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Chain Stores.
3. Super-Organization.

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5. Grocery and Produce Market.
6. Upper Peninsula.

8. Editorial.

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CARROLL AS A MOSES.

The announcement of the candidacy
of Alderman Etheridge for mayor
of Grand Rapids may be attributed
to the “fine Italian hand” of our
Gambler Mayor, who has always adroitly
planned matters so that there have
been several candidates for mayor at
the Republican primary election.
With one good man pitted agains:
him, Deacon Ellis would be relegated
to private life, but with several very
ordinary candidates, he manages to
win out by keeping one foot in the
church and the other in the saloon.

There is one man in Grand Rapids
who can defeat our crafty chief ex-
ecutive hands down. That man is Ab.
Carroll, our present efficient police
superintendent. Mr. Carroll is a run-
ner from Runnerville and, like the
Deacon, he knows the game. Unlike
the Deacon, his record has never
been smirched by long association
Both
as sheriff and as head of the police
department, he has acquitted him-
self well and faithfully. Instead of
trying to build up a political machine,
as Ellis has devoted most of his time
to accomplishing, he has acted on
the theory that he is a public servant
and that his duty is to serve the
public and not perpetuate himself in
office by resorting to the use of weap-
ons which none but crafty politicians
employ.

The Trademan has had no com-
munication with Mr. Carroll on this
subject and has no assurance from
any source that he would consent to
enter the contest for mayor the com-
ing spring. Should he decide to do
so it would be at a personal sacri-
fice, because Mr. Carroll has reached
a point in life where no further
preferment of a political character
can add to the esteem in which he

is held in this community.
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with the gambline business.

War censorship has shown many
forms of foolishness. One of them
has been the effort to keep bad news
from the public. This was bitterly
complained of in democratic England,
during the early months of the war.
People said: “We are not children.
We do not wish to be fed on fairy
stories. If our armies have been de-

feated, we want to know it. If our
high military command is deficient
tell us the truth about it. We can
face the facts, even when they arc
most ominous, but we can not stand
evasions and flatteries and outright
deception.” An echo of this senti-
ment was heard in the closing session
of the Reichstag last week. Several
members called upon the government
frankly to let the German people
know the worst. They could bear
it, and would do their best to cor
rect it; but highly colored official
statements that everything was goine
well, although the fact was that many
things were going ill, ought not to
be sent broadcast. Why deny, asked
one deputy, that the Enelish block-
ade was effective, when everybody
knew that it was highly so? This
is a manly note. It would be sound-
ed in any of the belligerent countries,
on like occasion. But the all-wise
censorship persists in actine as if
things forbidden therefore
no longer exist.

mention

 

The complaint is being made in the
departments at Washington that many
of the returns in connection with the in-
come tax reports are purposely defec-
tive, misleading and untrue. In other
words something more than a suspicion
is entertained that a good many people
have answered falsely, of course for the
purpose of evading and avoiding the
tax. Whatever may be said for or
against the income tax, or however
much anybody may be opposed to it in
theory or practice, that and all of it can
not remove the bounden duty and obli-
gation on the part of every good citizen
to answer the questions truthfully and
pay the share thus indicated. Naturally
it is only those of means who are sus-
pected, because the others can not be
put in any jeopardy. Those who have
the means ought to be grateful that they
have and deal as honestly and as fairly
with the Government officials as they
would expect any individual to deal with
them.

 

Horses are in great demand over in
Europe and agents of the warring na-
tions have been buying thousands of
steeds in the United States and Canada.
The horse owners are not the only ones
who have been making money, for evi-
dence recently brought out the fact that
Canadian ships which have been en-
gaged in transporting the horses have
collected millions of dollars. At $50 a
head one line shipped 18,000 horses in
August and collected as gross freight
approximately $900,000. More was col-
lected in another month, all of which
shows that the profits on horses are
divided.

 

The Grand Rapids Show Case Co. has
increased its capital stock from $700,000
to $750,000,

SERVICE TO CUSTOMERS.

Study every customer and cultivate
their acquaintance. It will help you
increase your value to the store.

Learn the names of as many cus-
tomers as possible who come into the
store. Calling a person by name goes
a long way toward breaking down a
barrier of reserve which otherwise is
so hard to get around.

Look glad to see people when they
come in. It’s just as easy, and you'll
feel better, and so will they.

Don’t argue with customers. Give
them the benefit of your experience
and advice, but don’t try to force it
upon them.

Don’t make promises that you know
the house won’t back up. The cus
tomer finds out the truth in the end,
and few customers will let you have
the second chance to give them the
worst of it.

Try to send every patron away sat-
isfied. A satisfied patron is the kind
that comes back.

Be a salesman, not a clerk. Tearn
to do things. Have a little initiative
Don’t always wait to be told.

Look around and see what there is
to learn—and learn it. That is the
kind of person that gets ahead now-
adays.

Don’t forget about the store the
minute you get outside. Keep it in
one corner of your mind all the time

Get into the habit of doing these
things. You know the way to get
more money is to “show” the officers
that you are worth it.

In the life of everyone, no matter
where employed, or what vocation,
there is a turning point, a place where
the business roads fork, and where
you must decide which road you shall
take.

Gaze about and note the successes
you know; these are the people who
chose the right road and followed it
to its ultimate and legitimate conclu-
On the other hand, turn again,
and note the wrecks and

sion,
failures;
these are the ones who chose to fol-
low the road which led through the
mire of self-indulgence, laziness, sloth
and impracticability.

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A plan to retire the £346,000,000 of
greenbacks, which are a survival of
the irredeemable Government paper
currency of the Civil War, has been
submitted to the conference of gov-
ernors of the Federal Reserve Banks
by committees of the American Bank
ers Association, Some of the rea-
sons put forward in behalf of the step
will not hear examination; the argu-
ment in favor of it should be based
On| permanent and fundamental
grounds rather than on the immedi-
ate situation of this time, or on in-
cidental consequences alleged to have
followed from the existence of the

greenbacks, the relevance, and_ in

some instances the authenticity, of

which is open to dispute. Thus an

advocate of the plan is quoted as
“it has cost the United

States more than a billion dollars to

asserting that

maintain the status of the greenbacks
as redeemable greenbacks.’”’ The ref-
erence 18, of course, to the bond is
sues which, from time to time, were
put out primarily for this purpose;
but when we consider what was the
actual, or ultimate, disposition of the
proceeds of these issues, the asser-
tion that they represented an expendi
ture of public money for the mainte-
of thr

nance of the redeemability

ereenbacks falls to the ground. In
indirect damage the existence of the
greenbacks has doubtless caused a
loss to the Nation of far more than
a billion dollars; they are an anomal
ous element in our currency system,
have been a source of acute danger
in the past, and will present, so long
as they are kept in existence, an in-
vitation to demagogues and ignora-
muses, at any time of trouble, to pro-
pose an increase of the volume of
the currency by the simple process
of printing additional greenbacks

The gossip from Washington is
mostly to the effect that the President
Will not appoint Mr. Tait to fill the
vacancy in the Supreme Court, but
that he will appoint a southerner and
a Democrat. One most favorably
spoken of is John W. Davis, just now
solicitor general, a graduate of Wash-
ington and Lee University in the class
of 92, a teacher of law for two years
a member of Congress for two terms,
and an all around able man, accord-
ing to the report of his friends. It is
represented that the President thinks,
the great majority on the bench being
Republican, the Democrats should be
given more representation. Be that
as it may, the general trend of public
opinion still favors the appointment
of Mr. Taft, who appointed a Demo-

crat to serve in the Supreme Court

 

Chicago women have found a way to
dispose of undesirable Christmas pres-
ents. A club of 250 women met the
other day and had a “swapping party.”
Each woman brought, in a sealed pack-
age, what seemed to her as her most
For thirty
women swapped packages
Then the pack-
ages were opened and the “horrors” ex-
hibited.

had been trying to give away.

undesirable Christmas gift,
minutes the
until time was called.

One woman drew the vase she
She had
swapped ninety times to get the vase
The woman who held the record
exchanged parcels 139 times in thirty

back.

minutes, One woman received a pair of
purple socks and a red necktie and one
got a man’s picture labeled “A Former
Sweetheart.” They had fun over the
swapping anyway and many of them
were satisfied with the presents.

 

 

CHAIN STORES.

 

How Jobbers Can Fight Them Suc-
cessfully.

Whether or not the Stevens bill
ultimately passes Congress, there will
still remain for grocers and manu-
facturers alike many problems, both
in connection with it and in its ab-
sence. What grocers can do pending
its enactment was the subject of an
address to the New York State
Wholesale Grocers, at their conven-
tion held in New York, last week, by
Sylvan L. Stix, of Seeman Bros. It
proved to be a very thoughtful study
of the problem of meeting the chain
store and buying exchange evolution
by wholesale grocers.

“Taking for granted,” said Mr.
Stix, “that the Stevens bill as it now
reads were passed, it would only ap-
ply to the products of such manufac-
turers as would establish a uniform
price to the retailer and a uniform
price to the jobber. On this account,
although the Stevens bill is undoubt-
edly a step in the right direction, it
iS a question as to how great an ef-
fect it would have.

“Many manufacturers might con-
sider the advantage they derive from
the quantity price in their retail and
wholesale distribution of more im-
portance to their sales policy than
the advantage to be derived from be-
ing able to control the resale price
at wholesale and at retail. In view
of this condition, and the further fact
that we as yet have no immediate
promise of legislation along the lines
of the Stevens bill, what shall we do
while we are waiting for Washington
and Albany to help us?

“Before trying to decide what to
do, let us see what the situation is.
Are chain stores growing? If so,
why? For, if they are growing and
are performing a real service for the
community, it would be like trying to
make water run uphill to stop their
growth. Let us study the facts.

“Taking for granted that large
chains buy their stocks at practically
the same cost as the jobber, and tak-
ing into consideration that they have
to duplicate much of the service the
jobber performs before their mer-
chandise is delivered to their retail
stores, the average independent re-
tailer undoubtedly owns his goods at
not over 5 per cent. higher cost than
the retail store of the chain operator.
Now, the personality of the owner be-
hind the counter certainly is a suffi-
cient offset for this meagre cost dis-
advantage, for, when it comes to
service, the independent can give as
much or as little as he chooses and
charge accordingly, the same as the
chain operator is now doing.

“Why, then, is the number of chain
stores growing, for I believe we can
concede that they are? In my opin-
ion, primarily, because they are sell-
ing certain proprietary articles and a
few other items of known value at
cost or less than cost, thus giving the
consumer the impression that they
are selling all their merchandise 25
per cent. to 30 per cent. cheaper than
the independent.

“As I see it, we have to teach the

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independent to meet fire with fire.
The independent doing a cash and
non-delivery business can afford to
sell leaders at the cut prices quoted
by the economy chain stores, for the
profit on the larger volume of busi-
ness on other lines, which would
necessarily follow, will more than
cover the loss. The independent do-
ing a service business, of course, can
not meet the cut prices of the econ-
omy store, but by shading his prices
on the cut items he can hold his trade
in line. By insisting on charging 10
cents for an item that the economy
stores sell at, say, 7 cents, he simply
drives his trade away.

“The number of items that the re-
tailer would find it necessary to cut
on would be found to be not so
many, and, in fact, are even now de-
creasing in number, for, as a result
of recent decisions of our courts,
more and more manufacturers are in-
sisting, where they are recognizing
chain store operators on a preferred
basis, that the chain stores, in re-
turn for such recognition, co-operate
with the manufacturer by maintain-
ing a fair retail price on his product.

“Where the manufacturer of a heav-
ily advertised specialty refuses to
make any attempt to establish fair
market conditions, it is simply up to
the independent retailer to take a leaf
out of the book of the chain store
man and meet him at his own game.

“I had in mind suggesting that the
jobber should help along the good

cause by selling these cut items at a.

concession, but in discussing the mat-
ter with some of our salesmen, I was
told that I did not have to worry on
this score, because the retailer who
pays his bills promptly can now buy
these cut items on a closer basis than
I would have the hardihood to sug-
gest.

“If you agree with me that work
along these lines would be useful and
that it would help to hold down the
future of the chain stores to the share
in the distribution of grocery pro-
ducts to which they are economically
entitled, then it simply resolves itself
into a question of how the work
should be done. We could perhaps
depend upon our salesmen or we
could publish a series of leaflets and
mail them to the trade.

“In other words, let us put the
two systems of merchandising on the
same basis—the chain store system
and the jobber-retailer system—and
let the best win. If there is going
to be any fighting with ‘brass
knuckles’ let both sides use them.”

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Chirpings of the Crickets.

Battle Creek, Jan. 24—Landlord
Frank Robinson, of the Phoenix Ho-
tel, at Charlotte, is to be congratulat-
ed on his ability to keep his hotel
warm and cosy when a cold snap hits
that part of Eaton county where he
and his hotel are located. The house
was nice and snug last Monday night.

A merchant told a traveling sales-
man he always wanted him to call,
because they always had such a nice
visit. Whose fault is this condition,
salesman or merchant? Seems to me
the visit could be on goods, their
quality and their true worth and the
retailer’s desire to push them. The
salesman certainly got close to his
man, but, apparently, could not feel
his purse.

The Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo in-
terurban is sure having troubles of its
own. Looked odd to see a Holland in-
terurban in the streets of Kalamazoo
to-day.

William Edwards, of Kalamazoo,
known to all the boys as Bill, who
had served so faithfully as night clerk
for nine years at the Berghoft Hotel,
died very suddenly in the office of the
3erghoff Saturday morning. Bill was
an untiring employe of Mr. Willard’s
and held his employer’s complete
confidence. He will be missed by all
the boys who stop at the Berghoff.

M. L. Blakeslee, of No. 253, who
was caught in the wreck on the inter-
urban between Battle Creek and Kal-
amazoo last Thursday, was not out
of the harness very long. He was
calling on his trade again Friday.

Elmer E. Wille, of No. 253, is now
located at the retail store of the Min-
ty Cigar Co., Battle Creek. The boys
are asked to call and see our friend.
Elmer says to make the store your
down-town headquarters. You are
welcome to leave your grips, to write
your letters and make yourself gen-
erally at home. We all wish Elmer
the success to which he is entitled.

William Sturman has severed his
connection as traveling representative
of the Chicago Evening American.

A. C. Pfander, of the Enquirer, is
at home sick.

J. Norman Riste was in an inter-
urban wreck Thursday last. No in-
juries reported.

Milton J. Loomis worked all day
Sunday on a cost book.

John Q. Adams is reported to have
an unusual price on salted peanuts.
Miaybe he owns a peanut swamp or
do they grow like dates—in the
arcade?

If all the folks who went to the
auto shows bought cars, goodbye
bank balances and happy homes.

Things that never happen:

Kalamazoo hotels being
crowded.

Staying away from the movies of
an evening to write to wife and
mother.

Making wages off an expense ac-
count.

Being prepared for Christmas.

A_ prosperous Democratic adminis-
tration.

An order from everybody you call
on every trip.

All patrons taking their discounts.

Nothing to do Sunday.

A ford that rides like a Packard.

An employe who forgets pay day.

A salesman who gets so mad he
can’t talk. :

A patron who gets his merchandise
delivered express paid the day after
he orders it when he has invoices 120
days old unpaid. Pub. Com.

—_—>-2--
Activities in Michigan Cities.
Written for the Tradesman.

Jackson’s fire loss in 1915 was $26,-
500 and Lansing’s loss was $32,000.
The number of fires resulting from
unknown causes or from plain in-
cendiarism is a feature of the differ-

ent reports from cities.

over-

Ypsilanti has voted to buy two
motor fire trucks. Three Rivers will
buy a truck and Ludington is seri-
ously considering this step.

Albion has abolished its volunteer
fire department and has hired four
regular firemen on salary.

The beet sugar factory at Holland
sliced up 34,000 tons of beets this
season and produced 8,982,000 pounds
of sugar. Four years ago the factory
turned out 9,000,000 pounds, but the
campaign lasted five months, as
against three months this year.

Lapeer will vote at the April elec-
tion on the question of installing
boulevard lights.

January 26, 1916

Benton Harbor has secured a new
glove factory.

The Union Telephone Co. has
adopted the cable system at Midland
and will remove poles from Main
street, in the business district.

F. M. Vawter has been re-elected
as President of the Benton Harbor
Chamber of Commerce.

A new course in automobile in-
struction has been opened at the
State Blind School, Lansing, the work
including repairs, assembling and car
operation. Work in salesmanship
and business efficiency has been suc-
cessfully carried on there for some
time,

The Covel Manufacturing Co., of
Benton Harbor, is enlarging its plant,
the two new buildings under con-
struction costing $15,000,

Almond Griffen.
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Aim To Make Better Fairs.

The annual meeting of the Mich-
gan Association of Fairs will be held
at the auditorium of the Association
of Commerce, Grand Rapids, Feb. 1.
The following papers will be pre-
sented on that occasion.

Should we arrange circuits for free
attractions and horse racing amon;
the fairs?p—V. G. Griffith, Charlotte.

Are free attractions necessary to
run a successful fair—F. B. Ransford,
Caro.

Should all fairs labor to have
schools make exhibits?—Thomas M.
Sattler, Jackson.

Do fairs receive enough revenue
for what they give their patrons ?—
R. S. Scott, Marshall.

What method of advertising is best
for fairs?—Perry Powers, Cadillac.

What can be done by fairs to pro-
tect themselves against accidental li-
ability? — Frank Rathsburg, Imlay
City.

Should all the fairs in the State
co-operate to raise the standard of
concessions and _ privileges?—J. A.
Lilley, Grand Rapids.

Should all fairs encourage horse
racing in connection with fairs?—
George Newmann, Fowlerville.

How can we increase the interest
in fair exhibits—George W. Dickin-
son, Detroit.

What does the State expect from
the fairs and what duty does each
fair owe the State?—John C. Ketcham.

Hastings.
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Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes.

Buffalo, Jan. 26—Creamery butter,
extras, 32c; first, 29@30c; common,
25@2i7c; dairy, common to good, 20@
27c: all kinds, 18@20c. :

Cheese— Fancy, new, 164@1"c;
choice, 16@ 16%c.
Eggs—Coice, new laid, 28@29c:

storage 23@24c.

Poultry (live)—Chicks per lb. 16@
19c; cox, 12c; fowls, 16@18c: ducks,
18@19c; geese, 15@16c; turkeys, 20
@22c.

Poultry (dressed)—Chic¢ks, 17@20c:
fowls, 16@18c; ducks, 17@18c; geese,
15@17c; turkeys, 22@25c.

Beans—Medium, $4.10; pea, $4: Red
Kidney, $4.50@5; White Kidney, $5:
Marrow, $4.50@5.

Potatoes—$1.10@1.15 per bu.

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SUPER-ORGANIZATION.

Possible War Development of Great
Significance.

The first five years of peace are ex-
pected to answer certain big questions
that have come up in the minds of men
watching war-time developments in the
industries of Europe. The questions,
and their answers, have a considerable
significance for industry in this country
as it may be affected through the coun-
try’s foreign and domestic commerce.
The gist of these questions is this:
Will Europe, or a vigorous part of it,
come back to commercial competition
with the makings of better industrial or-
ganization than existed before the war, so
that, in spite of being poorer through the
war’s destruction, some of the countries
will actually put on higher speed in
manufacture and commerce than ever
before?

This is a bare generalization of many
interesting ideas put in an interrogatory
form nowadays, covering a wide range
of possible developments of the war.
A decisive victory for one side or the
other would very likely bring an im-
portant difference in the form and may-
be in the fundamental structure of in-
dustrial organization throughout Europe.
A prolonged war would probably put
a face upon the European situation very
different from the outcome of any early
peace.

Nearly everybody appears to expect
that Germany, if intact and under the
leadership of the Imperial government,
will carry still further the principle of
active government interposition in the
control of industry and trade, looking
toward national co-ordination of every-
thing. The people of England and
France are individualistic in enterprise,
as yet. If the fortune of war should
give the Allies sufficient power, soon, it
would be unlikely that the national poli-
cies of Germany would develop much
further in their present direction. But
if the war is prolonged, and necessity
compels all the nations to continue or
to go steadily further in nationalizing
business activities for the purposes of
war, nobody knows how the war may
leave its permanent impress on the or-
ganization of manufacture and com-
merce. In fact, if the war should end
to-morrow in a draw,, the further con-
centration of industry that Germany is
reported to have already decided upon
as a national policy in case of that out-
come might force, by induction, some-
thing of the same kind in Fngland and
in France. Russia is naturally inclined
to a certain measure of it. Japan has
already gone further than Germany in
the imperialization of business.

The direct personal interest in all
this for United States manufacturers
lies in the possibilities of a new kind
of competition in trade. During the
first months of the war it was only na-
tural to think that every one of the
belligerent countries of Europe would
return to a peace basis with a great
commercial handicap in the way of dis-
organized industries, depleted labor
forces unable to manufacture with the
skill of before and demanding higher
wages, a burden of taxation increasing
costs along the entire line of movement
in production and distribution, and an
appalling destruction of wealth.

If the war continues long enough we

 

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may come back to that first view of
things, but for the present we have got
away from it. Europe has accomplished
some things that used to be thought
impossible. It has been demonstrated
that there can be an enormous destruc-
tion of certain forms of wealth without
proportional impairment of the produc-
tive capacity of a nation. It is the pro-
ductive ability of the most efficient of
the nations of Europe after the war
that we will have to deal with, not with
the average ability of Europe, or with
the measure of its static wealth, It is
dynamics that counts in competition.
A certain captain of industry once said
that if it came up to him to choose be-
tween the capital represented in his busi-
ness and the organization he had built
up, he would take the organization.
England, France, Germany and_ the
others may be poor after the war, but
if effective industrial organization re-
mains any one of them may manufac-
ture new goods in a way to give us a
tussle in our own markets, to say noth-
ing of the export trade without which
our National prosperity will disappear.

A basic element in the industrial or-
ganization of any country is, of course,
the individual efficiency of workmen.
There are differences of opinion about
the effect of months of life in the
trenches on the workman, and perhaps
only peace will decide. But there is
strong belief that the discipline of war,
the vigorous, abstemious and continu-
ously purposeful life along the battle
lines will raise the level of morale on
the average. It may also raise very
considerably the collective efficiency of
men. Dr, Karl Helfferich, who has
had charge of the financing of Germany
since the war and is one of the leaders
in shaping its coming industrial policy,
was a strong believer in universal mili-
tary training and service before the war,
not only for military purposes, but be-
cause, as he said, the military training
had contributed very importantly to ef-
fective discipline in the high organiza-
tion of German industry. Military serv-
ice, for labor, may be analogous to high-
er education and technical courses for
business administration. Even the’ ex-
tensive shifting of workmen from their
ordinary work to the manufacture of
munitions, while it will necessitate read-
justments when peace comes, will have
its offsetting benefits not only in Europe
but in the United States. THe indi-
vidual workman will gain in ability by
the experience.

It is a thing that United States manu-
facturers should take account of, the
Possibility of increased personal ef-
ficiency in European industrial forces
when they are re-organized after the war.

Moreover, an even more important ad-
vance in efficiency and economy of pro-
duction is expected to be made by Euro-
pean industry through superior organ-
ization in big phases than by the increas-
ed earnestness of labor. If what some
men who are capable observers say of
the changes that have already come over
European industrial generalship is cor-
rect, grave necessity has stimulated an
almost revolutionary development of
latent ability in the organization of big,
nation-wide activities. It is said that
the manufacture and movement of war
supplies in England, organized with
great rapidity, has reached a great size

and steadiness of volume that makes this
an achievement on the grand scale that
matches the long and carefully planned
organization of Germany. The com-
parison may have a little friendly prej-
udice in it, but there is no doubt about
a very great advance of organization of
industry in England, and about the re-
sults of organization in a large way in
France. Russia seems to be doing some-
thing of the same kind. It is not nec-
essary to put the tape-line on these
achievements in big efficiency to get
their significance in relation to United
States industry and commerce after the
war, England and France are alive to
the seriousness af the commercial strug-
gle that will follow. They are not go-
ing to waste anything they will have
learned from experiences of their war-
time industries. It is almost incredible
that, in spite of the English and the
French love for independence and in-
dividualism, something in the way of
more centralized or co-ordinated or-
ganization of industry and business in
England and France should not remain
after peace comes and keen commercial
competition arises.

Interesting definite reports of the
plans for further organization in Ger-
man industry are heard in this country.
One of the most interesting proposes
a correlation of the distribution of elec-
trical power and the supply of basic
materials for Germany’s chemical in-
dustries with economies roughly figured
at $60,000,000 a year.

In the United States, we are in the
middle of a very important development
of our electrical industries of all kinds
that points, in the not distant future,
to the almost universal employment of
electricity for power, light and even
for heat. There will be one boiler-room
for distribution zones hundreds of miles
across. The railroads will ultimately
electrify and use the same boiler-rooms,
taking power from all zones as their
lines cross them. It is not a dream, we
are steadily coming to it because of the
fact that it is the most economical, the
most intensively efficient way. Of every
hundred new factories installed with
power, ninety-five use electricity now.
Ultimately all will use it and all will
buy their power at less than half what
they could generate it for, themselves.

Cheap power is popularly associated
with waterfalls, but the actual econo-
mies of generation on a large scale with
coal are high. It is said by electrical
engineers that 100,000,000 hp. of electric
energy is going to waste in Pennsyl-
vania coking plants alone in the form
of gases that might be used for power.
As a matter of fact, a serious three-
cornered project has been under con-
sideration in Pennsylvania by which a
company was to be formed to establish
a coking plant in a new location, selling
its by-product of gas to another com-
pany that would generate electric pow-
er from it, this concern to distribute
the current through a certain part of
Pennsylvania and to enter into particu-
lar contractual arrangements with an im-
portant railway that would thus obtain
Power for a contemplated mountain
electrification much more cheaply than
it could itself generate, at the same time
saving the cost of capital necessary for
its own power-houses.

Now Germany proposes a nation-wide

super-organization to cover such an in-
dustrial situation. It plans to combine
coking, the generation of electricity, and
the furnishing of the by-products of
coal to chemical industries in some form
of co-ordination, taxing by a progres-
sively increased rate the individual use
of coal, thus forcing general industry
to make the central-station distribution
of power the most economical possible,
and saving all the by-products of the
fuel that are now wasted in scattered
burning of the fuel, Germany is said
to foresee a national saving of $60,000,-
000 a year, which will help meet any
taxation resulting from the war,

It is hardly necessary for anybody to
advise that something of the idea of the
German super-organization of industry
ought to be attempted here since it
seems to be coming naturally. Without
any government compulsion there is in
formation now an industrial co-ordina-
tion stimulated by war-time necessities in
this country that will doubtless result
in a huge development of a dyestuffs
and other chemical industry in this
country.

There appears to be a more liberal dis-
position, both official and popular,
toward co-operation in business activi-
ties to-day than during the time when
discipline and tribulation for corpora-
tions was the indiscriminate order of
the day. The Federal Trade Com-
mission has just entered upon a gigantic
questionnaire of business men all over
the country regarding permissible com-
bination in foreign trade. The com-
mission’s attitude is friendly. Manu-
facturers in several lines are $o con-
fident of full liberty to co-ordinate their
efforts in going after export business
that they are establishing formal selling
combinations for the purpose. The ef-
ficiency and economy of combination
selling abroad are so well established
that this new form of organization in
our foreign trade is bound to produce
great results.

The clearest outlook for an American
merchant marine seems to be along the
lines of some form of this new larger
co-ordination in industry and commerce.
There is no business man heartily inter-
ested in building up the foreign trade of
this country who does not hope for lines
of American ships carrying American
goods overseas. A National merchant
marine is an important part of the ma-
chinery of success in export trade.

The United States Steel Corporation
has found it advantageous to establish
shipping lines of its own in connection
with its foreign sales. If public opin-
ion is coming around to‘an appreciation
of the services of business combinations
when legitimately conducted and form-
ed for the bona fide purpose of doing
things the Nation needs and greatly
desires to have done, it is not hard to
see how some comprehensive formal or-
ganization might be established to co-
ordinate the legitimately co-operative ac-
tivities of United States manufacture,
United States foreign marketing and an
“American mercantile marine” in such a
way as to produce economies somewhat
analogous to those of the coking, electri-
cal distribution, and chemical manu-
facture super-organization that would
make it all pay in spite of the present
handicap upon American shipping as
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Movements of Merchants.

Alto—John Kiser succeeds Myron
Vanderlip in the harness business.

Eaton Rapids—Edwin Soules suc-
ceeds Joseph Fisher in the restaurant
business.

St. Joseph—Willis Peacock is closing
out his grocery stock and will remove to
Kalamazoo.

Negaunee—Joseph Trobny has en-
gaged in the meat business in the
Hogan building.

Detroit— The Jones -Butterwort’
Co, has changed its name to the Paint
Supply Corporation.

Lapeer—Wallace Green will open
a meat market in the W. B. Williams
building about Feb. 1.

Otsego—Clyde H. Scott has pur-
chased the F. S. Tucker grocery
stock, taking immediate possession.

Ovid—F. E. Perkins, of Lowell, has
purchased the Alfred Squier & Son
grocery stock and has taken possession.

Tecumseh—C. A. Reckner, of Jas-
per, has taken over the C. B. Smith
restaurant and will continue the busi-
ness.

Hastings—George Smith, Sr., has
sold his meat stock and fixtures to
Hub Casey, who has taken posses-
sion.

Lansing—E. Blanchard will open a
men’s hat and furnishing goods store
at 410 South Washington avenue
Jan. 29.

Kalamazoo—Isaac Stein will open
a custom tailor shop and furnishing
goods store in the Burdick Arcade
Feb. 15.

Nunica—W. B. Parkhurst has sold
his stock of general merchandise to
Earl Baldus, who will continue the
business.

Battle Creek—Manuel Maurer, dealer
in women’s ready-to-wear clothing, has
closed his store and will sell his stock at
private sale.

Vestaburg—John N. Hiller has sold
his general merchandise stock to Mr.
Fox, recently of Breckenridge, who has
taken possession.

Bay City—-Fire destroyed the meat
and grocery stock of Charles A. Kel-
ly Jan. 23. Loss about $7,000, which
is covered by insurance.

Bellevue—Shaler Bros., of Jackson,
have entered into an agreement with
the Cole Hardware Co. to take over
its stock before Feb. 19.

Hobart—Fire destroyed the L.
Wenzell store building and stock of
general merchandise, Jan. 20, entail-
ing a loss of about $4,500.

Kalamazoo—The Home Furnishing
Co., on North Burdick street, has add-
ed a line of phonographs and records
to its house furnishing stock.

Benton Harbor—A. L. Leonard has
sold his interest in the Britain gro-

cery and meat stock to James Dwan,
who has taken possession.

East Jordon—Moses Weisman will
open a boys and men’s clothing and
furnishing goods store in the Frie-
berg building about Feb. 15.

Bannister—J. A. Weidner has sold
his hardware stock to Joseph C. Hof-
man, recently of Columbus Grove,
Ohio, who has taken possession.

Owosso—Water which leaked out
of the radiators at night, damaged
the dry goods stock of Ferris Bros.
to the extent of over $300 Jan. 20.

Hillsdale—F. A. Wagner has traded
his stock of men’s furnishing goods and
clothing to Thomas M. Brown, of Mos-
cow, who will take possession Jan. 29.

Owosso—E. D. Horn is remodeling
the building adjoining his store and
will occupy it with a stock of dry
goods in connection with his grocery
stock.

St. Johns—C. A. Putt is closing out
his grocery stock preparatory to engag-
ing in the wholesale and retail baking
business in partnership with D. C.
Thomas.

Brooklyn — Fred Aulesworth has
sold his stock of cigars and tobacco
to Joe Savalli and Andre Jarollo,
who have added lines of confection-
ery and fruit.

Saranac—D. K. Jepson has sold his
interest in the grocery stock of Otis
& Jepson to his partner, Arden Otis,
who will continue the business under
his own name.

Alma—Otto Sanderhoff has sold a
half interest in his hardware stock
to John Glass and the business will
be continued under the style of Sand-
erhoff & Glass.

Manton—The Misses Ada Nadeau
and Jennie Linberg have formed a
copartnership and engaged in the
grocery business under the style of
Nadeau & Linberg.

Fremont—William N. Senf has sold
his interest in the Central meat mar-
ket to Louis Nelson and Harry Mon-
roe, who will continue the business
under the same style.

Bay City—The Young Cattle & Pack-
ing Co. has been organized with an au-
thorized capital stock of $500,000, of
which amount $250,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Lapeer—Russell B. Odle has en-
gaged in the fuel and ice business,
having purchased from the trustee of

 

the Nepessing Coal Co. its lands.
premises and_ buildings.
Detroit—The F. H. Dates Wall

Paper Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $2,000,
of which amount $1,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

St. Johns—George A. Stoerck has
sold a half interest in his meat stock

to Frank Fehrenback and the busi-
ness will be continued under the
style of Stoerck & Fehrenback.

Flint—The Vogue has been incor-
porated to engage in the retail women’s
apparel business, with an authorized
capital stock of $9,000, all of which has
been subscribed and $4,900 paid in in
cash,

Lansing—Walker & Co., grocers
and meat dealers at the corner of
Franklin and Washington avenues,
have sold their stock to Alber P.
Walker, who will consolidate it with
his own.

Saline—Walter Nissly has sold his
stock of bazzar goods to Earl Payne,
of Ypsilanti, who will continue the
business. Mr. Nissly will engage in
the dry goods and notions business
about Feb. 15.

Detroit—The F. J. Austin Wall
Paper & \Decorating Co. has_ in-
corporated with an authorized capi-
tal stock of $2,000, of which amount
$1,000 has been subscribed and $500
paid in in cash.

