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F. O. LINDQUIST, Clothing
FOSTER BROS., Shoes
WALSH & MEYER, Dept. Store
BLOOD & HART, Dept. Store
Marine City, Mich.
McQUILLAN & HARRISON
Clothing
Jackson, Mich.
A. B. CASE CO., General Store
Honor, Mich.
S. BONCZAK, Clothing
Detroit, Mich.
MILLS & HEALEY, Dept. Store
Grand Rapids, Mich.
I. GUDELSKY, Clothing
Muskegon, Mich.
H. C. JURGENSON, Clothing
Cadillac, Mich.
SPEYER & CO.
Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear
Kalamazoo, Mich.
The above are only a few of
the hundreds of merchants to
whom we can. refer you.
Write them!
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Port Huron, Mich.
Savannah, Ga.
GRAND RA APIS
4; ih It | LIBRARY
FORE TEN 7 RIL __.
Romances of the Business World.
George Eastman, in 1878, was a
bank clerk, with a hobby for pho-
Fred J. Fox.
work himself up. A mistake many of
our young American men of to-day
make is to start at the top and go
down. They don’t know what real
work is, Not so with this young lad
who came green from the farm and
secured a position with the McCous-
land Grocery Co., starting in the ship-
ping room at the handsome salary
of $9 per week. He did not stay in
this department long. Step by step
he rose in the service of the company
and in the course of time the Mc-
Cousland Grocery Co. became known
as the Smart-Fox Co. and six years
ago this company sold its interests
to the Lee & Cady Co., of Detroit,
one of the largest wholesale grocery
corporations in the Middle West. Mr.
Fox has since that time acted in the
capacity of general manager of the
aginaw branch of the Lee & Cady
o. He is a director in the Bank of
Saginaw, the Commonwealth Power
Co. and the Lee & Cady Co. He has
always been prominent in club cir.
cles, being a retired president of the
East Side Saginaw Club; also a mem-
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tography. Out of his dissatisfaction
with the wet plate came the kodak and
one of the greatest romances of busi-
ness. Now the company invests at
least $1,000,000 a year in advertising.
William Wrigley, Jr., was a trav-
eling salesman. Now he is said to
spend $2,000,000 a year or more on
publicity. In the many Wrigley
campaigns we find items that run in-
to stupendous proportions. The or-
dinary best-seller in fiction has a cir-
culation of perhaps 100,000, while the
Wrigley “Mother Goose Book,” went
to 7,500,000 people and the “Spear
Men” to 3,500,000.
Not so many years ago Eldridge R.
Johnson was a machinist at Camden,
N. J. Afterward he bought a little
shop where he had worked on a crude
talking machine, and this developed
into the great Victor company—whose
advertising runs well over $2,000,000
a year.
A century ago there was a little
soap factory in New York owned by
a Morgan family. For more than a
lifetime this business attained no par-
ticular prominence, but one day the
family physician suggested the com-
bination of two Latin words as a
trade-mark. Sapolio became almost
a National institution, with three or
four hundred thousand dollars a year
to talk for it; and the picturesque ad-
ventures of this company add some
of the brightest color to the romance
of advertising. Thus we have “Spot-
less Town.”
In 1879 Jacob Ritty, a merchant in
Dayton, Ohio, invented the cash reg-
ister. John H. Patterson then had
a small country store and was hav-
ing trouble keeping his accounts.
When he heard of the cash register
he telegraphed for two and afterward
bought the business.
Once Frederick F. Peabody was a
school teacher in Minnesota, but rural
life did not please him and he went to
Chicago, At the very beginning ad-
vertising entered his career, for he
looked in the classified pages of the
Chicago papers and found a job at
$7 a week. Among other things he
sold collars; and to-day he is presi-
dent of the greatest collar concern in
the world.
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Easy Way to Make Money.
Lamont, June 5—There is an ac-
tive demand for summer homes here
by people who lived here as children
and who still cherish pleasant mem-
ories of one of the most beautiful
villages in the world, from a scenic
standpoint. Fifty years ago we made
money marketing berries and_ fruit
and catching sturgeon in the river.
Now all we have to do to make money
is to go to Grand Rapids and catch
a new crop of suckers by interesting
them in Lamont real estate.
Jacob Phillips.
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Grossly exaggerated is the general
impression of the collapse of Russia’s
military effort. It may be true that
for offensive purposes the Russian
army need not be counted upon for
some time to come. But it is absurd
to think of Germany as having de-
nuded her Eastern front in face of the
demoralized Russians. In 1916 the
Joffre estimate gave the number of
Germans on the Eastern front as 1.-
100,000. The Petain estimate of to-
day makes the number of Germans
on the Eastern front almost exactly
900,000. A difference of 200,000 men
undoubtedly counts, but it is ridic-
ulous to speak of the Allies as unaid-
ed by a Russia which contains on her
own front nearly a million Germans,
and at the very least half a million
Austrians, Bulgars, and Turks. The
number of Germans in the West, ac-
cording to Petain’s estimate, is just
two millions, facing perhaps twice as
many French and British.
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Will S. Canfield, manager of the
flour department of the Judson Gro-
cer Company, has been visiting the
wheat fields of the Northwest, West
and Southwest, getting first hand in-
formation about the growing crops.
He also visited the principal milling
centers before his return.
June 6, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3
t OUR JOBIN THIS WAR
Is to Meet the Country’s Need
Firing Line? YES, and Now! Bread Line? No--Never!
- If You Do Your Part Now by Buying a
7 LIBERTY BOND
ob. Get This—It Is Not a Donation—It Is A SAFE INVESTMENT
For Which You Will Receive 34% Interest a Year
The demands on us will be great, but the resources from which this loan will be paid are inexhaustible.
| Even after the $2,000,000,000 is added, the national debt of the United States, compared with that of other
4 ¢ » countries, is as follows: |
NATIONAL DEBT COMPARISONS
ae TOTAL DEBT Debt Per Person DEBT PER SQUARE MILE
2 4 6 8 Billfon 14 16 18 20 22 f 2 3 4 Han. 20 40 60 80 100120 140160180 Thousands
ee United States, including $2,000,000,000 loan .. | |
| United Kingdom-—-about March 31, 1917
jl 4 France—about March 31, 1917..... 2.0.2... Lael
Russia—about March 31, 1917............
> © « Italy—about March 31, 1917........ ..... ..
Germany—about March $1, 1917.............
4 Austria—about March 81, 1917...... ..... ..
a As to the ability of our country to repay the money you loan when you buy a LIBERTY BOND, let us see how
| we stand as to national annual income compared with other nations engaged in the war.
«> | ; 1915 Population National Annual Income
| oe ee eee 46,804,000 $ 9,173,600,000
ay a i ee 39,745,000 $ 7,432,300,000
«|: ee ee 179,566,000 $ 8,978,300,000
i oo 35,713,000 $ 2,785,600,000
ee 68,320,000 $14,688,800,000
Ps oe oe ee, 53,013,000 $ 4,294,000,000
WE ARE FIGHTING OUR OWN FIGHT---American men and women are on
their way to the front---We must give them a fighting chance---
Those who cannot fight, must lend.
t Your Dollars Will Bring Victory, Peace and Happiness
Information and Liberty Bonds May Be Secured of the Undersigned:
The Old National Bank—Fourth National Bank—Grand Rapids National City Bank—Grand Rapids Savings
Bank—Kent State Bank—Peoples Savings Bank—City Trust and Savings Bank—Commercial Savings Bank—
Grand Rapids Trust Company—Michigan Trust Company—R. E, Coleman & Company—Kusterer, Hilliker
& Perkins—Thurman, Geistert & Company—Howe, Snow, Corrigan & Bertles.
va UNITED STATES 102,826,000 $28,174,200,000
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Movements of Merchants.
Ovid—G, C. Generke has remodeled
and painted his bakery and ice cream
parlor.
Kent City—Mrs. Tina Johnson suc-
ceeds Miss Lena Howard in the milli-
nery business.
Detroit—The
Co. has increased its
from $5,000 to $10,000.
3aldwin—E. H. Thiemann has op-
ened a bakery and confectionery store
in the postoffice building.
Leveringe—H. H. Bennett succeeds
Hoar & Bennett in the potato, grain,
meat and grocery business.
Lenhoff Furniture
capital stock
Manton—S.- H. Moore has engaged
in the plumbing and sheet metal busi-
ness in the Darling building.
Onsted—The Murray Sisters have
closed out their stock of millinery
and removed to Toledo, Ohio.
Cressev—Frank Wright, dealer in
general merchandise, died at his home
May 27, following a short illness.
Reed City—The Acme Tie Com-
pany of Michigan has transferred its
postoffice from Traverse City to this
place.
Ypsilanti—Frank Roberts has pur-
chased the Beach grocery stock at
Wiard’s corners and will continue the
business.
Warren — William Murthum has
sold his grocery and meat stock to
Edward Busch, who took immediate
possession.
Schoolcraft—Fire destroyed the
stock of the Schoolcraft Produce Co.
May 30. The loss was partially cov-
ered by insurance.
Hart—Owing to ill health, M. D.
Archer has sold his stock of hardware
to the former owner, Joseph Evans, who
has taken possession.
Grandville—N. Oosterink has pur-
chased the interest of John Hage in
the Grandville Hardware Co. and will
continue the business under the same
style.
Perry—Allen Simmons has sold _ his
bakery to Rev. W. J. Weidenhammer,
who will retire from the ministry and
take possession of the bakery about
June 16.
Lawton—Samuel Brooks has purchas-
ed the L. L. Bascombe stock of shoes
and men’s furnishing goods at Dowagiac
and will consolidate it with his stock of
bazaar goods.
Manton—George M. Brooks has
sold his stock of general merchandise
to Naduau & Lindberg, who will con-
solidate it with their confectionery
and bazaar stock.
Gobleville—G. W. Duguid will close
out his general stock and retire from
business on account of ill health. John
L. Lynch of Grand Rapids, will con-
duct the sale, starting June 9.
$2,500 paid in in cash.
Norway—The Ramsdell Hardware
Co. has merged its business into a
stock company with an authorized
capital stock of $20,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
property.
Muskegon Heights—The Hub Store
Co. has been incorporated to conduct
a general merchandising business with
an authorized capital stock of $16,-
000, all of which has been subscribed
and $1,600 paid in in cash.
Detroit—A. J. Bloomgarden & Sons
has been incorporated to handle
wholesale and retail fruits and vege-
tables with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.
Half Way—The Stephens Lumber
Co. has been incorporated with a
capitalization of $25,000 to engage in
the lumber and builder’s supply busi-
ness. The company has commenced
building a large modern plant.
Detroit—The Kunz & Rogers Co.
has merged its wholesale jewelry
business into a stock company with
an authorized capital stock of $50,000,
of which amount $40,000 has been
subscribed and paid in in property.
Muskegon Heights—Niels Peter-
son has merged his fuel business into
a stock company under the style of
Niels Peterson & Sons with an au-
thorized capital stock of $20,000, all
of which has been subscribed and
$2,000 paid in in cash.
Tecumseh—Burglars who entered
the store of W. L. Coller some time
early Sunday morning secured about
$14 in cash and merchandise amount-
ing to about $25. Evidently the
thieves gained entrance to the store
by throwing an empty beer bottle
through the rear window, as the suds
container was found on the floor by
the proprietor. This is the fourth
time that the place has been burglar-
ized. The only clue to the thief is
the imprint of a peculiar heel plate
made in the soft earth in the rear of
the building. Local officers are in-
vestigating.
Manvfacturing Matters.
Jackson—The Wm. Jacobson Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$5,000 to $10,000. i
Detroit—The Detroit Metallic
Casket Co. has increased its capital-
ization from $50,000 to $75,000.
Adrian—The capital stock of the
Schwarze Electric Co. has been in-
creased from $40,000 to $50,000.
Greenville—The Michigan Marl &
Fertilizer Co. has been organized with
an authorized capital stock of $25,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
Ann Arbor—The Porter Body Co.
has removed its plant from Ypsilanti
here and will open for business about
June 20.
Detroit—The Industrial Electric
Manufacturing Co., manufacturer of
electrical devices, has increased its
capital stock from $3,000 to $20,000.
Detroit—The Titan Motors Corpor-
ation has engaged in business to man-
ufacture motors and other accessories
with an authorized capital stock of
$350,000, of which amount $175,000
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.
Ypsilanti—The Ypsi Screw Co. has
been incorporated to manufacture
screw machine products and auto sub
assemblies with an authorized capital
stock of $30,000, of which amount
$18,500 has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.
Detroit—The Detroit Torch & Man-
ufacturing Co. has been organized to
manufacture torches, fire pots and
brass products generally with an au-
thorized capital stock of $12,000, of
which $6,000 has been subscribed and
$1,200 paid in in cash.
Bay City—The Cooley Castings Co.
has been incorporated to manufacture
articles of metal and machinery, tools
and appliances with an authorized
capital stock of $15,000 common and
$15,000 preferred, all of which has
been subscribed and $22,500 paid in
in cash.
Port Huron—The Ideal Cement
Supply Co. has been organized to
manufacture and deal in concrete
blocks and other building supplies
and materials with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $17,000, of which amount
$8,920 has been subscribed and paid
in in property.
Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Wire
Wheel Co., with a capitalization of
$500,000 has been organized to manu-
facture wire wheels for automobiles.
The company has taken over the plant
of the Detroit Wire Wheel Co. and
will remove it to Kalamazoo and have
it in operation about Oct. 1.
Detroit—The Twitchell Manufac-
turing Co. has engaged in business
at 90 Griswold street, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $30,000 of
which amount $16,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property. The
company will manufacture automo-
biles, accessories, machinery and nov-
elties.
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Initial Day of the Merchants Con-
gTess.
The second annual Merchants Con-
gress, conducted under the auspices
of the Wholesale Dealers of the Grand
Rapids Association of Commerce, op-
ened yesterday with afternoon and
evening sessions. The attendance
was not as large as was expected
the first day, probably due to the fact
that it was registration day, which
prevented many merchant from leav-
ing home, Both sessions were pre-
sided over by Fred N. Rowe, who
proved to be a most acceptable chair-
man. The opening talk on Fire In-
surance by L. H. Stubbs, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, was greatly enjoyed
by the fire insurance agents present
because the speaker placed the seal
of approval on the iniquitous anti-
discrimination law, which is condemn-
June 6, 1917
ed by every thinking merchant in the
State. As a plea for stock fire in-
surance methods, the talk was a great
success. As an illuminating address
for the country merchant, the dis-
sertation was a dismal failure. The
speaker told in detail of the efforts
made by stock insurance companies
to lessen the hazard, but he did not
even refer to the remarkable record
the mutual companies have made in
reducing the cost of fire insurance.
At the conclusion of the talk Lee M.
Hutchins took the floor and crammed
more solid sense into a five minute
talk than Mr. Stubbs succeeded in
elucidating in the course of an hour.
The full text of Mr. Stubb’s talk will
appear in the Tradesman of next
week.
The remainder of the afternoon
was devoted to the preliminary talk
of G, Albert Garver, who has built
up a remarkable mercantile establish-
ment at Strasburg, Ohio. His descrip-
tion of the business was intensely
graphic and his talk was so practical
that he found it hard to stop when
it was time to adjourn. He continued
the same subject in the evening, great-
ly to the enjoyment of all present.
Both talks will appear in full in next
week’s paper.
C. B. Hamilton read a paper on
“Where the Profits Go To,” at the
beginning of the evening session,
which was well received.
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Late News From Michigan Banks.
Bay City—The Peoples Commercial
and Savings Bank has increased its
capital stock from $300,000 to $400,000,
Manistique— The State Savings
Bank has been incorporated with a
capital stock of $25,000.
Hudson—The new Hudson State
3ank recently purchased the old Ex-
change building. It is an old land-
mark, being one of the oldest build-
ings in the city. It will be torn down
and an up-to-date structure erected
in its place.
Holly—The Citizens Savings Bank
has purchased property at Maple and
Saginaw streets and will erect a new
banking house there. The present
frame structure on the site will be
torn down.
Flint—A foreigner stepped into the
Genesee County Savings Bank last
Saturday and subscribed for $10,000
worth of Liberty Bonds. He said ir
broken English that he considered the
bonds a good investment and, be-
sides, he wanted to show his loyalty
to the Nation. This is the largest in-
dividual subscription to be made in
this city to the Liberty Loan, The
Bank refused to give out his name.
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It will require more than an appeal
to patriotism to arouse some people
to make an effort to economize to check
waste and curtail extravagance. Money
burns in the pocket or purse until it is
gotten rid of. When these people can-
not get the money and cannot get cred-
it, then they will go without many things
they now purchase. Therefore the
dealer who refuses credit will help on
the desired reform in the matter of
conservation; and he will also help the
individual refused accommodation.
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Gold is generally at a premium
when a dentist handles it.
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The Grocery Market.
Sugar—The domestic trade is quiet,
being chiefly interested in getting
sugars already ordered, refiners con-
tinuing two to three weeks behind
as a rule, although rapidly catching
up. Owing to the smaller consump-
tion, stocks are ample in the country
for ordinary requirements, but it re-
mains to be seen whether the preserv-
ing demand, coupled with the increas-
ed enquiry from the manufacturers
during the hot weather, will not stim-
ulate the market. Prices are steady
for granulated on the basis of 7%c
for American, 8c for Howells, Ar-
buckles and McCahan, 8%c for the
Pennsylvania Warner and the Federal
withdrawn from the market. The ad-
vices from Washington that the
Senate has abolished the present
drawback on exports in its draft of
the revenue bill is the source of much
comment, the trade not liking the ac-
tion, which would hurt the business
in granulated for shipment abroad.
It is pointed out that this meant 1c
per pound higher, which, in the na-
tural course of events, will curtail
foreign orders. Some think there is
a constitutional question involved as
to all intents and purposes and the re-
sult is an export tax, but this view
is not general. All agree that the
South has put one over the refiner
as a reprisal for the imposition of an
excise impost on domestic sugar,
heretofore untouched by taxation. In
the final analysis, however, it is
thought that the action taken will be
rescinded or refiners be given the
privilege of manufacturing in bond,
which will amount to the same thing.
Tea—The market is quiet, which is
not surprising in view of the fact that
the trade is at sea regarding the
stocks already in this country. Wash-
ington advices stating that no provi-
sion had yet been made as to the same
were commented upon, it being point-
ed out that were it not for the large
stocks of coffee which would escape
the moderate supplies of tea might
be exempted. Until the bill gets out
of conference the disposition locally
will be to go slow. Advices from the
Far East state that Japans are 3c a
pound higher than last year. It igs
said that 50 per cent. of the necessary
shipping can be arranged. Formosa
is slightly higher than in 1916, but
no shipping room is offered before
the middle of July. Hankow is firm
on Russian buying.
Coffee—The market shows no
change for the week, except an ad-
vance in certain milds. Java and
Mocha are both about 1c higher. The
same plan in the change of taxation
referred to with regard to tea
is to take place with coffee, as the two
will be taxed in some form together.
Outside of the above, prices show no
change for the week; demand is quiet.
Canned Fruit—There is very little
activity shown owing to the light of-
ferings. The market rules firm.
Canned Vegetables—The extreme
dullness in the canned goods trade at
the present time is a matter of con-
siderable significance. Coming so
soon after the unusual activity of a
few weeks ago, the sudden cessation
of business is all the more noticeable.
The advent of new vegetables has,
of course, had a considerable influ-
ence on the demand, but there are oth-
er factors that have a decided bear-
ing. The first is the hoarding of the
early spring which leaves many con-
sumers with large quantities of can-
ned goods and other groceries for that
matter which are yet to be eaten up.
It was this hoarding that caused a
price inflation that is only now be-
ginning to show signs of subsiding,
but it has had the effect of causing
those who were unable to buy ahead
to pay high prices and as a result has
reduced their consumption consider-
ably. Then there is the fact that
many retailers are well supplied, so
that it leaves the wholesaler with lit-
tle to do so far as normal demand
is concerned, Army and navy requi-
sitions, however, -are apt to take
whatever surpluses the wholesalers
may have and these are appearing
from time to time at so-called blind
prices, or with values yet to be nam-
ed. Tomatoes showed some weak-
ness during the week and there has
also been some easing of new peas.
Otherwise most canned goods remain
firm,
Canned Fish—There is considerable
interest as to the outcome of the Co-
lumbia River salmon situation. For
a time there was an understanding
that the new pack should be billed
out on the basis of $1.65 for flat
halves, but later there were some so-
called opening prices at $1.75. Then
it became known that some canners
were billing their goods at these prices
subject to adjustment later, and the
impression went forth that $1.75
would be the official opening price.
During the week, however, one of the
large houses received its billing and
found that it was on the basis of $1.65.
Now it is state that official opening
prices are not likely to be named be-
fore July. Reports are that there
are very few fish being packed in the
Columbia River. Fishing has been
almost at a standstill on account of
the extreme high water, and the fish-
ermen say that at night it is almost
as cold as in the depth of winter.
They therefore do not go out, as there
are not many fish in the river and they
do not want to wear out their nets,
knowing they cannot be replaced.
Therefore for a while it will be im-
possible to make anything but nom-
inal shipments from the Coast. Im-
ported sardines show no change for
the week, but the Norwegian situa-
tion is very firm. Domestic sardines
continue very high, and the best that
can be done for quarter oils, in a
large way, is $5.50 a case.
Dried Fruits—Beyond a strong feel-
ing for spot prunes, there is nothing
in the general market situation as re-
gards dried fruit that calls for special
comment because of any new devel-
opments. Sales of old pack prunes
are limited to small transactions be-
tween jobbers and the stocks remain-
ing in first hands are gradually di-
minishing and, it is said, will be en-
tirely exhausted before the new crop
is available. Crop prospects continur
most encouraging and the expecta-
tion is that there will be a big yield,
far in excess of that of last year.
What the price will be has yet to be
determined as the association has giv-
en no sign as to what may be expected
in that direction beyond the possibit-
ity of prices lower than the outsiders
have as yet discussed. New prices
are also being awaited on peaches
which are all sold out. Apricots on
the spot are exhausted but the crop
prospects are rather better than they
were a short time ago.
Molasses—The market is quiet and
steady, there being the same dispo-
sition to hold off reported in the
trade, pending the final completion
of revenue legislation. Supplies of
foreign molasses are light. Black-
strap is steady with a good demand
from the distillers.
Sugar Syrups—There is no change
in the situation, the supplies being
liberal with prices merely steady. The
export demand is less urgent, owing
to the prevailing high level and the
lack of shipping space.
Tapioca—The available supplies of
tapioca are light and prices remain
firm. The demand is quieter on the
spot, but considerable interest is
manifested in shipment positions.
Corn Syrup—The market is un-
changed at the old basis. The de-
mand is fairly good from the consum-
ing circles, but confectioners are less
active.
Rice—There is still a state of dull-
ness in the local rice market and as
a result prices are being shaded. In
the South the mills are cleaning up
supplies, the market being steady.
The planting of the new crop is late,
but with a corresponding delay in
the fall season a large crop should be
possible.
Spices—The market is quiet, the
demand being of a grinding character
with prices steady. The elimination
of the ad valorem helps sentiment, but
there is no certainty that the change
will stand in conference. Freights
are higher from the Far East, which
tends to keep cables firm.
Cheese—The make is increasing as
the season advances and the quality
is also showing steady improvement.
The consumptive demand is fair, with
a good demand also for export. No
change is looked for at the moment.
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Cough Drops—The Smith Bros.
variety has advanced 5c from $1.30
to $1.35 per carton.
Lima Beans—That the California
Lima Bean Growers Association will
have between 350,000 and 400,000 bags
of beans to handle this year is the es-
timate. About 500,000 bags have been
contracted for, in addition, from grow
brokers. These two deals
cover about half the prospective crop.
By the end of June it is expected ail
1916 stock will be cleaned up. As
against 350,000 bags last year at this
time there is on hand a total of 100.,-
000 bags of limas. Between 6,000 and
7,000 more acres of beans are planted
than last year, it is figured.
ers by
Soap—New prices are at the ad-
which have been predicted
from time to time as a result of the
scarcity of certain ingredients neces-
sary in manufacturing soap.
vances
smoked
meats are unchanged, with a very fair
demand. Pure lard is steady at un-
changed prices, with a demand not,
quite so active and the market slight-
ly weaker. The falling off in the de-
mand is undoubtedly due to the re-
cent advance. Comround
about unchanged:
Provisions—All cuts of
lard is
demand.
