hin LTS oh by 4 SW | 4 One HU 5 Ca LOT See Occ aie aaa = = A" URC x be um cK ee ALING ot ee ee ee CWS JMG Re SSS TRADESMAN COMPANY, ee ASR . A ___ There is a difference of opinion about the food value of pie. Those who have it three times a day claim that pie is as nourishing as any other food and much more appetizing than some new fangled dishes. Over in Ohio, food experts of Vermilion raised a cry of horror when they learned that parents were putting hunks of pie in their children’s school lunch baskets. On the other hand, the school medical supervisor of Cleveland says that good pie is all right if it is well made according to specifications. He draws the line on cheap pies sold from wagons, but thinks a nice, juicy home-made pie food fit for the gods. So when doctors disagree the people may sat what they want, when they want it. —+ + >____ France has been considered the coun- try where the greatest amount of silk is produced, but the United States is to- day the greatest silk manufacturing country in the world, and practically all the best of the standard silks used here are made here. The Silk Association of American met recently and its President pointed out that for the three years be- fore the war the mills of the United States consumed about the same amount of raw silk as France, Germany, Switzer- land and Italy combined, or twice as much as was used by France alone. The war makes the silk manufacturing indus- try in this country more important than ever. —__~+~-—»___ Of all the evils which are supposed to be a cure-all for all evils the direct primary is the worst. The primary is so worked that it can only be used by the rich man who can build up his own machine. Both of these things the primary is supposed to have abolished. The general primary is a fraud. You will get better men from the convention because the boss will want to put some good people into office in order to win some of the time. I hope the primary will dis- appear into the eternal. Wm. fH. Datt. —~++2____ A patch costing $5 on a shoe is a pretty expensive patch, for a pair of new shoes could be purchased for that sum. But a Long Island shoemaker who mended his own shoes on Sunday was arrested and fined $5 for breaking the Sabbath. The magistrate told him he had no more right to mend his shoes than the judge had to build his own house on Sunday, Perhaps if the Long Island police keep their eyes wide open they may find other violations of the law that are almost as bad as this one. Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—The Federal Oil Co. has been organized with an authorized capital stock of $15,000, of amount $7,500 has been subscribed, which $300 paid in in cash and $7,200 paid in in property. Coral Creamery of Coral has been incorpor- The Farmers Co-Operative ated with an authorized capital stock of $6,000, of which amount $2,130 has been subscribed, $455 paid in in cash and $190 paid in in notes. Pontiac — The Michigan Forge Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $135,- 000 common and $15,000 preferred, of which amounts $75,000 common has been subscribed and $25,000 paid in in cash. Ypsilanti—The J. E. Dillon Co., manufacturer of medicine, has merged Drop its business into a stock company with an authorized capital stock of $30,000, all of which has been sub- scribed, $50 paid in in cash and $16,415 paid in in property. : Benton Harbor—The Mutual Pack- age Co. has engaged in the manufac- ture of fruit packages and other wood products with an authorized capital stock of $15,000, of which amount $7 - 500 has been subscribed and $2,000 paid in in property. Flint—The Co., manufacturer and Genesee Upholstering jobbers of leather and canvas specialties, has merged its business into a stock com- pany under the style of the: Genesee Manufacturing Co., with an author- ized capital stock of $7,000, of which amount $5,100 has been subscribed, $929.88 paid in in cash and $2,670.12 paid in in property. —_++- Killing the Small Town Hotel Busi- ness. That the hotel towns is rapidly business in the declining and appears to be doomed, is the statement of an Owosso boniface. He declares that in ten or fifteen years, smaller there will be mighty few hotels out- side of the big cities. The ever in- creasing number of electric lines cov- ering the State is blamed by him for the decline in his business. It is getting so we only have about three good days out of a week, declared the hotel keeper. They are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On the other days of the week, the small town hotels are deserted. The improved transportation facilities make it possible for traveling men to spend more time at home. Many ot them will go out Monday, making towns near their headquarters, and will return at night. On Tuesday they go out and don’t come back un- til Thursday night. Then on Friday they will make other towns near their headquarters. It is very nice for the traveling men, but is is kill- Number 1692 ing the hotel business. Several sales- men who make Owosso and live near here get home every night or every other night. This condition is also brouch about by the salesmen livine in the center of their territory. Take Owos- so for instance. We have over seven- ty-five traveling salesmen whose homes are here and nearly every city of any size in the State, with good railroad facilities, has that many or more. They live here because they can get in and out of the city at al- most any hour of the day, and be- cause the city is centrally located — Owosso Press. ee Chicago’s restaurant business is booming. Within the last four months 200 saloonkeepers have taken out res- taurant licenses for the first They did it, not because they were anxious to run a restaurant, but be- cause of the Sunday closing order which went into effect last October. time. Kitchens were hastily installed in or- der to convert a cafe or back room into what technically may be termed a restaurant, so that the place could They can also That is why the restaurant business is increasing, al- be open on Sunday. keep open all night. though Chicagoans may not be eating any more food than they did when there were fewer restaurants. —_+<-~.__ A Chicago coroner’s jury has rec- ommended that it be made a finable offense to leave small children alone in a room where there is danger that they may be set afire. The recom- made evidence in a case where a mother mendation was after hearing was visiting relatives across. the street and in her absence her four young children were alone. A four- lighted a threw it at his sister, six years old, year-old boy paper and caught fire. She was shockingly burned and died in a hos- whose dress pital. The coroner said there were too many cases of that sort, and that a fine might make adults more watch- ful over children. ——_>e__ Rice—The domestic buying is con S€fvative, aS the distributors, as a rule, have ample supplies for presen requirements. Exports keep up well where the shipping is available, since the United States is taking care of trade formerly supplied from Europe. The high freights check shipments from the far East, Rangoons bein2 very firm. In New Orleans the mar- ket is quiet but firm, offerings of rough rice being small. —___--+.___- Guy W. Worden Grocer Rouse, President of the Company has re- turned from a fortnight’s which was spent in St. Jacksonville, Miami and Havana. absence, Augustine, - MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 2: Holding Their Own and Helping Others. Tradesman above the average ° towns.” We must admit that these de. remarks are much more pleasant to E. E. Whitney. the ear than those heard in days past ne -s when every commercial traveler gave —_+2+____ When a man is willing to go without his dinner to do you a favor place his name at the top of your list of friends. ——_2+___ Men are attracted to the sort of women with very high heels rather than those with very high ideals. February 23, 1916 DETROIT DETONATIONS. Cogent Criticisms From Michigan’s Metropolis. Detroit, Feb. 2i—Detonations has one advantage over the Lusitania contro- versy. We did lay off last week. Arthur Abamovitz, 814 Michigan avenue, is remodeling his dry goods and furnishing store and will have forty feet added to the building. A portion of the proceeds of the Traveling Men’s Fair, held in December, will be used by Cadillac Council on March 11, when it will give a banquet to the members and their wives, The much-talked-of prosperity in Muskegon is reflected in the announce- ment of E. R. Swett, proprietor of the Occidental Hotel that a four-story ad- dition will be added to the building at once and plans perfected for an addi- tional five stories in the near future. The new building, which will be com- pleted about May 1, will contain the new dining rooms and thirty-six guest rooms, each with bath. L. H. Weldin, of Battle Creek, was in Detroit last week on a business trip. Fred J. Keil, for twenty-eight years with the Lee Glass Co., has sold his interest in that establishment and be- come a member of the Kiel & Wong- bichler Glass Co., 11-23 Rayner street. The concern manufactures all kinds of ornamental glass. C. Shapira, formerly traveling rep- resentative for Lee & Cady, is now en- gaged in the real estate business and is associated with the Kirby-Sorge- Felske Co., with offices at 1417 Dime Savings Bank building. Mr. Shapira, during the few months he has been en- gaged in the business, has been very successful, handling many deals for his former friends on the road. S. Weinberg, general merchant of Prescott, was a Detroit business visitor last week. : Frank B. Willis, sales manager of the Chalmers Motor Co., left Tuesday for Des Moines, Iowa, to attend a conven- tion of the company’s dealers to be held in that city on Wednesday. The Columbia Graphophone Co. has leased the entire second floor of the building at 401-405 Woodward avenue. The J. W. Murray Sales Co. has ap- proved contracts for the erection of a two-story addition to its factory build- ing on Clay avenue. The writer may have overlooked the fact, but he has no recollection of read- ing in the Grand Rapids news of the retirement of Wilbur S. Burns from the Lautz Soap Co. after several years service with that company and_ the establishment by him of the Wilbur S. Burns Soap Co. Mr. Burns is one of the oldest members of Grand Rapids Council and one time served as Grand Treasurer of the United Commercial Travelers. He has established head- quarters in Grand Rapids and has been quite successful in placing his new brands of soap and washing powder on . the market. The French surgeons say the trenches are healthy places for the soldiers. That is, they are healthy unless the men acci- dently step on moving bullets. R. O. Gill, one of the pioneers of the automobile business, has been appointed factory manager of the Saxon Motor Co. The Wayne Soap Co. has let contracts for construction of a four-story brick and steel factory building at Copeland and M. C. R. R. Further cliniching its claims of being the largest council in Michigan, Cadillac Council initiated thirteen candidates at the last meeting. Leon Benedict, (Burnham Stoepel & Co.,) has been confined to his home for the past two weeks with a sever attack of the grip. Mrs. F. E. Pipper has remodeled her dry goods and furnishing goods store at 2235 Gratiot avenue. An industrial exhibition, said to be the most comprehensive in the United States, installed on the third floor of the Board of Commerce building, was MICHIGAN TRADESMAN opened to the public Monday morning. The Board plans a permanent show. Cards received from various points in the West advise us that one A. N. Shook is enjoying a trip in that part of the country. Mr. Shook is taking the trip following a most successful season in his general store at Coral. He is accompanied by Mrs. Shook. The James -Vernor Co., soft drink manufacturer, has purchased the River- side Power Co. building, corner of Woodbridge and Griswold streets, and will occupy the building at present with- out making alterations. The company plans changes later that will enlarge their plant. M. Radin, who recently sold his men’s furnishing goods stock in this city, has engaged in the real estate business, The many friends of Fred Smith were pleased to see him back on his territory last week after an absence of several months. Mr. Smith represents the Swit- zer Candy Co., of St. Louis, Mo., and is now making his headquarters in To- ledo. He suffered from gangrene in his foot and it was necessary to remove one of the toes to check the disease. Plans have been approved that will give the Detroit Vapor Stove Co. a plant that will triple its present facil- ities. The new building will be erected on a tract of land lying between Water- loo and Kercheval avenues. From all sections comes defense for Percy English and his operation of the counter at the union depot in Grand Rapids. Fact is when anyone gives good service and value received for money expended defense is hardly nec- essary.. Under these circumstances, Percy English is good for several years to come. Criticisms of his methods does him an injustice. The United States submarines seem to have no trouble in going under the water. E. W. Corman, formerly advertising manager of the Saxon Motor Co., has become affiliated with the Wetmore- Quinn Co., distributors of Saxon and Paige cars. The company’s salesrooms are located at 279-281 Jefferson avenue. The Michigan State Dyers’ Associa- tion convened at the Hotel Cadillac Monday. About 150 delegates attended. C. F. Ferschneider and J. J. Levinson have joined the sales force of the White Motor Sales Co. T. J. Doyle, local distributor for the Dodge Brothers automobiles, has moved into new quarters at 850 Woodward avenue, Andrew E. Coburn has been appointed advertising manager of the Maxwell Motor Co. Mr. Coburn was formerly connected with the Cleveland Twist Drill Co., in the capacity of advertising manager. Walter T. Owen, President of Owen & Co., furniture dealers in this city, was elected President of the Retail Fur- niture Club of Michigan last week. Howard A. Bauer, for several years with the Oakland Motor Co. of Pontiac, has organized the Wolverine Rubber Co., which will deal in automobile tires and tubes. The place of business to be occupied by the new company will be at 2301 Woodward avenue. The Bour-Davis Company, recently organized in Chicago, has purchased a tract of land in this city and will erect a factory building for the manufacture of automobiles. Mr. Porter, of the Porter Clothing Co., Howell, was in Detroit on business last week, Brevity is the soul of wit. Also the length of Detonations this week. James M. Goldstein. —_>+->—___ Boomlets From Bay City. Bay City, Feb. 21—At the annual meeting of the Board of Commerce, held Feb. 12, Otto E. Sovereign, for the past year Vice-President, was elected President of the Board to succeed James R. Tanner. Homer E. Buck was elected First Vice-Presi- dent, W. F. Jennison Second Vice- President and I.. H. Baker was re- elected Treasurer. Slowly but surely the faithful are being rewarded for their political ac- tivities. Arthur E. Dann has been appointed by President Wilson to be Postmaster at Beaverton. The members and friends of Bay Council were accorded a genuine social time at the annual party held in the National Guard armory re- cently. About seventy-five couples were present and enjoyed dancing and other amusements, The success of the entertainment was due largely to the efforts of Fred G. McCloy, chair- man of the entertainment committee. Fred is right at home looking after a job of that kind. Ignatius K. Shultz, grocer, aged 44, died at Mercy hospital from ap- pendicitis, for which he had under- gone an operation. He leaves a widow and thirteen children. Leon Sirkin, Flint tailor, Monday filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States Court here. His assets and liabilities are scheduled at $1,200. He claims $585 exemptions. Fred A. Rechlin, of the Rechlin Hardware Co., this city, was elected a director of the Michigan Retail Hardware Association at the conven- tion held in Grand Rapids last week. C. F. Stillson, Grand Rapids, repre- senting Chas A. Coye, manufacturer of awnings and tents, has spent the past two weeks working territory on the Michigan Central and D. & M. railroads, North of Bay City, and re- ports a very satisfactory business. Midland was visited by a disastrous fire early Wednesday morning with a property loss of $150,000. The fire started in Reinhart’s large general store. one of the largest in the coun- ty, which was totally destroyed with a loss of $100,000. burned were the Hoosier shoe store, Lewis’ jewelry store, Mrs. Krake’s millinery store, the postoffice, Pythian temple and Hatfield’s barber shop. Two lives were lost. Robert Edmunds, Rose City, who recently purchased William Graw- berg’s stock of general merchandise, has sold the same to W. H. Stark & Son, who have taken possession and will continue the business. William P. Hayes, aged 55 years, a dry goods merchant of West Branch, died Tuesday of blood poisoning. He had been a resident of the city thirty- three years and in business twenty years. The sixty-fourth reunion of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons opened last Tuesday night in the Mason- ic temple. A class of fifty candidates was initiated. Delegations from Flint and Saginaw were in attendance. At an enthusiastic meeting of motor boat and sail boat owners of Bay City and Saginaw at the Hotel Wen- onah, the organization of the Huronia Cruising Association was made per- manent. F. W. Atkins, of this city, was chosen Commodore, W. S, Lin- ton, of Saginaw, and Charles Coryell, of Bay City, Vice-Commodores, and H. N. Smart, of Bay City, was elected Secretary-Treasurer. David D. Walker, who retired from the position of Chief of the fire de- partment in Grand Rapids, Dec. 31, 1915, after thirty-five years of serv- ice, visited with friends in this city this week. While in the city he in- spected the equipment of the fire de- partment here and was profuse in his words of praise of the progress- ive spirit shown by the council in providing means of combatting fires. S. A. Robinson’s wood mill for sawing stove wood at Goodar, Oge- maw county, burned Friday while the men were at dinner. Loss, $1,000, with no insurance. A number of men will be thrown out of work. William McMorris left Monday for Battle Creek, where he will preside over the annual session of the Retail Gro- cers ahd General Merchants’ Asso- ciation of Michigan, of which he is President, Tuesday morning twelve or fifteen Bay City grocers will go to Battle Creek to take part in meet- ing. W. T. Ballamy. Other buildings’ Mistrial in Steward-Walsh Case. Bay City, Peb. 21-1. M. Steward, representing the Postum Cereal Co, 3attle Creek, with headquarters in Saginaw, recently brought suit in the 3ay County Circuit Court against Thomas Walsh, grocer of Bay City, for $25,000 damages. The case was on trial three days before going to the jury. After deliberating for twenty-five hours the jury disagreed and was discharged by Judge Chester, of Adrian, who sat in the case Owing to the illness of Judge Collins. It is doubtful if there was ever so much interest centered on a law suit in the courts of Michigan as this one. Hun- dreds of traveling men and grocers have been eagerly watching the out- come. Mr. Steward has made the Michigan trade for several years and has a host of friends among the men of his profession and merchants on whom he calls. In November, 1914. Mr. Steward called on Thomas Walsh. Sr., member of the firm of Thomas Walsh & Sons, general merchants, West Bay City and, after an argu- ment, Walsh is alleged to have shame- fully assaulted Steward in his store. After beating him into unconsciousness, he walked away and left him lying face downward in a pool of his own blood. Steward alleges he was in- jured to such an extent that he was not able to travel for many weeks and has had poor health ever since the accident. Testimony was given by expert surgeons that a very delicate operation would have to be performed on his head and nose and even then he would never be in normal condi- tion relative to his nose and_ head. Xray plates showed his nose to be broken in seven places, upper jaw bone in two places, besides receiving many bruises and cuts about the face and mouth at the time of the acci- dent. It is understood that Walsh has been very ugly to many travel- ing men and especially the speciality men. Above all, he has no use for the speciality man who refuses to sell him direct from the factory. That was the cause of the trouble in this case. Throughout the trial last week Walsh’s claim was self de- fense. His right arm is off above the elbow. However, he stand six toot two inches and weights 225 pounds, while Steward is a small man. It is understood that Steward will notice the case for a re-trial at once. ee Although immigration has been cut down by the war, its better distribu- tion is still of interest. The New York Congestion Committee has just published a bulky report on the sub- ject. Under the chairmanship of Mrs. V. G. Simkhovitch, the sub-committee points to the present as an opportune time to prepare for changed condi- tions; in order to bring about a bet- ter balance between urban and rural population, it urges that the next con- ference on unemployment called by the Department of Labor discuss par- ticularly rural credits and community credits, agricultural and horticultural education and marketing, and legis- lation about farm development anil homestead. That a metropolitan com- mittee, and a body like the Country Life Conference now sitting at Phila- delphia, are interested in the better balancing of the population, is an earnest that our crowded cities will themselves try to add to the attrac- tions of country life. Social condi- tions are fast being improved; and the cities may yet find means of help- ing colonize their unemployed on the land. ———_2.>->__ Some people are never happy unless they can find fault. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 23, ; Wn wy wn 4 oz ™ a 2 un a S ie J Ail (ce (ul “CCU f 4 ( Movements of Merchants. Ionia—Earl Cole has engaged in the confectionery business here. Owosso—H. J. Fuller succeeds J. B. Ketchum in the grocery business. Saline—Muir & Gross _ succeed Seeger & Schroen in the hardware business. Ontonagon—The Ontonagon Co- Operative Co. will engage in general trade March 1. « Alma—Lee Lybolt has opened a harness store in connection with his blacksmith shop. Detroit—The William F. Schultz Jewelry Co. has changed its name to the Schultz Jewelry Co. Corunna—Ted Nickels has returne from Durand and opened a meat mar- ket in his store building. Detroit— The Ferry Park Dry Goods Co. has increased its capital stock from $1,200 to $3,400. Charlotte—Thieves carried away considerable stock from the W. W. Walsh grocery store, Feb. 16. Ishpeming—Henry Harwood, pio- neer druggist, died at his home Feb. 21 as result of an attack of pneu- monia. Alma—J. A. Bartley has opened a meat market and grocery store. He will also deal in butter. poultry. Kingston—M. D. Watters has sold his drug stock to George Jeffrey, re- cently of California, who has taken possession. Hart—Fire destroyed the bazaar stock of Mrs. Lillian Cotton, entail- ing a loss of about $10,500. ance, $9,900. Otsego—The Wolverine Paper Co. will build a one-story brick and steel addition, 100x112 feet, to early this spring, Kalamazoo—The Bentley Shoe Co has engaged in business at 110 Bast Main street under the management of E. W. Herrick. Kingsley—Louis Morris has pur- chased the Charles Cook grocery stock and store building and will con- tinue the business, Paw Paw—The Wolverine Co-Op- erative Nursery Co., Ltd., has chang- ed its name to the Wolverine Co- Operative Co., Ltd. Harbor Beach—Joseph Reuter lost his grocery stock and bakery by fire Feb. 15. The loss was partially cov- ered by insurance. eggs and Insur- its plant Corunna—Harry Neeley, grocer at Kerby, has filed a petition in bank- ruptcy, claiming assets of $444,38 and liabilities of $921.63. Freeport—Bert Phillips and Leap Karcher have formed a copartnershi»p and engaged in the builders’ supplies and lumber business. Calumet—Gill & Cornish have en- gaged in the wholesale and retail ice cream -business in the Kerr building on North Fifth street. Vicksburg—Tobey Bros. are erect- ing a large one-story brick buildin which they will occuy as a garage and automobile supply station. Middleton—Roy Dodge has sold his stock of furniture and undertaking goods to his nephew, C. M. Dodge, who has taken possession. Flint—The American Oil (oof Jackson, has opened a branch store in the Smith building under the man- agement of Robert H. Flues. Ann Arbor—George P. Geisendor- fer has sold his meat stock to Hoelzle & Feldkamp, who will continue the business at the same location. Kalamazoo—Thieves entered the A. Koolman second-hand store, 212 North Burdick street, Feb. 17 and car- ried away considerable stock. Prattville—L. L. Downer has sold his stock of dry goods, groceries and shoes to Mr. Hammond, of Ransom. who will continue the business. Lowell—Herman Strong has leased the McDannell store building and will occupy it with a stock of confection- ery, an ice cream parlor and bakery. Saginaw—Harry E. Oppenheimer, Fred Jaeckel and Edwin Rau _ will open a department store April 1 on Genesee avenue under the style of the Boston Store. Detroit—The Keil & Wangbichler Glass Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $2,000. all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Detroit—The Ulco Oil Sales Co. has been organized with an author- capitalization of $1,000, all of which has been subscribed and $250 paid in in cash. ized Cheboygan—Thomas Stevenson has sold his meat market to Joseph Bou- langer and John Fisher, who will con- tinue the business under the style of Boulanger & Fisher. lonia—G. W. Boyd and J. E. Evans have formed a copartnership and en- gaged in business at 512 North Jef- ‘erson street under the style of the Tonia Sanitary Rug Co. Boyne City—B. F. McCumber, deal- er in dry goods, groceries and shoes, has purchased the H. B. Sayles stock of general merchandise and will con- solidate it with his own. Detroit—Howland & Uhlik, en- gaged in the retail clothing business. have merged the business into a stock company under the style of the Mark Howland Co., with an authorized capi- tal stock of $3,600 common and $7,000 preferred, all of which has been sub- scribed and paid in in property. - Ransom Holland—The Bos & _ Bolhuis Lumber Co. have taken over the plant of the Interior Finish Co. and will continue the business in connection with their lumber yard. Kalamazoo—Oscar_ S. Merrifield, grocer at the corner of Park and streets, lost considerable stock and the contents of the cash register by thieves, Feb, 18. Jackson—Mrs. Nellie McKinley an4 Miss Emma Rafferty have formed a copartnership and will engage in the millinery business March 1 under the style of McKinley & Rafferty. Marquette—Edward Mitchell has purchased the Victor Erfft bankrupt shoe stock and will continue the busi- ness under the management of H. F. Handford, the former manager. Bay City—The Bay City Sand & Gravel Co. has engaged in business with an authorized capital stock of $25,000, all of which has been sub- scribed and paid in in property. Ypsilanti—Henry S. Platt has sold his interest in the Sullivan Cook Co. clothing and men’s furnishing goods stock to his partners and the business will be continued under the same style. St. Joseph—Frank Anderson and Louis Eckert have formed a copart- nership under the style of Anderson & Eckhart and engaged in the paint and wall paper business at 311 Main street. Saginaw—The Nickels-Mertz Co. will remove its stock of bazaar goods; to Mt. Pleasant, but continue to main- tain its headquarters here. It con- ducts stores at Cadillac and Luding- ton also. Detroit—The Russel Co. has en- gaged in the wholesale and _ retai! merchandise ‘business with an au- thorized capital stock of $50,000, ali of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Lake Odessa—William E. Irwin has sold his interest in the Irwin & Camp- bell men’s furnishing goods stock to L. T. Gilson and the business will be continued under the style of Camp- bell & Gilson. Detroit—Cain Bros. have been in- corporated to engage in the general plumbing, heating and steamfitting business with an authorized capital stock of $2,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in property. Nashville—E. L. Cole, formerly engaged in the hardware business at Bellevue, has taken possesion of the Gott hardware stock which he pur- chased several months ago and placed it in the Hurd block, where he will continue the business, Bay City—The F. H. Cash Co. has engaged in the meats, poultry, fish and dairy products business, with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, of which amount $5,800 has been sub- scribed, $1,800 paid in in cash and $4,000 paid in in property. Detroit—The Detroit White Metai Co. has been organized to manufac- ture refine white and other metals with an authorized capital stock of $6,000, of which amount $3,200 has been subscribed, $500 paid in in cash and $2,700 paid in in property. Detroit—Banwell & Johns, retail clothiers, have merged the business into a stock company with a capi stock of $2,500, all of which has be subscribed and paid in in cash.