Boyne City—W. RR. Niergarth.
dealer in clothing, men’s furnishing
goods and shoes, has solda half inter-
est in his stock to James Rupert and
the business will be continued under
the style of Niergarth & Rupert.

Owosso—Harry Wright and U. R
Sutfin, proprietors of the Central
meat market have purchased the E.
R. Wilbur meat market and will con-
tinue it at the same location on North
Washington street as a branch mar-
ket.

Detroit—The Autosales Corporation
of Detroit has engaged in business to
manufacture accessories for motor driv-
en vehicles with an authorized capital
stock of $1,000, of which amount $700
has been subscribed and $260 paid in
in cash.

Jackson—Charles Bell has sold his
stock of cigars and tobacco to C. D.
and Earl St. John, who have formed
a copartnership and will continue the
business at the same location in the
Dwight block under the style of St.
John Bros.

Freeport—Babbitt, Reigler & Co.,
hardware, implement and_ harness
dealers, have dissolved partnership
and the business will be continued
under the style of Babbitt & Wells,
J. E. Babbitt and Albert Wells hav-
ing purchased the interest of S. A.
Reigler.

Manistee—Harvey B. Larsen, Law-
rence Larsen and Louis D. Fontaine
have incorporated under the style of
Larsen Bros., Inc., and will conduct a
department store in the H. B. Larsen
building on River street. The building
is being remodeled throughout and new
shelving, counters and fixtures installed.

Otsego—At the annual meeting of the
once known Eady Shoe Co. steps were
taken to dissolve the company. Ninety
per cent. of the amount due the cred-
itors has already been paid and it is
expected they will soon be paid in full.
The assets left were transferred to E.
W. Eady, who assumes all of the liabil-
ities of the company.

Detroit—James M. Dunlap, who or-
ganized the Dunlap-Ward Advertis-
ing Co., has resigned from the man-
agement of that concern to become
sales manager of the Chandler Motor

Car Co. of Cleveland. Mr. Dunlap
assumes his duties Feb. 1. He has
been writing and directing the Na-
tional advertising of the Chandler
Motor Car Co. for two years and
during that time has resided in this
city.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Anti-Pyrex Company
of Michigan has changed its name to
the Ion-O-Lex Co.

Detroit—The Alter Motor Car Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$75,000 to $150,000.

Alpena—The Detroit Lace Manufac-
turing Co. is preparing to remove its
plant here from Detroit.

Paw Paw—Roscoe Maye, of Benton
Harbor, has purchased the creamery
here and will continue the business.

Detroit—The capital stock of the J.
C. Wilson Co., engaged in the auto
painting business, has been increased
from $20,000 to $225,000.

St. Louis—Fire destroyed the plant
of the St. Louis Co-Operative Cream-
ery Co. and 2,500 pounds of butter.
Loss, about $7,000; insurance, $3,000.

Detroit—The Safety Signal Device
Co. has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $10,000, all of
which amount has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Jackson—Fire damaged the stock of
the Jackson Skirt & Novelty Co. on
North Mechanic street, Jan. 23, to the
extent of about $500. The loss is fully
covered by insurance,

Bay City—The Roeller Foundry Co.
has been incorporated to manufacture
machinery, repairs, tools, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $3,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Marshall—The Marshall Castings
Co. has engaged in the general
foundry business with an authorized
capital stock of $10,000, all of which

amount has been subscribed and
$4,000 paid in in cash.
Detroit—The Excelsior Smokeless

Stove Co. has been organized with an
authorized capital stock of $100,000, of
which amount $52,500 has been sub-
scribed, $2,350 paid in in cash and $50,-
150 paid in in property.

Detroit—The Lavier & Long Elec-
tric Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $15,000,
of which amount $10,000 has been
subscribed, $350.16 paid in in cash
and $9,649.84 paid in in property.

Evart—The Evart Tool Co. has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style with an
authorized capital stock of $40,000,
all of which has been subscribed,
$3,131.28 paid in in cash and $36.-
878.72 paid in in property.

Detroit—The Sommers & Sons Co.
has engaged in business to manufacture
metal pipes, tanks and fittings, with an
authorized capital stock of $20,000, of
which amount $10,000 has been sub-
scribed, $270 paid in in cash and $9,730
paid in in property.

Holland—The American Humidi-
fier & Ventilator Co. has been organ-
ized with an authorized capital stock
of $50,000. The stock is owned en-
tirely by local stockholders and the
business will be under the manage-
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Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.

Apples—Standard varieties, such as
Baldwins, Greenings and Wagners
command $3@4 per bbl.; Northern
Spys, $4@5 per bbl. According to fig-
ures just compiled covering the West-
ern New York fruit belt, there are
in common and_ chemical storages
1,504,880 barrels of apples, against
1,820,280 at the corresponding time a
year ago. At the present time apples
are being moved at the rate of fifty
cars a day, mostly from common
storages. The next month will see
common storages virtually emptied,
when the supply from chemical stor-
ages will begin to move. It will re-
quire about 10,000 cars to move the
apple crop now in storage.

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

Beans—Michigan buyers are paying
$3.40 for pea and $4 for Red Kidney,
hand picked basis.

Beets—60c per bu.

Butter—There is an active con-
sumptive demand for all grades and
the market is healthy, with prices
about the same as a week ago. The
average quality of the butter arriving
is good for the season and no im-
portant change seems in sight. Local
dealers quote fancy creamery at 31c
in tubs and 32c in prints. Local deal-
ers pay 23c for No. 1 and 16c for
packing stock.

Cabbage—60c per bu. or $2 per bbl.

Carrots—60c per bu.

Celery—Home grown, 25@50c per
bunch; California, 85c for Jumbo and
$1 for Extra Jumbo.

Cocoanuts—$5 per sack containing
100.

Cranberries—Late Howes have ad-
vanced to $9.50 per bbl.

Cucumbers—$2.25 per
Southern hot house.

Eggs—The expected slump _ has
taken place, strictly fresh having de-
clined 4@5c per dozen during the past
week. Local handlers pay 25@26c.
Storage eggs have, of course, sus-
tained a similar drop, being now held
at 20c for case count and 23¢ for
candled.

Egg Plant—$2 per dozen.

Fresh Pork—8c for hogs up to 200
Ibs., larger hogs, 7%4c.

Grapes—Spanish Malaga, $7.50@8
per keg of 40@45c Ibs.

Grape Fruit—Florida is steady at
$3.50@4 per box.

Green Onions—Shalotts, 65c per
dozen bunches.

Honey—18c per lb. for white clov-
er and 16c for dark.

Lemons—California, $4.50 per box
for choice, $4.75 for fancy.

dozen for

Lettuce—12'%c per Ib. for hot house
leaf, $2 per bu. for Southern head.

Maple Sugar—14@15c per Ib.

Mushrooms—40@50c per lb.

Nuts—Almonds, 18c per 1b.; fil-
berts, 15c per lb.; pecans, 15¢ per Ib.;
walnuts, 16c for Grenoble, 16%c for
California; 15c for Naples; $2 per bu.
for Sheilbark hickory nuts and $1.75
for large.

Onions—The market continues to
strengthen, having further advanced
during the past week to $2.50 per 100
Ib. sack.

Oranges—California Navals, $3@
3.75; Floridas, $2.50@2.75.

Oysters—Standards, $1.35; Medium
Selects, $1.50; Extra Selects, $1.75,
New York Counts, $1.85; Shell Oys-
ters, $7.50 per bbl.

Peppers—Southern grown
mand $2.50 per 6 basket crate.

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

Potatoes—The market is not quite
so strong as it was a week ago,
country buyers having reduced their
paying prices to 75@80c. Local han-
dlers sell at $1 per bu.

Poultry—Local dealers pay as fol-
lows, live weight: Fowls, 10c; cocks,
8c; chickens, 11c; turkeys, 20c; ducks,
14c; geese, 11c. Dresed fowls aver-
age 3c above these quotations. The
quotation on turkeys is nominal, there
being no turkeys to be had in any
quantity. The supply for Christmas
was not nearly equal to the demand.

Radishes—30c for round hot house.

Squash—1%c per Ib. for Hubbard.

Strawberries—40@50c per qt. for
Florida.

Sweet Potatoes—$1.25 per hamper
for kiln dried Jerseys; $3.50 per bbl.
for kiln dried Illinois.

Tomatoes—$2 for 4 basket crate,
California stock.

Turnips—60c per bu.

Veal—Jobbers pay 12c for No. 1
and 10c for No. 2,

—_+>+-__

Under the will of the late George
H. Long, the well konwn lumberman
who died at his residence, 215 Sheldon
avenue, Grand Rapids, Jan. 15, which
has been presented for probate, the
Michigan Trust Company has been
named executor and trustee. This
is a large estate and after certain be-
quests have been paid, it will be di-
vided into five trusts for the five
surviving daughters of Mr. Long, the
Michigan Trust Company being trus-
tee in each case.

com-

—_>+.___

The Michigan Bean Jobbers’ Asso-
ciation will hold its midwinter meet-
ing at the Hotel Cadillac, Thursday
afternoon. Michigan is the largest
producer of beans, the crop. being
valued at $15,000,000 a year.

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The market is in statu quo
—5.85c for New York granulated and
5.55c for Michigan. The large re-
fined export sales—10,000 tons being
reported during the past week with
the United Kingdom alone—compel
refiners to cover with Cubas, hence
the indifference of planters to the
active crop movement, which or-
dinarily would force a reaction in
prices. Estimates of the business done
with Europe and South America for
shipment from January through
March run to 200,000 tons, and from
all indications the appetite for sugar
has not yet been satiated. England
is unable to get sugar from Russia
and is at war with the other former
sources of its supply—Germany and
Austria. Its refining capacity is ma-
terially less than the consumption, so
that granulated must be purchased to
eke out. Improving industrial con-
ditions in the United States increase
the consumption, and it is now be-
lieved that the invisible supply of
sugar is large. Beets have been mar-
keted rapidly this season, with the
result that there should be less pres-
sure from that source. It is signifi-
cant that they have been withdrawn
from some territory, although still
quoted at a differential elsewhere.
Refiners are busy increasing meltings,
but delay in delivery is remarked,

Tea—The situation is generally
healthy and firm, the demand being
active at full prices. Nobody seems
to be willing at present to make any
concessions on desirable grades,

Coffee—The bullishly inclined main-
tain that while the present crop in
Brazil is running heavy, the next will
be smaller. Stress is laid upon the
comparative cheapness of coffee as
against other commodities, most of
which have enjoyed good advances.
The failure of coffee to participate
in the prosperity is because of the war,
which cuts off two of its best cus-
tomers—Germany and Austria—from
direct shipment. Coffee has gone
through via neutral countries, but
supplies must be below normal, and
the advent of peace would doubtless
witness a_ substantial buying move-
ment from that quarter. On _ this
theory coffee will rise when other
markets break. Java and Mocha
grades are in quite demand.

Canned Fruits—Apples are un-
changed and the principal demand of
the year is approaching. There is
no indication of any radical flunctu-
ation. California canned goods dull
and in ordinary demand at unchang-
ed prices. Small Eastern staple can-
ned goods are quiet and unchanged.
There is much more business being
done in future canned goods this
year than was done last year.

Canned Vegetables—Tomatoes are
being taken rather generally at 80c in
a large way, f. o. b. This is from
10@15c above last year’s future price.
Packers are claiming as they did last
year, that this year’s cost of produc-
tion is going to be much larger than
in 1915. There is also some future
corn selling, part of it on the same
basis as last year and part of it slight-
ly above last year. Maine packers
have not yet named future prices.

Future peas are not being offered to
any extent because there is no in-
centive to buy, Spot peas are still
heavy, without incident.

Canned Fish—Salmon is selling
fairly well at unchanged prices. Do-
mestic sardines are moderately ac-
tive at the advance noted two weeks
ago. Imported sardines are stil] very
scarce and very firm.

Dried Fruits—Currants are

easier
on account of increased supplies.
The demand is moderate. There is

a great scarcity of Fard dates, which
will probably not be relieved for a
considerable time. Hallowee dates
are plentiful and unchanged. There
is a little better feeling in prunes but
there is no substantial difference as
compared with a week ago. The con-
sumptive demand for prunes is fair.
Peaches and apricots are both un-
changed on last week’s basis. Rais-
ins are also unchanged, the situa-
tion being steady to firm and the de-
mand _ fair.

Molasses—The situation shows no
material change, there being a fair
demand for grocery grades from the
trade. The withdrawals on contracts
continue good, although the weather is
less favorable for an active consump-
tion.
tions.

Rice—In_ the

Blackstrap is firm at quota-

South the markets
are firm, as there is no inclination
on the part of the planter to make
concessions to the mills. The latter
are asking full prices for cleaned,
despite the quiet conditions.

Cheese—The cheese market is firm
at an advance of Y%c for the week.
The consumptive demand is moder-
ate, but there is a heavy demand for
all grades for export. Stocks of
cheese in storage considerably lighter
than a year ago and the outlook is
firm.

Provisions—Everything in smoked
meats is steady and unchanged, with
a light consumptive demand. Pure
and compound lard are both firm at
an advance of about %c and a mod-
erate consumptive demand. Barreled
pork, canned meats and dried beef
are all steady at unchanged prices.

Salt Fish—The supply of mackerel
is small and prices high, but the de-
mand during Lent has not been heavy
during the last few years, and in con-
sequence prices are no higher now,
although the feeling is somewhat
firmer. Cod, hake and haddock are
in seasonable demand at unchanged
prices.

——_++.+____

The case of the People vs. Sperry
& Hutchinson Co., which has been
before the Michigan Supreme Court
for the past two or three years, was
argued Thursday of last week by the
attorneys for both sides. Wvykes,
Dilley & Averill, who have charge of
the case for the People, are sanguine
the tribunal will sustain the validity
of the statute. It is expected that a
decision will be handed down within
two months.

—~+++___

The Peck Auto Sales Co. has been

incorporated with an authorized capi-

tal stock of $30,000, of which amount

$20,300 has been subscribed, $5,000

paid in in cash and $15,100 paid in
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Recent News From the Cloverland
of Michigan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Jan. 24—Charles
Hasse has returned from Grand Rap-
ids, where he attended the salesmen’s
meeting of the National Biscuit
Company. Charley was glad to get
back to the land of snow and ice
where the sleighing was much better
and said there was a great contrast
between the weather conditions at
Grand Rapids, where the dust was
flying and the lawns were showing
the first signs of spring.

The residents of Hancock are feel-
ing good over the announcement made
by the railway officials that a new
station will be erected there this
year. The work will start just as
soon as the snow leaves in the spring
and no time will be lost in the work
of construction.

R. H. Smith, advertising manager
for the Prenzlauer Bros. department
store, has been receiving congratula-
tions, having been awarded a prize
for planning the best advertisement
of the Whittall Rug Co., of Wor-
cestor, Mass. last month. During
the season the company offers prizes
each month for the best newspaper
advertising published in connection
with its wares. The contest is open
to advertising men all over the coun-
try and the competition is unlimited,
so the reward speaks well for the
work of our Soo man.

George Kemp, of the Kemp Coal
Co., who is spending the winter in
Georgia, is reported to be enjoying
the best of health and not suffering
with the cold, but knowing that at
the Soo we always have good cold
winters and just to show that his
heart is in the right place, he senz
a telegram to Mayor Handy here,
stating ‘that from reports I am re-
ceiving I notice you are havi ing ex-
tremely cold weather there.” If
necessary to relieve any suffering, he
gave the Mayor an order for ten
tons of coal during the month of Jan-
uary and also like amounts for Febru-
ary and March, on the order of the
Superintendent of the Poor, subject
to the Mayor’s approval.

The winter service between the
two Soos is now running on regular
schedule. There are five trains each
day, making a two hour service and
also an extra train on Saturday
at 10 o’clock and the Canadian Soo
at 10:30.

Burr B. Lincoln, member of the
executive committee of the State
Grange and enthusiastic worker for
farm marketing associations, talked
at a meeting ‘last Wednesday eve-
ning to the Chippewa Pomona Grange
and the Hay Lake Grange Thursday
evening, giving the farmers some
splendid advice as to how to plan a
market association. Heretofore, lo-
cal, state and National organizations
of farmers have devoted too much
attention to the business of buying
and not enough to the selling of their
own products. While in some in-
stances they have attempted to dic-
tate what would be a fair margin of
profit for merchants to handle goods,
they have seldom gone into the mat-
ter of demanding ‘fair and equitable
prices for their own farm products
and permitted commission men to
set the prices for them. The farmers
have this matter in their own hands
whenever they perfect organizations
for the purpose of maintaining prices.

James McKenna is the new post-
master at the Soo, succeeding post-
master C. H. Scott. Mr. Scott has
made an efficient postmaster during
his term, while Mr. McKenna no
doubt will give the best of service,
as he is a man fully qualified for the
position and one of our well-known
business men.

Charles E. Madison, well-known
lumberman of Kenneth, reports an
unusually busy winter in his woods
operations at the present time, and

expects that this will exceed all previ-
ous years.

The ice in the Straits is causing
some delay in making connections
with the train at Mackinac City. The
train leaving the Soo Sunday did not
get into Mackinac until 7 o'clock
Monday morning. The wind and
current has been responsible for these
conditions. Purser Wenzel, of the
Transportation Co., reports the ice
heavier than last year.

Patrick Murray, known as_ the
father of St. Ignace, passed away at
the old Murray homstead last
Wednesday at the age of 87 years.
He was born in Westport, county of
Mayo, Ireland, and made his home
in St. Ignace for the past sixty-six
years, He was one of the best known
men in Mackinac county.

“Putting the snap into your work
is a better result getter than trying
to get out of it.”

C. C. Collins, the well-known auto
merchant, is taking in the auto show
at Chicago.

Much favorable comment is ex-
pressed by auto owners at St. Ignace,
because Chester B. Wing has pur-
chased a modern curb gasoline out-
fit with electric light attachments and
complete in every way. The outfit
is placed on the street in front of
the Wing garage and will be of great
convenience to owners of motor cars
who will be able to get a supply of
gasoline any time during the 365 days
in the year.

Thomas Green, our well-known
prosecuting attorney, is spending the
week in Lower Michigan. Tom is
not worrying about his re-election,
as he has made one of the best rec-
ords Chippewa county has ever had.
He is also a diplomat of great skill
and handles the cases in a manner
that would make some of the old
judges take notice. In trying a case
not long ago, in which one of the
witnesses happened to be an actress
of no small popularity, it chanced
that the nature of her evidence was
such that the usual question about
her age was not likely to be omitted,
so when she came to the stand, his
honor told the court clerk to suspend
action for a moment, then turned to
the actress and asked, “Madame, how
old are you?” “Twenty-eight,” said
the lady, who was 40 if she was a
day.” “Very well.” said Tom, polite-
ly. “I asked you that question, be-
cause if I hadn’t it would surely have
been asked you when the attorney
for the defense cross-examined you.
And now that you have told us your
age, do you swear to tell the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth?”

“When a man wants to keep his
end up he must not try to ride both
ends of the seasaw at once.’

We hear that there will be another
store about two miles west of Grant
at the place known as North Board-
man. The mill here also has com-
menced operations for the season.

During the writer’s trip to Toronto
last week, he met our old friends,
George Laird and j. B. McKay,
known as the Oysters Kings of Cana-
da. They both are well known to
the traveling fraternity in Michigan
and while they are now no particular
friends of the Kaiser, they report a
very satisfactory oyster business
throughout the Dominion and wished
to be remembered to their numerous
friends in Michigan, McKay _ has
been elected one of the directors of
the American Club, at Toronto, while
Mr. Laird is getting ready for an-
other extended trip througout the
Dominion.

J. Agnew has sold his meat market
to D. Robinson. Mr. Agnew has
been in the meat business for the
past ten years and has been one of
the successful butchers, being one of
the first to inaugurate the cash sys-
tem and demonstrate that it would
be successfully carried out. Mr.
Agnew expects to go to Detroit to
join his family and make that their
permanent home. Mr. Robinson is

a new man at the business here. He
comes highly recommended and, un-
doubtedly, will make a success of his
new venture, William G. Tapert.

—_>>+>—____.
Pretentious Programme For Lansing
Pure Food Show.

Lansing, Jan. 24—The Lansing
Grocers and Meat Dealers’ Associa-
tion has elected the following dele-
gates to the annual State convention
to be held in Battle Creek next
month: George Daschner, John Af-
feldt, Jr., Charles Sheldon, AP.
ee 0, Bailey, F. C. Wilder,
1. Manning, A. A. Montague, M.
C: Gascon. uw Cc Bowdish, W. B.
Eldridge, N. H. Vogie, Newton Blake,
Joseph’ Shafer, A, C. Roller, Thomas
Smith, W. H. Fast, HL. Comer, Earl
W inters, W. E. Stocker, i. e. Ward,
M. C. Sanders, W. A. ‘Baker, C. M.
Schmidtke.

Although the proposed pure food
show will not be given until March,
committees already are at work and
one of the features of the exhibition
will be a pretentious musical pro-
gramme. The programme of the
musical events is as follows: Wednes-
day evening, March 15, High School
orchestra; Thursdays afternoon, sixth
grade school chorus of 200 voices;
Thursday evening, the newly organ-
ized Symphony orchestra; Friday
afternoon, third grade chorus of 200
voices; Friday evening, High School
orchestra; Saturday afternoon, sixth
grade chorus, 200 voices; Saturday
evening, Symphony orchestra; Mon-
day afternoon eighth grade chorus,
200 voices; Monday evening, Public
School Junior orchestra under direc-
tion of Miss Cooper; Tuesday after-
noon, fourth grade chorus, 200 voices;
Tuesday evening, Pilgrim church or-
chestra; Wednesday afternoon, fifth
grade chorus, 200 voices; Wednesday
evening, High School orchestra,
Thursday afternoon, sixth grade
chorus, 200 voices; Thursday evening,
Symphony orchestra; Friday after-
noon, eighth grade chorus, 200 voices.

Friday evening will be devoted to
special features not yet arranged.

The Association has adopted final
plans for the annual get-together
banquet of employers and employes
which will be held in the Masonic
temple, February 3. This is the most
important social event of the year
with the Association, and arrange-
ments are being made for an attend-
ance of 5,000.

Reports on the credit system indi-
cate that the system is working equit-
ably to both merchants and patrons.
It was brought out at the last meet-
ing that the credit system will not
exclude patrons from credit who are
worthy of concessions and_ time,
Sickness, misfortune, etc., will all be
taken into consideration in the rat-
ings, it was said.

Louis Hildebrand, member of the
police and fire board, who is a mem-
ber of the Association committee on
the enforcement of the draymen’s or-
dinance which compels the registra-
tion- of names of all persons changing
residences, will send a copy of the
ordinance to each person of the city,
and a notice to each drayman of the
city, and a notice to the effect that
the ordinance will be enforced.

—__e +.
Why Saginaw Correspondent Is Si-
lent This Week.

Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 23—With
grief almost unbearable I beg to in-
form you that on account of the
death of my greatest friend on earth,
my father, I will not have a letter
in this week. He dropped dead on
our ranch at Red Cloud, Nebraska,
last Thursday night. Only last week
I received a letter from him saying
his health was good. He was 75
years old and retired. I am waiting
here for the arrival of his body in
the morning. From here we take the
remains to the old Steward home-
stead at Amanda, Ohio, for burial.
I had not seen him for four years
and I assure you it is a trying time
for me. L. M. Steward.

Preparedness and Education.

Detroit, Jan. 25—There is one phase
of the question of preparedness which
has not received attention. I refer
to its educational value, not only as
regards war preparedness but also
industrial preparedness. It is a well-
recognized fact that America, for
some time, has been suffering from
a scarcity of skilled mechanics, and
that no considerable effort has been
made on the part of the governing
powers, or by corporations or indi-
viduals, to aid the young to fit them
for industrial employment, with the
result that fully 85 per cent. of the
youth of both sexes, employed in in-
dustrial work, receive their industrial
education in factories along special-
ized lines, which, in the case of un-
employment in such lines, leaves
them entirely unfitted for other em-
ployment.

Germany, soon after the Franco-
Prussian war, recognizing the pos-
sibilities growing out of the above
stated condition of uneducated labor,
and further recognizing that modern
armament consisted in fact of ma-
chines requiring for their operation,
skilled labor, inaugurated a system
of what is known as “continuation
schools” in which attendance is com-
pulsory, and where the children, after
having been taught the usual rudiments
in the ordinary schools, had their ed-
ucation continued along the lines of
their probable future employment,
with the object of rendering such
children better able to the work which
their life employment demanded of
them, as also more capable of aiding
the Government in the handling of
military apparatus.

The German military system re-
quires two years with the colors. If,
however, the recruit can produce a
certificate from a continuation school,
the term is reduced to one year. This
means that one-half of the cost of
the military establishment of Ger-
many, insofar as relates to the ex-
pense of sustenance, clothing, etc.,
excluding the cost of machines, forti-
fications, and the like, may be prop-
erly charged to education. The ad-
vocates of the German military sys-
tem have always held that the army
was a great educational institution,
and the results, so far as related to
the industries of the country, more
than warranted the expenditure.

It is apparently clear, that if the
United States can arrive at some sys-
tem which involves educational con-
trol of the masses, such system would
benefit the country, not only in pre-
paring as against possible invasion,
but be of immense aid in the develop-
ment of the industries.

George H. Benjamin.

—_—_ ++ >___
David C. Smith, who has covered
Michigan for the past thirty years for
Sprague, Warner & Co., has retired
from active service. He told none
of his customers on his last trip that
it was his final visit. He is now dis-
porting himself at Hot Springs, Ark.,
for a few weeks, after which he will
consider engaging in business on his
own account in Chicago. He may
engage in the stock brokerage busi-
ness in the loop district or open a
private bank in some suburb. He has
capital enough for either—or both,
for that matter.

——__2+__
Harry C. Rindge was in Chicago
last week to attend a meeting of the
Banking and Currency Committee of
the National Credit Men’s Associa-
tion. Much of the time of the meet-
ing was devoted to the discussion of
domestic trade acceptances, which the
organization is undertaking to pop-
ularize.

—_2+>___
Folger’s have decreased their capi-:

tal stock from $35,000 to $32,000.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Bankruptcy Proceedings in South-
western Michigan.

St. Joseph, Jan. 17—In the matter of
William J. Smith and Jay V. Smith and
New York Racket Store, W. J. Smith &
Son, a copartnership, bankrupt, Paw
Paw, the final meeting of creditors was
held at the referee's office and the trus-
tee’s final report and account, showing
no assets found was approved and _ al-
lowed. Creditors having been directed to
show cause why a certificate recommend-
ing the bankrupt’s discharge should not
be made by the referee and no cause
having been shown it was determined
that such favorable recommendation be
made. The trustee was authorized not
to interpose objections to the discharge
of the bankrupt.

Jan. 18—In the matter of Jane Goozen,
bankrupt, Dowagiac, the first meeting of
creditors was held at the latter place
and Don B. Reshore of the same place
elected trustee. Frank Warren, Hattie
Peterson and Adelaide Couse, of the same
place, were appointed appraisers. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined by
the referee and the meeting adjourned
for fifteen days. The trustee filed bond
and the same was approved by the court.
The inventory and report of appraisers
was filed, showing total assets of only
$309.26.

Jan. 19—John H. Udbye a book dealer
of Benton Harbor, filed a voluntary peti-
tion and was adjudged bankrupt and the
matter, referred to Referee Banyon, who
was also appointed receiver. The follow-
ing are listed as creditors:

Secured or Preferred Claims.
George H. Campbell, Benton

Plarbor oo. oe. $650.00

Berrien County Bank, Benton
Harbor i 100.00
City of Benton Harbor, taxes .... 15.00
$765.00

Unsecured Creditors.
A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago ....$551.38
Carters Ink @o.,| Boston .......... 2
Gibson Art Co., Cincinnati ...... 146.33
Educational Tablet Co., Kalamazoo 10.88

Barse & Hopkins, New York 10.86
Volland Art @o., Chicago ........ 26.19
Hamming Whitman Co., Benton

FlarbOr  ............. qe sca. biL7
Western News Co., Chicago ...... 50.00
Western News Co., Chicago ...... 128.81
Eaton Crane & Pike, Pittsfield,

MSS) ue eee. 63.15
Sengbush Self-closnig Ink Stand

Co:, Milwaukee .:.:............ 44.65
Dennison Mfg. Co., Framingham,

MSS ce 4.91

Irving Pitt Mfg. Co., Kansas City 8.85
Thomas Y. Crowell, New York 13.07

M. A. Donohue, Chicago ......... 7.42
Hall & MacCreary Co., Chicago 4.12
American Book Co., Chieazo ..... « Ghul
Ideal Specialty Co., Chicago ...... 17.92
Sidney J. King Co., Chicago 2.16
Oxford University, New York aes Oe
Whiting Paper Co., New York .... 42.00
Schope Stevens Paper Co., Detroit 14.35
Prang Art Co., @Ciicdzo .......... 26.55
sutler Bros, Chicago ............ 14.57
Grossett & Dunlap, Chicago ...... 14.51
International Art Pub. Co.,

Philadelphia io... e 35.66
James Pott & Co., New York .... 1.66
Eugene Dietzgen, Chicago ........ 24.44
Miss Asta Miller, Detroit ........ 265.2
Mrs: R. ©, Traub, Detroit ........ 189.00
Mr. R. C. Traub, Benton Harbor .. 69.00

Easterbrook Steel Pen Co., Camden,

IN cee 3.2
Tuttle Press Co., Appleton, Mich. 15.7
Defender Photo Supply Co.,

MOcheSter i, 3.54
Reilly & Britton Co., Chicago .... 37.47
L. E. Waterman & Co., New York 18.54
John J. Winston Co., Phliadelphia 8.24
Brander Smith Co., Chicago ...... 11.30
Gerson Bros., Chicago ............. 3.91
Henry Altemus Co., Philadelphia 7.04
Conklin Pen Mfg. Co., Toledo ... 11.00
Henry Holt & Co., New York .... 6.37

F. S. Webster Co., Chicago ...... 189.00
White & Wickoff Mfg., Holyoke 32.88
Ginn & Co, Chicago ............. 15.34
Newsome Co., Chicago ........... 8.14
Priscilla Pub. Co., Boston ...... 4.16
Favor Ruhl Co., Chicago ........ 12.46
N. ¥. Book Co., New York ...... 13.67
C. Howard Hunt Pen Co., Camden,

UR Slee ee. 4.50
Platt & Peek Co., New York .... 4.27
Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey

Oly ceo ee 5.19
R. l. Polk & Co., Detroit ........ 15.00
Gore & Harvey, Benton Harbor 25.00

Benton Harbor News Agency .... 5.00

$2,229.40
Assets.
Stock in trade, furniture and
ibqubome ee $2,400.00

Jan. 20—In the matter of John Floodas,
doing business as the Kalamazoo Candy
Co., bankrupt, the first meeting of cred-
itors was held at the latter place. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined by
the referee, whereupon an order was
made by the referee that no trustee be
appointed and the bankrupt be allowed
his exemptions as claimed. The meeting
was then adjourned without day.

Jan. 21—In the matter of Samuel Po-
lakow, bankrupt, Paw Paw, the first
meeting of creditors was held at the lat-
ter place. An order was made that no
trustee be appointed and that the bank-
rupt be allowed the exemptions as claim-

ed. The bankrupt was sworn by the
referee without a reporter and the meet-
ing adjourned without day.

Jan. 22—George DeKam, engaged in
the plumbing business at Kalamazoo,
filed a voluntary petition and was ad-
judicated bankrupt. The schedules dis-
close the following liabilities and assets:
A. Harvey's Sons Mfg. Co.,

POUPOLE | 8. ie, $1,039.52
Jos. EF. Grosswiler Co., Toledo 626.67
United Brass Works, Cleveland 75.50
Schield Specialty Co., Cleveland 7.10
Atlas Brass Co., Cleveland ...... 115.13
Schwander Brass Co., St. Louis 13.55
Eddy Engineering Co., Alpena .. 28.50

Compound Injector & Specialty

Co. Chichea, .....-. 7... 7.00
Nye Tool & Machine Co., Chicago .. 7.00
Federal Sanitary Mfg. Co., Chicago 5.05
Best Miz Co, Cleveland ........ 84.32
Sterling Brass Co., Cleveland ... 121.53
30nd Supply Co., Kalamazoo 81.77
Model Plumbing Co., Kalamazoo .. 9.30
Humphrey Co., Kalamazoo ...... 27.93
Ideal Plumbing Co., Kalamazoo .. 30.59
Keystone Brass Co., Detroit 18.73
Pittsburg Water Heater Co.,

PUIG UUMe 20... . tk. 14.00
Wolverine Brass Works, Grand

Hapigs .2.55..0............... 41.20
Van Bochove Mfg. Co., Kalamazoo 17.30
Standard Sheet Metal Works,

Walamagog) 600) ..05.........,. 12.30
National Waterlift Co., Kalamazoo 58.00
James B. Clow & Sons Co.,

COIGasO 2.2, 31.31
Raymond Lead Co., Chicago ...... 18.3$

$2,491.23

Assets
Stock im tvade 0... ......... 300.00
Real Getaite ...0).............5.... 2,000.00
Household goods ................ 275.00
Machinery, tools and carriages.. 400.00
Debts due on open accounts .... 206.51
OGG A ee oo. . 3,181.51
Property claimed exempt, $2,225.
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Boomlets From Bay City.

