 63 "60 prompt payment Misses? . 0 5a0 0s.) oo 50 Chil@ig. io ee. 48 43 Grand RapidsShoe & Rubber(6. The Michigan People Grand Rapids This “Adv.” Shows ONE LINE OUT OF A GREAT MANY CARRIED IN STOCK. THEY ARE NUMBERS THAT HAVE HELPED MAKE OUR “BERTSCH” LINE FAMOUS Seldom Equalled—Never Excelled 960—Men’'s Gun Metal Calf Blucher. Goodyear Welt, Half Double Sole, Modified High Toe. D&E.......... $2.35 979—Same only Button ..... 2.40 913—Same as 960 only extra fine quality. ............... 2.75 914—Same as 979 only extra fine quality <:..-.... ...... 2.75 In Stock for At Once Shipment Complete Catalogue or Samples on Request THEY WEAR LIKE IRON HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO. Mfrs. Serviceable Footwear GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ‘Acknowledging a Fault Does Not Ex- cuse It. Written for the Tradesman. "1 admut iim too said Mrs. plain-spoken,” Barker, explaining to a mutual friend the cause of the break in friendly feeling between the Bark- ers and the Maynards. “I did tell Mrs. Maynard that she ought to be stricter with That girl has altogether too many lib- erties for a miss of 16. And she is bringing up the younger one, Marian, in just the same way. The child isn't made to mind from one week's end to another. And I said to Mrs. Maynard, for her own good, that she'll regret it some day if she doesn’t make that lit- tle rebel obey now. “But I understand that what wound- ed her most was my remarking di- her daughter Agnes. rectly after they bought their new auto, that lots of people in this town are spending money for machines and gasoline when they haven’t their homes paid for nor a cent laid by for sickness or a rainy day. “Well it’s true anyway! And the Maynards are one of the families that are making that mistake. Of course I’m sorry that Mrs. Maynard was offended. But when I have anything to say, I say it. I can’t bear to beat around the bush. I should think Mrs. Maynard ought to understand me by this time and know I don't mean any unkindness. If people are bound to let their feeling get all smashed up over nothing, I suppose they'll have to. I just can’t help speaking my mind.” Young Mr, Julian, married some six months ago, very recently was trying to explain to his pretty little bride the necessity for their keeping their expenditures within a certain definite amount, which amount, it should be said, is liberal in proportion to his salary, and amply sufficient for a very comfortable style of living. “But, Harry, I just hate accounts and all that kind of thing,’ protested Lucile with a frown anda pout. “And it seems so beggarly mean _ to be pinching and scrimping all the time to save a nickel here and a dime there. And I don’t see why I ought to have given up that perfectly lovely hat, just because I had to draw $17.50 out of the bank to pay for it. I don’t see much difference between a_ balance of $175 and $152.50, anyway. You know darling, I have no head _ for figures.” “T don’t understand, Amy, why you need to be all broken up every time I slam a door or use a few cuss words,” argues hot-headed Mr. Horn- by with his wife, the latter a gentle soul who never has been able to get used to her husband’s fierce and sud- den outbreaks. “You know I’m all over my mad fits in a few minutes. I’ve told you a thousand times that it’s just my beastly, ungovernable temper. When I acknowledge my fault squarely, why not let that end ce This last question of Mr. Hornby’s expresses the idea exactly. He frank- ly confesses his failing. Why not let that end it, and no one utter any rebuke nor be in the least offended at any outburst of his, nor say any- thing more about it? Clearly that is what he wants. And that is what Mrs. Barker wants when she freely admits that she is too plain-spoken, and what pretty Mrs. Julian wants when she tries to pal- liate her recklessness with her hus- band’s earnings by avowing that she has no head for figures. And it is just what thousands of others want when they make a clean breast of it and admit their faults, whatever these may be, with the direct purpose of be- ing excused from blame—of being let off. That confession is good for the soul haS become a proverb of undis- puted acceptance. But there are dif- ferent kinds of confession. The old sort, that which involved penitence, contrition, humiliation, repentance, and a steadfast resolve to turn from the evil way—the kind that was in vogue when people took their spiritual natures far more seriously than most do now—doubtless that kind of con- fession is good for the soul. But the kind that is used simply to ward off censure, when there is the cool inten- tion of going on as before in. some favorite sin of omission or commis- sion—this kind of confession does not affect the soul in the least, unless it be to make it more complacent as to its imperfections. All of us have faults. And all of us are long on some virtues and lament- ably short on others. And if we have a strong natural tendency in any par- ticular direction, it is easy for us to be very, very good in that way. On the other hand, it is a matter involy- ing considerable effort to make up on a genuine deficiency. According- ly most of us like to be praised for the admirable traits and good quali- ties with which Mother Nature has liberally endowed us and for which we really deserve no credit, and we feel that others ought to be very len- ient regarding our shortcomings, for were we not made so—having certain failings that cannot be overcome with- out effort? these freely, then no one has any busi- And if we acknowledge ness to utter a word of condemnation. It is enttirely unnecessary for so intelligent a woman as Mrs. Barker to ride roughshod, as we may say, through life—wounding the of all her acquaintances by her harsh and unjust criticisms, and by a thoughtless indulgence in the habit of speaking her mind. Let her cultivate a little tact, which after all is only common sense and a way of looking at things from the other person’s point of view. Let Mrs. Barker and all her like learn to maintain a proper connection between their brains and their tongues. We are continually surprised by manifestations of ability that has lain dormant and whose existence was un- suspected. A clinging vine of a wom- an, after the death of her natural pro- tector, becomes amazingly business- like and self-reliant. A stern man, having the care of an invalid or of a feelings September 29, 1915 little child thrust upon him, undergoes a metamorphosis that renders him tender as a woman. Such examples show the possibilities of development. Doubtless we all have in our natures the latent germ of every essential vir- tue, for a quality that we need to have we usually can get if we try. Acknowledging a fault or a weak- ness is dead easy compared with mas- tering it, but really is a cowardly and indefensible method of shielding one- self from just blame. “I a poor memory,” is not sufficient ex- cuse for heedless and exasperating forgetfulness, for poor memories can be improved. Beastly tempers can be brought under control, and defects of every sort can be, in some measure at least, overcome. Nor should the case be regarded as hopeless when the deficiency is so serious a lack as not having a head for figures. Quillo. have such Wholesale Distributors EVER READY FLASH LIGHTS ARE PROFITABLE , We will send you Attractive Window Display C. J. Litscher Electric Company Grand Rapids, Michigan please them. success for another. S uCCess, the Result of Effort O not get a name for being indifferent to the welfare of your trade. going to run to the store of the dealer who makes no effort to repay them for their coming. People nowadays are quick to sense such an attitude. They shun the dealer who makes no effort to “Why don’t you try Jones’ grocery? You can depend on everything he sells’—is the kind of conversation that spells ruin for one dealer and It bespeaks lack of effort on the first—presence of great effort on the other. Sell dependable goods—play fair and your busi- ness will grow—your reputation is made. Sell National Biscuit Company products and you are building upon a solid foundation, for N. B. C. goods are known as absolutely dependable. People have confidence in them and buy them by the millions of packages. NATIONAL BISCUIT COM PANY People are not September 29, 1915 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN > Seet eeeet ay — =— = — = = yo STOVES Auaqas MA any o))) Michigan Retail Hardware Assoclation. President—Frank E. Strong, Battle Wee picctaant geda F. Ireland, Beld- " Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine Rae alten Moore, Detroit. Pertinent Points in Stove Selling. Tradesman. Some Written for the A prerequisite to successful stove selling is the ability to deliver the goods. Permanent business can be built only on a foundation of quality. A high grade line, manufactured by a reputable firm which stands behind its product, should be handled. The handling of such a product has sev- eral advantages. One is, that the goods are bound to give satisfaction; and, therefore, will help to secure further business. Another is that the merchant has the backing of a strong advertising and selling organization, which brings customers to his store and co-operates with him in every pos- sible way. Some merchants carry in stock a few samples of cheap stoves, largely for purposes of specific comparison with the better class of goods. In fighting mail order competition, this Sub as a general rule, it is good policy to select one good line and to stick to it. plan has its advantages. To make the most of the season, the merchant must look carefully to the displaying of his stock. Granted he has stocked quality goods, their appearance nevertheless counts for much. First impressions are most lasting; and the first impression the customer secures of the range or heater you are offering will go a long way toward making or marring a sale. To a large extent unconsciously, people judge a stove by its looks. The first favorable impression prepares the customer's mind for the recep- tion of the selling points you have to urge. Where the stove to begin with does not look its best—is dirty or dusty, or shows rust spots—the customer may listen to your elabora- tion of the selling points, but he is apt to conclude: ‘That may be all very true, but just look at it!” The untidy stock looks too much like the old stove at home to attract cus- tomers. A good idea and one frequently employed where there is ample floor space, is to have a special stove room or stove department fitted up in at- tractive style. Here the ranges and base burners can be shown separate- ly, with elbows, collars and other in- cidentals in place, having all the ap- Pearance of being set up, “ready for business.” Ample space should be left about each individual stove to give the customer a clear view. There is a psychological process of some importance involved in iso- lating each stove. It is the same psychological process which helps some range peddlers. The range peddler drives up to the farmer's gate with his sample range. The stove is there all by itself; it stands out bold- ly; there are no other goods, and, for that matter, no other stoves, to distract the customer’s attention. The customer’s mind is concentrated on the one stove; and when the cus- tomer’s mind is concentrated on the article, it is easier to effect a sale. It is partly for this reason that the stove department should have a sec- tion of floor space to itself, where other lines will not distract atten- tion; that the base burners and the ranges should be ranged on separate sides of the floor; and that each stove should, if there is enough floor space, stand apart to some extent from its fellows. With this arrangement, the salesman can, as soon as a customer begins to show any prediliction