- 1] business will be conducted under {} style of the Banwell-Garvey Co. Jackson—Roger M. Phillips and || H. Cross have formed a copartnershi and purchased the Whipple & Cor: right grocery stock and will continu the business at the same location. corner of Fourth and Franklin streets under the style of Phillips & Cross. Springport—J, G. Babcock, who ha: been engaged in the clothing bus; ness here for the past eight years, ha taken into partnership with him Car! and Gustav Wuerthner, of Mancheste, and the business will be conducted hereafter under the style of J. G Babcock & Co. A line of shoes wil! be added. Wuerthner Bros. will con. tinue the clothing and shoes business at Manchester under the style of Wuerthner Bros. Carl M., the senior partner, will also continue to travel for the Hershey-Rice Manufacturine Co., manufacturer of working men’s clothing at Columbus, Ohio. Manufacturing Matters. Flint—The Monroe Motor Co. has decreased its capital stock from $375.- 000 to $250,000. Detroit—The Detroit Chassis Co. has increased its capital stock from $10,000 to $50,000. Detroit—The Lakeside Foundry has increased its capital stock from $40,000 to $120,000. Lambs—The Lambs Farmers’ Fle- vator Co. has increased its capita! stock from $5,000 to $7,000. Detroit—The J. R. Stone Tool & Supply Co. has increased its capita! stock from $10,000 to $20,000. Detroit—The capital stock of the Detroit Improved Backwall Co. has been increased from $100,000 to $150.- 000. Schultz — The Schultze Co-Op- erative Copartnership Creamery —___ Sagacious Suggestions From Saginaw Salesmen. Saginaw, Feb, 21--Saginaw has adopt- ed the boulevard lighting system and forty-three lamps are in service between the bridge and the West Side of Michi- gan avenue. The effect is certainly pleasing. .The former dark and gloomy streets are turned into a white way without any dismal spots. A new store known as the Boston, carrying a general merchandise stock will open April 1 in the rooms now oc- cupied by Nichols & Mertz 10 cent store. Those interested in the new store are H. E. Oppenheimer, Fred Jaeckel and Edwin Rau. Mr. Jackel is in Chicago at the present time buying the opening stock. It is reported that the Bancroft Ho- tel will be open for business about April 10. It is understood that John C. into the county. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Thompson, of Cadillac, one time man- ager of the old Bancroft, will be in charge of the new hotel. Norman Popp, local hardware man, was elected to the executive board at the annual convention of the Michigan Retail Hardware Association, which was held in Grand Rapids last week. Word has been received from Charles P. Downey, popular Lansing hotel man, that he will head a delegation of 500 sportsmen who will come on a special Michigan Central train Thursday, Feb. 24, to attend the wild life show which is ‘being held here this week. Intense interest is being displayed from one end of Saginaw county to the other by the probe into the disposition of interest paid on public funds by the banks. This examination is being con- ducted under the direction of a special committee of the Board of Supervisors, of which John Baird is chairman. The audit department of the Michigan Trust Company in auditing the books and as- sisting in the investigation. Cross exam- ination of Mayor Hilem F. Paddock by Carlton G. Saunders, manager of the Trust Company audit department, brought out the fact that during the four years Mr. Paddock was County Treasurer he received $9,650.74 interest on public funds which was never turned i Christian W. Gubel, the present County Treasurer, admitted upon examination that in June, 1915, following the time honored custom of his predecessors, he received $940.63, which he said he was willing to turn ‘over to the county. The probe will ex- tend back twenty years and some inter- esting developments are looked for. We don’t wonder that there is such a fight for this office. The new Overland building, at Gen- esee and James avenues, erected espec- ially for use as an automobile garage and salesroom by the Simons Sales Co., Saginaw, distributor of Overland auto- mobiles, will be ready for occupancy the middle of this week. President Simons has made arrangements for an elaborate opening. The building is one of the finest of its kind in the country. *, W. Culver, member of the firm of Culver & Deisler, prominent drug- gists of this city, was elected Secretary of the Michigan State Rexall Club. Through the Farmers’ Institute offer- ing prizes for the biggest man attending the institute here week before last, two monster men were brought to the atten- tion of the public. The largest man in attendance was Edward Helm, of Fos- ters, R. F. D. He stands six foot, two inches, weighs 291 pounds. His brother, 1 WwW. Helm, from the same place was the tallest in attendance, six foot eight inches. There is a chance for Saginaw to produce a world beater yet. Bommerits Bros., Saginaw fruit deal- ers, have opened a grocery department in connection with their fruit store. In connection with their opening they put on a pure food show. M. V. Foley, Past Senior Counselor of Saginaw U. C. T., was painfully injured while doing some work in the packing room of the Saginaw Custom Shirt Co. At this writing he is doing nicely and able to be around. Saginaw Council held a very interest- ing meeting Saturday night. Just before the initiation took place the members of the Council were delightfully entertained by a most interesting and instructing lecture given by C. J. Pellot, credit man for Morley Bros., this city. He dwelt mainly on the evils of the credit system and the relationship that should always exist between the credit man and the road salesmen. This was the first of the course of lectures to be given to the members of the Council each month. The names of four hale and hearty gentlemen were added to the roll book: Fred W. Schroetke, an Irishman by looks, but a German by birth, was one. He represents the National Grocer Co., this city, working the city trade: R. H. Waener, with James S. Kirk & Co., Chi- cago, who recently took up headquarters here; . Baum, representing the Schust Co., this city, and T. S. Newell, 7 representing himself in the dental sup- ply business. William Volkmer was re- ceived by transfer from Auto Council, Lansing. He represents the J. I. Case Co. and lives at Chesaning. Deputy Ben Mercer has delegated H. D. Ranney and Mike Conaton, Jr., to go to Flint Saturday night and pay Flint Council an official visit. Mike just re- ceived a bunch of new stories from the Duke of Ireland and we feel quite sure he will have an opportunity at this time to use them. Be careful, Mike, you know your failing. If you notice any- one going to sleep, please sit down. The ladies of the U. C. T. of Saginaw will give a colonial party on the even- ing of March 4. All U. C. T.’s and fam- ilies invited. Be sure and be on hand. Something brand new. That’s all. We will tell you about it later. Orin (Dutch) Leidlein, one of Lee & Cady’s spokes, this city, who was oper- ated on three weeks ago for appendicitis, left the hospital last Saturday and is doing nicely, aithough he will be unable to quote the “‘very lowest prices” to his customers for several weeks. Hon. W. R. Burt presented the Wom- ans’ Hospital Association, Saginaw, a free will offering of $25,000 to be used in enlarging the hospital. Mr. Burt has given many such gifts to the city and certainly should be appreciated by every citizen. A. Nord, Midland avenue grocer. Bay City, recently sold out to Brock & Phil- ips, of Bay City. Mr. Nord has accepted a road job with the Fox River Butter Co. I am sorry at this writing to have to make mention of the illness of our friend and brother, District Deputy Ben N. Mercer. who represents the Gale Manufacturing Co. He was taken sick very suddenly while on a P. M. train bound for Saginaw Friday morning. The writer called to see him Sunday and from what could be learned, the doctor thought he had an attack of acute pneu- monia. I voice the wishes of all the U. C. T. of Michigan in wishing him a speedy recovery. L. M. Steward. Barney Langeler has worked in this institution continuously for over forty-five years. Barney says— During the last forty-five years | have seen a great many lines of Canned Goods, but | have never in all my life seen a line of Canned Vegetables that can compare with the Daggett and Fremont lines we are now selling. They have the biggest value in the can that I have ever seen. WoRDEN (GROCER COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS— KALAMAZOO THE PROMPT SHIPPERS BicracanSpavesMan (Unlike any other paper.) i. e————EEE DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BUSINESS MEN. Published Weekly by TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Subscription Price. One dollar per year, if paid strictly in advance; two dollars if not paid in ad- vance. Five dollars for six years, payable in advance. Canadian subscriptions, $2.04 per year, payable invariably in advance. Sample copies 5 cents each. Extra copies of current issues, § cents; issues a month or more old, 10 cents; issues & year or more old, 25 cents. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice as Second Class Matter. E. A. STOWS, Editor. February 23, 1916. Soo WILL PROSPERITY LAST? Nothing, as this section of the country sees it, is as yet in sight which can rightly moderate the opti- mism with which the year 1916 be- gan. Such a set-back as the stock market had the first of last week oc- casions no disquietude here. “You can’t expect the market to go up every day,” is the usual comment of bankers, who are mostly of the opin- ion that the stock market will, dur- ing the year 1916, accurately reflect the general business situation, as to which they have a nearly unbounded confidence. These are not mere sentimental views; their basis is tangible. Our enormous exports, the remarkable improvement in bank clearings, the handsome gains in railroad earnings and the manifest desire to put our industrial plant in the strong- est condition for competitive pur- poses—a which is believed to lie back of the proposed merger in the steel trade—are assertive fac- tors which no one is disposed to gainsay. VeTy desire Yet there is no disposition to ig- nore the future because of the attrac- tive present. The term “economic preparedness” is now in frequent use. Its employment arises in some such way as this: The war-has brought great prosperity to this country with- out abnormal effort on our part to attract it. Will it be relatively as easy to maintain this prosperity when the war is over? If not, what kind of economic preparedness do we need to enable us to hold our own in the new and highly exceptional circum- stances following the war? This thought is, in fact, in the back of the brain of every banker, manufacturer or merchant of Michigan as he dis- cusses current happenings in the money market, the stock market or the various commodity markets. Every attempt to forecast these mar- kets six or nine months from now is made with this thought looming up large in the background. In a word, economic preparedness is the medium through which everything is viewed in Michigan. One well-known banker lately sum- med up the matter, thus: “This coun- try has had marvellous prosperity in the last six months, and we shall have MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a much larger measure in the future if we do not make a fool of ourselves, which we have not yet shown any signs of doing.” He was discussin2 “economic preparedness.” As a mat- ter of fact, that is about the only fear encountered in this section o! the country to-day. Old-fashioned conservative bankers and merchants are fundamentally as optimistic re- garding the future as new-fashioned and speculative ones are; and con- trarywise, the latter are as loud for economic preparedness as the former. Never has there been such unanimity of belief that the way is open to un- dreamed-of prosperity, provided we keep our heads clear. The real problem is, how to per- fect our financial and industrial meth- ods so as to be able to hold what we have gained and expect still further to gain during the war, when the bel- ligerent nations of Europe stop fight- ing each other with arms and begin to fight us with the implements of manufacture and trade. We should all be glad to be able to predict the date of that occurrence, but on this point there is the greatest difference of opinion. On the whole, there is a growing belief that the end of th> War may be much farther off then had hitherto been supposed. On one point there is quite general agreement, namely, that the longer the duration of the struggle the more impregnable will be the financial and industrial position of the United States at the close. The fear of that “worst crisis on record,” which has been by some predicted for this country at the close of the war, has quite generally disap- peared. ———EEEE A seven-year-old boy can start a lot of trouble when he wants to and Freddie Chambers of Brooklyn caus- ed several disasters when he ignored danger signs on a pond in Prospect Park and walked out on the ice. The ice broke and he fell in the water. A maid watching another child went to his rescue and she fell in. A motor- cycle policeman rushed up with a board, leaned forward and he was clinging to the ice and shouting for help. A chauffeur took a hand at rescue work and came to disaster. Two more policemen came along and went in the water. Then a physician attempted to wade out and _ slid gently beyond his depth, joining the six who had preceded him. Finally two more policemen arrived and threw out cork-laden ropes, with which they dragged the seven wet and shivering persons to shore. —— eee Henry ford has started his news- paper campaign against preparedness. Mr. ford would be more consisten: if he would spend the money he is wasting in this undertaking in con- verting his junk car into a real car by the addition of some modern features which would change it from a source of annoyance to a source of pleasure. Eee Don’t let the badness of your neigh- bors worry you; they might do worse. —EEEEEE New styles are usually old ones peo- ple have forgotten. STICK TO YOUR OWN LAST. The $100,000 libel suit brought against the President of the National Retail Grocers’ Association by the editor of the Interstate Grocer affords an apt illustration of the truth of the old adage that it is best for a shoe- maker to stick to his own last. Mr. Connolly achieved a small measure of success in the retail grocery busi- ness, which appears to have turned his head and started him out on a wild career of exploitation in lines entirely alien to him and not in keeping with his abilities and exper- ience. Under the alleged auspices of the retail grocers’ organization of California, he started a trade journal. Most publications of this character are established and maintained solely to gratify the ambition, vent the spites and animosities of a single in- dividual and, incidentally, enable him to use the name of an organization simply as a stalking horse to put mon- ey in his own purse. No possible good to legitimate organized effort can ever result from publications of this character, whose existence are due to ulterior motives which soon come to be thoroughly understood and appreciated In keeping with the traditions of the past, Mr. Connolly made his publication the vehicle of vaunting his own ambitions, punish- ing his enemies, rewarding his friends and, incidentally, thoroughly demora!- izing the organization he pretended to serve. In the light of recent events, it looks very much as if Mr. Connolly had overstepped the line of editorial license and decency in his attacks 0a Mr. Schulte and that in the final analysis it may require the Savings of a lifetime to settle with the plain- tiff for the unjustifiable attacks made on him by the California gentleman. The moral is obvious. The man who succeeded as a grocer may make a very poor editor. The editor wh» has succeeded in achieving success as an editor may make a poor grocer. The two occupations are not allied. The experience gained in one will not “t a person for a successful career in the other. The men who accomplish most in this world, both for them- selves and their fellows, are those who follow the homely old adage and stick to their own last. ————— Based on what he is willing to say about it, which is not very much, Mr. Bryan intends to oppose the renomi- nation of Mr. Wilson to the best of his ability. When asked if he would support Wilson if nominated, he was somewhat irritated and pointed out that he had always supported the nominees of his party, which is more than a good many Democrats could Say in at least three notable Nationa! campaigns. Of course, there is al- ways a bit of inconsistency apparent when a man does all he can to pre- vent another’s nomination, and urges many and strong arguments to sup- port his contention, and then finding himself in a minority, turns square around and supports him the best he knows how. That is being loyal to the party, standing fast in the traces and affording an exhibition of regu- larity, but none of these things pre- February 23. i916 vent its being thoroughly inconsj- nt. It is altogether improbable that thing which Bryan or his friends do will prevent the renominatio, Mr. Wilson. That may be count, foregone conclusion. It depends what may happen later whether support of the Nebraskan and his lowers will be able to keep him the White House for another tern anaes The extent to which race Prejudice obtains in Canada is indicated }y fact that mass meetings have ees held there to protest against engase- ments for the Damrosch Symph Orchestra of New York, which pl a tour through that country. Th, reason is that many of the Musician ans have German names, and the Cana- dians refuse to contribute even to good music or to listen to it when produced by those of a hostile coun- try. It does not matter in their es timation that nearly all, if not quit all of the musicians in that orchestra are citizens of the United States. As everybody knows, the Germans ary great musicians, and Canadians de- cline to hear some of the best ex- ponents of that art for no other rea- son than that the producers or their ancestors came from Germany. That looks like carrying’ the war a good ways, but it is scarcely to be won dered at when we consider how the Kaiser has destroyed all respect for and confidence in the German peopl by leading them into butchery and barbarism. conics In the good old days of the lone ago, American colleges were largely Promoted by ministers. In thos: times the taking of a college cours: was assumed to be preparation fo: one of the so-called learned profes- sions, while young men intending ¢: go into business went without any attempt to secure the advantages higher education. All that is change: now, and with it a good many chart- ers. Until very recently, for example, the charter of Amherst College pro- vided that at least seven of its trus- tees must be clergymen. An indica tion of the trend in this respect is evidenced by the fact that the friend: of that institution secured the pas sage of a bill and the gubernatoria’ signature amending the charter in this respect. From now on, Amhers: will not be compelled to have any ministers at all in its board of trus tees, and so will be free from re- ligious leading strings. psoas A married woman who admits tha: she has passed the 40 mark remarked the other day that if she ran a depart- ment or any other kind. of store and heard a clerk address a customer as “Lady” she would discharge the clerk on the spot. She confessed that when- ever she went into a store and asked to be shown goods and the clerk said, “How do you like this, lady?” she felt like walking out without buy- ing. The use of the word ‘Lady’ is an irritant to her and to others. “Madam” is more dignified and can be applied without offense to every woman. February 23, 1916 THE TWENTY-SECOND Convention of Michigan Retail Hard- ware Association. The twenty-second annual convention of the Michigan Retail Hardware Asso- ciation, which was held in this city last week, was the most successful meeting ever held under the auspices of the or- ganization. The proceedings up to near- ly Wednesday noon were published in the Tradesman last week. After the presentation of the Secretary's report, A. T. Stebbins, Rochester, Minnesota, former President of the National Re- tail Hardware Association, delivered an address on “Mutual Fire Insurance” showing how the hardware mutuals had reduced the fire insurance rates very materially to the members of the var- ious state associations. Arthur J. Scott. After the Question Box had been dis- cussed for some time, the session ad- journed. An evening session, also executive, was called to order at 7:30 p. m.,, at which M. L. Corey, Argos, Indiana, National Secretary, spoke, followed by a discussion of various problems in the Question Box, At the Thursday morning session, which was an open one, short addresses were made by J. A. Weston, of Lan- sing; F, E. Woolley, of Ann Arbor, and W. G. Bancroft, of Grand Rapids. The latter address is published verbatim elsewhere in this week’s paper. Curtis M. Johnson, the well-known hardware dealer and Mayor of Rush City, Minnesota, then delivered his ad- dress on “A Dealer’s Service to His Community,” pointing out some of the responsibilities that the dealer assumes when he goes into business and em- phasizing the fact that his success is very largely dependent upon the manner in which he fulfils his obligations in this regard. This was followed by an address on “Two Snakes in the Business Brain,” by Stanley M. Krebs, of Philadelphia, and after the Question Box had been discussed for some time, the session ad- journed. The delegates and visitors were guests of the Jobbers and Manufacturers’ As- sociation of Grand Rapids at an enter- tainment and buffet luncheon during the evening in the convention hall. The closing session was held Friday MICHIGAN TRADESMAN afternoon, being called to order at 1:30 o’clock. The Committee on Resolutions sub- mitted a length report, as follows: Whereas—Congress has under con- sideration a number of bills which have been framed with a view to remedying certain trade abuses not covered in the provisions of the Sher- man anti-trust law and the Clayton act; and Whereas—A number of these bills are aimed specifically at evils which beset the retail distribution of goods, tend to destroy legitimate competi- tion and by unfair and_ unethical means centralize trade in the hands of a favored few; therefore be it Resolved—That we go on record as favoring the following bills and to use all honorable means to secure their enactment: The Stephens-Ayers bill. The Griest One Cent Local Postage bill. The Kreider bill. This is in effect an honest advertising measure, fram- ed along broad and comprehensive lines. The Adamson bill, to prevent swindling in interstate and foreign commerce. The Steenerson bill, to prohibit misbranding of goods. Resolved—That we commend the action of the Agricultural Publishers’ Association and especially those farm papers which are conducting educa- tional campaigns to encourage home trading, and that we co-operate with them in extending the community development idea. Resolved—That we urge upon these farm papers a closer observance of their resolution against publishing untruthful and misleading statements regarding the retail merchant and his methods of doing business. Resolved—That we approve of the movement relative to revising our credit methods. Our terms should be shortened, statements mailed at cer- tain definite intervals and collections handled systematically. Competi- tion is strong and sound credit meth- ods will not only put us in a better position to meet it, but it will help us to make good as merchants. Resolved—That we urge upon our members the necessity of revising and improving their credit methods and recommend that they make the collection of credit information one of the activities of commercial clubs, to the end that losses from poor ac- counts may be reduced to the mini- mum; and be it, Resolved—That this Association go on record as favoring the National Pay Up Week idea. Whereas—Because of lack of prop- er interest in politics on the part of business men, the business interests of the country have been neglected by the Government and often burden- ed and handicapped by ill advised and discriminatory legislation; therefore be it ( Resolved—That we make it a fixed policy to interest ourselves in political matters, attend political con- ventions and use our influence to se- cure nomination of sound business men to office. Whereas—We believe that the stan- dardization of farm equipment will reduce the cost of production to the benefit of manufacturers, retailers and consumers alike, we heartily approve the movement in this direction that has been instituted by the National Implement and Vehicle Association. Resolved—That we also urge upon our membership the advisability of their full co-operation in this highly commendable undertaking. Resolved—We believe that - long time credits, carrying clauses, com- mission contracts and factory can- vassers are responsible for many of the abuses affecting the sales of im- plements, Therefore, we endorse the movement among implement manu- facturers to abolish these practices, substitute shorter terms and place the implement business on a merchan- dise basis. Whereas—The operation of the present law, under the jurisdiction of the State Fire Marshall, makes the ready sale of dynamite and detonat- ing caps, almost prohibitive; and Whereas—The present freight tar- iff provisos make the transportation of said dynamite and caps from fac- tory an utterly unsatisfactory way of supplying same to the trade; and Whereas—The development of new or unproductive land, in the way of the removal of stumps and _ stones, the construction of ditches, the plant- ing of fruit trees and many other forms of development work are be- ing retarded by the conditions im- posed by said law; therefore Resolved—That this law be modi- fied in such manner as shall greatly facilitate a reasonable service and distribution of this commodity to our customers and still preserve the interests of safety and conformity to the proper operation of our fire in- surance policies; and be it further; Resolved—That by the adoption of this resolution, our legislative committee is hereby instructed to see that a reasonable and proper measure be drawn and introduced as promptly as possible before our state legisla- tors. Being keenly appreciative of the detrimental effect on business throughout the country, caused by the apprehension relative to tariff changes incident to each change of National administration, we recom- mend that the support of the 1,100 members of this Association be ex- pressed in favor of a permanent Non- partisan Tariff Commission, com- posed of commercial experts, giving the opearation of tariff measures a stability and dependability necessary to maintaining the momentum of commercial activity throughout the Nation, and further that a copy of this resolution be forwarded by our Secretary to each of our Michigan Congressmen and U. S. Senators. Whereas—An All Wise Providence has seen fit to remove from our midst our former, officer and esteemed member, Henry C. Weber, and our esteemed Vice-President, Fred F, Ire- land; therefore be it Resolved—That we extend to the bereaved families of Henry C. Weber and Fred F. Ireland the heartfelt sym- pathy of this Association, and that the Secretary be requested to forward a copy of this resolution to the be- reaved families. We heartily endorse the untiring efforts and splendid results ac- complished by the National officers, the Secretary’s Conference and the staff of the National Hardware Bul- letin. At this time we desire to espe- cially extend an expression of appre- ciation to our officers, to the various committees, to the jobbers and manu- facturers of Grand Rapids, for their splendid entertainment Thursday eve- ning and all those who have con- tributed in making this, our twenty- second annual convention, the most successful in our history. The report was adopted. The election of officers resulted as follows: President—Karl S. Judson, Grand Rapids. Vice-President—James W. Tyre, De- troit. Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City. Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit. Executive Committee—For two years, Frank E. Strong, Battle Creek; Norman Popp, Saginaw; Alex. Lemke, Detroit; Ernest Wise, Kalamazoo; John C. Fischer, Ann Arbor. To fill vacancy, George W. Leedle, Marshall. 9 A spirited contest between Kalamazoo and Detroit for the honor of entertain- ing the 1917 convention was decided in favor of Detroit. —_2~-+___ Things Not Included in Insurance Policy. Bay City, Feb. 21—Replying to your letter of enquiry, I beg leave to state that our insurance covered our loss. We have found some goods which were damaged that we did not figure on since the adjustment of the loss, but my loss will be very little, after everything is sold. There are some things which are not covered by our insurance policy which we supposed were, and I think it would be a good idea for you to call the attention of the trade to that fact, namely, that an elevator owned by a tenant and not especially mentioned, in a building that is rented is not covered by the insurance policy, neither is stationery and awnings. This I did not know until I was ad- justing our loss, Charles A. Kelley. There are a good many other items which are not included in the standard form used by insurance companies who are doing business in Michigan. It does not include assured’s inter- est in all improvements to the build- ing paid for by the insured, and bet- terments to the building, shelving, plumbing, electric wiring. It does not cover property while in vestibules, halls and elevators in the building, on platforms, in yards and in streets and alleys adjacent. It does not protect the assured against loss of signs, lamps or light- ing systems out side the store. It does not include goods stored in areas or cellars not directly undec the foundation walls of the building containing property covered by the insurance policy. Goods owned by others temporar- ily stored in the building are not in- cluded. All of these items can be brought under the conditions of the policy by a rider attached to the policy. The Tradesman will be pleased to render any subscriber such assistance as may be required in preparing a proper rider for his policies. —__++2>—___ There is a genuine scare on in Washington. Somebody introduced a bill in Congress providing that the city shall be dry. A lawyer who, at the request of a club, made a thorough examination of it, declares it to be “a corker.’” The Americanism can be taken literally and figuratively. It will cork up every bit of intoxicating beverage beyond hope of quenching thirst. It even goes so far as to say that diplomats and other foreign rep- resentatives whom it can not thus control must go to an office in the city and pay 25 cents to get a permit whenever they wish to entertain with the use of wines or spirituous liquors. It is seriously said that possibly the bill may become a law, not that a majority in either house honestly favor it, but because a majority would not have the courage of its convic- tions sufficiently to vote against it. The aggregate of liquors of all sorts drank in Washington annually is im- mense, and likewise the profit there- on, and naturally enough the hotel keepers and other are deeply stirred and greatly concerned. February 23, 191¢ cg Pt ETE &: — = Ideas Picked Up at a Silk Week Sale. Written for the Tradesman. Just lately it was “silk week” at the N store—that is, during one whole week the silk department held a special sale. To the success of this event a number of elements contributed, some of which IT shall endeavor to bring out in this article. In the first place, the man at the head of the department is an enthusiast on the subject of silks—loves to buy them, loves to sell them, loves the feel of them, and the wonderfully beautiful colorings which the dyer’s art is able to impart to silk better than to any other textile material. This man’s enthusiasm is backed by a thorough knowledge of all the different branches of his spec- ialty. The stock of which he has charge is large and complete, the best to be found in the city of some thirty-odd thousand in which the store is located.. It em- braces all the leading novelties as well as staples, and is notable for the taste and good judgment shown in the buying. Two salespersons besides the head usually take care of the silk counters. All are excellently posted as to the materials they are handling, and are fairly artists in the matter of styles and combinations, so that when it is de- sired they are able to make helpful sug- gestions to customers. The stock is exquisitely kept. Not only do neatness and cleanliness pre- vail, but every separate piece of goods is taken care of in a way to retain per- fectly its freshness and newness. No one inexperienced in handling — silks realizes the great amount of labor in- volved in keeping the goods free from creases and wrinkles. A little careless- ness in this respect and they quickly take on a shopworn look, their value and salability greatly diminished in conse- quence. I happened in the morning of the last day of the sale, when they were taking out the pieces that had been in the windows. Loosely rolled or fold- ed these were brought to the counters, where unrolling and re-rolling of some of the bolts was going on, while others that are in folds were smoothed and shaken out so as to be exactly in the original creases. Being in the windows is hard on silks, and it is well worth while to take all the pains necessary to get them back on the shelves in the best shape possible. As the reader will observe, all the points thus far touched upon have to do mainly with the general, all-the-time success of the department, although they may be considered also as a basis for a successful special sale. Preparation for “silk week” had been made on a scale suited to its importance as one of the principal special sales of the year. It was featured strongly in the newspaper advertising. Excel- lent displays, embodying a great variety of the different kinds of silks, were to be seen on every available table of the department, and a number of pieces were draped above the shelving. The store is of the big daylight type and has a wide expanse of windows on two sides. The trimmer, who is an expert, did his best for the occasion. Here was a piece of pale salmon pink charmeuse with which was draped a “veiling” of lemon ground covered with big lavender roses. A strip of hand- some lavender velvet folded to simulate a panel added to the richness of the effect. On another rack was a piece of plain light yellow satin, with a silk of pink roses on a white ground, and a strip of old-gold velvet. On still another a black and white stripe with a plain back taffeta. But it is impossible to speak in much detail of the window display, for fifty pieces were used to make it. Not only was the beauty of individual pieces and possible combinations brought out with remark- ably good effect, but the observer could not fail to gain the impression that this store had a stock of silks that in size, variety, and newness of styles was well worth examining. A few plain cards with “Silk Week—Fashion’s Newest Silks at a Ten Per Cent. Saving,” while not too large nor too conspicuous, were placed so that they could hardly fail to attract the attention of the passer-by. It should be mentioned that next to the silks in the windows was a fine show- ing of the metal trimmings now in de- mand. This was a 10 per cent. off sale. The reputation of the store for being en- tirely upright and aboveboard in all its methods of dealing was sufficient guar- anty that nothing was marked up for the occasion. A bona fide saving of 10 per cent. on material for a silk dress or a suit or even a waist is worth con- sidering. Probably a_ reduction no greater than this if confined to off shades and kinds becoming a little passe, would attract scant attention. But in this silk week sale the whole stock was included, even the newest and latest of the spring goods. It was interesting to hear the talk on styles and materials. “Let me show you a satin de lux— it is half way between a satin and a taffeta—not so shiny as the one and it wears better than the other.” “This is a pompadour.” The salesman was holding up a very handsome piece of taffeta weave, a white ground with roses on it—the hedge rose pattern in “‘Ha-Ka-Rac’”’ Sweater Coats simply refuse to get out of shape Our salesmen are out and will call on you during the season Perry Glove & Mitten Co. PERRY, MICHIGAN No. 1603 COTTER Oe OY Lace Curtains and Curtain Nets We are now ready to fill orders for curtains at 37%4c, 75c, $1.00, $1.10, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00, $2.25, $2.75 and $3.00 per pair in white and ecru, also Curtain Nets at 7%4 to 50 cents per yard. Are you interested? Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. 20-22 Commerce Ave. Exclusively Wholesale Grand Rapids, Mich. February 238, 1916 natural size and the rose color. “Rose color promises to be very good.” “Stripes are very modish this spring. They run one to three inches wide, and are mostly the Pekin stripes. In figures the large-flowered colonial patterns stand in greatest favor.” “Fashion allows the widest liberty in the selection of materials this season, but she sternly insists on two points: To be in the height of style the skirt must be wide and it must stand out. This is one point. The other is that a gown must be a combination—as a veiling of chiffon with silk, or a silk with wool goods. One material alone will not answer.” Owing to the strong bent toward com- binations, the showing in the thin, trans- parent materials called by the general name of veilings is very strong. “This is a French mignonette, certain- ly one of the most serviceable of the illusion or veiling effects,” said a sales- man taking down a piece of dark ground on which a pattern of large flowers was printed. “The threads are polished and twisted in a peculiar way before they are woven, and they will not slip. We can guarantee it not to crush.” “Georgette crepe is perhaps the most popular of all the veilings.” “Chiffon taffeta—it really seems more popular than ever this spring. It stands out so well that it is peculiarly adapted to the present styles.” “Let me show you a pussy willow taf- fetta. Pussy willow is called a taffeta, but really is a crepe de Chine with a very firm, hard weave.” “For suits we are selling the wool- backed satins, also the ottomans.” I watched with interest one custo:ner who began by saying that she didn’t know whether she wanted to buy any- thing. “I really don’t need another dress just now—I bought black taffeta for a new gown early in the week of this same sale. If I get something else I likely shall lay it away for a time be- fore having it made up.” The sales- woman was equal to the occasion, and it ended by the customer’s taking an ample pattern of a beautiful gray faille Francais, which of course is much like old-fashioned gros grain, only softer. This clearly was a case of buying because of the sale. We will not here enter into any discussion of the merits and demerits of special sales. If an evil, most stores seem as yet to regard them as a necessary evil. If they are to be held at all, there certainly are great advantages sometimes in giving a week’s time instead of only one or two or three days. In any but a very large city, a duration of several days is needed to get results commensurate with the extra effort put forth. Particularly is this true when all the stock in the de- partment is included in the special sale, and the appeal is to the general buyer rather than to the bargain hunter. Fabrix. >> Activities in Michigan Cities. Written for the Tradesman. Petoskey talks of buying a motor truck for the fire department and wonders if insurance rates will then be reduced. Battle Creek has been told by the underwriters of an easy and rather inexpensive way to graduate from MICHIGAN TRADESMAN third into a second-class rating, namely: pass a building code; place fire alarm system in a fireproof build- ing; install larger water mains lead- ing from the two pumping stations. Local newspapers are advising these improvements. The Booster Club of Charlotte at a recent dinner meeting appointed a committee to look into the matter of better telephone service and the possibility of a consolidation of the two companies to avoid the double expense. The annual banquet of the Ishpem- ing Advancement Association was a big success. Officers were elected as follows: President, J. L. Brad- ford; Vice-President, W. J. Blamey; Secretary, E. J. Townsend; treasurer, Wm. Leininger. Marquette conducted its city mar- ket during the past year at net loss of $124.40, as compared with a loss of $521.18 in 1914. Clarkston has a new factory for the manufacture of brass goods, to be operated by E. M. Clark & Son, formerly of Detroit. Pontias has let contracts for street paving as follows: Patterson, Garland and other streets with asphaltic con- crete to Harry Vanderveen, of Grand Rapids, at $1.35 pér square yard; Franklin and Elizabeth lake roads with reinforced concrete to J. H. Baker & Son, Pt. Huron at $1.28 per square yard. Coldwater and other Southern towns on the Lake Shore division of the New York Central Lines are pro- testing against the rotten passenger train service in effect now. The serv- ice west is especially meager, with no trains for a period of eighteen hours. Business men of Hart will hold a mid-winter fair Feb. 24-26, serving free coffee and doughnuts to all visi- tors and also awarding cash prizes for the staple farm products. Copemish is pushing ahead. The Copemish Commercial Association has been formed with officers as fol- lows: President, C. A. Spears; Vice- Presidents, A. L. Gleason and C, A. Turner; Secretary, Burr H. Thomp- son; Treasurer, L. A. Larson. Battle Creek will spend $12,000 in improving its parks this year. W. R. Burt, Saginaw’s benefactor, offers the Woman’s Hospital Asso- ciation, of that city, $25,000 on con- dition that the Association raise $10,- 000 by April 1, the money to be used in building an addition to the hospital Hartford has voted to pave its main street this spring and an en- gineer is preparing plans. Sault Ste. Marie will install orna- mental street lights and will pay the Edison Co. $42 per year for each of the sixty-six light standards where the lights burn all night, and $33 per year for lights that burn until mid- night. The city has been granted a reduction on its 185 arc lights, the price per light being lowered from $45 to $39. Standwood will have no pool room, the matter having been decided by the Council after finding that public sentiment was against these clubs for loafers, Almond Griffen. Signs of the Times Are Electric Signs Progressive merchants and manufac- turers now realize the value of Electric Advertising. We furnish you with sketches, prices and operating cost for the asking. THE POWER CO. Bell M 797 Citizens 4261 11 Sand Lime Brick Nothing as Durable Nothing as Fireproof Makes Structures Beautiful No Painting No Cost for Repairs Fire Proof Weather Proof Warm in Winter Cool in Summer Brick is Everlasting Grande Brick Co., Grand Rapids So. Mich. Brick Co., Kalamazoo Saginaw Brick Co., Saginaw Jackson-Lansing Brick Co., Rives Junction EVERFADY FLASHLIGHTS Every man, woman and child among your clientele is a prospective buyer of an EVEREADY Flashlight. No side line you could carry has a wider appeal —for everybody has ex- perienced the annoyance of groping in the dark and is glad of a means to avoid it. When you have EVER- EADY'’S displayed on your counter or in your win- dow you're bound to make sales. We're EVEREADY headquarters. Consult us. C. J. LITSCHER ELECTRIC COMPANY Wholesale Distributors 41-43 S. Market St. Grand Rapids, Michigan Announcement Our salesmen are now on the road with our 1916 sample line of WIN- TER GOODS. oe Square Blankets, Stable Blankets, Plush Robes, Fur Robes, Auto Robes, Steamer Shawls. ee Mackinaw Coats, Sweater Coats, Cardigan Jackets, Fur Coats, Blan- ket-lined and Sheep-lined Coats. ee Rain Coats and Khaki Clothing. Se Our representative in your terri- tory will advise you as to the date he will call. BROWN & SEHLER CO. Home of ‘“‘SUNBEAM”’ Goods GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN Safety First in Buying SAFETY in Buying means getting the goods and the quantities of goods YOU can sell ata profit. It means know- ing what to buy and getting it at the right price. You can be safe in buying when you buy from “Our Drummer.” If you haven't the cur- rent issue handy, write for it. Butler Brothers Exclusive Wholesalers of General Merchandise New York Chicago St. Louis Minneapolis Dallas 500 Pieces Ginghams Drop patterns and broken lots, a good assortment of light and dark colorings AT SPECIAL PRICES Utility, Red Rose, Lancaster............ $0.07% AFC, Ramona, Red Seals .............. 0844 IWAINGW ees cs. .06% When you order state whether light or dark colors Paul Steketee & Sons Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, Mich. SES MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 23, 1916 \, = =. = = ae = & fo Se =. : = . Se = 3 f aa - oe ieee ae (= FINANCIAL =: 3 r ~ = = > f= = S = i oe ie ce - ~ 7 SS = = ing Pw —¢ 3) | —< ~~ i | SS ry) \ = : es Dy 4 0 SS " Ten Things Worth While in This World.* Cultivating the habit of using good English: A school or college education does not ensure the individual against some very common errors of speech. Possibly because it is more noticeable in educated people, I have been led to believe that good grammar in ordinary conversation not the or- dinary processes of education, but rather from watching and imitating people who are recognized as correct in speech. I have had people, without the advantages of the schools, deplore the misfortune and regret their inability to express themselves well and with correct phrase- ology, throwing the burden of responsi- bility upon the lack of school advantage. You and I know that every day we are in contact with people who use not only good, but elegant English and have ac- quired it through quick and accurate observation. It injures our influence and standing to have our ordinary con- versation characterized by grammatical errors and we can not serve ourselves and those with whom we are in constant contact better than to watch carefully comes with our method of speech and correct it to accord with the best standards. The most common IT hear among you are with pronouns, verbs and double negatives. Let me _ illustrate: Every man thinks their work best; those kind of things make me discouraged; what do you call them things anyway; he does not know nothing about it; I thought if I went to-day the things would not be sold; let everyone stick to their opinions. These illustrations IT have just taken from conversations in the bank. You errers remember the story of Grant White, who was an apostle of not only correct but elegant English, who said, “After all, I will try and not be over critical regarding method of speech when IT know that the real important thing is the message contained in it. If a man has a fact of great value to impart to me, I will not find fault with his Eng- lish.” A newspaper in the Middle West, picking up this expressed thought of Mr. White, added the following remark: “Them is which we has always did.” Have clean bodies and clean minds: We can not be too particular in the oft repeated use of the bath. It may be worth while for a dog to have a master who has a distinctive odor, but in our relationship to each other we can not be too particular in freeing ourselves from any lack f neatness that shall be distasteful to our neighbor. The Japan- ese are sticklers for cleanliness of the body and visitors to Japan often remark upon the cleanliness of the Japanese *Conversational address by Hon. Charles W. Garfield, before working force of Grand Rapids Savings Bank. people. “A lick and a promise” will not answer—the work must be done thor- oughly. You know the story of the small boy who attended school where the wash basin and towel were a very recent accompaniment and the teacher had to constantly remind the children of the duty to have clean hands and clean faces. The children were not always very thorough in the use of the water before reaching the towel and one little boy came up before his teacher with the lower part of his face com- paratively clean and the upper part de- cidedly untidy. In answer to the ques- tion why he did not do the job thorough- ly, he replied, “The towel was gone and I wiped up as far as my shirt would reach.” Clean minds are even more vital to us than clean bodies. We can not har- bor an unkind thought without an im- press being made upon the character; the habit of telling unclean stories, while a very common one that we should, all of us, avoid, because even with no evil intent there is a trail of bad thought which will certainly follow. We can not handle soot without being blackened. Get the other fellow’s point of view: We used in school sometimes to present a description of a house as a lesson in English and one student would be asked to describe the house from one point of view and another from the opposite. The descriptions were of the same house and still not a single item of the one eorresponded to the other. This illus- strates the difference in point of view. In politics we often hear the advice “Admit nothing and claim everything.’ This shows we may take half- truths and switch them around to meet our purposes and convey false impres- sions—even lies—because men refuse to Con- troversies of all sorts arise and fights between individuals, corporations and nations are usually the result of the unwillingness to see the others’ point of view. You recall that David Harum’s interpretation of the Golden Rule was expressed something like this, “Do unto others as they would do unto you—and do it first.’ You will be surprised if you think over the controversies with which you have become cognizant, how many of them are based upon this plan of ethics. Have a keen regard for others’ feel- ings and even prejudices: Sensitiveness is not the same with any of us—the girl with red hair is often supersensitive when it is mentioned. I recall in my school days a girl who had grown rap- idly and wore the skirt that was com- mon to girls of her age, which on her seemed short. Any mention of it among her friends was a keen source of grief one, is how get each other's point of view. WM. H. ANDERSON, President L. Z. CAUKIN, Cashier Fourth National Bank United States Depositary Savings Deposits Commercial Deposits 3 Per Cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits Compounded Semi-Annually I 3% Per Cent Interest Paid on Certificates of Deposit Left One Year Capital Stock and Surplus $580,000 JOHN W. BLODGETT, Vice President J. C. BISHOP, Assistant Cashier 6% /Munictpat Ronps of the City of New Westminster, B. C. 6% Can be purchased in denominations of $ 100---$500---$1000 Due in 1918 Callable after 1916 at 101% Descriptive Circular and Prices on Application [RAND RAPios TRUST [OMPANY MANAGED BY MEN YOU KNOW Securities bought on recessions will yield profits later on. Of America offers OLD LINE INSURANCE AT LOWEST NET COST What are you worth to your family? Let us protect you for that sum. THE PREFERRED LIFE INSURANCE CO. of America, KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN ditions are still sound. Call up or write us for full information, ALLEN G. THURMAN & CO. 136 Michigan Trust Bldg. THE PREFERRED LIFE INSURANCE CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. Fundamental con- o1e LILY February 28, 1916 to her. The lad who is compelled by his parents to wear knickerbockers when his associates of the same age have gotten into long trousers dislikes to have the fact mentioned. My cousin had in the usual place where a boy’s hair should be parted, what was known as a “cowlick” and it was until his dying day a source of peculiar sensitiveness. A family may be very sensitive when- ever the subject of suicide is mentioned, because of some occurrence in the fam- ily. We notice great carelessness of speech in connection with peculiar tenets that may mean a great deal to people. I think through long schooling the Jews have ‘tried to overcome their sensitive- ness in connection with the slurs upon the habits of their people, but I am sat- isfied that even centuries of repression has not entirely made them callous to the thoughtless irony of people concern- ing their race. We may feel like making fun of people who are sensitive about seeing the new moon first over their left shoul- der or of others who do not like to come in one door of the room and pass out of another or still others who when ex- pressing their delight by being free from the ills that are common, touch wood. No matter what we may think of pe- culiarities of this kind that are charac- teristic of individual friends, we have no right to injure their feelings by call- ing attention to them. This is especially true when the peculiarities are those of religion. Be temperate in all things: This pronouncement I would have apply not simply to drinking, but to eating, to speech, to the use of perfume, to our work ard our recreation. Avoid ex- tremes and be thoughtful of health of mind and body. Try and equip yourself to do some- thing better than the average: A Bible passage often occurs to me in connec- tion with this thought, “This one thing I do.” Centering our thought and energies upon some one thing for a sufficient length of time enables us to do it better than our fellows and this fact gives us importance and influence. Even if the thing itself is of small import, the very fact of our being able to do better than anybody else in connection with it separates us from our fellows in a way that inures to our advantage. E. P. Whipple, author of “Getting on in the World,” says that even a person with ordinary attainments by taking a narrow subject can in a fortnight of digging know more about it than any- one else and become an authority. The habit of being able to turn our hands to almost anything and do fairly well is a good one and still the one who is a “jack of all trades and master of none” is generally classed with people whom we term “ne’er-do-wells.” This ability to do a little better than the other fellow shows itself upon the playground. in the preferment of individuals, as well as in trade and commerce and industry. My father could use the axe both left and right-handed with equal ability and when he was in the new country this ability was of great advantage to him in connection with the lay-up of log houses, and because of it he was able to trade one day’s work for two. We see illustrations of this ability in almost every day’s experience and it is worth MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 our while in some thing to be superior to our fellows. Cultivate and secure resources for emergencies: The one who does some- thing very well indeed and without a moment’s warning is thought to be clever sometimes because of his ability to rise to the situation. It is well for us to understand that this kind of ability only comes with work and practice. If we desire to fit ourselves to be useful in emergencies, we must study to fit our- selves in advance for anything which may arise. I think that in our lives, even