ee | | GRAND RAPIDS “Te PUBLIC LIBRARY z’. SOSA WAS 1 A GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1917 Number 1755 WE CONDUCT a GOING OUT Mr. Merchant: || % BUSINESS MR. JOS. P. LYNCH GENERAL MANAGER, Jos. P. Lynch Sales Co. Personally writes and plans all advertise- ments for every special sale conducted by the Joseph P. Lynch Sales Co. No hired sales- man is sent to your store. You deal directly with a man who stands out in the merchan- dising and advertising field as a past master in this particular line of endeavor, a man whose ability and responsibility is unques- tioned. - BE THE LEADER—CONTRACT RIGHT NOW FOR A_ SPECIAL ee ta DON’T WAIT Facts and Figures Tell the Story of Our Special Sales N Thursday, April 12th, 1917, we opened a special sale for the Hub. S. E. Edelstein, Prop., Boyne City, Mich., whose stock of Shoes and Men’s Furnishings invoiced $8,000. One of the largest day’s business this store ever did in 15 years amounted to $400. On the opening day of our sale we sold $1,307.63 and on Friday, April 13th, we sold $543 and on Saturday, April 14th, we sold $531. This merchandise was sold at a profit. To verify the above statement write S. E. Edelstein, 106 Lake St., Boyne City, Michigan. ON WED., APRIL 25, 1917 We opened a special sale for C. B. Towner Co., of Byron Center, Mich. The population of Byron Center is 300. Wednesday, the opening day of our sale, we sold $1,267.59, and on Thursday, April 26th, we sold $869.51. Every dollar’s worth of this merchandise was sold at a profit. Write C. B. Towner Co., Byron Center, Michigan, to verify above figures. WE CAN DO THIS FOR YOU And it will cost you absolutely nothing unless we do. Every one of our sales must be a success or we receive nothing for our labor and pains, You do not pay us one cent until we have sold your merchandise at a profit and then you only pay us a very small commis- sion on the merchandise sold and for which you have the cash. OUR NAME DOES NOT APPEAR As connected with your store during sale. You place the selling price on all merchandise for sale. You limit the amount of money to be spent on advertising. You handle your own cash. You conduct your busi- ness as though we were not there. If you want to reduce your stock, if you want to increase your business, if you want to close out your stock at a profit, or if you want to raise ready cash in a very short time, write, wire or phone us for free plans and all information without obligating yourself in any way. Wecan prove to you from our records that a special sale conducted by us will cost you less than one conducted by yourself. The Joseph P. Lynch Sales Co. 44 SO. IONIA AVE. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Bell Main 596 Citizens 61-366 RE-ORGANIZA- TION SALES DISSOLUTION SALES ADJUSTMENT SALES PUBLIC SALES STOCK REDUCING SALES ANNIVERSARY SALES LOOM END SALES MONEY RAISING SALES SPECIAL SALES AND CLEAN SWEEP . SALES IN GENERAL STORES CLOTHING STORES DRY GOODS STORES GROCERY STORES DEPT. STORES LADIES’ READY-TO-WEAR STORES FURNITURE STORES AND NO STOCK IS TOO LARGE OR SMALL FOR US TO HANDLE Pere Marquette Railroad Co. DUDLEY E. WATERS, PAUL H. KING, Receivers FACTORY SITES AND Locations for Industrial Enterprises in Michigan The Pere Marquette Railroad runs through a territory peculiarly adapted by Accessibility excellent Shipping Facilities. Healthful Climate and Good Conditions for Home Life. for the LOCATION OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES. First-class Factory Sites may be had at reasonable prices. Coal in the Saginaw Valley and Electrical Development in several parts of the State insure Cheap Power. Our Industria] Department invites correspondence with manufacturers and others seeking locations All in- quiries will receive painstaking and prompt attention and will be treated as confidential. ante GEORGE C. CONN, Freight Traffic Manager, Detroit, Michigan Bread is the Best Food It is the easiest food to digest. It is the most nourishing and, with all its good qualities, it is the most economical food. Increase your sales of bread. Fleischmann’s Yeast secures perfect fermentation and, therefore, makes the most wholesome, lightest and tastiest bread. Sell Bread Made With FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST Tell It To Your Customers The food value of Shredded Wheat to your customers is not measured by the small price for which it retails. For food value a break- fast of Shredded Wheat ee ee f ae ae with milk and fruit is equal to a meal of meat or eggs costing several times as much. Tell this to your customers who complain of the high cost of living. It represents highest food value at lowest cost. This Biscuit is packed in odorless spruce wood cases, which may be easily sold for 10 or 15 cents, thereby adding to the grocer's profits — The Shredded Wheat Company Niagara Falls, N. Y. Ceresota Flour Always Uniformly Good Made from Spring Wheat at Minneapolis, Minn. Judson Grocer Co. The Pure Foods House Distributors GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN You Can Buy Flour — Paper-Lined Cotton Sanitary Sacks DUST PROOF DIRT PROOF MOISTURE PROOF BREAKAGE PROOF The Sack that keeps the Flour IN and the Dirt OUT Ask Your Miller in Your Town —he can give you his flour in this sack Our co-operative advertising plan makes the flour you sell the best advertised flour in your community For samples and particulars write THE CLEVELAND-AKRON BAG CO., CLEVELAND ae '@ >> < » a eee . ¥ v 2 s 7 ne + s 4 ‘ ——— ‘ - < . See ee ~ = € “+ 4 ie nee at ee =. ’ oy : . vw e ~~ > © « a - a & A 2 allel antennas pineal fase, ES ae i ? - ; - . - + = . ~ » ¢ = ° ~ es nse: colin enens catia. ee ~ © . . , a» <4 « a c « -* ° * pik i ccceatsieccan ge ees a en << et ‘ ¢ 7 . .- . 4 e * w)) . % fe ‘ p) 2 ) mel ise ~ 4 is Sn REG 7 a mas 4 GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY Thirty-Fourth Year SPECIAL FEATURES. Page 2. Bankruptcy Matters. 4. News of the Busrness World. 5. Grocery and Produce Market. 6. Upper Peninsula, 8. Editorial. 10. Shoes. 12. Financial. 14. Keep Business Gotng. 17. Men of Mark. 18. Hardware. 20. Woman’s World. 22. Butter, Eggs and Provisions. 24. The Commercial Traveler. 26. Drugs. 27. Drug Price Current. 28. Grocery Price Current. 30. Special Price Current. 31. Business Wants. Too Late to Classify. F. N. Currey, who formerly repre- sented P. Lorillard & Co., in this ter- ritory, is now covering fill-in terri- tory for the Grand Rapids branch of the National Biscuit Co. He is thor- oughly in love with his new job and aims to become a top-notcher. H. A. Gish and E. G. Hamel have made a trip in a ford from Grand Rap- ids to Cheboygan, making all points on the D. & M. R. R. The roads are in fair condition and no money was spent for teams, etc. The business men of Alpena and _ Alpena county have raised a fund of $10,000 and will loan farmers money to buy seed. Alpena also has a city eardening committee and all available ground in Alpena will be planted. The committees are holding patriotic meetings all over the county, getting the farmers to co-operate and raise large crops. They have a labor bureau and will furnish all necessary labor to farmers and place a maximum wage on labor. Auto bus service two times daily between Hillman and Alpena has been started. This makes good service be- tween these points. Edward J. Schreiber who represent- ed Edson, Moore & Co., of Detroit. in Bay City territory for twenty-six vears, died at Bay City April 30, aged 53 years. The remains were taken to Detroit, where funeral services were held at St. Boniface church, whose pastor was a brother of the deceased, The remains were subsequently inter- red in Monroe. Besides Father Schreiber, another brother, Henry C. Schreiber, and a_ sister, Miss Therese Schreiber, both of Detroit, survive. Mr. Schreiber was a man of strong parts in all that the term im- plies. He made friends easily and held them as long as life lasted. He never betrayed a friend or went out of his way to punish an enemy. ———_++ > Local poultry men were represented at a meeting of the official classifica- tion committee at Chicago last week, at which it was purposed to increase the rates on empty barrels moving from Middle Western to Eastern points. The poultry men are opposed to the increase in classification, which would carry, of course, an increase in the rates. They GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1917 point out that this would practically eliminate the production of empty bar- rels in Western territory and would prove a discrimination in favor of East- ern barrel manufacturers. A change similar to the one now proposed was made in 1906, and it proved a serious blow to the production of barrels in Middle Western territory. The barrels are much more badly needed here for shipments to the seaboard than they are in the East. Therefore it was arg- ued the Middle West is the logical point for the origin of the barrels. Poultry men alsc confessed a fear that an in- crease in the barrel rate would herald a further increase in the rates on empty coops, moving eastward from Chicago. While this movement is not and never has been heavy, poultry men would not relish an increase at this time. —_+-.—____ The Russian government is in this market for 2,000 locomotives and 40,- 000 freight cars. According to re- ports in Wall Street, manufacturers are reluctant to close any contracts for the Russians until it is definitely known whether they succeed in se- curing a loan from the United States Government. Thus far the Govern- ment has loaned money to England, and negotiations are now going on to advance money to both France and Italy. When this is completed it can safely be said that the Government will turn to Russia and see that ad- vancements are made to that govern- ment, A commission has already been appointed to investigate the affairs and needs of that country. It has long been known that the great Rus- sian Empire is sorely in need of rail- road communications, and this is probably one of the first matters which will receive the attention of the commission. —__-e -___. Lowry Pros., grocers at Marion, write as follows in renewing their subscrip- tion to the Michigan Tradesman: “We find the Tradesman a great help to us; in fact, we could hardly get along with- out it, therefore we are enclosing check for $2 to continue our subscription.” ——___-- Olive Oil—The market shows a strong, advancing tendency, with light offerings, owing to difficulties of trans- portation The demand here is active. —_2>+>__ The Windsor Upholstering Co., lo- cated at 106 Front avenue has increas- ed its capital stock from $10,000 to $16,000. —__ 7 2 J. S. Crosby & Co. wil move from the Barnhart building to the Grand Rapids Savings building, where they will have much more commodious offices. ——_» o-.____- The Newaygo Portland Cement Co. has increased its capital stock from $500,000 to $945,000. Manufacturing Matters. Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Creamery Co. has purchased the property of the Kalamazoo Brewing Co. and will transform it into a model pasteurizing plant. Detroit—The Levy Hartman Fur Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $3,000, of which amount $2,010 has been sub- scribed, $1,010 paid in in cash and $1,- 000 paid in in property. Bay City—The Bay City Auto Body Co. has been organized to manufac- ture motor vehicle bodies with an au- thorized capital stock of $10,000, of which amount $9,500 has sub- scribed and $5,000 paid in in cash. Detroit—The National Glass Calen- dar & Manufacturing Co. has been organized to manufacture novelties and advertising specialties with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Effect of Advertising Never Ceases. Ft. Wayne, Ind., May 8—In a re- cent issue of the Tradesman, you had an item on “The Life of an Advertise- ment,” which appeared originally in the Youth’s Companion of Oct. 20, 1892—almost twenty-three years ago. I have had an experience even more impressive than that. In 1879, 1880 and 1881, I took up the breeding of Light Brahma chickens as a relaxa- tion from business, developing what I named the “Kekionga Strain” of that breed. I advertised the strain in the poultry journals of that day. By reason of a change of residence, I was forced to give up the business in 1881. That was thirty-six years ago. I am still hearing from those advertisements at least half a dozen times a year, which enquiries | turn over to an Indiana man still breed- ing Light Brahmas. Evidently ‘“poul- try cranks,” of which I am still one in feeling if not in action, preserve their poultry journals indefinitely. been David N. Foster. Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Potatoes. Buffalo, May 9—Creamery butter, extras, 40c; first 37@38c; common, 36c; dairy, common to choice, 30@38c; dairy common, all kinds, 25@30ce. Cheese—No. 1 new, 25%@26c; choice 25c; old 25@27c. Eees—Choice, new laid, 34@35c; fancy hennery, 36c; duck 36c. Poultry (live) — Fowls, springs, 24@26c; old cox, ducks, 23@25c. Beans—Medium, $9.75@10.00; pea, $9.75@10.00; Red Kidney, $8.00@8.25; White Kidney, $9.50@10.00; Marrow, $10.00@ 10.50. i Potatoes—$2.75@3.00 per bu.; New, $9.50 per bbl. Rea & Witzig. The most feature in the mercantile situation to-day—next to the food shortage—is the almost ut- ter collapse of the transportation system of the country. The local rail- roads have hundreds of loaded cars sidetracked in their yards which they are utterly unable to place on side tracks or at warehouses where the 24@27c; 18@20c; serious Number 1755 contents can be removed. In many cases the shipments comprise perish- able goods which the raliroads will be compelled to pay for when the deterioration is determined. The Kent Storage Co, reports shipments of eggs on the road from Boyne City since April 20 and from Filmore since April 18. Freeport dealers are unable to make shipments of eggs by freight and local dealers are obliged to send trucks to that place to preclude spoil- age. There never was a time in the history of this market when railway officials were so impotent to act in- telligently and effecitvely as at pres- ent. —_—_e 2 2 There is a growing feeling in the sugar trade that before the preserv- ing season arrives a distinct move- ment will manifest itself to lower sugar prices, as an inducement to consumers to use their customary sup- plies. That American refiners are catching up with the requirements of their foreign trade is commonly ac- cepted, and after that there will be needed an ample outlet at home. Any attainment of the danger point, where consumption is curtailed, is to be dreaded and with canners already dis- cussing—as they did at the recent convention of the Western packers in Chicago—methods for putting up products with less sugar, it is evident that lower prices will be necessary to induce the housewife to resort to her usual methods of conservation. ___-_-so>_- Provisions—Smoked firm, with a good consumptive demand at an meats are advance of about %c. Pure lard is firm at “ec advance and is in very light sup- ply. Consumptive demand good. Com- pound lard is also firm in sympathy with hog products and shows an advance of 4c, There is a good demand for bar- reled pork at an advance for the week Dried beef is 1c 5 to 10 per of 50e@$1 per barrel. higher and canned meats cent. higher. oo Guy W. President of the Worden Grocery Company, has been requested by President Carrier, of the Michigan Wholesale Grocers Asso- ciation, to prepare an appeal to the farmers to increase their acreage of growing crops, which will be sent to every grocer in Michigan, with the re- quest that he display it in a conspicu- ous place. Rouse, eee AG nee Ed. Kettler, credit man for the Michigan Hardware Company, was called to Eastlake Saturday by the death of his mother. The funeral and interment took place Tuesday. Mr. Kettler has the sympathy of the trade in his bereavement. ———_>-2->———_ Pickles—The demand continues active, regardless of the prevailing prices. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN May 9, 1917 BANKRUPTCY MATTERS. Proceedings in the Western District of Michigan. Grand Rapids, May 1—In the matter of G. Swander, bankrupt, Dighton, the assets of the above named bankrupt were sold to-day to Gerrit Wessink for $655. May 3—In the matter of Albert S. Gage, bankrupt, Holland, the adjourned first meeting of creditors was held this day. It- appearing that the bankrupt did not appear, the meeting was held open. In the matter of Carl A. Dahlquist, bankrupt, Muskegon, the first meeting of creditors was held this day. Charles Moulton was elected trustee and his bond fixed at the sum of $2,000. The report of the appraisers, who had been prevt- ously appointed, was accepted and filed and an order entered for the sale of the assets, returnable May 15. The stock in trade assets were appraised at approxi- mately $2,000, while the fixtures were appraised at $1,000. In addition to this there are accounts receivable whose face value aggregate $2,500. In the matter of Casnovia Dehydrating Co., bankrupt, Casnovia, the final meet- ing of creditors was held this day. A final dividend of 9 3-10 per cent. was declared and ordered paid. May 4—In the matter of Jonas A. Church, bankrupt, Greenville, the special meeting of creditors was held this day. The trustee’s report showing total re- ceivts of $1,157.27, disbursements of $296.25 and a balance on hand of $861.02 was considered and approved. A first dividend of 5 per cent. was declared and ordered paid. It is probable that an- other dividend will be declared at a future date, the amount of which can not as yet be determined. May 7—In the matter of Anthony Kuite. bankrupt, Holland, the first meet- ing of creditors was held this day. Arthur Van Duren, of Holland, was elected trus- tee and his bond fixed at $300. Ap- praisers were appointed to appraise the assets of the above named bankrupt who was conducting a butcher shop in Holland prior to his adjudication in bankruptcy. In the matter of D. H. Geyer, bank- rupt, general merchant of Clarion, a final meeting of creditors has been called for May 17. A first dividend of 10 per cent. has been heretofore declared .and it is probable that at the final meeting a further dividend will be ordered paid. In the matter of the Norton Company, bankrupt, Grand Rapids, the schedules of the bankrupt company have been filed, which schedules show that all of the assets of the above bankrupt have been turned over to John Snitseler, trustee, under a trust mortgage. The liabilities amount to $19,845.97. The first meeting of creditors has been called for May 21, at which time the trustee has been di- rected to file his first report and account. A list of the creditors of the bankrupt company follows: 2 City Treasurer, taxes ..........--- $ i: 9 Am. Quilted Garment Co., N.Y. 10.57 Bronner Bros. & Hadra, New York 180.25 Bronner Mfg. Co., New York .... 271.25 S. W. Beck & Co.. New York .... 180.00 Baron, Fishel & Co., New York .. 70.00 Louis Bauman & Co., New York .. 380.00 Brown, Carson & Scheible Co., Mravntiin, OID ...-+.--+.------- 37.06 Brookstone Mfg. Co., New York .. 90.00 Brown Shoe Co., St. Louis ........ 66.85 Beacon Waist Co., New York 150.06 Birkenfeld, Straus & Co., N. Y. 88.00 Bernstein & Co., New York ...... 651.00 Converse Rubber & Shoe Co., Rr eae eee 123.32 Ensheimer, Fishel Co.. Cleveland 163.61 Fast, Edward, New York ........ 121.95 Finkelstein, Irving, New York .... 183.25 Feldman & Schwartz, New York 40.00 Goldstein, Barnett. New York .. 31.50 Jreen Felt Shoe Co., New York 237.00 Gainsboro Waist Co.. New York 75.00 Saginaw Silk Garment Co., Saginaw 99.50 Greenwald, Friedman & Co., N. Y. 346.50 Graff, Harry, Chicage ............. 100.00 Grover’s Sons, Lynn. Mass. ...... 287.75 Homer, Lovett Co., Cleveland 58.95 Homer Lovett Co., Cleveland .... 355.24 Homer Lovett Co., Cleveland . 465.25 Homer Lovett Co., Cleveland . 694.00 Haber & Co., Philadelphia ...... 27.00 Herschfield, Cohen & Reed, N. Y. 118.50 Harrison Barton Shoe Co., Chicago 4.87 Hyman & Company. New York Ipp & Kwint, New York ........ 71.50 Joshey & Sons. New York ....... 99.75 Jalkof Bros., New York .......... 157.75 J. Kaolan, New York .......-..... 194.25 Koeut, Alex.,. New York ........., 120.75 ern, & New Vom .....-.-.-..+> 474.75 Kolb & Telsch, Chicago .......... 132.50 Lord & Taylor, New York ....... 29.20 Levy & Co, New York .........- 391.25 T.achman,. Hirsh & Co., New York 151.00 Ben Levitman, New York ........ 265.00 Lorenz, Friedman & Schulhoff, . Mew VOR ..-....:--...:..- 478.44 Lindeman & Goldberg, Philadelphia .55.77 Tepow & Sons, New York ........ 151.25 Menihan & Co., Rochester ...... 4,604.21 Miller Cloak & Suit Co., mew Tore | co se. 60.75 Herman & Ben Marks, Detroit .... 62.34 Menzcer & Nadler. New York .... 206.00 Murray & Company. Philadelphia 40.50 Jacob Masur, New York .......... 560.50 Moorehead Knitting Co., Harrisburg 86.38 Geo. Miller, New York ............ 185.5 Pansy Waist Co., New York ...... 40.50 Queen Costume Co., New York Reuhl & Co., Chicago Richardson Garment Co., Kalamazoo 37.5 Ritz Costume Co., New York .... 116.00 Ritter Bros., New York .......... 183.50 Rosenstein & Dalman, Chicago .... 59.75 Rose Knitt Goods Co., Cleveland 170.00 Rubin, Harry, New York ........ 73.50 Samuels & Demaio, New York .... 280.00 Schoninger, Heinsheimer Co., COOMA ee ce ee 182.75 Seader Bros., New York .......... 550.00 Schneiderman Bros., New York ...442.50 Singer & Bros., New York ...... 519.75 Steinman Bros., Chicago ......... 306.50 Syrian Kimona Co., Chicago ...... 48.50 Wadler, Harry, New York ........ 216.50 Yastrow Bros., Chicago .......... 51.50 William F. McKnight, Grand eT Ot a e e e 333.41 Commercial Credit Co., Grand Rapids .....-.. peepee -teeeee ce 44.80 De Standaard Printing Co., Grand MARIUS (opus eee ieee ce 21.42 Herald, Grand Rapids ............. 342.66 News, Grand Rapids ............. 270.20 Press, Grand Rapids .............. 389.08 Hirth-Krause Co., Grand Rapids 4.30 National Sweeper Co., Torring- ton, Conm: .. 2. 25.00 In the matter of the Ludington Shirt Co., bankrupt, Ludington, the bankrupt company has filed its schedules, showing assets not over $100 and __ liabilities amounting to $4,218.15. Following is the only creditor listed: Benj. Kronthal, Chicago ........ $4.218.16 The first meeting of creditors has been called for May 21. —_——>-->———_ Bottom Facts From Booming Boyne City. Boyne City, May 8—The Boyne City Lumber Co. is loading the sec- ond cargo of lumber of this season’s delivery. The steamer Cicoa brought in the first cargo of ore for the Charcoal Iron Co. of America for this season. Superintendent L. H. White, Master Mechanic H. F. Staley, Yard Master Frank Beals and Train Master Henry Lee, of the B.C, G & A R RCo. are going after this H. C. of L. thing with a generous patch of potatoes. Heaton & Hooper have broken ground for their 72x100 feet garage on Water street. Storage room, show room, repair and supply shop will be of the best. Patriotism is not simply sticking your flag in the window and singing the National anthem. The small farmer who puts his labor and money into food stuffs this spring at prevail- ing prices of seed and labor must have a big lump of patriotism to see any- thing in it. It is easy enough to ab- jure the farmer to plant, but it is quite another matter to face the pos- sibility of a distinct loss when the crop is harvested and marketed,—and a lot of farmers in this section are showing their metal in taking the chance. Maxy. ———>-- > —____ The Slacker. Written for the Tradesman. Can I stand by With danger nigh When my country needs a backer And see her need Men die and bleed While I remain a slacker? Now war's begun Just keep your gun I will not tote nor stack her. I would not fight E’en for the right I am, you know, a slacker. Why, I care not My land forgot When deadly foes attack her. Though loud her cry For help—not I, I'll live and die a slacker. What means it then This call for men— I would not give a cracker. I'll hide my pelf Also myself The same as every slacker. Come lads, be men! Right now, and when Our country’s foes attack her, Let’s do our best Stand every test But never be a slacker. The war is done! My country won! I never failed to back her I did my bit Am proud of it! Thank God! I was no slacker. Charles A. Heath. 