for some one particular range or heater, to center the selling on that one stove, and work away from the others. Then, with a separate department, it is easier to keep the stock in good condition. An important point is to go over each stove carefully before placing it on the floor; seeing that it is well blackened, and the nickeled parts thoroughly polished. There- after, the stock should be closely watched, dusted every day, and kept clear of odds and ends which care- less clerks are apt to pile on top of the ranges, An important point in selling stoves is, that the salesman should acquire the knack of looking at the problem from the customer’s point of view. Too much technical talk is merely wasted words. It is worth while to know the goods, and to be able to elucidate points such as the flues, castings, magazine feed, and other features, but the salesman’s pri- mary aim should be to give the cus- tomer a clear and understandable pic- ture of the added convenience and comfort the possession of this range or heater will mean to him. Talk to him, not in terms of causes, but in terms of results. If the result will be greater convenience in cooking, of saving of fuel, or attractiveness, em- phasize these things, and use your technical knowledge to back up your general assertions. It is the results which the customer wants; from his view point the causes which will pro- duce those results are merely inci- dental. To this end, the salesman should know people as well as stoves. The advisability of “knowing the stove” has been frequently urged; but know- ing your stove is only half the selling battle. You must be able to use your technical knowledge effectively; and you can't do so unless you under- stand how the average customer looks at the stove proposition. It is only when you “know people” that you can adapt your technical knowledge to their minds. Naturally, the stove department, in- volving sales that run up into a good deal of money, deserves the best salesmen you can command. Much can be done, however, by persistent coaching, to develop’ the average mediocre clerk into a passable sales- man. Important points for the sales- man to remember are, that he must show genuine interest in his cus- tomer and in his goods. He can’t do this unless he goes at the sale in earnest, and for the time being puts all other thoughts out of his mind. Mental conceritration is a big help in clinching sales, In addition to whatever circular or personal letter campaign the dealer has already under way, newspaper space can be used to advantage in attracting customers. Window dis- plays are always good advertising. The more novel effects the merchant can introduce, alike into his printed matter and into his displays, the more effective they will be. The best display is not always the most elaborate display. Simple trims are often the most effective. Much depends, of course, upon the size and shape of the windows. Care should be taken not to crowd them; one good sized range adequately displayed will prove better advertising than two or three hopelessly crowded together. Of course, where windows are suf- ficiently large, as many as half a dozen stoves can be shown together to good advantage. All depends on the space available, and the skill of the window trimmer. As far as possible, let the display illustrate the stove in action. It is impracticable, in window display, to Stage an actual demonstration, al- though this can often be done to ad- vantage on the floor; but it is pos- 21 sible to suggest results. Thus, in showing base burners, the use of red tissue paper be- hind it will suggest And let the accompanying show card talk results. A suggestive display is that base burner with a scuttle of coal beside it and a card with the word: “This stove will heat a 12x15 room for twelve hours without at- tention.” The display of ranges should likewise talk results, and em- Thus, the corner of a kitchen, with the range bulbs coziness. with electric Of a window phasize the selling points. in place, can be shown; kitchen uten- sils standing on the range or hanging on the walls; a little shelf with the familiar medicine bottles: a calendar —and, finally, the oven open showing a pie, or loaves of bread, just cooked. These little Hot re- quire much extra time or trouble, and they make the more effective. William incidentals do display immensely Edward Park. Bell Phone 860 Citz. Phone 2713 Lynch Bros. Special Sale Conductors Expert Advertising—Expert Merchandising 28 So. Ionia Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich. OFFICE OUTFITTERS LOOSE LEAF SPECIALISTS tue Fidchee 237-239 Pearl St. (near the bridge) Grand Rapids, Mich. Make Out Your Bills THE EASIEST WAY Save Time and Errors. Send for Samples and Circular—F ree. Barlow Bros., Grand Rapids, Mich. The Ventilation of School Rooms Is a State Law Requirement For years the heating and ventilation as applied to school houses has been one of our special features. We want to get in touch with School Boards that we may send them descriptive matter. A record of over 300 rooms ought to be evidence of our ability. Steam and Water Heating with everything in a material line. Correspondence solicited. THE WEATHERLY Co. 218 Pearl Street Grand Rapids, Mich. Foster, Stevens & Co. Wholesale Hardware ut 157-159 Monroe Ave. _ :: Grand Rapids, Mich. 151 to 161 Louis N. W. 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN AUTOMOBILES AND ACCESSORIES Operating Costs Investigated. The system that has been perfect- ed by the traffic engineering depart- ment of the Federal Motor Truck Co., Detroit, makes possible the ob- taining of positively correct figures on the cost of operating motor trucks in various lines of business. It. is the most constructive work that has been done in the motor truck field. The business man wants to know what motor trucks can do and what they will cost in doing it, before he is willing to forsake the transportation equipment he has’ used for many years. Up to recently the figures and facts given out by motor truck manufac- turers were only approximate at the best, but the Federal organization can now give positively correct fig- ures. The system used permits in- vestigation work to be carried on through dealers in all parts of the country. In Chicago considerable interest has been evidenced in the analysis of the work done ou one of the Fox River Butter Co.'s trucks. H. S. Dunlavy, Chicago branch manager, has the work well under way, and has been able to suggest several ways to increase the truck’s _ efficiency, after a careful analysis of the results that were being obtained. In speak- ing of this work, Mr. Dunlavy says: “Merchants and manufacturers must eventually purchase motor trucks in order to show a profit in competition with others in their busi- ness who are using economical trucks. Ultimately competition in various lines will force the truck sale but rather than await such a time, we feel it is our duty to show ex- actly what Federal trucks can do for the business man in different lines of work—how fast and how far trucks can travel, how much work they oil for the cheapest car. NOKARBO MOTOR OIL It is the one oil that can automobiles operated by gasoli It will not char or carbonize. It is the best oil for the high grade car, and the best ne or electricity. WRITE FOR PRICES AND PARTICULARS The Great Western Oil Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan really can do and what savings are actually possible over the old horse methods.” —++.__ Scotland Is Buying Cars. Sales of American motor have been heavy in Scotland, and American motor cars of the cheaper types have also sold well, although trucks slow deliveries have interfered con- siderably with the trade, according to United States Consul Rufus Fleming, stationed at Edinburgh. “Anything in the motor line is now much sought after by local dealers,” he writes. “Present conditions shoul enable American manufacturers to ex- tend their business here, as their products are giving entire satisfac- tion. Moderate prices make the cars and trucks salable, and it is consider- ed certain that, even after the war, the American companies will have a firm hold on the market. “On account of the shortage of horses and of labor in the agricultural dis- tricts, farmers are looking earnestly for motor cultivating machinery which will prove satisfactory. It seems to be a good opportunity for American manufacturers of motor plows to introduce their machines. There have been a number of sales recently of English-made motor plows in this district and in the County of Fife. It is suggested that American makers, who are believed to excel in this particular machine, would find it to their advantage to give careful attention to the demand in Scotland. The plow adapted to agricultural uses here is one that cuts either one or two furrows from 7 to 9 inches in depth.” ——_»~--___ Mystery. “What did Rastus git married for?” “Lawd only knows, chile. right on workin’.” He keeps be used successfully on all September 29, 1915 See the new Cadillac Eight It’s the Peer of Them All The Red Diamond Inner Tube—new, J a : different—just another of the special Western Michigan Cadillac Co., Ltd. things for your machine offered by OSCAR ECKBERG, Mer. 19-23 LaGrave Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich. SHERWOOD HALL CO., LTD. : Distributors Grand Rapids, Mich. { wf The Equal of Any $1200 Car on the Market Territory in Mecosta, Ionia, Ottawa, Allegan and Barry Counties open for live dealers. Do not delay if interested. See our exhibit Fair week. Write for terms. GRAND RAPIDS SAXON COMPANY 572 Division Avenue, South REO THE FIFTH * IX are two of the most standardized cars in the world. Reo consistency has set a new world’s record REO Six, seven passenger 45 horsepower REO the Fifth, five passenger, 35 horsepower Write or Phone W. D. VANDECAR Citizens Phone 5088 129-131 Jefferson Ave. 12 Years a Reo Distributor Grand Rapids, Mich. SSE ESS ISIS T EET September 29, 1915 ' : MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 if ue ANG AY oe An NY ° ° Association A . of i Automobile Oy), eT T TTT TN a Owners eee Organized King Eight Truths io The King Eight will duplicate any = M stunt that any automobile, at any price, VV will perform, and the King Eight sells Say C4 oney for only $1350. on The King Eight can take any of Grand : i Rapids hills on high so easily that it Tires and makes the owners of luxury priced cars / sit up and THINK. Aeeessories Fifteen to twenty miles to a gallon 4 Economical on Oil, Tires and Repairs. WRITE US af Make your Demonstration Appointment oT Phelps Auto Sales The Panel Body Delivery Car. $875 F. O. B. Detroit Automobile Cc All New Studebaker Models will be Displayed at West Michigan State Fair Owners ompany ee Purchasing Club estern Michigan Distributors for | k A t S l C The New King Car and the Apperson ec uto aiecs O., 113 Crescent St., N. W. Supplies and Accessories DISTRIBUTORS Michigan Street and Lafayette Avenue | Tonia Ave. and Island St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids,* Mich. GEO. S. THWING & CO. - : y ge * ea soe ee Are now located in their new garage at 15-17 Graham St, S. W. s SESS - Two doors off Division Avenue, S., with the JEFFERY APPERSON SIX—The American Beauty Car CAR, and have two expert workmen to take care of the Four Passenger Roadster, Aptly Called The Chummy Car, $1550 . : . : Five Passenger Six, $1485; Seven Passenger, $1550 repair ee, will cater to all auto owners for the PHELPS AUTO SALES COMPANY, Michigan St. and Lafayette Ave. repair work and storage. Distributors APPERSON and KING Cars GRAND RAPIDS at : i i SSS MODEL 5 DORT TOURING CAR, fully equipped with Electric Se Starting and Lighting and Demountable Runs, at the remark- i THE MENOMINEE able low price of $650.00. See the DORT before you buy. . — ome Built by D. F. POYER CO., Menominee, Mich, OSWALD MOTOR CAR CO. ee ae i ee 66 SHELDON AVE., S. E. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CL re ae Gand teratary cused to releible desire i 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN cute IC reel Atl (( 1 uy =e Aviceceele’ —_ ASST T TN TUTE T NNN peg AKU V Ly it U( a Oh: pee Mul Mes E COMMERCIAL TRAVELEE | NY w(( cect MUeae: vee UNV TO i @ fh) MAA Grand Council of Michigan U. C. T. Grand Counselor—Walter §., Lawton, Grand Rapids. Grand Junior Counselor—Fred J. Mou- tier, Detroit. Grand Past Counselor—Mark S. Brown, Saginaw. Grand Jackson, Grand Treasurer—Wm. J. Devereaux, Port Huron. Grand Conductor—John A. Hach, Jr., Coldwater. : Grand Page—W. T. Ballamy, Bay City. Grand Sentinel—C. C. Starkweather, Secretary—Maurice Heuman, Detroit. Grand Chaplain—A. W._ Stevenson, Muskegon. Grand Executive Committee—E. A. Dibble, Hillsdale; Angus G, McEachron, Detroit; James E. Burtless, Marquette; L. N. Thompkins, Jackson. Next Grand Council Meeting—Traverse City, June 2 and 3, 1916, Michigan Division T. P. A. President—D. G. MacLaren. First Vice-President—F. H. Mathison. Second Vice-President—W. J. Manning, Detroit. Secretary rown. fete Board of Directors—Walter H. Brooks, Chairman; Fred H. Locke, J. W. Putnam, J. E. Cronin, W. A. Hatcher, C. E. York, W. E. Crowell, C. H. Gall- meyer, Frank W. Clarke, Detroit. State Membership Committee—Frank H. Mathison, Chairman. and Treasurer—Clyde_ E. Nothing to Complain About on Next Trip. In the center of my den, directly under an electric spray, mounted up- on an iron framework, is a handsled. It is a massive, heavy, crude affair, undoubtedly hammered out by the vil- lage blacksmith of four decades ago. The rust of the one-piece runners has been covered with aluminum enamel. The rough oak plank that forms the top has been smoothly planed, rub- bed, varnished, and rubbed again, Across the top and overlapping the sides is a soft leather skin, upon which has been burned in fancy letters this inscription: BR RR pec ia aig7s. x * * * #4 %¥ HH ¥ The sled is a connecting link with the hardships that confronted the traveling man of forty years ago, when the inadequate means of trans- portation compelled him to take long journeys by team and buckboard or sleigh in the cold of winter and heat of summer. The successful drummer of the old school needed something more than mere salesmanship. He was forced to hammer his way by main strength and physical endurance, and to take advantage of the limited means at hand to reach his customer. It was under these conditions that I took up my work as a traveling salesman for a Syracuse house, which handled nearly everything sold by the general country store. My terri- tory embraced the line then known as the Utica & Black River Railroad, later consolidated with the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg. Extensive lumbering operations in this section employing thousands of lumber jacks furnished a profitable field, to which we catered extensively. Covering the same territory with a similar line was a young man, John Roberts by name, who was always on the job when it came to getting busi- ness, and a fine fellow in every way. At frequent intervals our routes in- tersected, and occasionally we met at some point and spent several days to- gether under the same roof. On December 12, 1873, it happened that we met in the little railroad town of Glendale. A heavy snowstorm had piled up the drifts so that the roads leading to interior towns were im- passible. The railroad was still push- ing trains through off schedule, and as both of us were billed for the in- terior we were forced to remain quiet- ly at the hotel until some of the lum- ber camps should succeed in breaking the roads, For two days, in company with other wayfarers, we had killed the time in alternating games of tunk, euchre, and high-low-jack-and-the- game. It was about 10 o’clock on the morning of the third day that the ar- rival of some mackinaw-clothed and felt-booted men stampeding their way through the room on their way to the bar reminded us that the roads were open again. After dinner we should again get back into the har- ness! Dinner being two hours away, we had again resumed the game, when a telegram was handed to Roberts by the station agent. Tearing it open, he scanned its contents, returned it to the envelope and put it into his pock- et. Noting my look of enquiry, he said: “Message from the house. Quotes Rio No. 2 coffee 3 cents higher.” A moment later he excused himself on the plea of shaving before dinner, and disappeared from view. I gave the matter no further consideration at the time; but when the dinner bell rang, and Roberts’ place at the table remained vacant, I began to wonder at his absence. In the midst of my reverie I was also handed a telegram. “Supply house of Welburn Lumber Co., Smiths Falls, gutted by fire last night. Will want to replace entire stock. Get to them at once. IMG” The price of Rio had indeed gone up! I found that Roberts had secur- ed a driver and the best team to be had, and was nearly two hours on his way to Smiths Falls. It was imperative that T should get there ahead of him. Intending to wire the house on the outlook, I donned my fur coat and hat, slipped on a heavy pair of gaunt- lets, and made my way to the station across the way. A few minutes later a freight train pulled into the sta- tion. Here, I thought, was my op- portunity. But the conductor inform- ed me that special orders strictly for- bidding the taking on of passengers had just been issued, and an infraction of the order meant instant dismissal. He would accept no excuse, and would not be bribed. For an instant I was in despair. 1 was considering the advisability of taking chances underneath one of the cars, when suddenly round the cor- ner of the depot appeared two young boys dragging a heavy handsled at the end of a long rope. With one bound I reached the lads, snatched the rope from their hands, and a moment later was running after the train, dragging the heavy and un- wieldy thing behind me. Stumbling through the heavy snow, and slippin» once or twice on the icy ties, I over- took the caboose and after consider- able difficulty made the rope fast to the coupling. By the time this was accomplished the train had gained considerable momentum, and I was forced to make a flying leap for the sled. I struck it crosswise, and it was only by considerable exertion that I retained my place and finally pulled myself to a sitting position. For nearly a mile a steep grade made progress comparatively slow; al- though the train was made up of empties. The heavy sled settled down between the rails, and was being pull- ed along with hardly a jar or jolt. This continued until the top of the in- cline was reached, when the train, quickly gathering speed, suddenly jerked the sled with such force that I was nearly thrown from my seat. Righting myself, I pressed my feet hard against the runners and grasped the sides more firmly with both hands. It was none too soon; for the train, now going thirty to forty miles an hour, forced the sled to rise from the ties into the air until it was on a line with the coupling as straight out as the tail of a setter dog. For miles, it seemed, it never touched the roadbed. There was great danger of its overturning, and my heart was in my mouth every time it tilted to one side or the other, expecting every moment to be dashed to certain death. (Continued next week.) a. Any man can succeed in a measure if his work just suits him and he has everything he wants with which to work. But the big successes are for the men who do not wait until every condition is just favorable. Its Loose Leaf opens like a Blank Book Write us EP Zz i OSEJEAF @. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. September 29, 1915 Livingston Hotel Grand Rapids, Mich. Fine Cafe in Connection Entertainment Every Evening The Hotel Barry Hastings, Michigan Re-opened for Good Parlor Sample Rooms Free Auto to and from all Trains I will please you if given an opportunity Ask the Boys GEO. E. AMES, Prop. Pek kok | fA ay Fireproof Hotel 450 Elegant Raoms #1 per Day-up SM with Bath } *2® per Dey—up German Restaurant x Clark St.near Jackson Blvd. Chicago. Y er POOP POCO oe neeereesenereeccoeeseeesocee HOTEL CODY EUROPEAN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Rates$land up. $1.50 and up bath. Snyder’s Restaurant Popular Prices 41 North Ionia Ave. 4 Doors North of Tradesman SHELDON AND OAKES GRAND RAPIDS, -MICHIGAN. 4ND ALL SKIN AND SCALP DISEASES ] SUCCESSFULLY TREATED ee Puritan Plaster Method for External CANCER REMOVAL Interested persons are invited to investigate our methods of treatment. Prompt and permanent relief must be accomplished before settlement is made. ——— A. T. HOXIE, M. D., Supervising Physician ALVAH BROWN, S. VY. MAC LEOD, President Secretary" JESSE J. FOX, Superiotendent MRS. MAE HAUCK, Supt. Ladies Dept. fl Send for Cancer and Eczema Booklet ee (etre 1915 September 29, 1915 UPPER PENINSULA. Recent News From the Cloverland of Michigan. Sault Ste. Marie, Sept. 27—The Soo insurance agency, of which John P, Old and George Blank are. the hustling managers, has purchased two Holstein. cattle which were auctioned off at the county fair held here last week, same being sold by the Dun- bar Agricultural School. Details will be announced later whereby the cattle will be given away to some one or two farmers in Chippewa county. The other insurance agents will watch the procedure with much in- terest. The Soo entertained some notable vesselmen last week in the persons of A. F. Harvery, Assistant General Manager of the Pittsburg Steamship Co., W. W. Smith, W. W. Water- son, WV. J. Harsant, |. W. Weod, L. Hausher, R. J. Watt, George Ku- beck and William Mitchell, who are all on a tour of inspection of the steel trust fleet, With the closing of this month, the passenger season will have clos- ed for another year, which will make us think of the long beautiful win- ter before us and also notice the smiling faces of the coal men as they start to book the winter orders. The only passenger boat which will con- tinue running after October 1. will be the steamer Elva, of the Arnold Transportation Line. The steamer Tionesta, of the Anchor Line, will make her last trip down September 28. The steamers Missouri and II- linois, of the Northern Michigan Transportation Co. will make their last regular sailing from this port September 30. The Missouri will then enter the freight trade between Chicago and Harbor Springs. Geoerge Pattison, one of our lead- ing grocers, who has been away for the past few weeks for the benefit of his health, has returned to the city much improved in health and is back at the old stand attending to his business interests again. The entire population of Chippewa county extend congratulations to our weather nin, A. G. Burns, for the fine weather during the last two days of the fair. The weather was ideal and a record-breaking attendance was the result. The D., S. S. & A. Rail- way, which furnished a twenty-min- ute service during fair week, was more than pleased with the business while the street car company’s cars were taxed to the capacity and every jitney and automobile was pressed into service. The exhibits were ex- ceptionally fine and, while some of the minor attractions were not able to make connections on account of the wet weather, the ball game and other attractions were ample to keep the crowd in a happy frame of mind during the entire fair. The Soo received a shock Thurs- day morning when the report came announcing the drowning of Mrs. Owen, wife of our well-known Bap- tist minister. Mrs. Owen had been in poor health for the past few weeks and out of her mind part of the time. She had a bad attack the night of the tragedy and escaped out of her home where all track of her was lost until early Thursday morning, when her body was found at the lower gates of the water power canal. The bereaved family have the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community. The Upper Peninsula Development Bureau is starting in with renewed activity and working harder than ever to promote the interests of Cloverland. R. M. Andrews, one of the organizers of the Bureau, is giv- ing the matter much personal atten- tion and, with the co-operation of the Soo delegation and business men throughout Cloverland, some good results will be looked for. L. Daniels, formerly manager of the meat department for the H. P. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hossock store, at Cedarville, has taken a similar position with the A. H. Eddy market here, succeeding A. Ballsinger, the latter being transfer- red to another department of the Eddy food emporium. Mr. Daniels is a butcher of varied experience and from all appearance is the right man in the right place, John R. Merrifield, the well-known cigar manufacturer and one of our leading citizens, hag been appointed district deputy of the B. P. O. E. for the Upper Peninsula by Grand Exalted Ruler James R. Nicholson. Mr. Merrifield’s appointment is re- ceiving much favorable comment among the Elks throughout the Up- per Peninsula, as he is enthusiastic and a hard worker in the order. He will attend the next Grand Lodge meeting which will be held at Balti- more as a member of the Grand Ex- alted Ruler’s staff. “How trankly each of the Euro- pean powers admits the heavy losses of its enemies.” That the Soo has been hit by the war will be noticed by the increas- ed activity in the Soo Woolen Mills, which has received an order from the Italian government for 10,000 blankets for the army. The mill has a capacity for 500 blankets daily and is obliged to turn down much _ of its regular work in order to fill this war order, finding it necessary to run a day and night shift. Dave Eliassof, popular manager of the Leader store, one of the largest dry goods stores here, was the hap- piest man in the city last Sunday when he announced the arrival of a son and heir at his home. This is Dave’s first increase in the family and he has placed his order for a new hat of a larger size and has been most liberal with the cigars as he meets his numerous friends. Fred Price, our popular druggist, accompanied by his wife, left last week for Fond du Lac, Wis.. on a visit. They will tour other Wiscon- sin cities before returning home, Our pastor of the M. E. church, Rev. Stanley D. Shaw, has been transferred to Port Huron. This was somewhat of a disappointment to his many friends here, as Rev. Shaw was one of our public spirited citizens who had endeared himself to the entire community. His ac- tivity in public matters has been manifested more than any ot his predecessors and he will be greatly missed in this community, but his many friends wish him every success in his new field. Rev. G. A. Cook will succeed Mr. Shaw here, being transferred here from Minne- sota. Floyd A. Barber, popular teacher in the Soo high school, was also made happy last week over the ar- rival of a 10 pound baby boy. Floyd has not as yet decided whether the junior will be a professor or a bar- ber, but is busy receiving the con- gratulations of his many friends. Mother and child are doing nicely. “Science invents new ways to kill in battle, and surgery exhausts its ingenuity to save the wounded. War is at best an inconsistency.” The first anniversary of the new Trout Lake House was celebrated last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Smith, proprietors, sent out a large number of invitations and an elab- orate dancing party was the feature of the evening. Collier’s orchestra furnished the music and a most en- joyable evening was spent. The heavy rains of late have been a great handicap to the farmers and much oats are still uncut, with poor prospects of saving them now. Joseph Smith, who has the star route between St. Ignace and Epou- fette, in addition to the regular mail wagon, made the trip by auto last week and contemplates putting on an auto mail and passenger service next season. This will be possible by the large amount of work being done on the State roads during the Past year. We are informed that Joe Wenzel, the popular purser of the Mackinac Transportation Co., has purchased a new driving horse from Mackinac Is- land. If we had only known in time, Joe could have purchased a new auto at the same price. Cc. Goppelt, representing H, O. Wilbur & Sons, Philadelphia, was calling on his Soo trade this week. Mr. Goppelt reports conditions, at the Soo the best of any city in the Upper Peninsula. “Life is like a ball game. It isn’t every fellow who makes a hit which can bring a run over the plate.” The Soo has’ organized a Clam 3ake Club under the name of the Soo Boosters. The first feast was pulled off last week and from all ac- counts 1f was not only boosters at- tended but boozers as well. “A loss of appetite can generally be cured by work.” William G. Tapert. —>+-.___ Cassius L. Glasgow, member of the Michigan Railway Commission, leaves Saturday for California on a five weeks’ vacation. He has not taken a vacation in three years and only three vacations since 1907. On account of the long illness of Com- missioner Ilemans, he has done dou- ble duty for several months and is pretty nearly worn out. He will go via Grand Trunk Pacific, touching the Coast just below Alaska and 250 miles north of Seattle. He will pro- ceed to Seattle by boat and thence down the Coast, attending the an- nual meeting of the National Asso- ciation of Railway Commissioners at San Francisco October 12 to 17, in- clusive. He will then return home by way of New Orleans. If there is any man in Michigan who is entitled to a respite from official cares and responsibilities it is Mr. Glasgow. —-_-2o2->_____ H. S. Millard & Son have enzae- ed in the implement and harness business at Jackson in the same store formerly occupied by F. H, Hosken. Both the Millards are well and favorably known in and around Jackson and all wish them success in their venture. H. S. Millard was connected with F. H. Hosken for sev- eral years as house and road sales- man and his ripe experience ought to count, now that he is in business for himself. The son, Ray, also has had much office experience and the two, with the integrity and industry which they have coupled with their experience, cannot help but elevate them to the top of the ladder. 25 Plans For the Tenth Trade Extension Tour. The tenth annual Trade Extension Tour conducted under the auspices of the wholesale department of the Grand Com- Rapids Association of merce will be participated in by wholesalers, bankers, newspaper men, public utility men and railway offi- cials to the number of seventy-five —possibly a few more. The train will be solid vestibuled and electric lighted throughout and will consis: of combination baggage and smok- ing car, two dining cars, one stand- ard Pullman City Military men, three compartment sleepers and one sleeper for Furniture Band and newspaper Pullman Pullman compart- Each com- partment will accommodate two men and is equipped with runnine water, wash stand and private toilet. The accommodations of the train are equal to those of a first-class hotel. The itinerary will be as follows: ment observation car. Tuesday, October 5. Town Arrive Grand Rapids ..)).: 000 3. Sparta ....... mH. Kent City m. Casnovia. 20... m. SQW 265. | m. Grane: 2 m. Newaygo ..... m. Whitehall m. Montague m. FRothbury ..... m. New Bra ...._. m. Shelby 2202... m. Mears... 4. TD. | le i. Fiare 2... - m. During Night Wednesday, October 6. EIOKEON 2 (:30 a. mM. Brunswick 4 m. Reeman _..... m, Fremont ...... m. 9: Wocster ...... m. 1¢ Whitecloud m. 1 Ramona ...... m 1 Og m. 1 Bitely ........ m. 1 Paldwm ...... m. Branch ....... m. Custer ........ m. Scottville |... . m. Ludington Thursday, October 7. (Faliman 2.2... 7:00 a. m. 10 a. m. ‘ ‘ Pountain ..... €:20 a. tm. 740 a. m Preesoil ....... 7:50 a. mm, 8:10 a. m. Manistee ..... Sao a. Wi. 11:05 a. m. NOVWalk ..... Ii:s@ a. m. 11:40 a. m @lmet Fake ... 11:47 a. m. 11°57 2. m MAleva ....... 12:07 Dp. m. 12:37 bp. mM. Copemish .... 1:00 pb. m. 0 p. m. Thompsonville 1:40 p. Pp. m. Homestead .. a p. mm, Beulah 22.026. ce Dp. By. Frankfort : 5 Dp. mm. Wallin .2.... 0. 5 p. m Bendom ...... 5: Dp. m Grawnh ....... 5 p. m Traverse City 62: Friday Wraverse City .............) m. Williamsburg 11:30 a. m. m. Elk Rapids £2°20 p. ma. m. Ravid City 1:30 p. m. m. Aen |... 1:63 p. Mm. m. Betnire ...... 2:40 p. m. m. Central Lake 3:26 p. m. m. Ellsworth 4:10 p. m. m. Charlevoix .... 5:00 p. m. m, Saturday October 9. Grand Rapids .. 6:30 a. m. rand Rapids Casket Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Will be represented on Trade Extention Tour next week by Mr. Louis N. Spring the Sales Manager of the Company, and will be pleased to meet the trade September 29, 1915 ww S“>DRUGGISTS S = a = nm —= — — NDRIES: Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, Sept. 27.—Some of the enthusiastic members of Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, met at the council rooms the first part of the week and formulated plans for the ensuing year with a view to inject- ing new life into the order after the long summer months. To this end it was decided to open the season October 2 with a smoker and refresh- ments and put on some features never before seen in the council rooms of Grand Rapids. Among other mat- ters discussed was the prize of $50 offered by Grand Counselor Walter S. Lawton, in behalf of the Grand Council, for the largest percentage of increased membership during the year. No definite plans were decid- ed upon, but a general outline was drawn up which it is thought will pave the way for an intelligent and thorough campaign at the next reg- ular meeting of the Council October 2. It is a fact that we have a fertile field here in Grand Rapids to work in and there is no reason why Grand Rapids Council should not have 1,000 members instead of 460. We want one or more application blanks in the hands of every member and then, if each member will get one applica- tion during the year, it would bring us close to the 1,000 mark, Mr. and Mrs. F. Eugene Scott, 217 Antisdel court, entertained a number of their friends at 500 last Saturday evening. Refreshments were served. Mrs. R. A, Waite furnished some choice selections of music and_ all went away unanimous in the decision that Mr. and Mrs. Scott are past mas- ters in the art of entertainment. Mrs. John Maurits has returned from a three week’s sojourn at Pe- toskey and neighboring points. Sam Westgate, whose genial coun- tenance and manly form have graced the streets of Grand Rapids for some time, tells us he is going to move to Kalamazoo. Well, all we can say is it is a good thing for Kalamazoo and we are sorry to lose him. Sam has been talking about the Grand Rap- ids Oil Co.’s products quite a good deal while here and now he has thrown that overboard, too, and affl- iated himself with the Western Oil Co. We mention this because our readers might wonder what possible excuse anyone could give for moving to Kalamazoo. And right away they put on Pros- perity Week at Kalamazoo. Bill Sawyer says he has heard of people starting in business with $75 and within a year having a credit to the extent of several thousand dol- lars from the wholesale houses, but it remained for his little son, Bud, to pull off a regular one. You know Bill likes to read the Sunday paper —after he gets up—but usually the news is pretty old by the time he gets to it. Last Sunday morning Bud found himself short of change and proceeded to start out down the street to see if he could sell Dad’s Sunday paper. In a short time he returned with a