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Thirty-Third Year

SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page.
- Detroit Detonations.
News of the Business World.
Grocery and Produce Market.
The White Estate.
- Three Essentials,
Editorial.
The Buchu King.
- Dry Goods.
Financial.
- Anti-Discrimination Law.
Hardware.
Shoes.
Woman’s World.
The Meat Market.
23. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
24. The Commercial Traveler.
26. Drugs.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
30. Special Price Current.
31. Business Wants,

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PROMISES AND PERFORMANCE

The second year is well advanced
since the President of the United States
warned the German government that it
would be “held to a strict accountability”
for any loss of American lives resulting
from the methods of submarine war-
fare already threatened. It is now a
full twelvemonth that German subma-
rine commanders, in disregard of this
warning, have been engaged in the busi-
ness of killing American travelers and
seamen voyaging on the high seas under
their lawful occasions under the sup-
posed protection of a Government which
has declared that it will not “omit any
word or any act” necessary to defend
its citizens in the exercise of this “in-
disputable right.” It is more than six
months since the German Ambassador,
in the name of his government, gave our
Secretary of State the solemn assurance
that “liners will not be sunk by German
submarines without warning and with-
out safety of the lives of non-com-
batants.” While this tragic farce of
American threats and German promises
goes on, the submarine commanders
continue diligently about their business;
and the steady toll of lives of American
men, women and children continues to
be paid to the German Admiralty. The
new and monstrous catalogue of ships
grows month by month—Falaba, Gulf-
light, Lusitania, Arabic, Hesperian, Per-
sia, Ancona, Englishman, Sussex—until
a crime that once shook us all with
horror and indignation becomes so com-
mon that instances of it impress the
memory too little to be recalled. Month
after month is repeated—and with cir-
cumstances of increasing recklessness
and atrocity—an act which our Govern-
ment long since declared it must regard
as “a violation of many sacred principles
of justice and humanity,” and as “de-
liberately unfriendly’ to the United
States. Yet the German Ambassador,
his official promises again and again
broken, remains at Washington, doubt-
less to make new promises upon the

occasion of new crimes; and the Ameri-
can Government, omitting, indeed, few
words, thus far omits all action which
could give to its past words, or to any
which it may hereafter utter, any in-
fluence upon the actual conduct of the

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1916

war, or any weight or dignity in the
eyes of either belligerent or neutral na-
tions.

Surely the time has come when the
most patient and the most pacific of
Governments can suffer itself to be
played upon no longer; when, at the
least, it must discontinue diplomatic in-
tercourse with the agents of a power
habitually engaged in the unlawful
slaughter of American citizens and
habitually disregardful of its pledged
word.

Nor can it suffice that diplomatic rela-
tions with the Central Powers be sever-
ed. It is high time, also, for the United
States to take the initiative in calling
a conference of neutral nations for the
vindication of international maritime
law, the protection of the lives of non-
combatants on the sea, and the general
defence of neutral rights. For the past
fortnight has made it evident that the
German submarine campaign has enter-
ed upon a phase transcending even the
record of the preceding year. It is no
longer a question of the destruction of
armed merchantmen of belligerents, or
of vessels carrying munitions of war to
enemy ports. Germany now appears to
be running amuck on the high seas, sow-
ing mines broadcast and destroying
without warning any ships that her tor-
pedoes can reach—outward-bound ves-
sels, unarmed vessels, neutral vessels,
even neutral vessels bound for neutral
ports. The perils of seafaring have con-
sequently become so great that neutral
sailors in large numbers refuse to leave
port. Germany, in short, seems to have
begun in the international domain of
the sea that policy of designed Schreck-
lichkeit which was so successful in Bel-
gium in August and September of 1914.
Such an enterprise is a challenge of the
entire civilized world. It raises the ques-
tion whether the society of nations can,
and dare, defend its most essential in-
terests against utter lawlessness. To
that question there should be no doubt-
ful answer. And it is the manifest duty
of the strongest of the non-belligerent
powers to take the lead in such action
as may express the outraged moral sense
of mankind and may finally make it bit-
terly clear to the offending government
that to declare a general war against
the laws and rights of nations and the
most fundemental principles of human-
ity is not, after all, a profitable ex-
pedient.

 

The muse sometimes keeps the poet
awake, but it is the mews of the cat
that disturb the slumbers of other
people.

 

An evening call is productive of
much pleasure—if not when you come,
at least when you go.

 

 

 

It doesn’t cost half as much to live
as it does to make a good impression
on your neighbors.

UTILIZE THE TELEPHONE.
A young girl called at a leading gro-
cery with a request for a certain food
product of which they happened to be
just out. She willingly accepted a sub-
stitute for the somewhat rare article
desired. As she was leaving the clerk
asked her name and telephone number,
in order that he might call her up as
soon as the product, expected daily, ar-
rived. When informed that she lived
out of town and had no phone, he said:
“Well, I can drop you a postal card
then.” His willingness to bear ‘her
wish in mind was fully appreciated.
It is this readiness to go to a little
extra work to better serve the public
which counts. And the thought comes,
how many use their telephone service
to the best advantage? Some of the
chances come in the midst of a rush
of other duties. Yet if the pencil and
memorandum are busy with the wants
which cannot at the time be filled, the
efficiency of your service will be in-
creased. It will take more care and
more book-keeping for this list of
desirables cannot legitimately be includ-
ed with the regular orders unless you
make it one. But if there is a call for
something which you do not always keep
in stock, your readiness to remember
when the next supply comes and gives
the prospective purchaser another
chance, may prove a mutual advantage.
Again, use the phone when a choice
bit of fruit, an extra consignment of
potatoes, a special bargain in any staple
product is received. If you have a cus-
tomer who is particularly fond of
certain article, remember him when you
have a choice offering.

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If there is a
call for maple sugar before the first
offering of the spring is made, take a
mental or pencil note of the fact and
call him up on the phone as soon as
you are able to fill the order. This is
not only making a chance for sale, but
to the one who wants the goods it comes
aS a personal service, and, as such, it
is sure to be appreciated.

 

LEMONS TO THE FRONT.

This is the season when lemons are
especially needed to clear out the sys-
tem. If one is inclined to billiousness
there is no better medicine than a lemon
a day, eaten without sugar. If one is
inclined to malaria or typhoid threatens,
lemon juice added to the drinking water
is sometimes an antidote. If a cold
threatens, it again comes to the aid.
Best of all, it is an all-season medium
for refreshing the system. Lemons
should be in more general use.

Give one corner in your window dis-
play to a good collection. If you will,
make out a list of the things which
lemons may be used for. With salt, the
laundress finds lemon juice a means of
removing ink and others of the most
stubborn stains. As a shampoo, it is a
scalp cleanser with few equals. It takes

Number 1697

the place of vinegar and in a more
dainty way in the various salad dressings.
In fact, few fruits have a wider range
of usefulness the year round, and na-
ture has supplied it to us almost con-
tinuously because it is so necessary.
There are all sorts of lemons and
some of the least promising prove the
thinnest in rind and the most juicy. You
may have some of the new varieties—
so large that they will be liable to be
mistaken for grape fruit unless you

label them. Large or small, they can

be made into a most artistic window.
They deserve to have a special place.
This is the season when lemon pies
should rule. The fruit is wholesome as
well as inexpensive. If we ate more
lemons and less rich pastry, there would
be fewer doctor’s bills to pay. Sound
the virtues of the lemon every chance
Next to the apple and the
orange, it may be said to have no real
competitors in usefulness.

you have.

 

According to the wireless a decree
“to the effect
that minors engaged in gainful occupa-
tions shall not have more than 18 marks
weekly of their earnings, together with

has been issued in Berlin

a surplus amounting to not more than
one-third the amount paid in excess of
18 marks. The residue must be de-
posited in savings banks, not to be with-
drawn during the war.’ When you
recall that 18 marks is $4.28 of our
money, it will be plain that the imperial
government is holding its youth to a
slim allowance, even figuring in the
excess which they may draw. While the
reason given for this proceeding is to
prevent the young from wasting their
earnings, it may well be believed, too,
that the government needs the money.
With it once in the banks, there is a
chance for the government to utilize the
considerable sum that can be accumu-
lated in this way. In any event the sit-
uation is interesting, particularly when
one raises the question of how Young
America would take to the idea of
having his expenditures limited by law.

A RD

 

A valuable and interesting booklet has
been issued by the Department of the
Interior. It is entitled “Glimpses of
Our National Parks.’

useful information for Americans, giv-

It is a mine of

ing in condensed form essential scenic
facts about all our National parks. Its
original purpose was to carry to chil-
dren in the public schools the gospel
of our own natural scenery and famil-
iarize them with the distinguishing
characteristics of each National park.
The booklet, however, will be prized by
adults, those who have visited one or
more of the parks and those who have
not, but who intend to do so some day.
The sooner that day comes the better
for them, for they will find scenic beau-
ties not surpassed by any foreign coun-
try. The booklet is a free Government
publication,

 

 

DETROIT DETONATIONS.

Cogent Criticisms From Michigan’s
Metropolis.

Detroit, March 27—Detroit bank
clearings for the last week totaled
$36,011,608.99, a gain of $13,681,249
over the same week of last year.

J. Rogers has opened a confection-
ery store at 130 Kercheval avenue.

Neuman Bros., 2385 Jefferson av-
enue, East will open another drug
store at the corner of Jefferson and
Lillibridge as soon as alterations on
the building at that location are com-
pleted,

Paul Proud, department manager
for the William Goodyear Co., Ann
Arbor, was in Detroit last week on a
business trip.

Usually a fellow feels elated to have
his picture displayed in a magazine,
especially is said fellow pleased when
the picture was one taken a few years
before, showing the facial expression
of much younger person than he hap-
pens to be to-day. It was different,
however, with Elmer Brevitz, whose
handsome profile was displayed in the
Tradesman last week. Elmer stated
that he regretted that he had not fur-
nished a later picture of himself, in
spite of the occasional appearance of
a “worry wrinkle.”

SmitH & Doyle opened a restaurant
at 903 Mack avenue Monday.

Leo Lefevre has resigned his po-
sition as city representative for Burn-
ham, Stoepel & Co. and with his
brother, Walter Lefevre, of the Bur-
roughs Adding Machine Co., and
George Siess, shoe dealer at 487 Grand
River avenue, will engage in the re-
tail shoe business at the corner of
Marquette and Trumbull avenues.
The new store will be opened about
April 15 and will be under the man-
agement of the Lefevre Brothers,
which will be the style of the firm.
Mr. Siess will continue the manage-
ment of the Grand River avenue store.

Now that officers of the various
United Commercial Travelers coun-
cils in the State have been elected,
as have the delegates to the Grand
Council meeting to be held in Trav-
erse City next June, ample time is
allowed to study the defects, if any,
of the organization and the State laws
affecting the commercial travelers.
To those on the outside there appears
to be much that can be accomplished.
Among others there is the date of the
annual meeting, which invariably is
set for the same week as the Elk’s
State meeting. Hundreds of travel-
ing men are members of both organ-
izations and not a few prefer the
Elk’s convention of the two, but
would be pleased to attend both if
the dates could be arranged satisfac-
torily, It is to be hoped, for the
good of the U. C. T., that this will be
considered at the meeting. Some
method will have to be devised where-
by the State will be compelled to en-
force the law relating to the furnish-
ing of individual towels. Since it
has become known that there is no
official to compel observance of the
law, many hotels have reverted to the
use of the disease breeding roller towel.
Indications point to one of the ban-
ner Grand Council meetings and a
better city than Traverse City could
not be found anywhere in which to
hold it.

The Griesell Baking Co., of Flint,
has purchased the Pope Baking Co.
of this city, and the business will be
under the management of J. M. Grie-
sell. The plant is located at 2383
Jefferson avenue, East.

Thomas J. Flattery, who has been
engaged as hat designer by the best
stores in Detroit for the past few
years, has engaged in the hat business
for himself and has secured as an as-
sistant, Frank C. Locke, practical hat-
ter and considered by many as one of
the best in the country. Mr. Locke has
been in the employ of the Dickerson
hat store on Woodward avenue.

A. Net has opened a delicatessen

store and lunch room at 672 Gratiot
avenue,

The coldest spring weather is yet
to come. The base ball season opens
April 20.

J. F. Ryan, in charge of one of the
Detroit Agencies of the National
Cash Register Co. for the past three
years, has been appointed manager
of the Toledo branch and has al-
ready taken charge. Before coming
to Detroit, Mr. Ryan covered the
territory adjacent to Lansing, making
his headquarters in that city. Since
coming to Detroit he has made many
friends who are pleased to hear ot
his promotion. He has been suc-
ceeded in this city by Albert Hatten-
back.

Fred Schlier, department manager
for the B. E. Muehlig department
store, at Ann Arbor, was in Detroit
on_a business trip last week.

The Standard Motor Truck Co.,
496-500 Bellevue, has purchased a site
on the M. C. Railway, near Lafayette
avenue, and will begin the construc-
tion of a modern three story factory
immediately.

One of the cheapest forms of in-
surance is that accorded members of
Cadillac Council. It is known as
Cadillac Council Burial Fund. A.W.
Wood, custodian of the fund, reports
many recent additions to the organ-
ization and believes that if understood
properly every member of the Council
would join without hesitation—at
least they should.

A. C. Klett, haberdasher at 63 Mon-
roe avenue, is about to open an-
other store at 73 Monroe avenue.

To re-open an old wheeze, it would
be an ideal time to call for volunteers
to Uncle Sam’s army. Spring house
cleaning is almost upon us.

Cards have been received announc-
ing the twenty-fifth anniversary and
opening of the new store of the F.
N. Arbaugh Co., at Lansing, March
29. The completion recently of the
five-story addition of the Arbaugh
store gives that firm the largest
amount of floor space of any depart-
ment store in Central or Southern
Michigan.

The Krupp firm subscribed $10,000,-
000 to the latest war loan. This is
an instance of taking it from the right
pocket and placing it in the left
pocket.

The Pyrene Co., manufacturer of
fire extinguishers, New’ York, has
opened a branch office at 811 Wood-
ward avenue. Edward Arnold has
been placed in charge and will have
a force of salesmen under him who
will cover the city and adjacent ter-
ritory.

Villa at least has let the world
know there is such a place as Colum-
bus, New Mexico.

Our two weeks’ lethargy ends with
this column. Watch the columns
grow.

Diplomacy is now the need of the
day. Spring togs are requested by
the missus.

Saw her looking over the 9x12
rug several times this week.

Time to beat it,

James M. Goldstein.

Cod liver oil dealers are worried
over their supply. The stocks on
hand in this country have been re-
duced to less than 500 barrels and the
price has gone up from $100 to $150
a barrel and threatens to go much
higher. Fishing operations were in-
terfered with because of the war and
the catch so far this season has been
too small to amount to anything in
relieving the shortage.

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The Brower Co, has been incorpor-
ated to manufacturer furniture, novel-
ties and furnishings of all kinds, with
an authorized capital stock of $5,000,
of which amount $2,750 has been sub-
scribed, $1,150 paid in in cash and
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, March 27—Yours
truly was sure shown up last week by
his very capable substitute, A. N.
Borden. The effort was very much
appreciated and the prediction is that
some one is likely to work himself in-
to a job.

Otto Heinzelman says he doesn’t
care to throw any bouquets at him-
self, but he considers himself some
dancer. He will challenge any male
man to compete with him for terp-
sichorean honors, the judge to be any
fair lady capable of keeping her corns
protected during the performance.

The Grand Rapids Screen Co. has
been awarded the contract to furnish
screens for the new U. B. A. hos-
pital.

The H. M. Reynolds Roofing Co.
has been awarded the contract to fur-
nish 500 squares of red rock asphalt
shingles to cover the pavilion at Ra-
mona. The surface to be covered
would require 500,000 wood singles.

The Kent Storage Co. is remodeling
its building on Front avenue, This
change will provide ‘for a new up-to-
date office and an addition of several
freezing and cold storage rooms. It
will also construct a tunnel under the
railroad tracks leading from the build-
ing to the Grand Rapids Lumber Co.
building which it recently purchased
to use as dry storage.

The Grand Rapids Auto’ Dealers’
Association will establish a touring
bureau at the Pantlind Hotel, with an
attendant in charge, to furnish infor-
mation to auto tourists as to the dif-
ferent points of interest located
throughout the State.

The Graham & Morton Transporta-
tion Co. has started the steamer Puri-
tain on her summer schedule between
Holland and Chicago.

R. T. White, formerly manager of
the Bell exchange at the Soo, has been
appointed local manager of the com-
mercial department of the Michigan
State Telephone Co.

Kent county will spend $200,000 on
good roads the coming year. Due to
the speed of everyday life, good roads
are very essential to save us from
frequent shocks.

Arthur Waite has heen accused of
everything except that of being a
traveling man. There is no doubt,
however, but that he will travel when
the New York prosecutor gets
through with him.

We thought we heard a robin yes-
terday, but it was a neighbor’s cat.
The railroad officials have notified
us that the new spring time table will
be out early in July,

Charles N. N, Cushway, who for-
merly conducted a store at Henry, ex-
pects to open a new store at Kaleva
about April 1. The Worden Grocer
Company is furnishing the stock.

The citizens of Frankfort are again
entertaining the hope that the Fron-
tenac Hotel, which was destroyed by
fire about four years ago, will be re-
built soon, Who was it that said that

March 29, 1916

hope long deferred maketh the hear:
sick?

At Mesick last Tuesday there were
thirty-two farm teams lined up at th
depot waiting to obtain loads of hay,
which is very scarce at that point,

Harry D. Allgeo, the popular drue
gist at Wayland, has placed an order
for a Buick light six.

Miller & Sessions, of Fremont, have
moved their stock of men’s clothing
and furnishings across the street in.
to the building formerly occupied by
the Bisbee music store.

Orrin Lake, who runs the billiard
hall in the basement of the Hotel De-
Haas, at Fremont, is preparing to
move into the building formerly oc-
cupied by Miller & Sessions, the
clothiers.

L. G. Graff, proprietor of one of the
most up-to-date garages in the coun-
try, has purchased a large five gallon
gasoline pump and will have it in-
stalled in the near future. The un-
derground container will hold 1,000
gallons. When this outfit is installed,
Fremont will have an equipment at
its service of which any city should be
proud.

Roy Nicholas and wife, of Bangor,
were in the city last week visiting
friends. While here they purchased
a stock of groceries from the Worden
Grocer Company. Fred Beardslee
was the lucky salesman, We all join
in wishing Mr. Nicholas success in
his new venture.

Don’t forget those auto tickets.

Don’t kick a man when he is down,
You don’t know how tall he may be
when he stands up.

If you pay as you go these days
you stay at home.

Let’s fool the new Senior Coun-
selor and turn out in a body at the
next meeting April 1,

The last of the series of dances held
under the auspices of the Grand Rap-
ids Council was given Saturday eve-
ning and a nice turnout proved that
there were many who knew where
to go to enjoy an evening, These
dances have been very successful, both
financially and socially, and creat
heaps of praise is due the hard work-
ing committee whose management en-
sured the success,

Joseph Vandermeer, captain of the
Council degree team, requests a big
turnout Saturday evening, as he is
going to make a selection of material
for the degree team and outline the
tactics for the work. A chance for a
bunch of huskies.

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March 29, 1916

_ The Arlington Hotel, at Coldwater,
is being remodeled. Tile floors and
new decorations make the hotel look
like a new place.

M. Rathbone, manager of the
Morton House since 1884, will re-
sign April 1. He intends taking a
long and deserved vacation.

The Hotel Diamond, at Thompson-
ville, is still taking care of the weary
traveler. Charles H. Diamond is act-
Ing as reception committee and man-
ager.

The Handy Hotel, at Mancelona, is
being renovated. Fresh paint and
new wall paper are very much in evi-
dence.

George Ames, proprietor of the Bar-
ry Hotel, at Hastings, announces that
he is going to add thirty new rooms
to his present building and each room
will be furnished with a shower bath.
The hotel will be conducted on both
the American and European plan.

A “Belgian Relief” quartet singing
in a Chicago theater proved to be
Germans from Milwaukee. That’s all
right. Didn’t the Germans relieve
Belgium of about everything?

Mrs. H. Kaynor, wife of the hotel
proprietor at Bangor, was operated
on last week at Butterworth hospital
for appendicitis. She is reported as
getting along nicely,

John Berg, who has been confined
to his home for the past several weeks
with illness, is improving slowly. He
would be glad to have any of his
friends call.

The executive committee met Sun-
day morning at the home of Secretary
Rockwell and we understand William
Bosman was taken with an indisposi-
tion on the way home. We haven't
learned of the outcome.

C. B. Shuman, President of the A.
H. Lyman Co., of Manistee, died in
Phoenix, Ariz., of tuberculosis. Mr.
Shuman became a victim of the mala-
dy five years ago and in hopes of re-
gaining his health made a trip to the
Southwest. Accompanied by his wife,
he made Phoenix his home for the
time being, but was unable to fight off
the ravages of the plague. Mr. Shu-
man was born in Mainville, Pa., in
1870. At the age of 18 he took a
normal course and was later graduat-
ed from the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy. He worked a short time
for H. K. Mulford & Co., of Phila-
delphia, after which he formed a co-
partnership with Madison & Sherman,
proprietors of the Oakhill Pharmacy,
at Terre Haute, Ind. Thinking out-
side work more desirable he sold out
his interests and traveled for Eli Lil-
ly Co., of Indianapolis, for a while.
In 1896 he came to Manistee, where
he bought an interest in the A. H. Ly-
man Co. He was elected Vice-Presi-
dent of the concern in 1898, Secretary
in 1901 and President in 1903, which
position he held until his death. In
his demise the company loses a good
executive and Manistee an exemplary
citizen.

Cheer up! The U. C. T. ladies are
making big plans for their leap year
party to be given April 29.

In view of the fact that freedom
from the duties of scribe are in sight,
I take this opportunity to thank the
many kind helpers who were instru-
mental in making up the columns for
Gabby Gleanings; also our kind editor,
Mr. Stowe, who no doubt, was sorely
puzzled at times in interpreting my
handwriting. He is to be congratu-
lated on the way he steered shy of
poetry, because he sure did have some
bunches shot at him. I also wish to
use this means to convey my best
wishes to my brother correspondents.

Will see you at the April meeting?

Joseph F. O. Reed, who has been
covering Northern Michigan territory
for the past thirty-six years for H.
Leonard & Sons, of Grand Rapids,
had the misfortune to severely bruise
his side in a fall at Alba one day last
week, which is confining him to his
home in this city. He is improving

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rapidly, however, and will, no doubt,

be able to call on his regular trade

again in the course of a week or two.
L. V. Pilkington.

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Balmy Breezes Blown Over From
Port Huron.

Port Huron, March 27—The auto-
mobile, houses here are having their
opening display of 1916 models.
Beard, Campbell & Co., wholesale
hardware dealers, have recently added
an automobile department. They car-
ry the Oakland, Maxwell and Saxon
cars and recently gave a very attrac-
tive demonstration of all the models
in these cars. The Church garage had
a display this week of the Dodge
cars. The attendance at these open-
ings augurs well for the auto men
here.

The weekly meeting of the Gro-
cers and Butchers’ Association was
held March 22 at the offices of Wil-
liam Canham & Son, wholesale gro-
cers. The chief topic discussed at this
meeting was advertising. This
subject was handled by S. J. Watts,
President and general manager of the
Aikman Bakery Co. Remarks were
also made by W. E. Roach, of the Na-
tional Grocer Co., and F. C. Woods.

The Michigan Bean Co., at the foot
of Grand River avenue is to construct
an attractive dock along the river
in front of its elevator and office build-
ing and will take over the agency for
the D. & C. line of steamers. The
D. & C, line has in the past, been
using the White Star dock, to the
North of this property. The increas-
ed boat service makes these added
facilities necessary.

It is announced that the Y. M. C.
A. has arranged with Ex-President
Taft for a lecture here at the Ma-
jestic theater April 20 upon the sub-
ject “World Relationships.” While in
the city, Mr. Taft will be a guest of
Hon. Henry McMorran. The St. Clair
County Bar Association will tender
him a noon luncheon.

Accotding to statistics recently ob-
tained by the Secretary of the Busi-
ness Men’s Association, the tonnage
over Black River for 1915 was 168,-
305. The total value of this was
about $700,000. The largest items of
this were coal, pulpwood and lum-

ber, Observer.
— +3 2.
New Association Formed at the
Soo.

Cadillac, March 27—Have just re-
turned from Sault Ste. Marie, where
a local Association was organized
with the following officers elected:

President—James Coulter.

Vice-President—- Thomas Haugh.

Treasurer—K. H. Marin.

Secretary—Keitn Clarke.

Conditions surrounding the new
Association will be somewhat diffi-
cult to handle, but the officers selected
are all thoroughly alive to the need
of the retail merchant and will be
supported by the majority of the men
in the retail business.

The new Association is planning a
central delivery system and, if es-
tablished, it will greatly reduce the
present delivery expense and, with
the credit rating bureau, will put the
members in the front ranks in as-
sociation work in the State.

To the members of all associations,
let me direct your attention to an ar-
ticle appearing in Collier's weekly of
March 25 on page 26,-wherein the re-
tail grocer is credited with being
largely the cause of the high prices.
I feel sure that all retail grocers will
read the article with interest.

J. M. Bothwell, Sec’y.

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Courageous Child.
Nellie, aged 4, was gazing in-
tently at the visitor’s new bonnet.
“Well, dear,” asked the lady at last,
“what do you think of it?”
“Oh,” replied the small observer,
“I think it’s all right. Aunt Mary

told mama it was a perfect fright,
but it doesn’t frighten me any.”

Sagacious Suggestions From Saginaw
Salesmen.

Saginaw, March 27—Saginaw’s big
auto show, now going on at the Audi-
torium under the auspices of the Daily
News, is looked forward to as the big-
gest show in the State, outside of De-
troit. Music will be in abundance. Dan
Russo’s orchestra and the big $25,000
pipe organ will do their part in helping
the prospective buyer make up his mind.
“Yes, sir, that’s just the car I’m looking
for. How much is it? Will you take a
first mortgage on my farm in part pay-
ment for the machine?’ “Sure, Mr.”
“All right.” Honk, honk. “Good bye.”

Frank R. Hamburger, Secretary of
the Detroit Credit Men’s Association,
will be chief speaker at the regular
meeting of the Saginaw-Bay City Credit
Men’s Association March 28 in Elks
Temple, Bay City.

R. R. Race, Eastern Michigan repre-
sentative for the Ajax Rubber Co., of
New York, has selected Saginaw as his
abode. Mir. Race just entered the halls
of U. C. T.ism at the last meeting of
Saginaw Council. He came to Saginaw
accompanied by his wife.

Flint is still manufacturing automo-
biles. The P, M. Railroad moved 143
cars loaded with machines out of Auto
Town last Tuesday. The previous rec-
ord was 125 cars. One train of fifty-
seven cars passed through Saginaw, each
car carrying three autos, consigned to
all parts of the United States.

Can you beat it! The Hubbel Auto
Co. has a wager up that it has enough
expert ford men in its shop to assemble
a ford in ten minutes on the stage at
the Franklin Theater Wednesday even-

_ing. Can you imagine me going down

the public highway at a mile a minute
clip and all at once think of how the
darn machine was fluttered together in
ten minutes? Honk, honk, biff, bang,
look out! “Hey, mister, does your horse
mind the smell of gasoline? Please take
me home.”

New wholesale grocery for Saginaw.
Hart Bros., on the West Side, are build-
ing a three-story structure and expect
to start business on a big scale,

Thomas Oliver, veteran representa-
tive for the National Grocer Co., this
city, was forced to give up his trip the
middle of last week, owing to illness.
While we are sorry to know this, we
are willing to het Tom gave the doctor
a smile when he called. That’s one thing
he cannot help doing.

Frederick E. Epley, senior member of
Epley & Sons, Mt. Clemens, popular
grocers, is spending several weeks in
St. Peterburg, Fla. Mt. Clemens is a
good bath town, but when Mt. Clemens
folks want real health and rest and a
good hot bath, they go to Florida.

Anthony Seibert, Mt. Clemens gro-
cer. has gone to Florida. He recently
had a nervous breakdown and was forc-
ed to give up his work and seek rest.

General Manager W. H. Wallace, of
the Michigan Sugar Co., announces that
big improvements and additions will be
made to the Caro, Carrollton, Bay City,
Croswell and Sebewaing sugar factories.
The fact that Congress voted to retain
the tariff on sugar has led the company
to make these big additions and im-
provements. It means a_ wonderful
thing for each of the above towns. Sev-
eral hundred extra men will be employ-
ed by each factory.

Boys. get a clean collar and shine
your shoes. It is going to be a bumper
year for business for everyone.

F. W. Prignitz, of Mt. Clemens, re-
cently sold his grocery stock to Tucker
& Tucker. Mr. Prignitz expects to
open shoe) store on Pine ‘street fin
the near future.

Beavis & Hutchins, of Yale, have dis-
posed of their grocery stock to Palmer
Bros., also of Yale.

So manv business changes have taken
place in Flint recently that it almost
makes one dizzy keeping track of them.

Frank Miller, until recently traveling
representative for the Iroquois Cigar
Co.. has bought the A. Bergman bakery,
on Kersley street, Flint. He is a mem-

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ber of the Flint U. C. T. Frank go to
it. Maybe some of us will drop in and
see you make your dough. Hope you
make lots of it.

C. F. Ghitsas, proprietor of the Sani-
tary restaurant and opera cafe of Flint,
sold the latter to Paul Sarantis, of Bat-
tle Creek, a few days ago.

Rhodes Bros., of Flint, have opened
a grocery store in the building formerly
occupied by R. Huggins. They bought
their opening stock from Moffitt & Sons.

. L. Gough, North street grocer,
Flint, sold out to A. C. Gilbert.

Charles Seeley, of Saginaw, purchased
the V. L. Mason grocery on Industrial
avenue, Flint.

Mrs. T. P. Hoban opened a grocery
store on Ann street, Flint, last week.

M. H. Dick & Co., Flint grocers, re-
cently sold out to J. W. Warner & Co.,
of Lansing.

Frank Truchen, of Flint, has started
in the grocery business on Everett
street.

Cronin & Baldwin, Flint grocers, were
bought out by D. J. Drosti.

B. F. Mattison, for fifteen years in
the grocery business on Oakland avenue,
Pontiac, sold out last Monday to C. B.
Fairchild and G. E. Hoyt, of Pontiac.
Mr. Fairchild was in the employ of
Blynn & Whiting, grocers, for five years.
Mr. Hoyt has worked for the Pontiac
State Hospital for nine years. Mr. Mat-
tison is going into the auto business with
Robert Moule, of Pontiac, who has the
State agency for the Jeffrey automobile.
Mr. Mattison will be greatly missed at
his old stand. He was a fellow who
always welcomed you.

Never in her history has Pontiac en-
joyed such prosperity as now. Truly
she needs it, for a year and a half ago
she was the deadest town in the State. In
December, 1914, there were 500 empty
houses there and to-day you cannot find
a house for rent and few places where
you can even rent rooms. Many men
live in Birmingham, Royal Oak and De-
troit. I say three cheers for the town
that can come back!

A new grocery store was opened in
the Kenwood Hotel block, Pontiac, re-
cently, by George Masrob & Co., of De-
troit, doing a strictly cash business.

If you desire to keep posted on the
markets, read the Tradesman. Many
men have fattened their purses by
doing so, Editor Stowe warned the
grocers more than a month ago to
prepare for the advance in sugar. His
statements relative to the sugar con-
ditions are being proven each week
by the refiners. .Sometimes the editors
do know something after all. At any
rate it only costs $1 a year to have
the best trade paper in Michigan sent
to you. Subscribe now!

William Young, grocer at 386 Lin-
wood avenue, Detroit, has opened a
pure food store at 107 North Sagi-
naw street, Pontiac. William Young,
Jr., is in charge of same.

T. R. once discovered a new river
and then discovered a new political
Now he has discovered a new
bird in the West Indies. Chances
are the little fowl will be like the
moose in time. Everybody will shun
it and probably in time Teddy will
say to the nut eater, “Get thee be-
hind me, for I seek notoriety and thou
hast done nothing towards getting
me back to the G. O. P. roost.”

The ladies of the U. C. T. of this
city were delightfully entertained at
the home of Mrs. Grow last Thurs-
day. After the regular business ses-
sion luncheon was served. Mrs. Grow
was assisted by her sister, Mrs. Sul-
livan. The officers presiding were
Mrs. Ora Lynch, President, Mrs. Mc-
Arthur, Secretary, and Mrs, William
Moeller, Treasurer. Two new mem-
bers were taken in, Mrs. Smith, 1318
Tuscola street and Mrs. L.
Steward.

We have the measles at our house.
L. M., Jr., is the victim, although do-
ing nicely. L. M. Steward.

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Movements of Merchants.

Hobart—A. M. Lood succeeds Lewis
Wenzel in general trade.

Holland—E. E. Post & Son succeed
B. Nykerk in the grocery business.

Alma—Smith & Maney have opened a
music and musical instrument store.

Ashley—R. L. Farnun, formerly of
Millington, has engaged in the drug
business,

Boyne City—W. S. Atwood & Co.
succeed Helfrich & Co, in the grocery
business.

Hillsdale—R. M. Howard, of Jackson,
will open a cigar store and lunch room
about April 5.

Houghton—R. D. Kellow will open a
confectionery and delicatessen store at
142 Sheldon street.

Detroit—The Rowley Scale & Sup-
ply Co. has increased its capital stock
from $15,000 to $25,000.

Ishpeming—Fred A. Young succeeds
F. J. Heindel as manager of the N. E.
Skud Est. general store.

Flint—Cummings Bros., dealers in
auto accessories, has increased its
capital stock from $25,000 to $100,000.

Alto—A. O. Bickford has sold his
grocery stock to Harry Daily, who has
taken possession.

Traverse City—Mrs. C. E. Lake has
engaged in the milinery business at 316
East Front street,

Three Rivers—Joseph Landsman, of
Chicago, has opened a clothing store
in the Schaad building. ,

Thompsonville—A. R. Chattaway has
added a line of millinery to his stock
of general merchandise.

Scottville—Joseph Poirier has sold his
bakery and restaurant to William M.
Studer, who has taken possession.

Englishville—J. H. Visgar has sold his
stock of general merchandise to Harvey
Collins, who has taken possession.

Ishpeming—Louis G. Schrader will
open a music and musical instrument
store in the McEncroe block, April 1.

Hastings—C. E, Waring, recently of
Kalamazoo, has opened a grocery store
under the style of the Cash Grocery.

Marion—R. A. Pushinsky, formerly
engaged in trade at Minden City, has
opened a clothing, men’s furnishing
goods and furniture store.

Niles—Charles F. Sinclair, grocer at
1104 Broadway, has sold his stock to
Howard Tupper, who will continue the
business at the same location.

Hopkins—L. J. Adams, who has been
a department buyer for Frank B. Wat-
kins for several years, has purchased the
general stock of R. A, Baker.

Grand Haven—Charles Maurer, Presi-
dent of the Maurer Glove Co., of Spring
Lake, has sold his stock to the Spring
Lake stockholders and retired from the
company.

Flint—Joseph I. Gumm, who conducts
a jewelry store at Kalamazoo, has open-
ed a branch store at 427 South Saginaw
street, in Ivory Bros. drug store.