Bay City, Jan. 24—In 1915 the post-
office receipts at Bay City were $208,-
255.79, an increase over 1914 of $65,-
908.12 or 46 per cent. The number
of pieces of mail handled in 1915
was 5,388,560; in 1914, 4,182,090, an
increase in pieces of 1,156,670.

The Fulton Manufacturing Co. will
ship this week 1,100 go-carts and
sulkies to Vancouver, British Colum-
bia.

O. E. Sovereign and D. L. Gal-

braith have returned from Grand
Rapids, where they attended the an-
nual furniture show in that city. They
report that one of the displays which
attracted the most attention was the
exhibit of the Kelton-Aurand Co., of
Bay City. This company has dis-
plays in Chicago and New York City.

The Detroit Lace Manufacturing
Co., of Detroit, will move its plant
to Alpena as soon as all necessary
arrangements can be completed.

A State employment agency is to
be extablished in this city under the
direction of Deputy Factory Inspec-
tor C. L. Sheldon, who will be in
charge.

A, J. Hillier, who has represented
the Phoenix Brewing Co. in North-
ern Michigan for several years, has
retired and is succeeded by John O.
Shea, of this city.

R. S. Richards, of this city, Michi-
gan representative of the Illinois
Powder and Dynamite Co., who has
been confined to his home for the
past two weeks with the grippe, is
slowly improving.

I’. L. Vantyle, representing the
Clark, Coggin & Johnson Co., Boston,
jobber of coffees and teas, will spend
the next two weeks at Petoskey and
vicinity working in connection with
the Petoskey Grocery Co.

Webb Bros., Caro, are reducing
their stock of clothing and shoes
preparatory to retiring from business.

Frank O, Rockwell, Junior Coun-
selor of Bay Council, has decided to
move to Flushing, his former home.
He will continue working the terri-
tory north of Bay City for Ham-
mond, Standish & Co. Sorry you
are going to leave Bay City, Frank,
as Bay Council was expecting quite

a boom when you became Senior
Counselor.
Ray W. Snyder, with F. Wildar

& Co., Cleveland, left Saturday night
for the Soo, where he will spend two
weeks working territory in that vicin-
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GOING TO THE PEOPLE,

When President Wilson made the
annouficement of his attitude on the
question of preparedness, setting
forth his reasons and arguments in
his message to Congress, there was
very general approval of the position
taken, except by those who are
avowed followers of Mr. Bryan and
his peace-at-any-price policy. It was
popularly believed at the time that
the proposition made by the Presi-
dent would have ‘the prompt and
hearty approval of both branches of
Congress and that there would be
comparatively little difficulty in se-
curing the enactment of the neces-
sary statutes. It was to be expected,
of course, that some time would be
occupied by debate, not so much on
the theory that it would change any
votes as to give ambitious statesmen
opportunity to make speeches wnich,
printed in pamphlet form, could be
distributed among their constituents.
Congress had not progressed very
far in its session before it was dis-
covered that there was to be more
than anticipated opposition. It is
claimed that something like fifty Dein-
ocrats take the contrary view and
that is a number larger than their
majority in the House. It develops,
too, that there are senators of like
opinion. This attitude is not con-
fined to either party, but embraces
representatives of both.

If it is conceded that the news-
papers correctly represent and reflect
public opinion, there can be no ques-
tion about the ideas of an overwhelm-
ing majority of the people. Anyone
who has the opportunity to read a large
number of daily, weekly and monthly
publications can not fail to be im-
pressed with the fact that the pre-
vailing opinion is strongly with the
President. It is not in any sense a
partisan question. It is a matter of
patriotism and good sense. If it is
not acted upon favorably it would in-
dicate that the lessons plainly taught
by the European war have been lost
in this country. The Washington re-
ports indicate that the committees to
whom the bills have been referred
propose to adopt dilatory tactics and
that at least it will be a couple of
months before anything definite is
done.
condition, the

Appreciating this

 

President has decided to go before
the people, and that is certainly the
wisest and most effectual method.
The programme previously mapped
out for social and other activities dur-
ing the winter will be changed. Mr.
Wilson has decided to make a series
of addresses in various sections of
the country in which he will present
his views, the reasons and the argu-
ments sustaining them with the idea
that the people, becoming impressed
thereby, will insist that their repre-
sentatives vote in accordance with
their ideas. He is to be commended
upon this determination. There are
few men in public life to-day who
can make a better speech than Mr.
Wilson, and there is reason not only
to hope, but to believe that the in-
tended tour will be productive of the
desired results.

—EEEEE

A bill which will raise a hornet’s nest
in Washington and have the opposition
of a multitude of clerks and other Gov-
ernment employes and with which little
fault will be found in other sections of
the country, is that of Senator Shepard’s
reducing all salaries of $1,200 a year or
more on the public payroll. It proposes
to begin with 2 per cent., rising until all
over $6,000 a year are reduced by 12 per
cent. While of course there are a great
many very able, industrious, efficient and
faithful clerks in the various Washing-
ton departments, the suspicion is very
general that they do not work much
overtime and that their hours are very
attractive compared with those employed
in the various lines of business all over
the country. Senator Shepard says that
because of the reduced revenues there is
less income, and that it is wise and abso-
lutely necessary to cut down disburse-
ments, and he thinks this is a very proper
way. Another plan which presumably
would be equally efficacious would be
to reduce the number of employes, which
probably would not at all reduce the
amount or the character of the work
done and would save a good deal of
money, even if salaries were left as they
are. The apparently irresistible tempta-
tion is for politicians to increase places
to which they can secure the appoint-
ment of their friends. In the Federal,
as in the several state departments, this
has grown into an abuse, and the num-
ber on these public payrolls could be cut
down very materially and still all the
work done very satisfactorily.

 

Delivery troubles with which buy-
ers of steel have contended for weeks
are now more aggravated than at any
time, and this condition dominates
the whole steel situation. Manufac-
turers are much concerned and many
metal working plants are operating
only from day to day and all are de-
pleting their stocks. Some iron
founderies in New England are on the
verge of a shutdown, as the embargo
continues there. Central Western
shops which work up rolled prod-
ucts are getting more steel because
parts of New England can get none,
but there is still a limitation of out-
put at a number of plants because
the mills can not supply all the raw
material wanted. Not until the em-
bargo is lifted entirely will the iron
and steel business be at its height.

THE SKATING FEVER.

Every season has its special forms
of entertainment. Last year it was
dancing that held popular sway. This
year it is skating, a form of amuse-
ment which will have no opponents
from the standpoint of morality and
which must be acknowledged as a
most healthful exercise. That it is
also most enjoyable is attested by
all who have ever given it a real try
out.

Just here is an opportunity to work
out a good trade, and although winter
is well under way, it is by no means
gone; and the best of it is that much
of the equipment for skating has a
place in the wearing apparel of the
sensible person every day until warm
weather comes. Of course, the skates
come first, the indispensable thing,
which admits of no substitute. Just
get in a stock of good material, quote
alluring prices and note how con-
tagious is the attraction.

Then will come the skating cap,
worn with equal favor by boys and
girls alike—the most convenient and
comfortable thing for school and for
almost every other place as well as
for the ice. With it the girls demand
the scarf, a thing of comfort as well
as beauty, And although some of our
merchants stocked up well in these
goods for the holidays there is now
an insistent call for a replenishing of
the goods. These are so popular with
little and big girls, with those who
skate and those who do not, that one
may be sure of selling the goods if
of pleasing colors and popular prices.
Copenhagen blue, gray and old rose
are much sought colors, and white is
always a favorite.

Then there are gloves, substantial
shoes which have sensible heels, and
the sweater, which allows the heavy
coat to be doffed while actually skat-
ing, and then put on when the exer-
cise is over to guard against possi-
ble chill. Encourage so healthful a
sport by specializing along these lines
for the next month, and help trade,
as well as help the boys and girls
to have ,the best time of their lives.

 

 

The Supreme Court decision uphold-
ing the amended Food and Drugs Act
deals another heavy blow to the quacks
and swindlers who prey on the credulity
of the ignorant and the tendency of the
sick to grasp at any straw. As the law
originally stood, it condemned only those
who misstated the compounds of patent
decoctions, That bore harshly enough
upon those who were compelled to con-
fess to 60 per cent. alcohol and 40 per
cent. commonplace and obviously harm-
ful drugs in some wonder-working bit-
ters or root extract. It did not reach
those who, like the makers of the “Al-
terative” which figured in the case just
closed, could find a profitable market
among illiterate or careless people who
overlooked the table of compounds while
swallowing the assurances of a cure
for pneumonia or tuberculosis. Justice
Hughes states that the Supreme Court
sees no difference between the “interstate
transportation of swindling preparations
designed to cheat credulous sufferers,”
when accompanied with false and fraud-
ulent statements, and the interstate
transportation of lottery tickets. There
is no difference. It cannot be said, for

example, that the makers of such medi-
cines have the right to “express an opin-
ion” as to the virtues of their alleged
curatives in such form as to constitute
a definite promise of results absolutely

impossible of realization.
EEE

In the February Century, H. W.
Van Loon indulges in the harmless
pastime of predicting what changes
will take place in Europe after the
war. They are to be socially up-
heaving, or even revolutionary, as he
foresees them. One of his prophecies
perhaps deserves a word of comment.
Speaking of the huge public debts in-
curred in the course of the war, he
writes: “The time will come when the
ciitzen will simply wipe this debt off
the national slate.” This is easy to
say, but one is curious about the
process. In Germany, for example—
and Mr. Van Loon’s reference seems
to be chiefly to that country—the
war-debt is almost entirely held at
home. Millions of it represent the
savings of workingmen. Bonds of
small denominations have been very
widely distributed. Hence the steps
in repudiation would be something
like this: revolutionary citizens over-
turn the infamous Kaiser and his gang
of murderers who have ruined the
country and then proceed to declare
void, principal and interest, the na-
tional securities which they them-
selves own. For prophecy, like some
other things, safety lies in generali-
ties. The miserable details are dan-
gerous.

 

When first announced, it seemed alto-
gether probable that President Wilson’s
preparedness programme would be adopt-
ed by Congress. Very soon, however, it
developed that there would be Opposition
in his own party. It was expected that
Mr. Bryan would do what he could to
defeat it, but it was reckoned that, hav-
ing come from a Democratic President,
the Democratic Federal legislators would
approve. It appears, however, that the
Democratic opposition has been grow-
ing larger rather than less. They have
only twenty-five majority in the House
and it is already estimated that some-
thing like sixty Democrats are against
it. This means that unless the President
can get Republican support, the measure
will be defeated. There ought to be no
difficulty in securing support for it, be-
cause it is in no sense a partisan bill,
It is a question about which individual
opinions may differ, but there is positive-
ly nothing political about it and neither
side has anything to gain or lose, save
popular approval. There is no reason
under the sun why any Republican who
believes in it should not vote and work
for it.

 

A British soap company is said to
be advertising like this in a London
paper: “Always include a shaving
stick and a cake or two of soap in
your parcels to the front. Don’t of-
fend your soldier friends by sending
them goods made in America or other
neutral countries.” Advertising like
that will not make many friends in
America, for why bar out American
soap? If American soap. offends
the soldiers, then American goods
donated for the relief of the suffer-
ing victims of the war is offensive.

 

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Making Material Preparations For
Death.*

During the last few months so many
of my friends have stepped out of this
life and passed into the Great Beyond
that the keen sorrow of parting with
them has made an unusual impress upon
tne and it occurs to me that it will not
be inappropriate to touch in this morn-
ing’s talk upon a few matters connected
with death.

The trend of my thoughts has been
toward practical matters associated with
the termination of a life and the giving
up of its responsibilities. Death is as
natural a phenomenon as birth and we
should not shun the discussion of any
obligation connected with it, even if
anguish and a cloud of sorrow are in-
dissolubly connected with it as a fact.
There are some accompaniments of
death which are of very practical import
to us and which, because of their cer-
tainty, we ought to be willing to make
provision for in our plans of life. We
are, any of us, liable to be stricken at
any time with sickness and disease and
if we refuse to accept this as a fact
and ignore the possibilities connected
with it and make no preparation for
them, we are shunning a duty in a way
that implies cowardice and unwillingness
to meet a serious responsibility of life.
In our homes we ought to think of the
responsibility of sickness and what we
should do in case some member of the
family should be taken suddenly ill and
not have problems suddenly confront us
which we have not prepared ourselves
to solve. One of the important things in
this connection, it seems to me, is to
have a nest-ege in the savings bank
secure and left intact for emergencies.

I have just visited an old lady for
whom I feel some responsibility who
said to me, “I have had for some years
a little over a hundred dollars saved for
use in case of death. I have pinched
and saved and undergone some priva-
tions in order to have that sum remain
untouched for the purpose intended. I
feel this responsibility is one upon me,
that I may not be a burden upon others
when I leave this world.”

This thoughtfulness for those who
come after us and will have to take up
the threads of our work is one we
should not neglect and the responsibility
is upon us just as surely when we are
young as when we are in the decline
of life.

I recently was acquainted with a fam-
ily in whose household death came sud-
denly and the arrangement of the house
was such that the casket could not be
taken in and out of the doorways, so
that the service had to be held at the
home of a neighbor. This lack of

*Conversational address by

Charles W. Garfield, before
force of Grand Rapids Savings

 

Hon.
working
Bank.

thoughtfulness in the planning of a
house, it seems to me, is open to serious
criticism, for death comes into every
family and because of the certainty of
it, we should make all the preparations
we can to avoid casting unnecessary
burdens upon others.

The making of a will is one of the
things I call to your attention in con-
nection with my topic. If we have any
desires with regard to any properties
which we own, we should simply and
clearly define those wishes in a legal
form, so that there will be no question
as to the disposal of our things after
we shall have passed on.

Life insurance is one of the con-
nectives to which I would call your at-
tention. I feel that we should all of
us who have people in any way de-
pending upon us provide for a situation
in which our personal service can not
be rendered. To any of you who have
family responsibilities and are working

on a salary, this duty is one which you -

should not neglect. The excuse that
you can not afford to take on life insur-
ance is not a valid one, because you can
if you make some sacrifices, and these
sacrifices are incumbent upon you in
making a preparation for taking care
of your loved ones in case your life
should be cut off.

While death is common among us
and is absolutely certain, it should not
lead us to treat it lightly. Our attitude
toward the one who has gone and to-
ward the sorrowing ones who are in
anguish because of the separation should
be a subject of thoughtfulnes on our
part. The memory of everyone who
passes away is precious to somebody and
the inevitableness of death does not in
itself modify the sorrow over the broken
cords of friendship and affection, so that
any gracious thoughtfulness which we
can express to the bereaved should not
be neglected in connection with death.

We can always think of a certain
kind of immortality which is absolutely
certain. A good character and its in-
fluence in community and in the world
passes on from generation to generation
and is never lost. But we desire some-
thing more than this—something that
is personal. We like to feel that the in-
dividuality of our friends, when they
pass to the other side, will remain and
it is a source of satisfaction to us to
have a faith upon which is based the
belief that when we shall pass to the
other shore we shall meet our friends
who have gone on before us and we
shall recognize them, because they have
carried with them the personal charac-
teristics which won our respect and af-
fection. This faith, which is held by
most people in this world, should not
be ruthlessly shaken by one who can
not believe because to his mind there

is no logic power that proves the faith
to be well founded and his limitation
will not allow him to see by faith alone.
A life that shall supplement our
earthly existence is the scientist’s hope
and the Christian’s expectation. In our
relationships, no matter what we may
believe, it is gracious to respect a faith
which brings to mortals so much satis-
faction and gives to them heart to do
their best, to live good lives and to have
a godly spirit. It gives us hope and
confidence to allow ourselves the
prophetic vision of what we can picture
as an ideal existence when we. shall
have “shuffled off this mortil coil.”
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Ira B. Dalrymple, Cashier Grand
Rapids National City Bank.

An eminent Michigan banker once
remarked that the prime essentials to
success in the banking business were
“plenty of gray matter and a good
personality;” that, equipped with
these two requisites, and a general
knowledge of the machinery of the
banking business, the path of the
young banking recruit would be a
comparatively easy one. The banker
had some of his own men in mind,
perhaps. Perhaps he did not—he
might have been dealing in generali-
ties. But there are a number of men
in this city who answer the banker’s
description and among them is Ira B.
Dalrymple, whose face and winning
personality have enabled him to make
rapid strides in the banking business
of this community.

Mr. Dalrymple is a comparatively
young man, and his rise to his pres-
ent position has been through sheer
ability to do—and do well—the tasks
that were allotted to him. Possessed
of a keen business sense, with which
is combined a general knowledge of
the banking business in all its branch-
es, such as few men possess, he is a
man whose opinions carry weight
with his associates and whose coun-
sel is sought on many and divers oc-
casions.

A man of keen intellect and sound
judgment, able to grasp opportunities
as they present themselves or to cre-
ate them where they are lacking, he
is an indefatigable worker. His
equipment for efficient service con-
sists of knowledge gained through
practical experience in every branch
of banking service. In each of these
branches he has spent a number of
years, and these years gained for him
that poise and sureness which have
become so marked in his daily work.
With the motto “Leave nothing half
done, nor leave to others anything
you can do yourself,’ Mr. Dalrymple
has set a lasting example to all with
whom he has come in contact, and
has in many instances imparted to
his associates to practical and lasting
effect that enthusiasm which is part
and parcel of his nature.

Mr. Dalrymple was born in Bril-
liant, Jefferson county, Ohio, Sept. 1,
1882. His father was of Scotch
descent, his great grandfather having
been born in Scotland. His mother
was of English descent. When he
was 7 years old his father secured a
clerkship in the Government printing
office at Washington and the family
resided in the Capital many years
thereafter. Mr. Dalrymple attended
the public school up to and including
the high school. He studied three
years in a business college. He was
thus from the first thoroughly equip-
ped from a mental standpoint to
grapple with business problems and
his education has been amply justified
by his rise in his chosen profession.
From a physical standpoint, too, Mr.
Dalrymple has been very fortunate,
his love of Nature and his constant
exercise in the open having proved of
material benefit along this line. His

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

first employment was with the Colum-
bia National Bank during vacation
periods. He was subsequently em-
ployed in the Congressional Library
and finally secured permanent em-
ployment with the Washington
branch of the International Banking
Corporation, starting as runner and
working up through the position of
book-keeper to Teller. When the
bank was merged into the United
States Trust Co., he continued in the
same position. He subsequently be-
came Assistant Cashier of the Wash-

 

ister the affairs of any bank in the
most economical and effective man-
ner. His pleasing personality and
perfect manners make him an ideal
man to come in contact with the
public. He is excellently equipped
to secure new business and attract
new customers, as well as to hold
those who are already customers of
the bank with which he is identified.

Personally, Mr. Dalrymple under-
takes to teach faithfulness and kind-
liness in all he says and does. He is
content to do his work just as well

Ira B. Dalrymple

ington Southern Bank, from which
position he was promoted to that of
Casher. February 12, 1913, he came
to Grand Rapids to take the position
of Paying Teller at the Grand Rap-
ids Savings Bank. He subsequently
became Assistant Cashier, resigning
to take the position of Cashier of the
City Trust & Savings Bank. January
10 of this year he became Cashier of
the Grand Rapids National City
Bank, which position he will prob-
ably fill for many years to come.

Mr. Dalrymple was married Noy-
ember 4, 1913, to Miss Agnes Jewell,
daughter of Frank Jewell, the well-
known lumberman and _ capitalist.
They have a boy 15 months old and
reside at 325 South James street.

Mr. Dalrymple is a member of the
Christian Church, Kent Country Club
and the Curling Rink. His sole hobby
is golf.

Mr. Dalrymple is a very efficient
executive in banking work. He is
thorough and exhaustive in his study
and comprehension of the machinery
of active banking. His long experi-
ence in the banking business has
made it possible for him to admin-

as he knows how and never seeks
through his success in these efforts to
push himself ahead. He does his
work well for work’s sake and be-
cause it is his duty; and he does it
diligently every day. Counted by the
criterions which some set up, he has
not yet achieved fame, nor wealth,
nor special prominence. He is not at
all dissatisfied on this account, but
on the other hand is extremely hap-
py, because he is fond of helping
others, is devoted to his profession
and cheerfully gives the very best
that is in him to improve its standards
and thereby materially help the
cause of banking all over the State.
He is a generous man in the best
sense of the word, not in giving gold,
because he has none too much of it,

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January 26, 1916

but in giving of himself, and he does
it so willingly and so gladly that it
makes a wonderful impression. His
name is not yet much known around
the State and the list of his acquaint-
ances is comparatively small, perhaps,
but his influence and the results of
his work are felt everywhere for up-
lift and betterment. His is an exceed-
ingly useful life and his career is
sure to be one of which his friends
will be properly proud.
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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

 

An Old Time Butcher to His Son.

Why is it that so many butchers
are continually trying to make their
think that they are re-
favors when they go to a
make their regular pur-

customers
ceiving
market to
chases?

I saw a case of this the other day
when I happened into a market up
A woman came in and told the
butcher that she wanted a small sir-
lion steak as she only had two in the
family and a large one would mean
a good deal of waste for her. The
butcher cut off what she desired
Then he made what I consider a mis-
take.

“Forty

The woman started to get her
money out of her pocketbook.

here.

cents,” he said.

“Y’m not hard on you,” continued
my butcher friend in a patronizing
tone of voice. “I know how it is.
That’s real cheap.”

Mind you, the woman had never
opened her mouth to complain about
the price, but seemed to be perfectly
satisfied with what the butcher had
charged her. But evidently the
butcher’s way of speaking got her
goat.

“Look here,’ she declared; “what
do you mean by talking to me in
that fashion? I am perfectly willing
to pay for what I get, and pay full
value. I don’t want any more than
my money calls for. Hereafter I
would thank you if you would keep
all such remarks as you just made
to yourself.”

She paid for her steak, took her

parcel and made for the door in no-

very nice frame of mind so, far ‘as
that butcher was concerned.

Nor do I blame her. She had
stated her case to the butcher and
he had filled her wants. She was
satisfied, else she would have com-
plained. But from the way the butch-
er talked in front of four or five
other customers who were in the
market at the time one would have
thought that he was doing a charit-
able act, one for which he deserved
to be patted on the back.

This butcher has a bad fault. He
is constantly striving to make each
customer think that he is doing
something special for her, that he is
giving her an inside price, something
that none of the other women who
come to the market are getting. And
he’s fool enough to do it before
other customers when they are in
the store, with the result that he is
constantly antagonizing them.

To tell the truth, he doesn’t run
a one-price market. A woman, if
she will take the trouble, can always

beat him down on the first price he
charges her. He has never had the
nerve to hold out for the prices that
he should receive. Therefore he has
gotten into the habit of trying to
forestall a woman offering him a low-
er price for the meat than he has
charged her by making her think that
he has already given her a reduction.
He is rapidly training his trade to
be a bunch of bargain hunters, and
therefore undermining his most valu-
able asset, the good will which he
should enjoy among them.

Good merchandising requires that
one price be charged to every cus-
tomer who comes into the market.
It is the system that has done more
than anything else to place retailing
on a straight basis of value, service
and quality, and to take away that
battle of wits that used to prevail
every time a customer and a retailer
got together. The man who violates
this method of doing business hurts
himself to a great degree.

But the butcher who tries to con-
vince a customer that he is reducing
a price under the guise of a charita-
ble action hurts himself more than
can be estimated. The case which
I referred to at the beginning of this
letter is an example. The woman to
whom the butcher was trying to con-
vey the idea that he was reducing
a price could buy Mr. Butcher
several times over and never miss
the money. I know this because I]
know the woman in question.

Because a woman wants a smali
amount of meat does not mean that
she cannot afford to buy a larger
amount. A woman who has a small
family would be foolish to buy meat
a good proportion of which would
find its ultimate destination in the
earbage pail. The fact that a per-
son can afford a thing is no reason
why she should indulge in waste.

So, my boy, if you have a customer
who buys small amounts don’t get
the idea that she can’t afford more.
Give her what she wants, but don’t
try to let her know that you are sorry
for her, if you do her trade will soon
find its way to another butcher.
And although it may not be large,
every bit of trade counts in these
days of sharp competition —Butch-
ers’ Advocate.

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Microscopic Examination for Trich-
inosis.

Microscopic examination for trich-
inosis in pork was first established in
this country in Chicago, June 22, 1891.
It has lately been done away with,
due to a method of rendering the
trichinae harmless through refrigera-
tion,

 

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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

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Vice-President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.
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COLD STORAGE.

 

What It Is Doing For the Fruit
Market.

Fruit is by nature a perishable prod-
uct. With the exception of the citrus
fruits and winter apples there are
probably few food products of veg-
etable origin which require to be
used so promptly after reaching ma-
turity as the common fruits of the
temperate zone. Until very recent
times little fresh fruit of the more
perishable varieties was used outside
of the immediate locality of produc-
tion, the surplus being dried or made
into wine, cider, etc., or simply allow-
ed to go to waste. Under such a
system, fruit growing could advance
to only a very limited extent in any
locality. Modern commercial fruit
growing is closely associated in its
development with the canning indus-
try, improvements in transportation,
and the rise of cold storage and re-
frigeration.

Soft Fruits.

In reference to the tender summer
fruits, such as berries, peaches, cher-
ries, etc., the cold storage problem
is a somewhat different proposition
than with the winter apples. The life
of these soft fruits, even under the
most favorakle conditions, is of ex-
ceedingly limited duration. The ob-
ject sought is to place the fruit in a
temperature which experience has
shown to be the most favorable and
to hold it there only so long as to
enable the dealer to dispose of it to
as good advantage as possible. The
season of the fruit is extended little,
if any, beyond the normal. The ad-
vantage lies in the possibility of hold-
ing a certain amount of the fruit on
hand for a few days in order that the
supply on the market may be uniform
throughout the season. Anyone fa-
miliar with the fruit market is aware
that, as a rule, the season is made up
of alternate periods of heavy and
light receipts, owing to climatic or
other influences, which affect the rate
of maturity or the possibility of har-
vesting and marketing the crop. The
use of cold storage, therefore, has
somewhat the effect of an air cham-
ber in a pump. The more or less
fluctuating receipts are discharged in
a comparatively steady stream as the
demands of the market require and
a more uniform price is assured. This
is of direct advantage to the growers

since it is a source of a certain amount
of confidence on the part of the deal-
ers who feel that there is less danger
that the fruit will spoil on their hands
and that it can be placed on the mar-
ket in better condition, hence a fairer
price is assured when the receipts are
heavy.
Pre-Cooling.

Perhaps the most important use of
refrigeration in the marketing of the
more perishable fruits is its applica-
tion to transportation, By the use of the
refrigerator car it is possible to main-
tain a temperature of about 38 deg. F.
throughout the journey, even during
the hot weather of midsummer. The
successful operation of the refris-
erator car depends upon proper atten-
tion to re-icing. Owing to the high
temperature of the fruit, at least twen-
ty-four hours are required to reduce
the temperature to 38 deg. F. Re-
icing is necessary at this time and
also every day or two during the jour-
ney, depending upon the outside tem-
perature. If the fruit is pre-cooled
before shipment, the efficiency of the
refrigerator car is greatly increased.
Pre-cooling is accomplished by forc-
ing cold air through the loaded car
until the temperature is reduced to
38 deg., which requires from one and
one-half to three hours, depending
upon the temperature of the fruit.
Pre-cooling has proved very success-
ful in shipping berries from Western
Washington. Previous to its intro-
duction, the main market for Wash-
ington berries shipped under ordinary
refrigeration was Montana and the
adjacent portions of Canada and a
few other localities at about the same
distance. The most important point
of distribution was Grand Forks,
Mont. By picking the fruit rather
underripe it was possible to send it as
far as Minneapolis, although with con-
siderable risk of loss. With pre-coo!-
ing, berries can easily be sent to many
points in the Middle West. the main
centers of distribution being Chicago,
Omaha, and Kansas City.

Pre-cooling is not so necessary with
the peach as with berries and is not
employed by Northwestern peach
growers. This is due to the fact that,
since the peach is picked while still
quite green, it carries to market satis-
factorily under ordinary refrigeration.
It should be emphasized, however, that
the time of picking the peach should
be regulated by the market for which
it is intended in order that the fruit
may reach the consumer in proper
condition for use, neither too green
nor overripe. Where a local or near-
by market is available the fruit will
be all the better if left on the trees
until it is ready for use, or nearly so.
Most growers, especially those who

sell through an association, aim to
pick their peaches at as early a stage
as possible. Such fruit is in condition
to ship to the most distant markets,
but if sold nearby is apt to cause
dissatisfaction because of the imma-
ture condition in which it reaches the
consumer.

The pear is somewhat intermediate
between the apple and the more per-
ishable fruits in its relation to cold
storage and marketing. Although
there are some late pears that keep
well, the most important commercial
varieties ripen rather early. Since
pears are less perishable than the
stone fruits and berries, their season
may be considerably lengthened by
storage.

Summer Apples.

Refrigeration finds but little appli-
cation in the marketing of summer
apples. Since the markets are mostly
local shipment under refrigeration is

 

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unnecessary. There is generally 4
constant succession of varieties, hence
it is usually not profitable to attempt
to extend the season of any of them.
It is therefore, exceptional to place
such fruit in cold storage and then
only for a short time to permit the
adjustment of a market temporarily
overstocked.
Winter Apples.

For the shipment of winter apples
from the Northwest, refrigerator cars
of the ordinary type are employed. A
low temperature is maintained, usually
by ventilation rather than by the use
of ice, since the fruit is shipped most-
ly during cool weather. By proper
attention to details, winter apples may
be held in cold storage far beyond their
season in common storage. For best
results, the apples should be of med-
ium size for the variety, full grown
and well colored, but still very firm,
free from punctures, bruises, insect
blemishes or disease. The tempera-
ture should be very uniform and as
low as possible iene danger of
freezing, 31 to 32 deg. F. being most
favorable; the air Sat be rather
humid to prevent shriveling of the
fruit, and the apples should be placed
in storage as soon as possible after
picking.

Effect on Market.

The effect of placing part of the
crop of winter apples in cold storage
is to temporarily remove that portion
from the market and place it where
it will not compete with the remain-
der. That it is usually a profitable
proceeding is shown by the rapid ex-
tension of apple storage in recent
years. If it were necessary to dis-
pose of the whole of the apple crop
as soon as harvested, the market
would be overstocked and the prices
low, even in the season of moderate
crop, to be followed in a few weeks
by a shortage and excessively high
prices. Storage, therefore, extends
the season during which the fruit can
be marketed, equalizes the prices, and
assures a supply of apples practically
the year around. As more of the
young orchards in the Northwest
come into bearing, the importance of
holding part of the crop in storage is
likely to increase.

In the study of storage problems,
not enough importance seems to have
been attached to the degree of ripe-
ness of the fruit when it is placed in
the hands of the consumer. The ten-
dency seems to be to store all apples
under such conditions as to keep
them as long as possible. The result
is that many apples have been remov-
ed from storage and placed on sale
before they were in condition to use,
to the dissatisfaction of the purchaser
and the injury of the market. While
this often follows from lack of judg-
ment or ignorance of the season of
certain varieties on the part of the
dealers, it is no doubt frequently due
to a distinct demand for particular
varieties at a season when the ordinary
cold storage fruit of those varieties is not
yet ripe enough for use. It would no
doubt be wise to supply that demand
with fruit in condition to use, thus
actually lengthening the season of the
variety rather than merely delaying
its season as long as possible. The
florist calculates when the demand for

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

certain flowers will be heaviest and
then starts his plants and so regu-
lates the temperature that the plants
will be at their best at that time.
Should he come up to Easter time with
his lilies all in the bud he could
scarcely expect to realize very large
profits from his product. In like man-
ner it seems probable that the fruit
market would benefit by a gradation
of storage temperatures so as to sup-
ply a constant demand for ripe fruit
of certain varieties during a long
period. To accomplish this success-
fully, would require a careful study
of the relation of rapidity of ripening
to the storage temperature and the
condition of the fruit when stored.
Conclusion.

The principal objections to cold
storage are the expense, the delayed
returns, and the possibility of loss ol
the stored product. The first two are
largely personal matters, while the
last is not likely to be serious under
modern conditions of cold storage if
sound fruit is used and not left in
storage too long for the variety. The
fear that speculators may buy up the
crop and store it in an attempt to
corner the fruit market seems to have
little foundation, since such a pro-
ceeding would be attended by great
risk on account of the relatively per-
ishable nature of the product. As mat-
ters stand at present, the benefits of
cold storage to both the producers
and consumers of fruit far outweigh
the objections and present indications
point to increased benefits in the fu-
ture. W. J. Young,

Assistant Horticulturist Washing-
ton Experiment Station.

— +2.
Preventing Mottled Butter.

Mottled butter is frequently found
on the market at this time of the
year, and, even though it may be of
very good flavor, it is strongly dis-
criminated against by the purchaser.
As this defect is one of workman-
ship it can be overcome by the ap-
plication of proper methods on the
part of the buttermaker.

Mottles are caused primarily by
an uneven distribution of salt in the
butter. This may be produced by in-
sufficient working of the butter or
by churning, washing, and working
it at a very low temperature, or by
washing or working it at a temper-
ature several degrees higher or low-
er than the churning temperature.

When the quantity of butter made
in one churning is much less than
usual, it is necessary to work it a
greater number of revolutions of the
churn than usual in order to produce
the same results on the butter.

Extremely low temperatures. of
churning, washing, and working
should be avoided, because they pro-
duce so firm a butter that it is only
with great difficulty that the salt can
be worked uniformly into it. High
temperatures of churning, washing,
and working must also be avoided
to prevent an abnormal loss of fat
in the buttermilk and also the mak-
ing of a greasy, leaky butter.

