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GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY,

 

SE PTEMBER og. 1885.

 

NO, 103.

 

5A, WELLING

WHOLESALE

MEN'S FURNISHING GO0D3

Limberman’s Supplies
FISHING TACKLE

a AND

NOTIONS!

PANTS, OVERALLS, JACKETS, SHIRTS,
LADIES’ AND GENTS’ HOSIERY, UNDER-
WEAR, MACKINAWS, NECKWEAR, SUS-
PENDERS, STATIONERY, POCKET CUT-
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK-
ERS’ SUNDRIES, HARMONICAS, VIOLIN
STRINGS, ETC.

Particular attention given to orders by
Good shipped promptly to any point.

 

 

 

 

 

mail.

I am represented on the road bv the fol-
lowing well-known travelers: John D.
Mangum, A. M. Sprague, John H. Eacker,
L. R. Cesna and A. B. Handricks.

24 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

KEMINK, JONES & GU,

Manufacturers of
Fine Perfumes,
Colognes, Hair Oils,
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders,
Bluings, Btc., Htc.

 

ALSO PROPRIETORS OF
T= EIAeErN EL’s

“Red Bark Bitters”

—AND—

The Oriole Manulactaring Co

78 West Bridge Street,

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN.

BATON & CHRISTENSON,

Agents for a full line of

SW. Venable & G0.

PETERSBURG, VA.,

PLUG TOBACCOS,

NIMROD,
i. ©.,
eeue RETER,
SPREAD EAGLE,
BiG FIVE E CENTER.

Many a Good Business Man
Hardworking Traveling Man

IS KEPT BACK BY A
Sickly Wife or Ailing Daughters.
To such men the book on ‘‘Woman’s Na-
ture” published by the Zoa-phora Medicine Co.
would be invaluable.
Price only 10c to cover postage.
Address

 

 

Zoa-phora Medicine Co., Kalamazoo, M

 

Mention this paper.
CIDER

PREM VINEGAR!

Warranted to Keep Pickles,

Celebrated for its PURITY, STRENGTH
and FLAVOR. The superiority of this
article is such that Grocers who handle it
find their sales of Vinegar increased. Needs
but a trial to insure its use in any house-
hold. PREMIUM VINEGAR WORKS,
290 FIFTH AV., CHICAGO.

Premium Vinegar can always be found at M.
C. Russell's, 48 Ottawa street.

ESCcoTTs

ky ly Paper.

Better than Ever.

‘Order through any Jobber in
the City or from

EMUOTT, 75 GANAL ov.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.

The Genuine says ‘“* ESCOTT’S,” and is printed
on fine white paper.

 

 

SHERWOOD HALL. MARTIN L. SWEET.

ESTABLISHED 1865.

Brown, Hall & C0.

JOBBERS OF

Wool Robes,

ur Robes,
Horse Blankets,

Write for Special Prices.

Nos. 20 and 22 Pearl st., Grand Rapids.

ALBERT GOVE & DOM},

MANUFACTUREBS OF

AWNINGS, TENTS,

HORSE AND WAGON COVERS.
, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Oiled Clothing, Ducks, Stripes, Etc.
State Agents for the

 

 

 

 

Watertown Hammock Support.
SEND FOR PRICES.

73 Canal Street, - Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

DRYDEN & PALMER'S
ROCHE CANDY.

Unquestionably the best in the market. As
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond.
Try a box.

TSohn Caulfield,

Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.

STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

STANLEY WN. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE ON
CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express promptly at-
tended to.

UG. A VOGT & Ob.

Proprietors of the

Itt

Manufacturers of the following pop-
°
war brands of Flour,

 

 

  

“STAR”

“GOLDEN SHEAF,”
LADIEY DELIGHT,”
And “OUR PATENT,”

Parties in want should

SER} \ write to or see the

(RAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED C0,

Tl CANAL STRERT.

 

earry a full line of
Seeds of every variety,
both for field and garden.

 

 

TO THE TRADE.

We desire to cail the attention of the Trade to
our unusually complete stock of

SCHOOL BOOKS,

SCHOOL SUPPLIES,

And a General Line of Miscellaneous
Books, Stationery, Paper, Etc.

We have greatly increased our facilities for
doing ia General Jobbing Business, and shall
hereafter be able to fill all orders promptly.

We issue separate lists of Slates, School and
Township Books, Blanks, Etc., which will be
mailed on application.

Quotations on any article in our stock cheer-
fully furnished. We have the Agency of the

REMINGTON TYPE WRITER
For Western Michigan.

EATON & LYON,

20 and 22 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
*

that time.

 

GRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE.

Rise and Progress of an Important Indus-
try.
NO. IL.
rpenter in Trade Bureau.

In the preceding article we traced the
growth of the furniture manufacture in
Grand Rapids from its earliest beginnings
in 1847 to the time when C. C. Comstock
took possession of the stock in trade and
manufacturing plant of the Winchester
Bros., in September, 1857. The identifica-
tion of Mr. Comstock’s name with the fur-
niture business during this period was an
oceurrence of considerable importance, as
was demonstrated by the events which fol-
lowed.

Soon after Mr. Comstock purchased the
Winchester Bros.’ establishment came the
great financial crisis of October, 1857, which
ruined thousands of manufacturers and cap-
italists, destroyed confidence, and paralyzed
industry.

The infant furniture business suffered
greatly, of course, in this universal chaos.
The depression continued from 1857 to 1862,
with no material change for the better. Mr.
Comstock relates the following incident as
illustrative of the status of the industry at
‘For a time I had but two com-
petitors, and unless what they told of each
other was untrne, their reputation for good
goods was not very high. One of these
manufacturers, it was said, sold a bureau
which fell to pieces while it was being cart-
ed across the bridge. The indignant pur-
chaser returned the wreck to the ware-
rooms, and was met by the proprietor, who
looked complacently on the disintegrated
article of furniture, and remarked to his
customer: ‘All right; take another one,
and don’t handle too roughly.’ My other
competitor if was alledged, sold a number
of chairs toa man in the country. <A few
days afterward the purchaser came back
and reported that he had brought the chairs
back —he had no further use.for them. The
proprietor in an excited manner, demanded
the cause of the customer's dissatisfaction,
and asked him where the chairs were. ‘The
answer was, ‘I have them here in a bag.’ ”

Up to the spring of 1861 the market for
Grand Rapids furniture was confined almost
wholly to Grand Rapids and the then unde-
veloped region of Western Michigan. No
attempts had been made to invade the mar-
kets of the world. The future manufactur-
ing greatness of the city was undreamed of.
Early in that year Mr. Comstock began to
seek other markets f for his goods. Heman-
ufactured a line of cheap chamber suites,
and had little difficulty in disposing of them
in Milwaukee, Chicago and other markets.
Thus encouraged, Mr. Comstock in the fall
of 1861 established a branch house at
Peoria, Ul., which proved to be very suc-
eessful, and which, under other manage-
ment and ownership, is in existence at the
present time. Beginning to realize in some
degree the possibilities of Grand Rapids as
a furniture producing center, Mr. Comstock
erected in the fall of 1861, a large addition
to his factory. He did this, as he says,
against the advice of many of his best
friends, who did not believe it would be
possible to dispose profitably of so large an
output as his increased facilities would give.
Mr. Comstock, however, knew a little more
about his own business than his over-cau-
tious friends were able to tell him. Inthe
face of all counter advice he fitted up his
new factory with the best machinery he
could obtain, and early in the spring of
1862 he was prepared to manufacture double
the quantity of fnrniture turmed out during
the preceeding year. This enlargement of
facilities proved to be very remunerative.
Sales rapidly increased, and under the
stimulus of an active demand and the high
prices which prevailed a marked improve-
ment in the quality of goods manufactured
took place. Mr. Comstock had in his em-
ploy at that time a number of men who
have since achieved fortune and distinction.
Among these were Elias Matter, now a
member of the firm of Nelson, Matter &
Co., one of the leading furniture manufac-
turing concerns of Grand Rapids; A. B.
Pullman, one of the brothers who have built
up colossal fortunes in the manufacture and
operation of railway sleeping coaches; the
Widdicomb brothers whose names are now
well known throughout the country in con-
nection with the Widdicomb Furniture Co.
of this city. To the skill and faithfulness
of his employes Mr. Comstock attributes in
a large degree the success which attended
his operations at this period. :

In October, 1862 Mr. Mather left Mr.
Comstock’s employ and formed a copartner-
nership with Julius Berkey. This partner-
slip was the foundation of the Berkey &
Gay Furniture Co., which has since become
known
member of the firm possessed much capital,
but both had what was of infinitely more
importance, practical experience, personal
integrity, and indomitable energy and deter-
mination. ‘They began operations in a com-
paratively modest way, but their business
rapidly increased, and _ they enlarged their
facilities as the demands of trade required.
They conducted an exclusively wholesale
business. William A. Berkey—a brother of
one of the members of the firm—was admit-

Theo. M. Cz

throughout the world. Neither

 

ted to a partnership in 1863, and George W.
Gay came in the year 1866. Wm. A. Ber-
key retired from the firm in 1872
founded the Pheenix Furniture Co., to which
more extended reference will be made later
on in this history.

In October 1863, Mr. Comstock sold to
Messrs. James N. and Ezra T. Nelson each

a quarter interest in his establishment, and
the firm name became Nelson, Comstock &
Co., Mr. Comstock’s interest being rep-
resented by his son, T. A. Comstock. In
1865 Messrs. James A. Pugh and Manley
G. Colson, who were then foremen respect-
ively in the factory and finishing depart-
ment, purchased each a one-eighth interest
in the establishment from C. C. Comstock,
and the other quarter interest was sold to
T. A. Comstock. The latter died in 1870,
and his interest was purchased by Elias
Matter. The firm name then became Nel-
son, Matier & Co., a name which has since
become known to the furniture trade in al-
most every part of the civilized world.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the
firm of Nelson, Matter & Co., is entitled to
the honor of being the oldest furniture man-
ufacturing establishment, though not the
first, in Grand Rapids. We have seen how
two mammoth institutions had their origin
in the efforts of skilled mechanies, with lit-
tle save their pluck and enterprise to back
them. The other great furniture manufac-
tories are of later growth, though none the
less lusty because of their fewer years. In
the next chapter will be given brief sketches
of the principal corporations and firms en-
gaged in the manufacture of furniture in
Grand Rapids, from the organization of each
to the present time.

NOS. IIT. AND IY.

This portion of Mr. Carpenter’s history
relates entirely to individual establishments,
which are treated in a biographical manner.
The matter is omitted, for obvious reasons.

NO. V.

In preceding articles we have traced the
growth of individual firms and corporations
engaged in the manufacture of furniture at
Grand Rapids. We have seen how from
small and apparently unpromising begin-
nings, these establishments have grown in-
to a world-wide reputation, vastly outstrip-
ping the growth of the city in which they
are located, and raising it from an obscure
inland town of the Michigan wilderness to a
position of importance in the manufacturing
sense such as is enjoyed by no other city of
equa’ population in the world. For to-day
the name of Grand Rapids is known
throughout the world, and the fact that this
isso is directly traceable to the growth and
influence of her furniture manufactures,
which have won recognition in all markets.
We have heretofore traced the progress of
individual and corporate enterprises. It is
appropriate that, in closing this series of ar-
ticles, we shquld consider the furniture in-
dustry of Grand Rapids as an interger, by
which means we shall better be able to ar-
rive at an adequate understanding of its
extent and importance.

For obvious reasons it is very difficult, if
not impossible, to obtain exact figures as to
the total product of the several manufactur-
ing concerns in any given year. To what
extent it is politic for the unofficial statisti-
cian to invade the domain of private busi-
ness is a question which involves too many
delicate considerations for hasty determina-
tion. But facts and figures which are mat-
ters of record may be published without the
violation of any confidence, and with detri-
ment to no interests.

Previous to the year 1865 the total furni-
ture manufactures of Grand Rapids were
so small as to be uninteresting. The city
had not then attained to any importance as
a manufacturing center, and few of the men
then engaged in the business had any idea
of the vastness of the interests that were to
grow up within the next two decades. From
the federal assessment books it appears that
for the year ending December 31, 1865, the
total value of the furniture manufactured in
Grand Rapids was $124,008. The total
number of firms engaged in the manufacture
of furniture was six, and the names of the
same, with the amounts of their products,
were as given below:

 

Comstock, Nelson & Co............+-- $66,356
Berkey Bros. & Co..........-.-..-.--- 37,053
Buddington & Turnham. . _........ 14,447
Norton & Haldane.................-+- 3,140
Airis WIGCIGOIID. . - 65. cece Sree ese. 8s 2,089
eA WAGON. soo oce. oss ae ee ee ee 923

opel eek eel ee $124,008

These six concerns employed a total of
150 to175 men. In addition to the goods
manufactured by them, some of the firms
handled furniture bought in Eastern mar-
kets. Comstock, Nelson & Co. engaged
the most extensively in this line of a
selling during the year named, about
000 worth of goods not manufactured in
their own establishment.

From the discontiiuance of the federal
assessment up to 1880 the writer has been
unable to obtain any trustworthy data rela-
tive to the total amount of furniture manu-
factured in Grand Rapids. No records have
been kept, and the census returns of 1870
are not sufficiently specialized to afford the
information sought. It is certain, however,
that during this period a steady growth was
maintained. This growth was most marked
between 1875 and 1880, and continued with

$25,-

and |

 

little abatement until 1882, since whieh time
as no cne needs to be informed, a general!
industrial depression has prevailed, check- |
ing the development of all enterprises
the growth of manufactures. Yet, not- |
withstanding the prevailing depression, the |
industry has shown a material increase dur-
in the past three years, the total, product
each year being considerably larger than for |
the year preceding.

From the report of the special
pointed to gather statistics relative to
manufacturing interests of Grand Rapids
for the census of 1880, it appears that there
were in that year a total of twenty-nine es-
tablishments devoted to the manufacture of
furniture. The amount of capital invested
was $1,778,456. The average. number of
persons employed was 2,782, whose annual
wages amounted to $961,037—an average of
a little less than $350 each per annum. The
value of the material used was $1,256,713,
and the value of the product was $2,792,-
784— or, in round numbers, $3,000,000. The
population of Grand Pee in 1880, as
given in the census returns, was 32,016. As
an aid to the proper ee of the sig-
nificance of the figures given above, it may
be stated that during the same year Phila-
delphia, Chicago and Cincinnati each pro-
duced about $7,000,000 worth of furniture.
Philadelphia had a population of 847,170,
and 200 furniture manufacturing establish-
ments; Chicago had a population of 503,185,
and 114 establishments; and Cincinnati had

agent ap-

the

a population of 255,139, and 113 establish-
ments.
In May, 1885, Mr. H. D. Van Asmus,

secretary of the Grand Rapids Furniture
Manufacturers’ Association, prepared a re-
port embracing a detailed statement of the
capital, products and number of men em-
ploped in the furniture and kindred manu-
facturing interests of Grand Rapids. In
this report the secretary appears not to have
aimed at actual precision in the figures
given, but to have dealt in round numbers
for the most part. Yet the figures may be
taken as approximately correct—a _ fact
which is sufficiently guaranteed by the
official character of the compilation. From
the secretary’s report it appears that Grand
tapids now contains thirty-eight establish-
ments devoted to the manufacture of furni-
ture and furniture supplies. These thirty-
eight establishments, according to the seec-
retary’s figures, operate upon an aggregate
eapital of $4,395,000. Their annual sales
amounted to $4,825,000. The total number
of men employed is 5,583, and they receive
wages to the amount of $7,160 per day, or
$2,241,080 annually. The fact that round
numbers instead of exact figures were used |
in the secretary’s compilation necessarily
tended to inerease the totals somewhat be-
yond the actual facts of the case. But,
making a liberal allowance for any and all
over-statements that may have been made,
it is still apparent that the furniture indus-
try of Grand Rapids has shown a healthy | é
and almost uninterrupted ratio of
during the past twenty year

The report of secretary Vv: an Asmus was
a surprise to many manufacturers who have
given thought to the subject, in that it es-
tablished the fact that even during these
later years of depression the industry has
gone on increasing at quite a rapid rate. If
so steady a rate of inerease is to be main-
tained during periods of wide-spread inac-
tion. what may be expected when the clouds
shall have been dissipated in the genial sun-
light of reviving activity?

What will be the future of
industry of Grand Rapids? No man can
tell. Its possibilities are almost infinite.
Its prospects, all things considered, are
brilliant. All the conditions that have con-
tributed to its development in the past are
still existent. With the impetus it has ac
quired, and the prestige it has won, it oecu-
pies a vantage ground for future achieve-
ments whieh should assure uninterrupted
development and the highest degree of pros-
perity.

Inerease

the furniture |

—————< -9 <a |
Couldn’t be Fired.
From the Merchant’s Mail.

Scene in a grocery store. Proprietor talk-
ing with customer, while a clerk tries to get
a bushel of potatoes out of a barrel into a
sack.

Prop.—They’ll be ready in afew minutes,
sir.

Cus.—What’s the matter with your clerk?

Prop.—Inexperienced.

Cus.—Why don’t you fire him?

Prop.—Too green to be fired. ‘

oo

The strike in the Eastern wire mills has
compelled the broom factory at Jackson to
cease operations for the present.

Stub iron for gun barrels is made of horse-
shoe nails, cleansed and mixed with 12 to 25
per cent. of steel pieces of the same size,
and then’ puddled, hammered, heated, tilted
and rolled. A stub twist barrel is made of
this iron chilled spirally on a mandrel and
welded.

Mandragorine is the name applied to a
new alkaloid extracted by M. Crouzel from
the root of Mandragora officinalis, a peren-
nial European plant botanically allied to
belladoma and commonly termed mandrake,
not however to be confounded with our
Podophyllum peltatum.

 

 

 

and | bi

Cardinal Principles of Business Success

There is good business common sense and
shrewd Seotch humor in the address deliy-
ered by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, not long ago,
to the students of a Philadelphia
college. Hesaid:

“Do not he t engage in any legiti-
mate business, for no business in
America, I do not care what, whieh will not
yield a fair profit if it receive the unremit-
ting, exclusive attention and all the capital
of capable and industrious men. Every bus-
iness will have its season of depression—
years like the present during which the
manufacturers and merchants are severely
tried—years when mills must berun, not for
profit, but at a loss, that the
and men may be kept together and employ-
ed, and the concern may keep its produets
in the market. But, on the other hand
every legitimate business producing or deal-
ing in an article which man
bound in time to be fairly
properly conducted.

‘*And here is the prime condition of sue-
cess, the great secret: concentrate your
energy, thought and capital exclusively up-
on the business in which you are engaged.
Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it
out on that ine—to lead in it; adopt every
improvement, have the best machinery, and
know the most about it.

“The concerns which fail are those which
have seattered their capital which means that
they have seattered their brains also. They
have investments in this, or that, or the oth-
er; here, there and everywhere. ‘Don’t put
all your eggs in one basket’ is all wrong. I
tell you ‘Put all your eggs in one basket,
and then watch that basket.’
you and take notice; men wil
not often fail. It is easy to watch and earry
the one basket. It is trying to carry too
manyjbaskets that breaks most eggs in this
country. He who earries three baskets
must put one on his head, which is apt to
tumble and trip him up. One fault fof the
American business man is lack of concentra-
tion.

“To summerize what I have said: Aim
for the highest; never enter a barroom; do
not touch liquor, or if at all, only at meals;
never indorse beyond your surplus eash
fund; make the firm’s interest yours; break
orders always £ to save owners; concentrate;
put allfyour eggs in fone basket and watch
that basket; expenditure always within rey-
enue; lastly, do not be impatient, for, as
Emerson says, ‘no one can cheat you out of
ultimate suecess but yourselves.’

“fT congratulate you upon being born to
that ancient and honorable degree of pov-
erty which renders it necessary that you
should devote yourselves to hard work. I
trust that few, if any, of you have the mis-
fortune to be rich men’s sons, for, believe
me, such are heavily weighted in the race.
A basketfui of bong is the heaviest ibasket
a young mé in ever had to earry. He gener-

ally gets to eb caedine under it. We have

business

hesi

 

1 suk
there is

organization

requires is
profitable—if

Look round
10 do that do

in this city creditable instances of such
young men, who have pressed to the front

rank of our best 4nd most useful citizens.
These deserve great credit, much greater
eredit than will be yours when you occupy
similar positions. But the
the sons of rich men are unable to resisé
temptations to which wealth S
and sink to unworthy lives.’

i -G>- <a

A Story with a Moral.

The head clerk of a large firm in Charles-
town promised an old customer one day
half a bale of Russian duck, to be on hand
at one o’clock, when vas to leave
town with his goods. The firm was out of
duck and the clerk went over to Boston to
a truckman he hired
a man to take it over on wheelbarrow.
Finishing other business, on his return to
Charlestown the clerk found the man not
1alf over the bridge, g on his barrow,
half dead with the heat. What was to be
done, it was then half-past twelve, and the
There was
not a moment to lose. In spite of the heat,
the dust, and his fine clothes, the young
man seized the wheelbarrow and pushed on.
Pretty soon a rich merchant, whom the
young man knew very well, riding on horse-
back, overtook him. ‘‘What,” said he,
“Mr. Wilder turned truckman?” ‘‘Yes,”
answered the clerk; ‘‘the goods are promis-
ed at one o’clock, and my man has given
out; but you see lam determined to be as
good as my word.” ‘‘Good, good!” said the
gentleman, and started on. Calling at the
store where the young man was employed,
he told his employer what he had seen.
“And, I want to tell him,” said the gentle-
man, ‘‘that when he goes into business for
himself, my name is at his service for $30,-
000.” Reaching the store, which he did in
time, the high price set on his conduct made
amends for the heat, anxiety, and fatigue of
the job. You would like to know perhaps,
that this young man became one of the most
eminent merchants of his day, and known
far and wide, both in Europe and this coun-
try.

vast majority of

ys
the

  

jects them,

 

the man Vv

buy some. Not finding

his

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Sittin

goods were promised at one.

Se ee

There is a well of natural gas at Murrys-
ville, Pa., that has been fiowing for ten
years, and it is said there is in diminution
of pressure, though as good a well has been
struck wtthtn thirty feet of it.

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The Michigan Tradestad,

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Siate.

 

 

E. A. STOWE, Eéitor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid.
Advertising rates made known on application.

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1885.

 

 

Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.

Organized at Grand Rapids October 8, 1884.

 

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—W m. Sears. : :
Executive Committee—President, Vice-Pres-
ident and Treasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one
year; L: E. Hawkins and R.D. Swartout, two
ears.
Alaiveiinn, Committee—I. M. Clark, Ben W.
Putnam, Joseph Houseman.
Transportation Committee—Samuel
Geo. B. Dunton, Amos. S. Musselman.
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur
Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux.
Manufacturing Committee—Wm.
E. 8. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.

Sears,

Cartwright,

- Annual Meeting—Second Wednesday evening

of October. e
Regular Meetings—Second Wednesday even-
ing of each month.

 

=" Subscribers and others, when writing
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub-
lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver-
tisement in the columns of this paper.

 

 

The absurdity of keeping up a mint at
New Orleans is illustrated by the discussion
over the proposal to use the government
vessels to transport silver dollars from that
city to Washington. New Orleans is remote
from the center of government, from the
centers of trade,.from the deposits of the
precious metals. Bullion must be carried
great distances to reach it, and the coin must
be carried great distances to reach the
points of disbursement. A mint in Alaska
would be Jess absurd, for Alaska has large
deposits of precious metals, and perhaps
will become our chief reliance for gold and
silver in the distant future. The New Or-
leans mint was one of the worst jobs ever
achieved by any administration. It should
have been removed to St. Louis or Chicago
at the close of the war. In the matter in
dispute the weight of the reasoning seems
to be against the use of government ships.
Coin is not an article which can be dumped
into the hold of a man-of-war. <A vessel
which is to transport it must be fitted up for
the purpose at a very considerale expense.
In this case the expense exceeds the sum
for which the express companies would have
undertaken the cost of transportation. Nor
is our navy so extensive that we can afford
the diversion of our ships from the proper
duties. While they are making their way
along the coast, and unable to turn back be-
fore reaching their destination, a sudden de-
mand might arise for their services at the
Isthmus or Central America, like that of a
few months ago.

 

In the appearance of a revival of business
Pittsburg is conspicuous. It is evident that
a great future is before that busy and rather
prosaic city. The wonderful supply of
natural gas which has been discovered there
is going toenable her to distance all ordi-
nary competition in many lines of iron pro-
duction. And what is more striking itjis
going to make the smoky city a clean one.
Already the change in this respect is very
marked. The impenetrable clouds which
once hung over the valley ate seen no lon-
ger. Furnaces and iron mills have ceased
to belch ou} volumes of soot. In private
houses heating and cooking are done with
less trouble than we take in lighting a gas
burner, and the very dustman is abolished,
since the refuse is swept up _wWith a brush
into a dustpan about once in’ three months.
The only drawback is from the utterly in-
odorous character of the gas. It may be
escaping from a leak into your room without
giving the slightest notice to any sense.