Nashville—Chas. Quick has sold his
interest in the Quick & Co. grocery stock
to his brother Ward, and the business
will be continued under the same style.

Hopkins—W. F. Nicolai has sold his
elevator, fuel and feed stock to the
Corlett-Stone Lumber & Coal Co.. of
Three Rivers, which has taken posses-
sion.

Cedar Springs—Jack Munsell has sold
his interest in the Munsell wagon works
to his partner, Fred C, Knaak, who will
continue the business under his own
name,

Flint—M. Shaheen & Bros., who con-
duct a meat market and grocery store
at Boyne City, have opened a branch
store here under the management of M.
Shaheen.

Farwell—A. L. Dryer, of Marion, has
formed a copartnership with Carl Up-
degraff and engaged in the dry goods
business under the style of Updegraft
& Dryer.

Sturgis—G, Klemos & Sons, who con-
duct a confectionery and ice cream store
at Battle Creek, have opened a branch
store here under the management of
Peter Klemos,

Detroit—The Michigan Cold Stor-
age Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $250,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Millington—Riley Titsworth and Earl
Metcalf, of Columbiaville, have formed
a copartnership and engaged in the
hardware business under the style of
Titsworth & Metcalf.

Nashville—W. J. Simeon has sold his
furniture and undertaking stock to W.
D. Feighner and E. V. Barker, who will
continue the business under the style
of Feighner & Barker.

Flint—The Flint Bread Co. has been
organized and purchased the Enterprise
Bakery at 132 West First street, con-
tinuing the business under the manage-
ment of Frank A. Miller.

Flint—The Gordon Shoe Co. has
engaged in business with an authoriz-
ed capitalization of $10,009, of which
amount $5,100 has been subscribed
and $2,500 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Michigan Scale &
Supply Co, has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $3,000,
of which amount $1,500 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash,

Kalamazoo—August Weber and Hugo
H. Neumaier have formed a copartner-
ship and engaged in the shoe business
at 111 North Burdick street under the
style of the Weber-Neumaier Shop.

Nashville—F, F. Spiegel & Son, who
recently purchased the McLaughlin cloth-

  

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ing stock, have sold it to Yuill Bros.,
who will continue the business under
the management of Clarence Olmstead.

Port Huron—George E. Williamson,
who conducted a drug store on Seventh
street for the past twenty-three years,
has sold his stock to R. Bert Mills, who
will continue the business at the same
location,

Detroit—The Luths, Dorweld, Hal-
ler Co. has engaged in the wholesale
and retail jewelry business with an
authorized capital stock of $51,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Burr Oak—The Burr Oak Co-Op-
erative Association has engaged in
business with an authorized capital
stock of $2,000, of which amount $1,-
000 has been subscribed and $500 paid
in in cash.

Manistee—Harry J. Thompson has
purchased the interest of Mrs. L. Staf-
feld in the Staffeld & Thompson cloth-
ing and men’s furnishing goods stock
and will continue the business under
his own name,

Bay Shore—The Bay Shore Mercan-
tile Co. has been organized with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, of
which amount $6,500 has been sub-
scribed, $200 paid in in cash and $6,-
300 paid in in property.

Scottville—Clay Benson, of Lansing,
has purchased the interest of Leo
Swarts in the furniture and undertaking
stock of Billington & Swarts and the
business will be continued under the
style of the Billington Benson Co.

Ovid—The C. V. Harris Lumber &
Coal Co. has merged its business into
a stock company under the style of
the Harris Lumber & Coal Co. with
an authorized capital stock of $40,000,
of which amount $25,000 has been sub-
scribed, $9,000 paid in in cash.

Kalamazoo — The Weber-Neumaier
Co. has engaged in business to handle
wholesale and retail mens, womens and
children’s footwear, with an authorized
capitalization of $10,000, of which
amount $6,000 has been subscribed, $417
paid in in cash and $5,583 paid in in
property.

Lake Linden—The Lake Linden Co-
Operative Society has sold its store
building and stock of general merchan-
dise to Joseph Desormier, who has been
manager of the business for the past
three years. He will continue the busi-
ness at the same location, at the corner
of Calumet and Fourth streets.

Sault Ste. Marie—Bert L. Van
Toll, who conducts a undertaking and
retail furniture business, has merged
the business into a stock company
under the style of the B. Van Toll
Co., with an authorized capitalization
of $5,000, of which amount $3,600 has
been subscribed and $3,000 paid in in
property.

Lansing—Mrs. Mary C. Donsereaux,
proprietor of the Donsereaux store, 312-
14 South Washington avenue, has given
a mortgage to Carl C. Reynolds, trustee
and attorney for the store’s creditors.
The mortgage represents that the assets
amounts to $38,991.13 and the liabilities,
$28,736.96. Lack of ready cash is the
explanation of the financial troubles of
the Donsereaux store. Mrs. Don-

sereaux, who has had the management
of the store since the death of her hus-
band several. years ago, has endeavored

 

   

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of the city of the past two years has
required greater financial backing to
keep apace with the mercantile demands.
Mrs. Donsereaux was unable to meet
the conditions.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroi—The E-J-S Co. has changed
its name to Barton-Smith Co.

Rochester—The Western Knitting
Mills is building an addition to its plant.

Ludington—The Gile Tractor & En-
gine Co. will build an addition 20x 60
feet to its plant.

Wayne—The Producers Creamery Co.,
Ltd., has increased its capital stock
from $15,000 to $50,000.

Detroit—The Consolidated Auto
Top Co. has increased its capital stock
from $10,000 to $20,000.

Holland—The Brownwall Engine &
Pulley Co. has increased its capital
stock from $25,000 to $50,000.

East Jordon—The East Jordon
Cabinet Co. has increased its capital
stock from $10,000 to $20,000.

Detroit—The Eastern Construction
& Pattern Co. has increased its capi-
tal stock from $10,000 to $20,000.

Schultz—Fire destroyed the plant of
the Schultz Co-Operative Co. March
26, entailing a loss of $5,000, with in-
surance of $4,000.

Detroit—Crimshaw & Stevens, Inc.
dealer in men’s furnishings and hats.
has increased the capital stock from
$6,000 to $10,000.

Kalamazoo—A. M, Young & Co. have
engaged in the manufacturing of metal,
cotton and rubber specialties, with an
authorized capital stock of $40,000,

Sibley—The Sibley Brick Co. has been
incorporated with an authorized capital-
ization of $20,000, of which amount $10,-
000 has been subscribed and $9,000 paid
in in cash.

Holland—The Peerless Manufactur-
ing Co., manufacturer of ornamental
lamps and candlesticks, has been in-
corporated with an authorized capital
stock of $4,000,

Holland—The Bos-Bolhuis Lumber
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $40,000 to $75,000 and also chang-
ed its name to Bolhuis Lumber &
Manufacturing Co.

Detroit—The Power Lubricating
Co. has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $50,000, of
which amount $25,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—Miller Tool & Manufac-
turing Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $15,000,
of which amount $10,550 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.

Portland—The assets of the Western
Woodenware Co., inventorying $6,900,
were sold at auction to W. O. Hughart,
of Grand Rapids, for $725. There were
but two bidders on the property, Mr.
Hughart, who bought the plant, and
another Grand Rapids man who came
here in the interest of Braudy Bros.,
one of the concern’s creditors. George
E. Nichols, trustee of the company, act-
ed as auctioneer. The new owner has
arranged with Emerson D. Verity, man-
ager of the old company, to make up
what unfinished products remained on
hand when the factory closed its doors
and this work will be begun as soon as
the weather moderates,

  

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Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.

Apples—Standard varieties, such as
Baldwins, Greenings and Wagners com-
mand $3.25@3.50 per bbl.; Northern
Spys. $5@5.50 per bbl.

Asparagus—$1 per doz. bunches.

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

Beans—The market is stagnant, owing
to the absence of stock. Farmers are
all sold out and the elevator men have
only a few carloads in storage. Prices
range around $3.60 for pea and $4.25 for
red kidney in carlots,

Beets—60c per bu.

Butter—Consumptive demand for but-
ter is very active and the market is firm.
If there is any change it will likely be a
slight advance. Local dealers quote
fancy creamery at 35c in tubs and 36c
in prints. Local dealers pay 26c for No.
1 in jars and 27c in prints, and 18c for
packing stock.

Cabbage—60c per bu. or $2 per bbl.

Carrots—60c per bu.

Celery—California, 75c for Jumbo and
90c for Extra Jumbo; Florida $2.50@
2.75 per case of either 4 or 6 doz.

Cocoanuts—$5.50 per sack containing
100.

Cranberries—Late Howes are in
steady demand at $10 per bbl.

Cucumbers — $1.50 per dozen for
Southern hot house.

Eggs—Receipts are not equal to the
demand. The quality arriving is the
best of the season and no immediate
change seems in sight. Local dealers
are paying 19c.

Egg Plant—$2 per dozen.

Fresh Pork—9'4c for hogs up to 200
Ibs., larger hogs, 8c.

Grape Fruit—Florida is
$2.75@3 per box.

Green Onions—Shalotts, 50c per doz.
bunches.

Honey—18c per 1b. for white clover
and 16c for dark.

Lemons—California, $3.25 per box for
choice, $3.50 for fancy.

Lettuce—The market has advanced to
10c per lb. for hot house leaf. Head
lettuce has declined to $2 per bu.

Maple Sugar—16%c per lb. for pure.

Maple Syrup—$1.40 per gal. for pure.

Mushrooms—40@50c per Ib.

Nuts—Almonds, 18c per lb.; filberts.
15c per lb.; pecans, 15c per lb.; walnuts,
16c for Grenoble, 16%c for California;
15c for Naples; $2 per bu. for Shellbark
hickory nuts and $1.75 for large.

steady at

Onions—The market is unchanged at
$2..25 per 100 Ib. sack.

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

Oysters—Standards, $1.35; Medium
Selects, $1.50; Extra Selects, $1.75; New

 

York Counts, $1.85; Shell Oysters, $7.50
per bbl,

Parsnips—60c per bu.

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

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

Potatoes—The market is fully as
strong as a week ago, so that local job-
bers are getting $1 per bu. Country
buyers have increased their paying prices
to 80@85c.

Poultry—Receipts are away
market requirements and local jobbers
pay 18@19c for shipment of
fowls. Turkeys are scarce at 22c, ducks
at 16c and geese at 13c. Dressed fowls
average 3c above these quotations.

Radishes—25c for round hot house.

Rhubarb—8c per Ib.

Strawberries
Louisiana.

Sweet Potatoes—$1.40 per hamper for
kiln dried Jerseys; $4 per bbl. for kiln
dried Illinois.

Tomatoes—$2.50@2.75 for 6 basket
crate, Florida stock.

Turnips—60c per bu.

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

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar—When the Tradesman predict-
ed that granulated sugar would advance
by April 1 to a 7c basis, f. 0. b. New
York, five weeks ago, many dealers were
inclined to take issue with us, but the
Tradesman insisted that its prediction
was correct and that time would dem-
onstrate the correctness of its conclu-
sions. As a matter of fact, the pre-
dicted price was reached yesterday—
four days before April 1—when all of
the refiners advanced their quotations
to 7c except Warner and Federal, which
pomulgated a price of 7.10c. The
Tradesman does not believe that the
upward movement has ended by any
means, but is content to refrain from
further predictions for the present. It
has assisted its readers to make thous-
ands of dollars—those who availed
themselves of our suggestions to buy
liberally—and is naturally gratified over
the service it has been able to render
its patrons. A new customer for Amer-
ican sugar has appeared in Italy. This
is a new development, as Italy previous-
ly had been able to take care of its own
requirements to a large extent with
beets. The inference was drawn that
others of the Allies would be looking
for supplies before long and thus stiffen
prices. There is little improvement in
the domestic deliveries, refiners being
one to four weeks behind on assort-
ments. New business is naturally at a
standstill, since the country has at least
two months’ supply on the books of
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dency to resell at concessions by those
with a profit on sugar in hand.

Tea—While there are no large sales
reported, the trade is cheerful over
the prospects, claiming that the light
stocks warrant the expectation that
prices will do better. It is argued
that the country has no large stocks,
and, with seasonable weather, a re-
sumption of buying by distributers
may be expected. Undoubtedly the
fact that the primary markets are sus-
tained operates to keep sellers firm
in their ideas. It is not expected that
much tea will come forward from
Calcutta or Colombo, since the price
to import would be above the figure
quoted here or in London. Arrivals
from the latter market are readily
taken for consuming requirements.
In view of the moderate supply of
black teas, Formosas have been the
feature of late, and the market has
become firm at the basis quoted for
standard, with the tendency appar-
ently upward. Some large sales have
been made recently of the better qual-
ity tea.

Coffee—The advent of seasonable
weather is expected to help the move-
ment to the country. Stress is laid
upon the firm tone to Brazil cables
and the improvement in the future
market, where there is an absence of
selling pressure. Mild grades of cof-
fee continue to find a steady demand
from the dealers and _ distributers
where the quality is satisfactory.
Prices are maintained in sympathy
with Brazils.

Canned Fruits—Apples are very
dull but at unchanged prices. Cali-
fornia canned goods show no change
anywhere, and a fair seasonable de-
mand.

Canned Vegetables—Tomatoes are
a slow, sale, with jobbers inclined
to secure only sufficient stocks to
meet their immediate requirements.
Sales of future 1916 pack tomatoes
were made for moderate sized quanti-
ties. In spite of the decline that was
made last week for 1915 pack toma-
toes local brokers are inclined to be-
lieve that prices will rally when the
spring buying increases and that quo-
tations will return at least to the top
level that was ruling at the beginning
of the year. Tomatoes are said to
occupy a very strong statistical po-
sition, and packers insist that there
are only sufficient stocks on hand to
last until the first supplies of the new
pack are ready for the market. With
stocks in the hands of the jobbers
comparatively small, according to all
reports, it is believed that the job-
bers will have to enter the market
to replenish their stocks before long.
When this occurs the brokers say
prices will once more start to move
toward a higher level. Corn and
peas have been very quite during the
past week, buying being done by the
local operators only in sufficient quan-
tities to secure stocks to satisfy their
immediate requirements. Prices, how-
ever, are held on a very firm basis,
with stocks reported to be fairly well
cleaned up. Western packers insist
that their stocks are very short and
that prices are strong, with a decided
tendancy toward a higher level. Maine
packers have no further stocks of
1915 pack corn, and are trying to sell

futures at a range that seems to be
a trifle above the ideas held by the
Michigan buyers.

Canned Fish—Stocks of all lines of
spot salmon are held with a firm tend-
ency. Coast packers, under the im-
petus of heavy foreign orders, are
said to be inclined to advance prices
for remaining stocks of pinks and
chums. Reports of large orders for
the French and Italian governments
have been confirmed by reliable pack-
ers. The total amount of supplies
wanted by the foreign governments
is almost as large as the total hold-
ings on the Coast. Imported sar-
dines are still very scarce and very
high. Domestic sardines are quoted
at ruling prices.

Dried Fruits—California prune grow-
ers, according to reports issued by their
information bureau, says that they have
more stocks from the 1915 crop in their
hands than have the packers. The total
estimates of the remaining stocks of
the 1915 crop are placed at not more
than 20,000,000 in the State of Califor.
nia. With stocks holding such a strong
statistical position the growers have
been advised to hold their supplies for
higher prices than the ones now ruling.
Buying has practically stopped for fu-
ture 1916 crop prunes, according to re-
ports from the Coast, but in spite of the
almost total lack of demand prices are
said to be held on a firm basis. The
general range of prices offered by the
Coast packers for future stock do not
show any decline from present quota-
tions. Coast markets are reported to be
practically bare of stocks of 1915 crop
apricots and the British embargo has at
no time had any noticeable effect on the
prices for these stocks, either in the
Coast markets or on spot. The demand
continues to be very light, but packers
say that there will be no difficulty in
disposing of the stocks on hand. Peaches
and apricots are both unchanged with
seasonable movement. Currants are
still high and the difference between bar-
rel goods and cartons is somewhat lower
than usual.

Cheese—The market is firm with
a moderate consumptive demand and
very light stocks. Quotations have
been advanced %c during the week.
The market is firm throughout on
the present basis, but seems unlikely
to make any radical change.

Spices—Peppers cables are firm
abroad, but speculation in future ship-
ment is dormant. There is a good
consuming demand for cloves at
steady prices. Nutmegs are moving
well, the same being true of cassias.

Molasses—The _ situation remains
much the same. There is a fair de-
mand for the various grades, cover-
ing current requirements of the dis-
tributors and baking interests. Black-
strap is strong with little offering,
the business being chiefly for small
parcels.

Salt Fish—The mackerel situation
is just about as it has been, stocks
being very low and prices correspond-
ingly high. There is a regular de-
mand all the time, but it is greatly
curtailed on account of the high
prices. Cod, hake and haddock are
unchanged in price and in fair de-
mand.

THE WHITE ESTATE.

Questionable Move on Part of Charle-
voix Banker.

The following letter has been mail-

ed to the unsecured creditors of the

Wm. H. White Co. by the Cashier of

the Charlevoix State Savings Bank:

Charlevoix, March 27—We are one with
about 135 others making up the list of
the unsecured creditors of the W. H.
White Co., at Boyne City. This company
went into the hands of the Michigan
Trust Company, Grand Rapids, as re-
ceivers, to conserve the assets, in De-
cember, 1913, now considerably over two
years ago.

Since that time the receivers have
operated this property and had the mat-
ter in charge. While a few reports have
been received of a satisfactory nature,
they have been very meager. It seems
to us, as one of the unsecured creditors,
that it is about time we were being rec-
ognized and our claims satisfied.

At the time this receivership was
granted, the money market and financial
conditions of the country, and especially
the lumber business, were not in the
best of conditions. All these conditions
now seem much improved. If the com-
pany has its yards full of lumber await-
ing sale and plenty of other security and
assets, it would appear that the receivers
could now negotiate sufficient credit on
behalf of the company and take up our
claims, long past due.

It rather appears to us that it might
be well for the unsecured creditors to
get together at a meeting of such cred-
itors and talk this over and appoint a
creditors’ committee, with a view of hav-
ing our claims adjusted and paid. If
after over two years of waiting some
way cannot now be provided, then it
would appear that it might be wise for
the creditors to collectively petition the
court under which the receivers operate
to ask for a sale of the assets and wind
up the affairs.
exhausted.

I desire to present this matter to you
thus fairly and if the unsecured creditors
desire to take such action it should be
done in behalf of all of us collectively.
Whether you agree with us or not, will
you kindly consider this matter in which
we are al] interested, and write us a
line stating the result of your delibera-
tion and your wishes in the matter. If
it be the wish and judgment of a ma-
jority of the creditors, we will call such
meeting, probably at Grand Rapids, early
in April. W. J. Rachow.

The Tradesman regrets to note this
disposition on the part of some of
the unsecured creditors of the W. H.
White Co. to force the hand of the
Michigan Trust Company in the work
of liquidating the indebtedness of the
corporation. The slump in the lum-
ber business so affected the W. H.
White Co. during the year 1913 that
in November of that year it went into
the hands of a receiver, but, like all
self-respecting business houses, it
fought until the last minute to
avoid this and in doing so_ it
sold everything that could be
sold, so that when the Michigan
Trust Company took charge there was
nothing to realize on except some
very slow selling lumber and the
plant and timber, these latter two be-
ing of no use to pay debts with.
Then, before business could adjust it-
self, the war in Europe paralyzed
every business and hit the lumber in-
dustry particularly hard and it was
not until the latter part of 1915 that
there was any recovery from this
depression. The Tradesman believes
the Michigan Trust Company was ex-
tremely wise, instead of operating the
mills to the utmost capacity during
the dull period and selling the lum-
ber at any price it could get, to de-
cide to conserve the stumpage by
running the plant as little as possible,
which it was almost compelled to do
to keep the force together, hold on
to the teams and provide a little busi-
ness for the railroad. To have forced
manufacturing, the creditors would
have suffered more than they would

Our patience is about

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

have been benefited, even if a small
amount could have been paid on their
claims. The Michigan Trust Com-
pany acted broadmindedly in going
slowly and holding the stumpage for
better prices. As every manufacturer
knows, the overhead expense in a
big plant, like the White Co., is large
and in time of depression, when it
cannot afford to run full force, it be-
comes a burden and yet manufactur-
ers know that they must keep the
force together to be able to do busi-
ness when the market improves. The
Tradesman believes, from its knowl-
edge of the lumber business, that
any good manufacturer who was in
shape to handle himself financially,
would have operated the plant during
the period between November, 1913,
and the first of this year just as con-
servatively as the Michigan Trust
Company had done.

As a matter of fact, the Trust Com-
pany has reduced the first mortgage
bonds one-half—from $300,000 to
$150,000; reduced the bills payable
Over $300,000 by the sale of $275,000
stock in the White Bros. Lumber Co.
and increased the inventory in the
meantime from $100,000 to $400,000.
It has furnished funds to keep the
estate intact and working capital to
keep the mills going to the amount
of $377,000, for which it has issued
receiver’s certificates. It has kept in-
tact the $1,100,000 investment the
estate has in the White Bros. Lum-
ber Co., on Vancouver Island, the
$308,000 investment in the Tillamock
Yellow Fir Co., of Oregon, and the
$150,000 investment in the Forest
Grove Timber Co., also in Oregon.
All of these properties were in
jeopardy through defaults in taxes
and other charges, but the Michigan
Trust Company has carefully con-
served the White investments in these
properties and the turn which is com-
ing in timber investments on the
Coast is sure to bring large returns
to the estate. It is not at all un-
likely these properties will be turned
back to the White Co. intact on the
conclusion of its trust. The mills are
now being operated to their full ca-
pacity and good prices are being ob-
tained for the output.

Boyne City also has a vital interest
in the manner in which this vast
estate is managed. If the Michigan
Trust Company handles it with the
sole idea of extracting the greatest
amount of cash in the least possible
time, without any consideration for
the productive capacity of the busi-
ness at the termination of the re-
ceivership, and drop it back like a
sucked lemon, Boyne City certainly
must feel, adversely, the effect of it
for many years to come. If, on the
other hand, it is run with the idea
of preserving and developing the
property—as in simple justice to the
Whites and the community it should
do—Boyne City will enter upon a
period of substantial growth and de-
velopment that will be felt as long as
time lasts.

The Tradesman believes that if

there are any creditors who, because
they may not know all the circum-
stances, have the feeling that the
Michigan Trust Company is not do-

ing as well as it could, would send
some one who is a broad gauge busi-
ness man with large business ex-
perience and business sense to Grand
Rapids to talk over the situation with
the Michigan Trust Company, in a
friendly and not a_ hostile way, it
would show him that it has managed
the business with the sole intent oi
conserving it so that the debts could
be paid and the property turned back
to the W. H. White Co. depreciated
to the least extent possible. Like
many large companies the Trust Com-
pany does not do much advertising
or exploiting in the newspapers con-
cerning the business it carries on for
other parties. Possibly it may be
too conservative as to explaining to
those interested what it is doing and
the reason for it, but the experience
of the Tradesman leads it to believe
that such a meeting as Mr. Rachow
suggests at this time would do no
good and might be productive of
much injury to all concerned.

The Tradesman has no authority
from any one interested to make this
statement, but it firmly believes that
on the termination of the receiver-
ship, it will be found that the prop-
erty turned back to the White Co.
intact and free of debt will greatly
exceed a million dollars in value. It
bases this opinion on a fairly accurate
knowledge of the White properties
and an intimate knowledge of the
methods of the Michigan Trust Com-
pany whose record in the handling
of such estates is an open book.

—~+ 2 >___.
Getting Rich Automatically.

There is in New England a manu-
facturer of a toy product who for
seven years, and up to two years ago,
traveled on the ragged edge of in-
solvency. He had plenty of business;
in fact, too much, for the more goods
he sold the deeper he seemed to get
into debt.

Last fall, however, he was able
to build a fifty-thousand-dollar home
and pay for it in cash. He drives a
high-priced car to-day, and has an
eight-thousand-dollar motor boat.
They will tell you in his town that
he has more ready cash than any
other man in the place.

The secret of his sudden shift from
chronic hard times to opulence may
be expressed in two words: automatic
machines.

In 1913 he got so close to bank-
ruptcy that in desperation he put ex-
perts to work in his plant to find out
what could be done. They made time
studies, and proceeded to standardize
the operations. Then automatic ma-
chines were rapidly developed to meet
the requirements, until there was
scarcely an operation in the plant
that was not done, in some degree,
automatically. -

The pay-roll had been about $500 a
day. It is now less than half that,
and the production has doubled. The
total cost of the new machinery has
been less than $30,000.

Some of the biggest romances in
business have come by the automatic
machine route, which suggests to
young manufacturers a field for ‘re-
search.

March 29, 191;
Perspicacious Pickings
Petoskey.

Petoskey, March 27—The annual
meeting of officers of Petoskey Coun
cil was held Saturday, March 25. The
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year:

Senior Counselor—P. J. Behan.

Junior Counselor—N. J. Feldman.

Past Counselor—T. J. Bailey.

Secretary-Treasurer—Geo. E. Beach

Conductor—J. N. Petersen.

Page—S,. A. Wilson.

Sentinel—W. L. McManus, Jr.

Executive Committee—P. J. Chat.
taway, Homer Sly, D. A. Walsh and
Joseph Feldman.

Delegate to Grand Council—Herb-
ert Agans; alternate, Geo. E. Beach

The banquet preceding the meet.
ing, given at the Cushman House,
was enjoyed by all present and land.
lord McManus is to be commended
for his excellent menu and genial
hospitality.

Our Senior Counselor has declared
himself and officers for the coming
year and we are confident Pat
will come through. Watch No. 235
grow.

Fred J. Schmitt left Friday on an
Eastern trip for the Petoskey Block
& Manufacturing Co.

. W. Beck, district manager for
the Holland Furnace Co., has opened
a sales and display room at 210 East
Mitchell street, where he is ready to
demonstrate the latest models of hot
air furnaces.

James K. Sager, of Grand Rapids,
representing Runkel Bros., is working
in this territory this week. We are
always glad to have Jim with us.
Welcome to our city.

Representative D, H. Hinkley has
gone to Florida for a three weeks’
Stay. Tom Bailey.

Pertaining to

Quotations on tcocal Stocks and Bonds.
Public Utilities.
Bid Asked

*Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 395 399
*Am. Light & Trac. Co.; Pfd. 112°: 116
Am. Public Utilities, Com. 45 47
Am. Public Utilities, Pfa. 75 ee
*Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Com. 62 63%
*Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt., Pfd. 85 87
Pacific Gas & Elec., Com. 62 64
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Com. 12 13
Tennessee Ry. Lt. & Pr., Pfd. 50 52
United Light & Rys., Com. 55 57
United Light & Rys., 1st Pfd. 76 78

Comw’th 6% 5 year bond 102% 103%
Michigan Railway Notes 101 102
Citizens Telephone 73 77
Michigan Sugar 112115
Holland St. Louis Sugar 9 10

Holland St. Louis Sugar, Pfd. 8% 10
United Light 1st and Ref. 5%
bonds

_ Industrial and Bank Stocks.
Dennis Canadian Co. 75
Furniture City Brewing Co. 40 50

tlobe Knitting Works, Com. 145 160
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 160 168
G. R. Savings Bank 255
Kent State Bank 250 260
Old National Bank 197 203
Peoples Savings Bank 300

* Ex dividend.
March 29, 1916.

Railroad travel in this country is
recognized as being very safe, and
the companies are constantly endeav-
oring to make it more so. The great-
est number of fatalities from serious
accidents occur to those who are not
on the train. This idea was very
well expressed by a railroad which
recently published and widely posted
this announcement: “This road is
safe to ride upon. In the last eigh:
years no passengers have been killed
in train accidents. It is a very un-
safe road to walk upon. During the
same period 101 trespassers have been
killed.” It is the people walking on
and crossing the tracks who are in
most danger and who ought to re-
member about safety first.

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THREE ESSENTIALS.

 

Buy Right, Sell Right and Give Serv-
ice.
Written for the Tradesman.

As I view it there are three very es-
sential things in merchandising:

1. To buy right, carefully selecting
the articles which are adapted to your
community and carefully selecting
styles and patterns.

2. To sell right. Do not be unrea-
sonable in your margins of profit,
but do not lose sight of the fact that
reasonable profits must be made to
be able to declare the much-desired
annual dividends.

3. To give to your customers the
best of service, See to it that all
attaches of your store extend the glad
hand of welcome to every customer
who enters your door. Do not over-
do it, as the average jewish sales
man would do, but do attempt to
create an atmosphere, wherein all
customers, regardless of his or her
station, may feel entirely at ease.
See to it that they are treated as
you like to be treated when you are
exchanging your money for another
man’s merchandise.

Be appreciative of your customer’s
patronage and, if possible to prevent
it, do not let a customer pass out of
your store feeling that he has been
mistreated in any manner. Remem-
ber dissatisfied customers mean loss
of business, hence the loss of the
profits on this business. Make of
every one a booster rather than a
knocker. It is the best of advertising
to have the people of the community

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

express themselves in a commendable
manner of you and of your business.
True enough, you meet with unrea-
sonable people, but the money of the
unreasonable customer will pay bills
as well as the money of the other
fellow. Endeavor to hold them all,
and when compelled to adjust dif-
ferences train yourself to make these
adjustments without display of anger,
for in the heat of passion you may
say things which you may afterward
regret. One of the best ways I have
found to adjust differences has been
to place myself in the customer’s
place. To do this well means that
frequently you will find the matter
looking decidedly different than when
first brought to your attention.

Buying right, selling right and giv-
ing efficient service nearly covers the
ground. As you have by this time
noticed, I am very strong for the
later.

Do not know whether you con-
duct your business on a cash or credit
basis. Both are conducted very suc-
cessfully, but the man who does the
credit business must not be afraid
to go after his money when justly
due him and must not shrink from
refusing credit to unworthy custom-
ers. Better to refuse in the right
kind of a way and retain their friend-
ship and a portion of their patronage,
rather than to extend the credit,
eventually losing merchandise, friend-
ship and patronage.

By all means, discount all bills.
Better ta borrow the money than to
lose this valuable item.

Have all your stores use a dupli-

cate order book, keeping a record of
all purchases. It is very handy to re-
fer to and you cannot have your busi-
ness too much in front of you.

Keep your operating expense as
low as possible. Unnecessary expense
eats up the profits of many a store.
Impress upon your help that it is a
great saving to be economical in the
use of bags and twine. The lighter
the weight of the twine and roll paper
the greater the yardage and to use
a ten pound bag when a five pound
bag will do means about twice the
cost.

Caution your help as to weights and
measures. The customer is entitled
to sixteen ounces to a pound and
thirty-six inches to a yard, but no
more.

Use accurate scales and test them
frequently, to be sure of their ac-
curacy.

Display all merchandise as much
as possible with prices marked plain-
ly thereon, This saves time when
you are busy.

Would suggest a complete mailing
list of the village and surrounding
country and would quote them some-
thing interesting each month. Such
aggressiveness is bound to get you
something.

I believe in the premium policy,
but what will work out in one com-
munity will fail in another. Give the
matter thought and try out some-
thing.

Be careful in the accumulation of
old stock. If you have some of it,
as most stores have, by all means try
to move it. Better stand for the loss

 

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to-day and have the money to use in
the business.

All store managers should be pres-
ent at the opening and closing of
their respective business—at the open-
ing to see the business gets the right
start for the day and at the closing
to see that the customers are treated
properly, as oftentimes your clerks
become impatient at closing time and
offend customers.

Keep your store neat and tidy.
Keep your stock so arranged as to
show off to good advantage and cost
and selling price on everything.

Frequently you will have a call for
some item not in your stock. En-
deavor to get your customer to ac-
cept something from your stock,
but if you fail in this, it might prove
wise to procure the same for him,
rather than have him resort to your
competitor.

Make proper allowances at stock
taking time for depreciation of stock.
It is deceiving your self to invoice
an article at $2 because it cost you
that when it is worth but $1.50.

By all means eliminate any possible
friction among clerks or helpers, for
in order to get the most out of a
business, everyone identified with
that business should be working in
perfect harmony and with the one
end in view, to make it a profitable
business and each year’s business
more profitable than the preceding
one,

I hope some of the things I have
made mention of may be of benefit
to the readers of the Tradesman.

H. L. Proper.

 

 

 

Barney Langeler has worked in
this institution continuously for
over forty-five years.

 

 

Barney says—

After a customer goes through and sees our big

stock, it’s easy for him to know why we can ship his

order complete the same day it is received.

every merchant in Western Michigan would call in

and see us and see the big stock of groceries the

Company carries.

WORDEN (FROCER COMPANY

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PRELIMINARY TO PEACE.

Although Germany has made several
attempts to end the Kaiser’s war, it is
clear that the essentials of a peace are
not yet in hand. Germany has made
several tentative offers of the sort.
There is no doubt that she would hail
a settlement upon any basis that the
German people would think half-way
reasonable. The terms outlined by the
Chancellor to Ambassador Gerard would
doubtless be made far less exigent if
negotiations for peace were actually be-
gun, but there is no evidence that they
can be begun at present with any hope
of success. The minds of the belliger-
ents are still far apart. No meeting-
ground for them is yet apparent. And
as the war was brought about by a
state of mind, so must peace be. Yet
neither among the Allies nor in Ger-
many can one detect the change of men-
tal attitude which must come before
peace can come.

One reason given by Von Bethmann-
Hollweg for suggesting an indemnity
from France, as a condition of with-
drawing German troops from French
territory, is that the government must
have something wherewith to “satisfy
the German people.” This is significant.
It goes deep into the whole question
of peace. Until the German masses are
convinced that the whole war was a
gigantic blunder by their military au-
thorities and that its burdens and mis-
eries are no longer supportable. no
Satisfactory or lasting peace can be ob-
tained. It is just now more a question
of national psychology than of great
battles, although the fighting and its
failure are bound to have their psychic
effect. All that can be said is that if
the German people are not “satisfied”
to accept peace on the best conditions
which are now to be had, then the war
must go on until they change their mind.

