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WHAT IS HE FIGHTING FOR?

The Hohenzollern cannot, dare not,
tell his people the purposes of the
war into which they plunged at his
command. He suppresses the news-
paper that had the hardihood to de-
mand an answer to the question,
Bereft
of sense and reason by his mad am-
bition or by the awful euilt that
weighs upon him, no longer takine

“What are we fighting for?”

thought of motive or of aim, he is
whirled alone upon the torrent of
German blood, of the world’s blood,
poured out in the stupendous conflict.
His is not the conqueror’s privilege
“to sit and muse upon the fearful ruin
he has wrought,” for victory is as yet
unwon, not in his power to achieve:
nor can he pause to tell why he fights.
Ife cannot speak the truth about it,
for candid confession would end the
war and end him.

The great Berlin newspaper, Vor-
warts, recently stated editorially:

“For twelve months we have been
listening to what is not true. Surely
we cannot be taken amiss if we ex-
press a desire to hear once what is
true and what the German govern-
ment really considers as its object in
this war.”

suppressed
The imperial

For this Vorwarts is
not for the first time.

mind must not be vexed by questions,
for truthful answers would open the
seeing eye where loyalty now blinds,
and the German people would then
understand that they are fighting not
their own battle, but their mad mas-
ter’s. Vorwarts plainly knows, men
here and there in Germany, and in
increasing numbers, are beginning to
see what the world outside has from
the beginning seen, that Wilhelm IT.
is fighting not in the cause of Ger-
many, but for the Hohenzollern cause.
Defense of the Fatherland, when the
Fatherland was under no threat of
attack? Freedom and justice, when
it was in denial of freedom and jus-
ice that the Emperor’s government
decreed war and withstood all appeals
for peace? Kultur, a word become
more odious than any other in all the
languages spoken on earth since the
world has learned that its true mean-

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1915

ing is not organized national efficiency
in good works, but conquest, subju-
gation, the extinction of liberty and
the domination of
ism?

militar-
Vorwarts is right. These words
“mean nothing to-day,” and on every
tongue that speaks them they have
been a lie from the first. It was not
for the Fatherland, for no principle
of freedom and justice, not for the
national existence of Germany that
his Imperial Majesty began the war
and still carries it on, but for his
own existence, for his crown, for the
freedom of the Hohenzollern to mold
and use Germany for the perpetration
and aggrandizement of his house.

Prussian

Tt is 500 years since the first Hohen-
zollern went among the savages of
Prussia and made them German “in
hide and hair,” as Treitschke puts it.
Prussia has advanced as the world
has moved forward, and German uni-
ty has seen and favored the wonder-
ful development of a great people.
But that imperious will at the top has
centered all growth and increase upon
one obiect of brute force, the crea-
tion of a state armed, mighty, irre-
sistible for conquest, seizure and ex-
pansion over all coveted parts of the
globe, not as the interest
might demand, but as the central will
decreed, and in rough disregard of all
just titles to ownership. Not. the
spirit of the enlightened and peace-
loving Frederick, the father whom-he
despised, but the spirit of Bis-
marck magnified in ruthlessnes, di-
minished in foresight and capacity,
has dwelt in the bosom of William II.
A sterile ambition has urged him on.
as sterile as Napoleon's
Europe at his feet, its crowned kings
daily renewing allesiance before his
throne. The German genius
have advanced Germany to a

national

dream of

would
fore-
most place among nations without the
Hohenzollern guidance. The
gies of the great people would have
built up an enduring prosperity, and

eEner-

they would never have forfeited the
place they won, wrecked’ the
structure reared by their toil as he

nor

has done in a war of which Germany
will bear the scars and the sorrows
for a century, even if she ever regains
what has been lost. He trained the
Germans for war and in war they
rush to their ruin. Could there he
a more awful proof, not of the futility
only, but of the wickedness, the
blighting, deadly consequences of the
Hohenzollern policy—a nightmare
aspiration of greatness that brings to
destruction the edifice it would rear?

The Kaiser could end the war in
a day by a renunciation that would
be the only possible atonement he
could make in this world for the ap-
palling calamities he has brought
upon it. It would be an unheard-of
act of contrition, the most momen-

donning of the sackcloth men
but his abasement would
give life to millions now doomed to
death on the future battlefields of his
war. For his crown and scepter, for

tous

€ver Saw.

the Hohenzollern house, the Prussian
idea—fool’s baubles all—he fights on,
drains his empire of its life blood.
prolongs its hideous carnage. sustain-
ing the spirit of his weary troops, of
his people in the shadow of famine,
with blasphemous assurances that God
is with him and them is what he calls
the defense of the nation’s existence.

\s the

to day give new and alarming siens

Warring nations from day
of the awful strain and sufferine, the
shoulders
all the
visita—
that the
sternest theologians have ever dared
to formulate.

guilt on his
until it
measures and systems for the

mountain of
towers up overtops

tion of the divine wrath

England groans under
debt, yet the
and her

billions of new daily

costs increase statesmen
speak openly of approaching exhaus-
tion, while conscription is in sight

to supplement the levies patriotism

has yielded. But if Britain. with its

vastly greater wealth, crows faint.

what must be the state of Germany?
It can no longer be concealed. Prices
risen to double or treble the level of
peace times, bread riots, imperial as-
sumption of control over supplies and
prices of foodstuffs, tell the story too
plainly. Lessened production and the
no longer derided blockade are doing
their sure work. There is exultation
over the success of bond issues, but
the bonds are paid for in paper, and
when paper becomes the treasurvy’s
reliance the volume of it must cease-
We

Secure

lessly swell until the end comes.
are told that
against financial collapse because she

Germany is

is sustained by her own ample re-
debt
abroad, for the

sources, because she incurs no

that must be paid

obligations are sold to
What is the share
of the great mass of German people
Does
the paper interest on the bonds go
into the hands of the millions of sol-

sovernment
her own pec ple.

in this investment transaction?

Does it zo to
their
win-
dows in their struggle to get bread

diers in the trenches?

the women with shawls over

heads who break the grocer’s
and milk for their hunery children,
who are made to desist from disorder
by reminders that the penalties for
rioting are fines they could never pay,
imprisonment that would doom their
children to starvation? There is no
delusion about it outside of Germany.
The question put to the government
within the
empire the truth is coming near to

by Vorwarts shows that

general recognition.
Two million Prussians killed or
maimed, a million men of the other

German states slain or wounded, all

Number 1678

Europe Dilood, its fair

drenched in
fields |

that once yielded harvests for
men’s sustenance now become by

acres places
euilt
too monstrous to be expiated. Dante’s

acres and thousands of
of hasty sepulture—all this is

stream of boiling blood in the Sev-
enth Circle that sufficed for the pen-
ance of Alexander and fierce Diony-
that

drawn back

sius—even terrible imagination

would have from the
contemplation of a nether world fate
ht to be

of these crimes against God and man.

decreed as the punishment

and the Florentine would have cast
from him an impotent pen.
Paris is well worth a mass, said

Henry IV., as he professed conver-
to the
the soul's

faith of Rome. Leaving

quite out of the

beyond our finite

sion
FEPOSse

question as a matter
ken, is not Europe worth savine? The
lives of millions, the sparing of wom-
en’s sorrow and orphans’ tears, the
Civilization in its

human i
toward the

backward

arrest of
dreadful slide

abyss of primitive savagery, would
this be too dearly bought by the di-
minishment of one crowned head. the
renunciation of one man’s barren as-
pirations? would
without sequels of vindictive-

William TI. tell his
people what he is really fighting for
and that the things he fights for are
them.—New

Peace come, and

peace

ness, if would

mot worth the cost to

York Times.

November crop reports show the

South as a main factor in our first

corn crop of over three billion bush-

els. Her cotton production, mean-

while, is cut down from last year

virtually one-third. In this decrease

a slight drop in the yield per acre

played a part: but there remains no

doubt that the South has turned a
new agricultural leaf. She will be en-
couraged by the high prices which
corm is bringine. In the Central
States prolonsed summer rains and
early cold made the quality poor and
cut down the yield In the South

ideal conditions enabled that section
Nation’s

whole crop, increasing its production

to grow 2¢ per cent. of the
OVEr 1t5 average
The

country may rejoice in its most valu-

nearly 40 per cent.

for the preceding five years.

able harvest. worth in the ageregate
five and a half billon dollars, but the
South may claim to have added cubits
to her agricultural taking
thought.

stature by

—
And some people make us tired—
because we can’t run fast enough to

get away from them.
——

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knows he knows.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

November 17, 1915

 

RIGHT TO REFUSE TO SELL.

 

It Is Clearly Defined By Recent
Decision.

Few of the decisions on price main-
tenance questions have caused more
comment or furnished more food for
thought than that rendered by Judge
Lacombe on behalf of the Federal
Court of Appeals in the action of the
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. against
the Cream of Wheat Company. Still
it should be remembered in studying
it that it is not strictly a decision
on the fixed price issue—at least as
fixed prices are contemplated by the
Stevens bill; a sort of semi-patent—
nor does it fully settle the issue di-
rectly involved in the main lawsuit
being considered; although there is a
general belief that it presaces the
logic which will ensue on the final
injunction proceedings.

The decree tends to reaffirm an old
right which had never been chal-
lenged until after the Sherman law
and the Clayton act were passed; the
right to sell or refuse to sell as one
chooses. Manufacturers have seldom
had serious trouble at law from exer-
cising this right, although it has
never been fully effective as a weapon
to enforce reselling prices. It might
keep goods out of the price cutter’s
hands, so far as direct supply from
the manufacturer was concerned, but
it did not prevent the price cutter
legally from doing as he chose if he
could pick up those goods elsewhere.
The Stevens bill would furnish just
such legal ground for enforcing re-
sale prices.

The trouble with that plan of regu-
lating prices from the standpoint of
the manufacturer has been that it in-
volved closing some very attractive
outlets, and cutters have visited pun-
ishment on antagonistic manufac-
turers against which some lacked the
determination to stand. On many a
product the “leakage” due to “Srreg-
ular channels” amounts to a consid-
erable proportion of a manufacturer’s
output, especially if it be a local pro-
duct.

Judge Lacombe naively remarked
that “we have not yet reached the
stage where the selection of a trader's
customers is made for him by the
Government.” If one can delve be-
neath the surface of this remark it
would seem to encourage the idea
that however much the legislatures
may believe in regulating everything
for merchant and consumer alike,
the courts do not respect the doc-
trine very highly.

Another reassurance in the court’s
logic is that the Sherman law and
the Clayton act have not changed the
fundamental right to select one’s cus-
tomers for whatever cause appears to
the selector sufficient. This frankly
includes the right to consider price
cutting as a legal reason so long as
it is the manufacturer and not the
courts who is to be the arbiter. Fur-
thermore, as the decree Says:

It is a part of a man’s civil rights that
he be at liberty to refuse business rela-
tions with any person whomsoever,

whether the refusal rests upon reason
or is the result of whim, caprice, preju-
dice or malice. .

Nor does the court 1egard it as
contrary to the Sherman law for a

 

manufacturer to warn other distrib-
uters from furnishing his goods to
the men whom he has cut off. In
some of the litigation in this respect
it has been argued that this is a “con-
spiracy,” but the logic in this case
seems to regard it simply as a sec-
ondary application of the same right
to refuse to sell to anyone who of-
fend in that way, as it was applied in
refusing the price cutter. In other
words, so long as a manufacturer
acts as his own policeman in this di-
rection, the law will not stop him,

An extremely interesting finding of
the court—an inferential finding at
least—is a definition of a “wholesal-
er” and a “retailer”; also affirming
the contention of many manufactur-
ers that quantity does not make the
classification. The court does not
say that an exception to the classi-
fication rule js discrimination, but it
does set up that being a buyer of
large quantities does not make a re-
tailer into a wholesaler. This js in-
teresting in view of the persistent
efforts of legislators to break down
the practice of having a wholesale
list and a retail list by claiming that
it is discrimination. On this Judge
Lacombe’s comment looks a good
deal like a blow at chain stores and
buying exchanges. He says:

As was stated before, the Cream of
Wheat Company has elected not to sell
to consumers or retailers, but to confine
its sales exclusively to wholesalers.
There is nothing unusual about such a
course of business, and certainly it is no
offense against common law, statutes,
publie policy or g00d morals for a trader
to confine his sales to persons who will
buy from him in large quantities.

A wholesaler is one who buys in com-
paratively large quantities and who sells,
usually in smaller quantities, but never
to the ultimate consumer of an individ-
ual unit. He sells either to a jobber (a
sort of middleman) or to a retailer, the
latter being the one who sells to the
consumer. The “‘large’’ quantities bought
by the wholesaler may vary greatly—
from a fraction of a carload to many
earloads; the character, not of his buy-
ing but of his selling marks him as a
wholesaler.

Upon the proofs and the admissions in
the record the tea company is not a
wholesaler, but a retailer: it does not
confine its sales to retailers, but sells
to countless consumers; a package at a
time for twelve cents.

The Cream of Wheat Company, as
we have seen, in the conduct of its busi-
ness decided and made announcement to
the trade that, for reasons sufficient to
itself, it would sell only to wholesalers.
Why, if it chose to do so it could not
make such a rule and adhere to it, we
are at a loss to understand.

Nevertheless, for a time the Cream of
Wheat Company made an exception to
its rule and sold to the tea company
under some arrangement, which, as de-
fendant thought, would not make the
wholesalers with whom it dealt critical
of the excevtion. On a certain day the
Cream of Wheat Company decided that
it would no longer sell to this retailer
at all, and since then it has not sold to
complainant. There was no contract
between the two which bound defendant
to sell to complainant for any specified
period of time.

This suit is really brought to force the
Cream of Wheat Company to continue
to sell to this single retailer, as it sells
to the wholesalers who trade with it.
Much has been said about the reason
why defendant ceased to treat complain-
ant as an exception to its rule; failure of
the latter to live up to some arrange-
ment, etc. All that seems to be wholly
immaterial.

From a strict specialty standpoint,
there is also something of value in
the suggestion that there is a legal
distinction between selective skill (as
any other skill of production or pe-
culiarity of formula) represented in
a trade name. and identically the
same article otherwise selected and
unbranded. It looks like a clear rec-
ognition of “the specialty,” as mer-
chandise having individuality and spe-
cific rights under the law. That is

something which has commonly been
lacking in all the trade mark conten-
tions which were not based on a
registered patent or trade mark. In
fact, it is the legal basis for the
Stevens bill and all similar legisla-
tion. To quote again:

It puts up the middlings which it se-
lects in packages and offers its selection
to the trade under the name Crenm of
Wheat. That name identifies ‘packages
containing middlings of defendant’s se-
lection and it has protected its trade
name for such selection by a copyright
covering the carton in which the cereal
is packed. Hither because it has uked
good judgment in its selections, or be-
cause it has well advertised its trade-
mark, it finds a ready market for its
packages, Its particular selection, how-
ever, amounts to less than 1 per cent.
of the total purified middlings bought
and sold in this country.

The business of the Cream of Wheat
Company is not a monopoly, or even a
quasi monopoly. It makes its own se-
lection of what by-products of the mil-
ling process it will put up and sells what
it puts up under marks which tell the
purchaser that these middlings are its
own selection. It is open to Brown,
Jones and Robinson to make their se-
lections out of the other 99 per cent. of
purified midd@lings and put them up and
sell them; possibly one or more of. them
may prove to be better selectors than
defendant, or may persuade the public
that they are. It is difficult to see how
into such a business as that any novel
and exceptional rule of law is to be
imported.

Orange Growers Warned Against
Immature Shipments.

Following the ruling of Secretary of
Agriculture Houston suspending the
eight to one test for oranges, the De-
partment of Agriculture has issued a
statement defining its position as to
the shipment and sale of immature
Oranges and grape fruit.

The Department bulletin states that
the shipment of immature oranges
will be considered a violation of the
Pure Food and Drugs Act.

The Department closes its bulletin
with the following warning to grow-
ers who ship immature oranges and
grape fruit:

“The Department therefore gives
warning that the transportation and
sale in interstate commerce of oranges
or grape fruit which have been ar-
tificially colored by sweating or other-
wise, so as to conceal damage or in-
feriority, will be regarded as in vio-
lation of the Federal Food and Drugs
Act, and proceedings under that act
will be instituted in all cases where
sufficient evidence is obtained to jus-
tify such action.”

——+__+ 2.
Burdened With Debt.

Every individual who burdens him-
self with debt enslaves himself to a
certain extent and becomes under the
thumb of the man who credits him.
The debt he contracts places him un-
der obligations to the one he owes.

le becomes to feel that way. He
recognizes that he has lost his inde-
pendence, and is frequently made to
feel so by threats of those he Owes,
whenever he attempts to do that
which he desires. The remedy lies
in living within one’s means and get-
ting into the habit of paying the-cash.
Year by year the lines are being
drawn tighter by merchants who have
habitually extended credit, and the
signs point to the time not far dis-
tant when the volume of business will
be done over the counter for cash,
and the credit system will vanish as
a matter of self-preservation to the
man in business.

 

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BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.

Proceedings in the Western Distric:
of Michigan.

Grand Rapids, Nov. 9—In the matter of
Leslie E. Hart, bankrupt, the final meet-
ing of creditors has been held. The final
report and account of the trustee, show-
ing total receipts of $152.36, disbursements
of $25 and a balance on hand of $127.36,
was considered and the same appearing
proper for allowance and there being no
objection thereto was approved and al-
lowed. Final dividend of 2 3-10 per cent.
was declared and ordered paid. Determ-
ined that referee make a certificate rec-
ommending the bankrupt’s discharge and
that no funds of the estate be used in
objecting to the discharge. All claims
against the bankrupt have been filed.

Adrian Bakalaar, of Grand Rapids, has
been declared a bankrupt on his own
petition this day. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Nov. 29, at
which time creditors may appear, prove
their claims, elect a trustee and trans-
act such other and further business as
may properly come before such meeting.
The schedules reveal that there are no
assets not claimed as exempt and the
following are listed as creditors:

Secured.
Henry Daane, Grand Rapids ....$ 35.00
Unsecured.
James Boer, Grand Rapids ...... $135.15
ad. Meyers, Grand Rapids ........ 12.705
Verhey & Noorthoek, Grand Rapids 3.50
G. C. Roos, Grand Rapids ...... 10.00
L. Bogerd, Grand Rapids ........ 6.00

A. Vanden Berge, Grand Rapids .. 6.69
J. D. Roelofs, Grand Rapids .... 1.50
G. R. Brick Co., Grand Rapids 2.10
L. Ebling, Grand Rapids ........ 6.25
R. A. Stonehouse, Grand Rapids .. 2.00
Koostra & Zuidema, Grand Rapids 17.43
Dr. A. Sevensma, Grand Rapids 133.00

Citizens Tel. Co., Grand Rapids 5.75
Brummeler-Van Strien Co., Grand L

Rapids oe 10.25
C. Hottis; Grand Rapids |....... 10.00
W. & G. Weys, Grand Rapids 10.80
J. DeBree, Grand Rapids ........ 2.90
Leonard Benjamins Co., Grand

RADIOS ee 13.79
L. Brouwer, Grand Rapids ....... 7.00
De Young Brothers, Grand Rapids 34.29
Standard Builders Supply Co.,

Grang Hanids ;.............., 9.62
G. EK. Builders Supply Co. ........ 28.05
M. Den Herder, Grand Rapids 3.00
J. Vander Ploeg, Grand Rapids 7.00

Battjes Fuel Co., Grand Rapids 224.97

Ebel J. Norden, of Grand Rapids, has
this day been adjudged a bankrupt on
his voluntary petition, adjudication made

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and the matter referred to Referee
Wicks, who has also been appointed as
receiver. George S. Norcross, of Grand
Rapids, is in charge as custodian. The
first meeting of creditors has been called
for Nov. 28, at which time creditors may
appear, prove their claims, elect a trus-
tee and transact such other business as
may properly come before the meeting.
The schedules of the bankrupt show as-
sets estimated to be worth $2,266.48 and
the following are shown as creditors of
eG bankrupt—all located in Grand Rap-
ids:

  

Preferred.
City of Grand Rapids, taxes ..$ 104.44
Unsecured.
Judson Grocer Company ........ $1400.00
J. 3. Bureraat 2.0000 183.48
B. Becker 81.63
Ei Veonard S& Sons ....5....2.... 159.00
NE Watama 100.00
Worden Grocer Company ....... 50.00
IWykes (& Cou ee 25.00
Valley @ity Milling Co, |......... 10.00
M. Piowaty & Sons .............. 20.00
Grand Rapids Paper Co. ........ 10.00
Standard @il Go. ...............:
tS. Rosk Co .....
National Biscuit Co. .. 5.
Brooks) Candy ©o. .......6...,..... 15.00
Vanden Berge Cigar Co. .......... 50.00
Jonm Seven oe
Ohio (Stamping @o. ...............
Dr. Peter Pharney & Sons
Hekman Biscuit Co. .........
Washburn-Crosby Co. ...... :
Jennings Hxtract Co ............ :
G EH Gas Company .............. 15.00
Watson-Hisgins ©o. _............. 15.00
oo Guiltema ec 40.00
Blue Valley Creamery Co. ....... 5.00
Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. .... 10.00
Woodhouse Cigar Co. |........... 10.00
Akeman Baking: ©o. ............... 10.00

An inventory and report of appraisers
will be on file at the first meeting of
creditors.

Nov. 11—John Spore, of Charlotte, has
this day been adjudged a bankrupt on
his voluntary petition and the matter
referred to Referee Wicks. The | first
meeting of creditors has not yet been
called. The schedules of the bankrupt
show that there are no assets except
such as are claimed as exempt and the
total liability consists of judgment for
$955.70, rendered against the bankrupt
in the Circuit Court of Eaton county in
favor of Jennie Densmore, of Ionia.

In the matter of Arend J. Nyland,
bankrupt, Grand Haven, the trustee has
filed his first report and account, which

shows total receipts to date of $353.43, °

disbursements of $20.24 and a balance on
hand of $333.19. A special meeting of
creditors will be called at once for the

  

 

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purpose of paying a first dividend to
creditors.

Nov. 12—In the matter of the Welch-
Atkinson Shoe Co., bankrupt, Grand
Rapids, the trustee has filed his first re-
port and account which shows total re-
ceipts to this date of $10,384.47, dis-
bursements for administration expenses
and preferred claims of $380.12 and a
balance on hand of $10,004.35. A special
meeting of creditors will be called for the
near future at which time the first divi-
dend will be declared and ordered paid
to the general creditors. .

In the matter of William E. Eyles,
bankrupt, Grand Rapids the trustee has
filed his final report and account. which
shows total receipt of $829.49, disburse-
ments of $479.94 and a balance on hand
of $349.94. The final meeting of cred-
itors will be called and the final divi-
dend declared and ordered paid.

In the matter of the Holland Manu-
facturing Co., bankrupt, Holland, a spe-
cial hearing was this date held to con-
sider and pass upon the trustee’s report
of an offer of $50 for the equity in the
real estate from Henry Winter. No fur-
ther offers were made and the equity in
such real estate was sold to said Winter
for the amount of the offer.

Nov. 12—In the matter of Adrian Klav-
er, a special hearing was this day held
on the secured claim of J. Y. Huizenga
@ Co... and the trustee’s objections
thereto. Witnesses were sworn and the
matter submitted, briefs of counsel to
be filed. The determination on _ this
claim must be made before the assets
can be disposed of and it is impossible
at this time to state what the dividends
will be for creditors.

Nov. 13—In the matter of Jacob Tan-
genberg, bankrupt, Grand Rapids, the
first meeting of creditors was held. Claims
were allowed. Harold W. Sryant, of
Grand Rapids, was elected trustee and
his bond fixed at $1,500. The stock in
trade was sold to Harry VandenVeen, of
Grand Rapids, for the sum of $602.40 and
the sale was confirmed. There are still
on hand certain stock certificates, ac-
counts receivable, etc., to be sold. <A
first report and account will soon be filed
and a dividend paid.

Nov. 15—In the matter of Constantine
Golembiewski, bankrupt, Grand Rapids, a
special meeting of creditors was held
this date and a first dividend of 5 per
cent. declared and ordered paid. There
will be further dividends aggregating
aroroximately 10 per cent.

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Record Lemon Season For Califor-
nia Growers.

The 1914-1915 citrus fruit shipping
season closed on October 31, showing
the second largest total of any year,
that of last year holding the record
with 48,548 cars, accordine to Coast
reports. The total for the season just
closed is 46,862 cars, which is near
that of the season of 1910-1911, when
46,394 cars were shipped.

The lemon crop this year was the
largest that California has ever had,
and considerably more than double
that of either of the two previous
seasons, the total shipments this sea-
son being 6,851 cars, against 2,954 cars
in the season of 1913-1914. The fig-
ures, however, do not exceed greatly
those of the 1910-1911 season, when
6,764 cars were shipped. The ship-
ments of oranges this season are 5.-
583 cars less than those of last year,
when the orange crop was the great-
est in history of California. Northern
and Central California districts, tak-
en separately from Southern Cali-
fornia, show a gain of 101 cars over
last year’s shipments of oranges and
are increasing materially over former
years.

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out 0’ school fer an hour, by snuffin’
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Movements of Merchants.

Merrill—James Jordan has opened
a bakery and lunch room here.

Dutton—A. W. Hilzey has sold his
grocery stock to John Roberts.

Baraga—M. T. Kenefick has en-
gaged in the grocery and meat busi-
ness.

Lapeer—J. W.
ry Robinson in
ness.

Ithaca—Frank Shaver & Son have
engaged in the meat business on Pine
River street.

Milford—C. S. Furniss, recently of
Nashville, has engaged in the drug
business here.

 

Mees succeeds Har-
the restaurant busi-

          

Eugene Brya_ succeeds
Ernest Larkins in the restaurant and
cigar business.

Britton — William Moreland, of
Morenci, has opened a grocery and
drug store here.

Gladwin—J. B. Vanest & Son suc-
ceed Brown & Vanest in the lumber
and planing mill business.

Detroit—The Superior Wholesale
Grocery Co, has increased its capital
stock from $10,000 to $20,000.

Au Gres—E. G. Cole, of the Cole-
Grimore Mercantile Co., was Married
to Mrs. Bertha Sproule Nov. 10.

Stockbridge—B. G. Bloomfield has
purchased the Willmore store build-
ing and will occupy it with his bakery.

Vermontville—Thieves entered the
Charles Lamb grocery store Nov. 13
and riffled the cash drawer of its con-
tents.

Laingsburg—T. Euler has taken
possession of the implement. stock

which he recently purchased of Wal-
ter Berry.

3unker Hill—Floyd Lowe, recent-
ly engaged in general trade at Stock-
bridge, has engaged in a similar busi-
ness here.

Grayling—Mrs. C. E.
sold

Stanard has
her restaurant to H. Hanson,
who has opened a bakery in connec-
tion with it.

Kalamazoo—Frank Green has en-
gaged in the cigar and tobacco busi-
ness at the corner of Main and Bur-
dick streets.

Copemish — Beniamin Crow has
leased the Tellepaugh store building
and will occupy it with a stock of
meats Dec. 1.

Jackson—Clyde J. Smith has re-
moved his grocery stock to the store
building at 711 First street, which he
recently erected.

Jackson—The Empire Clothing Co,,.
for the past thirteen years conduct-
ing a women’s and children’s ready-
to-wear clothing and furnishing goods
store at 257 East Main street, is clos-
ing out its stock and will retire from
the retail business here.

Napoleon—B. T. Hess, dealer in
fuel, produce and beans, has sold his
stock to John Griffin, who will con-
tinue the business.

Walkerville—I._ C. Manning has
sold his stock and store building to
James Gleason, who will add tee of
general merchandise.

Alma—H. Merwin,
gaged in the grocery business at
Shepherd, has engaged in the same
line of business here,

Mulliken—John Shore, dealer in
general merchandise, has filed a vol-
untary petition in bankruptey. Lia-
bilities, $95; assets, $43.

Ovid—William H. Potter has pur-
chased the brick store building which
he occupies with his stock of harness
and agricultural implements.

St. Louis—Charles Housel has pur-
chased the Holcomb store building
and will occupy it with a stock of
meats and fish about Dec. 15.

Cassopolis—Slocum & Baker, deal-
ers in furniture and hardware, have
made an assignment of their stock
for the benefit of their creditors.

Bancroft—Benjamin Waldie has
purchased the interest of his brother,
Fred, in the meat stock of Waldie
Bros. and will continue the business.

Saginaw—Michael Carey and W.
Marz have formed a copartnership
and taken over the Parker hotel and
livery stable, taking possesion Nov.
10.

Tecumseh—Alva Speyde, who has
conducted a shoe store here for the
past twenty-five years, is closing out
his stock and will retire from busi-
ness.

Chesaning—Arthur Ward & Co.,
dealers in furniture and hardware at
Owosso, have opened a branch store
here under the management of Leslie
Crane.

Harbor Sprines—George N. Gould
has leased the Allterton store _build-
ing and will occupy it with a stock
of confectionery, fruit and ice cream
Dec. 1.

Battle Creek—William J. Donald
has engaged in the wholesale flour
business in connection with his bak-
ery and grocery store on South Jeffer-
son avenue,

Negaunee—Richard Seefeld has
leased the Chaussee building, at the
corner of Pioneer avenue and Case
street, and will occupy it with his
bakery Dec. 1,

Port Huron—The Bunce Land Co.
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $4,000, all of
which has been subscribed and $2,000
paid in in cash,

Wallace—The Schuette Bros. store
building and stock of general mer-
chandise was destroyed by fire Nov.

formerly  en-

6

11. Loss, about $5,500, partially cov-
ered by insurance.

Glenwood—Herbert M. Hampton
lost his store building and stock of
general merchandise by fire Nov. 11.
No insurance was carried on the
store building or stock.

Fennville—J. W. Moore, of Grand
Rapids, who recently purchased the
Mann & Hoover grocery stock, has
sold it to James Van Blois, who will
continue the business.

Bay City—E, L. Gardiner, who con.
ducts a chain of general stores in
the State, has opened a similar one
on Columbus avenue under the man-
agement of George Corbin.

Atlas—Clarence E. Leach has sold
his stock of general merchandise to
Charles Jordan and Dr. Murl Kurtz.
who have formed a copartnership and
will take possession Nov. 20.

Columbiaville — The Columbiaville
Mercantile Co. has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000 all of which amount has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Ovid—Fire destroyed the ware-
house and contents of the Clinton
County Cider Co. Nov. 10, entailing
a loss of about $2,000, which was
partially covered by insurance.

Benton Harbor—The O. K.
tric Co. has
authorized capitalization of $35,009,
of which amount $25,000 has been
subscribed and paid in in property.

Williamston — Lewis Austin has
sold his interest in the meat stock of
Austin & Laberteaux to W. A. Maher
and the business will be continued
under the style of Maher & Laber-
teaux,

Saginaw—Williams Bros. & Co.,
confectionery and ice cream dealers,
will erect a three-story brick building
at 915-917 Genesee avenue, which
they will occupy as soon as com-
pleted.

Greenville—The Gibson Clothing
Co. will dissolve partnership Dec. 31
and the business will be continued
by Ray S. Cowin, who has taken over
the interest of his partner, Frank S.
Gibson.

Mansitee—Gus Pirsig has contracted
for the construction of a two-story
store building and a one-story ware-
house to take the place of the build-
ings recently destroyed by fire at
Parkdale.

Detroit—The Carten Shop has been
incorporated to engage in the dry
goods business with an authorized
capitalization of $10,000, all of which
has been subscribed and $5,000 paid
in in cash.

Big Rapids—S. L. Fitzgerald, of
Shinn & Fitzgerald, grocers, has sold
half of his interest in the stock to
George Dutton, of Kalamazoo, and
the business will be continued under
the style of the North End Grocery.

Potterville—Over two years ago
the Backus bank closed its doors and
little of that institution now remains
except the lettering on the windows
of the building. Now Char'es
Schramm, of Flint, is planning to
open a bank at the old location.

Elec-

been organized with an

Beunington—Fire of an unknown
origin on Nov. 10 destroyed the P.
H. Jago store building and stock of
general merchandise, Loss, about

 

November 17, 1915
$6,000, with very little insurance; also
the W. L. Howard stock of hard-
ware. Loss, $5,000, with $4,000 insur-
ance.