Dried beef is steady, with a normal
consumptive demand, at
Canned
unchanged.
auiet
unchanged
meats are firm and
Barreled pork is in good
demand at unchanged prices.
a
Selfishness and stupidity enter into
prices.
the process of food-hoarding by priv-
ate individuals, a problem over which
the authorities at Washington are
now greatly concerned. Housewives
who not so very long ago were using
the boycott as a weapon against high
prices, should now stop to consider
that by cramming their cellars with
provisions for an indefinite future,
they are only enhancing present
prices for themselves. The selfishness
of the thing is manifest when the ef-
fect is considered on those who have
neither the means nor the storage
facilities for purchasing food in bulk
The rise in prices means that what-
ever may be the sacrifices imposed by
the future, upon the poor the burden
of high prices comes down at once.
Even if it were certain that the com-
ing months will bring scarcity, there
is no justification for panic among
people of moderate or ample means.
Money will always command food;
and there is no danger of privation
at any time for those who can afford
to-day to lay in large stocks of pro-
visions. As a matter of fact, there
is no peril of scarcity. It is the fear
of still higher prices that drives peo-
ple to boarding. But that is the risk
which we ought to take as part of the
sacrifice which all should be willing
to make for the National interest. To
keep cool for one’s own sake and for
the sake of those less fortunately situ-
ated is plain duty.
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During a recent prayer at the New
York tabernacle, Billy Sunday re-
ferred to Germany as follows:
“Oh, Jesus! Don’t let a single seed
sprout in a land fertilized, by human
bones. Damn a country like that.
I don’t pray for them. The sooner
we damn them, the better off we are.”
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
June 6, 1917
UPPER PENINSULA.
Recent News of the Cloverland of
Michigan.
Sault Ste. Marie, June 4—Joseph
Van Dyck, the well-known meat mer-
chant of Manistique, has added a
new auto to his delivery equipment.
Mr. Van Dyck attributes his success
largely to the best service possible.
Strangers coming into the city will
be looking in vain for the Fountain
House, which has been one of the
old landmarks on Ashmun street and
the only place in the city where a
large elm tree was left standing in the
middle of the sidewalk. It was an
easy place to find on that account.
Tt is interesting to watch the old
timers who have been away wonder-
ing just what the change was witho tt
being advised. The tree has been
in the middle of the sidewalk for
about forty-two years.
One of our business men remarked
last week that, no matter how much
daylight he saves, it is all gone by
the time that it hits dark. Another
man says that because a man has blis-
ters on his hands, it is no sign that
he has been hoeing potatoes exces-
sively.
Mose Yalonstein, the hustling pro-
prietor of the Hub Store, has just
returned from a week's trout fishing
trip in Luce county, Mose has been
so busy since his return that he has
not as yet had time to tell us a good
fish story.
Charles Hasse was the happiest
man in town yesterday. The rejoic-
ing was all over the arrival of a son.
This was no small matter with
Charlie, as he is a member of the
Optimist Club and says that all good
things come to those who wait. His
many friends have been suggesting
names for the new arrival and many,
are under consideration. The only
assurance that Charlie has given at,
the present time is that he has barred
the names John or Jack. Congratu-
lations are still pouring in from all
parts of the territory.
L. H, Quinn, manager of the Hub,
returned last week from a _ business
visit to Chicago.
“Poverty enables a
a lot of money—by
spend.”
Evidence of good times has been
manifested by a report from St. Ig-
nace that a band of gypsies passed
through there last week, traveling in
automobiles. They were not in ford
cars, either. Nothing but a Buick for
them. This is going some, compared
with their old method of traveling.
According to reports from our St.
ignace friends, there never was 2
better opportunity than at the present
time for the location of a laundry,
as the people of St. Ignace have beer:
sending their laundry to Marquette
and other cities, but now that the
rates have been raised on all articles,
the Enterprise is of the opinion that
such an institution would be one of
the best investments at the present
time. St. Ignace would be able to
secure a large amount of work from
the surrounding towns as well.
Dr, F. J. Deadman, one of the best
known veterinary surgeons in the
Soo, has taken the agency for the
Oakland car in Mackinac county.
While Doc is considered an authority
on horses he will undoubtedly soon
be able to iudge autos as well. Doc
always was an up-to-date V. S. and
we will not be surprised to hear o»
his having the agency for the Wright
aeroplane next.
Roy Young is the name of the new
smiling clerk at the Hossack store,
at Cedarville, where he expects to re-
main during the season.
Mrs. John McKay Webster and W.
P. Hill, of Detroit, arrived at Cedar-
ville last week to get the Island
House, on Mackinac Island, in readi-
ness for the summer.
George A. Lichard, proprietor of
the Golden Rule livery, at St. Ignace,
man to save
not having it to
has installed a gasoline station, which
will be greatly appreciated by the au-
to owners.
_ F._ V. Pilson, of Mackinac Island, is
installing in his drug store a new sO@a
iountain which is to be one of the
finest North of the Straits, so that the
tourists will be accommodated and
have plenty of good things to drink
after prohibition is in vogue,
“Your friend’s sympathy is like your
own bank account. It is best not to
draw too heavily upon it.”
Alex McCutchen, Jr, of Des
Moines, Iowa, has accepted a position
as shipping clerk with the Cornwell
Company here, filling the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Jay Par-
sille, who left last week for the front.
An item taken from the New York
Sun gives some very good sugges-
tions as to the things you can do for
your country:
The fighting man can die for it.
The saving man can buy for it.
The aviator can fly for it.
The thrifty cook can fry for it.
The thirsty can go dry for it.
The daring man can spy for it.
The egotist can “I” for it.
The diplomat can lie for it.
The farmer can grow rye for it.
The workingman can ply for it.
The very babies cry for it.
“Some men are not satisfied to re-
main at the bottom of the ladder.
they always want to get lower down.”
William G. Tapert.
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Substituting Goose For Turkey.
Dinner table conventions, concern-
ing diet as well as manners, are a
part of the traditions of a nation.
Our conventions are costly as they
relate to food, and just now economy
and conventions are struggling
against each other.
American habit demands a turkey
on Thanksgiving, and that custom is
as firmly fixed as anything that
American tradition encourages. The
bird not only furnishes noble baked
meats, but it comes to the table out
of pictures the American holds in
warm affection, pictures of John
Aldens and Priscillas, of resolute
men carrying bell-mouthed firearms.
pictures of deep forests, snow-bound
villages, of hearths and great fire-
places.
On Thanksgiving the American
family not only roasts a turkey but
also makes it an offering to National
sentiment—but in the produce mar-
kets turkey is offered the retailer at.
we will say 30@32c a pound, and
the retailer gets what he can for it.
In the same produce markets the
retailer is offered geese at 19@20c
a pound (this price by way of com-
parison).
The goose represents a German,
and, to a less extent, an English, idea
of joviality. As any fortunate lover
of the flesh pots will agree, it is an
extremely good bird. It has as many
points in its favor as the turkey, and
economy suggests that it
stituted for the turkey. It is not a
difficult fowl to raise. The turkey
is arisk. There is a tremendous pres-
sure upon the market for turkeys.
The goose market is easy.
It is a fine thing to conserve Amer-
ican traditions, even traditions of eat-
ing. We have few that are solid and
enduring, but a tradition which runs
up meat and grocery bills and bleeds
the family pocketbook needs examin-
ation for its real value.
For the sake of tradition, for the
sake of pictures which are in the
be sub-
mind of the American household,
even economy might yield a point
on Thanksgiving day, but why make
the turkey the essential fowl for
Christmas or other memorable days?
Then, at least, the goose stands
temptingly to appetite as the bird of
greater traditions. It is connected
with many of the cheerful festivals
of Europe. It is a thing of gusta-
tory excellence. And in American
markets its price recommends it. Its
savor is something to make trencher-
men of dyspeptics.——Chicago Tribune.
Bound to Get Things Wrong.
There is a story in connection with
a certain paper which tells how it
referred to two learned gentlemen as
“bibulous old flies,” instead of “bibli-
ophiles.” Next morning the editor
received a very wrathful protest. In
his correction and apology, however,
he said something about “the learned
gentlemen are too fastidious.” -To the
editor’s horror the printer again dis-
tinguished himself, and the statement
appeared “the learned gentlemen are
two fast idiots.”
business?
cars in the near future.
Murray Building,
Citz. 7645
Send a steady stream of funds out of Grand Rapids
to Detroit and other automobile manufacturing cen-
ters when the same investments can be as judiciously
and profitably employed in building up an auto-
mobile industry in Grand Rapids in an establishment
already established and in a business already doing
We are receiving shipments of material almost
daily and expect to be able to make shipments of
The present price of the
stock will be advanced shortly. Better buy now
while the buying is good and before the present
allotment of stock is exhausted.
DEUEL & SAWALL, INC.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Financial Agents
Bell M. 2849
nating than ever.
Ramona is ready, after weeks of preparation, to
welcome recreation and pleasure seekers.
Thrillers, Refreshment Booths, Rowboats and Canoe
docks freshened, brightened and made more fasci-
Dancing
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June 6, 1917
Value of the Trade Paper to the Gro-
cers.
It is the prime desire of every retail
merchant in the United States to per-
petuate our present method. of ‘com-
modity distribution. We believe that
our method is the right method; that
all commodities be conveyed from pro-
ducer to manufacturer, from manufac-
turer to wholesaler, from wholesaler to
retailer, from retailer to consumer. Al-
lowing also as an ally to these various
factors, brokers when necessary.
The trade press is of such great im-
portance to every man connected with
the distribution of commodities from
producer to consumer, that it is entitled
to first and foremost consideration in
every business house in this land. The
trade press is the educator, the guide,
the friend in need, the bulletin, the ad-
viser, the inspiration. There is not a
business man in this country, faithful
to the trade press, who cannot testify
that the trade paper has brought him
more benefits, comparatively speaking,
than any investment he has in his busi-
ness.
There are in this country some fifty
to seventy-five grocery and_ general
merchandise trade journals. There are
some 350,000 retail grocers and general
merchants. There are adjliated with
association work some 30,000 retail gro-
cers and general merchants. If the
trade papers were used for what they
are really worth it would be but a very
short time until at least 200,000 of the
retail grocers of this country would be
affiliated with association work.
Generally, the trade paper manager
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
and editor is a philanthropist. Very
few of the trade papers are financially
successful, yet they continue year after
year and year after year, struggling
along, working day and night to gather
information, advice and experiences
from the four quarters of the globe.
There i$ not a trade paper published
that is not worth one hundred times
its subscription price; and the real meri-
torious papers, the ones which stand
at the head, are worth so much to you
that their value cannot be estimated.
Our best merchants subscribe to trade
papers. There are retail grocers who
take as many as ten trade papers, and
invariably such men are successful busi-
ness men,
The trade press is your great cham-
pion; fighting your battles and spread-
ing enlightenment and_ information.
The trade papers are telling you and
your fellow merchants just exactly what
is being done by the powers which are
usurping your rights. The trade pa-
pers are supporting and becoming spon-
sor for legislative reforms to protect
you against encroachment, and most of
our reforms during the past few years
have originated and have been cham-
pioned and fought for by the trade for
overdue accounts—one is the fear of
the customer, the other the fear of the
press; without the trade press you
would have been years behind in your
progressive battles to
rights.
maintain your
Every trade paper, no matter how
small wields a mighty influence in its
community, and it is this co-operative
community influence which has brought
.a number if subscriptions. No
you the great results which you have
enjoyed. It is certainly a duty that you
owe to yourself, to your fellow mer-
chants, to your organizations, to your
American citizenship, to support those
who are supporting you, to stand back
of those who are fighting for you.
You cannot do this alone by subserib-
ing to the trade paper, nor by securing
trade
paper can live because of a large sub-
scription list alone. Trade papers must
have advertising, and advertising for
trade papers can come only from man-
ufacturers and jobbers. Therefore, it
is incumbent upon you fo furnish the
ammunition, the motive power, by which
manufacturers and wholesalers can 'e
convinced that it is to their direct bene-
fit to patronize the trade papers and
give them sustenance.
A great many of our leading manu-
facturers and wholesalers are fully cog-
nizant of this fact; are true blue and
Isyal to the trade press, which means
that they are loyal: to you for whom
Without ex-
ception such manufacturers and jobbers
are successful.
the trade press stands.
But there are many manufacturers
and jobbers who are narrow in_ their
viewpoint, who cannot see that they
must appeal directly to you for success
in their business. Such manufacturers
believe that they have only to force you
to handle their goods by creating a
great consumer demard, and almost in-
variably in such cases when you are
coerced into rendering this service you
are underpaid. If you will analyze the
situation closely, you wil! find that the
Z
average manufacturer wl:o does not,
use trade papers, who does not care
for the retail trade, who says, as some
of them have said very emphaticslly,
“To the devil with the retailer!” are
users of large space in consumer medi-
ums, spending hundreds of thousands
of dollars in this way and never a
penny with the trade papers.
I am one of those who helieve that
the more trade papers we have the
better will all of the trade papers be
from a financial and influentia! stand-
point. I believe that as the number of
trade papers increases, so the use of
trade papers will also increase, and the
necessity for them will be recogrized.
The trade press is growing mightier
every day. It is improving in every
way. There are, of course, some trade
papers hardly worthy of the name. per-
haps, still I contend that there is not a
single sheet published as a trade paper
or bulletin anywhere which is not worth
ten times the consideration that is msu-
ally given it. trade
editors and managers the ammunition
Give the paver
they need and they will give you mert-
torlous papers.
Leon M. Hattenbach.
Manley Jones (Telfer Coffee Co.)
has purchased the new
1416 Milton
taken possession,
residence at
street and has already
Manley is one of
the best fellows who ever carried a
friends will
congratulating him over
the possession of so beautiful a resi-
dence.
grip and his numerous
all join in
a
Few people care to be reminded of
the little sins they like to commit.
—
Barney Langeler has worked in
this institution continuously for
over forty five years
Barney says—
I have been watching the Nedrow coffee lately,
and I believe we are selling twice as much every
a
day as we were last year.
By Golly, that shows that the people appreciate
what a wonderful piece of goods this is for the
price it sells for.
ORDEN
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June 6, 1917.
THE MAD DOG OF EUROPE.
When
you see a mad dog running
amuck among your children and your
neighbors’ children, and you haven't
got a gun, you go after him with an
ice pick or a baseball bat, or anything
else that will put him out of the way
as quickly as possible.
If you are suddenly aware that the
mad dog has taken on human form, and
has called to his aid the sum of human
knowledge, the secrets of science, the ~
resources of a great empire, and the
power of all its people, you are eager
to protect your children and your neigh-
bors’ children by putting him out of the
way all the more quickly.
The mad dog of Europe has taken on
human form for inhuman purposes. He
is running amuck among our children
and our children. If our
neighbors have suffered more than we
have, it is only because he has not been
able to reach America yet. The Belgian
babies we are trying to save from star-
vation are starving only because he so
ordained it. He murders children, rapes
women, and enslaves men, none of
whom have done him any harm; and
with the same brutish satisfaction he
mutilates great works of art, sinks hos-
pital ships loaded with wounded, and
outpirates the pirates of the Spanish
main.
Think not these crimes of his are the
accident of war. He no longer denies
them as he once did in hypocritical def-
erence to neutral opinion. He justifies
them. He glories in them. They are
part of him. They are the actual ex-
pression of the ideals which he preached
to his soldiers as long as seventeen years
ago on their departure to China:
Let who fall into your hands be at
your mercy. Just as the Huns a thou-
sand years ago, under the leadership of
Attila, gained a reputation in virtue of
which they still live in historical tradi-
tion, so may the name of Germany be-
come known in such a manner in China
that no Chinaman will ever again even
dare to look askance at a German.
Here is the candid recognition of
frightfulness as a worthy system of
warfare for a civilized nation. Not
only has Attila, the uncivilized, long been
acclaimed as a model for all German
soldiers—and with what success of
frightfulness the world now knows—
but his modern imitator blesses his own
barbarism by wrapping the throne of
Prussia in a special odor of sanctity.
neighbors’
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
For, look you, he rules by divine right!
His crown, he says, was given him “by
the will of God alone, and not by par-
liament, or by any assemblage of the
people, or by popular vote.” Like his
grandfather before him, he looks upon
himself “as the chosen instrument of
heaven.”
Out of his many other speeches you
will readily discern that he regards the
German people also as a chosen instru- °
ment of heaven. German kultur is the
best in the world, forsooth! Germany
is the world’s rightful and natural lead-
er! Whatever Germany says goes! It
is because the Emperor of Germany be-
hieves all this; and because he has his
people believing it the free nations of
. the world are compelled to choose be-
tween Liberty and Prussianism. That
is why we call the present issue of Unit-
ed States war bonds the Liberty Loan.
It is a fund for the suppression of kai-
serism, for the education of the German
people and for the preservation of de-
mocracy.
You can let Liberty fight her battles
without your help until the mark of
the beast is upon her and she sinks be-
neath him on your very doorstep, or you
can fire a shot for home and freedom
by lending the Government your sav-
ings. H. M. Nimmo.
GRAND JURY UNAMERICAN.
The Tradesman takes pleasure in re-
producing this week an editorial from
the Chicago Packer relative to the grand
jury system in general and the recent
action of a grand jury in Boston in par-
ticular in indicting nearly a hundred
members of the onion trade. In the
interest of common fairness the Trades-
man withholds an expression of opinion
in this particular case, but for the
grand jury system in general the Trades-
man has only the utmost contempt, be-
cause it is unfair and unAmerican and
causes ten times as much injustice as it
does good. No man in this free country
should be subjected to disgrace and
humiliation until he has been given an
opportunity to defend himself before a
jury of his peers. If Federal district
attorneys were always high minded
men who would not stoop to spite work
to accomplish their nefarious ends or
who would not resort to sensational
methods to make a showing of activity
in order to pose as Government sleuths
and prosecutors, the system would not
be made the vehicle of so much injus-
tice; but so long as district attorneys
are selected solely because of their po-
litical influence and activity in behalf
of the party in power, so long will the
grand jury system afford men of in-
ferior mental attainments an opportun-
ity tc wreck their vengeance on men
who have crossed their paths or whom
they imagine have transgressed the law.
The idea of skulking behind a man’s
back like a midnight assassin to secure
clandestine evidence and present it se-
cretly to a grand jury, unknown to the
accused or his legal representative, is so
repulsive to every lover of freedom and
fair play that the Tradesman is unable
to understand how such an underhanded
system has been so long tolerated in a
Republic of freemen.
How the veteran musician does
hate to admit that he is all played
out.
THE WHEEL HOE.
There are more gardeners on a
small scale this year than America
has ever seen. The business man who
enters the field for avocation, patrio-
tism or for the economy promised in
supplying his own table with fresh
vegetables will be quick to appreciate
the improvement in tools since :the
time when, as a boy, he exchanged the
hated hoe for office work. But more
than for the avoiding of drudgery will
he welcome the change. He _ has
learned that efficiency is the most
economical lever in any work; and
that the wheel hoe is the most ef-
ficient garden tool cannot be ques-
tioned.
By planting the seed in rows one
may walk along with this tool al-
most as rapidly as though merely
walking for pleasure. And it is
surely a pleasure to see how thor-
oughly the weeds are cut off and the
soil rendered loose and friable by the
simple process. There is no stooping,
no bending over in a_ back-aching
process, no getting down into the
dirt. If the wife desires to help, she
will find the work easier than run-
ning a lawn mower, with no need for
a special gardening costume. The
work can be performed so much fast-
er and better that gardening becomes
real fun.
If the wheel hoe is not on your
list, place it there. Invite customers
who might be interested to look in
your own garden, where a boy or girl
finds running it little more than play.
Suggest that two or three of the new
gardeners for the home go together
and get one in partnership, thus ren-
dering the cost to each small, and yet,
as it works so rapidly, each can have
it for a sufficient time to keep the
garden in good order. Here, too, is
the chance for the ambitious boy who
has some spare hours. He will find
careful and effective work in this
even more sought than in keeping the
lawn shorn. Twice in demand is the
one who comes with a knowledge of
the rudiments of growing vegetables
for the home.
PRICE REGULATION OF FOOD.
Political economy seems to have
been as much of a “dismal science”
for the present generation of English-
men as it was for the last, but it is
not necessary to study musty old
books to learn the danger of putting
a maximum lawful price on milk. If
farmers could get high prices for
veal and beef, but not for milk, al-
though feed and labor were very dear,
then why be surprised over the
slaughtering of cows and heifers and
the consequent prospect of a famine
in milk? In England other things,
too, threaten to disappear altogether
because of price-fixing, economic his-
tory merely repeating itself. Youcan
prohibit sales above a certain price,
but you cannot make the producers
continue their efforts.
Now we are to have a food census,
and then we may try our hand at in-
terfering with the natural laws of
supply and demand. In the debates
there appears the usual denunciation
of the speculators who always are
charged with putting prices up, no
matter how plainly evident are the
June 6, 1917
real causes of the advances. To the
average Congressman it is simple
enough that to make money yourseli
and at the same time to cheat the
public you only have to buy food-
stuffs when they are cheap and to hold
them until you can force up the price.
Among business men, however, it is
notorious that speculators themselves
come to grief by merely persisting
in their vocation. The truth is that
when speculators succeed they do so,
as a rule, by anticipating events, not
by controlling them. Often specula-
tion benefits the community, as when
it hurries an advance in the market
price of grain and thereby induces
the farmer to sow much more than
he had intended.
There can be little doubt that we
shall be disagreeably surprised by the
results of the operation of the food
law now being rushed through Con-
gress. Nature seems to have a way
of hitting back at all who try to balk
her, A short crop and a great de-
mand should mean high prices and al-
so a big profit for the producers or
for the speculators, if these latter are
shrewd enough to buy in advance. If
the Government keeps its hands off,
the consumption will be reduced, and
the next season’s crop will be increas-
ed, the price then falling, or perhaps
falling in anticipation of a big crop.
If, on the other hand, the Govern-
ment tries to keep down the price,
and succeeds in doing so, the pro-
ducers miss the stimulation of high
prices and may not increase their
product at all. Indeed, a much worse
result may be inflicted upon the com-
munity, the normal crop being actual-
ly cut down by fear on the part of
the farmer or planter that govern-
mental interference may be still worse
just when he shall have a new crop
ready for market.
The Tradesman fails to see how any
student of economics can approve of
the Government attempting to regu-
late the price of foodstuffs or attempt-
ing to increase their production or
reduce their consumption by any oth-
er means -than the giving of advice
and the disseminating of information.
paca ace
The story of those industries us-
ing iron and copper as their chief
materials is similar to that heretofore
told but it calls for stronger lan-
guage all the time. The requirements
of the Government are such that an
increase in equipment and doubtless
in buildings will be necessary to a
number of the companies, Hereto-
fore little has been said in regard to
increased construction as the heavy
demands of the market were consider-
ed temporary, Washington has,
however, so impressed the trade with
the magnitude of the war undertak-
ing that new machine tools and new
everything required in the trade are
coming to be features again. Short-
age of steel and shortage of labor
to produce it are still embarrassments.
It is unwise to judge a man by the
criticism of his enemies. Only his
friends can properly denounce him.
No, Cordelia, it isn’t the proper
thing to eat prunes with a pruning
knife.
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June 6, 1917
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
~ Michigan Zinc
Coat Company Stock
Weare authorized to sell treasury stock to the amount of $49,300. Our business is to zinc coat
iron and steel to preserve the same from rust. The demand is practically unlimited, and our orders
from the large automobile manufacturers are beyond our present capacity, hence our offering a limited
amount of stock for sale to provide increased facilities. Zinc, electrically applied and permeating the
pores of the metal as is accomplished by our process, is the only agency on earth that will preserve iron
and steel against rust with any degree of permanency. All other methods are but surface treatment and
do not withstand friction, abrasion or action of the elements. Experience of Detroit’s large automobile
industries has proven this to be the case and we are being overtaxed with their orders. Do not be car-
ried away by. extensively advertised surface treatment, let zinc, Nature’s remedy, do the work. From
earliest history it has been known that the action of the elements causes iron and steel to rust, while
such action upon zinc has .no deteriorating effect, but preserves it. Therefore, it can be readily seen that
zinc is Nature’s preserver, and all acid and surface treatments are a mere temporary makeshift. By our
process sheet metal or wire can be bent or twisted without the zinc cracking, for the reason that it
permeates the pores of the metal, thereby becoming a part of it. | Grooves or lines on metal surfaces are
not obliterated, but accentuated. Bolts, nuts and screws are coated so smoothly as not to require re-
cutting. We solicit your prompt attention to this proposition of getting into an enterprise that prom-
ises a brilliant future. Splendid opportunity for a capable financier to identify himself with the com-
pany. Shares $100 each.