The Chancellor’s phrase about the
German people finds many an echo in
England. There, too, it is hoped to
work towards peace through the Ger-
man people. An able and well-informed
writer in the Nineteenth Century,
Arthur Shadwell, warns his country-
men against cherishing the idea of
“crushing” Germany. The thing cannot
be done, he argues, and ought not to be
done if it could be. .The great thing to
work and fight for is the final persua-
sion of the German people, under the
dire pressure of war, that they them-

 

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selves must not only ask for peace, but
insist upon changes in their form of
government and in their national aspira-
tions and policies. And Lord Bryce, in
an admirable little pamphlet which he
has just published—so moderate, so
poised, so without bitterness—associates
himself with the view that the Allies
must discriminate between the military
caste in Germany and the bulk of the
people. Affirms Lord Bryce:

I cannot believe that the German peo-
ple, as I have hitherto known them, ever
since I studied at a German university
more than fifty years ago, could possi-
bly approve of the action of their gov-
ernment if their government suffered
them to know the facts relating to the
origin and conduct of the war as those
facts are known to the rest of the world.
We have had no hatred of the German
people. We did not grudge them their
prosperity. Neither have we any wish
to break up Germany, destroying her
national unity, or to interfere in any way
with her internal politics. Our quarrel

is with the German government. We
think it a danger to every peaceful
country, and believe that in fighting

against its doctrines, its ambitions, its
methods of warfare, we and our allies
are virtually fighting the battle of all
peace-loving neutral nations as well as
our own,

From within Germany there is accu-
mulating proof that an actual division
exists between large civilian classes and
the military power now in control of
everything. Of course, there is surface
unity. The deep patriotic appeal of the
war resulted in a wonderful display of
German solidarity. Yet there is evi-
dence of growing uneasiness and sus-
picion. A Dutch traveler, recently in
all parts of Germany, reported talking
with many Germans who were appalled
at the way in which their country is
now ruled. A military oligarchy is ab-
sorbing all the functions of government.
In alliance with the land-owning classes,
it is having a roaring success, for the
time being. Thoughtful Germans have
come almost to dread the winning of a
battle, since it means only the firmer
grip of the military clique, glorying in
the war as it does, and passing on from
one step in arbitrary government to an-
other. The two elements—the civil and
the military—have competed with each
other for mastery at different periods
of the war. We have seen this in the
ups and downs of the policy of ruth-
lessness. And this week’s sessions of
the Reichstag will undoubtedly show
how much truth there is in the assertion
that the civilian group in the govern-
ment has asserted itself, with the Kai-
ser’s approval, and means cautiously but
persistently to work for peace.

Few among the Allies now talk of
beating Germany to the earth, prostrate
and helpless. It is seen that her power of
resistance is enormous. But the Ger-
mans are, after all, human beings like
the rest of us. They may be justified
in believing that they could defend their
soil from invasion for years, but they
know that this would not be to win the
war. They know that the losses and
the taxes cannot be borne indefinitely.
When the time arrives of their full
conviction that war holds out only hor-
rors without hope and that peace must
be not only longed for but definitely
sought, then we shall have that better
mind of the German people which the
wisest among the Allies are waiting to
see manifested. With it will come
peace.

 

 

While the fool is asking advice the
wise guy gets busy.

THE DAY OF RECKONING.

The Tradesman is firmly convinced
that the present war is certain to deepen
and intensify the feeling of mankind
against all war. There are already vis-
ible elements of accumulating execration
of war which it will only need the com-
ing of peace to cause to burst out into
demonstrations such as the world has
never yet seen. These elements are
manifold. We see them in the unspeak-
able and almost unendurable human
misery which the war has wrought. We
see them in the appalling sense of loss
and waste of the most precious things
on earth—needless loss and waste, as
the bitter reflection is. We see them in
the terrible reactions of war upon the
very devotees of war. It is not neces-
sary to credit all the stories about Ad-
miral von Tirpitz being made sleepless
and haunted by the thought of all the
brave young men whom he had sent to
a torturing death beneath the sea. But
if they were true they would only repeat,
in their way the experience which made
even the Iron Duke blench after Water-
loo. We know that such a cold-blooded
and professional vivisectionist of war
as Major Moraht has had wrung from
him a moan of grief over the thousands
of German and French soldiers perish-
ing in front of Verdun. And we know
that the Kaiser himself has been so cut
to the heart by the crippling of a whole
generation in Germany that he has cried
out: “I swear that I did not wish this
war !”

Every sane man in the world
realizes that the war was precipitated
solely by the Kaiser to save his throne,
ensure the perpetuity of Prussian mili-
tarism and destroy the coming reign
of democracy. What the Kaiser wanted
was a little war, or a short war, not at
all the tremendous cataclysm which has
almost whelmed the earth. Small won-
der that now everybody in the most
remote degree responsible starts back
with horror at the black disaster which
has come upon millions of human
beings. But our point is that if this is
true even of men trained to arms, of
men all of whose thoughts have been for
years steeped in armaments and battle,
of statesmen accustomed to contemplate
armed strife between nations as a con-
stant possibility—how much stronger
will be the denunciation of war on a
great scale by those who have been most
bowed and broken by its blast! There
will surely be a day of reckoning. The
present is a time of suffering in mute
heroism. Love of country stifles the
cries of the stricken. But the hour will
come when great masses of the popula-
tion now dumb will find their voices,
and when, there is every reason to be-
lieve, there will be a manifestation of
hatred of war surpassing anything of

the kind ever known.
re

NOT FROM THE PEOPLE.

The communication from Mr. Crosby,
published on the fourteenth page of this
week’s issue of the Tradesman, is sig-
nificant in that it clearly discloses the
origin of the so-called anti-discrimina-
tion law. Heretofore it has been widely
proclaimed that the law originated with
the people, but Mr. Crosby’s admission
shows that it owes its origin to another
source altogether—to the State organ-
ization of insurance agents, who, it is

 

March 29, 1916

reasonable to suppose, were actuated by
positive instructions from their em-
ployers. Local insurance agents stand
in the same position to the insurance
companies that a lawyer does to a client.
a book-keeper to his employer, a servant
to his master. They are in the habit of
receiving and obeying orders without
quibble or controversy and they prob-
ably did so in this case, realizing that
any hesitancy or failure to act on their
part would result in the peremptory
severance of their relations with their
employers.

The Tradesman is under obligations
to Mr. Crosby for thus disclosing the
origin of the law so clearly and con-
clusively. As President of the organ-
ization which is willing to stand sponsor
for the unfortunate statute, he undoubt-
edly speaks with authority.

The cunning hand of the men who
prepared the original draft of the bill
is shown in the effort they made to
shut all but board companies out of the
State, including the mutual companies
which are carrying such a large propor-
tion of the sprinkled risks. This ob-
noxious and monopolistic feature ap-
peared in the original bills which were
simultaneously introduced in _ both
branches of the Legislature and it re-
quired months of persistent effort on
the part of the real friends of the peo-
ple to eliminate these provisions. An
effort will undoubtedly be made at the
coming session of the Legislature to
restore this drastic feature to the law.
It is reported that word has gone out
that any lawyer who will espouse this
scheme and support this conspiracy in
the Legislature can have his election
expenses paid and receive a regular re-
tainer in addition. If this report is
true, it clearly discloses the desperate
measures the insurance combine will re-
sort to in order to accomplish its ends.

The Tradesman believes the law to be
fundamentally unsound and unsafe, be-
cause it really delegates the law making
power to an irresponsible organization
whose duties are not properly defined
and whose powers are not properly lim-
ited. Such legislation is a menace to
free institutions and will not long be
tolerated by a free people.

The record of these rating bureaus in
the past has been replete with evasion,
circumlocution, subterfuge, favoritism,
broken promises and bad faith. The
Tradesman does not believe that men
can be made honest by legislation, any
more than a leopard can change its
spots.

The insinuations and innuendo in-
cluded in Mr, Crosby’s communication
are passed up without comment, be-
cause resort to such weapons is not con-
sidered necessary by the Tradesman to
maintain its position. The Tradesman
has the reputation of being a hard fight-
er for what it considers to be right, but
it always fights fair and never strikes

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March 29, 1916

THE BUCHU KING.

 

Up Like a Rocket—Down Like a
Stick,

On a part of the first floor of the
Continental Hotel, with a Chestnut
street front by the side of the main
entrance, there used to be, in the
days when the hotel was the fore-
most rendezvous in Philadelphia for
both National and local men of dis-
tinction—or what the Fifth Avenue
then was to New York and the
Palmer House to Chicago—a flashing,
brilliant drug store, full of color and
light mirrors and prismatic glasses,
and in front of it a crystal-like pestle
with the name “Helmbold’s” in let-
ters which seemed to allure the pub-
lic eye. In the ’70s, and indeed
long before that time, through the
advertising columns of the news-
papers there was perhaps no other
name more known to everybody .in
the city in connection with boldly
eccentric and sometimes fantastic ex-
ploitation. Of all the advertisers of
patent medicines who have com-
pounded fortunes, in short order, out
of insistent methods of. projecting
their names and their vocations con-
tinually before the public eye, there
has probably been none who was quite
so much an object of bewildered won-
derment and amazement to not only
quiet and conventional people in
Philadelphia, but sometimes to the
liveliest men of the world, as Henry
T. Helmbold, or Doctor Helmbold,
as he always called himself, with as
much impressiveness as if he were a
Virchow or a Pasteur. One medicine
in particular which he _ proclaimed
everywhere with as much of a tri-
umphant stir as if he were the great-
est benefactor of humanity was called
Buchu; multitudes of people were per-
suaded that it was the chief medical
“discovery” of the nineteeth century,
and it was one of the favorite de-

vices of Helmbold to have himself.

heralded in the advertising columns
of the press as the “Buchu King.”
Nor was there any other man in
Philadelphia whom city editors and
reporters were more likely to watch
or enquire after as a source of news
than this luxurious son of audacity and
ostetation. At times he seemed to be
so wild in his eagerness to claim at-
tention that it was difficult to deter-
mine whether he was simply exag-
gerating the methods of Barnum or
whether his wits were diseased. On
Chestnut street, on Broad street, in
Fairmount Park, there were no horses
and carriages like his; his person
sparkled with diamonds, and his din-
ners were talked of in language which
might have befitted the feasts of Lu-
cullus. He was constantly in the
habit of causing reports to be circu-
lated concerning his intimacy with
statesmen and foreign potenates, his
elaborate plans for the construction
of palatial mansions, his munificence
as a patron of art, and the sensational
joys of his European travels. But
after all allowance was made for his
boasting and for his tricks as a charla-
tan in the allurements of publicity,
it had to be acknowledged that he
did things with his money such as
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comic opera would have thought of
doing, and that if there was humbug
in him as the “Buchu King,” there
was plenty or reality in him as the
King of Sports.

Helmbold’s beginning in  Phila-
delphia had been humble. It used
to be said of him that he came from
the country when a youth and that he
found employment at the Market
street drug store of George W.
Carpenter, whose home and grounds
in Germantown were one of the sub-
urban “sights.” With an extremely
buoyant and ambitious temperament
and with a boundless faith in himself,
he learned enough in the drug house
to understand how first-rate profits
could be made in the business when
it was carried on carefully, and how
enormous profits could be made in it
when it was carried on boldly. Ac-
cordingly, he rented a small store in
the vicinity of Powers & Weight-
man’s chemical works at Ninth and
Brown streets, began to make what
he called “Buchu,” described its origin
as a mysterious African plant, and
sold enough of it to the credulous to
enable him to come downtown and
fit up a pharmacy and “laboratory”
on Chestnut street, near Tenth. Still
a young man, he made up his mind
that he would spend on the news-
papers all the money that he could
spare and that he would thus repeat
the tactics of Dr. Jayne in becoming
a millionaire. His success went be-
yond all expectations. He could not
prepare the medicine quickly enough
to meet the flood of orders that soon
began to pour in on him. Instead of
half a column, he took a full column
and then two columns—this was then
a very big advertisement—in each of
the principal newspapers. There was
no newspaper in Philadelphia which
he would not use if it had a thousand
readers, who, he could be ‘assured,
visited the drug stores. Most other
advertisers felt that they were pig-
mies as compared with him. Twenty
thousand, fifty thousand, a hundred
thousand, finally a quarter of a mil-
lion dollars a year were believed to
be expended by him at a time when
probably no merchant or commer-
cial firm expended annually a half of
the maximum of these amounts. He
declared not only that no man in
Philadelphia had gotten rich so rap-
idly as he had, but that none who
had ever done so deserved it so much
as he did.

In the course of time he turned his
attention to New York also as a field
not only for the great Buchu, but for
the display of his own opulent and
imposing self. When the once-cele-
brated Metropolitan Hotel, which was
situated on what is now lower Broad-
way and to which Niblo’s Garden
theater was a notable adjunct, was
still in the fulness of its glory, he
lavished a fortune on the equipment
and decoration of a “pharmacy” in a
part of the hotel His .expenditures
in the hotel as a dinner host and wine
opener were said to have been great-
er than those of anybody that had
ever entered its doors, “Coal Oil
Johnny” not excepted. He bought
one of the finest houses in what was
then the Fifth avenue district, fur-

 

nished it with the spendor of a palace,
and seemed to set up a rivalry to
“Jim” Fisk in catching public atten-
tion as a “high-flyer.”’ Sometimes,
garbed in clothes such as a gentle-
man of quiet and modest tastes might
wear, without color or jewelry, he
would drive on the principal streets
with a magnificently dressed coach-
man and a pair of footmen blazing
with scarlet coats, and at Long
Branch, where President Grant had
his “summer capital,” Helmbold and
his wife, who had the reputation of
being a clever as well as a beautiful
woman, set up what the wits called
“the Court of the Prince of Buchu.”
Helmbold emphatically declared that
his wife was the finest specimen of
her sex in America and that in
Europe there was no one to be com-
pared to her, unless it was the Em-
press Eugenie.

It was in Europe that some of
Helmbold’s adventures caused such 1
stir that he was burlesqued on the
Parisan stage as a typical American
of the upstart breed. His banquets
and receptions were compared to
those of the nabobs from Oriental
countries, and on one occasion he had
the Shah of Persia as his guest in the
midst of superb scenes of Persian
luxury, the most skillful designers of
palatial furnishings in Paris having
been instructed to contrive such em-
bellishments as would make the po-
tenate feel that he was, for the mo-
ment, in his own Teheran. Meanwhile,
in that portion of the boulevard press
which lives on the arts of puffery as
wellas blackmail, Helmbold was prais-
ed to the skies as one of the world’s
self-made men, a savant and philan-
thropist who would be worthy of a
place among America’s “Forty Im-
mortals,” if there were an academy on
our side of the Atlantic. But about
this time there were signs, in his
speech and behavior, which indicated
that he was influenced by other mo-
tives than cunning and money-mak-
ing in paying out fortunes for all this
display as well as the inordinate
eulogies of the press. It began to be
whispered that he ought to be re-
garded by wise people not so much
with disgust as with pity. Some of
his behavior had been called eccentric,
but men who watched him closely
shook their heads and said that he
was rapidly becoming a victim of
vicious. exercises and the excitation
of disordered nerves. In Philadelphia
it had been supposed that his appar-
ent follies had all been planned chief-
ly with regard to their effects on the
business in “Buchu.” But however
this may have been, the feverish, ex-
travagant and fantastic joys which
he found in Paris were altogether too
much for him, and at last the suspicion
that he had really been out of his
mind at times was confirmed by his
boisterous exhibitions of rage over
the slightest trifles and a fantic at-
tempt to slay his wife. It soon be-
came necessary to put him in a mad-
house; his escape from it enabled
him to get back to this country, and
here the controversies, litigation,
commitments and escapes in which
he was concerned for a number of
years quite equalled in sensational ef-

 

fect and almost exceeded in duration
the contests which Harry Thaw has
made on the question of his lunacy.
All his financial affairs went to pieces,
and for a while he was an inmate of
the Kirkbride Asylum in West Phila-
delphia. Subsequently, after having
had some partial return of his reason,
he died in another hospital utterly
crazy.

The famous drug store in the Con-
tinental had passed into the control
of or possession of his brother Albert,
who was also a familiar character
among men about town, but who had
little or none of the dash and genius
of “the doctor’ as an advertiser.
When the affairs of the Helmbolds
were before the courts, all sorts of
stories came out concerning the
vagaries and escapades of the “Buchu
King”—how he contemplated buying
the Continental and turning it into
a huge laboratory, how he was going
to take charge of the Medical School
of the University of Pennsylvania
over on Ninth street, how he had
formed a plan of leading an expedi-
tion into Africa in order to “discover”
new plants for medical uses, and how
he had intended to raise a great cam-
paign fund for nominating himself as
a candidate for President of the
United States against Grant. When
he was sane, or, at least responsible
and at large, he always avowed, with
gushing frankness, that to newspapers
was due everything that he was and
everything that he had. “No fellow
can get along,’ he would say, “who
doesn’t advertise; the great thing is
never to let the public forget you.”
It was one of his boasts that for every
one Philadelphian who had heard of
such able men as Doctor Gross and
Doctor Pancoast, there were ten thou-
sand who had heard of “Doctor”
Helmbold. In a genial but brazen
defiance of what we call the con-
ventionalities and in a vain-glorious
love of money simply as a means for
obtrusion and display, it is doubtful
whether there had been before or has
been since, a like Philadelphian on
the promenades of Chestnut street.
To sarcasm and to ridicule he was
apparently insensible; no one could
talk him down or laugh him down, and
when he passed along the Continental
he was prouder of himself than any
peacock could be with a full-spread
tail. As it used to be the habit to
call “Bob” Fox, of the famous “Varie-
ties,’ the wickedest man in the city,
so it was to call “Doctor” Helmbold
the livliest, and he was probably quite
as much in earnest as he seemed to
be in jest when he frequently de-
clared that he would become so rich
that Chestnut street would some day
be known as Helmbold avenue!

Nowhere outside of the stage and
the madhouse could anyone have
found his  duplicate—Philadelphia
Bulletin.

——_++—____

Keep plugging. He who fights and
runs away will live only to run away
again. A successful business man has
a soldier’s courage, or he would not be
successful, Had he run from even
the most overwhelming of odds he
would be numbered among the busi-
ness derelicts now.

   

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An Interested Clerk Is Always Ap-
preciated.

“Ten cents, please; thank you!” and
the sale is completed as far as the
average clerk in the 5 and 10 cent
store is concerned. She has Wrapped
up the goods, registered the amount
of cash, and is ready for another cus-
tomer to hand over something to be
wrapped.

The interest in their employer's wel-
fare is lacking. A small child could
do the same thing, and yet there are
complaints heard about the small pay
clerks in these stores receive.

A salesman’s or saleswoman’s worth
becomes very soon apparent to his
employer. Hundreds of clerks with
the ability to wrap up a package in
paper and accept payment for the
goods can be had at all times. In
fact, such clerks are always looking
for a job. The real salesperson with
ability to create sales does not have
to look long.

House cleaning time will soon be
here, the time when the needs of the
housewife appear to her endless. To
the apt salesperson one sale leads to
another. To the parcel wrapper grade
aforementioned it leads to nothing.

When a customer enquires for say
a scrub brush, such a sale should at
once bring to mind washing powder,
scrub pails, ammonia, soap, dust
cloths, etc.

Salesmanship ability consists of im-
pressing the need of other goods be-
sides .the articles asked for. To ask
the average customer if she wants this
or that article of merchandise point
blank generally results in a negative
reply. After one or two attempts on
this score by a would-be ambitious
clerk with the same result he gener-
ally considers it a useless waste of
breath to follow up his ambition to
make sales any further.

Tact is required to create sales.
During housecleaning time everyone
knows the many needed articles. It
is one thing to ask a customer bluntly
if they want this or that item shown
on the counter, and another in creat-
ing interest in the same article with-
out any apparent effort to sell it.

Interest is the first essential in a
sale. The handling out of some article
for examination while the customer is
waiting, with the remark that it is
something extra good for its purpose
will often create interest enough to
have questions asked. Once this inter-
est is created a sale is often made.

When a customer thinks you are
trying to force her to buy (we use the
female gender advisedly as the women
folks make up the maximum of your
trade) she becomes a bit piqued and
seldom a sale will be made. When, on

 

the other hand, she feels that it is
through interest in her that you are
putting her wise to some things she
had never seen or heard of before,
then she feels somewhat grateful and
appreciative, whereupon a sale is gen-
erally the result.

If a woman buys a mop handle or
a scrub brush, to ask her if she need-
ed the other would probably look
foolish to her, as she would have
bought the other instead of what she
did buy if she wanted it, as both ar-
ticles could be used for the same pur-
pose. Naturally the sale of the ex-
tra article is lost.

But suppose you took a mop handle
and fastened a scrubbing brush to its
metal jaws and showed the customer
how easily the scrubbing could be
done without getting on the knees.
isn’t it a chance in ten that a sale of
both items would be made?

Instruct your help in these little
kinks of business getting and it will
mean more business and more pleas-
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China wants to increase its trade
with the United States, and among
the articles manufactured in this
country which the Chinese would like
to buy are fishhooks. Fishhooks in
China are made by hand. Some have
been imported from England, but the
Chinese hooks are fashioned by hand
and rust easily, as the natives do not
know how to “tin” the hooks. Here
is a chance to hook some trade from
China.

—__ —--.

Women are inconsistent creatures.
An Atchison, Kan., girl endeavored
to teach her best young man some
principles of economy. She talked
seriously to him about spending
money foolishly, and he took her re-
marks to heart. Instead of buying
expensive candy for her he sent 10
cent store sweets that come in bags
to the lady. Then she was so peev-
d that she broke the engagement.

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Be Absolutely Honest With Your
Customers.

Grand Rapids, March 14—Some
time ago I wrote an article for the
Michigan Tradesman on the subject
of albumen in baking powder, giving
absolute facts quoted from the writ-
ings of a majority of the pure food
commissioners and chemists denounc-
ing its use in baking powder. That
was in the early days of the con-
troversy and I am glad to read in
your issue of March 8 the decision
of the Joint Committee on Defini-
tions and Standards at the Bureau of
Chemistry in Washington, D. Cc.
headed, “The Last Days of Albumen,”
showing conclusively that all fair
minded men do not countenance or
uphold fraud or chicanery in business.

The article I wrote for the Trades-
man on that subject was evidently
read by a great many merchants, as
it was discussed with me on my re-
turn trip and many seemed anxious
to delve deeper into the subject.
Some were inclined to take the oppo-
site side of the issue and I was in-
formed that one merchant said, “That
man White has marbles in his head.
What harm can a little white of egg
do in baking powder?”

There has never been any claim,
so far as has come under my observa-
tion, that 15-100 of 1 per cent. of
white of egg in a pound of baking
powder was injurious. What was
claimed and is to-day and will be so
long as its use is continued in baking
powder is that there is just enough
of it to absolutely deceive the mer-
chant and the consumer in its pur-
pose as an ingredient. The claim
made by its advocates that it im-
proves the quality of the baking pow-
der to such an extent that it makes
it a superior leavening powder to any
other and that its use enables the
house wife to economize in the use
of eggs in cooking is wholly erron-
eous.

As a salesman for a baking powder
company which does not use albumen
in its product, my opinion or any
statement I might make would have
little influence or weight with the
majority of merchants. They would
insist that I was biased in my opin-
ion on account of being on the other
side of the fence, but should Mr.
Helm or Mr. Mickle, of our pure
food department of Michigan, visit
them and make the same statements
that I did, they would sit up and take
notice.

When a salesman on the road
strives to build up a business by con-
scientious, hard work and aims to
give a merchant and the consumer
the best value possible for their
money, representing his company’s
product to be equal to anything made,
not so far superior as to convey the
idea that other products equal to his
were very much inferior and even
dangerous to use; and when time and
use has demonstrated that the public
generally have acknowledged that
this is true by the increase in the
demand and consumption of his
goods, it is sometimes humiliating to
find that by a little deception and
unfair business methods the mind of
the merchant can be changed and the
result of his conscientious work and
fair methods for a long period of
years blasted in a day. It can not be
done with fairness. After having
traveled on the road for a number
of years on a salary and lived in a
fairly comfortable way, it would be
very surprising and even suspicious
for me to become suddenly rich. Peo-
ple would wonder where I got the
money. It would be far easier and
a great deal quicker method for me
to steal $100 than to earn it. So I
say it is a great deal easier for a man
to build up a business temporarily
by unfair methods than honestly. As
an illustration of this fact, let me

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11

quote my experience a year or two
ago:

I had a customer in Grand Trav-
erse county nine miles away from the
railroad whom I visited twice a year.
I had so firmly established my goods
with him that 90 per cent. of his
sales in that line was of my product,
and it was a mutual pleasure to us
both for me to call on him, as it
usually is with a man when his goods
are moving freely with a merchant.
The traveler the merchant has no use
for is the one who sells him unsalable
goods. The next trip I made to Mr.
X. I found none of my goods on his
shelves, but a mountain of my com-
petitor’s goods and, instead of the
affable manner with which I had al-
ways been accosted, I received what
the boys term the icy mtit. Mr. X.
accosted me with, “Nothing doing in
your line to-day.” I said, “Mr. X.,
there doesn’t seem to be any of my
powder on your shelves and you have
always had a good trade on it. You
surely are not going to give up an
old friend for a new one and discard
the goods.” He replied, “I’m not
going to handle it any more.” I said,
“What’s the trouble?” He said, “I’ve
seen it tested and I didn’t know I
was handling such rotten stuff.” He
was in such a frame of mind that it
would have been folly and waste of
time to reason with him. He had
been shown the fake water glass test
and he had been so captivated by it
that experience alone would be his
only teacher. I am happy to state
that in about three months from the
time of my visit, I received a letter
from him at my home to send him a
barrel of my goods, stating that many
if his customers would not take the
other goods in its place. The point
I want to emphasize in this narrative
is that while the other fellow got the
business away from me temporarily,
the man who is absolutely honest
with his customers will win out in
the long run.

In all the walks in life we meet
with prejudice to a great extent. It
sems very hard for men and women
to be fair minded and I have found
prejudice one of the hardest things
to overcome. We are the result of
education and if that education has
not been in the right direction, we
are apt to become prejudiced. For
instance, when we read in advertise-
ments, Beware of albumen: beware
of rochelle salts; other men’s goods
are made of dead horse’s bones, etc.
—methods used by manufacturers to
prejudice the consumer’s mind against
the competitor’s goods. Without
studying both sides of the question,
we are apt to form a conclusion has-
tily and condemn goods of honest
merit.

My firm conviction is that in the
near future there will be a National
law passed against false advertising,
and when manufacturers begin to ad-
vertise their own products and leave
their competitor’s goods alone, the
goods with the greatest merit will
make the fastest progress.

Algernon E. White.

The ups and downs of life were
shown the other day when an old
waiter ina New York City hotel look-
ed out of a window and watched a
man shoveling snow from the side-
walk. He called the manager of the
hotel to the window and asked if the
shoveler was not the gentleman who
with his family occupied a suite at
the hotel ten years before. The man-
ager recognized the man and went
out to speak to him. Ten years ago
the snow shoveler was a successful
broker. He lost all his money and
for two years has been living from
hand to mouth, while his wife was
cared for by her parents in Ohio.

 

 

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Harmonious Action Vital in Life’s
Activities.*

When I was a lad the White Moun-
tains as a place of resort were not as
popular as they are now and there
was no railroad leading up to the
hotel, but there was a tavern and
there were people who went there
and supplies were required. These
supplies had to be drawn up by horse
power. It was a long, hard pull and
horses were trained especially for the
work. They were selected and match-
ed so that they would step together
and often a four-horse team would
be so well in hand that at a word
every horse would step at exactly the
same time. It was a perfectly united
pull together.

In rowing contests the adjustment
of men to each other and the selec-
tion of a crew so that the movement
shall be an absolutely united one is
a work of skill. Success depends
largely upon the ability of the men
to pull exactly together. In the se-
lection of baseball teams and _ foot-
ball teams, thought and skill are put
into the selection, having in mind
perfect team work.

When I used to take singing les-
sons, there was a master who had
great skill in picking out for his
school quartets the voices of the in-
dividuals harmonizing very perfectly.
The same thought of working to-
gether in unison was the foundation
of his success. It is vital in almost
every avenue of life’s activities to
have in mind this thought of har-
monious action and the difficulty lies
in great differences in temperament
and habit and outlook upon life.

If we had a complete record oi
partnerships of business in this city.
we would find that only a very small
percentage of them have been suc-
cessiul, because it is difficult for men
to think and act together for a com-
mon end. The selection of the cabjnets
by the various Presidents of the
United States and the many changes
which have come is an illustration of
the emphasis which we rightly place
upon the importance of selecting wise-
ly men who are expected to work to
a common end.

We have a home illustration in
our Charter Commission which, un-
fortunately, was selected in a way
that could hardly have resulted in
making a body which could work in
unison. In business organized for
a definite purpose, the arrangement
of the different officers and working
force so that they shall all work to-
gether without lack in efficiency is an
artistic accomplishment and usually

*Conversational address by Hon.
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can not be done at once, but must
be wrought out through years of ex-
perience.

Underneath success, when men
work together, is loyalty. I occa-
sionally run across people identified
with business establishments who are
constantly throwing out. criticisms
concerning the management. This, it
seems to me, is the height: of dis-
loyalty. If one can not be in accord
with the management and the con-
cern with which he is identified, his
duty is to change his position. The
moment that the germ of disloyalty
creeps into an organization, we can
sniff danger.

One great value of military train-
ing lies in the absolute loyalty re-
quired and the mandate that all must
work together. One reason for bring-
ing into school life something of
military training is the habit among
the boys of working cordially and
successfully together.

I always feel sorry for the boy or
girl who is the only child in the family.
The experience of giving and taking
in a family group under the right
parental authority is a most valuable
one in preparation for life work, what-
ever it may be. The child who al-
ways has his own way and never has
to knuckle, develops a type of char-
acter which finds difficulty in suc-
cessfully joining a group. The rea-
son for this lies largely in the develop-
ment of selfishness—the superimpor-
tance of one’s self and his ideas and
methods when compared with those
of others. I was talking with the
mother of a family of boys and girls
the other day and I said to her, “What
is your ideal in bringing up the mem-
bers of your family so that they shali
reach the acme of service with a mini-
mum of friction in life?’ She re-
plied promptly, “I have in mind al-
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they shall make good husbands and
the training of my girls so that they
shall make good wives, always think-
ing of the partnership which should
naturally come in life and the vital
importance of working harmoniously
together.” It seemed to me that this
was a beautiful thought in connection
with the development of right
thoughts and right habits in children
with reference to working out with
other people’s plans of life.

It is an exception when we find
a family growing up in which there
is a constant expression of willing-
ness to be helpful and think and work
for the common good. As you think
over the families that you know about
you, is it not true that perfect har-
mony of purpose and the subverting
of self in the interests of the com-
mon good is the exception rather than
the rule? Quickly formed partner-
ships, whether for business purposes
or in marriage, usually have the ele-
ments of shipwreck from the outset.
There is so often some little thing
which is magnified and becomes a
thorn in the flesh, resulting in a per-
manent ulcer. We ought to learn a
lesson from the pearl oyster. When
a grain of sand gets in the shell and
is a source of annoyance to the little
animal and w hich it is utterly unable
to eliminate, it covers over the rag-
ged edges with a layer of pearl and
adds layer upon layer until the ugly
cause of friction becomes so smooth
that it does not aggravate the life of
the oyster. A beautiful gem results
from this process. In life we might
find it exceedingly valuable, instead
of magnifying and constantly recur-
ring to a source of annoyance, to
smooth it over and cover it in such
a way that it should be hidden from
our view and thought and by this
process a precious pearl of character
may be developed.

Did it ever occur to you that some
great movements have been the re-
sult of not working together? If the
various sects which make up the
Christian church had refused to em-
phasize their differences and had mag-
nified the things upon which they
could agree, there never would have
been a need of the Y. M. C. A. If
educators had harmonized their views
with regard to methods in education,
we would not have needed the inde-
pendent organization of Boy Scouts.
If municipalities in their government
managed to work in harmony, hav-
ing in mind the greatest good to all,
we should not have been under the
necessity of forming a great lot of
independent organizations which are
now working separately, but each has
found a need for accomplishing cer-
tain things which were absolutely
neglected by the government. I re-
fer to such organizations as the Social
Welfare Association, the Evangeline
Home, the Morals Efficiency Com-
mission and others of their kind,

The Grand Rapids banks have unit-
ed in a clearing house organization
for the purpose of working more
strongly and harmoniously together,
having a common object in view. The
success of this method is illustrated
by the fact that very few meetings
are required and rarely is there a

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13

controversy, because all of the ele-
ments naturally work in harmony.
In our organization here I may,
perhaps, be allowed to voice the
thought and the wish that we shall,
each one of us, have in mind the best
service that can possibly be rendered
the community by our institution and
that whatever we may think about the
policy of our bank, we should avoid
friction and controversy and _ strive
in the strongest and best way pos-
sible to work sweetly, beautifully and
efficiently together. Having in mind
the betterment of our organization, I
suggest to you that each one of you
as you may think of something that
would be of value in increasing our ef-
ficiency, to jot it down upon a slip
of paper and place it in a box which
I will put upon my desk. Do not
fear to express yourself, each one of
you, in this way and out of it may
come some thoughts which we can
utilize in making our bank a more suc-
cessful working force in community.

— ~+--___
Married men will protest vigorously
if their wives feel called upon to fol-
low Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s

‘proposal to cut their hair short. The

married men have _ trouble enough
noW in answering their wives’ query,
“Is my hat on straight?” With short
hair, hat-pins would not be useful
and the women would ask the ques-
tion three times where they now ask
it once. If women had their locks
shorn they would save the time spent
in doing up their hair, but several
barbers recently interviewed declared
they would refuse to shear the ladies.

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threat that if he did not separate from
his quarrelsome wife he would be
discharged and lose his $5 a day po-
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ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW.

Defense of the Measure by Local
Insurance Agent.

Grand Rapids, March 26—My attention
has been called to an editorial in your
paper of March 22 under the caption
“Conceived in Crookedness.” After read-
ing this article I am inclined to the
opinion that, without a knowledge of
what you are attacking, your antagon-
ism against Mayor Ellis has led you into
a false and unwarranted tirade against
a law which, instead of being “infam-
ous,’’ is the best piece of insurance leg-
islation ever enacted in the State of
Michigan.

Anyone who has

given the subject of
fire insurance any

serious study knows
that insurance is a tax and that the
insurance companies are the tax collect-
ors. <A certain amount of money must
be raised each year by the companies to
meet the losses and expenses of opera-
tion. If ten million dollars must be
raised, that amount should be levied
fairly and without discrimination. That,
I think, you will grant.

At the annual meeting of the Local
Insurance Agents of Michigan, held in
this city in the summer of 1914, much
discussion was had as to the unsatis-
factory manner in which rates were then

applied throughout the State. Discrim-
ination existed at various points and
upon various risks and classes which

was unfair to the remainder of the in-
suring public—a condition which, appar-
ently, could not be improved under the
system then in vogue.

To present some plan of operation
which would attempt to remedy the un-
fair condition which existed was the aim
of the agents present at the meeting
referred to. The subject of anti-dis-
crimination was not new. Massachu-
Setts at least had such a law and the
results had been satisfactory. This
meeting of agents, after going on record
as favoring an anti-discriminatory law,
appointed a committee of three to co-
operate with the State Insurance Depart-

ment, to the end that a rating law
might be framed which would produce
results satisfactory to insured and in-
surer. The Local Agents’ Association

had no funds at its disposal and at that
meeting $300 was raised by voluntary
subscription among the agents to pay
the expenses of this committee. This
money was used for the legitimate ex-
penses of railroad fare for the commit-
tee, for postage and printing of circulars
for agents regarding the bill. Not one
cent was expended by anyone to influ-
ence the enactment of the bill. No in-
surance company, so far as I am aware,
took any action whatever favoring the
bill. I know that some companies did
not favor it arid that others were only
passively in favor of it, fearing that with
a State Board of Appeal the possibility
of political influence might be bad. No
company or company employe has any
connection with the Local Agents’ Asso-
ciation. It is purely an organization of
local agents doing an insurance business
within the State of Michigan.