Chesaning—Hiram N. Ainsworth
who conducted a grain and bean ele-
vator at Owosso for a number oj
years, has taken the management of
the elevator just established here by
a co-operative company composed of
farmers of Saginaw and Shiawassec
counties.

Detroit—A. J. Gibson, formerly en-
gaged in the rug and drapery busi-
ness here, has merged his business
into a stock company and will carry
on a general merchandise store at
Fremont, Ohio, with an authorized
capitalization of $5,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Atlanta—A. J. Crago, formerly en-
gaged in general trade at Walloon
Lake, has re-engaged in the general
store business at this place under the
style of The Crago Co., with an au-
thorized capital stock of $3,000. Mr.
Crago holds one-half of the stock.
while the other half is held by Jessie
N. Petersen, of Petoskey,

Manufacturing Matters.

Escanaba—The Diamond Pole &
Piling Co. has increased its capital
stock from $10,000 to $40,000.

Portland—Fire damaged the plant
of the Western Woodenware Co. to
the etxent of $1,000 Nov. 12.

Saginaw—The Eastman Salt Prod-
ucts Co. has increased its capitai
stock from $40,000 to $52,000.

Almont—Ray Howland has sold his
feed and cider mill to William King,
who will continue the business.

Detroit—The Edwards &
Manufacturing Co. has changed _ it-
name to Edwards Manufacturing Co.

Detroit—The Michigan Metal Spin-
ning Manufacturing Co. has increased
its capital stock from $12,000 to $25,-
000,

Detroit—The capital stock of the
General Aluminum and Brass Manu-
facturing Co. has been increased from
$400,000 to $600,000.

Detroit—The Disco Electric Start-
er Corporation has been organized with
an authorized capital stock of $250,-
000, all of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Chausse Manufactur-
ing Co. has been organized to manu-
facture and sell kerosene vapor burn-
ers, lamps and torches, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $5,000 of
which amount $2,510 has been sub-
scribed and $1,500 paid in in cash.

Detroit — The Searight - Downs
Manufacturing Co. has engaged in
business to manufacture and sell ma-
chinery, dies, novelties and special-
ties, with an authorized capital stock
of $30,000, of which amount $16,000
has been subscribed and paid in in
property.

Kalamazoo—The P. D. Robertson,
Inc., has been incorporated to manu-
facture and sell wholesale and retail
corsets and other merchandise and io
establish retail corset departments

Leary

with an authorized capital stock of
$2,000, all of which has been subscrib-
ed and $500 paid in in cash.

 

 

 

  

 

November 17, 1915

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.

Apples—Standard varieties, such as
Baldwins, Greenings, Wagner, Twen-
ty Ounce and Wolf River command
$3@4 per bbl.; Northern Spys, $3.75
(4.25 per bbl.

Bananas—Medium, $1.50; Jumbo,
$1.75; Extra Jumbo, $2; Extreme Ex-
tra Jumbo, $2.25.

Beans—$3.50 per bu. for medium.

Beets—50c per bu.

Butter—There is an active deman1
for fancy fresh and receipts are clean-
ing up on arrival. Receipts of butter
are falling off considerably and the
demand continues good. The general
situation is healthy and further slight
advances are not unexpected. Fancy
creamery is quoted at 30c in tubs and
31c in prints. Local dealers pay 232
for No. 1 dairy, 17c for packing stock.

Cabbage—40c per bu. or $1 per bbl.

Carrots—50c per bu.

Celery—l16c per bunch for home
grown.

Cocoanuts—$5 per sack containing
100.

Cranberries—$7.50 per bbl. for Cape
Cod Early Blacks; $8.50 per bbl. for
Late Howes.

Cucumbers—$1.75 per doz. for
Southern hot house.

Eggs—An active consumptive de-
mand is reported, absorbing the re-
ceipts on arrival. Storage eggs are
unchanged and with a fair consump-
tive demand. Local dealers pay 32c¢
for strictly fresh and hold storage
stock at 28c for No. 1 and 24c for
No. 2.

Egg Plant—$1.50 per doz.

Fresh Pork—8%c for hogs up to
200 lbs.; larger hogs, 8c.

Grapes—California Emperor, $1.75
per 4 basket crate; California Tokay,
$1.65 per 4 basket crate; California
Malaga, $1.50 per 4 basket crate;
Spanish Malaga, $6@7 per keg.

Grape Fruit—Florida commands
$4.50@4.75 per box.

Green Onions—Chalotts, 60c per
doz. bunches.

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

Lemons—California, $4.25 per box.

Lettuce—10c per fb. for hot house
leaf; $1.75 per bu. for Southern head.

Maple Sugar—14@15c per tb.

Mushrooms—40@50c per fb.

Nuts—Almonds, 18c per fb.;  fil-
berts, 15c per fb.; pecans, 15c per fb.;
walnuts, 16c for Grenoble; 17c for
California; 15c for Naples.

Onions—Home grown command 75
@90c per bu.

Oranges—California Valencias are
steady at $5@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.

Pears—Anjou, $1.25 per bu.; Kief-
ers, 75@90c per bu.

Peppers — Southern grown com-
mand $1.25 per 4 basket crate.

Pop Corn—$1.75 per bu. for ear, 4c
per tb. for shelled.

Potatoes—Home grown range from
50@60c per bu. The market is strong.

Poultry—Local dealers pay as fol-
lows, live weight: Fowls, 10c; chick-
ens, dic: turkeys: 18c; ducks, 4c:
Dressed fowls average 3c above these
quotations.

Quinces—$2@3 per bu.

Radishes—15c for round.

Squash—1%c per thi for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—$3.50 per bbl. for
Jerseys and $2.50 for Virginias.

Tomatoes—$2.50 per 4 basket crate,
California stock.

Turnips—50c per bu.

Veal—Jobbers pay 12c for No. 1.

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The market on refined has
been marked up %c, making the price
6c for New York granulated and 5.80:
for Michigan. There is a scarcity of
raws which is expected by some cir-
cles to extend into January, as the
new Cuban crop is expected to be
delayed, and Europe has already con-
tracted for some 150,000 tons of the
early production. The American re-
finers, moreover, have yet to ship
some 70,000 tons granulated before
the close of the year, and presumably
will require the remaining Cubas to
cover the meltings. The advance of
l%c makes clear what the Tradesman
has previously pointed out, that the
course of the market from now on
depends very largely on how soon
grinding will begin, and shipments be
made in sufficient quantity to relieve
present stringencies in supplies. Gen-
erally speaking, it is the middle of
January before much Cuban sugar
can be received at the four ports. By
some it is held that it will be later
than usual this year because of the
scarcity of tonnage. As to how far
prices can be forced before the scar-
city is relieved, no one can tell. Re-
finers have recently been forced to
buy, because of requirements for the
export and domestic trade being more
than double weekly receipts. In De-
cember the domestic demands will
likewise be less than in November,
and none of the refiners at the mo-
ment seem to be willing to sell De-
cember shipment for export, so it is
possible that next month there will
not be the anxiety to secure supplies
that there has been during the last
half of October and November. On
the other hand, stock will be so re-
duced that what little sugar there is

    

available should command high prices.
The present price will probably hold
until after Jan. 1.

Tea—The trade is not pressing sup-
plies despite the fact that the move-
ment has been disappointing. It is
still figured that the strict inspection
will shut out much of the cheap In-
dias and Ceylons, as well as Congous.
With the available supplies reduced,
it is argued that the situation should
improve. The weakness in London,
it is pointed out, is in the poor rub-
bishy teas, the better quality being
fairly well sustained. There was no
confirmation of the reported closing
of the Suez Canal. Some circles still
believe that the censor was keeping
back the news, but, in any event, the
situation was not believed to be seri-
ous. The delay incidental to going
around the Cape would not, it was
said, appreciably affect the spot posi-
tion.

Coffee—The demand is quite small
and the situation rather heavy. The
general tone of the market for Rio
and Santos with the possible excep-
tion of Rio No. 7s, is easier. Rio
No. %s are somewhat scarcer than
the others. Mild coffees are un-
changed and quieter than they have
been, owing to the falling off in the
export trade, due to scarce shipping
facilities. Java and Mocha _ grades
are unchanged and quiet.

Canned Fruits—Apples show no
change as yet, but there are those
who believe that apples are good
property, meaning New York State
gallons at present quotations. This
because the pack was smaller than
usual. California canned goods are
quiet from first hands and unchanged
in price.

Canned Vegetables—The statistical
position of tomatoes has at last
forced prices up again and very little
good standard stock can be bought
below 90c in a large way. With the
available stocks from the 1915 packs
only moderate in size, the packers
evidently feel safe in refusing to sell
at quotations under those that they
were asking. The few supplies that
are being offered at the inside prices
are mostly in the hands of the small-
er packers, who are anxious to dis-
pose of their light supplies immedi-
ately. Peas are slowly increasing in
strength, a better feeling apparently
existing in all quarters. Buying is
maintained on a moderately sized
basis, with prices showing a slight
tendency to advance. Corn is un-
changed. The entire line is firm.

Canned Fish—The quotations on
salmon which were advanced sharply
about the middle of last week are be-
ing firmly maintained, and packers
report that with very light stocks
available, the general indications are
for a further advance on this grade
of salmon within a short time. Do-
mestic sardines are higher, the key-
less lowest grade goods being about
10c per case higher. The pack is
over and the packers are contending
that the supply is small. Imported
sardines are unchanged, being still
scarce and high.

Dried Fruits—Prunes are higher,
both here and on the coast. On ac-

 

5

count of large export demand pack-
ers are now quoting a 5c basis for
the four sizes, which is about 1%e
above the price ruling a ‘short time
ago. There is no change in peaches
or apricots, the latter being firm and
the former being still very low Rais-
ins, currants and the remainder of
the list are unchanged and quiet.

Rice

 

The trade is being filled up
with the arrivals from the South, the
movement being now more normal.
The holiday trade is naturally caus-
ing distributers to show less interest
in rice and a smaller business for the
remainder of the month is only log-
ical. In the South, however, the sit-
uation is still strong, with the mills
oversold and not pressing offerings
of Blue Rose and Japans.

Cheese—The market is firm and
unchanged, with a good consumptive
demand. There is nothing specially
to report and the situation is as it
was a week ago, with no important
change in sight. The make is about
normal for the season.

Salt Fish—There has been no
change in the market for Norway
mackerel, either on spot or for fall-
caught fish. The spot supply is still
very light and prices fully maintain-
ed. Some new-caught Norway mack-
erel has reached the country, but the
quality has not been extra. At the
very high prices there are few takers.
The catch of shore mackerel has been
particularly good of late both as to
quantity and quality, although this
has not materially affected the mar-
ket. Cod, hake and haddock are
rather active at unchanged prices.

Provisions — Everything in the
smoked meat line is steady and un-
changed, including hams, bellies and
bacon. The consumptive demand is
normal for the season. Both pure
and compound lard are steady at a
decline of %4c. Canned meats, dried
beef and barreled pork are all un-
changed and quiet.

—_2>-+>—_____
The Celrite Grocerys.

The T. M. Ditman Co., which has
been conducting ten retail grocery
stores in this city under the style of
the Celrite Grocerys, has uttered a
trust mortgage to Ben. M. Corwin as
trustee. The assets are $25,000. The
liabilities are $23,000, of which about
$15,000 is owed to one house.

—_>-2___

The Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.
has sold a stock to Welch & Zimmer-
man, of Beaverton. Mr. Welch con-
ducted a grocery store and recently
admitted to partnership, Austin Zim-
merman, of Amble.

——_- +

Grand Haven—The Peerless Thread
Retainer Co. has been organized with
an authorized capital stock of $2,000,
of which amount $1,200 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

2

Frank D. Parr, grocer at 1654 Mon-
toe avenue, has sold his stock to
Albert Hilarides, who has taken pos-
session and added his own stock of
groceries.

—_+-—___

The Irving Hat Co. has been or-
ganized with an authorized capital
stock of $1,800, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

DETROIT DETONATIONS,

 

Cogent Criticisms From Michigan’s
Metropolis. .

Detroit, Nov. 15—Learn one thing
each week about Detroit: Fifty mil-
lions. dollars worth of drugs and
chemicals are produced anrually in
Detroit. The pharmaceutical manu-
facturers, exclusive of the chemical
manufacturers of Detroit, give em-
ployment to over 20,000 persons.

Detroit Council holds its next reg-
ular meeting Saturday night, Nov. 20.
in Elks’ Temple. Cards sent out to
the members promise an interesting
evening to those who put in an ap-
pearance.

A. Handy & Co., for a number
of years in the furniture business at
the corner of Clifford and Griswold
streets, have retired from business
and the stock has been sold to a
concern that will be known as Wan-
namakers.

Far be it from our thoughts to
criticize the management of the In-
dustrial Fair to be held at the Light
Guard armory Dec. 28, 29 and 30,
but when they made the announce-
ment of the appearance of a “myster-
ious Caruso” and then flatly and
finally refuse to divulge the identity
of the mysterious personage, we
wish to enter a protest. Why keep
us curiously inclined ones worried
until December? Also we are in-
formed that “Dolly Dimples” will be
on the scene and a reward offered for
her detection. Among other speak-
ers who have been invited to speak
is Governor Ferris. The traveling
men have always been warm sup-
porters of the Governor and he
also has always shown a high re-
gard for the profession.

To date there has been no reports
of the hotel at Flint repulsing the
attacks of the traveling men and
their ally, the Michigan Tradesman.

The Mazer Cigar Co. has ap-
proved contracts for the erection of
another addition to its factory at
Grandy and Theodore streets.

Guy Weisinger, general merchant
of Deerfield, was a business visitor
last week. Mr. Weisinger has a
penchant for opera—light, heavy and
otherwise—and lost no time when in
the city satisfying his desires in the
operatic line.

The Michigan Tradesman, for its
stand taken on the hotel question
and other matters of vital interest to
the traveling men, deserves the com-
mendation and support of every one
in that profession in the State.
Sometimes we wonder what the U. C.
T. has really done to better condi-
tions in the past two or three years,
While the annual conventions and
banquets are enjoyable affairs, there
is much that could be accomplished
by the organization for the material
benefit of its members. Transporta-
tion facilities in the resort season
are almost unbearable and_ hotel
conditions are again becoming lax,
many absolutely ignoring the Henry
law. Surely the United Commercial
Travelers cannot look to the Y. M.
C. A. or some other outside organi-
zation to fight their battles for them.
The President of the Hotel Men’s
Association says the organization is
for the direct benefit of the hotel
men, the benefit and comfort of their
patrons in many instances receiving
no consideration whatever. If ever
there was a golden opportunity for
an organization to do something that
will cause its membership to treble,
that opportunity is now before the
UL T. Show the traveling men
what is being and will be done for
their benefit and there will be no
doubt as to the outcome of the order.
Otherwise remember the Knights of
the Grip.

“The first President of the Michigan
State Hotel Association was a booze
fighter, a blind pig and poker joint
operator, a dead-beat and a fugitive
from justice.” From the Tradesman.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Outside of that we beg leave to
remark that the first President is a
very nice fellow.

The grocery store of Philip Zirro,
45 McDougall avenue, was entered
by burglars last Thursday night and
a small amount of merchandise tak-
en tater two suspects were arrest-
ed by the police.

A Detroit Sunday paper devoted a
page to Grand Rapids news exclu-
sively. Grand Rapids may yet be-
come known, all over the State.

A new meat market has been op-
ened at 1075 Kercheval avenue under
the style of the Oakland meat market.

Mr. Jackson, of Murphy & Jack-
son, of Pinckney, was a Detroit busi-
ness visitor last week.

Owing to the growth of its busi-
ness, the General Spring & Wire Co.
has been obliged to seek larger quar-
ters and has moved from its old Ic-
cation to new quarters at the corncr
of Marston and Morrow avenues.

The Gratiot Central Market Co.
will build a market building at 429-43
Gratiot avenue at a cost of $50,000.

Everybody within walking and the
500 mile riding zone is going to know
all about the Industrial Fair to be

 

 

A. G. Mefachron

 

held at the Light Guard Armory on
Dec. 28, 29 and 30. That is to Say,

everybody will except, perchance,
those who ,unfortunately, are deaf.
dumb and blind. Even then “Mac”

will probably find a way to advertise
the Fair so that a wooden Indian will
be sorry that he is wood and can't
get in on the joyful festivities at-
tendant the week in December that
includes 28, 29 and 30. Angus G.
McEachron was appointed chairman
of the advertising committee because
he is an advertising man; in faci,
that’s the way he earns his livelihcod
—and they do say that he is far from
a scant liver. The Traveling Men's
Fair Association is, indeed, fortunate
in having a man with the ability of
Mr. McEachron. He is chairman of
the Grand Executive Committee of
the U. C. T. and for seven years has
held the office of Chaplain of Cadcil-
lac Council. The latter office was
thrust on him because of his ora-
torical abiilty. Possibly no traveling
man is better gifted than he is. Years
ago the name of A. G. McEachron
adorned the programmes of many
opera companies and, because we
have seen some of the programmes,
We can assure our readers that the
parts he played were not minor parts.
Here it was that he first taught the
English language to do his bidding.
He is connected with the Detroit Leg-
al News in the capacity of advertising
manager. His knowledge of the ad-
vertising business is one of the In-

dustrial Fair's greatest assets. His
memberhip in any order would be an
asset.

C. D. Butterfield, President of the
Wolverine Engraving Co., received
serious injuries when he fell down
the elevator shaft in the engraving
plant at 49 Larned street East, last
week. He is in the hospital and at
this writing is in a precarious condi-
tion.

Contracts have been awarded and
work will soon be started on the new
building to be erected at the corner
of Woodward avenue and John R.
street, for Schloss Bros., to be occu-
pied by the Kaiser-Blair Co., cloth-
ler at 158 Woodward avenue.

A. Moore, of Elba, was in Detroit
last week in the interest of his gen-
eral store.

We have been requested by differ-
ent traveling men who have been to
Eaton Rapids lately to mention in
these columns that L. F, Geib, form-
erly of the Downey, at Lansing, is
in charge of the Hotel Geib and is
running a hotel in Eaton Rapids that
is a credit to the town. Fverything
from the meals to the service is to be
commended—a_ striking contrast to
the way the hotel has been conducted
in the past. We are pleased to give
Mr. Geib the credit due him for his
efforts and wish to assure him that
eventually the results realized will
demonstrate that his is the most
profitable method of conducting a
hotel.

The Solvay Process Co. will build
an addition to its plant at 2085 Jef-
ferson avenue West.

Charles W. Reattoir, former De-
troit resident and at present Chicago
representative for the G. J. Johnson
Cigar Co., of Grand Rapids, was in
Detroit over Sunday. Mr. Reattoir
attended the meeting of Cadillac
Council Saturday night and was pre-
sented with the Past Counselor’s
badge. Under his leadership last
year the Council showed the great-
est increase in membership in its his-
tory. His removal to Chicago was a
blow to the Council. Accerding to
reports, he is progressing nicely in
the new field.

About 500 dealers attended the
Chalmers Motor Co. convention n
Detroit on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of last week. In point of
attendance the crowd was the largest
that ever attended a Chalmers con-
vention in this city.

W. S Lawton, of Grand Rapids,
Grand Counselor of the U. © YT. has
been spending about ten days in De-
troit on business.

For the special benefit of Paul
Roach, special cigar representative for
the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug C».,,
of Grand Rapids, we wish to inform
him that we can now say Marc An-
tony in three languages and can also

. Say it backwards in the most difficult

of all—the English language. Mare
Antony is the name of one of Paul's
popular selling cigars.

E. Richter will open a modern
drug store at the corner of St. Jean
and Mack avenues about Dec. 1.

O. J. Darling, local hardware deal-
er and Secretary of the Detroit Hard-
ware Dealers’ Association, has gone
on an automobile trip to Tampa, Fla.
On the trip he visited several of the
larger cities, covering 1,989 miles. He
is expected to return next week.

P. B. Dana has joined the adver-
tising staff.of the Powers, Alexander
& Jenkins Co., of this city. He will
be attached to the sales promotion
department.

An employe of the Government
was fired (according to Republican
newspapers) because he expressed
the opinion that the President should
have waited a year before remarrying.
There are many who would say that,
no matter when a man gets married,
it is too soon.

M. Noble, of Sandusky, was a busi-
ness visitor in Detroit last week.

The Parish Manufacturing Co. is

 

November 17, 1915

building an addition to its plant at
1666 Mt. Elliott avenue.

According to all reports all kinds
of petty grafting will be eliminated
at the Industrial Fair to be held at
the Armory next month. Efforts will
be made to give everyone their ‘mon-
ey’s worth—and more.

King Edward fell from his horse
recently. In the game of war the
Kaiser would like to get two horses
on the King.

Joseph J. Verhoeven, repzesenta-
tive for the Vhay Fisheries, Larned
street, West, was in Detroit last week
and, according to all stories, received
here since, he has admitted that he
enjoyed the trip immensely.  Ai-
though Joe represents a Big Town
firm, he makes his home in the small
town of Monroe. We write no note
of appreciation to him, however, for
the statement that he enjoyed him-
self in Detroit—everybody who visits
or lives here does that.

Fred H. Nissley, proprietor of a
bazaar store in Ypsilanti, was a busi-
ness visitor in the city last weel,
making the trip in his auto.

John Brinage, while in charge of
McGowan’s restaurant, 119 West Fort
street, was held up at the point of
revolvers by bandits who rifled the
cash register, escaping with $33.

Did you think the Austrian version
of the sinking of the Ancona would
be the same as the Italian version?
Neither did we.

Everybody in Europe nowadays
seems to be worth the powder to
blow them to Hades.

Detroit factories manufactured 29.-
141,263 cigars in October.

Detroit has plenty of tobacco,

James M. Goldstein.
ee

Quotations on Local Stocks and Bonds.
Public Utilities.

Bid Asked
Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 368 374
Am. Light & Trac. Co., Pfd. 107% 111
Am. Public Utilities, Com. 314%, 34
Am. Public Utilities, Pfd. 64144 67
*Comw’'th Pr. Ry. & Let., Com. 55 57
*Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Let., Pfd. 81% 838%

Pacific Gas & Elec., Com. 53 57
Tennessee Ry., Lt. & Pr., Com. 10 13
Tennessee Ry., Lt. & Pr., Pfd. 40 44
United Light & Rys., Com.
United Light & Rys., 1st Pfd. 72 75

Comw’'th 6% 5 year bond 99% 101
Michigan Railway Notes 99% 101
Citizens Telephone 69 73
Michigan Sugar 99 102
Holland St. Louis Sugar 6% 77%

Holland St. Louis Sugar, Pfd. 8 9
United Light Ist and Ref. 5%

bonds 82 85
Industrial and Bank Stocks.
Dennis Canadian Co. 70 80

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 Bank 220
Fourth National Bank 220
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 300

* Ex dividend.
November 17, 1915.
——_.-—-~
The earth is said to be flat at the
poles—and some candidates are also
fattened at the polls.

ES
The UNITED Line

[N practically every Michigan com-
munity there are one or more po-
tential users of motor trucks.

To the salesman who can put us in
touch with the closing of such sales we
have a most attractive proposition to
discuss.

To this salesman and his prospects
The United Line will easily present the
lowest price for which the absolute max-
imum of motor truck value can be had.

The United Motor Truck
Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan

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November 17, 1915

Sagacious Suggestions From Sagi-
naw Salesmen.

Saginaw, Nov. 15—Saginaw Coun-
cil was well represented at Bay City
Saturday afternoon and evening. Bay
Council initiated a large class of meni,
good and true, into the mysteries of

C. T. ism. No. 51 is to be con-
gratulated for their splendid work
and they are planning already to have
a bigger class for their January
meeting. With such men as Tim

Bellamy, Broderick and a few other
live wires, it stands to reason they
can easily accomplish such a feat.
They initiated one candidate for Sag-
inaw, J. W. Stout, representing Lib-
by, McNeil & Libby. Mr. Stout is
a very clever entertainer and gave
Bay Council and visitors a rare treat
by putting on one of his farce acts
entitled, “The Human _ Toothpick
Pulls the Cork.” He was loudly ap-
plauded and received hearty congrat-
ulations from the entire Council. We
will admit it caused some of the boys
a little extra work, but it was worth
the price. Among the notables from
Saginaw were Deputy Ben Mercer,
Junior Counselor Mohler and _ last,
but not least, one of Saginaw’s most
loyal workers, H. D. Ranney. Herb,
as the boys all know him, is always
boosting for the greatest commercial
fraternity in existence and it is the
hope of all the boys of the Saginaw
Valley that he will receive as a
crown for his loyalty the office of
Grand Sentinel at the next conven-
tion at Traverse City.

F, E. Warner & Co. opened a gro-
cery store at 2316 North Michigan
avenue, this city, last week.

Goldberg & Berner are now con-
ducting a cash grocery and meat
market at 1503 James avenue. This
is a branch of a firm by the same
name in Bay City. J. Lutren, form-
erly in the general merchandise busi-
ness at Twining, is in charge.

We believe it would be a good idea
for the Tradesman to publish the
obituaries of their scribes as they
pass out of existence. However, this
may be the custom, but we have no-
ticed nothing of the kind postmarked
Battle Creek.

A number of the merchants from
this neck of the woods have been
asking whether the entertainment
committee who has charge of the Re-
tail Grocers and General Merchants’
Association convention at Battle
Creek are going to make arrange-
ments for the entertainment of their
wives. We would like some informa-
tion along this line.

Miss Snow came to Saginaw Sun-

day evening about 8 o’clock. Judg-
ing by the smiles on the faces of the
coal dealers we are sure she received
a hearty welcome, it being her first
appearance here.
_ William Wamsley is now conduct-
ing a new and up-to-date grocery at
410 South Washington avenue, Bay
City.

“Hole in the Wall Gardner” threw

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

open the doors of his new store on
Columbus avenue, Bay City, last Sat-
urday.

It took twenty-five years for James
Sillers to learn to love Saginaw well
enough to move here. Mr. Sillers
represents the American Agriculture
Chemical Co., of Detroit, having
charge of the Thumb territory. For
the past fifteen years he has had his
headquarters in Battle Creek. He
has rented the Root property at 536
Carlisle street. He is a member of
Detroit Council, No. 9. One of the
things he feels proud of, besides be-
ing the grandfather of a four weeks
old baby boy, is his new sample case.
He just discarded his old one, which
has seen continuous service for thirty
years, the same having been in his
possession twenty-five years. Frank
Sosworth, of Reed City, worked for
this company thirty years ago and
was the original purchaser of the case.
Mr. Sillers presented the case to Mr.
30sworth as a keepsake for the
service it has done.

Burt Barrett, living at Flushing
and representing the Advance-Rum-
ley Co., has brought suit against the
D. & M., at Bay City. A number of
the railroads are forcing the pas-
sengers t oruesahpc bgieGi4bfet cmf
sengers to purchase tickets before
boarding trains. Mr. Barrett had
purchased his ticket and as he was
in the act of boarding the train, he
was asked by the brakeman whether
he had a ticket and he answered in
the affirmative. Having two heavy
grips and an overcoat under his arm,
he attempted to board without show-
ing his ticket, expecting the brake-
man to take his word for it, but the
brass buttoned gentleman would not
trust an old veteran traveling man.
Hence the suit. Everyone will await
the outcome with interest.

Boys, have you sold all of your
victrola tickets? If not, get busy.
Mr. Pitts expects you to be on hand
Saturday afternoon or evening with
the money.

No. 43 Council expects to hold a
regular meeting next Saturday, Nov.
20. Meeting will open at 2 o’clock
sharp. Initiation in the afternoon.
Banquet and entertainment in the
evening. Bring your wives and
sweethearts for the evening session.

L. M. Steward.
—— > ++ —____

D. V. Phelps, general dealer at
Riverdale, writes as follows: “I could
not do without the Michigan Trades-
man. I was one of your first sub-
scribers, having read the paper ever
since the first issue in the fall of
1883. I was then a member of the
firm of Phelps Bros., at Elwell. The
few dollars I have paid you are noth-
ing compared with what I have re-

ceived in return.”

——_s-2>—____
A lot of valuable time is wasted
in trying to get even.

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids, Nov. 16—The first
social session of Absal Guild, An-
cient Mystic Order Bagmen of Bag-
dad, held last Saturday evening, was
a jitney party and was attended by
about forty couple. Many special
features were worked out by the com-
mittee, the first being something of
a surprise when every person was held
up at the door for a jitney (5 cents),
this even including the members ol
the orchestra. Miss Florence Hol-
lister, by appointment with the com-
mittee, was in attendence and gave
one hour's instruction in the late
dances, which proved very instruc-
tive and was appreciated by many.
Following this, Miss Hollister gave
two selections in feature dancing.
The grand march was led by Morris
Mann (Prince Nemo) and Miss
Florence Hollister. Later on “Prince”
Stott and his wife put on a feature,
that grand old dance, the minuet,
which was gracefully and beautifully
done. Before entering the dance
floor each lady was presented by the
committee with carnations. Several
times during the evening masked
highwaymen broke in and at their
command jitneys were extracted from
all present. From 10:30 a continu-
ous serve self lunch, consisting of
prime fresh cider and doughnuts es-
pecially made for the party was
served by waiters in white uniforms.
Those present will look forward with
much pleasure to the next Bagman
party.

The Hotel Garland, of Boyne City,
was completely destroyed by fire Fri-
day morning. The building was own-
ed by the Grand Rapids Brewing Co.

N. W. Wells, manager of the Petos-
key and Bay Shore Gas Co., and party
are in the Upper Peninsula, pursuing
the fleet footed quadruped commonly
called the deer. They expect to spend
two weeks in camp.

Central Lake is boasting of one of
the best potato crops in the State.
They claim a yield of from two to
three hundred bushels per acre. They
have at present 35,000 bushels in stor-
age.
A ford car belonging to Germain
Bros. turned turtle Friday evening
near Bates, the occupants escaping
injury. Loose gravel seems to tickle
a ford’s feet and it proceeds at once
to get over on its back.

The fight is on. Who will have the
wining team? Some brave captain
will go down to defeat.

Fred Pierson, the popular day clerk
at the Park Place Hotel, Traverse
City returned to his duties Monday,
after a two weeks’ vacation.

W. E. Neeland, plumbing and heat-
ing engineer, has completed the set-
ting of over 200 water meters for the
village of Mancelona.

Nine U. C. T. men and their wives,
all members of the Midnight Five
Hundred Club, turned the wheels of
time backward a few years last Sat-
urday night, rigged themselves out

7

in juvenile attire and journeyed over
to the home of Mr..and Mrs. J. A.
Burr, 1135 Thomas street, to attend
a juvenile party. Wide sashes en-
circled their waists of the ladies and
bright colored ribbons adorned their
hair, which was done up in braids
featuring the “girls,” while the “boys”
wore knickerbockers and wide col-
lars and ties. What tickled the “kids”
the most was a very sumptuous 6
o'clock dinner previously prepared by
the host and hostess. In the game
of five hundred, here they digressed
a little from the usual practice of
juveniles. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Heinz-
elman won first prizes and Mrs. J. B.
Olney and A. F. Rockwell won sec-
ond prize. After indulging in a little
music, flashlight pictures, stories and
other pastime, the lads and _ lassies
all went home, singing “Backward,
turn backward, oh, time in your flight;
Make me a child again, just for to-
night.”

When you stop off to see a cus-
tomer and have just one hour betore
the train goes and there is no other
train for several hours, and a town
loafer comes along and says to your
customer, “John, may I see you a
minute?” and then takes up all your
time, wouldn’t that jar you?

Don’t forget, when you feel a little
peeved and threaten to drop out of
your lodge, that you need the U. C. 1.
Just as badly as they need you ana
possibly a little more so.

The Four Leaf Clover Club met
last Thursday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. R. J. Ellwanger, 1351 Logan
street. Mrs. H. D. Hydorn and Mrs.
J. A. Burr were the prize winners.
The next meeting of the club will be
held at the home of Mrs. J. A. Burr,
1135 Thomas street, Wednesday, Nov.
24.

Next U. C. T. dance Saturday eve-
ning, Nov. 20. L. V. Pilkington.
—_>+>___

Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and

Potatoes at Buffalo.