Michigan Zinc Coat Company
26 Richmond Ave.
-: Detroit, Michigan
June 6, 1917
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McCray Sanitary Refrigerators
will increase your sales and your profits by keeping
your perishable goods fresh and salable at all times.
Write today for Catalog and “Easy Payment Plan.
No. 70 for Grocers—No. 92 for Residences—No. 62
for Meat Markets—No. 51 for Hotels and Institutions.
McCray Refrigerator Company
744 Lake Street Kendallville, Indiana
Agencies in all Principal Cities
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.
Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—James W. Tyre, Detroit.
Vice-President—Joseph C. Fischer, Ann
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.
Arbor.
The Hardware Dealer and the June
Gift Trade.
Written for the Tradesman.
The hardware dealer who, a little
earlier in the season played up the
“kitchen shower” idea thereby paved
the way for a strong and effective ap-
peal to the June gift trade.
The dominant note in wedding pres-
ents this year should be value and util-
ity. People are thinking along prac-
tical lines. Nowhere can gifts of a
more practical nature be found than
in the hardware store. This, if ever,
is the year for the hardware dealer
to carry on an effective wedding gift
campaign.
Most hardware stores carry some
ornamental lines which will fit ad-
mirably into a gift campaign and will
help to balance the practical lines.
Yet I think it will pay the dealer to
lay emphasis on the practical. The
ornamental lines include such goods
as silverware, brass goods, cut glass
—not all of them staple hardware
lines, but all handled on occasion by
some hardware dealers. Yet even
these lines have in many instances a
practical appeal, as distinct from lines
that are wholly ornamental.
Have you a dummy figure of a
bride? If you have, use it as the
center attraction of your gift window.
If you haven’t, perhaps one of the
clerks can rig up something—even it
it’s only a crude masquerade, like the
hardware millinery so much in vogue
a few years ago. Failing even that,
there's the June bride pictures on the
magazine covers. Cut them out and
paste them in your windows. Use
them to add a timely suggestion to
your show cards. Get the June bride
appeal into your display, by whatever
means possible.
That's a first step in making an ef-
fective window appeal.
A good window might be devoted
to the practical idea in gifts. Show
practical lines which are not always
thought of as wedding presents. What
is the logical centerpiece? A kitchen
range—the most expensive in stock?
Carpet sweepers, vacuum cleaners, re-
frigerators, heaters—these are prac-
tical gifts that the bride will appreci-
ate in the long run. Yet most peo-
ple don’t think of them as gift arti-
cles. Then there are electrical de-
vices, aluminum ware, kitchen utensils
—from the very big and expensive
the hardware store can grade right
down to a five cent egg-beater.
You don’t put all these things in
the one window display, but you can
put enough of them to emphasize
the gift side of the very practical ar-
ticles in the hardware stock. To give
color to the gift appeal, put into your
window display every possible June
bride accessory you can think of—a
dummy figure if you can get one, with
veil and orange blossoms, standing in
a wedding ring—real flowers—rice—
old shoes—June bride pictures from
the magazines—use them all.
There’s a reason for doing this.
Put a range in your window, with a
show card saying: “A Practical Wed-
ding Present”’—and nine persons out
of ten will sniff and say, “That’s
Only a Range.” But put in the same
show card with all the June bride dec-
orations I have named, or half of
them, and the same nine persons out
of ten, and the tenth as well, will say:
“There’s certainly something to that.”
Just because these bridal accessories
have made the idea plausible. Just
because they strike a responsive chora
in the mind of the man or woman—
particularly the woman—who stops
and looks.
A good line to feature in connec-
tion with the gift appeal is cutlery.
Cutlery is both practical and orna-
mental.
A few pointers as to making dis-
plays. The window must be trimmed
with particular attention to finish and
detail, As the goods displayed will
be mostly high priced, the trim must
be artistic and attractive. To secure
the required effect, it is well to have
a soft-appearing background. The
floor of the window and the back-
ground should be covered with some
such material as heavy cloth, crepe
paper or cheese cloth. Wreaths and
flowers, June bride pictures, etc., can
- be used to good advantage.
A good assortment should be
shown. Purchasers of wedding gifts
rarely have a definite notion of what
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They will build up a foundation
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AGRICULTURAL LIME
BUILDING LIME
Write for Prices
A. B. Knowlson Co.
203-207 Powers’ Theatre Bidg., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Brown & Sehler Co.
Distributors for the
Largest Trunk Factory in the World
Grand Rapids Michigan
Transmission
Equipment
Pulleys—Hangers— Shafting
Belting — Machinery
Keystone Steel Split Pulleys
Strongest — True Running
Perfect Crown
Adolph Leitelt Iron Works
213 Erie Street Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids
Store Fixture Co., Inc.
The Place, 7 Ionia Ave., N. W.
BUY AND SELL
Used Store and Office Fixtures
Elevators
Electric and
Hand Power
Also Dumbwaiters
Sidney Elevator Mfg. Company
Sidney, Ohio
Mention this paper.
Foster, Stevens & Co.
Wholesale Hardware
se
157-159 Monroe Ave. :: 151 to 161 Louis N.W.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
June 6, 1917
to buy. They are just lookers-around.
To such buyers, a window containing
a large assortment of articles has an
immediate appeal.
There are a number of ways of in-
creasing the display space in a win-
dow without crowding the articles.
The floor space can be increased by
putting in steps, thus providing room
for the showing of flat articles against
the back of each step. The placing
of shelves and brackets against the
background very materially adds to
the amount of stock which can be dis-
played. Shelves can sometimes be
used.
On the whole, it is good policy to
use price cards, Where a display is
confined to very high-priced articles,
this may not be advisable; but in most
window displays it is desirable to
have articles showing a wide range
of price, to appeal practically to ev-
ery pocket. The average gift-purchas-
er may not have a clear idea of the
article he or she wants, but a very
definite idea as to the price-limit. A
window which presents a good range
of marked prices serves as an excel-
lent study in values and commands
instant attention. In the alternative,
the unpriced article may appeal but
the would-be purchaser says: “TI like
that jardiniere, but the price may be
too high. I’ll look at some other win-
dow.”
There is one point that the window
trimmer should not overlook in con-
nection with practical gifts—many of
them lend themselves to demonstra-
tive display. Vacuum cleaners, elec-
tric irons, even ranges, can be demon-
strated right in the window. Fail-
ing actual demonstration, a dummy
figure in the act of running the iron,
carpet sweeper or other article can be
shown. There are display and adver-
tising values in this direction which
must not be overlooked. The good
points of an article can often be dem.
onstrated to good advantage by cards,
posters, hangers, etc.
Newspaper advertising should of
course be used liberally in pushing
vift sales; and should follow much
the same lines as the contemporaneous
window display.
It is a good thing to have compiled
a list of gift suggestions. This can be
printed for distribution over the
counter and through the mails, or
can be mimeographed. It is often a
difficult matter for the hardware sales-
man on the spur of the moment to
think of everything suitable for
wedding presents; and it is imprac-
ticable for him to suggest every ar-
ticle, viva voce, even if he remembers
them all, The printed list is a great
help to the purchaser as well as to
the salesman.
William Edward Park.
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Formed a By-County Organization.
Buckley, June 4—One of the larg-
est events of the season was pulled
off here last Wednesday evening,
when the Buckley business men ban-
dueted the business men of Kingsley,
Wexford and Mesick at the M. & N.
E. Hotel, in Buckley, where they all
partook of a meal fit for any king or
queen, prepared by the proprietors,
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Madison. This
meeting was for the purpose of form-
ing a Bi-County Business Men’s As-
sociation to further the interests of
merchants and farmers and help solve
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
mercantile and agricultural problems
through co-operation. About seventy-
five men were present from the towns
of Mesick, Kingsley and Wexford;
also Prosecuting Attorney Engle, of
Lake City, who ably filled the toast-
master’s chair, George Piper, Coun-
ty Agriculturalist, expressed the will-
ingness of the farmers to co-operate.
J. M. Bothwell, Secretary of the Re-
tail Grocers and General Merchants
Association of Michigan, the speaker
of the evening, gave a very interesting
and instructive talk relative to profits
and costs and the need of systematiz-
ed co-operation with farmers.
At the meeting a business men’s
organization was formed, officered as
follows:
President Jim McQuire, Buckley.
Vice-President, Adolph Baumgarth,
Kingsley.
Mesick.
Wex-
Secretary—Mark Potter,
Treasurer—William Rennie,
ford.
—_22>—__
Joseph P, Lynch is conducting a
sale for Mrs. E. Grode, proprietor of
the Kercheval Shoe House, 817
Kercheval avenue, Detroit. June 9
he starts a sale for G. Hawley Walker,
dealer in clothing and_ furnishing
goods at Toronto, Ont.
OFFICE OUTFITTERS
LOOSE LEAF SPECIALISTS
237-239 Pearl St. (aear the bridge) Graad Rapids, Mich.
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Sand Lime Brick
Nothing as Durable
Nothing as Fireproof
Makes Structures Beautiful
No Painting
No Cost for Repairs
Fire Proof
Weather Proof
Warm in Winter
Cool in Summer
Brick is Everlasting
Grande Brick Co., Grand Rapids
So. Mich. Brick Co., Kalamazoo
Saginaw Brick Co., Saginaw
Jackson-Lansing Brick Co., Rives
Junction
Guard against substitutes.
bears the Fox.
ANHEUSER -BUSCH—ST. LOUIS
Bevo is a great favorite in the Army Canteens, where none
but pure, soft drinks may be sold. After drill or march,
you are sure to see a long line of hot and dusty-throated
soldier boys making a bee-line for Bevo. They know that
there lies complete satisfaction, full refreshment and pure
wholesomeness.
At home or abroad —at work or play — between meals
or with meals, you will appreciate what we have done for
you in making this triumph in soft drinks.
You will find Bevo at inns, restaurants, groceries, depart-
ment and drug stores, picnic grounds, baseball parks, soda
fountains, dining cars, in the navy, at canteens, at mobili-
zation camps and other places where refreshing beverages
are sold.
Bevo—the all-year-’round soft drink
Have the bottle opened in front of
you, first seeing that the seal is unbroken and that the crown top
Sold in bottles only, and bottled exclusively by
Anheuser-Busch Branch
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Dealers
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Why the Liberty Loan Belongs to condition of business. This, not only
the People. for the sake of our own comfort, but
Written for the Tradesman. for the sake of our Nation’s safety
Present and future financial and
business conditions are so inextrica-
bly mixed up with the Liberty Loan
in the minds of the public that it
would be well, perhaps, to clean the
atmosphere by an explanation of the
real conditions.
The uninformed layman finds it dif-
ficult to understand why it is that the
banks of the country so easily took
on the several hundred million dollar
loans for the Allies, but when our
own Government seeks to get its $2,-
000,000,000 Liberty Loan floated it
is the average citizen—men of small
means and small wages—who are ex-
pected to do their “bit” for the coun-
try by either taking from their small
surplus to buy a Liberty Bond, or
set aside a certain portion of their
earnings to purchase one on the in-
stallment plan. The other loans were
underwritten (bought at a certain
figure by a number of banks—then
disposed of to investors). These se-
curities found their way into the safe
deposit boxes of persons of means
who thus found a reasonably safe in-
vestment yielding a good rate of in-
terest. As they were short time se-
curities—due in a few
banks and trust companies purchased
them to keep their own surplus work-
ing.
For the banks to take on this $2,-
000,000,000 exclusively, even though
their resources permit this
step, would be unwise and would crip-
ple their usefulness to the Nation
when later demands for financial as-
sistance may be made. Although the
all important question now is to raise
all the funds the Government may re-
quire, it must also be remembered that
it is hardly less essential to see that
extraordinary re-
years—many
would
the ordinary and
quirements of the manufacturers are
taken care of, for upon keeping the
wheels of industry moving depends
the power to best serve the Nation.
3y the Nation’s response to the ap-
peal to invest in Liberty Bonds, the
banks are relieved of of the
burden and are thus enabled to take
care of the country’s business de-
mands, which means a continuance of
an undiminished weekly pay envelope
(f course, it is realized the banks are
simply custodians of other peoples’
money, and it is in the wise dispo-
sition of this money that the depos-
itors are assured of safety for their
funds and a fair amount of interest
on savings invested by the banks. To
tie up the money needed in regular
channels of business would mean a
t'ghtening of capital that would bring
about an unsettled and unsatisfactory
some
and success in this war must be pre-
vented. It is for this reason earnest
appeals are being made to the Amer-
ican people in all the walks of life
to do their “bit” for the country by
buying a Liberty Bond or bonds out
of money raised from sensible econo-
my in spending current wages, rather
than a withdrawal of funds from sav-
ings banks.
The situation is one of such serious
importance, it warrants frank and
practically continuous discussion in
and out of season. The war is now
uppermost in the minds of the people
who are beginning to understand that
our entry into the conflict is no child’s
play.
The banks should impress upon the
people of their respective communi-
ties the necessity of individual par-
ticipation in this bond issue. There
is no question but that when the seri-
ousness of the situation is brought
home to them their response will be
spontaneous and generous. Bankers
should use the argument suggested
by an Eastern publication of high
Help the Government while
helping yourself. Turn your small
economies into a Liberty Bond: make
your debt to your country an added
credit item to your personal wealth.
You have now a double incentive to
save out of current earnings; an op-
portunity that has never occurred be-
fore: an opportunity the whole world
hopes will never occur again, This
war may be a long war. If your sav-
ings are invested in a war bond they
are free from taxation, which will be
increasingly heavier as the war goes
on. Unless the whole world goes
bankrupt the bond is as good as gold.
No other National bond is so well se-
cured. Interest will be paid promptly.
The Government never defaults on
its fixed charges. At all times the
Liberty Bond will become good se-
curity for a loan, and is good at all
times for its face value, should cir-
cumstances arise through which the
purchaser needs the money. No oth-
er form of property is so readily con-
vertible into cash. It is highly prob-
able that later on other United States
bond issues will be offered to the pub-
lic at a higher rate. This Liberty
Bond can be exchanged for those
bearing a higher rate of interest than
314 per cent. when such bonds are
issued. The wealth of the Nation
standing.
and the energies of the people are be-
hind them and they can be used any-
where at any time to tide you over
temporary embarrassment or any sud-
den misfortune.
In addition to the arguments used
A Loan For Liberty
It is the duty of every employer to see
to it that his employees have an oppor-
tunity to subscribe to the ‘‘Liberty Loan
of 1917’’ on the most advantageous terms
possible.
Many institutions are reserving a block
for subscription by their employees.
We are prepared to confer with those
desiring to support the Liberty Loan
and will gladly assist them in helping
America win through the quick distribu-
tion of the loan.
BOND DEPARTMENT
[;RAND RaPins [RUST [COMPANY
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OTTAWA AT FOUNTAIN. BOTH PHONES 4391
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 focation—our large transit facilities—our safe deposit vaults
and our complete service covering the entire field of bankin » our institution
be the ultimate choice of out of town bankers and individiions. eo
Located at the very center of
Handy to the street cars—the interurbans—the hotels—the shopping
Combined Capital and Surplus............. +++e$ 1,724,300.00
Combined Total Deposits ...................... 10,168,700.00
Combined Total Resources .............. «+++. 13,157,100.00
GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK
CITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK
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above bankers, merchants and manu-
facturers should call attention to the
partial payment plan which, through
the patriotism of the banks and trust
companies, affords an easy means of
acquiring this gilt edged investment,
one that attaches to no other invest-
ment. It should be emphasized that
the purchaser of this bond exercises
the most elementary principles of
thrift, as well as saving, Emphasis
should also be laid upon the fact that
when one buys a Liberty Bond it is
not a.donation, It is an investment—
one which is doing good in the world;
because of which some time, some-
where in the world life will be sweet-
er, joy more abundant and human
freedom more firmly fixed because
of this purchase. “Somewhere a $50)
or $100 bond may change a tear to a
smile, bring a new glow of life to
childhood or age, light a fire in a
deserted home, because the war is
sooner ended and a husband and
father has come back to labor for his
loved ones.”
The die is cast; our participation
in the war is fixed. The common
thought must be to make that partici-
pation conducive to the greatest good
and to the most speedy termination
of the awful havoc. This is the aim
of the loan. Come what may, it is
our duty to support our Nation in
its endeavors. These loans feed the
hungry as well as strengthen the
soldiery and there is no’ good reason
why every citizen should not add one
name to the subscribers.
In gauging a situation the most
reliable indication of conditions is
the opinion of men who have become
sucessful in business and leaders in
their various lines. Composite opinion
of these men has it that not only
will industrial and commercial ac-
tivity be fully normal during the war,
but better than before it started.
Frank A. Vanderlip, a keen judge
of conditions, says that instead of
stagnation people should prepare for
top speed production which will call
for every ounce of energy and re-
source. Of course, this does not mean
that people should be improvident ana
squander their earnings with pros-
pects of good times and be like the
Arkansas man who, when asked why
he did not repair the roof of his cabin, .
replied, “When its raining I can’t and
when its dry it doesn’t need it.”
There is no danger of there not being
work enough for every one; in fact,
there will be more work than people
to do it. It must be remembered
this money being raised will be used
to equip and feed our army and navy
and will, therefore, go right back into
the channels of trade through wages
paid and material bought, through
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
transportation charges, etc. Into
stores, factories and farms will pour
these dollars now being loaned by the
people, stimulating all kinds of busi-
ness.
There is no question but that there
must be business readjustments, but
these readjustments will work out
for the best and employment and
prosperity will be general. Hysterical
buying of necessities must and will
cease. There is already a noticeable
slackening of this tendency and prices
are showing a downward tendency.
Wall street, ever a fair barometer
of business and public sentiment, is
already reflecting the optimistic views
of the leaders of business and there is
a stronger tone to the securities mar-
ket.
There is a movement on foot to
introduce square nickels, probably
with rounded corners. One argument
advanced is that mint authorities
would save an appreciable amount in
packing. It is doubtful, however, if
this innovation would be pleasing to
manufacturers of “nickel in the slot
machines.” Paul Leake.
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Local Wholesalers to Boost Liberty
Bonds.
Grand Rapids, May 29—We beg to
enclose herewith information and to
advise you that on May 28, a well-
attended meeting was held to consider
the patriotic duty that lies before our
trades in the purchase of Liberty
3onds.
It was unanimously voted that the
matter should be given effective sup-
port by all wholesale houses and com-
mission firms. Dudley E. Waters
was present and addressed the meet-
ing. We outlined a plan that was
given favorable consideration and sup-
port by all in attendance.
All firms represented have agreed
to give the work attention along the
lines suggested by him in so far as
it practically applies to their respec-
tive organizations. It was generally
agreed that the employes of all firms
should be given an opportunity to
subscribe for a $50 Liberty Bond or
more and if in need of financial as-
sistance to do so that the employer
erant financial assistance temporarily
and give the employes an opportum-
ty to pay for the bond out of their
savings over a period of time, say
twelve months, if necessary. All pres-
ent fully realized the necessity of giv-
ing patriotic assistance and consider
it a privilege to have the opportunity
to buy Liberty Bonds.
It was recommended and urged that
all jobbers and commission houses in
the city, and all employes of these
companies, study into the matter care-
fully and do their share in subscrib-
ing for Liberty Bonds.
William Judson, Chairman,
Lee M. Hutchins,
Samuel Krause,
H. J. Vinkemulder,
Guy W. Rouse.
In a man’s autobiography there is
no such word as fail.
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Michigan Bankers & Merchants’
Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Fremont, Michigan
We are organized under the laws of Michigan and our officers and
directors include the best merchants, bankers and business men of
Fremont.
We write mercantile risks and store buildings occupied by our
policy holders at 25 per cent. less than the board rate established by
the Michigan Inspection Bureau.
If you are interested in saving one-third of your expenditure for
fire insurance, write us for particulars.
Wm. N. Senf, Secretary.
BUY SAFE BONDS
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Tax Exempt in Michigan
Write for our offerings
Howe Snow CorriGan & BERTLES
INVESTMENT BANKERS
GRAND RAPIDS SAVINGS BANK BLDG. © GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
99 Fort Street, W.
LIVE WIRE COLLECTION SERVICE
No collection, no charge
We begin where others leave off
We work just as hard on claims of $1.50 as we do on
larger claims
Prompt Reports and Remittances
PURVIS MERCANTILE AGENCY
DETROIT
WHY MAKEA WILL?
A Supreme Court has answered this thus:
“To provide for the wants of the testator’s family,
“‘To protect those who are helpless,
‘“‘To reward those who have been affectionate, and
‘*To punish those who have been disobedient.”’
Appoint this reliable Company Executor of
your will and assure your estate a business-like
administration.
Send for Blank Form of Will and Booklet
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Audits made of books of municipalities,
corporations, firms and individuals.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
June 6, 1917
Repudiate the Teachings of Traitorous
Leaders. :
Plainwell, June 4—The attention of
this lodge has been called to an edi-
torial in a recent issue of your paper,
which, in our opinion, was intended
to discredit farmers as a class by
pretending to criticise a type of farm-
er that does not exist.
For your enlightenment we wish
to state that farmers are not holding
back their production this year, but,
on the contrary, are doing all that is
possible to increase production, even
while they have no power to fix the
price of their products and have no
guarantee that certain products may
not sell for less than the cost of pro-
duction.
While we are in favor of both a
minimum and maximum fixed price
of products at this time, we would not
have those prices so fixed as to in-
jure the legitimate dealer, but we do
feel that the gambler in food stuffs
should be summarily dealt with.
We believe that the statements in
your editorial are not in accordance
with the facts and that the publication
of such misleading statements at this
time is unwise, as it tends to create
the false impression that the farming
class is not supporting the Govern-
ment in the present crisis.
Oren F. Evans,
Sec’y Gun Plains Grange.
The Tradesman is pleased to pub-
lish the above communication because
it indicates that the caustic criticism
it recently uttered in connection with
those farmers who inclined to
listen to the siren voice of false lead-
ers who urged them to play the part
of traitors to their country has found
lodgment in the brains of sensible
farmers and caused many of them to
reverse themselves and repudiate the
former treasonable utterances and ac-
tions of grange and syndicate officials.
Unfortunately, the unscrupulous
leaders in this movement are still ac-
tively at disseminating their
pernicious doctrines. They do not
come out in the open like men and
preach their perfidious propaganda
openly, but shield themselves behind
the secrecy of the grange and other
fraternal and oathbound organizations,
thus avoiding the criticism—and prob-
ably prosecution—which would fol-
low public expressions fraught with
so much danger to the Republic and
the cause of humanity and civilization.
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Why Brubaker May Miss Merchants
Congress.
Mears, June 4—I wonder if there is
another merchant in Michigan who
has ever been guilty of making such
a fool of himself as I did in a stunt
I pulled off last week.
I received a letter from a big Toledo
concern, stating that inasmuch as I
had permitted a bill to become past
due, they could not ship a case of
coffee ordered until I paid up.
That got my goat, as I always dis-
count, They were real courteous in
the dun, but I flew off the handle and
the letter I wrote to Al. Windt, with
the request that he bring it to the
personal attention of the president of
the company, was the meanest bunch
of warm reading matter I was capable
of writing—and I can slop some mean
things.
Well, Al. put it up to the president
all right and his answer was a nice
conciliatory letter which made me
ashamed of the rough stuff I had writ-
ten. He stated if I found they were in
error he would send me a box of ci-
gars. In checking up his statement,
{ found that way back about the time
Noah hit his finger with the hammer
in putting the last shingles on the
ark, I had really overlooked paying
one bill. And ever since then the al-
most outlawed bill had been past due.
were
work
The only blame I put on the company
is that they did not dun me long ago,
when the moss started on it.
Well, all I could do was to remit
at once and enclose enough to buy
a few cigars for the innocent party.
I sent my profound apology, also, al-
though it is hard for me to apologize
for my mistakes any time. Then he
sent my two bucks back, saying he
didn’t have the habit.
Talk about heaping coals of fire!
To-day’s mail brought me a box ot
cigars from him with his compliments.
Every time I light one I saunter out
in the back lot and kick myself good
and proper. So if the reader of this
does not see me at the Merchants
Congress it will be because I did a
well-deserved job and was not pre-
sentable, having only ome pair of
trousers—and they are overalls which
can hardly stand the strain.
| have never had the pleasure of
meeting W. C. Brand, President of
the Widlar Co., but I assure you any
one who can dictate such a concilia-
tory letter to a hot headed, unreason-
able gink as I was, when he knows he
was right, is fhe kind of man I would
like to number among my friends.
Chronic Kicker.
Death of Charlotte Traveler.