while young, we ought to prepare ourselves for a sweet decline of life by having resources that will be avail- able which will soften the years as age comes on. Be a good neighbor: It is worth the while for a man to be a good farmer, a good carpenter, a good merchant, and better than these to be a good man, but from all my observation and experience I think there is one step even beyond any of these and that is to be a good neighbor. It is about the highest tribute We can pay to one who has lived his life in one community, that he has always been a good neighbor. Avoid as poison the temptation to speak lightly of sacred things: Pro- fanity is a perfectly useless, inexcusable habit in connection with our daily con- versation. There is no reason for it and it is so’ distasteful to many people that we should avoid it or any semblance of it in our relationships in life. We should be very particular, no matter what our views may be concerning the Bible, to treat it with respect and never speak of it lightly, because it is the guide to christendom and is to a large proportion of the people whom we meet a holy guide. We have no right to speak lightly of the church or what are termed holy pictures in connection with churches which mean so much to many com- municants. The making fun of forms of baptism or the wearing of sacred images or the telling of beads we should never tolerate for a moment, no matter how foolish some of these things may seem to us. They are dear to others and we should avoid offence. Never tantalize an animal or a child: It always arouses a spirit of antagonism in me to see a man point his finger at a nervous horse in a way to make the animal resent it and in the same way to annoy a dog or any domestic animal under the guise of having fun. We should not tolerate, and we should par- ticularly avoid, stirring up ugly feelings .on the part of the child by tantalizing it in any possible way. I could illus- trate this by many incidents, but my time is all taken and I know you will recall them in your own experience. A corollary to this last number is, Be a good sport. If you lose out in a game, do not curse your luck or show an- noyance. One of the splendid results of discipline on the playground is to have developed in boys and girls the spirit that leads them to be good losers in the games. —_>-. When a woman is beautifully and expensively dressed it indicates one of two things—either some man car afford her or she could afford some man. Heiress hunters should make sure first. GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK CiyyY TRUST & SAVINGS BANE ASSOCIATED ‘ Combined Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits $1,781,500 Deposits Exceeding Seven and One-half Million Dollars Business firms, corporations or individuals requiring reliable financial information relative to Grand Rapids businesses or business opportunities are invited to correspond with the investment departments of either the Grand Rapids National City Bank or City Trust & Savings Bank, which have at their imme- diate disposal a large volume of industrial and commercial facts. What is a Trust Company P The Trust Department of this Company performs two distinct groups of services INDIVIDUAL TRUSTS—Services to Persons CORPORATE TRUSTS—Services to Corporations Individual Trust Functions: 1—Executor under Will 2—Administrator 3—Trustee under Will or Agreement 4—Guardian 5—Committee for care of In- competent 6—Depositary for Escrows 7—Custodian of Will 8—Custodian of Securities 9—Custodian of other Property Corporate Trust Functions: Trustee for Bondholders Trustee under Agreement : Agent for Re-organizations Trustee under Voting Agreement Transfer Agent Registrar of Securities Fiscal Agent Send for booklet on Descent and Distribution of Property and a blank form of Will THE MICHIGAN TRUST Go. of Grand Rapids Audits made of books of corporations, firms and individuals Life Companies Loan $654,000,000 on Farms. At the recent annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presi- dents, Robert Lynn Cox, general coun- sel and manager of the Association, sub- mitted a most interesting report of the farm mortgage holdings of all the life insurance companies of the United States, a brief summary of which fol- lows: The total mortgage loans of the life insurance companies amount to $1,677,- 102,467, of which $654,650,505.72, or 39.03 per cent., were on United States farms, and $993,480,170.03, or 59.24 per cent. were on other real property in the United States, the balance of 1.73 per cent. being on Porto Rican and Canadian real estate. The following con- clusions are arrived at: First: The total wealth of the coun- try has substantially doubled during the ten years ending December 31, 1914 Likewise, the investment funds held by life insurance companies have nearly doubled during the same period. Second: The real estate mortgages held by life insurance companies have nearly trebled in amount during this ten-year period, thus showing a tendency to increase both in amount and in their ratio to other assets. Third: Life insurance companies are now the most important of all agencies making farm loans in this country. They have loaned over $654,000,000 on farm mortgages at an average interest rate of 5.55 per cent, Fourth: In sections of the country which are chiefly commercial and manu- facturing the tendency seems to have been to loan in cities and villages a larger percentage of values than upon. farm lands in such sections. In sections chiefly agricultural the tendency has been to loan on farms a larger per- centage of values than on city and village properties in such sections. It will be noted that while the life insur- ance companies have made nearly 40 per cent. of their mortgage loans on farms, only a little over 30 per cent. of the total realty values of the country are in farms, so that favoritism if any has been shown toward farm loans as compared with loans on other kinds of real property. Farm Mortgages Holdings Greatest. Fifth: The amount of farm mort- gages held by life insurance companies is a higher percentage of the estimated farm values of the country, than their holdings of city and village mortgages are of city and village values. The average per cent. of values loaned on farms for the whole country is 1.859 per cent., while they have loaned but 1.259 per cent. of the values of other real property. Sixth: In sections of the country where savings bank accumulations are greatest, life insurance companies have loaned the least on farms. Where sav- ings bank funds are comparatively small life insurance companies have loaned most on farms. This indicates of course that the insurance companies are not at- tempting to build up a farm loan busi- ness where the large savings banks are taking care of the business. Seventh: The general rule seems to be that average interest rates are closely related to the average acreage value of farm lands, high farm values command- ing low interest rates and conversely low farm values high interest raves. The tables bring out this situation clearly. : Eighth: Where unwise laws or other conditions restrict abnormally the amount of capital seeking investment in a given section, interest rates tend to rise above the level which the value of the land would otherwise command. Ninth: City and village loans held by life insurance companies average $75,000 each or in size are thirty times as large as farm loans which average $2,500 each and command in all sections of the country a somewhat lower average in- terest rate. The difference, however, is less than 1 per cent. everywhere except in the Pacific group of states. In the Northwestern states, farm and other real estate loans come nearest to being on a parity in the matter of interest rates. The average rate received by insurance companies on all their farm loans is 5.55 per cent., while the average rate they receive on village and city loans is 5.13 per cent. Tenth: During the last three years mortgage investments of life insurance companies have increased most rapidly in those sections where interest rates were high as compared with other sec- tions of the country. They have in- creased least where interest rates were comparatively low. For instance, the per cent. of increase in the volume of farm loans during this period in the South Atlantic group is 125.74 per cent., while the greatest increase elsewhere is in the Pacific group, where it is 41.50 per cent., due to the heavy loans grow- ing out of the San Francisco earthquake, etc. The increase in the Middle Atlan- tic section is only 12.99 per cent., and in the great Northwest only 23.49 per cent. ——2o-2—-_o—___—_ Quotations on tocal Stocks and Borids. Public Utilities. Bid Asked 375 *Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 370 *Am. Light & Trac. Co., Pfd. 112 116 Am. Public Utilities, Com. 44 47 Am. Public Utilities, Pfd. 73 76 *Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Com. 61 63 *Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Pfd. 85 87 Pacific Gas & Elec., Com. 59 63 Tennessee Ry., Lt. & Pr., Com. 9% 11% Tennessee Ry., Lt. & Pr., Pfd. 44 48 United Light & Rys., Com. 50 53 United Light & Rys., 1st Pfd. 74 76 Comw’th 6% 5 year bond 102% 103% Michigan Railway Notes 100% 101% Citizens Telephone 73 T7 Michigan Sugar 99 101 Holland St. Louis Sugar 8% 91% Holland St. Louis Sugar, Pfd. 11 12 United Light 1st and Ref. 56% bonds 86 89 Industrial and Bank Stocks. Dennis Canadian Co. 70 80 Furniture City Brewing Co. 40 50 Globe Knitting Works, Com. 139 145 Globe Knitting Works, Pfd. 98 100 G. R. Brewing Co. 80 95 Commercial Savings Bank 225 Fourth National Bank 225 G. R. National City Bank 165 170 G. R. Savings Bank 255 Kent State Bank 250 260 Old National Bank 195 203 Peoples Savings Bank 300 * Ex dividend. February 23, 1916. —_——_—-- How is Your Vocabulary? If you can tell the meaning of these ten words without consulting the dic- tionary, you have a fair vocabulary. If you are not familiar with their meaning then you are just like the most of the others. Limn, hithe, ho- diernal, hirsute, hipped, hortulan, pule, pyx, bouge, potable. Just be honest and give yourself a test. Write down your idea of what these words mean and see how many you miss. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ela NATIONAL Sys GRAND RAPIDS MICH. February 23, 177 MONROE AVE. Conpdal............ $800,000 Surplus and Profits.. 900,000 Total Resources $10,000,000 3% Per Cent Paid on Certificates left one year Banking by Mail an easy matter Kent State Bank | Main Office Fountain St. Facing Monroe | Grand Rapids, Mich. Capital - - - $500,000 Surplus and Profits $500,000 Resources Over 8 Million Dollars 3 M6 Per Cent. Paid on Certificates Largest State and Savings Bank in Western Michigan Your Envelope Requirements Can be Handled fo Your Satisfaction By G. P. GAGE SEWELL-CLAPP-ENVELOPES 113 Widdicomb Bldg. 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Coupon Certificates of Deposit pay 334% interest Coupons cashed each 6 months after one year LOGAN & BRYAN STOCKS, BONDS AND GRAIN 305 Godfrey Building Citizens 5235 Bell Main 235 New York Stock Exchange Boston Stock Exchange Chicago Stock Exchange New York Cotton Exchange New York Coffee Exchange New York Produce Exchange New Orleans Cotton Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce Winnipeg Grain Exchange Kansas City Board of Trade Private wires coast to coast Correspondence solicited CZ MICHIGAN TRUST BLDG Our list of investment securities includes the following high grade bonds: Kingdom of Norway 6s Grand Rapids Savings Building Company 5s Pantlind Building Company 5%s Grand Rapids Gas Light 5s We offer these bonds with our recommendation Howe SNow CORRIGAN & BERTLES 833 BELLE A CO SS > ZLOLATIILE RS <=. INVESTMENT BANKERS SSSSS GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN eS es Veit Manufacturing Co. Manufacturer of Bank, Library, Office and Public Building Furniture Cabinet Work, High Grade Trim, Store Furniture Bronze Work, Marble & Tile Grand Rapids, Michigan a ES Conservative [avestors Patronize Tradesman Advertisers ers February 23, 1916 Gabby Gleaning From Grand Rapids. _Grand Rapids, Feb, 21—A_ sensa- tional session of sentimental sales- men and their wives was held Satur- day evening, Feb 19, and if ever the walls of the old Council chamber vi- brated with mirth and good cheer, Saturday evening caused them to do their best ever. The biggest crowd of the season attended the ninth dance of the series. It seemed as though every one was endowed with the spirit of having a good time and everyone sure did dig in and get his money’s worth. It is a keen loss to those that enjoy a good time to be unable to attend these jovial, mirth provoking sessions. Our popular dance committee is to be given great credit for the success of these parties and they feel that everyone concerned has done a lot of boosting for these dances. Just three more opportuni- ties to meet with the bunch and while away a few hours in that ‘oyous pur- -suit of tripping the light fantastic 97 one of the best dance floors of the city. The only objectional feature of these gatherings is the fact that you dig in and have such a good time that Sunday is sure a day of rest in- stead of church going and calls. The next dance will be held Saturday eve- ning, Feb. 26. Come yourself and bring your friends, as they will ap- preciate the good time they are bound to have. Lets all boost and put across another real goodness to gracious dance. When a match goes out it never come hack. An Epping, Wis., man after read- ing Quo Vadis, boasted that he could throw a bull. The bull threw him and broke a leg. Moral—Don’t throw the bull unless you can. April 29 is the date set for a lean vear party to be given by the U. C. T. ladies) at the Council chambers. The proceeds of this dance will be turned into the benefit fund of the Council. This is a voluntary move- ment on the part of the ladies and sanctions all the help possible to make this a success. The party will be strictly a leap year party with the exception of them furnishing the “one beau” for the price of admission. This will not be strictly a U. C. T. cathering, but open to the friends of the U. C. T. members as well. Any- one coming will be treated to a good time and Tuller promises to furnish his best music. Tickets will be on sale next week and will be in the hands of the committee. The chair- man of the committee is Mrs. A. T. Heinzleman, assisted by Mrs. A. F. Rockwell, Mrs. Harrv Hydorn, Mrs. A. P.Anderson, Mrs. J. Harvey Mann and Mrs. I. F. Gordon. Don’t forget your boosting qualities, gentlemen. The Herpolsheimer Co. has erected a fine large electric sign in front of its big department store. Herpol- sheimer stands for progressiveness. The Baldwin Manufacturing Co., of Nickerson, Kansas, has purchased the Holm Machine Co. plant, at Sparta, and will manufacture standing grain threshing machines. It claims to have orders amounting to $2,000.000 book- ed for the coming season. This plant will be a boost for the hustling little town of Sparta and will also be a monument to the progressiveness of the Sparta Chamber of Commerce. The States Motor Car Co. has been organized at Kalamazoo with a cap- ital stock of $600,000. It expects to be able to make deliveries April 15. John Pyle has been elected President. C. M. Hunt & Son, of Eaton Rap- ids, are erecting a two-story brick structure. 60x90, with a _ garage front. They are dealers in hardware, implements, harnesses and automo- biles. Fred Hunt, the son, has charge of the business, as his father is heav- ily interested in other business enter- prises. He is President and general manager of the pickle factory, the stock of which has gone above par through his management, besides superintending the working of two large farms which he owns near MICHIGAN TRADESMAN town. C. M. Hunt is an authority on the use of different spray com- pounds and the handling ot orchards. Hunt & Son owe their success to close application to business and fair dealings with their customers, An Arkansas woman sued a man aged 71 for attempting to kiss her. She said his attentions and his at- tempt to kiss her caused her to lose her reason. If a man of 71 can make a woman lose her reason, he must have been some kiddo when he was about 30! George Clark had a bun at the dancing party. Saturday night. It was the kind you appease hunger with. He attended the Wholesalers’ banquet before coming up and, think- ing he might get hungry, slipped a bun in his pocket. About 11:30 he was seen devouring the morsel. W. N. Burgess lost his grip in the wilds of Sparta last week and as yet is still the loser, although we under- stand he has several detective agen- cies working on the case. We don’t just grasp the reason for the loss, as we supposed Sparta was a safe and sane place to visit. Perhaps Walter will be able to set us aright later. Edward Wood, of Charlotte, has purchased the Ritzner Hotel, at Stur- gis. Mrs. May Allen has opened a res- taurant and lunch room at Coopers- ville. Mrs. Allen’s enterprise will meet with the approval of the travel- ing fraternity which makes Coopers- ville, as the hotel dining room has been closed. Mr. and Mrs. James Bolt, who formerly conducted the hotel, have moved to their farm near Coopersville. The Grand Rapids wholesalers and manufacturers gave a banquet to their salesmen at the Pantlind Hotel Satur- day evening. About 300 traveling am- bassadors were _ present. Samuel Krause was chairman of the banquet committee and, after a few remarks, turned over the programme to toast- master Lee M. Hutchins. The first speaker of the evening was ex-Con- gressman J. Adam Bede, of Minnesota, who spoke on the Evolution in Busi- ness Methods. Mr. Bede is a noted humorist and optimist and his talk sparkled with humor and optimism. John I. Gibson, Secretary of the Western Michigan Development Bu- reau, was the next speaker on the pro- gramme. Although he followed a very noted speaker, he did himself and subject great credit and proved himself in a class with the best of them. His topic was, The Develop- ment of Western Michigan and its Relation to the Wholesalers’ Interest of Grand Rapids. Mr. Gibson is a globe trotter and says that there isn’t a spot on earth which is better adapted to all pursuits of industries than Michigan. Vocal music was furnished by George A. Murphy, J. Francis Campbell, William Haze! Riley and Jacob Smits, accompanied by Harold Power. John J, Dooley returned Saturday from a business trip to Detroit. Guv W. Rouse arrived home Mon- day from a two weeks’ trip to Cuba. Charles Hosmer and wife, of Mat- tawan, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Beardslee, of 226 Benjamin avenue, over Sunday. Arthur Patton and daughter, of Cloverdale. were Grand Rapids visi- tors last Saturday. Any one got a hang-over from the hardware convention? Mounted specimens of fish and game found in Michigan will be a part of the wild life show in Saginaw Feb, 23-26. The collection is the property of the local museum. The Grand Rapids Supply Co. is finishing off a large show and display room on the first floor of its building on Ellsworth avenue. This show- room, when completed, will be the largest of its kind in Western Michi- gan and will be devoted entirely to the display of plumbing fixtures and trimmings, It will be expressly for the use of the plumbers in showing their customers the goods displayed as they will look installed in a home. The company is always looking after and favoring the interests of its cus- tomers and, as a result, has built up one of the finest wholesale and job- bing businesses in its line in the State. Lloyd Bliss, Assistant Cashier of the Worden Grocer Company, is the proud father of a brand new baby boy. Mrs. Harry Hydorn entertained the Four Leaf Clover 500 Club last Thurs- day. Mrs. A. P. Anderson was the recipient of first prize and Mrs. H. L. Benjamin second prize. 7. The man who talks a great deal about the amount of work he does seldom has much to do. The loaded wagon never rattles. W. A. Hall, pioneer merchant of Eaton Rapids, passed away last week at the age of 84 years. The business formerly conducted by him is now known as J. T. Hall & Son. W. P. Drake’s youngest son is re- ported very sick. Harry Hydorn, who has been con- fined to his home for the past week with illness. is reported on the mend. Edward W. Smith, who underwent a minor operation, is improving nicely. An Akron, Ohio, man had two wives in the same house. That’s all right. We have to economize these hard times. “Leaves bride for battle.” says headline. Poor chap, Probably want- ed a little quite and rest. Mr. and Mrs. Talley Stott, of 1007 Watkins street, entertained at Sun- day evening dinner Mr. and Mrs. Tohn D. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee, and Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Har- wood, Mr. and Mrs E. Stott and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Perkins. Sam Westgate, the popular oil salesman, who was in the employ of the Great Western Oil Co., at Kala- mazoo, has returned to the old fold and is again in the employ of the 15 Grand Rapids Oil Co. Sam _ says Grand Rapids suits him all right. He will have charge of his old territory and sure will be welcomed back by the boys, as Sam was always alive and up and doing. Of course, he will tell about some of the big fish he catches and attempt to toss pickles through a car window, but what can you expect when a man’s ambition needs a safety valve? It is Sam for Champion motor oil once again. Wel- come back, old top! Don’t forget to remember that Sat- urday evening, Feb. 26, is the next U, C.F. dance, Remember your banquet return cards. Where was Jim Goldstein? fh. V. Pilkington. ——_++>—__—_ Send It In. If you have a bit of news, Send it in; Or a joke that will amuse, Send it in. A story that is true, An incident that’s new, We want to hear from you! Send it in. Will your story make us laugh? Send it in. Send along a photograph, Send it in. Never mind about your style, If it’s only worth the while, And will make the reader smile, Send it in. We Make a Specialty of Trimmed and Tailored Hats For the Dry Goods Dep’t $12.00 to $36.00 dozen KIMMEL MILLINERY CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. We are manufacturers of TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED HATS for Ladies, Misses and Children, especially adapted to the general store trade. Trial order solicited. CORL, KNOTT & CO.., Ltd. Corner Commerce Ave. and Island St. Grand Rapids, Mich. business. available at all times. value of it? Bell lines reach’ everywhere. The Modern Wonder Worker The telephone is the wonder-worker of modern It summons trade from remote markets, it brings quickly goods that are needed for imme- diate demands, it affords a medium for halting errors that have crept into letters entrusted to the mails, it brings men who seldom see one another into daily telephone contact. The service is Are you getting the full Michigan State Telephone Company 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 23, 1915 LEE) oe Michigan Retall Hardware Association. Peoeapat-Fenek E. Strong, Battle eek. Vice-President—Fred F. Ireland, Beld- ng. oe ae J. Scott, Marine y. Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit. What 1916 Has in Store for Hard- ware Dealer.* Since traveling in the State and spend- ing my time with you I have come to consider the hardware merchants in Michigan my personal business asso- ciates and friends. Because of this in- timate relation it is my duty to co- operate with you at all times and help you in your business, for in a way your business is my business and your success is my success. Can’t you see how closely our interests are allied? When your Secretary asked me to speak to you at this convention I not only considered it a privilege, but a duty to give you something that you could take home with you and to use to make your business more pleasant and profit- able. Let us first consider what is most needed after a well selected stock. After careful and thoughtful consideration, I would say that enthusiasm and cheerful service are two of the most important things in the business world to-day. Therefore, if this is true, and if any- thing I shall say tends to give you just a little more enthusiasm and create in you a desire to give more cheerful service, I assure you I will be more than repaid for my efforts. If there has ever been a time in the history of our country when a business man has had cause to be encouraged and enthused, it is just now. Let us for a moment consider the conditions of our country. Do you know that the bank clearings for our Nation for 1915 were more than one hundred and eighty-six thousand million, which proves conclusively that there is plenty of money in the country and money makes business? The trade balance in our favor is more than one thousand seven hundred million. We sold to other countries seventeen hundred thousand million more than we bought from them. Other countries sent to us more than four hundred and forty million in solid gold. The value of our grain crops with the prices higher is more than five thousand five hundred million, The American railroads took in more than three thousand million. The resources of the country’s banks amount to twelve thousand million. As I go about the State calling on the *Paper read at annual convention Mich- igan Retail Hardware Association by W. G. Bancroft, of Grand Rapids. hardware men I feel that there are so many who are not making the most of their opportunity, having bought their steel, wire and nails at the prices which prevailed last fall, they are selling them at the same prices as last year. Yet the prices on all metals have advanced from 20 to 60 per cent. You are entitled to the advance in price and should get it. When the time comes that you have to replenish your stock, you will have to pay the advance in price. Base your selling price on the market value, not on your cost. The other day I read an article writ- ten by a man who had been active in the business world for forty years, which has afforded him an opportunity to study social, political and industrial economics, not only in this country, but in the world’s trade generally. For the last five years he has given up his entire time to the study of the above subjects. This is what he has to say: The presenc world’s shortage of iron and its prod- ucts is upwards of seventy million tons. The operation of the law of supply and demand will soon create a condition in this industry where the buyer through competitive bidding will establish a price level far higher than now prevails. If a treaty of peace was ratified to- day the imports of the Allies and central power would far exceed their exports. When a railroad company has pur- chased steel rails and through wear they have lost fifteen or twenty pounds, they are returned to the furnaces and are fashioned into some other form of use- fulness. When a plow point has lost 10 or 15 per cent. of its weight it will again go to the smelters and be reconverted to useful purposes for mankind, but when a shrapnel shell explodes or a solid shot has buried itself in the earth or in the sea, it is lost forever. When a vessel is sunk the same thing occurs, and it means a loss of an average of twenty-five thousand tons of steel. This means we must go back to the mines and produce as much metal as has ever been produced, plus the amount which has been annihilated. The large iron industries of Belgium have been completely destroyed. The same thing applies to many in France and those in Germany and England are disorganized. The result will be that those countries will nowhere near meet their own requirements. Therefore, they will have to look to this country to make up their shortage. The United States is planning to spend in the next four or five years five hundred million dollars for steel, copper and iron. Men who are familiar and have made a study of the present conditions pre- dict that metals will be much higher after the war closes than they are at - Bell Phone 860 Citz. Phone 2713 Lynch Bros. Special Sale Conductors Expert Advertising—Expert Merchandising 23 So. Ionia Ave. Grand Rapids. Mich. FREE Cut This Out and check opposite the listed items below what you are interested in and we will send you by return mail two beautiful felt pennants to hang up in your