Buffalo, Nov. 17—Creamery butter,
fresh, 26@30c; dairy, 22@27c; poor
to common, all kinds, 18@21c.

Cheese—Selling well, new fancy
15%c; new choice, 15@15\c.

Eggs—Choice fresh candled, 33@
36c; fancy 40@45c; at mark, 27@32c.

Poultry (live)—Chicks, per lb. 12@
15¢€; cox, lic; fowls, 12@15c; ducks,
14@16c; geese, 14@15c; live turkeys,
20@22c.

Seans—Medium, $3.80@3.85; pea,
$3.65; Red Kidney, $4@4.25; White
Kidney, $4@4.25; Marrow, $4.50.

Potatoes—New 65@80c per bu.

Rea & Witzig.
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WHERE IS AMERICA?

The feeling of indignation which
the execution of Miss Cavell has
evoked in our breasts is certainly a
striking tribute to the innate chivalry
of the American people. The attempt
to justify this act by comparing it to
our own execution of a woman at the
end of our Civil War is based on
quicksand, for the circumstances
which attended the execution of Mrs.
Surratt are known to all. except those
who view the pages of our history
through muddy spectacles, to have
been as different from the kind which
accompanied the killing Miss
Cavell day from night. Lewis
Payne, Atzerodt, and Booth. whom
Mrs. Surratt was hiding, were not
helpless war refugees. but ordinary
murderers who in cold blood con-
spired the death of the noblest Ameri-
can.

of

as

And even if a parallel between
the two were logical, the act of 1865
—which was condemned by a large
part of the American people even then
—would by no means make right the
wrong of 1915.

Yet we shall play the part of the
ostrich, and be Americans in name
more than in spirit, if we allow our
chivalry to become exceedingly stir-
red by the romantic procedure of a
court-martial, brass buttons and shiny
armor, and wholly untouched by the
Prosaic massacres of thousands of
women and children by the Germans
in Belguim and Servia. Germany may
deserve all the kicks she can stand
for having calmly and deliberately
Precipitated this damnable holocaust.
which is destroying the flower of a
continent’s manhood and converting
into trenches its fertile valleys and
fragrant meadows. But her methods
of warfare—damnable as they are—
are not so reprehemsible as her un-

called for massacre of women and
children which serve to make civil-
ization blush. The outside world,

peeping at them through the thick
veil of the German censor, can see
but little of the unspeakable bestiality
committed by the Teutonic soldiery.
But the letters and documents which
occasionally escape the sight of her
Argus-eyed officials disclose enough
to pale even the inferno of Dante into
insignificance.

The tragedy of the people in these
two little countries is, in a way, worse

than that of the unhappy Armenians.
For the atrocities of the Turk have
been widely circulated, and are hotly
condemned by thousands of tongues
the world over. But these poor peo-
ple have none to publish their tale
of woe, nor tongue to speak for them,
The voice that was always raised in
their behalf is as silent as a tomb.
The heart that once throbbed with
compassion for their suffering is now
as motionless as a stone. Esthetic
France and freedom-loving England,
their steady champions, have, by fear
of an aggressive “kultur,” been com-
pelled to devote all their energies to
the suppression of Prussian militar-
ism. Consequently, they feel obliged
to ignore the groans to which they
did ever lend an attentive ear.

But America, which has nothing in
common with any of the worshippers
of Moloch and Mars, will it commit
the sin of letting the thunderine
waves of the ocean down the cries
of four million souls caught in the
net of woe and death? Shall we, of
the home of the brave and land of the
free, disgrace the torch of our Statue
of Liberty and allow it to become a
mere dazzling desert mirage, mock-
ing the eyes that look up to it so
piteously and so pleadingly?

Miss Edith Cavell, born in England
and raised in the same tongue and
culture, may be nearer our hearts
than the obscure women and children
of Belgium and Servia and. conse-
quently, excite more of our interest.
But a civilization that is real should
make no distinction. For it is this
too much concern over the weal of
our near and dear ones, and too little
sympathy for the plights and aspira-
tions of those whom we regard as
strangers, that is the cause of what is
now going on in Europe, and has
since the birth of Cain been makin2
of this fair and gentle earth a hid-
eous bed for a groaning humanity to
writhe on in agony and pain.

The claim of the Germans that they
were spurred on to war by altruism
and sentiment, Such as the freedom of
the seas and the like, has, like a
bubble, been burst by Bulgaria’s bold
yet admirably frank assertion that
the high ideals which made her un-
sheath her sword against Servia were
cheese and geese and ducklings and
sucklings. This too much love for
our own, and indifference towards
others, would have transformed many
more into wild beasts, like Nebuchad-
nezzar of old, except for the subtle
influence of mother, wife, sister and
sweetheart.

 

REPUBLIC OR MONARCHY?

China rejects the request of France.
Russia, Japan and Great Britain to
leave until after the European war
the settlement of the question wheth-
er the celestial empire shall retain its
so-called republican form of govern-
ment or become a monarchy again.
The reply is proper enough since the
question is one that concerns China
a great deal more than it does any
other nation or group of nations. The
answer is accompanied, however, by
the statement that the matter of a
republic or a monarchy is for the
people to determine. There is a well

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

grounded suspicion, however, that the

Chinese people will have mighty little

to say about it. Yuan Shih-kai, the
so-called president of China, and his
immediate advisers or followers will
alone decide what shall be done. The
people’s voice in the matter of the
form of government will be confined
to their docile acceptance of what the
ruling element agrees upon. All the
dispatches from Peking indicate that
the re-establishment of a monarchy
has been finally determined, but in-
stead of a restoration of the Manchu
dynasty, Yuan is to become emperor
with the succession to his descend-
ants. With a family of thirty-two
children, nineteen of them sons, the
house of Yuan is hardly likely to lack
direct heirs or claimants to the throne
for some generations to come.

Except as to having the matter of
succession settled, Yuan Shih-kai is
for all practical purposes a monarch
or dictator to-day. It was not long
after he became president that he
found the constitution of the new
republic and its Parliament irksome
and impossible. As the “strong man”
of China, even under the Manchu
dynasty, he was not given to paying
much heed to restraints when en-
trusted with power. As the responsi-
ble head of the new government he
wanted no limitations. For that
reason he set about framing a consti-
ution to his own liking and under it
a parliament he could control, instead
of one that acted as a check upon him
and exercised powers independent of
him. In bringing to pass the condi-
tions he wished, and which he estab-
lished finally, it was necessary to in-
timidate and, when intimidation fail-
ed, to remove several heads or other-
wise Cause enemies to disappear. Few
of Yuan’s opponents, either since he
has been president or while he was a
powerful official under the Manchus.
died natural deaths in China. Peking
dispatches represent President Yuan
as reluctant, even opposed, to restor-
ing the monarchy, and that the delay
and uncertainty are due to failure to
persuade him that a monarchy with
himself as head and succession set-
tled upon his house, would be best
for China.

All this talk of professed hesitation
on his part seems inspired and design-
ed for consumption in foreign capi-
tals. It is all obviously part of the
game of oriental duplicity. At the
moment it is being sent out, it is
evident preparations are being made
to substitute a monarchy for the re-
public, and the proclamation will be
made when Yuan decides the time has
arrived. There is not likely to be
any violent wrench in affairs. The
change from Yuan as dictator to Yuan
as emperor will be largely a matter
of formal proclamation. There is de-
lay, maybe hesitation still, but the
reason for it is probably due to pre-
paring against a possible revolution
by the partizans of a republic. As
far as the Chinese people in the ag-
gregate are concerned, they probably
are indifferent, although they are rep-
resented as favoring a monarchy. But
no adequate or general referendum
has been taken and none will be

taken.

 

  

November 17, 1915

ENGLAND’S PEACE TERMS.

An English statesman forcasts the
only possible peace terms which Eng-
land can accept in order to conserve
the interests of permanent peace and
civilization, as follows:

“Our minimum is complete inde-
pendence and an adequate indemnity
to Belgium; France to receive Alsace-
Lorraine with an indemnity for all
damages done in the present conquer-
ed provinces; the Rhine to become
the Franco-German border; Denmark
to receive Schleswig; Poland to re-
unite under Russian suzerainty: Italy
to receive the Trentino and the whole
Italian irredenta; the Turkish empire
to be split up and destroyed: Serbia
to receive Bosnia Herzegovina and
full and adequate access to the
Adriatic and all Austro-Serbia with
a heavy indemnity; the German fleet
to be surrendered and either sunk or
divided among the Allies; all Zep-
pelins and Zeppelin hangers burned:
the German colonies to remain with
the present conquerors,”

There is no desire on the Part of
England to interfere with Germany’s
internal organization or depose the
Kaiser or insist upon a constitutional
monarchy or republic. The German
people will make short work of dis-
posing of the Kaiser when they come
to realize how he has betrayed and
pauperized them and ruined the
country in the effort to save his throne
and perpetuate the most monstrous
crime ever committed against a noble
people—Prussian militarism.

SS

The Tradesman publishes a
munication on page 21 this week.
signed “One Who Wants Help,” but
is not in a mood to extend the as-
sistance the writer craves, because it
has no patience with a merchant who
will permit himself to be used as a
moprag by the loafers of his communi-
ty. The Tradesman does not believe
that any merchant will lose trade to
any appreciable extent by keeping his
store free from tobacco smokers and
counter expectorators. He must do this
or suffer the loss of the best class of
trade—the only class a merchant need
go out of the way in making an appeal
to concilate. In catering to the loaf-
er trade, the merchant voluntarily
surrenders both the trade of the lady
and the loafer—because even the loaf-
er will not patronize the merchant
whom he regards with contempt—
and, what is more important than all,
he surrenders his own self respect.
which is about the worst thing that
can happen to a man in this world.

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There has been so much talk about
highway improvements and so many
miles of good roads in Michigan and
other states that somehow people
seem to think a great deal has been
accomplished. So there has in some
sections, but the percentage in this
country is small. In the whole United
States there are over two and a quar-
ter million miles of public roads and
only about 10 per cent. of them im-
Proved at all. Last year the whol-
amount expended was $235,000.00")
and no other public money was better
invested, but even at this, which seems
a generous amount, it will be a long
time before road work is finished.

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Importance of Good Highways as
Means of Defense.

That military preparedness for de-
fense includes extensive roads con-
struction, viewed from the standpoint
of the country as a whole, is made
apparent in sentiment which comes
from the Atlantic sea coast, the Pa-
cific slope and even the Gulf of Mex-
ico.

Recently the Alabama Legislature
passed a joint resolu-
tion, prepared by John Craft of the
state highway department, and of
course assented to by Governor Hen-
which the Presi-
dent and Congress of the United
States “to take such steps as in their
wisdom appears to be most expedient
to bring about at the earliest possible
moment the construction of a Nation-

unanimously

derson, calls upon

al system of good roads.” It is set
forth in the preamble that “a great
war now being waged in Europe

demonstrates that a National system
of good roads is essential to the suc-
cessful protection of a country in the
event of war.”

At the recent Pan-American Roads
Oakland, Calif., among
the resolutions adopted was one in
which the congress recommended “to
the Congress of the United States
the advisability of investigating the
necessity of building a hard surface
highway along the Pacific Ocean side

Congress in

from Mexico to British Columbia,
and other National highways, to be
used as military and commercial

highways.”
Earlier in the year at a meeting of
the Maine Automobile Association,

the chairman of the state highway
commission contended that the first
l‘ederal money spent in that State

should be in connection with a sys-
tem of roads paralleling the coast.

At the October meeting of the ex-
ecutive board of the American Auto-
mobile Association, with Persident
John A. Wilson presiding, a resolu-
tion was passed at the suggestion of
Chairman Diehl of its nation zood
roads board, “that the A. A. A. re-
spectfully asks the Congress in its
consideration of Federal aid in good
roads to the several states, to bear
in mind that highways constructed
in seacoast and border states should
possess a relationship to the military
preparedness of the country, which is
demanding widespread atten-
tion.”

The state and local clubs of the
American Automobile Association
are calling to the attention of their
representatives in Congress this ac-
tion of the National automobile body,
and also asking that a bill shall be
passed providing for an annual Fed-

such

eral appropriation, divided among
the several states on the basis of
area, population and road mileage, to
be supplemented by a like amount of
money from the states, and the total
to be expended on post and military
roads selected through the co- opera-
tion of the respective state highway
departments. Allen C. Rankin,

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Selling Season of Autos is Extended.

It takes only a few motor cars
representing the popular models of
the last half dozen years to illus-
trate the rapid advance made in the
industry mechanically, artistically
and in dollar-for-dollar values. The
car of 1910 makes a striking contrast
to the car of 1916.

The car, however, is not the only
thing in the industry that has
changed. There is no longer one big
spring and early summer season, but
a continued activity the year around
with a large volume of business in
the fall months.

“Never in the history of the in-
dustry has there been such a demand
for cars as now,” remarked a leading
sales manager the other day. “That
may seem surprising to some people
who imagine that with winter fast
approaching the motor-buying pub-
lic would be inclined to defer pur-
chasing until next spring.

“Thousands of people are out
after good cars and they want them
now—not next spring—because they
want to use them this fall and win-
ter. There are several reasons for this
condition—the ideal nature of fall
touring, big crops, the great purchas-
ing power of the farmer, general na-
tion-wide prosperity, confidence in
the country and the administration,
decreasing possibilities of war and
similar matters.

“Moreover the closed car, such, for
example as the cabriolet, sedan and
town cars, has been so admirably de-
veloped and luxuriously built that
even the ladies can drive in comfort
throughout the cold months. There
is no longer any reason why there
should be any special selling seascn.
A good car is both a utility and a
comfort all the year around and No-
vember is as reasonable a month to
buy as May.”

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How To Keep Out of Court.

Do you want to keep out of the
Automobile Court?

Do you want to avoid accidents,
especially those with possible serious
results both to yourself and to oth-
ers.

Then obey Judge Joseph Sabath’s
enlarged “decalogue” for automobile
drivers.

The judge recently made public

e “decalogue,” which he describes
as a sure basis of “safety first”:

Please Do.

Always drive on the right side of
the street.

Pass all vehicles except street cars
on the left.

Use best lamps and light them at
sundown.

Procure your state license at once.

Procure your vehicle tax at once
and save court costs.

Avoid arguments with officers, al-

though you may think they are
wrong.
Report to the police court all
speeders.

Watch your speedometers and have

them tested every ten days.
Please Don’t.

Don’t drink intoxicating liquor or
permit your chauffeur to do so while
operating an automobile.

Don’t drive faster than the law
allows.

Don’t
smoke.

Don’t cross a boulevard until -you
come to a full stop.

Don’t pass a street car on the left
side.

Don’t pass a street car while pas-
sengers are boarding it or being dis-
charged.

Don’t keep your muffler open at
any time or place.

Don’t use glaring lights.

Don’t drive on street car tracks.

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MEN OF MARK.

 

J. H. Gingrich, of the Clemens &
Gingrich Co.

Jesse H. Gingrich was born Sept.
28, 1880, in the village of Floradale,
Waterloo county, Ontario. He was
sixth of a family of seven boys and
one girl, all of whom are stili living.
He received a common school educa-
tion in the district school and later
in the city schools of Berlin, Ont.,
to which place his parents removed
in 1893. Sept. 28, 1899 (his birthday
anniversary) he came, with his Dar-
ents to Grand Rapids. He attended
the McLachlan Business University
and took his first position in May,
1901, in the office of the Brown &
Sehler Co. He never held any other
position. He remained with the
Brown & Sehler Co. for eight years,
resigning in the spring of 1909 to
form a copartnership with O. B.
Clemens under the style of the Clem-
ens & Gingrich Co., Mr. Clemens
had been for years a traveling rep-
resentative for the Brown & Sehler
Co.

The new firm took over the selling
agency of the “Blizzard” ensilage
cutter, manufactured by the Joseph
Dick Manufacturing Co., Canton,
Ohio, for Michigan and Wisconsin,
and to this territory has since been
added the states of Ohio, Indiana,
Mlinois, Iowa and Nebraska. Mr.
Gingrich saw a great field for this
class of machinery with the increas-
ing use of silos. To-day an up-to-
date farm is not complete without
one or more silos. The firm started
out in a small way, both members
traveling on the road, and Mr. Ging-
rich looking after the office work Sat-
days and Mondays. The business has
grown away beyond their expecta-
tions. To-day they have ten travel-
ing salesmen on the road during the
season. The machines are use? on
the very best farms in the country,
including agricultural college farms
and state institutions.

The firm maintains a lacge ware-
house at Waterloo, Iowa, from which
shipments are made to the Western
trade. Most of the shipments to
Ohio and Indiana dealers are made
direct from the factory at Canton.

Mr. Gingrich was married June 26,
1907, to Miss Lottie Shoemaker, of
Grand Rapids. They have only one
child, a nine months’ old boy—and he
is “some boy.” The family reside
in their own home at 1307 Logan
street.

Mr. Gingrich was for many years
a member of the Second street Meth-
odist church and is still a trustee of

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

that organization. He has recently
transferred his membership to the
First Methodist church.

Mr. Gingrich is a member of Val-
ley City lodge, No. 86, F. & A. M.
He is also a 32nd degree Mason and
a Shriner. He is not much on the
lodge business, however, preferr: ng
home life, with wife and child.

Mr. Gingrich has no hobby except
his work and automobiling—both of
which find him an ardent devotee.
His earnestness of purpose and amia-
ble disposition have never failed to

 

is associated with clean living. Dem-
onstration of this is found in the
case of Mr. Gingrich in the character
of the organizations with which he is
identified, plainly complementing his
business career, which has uninter-
ruptedly been of that order that
makes wholesome the reputation of
Grand Rapids business men gener-
ally.

The Cut Price Decision.
In the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals a decision has been hand-
ed down in what is known as the

Jesse H. Gingrich.

make a distinct impression on all
who know him and they predict fcr
him many more years of activity and
usefulness and believe that his influ-
ence on the great special industry
he has done so much to exploit and
expand is so strong that it will long
be felt to a marked degree.

“Every man is like the company
he is wont to keep.” The character
of a man’s social and fraternal affilia-
tions may safely, even emphatically,
be assumed to be illuminative of the
trend of his personal inclinations—
of his general character. In the
popular conception, and with war-
rant, the exercise by a busniess man
of an inclination for bodily activity

“Cream of Wheat case.” The plain-
tiff was the proprietor of a number
of stores supplied with articles at
wholesale rate and who undersold the
general retail trade. The Cream of
Wheat Co. refused to sell any more
of its goods to this firm, whereupon
suit was brought,

Action of the Wheat Company in
refusing to sell was represented as
monopoly, and practically a boycott,
as well as unfair competition. The
United States District Court decided
in favor of the Wheat Company, and
the Court of Appeals now affirms that
decision.

This is the first case of the kind
under the Clayton law. The gist of

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the decision is that neither the Sher-
man nor the Clayton laws take from
a trader the right to select his own
customers, but leave him free to deal
with whom he pleases.

It certainly would be carrying pa-
ternalism to extremes if the Govern-
ment should undertake the task of
saying to whom a party should sell
and to whom he should not.

Refusing to sell to one whose con-
duct is such as to injure the business
of the seller, or others with whom he
competes, certainly cannot be con-
strued as unfair competition, nor can
it be called a restraint of trade.

A restraint of trade, to come with-
in the purview of the Federal statutes,
must be an unreasonable restraint af-
fecting the interests of the public.
The case in hand seems little more
than a question of private interests
and the distribution of profits, with
which the law has nothing to do.—
Wall Street Journal .

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Leisure Hour Jottings From Jackson.

Jackson Nov. 15—Burt Pickell
made his debut as a salesman on
Monday of this week. He ts calling
on the city trade, representing Frank
S. Gainiard, jobber and selling agent,
in special lines to the grocers.

Ray Pringle, now a merchant in
Mulliken, was in the city over Sunday.
Mr. Pringle traveled out of Jack-
son for several years and has many
friends here to extend him a wel-
come. :

Hardly a day passes that Clyde B.
Elwood, of the Watts-Morehouse
Company, does not land a contract for
building material. This is done by
strictly knowing his line and also
knowing how to show and sell it.

E. A. Welch, of Kalamazoo, was in
the city Monday. -He had in his com-
pany Douglass B. Foster, of the firm
of Swain, Earle & Co., Boston, Mass.
Mr. Welch represents this firm in
Michigan and says their Silver Quar-
ter coffee is having a great sale on
his territory. Gene is a truthful man,
too.

H. B. Williams, who has sold gro-
ceries and boots and shoes for a long
time in Tekonsha, is now a general
merchant. He recently took on dry
goods and notions to the full capacity
of the store. :

In the death of M. Norris, the State
has lost one of its most successful
grocers. Mr. Norris, by hard work
and close attention to business,
built up a trade which has been a
source of pride to the people of Jack-
son. His son, Clarence, will continue
the store and. no doubt, will conduct
it along the same progressive lines
established by his father. Spurgeon.

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Life’s Bitterness.

“Hints on courtship abound. Every
magazine will tell you how to win a
wife. Anybody will gladly post you
on the etiquette of love-making.”

“What’s on your mind?”

“But after a man marries he has to
shift completely for himself.”

 

 

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Ray T. Maynard, one of the organ-
izers of the State Bank of Merrill and
its Cashier has been elected a Vice-
President of the Commercial National
Bank of Saginaw and he will devote
his time to the affairs of the latter.
Up to a few weeks ago John F.
Brand, who had been President of the
Bank since the death of the late Daniel
Hardin, who was the leading spirit in
the organization of the Bank and its
President up to the time of his death.
had given personal attention to the
affairs of the Bank and was assisted
by his son, Clarence H. Brand, who
was Vice-President. When they dis-
posed of the major part of their hold-
ings to J. W. Fordney, George A.
Alderton and A. C. Melze, they re-
linquished their self imposed responsi-
bility, which by the new arrangement
Mr. Maynard assumes, and in a sense
represents the board of directors in
the active management of the Bank.
not however relieving the directors of
responsibility.

 

Mr. Maynard was associated with
the late Otis Mason, who established
a bank at Merrill. After Mr. Mason’s
death the bank organized as a
State Bank, largely through the efforts
of Mr. Maynard, who has been its
Cashier for the last fifteen years. Mr.
Maynard was also influential in or-
Hemlock State Bank,
which is proving both a convenience
to the people of that locality and a
financial success. The directors of the
Commercial National Bank feel fully
confident that he will succeed in the
wider field to which they have called
him.

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In the damage suit for $3,000
brought by S. H. Kniselty, trustee in
bankruptcy for the Chippewa County
Bank of DeTour, against the People’s
Savings Bank of Saginaw, a verdict in
favor of the defendant was directed by
Judge William Glover Gage. The suit
was brought to recover a deposit of
$3,000 which was placed in the Sagi-
naw Bank in 1910 to the credit of the
Chippewa Bank, it being claimed that
the defendant paid this amount over a
short time later to one of the partners
in the Chippewa Bank without justi-
fication. The trial judge held, how-
ever, that the fact that the payment
was made in 1910 and acquiesced in by
the Chippewa Bank was a sufficient
justification, and directed a verdict in
favor of the defendant bank.

——___

The creditors of F. M, Rudd, whose
bank at Bronson failed about four
years ago, have received notice that
they could get the remainder of the

 

 

Principal due them by presenting the
note they held against him and receiy-
ing a check on the Peoples’ National
Bank. This was done quickly by all
creditors. They have now received all
the money they had deposited in the
Rudd Bank, without interest. Mr.
Rudd, who went into bankruptcy, has
made the amount necessary in his
peppermint business,

 

Although Henry Montgomery
Dearing, the defaulting Cashier of the
defunct Albion National Bank, which
was wrecked in January, 1912, through
speculations made by him _ that
amounted to nearly $300,000, will
complete a sentence at Leavenworth
Federal prison Dec, 24, the day before
Christmas, the day will not be a fes-
tive one for him, nor will he be al-
lowed to enjoy Christmas eve or the
day following as a free man. When
he steps from the Kansas prison a
warrant will be served upon him and
he will be brought to Albion to ans-
swer to the criminal charge of for-
gery. Dearing earned fifteen months’
“good time” by exemplary conduct
at Leavenworth, where he acts as
Prison postmaster. For nearly ten
years, it is charged, the aged bank
Cashier, known as one of Albion’s
most prominent church men and citi-
zens, drew upon the deposits of the
Bank and used the money for private
uses. To cover his shortages, it is
alleged, he placed in the Bank's vaults
as security notes against scores of
residents of Albion and vicinity, in-
cluding nearly every business man
and manufacturing concern in Albion.
To each of these notes he forged a
name and it is upon the charge of
using the names of two Albion men
in this manner that he will again be
prosecuted. It is said that in case he
does full penance for the two charges
impending against him for forgery
there are five other counts on which
he may be prosecuted.

 

Frank Moore has resigned as Cash-
ier of the Lennon Commercial Bank
and will be succeeded by George
Evans, of Durand, who has been con-
nected with a bank there for the last
twelve years. The resignation of Mr.
Moore is due to the illness of his
father, J. B. Moore, it is announced.

 

With the disbursement of interest
and dividend Payments, there is a
moderate improvement in the general
investment market and bankers are of
the belief that the outlook is bright
for considerable activity. Some of

the larger houses report that their
supplies of various kinds of bonds are

 

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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
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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 17, 1915

rapidly becoming exhausted and that
they have to cast around in other
markets in order to pick up a few
bonds of special descriptions to meet
the current demand from investors.
This particularly refers to certain
classes of public utilities issues,
municipal bonds of the larger cities
and many railroad issues. Money
continues easy and investors are now
turning their attention to the more
conservative classes of investments,
and for the first time in many weeks
leading bond houses have been un-
able to meet a current demand.

 

Earnings of Butler Brothers this
year are expected to show an_ in-
crease of 10 per cent. over last year.
It is possible that the directors will
recommend an increase in the capital
stock at the January, 1916, meeting,
from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 and in
addition to the regular cash dividends
declare a stock dividend together
with valuable subscription rights.

 

Studebaker Corporation directors
have decided to offer 20,680 shares of
common stock held in the treasury to
holders of record November 20 at
$110 a share. Holders of the $27,-
932,000 par value of common. stock
outstanding therefore are entitled to
subscribe for the additional stock in
the ratio of 7 per cent. of the shares
held, which now have a market value
of about 185. Out of the proceeds of
the sale of the stock the company
will retire on the next interest date
all of the outstanding serial notes
amounting to $2,300,000 which in or-
dinary course would not be due until
1922, leaving the corporation free
from all debts excepting current ac-
counts. The transaction will leave
the company with $22,500,000 work-
ing capital, of which $6,500,000 will

be in cash.
——>-->—____
What Some Michigan Cities Are

Doing.
Written for the Tradesman.

The Verona pumping station is now
in commission at Battle Creek.

The Dowagiac fire department has
been answering calls for help in the
country and the City Council con-
siders that to go a mile from town
is far enough.

The Benton Harbor Chamber of
Commerce, in co-operation with
other cities, enters protest to the
Michigan Railroad Commission re-
garding a threatened advance in
freight rates on soft coal shipments
from West Virginia.

W. T. Culver, of the Ludington
Board of Trade, reports that there
still remains about $11,000 in the
hands of the bond committee that is
available for factory bonus purposes.

Berrien county fruit and farm pro-
ucts will be displayed in the build-
ing at State and Ship streets, St.
Joseph, under direction of the St.
Joe Chamber of Commerce.

Alpena has installed chlorine ap-
paratus for sterilization of the city’s
water supply at a cost of $600.

Clay F. Olmstead has been elected
Secretary of the Ludington Board of
Trade.

Pontiac has accepted its garbage

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

reduction plant, the cost of building
and equipment being within the $7,-
500 appropriation.

Flint is talking of appointing in-
spectors of gas and meters, as there
have been complaints that the quality
of gas is not so good since the new
85 cent rates went into effect.

Flint has bought a gravel pit at
Otisville comprising fifteen acres
which will last the city from twenty-
five to fifty years.

Marquette is taking first steps to-
ward a municipal abattoir.

Clinton village has voted bonds for
$5,000 to purchase additional elec-
trical equipment for the lighting
plant.

Menominee has voted a bond issue
of $285,000, to be used in the pur-
chase of the present plant of the
Menominee Water Co. or in building
a new municipal plant. The. com-
pany will be offered $200,000 for its
plant.

Three Rivers has awarded contracts
for its new municipal light and water
plant, which will cost about $45,000.

Almond Griffen.

Essentials of the House Beautiful.

Still one thing remains to furnish
the house beautiful, the most im-
portant thing of all, without which
guests and books and flowers and
pictures and harmonies of color only
emphasize the fact that the house is
not a home. I mean the warm light
in the rooms that comes from kind
eyes, from quick unconscious smiles,
from gentleness in tones, from little
unpremediated caresses of manner,
from habits of forethoughtfulness for
one another—all that happy illumi-
nation which, in the inside of a
house, corresponds to morning sun-
light outside falling on quiet dewy
fields. It is an atmosphere really
generated of many self-controls, of
much forbearance, of training in self-
sacrifice; but by the time it reaches
instinctive expression, these stern
generators of it are hidden in the
radiance resulting. It is like a con-
stant love-song without words, whose
meaning is, “We are glad that we are
alive together.” It is a low, pervad-
ing music, felt, not heard, which be-
gins each day with the “good morn-
ing,’ and only ends in the dream-
drowse beyond “good-night.” It is
cheer; it is peace; it is trust; it is
delight; it is all these for, and in,
each other.

William Channing Gannett.

—~2~-+___
Taking Precautions.

A rosy-cheeked youngster, dressed
in his best clothes, entered the village
postoffice and carefully laid a huge
slice of iced cake on the counter.

“With my sister, the bride’s compli-
ments, and will you please eat as
much as you can?” he said.

The postmistress smiled delight-
fully. :

“How very kind of the bride to re-
member me,” she cried. “Did she
know of my weakness for wedding
cake?”

“She did,” answered the youngster,
coldly, “and she thought she’d send
yer a bit of it this afternoon just to
take the edge off yer appetite before
she posted any boxes to her friends.”

13

 

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Certificates of Deposit draw interest, and
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14

Rare Treat in Store For Tradesman
Readers.

The Grand Rapids Savings Bank
for some years has carried on a
unique function that is so interesting
and useful that the Tradesman is
desirous of transmitting to its read-
ers some of the good things connect-
ed with it, so that they will reach a
wider clientele.

On Wednesday morning of each
week at 8 o'clock, the bank force of
the parent bank and its branches
gather in the directors’ room and Mr.
Garfield introduces some officer of
the bank to give, in a few words,
some practical instruction about a
single item in banking affairs. This
usually falls upon Earle Johnson,
the Assistant Cashier, who talks a
few minutes such topics as
promissory notes, mortgages, signa-
tures, identification, responsibility of
directors,

upon

etc. This occupies about
five minutes and is followed by a con-
versational address by Mr. Garfield,
touching upon subjects which have
to do with the foundations of charac-
ter. These talks are very frank and
there is always an opportunity to ask
questions and engage in discussion by
the employes. This Wednesday
morning meeting is looked forward
to with keen pleasure by the clerks
and many of the officers of the bank
and the extra effort to be on time
at an earlier hour than usual is not
counted a sacrifice. The class num-
bers from twenty-six to thirty.

The subjects which have been taken
up and are to continue during this
year are very suggestive, as will be
noted by the following schedule:

1. The Shadows We Cast.

2. Radiating Sunshine.

3. Some Investments.

4. Two Kinds of Sacrifices.
5. Lending a Hand.

6. Cherishing Grudges.

7. Graciousness.

8. Misjudgments.

9. The Mystery of Death.
10. A Story of Friendship.
11. Things Worth While.
12. Lying—Putting It Over.
3. Soft Answer.

14. Fresh Air.

15. Leadership of a Little Child.
16. A Word About Politics.
17. Civic Responsibility.
18. Monuments.

19. Credits.

20. Book-keeping.

21. Efficiency Overdone.
22. Grit.

23. Balance.

24. Penalties.

25. Commercial Water.
26. Margins.

By special arrangement the Trades-
man has been able to secure sum-
maries of these addresses which will
appear in the finacial department dur-
ing the next six months.
—_~+7»___
Development of the Total Account
System.
Prior to about fifteen

years ago

there had always been felt among re-
tail merchants the need of a simple
method of accounting that wouli en-
able a merchant to keep his Snger on
business,

the pulse of his without

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

undue labor and trouble in the way
of book-keeping. Several systems of
various kinds had been devised, some
of which were an effort in the right
direction, until at last P. A. McCas-
key, a small storekeeper in Lisbon,
Ohio, devised a scheme whereby,
through the use of a simple machine,
all books and book-keeping could be
discarded, the merchant te kept in
touch with his business more closely
than ever before and the entire rec-
ords be kept from the original mem
oranda, so that practically no labor
of any kind was required, the whole
accounting being done with the ore
original writing.