Charlotte, May 28—Funeral
ices for John A. Hageman, a well
known commerical traveler and
prominent resident of this city, were
held Sunday afternoon, under the
auspices of Charlotte lodge, No. 120,
F.and A. M. The funeral party went
by automobile to Albion, the former
home of the deceased, for burial.
Mr. Hageman was found dead in
bed in a Lansing hotel last Friday
and his sudden passing away came as
a tragedy to the members of his
family and a great shock to the city in
general. None of the family were
at home when the news came, Mrs.
Hageman expected him home on the
evening train and had gone over to
the home of a neighbor, leaving a
note telling him to come over when
he arrived. Their older daughter,
Miss Helen, is a teacher in the Battle
Creek schools and she arrived home
late that evening as usual on Friday
for the week-end. The other daugh-
ter, Marian, a sophomore in the Char-
lotte high school, had gone to attena
a dance at Potterville. The cause of
death was apoplexy.
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Boomlets From Bay City.
Bay City, June 4—The_ twenty-
fourth annual meeting of the Grand
Council of Michigan of the United
Commercial Travelers of America
was held in this city Friday and Sat-
urday, June 1 and 2 and is said to be
one of the most harmonious and suc-
cessful meetings ever held by the
Grand Council. The meeting was
called to order promptly at 10 o'clock
in the morning, by Grand Counselor,
Fred J. Moutier. The roll call found
all the grand officers present. Thé¢
written report of Grand Counselor
Moutier was read by the Secretary
and was well received. The credentiat
committee reported eighty-four deie-
gates present. The committee on
necrology reported thirty-four mem-
bers having died during the year.
The morning session was taken up
with the regular routine of business.
The afternoon session convened at
1:30. A resolution offered by Samuei
Rindskoff that $500 be appropriated
to buy a Liberty Bond, also the same
amount be donated to the Red Cross
Society, was, after several patriotic
speeches, unanimously adopted. A
resolution was also unanimously
adopted endorsing the attitude of
President Wilson, pledging him the
loyal and undivided support of the
Grand Council of Michigan in the
prosecution of the war in which we
are engaged. The Secretary was in-
structed to notify the President of the
action taken. Further evidence of
the patriotism and loyalty of the
Grand Council was shown in the
unanimously vote which placed the
$1,100, annually appropriated to help
entertain the Grand Council, in the
hands of the Grand Executive Com-
mittee with power to use satne as it
sees fit for war relief work. In the
selection of the place for holding the
next Grand Council meeting, Jackson
won out easily over Detroit and Kal-
amazoo. The two prizes offered last
year by the Grand Council of $50
each, one for the council which made
the largest increase in membership
during the year and the other for the
council which had the greatest per-
centage of increase was won by Bay,
Council, with an increase of fifty-
seven members.
The election of officers resulted as
follows:
Grand Counselor—John A.
Jr., Coldwater.
Hach,
Grand Junior Counselor—W.. T.
Ballamy, Bay City.
Grand Past Counselor—Fred __}.
Moutier, Detroit.
Grand Secretary—Maurice Hue-
man, Jackson.
Grand Treasurer—Lou J. Burch,
Detroit.
Grand Conductor—C. C. Stark-
weather, Detroit.
Grand Page—H, D.
naw.
Grand Sentinel—A. W. Stevenson,
Muskegon.
Ranney, Sagi-
before making a purchase.
114 Monroe
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Grand Executive Committee—Wm.
Kelly, Jackson; Homer R. Bradfield,
Grand Rapids; M. Hueman, Jackson;
Lou J. Burch, Detroit; J. A. Hach,
Jr., Coldwater.
Delegates to the Supreme Council—
J. A. Hach, Jr., Fred J. Moutier, W.
S. Burns, M, G. Howarn, Sarmtuel
Rindskoff, W. J. Devereaux.
Alternates—A. G. McEachron, De-
troit: W. S. Lawton, Grand Rapids;
John A. Murray, Detroit; Herman E.
Vasold, Saginaw; James E,. Burtless,
Marquette; J. Q. Adams, Battle
Creek.
The installation of officers was con-
ducted by Past Supreme Counselor,
Frank S. Gainard, of Jackson.
The parade, which was to have
started at 10 o’clock sharp, was de-
layed by rain nearly an hour, but
finally got under way, but before it
Was over, it again rained and rather
dampened the enthusiasm of some ot
the boys, as well as the palm beach
suits of Saginaw and Bay Council
members. Cadillac Council, of De-
troit, won the prize for the best ap-
pearance and Saginaw Council that
of having the largest percentage of
members in line.
In the base ball contest, Bay City
defeated Saginaw Council by a score
of 13 to 10, while Kalamazoo defeated
the Bay City boys in the final contest
thereby winning the cup.
The ford couplet, which was raffled
Saturday afternoon, was won by A.
MeVittie, one of the high’ school
teachers of the city.
The party held in the Armory Sat-
urday evening was largely attended
and all present had a very enjoyable
time. W. T. Ballamy.
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How Many Can You Name?
The works of Charles Dickens con-
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The pessimist never bores us with
his alleged funny stories.
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used. It positively removes
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and DRUGS af the end of
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Both Phones PERRY MILLER, Manager
DAY
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Retail Grocers and General Merchants
Association of Michigan
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
Cadillac, June 4—If a man should come to your store some
day while you were adding up your list of slow pay and bad
accounts and would say to you,
“I will give you 75% of the face value of those accounts
and pay you the cash,” you would consider that a good business
proposition, now wouldn’t you?
Many successful merchants like you subscribe to a credit
rating system.
Why?
Because they find it a good investment. They know that
under the old method they can not do business at a profit if
occasionally they must charge off some bad accounts or pay
somebody 25 per cent. commission for collecting them.
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If you would safeguard your stock, read once again the
letter we sent you a few weeks ago, study closely the advantage
it would be to you if you knew whether a fellow’s credit was
good or bad before you let him have your goods.
You can make a credit rating system earn its cost for a
whole year by saving just one bad account.
Shall we write you further details of the greater advantages
of being a member?
J. M. BOTHWELL, Sec’y
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To assist in making permanent the reign of democracy.
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to assist in the work of restoring the regions devastated by
war on the other side of the water.
Both investments appeal to the patriotism and good
citizenship of every sturdy American.
We can demonstrate to you that the manufacture of
cement is going to be as profitable as investments in steel
or munition factories—and much safer in the long run.
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White Gros Grains Sell.
The ribbon trade is quiet and wait-
ing. A few satins and taffeta goods
are moving, applying to the dry
goods end of distribution, but a con-
tinuing call for
white gros grains,
practically all from the millinery
about the most
Widths
thus being sold comprise from Nos.
3 up to about 5 inches, and possibly
the best numbers are 16s, 22s and 40s.
seems to be
active feature of the market.
trade,
however, the trade is
quiet, with the weather perhaps the
most deterring factor to business that
otherwise might be coming along. It
is evident that stocks are accumulat-
ing rather in a than is
welcome—requests to defer delivery
In general,
larger way
and hold up shipments pending in-
ventory being in evidence here also—
and will probably continue to do so
for about another four weeks. Then,
however, the effect of the reduced
being to ribbon
production will make itself felt and
accumulations will begin moving out.
Even the demand for red, white
and ribbons of various. sorts,
which has been such an active feature
of the market for some little time
past, is petering out, the buyers evi-
dently having all they require of these
goods.
machinery devoted
blue
of the manufacturers is bring-
10-ligne black grains
with a very narrow border or edging
of the National colors. The
same effect is produced in a navy
similar width.
These will be used for bows and other
small trimmings, it is expected.
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Government Placing Orders for Un-
derwear.
Underwear mills are receiving busi-
ness for the army's fall needs. While
no details are con-
cerning the quantities placed or the
mills which have forward and
taken their allotment of army
ness, it is pretty generally understood
that buying in the open market has
been progressing.
One
ing out gros
three
blue gros grain of a
as yet available
come
busi-
With production for this spring so
backward among the large underwear
manufacturers, not to mention a cor-
responding lateness in fall production,
it is almost certain on the face of
things that a very large percentage
of the mills has been unable to con-
tract for as many garments as have
been required for delivery as soon as
needed, if the product were demanded,
This in-
ability to meet the specification re-
quirements has been caused by cer-
tain other reasons as well—to inabil-
ity to make the goods with the ma-
chinery available among a large num-
ber of manufacturers.
according to specifications.
It is therefore fairly safe to assume
that the Government’s purchasing
agents have let down the bars, and
have found themselves obliged to ac-
cept and place orders on samples sub-
mitted which came as near to speci-
fication as possible, and at the same
time proved practicable for use by
the men who are to form the army
of this country.
When the earliest needs of heavy-
weight underwear are taken care of,
it will of course be possible to come
nearer to specifications than at first,
but it looks now as though the civilian
deliveries for fall would be materially
hampered because of the merchandise
that will be diverted from usual dry
goods channels and into the Govern-
ment stocks.
Rumors have been current to the
effect that the army specifications
have been, or are to be, subjected to
some changes, but whether this has
taken place or is in prospect can-
not be ascertained. From the na-
ture of the present specifications, it
may be possible that such a rewriting
of the stipulations may have to be
effected.
As far as the civilian trade for the
current season is concerned, the
weather is preventing the expected
large movement of underwear out
from jobbers’ hands and across re-
tail counters at this time, Nothing
special has developed as concerns fall
production, excepting that mills con-
tinue to be hampered and manufac-
ture is backward in about all cases.
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Bankruptcy Proceedings in Western
District of Michigan.
Grand Rapids. May 21—Dirk DeKlein,
grocer of Grand Rapids, has filed a vol-
untary petition in bankruptcy. Adjudi-
cation has been made and the matter
referred to Referee Corwin. The first
meeting of creditors has been called for
June 6. The schedules of the bankrupt
show liabilities amounting to $2,320.32,
and assets of $1,080, of which $680 is
given as stock in trade. A list of the
creditors follows:
Preferred Creditor.
City Treasurer, Grand Rapids
Secured Creditors.
H. H. Jordan, Grand Rapids ...... 387.00
--+-9 48.00
Kent State Bank, Grand Rapids. ..159.00
Michigan Exchange Private Bank,
Grand Hage 226606 150.00
Unsecured Creditors.
New Century Co., Detroit ........ $238.59
John Jasperse, Grand Rapids 34.85
G, C. Bear & Co., Detroit 47.14
Wolverine Spice Co., Grand Rapids 71.80
Star Paper Co., Kalamazoo ...... 28.50
Washburn-Crosby Co., Grand Rapids 38.12
Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids 395.07
Wilson & Company,. Grand Rapids 21.55
Paul J. Hake, Grand Rapids . 20.05
J. J. Burggraaff, Grand Rapids .. 29.24
tademaker-Dooge Grocer Co.,
tame ADIGE = 23... 21.65
C. W. Mills Paper Co., Grand
RRAINOS oe se 55.54
Voigt Milling Co., Grand Rapids 361.12
toy Baker, Grand Rapids ........ 25.71
L. & L. Jenison, Jenison ........ 45.25
Swift & Co., Grand Rapids ........ 6.00
Kelly Ice Cream Co., Grand Rapids 12.16
Mich. Exchange Bank, Grand Rapids 54.00
G. Lamberts. Hudsonville ........ 30.00
R. Roubos, Grand Rapids ........ 40.00
May 23—Cornelius Kalkman, of Hol-
land, filed a voluntary petition in bank-
ruptcy this day. Adjudication has been
hre@idert: so seni
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Grand Rapids, Mich.
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With an organization which is
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Auto owners realize that great
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that the ordinances of most large
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Should you have $5,000 damage
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i emmen, Holiand ....... 00 The trustee’s first report and account,
Louis Lanting, FOMame 8.705 showing total receipts amounting to
Jacob Wabeke, Folland .......... 6.00 $1,393.42, disbursements of $35.48 and
: Scott-Lugers Lumber Co., Holland 10.00. a balance on hand of $1,357.99, was ap- Corset Covers .....- Seer tees (a $2.00 to $6 50
ca Du Mez Brothers, Holland ...... 9.90 proved. Administration expenses and a ° °
— Portland Cement Co., first dividend of 8 per cent. were de- Children’s Drawers. . vee ee (a 1.25 to 2.39
CCPOlG geo... 94.74 clared and ordered paid. ’ 9
fae Pont ibe snp te pg agg ee 5.47 In the matter of Denis MeGrath, bank- Women’s Drawers....-..- oe (& 2.29 to 475
fe 2 eee co te ee ee Ci (@ 9.00 to 18.00
Geo. Guizenga & Co., Holland “15 oo a aneeing a halance an Child i G Ww (a 2.29 to 4.50
Bishop & Raffenaud, Holland 05 ea, vals vo. al ec nantl ft 1 099.59 lidrenSGOwmnS...---------- = . _
Dr. H. Boss. Holland 75 han¢ » as per seconc report, of $1,099.59, a ; (
v Otto Cohan, Holland .............. ‘ry additional receipts of $1.85, total of $1,- Ladies’ Gowns......---.----: ® 6.50 to 12.00
q seule mal gi ib abn ESM ga i ue 101.44, disbursements of $540.81 for ad- “ :
me eat Sons Hardware Co., g9¢ Ministration expenses and a second divi- Envelope Creme... --..-...-; (@ 6.80 to 10.50
Takicer Tiaigces a. elalina roles 26.46 dend, leaving a balance of $560.63, was
ion Winter Hols ae ee SE ae approved and allowed. Certain admin
{ Bo ost sema “Holland ae 16.81 istration expenses and a final dividend a
«}> > ee 6 Nar Sate ee ane of 11% per cent. were ordered _ paid. M | O d
bMeile sag Mee oo oa oF aN This estate ae paid three dividends al r ers
Oe ee ee ny etic : ful r A i
Tyler Van Landegend, Holland .... 11.81 In the matter o - mil Selbert,
1. Keppel Sonus, Holland ......... 10.00 bankrupt, Sparta, a special meeting of Given Care u and rompt ttention
qje May 25—Leonard Ammond, doing busi- creditors has just been called for June
ness as a meat dealer in Muskegon, has 4, at which time the report of the trus-
filed a petition in bankruptcy. Adjudi- tee and petition for the allowance of ee
cation has been made and the matter 2ttorney fees will be considered and
¢ referred to Referee Corwin. Alfred Peine, Passed upon. It is possible that a first
« , of Muskegon, has been appointed cus- dividend will be declared and ordered
todian for the receiver. The first meet- paid, is | e
ing of creditors kas been called for In the matter of Carl A. Dahlquist, ( R D
June 11. The schedules show assets bankrupt, Muskegon, a special meeting sran a 1 S ry OO S O.
amounting to approximately $1,500, of . ra tae adi has ei nen oa for
, hic : ic Piven as stock i < : for the consideration of the trus-
% which $294.11 is given as stock in trade ee ee oS ‘ : : :
t assets. The liabilities amount to $1,852- tee’s first report and account and for Exclusively Wholesale
12. A list of the creditors of the bank- the purpose of declaring and ordering
rupt follows: paid a first dividend to creditors herein.
Secured Creditor. In the matter of Warren A. Veltman, ele
a (ha A. R. Jordan, Muskegon ........ $290.00 bankrupt, Grand Rapids, the final meet- GRAND RAPIDS oe MICHIGAN
Tipeecured raattota : : ing of creditors in this matter has been
J. Albers & Sons Muskegon 7 $556.51 called for May 31. It is probable that
J. S. Anderson, Muskegon Same ce as 202.60 a small dividend will be roe i
{ Armour & Co., Chieazo .......... 383.09 In the matter of Miller & Morowski,
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Making the Best of the Chopped-Up
Day.
Written for the Tradesman.
“T should like to specialize on oat-
meal cookies,” said my neighbor, Mrs.
Sennett, as she pressed me to try
two or three of the little cakes warm
from the oven.
Maybe the reader never has eaten
oatmeal cookies, or only those of in-
different quality. If so, he or she
should know them at their best, as
made by such an artist as Mrs. Sen-
nett. As the crowning touch before
baking she always adds plenty of rais-
ins—raisins that are big and fat and
absolutely free from grit, and not
just “seeded,” but from which every
last seed has been removed. De-
licious, delectable—if there is any
stronger adjective expressing tooth-
someness in superlative degree, Mrs.
Sennett’s oatmeal cookies are deserv-
ing of its application.
“T should like to specialize on oat-
meal cookies,” repeated Mrs. Sennett.
“I don’t make any bones of saying
that I make good ones, and I should
love to do nothing else. I should want
a great factory employing capable
help and manufacturing only one
product—Mrs. Sennett’s Oatmeal
Cookies. I would get the processes
right down fine so as to economize
Yabor to the minute. I believe |
could invent some machines that
would lessen the work greatly. And
I am sure I could improve on the qual-
ity, and have them always run just
alike. Baking in a small way, they
vary somewhat. And I would have
white delivery autos driven by men in
clean white suits, taking my oatmeal
cookies to all the delicatessens and
groceries and cafes in the city. Who
knows but the cookies could be put
up in sealed packages and shipped all
over the country?
“But’—and her face dropped as she
turned from her bright daydream to
the realities around her, “it isn’t my
lot in life to do some one thing and
do it well. Instead I must do a hun-
dred or more different things, and do
most of them badly or at least in a
way to afford me neither pleasure nor
satisfaction. I can not concentrate
my energies on some one article of
food and bring that to perfection. In-
stead, I must prepare three meals a
day, each consisting of several differ-
ent articles, and of course I must
vary my menus constantly. And I
must wash dishes and sweep and dust
and iron and scrub. Each morning
i get the children off to school, and
any time when they are at home |
must listen to their little joys and
eriefs, look into their school work
and doctor their minor ailments. 1
can’t take a day once a week or once
a month in which to mother my chil-
dren—it must be done every day along
with everything else. Just now I am
doing without a maid. But when I
have one she can do only the straight-
ahead work—I have to attend to all
the odds and ends myself.
“Frequently I have to go shopping.
And there are callers to receive and
calls to be made, and I try to keep
up a little church and club’ work.
Sometimes I must go to my dress-
maker, and there are jobs of plain
sewing that I do at home, besides
mending and repairing. I never can
finish a single garment at one time
—hardly can so much as darn the
thin places in one stocking, without
having to change to two or three
other kinds of work. Always and al-
ways there is the telephone to answer.
“Of course I don’t mean that I am
seriously dissatisfied, or that I should
want to give up my work as a home-
maker for any sort of a career, but
often it seems to me that my efforts
are spread out in so many different
ways that I accomplish only a small
fraction of what I might accomplish,
if I could focus on some one thing—
say on making”’—here she laughed—
“Mrs, Sennett’s Oatmeal Cookies.”
My neighbor is confronted by the
problem of all busy house-mothers
and of many who are not house.
mothers—the problem of the chop-
ped-up day—the problem of hav-
ing her time and energies taken up in
meeting, not some great demand in
some one direction, but a distracting
number of little demands in as many
different directions.
The problem is not so peculiar to
the housewife as the housewife her-
self is apt to imagine. Men in certain
positions experience exactly the same
difficulty, several things often de-
manding their attention at once.
Many professional and business wom-
en find their vocational day badly
chopped up. Some have family cares
and social duties that further subdi-
vide their efforts.
With the filling of some places, the
housewife’s among these, the chopping
up of the day is unavoidable. This
means some equally unavoidable loss.
For changing suddenly and unexpect-
edly from one kind of work to anoth-
er, stopping and starting, are waste-
ful of energy. Working quickly and
easily, accomplishing a large amount
in proportion to the expenditure of
time and force, is generally possible
Hartnett Flower Shop
Cut Flowers—Floral Decorations
Funeral Wreaths and Sprays
Park Avenue. head of Monroe
Both Phones Grand Rapids, Michigan
American SugarRefining Company
SAVE THE FRUIT CROP
Our advertising is teaching housewives the economy and nutritive
value of preserved fruits. This will tend to stop the great waste and
to increase the consumption of jams, jellies and preserves.
This advertising will also greatly increase the sale of Domino
Granulated Sugar—the best sugar for preserving and canning. The
dealer who handles Domino Granulated gets the benefit of this
advertising.
American Sugar Refining Company
The Most Complete Line of Sugar in the World
Double A Candy
The Candy for Summer
Get ready for your resorters
They will want good candy
We have it, and don’t forget the Lowney Chocolates
Putnam Factory Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Tell ’em You Have Something
“Extra Special”
—then back up that preamble with all the
nice things you can possibly think of to say
to favorite customers when you introduce
““White House” TEA as a brand whose
unusual excellence does honor to
the name. SELAH!
Distributed at Wholesale by
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at which time they are started
throughout the winter months. In
each pen is a fountain of running
water, dry feed and hopper feed. The
extra amount of food consumed by
the hens during the early hours assists
in making possible this increase in
egg production.
Shortly after the initial experi-
ments the flock was divided into two
parts and a record was made of ages,
condition and number in each sec-
tion. A two-weeks’ electric light ex-
periment was made on one-half of
the flock, with the result that the
hens whose pens were lighted raised
from an egg production of 600 eggs
a day to 1,200 per day, and this oc-
curred at the time when eggs were
soaring around the 50-cents-a-dozen-
wholesale price. This ranch uses the
small house system, with possibly 100
chickens in each coop.
The poultrymen of Southern Cali-
fornia claim that the cold storage egg
market may be made a thing of the
past by the new discovery. This novel
system can control the egg market,
for the production can be made to
expand when the egg prices are high-
est and to slacken when the prices
are low. This would also provide a
more uniform price for eggs rather
than permit them to be 25 cents per
dozen one time of the year and 60
cents a dozen at another time.
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Brubaker’s Opinion of the Pentwater
Branch.
Mears, June 5—I was very much
interested in the article entitled, The
Pentwater Branch in last week’s
Tradesman. The Muskegon writey
is thoroughly posted on conditions.
Tt has long been a mystery to me why
the road claims this division doesn’t
pay. I can’t recall a trip on this
branch that in going South after
reaching Shelby the passengers could
all get seats. From the time of leav-
ing Muskegon until the train reaches
Montague the same conditions exist.
This little burg, hardly large enough
to make a spot on the map, sends
twenty men to work in Muskegon
each week who come up to spend Sun-
day with their families and each town
on the route sends a like proportion.
The writer made only one mistake
when he spoke about the poor service,
either in the freight or passenger de-
partments. Heavens, there isn’t any
service. If they really have fooled
themselves into thinking this isn’t a
“money making branch, you just give
me that writer’s address and we will
lease this spur and make enough to
buy the whole svstem in a year or
two. Maybe I will tackle this alone
and. if I do, believe me, IT will put
Paul King at the head of it again.
T vot in personal touch with Paul
over our poor freight service and he
was the first offcial who ever showed
any real intention to try and straight-
en things out. He simply cut out a
few miles of red tape and got down tu
brass tacks. If he could have had
full swing one vear more there would
have been a different condition than
at present.
Gee, the resort season at hand and
no Sunday trains! Guess I will have
to prepare to winter my summer re-
sorters.
The writer certainly told the truth
or some of it in writing of the con-
ditions of the Muskegon depot toilets
and anyone living within a mile of
that sweet spot will sustain him in
his remarks. Muskegon needs a de-
pot three times the size of the pres-
ent one, as there is always a struggte
for the waiting passengers to crowd
in and then they struggle to get out
to fresh air again. Things may be
better now, as I have not been in the,
depot for several months. Thank,
fortune, I can change cars without
entering that pest house which breeds
more disease than a smallpox hospital
can care for. Chronic Kicker.
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Japan Tea Trade Center Has Shifted.
The Japanese tea trade is now con-
centrated at Shidzuoka, an inland city,
lying in the shadow of Fujiyama, the
holy mountain. The Far East an-
nounces that the last large tea firm
has removed from Yokohama, Kobe,
formerly the chief center of tea dis-
tribution in the empire, has complete-
ly surrendered its tea business to
Shidzuoka, now established as the
center of the tea growing and tea
exporting trade of Japan.
139-141 Monroe St
Both Phones
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Watson-HigginsMlg.Co.
Merchant
Millers
Owned by Merchants
Products sold by
Merchants
Brand Recommended
by Merchants
New Perfection Flour
Packed In SAXOLIN Paper-lined
Cotton, Sanitary Sacks
More Money for Grocers
More than 5,000 country weeklies, 350 daily
newspapers and fifteen national women's pub-
lications carry regularly the following adver-
tisement:
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MADE FROM THE HIGHEST GRADE DURUM WHEAT
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larges{ Macaroni Factory in America
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The Skinner Manufacturing Company believes
in national advertising, not as a club to reduce
the profits to the grocer, but as a means of aid-
ing the grocer to make a better profit.