store. Coil Wire Springs Woven Wire Springs Wood or Steel Cots Steel Couches and Bed Davenports Institution Beds Feather Pillows Down Cushions Excelsior Mattresses Cotton Felt Mattresses Hair Mattresses Crib or Cot Pads Sanitary Couch Pads Mattress Protectors Bulk Feathers Floss Cushions Its Loose Leaf opens like a Blank Book Write us Made by the Grand Rapids Bedding Company Established 1890 Grand Rapids, Michigan HE By OosEJEAF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ' The “Dick Famous” Line HAND AND POWER FEED CUTTERS 40 Years the Standard You can’t buy anything better—and you can’t beat our ' service, for as Distributors for the Central Western States we always carry a full stock of machines, parts, and ac- cessories. This means instant action when you say the word. Ask for Our Dealers’ Proposition Get your share of this business. Ask for our printed matter and | catalogues. We have the goods and are glad to tell dealers all about them. Clemens & Gingrich Co. Distributors for Central Western States Grand Rapids, Michigan We Stand Back of Every Order We Sell Foster, Stevens & Co. Wholesale Hardware a 157-159 Monroe Ave. :: 151 to 161 Louis N.W. Grand Rapids, Mich. Don’t Forget That we can equip your Store or Office in “New or Used” but Up-to-date FIXTURES of any descrip- tion and for every kind of business, saving you money, and will make you a liberal allowance for your old ones. Grand Rapids Store Fixtures Co. No. 7 Ionia Ave. N. Grand Rapids, Michigan February 28, 1916 the present time. You, my friends may say that all this makes you pay much higher prices for the wares that you handle, but how will it help me? The large demand for metals will give work to every man in our country who wants work at a good salary, which will give him more to spend for food, wearing ap- parel and shelter. The latter needs hard- ware, the farmer will have more money to spend on new buildings, and improv- ing the old with paint and hardware. All this helps the hardware merchant. With higher prices you will not have to handle near as large a tonnage to make the same profit as you are making now. Therefore you will have more time to go after new business. It will be up to you. I believe with the large volume of money in circulation if you put forth the same effort that you are now devoting to your store, plus enthusiasm, you will do a much larger business in dollars and cents, which means a larger net profit. Leave this convention enthused over the prosperous outlook and the prospect that the year 1916 will be the largest year of all our history, adding to your belief a better and more cheerful service to your customer, to your associates and to your community, and there will be nothing that can stop you. You will get it, —__¢o >__ Activities in Some Michigan Cities. Written for the Tradesman. The Ravenna Improvement Associa- tion is taking steps to hasness Crockery creek, developing 340 horse power at cost of $20,000 to $25,000. Mt. Pleasant is taking first steps to provide adequate sewers. A large iron foundry will be built at Holland by the Michigan Foundry Co. Local capital is interested and Albert Knooihuizen, former manager of the Holland Furniture Co., is the head of the enterprise. The Scottville Business Men’s Asso- ciation will hold its annual banquet Feb. 22. The Manistee Board of Commerce has engaged H. N. Clark as its first per- manent Secretary at a salary of $3,500. Mr. Clark resigns a similar position at Huntington, Pa., to come to Michigan. The Holland Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual banquet Feb. 29. Benton Harbor is growing. The new LaKurba cigar factory will bring sixty men with their families and many new homes must be built. Ludington’s Board of Trade will hold its annual banquet Feb. 22. This organ- ization is taking steps to ensure con- tinuance of the State military camp there and also the advertising of Ep- worth and Hamlin lake summer resorts. Cast iron water pipe is costing more this year. Saginaw paid $23 per ton last year, while the low bid last month was $28.40 and last week it was $30.36. The city has bought its cement for paving and sidewalks this year at $1.42 per barrel. The old Deal Buggy plant at Jones- ville,a 1 andmark of that town, has been turned into an auto tire plant. Battle Creek will vote on bond issues of $100,000 this spring, one-half of the money being used for building storm sewers and half for laying three miles of pavement. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Flint has voted a bond issue of about $200,000 for sewers. Muskegon’s fire loss for 1915 exceeds $150,000, as compared with $140,000 in 1914. Chief Belfy is again asking for motor apparatus. Almond Griffen. —_2>++____ Safeguard the Life of the Child. Give your child opportunity for a variety of wholesome activities and interests. Train your child to work hard in some regular occupation suited to his ability and talents, but to avoid fa- tigue by alternation of work and rest. Train your child to give attention to the present situation. Train your child to strict obedience in a few important matters, and let him alone as to the unimportant things. Avoid conditions that tend to pro- duce overstrain. Protect your child from shocks. Do not frighten him yourself or let other people do so. Give your child a variety of well cooked, wholesome food in ample quantity at regular intervals. Train your child to avoid drugs and stimulants of all kinds. Train your child to heathful habits of sleep in fresh air, giving opportuni- ty for at least nine hours and for more than that before the age of 12. If your child becomes worried and sleepless, or has muscular twitchings or the like, consult a competent phy- sician at once. Take advice of a competent person concerning the peculiar, sensitive or nervous child, in order to correct 1 possibly bad inheritance by proper education and environment. The best method of training is by example. —_+++_ NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IN BANKRUPTCY. United States of America. In the District Court of the United States, for the Western District of Michigan—Southern Division. In the matter of Ralph L. Meyers, bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that by order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, I will sell to the highest bidder, on the second day of March, A.D., 1916, in the building for- merly occupied by Ralph L. Meyers at Alanson, County of Emmet, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, the entire stock of Ralph L. Meyers, consisting of groceries, hardware, farm imple- ments, etc. Notice is hereby given that I will receive offers at any time up to said time and date of sale, and that at the time of said sale, any party wishing, may raise said bids, or new bids will be received. A deposit of 10 per cent. will be required with each bid. The inventory and appraisal of said stock may be inspected by pros- pective purchasers at Kirk E. Wicks’ office, Referee in Bankruptcy, or at the office of R. J. Cleland, both in the city of Grand Rapids, and at office of H. Taylor, Citizens Bank, Alanson, Michigan. All sales will be subject to the confirmation by the United States District Court. The right is also reserved by said trustee to reject any or all bids. William J. Gillett, Trustee of the Estate of Ralph L. Meyers, Bankrupt. Dated, Grand Rapids, Michigan, February 18, A.D., 1916. ————+ + + ___ If a man is miserable it is usually because he thinks he is. 17 Make Out Your Bills THE EASIEST WAY Save Time and Errors. Send for Samples and Circular—Free. Barlow Bros., Grand Rapids, Mich. Safe Expert W.L. Slocum,1N Ionia, Grand Rapids, guarantees to open any safe, also change combination. Wire, phone or write when in trouble. Citizens phone 61,037. GEO. S. DRIGGS MATTRESS & CUSHION CO. Manufacturers of Driggs Mattress Protectors Pure Hair and Felt Mattresses Link and Box Springs Boat, Chair and Window Seat Cushions Write for Prices Citizens 4120 Grand Rapids Harness Our own make out of No 1 Leather. Hand or machine made. We guarantee them absolutely. Write for catalogue and price list. 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FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO. 2247—68B CHICAGO Always at Your Service tree J INDEPENDENT QELS TTy [esi Cee Y The Citizens Telephone Company’s Long Distance Lines Connection with over 200,000 Telephones in the State of Michigan alone 95,000 Telephones in Detroit CITIZENS SERVICE SATISFIES MICHIGAN TRADESMAN NE — A Biers Cy i] [3] } [7] ad) aM ey AY mon Wy Cay yey ay AS MUR (i ((C "(hy TZLEEEULLLLYp) ) New Standard of Value in Shoe Mer- chandising.* Two years ago when one of the speakers at our annual banquet sur- prised us by talking rather humor- ously, and not on the subject of shoes exclusively, he made one which has been with me ever since as a close and constant companion. remark After calling us many names, and re- ferring to us in many ways which were not particularly complimentary (in spite of the fact that they were humorously presented) he said that people will not pay $75.00 for a cow, but they will pay $10,000 for the pic- ture of a cow. And if I take that as the text of my remarks, it is only be- cause it puts more aptly than I could put it just exactly what I have to say. We have listened to Mr. Bush, of St. Louis, on leather substitutes. He emphasized that these leather substitutes wear as well, or even bet- ter, than leather. He was followed by a representative from a big rubber industry, who said that his company had a substitute for leather which wears three, four, five, or any num- ber of times longer than leather will wear. All these things are good and valuable. But the shoe trade in this country has spent too many years in selling only wear, and it has been very poorly compensated for its pains and its troubles. We are entering now into a new era in retailing: we are retail- ing something which we have al- ways had, something which we have always sold, but something for which we have never been paid. We are retailing ideas to-day—ideas built into shoes. Ideas, gentlemen, do not wear; they will not keep the rain out; they will not keep the feet from the ground; they will not save you from pneumonia, but they will line your pocket if you add their value to the price of a shoe; and to-day that is the subject which is agitating most of us. No man who stands before this convention and talks intimately to his fellows, says the chief reason he wants more money for his shoes is to make a huge fortune sud- denly. If he does feel that way, he has will be badly and sadly disappointed.’ But he does need a great deal more in his business than simply pounds of leather or feet of leather. He needs ideas, and having them, must capitalize them into dollars and cents for the benefit of his business and of himself. When women used to wear nothinz but kid-shoes and men wanted French *Address by A. J. Hart before National Shoe Retailers’ Association. calfskin shoes, and where the women wore black kid shoes entirely, with or without a patent leather tip, and occasionally, as the vogue grew, shiny leather vamps, we were only selling leather to our people, and we gave them just exactly what they paid for —leather. But to-day we are sellinz We are selling good ideas— tastefully, artistically and thoroughly conceived and _ carried out—ideas which the world calls style, therefore, we come to the new standard of values in shoe merchandise. Let us analyze all the shoes which we buy, first, purely from their leath- er value standpoint. Let us first price them according to their leather value and then let us add to that value as a cost—not a selling price—the ideas which we are selling and are put into those shoes, that make them not only foot cover- ings, but actually things which en- hance the value and appearance of the entire costume. This is more particularly true of women’s shoes; but it is just as true of men’s shoes. A poorly shod man is as badly dressed as one with a frayed collar or a man with a ripped seam in his coat. Therefore, we are giving him not only something to keep him off the ground, but some- thing to enhance his appearance, and, therefore, his general physical value. So let us add into the cost of the other materials the value of the ideas which we put into our shoes. Then having arrived at that proper cost, let us fix the retail price accordingly. I know that the extra price which retailers are apparently getting for shoes is only of recent origin, and that it has been put forward with fear and trembling. I know that when you have gone into your stores and told clerks who have been with you a number of years that so and so’s make of shoe will now sell for $7.50, having formerly sold for $6.00, they threw up their hands and said it was impossible. Probably most of you tried to argue that the leather market had gone up to such an ex- tent that it was necessary for you to get a dollar and a half more. Gentlemen, you lied to them, be- cause it was not a dollar and a half more leather that you put into the shoes; nor was it a dollar and a half more leather value. You should have ideas. which ) SHOES February 23, 1916 » R. K. L. “Yard Wide Shoes” Made Expressly for ‘**Hard to Fit Feet’’ R. K. L. Yard Wide Shoes are made on a special last designed to fit feet with enlarged joints and bunions. They give an abundance of room across the ball of the foot, yet are neat and dressy in appearance. Carried in stock in Gun Metal, Vici and Kangaroo Leathers. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie Company Grand Rapids, Mich. When You Go To Chicago You do not buy a ticket half way because it costs less, and then walk the remainder. What you would save in mileage would be lost many times in time, comfort and convenience. Yet that is what the man does when he buys inferior foot- wear because of low price—he rides half way and limps the remainder. Rouge Rex Shoes are the limited flyer which takes the wearer to his destination with all the comfort, safety and service that modern shoemaking makes possible, and this is what he bargains for when he buys footwear, They have the service that satisfies and the comfort that gratifies, making pleased and continuous cus- tomers for the dealer who stocks these shoes, and makes that fact known in his locality, Drop us a card now, and our sales- man will call at once with samples. Hirth-Krause Company Hide to Shoe Tanners and Shoe Manufacturers Grand Rapids, Mich. “CBREBSSEEESEEEEEEEEEEERAEAERESESESGESSGSRSSSAEOARBAE e- = = yt- rs February 28, 1916 told them that you were putting the price of yourselves and your own services as designers and creators of merchandise into that price, and were going to capitalize on it in that way; and that is the only fair way to face the new standard of values in shoes, viewed purely as merchandise. Remember, that no matter where you start you are, yourselves, creators of the shoes you sell. Do not be mis- led by the manufacturer telling you “This is my style,’ or “This is the style that I took from John Jones, or Smith, or one of the other manu- facturers.”” That is not so. He took it from some retailer. I do not be- lieve, when I make this statement, that we are getting back to the old problem of “Who made the hen, or who laid the egg.” We are stating an absolute fact—that styles originate with the retailer, are capitalized by the manufacturer, but the retailer has, until recently, failed to cash in on the idea which he so obligingly and freely gave to the manufacturer. The message I have to bring is this: That the new standard of value is not simply an excessive profit for shoes, or excessive monies in the pockets of the retailers, but simply a legitimate pricing of the ideas that go into the shoes. We are getting it now. I believe that retailers have not begun to get what they are legitimate- ly entitled to as style creators; and furthermore, they are ligitimately en- titled to it in the same ratio, in the same proportion, and to the same extent as the creators of millinery, or gowns, or any articles of feminine or masculine attire. No one dreams of buying a suit of clothes purely on the price-per-yard-basis of the ma- terial that goes into it. Any number of other elements are considered, and I think all come under the head of style. Your tailors put it over on you beautifully season after season. Dressmakers, modistes and milliners put it over beautifully every season. We have never been paid as creators of style, and that is what the new standard of values in merchandising means. Weare being paid as creators of styles. —_——_-.2.—2—____ Bankruptcy Proceedings in South- western Michigan. St. Joseph, Feb. 14—In the matter of the McMahon Wicks Coal Co., bankrupt. Kalamazoo, the final meeting of creditors was held at the referee’s office and the trustee’s final report and account, show- ing total receipts of $2003.15 and dis- bursements of $1,01485, was approved and allowed. A final dividend of 5 per cent. was declared and ordered paid. The final order of distribution was made and the final dividend list of creditors filed. Creditors having been directed to show cause why a certificate should not be made recommending the bankrupt’s dis- charge, and no cause having been shown, it was determined that such favorable certificate be made. The trustee was authorized not to interpose objections to the discharge of the bankrupt and the final meeting was adjourned without day. Feb. 15—In the matter of Bert Reuben, bankrupt, Paw Paw, the first meeting of creditors was held at the latter place. Glenn E. Warner, of Paw Paw, was ap- pointed trustee, his bond being fixed at $1,000. Fred Avery, George Sellick and Elias Dickenhoff, of Paw Paw, were ap- pointed appraisers. The bankrupt was sworn and examined by the referee and attorneys present without a _ reporter, whereupon the meeting was adjourned for thirty days. Feb. 16—In the matter of Adolph Spey- er, bankrupt, Kalamazoo, an order was entered by the referee calling a_ special meeting of creditors at his office on Feb. 28 for the purpose of passing upon the trustee’s first report and account, the payment of administration expenses and MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the declaration and payment of a second dividend. Feb. 17—Lester Kittell, Milo Kittell and Kittell Brothers, a copartnership, en- gaged in the grocery business of River- side, filed a voluntary petition and were adjudged bankrupt. The schedules show the following debts and assets: Secured. Mrs. Morrissey, Riverside ........ $125.00 Unsecured. Berrien County Bank of Benton EUAGDOM aoc ee $300.00 Amos Messner, Benton Harbor ... 50.59 Mrs. Sheldon, Riverside ........... 10.00 Kidd-Dater & Price Co., Benton EIORDOR Seo -» 1,191.03 Valley City Milling Co., Grand Ramids ce ee 32.65 Ray Cigar Co., Benton Harbor .. 6.00 Spielman Bros., Chicago .......... 10.50 H. Vaneeman & Bros., Zeeland .... 3.30 Benton Harbor Paper Co., Benton Harbor 66.69 William Bernstein, Benton Harbor 23.95 National Biscuit Co., Grand Rapids 12.31 M. D. Trim & Co., Bangor ...... 22.99 Ohio Enamel Ware Co., Vellaire 11.76 Benning & Nemitz, St. Joseph .. 24.00 Iowa Soap Company, Burlington, TOWa ee 12.20 Moneyweight Scales Co., Chicago 15.00 John A. Tolman Co., Chicago ..... 18.75 Standard Oil Co., Benton Harbor 2.85 George Bridgam, Benton Harbor 19.02 Columbian Cigar Co., Benton Harbor 10.00 Berrien County Bank, endorsed RADGR eee es es, 83.00 PROtQM cece $1,919.90 Assets. Cash on hand 26.00 $ 10.00 Stock im trade 2... 2.22.0 .5..55..5; 600.00 Debts due on open accounts .... 489.18 $1,099.18 In the matter of Abraham Bernstein, bankrupt, Kalamazoo, an order was made by the referee closing the estate and dis- charging the trustee. No cause having been shown to the contrary, a certificate favorable to the discharge of the bank- rupt was also made. The record book and files were returned to the clerk’s Office. Feb. 19—Charles M. Scherer, of Benton Harbor, engaged in the retail dry goods business filed a voluntary petition and was adjudged bankrupt and the matter referred to Referee Banyon, who was ap- pointed receiver. The following are scheduled as creditors: Secured Creditors. Jacob K. Scherer, Benton Harbor $550.00 Unsecured Creditors. Marshall Field & Co., Chicago ..$1,137.39 John V. Farwell & Co., Chicago 679.35 F. Dessauer Co., Chicago ........ 1,573.23 Straouss, Eisendrath & Co., @hicaro ...... 63... Sac as 360.61 Perfection Mfg. Co., Freeport .... 491.88 Alexander Black Cloak Co., Toledo 346.50 Crowley Bros., Detroit ........... . 793.47 H. Hyman, Chicago .........:.... 106.88 Globe Cotton Goods, Chicago .... 55.00 P. Becker & Co., Chicago ..... -- 16.45 Dessauer & Angel, Chicago .... 170.58 Kalven & Stern, Chicago ........ 25.00 KE. Eisenger & Co., Chicago ...... 79.35 Nussebaum-Grossman Co., Chicago 164.45 Wineberg Bros., Chicago .......... 297.60 Importers Mfg. Co., Chicago ...... 60.00 Lee Dress Co., Maquokta, Iowa .. 65.31 Kalamazoo Corset Co., Kalamazoo 47.25 M. D. Minskey & Co., New York Cry ca ce ee 25.50 Aason Strauss, Chicago .......... 27.42 Shoninger-Heinshemor Mfg. Co., @RICALO sou ce ee ee 3 66.25 Maurice Hirsch & Co., Chicago .. 518.00 Jackson Corset Co., Jackson .... 313.06 May Manton Pattern Co., N. Y. 13.57 Zion Institutions & Industries, ion) City 25.00... 05..5......- 34.40 H. Simon & Co., Chicago ........ 31.75 Chicago Rubber Co., Chicago .... 14.65 Philip Kalafter & Co., Chicago 25.87 Nesbit Embroidery Works, Chicago 4.33 Steinberg & Sopkin, Chicago ...... 71.75 A. J. Rodebaugh & Co., Phila- Geiphia sy 8.00 S. P. Nelson & Sons, Cincinnati 10.98 Chicago Trunk Co., Chicago ..... 12.90 Regal Hat €o., Chicago .......... 11.00 Baer Mfg. Co., New York City .. 21.50 Panotts McIntyer & Co., Chicago 14.63 Ellis Wexelblant, Philadelphia ... 17.70 Penner Bros., Chicago ............ 8.09 Heitner & Modugo, New York City 40.00 Bronner Bloom Co., New York Clty rec ae cc ee 36.75 M. J. Furman, New York City .... 22.50 F. I.. Domerich & Co., New VOrRk @iGy ooo ck, 9.30 John Michaels & Oakes Co., ChicheoO oes ca. 101.50 Baker-Vawter Co., Benton Harbor 11.34 Benton Harbor Paper Co., Benton) Flarbor <......2....... 14.30 Banner Register, Benton Harbor 33.00 Farmers & Merchants National Bank, Benton Harbor ...... 5,400.00 MOtah co eos ees $13,390.64 Assets. @ash on hand 2)... 2.3 010.2: $ 13.62 Stock in trade -......0......; ....- 8,000.00 Household goods ................. 250.00 Debts due on open accounts ..... 397.66 Policies of insurance ............ 1,250.00 Total .oo5c24 5.50... e «eee $4,950.01 —_~++>—__ Silence may be golden or it may be an admission of guilt. 19 The Michigan People Eliminate Your Rubber Boot Troubles Buy Hood’s “Bullseye” Boots Probably no boot as good as the ‘‘Bullseye”’ has ever been before the American people Many, very many, people would gladly subscribe to such a statement as the above, having tried them. Grand RapidsShoe & Rubber Grand Rapids Bertsch Goodyear Welt Shoes Quality Leathers and Classy Effects You can depend on this line to stand the knocks. Over 100 Numbers Carried in Stock. No. 993—Men’s Plaza Last, Full Grain Gun Metal, Calf Bal, Single Sole, DGE ...............2.00.) $2.60 No. 994—Same only Button .... ..... 2.60 No. 962—Same as 993 only extra prime quality upper and sole, DG&E..... 3.00 Special Service on Mail Orders Samples on Request THEY WEAR LIKE IRON HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO. Manufacturers Serviceable Footwear GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 23, 1916 Rs The Woman Who Helps in the Store. Written for the Tradesman. It is easy enough to tell her from the hired helps in the store. salesperson—the wife who Sometimes you know her as such because she is so She has the whole within her intelligent and comprehensive She knows just where to lay her hand on every item in the stock. She can tell what goods have been ordered and when they ought to be in. She is better posted than any one else on what needs to be bought, She can take hold anywhere. When she gives her attention to selling, no one in the whole She can ultra- can no one in the establishment. Owing to great tact and ceaseless effort to please, she usually has a large fol- lowing who will not allow any one else to wait upon them if they can help it. She understands all about the finances of the business, and has plans and ambitions for expansion. What such a woman does for a business—the impulse she imparts to it by her push and energy, the trade that she draws and holds—it is as impossible to tell in words as it is to estimate the value of her serv- ices in dollars and cents. extra capable. business grasp. force can excel her. the cranks and customers as handle the fastidious else her When you see a woman of this kind in a store, you know that such zeal and efficiency are not hired for money. You know she must be the wife—sometimes a sister or a daugh- ter may manifest an equal proficiency, but more often it is the wife—of the merchant. To a woman of this type business is a most fascinating and absorbing game. Or you may call it a problem which can be stated somewhat like this: Given a certain amount pf capital, in just what kinds of mer- chandise shall it be invested, and what methods of advertising and management shall be employed, to make it yield the most satisfactory profit? Some women have a natural gift for taking hold of a problem of this sort—a problem that to mosi minds is puzzling and intricate—and reaching a correct solution. A woman of this kind may do too much for the store. She may break herself down by overwork. She may neglect her home and her children. If she goes ahead with everything, by her very competence and _ initia- tive she may dwarf and cripple her husband. Also, she may destroy the beauty and symmetry of her life by giving the business an importance beyond everything else. But as to her capability and efficiency in the store, there can be no question. No made for her because in her line she master of expertness al- This is one type of merchant’s wife whom you know at a glance is not a paid employe. Then there is the other kind whom you just as quickly know is not on the pay roll—or if she is, she is there wholly by favor—because she is so all-round incompetent that in any other store but her husbaand’s she never could hold a job. The Pletchers conduct a small gro- cery and meat market out in a resi- dence district of their city. They hire no help, but Mrs. Pletcher and the grown daughter are in the shop all the time that their household duties will allow, and these are gotten along with in a very hasty fashion. A few mornings ago when Mr. Pletcher was away down town and a customer asked for lamb chops; al- though there was a fine side of lamb hanging on the rack and the customer was in a hurry, neither Mrs. Pletcher nor the daughter felt she could use knife and saw to cut the chops. The order must wait for Mr. Pletcher’s return. A daughter or sister, in the capacity of a store assistant, is apt to be like a wife—either extra capable or extra incapable. Mrs. Wall is another wife who helps in the store. Last week I went into their grocery to buy a box of graham flour. She waited on me. “Bob,” she said, addressing her husband after I had stated my errand, “where is the package graham?” He told her just where to find it. “Now how much shall I ask for it?” she further questioned when she had located the goods. “Ten cents,” came his prompt re- joinder. I paid the money and the deal was closed. Mrs. Pletcher and Mrs. Wall are fair examples of wives who help in the store—certainly no less efficient than many others. Every reader must know one or more such—the woman who never knows where goods are, is utterly at sea about prices, and seems to feel not the least grain of responsibility. In line with this last I have known some whose treatment of customers could hardly fail to give offense and “drive away trade,” who yet seemed unconscious that they were at all at fault. One does not want to be too hard on these women. Often there are extenuating circumstances. The low margins of profit and the high cost of hiring make it necessaary for some women who have small: children and are loaded down with household cares to help out in the store. For the same reasons, others not so over- suggestions need be improvement, iS a past ready. burdened with home duties, but whom Nature simply never intended for mercantile work of any