A small company was organized tc
market this system and this soon
grew into the McCaskey Register Co.,
of Alliance, Ohio. This company ex-
panded by leaps and bounds until
now it has so completely revolution-
ized mercantile accounting that it is
difficult to find a store in which either
the McCaskey register or one cf the
many competitors which have since
been put on the market is not in use.

A few years ago Mr. McCaskey re-
tired from the active management of
the business to live a life of ease on
the handsome fortune he had made.
However, having always been an ac-
tive man, his mind could not remain
idle, and he soon saw that many of
the problems in mercantile account-
ing still remained to be solved.

Accordingly, he called to his assist-
ance the best minds within his knowl-
edge for developing an accounting
system embodying features not in-
cluded in his previous invention. Not
only accountants but artists were em-
ployed in the designing of what is

now known as the Total ac:ount
system.
Once devised, the system was

placed in the hands of one of the
best plants of the kind in the conn-
try, where, after thorough study and
research, the manufacturing problems
were scientifically mastered and the
mechanical parts were so stand¢rd-
ized that it could be produced az a
price that would bring it within the
reach of all. That such a thing could
be possible seemed hard at first to
believe, but as nearly every month
sees an enormous increase of output
from the factory, the capacity of
which seems to be readily increased
to meet the requirements, one is
compelled to admit that still another
of the marvels of modern times has
come to pass.

The Star Paper Co., of Kalamazoo,
has secured the agency of this sys-
tem for Western Michigan and is
prepared to fill orders for any size
desired on short notice.

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November 17, 1915

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 hs Per Cent.

Paid on Certificates

 

Largest State and Savings Bank
in Western Michigan

 

 

 

 

WM. H. ANDERSON, President
L. Z. CAUKIN, Cashier

Fourth National Bank

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I
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Capital Stock and Surplus

$580,000

 

 

 

JOHN W. BLODGETT, Vice President
J. C. BISHOP, Assistant Cashier

 

 

 

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A Rest Room After a Woman’s Heart.
Written for the Tradesman.

Having seen one that rightfully may
claim this title, I will here give a
brief descrjption of it.

In a large new store located in a
big city, one of the best corners on
the second floor, a space about fifty
feet square, is devoted to this rest
room. There are windows on two
sides with slat shades, so that all the
light there is, or any desired modi-
fication of it, readily is obtainable.
The woodwork is a light gray, the
walls gray with cream panels, and
the ceiling white. The floor is car-
peted with dull green.

The other furnishings consist main-
ly of wicker chairs, mostly rockers
and rockerless easy chairs, with a few
wicker settees to lend variety. There
are also two or three large wicker
tables, on which the popular maga-
zines and periodicals are to be found.
All the chairs and settees have re-
movable cushions covered with some
sort of figured furniture cretonne.

The good sense and taste of this
selection is apparent. It is “something
different”—the reed chairs with these
cushions are lighter and more home-
like in effect than the seating we are
accustomed to see in such places—
a change that is most pleasing and ac-
ceptable. When these cushions be-
come soiled, as in time they must,
they can be recovered or even re-
placed entire at small expense. Cush-
ions or upholstering of leather would
be far less inviting, while the cost
would make ferquent renewal impos-
sible. After a few months use in a
public place, leather always carries
the suspicion of not being scrupulous-
ly clean. The fastidious woman likes
better something that furnishes its own
unmistakable evidence of freshness
and tidiness.

Along a side wall a glass-fronted case
contains a fine display of hair goods
and ornaments, while adjoining the
rest room are manicuring and hair-
dressing parlors, the latter contain-
ing a children’s barber shop.

The ever-necessary clock is not
omitted from the furnishings. Men-
tion must be made of a row of small
writing desks, each with a reed chair
in front, for the convenience of shop-
pers who may wish to attend to some
correspondence while in the store.
These desks each have a plate glass
top. A calendar is hung conveniently
above, and a card posted conspicu-
ously reads: “Enquire of maid for sta-
tionery.” The name of the firm ap-
pears on the note paper and envelopes
in a dainty embossed panel.

The lavatory and toilet room, whici:
is light and sunny, is as sanitary and

immaculate as marble and white tile
can be kept by unremitting vigilance.
The wash bowls are spotless, hot and
cold soft water are on tap, and as a
crowning touch of perfection, an in-
dividual linen towel, well laundered
and sweet smelling, is furnished each
user.

A large alcove off the main rest
room has booths on either side for
telephoning, while a room _ twenty
feet square between this alcove and
the lavatory contains at least a dozen
dressing tables. Here a_ wearied

shopper may seat herself in front

ofa mirror, rearrange her hair, powder
her face, and otherwise freshen her
toilet, to her great comfort and satis-
faction of mind.

“Isn’t it all perfectly lovely?” and
“Did you ever see a rest room that
would compare with this?” are ex-
amples of the exclamations and com-
ments to be heard here continually,
and from women who have traveled
extensively and seen the best that the
country affords. Certain it is that
this firm is making a great hit with
its rest room.

This, as has been said, is a large
store in a large city. The small es-
tablishment in a small town does not
require so extensive accommodations.
But the salient features that are ob-
served here may be carried out any-
where on a scale porportionate to
the number of patrons, It may be
worth while to recapitulate these
briefly.

1. Ample space. One charming
thing about this rest room, and one
which makes it particularly restful,
is its roominess. Now of course it
would be absurd for any moderate-
sized establishment to have a rest
room fifty feet square. But if space
enough can be devoted to the rest
room to seem ample for the number
ordinarily making use of it, it will
be a strong factor in its success and
popularity.

2. Simplicity and good taste in
furnishings.

3. Perfect maintainance, It can-
not be made too emphatic that toilets,
lavatory and rest room must be kept
exquisitely clean to win the approval
of the modern woman. No elegance
of equipment will compensate for
poor plumbing or an untidy maid.
And in the small store, where the
expense of a maid can not be afford-
ed and where perhaps no janitor is
employed, great care must be used

-that rest room and lavatory receive

regular and frequent cleaning.

4. Making a feature of the rest
room. By this I mean providing
something better than usually is seen
in this line—something that will sur-

prise and please by its excellence.
That is being done by the firm whose
rest room has just been described.
There is no single thing that tends
more to win for a store the favor
and allegiance of the better class of
women, than a light, clean, well ven-
tilated, well furnished and well kept
room, where they may refresh them-
selves from the labor of shopping,
and where they conveniently may
meet their friends by appointment.

KK.
+--+ —___
Variety Goods For the Christmas
Rush.

Ivory composition toilet goods
prove good sellers in the average
variety store. The cleanliness and
neatness of such articles afford a sell-
ing inducement. These goods are
now made in a great variety of styles
and shapes useful for many purposes.

Manicure goods, picture frames,
hair receivers, and other novelties
are obtainable to retail at a nominal
price. This line of goods must be
shown well and attractively in order
to bring out their full values.

Where light weight goods, such as
this line of merchandise, are displayed
on the self above the counter, it is
well to take care to prevent them
from being knocked to the floor and
broken. For this purpose a piece of
straw board or compo board a trifle
higher than the raised goods can be
fastened to the rear of the counter.

In a variety store where goods of
this kind are sold and the price limit
exceeds a dime, it will be found more
satisfactory in the long run to keep

the various goods grouped separately
with a price card attached to each
group. This not only simplifies the
selling of the goods but it shows at a
glance what is obtainable at a given
price. It is also an excellent plan to
have the price of each item marked
on the bottom of it in pencil so that
no mistake in price will be made in.
the making a sale. Even though
grouped separately, items are apt to
get out of position at times through
handling.

Items of this nature should be wiped
off with a cloth daily, as the least
dust makes them appear dull and un-
attractive to a prospective customer.
Metal parts can be wiped lightly with
an oiled cloth now and then to pre-
vent them from bcoming tarnished.

 

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And pay highest market prices

DAVID GREEN, Furrier
303 Division Avenue, S. Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

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UNTRIMMED HATS for Ladies, Misses and
Children, especially adapted to the general
store trade. Trial order solicited.

CORL, KNOTT & CO., Ltd.
Corner Commerce Ave. and Island St.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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Manufacturer of
SWEATERS, SWEATER COATS
HOCKEY CAPS, GLOVES, MITTENS
AND KNIT GOODS SPECIALTIES
LANSING, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

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in special holiday boxes at
$4.00 per dozen

are now in stock. We show
a good variety of other
makes at $2.25 and $4.25 per
doz, We also have Garters
and Suspender sets at $4.25;
Garters and Armband sets
at $2.00 and $4 00; Garters at
$1.90 and $2.00; Neckwear at
$2.25, $4.50, $7.50 and $8.00,
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Some Ways of Appealing to Farm

Trade.
Written for the Tradesman.
The big city merchant may not

need it; but in the average small city
or town, the farmer’s trade is an
important item to the hardware deal-
er. The farmer is a big customer,
and the hardware dealer who knows
how to go after and retain his busi-
ness is pretty sure to finish the year
with a neat balance on the credit side
of the ledger.

With the farmer, spring is, as a
rule, the big buying season; but in
the fall with his crops sold and in the
barn, he has more time to heed the
merchant's advertising appeal. Left
to himself, he will buy most gener-
ously in the spring; but good mer-
chandising on the dealer's part will
stimulate fall buying to a consider-
able degree.

In reaching out for farm trade, the
hardware dealer should not overlook
the fact that the newspaper is one
of his best weapons. The city man
skims through his daily paper, but
if the farmer may not read as much,
what he does read he reads far more
thoroughly. I know from actual ex-
perience that the average farmer
reads and mentally digests practical-
ly everything in his paper. Often he
takes a big city daily, supplements
it with the local daily or the local
weekly, and subscribes to farm week-
lies and magazines as well. This
range of reading matter may explain
to some extent why the farmer pa-
tronizes the mail order house. He
reads mail order advertising in the
city daily or weekly and in the farm
paper; and it is usually better ad-
vertising than what the local mer-
chant hands out through the home-
town weekly. True, the local mer-
chant nowadays is putting out far
better copy than he did a few years
ago; but it is up to him to put out
the best copy possible, and to make
a particularly strong appeal to the
farming community.

To illustrate the point: the average
local daily publishes, say on Wednes-
day, a weekly paper which is a con-
densed reprint of its six daily issues.
The average local advertiser using
daily space if he advertises in the
weekly at all, merely instructs the
advertising manager or, perhaps, the
“make-up-man” to repeat his Wednes-
day copy in the weekly. Usually it
is advertising matter designed pri-

marily for city customers, or of a very
general nature. Naturally, it does
not appeal to the farmer as a straight-
from-the-shoulder talk direct to farm-
ers would appeal.

The hardware dealer will find it
profitable to make as direct as pOssi-
ble an appeal to farm customers. It
isn’t enough to use the same copy
that he hands out to city customers. A
wise preliminary would be to ascer-
tain from the newspaper proprietor
just about what proportion of his
circulation is country and what city.
If, as in most instances, the weekly
is the country paper and the daily
is the city paper, it will be worth
while to prepare for the weekly
special advertising copy, written from
the farmer’s point of view. If, on the
other hand, the rural residents with-
in the merchant’s range of trade for
the most part take the daily, as may
be the case where there is a radi-
ating system of trolley lines, then the
daily advertising should be prepared
with one eye at least on the rural
customer.

The small town merchant who has
only a weekly medium in which to
advertise has, of course, no such
problem to work out; his problem
is to make his advertising copy as
effective as possible. In this connec-
tion, it will pay to study the sort of
stuff the mail order houses hand out
to rural readers, through the farm
Papers and otherwise. The merchant
will discover at least one outstanding
fact: the advertising is specific and
is based, very largely, on the princi-
ple of making the goods attractive
by striking description and the use
of, perhaps, a good cut: and then
making them doubly attractive by the
quotation of a special price. This ad-
vertising copy is prepared by men
who understand the business: the
small town merchant can, in most
cases, with advantage use it as a
model.

All this presupposes that the mer-
chant has an intimate understanding
of the farmer and his problems, and
a fair amount of sympathy with him.
The hardware dealer who handles
implements as a sideline, and who
often goes out into the country, who
meets the farmer on his own ground

- and gossips with him regarding grain,

livestock and improved methods, has
the advantage in this regard. Per-
sonal acquaintance counts for a great
deal with most farmers. The average
farmer prefers to deal with the man
he knows, and who knows and speaks
to him by name when they meet.
This element of personality is a most
effective factor in the merchant’s
fight against the mail order house.

But the merchant who adopts a stand-
offish attitude toward the farmer, who
can’t remember names and faces and
is thought too proud to recognize
a man in a muddy wagon, who does-
n't know enough about farm prob-
lems to discuss them  familarly—
such a merchant, though his place
of business be only half a mile away,
has not the slightest advantage over
the mail order house half way across
the continent which uses advertisinz
matter especially designed to appeal
to the farm customer.

So, too, the merchant should, par-
ticularly on market days, set aside
some window space for display par-
ticularly designed to appeal to coun-
try customers. Here is a display
that one small town firm found very
effective:

A “saw-horse” with a large log was
placed in the center of the window,
and above this a saw was suspended
by a couple of fine wires, the saw
paralleling the front of the window.
A crank was arranged to give the

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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
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saw a 24-inch stroke, and it was driv-
en back and forth by an electric mo-
tor, concealed from view by rolls of
building paper at the side. From the
outside the wires did not show, so
that the saw appeared to be worked
by invisible power. Incidentally,
lanterns, axes and other articles fitted
into the display. The firm did a big
business in these lines while the dis-
play was on.

This was a good November win-
dow, with an appeal to country as
well as town customers.

The principle of making a special
appeal to the farmer should be carried
further into’ the mailing list cam-
paign. Most merchants who use
mailing lists—and many do not who
could with profit—use identical ad-
vertising matter for town-and country
customers. So far as printed matter
is concerned, this is all right; although
manufacturers and wholesalers, who
usually supply the retailer with a
great deal of such matter, often have
special material for country custom-
ers. Where, however, circular letters
specially prepared by the merchant
are sent out, it is worth while, if at
all possible, to prepare special cir-
culars for farm customers, different
in some respects from those sent to
the mailing list of town residents.

For the country customer has his
own particular needs. In November,
for instance, he finds time to make
repairs about the barn and house, to
fix up his fences, and, perhaps, to
paint his implements and vehicles.
Then, too, on many farms there is
the winter wood to be cut. With
darkening days, lanterns will be need-
ed. The circular letter that deals in-
telligently and specially along these
lines is pretty sure to make a strong-
er appeal than a merely general talk
regarding certain goods. Show the
farmer that you know what he needs,
and that you have what he needs, and
that you’re as much interested in him
as you are in the man in town.

The handling of farm implements
is, of course, a matter somewhat
apart from the regular hardware
lines; here the dealer must go out
after his customers. The hardware
dealer who does not handle imple-
ments, however, will find it worth
while, since he can’t go out personal-
ly, to make an especially strong appeal
through every advertising medium at
his command. The closer he gets to
the farm and farm problems, the
more effective his appeal will be.

William Edward Park.

Some Order.

“Dear Sir Druggist: Please give
berrer some aunty toxens to gargel
sore throat in a little baby three years
last May.”

“You will pleases gif the little poi
for five cents epecak for to throw up
a fife months old baby. The baby
has a sore stummick.”

“This child is my little girld. I
send five cents to buy two sitless pow-
ders for a grown-up adult who is
sick.”

“My baby has eat a peace of his
father’s parrish plaster. Sens a an-
necdote quick as possible by the en-
close boy. The inclosed money is for
the price and send the change back.”

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Planning For the February Conven-
tion.

Marine City, Nov. 15—Preliminary
arrangements have been completed
for our annual convention which will
be held in Grand Rapids on February
15, 16; 17 and 18,

The hotel headquarters will be the
new Pantlind, where our business
sessions will be held, while the ex-
hibits will be located in the Kling-
man [Turniture Exhibition building,
which is admiraby adapted for pur-
poses of this kind.

Karl S. Judson, 249 Morris avenue,
Grand Rapids, is manager of exhibits
and has just sent out literature con-
taining floor space and prospectus.
Already many spaces have been re-
served by manufacturers and others
who are interested in getting the ac-
tive and intelligent co-operation of
the retail hardware dealers in push-
ing their lines of goods.

Manufacturers apparently appreci-
ate the value of display work at con-
ventions, as it is reported that space
is being sold more freely than in
past years.

The Michigan Retail Hardware As-
sociation has built up a reputation
for the manner in which it has been
handling the exhibit feature in con-
nection with past conventions.

One feature, which has been pro-
ductive of excellent results is the
buyers’ contest. Valuable prizes are
given to all delegates who purchase
goods from a certain number of ex-
hibitors and, as a result, the latter
enjoy a very heavy volume of busi-
ness during the days of the conven-
tion. :

The programme committee is now
at work arranging for the business
sessions and expects to present an
unusually attractive programme for
each meeting.

Mr. Judson, the manager of ex-

hibits, had charge of that depart-
ment when our convention met in
Grand Rapids in 1912.

The exhibit and entertainment
committees who are actively working
on the details of the convention are
as follows:

Exhibit Committee—J. J. Vander
Meer, chairman; Wm. P. Meerman,
Bert M. Heth, Ord. J. Page, Charles
Ross, Arthur J. Scott, Karl S. Jud-
son.

Entertainment Committee—L. J.
Cortenhof, chairman; Peter J. Hen-
dricks, Evert J. Stadt, Bert J. Ellis,
Henry M. Johnson, R. A. Stonehouse,
Chas. M. Alden, A. J. Scott.

A. J. Scott, Secretary.
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A Boomerang.
Written for the Tradesman.

When a bit of sunshine hits you
After passing of a cloud,
When a fit of laughter gets you
And your spine is feeling proud,
Don’t forget to up and fling it
At a soul that’s feeling blue,
For the minute that you sling it
It’s a boomerang to you.
Maurice Arnold Nathan.

OLD MICHIGAN.
Written for the Tradesman.
From Michigan, from Michigan,
A boy once went away;
He only went a little ways
When he was heard to say:
“For Michigan, for Michigan,
I’m longing, I declare—
In Michigan, I wish again,
I only could be there.”

Chorus.
“The summer time is hummer time,
The winter’s grand and nice;
The pleasant fall is best of all,
And spring’s like paradise—
In Michigan, in Michigan,
A country rich and rare;
In Michigan, I wish again,
I only could be there.”

So here’s a lesson you may heed,
Before you start to roam;
You cannot find a better state
Nor win a sweeter home
Than Michigan, Old Michigan,
Where skies and fields are fair:
In Michigan, I wish again,
I always could be there.

Chorus.
The summer time is hummer time,
The winter’s grand and nice;
The pleasant fall is best of all,
And spring’s like paradise—
In Michigan, in Michigan,
A country rich and rare;
In Michigan, I wish again,
To live forever there.
John C. Wright.

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Revolution and Revelation in the
Shoe Business.

As shoe manufacturers, especially
those making women’s shoes, would
wish it otherwise, it cannot be denied
that despite the vexations attending
the pratice of retailers in buying their
style or novelty shoes as they need
them, either from stock, or on a short
time making schedule, evidently this
practice has come to stay.

It is a revolution in the shoe business
that an organized effort of shoemanu-
facturers, with the help of the “revo-
lutionists” themselves, has endeavored
to forestall. The revolution is de-
clared a success by leading shoe buy-
ers in the land because its chief ap-
peal is in the revelation that novelty
shoes appeal to the average woman's
vanity and that to them price is but
a secondary consideration.

The shoe stores handling novelty
boots this fail report a most remark-
able trade and, better still, greatly
profits. Only the stores
that appeal to the very wealthy, and
therefore

increased

conservative trade, have
been able to make profits without ex-
treme novelties, and this for obvious
reasons.

The store that looks for the trade
of the young women simply must
have millinery or novelty shoes, call
them what one will. And it is not
alone the girl or young woman who
demands the latest styles. There are
thousands of women in every com-
munity who dress in just as young-
ish toggery as do their daughters.
Style magazines, style writers, millin-
ers, shoe merchants, apparel dealers,
etc., have commercialized style. That
is the long and short of it.

The vexations endured this season
by shoe retailers are the result of the
physical impossibility of the shoe
manufacturers to fill a vast deluge
‘of orders for novelty boots on brief
notice. We have positive knowledge
that shoe manufacturers, including
both those conducting stock depart-
ments and those who have accepted
orders for “immediate delivery,” have
done their level best to fill quickly
their orders on gypsy boots and other
novelties. It is simply a case of not
being able to make a quart pail hold
a gallon.

Manufacturers cannot do the im-
possible, and despite the fact that
there have been day and night shifts
working in many factories, deliveries
have been more or less delayed. Most
retailers have shown due patience as
the situation has been explained to
them, and others, less patient, have
withdrawn orders that should have
remained, hoping to shop around and
find “somewhere else” what they

wanted. In a great majority of cases
this practice resulted in even greater
disappointment for those who wanted
shoes.

So while it is plainly inconsistent
to expect shoe manufacturers to build
three months’ supply of shoes in a
day, it is doubtful if the retailers of
the country can, with safety, buy their
novelties six, four, three or even one
month in advance. Any course in-

volving great risks will not be
adopted by shoe merchants.

Some time ago Sol Wile, Secretary
of the National Boot & Shoe Manu-
facturers’

Association, advised shoe

manufacturers to those re-
complained of held-up
orders and late deliveries that this
would not have been the case had
retailers taken the advice of the fa-
mous “Buy Now” circular issued last
spring, and placed their fall orders
then. This circular was honestly en-
dorsed by many well-meaning per-
son, and by this paper, with certain
exceptions, chief of which was our
complaint that the committee had
made a mistake in advising that dul!
calf shoes should be bought first and
in great quantity.

We believed then, and so stated,
that kid would lead in sales, and so
it has proved. A shoe dealer wrote
this paper recently, after having read
Mr. Wile’s reminder, and asked
wherein the “Buy Now” circular ad-
vised the buying of gypsy boots.

At no time has this paper endeavor-
ed to dictate or control styles. As-
sociations of retailers, business pa-
pers, last makers, pattern manufac-
turers and others who have attempt-
ed such a thing have all failed— ut-
terly failed.

No one knows what will be the
novelty boot for women one year
from to-day, just as it would have
been the height of folly for anyone
to attempt to forcast present styles
in November, 1914. It is a condition
that requires “watchful waiting.’ The
keenest watcher and the most watch-
ful waiter will be the first to see the
light each season, and the one to get
his orders in the quickest for the
season’s best seller, or sellers, will
reap the greatest harvest.

That the “revolution” has over-
thrown old ideals and ousted unpro-
fitable practices, that it has the en-
dorsement of the great and powerful
public, that it has been fostered and en-

remind
tailers who

 

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How is Your Rubber Stock?

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couraged by ambitious, keen and in-
tellectual retailers and manufacturers
themselves, there remains no doubt.

The shoe business has had a com-
plete overturning the past four or
five years. The day of the old-time
manufacturer and the easy-going, cut-
price retailer lies in the past. There
is without question a spirit of gam-
bling in the new methods, but what
is business but a gamble— a specula-
tion? Life is a gamble, some wise-
acre has said, but in the game of life—
and of business— it is the man who
is ever awake, ever alert to his op-
portunity, who wins!

It is a pleasure to note that most
retailers are placing a large volume
of their orders for spring and sum-
mer low cuts. We
doing so they are entirely rational
and are following out the spirit, if not
the letter, of the “Buy Now” advice.
Certain shoes are certain to be in de-
mand. The bright retailer will first
sell the shoes he has bought and go
after the novelty business later.
Staples will always outsell novelty
shoes. because the majority of the
American people are of the common,
democratic class. Novelty shoes only
increase the volume of sales.—Shoe
Retailer.

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Harsh Measures.

The wounded highlander in hos-
pital was very depressed, and seemed
to make no headway toward recovery.
He was forever talking about -his
“bonnie Scotland,” and the idea oc-
curred to the doctor that a Scotch
piper might rouse his spirits.

After some hunting around a piper
was found, and it was arranged that
he should present himself outside the
hospital that night, and pour forth all
the gems of Scottish music the pipes
were capable of interpreting. This
he did.

When the astute doctor turned up
the next morning he eagerly asked
the matron:

“Did the piper turn up?” |

“He did,” replied the matron.

“And how’s our Scotch patient?”

“Oh, he’s fine;
change,”

I never saw such a
said the matron.

“That’s grand. It was a fine idea
of mine to get that piper,’ said the
delighted doctor.

“Yes,” said the matron, sadly; “but
the other thirty patients have all had
a serious relapse.”

—_2+->—___
Merchants Getting To-
gether.

Owosso, Nov. 16--The Retailers
met Monday evening in regular ses-
sion and, while only a small number
were in attendance, much work was
accomplished and big plans for the
future were considered.

Another Dollar day will be given
in January. The last one proved a
success, especially as a drawing card
to get people into town from the
surrounding territory.

pure food show lasting a week
is proposed for February. Much suic-
cess has attended the giving of these
in other cities and since Owosso has
never had one, it will be of interest
to this city and county.

The suggestion that the retailers
give a complimentary luncheon to
the residents of the county outside
of Owosso met with much favor and
will be further discussed later.

Owosso

believe that in .

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Advantage of Store Service Versus
Self-Serving.

Grayling, Nov. 16—Suppose you
walk into a man’s store to buy a
pair of shoes. You get a clerk who
knows something about them to wait
on you. He shows you a variety of
styles, fits your foot and delivers the
goods at once. That is service—and
good service—but the consumer ex-
pects you, Mr. Dealer, to render this
service as cheaply as he can pick a
pair from a mail order catalogue and
send away for them, cash with order,
not saying anything about being un-
able to know the difference between
a two dollar and a three dollar shoe,
and the fit being very uncertain. This
is the difference between waiting on
yourself and engaging a competent
salesman. The customer who appre-
ciates store service will not buy from
catalogue. I trust the shoe dealers
will join hands with the merchants
in other lines to overcome the big
mail order competition. You need
not fear that the new mail order plan
will encourage the mail order prac-
tice.

The dry goods line is affected as
much as any other by the mail order
houses. It looks as if dry goods
stores in small towns are having less
variety of dress goods than before.
Maybe this is not really so. Maybe
it is the lady customer who demands
larger selections and, therefore, sends
to larger places for samples. If I
were a dry goods dealer I would in-
duce the wholesaler to maintain a
cut-off department and then secure a
lot of good sized samples of dress
goods. With these, in connection
with my stock, I would stand a good
show to satisfy the most particular
customer.

This plan would work fine in con-
nection with the new association plan,
because this would require the whole-
saler as a member of the association
to maintain a cut-off department to
take care of the direct-to-consumer
orders. But here is where the two
systems will differ. When a custom-
er enters your store to get informa-
tion in regard to dress goods adver-
tised by the association, this, of
course, can not be avoided, although
customers will be impressed to make
out their orders at home. Still we
can expect customers to call at stores
and ask questions regarding goods
advertised by an association in which
the local dealer is connected. The
different wholesalers will be known
to the dealer by a number or letter,
so when he receives enquiries it is
simply a matter of finding out the
number under which the customer
wants information and the clerk will
reach out and hand her a self ad-
dressed postcard, ready to fill out, to
get samples of the particular kinds
of dress goods in color desired. She
puts on a stamp and mails it herself.
This is the self-serving idea and she
gets only small samples such as mail
order houses now send to customers,
while if she selected from the dealer's
large samples, she could see the qual-
ity and pattern much better and save
a lot of time. The large sample idea
will not have a tendency to cut
down the dealer’s stock, as the dealer
with the best stock will always have
a better chance to draw a customer.

If you are not posted on the new
plan referred to, write to me. Re-
member, this will be an association
where the dealers have something to
say about the management. Send
for endorsement blank, as we want
all live dealers present at the meet-
ing. In writing, please enclose stamp
for reply. J. W. Sorenson.

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If your are not now handling these num-
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that they are pushed, for their many
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A card will bring catalogue.

Mail orders solicited

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Manufacturers Serviceable Footwear GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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Dangers Lying in Wait for the Home
Woman.
Written for the Tradesman.

After according full honor to the
who the
“doing things,” most fair-minded per-
sons still hold to the belief that the
home life is the best for the vener-
ality of women. Asa rule fathers and
mothers, however progressive they
may be in their ideas, unless a girl
have a decided genius that marks her
as especially adapted to some par-
ticular vocation, prefer to see their
daughter happily married, settled
down comfortably in a home of her
own, with a kind and capable hus-
band amply able and willing to pro-
vide and care for her. They feel that
this is the situation in which their
darling will be safest—most securely
protected and sheltered from the
many storms of this mortal existence.

The belief that for most women the
home life is best—both in view of
their happiness and their usefulness
as well—seems to me incontroverti-
ble. But in this situation which we have
considered peculiarly safe there are
dangers—dangers which, paradoxical
as the statement may seem, inhere
in it because of its very safety. The
object in pointing these out is not to
cause women to shun domestic life, bur
rather that, choosing it, they may
know its perils to avoid them. It
may be explained that these perils
are not those of sudden and palpable
disaster, but rather those of slow and
insidious atrophy and deterioration.

If one were asked to name the
strongest points in favor of a pro-
fessional or business career for a
woman, as compared with matrimony
and home, one of these must be just
this: To achieve any degree of suc-
cess or even to escape flat failure in
a career, a woman must use _ her
brains, and with a vigor and persis-
tence that the home life does not
compel, And very properly she of the
career should count as her reward
not only the tangible returns which
she may secure, but also the great
development that she achieves through
her endeavors.

Smooth seas never make a sailor,
and an easy time in life is not con-
ducive to a strong and forceful per-
sonality. We see cases in which at
the time of marriage the wife is bet-
ter educated and altogether the bright-
er of the pair intellectually, but after
some ten or fifteen years have passed,
the husband has made marked ad-
vancement, while she lags woefully
behind. If we trace the cause we
usually find that in the struggle and
competition of business or profes-
sional life the man’s wits have sharp-

sisters are out in world

ened and his intellect has been forced
to grow, while the wife, having no
especial incentive to mental activity,
has allowed her mind to become
lethargic and her former accomplish-
ments to grow rusty. The wider
outlook of the man’s work and the
constant association with bright and
brainy people may be other reasons
why a man’s pursuit of his business
or calling often seems to be an edu-
cation to him, the counterpart of
which is rarely secured by the wife
in the performance of her household
tasks,

“Can not a woman find in the man-
agement of her home and the care
of her children an ample field for the
exercises of all her intellectual pow-
ers?” some one asks. Assuredly she
can if she happens to have the pene-
tration to see and the resolution to
take hold of the knotty problems
that her duties present. But if she
has not, then just as assuredly is it
possible for her to go through her
routine of work in a kind of perfunc-
tory way, with a minimum expend-
iture of mental energy.

It really doesn’t require the brains
to cook and keep house that it did
before there were delicatessens and
bakeries and canneries to supply all
kinds of food ready prepared. While
“living out of a paper sack” is neither
economical nor healthful, a woman
who never has taken the trouble to
learn the simple processes of cook-
ing, and who knows absolutely noth-
ing of food values, is now able to get
up fairly palatable if not very diges-
tible meals, in a very brief time.

In the care of her childrren a moth-
er may find constant exercise for all
the best powers of her mind, if she
so wills. But on the other hand, she
may regard the offspring simply as
little creatures to be fed and kept
clean, their mental and spiritual train-
ing being delegated entirely to their
day school and Sunday school teach-
ers.

It is entirely possible for a wife and
mother to do her work in this me-
chanical way, and still call down no
condemnation on her head. Her ef-
forts are not measured by any defi-
nite standards, she is subject to no
authority and under no _ inspection,
and if she does not produce results
she is not branded a failure as her
husband would be if he did not make
good in his field of action. For all
these reasons the home woman, if she
does not arouse herself to counter-
act the tendency, is in danger of los-
ing instead of gaining in mental grasp
as the years go by.