cent and no paper and Bill had to guess at the baseball news and church items. All we can say, broth- er Sawyer, is, get up early and avoid the rush. Smokes, refreshments and surprises will feature the next regular meet- ing of Grand Rapids Council next Saturday night. The following live merchants from the Southern part of the State at- tended the big fair last week as the guests of the Brown & Sehler Co. Henry Zeuschuitt, manager for C. L. Glasgow, Nashville; 1. J. Stephens, Mendon; Mr, and Mrs. Orla Jingles, Schoolcraft; R. H. Wilcox, Richland: E. Strassburger, Grass Lake: Martin Lofgren, Constantine, and others who got away without enrolling. J. H. Colby, the efficient credit man with the Brown & Sehler Co., who, is it is said, is the author of a book entitled, “Who He Is and What He’s Got,” has returned from an extended trip to the San Francis- co fair and other kindred points. We think the Shasta water out there agreed with him, for he looks hale and hearty and much rested. The Bagmen will hold their next regular meeting in U. C. T. hall, 38 Ionia avenue, Saturday evening, Oc- tober 9. Everybody come. Now comes the still more startling announcement that those Saginaw boosters are not satisfied with twen- ty-six members at one sitting, but they propose to make it forty at their November meeting. The next week after their big initiation they secured fifteen applications. Boys of No. 131, that shows what can be done if you will get busy and boost. Miss Gatha Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Eugene Scott, 217 An- tisdel court, won five prizes for nee- dle work at the West Michigan State Fair—three firsts and two seconds. Buy your dance tickets early. First dance October 16 in the new hall, 38 Tonia avenue. Good floor, good mu- sic, good committee. Tickets may be obtained of any member of the committee of which C. C. Perkins is chairman. Every member is a component part of Grand Rapids Council, No. 131. an equal partner in its rights and privi- leges and the Council will be just what you make it—dead if you are dead, alive if you hustle. There are some people whose work is so inefficient that if they were off from the job for a few months they would not be missed. Not so with Hotel Inspector Hammell. See how quickly we missed him? And we knew nothing of his sickness. We wish you a speedy and complete re- covery, Brother Hammell. Next week we hope to see our reg- ular scribe on the job again, much refreshed after his vacation, Every member get a member. This is your Council. Allen F. Rockwell. UNIVERSAL CLEANER Great for the pots—great for the pans Great for the woodwork—great for the hands. ORDER FROM YOUR JOBBER === THE GRAND RAPIDS VETERINARY COLLEGE Offers a Three Years’ Course in Veterinary Science Complying with all the requirements of the U. Ss. Bureau of Animal Industry. Established 1897. Incorporated under State law. Governed by Board of Trustees. Write for Free Catalogue. 200 Louis St. Grand Rapids, Michigan l | Zfyr— , Zp ij ! i) Off THE FRANKLIN CARTON WAY and the HARD WAY of Selling Sugar When you get your container of FRANKLIN CAR- TON SUGAR, you can open it with a pen knife, and there are the ready-to-sell cartons, ready for you to lift out and place on your shelf or put into orders or hand to the cus- tomer. No weighing, no tying, no bother, no loss by over- weight. Just the most convenient way for you to handle sugar. The original containers are easy to handle, carry, or place neatly in any part of the store, their contents being 24, 48, 60 and 120 pounds of all grades bought by housekeepers. Grocers who once start to handle FRANKLIN CARTON SUGAR never go back to the barrel and bother with weigh- ing, tying and risking loss by overweight. FRANKLIN CARTON SUGAR is GUARANTEED FULL WEIGHT and made from Sugar Cane THE FRANKLIN SUGAR REFINING CO. Philadelphia Here It Is! SIZE 32 inches long 14% inches high 8% inches wide A Practical Sanitary Showcase for Bulk Candy No flies, no dust, no pilfering and no waste. Quick and easy service. Far ahead of globes and jars. We are special agents for this new silent salesman and to get them placed with our trade in the shortest possible time we are offering it for a limited period with an assortment of ten pails of our best selling candy. We want you to have one of these cases because it will more than double your candy business. More business for you means more business for us. Ask our salesman about the proposition or write us for particulars. PUTNAM FACTORY, Candy Manufacturers Grand Rapids, Mich. Here’s Your Opportunity to equip your store with Up-to-date Fixtures “New” or “Used’’ We will take your old ones in exchange Grand Rapids Store Fixture Co. No. 7 Ionia Ave., N. W. Grand Rapids, Mich. “ys Wy ae mtr - ee September 29, 1915 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day o1 issue. cids Mustard, true ..9 00@9 50 Ipecac ....... ee ‘ ACEC oo... 6 @ 8 Mustard, artifiil 5 50@5 75 Iron, clo. ....... g a Bowes tse ty 11 @ 15 Nedtsfoot ....... W@ 380 Kino .........., @ 80 Carbole, 1... 0 .. 1 77@1 80 Olive, pure .... 250@3 50 Myrrh .......... @1 05 f Citric elle ale ata @ 7 Olive, Malaga, Nux Vomica @ 70 ur O 1 7 undr Muniatic ........ 24@ 5 yellow ..... 165@1 65 Opium ......001) @2 75 y ae eee ie Be 2 Olive, Malaga, Opium, Capmh. @ 90 D3 eee ccc Oe 3 green ........ 1 50@1 60 Opium, Deodorz’d @2 75 Sulphuric oe 24% @ » Orange Sweet. -.3 00@3 25 Rhubarb ....... = 7 Li Martarie 1.0.5.2... 56@ 60 Organum, pure .. @2 50 ine Ammonia Origanum, com’l @ 75 Paints Water, 26 deg. .. 64@ 10 Pennyroyal 2 25@2 50 Water, 18 deg. .. 444@ 8 Peppermint 2.50@2 75 Lead, red dry .. 7 @ 71 Water, 14 deg. .. ria Rose, pure ... 14 50@16 00 Lead, white dry 7 @ ie Carbonate ...... 18 @ 16 Rosemary Flows 1 50@1 7 Lead, white oil ..7 @ 7% We extend to all our customers and friends Chiovide ...... 10 @ 25 Sandalwood, E. Ochre, yellow bbl. 1 @ 1% Giese I. siigettasees 7 25@T 50 Beas yellow less2 @ 6 ae Bel Gopaiba 10.05... 5@1 00 Sassafras, true. @1 Ww Ne screanc 2%@ 5 an earnest invitation to see this line soon so that Fir (Canada) .. 1 28@1 50 Sassafras, meet oo ig yo bbl. 1 @ 1% ays OPCAIIMIMT wecee oe vs “ oe --- 40@ 50 Speen 90@1 00 Vo Eng. 1 25@1 50 oe co. fF | F BReru .......... Tangy ...... | 4 00@4 25 ermillion, Amer. 15@ 20 we may have the advantage of sufficient time to abe pea oe ie 30@ 40 Whiting, bbl. .. i1- lug 1% eee, bbls @ 46 Cue po 5 : . Turpentine, less 53@_ 58 te . rep 1 3501 45 give your orders careful attention and be able to Cubeb Wintergreen, true @5 00 i intergreen, swee nsecticides pe Juniper 10 birch ........ 3 00@3 25 ny fill them completely. Prickley Ash... @ 50 Wintergreen, art 3 00@3 25 Biue Witroil” boil” ‘a we Wormseed .... 3 50@400 Biue Vitrol, less 9@ is 0 d d h Barks Wormwood .... 4 00@4 25 Bordeaux Mix Pst 8@ 10 ur sundry department has been unusually Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 30 Patsacium i grnite i Cassia (Saigon) 65@ 75 ,.... | oe ct tt 2 ae i Elm (powd. 30c) 28@ 30 Bicarbonate ..... 40@ 45 Insect Powder .. 30@ 50 busy since September Ist, and we respectfully ask Sassafras (pow. 80c) @ 25 Bichromate ..... 32@_ 35 Lead Arsenate .. 8%@ 16 Saeal Cut (powd.) Hagnide Se ccee. 1 90@2 10 aro and Sulphur . : ae. i. Be ae Coeeee ....- + e olution, gal. .. 15@ 25 that you arrange a date with this department as ae a, Paris Green .... 20@25 Extracts Chlorate, granular 47@ 50 6 ° . Licorice ......... 80@ 35 Cyanide ......... 30 45 Miscellaneous early as possible. We will make as usual a liberal Licorice powdered 35@ 40 [edie 07077” 43204 40 oy ' Blowers Permanaganate 1 45@1 50 a S716 @1 50 ‘ a @ 45 Prussiate, yellow @1 25 MU ose cece 8@ ll allowance upon the expense of the trip. Meme (ede) ee i Etussiate, red .. ©3840 Alum, powdered and Chamomile (Rom) 55@ 60 Sulphate ........ @ 30 Sround ....... 12 Bismuth, Subni- Yours respectfully, Gums ee ee ee Acacia, 1st ...... as @ 2 20@ 36 ; omen |g . powdered 20@ 25 powdered - 64%@ 12 : : Acad, a Re ke ae ° Calamus 0. 50@ 75 Cantharaues po 2 Wuws5 75 Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. cacia, Sorts’. 20@ 25 ‘lecampane, pwd. low 20 Calomel ....... 1 iat 3 Acacia, Sorts .. @ 42> ‘Gentian, powd. 15@ 26 Capsicum ......, 30@ 35 Oe ey aa BS Ginger, African, Carmine ....... 3 Ta@4 00 oes arb. ° 5 g Cassia Buds .... oe cea eon oe > ene ao a Cgc ii Soa 300 38 oes (Soc. Ww. Y Ginger, Jamaica, Chalk Prepared 6@ 8 Asafoetida ....... 75 powdered ...... 26@ 30 Chalk Precipitated an < Asafoetida, Powd. Goldenseal pow. 6 50@7 00 Chloroform ...... 42@ 48 PUES cc cc lc. 100 Ipecac, powd. .. 4 25@4 50 Chloral arate 1 25@1 45 U,. = P. Powd. ae 25 Licorice saass 4 18W , p ceagage a - 4 60@4 90 Namphor _....... 56@ 60 Licorice, powd. .. 12 i ocoa utter. co@ 65 GualaG 2.005000... 40@ 45 Orris, powdered 30@ 35 Corks, a ee 10% Guaiac, powdered 50@ 55 Poke, powdered 20w 25 Copperas, ‘bbls. - @ BONG 00 soo... 70@ 75 Rhubarb ...... ++» 75@1 00 ~Opperas, less .... 2@ 5 Kino, powdered -. 7%@ 80 Rhubarb, powd. 75@1 25 -Opperas, powd... 4@ 6 Myrch (00005... @ 40 Rosinweed, powd. 25@ sv Corrosive Sublm 1 73@1 80 Myrrh, powdered @ 650 Sarsapariiia, Hond. Cream Tartar .... 41@ 45 Gorm soy. 9 25@9 50 ground ...... 65 Cuttlebone ...... 4oqm 50 Opium, powd. 10 25@10 45 Sarsaparilla Mexican, Dextrine ....... 7@ 10 Opium, gran. 10 50@10 70 ground ........ 20@ 35 Dover's Powder .. 2 50 @ Shellae (......... 28@ 3b Sd@ullis _......... 20@ 35 tmery, all Nos. 6@ 10 Shellac, Bleached 30@ 35 Squills, powdered ae 60 Emery, powdered 5@ 8 Tragacanth’ ‘Lumeric, powd. lz@ 15 Epsom Salts, bbls. @ 4% No 1 @2 50 Valerian, powd. 45@ 50 cap Salts, — or. 3 eer it io tig as acne 4 oS PEG cdc esc sas 2 00@2 2d Tragacanth pow 1 25@1 50 Seeds Ergot, powdered 2 7)q@3 0 Turpentine ..... « 10@ 15 Flake White LO 20 Anise seer cccccses 20@ 25 Formaldehyde bh 10¢ 15 Leaves ae 6 29 Gambier ...2.... i 36g 20 Sage, powdered .. 55@ 60 ee ‘ Gelating ..0....5. 7a@ 80 Buch 0. 1 60@1 65 ee : >, Glassware, full cases 80% Buchu, powd. 1 75@2 00 Gardamon’ Sees oe Gee Sage, ua loose.) of oe Celery (powd. 65) s0@ 60 Glauber Salts less 20 a" Senna, Alex ..... ta a CONSE Ce «- ; 18 Glue, brown ..... 11@ 15 Senna, Tinn. |... 30@ 35 Dill .-.-.-+- ean 200 25 Glue, brown grd. 10@ 15 Senna Tinn powd saq@ 49 foomell ..-------- 3 ip Glue, white ...... 15@ 25 Uva Ursit ..... 2.” 1@ 90 fect octet as. Glue, white grd. 15@ 20 ‘ i @ 2 ne ground peers a a Glycerine ...... slle@ 40 Olis Hoenuercel. pow. - 10 Hops ..........6. 45@ 60 : emp Gee sees s @ ] Indigo 1 25@1 50 Almonds, Bitter, ae tosee licwe ise a6 Lodine 5 68@5 91 Hue) ou. 8 50@8 75 Mustard, yellow M ftodoform ...... 6 18@6 30 \unonds, Bitter, : Mustard, black ...10@ 15 Lead Acetate .... 15@ 20 artificial ..... S@e.qg Bieta, powd. ao 30 Lycopdium .... 1 35@1 50 Aimouds, Sweet, OPPY ---eeeeree * AO ae 6 6Mace ©... ..... ee, D ae Quince. ........ 1 at ae Te ao ae Cee 1 25@1 50 * Mace, powdered 95@1 00 \lmouds, Sweet, Rape ss ssseeeee @ 15 Menthol ........ 3 50@3 75 imitation ...... 65@ 75 Sabadilla ........ @ & ‘Menthol ........ 3 50@3 75 Amber, crude 40@ 50 Sabadilla, powd. @ 40 Morphine ...... 5 65@5 90 Amber, rectitied 50@ 60 Sunflower «ses» 10@ 15 Nux Vomica ...... @ 15 a Anise . 00080), 2 vuw2 25 Worm American 20@ 25 Nux vomica pow. @ 20 fa Bergamont 450@4 75 Worm Levant .. 1 00@1 10 pepper, black pow. @ 30 ig! Caieput ....... 1 35@1 60 Pepper, white .... @ 35 ri a ’ a ou. ce au. 4 75@2 00 Tinctures Pitch, Burgundy ‘Wee 7 1 Sastor, s. an A i 5 QUURSAIA 5 ccc cscs, i” cans! | ee 15@17%, Aconite ........ @ 7% Quinine, all brds 43@ 53 1% Cedar ! ean i aun ou eae sete eeeeee g ae Rochelle Salts ... 35@ 40 iw Mtronella ........ W@L00 eee. st ttse Saccharine .. 10 50@10 70 y Cloves ......... 175@2 0 Asafoetida ...... @135 Salt Peter ..... 22%@ 30 Cocoanut ...... 20@ 25 Saeko teeee ° Seidlitz Mixture 30@ 35 Cc Eiger ...... 