And it is highly explosive when mixed with |

atmospheric air.

 

 

The T. N. Colvin ‘‘ sell out,” at Big Rap-
ids, is the’ latest illustration of the faulty
construction of our laws relative to the dis-
posal of stocks by debtors. That a dealer
should be able to dispose of a $5,500 stock
for $2,200, and pocket the proceeds without
so much as a “‘thank you” to his creditors,
is a strong commentary on the prevailing
looseness of business transactions, and em-
phases the necessity for more stringent
legislation on matters vitally affecting the
interests of all honest men. It should be

made impossible for a dealer to dispose of |

his stock without first arranging with his
creditors for the payment of all claims.

TA REE IR ETT

The local newspapers of both cities are
doing all “they can to provoke feelings of
hostility between Muskegon and Grand Rap-
ids. Such acourse is unfortunate for the
business intérests of both towns, and can-
not be too strongly condemned by those
whose interests are thus affected. Many of
the reflections indulged in by the press of
both cities are not only unwise, but extreme-
ly foolish.

 

 

The invitation extended by the Grand
Rapids Pharmaceutical Society to the State
Pharmaceutical Association, to hold the an-
nual meeting of the latter body for 1886 in
this city, will undoubtedly be accepted.

 

 

Grand Rapids is to have an exclusive tea,
coffee and spice jobbing house, if the De-
troit correspondent of Tue TRADESMAN
is not in error.

 

Brace Bros., flour and feed dealers at
Baldwin, have retired from business.

AMONG THE TRADE. —

IN THE CITY.
Hawkins & Perry will move into the new
Hawkins block on Saturday.

S. D. Bacon, grocer on South Front street,
has sold out to M. Newberry.

E. A. Geisler succeeds Geisler & Bro. in
the flour and feed business on West Bridge
street.

 

J. C. Shaw & Co. have engaged in the
grocery and spice business at Michael Caul-
field’s old stand on Canal street.

Will E. Hunt, of Cadillac, has removed
his jewelry stock to this city, and will oc-
cupy S. N. Watson’s old stand at 10 Canal
street.

Erbin Richards has sold his grocery stock
at 670 Cherry street toS. Augustus Holt, for
many years engaged in the U.S. postal ser-
vice as mail route agent.

THE TRADESMAN has received another let-
ter from Jacob Einestein, stating that he will
be in Grand Rapids next week, to attend the
Army of the Cumberland reunion, the guest
of Steve Sears. His letter will appear in
fullin next week’s paper.

 

H. H. Robinson, formerly engaged in
general trade at Oakfield Center, has pur-
chased a new store building of D. C.
Underwood, at Elmira, and re-engaged in
general trade. Arthur Meigs & Co. fur-
nished the groceries,and Spring & Company
the dry goods.

 

W. F. Stuart has moved his lumber and
shingle mill from Hobart to Crofton, Kal-
kaska county, where he has also opened a
general store. He has a contract to manu-
facture a large quantity of timber for Arthur
Meigs & Co., who own a considerable tract
of land near Crofton.

 

W. Frank Gibson, formerly bookkeeper
for Phil. Graham, but for the past few
months in the employ of F. J. Lamb & Co.,
has rented the building formerly occupied
by A. Kuppenheimer, on North Ionia street,
and will engage in the produce and commis-
sion business on his own account. He left
for Chicago Monday for the purpose of mak-
ing business connections.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Hilbert & Holly succeed F. F. Hilbert in
general trade at Woodland.

A. D. Alvord, grocer at Flint, has been
closed on chattel mortgage.

Tyler & Co. succeed Blake & Tyler in the
hardware business at Almont.

Beecher Bros. succeed H. S. Beecher in
the grocery business at Mason.

Jos. L. Divine succeeds M. L. Divine in
the grocery business at Cambria.

Cc. C. Warner succeeds C. E. Wagner in
the grocery business at Ann Arbor.

W. L. Main has purchased the clothing
stock of J. W. Randall, at Tekonsha.

G. A. Keller, grocer at Laingsburg, has
moved his stock to Elwell, Gratiot county.

A. D. Seyler succeeds Seyler & Josenhaus
in the boot and shoe business at Ann Arbor.

Gascoigne & Thompson, grocers at Big
Rapids, have dissolved, Gascoigne -continu-
ing. :

Curtis & Barber succeed Hull, Curtis &
Co. in the hardware business at Vermont-
ville.

Lafayette Buchanan succeeds F. D.
Wheeler in the grocery business at St.
Louis.

Eakins & Soule, lumber, salt and general
dealers at Port Crescent, are about to dis-
solve.

Dr. N. J. Aiken has sold his general stock
at Clayton to his brother, W. C. Aiken, who
will continue the business.

W. D. Gardner, formerly ‘a resident of
Middleville, has purchased W. Graham’s
hardware stock, at that place.

F. G. Seaman & Co., of Nashville have
purchased the F. T. Boise drug stock, at
Nashville, and will continue the business.

R. G. Gustin has retired from the whole-
sale grocery firm of Gustin, Merrill & Co.,
at Bay City. Merrill, Fifield & Co. suc-
ceed.

Mrs. P. B. Hunsicker has purchased the
general stock of Holmes & Holly Bros., at
Woodland. The latter will remove to Ten-
nessee.

Chas. G. Bode is the name of the Chicago
gentleman who has purchased the J. F.
Keeney & Co. general stock and stock farm
at Ferry.

Phil. M. Roedel has purchased the gener-
al stock of his mother, Mrs. J. M. Roedel,
at White Cloud. Phil. has managed the
business for a half dozen years past.

E. A. Owen, formerly engaged in the gro-
cery business at Plainwell, has bought Geo.
W. Bliss’ interest in Bliss & Son’s boot and
shoe stock at that place. The new firm
name will be Bliss & Owen.

A. C. Lewis has sold his general stock at
Lake City, Missaukee county to Sampson &
Drury, hardware dealers of Cadillac, who
will carry a full line of hardware and lumber-
men’s supplies at Lewis’ old stand.

H. A. Love has opened a drug store at
Charlotte; Fuller & Mobley, of North
Adams, are about to open a boot and shoe
store, and Hillsdale parties have rented a
building and will put in a large stock of dry
goods.

Moore & Yarger, hardware dealers at
Freeport, have dissolved Yarger retiring.
Mr. Moore has formed a copartnership with
Alonzo Shepard, who has been in the em-
ploy of the firm for four years past, and the
business will hereafter be conducted under
the firm namé¢ of Moore & Shepard.

 

 

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

A. B. Roberts’ shingle mill at Rondo is
now in operation.

The old mill property at Charlotte has
been purchased by J. Q. Griffeth.

Heim Bros. have purchased the grist mill
of P. H. Weaver & Co., at Hesperia.

The lumber stock of E. F. Fellows, at
Homer, has been seized on execution.

The Chippewa Lumber Co. is running its
mill at Chippewa Lake night and day cut-
ting 1,500,000 feet of logs for F. E. Bradley
& Co., of Bay City.

John I. Allen has retired from the East
Jordan Iron Works, at East Jordan. Messrs.
R. W. Rounds and W. E. Malpass will con-
tinne the business under the same general
designation.

Merritt Chandler has completed the con-
struction of a water power circular sawmill
at Allis, Presque Isle county. The _ build-
ing was erected and the machinery placed in
position inside of thirty days.

J. 8. Crosby, of Greenville,is putting in a
saw and shingle mill at Cedar Lake, to cut
the timber Mr. Crosby purchased of W. S.
Nelson. The mill will have a daily capacity
of 50,000 feet of lumber and 40,000 shin-
gles, and will be ready for operations in
about three weeks.

STRAY FACTS.

Adam Schuler is buying wheat at Alle-
gan.

Elmira is in need of a good hardware
store.

Shaw & Blanott have opened a harness
shop at Wayland.

Frank E. Tracy, hardware dealer at Stur-
gis, has assigned.

J. Parks will open a meat market at
Plainwell about October 15.

M. Lyman & Co. have engaged in the
meat business at Cheboygan.

M. M. Mansfield’s new store building, at
Hesperia, is nearly completed.

Duell & Holcomb succeed Duell & Barber
in the saloon business at Saranac.

C. M. Barnes has sold his bakery busi-
ness, at Hesperia, to T. C. Grundy.

Dougall & Wellington succeed J. S. Dou-
gall in the grain business at Lowell.

S. T. McLellan, general dealer at Deni-
son, is erecting a new store building. :

F. C. Bennett & Co. succeed Bennett &
Gordon in the plumbing business at Lans-
ing.

Geo. F. Fowler succeeds Fowler Bros. in
the confectionery and restaurant business at
Tonia.

The boot and shoe stock of W. H. Wes-
ley, at Ovid, has been taken on chattel
mortgage.

Albert Nichols has sold his livery busi-
ness at Otsego to Odell & Porter, of Pine
Grove, who will continue at the old stand.

Plainwell has three flouring mills, a saw-
mill, a paper mill, arake and handle fac-
tory, machine shops, and_ boat, and oar fac-
tory.

Calvin Nash and E. E. Barkdull have
formed acopartnership under the firm name
of Nash & Barkdull, and engaged in the re-
tail furniture business at Saranac.

Big Rapids Herald: <A. J. Sehm, who
has been running a saloon here since early
spring, has made an assignment to Andrew
Hanson. Liabilities about $1,500; assets
nominal. The proceeds will scarcely pay a
chattel mortgage. Fifty dollars will cover
the claims of Big Rapids creditors.

Big Rapids Herald: John G. Martz, so
long in: active business, has sold his bakery
and confectionery to Mrs. Warren A. Hunt
and Mrs. John Loudon. The new firm will
be known as 8S. A. Hunt & Co. Mr. Martz
will go into the furniture factory, of which
company he is a stockholder and officer.

Bellaire Breeze: G. W. Albrecht has
bought out F. E. Turrell’s interest in the
Bank of Bellaire, and the real estate inter-
ests of Mr. Turrell have been transferred to
J. H. Gardner, of Centerville, Mich. The
details under the new arrangement have not
been all completed, and we are unable to
state the new firm name or names.

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Cranberry Topics.
From the Grand Traverse Herald.

D. C. Leach has a letter from John
Clarke, of the ‘‘Centennial Cranberry
Farm,” at Whitefish Point, in the Upper
Peninsula, who says he expects to gather
2,000 bushels of berries this fall.

Mr. Leach visited Dr. Walker’s cranberry
marsh at Glen Arbor last week, and informs
us that the Dr. anticipates gathering 200
barrels of berries this fall. A few weeks
ago the marsh gave promise of yielding at
least twice that quantity, but an unknown
insect attacked the berries and in afew
days’ time destroyed at least half the crop.
A heavy rainfall checked the ravages of the
insect, and thus saved the crop from entire
destruction. The Dr. is of the opinion that
this insect is a new enemy to the cranberry.
It is certainly new in this part of the coun-
try.

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Closed Up at Last.
From the Oyid Union.

The creditors of Sowers & White have
signed a statement agreeing to take 40 cents
on the dollar for their claims, and As-
signee Darragh has already commenced pay-
idg them off on that basis. This will clear
the matter up, and in view of the fact that
it may take another year to get a decision
on the suit now pending, is as well as the

creditors can do.
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Putnam & Brooks announce to the trade
that they have perfected arrangements to
handle the same brands of J. 8S. Farren &
Co.’s celebrated Baltimore oysters which
they carried last season, and are in a posi-

‘tion to give the same general satisfaction

afforded their patrons last year.

»

 

The Gripsack Brigade.

W. S. Horn wants another dog.

Harry McDowell was in Detroit last Fri-
day, where he had a good trade.

Beecher & Kymer own only one drug
stock, and are reported to be on the look-
out for another.

Will Atkins is putting in his time at De-
troit, entertaining visiting buyers for his
house, Heavenrich Bros.

Phil Gaubatz, B. Leidersdorf & Co.’s
Michigan representative, is ‘‘doing up” the
Michigan lake shore towns this week.

Wm. E. White, the jolly traveling expo-
nent of the Thompson &- Taylor Spice Co.,
of Chicago, paid Grand Rapids a visit last
week.

Ed. P. Andrew, formerly on the road
for Nelson Bros. & Co., has accepted the
position of head salesiian with Hall, Good-
man & Co. ~

E. H. Cannon, of the firm of Wentworth
& Cannon, has gone on the road for Curtiss,
Dunton & Co., taking the territory formerly
covered by R. J. Coppes.

Fred W. Powers, formerly on the road for
the Spa Bottling Co., in which company he
was financially interested, succeeds Geo.
Medes as Southern Michigan traveler for
Hugo Schneider & Co.

A. F. Peake, Michigan and Indiana repre-
sentative for DeLand & Co., of Fairport, N.
Y., put in Sunday at this market, the guest
of Leo A. Caro and family. He was ac-
companied by his wife.

Frank E. Chase leaves to-day for Buffalo,
where he will meet his wife and child, on
their way home from Cape Cod. They will
take up their residence at their home on
Ottawa street next week.

W. R. Keasey—otherwise known as ‘‘So-
ciety Bill”—is reported to have formed an
alliance with a young lady of Indianapolis,
who is handsome as a picture and worth
$150,000 in her own right.

Dick Mangold has put in considerable
time at Petoskey during the past month, the
attraction being none other than a young
lady from the famous Blue Grass Region of
Kentucky. It is understood that the cere-
mony will occur in January.

The white hats which graced the traveling
men on the occasion of their famous Fourth
of July parade are now made to do service
as black tiles by means of a little artistic
work on the part of the hat colorer. Henry
B. Fairchild set the example and Ed. P.
Andrew followed suit.

The Frank Chase who was committed to
the county jail last week for sixty days on a
charge of drunkeness is not Frank E. Chase,
the well-known boot and shoe traveler, al-
though the similarity in names has caused
the amiable salesman considerable uneasi-
ness for several days past.

Now that Bannard, Lyman & Co. have re-
tired from business, Magenta-Headed Dave
Smith will be looking for another desirable
connection. For the good of the town, and
reputation of the traveling men who go out
of this market, it is to be hoped that he will
not locate in the Valley City.

President Kelsey, of the Michigan divis-
ion, T. P. A., secured Governor Alger’s sig-
nature to the week-end-ticket resolution
adopted by the recent convention at Lans-
ing, and the railway committee has received
a polite note from the association of Michi-
gan passenger agents, requesting the for-
mer to meet the latter at their meeting on
the 17th.

Herbert T. Chase, who sounds the praises
of Chase & Sanborn’s coffees from Marquette
to Monroe, holds his head very high nowa-
days, and refuses to bow to his best friends.
Such assumption of dignity and haughtiness
is not due to any sudden change in his feel-
ings but to the presence of aigood-sized imita-
tion to one of Job’s comforters on the back
of his neck.

Gus. Sharp, ‘‘Pa” Evans, Algy White,
Will Rindge, Cass Bradford, W. S. Horn,
Steve Sears, John McIntyre, Dave Haugh,
Frank White, Henry Ward Beecher, Joe
Reed and several other grip carriers got the
letter which was left for them at Geo.
Leonard’s. ‘‘Pa” Evansrefused to ‘‘set ’em

| up,” and Joe Reed got so hot that he kicked

a hole through the roof of the building.

There is a very determined effort on foot
among business houses all over the country,
whose salesman visit Washington, to secure
a repeal of the law imposing a tax of. $200
a year on commercial travelers in the Dis-
trict of Columbia. The tax is said to be for
the purpose of protecting the local mer-
chants. As there is no wholesale trade
there,this excuse is absurd. The tax is of no
practical value as a revenue either, as more
than nine-tenths of the drummers visiting
Washington pay no license to the city, but
employ brokers to represent them. The
latter pay a tax of $200 a year and each
rents sample rooms at a rental of $1,000 per
annum. One firm represents upwards of
400 concerns, each of which pays from $25
to $150 per annum each. The broker who
pays the original tax of $200 clears a net
profit of from $15,000 to $20,000 on_ his in-
vestment, and the District is no richer for
the.tax. The whole system is bad, for be-
sides leading to wholesale evasions it breeds
fraud and bribery. Several detectives whose
business it is to watch the drummers are no-
toriously corrupt and reap rich harvests from
the brokers and salesmen whom they can
annoy very seriously. In the last Congress
the tax was repealed in committee of the
whole, but before the bill was through the
House it was restored. There is no good
reason why it should not be stricken from
the statute books. Asitisa tax on inter-
State commerce, it is clearly unconstitu-
tional.

Algernon Edmund White was born in
London, England, September 1, 1853. He

 

attended St..Mary’s training college until
fourteen years of age, when he entered a
stock and share broker’s office as entry
clerk. In 1869, he sailed to China in the
tea clipper ‘‘Lauderdale,” belonging to J.
D: Willis & Co.’s line, remaining in China

six months studying the cultivation and.

production of tea. He subsequently visited
Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Sumatra and
Java and the Island of St. Helena, where
he inspected Napoleon’s tomb. Returning
to England in the fall of 1870, he sailed for
Toronto February 2, 1871, spending three
years in Ravenswood, Ontario, as manager
of a large general store. In 1874, he came
to Grand Rapids on a visit to his brother,
and was so captivated with the town that he
concluded to make the city his home, iden-
tifying himself with the millinery establish-
ment of J. & J. C. Kendall. He subse-
quently worked in the dry goods store of
Donahoe & Ryordon, at Muskegon, return-
ing to Grand Rapids in the spring of 1875 to
accept a position as salesman with W. S.
Gunn & Co., remaining with that firm one
year, when he entered the employ of the
New York Tea Co., on Monroe street. June
1, 1880, he accepted the position of ship-
ping clerk for Rice & Moore, and two
months later he went on the road for Cody,
Ball & Co., taking the territory formerly
covered by D. C. Underwood. On the ac-
cession of Mr. Ball to the firm, in the spring

>}

of 1881, he took the city trade of the house,
which position he still holds, to the mutual
satisfaction of his employers and_ their
patrons. May 24, 1883, he was married to
Miss Louise H. Gibson, daughter of the late
A. R. Gibson, by whom he is the father of a
bright boy.
. ————- -9- <<

Purely Personal.

N. J. Beaudry, dry goods merchant at
Grand Haven, has gone East, to buy goods.

John D. Shirts, the accomplished financial
agent of Eaton & Christenson, has gone
North hunting—for a lame duck.

D. D. Cody, Willard Barnhart and O. A.

Ball are expected back from the Lake Su-!

perior region the latter part of the week.

Dr. C.S. Hazeltine and family will re-
turn from Mackinac Island, where they have
spent the summer months, on Friday of this
week.

Deacon B. Fenton,’ of the Erie Preserving |

Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., paid the jobbing
trade a visit last week and attended chureh
here on Sunday.

M. R. Campbell, formerly with John Le
Clere, at Muskegon, was in the city Mon-
day on his way to Nashville, where he
thinks of locating permanently.

Mr. Leahy, of Leahy & Co., Muskegon, is
East, purchasing fall goods. Nathan Platt,
of Nathan Platt & Co., of the same place, is
also in the land of the rising sun.

W. H. Tibbs, an experienced pharmacist
of Buffalo, N. Y., will shortly take up his
residence in this city, assuming the owner-
ship of a leading drug store here.

Geo. R. Perry asserts that Jim Stewart
failed to return an umbrella the Saginaw
grocery jobber borrowed of him during his
recent visit here. It has also come to light
that Stewart failed to pay his hotel bill,
beat the hackman out of his fee,and traveled

on another man’s pass.
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DETROIT DOINGS.

 

News and Gossip from Michigan’s Metrop-
olis.

Dominique Perrien, of the milling firm of
Perrien Bros., is dead.

H. D. Cooper, of the produce commission
firm of E. S. Cooper & Son, is dead.

Thos. H. Christian, formerly engaged in
the drug business at Farewell, is now in
full charge of the laboratory of John J.
Dodds & Co., and is giving excellent satis-
faction.

Williams & Co., the malsters, have thrown
their business into a stock company, with
a capital stock of $100,000. The name of
the new corporation will be the Williams
Malt Co.

Heavenrich Bros. are unable to get goods
from the Eastern woolen factories fast
enough to supply the demands of their cus-
tomers, but hope to increase the supply
within the near future.

The Detroit Soap Co. is considerably be-
hind with its orders, on account of a rush
of business. The company has in prepara-
tion and will soon put. upon the market a
new brand of soap—10 cent goods—to be
known as ‘‘Michigan.” An excellent map
of the State will be given with each box.

Detroit jobbers are beginning to feel the
effects of the revival in trade, in consequence
of which arrangements are being made fora
considerable fall trade. Our merchants
have probably felt the depression greater
than most of the inland towns, and a realiz-
ing sense of the return to good times is hail-
ed with joy and gladness.

Ed. Telfer, for twelve years past identi-
fied with the wholesale grocery house of W.
J. Gould & Co.—seven years of the time as
a partner—has withdrawn from the firm and
about coneluded to embark in the jobbing
of teas, coffees and spices at Grand Rapids.
He paid the Valley City a visit last week
and looked over the ground thoroughly, and
pronounces himself as well pleased with the
outlook. Several desirable locations are
under consideration, and the probability is
that the store formerly occupied by L. H.
Randall & Co., on Ottawa street, will be
selected. In case Mr. Telfer makes the
venture, he will be associated with another
gentleman, whose identity he is not yet pre-

pared to disclose.
a ne

Polished steel, or iron surfaces may be
preserved from rusting, by covering the sur-
face so exposed with a mixture of powdered
lime and oil.

| OUT AROUND.

 

News and Gossip Furnished by Our Own
Correspondents.

 

|
|

 

Stanwood.
| Sept. 5—Stanwood has had a boom this sum-
mer, thirteen new dwelling houses having been
| built, besides six more buildings, which are
| now in process of construction. Among the
latter, is a hotel which is being erected by O.
| D. Chapman.

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|
|

East Saginaw.
| Sept. {—Jim Stewart asserts with great em-
| phasis that he will proceed against THE

TRADESMAN On a charge of libel. He says he

| doesn't mind being called ‘‘ handsome” and~

| “muscular,” but when it come to being refer-
| red to as “effeminate” and accused of stealing
an umbrella, he objects.

John T. Bell, of the produce commission firm
| of J. T. Bell & Co., has gone to Mt. Clemens,
| where will build a cottage for a summer resi-
| dence.

 

Shelby.

| Sept. 7—Chas. G. Bode, who has bought the J.
F. Keeny & Co. interests at Ferry, proposes to
| erect a steam saw mill which will cut from 20,-
000 to 25,000 feet of lumber a day; and proposes
| to put up a store building and ware house of
| brick, 50x100 feet. He will buy grain, logs,
| ties, hemlock bark and all farmer’s produce.
| Paton & Andrus recently shipped two ears of
| lumber to Muskegon, one car of wheat to
| Holland, 300 dozen of eggs to Big Rapids, be-
| Sides sixteen bushels of pears and seventy
| bushels of peaches and plums to different
points. It was a good work and speaks well
' for the business of the firm.

Our dealers have large quantities of butter
| onhand. The season has been the most fay-
' orable one known for making the product.

| ‘There has been a cider mill opened in Cross-
| man’s mill for the manufacture of cider, jelly,
| apple butter, and all products of the apple.

 

Hersey.
| Sept. 7—O. Richardson’s shingle mill, in the
| north-east corner of Cedar township, is run-

i . .
| ning with about one month’s stock to cut. It

lis cutting 16-inch shingles for the Chicago
| market.

| Brown’s shingle mill on section nine, Cedar
| township, has shut down for a few weeks.

Mr. Gouley, lately from Canada, is building
| &new shingle mill a few miles east of Ashton.
| H. M. Patrick, of Leroy, furnishes the funds.
| Hall & Manning, of Hersey, are repairing
i their mill. They use steam and water power
| combined, and cut 30,000 hardwood per day.

| A young man named Abe Perry, of Char-
lotte, purporting to be an agent of Charley
| Lovydol, of Chicago, purchased several car
| loads of maple lumber of Hall & Manning, of
| Hersey, drawing the pay for the same, but
| failed to pay Hall & Manning, who are anxious
| to make the young man’s acquaintance once
| more. It is understocd that he squandered
| the funds, and is making himself very searce.
| The value of the lumber was about $400, and
| the boy’s father-in-law and brother offered to
pay Hall & Manning $125 to settle the bill, say-
| ing the boy lost money in the deal, as the lum-

| ber was not up to grade.
|

 

| Muskegon.
| Sept. 7—Christie & Kieft, the well-known
grocery firm, has dissolved, Wm. B. Kieft suc-
| ceeding. Daniel Christie has formed a copart-
| nership with E. R. Ford, and the two have pur-
| chased the grocery stock of Palmer & Kings-
bury, and will continue the business under the
| firm name of Christie & Co.
|
|

A. G. Jepson, the druggist, has assigned to .

| W. W. Bareus. Mr. Jepson leaves to-day for
Lewiston, Idaho, where he will take charge of
| Lewiston college.

| The Davies Iron Works is building a new
| foundry in the rear of the machine shop. The
| building is to be a one-story brick, 45x30 feet
|insize. The structure will be completed in
about two weeks.