Another danger of the home woman
is a childlike ignorance of financial

matters. Her experience with money
is apt to be limited to the spending
of an allowance. The more capable
the husband in a business way, the
more marked this incompetence on
the part of the wife is apt to be. It
is natural for her to reason. “Why
should I bother my brains about in-
vestments and the like, when I have
some one who can take care of all
that far better than I ever could?”
But, when the loss of her ef-
ficient husband leaves her the
easy prey of sharks and swindlers,
the serious consequences of her past
indifferences to money matters be-
comes apparent. For the home wom-
an it is even more important to know
something about managing money
and property than for the unmarried
woman who has skill in some craft
or profession. Not only because the
home woman may need to look out
for her children’s interests as well as
her own, but also because, in case she
be thrown on her own resources, her
earning power for a time at least, will
in most cases be small. a

No matter how well equipped to
earn her living she may have been
as a girl, after leading a domestic life
for five, ten, fifteen or twenty years,
if she again enter the ranks of paid
workers, it must be at a considerable
disadvantage. It is most essential
that she be able to take care of and
invest safely and wisely whatever
means she may possess.

Physically the home woman is 1i-
able to those ailments and diseases
that result from staying too closely
indoors. Mentally she is in danger

 

November 17, 1915

of narrowness, of laying too grea:
stress on trifles, of becoming addicted
to the worry habit and hypochondria
and “nerves.”’ Morally she is a little
apt to grow self-righteous and un-
charitable.

Now the home woman is not fated
to fall a victim to these deteriorating
tendencies, if only she will make in-
telligent and continuous effort to
counteract them. Let her recognize
the dangers peculiar to her situation
and she will be able to escape them.

The man or the woman who in
daily work mingles with the outer
world, almost of necessity develops
self-control, reasonableness, a broad
sympathy for humanity, and an abili-
ty to look at things from other peo-
ple’s points of view. While the life
she leads does not tend to their culti-
vation, these traits are no less ad-
mirable in the home woman, and no
less essential to her character if she
would wield the best and highest in-
fluence of which she is capable. The
wife and mother who allows herseli
to become dwarfed and petty-minded
loses much of her attractiveness and
also her power for good with her hus-
band and children. Quillo.

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When ignorance wins intelligence
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November 17, 1915

Be a Man and Not a Jelly Fish.

A Oe ea Nov. 8—As a sub-
scriber to the Tradesman, upon read-
ing the many good articles found
therein, I note many ways not to
offend a customer and many plans to
please him. These articles are very
good and inspiring and uplifting, but
when I associate these articles with
some stores, mine included, I wonder
why there are no articles on the way
customers abuse privilege of the
store, and I wish to enumerate some
of these things and meekly ask ad-
vice from the Tradesman and its sub-
scribers to tell me how to overcome
them.

The first and most important thing
I have to contend with is loafing and
shop lifting.

Almost every evening there con-
eregates at my store a bunch of boys
of the age of those who think them-
selves very smart. They sit upon my
counters, spit upon my floor, throw
peanut shucks on the floor and make
themselves at home, much to my
detriment and disgust. Their langauge
is anything but decent. Their habits
are vile and their respect lacking. I
have spoken to them a number of
times about making a loafing place of
my store and the only consolation I
have is a grunt or laugh—and the
same thing continues night after
night. |

I have come to the conclusion long
ago that they do those things to tan-
talize me, and I must confess that it
does, for when I see the best trade
of this town going to the other stores
and women passing my store because
they do not care to run the gauntlet
to get in, and do not care to have
remarks passed about them by a
bunch of loafing rowdies who have
no respect for themselves, let alone
others, it certainly unnerves me. To
step up to the crowd and ask them to
leave the store and never enter it
again would be no more than they
deserve, but even this takes more
nerve than I have, and to fight the
bunch is also out of the question, for,
possibly, any one in the crowd could
handle the proprietor. Should I or-
der them out 1 would gain the dis-
pleasure of some of their parents, for,
bad as the boys are, the parents do
not like to have it referred to by
others.

1 sell groceries and dry goods and
have the postoffice in connection. My
store at times represents more of a
barroom than anything else. The to-
bacco smoke is so thick that you can
almost cut it with a knife. And I
want to say right here that I do not
know how to stop them from smok-
ing. A sign will do no good. Talk-
ing to them does no good. Asking
them to behave themselves does no
good, for they seem to be possessed
and the swearing and loud talking
something fierce. I have talked with
the prosecuting attorney and the
sheriff about this, but received no sat-
isfaction. Of course, I could swear
out a warrant for all those who abuse
the store by doing the things detri-
mental to it, but this would only make
the people dislike me and my trade
would be curtailed.

I want the Tradesman to publish
this article and tell me how to stop
it, stay in business and retain my
trade and, perhaps, get a little more
trade.

It appears to me that there are two
elements in this world to get trade
from—the decent and the indecent.
I might be advised to right about face
and simply ask for the decent trade
and tell the rowdies that they are not
wanted, nor their trade, either, but
even this is something that takes
nerve when one has a stock of goods
on his hands to sell and customers to
please.

Now, my store is no exception, for
I had occasion to take a trip across
the State a few months ago and I
visited a number of stores where the
people seemed to have respect, and

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

other stores I found the loafers sit-
ting around the stove, spitting upon
the floor, throwing peanut shucks all
around and enjoying themselves im-
mensely. Such stores have an odor
which is not pleasant. The bunch
around the stove were clothed in
heavy mackinaws that were some wet
from snow, and as it melted it was
enough to drive the proprietor from
his place of business, yet he stood
it, as a number of merchants are
doing. Whenever one of a bunch of
that kind want to buy anything they
will hem and haw and run down the
goods and make the life of the store-
keeper miserable,

To compare such stores with city
stores where they have officers handy
is out of the question. I would like
to see the mob which enters my store
evenings enter a city store, climb
upon the counters, push the goods
out of their way or sit upon them,
light their pipes and begin their even-
ing orgy attempt it the second time
before the police would have them
by the collar, but the poor country
town has no police. It may have a
constable, but he is afraid of offend-
ing his neighbors and will not do
anything, but the fact of the case is
he himself is one of the bunch and
lights have been turned out on him,
as well as the others, to tell them
it is time to go home.

We read much nowadays about
pure food laws, scale testers, inspect-
ors, etc., to protect the purchaser or
customer from being swindled, but
we never read of anything to protect
the store-keepers from being swin-
dled. They rent buildings, heat and
light them, stock them with goods,
and what do they get? A bunch of
loafers who want a warm place to sit
and smoke and make fun of his cus-
tomers, especially lady customers.
Uplifting isn’t it? The writer thinks
that he is writing brass tacks, that he
is hitting the point right on the head
and that he is not going around the
bush any to do it. He is dealing with
a delicate question and one that needs
to be settled.

That same bunch will butt right in
when the proprietor is trying to make
a sale and advise the buyer to patron-
ize Sears, Roebuck & Co. They ought
to go to Sears, Roebuck & Co. to loaf
and about the time they butted in and
said to get the goods some other
place I can see them moving rather
lively. But Sears, Roebuck & Co.
have a bunch to help them; besides,
they have law and order handy, but,
as said before, the poor country store-
keeper seemingly has to grin and
bear it.

I hope the Tradesman can find
room to print this and I also hope I
may be able to see in the Tradesman
how to handle the bunch in this town,
so that they will come in and buy
what they want to move on and leave
room for others.

I am ashamed to have you publish
my name, for I do not want the pub-
lic to know that my store is the one
described. I feel sorry for the bunch
here that they seemingly know no
better and that what pleases them
displeases me and kills my business.

One Who Wants Help.
—_+-+—___
Getting New Customers and Keeping
Old Ones.

A grocer in a city of 50,000 people
began business several years ago with
a little neighborhood grocery. To-
day he has a central location, and gets
his trade from every part of town.
He has always gone out strongly after
new customers. For instance, he
makes a specialty of watching vacant
houses. He does this systematically,
sending out a man at periodic inter-
vals to check off the families that
have moved in since the previous in-
spection. Whenever a house on the

“Vacant” list is found to be occupied

the canvasser calls and solicits the
trade of the family. In this way
many customers in town have been
secured as permanent customers.

But this outside man, or canvasser,
works all the time. He has the whole
city charted, and he makes his rounds
of old customers at regular intervals,
just as a traveling salesman does. In
calling on the store’s regular custo-
mers he solicits special large orders,
tells them about seasonable oppor-
tunities to buy, and gives them any
market news that may be interesting
or of financial benefit to them.

This store’s growth seems to be due
in large measure to the everlasting
personal hammering away on _ the
market—to the personal touch method
of getting and holding customers.

> +. —____

The Latch-String of Opportunity.

To be a little more courteous than
is necessary—To pay a little stricter
attention than most people do and
consequently be a little more accurate
than they are—

To be a little better: informed than
“the average’—

To work a little harder and a little
more willingly than “the buch’—

To be neat, modest and yet con-
fident and aggressive—

To keep the mind on clean, useful
thoughts—

To spend a
earned—

To be happy and yet never self-
satisfied—

Summed up, it all means being the
rare person who not only gives most
but gets most out of the “job” and
out of life,

For such people the latch-string of
opportunity hangs out at many doors.
—S. Roland Hall in Selling Sense.

——_+>++___

The average man’s conscience is

more elastic than his suspenders.

little less than is

 

It Sells Better

the second time

That is because

Mapleine

once used is always used

Order from
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Bell Phone 860 Citz. Phone 2713

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Special Sale Conductors
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Every responsible grocer wants to sell his cus-
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homes of his community.

Any grocer who is not handling ‘SAFE HOME”
matches, should take steps to do so at once. Ask
any wholesale grocery salesman about them or
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salesman call and explain their superiority.

Every “SAFE HOME" match is non-poisonous,
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The Reputation and Standing of

Walter Baker & Co.’s
Cocoa and Chocolate
Preparations

Have been built up by years of fair
dealing, of honest manufacturing, an
unwavering policy of
maintaining the high
quality of the goods
and by extensive and
persistent advertising.

This: means for the
grocer a steady and
increasing demand
from satisfied custom-
ers with no risks to
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by far the most profitable trace.

The genuine Baker's Cocoa and Daker’s
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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
route. They are made of the best material, in uniform sizes, and
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Quality
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

November 17, 1915

 

 

 

 

 

THE MEAT MARKET

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

YOUR OLD SCALE

Let me overhaul and re-enamel it and make
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reasonable.

W. E. HAZARD,
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I do all work for Toledo Scale Co. in Michigan

 

 

 

Galvanized Tanks.

For a butcher the galvanized iron
tanks are the most preferable, for the
reason that wooden tanks and wood-
en barrels absorb a certain percentage
of the brine. If at any time during
the process of curing a piece of taint-
ed meat is put in the brine, or the
meat sours, the brine in the pores of
the wood also sours and becomes
contaminated with different poison-
ous germs. When the butcher finds
that this brine is spoiled he dumps
it out and makes fresh brine. He
does not thoroughly disinfect the bar-
rel, and consequently the new brine
is just as bad as the old brine. The
germs and brine that remain on the
meat will sometimes contaminate the
fresh brine, but the usual fault of the
brine souring is that the barrels are
not perfectly clean. When galvaniz-
ed iron tanks are used the salt acts
on the zinc, which forms a chloride
of zinc; the action being very slow,
there is such a small percentage in
the brine that it would hardly be no-
ticeable. This chloride of zinc is a
disinfectant and prevents the tanks
from getting slimy, even above the
brine, and where the butcher puts his
dirty hands when getting out the
meat. Practical experience has prov-
en that galvanized iron is the best
thing for curing corned beef, and
butchers seem to have less trouble
with it. If you have any trouble with
the flavor of your corned beef it prob-
ably lies in the salt or saltpeter, or
whatever you use in curing the meat.

—$———
Curing Beef Hams.

The hams when cut from the cattle
should either be spread out or hung
up in a room where the temperature
is from 33 to 35 degrees F for twenty-
four hours, thereby insuring the elim-
ination of all animal heat. They are
then best cured in vats holding 1,000
pounds each; many packers, however,
cure them in tierces or barrels.

The formula for the pickle used in
the first case is as follows: For 11,-
500 gallons of 80 degrees strength
pickle add 300 pounds granulated su-
gar and 105 pounds of saltpeter. When
a smaller amount of pickle is required
make it proportionate to the above.
As the meat is being packed in the
vats sprinkle it with a little fine salt.
The vat should then be filled with the
above pickle and a rack or weight put
on to keep the meat submerged. The
-hams should be overhauled three
times, the first in ten days, again
twenty-five days later, and again forty
days after the second overhauling.
Beef hams should be considered fully
cured in from seventy-five to eighty-
five days. When these hams are cur-

ed in tierces or barrels they should
be rolled at the same periods as in
the case of vats, giving the pickle a
thorough chance to get at all parts

of the meat.
—_>2>___

Preliminary Plans For the Battle
Creek Convention.

Bay City, Nov. 15—Battle Creek
merchants gave good attention to a
heart-to-heart talk with them on as-
sociation work, held last Tuesday
evening at their meeting, and are
fully alive in their efforts to show
other associations in this State how
to succeed.

L. D. Hobbs, President, and Mr.
Hoyt, Secretary, are certainly a good
pair to draw to. They have that
brand of enthusiasm you wrote about
on the cover of last week’s Michi-
gan Tradesman.

A good business programme will be
arranged and their committees are
doing their duty to make the social
features complete. With the big
food factories back of them, and pure
food show at the same time, condi-
tions are splendid for a good con-
vention.

I had a conference with Mr. Carey,
President of the Jackson Association,
and also Mr. Webster, of Jackson,
who report that their association is
in a flourishing condition. They are
getting ready for their pure food
show the coming winter. They are
also much taken up with matters
pertaining to the coming convention
at Battle Creek. We spent a pleasant
evening with them in conference and
feel assured that Jackson has taken
an unusual interest in association
work. Wm. McMorris, President.

 

Preliminary Arrangements.

Battle Creek, Nov. 15—iNov. 9 at
the regular meeting of the Retail
Grocers and Butchers’ Association,
we had with us William McMorris,
of Bay City, President of the Retail
Grocers and General Merchants’ As-
sociation of Michigan, who aided in
arranging the programme for the
convention on Feb. 22, 23 and 24, 1916.

The food show will open Monday,
Feb. 21, and will run to and including
Feb. 25. Monday will be given over
entirely to the food show.

Tuesday forenoon will be devoted
to the reception of guests.

Tuesday afternoon will mark the
organization of the convention from
2 to 3 o’clock. From 3 to 6 the dele-
gates will be given an automobile
trip around the city, including an in-
spection of the Sanitarium.

Wednesday forenoon will be. de-
voted to the presentation of com-
mittee reports and an executive ses-
sion.

Wednesday afternoon will be spent
in visiting the various factories in the
city. Thursday forenoon will be le-
voted to convention work and consid-
eration of the committee reports.

After a noon-day luncheon, a trip
through another factory will be tak-
en. From 3 to 5 o'clock will occur
the annual election of officers.

Friday will be given over to the
food show. A. J. Hoyt, Sec’y.

The Compostone Co. has increased
its capital stock from $15,000 to $50-
000.

 

W. P. Granger

Wholesale
Fresh and Salt Meats
Poultry, Eggs and Oysters

Shipments of Hogs, Veal and Poultry
Solicited

Daily Remittances
Telephone 61,073
112 Louis St. Grand Rapids

 

 

Make Out Your Bills

THE EASIEST WAY

Save Time and Errors.
Send for Samples and Circular—Free.

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PRODUCE
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Buffalo, N. Y.

Established 1873

Live Poultry in excellent de-
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handle large shipments to ad-
vantage. Fresh Eggs in good de-
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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.

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of Buffalo, all Commercial Agen-
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everywhere.

 

 

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Flour, Feed, Hay, Bags, Twine

Bakers’ Supplies and Machinery, Waxed Paper, Bread Wrappers
Powdered Egg

Everything for Bakers, Flour and Feed Dealers

ROY BAKER

Dry Milk

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Cooking Oil Compound

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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 salty. They are especially pre-
pared by Cudahy Brothers Co., Packers, Cudahy, Wis., for

bacon and fresh eggs.

those who want the best.

Cudahy Brothers Co.

Packers
Cudahy, Wisconsin

 

 

 

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clation
President—H. L. Williams, Howell.
Vice-President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.
Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Bent-
ley, Saginaw.
Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson,
Detroit; Frank P. Van Buren, Williams-
ton; C. J. Chandler. Detroit.

 

 

Fruit Flavor in Stored Eggs.

The jury in a suit brought by the
Klock Produce Co. of Seattle, Washing-
ton, against Diamond Ice and Storage
Co., for damages to Chinese eggs held
by the latter for the plaintiff, the goods,
is alleged, having become permeated with
fruity flavors while in storage, recently
gave a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs
for damages, amounting to $943.

Speaking of the case the Seattle Daily
Produce News makes these remarkable
statements :

“In support of their allegation the
defendants introduced a witness who
stated in a matter-of-fact manner that
the reason the Chinese were so par-
ticular about gathering up their dead
all over the world and sending the
bodies back to China was the startling
fact that the bones of the deceased were
ground up and fed to the little Chinese
hens.

“Another witness attempted to clear
up the mystery of how the fruity flavor
became attached to the eggs by testify-
ing that in China the hens are very fond
of flying fish and that upon several oc-
casions these fish have been known to
raid the fruit trees along the river like
a crowd of small boys in a farmer’s
orchard. The fish are afterwards fed
to the hens and the eggs retain the
much-discussed fruity flavor.”

Is Milk Food or Drink?

Chicago has raised a very interesting
issue as to whether milk is food or
drink. On the decision apparently rests
more than appears on the surface. The
medical and legal fraternities appear to
agree in admitting that it may be one
or the other, and for purposes of en-
forcing ordinances it must be judged
in the light of environment.

These issues arose in the case of
Merde vs. Beifeld, owners of the White
City, a Chicago summer park corpora-
tion, and others, the contestant entering
into contract to pay 25 per cent. of all
drinks dispensed under the bar privilege.
Eatables were to bear no such burden.
Now a disgruntled stockholder sues the
management of the park for permitting
the sale of milk by the restaurant people,
claiming that milk is a drink and ought
to be taxed. It is pointed out that milk
sold in the bar is taxed as a drink,
while milk sold in the restaurant is
classed as food and is free from taxa-
tion.

The Appellate Court has just decided
that milk sold on the restaurant premises
is an eatable, while that drawn from the

 

wooden cow on the grounds is a drink;
therefore subject to the 25 per cent. tax.
—_2~-<-___
Creamery Operator Decamps.

Farmers in Augusta township, Wash-
tenaw county, are looking for Harry
Burke, who two months ago leased the
Willis creamery, started to make butter,
cottage cheese and condensed milk, and
then disappeared. Burke claimed to
be a native of Germany and to have
crossed the ocean four times, but that
is about all the information he gave
regarding himself. The farmers took
their milk there and Burke employed a
buttermaker, who came with his family
and household goods from Saginaw, but
who has not received his wages and says
Burke owes $200. The creamery was
opened by Burke six weeks ago and
Friday was the first pay-day, so when
over fifty farmers arrived at the cream-
ery expecting their milk checks would
help out the loss caused by the injury
of the hay and grain crops by the con-
stant rains, they found that Burke had
gone away ten days ago and had not
been heard from; neither had he left
any money or any address. Frank Gott
took out an attachment for some of
Burke’s materials to pay his labor bills,
and a deputy sheriff from Milan levied
on the rest for other creditors.

—— 72.2 >______

There is a general impression
among egg shippers that certain mar-
kets are more strict in their grading
than others. And it is known that
some firms are inclined when caught
on the declining market to report
shipments as not up to grade or real-
ly to be much more particular about
grades than at more favorable sea-
sons. Doubtless few firm go through
a year without having to turn down
some eggs because they really are
not up to specifications, but there can
scarcely be any justifiable reason for
a firm being overly particular at one
time and slack in its inspection stan-
dards at another. There has been, so
the report goes, an unusual number
of cars turned down—either for good
reason or bad. There has been so
much of this that shippers in a cer-
tain producing section are loud in
their claims that merchants in one or
two markets are carrying this practice
too far—so far that these particular
shippers are diverting their business
to other markets. In this, and many
another respect, the shipper is most
effectually guarded by doing business
with strictly reliable merchants. There
are plenty of them—as well as plenty
of the other kind—in the egg and
poultry line as well as in other
branches of mercantile pursuit.

—_++-___

If singleness is bliss, it is folly to
marry.

 

Not His Destination.

A Mississippi River steamer was
stopped in the mouth of a tributary
stream owing to a fog. An old lady
Passenger enquired of the captain the
cause of the delay.

“Can’t see up the river,’ was the la-
conic response.

“But I can see the stars over-
head,” said the old lady,

“Yes, ma'am,” continued the cap-
tain, “but until the boiler busts we
ain’t going that way.”

 

EGGS

We must have them to supply our yearly
contracts. We will pay yeu better prices.
ommunicate with us if you get a case or
more weekly. Best of references.
JUST-PLUCKED EGG FARMS Co.
Hopkins, Mich,

 

 

Watson-Higgins Milling Co.
Merchant Millers

Grand Rapids i! Michigan

HART BRAND CANNED GO00S

Packed by

W. R. Roach & Co., Hart, Mich.

Michigan People Want Michigan Products

 

 

 

 

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If you appreciate uniformity and high
quality in butter buy BLUE VALLEY.

Blue Valley Creamery Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Nuts, 1915 Crop

Black Walnuts, $1 per bu.; Shellbark Hickory
Nuts, $1.60 per bu.; Fancy Extracted Wyoming
Honey, 60 Ib. cans, 10c per Ib. Cash with order.

E. Wood Co., Moulton, Iowa.

 

 

 

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

 

 

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E. P. MILLER, President F.H. HALLOCK, Vice Pres

Miller Michigan Potato Co.

WHOLESALE PRODUCE SHIPPERS

Potatoes, Apples, Onions

Correspondence solicited
Let us hear from you if you can load good potatoes

 

The H. E. Moseley Co. is associated with us in this business

FRANK T. MILLER, Sec&Treas

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

The Vinkemulder Company

Jobbers and Shippers of
Everything in

Fruits and Produce

 

 

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Mail us samples BROWN SWEDISH, RED KIDNEY,
MARROWFAT or WHITE PEA BEANS you may wish

MOSELEY BROTHERS

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Grand Council of Michigan U. C. T.

Grand Counselor—Walter S. 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
Brown.

State 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.

 

 

The Big Prizes in the Business Game.

Successful salesman—those who
make territories yield a permanent,
profitable business, the sort who
“wear” well—must and do possess
strong positive force,

Doubt befogs mind force. Inde-
cision crucifies precision of action.

Inoculation of doubts in the sales-
man’s mind poisons his enthusiasm.

There is little doubt that the de-
gree of a man’s power of persuasion
depends upon his earnestness and en-
thusiasm.

Persistingly thinking right
persistently acting right.

The true salesman learns what kind
of thoughts count; he thinks them,
acts them, until they become a part
of his being, forming the directinz
force in his success.

The right kind of salesman begins
by training himself. From the first
mistake in the first town of his trip
until he lays down his grip for the
last time, he is in constant training.

Early in his career he discovers—
and what a power that discovery is!—
that the same tactics he would employ
in training his horse would, if used
upon himself, secure him against
doubt and failure.

Over and over again with infinite
patience and determination he de-
clares to himself with spirit, “I Will”
and “I Am”—until he comes to a
thorough belief in his power to win
men and sales. Right thinking and
right doing—those are the means by
which he keeps his name at the top
of the sales list.

The right kind of a salesman has
no fear of opposition, whether it be
from his customers or his competi-
tors.

means

 

How well he knows from experi-
ence in his early days that to listen
to rebuff with ears that hear is but
to succumb to a greater force than
he himself possesses! Sharp thrusts
received in the school of experience
cause him to be watchful. Constant-
ly he cultivates the thoughts and hab-
its in himself that teach him to parry
successfully all negative influence
from within or without.

All successful salesmen are optimis-
tic. They see only the side of things
that wins, and recognize no superior
among competitors. The real sales-
man so schools himself that he is
able to sell a poor line of goods on
a poorer territory, solely upon the
strength of his own personality. What
a mighty human dynamo he is when
he finds his lot cast among circum-
stances wholly congenial! And so
the world about him always moves
onward to better and bigger things:
slowly but surely he leaves behind to
rust and shrivel and die every ad-
verse suggestion, everything that has
tended to lessen his power.

It is lack of brain activity that keeps
the class of salesmen that go round
and round and round, year in and year
out doing things in the same old way,
always hugging the despicable place
at the bottom of the sales sheet.

It is lack of the kind of brains tha-
work and dig and sweat till they find
a way to get things done, brains that
go to the bottom of things, brains
that are always looking for better
things, brains that never give up a
problem till they find a way to solve
ae

In mechanics to-day the electric
dynamo stands as the highest de-
velopment of mechanical power.
Among salesmen the highest is the
human dynamo, the man whose brain
is charged with dynamic force: whose
heart is on fire with enthusiasm and
push; who leads the strenuous life
and likes it; who is always dissatisfied,
always fighting for bigger and better
results; who sets his goal-post far out
in the field of endeavor, and who
knows no rest until he reaches it; who
is on the keen scent for newer and
better ideas to help him in his work:
who is willing to sweat blood to get
what he wants; who believes the head
of his house and his manager know
as much as he does; who believes the
credit man will give both himself and
his customers a square deal; who be-
lieves that the buyers of the establish-
ment that pays him his salary know
as much about buying goods as he
does about selling them; who knows
that the goods of his house are good
goods, the right kind, and will sell,
and that he can sell them; who spurns

the habits of indifference, of shirking,
of mischief-making, of arrogance to-
ward customers, of mutual jealousy,
the “click” habit; who avoids, as
evidence of weakness, such thoughts
as “Oh, what’s the use? The sales
manager’s got it for me. »He’s a
dreamer, anyway. I always get the
worst end of everything, no matter
what I do.” The model salesman
avoids, as worst of all, the habit of
fault-finding and criticism of superi-
ors. He is the kind, and no other
who gets the big prizes in the busi-
ness game.

What are you Mr. Salesman?

A human dynamo, or iust a com-
mon member of the Sons of Rest?
Never mind the other fellow —how
is it with yourself? That is the ques-
tion. Walter D. Moody.

Copyrighted 1907.

——+2>____
The Pleasures of Youth.

A public school teacher once put
this question to her pupils:

“Which would you rather have—
three bags with two apples in each
bag, or two bags with three apples
in each bag?”

“Three bags with two apples in
each bag,” was the surprising answer
given by one lad, while the rest of
the class was struggling with the
problem.

“Why, Harry?”

“Because there’d be one more bag
to bust!”

 

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UPPER PENINSULA.

 

Recent News From the Cloverland of
Michigan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Nov. 15—The usu-
al army of deer hunters are now in
the woods and many of our business
houses are minus one or more of
their chief push. However, business
seems to be coming along about the
same and the supply of deer has had
no affect upon the ham and bacon
sales as yet.

William Howden, one of our prom-
inent business men, known as the
“Hay King,” died at his residence on
Cedar street last Tuesday evening,
and with the passing of Mr. Howden
the Soo loses one of its most enter-
prising business men, who was one
of the Soo’s original boosters and al-
ways ready financially and otherwise
to help a worthy cause. Mr. Howden
was 52 years of age being born in
Peterborough, Ont. He came to the
Soo twenty years ago and was first
employed by John A. Colwell until
about ten years ago, when he went
in business on his own account. Since
then he conducted a’ flour and feed
store on Ashmun street and later
with his son went into the buying
and shipping of hay exclusively, and
it was here that he became known as
the “Hay King.’ The deceased is
survived by his widow, two daughters,
one son and three brothers. The
family have the sympathy of the en-
tire community.

Walter DeGrace, one of the Park
Hotel’s popular clerks, had a narrow
escape last Thursday morning while
engaged in doing a little work in the
yard at his home, when bricks which
had been loosened during the heavy
storm of Wednesday night on the
Wynn block fell from the top portion
of the building, missing the young
man’s head by only a few inches,
some of the brick tearing his cloth-
ing, which was certainly a close call.
Charles Hass, the National Biscuit
man who rooms in the Wynn block,
states that he and his wife, as well
as Others in the block, felt the shock
Wednesday night, but it was not
thought that the lightning had struck
the building itself, on account of the
high winds and severe rain at the
time. Charles says it was the worst
storm he has experienced during all
of his years in the cracker business.

Is it possible that the war is draw-
ing to an end? is the question asked
around the Soo since it is necessary
to come all the way to the Soo for
hay for the British army, as P. R.
Downey & Co. have an order for a
1,500 ton shipment, to be consigned
to the Ottawa Valley in Canada. This
is one of the largest hay orders that
has been shipped out of the Soo and
will require more than 100 cars.

The many friends and acquaintances
of E. W. Dingman, veteran conductor
on the Soo line, were shocked to
learn of his death, which occurred in
the Rest hospital, at Minneapolis, last
Wednesday, after a lingering illness
covering a period of about three
years. Mr. Dingman was the oldest
conductor in the employ of the Soo
line, next to Conductor Sharp, who
is still in the service. Thirty years
of Mr. Dingman’s life was spent on
the Soo line and he was one of the
best known conductors in Cloverland.
He was compelled, however, to tend-
er his resignation about three years
ago on account of ill health and went
to Texas to seek relief, but without
effect. He came back to the Soo and
about eight weeks ago left for Minne-
apolis, where he went to the hospital,
remaining there until his death. Mrs.
Dingman was with him at the time
of his demise. He belonged to sev-
eral railroad organizations and was
active in all railroad circles. He was
58 years of age and made the Soo his
home the greater part of his life. He
was a member of the local lodge of
Elks and the family have the sympa-
thy of their many friends.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Brimley held an election last week
for the purpose of voting on the ques-
tion of dispensing with the corpora-
tion and Brimley still remains a vil-
lage, but according to the Brimley
boosters, they believe that the charter
of the village will be annuled when
the matter is voted upon again.

The officers and members of the
executive committee of the Upper
Peninsula Development Bureau were
guests of honor ata banquet tend-
ered them by the Menominee Com-
mercial Club at the Hotel Menominee
one day last week.

The Chief of Police at Marquette
is getting busy on the agents dis-
tributing patent medicine samples in
Marquette, which practice is contrary
to the State law.

From some of the reports coming
in from the hunters our Lower Mich-
igan cousins are invading some of
the northern sections in large num-
bers and are shooting anything they
imagine to see in motion, so it will
mean “Safety First” for all of the
natives to keep out of the woods dur-
ing the rush or carry a special in-
surance policy, covering the shooting
period.

“Most men do no wrong but do
little that is right.”

An unusual experience was that of
John Smith, Chief Deputy Sheriff of
Wayne county, in getting the similar-
ity of places confused and getting
lost for two days in the wilds of the
Upper Peninsula last week. There is
one place on the South Shore called
Rexford and another station on the
Soo line called Rexton. Our popular
Chief of Police Mitchell had met Mr.
Smith at Alpena last summer while
attending the annual meeting of the
Michigan Association of Sheriffs and
Police Chiefs, and they must have
been talking deer, as it terminated in
our Chief inviting Chief Deputy Sher-
iff Smith to be a guest at his camp,
“Norway,” south of Rexford. Sheriff
Smith was given instructions as to
where to find the camp, about six
miles south of Rexford, and was also
told that he would be met at the sta-
tion by some of the party to escort
him into the camp. He was expected
in the Soo last Saturday to be the
guest of Chief Mitchell over Sunday,
but failed to get away from home on
time. However, he crossed the Straits
on Monday, but got confused on the
two stations Rexford and Rexton and
changed trains at Trout Lake and got
off at Rexton on the Soo line. Find-
ing no one to meet him he shouldered
his camp outfit and hiked six miles
in the direction given him, without
being able to locate camp “Norway”
or any other camp in the vast wilder-
ness. In the meantime the party at
Rexford became anxious. They wired
a tracer after Sheriff Smith, who had,
however, found his way back to Trout
Lake and later discovered his error.
He reached Rexford on Wednesday
and is now enjoying the outing.