kind, are pressed into service. Where neither of these excuses can be given, still the incompetency usual- ly is not difficult to account for. When the wife helps in the store, as a rule her services “go right in,’ and she fails to see tangible results. Her position is somewhat anomalous. She does not feel the stimulus to do her best that she would if she were at the head of an enterprise of her own, in which success would redound to her own credit and distinction. Nor does she have the incentive that she would have if working for some other firm, where she would be obliged to maintain a high standard of efficiency in order to hold her place. Then too, in the minds of many married pairs there is an absurd idea that all that has to do with property and income is wholly the husband’s affair. Where this feeling exists, if the wife helps ever so little, she feels it is more than ought to be expected of her, and to her husband’s profit and ad- vantage rather than her own. What is needed is more “Our” and less of “His only’ about the business. — Let the wife feel a genuine interest, and she will begin to take some responsi- bility and try to make her efforts count. If she has the time and strength to help in the store, and applies her brains to the work, then if gifted with a little natural aptitude. there is no reason why she can not be at least as efficient as the average hired salesperson. Many, once their loyalty and enthusiasm are enlisted will go far beyond this limit. Quillo. Tie / A guilty conscience makes a hard pil- low. 139-141 Monroe St Both Phones GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Reputation and Standing of Walter Baker & Co.’s Cocoa and Chocolate Preparations Have been built up by years of fair dealing, of honest manufacturing, an unwavering policy of maintaining the high quality of the goods and by extensive and persistent advertising. This means for the grocer a steady and increasing demand from satisfied custom- ers with no risks to himself on account of unsold or damaged goods; in the long run by far the most profitable trade. The genuine Baker's Cocoa and Baker’s Chocolate have this trade-mark on the package, and are made only by WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd. Established 1780 Dorchester, Mass. § Register ed U.S. Pat. Off, EMPRESS NOW PLAYING Keith Vaudeville 7—STAR ACTS—7 ALWAYS A GREAT SHOW . DAILY 2:30 and 8:15 10c - 20c - 25c - 30c - 50c Kine Furniture alone cannot make a home but it helps a great deal * Corner Ionia Ave. and Fountain St., The Largest Furniture Store in America Entrance Opposite Morton House Klingman’s Grand Rapids, Michigan February 23, 1916 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN THE MEAT MARKET {i Talks by the Butcher Philosopher. You never engage in any business transaction to buy or sell anything unless you express the cost involved in the action in dollars and cents. You do this because you would think any man crazy who went into busi- ness and bought something without knowing what the exact cost would be to him. If you buy a bullock, for instance, it is weighed, figured, the exact cost figured, and then you pay for it after checking up the figures carefully. If you have any work or repairs done, you always take the trouble to find out what the exact cost is gzo- ing to be before you tell the man who is going to do it to go ahead. If you sell any meat or other mer- chandise, weight and price always de- termine the cost to your customer exactly. Many butchers who have a good fund of business common sense, and who utilize it in most of their deal- ings, fall down badly on the help question. They handle this question in such a way that it often leads to confusion and quarrels, and actual charges of dishonesty, that would not take place if the butcher were work- ing for a definite and exact salary. When a man works for you he sells you his time and labor as merchan- dise, and it is, of course, up to him to do his best and deliver the goods. If hours of work are from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m., with an hour for dinner,and work on Saturday eve- ning until 11 p. m., with a half-hour for supper, that constitutes a definite arrangement for a week’s work. It was agreed upon by both when the contract of employment was made. Of course there is some laxity ex- pected in these working hours, as conditions sometimes arise that make it necessary to open earlier or close later. Ifthe stock should not arrive on time or if the ice man should be de- layed, or if an important order can- not be put up and delivered in time, or if something turns up that makes it imperative to open an hour earlier, no reasonable employe will object to that, so far as the extra time and labor is involved, as it will happen in any shop and is often unavoidable. A butcher shop is not a factory and cannot be operated on a time basis as a factory can, and a clock watcher is especially objectionable in a market. But one clerk complained to me recently of the conditions under which he had to work, and it seems to me that there is a good deal of justifica- tion behind his complaint. “T sprained my arm on a Thursday a couple of weeks ago,” he said to me, “and could not work on Friday or Saturday. When I got my wages on Monday the boss had deducted $6 because he had had to hire a help- er to take my place. “The accident was not my. fault: and, while I know that Friday and Saturday is a bad time to lay off in the market, still I was mad about it, for in the three years that I have worked for him I have not missed a minute. But many a time have I stayed in the market as late as 8 or 9 o'clock when something came up and made us keep open later, and when the driver was sick I drove to market for a week at 5 o'clock in the morning. He never paid me nor offered to pay me for the extra time. “Of course I did not ask for it. In fact I wouldn’t have thought it quite the thing to do, for I knew that the circumstances were such that it could not be helped, but my accident could not have been helped either, and I don’t think that the boss should have docked me, when he did not pay me for the overtime that I had put in. “T believe in give and take, and I am mighty sorry that I am not so fixed that I could chuck this job and look for another.” We hear a lot of talk of the in- efficiency of the clerks that work in meat markets. We hear a lot about the way they shirk and sidestep their work as much as possible, but many a clerk is even more conscientious than his employer. When a boss expects extra work, more than he is paying the clerk for, he should pay for it, if he desires to be just, and there are two ways in which he can do it. He can give extra pay for extra work, or else he can figure that he will pay the clerk for any time that he is compelled to remain at home within reasonable limits, thus offseting the extra work which the clerk has done for him. This is a world of live and let live, and it really pays to have the co- operation of your clerks with you. —Butchers’ Advocate. —_~+-.__ Hog Heads. Hog heads are generally used for the canning room and are shaved by piecework. The shaving of thes« heads intended for brawn must not be confounded with the shaving of the market heads. In the former the jowls are removed; in fact, everthinz is cut away except the cheek meat and snout, the lower jaw being pulled so that there is less chance of loose teeth being mixed up with the meat in cooking, as they are likely to fall 21 out. When the heads are tanked for lard they should be made equally as W clean as when for brawn and should e P. Granger be cheeked and also the poll meat taken off. The latter is a piece of meat at the back of the head, where it is connected with the cervical ver- tebrae; the head is then split and will yield about 55 per cent. in lard. 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 MODERN AWNINGS—ALL STYLES Ne et | iy{COYE S IMPROVED ROLLER AWNIWN: pei a S OOO } CHAS. A. COYE, INC. Grand Rapids, Mich. Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter Color and one that complies with the pure food laws of every State and of the United States. Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co. Burlington, Vt. HART BRAND CANNED GOODS Packed by W. R. Roach & Co., Hart, Mich. Michigan People Want Michigan Products An Important Flavoring is Maplei necessary in both the kitchen and the candy shop Order from Louis Hilfer Co. 1503 State Bldg. Chicago, Ill. CRESCENT MFG. CO. Seattle, Wash. 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 Mr. Flour Merchant: You can own and control your flour trade. Make each clerk a “salesman”’ instead of an “order taker.”’ Write us to-day for exclusive sale proposition covering your market for Purity Patent Flour We mill strictly choice Michigan wheat, properly blended, to producea satisfactory all purpose family flour. GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN & MILLING CO., Grand Rapids, Michigan Rea & Witzig PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS 104-106 West Market St. Buffalo, N. Y. Established 1873 Live Poultry in excellent de- mand at market prices. Can handle large shipments to ad- vantage. Fresh Eggs in good de- mand at market prices. Fancy creamery butter and good dairy selling at full quota- tions. Common plenty and dull. Send for our weekly price cur- rent or wire for special quota- tions. Refer you to the People’s Bank of Buffalo, all Commercial Agen- cies and to hundreds of shippers everywhere. those who want the best. pared by Cudahy Brothers Co PEACOCK BRAND Breakfast Appetites can be encouraged and well satisfied with a nice rasher of bacon and fresh eggs. _Go to your grocer’s and get some of the famous Peacock mild cured bacon and fry it, pouring off the grease as quickly as it forms. This makes it crisp. Pea- cock Hams and Bacon are cured by a special process—brine is not used—so they are not salty. They are especially pre- » Packers, Cudahy, Wis., for Cudahy Brothers Co. Packers Cudahy, Wisconsin’ February 23, 1916 — _—~ = = UTTER, EGGS 4» PROVIS Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso- clation. President—H. L. Williams, Howell. Vice-President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson. Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Bent- ley, Saginaw. Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson, Detroit; Frank P. Van Buren, Williams- ton; C. J. Chandler Detroit. Discovery of Value of Oxygen in Butter. Pittsburg, Feb. 2i—The late Major Levi Wells, in his origin and history of process or renovated butter, issued by the Dairy Division of the Depart- ment, secured data about a party in Missouri melting dairy or packing stock butter; emulsing it with milk by use of a churn, then ripening the emulsion. This was in 1884. In 1890 he found this same party in Illinois using a centrifugal sepa- rator for converting butter fat and skimmed milk into a cream emul- sion, This party was the undersigned. There was an air of mystery sur- rounding the ripening of the cream or liquid emulsion which did not: ex- ist in the ripening of dry emulsions of butter fat and milk. This mystery once solved could be applied to every day butter-making from farm skimmed cream, which in those days, was all. produced by gravity processes, as hand separators were not in use. In our own cream- ery work we made creamery and pro- cess butter up to the time of the re- novated butter law. The .mystery in ripening cream emulsion was, the starter action was weak and ineffective; and, if allowed to stand as long as it should to act, was put out of business altogether by the adverse influences in that liquid, while this same butter fat with 10 per cent. less good sweet milk and starter made into a dry emulsion and set away to ripen over night these ad- verse influences would be overcome by that same starter action and would contain the aroma of the rose when ripened, ready to work and salt. In 1903 we organized a company to make process butter from liquid emul- sion and to work out this proposi- tion. We traced the wily bacterium lactis from every conceivable angle only to be defied and yet we were within 10 per cent. of it when we started. We could produce the results we wanted by using 10 per cent. less milk and starter and have a granular product to ripen instead of a liquid. But why? Something was left out: some influence had to be supplied during the ripening process. But what was it? We had one day more to run, one more batch of but- ter-oil and milk to make up and we would close our factory. One more day’s run and after four steady years of experimentation besides a lifetime upon it I had failed. The forebodings for to-morrow were complete; there was not any chance at all; every possible point had .been covered and I had lost. Yet I knew the key to this mystery was at my finger ends defying me. I went to my room for the night the worst beaten man in the world. In_a retrospective mood, I thought of Evangelist Hugh Smith and his meetings in Cleveland a few years before, and how in one of them I had stated, “If Marconi succeeded in reaching-1500 miles with his messages it would not seem by faith alone should a man try to reach his Crea- tor through the medium of prayer.” Here then might be one more chance and I knelt down in all earn- estness and asked to be shown the way, that I had gone as far as I could go in my own strength and had failed. I retired with the assurance I 4ad done all that could be done. About midnight I was fully aroused by a voice which seemed to be close to my head and very loud which said, “Put some air in it!’ I was up at once. The moon was shining full in my east window; it was very light and plainly to be seen not anyone was there. Here then was a suggestion to be tried to-morrow and I was soon asleep. Now all such plants are perfectly equipped with air apparatus for aerating and emulsing purposes. All I had to do was not to discon- nect air-pipes on the ripener during the ripening period, but feed the bacterium lactic while it was acting on the cream. I did so, watched it closely, saw it gain the ascendency over those adverse influences at the point where it always began to go the other way. ‘ The life-giving oxygen was doing its work, the same influence which did the work by natural exposure with this material in the granular form was now applied by force to the liguid. I had now, and through the medi- um as above stated, a midnight sug- gestion from somewhere, somehow. Man has little or no right to-day to question the possible connection with forces beyond his earthly confines, as science reveals the transmission of speech around the world. F. H, Stanley, Pittsburg, Pa. The Eternal Feminine. “What’s all that noise upstairs?” called the mother. “TI thought you were playing house.” “We are, mamma,” the little daughter replied. “Johnny is the papa, and he just come home from the store. I’m arguing with him about money mat- ters.” Watson: Higgins Milling Co. Merchant Millers Grand Rapids, Michigan B. & S. Famous 5c Cigar Long Filler Order direct or through Owned by Merchants Worden Grocer Company Products Sold Only by Merchants Barrett Cigar Co. MAKERS Tonia, Michigan Brands Recommended by Merchants We Pay Cash For Your Butter and Eggs—No Commission Fill in your name and address in the following blank: eee eee ee peepee. ol 116 Without any obligation on my part place my name on your list for Weekly Quotations, Oe eee SCHILLER BUTTER & EGG CO. No. 14 Market St. DETROIT The Vinkemulder Company Jobbers and Shippers of Everything in Fruits and Produce Grand Rapids, Mich. THE FIRST AND FOREMOST BUILDERS OF COMPUTING SCALES GENERAL SALES OFFICE 326 W. MADISON ST. CHICAGO ALWAYS OPEN TERRITORY Te FiRST CLASS SALESMEN February 238, 1916 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN AUTOMOBILES AND ACCESSORIES Auto Industry Called Typical of Americanism. If you were asked to name some one thing which most clearly expresses the American temperament, which partakes of our visionary tendency and at the same time illustrates our breadth of vis- ion, our creative ability, and our power to do big things quickly and well, you could name but one exponent of. this great abstraction which we call Ameri- canism—and that one thing is without doubt the American automobile industry. The American automobile industry is simply a cross section cut through the heart of American life. Everything that is typically American you will find in that cross section; the nerves and the blood and the bone of us are all rep- resented there. It stands preeminently for the greatest of all American at- tributes, which is volume. It embodies a transcendant service. It typifies Amer- ican resourcefulness as nothing else can do. And it demonstrates American speed. And do not forget that it took more brains and a higher order of financial ability to create the American automo- bile industry than Germany used in building her army or Britain used in building her navy. To draw the analogy between the American automobile industry and Americanism more finely, let us remind ourselves of the characteristic points of similarity. To begin with, the Amer- ican automobile industry is young, pow- erful, resourceful and capable of tre- mendously big things in a_ startingly brief time. So is Americanism. The American automobile industry is founded upon service. So is Americanism. The American automobile industry has emerged from derision, discourage- ment and darkness—always superior to circumstances and triumphant, It has been kicked, condemned, and apparently crushed, but it has always come back strong. Nothing discourages it. Its heart is never broken. Neither is that of the American. The American automobile industry, like the American it typifies, will not perish for want of a plan. It will meet new problems as they arise with ade- quate, new methods. It will manage somehow to always stay on top of its game instead of underneath it. And while the inventive genius of the rest of the world is blasting the vitals out of civilization the American automobile in- dustry joins hands with all that is Amer- ican in administering to humanity after an heroic fashion, A year ago we were laughing at our own state militia. To-day an army of 2,000,000 trained soldiers is half born, We are talking preparedness everywhere —just as we once talked motor car industry. And it will be a sad day for an enemy if we ever put the same brains and energy and aggressiveness into de- fense measures that we have put into the greatest industry the sun ever shone on—the American automobile industry. If you want to get a line on what America can do in any given field, glance at her automobile industry and read the answer. Homer M’Kee. —_2--___ Great Help for Interstate Motorists. If the measure introduced in Con- gress by Representative W. C. Adam- son, of Georgia, becomes a law it will! be possible for an automobile owner, with his home state registration num- ber, freely to travel in other parts of the United States without addi- tional taxation or tagging. This is the concise manner in which Mr. Adamson sets forth what, to all intents and purposes, is a_ sensible substitute for a Federal automobile registration number: “No person personally qualified under the laws and regulations of the state, territory or district of his residence to use and operate such vehicle or vehicles, shall be required in any other state, territory or dis- trict, into which he may go for busi- ness or pleasure, to make any ad- ditional registration or take out any additional license or tag or pay any additional tax in order to use and operate any such machine; nor shall any owner of such vehicle who has complied with the laws of his own state as to registration, license, tag- ging or tax be required, in order to operate the same vehicle in any other state, territory or district, to make any additional registration or secure any other license or tag or pay ad- ditional tax.” It is set forth that nothing con- tained in the measure “shall be con- strued to exempt any persons from the police regulations of any state, territory or district into which he may go, save only the additional reg- istration, and the taking out of ad- ditional license or tag or paying of additional tax in case he shall have complied with the laws and regula- tions of his own state, territory or district.” Since the Congressman from Georgia is the chairman of the Com- mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to which the bill has been referred, it is reasonable to as- sume that he will interest himself markedly in its passage if he finds that there is a sufficient country-wide demand for its enactment. Hence the American Automobile Association is calling the attention of its clubs and automobilists gener- ally to this common-sense legislation which will make it possible for the motor car road users in this country to enjoy the same liberty possessed by the automobilists of Great Britain, France and Germany and_ other European countries. Abroad a single registration does for the entire country, and, further- more, an international plate of identi- ty is obtainable at a moderate cost, which is recognized by all the coun- tries. Previous to the war, plans were under way for the general adoption of an international trip-tych, which would have reduced to a minimum the difficulties of customs regulations, a single payment and a checking in and out of each country visited com- prising the brief, incomplex proced- ure. —_22 >___ You may have noticed that the dog owned by our neighbor is a howling suc- cess, 23 GRAND RAPIDS OIL CO. sities ie aati Oils and Gasoline GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 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 Look this cut over. etc. Illustrated catalogue free. Don't you believe you could use a Ford car with a body like this to a good advantage—a merchant to deliver goods, a huck- ster to gather produce, a contractor to carry men, tools and supplies to dif- ferent parts of the community? In fact, if you have anything to take any place, you can use an outfit like this economically. We make anything in the line of Commercial Bodies for all kinds of Automobiles, Trucks, Wagons, Graham Auto Body Co. CADILLAC, MICH. char or carbonize. Nokarbo Motor Oil It is the one oil that can be used successfully on all automobiles operated by gasoline or electricity. It will not It is the best oil for the high grade car, and the best oil for the cheapest car. Write for prices and particulars. The Great Western Oil Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 23. 1916 CESSSer 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. Secretary—Maurice Heuman, Grand Treasurer—Wm. J. Devereaux, Port Furon. Grand Conductor—John A. Hach, ur., 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—FE. A. Dibble, Hillsdale; Angus G. Mc®achrun, Detroit; James E. Burtless, Marquetce; L. N. Thompkins, Jackson. Next Grand Council Meeting—Traverse City, June 2 and 38, 1916. Wafted Down From Grand Traverse Bay. Traverse City, Feb. 21—Lewis Morris has purchased the stock of Charles Cook, bankrupt, at Kingsley, consisting of groceries and meat market. Mr. Morris has remodeled the building, dis- carded the meat market fixtures and repainted and decorated the building throughout and put in one of the most up-to-date grocery stores in Kingsley. Mr. Morris has considerable interests besides his large dry goods store at Kingsley and has intrusted the man- agement of the grocery stcre to Carl Deavendorf. Mrs. W. G. Wyman has returned home after an extended visit in the East. Citizens of Thompsonville were shock- ed Friday morning by the death of Mrs. Diamond, proprietress of the Diamond Hotel. Mrs. Diamond came to Thomp- sonville about eighteen years ago and had successfully conducted one of the best hotels in Northern Michigan. The kitchen was always under her direct supervision and her good cooking and the home-like appearance of the hotel made it one of the most popular trav- eling men’s homes in the North. She probably had more friends among the traveling public than any other hotel keeper in Northern Michigan. She is survived by a son, Charles Diamond, who has been her constant companion in the hotel, and a sister who has looked after the kitchen whenever Mrs. Dia- mond was away from the city. They have the heartfelt sympathy of all the travelers. Many of the depot agents of the G. R. & I. would do well to take a few lessons in sanitation from N. C. Gris- wold, agent at Kingsley. While the Kingsley depot is an old wooden struc- ture, Mr. Griswold keeps it absolutely clean by personally scrubbing the walls and the floor and keeping same as neat as possible at all times. Dr. E. L. Ashton and wife left for points in Virginia to spend the re- mainder of the winter. Mr. Ashton is a successful dentist of Traverse City, having lived here his entire life. His father, Dr. B. D. Ashton, was one of the first doctors.in Traverse City, com- ing here before there was a laid out road North of Grand Rapids and the only method of transportation was either on foot or horse back. Plans are fully completed for the annual meeting for Traverse City Coun- cil when Grand Counselor Lawton and District Deputy Ben Mercer will be with us. A good programme and banquet are arranged for and a general good time is expected. Grand Rapids and Detroit are always boasting of their great industries and we are glad to see it. We would not give much for a man who did not boost for his home town. We believe, how- ever, that we have one of the liveliest Chambers of Commerce in the State and some great things are expected for Traverse City. We can boast of the largest butter dish factory in the world. We also manufacture furniture, ‘mat- tresses, wagons, sleighs, shoes, refrig- erators, incubators, have a large floor- ing mill, basket factory, the largest fac- tory in the world making small potato planters and sprayers, iron foundry, gasoline engine and power sprayer fac- tory, violin factory, several cigar fac- tories, candy factory employing twelve traveling salesmen, harness factory, soap factory, two soft drink bottling works, a brewery, the world-renowned Winnie fish bait, creamery, several wholesale bakeries, ice cream manufac- turers, hub factory, J. C. Morgan cider and vinegar factory, canning factory handling all kinds of fruit and veg- etables, which manufactured last year about fifty carloads of cider put in quart and gallon cans, two large flouring mills, monument builders, casket factory, cement block factories and two large tanneries. We also have room for a few more good factories, having about 1,000 electric horse power available for their use. We have read with some surprise the article from Landlord McManus, of the Hotel Cushman, at Petoskey, and are very sorry indeed that the traveling man who gets his expense money in the form of a check has been such a source of annoyance to Mr. McManus. Pos- sibly it would be better for us to ar- range with our houses to send our mon- ey to us in gold by prepaid express so the hotel man will not have to take any chances. Of course, the great amount of money that is saved by the house in in- terest has been very carefully comput- ted with the accuracy of Lord Raleigh when he discovered the argon in the atmosphere, but I have wondered why he has been so forgetful as to omit computing the amount of interest he saves by his paying his bills with checks and, perhaps, buying his goods on the thirty, sixty and ninety day system. He does not state just how much money he has lost on worthless checks, but his system of crediting a traveler 50 cents for a meal checked out and 75 cents for a meal checked in, besides his ad- vanced methods of computing parts of days by a system known only to hotel men we think will about offset his losses. We don’t blame a man for kicking on cashing the personal checks of strangers, but think it all out of reason for a hotel man to object to cashing an ex- pense check for a known representative of a reliable firm. George Hunter, of Scottville, former- ly proprietor of Hunter’s Inn, is now covering the territory for Robert A. Johnson, of Milwaukee, formerly cover- ed by J. W. Armstrong. Mr. Armstrong has been promoted and will now call on only the jobbers between Denver and New York. F. W. Wilson. a Pickings ee in the Windy ity. Chicago, Feb. 21—In most of the Chi- cago parks the city maintains free skat- ing ponds. This is very acceptable to the people in all walks of life, as these parks are numerous and are situated in all part of the city convenient to street and elevated lines. Chicago has been doing its part in showing honors to our Civil War Pres- ident, Abraham Lincoln. In all parts of the loop, as well as in some of the hotels, flashlight flags have been placed. They ate very beautiful and go to show that the people never forget their honored dead. All manufacturers of soup are getting a lot of free advertising in Chicago. 