The Rodgers Tron Works is building a brick
basement under its warehouse, next to the
Office. This is done in order to fhave room
for a stock of pumps, log rollers, ete., which
the company is manufacturing for the trade.
A new boiler is also being set up.

Sidney 8. Morris, of the provision firm of S.
S. Morris & Bro., has returned from a three
weeks’ visit with former friends and relatives
in Genessee county, N. Y. Mr. Morris was
reared in the same town in which the now no-
torious Ferdinand Ward was brought up, and
remembers the lad as one who was in the habit
| of borrowing quarters and half dollars from
acquaintances and not returning the same.
He also failed to pay for hats or clothes ob-
tained on credit from local dealers.

John Cooper, the grocer, is closing out.

 

Big Rapids.

Sept. 7—S. Wildberg is just closing out his
stock of dry goods. He is undecided as to his
future line of business.

F. W, Joslin will have an auction sale to close
out all heavy weight goods which he does not
want to take South with him.» He intends to
be established at Ashville, N. C., in about 60
days.

The basement of the new Morrisey block is
completed, and work on the much-talked-of
Comstock building is still progressing.

S. Bronson’s saw mill, on the east side of the
river, was destroyed by fire onthe 3d. It had
not been in operation for some time, and was
fully insured.

C. D. Carpenter has gone to New York and
Boston to purchase a stock of ‘dry goods.

John R. Campbell, our boot and shoe dealer,
is enjoying a trip throughout the Western
States.

E. C. Morris, dry goods merchant, is East,
purchasing a stock of fall goods.

Will Baker and W. A. D. Rose, who lately re-
signed their positions with the Ives Lumber
Co., are still looking for a good opening else-
where. Mr. Rose has an interest in a prosper-
ous business house in Big Rapids.

T. N. Colvin, who swindled his creditors in
the most reprehensible manner, has gone
West, and will probably never return. I
hear the American Sewed Shoe Co., of Toledo,
are “in” for $1,400, R. & J. Cummings & Co., of
Toledo, for $300 and a Boston house for the
same amount. The stock was worth about
$5,500 and went for $2,200—about the amount
of Colvin’s original capital.

tt
Make Yourselves at Home.
Customers of Wm. L. Ellis & Co. or Gray
& Kingman coming to Grand Rapids during
the reunion of the Army of the Cumberland
are cordially invited to make themselves at
home at our store. 3B. F. Emery will be in
during the week.
CoLE & EMERY,
87 Canal street.
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The first patent for apple-pearers was
granted to one Coates in 1803. The quar-

tering device was added by Gates in 1810.

 

 

 

 
 

 

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Drugs & Medicines

STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Two Years—F. H. J. VanEmster, Bay City.
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
5 eleiaed man =
reasurer—Jas. Vernor. ‘
Noat place of meeting—At Detroit, November
3, 18

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association.

OFFICERS.

President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix. __

First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald, Kal-
amazoo. :

Second Vice-President—B. D. Northrup, Lan-

ing. :
Third. Vice-President—Frank Wurzburg, Gr a
Rapids.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Treasurer—Wim. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—H. J. Brown, A. B.
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller, F. W.
Fincher. : : :
Next place of meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday,
October 13, 1885.

 

(irand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

 

ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884.

 

OFFICERS.

President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. o :
Board of Censors—President, Vice-President
and Secretary. .
Board of Trartecs—The President, Wm. H.
Van Leeuwen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White,
Wm. L. White.
Committee on eserniaes 2a nee Thum, M. B.
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.

Cemmittee on Legislation—Isaac Watts, O. H.
Richmond, Jas. 8. Cowin. ce
Committee on Trade Matters—H. B. Fairchild,
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen. oe
Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in
each month. ae
Annual Meetings—First Thursday evening in

November, :
Next Meeting—Thursday evening, October 1,
at “The Tradesman”’ office.

 

TOO MANY DRUGGISTS.

 

Otherwise they Would Soon Become Mil-
lionaires.
From the Detroit News. .

“Retail druggists might become million-
aires,” remarked a Detroit compounder of
medicines to a friend as they discussed a
couple of Sunday evening cigars on the front
porch, ‘‘just as easily as not, if there
weren’t so confounded many in the _ busi-
ness. The way wedo up the customer in
the matter of prices would astonish you. If
we could only do it often enough we'd get
rich in a hurry.

“I don’t mind giving you a few instances,
if you'll be sure not to give it away,” the
druggist went on, growing confidential un-
der the soothing influence of the weed.
“There’s aqua ammonia. We buy it at
wholesale for six cents a Ib. and sell it at
the rate of two ounces for five cents, or 40
cents per lb. Nothing very modest about
that, eh? Alum we get at 3 cents per hb.,
and dispose of it for from 15 cents per tb.
to 5 cents per oz., according to quantity.
Quinine costs the druggist at. present 75
cents per oz., and sells at 1 cent per grain,
or $4.80 cents per oz. The profit on this
article can be and sometimes is, further in-
creased by adulteration with cinchonida, an
article of similar appearance which costs 25
cents per oz. Epsom salts costs 3 cents per
th. and sells for 20 cents.

“A good deal depends on the customer.
If he looks as though he would stand it we
charge him 10 cents per oz for bromide of
potash, which we buy at 40 cents per hb.
If he looks like a kicker we make the price
only 5 cents per oz. Whisky, which costs
us $1.75 to $2 a gallon, we sell at 60 cents
per pint. But our best hold is physicians’
prescriptions. A 2 oz. mixture usually sells
for 35 cents, and the bottle frequently costs
as much as the contents. Ten cents will
generally cover the cost of a 35 cent pre-
scription, and the profit on larger amounts
is-in proportion.”

“Patent medicines are a big thing, I sup-
pose?”

“Lots of people suppose so, but the no-
tion is wide of the truth. The profit on
‘patent medicines’ and proprietary articles
seldom exceeds 100 per cent., and often is
much less than that. Oh, yes, ours isa
trade that has millions in it—millions of
money and also millions of druggists, so

that we don’t get so very much apiece.”
a
His Principal Practice.

‘‘Doctor,” said De Fidgett to one of our
medical men, ‘‘do you have much practice
nowadays?”

“Oh, yes, I have all the practice I can at-
tend to.”

“In what particular line is the most of
your practice?”

*‘In the line of economy.”

——__—~-4
The addition of menthol to cocoaine is

recommended by Rorenberg when the latter
is used as an anesthetic in the surgery of
the nose and pharynx. <A 20 per cent. sol-
ution in oil is said by the author to be the
best method of using the menthol. Experi-
ments with the mixture show that the an-
esthetic effects of cocaine are greatly aided
by menthol.

A Viennese pharmacist was summoned
before a police court for the offense of sup-
plying calomel contaminated with mercuric
chloride, and for damages for injuries re-
sulting from the use of the impure article.
The pharmacist admitted that the calomel
contained corrosive sublimate, but pleaded
that he was not to blame, as he purchased
it in bulk from a respectable manufacturer,
and that he might as soon be expected to
examine each parcel of common salt for im-
purities as to examine calomel obtained
wholesale from such a source. The court,
however, refused to take that view of the
transaction, and inflicted a fine of fifty flor-
ins for a breach of the law relating to the
supply of pure drugs. Other claims were
reduced to thirty floring.

 

THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMME.

 

Arrangement of Business for the Coming
Convention.

The Executive Committee of the State
Pharmaceutical Association met at Detroit
last week and arranged the following pro-
gramme for the annual convention, to be
held at Detroit October 13, 14 and 15:

TUESDAY, 2 P. M.

Meeting called to order by President Crouter.
Roll call.

Address of welcome by Mayor Grummond.
Response by ex-President Wells, of Lansing.
Reading minutes of last meeting. i
Address by G. W. Crouter, of Charlevoix.
Presentation of names for membership.

TUESDAY, 7:30 P. M.

Report of Executive Committee on Applica-
tions for membership.
Election of members.
Reports of officers.
Reports of committees.
Reading of papers. 2
WEDNESDAY, 9 A. M.

Unfinished business.
Reading of papers and discussion of same
continued.
Trade interests.
WEDNESDAY, 2 P. M.

Trade interests.
WEDNESDAY, 7:30 P. M.

Association taken to Detroit Opera House.
THURSDAY, 9 A. M.

Election of officers.

Appointing of committees.

Miscellaneous and unfinished business.

Adjournment.

‘‘Home, Sweet Home.”

et we
The Quinine Problem.
From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

Among the conundrums in the trade, fre-
quently propounded of late, are the follow-
ing: How ean the manufacturers afford to
sell quinine at present prices, while they are
buying barks at recent advanced market val-
ues? Are they losing money in manufac-
turing or have they recently improved
methods to obtain a larger yield of quinine?
It is also pertinently asked: How is it that
the price of quinine some years since was
two dollars and over and is now only sixty-
eight cents? Were the manufacturers
formerly making enormous profits? Why
can they sell so low now? What are the
prospects for the future? ete.

Anybody who has kept the run of the
London bark sales, is aware of the fact that
the prices of bark have twice within six
weeks experienced an important advance,
the first rise being fifteen totwenty per cent.
and the second ten per cent., while foreign
quinine advanced only eight to ten cents per
ounce, or say fifteen per cent. P. & W’s
price remained steady through all these ad-
vances. The figures being paid for bark are
public, and are well known to the initiated
as ranging from five pence to six pence per
unit, according to the richness of the bark;
the lower grades of bark costing more to
manufacture into quinine, are consequently
lower than the higher grades. A unit
means one pound of bark yielding one per
cent. sulphate quinine, or say 1-100 of a

pound = 16-100 of an ounce. To make
one ounce of sulphate quinine, therefore, are
required six and one-quarter pounds of one
per cent. bark, which costs, at the rate of
five pence, thirty-one and one-quarter
pence, equal to sixty-two and one-half
cents. It is plain, therefore, that at the
lowest quotation for bark, one ounce sul-
phate quinine costs sixty-two and one-half
cents, without the expenses of freight, com-
missions, cost of manufacture, packing and
putting on the market. The aggregate of
these expenses is usually estimated at about
fourteen cents per ounce; evenif they should
amount to only ten cents, the actual cost to
the manufacturer would be fully seventy-
two and one-half cents, without counting
any profit.

The by-products—cinchonidia, quinidia,
etc.--which are selling now at such extremely
low prices, can hardly enter into the caleu-
lation, on account of the expenses of mak-
ing them, and will certainly not compensate
the manufacturer for the difference between
the cost of bark and the selling price of
quinine. It is, therefore, plain that the
manufacturers at present are all losing
money. Why, then, do they continue to
manufacture and sell?

The foreign manufacturers entered this
market extensively, when the duty was
taken off quinine; the domestic manufac-
turers could not prevent this, as they were
at a disadvantage; the foreign manufacturers
have a large outlet in Europe, South Ameri-
ca, Asia, etc., and could send their surplus
here while the domestic manufacturers
were confined to the United States only.
Even if the latter should have resolved to
work ata loss for'a number of years, the
foreign manufacturers could withdraw and
come in again as soon as the domestic
manufacturers were tired of losing money.
But now the situation is different. Two
more manufacturers have started here, one
of them on a large scale, and are bidding
energetically for the custom of the trade.
The old manufacturers cannot sit still and
allow themselves to be driven out, and, as
they have a large purse, they seem to have
resolved to ‘‘see the thing through.” This
competition will not prevent an advance in
the price, but will retard it; the competition
will doutless remain the same, whether the
price is sixty cents or one dollar.

Some years since, barks were produced
only in South America, when the supply
would often be curtailed by the outbreak of
a revolution, by want of water in the Mag-
dalena river and other causes, but the culti-
vation of the cinchona trees in the East In-
dies, principally Ceylon, has assumed such
dimensions, that we are not only indepen-
dent of South America for a supply of bark,
but the same has increased from the Eeast
Indies to such an extent from year to year
that the price has declined considerably.
The maximum of the stock was reached
about the end of the year 1883; consumption
having also increased largely, the stock has
gradually decreased since then and is now
moderate—the maxium having been in round

 

figures 100,000 bales, while it is now only |:

75,000 bales, including a large and constant-
ly inereasing proportion of worthless bark,
which is estimated variously at one-third to
one-half of the entire stock. The actual
stock of good bark is probably not even a
six months’ supply. The increase of the
shipments of bark from Ceylon were last
March about thirty-five per cent. over the
previous season, while at the end of July
the increase for the season over the last
season showed only 8 per cent.—rather a
heavy falling off in shipments from March to
July; the season runs from October to Octo-
ber. In June, July and August, during the
monsoon or rainy season, bark canot be pro-
duced in Ceylon. Shipments must, there-
fore,be small for the next three months. The
stock of bark in manufacturers’ hands is
believed to be small. As purchases at de-
cling prices are naturally limited to imme-
diate wants, manufacturers will be com-
pelled to buy and compete against each
other at the sales; if wants should become
pressing prices will be influenced upward.
The stock of quinine in second hands is not
large and mostly firmly held. As consump-
tion is usually larger during the fall there
need be no apprehension of lower prices, in
the opinion of holders, who think an early
advance not improbable.
—_—— 9

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

At the regular monthly meeting of the
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society, held
at THE TRADESMAN office last Thursday
evening, the following representatives of the
profession were in attendance: President
Wurzburg, Secretary Escott, John E. Peck,
M. B. Kimm, Isaae Watts, Will L. White,
H. B. Fairchild, \Wm. H. VanLeeuwen,
Chas E. Escott, A. C. Bauer, A. Sanford
and Lou J. Shafer.

The delegate to the National Retail Drug
Association was instructed to vote in favor
of the resolutions recently adopted by the
New York Pharmaceutical Association re-
lative to the formation of a National body
by the election or three delegates from each
State.

A lengthy and profitable discussion fol-
lowed relative to the means for securing a
reduction in the tax on alcohol used for
medicinal and mechanical purposes.

The chairman was instructed to announce
a subject at the next meeting for discussion
at the next succeeding meeting, and that all
drug clerks be invited to attend.

Chas. E. Escott suggested that as soon as
possible an effort be made to induce physi-
cians to cease specifying any special make
of elixirs, ete.

1t was moved and carried that the Society
extend an invitation to the State Pharma-
ceutical Association to hold the annual meet
ing for 1886 in Grand Rapids; and the Secre-
tary was instructed to forward the reso-
lution to the Secretary of the State Associa-
tion.

The Society then adjourned, to meet

Thursday evening, October 1.
OOS

A Model Prescription.
From the Allegan Gazette.

An Allegan druggist was recently asked
to make a compound, part of the ingre-
dients of which were, according to the writ-
ten formula, ‘‘bay run, flak white, and glis-
ser rean.”

 

> 2 <

A medical journal says the distressing
symptoms produced by the administration
of quinine or sodium salicylate are counter-
acted by the addition of small doses of ergot
to the mixture.

The law regulating the practice of medi-
cine in Indiana is now in force, and drug-
gists prescribing over the counter are liable
to fine and costs. Indiana druggists should
secure a law requiring physicians to take
out a license before engaging in the practice
of pharmacy.

The National Druggist thinks the Kansas
prohibition law has a tendency to bring the
entire drug trade of the State into disrepute,
by its evasion by those who use the name
druggist as a cloak for the liquor business.
A Kansas City correspondent says: ‘The
statements of the druggists of Cowley coun-
ty, just filed with the probate judge, while
showing a decrease from those filed last
month, yet proved that the invalids of Cow-
ley county needed four barrels of whisky
and 1,390 bottles of beer. The city of Win-
field took 417 pints of drug store liquors,
while in Arkansas City, a town of much less
population than Winfield, 821 pints were
sold. Another significant fact is, that while
the sale of beer is on the decrease, that of
liquors is augmented. There is another pe-
culiar point about this matter. The sale in
the larger cities has decreased a little, while
in country districts it has been largely in-
creased.”

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week,
each and every insertion. One cent for each
additional word. Advance payment.

 

 

RARE CHANCE—For sale, a small stock

of drugs, medicines and druggists sun-

dries, together with fixtures, including show

cases, soda fountain, etc. A bargain for some

one, Must be sold immediately. W. W. Barcus,
Assignee, Muskegon, Mich. 103

\ K 7] ANTED—A drug stock inventorying from
$1,000 to $1,500. Address Lock Box 160,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 105*

VOR SALE—Eight hundred dollars will buy
a good stock of groceries, % acre of land,

and one two-story building in a lively business
town. Address, Postmaster, Eckford, Calhoun
County, Mich. 104*

 

 

 

{OR SALE—The brevier type formerly used

on THE TRADESMAN. The font comprises

222 pounds, including italic, and is well-assort-
ed and very little worn. Address this office.

ARTNER WANTED—A well-established
manufacturer of proprietary remedies,
having now on the market a line of popular
patents, wishes a partner, with some capital,
to push the sale of same. Address, “Patent,”
care ‘The Tradesman.,”’’ 94tf

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT,

POPPI NINA NPR NRL PRP NPP P PRP PPL PRP PPR PRP
Advanced—Oil anise; chlorate potash; chlor-
ate potash. powdered.
Declined—Alcohol; morphine, sulphate: oil
peppermint; oil pennyroyal; gum camphor;
gum gamboge, powdered; turpentine.

 
  

 

ACIDS
MeCtiC NOB. ee. 9 @ 10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35
HGCAEbolos oe Gi 34 @ 36
CroMte 60 @ 65
Murptatic 18: dég. 6s. 3 @ 5
Nitric 36.dege.. 0... -— AL @ 1
OXGHG ee 122 @ 14
Sulphuric 66 deg................... 3@ 4
Tartaric. powdered................ 2 @ 55
Benzoic, English............. 8 oz 18
Benzotc, German................. 12 @ 15
PRAM oo os bo ee se lek 122 @ 15
ANMONIA. :
Carbonate: 225.0 ers ees. Bh 1 @ 18
Muriate (Powd. 22¢)...........2008% 14
AGUAS COR Or Bios 2... ce kcck, 56 @ 6
Aqua 18 deg or 4f...:..........20.. 6 @ 7%
BALSAMS.
CODRIDS 8.2 ee 40@45
Uc Ce ee ce ae 40
OR ee eon ho ae Oe vee oo ee a 2 00
BOM ee ee a 50
BARKS.
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)........ 1l
Cinchona, yellow........ 18
Elm, select... .. 6...55. 18
Elm, ground, pure..... Ke it
Elm, powdered, pure.............. 16
PaAssairas, OL TOOb . 2.62 es. S 8c 10
Wild Cherry, select................ 12
Bayberry powdered............... 20
Hemlock powdered................ 18
WHDOO 05 see eas. 30
SOap STOUnd) | osc ke ck 12
BERRIES,
Cubeb prime (Powd 80c).......... @ %5
UTI OI Sce, cos oe aes ae gad os “6 @ of
IPRIGKY ASH. 2.0.5 Si sckt fo 50 @ 60
EXTRACTS.
Licorice (10 and 25 ib boxes, 25c)... 27
Licorice, powdered, pure..... ae 387%
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ib doxes). 9
Logwood, Is (25 Ib boxes).......... 12
Lgowood, %s dQ eles. 13
Logwood, 148 QO 8 oso 15
Logwood,ass’d Go ....... oo. 14
Fluid Extracts—25 @ cent. off list.
FLOWERS.
AQINC Rohe oes ae Soe eo ks 10 @ ii
Chamomile, Roman............... 25
Chamomile, German.............. 25
GUMS.
Aloes, Barbadoes...............665 60@ 75
Aloes, Cape (Powd 20c)............ 12
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50
PII ODIBO 3 55 oes. Ga ice ees 28@ 30
Arabic, powdered select.......... 65
Arabic, Ist picked................. 60
ALADIC ZG PICKOG: 0.5... 5 68 vc se ce 50
Arabic, 3d picked.................- 45
Arabic, sifted sorts................ 30
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... _ 88
BODZOI Goose eee. ook a ceca at es : 55@60
Campnor i as ee. 23@ 25
Catechu. Is (% l4e, 4s 16¢) ...... . ol 13
Euphorbium powdered............ 38n@ 40
Galbanum strained................ 80
GamboOee). ook ee. 80@ 90
Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c)......... 35
Kino [Powdered, 30c].............. 20
MaStiC a ec. :
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47e¢)... 40
Opium, pure (Powd $4.90).......... 3 50
Shellac, Campbell’s................ 30
Shellac: Enplish............:...... 26
Shellac. native... 32... e630... o 24
Shellac bleached... was 30
Wragacanth <0: 2052.06) i 30 @1 00
HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES.
HOSTHOUNG! . 655.6 sss a 25
Mobeliay sc ee ee a, 25
POppermint oo se ec 25
UU ee nos coc ccs eee 40
Spearing ee a4
Sweet Majoram 0... 00.00.550000.. 00.20.05 35
UDI ee eee a 25
CRNA ON ee ei ace 30
WOLKMWOOG 0500 so 25
IRON.
Citrate and Quinine............... 6 40
Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20
Sulphate, pure crystal............ 7
PRUNAtG ce 80
Phospuetaisien 21: soca ss 8 65
LEAVES.
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)........... 13 @ 14
Sage, Italian, bulk (4s & \%s, 12¢)... 6
Senna, Alex, natural.............. 18 @ 20
Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30
Senna, powdered.................. 22
Senna tinnivelli....-. 2... 6.2. e.. 16
Wiva Ursiee 10
Belledonma si. oe 20i c : 35
HORGIOVO 2 ee 30
Henhane ose 35
MOSe; Meds ee ahs Le 2 85
LIQUORS.
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 175 @2 00
Whisky, other brands............. 110 @il 50
Gin’ O80 Tomes. 135 @1 %5
Gin, Holland: 072-22). 200 @3 50
IBYON GY, sei es 1%5 @6 50
Catawba WineS.................... 125 @2 00
IPORb WANES 65005 135 @2 50
MAGNESIA.
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0z........ 22
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20z........ ‘ 37
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 25
Calemed. ioc. 65
OILS.
Almond, SWeCL.........5......-.... 45 @ 50
AINBEr, TECLINCG.. 6 oo... 45
PATMIBO 2 roe oc la 2 00
Bayer OF. 2c es 50
Bergamont. 7 210
CABCOU soe ec ee 18 @ 19%
Croton eo ee ee. 2
CAIODU eo ae
CARB a a 1
Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c).....
Citronella 0.08.
ClOveS oe 1
Cod Liver, N.F.... . . ......38 gal 1
Cod Liver, best......... oo tee 1
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 . 6
@ubebs, Po & Wit se, q
MIP OTOn: 2356... oe 1
MING WOCG. oo. oc ls ees 2
Geranium ® 02Z........ 0.05.0. 00.
Hemlock, commercial (Pure %5c)..
JUNIPCr WOO. . 226.6626 ee. cs ke
Juniper berries..............5.0.25
Lavender flowers, French.........
Lavender garden GO;
Lavender spike (6 00 ae ee
Lemon, new crop..............0.05
Lemon, Sanderson’s...............
POMOUSTASS. oss a
Olive, Malaga........... :
Olive, ‘Sublime Italian .

Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum, NO:1......-.0..01 023.
Pennyroyal......2.......5: a
Peppermint, white................
ROBO B OZ... oo ee,
Rosemary, French (Flowers $1 50)
Balad eo
PAVE es ee
Sandal Wood, German............
Sandal Wood, W. I
DBSSBEVAS lee
Spearmint... 6.0. os. ek
PRANISV ooo os ic oe, 4 50
War (Py eal be): 2.022. oe 10
WINECERTOCH |. oo. 6050 ooo. cee
Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $4.00).....
Wormseed . (008 2
POTASSIUM.

BIGEOMALG. e000. he cack 8 Ib
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 25¢).........
Iodide, cryst. and gran. bulk.....
Prussiate yellow..............0000.
ROOTS.

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Arrow, St. Vincent’s............ is
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and \s....
Blood (Powd 18c).................. .
Calamus, peeled...................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered............
Gentian (Powd 15c)................
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)........
Ginger, Jamaica bleached........
Golden Seal (Powd 25¢e)............
Hellebore, white, powdered.......
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.............
alap, powdered..................-
Licorice, select (Powd 15)...... .
Licorice, extra select..............
Pink, WO a a
Rhei, from select to choice.......1
Rhei, powdered E.I................1
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Serpentaria... 45
BOHGKA ee 60
Sarsaparilla, Hondurus........... 49
Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 20
Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... b
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)... 20
SEEDS.
Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢).......... 15
Bird, mixed in b packages.. 5 @ 6
Canary, Smyrna.............. -- 4@ 4%
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c). 15 @ 18
Cardamon, Aleppee.... Sore cae 1 5G
Cardamon, Malabar... peterecas i 7d
CCl a 20
Coriander, pest English........... 10
HOMHOL 2 ee, 15
Ix, ClORTE 38K%@
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%)............ 4@ 4%
Foenugreek, powdered............ TQ 8
Hemp. RUssian, 2. 6253: 4G 4%
Mustard, white Black 10c)........ 10
QUINEG 2 le 75
Rape, Hoglish.............2 8. 6 @ 7
Worm, Levant...... 0602.05. 3.,, 14
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50
Nassau do dQ ...-. 2 00
Velvet Extra do do 110
Extra Yellow do d6. 3... 85
Grass do €Q oe: 65
Hard head, for slate use........... 75
Yellow Reef, GO. 0 5 1 40
MISCELLANEOUS.