Genuine macaroni can be made only from
Durum Wheat. Macaroni not made from Durum
Wheat is a fake. SKINNER’S macaroni is guar-
anteed to be made from the highest possible
quality of Durum Wheat and the Skinner Man-
ufacturing Company will enter into any kind of
written guarantee that this isa fact. We know
of no macaroni company in the United States
that will do this.
The SKINNER line is the only nationally ad-
vertised line of macaroni produets and because
of the fact that they are spending real money to
add to the grocers’ profit, SKINNER’S PRO-
DUCTS DESERVE THE SPECIAL SUPPORT
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Holders: $1.50 per box of 100
Samples free on request
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a Counselor—Fred J. Moutier, ly and there seems to be no let up
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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. D. Ranney, Sag-
inaw.
Next Grand Council Meeting—Bay City,
June 1 and 2, 1917.
Pickings Picked Up in the Windy
City.
Chicago, June 5—The city has leas-
ed the catering privilege of the mu-
nicipal pier for this year to a cater-
ing company, which will pay the city
21 per cent. of its gross receipts.
On or about June 10 the New Mor-
rison Hotel drug store, on the corner
of Clark and Madison streets, the
heart of Chicago, will open its doors
to the public. This store will be un-
der the management of Frank Anni-
bale. R. Ph, Ph. G. This store will
occupy two floors, carrying in stock
every known pharmaceutical prepara-
tion, as well as all drug sundries. The
second floor will have all conveniences
of a small hospital, where it can ac-
cord first aid service, as well as give
patrons of the store personal service.
The fixtures and arrangement of this
store will offset any establishment
of its kind in the city.
One of the new wholesale cigar
and tobacco jobbers featuring the G.
J. Johnson Dutch Master cigar line
ic that of the P. J. Rubey Co. in
South Chicago, the oldest tobacco
and cigar jobber in that section, cov-
ering territory adjoining Cook county
in Indiana.
The Chicago housewife is getting
reconciled to the 15 cent loaf of bread
now. This loaf is a little wider and
just a trifle heavier than the old 12
cent loaf. The 6 cent loaf of bread is
becoming a thing of the past in Chi-
cago, Very shortly there will be only
10 and 15 cent loaves.
Permission has been given to the
University of Chicago to vacate three
alleys along the Midway, betwee
University and Ingleside avenues.
This is for the purpose of allowing
the University to build two additional
medical schools at a cost of $5,500,-
000. They will be built and known as
a hospital and laboratory. They will
be used for persons who are unable
to be treated at other hospitals from
a financial standpoint. All the treat-
ment and service is to be free. Presi-
dent Harry Pratt Judson, of the Uni-
versity, appeared before the Commis-
sion and made the following state-
ment, that if the University was al-
lowed the privilege of this ground, it,
no doubt, would be the means of mak-
ing Chicago one of the greatest med-
ical centers in this country. The
staff in charge of this new hospitai
will not be permitted to charge a fee.
It is also predicted that in the near
future the South Side of the Midway
will be lined with hospitals.
Taking into consideration the in-
dictments which have been returned
against some of Chicago’s food spec-
ulators one would think there would De
a change in price of different food
articles, but from the market reports
Chicago boat lines running to Mich-
igan resorts are now making a bid
for the summer vacationists and fig-
ure on doing a wonderful business.
They expect the city to attraet a
great number of people through the
different training stations adjoining
Chicago, and by this will double their
business over last year, drawing the
patronage of people who live in the
inland states.
The real estate business in Chicago
for the past week has improved a
little over the previous week, there
having been closed some extra large
deals.
The National Red Cross, Chicago,
is making a wonderful fight for the
500,000 membership mark. They have
had a very unique offer from a young
boy in Iowa. This young fellow has
given the Red Cross a Jersey calf to
be sold to the highest bidder, the re-
ceipts to be turned over to the Chi-
cago Society of the National Red
Cross. This animal is now being
housed at the Lincoln Park Zoo. The
highest bid up to date is $300 by a
Chicago gentleman.
Every public office building, every
hotel, every bank building, every de-
partment store and every railroad sta-
_ ee the city of Chicago
fave bo Salesme ring :
tomers fib Bonse poly e =
ports this system is accomplishing
wonderful results, The motto in Chi-
cago is, “A Liberty Bond before you
forget.” Charles W. Reattoir.
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What America Fights For.
The entrance of America into the
present world war means, I think,
more than the money she can give,
the ships she can launch, the soldiers
she can raise and train to take part
in the conflict. It means the loyalty
of a great, young nation to its ideals.
It means the decision of a country
which has no selfish and material
stake in the present conflict, to en-
ter that conflict because the interests
of liberty and humanity and justice
call to the side of Great Britain and
France. From the beginning of this
war, it has been my conviction that
America could not keep out of it.
America enters to defend not merely
her rights, but her ideals. She looks
for no selfish gain. She is ready to
make sacrifice, She asks nothing for
herself, but a part in preparing that
better world in which peace shall be
founded on reason and justice, and
all the peoples, small and great, shall
be safeguarded against the violence
of the ravaging sword.
We see no way to accomplish this
save by the overthrow of Prussian
militarism and its avowed principles
and its subservient accomplices. We
fight against war as the. arbiter of in-
ternational disputes. We fight for
liberty, humanity and a real brother-
hood of free, self-governing nations.
We fight against the bleeding horror
into which the choice of the German
government has plunged the world.
It is because America is convinced
that the cause of the Allies represents
these ideals that she has soberly and
firmly entered the war at their side.
Call her a dreamer if you will. At
least her dreams belong to the spirit
of Christianity. Henry Van Dyke.
—_——_+ 2
Green for the Eyes.
Green uniforms have replaced white
ones among British hospital surgeons,
and British hospitals are also being
fitted in green instead of white, be-
cause this color is easier upon the
eyes of patients.
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CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS.
Clandestine Proceedings Unworthy of
Uncle Sam.
The function of a grand jury is to
investigate facts to determine whether
there is sufficient evidence to justify
a regular court trial, when someone is
suspected of crime. Theoretically our
grand jury system is a good thing, but
in actual practice it may be used, under
designing hands, to harass and punish
innocent people. It has not been an
uncommon thing in recent years for
grand jury indictments, both state and
Federal, to be proved absolutely false
accusations upon final court trials be-
fore juries. Our court records are sat-
urated with cases where people who
liave later been proved innocent have
been indicted, and through this vehicle
of justice held up to public humiliation,
shame and disgrace, to say nothing of
the financial expense of lawyer’s fees
and other cost which far too often lead
to stress and want.
An ambitious prosecutor, bent on
carving a name for himself through the
publicity route, has it within his power,
if unscrupulous enough, to induce the
indictment of innocent people through
our system of presenting only one-sided
evidence, indicating probable — guilt,
without allowing rebuttal evidence by
the accused to explain away the circum-
stances that may seem suspicious.
Of course, an indictment was never
regarded as more than an indication of
guilt but far too often indictments have
been secured where, upon final trial,
the supposed evidence of guilt has been
proved a mere “mare’s nest.”
We are taught to regard every man as
innocent until proved guilty and since
an indictment is no conclusive proof of
guilt, it would be clearly unfair to look
upon this particular variety of accusa-
tion as a disgrace. While final trial
may prove the justice of the charge,
yet there is also grave danger that the
accused may turn out to be the victim
of unjust prosecution. It is well, in
taking the measurements of an indict-
ment, to consider the one-sided pro-
cedure under which a grand jury works.
The prosecuting attorney is on the job,
far too often, for the sole purpose of
digging up evidence pointing to guilt
and not to innocence. He may regard
it as not a part of his duty to point
out the good points of an intended vic-
tim whom he suspects; and under the
law it is bad form to allow the accused
the privilege of explaining his side of
the case before the grand jury. In
other words, the modern prosecutor is
far too prone to regard it as his part
of the game to secure a_ conviction.
There can be no objection to his work-
ing from that standpoint, under reason-
able and fair limitations in a regular
court trial before a jury where the ac-
cused has the advantages of the protec-
tion of his own attorney, but in a grand
jury proceeding it is different and the
one suspected of guilt is granted no
privileges, not even a hearing.
Very often the grave charges made
in an indictment are later proved to be
absolutely false and wholly without
foundation. In the meantime, however,
the accused may have been held up to
public scorn and disgrace through the
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
publicity of the charges in the news-
papers or otherwise.
There is no intention here to attack
our grand jury system. Possibly it is
the best possible makeshift, although it
dces seem harsh and unduly severe to
so very frequently cause innocent men
the anguish and expense incident to
an elaborate trial, when with proper
safeguards their innocence might have
been established had they been allowed
representation both by witnesses and
attorney at the grand jury hearings.
Under the present practice it is quite
customary for the accused ones to be
not only denied this kind of fair consid-
eration, but frequently their first knowl-
edge of the accusations is gained when
confronted with a warrant in the hands
of an officer or through the newspapers
in which, under intensified headlines, the
grand jury’s grave charges of guilt are
printed. Incidently such publicity may
be regarded by an ambitious prosecutor
as worth the money to his future suc-
cess. On the other hand, if innocence
is established at final trial, that is not
a sensational news story for the dailies;
it is not even compulsory to publish the
fact, and it passes either without no-
tice or is given casual mention in some
remote corner of the paper. In such
case the accused has no recourse against
the grand jury, or the state, or the Na-
tion or the newspapers on account of
the false accusations that were made in
the indictment. The acquitted victim
must be content with being bumped with
a big attorney’s fee, which, incidently
helps to sustain and maintain the legal
fraternity and makes business good.
Not every man who is indicted is in-
nocent, but ‘acquittals are sufficiently
common, where the jury verdicts read
“not guilty,” to justify the layman in
looking with suspicion upon grand jury
charges, at least until they are proved
true.
There are many influences of an un-
fair nature that may be brought to bear
to induce indictments of innocent peo-
ple. It may be an unscrupulous prose-
cutor who is unduly ambitious to make
a record, or he may innocently become
the tool of some other attorney with
an ax to grind or an interest to serve;
or perhaps it may be a railroad bent on
making an example of some one pos-
sibly to ward off freight claims.
Recently growers, shippers and mem-
hers of the fruit and produce trade have
been indicted and thus publicly accused.
The Packer makes no plea for the
guilty, if any there be, neither does this
paper charge underhand motives against
any particular prosecutor or other in-
fluence in particular cases. If the ac-
cused are guilty they should be punished ;
if innocent they have been shamefully
wronged, and there is no recourse be-
yond the privilege of establishing their
innocence through the usual expensive
procedures of court trials. Until final
trial, judgment by the public of these
men who have been accused should be
held in abeyance and they should be
regarded as innocent upon the realiza-
tion of the profound truth that a grand
jury indictment does not prove guilt
“by a jug-full.”
The men who have been indicted are
good citizens, in good standing in their
respective communities and so far as
known to the Packer, no one has ever
been able to justly point an accusing
finger at them. They are entitled to
continue to enjoy the high regard in
which they are now held, the indictments
to the contrary notwithstanding, until
they have a trial before a jury.—Packer.
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The tone of the British press in
discussing U-boat defence is almost
jubilant. The reference is plainly to
something more radical than increas-
ed counter-activity such as might be
expected to follow on the reorganiza-
tion of the Admiralty administration,
the arrival of American destroyers in
Atlantic waters and of Japanese pa-
trol ships in the Mediterranean. The
Westminster Gazette is not the kind
of newspaper to fly off the handle;
yet the naval correspondent of the
Gazette goes so far as to speak of an
infallible method against the subma-
rine, and twice emphasizes the marvel-
lous simplicity of the device. We get
corroboration from a speech delivered
some time ago in the House of Lords
by Lord Beresford, who surely is not
inclined to minimize the submarine
danger or to exaggerate the virtues
of the Admiralty. Starting with the
assertion that more ships have been
sunk by mines than by torpedoes,
Lord Beresford declared that fortu-
nately ‘“‘a brilliant plan had been in-
vented for overcoming that danger.”
This speech was delivered at the
height of U-boat activity, and found
almost instant confirmation in the
sharp decline of ship losses, It is
hard to imagine people who ought to
know speaking of brilliant and in-
fallible devices against the submarine
without very substantial grounds for
their optimism.
In the eon ft Cito a thief
with his knife slit a hole in a neighbor-
ing tent at the head of a bunk, thrust
in his arm and extracted a bag of gold
dust. He was caught with the goods,
indicted for burglary and convicted. His
counsel moved for an arrest of judg-
ment and a new trial on the ground that
he was not guilty of burglary, for he
had not “broken into and entered” the
premises, as charged in the indictment.
The Court refused to grant a new trial,
but said that in passing sentence he
would take the peculiar circumstances
into consideration. He did so. He sen-
tenced the arm that entered the tent to
ten years’ imprisonment, but accorded
to the defendant the option of accom-
panying if there or cutting it off, just
as he should choose.
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There never was a_ better time
than the present for merchants to
work off odds and ends and articles
which have not been in demand for
some time. This is applicable to every
line of business. Goods which would
not be salable under ordinary con-
ditions are now made staple by being
offered at a shade under market value
—which is, in many cases, greatly in
excess of the original cost. The mer-
chant who does not close this calen-
dar year with a clean stock, with his
standing indebtedness liquidated and
a comfortable balance in the bank has
no right to lay claim to recognition
as a merchant.
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Do everything reason tells you to
do—unless conscience vetoes it.
Bankruptcy Proceedings in Western
District of Michigan,
June 5—Arthur W.
residing at Muske-
gon Heights, filed a voluntary petition
in bankruptcy. Adjudication has been
made and the matter referred to Referee
Corwin. No meeting of creditors has yet
been called. The schedules of the bank-
rupt show assets amounting to approxi-
mately $800, including an item of $600
due on open accounts. The liabilities are
Grand Rapids,
Rogers, a_ laborer,
given as $258. The bankrupt claims as
exempt $210 worth of household goods
and wearing apparel. The creditors
listed are as follows.
Dr. Paul Westrate, Grand Rapids $25.00
De. J. Pyle. Grand Rapids ......... 15.00
Dr. R. J. Busard, Muskegon Heights 27.00
Hackley Hospital, Muskegon ...... 24.00
Dr. Butterfield, Berlyne ........... 15.00
Peekhart Bros., Freemont ..:.....- 14.00
G. Sauceman, Fremont ............ 12.00
Dr. Barnham, Fremont ............ 25.00
Iver Anderson & Sons, Muskegon .. 25.00
J. KR. Jackson, Fremont ........... 12.00
Andersons Meat Market, Muskegon
WUGHSNGS ob oe oe aay eg 15.00
Buckley Hardware Co., Muskegon
RiGignts. fo. ca cece es eae, 15.00
J. Tenhackel, Grand Rapids ...... 15.00
R. Deatne, Muskeoeou ............... 8.00
Niles Peterson Coal Co., Muske-
eon beieits _.................;- 17.00
In the matter of Warren A. Veltman,
bankrupt, Grand Rapids, the final meet-
ing of creditors has been held. A first
and final dividend of 4 per cent. was
declared and ordered paid.
In the matter of Miller & Morowski,
bankrupt, Grand Rapids, the final meet-
ing of ‘creditors has been held, and it
appearing that there are not sufficient
assets to pay the administration expenses
in full no dividend will be declared.
In the matter of J. Emil Selbert.
bankrupt, Sparta, a special meeting of
ereditors has been held. The first report
and account of the trustee was approved
and a first dividend of 5 per cent. de-
elared and ordered paid.
In the matter of Carl A. Dahlquist,
bankrupt, Muskegon, a special meeting
of creditors ‘has been held. The _ trus-
tee’s report was approved and a first
dividend of 15 per cent. declared and
ordered paid. :
In the matter of the Norton Company,
bankrupt, Grand Rapids, John Snitseler.
trustee herein, has filed his first report
and account which shows’ total cash
received, including that received from
the sale of the assets of said corporation
and the fixtures, $2,274.94; also showing
certain expense items incurred while
trustee under the trust mortgage and
before adjudication in bankruptcy, still
due and unpaid, amounting to $3880.05.
A special meeting of creditors has been
called for June 14.
a enenenees
If We Knew.
If IT knew that a word of mine,
A word not kind and true,
Might leave its trace
On a loved one’s face,
I’d never speak harshly;
Would you?
If I knew the light of a smile
Might linger the whole day
And lighten some heart
With a heavier part,
I wouldn’t withhold it;
Would you?
through,
Some Facts Regarding
Commonwealth Power
Railway & Light Co.
This Company through its
constituent companies owns
and operates successful
Utility
located in six States in the
Public properties
Middle West, serving over
The
of revenue
150 cities and towns.
many sources
and their dependable char-
acter give every assurance
of a steady and growing
revenue for the Company.
Hodenpyl, Hardy & Co.
Incorporated
Securities for Investment
14 Wall St., New York
First National Bank Bldg., Chicago
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President—E. T. Boden, Bay City.
Secretary—Charles S. Koon, Muskegon.
Treasurer—George FE. 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.
ids.
Secretary—F. J. Wheaton, Jackson.
H. Jongejan, Grand Rap-
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.
Pushing the Sale of Leather Goods.
One of the most profitable side lines
for the druggist, provided a varied
line is carried, is leather goods, both
novelties and the standard articles.
This is particularly true in any sec-
tion which is visited by tourists, as they
afford souvenirs both practical and
artistic. Half of the secret of brisk
sales is effective displays—something
that will catch the fancy of the stroll-
ing visitor as a good memento of the
place.
One of the best windows of this de-
scription, that at once caught the eye,
was recently arranged by McLean's
Pharmacy, ©£i Paso, Texas. ‘This
showed a window full of leather
pocket books, from each of which
projected a crisp new one dollar bill.
In front, fastened by rubber bands,
were half a dozen rolls of bills, “Big
enough to choke a horse,” as one
cowboy, who stopped to gaze remark-
ed. It was a very good imitation, but
a card set up amongst the rolls an-
nounced that it was what is technical-
ly known as “stage money.” On a
panel were shown five dollar
bills, very similar in appearance, but
that one was an artistic counterfeit
was evidenced by the printed query
on the card: “Which bill is genuine?”
At one side were shown piles of Villa
two
bank notes, of different denomina-
tions, and surrounding them were
small leather pocketbooks, with a
card:
Genuine Leather Pocket Books, 50c.
Together with 50c. in Villa
money, free.
In the background, set up on a flat
trunk, was a little hand press and sev-
eral fonts of type, the press being
operated a man behind the win-
dow. A sign near the press called at-
tention to the fact that: “Your initials
in gold on each pocket-book, free.”
On the wall were hung a good selec-
tion of leather hand bags, pocket
books, bill folds and portfolios.
The W. T. Hixon Co., El Paso,
Texas, a very high class drug store,
had a beautiful window devoted to
art leather goods, all handsomely tool-
billows of green velvet and backed
with curtains of copper colored silk.
From the ceiling was suspended a
large cluster light with square shade
of yellow glass and heavy bead fringe.
Among the novelties were bronze
book ends covered with tooled leather
in dull green, watch fobs, card cases,
collar boxes and artistic picture
frames.
The New Orleans Drug Store, New
Orleans, La., had a window devoted
to alligator novelties—very effective,
since Louisiana is famous as the home
of the alligator. Upon the wall was
the head of a large alligator, while
on the floor, in front, was the tanned
hide of a three foot ’gator, with legs
attached. On an upright panel were
shown whisk broom holders, bill folds,
hand bags and pocket books of alli-
gator hide. Another panel held watch
fobs made of alligator claws, as well
as pocket books and_ handkerchief
cases of leather ornamented with
these claws; while a third panel was
given over entirely to alligator belts
for men and women. On the floor
were stuffed alligators, ranging in
length from six to eighteen inches.
A unique card receiver was formed by
a stuffed alligator a foot high, stand-
ing on its hind legs and tail, and hold-
ing in its front claws an abalone shell.
3ecause the display was “Different”
it caught the attention of all who
passed, and resulted in the sale of
large numbers of the alligator novel-
ties.
Evans, one of the chain stores of
Philadelphia, ever noted for their ar-
tistic display, recently caught the at-
tention of the passing throng by a
three color sign:
Think of anything in leather goods
It’s hear, if it’s not big.
The window was floored with billows
of silk of golden hue, and backed with
masses of red and yellow foliage. This
setting not only attracted the atten-
tion of all who passed by its color-
fulness, but formed a most appropri-
ate setting for the leather goods.
most of which were black or dark
colored. A pyramid stand, with a
of circular shelves, was built up
in the center of the window, and this
was topped with a cut glass vase filled
with milkweed pods and red leaves.
On the shelves were shown black
leather hand bags, pocket books, port-
folios and bills folds. On the floor
were leather writing sets, calendars,
note pads, travelers clocks in leather
cases, thermos bottles, card cases,
leather covered flasks, trunk and valise
tees, wrist watch bracelet, and a little
rovelty that sold like hot cakes—a
small flat leather case in which was
a six foot stout but not bulky cord
series
(wound on a card, of course) and a
dozen diminutive wooden clothes pins
for drying and fastening handker-
chiefs or bits of lingerie washed by
milady when she is traveling.
Jains, Philadelphia, was another
store that catered to a high class of
trade, and displayed an excellent as-
sortment of leather goods, featuring
leather articles of a sporting nature.
At one end of the display was an open
bag of black leather, across which
were laid two pair of gloves of con-
trasting colors, and at the other end
an open auto kit, showing the dishes
attached. to the lid, while dropping
off one corner was a pair of black
leather gauntlets, In the center wasa
table covered with a leather throw,
and on this was a smoker’s set of cop-
per, etched in silver, while around it
_tan vase of brass,
June 6, 1917
were cigar and cigarette cases, of
leather and silver, pouches and bags
for tobacco and collars; little leather
cases for cards; open boxes of poker
chips; folding chess and checker
boards; and pocket knives in chamois
cases. A very essential feature which
did not detract from the general ap-
pearance and was often a large fac-
tor in inducing a person to enter the
store to secure some article that had
caught his fancy, was that every ar-
ticle bore a small card on which was
printed its name and price. The win-
dow was floored with sky blue velour,
offering a good contrast for the black
leather and brass goods, and a bril-
liant touch of color was added by a
in the center, filled
georgeous poinsetta.
W. B. Stoddard.
with
You Hre Hssured
Good Merchandise
and Good Service
When you order
Criterion
Wall Papers, Paints and Window Shades
HEYSTEK & CANFIELD CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Kalamazoo
It’s Pure, That’s Sure
PIPER ICE CREAM CO.
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@ 80 Ginger, African Cream Tartar .... 60@ 65
cases Bleached 90@ 95 powdered ...... 20@ 2 Cuttlebone ...... bbw 60
Tragacanth 2 50@38 00 Ginger, Jamaica 30@ 35 Dextrine ettneees / 8%@ 12
Tragacanth powder 250 Ginger. Jamaica, boyer’s Powder 3 75@4 00
Turpentine ...... 10@ 16 powdered Dae 22@ 30 ory. all ae ow 0
nse: 2 Nmerv pewdere ba e
y Insecticides ng fo : ae? 50 Hipsom Salts, bbls. @ 4%
‘ “ < p : reenie (..30.0.... 30 Se oe tpsom Salts, less 6
White Lead, Mixed Paints, Colors In Oil, Blue Vitriol, bbl. .. 12 too eae oo z PYMOE 2.2.54... 1 P 5
Blue Vitriol, less 130 20 Orris, powdered 30@ 36 rect, powdered 2 “> 00
. A . aux Mix Dry 15@ 20 Poke, powdered 20 25 Flake White 20
Paris Green, Lime & Sulphur Solution, Arsenate of ee og ee 16@1 09 Kormaldehyle Ib. 1 27
powdered ~....... Rhubarb, powd 15@1 25 Gelatine ....... 40@1 60
ae . - : Insect Powder .... 40@ 60 ; : Glassware, full cs. 66%
Lead, Bug Finishes, Linseed Oil, Turpentine. Lead, Arsenate .. 14@ 30 Som eeey eerond. ott Glassware, less 60% —
Lime and Sulphur ground ........ go Glauber Salts, bbl. @ 1%
Solution, gal. 15@ 25 sarsaparilla Mexican, Glauber Salts less 2@ 5
Paris Green 534% @58le Beaund 22.2.0... =e 49 Glue, Brown ..... 25@ 35
é Seutlle 10.0... 40 Glue, Brown Grd. 25@ 35
a : : ce Cream Squills, powdered ito 66 Glue, White .. 30@ 35
Soda Fountains, Store Fixtures. orc §—rueiene nowa. ., WE Te Gus, White Cid. deg
aon aoe Valerian, powd. .. @1 00 Glycerine ........ 70@ 81
Bulk Special ‘iavored’ $0 Seeds oa a
Me NGO ..2.......