Great variations in temperature
during the manufacturing process
should always be avoided. Under
normal conditions the temperature
of the wash water should be the same

as, or within 2 deg. of, that of the

buttermilk.

When the churn room is so cold
that the butter becomes chilled be-
fore working is completed, mottled
butter is frequently the result. To
prevent this it is preferable to in-
crease the amount of working rather
than to raise the temperature of the
wash water.

Mottled butter, then, may be pre-
vented by using methods that will
insure a uniform distribution of salt.

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January 26, 1916

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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Jan. 24—‘‘Of all that
Michigan produces, Hotel Michigan
affords the best,” is the slogan of the
best appointed hotel in Northern
Michigan. Charlevoix has some of
the largest resort hotels in Michigan,
but they afford accommodation for
the summer tourists only and close
their doors to the public in the early
fall. Not so with the Hotel Michigan.
The weary traveler may find food
and shelter at any time throughout
the year. The lobby has all the home
comforts of the most luxuriously
furnished homes, including a fine fire-
place, big easy leather chairs, a piano
and a full toned Victrola. The din-
ing room is as well appointed as you
may care to enter and the food is
the best to be had. It should be a
pleasure for the boys to have such
a hostelry for their accommodations
and as it is being kept open during
the winter months and catering at
all times to the commercial man, they
show their appreciation by giving it
their patronage. Proprietor Biossat
is an ex-traveler and knows how to
cater to the whims of the commercial
man and tries at all times to do so.
3oost for the remodeled Ellston, now
the Hotel Michigan.

Criticisms of Gabby Gleanings came
thick and furious in last week’s issue.
Hop to it boys, we are glad you are
sitting up and taking notice.

For the benefit of correspondent
Wilson, would say when you have
the “V” half the battle is won. A
good record and the applicant should
worry. _

George Clark, with a brand new
outfit of toggery, was hustling
through the snowdrifts in Northern
Michigan territory last week.

E. Neeland, coal dealer of Man-
celona, is seriously ill at his home
with Bright’s disease.

To prevent an influx of orders in
the office, sit in a hotel and play rum.

An easy lived life leads to a ripe
old age. What’s the use of being
an angel before you've seen Detroit?
Grand Rapids knows how.

R, E. Emerson, the Canadian Club
cigar representative, of Detroit, and
E. A. Crandall, representative for
Worden Grocer Co., were both suf-
fering from cold feet last week. No,
they just took several cold drives.

After badly damaging a snow plow
and an engine the G. R. & I. dis-
covered they couldn’t pass on the
same track . No one was injured in
the smashup.

Remember that Jan. 29 is the date
of the next U. C. T. dance.

How about those banquet tickets?
Remember, wifie or the sweetheart
would be more than pleased to go,
so have a heart and get those tickets
for March 4.

What has become of Kronic Kick-
er!

Absal Guild, A. M. O. B., will hold

an oriental costume party at U. C. T.
hall Feb. 12, dedicated to the ladies
of the Mystic Realm. This event
promises to surpass all previous ones
in splendor and uniqueness. The
menu, decoration, favors and music
will follow closely as possible along
oriental lines and will be in charge
of the Kings Guards in full nuiform.
Charles C. Perkins, well known direc-
tor of feasts, dances and outings, as-
sisted by ©. R. Lawton. EF. G.
Hamel and H. Fred De Graff,
will have charge of banquet and Ray
D. Bennett, Walter Lypps, William
D. Bosman will boss the favors, dec-
orations and lighting effects; John
D. Martin, G. W. Ferguson and Tally
Stott, invitations and publicity; H.
W. Harwood, O. W. Stark and Wil-
liam E. Sawyer, amusements and
music; H. Fred De Graff, William
Franke and John D. Martin emble-
matic pillows, Capt. Walter N. Bur-
gess will direct the programme. The
feast will be preceded by a full cer-
monial session at 2:30 p. m. to re-
ceive a large class of novices.

A sure cure for a 1916 proposal:

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Turn a small sized rodent, common-
ly called a mouse, loose in the room
after removing all the furniture and
wall hooks.

This week will practically wind up
the mid-winter furniture season, and
with the list of arrivals on Monday’s
register the season’s total will easily
pass the 1,500 mark and with the
comparison with the 1915 mid-winter
or January season it will show a 25
per cent. gain in numbers and about
a 15 per cent. gain over the July
season of 1915. The summer season
always brings more buyers to the
market than the winter season and
the buying is always much _ heavier.
This season has certainly shown an
almost universal feeling of optimism
and belief that business prosperity
is here. L. V. Pilkington.

—_++>___
Programme For the Hardware Con-
vention Next Month.
Marine City, Jan. 25—Our pro-
gramme committee has just about
completed its work and reports that
it has succeeded in arranging one of
the most evenly balanced pro-
grammes that has ever been pro-
vided for one of our annual conven-

tions.

The principal speakers will be Paul
H. Neystrom, of New York, whose
subject will be ‘“Salesmanship;” Stan-
ley L. Krebs, of Philadephia, on
“Two Snakes in a Business Brain;”
Curtis M. Johnson, of Rush City,
Minn., on “A Dealer’s Service to His
Community;” Roy F. Soule, editor
of the Hardware Age, on “Points of
Contact;” A. T. Stebbins of Roches-
ter, Minn., on Mutual Fire Insurance;”
Bevan Lawson on “Price Mainte-
nance.”

At the session on Thursday, Feb-
ruary 17, an hour will be devoted to
“Our Association Members” when
brief addresses wilf be delivered by
J. A. Weston, Lansing; F. A. Woli-
ley, Ann Arbor and W. G. Bancroft,
Detroit.

On Tuesday evening there will be

a theater party at the Empress and
on Thursday night there will be a
buffet luncheon and entertainment at
the Pantlind Hotel. The jobbers and
manufacturers of Grand Rapids will
be the hosts on this occasion.

A ladies’ entertainment committee
consisting of Mrs. B. M. Heth, Mrs.
P. M. Hammer, Mrs. C. M. Alden,
and Mrs. H. M. Johnson has arranged
to take care of the visiting ladies
during the hours of the business ses-
sions. There will be a theater party
at the Majestic Gardens on Wednes-
day afternoon and on Thursday eve-
ning there will a progressive card
party starting at 8 o’clock in the
parlors of the Hotel Pantlind. Val-
uable prizes will be awarded to the
winners,

A new plan has been adopted this
year in the handling of the question
box. Pamphlets have been issued
containing a large number of ques-
tions divided under headings such
as Buying, Selling, Trade Building,
Collections, Competition, Insurance,
etc. A committee of twelve dealers
will have charge of this feature, each
one handling questions coming under
the general heading assigned to him.

A Buyer’s Contest is being con-
ducted again this year and the man
who orders goods from the greatest
number of exhibitors will receive a
handsome leather handbag. Dele-
gates who order from ten or more
exhibitors will receive a Manning
patented folding umbrella.

Members who order goods from
three to nine exhibitors inclusive will
have their choice between a_hieh-
grade self-filling fountain pen and a
set of gold plated, heavily enameled
cuff links containing the emblem of
the Association.

Reports from different parts of the
State indicate that the attendance
this year will be very heavy and it
is quite likely all previous attendances
will be broken. A. J. Scott, Sec’y.

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Evelyn was very cowardly, and her
father decided to have a serious talk
with his little daughter.

“Father,” she said at the close of
his lecture, “when you see a cow,
ain’t you ’fraid?”

“No, certainly not, Evelyn.”

“When you see a bumblebee, ain’t
you ’fraid?”

“No,” with scorn.

“Ain’t you 'fraid when it thunders?”

“No,” with laughter. “Oh, you silly.
silly child!”

“Papa,” said Evelyn, solemnly.
“ain’t you ’fraid of nothing in the
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A Woolen Mill in Southwestern Cali-
fornia.
Written for the Tradesman.

To find in this part of the world a
woolen mill, and one fully equipped with
up-to-date machinery, making products
which in quality and price must come

into competition with those of the older.

states, is significant of the beginning
of a new order of things. For in this
region up to the present time, factories
of almost all kinds have been notably
absent. Growth and development in
some ways have been little short of
marvelous, but in the result a certain
lopsidedness is observable—there are as
yet not enough manufacturing industries
to make a well-balanced community.

One of the crying needs is jobs for
people who do not have the means to
live without work. At the same time
supplies of clothing, dry goods, furni-
ture, automobiles, prepared food prod-
ucts, and many other articles in common
use come very largely from “back East,”
which term is here made to include as
far North as Michigan and at least as
far West as Kansas.

The scarcity of factories is due large-
ly to the fact that California is new.
In the natural course of things agricul-
ture, mining, and the building of trans-
portation facilities precede elaborate
manufactures. That the great growth
and development made has been possi-
ble without the manufacturing interests
can be explained in this way: The
throngs who have come to this section
and located here during recent years

have been attracted mainly by the
climate. Many of these settlers have
been in independent circumstances

financially. They did not come to work
nor yet to equip and start mills, but to
enjoy retirement from active life. Cities
and towns have grown amazingly with-
out making any effort to secure in-
dustries. They have boomed simply as
desirable places of residence.

But the old order changeth. For
making many of the supplies now se-
cured from away, this region already
produces or can be made to produce
the new raw materials. Doubtless to
meet the consumptive demand of a
population rapidly increasing through
the influx of new settlers, the factories
will come. And the employement they
will furnish will be most welcome to
that class of residents, of late years be-
coming numerous, who need some such
means of earning a livelihood.

But to return to the woolen mill. The
materials required are for the most part
readily obtainable. The wool used is
practically all grown in the State. The
sheep raised here are mostly grades pro-
duced by crossing the native sheep with
the merino, the typical sheep and conse-
quently the typical wool being about the
half blood.

I had the idea that California wool
would be rather coarse and wiry and
was surprised to find it soft and fine
and nice as it really is. Indeed it would
not be adapted to making braids and the
like, where a hard, shining fabric is de-
sired, but is well suited to the manu-
facture of the materials in which warmth
and woolliness are required.

The wool is all bought in the grease,
and was costing—I give prices as they
were at the time of my visit a few days
ago—18 cents a pound As it loses in
the scouring process 65 to 70 per cent.
in weight, it actually cost about 60 cents.

One reason for locating this mill in
the particular city where it is, is because
the water, which is artesian, is peculiarly
soft like rain water, and on this account
the cost of scouring is reduced.

Cotton is of course combined with
wool in many of the products of a wool-
en mill. This also is obtained close at
hand. In Imperial Valley, a part of
which is the wonderfully fertile tract
in Southern California reclaimed from
the desert by irrigation, for some years
experiments have been going on in the
raising of cotton. It seems to be mak-
ing good. The kind which has proved
best adapted to the soil and climate is
what is known as Durango. In cotton
classification this comes under the head
of Middling Uplands. The staple runs
from an inch and a half to an inch and
three-quarters in length. “Down in the
Valley” where it is raised and ginned,
cotton was costing 14 cents a pound. It
comes into the mill in bales of 500
pounds each, and of course has to be
put through cleaning processes to rid
it of dirt and foreign matter.

In some of the cheaper products, used
garments in the form of shoddy form
a portion of the material. The garments
are shredded up and picked and pulled
by machinery until what was firmly wov-
en cloth becomes fine and soft as cotton
batting.

No attempt will be made to give a
detailed description of all the things that
are done in woolen manufacture. That
would be too long and technical for
these pages. A brief mention of a few
of the principal processes must suffice.

The dyeing is done in wooden cal-
drons, each several feet in diameter. I!
requires about three-quarters ef an hour
to bring the dye in one of these greai
tubs to the boiling point. Then the
dyeing process takes about an hour and
a half, a man keeping the wool stirred
with a three-tined pitchfork. After th
dyeing, the wool is taken out and rinsed
thoroughly and dried.

In another room I saw something of
the process of producing a mixed or
blended color—a Mackinaw mixture
this was—the mixing being done before
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had been scattered on in proper propor-
tions, stood a foot or more high on a
space ten or twelve feet square. Brown
predominated, although there was a good
deal of black, but most noticeable were
the little flecks of bright orange, form-
ing only a small part of the whole but
enough to liven it. All the colors re-
quired having been added, the whole is
put through a “mixing picker.’ The
Superintendent later called my attention
to a blend made of blue and black. In
the roving, which was the form in which
I saw this, it looked simply a solid dark
blue.

The preliminary processes such as
scouring, cleaning, dyeing, mixing, pick-
ing and the like having been completed,
the wool is taken to the carding room.
As it goes to the carding machine it is
termed the “batch” or “mixture.”

An interesting feature is the automatic
scale which supplies the carding ma-
chine. When this scale has received the
required weight of wool it opens, allow-
ing the wool to pass into the carding
machine, which combs it out and
straightens it. The wool comes out of
the carding process as roving. Roving
is simply a small roll of the carded wool,
without twist and in consistency remind-
ing one of the “rolls” our grandmothers
used to spin, but of course not of short
length as those were. The roving I saw
ready for spinning was perhaps a quar-
ter of an inch in diameter. It can be
wound loosely without pulling apart, and
was to be seen wound on shafts.

A spinning machine draws out the
roving, twists it, and winds the yarn on
a bobbin,

It would be hard to determine in what
industry the machinery used can claim
the largest multiplication of human ef-
fort, but it would seem that some of that
employed in textile manufacture ranks
very high in this respect. To anyone
who ever has known how all but inter-
minable is the labor of carding even a
few pounds of wool by hand, or who
realizes the slowness of that most pic-
turesque of all the old-time home work,
the spinning of one thread of yarn on
a wheel, the machinery seen in such a
mill as that visited emphasizes the in-
evitable displacement of hand processes.
Here there is no hint of tediousness
about the carding, and a spinning ma-
chine spins many threads at a time in-
stead of a single one,

Warping, done of course by machinery,
and weaving on a power loom, follow
the spinning.

The product of these mills, although
they have been in operation only a few
months, includes bed blankets, robes,
steamer rugs, Mackinaw cloth and army
blankets. It is the intention later to
increase the variety of goods made.

For some of the items mentioned the
local consumption is very large. Bed
blankets for instance. While classed as
a sub-tropical country, California is a
land of cool nights, so that warm bed-
ding is required even in summer. Dur-
ing the early winter months, the dis-
plays of high grade bed blankets are a
marked feature in the stores of Los An-
geles and the surrounding towns. This
new factory already is supplying its
quota to the retailers, and has filled or-
ders from some of the State institutions.
As to automobile robes, the local demand
must be great. Probably no other state

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

in the Union has so many motor cars
in proportion to the population.

However, the manufacture is not con-
fined to supplying local demand. The
day I visited the mill they were making
Mackinaw cloth—that is, the cloth from
which Mackinaws are made—which was
to be shipped to Minneapolis. This mill
has made army blankets for Mexico
and for Italy. The army blanket work
is all on contract, the orders being secur-
ed by bids. The Mexicans took a stan-
dard gray blanket four pounds in
weight, while for the Italians a blanket
66 x 98 inches, eight and one-half pounds
in weight was required.

Ella M. Rogers.

2
What Some Michigan Cities Are
Doing.

Written for the Tradesman.

Total deposits in Battle Creek banks
Jan. 1 were nearly $13,000,000 a gain
of $1,250,000 over the same date a
year ago. This is a deposit of $430
per capita, if we reckon Battle Creek
as a city of 30,000 people, and it is
an exceptionally fine showing.

Flint’s electrical and building in-
spector is asking for an assistant in
order to keep up with the brisk build-
ing operations there. During 1915
he issued 3,500 permits for new build-
ings and electric wiring and he made
an average of thirty-five trips of in-
spection daily to different parts of the
city.

The Marshall Board of Commerce
has secured another industry for that
city, Gallagher, Hutchinson & Camp-
bell, of Muskegon Heights, who will
make metal castings for automobiles.

Flint’s Board of Health has asked
the Common Council for immediate
action in the matter of establishing
a city garbage disposal plant, after
the expiration of the present garbage
collection contract in May, 1917. City
Engineer Shoecraft estimates the cost
of establishing an incinerator of fifty
tons daily capacity at $45,000, includ-
ing machinery, building, real estate
and plant ready to operate.

Rockford is a prosperous village,
out of debt and with no vacant hous-
es. Its leading industry, the shoe fac-
tory of the Hirth-Krause Co., has its
output of 1500 pairs daily sold up to
April 1. This plant employs 100 men
and sixty women. The company’s
tannery is employing fifty men. Rock-
ford is a good market town, with 2
number of live produce dealers.

Battle Creek will entertain the
Michigan Threshermen’s Association
March 8-10 and 400 to 600 visitors
are expected,

Olivet has a Business Men’s Asso-
ciation and is taking up the matter
of a new bank, also free auction sales
for farmers.

The Valley Home Telephone Co,
with 400 stockholders, held its annual
meeting in Saginaw, and reports show
that the company owns and operates
about 9,000 telephones, a net gain
during the past year of 1,267 tele-
phones. This is the largest year’s
growth since the company built its
original plant in 1897.

The Michigan State Telephone Co.
will start work soon on a. $10,000 ad-
dition to its switchboard at Bay City.

Salzburg, a suburb of Bay City, now
has a Business Men’s Club, and plans

among other things to secure this
year a Michigan Central freight and
passenger station, a branch postoffice,
a grain elevator and a factory for
making motor trucks.

The Chicago Brush Co., of Chicago,
making brushes. and novelties, offers
to locate its plant at Marshall, pro-
vided $15,000 cash capital is raised
among local people.

Almond Griffen.
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If you don’t save your buttons, your
clothes may be spotted with white
ones, such as were hitherto worn by
men almost exclusively on their un-
dergarments and shirts. Either that
or the victims will wear none at all,
depending entirely on safety pins to
hold their garments together. This
condition is fast approaching, accord-
ing to one of the largest ivory button
manufacturers in the country.

The recent embargo on logwood
has intensified an already critical sit-
uation in the vegetable ivory button
industry, as the logwood dyes were
the last hope of the buttom manufac-
turers.

——_+~-<-

The wages of sin is paid in full only
when the job is completed, but lots of
men draw something on account each
day.

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Little Things of Big Consequences
About Shoes.
Written for the Tradesman.

The shank of a shoe is of far more
consequence than the average person is
inclined to think. It has to do not only
with the appearance of a shoe—its style,
“balance” and looks, but also with its
comfort and serviceability. And _ per-
haps more important than all else, it
has to do with the health and well-being
of the foot within the shoe.

When the shank of a shoe lets down,
as the general tendency of shanks is
when the shoe is well worn, there is an
abnormal strain on the muscles and ten-
dons of the foot—which, under certain
conditions, may very well bring about
arch troubles. It is not putting the
matter too strongly to say that poor
shoe shanks have been a fruitful source
of flat-foot.

The arch of the human foot is a deli-
cate arrangement of bones, muscles and
tendons; and the ideal shoe shank is
one that fits the natural curve of the
arch of the foot, and stays put—i. e.
doesn’t flatten down as the shoe is
worn. This is a difficult ideal to attain,
for there is a heavy weight on the arch
or shank of a shoe, in walking, and the
strain upon this part of the shoe is heavy
—especially when you come to consider
that it goes on day after day and week
after week.

The shank of a shoe must be light,
elastic, and durable as well as strong.
If strength only were required of a
shank, that could easily be accomplished.
It could be made, for instance, of armor
plate. But that would add too much
weight. It would also make a stiff,
unyielding shank; and therefore an un-
comfortable shoe. The shank must have
some degree of elasticity. Therefore
instead of a big heavy piece of steel,
there is a thick, flexible steel sprint.
This, of course, lies between the two
thicknesses of leather and cannot be
seen unless the shoe is dissected.

But a whole lot depends upon that in-
visible piece of steel. It must be of the
right temper—a good, flexible or elastic
piece of metal, and not too heavy. And
the leather which covers this steel piece
should be of the proper thickness and
the very best stock. |

In saying all this, T am not unmindful,
of course, of the somewhat recent
theory of an extra flexible shank, and
its allezed benefits; i. e. a shank that
has no steel whatever about it, and one
in which the leather is soft and pliable,
so that when you bend the toe of the
shoe down it will stay that way until you
bend it back. There are manufacturers
of specialty shoes, built for people who
have arch troubles, which are supposed
to be highly beneficial for that sort of
thing—indeed, high claims are made
therefore. Personally, I think the theory

is wrong—or, at all events, that the so-
called flexible shank shoe is not a good
shoe for this, or for any other purpose.
But I do not dogmatize on the matter.
If you get (or think you get) any prac-
tical benefit out of this kind of a shoe,
go to it.

But the number of such specialty
shoes is negligible. Most shoes are
made with the standard or accepted style
of shanks. But within this limit there
are many varieties of shanks, and some
of them are much better than others.
If you will examine worn shoes you
will see how variously it fares with
shoe shanks. Some of them stand up
under trying wear-conditions, and others
do not.

As a dealer, you should know what
goes into the shanks of the shoes you
buy. You should know how they stand
up under hard wear, how they are af-
fected by moisture and other things to
which no street shoe is immune. Not
merely is it enough to know how the
new shoe looks with its untried shank,
but how the old shoe looks when its
shank has undergone the acid test of
hard-usage.

The heel of a shoe is another im-
portant item. Is it an all-leather heel,
or is it made of leather-board, paper, or
something else, with a leather top lift?
I knew of a natty line of women’s shoes
made to retail at from $4 to $4.50, and
very good shoes at the price in other
respects, that went bad because of de-
fective heels. When the water struck
those highly burnished heels, good night!
They caused dealers all sorts of trou-
bles, and these troubles got back to the
manufacture, you may be sure.

Has the shoe heel the proper height?
That is to say, is the height of the heel
just about what a shoe of that style
should carry? Is it a well set, properly
balanced heel? Many of our shoe man-
ufacturers could improve their shoe
heels. In men’s shoes, for instance,
notice how many heels are set too far
back. Nine out of ten of them would
be greatly improved structurally, if the
heel were brought forward somewhat
further. I don’t mean necessarily a
longer heel, but in many cases it would
amount to that—but a shoe heel that
provides a real resting-place for the heel
of the foot in the shoe. And, for an-
other thing, I personally think they
would be greatly improved by straight
breasting. Of course this is an unpopu-
lar notion in this country. But why

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properly sized up on rubber footwear—

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That means the styles that fit the shoes worn
in your community, the widths to fit them
properly, and a complete run of sizes, men’s,
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Ona slushy, sloppy morning your customer
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Hirth-Krause Company

Hide to Shoe
Tanners and Shoe Manufacturers

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

January 26, 1916

that deep curve in the breast of a shoe
heel, anyhow? It catches mud (and is
therefore insanitary) and it weakens
the shank of the shoe by prolonging its
length and removing a part of its sup-
port aft. The one argument for it is that
it looks “nicer” than the heel breasted
straight. Many dealers would throw a
fit if they couldn't get that sort—but
they are a bad sort just the same.

Are the heels of your women’s shoes
made of wood? If so, how and of what
sort? And how are they for balance
adjustment and durability? How does
the coverings on them hold up? Wood
heels are all right—if they are made
right and set right. Do you sell shoes
with rubber heels, or heels made from
some of the more recent innovations
in the “other than leather” materials
that are now being introduced? If so,
what is your experience with them?
Are they working out satisfactorily?

The heels of some shoes—especially
in women’s lines—manifest a tendency
to turn and round-off on one side; and
it is significant it’s always the same side.
Why? There’s a reason, as the break-
fast-food people say; get at the reason.
Such heels are not right; they are
wrongly balanced. Your patrons are
paying out extra money getting their
heels straigtened up, and they don’t like
it. Some of these shoes will come back
for your inspection and be overhauled
in your repair department, but do you
know if all of them that so behave find
their way back? Most likely not. Many
of them are doubtless being repaired
elsewhere. But this sort of thing is
annoying, to say the least, for that isn’t
the way good shoe heels ought to behave.

The life and comfort and service-
ability of the shoe depends more upon
the heel than one would think off
hand. If the heel goes bad—turns,
rounds off too rapidly, or goes to
pieces in the wet—the shoe is thrown
out of kilter, or rendered unfit for
wear.

And how about the linings of the
shoe you handle? Are they satisfac-
tory? I know of a line of medium
priced men’s shoe—shoes retailing
around $5—that are causing a lot of
trouble because of defective linings.
Instead of being lined with sea island
duck or heavy unstarched drill, a
cheaper sort of lining is used, and
perspiration and attrition play hob
wiih it.

And so I might specify one item
after another in the list of little things
of big consequence about a shoe—
counters, box toes, welt, etc., all of
which must be right before the shoe
is right. Now several of these items
belong to what we call the shoe’s in-
sides, and so far as outward appear-
ances are concerned you cannot tell
whether they are right or wrong.
Only the test of wear can reveal the
presence of defective featurs.

As a retailer of shoes you owe it
both to yourself and to your trade
to find out how it is with respect to
these items—and others that might
be included—in the various lines of
shoes that you carry. I do not think
it is wise for the dealer to assume
that it must be all right for they are
not kicking. Maybe they are kicking.
It is your business to be dead sure
they haven’t anything about which
they can kick. Cid McKay.

. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

Programme Prepared For Battle

Creek Convention.

Bay City, Jan. 24—All preliminary
matters for the coming convention
of the Retail Grocers and General
Merchants Association the coming
month are rapidly taking form. All
details are being worked out and lo-
cal committees at Battle Creek are
working with a full determination to
leave nothing undone which will add
to the interest of the convention, so
that when completed they can proud-
ly look back to the results of their
efforts to make 1916 convention the
very best ever held.

William McMorris, Pres.
The Official Programme.

Battle Creek, Jan. 24—The follow-
ing programme has been arranged
for the convention of the Retail Gro-
cers and General Merchants Asso-
ciation of Michigan, to be held here
Feb. 22, 23 and 24:

Tuesday, Feb. 22.

10 a. m. Meeting called to order
by L. L. Swank, President Battle
Creek Association.

Invocation—Rev. George Emerson
Barnes,

Address of welcome—Mayor James
W. Marsh,

Response—John A. Lake,
key.

Petos-

Luncheon|

1 p.m. Address by State President,

Reports of Secretary and Treasur-
er,

Appointment of Committees.

Reports of Committees on—

Credentials,

Resolutions.

Ways and Means,

Rules and Order of Business.

Auditing.

Press.

Address—Frank B. Connolly, Presi-
dent National Association of Retail
Grocers.

4:30 p. m. Leave convention hall
in a body as guests of Kellogg Toast-
ed Corn Flake Co. on tour of inspec-
tion of its plant and complimentary
banquet at 6:30 p. m.

Wednesday, Feb. 23.

9 a. m. Call to Order,

R-port of Credential Committee,

Report of Rules and Order Com-
mitive,

Address by Fred Mason,

Roll call of Associations. We re-
quire reports to be written this year
for reference. Don’t fail.

Luncheon in hall until 1 p. m.

Question Box in charge of E. W.
Jones, Cass City.

3 p. m. Guests of Postum Cereal
Co., Ltd. until 5 p. m.

5:30 p. m. Thorough inspection of
pure food show and supper in hall.

8 p. m. Guests of Postum Cereal
Co., Ltd:

Thursday, Feb. 24.

9 a.m _ Call to Order.

Question Box concluded.

State Committees reports.

Report of Resolutions Committee,

New Business,

Good of the Association,

Luncheon in hall until 2 p. m.

Election of Officers.

Selection of place for next conven-
tion.

Guests of pure food show until
4:30 p. m.

5 p. m. Inspection of Sanitarium
and address by Dr. John H. Kellogg,
followed by another banquet.

7 p. m. Adjournment of conven-
tion. A. J. Hoyt, Sec’y.
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The Editorial Page.

No newspaper is stronger than its
editorial page. Its news may be ex-
haustive—its volume of advertising in-
credibly large, but it will not be that
power in American life which a great
newspaper ought to be unless its edi-
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The Largest Rubber House in Michigan
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REGARDLESS of the constantly advancing prices of raw materials
used in the manufacture of shoes, we have all along insisted that the
same QUALITY be put into our product. When you buy

Bertsch and
H. B. Hard Pan Shoes

to-day you buy shoes that have in them the same high standard of
quality that has always characterized our lines.

There has been no deviation from this principle in the past and
there will be no deviation in the future. Regardless of the price of
raw material THE QUALITY OF OUR SHOES WILL NEVER BE
SHADED.

During the last few months advances in material have been so
marked that were we to buy all material at to-day’s prices every shoe
we make would cost more than the present selling price to produce.

Nevertheless our prices have not changed much, and we are
not going to raise a shoe as long as we have a foot of leather left to
make it from. They will only go up when it becomes a question of
self preservation. We will not take advantage of market consider-
ations to obtain an advanced price.

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Manufacturers of Serviceable Footwear
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Give the Intellectual Girl a Well-Bal-

anced Training.
Written for the Tradesman.

When Celia Hepworth left high
school last October and went to work
in Hansel’s dry goods store, only her
classmates, who all loved her dearly,
felt any regret. Her teachers tried
to do the decent thing and told her
they were sorry she couldn't stay and

finish—she was in her sophomore
year—but they made no emphatic pro-
test against her going. In _ truth

they experienced a genuine feeling ot
relief. They all liked the girl, but she
was not a good scholar, and some-
times their professional consciences
had to be severely strained to give her
passing marks on her examinations.
Teachers never mourn when such a
pupil drops out.

Close friends and relatives of the
Hepworths, middle-aged men and
matrons with a shrewd eye to ways
and means, scarcely noted the cir-
cumstance at all, except to observe
to themselves, “Maybe Celia might
just as well be earning a little some-
thing. It will help her father out,
and she doesn’t seem to be able to
make her time count for much in
school.”

But when a few days later, circum-
stances compelled Mildred Rayburn
also to accept a position at Hansel’s,
her teachers lamented bitterly. For
Mildred was the star in the whole
school, a senior who would graduate
this coming June. Moreover she is
very intellectual and they deemed her
a girl of rare promise.

All the friends deplored Mildred’s
having to stop. They well under-
stood that it was only from neces-
sity that her father and mother con-
sented to her going to work. It had
been Mildred’s plan, in which her
family fully concurred, to go through
college after high school and then
to take a thorough course in library
training. Heavy property loses and
consequent serious reduction in her
father’s income, made it imperative
that she begin earning at once. The
place at Hansel’s was the only avenue
open to her.

Both Mildred and Celia are nice,
honest, conscientious girls. Both are
energetic and faithful. Neither one
is a beauty, but both are comely.

When you've said this much, you have
said about all that applies to the two
equally. When it come to mental
grasp and intellectual attainments,
Mildred is so far in advance of poor
Celia that no real comparison between
the two is possible. Not only is Mil-
dred a brilliant student in all the
various branches of her school cur-
riculum, but has been a great reader
on all sorts of themes. Indeed the

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depth and range of her thought are
regarded as something remarkable for
a girl of her years. Celia, on the
other hand, has the small, elementary
type of mind that never gets beyond
the narrow horizon of its own con-
crete experience and observation. She
does not bother her brains in the least
with trying to solve the problems of
the universe. In fact she never will
realize that there are any problems
of the universe.

The girls have been at work now
about three months. To the surprise
of all their acquaintances, Celia al-
ready has attracted the attention of
her employer as being unusually apt
and efficient for a beginner; while
Mildred, although still holding her
position, hardly can be said to be
making good.

Celia is manifesting traits that no
one supposed she possessed. For one
thing, she shows great concentration.
While as a student she seemed to lack
this woefully, in the realm of real
things she is able to focus her powers
admirably on the task in hand. Mil-
dred is just the reverse. Although
she can bury herself in a book and
absorb the contents in an astonish-
ingly short time, when she attempts
to sell a collar or a handkerchief, her
wits are apt to wander. In all those
processes of dusting, putting goods
in order, fastening on pin_ tickets,
price tags and the like, to which be-
ginners are set, Celia has been able
to turn off her work swiftly and neat-
ly, while Mildred is painfully slow
and awkward.

Celia’s teachers never could give
her credt for having any memory at
all, but now she always is able to tell
just where every item in her stock is
to be found, and she is unusually good
at recollecting the names and faces of
customers and even their tastes and
peculiarities.

At school her efforts in the lan-
guages were crude and unsatisfactory,
and her mathematics was regarded as
almost hopeless. But she can add
and multiply with absolute exactness,
and she understands that even a small
blunder in computing a bill is a seri-
ous matter, And she has a gift of
pleasing small talk that serves her
better than would a knowledge of
Latin or French.

In her practical, non-metaphysical
way she has a good working knowl-
edge of human nature. To save her
life she couldn’t name the faculties
of the human mind, but she pets the
babies when their mammas come
shopping, she chats pleasantly with
the small boys and girls, and she
knows just how to stroke the fur the
right way with cranky and disagree-
able customers.

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When Mrs. Jones

comes in your store to look ata
mattress or bed spring have you a good
enough assortment to show her so she
will buy right then and there without
feeling it her duty to look around or con-
sult some mail order catalogue.

Announcement

 

 

Our salesmen are now on the road
with our 1916 sample line of WIN-
TER GOODS.

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Square Blankets, Stable Blankets,
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Cardigan Jackets, Fur Coats, Blan-
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Our representative in your terri-
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he will call.

If you will show her our Champion felt
mattress or our King Spring, which are
fully guaranteed, she will be glad to buy,
for the value, style and price is always
found in every piece of bedding made in
our factory.

We would be glad to send you our new
catalogue which fully illustrates our line
of guaranteed bedding.

Grand Rapids Bedding
Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

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The last season was particularly
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We have the famous Herkimer
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January 26, 1916

Celia’s snug little brain has gotten
hold of two facts—customers must
be pleased, and her work must be
done in a way to suit her employer.
Hasn’t she reached the kernel of the
whole matter so far
cerned?