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.15) # gal.... 2 25
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 25
Anodyne Hoffman’s............... 50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 12
Annatto 1D rolls.................. 45
ATU oo Rh 24@ 3%
Alum, ground (Powd 9¢).......... 8 @ 4
Annatto, prime... 45
Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 44@ 5
Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ 7
Blue Soluble...<...003.. 50
Bay Rum, imported, best..... . 2 75
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00
Balm Gilead Buds............. 40
Beans, Tonka.............. 2 60
Beans, Vanilla......... 700 @9 75
Bismuth, sub nitrate.. 2 30
Blue Pill (Powd 70c) 50

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Borax, refined (Powd 12¢)..... ... 10@12
Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 2 00
Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d... 22
Capsicum Pods, Bombay do... 18
Carmine, No.40.. 0 4 00
Cassia Buds 2... 00.02 ee. 2
Calomel, American................ 7d
Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5
Chalk, precipitate English........ 12
Chalk, red fingers................. 8
Chalk, white lump................. 2
Chloroform, Squibb’s............. 1 60
Colocynth apples.................. 60
Chloral hydrate, German crusts.. 1 50
Chloral do do _cryst... 1 70
Chloral do  Scherin’s do ... 1 90
Chloral do do __crusts.. 1 %5
Chiorefarm (Go ee iT @ 80
Cinchonidia, P. & W...... la 23 @ 28
Cinchonidia, other brands......... 23 @ 28
Cloves (Powd 28¢).................. 18 @ 20
Cochineal yy a 40
Cocos Butter........4...0.0 45
Copperas (by bbl le)............... 2
Corrosive Sublimate............... 70
Corks, X and XX—40 off list......
Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... @ 40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 b box.. 15
Creasote te 50
GCudbear, prime: . 24
Cuttle Fish Bone................... 20
Dextrine. 2) 2
Dover’s Powders.................. 110
Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50
Ergot powdered Bete GOSS sees 45
Ether Squibb’s................ . 110
Emery, Turkish, all No.’s.. 8
Epsom Salts (bbl. 134)..... 2@ 3
Ergot, fresh............... 50
Ether, sulphuric, U. 8. 60
Blake white............. 14
Grains Paradise........ 345
Gelatine, Cooper’s............ ac) 90
Gelatine, French .................. @ 70
Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 600ff
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue, ca rinet...... Boe eee ose, 12 @ ili
Gluerwnite 7.000) 16 @ 28
Glycerine, pure-......)...... 16 @ 20
Hops 48 and 345.50) 25@ 40
Todoform 8 07.....0..5.0 40
Indigo...... Be Goce ccs 8 @1n0
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 35 @ 40
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co,, boxes @1 00
Iodine, resublimed................ 4 00
Isinglass, American............... 1 590
Japontes 7
Hongon Purple... 6.3... 10 @ 5
ead; acetate. 6... 15
Lime, chloride, (4s 2s 10c & \s lle) 8
Bupynne ee 1 00
HYCOpOdtM 2). 45
Mace ea ee 50
Madder, best Dutch.............. RKe@ 138
Manna, ee "5
MOLCHEY 2 60
Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... B0z 2 80@3 05
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s...... 40
Moss, Iceland.................. 8 b 10
Moss: nish 12
Mustard, English.................. 30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 cans...... 18
INGER eee 23
Nutmoss, No.1... 60
Nu VOmiea 2 10
Ointment. Mercurial, d.......... 45
Paris:Green.. 0: ie. ll @ 2
Pepper, Black Berry.............. 18
BOUGi 2 50
Pitch, True Burgundy............. 7
QURSSIR Ge 6 @
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........ boz 72 @ 7
Quinine, German.................. 72@ TT
Red Preeipitate............... %8 Ib 85
Seidlitz Mixture. ...5...5...... 28
Strychnia, Cryst........2..5...... 2. 1 60
Silver Nitrate, cryst......... - 44 @ %8
Saffron, American........... 35
Sal Glauber............ a @ 2
Sal Nitre, large cryst...... 10
Sal Nitre, medium cryst.. 9
Sal Rochelle: :.. 6.2.0.0... 33
Sal Soda-...:....... 2 2 @ 2%
Deicide 215
AMON 6 50
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 38
Soda Ash [by keg 8c].............. 4
Spermaceti-........ 2... ecole 35
Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s..... 44%@ 5
Soap, White Castile................ 14
Soap, Green: do 2.6. 2.0... 17
Soap, Mottleddo ................ 9
Soap, dO, 00, 22 Il
Soap, Mazzint§. 2)... 14
Spirits Nitre,gH...  k. 2 @ 28
Spirits Nitre, 40... is ceo 30 @ 382
Sugar Milk powdered.............. 35
Sulphor, Hour... 5:0 0.2...5... 2. 34@ 4
Sulphur, “Ol. 20.) oe... 38@ 38%
Partar Hmetics . 2.03... .05 8. 60
Tar, N. C. Pine, 4 gal. cans # doz 2 70
Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40
Tar, do pintsin tin......... 85
Turpentine, Venice........... 8 ib 2
Wax, White, 8S. & F. brand........ 53
Aine, Sulphate. ooo. oo 7 @ 8
OILS.
Capitol Cylmder ic... coe cee ec eas 0)
Model CVHnder ooo os ke 60
Pmleld OVNNGer ke. 50
Eldorado Engine.................... Wessun cues 35
Peerless Machinery..................... -30
Challenge Machinery..............., 2
Backus Fine Engine.............. . 380
Black Diamond Machinery... . 30
Castor Machine Oil......... ..6
Pamauine 20 Gem oe 15%
aragene: 28 Gee 2
Sperm, winter bleached...................., 1 40
Bbl_ = Gal
Whale: winter. 2.65) ..oc060 - 0 75
TUATO, OREVH ooo coo eis cece eck 55 60
Bnd NO bos ee ee 45 55
Linseed, pure Taw............eeccees 43 46
Timseed, Doiued ... 0... oe ee cs cs 46 49
Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 70 90
Spirits Turpentine................... 40 45
VARNISHES.
No.2 Turp Cosoh oo ee 1 10@1 20
Mixtra Vurps. oo secs ce 1 60@1 70
@oseh Body. : 2.2 oi. e. okies 5. ---2 75@3 00
No.1 Turp Furniture......... -..-1 00@1 10
Extra Turp Damar.,..............0000. 1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.............. 70@ 5
PAINTS.

Bbl Lb
Hed: Venetian. . 2... ecch.. 65. 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3
Putty, commercial ............ 2% 2%@ 3
Putty, strictly pure............ 2%@ 3
Vermilion, prime American.. 138@16
Vermilion, English............ 58@60
Green, Peninsular............. 16@17
Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 6%
Lead, white, strictly pure..... 6%
Whiting, white Spanish Sais oss @70
Whiting, Gilders’.............. @90
White, Paris American........° 110
Whiting Paris English cliff.. 1
Pioneer Prepared Paints..... 1 20@1 40
Swiss Villa Prepared Paints.. 1 00@1 20

HAZELTINE,
PERKINS
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Wholesalic

Druggists|

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, gI,
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IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

rigs, Medicines, Chemicals
Pants, Oils, Varnishes,
dd Drageist’s
Glassware,

MANUFACTURERS OF

ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATION
FLUID EXTRACTS AND ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co., and John L. Whiting,
Manufacturers of Fine Paint and
Varnish Brushes,

THE CELEBRATED

Pioneer Prepared Paints.

—Also for the—
Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manufacturers of
Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of our busi-
ness is conceded to be one of the largest,
best-assorted and diversified to be found in
the Northwest. We are heavy importers of
many articles ourselves and can offer Fine
Solid Back Hair Brushes, French and Eng-
lish Tooth and Nail Brushes at attractive
prices.

We desire particular attention of those
about purchasing outfits for new stores to
the fact of our UNSURPASSED FACILI-
TIES for meeting the wants of this class of
buyers WITHOUT DELAY and in the
mostapproved and acceptable manner known
to the drug trade. Our special efforts in
this direction have received from hundreds
of our customers the most satisfying recom-
mendations.

Wine and Liquor Department

We give our special and personal atten-
tion to the selection of choice goods for the
DRUG TRADE ONLY, and trust we merit
the high praise accorded us for so satis-
factorily supplying the wants of our custom-
tomers with PURE GOODS in this depart-
ment. We CONTROL and are the ONLY
AUTHORIZED AGENTS for the sale of
the celebrated

WITHERS DADE & G0.

Henderson Co., Ky., SOUR MASH AND
OLD FASHIONED HAND MADE, COP-
PER DISTILLED WHISKYS. We not
only offer these goods to be excelled by NO
OTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market,
but superior in all respects to most that are
exposed for sale. We GUARANTEE per-
fect and complete satisfaction and where
this brand of goods has been once introduced
the future trade has been assured.

We are also owners of the

Hriggisis Favorite Rye,

Which continues to have so many favorites
among druggists who have sold these goods
for a very long time. Buy our

Gils, Braudles & Fine Wines,

We call your attention to the adjoining
list of market quotations which we aim to
make as complete and perfect as possible.
For special quantities and for quotations on
such articles as do not appear on the list,
such as PATENT MEDICINES, ete., we
invite your correspondence.

Mail orders always receive our spetial and
personal attention.

 

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: ————— y per earl os Pepperell io-4t Daeg = “787 ECOL: Se FX Fakes ma
‘ ae 2 aa at Androscoggin, 8-4.. epperell, 11-4...... 27% A _
A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED BACH. Pepperell, 7-4......16%|/Pequot, 7-4......... 18 .
WEDNESDAY. Pepperetl, ee ee: ee Oh gees a ]
| Pepperell, 9-4.....-. 22% |Pequot, ¥-4.......-- 2
E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. | CHECKS. 5 5 J
———_——_ | Caledonia, XX, oz..11 {Park Mills, No. 90..14 om
: : oT. | Caledonia, X,0zZ...10 |Park Mills, No. 100.15 ce eaearee ye
Office in Eagle Building, sd Ly on St, aa igus Economy, OZ....--- 10 \Prodigy, OF sree: 1 SSE a " . 4
Telephone No. 95, Parks Mills, No. pb [Otis Apron Loe 10% : a | a
ee Park Mills, No. 60.. tis Furniture..... 10% sa 5
ntered at the Postofic rand Rapids as| Park Mills, No. 70.. 2 |York, 1 02........-. 10. 4 |
[Bntered at the Postoffice at Grand Hopi &| Park Mills, No. 80..13 York. AA, extra 0z.14 >
Se | alae’ ae laid
= ——= | Alahame brown.... 7 |Alabama p aid..... 7 |
: \ Jewell briwn.....-- 9%|Augusta plaid...... " |
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1885 Kentucky brown. .10%|Toledo Plaid. 2:26. 7
phi brown... a3 Sein seated ae ‘3
os : 13 ane brown.......- %4\New Tenn. plaid...
Talking in Public. . _ | Louisiana plaid.... 7 *Dility plaid........ 6% WHOLESALE DEALERS IN :
A laughable story, says the Philadelphia a oe adele a a | |
North American, was told by an elderly TP earderipste ie fo ay
an living in the city. .While out ‘Androscoggin, 4-4.. 8%4|/Hill, 7-8.......---+++ 63% ii :
penton an HYINE * ae 7 hie 8 Androscoggin, 5-4..12% Hope, 4-4.......---- 63% ala #
spending the evening he was introduced to a} Ballou, 4-4.......--. 6%) King Phillip cam- A
strange gentleman, and after a few prelim- see ae ie pyret "84 eee ca ee Py it LE
inary remarks on both sides the strange gen- Boott, are x . ce 4-4. oe 1% fi i
: . . 2 : wee ccs 14, iis ric. 5 Hl ii i a Ga i H
tleman inquired about the welfare of his ae R. a ae 5M tanudon. See wie : 4 ae i } i ce taple and Hanc y
son. The relator felt surprised that his Bee ~ Pangan koe ie i ae i He an
new acquaintance should know that he had Geis “4 2 t [Maxwell.44........ 9% gt a i. ea EA Hi
a son, but answered briefly cape s Nee : os “etd Sadie sip edge i i ‘i ae an i: ny
ees © a abot, 7-8.....-+-+-+ 3 |New Jersey, oe Sa! Hom tag! sH Ne
‘He graduates at Havard next spring, L ee 2 as eee . ee a we a a 0 2 A se ®
5 3 : stic, 36....... a a : . - :
believe,” added the new acquaintance. Dwight Anchor, 4-4. a th uien: Avge 1% These Oil Cans in Stock all Sizes, Plain and with Wood Jacket.
Davol, 4-4.......--- 9 |Slaterville, 7-8...... 6% ee

The gentleman thought he must have ave of Loom, 44.. 84|Victoria
fr a g x kes Ae ’

been talking to some of the other guests | Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. "44| Woodbury, 4-4..
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about see ai 2 Satie oe ocambrics Da 1 Whitinsville, Fe... 8 The Best Glass Can with Tin Jacket in tae Market.
conversation about him and the college. old Medal, 4-4.. .. 634|Wamsutta, -4...... 4
: = Zold } Bios: 5 | Willi ville, 36...10% :

There was a brief pause and then the new Cos Mena Fs - ih illiamsville, 36...10% CURTISS, DUNTON ce ce.
acquaintance said, “I’m sorry ve not met | Kown Se ile 28 : 51 AND 53 LYON STREET, n ‘ 5 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 5 &
youe wife this evening, so that I could see | No, Wo . 1244 Masonville S...255710%
your family complete.” reas pee . A a oe 2 =, j (

The gentleman felt that the stranger was Centennial......... ‘ ae a eee een i W Ar h [ | 6
getting a little too anxious to make himself iach ie as ad wictow Beck. id B Ei 5 &
a iliar, ¢ Ss s]j j asud 1 vo.| London...........-: RY Victory ss cl ae 2144 EAS
familiar, and so he Sipped as case Paconia.......-.++- 12 |Phoenix A.......... 19%

 

 

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mark that he had been feeling out of sorts| Red Cross.......--- 10 |Phoenix B........- -10% 5 :
for a few days. Social Imperial....16 [Phoenix ROR 5 (¢ al § Oil
“Yes,” said the new acquaintance, ‘that’s | Albion, solid........ 5%4|Gloucester ........-- 6 B i
Albion, grey......-- 6 \Gloucestermourn’g.&

the way with me when my wife goes away. | Alien’s checks...... 5%4|Hamilton fancy....6

Everything arounc » house seems Ailen’s fancy.....-- 5\4|Hartel fancy........ 6
vere ue oe ne ouse Seems 10 £0 Alien’s pink.......-- 64|Merrimac D......... 6 5
wrong without her.” Allen’spurple....... 614|Manchester ......... 6

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; By this time the gentleman was continu-| ‘aynoldfancy.....-.. \Oriental robes...... 6%
ing the conversation only by saying “tyes” | Berlinsolid........- 5%4|Pacific robeS........ 6
; Cocheco fancy.....- 6 |Richmond........... 6

 

and ‘‘no.” Re lesen Y ;
Cochieco robes oH Ried Bee | NO. 2. AND 3 CANS.

‘‘Aren’t you going to invite me *round to Eddystone “8 lWachineton fancy

y } she ¢ Ss } yr ¥ rida | E PACW. 5.66255 5 W é i .1Y, q*
see you when she comes home from Florida | Eagle fancy 5, |W ashington blues. 7% YOUNG, TENDER AND SWHET,

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ag snes asked the new acquaintance. TINE BROWN COnTONS. ae
1e gen Q ced é i i 1 Appleton A, 44.... 74|Indian Orchara, 8 ry. Dh! GI
gentleman looked at him in no good) pre Nt if. nse. 63; Indian Orchard, 36. 7% NATURAL FLAVOR RETAINED.
humor, but, seeing a smile on his face which | Boston F, 4-4....--- 7% |Laconia B, 7-4...... 16%
ay : ak io a Ea +1 Continental C, 4-3.. 644; Lyman B, 40-in..... 103 ry { j ¢ - i j i | 1
turned into outright laughter, he saw that Continental D, 40in 834 MoE, Bn ea Be GU AR ANTHED PURITY : COL C) ELS
something was up, and, laughing himself, | Conestoga * — 0% See 4 40-in.... 8% :
eae Se ae - - : “at Conestoga D, 7-8... 9% ashua R, 4-4...... Y : :
said: ‘Look here! How the mischief do Conocions G, 9040. eis. Sn $1,000 IN GOLD. #
you come to know so much about my af- ore ou speeee oa eee a cones 6% ; eas
fairs?” Dwight ¥.[2------- pl pebperell By 44.... 1% NOT SWEETENED WITH SUGAR.
‘You told me yourself,” laughed the oth- Lib oe ee aa ; eer : ries 6% ae ETc. Vo.
er. The matter was soon explained. Thej| Enterprise EE, 36. 3 Pocasset O44 6m NO CHEMICALS USED.
ei +43 : : Great Falls E, 4-4... Saranac R.......... Ty
gentleman had been riding in an 8th street | poemers’ A, £4..... S Maar 6 igs NOT BLE ACHED WHITE i
car the day before talking to a friend. The| Indian Orchard t4 7% : aa .

 

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other, then a stranger, had been on the same| Amoskeag .......-- 7%4| Renfrew, dress styl 7% N WW A N A N {

car in a seat close to him, and overheard the sere Persian en — Coy, : NO TER | CANS. 6 and 8 Monroe Street, w
Shyles.-2-...------ Bookfold ......... 24

conversation. When they were introduced Bates De eeser denne 744 Johnson Manfg Co, : i

a day later the stranger recognized him at Sak . or eee a The Trade supplied by Wholesale Grocers Only. Respectfully,

once and could not resist propounding the Glasgow checks, f’y 714|_styles...........-. 1%

questions. They took a good laugh togeth- ae) 8 Pcp temas” , 5 hT tant Crand Rapids cs Michi

er. Gloucester, NeW White Manf'g Co, . THE ARCHER Ec ACGKING CO., Chillicothe, Ills, 2 > Cnsgand.
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Advertising Their Trades. 2 .
ans See a daneaster 0 8 oresiacs oe OAT. VWHNABLE & Co. THE LEADING BRANDS OF *

: : IDE BLEACHED COTTONS.
A young man in want of a shave recently aia oon 7-4..91 (Pepperell. 10-4.....27%
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went into a little barber shop in Harlem, sat Androscoggin, 8-4..23 [Pepperell, i-4..... 32% PEI THN sEe TE, VA.
5 : i Pepperell, 7-4.....- 20 ‘Pequot, iA ee 21 7
down in a chair, leaned back, and was about Pepperell, 8-4. -- Bah) Boquot, See eee 24 MANUFACTURERS OF
to shut his eyes to keep the lather out, Pepperell, 9-4...--- ike i ccgsopatei al eee tae 4
Savas they fell t a ot ac inde HEAVY BROWN COTTONS.
Ww 1en they ell upon an array 0O wondcel-| Atlantie = - pe 74 een ee 1 a
, deeorated she Ting-cups. 1e Tas Atlantic 9 ike ens. iy | wawrence 1, DO: st: 5
fully decore ted shaving-cups. On one Was) 4yitic Di 4-4..... hlenweenes Me 14. |
the picture of a hearse flanked by two up-]| Atlantic Ets Be see a 6% +
ay eo, ZS careers - on.| Atiantie LL, 4-4.... 514 Mystic River, 4-4... 54 ee ae 7AVTOR ee ee A
right coffins; on another was - dummy €0-] “driatic, 36....-.-»- 74 Pequot A, via ae hg AND OTHER FAVORITE BRANDS OF si
gine standing on a section of the elevated | Augusta, ta se: 644 Piedmont, 8822 eae: 6% y
a thers displayed pictures of a milk Boott M, 44....---- 6% Stark AA, 4-4....... 1% bord
road, and others cispiayec pictures of a Mi Boott se acameont AA bi UL O aCcCO <
ve g stone, a Saw. 3. tr rel. Granitevi Q, a-t...- 5% | ) ica, wc, oe sles ee 6 0. 9
— span oe lee owe Indian Head, 4-4... 7 |Wachusett, 4-4..... i” . RED FOX = = [ = = ie = 48
The barber explained that the hearse and | Indiana Head 45-in.12%| Wachusett, 30-in... 6% ‘
coffin cup belong to an undertaker with an as 40 wet aA XXxx 18% NIMROD 44 | SPREAD EAGLE 38 BIG DRIVE = = - = = = - £50
. cieene, ACA oe te, | ROP BCU 8
eye to business who had got enough custom- Apnoea ye) |Falls, ER Se 40| BIG FIVE CENTER.............-.202eeeee es 35|P ATROL es . a . . S ae AB
ers from his novel advertisement to pay his Amoskeag, A.....- 13 Falls, BB.........-. 11%) BLUE PETER..........--00-sseerceret cere 38 | In lots of 72 pounds or over two cents less . wp
: ee : >| Amoskeag, B.....- 12 |Falis, BBC, 36......19% J ACK RB ABBIT
shaving bill for the next ten years. An en- — - ee ep oes iptae it ss .19 = 2 = m = = OO
eo as Alawanted oa aT san moskeag, D.....- ‘Hamilton, BT, 2. ae : ‘
gineer on the elevated road owned the cup | Amoskeag, E.....- 10 Hamilton, D....... 9% iS O Wh 1 4 ] ta 4g 1 SILVER COIN - 2 - ™ - - AG
with the dummy-engine on it. The other Amoskeag,Fj---- 94 Bam iton’ fancy ae WCE ur O esa e UOtA bliOnS eise- PANIC
: rem ium 9 cee | Al ancy... - == om = ms - on co ‘ea
cups belonged to a milk-dealer, a stone-cut-, Ban aiitni Boe 16 \Methuen ce ° thi Sac ’ d ; ° t AG
sr 6a parnenter. 2 pee as oO] Extra4-4.........--- 16 |Methuen ASA...... 18 | ye : ~~ ft = : fi r G1
i 8 ee a Iai Omene Avs where in this issue ana write tor PP sek PRINCE DARK - + - -
narber said he had an order from a neigh-| Gold Medals*.....- 5 |Omega A, 4-4....... A 1
a ee NOOR G85. 12% Omega ACA, 7-8....14 ee . 5 BIG STUMP ~ = E 2 = - . 33
boring shomaker which would eclipse all] @p 4 | o 2 ;
© tA 14 Omega ACA, 4-4....16 y ~“
the other cups. It would contain a tiny a . se ncecceceerers AG ea en i ree uA pecia ~1Cces th or QO S. APPLE J ACK = - = = = c 46
photograph of the shoemaker on a swinging AF i. “1 gare dd (Omega M. 78 Ge Qc less in orders for'100 pounds of any one brand. —
= Sse hid 1 a7 vlecend. **Re.| Cordis AA Sea's iOmega M, 4-4....... 25 : :
sign, bearing his name and the legend, ‘‘Re Gordig AGA. 2... 15 |Shetucket SS&SSW 11% : a 7 : h 0
pairing neatly done.” Cordis No. 1, 32..... 15 |Shetucket,S & SW.12 f alg prepare f Tid p u an riges (ll ally aie We 4 dll 1,
ee ee Cordis No. 2.......- 14 |Shetucket, SFS_ ..12 ‘i > a
see ee Cordis No. 3......-- 13. ‘Stockbridge A..... 7
Mitigated Affliction. Cordis No. 4........ 11% Stockbridge frney. 8 ITNT oe
The hesitancy of the wealthy men of New GLAZED CAMBRICS. THE MEIGS FINE CUT, DARK, Plug fiavor 64
rd Se Voll 5 Cpa yy | Garner ...----- eee: 5 |Bmpire...........-- z sg
York to contribute liberally to the Grant) Fookset...........- S lwashiueiou...... 4% - - 3 STUNNER, DARK. - a = = . 38

monument, is remarked by the outside press, | Red Cross.....----- 5 |Edwards.........-.. 5

which is still of the opinion that Gotham ic: alghebiaene Se PONE eS . 3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich. RED BIRD, BRIGHT - - =. = - .5O
was not the proper place in which to inter American A......18 00\Old Ironsides...... 15 OPHRA QUEEN, BRIGHT - = s ws AO

 

: Stark A........--- .224%4|Wheatland ......... 24

Gen. Grant. . eigen a 3 h I

. wee Wark 4 : oe SHON. ....-- 2. - 20> 6% |\Otis CC...........+- 10 C7 a Ri J rp - ~ - - = = 32
The richmen of New York, judging by pees blue.. 1344 Warren AR ACS ae BRO INS R