The committee referred to above de-
voted its labors to a campaign of educa-
tion, with the result that two important
and valuable pieces of insurance legisla-
tion were passed by the last legislature—
one the Anti-Discriminatory Law and
the other an Agent’s Qualification Law.
You are not interested in the latter, as
it refers solely to the appointment of
agents and aims to restrict companies
in the appointment as agent of any Tom,
Dick or Harry who could control a piece
of business, irrespective of his ability or
qualification. You can recognize that a
measure of that nature is a protection to
the public. I was made President of the
Local Agents’ Association at the meeting
held here and held that office until last
July and as President I was active in
the campaign to secure the passage of
the bills referred to.

I am proud of the work of our organi-
zation during the year in which I was
President. There is not one thing in
either law which any fair minded man
can honestly attack. The theory of anti-
discrimination is absoultely correct and
the only thing that could warrant a re-
peal of this law would be an increase of
the average Michigan fire insurance rate
without an abnormal increase in loses
such as would be occasioned by a tre-
mendous conflagration. This anti-dis-
criminatory law went into effect August
24, 1915. The average fire insurance rate
for the year ending December 31, 1915,
was about 5 cents below 1914. This de-
crease was quite largely brought about
by the operation of this law from August
24 to December 31. I think you will
find that the average for 1916 will show
a further substantial average reduction.
Don’t lose sight of the fact that here is
an incentive for fire protection and care
of individual premises that never exist-
ed before. Improved risks mean lower
insurance rates.

The fire insurance companies need no
brief from me. There are undoubtedly
companies and agents who are not of the
highest degree of integrity, as in other
branches of human endeavor; but I think
you will have to admit that insurance
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gaged in any other walk of life in the
community in which they reside, and I
assume you are willing to concede to
them a fair margin of profit for their
labors. Insurance companies are entitled
to a fair profit—no more no less—on the
capital invested. Their stock is available
to you or any investors that may see fit
to buy and new companies are floated
from time to time in which you may, if
you wish, invest. There are a number
of good Michigan companies which ought
to appeal to you as a present good in-
vestment if you believe half what you
say in your article. Personally, however,
I would not suggest the sale of any local
bank or gas stocks for investments of
this character. Possibly you think agents
get too much revenue for their work.
An agent to-day to be a success must
know a little more than where to sign
a policy and how to collect the premium.
I venture the opinion that the same
energy, time and ability expended in the
publishing business would yield no less
remuneration.

Mr. Ellis’ opinion on the law should
not affect your judgment, one way or
the other. Apparently Kalamazoo in the
past has not been contributing its fair
share of the insurance tax. Probably
others have not in specific instances. I
judge the Ford Motor Car Company is
in that list and for that I am truly sorry
and oniy wonder whether this difference
in insurance cost to them is to be re-
flected to the buying public by an in-
creased list price or by a poorer car.
Everyone, whether they carry fire insur-
ance or not, contributes to the insurance
fund somehow—in the clothing they buy
for instance, for the successful merchant
and the manufacturer adds his insurance
cost to his cost of doing business. Un-

less you believe a few are entitled to
“special privileges’ is there then any
good reason why you or I sh ould be

called upon to help make up the contri-
bution of Kalamazoo or the Ford Motor
Car Company.

have understood that Mayor Ellis
Owns a Cadillac automobile. Now there

would be as much consistency on your
part if you had said the Cadillac Motor
Car Company were crooked and dis-
honest and their car unworthy of con-
sideration as there is to Say tuat the
anti-discriminatory law is infamous for
the sole reason that Mayor Ellis has seen
fit to endorse it.

The anti-discriminatory law was con-
ceived in the local agents’ meeting held
here in July, 1914. If it Was ‘‘con-
ceived in crookedness,”’ then I and every
agent active then and later in working
for the passage of the law are crooked
and ought to be driven from the com-
munity in which we reside.

I would be false to myself and false
to the public whom I try to serve if I
hesitated to express myself to you as I
have. I have no time or desire to enter
into any controversy with you regarding
this matter, but I think your better judg-
ment will tell you that I am entitled
to an apology and that your statements
demand a retraction. The power of the
editor is great, but his influence wanes
if he fails to tell the truth when he
sees the light.

In any further comments
called upon to make regarding
discriminatory law, let us have no more
“Conceived in Crookedness” and ‘“Ul-
terior Motives of the Clandestine Pro-
moters,”” for you can’t get away with it.

James M. Crosby.
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is poor, for the decrease in imports
and increase in exports of glass bot-
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added ,over $1,000,000 to their busi-
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crippled by a lack of men, but they
are buying American machinery which
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Live Notes From a Live Town.

Owosso, March 26—Saturday after-
noon fifteen members of Owosso
Council made a trip to Saginaw (on
invitation of Saginaw Council) to wit-
ness the initiatory work on fourteen
commercial men molded over into
United Commercial Travelers. Our
boys report a good time, followed by
a banquet, of which the writer, owing
to his inability to be present cannot
give an accurate description, but evi-
dently the bond of union between the
two councils are more strongly ce-
mented than ever.

Gus Stephens, the vendor of
Stephen’s Broad Leaf cigar—worth 10
cents, sold for 5 cents—Sundayed over
in Owosso with his family, verifying
the old adage that chickens come
home to roost.

Chase & Farrand have purchased
the restaurant and ice cream parlor
of Chet Walters, at New Lothrop.
The business will be transferred to
more commodious quarters, where
their patrons will receive prompt and
courteous attention and ice cream
dispensed in two or more colors.

J. H. Stinchcomb, has purchased the
ice cream and lunch parlor of John
Frizzell and will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

W. L. Morrison, has sold his gen-
eral store at Bridgeville to Barrett
& Greubaugh. This is a fine location
and has for years beemone of the best
country stores in the State. Grand
Rapids and Detroit have got nothing
on it for river frontage, as you can
stand in the front door of the store
and look out on the rippling waters
of the beautiful meandering Maple
River. It is away from the turmoil
and dust of large cities, such as Grand
Rapids, Ada and Burton. Across the
river is a beautiful expanse of prairie
which is restful to the eye—fringed
with green foliage where the birds
twitter their effulgent twit neath the
leafly maple boughs. East of the
store stands a large weather worn
shop, where Captain Gates manufac-
tures the best clinker boats that ever
cut the blue waters of Michigan fish-
ing resorts. With surroundings like
these and the energy and push these
two young merchants have, we be-
speak for them a brilliant and prof-
itable merchantile future.

Carl Monks, of Thomas Monks &
Son, has purchased the interest of his
father and will continue a grocery
business on South Chipman street,
Owosso.

Paul Siess, of Owosso, has sold
his tobacco and cigar store in Ovid
to William Woodson.

L. M. Hicks & Co., of North Star,
have sold their stock of general mer-
chandise to James King & Son, of
Stanton, who have taken possession
of the business.

George McMillen, of Ithaca, the fat
boy, says while the U. C. T. is a good
thing, he thinks he has struck some-
thing more to his liking and is about
to join the Sons of Toil, with head-
quarters at Ashley, We have been
informed that Mr. McMillen was once
expelled from the Ancient Order of
the Days of Rest for conduct unbe-
coming a member of that order, as
he was caught hoeing in the garden.

C. A. Sullivan, of Alma, in barter
with an honest farmer took in a
basket of real eggs. He sued the
farmer in Justice Court and won out.
The farmer carried the case to Cir-
cuit Court and was beaten and fined
twenty-five plunks. This is a rotten
item and we know it. We suggest to
the farmer that he trade hens with
somebody. Possibly he can sell ’em
to Fred Hanifan.

Honest Groceryman.

Bankruptcy Proceedings in South-
western Michigan.

St. Joseph, March 20—In the matter of
the Denton Manufacturing Co., bank-
rupt, St. Joseph, the inventory and re-
port of appraisers was filed showing total
assets of $1,946.16, whereupon an order
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trustee to sell the entire assets of the
estate. The trustee thereupon filed a
report showing he had received an offer
of $1,850, whereupon an order was made
by the referee for creditors to show
cause why the offer should not be ac-
cepted, the property sold and the sale
confirmed.

March 21—In the matter of Bert Reu-
ben, bankrupt, Paw Paw, an order was
made by the referee confirming the trus-
tee’s report of sale of assets for $850.
The trustee filed his report of exempted
property recommending that the bank-
rupt be allowed $187.50.

In the matter of the Hickory Grove
Distilling Co., bankrupt, Kalamazoo, a
special meeting of creditors was held at
the referee’s office for the purpose of
payment of administration expenses and
the declaration and payment of a second
dividend of 5 per cent.

March 22—In the matter of Charles M.
Scherer, bankrupt, Benton Harbor, the
trustee filed petition for authority to sell
the assets of the bankrupt estate, con-
sisting of a small stock of dry goods at
private sale to Neil Enders, of the same
place, for $580. The petition was con-
sidered and an order entered by the
referee for creditors to show cause why
the same should not be acecpted and the
sale approved.

In the matter of the Denton Manufac-
turing Co., bankrupt, St. Joseph, an ad-
journed first meeting of creditors was
held at the referee’s office and claims to
the amount of $3,000 were allowed. The
examination of the officers of the bank-
rupt was continued and the meeting ad-
jJourned for 30 days.

March 23—In the matter of Jane Goo-
zen, bankrupt, Dowagiac, the final meet-
ing of creditors was held at the referee’s
office, and the trustee’s final report and
account approved and allowed. There
not being any funds upon which to de-
clare a dividend to creditors, the actual
administration expenses were ordered
paid. Creditors having been directed to
show cause why a certificate should not
be made by the referee recommending
the bankrupt’s discharge and no cause
having been shown, it was determined
that such favorable certificate should be
made. It was further determined that
the trustee should be authorized not to
interpose objections to the bankrupt’s
discharge. g Final meeting of credtiors
was then adjourned without day.

March 24—In the matter of Charles 3B.
Gray, bankrupt, Kalamazoo, an order was
made calling the first meeting of credit-
ors at Kalamazoo April 4, for the pur-
post of proving claims, the election of a
trustee, the examination of the bank-
rupt and the transaction of such other
business as may properly come before
the meeting. Upon order of the District
Judge, notices were mailed to creditors
of the sale of the entire assets of the
bankrupt at the same day of the ap-
praised value of $9,572.46.

In the matter of the Spencer & Barnes
Co., bankrupt, Benton Harbor, orders
were entered by the referee denying the
trustee’s objections to the claims. of
creditors in amount of $4,800 and for the
purpose of taking further and additional
testimony upon the petition of William
G. Newland to account for the sum of
$4,800.

In the matter of Abe Meyer, bankrupt,
Kalamazoo, an order was made calling
the first meeting of creditors at the lat-
ter place April 4 for the purpose of prov-
ing claims, the election of a trustee, the
examination of the bankrupt and the
transaction of such other business as
may properly come before the meeting.

March 25—In the matter of Lee M.
Ransbottom, bankrupt, Dowagiac, the
final meeting of creditors was held at
the referee’s office and the trustee’s final
report and account, showing total assets
of $999.65 and disbursements of $134.63
approved and allowed. A first and final
dividend of 2.8 per cent. was. declared
and ordered paid to all unsecured cred-
itors. Creditors having been directed to
show cause why a certificate should not
be made recommending the bankrupt’s
discharge and cause having been shown,
it was determined that such certificate
be refused. The final order of distribu-
tion was entered and the final meeting
of creditors adjourned without day.

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Sixty thousand tons of canned pine-
apples will be shipped to the main-
land by the growers of Hawaji this
year in accordance with their agree-
ment with the Matson Navigation Co.
to ship by that line for five years a
minimum of three-quarters of the an-
nual pineapple pack. The freight rate
on the product is $3.25 a ton. The
pack this year will be exceptionally
large.

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That it pays to push when the push-
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trade a very busy season; and it will
be the policy of every shrewd hard-
ware dealer to take full advantage of
the enhanced demand for the lines
he handles.

Housecleaning lines are already
timely by the end of March, and oc-
casional housecleaning displays and
housecleaning advertising should con-
tinue through April into May. There
is no set season for housecleaning;
much depends upon the weather and
much more upon the individual house-
wife. Many women believe in start-
ing early, many more make a prac-
tice of putting off until late; and prob-
ably the majority are just waiting for
the hardware dealer to remind them
by putting on a display of houseclean-
ing lines. One thing is pretty cer-
tain; it’s the dealer who puts on the
firstand the best display who gets the
business.

In this connection, it pays to give
prominence to new lines. Many of the
new lines introduced in recent years
have the advantage that they run up
into money and give a good, wide
margin of profit. Formerly, house-
cleaning was merely a matter of a
pail, soap and scrubbing brushes. A
lot of housecleaning is still done with
very limited tools, But the house-
hold magazines are preaching to the
housewives the importance of proper
equipment for household tasks:. and
modern housecleaning jumps all the
way from scrubbing brushes—the
small kind, two for a _nickel—to
vacuum cleaners (electric) retailing
at $65 each.

I often think that retail advertisers
talk too much of their goods and not
enough of the results those goods will
produce. It is results in which peo-
ple are interested. The average house-
wife is interested in the vacuum clean-
er as a dirt killer and a labor saver:
the technical details are of interest
chiefly as proving that the instrument
can and does produce these very in-
teresting results.

So, the hardware dealer who takes
as his slogan “A Well Equipped
Household” has the advantage of the
dealer who just shows the house-

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it home in your advertising, in your
window displays, in your personal
salesmanship, that the housewife owes
it to herself to have everything that
will make housecleaning less labori-
ous and more efficient. Get the idea
into her head that she positively ought
to have an entire outfit—and then be
able to tell her just what it would cost
to equip her with everything.

There are a lot of lines to be fea-
tured in this connection. A window
display could include a full line of
brushes, wall dusters, window clean-
ers, step-ladders, mops, pails, chamois,
Carpet sweepers and polishes. Then,
too, you might work in the more es-
sential tools—hammers, a good gen-
eral purpose saw, a hatchet, and the
like. Among the mops don’t forget
the dustless mop for hardwood floors.
Don’t forget enamel, floor wax or
floor finish, and like lines. The more
you ponder the proposition, the more
difficult you'll find it for your window
to hold everything that’s timely in the
housecleaning season.

Perhaps it would be better to save
the laundry items for a follow-up
window. Your talk on “complete
housecleaning equipment” has laid
the foundation idea in the housewife’s
mind of the need of being thoroughly
fitted out in a mechanical way. Show
in your next window how wash day
labor can be eliminated by the aid
of proper equipment. There’s the
washing machine to begin with; the
wringer, washboards, dippers, tubs,
ironing boards, boilers, sleeve boards,
irons—don’t forget the electric iron
—curtain stretchers, clothes driers,
clothes lines, pulleys, reels and
clothes pins. Don’t allow this win-
dow to become perfunctory if you
can help it. Show wash day from
start to finish; the machine, the wet
clothes running through the wringer
or hanging on the rack; the electric
iron connected with the socket (but
don’t forget and turn on the current
and start the ironing board blazing).
Instead of just showing the goods in
any old way, give the prospective cus-
tomer an attractive picture of a real,
modern, labor saving washday.

Outside the household lines, a big
opportunity awaits the retailer in the
paint department. The “Paint Up
and Clean Up” campaign will be in
full swing. The merchant will find
it worth while to encourage the City
Beautiful idea locally. A live horti-
cultural society or town planning or-
ganization will do a lot to inculcate
the very idea upon which the paint
dealer is working.

In a way of practical business get-
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in advance, and his prospect list in
shape. When it comes to big exteri-
or painting orders, particularly at the
start of the season, it will often be
found worth while to get out per-
sonally,and corner the customer and
make a dead set on him. A_ nice
bunch of paint orders at the very
Start, with the paint going on the
boards and looking like a mighty good
job, is the finest kind of advertisement
any paint dealer can get.

A little later, the demand will open
up for garden tools. Probably, in
addition to turning up a garden, the
frugal householder will want to do
a little fixing up around the house.
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yard garden pays well for the time
put on it. A man can pay for his
tools and his time and have a profit
from the first year’s Operations be-
sides. Most men like to garden but
think it’s a poor business proposition.
Drive home to them in your adver-
tising and your selling talks that
gardening is a business proposition,
that it produces returns, that it gives
a fellow needed exercise, and that it
increases the value of his place. If
Smith jocularly remarks that he’s buy-
ing a dollar's worth of seed to grow
5 cents worth of vegetables, and two
dollars worth of tools to produce one
mess of string beans, tell him about
the fellows who raised fifty dollars
worth of garden truck off the back
lot last year. You'll know about lots
of just such fellows if you’ve followed
up your customers as you should.
If you ‘don’t know about them, try
the follow up stunt, this year, and
have good, encouraging examples to
quote next year.

Sporting goods of course are time-
ly; the various atheletic organizations
are already making their preparations
for the season. The merchant who
is ready beforehand to meet the de-
mands is the merchant who will se-
cure the bulk of the trade. The sport-
ing enthusiast is always in a hurry
to get his bat, mitts and ball, or what-
ever it may be; and if you haven’t
the goods in stock, he'll hustle over
to the other fellow. It’s the man with
the goods, and not the man who has
them on order, who gets the trade.

With the migratory months of
April and May, when many people
are moving, there will be a good many
stove prospects develop. People who
move to a new house often see the
need of a new stove; moving time is
the “psychological moment” for the
hardware dealer to get busy. Many
dealers keep track of families who are
moving and get after them before
they’re settled. The business is
worth personally looking after. Then,
too, there are possibilities for the
sale of oil stoves for spring and sum-
mer use, and of gas ranges for cook-
ing in the hot weather. A display the
minute the weather brightens will
often be found a business getter.

Anyway, April is almost here; and
it is worth while to go after business
aggressively.

William Edward Park.
—_2 2
Pickings Picked Up in the Windy
City.

Chicago, March 27—Safety First:
All street cars in Chicago come to
a full stop 100 feet and 25 feet before
crossing a railroad track at grade.
By making two stops this way, the
motorman has his car under control
at all times. Very seldom you hear
of a street car and railroad accident
in the limits of the city of Chicago.

H. Spurling, stock-keeper for Carl-
son Bros., has. returned from Elgin,
Ill., where he has been for the past
few days on account of the death of
his father.

Chicago was visited last Tuesday
by the most peculiar storm in the
history of the city, so say some of
the old timers. Snow, sleet, rain,

thunder and lightning, all mixed into
one, .

C. J. Holton, of the C. J. Holton
Cigar Co., Detroit, was a Chicago
visitor last week,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Every time a zep appears over
London, the people there show their
gratefulness to the American genius
who thought of the sub-way.

It is with pleasure that the writer
notes some one of his Detroit ac-
quaintances got in touch with the De-
troit scribe and give him a little news

item. It wasn’t very much, but every
little bit helps. Keep up the good
work.

A. Zolla, formerly sales manager
of hte David Zolla Cigar Co., of Chi-
cago, has opened up a new jobbing
house, under the firm name of Stand-
ard Tobacco Co. at 223 East 61st

street. This firm will feature the G.
J. Johnson line of Dutch Master
cigars.

In all street cars, “L” trains and
in most every vacant spot in Chicago,

all one can see is this notice: “Come

help catch Villa.”

The Boy Scouts of the North Side
put on sale last Saturday night their
first newspaper, which is typewritten,
at one cent a copy. It is reported
they sold quite a number of them.
The receipts of this paper help buy
their uniforms.

Frank R. Swaby, with the cigar de-
partment of Hillman’s department
store, left for Detroit Saturday to
spend a few weeks with his brother,
whose residence is in Detroit.

O. H. Frank, formerly of Grand
Rapids, has opened an_ up-to-date
cigar store at 535 South Dearborn
street.

So long as father and the boys are
extravagant with their stomachs and
mother and the girls are positive they
have nothing to wear and the whole
family have decided to give the buzz-
wagon a rest, just at that moment the
insurance premiums are going to fall
due and place them in a most em-
barrassing condition.

Wm. Strand has been a subscriber
to the Tradesman for ten weeks and
speaks very highly of same. He
doesn’t see how a paper of this kind
can be published at $1 a year.

The writer agrees with our new
Grand Rapids correspondent regard-
ing the good results all hotels could
get by having their advertisements
appear in this publication. It is a
pleasure to read hotel cards in the
Tradesman, because every traveling
man knows how careful Editor Stowe
is to admit only first-class features
to the Tradesman. A _ poor hotel
would be as out of place in the
Tradesman as a ragged dress on a
society lady. C. W. Reattoir.

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tailing.
Second Paper.
Written for the Tradesman.

Last week’s article dealt, in the main,
with the first of our five so-called Effic-
iency Points: namely, The Wish for
Larger Things. This article takes up
the second, which I call the Personal-
Service Feature.

The importance of the personal-sery-
ice element in the matter of shoe dis-
tribution can hardly be emphasized too
strongly. If it be said that personality-
commodities of all sorts require, to a
greater or less extent, this personal-
service in their selling, it nevertheless
remains that shoes, more than all other
kinds of merchandise of the personality-
commodity class, demand the close per-
sonal touch. Shoes are unlike other
kinds of merchandise in this respect:
the fit is so essential—and the ability
to fit shoes correctly is a function so
highly specialized—it may be considered
(and has often been called) a semi-
profession.

Now I am perfectly aware of the fact
that this particular phase of the retail
shoe dealer’s business has often come
up for consideration in trade publica-
tions devoted to the interests of the
retail shoe trade. But there is also a
reason. It is one of those perenially
interesting and everlastingly fruitful
topics; also it is closely and so vitally
related to the successful conduct oi
the shoe business that—well, there’s
no wonder it comes up so often for
consideration.

Foot specialists are united in their
contention that many of the shoes people
are buying and wearing to-day fail to
meet the actual foot needs of a sur-
prisingly large percentage of people. In
others words the feet are not fitted as
they should be. Consequently more or
less serious foot troubles of many kinds
are on the increase. Undoubtedly many
shoe dealers and retail shoe salespeople
must plead guilty to the charge of per-
petrating misfits. But in many cases
there are mitigating circumstances; for
often a customer says he wants per-
fect foot comfort, and then proceeds to
block all approach to a perfect fit by
insisting on being “fitted” with a last or
shape not at all adapted to his feet.

But in spite of difficulties in the way
of careful fitting—whether they grow
out of limitations of the stock or are
artificially produced by wrong notions
in the head of your customer—the fact
remains that the first big duty of the
retail shoe dealer is to provide each
customer with shoes that fit. The fit is
fundamental.

As a matter of fact fitting quality
is a thing the dealer sells (either avow-
edly or tacitly), and fitting quality is a

thing the customer buys (either con-
sciously or unconsciously). Time was
when we used to think of fitting qual-
ities and style as something over and
above that which we sold. Shoes were
the commodities we thought of as being
involved in the exchange; and these
other qualities were supposed to be
thrown in by way of good measure, as
it were. We know better now. Now-
adays the shoe dealer sells both fitting
qualities and style. And why not, since
he himself must pay for just these
things?

But the idea I want to underscore
is just this: careful fitting calls for
100 per cent. efficiency at the personal-
service point, There are other mat-
ters connected with shoe retailing
where the personal touch counts large
in the easy and profitable ongoing oc:
the business, but in the process of
fitting nothing can take the place of
personal service.

Nothing makes so direct and posi-
tive a hit with the shoe-buying pub-
lic as really high grade personal-serv-
ice. For one thing, the average man
actually knows less about shoes than
almost any other sort of personality-
commodity that he has occasion to
buy. Leather is at best a difficult
subject—and only after a long and
rigorous apprenticeship does one be-
come an expert on leather. And now
that the American shoe industry is
facing the problem of introducing
suitable leather-substitutes—of which
there are a good many now on the
market, with more to follow—an al-
ready difficult matter for the shoe-
consumer will become even more com-
plicated. And then, in addition to the
difficulties of correct judgments about
shoes arising from the materials out
of which shoes are made, there is
the matter of shoemaking—and how
many of your customers really know
good shoemaking when they see it
exemplified in a pair of shoes? Not
a very large percentage I am sure.
They think they do—oh, to be sure,
they talk as if they had the whole
thing down pat. But you can listen
just a little bit with only one ear, and
it won’t take you long to discover that
the things the average shoe store pa-
tron doesn’t know about shoemaking
would make a large and classy volume
of first-class lore.

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bluff some of them like to put up,
they do enjoy rubbing up against
a real authority on shoes. They
like to listen to the talk of the
fellow who knows—and knows that
he knows, He is the kind of a
chap that can cause the other fel-
low to know. When a_ shoe
salesman has real Simon-pure shoe
dope at his tongue’s tip he can gen-
erally get the attention of his cus-
tomer, arouse his interest, kindle his
imagination, disabuse his mind of
prejudice, over-come imaginary difti-
culties, and gradually lead his cus-
tomer to his own way of thinking.
And so get him in a frame of mind to
allow his feet to be fitted with just
the style and grade of shoe he ought
to have. This is salesmanship, you say.
Yes; but what is salesmanship but
personal service? And, from a re-
tail shoe dealer’s point of view, what
is more profitable?

And can you think of anything that
contains bigger possibilities for the
retail shoe merchant? Here is where
the shoe dealer, large or small, who-
ever he is and wherever he is located,
finds himself face to face with a big
opportunity. The shoe-buying public
is actually hungry for the man who
can turn on the light concerning
shoes, Out of bitter experience many
of them know that shoes that they
had supposed to be long on {fitting
qualities, notoriously fail to produce
the kind of foot comfort extolled in the
newspaper announcement. Many oi
them have a real or imaginary griev-
ance against all shoe dealers in gen-
eral, and perhaps certain retail shoe
stores in particular, Many of them
are really keen to find a last that looks
neat and nobby, and at the same time
fits their actual foot requirements in
such a way as to produce that big
desideratum—the shoe that actually
fits. Some of them would willingly
go along piece out of their way to find
the man who is building his shoe trade
on intelligent, conscientious personal-
service lines. If they could find him,
they’d give him their business season
in and season out.

And not only so, but they would
become self-appointed boosters of
such a shoe emporium. They’d sing
the praises of the man back of the
business. They’d come leading their
nearest and dearest friends in that
they too might get in on the ground
floor of such an attractive proposition.
And your dealer would find his busi-
ness perceptibly growing as a result
of so much mouth-to-mouth adver-
tising turned loose in the community.

Naturally the question arises, why
don’t retail shoe dealers get in on
this personal-service business strong-
er? Are they too busy selling shoes
at so much per to realize the impor-
tance of it? Are they turning the
whole task of fitting over to clerks
who aren’t as well trained to the busi-
ness as they might be? or who aren't
as careful as they should be? Ask
our little brother, the South Wind:
{ don’t know . But this I do know:
many a retail shoe dealer’s business
is absolutely weak at this most vital
point—the personal-service feature.
For that reason many a shoe dealer’s
trade is also weak and sickly, while

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

the trade of more of them is quickly
reaching that chronic stage of de-
velopment wherein the application of
the strong tonic of publicity isn’t go-
ing to avail.

Take it from me, brother, this is
some efficiency point—this personal-
service business. It will pay you to
go in for it strong. See to it that
you develop it in your store, and
among your salespeople. Don’t for-
get that there is such a thing under
the canopy as making haste slowly.
And remember that a shoe sale is
never consummated until the shoes
are sold right. Permanent customers
are the kind you want—folks who be-
lieve in you and your merchandise.
But it takes the steel hooks of person-
al-service to bind this sort to you.

Cid McKay.

Activities in Some Michigan Cities.
Written for the Tradesman.

Bay City is again discussing plans
of garbage disposal and a committee
of aldermen will investigate the mat-
ter and report.

The Mt. Pleasant Board of Trade
was dead but is alive again. Ata re-
cent meeting of sixty-four business
men the old officers resigned and
six new directors were chosen as fol-
lows: W. D. Hood, W. E. Lewis,
Walter Russell, Cash Harris, Peter
Breidenstein and E. J. McCall. <A
rest room for visitors, better roads
and other matters will be taken up.

The Big Rapids Board of Trade has
elected officers for 1916 as follows:
President, L. F. Bertrau; Vice-Presi-
dent, J. C. Jensen; Secretary, W. A.
Stilwell; Treasurer, D. C. Morrill.

Battle Creek has added a triple
combination fire truck to its fire fight-
ing equipment.

Farmers and business men of Sault
Ste. Marie held a successful get-to-
gether meeting and among the results
are the following: definite steps to-
ward raising sugar beets in Chippe-
wa county, with possibility of a sugar
beet factory at the Soo; two of the
county creameries will be put on a
profitable basis; better understanding
between farmers and citizens and
better marketing conditions; steps
toward an organization of farmers and
business men for mutual advantage;
provision for other get-together meet-
ings, the next one to be held at the
city hall March 25.

All Jackson county residents now
have access to books of the Jackson
city library on payment of $1 a year
and under this arrangement the cir-
culation of books is being stimulated.
Under the present parcel post law
many books go back and forth by
mail.

A Bigger, Better Bellaire is the
slogan of the Board of Trade of that
town, an organization that is coming
to life after lying in a state of coma
for some years.

Five farmers have been added to the
directorate of the Ludington Board
of Trade. Farmers were admitted to
membership on the Board last year.

Almond Griffen.
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Hard Work Not the Only Element
of Success.
Written for the Tradesman.
Nowadys the desire for success is

   
   
  

in the very atmosphere we breathe.
Every ambitious and energetic wom-
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line of effort, wants to succeed in it

  

—to attain a proficiency far beyond

   

the ordinary. And every woman with
a human heart wants to realize and
enjoy the tangible fruits of success
—the better pay or other substantial
recognition that is the just due of ex-
tra proficiency.

Success is a big subject, one about
which many books have been written.
Read the good ones. Having gained
all the ideas of value that you can
from every source, then size up your
situation and determine for yourself
what constitute the essential elements
of success for you.

You will naturally look about for
examples—you will observe the meth-
ods of those who have won out in
fields of endeavor similar to your
own. But make your own analysis of
their ways and means. For, strange
to say, many who have succeeded can
not tell correctly how they have done
it.

The man or the woman who has
risen to eminence in a profession or
who has made a large fortune, is apt
to name just hard work as the rea-
son for his or her success. In reality
hard work has been only one factor
—other elements have been just as
indispensable.

This discepancy is easily accounted
for. Many persons do not know all
their own strong traits. Shrewdness
and foresight in things financial, the
decision to act promptly, the caution

    
 
    
  
   
  
  
    
  
   
  
  
 
   
    
  
  

 

that keeps one from a_ hundred
difficulties and losses, the ability to
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traits as these their possessors are
often unconscious. But no one works
hard for a term of years without
knowing it.

There is a widespread belief that
hard work will accomplish everything.
Toil long enough and strenuously
enough say some of the advice-givers,
and you surely will “get there.” It
really seems that this ought to be
true. That those who labor most
should secure the biggest plums ap-
pears only just. But things don’t
always come out that way. Inde-
fatigable workers do not always suc-
ceed. They have enough energy—
too much possibly—but may lack
some other essential quality, and so
stay “with nose to the grindstone”
all their days.

Mr. Whitney was a grocer. He
was wonderfully well liked and did

 

He worked
He was in his store early in
the morning and often staid until 10
or 11 at night, posting his books.
He wore himself out and died at only
50. While he was a man of even re-
markable ability in some ways, he
was lacking in financial management,
He gave credit too freely and his
running expenses were too high.
When his affairs were closed up after
his death, there was left for his
widow, besides a small life insurance,
nothing but accounts, and these most-
ly uncollectible. Just this, in place
of the snug fortune that by rights he
should have accumulated.

Look about you and see if among
your own acquaintances you do not
find cases very much like Mr. Whit-
ney’s.

So, little sister, while you can not
hope to attain anything deserving the
name of success without long and
severe exertion, don’t make the mis-
take of pinning your faith to hard
work alone. Particularly note this
if you are one of the overindustrious,
plodding, faithful souls that always
are doing more than their share. The
woman who is overzealous at work
is apt to neglect the other things that
make for success. She is liable to
sink into a mere drudge. And
drudgery — unthinking, wearisome,
mechanical toil—never gets any one
anywhere. The woman who is
habitually jaded, overworked, over-
tired, is not on the way to success.
Sooner or later she will break down.
Health and strength are most precious
assets, Only in some great emer-
gency is it justifiable to overdraw the
physical bank account.

In most occupations practical for
women, one has to do with people,
and needs to understand human na-
ture and to cultivate tact, a pleasing
personality, control of tongue and of
temper, force of character—all those
traits that are needed in getting along
well with folks. Right here a word
about clothes. Some women dress
too much and others don’t dress
enough—that is, these last scrimp on
their wardrobes, when a little more
money spent in becoming apparel
would be the most profitable invest-
ment they could make.

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hard.

“Why can’t Miss Marston secure
a better paid position?” enquired one
woman of another, both of them
friends of the teacher of whom they
were speaking. “She is a college
graduate, has had splendid profes-
sional training, is exceptionally bright,
and is a good instructor. I should
like to see her ‘arrive.’”

“IT believe all that holds Millcent
back,” answered the other, “is her

 

 

March 29, 1916

 

shabby clothes. She has just bought
an expensive encyclopedia, and is still
wearing that same old suit that she
got three years ago. Thinks she not
afford anything new. Her case is
hopeless.”

Miss Marston is a typical example
of the so-called sensible girl, the girl
who takes herself seriously and dis-
likes to spend much on pretty clothes,
forgetting that school boards, super-
intendents, parents and pupils all have
a human preference for the teacher

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March 29, 1916

who has some style about her— a
preference that manifests itself by
giving the best places to that kind.

While success with her is a some-
what less definite and tangible thing
than with her professional or busi-
ness sister, the home woman also
needs to analyze her situation and
determine the elements that will en-
able her to compass the ends she
desires.

Whether the work be that of wife
and mother or that of the woman
who “does things,” the factors that
make for success always must be held
in well balanced proportion. And
they are not interchangeable. More
of one will not make up for a lack
of some other that is essential. A
stenographer may have excellent man-
ners and present an exceptionally
good appearance, but if she is a care-
less typist and a poor speller, she
can not long hold a good position.
The wife who squanders her hus-
band’s earnings can not atone for her
waste and extravagance by being uni-
formly cheerful and amiable. A
magnetic personality can not win out
permanently without energy and per-
sistent application. Nor will an ex-
cessive amount of. hard work bring
success when some serious deficiency
is left unamended. Quillo.

—_2++-____
Higher Costs of Shoes a Vital Issue.

In the Reporter of last week we
printed a page of graphics illustrating
the causes which have made it abso-
lutely necessary to increase the whole-
sale and retail prices of shoes. We
repeat the several items here:

Tan calf suitable for cutting into
men’s shoes which retailed at $5 in
March, 1915, was then 31 cents a foot
~—to-day the price is 42 cents and may
be higher before this article is pub-
lished.

Patent side leather for women’s
shoes selling at $4 a year ago was
29 cents a foot last March—the rate
now is 35 cents.

Black dull finished calf for men’s
shoes which sold at retail a year ago
for $5 was quoted at 30 cents a foot
—the price to-day is nominally 37
cents but stocks are small and the rate
one day is no criterion for the next.

White calf to cut into women’s
shoes to sell at $4.50 last March was
obtainable at 28 cents a foot at that
time. The nominal quotation is now
50 cents but there would be great dif-
ficulty in buying a large quantity at
any price.

Glazed kid such as was cut into a
shoe for men to retail at $4 a year ago
cost 17 cents a foot—the price now
is 23 cents.

Glazed kid as used for $3 shoe for
women a year ago could be bought
for 13 cents a foot, it is now 18 cents.

Grain side leather for men’s shoes
to sell at $3.50 a year ago was bought
at 26 cents a foot—the cost to-day is
31 cents.