Celia is very happy in her little suc-
cess. Having natural taste, although
her pay is as yet only a few dollars
per week, by judicious selection she
is able to gratify her liking for smart
and becoming clothes. Already she
has a well-groomed and prosperous
appearance.

Sut Mildred—the record of the bril-
liant best student of the high school
has not been so satisfactory. She has
tried hard, and her employer, who is
a very good and patient man, believes
she is making some improvements. But
she shows no enthusiasm—has never
been dble to take the hearty interest in
the work that Celia does. More-
over Mildred is lacking in tact and
adaptability—she does not get along
with the customers and with her
fellow-workers so smoothly and easi-
ly as does the other girl.
she have the ready grasp of what is
expected and required of her. Un-
fortunately she is somewhat care-
less about dress, and sometimes is
a little untidy. She spends as much
on clothes as her earnings will war-
rant, but she has no knack in choos-
ing the right things or in
herself up. In the words of Mr.
Hansel, “Mildred is laboring under
the handicap of the highbrow. She
has the deficiencies that often ac-
company intellectuality, particularly
in its youthful development. She
knows a great deal, but much of it,
in her present situation, is of no
benefit to her. Celia isn’t intellec-
tual, hasn’t nearly so high an order
of mentality, but the little brains she
has seem to be down where she can
use them.”

Could Mildred have gone on and
prepared for library work as_ she
planned, would she be apt to succeed

as she is con-

Nor does

getting

in that? Many of her friends be-
lieve that she would. They hold that
all the trouble now is because she

has not gotten into the right kind of
a place. But those who have ob-
served Mildred and girls of her type
most closely, shake their heads. For
these last know that she never would
be likely to find a position in a h-
brary or anywhere else, where
adaptability and tact, knowing how
to get along with people, and some
grasp of common everyday matters
would not be essential to success.
Few indeed are the places where a
lack of these qualifications is not an
almost fatal deficiency.

It is from the lack of just these
things that the intellectual girl often
falls short. It is from having this
practical kind of equipment that such
girls as Celia, from whom very little
is expected, sometimes forge ahead
to the great surprise of their ac-
quaintances.

In the training of the intellectual
girl special emphasis needs to be
placed on a well-balanced develop-
ment—on her acquiring knowledge
of the things which she herself is
likely to neglect, and may even hold

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

in contempt as beneath her attention.
Otherwise, tries to make
her way in the world, her efforts will
be a sorry disappointment to herself
and her friends. Quillo.

when she

—_-+_> +
Employes Publish an Advertisement.
As striking in sentiment and sig-
nificance as it was modest in position
and phrasing, the advertisement re-
cently inserted in the Minneapolis
Tribune, by the employes of the
Powers Mercant le Co., could hardly
without a pleased
The employes of the store

be read sense of
surprise.
bought space in the newspaper solely
that “they might express their thor-
ough appreciation of the interest
shown and the very liberal treatment
accorded them by the management.”
The appearance of this kindly senti-
ment in a commercial medium must
silence the skeptics who declare that
business is a pure exercise in heart-
lessness.

What is most eloquent in the in-
cident is the clear evidence of the
growing friendliness between em-
ployers and employes. The day ap-
pears to be passing when these two
classes were wont to regard each
other as predestined enemies. The
old theory painted the employers as
relentless money-hunters, who drove
their exhausted employes to prodigies
of accomplishment in order to wring
a few more pennies from the business.
The employes, in turn,
upon by their employers as endlessly
dissatisfied with their situations, an
unreasoning and unreasonable crowd
that could be trusted to abuse priv-
ileges and favors with cynical in-
gratitude.

It is inspiriting to observe that the
attitude revealed in this unique adver-
tisement represents an immeasurable
advance over the attitude depicted
by many former critics. The incident
affords an unanswerable refutation to
the contention that employers have
no interest in their employes except
to grind profits out of them. It affords
an unanswerable refutation to the
argument that employes exhibit no
gratitude for or appreciation of what-
ever kindness is shown them.

People who grow disheartened at
the tardiness of social progress may
find some encouragement in this mod-
est but significant expression of good

will between employe and employer.
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Anything is wrong that is almost right.

were looked

In the District Court of the United

States for the Western District

of Michigan—Southern Divi-
sion. In Bankruptcy.

In the matter of Louis Goldman,
Cadillac, Mich., bankrupt. No. 1454.

Notice is hereby given that, in ac-
cordance with the order of this court,
I shall sell, at public auction, to the
highest bidder, at the store formerly
occupied by said bankrupt, in the city
of Cadillac, Wexford county, Michi-
gan, at 1:30 o’clock p. m. on Tuesday,
the first day of February, 1916, the
assets of said bankrupt estate, which
assets are inventoried at cost price as
follows: Shoes, $2491.97; Rubber
Goods, $46.48; Ladies’ and Men’s fur-
nishings ard wearing apparel, $9,-
922.80; Dry goods and notions, $3,-
715.68; Goods on which deposits have
been made, $228.04; Store furniture
and fixtures, $302.33; total $16,707.30.
The assets are in very good condition,
a large proportion thereof having been
put in stock during the late fall of
1915. Copies of the inventory will be
on hand at the sale, and may be seen
before, the sale at the offices of Kirk
E. Wicks, Referee in Bankruptcy,
Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rap-
ids, Michigan, and Fred C. Wetmore,
attorney, Cadillac, Michigan.
_ Said sale will be for cash and sub-
ject to confirmation by the Court, and
notice is hereby given that the sale
will be confirmed on February 5, 1916,
unless satisfactory cause to the con-
trary be shown.

Walter H. Brooks, Trustee.

Hilding & Hilding, Grand Rapids,

Michigan, Attorneys for Trustee.
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Breaking Even.

“You've plenty of rain in your sec-
tion,”

“Yep. Hurt my crops,

“Will you rose much

“No; Vil break about even by haul-
ing autos out of mudholes.”

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money?”

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AUTOMOBILES AND
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Be Fair to Your Tires and Watch
Batteries.

It is now time when many motor-
ists think of putting cars in storage
for the winter, and it therefore seems
timely to mention some of the things
to remember when doing it.

There are several matters to at-
tend to in order that the machine
will be in best of shape when it is
taken out after its several months
of rest, and if they are not given
attention, the careless one is apt
to regret it when the spring winds
begin to blow again.

Some of us who live in the cities
are not troubled by winter’s. grip
of the country, for we can run our
cars all through the icy weather,
thanks to the street cleaning depart-
ment and the heavy traffic.

3ut to the man who lives in the
country or who resides in those sec-
tions where the winter is long and
severe and the snow is deep, the
driving of his car is not always a
pleasure.

There are several vital parts of
the car which must be specially seen
to when taking the car out of com-
mission. Of these the storage bat-
tery, the tires and the cooling sys-
tem are the most important.

The first thing to do when taking
the battery out of commission for
several months is to disconnect the
wires leading to it. This is a pre-
caution which will keep it from dis-
charging, as any slight leak in the
wiring would discharge the battery,
and it is very detrimental to let it
remain for any length of time in a
discharged condition.

But be very careful never to run
the motor with the battery discon-
nected in this way. This will quick-
ly burn out the electric generator
if you run it on open circuit.

During the time when the car is
not being used, the battery should
be charged periodically either by
running the engine and thus send-
ing current to it from the car’s gen-
erator, or by charging from an out-
side current supply. In either case,
the job must be done about every
sixty days for best results with the
battery.

Before putting the car away, it
is best to see that there is plenty
of water submerging the plates of
each cell. Having added the water,

it is advisable to drive the car for
a mile or so to mix the newly add-
ed water with the electrolyte, thus
making sure that it is in good elec-
trolytic condition throughout.

The solution should be at a grav-
ity of about 1,280 to 1,300 when the

car is put away, which insures that
it will not freeze under any condi-
tions.

If the solution does not show a
gravity of this amount, then it is
best to charge it until it does, be-
fore abandoning the battery for any
long period. Most exports advise
charging until the gravity of all the
cells fails to rise further for a pe-
riod of two hours.

If possible, a stored battery should
be put in a dry place that is not very
dusty. Dampness will foster cor-
rosion, and besides is not good for
any part of the car. Do not put the
battery in a hot place either. It
should be cool.

Spring is usually the time when
you see most of the cars drawn up
at the side of the road with tire
trouble. Whenever you see an own-
er in this predicament then you can
put it down as a certainty that he
did not take the proper care of his
pneumatics when he had his car out
of commission, If he let the car
stand in a damp place, if sun was
allowed to beat in on the tires, or
if the car weight was left on them
during all the period of inactivity,
then it is no wonder the trouble
came.

With these results of carelessness
before us, let us now put the car
away with due respect for the tires.
First, lift the car off its tires by jacks.
If allowed to rest on one spot on the
tires for a long period, the part in
contact with the floor is apt to be
flattened, and the fabric at this point
stretched out of shape.

This weakens this particular sec-
tion of the tire and it is apt to give
trouble later. Then let most of the
air out of them so as to relieve all
strain. Some motorists favor even
more careful storing than this. They
take the tires from the rims entirely
and after wrapping them in dry
cloths, store them in a dry place
where light and dampness are ex-
cluded. This is most highly recom-
mended, although jacking up the car
is nearly as good.

In storing inner tubes, it is best
to inflate them a little so as to re-
move all wrinkles or creases. If
they are allowed to remain in folded
or crumpled condition, time will get
in its work. The creases and folds
will be places of weakness.

Nothing could be better for them
than to wrap them in cloths or pa-
per too, after having inflated them
slightly.

Some of these pointers may seem
foolish and too much trouble. Noth-
ing is too great a trouble if it will
enable you to have tires that are as

good in the spring as they were in
the fall.

It is a paying investment in sat-
isfaction and money to make sure
that your tires will not blow out*or
leak the first time you make a run
of any distance next spring.

Nowadays.
“Here’s a drug store.”
“What makes you think so?”
“They are serving sandwiches and
drinks; and there’s shoe polish, tea, cof-
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LET US TELL YOU
MORE ABOUT IT

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COMPANY
Wholesale Distributors
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January 26, 1916

N every community there
are many Motor Truck
prospects to whom a sale
can be made when factory
requirements are not too
rigid.
We will help dealers with prospects to
make the sale; also, it may be a step
toward establishing a permanent and

profitable connection. You don’t have
to buy a “‘demonstrator.’’

The United Motor Truck
Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Jobber of
Illuminating and Lubricating
Oils and Gasoline
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automobiles operated by gasoline or electricity. It will not

It is the best oil for the high grade car, and the best
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Michigan Retall Hardware Association.

President—Frank E. Strong, Battle
reek.
Vice-President—Fred F. Ireland, Beld-
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Scott, Marine

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‘Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

 

 

How To Profit From Your Stock
Taking.
Written for the Tradesman.

The annual stock taking brings out
many facts besides the amount of
merchandise carried. Indeed, if the
merchant regards only the amount
of stock, his stock-taking will be
largely wasted. It is for the lessons
which it teaches that the inventory
is valuable.

Unless he is an exceedingly care-
ful buyer, the hardware dealer can
learn many valuable lessons from his
stock lists. It will pay him to com-
pare this year’s stock sheets with
those of 1915, 1914 and even earlier.
This comparison will help to show
just what and how much dead stock
there is in the store.

By “dead stock” is meant anv class
of merchandise that does not move
in, let us say, eighteen months’ time.
This is putting the time limit a good,
long distance. Indeed, there are many
aggressive merchants who class stock
as “dead” when it does not move
within ten months. Some advocates
of the quick turnover try to average
three months. The point is debat-
able; although, admittedly, it is dif-
ficult under ordinary circumstances
to conduct a general hardware trade
and move all the stock in ten months’
time.

Dead stock in the hardware store
consists of anything that does not
find a ready sale. The watchfu’ mer-
chant will look out for this class of
stuff all the year round, and will aim
to push it out as quickly as possible.
The annual stock taking will, how-
ever, bring home more clearly than
anything else the need of such con-
stant watchfulness; and will give the
merchant an exact idea of where the
difficulties lie.

Naturally, no merchant takes on
such stock intentionally. In fact, 2
good many exceedingly live lines
“die” on the merchant’s hands. A
new invention may render practical-
ly obsolete some line which was once
a staple. Then, too, the sales of per-
fectly good lines are often cut off
for purely personal reasons, with
which the merchant himself has noth-
ing to do.

For instance, the growing vogue
of washing machines a few years ago
left a lot of hardware merchants with
large stocks of clothes pounders on
hand. The merchant who had bought
clothes pounders by the dozens and

kept on buying that way, figuring on
clearing out anywhere from three to
six dozen a month, found his sales
mysteriously dropping off. Jelated
enquiry showed that machine work
was taking the place of hand work.
It will pay to look ahead, and guard
against such contingencies. Modern in-
vention is constantly remodeling the
hardware business, and the dealer
must shape his plans accordingly. By
watching the general tendency he not
merely guards against losses through
the accumulation of dead stock, but
gets an early line upon new art’cles
which he can push with profit.

A hardware dealer stocked very
largely certain tools, and particularly
a certain type of file, for the local
mill trade. He was offered a special
price on an extra large quantity. He
refused the proposition, although with
some reluctance; it looked like a good
buy, but his time-honored and well
proven policy was to buy carefully.
Within a few months the local busi-
ness was re-organized, a new pur-
chasing agent and a new superinten-
dent were installed, and different tools
were called for, Here, good judg-
ment on general grounds was justi-
fied by results in a specific instance
where such results could not normally
be looked for.

Where the merchant, through such
fortuitous causes, finds himself load-
ed with stock which the normal local
demand cannot take care of, he must
look for new outlets, and must often
close out the stock at a sacrifice.
Forethought pays. That fact is self
evident.

But many of the slow-selling goods
are the outcome merely of careless
buying. The old lure of a “special
figure” is still potent to attract the
hardware dealer. Buying in atantity
for a special price is always a gam-
ble. It is just like speculating in
wild-cat stocks. If things break in
the most favorable way the merchant
will make a lot of money; but he can-
not with any certainty count upon
the most favorable outcome. A study
of the inventories of the past two or
three years will educate the merchan«
as to how far it is safe to go in this
direction.

Where dead stock has accumulated
upon the shelves, the shrewd hard-
ware dealer knows that his first duty
is to get the stuff moving. A first
step should be to list the “dead” lines
separately, and put a lot of thought
into the problems of “making it
move.” Often a good advertising
stunt can be devised which will en-
able the merchant to unload with a
minimum of loss or even with a max-
imum of profit. Special treatment,
a little extra pushing, will often en-

able a merchant to clear out such
goods without any serious price sac-
rifice.

Thus, one dealer had a novelty line
to retail at 15 cents, which he had
stocked largely. His first thought was
to clear them out at 9 cents. Then
he put them out at two for 19 cents.
In the outcome he cleared an extra
half cent on each article, and sold
them practically twice as fast. Often
the “bunching” of the same or dif-
ferent articles in this fashion will fa-
cilitate their sale.

In general, price reduction, backed
by advertising, will do a great deal
to clear out such stocks. The staf
on their part should co-operate by
aggressive personal salesmanship. In
one store the merchant, after stock
taking, discusses with his staff the
various “overloaded” and gives
special instructions that they be push-
ed during the winter months.
have instruction to call the
of customers whom they
likely to be interested, to particular
articles. One merchant assigned each
clerk a particular line to push, anl
allowed a small bonus on each article.
The bonus idea is of course a debat-
able one; it might easily be abused.
the point is, to get the clerks
ing.

Of course, a special sale is in order
after the inventory has been complet-
ed, and the should be
featured prominently in any such sale.
Do not cut prices on articles that
are in good demand anyway;
the cuts—the deep, attractive
on lines which can’t be moved in any
other fashion. By this expedient you
accomplish a double purpose: you get
some money out of these lines, and

lines,

Clerks
attention
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you get a lot of advertising value
out of them.

With stickers, of course, preven-
tion is better—and less expensive—
than cure. Hence, the wide-awake
merchant, conning his stock sheets,

will adopt a few New Years resolu-
tions along the following lines:

First, he will aim to buy more care-
fully. Careful buying is the secret of
profitable selling.

Having bought, he will closely
watch the stock. When the stickers
first begin to lag is the time to push
hard.

He will work for profits rather than
for volume of business. To secure
profits, he must aim at a quick turn-

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over. A quick turnover demands a
full stock of the quick selling lines.
This is hard to get where a lot of
money moving
stock.
“Push the
wise axiom,

is tied up in slow

goods that pay’ is a

Slow moving lines should be closed
out. The longer they stay in the
the more deeply they eat into
the profits.

store,

Good buying is the first step to-

ward good selling. It is better to
buy frequently than to overbuy.

\ reduction of the stock to the low-
est possible figure and the livest pos-
s‘ble constituents means a_ satisfac-

tory inventory a year from now.

William Edward Park.

is one of the few things that
is never displayed on a bargain counter.

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Leather. Hand or machine made.
We guarantee them absolutely.
Write for catalogue and price list.

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Ionia Ave. and Louis St.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

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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 Furon. L

Grand Conductor—John A. Hach, Jr.,
Coldwater. /

Grand Page—W. T. Ballamy, Bay City.

Grand Sentinel—C. C. Starkweather,
Detroit.

Grand Chaplain—F. W. Wilson, Trav-
erse City.

Grand Executive Committee—E. A.
Dibble, Hillsdale; Angus G. McWachron,
Detroit; James E. Burtless, Marquette;
L. N. Thompkins, Jackson.

Next Grand Council Meeting—Traverse
Citv, June 2 and 8, 1916.

Secretary—Maurice Henman,

 

 

Wafted Down From Grand Traverse
Bay.

Traverse City, Jan. 24—-Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Oberlin, proprietors of the
Hotel Whiting, at Traverse City,
spent a few days in Detroit attend-
ing the auto show.

Larry O’Neil and Joe Ewing spent
Friday and Saturday in Grand Rapids,
attending a meeting of the travelers
of the International Harvester Co.
The management impressed very
strongly upon the salesmen that the
ae ton law must be adhered to strict-

"The M. & N. E. train coming into
Traverse City one day last week look-
ed as if it had been run into from the
side; but upon careful enquiry from
the train crew it was found that the
broken glass was charged to Earl
J. Case, of Kingsley. Earl is a mem-
ber of No. 361, so we know he was
strickly sober, but while he was put-
ting on his rubbers in the coach pre-
paratory to getting off at Norfolk,
he stood between the seats facing the
isle. The train made a sudden lurch
around a bend and Earl went back-
wards through the window. Earl
says he never realized the real value
of his size until then. If he had
been one inch narrower he would
have landed in the snow outside the
coach. As it was he just stuck in the
window, and with the help of the
conductor and brakeman was releas-
ed with very little damage.

Realizing the growth of the agri-
cultural industry of Northern Mich-
igan and the importance of Traverse
City as a distributing center for the
Northern part of the State, the John
Deere Plow Co. has contracted with
J. © Morean & Co. to transter its
complete line of implements. The
first car arrived Thursday, a _ solid
car of Syracuse plows. This will be
followed immediately by complete
cars from the different factories of
the large Deere organizations to
make a complete line of transfer
stock in Traverse City.

Any one passing the residence of
Jay ‘Young might think from the
broken wi wy in his bed room that
there had been a robbery committed,
but nothing like that. Jay was to
take the 5:40 a, m. train Tuesday
morning, and set the alarm clock to
strike at 5 o'clock. He woke up,
however, about 7 and the hole in the
window was made when Jay disposed
of the alarm clock.

Otto Powers, who for a number of
years worked out of Traverse City
for Grinnell Bros. and a few months

ago was given charge of their store at
Petoskey, has again been promoted
to general manager of their store
at Port Huron. Mr. Powers was in
Traverse City straightening up his
business affairs and will leave at
once to enter upon the duties of the
new position. Mr. Powers had a
host of friends in Traverse City, be-
ing a very active member of the K.
P., as well as a member and officer
of No, 361. Mr. Powers has earned
this promotion by hard work and
faithful service and, while we are
sorry to lose both Mr. and Mrs.
Powers as neighbors, we wish them
the best of success in their new lo-
cation.

There has been considerable dis-
cussion in the columns of the Trades-
man regarding the turning over of
seats in the new steel coaches on
the G. R. & I. The writer, while
riding to Grand Rapids the other
night, was informed by the conductor
and brakeman that it was absolutely
against the rules of the road for one
or two persons to enjoy the com-
forts of a double seat, no matter if
there were only a few people in the
coach. The conductor explained
that even though a passenger would
spread out his overcoat over the
cushions, he would not be allowed to
use a double seat under any condi-
tions, except a party of three or
more. Now this particular conduc-
tor, as well as most of the other G.
Rk. & L. employes, is a mighty nice and
accommodating man, but of course,
has to live up to the rules of the
road. I do not believe this rule is
needed. When seats are not being

used, I can see no reason why a
passenger using caution not to in-

jure the cushions should not be priv-
ileged with getting a little rest. There
is considerable travel between Trav-
erse City and Grand Rapids and pos-
sibly the G, R. & I. doesn’t care for
this patronage. The P. M. runs fully
as well equipped and as nicely up-
holstered trains as the G. R. & I.
and is always willing that the passen-
gers ride as comfortably as possible;
and trade generally goes where it is
best taken care of.

Earl Tedman, who has been mak-
ing some of the city trade for Straub
Bros. & Amiotte, is now a full fledged
traveling man, as he is now covering
the territorry formerly visited by
Henry Dawley.

Jaun A. Montoya, traveling repre-
sentative of Montoya, Patino & Co.
of Bogota, Columbia, South America,
distributors of the John Deere line
at that point, has been making a
tour of the United States. While
Mr. Montoya can speak very little
English, his interpreter states that
he is very favorably impressed with
Northern Michigan. Although a man
about 40 years of age, this is the
first time that he has ever seen snow,
and he explains that if it always
makes the air as clear and cool as it
did last Tuesday morning, he would
certainly like to live where there is
snow.

The Ann Arbor suffered consider-
able damage last week, on account of
land slides. The bluff between Frank-
fort and Beulah gave way and cover-
ed the track to a depth of several
feet with earth and timber. Another
land slide between Mesick and Yuma
delayed the train about five hours.

Traverse City Council is making
great preparations for a good time
at its annual meeting in February.
We expect Grand Counselor Law-
ton and several other State officers
to be with us and a general good
time is expected. F. W. Wilson.

———_o-2-2
Pickings Picked Up in the Windy
City.

Chicago, Jan. 24—The Consumers’
Company of Chicago gives away each
day fifty pounds of coal to any poor
family which presents it with a ticket
from the Police Department, Salva-
tion Army, Volunteers of America,
Jewish organization or any news-
paper. This is a fine thing for the
poor of the city and amounts to about
three ton per day and still coal in
Chicago is as cheap as at any point.

With all the hotels in Chicago, the
auto show, beginning Jan. 22nd, has
kept the managers guessing what to
do with the overflow. This year’s
show is running way ahead of last
year in the number of cars displayed
and the number of people visiting
same, The Japenese decorations are
beautiful.

The biggest little drug store in the
city of Chicago is the one connected
with the Morrison Hotel. In a little
over a year that this hotel has been
doing business the doors have never
been locked. In fact, there is no
lock on one door. It is about the
only store in the loop open all night,
catering to a general drug business.
Under the congenial management of
F. Annibale, Ph. G. R. P. This store
enjoys a very healthy trade. Small
as it is, the business keeps three soda
fountain men, two cashiers, two ap-
prentice druggists, two cle rks and an
assistant registered pharmist all busy.
Mr. Annibale extends an invitation
to all Michigan Travelers or friends
of the Tradesman to make this store
their meeting point when in Chicago.

In what is known as “the loop,”
about sixteen square blocks, there
is on an average of three restaurants
to a block. If you wish to diet, avoid
the loop.

Bror Johnson, shot by a robber on
one of Chicago’s busiest downtown
streets Jan. 21, is the fifth police-
man who has lost his life by hold-
up-men in the past year. Officer
Johnson was shot down with no
chance to defend himself.

There has been considerable suf-
fering of late in the city by the poor,
caused by the heavy rains overflow-
ing the sewers, backing up into base-
ments and lower floors of tenement
houses.

Michigan is surely on the map this
week in Chicago, owing to the auto-
mobile show now being held at the
Coliseum. About every other word
is “Detroit,” “Grand Rapids” and
“Michigan.”

C. S. Brundage, of 36 Elm Hurst
avenue., Detroit, representing the
Justin Seubert Cigar Manufacturing
Co., of New York and Syracuse, spent
last week in this city calling on a
few dealers who handle the brands
made by his corporation. Mr. Brun-
dage has been with this house for
the past eight years. Previous to
that he was connected with the cigar
department of Lee & Cady, at Detroit.
He is a member of Cadillac Council,
No, 43.

William H. Strand one of Carlson
Bros’. popular cigar and _ tobacco
salesmen, is the father of a fine half
year old boy and when not -boosting
the sales of Dutch Master cigars,
which occupies twelve hours a day,
he spends a few minuts helping Mrs.
Strand look after the boy.

Harry V. Spurling, head stock-
keeper for Carlson Bros., cigar and
tobacco jobbers, has returned from a
visit in Alabama, where he went to
meet an old schoolmate. This old
schoolmate happened to be his boy-
hood sweetheart. Since his return
some jeweler in the city has prosper-
ed by selling Mr. Spurling a diamond

engagement ring. The writer expects
any mail to get a bid to the wedding.
Accept my congratulations.
C. W. Reattoir.
—_2+ >___

There is a difference between no-
toriety and merit. A thousand dol-
lars’ worth of roses will barely fill
a room with perfume, but with a dol-
lars’ worth of fried onions you can
scent up a whole town.

 

Snyder’s Restaurant
41 North Ionia Ave.
4 Doors North of Tradesman

Special Dinners and Suppers 25c

 

 

Livingston Hotel
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Fine Cafe in Connection

Entertainment Every Evening

 

 

Hotel Charlevoix
Detroit
EUROPEAN PLAN
Absolutely Fire Froof

Rates, $1 for room without bath:
$1.50 and upwards with bath.

Grinnell Realty Co., Props.
H. M. Kellogg, Manager

 

 

Park Place Hotel

Traverse City, Mich.

The leading all the year ‘round
hotelin Northern Michigan. All
conveniences,

All outside Rooms.
American plan.

W. O. HOLDEN, Mer.

 

 

Bryant Hotel
Flint, Mich.
$2.50 AND $3.00
PER DAY

Hot and Cold Running Water in
All Rooms

Rooms with Bath

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January 26, 1916

DETROIT DETONATIONS.

 

Cogent Criticisms From Michigan’s
Metropolis.

Detroit, Jan. 25—Learn one thing
each week about Detroit. In one fac-
tory are made 75,000 lavatory seats
and 25,000 gas hot water heaters each
year. The heaters require 500,000 feet
of copper tubing and over 18,000,000
pounds of cast iron pipe and fittings
are used.

G. W. Gillis, Secretary and Treas-
urer of Edson Moore & Co., ata
meeting of the National Wholesale
Dry Goods Association, held in New
York last week, was elected one of
the members of the executive com-
mittee.

Another evidence of the care taken
of other people’s property by the
traveling men will be found in nearly
every hotel in the State. The Bibles
left in the rooms by the Gideons will
be found in perfect condition; in fact,
not a finger mark will be found on
the pages.

George W. Netschke, haberdasher
at the corner of Chene and Gratiot
avenues, is recovering from an illness
that confined him to his home since
the holidays. Mr. Netschke is one
of the best known business men in
the city and is prominent in many
fraternal organizations.

Lewis Buckingham, of Buckingham
3rothers, Flint clothiers, was an in-
terested visitor at the automobile
show last week. He was interested
to the extent of purchasing a high
grade car. Mr. Buckingham is an en-
thusiastic motorist.

Life in Mexico is one durn_ kill
after another.

E. E. Huebner, one of the best
known fur salesmen in the city, has
been appointed manager of the retail
store of the Yost Fur Co., corner of
Woodward and Grand River avenues.
Mr. Heubner has had thirty years’
experience in the fur business in all
its branches.

Norman J. Rice, formerly with the
Pittsburg Shafting Co., of this city,
has formed a partnership with his
brother, T. L. Rice, and will engage
in the real estate and insurance busi-
ness.

Mr. Francisco, of the Richardson
Garment Manufacturing Co., Kalama-
zoo, was in Detroit on a _ business
visit last week.

Arthur I. Rosenberg, formerly with
the Mohawk Overall Co., Detroit, and
S. C. Silver, formerly with the Acorn
Refining Co., of Cleveland. have
formed a partnership under the style
of the Anti-Break Eyeglass Co., with
offices at 813-815 Peter Smith build-
ing. The young men claim to have
perfected a glass for optical uses that
will not break with ordinary usage;
in fact will stand extraordinary rough
usage.

A Kansas woman announces she
will be a candidate for Vice Presi-
dent. Judging by the little a Vice
President has to say we believe any
woman would soon tire of the job.

J. Marshall MacDonald and Wil-
liam Canfield, department managers
for Burnham, Stoepel & Co., left for
New York on a business trip last
week.

From good authority it is learned
that the Timken-Detroit Axle Co. is
to erect a large malleable iron planr
that will employ 500 or more men.

K. P. Drysdale, of this city, had an
exciting experience while in Chicago
last week. He stood but a few feet
away from the policeman who was
shot by bandits when he attempted
to intercept them after they had rob-
bed and shot one of the employes in
an office close by. Mr. Drysdale is ad-
vertising manager of the Cadillac
Motor Co.

Sam Hirshberg, of Bad Axe, was a
business visitor in Detroit last week.
He conducts a dry goods, furnishing
goods and clothing store.

The weather man predicts zero
weather. We claim to be some
prognosticator ourselves. By Febru-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ary 17 our coal pile will reach the
zero mark.

James Mahar, manager of the Cad-
illac Garment Co., was called to Sag-
inaw last week on account of the seri-
ous illness of his mother, who resides
in that city. Her condition improved
to such an extent that he was able
to return to Detroit within a few days.

Burglars broke into the candy store
of B. N. Arida, at 444 Oakland ave-
nue, last Sunday night and carried
away a safe weighing 1,000 pounds,
containing $210. They became fright-
ened later and abandoned the safe
and contents in a wagon which had
also been stolen.

Banwell & Johns, clothiers and
furnishers at 171 Griswold street, are
advertising a dissolution sale. It is
rumored, although not officially an-
nounced, that Mr. Banwell will retire
from the business.

J. Elder will open a dry goods and
furnishing goods store in a new build-
ing being completed for him at 641
Antoine street, about March 1. Mr.
Eder is not new to the dry goods
business, having formerly success-
fully conducted a store at 719 Russell
street, retiring about two years ago.

Albert Dorrance, for the past four
years connected with the underwear
department of Burnham, Stoepel &
Co., has been appointed representa-
tive to cover the suburban towns for
the underwear and hosiery depart-
ments, succeeding Roy N. Turner,
who resigned.

Contracts have been awarded by
the Arthur Colton Co., machinist, cor-
ner of Chene and Jefferson avenue,
for an addition to its factory.

“Chirpings of the Crickets” carried
a line last week as follows: “Work-
work-work.” If Pub. Com. wishes us
to read his columns, he will kindly
eliminate such kind of talk.

The J. L. Hudson Co. is building
a six-story warehouse, with a front-
age of 50 feet and a depth of 200 feet.
The lower floor will be used as a
garage and the upper floors for a
warehouse.

Duncan J. McDonald for forty-three
years with the retail grocery firm of
John Blessed & Son, died at his home
last week, after an illness of three
weeks. He was one of the founders
of the Newsboys Association and ac-
tively identified with it to the end.
His widow survives.

A new factory for the manufacture
of ice is being built by the Peoples
Ice Co., on Grand River avenue.

Thieves broke the front window of
the hardware store of Crap & Jacobs,
130 Michigan avenue, and escaped
with merchandise valued at $25.

Roy N. Turner, formerly with
Burnham, Stoepel & Co., making the
territory adjacent to Detroit, has re-
signed and is now affliated with
George F. Sheetz, manufacturer’s
agent, 63 University building. He will
cover practically the same territory as
heretofore. The firms represented by
Mr. Turner and Mr. Sheetz are the
Morehead Knitting Co. and Keystone
Hosiery Mills, hosiery; Nat. Potar,
men’s neckwear; Delpark Co., men’s
wash ties and underwear, and the In-
terwoven brand of hosiery.

J. T. MacManamy, President of the
Everclean Manufacturing Co., has re-
turned from a trip to Bisons Corners,
Okla., where he has been spending
the past month.

Guy Brewster Cady, well-known
local advertising novelty salesman,
suffered the loss of his auto last week
when a nervy thief borrowed it for a
joy ride. The suffering came when
Mr. Cady discovered the joy rider
had collided with another machine
and battered his auto until it re-
sembled in miniature a French vil-
lage after a Teuton bombardment.

Dr. Thomas F. Spillane, son of
Capt. John T. Spillane, and brother
of George Spillane, traveling sales-
man for Burnham, Stoepel & Co.,
died suddenly in his office Jan. 11.
Dr. Spillane will be remembered by

many in Northern Michigan, having
practiced medicine in Manistee about
ten years ago. He appeared in the
best of health on the day of his sud-
den end. Dr. Spillane was a good
citizen, a kind son and a Christian
gentleman. The writer, in common
with hosts of many others, has lost
a true friend.