1t is the prevailing subject of conversa- tion. Arsenic is now used in soup. A little goes a long ways. The war in Europe would soon be at end if soup could be served in the trenches, seasoned with arsenic. Chicago will soon be known as the jitney town. The 5 cent piece is becom- ing very popular, Salt still holds a prominent part at the first sign of snow. The city sprink- les it over the pavement of the loop. This leaves the streets free from snow- banks and open for traffic. A sweeper does the work. Do the Detroit people want the tick- tick phone or what is better known as the measured service? Chicago has it now. You drop a nickel or slug in the slot and call your number. If connec- tion is made with the number called, whether party or not answers, your nickel is gone. If no one answers, you sometimes lose three to four minutes waiting for central to return your money. Waiting in a booth to get a return of a nickel is some pleasure—not. Max Bachem, Michigan distributor for the Gabriel snubbers, 1235 Woodward avenue, Detroit, was in Chicago the past week. Mr. Bachem reports the sale of snubbers to be very heavy. Such firms as the Cadillac, Chalmers, Pack- ard and Saxton Motor Co. use Gabriel snubbers in their regular equipment. Mrs. E. L. Warren and daughter, Oak Park, IL, a suburb of Chicago, returned home this week after spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Brenner, of little old Grand Rapids. P. V. Benedict, formerly in the drug business in Grand Rapids, at present with Marshall Field & Co., Chicago, has purchased a new stock of drugs and will open on March 1 at 7543 North Ashland avenue, a very fine up-to-date drug store. Mr. Benedict, no doubt will enjoy a very fine business in this neigh- borhood, as this part of the city is in need of an up-to-date store. Your Grand Rapids friends wish you luck. Again, this time a brass button saves the life of officer R. P. Fisher from a crook’s gun. Brass is now going up. Italians in the city were much in evi- dence the past week. Ex-Banker Mos- trogiovanni had the front part of his home at 3710 Grand boulevard blown out by a dynamite bomb. Mud is getting plentiful in local pol- itics in Chicago. First one side and then the other throws a little. Chicago is trying to figure out which is the most popular, soup, dynamite bombs or sawed off shot guns. The competition is fierce. Oh, very well, the Eastland boat case will now ship back to Chicago from Grand Rapids, and the next inning will be called. Let us hope there will be no more boats like the Eastland. The writer did not take soup last week to get sick. As there was no news from our Detroit friend, it was a case of homesickness. Come, Jimmy, get on the job. A. W. Wood is a life saver. A little news is better than not any. C. W. Reattoir. —_—_¢ o> _ There are persons who are afraid to travel on the railroads because accidents sometimes occur. They are afraid of automobiles and they wouldn’t go on the water for anything, because boats will sink, and if they went in the water to learn to swim they might drown. They forget that they are not safe in their own homes. Down in Indiana a man was resting on a couch at his home and rolled off. He fell on a pair of scissors, one blade of which penetrated his back between two ribs and three inches of the blade broke off and was embedded. After cutting the blade out the surgeons said the man would live if pleurisy or pneumonia does not set in and prove fatal. CHEW NS WIRE Yor RESERVATION a OE eae a Ty.) Lal) aes MUR LlD MER Rates $leo 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. Snyder’s Restaurant 41 North Ionia Ave. 4 Doors North of Tradesman Special Dinners and Suppers 25c FREE HOTEL SITE Will give site for a summer hotel to reliable parties, at an established resort near Traverse City on Grand Traverse Bay. About twenty-five cot- tages, fine bathing, fishing, motoring, golf and tennis facilities. _Neahtawanta Resort Association, Traverse City, Mich. Hotel Charlevoix Detroit EUROPEAN PLAN Absolutely Fire Proof Rates, $1 for room without bath: $1.50 and upwards with bath. Grinnell Realty Co., Props. H. M. Kellogg, Manager HOTEL CODY EUROPEAN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Rates $l and up. $1.50 and up bath. Livingston Hotel Grand Rapids, Mich. Fine Cafe in Connection Entertainment Every Evening The New Winter Inn GREENVILLE, MICH. 'W. H. MILLS, Proprietor European American 50c, 75c, $1.00 $2.00 and up ne ee ee February 28, 1916 UPPER PENINSULA. Recent News From the Cloverland of Michigan. Sault Ste. Marie, Feb. 21—George Mitchell, who has been engaged in the grocery business on West Portage avenue for the past year, has disposed of his interests here and left with his family for Lowell, Mass., where they will make their future home. E. H. Mead, Cashier of the First National Bank, was quite painfully injured last week in a fall he sustain- ed on Ashmun street bridge. Mr. Mead landed on his shoulder, receiy- ing severe bruises which pained him to such an extent that in attempting to resume his walk he fell a second time. It was thought that he had dislocated his shoulder but an X-ray examination showed that no bones were out of place. The accident hap- pened at a critical time when Mr. Fowl, President of the Bank is at present in the South which left most of the work for Mr. Mead to attend to, but Mr, Mead is on the job again, losing no time on account of the in- jury. The Rivers and Harbors Commit- tee included in the annual congres- sional rivers and harbors bill $800,000 additional toward the building of the fourth lock here, which will help to keep up the activities at this point. The main streets in the Soo are to be lighted by a new lighting sys- tem. The new lights will be orna- mental Nitrogen Novalux lights. The contract was awarded the Edison Sault Electric Co. and is to run for ten years, with a clause permitting the city to purchase the system any time after three years. Andrew Gill and party gave a snow shoe party to their summer home at the Shallows last week and reported the trip through the woods exceed- ingly pleasant. It was rumored that Andrew saw the first robbin upon approaching the woods This caused some excitement, but the rumor was later denied. Andrew said he saw many good things to eat, but declined the distinction of reporting the first robbin story during the zero weather T. A. Forgrave’s home here was totally destroyed by fire last week. The fire originated in the attic from some unknown cause and probably could have been extinguished sooner had not both fire teams met with an accident. The hose sleigh broke a runner in turning the corner and the hook and ladder team broke its har- ness. . The Soo fire station received a new hose truck last week. From all re- ports it is some truck. The wheels are much larger than those of the old truck and are set on ball bearings. A large chemical tank under the driv- er’s seat has a capacity of forty gal- lons. There are also two three gal- lon tanks on the side which can be carried into a building. Two hundred feet of small hose for chemical work is also carried. A twenty foot ex- tension ladder and a twelve foot roof ladder is also included and the new wagon has a capacity of 1,200 feet of hose. With the two trucks in use the department will now be able to carry nearly 3,000 feet of hose and will be able to put a quietus on in- cipient fires. F. T. Folkner is the new manager for the Port Royal Dock Co., suc- ceeding the late J. C. Barnheisel. Mr. Folkner is a young man of pleasing personality and has already made many friends since coming to the Soo It is reported that business at De- Tour this winter has not been as brisk as it has been in past years. The principal occupation now is spearing fish through the ice. E. S. Taylor, the merchant prince of Pickford, was a business caller here this week, The Soo landed the Boy’s Confer- ence for 1917. Nearly 600 boys at- tended the meeting at Marquette and much credit is due the Soo boys for MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the able manner in which they landed the convention for next year over the other Upper Peninsula cities. With all of the attractions offered at the Soo and the assurance of the large auditorium which will be in readiness for the convention, the delegates were greatly in favor of the Soo. With the Elks’ big convention this year and others as well, the Soo wiil receive much advertising as a city of enter- tainment and activity. It is con- ceded that the Soo is the convention city of Cloverland. Samuel Moss, for several months clerk in the clothing department of the Winkelman store, has resigned and left for the town where life is worth living. He will help swell the population of Detroit. here is not much change in the freight blockade over the Straits, al- though both ferries are still in com- mission. The blockade has resulted in tying up an immense amount of freight all through the country. An embargo has been placed on fifty-four G. R. & I. cars at Mackinaw City which will have to remain in the yards until the tension is relieved. The roads are not able to get suf- ficient empties, there being so much freight tied up in the Eastern yards. It is reported that the butter fac- tory at Engadine will be running fuil capacity during the season, which will be greatly appreciated by the farmers in that vicinity. We are informed that the hotel at Engadine, known as the Engadine Inn, is about to change proprietors in the near future. The present man- agement has been very satisfactory and the traveling fraternity trust that the new management will be equally as good. Dr. Deadman, the well-known vet- erinary of the Soo, is at present mak- ing his annual call among the numer- ours camps on a professional visit. The doctor took William Campbell along as an assistant. Doc is con- sidered the champion whistler of Cloverland and is always welcome wherever he happens to hang his hat. Ernest Cannon has resigned his position with the Stack Lumber Co. at Pike Lake, Cutter riding seems to be the lead- ing enjoyment in place of fording it here this winter. From the present outlook it will be some weeks before Mr. Rockefeller will notice the sale of gasoline at the Soo. The Civic Commercial Club is con- sidering putting on a Pay-Up Week in the near future. This should meet with hearty response, as it would be one of the greatest blessing the mer- chants could enjoy. The American people need a little prodding on this point. They have a joyous habit of throwing bills into the waste basket, which does not tend to promote gen- eral business prosperity. Not every one who lets his bills go unpaid is indifferent about it. Many people would gladly pay all they owe could they collect the debts due them. With many other persons, the more easily they can pay, the less ready they are to do it. It would make them very tired to sit down monthly and write off a dozen checks. By letting the bills run, they can do it all in one job. This saves them much hard work. Yet they may have idle money in banks. Some business men allow bills to run to save a trifle of interest losing which would offend their thrifty souls. Of course, the creditor is meanwhile losing interest. But creditors are considered grasping creatures who have all the money they need. A large percentage of the busi- ness failures are of people who would be perfectly solvent if they could col- lect their bills. It is surprising how quickly a dollar will run around a town. When you pay that long- standing bill due the grocer, he is immediately able to satisfy the team- ster. The latter can settle with the butcher, who can then pay that old bill at the printery. So it goes. The net result is a new feeling of con- fidence and good will. If a general debt-paying custom could be started during a Pay-Up Week, a great many people would feel a new courage about their business future. They would buy more freely. A wave of new business would spread over the country. Let everyone do what he can toward it. It is to be hoped that a successful start will be made along this line. A meeting called by the commercial travelers of the Soo is to be held Saturday evening of this week for the purpose of perfecting a permanent travelers’ organization in this city. J. B. Melody arrived last week from his Soo line trip and will spend this week at the Soo, where he expects to make all the small boys happy by putting on a free sled campaign, en- abling all the boys to enjoy a coaster of their own on the soap campaign which Mr. Melody is pulling off here. Bob Cowan, manager of the Pren. zlauer Bros. department store, is all smiles this week over the arrival of a son. Mr, Cowan’s many friends are also rejoicing and enjoying the usual fine Havanas customary on this occasion. Irwin Follis, the well-known con- fractor, was one of the busy men here last week looking up a tenor singer. Local talent preferred. William G. Tapert. —_2--___ Want Butcher Held Bankrupt. Bay City, Feb. 21—Petition has been filed in the bankruptcy court for the Eastern District of Michigan, by Weadock & Weadock, of Saginaw, attorneys representing Sulzberger & Sons, the Cornwell Company, and the Henning Sausage Works. of Saginaw, asking that Frank Nielski, a Saginaw butcher, be adjudged a bankrupt. Information contained in the peti- LM iper lig SHERE 25 tion revealed the fact that Nielski is indebted to Sulzberger & Sons to the amount of $517.98, to the Cornwell company $687.97, and to the Henning Sausage Work $10. Nielski, it is stated, kept a butcher shop at 1253 Genesee avenue. On or about December 20, it is alleged he left Saginaw, leaving his business with nobody in charge, and abandoning his wife, having in his possession at the time $300. He was traced to Chicago and then to Butte, Montana, by his creditors, but was there lost sight of, and his whereabouts now is unknown even to his wife, it is alleged. Because of the fact that their prop- erty, for which Nielski has not paid, rapidly deteriorates in value, being of a perishable nature, the petitioners asked Referee in Bankruptcy George A. Marsden to appoint a deputy United States marshal to take charge of the stock. The Detroit office of the bankruptcy court, however, dis- approved of this, and Charles A. Gos- sell, of Saginaw, was appointed re- ceiver. No date has been set for the hearing of the petition asking that Nielski be adjudged a bankrupt. The Hotel Geib Eaton Rapids, Mich. L. F. GEIB, Propr. AMERICAN PLAN Artesian Water Steam Heat $2 Per Day Sample Room in Connection This Pure Food Counter is a Money Maker Every live grocer should have it. It displays and stores thirty lines. Increases sales by showing the goods to customers. It uses space wasted with old style counters. Saves real money by eliminating spoilage from dust and dirt—mice and other vermin. The PURE FOOD is now being profitably used by 40,000 up-to-date grocers. Every one of them has a better looking store and is money ahead since installing it. Be modern! Shererize your store. Make kindling wood of your old-style, space-wasting counter. The “Sherer” is “show window,” “counter” and “storage” all in one. You feed it. Send for Our Booklet It proves that’you're losing’money every day until you get,a ‘‘Sherer.’’ Also tells how you;canjpayjus as itipays -you. Sherer-Gillett Co. 1707 So. Clark St. Chicago Gti COUNTER Se cee. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN —" Toren wT Ae ~¢ G&S Z = 2 SF Ze os Zz 7 - - ae : ae Ze ’ DR < 4 Z ee ¢ = = Qy= ; > = ia aoe ; Kee 3 >, i go ge G las A == » Q_Y (igi sme — Bl ¥ a Z GS“°DRUGGISTS S a Dy a nnn) oe Wy oy sno NDRIES| \q\ts (t LN\ \ tue SS "thy 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—Grand Rapids, March 21, 22 and 23; Detroit, June 27, 28 and 29. Michigan State Pharmaceutical clation. President—C. H. Jongejan, Rapids. Secretary—D. D. Alton, Fremont. Treasurer—John G. Steketee, Grand Rapids. Next Annual Meeting—Detroit, June 20, 21 and 22, 1916. Asso- Grand Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As- sociation. President—W. H. Martin, 165 Rhode Island avenue, Detroit. Secretary and Treasurer—Walter S&. Lawton, Grand Rapids. Folly of Buying From Irresponsible Parties. Peddlers canvass the country and unload bromide of potash with imita- tion labels of a reputable manufac- turer at a cut price. Quite an item now when bromides have jumped about ten times the former price. The fact that his bromide contains no bromine, cuts no figure as long as it is bought at cut price. Conscien- tiousness cuts no ice with the men who buy at cut rates—but—they themselves get cheated, because they pay a big price for worthless stuff. If we bear in mind how often reputa- ble firms “investigated” our craft and found a large percentage unloading substitutes of decent honest propri- etaries, if we bear in mind that even a leader of an influential association was caught selling fuller’s earth tinted with carbonate of iron for aristol, we are justified in expressing a reason- able doubt whether any other class of men have such a choice assorted job lot of suckers as ours. Take this last bromide violation. Where does the therapeutic value of bromide come in if not on account of the bromine, but these fake ped- dlers shoved out rubbish containing ‘not even a trace of bromine. Is it because so few of our people have the prerequisite requisiteness to test bromide of potash, or are they, in- spite of prerequisite ‘Eddication,” without honor, without conscience, without common decency and respect for a suffering .fellow being whose well being depends on the effect of bromine—when purchasing and pay- ing for bromide? We can only repeat what has been emphaziied in the past before our associations that if you call on our brethren in an appeal to their esprit de corps, or in the cause of co-oper- ation, your preaching is like the an- cient preacher in the desert. Offer them a gold brick and they are the traditional herd of lambs ready to be shorne. In organization work they are always generous with their kicks and fault finding. “Why don’t the association do so and so?” and when the association calls on the individual for team work, the nature of the shrimp is shown. 2-2 Capping Mixture for Bottles. The following formulas for capping bottles are taken from the Standard Formulary: Gelatine (:.. |... 1 oz. Gum Arabic ........ 1 oz. Boric acid... .... 20 ers. Diaroh .. 5... eee. 1 oz. Water ..........._.. 16 ozs. Mix the gelatine, gum and acid with fourteen fluid ounces water; stir occasionally until the gum is dissolv- ed, heat the mixture to boiling, re- move the scum and strain, also mix the starch intimately with the remain- der of the water and stir this into the hot gelatine mixture until a uni- form product results. It may be tint- ed with any suitable aniline dye. In using, it must be softened by the application of heat. Shellac Se eee ces 3 Ozs. Venice turpentine.. 1% ozs. Borac acid ......_. 72 = grs. Talcum powder ... 3. ozs. Piher 4. 6 drs. mlCoHOl 2. 12% oz. Dissolve the shellac, turpentine and acid in the mixed alcohol and ether; color with a spirit soluble aniline dye and add the talcum. When using, the mixture must be agitated frequently. —_22+>___ Who Pays the Freight? The news that Congress has de- cided to continue the revenue tax on dental tooth preparations will probably affect the retailer more di- rectly in the future, as the manufac- turer will, no doubt, insist upon his sharing the burden, which last year was assumed by the manufacturer. In this respect, as an indication of the indifference and apathy of the druggists to their own protection and interests, when this revenue measure was under consideration in December last, the manufacturers, fighting fast and hard for its repeal, supplied, a lot of druggists with addressed cards with the name of their representative all stamped, and only needing the signature of the retailer to complete it, and then mail the card. After go- ing to all this expense and making these conveniences for the druggist, about 10 per cent. rewarded these ef- forts. Is it any wonder we make no progress, and this will probably be the reason for the retailer assuming his own burdens in this particular measure. Thirty Passed Out of Seventy-Seven. Muskegon, Feb. 21—At the regular examination session of the Michigan Board of Pharmacy, held at Detroit, eb, 18, 19 and 20, seventy-seven can- didates presented themselves. Of these, thirty succeeded in passing the examination, as follows: Registered Pharmacist. Artipolides, T. A., Detroit. Burgess, R. P., Alma. Breyer, Louis, Detroit. | Cary, McKinley A., Detroit. : Carpenter, Zella L., New Baltimore. Chadwick, Jenner H., Grand Rap- ids. Goodwell, L. Warren, Detroit. Hawley, Norma C., Sherman, N. Y. Meltzer, Benj. M., Detroit. Orr, Robert H., Cass City. Park, Harrison R., Detroit. Perry, J. G., Big Rapids. Seibert, Wm. L., Detroit. Tait, Francis H., St. Johns. Weber, Milton B., Detroit. Wilson, Wade, Detroit. | Registered Druggist. : Behrenwald, Wm., Grand Rapids. Black, Roderick T., Detroit. Brown, H. W., Detroit. Allen, U. Preston, Flint. Deyo, Eugene B., Rockford. D’Amour, Harvey J., Rapid River. Dill, Hugh L., Detroit. Harger, Harriett L., Detroit. Lyndrup, Chris, Manistee. Lints, A, Herbert, Detroit. Reiss, Joseph, Detroit. Saville, F. C., Detroit. Sieg, Louis Wm., Detroit. Triestram, Clarence, Kalamazoo. The next examination will occur at Evening Press hall, Grand Rapids, March 21, 22 and 23. : Candidates must file their appli- cations with the Secretary at least one week before the examination and must furnish affidavits showing that they have had the practical experience required, and furnish satisfactory evi- dence to the Board that they have completed work in the public schools equivalent to tenth grade. When nec- essary this preliminary examination may be taken with the regular ex- amination. No tenth grade examin- ations will be held by this Board after June 30, 1916. Applications for examination and blank forms of affidavits for practical or college experience may be obtain- ed from the Secretary. Fee for registered pharmacist, $5; fee for registered druggist, $3. Fee for re - examination: Registered pharmacist, $3; registered druggist, $2, Charles S. Koon, Sec’y. —_ss__ Locking Up the Drug-User. The problem of society’s duty to victims of the drug habit has been thought to involve delicate questions of personal liberty in its relation to the public welfare. But to the Presi- dent of the Medico-Legal Society its solution is simplicity itself. Esti- mating that there are 500,000 drug addicts in the country and viewing them as generally “irresponsible and dangerous to the community,” he would put them all under restraint, regardless of the degree of their ab- normality, placing indigent drug-users in workhouse hospitals “under mili- tary discipline” and others in private hospitals. This wholesale segregation would necessitate doubling the number ot jails, penitentiaries and hospitals, but that is a detail. The important thing is the principle of progressive per- sonal regulation involved. It is not every one who can create a new crim- inal class of this size, and the plan decidedly beats eugenic marriage reg- ulation and the sterilization of de- fectives as an advanced idea in sociai betterment by law. February 23, 1916 Noreformer,as Mr. Dooley said, is happy while there is a vacant cell in the penitentiary, but it involves a reai genius for reform to double the prison population offhand. —_—_++.___ The Weekly Suggestion. It is an old adage that everyone has a well developed ‘“forgetterie.” A profitable store idea consists in the use of a “reminder sign” hung over the entrance where it will catch the eye of customers leaving your store. Sign should be in plain, bold letters and read similar to ‘Wait a Minute—did you forget that bottle of liniment?” Copy of sign should be changed weekly. An _ excellent form of sign is a large painted card- board hand with pointed finger wrap- ped with string and a _ tag-shaped cardboard on which is the wording hanging at end of string. The sug- gestion of need of these articles will result in many sales to persons who really need them but are dilatory buyers, Only staple articles should be brought to attention. —_~+2>____ Taking Doctor’s Orders. A country doctor, walking out one day with a Highlander who boasted he was a stanch teetotaller, resolved to put him to the test. Passing a hotel he asked him in and ordered two glasses of whisky. After they had “shifted” these and two or three more at the doctor’s expense, his friend began to get a wee bit “glig o’ the gab.” The doctor then, feeling he had him, blunty asked: “How does this square wi’ your teetotal pretensions?” “Well,” quoth John with a quiet smile, “though I’m a stanch teetotal- ler, I'd be a fule to refuse what the doctor orders.” e229 He’s a poor actor who can’t get any one to take his part. UNIVERSAL CLEANER Great for the pots—great for the pans Great for the woodwork—great for the hands. ORDER FROM YOUR JOBBER Sef rt Bry “‘The highest-rater Invigorator.’’ BREWINGICOR For Sale by all Wholesale Druggists 4 ane tee ae February 23, 1916 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 Putnam’s WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE Menth ol Cough Drops Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day o1 issue Acids Mustard 5 i Ps N star , true 20 00@20 25 Ipecac ... 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FOOTE &JENKS’ Killarney (recite GISTERED (CONTAINS NO CAPSICUM) _ An Agreeable Beverage of the CORRECT Belfast Type. Supplied to Dealers, Hotels, Clubs and Families in Bottles Having Registered Trade-Mark Crowns A Partial List of Authorized Boftiers: A. L. JOYCE & SON, Grand Rapids and Traverse City, Mich.; KALAMAZOO BOTTLING CO., Kalamazoo, Mich.; KILLARNEY BOTTLING CO., Jackson, Mich. ) Ginger Ale GRAND RAPIDS SAFE CoO. Agent for the Ceiebrated YORK MANGANESE BANK SAFE Taking an insurance rate of 50c per $1,000 per year. Particulars mailed. TRADESMAN BUILDING Safe experts. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN What is your rate? ic isa aa matt 16 5 D Maoowovnocaoc v1 © a we oa ae February 23, 1916 PCAC GATT tT LMA tes] under this head for two cents a word the first Rel ie baste aS esa ae e) continuous insertion. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMEN 31 insertion and one cent a word for each Utena ka - Cash must accompany all orders. BUSINESS CHANCES. Health compels me to. offer unusual bargain to purchaser of drug, book, and wall paper stock. Address Box 75, Ypsi- lanti, Michigan. 871 Dry Goods—A-1 stock; new and clean; about $6,000; with or without building; will reduce to suit purchaser: best small town in Kansas; fine business; no trade. C. E. Hatfield, Lyndon, Kansas. 872 For Sale—80 acres of land one-half mile from Wingleton, Lake Co. Good soil. Fifteen acres cleared. No build- ings; will make a good fruit farm. Will trade for drug stock in storage or good stand. A. W. Olds, 1499 Wealthy St., Grand Rapids, Michigan. 873 For Sale—$12,000 stock of general mer- chandise. One of the best located stores in East Detroit. Modern corner store, 40x60. Long lease and low rent. Will consider real estate or liberal terms on good security. Can reduce stock to suit purchaser. W. B. Fishbeck, 2470-2472 East Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. 874 For Sale—First-class dry goods and grocery store. Reason for selling is sick- ness. Apply to John F. Lawler, Box 235, Frackville, Pennslyvania. 87 For Sale—Stock of groceries, good col- lege town in Northern Michigan about $1,500. Other business. Address No. 876, care Michigan Tradesman. 876 For Sale—Clean up-to-date stock men’s furnishing goods, men’s, women’s and children’s shoes and rubbers. Small stock men’s and boys’ clothing. All clean new goods. Business established six years. Invoiced $6,000, Jan. 1. Other business interests reason for selling. Address No. 864, care Tradesman. 