22> Rolla Alden, of Byron, has opened a jewelry store in Vernon. German Reason Another Name For Duplicity. Ithaca, N. Y., May 8—My attention has been called to your recent edi- torial discussing Germany’s increasing high-sea murder, in which you very generously suggest that the youth and the inexperience of the U-boat com- manders may be responsible for the senseless killing of so many neutrals. Perhaps this is true. But what about the commanders of that part of the German navy which operates above- water? These men cannot be the vic- tims of tender years or lack of experi- ence. For many months their navy has been peacefully floating upon the tranquil waters of the Kiel Canal. The sporadic raids upon Ramsgate and similar British “fortresses” cannot have destroyed the morale of the Ger- man naval commanders, Hence there arises the following interesting ques- tion: Why did a squadron of Ger- man destroyers attack a neutral ves- sel called the Amstelstroom; why did this squadron pepper the ship with shells at a distance of 300 metres with- out any previous warning: why did this squadron refuse to offer assist- ance to the ship-wrecked sailors, of whom one-sixth were killed? Here is an interesting problem for students of the present-day German insanity. If they wish to extend their studies still further, why did the Ger- mans sink Dutch vessels traveling without contraband of war from a Norwegian to a Dutch port and fol- lowing the narrow channel which the German government has guaranteed as “absolutely safe?” The suggestion of “youth and inex- perience” does not strike me as sound. It is true that the systematic lies by which the German naval commanders have explained away such mistakes often indicate an incredible capacity to see things which never existed in reality. But these official fibs do not sound like the inexperience of youth. They represent the well-calculated effort of old and trained offenders. Why should we try to discover ex- planations when the phenomenon it- self is well known and has been well known since early history? It is sim- ply a case of the ancient furor teu- tonicus on a chemical and gasoline basis. The German nation has de- creed that no foreign ship shall be found upon the high seas. Very well. There sails a ship which has dared to brave the Teutonic anger! It does not matter why or how or where and wherefore. Germany has said. “No,” and “No” it must be. The ship is sunk and the people on board are murdered. “Krieg ist Krieg. Die Leute waren gewarnt und damit Schluss.” And if you doubt this, read the edi- torials in such papers as the Kolnische Zeitung, evegy time after a particular- ly dastardy attack. You will hear all about the just merits of the grasping neutrals who have refused to recog- nize the good right of their friendly sister nation, now engaged upon a momentous struggle for the freedom of the sea. And you will hear grave complaints about these same neutral nations because sometimes they in- tern a German submarine which oper- ates within the half-mile zone. No, the heterogeneous assassination of neutrals upon the high sea is not due to a few hasty naval lieutenants, en- couraged by the monetary reward for demolished neutral and hostile ton- nage. It seems to represent the gen- eral indignation of the entire German people, which feels itself to be right, and therefore has divine permission to do anything under heaven and be- low hell to accomplish the desired ends. Hendrick Willem Van Loon. >. Live Notes From a Live Town. Owosso, May 8—The regular meet- ing of Owosso Council was held Sat- urday afternoon, with two initiations, after which, at 6 p. m., the newly elect- ed officers gave a pot luck supper with a varied entertainment to all traveling men and their families. A dancing party of ye old time species was held at the Odd Fellows hall, in- terspersed with recitations, songs, trios and quartettes. The vocal rendi- tions by J. B. McIntosh were receiv- ed with applause. The recitation of Der Drummer by Mrs. Pat Hayes was a gem arid received applause for an encore, which was a masterpiece. The grand march was led by Mrs. Harry Northway, wife of one of the candidates (who got what was com- ing to him in the afternoon) and Dad Haskell, who was allowed to partici- pate in the festivities from start to finish. Seldom if ever is a common, old fashioned dance honored with two people of distinction at one swat. Steve Pitts and Ma Haskell finally overcame their apparent native mod- esty and joined the fantastic hoe down. At 11 o’clock everybody took off their hats, stood up and sang the Star Spangled Banner and wended their way homeward—all but the wrir- er, who remained to sweep up the slivers. Clem Page, who has been under the weather, physically, for several weeks, is again out on his trip. R. P. Biglow and wife have return- ed from an extended winter trip through Florida, returning home via Boston, New York City and Corunna. Both are in good health and looking younger. Welcome to our city! Frank T. Wright has moved his general stock of merchandise from S3urton to West Owosso, where he will continue the business. Frank says he can give just as much sugar for a dozen eggs as he could last year, so what’s wrong? John Kelley has bought the inter- est of his partner, F. J. Douglas, in the Kelley & Douglas plumbing stock and will continue the business at the present location on Ball street. W. D. Royce and wife, of Ann Arbor, spent the week-end in Owosso and Corunna, with J. D. Royce and wife, of Corunna and G. W. Haskell and wife, of Owosso. They started in with Mr. Royce, at Corunna, but came over to Owosso to sleep, where things are more quiet. Honest Groceryman. —— Sparks From the Electric City. Muskegon, May 7—The G. R. & I. Heights depot has been swept out and signs placed on the walls, request- the patrons to help keep it clean. Thanks! The street crossings in Muskegon Heights are still covered with dirt, thereby soiling the shoes and cloth- ing of all who use them. The Goodrich Transportation Co. announces a daily boat to Chicago af- ter June 1. Mr. Pilson, of Preston & Pilson, is now sole owner of the drug store at Mackinac Island, having purchased the interest of the Preston estate. Wind blew down the East wall of John Conklin’s new building, at Sulli- van, last Monday night, causing con- siderable damage. Contractors report slow progress in building, owing to shortage of help. F. G, Neumeister has sold his drug store to Tobersen Bros., who own numerous drug stores. throughout Michigan. Mr. Neumeister has not announced as to what he will do in the future. _ Jay Lyon, it is rumored, went on a fishing trip in Oceana county Satur: day and had a very exciting time, landing an 8 pound trout. We hear Jay was nearly one hour landing the fish. We understand Jay weighed him with the scales on his back. Sup- pose this will prove to be only a fish story after all. John Schumacher found what was reported to be the deepest mud hole on the Whitehall road. It was so deep that Fred Rice was unable to push the car out, but a farmer did the job with a shovel. Montague is delighted prospect of a shipyard. There is just one way to live cheap. Be a sheep and then vou can eat hay. Phone 6476. E, P. Monroe. over the Fey © | 4¢ 1 Hi , . > 4 ,* ’ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Our “Drummer” For May Has Been Mailed! Did you get your copy? Let us know if you didn’t You cannot afford to miss this number. It is the most important catalogue issued in many a month. Net, guaranteed prices backed up by immense open stocks---this is what you will find in “OUR DRUMMER” for May. Its surprisingly large showing of goods and its security against market advances during the time it is in commission makes this book indispensable to the merchant who wants his buying to be safe BUTLER BROTHERS Exclusive Wholesalers of General Merchandise NEW YORK CHICAGO MINNEAPOLIS DALLAS ST. LOUIS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN May 9, 1917 . — f [33 SST es = STG ‘ ——< ¥ YF FES —_ —— Movements of Merchants. Brimley—A. W, Clark lost his hotel by fire, May 1. Colon—Wallace Markham has engag- ed in the undertaking business. Scottville—Caplin & Caplin succeed William Freedy in general trade. Whitehall—The Halgren & Hall meat market has been closed by the creditors. Alden—William L. Blissert suc- ceeds the Foster Co. in general trade. Dowagiac—Bart Foley, grocer, has filed a voluntary petition in bankrupt- cy. Detroit—The Banwell-Garvey Co. has changed its name to Garvey Clothes Shop. Amble—The Amble State Bank has been organized with a capital stock of $20,000. Allegan—Miss Emritta Sickinger suc- ceeds Mrs. Edna Truax in the millinery business. Moorland—Mrs. M. R. Knowles succeeds A. E, Eakwright in the gro- cery business. Hastings—Lavern Irwin succeeds William Barnaby in the cigar and to- bacco business. Lansing—The Capital City Coal Co. has decreased its capital stock from $10,000 to $4,000. Cadillac—The Cadillac Machine Co. has increased its capitalization from $100,000 to $180,000. Ithaca—C. L. Short has sold his grocery stock to J, H. Hodges, who has taken possession. Central Lake—Floyd Fessenden has opened an ice cream parlor in connec- tion with his drug store. East Leroy—The West Calhoun Co- Operative Co. has increased its capital stock from $800 to $1,100. Battle Creek—The Rich Steel Prod- ucts Co. has increased its capital stock from $100,000 to $250,000. Caskanette Munising—J. N. has opened a feed, hay and cement store - on East Munising avenue. South Boardman—Hunter 3ros. have opened a meat market in connec- tion with their general store. Jackson—The _ Fletcher-Alderman Co. succeeds A. E, Fletcher & Co. in the department store business. Casnovia—F. H. Bitely has sold his stock of general merchandise to Kuyers & Co., who took possession May 1. Marquette—F. Donckers has open- ed an ice cream parlor in connection with his confectionery and cigar store. Detroit—The Clark-Howes Co. has engaged in the wholesale and retail tobacco and confectionery business with an authorized capital stock of $25,000, of which amount $24,000 has been subscribed, $16,857.09 paid in in cash and $7,142.91 paid in in property. Allegan—Albert May has purchased the Burgess wall paper stock and en- gaged in business on his own account. Greenbush—Alex McRae has sold his stock of general merchandise to G. McIntire, who has taken posses- sion. Detroit—The Delamater Hardware Co. is closing out its stock and will retire from the wholesale hardware business. Paw Paw—Dwight C. Barker has sold his meat stock and equipment to W. A.. Young, who will continue the business. Saginaw—P. P. Heller & Bro., whose grocery stock and store build- ing was damaged by fire recently, has re-opened it. Holland—The Van Dyke Hardware Co. is closing out its stock, thus clos- ing a continuous business career of over eighteen years. Jackson—Joseph Gumm, who con- ducts jewelry stores at Kalamazoo and Flint, has opened a similar store in the Otsego building. Plainwell—W. A. Humphrey & Son have sold their stock of hardware to Fred E. Knox, recently of Kalamazoo, who has taken possession. Midland—Albert Reinhardt & Sons are erecting a modern business block which they will occupy with their stock of furniture and hardware. Benton Harbor—Mrs Edna Truax, recently of Allegan, has purchased the Quality Hat Shop and will continue the business under the same style. Detroit—The E. J. Hickey Co., en- vaged in the clothing and furnishings business, has increased its capitaliza- tion from $100,000 to $250,000. Jackson—The Hartwick-Woodfeld Co., dealer in fuel and lumber, has re- incorporated, increasing his capital stock from $100,000 to $150,000. Mendon—-M. J. Swonk has sold a half interest in his grocery stock to C. W. Heiney and the business will be con- tinued under the style of Swonk & Heiney. Detroit—The Standard Jewelry Co. has engaged in business with an author- ized capital stock of $5,000, of which amount $2,500 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Owosso—John L. Kelly has purchased the interest of his partner, F. J. Dou- glas, in the Kelly & Douglas plumbing stock and will continue the business under his own name. Bad Axe—Samuel Hirshberg writes the Tradesman that the report that he has merged his outfitting establishment into a stock company is incorrect. He has, however, joined Moses Cohen and Harry Cohen in the organization of Kohn’s Klothes Shop, Inc., with a cap- ital stock of $10,000, to engage in the same line of business at 2530 East Jef- ferson avenue, Detroit. Sault Ste. Marie—George Kemp has sold his interest in the George Kemp Coal Co. to his four sons, who will con- tinue the business under the style of Kemp Bros. Coal Co. Ludington—Oscar and Gustav E. Weinert have formed a copartnership under the style of Weinert Bros. and opened a creamery and pasurizing plant on North James street. Caro—Schultz & Johnson, grocers, have dissolved partnership and the business will be continued by Alvin G. Schultz, who has taken over the interest of his partner. Pontiac—The W. S. Robinson Gro- cer Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $30,000, all of which has been subscribed and $20,000 paid in in cash. Batte Creek—J. Dean Raid has pur- chased the drug stock and taken pos- session of the store on Maple street, formerly conducted as a branch of the Helmer-Goodale Drug Co. Bay City—The Frankenlust Fuel & Feed Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $1,500, of which amount $780 has been sub- scribed, and $422.50 paid in in cash. Zeeland—Chris Bareman has_ pur- chased the interest of his partner, Timon Vanden Brink, in the stock of the Enterprise meat market and will continue the business under the same style. Frankfort—Matzinger & Hancock, wholesale potato, apple and small fruit dealers, have dissolved partner- ship and the business will be contin- ued by J. A. Matzinger under his own name. Detroit—The United Coal & Sand Co. has been incorporated with an au- thorized capitalization of $10,000, all of which has been subscribed, $1,500 paid in in cash and $8,500 paid in in property. Detroit—The Mail Wall Paper Co. has engaged in business at the corner of Griswold and Clifford streets with an authorized capital stock of $1,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Lansing—The Seaman Co. has been incorporated to handle women’s and children’s wearing apparel and millinery with an authorized capital stock of $6,000, all cf which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Detroit—Frederick Lowber & Co., has been organized with an authorized capital stock of $2,000, all of which has been subscribed and $500 paid in in cash. The concern will deal in metals and metallic products. Battle Creek—Holly Heiman has engaged in business to sell at retail women’s ready-to-wear garments, with an authorized capital stock of $5,000, all of which has been sub- scribed and paid in in cash. Chelsea—J. N. Dancer has sold his interest in the stock of the Dancer Hardware Co. to H. R. Schoenhais, who has taken possession and will continue the business under the style of the Chelsea Hardware Co. Ellsworth—F. H. Skow has sold his interest in the hardware and general stock of D. E. Clow & Co., to Frank Peebles. The business will be con- tinued under the same style and man- agement of D. E. Clow, as before. Pontiac—Edward E. Fenely has sold his grocery stock to Earl Lee and I. K, Swackhamer, who have formed a copartnership and will continue the business at the same location on West Huron street, under the style of Lee & Swackhamer. Detroit—The P. S. Tice Corpora- tion has been organized to handle automobile accessories and appliances and other mechanical supplies with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, of which amount $5,000 has been sub- scribed and $1,000 paid in in cash. Lansing—A. G. Fayban, a local fruit merchant, with his wife and brother- in-law, John Orvets, 11 years old, went over a steep embankment on Cedar street May 4 in an automobile into the Grand River and escaped without in- jury. The machine turned over in a drop of 25 feet and landed in the wa- ter. The steering gear went wrong when Fayban started to turn a corner. Manufacturing Matters. Menominee—The Michigan Electro- chemical Co. has increased its capital stock from $150,000 to $200,000. Shelby—Fire completely destroyed the creamery of the Shelby Dairy Co. May 5, entailing a loss of about $6,000. In- surance, $2,000. Saginaw—The Saginaw Auto Body Co. has been incorporated with a capi- talization of $100,000, of which $57,500 has been subscribed. Kalamazoo—The Michigan Silo Co. has increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $60,000 and is building a new plant on Alcott street, Manistee—The Goshen Shirt Co. has purchased the plant of the Cadil- lac Shirt & Neckwear Co., at Cadillac, and will operate it under new manage- ment. Bay City—The Delpheon Co. has been organized to manufacture grama- phone machines and other reproduc- tion of sound machines with an au- thorized capital stock of $100,000, of which amount $50,000 has been sub- scribed and $40,000 paid in in proper- ty. Price Cards 40 cents per 100 and up Samples Free on Request A postal will bring them As the price sells most goods more quickly than any other consideration, all goods on display should bear neat and attractive price cards. Crude and unsightly ones imply careless and indifferent store methods, and reflect unfavor- ably upon the store, and to many persons are as offensive as shovenly, indifferent salesmen. Dept. K, Carnell Mfg. Co. 338 Broadway, New York Price Card Holders Advertising Pencils Advertising Balloons Changeable Signs Window Streamers Other ‘‘Selling Helps”’ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN et 7 CERY«»> PRODUCE MARKET) = = = = = = Review of the Grand Rapids Produce Market. Apples—Baldwins, $5.50@5.75 bbl; Ben Davis, $4.25 per bbl. Asparagus—Illinois, $1.50 per doz. bunches. Bannas — Medium, $1.50; Jumbo, $1.75; Extra Jumbo, $2: Extreme Ex- tra Jumbo, $1.50 up. Beets—$1 per doz. bunches for new. Butter—Receipts are increasing to some extent as the season advances. The average quality is also improving and the market is steady. The demand is absorbing the receipts on arrival and further increase in production is looked for soon, with a possible slight decline. Local dealers hold fancy creamery at 38c and cold storage creamery at 35c. Local dealers pay 32c for No. 1 in rolls, 33c in jars and 26c for packing stock. Cabbage—New Florida commands $12 per 90 Ib. bbl. Carrots—$2 per hamper for Illinois or Florida. Cauliflower—$2.75 per doz. Celery—Florida, $3.25 per box of 3 or 6 doz.; $3 per box of 8 doz.; Cali- fornia, 75c@$1 per bunch.’ Cocoanuts—$7 per sack containing 100. Eggs—The market is steady, with prices about the same as a week ago. There is a strong consumptive de- mand, and a good demand for stor- age, as the quality arriving is the best of the year and the present produc- tion the largest. Reported receipts of eggs are not quite up to a year ago. The market would be in a healthy condition if it were not for the freight blockades which hold up shipments. If there is any change it will probably be an advance. Local dealers now pay 33c for fresh, including cases, holding case count at 34c Figs—Package, $1.25 per box; lay- ers, $1.75 per 10 Ib. box. Grape Fruit—$4.50@5.50 per box for Florida or Cuban. Green Onions—30c per doz. bunches for Illinois and 25c for home grown. Honey—18c per lb. for white clover and 16c for dark. Lemons—California are selling at $4.50 for choice and $4.75 for fancy. Lettuce—13c per lb. for hot house leaf: $1.75 per hamper for Southern head: $3 per crate for Iceburg from California. Maple Sugar—30c per Ib. for pure. Maple Syrup—$1.50 per gal. for pure. Mushrooms—$1 per Ib. Nuts—Almonds, 18c per lb.; filberts, 16c per Ib.; pecans, 15c per Ib.; wal- nuts, 16c for Grenoble, 15%c for Na- ple. Onions—Texas Bermudas command per $2.50 per 45 lb. crate for yellow and $2.75 for white, Oranges—California Navals, $2.75@ SAE Vv.e0. Peppers—Southern command 75c per basket. Pinapples—Cubans sell as follows: 18s\ $3; 24s, $3.15: 30s, $3.35. Pop Corn—$2 per bu. for ear, 54@ 6c per lb. for shelled. Potatoes—The market is a little stronger. Old command $2.75@3 per bu.; new, $3.75 per 50 lb. hamper. Poultry—Local dealers pay as fol- lows, live weight: old fowls, light, 22 @23c; heavy (6 lbs.) 24@25c; springs, 23.@24c; turkeys, 22@25c; geese, 16@ 18c: ducks, 23@24c. Dressed fowls average 3c above quotations. Radishes—30c per doz. bunches for small. Rhubarb—Illinois, 5c $1.75 per 40 lb. box. Squash—Button, 5c per Ib. Strawberries—$2.50 for 24 pts.; $3.50 for 24 qts. Louisiana. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried ware Jerseys, $3 per hamper. Tomatoes—$4.50 for 6 basket crate, Florida. Turnips—$1.25 per hamper for Flor- ida. per lb. or Dela- ——_++.____ The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market shows no ma- terial change, although at times the tone seems a little easier, this being natural in view of the indifference shown by refiners who are now in a position to hold off for developments. Their stocks are ample for bookings of granulated, being estimated at 277,- 000 tons at the Atlantic ports, with importers holding 51,000 tons more, a total available of 328,000 tons—equal to five weeks’ meltings. It is natural- ly felt that at prevailing profitable prices Cuba can afford to modify its views, and some recession in raws could not come as a surprise if the dullness persists. In this connection stress is put upon the likelihood of our Government and the British Com- mission co-operating in purchases of supplies, which would mean that the present competition in Cuba might cease. Moreover, should the control of food be seriously undertaken by Washington and a maximum price set for commodities sugar would be included, and presumably the planter might be compelled to give up some of his profits. Under the circum- stances it is not remarkable that senti- ment on the future of the market is mixed. Tea—The feature of the market is the sharp advance in freight rates from the Far East, coupled with ad- vices to the effect that shipping is scarce and sold ahéad for some time to come. Thus the rate from Shang- hai to the Pacific Coast is now $20 per ton gold, as against $20 at the highest last year and an average of about $8. Foochow cables there are no steamers available, the same being true of Japan. This, it is pointed out, means a delay in the arrival of the new crop here, following lateness of opening of the markets attributable to the weather. The trade as a rule still refuses to believe that a duty will not be placed on tea and other foodstuffs, scoffing at the idea of an excise tax as impracticable. They are watching developments in Washing- ton, therefore, carefully. In the in- terim prices are strong and the de- mand quiet. Coffee—The talk of no duty has also affected the coffee market, as has the growing belief that peace is not so near at hand as was expected some time ago. This has caused weakness and the mar- ket is fractionally easier. There is a very large supply of coffee, and that is lying like a dead weight on the mar- ket. The situation is dull and weak. Milds are unchanged and quiet. Java and Mocha grades are unchanged and quiet. Canned Fruit—There is so little of- fering in the various lines under this heading that it is difficult to name quo- tations, but for such lots as are avail- able holders are demanding advanced prices. Canned Vegetables—The — various items under this heading are running very scarce. Beans, for instance, are now practically out of the market. As- paragus is exhausted; and, while there are quotations for various other items, the quantities represented thereby are exceedingly small. Tomatoes are quiet, both for spot and futures, and_ this probably represents the only item of which there is any considerable supply left over from the old crop. With the possible exception of tomatoes, it can undoubtedly be said without exaggera- tion that the volume of business in spot canned goods is limited only by the quantity available for sale. A few months ago predictions were made that the spring would see various lines of canned goods cleaned up, and, in fact, it was considered doubtful if there would be any line that would be suf- ficient to meet the demands of the trade. At that time such reports were considered extreme, but the time has now arrived when these predictions are being fulfilled as one after another of the various items on the list of canned goods become exhausted. Canned Fish—Prices being nam- ed for sardines are so high that brok- ers are almost afraid to trade, and yet there is sufficient demand to absorb the meager offerings thus far. Salmon continues very firm, both on the Coast for futures and on the local market for spot offerings, as high as $3 being asked for red Alaska. Dried Fruits—The prune trust has practically withdrawn from the market on all descriptions and will not accept firm orders at the opening price for any further quantities. Just what the significance of this may be*is yet to be determined, for it may mean that the new association is simply making an attempt to get its bearings. In fact, it can hardly mean anything else in view of the large crop: predicted, which some enthusiasts say may run as _ high as 250,000,000 pounds. Of association course the allow a wide margin of safety between the orders it would pledge itself to fill, and even the would be careful to most conservative crop pre- dictions, with all due allowance to be made for demands. It has also been intimated that the present action has been taken as a forerunner of high opening prices to be named, paving the later way for the higher quotations than might otherwise have been expected. Independent packers are now quoting 714c base with the usual premium for 40s and 30s. If the opening price is placed anywhere near this figure buyers are inclined to believe that the market will suffer a good reaction in view of the large crop likely to be raised. Peach- es, apricots, raisins and currants are all unchanged and quiet. Macaroni—The market quite active, apparently without refer- continues ence to high prices. Tapioca—The The good, and the trade is replenishing sup- plies with shipment parcels. situation shows no change. distributing demand is Spot prices are firm for all grades. market is quiet and There is a little interest shown in the offerings, as the supply here and afloat is very large, while manufactur- ers, on the other hand, are well taken care of. Cocoa—The steady. It is not generally believed that Washington will impose a duty, although some uncertainty still exists. Starch—The market is firm on the basis of the recent advance. Sugar Syrups—The market contin- ues strong, with the refiners not press- ing offerings. The export demand is irregular, but tends to keep up prices. Molasses—The market is firm, with light supplies of grocery grades, the high price of refiners’ syrups being a factor in the situation. There is a good demand from all quarters, in- cluding the Government. Foreign arrivals are delayed, there being a steamer from Porto Rico due next week. There are several schooners loading at Barbadoes, but there is no telling when the molasses will reach this port. Blackstrap is firm at quo- tations. Rice—Sharp observers of condi- tions in the rice trade are disposed to see a slackening of foreign trade, due largely to the rapidly increasing freight rates, and some regard it as a promising sign that with our com- ing crop kept more and more at home, prices for domestic consumption may recede. It is not evident yet how- ever. Olives—Jobbers still report an active consuming demand, and prices are main- tained. Importers, however, lay stress upon the difficulties of transportation, although the Spanish market is weak and declining. Cheese—The consumptive demand is very light. but the receipts are also light, as the season in the producing sections has been very backward. The market is a little easier, probably by about a %4c. The make is not likely to increase very much for two-weeks, when a decline may be looked for.