Oak and union sole leather which
sold last March at from 42 cents to
48 cents a pound is now strong at
69 cents.

Sheepskins, duck and twill linings,
laces, buttons and other findings are
all higher, Shoe sundries are from
10 to 20 per cent. higher.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21

Woven fabrics for shoe tops have
advanced almost as much as leather.

A large manufacturer puts it this
way: “The advance is 15 cents a pair
on uppers, 74% cents a pair on soles,
2 cents a yard on linings and 15 cents
a pound on cement.”

Cammeyer, the New York retail
store, has just issued catalogues of
spring styles. Men’s high cuts range
from $8 to $12 with hunting boots at
$18 to $22. Men’s oxfords range from
$7.50 to $10. In women’s high cuts
nothing is listed below $8 and up to
$16. Low cuts for street wear range
from $5.50 to $10. Children’s shoes
are rated at $2.50 to $4.

A large manufacturer of low-priced
shoes for the jobbing trade made up
samples last October of a shoe to sell
to the jobbers at 93 cents. He finds
it impossible to produce the shoe
now for less than $1.20 and it is not
safe for him to estimate that he can
continue to turn out the line at $1.20
because leather prices are still advanc-
ing.

A manufacturer of fine shoes for
men is sending out salesmen with a
line of samples not one of which can
be offered to the retailer for less than
$5 and which are to be sold at $8 at
retail.

Several manufacturers have called
back their salesmen from the road,
giving as a reason that they are un-
able to purchase the leather to make
the shoes to sell at the prices put on
the samples.

In the New England shoe factories
labor conditions are critical growing
out of the foreign army contracts and
the unprecedented domestic demand
for shoes.

The foregoing paragraphs should
suffice to explain the situation as it
exists to-day, but there are difference;
of opinion as to the future. The bur-
den of evidence is on the side of those
who argue that there is no danger of
a sudden relapse to low prices. The
supplies of raw materials for making
leather have been depleted at the
source. If the war should come to a
sudden ending it might prevent furth-
er sensational advances in the cost of
leather and shoes, but prices would
remain high pending the raising of
larger herds of cattle.

At the present time the Allies are
attempting to restrict the importation
of merchandise for civilian use. This
is to preserve the rate of sterling ex-
change.

When the urgent demand for war
supplies abates after peace is declared
the United States will be called upon
for millions of dollar’s worth of leath-
er and shoes during the period of re-
habilitation. Meanwhile the export
call for leather and shoes will con-
tinue. Russia is said to want seven
or eight million pairs of army boots
which cannot be made in England or
France and must be produced in the
United States if anywhere. There
are evidences that the warring nations
generally are in greater need than
ever as far as supplies of leather and
shoes is concerned. In view of all the
facts it appears safe to predict that
the crisis will be more acute as the
war continues.—Shoe and Leather Re-
porter.

  
 
  
 

   

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THE MEAT MARKET

 

 

Curing California Hams.

California hams, or sweet pickled

shoulders, are generally handled in
a somewhat cheaper pickle than or-
dinary hams. For instance, in a for-
mula for ham pickle using 400 pounds
of sugar to 1,500 gallons, 300 pounds
of sugar would be ample for California
ham pickle. It is a very difficult piece
of meat to cure, especially if the hogs
are not properly chilled. As _ the
shoulder is one of the thickest parts,
it is one of the last cuts to chill
through. It is the general practice
to pump California hams before cur-
ing, and in so doing they should be
pumped very heavily in the veins and
under the shoulder blades, these be-
ing the two places where the meat
first shows symptoms of trouble.
Otherwise the chilling and general
handling is practically the same as
other hams.

Here is a successful method: When
green, leach forty eight hours, with
a sprinkle of salt. Pump three times.
once in the shank, once on top of the
blade and once below the shank.
Pump in second overhauling with two
stitches, one in the shank and one in
the body; overhaul the same as other
hams. For making a pickle for Cali-
fornia hams use the following for-
mula: To 1,500 gallons of pickle, 75-
deg. strength, add 300 pounds of sugar
and eighty-eight pounds of saltpeter.
Mix in the usual fashion.

——_ >» ___
Sugar in Sweet Pickle.

Sugar is used in pickle not only to
give the meats cured in it a sweet
pickle, but to produce a fermentation
as well, for it is this fermentation
that produces the soft, luscious flavor
which is characteristic of the well-
cured pork cut. This fermentation
is induced at a temperature at a little
over the melting point of ice, its ac-
tivity increasing until the maximum
is reached at about 90 deg. F., after
which it diminishes with a rising
temperature until it ceases entirely
at 120 deg. F. The fermentation
which takes place while sweet pickled
meats are in the cure must be held
very low, as even a slight degree of
fermentation is detrimental to the
meat as a whole. That is why it is
necessary to hold curing rooms at
a temperature of between 37 and 40
deg. F. It is this fermentation that
takes away the harsh taste of the salt,
not the sweetening properties of the
sugar directly. If there is any doubt

of this make a test of a vat of hams
using saccharine instead of sugar.
With the former there is no fermen-
tation, but the meat has a hard flavor
and while sweet it does not mix with
the salt, leaving two distinct flavors

 

instead of the blending of the two
as there should be in a piece of meat
that is well cured.
—__~2+-___
Preparing Rounds for Market.
These are first run off from the

ruffle or fat, care being taken in run-
ning them that they are not cut and
that as little fat is left on them as
possible. The casings should be taken
out in two pieces, it being impracti-
cal to take them out in full lengths
on account of the danger in tearing
them in removing the contents. After
they are cleared of the contents they
are put through the fatting machines,
or if no machine is to be had, they
are scraped by hand, removing all
the fat that adheres to them. It is
essential that all the fat on the cas-
ings should be removed, as it is more

valuable than the casings themselves.

as a usual thing, and is detrimental

if left on. After they have been fat-

ted they are put in a vat of water and

turned, which process turns them

wrong side out, exposing the internal

part of the intestine. This is then

put through the sliming machine,

which removes all the membrane.

When this work is completed it is
only the muscular portion of the in-

testine that remains. After they are

thus finished, they are measured, in-

spected, tied into bundles and put
into the first salting. After remain-
ing one or two days in salt, they are
resalted and packed into tierces.

—_~+~+.»—___
Cereal in Sausage.

Cereal is added to sausage primari-
ly to give a uniformity of texture,
and to increase the palatability of
the article. Edelmann, Mohler and
Eichorn, in their well-known book,
Meat Hygiene, say “The supposition
that the addition of flour to the saus-
age filling makes’the absorption of a
larger quantity of water possible is
erroneous, as starch flour absorbs
water only in boiling, and boiling
water or prepared paste is not used
in the preparation of sausage,”

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Poultry, Eggs and Oysters

Shipments of Hogs, Veal and Poultry
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Breakfast Appetites

can be encouraged and well satisfied with a nice rasher of
Go to your grocer’s and get some of
the famous Peacock mild cured bacon and fry it, pouring off
the grease as quickly as it forms. This makes it crisp. Pea-
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is not used—so they are not salt

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Necessity of Preparedness in the Egg
Business.

The watchword to-day is prepared-
ness. As a Nation we realize the
necessity of such, but vary as to the
Proper means. This is a grave sub-
ject which interests all. Never since
the Declaration of Independence was
signed has there been so much un-
certainty regarding the future. This
awful war among so many nations
has given this country an immense
business, and fast are we drawing
their gold. This has made fortunes,
and given employment to many. It
has been the means of making prices
for our products higher and of ad-
vanced wages, especially to the me-
chanics. Those who have been bene-
fited most are the manufacturers and
the farmers.

As we look upon conditions in
this country we would conclude they
were favorable were it not for the
knowledge that as a people we are
too extravagant and wasteful. We
are living as a rule where conditions
are good, prices of our products ex-
treme and labor high. We. think
they will always be so. While to-
day our exports are enormous and

their gold flowing fast to us, what

will be the conditions when the war
ends? This is a real question. The
answer differs coming from many
able men, Many believe it will be
an era of great prosperity for this
country. I cannot see it in this
light. I wish I could. I believe we
should prepare ourselves for a re-
action. We know we have their
gold, and they must do all possible
to get it back. One way to get it
back is in manufacturing goods for
less than we can, with our very high
price of labor. Let us look for a
moment at the conditions as they
exist to-day among the nations at
war, and then our own. See the
wonderful changes that have taken
place in all the nations at war, how
they have conserved in all ways. It
might be true to say we waste as
much as they consume. Our condi-
tions are the reverse, Our extrava-
gance increasing, competition too
great, good judgment and caution
ignored, and wild credits giving 4
false impression of our true condi-
tions. The grave proposition for us
is the labor proposition. We know
that a vast number of principally
unskilled labor have returned and
joined their colors, and it is esti-
mated when the war closes at least
500,000 aliens will return. That the
map of the nations will be changed
there is no doubt. That the war will
change conditions is certain. I pre-

 

dict this war a vast school of educa-
tion of all kinds.

For instance, the great country,
Russia, has developed wonderful im-
provements and to-day there is a
large increase in Savings in the
banks, caused both by higher wages
and the doing away of liquors. This
war has made it necessary to build
many miles of railroad to transport
men and munition. At the close of
the war these will be used to dis-
tribute their products, and there is
no more fertile country than Rus-
sia. Then we have the Argentine,
which supplies such vast amount of
meats. All these countries can pro-
duce at much less cost than we; but
we must compete with all of them.
Naturally, our expenses increase, both
for National business expense and
personal expense, caused by our man-
ner of living, and strong and unbusi-
ness-like competition makes our per
cent. of profits less.

We have a_ wonderful country,
fertile, varied in soil and climate.
Thousands and thousands of these
fertile acres that have yielded enor-
mous crops for years now must use
fertilizers. Labor is very high and
land values also. We should take
all these things into consideration
and prepare. We must learn to con-
serve, to economize in all ways. 1
believe to-day we are on too high
a level. I helieve we are living too
extravagantly. I believe our ambi-
tion is to make money, overlooking
the most important things of life,
devotion to our families. Josh Bilt-
ings said, and truly, he liked money,
but, thank God, he liked what it would
buy better. We cannot, no matter
how strong the organization,combine
to manipulate and control prices of
our products except for a time. Then
the great controller takes things in
hand—supply and demand. We know
it is possible to increase demand by
reducing price or curtail or destroy
demand by advancing price too much.
There is a safe basis to Operate on.
What has been the average cost for
the past ten years? Cost of storage
eggs, I mean. Why pay extreme
prices in anticipation of uncertainty?
If you want this kind of gambling 1
advice all to open accounts in Wall
street. You will not have to wait
for action. Any day you can close
your holdings and know your condi-
tion. You will not have to figure
storage, interest, insurance, eommis-
sion or any deductions for bad order,
Put in storage our surplus products
at fair price, these products to be
used in time of shortage whenever
this time presents. Keep them going
into consumption.

I believe there must be changes
in the near future. If I am correct,
let us begin now to prepare for the
competition which we will have. The
soil is our foundation, and we repre-
sent the products of the soil. Let
us begin to prepare for the compe-
tition we must have. '

Ingersoll, in a lecture, said if there
was such a place as heaven the bet-
ter we lived here on earth, the better
prepared we would be to enter.

Even should I be wrong in my

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views as to the necessity of prepar-
edness, and you follow me, you will
be the gainer anyway.

My advice is to be cautious. Credit
and cold storage are both essential.
Each should be handled with careful
judgment. Do not let that small 4
cent blind your good judgment, as
so often has happened.

Harry Dowie.
—_~2~-<-___

It is easier to accept a position than

it is to hold a job.

 

Wm. Alden Smith Bldg.

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

FRANK T. MILLER, Sec&Treas

Miller Michigan Potato Co.

WHOLESALE PRODUCE SHIPPERS

Potatoes, Apples, Onions

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

 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

 

 

for Weekly Quotations,

 

No. 14 Market St.

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For Your Butter and Eggs—No Commission

Fill in your name and address in the following blank:

Meee ee Gc eee 1916

Without any obligation on my part place my name on your list

Sil Guteerd Fqy

DETROIT

 

 

The Vinkemulder Company

Jobbers and Shippers of
Everything in

Fruits and Produce

 

 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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Grand Council of Michigan U. C. T.

Grand Counselor—Walter S. Lawton,
Grand Rapids.

Grand Junior Counselor—Fred J. Mou-
tier, Detroit.

Grand Past Counselor—Mark S. Brown,
Saginaw.

Grand
Jackson.

Grand Treasurer—Wm. J. Devereaux,
Port Furon.

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

Grand Page—W. T. Ballamy, Bay City.
Grand Sentinel—C. C. Starkweather,
Detroit.

Grand Chaplain—F. W. Wilson, Trav-
erse City.
‘Gana’ Executive Committee—E. a.
Dibble, Hillsdale; Angus G. Mc€achrun,
Detroit; James E. Burtless, Marquetxe;
L. N. Thompkins, Jackson.

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

Secretary—Maurice Heuman,

 

 

Wafted Down From Grand Traverse
Bay.

Traverse City, March 27—The San-
ford Co., at Big Rapids, held its an-
nual opening March 22 and 23, which
was a great success. The Sanford
store (which was formerly the Ber-
trau-Almorth Co.) is one of the most
up-to-date department stores in
Northern Michigan. This year it has
added some new features. The large
line of ladies’ ready to wear clothing
was exhibited in the most modern
fashion by two very pretty young
ladies acting as living models who
paraded up and down the store to the
music furnished by the orchestra.
This was the first time any thing of
this kind had been pulled off in Big
Rapids. About thirty traveling men
representing the houses from whom
the Sanford Co. purchase its goods
were in attendance during the two
days, helping the clerks in the differ-
ent departments demonstrate their
respective lines. On the evening of
March 23 a banquet was given by the
Sanford Co. at the Western Hotel to
the traveling men and employes of
the store, about sixty people sitting
down to the table. Max Lown,
chairman of the entertainment com-
mittee, introduced W. J. Turner, buy-
er in the hardware department, as
toastmaster. Mr. Turner exhibited
the same shrewdness in introducing
the speakers that he does in buying
goods for his department. He first
called on W. M. Sanford, President
of the Sanford Co.. who in a few
well chosen remarks complimented
the employes on_ their co-operation
with the management and thanked
the travelers for their assistance in
making the opening a success. W. #H.
King, of the Wood Bros. Silo Manu-
facturing Co., gave a very interesting
talk on the condition ‘of the steel
market and the general financial con-
dition of the country. F, W. Wilson,
of Traverse City, with the John Deere
Plow Co., gave an address on sales-
manship and profits, laying special
stress upon the fact that there never
was a time in history when the con-
sumer expected to pay a larger in-
crease in price over former pur-
chases than to-day: that although the
dealer’s warehouse may be filled with
stock purchased at last year’s prices,
he cannot replace this stock for any-
where near the same money as it
cost him; and for goods purchased
now he will be forced to sell for a
much higher price. Right now is the

opportune time to raise the retail
price on goods, when the people ex-
pect to pay it. Earl Knowlton, of
Traverse City, with the Reid-Mur-
dock Co., of Chicago, spoke on the
inspiration a salesman should have
when he sees a_ customer coming
through the door. Matt Steiner, of
Muskegon, with the International
Harvester Co., told a few stories to
jolly up the crowd. Mr. Sutton of
Grand Rapids, general manager of
the International Harvester Co.,
spoke of the enthusiasm shown by
the employes in contributing to the
success of the company. Sidney Lar-
ter sang “It’s Just Her Way.” Mrs.
Leachman, head of the ready-to-wear
department, gave an excellent paper
on salesmanship. Mr. Bricault, of the
W. Bingham Co., Cleveland, and
Louis J. Koster, of Edson, Moore &
Co., Detroit, gave short talks. Miss
Ruth Kratz read a selection in Ger-
man dialect. The enjoyable evening
was closed by the singing of Amer-
ica,

Harry Hurley, with the Commer-
cial Milling Co., of Detroit. is con-
fined to his bed with an acute attack
of rheumatism.

George Creech, member of No. 361,
is very sick in the hospital at Grand
Rapids,

Mr. Freimann, of the Freimann &
Co. hide, wool and fur dealers at
Traverse City, after being in the hos-
pital, was able to be taken home Sat-
urday.

T. Dorsey, with the John Deere
Plow Co., at Lansing, while attend-
ing the Sanford opening at Big Rap-
ids, received a telegram announcing
the very serious illness of his moth-
er and he left at once for her home
at Nashville, Tenn.

Saturday night Traverse City
Council held its regular election of
officers and the following were chos-
en for the ensuing year:

Senior Counselor—Earl Knowlton.

Junior Counselor—S, B. Taylor.

Past Counselor—H. C. Hoffman.
lene tary Treasurer—Harry Hur-
ey.

Conductor—Bernie Reynolds.

Page—Lee Messenger,

Sentinel—Alva Cruzen.

_ Executive Committee—Ned Low-
ing, J. Young, Lew Miller, Archie
Jourdan.

Delegates to State convention—

Earl Knowlton, H. C.
Dave Gingrich.
The meeting was called at 3 o'clock
and a recess was taken at 6:30, and
supper was served by the ladies en-
tertainment committee to about one
hundred members and their families,
After supper, a public installation of
officers was held and the members
had the pleasure of listening to some
good talks by Rodney Eaton, Secre-
tary of Flint Council, Roy Bradshaw,
Secretary of Petoskey Council, and
Bert Agens, Past Counselor of Pe-
toskey Council,

CG. A. Cressy, formerly with the
Singer Sewing Machine Co., at Trav-
erse City. is now manager of the
Same company at Springfield, Ohio.
_ Little William Leonard, son of Wil-
liam Leonard, representative of the
Spaulding & Merrick Tobacco Co.,
is, much improved after a severe and

Hoffman and

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

lingering illness from typhoid fever.

Bill Shreader, the popular salesman
for the Plankington Co., Milwaukee,
left his home at Cadillac for Man-
ton. About the time they passed Gil-
bert a large hook worm sank his
fangs deep into the pink flesh of poor
Bill, who immediately dropped to
sleep and did not awaken until he
heard the conductor call Hare Sid-
ing. His walk of five miles back to
Manton put Bill in a physical condi-
tion that will require more than a
worm to put him asleep another
time.

We understand that Bill Hawker,
the well-known conductor on the P.
M., has been spending a few days
riding around Grand Rapids in a milk
wagon. We don’t know whether he
is contemplating buying out the route
or whether he is just trying to get
his fill of milk before starting out
on his Petoskey trip.

F. W. Wilson.
—>2+-+___
Why You Should Boost Your Home
Town.

Because you live here.

Because you want to see her grow.

Because your friends are in busi-
ness here and you want to see them
succeed.

Because every dollar spent at home
helps home.

Because you are living here and
you should be fair to the place you
live.

Because the home merchant you
patronize pays his part of city, county
and State taxes, thus adding to the
general welfare of the community.

Because the more business done at
home the faster home will grow.

Because the home merchant spends
thousands of dollars annually in sal-
aries.

Because thousands of dollars an-
nually of salaries are spent with the
home merchant.

Because a dollar spent away from
home never returns.

Because if you patronize home mer-
chants you help to attract more mer-
chants to your home town.

—_2+.___

Chickens that come home to roost
have more sense than some men.

 

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11 S. Division Avenue
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March 29, 1916

UPPER PENINSULA,

Recent News From the Cloverland
of Michigan.

Sault Ste. Marie, March 27—W. R.
Cowan, the popular manager for the
Prenzlauer Bros. department store,
left last week for the windy city on
business.

The Civic and Commercial Club
has decided to hold monthly noon
day luncheons for its members and
friends, the first to take place on
Thursday next. Francis T. McDon-
ald, one of the Soo’s well-known ora-
tors, will deliver a short talk on
charter revision. This get-together
monthly meeting will, undoubtedly,
do much toward promoting the social
and business life at the Soo. C. J.
Byrns is chairman of the entertain-
ment committee and will see that the
lunch part is no small feature at the
meeting.

“You can never tell how much
money a man has from the way he
talks about it.”

George Furlette, one of our local
barbers, has a copy of Ulster County
Gazette printed in 1800 which is quite
a curiosity and a priceless relic. The
paper was published in Kingston,
county of Ulster, Jan. 4, 1800, by Sam-
uel Freer & Son. It is a four-page
paper, four columns wide and about
eighteen inches long. The paper is
odd and unique in that it is the first
publication of that paper after the
death of Washington on December
14, 1799, and is in mourning with
deep black borders running through
the paper and around it. There are
a number of letters of condolence from
England, Holland, France and Ger-
many to the American people, resolu-
tions by both bodies of Congress and
time, even three months old, were
considered news and much space giv-
en the reports. The same class of
advertising was used at that time as
is now, including want advertisements
and mortgage sales, and there was
one where a sawmill was offered for
sale with “one healthy, stout, active
negro wench thrown in.’ The paper
came into Mr. Furlette’s possession
from his father, who had received
it from his father. An offer of $300
for the paper was turned down by Mr.
Furlette, who further states that
money cannot buy it.

“The pessimist has his suspicions
that the man who holds the upper
hand may have dealt it from the bot-
tom of the deck.”

The many friends of our well-
known former townsman, Joseph E.
Bayliss, are pleased to learn of his
having landed a splendid position with
the Dow Chemical Co., of Midland.
Joseph expects to leave his position
with the State and will devote his
entire time to his new duties. The
Dow Chemical Co. recently began
the manufacture of indigo blue dye
and is making millions of dollars out
of the new venture, being one of the
few successful producers of this prod-
uct. Mr. Bayliss hopes to still con-
tinue making the Soo his home, as
there is a warm spot in Joe’s big
heart for the Soo. He belongs to
“The Soo for You Club.”

If one only had a camera and could
have taken a snapshot at William
Herbst, the well-known traveling
salesman for the Soo Hardware Co.!
It was about 8 o’clock last Friday
morning, when Will was on his way
back home carrying his large sample
book and three grips of about 100
pounds excess. While it is a well
known fact that Will has never been
known to utter an oath, what he
thought of the D., S. S. & A. train
service would not look well in print.
The South Shore has been running
a local passenger train, leaving the
Soo at 7:45 each morning, but as the
traffic was light on the morning men-
tioned the train was cancelled with-
out due announcement being made
by the railway company, and from
what we can learn Mr. Herbst is go-
ing to take the matter up through

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the Soo Traveling Men’s Association
to ascertain the cause for handling
the train service in the erractic man-
ner mentioned.

The friends of John Brunnell, the
veteran storekeeper at Rosedale, are
pleased to learn that he is again able
to be around attending to business
and hopes to pay the Soo a visit as
soon as the weather is permissable.

Fred, Raymond of the Raymond
Furniture Co. who has been so-
journing in the South during the
winter, returned last week and is now
back in the harness, where he is ready
to make up for lost time, feeling much
improved in health. He reports
having spent a delightful winter, but
is pleased to get back to the beauti-
ful Soo and the refreshing air of
Cloverland.

Ed. Mosher, the popular manager
of the grocery department for the
H. C. Johnson Company, Johnswood,
is a visitor here this week, his mission
being the purchasing of a large
amount of provisions, which is to
be shipped overland. Ed. reports the
Narrow escape which the firm had of
being robbed of several thousand
dollars from the office at Johnswood
last week. One of the men working
for the company, having hailed from
the West not long ago—in fact, being
an ex-cowboy—started to work at
Johnswood and cut quite a figure,
drawing the attention of the natives
by carrying a six-shooter in his belt
and always ready to start something
at any time. It seems that the
Westerner had made friends with: the

book-keeper of the company shortly.

after his arrival there, and from the
book-keeper he got the combination
of the safe and learned when the
$7,000 pay roll would be deposited
there and for this assistance he was
going to go halves with the company
employe. All the plans were care-
fully made and an Indian stationed
the day before the planned robbery
to watch if any officers came to Johns-
wood that day. The plans were all
right, but in the meantime the book-
keeper got cold feet and he revealed
the plot to the officers of the com-
pany. Sheriff Bone and his deputy
arrived at Johnswood on the night
of the proposed robbery. Leaving
their horses several miles in the
woods, they cautiously approached
the office where the money was kept.
Together with the superintendent of
the company, they concealed them-
selves and awaited developments.
About 11 o’clock the ex-cowboy un-
locked the office door with the keys
which had been turned over by the
book-keeper and entered. He walked
to within a few feet of the safe and
stopped in a pondering mood, but
after a couple of moments he strode
out of the office without molesting a
thing. The officers waited until 5
o’clock in the morning, thinking that
he had gone out for something and
would return, but he did not show
up, and when questioned by the of-
ficials later, the ex-cowboy declared
that he simply lost his nerve. The
Sheriff and deputy showed signs of
their watchful waiting the next day,
as the deputy was hidden in a space
of about two feet square and covered
by a curtain, where he stood from
10 o’clock at night until 5 in the morn-
ing and the sheriff’s case was similar.
Ed. is enjoying his short stay here,
shaking hands with his large circle of
friends who are always pleased to
see him.

A French military doctor says
that trenches properly constructed
are far better than ordinary health
resorts. Why go to health resorts
when you can dig a hole in your back
yard?

The merchants are making great
preparations for the spring style show
and manufacturers’ exhibit which is
to be held at the armory, April 3 to
8 and will be one of the greatest
openings and fashion shows ever seen
in the Soo. The merchants and man-
ufacturers and salesmen of this city,

  

aided by the Civic and Commercial
Association, plan to provide free en-
tertainment for all visitors and to re-
fund railroad fares to out-of-town
shoppers. Great preparations are al-
so being made for the auto show
which will be held at the same time
and many of the leading cars will be
on exhibition and all visitors taking
in the exhibition are assured of their
money’s worth. William G. Tapert.

— ++.
Muskegon Traveler in Hoosier Land.

Valparaiso, Ind., March 27 _oiens
we see along our way in Hoosier
Land:

Meat Market—O. Shucks.

Painter—A. Daub.

Millinery Store—Miss Mona Stuff.

The latest story told of Jess Willard
is that a Hoosier farmer, hearing of
Willard and being anxious to see him
and not finding him at the house
when he called, enquired of a servant
where he might find the champion.
He was told he was down in the field
training. Seeing a great cloud of dust
he went in that direction and found
Jess sowing wheat. He had a bed
tick full on his back, sowing with
both hands and a spring tooth har-
row tied to each foot, harrowing it in
as he sowed.

John Porter, Jr., Gene Scott, Harry
Hydorn and Col. W. C. Fhomas, auc-
tioneer and all round jokesmith, were
all of our friends we were able to see
in our hurried trip through the union
depot at Grand Rapids this morning.
All looked good to us.

We were home over Sunday, but
had a hard time convincing the tamily
that we had ever lived with them.

Hotels deserving worthy mention
in the Tradesman: Butler, Swineford,
Auburn, Alderman, Goshen.

E. P. Monroe.

22>

Provisions—All cuts of smoked
meats, including picnic hams, regular
hams, skinback, bellies and bacon are
in good consumptive demand at un-
changed prices. Pure lard and com-
pound are unchanged and in moder-
ate demand. Barreled pork, dried
beef and canned meats are all un-
changed and in fair demand, but
canned meats are due to go higher,
on account of the high prices of raw
material. Some holders have already
advanced canned beef.

—__+ > >___

P. Henry Oggel, who has just resign-
ed after eighteen years’ service with the
Kalamazoo Corset Co. to become the
purchasing agent for Fuller & Sons’
Manufacturing Co., has been presented
with a handsome desk as an expression
of the regard in which he is held by
the Kalamazoo Corset Co. and its office
and department heads, with whom he
has labored for so many years. Mr.
Oggel assumes at once his duties with
the Fuller Co.

An Albion correspondent writes:
Charles M. Aspinall, registered phar-
macist of the Van Gorden drug store,
will leave Mr. Van Gorden’s employment
April 1 to accept a position as repre-
sentative of the National Biscuit Co.
His territory will be in the Northern
part of the Lower Peninsula.

—_~2+~+-+___

Stephen Curtiss succeeds Emil Chris-
tainsen as traveling representative for
the Grand Rapids branch of the Nation-
al Grocer Co. in the Ludington district,
Mr. Curtiss has been employed in the
house for some time and is familiar
with the line.

—_+->_____

It is hard to convince a school boy
that summer vacation days are longer
than winter school days.

   

Sparks From the Electric City.

Muskegon, March 27—Havine been
duly appointed scribe for Muskegon
Council and not having been properly
instructed as to all the details, I am
handing you herewith some items
which should have gone in your last
week’s issue.

The regular meeting of Muskegon
Council was held March 18, at which
time three new members were added
to our roll. J. W. Fleming, with M.
Piowaty & Son, Irving Steindler, with
the Steindler Paper Co. and E. Frost,
with the Peoples Milling Co., were
the candidates to receive the honors.
After the initiation of candidates the
election of officers was held, with
the following results:

Senior Counselor—Milton Steindler.

Junior Counselor—J. E. Lyon.

Past Counselor—E. C. Welton.

Secretary—H. W. Foote,

Conductor—C. M. Inman.

Page—L. B. Root.

Sentinel—Sam Lipman.

Chaplain—C. W. Stevenson.

Executive Committee—Frank An-
derson, J. T. Sharpe, C. Fallrath and
Roy Ashley,

E. C. Welton was choosen as dele-
gate to the annual convention at
Traverse City, with Matt Steiner as
alternate.

After the business of the coming
year was disposed of, a fine spread
which had been prepared by our en-
tertainment committee was enjoyed
by all. The novelty quartette enter-
tained with a number of pleasing se-
lections during the serving of the
luncheon.

We saw Ernie Welton driving
through our streets Saturday with a
brand new Oakland six. Ernie says
this is more in keeping with his size
and dignity.

The city of Greenville is keeping
up with the pace set by her larger
sisters and put on a “dollar day”
Monday. We noticed some very at-
tractive bargains amone the numer-
ous advertisements of the merchants.

S. M. Albertson is leaving the Hotel
Phelps, Greenville, where he has been
employed as manager for some time.
He is succeeded by James Stafford,
of St. Louis, who, we are informed,
will either lease or buy the property.
If he keeps up the standard set by
Stewart Albertson, he will be assured
of a nice business. Stewart certainly
did revolutionize conditions in that
hotel after he became manager and
we are very sorry to see him go and
wish him every success in any new
venture he may see fit to undertake.

This new business of scribe doesn’t
exactly appeal to the writer, being
entirely out of my life. However, this
was duly explained to the Council
when the appointment was made, but
I was unable to beg off. I hope that
my shortcomings will be overlooked
and I assure you that any criticisms
and suggestions will be welcomed.
I was told by a number of counselors
that they would faithfully contribute
to these items and to show you how
well they have kept their word I wish
to state not one has come forward
with a word as yet. Don’t all write
at once, but please help me out of an
embarassing position. J. E. Lyon.

—_2++___

Rice—While the distributers and
dealers are fairly well supplied for
the present the advent of spring
weather is expected to stimulate the
demand. The strength in the South.
where heavy sales for export have
been made, helps the situation. Blue
Rose and Honduras are moving quite
freely in New Orleans. The mills
are asking firm prices in some cases
closing down for the season.

——_>-—___.

The average man would rather lose

$5 on a horse race than a_ nickel

through a hole in his pocket.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

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Co-operation Between Medical and
Pharmaceutical Professions.
Co-operation, as we all know, is
the act of working together to one
end, and it would seem that the pur-
pose of saving life, ameliorating suf-
fering and promoting restoration to
health are the principal objects of
the medical and pharmaceutical pro-
fessions. Co-operation has not al-
ways been the rule in the past, and
there have been instances of open
hostility between the professions
recorded in history. The causes are

not hard to determine.

Pharmacy was originally a part of
medicine, but this was centuries ago
and the word “apothecary” is fre-
quently found in the Bible. When
the medical profession became di-
vided and various cults or so-called
“schools” of medicine came into vogue
solidarity was out of the question.
The enormous growth of quack reme-
dies had a most injurious effect in
widening the differences between the
doctor and the druggist. Sales agents
of médnufacturing pharmaceutical
houses who introduce new medicines
directly to the physician, and the dis-
pensing of medicines directly to the
patient by the doctor have provoked
retaliation on the part of the drug-
gist, and the cry is heard all over the
land that doctors no longer write pre-
scriptions. This, of course, is not
literally true, but only partially so.
This has had an unfortunate outcome
and cases are easily cited where
pharmacists have trenched upon the
domain of the physician and have
given advice to patients entering their
stores, oftentimes with serious effects,
for the pharmacist is not by train-
ing Or education fitted to give med-
ical advice or diagnose a case. We
now see modern pharmacists in our
large cities and towns and elsewhere
supplying goods of a general char-
acter which cannot be classed under
medicines or which especially aid in
the cure of disease. These facts are
well known. The patient who is sure
to look out for the saving of expense
frequently reads the advertisement of
ready-made medicines, and, assisted
often by the druggist, is induced to
try the “cure-all.” Proprietary med-
icines are not all inefficient. At the
present time they are more unpopu-
lar than they ever have been, largely
because the newspapers and public
prints are educating the public to the
inquities of the advertising of these
proprietaries. Physicians who write
prescriptions largely in their prac-
tice do not as a rule like to enter a
drug store which displays advertis-
ing cards, almanacs, dodgers, etc.,
recommending all kinds of medicines

 

which claim to cure all kinds of dis-
eased conditions.

A prominent physician of Phila-
delphia some years ago was treating
a patient for rheumatism. The pa-
tient was well-do-to and perfectly
able to engage the services of a phy-
sician. The doctor wrote a prescrip-
tion, handed it to her, and directed
her to an ethical pharmacist to have
it filled. The woman had been buy-
ing coal oil, liquid glue, castor oil,
paints, window glass, putty, etc., at
low rates from a druggist who was
rated as a wholesale dealer in drugs.
He did not hesitate however, to put
up prescriptions or sell anything. Up-
on the marble counter immediately
in front of where she stood there was
a pile of what are known as dodgers
—single sheets of paper of the cheap-
est character exploiting a remedy for
rheumatism. The clerk in the store
wrapped up the prescription bottle,
containing a liniment, in one of these
paper dodgers. It happened to be
an advertisement of an oil largely
used, with the front name of a saint.
Arriving home, the patient used the
doctor’s liniment for several days
with no immediate improvement.
She had saved the dodger and, turn-
ing to it, she found that the quack
medicine promised immediate relief.
She went back to her druggist friend,
procured a bottle, and the druggist
chucked at the success of his “silent
salesman.” There was a terrible
time when the woman visited the doc-
tor, she would not only not pay
her bill, but never go near him again.
These facts were related to me per-
sonally by Dr. Atlee, who complain-
ed bitterly of the druggist and the
next County Medical Society meeting
he proceeded to air his grievances
before that body. Nothing ever came
of it, however, as the druggist had
not committed a legal mistake, and
it was not worth making a test case.
Naturally, co-operation did not exist
under such circumstances. Neither
the doctor nor the druggist is living
at present, but the druggist’s busi-
ness dwindled away, while the doc-
tor’s practice increased and he after-
wards spoke of the incident as a joke
on himself.