Brick. Blain ............ 95 i Amise 2.2.00. mae 40 fodine .......... 4 50@4 60
Brick, Waney .......... 30 Anise, powdered.. “< a fodoform ...... 5 68@5 70
° ° Bird, 1s ......++- Lead, Acetate ....21@ 25
Rock Candy Syrup, Fruit Juices, Crushed = Cy oo. 10@ 15 Lycopdium ....- 1 75@2 00
ao Buch, powdered 1 §8qo G0 ardamon’.-..:"°i $088 00 Mace. jiowiiered’-, S5ar1 00
Fruits, and all Extracts, Flavors, etc., used in soda Sage, ‘bulk ....... te Ghire Gowd 00) Ge & wenn ames a
: — oe \ 3@ a Conender Co gsge 60 ae Morphine 13 00@13 65
° oe Wik wecees eeeceee . Nux Vomica .... 22144@ 30
fountain work. one, a decks 10@ 75 ‘Fennell ..... . @ 2 Nux Vomica, pow. @ 20
Eisai oa ao sow a hea eis aoe. a4e a Feppe. oC pow. ¥¢ 2
lax, £ cars S32 epper. white .....
: i Uva Oral ........ 18@ 20 Foenugreek pow. 19@ 25 pitch, Burgundy .. @ 15
Electric Mixers, Glasses, Carbonators, Tables, Wes ss. 8@ 12 Quassia .......... 2@ 15
Olls Bobelia. .......-.. 40@ 50 Quini 90@1 00
i ° Almonds, Bitter, Mustard, yellow .. 19@ 25 nie Salts .... 48 55
Chairs, Stools, and all appurtenances used in con- Ce... 16 00@16 00 Mustard, black /: 19@ 25 saccharine, oz. .... @2 50
Almonds, Bitte . daa « aoa powd. .. 22 ; i : Salt Peter ...... 38@ 50
© < Mi = artificial ..... 7 OPPY --eeeeeeeecere Seidlitz Mixture .. 41@ 45
nection with the sale of soda water and in ice Almonds, Sweet, Quince “6.2222220) @1 25 Soap, green ...... 20@ 25
sa es : 1 25@1 60 x al ae as caeuat dues us = Soap mott castile 240 25
cream parlors. Imitation --.. 65@ 75 Sabadilla, powd. .. 85@ 45 “Carcevnite CAStle G19 og
a Amber, crude .. 175@2 00 Sunflower ....... T@ 10 Soap, white castile
————— Amber, rectified 2 50@2 75 Worm American @ 2% less, per bar .... @1 30
AMISG (20. eck 2 00@2 25 Worm Levant .. 1 00@1 10 coda Ash ........ 4%4@ 10
poreeene : ar bi Pinctutes Soda Bicarbonate 2%@ _ 6
Najeput ........ Soda, Sal ....s.6s 5
° ° Cassia .......... 2 75@8 00 Aconite ......... @ 95 Spirits Camphor .. @ 15
azeltine erkins Drug 0. Castor ......--- a 10@2 8 Ales ........0.- @ 78 Sulphur, roll ....8%@ 8
aoe reat 1 aes s ae aa gi = ee ae 3%@ <
< en itronella ....... safoetida ...... Tamarinds ....... 15@ 20
Cloves ........- 2 75@3 00 Belladonna ...... @165 Tartar Emetic -« @ &
Wholesale Druggists Grand Rapids, Michigan Cocoanut ........ 40@ 50 Benzoin ........ @110 Turpentine Ven. 50@4 50
Cod Liver ...... 4 75@5 00 Benzoin Compo’d @1 60 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 00@1 50
Cotton Seed .... 1 65@1 75 OM .....-.... 3: 50 Witch Hazel .... 80@1 25
Croton ......... 1 50@1 80 Cantharadies ... 800 Zinc Suiphate .... 10@ 16
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and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
GROCERY PRICE CURRENT
These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing.
Prices, however. are
liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled
at market prices at date of purchase.
ADVANCED
‘ . ADVANCED
anne eans Sarai
Little Neck Clams — Tobacco
Canned Tomatoes Twine
Cocoanut
Coffee DECLINED
Cream Tartar Flour
Prunes
Gelatine
Index to Markets 1 2
By Columns ARCTIC AMMONIA a a .
> : ; Little Neck, 1 Ib. .... 1 45
12 oz. ovals, 2 doz. box 2 00 Clam. Bouillon
<0) AXLE GREASE Burnham's % pt. .... 2 25
A Frazer’s Burnham’s pts. . 8
Ascumonin .. 2... .k 1tb. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 0) Burnham's ats. 7 50
Azle Grease ......... 1,13 1%. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 35 Corn
3%Ib. tin boxes, 2 dz. 4 25 ANN co oe ecco ce
B 10%. pails, per doz. 6 00 S600 ...4.-.5..4-.55- 1 85
Baked Beans ........ 1 15% pails, per doz. 720 Fancy bipeceeccone
a eee French Peas
ie 8 ee 1 BAKED BEANS Monbadon (Natural)
Breakfast Food ...... 1 mo. 1, per dow, _...... 1 35 per doz. .....+. err ee
Broom 6... ee. 1 No. 2 per dog ....... 2 2% : Gooseberries
Brion... -...s- 1 We. 8 per Gov. .. 3...) 2 15 _ * a boo
No. 2; Pancy ....seccee
Butter Color .....---- 1 BATH BRICK oO ace
Cc : English .........+4++. [toe 1 20
piles: |. le. BLUING
Canned Goods ...... 1, 2 Jennings’ ¥%, Ib. a oe 1 90
LtOND +27 Phere ene . Condensed Pearl Bluing ~ . 3 10
ee 3 Small, 3 doz. box .... 195 Picnic Flat .......... 3 75
ewing Gumi ....---- 3 ; > :
Cc fh anak Ale 66s e kes 3 a 2 wits pone & OO Mackerel
Pann 12 Folger’s Mustard, 1 tb. .....,. 1 80
oe Ss eo et 3 Summer Sky, 6 oz., Mustard, 2 tb. ....... 2 80
ee ; oe oe «i... 45 Soused, 1% Ib. ...... 1 60
Fe due coterie i g ‘Summer Sky, 12 0z., soused, 2 1D... ool 2 75
Coffee po ee per Gov... 65. Tomato, 1 th. ........ 1 50
a 4 BREAKFAST FOODS ree. - reteees 2 80
Cream Tartar ....--. 5 tear Food, Pettijohns 350 puttons ue rooms @20
D ee —— 24-2 ..4 50 Buttons. oo @50
ie cee 5 ream of Wheat .... 7 50 ee
Dried Fruits ... Cream of Rye, 24-2... : Hotes, 18 ........... @44
Quaker Puffed Rice .. 4 30 ' Oysters
Farinaceous Goods 5 Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30 Cove, A ab, 5c.20.5. @1 20
Fishing Tackle ...... 5 Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 190 Cove, 2 Ib. ......... @1 80
Flavoring Extracts 5 Quaker Corn Flakes .. 2 60 lums
Flour and Feed ...... 6 Washington Crisps .. 230 Plums .......... 1 50@2 00
Went Jars ......-..-- S Wheatena ............ 5 10 Pears In Syrup
G Evapor’ed Sugar Corn No. 3 can, per dz. 2 50@3 00
aietinn 6 ape — iiss +r 2 85 Peas
: ete ee Sugar Corn Flakes .. 2 6v ‘ r
Grain Bage ---------- 6 Holland Rusk ........ [oe a ‘oa.
H Krinkle Corn Flakes ..2 60 arly June siftd ; 60@1 75
ers eee ece- ee 6 Mapl-Flake, Whole e ie e
Hides and Pelts ..... 6 WEREOE oo tek cance s 4 05 Pi eacnes 1 00 25
Horse Radish ........ 6 Minu. Wiest Foot .. 650 27) cetperssi : 9; .
Waney ..:....------»- 6 Ralston Wheat Food ° e can pie
se canes Ue «2.3... 7) wo ee aos
J Ralston Wht Food 18s 245 crated ....-...- ; a .
Sg os ee 6 Ross’s Whole Wheat ice a tenes : @
sylassesS .......-- 7 BIBCUE gg coca ene ses umpkin
ee Saxon Wheat Food .. 450 Fair ........ccccceees - 110
M Shred Wheat Biscuit 4 00 Good ........-...-0.4.- 1 20
Mapleine ...-...-.-.- 7 Tete, 16 .......--- 180 Fancy .........sseeeee 1 30
Meats, Canned ...... 8 Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l] 250 No. 10 ............0.. 3 50
Mince Meat ........- 7 Post Toasties, T-2 ... 2 80 Raspberries
Mioineees ......------ 7 Post Toasties, T-3 .. 285 No. 2, Black Syrup .. 1 60
Riimterd ...........-. 7 Post Tavern Porridge 2 80 — ” — ase ear 2
o. 2, Re reserve
N BROOMS No. 10, Red, Water .. 7 25
Petes ee oe ee 4 Fancy Parlor, 25 lb. .. 7 25 Salmon
Parlor, 5 String, 25 lb. 700 Warrens, 1 Ib. Tall .. 3 10
° Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 6 75 at 3 25
: Warrens, 1 lb. Flat ..
SOUPS csp e ees ee es 7 Common, 23 ib. ....-- 5 Gat. 2 75
P Special, 23 ib. apcrette 6 “34 Med. Red Alaska .... 2 40
arenouse, cen ee . ie 2 00
a ee - 7] oa WERK |... ie oo Oe
oe ct ee, WE... -- 175 Domestic, 48 1-1++-+- 6 25
Playing Cards ........ 7 BRUSHES Domestic, 4 Mustard 6 00
Pte 8 oe ech ca 7 Scrub Domestic, % Mustard 5 50
Provisions ........--- 7 Solid Back, 8 in. ..... 75 Norwegian, %s .... 11@16
Solid Back, 11 in .... 95 Portuguese, %s ....22@80
Rice R g Pointed Ends ........ 85 Sauer Kraut
on 8 ~~ eee
Ce a s fede
s Mo: 8 .. 3... e eee 1 26 kak 4 oe
Salad Dressing es g a 1 75 bar 14s i. a
Maseretae ...5..5...., 8 Shoe Succotash
ak OD 2. co eee ese . a _ Deere nets 12 a
Ie oi, , 14 mT oo eee
a Wen... sec os . wee oe 170 GOO ..-.-0eseeeeeeeee 1 80
nate 9 No. 3 190 ancy ache ol Pen
PON goa edo ncescese pe eee ece cece c eee aul -
a, eee one ; BUTTER COLOR Gtamianl «crise: . 2:00
SO Dandelion, 25c size .. 200 Fancy ........- ceveeee 3 75
BORD pcksoscewesonesee 14 Tomatoes
Soda ..------+e+eeeee- 9 CANDLES MOc 2 boc oes se 75
Spices ........-. 9 Paraffine, 68 ...--..- Ma 8 ee at 23
Starch ......-..--+--- 9 Paraffine, 128 ....+-- (oe i ieee 7 00
SyrupS ....--+-+-++---- 9 Wicking .....-ccccsce 20 Tuna
Case
we Sauces ....-... 9 a _ ‘ = 4 —— naate =
WO ioe ch ek nine 9, 10 S ° wees
Tobacco ......-. nu, 2 ag Standards .. 23 = 1s, 4 doz. in case ..--10 00
an. ae
=~ Blackberries Snider’s \% pints ...... 1 -
Vv ch 2 175@2 00 Snider's pints ......- 2
Vinegar .....:....--- 12 Standard No. 10 .. @7 25 aus CHEESE @29
Ww ai. Beans 1 25@2 25 Carson City .... o>
i ac (ae AKCD .-seereve BE, noc sce ns-> A
Wicking pies wre 70° 4g Red Kidney .... 1 25@135 Leiden ........-. @
Woodenware ......... 12 oa seeeeeeees : coos -. Limburger ners : FA ae
ee ee ee Pineapple ......
=e Sere m Blueberries Edam .......... 1
Y Stanflara .........-.- 40 Sap Sago........ @
Weest Cake ...-<----- 13 0. picee si eee - 725 Swiss, Domestic %
3
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5
CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack .... 62
Adams Sappota ....... 70
Beeman’s Fepsin ..... 2
BAPCHRME 24. seo eo. sae 60
ORMCIOES os cee eee. s 1 33
Colgan Violet Chips .. 65
Colgan Mint Chips .... 65
Penivne ...)..... s+. <- 62
Doublemint ............ 64
Miage Spruce .......... 62
Hershey Gum .......... 48
Jutce Vrat .. 2.2. ks: 64
Sterling Gum Pep. .. 62
Sterling 7-Point ....... 62
Spearmint, Wrigleys .. 4
Spearmint, 5 box jars 3 20
Spearmint, 6 box jars 3 85
Trunk Spruce .......-.. 62
Wiican 3 es cy 62
VERO ope ech ceepete ewes 64
Smith Bros. Gum ..... 62
Wrigleys 5 box lots .. 61
0, to Se cee 75
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.
German’s Sweet ....... 24
POM oo cess 35
COPA OAS cokes ace lees 28
Walter M. Lowney Co.
Premium, \4S8 .......... 35
Premium, %8 ........- 35
CLOTHES LINE
Per doz.
No. 40 Twisted Cotton
No. 50 Twisted Cotton
No. 60 Twisted Cotton
No. 80 Twisted Cotton 2 40
No. 50 Braided Cotton 1 75
No. 60 Braided Cotton
No. 80 Braided Cotton 2 50
eee OO DODD DO DD
o
o
No. 50 Sash Cord .... 2 50
No. 60 Sash Cord .... 3 00
No. 60 Jute ...-55-..- 25
No. Te gute ...--.-... 40
No. 60 Sisal ....-.-.... 3
Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 00
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
COCOA
BAREIS so cccet ose ees 39
Cleveland .....:.+-----. 41
Colonial, 35
Colonial, 33
ROB 7... ees e us ‘cae
Hershey’s, \%8 .....-+-- 32
Hershey's, %S ........- 30
MAGVICr | oo oes sow esc e 36
Lowney, %8 ........--- 38
Lowney, %8S ........- (at
Lowney, %S ......+--- 37
Lowney, 5 lb. cans 37
Van Houten, %8 ...... 12
Van Houten, %s ...... 18
Van Houten, Xs ...... 36
Van Houten, Ils ........ 65
WENT ones seen wesc ce =
WORD io. oso 555 sense o>
Wilber, 48 ......----+% 33
Wilber, 48 ......------ 82
COCOANUT
Dunham’s per Ib.
igs, § Ib, case .....----> 32
\%s, 5 Ib. case .....--- 31
4s, 15 Ib. case ........ 8
14s, 15 lb. case .......- 30
is, 15 1b. CASE ..---+>>- 29
14s & Ys, 15 lb. case .. 30
5 and 10c pails ..... 4 00
Bulk, pails .......... 20
Bulk, barrels .......- 18%
Haker’s Brazil Shredded
70 5c pkgs., per case 2 80
36 10¢ pkgs., per case 2 80
16 10c and 33 5c pkgs.,
per case 2
Bakers Canned, doz. .. 95
eee rseee
Corre. ROASTED
°
Common ......+++++. 19
Mier 2.6 ee ee es 19%
CUGICE coc te won ass 20
WAMCY | oo s ssn ese es > 21
Peaberry .....---+0+: 23
Santos
Common ......+---s+- 20
alr. ..... bceO pce s sees 20%
RING occas neo ec ese 21
Maney ..seeoc eos +s 23
Peaberry .......-+-+- 23
Maracaibo
GU coos cc) oases 24
CHOICN oc asec seen ees 26
Mexican
CHOICE. 6c cs cie coy ess 25
CORY ooo e ee eee 26
Guatemala
WANG oo ceca e skew 25
WAMGY = occ c nee cc sc ee 28
Java
Private Growth .... 26@30
Mandling .........- 31@35
BUNA coe cc ces ns 30@32
Mocha
Short Bean ........ 25@27
ian HORM .. 5. 25+> 16
Molasses Kisses. 10
is, Dee <.....--...- 1s
Nut Butter Puffs .... 16
Star Patties, Asst. .. 17
Chocolates Pails
Assorted Choc. ...... 19
Amazon Caramels .. 20
CRAMOION iif. cssce > 18
‘Choc. Chips, Eureka ..24
CUMOK eos lees ase 18
Eclipse, Assorted .... 1!
Ideal Chocolates ..... 19
Klondike Chocolates ..24
, PURO og ee ee eee 24
Nibble Sticks ........ 26
Nut Waters ........ 24
Ocoro Choe Carame Is 22
9
Peanut Clusters ...... yA
Quintette ....-....... 19
Tawina ..3.-.-.-.+.-.s 7
Star Chocolates ...... is
Superior Choc. (light) 19
Pop Corn Goods
Without prizes.
Cracker Jack with
BOUDON 66. ck ees 50
Gracrer- Jack Prize .. 3 75
Cough Drops
oxes
Putnam Menthol 1 20
Smith Bros. ........ - 130
NUTS—Whole
Almonds, Tarragona 21
Almonds, California
soft shell Drake ae
Brazils
Filberts
Cal. No. s.
Walnuts, pF isuoisy
Walnuts, Grenoble
Table nuts, fancy =e
Pecans, Large sae
Pecans, Ex. Large oir
Shelled
No. 1 Spanish Shelled
Peanuts ...... 16%@17
Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled
Peanuts .....; 16 @16%
Pecan Halves ...... @80
Walnut Halves .... @654
Filbert Meats ...... @42
BIMORGE pecs ie cces @45
Jordon Almonds ....
Peanuts
Fancy H P Suns
ROW ees suas 104%@11
Roasted ..... 11%@12
H P Jumbo
ROW 6.6... see. 11%@12
Roasted ...... 12%4@13
CREAM TARTAR
3arrels or Drums .... 58
Square Cans ......-+.-- 62
BGOXGS = 6c. fe. cee 57
Fancy Caddies
ORIED FRUITS
Apples
Ievap’ed Choice blk
Evap’ed Fancy blk @
(12
Apricots
California’ ..6.5..-.42 @25
Citron
COVBICAN occa nos os os 3 21
Currants
Imported, 1 Ib. pkg.
imported, bulk ....... 18%
Peaches
Muirs—Choice, 25 Ib. .. 12
Muirs—Fancy, 25 lb. .. 138
Fancy, Peeled, 25 Ib. .
Peel
Lemon, American .... 16
Orange, American .... 17
Ralsins
Cluster, 20 cartons ..
'.oose Muscatels, 4 Cr. 9
tuoose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 8%
L. M. Seeded, 1lb 104% @10%
Callfornia Prunes
90-100 25 Ib. boxes ..@10
80- 90 25 Ib, boxes ..@10%
70- 80 25 Ib. boxes ..@11%
60- 70 25 Ib. boxes ..@12%
50- 60 25 Ib. boxes ..@13
40- 50 25 Ib. boxes ..@15
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
California Limas .... 17
Med. Hand Picked ....10
Brown Holland
Farina
25 1 Ib. packages ....
Bulk, per 100 1b. ...5..5;
Vriginal Holland Rusk
Packed 12 rolls to container
4 containers (40) rolls 3 80
Heminy
100 lb. sack .... 5 25
Maccaroni and Vermiceli!
toomestic, 1 Ib. box .. 75
{mported, 25 Ib. box ...
Pearl Barley
Chester. 600 3.0.05 00. 6 25
Portage. 3... 06... 7 75
Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu. 7 00
Split, Ib.
Pearl,
sees eesecce
Sago
East India
Heo cute. 6 13
German, sacks ....... 13%
werman, broken pkg.
Taploca
Flake, 100 Ib. sacks .. 18%
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks .. 13%
Pearl, 36 pkgs. ...... 75
Minute, 10c, 3 doz. ....3 25
FISHING TACKLE
Me £0 1 in. |... 5.6... co. 8
IM 10.2 ® 2235s
4 40 2 1M: .2.1....... 9
7 40 2 in. ..... eueeee 11
ope s casas bese sl Se
3 : rok a A soe, 20
Cotton Lines
No. 1, 10 feet ..... ce ©
Ne. 2, 15 feet ...:.... 7
No. 3, 15 feet ........ 9
No, 4, 15 feet ....:.., 10
No. 5, 15 feet ..... cece Le
No. 6, 15 feet ........ 12
No. 7, 15 feet ...5.... 15
No. 8, 15 feet ....... - 18
No. 8, 35 feet ........ 0
Linen Lines
SIA ee ec es ae 20
Medium ....... hicshee ae 26
TANRO i ee ee 34
Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft.,
Bamboo, 16 ft.,
Bamboo, 18 ft.,
per doz. 55
per doz. 60
per doz. 80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings D C Brand
Pure Vanilla
INO: 4, OB, co ec cence OS
NO. 2 1M Or oe. 1 35
INO: 4) 286 07. 2.80555, 2 40
No. 3, 2% oz. Taper ..2 25
2 02: Fiat ...5: Saks
Terpeneless
Pure Lemon
No 1, % oz. Panel .. 85
1% oz. Panel .. 1 20
2% oz. Panel .. 2 25
No. 3, 2% 02Z. Taper 2 00
2 oz. Flat ake cbweeeisn @ OO
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FLOUR AND FEED
Grand Rapids Grain &
Milling Co.
Winter Wheat
Purity Patent ...... 138 65
Fancy SDring ...... 14 75
Wizard Graham .... 13 00
Wizard, Gran. Meal .. 9 00
Wizard Buckw’t cwt. 6 00
Rye 13 00
Valley City Milling ue
Lily White
Light ia
Graham fool.
Granena Health
Pees eeeserecesas
4194, 9:8 6 9,616
Gran. Meat 2... |), 4 10
Bolted Meal ........ 4 00
Watson-Higgins Milling iG 9)
New Perfection .... 13 50
Tip Top Flour ...... 13 00
Golden Sheaf Flour .. 12 60
Marshalls Best Flour 13 50
Watertown Wisconsin
RVG .03 as. 12 00
Worden Grocer Co.
Quaker, paper ...... 14 00
Quaker, cloth ..... - 14 00
Kansas Hard Wheat
Worden Grocer Co
American Eagle, %s 15 40
American Eagle, 4s 15 3
American Eagle, %s 15 40
Spring Wheat
Judson Grocer Co.
Ceresota, 44s ....... 15 20
Ceresota, %s ...... 15 10
Cernesota, tas ...... 15 00
Worden Grocer Co.
Wingold, %s cloth .. 15 70
Wingold, 4s cloth .. 14 95
15
Wingold, %s cloth .. 15 50
Meal
mowed -). oo... 8 75
Golden Granulated 9 00
Wheat
MOG ee: 2 60
WRICG 220.000.0500. 8 65
Oats
Michigan carlots ...... 75
Less than carlots ...... 78
Corn
Canlots foo... Lt
Less than carlots .... 1 80
Hay
Canlots .. 62 ..6....... 18 00
Less than carlots .... 20 00
Feed
Street Car Feed .... 67 00
No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd 67 00
Cracked Corn ....... 67 00
Coarse Corn Meal .. 67 00
FRUIT JARS
Mason, pts., per gro. 6 00
Mason,. qts., per gro. 6 40
Mason, % gal. per gro. 8 75
Mason, can tops, gro. 2 75
GELATINE
Cox’s, 1 doz. large ... 1 45
Cox's, 1 doz. small .. 90
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 75
Knox’s Sparkling, gr. 20 50
Knox’s Acidu’d doz. .. 1 85
Minute, 1 doz. ........ 1 25
Minute, 3 doz. ....... 3 75
INeIsOn's | 260... 2). 1 50
Oxford ......0...5 2... 75
Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 40
Plymouth Rock, Plain 1 25
GRAIN BAGS
Broad Gauge, 12 oz. .. 23
Climax, 14 oz ........ - 25
Stark, A, 16 02. ......<.
HERBS
Sage ......65.255 ae eae 15
RIODS) 6.0020 00.000..... 02 15
Laurel Leaves ......... 15
Senna Leaves .......... 5
HIDES AND PELTS
Hides
Greeny NG. 1.2... 18
Green; No. 2.0.6 V7
Cured, No. 1. ...;... 7
Cured, NO. 2 ......<.-
Calfskin, green, No, 1 28
Calfskin, green, No.
Calfskin, cured, No. 1 30
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 28%
Pelts 16@2 00
Old Wool ........ @2
AMOS ...4ce5 cs 50@1 00
Shearlings ....... 50@1 00
Tallow
Wo fo... eet @ 6
PO 8 cece ee @ 5
Wool
Unwashed, med. ... @53
Unwashed, fine ... @48
HONEY
A. G. Woodman’s Brand.
7 oZ., per doz. ........ 90
20 oz., per doz. ...... 25
HORSE RADISH
POP COZ. 655 ks cease cde oe 90
JELLY
5Ib., pails, per doz. i
15lb. pails, per pail .. 1 05
30lb. pails, per pail .. 2 00
T
Jell-O
doz.