— MICHIGAN TRADESMAN May 9, 1917 UPPER PENINSULA. Recent News of the Cloverland of Michigan. Sault Ste. Marie, May 7—Every- thing at the Soo is going up except the ice and that is going down—the river. Captain Marshall Duddelson, mas- ter of the steamer Fayette Brown gave a banquet to a number of his friends on the new steamer just be- fore leaving on his first trip. The Captain will be greatly missed here, socially, as he is a general favorite in this community. There was no time for after dinner speeches, as the cap- tain had arranged a large theater par- ty after the banquet, the guests just having time to make a trip through the boat while the captain explained the work of the wireless and many new features installed during the win- ter. After the close of the theater, automobiles were waiting to take the guests back to the reception, where they thanked the captain and_ his charming wife for their royal enter- tainment and wished the Captain a successful season on the lakes. Martin Urbin has resigned his po- sition at Moher’s Meat & Provision Co. and he has accepted a position with P. T. McKinney & Sons. “Take a day off occasionally and let the rest of the crowd do the worry- ing. The steamer Elva will make its first trip of the season from Detroit to the Soo Tuesday, arriving here at 11 o'clock. She will leave here at 2 o'clock and keep the same schedule as last year, carrying passengers and freight to various points along the river, including Detour. Captain Stewart is again in command. The Soo loses one of her foremost citizens in the removal of W. C. Franz, who has been associated with the Al- goma Steel Corporation for some years as Vice-President and general manager of the Lake Superior Com- panies. His removal to Cleveland is to direct supplies and productions of the company. N. F. Christenson, of Manistique, has purchased the general store and stock of George Maclaurin, at Mason- ville. Mr. Christenson expects to make numerous changes in the store, in which is included a large and com- plete stock of dry goods, for which there has been great need for many years, as the west side buyers have been compelled to cross the river for the simplest things. “Every home a canning factory. Can what you can’t eat.” Herman Roe, for the past few years manager of the J. H. Roe meat mar- ket, left last week for Chicago. It is rumored that he will return with a bride. Herman is one of the modest kind, however, and gives the boys the impression that there is no cause for alarm, but those who have the inside information are expecting the former to be the case. John A. Phalip, the well-known mer- chant and hardware man of Manis- tique, is showing his patriotism in raising crops for next year. He real- izes that farm help will be hard to get and has decided to close his store on Wednesday of each week until plant- ing season is over in order that he may take a day off with his clerks to spend on the farm putting in the crops. He has noticed his customers to that effect, which seems to have met with high approval and is a move in the right direction. “It is good to be wise, but it is wiser to be good.” The Moher Meat & Provision Co. has leased the J. H. Roe meat market, on Ashmun street. This will make three markets conducted by the Moher Meat Co. in this city. Dennis Sayres is the new motor- cycle cop on the job here now. Den- nie knows almost every man, woman and child in the city and throughout the country, but as he is somewhat of a motorist himself, it will be tak- ing a long chance to try to get by Dennie’s eagle eye. John Quick, of Ironwood, arrived at Manistique last week to visit his father. Mr. Quick will go to Munis- ing, where he expects to enter into the drug business until September, when he will return to the University at Ann Arbor. E. E. Ducap, the well-known hotel man at Trout Lake, has a crew of men busy clearing land preparatory to planting potatoes and other vegeta- bles. The Soo is at present considering the more daylight plan. It may be possible that this will be brought about so as to give the employes and others the extra hour to work gar- dens. Sam Kirvin, the famous Chippewa guide and well-known fisherman, has opened a general store at White Fish Point. J. W. Gilligan, the well-known mer- chant of Rexton, who has been on the sick list for the past week, is about to be out again. Philip Litnitz, proprietor of the hotel at Moran, left for Midland Mon- day to look over the electric lighting plant which he expects to install at the hotel. It may be possible that he can spare some of the juice to help light up the streets of Moran, as it is known as one of the darkest places on the D., S. S. & A. The inhabitants have been waiting for Edison’s latest invention, whereby they may have sunshine day and night. Meanwhile the town is still in darkness. They, however, have much faith in the old adage that it darkest just before dawn. The Elliott House, at the Snows, will be managed this season by Harry Blumenstiel, who expects to make some changes and improvements in the building, This well-known resort expects to do a large business this year. George R. LaFleur, proprietor of Bon Air, at Cedarville, who also con- ducts a hotel at St. Petersburg dur- ing the winter, is on his way back to Cedarville. He expects a bigger sea- son than ever this year, having met many tourists who informed him that they were not taking any chances on any sea voyages this year and were planning to go to the Great Lakes resorts this season. One of our traveling fraternity has brought the first sad news of the raise of price of beer from 5 to 10 cents at Mackinac City and whisky to 15 cents per. We have plenty of advice to offer to reduce the high cost of liv- ing in this respect. The steamer Lotus of the Snows Transportation Co. went into com- mission last Tuesday making the round trip which will be good news to the many travelers who have been handicapped making this territory heretofore. William G. Tapert. ——_>2+.——___ St. Johns Joins the Progressive Pro- cession. St. Johns, May 4—-The Hayes Mo- tor Truck Wheel Co. wants to put on fifty more men and F. C. Mason & Co. want to put on thirty more, but we have not the necessary housing accommodations here, so a company has been organized for the purpose of building more houses and $15,000 has already been paid in. A new business men’s club was formed last night, called the Clinton County Commercial Club to take in every one who wishes to join in the whole county. Al, Caldecourt. The Grand Rapids Lamp Co. has been incorporated to manufacture piano and other lamps with an au- thorized capital stock of $6,000, of which amount $5,210 has been sub- scribed, $2,200 paid in in cash and $3,- 010 paid in in property. —_2-____ Optimism consists in asking cream at a boarding house. for GEM PROGRESS 405-6-7 Murray Building TWO GEM TOURING CARS DELIVERED IN GRAND RAPIDS RECENTLY And they are the talk of the town—big, roomy, graceful, sturdy, reliable, works of art. Carloads of material being received every week. THIS IS PROGRESS And the greatest progress ever made by a new concern in the same length of time. Right now is your chance to make the best automobile investment obtainable, or the biggest mistake of your life by not buying. DEVEL & SAWALL, INC. Financial Agents GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN < « ys May 9, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Fire Did Not Put Us Out of Business You can secure all the Lily White Flour, “Yes-Ma’am” Graham Flour and Golden Granulated Meal you want. Quick service will be rendered. The fire was confined to the third and fourth floors of the Valley Mill, the Valley warehouse and power plant not having been damaged at all. A large force of men is already at work re-constructing, and the Valley Mull proper will be in operation in a few weeks. In the meantime our Model Mill is turning out flour and feed night and day. Our Graham Flour and Golden Meal plants are also in operation, so that with the stocks on hand we will be able to serve you promptly and satisfactorily. As the markets are very erratic we suggest you telephone your orders at our expense. VALLEY CITY MILLING CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. eo we MICHIGANIRADESMAN (Unlike any other paper.) Each issue Complete in Itself. DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BUSINESS MEN. Published Weekly by TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Subscription Price. Two dollars per year, if paid strictly in advance. Three dollars per year, if not paid in advance. Canadian subscriptions, $3.04 per year, payable invariably in advance. Sample copies 5 cents each. Extra copies of current issues, 5 cents; issues a month or more old, 10 cents; issues a year or more old, 25 cents; issues five years or more old, $1. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice as Second Class Matter. E, A. STOWE, Editor. May 9, 1917. SUPPRESSING FUTURES. The flood of and ill-advised talk about and “manipu- lators” and “operators in futures” con- tinues unchecked and even Congress has not yet been sufficiently sobered to at- tain any very profound knowledge of what it is talking about before it lets forth which frightens legitimate merchants far more le OSE “speculators” much vague threatening than it does the few “sure-enough” speculators. For instance, there has been intro- duced at least one—and possibly many more—bills to “prevent dealing in fu- tures.” But it is not quite clear just what a “future” is. The sweeping Gore bill flippantly proposes to give the Sec- retary of Agriculture authority to pre- vent anyone from buying foodstuffs “in excess of an amount reasonably neces- sary, to supply his individual or business requiremen‘s for a reasonable time,” also to “prevent inequitable distribution” of foodstufts. Of course if own mind a wicked gambler who buys a mere paper bet that prices will go up to this figure or down to that, it is easy to understand what such specula- tion is and agree that it should be pro- hibited. But what the food trades know as “futures” are nothing of that sort one conjures up in his nor in any way open to criticism on similar grounds. If it were not for “future” buying trade, there would be no such thing as stocking up, or if there was, it would be characterized by just as violent fluctuations of price as have taken place of late due to a buying mania. If the jobber waited until every- thing was packed before buying goods there would at times ensue a rush for goods and a congestion of freight which would tremendously inflate prices, out of allreason. And then he would have no assurance that there would be goods for him to buy. in the grocery Long experience has proved the wis- dom—at least the legitimacy—of book- ing orders far ahead of the time of production, based on known needs for actual sales and with specific dates for delivery, gauged to accommodate the needs of the buyer and seller and with practical consideration of economical storing and holding. True, there may be an element of guesswork about it, but by no means in the nature of gam- bling. Every manufacturer or builder, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN knowing that he will need materials, orders them ahead of time, specifying when they are to be delivered and buying when he regards the market as “right” for prudent buying. If grocers didn’t do it, the farmer would never know how much to plant nor the packer how many cases of pack to plan for. It is even suggested that Uncle Sam, knowing that he will need certain amounts of foods and other things for the army and navy, would do much better if he would place his orders, just as the jobber does, as “futures.” He certainly would on the recent sensational purchase of foods, for every one of the items bought could have been had for much less a few months ago. And if the Secretary of Agriculture or anyone else can prevent surpluses of goods, developing in one market and scarcities in another, he will be per- forming miracles. In times like these, if there were no surpluses on which to draw, the country would be as hungry as Mother Hubbard’s dog, and for the same reason. THE GREAT AMERICAN HOG. The farmer who refuses to increase his acreage of cultivated soil unless he is assured by the Government that he will receive a stated minimum price for his crops when they are ready to be harvested this season is clearly guilty of treason to the Re- public and should be summarily and severely dealt with. He is willing to see others go to the front to save himself and family from injury and his property from destruction by the Germanic horde of barbarians, but he utterly refuses to do his part un- less he is assured in advance that he be paid from three to five times as much for his beans and grain as he ordinarily receives. Such a spirit is unworthy of any man who lays any: claim to American citizenship. It is the embodiment of the American hog in all that the term implies. Every- where manufacturers are tendering their plants and services to the Gov- ernment free of charge. Men are en- listing with the stipulation that they be permitted to serve without pay. Boat owners are offering the Govern- ment the free use of their vessels during the war. Newspapers are giv- ing advertising space in the face of threatened hostile postal legislation. Everywhere patriotic people are mak- ing sacrifices for the cause of human freedom and democracy, The farm- er alone stands back and insists on being bribed to do his duty to the country which is undertaking to pro- tect him from the common enemy of humanity. Department stores report no di- minution in the demands upon their grocery departments: in fact some of them frankly admit that their food departments are the busiest in the establishments, and that while buy- ing power and the economic wave are making trade in other departments noticeably less active, groceries are far more a factor in the aggregate trading. Individual orders are mark- edly larger than usual, the consumer buying five or six times her usual amounts and manifestly hoarding against scarcity and higher prices. SHREDDED WHEAT DECISION. The decree of Judge Thomas, of the Federal District Court of Con- necticut, enjoining the further mak- ing and selling of Ross’ “whole wheat biscuit” because the same is held to be an infringement of the rights of the Shredded Wheat Co. of Niagara Falls and an imitation of the well known Shredded Wheat, confusing to the public, has created a sensation in the grocery trade and is likely to prove historic. It certainly makes applications of the law and the deci- sions not generally understood and greatly extends the protection of the courts into the competitive field. Evidently the court was impressed with the fact that the public has a right to be protected from imitations that mislead and deceive and based the decision on that far more than on any consideration of the life or rights or limitations of a patent. The court holds that, irrespective of the patent or its part in permitting the Shredded Wheat Co. to establish its product in the public mind, the public under- standing and familiarity with the product is the property of the manu- facturer, whose brains, skill and money have created it, and that when an imitator seeks to gain trade in com- petition by duplicating the product, patent or no patent, he is guilty of unfair trading. The ground covered in this decision and the conclusions arrived at are ap- plicable to innumerable products sold on the market and it would not be surprising to find other manufacturers availing themselves of the precedent to clear the field of “hangers-on” who annoy them by picking up trade from under their umbrella. But its most interesting and potential application will probably be to strengthen the legal status of proprietary rights to protection from unfair trading; the evolution of which is of particular trade interest. THE BURDEN OF THE WAR. Much of the present reasoning on the relative merits of taxes and bond issues in financing is vitiated by a widespread, long-standing and deeply rooted fallacy, That fallacy is being daily nourished in newspaper editori- als and Washington dispatches. It is the question whether the burden of the war ought to be placed on the present generation, or left to fu- ture generations. Whatever may be the merits of bond issues, they cannot shift the burden of war to future gen- erations. They cannot even shift it for one or two years. Wars must be paid for, and wholly paid for, while they are in progress. Armies cannot eat the food to be produced in the fu- ture. They cannot explode the mu- nitions to be produced in the future. These things must necessarily be grown and produced while the war is on; they are paid for while the war is on, The primary difference between bond issues and taxes is that the first represent voluntarily lent funds, while the second represent conscripted funds. In a war financed wholly by taxes, the conscription would take place while the war was on. In a war financed by bonds, volunteer May 9, 1917 funds are made use of; but for the sake of justice and equal distribution of burden they must ultimately be replaced by conscripted funds, al- though that conscription and replace- ment may take place gradually, over a generation or more. The only shift which bond issues represent is a shift from one part of the people to another part. The sub- scribers to the war bonds temporarily sustain the burden, and the taxpayers ultimately sustain it, The taxpayers and the war loan subscribers are of- ten identical; if they were completely identical, the fallacy would never have arisen. All funds for carrying on wars are derived from current wealth. The fact that they can be raised by bor- rowing during the war, proves that they exist. The only problems for the finance minister is whether he has the administrative machinery to col- lect it by taxation, whether he could collect it quickly enough, whether he could prevent wholesale evasion, whether taxation would put a greater or less temporary burden on industry than borrowing, or whether the least burden would result from a combina- tion. The only way in which the future generation does or can bear the bur- den of a war is in a loss of goods that it might have had if war had not tak- en place; in the unbuilt buildings (and the buildings actually destroyed), the unconstructed railways, the undiscov- ered inventions, the undeveloped in- dustries—all of which would have been built or discovered or developed if war had not given a different direc- tion to capital and human labor. Far from showing the weakness of the German concentration against Rus- sia, the estimate of the German army strength and distribution issued from French army headquarters shows plain- ly the heavy share of responsibility which Russia is bearing even in her present state of transition and uncer- tainty. Of a total of 219 German di- visions, 143 are assigned to the west front and seventy-three, or a little over one-half as many, to the east front— Russia, Rumania, Macedonia. Since the Rumanian front is virtually held by the Russian armies and the German strength in Macedonia is not very large, we may assume seventy German divisions con- centrated against Russia. Add to this half of the Austrian army, as well as Bulgarians and Turks, and we find that in Europe alone the Russians may be facing 100 enemy divisions. In Asia, at the same time, they are opposed to the main Turkish army in Armenia and conducting operations in Persia ‘and Northern Mesopotamia. Altogether, the Russian army would appear to be facing three-quarters of the enemy numbers confronted by the British and French armies. This is an extraordinary showing in view of Russia’s incompara- bly inferior military resources, other than men. While goods are some higher, it is consoling to realize that a yard of cloth clothes a large family of daugh- ters. A pessimist is a man who views his neighbor through smoked glasses. cr met + May 9, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The BEST-ADVERTISED, BEST-KNOWN BRAND in ALL AMERICA HE 1917 DEL MONTE Advertising Campaign is the largest ever conducted exclusively on California Canned fruits and vegetables. Over forty-eight million advertisements will appear---all full pages in color in the Saturday Evening Post and in the Big Leading Women’s Magazines. Your customers already know DEL MONTE products. It has long been a line of recognized quality. This advertising will make it by far the best- known and most-asked-for brand in America. Here is a quality line worth tying up to. It has big effective advertising behind it. It sells, satisfies and repeats---THAT’S WHAT YOU WANT. If your jobber does not handle, send us his name and we will communicate with him CALIFORNIA PACKING CORPORATION San Francisco, California 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN May 9, 1917 j = > : # - = — = ¢ == : =: = < = % . 2 = 12 Fe Za ‘ ‘ y a\y 7 a nt \* cere q Wh ‘\ Nt ALY \ 4 (((( wo OM) WM Fi v 24)), a sett ssay WA JASN AIL YY MY ) oe S RU N ON SJ “id > A, ej y 4 Michigan Retail! Shoe Dealers’ Association President—Fred Murray, Charlotte. Secretary—Elwyn Pond, Flint. Treasurer—Wm. J. Kreger, Wyandotte. Effects of the War on Shoe Retailing. Written for the Tradesman. The retail shoe trade of the country has been hit hard by i conditions. It would be dead : to gloss over a critical situation by eee a, c aA witnhoiding tacts and roseate prophecies of better times ahead, and all that sort of thing. But it wouldn't do the least bit of good Facts are stubborn things. And after all, its far better to be absolutely frank. The average person is now re- trenching in the matter of his foot- wear expenditures. He is wearing his old And, in spite of the increasing cost of repair laving them half having the worn heels renewed. His idea shoes a bit longer. jobs, he is hz full or soled, and otherwise rehabilitated. now is to make them wear as long as he can—to procrastinate as far as he may the purchase of a new pair. Of course there are people in every com- munity, and in the larger communi- ties, a sizeable number of people. who are able to buy shoes whenever they need them or the fancy strikes them but people of this class are not the ones we think of when we use the ex- We people of limited means. Folks pression “average people.” mean who must economize to make both ends meet. These are the ones who constitute the big, cosmopolitan group of shoe-consumers. Doubtless many retail shoe dealers are whistling to keep their courage up; but most of them, if they are will- ing to be real frank, admit that whistling than fitting just at this time The retail shoe off. would doubtless they are doing more business is decidedly business Many other kinds of have been hit equally hard, it is true: but that is neither here nor there. Just now we are thinking of shoes The times are not normal by a jug fall; This is And precedent for such a war as the world war. there is no is now witnessing. If ever there was a time when the shoe retailer wants to play it safe should be care- ful in his buying, who that time is now. Increasing Scarcity of Leather. People who are not acquainted with conditions confronting the shoe in- dustry of this country, cannot realize that there is a valid reason back of the advancing price of shoes. We have become so used to price-manipu- lation and monopolistic fleecing, any sudden and unprecedented advance in the cost of a given commodity natural- ly leads one to infer that somebody has discovered an opportunity—i. e. gotten certain has control of a necessity—and is boosting temporary prices arbitrarily to get rich quick. That's the way we do it in America— in most things, perhaps. But leather industries and the American shoe in- dustry. particularly, are exceptional. The price of leather went up simply because the visible supplies of leather melt demand began to away under the put Ere. them by mendous upon a world at war. The armies of the world must have shoes. It may conceivably happen that the matter of footwear will have a vital bearing upon the ultimate de- cision of this titanic contest of arms. If, for example, the Central last to a could not Powers situation keep their armies properly equipped with shoes, this would cripple their movement on all their battle fronts, and thus prove should come at where they quite as disastrous as a shortage in Armies must be equipped with footwear. And think for a moment of the number of that tremendous ammunition or provisions. armies must be so This leather is abnormal. equipped! consumption of It has been go- ing on for two years and nine months —and how much longer it will con- tinue, nobody on earth can say. Can any sane person wonder that the price of leather has advanced sharp- ly in all the leather markets of the world? In this country prices have advanc- ed because of the falling off of im- ports and also owing to a shortage of production, which in turn is due to Nation-wide economy in These be refuted. meat- that And they quickly and vitally touch the matter of price. Keeping Down the Cost of Shoes. consumption. are facts cannot | think anybody who has looked into the situation a little bit even, will agree that shoe manufacturers have done their very best to keep down the cost of shoes. Shoe manu- facturers, for the most part. are con- servative men, They understand per- fectly well that the shoes they sell on order must be retailed a pair at a time; and they can easily picture to their imagination the practical dif- ficulties the retailer will encounter when prices go beyond a certain point. That’s the reason they have been cutting the corners here and there, and trying their very best to Backed by Quality TCM oes, s a) 0 zi « dvertising This “Adv” Shows One line out of a great many carried in stock. They are numbers that have helped make our “‘Bertsch’’ line famous. SELDOM EQUALED NEVER EXCELLED 960—Men’s Gun Metal Calf Blucher Goodyear Welt, half Double Sole, Last 29, D&E........ $3.25 979—Blucher, same as 960 ........ 3.25 913—Same as 960 only extra quality... .$3.55 914—Same as 979 only extra quality... . $3.55 Market conditions con- sidered these prices are extremely low. Catalogue or samples on request. THEY WEAR LIKE IRON Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. Manufacturers of Serviceable Footwear GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The “Fenway” is a High Grade Leader This excellent Hood Tennis has smooth white sole, loose lining, leather insole, and is make in every detail to embody character, style and good wearing qualities, AOnhs Womens............... We carry the largest stock and most varied line of TENNIS of any Michigan House. Write for catalog. Ask for salesman to call. Grand RapidsShoe ®Rubber@. The Michigan People Grand Rapids 4¢ ° s9 4¢ 8329 Chocolate— 8336 Black Kangaroo Calf Chocolate or Black—Blucher with Bellows Tongue This shoe spells SERVICE Price $2.75 Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Nae en ee an eae teeth teeter eae eet Seacrest itera rca saecigeeianieiedaeac ese omntiaeeaes ee eel 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN May 9, 1917 1 FINANCIAL :/j| | The Reality of War (CEnREAT Ct ry Soy Brings home to every citizen the uncertain- y aly - WS ties of life and emphasizes the importance ye SiN ae pe of making a will to be administrated and Should Speed Up Production at the Mines. There is a possibility that through the present war situation the old adage, “It is an ill wind which blows no one good,” may prove true, From the General Railway Board of the Council of National Defense comes an order directing the railroads of the United States to give coal and iron ore preference over all other traf- fic. The order is accompanied by the statement that the welfare and safety of the Nation depend upon adequate supplies of these commodities and that evasion of this order will call for the strictest disciplinary measures. Railroad presidents will be charged personally with the responsibility of carrying the order into effect. If the Council of National Defense has the authority to issue this order and power to enforce it, the “wel- fare and safety” of the Nation would be further protected if the Council of National Defense should take steps to speed up production at mines, dis- tributing the product and breaking down the exorbitantly high prices for fuel, which if something of the kind is not done, promises to reach such high prices as to be prohibitive to persons of moderate means, and to so increase the rents of heated apart- ments as to make them a heavy burden to bear. Fuel, its price and supply. are second in importance only to the supply and distribution of food stuffs There is coal enough in the mines of the United States to furnish the peo- ple with cheap fuel for years. It is nothing that must be manufactured It is really an inheritance of the peo- ple. Those who operate the mines are trustees, as are those who operate the railroads. Steps taken to cut down the cost of fuel are contributing to the successful handling of the war. as are those who plant and cultivate their fields. They would not only help to cut the high cost of living but would enable manufacturers to reduce their cost of production, as to further ameliorate a price that is becoming almost unbearable. Like the food problem, the fuel situa- tion has an important and direct bear- ing upon the financial situation and is of prime importance to the banking interests. Any influence they can bring to bear to compel the more free production and distribution of coal will be of great benefit from human- itarian, patriotic and business stand- points. For blunders, those who guide the Federal Reserve System seem to have an unlimited capacity. At a time when there exists a hysterical fear of food shortage which has ‘lifted prices to a ridiculous height, a number of Federal situation Reserve banks have been urging the farmers to hold their crops for higher Government 1s earnestly striving to avoid. If asking prices—a result the the farmers to hold for higher prices than now prevail is not “giving comfort to the enemy.” it is perilously near it. Paul M. Warburg, Vice-Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, in a recent address delivered before the Commercial Club of Chicago, pretended to be pa- triotic in the introduction, but beneath the velvet glove showed the Teutonic grasping for autocratic power for the Federal Reserve Board in the banking world. In closing his remarks regard- ing state banks and trust companies, he said: “While still a banker in New York, I once tried to get into a subway train during rush hours. I forced my way into a crowded car, but with an- other man was caught between the auto- matic doors which would not close be- hind us. My fellow sufferer began to yell at the top of his lungs, ‘Isn’t there anybody to push us in?’ A guard push- ed us in. It looks to me as if there was enough in the present situation to push the state banks and trust com- Early training in European banking has inculcated in me an aver- sion to banking by regulation, when, by intelligent voluntary efforts of banks, the same result can be achieved. But in Washington I am constantly met with the view that without compulsion no headway can be made.” Close relationship between the retailer and the banker is one of the greatest elements of success of the retailer there is. In the Journal of the American -ankers’ Association a case in point is given. A retailer, F. C. Huber, of Lara- bee, Wisconsin, is the proprietor of a general store. The banks knows where he stands. He discounts his bills up his collections and he and the bank know why. Every day he puts before his banker a statement of the total sales of the day before with a statement of profit or loss; a statement of the stock on hand; the amount of out- standing ,accounts; a summary of the money he owes jobbers, manufacturers panies in. and keeps and others. All this being summarized for the current month up to the date of the This system of mutual con- fidence in small towns is rapidly spread- ing with good effect. mentioned because it is in these places the merchants generally need help. The big merchants in big cities can and do take care of themselves. The ciated advertising clubs of the world have organized a new department with the assistance of well known experts with a view of helping both the coun- try merchant and the banker. The records so devised are so simple the merchant or his book-keeper can daily report. Small towns are asso- executed by a responsible trust company. This department of trust companies is far better equipped to act as executor and trustee than an individual. The cost is small. Call and let us ex- plain the advantages of our service and help you plan for the future welfare of those you love. Send for blank form of Will and booklet on Descent and Distribution of Property. THE MICHIGAN TRUST Co. OF GRAND RAPIDS Audits made of books of municipalities, corporations, firms and individuals. GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK CITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK ASSOCIATED CAMPAU SQUARE The convenient banks for out of town people. the city. district. On account of our location—our large transit facilities—our safe deposit vaults and our complete service covering the entire field of banking, our institutions must be the ultimate choice of out of town bankers and individuals. Located at the very center of Handy to the street cars—the interurbans—the hotels—the shopping Combined Capital and Surplus.................. $ 1,724,300.00 Combined Total Deposits ...................... 10,168,700.00 Combined Total Resources ............ceeeceee 13,157,100.00 GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK CITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK ASSOCIATED “ Fh > +7486 < Fh > +7 1*@ May 9, 1917 see the exact condition of the business. This will provide against over buying; against dead stock; tardy collections, and also indicate the lines of quickest sale and best profits. If the merchants in small towns could be induced to thus systematize their business there would be better credits and less failure. On the constructive side of the ques- tion, giving reason for the conviction that bad times are not upon us, nor likely to overcome us are: Great in- dustrial profits; enormous accumulation of gold; constant piling up of our for- eign trade balance and tentative in- crease in railroad rates, which means freer distribution of goods and raw material. Conservatism is necessary, but business should not be interrupted nor paralyzed by the events now trans- piring. In regard to the financial situa- tion one thing needs special attention. That is the curbing of municipal ex- travagance. In this the bankers can be of genuine service by using their influence to keep down appropriations to the line of necessity. It is true municipal bonds are in demand because of their exemption from taxation, but there is danger of getting too much of a good thing. It is the duty of every patriotic American citizen to assist in holding municipal bond issues down. Good roads are developers of the coun- try and money thus expended brings good returns, but parks, boulevards and luxuriant trimmings should be held in abeyance. Paul Leake. —— Wants Jobbers to Study Economics. Why should it not be worth while to do some real scientific investiga- tion to determine the most economical means of distribution? The evér prevailing complaint of the high cost of living commands our attention, and compels that we some- what forget the present order of things in an effort to fix custom more nearly to suit the present ordeal. Or- ganizations of various kinds, some of them approaching National propor- tions, are developing for the purpose of advocating public markets; others urge that we deal from sources of supply direct to th. mouths of the consumers; others suggest that we discontinue the package forms in favor of the bulk form of distribution. Others make the sweeping sugges- tion that all so-called middlemen should be eliminated. In fact, the sources of advice for betterment are legion, while it would appear that the people who should have the greatest amount of practical knowledge in- cident to their daily contact with these varied forms of commodities and services, have practically nothing to suggest. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Is it because we are too busy mark- ing up our costs and selling prices, as well as our salaries and other ex- penses, to give these matters public expression, or are we simply indiffer- ent to the gravity of the situation, and are resting on our oars until the climax is reached, in abide by the results? willingness to It has been observed that the con- sumer has unconsciously encouraged the addition of too much cost being added to her groceries in the form of costly lithographing and expensive color work, as well as unnecessary delivery service and other services. It occurs to me that food experts— I do not refer necessarily to chemists but more particularly to scientific mer- chant men—should seriously consid- er proper coin denominations as well as more economic containers for mer- chandise. Because of the popularity of our nickel and our dime, a great many commodities are made to sell at prices on popular consideration of our coins, which, if bought on in- trinsic value, would go to the consum- er 25 or 50 per cent. less than at the present time, and this weakness in our system of merchandise is due very largely to our National system of coinage. Again, we have to consider the right of our manufacturers to set their own mark of profit on the com- modities which they sell under their trade mark rights, many of whom have, during the course of long years of extensive National advertising, come into a very complete form of monopoly, and in the absence of a National board, whose duty it is to make investigation on properly filed complaint, they conduct their business on the plan of adding all that the trade will bear. Before the activities of the Interstate: Commerce Commis- sion, dealing with the affairs of the railroads, it was a common remark at rate meetings “that the rates should be made as high as the traffic would bear.” It was admitted by railroad freight agents of the highest stand- ing that they did not pretend to make their rates on a scientific basis or on cost of service. It would appear that the affairs of commerce in which we are engaged is very much in the same position. 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This relieves you of all responsibility and worry; gives you full assurance that your wishes will be carried out; guarantees your family full protection regardless of conditions that may befall you or wherever you may be. Send for blank form of Will and Booklet on Distribution of property. CATITAL AND SURPLUS ..............-...-..:-. $250,000.00 Saginaw Valley Trust Company SAGINAW, MICHIGAN 109 S. Jefferson Ave. Both Telephones No. 188 Descent and KEEP BUSINESS GOING. Patriotic Plea by One of Our Greatest Merchants. New York, May 7—Our country prosperous can pay our war costs, as they come, and have enough left over to aid our Allies. Our country unprosperous, with business halting, money hoarded, through fear or false economy, will be hard pressed to keep food on the table and clothing on the back. Keep business going is a patriotic slogan. Keep money in circulation. Keep employment for everybody. Keep wages good. Keep on making money that we may have money to spend for war sacrifices. The worst thing that could happen to the world these days would be a business depression in our United States. War. in itself does not cause busi- ness depression. The billions of dollars of money to be expended in war preparations will be put into circulation in our own country, and this in itself will create new wealth for use in the world-strug- gle for humanity. The one thing that might halt busi- ness now is an unpatriotic psychologi- cal feeling of panic and a false idea of patriotic economy. : Patriotic economy means the elim- ination of waste and extravagance. It means the conservation of our food products, our National wealth, our health, our energies, our labor, our very lives. It means putting more efficiency in everything we do so that each unit of money, energy and in- tellegence may accomplish the ut- most. Patriotic economy does not mean the lowering of America’s standard of living, which would make us less efficient physically and mentally, Na- tionally and individually, and would kill the spirit and the will to do the truly self-sacrificing things to be done. Cities and communities must go on with their civic improvements. Road building and public works must pro- ceed. Railroads must renew their equipment. Factories must be kept going to their full capacity. Labor must be employed, Homes must be kept up. Merchandise must be pro- duced, distributed and used. War duties and war expenditures must be in addition to peace duties and peace expenditures. The more we do the more we can do. The more money we spend the more we will have in our pockets to spend. Money creates money. In a word: The natural sane life of the country must proceed as though we were not at war, in order that we may have the necessary pros- perity to promote the war to a quick and successful conclusion. President Wilson sounds the key- note in this sentence: “It is evident to every thinking man that our in- dustries, On the farm, in the ship- yards, in the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and more efficient.” Our industries can be made more prolific only if the people buy ana use the merchandise produced by our industries. Manufacturing slackens when business slackens. Manufac- turing grows in a prolific way when business grows. And business can grow and remain healthful only when the people buy and keep money in circulation. Business is going—in the East, the West, the North, the South. The country is prosperous. Last month’s increase in business was very large. 3anks may wait in their operations until the Government bonds are as- similated. People may pause tempor- arily in their outfitting to arrange to meet the new conditions. But the unloosing of billions of dollars will unloose a flow of prosnerity absolute- ly necessary to sustain the world’s burden. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Governments set the pace in their expenditures. Individuals must not lag behind. Seven billions of dollars to pay is only $70 per capita in the United States. Yet seven billions of dollars, put into work at 6 per cent.—a fair estimate of the producing power of money—will create 420 millions of new wealth. The income tax we pay will not be a tax on prosperity, but a spur to prosperity. Every dollar the indi- vidual pays out will come back to him with interest in the general pros- perity of the people. Keep business going—for our coun- try’s sake. War cannot be waged and won without the sinews of war. John Wanamaker. —_+ +> From the Standpoint of the Anti- Christian. Evansville, Ind., May 7—It has been a long time since I wrote you last and I had made up my mind not write you again, but when I read “Give the Kaiser Hell for Hell” which ap- peared on the front cover page of your paper, .I could not resist the thoughts passing through my brain, for they simply compelled me to write you the following: These thoughts are honestly and sincerely in favor of giving the family of thought which controls the Kaiser all the rope it wants, and if it wishes to give him hell for hell, all right. You must always remem- ber that the Kaiser is a Christian and fully believes in the Christian’s God, and the German people believe in him. You and Mr. Malone believe in him. You are all Christians who are go- ing insane listening to the family of thought which invented Christianity. You greet this fighting family of thought with your bibles, songs and prayers, and the more you read the book and the more you sing and pray, the more all of you fight and kill one another. All of the Christian min- isters and their “sheep” are following prutal ignorance, yet they all think they are “educated.” Here we are in this so-called “land of liberty,” getting ready to kill one another—and we are all educated by and through this ignorant Christian intellect. Every minister and every editor has been trained by this awful ignorant intellect, and their brains are so completely disabled that every one of them think they know more than any one else, and they all advise the President, They are so ignorant that they want to help God kill somebody, They believe that God can’t do any- thing without their advice. Sit down and think these words over and try to realize how ignorant the Christian intellect is. Edward Miller, Jr. Kent State Bank om Mich. Capital . C a ° $500,000 Surplus and Profits - $500,000 Resources 9 Million Dollars 3 bs Per Cent. 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Senf, Secretary. The drawing of your Will is a matter of too great importance in relation to your affairs and to those dependent upon you to be put off from day to day. It is too important a document to be drawn carelessly. We advise those who desire to name this company as Executor and Trustee to have their wills prepared by a skilful, and trust- worthy Attorney. When this is done please notify our officers, and your will, if you so choose, will be kept in our vault without charge, to be instantly available when wanted. Ask for booklet on “Descent and Distribution of Property”’ and Blank Form of Will [RAND Rlarins TRust[oMPAy MANAGED BY MEN YOU*KNOW OTTAWA AT FOUNTAIN. BOTH PHONES 4391 4¢ 4¢ . ‘ V ¥ (obs «®> ¢ ¢ e » erpe 2 ¢ . ¢€ r * - 4 ‘ \ - > + 7 « \ ‘ qs * . . 4 . ~ iy ‘ « ‘ a * ° » - hie » “fa May 9, 1917 Bankruptcy Proceedings in South. western Michigan. St. Joseph, April 28—Benjamin H. Dunkley, of Kalamazoo, filed a voluntary petition and was adjudicated bankrupt and the matter was referred to Referee Banyon. The schedules of the bankrupt show no assets over and above his statu- tory exemptions and the following un- secured creditors: Abbott’s Laboratories, Chicago ...$ 2.00 Louden Specialty Co., Milwaukee 35.00 George Coffey, Kalamazoo ........ 5.15 Van Dyke & Co., Kalamazoo ...... 29.00 George McDonald Drug Co., WalamazGo ..... osc. see ee ees 125.00 Great Western Serum Co., Chicago 300.50 —_ W. P. Darling, Kalamazoo ...... Edward Sootsaman, Kalamazoo Vant Roer Coal Co., Kalamazoo .. Thling Bros. & Everhard, Kalamazoo Van Bochove Bros., Kalamazoo ... mm bo CISION Oot RS os Oo Kate O’Brien, Kalamazoo ....... 150.00 South Side Garage, Kalamazoo 35.00 Motor Car Exchange, Kalamazoo 45.00 Kalamazoo Vuleanizing Co., Kala- MOZOO ce ee. 40.00 A. ©, Gilbert, Kalamazoo ........ 50.00 Frank Howe, Kalamazoo ......... 25.00 Kalamazoo Gazette, Kalamazoo .. 12.50 $914.40 April 30—In the matter of Frank A. Boyce, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, the trus- tee filed his final report and account, showing total receipts of $1,858.26 and disbursements for first dividend of 20 per cent. and payment of preferred labor and tax claims and expenses of administra- tion of $520.05, leaving a balance on hand of $1,338.21, with request that the final meeting of creditors be called for the purpose of declaring and ordering paid a final dividend. The referee entered an order calling the final meeting of cred- itors at his office on May 12 for the pur- pose of passing upon the trustee’s final report and account, the payment of cer- tain expenses of administration and the declaration and payment of a final divi- dend. Creditors were directed to show cause why a certificate should not be made recommending the bankrupt’s dis- charge. In the matter of Benjamin (H. Dunkley, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, an order was made calling the first meeting of creditors at the latter place on May 11 for the purpose of proving claims, the election of a trustee, the examination of the bankrupt and the transaction of such other business as may properly come be- fore the meeting. May 1—Bart Foley, engaged in the re- tail grocery and provision business at Dowagiac, filed a voluntary petition and was adjudicated bankrupt and the matter referred to Referee Banyon, who was also appointed receiver. The following are listed as creditors: Albion Chemical Works, Albion ..$ 4.00 Armour & Co., Kalamazoo ....... 12.05 Bainter Bros., Buchanan .......... 32.06 Brink Baking Co., Kalamazoo 200,00 Bour Company, Toledo ............ 46.20 Reliable Fruit Co., Chicago ...... 38.60 Colby Milling Co., Dowagiac 30.46 Dowagiae Creamery Co., Dowagiac 17.60 Jacobson & Peterson, South Bend 22,25 Hodge & McIntosh, South Bend 11.40 Ht. J. Heinz Co., Detroit .......... 15.50 S&S Hill Paxton, Hl. ............ 25,25 Lockway & Stouck Co., Benton Elarbor ..