3:05@3 25 SVRSe sccseccs 5 , ella mace ee. 700° 7 Benzoin Compo’d @1 00 se eoee casi 4 is Croton ........ 2 00@2 26 a meee: ¢ 50 Soap, white castile Cupbebs ....... 3 75@4 00 Cantharadies ... @1 80 case ............ @6 75 Sigeron eee al ae 99 eae: seteee . ¢, . Soap, white castile : Eucalyptus .... 100@1 20 ardamon ...... less, per bar .... @ 75 : i : Hemlock, pure @1 e090 Cardamon, Comp. @2 00 Soda Ash ....... 1%@ 5 Will stimulate your trade. Handled by all jobbers. Suniper Bemies 2 75@8 00 Catecha ........ @, §@ Soda Bicarbonate 1%@ 5 Juniper God ... 10 i ecees Soda, Sal .... 1@ 4 Lard, extra ...... 80@ 90 Colchicum ...... @ 7 Spirits Camphor @ 7% foes “ee bee CUCU Schur oak ae G ae ene : deceues ulphur Subl. .... Lavender, Gar’n 1 25@1 40 Gentian ........ @ 7 Tamarinds ....... 15@ 20 G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Makers Lemon ....... 2 00@2 25 Ginger .......... @ 9% Tartar Emetic .. @ 60 RAND RAPIDS Linseed, boiled, bbl. @ 62 Guaiae ......... @105 Turpentine Venice 75@ 85 G Linseed, bld. less 67@ 73 Guaiac Ammon. @ 80 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 00@1 50 Linseed, raw, bbl. @ GE lodine ....... @2 00 Witch Hazel .... 65@1 00 Linseed, raw, less 66@ 72 {fodine, Colorless @2 00 Zinc Suiphate ... 7@ 10 GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing. and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled at market prices at date of purchase. Prices, however. are Index to Markets Burnham's \& pt. Burnham's pts. AXLE GREASE pot pt 1th. wood boxes, 4 doz. Do IT mm OOO ‘ wet 25tb. pails, per doz. .. BAKED BEANS Breakfast Food Pact tat ek tek fed Fat ca Cc P Bluing. doz. Large C P Bluing, doz. Summer ae 3 az. cs. 1 20 BREAKFAST ‘ee A DMO ww C2tVOwto Give Nwnyre cae Wheat, Cream of Rye, 34-2 oe Quaker Puffed Rice .. Quaker Puffed Wheat Quaker Brkfst Biscuit Quaker Corn Flakes Victor Corn Flakes .. Washington Crisps nr E Evaporated Milk F ‘ - Pears in Syrup Farinaceous Goods No. 3 cans, per doz. Flavoring Extracts Evapor'ed Sugar Corn ANIADMHM Early June asiftd 1 is 1 Grape Sugar Flakes . e ” Sugar Corn Flakes .. Hardy Wheat Food .. an No. 10 size can Eo Mapl-Corn Flakes .... Minn. Wheat Cereal Ralston Wheat Food Ralston Wht Food 10c Hides and Pelts ....... 00-3 Saxon Wheat Food .. Shred Wheat Biscuit oo Pillsbury’s Best Cer'l Post Toasties, T-2 BS BIRD MH OOD FORO MOORE COND DONOR ND om A BO CO OO tS ft Warrens, 1 tb. Tall .. Post Tavern Porridge Warrens, 1 Ib. Flat ss @0 00 G2 & OO 08 3 . Med Red ‘Alaska 1 40 Parlor, 5 String, 25 tb. I git Standard Parlor, 23 tb. > Warehouse, 33 th. Common Whisk Mancy Whisk ........ bat bt om DD OO CO eo 4 Domestic, % aes 0 90 8 OO 00 Solid Back, 8 in. Solid Back, 11 in. wow Dunbar, 1%s doz. Ss Salad Dressing Apa on eet ante stare ery teanaeri sponte se arg BUTTER COLOR Dandelion, 25c size . CANNED GOODS pp eee eo eo 3 Tb. Standards .. No. 10 Snider's \% pints Waneear) ooo ee. Wrapping Paper H a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 eee CHEWING GUM Adams Black Jack .... 62 Adams Sappota ....... 65 Beeman’s Pepsin . . Chiclets .......... Colgan Violet Chips -. 65 Colgan Mint Chips .... 65 Dentyne 62 Doublemint ............ 64 Flag Spruce .......... 659 Juicy, Rruit ............ 59 Red Robin sterling Gum Pep. .. -62 Sterling 7-Point ...... 62 Spearmint, Wrigleys .. 64 Spearmint, 5 box jars 3 20 Spearmint, 3 box jars 1 92 Trunk Spruce .......... 59 Yucatan Zeno CHOCOLATE Walter Baker & Co. German's Sweet ....... 22 Premium: ...:..... bo 32 Caracas ....... foeee ees 28 Walter M. Lowney Co. Premium, \%s ....... coe 28 Premium, %8 ........ 29 CLOTHES LINE Per doz. No. 40 Twisted Cotton 95 No. 50 Twisted Cotton 1 30 No. 60 Twisted Cotton 1 70 No. 80 Twisted Cotton 2 00 No. 50 Braided Cotton 1 00 No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 25 No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 85 No. 80 Braided Cotton 2 25 No. 50 Sash Cord .... 1 75 No. 60 Sash Cord .... 3 00 No: G0 Jute ....).:...:° 30 No: 72 Jute ...... sce 2 0 No. 60 Sisal ......:. 1 00 Galvanized Wire No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90 No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10 No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 00 No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10 COCOA BanerS ...6:4....06.. 13H Cleveland: .............. 42 Colonial, Wai .......... 35 Colonial, 468 .......... 38 MRS ooo. cee us 142 Hershey's, ke te 30 Hershey's, %s . 28 Pivler |... se. 36 Lowney, 458 .....-.... 34 Lowney, 48 ..-........ 84 Lowney, 48 ........... 88 Lowney, 5!b. cans .... 33 Van Houten, %s ...... 12 Van Houten, \%s ...... 18 Van Houten, 4s ...... 386 Van Houten, 1s ........ 65 AWVieM=-Fite 2 .65...52.0.-, 80 MVIEDD foo ec se. 88 Wilber, 48 ............ 33 Wilber, Ws .....:...... 32 COCOANUT Dunham’s per tb. 468, BID. Case ........ 4s, 5Ib. case .... %s 15 Tb. case ws, 15 Th. case ..... . 28 ls, 15tb. case 4s & %s 15tb. case 28 Scalloped Gems ..... 10 4s & ys pails ...... 16 Bulk, pails <......... 18 Bulk, barrels ..:..... 12 Baker's Brazil Shredded 10 5c pkgs., per case 2 60 26 10c pkgs., per case 2 60 16 10c and 33 6c tise = per CASE 2606s... COFFEES ROASTED RI Common Hair 2... Choice .....-2. 043. Waney ...... PeCADCITY ........ Santos Common ...5:..:..:..° 20 PRT oes es eee. - 2% Choeice =.....>.... eee 2m CY ccc eaccnce GO Peaberry ..:..... Sees a8 Maracaibo SANT, oo coc s ec. Oe PROCS 66 iis sec. 2D Mexican Choice ;....:........ 25 MAQCY 220.6... 20 Guatemala POAT oo ce asec 2D BANCY occ ce ckeccce 28 Java Private Growth .... ares) Mandling ... 31@35 Aukola ............ s0@s2 Moch a Short Bean ........ 25@27 jong Bean ........ 24@26 H. L. O. G. ...... 26@28 Bogota Pair oot... 28 Fancy ....... - 26 Exchange Market, "Steady Spot Market, Strong Package New York Basis Arbuckle 16 50 ee ewcences 4 September 29, 1915 Dd McLaughlin’s XXXX McLaughlin's XX XX package coffee is sold to retailers only. Mail all or- ders direct to W. F. Me- ats & Co., Chicago, Ill. Extracts Holland, % gro. bxs. 95 Felix, % gross ..... 115 Hummel’s foil, % Bro. 85 Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 48 CONFECTIONERY Stick Candy Pails Horehound ........2: - 9% Standard ........... - 9% Standard, small ..... 10 Twist, small ........ 10 Cases JUMDO ........ siesese Oe Jumbo, small ....... - 10 Big Stick ...... 9 Boston Sugar Stick ” a 14 Mixed Candy ails Broker ..... ae 8% @ut oat ..:...... 22: 10 Hrench ©ream .....; 10 Haney 2.5. eels soso oe GrOCeTS 0... ..5....5.. 7 Kindergarten 12 LeCAGOr occu. 10 MaseCStIG oss. 10 MOnAaTCh .....6. gs... 10 Novelty ...:...... cee a Paris Creams ....... 11 Premio Creams ...... 14 ROWAL occ sc oe beosee Ooh Special oss ec. 10 Valley Creams ..... ; 3 me A Oo cs 1% Specialties a Auto Kisses (baskets) 13 Autumn Leaves ...... 18 Bonnie Butter Bites .. 17 Butter Cream Corn .. 15 Caramel Dice 13 Cocoanut Kraut ...... Cocoanut Waffles .... un Coty Totty .......... Dainty Mints 7 ‘h. tin ié 14 Empire Fudge ....... Fudge, Pineapple .... 14 Fudge, Walnut ...... 14 Fudge, Filbert ...... 14 Fudge, Choco. Peanut 13 Fudge, Honey Moon . 14 Fudge, Toasted Cocoa- Ut ace e ccce cas. Le Mudge, Wherry ...... 14 Fudge, Cocoanut .... 14 Honeycomb Candy .. 16 Iced Maroons ’ Iced Gems ......... Iced Orange Jellies .. "13 Italian Bon Bons ... 13 Lozenges, Pep. ...... 11 Lozenges, Pink ...... 11 Manchus ..........<. 14 Molasses Kisses, ‘to 1. bOx 25... oe AS Nut Butter Puffs .... 14 Pecans, Ex. Large .. 14 Chocolates Pails Assorted Choc. ...... 16 Amazon Caramels .. 16 Champion ........ 13 Choc. Chips, Eureka 19 Climax 22.2 .......... 14 Eclipse, Assorted .... 14 Ideal Chocolates .... 14 Klondike ne 18 INBDODB cocci ce. cc. - 28 Nibble Sticks’ Soemeess a0 Nut Wafers ....... 18 Ocoro Choc. Caramels 17 Peanut Clusters ..... 20 Quintette ........... 16 WVCRINA fo eae - a2 Star Chocolates Bees e LS Superior Choc. (light) 19 Pop Corn Goods Without prizes. Cracker Jack with coupon ......... 3 26 Pop Corn Goods with Prizes Oh My 100s ..........°3 50 Cracker Jack, with Prize Hurrah, 100s Sete 50 Hurrah, 508 ....) 6... 1 75 Murrah, 248 0.05.0... 85 Cough Drops xes Putnam Menthol ... 100 Smith Bros; ...:..... 9 26 NUTS—W hole 8. Almonds, Tarragona 22 Almonds, California soft shell Drake @22 Brazils .......... 12@13 Wilberts ........- Cal No. 1S: 8S... @22 Walnuts, Naples ..18@19 Walnuts, Grenoble 17@18 Table nuts, fancy 14@16 Pecans, Large .... @13 Pecans, Ex. Large @14 Shelled No. 1 Spanish Shelled Peanuts ...... 6%Ib 7 Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled Peanuts ..... 10%@11 0 Pecan Halves ..... @6é Walnut Halves .... @40 Filbert Meats .... @30 Alicante Almonds @60 Jordan Almonds .. Peanuts Fancy H P Suns RAW .056.0.. <2 6. 5% @6% Roasted 2.5...... 7I@ 7% H. P. Jumbo, RaW 2.1.22... 16@S8 Roasted ...... 8%@ 9 CRACKERS National Biscuit Company Brands in-er-Seal Trade Mark Package Goods Per Baronet Biscuit ..... Flake Wafers Cameo Biscuit ...... Cheese Sandwich .... Chocolate Wafers .... big Newton .... Five O'Clock Tea "Bet Ginger Snaps NEC .. Granam Crackers ... Lemon Snaps beh et et — S M. M. Dainties ..... v0 OVSUCNCLEES (..0 sc cece 50 PYGILZEGROS «....5.k0eee ou Royal ‘@Poast ........ 1.00 Social Tea Biscuit .. 1 00 Saltine Biscuit ...... 1 00 Saratoga Klakes .... 1 50 Soda Crackers, N.B.C. 1 00 Soda Crackers Prem. 1 00 Uneeda Biscuit ...... 50 Uneeda Ginger Wafer 1 00 Vanilla Wafers ..... 1 00 Water Thin Biscuit .. 1 00 Zu Zu Ginger Snaps 50 Gwieback ........... 1.00 Other Package Goods Barnum’s*Animals .. 50 Soda Crackers NBC 2 50 Bruit Cake .......... 3 00 Bulk Goods Cans and boxes Amimals «......; dace MZ Aliantics, Asstd. .... 138 Avena bruit Cakes .. 12 bonnie Doon Cookies 1vU Bonnie Lassies ...... 10 banquet Wafers .... 20 Cameo Biscuit ...... 25 Cecelia Biscuit ..... 16 Cheese ‘lid Bits ..... 20 Chocolate Bar (cans) z0 Cnocolate Drop Center 18 Chocolate Pulf Cake 18 Choc. Honey Fingers 16 Circle Cookies ...... 12 Cracknels. ......06cs2 20 Cream fingers ...... 14 Cocoanut ‘Latty Bar .. 15 Cocoanut Drops ...... 12 Cocuanut Macaroons 18 Cocoanut Molas. Bar 15 Cocont Honey tingers 12 Cocont Honey Jumbies 12 Cottee Cakes Iced ... 12 Crumpets ....... s. da Dinner Pail Mixed | in LO tixtra Wine Biscuit .. 16 family Cookies ...... 10 Fig Cakes Asstd. .... 12 Fireside Peanut Jumb 10 Fluted Cocoanut Bar 12 frosted Creams ..... 10 Frosted Ginger Cook. Lu frosted Raisin Sqs. .. 10 Bull Moon .........., £0 Ginger Drops ........ 13 Ginger Gems Plain .. 10 Ginger Gems, Iced .. dl Graham Crackers ... 9 Ginger Snaps Family Ginger Snaps Round 9 Hippodrome Bar .... 12 Honey Fingers Ass’t 12 Honey Jumbles ...... 12 Household Cookies .. 10 Household Cooks. Iced 11 Imperiale 2. ...5..6... 10 Jubilee Mixed ........ 10 Kaiser Jumbles ...... 12 Lady Fingers Sponge 30 Leap Year Jumbles .. 20 Lemon Biscuit Square 10 Cakes ...... . aa Lemon Lemon Wafers Lemona ....... Lorna Doon ... Mace Cakes . Mary Ann ... Manlalay 10 Se kale ne 10 Mar eiciiow Pecans 20 Mol. Frt. Cookie, Iced 11 NBC Honey Cakes .. 12 Oatmeal Crackers ... 9 Orange Gems 10 Oreo Biscuit 25 Othello Soe do Penny Assorted — pi csies (LO Picnic Mixed ........ 12 Raisin Cookies ...... 12 Raisin Gems ........ Reveres Asstd. ...... 17 Rittenhouse Biscuit .. 14 Snaparoons 15 spiced Cookie ........ 10 Spiced Jumbles, “Teed 12 Sugar chet ea de Sugar Crim 10 Sultana Fruit “Biscuit 18 Sweethearts ......... 26 Vanilla Wafers ...... 20 eeceeee ee September 29, 1915 29 6 qT 8 9 SEEDS _ Poles Tallow Picnic Botled ea ee ' TORAECO ee ce te cc ee oN vee @B Hams _...-... ee ae a ome Cut N B C Square 7% Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60 No. 2 ........0.. Oe ee 0a, Mia gue Ut +e... wo ae N BC Square ...... 7g Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80 Wool Minced Ham .. Ep a ce ae Bugle, 16 oz. ........ 3 84 N BC Sodas ......... 11 FLAVORING EXTRACTS {[nwashed, med. 20 ee eG" Hemp, Russian ..... 