“It is reported that there is not a
single pawn broker in Quebec. They
must all be married.”

Cloverland is right in it again when
it comes to claiming relationship to
the future Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
The Newberry folks are rejoicing
over the fact that a former resident
of that village is a sister-in-law of
Mrs. Galt. Mrs. Powhattan Bolling,
formerly Miss Lou Roberts, is the
lady referred to and Mr. Bolling is
a brother of Mrs. Galt. Pretty hard
to get ahead of us in this northern
country. We are usually in the swim.

Europe is not the only place carry-
ing on war. They have had some op-
position in the war between the
French Canadians and Yanks at
Drummond Island, which was pulled
off last week, so strong was the race
feeling between them. It was report-
ed that the H. C. Johnson Co., oper-
ating lumber camps and a mill there,
found that it could obtain labor cheap-
er on the Canadian side of the river.
While it has not been contracting

labor on that side, the men have been
practically sure of obtaining work, if
they came to Johns Wood, and the
trouble started when one of the men
who wished to get his brother a job
at the mill, made it so disagreeable
for the man whose place his brother
would take that he had to quit. After
this a number of French Canadians
came from Nesterville and Thessalon
to work in the mill, but the Ameri-
cans objected and the case was re-
ported to the local immigration au-
thorities and warrants were issued
for their return to their own country.
Johnson & Co. employ about 300 men
besides those working in the mill and
on the railway.

A record breaking auto trip was
made last week after the heavy rain
storm by S. D. Newton, of the
Booth-Newton Co., being the first
trip with his ford with the hydro-
plane attachment. The trip to De-
Tour before the rain was real sport
and was made without any special in-
cident, but after the rain on Wednes-
day it was a good imitation of the
flood and it was found that only the
hilltops were visible for miles, but
Mr. Newton had his ford well broken
in and it never encountered any roads
too severe for him to tackle and
would not stand for a little happen-
ing like a flood to keep him from
reaching the Soo in time for break-
fast the next morning. The only dif-
ficulty he encountered was when the
water was over four feet deep in
places and he had to stand upon the
steering gear to keep from getting
his feet wet. The only discomfort
experienced was by the traveling men
who were his guests on the trip as
they had to invest in a pair of rubber
boots enroute. Mr. Newton has also
a pair of runners, so that his next
trip over the beautiful will be con-
tinued later.

Neil McPhee, the well-known trav-
eling man from Chicago, arrived with
his party last week at his hunting
lodge near Shelldrake. We under-
stand that Mir. McPhee arranged in
ample time to have the required num-
ber of deer grazing in the vicinity,
so that it will not be necessary to
take any chances on bringing back
the bacon. :

Engadine is putting up another big
building, which will be occupied as a
harness shop. More thrift for this
hustling village. It is stated there
are still a few choice corner lots at
Engadine which are not picked up as
yet, but Clyde Hecox, the hustling
editor of the Enterprise, paid the vil-
lage a visit last week and was taking
inventory of the available snaps still
to be had. Whether or not he will
start a paper then is not stated.

Johnson Duncan, who has been
superintendent of the H. P. Hossock
Company’s dock during the past sum-

mer, has closed his labors for the
season. William G. Tapert.
—_2+~-+___

Boomlets From Bay City.

Bay City, Nov. 15—The campaign
started by Bay Council for a class of
new members last month ended Sat-
urday afternoon, when twenty-two
candidates were initiated and two old
members were re-instated. Grand
Counselor W. S. Lawton, of Grand
Rapids, and District Deputy Ben
Mercer, of Saginaw, were present. If
you have any doubt as
they enjoyed the programme as car-
ried out, just ask them. If Ben is
through laughing, he will be able to
tell you something about it. We
were sorry Mr. Lawton was unable
to stay to the banquet, which took
place at 7 p. m. Plates were laid for
150 of the members and their wives
and sweethearts, as well as the mem-
bers of Saginaw Council, of which
there were a large number present. A
fine musical programme was provid-
ed and the entertainment was pro-
nounced a great success by all pres-
ent. An invitation from Saginaw
Council to pay them a visit next

to whether

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Saturday, when a large class will be
initiated, was accepted and we are all
going.

Ernest E. Ames, who resigned his
position as traveling salesman for the
Sawyer Biscuit Co., Chicago, last
month to manage the Whyte Grocery
Co. store, Bay City, has re-engaged
himself with the Chicago firm and is
now on the old job, happy and con-
tented. He also decided to be a U.
C. T. and has made application for
membership in Bay Council.

A proposition to locate an automo-
bile concern here was given consid-
erable attention at a meeting of the
board of directors of the Board of
Commerce Tuesday evening. The
Board have several industrial propo-
sitions under consideration and the
prospects are that one or more will
be induced to locate here.

The proposed trade excursion of
the Bay City business men over the
Michigan Central Railway to Gray-
ling will be held on or about Dec.
15. fe is expected about 100 bus‘ness
men will make the trip:

Another new industry has been
added to Bay City’s already long and
constantly growing list. The Koehler
Chemical Co. a newly-organized
Michigan corporation, has secured a
contract with the Hine Lumber &
Salt Co. for the use of the latter’s
bittern water, a by-product of salt
water, and a building near the Hine
Salt Works will be temporarily util-
ized at once for the manufacture of
bromine, an extract of bittern water.
Later the company will erect its own
plant. J. H. Koehler, of Pomeroy,
Ohio, with his brother, C. J. Koehler,
of Mason City, West Virginia, com-
pose the company.

The Kelton-Aurand Furniture Co.,
recently organized here for the pur-
pose of manufacturing furniture, has
its new building well under way and
expects to be ready for business by
Jan. 1.

Joseph Chantiny, who has conduct-
ed a general store at Pine River for
several years, recently sold his stock
to Henry Fostin, of Arenac, who has
taken possession and will continue
the business at the same location. Mr.
Chantiny has moved on a farm which
he recently purchased near Mayville.

Archie J. Crago, formerly in busi-
ness at Walloon Lake, has purchased
a site and is erecting a store building
in Atlanta, where he will engage in
the general merchandise business.
The business will be known as the
Crago Co. W. T. Ballamy.

—_2+22____
Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids, Nov. 17—The hust-

ling little town of Coopersville is to
have a new enterprise. J. H. Noble
has bought the west half of the E. D,
Wright block and will open next
week with a complete line of gro-
ceries, furniture and funeral supplies.
Mr. Noble bought his opening stock
in Grand Rapids, the Worden Grocer
Company furnishing the groceries
and the various factories supplying
the remainder of the stock. Coopers-
ville is one of the best trading points
in the State and we predict Mr. Noble
will enjoy a fine business there.

Miss Florence E. Hollister, who as-
sisted the entertainment committee
of the Bagmen at their party last
Saturday night, is sure some dancer.
Her interpretive dance, “The Echo,’
was especially fine and won for her a
hearty encore, to which she very
gracefully responded.

3en Wiegert, one of the hustling
grocers of Douglas, is building a
large addition to his store building,
which will enable him to carry a
larger stock. Ben’s friends are glad
to note that his increased business
has made the old quarters inadequate
to take care of the trade.

L. V. Pilkington.
—_22.—___

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—E. E. Faulkner, Delton.
Secretary—Charles S. Koon, Muskegon.

Treasurer—George F. Snyder, Grand
Rapids.
Other Members—Leonard A. Seltzer,

Detroit; Edwin T. Boden. Bay City.

Next Meeting—Grand Rapids, Nov. 16,
17 and 18; Detroit, Jan. 18, 19 and 20,
1916.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical
ciation.
President—C. H. Jongejan,
Rapids.
Secretary—D. D. Alton, Fremont.
Treasurer—John G. Steketee, Grand
Rapids.
Next Annual Meeting—Detroit, June 20,
21 and 22, 1916.

Asso-
Grand

Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As-
sociation.
President—W. H. Martin, 165 Rhode
Island avenue, Detrait.
Secretary and Tre&surer—W. S. Law-
ton, Grand Rapids.

 

 

War Prices and Buying.
When business called me, not long
ago, to a neighboring city, I took oc-
casion to look up a druggist friend
of mine, and, as was quite natural,

we soon found ourselves talking
about the high cost of drugs. Now,
Mr. —— is known to devote consid-

erable attention to the buying end
“of the game, and I thought this
would be an excellent chance to learn
something.

“How do you manage,” I asked, “to
cope so successfully with the difficul-
ties which confront the drug buyer
at the present time?”

“By studying the markets,” was the
reply. “With my weekly New York
market reports, a couple of live drug
journals, a half dozen salesmen call-
ing on me, and a wholesale house in
town, if I can’t keep posted, it is my
own fault.”

’

“You see,” continued my friend, “it
is really not so important to know
that certain commodities have ad-
vanced or declined as it is know why
they have done so. For instance,
soar as you will
remember, some six or eight weeks
ago. As soon as I learned of the
first advance I began to look into the
underlying causes, and decided to
lay in a six months’ supply at once.”

“Pardon me,” I interrupted, “but
do you mean to tell me that you
know how much quinine you sell in
six months’ time?”

quinine began to

“Why certainly. That is what I
have my system of stock records for.
How, otherwise, could I buy intelli-
gently?”

“This is interesting. Go on.”

“Well, quinine slipped up another
three cents, and I bought a bunch of
quinine tablets and capsules. It
jumped again, and I looked up stock
on all pharmaceutical preparations
containing quinine. Then the market
went up 75 cents in a single bound,
and what did I do but order quantity

 

deals of the big-selling patent cold
tablets.”

“Guess you were pretty wise, old
man, for they tell me the blamed
stuff is worth $1.50 pes ounce now,”
said I. (I had just been obliged to
pay that much myself, but I would
not have admitted it to him for the
world.)

“This is a sample of the way I han-
dled the salicylates, bromides, etc.,
which recently reached such
abnormally high levels. By the way,
I notice that the bromides have just
advanced $1.25 per pound. I have al-
ready supplied myself with the vari-
ous elixirs, tablets, etc., as well as
the salts themselves, but it strikes me
that now is the time to look into the
many proprietary bromide prepara-
tions. I must do so at once.”

“But doesn’t this savor of specu-
lation?” I asked.

“Not at all. I have bought noth-
ing but staples and in quantities such
as can be disposed of within a rea-
sonable length of time. There is
every likelihood that prices will re-
main high. They will hardly fall be-
low the figures paid. It wouldn’t
matter so very much if they did.

have

“Now, another thing: After a sharp
advance in the New York market, I
have noticed that often a number of
days elapse before western jobbers
put it on. I have also noticed that
usually a much longer interval elapses
before pharmaceutical preparations
are affected. Prompt action has
saved me many a dollar.”

“Now, who would have thought of
that?” said I. “By the way, do you
base the selling price on actual cost
or on market price?”

“The market price, by all means.
Naturally, I feel in nowise responsi-
ble for present conditions, and feel
justly entitled to any additional profit
resulting from my foresight. That is
one reason why I study market re-
ports so assiduously.” And I went
back home resolving to do likewise.

Frank T. Bosworth.
——_2-._
Knew the Business.

The leading druggist in a certain
suburb wanted an apprentice. One
applicant for the situation had been
employed in a fish store, but he seem-
ed a likely lad.

“Your handwriting’s good enough,”
said the druggist. “Can you do men-
tal arithemetic?”

“Yes, sir,” replied the lad.

“W—what would thirty-four pounds
of salmon at 8 cents a pound be?”

“Bad, sir!” was the prompt answer.

—_ 23.
The Lord made woman and she
made herself over into a lady.

Mercury or Quicksilver?

Sir Hiram S. Maxim thus relates,
in his recently published autobiog-
raphy, his difficulty about obtaining
quicksilver in London in the year
1881:

I sat down and wrote carefully,
“Wanted, one pound of metallic mer-
cury in a strong glass bottle with a
cork stopper.”

It was not long before the messen-
ger again returned (he had been else-
where previously to no purpose), and
said there was no such stuff as “me-
tallic mercury,” and he had been to
a large wholesale place. As the big
chemist’s shop was not more than
two hundred yards distant, I went
around with him, saw the man_ be-
hind the counter, to whom he had al-
ready applied twice, and said:

“I have sent this young man round
twice for some metallic mercury, and
he tells me that you say you have
nothing of the kind.”

“No, we have never had any call
for it,” he replied.

“But is this not a chemist’s shop?”

“Yes, and one of the largest in
London.”

“Do you sell all kinds of chemi-
cals?”

Nes”

“Then how does it happen that you
have no metallic mercury?”

“We have never had a call for it
before. We do not know what it is.”

I then asked, “Have you any bi-
carbonate of soda?”

“Yes, tons of it.”

“Have you any
potash?”

bicarbonate of

November 17, 1915

“Certainly, any amount of it.”

“What is bicarbonate of potash a
bicarbonate of?”

“Why, naturally, of potash.”

“Could you let me have some pot-
ash before it is made up into a bi-
carbonate?”

“Certainly.”

“Have you any bichloride of mec-
cury?”

"Yes lots of it.”

“What is bichloride of mercury a
bichloride of?”

Here I had him. I asked him if it
were his first day on duty.

“No. 1
years.”

The head man, hearing the uproar,
then came in and_ said, “You fool!
the gentleman wants quicksilver.”

have been here twenty

Curiously enough, it had never oc-
curred to me to call it by that name,
although I certainly ought to have
thought of it. However, it is never
called quicksilver by scientific men.
—Chemist and Druggist.

 

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at first expect.

date as possible.

near future?

 

Druggists’ Sundries and
Holiday Goods

On account of very much improved con-
ditions in general business throughout the
country, the orders placed with us this season
for holiday goods have been beyond our ex-
pectations. We have urged all of our cus-
tomers and friends to look over our line early
so that we can give them the best possible

Appreciating the increase in business we
have enlarged our orders and can say that
goods from foreign countries and from Amer-
ican manufacturers have come to us more
promptly and more completely than we could
We are yet in a position to
accommodate customers in the holiday line as
well as the staple line, but ask for as early a

May we have the pleasure of a visit in the

Yours respectfully,
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

 

 

 

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Gra Or Sigbebe LL § 85@ 9: Bengoin. oo O13 eee Sats cans 2@., 15
igero ne meoin Goce a $e Salt Pe me. 4 61@
No. 7 nd Rapid Eucalyptus... 3 15@4 00 oe @1 99 Seldlite A = “io oliato 70
. 7 Ionia Ave. N s Store Fi Hemgah, pure 98 ae Cansicum gigs Sh a oe
; Juni ee. ee arda A 18 ao . ie a
. X a eo! 1 49. Cardamon — . castile 12 18
re ( Lard ood 75@3 0 ardamon, Con oe « tie caaut 12@
G Lard, extra -.. 70@ 0 Catech on, Comp @15 Soe Cass. astile 15
rand R 0. Lard, No. 1)... ve a : . ° Soap, white cast
s iav . iS . @ ho qecaes @2 60 less ite ec ae @7
apid I vender F oe 2100 Colchi na es Ss ss, per rastile 7 00
Ss : i vavender lowers 5@ 8b} chicu @ 6 Soda 4 bar
: Michiga Lemon en eet > @6 00 oe MT weeeee @1 05 Soda i oo ns @ %5
e Linseed, boiled, 7a igitalis ..... @ 7 Soda Bicarbonate 1%4@ a
Linseed, bolted, pba 2 Ginger” — «a Spirits a 1k@ 5
zinse % les - @ 7. nger ewes cau Sulp! amph eee @
Eline raw, bbl 14@ a Guaiac eccseu @ - Sulphur i, _¢ “
raw, less 73@ 78 Guaiac, “Ammon. @ % Tamarinda -- n 34a 8
3@ 78 odine Zen @1 05 Tastee Siactia --- 3@ 5
Iodine, “eet @ 80 Turpenti metia 15@ os
Olorles @2 00 Vanill ine Ve cheese @
s ae 0 Wi a Ex nice 90 60
@2 00 bi Has pure 1 0 @1 00
io Gaipkate 0@1 50
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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing.
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices,
liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have thei
at market prices at date of purchase.

 

ADVANCED
Evap. Apricots

Sardines

 

 

Index to Markets

 

&
Breakfast Food

Da de ek fat bet pt

Butter Color Se .

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Cracked Wheat

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Evaporated Milk
Farinaceous Goods

Flavoring Extracts
Flour and Feed .

Hides and Pelts .......

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Petroleum Products..

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Salad Dressing

 

Shoe Blacking ..

Wrapping Paper

1

AMMONIA

Doz.
12 oz. ovals, 2 doz. box 75
AXLE GREASE
Frazer’s.

1. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00
lib. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 35
311th. tin boxes, 2 dz. 4 2
10%). pails, per doz. ..6 00
15th. pails, per doz. ..7 20
25tb. pails, per doz. ..12 00

BAKED BEANS
No. 1, per doz. .. 45@ 90
No. 2, per doz. .. 75@1 40
No. 3, per doz. .. 85@1 75

BATH BRICK
Bnglish 6... 95
BLUING
Jennings’.
Condensed Pearl Bluing
Small C P Bluing, doz. 45
Large C P Bluing, doz. 75

Folger’s.
Summer Sky, 3 dz. cs. 1 20
Summer Sky, 10 dz bbl 4 00

BREAKFAST FOODS
Apetizo, Biscuits .... 3 0
Bear Food, Pettijohns 2 13
Cracked Wheat, 24-2 80

Cream of Rye, 24-2 .. 00
Quaker Puffed Rice .. 25
Quaker Puffed Wheat 45
Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 1 90

DO bt BS Pt bt CO om OO

Quaker Corn Flakes 75
Victor Corn Flakes .. 20
Washington Crisps .. 85
Wheat Hearts ...... 05

Wheatena .......... 4 50
Evapor’ed Sugar Corn 90

Grape Nuts .:........ 2 70
Grape Sugar Flakes . 2 50
Sugar Corn Flakes .. 2 50
Hardy Wheat Food .. 2 25

Holland Rusk ...... 3
Krinkle Corn Flakes 1 75
Mapl-Flake, Whole
Wheat 3... 3 60
.Minn. Wheat Cereal 3 75
Ralston Wheat Food
daree J8S) 2
Ralston Wht Food 18s 1 45
Ross's Whole Wheat
Biscmt ool. 2 80
Saxon Wheat Food .. 2 80
Shred Wheat Biscuit 3 60

Gwiscniit As o.oo. 1 80
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 4 25
Post Toasties, @-2 _. 2 50
Post Toasties, T-3 .. 2 70
Post Tavern Porridge 2 80
BROOMS

Fancy Parlor, 25 tb.
Parlor, 5 String, 25 tb.
Standard Parlor, 23 th.
Common, 23 Ih. ......
Special, 23 th ....
Warehouse, 23 Ib. ...
Common, Whisk ....
Haney, Whisk ......
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ...... 75
Solid Back, 11 in. .... 95
Pointed Ends ........ 85

be bt De ND 9 09 me oe
ee
an

Stove

No. 3
No. 2
No. 1

No. 3
No. 7
No: 4 ...
No. 3

BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 25c size .. 2 00

 

CANDLES
Paraffine, 68 ......... 7
Harawine, 128 ........ 7%
Wicking ...........,. 20

CANNED GOODS
Apples
3 Ib. Standards .. @ 90
No. 20 2.2.00. @2 75

Blackberries
2 Th. .......... 1 50@1 90
Standard No. 10 @5 25
Beans

Baked ........... 85@1 30
Red Kidney .... 75 95
Siting =... 1 00@1 75

o

Blueberries
Standard ...0.0500 0: 1 40
No. 40... oe... 6 50

Burnham’s pts.
Burnham’s aqts.

®
Ndr
mR

Monbadon (Natural)

none

Be Ae ie neon ue
Pieniec Plat ... |) :

Tomato, 1 me

bor bom b

. 3 Cans, per doz.
10
Early June siftd 1 45@1

No. 10 ‘size can ‘pt

Warrens, 1 fb. Tall ..
Warrens, 1 tb. Flat .

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eS’

(oo as
Med. Red Alaska

Ee

®

Dunbar, 1s doz.
Dunbar, 1448 doz. ....

or

Snider’s % pints .

Limburger ......
neapple ...... 40
d

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

3

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack .... 62
Adams Sappota ....... 65
Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 62
Beechnut 5.0)... ge
Chiclets ......6..2) 4 a2
Colgan Violet Chips .. 65
Colgan Mint Chips .... 65
Dentyne |......5. 22.
Doublemint ....,
Flag Spruce .......... 59

   

Juicy Hruit ............ 69
Red Robin ............ 63
Sterling Gum Pep. .. 62
Sterling 7-Point ...... 62
Spearmint, Wrigleys .. 64

Spearmint, 5 box jars 3 20
Spearmint, 3 box jars 1 92

  

Grumic Spruce 2.25). 59
Nucatan 00 62
Meno a 64
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.
German’s Sweet ...... 23
Premium ........ «2 3D
Caracas; ...:..5...:..; - 28

Walter M. Lowney Co.
Premium, %s ......... 32
Preminm, 165) 01.001: 32

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 .... 2 00

No. 60 Jute .......2..5° 90
No, 72 Jute ........: 110
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
Bakers o.oo. 87
Cleveland 2: ..0..0.50... 44
Colonial, %s .......... 35
Colonial, %s .......... 33
OU) Sa ee
Hershey’s, %s ......... 30
Hershey’s, 4s ........ 28
muyler 2.0.2.5... -. 36
Lowney, %S .....:.... 84
Lowney, WS ........... 94
Lowney, WBS ........... 38
Lowney, 5Ib. cans .... 38
Van Houten, %s ...... 12
Van Houten, %s ...... 18
Van Houten, %e ...... 36
Van Houten, 1s ........ 65
Wan-Bta ....:......... 36
WEDD 5550 8s
Wilber, Ms .......:.... 38
Wilber, 1458 ............ 33

COCOANUT
Dunham’s per Ib.
M%s, 6IbD. case ........ 30
4s, 5b. case ........ 29
48 15 Ib. case .....; =
18, 151D. case ....:... 37
4s & %s 15tb. case 28
Scalloped Gems ..... 10

Bulk, pailg ........,. 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 bc pkgs.,
per case ....... 22.

COFFEES ROASTED
Rio
Common ,.....:...<.. 19
OMT... cees eee. IO
Choice 2... 6.s.5..520- 20
EANCY, oo o.oo cca s
Peaberry ............

Santos
Common ......:..... 20
AIT oct sess cs. BO
Choice .... coos ek
Fancy ...
Peaberry ............ 38
Maracalbo
MOASE) occcoes.- ess. oc 2a
holes .o005.0.0 es Sb
Mexican
Choice ...0508 6. 25
Fancy .-..:c¢:....0... 26

Guatemala
MAM occ ossece sole. Sb
WAnCY, i... 00)... as
Java
Private Growth .... 26@30
Mandling .......... 31@35
Aukola ............ 30@82
Mocha
Short Bean ........ 25@27
i.ong Bean ........ 24@25
H. i. O. G. ...... 36628
Bogota
Mar occ ceces esses. Oe
BANCY . 2005200504505
Exchange Market, Steady
Spot Market, Strong
Package
New York Basis
Arbuckle ........... 16 50

  

  

   

 

  

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McLaughlin’s XXXX

McLaughlin’s xXXX
package coffee is sold to
retailers only. Mail all or-
ders direct to W. F. Mc-
eee & Co., Chicago,
Il.

Extracts
Holland, % gro. bxs. 95
Felix, % gross ...... 115
Hummel's foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Horehound 3

slandard (4.0)... 00... 9%
Standard, small ..... 10
Twist, small ..... oe. £0
Cases
Jumbo ........ ee eescc | Ome
Jumbo, small ........ 10

Big Stick ......0... 5; 9%
Boston Sugar Stick .. 14
Mixed Candy

ails
Broker 03.0... 86
Cut Loaf... . sass) 0
French Cream ...... 10
BOMCY ook.
Grocers 2666...
Kindergarten ....... 12
Leader Sebo e ace cp. 9

Majestic ............. 40
Monarch .......
Noveity, ...2.2... occ es aa
Paris Creams ...:... 11
Premio Creams ...... 14

   

Royal fcc. cetecs Soe
Special bicbielobicccls a oo 10
Valley Creams ...... 13
ME Oo tae

Specialties

Pa

Auto Kisseg (baskets) 13
Autumn Leaves ...... 18
Bonnie Butter Bites .. 17
Butter Cream Corn .. 15
Caramel Dice ..... os As
Cocoanut Kraut ......
Cocoanut Waffles .... 14
Coffty Toffy .......... 14
Dainty Mints 7 tb. tin 16
Empire Fudge ....... 14
Fudge, Pineapple .... 14
Fudge, Walnut ...... 14
Fudge, Filbert ...... 14
Fudge, Choco. Peanut 13
Fudge, Honey Moon . 14
Fudge, Toasted Cocoa-

MUG cece esc ns, | 1k
Fudge, Cherry ...... 14
Fudge, Cocoanut .... 14
Honeycomb Candy .. 16
Iced Maroons .......
teed Gems ;........ ..15
Iced Orange Jellies .. 13
Italian Bon Bons ... 13
Lozenges, Pep. .....:
Lozenges, Pink . “
Manchus ...........
Molasses Kisses, 10

ib.: box ...0....... 43
Nut Butter Puffs .... 14
Pecans, Ex. Large .. 14

 

Chocolates Pails

Assorted Choc. ...... 16
Amazon Caramels .. 16
Champion ........ woe 22
Choc. Chips, Eurek 19
Climax  o2.-.:.-5..... 14
Eclipse, Assorted .... 14
Ideal Chocolates .... 14
Klondike Chocolates 18
Nabobs ..... pss sece Ae
Nibble Stickg ........ 26
Nut Wafers ....:.... 18
Ocoro Choc. Caramels 17
Peanut Clusters ..... 20
Quintette o.oo s..... 4
Bering ..5...5... eeee ae
Star Chocolates ..... 18
Superior Choc. (light) 19
Pop Corn Goods
Without prizes.
Cracker Jack with
COUPON 82.0... 5...

2 o 20
Pop Corn Goods with Prizes
Oh My 100s ....... --. 3 50
Cracker Jack, with ee

Hurrah, 100s ........ 0
Hurrah, 50s .. cose L (0
Hurrah, 248 .......... 86

Cough Drops

Boxes
Putnam Menthol ... 1 00
Smith Bros. ......... 26

NUTS—Whole
Tbs.

Almonds, Tarragona 20
Almonds, California

soft shell Drake 18
Bravis .......... 14@16
HMDerts 2.2.05. @14
Cal. No.1 8.S.... @17
Walnuts, Naples ...
Walnuts, Grenoble ..
Table nuts, fancy 13@14
Pecans, Large .... @14
Pecans, Ex. Large @16

Shelled

No. 1 Spanish Shelled

Peanuts ...... 6%Ib 7
Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled

Peanuts ..... 10%@11
Pecan Halves ..... @6€0
Walnut Halves .... @36
Filbert Meats .... gee
Alicante Almonds 60
Jordan Almonds ...

 
 
 

 

November 17, 1915

5

Peanuts
Fancy H P Suns
Raw ..... cece ees 5% @6y%
Roasted ........ 7@ 7%
H. P. Jumbo,

Raw ....... --- 7%@8
Roasted ...... 84@ 9
CRACKERS
National Biscuit Company
Brands

In-er-Seal Trade Mark
Package Goods
Per doz.
Baronet Biscuit ..... 1 00
lake Wafers ......, 1 00
Cameo Biscuit ......
Cheese Sandwich ..., 1 00
Chocolate Wafers .... 1 00
Hig Newton ..... 3... 1
Five O'Clock Tea Bet 1
Ginger Snaps NBC .. 1 00
1
1

  

Graham Crackers
Lemon Snaps
M. M. Dainties ..., :
Ovysterettes| 2.05.7. 50
Pretzeenos Pesisscescec | OU
Royal Toast ....... _ 2
Social Tea Biscuit 1
Saltine Biscuit ...... 1
Saratoga Flakes .... 1 50

1

1

Soda Crackers, N.B.C.
Soda Crackers Prem.
Uneeda Biscuit ...... 50
Uneeda Ginger Wafer 1 00
Vanilla Wafers ...., 1 00
Water Thin Biscuit .. 1 00
Zu Zu Ginger Snaps 50
Zwieback ......:5.... 1 00

Other Package Goods
Barnum’s Animals .. 50
Soda Crackers NBC 2 50
Hruit Cake .......5., 13 00

Bulk Goods

i Cans and boxes
Animals ..650.).0.0.. 12
Altlantics, Asstd. .... 13
Avena Fruit Cakes .. 12
Bonnie Doon Cookies 10
Bonnie Lassies ...... 10
Banquet Wafers ..., 20
Cameo Biscuit ...... 26
Cecelia Biscuit ..... 16
Cheese ‘Tid Bits ..... 20
Chocolate Bar (cans) 20
Chocolate Drop Center 18
Chocolate Putt Cake 18
Choc. Honey Fingers is
Circle Cookies ...... 12
Cracknels ........... 20
Cream Fingers ...... 14
Cocoanut Taffy Bar .. 15
Cocoanut Drops ...... 12
Cocoanut Macaroons 18
Cocoanut Molas. Bar 16
Cocont Honey lingers 12
Cocont Honey Jumbles 12
Cotfee Cakes Iced ... 12
Crompets .:.....5.... 12
Dinner Pail Mixed .. 10
Extra Wine Biscuit .. 15
Family Cookies ...... 10
Fig Cakes Asstd. .... 12
Fireside Peanut Jumb 10
Fluted Cocoanut Bar 12
Frosted Creams ..... 10
Frosted Ginger Cook. 10
Frosted Raisin Sqs. .. 10
Full Moon ||.......... 10
Ginger Drops ........ 18
Ginger Gems Plain .. 10
Ginger Gems, Iced .. 11
Graham Crackers ... 9
Ginger Snaps Family 9%
Ginger Snaps Round 9
Hippodrome Bar .... 12
Honey Fingers Ass’t 12
Honey Jumbles ...... 12
Household Cookies .. 10
Household Cooks. Iced 11
Imperials ............ 10
Jubilee Mixed ........ 10
Kaiser Jumbles ...... 12
Lady Fingers Sponge 30
Leap Year Jumbles .. 20
Lemon Biscuit Square 10
Lemon Cakes ....... 10
Lemon Wafers ...... 18
Lemona ..,..,...
Lorna Doon .. eco 18
Mace Cakes . ses. 10
Mary Ann .........; 10
Manlalay ............ 10
Marshmallow Pecans 2
Mol. Frt. Cookie, Iced 11
NBC Honey Cakes .. 12
Oatmeal Crackers ... 9
Orange Gems ....... 10
Oreo Biscuit ........ 26
Othello... 6.505.562.) AaB
Penny Assorted . .... 10
Picnic Mixed ........ 12
Raisin Cookies ...... 12
Raisin Gems ........ 18%
Reveres Asstd. ...... 17
Rittenhouse Biscuit .. 14
Snaparoons .......... 16
Spiced Cookie ........ 10
Spiced Jumbles, Iced 12
Sugar Fingers ...... 12
Sugar Crimp ........ 10
Sultana Fruit Biscuit 18
Sweethearts ....... - 2b
Vanilla Wafers ...... 20

     

 

 

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November 17, 1915

Butter
Boxes

N B C Sauare ...... 1%
Seymour Round .... 7%
N BC Sodas ........ - T%
N B C Picnic Oysters 7%
Gem Oysters 7%
Soda
N B C Sodas ........ 7%
Premium Sodas ...... 8
Select Sodas ........ 10
Saratoga Flakes .... 13
Saltines .. ses. Js
Oyster

N B C Picnic Oysters 7%
Gem Oysters .... 7%

eee cceee

Shell 20... ....:.: secs S58
Sugar Wafer Specialties
Adora .::..... Weoseee 1 00
Nabisco .......5..... 1 00
Nabisco ......... sees 10
Festino ......... sees Ek OO
Festing ......... jaa (2 oO
Lorna Doone ........ 1 00
AMOIA  . cece cee se 1 00
Champagne Wafers .. 2 50

Above quotations of Na-
tional Biscuit Co., subject
to change without notice.