-..6..0....2...-.-..< 43.78 National Biscuit Co., Chicago 51.18 A. H. Rowe, Benton Harbor ..... 19.50 Cc, H. Swindell, Benton Harbor ... 8.63 Swindell-Taylor Co., Kalamazoo .. 22.71 fWagh Thompson Broom Corn Co., hansas, @iy 6s ole. 176.49 Vette & Zuncker, Chicago ........ 26.50 A. W. Walsh & Co., Kalamazoo .. 63.18 Whiteman Bros., South Bend 119.62 Kidd, Dater & Price Co., Benton TEAPDOR coca cree cee ee ee ee see 33.46 South Bend Grocery Co., South Meng 2....)..-65-..:-4.0-.-.... 150.00 Condon Bros., Rockford, Ill. ...... 11.00 A. H. Randall, Fort Wayne ...... 25.36 Perfection Biscuit Co., Fort Wayne 35.46 J. B. Webber, South Bend ........ 5.00 Schultz Baking Co., Chicago ...:.. 30.00 Dowagiae National bank, Dowagiac 800.00 State Savings Bank, Dowagiac ....200.00 Lee State Bank, Dowagiac ........ 900.00 f $5,070.03 Secured Claims. Kidd, Dater & Price Co., Benton Praroon. <0 oc eee cece cc cece ess $4,000.00 Michael Daley, Dowagiac ........ 1,800.00 $5,800.00 Assets Meal Gstate ......0.-6-se ese ceass $5,200.00 Accounts receivable ............. 750.00 @ach on hand <...............--.- ~20 Stock of merchandise ............ 900.00 $6,875.00 May 2—In the matter of Mabel Boers and the Boers Shoe Co., a copartnership, bankrupt, of Benton Harbor, upon the petition of Mabel, the copartnership was adjudicated bankrupt and the matter re- ferred to Referee Banyon. The petition for the adjudication of the copartnership shows the same creditors as were listed in the petition of Mabel Boers and the same assets. a May 3—In the matter of William H. Sweetland, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, the trustee filed his final report and account, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN showing total receipts of $266.66 and no disbursements, with request that the final meeting of creditors be called for the purpose of paying certain preferred labor claims and certain expenses of ad- ministration. An order was entered by the referee, calling the final meeting of ereditors at his office on May 17 for the purpose of passing upon the trustee's final report and account, the payment of preferred labor claims and the expenses of administration. Creditors were direct- ed to show cause why a certificate should not be made by the referee recom- mending the bankrupt’s discharge. May 5—In the matter of Roscoe M. Tabor, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, the trus- tee’s objections and exceptions to the claim of the Wolf Fuel Saver Co. were considered and sustained by the referee and the claim which was filed for $365.25 reduced in amount and allowed at $200. The second report ana account of the trustee shows that creditors will receive about 10 cents on the dollar. 72 >___ Stand by Your Country. “And for your country, boy, and for that flag, never dream a dream but of serving her as she bids you, even though the service carry you through a thousand hells. No matter what happens to you, no matter who flat- ters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag; never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind officers and Government, and people even, there is the Country Herself— your Country—and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.” Edward Everett Hale. We Specialize In Automobile Industrial Public Utility SECURITIES THURMAN-GEISTERT & CO. formerly ALLEN G. THURMAN & CO. Michigan Trust Bldg. & G. R. Savings Bank Bidg. 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And if you stickers. gummed stickers $3.25 gummed stickers $5.75 Extra clamps $2.50 per 100. direct upon receipt of price. Use it for shelves, tables, show cases, window display, crates, boxes, “split the nickel” and mark your goods in FIGURES you'll be able to get better prices and at the same time earn the reputation of being a “Bargain headquarters.” The Shuman System consists of galvanized steel clips that you spring onto shelves, boxes, baskets, etc., and handsome gummed price stickers, that you paste on the face of the clips. To change prices, you simply OUTFIT No. 1 consisting of OUTFIT No. 2 consisting of 150 galvanized steel clamps and 1410 Extra stickers 10c per envelope of 50 of a kind. 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There is a self-conceit of housewifery that the women who are less skilful It is as of- as making a simply won't stand for. fensive and obnoxious of one’s learning or bragging Be careful not show about one’s money. to manifest the least trace of it. We will say you are an extra good cook and a very neat, tidy housekeep- er. Coffee that you make is clear as and you never burn a roast, and and amber, and your pie crust is not soggy but crisp and flaky, always jells, and your can- ned fruit invariably keeps. You have knack about everything You would be willing a committee of domestic scientists should go through your house and smell sharply for any- thing unwholesome or unsanitary. and look with a microscope for dust and dirt. Every drawer and closet is in perfect order. You know abso- lutely—and you can put all the empha- sis on the overworked word that a salesman uses when he is trying to land a big order—you know absolute- ly that no one can put anything over your housekeeping. From the time you were a tiny girl took to. nice doing You were handy. You never really had to be taught—you knew without learning. You always knew That sums it up in four words underdone your jelly the same you ways of things. how. —you always knew how. Those who believe in previous states of existence might account for your aptitude in this way: In some incar- nation—perhaps in more than one— you were a famous chef. In another you may have been charged with the care of the linen and the silver in a king’s palace. In still another, more recent, perhaps you managed a large hospital. You brought with you the fund of knowledge acquired in these experiences, and so, at an incredibly early age, your little hands could take hold of any kind of household work deftly. Whether or not this explana- tion is valid, this much is certain, in this present life you always knew how. seing gifted as you are, you often feel like lifting your voice in thank- fulness that you are not like many of the women you see around you— stupid and awkward about the simplest processes, slipshod and blundering in all they undertake to do. You hardly can be blind to your own superiority, but if you are shrewd you will keep very quiet about it. You have heard the expression—‘“I hate the feeling of such or such a per- son in the house.” There are many who hate the feeling of having in the house a woman who can do things better than any one else. I dreaded to have Irene come, and I shall be mighty glad when she goes,” said Mrs. Ennis, speaking of her sister-in-law, who is making a short visit. “She puts me on a nerv- ous strain. I just know she is all the time comparing my housekeeping with hers, and that mine falls dread- fully short. When she looks at my curtains I imagine she is longing to give me in detail her peerless method of laundering draperies. A cake I baked yesterday fell in the oven. Of course she told how she manages so that her cakes always stay up, but I didn’t listen. I’ve worried along with my work for twenty years, and I won’t bring myself to learn any- thing from Irene.” Superefficiency always makes its possessor an unwelcome guest. The same trait causes trouble in other re- lations. It is at the bottom of about 99 per cent, of the mother-in-law diffi- culties. When you think of it, did you ever hear of any daughter-in-law com- plaining seriously because she hap- pened to have a mother-in-law who might be called a little slack or shift- less or even indolent? Never in your life. It is the overcapable mother-in- law who is always in a rumpus with her daughters-in-law. You might think that a girl who never has learn- ed to work would count herself ex- tremely lucky if she can place herself under the tuition of a mother-in-law who knows just how to do things— like Saul at the feet of Gamaliel. But human nature isn’t made that way. (Ordon r. ¥.C. Crochet Cotton The best made, for all purposes Ask Your Jobber We are manufacturers of TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED HATS for Ladies, Misses and Children, especially adapted tothe general store trade. ial order solicited. CORL, KNOTT & CO., Ltd. Corner Commerce Ave. and Island St. Grand Rapids, Mich. AWNINGS Chain or Cog Gear Roller Pull up Store and Window Plain or Decorated CHAS. A. COYE, Inc. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. mail order. Putnam Factory Double A (3) Kind THE CANDY FOR SPRING TRADE Now is the time to re-arrange your Candy Case. Our salesman will show you samples of several NEW GOODS when he calls next trip. If you need some candy before then, send us a It will be well taken care of. 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Inspect our line and be onreert Paul Stehetee & Sons Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, wee de &r a é ras Yoho: « + , a“ 4 1 « ta i. ¢ « ¢ . «be é r is ss ¥ ail ’ ‘ qf ’ 7 > ~ \ FY MIA « ’ , . 4s . > ~ * (ae? * * 4* + % * ae ~ ” y ' a . _ ® 4 » 4 ko 4 de se a 4 . > Ve. > « + > y a 4 1 « ta i. ¢ « ¢ . € be é r io . ¥ « ’ ‘ ¢ » ’ * * ~ SFY MIA « ’ - » « - . > + » dy ¢ * » 4 t ‘ ’ el ~y ” y Y a . 4 ® 4 » 4 i“ 4 May 9, 1917 Any Mrs. Newlywed would far rather be. left to blunder along in her own way than be taught by the most com- petent mother-in-law in the world. Indeed the woman who lets others know that she thinks she can do things better than anybody else is a flat failure as a mother-in-law. She is hardly more successful in her own household. Her husband never is one of those priceless jewels, a man who is handy about the house and ready to help out in any emergency. Earlier he may have shown a willing spirit. Byt his inclinations to helpfulness were nipped in the bud. He was made to feel that he was in the way and that he slopped around and mess- ed up the clean kitchen. Very soon he quit even offering his services. Rare is it that this type of woman imparts any portion of her skill to her daughters, On the lips of a keen- witted girl, what is a more common excuse for getting out of all tasks at home, than just this: “I can’t do any- thing to suit mother. She thinks no one but herself can do things as they ought to be done. If I attempt to help, she either coolly takes the work out of my hands, or else does it over after me. What’s the use of my try- ing?” As to servants, the woman of whom we are speaking is apt to come quick- ly to the conclusion that maids are more bother than they are worth and that she may as well do her work her- self as follow around after help. So she consigns herself to a life of toil and drudgery—toil and drudgery not lightened by assistance either from members of her own family or from hired helpers. Thus she misses it. Not only is her obsession a detriment to herself, it works a loss to others also. It should be the mission of the extra-capable woman to impart some degree of her proficiency to those less gifted than herself, It is a fine art to inspire the unskilled with a desire to learn how —to show them where they fall be- low a high standard and at the same time to encourage them to attain to it. The woman who can do this can train her daughters to follow in her footsteps of good housekeeping, and may be a godsend to all her young friends and acquaintances. But this beneficent work can not be done by the woman who makes her own su- periority too evident. Such a person by her presence discourages beginners and makes them feel their insufficien- cy too keenly, thus repressing theit efforts. So. for all these reasons, beware of the egotism of capability. Quillo. ———eoeo— Activities in Michigan Cities. Written for the Tradesman. Albert Geddes, blacksmith, who has passed a quir unostentatious life at Battle Creek {or the past sixty-six years, was the guest of honor recently at a Chamber of Commerce banquet held at Post Tavern, attended by 200 of the city’s leading men. High tributes were paid to this friendly gentleman and he was presented with a book containing the autograph of each guest. The covers of the book were solid white oak beauti- fully finished. The hinges, bands and MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 clasps were of wrought iron and the leaves were of real Japanese vellum. The University of Michigan Bird Club has been taking a bird census at Ann Arbor and finds and names sixty-six species in that locality, with the bronzed grackle, robin and red-winged blackbird as most abundant. It was found that about 400 robins which spend their days in the city roost at night in the botanical gardens, while another larger roost was found in the second growth of timber north of the power plant. Holland’s public spirited citizens have donated enough money to assure a mod- ern hospital building for that city. Marion will entertain the annual meet- ing of the Osceola County Board of Trade May 4. The Holland high school will put on an industrial exhibition May 31 to June 2, which will include samples of all goods made in Holland. There are around fifty manufacturing concerns in the city. John J. O’Hara is the newly-elected President of the Menominee Commer- cial Club, The contract has been let for building a large addition to the Hayes wheel plant at Albion. Work has been started on new build- ings which will more than double the floor space and capacity of the produce plant of Libby, McNeil & Libby, at Alma. Business men of Ishpeming have formed the Ishpeming Commercial Club, with F. A. Young as President and Howard Jochim as Secretary and Treasurer. Scottville held a “city beautiful’ mass meeting, which was attended by about 300 people. Arrangements are made to furnish shrubs and trees at cost for city planting. The city of Niles reports that the demand exceeds the supply in furnish- ing vacant lots for gardening purposes. Romeo has formed a Board of Com- merce. The special purpose is to make a survey of the country for a radius of several miles to find out the wants of farmers in the way of seed and labor. Flint is furnishing seed potatoes at cost to its people for planting purposes. Owosso is doing the same. The Lan- sing City Council has appropriated $500 to assist in placing every vacant lot under cultivation. The Rotary Club of Marquette an- nounces $100 in prizes hung up for the best crops of potatoes raised by boys and girls of the county. Almond Griffen. —_>->____ Even though your congressman is a vegetarian, he may have a hanker- ing for “pork.” 9 Mr. Flour Merchant: You can own and control your e flour trade. Make each clerk a “salesman’’ instead of an “order taker.”’ Write us to-day for exclusive sale proposition covering your market for Purity Patent Flour We mill strictly choice Michigan vrheat, properly blended, to producea satisfactory all purpose family flour. Chocolates Package Goods of Paramount Quality and GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN & MILLING CO., Artisti i c Design Grand Rapids, Michigan BIG SALES ON Muslin Underwear during the early hot months, which are now close at hand. Look after your requirements NOW, while good assortments are still to be had at old prices. Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. Exclusively Wholesale GRAND RAPIDS i: MICHIGAN President Suspenders for Comfort Of All Jobbers PRESIDENT SUSPENDER CO. SHIRLEY, MASSACHUSETTS USED AUTOS —My Specialty. Largest Stock— Runabouts $65—$350 Touring Cars $150 and up What have you to trade? Easy terms. Dwight’s Used Auto Ex. 230 Ionia, N.W. American Sugar Refining Company es Get Your Share of this Big Sugar Business In our present advertising we are giving facts backed by Govern- ment Bulletins, showing that two or more pounds of sugar should be in the weekly diet of everybody. Following this comes our ‘‘Save the Fruit Crop”’ campaign urg- ing that all fruits be canned or preserved. These campaigns will mean increased sales of Domino Granulated Sugar for every dealer. American Sugar Refining Company The Most Complete Line of Sugar in the World MICHIGAN TRADESMAN May 9, 1917 oy vyM) HC 0(( BUTTER, ie = Bs EGGS 48D PROVIS ))} ON eres ne dy, 4 \ wu LP {(( {te GW (( (RS \\ « is Michigan Poultry, a and Egg Asso- tion. President—J. w. Lyons, Jackson. — rn Hurley, De- troit. oe and Treasurer—D. A. Bent- Contos” Committee—F. A. Johnson, Detroit; H. L. Williams, Howell; C. J. Chandler, Detroit. = Proposes a State Butter Grading Service. Lansing. May 7—The monthly but- ter grading and butter-making tests conducted by the Dairy Division of the Michigan Dairy and Food De- partment are of great educational val- ue. They are not designed however to provide creameries with a grad- ing service such as marketing condi- tions would seem to make desirable. The Department has received many appeals from creameries for assist- ance in inaugurating a cream grad- ing system, and a few exhaustive grading demonstrations have been conducted by the Department during the past two years. In each case we were confronted with rather perplex- ing results in the market grading ot butter made from graded cream, and in this connection have been much in- terested in the Government butter grading service conducted by the Dairy Commissioner's branch of the Alberta Department of Agriculture, in connection with a cream grad- ing system conducted during the past two véars. The plan provides that creameries desiring to avail themselves of the service agree to follow certain direc- tions as to packing, marketing and shipping butter and the keeping of necessary records. Each churning is given a serial number and a small sample from each churning to be scored is forwarded to the grading station where it is scored and grad- ed, these samples are to be held at least four weeks (or until released by the shipper) at the grading station, to facilitate the settlement of possible disputes between the creamery and the receiver, although the Department assumes no liability in case of dis- putes. Under our conditions the pro posed service would provide for uni- form sized packages of butter to be packed from each churning marked with the serial ‘pangnge! of the churn- ing, these samples to be held at the creamery until shipment is made, when they would be forwarded to the grading station designated by the De- partment, where they would be scored and graded by Department judges and grading certificates promptly for- warded to the shipper: in addition critic’'sms and suggestions designed to assist creameries towards greater uniformity. and in overcoming any defects that might be found in their butter, would be made and the sam- ples held for a period of four weeks, unless sooner released, when they would be sold by the Department and the proceeds less transportation charges, if any, forwarded to the shipper. As the expense to the State in pro- viding the service here briefly out- lined, would be considerable, the De- partment would want to be assured of the fullest co-operation, on the part of the creameries as well as that of the receivers. The Department realizes that a thorough understand- ing of the service, and of the condi- tions upon which it is rendered is im- portant not only to the creamery op- erators who may avail themselves of it, but also to the receivers who may buy butter on the basis of the De- partment’s grading certificates. The utility and continuance of the service would depend upon the proper mark- ing of representative packages by the creameries concerned and the render- ing of accurate information on the shipping reports as to the identity of each lot. In this, as in other re- spects, it would be assumed that the creamery is as much concerned in maintaining the integrity and efficien- cy of the service as the Department or the butter receivers generally. The Department would be pleased tu have creameries interested in this matter promptly indicate their atti- tude toward the proposed service as upon their expression will depend whether or not the service is actually inaugurated. H. D. Wendt. S. J. FISH CO. Manufacturers of Electric and Battery Egg Testers Write for Catalogue Office and Factory 115 South Hill St. Jackson, Michigan Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter Color and one that complies with the pure food laws of every State and of the United States. Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co. Burlington, Vt. MAPLEINE The 3rd Standard Flavor Used as vanilla or lemon. Just as staple. Affords variety. Few drops equal to teaspoonful of other flavors. Makes a wonderful “ef syrup. Adds zest to meats, vege- ‘ef tables, soups and sauces. Crescent { Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash. Order from your jobber or Louis Hilfer Co., 1503 Peoples Life Building, Chicago. Watson-HigginsMlg.Co. Merchant Millers Owned by Merchants Products sold by Merchants Brand Recommended by Merchants NewPerfection Flour Packed In SAXOLIN Paper-lined Cotton, Sanitary Sacks Early Seed Potatoes Seed Corn Write for Prices and Booklet Reed & Cheney Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. =a “SAFE” cheese curtens cheese, automatically gauge bc, 10c slices, etc., 14-lb., J2-lb., ete. Sanitary, convenient, inexpensive and the most accurate. WOODEN CABINETS ALSO INSIST on getting the “SAFE” from your WHOLESALER Mfd. by COMPUTING CHEESE CUTTER Co., Anderson, Ind. Weyer ss ore} We are the Largest Buyers Poultry, Eggs, Packing Stock Butter and Veal IN THIS CITY If not receiving our quotations write us, Get in touch with us before selling. 20-22 Ottawa Ave., N. W. Grand Rapids Michigan Assure a profit on _ Rea & Witzig PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS 104-106 West Market St. Buffalo, N. Y. Established 1873 Live Poultry in excellent de- mand at market prices. Can handle large shipments to ad- vantage. Fresh Eggs in good de- mand at market prices. Fancy creamery butter and good dairy selling at full quota- tions. Common plenty and dull. Send for our weekly price cur- rent or wire for special quota- tions. Refer you to the People’s Bank of Buffalo, all Commercial Agen- cies and to hundreds of shippers everywhere. EGG Stock—always in the market, quick returns. not receiving our weekly quotations write us. KENT STORAGE CO. WE BUY WE STORE WE SELL Make us your shipments when you have fresh quality Eggs, Dairy Butter or Packing We sell Egg Cases and Egg Case material. If GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN EGGS The Vinkemulder Company Jobbers and Shippers of Everything in Fruits and Produce Grand Rapids, Mich. Check Mailed Same Day Goods Are Received If you want quick and satisfactory results, ship your crock butter, packing stock butter and eggs to F. H. Cash Company Bay City, Mich. Farmers State Savings Bank You pay no freight, cartage or commission. Weekly quo- tations mailed on request. References, Any Mercantile Agency Bay City, Michigan Established 1876 Send us your orders FI E L D S E ED S Clover, Timothy, Orchard Grass, Blue Grass, Red Top Would like to have your trade Pleasant St. and Railroads MOSELEY BROTHERS — Grand Rapids, Mich. 4e vy ,¢ 4e .o° vy ay * May 9, 1917 Wife Turned the Tables on Chronic Kicker. Mears, May 5—In answer to yours of May 3, permit me to thank you kindly for your clear definition of the word verbatim. You never suspected was a college graduate, did you? Really, though, I am a trifle versed in Latin. Maybe my education is like my Uncle Hiram’s religion. He got up in church one day and testified that he had been a Christian forty years—and his neighbors never suspected it. You express a hope that the grow- ing crops or the song birds might in- spire me to write for the Tradesman. Heavens, the growing of the crops sounds too much like the rustle of ready money. I don’t care a happy hurrah for filthy lucre or I would hustle a little and gather a few iron men, Can’t write anyway, as I am feeling “bluer than blazes” to-day. You see every couple of weeks I make some excuse to get away to the Rapids to give my customers and fam- ily a much needed rest. This morn- ing I framed up a peach of an excuse —one that | had never used before. I told my better half it was necessary to go to Grand Rapids, but she de- murred, as it is Saturday. After I fully convinced her it was possible to run this ranch shy one clerk, she in- formed me that, such being the case, she herself would go and spend Sun- day with our daughter who is school- ing in your city. So it is I who stay- ed home. Now don’t imagine I ain’t boss around this place. I surely am when she is away. But you will hear me rustle in June, at the Merchants Congress, as I promised to meet Leo Spellman, of Shelby, there. He is going to go with bells on—TI, as usual, with skates. I want to hear the mer- chant who does a million dollar busi- ness in a town of 1,000. The best I ever did was $750,000.18 and that in the year 1919. Of course, the fault may lie in the fact that this is a smaller town, we having only a pop- ulation of 225 inhabitants and a few dutchmen. Some of these days I will take time to write the long, long letter you speak of and in the mean- time, if you pick a few bright thoughts from this mixture, shuffle them up and use the dope. Heard a funny joke ‘tother day. It is true, too. A neighboring merchant told me it was impossible for a mer- chant to make any money during the present times. He really meant it. I wonder if there is another merchant in the State of Michigan who has thar idea. Chronic Kicker (but who hasn't any kick coming from a business standpoint). —_+~++___ Recent Changes Among Michigan Corporations. Kalamazoo—The Michigan Silo Co. has increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $60,000. Detroit—The Michigan Tool Co. has increased its capitalization from $25,000 to $70,000. Detroit—The Sterling Auto Top Co. has decreased its capital stock from $25,000 to $1,000. Lansing—The Dail Steel Products Co. has increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $100,000. Jackson—The Hartwick-Woodheld Co. has increased its capital stock from $100,000 to $150,000. West Bay City—The German- American Sugar Co. has changed its name to Columbia Sugar Co. North Detroit—The Russel Motor Axle Co. has increased its capital stock from $150,000 to $600,000. Detroit—The Briggs Manufactur- ing Co., manufacturer of auto trim- mings, has increased its capital stock from $50,000 to $750,000. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 Detroit—The Rile Co. has been in- corporated to manufacture roof sumps with an authorized capital stock of $15,- 000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in property. Detroit—The Bellevue Foundry Co, has been incorporated with an author- ized capital stock of $50,000, of which amount $30,300 has been subscribed ‘and $5,000 paid in in cash. Big Rapids—The Economy Center has been organized to conduct a retail mercantile business with an author- ized capital stock of $2,500, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in property. Caro—The Great Lakes Aeroplane Co. has been organized to manufac- ture aeroplanes and motors, train aviators, etc., with an authorized cap- ital stock of $10,000, of which amount $5,000 has been subscribed and $1,000 paid in in cash. Detroit—The Economy Machine & Tool Co. has been organized at 340 Lafayette boulevard, West, with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, of which amount $7,500 has been sub- scribed, $1,300 paid in in cash and $6,- 200 paid in in property. Mt. Clemens—Donaldson Bros. have merged their farm implement manufacturing business into a stock company under the same style with an authorized capitalization of $100,- 000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in property. Detroit—The Clay Products Co. has been incorporated to manufacture brick and other clay products with an authorized capital stock of $100,- 000, of which amount $50,000 has been subscribed, $1,000 paid in in cash and $10,000 paid in in property. Detroit—The Axam-McLean Co. has been incorporated at 702 Gas building, to manufacture autos, auto foot warmers and other accessories with an authorized capital stock of $50,000, of which amount $26,000 has been subscribed and paid in in prop- erty. Sault Ste. Marie—Adrian Nicholas, wholesale grocer, has merged his business into a stock company under the style of A. Nicholas, Incorporat- ed, with an authorized capital stock of $5,000, of which amount $2,510 has been subscribed, $180 paid in in cash and $2,330 paid in in property. ALASK REFRIGERATOR The Best Built Refrigerator on Earth MUSKEGON, MICH. 139-141 Monroe St Both Phones GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. mStar eter ou BOSTON - CHICAGO: The Name---“White House” means just as much distinction when applied to this magnificent Tea as you know belongs to the Coffee with the same name. You may buy White House Tea with the same per- fect confidence that it will satisfy your fondest ideas of deliciousness and real quality. Distributed at Wholesale by Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. A Neat Package of Franklin Granulated Sugar looks like something ready for sale. Franklin Granulated Sugar comes to your store in strong cartons or tidy cotton sacks ready to place on your counter or shelf. Nothing to do but hand it to the customer and take the money. No loss by overweight, no cost for bags and twine, ro bother. Franklin Granulated Sugar is sold in 2and 5 lb. cartons and 2, 5, 10 and 25 Ib. cotton bags “A FRANKLIN SUGAR FOR EVERY USE” Granulated, Dainty Lumps, Powdered, Confectioners, Old Fashioned Brown. Sn The Franklin Sugar Refining Company Philadelphia May 9, 1917 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN = . CUSHMAN HOTEL| | HOTEL MUSKEGON aa a ee ae cinakew. Mickdvee GEO. W. WOODCOCK, Prop. Se =: = ¥ 8 EUROPEAN PLAN 3S: = = = LEADS ALL THE REST Rates—$1.00 without bath 3 2 a om W. L. McMANUS, JR., Proprietor $1.50 and $2.00 with bath = HE COMMERCIAL TRAVE One Day Laundry Service Opposite Union Depot and Goodrich Dock ; = i . = ‘ Send your linen by parcel post MUSKEGON , MICHIGAN : = = ies =e = } =e = = cain se Ky } ay i eres Ii ti rnd SN 5 . os i ri me Fes 4 7 a SZ a Hotel Charlevoix a ENS t G = Z > D e Rat $ Leo WIRE Sor FU SZ etroit es R T w Sissy ae With Shower $1% rs Ann eeninnNane Grand Councll of Michigan U. C. T. Grand Counselor—Fred J. Moutier, Detroit. Grand Junior Counselor—John A. Hach, Jr., Coldwater. Grand Past Counselor—Walter S. Law- ton, Grand Rapids. Grand Secretary—Maurice Heuman, Jackson. Grand Treasurer—Wm. J. Devereaux, Port Huron. Grand Conductor—W. T. Ballamy, Bay City Grand Page—C. C. Starkweather, De- troit. Grand Sentinel—H. Sag- inaw. Next Grand Council Meeting—Bay City, June 1 and 2, 1917. D. Ranney, Pickings Picked Up in the Windy City. ‘ Chicago, May 7—Chicago did its duty in behalf of General Joffre ot France Friday and Saturday. Over »000,000 did him honor and it was a wonderful sight throughout the day to see the American, British and French flags combined as one. He, no doubt, increased the patriotism ot the country. The city last week suffered a very heavy loss in the death of John Kulezyk. weighing 560 pounds, and Joseph Roula, weighing 500 pounds. In getting the bodies out of the for- mer homes of the deceased, the doors had to be widened 32 inches. G. J. Johnson, of the G. J. Johnson Cigar Co., Grand Rapids, was a Chica- eo business visitor last week. One of the big South Side apart- ment house deals closed last week was that of Maurice M. Robinson, of Detroit, to O. E. Hotle, of Oakland. Calif. This building is a forty-eight flat building court style, 2, 3 and 4 room apartments. It is said the price was $165,000. Chester E. Cleveland, First Assis- tant Corporation Counsel, resigned from the Park Ridge Country Club on account of the Club proposing to lav out new golf courts on ground that otherwise would be available for farming purpose. He felt it to be his duty not to be a party to such programme in view of the demand for increased production of food stuffs. Women in business seem to be tak- « their place in Chicago. The Chi- -aeo financial district is full of them. There seems to be no limit to their capacity. Referring to one in par- ticular which has come to the person- al attention of the writer is Miss Ida Pinnas. of 5224 Indiana avenue. This voung lady is the credit woman for the David M. Zolla Co. She handles 1.500 accounts, knowing everyone of the customers by name, and it is a rare hear of a mistake on her part. One of the most interesting auction sales held in the city for some time past was that of the Lytton and Von intius collections of art treasures. 1< n _- thing to collections are of great value. Some of the housefurnishings were among the costliest in America. This sale was caused through the death ot Mrs. Henry C. Lytton. Mr. Lytton not wishing to retain the old collec- tion on account of not having his mate to enjoy it with him. Another brewery out of business. The Deaconess Institute of the Swedish Evangelist Lutheran Church has just purchased the plant of the S. Brewing Co., at the Southwest corner of Garfield Avenue and Sedge- wick street. The buildings will be dismantled and replaced by the Augustana Hospital. The Y. M. C. A. war fund reached $219,758 in less than a week. Evans- ton, suburb of Chicago, turned in $17,- 000 to this fund. It is now the intention of the State authorities in Illinois to look over the State and commandeer all vacant or unused farms and_ plant them for the purpose of taking care of the shortage in food. It is again the talk of Chicago to move the wholesale district in fruits and vegetables from South (Water street to the Santa Fe terminal tracks at Twenty-second and Archer. Ot course, this is nothing but talk. The wholesale liquor business in Chicago—that is, the mail order busi- ness—has received a death blow by being prohibited from accepting or shipping mail orders of intoxicating liquors into the dry State of Iowa. This has caused: over fifteen small buckeye mail order establishments to close their doors. As predicted. the first day of May showed the greatest number of va- cancies in Chicago loop property, tak- ing into consideration the vacancies on account of high rent and the va- cancies caused from re-building. The percentage is higher than in the last five years. The city is now working on the new system of boulevard lights. When finished it is predicted it will have the finest system of the kind in the world. The enlistments in Chicago are in- creasing in number each day. During the speaking of the French Commission at the Stock Yards the- ater Saturday evening, the audience was kept entirely in the dark regard- ing a $50,000 blaze which started in the block-long plant of the Mather Stock Car Co., at Forty-fifth and South Peoria streets. three blocks away. This fire gathered headway so fast that 115 employes narrowly escaped being trapped. When this alarm was turned in, mounted police- men warned the firemen tc muffle the gong, while others kept the streets clear. This was done so as not to interrupt the meeting. The Chicago branch of the Red Cross Society are having great suc- cess in creating additional member- ships. They have set a mark of $250,- 000 in a short space of time. From re- ports given out this amount will reach three times that much. Mem- bership is from $1 up to any amount. Every individual firm is taking great interest in this. asking their employes to donate their little bit Charles W. Reattoir. —_22.>—__ Mr. Cruzen Still With the Niedecken Company. Milwaukee. May 4—Our attention has been called to a rumor which has been circulated to the effect that Mr. Alva Cruzen. who has been traveling for us in Michigan for the past eight years, was about to sever his connec- tions with us. We take this means to inform the trade that Mr. Cruzen is still with us and will continue to represent us over his old territory as in the past, all reports to the contrary notwithstand- new ing. H. Niedecken Co. ane ati atti aaemenemminneeed When any one swipes your um- brella it’s a sure sign of rain. EUROPEAN PLAN Absolutely Fire Proof Rates, $1 for room without bath; $1.50 and upwards with bath. Grinnell Realty Co., Props. H. M. Kellogg, Manager > Meals So¢ May Send his family Chicago Boats Tues. - Thurs. -Sun. Night 7:30 P. M. VIA Muskegon Interurban and Goodrich Line The All Year Route FARE $2 75 Grand Rapids Station 162 N. Ottawa Ave. City Ticket Office 127 Pearl St., N. W. 11 POWERS THEATRE BLDG. Five Stories Completed April, 1917 HOTEL BROWNING GRAND RAPIDS NEWEST Fire Proof. At Sheldon and Oakes. Every Room with Bath. Our Best Rooms $2.50, others $2 and $1.50. Cafeteria - Cafe - Garage LIVINGSTON HOTEL AND CAFE Cor. Fulton and Division Grand Rapids It’s a good place to stay and a good place to eat. You have service when you want it. If you will try us out once we'll make things so comfortable for you that you'll come again soon. ANNOUNCEMENT New Kaiserhof henceforth to be known as Hotel Atlantic Clark, near Jackson Boulevard CHICAGO We will continue to serve our patrons as carefully and conscien- tiously as we have in the past. CARL C. ROESSLER MAX L. TEICH Always at Your Service THE CITIZENS TELEPHONE COMPANY’S LONG DISTANCE LINES CONNECTION WITH OVER 240,000 TELEPHONES IN MICHIGAN ALONE. THE STATE OF 95,000 TELEPHONES IN DETROIT Citizens SERVICE Satisfies - aN °v > Le « %” “> eye May 9, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 Our Duty in the Present Emergency Our letters on the subject of food supply and the necessity of increased planting have brought so many te- sponses, and the appeals already made for increased planting are such that we believe we may assume that the producers of food stuffs are beginning to realize the seriousness of the situation. You, like ourselves who are interested in the handling of food stuffs and necessarily know more about the situation than people in other fines of business, must, however, con- tinue our efforts. I am sorry to see that there are yet a goodly number of people who are indifferent to the prime need for big increases in acreage this year. An article in a daily newspaper recently announced that certain farmers are not willing to plant stuff unless they have a guarantee of prices at which products may be sold when they are ready for market. This, perhaps, is possible, but the Government could only do this after long and serious consideration, and this move probably can not be taken in time to help the present planting season. However, the situation seems to show so clearly that high prices must continue, that I fail to see the need of asking that anyone public or private shall guarantee prices of food stuffs during the next twelve months. Let us take for example the figures of the wheat crop in the United States: ' Wheat produced in Bushels (1916) ........... 640,000,000 att aver trems 196 wk. ee eee cee 164,000,000 wee. 804,000,000 Less shipments abroad .......... 240,000,000 Seed needed for $917 ........... $00,000,000 340,000,000 Leaving balance for consumption ..... 464,000,000 We need 500,000,000 bushels of wheat for this year’s consumption and the Allies will probably need nearly 400,000,000 bushels for their absolute needs. \ The estimated crop of winter wheat is 366,000,000 bushels and the greatest crop of spring wheat ever grown in this territory was 352,000,000 bushels in 1915, but this year’s estimate does not promise as large a crop. How shall we make a possible total of 718,000,000 busehls fill a probable need of 900,000,000 bushels? What is true of wheat is true to a greater or less extent of almost every article of food consumption in the United States. The production fast year was considerably less than normal and the demands from abroad are growing with vety rapid strides. INo one can deny that the production over there must continue to decrease until the war is over, and we must share what we have with our brothers across the sea. It is the duty of some to fight, and of others to serve in the Red Cross movement, but the remainder of us owe an equal obligation to our country and our fellow-men to see that food is produced and supplied to those who are doing the fighting. If a person is too old or too young to fight, he can not be relieved from responsibility. All must serve, and the failure on the part of the rest of us to supply the food may be just as disastrous as the failure of those at the front to fight. Also it is now thoroughly understood by the men prom- inent in the councils of all the waring nations that food will be as great a factor in winning the present war as bullets. Let every one be a patriot and do his part. Let us food dealers do our part in carrying this message to the people. Let us leave no effort unturned in bringing about the cultivation of every acre of tillable soil in our great State. Time is short; the need is great. Let every man do his duty. GUY W. ROUSE, WORDEN (GROCER COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS---KALAMAZOO THE PROMPT SHIPPERS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN May 9, 1917 Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—E. T. Boden, Bay City. Secretary—Charles S. Koon, Muskegon. Treasurer—George E. Snyder, Detroit. Other Members—Leonard A. Seltzer, Detroit; Herbert H. Hoffman, Sandusky. Next Examination Session—Chemistry Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 19, 20, 21, 1917. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation. President—C. H. Jongejan, Grand Rap- ids. Secretary—F. J. Wheaton, Jackson. Treasurer—John G. Steketee, Grand Rapids. Next Annual Meeting—Grand Rapids, June 19, 20 and 21, 1917. Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As- sociation. Acting President—Butler Treat, Detroit. Secretary and Treasurer—Walter S. Lawton, Grand Rapids. Removing Stains From Various Kinds of Cloth. Stain spots of various kinds in table linen or dress goods often become permanent disfigurements because the manner in which they can be removed, while fresh, at the time either is un- known or forgotten. The following list of removal methods, compiled by Popular Science Monthly, if clipped out, may prove a valuable possession in some future time of need: Blood stains when fresh and still wet, can be removed by dropping hy- drogen peroxide on them, If old stains, cold water and soap are most effective. Blueing—If clothes are streaked or spotted with blueing, boil them in di- lute acid, using about a teaspoonful of muriatic acid to two gallons of wa- ter. Coffee stains should be removed from clothing before it is washed, as hot water and soap set the stains. If washed while fresh with cold water and soap, no stain will remain. If it is an old stain, boiling in Javelle wa- ter will remove the stain but may be injurious to the fabric. Tea, chocolate and cocoa stains should be treated in the same manner. Iodine spots can be removed by swabbing with alcohol on a piece of absorbent cotton, or, better, by plac- ing on the spots a paste made of starch and cold water. This will form a blue spot, which can be easily wash- ed out with cold water. Iron rust can be most easily remov- ed by soaking the spot for a short time in dilute muriatic acid (one part acid to one part water.) Be sure to wash the acid out thoroughly or it will rot the fabric. Rinse in ammonia after using acid on any fabric. Medicine stains will almost all dis- solve in alcohol. Mildew can be removed by soaking in Javelle water and then hanging in the sunshine. If not all removed the first time repeat the treatment. Milk can be easily removed while fresh with cold water and soap. Af- ter milk has been boiled into goods it is almost impossible to remove, al- though boiling in Javelle water will sometimes help. Dyes—Clothes are sometimes splashed with dyes in drying at home. These splashes can be readily remov- ed by soaking them in ammonia wa- ter. Fruit stains of all kinds, peach, grape, cranberry, etc., can be removed when they are fresh, by pouring boil- ing water over them. If the stain is old, the only way to remove it is by boiling it in Javelle water, but this is apt. to be injurious to the fabric and will remove the color in any colored goods. Grass stains, when fresh, can be re- moved by soaking in alcohol. If the stains are old, rub with molasses and allow to stand several hours before washing out. Grease spots can be removed with gasoline or with ether. But careful manipulation is necessary. Gasoline and ether must be kept away from any flame. Pour enough gasoline or ether on a tablespoonful of starch to make a paste, place the paste on the under side of the spot and allow to remain several minutes. Brush off the starch when it is dry. Ether evaporates more rapidly than gasoline and leaves no unpleasant odor. Orange stains are best removed by moistening the spot with cold water, and hanging in the bright sunshine. Paint or varnish, if on cotton or linen, should be soaked. in turpentine or gasoline. If on silk do not use turpentine; ether will probably dis- solve it. —_2->___ Our Call to Arms! Our country needs us, everyone, No matter where we live, Or what we are. or what we do, There's room for each fo give. And though no glory may be ours, No lauding world’s applause, We'll know we've done our share, at least. To help our righteous cause. Our Uncle Sam is sounding forth (His trumpet call to-day To every patriotic heart Within the U. S. a. And some will wear the Navy blue, And some the Army brown, But most will fight in country fields And garden plots in town. All battles are not won with ships, Or guns, or shrapnel shell, For there are other things just now Of vital need, as well. And though we must have men and guns, And ammunition, too, The farmers and the folks at home Have ample work to do. I pledge myself to do my best And leave the rest to you, I'm glad to have a lyttle chance To prove my heart 1s true. Let’s get our garden tools to work And sharpen up the plow, And prove we’re soldiers of the flag— Our country needs us now. Eva Bush. —_+2>___ It’s the privilege of a hatter to size a hat up. Butler Treat Now Acting President. On account of the death of Fred L. Raymond, Butler Treat, of Detroit, automatially becomes acting Presi- dent of the Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ Association and will as- sume the direction of affairs at the annual convention of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association to be held in this city June 19 to 21. Mr. Treat was for several years traveling representative for the Mich- igan Drug Co., but is now engaged in the drug brokerage business at De- troit. ——_+-~»—___ Urges American Jewelers to Save Platinum. Platinum jewelry will no longer be in style if an appeal made by Julius Stieglitz, President of the American Chemical Society, is properly heeded. He urges that the fast diminishing supply of the valuable white metal be conserved with the greatest possible diligence that there may be sufficient for scientific use and in the making of munitions and other things so nec- essary in war time. He declares there is a great scarcity of the metal and that unless the remaining supply is conserved dire consequences may re- sult. It’s Pure. That's Sure Piper Ice Cream Co. Kalamazoo, Mich. hey Good For You Wall Paper Paints Increase Your Assets Give Your Customers the Kind of SERVICE That Holds Their Patronage OUR SERVICE TO YOU MAKES THIS POSSIBLE HEYSTEK & CANFIELD CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Window Shades Handled by All Jobbers LITTLE DUTCH MASTERS CIGARS Made in a Model Factory Sold by All Dealers Enjoyed by Discriminating Smokers They are so good we are compelled to work full capacity to supply the demand G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Makers GRAND RAPIDS « . ,>* « Bee . a ap « , y+ ety eis y ¥ 4 . «fe { r “a > . > , ‘ rs é ‘> , a , 4 ( o ‘ a ‘ 6 “ L ¢ } t ‘ . r & f % s tw Sy sBye » Ba ‘4 ¥4 er “é < > 4 ’ ¥¢d. Be’ a ”" . a ay « , y+ ety eis y ¥ 4 . «de t : < es \ rs é ‘> , a , ‘ ¢ o a ‘ % a‘. _o May 9, ao, seat MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue Caso na e OO d S Acids Cubebs ec, 6 so@e bs Capatcun Seeds @1 20 Boric (Powd.) .. 95 I2@OFON: .......- 1 75@2 00 Qrqdamion ....... 1 50 Boric (Xtal) ae Wg 35 Eucalyptus ..... 1 25@1 35 Cardamon, Comp. @1 05 @unbole 00 f. 66@ 6s Hemlock, pure 1 50@1 75 Catechu ......... 75 Citrie 86@ 90 Juniper Berries 20 00@20 20 Cinchona ........ @1 65 Muristic (00 24 5 Juniper Wood .. 2 75@3 00 Colchicum ...... @1 05 Nitric ........... 3146@ 15 pore, ou deeee 1 cor Pe ee wdacegues @1 45 | @xale 08. 60@: 70 ara. NO. 1 ...... D gitalis ........ @ 80 . - < . S oo 3 - Lavender Flow. 5 50@5 75 Gentian ......... 90 White Lead, Mixed Paints, Colors in Oil, re eee Lavender, Gar'n 125@1 40 Ginger 0.022212. @1 20 : @Mmon ......... Guage .......... 110 s Ammonia Linseed, boiled bbl. @1 26 QGuaiac, A \. Paris Green, Lime & Sulphur Solution, Arsenate of Water, 26 deg. .. S%@ 15 Linseed, bld less 186@1 41 Iodine’... | gate a I l i ater, 18 deg. .. 54%@ 9 Linseed, raw, bbl. @1 25 Iodine, Colorless @2 10 Lead Bu Fi Water, 14 deg. .. 4%@ 8 _ Linseed, rw, less 1 35@1 40 Ipecac .......... ’ g nishes, Linseed Oil, Turpentine. Carbonate ..... 14 @ 16 Mustard, true, oz. @2 00 Iron, clo. ....... g 30 Chloride ..... eco 2b @ 35 Mustard, artifil og @235 Kino ............ @1 00 Balsams Neatsfoot ...... Zt Q0G@E 10 ~Myrrh .......... @1 10 ‘ Olive, pure 2 50@4 00 Nux Vomica .... @ Bo aay . 7 a ar, Malaga, ees pei Bee @5 50 e . i ee yellow ........ 2 00@2 15 ium, Camph. Soda Fountains, Store Fixtures. Fir (Oregon) // 40@ 60 Olive, Malaga, = =~ Opium, Deodorz’a 8 50 in Bee a ya. 5 iy 25 a green aus 2 coun - Rhubarb ........ @ 8&5 Os 70@ 95 range, Sweet ..4 0 - Origanum, pure @2 50 Barks ‘ , 5 Paints Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 30 a — 3 sos = Lead, red dry 1134 @12% Rock Cand S Frui Cassia (Saigon) 90@100 penos A * . §2aa 86 Lead. white ary tiene” ock Candy Syrup, Fruit Juices, Crushed Me Geer Gc) we Leora ..., Seen pace whe dry tke 2 Sassafras (pow. 35c) @ 30 Rosemary Flows 1 50@1 75 Ochre, yellow bbl. 1 @ 1 Fruits, and all Extracts, Flavors, etc., used in soda fountain work. Electric Mixers, Glasses, Carbonators, Tables, Chairs, Stools, and all appurtenances used in con- nection with the sale of soda water and in ice cream parlors. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Wholesale Druggists Grand Rapids, Michigan —— 4 | . ——_—_—_—_—_—_— | =f: ) f i i ee =, Y aD ee u | | 7 4S ae < ee ne se - Reach for Your Telephone when urgent business in a distant city demands personal attention. Once you get into the habit of using Long Distance, you will find that you can ‘save many trips and get quicker results. Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Telephone Michigan State Telephone Company Soap Cut (powd. 35¢ ? Fr --. 23@ 25 Berrles Cabep o0 6.0...” 1 00@1 10 Bish .......... 15 @ 20 Juniper ......... 8%@ 15 Prickley Ash .... @ 30 Extracts Faconies ...2...... 9@ 52 Licorice powdered 80@ 85 Flowers APMICA | 6s. 3 75 Chamomile (Ger.) 75@1 00 Chamomile Rom. 2 00@2 20 Gums Acacia, 2nd ..... 45@ 60 Acacia, 3rd ...... 45@ 60 Acacia, Sorts ... 2h@ 30 Acacia, powdered 4)@ 50 Aloes (Barb. Pow) § Aloes (Cape Pow) Aloes (Soc. Pow.) @ 50 Asafoetida ..... @1 75 Asafoetida, Powd. MUNG oe ecco ee @2 00 Camphor ...... 1 04@1 07 Guaiag .:......... 5@ 50 Guaiac, ees @ 60 KINO <1. .0........ 70@ 75 Kino, powdered .. 75@ 80 Myreh .........< @ 40 Myrrh, powdered @ 60 Opium |...... ; 35 00@35 20 Opium, powd. 35 00@35 20 Opium, gran. 35 00@85 2 Shellac .......... 75@ 80 Shellac, Bleached 80 85 Tragacanth .... 2 50@3 00 Tragacanth powder 2 25 Turpentine 10@ 15 insecticides ARsenig .......... 23@! 36 Blue Vitriol, bbl. .. @ 12 Blue Vitriol, less 183@ 20 Bordeaux Mix Dry 14@ 20 Hellebore, White powdered 3 Insect Powder .... 32@ 52 Lead, Arsenate .. 12@ 30 Lime and Sulphur Solution, gal. .. 15@ 25 Paris Green .... 424% @47% Ice Cream Piper Ice Cream Co., Kalamazoo Bulk Vanilla ........@ 175 Bulk Fancy @ Brick Vanilla ...... @ 26 Brick Fancy ........@ 380 Leaves Buchu ..;.... 1 75@1 85 Buchu, powdered 1 — 00 Sage, bulk ....... 67@ 70 Sage, %s loose .. 72@ 78 Sage, powdered .. 55@ 60 Senna, Alex 10@ Senna, Tinn. .... 40@ 45 Senna, Tinn. pow. io 55 Uva Urai ........ 18@ 20 Olis Almonds, Bitter, rue ........ 15 00@16 00 Almonds, Bitter, artificial ..... 7 00@7 20 Almonds, Sweet, true ......... 1 25@1 60 Almonds, Sweet, imitation ...... 65@ 175 Amber, crude .. 1 75@2 00 Amber, rectified 2 50@2 75 AMSG ooo ee ie ccs 2 00@2 25 Bergamont ..... 7 00@7 20 Cajenut ......<. 1 35@1 60 Cassia .......... 2 T5@8 00 Castor ...:..... 55@2 65 Cedar Leaf .... 1 25@1 40 Citronella ....... 90@1 20 @loves | 2.50... 2 50@2 75 @ocoanut | ...-... 35@ 40 Cod Liver ...... 4 Cotton Seed .... 1 50@1 75 Croton «........ I Sandalwood, L 16 50@16 7 Sassafras, true 1 50@1 75 Sassafras, artifi’l 50@ 60 Spearmint ..... 2 75@3 00 Sperm .......... 1 15@1 25 Mansy ..:...... 3 50@3 75 Tar USm ....... 0@ 40 Turpentine, bbls. @ 55 Turpentine, less 60@ 65 Wintergreen, tr. 5 50@5 75 Wintergreen, awee Birch .......- 0@4 25 Wintergreen art. i 25@1 50 Wormseed ..... 5 50@6 75 Wormwood .... 4 00@4 25 Potassium Bicarbonate .... 1 90@2 00 Bichromate ...... 55@ 60 Bromide ........ 1 40@1 50 Carbonate ..... 1 60@1 75 powdered ...... 60@ 65 Chlorate, gran’r 90@ 95 Chlorate, xtal or DOWG, .....0.... 7i5@ 80 @yanide ........<; @1 50 Fodidé <........ 3 50@3 60 Permanaganate ... @4 50 Prussiate, yellow @1 60 Prussiate, red @3 50 Sulphate ...:...... @ 90 Roots AlBanet ........ 2 00@2 10 Blood, powdered 20@ 25 @alamus ........ 50@s8 50 Elecampane, pwd. 15@ 20 Gentian, powd. 30@ 35 Ginger, African, powdered ...... 20@ 25 Ginger, Jamaica ..30@ 35 Ginger, Jamaica, powdered ...... 30@ 35 Goldenseal pow. 8 00@8 20 Ipecac, powd. ..3 25@3 560 ENGOTICG . 46. ..56.. 35@ 40 Licorice, powd... 28@ 3d Orris, powdered 30@ 36 Poke, powdered 20 25 Rhubarb ......... 76@1 00 Rhubarb, powd. 75@1 25 Rosinweed, powd. 25 30 Sarsaparilla, Hond. ground ........ 75 80 Sarsaparilla Mexican ground ........ 36@ 35 Squilis ..:.::.... 35@ 40 Squills, powdered 45@ 65 Tumeric, powd. .. 13@ 20 Valerian, powd. .. @1 00 Seeds AMisG ....5..7..2.. 35@ 40 Anise, powdered.. 40@ 46 Rird, t@ ......... @ 10 Canary ......<.:. 10@. 15 Caraway ......-.. 8@ 90 Cardamon ...... 1 80@3 00 Celery (Powd. 45) 35@ 40 Coriander ....... 23@ 3 BI e533 coe s eae 25@ 30 Fennell .........- @ 85 Die gc cae eee ess 8@ 13 Plax, ground ...... Sa 3 Foenugreek pow. 18@ 25 Hemp ..... cutee 8@ 12 Lebela <........:- 40@ 50 Mustard, yellow 19@ 26 Mustard, black 19@ 2 Mustard, powd. 22@ 389 Poppy .....:--.-.-.: @1 900 Paci Gesleae 1 7 gctaaiiia @ 35 Sabadilla, powd. 35@ 45 Sunflower ..... . t@ I¢ Worm American @ 2 Worm Levant .. 1 00@1 10 Tinctures Aconite: ........- @ 9% Aloes .........-. @ 75 AEWMIGR 5. 6.5.5. @1 65 Asafoetida ...... @1 35 Belladonna ...... @1 65 Benzoin ........ @1 10 Benzoin “— @1 60 Buchu ...... Loe 3 50 Cantharadies ce: 8 00 Ochre, yellow less 2 @ Putty ........,.. 2%@ Red Venet’n” bbl. 14@ Red Venet’n less 1%@ Vermillion, Amer. 25@ 30 Whiting, bbl. @ 2% Whiting 344 6 oe one L. H. P. Prepd. 2 00@2 10 Miscellaneous Acetanalid ....... 68@ 75 Alum ....... eee 9@ 12 Alum, powdered and ground ........ 11@ 15 Bismuth, Subni- Chate. 6.6L: 3 60@3 70 Borax xtal or powdered ..... - 10@ 16 Cantharades po 2 00@6 00 Calomel ........ 2 56@2 60 Capsicum ........ 30@ 35 Carmine ........ 6 50@7 00 Cassia Buds ..... 40 Gloves (2.022. 32@ 40 Chalk Prepared . Chalk Precipitated 7 Chloroform 7 Chloral Hydrate 1 9292 1a Cocaine 9 15@9 35 Cocoa Butter .... 60@ 70 Corks, list, less 60% Copperas, bbls, .... @ Copperas, less .. 3% 7 Copperas, powd. .. 1@ Corrosive Sublm, 2 3002 40 Cream Tartar ... 58@ 65 Cuttlepone ....... 50@ 60 Dextrineg ........ 8%@ 12 Doyer’s Powder 3 75@4 00 Emery, all Nos. 6@ 10 Emery, powdered 5@ g Epsom Salts, bbls) @ 4% Epsom Salts, less 65@ 8g PIreOe .......,4.. 1 25@1 50 Ergot, powdered 2 isga oo 00 Flake White Formaldehyde lb. 17@ 25 Gelatine ....... 1 10@1 15 Glassware, full cs. 66% Glassware, less 60% Glauber Salts, bbl. @ 1% Glauber Salts less co 5 Glue, Brown alse 35 Glue, Brown Grd. Bo 35 Glue, White .... 30@ 3% Glue, White Grd. 30@ 35 Glycerine ........ 64@ 78 ERODES 05 ccce scl. 45@ 60 EPOGIZO . . <<... 05 Todine ..... eosee 4 50@4 60 Todoform ...... 5 oe 70 Lead Acetate .... 25 Lycopdium ..... 1 7802 00 MAGG ........455-. 85@ 90 Mace, powdered .. 95@1 00 MG@nthol ......4. 4 50@4 75 Morphine 13 00@13 65 Nux Vomica .... 20@ 26 Nux Vomica, pow. @ 20 Pepper, black pow. 35@ 40 Pepper, white Pitch, Burgundy .. @ 15 Quassia .......... 124@ 16 COTE 5 occa sces 90@1 00 Rochelle Salts .... 46@ 50 Saccharine, oz. .... @1 80 Salt Peter ...... 38@ 50 Seidlitz Mixture . mr 45 Soap, sreem ...... 25 Soap mott castile 22% 25 Soap, white castile CBSE oicccsceces 11 50 Soap, white castile less, per bar .... @1 20 Soda Ash ....;....- 4%@ 10 Soda Bicarbonate 2%@ 6 Soda, Sal ........ 3@ & Spirits Camphor .. @ 175 Sulphur, roll .... 3%@ 8 Sulphur Subl. .. 3%@ _ 8 Tamarinds ....... 15@ 20 Tartar Emetic @ 8% Turpentine Ven. 50@4 50 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 “et 50 Witch Hazel ..... 10@1 06 Zinc Sulphate .... 10@ 16 28 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN May 9, 1917 4 4 ie GROCERY PRICE CURRENT | By vd. BY These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing. CHEWING GUM Mol-auaniate 2X20 . . oo : : : : Adams Black Jack .... 62 cLaughiin XXXX ancy uns and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices. however. are Adams Sappota ...... 6§ package coffee is sold to i) ada shag al 10@10% liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled Beeman’s Pepsin |... 62 retailers only. Mail all or- Roasted ........ 11@11¥% ois ak wat : Ate h BePenNNt ls 60 ders direct to W. F. Mc- fi P Jumbo cas at market prices at date of purchase. ae. 133 Laughlin & Co, Chicago. Raw ........... N@11% coer Violet Chips .. 65 ne Roasted 2.05.42. 12@12% aA ADVANCED ae 62 Holland. % gro. bxs. 95 CREAM TARTAR # « Jell-O Cheese Snow Boy Washing Powder Doublemint ............ 64 Felix, % gross ...... 115 Barrels or Drums ...... 55 pe Mince Meat Evap. Apples Krinkle Corn Flakes mag Spruce .......:.. 62 Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85 Square Cans .......... « ° Rice Calif. Lima Beans Canned Hominy Heshey Gum ....... ... 45 Hummel’s tin, % gro. 143 Boxes ........ssseeee a es Beans Canned Salmon Juicy Fruit ........... 64 Fancy Caddies e Acme Soap Barley DECLINED ae tae ee “3 CONFECTIONERY _ ORIED FRUITS ies Oak Leaf Soap ee ae Fruit Jar Covers Sterling 7-Point ....... 62 se oe Candy — ‘ : Apples a ’ Queen Anne Soa anne omatoes A tore Wa ee a Svap’ed Choice blk @ - a == — Sooatmint, Wristevs - Standard... 53.3... 14 once Fancy blk @ eer bee ee Standard, email 15 : pearmin Ox ars otal » SMALL 2c coer « bs Dwist, smal .......: 15 Apricots ; \ Index to Markets 1 2 pa ere en ie wg — California .......... 16@17_ 4 ce a eee Jamo 2... bss. 5... a a) eS aS 64 : Citron a ARCTIC AMMONIA Little sie 135 Smith Bros. Gum ..... 2 oe rete ante - Corsican ......... 122. 48 12 oz. ovals, 2 doz. box 2 00 ca Souwion’” oe 5 box lots . eet an Sugar Stick ag Currants ; : Col Ae Snee ss i pi. .... fd GHOCOLATE aia dic pores : > pkg. —. ‘fr A urnnam's pts. xe an mporte ME ncn cece Ana ll). wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00 Burnham’s ats. 750 «& Walter Baker & Co. 24 ’ Pails . Axic Grease... ... 1 43 cin oe — 2 35 es Corn oo Sweet ....... tikes... 14 ke ee oe oe 4 B 10TD. pails, os 1 cee 1 60@1 80 Caracas ............... aS a is Muirs—Fancy, 25 Ib, 11% Baked Beans ........ 1 15% pails, per doz. ..720 Fancy .... nee Si: soe me Loney oe a. ae Fancy, Peeled, 25 Ib. .... a sete a 25tb. pails, per doz. ..12 00 French Peas ico cl . rte 35 Kindergarten ........ 15 Peel i eee BAKED BEANS Monbadon (Natural) eager. 66.6. el. 1 Lemon, American .... 15 ee a ee : No. i, ocr aoe 95 per doz. ...... cose CLOTHES —— doz, Monarch ............. 2 Orange. American .... 16 . amiast Pood ...... 4NO. i, i! a iolles ie E we. ee 1 No. % per doe. 2.” i 45 Gooseberries No. 40 Twisted Cotton 130 Novelty»... ..+--++++- Gaines intemes .. 5... A =Ne. 2 per doz. ........ 235 No. 2, Fair .......... No. 50 Twisted Cotton 170 jj, gcupeateee cc Cluster, 20 cartons .. Butter Color ......... 1 anes No. 2, Fancy ...... sees No. 60 Twisted Cotton 2 20 ecard Creams 12 Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr. 9 Enelist PRICK . Heminy No. 80 Twisted Cotton 2 40 ical ee ee 12 Luose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 8% “+. c Uigciicaie ie eo ee ~ Stina .. 120 No. 50 Braided Cotton 175 Sperial --- 2." -- srs. "ae L. M. Seeded, 11b 10%@10% =| ‘ Candles ......--++.+++ } BLUING Lobet No. 60 Braided Coan 209 Sey Creams .-.--- Canned Goods ...... 1,2 Jennings’ % Ib. sisnncnd 1 90 a 80 Braided Cotton 250 “UO .....++--s-+- ree il Callfornia Prunes Fateine 6.6 eee 2 Condensed Pearl Bluing % tb, .............). § 49. Ne: 60: Sash Cora .... 2 50 Specialties 90-100 25 Ib. boxes ..@ 8% Cheese aoe : — i a : 2 . Pienic Flat .......... 3 75 ch = — Cora .... : - ails 80- 90 25 lb. boxes ..@ 9 ere SR --- >> — o-oo Mackerel Re en ee er eae i, Auto Kisses (baskets) 16 70- 80 25 Ib. boxes ..@10 < ‘> tga ag ea - ; Folger’s Mustard, 1 Ib. ....... 1 80 — = a ae deeaes : 4 Bonnie Butter Bites .. 20 60- 70 25 Ib. boxes . aie eee tmnt hee* 3 Summer Sky, 6 oz., Mustard, 2 Ib. ....... 80 Ct area ana es Butter Cream Corn .. 17 50- 60 25 lb. boxes . Clothes Lines .....-- per @oz - 2 c. 45 Soused, 1% Ib. ...... 1 60 Galvanized Wire Caramel Bon Bons .. 16 40- 50 25 Ib. boxes . ue eg Og me he 3 Summer Sky, 12 oz. Soused, 2 Ib 75 No. 20, each 100ft. long 190 Caramel Croquettes .. 16 , + Cocoanut ...-..++++++- . prime... i Rees. 150 No. 19, each 100ft. long 2.10 Cocoanut Waffles .... 16 FARINACEOUS GOODS ¢, COORD woes t ohn ne eno »s Tomato, 2 Ib. ....... 20D No Se, Onch Weer ne 1 Cofty Toffy ......-..- 17 ? Confections .........- 4 BREAKFAST FOODS ° - ee No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10 National Mints 7 lb tin 20 a _ Beans A Cream Tartar .....-- 5 Bear Food, Pettijohns 2 75 Buttons “9 ee @30 COCOA Fudge, Walnut ...... 18 oa Limas .... 17% . Cracked Wheat 24-2 2 90 ey ood me ee O45 Bakers 39 Fudge, Choco, Peanut 16 few — -. 8 50 yk ied Fruits : 5 Cream of Wheat .... 5 75 Hose is . @39 Cleveland .............. 41 Fudge, White Center 16 rown Holland ...... 7 50 e Pi Dried Fruits ..-.---- Cream of Rye, 24-2 .. yer erence? rte Colonial, 4%s .......... 85 Fudge, Cherry ....... 46 Pacis F aoa ee Rice .. 4 ee ae eee @1 20 ee %s . : 78 Fudge, Cocoanut .... 16 25 1 Ib. packages .... 2 10 | i 20us Goods 5 uaker Puffed Wheat 4 30 ye, cere e te Meee eee se kle Candy .. 18 B : vA a mae 5 Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 190 Cove, 2 Ib. ........, a9 Gomen ue" Le fee ae ee ee 4 Flavoring Extracts .. 5 Quaker Corn Flakes ..2 15 Piums Hershey's, %8 ......... 30 joeq Gems ...... 2.00 16 Original Holland Rusk ‘ +e ¢ Flour and Feed ...... 6 Washington Crisps .. 230 Plums .......... 1 oe 00 Huyler ........ peeoeee - 36 Joed Orange Jellies .. 14 Packed 12 rolls to container Foult Jars --......... S& Wheatena ............ 5 10 Pears In Syru Lowney, %8 .......... - $8 italian Bon Bons .... 15 3 containers (40) rolls 3 80 Evapor’ed Sugar Corn No. 3 can, per dz. 2 £0@3 00 Lowney, &%s ........ -- 37 Jelly Wiollb .<........ 14 : G Grane Nuts ......... 85 Peas Lowney, %%8 ........0. Ak vases Drops Hominy gee a a § Sugar Corn Flakes .. 250 yarrowfat 1 25@1 35 Lowney, 5 Ib. cans .... 87 Sb box ...s eee ae 25 ‘Pearl, 100 Ib. sack .... 4 50 St Grain Bags .......--- © Hotent Rask ........ 380 arly June .... 150@1 60 Van Houten, %s ...... a2 Lozenges, Pep. ....-: 16 Maccaroni and Vermicelit H ankle Corn Flakes ..260 arly June siftd 160@1 75 Van Houten, 4s ...... 18 jCronges Pink ...... 16 Domestic, 1 Ib. box .. 75 Mapl-Flake, Whole Van Houten, Xs ...... 36 Imported, 25 Ib. box ... es fee 6 D , Manchus .......-....- 16 Herbs Cele eee ee ee 6 Wheat 3 4 05 Peaches Van Houten, if 65 1 a acinaon 10 " a Minn. Wheat Meal 1. 500 Pie ............ 1 00@1 25 Wan-Eta ........ ope 36 Molasses ae Pearl Barley Horse Radish ........ 6 Ralston Wheat Food Jing 10 size can pie a. hClUC "* 33 Ub. DOX .--- esses eens - Chester (a 6 00 Himevy 2. e+} ee ee 6 Large 18s : 90 Pineapple Wilber, %s 33 Nut Butter Puffs .... - Portaze 000705 1 2 ep Ralston Wht Food 18s 195 Grated ......... 1 75@2 10 oe ee Pe J ¢ Ross's Whole Wheat Sliced ....... -- 1 45@2 60 : Gee . s a Wiss oa 4 j : Selly Glasses .......-. ae on : 4 Mair asunanetes 10 Amazon Caramels .. 18 pi, Hh a is "1 ee ie axon ea ‘ood .. cote ec ec ees eeroes nae ; * Shred Wheat Biscuit 400 Good "-.-..-207.0. esse 120 en oe a : Triscuit, 18 ........- BUCY ewe cce ears as . eee 4 af Mast India (2) 2 Mapleine 1. ; Pilisburys Gest Ceri 185 No. 10 ............-.. 350 ¥% persia gle aaa . Seeman. 20 ‘ ee i ty.R Meats, Canned ..-.-- Post Toasties, T-2 ... 2 80 Raspberries a 95 Ih: case ....<.-.. 27 Ee Ipse, ep sees : ° Mince Meat ......... 7 ae 285 No. 2, Black S 1 60 iu , E ib. 93 Ideal Chocolates ...... 18 German, broken pkg. ities 7 Post Toasties, T-3 3 o. 2, au yrup .. %s & ¥%s, 1 case .. Klondike Chocolates .. 28 7 Post Tavern Porridge 2 80 No. 10, Black ..... --- 700 Scalloped Gems ........ 10 Nabob 23 Taploca Meter ......---..-- No. 2, Red Preserved 250 %s & %s pails ...... i 16 — Paves da peceeee - Yokes We oe ak tb N BROOMS No. 10, Red, Water .. 7 25 Bulk paus .......-.-.. Nib € ICKS --esceee 23 Pearl, 100 lb. sacks 12 i a ; Parlor, 25 Ib. .. 7 25 Mat Wee Pearl, 10 es Rate... eee eee 4 Fancy Parlor, tose < Salmon Suik, barrels .......... Pearl, 36 pkgs. ....,. 2 60 — 5 i 25 Ib. 7 00 5 9 , il Shredded Ocoro Choc Caramels 19 : ’ Parlor, 5 String, 2 ‘4 2 Warrens, 1 lb. Tall .. 290 Baker’s Braz ie Peanut Clusters ey Minute, 10c, 3 doz. .. 2 75 ° Coons i eee 6 Warrens, 1 i. Mint 308 70 Sc plas, pee cee 8 Ee a... 7 Common, 23 Ib. ...... S25 Med Alaska ....... R7% 36 Wt pees. Der cise FAD RRECHP <-> - oo ees one 16 FISHING TACKLE 1 Bs Bpecinl, 2s 1b. ......5. 00 Med. Red Alaska .... 1 90 16 10c and 33 5c pkgs., oe se eseee 17 Laan 6 : t a T Canon Whisk 0... 430 Pink Alaska ......... oe [TS fora ae lee en Products . 7 ee pero : = Sardines Bakers Canned, doz. .. 95 Dp ces 9 ites -25. ao ae en ee ee ee to 2 in Pipes pe 7 —. st ee ns 4 : COFFEES ROASTED Pop Corn Goods 1% to 2 in. ..... reese 11 9% Playing Cards ........ 7q BRUSHES “ ony 4 Mustard 4 75 Rlo Without prizes. mM aos. peed seen ccc 15 , Scrub Jomestic, % ustar 7 3 in. 20 Potash ........++-+++- z cosa Dark, © te. 75 Norwegian, %8 .... 11@16 Cracker Jack with — PYOUIIONE _. coc se 7 Solid Back’ 11 in - 2 fee ee COUPON 2... eee eee 3 50 R Pointed Ends ........ 85 Sauer Kraut ae oe Prize .. Se We cea ee 8 Stove No. RB GOOS . ous. Hurrah, 50s ae 1 75 wre snr Rolled Oats ......... 8 No. 3 oe Coe : 90 No. 10 se oe a 8B 0. Soe e ee eee Ss Dunbar, 1s doz. ...... 1 25 ; at tee ..... g No. 1..... beets 1 75 Dunbar, 1%8 doz. .... 2 40 Cough Drops i SAIPTANIS . 28... oe 8 uccotas Oxes nae od. Heecuacden asennad 4 Fait ..++ssseeeeee oe 1 oe Putnam Menthol 1 20 o‘%. Salt 14 se OOD sreeeeeeeererere Smith Bros. ......... Salt Fish 8 _ : See ee ee eee eee : 2 a... ..... se a Maracaibo ‘ | 9 O. DB cecccccesscceece Strawberries air eee e eee erecees 25 NUTS—Whole j Blackin 9 BUTTER COLOR Standarfl ......---- 2 Choice wee ccsccees EM ks, ~ , f Shoe. Biacking _ 75 Med 26 ‘ Snuff . Dandelion, 25c size .. 200 Fancy oo =a * icsee @ ne Mexican - Almonds, Tarragona 21 : - coi bose ecee eee cae = ' a aan 9 CANDLES so : ae 2 Almonds, California 1 ] Soda ... reeeee a6 soft shell Drake ‘- Poles Paraffine, 63 ......... 7 Mee ge. [a ‘ SS et : Paraffine, 128 _....... — a. UC ‘he ae Guatemala 35 rags ooo oo... pb Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55 a CD eee... aces eo serene BE Eilberts 2. ------ is Bamboo, 16 ft, per doz 80. 4. , CANNED or Washing Powders.... 14 Baked ......... 1 25@2 25 Brick ........... @28 Wate 2.43 o ee... 24 Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled Terpeneless : NE goo cnet pxe ee 12 Red Kidney .... 1 25@1 35 Leiden .......... Fancy ...... ....... 26 Pomme o>... +5. 15@15% Pure Lemon Woodenware ......... 12 String .......... 150@2 00 WLimburger ...... Exchange Market, Steady Pecan Halves ...... @380 No. 1, % oz. Panel .. 80 Wrapping Paper ..... 13 Wax .......... 150@2 00 Pineapple ...... 1 gi 35 Spot Market, Strong Walnut Halves @54 No. 2, 1% oz. Panel 115 . i Blueberries Mipm ....-+55.5 1 80 Package Filbert Meats ...... @42 No. 4, 2% oz. Panel 200 § t Y Standard ............ 140 Sap Sago ........ ° New York Basis OIE ooo eos os @45 No. 3, 2% oz. Taper 1 85 Yeast Cake .......... 13° No. 10 ..... SLID 725 Swiss, Domestic % Arbuckle .........005 Jordon Almonds .... to FE ....4.... 28 to boy ~tos moo oO toy tes fe wv wv by woe oO oN tol Iie 29 DO See ee ee a a eS eS ae — qe ~~ May 9, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 6 7 8 29 a FLOUR AND FEED Jell-O 10 11 rand Rapids Grain & 5 20 Ib. pails Milling Co td ini co eee 3 Mackerel Oolong & Co. Assorted Case . 2 8k Ib. pails ...advance % Mess, 100 Ib Formosa, Medium .. 25 s a pe se Lemon (Straignt)’ 1. aa gi ee eee Meee 40 lie 1660 Formosa, Choice .. is — Wace beg ee ecue 15 75 ree (Straight) |... 2 85 - pails ...advance 1 Mess, 10 Ibs Formosa, Fancy 50@6e an Leaf, am & 7 oz. 30 Wizard Gr: ete 16 00 Raspberry (Straight) 2 85 H Smoked Meats Mess, 8 Ibs. English Breakfast e B4 Of. ...... cose 6 00 Wizard, aham .... 15 00 Strawnerry (Straight) 2 85 ams, 14-16 lb. 251%4@26 No. 1, 100 Ibs. Congou, Medium 3s 3 Be tae ou. --12 00 Winsra’ mee Meal ..8 75 Chocolate (Straight) 2 85 oe 16-18 lb. 21 @22 No. 1, 40 Ibs. . Congou, Choice sous BE 14 of ..... seceecae @ tee uckw’t cwt. 6 00 Chocorate (Straigrt) 2 85 aah 18-20 Ib. 20%@21 No. 1, 10 Ibs. . Ginacn, Wancy -. samen Badger, = om ........ 5 04 is 13 09 Peach (Straight) ..:, 2.85 Tab, dried beet 100 rer tke. Herring Congou, Ex. Fancy 60980 Basser’ 7 ox 99 MUSTARD Corned Beef, 1 Ib. 3 40 Nutmegs, 70-80 .... @85 Miger, 2be cans ...... 2949 Drum, Se , tae. 3 76 oo. ~ % Ib. 6 Ib. box 1g Roast Beef, 2 Ib. .... 6 00 De tee aa Uncle Dante 11. (| ae EF A. 4m 2. 3 oe Michi s pes Roast Beef, 1 lb. .... 3 40 Pepper, Black ...... @28 Uncle Daniel, 1 oz. .. 523 F. F. A. 7 oe tees 5 04 Pe ee 8? Bulk, 1 gal. tue ee Haeper Caren be PI Fashion, be ....00020! "8 00 ee ey meena eat? BT TIAVOY, US ....20ee epper, “a |. eae ne .. | Corn a 2 gal. kegs 1 05@1 15 Potted Meat, Hain eS pa Geeta re Am. Navy, 16 oz. .... 32 Fashion, 16 02. ...... 5 28 Cuniets 0.0.0... .:... ig wee ee ee A es, 95 Pure Ground In Bulk Sosle, 19 Ts tute ...... a wae ee eo 10 80 Tee cinan canlots 175 Stuffed, a = Poster Meee Ham | ao at er Tema Ale es 42 Five cent cut Plug .. 29 : Hay tuffed, 14 oz. 1.11.11 235 Deviled Meat, Ham : oe Sas aaah ........., . « we 11 $2 ade 2 Pitted an t , Ham , On 2... @28 D Four Roses, 10 6 Sa ee 17 ot stuffed) ” Flavor, 4s ...,..-.. 95 Ginger, African .... @18 noe eena Nat. Leaf, Full Dress, 1% oz... 1 yess than carlots ... 1 6% ieee oo Potted Tongue, %s .. 55 Mace, Penang ..... @1 00 Batt doz. ............. % Ging Hand fo... z Feed i a Potted Tongue, %3 .... 95 Nutmegs .......... @30 an Ae ge 3 Gaul Sack fee le ae Street Car Feed .... 64.00 Lunch, 16 oz. ee RICE Feuer, Black ...... @30 Big Four, 6 aa 16 Ib. * Gold Star, 50c pail .. 4 60 No. 1 Corn & Oat Fa 64 00 Queen. Mammoth, 19 Wage sac Pee Gece @32 Boot Jack, 2 Ib @ car. 2 oS ‘racke om |... 6400 OR Ge Bule Rose ae , y Boot : aac. W, SG oo. occas Coarse Corn Meal .. 64 00 Queen, Mammoth, 23° ieee eS = Meee en Bullion, [s on i Growler, Pl ate -1 00 ae ROLLED Climax Golden Twins GC er, SS vcuseccca. a:@e wtaconP RYIT JARS Gis Glew 4 deo cx riled ete ee 4 oe oe Guttis ..4@ aoe a ee Mason, pis, per gro. co oe a ee: 225 Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sks. 475 Kingsford, 40 Ibs. oo Cee te... Pac oer pe 3 72 Mason, %4 oe $75 PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Wotecn fib ake” 9 00. Muzzy, 48'1lb. pkgs. .. 7 A aan a toe . oo fe eo ¢€ 00 aS Or a : -8 0 Monarch, § . sks 4 a e, : 5 ; oo Mason, can tops, gro. 2 25 a Iron Barrels Quaker, 18 hoa ag uiece Gen a ik 1% Derby, 5 Ib. boxes 28 Honey Dew, 10c .... 12 00 : GELATINE Red ao Naseaes stn Quaker, 20 Family .. 4 90 a Gloss Wace Tlaces, 40 cece eeeee 66 x L, ge te 8 = ‘ox’s, 1 doz. large ... 1 45 es SALAD rgo, 24 5c pkgs. .... 95 » 0c ........ 9 [48 f& a Cox’s, 1 doz. small .. 90 oe i Columbia, oo 25 Silver Gloss, 16 3lbs. .. 74 on a g oo aa 50 Kiln Dried. 350 | io Knox's Sparkling, doz. 175 Capitol Cilinder ee eee er 7 99 Silver Gloss, 12 éIbs. -. 8% Gold Rope, 4 and 12 Ib. 58 King Bird, 7 oz. ...... 2 16 a yo a. _ =p Atlantic Red Engine .. 19.9 Patkece large, 1 doz. 420 49 41h vciciiees: - G. O. P., 12 and 24 Ib. 40 Kine bled Me ...... 11 52 — +. 185 Winter Black ......... $0 gee pacing [oS 16 sh ola Se ee ee BS ieee o44 Minute, 3 doz. .....-. 3 75 co ~ 809 Sutera amet ace 1G OL Eee’ -----: on Horse Shoe, 6 tmGea be ae ea oe a 1 Manin SALERATUS i SYRUPS ae i" vane an ie fede. ca 20 Plymouth Rock, Phos. 125 Barrels, 1,200 count .. 9 50 packed 60 Ibs. in box. Corn Jolly Tar, (tase eee 16 oz... 40 Plymouth Rock, Plain 1 20 Half bbls., 600 count : 25 Gocndse ie ae 1. 310) Barrele o/..........-.. 54 J. T., 5% and 11 Ib. 40 Myrtle Navy, l0c ....11 52 5 gallon kegs ........ 2 20 , 100 ¥s .. $00 Half barrels .......... 56 Kentucky Navy, 12 lb. 32 Myrtle Navy, 5c ..... 5 76 GRAIN BAGS Small SAL SODA Blue Karo, No. 1% Keyst ; Maryland Club, 5c EO Broad Gauge, 12 oz. og Banreig 3.6... 11 00 Granulated, bbls. .... 1 40 apes i. 330 Kismet, 6 _ ist, 6 Ib. 45 Mayflower, Se ..... v2. 6 00 oe ae o. Gate banecia ....,.... 100 Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs. 160 Blue Karo, No. 2,2 dz. 275 Maple Dip, 16 oz. ..... ss Sawer. He ...-.. 1 00 Stark, A, 16 0Z. ........ 5 gallon Rees o--+:- 50 Granulated, 36 pkgs. ..1 40 Blue Karo, No. 2%, 2 Moe Wiew ih i Ree ne be oS is HERBS oo eae Oe 330 Nobby Spun Roll 6 @ 3 58 Nigeer Hair, be... 6 00 AQrelS 620080... 4 00 Blue Karo, No. 5,14z.3 25 P gger Hair, 10c 10 70 Sage Ue ee uesee Pouce - Half barrels 07% 460 Pe igs Grades Blue Karo, No. 10, % : Loy ba eo ene oee: 32 Nigger Head, 5c 5 40 eee ; : son’s . Leaf $ ’ oss Laurel Leaves .....-+-+ 15 : waar Small - Be 4 Ib. aaa a 3 08 Red “Karo, No. 1%, # an en ° er Orage ‘Tb. 47 ean eee iy Pb is Senna Leaves ......-.-- 25. Barrels 24 00 0 5 lb. sacks > 3 05 i i Ib. . 49 Old Colony, 1-12 gro. 1 wie 9 S06 de 7... 245 Piper Heidsieck, 4 & 7 Ih 69 ony, 1-12 gro. 11 52 Half barrels ...... ..1150 2° 20 1b. sacks ...... 2 90 Red Karo, Nod 20a800 Piper H o Old Mill, 5e ......... 5 76 HIDES AND PELTS 5 gallon kegs ------.- ie foe 48 Red Karo, No. 2i¢ 2dz. 3 70 so. an A ook ee E POON once. 5e ed Karo, No. 5, 1 dz.365 R c : OP: BE -+onnves 6 00 Cron Wo. 1 | ......-- oo PIPES Warsaw Red Karo, No. 10% ’ ill agg cas a oa eh oe 2 64 Green, No. 2 .....-+- 16 a No. 216, per box 56 Ib. sacks .......... 26 OZ ae cence es 45 Sherry Cobbler, 8 oz. 33 P. S., 8 oz. 30 lb. case 19 Cured, No. 1 .......- 20 pig T. D. full count 80 28 lb. dairy in drill bags 20 Pure Cane Spear Head, 12 oz. 44 Ps S., 3 oz., per gro. 5 70 Meh Mo ese: 19 Ob sec ed ee 90 Saleen Wack Wate (ec... 16 Spear Head, 14% oz... 44 was Hand, 1 oz. ...... 63 Calfskin, green, No.1 28 | 56 lu sacka gg GOOd ...eeeeeeee reese 20 Spear Head, 7 oz 47 atterson Seal, 1% oz. 48 Calttkin, green, No.2 26%° . PLAYING CARDS cna aes Gas... OUR Ge a wi le ae io ao Calfskin, cured, No. 1 30 No 1s, eamboat .... 85 Granulated, Fi Folger’s Grape Punch Star, 6, 12 and 24 Ib. 44 p 2 hit oe 16 oz. 5 00 Calfskin, cured, No. 2 28% = 20° ee assorted 150 wicaium, Fine ne .... 160 Quarts, doz. case 6 Standard Navy, 7%, 15. no ee 5 ois Re ae enam'd 1 75 fe a areenn: 1% TABLE SAUCES and 30 Ib. ...-.-..-., 4 tecee ie ere Old Wool 15@2 00 No. 98 Golf, Satin fir ao SALT FISH Halford, large .......- an Sore foe eS Toe —. wok voed 0b Ne. 808 Bicycle .. oe | oe fan See «++: 2 28 oo on ne ae 33 Peerless, 40c 2... Shearlings ..