   

O SO SWEET Se eee 30

the quantity of crape with which their stores | Everett brown .13\4|Warren BB.......- 11%
2c less in 6 pail lots. @

| Ous AKAL....... "'12%\Warren CC......... 10%
are draped, undoubtedly regret the death of | ous BB... i warren, C02 °0.0398) aper Bag

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General Grant. Nobody can look at the avin So ns,
crape and decide otherwise, but when it} Masgnville.../..... 6 |Garner eee AND SMORING
comes to defining the intensity of their grief) Rea Cross.......--- W 14 ‘Thistle wis 8 a
in dollars and cents, the hesitancy on the| Berlin .......-.-+++- TY ROSC...-.2.2eeer eee 8 Twine Holder /
ee ee tae » vitively | GRICE serveeresee TA " ARTHUR’S CHOICH, LONG CUT, BRIGHT .22
part of the mourners becomes positively SPOOL COTTON. : e
sent Be a BO tate | oa ape RED FOX, LONG CUT, FOIL, =- -  - 26
A tame Indian once told a sympathetic) J. Pp. Goats.....1.55 \Greeh & Daniel i ri : S =
pale-face friend about the loss of his horse; Willimantic ¢ cord. Merricks ee Patented April 29th, 1888 GIPSEY QUEEN, GRANULATED .26 es
the pale face expressed considerable woe Charleston ball sev, Halle aii CAPACITY 2,500 BAGS. OLD COMFORT, IN CLOTH - - - Q7
eer : a a ee stray} ing thread........ 30 jHolyoke..........-- 25 as : :
nes ore conser gas oe ee SEAL OF GRAND RAPIDS, IN CLOTH 24
voice: YMOry ....-------- 4|\Kearsage.......---+ 4 : :
“J am very sorry for you my red friend.” Androscoggin sat.. bi Naumkoag catteen, 84 mental, constructed of malleable DIME: SMOKER, IN CLOTH sl — - D4
‘“Pale face, how much you sorry?” asked Cencuaon. Ce 6% Pepperell oe ae on iron, neatly Japanned, with stee! 2c less in 100 pound lots
Po ; ee Hallowell Imp..... ¢e|Rookport Boas 7? | wire needles, and will never get out p .
the inquisitive Indian, extending an itching Ind. Orch. Im es | Law i co sat: oe 814 ofrepair. Weighs about 6 lbs. and These bran a eco col 3 only by »
palm. ACONIB... +--+ es eres Yy|\Conegosat........-- occupies 18 inches square of space.
Then the pale face began to talk about Can be adjusted to any height of ‘ -
the weather, just as the wealthy New York-| COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS, ames saan esineeaey Arthur ele S & O
er does when the monument committee calls ei vem bak nee - ere 1 o9| distance of salesman. For fa aoe M. CG o
: +P
on him, and endeavors to sound the depths Ohio Waite, lime, oe lots seer teetene : ss information address
of his grief in dollars and cents. caren ee eet 13
In most well regulated clothing stores, Betalo Gement, per DbI..eesvcc0es+, ‘ 1 80 GRO. R. BRO WN, 0 CSad. e rocers
there are two departments of mourning oe teligle pasha le — . 5 *
goods. One is ‘“‘the heavy bereavement de- pienpn po ~ prerites ee : PALMYRA, N. ¥.
crtment,” and the other is ‘the mitigated | Land plaster, ear lot. 0000000001 3a ee Who warrant the same to be unequalled. We guar-
-. ee In ped ar nine Bie rie Be Bei ae OF yn | | antee every pound to be perfect and all right in
s only one department, viz: “the mitigate : COAL. 2 : : ‘ ; c é
affliction department.” Anthracite, ogg and grate, cur lots. $5 290 Bo Franklin MacVeagh & Co., Chicago, Ill. rosy ek We a. Lg poe =
—_—»> > __—_ Cannell, car lots.......---.-+-+++0+- ses oO e Cl VY O visi our p ace oO usiness an
In England, in coal mines alone, since Ohio Lump, car lots....... acreteeee .. 3 10@3 25 , 5 ° ’ ?
pn ree ce ucavatatichiod. \SoeedRCaeen nee OO Arthur Meigs & Co.,Grand Rapids, Mich.|canal st. IT MAY SAVE YOU MONEY.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts |
of Last Resort.

 

INSOLVENT PARTNERSHIP.

Unless upon proof of fraud, the retiring
member of a partnership that subsequently
became insolvent cannot be held liable for |
any firm debts contracted after his retire- |
ment, according to the decision of the Su- |
preme Court of the United Statesin the case

 

of Penn National Bank vs. Furness.
NEGOTIABLE PROMISSORY NOTE—INTER-
EST.

An instrument in the usual form of a
negotiable promissory note, except that it
provides for the payment of ‘‘interest at 10
per cent. per annum from date until paid, 7
if paid when due,” in legal effect calls for |
interest at 7 per cent. from date till paid,
and is therefore a negotiable promissory ;
note. So held by the Supreme Court of |
Minnesota in the case of Smith vs. Crane.

 

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PROMISSORY NOTE—INDORSER’S LIABILITY. |

A promissory note in renewal of one that
had been discounted by a bank was indors-
ed by the defendant in the case of Wessel et.
al. vs. Glenn (Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
yania), for the accommodation of the mak-
er. When the note was signed and indors-
ed there was a blank left for the place of |
payment, which was preceded by the word
“at.” The maker took the note to the bank, |
but the bank refused to take it, as there was |
no place of payment. He then filled up the
blank after the word at by writing the name
of the bank. The court held that this was
not such an alteration as would relieve the |

indorser.

RAILROAD CONDUCTOR’S LIARILITY —STOL- |
EN GOODS.

A railroad conductor who permits a pas-
senger to travel on his traintaking with him
goods known to the conductor to be stolen
isnot liable to an action therefor by the
owner of the goods, according to the decis-
ion of the Supreme Court of Maine in the
case of Randlette vs. Judkins. The Court
in giving judgment, said: “The railroad is
a public highway, over which all menibers
of the publie who are in a proper condition
to travel in a public car, who pay the estab-
lished fare and conduct themselves prop-
erly, have a legal right to travel with lug-
gage. It is the legal duty of the conductor
to permit all such persons to enter the cars
and travel over the road. For sufficient
cause he may stop the train and eject a trav-
eler from the train. He owes no legal duty
to the public to stop his train and eject a
traveler who is guilty of a felony, or to ar-
rest such traveler and hold him as a prison-
er and seize the property he may have in his
possession. As a citizen he may have the
right, if hesee fit, to arrest a traveler who
is guilty of a felony and hold him until he
ean be properly prosecuted; but not being
an officer charged with the duty and having
no legal warrant therefor, he is under no
legal duty to do so, and thereby take upon
himself the burden and hazard of justifying
his act. Nor does he owe any duty to any
member of the public to arrest a thief and
seize, and hold the stolen property he may

 

have in his possession; or to seize and
hold for the owner, Whoever he

may be, goods which a traveler on the road
may have taken and is carrying away as a
trespasser.” The court added: “We have
discussed the question involved upon princi-
ple, there being no authorities directly in
point cited by the learned counsel on either
side, and it is said there are none.” |

$$. |

How the Second Number of the Manufac-
turer was Received.

Howard City Record: Tire Micwican
MANUFACTURER, published in Grand Rap- |
ids, is a very handy and handsome paper.

Charlevoix Journal: No. 2 of THE
MiciiGAN MANUFACTURER is out, and in
contents and style are fully up to the stand- |
ard promised in the first issue.

Freeport Herald: Tue MicnicaANn MAN-
UFACTURER for September is at hand. No |
neater paper is printed, its contents are ex- |
cellent, and it is a paper valuable to every
business man. ‘The editor has the good will
of the Herald in this grand enterprise. Let
every business man put a shoulder to the
wheel and keep THE MANUFACTURER in
our midst. :

Grand Haven Venture: The September
number of THe MicHiGAN MANUFACTUR-
ER is out and is a credit to the publisher,
Mr. E. A. Stowe; to the city, Grand Rapids, |
and to the State. Every person interested |
in the manufacturing interests of the State |
should subscribe for it.

Petoskey Democrat: Tur MICHIGAN |
MANUFACTURER comes to our table again
for September. It is a sixteen-page paper,
neatly printed on tinted paper, and is a
credit to the publishers. It pesents some |
very interesting articles of value to manu-
facturers and mechanics.

St. Louis Industrial Gazette: THE
MicuIGAN MANUFACTURER, a Ssixteen-
page monthly, published at Grand Rapids, |
is the latest addition to trade journalism.
Volumne 1, Number 1, is a very neat and
commendable issue. We welcome it to the
broad field in which we are capering our- |

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selves, and wish it success.

Newaygo Tribune: The second number |
of THe MicniGAN MANUFACTURER, for |
September, is a model of typographical |
beauty and brim full of choice reading mat-
ter. Not content to deal alone in dry de-|
tails, Tuz MANUFACTURER launches boldly

| a. m.,and

1G Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.

|G. H.& M. Ry.

out on a line of its own and has something
of value and int@rest to all classes of read-
ers. ‘Its editorial department, presided over
by .E. A. Stowe, contains well-considered
articles on insurance, monopoly and other
public questions and the page devoted to
“Business Law” is alone worth the price of
a year’s subscription. No merchant, me-
chanic, manufacturer or farmer can afford
to be without this paper, ner will they be
after having once read the same.

TIME TABLES.

Michican Central.

 

 

 

 

DEPART.
*Detroit EXpress.........+-.eee eee eee 6:00 am
+Day EXpreSS......-..02:eee eee eee es 12:45 9m
*Atlantic EXpYess......--.2-- eee eee 9:20 pm
Way Freight.......-...- see ee ee een ees 6:50 am
ARRIVE.
*Pacific EXpreSS............-+-+e+eee- 6:00 am
ONaat ee ee 3:50 p m
#Grand Rapids Express..........-...- 10:50 p m

WayFreight....  ........-.2--2e see eeee 5:15am
+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific
Express.

Pirect and prompt connection made with
Great Western, Grand Trunk and Canada
Southern trains in sume depot at Detroit, thus
avoiding transfers.

The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has
Drawing Room and Pesrlor Car for Detroit,
reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:30
Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.

A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except

| Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv-

ing at Grand Rapids at 10:50 p.m.
J.v. ScHuULTZ, Gen’l Agent.
Chicago & West Michigan.

Leaves.

 

Arrives,

  

NaN bes ee 9:15am 4:25pm
tDay Express:......--.-.-- 12:35 pm 10:45 p m
* Night Pxiuerss......0. 55. 8:35pm 4:45am

  
 
 
 

*Daily. tbaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sieeping Czrs on all night trains.

Through parlor car in charge of careful at-

| tendants without extra charge to Chicago on

12:25 p. m., and through coach on 9:15 a.m. and
9:35 p.m. trains.
NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Leaves. Arrives.
| HAXpress..... ..---.-----2-+- 4:15pm 4:04 pin
Oy 6 Ob ests bye gs as oie 8:05am 11:15am

All trains arrive and depart from Union De-

pot. ns
The Northern terminus of this Division is at

| Baldwin, where close connection is made with

FE. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington and
Manistee.
J. A. CARPENTER, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. MULLIKEN, General Manager.

 

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO DIVISION.)

Arrive.

PXPress.-----.2--.4.--2--- 7:15 pm
Ma 3 be 9:50 am

Alltrains daily except Sunday.

The train leaving at 4 p.m.connects at
White Pigeon with Atlantic Express on Main
Line, which has Palace Drawing Room Sleep-
ing Coaches from Chicago to New York and
Boston without change.

The train leaving at 7:30 a. m. connects at
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with
special New York Express on Main Line.

Through tickets and berths in sleeping
coaches can be secured at Union Ticket office,
67 Monre street and depot.

J. W. McKENNEY, Gen’! Agent.

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

Leave.
7:30 a ma
4:00 pm

 

Arrives. Leaves.
+Steamboat Express....... 67am 6:25am
+Through Mail.........-... 10:10am 10:20am
+Evening Express......... 3:20pm 3:35pm
*Limited Express.......... 6:27pm 6:30pm
+Mixed, with coach........ 10:30 am

GOING WEST.
+Morning Express......... 1:05pm 1:10pm
+Through Mail............ 5109pm 5:15pm
+Steamboat Express....... 10:40pm 10:45pm
PMIROG 8... oss: j:lvJam
*Night Express...........--. 5:10am 5:20am
+Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily.

Passengers taking the 6:25 a. m. Express
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at
10:00 a. m. the following morning.

Parlor Cars on Mail Trains, both East and
West.

Train leaving at 10:45 p. m. will make con-
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except
Sunday.

Themail bas a Parlor Car to Detroit. The
Night Express has a through Wagner Car and
local Sleeping Car Detroit tc Grand Rapids.

Limited Express No. 10, Detroit, Grand Haven
& Milwaukee Railway, shown on their schedule
as leaving Grand Haven daily at 5:80 p. m.,
Grand Rapids at 6:30 p. m., arriving at Detroit
11:45 p. m., will temporarily be run one hour
and thirty minutes later than shown in the
schedule. This will make the leaving time
from Grand Haven 7 p. in., Grand Rapids 8 p.
m. Passengers for points east of Detroit will
make connections at Durand 11:06 p. m., with
Fast Limited Express on the Chicago & Grand
Trunk Railway, making the same time to east-
ern points as heretofore.

D. Porrer, City Pass. Agent.

Gro. B. REEVE, Traflic Manager, Chicago.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

GOING NORTH.
Arrives.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex 8:45 pm
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 7:00 aim
Ft. Wayne& Mackinae Ex 3:55 pm
G’d Rapids & Cadillac ‘Ac.
GOING SOUTH.

 

Leaves.

10:25 a m
5:00 pm
7:10am

7:15am
6:00 p a
11:45 p m

Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 3:40 pm
Mackinac & Ft. WayreEx..10:25 a m
Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40 pm
Ail trains daily except Sunday.
SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.
North—Train leaving at 5:00 o’clock p. m.
has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and

| Mackinac City. Trainleaving at 16:25 a.m. has

combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse
City.
South—Train leaving at 4:35p.m. bas Wood-
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.
Cc. L. Lock woop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette.

Trains connect with G. R. & I. trains for St.
Tgnace, Marquette and Lake Superior Points,
leaving Grand Rapids at 11:30 a.m. and 11:00 p.
m., arriving at Marquette at 1:45 p.m. Return-
ing leave Marquette at 2:00 p. m., arriving at
Grand Rapids at 6:30a, m. and 5:45 p.m. Con-
nection made at Marquette withthe Marquette,
Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad for the
Tron, Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.

F. MILLIGAN.

| Gen’] Frt. & Pass. Agt., Marquette, Mich.

 

Goodrich Steamers.

Leave Grand Haven Tuesday, Thursday and
Sunday evenings, connecting with train on D.,
Returning, leave Chicago Mon-
day, Wednesday and Friday evenings, at 7
o’elock, arriving at Grand Haven in time for

| morning train eust.

 

Grand River Steamer.
The Steamer Barrett leaves her dock for
Grand Haven, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri-
days, returning on alternate days.

 

 

 

 

 

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

BN GIN HS

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills,
Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft-
ing, Pullevs and Boxes. Contracts made for
Complete Outfits.

GY MILLING GU,

Proprietors of

CRESCENT
FLOURING MILLS,

Manufacturers of the Following Pop-
ular Brands of Flour:

   

 

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ELO sider $y:
1 aul ELD pHiGe

i « CRESCENT,”
Bo — oat “ WHITE ROSE,”
“7. C. Denison “MORNING GLORY,”
= =

“ROYAL PATENT,” and
“ALL WHEAT,” Flour.

READ! READ! READ!

HAZELTINE, PERKINS & CO. have
Sole Control! of our Celebrated

Pioneer Prepared Paint!
The ONLY Paint eon a a GUARANTEE.

88, 90 and 92 South Division Street,
GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN.

b. RUYS & Ub

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

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KN j any building, andif within three years it should
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\ erack or peel off, and thus fail to give the full
satisfaction guaranteed, we agree to repaint
the building at our expense, with the best
" White Lead, or such other paint as the owner
may select. Should any case of dissatisfaction

; ' | oeeur, a notice from the dealer will command

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Send for new i our prompt attention. &. H. NEVIN & CO.
Price e List tor Send for sample ecards and prices. Address

alee Eagelling, Perkins & Co

ORDERS PROMPTLY BILLED | [GRAND RAPIDS, :

EDMUND B, DIKEMAN, oleae

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HERPOLSHEIMER
& CO.,

a STAPLE AND FANCY
GREAT WATCH MAKER| Pry _Groocts |
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OVERALLS, PANTS, bte,,
aie our own make. A complete

line of TOYS, FANCY
CROCKERY, and FANCY
WOODEN-WARKE, our own
importation, for holiday trade.

. Inspection solicited. Chicago and De-
GRAND RAPIDS, - troit prices gurranteed.

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDG

Wholesale Grocers,

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JEW Bio FoR,

44 CANAL STREET,

MICHIGAN.

 

 

 

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The Best and Most Attractive Goods on the Market. Send for
Sample Butt. See Quotations in Price-Current.

 

 

FULL LINE OF SHOW CASES KEPT IN STOCK.
WIERENGO BLOCK, PINE STREET, - MUSKEGON, MICH.

 

THE NEW CIGAR.

WARREN'S SPECKLED HAVANA,

They are a novelty in the Cigar line. Every one of them is naturally speck-
led. The greatest sellers ever put on the market. Wesolicit a trial order from
every first-class dealer in the State. Fully guaranteed.

FOR SALE BY

Kemink, Jones & Co.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

JENNINGS & SMITH,

PROPRIETORS OF THE

Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

20 Iayon St., Grand Rapids.
ASK YOUR JOBBER FOR

Jennings Flavoring Extracts,
—— AND———
Arctic Baking Powder.

 

RINDGH, BERTSCH & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

BOOTS AND SHOES.

BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO.

We have a splendid line of goods for Fall trade and cuar-
antee our prices on Rubbers. The demand for our own make
of Women’s, Misses’ and Childs shoes is increasing. Send in
your orders and they will be promptly.attended to.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Se. FF ADAMS & CO.’

vary best dark goods on the Market,

AGB,

Mich.

THRE CRAND RAPIDS ROLLER MILLIS

NEW IMPROVED PATENT ROLLER FLOUR
“SNOW-FLAKE,” AND “LILY WHITE PATENT,” AND

FANCY PATENT “ROLLER CHAMPION,”

Prices are low.

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Fine Cut Chewing Pobaceo is the

Halon & GIN

Granda Rapidas,

 

 

Extra quality gueranteed. Write for quotations.

VALLEY CITY MILLING CO,

EAST END BRIDGE ST. BRIDGE, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

CLARK, JEWEL & CO,

WV ETO S AIDES

Groceries and Provisions,

$3. Shand $7 PEARL STREET and 114, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREBT,
GRAND HARDING - - -

 

 

 

 

 

   

MICHIGAN.
O.W.BLAIN & CO., Produce Commission Merchants,

DEALERS IN

Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Southern Vecotables, Ete.

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Ete. <All orders filled at lowest market price orres-
pondence solicited. APPLES AND POTATOES in car lots Specialties. NO.'9 fONLA SE.

HE. FALIUAS,
Wholesale & Commissiol—Butler & Hoos a Specially,

Choice Butter always on hand. All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
No. 1 Egg Crates for Sale. Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used. 50 cents each.
and 99 Canal Street, - Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

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CHOICE BUYTER A SPECIALTY!

CALIFORNIA AND OTHER FOREIGN AND
DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Care-
ful Attention Paid to Filling Orders.

M. C. RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st., Grand Rapids.
PEREINS & HESS,

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

FE STEER & BOs
. =] A © ENGINE ae
AD WORKS A | Le

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A.

MANUFACTURERS OF

STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.

Carty Engines and Boilers in Stock guj icity
ior immediate delivery. Quo By

 

 

Send for
Catalogue
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Prices.
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Satur AND CRIST MILL MACHINERY,

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery,
Saws, Belting and Oils.

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pniley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for sample pulley
and become convinced of their superiority.

Write for Prices. 130 CAKES STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

WM. SHARS & CO.
Cracker Manufacturers,

Agents for

AMBOY CHEESE.

 

 

87, 89 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Groceries.

Debtor and Creditor.

Who dodgeth us, and corners turneth spry—
If, catching him, as ’twere, upon the fly,
Whotelleth us a most cgregrious lie?

Ye Debtor!

Who followeth from pillar unto post,

And maketh it redhot for us—a “roast’”’—

Till we “come down;” or else “give up the
[ghost?’’

 

Ye creditor!
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Commissioner of Agriculture Coleman on
the Subject of Adulterations.

At a recent meeting of agricultural chem-
ists in Washington, Mr. Coleman, Commis-
sioner of Agriculture, delivered an address
on the subject of foot adulterations. He
thought the Association should fix standards
of purity for the different kinds of food and
establish methods for the detection of adul-
teration. He thought the general govern-
ment ought to co-operate with the respec-
tive State governments in passing the most
stringent laws against the adulteration of
foods. Upon this point he said: ‘‘In so
simple a matter as the adulteration of milk
it would be hard to secure a conviction in a
court of justice for any person practicing it,
because of the absence of any official stand-
ard by means of which the extent of adul-
teration could be measured. It should not
only be the object of chemical control of
agriculture that abundant crops should be
produced, but also to see that the products
of the fields should be delivered to consum-
ers free of any cheap or deleterious adul-
teration. In the question of food adultera-
tion I have long been greatly interested, and
am anxious that some steps may be taken,
by means of which the extent of it may be
diminished. I have already directed the
chemist of this department to give attention
to the adulteration of foods. The frauds
that are practiced upon the public in adding
cheap and frequently harmfn] ingredients to
the food we eat in order to make greater
profits ought to be exposed in no uncertain
way, and the perpetrators of them held up
before the public as objects of scorn and de-
testation. To such an extent is the adulter-
otion of butter and the manufacture ofa
counterfeit article carried on, that the great
dairy interests of our nation are now almost
prostrate. The honest producer of a pure
article is impoverished, while the manufac-
turers of and dealers in a fraudulent article
are enriched, some of them having become
millionaires by this illegitimate work. The
same may be said in relation to the adultera-
tion of our sugars and syrups.”

9
The Pacific Coast Sugar Markets—Spreck-
el’s Control Disputed.

Leading men in the sugar trade express
doubts regarding the reports that the reign
of Claus Spreckels over the Pacific coast
sugar markets will come to a close in conse-
quence of the reorganization of the Ameri-
can Sugar Refinery, with increased capital
and the avowed intention of breaking the
Spreckels monopoly. The same fight has
been carried on for years, with Spreckels

* always on top, and his dethronement is not
considered by any means a: foregone con-
clusion. It is doubted whether the new
company has obtained control of so large a
share of the Hawaiian crop as_ reported,
Viz., 55,000 tons, and it is believed that fully
75 per cent. of Spreckel’s requirements are
still covered by his contracts with Ha-
waiian planters, leaving only 25 percent. to
be obtained from the Phillipine Islands, the
product of which is open to the world.

One thing, however, appears probable,
that a number of the Hawaiian planters
have joined the new combination, driven
thereto by dissatisfaction with the arbitrary
manner in whichaSpreckels has exercised
his power. His contracts for their sugar
crop, it is stated, are based ona price the
equivalent of one-half to one cent per pound
less than the New York quotation of 96
Cuba centrifugal sugar on the delivery of
any part of their crop in San Francisco. His
method of dealing with the planters is said
to be somewhat imperial. He goes to the
Islands, calls the planters together, and no-
tifies them that on a certain day he will con-
tract for their crop. If any of them do not
come up to time he refuses to have any-
thing more to do with them, and with his
absolute control of the Pacific coast markets,
this is equivalent to a heavy fine. These
dissatisfied planters have by this new ar-
rangement secured an outlet for their crop

even in spite of Spreckels’ displeasure.
—_———_——»_4<.___-
Clean Butter.

Henry Ward Beecher, while editor of an
agricultural journal, wrote the following
protest against unclean butter:

The comparative degrees of butter are hor-
rible, bgd, tolerable. We seldom see any
butter in the markets which merits a higher
term. Vast quantities exposed for sale and
bought upon compulsion, and eaten through
dire necessity, would, in New York or
Philadelphia, never be quoted as butter, but
as grease. Sour, bitter cream, from dirty
receptacles, yields butter depraved from
the very churn, but lard being added and
butter-milk not subtracted, it travels to mar-
ket in hot weather, and its charms are ex-
posed in a very melting mood. O, for a re-
formation in the dairy! While old farmers
hunt good breeds of cows, we hope young
farmers will find a breed of wives who
shall know that theres such a virture as
cleanliness. The practice of rolling butter
in linen cloths is not good. In warm
weather it sticks, and in all weather butter
takes a peculiar taste from the cloth. Be-
sides,though we believe in saving old shirts,
we don’t like the economy of tearing them
up for butter-rags. At any rate,it behooves
us to know out of whose undergarments we
are eating, for, we suppose, even cannibals
have a choice of what men they shall eat.