CREAM TARTAR

Barrels or Drums ...... 40
Boxes 200055552000... 41
Square Cans ...... 43
Hancy Caddies ........ 48
DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Evapor’ed Choice blk @09
Evapor’ed Fancy pkg.
Apricots
California ....... 94%4@10%
Citron i
Corsican... 21. 2. 16%
Currants
Imported, 1 Ib. pkg. 12
Imported, buik ...... 11%
Peaches

Muirs—Choice, 25Ib. .. 6%
Muirs—Fancy, 25tIb. .. 7%
Fancy, Peeled, 25!tb. ..12

Peel
Lemon American .... 12%
Orange American 12%
Ralsins
Cluster, 20 cartons ..2 25

Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr. 8%
Loose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 8%
L. M. Seeded, 1 th. 8% @9
California Prunes

30-100 25D. boxes ..@ 7%
30- 90 25m. boxes
70- 80 25tb. boxes
30- 70 25Ib. boxes
30- 60 25Ib. boxes
10-50 25%. boxes ..@11

EVAPORATED MILK
Red Band Brand

Baby soe 2 40
Vee |... ok... 3 oC
5 case lots, 5c less; 10
case lots, 10c less.
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
California Limas .... 6%
Med. Hand Picked .. 3 75
Brown Holland ..... 3 20
Farina
25 1 tb. packages ....1 60
Bulk, per 100 fb. . 4650

Original Holland Rusk
Packed 12 rolls to container
8 containers (40) rolls 3 20

Hominy
Pearl, 100 tb. sack .. 2 50
Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 Th. box .. 60
{mported, 25 th. box ..3 50
Pearl Barley

Chester ...000...00.. 3 40
Portage 00008. 4 75
Peas
Green Wisconsin bu. 3 00
Split DD  .. .... 534
Sago
Mast India 22.05... ....: 5
German, sacks .......... 5

German, broken pkg.
Taploca
Flake, 100 tb. sacks ..5%
Pearl, 100 tb. sacks 5%
Pearl, 36 pkgs. ...... 2 25
Minute 36 pkgs. ...... 245
FISHING TACKLE !
to 1 in. ..... 2... 6
4 to 20in. .... seed
NG to 2 in: ..::....:.. 9
1% to 2 in. 3.25... .:. 11
Ce eae cles oe ee cule o 15
SM ee. 20
Cotton Lines
No. 1,10 feet .::..... 5
No, 2; 15 feet ©....... 7
ING. 3: 15 feet 2.20... 9
No. 4; 15) feet ........ 10
No: 6, 15 feet ........ 11
No. 6, 15 feet ..... 12
No: 7, 15 feet ........ 15
No. $, 15 feet ........ 18

No. 9, 15 feet ....... 20
Linen Lines

Smal 22.2... Poca e cas « 20
Medium ...... ee albislcle 26
PEO .... 8... ccace Om

7

Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings D C Brand

Extract Lemon Terpenless
Extract Vanilla Mexican
Both at the same price.
No. 1, F box % oz. .. 85

F box, 1% oz. 1 20
No. 4, F box, 2% oz. 2 25
No. 3, 2% oz. Taper 2 00
No. 2, 1% oz. flat .... 1 75

FLOUR AND FEED
Grand Rapids Grain &
Milling Co.

Winter Wheat
Purity Patent ........6 00
Baney Spring ........ 6 35
Wizard Graham

wees 5 60
Wizard, Gran. Meal . 4 80
Wizard Buckw’t ecwt. 3 25

RVG oe f<.6 6) 25
Valley City Milling Co.
ily White 00. 002. 6 50
ight Moat 0. 6 10
Graham o.oo. 2 60
Granena Health ...... 2 70
Gran. Meal .::... “a, 90
Bolted Meal .......... 1 80

Voigt Milling Co.
Voigt’s Crescent .... 6 50
Voigts Royal .......: 6 90
Voigt’s Flouroigt .... 6 50

' Ly Hygienic Gra-

am ow... ee eee” - 5 85
Watson-Higgins Milling Co.
Perfection 6 35

Tip Top Flour...” 5 80
Golden Sheaf Flour .. 5 30
Kern’s Success ...... 90

Marshalls Best Flour 5 90
Worden Grocer Co.

Quaker, paper ...... 5 60
Quaker, cloth ........ 5 70
Kansas Hard Wheat

Voigt Milling Co.
Calla, Villy 12s 6 50

Worden Grocer Co.

American Eagle, %s_ 6 00
American Hagle, 4s 5 90
American Eagle, %s 5 80
Spring Wheat
Roy Baker
Mazeppa (new) ..... ; 5» 60
Golden Horn bakers 5 50
Wisconsin Rye ...... 5 65
Bohemian Rye ...... 6 05
Judson Grocer Co.
Cenesota, 348 <..2.... 6 60
Ceresota, 3448 ........ 6 50
Ceresota, 4465 ........ 6 40
Voigt Milling Co.
Columbian) © ...0°.... 00

Worden Grocer Co.

Wingold, %s cloth .. 6 60

Wingold, 4s cloth .. 6 40

Wingold, %s cloth .. 6 30

Wingold, %s paper .. 6 35

Wingold, 4s paper .. 6 30
Meal

Bolted. .......5....... 4 60

Golden Granulated .. 4 80
Wheat

ROG oe. 1 07

WRIEG 2.0.0.0... 1 06
Oats

Michigan carlots .... 38

hess than carlots .... 40
Corn

@Carlots fice cs, 72

Less than carlots .... 76
Hay

Carlots ......:...... 16.00

Less than carlots .. 18 00

Feed :

Street Car Feed .... 30 00

No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd 30 00

Cracked Corn 29

Coarse Corn Meal .. 29 00
FRUIT JARS

Mason, pts., per gro. 4 65
Mason, ats., per gro. 5 00
Mason, % gal. per gro. 7 40
Mason, can tops, gro. 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
Nelson's 2. ....5..... 1 50
Oxford 75

Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 25
Plymouth Rock, Plain 90
GRAIN BAGS

Broad: Gauge ...:.:.. 18
Amoskeae oo 5..05..... . 19
Herbs
SARC 4.5... eet 15
Hops ............ Meee 15
Uaurel Leaves. ....... 165
Senna, Eaves, ..:....... 26
HIDES AND PELTS

Hides .
Green, No. 1 ........ 15
Green, No, 2 ........ 14
Cured, INO. 1.60... 17
Cured) No) 2:-... 0)... 16
Calfskin, green, No. 1 15
Calfskin, green, No. 2 13%
Calfskin, cured, No. 1 17
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 15%

elt

Old Wool .::..... 60@1 25
amps .......... 50@1 00
Shearlings ...... 30@ 75

No b.....
No: 2 ........
Unwashed, med.
Unwashed, fine ..

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Tallow

Wool

Q8 OO

HORSE RADISH
mM dOS, joo. .

Jelly

2
2

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90

5tb. pails, per doz. ..2 30
15tb. pails, per pail ..
30Ib. pails, per pail ..1 25

ICE CREAM

65

Piper Ice Cream Co. Brands

Bulk, any flavor i 6
Extra Fancy, any flavor 65
Briex, Blain 9... 1 00
Brick, Wancy 60: 1 20
JELLY GLASSES
% pt. in bbls., per doz. 15
% pt. in bbls., per doz. 16
8 OZ. capped in bbls.,
per doz: ...°.... wcoce 1S
MAPLEINE
2 oz. bottles, per doz. 3 00
1 oz. bottles, per doz. 1 75
16 0z. bottles, per dz. 18 00
32 oz. bottles, per dz. 30 00
MINCE MEAT
Ber case |.) 7... 2 85
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle 42
Choice 2.0, 35
Good... 0... Scsee oe
MAI co cce. 20
Half barrels 2c extra
Red Hen, No. 2% ...1 75
Red Hen, No. 6 ......1 75
Red Hen, No. 10 ....1 65
MUSTARD
4% i. G Ip. box’ ...... 16
OLIVES
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 10@1 20

Bu
Bu

lk, 2 gal. kegs 1 05@1
Ik, 5 gal. kegs 1 00@1

stufied, 6 027. ..../.1." 90
stuffed, 8 oz ......., 1 25
Stuffed, 14 oz. ...... 25
Pitted (not stuffed)

WA OZ eee oon
Manzanilla, 8 oz. ..... 90
Lunch, 10 07, ....... . 235
Lunch, 16 oz. ...... | 2 25
Queen, Mammoth, 19

OFF eee sees e 25
Queen, Mammoth, 28

OF see: coe) & 70
Olive Chow, 2 doz. cs.

per doz ......... 2

PEANUT BUTTER
Bel-Car-Mo Brand
24 Tb. fibre pails .... 09%
14 tb. fibre pails ..... 10
23 oz. jars, 1 doz. ..2 25

2 Tb. tin pails, 1 doz. 2 85

6% oz. jars, 2 doz. 1 80

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Iron Barrels

Berfection, 00.5500) 6) 7.5

ted Crown Gasoline

Ga
V

Capitol Cylinder

S Machine Gasoline
M & P Naphtha ..

Atlantic Red Engine
Summer Black .......

Polarine

Ba
Ha

5 gallon kegs ...... Me

Barrels

Ha

5 gallon kegs

Ba

PICKLES

Medium
rrels, 1,200 count ..
If bbls., 600 count

Small

lf barrels

NOOO He

sere ence

Gherkins
rrels

Half barrels ......... 6
5 gallon kegs ........ 2

Barrels

Sweet Small
Sissicidcccsces LG

Half barrels ........ 8

5 gallon kegs

cceceee SO
PIPES

Clay, No. 216, per box 1
Clay, T. D. full count
Cob

Ba

Clear Back

PLAYING CARDS
. 90, Steamboat ....
. 15, Rival assorted 1
. 20, Rover, enam’d 1
. 572, Special ..... at
. 98 Golf, Satin fin. 2
; 808, Bicycle ......

. 6382 Tourn’t whist 2
POTASH
Dbitts, 2 doz .... 1

PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork
-22 00@23

Short Cut Clr 20 00@21
Bean ......... 14 00@15

Brisket, Clear
Pj

4 00@25

fee ae.

Clear Family

S P Bellies ....
d

Pu
Co
8

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Dry Salt Meats
144%@1
Lar

re in tierces 11 @1
mpound Lard 10%@1
Ib. tubs
tubs ....advance
tubs ....advance
pails ...advance
pails ...advance

FIFITS

pails ...advance

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1
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Smoked Meats
Hams, 14-16 th. 15 @15%
Hams, 16-18 th. 14%@15
Hams, 18-20 th. 14%@15
Ham, dried beef

SQts) ooo. 29 @30
California Hams 11 @11%
Picnic Boiled

Hamme 2.00... 19% @20
Boiled Hams .. 23 @23%
Minced Ham 12 @12%
Bacon: o30. 10. 16 @25

Sausages
Bologna ....... 10%@11
Hiver 3.05.0) | - 9%@10
Frankfort ..... - 12 @12%
OFK .......... 11 @i12
Vean ee oe
MOnMBVG ol
Headcheese .......... 10
Boneless ...... 20 0020 50
Rump, new .. 24 50@25 00
Pig’s Feet
bbis; 2: cvccce 1 00

% bbls., 40 tbs. ...... 2 00
% bbls. 4

BG sc 8 60
Tripe

Aerts) 15 Ibs, 2... 90

% bbis., 40 Ibs. ..... - 160

% bbis., 80 ths. ...... 3 00
Casings

Hogs, per ib. /...,... 35

Beef, rounds, set .. 20@21
Beef, middles, set .. 85@90
Sheep ........ 1 25@@1 50
Uncolored Butterine
Solid Dairy .... 124% @16%
Country Rolls .. 13 @19%

Canned Meats
Corned Beef, 2 th. ..
Corned Beef, 1 th. ..
Roast Beef, 2 th. .
Roast Beef, 1 tb. ....
Potted Meat, Ham
Flavor, %s
Potted Meat,
Flavor, %s
Deviled Meat,
Flavor, \s
Deviled Meat,
Blaver, 3481) ........ $0

VWyos
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NANO

Potted Tongue, %4s .. 48
Potted Tongue, %s .. 90
RICE
Raney ...0....).. 7 @1%
Japan Style ...... 5 @5%
Broken 3.05.0... . 3% @4%

ROLLED OATS

Rolled Avenna, bbls. 5 60
Steel Cut, 100 Th. sks. 2 99
Monarch, bbis: ...._. 5 35
Monarch, 90 tb. sks. 2 55
Quaker, 18 Regular .. 1 45
Quaker, 20 Family 4 50
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 ths. in box.
Arm and Hammer .. 3 00
Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls. ...... 80

- cs. 90
Granulated, 36 pkgs. .. 1 25

SALT

Common Grades

100 3 Ib: sacks ......
70 4 Ib. sacks

 
 

60 5 Tb. sacks .
28 10 Ib. sacks
56 Ib. sacks 5... . |. 40
48 Ib. seks ........ 20
Warsaw
56 Ib. sacks 21.0.0... 26
28 Ib. dairy in drill bags 20
Solar Rock
96 ID: sacks; ....5... 2... 26
Common
Granulated, Fine .... 110
Medium, Fine ....... 1 15
SALT FISH
Cod
Large, whole .... @ 7%
Small, whole .... @7
Strips or bricks 9@13
Pollock .....:.... @5

Smoked Salmon

Strips oo s.02000225...
Halibut

Strips 22.0.0. Secee cc. 1S

Chunks 2.0... Gaeeecee. LG

Holland Herring
Y. M. wh. hoop bbls.
Y. M. wh. hoop % bbls.
Y. M. wh. hoop kegs
Y. M. wh. hoop Milchers
kegs
Standard, Wi tales
Standard, % bbls. ....

Standard, kegs ..... 95
Tro

No. Tf, 200) Ths. 2... 7 of

Now T, 40 Ibs 0.1... «2.28

No.2, 10 Tos. ........ 90

No. ¥, 2 Yhs. ........ 15

10

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Mackerel
Mess, 100 Ibs. .......: 15 50
Mess; 40 Ibs. ......., @ 7
Mess, 10 Ips. ........ L
Mess, § IDS: ......... 1 50
No. 1, 100 tbs. ...... 14 50
No. 1, 40 ths. ........ 63
No: 1 10 tps... 1 65

Lake Herring

100, Ths... 80
AG So 2 05
JO IDS.) ..03. 6... wae 58
S IDS. 250... 54

SEEDS

Anise ........ wecctees ES
Canary, Smyrna .... 8
@Caraway ..3.......... 16
Cardomon, Malabar 1 20
Celery ..... 45

Hemp, Russian ..... 5
Mixed Bird ........ 9
Mustard, white ...... 16
RODDY ..2....5....... 25
Rape ......... eae.

10
SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large 3 dz. 3 50
Handy Box, small .. 1 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish 85
Miller’s Crown Polish 85

SNUFF
Scotch, in bladders .... 37
Maccaboy, in jars ..... 35
French Rapple in jars .. 43

SODA
Boxed 9... 253000, 5%
Kees, Binsliish ....._. 4
SPICES

Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica --9@10

Allspice, Ig Garden @11
Cloves, Zanzibar @22
Cassia, Canton 14@15
Cassia, 5c pkg. dz. @25
Ginger, African @ 9%
Ginger, Cochin @14%
Mace, Penang .:..... @70
Mixed: No. 1.2... @17
Mixed: No 2 2... @16
Mixed, 5c pkgs. dz. @45

Nutmegs, 70-180 ... @3

Nutmegs, 105-110 @25
Pepper, Back ...... @15
Pepper, White ..... @25
Pepper, Cayenne @22

Paprika, Hungarian
Pure Ground in Bulk

Allspice, Jamaica .. @12
Cloves, Zanzibar .. @28
Cassia, Canton .... @22
Ginger, African .... @18
Mace, Penane ..... @75
Nutmegs ........ | @35
Pepper, Black _..... @18
Pepper, White .... @982
Pepper, Cayenne .. @24
Paprika Hungarian @45
STARCH
Corn
Kingsford, 40 tbs. .... 7%
Muzzy, 20 1th. pkgs. .. 5%
Kingsford
Silver Gloss, 40 1th. .. 7%
Muzzy, 40 1th. pkgs. .. 5
Gloss
Argo, 24 5c pkgs. .... 90
Silver Gloss, -16 3tbs. 6%
Silver Gloss, 12 6tbs. 8%
Muzzy
48 1Ib. packages ...... 5
16 3b. packages .... 4%
12 6Ib. packages ...... 6
50D. boxes -|. ... 2. 3%
SYRUPS
Corn
Barrela ......2...._.., 28
Half barrels ........... 30
Blue Karo, No. 1%,
4 doz 3 45

Blue Karo, No. 2, 2 dz. 1 95
Blue Karo, No. 2% 2

GOm oy 2 35
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 2 30
Blue Karo, No. 10, %

GOA 2 20
Red Karo, No. 1% 4

GZ: ..5. 56... cede
Red Karo, No. 2 ,2 dz.
Red Karo, No. 2%, 2dz. 2 75
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 2 70
Red Karo, No. 10 %

€QZ <.5............. 3% G0
Pure Cane
Wait oc. s os . Gececeans 16
CPG Se <ec<ss GU
Choice 25

Folger’s Grape Punch
Quarts, doz. case .. 6 00
TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large ...... 3
Halford, small

TEA
Uncolored Japan
Medium
Choice
Waney -..... 4.2...
Basket-fired Med’m
Basket-fired Choice
Basket-fired Fancy
No 1 Nibs ...:....
Siftings, bulk .....
Siftings, 1 tb. pkgs. 12@14
Gunpowder
Moyune, Medium ..
Moyune, Choice .,
Moyune, Fancy ....
Ping Suey, Medium 25@30
Ping Suey, Choice
Ping Suey, Fancy ..
Young Hyson
Choice

Fancy ee

ea eeeeeees

eet e rere eree

Oolong
Formosa, Medium .. 25@28
Formosa, Choice ., 32@35
Formosa, Fancy ., 50@60

English Breakfast
Medium

Congou, -- 25@30

Congou, Choice .., 30035

Congou, Bancy .... 40@60

Congou, Ex. Fancy 69@80
Ceylon

Pekoe, Medium -- 28@30

Dr. Pekoe, Choice -. 30@35

Flowery O. P. Fancy 40@50

TOBAcco

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Blot .. oe 1 46
Bugle, 16 oz. Seccccee § £6
Bugle, 10c ....//°"" 1 00

~ 1
Dan Patch, 8 and 1
Dan Patch, 4 oz. be
Dan Patch, 2 oz.
Fast Mail, 16 oz,
Hiawatha, 16 Oz.
Hiawatha, 6c cea
May Flower, 16 oz.
No Limit, 8 oz.
Opeimlt, 1G om |.

wa, 8 and 1

Ojibwa’ 10c oie
Ojibwa, 5c Sc ecencca.
Petoskey Chief, 7 oz.
Petoskey oN 14 oz.
and Honey,
Red Bell, 16 oz. isl

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Red Bell, 8 fot!’ ""
Sterling, 1 & D be 76
weet Cuba, canist
Sweet Cuba, Be pai 78
Sweet Cuba, 10c eae 95
Sweet Cuba, 1 th. tin 4 50

Sweet Cuba, % I. foll
Sweet Burley, 5¢ L@D
Sweet Burley, 8 oz. ae
Sweet Burley, 16 oz.
Sweet Mist, % gro. ce
Sweet Mist, 8 oz. ..

Tiger, 25¢ “cans : i ; ee
Uncle Daniel, 1 tm. ..
Uncle Dantel, 1 oz.
Plug
Am. Navy, 16 oz.

_

 
  

Apple, 10 tb. butt .... 36
Drummond Nat. Leaf, 2
and 6 1. 1. - 60
Drummond Nat. Leaf,
PCE dom 96
Battle Ax 32

Bracer, 6 and 12 Pays
Big Four, 6 and 16 fh. 3
Boot Jack, 2 tp. scscee 96
Boot Jack, per doz. .. 96
Ban. 1a Om 46
~iImax Golden Twi
Climax, 14% oz. | a
Cltmax, 7 az | 47
Day’s Work, 7 & 14 th. 38
Creme de Menthe, th. 62
Derby, 5 th. boxes ..., 28

* Bros. 4. 66
Four moses Ife .... 90
Gilt Edges, 2 th. 0

sus 5
Gold Rope, 6 and 12 tT. 58
Gold Rope, 4 and 8 Th. 658
G. O. P., 12 ana 24 th. 40
Granger Twist, 6 wh... 4
G. T. W., 10 and 291 Th. 36
Horse Shoe, 6 and 12 th. 43
Honey Dip Twist, 5
La 10 We 2.
Jolly Tar, 5 and 8 TH. 40
J. T., 5% and 11 th. << 40

Kentucky Navy, 12 tb. 32
Keystone Twist, 6 th. 45
Kismet, 6 Ib 48

Maple Dip, 20 oz. toon Oe
Merry Widow, 12 1. .. 93
Nobby Spun Roll 6 & 8 68
harroe, 14 wo
Patterson’s Nat. Leaf 93
Peachey, 6, 12 & 24 th. 41
Picnic Twist, 5 tb. o. 640
Piper Heldsteck, 4 & 7 1).69
Piper Hetdsieck, per dz. 96
Polo, 3 doz., per doz. 48
Redicut, 1% on ...... 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 th. 43
Standard Navy, 7%, 15
and S01) 2.2... 34
Ten Penny, 6 and 12 th. 35
Town Talk, 14 oz. .... 31
Yankee Girl, 12 & 24 th. 31

Scrap
AM Red, Ge .......... & 46
Am. Union Scrap .... 5 40
Bag Pipe, 5c ....... 5 88
Cutlas, 2% oz. ...... 26

Globe Scrap, 2 oz. ... 30
Happy Thought, 2 oz. 30
Honey Comb Scrap, 5c 5 76
Honest Scrap, 5c ....
Mail Pouch, 4 doz. Se 2 00
Old Songs, 5c ..... ae &
Old Times, % gro. ..5 50
Polar Bear, 5c, % gro. 5 76
Red Band, 5c % gro. 5 76
Red Man Scrap, 5c .. 1 42
Scrapple, 5c pkgs. ... 48
Sure Shot, 5c % gro. 5

Yankee Girl Scrap 2oz. 5 76
Pan Handle Scrp \%gr 5 76
Peachey Scrap, 5c .... 5 76
Union Workman, 3% 6 00

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

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Smoking
All Leaf, 2% & 7 oz. 30
BB, 3% Oz. .......... 6 00
je - 12 uv
A5tS, 10 OR. co cccenees BE OD
Bagdad, ivc tins .... 11 62
Badger, 3 OZ. ........ 5 04
Bateer, 1 G2... 2... 11 2
Sanuner Oe ........-- & 76
Bauer, (OC ........<.. 1 60
Banner, 40C ........s a2
Beiwood, Mixture, 1U0c 94
Big Chief, 2% oz. .. 6 v0
Hig Chief, 16 oz .... 30
buil Vurnam, oc .... 5 8d
Bull Durham, ldc .. 1i 52
bull Durham, l5dc .. 17 28
Bull Durham, 8 oz. .. 3 60
Bull Durham, 16 oz. .. 6 72
Buck Horn, 5c ...... 5 76
Buck Horn, 10c .... 11 52
Briar Pipe, 5c ...... 5 76
Briar Pipe, 10c .... ll 52
Black Swan, bce .... 5 76
Black Swan, 14 oz. .. 3 80
Bob White, 5c ..... - 6 00
Brotherhood, 5c ...... 6 00
Brotherhood, 10c .... 11 10
Brotherhood, 16 oz. 5 05
Carnival, Sc ..... ose © WO
Carnival, 4% 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 oz. .... 2 55
Corn Cake, 7 oz. .... 1 4d
Corn Cake, 6c ....... 5 76
Cream, 50c pails ..... 4 70
Cuban Star, 5c foil . 5 76
Cuban Star, 16 oz. pls 5 72
Chips, 10 .....-...- 10 30
wilis Best, 14g oz. iy
Dills Best, 3% oz. aa
Dills Best, 16 oz. 73
Dicis Kid, Sc ...----- - 48
Duke’s Mixture, 5c .. 5 16
Duke’s Mixture, 10c 11 52
Duke’s Cameo, 5c .... 5 76
rim) SC .....-.- 6: 5 76
yr EF. A. €¢ 02 ....--- 5 ”s
EF. A., 7 oz. - 11 52
Fashion 5c .... /. 00
Fashion, 16 0Z. ...... 28
Five Bros., 5c ....... 5 76
Five Bros., 10c ..... 10 53
Five cent cut Plug .. 29
FO 6 ic ........-- 11 52
Four Roses, 10c .... 96
Full Na 1 OZ: .. ;
lad Hand, 5c .......
Gold Biock; 18¢ .....- 12 00
Gold Star, 50c pail .. 4 60
Gail & Ax Navy, 5c 76
Growler, 5c .......... 42
Growler, 10c ....... ce 94
Growler, 20c ....... . a 85
Giant He .......---.- > se
emt, G0c .....----- 3 72
Hand Made, 2% oz. 50
Hazel Nut, 5c ...... 76
Honey Dew, 10c ....12 00
Hunting, Sc .........- 38
[Xf be ......... 6 10
[xX LL, in palis ...... 3 90
Just Suits, 5c ..... ... 6 00
Just Suits, 10c ...... 12 00
Kiln Dried, 25c ..... 2 45
King Bird, 7 oz. .... 2 16
King Bird, 10c ...... il 52
King Bird, 5c ........ 5 76
la Torka, Sc .....-. 5 76
Little Giant, 1 Ib - 28
Lucky Strike, luc _ 36
te Redo, 3 oz. .....: 10 80
Le Redo, 8 & 16 oz 38
Myrtle Navy, 10c ....11 02
Myrtle Navy, 5c ..... 5 76
Maryland Club, 5c 50
Mayflower, 5c ....... 7
Mayflower, 1l0c ...... 96
Mayflower, 20c ...... 1 y2
Nigger Hair, Sc ..... 6 00
Nigger Hair. 10c ....10 70
Nigger Head, bc .... 5 40
Nigger Head, 10c ... 10 56
Noon Hour, 6c ...... 48
Old Colony, 1-12 gro. 11 5z
Old Mill; Se ....-.... 5 76
Qid Knglish Crve 1%oz. 96
ia Crop, be ........ 5 76
Old Crop, 25c ....... 20
P. S., 8 oz. 30 Ib. cs. 19
P. §., 3 0z., per gro. 5 70
Pat Hand, 1 oz. ...... 63
Patterson Seal, 1% oz. 48
Patterson Seal, 3 oz. .. 96
Patterson Seal, 16 oz. 5 00
Peerless, 5¢ ........ 76
Peerless, 10c¢ cloth ..11 52
Peerless, 10c paper ..10 80
Peerless, 20c ........ 2 04
Peerless, 40c ........ 4 08
Plaza, 2 gro. case ....5 76
Plow Boy, 5c ....... 5 76
Plow Boy, 10c ...... 11 40
Plow Boy, 14 oz. 4 70
Pedro, We ..... 42. 11 93
Pride of Virginia, 1% aT
PAO, BE 226k. 5 76
Pilot, 14 oz. doz. ..:.. 2 10
Prince Albert, 5c .... 48
Prince Albert, 10c .... 96
Prince Albert, 8 oz. .. 3 84
Prince Albert, 16 oz. .. 7 44

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Queen Quality, 5c ....
Rob Roy, 5c foil .. 5
Rob Roy, 10c gross ..10
Rob Roy, 25e doz. .... 2
pee doz. .... 4
S. & M., 14 oz., doz. ..3
Soldier Boy, 5c gross 5
Soldier Boy, 10c .... 10
Pilot, 7 of. doz. ..... 4
Soldier Boy, 1 th. .... 4
Sweet Caporal, 1 oz.
Sweet Lotus, 5c ....
Sweet Lotus, 10c ...11
Sweet Lotus, per doz. 4
Sweet Rose, 2% oz. ..
Sweet Tip Top, ic ..
Sweet Tip Top, 10c .. 1
Sweet Tips, ™% gro...10
Sun Cured, 10c .......
Summer Time, 5c . 5
Summer Time, 7 oz... 1
Summer Time, 14 oz. 3
Standard, 5c foil :

SC 2TOss .... 5 7

 

Standard. 10c paper #4
Seal N. C. 1% cut plug 70
Seal N. C. 1% Gran... 63
Three Feathers, 1 oz. 48
Three Feathers, 10c 11 52
Three Feathers and

Pipe combination .. 2 25
Tom & Jerry, 14 oz. 3 60
Tom & Jerry, 7 oz. ..1 80
Tom & Jerry, 3 oz. .. i6
Trout Line, 5e ..... 5 90
Trout Line, i0c ..:.. 11 00
Yurkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 76
Tuxedo, 1 oz hags 48
Tuxedo, 2 oz. tins ... 96
Tuxeao, 20c .........
Tuxedo, 80c tins
War Path, 5e
War Path, 20c
Wave Line, 3 oz. . 40
Wave Line, 16 oz. . 40
Way up, 2% oz. .... 5 75
Way up, 16 oz. pails .. 31
Wild Wrult, Se... 5... 5 a6
Wild Fruit, ifc ...... 11 52
Waim Wom, 5c ..-....-. 5 7
Wam Yom. We .....: 11 52
Yum Yum, 1 th. doz. 4 80

TWINE
Catton 3 ply .....-+... 22
Cotten 4 ply oo... 36... 22
Jute, 2 ply. 20. ce. e. 14
Hemp, 6 piv .....---- 13
Flax, medium ....... 24
3Vool, 1 tT. 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 picklg 10

Packages free.

WICKING
No. 0, per 2ross ...... 35
No. 1, per eress .... 45
No. 2, per BYOSS .... 55
No. 3, per Bross .... 80
WOODENWARE
Baskets
Bushes ............. 00

1
Bushels, wide band .. 1
Market
Splint, large
Splint, medium ...... 3
Splint, small .....

—. 6
Willow, Clothes, large 8 00

ee peice ce 40
poe ee see 4 09

Willow, Clothes, small 6 25
Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 25

Butter Plates

Ovals
% T'b., 250 in crate .... 35
% h., 250 in crate .... 35
1 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 40
2 ib., 250 In crate ...... 50
3 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 70
5 Th., 250 in crate ...... 90
Wire End
1 ib., 250 in crate ...... 35
2 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 45
3 tb., 250 in crate ...... 55
> ib, 20 in crate .._. |. 65
Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 4¢
Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2 55
Clothes Pins
Round Head
4% inch, 5 gross ..... 60
Cartons, 20 2% 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
Beis: 238. sesseeess 2 SD
Case, medium, 12 sets 1 15
Faucets
Cork lined, 3 in. ...... 70
Cork lined, 9 in. .... 80
Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90

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Mop Sticks
. Trojan spring ........ 90
Eclipse patent spring 85
No. 1 common ........ 80
No. 2, pat. brush holder 85
Ideal No. 7 02. w« 8D
12%. cotton mop heads 1 30
Palis
10 qt. Galvanized - 2 00
12 qt. Galvanized .... 2 25
14 qt. Galvanized .... 2 50
Pibre 2 40
Toothpicks

Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00

Traps

Mouse, wood, 2 holes ,, 22
Mouse, wood 4 holes :
10 qt. Galvanized ....
12 qt. Galvanized ....
14 qt. Galvanized .... :
Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70

bth pee ©
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Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65
Rat wood ...... Sse BD
Rat, spring |... (|: 75
Tubs
No. 1 Fibre ........ | 16 50
No. 2 Mibre ..... ----15 00
No. 3 Fibre .... 2. 13 50
Large Galvanized .... 7 50
Medium Galvanized .. 6 50
Small Galvanized .... 5 50
Washboards

Banner, Globe ........ 3 00
Brass, Single ...... 25
Glass, Single ....

Single Acme

.