There are drug stores here and
there which contain no patent medi-
cine advertisements; there are many
others which keep patent medicines,
but they are out of sight and never
displayed, simply because the pro-
Prietor regards it as bad business
policy to encourage the sale of such
proprietaries. The general ground
which is taken by the druggists who
sell proprietaries is that they are in
the drug business. They believe that

the public should get medicines from
medicine stores. The druggist is
compelled to give a State Examining
Board proof of his fitness to dispense
medicines. He spends considerable
money and time in getting a diploma
irom a college of pharmacy. If the
public cannot get medicines that they
want from him, they will go else-
where—possibly to a department
store. As the prescription business
has fallen away, the druggist adds to
ais stock many articles void of medic-
inal action, as kodaks, fishing tackle,
fountain pens, etc. On general prin-
ciple the public does not object; but
the doctor cannot very well find a
legitimate way of increasing his rev-
enue, He is supposed to stay in his
office and wait for patients when he
is not out visiting the sick. He says,
“The druggist is selling all kinds of
medicines to his patients and counter-
prescribing. Now why cannot I lay
in a stock of tablets and other medi-
cines and sell or give them to my
patients?” Many times he can, and
he works off the samples left by the
agents of manufacturers, and, if he
is criticised for this, he states that he
cannot trust the druggist to fill his
prescriptions accurately.

On the other hand, the druggist
charges the physician with often giv-
ing his patient something that he has
in stock and which is only pretty near
what he ought to give, and he makes
the disease fit the medicine. This rep-
resents the problems which exist at
the present time and which have ex-
isted for many years.

Again, many pharmacists have tried
from time to time to conduct a
pharmacy strictly along the lines of
catering to physicians only to find
that support from the medical pro-
fession is very lukewarm, with the re-
sult that that money is lost contin-
ually.

It would seem that the time is ripe
for active co-operation between the
two professions. The well educated
pharmacist can prepare special med-
icines with combinations of ingredi-
ents which the doctor with the as-
sistance of the pharmacist knows will
suit a particular case which the doc-
tor is treating. The patient has the
right to expect, if he pays the doc-
tor’s fee, to get something to relieve
his suffering which embodies all the
knowledge and experience possessed
by the doctor. Nothing disgusts a
patient more than to find that the
doctor has prescribed one of the
largely advertised patent medicines
which the patient knew all about be-
fore he went to the doctor’s office.
He pays three or four dollars for
professional advice, but advice has
already been given him in print on
the advertisement or label of the
patent medicine, and which he has read
frequently in street cars or on the
sides of barns. He thinks finally that
the statements are highly colored, and
hence he goes to a physician for a
real, unbiased opinion and a pre-
scription fitted exactly for his case.

If a propaganda could be started
in favor of more prescription writing
one of the best arguments that I have
used is that a doctor changes his
medicine frequently, because of the

March 29, 1916

stages which are well marked in a
patient’s condition. In treating the
various fevers which are so common,
the medicine which is at first used
must be adapted to the patient’s con-
dition, and if the patient does not
improve, he must modify or change
the prescription entirely. Again,
when the patient is convalescent, it
would be highly improper to continue
the medicine which was given at the
on-set of the attack. The formula
for a patent medicine never changes
and the patient is not likely to get
well if he takes the proprietary con-
tinuously during the progress of the
disease, One never sees a cautionary
notice on a patent medicine that if
after trying a few doses it does not
cure, one should call in a physician.
The label rarely or never admits that
it can fail and yet a life may be sac-
rificed if a good physician is not en-
gaged and the medicine is not changed
from time to time. A life is worth
more than dollars.

It seems at the present time that
physicians and pharmacists should
join hands and assist each other.
Many physicians are using the prep-
arations of the United States Phar-
macopoeia and National Formulary
and are getting excellent results. The
National Association of Retail Drug-
gists have been engaged for years in
bringing about better relations be-
tween the professions by visiting
physicians and endeavoring to in-
fluence them to use official prep-
arations. It is undoubtedly true
that if physicians would prescribe in
general practice such official prepar-
ations as they can, leaving the pre-
scribing of proprietaries and syn-
thetics to special cases, much good
would be accomplished. °

If our medical colleges and uni-
versities would invite lecturers on

 

 

 

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pharmaceutical subjects to give to our WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
medical students courses in modern
pharmacy, the student would be at Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue
least helped in his medical practice, ‘ e a Acids aa | ane ae ie 02. @2 00 ere secs mo @ 7%
afte Be 2 : nae Cetic 2. ..0 1... @ 0 Mustard, artifil. oz. @ (9 ren, GIO, ....... 6
ae ee ace i understand and Bore 15 @ 26 Neatstoot ee euas . ae “ ina fee cece ac g a
Know the properties and doses of F 5 Ci Carbolic |... |: 161@1 65 Olive, pure .... 250@3850 Myrrh eo @1 065
sal Crtrig 232.01... .. 80@ 85 Olive, Malaga, Nux Vomi re 4
medicines that should be procurable amous Cc igar Bra ae 5@ 8 alee ae 1 60@1 75 Optae as so ¢. °
c Nitric. 2...1..0.0. 11@ 15 Olive, Malaga, Pium, apmh. 7
. aa cae prone. : Long Filler Ozalic Sides oe 80@ 85 Breen ... 1... 1 60@1 75 Opium, Deodorz’a @3 _
This is one way of promoting co- Sulphurie 2... .. - 5@ 8 Orange Sweet ..3 00@3 25 Rhubarb ....... @ 7
i i j f Martane oso). 75@ 85 Origanum, pure .. @2 50
operation with the practice of med- : : Onlz: one? @ 7
| : ganum, com’l u@ 6 Paints
icine assailed on all sides by what Especially Adapted to the Be Ammonia @ 12 Pennyroyal 2250250 |
. ane Discriminating Taste Water, 26 deg. ..7 @ 12 Peppermint 3 00@3 25 4ead, red dry .. 10 @10%
are known as irregular practitioners. Water IS deg 1.5 @ 9 Rose, pure 12 00@14 00 Lead, white dry 10 @10%
There could be a revival which would of the Drug Trade Chibateta ie "43 ® 6 tosemary Flows 1 50@1 75 Ge pe oil 10 @10%
: : Ape ences Sandalwood, E. ~echre, yellow bbl. 1 1%
result in much good. Chloride ....... ee CU 9 50@9 75 ooo yellow less 2 %
| i i i . Sassafre 25@ 5 Se weeee ss ae
[t might be possible for the Ameri- Send for Sample Shipment. eee Balsam ae ae aaas ne an Red Venet'n bbl, ive 7
can Pharmaceutical Association to ie (Canada) .. 125@1 50 Spearmint ..... 275@3 00 ed Venet’n less 14@ 5
: ae A : Poet ee See 95@1 05 Vermillion, Amer. i5@ 29
appoint a commission consisting oi i Fir (Oregon) wee 00@4 25 Whiting, bbl. ...), @1Y,
physicians and pharmacists who Barrett Cigar Co. Peru ........4, C0GS > Tar, USP ....... 30@_ 40 Whiting seee eas 2@ ¢
a 1 i MAKER Tolu..... Sdeceucs 7%@1 00 Turpentine, bbls. @59% “~ FF. Prepd. 1 45@1 55
would issue a well-worded circular lewin hich a Turpentine, less 6414@6914
: . : an erries i
asking co-operation on both sides. ae Siig 10 @ 15 Wintersrcen, Swebt@> insecticides
Joseph P. Remington, Ph. M. Beste ue 15 @ 2 Bich. ae ee eas ti 8@ 15
duniper <........ 8 @ 15 Wintergreen, art 3 50@3 75 ce ha vitriol, bbl. @ 24
Prickley Ash @ 50 Wormseed 2... 3 su@4 0 Bata, less 25@ 30
Wormwood .... 4 00@ x Pst 8@ 10
Hellebore, White
Barks powdered , 50@ 5&5
: | . Potassium =—s—i‘(<‘é#SC;C#WE GTC 50@
Announcement to the rade Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 30 _ beau Insect Powder .. 30@ 650
Cassia (Saigon) 90@1 00 Bicarbonate .... 1 80@2 00 Lead Arsenate -- 8%@ 16
Elm (powd. 35c) 32@ 35 SBichromate ..... 95@1 00 Lime and Sulphur
BUSINESS OF CARPENTER-UDELL CHEMICAL COMPANY Sassafras (pow. 35c) @ 30 Bromide ....... s+. @6 50 Solution, gal... 15@ 35
WILL BE CONTINUED Soap Cut (powd.) Carbonate |..... 1 95@2 05 Paris Green 374%4@
By Receiver SOG ce. 23@ 25 Chlorate, xtal and 7a
powdered ..... 95@1 00 '
Write, call or telephone us for “IMPERIAL BRAND” LIME SULPHUR SOLU- Extract Chlorate, gran’r 1 00@1 05 Miscellaneous
TION, PARIS GREEN, ARSENATE OF LEAD, NICOTINE SOLUTION, ETC. Licneine a ov iq 40 Cyanide 2... 450 55 Acetanalid 2 15@3 00
Our salesmen now calling on the trade. Licorice powdered 40@ 45 Bea 2 1002 50 pe ‘a ad
-russiate, yellow 2 50@2 75 ‘ » bOWdered and
Our quotations on ARSENATE OF LEAD and LIME SULPHUR SOLUTION Flowers ee a ee eee 18@ 25
now lower than in 1915, but other manufacturers look for advance in prices of Gt as tees : aoe a Sulphate _ eeeae @1 10 Bismuth, Subni-
SPRAYING MATERIALS very soon. Ghasonils (Rom) 55@ 60 trate 2.0 4 00@4 05
On account of tremendous increases in cost of raw materials and resulting Roots Borax Xtal or
shortage in production of SPRAYING MATERIALS, you should place your order Gums Alkanet .... |. 90@1 00 bOwdered ..... 7%@ 12
with us at once—by telephone or mail, if possible. eani tet 60@ 65 Blood, powdered 20@ 25 Cant arades, po 2 56@'8 56
a ce : : . Acacia, 2nd _.... 50@ 55 Malas 2) 75@3 00 (POMBE 3, 4 Zaw4
All inquiries given prompt attention. Quotations on request. fone ord ae 45@ 50 Elecampane, ae 15@ a) Caps sae 2
Acacia, Sorts 35@ 40 ae ae 49W 50 et ee 6 S0W7 OU
. “201g der 50 ulinger, African, 4SSia Buds ..., G
The Michigan Trust Company, Receiver foe a qpomdered ee ate ee sc 30g 35
x 20qG 5 inger, Jamaica 30@ 35 Chalk Prepared .. 6@ 8
CARPENTER-UDELL CHEMICAL COMPANY Hoss (Capo a ae & Gost Jamaica Chalk ‘Precipiatea 3% *%
Ann St. opposite Elizabeth Ave., N. W. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Asafoetida 1 00@1 10 . oe ae conn reveee 85@ 96
Citizens Phone 1725 Bell Main 1145 Asafoetida, Powd. Ieee au Cocaine 1 rate 3 O@a 46
Bure (.c... £ 16@1 25 Licorice ee Cocoa Butter 7 oo po:
__U. 8. P. Powd. 1 30@1 50 Licorice, powd. .. 254 Corks, list, less "10%
Camphor sacle. b0G eb Orris, powdered Copperas, bbls. @ 1%
Guaiac ccc eee eee 50@ 22 Poke, powdered Copperas, less . 2@ “
Poe powdered ae a HBUbarD 24)... :. Copperas, powd. .. 4@ 19
Kino, powdered .. 75@ 30 Poe a Gen ego * ia
4 ‘ 1 Myrrh Boiled oly ule @ 40 Sarsaparilla, Hond. Cuttlebone ..... -- 45@ 50
OW Is e ime O onsli er Myrrh, powdered @ 50 ezround 6.00. 55@ 60 Dextrine ...7.. i 10 10
Opium ....... 3 80@14 00 Sarsaparilla Mexican, Dover's Powder .. 2
5 4 As . @2 60
Opium, powd. 15 60@15 80 ground 25@ 30 kmery, all Nos .
Opium, gran, .15 ee saute, 35@ 40 imery, indeed 60 "
Shellac sersesees S1@ 35 Gqguilis, powdered 40@ 60 kKpsom Salts, bbls. 4%
Shellac, Bleached 35@ 40 Tumeric, powd. 13@ 20 ipsom Salts, less 5 8
S : M t rials Tragacanth Valerian, powd. 70@ 75 Ergot ......... 1 2661 60
Ce @3 00 ergot, powdered 2 75@3 00
praying a e Tragacanth pow 1 75@2 00 Seeds Fiase ee “ 1 pb@ 20
Turpentine |... .. 10@ 15 : . sormaidehyde lb 12%@ 17
a AMSG) 02 5.... 02. 20@ 25 Gelati oe oD = a 5
e Anise, powdered @ 25 Gert ee eg =
Paris ( reen Leaves Bird, 1s ......... @ 10 Glassware, full cases 80%
r Ssena e O €a 9 Sage, powdered .. 55@ 60 Canary .......... 2 12 Glassware, less 70 & 10%
Buchu ......... 1 76@1 8 Caraway ......... 22@_ 25 Glauber Salts bbl. @ 1%
Buchu, powd. .. 1 85@2 00 Cardamon ..... 1 80@2 00 Glauber Salts less 2@ 5
Sage, bulk ..... - 61@ 7 Celery (powd. 55) 45@ 50 Glue, brown... 3@ 18
e e aes %s loose ..72@ 78 Coriander 10@ 18 Giue, brow: d. 12@ 1
i . c Vaeece , brown grd. 12¢
Mixed Paints Senna, ‘Alex eee 59@ 60 Ld ssrccsssccsses 20@ 25 Glue, white eee 15g 25
‘ Senna, Tinn. .... 35@ 49 Fennell ......... @125 Glue, white grd. iso 20
Seoe ee powe 4o@ 50 BIAm .....:.-----. 6@ 10 Giycering 65@ 80
Uva Orsi .2....._. 18@ 20 Flax, ground ... 54%@ 10 Hope’... 1... .. a
St e d V r e h pocnearces, pow. _ a Hops . :
S Olis Gin oe. @ 2 isdn |.” 5
al S a . Eobelia. ....4..-.. 50 Of :
n Almonds, Bitter, - Mustard, yellow 22@ 30 tend nei 6 18@ 25
FEUG cc. 5 00@15 25 Mustard black 15@ 20 ie : so ae , “s
: stard, blac @ Lycopdium .... 3 10@3 25
3 Oe ne * dea & Mustard, powd. a ° Mace ........... as@ 96
EUG i. ‘ @t aoa PORES ...40c..... 40@
White Lead atone Sea ulige OI Ma Bes, powdered, sega 09
true os: 1 25@1 50 Mane 22...5. |. - 10@ 15 tt eeeeee
Almouds, Sweet, Sabadilla ........ 40@ 50 Morphine ...... 6 30@6 55
imitation ...... 665@ 75 Sabadilla, powd... @ 49 Nux omica .... 20@ 25
e ° ° Amber, crude .. 150@1 75 Sunflower ...... 10 15 Nux Vomica pow. @ 20
il Tur entine Amber, rectified 2 50@2 75 Worm American 20@ 25 Pepper, black pow. @ 35
msee 9 auiee sete teeees 2 00 Worm Levant .. 1 50@1 75 : Mok, Botan a 6 i
ergamont . ac
Cajeput Tinctuces uae ou “ai 2
eset 6 ccs. uinine, 5 oz. cans
@aston 9.02050) Aconite ..2...... @ 1% Rochelle Salts 42@ 45
We are larger handlers of heavy stuff than Cedar Leat Aloes seo Ce g 86 saccharine a 15 << 00
Citronella rhiea ..... 3a GUGE  ocecs ;
es * sus Gloves ......... @ Asafoetida ...... @1 35 Seidlitz Mixture 37@ 40
olicit your in uiries as well as Cocoanut ........ 20@ 25 Belladonna ..... @1 66 Soap, green ...... 20@ 25
ever before and ¢ y q €od Wiver ..... 5 50@5 60 Benzoin ......... @1 00 Soap, mott castile 12@ 15
Cotton Seed 1 15@1 25 Benzoin Compo’d @1 00 Soap, white castile
orders. @rofen 04.0, 2 00@2 25 Buchu ....... oc. @1 50 Case... .. eee 8 00
Cupbabs ....... 4 25@4 50 Cantharadies ... @1 80 Soap, white castile
Higeron ....... 1 75@2 00 Capsicum ....... g 90 less, per bar .. @ &
Huealyptus .... 1 Mier . plot one ea oe re — co st) sod 198 ”
Hemlock, pure .... if ardamon, Comp. Soda Bicarbonate
Juniper Berries 7 50@7 75 Catechu ........ @ 60 Soda Sei .... %@ °+5
° 2 Juniper Wood .. 1 25@1 50 Cinchona ....... @1 05 Spirits Camphor @ 7
Lard, extra ...... olchicum ulphur roll .....
aZ r 95@1 05 Colchi @ 7 Sulph 11 2%@ 5
: Lard, Not). 85@ 95 Cubebs ..... @1 20 Sulphur Subl. 1. 83@ 6
Lavender eer ‘ = e a ae ¢ be Tamarinds ....... 185@ 20
< 1 ichi Lavender, Gar’n 1 25@1 entian ia re 0
Wholesale Druggists Grand Rapids, Michigan Bemon) oo io. 2 00@2 25 a bee. ¢, 2 : abil oeiagtor ae 2.
ins i ‘ WaTa@c .......... ;
cee Be lee nae 53 Guaiac, Ammon. @ 80 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 00@1 50
Linseed, raw, bbl. D 82 Yodine .......:.. @2 00 Witch Hazel .... 65@1 00
Linseed, raw, less 87@ 92 Iodine, Colorless @2 00

 

 

Zinc Sulphate .... 15@ 20

  

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected w
and are intended to be correct

eekly. within six hours of Mailing,
at time of going to press.

Prices, however, are

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

 

ADVANCED DECLINED
Washboards
Peanut Butter. Cheese
Flour
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Index to Markets

By Columns

 

Ammonia
Axle Grease

B
Baked Beans
Bath Brick
Bluing
Breakfast Food
Brooms
Brushes
Butter Color

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Candies
Canned Goods
Carbon Oils

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Chicory

Chocolate —
Clothes Lines
Cocoa
Cocoanut
a ta :
Confections
Cracked Wheat ...-- a
Crackers es
Cream Tartar

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DB
Dried Fruits ........-+

E
Evaporated Milk .....

F
Farinaceous Goods
Fishing Tackle .....-.
Flavoring Extracts ...
Flour and Feed ......
Fruit Jars ..........-
Gelatine
Grain Bags

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Herbs
Hides and Pelts .....

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Macaroni ......
Mapleine
Meats, Canned
Mince Meat
Molasses
Mustard

  

 

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ee cceeseesseaes

P
Petroleum Products..
PACKIOBR .ccsnsccvecces
Pipes 5 cb... sss. se -
Playing Cards .......
Potash
Provisions

Rice
Rolled Oats
s
Salad Dressing
BOISTAtUS .....-..-2..-

cc ec cccenes

Seeeeeesseeecses..e

Salt
Salt Fish ......c0s--:-
Seeds

eeescecceresceses

Shoe Blacking
Snuff

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Table Sauces
T

OA... ce
Tobacec
Tine .....--...5 cece

Vv
Nineygar .-......-.:...

Wicking ...2..-..-...
Woodenware .....
Wrapping Paper

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Yeast Cake e@aeeeeee. 6s

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

AXLE GREASE
Frazer's

1th. wood boxes, 4 doz.
1th. tin boxes, 3 doz.
3%2tb. tin boxes, 2 dz.
10%b. pails, per doz.
15. pails, per doz.
25tb. pails, per doz. .

BAKED BEANS

 
 

NID Prt
bo
or

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No. 1, per doz. ----45@ 90
No. 2, per doz. 75@1 40
No. 3, per doz. - 85@1 75
BATH BRICK
Meelis oo 95
BLUING
Jennings’

Condensed Pearl Bluing
Small, 3 doz box (2.94 80
Large, 2 doz. box | 2 00

Folger’s.
Sky, 3 Gz. cs. 1 46
Sky 10 dz bbl 4 50
BREAKFAST FOODS
Apetizo, Biscuits ....
Bear Food, Pettijohns
Cracked Wheat, 24 2
Cream of Rye, 24-2 ..
Quaker Puffed Rice ..
Quaker Puffed Wheat
Quaker Brkfst Biscuit
Quaker Corn Flakes
Victor Corn Flakes ..

Summer
Summer

> DO fat BO hel he BO mm OO DD DO OO
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Washington Crisps .. 1 8
Wheat Hearts ...... 05
Wheatena 50

Evapor’ed Sugar ‘Corn 90

Grape Nuts .......... 3 70
Grape Sugar Flakes . 2 50
Sugar Corn Flakes .. 2 50
Hardy Wheat Food .. 2 25
Holland Rusk ...... 3 20
Krinkle Corn Flakes 1 7%
Mapl-Flake, Whole
Wheat ...... 3 60

Minn. Wheat Cereal 3
Ralston Wheat Food
Tmrge 188 ......... 2
Ralston Wht Food 188 1
Ross’s Whole Wheat
Bisewit ...2........ 2
Saxon Wheat Food .. 2
Shred Wheat Biscuit 3 60
Triscuit, bets ccs om
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’] 1
Post Toasties, T-2 .. 2
Post Toasties, T-3 .. 2
Post Tavern Porridge 2

BROOMS
Fancy Parlor, 25 tb.
Parlor, 5 String, 25 tb.
Standard Parlor, 23 tb.
Common, 23 Ib.
Special, 23 tb. ...
Warehouse, 23 Ib.
Common, Whisk
Fancy, Whisk

BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ......
Solid Back, 11 in. ....
Pointed Ends

95

85
Stove

25

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No. 3

MIO. 2 oicccwccesscccus

Me. 8 oc. e see cess

Shoe

INO: DB fo cceccces-s--u. 1
0. peaboscssescecss 1 BD

NO. 4.55. .cscccs-ss ce 1 8

No. cocccsscccccces. 1 OD

BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 25¢ size .. 2 00

CANDLES
Paerafine, 6— ......... 7
Paraffine, 128 ........ 7
Wicking .........: coe a0

CANN = GOODS

o. wee sche.
Bla ries

2 Th. ...-..00.- 1 50@1 90

Standard No. 10

 

Blueberries
eeeeneesies cs 40

Ne. 10 Peeseseeseoscce 6 50

ie
Little Neck, 1t. .. @1 25
Clam Bouillon

Burnham’s % pt. .... 2 35
Burnham’s pts. ..... 8 75
Burnham's qts. ...... 7 50
Corn
Maar os 8@
Goon 2.0.2... - 100@1 10
Fancy .....:.; eo. e1
French Peag
Monbadon (Natural)
per dom .....5. 1.2 ia
Gooseberries
No. 2, Pair —.i...5... 4 95
No. 2, Fancy ........ 3 50
Hominy
Standam’ .....°... > oo
Lobster
mM ID. ..5c55. pctseecns 5 6B
1% lb. Shia bs is sels ss bins 2 40
Picnic Flat .......... 9 80
Mackerel

Mustard, 1 Ib
Mustard, 2 Ib. .
Soused, 1% Ib. .
Soused, 2 Ib. ..
Tomato, 1 tb.
Tomato, 2 Ib.

Buttons, %s
Buttons, is
Hotels, 1s

Cove, 1
Cove, 2 tb.

@ 6
@i1 40

Plums .......... 90@1 35

Pears In Syrup
No. 3 cans, per doz. ..1 50

Peas
Harly June .... 11
Early June siftd 1 4
Peaches

  

PAG .ccccccccese 1 OOD
No. 10 size can pie @8 36
Pineapple
Grated ........ 1 75@3 10
Su Ses soes ec 95@3 6e
Pumpkin
PAI occ ckcne oo. 80
GOOG... <.ccscscss 90
Fancy ... 1 08
No: 10. .... srecescs 2 60
Raspberries

Standard ...... @
Saimon
Warrens, 1 Ib. Tall .. 2 30

Warrens, 1 Ib. Flat .. 2 45
Red Alaska .... 1 80@1 90
Med. Red Alaska 1 40@1 45

Pink Alaska .... ‘1 20

Sardines 5
Domestic, 4s (..... 3 15
Domestic, % Mustard 3 15

 

Domestic, % Mustard 3 25

French \%s ........ 7@14

French, 448 ......:.4 13@23

Sauer Kraut

No: 8, Cans <...05.....

No. 10, cans .......... 2 89
Shrimps

Dunbar, 1s doz. .... 1 45

Dunbar, 1%s doz. .... 2 7@
Succotash

WOT ..5.5.500-0..

GOOG coicssccees oo 1 2
Fancy ......... 1 25@1 40
Strawberries
Standard ......-.0.. 95

Fancy
Good .
Fancy
No. 10
%s, 4 doz. in case ..2 60

4 doz. in case ..8 60
1s, 4 doz. in case ....5 60

CATSUP

Snider’a pints ...... 2 35
Snider’s % pints .... 1 36
CHEESE
ACMO: oo @19
Carson City .... @19
MiG ae @19
Leiden .......... @15
Limburger ...... @19
Pineapple ...... 40 @60
GG 6c. c ese ses @3

Sap Sago .......

5
Swiss, Domestic | $3,

 

3

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack .... 62

  

Adams Sappota ...... 65
Beeman’s Pepsin - 62
Beeehnut ........ 62
Chiclets 33

ai 4
Colgan Violet Chips .. 65
Colgan Mint Chips .... 65
Dentyne 62

Deublemint ..:.050.0. 5: 64
Haas sproce 20. 2) 59
auicy Hrait 21.00... 59
Red Robin 2225032. 62
Sterling Gum Pep. .. 62
Sterling 7-Point ...... 6
Spearmint, Wrigleys .. 64

Spearmint, 5 box jars 3 20
Spearmint, 6 box jars 3 85

irunk Spruce 2... 3... 59
AMcCatan oo 62
COND 64
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.
German’s Sweet ...... 28
Premium .;........ cece BD
SePMCee ........5)...5) 38
Walter M. Lowney Co.
Premium, Ms ...... s+

Premium, \%s .......... 386

CLOTHES LINE

Per doz.
No. 40 Twisted Cotton 95
No. 50 Twisted Cotton 1 30
No. 60 Twisted Cotton 1 76
No. 80 Twisted Cotton 3 00
. 50 Braided Cotton 1 00
No. 60 Braided Cotton 1 25
- 60 Braided Cotton 1 85
No. 80 Braided Cotton 2 35
No. 50 Sash C 76
No. 60 Sash

  

No. 60 Jute
No. 72 Jute .... ;
No. 66 Sisal .....:.. 3 66

Galvanized Wire
. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90
. 19, each 100ft. long 3 10

. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
COCOA

Bakerg ......:. Deeec. | BO

CIOVOIARG .. 2.5 cesccescs 41

Colonial, %s .......... 86

Colonial, Ym ....ccccee .

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Hershey’s, \%s 32
Hershey’s, es .. 30
TANWION 5 occas a - 36
Lowney, s .. 38
Lowney, a... 37
Lowney, %s ..... 37
Lowney, 5Ib. cans 37
Van Houten, %s . 13
Van Houten, ms ...... 18
Van Houten, %s ...... 36
Van Houten, 1s ........ 66
of eo

WUMDD Socccss se cassce sc BS
Wiber, 466 ..........., 38
Wither, 426 ....:.....<. 42

COCOANUT
Dunham’s per Ib.
ys, BID. Case 0.00. 30
ea, SID. case .....00. 39
%s 15 Tb. case ...0..
CANO ...... =

4s & Ye pails ...... 16

Bull, pails’ .. 5... ... 15%
Bulk, wbarreis ....... 14%
Baker’s Brazil Shredded

10 Bc pkgs., per case 2 60

26 10c pkgs., per case 2 60

16 10e and 83 Sc pkgs.,
per case ....... ses 268

COFFEES ROASTED
Rio
COMMOR ...0.cccesses AD

 
     

  

OP ..55 6 pesceccccucs) Day
RMOICS soca icccwccncs OO
PONOY, soccccscesscces Oe
PPADOITY ..-.2.--60.- OS
20
20%
31
33
coos ae
Maracaibo
CONT oc eccccccce ssa s en
Choices .......--5-5... Ob
Mexican
CHOCO ..:...ccccecs. 86.
Fancy .... 36
Guatemala
POU cece cckcccesessss ae
MOMCY 2. ces cocccss OR
Java
Private Growth .... 26@3¢@
Mandling ......scece 85
Auko’ peceececnece 3
Mocha
Short Bean ........ 26@27
ae § SOON oc 50000
H. L. O eocees 26@28
Bogota
BOROY oi occaccccoccss OS
Exchange Market, Steady
Spet Market, Strong
Package
New York Basis
Arbuckle ........... 17 50

. 20, each 100ft. long 1 00 -

4

McLaughlin’s XXXX

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

Extracts
Holland, % gro. bxs. 96
Felix, % gross ...... 115
Hummel’s foil, if gro. 8&5
Hummel’s tin, gro. 1 43
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
mrorenound = ....... 5. 10
Standard ............ 9%
Standard, small 9%
wist, smal oo oe 11
Cases
SumbO ...-.......... 10%
Jumbo; (smali. . oc. : at
PIP SUCK cs 10%

Boston Sugar Stick ..14
Mixed Candy

 

ails
ISTOROM Go oe: 10
Cue heat oe ce 11
Hrench (Cream 3.5... 11
Hagey oo. 14
Grocers oe. 74%
Kindergarten ....... 12
Leader 0
Majestic
Monarch
Novelty, ...;....:. oe
Paris (reams ...... 12
Premio Creams ...... 16
MOVOR co 8%
MRCCIAL Ce ice a. 3
Valley, Creams (0... .; 2

Speciaities

‘a!
Auto Kisseg (baskets) 13
Bonnie Butter Bites .. 17
Butter Cream Corn .. 16
Caramel Bon Bons .. 14
Caramel Dice ...... -. as
Caramel Croquettes .. 14
Cocoanut Waffles .... 14
Colly Tofly .......... 14
National Mints 7 Ib tin 16
Empire Fudge ...... 14
Fudge, Pineapple .... 14
Fudge, Walnut ...... 14
Fudge, Filbert ..... - 16
Fudge, Choco. Peanut 14
Fudge, Honey Moon 14
Fudge, White Center 14

Fudge, Cherry ........ 14
Fudge, Cocoanut .... 14
Honeysuckle Candy .. 16
Iced Maroons ....... 15
iced Gems... 0... 15

Iced Orange Jellies .. 13
Italian Bon Bons ... 13

Jelly Meno... 0.0... 13
AA Licorice Drops

5 ib. box ........ 15
Lozenges, Pep. ...... 12
Lozenges, Pink ...... 12
Manehus ...0........ 14
Molasses Kisses, 10

aD. -DOX oo. eco... 13

Nut Butter Puffs .... 14
Star Patties, Asst. .. 13
Chocolates
Assorted Choc. ......
Amazon Caramels .. 16
Champion
Choc. Chips, Eureka 20
Climax
Eclipse, Assorted .... 15
Ideal Chocolates .... 15
Klondike Chocolates 19

Nabops (20 2.03.005 05. 9
Nibble Sticks ....... 25
Nut Wafers ........ 19

Ocoro Choc Caramels 18

 

Peanut Clusters 22
@Muintette ..5:....... 15
Bering) oo e oe 13
Star Chocolates ... 14

Superior Choc. (light) 18
Pop Corn Goods
Without prizes.

Cracker Jack with

coupon ........ esee 8 25

Oh My 100s ...... eee 8 50

Cracker Jack, with Prise

Hurrah, 100s ........ 3 80

Hurrah, 508 ......... 1 75

Hurrah, 248 .......... 86

Cough Drops

Boxes
Putnam Menthol ... 1 @0
Smith Bros. ......... 1 26

NUTS—Whole

Almonds, Tarragona 20
Almonds, California
soft shell Drake 18
Boece, “oy
Cal. No. 15S. S. ... @18
Walnuts, Naples 164%@17
Walnuts, Grenoble ..
Table nuts, fancy 13@14
Pecans, Large .... 14
Pecans, Ex. Large 16

Shelled

No. 1 Spanish Shelled
Peanuts ....... 7%@ 8

Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled
Peanuts ...... 114%@12
Pecan Halves ..... D55
Walnut Halves .... @36
Filbert Meats .... @30
Almonds @45
Jordan Almonds

 

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Peanuts

Fancy H P Suns
RAW el.

Roasted

ee eeee

CRACKERS
National Biscuit Company
Brands

in-er-Seal Trade Mark
Package Goods

Per doz.
Baronet Biscuit ..... 1 00
Klake aferg ....... 100
Cameo Biscuit ...... 1 50
Cheese Sandwich .... 1 @0
Chocolate Wafers .... 1 00
Fig Newton ......... 1 00
Five O’Clock Tea Bet 1 00
Ginger Snaps NBC .. 1 00
Graham Crackers .., 1 90
Lemon Snaps ......,. 50
M. M. Dainties ..... 1 00
OYStCrTeltes § ... ca cc ce 50
Pretzeenos eccorces BU
Royal Toast ....... - 100
Social Tea Biscuit .. 1 00
Saltine Biscuit ...... 1 00
Saratoga Flakes .... 1 50
Soda Crackers, N.B.C. 1 00
Soda Crackers Prem. 1 00
Tokens 225.62... eceee 1 00
Uneeda Biscuit ...... 50
Uneeda Ginger Wafer 1 00
Vanilla Wafers ..... 1 00
Water Thin Biscuit .. 1 00
Zu Zu Ginger Snaps 50
Gwieback ...:..,. ooee 100

Other Package Goods
Barnum’s Animals .. 60

Soda Crackers NBC 3 60
Fruit Cake ...... seee 8 00
Buik Goods

: Cans and boxes
Anim@ig o.2 0001.17) «. 12

Atlantics, Asstd. .... 13

Avena Fruit Cakes .. 12

Bonnie Doon Cookies 10

Bonnie Lassies ....., 10

Bo Peeps, S. or M. 8X,
Bouquet Wafers .... 20

Cameo Biscuit ....., 25

Cecelia Biscuit ..... 16

Cheese Tid Bits ..
Chocolate Bar (cans) 20
Chocolate Drops .... 18
Chocolate Puff Cake 18
Choc. Honey Fingers 16
Circle Cookies
Cracknels ........... 28
Cocoanut Taffy Bar .. 16
Cocoanut Drops ...... 12
Cocoanut Macaroons i8
Cocoanut Molas. 16
Cocont Honey Fingers 12
Cocont Honey Jumbles 12
Coffee Cakes Iced ... 12
Crumpeta ............ 18
Dinner Pail Mixed .. 10
iextra Wine Biscuit .. 12
Bamily Cookies ...... 10
Fandango Fingers ... 14
big Cakes Agstd. .... 12
Fireside Peanut Jumb 10
Fluted Cocoanut Bar 12

Frosted Creams ..... 10
Frosted Ginger Cook. 10
Frosted Raisin Sqs. .. 10
Fruited Ovals ....... 8
Fruited Ovals, Iced .. 9
Full Moon ........... 10
Ginger Drops ........ 18

Ginger Gems Plain .. 10
Ginger Gems, Iced .. 11
Graham Crackers ... 9
Ginger Snaps Family 9%
Ginger Snaps Round 9
Hippodrome Bar .... 18
Honey Fingers <Ass’t 12
Honey Jumbles .. 13

Household Cooks, Iced 10
Humpty Dumpty,

OF Me ccc at 8%
Imperials ............ 10

Jubilee Mixed ........ 10
Kaiser Jumbles ...... 13
Lady Fi
Leap Year Jumbles .. 20
Lemon Biscuit Square 1

Lemon Cakes ....... 10
Lemon Wafers ...... 18
Lemona ..::......... 10
Lorna Doon .......... 18
Mace Cakes ......... 10
Macaroon Jumbles .. 18
Mary Ann .......... 10
Mandalay ............ 10
Marshmallow Pecans 2
Mol. Frt. Cookie, Iced 11
NBC Honey Cakes .. 12

Oatmeal Crackers ... 9
Orange Gems ....... 1@
Oreo Biscuit ........ 26
Penny Assorted . .... 10
Picnic Mixed ........ 12
Pineapple Rolls ...... 20
Priscilla Cake ..... 8
Raisin Cookies ...... 12

 
 

Raisin Gems
See Saw,
Reveres Asstd. ......
Rittenhouse Biscuit .. 14
Snaparoons ..........