Those only can thoroughly feel the

meaning of death who know what is
perfect love—George Eliot.
_F. J. Patterson, formerly with the
Steel Products Co., and F. J. Bur-
rows, formerly purchasing agent for
the Briggs-Detroiter Co., have form-
ed a partnership under the style of
Patterson & Burrows and will act as
manufacturers’ selling agents, with
offices at 1607 Kresge building. The
following manufacturers will be rep-
resented by the new organization: W.
W. Wainwright & Son and Hoosier
Castings Co., Connersville, Ind.; To-
ledo Steel Tube Co., Toledo, and the
Curtis Screw Works, Buffalo.

Milwaukee papers gave consider-
able space to the big reception given
to Frank S. Ganiard, of Jackson, Su-
preme Counselor of the U. C. T. of
America and Walter D. Murphy, of
Columbus, Supreme Secretary of the
order, in that city. Councils from all
over the State gathered in Milwaukee
for a joint banquet in honor of the
visitors. Michigan was. proud of
Frank Ganiard when he was elevated
to the highest office in the gift of
the order. That pride has been great-
ly augmented by the able manner in
which he has executed his duties. If
the U. C. T. has honored Frank S.
Ganiard, he, in turn, has honored the
name of the organization.

W. E. Campau, optician, has moved
into a new location in the James
Holden building, the new store being
in the same building around the cor-
ner.

Traveling men are not averse to
receiving tips, but are loth to give up

any.

J. A. Grimaldi, sales manager for
R. A. Carmichael & Co., manufactur-
ers of toilet articles, was made a
member of the firm last week. Mr.
Grimaldi is known to the trade from
coast to coast and his promotion
comes as a reward for meritorious
service in the past, his work being in
no small manner responsible for the
growth of the company.

And yet we cannot believe that the
rise in the cost of paper is due to
President Wilson’s note writing.

Mr. Dudley, of Dudley & Hubble,
Ypsilanti, was in Detroit last week
on a business trip.

The Detroit City Gas Co. is going
to build a four-story office building
addition at the corner of Bagley ave-
nue and Clifford street.

Gordon B. Whyte, city salesman for
the B. F. Goodrich Co., died at his
home in this city last Wednesday.
Mr. Whyte was a_ veteran of the
South African war, having gone to
the front with the Windsor contin-
gent. He was 35 years old and had
been in poor health for some time.
Surviving are a widow, his parents,
two sisters and a brother.

John W. Schram, well known as
former Secretary of Cadillac Council
and for many years representative for
an Eastern shoe firm, met with a pain-
ful accident when he slipped on the
icy walks while in Millington about
two weeks ago. He was carrying two
grips at the time and was unable to
protect himself from the fall. He has
ben confined to his home since the
accident.

Milton Alexander, for the past four
years advertising manager for the
Summerfield & Hecht furniture store,
has organized an advertising agency
and has opened offices at 602 Free
Press building.

Henry Sarbinowski, one of the old-
est and most successful Michigan ave-
nue merchants, is preparing for a
twenty-fourth anniversary sale. Mr.
Sarbinowski began business in a small

store at the corner of Michigan and
Livernois avenues, the site of his
present location. To-day he owns a
department store which utilizes the
space of three stores with a depth of
approximately 100 feet. At a meeting
of the West Side Improvement As-
sociation, two weeks ago, Mr. Sarbin-
owski was re-elected President for
the fourth consecutive time. Many
improvements made during the last
few years are attributable to this or-
ganization and largely through the
individual efforts of Mr. Sarbinowski.

We often wonder who will be left

to pay Uncle Sam for the ammuni-
tion when it is all over.
_ Edward Peal, who has been travel-
ing in Indiana for a furniture concern,
has resigned and is again associated
with Brushaber’s furniture store, at
147-155 Michigan avenue.

Felix Feldman, 441 Baker street.
has been confined to his home with
the grippe for a few days but at this
writing is again able to be about his
dry goods store.

Jay Jaffe, representative for the
Holters Shoe Co., Cincinnati, was in
Detroit last week, having returned
from a hunting trip in the Northern
part of the State. He also timed his
visit so he could be in the city at
the time of the big automobile show.
Jay is one of the few traveling men
who travel through Michigan and re-
sides in a foreign state, yet has all
the earmarks of a genuine Michi-
gander. His territory comprises the
entire State and during the years he
has been calling on the trade has
made hosts of friends, most of whom
look for him to become a Michigan
resident taxpayer at some future date.

The entertainment committee of
Detroit Council announce a big event,
to be known as “ladies’ night” for
the evening of Feb. 5. Under such
circumstances it behooves all mem-
bers of No. 9 to plan on being “in”
on the fun and entertainment prom-
ised for that occasion. :

We have lined up a hero for our
next biographical sketch to appear in
the next issue of the Tradesman. Or-
der your extra copies early.

Johnny Thompson, of the McKin-
non. is slated for the management of
the new Bancroft, at Saginaw. This
is bad news—for Cadillac.

The Grand River Business Men’s
Club, at a meeting last week, elected
officers for the ensuing year and
thanked the retiring officers for their
work during 1915, which was one of
the most successful years since the
inception of the organization. Those
elected were: E. F. Louys, 204 Mc-

Graw avenue, President; Walter
Schiel, 110 Leuschner avenue, Vice
President; T.~Bargman, Secretary,

and John Crosson, 998 Grand River
avenue, Treasurer.

He laughs best who doesn’t live
in Europe.

He laughs still more who lives in
Detroit. James M. Goldstein.
—_2+.—____

Propose To Be Helpful.
Detroit, Jan. 25—At the last meet-
ing of the Michigan Auxiliary of the
American Specialty Manufacturers’
Association, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved—By the Michigan Auxil-
iary of the American Specialty Manu-
facturers’ Association in regular ses-
sion assembled that the Retail Gro-
cers and General Merchants’ Asso-
ciation of Michigan be assured of our
hearty good will and interest in their
organization. Further, that we pledge
our united efforts toward making
their eighteenth annual convention at
Battle Creek, Feb. 22, 23 and 24 a
success; and be it further :
Resolved—That to that end our
next regular meeting be held in Bat-
tle Creek, Feb. 23.
Jas. A. McRae,
Henry Russell.
B. L. Herrick,
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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 Meetings—Detroit, Jan. 18, 19

and 20; Grand Rapids, March 21, 22
and 23.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso-

clation.

President—C. H. Jongejan, Grand
Rapids.

Secretary—D. D. Alton, Fremont.
Treasurer—John G. Steketee, Grand

Rapids.
Next Annual Meeting—Detroit, June 20,
21 and 22, 1916.

Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As-

sociation.
President—W. H. Martin, 165 Rhode
and Treasurer—Walter S.

Island avenue, Detrait.
Secretary
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Is Pharmacy Going Backwards?

Is pharmacy going backwards?
What makes you think so? If I were
asked directly the above question, I
should say no, pharmacy is not go-
ing backwards, for this is a true sci-
ence, and is fast going ahead, rather
than backwards, every day we are in-
creasing our knowledge more and
more in this art of many ages.

It’s the man behind the counter, in
what is known as the Up-to-date
Drug Store, that is the real backward
goer. He is drifting too much to the
commercial side of the business and
leaving the professional side to take
care of itself. A thing we all know
is an impossibility. He is looking too
much at the dollar sign, for which I
don’t blame him. But for this, he
shouldn’t blame pharmacy for his
non-success, in being able to run a
small department store, between the
four walls of his little layout. Let
the department store man take care
of this sort of business.

Did you ever hear a real pharma-
cist, one who does nothing else but
handle and dispense medicine, com-
plain of the backward tendency of
pharmacy? Not on your life, you
didn’t, and what’s more, you are not
likely to, either, in the near future.
Pharmacy to him is a real pleasure,
and a calling he is proud of, never
regretting his entering this field of
science. And you'll find that people
will walk blocks, yes, and some times
miles, in order to get their medicine
at just this sort of pharmacist.

We'll have to admit that there are
really more so-called drug stores than
the populace will support, on a pay-
ing, true medical basis. But we must
also remember that there would not
be as many if they were conducted
on this true medical dispensing plan.

The drug business has drifted along
in this rut so long that it would be
a hard matter to throw off the un-
professional sides of the business di-
rectly and conduct a first class phar-

macy, and at the same time make a
living income from the returns. But it
has been done, which only goes to
show that the sooner more of it is
done, the better off will be pharmacy.

Some of you say the patent medi-
cine business spoiled the game.
Whose fault was this? Does it take
brains to hand out a packed patent?
What did you spend your time and
money for, if that is the kind of busi-
ness yo ualways intend to do? Why
not let the grocery store man sell the
patent stuff, and you grab a few of
the profit paying articles, which are
yours by right, which he has?

Why should you complain about the
dispensing M,. D. when it’s really your
own fault that he is dispensing at all.
Don’t you suppose he would be glad
to turn over his prescription portion
of the business to you, if he was sure
that the medicine would be of a sat-
isfactory quality? Do you suppose
he is anxious to give his medicine
away free, as he does, when he could
just as well get as much, and at the
same time send his prescription work
to you? For this dispensing to pa-
tients costs him money, the stuff isn’t
given to him free, by any means. And
why do you suppose he prescribes
when he does write some special
make preparation? Just for the sim-
ple reason that he finds the average
pharmacist isn’t capable of putting
result-giving medicine on his written
prescription. And he knows the man-
ufacturer isn’t taking any chances in
not having potent stuff.

Of course it must be remembered
that should we go back into real
pharmacy, just about two-thirds of
the so-called pharmacies would have
to close their doors. For there would
only be room for about one-third,
and even some of these would have
to scratch some to make a living.
For ask yourself frankly, would your
prescription and true medicine por-
tion of your business pay your rent
and give you a profit at this time?

I know that all of you think that
because you have put in your time
and passed the State Board, etc., you
are pharmacists, but you’re not. Don’t
complain if your so-called drug busi-
ness isn’t good. Let some real
pharmacist, one conducting a true
ethical pharmacy shop, come forward
and tell us if pharmacy is going
backwards.

If you are in business to make real
money, conduct your place on true
business principles. Don’t worry your
head over that end of the business
which isn’t paying you the right re-
turns. Just go to work and push the
end of your business that you have

found from experience is making you
a good profit. If it’s your soda foun-
tain, push it to the limit, and then
run a confectionery store. If it’s
your cigar counter, make yourself a
specialist in that line. But don’t come
harping on the string that pharmacy
is going backwards, for it isn’t.
W. M. Linnett, Jr.

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Hints For the Prescription Counter.

When writing prescription labels
for liquid medicines that are liable to
discolor the paper or bleach the ink,
it is a good plan to write the pre-
scription number on the adhesive side
of the label, so that, in case of soiling
the label, the number may be read by
looking through the bottle.

In refilling prescriptions, always
use a new cork. Sending the old cork
back, which is invariably soiled or
broken, is a bad practice. The new
cork gives to the customer a sense of
cleanliness about your work, and
these little things count.

In dispensing tablets or pills on
prescription, be sure to give the exact
number called for; not for economy’s
sake, but for its psychological effect.
Quite often the people know how
many tablets or capsules they should
receive, especially in refills, and if
they should count them, which I be-
lieve frequently occurs, and find just
the exact number, it would leave a
minute impression in their mind that
accuracy prevails in your prescription
work,

If your shelf bottles are in the
front of the store and the customer
is waiting for his or her prescription,
it is a good policy not to replace the
shelf bottles until the customer has
received his or her medicine and gone
out of the store. This is especially
true of shelf bottles with labels that
are easily deciphered by the public.
Some people are very inquisitive
about their prescriptions, as to their
ingredients and how they are com-
pounded in the hope that they may
buy the ingredients and mix them
themselves. The writer has purpose-
ly gone out and taken one or two
more shelf bottles down just to
throw some inquisitive person off the
track.

Quite frequently the same person,
or persons in the same family, will
have different prescriptions for tab-
lets, pills, capsules, or powders. Ina
case of this kind, it is a good feature
to mark the number of the prescrip-
tion on the bottom of each box, so
that in case of a mix up it may easily
be straightened out. Of course, this
is not necessary when hinged boxes
are used.

When filling prescriptions which
contain considerable quantities of
hygroscopic substances that are not
poisonous, such as powdered ox-gall,
etc., it is a good idea to add the most
hygroscopic substance last, as this
produces a mixture that will stand
exposure to the air three or four
times longer than if the hygroscopic
substances were mixed first. This is
not because the hygroscopic sub-
stances were exposed longer to the
air in mixing, but because they are
present in small friable lumps, which
reduces to a minimum the surface ex-

January 26, 1916

posed to the air, and consequently re-
duces proportionally the extraction of
water from the air. The lumps are so
small that an even distribution and
an exact dosage is assured when the
powder is packed in capsules, etc.

——_~--___
Mustard Cream.
A Detroit druggist uses the follow-
ing formula:

Benzoinated Lard ......... 3 ozs.
White Petrolatum ........ 1 oz.
Camphor .....1.........). 15 grs.
Menthol 0... 30 grs.
Volatile Oil of Mustard

(antiicial) |... 60 min,

Melt the lard and petrolatum to-
gether and dissolve the camphor and
menthol in the mixture. When cool
incorporate the volatile oil of mus-
tard.

It is important that the mustard’
oil be not added while the mixture
is hot, as a greater part of the volatile
oil would be driven off as a result
and cause intense irritation in the
eyes of the operator.

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She Had a Cough.

An old Irish woman came into a
store the other day, and, as the clerk
stepped up to wait on her, said: “I
would like the trail of the lonesume
pine.”

“Beg pardon?” enquired the clerk.

“The trail of the lonesume pine,’
replied the woman.

“Oh, you will find that at the book
store,’ answered the clerk.

“It’s no book I’m after!” she de-
clared indignantly.

“It's for me cough,” putting her
hand up to her chest. “For me
cough, I tell ye, the trial bottle of the
lonesume pine cough syrup.”

George Garrie King.

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we powd. 80c) 38@ 30 Bicarbonate .... 1 16@1 25 powdered .. 35(
ask you to reserve your orders for ceed ey? © Bromide ....0-.:: oe ee. 2s S
i u powd. SPOMmIGeG ........, - By ea Ar hy
sundries. Our stock is lar i _ ag Cortionate 200012." 319° 38 Lime Arsenate -. $14@ 16
ger and more grits xtal and 5 “ Solution, gai. . 15@ 26
wdered ...... 62@ 65 Paris G 7
complete than Licoric ee, Chlorate, gré 3 FEEn ...... 30@ 35
@ ss J ate, granular 65 7 35
ever before and we can licarica pecdanaa oA = Cyanide a oe iL
MEE kaecukes 4 75@4 iscell
assure you of good servic i Flowers Permanaganate 2 bro au —
e. Amica ol. 5c... 48@ 50 Prussiate, yellow W225 Acetanalid 1 75@:
Chamomile (Ger.) 85@ 90 Prussiate, red @1% sium 76@2 OC
H | [ Chamomile (Rom) 66@ 60 Sulphate oe | 6° 3) Alum powdered aa
i ae aT ‘dered and
azeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Gun ee (roland eves 18@ 25
- Acacia, ist 50 60 Alkane reno a, Subni-
Gra Nea aa ° 6 MNCE ....15.... 90@1 00 TALO ..ceeeee 3 60@3 6
nd Rapids pease acc BSB Re area” AYE aces a oe
Acacia, Sorts ---.30@ 50 a ae 5@1 75 powdered ..... 74%@ 9
acacia, Sowdered 80@ 40 Gentian, por pwd. 1o6@ 20 Cantharades 2 25@6 76
Aloes (Barb. Pow) 25 ‘ Senean, Bowe. 30@ 35 Calomel bo 2 20@o 7
Aloes (Cape ad es 30 Ginger, African, Capsicum ..... 2 69W2 7d
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 40 = ote WG 6 Conan 2... _ 30@ 36
Asafoetida .....  90@1 00 Guar jo 30@ 35 Cassia Buds’... eu
Asafoetida, vane powdered : CIOVES  weeeeeeeese 30g ie
powdered ...... 0@ 35 Chalk I @ 36
aa ws 1 15@1 25 pole pow. 6 50@7 00 Chaik eee -. OG 8h
oie Powd. 1 eG 80 Tea powd. ..4 13@o 00 Chlorofor recipitated soo ie
meeahece fee Ceeeececs ys Chl eccee
Guaiac VE 50@ 55 Licorice, powd. sie - cain) Hydrate 2 wwq@2 %
a Ce Guile, wenceee ig 36 Cocos pie. ae o
ecccccee 4 i . OV ae oF .. 7
pad seus ue 5 a. ered 20@_ 25 Corks, list, less 10% 66
e WE -sccesaee 490 Rhubarb, ‘powd. aoe cone bbls. .... @ 1%
9 are. powdered 59 osinweed, powd. +O ne Coun arom lesa .... 2@ 6
ba deeece 13 25@13 45 Sarsaparilla, Hond. Gartoure powd. .. 4@ 6
Opium, powd. 14 78@14 95 a, @ 6 a Sublm 2 46@z2 50
ones gran. 16 oa 29 4«(%Sarsaparilla Mexican, oa tar .... 47@ 55
sees ceeee B81@ 35 ground ........ 28@ 3 Bexerine seseeee 40@ 50
Shellac, Bleached 35@ 40 Sdauilis .......... me te Severe toca 7@ 10
Tragacanth Squills, powdered 40@ 60 ao ee @2 60
Noo 1. aa Tumeric, powd. 13@ 20 eae all Nos. 6@ 10
Seacocantn ay acy 75 Valerian, powd. 10@ 75 ps Y, powdered 5@ &
a Turpentine ar Epsom Salts, bbis. @ 4%
eC dete - 10 16 Seen ne Salts, less 56@ 48
I } ] oeeueces 1
Leaves Anise .......0000- 20@ 25 ao powdered 2 icon ir
Sage, powdered .. 65 Anise, powdered oS & ba White .... 15@ 20
Buchu .. oe 8 eS fe: tc oe ie
fone eee wot $5 Canary .......... et See -..:::::. 20@ 25
Mr. Deal eee ees cote, ieee Gaetan Oe See Oe
6 : e age, %s loose ..72@ 78 Celery (powd. & 2 00@2 2 ‘ie , es Ye
. ealer, order a tr lal sh Sage, 4s loose '..72@ 78 Celery (powd. 65) o@ 2 Glassware, less 70 d 10%
1p- Senna, Tinn. .... 4 = aoe se 18 ao — bbl. @1%
Senna, Tinn powd 45@ 60 Fennell 2.00000 // me fe oe
’ 0 Fennell ..... Glue, brown .....
ment of the best fl ee 24.2 "01 1 Glue, brown gid.” 10g 1s
est flavored and PLAX eaves 0G 1) Glue, white vsvs.. 1BQ
Oils Foenugreek, pow. 8@ 10 ae white grd. 15@ 20
Almonds, Bitter, HOMp ..-sseceeeee 8@ 12 rere Ueveaawe 60@ 70
smoothest I =: fue i Ligaen ame ca fens se
est Ice Cream It Is ] Almonds, ‘Bitter, Mustard,’ yellow’ '..20@ 25 fodine ..
POSSIDIE artificial ..... 6 76@600 Mustard, powd. 220 30 leddons :
oo Sweet, eo powd. 220 eo ta oo 6 7 2
TUG coccccees DUM ............ 35@ : . eee 20
to make Almouds, a ee Quince cwcusee. 1 OG 1 25 a ay sees 2 25@2 35
. imitation ..... Ge uu Gade 10@ 15 Mace, powdered oe.
a oe Ge & Sabadilla ........ 15 Mace, powdered  95@ 00
Amber, rectified 15@1 5 Sabadilla, powd. 40 Mo nh eccccces 4 50@4 75
yi, gh cay = (ae 00 Sunflower ...... @ 16 wo eo dtaee - 6 30@6 55
i - fa eee : onan 36 Worm American 20@ 25 Nu Wousica seeee @ 20
A . Cajeput °° 5 Worm Levant .. 1 50@1 75 x Vomica pow. @ 2
air trial will secur ae te ions 117 Pepper, black pow. @ 30
e your | Siz iad WE snus Hatta 8
Cane 1 ...... 55 ‘ *s
season’ cedar eat <2... $001 00 Aloes 120000007 @ 1% Guinine, 5°63. “cans 1 03
S contract. a ee 00 Arnica ....0202, ¢ S Basnele Salts .. 40@ 45
Cocoanut ....... som a Asafoetida ...... O1 35 Saccharine is oogit 0
Cod Liver . . 3 35@3 50 Belladonna ..... @1 65 Seidlit: M ‘ture = -
Cotton Seed ee ee Bec aa ben fixture 35@ 40
eae Eee oe Ce CO Soap, mott castile 12@ 15
upbebs ....... 8 75@4 0@ Cantharadies ... :
: Bigeron ...... : ie a Cantharadies gi a ee white castile
iper ic Gucalyptus ...... 80@1 00 Gardamon “2... @ 90 Soap, white castiic Gr
c real | ) O Hemlock, pure .. 1 0 Cardamon ...... @1 50 ot white castile
e Juniper Berries 5 50@5 75 Cardamon, Comp. @200 Soda Jey bar... @ 8
Juniper Wood .. 1 25@1 50 et @ 60 Soda Bicarbonate se
ec 7 extra ......95@1 05 ee eee @1 05 Sada a 14@ 5
S ioe. fi ( cum ...... ne eee ee eee: 4Q@ +5
rand Rapids Mich Evie Weed Gade Getalie Sis See. ek
9 e Lavender, Gar'n 1 25@1 40 FmISMA .--n0s+- & & seinhur pe seeee 2 3 6
emon .......+. a 5 ae
fe fe ae ee a o& car exe’. ua
Pid bik cen A4a aS COMIN ca secunces @1 05 Turpenti metic .... @ 60
thaecd van, OL OG 67S Guaiac, Ammon. @ 80 Va ain ne Venice @1 25
Linseed, raw, less 83@ 88 loaine Golor $3 00 Witch. Hazel silly esQ1 00
» orless coos
200 Zinc Sulphate .... 8 @1?

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing.

and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.

Prices, however, are

liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled
at market prices at date of purchase.

 

ADVANCED

Hemp Seed
Cracked Wheat
Mushrooms
Rolled Oats
Cream Tartar
Flour

DECLINED

 

a

Index to Markets

 

 

 

By Columns
Col
A
Ammonia ....--eeeeeee 1
Axle Grease .....-.-- 1
B
Baked Beans ...-.---- 1
Bath Brick ......--- :
Bluing ...--e.ceeeeeees
Breakfast Food ....-- :
Brooms ...----eeeesee® :
Brushes ...--++seseees
Butter Color .....-----
. 1
Candles ......--see+s> se
Canned Goods ...---- =
Carbon Oils ....- Soaee ;
Catsup .....- cet keee :
Cheese ....--ees-eee oe ;
Chewing Gum ....--«--- ;
Chicory ..ccceseserees :
Chocolate ..--+-++++-- :
Clothes Lines ....--- F
COCOR ..cceeeeeeeeees :
Cocoanut ....-.+-+e+- :
Coffee ....ceeeeeeeees :
Confections ...----++> :
Crack nat |... 2
CrackerS ..---+-++s* _.
Cream Tartar ....---
° 6
Dried Fruits ....------>
3
Evaporated Milk ..... 6
F
Farinaceous Goods :
Fishing Tackle ......-
Flavoring Extracts ... 7
Flour and Feed .....-- :
Fruit Jars ......---:-
G °
Gelatine ......es.e.s+- :
Grain Bags ....-..+---
H
Herbs ....-.-ceecevee 7
Hides and Pelts ..... 8
Horse Radish ........ 8
I
[ce Cream ...... jo... 8
J
Belo ce bh eke see 8
J elly Glasses .....-+. 8
M
Macaroni ............ 8
Mapleine ............ 8
Meats, Canned ...... 9
Mince Meat ......... 8
MolasseS ......-eeeee 8
Mustard .....-.cceeeee 8
N
Wats ...............- 4
Dlives ......-...----- 8
P
Petroleum Products.. 8
Pickles .....-cceccees 8
RIGO cece ene o noose ce 8
Playing Cards ....... 8
POtASh ....22-2cc028 8
Provisions ..........- 8
R
betes ccee eee 9
Rolled M@ate 62020525. 9
Salad Dressing ...... 9
Saleratus ........ -5 9
Gal Hoge ...........- 9
NE oe ec cee ete. . 9
oo, a poe ceeaese es .
Shoe  piacking .
EIR nie oon cose ence 10
BOMB ....+--ses0> pence 6D
Spices ...... 10
Starch aes 10
yee SS 10
7
Table Sauces ........ 10
Men <2 25... ee peices 10
Tobacco ...... .- 14, 12, 2B
WING 2.20 cccscce oo. 12
Wineyar . ....ccccreces 13
Wicking ........----- 13
Woodenware ..... -. 38
Wrapping Paper .... 14
Y
Wonst Cake .......... i

AMMONIA
12 oz. ovals, 2 doz. box 1 60

AXLE GREASE
Frazer’s

1lb. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00
1m. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 35
34%4Ib. tin boxes, 2 dz. 4 25
10%. pails, per doz. ..6 00
15m. 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
FPneiisn - 22 o so. 95
BLUING
Jennings’
Condensed Pearl Bluing
Small, 3 doz. box ....1 35
Large, 2 doz. box ia 60
Folger’s.

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

BREAKFAST FOODS
Apetizo, Biscuits ....
Bear Yood, Pettijohns
Cracked Wheat, 24 2
Cream of Rye, 24-2 ..
Quaker Puffed Rice ..
Quaker Puffed Wheat
Quaker Brkfst Biscuit
Quaker Corn Flakes
Victor Corn Flakes ..

tt BS f= P= GS mm CO Do BO OO
~ oS
o

Washington Crisps .. 1 8
Wheat Hearts ...... 2 05
Wheatena .......... 4 50

Evapor’ed Sugar Corn ~4

Grape Nuts .......... 2 70
Grape Sugar Flakes . 2 50
Sugar Corn Flakes .. 2 50
Hardy Wheat Food .. 2 25
Holland Rusk ...... 3 20
Krinkle Corn Flakes 1 75
Mapl-Flake, Whole
WVRORL oo. c ete eee 3 60
Minn. Wheat Cereal 3 76

Ralston Wheat Food
Large 188 ......... 2 26
Ralston Wht Food 188 1 45
Ross’s Whole Wheat
BSINCWIE 2 .o nce eee 2
Saxon Wheat Food .. 2 80
Shred Wheat Biscuit 3
Triscuit, 18 1
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 1
Post Toasties, T-2 .. 2 50
Post Toasties, T-3 .. 2
Post Tavern Porridge 2

BROOMS
Fancy Parlor, 25 Ib. 4
Parlor, 5 String, 25 tb. 4 50
Standard os 23 Th. 4

Common, 23 Ib. ...... 3 75
Special, 23 Ib. ........ 3 25
Warehouse, 23 Ib. ....4 75
Common, Whisk .....1 10
Fancy, Whisk ....... 1 40

BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ...... 7

Solid Back, 11 in. .... 95
Pointed Ends ........ 85
Stove
No 8 ......:...--5--. OO

Rip: 8 oe cee cece ©

Me. © oocls. ccc tees A Oe
Shoe

NO. B occ co i eecescec. 8 OO

NO. 7 bocce cs cece. RD

NG. 8 occ acces cece 8 Oe

fo ee 90

UTTER COLOR
enkation. 25c size .. 3 00

CANDLES
Paraffine, 68 .........
Paraffine, 128 ......:-
W4CKing ......-..+. o.

CAN yy : GOODS

ppice
8 th. Standards .. 90
No. 10 .......... 2 75
Blackberries
2, 2.6. seee 1 50@1 90
Stanaard No.

%

S-103

Booked |... ...,..-

Red Kidney

SUE CL Cg ees ye

Wek ...2.......
Blueberries

Standard

No. 10

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oe Clams —
Little Neck, 1tb.

 

on 1 25
Clam _ Boulllon
Burnham’s % pt. .... 22
Burnham’s pts. ..... 8 75
Burnham’s qts. ...... 7 50
Corn
Mair oo 85@ 90
Good .......... 1 00@1 10
Mancy ........... @1 30
French Peag
Monbadon ee
per dom. .......
Gooseberries
No. 2, Keir .......... 1 85
No. 2, Fancy ........ 2 60
Hominy
Standard ..........-- 8b
Lobster
BG ID. co csecsccesesece © OB
Sanee ceeeecinose a aD
Picnic Flat 1.2.2: «eo. 3 80
Mackerel
Mustard, 1 Ib. ...... 1 80
Mustard, 2 Ib. ...... 2 80
Soused, 1% Ib. ...... 1 60
Soused, 2 tb. ........ 75
Tomato, a 90. occ ss 1 50
Tomato, 2 ib. ........ 2 80
Mushrooms
Suttons, 465 ..... @20
Buttons, 18 ..... M34
Hotels, is ...... @29
Oysters
Cove, 1 Tbh. .. @ 7
Cove, 2 tb. ..... @1 40
Plums .......... 90@1 36
Pears In oP
No. 3 cans, per doz. ..1 50
Peas
Marrowfat ...... @1 00
Barly June .... 110@1 25

Early June siftd 1 45@1 55

ee

PIO ........-.. ti 25

No. 10 = can "ple 3 36
eapple

1 75@2 10

95@2 60

Grated
Sli

e@ eeersccce

Pumpkin

1
oceccccce - 2 40

Raspberries _
Standard

eeecce

Salmon
Warrens, 1 Ib. Tall .. 2 30
Warrens, 1 tbh. Flat .. 2 45
Red Alaska .... 1 80@1 90
Med. Red Alaska 1 et 45

rv

Pink Alaska .... 1 20
Sardines
Domestic, 4s ........ 85
Domestic, 4% Mustard 3 85
Domestic, % Mustard 3 25
Hrench 4458 ........ 7@14
French, ¥%s ..... +. 13@23
Sauer Kraut

No. 3, CARS ...........

No. 10, cans ...... cose 2 OO
Shrimps

Dunbar, 1s doz. .... 1 46

Dunbar, 1%s dos. .... 2 70
Succotash

Ne 555555554555445

Geom 6...5.....-..

MANCY .....5.<- 1 25@1 40
Strawberries
Standard ........ coe 95
MARCY) (oc 6 cs sce e 2 25
Tomatoes
(GOGd) cic c esses oo 20
MAMCY «2... 66 5 bese 1 50
No. 40 2.4. 5.5...,5.-.0. 3 75
Tuna

Case
%s, 4 doz. in case ..2 60
is, 4 doz. in case ..3 60

1s, 4 doz. in case ....5 60

CATSUP
Snider’s pints

Snider’s % pints .... 1 86
CHEESE
ACMC: .,4..,...0. @19
Carson City .... @19
IBMICK occa. .sace @20
Teigen .......5 @15
Limburger ..... See
Pineapple ...... “40 60
Madam ......... @85

Sap Sago .......
» Gomestic on

3

4

 

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack .... 62

Adams Sappota ...... 65
Beeman’s Pepsin ..... 62
Beeeenut |. 6 og... 62
Chiclets ...5. 6.55... 1 33

Colgan Violet Chips .. 65
Colgan Mint Chips :

  

Dentyne ......... 62
Doublemint 64
Flag Spruce 59
Juicy Fruit .. 59
Red Ropin .....5.).... 62
Sterling Gum Pep. .. 62
Sterling 7-Point ...... 2

6
Spearmint, Wrigleys .. 64
Spearmint, 5 box jars 3 20
Spearmint, 3 box jars 1 92

Trunk Spruce ......... 59

Wucatan oF)... 66... 62

MONO occ cc sc ck eee: 64
CHOCOLATE

Walter Baker & Co.