--+-- 50@1 00 No. 632 Tourn’t whist 2 50 oo i go TEA ankee Gis 128 31%. ee ar see «+ co eee, ne oo oy, Se ........ § 1 wo 1, THOw gg ‘Babbitt’s. 2 doz. ..... imi ee ue ee —_ bee ne eon 7< Rare etee eee ee CMe... < cen e-s 28 All Red, Be «......... 57 7 +2 No, 2 ....--000e- @5 PROVISIONS Holland Herring Raney 1.02.00. .8. oa Am. Union Scrap .... 5 40 Utero: IRE anys + os SEND FOR SAMPLES Sweet Lotus, 5c .... 5 76 Butter Plates BAKING POWDER Th O 1 Fi c Sweet Lotus, 10c ....11 52 KC y n eanser Sweet Lotus, ae doz. 4 60 \% Ib. 250 Sr as - Doz e n ive e Sweet Rose, 2%4 0z. .. 30 1 ih’ 950 in crate ... 35 10c, 4 doz. in case .... 95 a at ae —_ Be ont - ih oot oc. 15¢, : - in case .... : : Guaranteed to Equal the Best 10c Kinds nek Tip ig 3 ag ce 2 DD, Pee erate ...... 50 by 9 ia pu rn 450 a inn a. ef De 05D th cane... > ek Summer Time, 5 .... 576 © 1. 260 in crate ...... 90 30 ib. % ae plate . 14 00 80 Can Cases ..... $3.00 Per Case eons sere’ a0 ox. FED i. oo ms ee 40 Can Cases...-... $1.60 Per Case Standard, 5c foil .... 576 5}, sa ee ene eee ee K C Baking Powder is —"*,. . Joa all 8 44 3 — 24 a eee Bae & guaranteed to comply ai SHOWS A PROFIT OF 40% Seal N.C. 1% Gran... 63 5 lb. 20 in crate cos ol ee Three Feathers, 10 1152 parret, 5 get ee Sea cou Handled by All Jobbers Three Feathers, and er oe ; _ . ; : Royal S- scour. Poe eoniantion .. 225 OO Ye re -- ne a PrUBS-PoList om & Jory, 16 os. & 6 Clothes Pins a Place an order with your jobber. If goods are not satis- Tom & Jerry, 7 oz. .. Round Heau 4¥ %4lb. cans 5 ae : Tom & Jerry, 3 oz. .._ 76 41% inch, 5 gross ...... fi 6 oz. cans 2 00 factory return same at our expemse.—FITZPATRICK BROS Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 576 Cartons, No. 24, 24s, bxs. 70 a 1p. ® 65 Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags .. 48 is \ ; Ve cans Tuxedo, 2 oz. tnis .... 96 Egg Crates and Fillers = %4lb. cans 3 95 Tuxedo, — se eeeeeeee : ” Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20 ee llb. cans .. 4 95 e Zuredo, eo tee coll & 76 NO: 1 complete ........ 42 ot M4 Sib. cans 23 70 “Bl d” E ] C t t Union Sener 10¢ 2 Case, dicta 12 sets 1 2 Ss 1IZZar nsl age U ers mouch —...-.-.-..., 2 SALT — Leader, ready oe Faucets Union Leader 50¢ box 510 Gork ‘engi a Pere ee = - > ae ee = -------- 6 0) Cork lined, 10 in. 12.1.1 90 Ja | Be ..-.-- | Wave Line, 3 0Z. ..... 40 : 5 Wave Line, 16 oz. .... _ 40 _ Mop Sticks MorRTONS Way Up, 2% oz. ...- 5 75 Trojan spring ........ 1 35 Way Up, 16 oz. pails . 36 Wid ruit, 6c .....- 00 Vid Fruit, tc -....- 12 00 Wam Yum, 5€ ........ 5 76 Yam Yum, 0c ....- 11 52 Yum Yum, 1 Ib. doz. 4 80 CIGARS Peter Dornbos Brands Dornbos Single minger |... 35 00 in So) i0te .....---.. 10 00 Dornbos, Perfectos .. 33 00 Dornbos, Bismarck 70 00 Atlan D. Grant ..... 65 00 Aan 1 .......-.---- 35 00 is 300 tote ...-....-- 10 00 Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand Dutch Masters Club 70 60 Dutch Masters Inv. 70 00 Dutch Masters Pan. 70 00 Dutch Master Grande 65 00 El Portana Dutch Masters, 5c B.C. OW. Gee Jay Johnson’s Straight Above five brands sold on following basis: are Less than 300 ........ 35 00 300 assorted .......... 35 00 2500 assorted ........ 33 00 3% trade discount on 300 or more 2% cash discount on all purchases. Worden Grocer Co. Brands Worden’s Hand Made Londres, 50s Wood .. 33 00 TWINE Cotton, B OW ccvccsncce 37 Common, © DIV .ccccsccee BF sare, 2 OF ...-0- jeace a Bemp, 6 PY .ccscocscs 22 Flax, medium ......... 35 Wool, 1 Ib. bales ...... 17 VINEGAR White Wine, 40 grain 10 White Wine, 80 grain 13% White Wine, 100 grain 15% Oakland Vinegar & Pickle Co.’s Brands Highland apple cider 22 Oakland apple cider .. 17 State Seal sugar ..... 14 Blue Ribbon, Corn ... 12% Oakland white pickle 12 Packages free. WICKING No. 0, per @rOss ........ 35 Wo. 1, per BTOES ....... 45 No. 2, per EToss ....... 60 Wo. 3, per @foss ....... 90 WOODENWARE Baskets RUBRONS Cn es cee csess 1 00 Bushels, wide band .. 1 15 Market, drop handle .. 40 Market, single handle —— Splint, large ........ Splint, medium ....... 3 80 Bont, email ........ Willow, Clothes, large Willow, Clothes, small Willow, Clothes, me’m Eclipse patent spring 1 25 No. 1 common ...... 25 No. 2, pat. brush hold 1 25 ical Ne, 7 ......c:.. 1 25 12lb. cotton mop heads 1 75 Pails 10 qt. Galvanized .... 3 25 12 qt. Galvanized .... 3 50 14 qt. Galvanized .... 4 00 Bitre 6 ooo 4 00 Toothpicks Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00 ical 3: 85 Traps Mouse, wood, 2 hoels .. 22 Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. 45 10 qt. Galvanized .... 1 12 qt. Galvanized .... 1 70 14 qt. Galvanized .... 1 Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65 MAL, WOOW .....k eo cc eee 80 Bat eprinme ........ 2... 75 Tubs No. 1 Mitre _......:.2 16 50 No: 2 Fipre ,.....-.. 15 00 No: 3 Pipre .... 2.552 13 50 Large Galvanized ... 11 75 Medium Galvanized 10 00 Small, Galvanized .... 8 75 Washboards Banner, Globe Brass, Single . Glass, Single ........ Double Peerless ...... Northern Queen Good Enough Universal Wood Bowls 13 in. Butter 15 in. Butter . 17 in. Butter 19 in. Butter WRAPP.NG PAPER Fibre Manila, white .. 8% Fibre, Manila, colored No. 1 Manila Butchers’ Manila .... 8 BOI oe ese eee. Wax Butter, short c’nt 16 Wax Butter, full c’nt 20 Parchm’t Butter, rolis 19 YEAST CAKE Mast Ss G0% ......:; Sunlicht, 3 doz. ...... Sunlight, 1144 doz. .... 50 Yeast Foam, 3 doz. .. Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85 _ Window Cleaners etecees 1 Ib. boxes, per gross 8 70 3 Ib. boxes, per gross 23 10 ae lake SALT Morton’s Salt Per case, 24 2 Ibs. .... 1 70 Five case lots ....... 60 SOAP Lautz Bros.’ & Co. [Apply to Michigan, Wis- consin and Duluth, only.] Acme, 100 cakes, be sz 4 > Acorn, 120 cakes .... 30 Climax, 100 oval cakes 3 50 Gloss, 100 cakes, 5¢e sz 3 75 Big Master, 100 blocks 4 25 Lautz Master Soap .. 3 75 Naphtha, 100 cakes .. 4 25 Oak Leaf, 100 cakes .. 4 00 Queen Anne, 100 cakes 4 00 Queen White, 100 cks. 4 00 Railroad, 120 cakes .. 3 00 Saratoga, 120 cakes .. 3 00 White Fleece, 50 cks. 2 50 White Fleece, 100 cks. 3 25 White Fleece, 200 cks. 2 50 Proctor & Gamble Co RON ook ce ences 3 85 Ivory, 6 oz. .. 416 Ivory, 10 oz. 7 00 SHAT ..«cess5.- ceseee 2 OD Swift & Company Swift’s Pride ....... 2 &h White Laundry ...... 3 56 Wool, 6 oz. bars ..... 3 85 Wool, 10 oz. wars ... 6 50 Tradesman Company Black Hawk, one box 3 25 Black Hawk, five bxs 3 10 Black Hawk, ten bxs 3 00 Scouring . Sapolio, gross lots .. 9 50 Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85 Sapolio, single boxes 2 40 Sapolio, hand ........ 2 40 Scourine, 50 cakes 1 80 Scourine, 100 cakes .. 3 50 Queen Anne Scourer 1 80 Soap Compounds Johnson’s Fine, 48 2 38 25 Johnson’s XXX 100 5c 4 00 Rub-No-More ........ 3 85 Nine O’Clock ........ 3 50 WASHING POWDERS. Gold Dust 24 large packages ... 5 00 100 small packages .. 4 15 Lautz Bros. & Co [Apply to Michigan, Wis- consin and Duluth, only] Snow Boy 100 pkegs., 5c size .... 4 00 60 pkgs., 5c size ...... 2 55 48 pkgs., 10c size ...... 4 00 24 pkgs., family size ..3 75 20 pkgs., laundry size 4 15 Napntha 60 pkgs., 5e size ...... 2 55 100 pkgs., 5c size ...... 4 00 Queen anne 60 5c packages ........ 2 55 24 packages .......... 4 00 Oak Leaf 24 packages .......... 75 CLEMENS & GINGRICH CO. Distributors for Central Western States Grand Rapids, Michigan 1501 Wealthy St. PINE TREE BRAND Timothy Seed AREE 8 xs “a ; 4: % ge AN EXTRA ze RECLEANED AND ar PURE SEED a AT =e < ies MODERATE COST iad 2 DEALERS fae = WRITE FOR rb SAMPLE, TEST - AND PRICE IT STANDS i E The Albert Dickinson Co. SEED MERCHANTS Established 1854 CHICAGO MINNEAPOLIS s ~ > =... * a cami ~ 2 iil Sy a ~ = ; r be » < ‘ee «* Ty y . e } t , a” 4 d r ae a ( i ‘ < ‘o> f 1 « ” s ety ¢ “ +> ° i Ts > « Ow ee wt v a ? ~ - : r te a a a ‘ee Sa t ; + ib $ ‘ | he Bg i At « fa ; iw * ) t May 9, 1917 BUSINESS CHANCES. For Sale—Wholesale and retail ice cream, confectionery and oyster business. Cheap if taken at once. Address J. H. Evans, 109 South Washington St., Owosso, Michigan. 65 Real Estate Exchange. Stock Buyers of all kinds of merchandise. We ex- change real estate for your stock of mer- chandise or will buy for cash and pay the highest dollar. Have you Detroit property for sale let us know at once. Perry Mercantile Co., 191 Hendrie Ave., Detroit, Michigan. 6 I have some very desirable suburban lots at Wyoming Park, near Grand Rap- ids, to exchange for first-class stock of merchandise. /Harry Thomasma, 707-709 Grand Rapids Savings Bank Bldg., Grand Rapids. : $ For Rent—Corner store on Main street. Suitable and is a good location for drug store. “Rent reasonable. Address Park- American Hotel, Kalamazoo, Mich. 69 Hardware, furniture and grocery with moving picture plant; a first-class paying business at a bargain. CIrcumstances force owner to quit business; a rare op- portunity. Act quick. Address Box 159, Marlette. 70 For Sale—$1,200 worth of goods, $700 groceries. All fresh and clean. Show cases, gas and oil tanks, scales, shoe ladder. MecCaskey system, ete. Going into other business soon. H. L. Reynolds, Fennville, Michigan. t For Sale—Old established hardware and house furnishing business with fixtures; would rent store; centrally located. Own- er retiring on account of age. Address dry J. M. Nolting, 735 E. Main St., Richmond, Virginia. 72 Manufacturing Business — For Sale. Auto aecessory, including patent, stock, patterns, tools, ete., article of exceptional merit. Money maker for right party. Special cash price. The Sterautomat Co., Beloit, Wisconsin. To For Rent—Or Sale (terms) splendidly equipped bakery and restaurant. Fine lo- eation in small city. Living roorns rent separate. Fay Cusick, Chrisman, ne ‘ For Sale—Stock of drugs; inventory price $700. Will sell for $300 if taken at once. Enquire Exchange Bank, Port Sanilac, Michigan. 76 For Sale—Finest 5 and 10 cent store in West. January invoice $4,800. Mahogany fixtures, up-to-date. Good reason for selling. 100 per cent. on dollar. Address No. 77, care Tradesman. U7 Collections made everywhere. Satisfac- tion guaranteed. No collection, no charge. Southwestern Mercantile Agency, Wood- ward, Oklahoma. 78 For Rent—One store room 20x 130 feet with room on second floor 30 or 40 feet long, same width as room below, with good basement under entire room. SiIt- nyvated in the heart or the business dis- trict, west side of Public Square, Lima, Ohio. Address J. C. Thompson, Lima, Ohio. 79 Wanted—Second-hand _ office safe or safe cabinet. Roy Andrus, Hastings, Michigan. 80 For Sale—Only harness shop, all tools, including new No, 38 Landis machine; good location for quick shoe repair outfit. $500 cash takes it. Rent in new brick store $12.50 month. Box 77, Fowlervile, Michigan. : 81 $200 takes my cleaning, pressing and tailoring shop, worth twice the amount for a good independent living. Swanson, the Tailor, 221 E. Main, Jackson, — AN ARMY OF MICHIGAN MER- CHANTS—Have engaged us to close out their stocks of merchandise by our per- sonally conducted special sales in the past sixteen years. We specialize in gwhoes, clothing, dry goods and general stocks. We also buy stocks. outright. Greene Sales Co., Jackson, Mich. 53 For Sale—General store with stock in- voicing about $1,200; building two story 30x42 feet with living rooms in back. Also five good lots. Price $3,000 cash. Reason for selling is to settle estate. Address L. B. 162, Pullman, Mich. 19. For Sale—Good clean stock of hard- ware, stoves, paints and oils; best loca- tion in town of 12,000 inhabitants. Stock and fixtures will invoice about $10,000. eee & Higgins, Bowling — y- . For Sale—Wholesale hardware business, $100,000 merchandise, $20,000 net annual profits. Owner has opportunity to man- age trust and guaranty business. Write Aca Agency, Gadsden, Ala, 24, continuous insertion. No MICHIGAN TRADESMAN For Sale—Farm 240 acres. Owner can- not occupy it. Could use hardware, drugs or furniture stocks. Chas. Mayn- ard, Milan, Michigan. 55 Traveling Salesmen—The new Acme electricity machine (coin operated)—is a money maker. Requires little time to operate a route of these machines on your territory. Write Rex Mfg. Co., Erie, Pennsylvania. 56 Collections everywhere. We get the money and so do you. No charge unless collected. United States Credit Service, Washington, D, C. 57 Drug Store For Sale—Fine opportunity. Sales $26,000 last year. Rexall store. County seat town on two railroads. Ad- dress Box 626, Holdenville, Okla. 59 “For Sale—To close estate at once, For double store building and property, (gro- cery one side and restaurant in other), ten rooms upstairs all fully equipped and in good condition. Only restaurant in town. Good location. $1,650 cash or $1,800 in payments. Call at Fennville and see this bargain or write Sheffer Bros., Fennville, Michigan. 60 General Merchandise Store For Sale— In farming and mining community in business five years. Only store. Yearly sales $23,000. Stock and fixtures $5,000. Building for sale or rent. Other business reason for selling. Box 46, Dacono, Colorado. 61 For Sale—Tin shop handling all kinds of sheet metal and furnace work. A snap if taken at once, as other business requires my attention. Address Rapid Tin Shop, Rapid City, South Dakota. 62 njarge less than 25. mone h ae Mr. Merchant If you want to retire from business, if you want to sell your stock for 100 cents on the doliar, write me at once. JOSEPH P. LYNCH, 44 So. Ionia Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich. Will pay cash for whole or part stocks of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn, Sag- inaw, Michigan. 757 Stocks Wanted—Write me if you want to sell or buy grocery or general stock. FE. Kruisenga, 44-54 Ellsworth Ave., Grand Rapids, Michigan. 304 STORES, FACTORIES, AND REAL ESTATE bought, sold, exchanged. Write me if you are in the market to buy, sell or trade. Established 1881. Frank P. Cleveland, Real Estate Expert, 1609 Adams Express Bldg., Chicago. 26 Cash Buyers of clothing, shoes, dry goods and furnishings. Parts or entire stocks. H. Price, 194 Forrest Ave. East, Detroit. 678 Cash Buyer of clothing, shoes, dry goods, furnishings and carpets. Parts or entire stocks. Charles Goldstone, 335 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit. 63 The Merchants Auction Co., Baraboo, Wisconsin. The most reliable sales con- cern for closing out, reducing or stimu- lation. Write for information. 585 Will sell or © Paper baler, good as new. trade for account register. Son, Arcadia, Michigan. Merchants Please Take Notice! We have clients of grocery stocks, general stocks, dry goods stocks, hardware stocks, drug stocks. We have on our list also a few good farms to exchange for such stocks. Also city property. If you wish to sell or exchange your business write us. G. R. Business Exchange, 540 House- man Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. 859 For Sale—Firmly' established, nice, clean stock of groceries, hardware, paints, auto supplies and sporting goods situated in the best business town in Northern Michigan. Business established eighteen years. Reason for selling—wish to retire. Only those who mean business need reply. Stock will inventory $19,000. Can be re- duced. Address No. 712, care —_— For Sale—Photo studio with equipment; also circuit camera; good _ business. Former owner removed by death. Mrs. Florence E. Snaith, Middleville, Michigan. 34 For Sale—Two chili parlors, located in business section. Enquire at 323 East Main St., Jackson, Michigan. 35 Millinery Store For Sale—One of the best located and best equipped millinery stores in Grand Rapids. Beautiful fix- tures. J. L. Lynch, 28 So. Ionia Ave., Grand Rapids. 50 __—— Mr. Merchant: Do you want to sell your stock? Do you need money? Do you want a partner? Do you want to dissolve partnership? Do you want to increase the volume of business? Do you want to cut your overhead expense? Do you want to collect your out- standing accounts? If you are interested in any of the above questions, write, wire or phone me for free information at my expense without obligating yourself in any way. JOHN L. LYNCH, Business Doctor. 28 So. lonia Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. For Sale—Stock of hardware, stoves, plows, farm implements and paints. Lo- cated in Western Pennsylvania, Washing- ton County, Monongahela Valley, 29 miles from Pittsburgh. Stock and fixtures will invoice around $8,000 to $8,500. Will sell at invoice to a quick buyer, less 2 per cent. We will consider nothing but cash, no trade. Address Frye Hardware Com- pany, Charleroi, Pa. 28, Safes Opened—W. L. Slocum, safe ex- pert and locksmith. 128 Ann St., N. B., Grand Rapids, Michigan. 104 Someone with $700 to invest in a good and legitimate undertaking. Address J. M. Brust, 523 Lewis Ave,, Billings, Mon- tana, R. F, D. No, 2, 37 Drug Store For Sale—Northern New Mexico. Ideal climate for throat or lung trouble. Irrigated district. Owner, Max- well Drug Co., Maxwell, N. M. 41 Free For Six Months—My special offer to introduce my magazine, ‘Investing for Profit.’”” It is worth $10 a copy to any one who has not acquired sufficient money to provide necessities and comforts for self and loved ones. It shows how to be- come richer quickly and honestly. ‘In- vesting for Profit’? is the only progressive financial journal and has the largest cir- culation in America. It shows how $100 grows to $2,200; write now and I’ll send it six months free. H. L. Barber, 433-28 W. Jackson Bivd., Chicago. 800 CASH REGISTERS—We buy, sell and exchange all makes of registers, also re- pair, re-build and refinish all makes. Let us quote you price from Vogt-Bricker Sales Co., 211 Germania Ave., Saginaw, Wichigan. 646 General Merchandise and real estate auctioneer. Closing out and _ reducing stocks, address Leonard Van Liere, a land, Michigan. 799 Wanted—Location for grocery store or would buy stock at reasonable price in town of 1,000 or over. Will pay cash. Cc. E. Groves, Edmore, Michigan. 44 For Sale—Clean hardware stock, well located in most rapidly growing portion of Grand Rapids. Good farming trade. Stock and fixtures will inventory about $5,000. Chas. M. Owen, Attorney for trustee, 1019 Michigan Trust Bldg., Grand Rapids. 45 For Sale—Grocery and crockery stock with fixtures located in a growing town of 1,500 surrounded by excellent farming region. Will inventory about $4,500. Es- tablished over 35 years and doing a splendid business. Address No. 49, care Michigan Tradesman. 49 Farm For Sale—80 acres six miles from Flint. All stocked, good teams, cows, chickens, implements, etc., com- ' plete. Will sell for cash or trade for clothing stock. J. L. Lynch, 28 So. Ionia Ave., Grand Rapids. 51 Cash must accompany all orders. 31 BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT Advertisements inserted under this head for oat cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent 4 Variety Store For Sale—An exceptional opportunity to buy a going, up-to-date variety store in best town of 11,000 in Southern Minnesota. A _ live, modern store that is a money maker. $12,000 will handle stock and fixtures. This is one rare opportunity for the man that wants to step into a live, profitable, cash business. For further particulars write Box 306, Albert Lea, Minn. 43 HELP WANTED. Second Hand—On bread and cakes wanted. Fourth Ward Bakery, La Porte, Indiana. 75 Wanted—Two experienced clerks, one grocery—other hardware. Address John Hansen, Edmore, Michigan. 982 POSITION WANTED. Wanted Position—As manager retail grocery or traveling salesman. D. P. G., eare Tradesman. 40 ELI CROSS Grower of Flowers And Potted Plants WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 150 Monroe Ave. Grand Rapids Neal 3 way Is the best, surest, safest remedy known to medical science for DRINK HABIT A harmless, vegetable rem- edy given with no bad after effects. No hypodermics used. It positively removes the craving desire for liquor and DRUGS at the end of treatment, or money back. Neal Institute 534 Wealthy, S. E. GRAND RAPIDS Both Phones PERRY MILLER, Manager DAY Conservative Investors Patronize Tradesman Advertisers Cigar Cigar DORNBOS Single Binder Overflowing with Quality Try them. It will bring you friends and business. Sidelights on Celery City and Envi- Tons. Kalamazoo, May 8—Arthur Foley, the Grace street grocer, sustained a dislocated shoulder Thursday morn- ing when he was thrown from a wagon, He was driving on East Lovell street. Mrs. Foley, who was with him, also sustained minor bruises. Alpha D. Pettit, the Portage street grocer, is confined at Bronson hos- pital as the result of a serious oper- ation performed there last Friday. Twelve hundred employes of the Bryant Paper Company are the gain- ers through an increased wage scale, which went into effect May 1. The aggregate pay envelopes will be fat- tened to the extent of about $100,000 during the ensuing year. The Michigan Silo Company has increased its capital stock from $25,-~ 000 to $60,000. All the stock is taken by the present parties interested and will provide for a new factory and the money needed in the growth of the business. Work is being rushed on the new plant on Alcott street, but it will take practically the entire sum- mer before it is fully completed. In the meantime manufacture of the famous Michigan silos will begin in two weeks to fill the large number of orders on hand. The business prom- ises to be one of the most flourishing concerns in the city, as the full capaci- ty of the institution is sold in advance. Prompted by American's need for increased production, 150 of Kalama- zoo’s representative business execu- tives have organized a class to study and apply the principle of efficiency at their work and the efforts of those who work under their direction. The first meeting will take place in the Y. M. C. A. building, May 9. Gatherings similar to this one will be held at the same place each week. The course of study will run over a period of three months. The class will study under the direction of P. H. Can- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. robert, of the Emerson School of Ef- ficiency. The topic for discussion at this meeting will be “Standard Es- sential for Success.” In all probabil- ity George H. Barber, who spoke here more than a week ago, will be in the city for the opening of the course, It is the intention of those behind the movement to extend work into the factories. Each executive who at- tends these classes, it is planned, will conduct similar courses for his as- sistants. W. S. Cook. ——_--. Leisure Hour Jottings From Jaunty Jackson. Jackson, May 8—The M. C. R. R. has again placed an embargo on re- ceiving freight. This is on account of labor conditions and it would be a good thing to have laws that would compel every man to work at least a few hours each day. Jackson Council is planning to vistt Coldwater Council on the afternoon and evening of May 19. A. H. Brow- er says he has already secured about twenty automobiles for the trip. It is being intimated by some that the Jackson cannery (which is the State prison) is contemplating going direct to the consumer with its line of canned goods. In the retirement of A. R. Gfell from the grocery business, Ann Arbor is losing one of its most progressive merchants. Mr, Gfell started as a retail grocer eight years ago without any experience. He studied his line and the wants of his customers and devoted himself to the work. The re- sult was a business that increased in volume each year and such as few merchants acquire in the same length of time. Mr. Gfell has a substantial competence to show for his eight years of work and it is hoped that he will fully regain his health after a short period of rest. W. M. Kelly has been confined to his home with a severe cold. E. G. Tompkins, with the Schmid Chemical Co., is driving a beautiful Marion Handley six. Some of our business men are talk- ing that the present conditions are going to put the grocery business (both wholesale and retail) on a cash basis or nearly so at least, It would seem that it is a dangerous time to extend credit and the question is, Would not every one be better off to pay cash? Two circuses are billed for Jackson for this month and the writer hopes that we will have at least two each month during the entire summer. Spurgeon. -————o---2—___— Copper Country Travelers to Grow Food. Hancock, May 7—Great public spirit is being shown by the travelingmen of the copper country in the “arm and farm’ movement. At an_ informal gathering of salesmen, held last Sat- urday evening, it was agreed that a supply of cards, tobacco and books May 9, 1917 would be secured and forwarded to copper country men in the service, while Saturday afternoons during the next few months will be given over to assisting in the cultivation of va- cant lots appropriated for gardening. As the salesmen as a rule have a half holiday on Saturday they are con- vinced the off time could not be de- voted to better purposes. —_+ >> A thrifty housewife says there isn’t much venison in market, but there is plenty of dear meat. BUSINESS CHANCES. For Sale—Drug stock and fixtures in one of Michigan’s best cities. Suburban store. Located near school and factory district. Present owner has to get out on account of health. Last invoice $5,700. Will invoice or lump off. $1,500 cash re- quired, balance terms to suit buyer.