864 For Sale—Our stock of general mer- chandise, groceries, dry goods, shoes, rubbers, crockery, paints, ete. at Graaf- schap, Michigan. We are located in the heart of a fine farming country three miles from Holland. We are anxious to sell as our farms require our entire at- tention, and will make satisfactory terms to one wanting a good general store in a good country location. This is fine opportunity for a hustling young Hol- lander. Will take part cash and give time on the balance for good security. Heneveld & Lambers, Graafschap, Mich- igan, P. O. Holland, R. F. D. 865 Trade For Merchandise — Improved quarter section wheat farm, clear, near Keystone, Kansas. Bumper crops. All flow land. What have you? Interna- tional Service Bureau, Lewiston, Mon- tana. 866 __ For Sale—Forty acres good land, lays level, all improved, four miles west of city limits Grand Rapids. Nine room house, fair barn, other out buildings, good young orchard. 15 acres seeded, good well. Price $4,500, $2,000 or $2,500 down, balance on time 6 per cent. interest. Ad- dress D. M. White, Cedar Springs, Mich- igan. 867 For Sale—Stock of clothing, shoes and groceries, located in growing Michigan city of 5,000. Best location. Stock is in good condition and will invoice about $10,000. Don’t reply unless you mean business, Address No. 869, care Trades- man, 869 For Sale—Old established hardware business in good growing farming coun- try. Inventory about $4,500. Good rea- sons for selling. Address No. 877, care Tradesman. 877 Mr. Merchant—Our ten day clearance sale is a hummer. Let us tell you our method. W. D. Hamilton, Galesburg, Tllinois. 878 For Sale—Only bakery in town. Fine opportunity. Good location. Right price. Address No. 879, care Tradesman. 879 Country general store, cash trade. no competition. Near summer resort. Good living rooms, barn, two acres land. Clean stock. A money maker. Price $4.000, terms, no trades. C. G. Mabey, Way- land, Michigan. 880 Is any merchant looking for an estab- lished up-to-date dry-goods store? Good cash results shown. Will sell at right Address No. ae price. Investigate. care Tradesman. Wanted—General merchandise in ex- change for fine improved Central Illinois farm. 250 acres. Want stock about $18,000. Address Box 9, Greenup, or Hardware Stock For Sale—Good oppor- tunity to buy a first-class hardware stock which inventories (stock and fix- tures) about $15,000. Stock located in a city of 5,000. S. M. J., care Michigan Tradesman. R62 List your business propositions with us. Also farm and residence property for quick sale. Michigan Real Estate Co., Jackson, Michigan. 788 Jewelry, Book, Stationery and Wall Paper Store—For Sale—Doing a fine business in the best town of its size in Wisconsin. Hanscom Co. & H. S. Hurl- but & Co., Mineral Point, Wis. 851 — - —eeneneeanenencnenemeennliftsmanenmnansee For Sale—Grocery stock and fixtures on account other business. Situated in Cedar Springs, Michigan. Excellent lo- cation; stock clean and new. Will in- ventory about $1,000. Address Box 147, Cedar Springs, Michigan. 852 For Sale—Stock of jewelry, watch- maker’s bench, tools and material; crock- ery, wall paper; an old established busi- ness, no opposition. Address Box 55, Byron, Michigan. 854 For Sale—Good clean. stock general merchandise in good town. Owner wishes to retire. Good opportunity for right party. Address Carson City Real Estate Exchange, Carson City, Michigan. 855 A. W. Thomas, Merchandise Auctioneer —Stocks closed out entirely or reduced. For terms and dates, address A. W. Thomas, 14 No. Sacramento Ave., Chi- cago, Illinois. Established 1891. 835 I have two restaurants in Flint, Michi- gan; both doing good business. On ac- count of poor health I wish to sell one. Address the owner, C. T. Ghitsas, Flint, Michigan. 836 One of the best openings for drug store in Michigan. For particulars address Box 172, Wayland, Michigan. 837 For Sale—Retail grocery stock requir- ing investment of about $2,000. Loca- tion in pleasant residence town of about 1,000 population situated on railroad in Southern Michigan in midst of good farming community. But a few grocery stores in the town and this one has the best location. Address No. 638, care Michigan Tradesman. 838 Opportunity—Of a life time. I did $20,000 business this last year on a $3,000 investment. For the best of reasons I am offering for spot cash this grand op- portunity for $2,500. Better grab it up quick. Write for particulars, No. 839, care Tradesman. a 839 Cigar Store For Sale—Doing good busi- ness, at Fort Wayne, Indiana: owner leaving city. Address J. F. Warner, 1410 Calhoun St., Fort Wayne, Indiana. 843 Splendid Western New York farm for sale or exchange for shoe stock. Charles Ziegler, Albion, New York. 844 Three Michigan properties sold by us last week. If you have anything to sell or exchange, we will handle it. Temple- ton & Alspaugh, Canton, Ohio. 845 Restaurant and lunch counter at Birm- ingham; the best stand in Oakland coun- ty. If you have it In you to make a success, here is your. chance. Come quick. Ask Jones. Power, Jones and Shepard, Birmingham, Michigan. 847 For Sale—$4,000 will buy a money maker. Sales $40,000 a year, rent $30 per month ineluding two five-room flats: town 18,000 full of good factories. Every- body works. 200 regular customers that you can have and keep. W. M. Walter, Mishawaka, Indiana. 856 For Sale—Established retail hardware business, fine location. City of 12,000. Isaac Kouw & Co., Holland. Mich. 834 To Exchange—For small stock gro- eeries or general merchandise, eighty acres excellent hardwood cut-over land, Manistee county, value $15 per acre. Willard Smith, Copemish, Mich. 857 For Sale—Clean stock of hardware in Detroit. An excellent location near Ford Motor Co. plant. About $3,000 will han- dle deal. Reason for selling, other busi- ness. Lease goes with sale. Address No. 858, care Tradesman. 858 Look Merchants—Get the new $2.50 Adder, fully guaranteed. Adds, subtracts, multiplies, etc. Every merchant a satis- fied customer. Sample $2.50. Particulars free. Cogswell Merc. Co., Darlow, ona oe For Sale—In thriving Southern Michi- gan town, stock of dry goods, furnishings and groceries invoicing $2,800. Daily sales for last three years average $36.80. Address Lock Box 188, Union City, Mich- igan. 822 For Sale—Cafe and grill room, first- class, in the heart of the city of Akron, Ohio. Owner wishes to retire. For full particulars enquire of Wm. C. Marlot, 408 Hamilton Bldg., Akron, Ohio. 814 For Sale—Or might exchange for real estate if location suited, $9,000 stock of clothing, shoes and furnishings; old es- tablished business clean and up-to-date, in one of Michigan’s best towns of about 1,500. Easy terms or can reduce stock to accommodate purchaser. Address No. 816, care Michigan Tradesman. 816 Will pay cash for whole or part stocks of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn, 101 Center Ave., Bay City. 757 For Sale—Feed store doing a good busi- ness on railroad in town of 1,000. Han- dled 24 cars of feed since last March. Ad- dress No. 805, care Tradesman. 805 For Sale—Stock of groceries, meats and notions in suburbs of Kalamazoo, doing a good business. Reason for selling have a farm that requires my attention and can not do justice to both. Will bear fullest investigation. Address No. 806, care Michigan Tradesman. 806 Auctioneer: Merchandise and real es- tate auctioneering is my specialty. Mag- nus Wangen, Hartland, Minnesota. 809 Wanted—Three Globe-Wernicke cabi- nets, style R323, drawers 9% inches wide, 11% inches high and 20% inches deep. Address C. Chandler, 4 Cushing St., Providence, R. I. 798 For Sale—Private bank in thriving Northern Michigan town. Capital and surplus $5,200, doing good business. Rea- son for selling other interest elsewhere demanding immediate attention. Address No. 799, care Tradesman. for Sale—Immediate delivery, one Barnhart log loader. G. W. Campbell, Marlinton, West Virginia. 779 For Rent—Two-story and basement store building corner Monroe avenue and Dale street, Grand Rapids. Store 22 x 50, heated by furnace. Desirable living rooms overhead. Suitable for grocery or general store. E. J. Bates, 1308 Sigsbee St., Grand Rapids. For Sale—In_ Centreville, Michigan. county seat of St. Joseph county, stock groceries and notions $7,500. Business established 38 years. Modern building 26 x 80; warehouse 20x40. Good school, 4 churches, knitting mill, electric light and water works. A going business and a money maker. Am selling out because have been 50 years behind the counter and want a rest. Pay anybody’s expenses both ways if don’t find as represented. H. J. Hampson, Centreville, St. Joseph County, Michigan. For Sale—Two brick stores, one stocked with dry goods, the other with men’s clothing and furnishings. Best location, established 30 years. Always -prosperous. For particulars address A. J. Wilhelm, Traverse City, Michigan. 733 For Sale Cheap—Sheet metal works in town of 5,000. No competition. Top prices for work. Investigation cheerfully invited. Located twenty miles east of Tampa, Florida, in heart of good farming community. Address Plant City Tin and Sheet Metal Works, Plant City, Florida. The Detroit Mercantile Adjusters, cofin- selors and executors of high grade spe- cial sales, 505 Whitney Bldg., Detroit, Michigan. 64 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 of shoes, large or small, parts of or any kind of merchandise. Largest prices paid. Write at once. Perry Mercantile Co., 524 Gratiot avenue, Detroit, Michigan. 517 HELP WANTED. Wanted—A registered pharmacist at Neumeister’s Drug _ Store, Muskegon, Michigan. Give references and years of experience. 760 Wanted—Young married man with ex- perience in shoe business to take charge of stock in small town Central Michigan. References required. Address No. 842, eare Tradesman. 842 POSITION WANTED. Demonstrating Salesman—Tea, coffee, tobacco, or food products, specialty ad- 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 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 Stocks Wanted—If you are desirous of selling your stock, tell me about it. I may be able to dispose of it quickly. My service free to both buyer and seller. E. Kruisenga, 44-54 Ellsworth Ave., Grand Rapids, Michigan. 7 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—County store doing fine business; stock, $5,000; building and fix- tures, $5,000. Reason for selling. death in family. RR: Wetmore, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, R. F. D 850 a) py THE NATIONA, 20, lh Or Fine STS a Will Not Ignite from Flying vertising or distributing, open for posi- tion. Address No. 853, care hc on (HMR) Reduces Fire Insurance Sparks or Brands Sold by Rates All Lumber Dealers H. M. Reynolds Asphalt Shingle Co. “Originators of the Asphalt Shingle” Grand Rapids, Mich. to sell. Both Phones 1217 Mail us samples BROWN SWEDISH, RED KIDNEY, MARROWFAT or WHITE PEA BEANS you may wish MOSELEY BROTHERS Grand Rapids, Mich. IMPORTANT CHANGES 1916 TANGLEFOOT 4 Improved Size—Handy Sealed Package Retails 5 Double Sheets for 10c Ask your Jobber or his Salesman for Particulars BANKRUPTCY MATTERS. Proceedings in the Western District of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Feb. 16—In the matter of Charles W. Burdick, bankrupt, Grand Rapids, the final meeting of creditors was held this date. Claims were allowed. The final report and account of the trustee, showing total receipts of $836.99, dis- bursements of $608.29 and a balance on hand of $228.70 was considered and the Same appearing proper for allowance and there being no objection thereto was ap- proved and allowed. The final distribu- tion of the assets was then held up, pending decision on matters upon which contests have arisen. There will be no dividends for general creditors. In the matter of Belle M. Soule, bank- rupt, Grand Rapids, the adjourned first meeting of creditors and examination of the bankrupt have been further adjourn- ed to Feb. 24. Walter A. Savery, of Cadillac, whose furniture stock was closed out under trust mortgages 2 or 3 years ago, has filed a voluntary petition to free himself from indebtedness which aggregates $15,383.26. Adjudication has been made and the matter referred to Referee Wicks. The first meeting of creditors has been called for March 6. at which time creditors may appear, prove their claims, elect a trustee and transact such other and further busi- ness aS may properly come before such meeting. The schedules of the bankrupt show that there are no assets and the following are listed as debtors: A. Iindstrom, Cadillac .......... $ 66 Cream City Bedding Co., Milwauke 406.37 Cadifiae State Bank 2 ...(0 0 6,561.56 Traverse City Mattress & Bed- Cine Ce 56.13 Caditine Gas Co 92 94 West. Mich. Furn. Co., Holland.. 107.65 Gunn Furniture Co., Grand Rapids 7.35 Heystek & Canfield, Grand Rapids 6.23 W. (@assler, Cadillac ....... 2. 336.00 National Woodenware C@e., Grand Rawson. 5.60 a Wo Lind, Cadillac... 20.35 Standard Oil Co., Grand Rapids .. -b2 i. W. Stout, Chicago ... 1.87 Carrom Co., Ludington _....... 12.44 C. W. Mills Paper Co., Grand Joy Oly ee 39.72 Snyder Fuller Mfg. Co., Lake Odessa... 8 29.12 Pollock Huston Co., Philadelphia 11.40 W. 3. Sintth Cadillac... 2... 5.00 a. W. Bade, Saginaw ... ... |. 136.70 G. ©. Graham, Cadillac ...:.._... 3.29 H. S. Kneeland, Cadillac .......... 4.93 James Mather, Cadillac ..... -- 56.00 Cadillac Light & Water Co......... 21.34 Lyon Bros. & Co., Baltimore ...... 80.66 St. Johns Table Co., Cadillac .... 75.3 Marion Despatch, Marion ........ 2.26 E. Weiner, Milwaukee ............ 78.18 Cadillac Chair Co., Cadillac ...... 20.42 Columbia Phonograph Co., Chicago 54.12 Kline Garment Co., Detroit ...... 24.98 Harwood Barley Manufacturing Ce Marion, ind §.:.. 63.12 Worcester China Co., E. Liverpool 10.08 Charlotte Manufacturing Co., Chamoite 0000. cease | =6=EZS Hoosier Manufacturing Co., New Caste 2.00.0. 206.95 Herpolsheimer Co., Grand Rapids 1,648.86 Korff Manufacturing Co., Lansing 14.45 F. Schantz Co., Hamilton, O. .... 27.48 Palruba Manufacturing Co., Phila- Relphia 92. 26:5 ee, 62.49 Binghamton Chair Co., Bingham- On Nk 36.59 Gardner Wire Co., Chicago ........ 9:15 Grand Ledge Chair Co., Grand OAR ee 17.36 Standard Sewing Machine Co., Cleveland .... 7 30.02 F. Deinzer & Son, Detroit ........ 11.90 Hot Blast Feather Co., Grand AIR ee 75 56 Seneca Glass Co., Morgantown, We i 7:29 Diamond Steele Truck Co., Grand Bapids ................ 8 74 Luce Furniture Co., Grand Rapids 1.44 Taylor Chair Co., Bedford, O. .. 38.57 M. Oppenheimer, Cleveland ...... 101.49 Miller Hall & Son, Chicago 16.07 BE. Jordan Planing Mill, BE. Jordan 25.80 Peck & Hills Furn. Co., Chicago 28.19 Hugh Nelson, Philadelphia ....... 61.42 Cooney & Smith, Saginaw ........ 59.67 Edson, Moore & Co., Detroit ...... 46.41 Luce Redmond Chair Co., Big Bagias . oe 36.31 Crocker Chair Co., Sheboygan 116.44 3. Amspach, Cadifiac .............. 49.33 Big Rapids Furniture Co. ........ 35.09 Brueck Sectional Book Case Co., SAPINOW oo. ee. J. Bub Co., Milwaukee Belding Hall Co., Belding ........ 4 Bedell Manufacturing Co., Marion 6.7 Business Men’s Paper Press Co., MVGVIOMO oo ce le ee 8.67 The Billow Lupfer Co., Columbus _ 33.23 Harry J. Dean Co., Detroit ...... 30.55 Foster Bros. Manufacturing Co., ATR ee 15.82 Citizens Telephone Co., Cadillac .. 1.79 Globe Wernicke Co., Cincinnati .. 7.28 Guernsey Earthenware Co., Cam- bridge . 103 Globe Bosse World Co., Cincinnati 82.06 J. E. Graelick Co., Traverse City 24.83 W. Cc. Holt Manufacturing Co., Libertyville, Tl .......-52..... 43.68 Hodges Fibre Carpet Co.. N. Y. .. 279.34 Imperial Furniture Co., Grand MAOIG ....56.5- ccc hee eee hae 12.32 Ihling Bros., Kalamazoo .......... 821 H. Leonard & Son, Grand Rapids ee 2.9) Murphy Chair Co., Detroit ........ -92 Miller Cabinet Co., Rochester, N. Y. 24.08 Milwaukee Bedding Co. .......... - 56.98 Major Gladys Co., Three Rivers .. 8.59 Norther Furniture Co., Sheboygan 190.93 New Method Varnish Co., Pittsburg 12.53 National Sweeper Co., Newark .... 9 -. T. Owen Co., Cleveland ...... 18.67 Pitkin & Brooks, Chicago ........ 46 0. C: Pelter, Cadillac ~.... | 28.75 J. D. Martin, Grand Rapids ...... 30.99 Roos Manufacturing Co., Grand Maps 50. 6.54 G..C. Stewart, Cadillac ............ 2.81 Shedd Wright Manufacturing Co., Minneapolis 20... 8.87 Union Wire Mattress Co., Chicago 41.26 Union Mattress Co., Owosso ...... 15.59 U. O. Colson Co., Paris, lil. ...... 8.40 Wolverine Manufacturing Co., Demet ooo 29.42 Wellsville China Co., Wellsville 5.46 J. J. Weber, Pirie, Pa. .2........-2 71.58 Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Co., Ionia 3.73 Beaver & Diggins, Cadillac ...... 22.22 W. -cas.: uentz, Caditing ...2... 21 .. 11.20 Cadillac Grocer ©o. ............... 14.33 Peter Parson, Cadillac ............ 91.83 The Art Bed Co., Chicago ........ 78.59 Merchants Syndicate Co. ......... 73.92 National Pub. Co., Detroit ........ 35.84 Osborne Boynton & Osborne, Dew Oit oe es 3.18 J. A. Coffey, Cadillac .:........... 1.38 Peoples Savings Bank, Cadillac Si.03 Cadillac Globe Pub. Co. .......... 4.25 Bigler, Jeffers, Mesick ............ 18.67 M. B. M. Co., Grand Rapids 22.03 George & Rever, Milwaukee .... 27.00 Bates Adv. Co., unknown ........ 74.00 ‘ Huckleberry & Watson, Cadillac 3.89 Stanley & Ramm, St. Petersburg, Hionida: ooo 18.00 kK GO. 7. M. Lodge, Cagiliac .... i183 Tuttle & Clark Detroit .......... 27.00 Chicago Rubber Co. ,Chicago ...... 5.00 ta M. Ballard, Cadillac ........:. 18.00 Liability as Endorser. E.. &. Chappel, Belding .......... $1,000.00 Foster Reynolds Co., New York My ee ee 135.00 Manhattan Market St. Petersburg, Mlorida .2 ee 150.00 Center National Bank, St. Peters- bure, Win | 200.60 Citz. Ice & Storage Co., St. Petersbure, Pin oc... 123.14 Jarnin & Herkins St. Petersburg, Bioriga os eee ee 18.3 St. Petersburg Independent, .... 3.1 . G. Foley, St. Petersburg, Fla. 110.00 Blt Witt, Tampa, Pia. 2... co: 25.75 8B. A. Railton, Chicaro ...2.. 0... 2: 26.00 A. Males, Beldine .......:.......; 26.75 Albert Peck & Co., Chicago ...... 81.45 Edward Hayward, Grand Rapids, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, adjudication has been made and the matter referred to Referee Wicks. The schedules of the bankrupt reveal that there are no assets not claim- ed as exempt and the following are list- this day ed as creditors of the bankrupt. All of Grand Rapids, except two. Preferred. City of Grand Rapids ............ $ 14.03 Secured. Cora M. Muller, Buffalo ........ $1,000.00 A’ 6B. Mmawisen 22... ..2....5:...5 65. E. AS Moher |)... 3... ese. ste. 50.00 Unsecured. ie 3. H Bronson «...-.. 2.23.2 $ 62.50 Hi. Camppell | osc. 54.00 Ko Fae es ee 21.00 He. SORGD coo ek 20.00 Cc O. & A: DB Peerter ......-... 17.40 Estate of Thomas M. Koon ...... 16.50 Estate of Mary Nater ............ 15.00 Mich. State Telephone Co. ...... 11.00 CG. G. Watkins ..-........-.-...... 4.88 Perkins Machinery Co. ........... 3.85 C. HL Whitney, Kent City ........ 5.00 Dr, W. W. Kriestead ............ 3.00 ao. W. Goeme ... 3... se ee ei ee 1.29 JACOB POE oe ee 1.40 Michigan Tire Co. . 2... coe ees 6.75 J: eo Mommilte (2.8 3.35 a. W. Mopper ....._.-............ 30.00 Feb. 17—In the matter of Louis Gold- man, bankrupt, Cadillac, the adjourned first meeting of creditors was held this date. The claims filed subsequent to the first meeting were approved and allowed and the trustee authorized to pay a first dividend of 10 per cent. to creditors. Dividend will go forth within a few days. Feb. 18—William J. Fairbairn, of Big Rapids, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. adjudication made and the matter referred to Referee Wicks. The estate contains no assets. The first meeting has been called for March 6, at which time creditors may appear, prove claims and elect a trustee if desired. The following constitute the sole liability of the bankrupt: Unsecured. William H. Sieverling, Springfield, io ee. pee eee coat ae $2,562.88 Renger & Vonk, copartners, Grand Rapids, have filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, adjudication made and the matter referred to the referee. The first meeting of creditors has been called for March 7, at which time creditors may appear, prove their claims, elect a trus- tee and transact such other and further business as may come before the meet- ing. The bankrupts were formerly en- gaged in the contracting and building business at Grand Rapids. The schedules of the partnership bankrupt show asset listed at $6,745.00 and the liabilities are shown at $8,523.43 with the following MICHIGAN TRADESMAN shown as_ creditors—all residents >f Grand Rapids: Preferred. City of Grand Rapids, taxes ....$ 2.18 i. Wan Sprang 2200... cece 90:20 W. Ver WS ..2..22255 2; betes -«- 14.50 Secured. : Stlies Bros: 6.0. $3,700.00 CAL SReATS 200 ke 300.00 S. Al Morman Co. .2.-.2 3... 634. 232.00 Standard Builders Supply Co. .. 276.00 G. R. Builders Supply Co. ..... 75.00 GR. Marble Co... ............. 86.00 G. R. Savings Bank ......... ---. 375.00 am 6Senpafsma foo es. 48.0 Nouma Bros. ........ ee sie ss - 210.00 John Modderman ................ 286.00 Dunn Electric Co. ................ 60.00 fom Thacener § oo eee 6, 140.00 Unsecured. M. Brandy & Sons ...:........... $ 40.00 spears & Son ...,...:....... Sense 800 S SOCM cscs co ae. yen ee eas 334.41 Hoster, Stevens Co, <............. 161.50 J. 0M oe 82.00 Heystek & Canfield ......... tee 55.00 Michigan Face Brick Co. ........ 290.00 Golden & Boter 2.2.05 ....0..2... 156.00 Toledo Plate Glass Co. ............ 204.00 ra 107.00 Wo OH oe ee ke. Soc eee 5.6 F. H. McDonald : Martin Proos ..... 57. ga. ROQZO ee ee cg 115.00 puma BNOS Ee : wv. Moeaderman .......2..0.... 123. 165.00 E. Fulton Plumbing Co. .......... 46.00 ac) PAATASA ke ck ek 12.00 Ryakamp Bros. |.) 2... ....... 8: 6.45 Boonstoppel & Hollebeck .......... 38.00 a2, 3. Deneishot oe ee. 35.55 So VOPR ee 57.15 WA Dweema 2 58.10 Seerle Bros jo 10.00 Wrykes-Schroeder Co. ............ 36.68 Tombard Hetx & Washburn 7.50 GB. Miectric Go. |. 60 * 106.00 Stadt: Hardware Co. ......5)...... 19.00 Liability as Endorser. G: Ro Savings Bank .. 20.0.0... : 50.00 Individual Liability of Edw. ee BS) Wesseuus 206 5.0 Steele: Bros.) oo) ee 26.50 Ae Boer 2 ec. 89.00 ©. Al Spears & Son ooo. 5 0235. . 49.00 me PASSink 68. ee. 36.00 Schaarsma ooo 6b. cco 21.00 Kent State Bank ......:......... 70.00 Individual Liability of H. Vonk. Stiles) res oe ee $ 900.00 Dunn Blectric Co. 20.23: 65.6... 50.00 We Beyne 2.2. oe 159.00 Weatherly Co. 22.050 .525..2..25:. 28.50 Bert Boersma § 5. ee 24.00 Lombard, Hext & Washburn .... 35.00 ©. Ao Spears & Son ......2..555.. 189.00 Feb. 19—In the matter of George W. Roup, bankrupt, the trustee has filed his first report and account and a special meeting of creditors for the payment of the first dividend has been called for March 2. Feb. 21—In the matter of Ray IL. Welch, bankrupt, the first meeting of creditors was held this date. It appeared from the examination of the bankrupt that the estate contained no assets and no trustee was appointed. There will be no dividends and the estate will be closed at the expiration of twenty days. In the matter of Joseph Beitz, bank- rupt, Grand Rapids, the first meetinz of creditors was held. Walter S. Pa!mer. Grand Rapids, was elected trustee. Claim® were allowed and the meeting adjourned to March 3. In the matter of the Roi-All Fluid Co., bankrupt, Grand Rapids, the trustee has filed his first report and account showing total receipts of $2.074.56, disbursements of $190.10 and a balance on hand of $1,884.46. A special meeting of creditors has been called for March 8. In the matter of Charles E. Norton Co., bankrupt, Grand Rapids, the trustee has filed his final report and account which shows the following: Total re- ceipts of $19,242.74; disbursements as fol- lows: Preferred claims, $573.37; adminis- tration expenses, $536.21; first dividend of 10 per cent. to creditors, $8,149.25; total disbursements of $9,258.83, and a kalance on hand of $9,983.91. A special and final meeting of creditors will be called abovt ten days hence and the final dividend to creditors ordered paid. The state should pay approximately 20 per cent., which is more than was expected when the failure occurred. ——_—_. >> —————— Where Does She Find ’Em. The editor in charge of the per- sonal enquiry column of a Detroit newspaper opened his_ seventieth letter with a groan. “T have lost three husbands,” the lady reader had written’ confiden- tially, “and now have the offer of a fourth. Shall I accept him?” The editor dropped his pen in the ink. This was the last straw. “If you’ve lost three husbands,” he wrote, “I should say you are much too careless to be trusted with a fourth.” February 28, 1916 Masqueraded as a Merchant. Mason, Feb. 22—Dansville people have been considerably stirred up during the past few days over a stranger who came into town, giving his name as Mr. Stoffer, and claim- ing to have purchased the Radford store building where he would short- ly put in a stock of general merchan- dise and drugs. He spoke of his touring car and his six ton auto truck and talked of organizing a bank and of promoting an electric road to Mason. He hired help to work in his store, a man to drive his truck, order- ed a new stove and three tons of coal, and finally, after several busy days in town, telephoned to William- ston to a garage man to come after him to get some repairs for his auto. He met the man in the country a little way from Dansville and with a plausible story induced him to turn around, taking him into the machine and driving back to Williamston. Here he eluded Mr. Gorsline, the driver of the machine, and boarded a train bound for Lansing. He had evidently never seen Mr. Radford, the owner of the store, and it is known that he gained access to the building through a cellar window. He left an unpaid board bill and ran his face for a shave before leaving town. Butter, Poultry, Beans and Potatoes. - Buffalo, Feb. 23—Creamery butter, extras, 3314@34c; first, 31@32c; com- mon, 26@28c; dairy, common to good, 20@26c; all kinds, 18@20c. Eggs, Cheese — Fancy, new, 1714@18; choice, 17@17%c. Eggs—Choice, new laid, 2314@24; storage candled 18@20c. Poultry (live)—Chicks per Ib. 18@ 20c; cox, 12@13c; fowls, 18@20c; ducks, 20@21c; geese, 15@16c; tur- keys 18@22c. Poultry (dressed)—Chicks, 18@21c: fowls, 17@19c; ducks, 18@2ic; geese, 15@17c; turkeys, 22@26c. Beans—Medium, $3.80; pea, $3.80; Red Kidney, $4.50@5; White Kidney, $5; Narrow, $4.50@5. Potatoes—$1.10@1.15 per bu. Rea & Witzig. —_—_~+<»—___ This Story Has Color. The grocer had just put a new boy to work, and among the other in- structions was this: “If you do not happen to have just what a customer asks for, suggest something else as nearly like it as possible.” Soon a woman came into the store and asked the boy: “Have you any fresh green stuff to-day?” “No, ma’am,” answered the boy, “but we have some nice bluing.” —_>7--_ Harlie J. Edson has purchased the James Wickham meat market and will continue the business at the same location, 1408 Plainfield avenue. BUSINESS CHANCES. For Sale—Remnant shoe stock of about 125 pairs. Address Box 347, Saranac, Michigan. 88 Young married man wishes position in department store where sarvices will be appreciated and chance for advancement. Can dress windows, write sales caids, advertise and look after general store details. Six years’ experience as clerk. floor walker and assistant manager. If you want a steady man, write me. Al references. Box 882, care Tradesman. 882 Will trade you general merchandise fcr store fixtures. What have you? A. L, Redman, Olney, Mlinois. S83 “To Exchange—For stock general mer- chandise, 107-acre Illinois farm, pbrand new improvements, well located. A. 1. Redman, Olney, Illinois. 884 Store to Rent in Dansville, N. Y.— Finest dry goods store in county, 55 years continuous occupancy; 30 years by Spinning, Uhl & Co. and successor. Main floor 110 feet, carpet room second floor. Pivotal center Main street. Furnace, city water ,modern conveniences. Posses- sion. given April 1, 1916. Rent $7f9. F. Fielder, Dansville, N. Y 885 <¥ the counter. KG Bakinc Powber The best at any price. Free from adulteration. It will pay you to push K C Jaques Mfg. Co., Chicago | ony F Trail of && hal) an DUTCH MASTERS SECONDS Will stimulate your trade. Handled by all jobbers. G. J. 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