German’s Sweet ...... 23
Premium ....... Seseccs BD
Caracas .....-.....-... 38
Walter M. Lowney ae
Premium, \%s .........
Premium, %s ......... ; 3
CLOTHES LINE

Per doz.
No. 40 Twisted Cotton 965
No. 50 Twisted Cotton 1 30
No. 60 Twisted Cotton 1 70
No. 80 Twisted Cotton 3 00
No. 50 Braided Cotton 1 00
No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 25
No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 85
No. 80 Braided Cotton 3 35
No. 50 Sash Cord .... 1 75
No. 60 Sash Cord .... 3 00
No. 60 Jute ........... 98
No: 72 Jute ......... 1 19
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

Baker’g ........ Se cciee - 389
(CISV@IONG cc ncccccoccc cs SL
Colonial, %8 ...cccceee 86
Colonial, Yee ..ccccccee 33
Epps eer ccesecesesscece 2
Hershey’s, ¥%s ¢
Hershey's, 4485 .....2..- 30
PAMPASE coc ccsecesocecco. BS
Lowney, %s
Lowney, %s
Lowney, 48
Lowney, bib. cans .... 87
Van Houten, %8 ...... 13
Van Houten, %s ...... 18
Van Houten, \%s ...... 36
Van Houten, 1s ........ 66
WVMR-TIR ci cccacsences AS
WNM@DD cececce ccs cccccsces Be
WWAIDOT, SOM cccccccosccs OR
Wilber, 38 ........0.+. 28

COCOANUT
Dunham's per Ib.
ys, BID. case ........ 80
14a, BID. Case ....0006 29
%s 15 Th. case ...... 39
Ys, 15 Ih. case ...... 28
ds, 161b: came ........ 87
4s & %s 16tbD. case 38
Scalloped Gems ..... 10
Ys & Ys pails ...... 16
Bulk, pails
Bulk, barrels ........
Baker's’ Brazil Bhreddea
10 5c pkgs., per case 3 60
26 10c pkgs., per cage 2 60
16 10c and 33 &c pkgs.,
per case ..... sece. 2 60

COFFEES ROASTED
Rie
Common ....<.ccccces 1S
ROME coo ccc accscoce-. Aen
COICO ..cccccescccace OP

PRNCY -..cccscccccece ae

PORDOITY § scicccc-sc0s
Santos

COMMON cecoccerccee 30

Fair ..cccccccccsereee BO

KCHOICD: cc cccccccccoce «aE

HRBOY. con ccccclsce cae

WAAUBITY, .o5.cecsces BS
Maracaibo

WONT ccc ccccccocccess we

(Cholce <...,.---.co.+. =P
Mexican

WHOICO 2.266 ccccee css BD

ROANGY, ..-cctoccssoccs SB
Guatemala

PA ooo cececcceces ces

MWANGY ....ccccccsece OS

Java
Private Growth .... 26@3@
Mandling .......... 31@386
Aukola

Costoeseccos SUMDES
Mocha

 

cerccccccccccccs Bt

sos, OS
lore naie Market, Steady
Spot Market, Strong

Package
New York Basis
Arbuckle 16 50

eevcresccce

McLaughliin’s XXXX _

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

Extracts
Holland, % gro. bxs. 9%
Felix, % gross ...... 115
Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85

Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 48
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails

Horehound .......... 9%

Stangard: 605 ..0.0.... 9%

Standard, small .... 9%

Twist, small ........ 10

oe

JUMPO . 2. cc ccesc ees 9%

Jumbo, small ........ * 10

BiP SUCK oe: gy

Boston Sugar Stick ..14

Mixed Candy
ails

Broken. 0. 6e 6G ae. 8%

Cut Loaf ...... ssecne 0

French @ream ...... 10%

BANCY) coc. os cles ccm

Grocers’ ........ Ce. 1

Kindergarten ...... 2 42

Leader ........ scececs  @

MAHeSTIC. 6500 e so. 10

Monarch ...........6 - 10

NOVOILY, «2... e ss ccc ; aa

Paris Creams ....... 11%

Premio Creams ...... 14:

PROWAN) ok ccs ccs ss 9
Special 2.25... cocces 20
alley Creams ...... 18
MO ooo ce. 8

Speciaities

Pa
Auto Kisseg (baskets) 13
Autumn Leaves ...... 18
Bonnie Butter Bites .. 17
Butter Cream Corn .. 15
Caramel Dice ........ 13
Caramel Croquettes .. 13
Cocoanut Waffles .... 14
Coffy Toffy ......+... 14
Dainty Mints 7 tb. tin 16
Empire Fudge
Fudge, Pineapple .... 14
Fudge, Walnut ...... 14
Fudge, Filbert ...... 14
Fudge, Choco. Peanut 13
Fudge, Honey Moon 14
Fudge, White Center 14
Fudge, Cherry ...... 14
Fudge, Cocoanut .... 14
Honeycomb Candy .. 16
Iced Maroons
Iced Gems
Iced Orange Jellies .. 18
Italian Bon Bons ... 13

Lozenges, Pep. ...... a1
Lozenges, Pink ...... 11
Mame@nus  2.5.-5..0.6- 14
Molasses Kisses, 10

1D. BOK ....-c-0c0. 18

Nut Butter Puffs .... 14
Pecans, Ex. Large .. 14

Chocolates Pails
Assorted Choc. ......
Amazon Caramels .. 16
Champion ....:...... 13
Choc. Chips, Eureka “

Cli

evesercnnerce

max .
Eclipse, Assorted .... 14

Ideal Chocolates .... 14
Klondike Chocolates 18
INN@DORS (........50.5.. 18
Nibble Sticks ....... 25

Nut Wafers ......... 18
Ocoro Choc. Caramels 17

Peanut Clusters ..... 21
@Quintette .....:..... 14
(ARORA occ cee cae ss 12
Star Chocolates ..... 13

Superior Choo. (light) 19

Pop Corn Goods

Without prizes.
~~ Jack with
Secceccecess BaD
Oh My O08 <..0cs..00 S08
Cracker Jack, with Prise
Hurrah, 1008 60
Hurrah, 508 ....csee. 5
Hurrah, 248 .......... 86

Cough Drops

XOs
Putnam Menthol ... 1 @0
Smith Bros. .......6- 26
NUTS—Whole
Almonds, Tarragona 20
Almonds, California
soft shell Drake 18
Brazig .....2...- 14@16
Filberts .......... 14
Cal. No. 1 S.

Ss. @18
Wainuts, Naples 16% @17
Walnuts, Grenoble ..
Table nuts, fancy “ee
Pecans, Large .... @14
Pecans, Ex. Large @16
Shelled
No. 1 Spanish Shelled
Peanuts ....... %@ 8
Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled

Peanuts ...... 114%4@12
Pecan Halves ...... @60
Walnut Halves .... @36
Filbert Meats @30
Alicante Almonds @60

Jordan Almonds

January 26, 1916

D

Peanuts
Fancy H P Suns
Raw

 

CRACKERS

National Biscuit Company
Brands
In-er-Seal Trade Mark
Package Goods

Baronet Biscuit
blake Wafers ..,
Cameo Biscuit ...
Cheese Sandwich ,
Chocolate Wafers
Fig Newton esis ce cine
Five O'Clock Tea Bet
Ginger Snaps NBC .,
Graham Crackers ..,
Lemon Snaps eeocece
M. Dainties
Oysterettes ...
Pretzeenos ...
Royal ‘Yoast
Social Tea Biscuit. .
Saltine Biscuit
Saratoga Flakes ....
Soda Crackers, N.B.C.

sk

 
   

ba et at tt tt pt

SSSSSESESESESSSSS

  

eoeces

Pot et et pt et pt

Soda Crackers Prem, 00
DOKeUS oo es 00
Uneeda Biscuit ...... 50

Uneeda Ginger — 1
Vanilla Wafers ..... 1
Water Thin Biscuit .. 1 00
Zu Zu Ginger Snaps
Zwieback 1

eee ereese

Other Package Goods
Barnum’s Animals ., 60
Soda Crackers NBC 2 50
bruit Cake .......... 8 00

Bulk Goods

: Cans and boxes
Animals .........:... 12
aAllantics, Asstd. .... 18
Avena Fruit Cakes .. 12
Bonnie Doon Cookies 10
bonnie Lassies ...... 10
bo Peeps, S. or M. 8¥&,
Gouquet Wafers .... 20
Cameo Biscuit ...... 26
Cecelia Biscuit ..... 16
Cheese Tid Bits ..... 20
Chocolate Bar (cans) 20
Chocolate Drop Center 18
Chocolate Drops .... 18
Chocolate Putt Cake 18
Choc. Honey Fingers 16
Circle Cookies ...... 12
Cracknels .ecccccseee 30
Cream Pingerg ...... 14
Cocoanut Taffy Bar .. 16
Cocoanut Drops ...... 12
Cocoanut Macaroons 18
Cocoanut Molas. Bar 16
Cocont Honey Fingers 12
Cocont Honey Jumbles 12
Coitee Cakes Iced ... 12
Crumpets ecpecesec 12
Vinner Pail ‘Mixed. oe 10
kxxtra Wine Biscuit .. 12
Family Cookies ....s0. 10
Fig Cakes Asstd. .... 12
Fireside Peanut Jumb 10
Fluted Cocoanut Bar 12
trosted Creams ..... 10
Frosted Ginger Cook. 10
Frosted Raisin Sqa. .. 10
Fruited Ovals ....... 8
Fruited Ovals, Iced .. 9
Full Moon ........... 10
Ginger Drops ........ 18
Ginger Gems Plain .. 10
Ginger Gems, Iced .. 11
Graham Crackers ... 9
Ginger Snaps Fami 9%
Ginger Snaps Roun 9
Hippodrome eae
Honey Fingers Ass’t 12
Honey Jumbles ...... 12
Household Cooks, Iced 10
TIPCTIAIB ccccscccecce LO
Jubilee Mixed ........ 10
Kaiser Jumbles ...... 12
Lady Fingers Sponge 30
Leap Year Jumbles .. 20
Lemon Biscuit Square 10
Lemon Cakes ....... 10
Lemon Wafers ...... 18
AUOTONA Gocecsccscecs 10
Lorna Doon .......... 18
Mace Cakes ......... 1
Macaroon Jumbles .. 18
Mary AnD .weccccoccce
Mandalay ....... aces 10
Marshmallow Pecans 2
Mol. Frt. Cookie, Iced 11
NBC Honey Cakes .. 12
Oatmeal Crackers ... 9
Orange Gems ....... 1@
Oreo Biscuit ........

 

    
  

Othelio: .....5.......
Penny Assorted . - 10
Picnic Mixed .... - 12
Priscilla Cake .. 8
Raisin Cookies 12

Raisin Gems ........ 1
See Saw, S. or M. .. 8
Reveres Asstd.

17
Rittenhouse eee os 14
Snaparoons
Spiced Cookie ........ 10
Spiced Jumbles,

Iced 13

 

 

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Sugar Fingers ...... 12
Sugar Crimp ........ 10
Vanilla Wafers ...... 2

Butter

Boxes

N B C Square ....... 7
Seymour Round ...... 7

Soda
Premium Sodas ...... 8
Saratoga Flakes .... 13
Saltines ...........-.. 13

Oyster

Dandy. Oysters ......
N BC Oysters Square ;
Shell... 000... .. 8

Sugar Wafer Specialties

 

Adora 1 00
Nabisco 1 00
Nabisco 1 75
Festino 1 50
Festino 2 50
Lorna Doone ........ 1 00
AnolA ....-0...-..- 1 00

Champagne Wafers .. 2 50

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

CREAM TARTAR

Barreis or Drums ..... 45
Boxes (occ ee. 46
Square ©ans -)......-. 49

Faney Caddies
DRIED again
A

pp
Bvapor’ ed pe blk @09
Evapor’ed Fancy pkg.

Apricots :
California ....... 9144@0%
Citron
Corsican .|.......... 16%
Currants
Imported, 1 th. pkg. 12
Imported, bulk ...... 11%
Peaches
Muirs—Choice, 25tb. .. 6%
Muirs—Fancy, 25tb. .. 7%
Fancy, Peeled, 25Ib. ..12
Peel
Lemon, American .... 13%
Orange, American .... 13%
Ralsins
Cluster, 20 cartons ..2 25

Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr. 8%

Loose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 8%

L. M. Seeded, 1 tb. 8% @9
Callfornia Prunes

90-100 25tb. boxes ..@ 7%
80- 90 25th. boxes @ 8%
70- 80 25tb. boxes 9%

30- 70 251b. boxes ..@10
50- 60 25%. boxes ..
40-50 25tb. boxes ..@11
EVAPORATED MILK
Red Band Brand

5 case eee Be less; 10
lots, ic less.
““F ARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
California Limas .... 6%
Med. Hand Picked .. 3 75
Brown Holland .....- 3 20
Farina
25 1 th. packages aod 60
Bulk, per 100 th. .... 4 50
Original Holland Rusk
Packed 12 rolls to container
3 containers (40) rolls 3 20

Hominy
Pearl, 100 th. sack .. 2 50
Maccaron! and Vermicelll
Domestic, 10 th. box ..
tmported, 25 th. box ..3 50
Pearl Barley
Chester
Portage .....-.0--s-- 4 75

Peas
Green Wisconsin bu. 3 25
Split Ib.

East India ........... Ul
German, sacks ........ a
German, broken pkg.

Tapioca

Flake, 100 Ib. sacks i

Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks .. i

Pearl, 36 pkgs. .. 2 2

Minute, 2 qts., per doz. E 2
FISHING TACKLE

 

Pole
Bamboo, 14 ft., roa doz. 65
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 30

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings D C Brand
Pure Vanilla

INO: 1, i OZ. 1425.6... . 85
NNO. 2 iM Of ....... 1 20
INO, 4, 2G Of oo. tees 2 25
No. 3, 2% oz. Taper 2 00
2 of. Eilat .....:...... 2
Terpeneless
Pure Lemon
No. 1, % ov Panel .. 75
No. 2, 1% oz Fanel 1 13

No. 4, 2% oz. Panel 2 00
No. 8, 2% oz. Taper 1 75
2 02, IAG ool ooo... 1 75
FLOUR AND FEED
Grand Rapids Grain &
Milling Co.

Winter Wheat
Purity Patent ....... 6 15
Pancy Sprine ....... i 25
Wizard Graham .... 6 50
Wizard, Gran. Meal . 4 80
nal Buckw’t cwt. 3 50
RVC coce cece e ec ostesc ce 6 00

‘Valley City Mili'ug Co.
5 ily White

Lieht Boat .......... 6 86
Graham | ........-... 3 00
Granena Health .... 3 10
Gran. Meal): ........ 2 35
20lted. Meal oo. 6... 2 25

Voigt Milling Co.
Voigt’s Crescent
Voigt s Hoval .......
Voiets Fiouroiet ....
Voigt’s Hygienic Gra-

jagehoal ee ee 60
Watson-Higgins ee jen
Perfection ........... 10

re]
bo os bo
o1erie

Tip Top Elour ...... 6 60
Golden Sheaf Flour .. 6 00
Kern's Success 00... 7 40

Marshall Best Flour 7 20
Worden Grocer Co.
Quaker, paper
Quaker, cloth 220.002. 6 60
Kansas Hard Wheat
Voigt Milling Co.

Calla tally ... 0.16... 7% 60
Worden Grocer Co.
American Wagle, %s 7 20
American Eagle, 4s 7 10
American Hagle, %s 7 00
Spring Wheat
Roy Baker
Mazeppal 0... 0.08... 6 70
Golden Horn bakers .. 6 60
Wisconsin ye ...... 5 55
Bohemian Kye ...... 5 9
Judson Grocer Co.
Ceresota, “es Nee eis cle ec 8 30
Ceresota, WS ........ 8 20

Ceresota, 4s 8
Voigt Milling Co.
Columbian. -.......... 7 350
Worden Grocer oe

Wingold, 4%s cloth ( 95

Wingold, 4s cloth 7 8d

Wingold, %s cloth 7 5d

Wingold, %s paper .. 7 75

Wingold, %s paper .. 7 5d
Meal

Bolted ...0..........- - 460

Golden Granulated .. 4 80
heat

ReG .....2-......026. 1 28

Wihhite i o.c..05.6..... 1 23
Oats

Michigan carlots ..... 50

Less than carlots .... 652
Cern

Carlots ......:........ 80

Less than carlots .... 2
Hay

Carlots ..... eos = 6 16 00

Less than carlots .- 18 00
Feed

Street Car Feed 32 00

No. 1 Corn & Oat Fa 82 00

Cracked Corn ...... 32 00

Coarse Corn Meal .. 32 00

FRUIT JARS
Mason, pts., per gro. 4 66
Mason, qts., 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. 2 26
Welson s ........-.¢.- 1 50
Oxford” -......0.0... 75
Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 25
Plymouth Rock, Plain 90

GRAIN BAGS

Broad Gauge ........ 18
Amoskeag .......... ae 19
Herbs
SE ee 16
HOPS | 036 eee cece. s 15
Laurel Leaves ....... 15
Senna Laves ......... 25
HIDES AND PELTS
Hides
Green, No. 1 ........ 15
Green, No. 2 ........ 14
Cured, No, 1 ........ 17
Cured, NO: 2 .....:.. 16

Calfskin, green, No. 1 15
Calfskin, green, No. 2 13%
Calfskin, cured, No. 1 17
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 15%

Old Wool ........ 60@1 2
Eambs .......... 50@1 00
Shearlings ...... 30@ 75

Tallow
No fo .....0. 2... @ 5
INO. 2 ...2..0..,. @ 4
Wool
Unwashed, med. @24
Unwashed, fine .. @20
HORSE RADISH
Per GO— ..............; 90

Jelly
5tb. pails, per doz. ..2 30
15m. pails, per pail .. 70
30D. pails, per pail ..1 25

ICE CREAM
Piper Ice Cream Co. Brands
Bulk, any flavor 60
Extra Fancy, any flavor 65
Brick, Plaim .......... 1 00
Brick, Fancy ......... 1 20

JELLY GLASSES
1% pt. in bbls., per doz. 15
% pt. in bbls., per doz. 16
8 oz. capped in bbls.,
per doz.

MAPLEINE
2 oz. bottles, per doz. 3 00
1 oz. bottles, per doz. 1 75
16 oz. bottles, per dz. 18 00
32 oz. bottles, per dz. 30 00
MINCE MEAT
Per case
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle ... 42

(OOS oR 35
GOOG oes. 27
Stock 3

Half ‘barrels ‘80° ‘extra
Red Hen, No. 2% ...1 75

Red Hen, No. 6 ...... 1 75
Red Hen, No. 10 ....1 65
MUSTARD
% iD. 6 ID. box ...... 16
OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 10@1 20
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 05@1 15
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 00@1 10
Stuffed, 5 oz.

Stuffed, 8 oz. .
Stuffed, 14 oz.
Pe (not stuffed)

 

BO ois. cs, 2 25
Manzanilla, 8 oz. ..... 90
Tunch, 10 oz. ........ 1 35
Euneh, 16 of. ...... 2 25

Olive coe 2 doz. cs.

Der, Goz ..........
PEANUT BUTTER
Bel-Car-Mo Brand

24 tb. fibre pails .... 09%

14 Yb. fibre pails ..... 10

26 OZ, jars, 1 dom ....2 30
2 Ib. tin pails, 1 doz. 3 00
{ oz. jars, 2 doz, .... 1 80

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Iron Barrels
Perfection .:.......... 8.
Red Crown Gasoline 17.
Gas Machine Gasoline 26.9
VM & P Naphtha .. 16.5
Capitol Cylinder ..... 29.9
Atlantic Red Engine 13.9
Summer Black ...... 7.
Polarine  |;........... 29.
PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count .. 7 50
Half bbis., 600 count 4 25

on

5 gallon kegs ........ 1 90
small
Barrels ...... Secale ec 9 50
Half barrels ........ 5 00
5 gallon kegs ........ 2 25
Gherkins

 
   

5 gallon kegs ...... a 2
Sweet Small

IBBErels 0.6.55. .065 6 00
Half barrels ....... - 8 50
5 gallon iene eaeeece 3 20

PIPES
Clay, No. 216, per box 1 75
ae TT. 0. full count 60
b

PLAYING CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat .... 75

No. 15, Rival assorted 1 25
No. 20, Rover, enam’d 1 50
No. 572, Special ...... 1 75
No. 98 Golf, Satin fin. 2 00
No. 808, Bicycle ...... 2 00
No. 632 Tourn’t whist 2 25
POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz. .... 1 75
PROVISIONS

Barreled Pork
Clear Back .. 22 00@23 00
Short Cut Clr 20 00@21 00
Becan 2. ..0.... 15 50@16 00
Brisket, Clear 24 00@25 00
WS cee eucc cots.

Clear Family ...... 26 00
Dry Salt Meats

S P Bellies ....

Lard
Pure in tierces 11 @11%
Compound Lard 10 @10%
80 Ib. tubs ....advance..%
60 tb. tubs ....advance is
50 Th. tubs ....advance %
20 Th. pails ...advance
10 tb. pails ...advance %
5 Ib. pails ...advance 1
3 Tb. pails ...advance 1

Smoked Meats
Hams, 14-16 th. 18 @16%
Hams, 16-18 Yb. 14%@15
Hams, 18-20 th. 14% @16
Ham, dried beef

A@te 3c. 29 @30
California Hams 11 @11%
Picnic Boiled

Hams ....... 19% @20

 

Boiled Hams 2514%4@26
Minced Ham 12 @12%
Baeeen .. 200.67, 15 @ 2%
ausages
Bologna 10%@11
Liver 10
Frankfort 12 @12%
ork . 11 @12
Weal ooo... 11
TONSVe 2... ...... oe. ee 11
Headcheese .......... 18
Beef
Boneless ...... 20 0020 50
Rump, new .. 24 50@25 00
Pig’s Feet
BDIg: ool... 1
4 bbls. 40 Tos. .:.... 2 00
Ae WOE oe, 25
19)0) ae 8 50
Tripe
Kits, 15 IOS). .......... 90
% bbis., 40 ths. ...... 1 60
% bbis., 80 Ths. ...... 3 00
Casings
Hogs, per mp. ......... 35
Beef. rounds, set 19@20
Beef, middles, set .. 85@90
Sheep ......... 1 15@1 35
Uncolored Butterine
Solid Dairy .... 12%@16%
Country Rolls .. 18 @19%

Canned Meats

Corned Beef, 2 tb. .. 4 50
Corned Beef, 1 th. .. 2 40
Roast Beef, 2 th. 4 50
Roast Beef, 1 im. .... 2 40
Potted Meat, Ham
Flavor, im... ese 48
Potted Meat, Ham
Mlavor, “se ........ 90
Deviled Meat, Ham
Miavor, 48 ....-... 48
Deviled Meat, Ham
Blavor. %48 :....... 90
Potted Tongue, 4s .. 48
Potted Tongue, %s .. 90
RICE
Haney 00.0.2... 7 @I%
Tapan Style ...... 5 @5%
Broken .......... 38%M@4
ROLLED OATS
Rolled Avenna, bbls. 6 00
Steel Cut, 100 Th. sks. 3 10
Monaren, boils. ...... 5 75
Monarch, 90 Th. sks. .. 2 88
Quaker, 18 Regular .. 1 45
Quaker, 20 Family .. 4 50

SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, % pint .... 2
Columbia 1 pint .... 4
Durkee’s, large, 1 doz. 4 50
Durkee’s small, 2 doz. &
Snider’s large, 1 doz. 2
Snider’s, small, 2 doz. 1
SALERATUS
Packed 60 tbs. in box.
Arm and Hammer .. 3 00
Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3 00
SAL SODA

Granulated, bbls. .. 1 00
Granulated, 100 ths. es. 1 10
Granulated, 86 pkgs. .. 1 25

SALT

Common Grades

100 3 th. sacks ...... 2 60
70 4 %. sacks ...... 2 40
60 5 th. sacks ...... 2 40
28 10 th. sacks ...... 2 25
56 ID. sacks ........ 40
28 ID. sacks ........ 20

Warsaw
6G 1b. sacks .......... 26
28 Ib. dairy in arill bags 20

Solar Rock

66 Ib: saeka ............ 26

Common
Granulated, Fine .... 110
Medium, Fine ....... 1 15

SALT FISH
Cod

Large, whole .... 7
Small, whole .... 1
Strips or bricks
Pollock .......... @ 5%

Smoked Saimon

Strips, ooo cccl ssc...
Halibut

SUPipe ccs ee ue Sbectcecse LS

@hunks .0..55.5..-.... -

Holland Herring
Y. M. wh. hoop bbls.
Y. M. wh. hoop % bbls.
Y. M. wh. hoop kegs
Y. M. wh. hoop Milchers
kegs
Standard, bbis.
Standard, % bbls. ....
Standard, kegs ..... 95

No.
No.
No.
No.

 

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Mackerel
Mess, 100 Tbe. -........ 15 50
Mess, 40 Ibs. ........ 6 75
Mess, 10 Ihe. ........ 1 75
Mees, 8 Ibe ......... 1 50
INO. 3, TOG the. ...... 14 50
No. 1, 40 We ........ 6 30
no. I, Close. ..... 1 65
Lake Herring
TOO Tos... s.. 4... 00
AG We ...... 2... 2 35
EG Te cence 58
S DR 2... 5... 54
SEEDS

BINGE cee ccc c ace 8
Canary, Smyrna .... §
Caraway ............. 18
Cardomon, Malabar 1 20
Ce@lery og is. cca ce 45
Hemp, Russian ie 6%
Mixed Bird ........ 9
Mustard, white ...... 16
ODD 45. cuss ce cc ae c< 30

[ont a ee 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

FF
Scotch, in bladders .... 37
Maccaboy, in jars ..... 85
French Rapple in jars .. 48

SODA
MOxNGM  .6 occ... 5%
Kees, Freliahn ........ 4%
SPICES
Whole Splces
Allspice, Jamaica ..9@10
Allspice, lg Garden @11
Cloves, Zanzibar .. @24
Cassia, Canton 14@15
Cassia, 5c pkg. dz. @25
Ginger, African @ 9%
Ginger, Cochin @14%
Mace, Penang ....... @70
Mixed, No. ft ....... @17
Mixed No. 2 ...... @16
Mixed, 5c pkgs. dz. @45
Nutmegs, 70-180 ... @30
Nutmegs, 105-110 .. @25
Pepper, Black ..... @16
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, Penang ..... @75
Nutmees ........... @35
Pepper, Black ..... @19
Pepper, White .... @82
Pepper, Cayenne .. @25
Paprika Hungarian @45

STARCH

Corn

Kingsford, 40 Ibs. .... 7%
Muzzy, 20 lib. pkgs. -- 6%

Kingsford

Silver Gloss, 40 1m. .. 7%
Muzzy, 40 1b. pkgs. .. 5
Gloss
Argo, 24 5c pkgs. .... 90
Silver Gloss, 16 3!hs. ..6%
Silver Gloss, 12 6Ibs. 8%

Muzzy
48 1tb. packages ......
16 3th. packages .... 4%
12 6b. packages ...... 6
SOD. boxes ........,.. 3%

SYRUPS

Corn
Barren 26... 5. clk. 28
Half barrels ........... 30

3
Blue Ware. No. 2, 2 dz. 1 95
Blue Karo, No. 2% 2
GOW co ccc cect eeee 2 35
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 2 30
oe oe No. 10, %
2

ee re

Red fe No. 2 ,2 dz. 2 30
Red Karo, No. 2%, 2dz. 2 75
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 2 70
Red Karo, No. 10 %

IME occ ic eee us 16
Good _........-......, 20
@HOlGG. 2.00.62. kc, 25

Folger’s Grape Punch
Quarts, doz. case .. 6 00
TABLE SAUCES

Halford, large ...... 3 75
Halford, small ...... 2 25
TEA
Uncolored Japan
Medium § ....-..... 20@ 26
Ghoice ............ 28@33

Fancy
Basket-fired Med’m 28@306
Basket-fired Choice 35@37
Basket-fired Fancy 38@45

No. 1 Nibs ........ 80@32
Siftings, bulk ..... 9@10
Siftings, 1 th. pkgs. 12@14
Gunpowder
Moyune, Medium .. 28@33
Moyune, Choice 35@40
Moyune, Fancy .... 50@60

Ping Suey, Medium 25@30
Ping Suey, Choice 35@40
Ping Suey, Fancy .. 45@650
Young Hyson
Ghofee ......-.. «++ 28@80
FOMCY .cccrccceces eed

Oolong
Formosa, Medium .. 25@28
Formosa, Choice .. 32@85
Formosa, Fancy .. 50@60
Engilsh Breakfast
Congou, Medium .. 25230
Congou. 30@35
Congou, Fancy .... 40 0@60
Congou, Ex Fancy 69@80
Ceylon
Pekoe, Medium see. 28@30
Dr. Pekoe, Choice . 30@35
Flowery O. P. Fancy 40@50

Weeacco

n

Bint ....... . “

Bugle, 16 oz. uel

Busle, 106 .....,.. . 00
n Patch, 8 and 16

Dan Patch, 4 oz. a 5

Dan Patch, 2 om. .... & 74

Fast Mail, 16 os. coos TH

Hiawatha, I¢ on... 66

Tawathe, Se ...... : 5 40
ay Flower, 16

No Limit, 8’ oz. ons. 236

No Limit, 1¢ og, "°° 72

Ojibwa, . and 16 oz. 40
Olibwa, Oe j y 10
Ojibwa, be

Cer eeevece

Petoskey Chief, 7 60
Paaney Chief, 14 a ; Pe
ch and Hi

Hed Bell id one
Red Bell, 8 foil |1°"’
Sterling, L & D be’
Sweet Cuba, canister
Sweet Cuba, Ge ..
Sweet Cuba, 10c a
Sweet Cuba, 1 tb. tin
Sweet Cuba, % WD. foll
Sweet Burley, 5c L@D
Sweet Burley, 8 oz.
oo Burley,
Sweet Mist,

Sweet Mist. fa"
Telegram, 6c

.
.
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RAMSAR AD eR POM com

a
Tiger, 25¢ cans ... 40

Uncle Daniel, 1 th... 69

Uncle Dantel, 1 oz. .. 5 22
Plug

Am. Navy, 16 oz. ..... 32

Apple, 10 tb. butt 36

ra Nat. f
and 5 Leaf, 2

Drammen Nat. Leaf, 7

BSt Com... 96
Battle Ay 32
Bracer, 6 and 12 th. 0

2
Big Four, 6 and 1
Boot Jack, 2 th. : tb. Ht
Boot Jack, per dos. - 96
Bullion, we... ae
max ia.
Climax, 14% o oe a
Climax, 7 Om ..0.0.
y’s Work, 7 & 14 .
Creme de Menthe, . 30
Derby, 5 tb. boxes’ accu ae
5 Bros., 4 th.
our Roses, 10c ......
Gilt Edges, 2 tm. ..._" 80
Gold Rope, 6 and 12 tb. 58
Gold Rope, 4 and 8 fb. 58
G. O. P., 12 and 24 th. 40
Granger Twist, 6 ftb.. 46
G. T. W., 10 and 21 tb. 36
Horse Shoe, 6 and 12 i
Honey Dip Twist, 5
* ons oo th.
oly Tar, 5 and 8 th. 40
a. T., 5% and 11 tb. .. 4
Kentucky Navy, 12 th. 8
Keystone Twist, 6 tb. 45
Kismet, 6 tb -
Maple Dt : aoe
Merry dow, 12 tb. . 83
Nobby ! Roll 6 & 8 58
Parrot, 12 th. ........ 82
Watienens oN Leaf 93
Peachey, 6, 12 & 24 tT. 41
Picnic Twist, 5 tb. 46
Piper Heldsteck, 4&7 %. 69
Piper Heldsteck, per dz. 96
Polo, 3 doz., per doz. 48
Redicut, 1% oz. ..... 38
Scrapple, 2 and 4 dos. 48
Sherry Cobbler, 8 oz. 82
Spear Head, 12 oz. .. 44
Spear Head, 14% oz. .. 44
Spear Head, 7 oz. .. 47

Standard Navy, 7%, 15
and S¢ Th. ........... 34
Ten Penny, 6 and 12 - 35

 

Town Talk, 14 oz. 32
Yankee Giri, 12 & 24 Yb. 31
Scrap
All Red, Bc ...... cooe & 76
Am. Union Scrap .... 6 40
Bag Pipe, 5c ..... 5 88
Cutlas, 2% oz. 26
Globe Scrap, 2 30
Happy Thought, 2 oz. 30

Honey Comb Scrap, 6c 5 76
Honest Scrap, 5c .... 1 55
Mail Pouch, 4 doz. Sc 2 00
Old Songs, 6c ....... 76
Old Times, % gro. ..5 60
Polar Bear, 5c, % gro. 5 76
Red Band, 5c % gro. 5 76
Red Man Scrap, Bc .. 1 42
Scrapple, 5c pkgs. ... 48
Sure Shot, 5c % gro. & 76
Yankee Girl Scrap 2o0z. 5 76
Pan Handle Scrp %gr 6 76
Peachey Scrap, Sc .... 5 76
Taton Workman, 2% 6 6

 