Spiced Cookie ........ 1@
Spiced Jumbles, Iced 13

 

 

 

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6

7

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

Sugar Fingers ...... 12
Sugar Crimp ........ 10

Vanilla Wafers ..... - 20
Butter
Boxes
N BC Square ....... 7
Seymour Round ...... 7
Soda
Premium Sodas ...... 8
Saratoga Flakes .... 13
Saltines .......... sacs lo
Oyster
Dandy, Oysters ...... 7
N B C Oysters Square 7
Shew oi... 5: pesces.e. 8
Specialties
AGOra .5 0.26... 1 00
INN@bIsCO: 2... 1 00
INQ@UISCO) 26 6... 1 75
Hestine .0.0...,...... 1 50
PeSting | 002.55... . 2 50
Lorna Doone ........ 1 00

AMO ooo... 1 00
Minerva Fruit Cake ..3 00
Above quotations of Na-
tional Biscuit Co., subject
to change without notice.
CREAM TARTAR

Barrels or Drums .... 48
mounre Cause... ....... 52
OMCs C002. 49
Pancy Caddies ......8. 57
DRIED FRUITS
Apples

Evapor’ed Choice blk @08
Evapor’ed Fancy blk @09

Apricots
California ....... 9%@:0%
Citron
Corsican 2.5.50... .. 16%
Currants
Imported, 1 th. pkg. 12
Imported, bulk ...... 11%
Peaches

Muirs—Choice, 25Ib. .. 6%
Muirs—Fancy, 25Ib. .. 7%
Fancy, Peeled, 25th. ..12
Peel
Lemon, American .... 13%
Orange, American .... 13%
Ralsins
Cluster, 20 cartons ..2 25
Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr. 8%
Loose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 8%
L. M. Seeded, 1 th. 8% @9
Callfornia Prunes

90-100 25 lb. boxes ..@ 6%
80- 90 25 Ib. boxes ..@. 7
70- 80 25 Ib. boxes ..@ 7%
60- 70 25 Ib. boxes ..@ 8%
50- 60 25 lb. boxes ..@ 8%
40- 50 25 Ib. boxes ..@ 9%
EVAPORATED MILK
Red Band Brana
BADY 2 hoes so... 0
Tal es cee. 50
5 case lots, 5c less; 10

case lots, 10c less.
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
California Limas .... 6%
Med. Hand Picked .. 3 75
Brown Holland 3 20
Farina
25 1 th. packages .... 1 70
Bulk, per 100 tb. .... 4 50
Original Holland Rusk
Packed 12 rolls to container
8 containers (40) rolls 3 20
Hominy
Pearl, 100 tT. sack .. 2 50
Maccaron! and Vermicelll
Domestic, 10 Ib. box ..
(mported, 25 tb. box ..3 50

Pearl Barley

Chester 2..:..5...... 3 40
Fortage’ ..........-.. 4 76
Peas
Green Wisconsin bu. 3 25
Spit MT. ..55..5....... 6%

Sago
Blast India ........
German, sacks ...... 8
German, broken pkg.

Tapioca
Flake, 100 Ib. sacks .. 8
Pearl 100, 1b sacks .. 8
Pearl, 36 pkes. ....... 2 50
Minute, 2 qts., per doz. 1 25

FISHING TACKL

M16 fins 220...

i% te 2 in. 2... 11
BA ee ce ee 15
SI ee 20
Cotton Lines
No. 1, 10 feet 2....... 5
Na. 2, 15 feet. 2.00... 7
NO. 3:15 feet ........ 9
No. 4, 15 feet... 6... 10
Ne. 6) 15 feet 2.2.0. 11
No. 6; 16 feet 2.50... 12
INO. 7% 15 feet :.2...:. 15
No. 8, 15 feet... ..... . 28
No. 9. 15 fect ....:.: 20
Linen Lines
Smal ...55 0... Reece. = 20
Medium ......... ee 26
Earge .......... Scceaee (OM

Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55
Bamboo, 16 ft., per dos. 60
Bamboo, 18 ft., per dos. 8@

 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings D Cc Brand

OF tee. SO
<se-ce. £ 20
eee Ge 2 25
Taper 2 00
meee cece 2 00
Terpeneless
Pure Lemon
No. 1, % oz. Panel .. 75
No. 2, 1% oz. Panel 1 13
No. 4, 2% oz. Panel 2 00
No. 3, 2% oz. Taper 1 75
2 om. Mlat (2.0 1 75

FLOUR AND FEED

Grand Rapids Grain &
Milling Co.
Winter Wheat
Furity Patent 3...) .. 6 00
Haney Spring ...0.... 6 75

Wizard Graham .... 5 90
Wizard, Gran. Meal . 4 80
Wizard Buckw’t ewt. 3 50
Rye oe. eo
Valley City Milling Co.

ily White ) 07.000. 5 50
Eight Woat ....:.0.0: 6 10
Graham ...05..0....0: 2 65
Granena Health .... 2 75
Gran. Meal... 0... 2 40
Bolted Meal ......... 2 30

Voigt Milling Co.
Viogt’s Crescent 6 50
Vorst's Royal 9.0... 6 90
Voigt’s Flouroigt . & BU
Voigt’s Hygienic Gra-

DAM oe 5 50
Watson-Higgins Milling Co.
Perfection (23002. 6 35

ip Hop BWour 0.0): 5 85
Golden Sheaf Flour .. 5 40
Wern's Suecess 2... .. 6 40

Marshall Best Flour ..6 25
Worden Grocer Co.

Quaker, paper ..)... 5 75
Quaker cloth .. 2.0... 5 85

Kansas Hard Wheat
Voigt Milling Co.
Calla Valy) .o203.0 07. 6 5d
Worden Grocer Co.
American Eagle, %s_ 6 25
American Eagle, %s 6 15
American Eagle, %s 6 05
Spring Wheat

Roy Baker
MAaZeppa.. ..........<. 6 00
Golden Horn bakers 5 90
Wisconsin Rye ...... 5 10
Bohemian Rye ...... 5 35

Judson Grocer Co.

Ceresota, e500... .. 6 90
Ceresota, 45 ....:... 6 80
@éresota, 468 .3...... 6 70
Voigt Milling Co.
Columbian 24.5055... 6 55
Worden Grocer Co.
Wingold, %s cloth .. 6 90
Wingold, %s cloth .. 6 80
Wingold, %s cloth .. 6 50
Wingold, %s paper .. 6 70
Wingold, 4s paper .. 6 50

Meal
Bolted 2...5........¢. 4 60
Golden Granulated .. 4 80

eat L

REG. ce oe a 1 05

WHite 22.0.2. 50.7..... 1 00
Oats

Michigan carlots ...... 48

Less than carlots .... 50
Corn

Carlots 100.2: Mes ae cre: 78

Less than carlots .... 80
Hay

Carlota ......2:..... 16 0

Less than carlots .. 18 00
Feed

Street Car Feed ....380 50

No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd 30 56

Cracked Cor: ...... 39 00

Coarse Corn Meal .. 30 “0
FRUIT JARS
Mason, pts., per gro. 4 90
Mason, qts., per gro. 5 25
Mason, % gal. per gro. 7 60
Mason, can tops, gro. 2 25
GELATINE
Cox’s, 1 doz. large .. 1 45
Cox’s, 1 doz. small .. 90
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 25
Knox’s Sparkling, gr. 14 00
Knox’s Acidu’d doz. .. 1 25
Minute, 2 qts., doz. ..1 10
Minute, 2 qts., 3 doz. 3 25
IN@ISON'S = ............ 1 50
Oxford ..... eae ciareie 6 : 75
Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 25
Plymouth Rock, Plain 90

GRAIN BAGS
Broad Gauge ....... « 18
Amoskeag ...... cccoce 19
Herbs
SEC ee Seweee 16
HGOS) oes esc cs. IS
Laurel Leaves ....... 15

Senna Laves ......... 26
HIDES AND PELTS
Hides
Green, No. 4) ........ 16

Green, No. 2

Cured, No. 1.
Cured, No. 2 .:..; co. 16
Calfskin, green, No. 1 15
Calfskin, green, No. 2 13%
Calfskin, cured, No. 1 17
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 15%

Pelts
Old Wool ........ 60@1 25
Lambs : ‘

Shearlings

 

 

Tallow
NO fee @
NO 2 @
Wool
Unwashed, med, @2
Unwashed, fine @2

HORSE RADISH

Fer dom, (6c... 0.0... $6

Jelly
5b. pails, per doz. ..2
15tb. pails, per pail ..
30%. pails, per pail ..1

ICE CREAM

Wo oT

30
70
25

Piper Ice Cream Co. Brands

Bulk, any flavor ....
Extra Fancy, any flavor
Brick, Risin (3... ))0
Brick, Wancy |...... 1
JELLY GLASSES
% pt. in bbls., per doz.
% pt. in bbls., per doz.
8 oz. capped in bbis.,
per doz ....5.

MAPLEINE
2 oz. bottles, per doz. 3
1 oz. bottles, per doz. 1
16 oz. bottles, per dz. 18
32 oz. bottles, per dz. 30
MINCE MEAT
Per case ....... meee. 2

MOLASSES

New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle
Choice
Good
Stoek

60
65
00
20
15
16

18

00
75
00
00

Red Hen, No. 2% «+1 90
Red Hen, No 5...) | 1 85
ved Hen, No 10 (||... 1 80
MUSTARD
4 iD. @ tb. box ...... 16
OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 eee 20
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 05@1 16
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 00@1 10
Stutled, 5 02.7 ....).7. 96
Stuffed, § oz. ....:... 9 35
Stuffed, 14 oz. ...... 2 25
Pitted (not stuffed)

14°02) 1). co, 286
Manzanilla, 8 oz. so 90
Bunch, 10 oz. 2... wee 2 Op
Eunch, 16 om ..1... | 2 95
Queen, Mammoth, 19

Of oes. ieccee. | 4 20
Queen, Mammoth, 28

OF 75
Olive Chow, 2 doz. es.

Der Goze i. 25
PEANUT BUTTER
Bel-Car-Mo Brand

24 1b: fibre pails ||. 10
14 lb. fibre pails .|.. 1016
10 lb. fibre pails ..... 11
23\ 0%. Jars, 1 doz... 1.9 30
2 tb. tin pails, 1 doz. 3 00

om jars, 2 doz. .... J 80
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

Perfection 2.530... .:
Red Crown Gasoline 1
Gas Machine Gasoline 2
VM & P Naphtha .. 1
Capitol Cylinder <<... .. 3

Atlantic Red Engine 17.
8

Summer Black

POlaniMNe cc. 50 0... 32.

PICKLES
Medium

Barrels, 1,200 count ..8 |

Half bbls., 600 count 4

0 @allon kees ....... 2

Barrels
als barrels ..5..0... 6
6 gallon kees ....... 2
Gherkins
BaAUrela foc 5 ce, 14
Half barrels
b sallon) kegs ..... c. 2
Sweet Small
Barrels
tale barrels: ........

& gallon: Kees i200...
PIPES
Clay, No. 216, per box 1
Clay, T. D. full count
COb  o..6) 0... eeuccacs
PLAYING CARDS
No. 99, Steamboat ....
No. 15, Rival assorted
No. 20, Rover, enam’d
No. 672, Special ......
No. 98 Goif, Satin fin.
No. 808, Bicycle ....-..
No. 632 Tourn’t whist
POTASH
Babbitt's,. 2 doz. ....

PROVISIONS

Barreled Pork
Clear Back .. 23 00@24
Snort Cut Clr 20 00@21
Beane. coals. 17 00@18
Brisket, Clear 24 00@25

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Pee oo awe tc. ee
Clear Bamily .<. -. . 26
Dry Salt Meats

S © Bellies ....

Lard
Pure: in b
Compound Lard 114%4@1
80 Ib. tubs ....advance.
60 Tb. tubs ....advance
50 Th. tubs ....advance
20 tb. pails ...advance
10 tb. pails ...advance
5 Th. pails
3 Tb. pails ...advance

‘
9
a:

Iron Barrels

8.5
9,

9.9
8.5
19

00
00
00
00

00

144% @15

tierces 12%@138

9

...advance 1

1

Smoked Meats
Hams, 14-16 Ib. 16%@17
Hams, 16-18 lb. 17 @17%
Hams, 18-20 tb. 17 @18
Ham, dried beef

sets 2.0... 29 @30
California Hams 12%@13
Picnic Boiled

Hams 3, 1914@20
Boiled Hams .. 28 @ 28%
Minced Ham .. 12 @12%
Bacon | 2.030... 18 @24

Sausages

Bologna ....... Oe 11
iver .4.0...... ¢ 10
Frankfort ...... 12

Pork .o.3......
Veal .....
Tongue ......
Headcheese

 

20 0020 50
-- 24 50@26 00
Pig’s Feet
% bbis. eocccecccccccse 2 OO
, 40 Ibs. ...... 2 00

Is 4

Casings
Hogs, per lb. 835
Beef, rounds, set . $
Beef, middles, set .. 85@90
Sheep 22.0002.)

Uncolored Butterine
Solid Dairy .... 124%4@16%
Country Rolls .. 13 @19%

Canned Meats
Corned Beef, Ib. ...4
Corned Beef, 1 th. .. 2 40
Roast Beef, 2 th. 4
Roast Beef, 1 th. .... 2
Potted Meat, Ham

Miavor, | 36m) 0.1... 48
Potted Meat, Ham

Flavor, %s ........ 90
Deviled Meat, Ham

Flavor, 4s ........ 48
Deviled Meat, Ham

Hlgvor, 346 00.0... 96
Potted Tongue, %s .. 48
Potted Tongue, ¥%s .. 90

RICE
Faney ..... cote. 2 OT
Japan Style ......5 @5%
Broken) 60200000, 384%@4

ROLLED OATS

tolled Avenna, bbls. 6 00
Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sks. 3 00
Monareh, bbis, |... 5 75
Monarch, 90 Ib. sks. .. 2 75
Quaker, 18 Regular .. 1 45
Quaker, 20 Family .. 4 50

SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, % pint .... 2
Columbia 1 pint .... 4
Durkee’s, large, 1 doz. 4
Durkee’s small, 2 doz. 5 25
Snider’s large, 1 doz. 2
Snider’s, small, 2 doz. 1

SALERATUS
Packed 60 ths. in box,
Arm and Hammer ..

Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls. e175

Granulated, 100 Ibs. “es, 1 85
Granulated, 36 pkgs. .. 1 50
SALT
Common Grades

100 3 fb. sacks ...... 2 60
"0 4 ib. sacks ...... 2 40
60 5 Ib. sacks ..... - 240
28 10 tb. sacks ...... 2 25
56 TD. sacks ........ 40
28 Ib. sacks ........ 20
Warsaw
BE Ib. sacks .......... 26

28 Tb. dairy in drill bags 20
Solar Rock

56 ID. sacks ............ 26
Common
Granulated, Fine .... 1 10
Medium, Fine ....... 1 15
SALT FISH
Cod
laree, whole <..... @ 8
Sisal, whole ...... @ 7%

Strips or bricks ...9@13
Pollock @
Smoked Salmon

Halibut

Strips

Strips
@huMES es cee.
Holiand Herring
Y. M. wh. hoop bbls.
Y. M. wh. hoop % bbls.
Y. M. wh. hoop kegs
Y. M. wh. hoop Milchers
KOSS oe ec. 2. oe
Herring
Med. Fat Split, 200 Ibs 8 00
{aborador Split 200 Ib 10 00
Norway 4 K, 200 lbs. 16 50
Special, 8 Ib. pails
Trout
No: 1, 100 tha. ...... 7
No: 1) 40 tba: ........ 2 &
No 1, 10 the. ..:..... &
No. 1, 3 lus. ........ 7

10

29

11

 

Mackerel
Mess, 100 Ibs. ...__. 16 50
Messe, 40 Ibs, ........ 7 00
Mess, 10 ibs 2. 1 85
Mess, 8 Ibs) |. i: 1 56
No. 1, 100 tbs. ... 15 50
No. ft 40 tbs). 6 70
INO. 2 10 tbs 2. EG
Lake Herring
100 Ths) coe 4 00
40 1bS. 92.0: 2 35
EO IDS, cos... ace 58
S lbs 54
: SEEDS
Anis@ 2.4... .0).. 08. 48
Canary, Smyrna .... 8
Caraway ..

malege due cic. 18
Cardomon, Malabar 1 20
Celery .. 45

Elemp, Russian =. 6
Mixed Bird ........ 9
Mustard, white ...._. 20
FODDY ..........5. 5. 36
Rape ...... 0

SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large 3 dz. 3 59
Handy Box, small .. 1 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish 8&5
Miller’s Crown Polish 85

NUFF

Ss
Scotch, in bladders .... 37
Maccaboy, in jars ..... 35
French Rapple in Jars .. 43

SODA
Boxes (20 5%
Hees, English .....__. 4%
SPICES

Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica --9@10
Allspice, Ig Garden @11
Cloves, Zanzibar .. @24
Cassia, Canton 14@15
Cassia, 5¢ pkg. dz. @25

Ginger, African @ 9%
Ginger, Cochin . @14%
Maee, Penane _..... @90
Mixed, Noo 2... 1... @17
Mixed, Ne 2 . . @16
Mixed, 5c pkgs. dz. @45
Nutmegs, 70-80 .... @35
Nutmegs, 105-110 .. @30
Pepper, Black |. @22
Pepper, White .... @2s

Pepper, Cayenne .,. @22
Paprika, Hungarian
Pure Ground in Bulk

Allspice, Jamaica .. @12
Cloves, Zanzibar .. @28
Cassia, Canton .... @26
Ginger, African .... @18
Mace, Penang .... @1 00
Nutmess 2.2... @35
Fepper: Black ___. @24
Pepper, White .... @82
Pepper, Cayenne .. @25
Paprika Hungarian @45
STARCH
Corn
Kingsford, 40 Ibs. .... ™%
Muzzy, 20 1m. pkgs. .. 5%
Kingsford
Silver Gloss, 40 1th. .. 7%
Muzzy, 40 1th. pkes. .. &
Gloss
Argo, 24 5c pkgs. .... 90

Silver Gloss, 16 3tbs. 6%
Silver Gloss, 12 6tbs. 8%

Muzzy
48 1tb. packages ...... 6
16 3Ib. packages .... 4%
12 6b. packages ...... 6
GOIb. boxes ........... 3%

SYRUPS

Corn
Barrela ............ ‘os af
Half barrela ........-.. 30

Blue Karo, No. 1%,
GOm 6... «ss 8 4
Blue Karo, No. 2, 2 dz. 1 95
Blue Karo, No. 2% 2
OOF, oe... eect. 2 35
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 2 30
Blue Karo, No. 10, %

GOR cis. 20
Red Karo, No. 1% 4

GOR. oii. cccc. esau. 8
Red Karo, No. 2 ,2 dz. 2 30
Red Karo, No. 2%, 2dz. 2 75
Red Karo, No. 6, 1 dz. 2 70
Red Karo, No. 10 %

Gon co... weeeccudica @ 60
Pure Cane
Wee tecee 26
Good _....... Goecesees 20
Choice 25

Folger’s Grape Punch
Quarts, doz. case .. 6 00
TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large ...... 3 75
Halford, small ...... 2 25

TEA
Uncolored Japan

  

Medium ...... «2. 20@2%
Choice ... -. 28@83
Fancy ...... 36@45

Basket-flred Med’m 28@30
Basket-fired Choice 35@87
Basket-fired Fancy 88@45
No. I Nibs ........ Sd@s2

Siftings, bulk ..... 9@10
Siftings, 1 th. pkgs. 12@14
Gunpowder

Moyune, Medium .. 28@33
Moyune, Choice .. 35@40
Moyune, Fancy .... 50@60
Ping Suey, Medium 25@30
Ping Suey, Choice 35@40

Ping Suey, Fancy .. 45@650
Young Hyson
Choice ............ 28@80
Pency ....,.:. Pee 4

ee

Oveiong
Formosa, Medium .. 25@38
Formosa, Choice ,. 32@385
Formosa, Fancy .. 50@60

English Breakfast
Congou, Medium -- 25930
Congou, Choice «++ 30@35
Congou, Fancy .... 49 60
Congou, Ex. Fancy 6)9@30

  

is -- 30@3
lowery O. P. Fancy 10085
TOBACCO
Fine Cut
es Se edceece - 14

Mate, 16 om .... H
Bugle, 10c ... ig

coseose 11 06
Dan Patch, 8 and 16 o:
Dan Patch, 4 Om ... it a
Dan Patch, 2 Of. .... 5 7
Fast Mall, 16 O®. .... 7 8@
Hiawatha, 16 OM 4.4. 60
Hiawatha, Se 21... ¢& 49
May Flower, 16 os. -. 9 36
No Limit, 8 Om. ...... 1 86

fee. Se
etoskey Chief, 7 oz.
Peaney Chief, 14 aa
each and Hon
Red Bell, 16 oz. sale .
Red Bell, 8 foil (7°7"°
Sterling, L & D Be’
Sweet Cuba, canister
Sweet Cuba, be
Sweet Cuba, 10c ace
Sweet Cuba, 1 tb. tin
Sweet Cuba, % th. foil
Sweet Burley, 5¢ L@D
Sweet Burley, 8 oz,
Sweet Burley, 16 oz.
Sweet Mist, % gro. ,.
Sweet Mist, 3 Of ... ]
Telegram, 5c
Tiger, 5c (hw ccacs
Tiger, 25¢ cans
Uncle Daniel, 1 Th,
Uncle Daniel, 1 oz.

tees

Pee eseee

R VWNAQAHM MOAN me COG co otm dd

Plug

Am. Navy, 16 os. aac
Apple, 10 tb. Dutt .... sé
Drummond Nat. Leaf, 2

and 6 ih .:... Gaeeeds
Drummond Nat. Leaf,

DCE COM oo 98
Battle Ax eeeahe ccc,
Bracer, 6 and 12 i... 4
Big Four, 6 and 16 rh. 82
veo eee 2 ib ...... de
00 ack, per doz. .,
Bullion, 18 ae fen a 8
Climax Golden Twins 49
Climax, 14% oz. Seaeea 44
Climax, 7 om |...
Climax, fe ting |” 6 00
Day’s Work, 7 & 14 T. 38
Creme de Menthe, tm. 62
Derby, 5 tb. boxes daca a8
5 Bros., 4 th.

cee cass 66
Four Roses, 10c ...... 90
Gilt Edges, 2 tp. . 50

Gold Rope, 6 and 12 th.
Gold Rope, 4 and & ™. 68
G. O. P., 12 and 24 th.
Granger Twist, 6 th... 48
G. T. W., 10 and 21 Th. 36
Horse Shoe, 6 and 12 tb.
Honey Dip Twist, 6

and 16 i 1... 45
Jolly Tar, 6 and 8 Hh. 40
J, T., 5% and 11m... 4
Kentucky Navy, 12 tb. 3
Keystone Twist, 6 tb. 45
HMiemet, 6 fh ....
Maple Din, 16 oz... 32
Merry Widow, 12 tb. wo Ga
Nobby Spun Roll 6 & & 58
Parrot, 12 mw. ..
Patterson’s Nat. Leaf 93
Peachey, 6, 12 & 24. 41
Picnic Twist, 5 Db. .. 45
Piper Hetdsieck, 4 & 7 t.89
Piper Heldsieck, per dz. 96
Polo, 3 doz., per doz. 48
Rea Cross... 28
Scrapple, 2 and 4 dog. 48
Sherry Cobbler, 8 oz. 82
Spear Head, 12 oz. .. 44
Spear Head, 14% oz. .. 44
Spear Head, 7 oz. .. 47
Sa. Deal, 7, 14 & 28 th. 30
Star, 6, 12 and 24 tm. 48
Standard Navy, 7%, 15

and 30 WW. ........... 84
Ten Penny, 6 and 12 th. 85
Town Talk, 14 oz. .... 32
Yankee Girl, 12 & 24 th. 31

Scrap
Al Hed, Ge ..:....... &
Am. Union Scrap .... 6
mas Ping, Ga ....... &

Happy Thought, 2 oz.
Honey Comb Scrap, 5e 5
Honest Scrap, 5c .... 15
Mail Pouch, 4 doz. 5¢ 2
Old Songs, 5c ....... 5 76
Old Times, % r «an
Polar Bear, 5c, gro. 5 76
Red Band, 5c % gro. 6 00
Red Man Scrap, 5c .. 1 42
Scrapple, 5c pkgs. ... 48
Sure Shot, 5c % gro. 5 76
Yankee Girl Scrap 2o0z. 6 76
Pan Handle Scrp %ger 6 76
Peachey Scrap, 50 .... § 76

76

40

88

DS eieues 26

Globe Scrap, 2 oz. ... =
76

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

12

Smoking
All Leaf, 2% & 7 oz.

seecsecs-- Ae

 

Banner,
Belwood, Mixture, “i0c
Big Chief, 2% OZ ..
Big Chief, 16 oz
Bull Durham, ic ....
Bull Durham, 10c .

Bull Durham, lic ..
Bull Durham, 8 oz. ..
Bull Durham, 16 oz. ..
Buck Horn, dc ..... 5
Buck Horn, lOc ....
Briar Pipe, 5c
Briar Pipe, 10c .... 1
Black Swan, Sc ....
Black Swan, 14 oz. ..
Bob White, 5c
Brotherhood, 5c ...... 6
Brotherhood, 10c .... 11

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AMM AM OM WIE OT nD ewRETE

Brotherhood, 16 oz. 5
(Carnival, bc ........ 5
Carnival, % oz. .....-
Carnival, 16 oz. ....

Cigar Clip’ g, Johnson
Cigar Clip’g, Seymour
Ydentity, 3 and 16 oz.
Darby Cigar Cuttings 4

 

Continental Cubes, 10c 90
Corn Cake, 14 oz. .... 2 55
Corn Cake, 7 02. . 1 45
Corn Cake, 6c .....-- 5 76
Cream, 50c pails ..... 4 70
Cuban Star, 5c foil .. 5 74
Cuban Star, 16 oz. pls 5 72
Ships, 10c ......--.. 10 39
Dills Best, 1%, oz. ; 79
Dills Best, 3% 02. 77
Dills Best, 16 oz. 73
Dixie Kid, Sc ....---- 48
Duke’s Mixture, Be .. 5 ?
Duke’s Mixture, 10c ..11 52
Duke’s Cameo, 5c .... 5 76
Drum, 5c .....-+-++- , bf
F. F. a 5 04
mR. A, 7 OZ. ...---- .11 52
Fashion 5c .........- 6 00
Fashion, 16 oz. ...... 5 28
Five Bros., Bc ....... 5 76
Five Bros., 10c_.....10 53
Five cent cut Phg .. 29
EO B i0c ........--11 52
Four Roses, 10c .... 96
Full Dress, 1% 0Z. .. 72
Glad Hand, 5c ... 48
Gold Block, 10c oa 00
Gold Star, 60c pall .. 4 60
Gail & Ax Navy, &e 5 76
Growler, 5C ....eesees 42
Growler, 10c ....+.+«- 94
Growler, 20c ........ 1 85
Giant, 60 ...........- 5 76
Giant, 40c .......... 3 72
Hand Made, 2% oz. 5@
Hazel Nut, ic ...... 5 76
oney Dew, 10c ....12 00
Sie BO co cee ce 38
I ; De st ee 6 10
TX L, a pallies ...... 3 90
Just Suits, Bc ........ 6 00
ust Suits, 10c ...... 12 00
fln Dried, 25c ..... 2 45
King Bird, 7 oz. .... 2 16
ng Bird, i0c ...... 11 52
ne Bird, 6c .....-..- 5 76
Te Turks, Sc ....... 5 76
Little Giant, 1 Ib. oe
ucky Strike, luc -. 86
Redo, 3 oz. ...... 10 80
Le Redo, 8 & 16 oz. 38
Myrtle Navy, 10c ....11 52
yrtle Navy, Sc ..... 5 7
aryland Club, 5c 50
Mayflower, 5c ....... 76
Mayflower, 10c ...... 96
Mayflower, 20c ...... 1.92
igger Hair, 5c ..... 6 00
{gger Hair, 10c ....10 70
Nigger Head, 5c .... 5 40
Nigger Head, --» 10 56
Noon Hour, 6c ..... 48
Old Colony, 1- “13 gro. 11 52
id Mill, bc ........- 5 76
Qld English Crve 1%oz. 96
Ola Crop, 5c ........ 5 76
Old Crop, 25c ....... 20
P. S., 8 oz. 30 tb. cs. 19
P. §., 3 oz., per gro. 5 70
Pat Hand, 1 oz. ...... 63
tterson Seal, 1% oz. 48
tterson Seal, 3 oz. .. 96
Patterson Seal, 16 oz. 5 00
Peerless, 5c ....... . 5 76
Peerless, 10c cloth ..11 52
Peerless, 10c paper ..10 80
Peerless, 20c ........ 04
Peerless, 40c ..... +. 4 08
Plaza, 2 gro. case ....5 76
Plow Boy, 5c ....... 5
Plow Boy, 10c
Plow Boy, 14 oz.
Pedro, 100 ..........
Pride of Virginia, isg? 13
Pilot, 7 oz. Gow. ...... 1 05
Queen Quality, 5c .... 48
Rob Roy, 10c gross ..10 52
Rob Roy, 25c¢ doz. .... 2 10
Rob Roy, 50c doz. .... 4 10

S. & M., 5c gross .... &

76

13

Rob Roy, 5c foil .... 5 76
S. & M., 14 oz., doz. .. 3 20
Soldier Boy, 5e gross 5 76
Soldier Boy, 10c .... 10 50

Star, BC 230.0... 5 16
mise, OC oe il, 52
stag, 8 oz. glass ot. © 20
Star, 90c elass ....... 8 40
Soldier Boy, 1 Tt. .... 4 76
Sweet Caporal, 1 oz. 60
Sweet Lotus, 5c .... 8 76
Sweet Lotus, 10¢ ...11 52
Sweet Lotus, per doz. 4 60
Sweet Rose, 24% oz. .. 38
Sweet Tip Top, 5c .. 50
Sweet Tip Top, 10c .. 1 00
Sweet Tips, % gro...10 08
Sun Cured, 0c .....-. 98
Summer Time, 5c . & 76
Summer Time, 7 oz... 1 65
Summer Time, 14 oz. 3 50
Standard, 5c foil . 5 76
Standard, 10c paper 8 4
Seal N. C. 1% cut plug 70
Seal N. C. 1% Gran... 63

Three Feathers, 1 oz. 48
Three Feathers, 10c 11 52
Three Feathers and

Pipe combination .. 2 26
Tom & Jerry, 14 oz. 3 60
Tom & Jerry, 7 oz. ..1 80

Tom & Jerry, 3 oz. .. 76
Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 76
Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags .. 48
Tuxedo, 2 oz. tins 96
Tuxedo, 20c ........- 90

Tuxedo, 80c tins .... 7 45
Tnion Leader. 5¢ 5
Union Leader. 10c

monch) oo... 11 52
Union Leader, ready .

PU oc ewe ces = - 52
Union Leader 50c box 5 10
War Path, Ge -..-..-- 6 00
War Path, 20c .....-- 1 60
Wave Line, 3 oz. .-.. 40
Wave Line, 16 oz. ...._ 40
Way up, 2% oz. .... 5 75

Wavy up, 16 02. pails os 7

 

Wild Fruit. oc ..-..- 6
Wild Fruit, 10c ...... 11 52
Yum Yum, 6c ........ § 76
Yum Yum, 10c ...... 11 52
Yum Yum. 1 th. doz. 4 80
TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply 25
Cotton, 4 ply 25
Jute, 2 ply 14
Hemp, 6 ply ..... .
Flax, medium
Wool 1 Th. bales ..... 10%
VINEGAR

White Wine, 40 grain 8%
White Wine, 80 grain 11%
White Wine, 100 grain 13

Oakland Vinegar & Pickle
Co.’s Brands
Highland apple cider 20
Oakland apple cider .. 16
State Seal sugar ..... 14
Oakland white pickle 10
Packages free.

WICKING
No. 0, per gross ...... 35
No. 1, per gross .... 45
No. 2, per gross .... 55
No. 8, per gross .... 80
WOODENWARE
Baskets

MuBneIs -.. 5... |: 1 00
Bushels, wide band .. 1 15
Market... vines. 40
Splint, large ........ 4 00
Splint, medium ...... 3 59
Splint, small ........ 3 00

illow, Clothes, large 8 00
Willow, Clothes, small 6 25
Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 25

Butter Plates
Ovals
% Tb., 250 in crate .... 35
% Itb., 250 in crate .... 35
i ib., 260 in crate ...... 40
2 ib., 250 in crate ...... 50
3 tD., 250 in erate ...... 70
5 ib., 250 In crate ...... 90
Wire End

1 tb., 250 in crate ...... 35
2 Tb., 250 in crate ...... 45
3 ib., 250 in crate ...... 55
5S Ib. 20 in erate ...... 65

Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2 55

Clothes Pins
Round Head
4% inch, 5 gross ..... 60
Cartons, 20 2% doz. bxs 65

14

Egg Crates and Fillers

Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20
No. 1 complete ....... 40
No. 2. complete ....... 28
Case No. 2, “— 15
sets ...... 1 35
Case, medium, ‘12 ‘sets 1
Faucets
Cork fined, 3 in 22... 70
Cork lined, 9 in. .... 80
Cork lined, 18 in. _....; 90
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring ......., 90
Eclipse patent spring 85
No. 1 common (2... 0... 85

No. 2, pat. brush holder 90
ideal No. 7 2:2... 90
12%. cotton mop heads 1 30

Palis
10 qt. Galvanized .... 2 75
12 gt. Galvanized .... 3 00
14 at. Galvanized _..| 3 25
Pibre: ...2.. 05... 3 00
Toothpicks

Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00
Ideal

Traps
Mouse, wood, 2 holes .. 22
Mouse, wood 4 holes .. 45
10 qt. Galvanized .... 1 55
12 qt. Galvanized .... 1
14 qt. Galvanized .... 1 90

 

Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65
Rat, ween. 2.0.0.0. 55.5. 80
Rot spring 22.050 0. 75
Tubs
No. 1 Fibre ......... 16 50
Ne. 2 fibre ....:...) 15 00
No. 3 Fibre ......... 13 50
Large Galvanized .. 10 00
Medium Galvanized .. 8 50
Small Galvanized .... 7 50
Washboards
Banner, Globe ....... 3 25
israss, Singles .....-. 4 75
Glass, Single ........ 3 60
Single Acme ........ 3 50
Double Peerless ...... 5 90
Single Peerless ...... 4 50
Northern Queen ..... 4 75
Double Duplex ...... 4 25
food Hnoueh ........ 4 50
Universal ............ 4 50
Window Cieaners
a2 in... sobs eee 1 65
14 in ieee. 1 85
M6 in 8. . 2 30
Weed Bowls
13 in. Butter ..... soe, aD
15 im, utter .......: 2 50
47 in. Butter ...;.... 4 75
49 in. Butter ........: 7 56
WRAPPING PAPER

Fibre Manila, white .. 4
Fibre, Manila, colored
No. 1 Manila ........ 4%

sutchers Manila .... 4
Wax Butter, short e’nt 10
Wax Butter, full c’nt 15
Parchm’t Butter, rolls 15

YEAST CAKE

Magic, 3 doz.
Sunlight, 3 doz. ul

Sunlight, 1% doz. .... 50
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. ..1 15
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85

CIGARS

Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand
Dutch Masters Club 70 09
Dutch Masters, Inv. 70 00
Dutch Masters, Pan. 70 00
Dutch Master Grande 68 00
Little Dutch Masters

300 lots) <2; 2... 10 00
Gee Jay (300 lots) ..10 00
El Portana ..... osss288 0
B. ©. We 255.2052. 82 00

Worden Grocer Co. Brands
Canadian Club

Londres, 60s, wood ....35
Londres, 25s tins ...... 35
Londres, 300 lots ...... 10

FNC OOP. UB

Car lots or local shipments,
bulk or sacked in paper or jute.
Poultry and stock charcoal.