C109 09 me 69
a
°

     

Double Peerless ...., 75
Single Peerless ...... 4 00
Northern Queen .... 450
Double Duplex ...... 3 75
Good Enough ....... 4 00
Universal’ ....... 35: -. 400
Window Cleaners
2 im cons 265
ae i sees 2 (8D
96 im 2 2 30
Wood Bowls
13 in. Butter ..:...... 1 7
15 in. Butter ........ 2 50
447 im. Butter _.. 2... 4 75
19 in. Butter ......... 7 50
WRAPPING PAPER
Common Straw ...... 2
Fibre Manila, white .. 3
Fibre Manila, colored 4
No. 1 Manila Pees =
Cream Manila ... 3
Butchers’ Manila .. 2%

Wax Butter, short ent 10
Wax Butter, full e’nt 15
Wax Butter, rolls ... 12

YEAST CAKE

Magic, 3 doz. ....... 15
Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00
Sunlight, 1% doz. .... 50

Yeast Foam, 3 doz. ..
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85

AXLE GREASE

 

1 ™. boxes, per gross 8 70
3 Ib. boxes, per gross 23 10

TELFER’S kes COFFEE

ISA
Jamo, 1 tb. tin ...:..381
Hiden, 1 1b. tin .....)-- 27

Belle Isle, 1 Ib. pkg. 27
Bismarck, 1 th. pkg. 24

Vera, 1 ib: pke. .2. .. 23
Koran, 1 th. pkg. .... 22
Telfer’s Quality 25 .. 19
Miosan 20... screcs OS
Quality, 20 ...... cece (6
W. J. G. Vea. .... 37

Cherry Blossom Tea 37
Telfer’s Ceylon .... 40

15

16

November 17, 1915

17

 

BAKING POWDER
K. C.

Doz.
10 oz., 4 doz. in case 85
16 oz. 4 doz. in case 1 25
20 oz., 3 doz. in case 1 60
25 oz., 4 doz. in case 2 00
50 oz., 2 doz. plain top 4 00
50 oz. 2 doz screw top 4 20
80 oz., 1 doz. plain top 6 50

80 oz., 1 doz. screw top 6 75

Barrel Deal No. 2
8 er: each 10, 15 and

Barrel Deal No.
6 doz. each, 10, 15 and
25 oz.

4 doz. each, 10, 15 and

OZ) oes... o+e---16 40

With 2 doz 10

jobbing point.
barrels

barrels sold fF. O. B. Chi-
cago.

Royal

 

CIGARS

Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand
Dutch Masters Club 70 09
70 00
Dutch Masters, Pan. 70 00
Dutch Master Grande 68 00

Dutch Masters, Inv.

Little Dutch Masters
(300 lots) ..... cee

Gee Jay (300 lots)

El Portana ...

Ss CW. |.

eeeccce

Canadian Club

Londres, 50s, wood - 35

Londres, 25s tins ......35

Londres, 300 lots ...... 10
COFFEE

OLD MASTER COFFEE

  

Old Master Coffee
San Marto Coffee .....

25 oz. 32 80
With 4 dozen 10 oz. free
2

Sees wcecee. et 60
With 3 dozen 10 oz. free
Half-Barrel Deal No. 3

oz. free
All cages sold F. O. B.

and _half-

1@c size .. 90
%D cans 1 35
6 oz cans 1 90
%lb cans 2 50
%Ib cans 3 75
1tb cans 4 80
3Ib cans 13 00
5Ib cans 21 50

10 00
--10 90
00

sec ese ---32 00

Worden Grocer Co. Brands

ce OL

Roasted
Dwinnell-Wright Brands

 

White House, 1 fh. .......
White House, 2 th. .......
Excelsior, Blend, 1 tb.
Excelsior, Blend, 2 tb.
Tip Top Bland, 1 tb.
Royal Blend Peee secu,
Royal High Grade
Superior Blend Ce sie es ecco s
Boston Combination .....

Distributed by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
Lee & Cady, Detroit; Lee
& Cady, Kalamazoo; Lee
& Cady, Saginaw; Bay
City Grocer Company,
City; Brown, Davis &
Warner, Jackson; Gods-
mark, Durand & Co., Bat-
tle Creek; Fielbach Co.,
Toledo.

 

Royal Garden Tea, pkgs. 40
THE BOUR CoO..
TOLEDO, OHIO.

SOAP
Lautz Bros.’

Acme, 70 bars ...... 3 05
Acme, 100 cakes, 5c sz 3 75
Acorn, 120 cakes .... 2 40
Cotton Oil, 100 cakes 6 00
Cream Borax, 100 cks 3 90
Circus, 100 cakes 5c sz 3 75
Climax, 100 oval cakeg 3 05
Gloss, 100 cakes, 5c sz 3 75
Big Master, 100 blocks 3 90
Naphtha, 100 cakes .. 3 90
Saratoga, 120 cakes .. 2 40

& Co.

FITZPATRICK BROTHERS’ SOAP CHIPS

White City (Dish Washing) ..............
Tip Top (Caustic)........... ce Vee ee eg culc..
No. 1 Laundry Dry.......

Palm Pure Soap Dry.......

Proctor & Gamble Co.

HenOx oo -. 8 20
Evory, 60%. 0.5.12: 4 00
Lvory, 10702: 2.055.003 6 75
Star 2. Pees 8 So
Swift & Company
Swift’s Pride ..... eo. 2 85
White Laundry ..... - 3 50
Wool, 6 oz. bars ...., 3 85
Wool, 10 oz. bars .... 6 50

Tradesman Co.’s Brand

Black Hawk, one box 2 50
Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25

A. B. Wrisley

Good Cheer ......... 4 00
Old Country ........ -. 240
Scouring
Sapolio, gross lots .. 9 50
Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85
Sapolio, ‘single boxes 2 40
Sapolio, hand 2 40

Scourine, 50 cakes || 1 80

Scourine, 100 cakes .. 3 50.

Soap Compounds

Johnson’s Fine, 48 2 3 25
Johnson’s XXX 100 Be 4 00

Rub-No-More ...... 3 85
Nine O’Clock ........ 3 50
Washing Powders
Armour's 25.5). 000), 3 70
Babbittis 1776 ....... 3 Ta

Gold Dust, 24 large .. 4 30
Gold Dust, 100 small 3 s5
Kirkoline, 24 4m. ... 2 80
Lautz Naphtha, 60s .. 2
Lautz Naphtha, 100s 3
Pearline ....... cece. oo 40
Roseine 3
Snow Boy, 60 5¢ .... 2 40
Snow Boy, 100 Se .... 3 75

Snow Boy, 24 pkgs.
Family Size ........ 8 75

Snow Boy, 20 pkgs.
Laundry Size ...... 4 00

Swift’s Pride, 24s .... 3 65
Swift’s Pride, 100s .. 3 65
Wisdom ......0...... $8 $80

The only

5c

Cleanser
Guseorees te
bent ih ts

80 - CANS - $2.90

 

BBLS.
+seee..eeee210 Ibs......8¢ per Ib.

.-250 lbs......4¢ per Ib.

Poteet tees eee eee eeeeceeeee 220 Ibs......5Mc per lb.
ee ttt eeseeeeeessee+..300 Ibs......6Mc per lb

 

A Partial List of Authorized Bottlers:

GISTERED

FOOTE GJENKS’ Killarney (reaster

(CONTAINS NO CAPSICUM)

An Agreeable Beverage of the CORRECT Belfast Type.
Supplied to Dealers, Hotels, Clubs and Families in Bottles Having
Registered Trade-Mark Crowns

A. L. JOYCE & SON, Grand Rapids and Traverse City, Mich.;
KALAMAZOO BOTTLING CO., Kalamazoo, Mich.; KILLARNEY BOTTLING CO., Jackson, Mich.

) Ginger Ale

 

 

 

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when you want a job of printing—ideas, possibly, or suggestions for
them; a plan as likely as possible to be the best, because compris -
ing the latest and the best; an execution of the plan as you want it
This is the service that we talk about but
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Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents a word the first
aT tei ASAE me ie et to

  

BUSINESS CHANCES.
Wanted—Any good manufacturer’s line
to sell in Western Montana, Idaho and
Washington or in British Columbia and
Alberta. Must be the right goods and
at bottom price. References given. W.
F. Paxton, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
628

 

 

 

For Sale—Clean stock merchandise
about $3,000. Groceries, shoes, staple dry
goods, in said country town. Sacrifice
for quick sale. No sales people need
answer. Would take good residence prop-
erty up to $1,800 to $2,000. Address
Owner, care Michigan Tradesman. 629

For Sale—My patent for improved ro-
tary drill and improved bench drill,
patent number 1,156,001. Will bear strict
investigation. For further information
address K. K. Feinaigle, Creighton, Ne-
braska. 614

 

continuous insertion.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

BUSINESS-WANTS

Must Be Sold At
and fixtures.
dry goods and a fine stock of groceries.
This store is in a fine location and am

Once—Store_ stock
We have a small line of

selling $12,000 per year. Between $1,500
and $2,000 will take this business. If
you are interested write us. Reason for
selling going into produce business
Nearly all cash business. Come and see.
Dillon Bros., New Lothrop, Mich. 592
Meat Market—We have a fine new
store for rent; 300 families and twenty-
five new homes building; no competi-
tion. this is a rare opportunity to
start in a new district. Address Villa
Park Consumers Co., Elmhurst, Illinois.

Saw Mill For Sale—Consisting of
rotary and band resaw, two planers and
various other machinery. Address Lock
Box 17, Mattoon, Wisconsin. 610

 

For Sale—Restaurant, lunch room and
cigar store in connection; eight-room
flat furnished above store. Busy factory
town. Established two years. One-half
block from depot. 3ig stock. Reason-
able offer will sell. Owner going west.
Princess Restaurant, Three Oaks, Mich-
igan. 615

For Sale—Grocery and meat market in
town about 1,000. Am doing about $18,-
000 annually. Best location in the town.
Reason for selling I am_ going away.
Price $2,000 cash. C. W. Freer, Box 11,
Galesburg, Michigan. 616

$5,800 buys modern meat market. High
class trade of $120 day. Established 20
years. If you are looking for a business
that will pay instant returns on invest-
ment, here it is. Address D. C. Flint,
tirard, Kansas. 617

To Exchange—160 acres heavy virgin
timber, birch, maple, hemlock, ash, elm,
etc., near railroad in Northern Wiscon-
sin, for good stock, hardware preferred.
Address No. 618, care Michigan Trades-
man.

Gasoline Light Plant for sale cheap.
We have just put in electric lights and
will sell our gasoline light plant. Good
condition. 13 lights. 10 gallon tank.
Hollow wire to generator and pipes from
there to burners. Cost $125, will sell to
first bidder for $50. Claude H. Shettel
Co., Middlebury, Indiana.

Opportunity—To make good money for
man with some capital and lots of »ush,
to. market an article in daily demand.
Address P. D. Keim, Kalamazoo, Mich-
igan. 620

For Sale—In Florida, 15 acres land all
cleared and fenced, 6 acres set to orange
and grape fruit trees one year old. First-
class residence and store building. Store
doing nice business. Located near rail-
road station, church and school. We
have several other splendid orange groves
for sale in this same part of Florida.
Send for full particulars. Address, The
American Realty Co., Scranton, as

We buy and sell all kinds of real estate
and business. propositions, no matter
where located. Let us handle yours.
Templeton & Alspaugh, Canton, oe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Sale—General stock of - merchan-
dise at Collins, Montana. Business has
been profitable. This point draws trade
from large surrounding country. If in-
terested, apply to B. J. Boorman, Great
Falls, Montana. 624
~ For Sale—Stock of hardware, this city,
old established trade. Store well located,

low rent. Inventory about $5,500. <A
bargain. Templeton & Alsbaugh, Can-
ton, Ohio. 623

 

For Sale—Good clean up-to-date small
stock of dry goods, shoes, ladies’. coats
and house dresses, men’s hats, caps and
furnishings; 4 maple counters, 2 floor
cases, 1 wax head cloak form, 1 dressing

mirror, 1 oval top umbrella case and
other fixtures. No _ trades. Glenan &
Co., Kalkaska, Michigan. 625

 

Wanted To Buy—Good clean stock of
drugs, and store fixtures. Must be_bar-
gain. Address N. J. Weeks, 507 Clinton
St., Kalamazoo, Michigan. 626

For Sale—Millinery stock and fixtures;
clean stock; price right; one other in
town. Address Lock Box 21, Jonesville,
Michigan. 627

For Sale—House and lot. Also candy
and cigar store doing good business; will
Sacrifice same on account of health;
worth while investigating. Ed. C. Lem-
erand, Monroe, Michigan. . 516

For Rent—Building at 949 Cherry St.
A-1 place for meat market. Next to
Maloney’s grocery. Enquire G. Heyt,
949 Cherry St., Grand Rapids, pane

 

For Sale—At a bargain including meat
market outfit, .McRea_ cooler, blocks,
counters, etc. Address B. E. Rine,
Economy Market, Petoskey, Mich 605

 

 

For Sale—Established business in im-
plements, wagons, buggies, fruit pack-
ages, cooperage, coal yard, my own
buildings and home at Millburg, Berrien
county, six miles east of Benton Harbor,
on interurban. Will sell cheap for cash
or exchange for a good stock or grain
farm. For particulars, write owner,
Will Kitron, Benton Harbor, R. EF D..
Michigan 600

For Sale—An established business of
gents’ furnishings shoes and tailoring in
the best location in the city of Detroit.
Stock will inventory about $4,500 or
$5,000. Will sell at 100c on dollar. Lease
and good will goes with it. This is spot
cash, no trade. <A chance for somebody.
Reason ‘for selling, other business. Ad-
dress No. 588, care Tradesman. 588

For Sale—Most modern up-to-date
grocery in San Diego, Calif. Closest in
grocery, center shopping district. Low
rent, long lease. Invoice about $4,000.
Owner compelled to leave city. Address
Owner, P. O. Box 193, San Diego,
California. 590

For Sale—Drug and grocery store in
thriving northern railroad village of 500.
Only drug store in seven miles in good
farming region in center of resort coun-
try. Address No. 594, care oo

59

 

 

 

Tradesman.

A Real Dairy—In a live town of 10,000,
Manhattan, the home of the Kansas

 

 

 

State Agricultural College; are doing
good business, with bright prospects.
Address Abbott & Son, Manhattan,
Kansas. 595
Hotel De Haas, recently thoroughly

remodeled, a thirty-five room brick hotel,
fifteen other rooms available, on main
corner in Fremont, a live growing town
of 2,500 in the fruit belt of Western
Michigan; this is a money maker, as it
is the only first-class hotel here; cost
$30,000; will sell for $17,000; easy terms;
will net rent; reason, age. No _ license
and four sub-rentals. Address Dr. N.
De Haas, Fremont, Michigan. 597
Drug Store For Sale—Stock and fix-
tures, $1,800. No other pharmacist. L
Gordon, Vermont, Illinois. 598

For Sale—Or might exchange for real
estate in city if location suited, $9,000
stock of clothing, shoes and furnishings;
old_established business clean and up-
to-date, in one of Michigan’s best towns
of about 1,500. Easy terms or can re-
duce stock to accommodate purchaser.
Address No. €@1, care Michigan Trades-
man. 601

% to % of your stock turned to cash
in a ten day selling campaign—not the
best but the worst will go by our system.
Prominent merchants will back our as-
sertion. Merchants National Service Co.,
National City Bank Building, Mee

 

 

 

 

Wanted—To hear from owner of good
mercantile stock for sale. Box 1735,
Houston, Texas. 608

For Sale—Good clean hardware stock

 

doing good _ business. Invoice about
$4,000. Address No. 609, care Trades-
man. 609

 

For Sale—Two meat markets located
at 112 Michigan street and one at the
corner of Walker and Garfield avenues.
Good locations and doing fine business.
I have three markets and since the
death of my brother have not been able
to take care of all. One requires all my
time. Address Walter Thomasma, 400
Leonard St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 560

Will axchange Farm for. General
Stock—65-acre fruit farm and summer
resort property, located on a_ beautiful
Northern Michigan lake. New seven room
house. Will exchange for general stock
or any good mercantile line. Address
No. 585, care Michigan Tradesman. 585

A Light Manufacturing Business For
Sale—On investment of $1,000 you can
make $2,500 annually; stock and machin-
ery inventories more than I will sell it
for. Nicol, 426 Hammond Bldg., oe

 

 

For Sale—Shoe,

c ; feed, seed, grocery
business on Highth street 39 years. Only
feed store, town 3,000; double stores,

steam, electric; reason for selling old age.
Rent reasonable. Philip Stockinger,
Bremen, Indiana. 577
For Sale—Meat market; the best little
market in the city, right down town; the
best of fixtures; good reason for selling;
write for information. P. O. Box
Battle Creek, Michigan. 581
For Sale—Complete furnishing of Bay-
port Hotel with well established business.
Right price to right party. Apply D. E.
Johnston, Prop., Bayport, Mich. 570
For Sale—Clean, up-to-date stock of
dry goods and groceries, in good town
with electric lights and water works,
good farm trade. Box 342, Saranac,
Michigan. 576

I pay cash for stocks or part stocks
of merchandise. Must be cheap. H.
Buyer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 925
Safes Opened—W. I.. Slocum, safe ex-
pert and locksmith. 1 Ionia Ave. N. W..;
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 04
Hardware For Sale—About $5,000 stock
and fixtures in a town of 1,500 population,
Central Michigan. Annual business
$20,000 to $22,000 per year. Stock clean,
location best. Furniture and _ fixtures
about $700. Enquire W. C. Hopson Co.,
220 Ellsworth Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich-
igan. 569
For Sale—Long_ established general
merchandise business in village surround-
ed by fine farms. Money making loca-
tion. Long time lease. Good reasons.
W. F. Beatty, New Lothrop, Mich. 582
For Sale—Clean stock general

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mer-
chandise in one of best towns 800 popu-
lation Central Michigan; finest
around. Will reduce stock to $2,000 or
$2,500, and sell stock and fixtures at in-
ventory, One-half down, balance on con-
tract. Address No. 583, care Tradesman.
Move your dead stock. For closing out
or reducing stocks, get in touch with
us. Merchant’s Auction Co., Reedsburg,
Wisconsin. 963

 

 

Shoes—We are stock buyers of all kinds
of shoes, large or small, parts of or any
kind of merchandise. Largest prices
paid. Write at once. Perry Mercantile
Co., 524 Gratiot avenue, Detroit, Michigan.

517

For Sale By Owner—Seven thousand
acres of fertile land in the Mississippi
Valley, Craighead county, Arkansas. Part
in cultivation, part cutover and part in
virgin timber, not subject to overflow and
well drained with natural drainage and
canal. Fourteen miles from town of fif-
teen thousand people. Four, miles to
Cotton Belt railroad, four miles to Frisco,
nine hours run to St. Louis and Kansas
City and four hours to Memphis. Stand-
ard gauge logging road through the
center of the tract. Will sell land and
timber but prefer to sell land only. Will
put balance of land in cultivation. Will
sell this proposition as a whole or in
blecks to suit with land cleared ready for
the plow, properly fenced and _ suitable
houses. This proposition will net better
than 10 per cent. on the investment and
will bear a strict investigation. L. <A.
Goodrich, Box 597, Jonesboro, Ark. 508

Fruitbelt Farms at bargain prices.
Catalogue or $50 selling proposition free
Pardee, Traverse City, Michigan. 543

To Exchange By Owner—320 acres fine
wheat ranch, cultivated, Southern Idaho.
Price $12,800, for general merchandise.
Address, Box 438, Aberdeen, Idaho. 562

 

 

country.

31

DEPARTMEN

insertion and one cent a word for each STU ae ita a
Cash must accompany all orders.

 

Business Opportunity—Wanted, a re-
sponsible firm or individual, experienced
in the grain business to establish and
operate a second elevator in a live town
in the center of the best agricultural
district in this State. Located on the
T. S. & M. Branch of the Grand Trunk
Railway. No better opening in the State
for a responsible dealer with available
capital. Local capital can be secured if
desired. For particulars call on or ad-
dress the Farmers & Merchants State
3ank, Carson City Michigan. 572

 

 

 

Merchandise Sales Conductor. For clos-
ing out entirely or reducing stocks, get
Flo Dexter, Michigan. 18
Auctioneer: Merchandise and real es-
tate auctioneering is my specialty. Mag-
nus Wangen, Hartland, Minn. 453
Merchants Please Take Notice! We
have clients of grocery stocks, general
stocks, dry goods stocks, hardware stocks,
drug stocks. We have on our list also a
few good farms to exchange for such
stocks. Also city property. If you wish
to sell or exchange your business write
us. G. R. Business Exchange, 548 House-
man Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. 859

   

To Trade—A farm for a stock of mere
chandise. Address Phillip Lippert, Stan-
ton, Michigan. 510

Stocks Wanted—If you are desirous of
selling your stock, tell me about it. 1
may be able to dispose of it quickly.
My service free to both buyer and seller.
EB. Kruisenga, 44-54 Ellsworth Ave.,
Grand Rapids. Michigan. 870

 

 

FACTORIES WANTED—Carson City,
Michigan, wants factories; large or
small. Located on the G. T. Railway
System. in the center of the best agri-
cultural district in the State. Offers
additional capital for stock in estab-
lished enterprises that can Stand in-
vestigation, also free factory sites. Plen-
ty of labor, aiso undeveloped water
power. Come and investigate. Address
Chester R. Culver, Secretary Town and
Country Improvement Association. 391

POSITION WANTED.

Position Wanted—Middle aged man
with many years of mercantile experi-
ence desires a position as manager of
general store. Capable of handling every
detail of business. Address No. 373, care
Michigan Tradesman 373

HELP WANTED.

Wanted—At once capable, honest and
energetic young man with good knowl-
edge of the business to manage carpet
and drapery department. Send recom-
mendations. Apply to the Mills Dry
Goods Company, Lansing, Mich. 606

 

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32

THE NOTE TO ENGLAND.

Chief Justice Taney once declared,
for Lincoln’s information, that under
the Constitution the President could
not suspend the privilege of the writ
of habeaus corpus. President Lin-
coln, however, felt that since the basic
structure on which the Constitution
rested was in peril, certain of the priv-
ileges it guarantees might have to
be sacrificed. He wrote, “Are all laws
but one to go unexecuted and the
Government itself to go to pieces
lest that one be violated?”

Something like this condition con-
fronts our State Department in the
matter of its recent note to Great
Britain. The fact is, Germany start-
ed this war by violating vital restric-
tions placed upon her by the law of na-
tions and the laws of humanity, and
she has never hesitated to override
the rights thereby guaranteed when.
by so doing, she seemed to be serv-
ing her immediate interests. Should
Germany win, peoples engaged in fu-
ture wars may not safely assume that
obligations of international law will
be respected. Conventions may meet,
as did those at Geneva, at Paris, or
The Hague, but the justified fear will
remain that when the clash comes
that side will win which is the quick-
est to disregard the treaties previous-
ly made. Germany’s success would
convert the foundation of the house
in which international law resides in-
to quicksand, at least in war times.
when stability is peculiarly needed.

On the other hand, the Allied peo-
ples are dying, by the hundred thou-
sands, that the law of nations may
live. They are, to pursue our figure,
spending billions to strengthen the
foundations of its dwelling place.
When the Constitntion itself was in
Lincoln did not hesitate to
suspend some of the rights it guaran-
teed to preserve the instrument as a
whole. When Germany is trying to
dynamite the abode of international
good morals, we should not be too
severe on Great Britain, which is try-
ing to save the structure, if she re-
arranges some of the furniture to our
present inconvenience. Our State
Department should not assume to-
wards the Court of St. James the at-
titude of a lawyer sacrificing no points
lest he diminish his client’s chances
for the ultimate collection of large
damages. By such a course, we may
increase our opportunity for future
profits, but injure our National self-
respect. For years to come we
should find in books, in Magazines, in
most unexpected places, references to
the narrowness of our Americanism
in the face of great world problems,
all of which would sting us to the
quick and weaken our pride in the
greatest of all our possessions—the
fact that we have been born American
citizens.

danger,

No, let us rather deal with London
in these matters now in controversy
as would a judge who is great enough
to find in the books sufficient pre-
cedents to decide the case before him
in accordance with the principles of
humanity, sound reason, and eternal
justice. For it is more important to
preserve the law of nations than any

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

one of the laws of nations, and the
present is no time to lay unnecessary
burdens upon those who are engaged
in this fundamental task.

If these principles be correct, our
State Department has not started
out any too well. For instance, Sec-
retary Lansing tells Sir Edward Grey
that England’s blockade is “indefensi-
ble.” Yet he has not heard the other
side and cannot be certain what de-
fence may be raised. Lawyers who
think their opponents have no case
and no defence often find the defence
against them strong enough to throw
them when they finally get into court.
Besides, it is quite clear that there
are several excellent defences, both
for the blockade and the embargo,
not in form, but of substance, such
as raise considerations never before
adjudicated. It is not judicious to
prejudge a case before the other side
has been heard. We are certainly
not acting in the broader spirit for
which this communication contends
by using such language and such tone.

——_—_>--.—___
Status of the Bean Market.

The speculative element seems to
be very friendly to the bean market,
while the demand from the general
trade is very quiet. The price of
beans at times has been higher here
in Michigan than in most of the out-
side markets.

Secretary of State Vaughan re-
ports an estimate of three and one-
half million bushels of beans in Mich-
igan this year, against four and one-
half million last season, with an av-
erage yield of nine bushels to the
acre, against sixteen bushels to the
acre in 1914.

With the lack of export demand
this year and the curtailed consump-
tion by the high price, it would seem
that we have plenty of beans to go
around—and there will be some left
at the end of the season.

The price has reached a point where
it is impossible for the canning in-
dustry to pack these beans in tin cans
and sell them at a profit. They are
not offering them generally to the
trade to-day through their salesmen.

A great deal of interest has been
shown the past week in red kidney
beans, owing to the Cuban order,
which was placed in New York, but
this order has been filled and without
a question some of the red kidney
beans which have been purchased
from the farmers at the high price
will be sold at a loss in the near
future.

Beans are food for the middle and
lower classes. On the basis of to-
day’s market a bushel of beans at
Oklahoma City is costing the con-
sumer as much as a barrel of flour,
four times as much as a bushel of
potatoes; and a pound of beans fills
about even with a pound of beef
steak.

I make these comparisons that you
may understand the reason why beans
are not purchased more freely by the
housewives who figure on the cost of
living and not the kind of food she
feeds her family.

Ernest L. Wellman.
—_s___

Never hit a man when he’s got you

down.

Late News of Interest to Travelers.

Norman Hazeltine, who has been
connected with the Hirth-Krause Co.
for the past five years, one-half of
the time in the house and one-half
of the time on the road as traveling
representative in Southern and Cen-
tral Michigan, was married yesterday
to Miss Irma Flanagan. The cere-
mony took place at the residence of
the bride’s mother, 322 Paris avenue.
Among those from outside who were
present at the wedding were the
father and mother of the groom from
Boston and Mrs. Hodges, the groom’s
aunt, from New York. Mr. Hazel-
tine is unusually successful in his
chosen occupation and merits the
congratulations of his friends, his
house and his customers in his new

alliance.

The Cushman House, under the
present management charges. the
traveling salesman who has a guest
75 cents for an extra meal. If he
requests to be checked out while
he is registered at the house, he is
credited with only 50 cents. What is
sauce for the goose is evidently not
sauce for the gander.

The Wildermuth House, Owosso,
now closes its dining room at 8:30 in
the morning and no one can obtain
breakfast after that hour. If a trav-
eling salesman happens to arrive in
Owosso late at night and wishes to
sleep a little late in the morning to
make up for lost time, he cannot get
breakfast after 8:30 at the Wilder-
muth. The breakfast is charged to
him, however, whether he is permit-
ted to eat it or not.

The territory formerly covered by
Frank M. Gardner for the Hirth-
Krause Co. has been divided between
F. M. Brock, of Ionia, and C. W.
Hawkins, Brock taking the northern
half and Hawkins the southern por-
tion,

A Manistee correspondent writes:
’. W. Timmerman, who has for the
past two and a half years been em-
ployed as mail carrier from the local
post office, has resigned and accepted
a position as traveling salesman for
McLean, Black & Co., of Boston,
Mass. He has gone to Detroit to
take up his new work, but will con-
tinue to have his home in Manistee.

A petition has been filed asking for
a receiver for the Whitcomb Hotel,
St. Joseph. The Whitcomb is one of
the best known hotels of east coast
of Lake Michigan and the petition
comes as considerable surprise. It is
said that assets are amply sufficient
to cover all indebtedness.

—~2+2 +___

Late Michigan Banking News.

The Grand Haven State Bank has
filed a suit for recovery against Joseph
Kendzior and Pauline Kendzior for
several hundred dollars transferred
them in a loan secured by a mort-
gage on a certain described farm in
Robinson township said to have been
worth $8,000. It appears that in
March, 1914 the couple came to the
Bank and executed a promissory note
for $800 secured by mortgage on the
farm. They gave the names of Joseph
and Pauline Kendzior, transacting all
additional business at the time in
due form. In October, 1915 the same

November 17, 1915

couple returned and executed a note
and mortgage for $1,200 upon a cer-
tain described farm in Robinson
township under the names of Frank
and Anna Kedzior. The reference to
the county records showed that a
transfer of the property named in the
first mortgage had been made to
Frank and Anna Kedzior for a con-
sideration of $8,000 by deed made and
executed in Chicago. Frank and Anna
Kedzior are said to have drawn $600
of the loan and $600 was placed on
deposit, not as yet having been
drawn. The Bank charges the couple
with having made the transfer for th»
purpose of defrauding the plaintiff.

Robbers wrecked the safe in the
Columbiaville State Bank last Thurs-
day night, securing $4,000 in cash and
made their escape. A heavy rain ob-
literated all tracks that might have
given a clue as to the manner and
direction of their departure and
sheriff's officers are baffled. Only
one person heard the explosion, which
shattered the vault and wrecked the
bank building. Mrs. Joseph Lambert,
who lives across the street from the
Bank, was aroused by the report and
came to the door only to be met by
a masked man who threatened her
with a revolver and ordered her back
into the house. As soon as she had
recovered from her fright, she noti-
fied, D. H. Butler, Cashier of the
Bank, who, in turn, reported the rob-
bery to Sheriff Carrigan, at Lapeer.
Practically all cash on hand at the
Bank was taken and the officers were
compelled to seek assistance from a
Lapeer bank for funds with which to
transact business the next day. None
of the papers in the vault were touch-
ed so far as could be learned.

— 7+ >___
Liguidating Parsons & Holt, of St.
Charles.

Saginaw, Nov .16—Upon the death
of the late Mr. Parsons who was one
of the partners of Parsons & Holt,
St. Charles, I was appointed adminis-
trator of his estate. :
Upon looking closely into the af-
fairs of the store, I was of the opin-
ion that there was sufficient assets
with which to meet its liabilities. The
surviving partner, Mr. Holt, has been
in ill health for a long time and has
not been able to give the business

the attention that it needed.

Fearing that their affairs might be-
come badly involved, I called a meet-
ing of a majority of the creditors in
amount, consisting of Symons Bros.
& Co. and the National Grocer Co.,
of this city, and the John V. Farwell
Co., of -Chicago. At the meeting it
was deemed advisable for Mr. Holt
to retire from the management and
for an independent manager to he
appointed. We secured Mr. Holt’s
consent to this plan and are now
working under this agreement.

The duties of the new manager are
to turn the stock into cash and col-
lect the accounts due the store as
expeditiously as possible, and under
the agreement he is to make a pro-
rata distribution among all the cred-
itors once a month, and the current
bills must be paid in cash.

_ The appraisors’ inventory showed a
little over $12,000 of merchandise and
$5.000 of good accounts, against lia-
bilities of $8,200.

Henry T. Robinson, Admin.

SITUATIONS WANTED.

Wanted a Position—As clerk, any kind.
Three years experience in candy and
tobacco store, or would like to learn good
trade. Can give best of references, Lee

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Christmas Confections

The trade will soon be thinking in terms
of holiday candies and sweets. There is no
article sold in the grocery store which forms
the basis of so many different kinds of confec-
tion as pop corn.

“LITTLE BUSTER”

comes in 16 full ounce package, four ounces
heavier than its nearest competitor. The
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Induces Other Sales

“LITTLE BUSTER” will not only sell
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Announcement
Extraordinary

Buyers who know the ragged and broken state of
Holiday lines in general will read this announcement with
amazed relief.

We enter the final thirty days of the
1915 season with a selection of Holiday
Goods more complete than in any former
year---95 per cent as great as at the
height of the showing sixty days ago.

The enormous quantities of Imported Toys, Dolls,
China and Fancy Goods which have been flowing in to us
trom Rotterdam during recent weeks, have fortified our
lines in the only places at which they had begun to show
signs of breaking.

Our December catalogue will show that our lines are
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departments. At the date of issue, our stock contains an
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