 

The Cultivation of the Cranberry.

The Detroit News recently gave some
information regarding the cultivation of the
eranberry.
atively recent as an article of trade, having
been first successfully cultivated by a Massa-
chusetts farmer in 1820. But it was not
until 1850 or 60 that its culture was greatly
engaged in by the people of Massachusetts,
especially on Cape Cod, and the counties of
Ocean, Atlantic and Burlington, in New
Jersey, whose territory is peculiarly adapted
to its growth. The total product of 1860 was
computed at 100,000 bushels, the great bulk
of which was produced in the two states
named, the price that year running up to $10
per bushel, but this was exceptional. Since
that time its cultivation has become more
general, particularly in Canada and some of
the Northern States, and the yearly pro-
duction greatly increased,a large amount of
it being exported. It is said that Cape Cod
and the three counties of New Jersey
named above furnish the best fruit and
about one-half the entire crop raised.

The cranberry receives its name from a
fancied resemblance in its vines and leaves
to the neck, body and legs of a crane and
was originally called craneberry, It is a
low, slender, creeping shrub with evergreen
leaves, requiring for its best culture a low,
marshy, sandy soil, and so situated that it
can be oceasionally flooded in order to main-
tain a proper degree of moisture and kill the
worms that sometimes infest the vines and
destroy the fruit. Although it thrives
in boggy, marshy lands, where noth-
ing else can be raised,it cannot be cultivated
on ordinary soil, as many experimenters
have learned to their cost.

It is found in its wild state in the marshes
and low lands of our Northern States and
Canada. It is also found in the same lati-
tude on the Eastern Continent, but the berry
is inferior to that of this country.

It is said that more cranberries were grown
in Michigan some years ago than now, a
considerable amount coming from the coun-
ties in the burnt district, where the vines
have since been destroyed by the forest fires.
A large amount of fruit is marketed yearly
from Wisconsin, but is not equal to that of
Cape Cod and New Jersey. Minnesota also
produces quite a quantity.

The crop is a very uncertain one, owing
to its liability to damage from early frosts
and the depredation of worms. Still its
cultivation is increasing from year to year
and reaching out westward and northward.
There is always a good demand for it in its
season, and it is a profitable crop where ‘the
conditions of growth are favorable and the
grower understands its management.

>_< ____

The Grocery Market.

Business and collections are all that could
be desired. Sugars are on averitable boom,
the prophesy relative to granulated selling
for 7c in New York haying been fulfilled.
Every indication points to further advances
before the upward movement ceases. There
is very little fine grain—or ‘‘off’”—granu-
lated in market, and it is almost impossible
to obtain any of that grade at present.
Mackerel is higher and firmer, and herring
in barrels has advanced 25 cents. The salt
market is again demoralized, the compact
between Saginaw and Manistee having ap-
parently been broken. Manistee salt is now
offered to the jobbing trade here at 88e, and
the latter hold the same at 90c. Saginaw
salt can be had for 7214 cents per barrel,and
14 cents freight,making the same 8614 cents
delivered in Grand Rapids. How long this
condition of affairs will hold remains to be
seen.

Candy is active and very firm, with ad-
vancing prices on some grades. Nuts are
steady. Chestnuts will be in market in a
few days. Lemons are weak, and oranges
a trifle higher.

———— -.
Petroleum in Italy.

According to the Financial News, of
London, there is a project in Italy for the
formation of a strong company to investi-
gate the petroleum wealth of that nation.
Thus far there have been no deep borings in
Italy, but the increased capital will cause
experiments to be made to the depth of
1,800 to 2,000 feet.

This popular fruit is compar-

 

 

LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co, quote f. 0.
b. cars as follows:

 

  

Uppers, finch... ess s es eke per M “— 00
Uppers, 14, 1% and2inch................ 46 00
PCICCTS,; 1 INCH... 5. os Skee ewes es 35 00
Selects, 1144,1% and 2 inch........0 ...... 38 00
Fine Common, linch.............  ...... 30 00
BHO; Linen os aes es 20 00
Fine, Common, 14, 1% and 2inch, ...... 32 00
No. 1Stocks, 12in., 12, l4and16 feet... 15 90
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., Bt 16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in. PO TORU es ss 17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 15 00
No. 1 Stoeks, 10 in.,18 feet................ 16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........... 0... 7 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet................. 16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8in., 20feet................. 17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet................ 13 00
o. 2 Stocks, 12 in., . TOCb eee. 14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., ist IORb eco cet 3 00
No. 2Stocks, 10 in., QO PORES Bede sso oes 4 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 11 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet................. 2 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8in., 20 feet................ 3 00
Coarse Common or shipping culls, all
widths and lengths......... ....... 8 00@ 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6in ............... 2. 33 00
C Strips, 4oreinen. 6... ee ee, 27 90
No. 1 Fencing, all lengths................ 15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12, 14and 18 feet.......... 12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet..................02. 12 00
NO. a Rencing, 4 inch... . oc en Se 15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4 inch... ..........0..000 12 00
Norway C and better, 4or6inch......... 20 00
Bevel Siding, 6inch, A and B............ 18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.................... 14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1 Common.. 9 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, lear se. ee: 20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12, 12 to 16 ft. 10 00
$1 additional for each 2 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6in., A. B............. 6 00
Dressed Flooring, 6in. C................. 29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6in., No.1,common.. 17 00
Dressed Flooring 6in., No.2common.... 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4in.,A. Band Clear.. 35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C................. 26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5in., No.1 com’n 16 00;
Dressed Flooring, 4 ordin., No.2 com’n 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
XXX 18 in. Standard Shingles......... 3 10
ROR AST TIN oc ccc oes es 3 60
MORAG AN he ee eee ie 215
No. 2 or 6in. C. B18 in. Shingles......... 1%5
No. 2or.5 in: C58; 16 1 oe. oe ccs 1 40
MGM ee Ss ee aes ios ce 8 1 75@ 2 00
WOODENWARE.
Standard Tubs; No)... .0..0 0 ie. ane 8 00
Standard Tubs; NOO2: 620.0560... 3 see l ee cee 7 00
Standard Tubs; NO. So... 2.6.00. 60... se cece 6 C0
Standard Pails, two hoop...................- 1 60
Standard Pails, three hoop.................. 1 85
DOW PAR) ooo os oo os ek ce 2 10
Dowell Tubs, No. i Deve es eee e eee eeee tees eeees 87
Dowell ups: NO: 2.5. ois ks ee 7%
Dowell Tubs, NO 38... 2.66. 6. sooo e es cel cess 6 75
Maple Bowls, assorted sizeS................. 2 00
MUGeT WACO es. 6 ese eee es ee 1 25
POMINO INS. es ec ae -1 00
POTAO MASNETS.: o.oo ce esas. eee cece 75
Clothes Pounders. o25 3.6. coe 6 oe. eo. coke 2 25
Clothes Pins..:......... eS ee 65
MOO SLOCKS:. 20355. a ce ee, 1 25
MASNDOATAS, BINBIC. 0 i... es ice le ce 15
Washboards, GOW Clee 2 25
BASKETS.
Digmona Market: 2.02.2 .020. 56 40
Bushel, narrow band. :.... 0.502. 06.. ee. e ek 1 60
Bushel, wide pand..:. 6-2... 06.02.0650 02.3. 175
Clothes, splint, No.1... 0. 0..0.2...0.....235. 3 50
Clothes; splnt, NO.2. 6556502... ee 375
Clothes, splint, No. 3. -4 00
Clothes, wallow, NO. 1. ooo... oe ca es aes 5 00
Clothes, willow, NO. 2.200000. ee bes 6 00
Clothes, willow, NO.3:... 0.00.20... 0.000.000 7 00

HARDWOOD LUMBER.

The furniture factories here pay as follows
for dry stock:

  

Basswood, log-run................... @13 os
Birch, log-r BI eee ec 16 0V@20

Birch, Now tangs. 0, @25 00
Black Ash, lO@-TUN: 0.2.3. oc... sees @14 00
Cherry, log-r rE cles are ee nn ree 25 00@35 00
Cherry, NOs: 1 and 2.20. 2.2. cues... @d5 00
PROrrys CU ee 10 00@12 00
Mavle; log-ran 252. oes ok 13 00@15 00
Maple, soft, log-run................. 11 00@14 00
Maple, Nos. land2................... @16 00
Maple, clear, flooring................ @25 00
Maple, white, selected............... @25 00
Red Oak, log-run....... @15 00
Red Oak, Nos.1] and 2...............- @20 00
Red Oak, No. 1,step plank.......... @25 00
Walnut, log-run RTS open. SUE. @ad 00
Wainut, NOS: 1 and ?...... 0.00. ..25. @i5 00
Walwuin, culls... 2.22.1... @25 00
Wateér Blm, log-riin, 3. 22... 2... @11 00
White Ash, log-run.................. 14 — 00
Whitewood, SORTA se 23 00

MISCELLANEOUWS.

Hemlock Bark— The local tanners are offer-
ing $5 per cord delivered, cash.

Ginseng—Local dealers pay $1.59 per pound
for clean washed roots.

Rubber Goods—Loeal jobbers are authorized
to offer 45 per cent. off on standard goods and
45 and 10 per cent. off on second quality.

 

FRESH MEATS.

John Mohrhard quotes the trade selling
prices as follows:

wresn Beet, Sides: .. .2.......0..25..565 6 @7
Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 7 8
MIPERROG TIGERS. ee oes 6 @ 6%
Mutton, CATCABSES..:. 2... 5...2........ 44@ 5%
iOS Re es Sr a ee as 8 @
WOT BAUSORC soo os ooo ees alee se TRG 8
PIQIOBTA ie oes on ee he 8 @9
MMOWU IS oo ee ee oe ll @i2
Spring Chickens....................... G16

HIDES, PELTS AND FURS.
Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows:
HIDES.

Green ....# ib 6 @ 6% Calf skins, green
Part cured... @ 7%|_ or cured.. @10
Fullcured.... 8u4@ 8% Deacon skins,
Dry hides and # piece..... 20 @50
KIDS ....-.:. 8 @12
SHEEP PELTS.
Sheariings 2) ee 10 @25
TMD SKIES: oo. eek ee 20 @40
Old wool, estimated washed # hb...... @20
AMO es ie ieee 444@ 4%
WwooL.
Fine washed # tb 20@25|Unwashed........ 2-3

Coarse washed...16@18

 

 

ELASTIC

STARCH.

Latest Improved.

TO "TEE

TRADE.

This starch deserves the attention of every Grocer who aims to keep first-class

goods to please their customers.
highly perfumed.

This starch is put up in fancy colored packages and
It is sold to you on its own merits ; warranted as represented, or we

will cheerfully refund you your money, providing directions are complied with. This
starch is made entirely different from all other starch, and is the only starch in the
United States that is put up by men who have a practical experience in the laundry

business. How to laundry linen has been

should be done in every family.

be just as stiff and nice, with that beautiful polish as when first bought new.
other advantages this starch possesses over all other starch is:

kept a secret long enough, what can and

By using this starch your shirts, cuffs and collars wil]

A few
It requires no cooking.

Keeps the Iron from sticking, and linen from blistering while ironing. One package is

warranted to go as far as a pound and a half of any other starch made.

The manufac-

turer offers one hundred dollars in gold if this starch prooves injurious to the finest

linen.
next order? It will please your customers.
case. See quotations. Trade supplied by

We keep the Elastic Starch in stock. Can we send you a trial box with your

Fancy advertising streamers go with every

Clark, Jewell & Co.

Special notice to the trade—J. C. Hubinger & Bros. are the inventers and originators
of the Elastic Starch, and they didn’t have to borrow or steal the name and fame of
their neighbors in order to sell this starch. Grocers, beware of worthless imitations

which have recently been put into the market to deceive the public.

Be sure that the

name of J. C. Hubinger & Bros., New Haven, Conn., is upon each box or package,

without which it cannot be genuine.

 

 

 

 

 

   

  

 

 

 
  
 

   

  
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

  

 

  

 
  

 

  

  

 

    

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

   

 
 
 

 

 

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Catsup, Tomato, pints................. @1 00 CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS.
Epenes Pombin, quarts .........:.... @1 35| Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

These prices are for cash buyers, who pay oc eer ag Reni hints: te... oe e Se hk ne
promptly and buy in full packages. Halford Sauce, pints............ 3 50 | Twist, do Re ane ogi
Ao eet -Soantss herring. Halford Sauce, % pints................ @2 20 | Cut Loaf QO se a: 104%@11

eclined—Common salt. SOAP. . MIXE

Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne:...... @4 60 | Royal, 25 Mopaile.-.2.. .. i Sie 9@ 914
AXLE GREASE. ‘© Monday . eee @3 35 | Royal, £ 200 ID DDI. oo. ce @ DSie
Frazer’s........... 2 80\Paragon ........... 1 80 SPICES. Extra, 25 tb pails..... ..... i 10@ 1044
cee scat cay : e Paragan 25 b pails.1 20 Pepue Ground. 16@25'P Whole. = Extra, 200 Ib DbIS. 2... ose. cece cee eee ee 9@ %

odoc a wee cs x 25|PEpper........... @i9 | French Cream, 25} pails.............. 2Y4@13

, BAKING POWDER. ee Ue ore 18030 ao nee hve ce a ee 25 Tb eneee eRe ecg cos Seok 2%@
Arctic % beans.... 45|/Arctic 1 cans....2 40| Cloves ...........15@25) ‘Nutmegs Pe 60@65 Beaker | eatee Ee Se — tin
Arctic 44 cans... 75|Arctic 5 cans....12 00| Ginger 22222222.2) 16@20\Cloves ........... @18 Piva shinee 9@ 9%

Arctic % beans. ..1 40 Mustard ee 15a) : Lemon Drops.... = L2@13

: BLUING. aYOnne .......-. 25@35 Pour ee. F

a ae ss STARCH. Poupesnbit i Co HO

DU Ee Or Ca ece nee nants ss: aoe sree oo Kingsford’s, 1 pkgs., pure............ @6%% | Chocolate Drops............00 777777" 5
Letina Bea Hee Gon i one ese doa a 3 pkgs. pure... ....... @6%4 | Fl M Chocolate I Pee 2
Tiguid. ee i. oo : 1 pes. , Silver Gloss..... G8 | Gum Drops ks ie
Sige ei ee : pkgs., s,s tree raps. 2
Arete bog CILLA gioss 408) ERGY com sean» a | ANDES? bps oo 2
we 2 00 (Bulk) ‘Ontario ee oe @a Lozenges, plain................ eeeed5
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.................+.. 2 00] Cut Loat oe ws, | Lozenges, printed............ coe
Coane 3 00 pe gee Boe ceca eee ce . 1% a Rene at eee ee a ce 15
Reena 8 Ge, oa (0 gene ee ees eee iG
BROOMS. Granulated, Standard................. @i si | Molasses Bar 0 7"
No. 1Carpet........ 2 50|No. 2 rd jon) Granulated, Of 00 Gee. es S@2t
Ne oCarper 2 25|Fancy Whisk.......100| Confectionery A... 220 =. @ (Hane Made@reams........... he
No.1 Parlor Gem..2 7%5|CommonWhisk.... 75 Standard A............... GG Pain Gomme It
ein 3 pee WING a ce ie a 6% oon ees pr on
Ginnan ree. er es D@ 6% Pitan Glee a ot slaw ene ce. H4@15
Clams, standerds.........---.----+--0 oa ie | a ren erie be
Clams, 2 a Standards eee 2.600) Darlo@. fo. 62 ole. ee 544@ 54 FANCY—IN BULK. ee 15
9 DID. cece epee encase Dace cene YRUPS, ;
Cove Oysters, 1 ib standards.............. Coun, Barreiss 2300 oo 380@32 Toe pee a fas oh aus
Cove Oysters, 2 ib standards............. 2.00 4) Comm, 6 DbIS.. 0. oe. 32@34 Eeconaee printed { in ais ee 7 oe
Cove Oysters, 1 Ib slack filled............. 15 Corn, (0 gallon kegs... .<. 2... ee cs, @ 35 Lozenges, printed in ae eee wee
Cove Oysters, 2 Ib slack filled.............. 105 | Corn, 5 gallon kegs..................... @1 75 | Chocolate Drops, in pails : SS
Lobsters, | picnic, ...... 0.6... cc0..0:, 1%5 | Corn, 4% gallonkegs................... @1 60 | Gum Drops in pails...........2222207. av
Lobsters, 1 ib star.........00 00 eseeceeeeee 2 Pure Sugar.) bbl 23@ 35|Gum Drops, in bbis......0..0 270 '6@ 614
Lobsters,?2 Ip Star...: 2.50 ..6..5 6. ccs cece eee 300 | Pure Sugar Drips................ % bbl 30@ 38! Moss Drops, in ae 10 Obs
Mackerel, ‘Lb fresh standards............ 100 | Pure Sugar Drips... 2.2... 5 gal kegs @196| Moss Drops, in bbis.........0 007 277°7"" @ ?
Mackerel, 5 tb fresh standards Reis 6 50 Pure Loaf Sugar Drips... ...... % bbl @_ 85 | Sour Drops, in pails as
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 B........... 3 25 Pure Loaf Sugar. ...d9g¢al kegs @1 8 | Imperials, in pails
Mackerel,3 tbin Mustard.................. 3 25 TEAS. Imperials in bbls..
Mackerel, 3  broiled...........-.+.....+4 325 | Japan Ordmary...... 2.2... ee eee eee eee ees LAO FRUITS.
ante 1 ~ oe Se Loeb as i a . peu a BO POON os. Sos oa 380@35 | Bananas Aspinwall................... 1 00@2 56
ge ee Meee oe
Sardines, domestic 48...............-...-. 6 ViOtMNS ELVRON Sco 380@50 Lemons, ace .....). (eS Fag 4
Sardines, domestic %s oe 1 Gia Powder 35@50 | Lemons, ios oat a
aoa Walshe (geo ces Sele ceis 2 pe ee Bier. layers, Pe 6 @uU ,
18 i Meas te as arnt wes ee Oo ROTI Oc cao s ag a pieieie clciac cca cie wale ars c we waste on a . ates, oA
Trout, 310 DYOOK.. |. 20. . c cee. 275 TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN PAILS. na Tinton, Z ae i A eee a a
CANNED FRUITS. oi ace. Pisses Ries cans Dates, skin. “Sieg ena o 444
: : : ne Meigs... 2.03... 64|Meigs & Co oc Dates, 34 Sein a
haa a a a a cue | ed Siw nc. SAS one ans 35 | Dates, Far ale Mbox @ M............ -
Blackberries, standards....00000000200000:1 08 | Blaeye Mower o-oo Rela Ne ooo S| Dates Bard 50 box Bes
, Ueno ccs sian cacao ceo a Ol 2.) 5) Ge 6 ate an: SoG f
Coes, red standard............-...++, 4 = Climber eee 62) Fountain Bho cites juice G “4 Dates: Persian 50 ® box # ee . eM
i on cas Oe 140 Indian Queen........ 60;/Old Congress......... 64 PEANUTS.
Gee Ce a 149 | Bull Dog............. 60|Good WE oi se 52 | Prime Red, raw ® b.... 4 @4%
Posatios Fvica Yollow ee ee eaten a. 2 40 Crown Leaf......... 66) ‘Blaze AWA os, 35 | Choice do i. 4144Q :
Peaches, atandards 2. oS Gi 95 Matchless ............ 65 Hair Lifter........... 30 | Fancy do de "@ 5
P By I cee ei i 76@1 95 =| Hiawatha............ 67|Governor ............ 60 | Choice White, Va.do .............,.... 5@ 5M

eaches, seconds............. bee eek 150 | Glob 70 es BOO wah ce recta enlve ss 5@ 5%
Pinsanples Eric 2 90 ONG eo. °0 Fox’s Choice........ 63 |} Pancy HP... Va do ........ 54@ 6
Picnic a 140 May Flower.......... 70 Medallion . 200-89 i
a Hoo ete : wl Sweet Owen... 2... 66 | Almonds, Ferragona.................. 18 @1s8%
Raspberries, Black, Hamburg............ 1 %0 : ca. NONGM oe li @17%

CANNED FRUTTS—CALIFORNIA. OpORIO oo ee, @i0 - pane ‘Sicily Cee @10 fa
tee ee 3.9] Messmate 000000000 ee oe eee ee a
Egg Plums......... 2 50/Quinces............ 290} Bis Ring... eee cee @46 Iw alnuts, Grenoble 7. Ald
GTAPCH .........50.. 2 50; Peaches .:......... 3 00 Cherry ee a Mae ae
Green Gaees....... 2 50 U Mek occ: coc tcss oc me oe cas M40 ‘“ SSO Ug ste a tuts lieder .

Y ageRay Cae eats: ree: a ci “ French... py
Asparagus, Oyster Bay See eS oe eas 8 25 Blue eter: 0 ee @38 Pecans, get HP... 0.2... eee 10 @u
Beans, Lima, standard.................... 75 | Spread Eagle........................4, @38 Piece 2100 ee yee 4
peas Bosna lore, Bie: oe ; = a oe Center. 3.5.. 5.5. @35 Pe Ma OG Ses ee ee WG 50
Coro, *Brophy.....-+---. ees a PROVISIONS.

PHSe MEOH GNG sc 0b Georges oi. ens 1% eal of Grand Rapids.................. DAG The Grand Rapi ackine & igi y
Peas, Marrofat, standard.................. 1% POMP 5 = quote as follow “Sas pachila & Praviatan C9
Peas, WCRVEM. 25. o.oo ce cos eee. e ACEO! Fs oe : @A8 PORK IN BARRELS.
rene, oeny ia apd Dh oe 18 one appt Re eo ec eae @46 | Mess, Chicago packing...... 10 00

umpkin, OLGOI eso oe oe ee BBcpO8 DPROWUAKE oc ook ee cca ks 5 @46 Clear, Chicago packing.................0..,
Succotash, standard............... 90 Chocolate Cream............... @46 Extra FE amily Glens. 2 ” Lee 2 e : : oS it 00
Tomatces, PRYODOYij oso ccs ee cess ees ‘1.00 V ot : ae @46 =| Clear, A. Webster packer..................