M. O. DEWEY CO., Jackson, Mich.

     
   
      

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Gowans & Sons.

Dwinnell-Wright Brands Mystic White Borax 3 60
Oak Leaf, 100 cakes 2 75
Railroad, 120 cakes .. 2 25
DETROIT
Lautz Bros.’ & Co.
[Apply to Michigan, Wis-
consin and Duluth, ped
Acme, 70 pars |. 3. 3
Acme, 100 cakes, 5¢ sz 3 40
Jamo, 1 ob oe Acorn, 120 cakes - 2 40
Me ti "87 Cotton Oil, 100 cakes 6 00
Belle Isle, 1 Ib. pkg. 27 Cream Borax, 100 cks 3 90
inmearck. 1 i. ora ak Circus, 100 cakes 5c sz 3 75
vt i Dig. oo Climax, 100 oval cakes 3 05
a cae Gloss, 100 cakes, 5c sz 3 40
"oe Quallty 26°." 49 Big Master, 100 blocks 3 90
Mosan «25.2... cesses 28 Naphtha, 100 a 88
Quality, 20 1111772 ig tes 1 cokes. 20
pate J. G. a hate 37
erry Blossom Tea 37 Proctor & G
Telfer’s Ceylon ... 40 Lenox ne a
Ivory, 6 0Z. ..... ie
AXLE GREASE ivory, 10 oz. 20.05.) ey
White House, 1 ID. ....... Star .......... te

White House, 2 tb. .......
Excelsior, Blend, 1 tb.
Excelsior, Blend, 2 tb.
Tip Top Bland, 1 tb
Royal Blend Cece ceeec ae
Royal High Grade
Superior Blend

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See & Pride ...
ite Laundry ......

Wool, y 3 60
Wool,

Swift & Company
cesses 2 85

6 oz. bars 3
10 oz. bars .... & 5(

Tradesman Company

Boston Combination ee Sie sla . hs 2 50
J Distribu ack Hawk, five bxs 2 40
1 tb. boxes, per gross 870 Grocer a oe Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25
3 Ib. boxes, per gross 23 10 age & Cady, Detroit; Lee
Cady, Kalamazoo; Le Scouring
BAKING POW [in
 . aac Cty Co. Rasinaw; Bay certo Bross lots .. 9 50
Doz. City: Br mpany, Bay Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85
10c, 4 doz. in case ... 85 Warner, ‘Deke fs = Saeed hana mee

lbc, 4 doz. in case .. 125 mark, Durand & Co., Bat- Scourine, 50 cakes .. i 30

25c, 4 doz. in case .. 2.00 ash Creek; Fielbach Co., Scourine, 100 cakes .. 3 50

50c, 2 doz. plain top ..4 00 oledo. Queen Anne Scourer 1 62

80c, 1 doz. plain top 6 50

Soap Compounds

10 Yb. :
ae oa ee oo = SALT Johnson’s Fine, 48 2 3 25

jobbing point. ° ee oo 100 5c 4 00

; : u o-More ..... -. 8 85
Special Deal No. 1. NE we TNL

2 ace 1k te oe tee mane CAKES OR HARDEN Nine O'Clock ........ 3 50

12: doz, 260 2.62.2. 49 20 ry WASHING POWD
Barrel Deal No. 2 | M ERS.

3 doz. each 10, 15 and i ORTON? Lautz Bros.’ & Co.
250 a 32 80 et ee [Apply to Michigan, Wis-
With 4 dozen. 10c free j consin and Duluth, only]

% Barrel Deal No. 3. Ss a

6 doz. each, 10, 15 and ye new Pay
oe 24 60 100 pkgs., Se size ....3 75
With 3 dozen 10c free. ' 60 pkgs., 5¢ size ....2 40
Half-Barrel Deal No. 3 = oe

4 doz. each, 10, 15 and mC 24 pkgs., family size ..3 20
ie. 16 40 Sie a0 pkes., laundry size 4 00
With 2 doz. ide’ ‘tree. Naphtha
All barrels sold F. O. B 60 pkegs., 5 i 2 40

Chicago. Morton’s Salt io cee, ce 37

re q ‘ a pkgs., 5c size 75

Royal 5 case lote . 1 60 Gold Dust
24 large packages ....4 30
sl trea . cake 100 small packages ..3 §5
‘4,
6 ez cans 1 90 Detroit Soap Co. Queen Anne
%lb cans 250 Queen Anne, 100 cks 288 60 5c packages ...... 2 16
%1Ib cans 3756 Queen White, 100 cks 351 24 Packages ......... 3 3
itd cans 480 White Fleece, 50 cks 2 25 Oak Leaf
8Ib cans 13 @@ White Fleece, 100 cks 2 92 24 packages ........ 3 37
Sib cans 2158 White Fleece, 200 cks 2 25 100 5c packages ...... 3 37
FITZPATRICK BROTHERS’ SOAP CHIPS BBLS.

White City (Dish Washing)........ wees ece4.-....0810 Ibe. .....Se per Ip.

Tip Top Canatioy.. ois, ceesececccess.-200 Ibs....-.4c per lb.

No.1 Laundry 887 Dry |... 13 ...k ll... seeeeseee- 225 Ibs......5Mc per lb

Palm Soap S8% Dry... 2. ..2 16. seeee.s..-.-800 Ibs... ..6Xc per lb.

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FOOTE SJENKS’ Killarney (recistereo) Ginger Ale

(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 Botflers: A. L. JOYCE & SON, Grand Rapids and Traverse City, Mich.;
KALAMAZOO BOTTLING CO., Kalamazoo, Mich.; KILLARNEY BOTTLING CO., Jackson, Mich.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

FaCRC GNIS Selene tatet under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale—Good clean stock of drugs
and stationery in town of 12,500. 3usi-
ness established 40 years. W. H. Oakley,
Administrator, Ishpeming, Mich. 984

 

 

For Sale—A snap in. small ~ business
property at Baldwin, Wis., if taken at

once. Brick building 20 x 40, lot 387 x 100,
best located lot in the city, with stock
and fixtures all for $2,200. Business has
been in constant operation for 85 years,
and on account of sudden illness, must
be sold. Ask any traveling man visiting
Baldwin. Don’t delay this. Address
Lock Box 77, Baldwin, Wisconsin. 985
For Sale—Variety store consisting of
electrical goods, china, toys, ete. City
of 30,000 midway between Detroit and
Chicago on M. C. R. R. First-class lo-

 

cation, splendid room, attractive lease,
good reason. Must sell. Address No.
986, care Michigan Tradesman. 986

 

If you want to know how

| $11 wisely
invested

4 may make you a fortune, ad-
dress Frank P. Cleveland, 1100 Adams
Express Bldg., Chicago, Tlinois, 952

 

For Sale—Stock of merchandise known
as Peoples 5 and 10 cent store. Rent,
$50 per month. Stock will inventory
about $3,800. Will sell for eash or trade
for good farm. <A. B. Hedrick, Hastings,
Michigan. 979

 

For Sale or Exchange—Good 240-acre
farm in Lapeer county. Located on Flint
& Lapeer improved wagon road—5 miles

from Lapeer and 1% miles from Elba.
Would take residence or other income

property

> as part payment
lansing,

Jackson,

if located in
Detroit, Battle Creek,

Kalamazoo or Grand Rapids. Easy
terms on balance. Address O. M. Mc-
Laughlin, Nashville, Michigan. 980

For Sale—A good paying drug stock
and fixtures of approximately $3,000 in
a city of 18,000 population, business
section, excellent location; terms may be
made satisfactory: business now carried
on by administrator. Full particulars to
anyone meaning business. Max Kahn,
417 Moffat Bldg., Detroit, Mich. 982
ee ee eee ee

For Sale—Best srocery business in
Boyne City, Michigan. Reason, too much
work. Don’t answer this if you are
afraid of work. Address O. H. Burlew,
Boyne City, Michigan.

For Sale—Clean $4,000 stock hardware,
plumbing and tinning in connection in
live town and good farming center. Good
reasons for selling. Bargain if taken at
once. Address No. 990, care Tradesman.

a eee
_ The best home and three lots and barn
in one of the best locations in the city
to trade for a farm. Address Doctor,
care Tradesman. 00

Position Wanted—As salesman and
stock-keeper in clothing and shoes. Have
had 30 years’ experience. Understand
business thoroughly. Can speak German
and Polish. Can make friends and cus-
tomers easily. Not afraid of work. At
liberty to come at any time. Can furnish
best of references. Address No. 973, care
Michigan Tradesman. 973

Hotel For Sale—Park hotel, Algonac;
good bar in connection: would consider
3,000 in trade if right. M. E. Dickinson,
Algonac, Michigan. 974

 

 

 

 

For Sale For Cash—$10,000 stock dry
goods and notions. With an established
trade at 25 per cent. discount for quick
action. Would either sell or lease build-
ing the best corner location in town. Lo-
cated in one of the fastest growing coun-
ty seat towns in the State and in the
heart of the biggest lumber and naval
stores manufacturing section of the State.

Good _ schools, churches, water works,
Sewerage and cement sidewalks, Cheap
freight rates by rail or boat. If inter-

ested and mean business, address, Box
108, Panama City, Florida. 975
For Sale—Stock of general merchan-
dise consisting of clothing, shoes, dry
goods, groceries, etc. Stock will invoice
about $18,000. Location, growing town in
Wisconsin tributary to Minneapolis and
St. Paul. Will give terms on part. For
particulars address, The Minnesota Loan
and Trust Company, Trust Dept., Minne-
apolis, Minnesota. 97

 

 

For Sale—One quick repair shoe outfit,
or will sell separate. One combination
harness and shoe Champion stitcher, also
a good location for shoe shop.

Tuffs, Dexter, Michigan. 977

continuous insertion,

For Sale—One 30-arm Best rug rack
in good condition; arms 9 ft. long; holds
60 9x12 rugs. Price $50 f. o. b., Wnion-
town, Pa., Wright-Metzler Co. 965
ee eee eee

For Sale—Several rich copper mines,
now in operation. Also claims located
in Arizona, Good reason for selling.
Address P. O. Box 560, Kansas City,
Missouri. 931

 

For Sale—Owing to a dissolution of
partnership we offer our $3,500 stock of
hardware in one of the most progressive
new railroad towns in the Thumb district.
This is an exceptional opportunity.
Grimes & Waterman, Peck, Mich. 894

Special Sales Promoters.
duced or sold entirely.
Jackson, Michigan.

Stocks re-
Green Sales Co.,
967

 

Wanted To Exchange—For a farm,
shoe store doing fine business in West-
ern Michigan town, population 5,000, in-
cluding stock, fixtures and two. story
brick building in good location. Valua-
tion in exchange $4,500. Prefer farm in
Barry, Eaton or Ingham counties, and

near a larger town. Address No. 969,
care Tradesman. 969

 

 

 

For Sale—Store building in town twen-
ty miles from Grand Rapids on steam
and interurban railroads. Splendid loca-
tion for hustling business man. For
terms address E. E. Heazlit, 6025 Freret
St., New Orleans, Louisiana. 910

Wanted—Information regarding good
store for sale. Send description and
price. R. G. List, Minneapolis, Minn.

940

Patent For Sale—On small article used
in every household. Sold to 5 and 10
cent stores, etc. Write Robert J. Schulz,
1820 Mackinaw St., Saginaw, Mich. 954

Sale Or

 

 

Land For Exchange—New

. land will exchange for groceries or any

other goods that I can sell from my
store. C. A, Sullivan, Alma, Mich. 956

 

Wanted—Small iceless soda fountain.
Will H. Sewell, Perrinton, Mich. 958

 

Grocery Stock and Fixtures For Sale—
In one of the best cities in Michigan.
Good stock, new fixtures. Will sell or
rent building. I also have some land
that I will sell or trade for any stock
that I can sell from my store. @., .
Sullivan, Alma, Michigan. 957

For Sale—To

 

close estate, two-story
brick store. For quick sale price $5,000.
Central location. Exceptional business
opening for laundry or any other line of
business. No vacant buildings. In city
of 10,000. Address S, care Michigan
Tradesman. 960
For Sale—Stock of new, staple dry
goods and fixtures, old established busi-
ness, four years remaining of « cheap
rental, in central location of thriving
Michigan city of 25,000, where owner has
made good and desires to retire. In-
ventory over $30,000. Worth $40,000 now,
Will accept good offer. Address No. 961,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 961

For Sale Or Rent—One of the best lo-
cated buildings in one of the best towns
in Michigan, population 7,500. Owner re-
cently died. Right price, right terms to
responsible parties. No trades, no job-
bers. Address Sale or Rent, care Trades-
man. 962

To Exchange—Farm of 145 acres near
a thriving town for stock of general
merchandise or dry goods. Not a farmer
but in the dry goods business. Address
No. 968, care Tradesman. 963

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good opening for harness and _ shoe-
maker and repair shop at Dorr, Michigan.
Address Dorr Business Men’s Associa-
tion. 971

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Cash must acc

For Sale—Bakery and grocery in fast
growing town in new country recently
opened to settlement. County seat and
U. S. Land Office. Trading center for
large territory. Fine country. No com-
petition. No. 3 Middleby oven. 30x 95,
Timber Lake, So. Dakota. 945

Dee ae
For Rent—Retail store. One of best

locations in Dayton. Address United
Brethren Publishing House, Dayton,
Ohio. 939

 

 

Wanted—Hardware stock town 600 to
2,000 population. Must show good paying
business. Send all particulars first letter.
Address No. 948, care Tradesman. 948

Wanted For Cash—Clothing, shoes, or
a general stock. Ralph W. Johnson, Fort
Pierre, South Dakota. 893

 

Cash Registers—All makes, bought,
sold, exchanged and repaired. Leeds
Show Case & Fixture Works, Kansas

City, Missouri. 895

 

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—Remnant shoe stock of about

 

125 pairs. Address Box 347, Saranac,
Michigan. Sor
For Sale—First-class dry goods and

grocery store. Reason for selling is sick-
ness. Apply to John F. Lawler, Box 235,
Frackville, Pennslyvania. 875

Will pay cash for whole or part stocks
of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn, 101
Center Ave., Bay Citv. 757

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. 803

 

 

 

For Sale—One Landis harness machine
in good condition with both foot power
and power attachments. s110. J. EE.
Esch, Honor, Michigan. 953

For Sale—A good paying soundly es-
tablished painting and decorating busi-
ness; low rentage; store right on main
street; population, 3,700. For particulars
apply to Box 433, Harvard, Illinois. 923

 

Stocks Wanted—If you are desirous of
selling your stock, tell me about it. IT
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. 870

 

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

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

 

word for each subsequent
mpany all orders.

 

Auctioneer: Merchandise and real es-
tate auctioneering is my specialty. Mag-
nus Wangen, Hartland, Minnesota. 809

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

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, —

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The Detroit Mercantile Adjusters, coun-
selors and executors of high grade spe-
cial sales, 505 Whitney Bldzg., Detroit,
Michigan. 664

I pay cash for stocks or part stocks
of merchandise. Must be cheap. H.
Buyer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 925

HELP WANTED.

 

Wanted—Salesmen at once to fill

va-

cancy paying $3,000 annually. Enquire
m Y @, care FT nan. 981

 

 

 

Carpetmaker and Salesman.
Wanted—A competent carpetmaker who
has also had some experience as a carpet
and rug salesman. Give references and
experience. Quality Store, Ionia, Mich.
966

~ Wanted—All round | plumber, single
man preferred. M. W. Gee Co., Lowell,
Michigan. 914

Seer WATE

Wanted—Position

 

 

 

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cashier by young married man of best
references in every way Several years’
experience with wholesale grocer house
and large retail general merchandise
store. Address No. 987, care Tradesman.
987

“Position Wanted Young married man

with five years’ experience in the meat
business, as all around man. Small town
preferred. <A 1 references. Address No.
988, care Tradesman. 988

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Fancy Package Chocolates

 

 

 

For Sale—Building and bakery equip-
ment complete in new, growing town.
Address Home _ Bakery, Zephyrhills,
Florida. 930

 

Typewriter Wanted—I will trade for a
good second hand _ typewriter. Fred
Westall, Sumner, Illinois. 932

Floor Shirt Case Wanted—I will trade
for a good second hand floor case for
shirts. W. E, Spencer, Newton, Illinois.

 

 

 

For Sale—Retail lumber yard. Planing
mill and machinery in city of 15,000 pop-
ulation. Good territory, four railroads,
good shipping facilities. Address H. T.
Robins, Chillicothe, Ohio. 934

 

For Sale—Meat market located in
Southern Michigan town of 1,600 popu-
lation. Market fully equipped, refriger-
ator plant, etc. Address No. 929, care
Michigan Tradesman. 929

Wanted — Steel range riveters and
mounters, pattern filers; also stove plate
molders, floor bench and squeezer; steady
work; no trouble; good wages. Fox Fur-
nace Co., Elyria, Ohio. 935

 

National Candy Company, Inc.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

For Easter Trade

Replenish your stock now with

Putnam’s ‘‘Double A’”’ Chocolates and
Lowney’s Crest Chocolates

Arrange for a window trim
We will furnish the material for the asking

Distributors J. Hungerford Smith Co.’s Soda Fountain Fruits and Syrups

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BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.

 

Proceedings in the Western District

of Michigan.

Grand Rapids, March 14—The Adams
Coal Co., Ionia has filed a voluntary peti-
tion in bankruptcy, adjudication has been
made and the matter referred to Referes
Wicks. The schedules of the bankrupt
show that all of the assets were disposea
of under trust mortgage prior to bank-
ruptey. The following are shown as crea-
itors of the bankrupt:

Secured.

National Bank of Ionia ........ $2,111.65
James H. Laverrock, Owosso . 705.00
New River & Ohio Coal Co.,

(Charleston, W. Va. ....-...... 305.75
>. MM. 220.88

106.00
47.65

Consumers Ice Co., Grand Rapids

Commercial Coal Co., Detroit ....
Unsecured.

Peroy Heilmer & Son, Cincinnati $ 200.97

Hewett, Bigelow & Brooks, Detroit 284.13

Smokeless Fuel Co., Cincinnati 437.27
fonia Laimber Co., fonia ........ 40.00
J. Hale & Sons, tonia ............ 31.05
Ionia Hardware Co., Ionia ...... 37.94
Enamel Steel Sign Co., Chicago .. 18.96

March 16—Harry Ranford, Ionia, has

filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy,
adjudication has been made and the mat-
ter referred to Referee Wicks. First
meeting of creditors called for April 3,
at which time creditors may appear,
prove their claims, elect a trustee, if
desired, and transact such other business
as may properly come before the meet-
ing. The schedules show that the bank-
rupt has no assets not claimed as exempt
and the following are shown as crea-

itors:

i.. W. Smith, Grand Rapids ....$ 15.006
Elvert M. Davis, Grand Rapids .. 10.00
State Savings Bank, Ionia ...... 208.72
Maude L. Lee, Plymouth ....... - 162.43
William K. Noble, Fort Wayne 2,500.06

March 18—In the matter of the Charles
E. Norton Co., Grand Rapids, the final
order for distribution was entered this
date providing for payment of the finat
dividend of 935 per cent. and final ada-
ministration expenses. The trustee has
been instructed to pay the dividend at
the expiration of ten days in case nu
appeals shall have ‘been taken by thar
time. This estate paid a previous first
dividend of 10 per cent., making total
dividend 19%5 per cent.

March 22—In the matter of John S.
Kamhout, bankrupt, Holland, the final
meeting of creditors has been called for
April 3. The final report and account
of the trustee filed in the office of tne
referee reveals total receipts for the sale
of all assets, $699.70; disbursements m
payment of bankrupt’s exemptions, $250,
and a balance on hand of $449.70.

March 23—-In the matter of Martin B.
Wilber, the trustee has filed his final re
port and account showing total receipts
of $453.78, disbursements of $266.99 for
administration expenses and bankrupt’s
exemptions paid in cash, and a balance
on hand of $186.79, and the final meeting
of creditors has been called for April 4,
at which time the final dividend will be
paid.

In the matter of Ida Mathews, bank-
rupt, Edmore, the trustee has filed his
final report and account showing totai
receipts of $365, disbursements of $176.02

and a balance on hand of $188.98. The
final meeting of creditors has been
called for April 5, at which time tne

final dividend will be
dered paid.

In the matter of the Holland Rod Co.,
bankrupt, Holland, the trustee has filed
his final report and account showing
total receipts of $1,197.55, disbursements
of $489.96 and a balance on hand of
$707.59. The final meeting of creditors
has been called for April 6, at whicn
time the final dividend to creditors will
be declared and ordered paid. This es-
tate has heretofore paid a first dividend
of 5 per cent.

March 27—In the matter of Clarence
R. French, bankrupt, Ludington, tne
first meeting of creditors was held this
date. Claims were allowed. The receiv-
er made a verbal report which was ayp-
proved, and the receiver discharged.
Perry Barker, Grand Rapids, was electea
trustee. Appraisers were appointed and
it is expected that a sale will soon be
consummated.

In the matter of Claud W.. Barry,
bankrupt, Harrietta, the trustee has filed
a report showing the sale of various of
the assets, including the stock of grv-
ceries, drugs and hardware, fixtures,
automobile, etc., for $1,809. The sale has
been confirmed.

declared and or-

—~»+-+___
Manufacturing Matters.
Holland—The Peerless Manufactur-
ing Co. has engaged in business to
manufacture table lamps, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $4,000,
of which amount $2,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.
Detroit—The Austin & Raup Co. has
been organized to manufacture, buy and
sel] merchandise, with an authorized

capitalization of $20,000, all of which
has been subscribed, $1,000 paid in in
cash and $19,000 paid in in property.

Detroit—The Michigan Parfay Co.
has incorporated to engage in the
manufacturing of syrups, etc., with an
authorized capitalization of $100,000,
of which amount $50,000 has been
subscribed and $10,000 paid in in cash.

Lansing—The McCormick Manu-
facturing Co, has engaged in the man-
ufacture of harness supplies with an
authorized capital stock of $4,000, all
of which has been subscribed and $500
paid in in cash and $3,000 paid in in
property.

Detroit—The Pressnall Furniture
Co. has been organized with an au-
thorized capitalization of $7,000 com-
mon and $3,000 preferred, of which
amounts $6,000 common and $1,000
preferred has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Saginaw—The estate of Henry Pas-
solt, manufacturer of soaps, has been
merged into a stock company under
the style of the Passolt Co. with an
authorized capital stock of $24,000.
of which amount $18,000 has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Peoples Soda Manu-
facturing Co. has engaged in business
to manufacture soda water and other
soft drinks with an authorized capital-
ization of $5,000, all of which has
been subscribed, $700 paid in in cash
and $2,605 paid in in property.

Detroit—The Moore Container Co.
has engaged in the manufacturer of
containers and pulp wood and paper
products, with an authorized capital
stock of $15,000, of which amount
$11,000 has been subscribed, $2,375
paid in in cash and $6,000 paid in in
property.

———_>2>—___

Assets in Excess of Liabilities.

Walter H. Brooks has returned from
Wexford, where he spent a week in get-
ting in touch with the facts regarding
Conine & Son, who recently uttered a
trust mortgage on their mercantile
stocks at Wexford and Interlochen and
their bank at Wexford. The assets of
the estate are as follows:

Merchandise .... 6.0.52) .12 $22,400.
Store fixtures ............_. 3,399
Accounts receivable ........ 3,800
Balls neceivable ..02 7,600
Real estate (-2 0. 10,700
Bank fixtures .....-........ 1,445
iol $49,344
The liabilities are as follows:
Total indebtedness ........ $41.994
Real estate mortgage ...... 2,550
Potaj .. 0... $44,541

Mr. Brooks in sanguine he can pay
the creditors dollar for dollar, on account
of the good condition of the mercantile
stocks and the character of the loans
made by the bank. No attempt will be
made to continue the banking business,
which will be disposed of by the trustee
to the first available purchaser. Mr;
Conine is anxious to continue the mer-
cantile business at both locations and
will be given every opportunity to do so.

+.

The capital stock of the Atlanta
Coaster Co. has been increased from
$3,000 to $22,500.

BANKRUPTCY SALE.

In the District Court of the United
States for the Western District
of Michigan, Southern Divi-
sion,

In the matter of Charles E. Gray,

bankrupt:

Notice is hereby given that in accord-
ance with the order of this Court. I
shall sell at public sale to the highest
bidder at the store of the bankrupt, 110
Portage street, in the city of Kalamazoo,
Michigan, at 9:00 o’clock a. m. on Tues-
day, April 4, 1916, the assets of said
bankrupt estate, which consist of a
stock of gents furnishing goods, cloth-
ing, etc., inventoried and appraised at
$3,686.29; fixtures inventoried and ap-
praised at $495.70 and accounts receiv-
able appraised at $200.00; also the un-
divided one-half interest of said bank-
rupt in the partnership firm of Charles
FE. Gray and Perry M. Atkins, doing a
general dry goods business at 1322 Por-
tage street, in the said city of Kalama-
zoo, and which interest of said bankrupt
in said firm of Gray & Atkins is in-
ventoried and appraised at the sum of
$4,103.43; also certain personal property,
consisting of horses, cows, calves, pigs,
one bull, wagon, buggy, Jackson touring
car. farm implements, etc., on the forty
acre farm operated by the bankrupt near
the said city of Kalamazoo and inven-
toried and appraised at $885.00. Copies
of the inventory and appraisement may
be seen at the office of the undersigned
Referee in Bankruptcy, St. Joseph,
Michigan.

Said sale will be for cash and subject
to confirmation by the Court or District
Judge. Willard J. Banyon.

——_—__+- >
Another Chain Store System Fails.

Battle Creek, March 27—A trust
mortgage, covering the stocks and
fixtures of the five Peoples Cash gro-
ceries in Battle Creek, owned by the
A. J. Kyes Grocery Co. has been filed
by Frank H. Bowen of Kalamazoo,
sales manager of Lee & Cady as trus-
tee under the mortgage. i

The Keys Co, has been conducting
five cash groceries in Battle Creek at
the following places: 154 South Jef-
ferson avenue; 15 South Jefferson; 63
East Main street; 420 W est Main
street, and one at Washington
Heights. Some of these stores, if not
all, will probably be sold out by the
trustee under the mortgage.

A. J. Kyes is Treasurer of the com-
pany, Harry Kyes is President and
Albert Kissinger is Secretary.

Liabilities, according to the trust
mortgage, total $16,661.64, with assets
between $8,000 and $9,000.

Most of the creditors are out-of-
town wholesale concerns, the larg-
est of which is the Overmyer Co., of
Toledo, which has a claim of $2,790.
August Kapp holds a $3,000 note, while
A. J. Kyes himself has notes listed
to the extent of $4,400 on money
which he loaned the company. Ar-
mour & Company are down for $320,
and the Cornell Co., of Jackson for
$950.

a ;
Cops Pinch Grocer At Bible Meeting.

Owosso, March 28—There was some-
thing like consternation, when, while
the Galilean men’s class of the First
M. E. church was holding its regular
meeting last night, Constable Frank
Forster and Patrolman William Ful-
ler entered the church and served a
warrant on Herbert Hawcroft, a lo-
cal grocer. The tension was eased
when it was announced that Haw-
croft was charged with desertion and
non-support of the class.

Then by pre-arrangement of a few,

the class meeting resolved itself into
the session of a court. Rev. Hartley
Cansfield, the pastor, received Haw-
croft’s plea of not guilty, a jury of
twelve men was impanelled and
Harvey Thomas and City Clerk Du-
mond were designated prosecuting at-
torneys, while John Hughes and
Worthy Cooper defended the alleged
culprit. The jurors were sworn to
give no consideration to the evidence
in deciding the case and the dozen
witnesses took oath to disregard the
truth as much as possible.

Hawcroft endeavored to show in
mitigation that he had been absent
from class meetings because of an ul-
cerated tooth, a sick horse and for
other reasons of about equal impor-
tance. However, after Judge Cans-
field had delivered what is termed a
scholarly charge to the jury, it soon
returned a verdict of guilty and the

prisoner was sentenced to pay 50 cents.

into the treasury and to attend meet-
ings constantly for the next two
months.

Be Cordial.

It costs nothing to give a hearty
handshake and a happy smile, and how
well it pays to go just a little out of
one’s way to perform some act of
kindness and show a little courtesy
to everyone with whom you come in
contact! And nothing pleases a cus-
tomer so much as to let him feel that
you are really interested in him. It
makes no difference whether the cus-
tomer is a poor laboring man or how
shabbily dressed he may be, or wheth-
er he is a man of means. The act
of kindness will please and the prin-
ciple is the same.

Butter, Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes.

Buffalo, March 29—Creamery but-
ter, extras, 3514@36c; first, 34@34Mc;
common, 32@33c; dairy, common to
choice 24@32c; poor 20@23c.

Cheese—Fancy, new, 17%c; choice,
17@17%c.

Eggs—Choice, new laid, 20)3@2Ic;
fancy, 22@23c. :

Poultry (live)—Chicks per lb. 18@
20c; cox, 12@13c; fowls, 18@20c;
ducks, 18@20c; geese, 14@15c.

_ Poultry (dressed)—Chicks, 18@2I1c;
fowls, 18@20c; ducks, 18@2ic.

Beans—Medium _ $3.80; pea, $3.75;
Red Kidney, $4.75@5; White Kidney,
$5: Marrow, $4.75@5.

Potatoes—$1.10@1.15 per bu.

Rea & Witzig.

Eggs,

——_>+>—___.

Thomas J. Kryder, who conducts an
implement, repair goods and grocery
store at the corner of Main and Eck-
man streets, South Bend, Ind., in re-
newing his subscription to the Michigan
Tradesman, writes: “I cannot do busi-
ness without such a valuable weekly
bulletin board. I do not know what
others think of your paper, but for me
I don’t know of any better. Long may
it and its editor live is my hearty wish.”

——__2++.—____

Ted Smith has resigned his position
of manager of the Ransom Bros. gro-
cery, at Madison Square, and formed
a copartnership with his brother, Paul
H., and purchased the H. B. Elhart gro-
cery and meat stock at 1071 Lafayette
avenue. They will continue the business
under the style of Smith Bros.

—_+++__

The Wilmington Coaster Co. has in-
creased its capital stock from $3,000 to
$22,500.

 

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chanic, a location in thriving town of
5,000 to 15,000 inhabitants, for a plumb-
ing and heating shop. Would consider
buying an established business. Address
E. B. Rockwell, 33 Michigan St., N. E.,
Grand Rapids. 991

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and with NO DANGER WHATEVER TO THE PATIENT. Our
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PRACTICE IN THE WORLD in this line. Our treatment is NO
EXPERIMENT but is the MOST SUCCESSFUL METHOD EVER
DISCOVERED FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF
THE RECTUM. We have cured many cases where the knife failed
and many desperate cases that had been given up to die. WE
GUARANTEE A CURE IN EVERY CASE WE ACCEPT OR
MAKE NO CHARGE FOR OUR SERVICES. We have cured
thousands and thousands from all parts of the United States and
Canada. We are receiving letters every day from the grateful people
whom we have cured telling us how thankful they are for the won-
derful relief. We have printed a book explaining our treatment and
containing several hundred of these letters to show what those who
have been cured by us think of our treatment. We would like to
have you write us for this book as we know it will interest you and
may be the means of RELIEVING YOUR AFFLICTION also.
You may find the names of many of your friends in this book.

We are not extensive advertisers as we depend almost wholly
upon the gratitude of the thousands whom we have cured ‘for our
advertising. You may never see our ad again so you better write
for our book today before you lose our address.

DRS. BURLESON & BURLESON

RECTAL SPECIALISTS
150 East Fulton St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NUMBER Building a Better Business

a A)

FRANKLIN |
ere teas) By sticking to the things that are true and
SUGAR

tried—the things that have established them-

selves in public favor through honest value—
The head of Franklin is the famous

sugar trade-mark, known to consumers S h dd d Wh
everywhere as the brand that insures r C e eat
Purity and Quality, and equally as well

: ‘ . ‘lion h
known in the grocery trade as the brand has established itself in a million homes as the

f that j t i 4 th cleanest, purest, most nutritious of all cereal
ot sugar that 1s most popular an ere-

g acs foods. Get in touch with the home and you
will keep a fresh stock of Shredded Wheat

Our Trade-Mark is your guarantee always on hand.
that FRANKLIN CARTON SUGAR is
Full Weight and made from Sugar Cane. ; se ‘ . The Biscuit is packed in odorless spruce wood

cases which may be easily sold for 10 or 15
cents, thereby adding to the grocer’s profits.

fore easiest to sell.

Original containers hold 24, 48, 60 and 120 lbs.

Made only by

The FRANKLIN SUGAR REFINING COMPANY The Shredded Wheat Co., Niagara Falls, N. Y.
PHILADELPHIA -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grocers’
Refrigerators

| Their construction is scientific. It provides
'§ fora constant, rapid circulation of cold dry air

 

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through every compartment. All impurities and
odors are carried off through the water sealed
drain pipe.

McCray Refrigerators are used and preferred in the country’s finest and best groceries. Their
supremacy has. been maintained for over 30 years.

We make an extensive range of styles and sizes of grocer display refrigerators and cases which are already
built, arranged for either ice or mechanical refrigera-
tors. Or, if you desire our expert draughtsman will
design a refrigerator to meet your exact needs and to
conform to any store arrangements.

 

Write To-day for Catalog

No 70—For Grocers and Delicatessens No. 61—For Meat Markets and General Storage
No. 92—For Residences No. 50—For Hotels and Restaurants

McCray Refrigerator Co., 644 Lake St., Kendallville, Ind.
Detroit Salesrooms, 239 Michigan Ave.
Agencies in all principal cities