6 Bugle, 100 0.2: a N B C Picnic Oysters 7% Jennings D C Brand e Sausages ee es 3 Ban Pater, ¢'om "i #9 Gem Oysters ......... 7% Extract Lemon Terpenless HORSE RADISH Bologna 10%@11 Mustard, white ..... ; 12 no ree oe... Extract Vanilla Mexican Per doz oes... 90 IVED owes eee eee %2@10 Poppy ..... PERG ECERG - 16 iat ae a oe a HO at (ec eta ce, sek Frankfort Ha” @U26 Rape .... 21... oa... 10 pihosen ne. IG om. .... 7 86 IN’ B © Sodas’ |.......- 7% No. 1, F box % oz. .. 85 5p. pails, per doz. ..2 30 ork ..... : 11 @12 SHOE BLACKING pi watha, 16 oz .... 60 Premium Sodas ...... & ~—No. 2, F box, 1% oz. 120 15m pails, per pail .. 65 Weal ........ teeeeeee 11 Handy Box, large 3 dz. 3 50 eves, SO .-.0.. 549 Select Sodas ........ 10 No. 4, F box, 2% oz. 2 25 30m pails, be ye 1) Peee =: 7% Beto, foun foun No imitr fom on... 3 $0 Saratoga Flakes 13 No. 3, 2% oz. Taper 2 00 JELLY GLASSES Headeheese’.......... 10 Bixby’s Royal Polish 8&5 © Limit, 8 om. ...... 1 80 Saltines: 200cs 0 esl e.. 13 No. 2, 1% oz. flat .... 1 75 Beef Miller’s Crown Polish 85 No Limit, 16 oz. //.. 3 60 fe a co ee he Oe ee 1S Bones |. 20 0020 50 SNUFF Ojibwa, 8 and 16 oz. 49 Oyster FLOU D FE ea ue Be ee Goe 1€ Romp, new 24 50@25 00 Scotch, in bladders .... 37 Ojibwa, loc ....... (ae N B C Picnic Oysters 7% Grand Rapids Grain & 8 oz. capped in bblis., Pig’s Feet Maccaboy, in jars ..... 35 Ojibwa, be ot, ss Gea Gueies 1M Milling Co. Per doz -2...... 0... 18 % bbls g 100 French Rapple in jars .. 43 Petoskey Chief, 7 oz. 2 00 Sel i oe Se Winter Wheat MAPLEINE ‘ , 40 ths.” en Senn Peach cod tenes me 4% ao \ % bblis., 40 tbs. ... 2 00 Sugar Wafer Specialties Bory Eee os 80 2 oz. bottles, per eo oe ee 4:25 Boxes ooo eee = fea i aa ima g fancy Spring ....... 675 1 oz. bottles, per doz. 175 {pp See “coe Gua 2s Ve Tea ee, ee ...... - ae eer Ae 1 Gee eee Eom partied ‘pce ao a8 00 Semen peels e SPICES Red Bell, 8 foil -- 1°98 nee 1 00 Wizard, Gran. Meal 4 80 32 oz. bottles, per dz. 30 00 Kit Tripe Whole Spices Sterling, L & D &e 5 76 Nebieco 2... | 7 Wizard Buckw’t cwt. ao MINCE MEAT Ki fe pi ee ie Allspice, Jamaica ..9@10 rece: Cuba, canister 9 16 Festino ......-----++- 7a Rye cae ae Ber case (15.2. . 28 7 bile, sh ha 090 «(Allspice, lg Garden @11 eect Gane fe ee ee SG MOLASSES rogs, peratiMOe. gg Gamis: Canton. ugis Sweet GPa 1° is 4 $ corna Doone ........ ee Nene | oe 2 te entice i New Orleans Cassia, Canton 5 s uba, . tin 4 50 Ben PQ) (eet fost ...-..... 5 70 «Fancy Open Kettle ... 42 [OSS Per Ib. .......... oe ee ee oe a eee \ ee S08 oe 60 ef, rounds, set 20@21 i S Champagne a Granena Health ...., 7a, Chee 35 Beef, middles, set |. s5@90 (inger, African 4% Sweet Burley: Son) $28 ee ee ee cee eet Gag Gaede 1... 22 Sheep, per bundle’... 99 Ginger, Cochin Ga eet ae Ee adunee wismout nonce: bolted Med. ......... 560) Waly oe, 20 Uncolored Butterine Brace, O17 iat, % gros. 5 49 CREAM TARTAR Barrels or Drums ...... 0 Boxes rea 41 Square Cans’ ...7.. 43 Taney Caddies i .2..2.. 48 DRIED FRUITS Apples Evapor’ed Choice blk Evapor’ed Fancy pkg. Apricots California ......-: 8%@10 Citron @orsican °2:......-..- 16% Currants i Imported, 1 th. pkg. . 9% Imported, bulk ........ 9% poae Se 6% Muirs—Choice, 25Itb. Muirs—Fancy, 25th. .. 7% Fancy, Peeled, 25tb. ..12 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 tbh. 8@8% California Prunes 30-100 25tb. boxes ..@ 7% 30- 90 25tb. boxes ..@ 8%4 70- 80 25tb. boxes ..@ 94% 30- 70 25tb. boxes ..@10 50- 60 25Ib. boxes ..@10% 40-50 25tb. boxes ..@11 EVAPORATED MILK Red Band Brand : Baby ....--.-.-----.--- 30 Wall ooo... 3 40 5 case lots, oe less; 10 ase lots, 10c less. : FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans 6% California Limas .... Med. Hand Picked . 33 00 Brown Holland ..... 3 20 Farina 25 1 tb. packages ....1 60 Bulk, per 100 Ib. . 4 50 Original Holland Rusk Packed 12 rolls to container 3 containers (40) rolls 3 20 e Hominy Pearl, 100 th. sack Maccaroni and Vermic Domestic, 10 th. hox .. 2 50 eli £0 {tmported, 25 Th. box ..3 50 Pearl Barley Chester, ooo. oc... 50 Portare ..........-.- 4 75 Peas Green, Wisconsin, bu. 2 90 Split, fb) 2. c5..0.... 6% Sa Mast India .7.........- 5 German, sacks .......... 5 German, broken pkg. Tapioca Flake, 100 Yb. sacks 5% Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks .. 5% Pearl) 36 pkes. ...... 2 25 Minute, 36 pkgs. 215 FISHING TACKLE % to 1 im :....:. |. 6 1% to 2 in. ..... Sere 1% to 2 in. 2.25... . 3. 9 1% to 2 if. .......... 11 CA ee eee oe 15 3 le ee cae. 20 Cotton Lines No. 1; 10 feet. 2.....: 5 NO: (22/1 feet 2 05...0. 7 No. 8, 15 feet ........ 9 No. 4, 15 feet .:...... 10 INO. 5, 15 feet .:...... 11 No.6; 15: feet .....:.. 12 No. 7, 15 feet ........ 15 No: $, 15 feet. :....... 18 No. 9;.35: feet..;.....- 20 Linen Lines Small oe os. ve ee Medium ...... ees a 26 TATge choco ct eee cscs Oe Voigt Milling Co. Voigt’s Crescent .... 6 10 Voigt's Royal ....... Voigt’s Flouroigt .... 6 10 Voigt’s Hygienic Gra- ham 95 Watson-Higgins Milling Co. Perfection 5 95 Tip Top Hiour ...... 5 x0lden Sheaf Flour .. 4 90 Marshalls Best Flour 5 Worden Grocer Co. Wuaker, paper ... . 5 60 Quaker, cloth 5 Kansas Hard Wheat Voigt Milling Co. Calla “lily ......- teees 6 20 Worden Grocer Co. American Eagle, %s_ 6 3 American Eagle, 4s 6 20 American Eagle, %s_ 6 10 opring Wheat Roy Baker Mazeppa (new) ...... 40 Golden Horn, (new) bakers ............ 5 30 Wisconsin Rye ...... 5 60 Bohemian Rye ...... 5 65 Judson Grocer Co. Ceresota, 16S 5.25.2... 6 60 Ceresota, 4S ........ 6 50 Ceresota, 445 ........ 6 40 Voigt Milling Co. folumbian ¢.......... 75 Worden Grocer Co. Wingold, %s cloth .. 6 20 Wingold, 44s cloth .. 6 19 Wingold, %s cloth .. 6 00 Wingold, %s paper .. 6 05 Wingold, 4s paper .. 6 00 Meai Bolted ........ Releee ce 4160 Golden Granulated .. 4 80 Wheat New Red 2...0..00... 98 New White 2.00.55... 96 Oats Michigan carlots ..... 38 Less than cariots .... 49 Corn Cavlots cos... 84 Less than cariots .... 8b Hay @arlots ......; ceoee. 16.00 Less than carlots .. 18 00 Feed : Street Car Feed .... 33 00 No. 1 Corn & vat Fd 33 00 Cracked Corn ta 3400 Coarse Corn Meal .. 34 00 FRUIT JARS Mason, pts., per gro. 4 65 Mason, qts., per gro. 5 00 Mason, % gal. per gro. 7 40 Mason, can tops, gr& 2 25 GELATINE Cox's, 1 doz. large .. 1 45 Cox's, 1 doz. small .. 90 Knox's Sparkling, doz. 1 25 Knox's Sparkling, gr. 14 00 Knox's Acidu'’d doz. .. 1 25 Minute, 2 qts., doz. ..1 10 Minute, 2 qts., 3 doz. 3 25 INeISOnMS oe. 1 50 Oxtorad _............. 75 Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 25 Plymouth Rock, Plain 90 GRAIN BAGS Broad Gauge ........ 18 Amoeskeas ........... 2 1g erbs Save 10:0 -68. 2... 15 EIOpSs ene oes oie otal ote Cea Laurel Leaves . Senna Laves - 25 HIDES AND PELT Hi des Green, No. ff ..-... s 14 Green) No. 2050.0... 13 @ured: (No; a...) 16 Cured, Noi2) coco ct . 15 Calfskin, green, No. 1 15 Calfskin, green, No. 2 18% Calfskin, cured, No. 1 16 Calfskin, cured. No. 2 14% Old Wool ....... 60@1 25 Lambs ...:.. soeec 1b@ 25 Shearlings ....... 10@ 20 Half barrels 2c extra Red Hen, No. 2% ...1 75 Red Hen, No. 5.2..... 1 75 Red Hen, No. 10 ....1 65 MUSTARD % tb. 6 Ih. box ......: 16 OLIVES Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 10@1 20 Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 05@1 15 Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 00@1 10 Stuffed, 5 02 ........ 90 Stuffed, 8 oz. ...2.... 1 25 Stuffed, 14 oz. ..... « 2.20 Pitted (not stuffed) PAOZ) ccc... ae 25 Manzanilla, 8 oz. ..... 90 Lunch, 10 oz. ...0.... 1 35 Luneh, 16 oz. ..... . 2 25 Queen, Mammoth, 19 Oy eee 4 25 Queen, Mammoth, 28 Of ...............,. 75 Olive Chow, 2 doz. es. per doz coo. 25 PEANUT BUTTER Bel-Car-Mo Brand 24 Tb. fibre pails .... 09% 14 Ib. fibre pails ..... 10 23 oz. jars, 1 doz. 2 25 2 Ib. tin pails, 1 doz. 2 85 6% oz. jars, 2 doz. 1 80 PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Iron Barrels Pereechion .2......... t Red Crown Gasoline ..12. Gas Machine Gasoline 19.9 VM & P Naphtha fn 5 Capitol Cylinder ..... 29.9 Atlantic Red Engine 13.4 Summer Black ...... 6.7 Polarine .. 2), melica cs 28.9 PICKLES Medium Barrels, 1,2uu count .. 7 50 Half bbls., 600 count 4 25 5S gallon kegs ........ 1 90 Small Baerels 3.5606... - 9 50 Half barrels ........ 5 00 5 gallon kegs ........ 2 25 Gherkins Barrels ........:...- - 13 00 Half barrels ......... 6 25 6 gallon kegs ........ 2 50 Sweet Small Barrels .....5....... 16 00 Half barrels ..... se. 8 50 5 gation kegs ....... 3 20 IPES Clay, No. 216, per box 1 75 Clay, ‘T. D. full count 60 GOb ae: PLAYING CARDS No. 90, Steamboat .... 75 No. 15, Rival assorted 1 25 No. 20, Rover, enam’'d 1 50 INO, 572, Special -..... 17 No. 98 Golf, Satin fin. 2 00 No. 808, Bicycle ...... 2 No. 632 Tourn’t whist 2 25 POTASH Babbitt’s, 2 doz. .... 1 7% PROVISIONS Barreled Pork Clear Back ..22 00@23 00 Short Cut Clr 20 00@21 00 BEAM so. 14 00@15 00 Brisket, Clear 24 00@25 00 eo ee esac ce Clear Family ...... 26 00 Dry Sait Meats S P Bellies .... 144%4@15 Lard Pure in tierces 9%4@10 Compound Lard 7%@ 8 80 tubs ....advance..%& 80 Th. tubs ....advance % 30 th. tubs ....advance % 20 Th. pails ...advance % 10 Th. pails ...advance % 5 Tb. pails ...advance 1 8 Ib pails ...advance 1 Smoked Meats Hams, 14-16 th. 15 @15% Hams, 16-18 Yb. 144%@15 Hams, 18-20 tb. 141446@15 Ham, dried beef sets ....5.... 29 @30 California Hams 9%@10 Solid Dairy .... 12%@16 Country Rolls .. 13 Oise Canned Meats Corned beef, 2 th. .. 4 70 Corned beef, 1 th. |. 2 50 Roast beef, 2 th. .... 4 70 Roast beef, 1 th. .... 2 50 Potted Meat, Ham Blavor, 348 _...... . 48 Potted Meat, Ham Flavor, %s ..... ao = 90 Deviled Meat, Ham Hlavor, 4a... 48 Deviled Meat, Ham Flavor. %s .. 90 Potted Tongue, Yn 48 Potted Tongue, %s .. 90 RICE Haney 0000. 7 @7% Japan Style .. 5 @5% Broken ..)....... 3% @4% ROLLED OATS Rolled Avenna, bbls. 6 00 Steel Cut, 100 tb. sks. 3 00 Monarch, bbls. ...._. 5 75 Monarch, 90 Th. sks. 75 9 Quaker, 18 Regular .. 1 45 Quaker, 20 Family .. 4 SALAD DRESSING Columbia, % pint .... 2 25 Columbia 1 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 tbs. in box. Arm and Hammer .. 3 00 Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3 00 SAL SODA qranulated, bbls. ...... 80 Granulated, 100 ths. es. 90 Granulated, 36 pkgs. .. 1 25 SALT Common Grades 100 2 Ib. sacks |... .. 70 4 Ib. sacks dae 60 5 Ib. sacks .. 28 10 tb. sacks 56 ID. sacks ...... 40 28 ID. sacks ......., 20 Warsaw B6 1b. sacks | |........ 26 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags 20 Solar Rock 56 Ib. sacks ..... 6... 26 Common Granulated, Fine 1 10 Medium, Fine ....... 15 SALT FISH Cod Large, whole .... @ 7% Small, whole .... @T7 Strips or bricks .. 9@18 Pollock .......... @ 5 Smoked Salmon Strips: 2.235. .5005.. 0. Halibut Strips. ee. 18 @hunks (2.1 0500........ « 19 Holland Herring Y. M. wh. hoop bbls. Y. M. wh. hoop % bbls. Y. M. wh. hoop kegs Y. M. wh. hoop Milchers Standard, bbls. 11 75 Standard, % bbls. .... 6 13 Standard, kegs 80 Trout No: t, 100 tbs: ...... 7 50 INO! 1, 40 Is. ...... 2 25 No. 1 10 ts. ........; 90 No. 1,2 Tbs. ..... mous 75 Mackerel Mess, 100 Tbs. ...... 15 50 Mess, 40 Ibs. ..... - € Mess; 10 Ips. .....< 1 75 Mess, $ Tha: ......6. 50 No. £, 100 Ibs. ...... 14 60 No. 1, 40 Ibs, ........ 6 20 No. £30 Ibs. ........ 1 66 Lake Herring 100 So ee. beeese. 3) SO 40 Whos. 2.3.5. cucwe 2 Ob 10 Ibe. ooo... se. «|GS S IBA, fecceeecces eee «=6GA Penang .... Mixed, No. 1 . Mixed, No. 2 @ Mixed, 5c pkgs. dz. @45 Nutmegs, 70-180 .. @30 Nutmegs, 105-110 ..@25 Nutmegs, 105-110 .. @25 Pepper, Black ve (@Gn Pepper, White .... @25 Pepper, Cayenne .. @22 Paprika, Hungarian Pure Ground In Bulk Allspice, Jamaica .. Cloves, Zanzibar Cassia, Canton .... @22 Ginger, African @18 Mace, Penang @75 Nutméss ... 00... - | @35 Pepper, Black ...... 18 Pepper, White .... @32 Pepper, Cayenne @24 Paprika, Hungarian @45 STARCH Corn Kingsford, 40 ths. .... 7% Muzzy, 20 1tb. pkgs. .. 