CHOCOLATE. a AO ee ese, ee als a byl ORV
boos 36|German Sane 25 Bie RE a ae eae tenet @32 7. Wotsten Sao miele) a 6a <inis «ae owe wic'alg luc ce ccc
ST 32 4 acker, short cut......... i
Bakers oo... eee SWeet .-. 23) Arab, Pianta @416 Clear back, ace pn E: - aes. 2s i
Runkles’.........-. eee _— Beare ee @37 |Standard Clear, the best...........0.7.°'"'18 7
ie OU ee ee ee ss @46 DRY SALT MEATS—IN
Green Rio...... 9@13 |Roasted Mar...17@18 Old Five Cent Times................... @38 Short Clears, heavy..... — a ee %
GreenJava.....17@27 |Roasted Mocha.28@30 | Prune Nuggett, 12...........000.002. @62 a ae q
Green Mocha.. .28@25 |Roasted Mex...17@20 EOC ccc. os eae @AG do. ani ee , if!
Roasted Rio....10@15 (Ground Rio.... 9@16 OVO MNCs ee ee @38 vaya
Roasted Java ..28@30 |Package Goods @12% Ee es ele ens awe ao cess @A6 73;
CORDAGE. OEY ce a @46 wae
72 foot Jute ..... 125 |"2foot Cotton....2 25 | Silver Coin............................. @50 ve
60 foot Jute..... 100 (60 foot Cotton....2 00 | Buster [Dark].........0...000.00000.. @36 1
40 Foot Cotton....1 50 [50 foot Cotton....1%5 | Black Prince [Dark]................... @36 74
ae Black Racer [Dark]...... 020000000000. @36 14
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.............. 65 Leggett & Myers) Stan... 00..550055.055 @46 SMOKED MEATS~0 ANV ‘ASSED | OR PLAIN.
fetes oe @4% CU ee ee oo GAG. | Hams heavy) oe 104
€God.Boneless....... ... 5@6 Hold Rast. ics 08 ae @46 = noe tyne oes cues ae. 104%
Walibut eee ee ll McAlpin’s Gold Shield................. @46 fo eno ee 1034
Si ae te Va een ees oz | Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12h ecads. ..... Gum |Honeles tans
Herring ve DIS. oo ee eee elas A iD Cock of the Walk 6s ae es ete Se eee ses Wy
Herring, Holland, domestic... 91212071127" 65 ock of the Wa Be oases sos ses @37 | Boneless Shoulders..................6. 00.00. 3
“ denpurted.... 0... 1 00 ones PR WASts S80 eo @46 el ate ee Se ae 8
iorene!) Seuled. 2@24 Acorn Boe te Os ee as G46 ried Beef, extra quality................... 914
Mackerel; shore, No. She 5 00 Casson ee @4 Dried Beef, Ham PIG CG oc. ca a
1 kits 8 GK ON @35 |Shoulders cured in sweet pickle............ 6
Meee? 0 p
‘6 “a 6 10 “0 ee IASG @40 LARD.
‘“ No. 3.3 Sa ee 35 Ue ee @AG | Miercesn ye i
: Je bib kits oo Orage Ge Wandin tbe... 14
“ “49 ee ee oe ees tek ose ou ao 50 ib Round Tins, 100 cases.............. wg
. x fe a ri BOPREISDOG@G. uu tsk eda @A4 LARD IN TIN PAILS.
eee, a Se ee 3 a Maur Bitter oo cues @36 20 ib Round Tins, 80 ib racks............ 733
CC eee 6p. (ee wma. Diner: eo sone ees @36 |3b Pails, 20 ina case 1%
Ce re 5b MecAlpin’s Green Shield............... @45 +=|5% Pails, 6in acase....... "37
White, No. 1, % bbls ee eae ou Ace High, black...... ee a. @35 10 Pails, 6 in a case 5g
White Wel iehidte 85 Sailors’ Solace...... Be ee @46 BEEF IN BARRELS
White, 5 hes ee 2e. less in four butt lots. Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 IDS. coc. es 10 25
White, Family, % bbls..................... 2 65 SMOKING : Boneless, extra.) 3... 13 50
: ee Old War. cos s, 40:Conqueror ...........23 SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Arthur’s Choice..... 22 Grayling .66...0.) 00 32 | Bork Sausaee 2. 7
Lemon. Vanilla. Red Pox:. 3... .a50:. 26 Seal SDE 2 ee 80 | Ham Sausage a ele Se ee ee a we ca ce ce
Jennings’ 2 02 #9 doz.100 1 40| Flirt 28 Rob Roy Piensa Sr 13
OF... 2... -.....-... Z100 140) Hirt..............-.. <8) Rob Roy.............. 26 x ESC os noe ees ct se
“ MGR ee ee 15 2 59| Gold Dust............ 26'Uncle Sam........... 28 | Frankfort Sausage Reece iia Pata canes Sous 0
“6 662-0 250 400] Gold Block........... 30; Lumberman ......... 2h Blood Sausage. 0.2. 6
“ SOG 850 5 00] Seal of Grand Rapids. |Railroad Boy......... 38 | Bologna, str aight Settee oe es a 6
“ No.2 Taper.........--..... 1 25 150 (Gloth). 2.0 /Mountain Rose....... i loomna thice 6
“ No 4.06 1% 300] Tramway, 3 oz....... 40, Home Comfort....... 25 Mette 6
“6 % pint round ae 450 7 50| Ruby, eut Cavendish 35\Old Rip............... 55 PIGS’ FEET.
ea ee 9.00. 15 00| BOSS”..--. 2.02262... 15, ae of P North Caro- eae Danelay ee ee 3 25
+“ No: 8 ee 800 425] Peck’s Sun........... 18 8| 8 O45 48 | Im quarter Darrels.......... 0.5... ee
“ No: 10... ae 425 600 es one Puddlers.2 s Seal of. of North Garo- aS
i : orning Dew........25) lima, 40z............ 46 COUN re q
Cherries, dried “itted < @i6 Chains... 2... 22/Seal of North’ Caro- oe ne na A Ree:
pera ; S IEUCG eee lias pea Peclese ma ton. Som... 41 App es—Fall fruit commands 40c # bu. and
fe ee 4%@5| Standard .............22 Seal of North Garo- $1.50@1.75 ® bbl. for eating and 25¢ ® bu. and
eae ee 56513 | Old Tom.............. 21) lina, 16 oz boxes....40 | $1 9 bbl. for cooking
Pe toy nok aay, | om & Jerry......... 24/B ig Deal...... am : = cae
Po Gate eS cies See : ae S| yorker 2 "95 Apple Wacko 9. Beans—Dealers pay 75e@$l1 8 bu. for un-
Rade Saas ee Le ae Traveler ........ -35| King Bee, longeut...22 | picked and sell city picked for $1.25.
Baan tocce Muccatals "3 69 | Maiden............... 25| Milwaukee Prize....24] Blueberries—About out of market
Sates Penion Faso. @3 60| Pickwick Club....... 40 Rather 1 SF Biackhorsos— See -
acre 6c ae gore. Nigger Head a | to cut plug... .25 = ac pease good demand at 8@9e.
: SENE . QUANG fo. col. PAOLO: 2 ss. 16 utter—Michigan creamery is in moderate
ay y 30° q 334 ay
Water White..... a | Legal Test....... . 8% Geanan ee 16 Holland Mixed....... 16 | demand at 18@22ce. Sweet dairy is in active de-
TCHES. olid Comfort........380/Golden Age.......... 15 a ‘ :
Grand Haven, No. 8, square.............. 1 00 Red Clover. ......... 32|/Mail Pouch.......... 25 | mand at M@lse, while low grades are going
Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. 1 %5| Hone Tom............ 30| Knights of Lator....30 | begging at 8@12c.
Beane poy ne ha parlor. :..,..-0...), 2 25 Rational eas 25 Free Cob Pipe........ 27 UC stockis infairdemand at 60
rand Haven, No..7, round................ 1 50; time ....... eee cece el doz
Oshkosh, No. De ee Be 110 SHORTS. Cheese—Slightly firmer, full cream readily
Oshkosh, ING! 6 ee 1 60 Globe. oe 21|Hiawatha............ 22 commanding 7 134@84e
Gwodish 0 75 Mule Har. ........-... 23 Old Congress......... 2 Celery—25c # doz. aauelice for Kalamazoo or
Richardson’s No. 8 square...... 1 10 SNUFF. Grand Haven.
RichardsousNO.9 dO. .......6.......... 1 65 Lorillard’s American Gentlemen..... @ %5| Clover Seed—In good demand, with limited
Richardson’s No. 7%, round........... eee cs 1 10 ae : Macconoy...... 2.0... 6.6... @ 55|supply. Fair to good Medium commands $6.50
Richardson’s No. 7 A032 165) Gail & ae SS @ a A alasee recleaned $7. Mammoth is held at
: . aAppee @ 3d | $7.5
Black Strap Se uals Ballad MiP Scotch... 6... @ 45 Corn—Green, no demand.
ose el eer ee eee OUMDEC i ee @1 30 Crabapples—i0c ® bu.
POrto BiCO is. coe eee ce 28@3K STARCH. Cucumbers—15@20ce # doz.
New Orleans, g00d........................ 38@42 | Elastic, 64 packages, per box............. 5 35 | Eggs—Unchanged as to demand, but stiffer
New Orleans, choice Rho eee ets ca os twes 48@50 i VINEGAR. in price, fresh stock commanding 12%c.
New Orleans, eis Sey a ear a2 Pure Cider..... . §@12 White Wine...... 8@12| Grapes—$1.25@1.50 8 Crawer of about 25 bs.,
a : ra. MISCELLANEOUS. according to size.
OATMEAL. _| Bath Brick imported .................. 95 Green Peppers—$1 @ bu.
Steel cut........... 5 25|Quaker, 48 tbs...... 2 35 do American..............4.0. 90 Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at 134@
Steel Cut, i bbls...3 00) pee 60 bs oe Po Memey a, Ge |... 4, $b@Si6 8
olle Hise. 5c 38 60;\Quaker See... 6 00; Burners, No.1. : 1 00 ay—Baile 9 6 ® ton.
PICKLES. o. No.2 fo A6O Melons—Water Ole apiece, packages ex-
Choice in barrels med..........2..0064- @5 25| Condensed Mill, Bagle brand ..2.1001. Sop [oe Munk tt @ doz.
Cooleetas% 00 2c: @3 25| Cream Tartar 5 and 10 I cans......... 15@25 Onions—Southern, he bbl. or $18 bu.
PIPES. Candles: Star 0 oo. @13% nd 86 ie and Southern Bartlett com-
Imported Clay 3 gross................. 2 25@8 00| Candles, Hotel... ......6.. 2.2.2.2... @14 | mand $6 B g2
Importee Clay, No. 216, 3 gross..... .. a 2 Extract Coffee, V. O......0...5.4.5-6-- @80 Plums—Domestic, $2.506$3 ® bu. 9
Imported Clay, No. 216, 2% gross...... @l do Reale 1 25 Peaches—Michigan: early freestone $2.75@3 8
American 4. D.. e.. 3. @ 90 eum tad pe a” buccal aa opdeh et eb ece @30 oo Corn—Choice commands 4c @ b.
um, Rubber WHIPS. 20.2... @A0 we
A ee 6x nx Gam Sores... 30@35 Potatoes—New potatoes are so plentiful in
Prine ao 6y oa see e ee ceeee AC Nowy © Obl. ec. @4 60 | Most localities that regular quotations are out
fe eee gee : (3 = e jelly inae i pais. @ 4% of the question. Jersey sweets command $4
oice Carolina.....7 angoon ....... 5@@6% | Peas’ Green Bush.............. 2.2.2... @1 35 | ® bbl., and Baltimore $3.50.
Good Louisiana. econ 5%|Broken.............. 3% Peas, Split prepared................... @ 3 Poultry—Very scarce. Fowls, 12@18c.
* SALERATUS. Powder, Kee. 1.602 ee. @3 00 | Spring chickens, 16.
DeLand’s pure...... 5% Dwight’s ......:..... BM. Powder 4 Kem. 6 @1 %5 | Squash—Summer, le 8 ib; Hubbard, gia
porch a ee 5%4 oe oe eee 5% Fa ap a at 75@80 # bu

aylor’s G. M....... 544 |\Ca Oaf. ose: 53 Seer Taas urnips—40e u

- hag o OYSTERS AND FISH. Timothy—SL bi @ bu.
o heen EW Dairy oe 4c eo: 2 a F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

OCKEL.. 6. eee eee cee ce ee ee ee eee 2 20 OYSTERS. Wheat—2c lower. The city millers pay as

1003  pockets............ sees eee eee ADT Ee We loots eo oak sae ieee cesses 35 | follows: Lancaster, 82; Fulse, 78c; Clawson,
Saginaw or Manistee................- SO | Btaiaee oe edocs soc s eee 25 | T8e.
eed pene hale cce nee | an eins 1 60 FRESH FISH. Corn—Jobbing generally at 55¢ in 100 bu. lots
ene Coarse... 2... .- esse eee ee eee - 155 | Mackinaw Trout..........:000. -ceseeseeeees 6 | and dic in carlots.

shton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... Oy AW ep a ce 6 Oats—White, 35c in small lots and 30c in car-

Ashton, English, dairy, 4bu. bags.... 280 | Black Bass...........cccee cece en ececeeeeceees 8 | lots.

eee 8 Hye OB DU. aw
; 1% < DEMS. oo odes #9 arley—Brewers pay $1.25 2 cwt.
BOCK, DUSUOIB. ooo. oo 6 coy cee eck ose se 28 Flour—250 lower, Fancy Patent, ®. .75 @ bbl.
SAUCES. in sacks an in woo traight, $4.75 @

Parisian, % pints................0.000 @2 00 bbl. in sacks and $5 in wood.
Pepper Sauce, ved Smalls. icc2.... 8. @ %5| Wall-eyed Pike..................4. ees. 6 Meai—Bolted, $2.75 8 bbl.
Pepper Sauce, green............0065 es @ 90| Smoked White Fish..................... 02 10 Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 @ ton. Bran, $13
popper _— red ange ring......... gt - Pameloe a Pega ea Una s aVieeee ee caus : ton. Poe i spe Middlings, $16 # ton.

epper Sauce, green, large ring...... G moke urgeon........ ewe Loeene Gacy Cees orn and Oats, on.

 

 

 

  

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ON THE ROAD.

How a Traveling Man Illustrated Some of
the Difficulties He Met With.
From Judge.

We three had been te witness leg-itimate
drama at some St. Louis variety hall one
evening, I remember, and thereafter seated
ourselves in a comfortable corner of the lob-
by of the Southern Hotel to enjoy a cigar
before going to bed. Cusby, apropos of
something that had come up, gave us a
spirited account of an interview he had had
some time back with a particularly tough
buyer whom his duty had required him to
tackle, when Josh Brown was moved to re-
late an experience of his own.

“Gus, your man wasn’t a patch on a fel-
low I braced in Boston in the spring of ’83,”
he said. ‘‘Why, I was turned out of that
place ’steen times in one day. I tried that
chap in every way, and although I was new
at the business in those days, I put in some
very good licks, and if I had been blessed
with as much muscle as perseverance and as
many lives as a cat, I should certainly have
sold himabill. At nine A. M., I went in,
sample grip in hand, and was fired directly.
At ten I tried him without my samples. No
go. Ateleven I braced himagain. Result:
black eye. During the afternoon I made
the attempt in various disguises. I tried to
effect an entrance as an organ grinder, hay-
ing borrowed the instrument at a heavy
rental from a Dago on the corner. The new
organ I had to buy in place of the kindling
wood I brought out of that store cost fifty
dollars. As an old apple woman I was
kicked into the middle of the street, and
after my last attempt for the day, which
was in the disguise of a performing bear, I
was carted off in an ambulance.”

‘While convalescing I received a tele-
gram from the housein New York, and
when I got out of the hospital Iran in.
When I showed up at the store the old man
called me into his office, remarking very se-
verely;” :

‘* “Mr. Brown, we hayven’t heard from you
in the last ten days except by draft, but in
that way with sufficient frequency. Where
have you been since the first of the
month?’ ” Z

‘* ‘Yn the hospital at Boston, Mr. Migg’, I
answered.

** Ah, I suppose you got full, Mr. Brown,
and tried to lick the whole police force, or
attempted to throw a horse-car off the track,
or perhaps, monkeyed a bit with Mr. Sul-
jivan?’ ”

“* ‘No, sir; you haven’t struck the combi-
nation. I was laid out in an attempt to sell
a bill to Bier of Bier & Bretzel.’”

** See here, Brown,’ Mr. Migg remarked
sorrowfully, it’s my opinion that you don’t
know how to sell goods. We didn’t get
pounded in my day and although it’s many
years since I was on the road, I think-I can
teach you new men a thing or two.’ ”

“‘T intimated that I was not above being
taught a thing or two or even three, and
would be glad of pointers.

‘* ‘Now,’ said my employer, ‘‘assume that
Iam you, Mr. Brown, and you are a buyer,
Mr. Bier, for instance. Take a seat at my
desk and I, representing the drummer, will
ome in and sell you a bill.’

“«*Am I to understand, Mr. Migg, that I
am to conduct myself in all respects as Mr.
Bier would towards Josh Brown?’

** ‘Certainly, you fool, that is precisely
what 1 want,’ he answered irritably.

** “Although ’m not so big a man as Mr.
Bier is, Mr. Migg, I’ll do my best.’

** *¥ don’t see what Bier’s size has to do
with it, young man.’

“ “Oh, you don’t. Well, Pll try to show
you, sir. But, Isay, Mr. Migg, you won’t
hold me responsible for the consequences,
will you?’

““*What’s got into you, Brown, anyhow?
What the devil do you mean by conse-
quences? ‘There are no consequences to be
considered. Shut up and take that chair.’

“* ‘All right, Mr. Migg, I’m ready. Heave
ahead.’

‘The boss went out and as soon as the
door closed, I took off my coat and vest,
rolled up my sleeves to the shoulder and tied
my suspenders tightly around my waist.
Then I took the chair just as my man
knocked.

** “Come in,’ I sang out,
opened.

** ‘Mr. Bier, I presume,’ remarked Migg
blandly. ‘‘My name is Brown, sir, I rep-
resent Migg & Miggles of New York and
my object in calling was to——’

‘*There was at this.point a slight pause.
The drummer found the buyer in the act of
lighting a choice Havana which he had help-
ed himself to from a box on the desk.

“* “Well, young man, what was you object
in calling? Spit itout,’ I said gruffly. .

** See here, Brown,’ he commenced
wrathfully.

‘« “Tf you are talking to me, sir, my name
is Bier. State your business as_ briefly as
possible and get out.’

‘*Migg choked down his anger and went
on:

** “As Iwas saying, Mr. Bier, I represent
the funeral furnishing house of Migg &
Miggles, and calle :

“What, Migg & Miggles; why didn’t you
say that before?’

“ ‘But, I did, Mr. Bier.’

***Confound your impudence, young fel-
low. Do you suppose I’m deaf? Do you
believe I would allow a man to enter my
doors who represents that fly-blown, lan-
tern-jawed Migg? Don’t you know, sir, I

and the door

 

. despise that pink-nosed, ,slab-sided, measely

beat more than any of the other vile and low
creatures that crawl? As to dealing with
him—

“T’d sooner be a toad

And breath the vapors of a dungeon
Than harbor such a thought.

 

‘* *T suppose you want to sell me some of
his rotten old coffins or worm-eaten caskets.
Why, Migg never turned out an honest
piece of werk in his life. His coffins never
fit. They bag at the knees and turn white
at the seams. They shed buttons like a
walnut tree in November. Rather than be
buried in one of his machines, I’d be plant-
ed in a soap-box. His caskets are all short
measure; are not fast dye and are more than
half cotton. No, sir, I wouldn’t deal with
that man for—why he’s no man atall. That
low-lived, addle-pated, moth-eaten thing of a
man—not much. If you belong to him, and
you say you do, get out of this at once or
Pll brain you with this ruler. Are you go-
ing?’

“T hoisted the ebony and rose to my feet.
Old Migg was mad; he was more than mad.
When he could speak at all, which was
guite a bit after I had finished my graceful
tribute to his character as a man and a mer-
chant, he gasped:

‘* “Brown, you're a fiend.
neck right here and now,
to joke with me.’ .

*‘And with that he made a break for me,
crazy wild. I hove the ruler, a big heavy
affair, as he advanced. It took him on the
top of the head, and glancing from thence,
went smashing through the glass partition.
Then we closed. You should have witness-
ed that scrapping match, boys. I had more
fun than a tramp at a free-lunch or a moke
vith a melon. We waltzed around that
apartment like a peg-top with a green apple
colic, kicking over chairs and desks and
spilling ink and gore—only, it wasn’t my
gore—and generally speaking, had a regu-
lar parrot and monkey time. Finally, I got
Migg near the partition, and—say, you fel-
lows have seen a Graco-Roman wrestler get
aman on his back and with his hands clasp-
ed under ‘the chin throw him clean over his
head? Well, that’s what I did to Migg. He
went sailing over the partition and landed
with acrash among a lot of coffin plates
bearing such inscriptions as ‘Rest’ and ‘He
is not dead, but sleepeth,’ and there he laid
quietly while I resumed my clothes and
helped myself to a fresh cigar, the first one
having become in the course of the fray,
considerably demoralized.

“‘And after that, I suppose, all hands
turned to and dessicated you previous to
your being given the grand bounce,” I haz-
arded.

‘*You’re wrong again, Lang, my boy. Of
course, I got out of the shop as quickly as
I could, but the next day Migg sent for me
to his residence. I found him in bed, a very
bunged-up specimen, I promise you.”

‘“‘T commenced apologizing, but the old
man stopped me with the question:”

‘* “How many times did you call on Bier
on the ist., Mr. Brown?’ ”

«* Seven times, sit’.”

“* “And did Bier use you as you did me?’ ”

‘* ‘Not every time, Mr. Migg,’ I answered
truthfully. ‘The first and second time I
called, he only swore at me and the house,
but from the third time he used me pretty
much as I used you.’ ”

** “And you say you went back four times
after your first licking in your endeavors to
place a bill?’ ”

***You’ve called the turn, Mr. Migg’.”

‘“*What salary do we pay you, Mr.
Brown?’ ”

** ¢$1,500, sir’.” :

““*From the first of this month, the
cashier will pay you $2,500. Yes, Mr.
Brown, it is harder work selling goods now
than it was when I was on the road’.”

~~
The Champion Lazy Boy.

PH break your
Tl teach you not

Mrs. Fizzletop, not being satisfied with
the progress made by her son at the Uni-
versity of Texas, called on his teacher.

“Professor, how is my son Johnny com-
ing on with his studies?” she asked, anx-
iously.

“Ihave great hopes of him, madame,
great hopes.”

“T am so glad to hear that.”

“Yes, madame, he is phenomenally lazy.
I don’t think I ever saw a boy who was so
phenomenally.lazy.”

“I understood you to say you had great
hopes of him.”

“So I have, for I think if he ever begins
to study he is too lazy ever to stop.”

_ 2
Fixed it Easily.
From the Hartford Evening Post.

“Look here, Mr. Grocer,” said a Hartford
citizen. ‘‘How’s this? I get twice as
many huckleberries for a quartas I did
strawberries.”

‘Well, that’s your luck. Besides, huckle-
berries are smaller and of course there is
more of ’em in a quart.”

“Of course, but I don’t mean that exact-
ly. I getabigger dish full of huckleber-
ries than I do strawberries for a quart.” -

“Oh, well, I can fix that easy. Here,
Bob, give this gentleman a strawberry box
full of huckleberries.”

That was about a pint and a half.
21-2 ___

There is a well of natural gas at Murrys-
ville, Pa., that has been flowing for ten
years, and itis said there is no diminution
of pressure, though as good a well has been
struck within thirty feet of it.

Judge (to darky witness)—Do you know
the nature of an oath?

Witness—Sah?

Judge—Do you understand what you are
to swear to?

Witness— Yes, sah.
de truf.

Judge—And what will happen if you do
not tell it?

Witness—I specs our side’l win de case,
sah. :

I’m to swear to tell

| has a bad memory.

VISITING BUYERS.

The following retail dealers have visited
the market during the past week and placed
orders with the various houses:

Neal McMillan, Rockford.

D. R. Stocum, Rockford.

Jackson Coon, Rockford.

K. W. Pickett, Wayland.

Geo. D. Sisson, Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co.,
Spring Lake.

J. R. Barcus, Muskegon.

L. Cook, Cook & Sweet, Bauer.

Jas. Grannis, Six Corners.

Geo. Carrington, Trent.

Paine & Field, Englishville.

W.S. Root, Tallmadge.

A. M. Church, Alpine.

H, A. Rich, Tonia. :

F. H. Harter, Harter & Co., Ionia.

A. D. Ayers, Otia.

S. Cooper, Corinth.

Jas. Barnes, Austerlitz.

Norman Harris, Big Springs.

M. J. Howard, Englishville.

M. M. Robson, Berlin.

G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.

Geo. F. Cook, Grove.

Walter H. Struik, Forest Grove.

H. M. Hicks, Morley.

Baron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.

Thos. J. Smedley, Lamont.

Frank Haywood, Moon P. O.

W. B. Johnson, Rockford.

W. J. Woodruff, Copley.

Byron MeNeal, Byron Center.

Geo. F. Richardson, Jamestown.

A. L. Power, Kent City.

Wm. Hugh, Jones & Hugh, Morley.

H. C. Peckham, Freeport.

C. I. Clapp, Otsego.

Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland.

Thos. Hefferan, Eastmanville.

KR. R. Perkins, Boyne City. ,

E. A. Carpenter, Colborn & Carpenter, Cale-
donia.

Will Curtiss, Reed City.

F.C. Beard, Morley.

H. Stowe, Deer Lake.

L. A. Paine, Sparta. :

J. K. Dibble, Dibble Bros., Burnip’s Corners.

G. E. Smith, Kalkaska.

W. A. Luther, Wilson, Luther & Wilson, Lu-
ther.
M.S. Keeler, Keeler Bros., Middleville.

J.C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.

H. B, Irish, Lisbon.

T. H. Peacock, Reed City.

John Spoon, Spoonville.

C. L. Howard, Clarksville.

Win. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.

Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.

C. E. Coburn, Pierson.

H. J. Fisher, Hamilton.

Mrs. J. Debri, Byron Center.

C. Bergin, Lowell.

Jay Marlatt, Berlin.

Wim. Karsten, Beaver Dam.

J. H. Spires, Leroy. :

B. M. Denison, East Paris. :

O. F. Conklin, O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.

C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.

Dr. John Graves, Wayland.

Ben E. West, J. C. West & Co., Lowell.

Walling Bros., Lamont.

John Koopman, Falmouth. _

Mr. Kohlman, Church & Kohlman, Alle-
gan.
c Geo. A. Sage, Rockford. :

Mr. Thomas, Richmond & Thomas, Harris
Creek.

C. R. Smith, Cadillac.

R. M. Smith, Luther.

Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.

W.S. Bartron, Bridgeton.

Ss. T. McLellan, Denison.

Chas. Cole, Cole & Chaple, Ada. :

Mr. Andre, Andre & Son, Jennisonville.

A. B. Johnson, Lowell.

Henry DeKline, Jamestown.

James Ward, Cedar Springs.

L. B. Chapel, Ada.

A. & L. M. Wolf. Hudsonville.

EK. W. Pickett, Wayland.