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Smoking Queen auetity, be... ‘s Mop Sticks
Leaf, 2% & 7 oz. 20 Rob Roy, ic foil .... 5 Trojan spring ........
BB, 3% oz. - coeeeee +- 6 00 Rob Roy, 10c gross ..10 52 Eclipse potent spring 35
BB, 7 os. scesecess 1200 Rob Roy, 25c doz. .... 210 no 4 common 80
BB, 14 ee cbessee 2 Oe Rob Roy, 50c doz. .... 4 10 No. 2 pat brush ‘holder 85
Bagdad, “loc tins wees ML BE OS OE ML, be erves .... 576 F'n, 7 85
Badger, 8 os. ...... -- 504 S. & M., 14 0z., doz. ..3 20 9m. cotton mop heads 1 30
Badger, 7 a coco. 11 52 Soldier Boy, 5c gross 5 76 :
B ye be 5 76 Soldier Boy, 10c .... 10 50 Pails
cian oi | abcde 160 Pilot, 7 oz. doz. ..... 05 19 qt. Galvanized 2 40
ee ie eo. 3 20 Soldier Boy, 1 t. .... 4.75 12 at. Galvanized 2 60
Retwooa, Mixture, “i6¢ 94 Sweet Caporal, 1 oz. 60 14 at. Galvanized .... 2 85
Big Chief, 2% oz. 600 Sweet Lotus, Se .... 678 Fibre ..........:..... 2 70
Big Chief, 16 oz 30 Sweet Lotus, 10c ...11 52
5 i oe Toothpicks
Bull Durham, ic .... 5 85 Sweet Lotus, per ga 4 60
Bull Durham, 10c .. 1152 Sweet Rose, 2% oz. .. 30 Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00
Bull Durham, 15c .. 17 28 Sweet Tip Top, 5c .. 50 Ideal ................ 85
Bull Durham, 8 oz. .. 3 60 Sweet Tip Top, 10c .. 1 00 oo
Bull Durham, 16 oz. .. 6 72 Sweet Tips, % £T0...1098 wouse, wood, 2 holes .. 22
Soseee 76 «= . steeeee
Buck ce i0c .... 1152 Summer Time, 5c ... 5 76 oa eto 2 =
riar Pipe. 5c Sue Summer Ditne, Tor... 105 fo Gaenee ---- 1%
a Sin fee .... 1168 Summare mee ot OF Se 1 ot Galvanieo’ | 3 50
ia Wane, Sc. CE Ce. 44 Mouse, wood, 6 holes’ .. 70
Swan, 14 oz 360 Standard, 10c paper Mouse. Gn 6 kat =
Black Swa be ...... 60) Seal N.C 1% cut plug 7) Foe td es .... 4
oe . . 600 Seal N. C. 1% Gran... 63 2 WORD ------------ 0
Brotherhood, 6c ....-- Ri adhe | 15
Brotherhood, 10c .... 1110 Three Feathers, 1 oz. 48
Brotherhood, 16 oz. 595 Three Feathers, 10c 11 52 Tubs
Carnival, 5c ......-- 5 70 Three Feathers and No. 1 Fibre
(Carnival, % OZ. .....- 39 Pipe combination .. 2 26 No 2 Wbre
Carnival, 16 oz. .. 40 Tom & Jerry, 14 oz. 360 No 3 Fibre
Cigar Clip’g, Johnson 30 Tom & Jerry, 7 on. ..4 > Large Galvanized ..._ 8 25
Cigar Clip’g, Seymour 30 Tom & Jerry, 3 02...) (5 \redium Galvanized .. 7 25
Hdentity, 3 and 16 oz. 30 Trout Line, ‘Se ..... 5 90 Small Galvanized .... 6 95
Darby Cigar Cuttings 450 ‘Trout Line, 10c ..... 11 00
Continental Cubes, 10c 90 Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 74 Washboards :
Gorn Cake, 14 oz. .... 2.55 Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags .. 48 Wanner, Sc1QpDe =... =. . 3 25
Corn Cake, 7 oz. ..-. 145 Tuxedo, 2 oz. tins ... 96 Brass, Single ....... 4 75
Corn Cake, 6c .....-- 5 76 Tuxedo, 20c ......-..- 199 Glass, Single ........ 3 60
Cream, 50c pails ..... 470 Tuxedo, 80c tins 745 Single Acme ........ 3 50
Cuban Star, 5c foil . 5 78 War Path, 5c .....- 6 00 Double Peerless ...... 5 90
oe Star, 16 oz. ms 5 72 War Path, 20c ...... 160 Single Peerless ...... 4 50
ont og We 2.3... 30 wave Line, 3 oz. ...- 49 Northern Queen ..... 4 75
Dilis Best, 1% OZ. 79 Wave Tine, 16 oz. .... 40 Double Duplex ...... 4 25
Dills Best, 3% oz. 77 Way up, 2% oz. .... 5 75 Good Enough ........ 450
Dilis Best, 16 oz 713 Way up, 16 oz. palls - Dmiversal ............ 4 50
Dixie Kid, 5c ....---- 48 Wild Fruit, Be .....- oe Wits Cleaners
Duke’s Mixture, 5c .. 5 76 Wild Fruit, 10c ..... : S 6 a :
Duke’s Mixture, 10c ..11 52 yum Yum, 5c ........ 12 in. ............... 1 65
Duke’s Cameo, 5c .... 576 Yum Yum, 10c ...... Pe So ffin 2... 1 85
Drum ae aa 578 Yam Yum, 1 tb. doz. 480 16 in. ............... 2 30
FE AT om e-oe-s- ni 52 heal ‘ica 1 75
Fashion 5c ebecerce - 600 Cotton 3 ply ....------ : <—c eo : oe
Fashion, 16 0Z. ....-- 528 Cotton 4 ply ....------ ‘44. («17 in. Butter (227117! 4 75
Five Bros., 6c .....-. 576 Jute, 2 ply ..----++-+- 13 19 in. Butter ......... 7 50
Five Bros., 10c_....-- 10 53 Fremp, 6 ply ....-.-->
Five cent cut Plug .. 29 Flax, medium ......-. WRAPPING PAPER
FO B 10c Faas . Wool, 1 th. bales ..... 10% ie a .
< Cc ...-
Full Dress, 13% 08. :. 72 VINEGAR Fines, Mave, “Colored” 4
Glad Hand, bc ....--., 48 white Wine, 40 grain 8% No 1 Manila ........
Gold Block, 10c ......12 “4 White Wine, 80 grain 11% Cream Manila ........
Gold Star, 50c pail ee 7g White Wine, 100 grain 13 Butchers’ Manila .... 3%
Gail & Ax Navy. 6 § 78 Oatiand Vinegar & Pickle Wax Butter, short cnt 10
Growler, 5c ..-.+.+-- “4 Co.'s Brands Wax Butter, full ont 15
Growler, 10c ...-+--++ | 8° wighland apple cider 20 Wax Butter, rolls ... 12
Growler, 20c ....---- 76 Oakland apple cider .. 7:
Giant, BC .....-+++0+ . ea State Seal sugar ..... _ YEAST CAKE
ee ee rs 2 Oakland white pickle 10 Magic, 3 doz. ....... 1 15
Hand Made, on oz "Ge Packages free. Sualient oe cote 1 ee
i oe... : late
oy "lew. 10c ....12 00 WICKING Teen an 3 doz. ..1 15
pare S Be ..-----++- 38 No. 0, per gross .....- 35 Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85
Ix L 610 N 1, var a Ss 45
Se. No. per gross ....
IX L in pails ...... 3.90 No. 2) per gross .... 55 AXLE GREASE
Just Suits, 5c ........ 6 00 No. 3) per gross .... 80
ust Suits, 10c ...... 12 00
iin Dried, 25c ..... 2 45 WOODENWARE
Bing wind 708 2 Daakete
Bing Poe... be Mibels -..-......--- 00
Turkce, 5C ......- 5 76 Bushels, wide band .. 1 .
fant, 1 Ib 23 Market ............-
rite Strike, luc .... 96 Splint, large ........ 4 00
Le Redo, 3 oz. ...... 10 80 Splint, medium . 4 -
Le Redo, 8 & 16 oz. 38 Splint, small ..
Myrtle Navy, 10c ....11 52 Willow, Clothes, ‘large 3 00 l :
Myrtle Navy, 5c ..... 5 76 Willow, Clothes, small 6 25
Maryland Club, 5c a0 Willow, Clothes, me'm 7 25 1 : bese Ber stone ZS -
ae oo . 5 6 butter Rinkes : , per er
ayflower, oe ee :
Mayflower, 20c ...... 1 ¥2 Ovals TELFER’S #2 COFFEE
Nigger Hair, 5c ..... 600 % Ib., 250 in crate .... 35
Nigger Hair, 10c ....10 70 % Ib., 250 in crate .... 35
Nigger Head, 5c .... 5 40 1 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 4
Head, 10c ... 10 56 2 Ib., 250 in crate ......
Seen Hur. be ...... 48 3 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 70 DETROIT
Old Colony, 1-12 gro. 11 52 5 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 90
ae pana ag dice ini 5 - Wire End
a ee tenn. 1 tb., 250 in crate ...... 35
Old con See oe ? c 2 Th., 250 in crate ...... 45
Ps, 8 oz. 30 tb. cs. 19 3 !®., 250 in crate ...... 55 Jamo, 1 tb. tin ...... 31
P §.. 8 oz. per gro. 570 ° Tb-. 20 in crate ...... © Bden, th. te... 27
Pat Hand, 1 oz. ...... 63 Chiens Belle Isle, 2 iP pkg. 27
Patterson Seal, 11% oz. 48 : Bismarck, . pkg.
' Seal 96 Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 40 Vera, 1 th. pkg. .... 23
ee Seal fete 3 00 Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2 55 Koran, 1 th. pkg 22
a. 5 76 Telfer’s quality” 2522 19
Peerless, 10c cloth ..11 52 Clothes Pins Mosanm .............. - 18
Peerless, 10c paper “710 80 Round Head Quality, 20 .......)., 16
Peerless, 20c ........ 204 4% inch, 5 gross ... 60 pelt head aormnts 7
Peerless, 40c ........ 408 Cartons, 20 2% doz. bxs 65 Telfer’s Ceylon th
Plaza, 2 gro. case ....5 76 Egg Crates and Fillers : : ‘ ee
Plow Boy, 5c ....... 5 76 wWumpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20
Plow Boy, l0c ...... 11 40 No. 1 complete ....... 40
Plow Boy, 14 oz. .... <= 70 No. 2, complete ....... 28
Pedro, oe. ........-.. 93 - No. 2, fillers, 15
Pride’ of Virginia, i¢" [ie yes pea iag
eee eee Case, medium, sets OF Tae CM am ore Te
Pilot, 14 oz. doz. 2 10 ; s
Prince Albert, 5c .... 48 Faucets ae or ee ° nae or re
Prince Albert, 10c .... 96 (ork lined, 3 in. ...... 70 Poultry and stock charcoal.
Prince Albert, §.oz. .- 3 84 Cork lined, 9 in. .... 30 EQUA RRQURERC CUM oy
; i.

Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90

 

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BAKING POWDER

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Doz
10c, 4 doz. in case ... 85
lic, 4 duz. in case .. 1 25
25¢e, 4 doz. in case 2.00
0c, 2 doz. plain top ..4 00
80c, 1 doz. plain top 6 50
10 Ih. % dz., pln top 13 00

All cases sold F. O. B.
jobbing point.
Special Deal No. 1.
12 doz. 10c, 12 doz. 15c,
12 doz., 25c
Barrel Deal No. 2
doz. each 10, 15 “a

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25c 2 80
With 4 dozen 10c free
% Barrel Deal No. 3.
doz. each, 10, 15 ont
25¢

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4 60

With 3 dozen 10c free.
Half-Barrel Deal No. 3
doz. each, 10, 15 and
PPC occu ces ce su ts 16 40
With 2 doz. au free.

All barrels sold F. O. B
Chicago.

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Royal

 

 

Roasted
Dwinnell-Wright Brands

 

White House, 1 mm. ....
White House, 2 th. .......
Excelsior, Blend, 1 th. ...
Excelsior, Blend, 2 tbh. ..
Tip Top Bland, 1 tb.

 

Proctor & Gamble Co.

PONOK oe cs 3
Ivory, 6 02 .......... 4
Ivory, 10 OZ, ....505... 6
StAr ee eee ees 3

Swift & Company

Swift’s Pride ....... . 2
White Laundry ..... sie
Wool, 6 oz. bars ..... 3

Wool, 10 oz. bars .... 6

8b

Tradesman Co.’s Brand

Black Hawk, one box 2
Black Hawk, five bxs 2
Black Hawk, ten bxs 2

A. B. Wrisley

Good Cheer ......... 4
Old Country ......... <2
Scouring
Sapolio, gross lots .. 9
Sapolio, half gro. lots 4
Sapolio, single boxes 2
Sapolio, hand ........ 2

Scourine, 50 cakes .. 1

 

50
40
25

5¢
3b
40

80

10c size .. 98 Royal Blend ....... S i
Yb cans 1 85 Royal High Grade Sao gies ee eee 7 eee
6 ez cans 1 90 Superior Blend ....... oe
%ib cans 2 50 a ee. Soap Compounds
Ss ute by Judson
%itb cans 375 Grocer Co., Grand Rapids; Jonneone cee ite to
1%) cans 480 Lee & Cady, Detroit: Lee Rub-No-More ....... 3 85
3b cans 1300 & Cady, Kalamazoo; Lee Nine O'Clock... 3 50
5Ib cans 21 50 & Cady, Saginaw; Bay
City Grocer Company, Bay :
- ee Brown, Davis & Washing Powdere
GARS arner, Jackson; Gods- Armour’s
se ese aicce 3 70
Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand mark, Durand & Co., Bat- itt’
Dutch Masters Club 70 09 tHe Creek: Fielbach Co., Babbitt’s 1776 ...... . 2
Dutch Masters, Inv. 70 00 oledo. Gold Dust, 24 large .. 4 30
a ~~ wap 70 00 Gold Dust, 100 small 3 85
Dutch Master Grande 68 00 Kirkoline, 24 4th. ... 2 80
Little Dutch Masters
600 bi... 10 00 Lautz Naphtha, 60s .. 2 40
Gee Jay (300 lots) ..10 00 Lautz Naphtha, 100s 3 75
El Portana ..........83 00 Pearline ........... a. 3 15
S.C. W. .....-.. eee. 32 00 Roseine ........ woes. 8:90
Worden Grocer Co. Brands Snow Boy, 60 be .... 2 40
Canadian Club Snow Boy, 100 Sc .... 8 75
Londres, iy Sigg ome uy Sie pkge., 3 75
Londres, s tins ...... Royal Garden T. cur ls
RA: 10 ea, pkgs. 40 Snow Boy, 20 pkgs.,
tienes, 390 lols THE BOUR Co., Laundry Size ...... 4 00
COFFEE TOLEDO, OHIO. Swift’s Pride, 248 .... 3 65
OLD MASTER COFFEE Swift’s Pride, 100s .. 3 65
aes S@AP Wisdom ............. 8 30
Lautz Bres.’ & Co 1
Acme, 70 bars ...... 8 05
Acme, 100 cakes, 5c sz 8 75 The =
Acorn, 120 cakes .... 3 40 5
Cotton Oil, 100 cakes 6 00 Cc
Cream Borax, 100 cks 3 90
Circus, 100 cakes 5c sz 8 75 Cle anser
Climax, 100 oval cakes 3 05
Clone, 108 cakes, fc at FT Crema te
; = g Master loc’ :
Old Master Coffee .... 81  Naphtha, 100 cakes .. 3 96 best léc kinds
San Marto Coffee ..... Saratoga, 120 cakes .. 3 40 80 - CANE - $2.90
FITZPATRICK BROTHERS’ SOAP CHIPS BBLS.
White City (ish Washing) -................ 0... 210 lbs......8¢ per Ib.
Tip Top COBH) 250 Ibs...... 4c per lb.
No ttaundry Dry ek. . 225 Ibs...... 5c per lb.
Palm Pure Soap Dry. ..........-..........2. sie eises ob eslcee 300 Ibs... ...6%c per lb

 

A Partial List of Authorized Bottlers:
KALAMAZOO BOTTLING CO., Kalamazoo, Mich.; KILLARNEY BOTTLING CO.

FOOTEGJENKS’ Killarney (easter

GISTERED

(CONTAINS NO CAPSICUM)

) Ginger Ale

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.;

, Jackson, Mich.

 

 

 

 

SOMETHING MORE

 

 

 

and when you want it.
little, but invariably give.

Tradesman Company ::

The chances are that you want something more than _ printing
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

Grand Rapids

 

 

 

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January 26, 1916

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31

-BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted uncer this nead for two cert; a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent

continuous insertion. wr

iarge iess than 25 cents

Cash must accompany all orders.

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Excellent location for wall paper and
paint store. Living rooms in connection.
Low rent. Good opportunity for decorator
whose wife could attend store. Write
for full particulars. Address ‘“Paper-
store,’’ care Tradesman. 798

For Sale—Only bakery in town. Fine
opportunity. Good location. Right price.
Address No. 798, care Tradesman. 793

For Sale—Well established plumbing
and heating business; good paying lo-
eality. Object selling, going on farm.
Lock Box 209, Bloomington, Ill. 792

Sale or Exchange—Improved farm, 120

acres 1% miles from Hersey, Osceola
County, Michigan. Good buildings, well
watered, rich soil. Will take as part

payment stock merchandise to
Templeton & Alspaugh, Canton, Ohio.

Bankers Safe For Sale—Suitable for
small bank or commercial concern. Size
25 x 30x 36. Double time locks. <A _ bar-
gain. Advocate Publishing Co., Kalama-
zoo, Michigan. 790

For Sale—Flour and feed mill with
buckwheat run. Fine surrounding farm-
ing community. Good established trade.
Everything good shape. Electric power.
For further information enquire Robert
Kellog, Olivet, Michigan. 794

For Exchange—I will trade general
merchandise for a good National cash
register, and a good computing scale.
A. L. Redman, Olney, Mlinois. 8

For Sale—A first-class meat, fruit and
vegetable market in a good town. Reason
for selling, other business. For particu-
lars address No. 784, care Michigan
Tradesman. 784

 

 

For Sale—I have decided to sell out my
two stores. One is a dry goods store,
25 x 100 handling mostly dry goods, ladies’
furnishings, some ladies’ ready-to-wear
garments and some rugs. It has two
floors, white glass front, facing two
streets. Best corner in town. The annex
store, with an opening in the end, con-
nects into the clothing store. It is
22x70, facing Main street. It handles
only the best lines in every department.
The two stores are up-to-date in stock
and fixtures. My reputation for having
the cleanest stock in Michigan is ad-
mitted by every one that comes into my
stores. I have the best trade here—a
great asset for any one. The reason for
my selling out is my health is not the
best. I will not have any sales to reduce
stock. Every department will be kept up
to my standard. I will sell to any one
who wants to make good and keep up the
buildings and reputation right. No bar-
gain getters need write me. My books
and reputation are open for any one that
wants a place to make good. J. F. Stein,
Harbor Springs, Michigan. 778

For Sale—For_ cash. aeneral mer-
chandise business. Rare opportunity in
Holland settlement. Address No. 679,
care Tradesman. 679

For Sale—Hotel in Farwell, new, mod-
ern. Right size for the town. Price is
right. Enquire, Thomas E. Fair, Farwell,
Michigan. 769

For Sale—Small clean stock of groceries
and fixtures. Invoice about $1,800. No
dead stock. Corner location, rent reason-
able. Established 18 years. Farming
community; county seat. Southern
Michigan. Reason, other business. Must
be cash. Address No. 762, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 762

 

 

 

Modern Store For Sale—Business of
more than $700 per week, mostly cash.
Two large mines running near. Dairy
section near coast. Brick building;
cheap rent; invoice $10,000. Owner has
other interests. W. M. Lyons, Cambria,
California. 785

For Sale—120 electric portable boat
propellers, highest workmanship and ma-
terial. Can be applied to any boat in a
moment. <A_ good business opportunity
for profit. Write Box 203, Menomonie,
Wisconsin.

A land investment of $15,000; another
of $50.000. Both exceptional opportuni-
ties for profit to buyer; part purchase
pay deferred if desired. Address Box 203,
Menomonie, Wisconsin. 787

For Sale—Immediate delivery, one
Barnhart log loader. G. W. Campbell,
Marlinton, West Virginia. 179

For Sale—Clean stock general merchan-
dise. Invoice about $3,500. Country
town near big and rapidly growing sum-
mer resort Oakland county. A $10,000
trade now and can easily be increased.
Must sell at once for cash. Good rea-
sons. Address No. 780, care Michigan
Tradesman. 780

Will sell at once at a_ sacrifice, my
bakery, confectionery, and ice cream par-
lor: only bakery in town of 1,500. Well
worth $2,000, but $1.500 takes it. Ad-
dress Box 554, Ovid, Michigan. 782

Stocks Wanted—If you are desirous of
selling your stock, tell me about it. TI
may be able to dispose of it quickly.
My service free to both buyer and seller.
B®. Kruisenga, 44-54 Ellsworth Ave.,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 870

Merchants Please Take Notice! We
have clients of grocery stocks, general
stocks, dry goods stocks, hardware stocks,
drug stocks. We have on our list also a
few good farms to exchange for such
stocks. Also city property. If you wish
to sell or exchange your business write
us. G. R. Business Exchange, 540 House-
man Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. 859

Move your dead stock. For closing out
or reducing stocks, get in touch with
us. Merchant’s Auction Co., Reedsburg,
Wisconsin. 963

Merchandise Sales,Conductor. For clos-
ing out entirely or ‘reducing stocks, get
Flood, Dexter. Michigan. 18

For Sale—Good dry goods and_ shoe
stock invoicing between $4,000 and $5,000.
Cheap for cash. Address No. 774, care
Tradesman. 774

One good salesman in each town, you
can double your present income by_writ-
ing to manager of the Marcellus Supply
Co., Marcellus, Michigan. 176

For Siale—One oak cabinet Dayton cash

 

 

 

 

 

register. Cost $525. Will sell for $250.
Splendid condition. W. O. Ephlin, 429
Worden St., S. E., Grand Rapids, ace

 

To Trade—For stock groceries inven-
torying $2,500. 160 acres four miles north
Reed City. 100 acres improved $40 per
acre. Two houses, barn. Wm. G. White,
Ovid, Michigan. 771

For Sale Cheap—One rug rack, one car-
pet sewing machine, one Allen-Sparks
gasoline lighting plant. Lyon & Pond,
Owosso, Michigan. 765

Administrator’s Sale—Two brick build-
ings, a stock of dry goods and fixtures.
Will sell together or separately. A
liberal discount. By order of the court.
Dora Snyder, Alva, Oklahoma. 766

Will pay cash for whole or part stocks
of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn, 101
Center Ave., Bay City. T57

Factory and Business For Sale—New,
modern, in a good town 35 miles from
Detroit; exceptional opportunity; labor
conditions good; same is now and always
has been in operation; investigate this.
Address Box 64, Ann Arbor, Mich. 756

For Sale—A profitable and established
5-10-25 cent store, located in Sapulpa,
one of the best oil cities in Oklahoma.
Doing good business; forced to sell. For
particulars, address Box 409, McAlester,
Oklahoma. 755

For Sale—Building which can _ with
small expense be changed to hotel or
store. Fine opening for dollar day hotel.
No such hotel in town. One of best
towns north of Grand Rapids. Address
No. 754, care Tradesman. 75

For Sale—The finest grocery in Central
Michigan, doing $500 business weekly, in-
voice of stock and fixtures $4,000. Lo-
cated in a fine farming town of about
2,000 population. Address No. 759, care
Michigan Tradesman. 759

Delicious White Clover honey in 2
pound tin cans, at 10 cents per pound,
labeled, wrapped and packed 24 cans in
case at $4.80. S. C. Swanson, Cannon
Falls, Minnesota, Route 2, Box 78. 7:2

For Sale—In live Michigan resort town
and good farming country—meat and
grocery stock also building with No. 1
living rooms. If preferred will sell either
stock separately including buildings.
Total inventory about $7,000. Must be
cash. Best reasons for selling. Good
business. Address No. 773, care Trades-
man. 173

My sales letters succeed with whole-
sale or retail trade. Collection letters
extract without pain. Free booklet ex-
plains. Letter Specialist Cook, 80 on
Lane, New York.

For Sale or Trade—Canvas ate or
overall machinery. J. T. Simonson &
Co., Muskegon, Michigan. 739

For Sale—Before Feb. 10 at 75c on dol-
lar, $5,000 jewelry stock. Fine trade; in-
vestigate. Address No. 740, care Trades-
man. 740

Stock Wanted—Have fine well-improved
stock and grain farm of 250 acres in
Central Illinois. Want good stock mer-
chandise up to $18,000 in exchange for it.
What have you? Address Box 97, =
up, Illinois.

Real Estate Broker—W. C. es
representative of the National Co-Opera-
tive Realty Co., will do a real estate or
exchange business and have communi-
cation with a large number of agents
throughout United States, Office Ma-
sonic Bldg., Koshkonong, Mo. 741

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Sale—Or will exchange for hard- HELP WANTED.

ware or implements, a 160-acre farm. . ;
Address No. 744, care Michigan Trades- Wanted—A No. 1 retail shoe salesman,
man 744 a general all around man about 30 years

For Sale—Bakery ‘in Muskegon doing old. One that can furnish A No. 1 ref-
good business. Good reasons for selling. erences. Address F. J. Muffley, Kalama-
For business opportunities bit Bouman 299, Michigan. 789
& Van Dam, Muskegon, Michig T47 Wanted—Man with retail experience

For Sale—Grocery and meat ar to take active interest in one of the best
One other meat market in town 1800. retail propositions in Michigan town of
Best of fixtures and new. stock. For 15,000 population. Conditions are ripe
price write James Mead, Corunna, Mich. nd favorable in every way for an en-

730 largement. Must be the right sort of
man as well as money. Write for further
particulars. Address No. 781, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 781

Man Wanted——We have a store building

up-to-date
mostly staples,

For Sale—Money making
general dry-goods store,
best farming community. Draws trade
over 15 miles around; anticipates bills. : : hl ;
About $15,000 will take it. Rare oppor- in the village of Farwell, where the right
tunity, investigate. Address No. 732, care Party can make good. We need a live
Michigan Tradesman. 732 man with the money to put in a stock

RIA RS of dry goods and gents’ furnishings,
wae eo ain ee oe ee Soni and shoes. Address Thomas fe
ee oun Ta rure Michios 74C
clothing and furnishings. Best location, oo ee ee —
established 30 years. Always prosperous. Wanted—A competent man to manage
For particulars address A. J. Wilhelm, first-class cafe. Small investment re-
Traverse City, Michigan. 733 quired. Particulars on request. Address
“To Sell or Trade—280 acres; modern No. 748, care Michigan Tradesman.
country home three miles west of Coal- - - ; Ld .
gate, Oklahoma. Adapted to stock rais- Wanted Inxperienced sheet metal
ing and dairying. Incumbrance $5,000. Workers for general job work who are
$35 per acre. Invite inspection. Ad- familiar with laying out, making-up or
dress J. P. Addison, Box D, Coalgate, erecting work. Address T. B. Callahan,
Oklahoma. 716 198 Frank St., Akron, Ohio. 753

For Sale Cheap—Sheet metal works in Wanted—Men for light structural iron
town of 5,000. No competition. Top Work. on machinery guards who are
prices for work. Investigation cheerfully familiar with designing, making or erect-
invited. Located twenty miles east of ing guards made up of angle iron, band
Tampa, Florida, in heart of good farming iron and screen or expanded metal. Ad-

community. Address Plant City Tin and dress T. B. Callahan, 198 Frank St.,
Sheet Metal Works, Plant City, Florida. Akron, Ohio. 752

670 Wanted—A registered pharmacist at

Business Wanted—wWill Neumeister’s Drug Store, Muskegon,

exchange 160
acres of good land near Perry, Noble experience 760
county, Oklahoma for a business. Give —_ ms “s . re
full particulars and location of business Wanted—Experienced salesmen to car.
offered, first letter. Confidential. Ad- ry B. S. K. silk and cotton petticoats
dress Frank Cleveland, Perry, Oklahoma. for Western and Southwestern states.

72 large commission basis. Splendid values.
Stitching fourteen to eighteen stitches to

Michigan. Give references and years of

 

The Detroit Mercantile Adjusters, coun-

; inch. Address, Skadan, Kerns & Co.,
selors and executors of high grade spe- Weedsport, N. Y 767
cial sales, 505 Whitney Bldg., Detroit, ———— : : — — ch eit einen
Michigan. 664 Salesmen covering regular’ territory

who can call on drug and general store
trade to carry a good side line. Sample
ean be carried in pocket. Liberal com-
mission. tat Biscuit Co., Springfield,
Ohio. Ti3

I pay cash for stocks or part stocks
of merchandise. Must be cheap. H.
Buyer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 925
Safes Opened—W. L. Slocum, safe ex-
pert and locksmith. 1 Ionia Ave. N. W.,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 104 ; :
Shoes—We are stock buyers of all kinds “Position Wanted—By experienced trim-
of shoes, large or small, parts of or any mer and card writer now employed in
kind of merchandise. Largest prices Durham, N. C. Graduate Economist
paid. Write at once. Perry Mercantile School. Salary $20 per week to start.
Co., 524 Gratiot avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Can report at once. Address D. W. Wolf,
517 Durham, N. C. 768

 

 

POSITION WANTED.

 

 

IMPORTANT CHANGES
1916 TANGLEFOOT
Improved Size—Handy Sealed Package

Retails 5 Double Sheets for 10c
Ask your Jobber or his Salesman for Particulars

WHY

1—It excels all other flours in flavor.

 

 

Michigan People should use
Michigan Flour made from
Michigan Wheat

 

2—It excels all other flours in color (whiteness. )

3—It excels all other flours for bread making.

4—It excels all other flours for pastry making.

5—It requires less shortening and sweetening than any other flour.
6—It fills every household requirement.

7—Michigan merchants should sell, and Michigan people should buy
Michigan flour made from Michigan wheat for every reason
that can be advanced from a reciprocity standpoint.

 

 

 

Use Tradesman Coupons

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82

St. Joseph Retailers To
Together.

St. Joseph, Jan. 25—-St. Joseph re-
tail merchants will organize into a
branch of the Chamber of Commerce
at a banquet to be given at the Hotel
Whitcomb on Monday evening, Jan.
31.

The retail merchants of the city
formed a temporary organization
last December under the chairman-
ship of Joseph Lopker, to carry
through the Christmas festival plans
in order to stimulate the Christmas
business. The temporary organiza-
tion met with such success that it
was the unanimous expression of all
local merchants to make the organi-
zation a permanent affair.

Following the banquet at the
Whitcomb, officers will be elected
and plans for the activities of the
organization will be discussed. The
organization will be called the St.
Joseph Retail Merchants’ Association
and will be one of the various
branches contemplated by the Cham-
ber of Commerce to provide closer
organization for the various inter-
ests included in its general member-
ship.

It is expected by the present or-
ganization of merchants that the
membership of the new Association
will include practically every retail
dealer in the city. The general pur-
pose of the organization is to pro-
vide means for taking the best ad-
vantage of conditions present in St.
Joseph throughout the year.

——__>---

Work

The German authorities appear to
be anxious to make peace with some-
body, if it be only Montenegro or
Belgium. To the latter country a
semi-official hint has just been given
that she might get much better terms
from Germany now than if she waits
until the end of the war. But there is
no evidence that the Belgians will

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

respond to a suggestion of this kind
—from such an infamous _ source.
They have heroically faced a terrible
fate at the hands of a nation com-
posed of brutes and savages and are
not of the mood to waver until the
day of their deliverance dawns. They
will be stiffened in their determina-
tion to hold out by the word just
brought from Rome by a Belgian
prelate. It is to the effect that the
Pope will take no step to intervene
in the hope of securing peace until
he is assured that the independence
of Belgium will be completely re-
stored. Upon any other terms the
ending of the war would be unthink-
able and disgraceful. We note with
pleasure that the German Socialists
are gaining a firmer tone on that sub-
ject and are passing resolutions that
there can be no satisfactory peace
which does not put Belgium back
where she was before the war. The
Allies, unless they are beaten to the
earth, must be of the same mind as
Pope Benedict in insisting upon this
as the one thing indispensable.
———_>~-~-___

Detroit—The Detroit Innovation
Co. has been organized to engage in
the general novelty merchandise and
metal spinnings business, with an au-
thorized capitalization of $5,000, of
which amount $2,800 has been sub-
scribed and $2,000 paid in in cash.

—_~+~--____

Detroit — Kirby-Sorge-Felske Co.,
in the real estate, insurance and
building business, has increased its
capital stock from $10,000 to $100,-
000.

New Officers of Battle Creek Asso-
ciation.

Battle Creek, Jan. 25—At the an-
nual meeting of the Battle Cerek Re-
tail Grocers and Butchers’ Protective
Association, the following officers
were elected:

President—L. L. Swank.

First Vice-President—A. Vedder.

Second Vice-President—I. L. Webb.

Treasurer—E. W. Billinton.

Executive Board—Fred Dowsett,
M. O. Tuckerman, T. F. Whalen, J.
F, Ball and L. D. Hobbs.

——_>+

The Michigan Trust Company has
been appointed executor under the
will of the late Dr. Alfred I. Noble,
Superintendent of the Asylum for
the Insane, at Kalamazoo. It is esti-
mated the estate will amount to the
neighborhood of $40,000. Several be-
quests are made to his sister and
other relatives and liberal provision

 

January 26, 1916
is made in his will for the care of
his wife.

—_—_+-.___
Temperance—The Moore Company
has been organized to manufacture
extracts, toilet articles and proprie-
tary remedies, with an authorized
capital stock of $10,000, of which
amount $7,000 has been subscribed
and $1,100 paid in in cash.

—__—_2-2—____

The capital stock of the Baxter Laun-
dry Co. has been increased from $87,400
to $181,550.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Wanted country store stock up to
$2,500. Cash and Mason county land pay
for same. Box 57, Gwinn, Mich. 796

For Sale—Coffee roasting outfit, com-
prising four half bag roasters, one cooler
and stoner, one complete smoke suction
outfit, one granulating coffee mill and
one pulverizer. Reason for selling, must
have machines of larger capacity. Coffee
Ranch, Grand Rapids. 797

 

 

 

 

 

SPRING OPENING

Commencing Feb. Ist to March 10th
inclusive

Special showing of |
Trimmed Hats for the Millinery Department

From $12.00 to $30.00 per dozen

Your inspection invited

Kimmel Millinery Company
26-28-30-32 So. Division Ave.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

ISIS THEATRE

The New Temple of Metropolitan Vaudeville

GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

Opens Thursday, January 27
With 5 Acts of High Class Vaudeville

(Sullivan and Considine Bookings)

And Exclusive Universal Photo Plays

 

 

 

 

Admission 10-15-20 Cents

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The best at any price.

 

Free from adulteration.

 

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broad land—under the standard of

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COFFEE?

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guarding advantages of all-tin, non-absorbing containers, the wide
publicity connected with Dwinell-Wright Co.'s distributing plan,
together with the known preference for it by thousands of people
using it exclusively, mean anything, “White House’ has a right
to hope that it will, ultimately, receive the enthusiastic support of
every discreet dealer in the United States.

 

 

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Adam Was Downed by an Apple

 

 

 

 

 

OME of Mr. Adam’s brothers down through the years have made

practically the same mistake he did. They have been tempted to

do the things they ought not to have done and to leave undone the

things they ought to have done, and so they have gathered unto them-
selves much trouble and many regrets.

Be Cautious To-day and You'll
Be Happy To-morrow

If you are full of worry you cannot be happy, and you certainly
ought to be full of worry if you are not properly protecting your valuable
books and papers. Write us to-day for prices on dependable safes; buy
one and have the satisfaction of knowing that you are discharging your
duty to yourself and your family.

 

 

 

Grand Rapids Safe Co.

Tradesman Building

 

 

 

Grand Rapids, Michigan