Assorted Case ....... 85
Lemon (Straight) .... 2 85
Orange (Straight) .... 2 85
Raspberry (Straight) 2 85
Strawperry (Straight) 2 85
Chocolate (Straight) 2 85
Chocorate (Straigrt) 2 85
Peach (Straight) .... 2 85
Jell-O Ice Cream Powder.
doz.
Assorted Case ......
Chocolate (Straight) 2 85
Vanilla (Straight) . 2 85
Strawberry (Straight) 2 85
Lemon (Straight) ... 2 85
Unflavorea (Straight) 2 85
Jiffy-Jell
Straight or Assorted
wer doz 2.60.00... as
Per case, per 4 doz. 4 60
Seven Flavors: Raspberry,
Strawberry, Cherry, lemon,
Orange, Lime, Pineapple.
JELLY GLASSES
% pt. in bbls., per doz. 25
¥% pt. in bbls., per doz. 27
8 0z. capped in bbls..
per doz.
MAPLEINE
2 oz. bottles, per doz. 3 00
1 oz. bottles. per doz. 1 75
16 oz. bottles, per dz. 18 00
32 oz. bottles, per dz. 30 00
MINCE MEAT
Per case ....0. 00.2... 3 45
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy. Open Kettle .... 50
Choice : a.
GOOG) isa. 37
SOG 6... et
Half barrels 2c extra
Red Hen, No. 2% ....2 90
Red Hen, No. 5 ...... 2 90
Red Hen, No. 10 ...... 2 80
MUSTARD
% ib. 6 lb box ........ 16
OLIVES
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 10@1 20
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 05@1 1b
Bulk, 5 gal. —— 1 00@1 10
Stuffed, 65 oz. ........ 95
Stuffed, 8 oz. wepecece 1 40
Stuffed; 14 Of. ....... 2 $6
— not “stufted) a
Sek b ees ase .. 2
Marsan. $ oz. ..... 95
Lunch, 10 oz. ........ 40
Hunch, 16 of ....... 40
Queen. Mammoth, 19"
moaees 4 50
Qenan: Mammoth, “23°
Ce a 5
Olive Chow, 2 doz. cs.
per dom 25.50.05... 25
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Iron Barrels
Perfection ........0..
oe oe
Red Crown Gasoline .. 20.5
Gas Machine Gasoline 32.9
VM & P Naphtha .. 19.5
Capitol Cylinder, Wood
sale Ses eee cece 33.
ae ke Red Engine ..
Winter Black 1
Polarine
PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count :. 9 50
Half bbls.,
600 count 5 26
5 gallon kegs ........ 2 20
Small
BARTON ogee c cise ve 11 00
alt harrels ......... 6 25
5 gallon kegs ....... 2 50
Gherkins
Barrels 2... ck cas 14 00
Half barrels ........ 6 75
5 gallon kegs ........ 2 75
Sweet pga
Barrels 2.0... oo... 4 00
Half barrels ...... ..11 50
5 gallon kegs ........ 4 20
PIPES
Clay, No. 216, per box
Clay, T. D. vat count =
Cob
PLAYING “CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat .... 85
No. 15, Rival assorted 1 60
No. 20, Rover, enam’d 1 75
No. 572, Special ..... 2 00
No. 98 Golf, Satin fin. 2 26
No. 808, Bicycle skees - 2 25
No. 632 Tourn’t whist 2 50
POTASH
Babbitt’s. 2 doz. ..... 1 90
PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork
Clear Back .. 42 00@43 00
Short Cut Clr ‘1 00@42 00
MCA ee. sas 0 00@'41 00
Brisket, Clear @43 00
Pig oo.
Clear . Family ...... 29 00
Dry Salt Meats
S P Bellies ::... 19 -@20
Lard
Pure in tierces ..244%4@25
Compound Lard 18%@19
80 Ib. tubs ....advance \%
60 lb. tubs ....advance %
50 lb. tubs ....advance \%
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
8
pails ...advance
pails ...advance %
pails ...advance 1
pails ...advance 1
Smoked Meats
Hams, 14-16 Ib. 251% @26
Hams, 16-18 lb. 21 @22
Hams, 18-20 lb. 20%@21
Ham, dried beef
sets ......... 29 @80
California Hams 21 @21%
Picnic Boiled
20 Ib.
10 Ib.
5 Ib.
3 Ib.
Hams ........ 19% @20
Boiled Hams 38 @39
Minced Hams ...... @19
Bacon 61.65. @37
Sausages
Bologna ...... cscecce LO
Liver 2... ee cesesccos
Frankfort asseace EU
OU oe aan
Weat oo. ec,
Pongue ....... elk: i
Headcheese .......... 14
eef
Boneless ..... 25 00@27 00
Rump, new .. 30 00@31 00
Pig’s Feet
Me DUIS ee ccc asc. - 175
* bols., 40 lbs. ..... . 3 40
Pe DDIS: coe ae 00
1 bol 3s. 12 00
Trip
Kits, 15 Ibe .......... 90
% bbis., 40 Ibs. ...... 1 60
% bblis., 80-Ibs. ...... 3 00
Casings
Hogs per Wb 6.0... .. 35
Beef, rounds, set ..
Beef, middles, set ..
Sheep 1 15@1 35
Uncolored Butterine
Solid Dairy ...... @25
Country Rolls ..:.25 @az
Canned Meats
Corned Beef, 2 Ib.
Corned Beef, 1 Ib.
Roast Beef, 2 Ib. 6 60
Roast Beef, 1 ib. ...:. 3 40
Potted Meat, Ham
Blavor, “4S <..... 55
Potted Meat, Ham
Flavor, 349 ........ - 100
Deviled Meat, Ham
Wiavor, 4468 ........ 55
Deviled Meat, Ham
Plavor, 369 .....3..< 1 00
Potted Tongue, 4s .. 55
Potted Tongue, %s ..
RICE
MOmey ..6....c. ce
Boule Rese .. .... @8
Broken
ROLLED OATS
Monarch, bbls.
Monarch, 90 lb, sks, .. 4 80
Rolled Avenna, bbls. 10 00
Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sks. 5 00
Quaker, 18 Regular .. 1 50
Quaker, 20 Family .. 4 90
SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, % pint .... 2 25
Columbia. 1 pint ..... 4 00
Durkee’s, large, 1 doz. 4 20
Durkee’s, small, 2 doz. 5 00
Snider’s, large, 1 doz. 2 40
Snider’s, small, 2 doz. 1 45
SALERATUS
Packed 60 Tbs. in box.
Arm and Hammer .. 3 10
eee eererecses
Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls. .... 1 40
Granulated, 100 lbs. cs. 1 50
Granulated, 36 pkgs. ..1 40
SALT
Common Grades
100 3 lb. sacks ...... 3 15
10 4 lb. sacks ...... 8
ta
28 Ib. sacks ......... 24
Warsaw
56 Ib. sacke ..........
28 lb. dairy in drill bags 30
Solar Rock
BG ID. SACKS . 2.7... ace Oo
Common
Granulated, Fine .... 1 60
Medium, Fine ....... «iG
SALT FISH
Cod
Large, whole ...... @10%
Small, whole:...... @10
Strips or bricks 11%@15
Pollock <.......2...- @ 8%
Holland Herring
Standards, bbls. ..... _ 50
Ya i, OOS 2... ec. ; 00
Standard, Kegs 2.54. 85
Y. Mi Rees 2.3.00... .. 96
ne &
Med. Fat Split, 200 Ibs 8 00
Laborador Split 200 Ib 10 00
Norway 4 K, 200 lbs. 16 50
Special, 8 Ib. pails .. 70
Scaled, in boxes ...... Tt
Boned, 10 Ib. boxes .... 16
Trout
No. ¥, 100 Ibs. ........ 7 50
Now 1,40 Yos) co... 2 25
No. 1, “ TOR oe ke 90
No. 1, 2 tbe ........:5
9
Mackerel
Mess, 100 ibs. ...... 16 50
Mess, 46 ibs. ........ 7.00
Mess, 10 Ibs. ........ 1 85
Mess, Spe) 2.2... . ee 1 56
No. 1, 100 Ibs. ...... 15 50
No. 1, 40 lbs. esse Oa
No. 1, 10 Iba. ...... 75
Lake Herring
100 Ibs. 00
40 lbs. 35
10 Ibs. 58
8 Ibs. 54
Anise ..........<.ce. 8S
Canary, Smyrna ...... 8
Caraway ............ 75
Cardomon, Malabar 1 *
Celery
Hemp, Russian ....... “TH
Mixed Bird .......... $
Mustard, white ..... - 20
PODDY (0002... 70
IRAE, css acess eck 3
SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large 3 dz. 3 50
Handy Box. small .. 1 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish 85
Miller’s Crown Polish 85
SNUFF
Scotch, in bladders ... 37
Maccaboy, in jars .... 35
French Rapple in jars .. 43
SODA
Hoxes 20.5... 5s... 6%
Kegs, English ........ 4%
PICES
Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica ..9@10
Allspice, lg. Garden @11
Cloves, Zanzibar .. @82
Cassia, Canton @20
Cassia, 5c pkg. doz. @35
Ginger African ..... @15
Ginger, Cochin @20
Mace, Penang ..... @90
Mixed, No. I ...... @17
Mixed, No. 2 ...... 16
Mixed, 5c pkgs. dz. @45
Nutmegs, 70-80 .... @85
Nutmegs, 105-110 .. @30
Pepper, Black @30
Pepper, White @32
Pepper, Cayenne @22
Paprika, Hungarian
Pure Ground In Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica .. @16
Cloves, Zanzibar ... @40
Cassia, Canton <. (@S2
Ginger, African .... @24
Mace, Penang ..... M1 00
Nutmegs ..........-. @36
Pepper, Black ..... @32
Pepper, White @38
Pepper, Cayenne ... @30
Paprika, Hungarian @45
STARCH
Corn
Kingsford, 40 Ibs. 1%
Muzzy, 48 ilb, pkgs. .. 714
Kingsford
Silver Gloss, 40 IIb. ™™%
Gloss
Argo, 24 5c pkgs. .... 95
Silver Gloss, 16 3lbs. .. 7%
Silver Gloss, 12 6lbs. .. 8%
Muzzy
48 ilb. packagesé¢...... 7%
16 3lb. packages ...... 6%
12 6Ib. packages ...... 8Y
50 Ib, boxes .......... 5%
SYRUPS
Corn
Barrels ooo. cc...
Fralf barrels ..........
Blue Karo, No. 1%,
O GOA ie... 2 85
Blue Karo, No. 2, 2 dz. 3 50
Blue Karo, No. 2%, 2
Gag sce. 4 30
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 4 25
Blue Karo, No. 10, %
G07 |... 4 00
Red Karo, No. 1%, 2
doz. 3
Red Karo, No. 2 3
Red Karo, No. 2% 2dz. 4
Red Karo, No. 5, f
Red Karo, No.
doz.
sere wwe e erence enes
Choice
Folger’s Grape Punch
Quarts, doz. case
TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large ........ 3 75
Halford, small ...... 2 26
TEA
Uncolored Japan
Medium .........<. 20@25
€hatea .............- 28@33
WenGY 052. .05-...- 36@45
Basket-fired Med’m 28@30
Basket-fired Choice 35@37
Basket-fired Fancy 38@45
No. 1 Nibe ........ 30@82
Siftings, bulk ...... 9@10
Siftings, 1 lb. pkgs. 12@14
Gunpowder
Moyune, Medium .. 28@33
Moyune, Choice 35@40
Moyune, Fancy .... 50@60
Ping Suey, Medium
Ping Suey, Choice 35@40
Ping Suey, Fancy .. 45@50
Young Hyson
@hoice .2...-. 5.5.5 - 28@30
Wamey 5 ...25..2.... 45@56
10
Oolong
Formosa, Medium .. 25@2%
Formosa, Choice 32@36
Formosa, Fancy 50@60
English Breakfast
Congou, Medium .. 25@30
Congou, Choice .... 30@36
Congou, Fancy .... 40@60
Congou, Ex. Fancy 60@306
Ceyion
Pekoe, Medium .... 28@36
Dr. Pekoe Choice .. 30@35
Flowery Oo. P. Fancy 40@50
TOBACCO
Fine Cut
Biot . 2
Bugle, tin pail
Bugle, EGG 2.05... .., 11 uv
Dan Patch, 8 and 16 oz. 36
Dan Patch, 4 oz. I
Dan Patch, 2 oz.
Fast Mail, 16 oz.
Hiaw: itha, I6 oz. ;
Hiawatha, 6e .......
. t.
Croc Oy -1oIr
~3 ao
a
May Flower, 16 oz. .. 9 36
No Limit, 8 oz. ...... 86
No Limit, 16 oz 72
Ojibwa, 8 and 16 oz 40
Ojibwa, 10c ........ 10
Ojibwa, 8 and 16 oz 42
Petoskey Chief, 7 oz. 2 30
Petoskey Chief, 14 oz. 4 60
Peach and Honey, 5c 5 76
Red Bell, 14 oz. t 20
ted Bell 206 ..._.. |. 2 10
Sterling, L & D, 5c ..5 76
Sweet Cuba, canister 9 16
Sweet Cuba, 5e 5 76
Sweet Cuba, l0c ...... 96
Sweet Cuba, I Ib. tin 4€ 60
Sweet Cuba, % Ib. foil 2 40
Sweet Burley, 5¢ L&D 5 76
Sweet Burley, 8 oz. .. 2 45
Sweet Burley, 16 oz. 5 50
Sweet Mist, % gro. ..5 76
Sweet 1 10
Mist, S om. .. 1
5
Telegram. Se ......- 76
iser, Ge ............ 6 00
Tiger, 25c cans ...... 2 40
Uncle Daniel, 1 Ib. .. 60
Uncle Daniel, 1 oz. .. 5 23
Plug
Am Navy, 16 oz. ...... 85
Apple, 10 Ib. butt ...... 41
Day’s Work, 7 & 14 lb. 42
Drummond Nat. Leaf, 2
ano 5 Ih 2... 60
Drummond Nat. Leaf,
Per dom .........:2... 96
Battle Am ............ 32
Bracer, 6 and 12 lb. .. 30
Big Four, 6 and 16 Ib. 32
Boot Jack. 2 ih ....... 90
Boot Jack, per doz. .. 96
Bullion, 16 oz ........ 46
Climax Golden Twins 49
Climax, 1436 of ....... 44
Climax 7 Of, .......... 47
€limax, 5¢ tins ...... 6 00
Creme de Menthe, Ib. 65
Derby, 5 lb. boxes .... 28
& Bros, 4 tb .......... 66
Four Roses, 10c ........ 90
Gilt Edges, 2 Ib. 5
Gold Rope, 6 and 12 Ib. 58
Gold Rope, 4 and 8 Ib. 58
G@. © F., 12 and 24 ib 40
Granger Twist, 6 Ib. .. 50
Gi T. W., 10 and, 2 Ib. $s
Horse Shoe, 6 and 12 Ib. 48
Honey Dip Twist, 5
b
and 10 Ib. ........... 49
Jolly Tar, 5 and 8 lb. 40
Jd. T., 53% and if th .. 40
Kentucky Navy, 12 Ib. 32
Keystone Twist, 6 lb. 45
Mismet, 6 ib. .......... 48
Maple Dip, 16 oz. .... 5 04
Merry Widow, 12 Ib. .. 32
Nobby Spun Roll 6 & 3 58
Parrot, 12 Ib.
Patterson’s Nat. TI.
Peachey, 6, 12 & 24 lb. 47
Picnic Twist, 5 Ib. L
Piper Heidsieck 4 & 7 lb. 69
Piper Heidsieck, per dz. 96
Polo, 3 doz., per doz. 48
Red Cross
Scrapple, 2 and 4 doz. 48
Sherry Cobbler, 8 oz. 33
Spear Head, 12 oz .... 46
Spear Head, 14% oz. .. 46
Spear Head, 7 oz. . 50
Sq. Deal, 7, 14 & 28 ‘Ib. 30
Star, 6, 12 ‘and 24 tm .. 48
Standard Navy, 7%, 15
and 30 Ib.
Ten Penny, ‘ pion 12 lb. 35
Town Talk, 14 om. ..... 33
Yankee Girl, Ne “e 24 Ib. 33
Scrap
AW Red, Se. .......:.. 5 76
Am. Union Scrap .. 5 40
Bag Pipe, Sc ........ 5 88
Cutias, 236 Oo. ........ 26
Globe Scrap, 2 oz. .... 30
Happy Thought, 2 oz. 30
Honey Comb Scrap, 5c
Honest Scrap, 5c ..
Mail Pouch, 4 doz. Be
Old Songs, 5c .......
Old Times, % gro. .
Polar Bear, 5c, % gro.
Red Band, 5c, % gro.
Red Man Scrap, 5c ..
Scrapple, 5c pkgs. ....
Sure Shot, 5c, % gro.
Yankee Girl Scrap 202.
Pan Handle Serp %4 gr
Peachey Scrap, 5c ....
Ar KHAOCIOIOID}H Oo
So
S
29
11
Smoking
All Leaf, 2% & 7 oz. 30
BB, 3% o 6 00
Be, ft oe .......... a
BB, 14.68, ..0..... 2
Badger, 3 oz.
Badger, 7 oz. ecceccds OF
Benner, Ge ........... 6 1
Banner, 20e .......... 1
Banner, 40c 3
Belwood, nue 10c 94
Big Chief, 2% oz. .... 6 00
Big Chief, IG om. .... 30
Bull Durham, bc ..... 5 88
Bull Durham, ldc .. 10 80
Kull Durham, Ei «sce 1
Bull Durham, 8 oz. .. 83 60
Bull Durham, 16 oz. .. s 72
Buck Horn, 6c ...... 5 76
Buck Horn, 3Ge ..... 11 52
Briar Pine, te ....... 5 76
Briar Pipe, 10c ...... 11 52-
Black Swan, 5e
Bob White, Seo... 00
Carnival, Se |... || 5 70
Carnival, 4 O88: ....:. 39
Carnival, 16 on ...... 40
Cigar Clip’ Johnson 30
Cigar Clip’g Seymour 30
Identity, 3 and 16 oz. 30
Darby Cigar Cuttings 4 50
Continental Cnbes, 10c 90
Corn Cake, 35e 3 55
Corn Cake, 20¢ ....., 1 90
Com Cake, Sc ...... 5 76
Cream, 50c pails .... 4 70
Cuban Star, 5c foil .. 5 76
Cuban Star, pails .... 4 40
Citys, We .......... 10 30
Dills Best, 134 oz.
Dills Best, 8% oz. .... 77
Dills Best, 16 on .... 7
Dixie Kid, 5c
Duke’s Mixture, Se .. st 76
Duke’s Mixture, 10c ..11 82
Duke’s Cameo, Be dees 5 76
Drum, §€ _...:....... 5 76
rE. A. 462 |... . 5 04
Ee A. fF oe ...... 11 52
Bashion, Ge .......... 6 00
Fashion, IG O% ....., 5 28
Five Bros., Ge .....; 5 76
Bive Eros., ide ..... 10 80
0
Five cent cut Plug .. 29
EF O B i@ec
ove eua ad 11 62
Four Roses, 10c ...... 96
Full Dress, 1% oz. ... 72
Glad Hand. Se ........ 48
Gold Block, ide ...... 12 00
Gold Star, 50c pail .. 4 60
Gail & Ax Navy, 5c 6 00
Growler Se ........ |. 4S
at BG Se 1 50
Growler, 306 ........ 3 00
Giant, tc ...<......... 6 00
Giant, AGG .6 cc cce 88. 72
3
Hand Made, 2% oz. .. 50
Hazel Nut, 5c
Honey Dew, 10c .... 12 00
Bunting, Ge .:.....__. 38
TX 8 Ge ....... 5 10
[xX EE in pata 3 90
Kiln Dried, 16 oz. 3 50
King Bird, 7 oz. ...... 2 16
King Bird, We .....: 11 52
King Bird, Ge ....... 5 76
Ea Furka Ge ........ 76
Little Giant, 1 Ib. 23
Lucky Strike, Ge .... 96
Le Redo, 3 oz. 10
Le Redo, 8 & 16 oz. .. 40
Myrtle Navy, 10c ....11 52
Myrtle Navy, 5c ..... 5 76
Maryland Club, 5c .... £0
Mayflower, Se ....:... 6 00
Mayflower, Me. oo... 1 00
Mayflower, 20c ...... 1 92
Nigger Hair, 5c ...... 6 00
Nigger Hair, 10c ....10 70
Nigger Head, Ge .... & 4
Nigger Head, 10c «ose SE
Noon Hour, 6c¢ 4
Old Colony, 1-12 gro. 11 52
Old Mill, 5e 5
Old English Crve 14% oz. 96
Old Crop, 5e 6
Old Crop, 25c 2
P. S., 8 oz. 30 Ib. case 19
P. S., 3 oz., per gro. 5 70
Pat Hand, i oz.
Patterson Seal, 1% oz. 48
Patterson Seal, 3 oz. .. 96
Patterson Seal, 16 oz. : 00
Peerless, 5c
Peerless, 10c cloth of 52
Peerless, 10¢c paper “ 80
Peerless, 206 ......... 04
Peerless, AUG oo. 4 08
Plaza, 2 gro. case .... 5 76
Flow Boy, Se ........ 5 76
Plow Boy. ce ...... 11 40
Plow Boy, 16 02 .... 5 40
Pedro, 106 .......0.0., 11 93
Pride of Da oy 1% .. 7
Puot, 7 om. dom. ...... 1 05
Queen Quality, 5¢ .... 48
Hob Roy, Se. foil .... 6 60
Rob Roy, 10¢e gross ..11 52
Rob Roy, 25¢ doz. .... 2 60
Rob Roy, 50c doz. .... 4 90
S. & M. 5c gross .... 5 76
S. & M., 84 oz. doa. .. 3 $0
Soldier Boy, 5c gross “ 76
Soldier Boy, 10c ...... 0 50
mtag, SE .............. ‘7 76
Stee We il $2
Stag, 8 oz. glass .... 4 50
Stag, 90c glass ...... 8 40
Soldier Boy, 1 Ib. .... 4 75
Sweet Caporal, 1 oz. 60
Standard, 5c foil .-..
Hound Heau
K C Baking Powder is
Place an order with your jobber. If goods are not satis-
30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN June 6, 1917
12 13 14 Guaranteed to Equal the Best 10c Kinds
Sweet Lotus, 5c 5 76 Wire End BAKING POWDER
Sweet Lotus, 0c ---.11 52 Ib., 250 in crate .... 85 KC 80 Can Cases ...-- -$3.20 Per Case
5 4 s, . 2 5 OZ.
Sweet Rose, 24% oz... 30 3 “ee 250 : — Se) = 10c, 4 doz. in case .... 95
ee Tip ro tae 5 ib. 20 in erate 6. 65 ibe, : — in case .... 1 40
s le o° cu 25c, oz. in ¢ sere =
Sweet Tips, % gro. ..11 52 Churns 50c. 2 a wee Kab 4 3 Handled by All Jobbers
Sun Cured, 10c _ ...... 98 Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 40 8c, 1 doz. plain top 7 00
Summer Time, 5c .... 5 76 Barrel, 10 gal., each 9 10 Ib. % dz., plain top 14 00
: eal., ch .. 2 55
Summer Time, 7 oz. 1 65 Special deals quoted up-
Summer Time, 14 oz. a Clothes Pins on request.
9
oS 10c paper
Seal N. 1% cut plug 79
Seal N. C. 1% Gran. .. 63
Three Feathers, 1 0z. 48
Three Feathers, 10c 11 52
Three Feathers, and
Pipe combination .. 2 25
Tom & Jerry, 14 oz. 3 60
Tom & Jerry, 7 oz. 1 80
Tom & Jerry, 3 0z. .. 76
Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 76
Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags .. 48
Tuxedo, 2 oz. tnis .... 96
TuxedG, ZOC ...+-++++ 2 04
Tuxedo, 80c tins .. 7 68
Union Leader, 5c coil 5 76
Union Leader, 10c
ponch ....--------+ 11 52
Union Leader, ready
ue cee es ce 11 52
Union Leader 50c box 5 10
War Path, 5c .......-- § 00
War Path, 20c ...... 1 60
Wave Line, 3 0z. ..... 40
Wave T.ine, 16 oz. ....- 40
Way Up, 2% oz. .... 5 75
Way Up, 16. oz. pails 36
Wild Fruit, Sc ..-..- 5 00
Wild Fruit, 10c ..... 12 00
Was VU, OC ..-.->6> 5 76
Yum Yum, 10c .....- 11 52
Yum Yum, 1 Ib. doz. 4 80
CIGARS
Peter Dornbos Brands
Dornbos Single
Binder 35 00
Dornbos, Perfectos .. 35 09
Dornbos, Bismarck 70 06
Allan D. Grant ..... 65 00
Atlan: Do... 6k esse 35 00
Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brana
Dutch Masters Club 70 60
Dutch Masters Inv. 70 00
Dutch Masters Pan. 70 00
Dutch Master Grande 65 00
i] Portana
Dutch Masters, 5c
5 & W
Gee Jay
Johnson's Straight
Above five brands are
sold on following basis:
Less than 300 35
300 assorted
2500 assorted
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, 3 ply .......-. . 37
Cotton, 4 ply .........- . of
Jute, OY. cbnecsses .