Mr. Carrell, Carrell & Fisher, Dorr.

Geo. S. Powell, G. S. Powell & Co,,
Lake.

Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.

H. W. Potter, Jennisonville.

C. E. Coburn, Pierson.

FURNITURE BUYERS.

Booth & Denman, Leadville.

Horace Prentice, Kalamazoo.

Mr. Cole, with California Furniture Manufac-
turing Co., San Francisco. ; :

Bradstreet, Thurber & Co., Minneapolis.

Cutler & Sons, Buffalo.
ati 8 <j

A Friendly Interest.

Sand

 

“What does your beau do for a living,
Mary?” asked a fond father, addressing his
daughter.

“‘He’s an entry clerk,” she replied, with
a bright blush.

“Gets about seven dollars a week, I sup-

pose?”
“We gets eight.”
“Indeed! Well, I think I can get him

something better than that.”

“Oh, pa!” she exclaimed with a glad
sparkle in her eye, for she fancied her father
was about to admit her beau to an equal
partnership in his business.

“Yes, continued the father, ‘‘as he is
able to sit up all night when he comes to
see you, I think he would make an excel-
lent*night-watchman in a large store. Iam
willing torecommend him to such a position,
being able to testify to his qualifications.
He might get as much as fifteen dollars a
week.”

Mary ran up stairs and threw herself on a
sofa with a sad, sad pain at her heart, while
her father departed for his office with a

smile on his face.
_ +? <

Good Advice.
From Texas Siftings.

Moses Schaumburg has a new clerk named
Jake Silverstone, who is pretty good in
dragging in country customers - and_ selling
them goods before they know it, but he
Yesterday, Mose said,
impatiently:

‘Silverstone, has you checked off dot in-
voice of schentlemanly undervear?”

“Please ’scuse me, Mishter Schaumburg,
but it vash escaped my memory already
some more?”

‘So it vas escaped your memory some
more already, don’t it. I dells you vat,
Silverstone, ven you vas such a tam stupid
schackass, vy don’t you made a note of dose
dings, choost like 1 do?”

-—— 0

The run of salmon in Fraser River, B. C.,
this year has been enormous. One night
the boats took from 2,000 to 3,000 fish each.

Bannard, Lyman & Co., who have been
engaged in the jobbing of heavy groceries at
Chicago for five years past, have withdrawn
from business. The firm have made no
money, and the members prefer to liquidate
their accounts and embark in other fields of
business.

Waterbury, Conn., people are profiting by
a war of prices on milk among the grocery-
men. A daily paper says: ‘‘One began by
coming down from eight to six cents a quart.
He was met by a rival who sold for four
cents. Then.it went down to two cents,
until now they are trying to live by selling
two quarts for a cent. People are hoping
that next week a barrel of flour will be

 

thrown in with each quart.”

 

Dardware.

Accidents from Machinery.
From the American Machinist.

If accounts of all the accidents to life and
limb occurring in a single year from the use
of machinery were collected, they would
present an alarming aggregate. In many
trades or occupations a man of middle life
with all the members of his body intact, is
the exception to the rule. And in almost
every case loss of life or limb is due to care-
lessness on the part of those who sustain
the loss. Occasionally an appalling acci-
dent occurs, the responsibility for which is
clearly chargeable to employers or mana-
gers, but those instances are comparatively
rare. Sometimes one sees a large belt or
driving gears not fenced in, which is sug-
gestive of a probable accident some day; but
a hundred times oftener he sees men putting
themselves unnecessarily in positions of
danger. Men following day by day oceupa-
tions attended with more or less danger, as
nearly all mechanical occupations are, come
to be proverbially careless, or rather they
become incapable of seeing danger where it
plainly is.

Employers, or those having authority, can
do a good deal to reduce the number of ac-
cidents from machinery by prohibiting dan-
gerous practices, strictly enforcing rules to
that end. Nothing short of absolute prohib-
ition will answer; many have been discourag-
ed, after providing safeguards, by finding
that workmen would not avail themselves
of them. Familarity with dangerous things
gets everyone careless; this law is universal.
Passengers by railroads and steamboats
must have their safety looked after by being
compelled to comply with certain regula-
tions for that purpose, and experience shows
that workmen’ must be similarly protected.
Intelligent workmen are not as careless as
the average traveler, but they are much too
careless for their own good.

_ 8 <p

 

 

Steam as Insurance.
From the American Machinist.

Let every mill owner who wishes to guar-
antees steady running, and the filling of
every order at some fixed time, put ina
steam-engine and boiler just as soon as
the kind selected can be procured. This be-
ing done and a supply of fuel laid in, a mill
owner can rest secure from drouths and ean
confidently agree to fill orders at a given
time, when his neighbors in the same busi-
ness, who are obliged to depend upon the
quantity of rainfall for their chances of
keeping the wheels turning, cannot safely
bind themselves as to time, when taking
contracts. This fact has a decided influence
upon customers. The greater the assurance
that their orders will be filled at the time
specified, the stronger is the inducement to
place them with the parties affording this
advantage, other things being equal. With
a probability of low water every summer,
and a possibility of the same every winter,
causing more or less enforced stoppage of
mills that depend entirely upon water-pow-
er, it is easy to see that the owners of these
manuiactories are placed at a commercial
disadvantage.

—_— 9

The Chinese wheelbarrow has but one
Wheel, which is !arge and placed in the een-
erof the bed, and upon it rests the en-
tire load. In Shanghai these vehicles ply
for hire, like cabs in this eountry. They
usually carry two persons, who sit on a
platform on each side of the wheel with
their feet in rope stirrups.

The manufacture of steel nails has made
rapid progress since 1883, in which year
this industry may be said to have had its
beginning. During the last year there were
303,882 kegs of ‘steel “nails manufactured,
the production of “the three leading nail.
making States being as follows: West Vir-
ginia, 204,336; Ohio, 130,636; and Pennsyl-
vania, 29,224 kegs. In 1883 this country
produced only 18,224 kegs of steelf{nails.
~ The employment of cast iron columns as
main supports has been greatly restricted at
Berlin by a regulation issued from the
architect’s department of the police authori-
ties of that city. The order has been issued
in consequence of a discovery made (last
winter at a fire, when it was found that the
cast iron columns had been cracked by the
effect of cold water played on them while
hot. The authorities now insist that where
partition walls rest upon east iron columns,
the latter are to be covered with plaster or
bricked in, with an air space between the
bricks and the column.

The value of a brick arch in the fire-box
of a locomotive seems now to have been
firmly established, recent experiments on
the Old Colony Railroad having added fcon-
clusive results to the already existing data.
The experiments were conducted by Mr. J.
N. Lauder with two high-speed locomotives,
built by the Taunton Locomotive Works,
of precisely the same dimensions andin
about the same condition. One engine was
furnished with the Pennsylvania Railroad
style of brick arch supported by water
tubes, while the other engine hada plain
fire-box. The engines were worked alter-
nately on the same trains for about two
months, and every precaution was taken to
insure trustworthy results. The records for
one month showed a coal consumption in
the engine with the plain fire-box of 39.3
pounds per train mile, and in that with the
brick arch of 34.3 pounds, indicating a sav-
ing of about 14 per cent. of coal by the“use
of the arch. Other records obtained under
about the same conditions furnished similar
results, and apparently leave little?doubt as
to the comparative merits of the two ar-
rangements of the fire-box.

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

Prevailing rates. at Chicago are as follows:
AUGERS AND BITS.

 
 

  

  

 

Eves: old style. 0 i dis 60
N.C: 0.20 ...dis 60
Douglass! ooo dis 60
BIOVGOR oo. ce ec ee ee dis 60
BHC Rt dis 60
BOOKA 0. Sau te, ee ee dis40&10
Jennings’, genuine... 2.05... cee. cence dis 25
Jennings’, imitation........... ........ dis40&10
BALANCES.
Sree so fC dis 25
BARROWS.

Ratiroad cos io $ 13 00
Garden... 6205). ss net 33 00
BELLS.

PEA ee a
COW oo oc
Cae Or dis 5
Gone... Sede On Cee eue . dis 20
Door Sarment. 2). dis 55
BOLTS.
SUOVG! ee dis $ 40
Carriage new list is 75
BlOW ease a ea dis 30&1(€
sleigh SHGG. dis 73
Cast Barrel Bolts... 200.00 00005002.5. dis 50
Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis 55
Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis 50
Cast Square Spring................... dis 55
Cast Chain oo dis 60
Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis 55&10
Wrought Square ...................... dis 55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush... /....... 0... dis 30
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob
SH 50&10&10
ves’ Doom. 2 dis 50&10
BRACES.
BBEber Ve dis$ 40
TACIUB S200 ek ae dis 50
SHOUOKG. 2. peeue dis 50
Ame Bat. dis net
BUCKETS.

Woll plaim coo $ 400
Well, swivel............. tees ae - 4650
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis 60&i0
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 60é&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis 50&10
Wrounht Loose Pin.................. dis 60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis 60& 5

Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
TIDDOU cee Ce dis 60& 5
Wroueht Table. 330 2408 oe. dis 60
Wrought Inside Blind................ dis 60
Wrousht Brass, 0.000060 dis 65&10
Bld Clarkes 0 ee dis 70&10
BMG Parkers. (02 0 eos dis 70&10
Bling, Shepard's... 10.0) dis 70
CAPS.
EVS IN eee per m $ 65
PGK S Coe 60
Ge oe 35
MUSKet i. co. ee aa ee eo oce 60
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list 60
Rim Fire, United States................ dis 60
@Centran hive: 6.00 dis 40
CHISELS.
SOcKetHirmer (60002 dis 7d
Socket Hraming....).02 001 dis 05
peckep@ormmer. 60 dis Td
SOCKGESHGKS: 02 ee dis 75
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis 40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis 20
COG osc ou saee net
COMBS.
Curry, Pawrence’s. 6282260. ie. dis 40
FLOUCHEASS (oo ee a dis 25
COCKS.
Brass; Racking’s.. 025... 50
BipD Siu ee 50
BCR 40&10
Penns coe 60
COPPER.
Planished, 14 0z cut to size.............. ib 30
Mx 52 14x50. TAXCO. 36
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stock: 0050020... .500 0. dis . 3d
Taper and Straight Shank............ dis 20
Morse’s Taper Sodnk................. dis 30
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6 in... 1... ...doz net $.85
Cormmuscated. 6. dis 20&10
AGIMIStQDIC ee, dis %&10
EXPANSIVE BITS.
Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 20
Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00. dis 25
FILES.
American File Association List...... dis 60
DISSHORES 050 dis 60
New Amerigan: 3). oe dis 60
NICH OISOR Ss dis 60
Hrellers oo dis 30
Heller's Horse Rasps............ 0.2. dis 8346
GALVANIZED IRON,

Nos. 16 to 20, 22 and 24, 25and 26, 27 28
List 12 13 14 1 18
Discount, Juniata 45@10, Charcoal 50@10.
GAUGES.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis 50
HAMMERS.

Maydole & CoJs.2 22 220.002000. 05.00... dis 20
KDI oo co dis 25
Yerkes Plumbsi 0 00.02..) 0.03203 dis 40
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10
HANGERS.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis 50
Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60
Kidder, wood track. :................ dis 40
HINGES.

Gate, Clark's, 2.2, 3.....0.0-...2.5..0. dis 60
SURE. ee er doz, net, 2 50

Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14

and loneerc ee) ee 3%

Screw Hook and Eye, % ............ net 10%

Screw Hook and Eye %.............. net 8%

Screw Hook and Eye &.............. net T%

Screw Hook and Hye, %............. net ih

Dovapand Wee dis 60&10

HOLLOW WARE.

Stamped Fin Ware....................... 60&10

Japanned Tine Ware... o.oo ck 20810

Granite Iron: Ware: : 2. ....0..0,.. 222... 25
HOES.

Grp et se eee $11 00, dis 40

Grub 2... es. .. 11 50, dis 40

GU ce 12 00, dis 40
KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings. ...$2 70, dis 662
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.. 3 50, dis 6624
Door, porcelain, plated trim-

MIN GS eee ee Sake, list,10 15, dis 6624
Door, porcelain, trimmings list,11 55, dis 70
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain...... dis 70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s... ......... d 40
HIOMaCWe os nc oo dis 50

LOCKS—DOOR.

Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list...dis 6624
Mallory, Wheelnr & Co.’s.............. dis 66%
ISPAMTOPGIS oo. a Cee dis 66%
INOPWALKIS sol osc cl ce. gs dis 663g
LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 65
MILLS.
Coffee, Parkers: C028... .. 0... 60.2 ese. dis 40&10
Coffee, P.S.& W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s...... dis 40&10
Coffee, Enterprise. .. 003.0... 2.2.6.2. dis 25
MATTOCKS.
BORG CUVG e $16 00 dis 40&10
FUNG BVO coool ae $15 00 dis 40&10
FUNG So oe $18 50 dis 20 & 10
NAILS.
Common, Bra and Fencing.
LOG CO. G00. ocr. # keg $2 40
Scand 9G AGV nee 25
6d and (d SOV ee, a 50
AQ OMG DG BAW so occ so eee sce ce 5
SO RAVANGO lee ee cc: 1 50
$0 He S0Vanee.... eo 3 00
@uneh nats adv 02.2 8 1%
Finishing ; 10d 8d 6d 4€d
Size—inches 3 2% 2 1%
Adv. ® keg $125 150 175 200
Steel Nails—Same price as above.
MOLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern ..... 0... ccc ec eee c dis 70
Stebbin’s Genuine...... ..............06 dis 7
Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25
MAULS.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled............ dis 50
OILERS. '
Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent............... dis 55
Zinc, with brass bottom............. .... dis 50
Brass Or COPPGr. 2.525.565. 0 se ee dis 40
ROADCI Fo occa el ee ae per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’ so. Soci ae 50
PLANES. :
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................0.5. dis 15
Sciota Bench........... hatch occ dieae cee cwe dis 25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... .....,... dis 15
Bench, first quality..................0.08% dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood and
PANS.
PEYS AGMG sg. ee ce ce dis 50
Common, polished..................006 dis60&10
PO DIN Ds ooo ee hans os Bocce oh bes eset 2 Ib 6@7
RIVETS. :
Tron and TINNO.. oo jeer eces cece awn dis 40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............. dis 50&10

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

SA” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10

“B’’ Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to27 9
Broken packs %c # hb extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 5 50

IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.......... 7 00

IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 11 00

IX, 20x28, choicC Charcoal Terne......... 14 00

ROPES. _

Sisal, 4% In. and larger........ ose 7%

PAGERS oleae eg iu
SQUARES,

Bteerand Iron... dis 60&10

feryand Bevels.............. dis 50&10

Mitre ee. dis 20

SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth. Com.

Nos. 10to Moo... ee. $4 20 $3 00

NOs Fate 17... 28 4 20 3 00

Nos. 18 to 21...... Piece oreo, 4 20 3 00

INOSS22 £0 26. oe 4 20 3 00

INOS 25 HO-26) 8 4 40 3 10

ING AG 4 60 3 20

All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 30 inches

wide not less than 2-10 extra.
: SHEET ZINC.
Tn casks of 600 aR. Tet 5%
In smaller quansities, ® t.............. 6
TINNER’S SOLDER.

  
 

No. F, Hefined.........2.2.. 2 13 00
Market Half-and-half............. .... 15 00
Strictly Half-and-half.........5...5.... 16
TIN PLATES.
Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

Ie, Welt Charcoal. 2002. 6 00
Ix, 10x14,Charcoal..... eyes es 7 50
IC, 12x12, Charcoal........ 223, ee 6 50
IX, yewiz, Charcod) _.... 8 50
IC, doxe0, Charcoal... 2 ce 6 00
Ix, pee Chareoal 9... 7 50
PxOX. J4x20 Charcoal... 90
Pee, Tex20, Charedol..... 5 "| 11 00
PSX , 14520. Charcoal,.......23 7 2. 13 00
EX, eUs7e Charcoal. 9k ge 16 00
De, 100 Plate Charcoal... 6 50
DX, 100PlateCharcoal.................. 8 50
DX, 100 Plate Charcoal......... °. 10 50
DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal................ 12 50

Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 "3
rates.

 

TRAPS,
Steal Game...
Onovida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... dis 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
EEQUGDINGS) 60&10
SP. &W. Mie Gols. 2.) 23 60&10
Mouse; GhOKer..........-.... 26g: 20e 8 doz
Mouse: delusion.....:..........2.... $1 26 #2 doz
WIRE.
Bright Markee... 20.0... 6.. dis 60&1¢
Anneaiod Market.:. 60). .5..280 00 dis 70
Coppered Market. ......2...20. 12 dis 55&10
Moab Bane 2. eo dis 55
mined Marken............0 3 dis 40
Hbinned ErOOm... 2. ui oo 8 tb 09
Mimmed Mattress. ..-.... 2.20... 8 Ib 8%
Coppered Spring Steel............ dis 40@40&10
Pinned Sprins Steel. ............... 5 | dis 37%
leat WENE€G! oo. a 8 ib 3%
banned BONG... 6... usc
Copper... 6... .hew list net
OEMS ce new list net
WIRE GOODS.
Briones. ee dis 70&19
NGLGW BYES... 2... 2.25.02 dis 70&10
EROOH So al dis %0&10
Gate Hooksand Eyes................ dis 70&10
WYENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..........

Coes Genuine... 2... .. -- 25. dis 50&10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 65
Coe’@ Patent, malleable...........4.. dis 70

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps, Cistern.....3.......0...85.2.. dis 70
Serews, New Hst............ 2... 35
Casters, Bed and Plate...............<. dis50&10
Dampers, American. .... ... 2.2.2... 2. 33g

 

 

Michigan Dairymen’s Association.

 

Organized at Grand Rapids, February 25, 1885.

 

President—Milan Wiggins, Bloomingdale.

Vice-Presidents—W. Howe, Capac; F. C.
Stone, Saginaw City; A. P. Foltz, Davison
Station; F. A. Rockafellow, Carson City;
Warren Haven, Bloomingdale; Chas. E. Bel-
knap, Grand Rapids; L. F. Cox, Portage;
John Borst, Vriesland; R. C. Nash, Hilliards;
bes Adams, Ashland; Jos. Post, Clarks-
ville.

Secretary and Treasurer—EK. A. Stowe, Grand
Rapids.

Next Meeting—Third Tuesday in February,

1886.

Membership Fee—$1 per year.

Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

FOSTER,
STEVENS
& 60,,

10 ald 12 Monroe st,
dobbers of

Hardware !

WE SOLICIT
THE

Dealers’.

TRADE
AND NOT
THE

Consumers

 

 

FOSTER,
STEVENS
& CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

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‘lost on the unfortunate Bradley, who be-

The Michican Tradesmal. | coming angrily aware of the staring and tit- |

tering clerks, hastily decamped, Jeaving be-
| hind him the general impression that he

 

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P. L. |

Somers Bradley stepped into the large
dry goods store of Smith & Gruitz to match
worsted.

He was a young man blessed (he didn’t
call it blessed) with an endless lot of femin-
ine cousins. He was always being sent to
match something and he felt that the fates
were against him.

It may here be well to remark that his
relatives were all on the shady side of 30
and undeniably plain. Somers himself was
a tall, slender fellow of 25, of the blonde
type and an athlete. He had broken two
fingers playing base-ball; otherwlse his
hands were perfect.

His heart was in the right place, by which
I mean that it was large, and had not yet
been captured. His idea of feminine per-
fection was a dark and brilliant brunette.

He had never met his her. He sauntered
leisurely along, of course, not having the
least idea where the worsted counter was
(for in spite of his ‘‘confounded experience”
he invariably forgot), but having plenty of
time and being ashamed to ask, he deter-
mined to walk until he saw it.

He glanced up and a staring handkerchief
sign caught his eye. He remembered he
needed some new ones and quickened his
walk toward it.

Standing a counter away, examining some
fancy lace mouchoirs, stood the ‘‘she.”

She was what Bradley mentally remarked
“splendidly regal.” :

A woman would have ealled her
loud, but the masculine mind designated it
as “stunning.”

Her eyes were gloriously black and lan-
guishing; rather too languishing as she saw
the handsome young fellow staring at her
with admiration. Her figure was fine and |
her dress glove-fitting.

Somers was not particularly in the habit
of buying Duchesse handkerchiefs, but he
suddenly remembered that ‘‘Louise was a
good old girl” (Louise was the oldest and
homeliest of the cousins), and certainly*a
glance from those glorious orbs was well
worth the price of the bit of lace.

He was not poor and always flirted liber-
ally.

He walked up to the counter near her and
was glaring about, W ndering ‘‘what in
thunder he should say,” when, ah, cruel
fate! the divinity calmly sauntered away.

As she turned the corner her visite swept
to the fioor a handkerchief.

‘Her own,” thought the benighted youth,
and, fortunately, having sense enough left
to glance round to observe if any one was
looking and seeing no one Was, he stooped
and picked it up.

On one corner, in faint letters, were the
initials ‘““P. L.”

“By Jove,” muttered he,
Tl lay ten to one it’s that bewitching niece
of Mrs. Emery’s. That Pauline Lombard.
Cad said she had stunning eyes.”

Cad was his sister, and had remarked that
Miss Lombard’s eyes - were perfectly ele-
gant.

In an instant, still with his find in his
hand, he had formed this supremely de-
lightful vision:

dress

es
“J’m in luck.

Some pleasant afternoon when calling on

Mrs. Emery, the radiant vision which a mo-
ment ago stood at his side would glide into
the room and be introduced. Then some
evening, at one of her aunt’s delightful
theater parties, the beautiful Pauline’s head
would be near his own, while she was run-
ning down the prima donna’s beauty, and he
might contrive to slip a note into her boquet,
which of course he would be holding.

And then a dimly lit conservatory, the
seent of helitrope and those eyes would do
the business, and at last the wandering
Somers would reach the state of being ‘‘set-
tled,” so ardently longed for by his fond re-
lations.

All this (the thought of her possible re-
fusal never enter his head) and a thousand
details hovered around the brain of the
smitten youth.

He walked along regarding the bit of
cambrie in his hand with a smile of tender-
ness, not to say idiocy.

One of the clerks, regarding him, remark-
ed to his neighbor in a scornful whisper:
“Cracked, slightly.”

Bradley heard the whisper, roused him-
self, and darted a look of the most disgust-
ed and crushing quality at his scoffer, when
a panting noise and the clicking of those
‘““wretched heel-plates which he did wish
shop girls wouldn’t wear,” and the girl who
had waited on the ‘“‘daughter of the gods”
exclaimed, in frightened accents:

“Oh, if you please, sir, No. 5 said you
picked up one of the unsorted hankerchiefs,

and was carrying it away. . I wasn’t notic-

ing——”

And, seeing the puzzled look on his face,

she inwardly echoed the uncrushable clerk’s

verdict.
“Well, well!” ejaculated the astonishe
young man.

the one with black eyes, you know.
—J—I was about to take it to her.”

-He had chosen a singularly slow pace by
which to accomplish his errand of mercy;
The shop-girl

but he didn’t think of that.
did.

He handed the inflocent cause of all this
trouble to the girl, who glanced at the ‘in-

itials’” and smiled; in fact, she smiled
great deal.

“Oh, sir, the P. L. stands for ‘pure linen.
It belonged to the unsorted pile.

was Mrs. Flarrety, the brewer’s wife, I—”

‘J thought it belonged to the
lady standing there, her initials are on it;
J—er

The lady

was either a kleptomaniac or a trifle
loony.

For months he avoided the store of Smith
& Gruitz as if it were an unpaid tailor, and
when he finally did return he aeguired a
knack of dodging in a side door and making
straight for the worsted eounter, hurrying
through his purchases, and shooting out
again.

His Cousin Louise (whe, by the way, |
never got that, lace handkerchief) remarks
that Som doesn’t “harmonize” the shades
nearly as well as he used to.

He flattered himself that the story had not
got round the store, until one day the pretty
salesgirl snatched her handkerehief from
the counter, where it was lying near his
hand, and looked at him roguishly with a
pair of brown eyes.

 

 

Since then the worsted counter has lost a
fairly liberal patron.

That look was the last straw.

$3 +6 <iP—
A Decision of Interest.

The following Supreme Court decision
will be of interest to many cities snd towns
in the habit of licensing every catch-penny
show and swindling scheme that comes
along. It is as follows:

No town or city has a right to give a man
a license or permit to sell any wares or mer-
chandise on the side walk or on the street
in front of the property of another person.
The street in front of a man’s place of busi-
ness is held to be an appurtenance to the
lot upon which his store is erected and situ-
ated, and belongs to him and his business
as against all others, except.only the right
to travel thereon.

 

 

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The Michigan State Department is anx-
ious to have all dealers forward to Lansing
on the first of each month a report of the
quantity of wheat purchased by them, so
that it can form an aecurate estimate of the
wheat remaining in farmers hands for the
monthly official report. The Department
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—Manufacturers of—

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