5% Kingsford Silver Gloss, 40 1th. .. 7% Muzzy, 40 1tb. pkgs. .. 5 Gloss Argo, 24 5c pkgs. .... 90 Silver Gloss, 16 3ths. ..6% Silver Gloss, 12 6tbs. 8% Muzzy 48 1Ib. packages ...... 5 16 3tb. packages 4% 12 6Ib. packages ...... 6 50> boxes .-......._. 3% SYRUPS Corn Barrels ..........., waa 28 Halt barrels ........... 30 Blue Karo, No. 1%, 4 COZ eae a) 40 Blue Karo, No. 2, 2 dz. 1 95 Blue Karo, No. 2% 2 G6e0 2 35 Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 2 30 Blue Karo, No. 10, % GQOZ 20 Red Karo, No. 1% 4 GOA ce. 3 80 Red Karo, No. 2 ,2 dz. 2 30 Red Karo, No. 2%, 2dz. 2 75 Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 2 70 Red Karo, No. 10 % dOZ) .5...0.500 50 60 Pure Cane Hain 2.05)... cece ce 26 Good 2..0...7. wees 20 Choice 2 25 Folger’s Grape Punch Quarts, doz. case .. 6 TABLE SAUCES Halford, large ...... 75 Halford, small ...... 2 25 TEA Uncolored Japan Medium ......... - 20@25 Choice ............ 28@9e Bancy ........ secs COQ 4G Basket-fired Med’m 28@30 Basket-fired Choice Basket-fired Fancy No. 1 Nibs Siftings, bulk ..... Siftings, 1 tb. pkgs. Gunpowder Moyune, Medium Moyune, Choice .. Moyune, Fancy .... 50@60 Ping Suey, Medium Ping Suey, Choice Ping Suey, Fancy .. Young Hyson @Gholee 20. 5212..55) - 28@30 Bancy ...........: 45@55 Oolong Formosa, Medium .. 25@28 Formosa, Choice .. 32@35 Formosa, Fancy .. 50@60 Engllsh, Breakfast Congou, Medium 25 @30 Congou, Choice 39@35 Congou, Fancy .... 40@60 Congou, Ex. Fancy 6)@86 Ceylon Pekoe, Medium .... 28@30 Dr. Pekoe, Choice .. 30@35 Flowery O. P. Fancy 40@50 Sweet Mist, % gro. .. 5 70 Sweet Mist, 8 oz. ... 11 Helegram, fe .2.. | | 5 1 Miner, 66 00 6 00 Tiger, 25c cans edoaa o Uncle Daniel, 1 th. ae Uncle Daniel, 1 oz. -. & 22 Piug Am. Navy, 16 oz. scas. oe Apple, 10 th. butt 36 Drummond Nat. Leaf, 2 and 5 tb. Drummond Nat. Leaf, Se Der doz ..1... 96 Battie Ax 32 Bracer, 6 and 12 th. : 30 Big Four, 6 and 16 tb. Boat Jack, 2m... 30 Boot Jack, per doz. .. 496 Bullion, Hem 46. Climax Golden Twins 48 Climax, 14% oz. ...... 44 Climax, 7 on 6 47 Day’s Work, 7 & 14 th. 38 Creme de Menthe, th. 62 Derby, 5 th. boxes —.. OO 5 Bros, 4 Wo Four Roses, 10c ...... Gilt Edees, 2 wh || 50 Gold Rope, & and 12 Th. 58 Gold Rope, 4 and 8 Th. 658 G. O. P., 12 and 24 th. 40 Granger Twist, 6 ID... 46 G. T. W., 10 and 21 th. 36 Horse Shoe, 6 and 12 TH. 43 Honey Dip Twist, 5 and ib. ...8 « 4 Jolly Tar, 5 and & tT. 40 J. T., 5% and 11m. .. 40 Kentucky Navy, 12 th. 32 Keystone Twist, 6 Th. 45 Kismet, € MH. 6.2... 48 Maple Dip, 20 oz. secs Merry Widow, 12 th. «a ae Nobby Spun Roll 6 & 3 58 Parrot, 12 Patterson’s Nat. Leaf 93 Peachey, 6, 12 & 24 TH. 41 Bienfe Twist, 5 i. . 48 Piper Heldsieck, 4&7 1.69 Piper Hetdsieck, per dz. 96 Polo, 3 doz., per doz. 48 Redicut, 136 a2 |... ||) 38 Scrapple, 2 and 4 doz. 48 Sherry Cobbler, 8 oz. 32 Spear Head, 12 oz. .. 44 Spear Head, 14% oz. .. 44 Spear Head, 7 oz. .. 47 Sq. Deal, 7, 14 & 28 th. 30 Star, 6, 12 and 24 tm. 43 Standard Navy, 7%, 15 and 30 th. Ten Penny, 6 and 12 th. 35 Town Talk, 14 oz. .... 31 Yankee Girl, 12 & 24 th. 31 Scrap AW Read, fe ..-....... 5 76 Am. Union Scrap .... 5 40 Baz Pipe, Se ....... 5 88 Cutlag, 2% o7. ...... 26 Globe Scrap, 2 oz. ... 30 Happy Thought, 2 oz. 30 Honey Comb Scrap, 5c Honest Scrap, 5c .... Mail Pouch, 4 doz. 5c Old Songs, 5c ....... Old Times, % gro. . Polar Bear, 5c, % gro. Red Band, 5¢ % gro. Red Man Scrap, 5c .. Scrapple, 5c pkgs. ... Sure Shot, 5c % gro. Yankee Girl Scrap 2oz. Pan Handle Scrp Yer Peachey Scrap, 5c .... Union Workman, 2% Smoking All Leaf, 2% & 7 oz. 30 BBE, 2% 62. ...-...; -. 6 00 BB, 14 oz. 3 Bagdad, 10c tins .... Badger, 3 LD adeseees i Badger, Banner, 5c Banner, Banner, 40c Belwood, Miture, Big Chief, 2% oz. .. 6 00 ADTQIs POH oO ~ no ec OZ rh 30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT 12 Smoking Big Chief, 16 oz. .... Bull Durham, be .... 5 Bull Durham, 10c .. 11 Bull Durham, 15¢e .. 17 Bull Durham, 8 oz. Bull Durham, 16 oz. .. 6 Buck Horn, bc ...... 5 Buck Horn, 10c .... 11 Briar Pipe, 5c ...... 5 Briar Pipe, 10c .... 11 Black Swan, Sc .... 57 Black Swan, 14 oz. .. 36 Bob White, ic ...... 6 00 Brotherhood, bc ...... 6 00 Brotherhood, 10c .... 11 10 Brotherhood, 16 oz. 5 05 Carnival, BC .....0.. 5 70 Carnival, % oz. ...... 39 Carnival, 16 oz. .... 40 Cigar Clip’g, Johnson 30 Cigar Clip’g, Seymour 30 Identity, 3 and 16 oz. 30 Darby Cigar Cuttings 4 50 Continental Cubes, 10c 90 Corn Cake, 14-02. .... 2 55 Corn Cake, 7 oz. .... 1 45 Corn Cake, 6c ....... 5 76 Cream, 50c pails ..... 4 70 Cuban Star, bc foil .. 6 76 uban Star, 16 oz. pls o 72 mips, 10C ......--.-- 0 30 Dilla Best, 1% oz. 79 Dills Best, 3% oz. 77 Dills Best, 16 oz 73 Dixie Kid, Sc ........ 48 Duke's Mixture, bc ..5 16 Duke’s Mixture, 10c ..11 02 Duke’s Cameo, fc ....5 76 Ck eases fh 76 woe AL 8 Oe. Le...s 5 04 m OA... 7 Of. ..-.--. 11 52 MPashion Sc ......-..+ 6 00 Fashion, 16 oz. .....-. 5 28 Five Bros., 5c ....... 5 76 Five Bros., 10c_ ..... 10 53 Five cent cut Plug .. 29 ©O fF 10¢ ........-- 11 62 Four Roses, 10c .... 96 full Dress, 1% oz. .. 72 Glad Hand, Oc .....-.. 48 Gold Block, 10c ...... 12 00 Gold Star, 50c pall .. 4 60 Gail & Ax Navy, 6e 5 76 Growler, 60 ....+..-+.- 42 Growler, 10c ......... 94 Growler, 20c .....+.. 1 85 Giant, GC ...s-.esenes 5 76 Glant, 400 ....ccee0% 3 72 Hand Made, 2% oz. .. 50 Hazel Nut, dc ...... 5 76 Honey Wew, 10c ....12 00 Painting, 6c ....-.:++. _ 38 Ge IE te Ser a 6 10 1X 1, in pallies ...... 3 90 Just Buite, bc ........ 6 00 Just Suits, 10¢ ...... 12 00 Kiln Dried, 26c ..... 2 45 King Bird, 7 oz. .... 2 16 King Bird, 10c ...... 11 62 King Bird, fc ........ 5 76 ie Turke, Se ....... 5 76 Little Giant, 1 Ib. , 28 Lucky Strike, luc . OS Le Hedo, 8B Om. ...... 10 80 Le Redo, 8 & 16 oz. 38 Myrtle Navy, 10c ....11 62 Myrtle Navy, Sc ..... 5 76 Maryland Club, 5c » 90 Mayflower, 6c ....... 5 76 Mayfiower, llc ...... 96 Mayflower, 20c ...... 1 92 Nigger Hair, Be ..... 6 00 Nigger Hair. 10¢ ....10 70 Nigger Head, Sc .... 5 40 Nigwer Head, 10c ... 10 56 Noon Hour, 6c ...... 48 Old Coltouy, 1-12 gro. 11 62 Olid ML, Ge 2... esse 5 76 Old Mnglisn Crve l%oz. 96 cm Crop, 6c ........ 5 76 Ola Crop, 35¢ ....... 20 P. S., 8 oz. 30 Ib. es. 19 P. 8., 3 of., per gro. 5 70 Pat Hand. 1 oz. ...... 63 Patterson Seal, 1% oz. 48 Patterson Seal, 3 oz. 96 Patterson Senl, 16 oz. 5 00 Peerage, SC ....-.ss 5 76 Peerless, 10c cloth ..11 52 Peerless, 10¢ paper ..10 80 Peerless, 20c ........ 2 U4 Peerless, 40c ........ 4 08 Plaza, 2 gro. case 6 76 Plow Boy, Sc ....... 5 76 Piow Boy, 10c ...... 11 40 Plow Boy, 14 oz. ...... 4 70 Pedro, ito ........... 11 93 Pride of Virginia, 15 Ti el ee 5 76 Pilot, 14 oz. doz. .... 2.10 Prince Albert, Sc .... 48 Prince Albert, 10c .... 96 Prince Albert, & oz. ..3 84 Prince Albert, 16 oz. 7 44 Queen Quality, 5c 48 Rob Roy, 6c foil 5 76 Rob Roy, 10c gross ..10 52 Rob Roy, 25c doz. .... 2 10 Rob Roy, 50c doz 414 8S. & M., Se gross .... 5 76 S. & M., 14 oz., doz. ..3 20 Soldier Roy, 5c gross 6 Soldier Boy, 10c ... 10 76 50 13 Pilot, 7 oz. doz. ..... 1 05 Soldier Boy, 1 ™. .... 4 76 Sweet Caporal, 1 oz 60 Sweet Lotus, Be .... 5 76 Sweet Lotus, 10c ...11 52 Sweet Lotus, per doz. 4 60 Sweet Kose, 2% oz. .. 30 Sweet Tip Top, 5c .. 50 Sweet Tip Top, 10c .. 1 00 Sweet Tips, % gro...10 08 Sun Cured, i0c ....... 98 Summer Time, 5c ... 6 76 Summer Time, 7 02... 1 65 Summer Time, 14 oz. 3 50 Standard, 5c foil .... 5 76 Standard, 10c paper 8 64 Seal N. C. 1% cut plug 70 Seal N. C. 1% Gran. 82 Three Feathers, 1 oz. 48 Three Feathers, 10¢c 11 52 Three Feathers and Pipe combination .. 2 25 Tom & Jerry, 14 oz. 3 60 Tom & Jerry, 7 oz. ..1 80 Tom & Jerry, 3 0z. .. 76 Trout Tine, o Trout TAne, c Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 78 Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags .. 48 Tuxedo, 2 oz. tins ... 96 TWruweds, BOC once en nae 90 Tuxedo, 80c tins .... 7 45 Wer Path, 6c .....- 6 00 War Path, 20c ...... 1 60 Wave Tine, 3 oz. .... 40 Wave Tine, 168 oz. .... 40 Way up, 2% oz .... 5 75 Way up, 16 oz patls .. 31 “Vila Fruit, Sc ....-- 5 76 Wild Fruit, 10c ..... 11 62 Yum Waim, 66 ......> 5 76 Yum Yum, 10c .....- 11 52 Yum Yum. 1 Th. doz. 4 60 TWINE Cotton, 38 ply ..-....- 20 Cotton, € py. .....65. 20 Mite, 2oply 6c. es 14 Hemp, 6 ply ......... 13 Flax, medium ....... 24 Wool, 1 Th. bales 10% VINEGAR White Wine, 40 grain 8% White Wine, 80 grain 11% White Wine, 100 grain 13 Oakland Vinegar & Pickle Co.'s Brands Highland apple cider 18 Oakland apple cider .. 13 State Seal sugar .... 11% Oakland white pickle 10 Packages free. WICKING No. 0, per gross .... 30 No. 1, per gross ..... 40 No. 2, per gross ..... 50 No. 8, per gross ..... 75 WOODENWARE Baskets BUBNOIS focus. 1 00 Rushels, wide band .. 1 15 Market ............. 40 Splint, torge ........ 4 00 Splint, medium ...... 3 59 Solnt, small ........ 3 00 Willow, Clothes, large 8 00 Willow, Clothes, small 6 25 Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 25 Butter Plates Ovals % ., 250 in crate .... 35 % Ib., 250 in crate .... 35 1 Im., 250 in crate ...... 40 2 TD., 260 in crate ...... 50 3 Tb., 250 in crate ...... 70 6 TD., 250 tn crate ...... 90 Wire End 1 id., 250 in crate ..,... 85 2 Td., 250 in crate ...... 45 Ss ., 850 In crate ...... 55 6 i, 20 in crete ...... Hd Churns Barrel, 5 gal., each 2 46 Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2 55 Clothes Pins Round Head 4% inch, 5 gross ..... 60 Cartons, 20 24% doz. bxs 65 Egg Crates and Fillers Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20 No. 1 complete ....... 40 No. 2, complete ....... 28 Case No. 2, fillers, 15 BON ocean aes ciiees a 3 Case, medium, 12 sets 1 15 Faucets Cork Hned, 8 in. ...... 70 Cork lined, 9 in. .... 80 Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90 Mop Sticks Trojan spring Sclipse patent No. 1 common ........ 8 No. 2 pat. brush holder 85 Meet No. 7 .........-:. 85 12%. cotton mop heads 1 30 spring $5 14 Palls 10 qt. Galvanized 2 00 12 qt. Galvanized .,.. 2 25 14 qt. Galvanized .... 2 50 Mhre 7 2 40 Toothpicks Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00 Gea oo 85 Traps Mouse, wood, 2 holes .. 22 Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. 45 10 qt. Galvanized .. 1 12 qt. Galvanized .... 1 70 14 qt. Galvanized .... 1 Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65 Rat, wood .........5: - 80 Rat, spring _........ 75 Tubs a0, 1 Pibre ooo... 16 60 No. 2 Elbre ......... 15 00 No. 3 Wibre ..... |. 13 50 Large Galvanized ..., 7 50 Medium Galvanized .. 6 50 Small Galvanized .... 5 50 Washboards Banner, Globe ........ 3 00 Brass, Single ......., 4 25 Glass, Single ........ 3 60 Single Acme ........ 3 50 Double Peerless ..... 5 75 Single Peerless ...... 4 00 Northern seen 4 50 Double Duplex ...... 3 75 Good Enough ....... 4 00 Universal .....6....5.. 4 00 Window Cleaners 2 im. ose. 1 65 ee 1 85 16 an. 28. 2 30 Wood Bowls 13 in. Butter ......... 1 75 1b in. Butter ........ 2 50 17 1n. Butter ........ 4 75 19 in. Bitter .2 6... 7 50 WRAPPING PAPER Common Straw ...... 2 Fibre Manila, white .. 3 Fibre Manila, colored 4 No. 1 Manila ........ 4 Cream Manila ......:. 3 Butchers’ Manila .... 2% Wax Butter, short e’nt 10 Wax Rutter, full e’nt 15 Wax Butter. rolls ... 12 YEAST CAKE Manic, § doe ....... 15 Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00 Sunlight, 1% doz. .... 50 Yeast Foam, 8 doz. ..1 15 Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85 AXLE GREASE 1 Ib. boxes, per gross 8 70 3 Th. boxes, per gross 22 70 TELFER’S Rex COFFEE DETROIT Jamo, 1 Th: tin ...... 3 Eden, 1 tb. ti Belle Isle, Bismarck, 1 tb. 2 Vere, 1 tb. pike. .... 23 Horan, 1 7b. pke. .... 32 Telfer’s Quality 2 19 san 18 16 Cherry Blossom Tea 37 Telfer's Ceyvyion |... 40 TeV atep. We Car lots or local shipments. bulk or sacked in paper or jute. Poultry and stock charcoal. M. O. DEWEY CO., Jackson. Mich. 15 16 September 29, 1915 17 BAKING POWDER