Hemp, 6 ply .......++- 22
Flax, medium ........ 35
Wool, 1 Ib. bales ...... 17
VINEGAR
White Wine, 40 grain 12
White Wine, 80 grain 17
White Wine, 100 grain 20
Oakland Vinegar & Pickle
Co.’s Brands
Highland apple cider 22
Oakland apple cider .. 17
State Seal sugar ..... 14
Blue Ribbon, Corn ... 12%
Oakland white picklg 12
Packages free.
WICKING
No. 0, per grosS ......-- 35
No. 1, per gross ......-. 45
No. 2, per gross ....... 60
No. 3, per Eross ....... 90
WOODENW ARE
Baskets
EE cious eee eee 19
Bushels, wide band .. 1 25
Market, drop handle .. 5
Market, single handle 59
Splint, large .......- 4 00
Splint, medium ....... 3 50
Splint, small ........ 3 00
Willow, Clothes, larze
Willow, Clothes, small
Willow. Clothes. me’m
Butter Plates
Ovals
¥% Ib., 250 in crate .... 35
% Ib., 250 in crate .... 35
1 Ib., ‘950 in crate ...... 40
2 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 50
2% 260 im crate .....- 70
5 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 90
4% inch, 5 gross ...... 65
Cartons, No. 24, 24s, bxs. 70
Egg Crates and Fillers
Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20
No. 1 complete ..... so. Ae
No. 2 complete ....... 35
Case, medium, 12 sets 1 30
Faucets
Cork lined, 3 in. ....... 70
Cork lined, 9 in. ...... 80
Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90
Mop Sticks
Trojan sprime .<........ 1 25
Eclipse patent spring 1 25
No. 1 common ...... 1 25
No. 2, pat. brush hold 1 25
weet MWe. FT ccc cee esse 1 25
12lb. cotton mop heads 1 75
Palle
10 qt. Galvanized .... 3 40
12 qt. Galvanized 4 00
14 qt. Galvanized .... 4 50
MUTE oto ec oa cee 4 00
Toothpicks
Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00
HMieRE cas ec e. 85
Traps
Mouse, wood, 2 hoels .. 22
Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. 45
10 gt. Galvanized .... 1 55
12 at. Galvanized .... 1 70
14 qt. Galvanized .... 1 90
Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65
Bat, WOON ooo leek 80
ME, MOTI ....4-5-5... 75
Tu
Mo. 1 Wibre ......-<.- 16 50
No. 2 Wibre ....-..-. 15 00
No: 3 Fipre .......5+.5 13 50
Large Galvanized ... 12 50
Medium Galvanized 10 75
Small Galvanized .... 9 50
Small, Galvanized .... 8 75
Washboarcs
3anner, Globe ...... 3 75
Brass, Single ........ 6 Tb
Giass, Single ........ 3 Td
Double Peerless ...... 6 25
Single Peerless ...... d Z>
Northern Queen ..... 4 60
Good Enough ....... 4 65
Universal ........... 4 74
Wood Bowls
13 in. Butter ........ 1 75
15 in. Butter ........ 3 16
17 in. Butter ........ 6 75
19 in. Butter ....... 10 50
WRAPF:NG PAPER
Fibre Manila, white ..
Fibre, Manila, colored
No. 1 Manila
Butchers’
Kraft
Wax Butter, short c’nt 16
Wax Butter, full c’nt 20
Parchm’t Butter, rolls 19
YEAST CAKE
Macic, 3 doz ...--... 1 15
Sunlight, 3 doz. ....., 1 00
Sunlight, 1144 doz. .... 50
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. .. 1 15
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85
_ Window Cleaners
ee
Manila ....
1 Ib. boxes, per gross 8 70
3 Ib. boxes, per gross 23 10
PU eeIEL UD
Carlotsorlocal
bulk or sacked
jure. Poultry
charcoal
DEWEY — SMITH CO., Jackson, Mch.
Successor tuM O DEWEY CO
shipments.
in paper or
and stock
guaranteed to comply with
ALI Pure Food Laws, both
State and National.
Royal
Z 10e size ... 1 00
4 %1b. cans 1 45
6 oz. cans 2 00
%lb. cans 2 55
A %1lb. cans 8 95
4 95
23 70
1lb. cans ..
Ze 5lb. cans
SALT
Tae DL lake
SALT
Morton’s Salt
Per case, 242 Ibs. .... 1 80
Five case lots ....... 70
SOAP
Lautz Bros.’ & Co.
[Apply to Michigan, Wis-
consin and Duluth, —
Acme, 100 cakes ...... 47
Big Master, 100 blocks 5 .
Climax, 100 oval cakes 4 25
Gloss, 100 cakes ...... 4 75
Lautz Master Soap ... 4 75
Naphtha, 100 cakes .. 4 85
Oak Leaf, 100 cakes .. 4 75
Queen Anne, 100 cakes 4 75
Queen White, 100 cks. 4 75
Proctor & Gamble
4
ROROK cous ecaccccece 75
LVOry, 6 OZ. ..ss.02000 5 75
Fvory, 10 OZ... ..cscnss 9 60
Miae a cu ees eee on 4 60
Swift & Company
Swifts Pride .......- 4 50
White Laundry ...... 4 25
Wool, 6 oz. bars .... 4 65
Wool, 10 oz. bars .... 6 50
Tradesman Companv
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 ........ 40
Scourine, 50 cakes .. 1 80
Scourine, 100 cakes .. 3 50
Queen Anne Scourer 1 80
Soap Compounds
Johnson’s Fine, 48 2 3 25
Johnson’s XXX 100 5¢ 4 40
Rub-No-More 4
Nine O’Clock
WASHING POWDERS.
Gold Dust
24 large packages ... 5 00
100 small packages .. 4 85
Lautz Bros. & Co.
{Apply to Michigan, Wis-
consin and Duluth, onlv!
Snow Boy
100 OSE. 4 oo esse se 4 85
GO OMEE. . 6 6e eee s 3 00
AS DRS. &....556----- 4 85
24 pkgs., family size . 4 25
20 pkgs., laundry size 4 75
Napntha
60 packages .......... 3 00
Queen Anne
60 packages ......... 3 00
Oak Leas
24 packages ......... 4 25
100 packages ......... 4 85
factory return same at our expense.—FITZPATRICK BROS.
FITZPATRICK BROTHERS’ SOAP CHIPS BBLS.
White City (Dish Washing)........- Peer eeuee cane! 210 lbs......
Tip Top (Caustic)......---+-++: ar oe eee bg
No. 1 Laundry 88% Dry ks wie ehh cee sees «nes ee . .225 lbs Becca PRICES
Palm Soap 88% Dry .----- eee eee e ett eetee tees ..800 Ibs......
SEND FOR SAMPLES |
“Blizzard” Ensilage Cutters
CLEMENS & GINGRICH CO.
Distributors for Central Western States
1501 Wealthy St. Grand Rapids, Michigan
i a dt
Aly —
' De be By Telephone”
It’s a good slogan to tack up alongside
your desk.
When the trip out of town seems necessary—
When you want to get in touch with an
out of town customer—
When any one of the many exigencies of
business calls for your attention in some
distant city or town—
Stop to consider if you cannot save time
and expense by using the Bell toll lines.
Every Bell Telephone is a Lon? Distance Telephone
Michigan State Telephone Company
4 »
i ee
¢ +
June 6, 1917
Advertisements inserted under this head for three ce
continuous insertion.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
Wanted—To hear from owner of good
dry goods or general merchandise store
for sale. State cash price, description.
D. F. Bush, Minneapolis, Minn. 961
For Sale—All the furniture and fix-
tures now in our drug store at Monroe
and Ottawa, this city. Cash registers,
show cases, fountain apparatus includ-
ing carbonator, — scales, Shelving, ete.
Possession given June 15, Signed,
Schrouders Drug Store. 34
For Sale— $6,000 stock of general mer-
chandise in town of 800. Good farming
community. Other business interests.
Address No. 135, care Tradesman. 1385
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT
Cash Buyers of clothing,
goods and furnishings.
stocks.
Detroit.
shoes, dry
Parts or entire
H. Price, 194 Forrest Ave. East,
678
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 Blvd., Chicago. 800
For Sale—Old established market and
bakery, twenty-five years: no competi-
tion; 3,000 population. Cold storage in
well equipped slaughter house; buy and
slaughter everything we use. Auto de-
livery, electric chopper, computing scales.
Retiring. About $10,000 consideration.
Some terms if wanted. Don’t write un-
less sure enough interested. Addrses J.
C. Studer & Sons, Canadian, Texas.
137
For Sale—A good store building at
Hasty, Minn.,’ $1,600, one-half cash. Six
living rooms, good location, Fine oppor-
tunity. H.-A. Zum_ Brunnen,
Minnesota.
For Sale—Clean stock of dry goods,
ready-to-wear and millinery. Inventory
about $9,000. Established best trade in
booming city of 3,000. Lease attractive.
Investigate. Box 3835, St. Louis, Mich-
igan. 129
Country store for sale at Green Lake,
50 miles north of Minneapolis. Dance
pavilion, ice house, barn, boats, bath
house, all new, 814 acres land. Will con-
sider $6,000. Address C. Westling, Route
4, Princeton, Minnesota. 11
For Sale—Cement block factory, gravel
pit, power tamper, mixer, dry kiln, six
horse power steam boiler. J. Prochnow,
Romeo, Michigan. 119
For Sale—Billiard room, two billiard
tables 44% x9; two pocket billiard tables
4% x9, Brunswick-Balke make: 12. bil-
liard chairs. Everything complete to do
business with. Enquire F. O. Lord,
Grand Ledge, Michigan. 121
For Sale or Exchange—For stock of
merchandise, one 40-acre improved farm,
one S0-acre unimproved farm, a fine ice
cream parlor, complete new outfit. Lo-
cated in resort town on Michigan Pike
and Dixie Highway. Address at once,
No. 122, care Tradesman. 22
Drug Store (snap) for sale in Blue
Island, Ill. Big snap. Good business.
Full particulars free. Address Public
Drug Store, Blue Island, Illinois. 131
Property in Florida to exchange for
stock of dry goods, groceries, etc. De-
sirable residence and lots; good location
in St. Petersburg, Florida. For further
information. address Lock Box D, Ashta-
bula Co., Ohio. 132
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. I.ast invoice $5,700.
Will invoice or lump off. $1,500 cash re-
quired, balance terms to suit buyer. Ad-
dress all communications to F. C. C., oe
oan
Michigan Tradesman.
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. AT
First-Class confectionery and ice cream
parlor, Lock Box 72, Montpelier, ag
Si
Your opportunity for up-to-date stocks
in clothing, dry goods and shoes; cloth-
ing and shoe merchant having retired.
No shopworn, fire or damaged stocks
need apply. Great business opportunity.
County seat, surrounded by excellent
farming community. Splendid crop pros-
pects. Address F, W. Hill, Keytésville,
Missouri. 141
For Sale—General stock in one of the
best market towns in Michigan. Stock
new and up-to-date. Will inventory be-
tween $7,000 and $8,000. Satisfactory
reasons for. selling. Address Box 127,
Hemlock, Michigan. 142
For Sale—Several car loads of cedar
gees posts. A. Mulholland, Reed City,
Michigan, as
llections everywhere. We get the
aa and so do you. No charge unless
collected. United States Credit Bare?
Washington, D, C 5 5
For Sale—Good live drug and grocery
stock located in the heart of Flint. Rea-
son for selling, ill heath. Must be sold
at once. J. C. Hughes & Co. 98
Hasty, .
38
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,
Michigan. 646
General Merchandise and real estate
auctioneer. Closing out and _ reducing
stocks, address Leonard Van Liere, Hol-
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
Safes Opened—W. L. Stucum, safe ex-
pert and locksmith. 128 Ann St., N. E.,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 104
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
Cash Buyer of clothing, shoes, dry
goods, furnishings and carpets. Parts or
entire stocks. Charles Goldstone, 335
Gratiot Avenue, Detroit. 63
For Sale For Cash—$25.000 stock dry
goods, ready-to-wear, men’s furnishings,
shoes and notions, in a city of 700 popu-
lation, mostly country trade. No old
goods in stock. Old goods have always
been kept cleaned up. Will sell at in-
ventory price which is about 25 per cent.
less than goods cost to-day. Have done
cash business for over four years. Reason
for selling is that we have more business
than we can take care of. Address No.
93, care Michigan Tradesman. 93
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.
Rare Chance—400 acres, 100 improved,
300 wood and pasture. Orchard 1,600
trees; barn cost $5,000. House 25 x 45,
not finished. Water in both; everything
the best. Five and two-thirds miles woven
wire fence. Near school and market.
Only $30 per acre. Will exchange in part
for town property. See, phone or write
Ss. W. Hopkins, 630 Normal Ave., Mt.
Pleasant, Michigan. Do it now. 96
Clean, up-to-date stock millinery; wom-
en’s ready-to-wear. Art goods. In pro-
gressive town on St. Clair river. Box
177, Algonac, Michigan. 84
For Sale—Suburban drug. store Grand
Rapids. Located near large school. Es-
tablished four years. Yearly sales $9,000.
Rent $25 month. Address Suburban, care
Tradesman. 87
For Sale—Clean general stock in grow-
ing city of Fremont. Stock will inventory
about $12,000. Will rent or sell store
building. Address No. 102, care Michigan
Tradesman. 102
For Sale—General stock of merchan-
dise in a No. 1 farming town. Cheap for
cash. Invoice $5,500 stock and fixtures.
Reason for selling want to dissolve part-
nership. Address No. 92, care Trades-
man. 92
Must Sell—Landis No. 3 machine and
all harness tools, hardware, ete. Doing
good business in harness and shoe re-
pairing. Located in brick store, $12.50
month rent. Invoice $850, $400 cash
takes it. Box 77, Fowlerville, Michigan.
145
Will pay cash for whole or part stocks
of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn, Sag-
inaw, Michigan. 767
Bargains—Dry goods or general mer-
chandise stores, any kind, anywhere.
Send for free list. Western Sales Agency,
Minneapolis, Minnesota. 962
Advertisers—I re-write any advertise-
ment; print or manuscript; any size de-
sired, for $1, cash with order. Let me
boost your sales! Dax the Ad. Fixer,
Lock Box 270, Chicago, III. 133
HELP WANTED.
Wanted—Embalmer holding Michigan
license. Prefer Catholic. W., care
Tradesman. 140
Wanted—Man capable of running small
shingle mill. A. Mulholland, Reed City,
Michigan.
Wanted—RBoat builders,
cabinet makers, joiners, caulkers, first-
class pipe fitters, and men who know
how to install marine engines. We have
clean and_ well-ventilated shops. Port
Clinton is situated on Lake Erie, in the
center of the famous fruit-growing dis-
trict, on the main line of the New York
Central Railroad; a good inexpensive
little town to make your home in, within
easy reach of the Great Lakes summer
resorts, and there is plenty of fishing,
hunting anl boating. Non-union shop.
We offer good wages and steady work.
Transportation refunded. The Matthews
Co, Port Clinton, Ohio. 120
Wanted—Two experienced clerks, one
grocery—other hardware. Address John
Hansen, Edmore, Michigan. 982
POSITION WANTED
For Sale—Creamery business of 1,009
quarts, wholesale ana retail. Centrally
located in Jackson, Michigan. Cheap if
taken at once. Jenkins Bros. Creamery.
124
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June 6, 1917
Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.
Apples—Baldwins, $5.50@5.75
bbl.: Ben Davis, $4.25 per bbl.
Asparagus—Illinois, $2 per box; home
grown, $1 per doz.
Bananas—$4.75 per 100 Ibs.
Beets—$1 per doz. bunches for new.
Butter—The trade has been very ac-
tive during the week, at prices about 2c
lower than they were last week. The
quality arriving shows considerable im-
provement as the season advances. The
market is steady at the decline, with a
good consumptive demand. No im-
portant change is looked for soon. Local
dealers hold fancy creamery at 39c in
tubs and 40c in prints. Local dealers
pay 32c for No. 1 in rolls, 33c in jars
and 28c for packing stock.
Cabbage—New California commands
$4.25 per 80 lb. crate.
Carrots—%2 per hamper for Iilinois.
Cauliflower—$2.75 per doz.
Celery—Florida, $3.50 per box of 3
or 6 doz.; $3 per box of 8 doz.; Cali-
fornia, 75c@$1 per bunch.
Cocoanuts—$6 per sack containing 100
Cucumbers—$1@1.10 per doz.
Eggs—The market is firm, with a fair
consumptive demand, at prices about 1c
lower for the week. The weather has
been very good for producing eggs of
fine quality, and the receipts have been
very fine. The market is healthy on
the present basis, with no important
change in sight. Local dealers pay 33c
for fresh, including cases, holding case
per
count at 34c.
Figs—-Package, $1.25 per box; layers,
$1.75 per 10 lb. box.
Grape Fruit—-$4.50@5.50 per box for
Florida or Cuban.
Green Onions—20c per doz. bunches
for home grown.
Honey—18e per Ib. for white clove
and 16c for dark.
Lemons—California selling at
$4.50 for choice and $4.75 for fancy.
Lettuce—15c per lb. for hot house
leaf ; $2 per hamper for Southern head ;
$3 per crate for Iceburg from California.
Maple Syrup—$1.50 per gal. for pure.
Mushrooms—$1 per Ib.
Nuts—Almonds, 18c per Ib.; filberts,
16c per Ib.; pecans, 15c per Ib.; walnuts,
16c for Grenoble, 15%4c for Naples.
Onions—Texas Bermudas command
¢2.95 per 45 Ib. crate for yellow and
$2.50 for white.
Oranges—California Navals, $3.40@
are
S13.
Peas—$2.50 per bu. for Florida.
Peppers—Southern command 60c per
basket.
Pineapples—Cubans are held as fol-
lows: 24s, $3.40; 30s and 36s, $3.
Plants per box crated—Tomatoes,
&5c: cabbage, 85c; pepper, $1; astors,
$1: salvia. $1; geraniums, $1.40.
Pop Corn—$2 per bu. for ear, 5a
6'4c per Ib. for shelled.
Potatoes—Old command $3.20 per bu
new, $4 per 50 Ib. hamper.
Poultry—Local dealers pay as fol-
lows, live weight: heavy hens, 23c; light
hens, 21@22c; cox and stags, 15@18c;
geese, 15(@16c; ducks.
fowls average 3c
broilers, 38@40c ;
29(423c. Dressed
above quotations,
Radishes—-15c per doz. bunches for
small. :
Rhubarb—Illincis, or home grown, 3c
per Ib. or 75c per 40 Ib. box.
Strawberries—Bowling Green are now
in the market, commanding $3.75 for
24 qts.; Missouri Aromas, $3.75.
Squash—Button, 5c per 1b.
Tomatoes—$3.50 for 6 basket crate,
Florida.
Turnips—$1.25 per hamper for Flor-
ida.
Wax Beans—$3.25 per hamper from
Florida.
+--+ ——_.
Gospel of the Cost System.
The Standard Chemical Company
of Des Moines, Ia., is credited with
having perpetrated the following par-
aphrase of the 23d Psalm; which is
of particular interest just now, when
sO many organizations are urging
more attention to cost accounting
methods:
The cost system is my salvation.
I shall not fail.
It maketh me lie down in peaceful
slumber;
It leadeth
“leaks;”
It restoreth my intellect;
It guideth me in the path of cost
finding for my own name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the
battles of competition I will fear no
danger, for it is with me;
Its accuracy and knowledge they
comfort me.
It prepareth a table before me in
the presence of my family;
It annointeth my purse with profit
and establisheth my credit; my purse
runneth over.
Surely success and happiness shall
follow me all the days of my life
and I will dwell in the house of Pros-
perity forever.
—_2-+2————_
The Brotherhood of Man.
As the member of an infant em-
pire, as a philanthropist by character,
and, if I may be allowed the expres-
sion as a Citizen of the great repub-
lic of humanity at large, I cannot help
turning my attention sometime to
this subiect, “how mankind may be
connected, like one great family, in
fraternal ties.” I indulge a fond, per-
haps an enthusiastic idea, that as the
world is evidently much less barbar-
ous than it has been, its melioration
must still be progressive; that nations
are becoming more humanized in their
policy; that the subjects of ambition
and causes for hostility are daily di-
minishing; and, in fine, that the period
is not very remote when the benefits
of a liberal and free commerce will
pretty generally succeed to the de-
vastations and horrors of war.
George Washington.
—_++ >
Eggs, Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes.
Buffalo, June 6—Creamery butter,
extras, 417@42c; first 39@40c; com-
mon, 36@38c; dairy, common_ to
choice, 32@40c; dairy common, all
kinds, 28@30c.
me beside the still
Butter,
Cheese—No. 1 new, fair 23c;
choice 23'%4c.
Eggs—Choice, new laid 36@37c;
fancy hennery, 38@38%c; duck, 38c.
Poultry (live)—Fowls, 25@26c;
Broilers, 40c; old cox, 18c; ducks,
23(@24c.
Beans—Medium, $10.50@10.75; pea,
$10.50@10.75; Red Kidney, $8.00@8.50;
White Kidney, $10@11.00; Marrow,
$10.50@11.00.
Potatoes—$3.25 per bu.; New, $10.50
@11.00 per bbl. Rea & Witzig.
CORN CAKES COMING.
We have all heard the cry to use
more corn meal and send the wheat
to England, where the folks do not
know how to use the corn and, it
may be added—do not know how
delicious it is when properly cooked.
Some of us, too, have heard the re-
joinder, “We'll keep the wheat and
let the folks across the pond learn
how to cook with the corn.”
As a matter of fact, there are sev-
eral inducements which should ap-
peal to us for using at least a part of
this corn ourselves. It is cheaper
than wheat. When patrons complain
of the high price of flour, why not
call attention to its cheaper com-
panion. Tell them how in your own
family it is combined with graham
flour into a most delicious brown
bread: how fried mush is enjoyed as
a breakfast dish and how wholesome
the old fashioned corn meal mush
with milk will still be found. True,
it takes more preparation than the
ordinary cereals, more cooking. But
this the fireless manages easily, with
no possible chance of burning.
Scientists tell us that twelve ounces
of flour or corn meal are equal in
fuel value to half that weight in but-
ter or fat bacon or to a pound or
two of steak. Corn contains consid-
erable protein and there are several
ways of serving it which are more
economical than the prepared “flakes.”
We have come to think of it as dis-
tinctly not a hot weather food and
at the same time we indulge in high
priced meats, although mercury soars
in the nineties. Our Southern
cousins use it the year round as a
main food, Surely we can find it a
delicious variation from the usual
bill of fare—corn cakes, bread, or
“Johnnycake” being served as taste
dictates. While most of us would
tire of it as a steady diet, a ten
pound sack of corn meal with a fifty
pound sack of flour will prove one
of the pleasing economies, which will
admit of more liberal purchases along
other lines.
> o-
The demand by war-scientists that
women give up the use of platinum
jewelry brings the agitation for pa-
triotic self-sacrifice very near the
danger-point. The family menu has
been attacked, also the family auto-
mobile; it has been hinted that one
domestic is as efficient as two, if the
lady of the house does her bit at odd
moments. “Do your own marketing
and relieve the errand-boy for truck-
farming” is a cry that has daily filled
the arms of liberty-loving ladies with
multitudinous bundles. But when at-
tack is made upon woman’s eternal
right to look as pretty as she knows
how, we are in for trouble. Savon-
arola tried the experiment of inter-
fering in matters of feminine style
and burnt his fingers badly. In this
platinum business the remedy is not
to start a counter-revolution in Rus-
sia in order to increase the output of
the Russian mines, but to persuade
our American ladies that they need
no platinum settings to enhance their
charms.
———_»-+-
The appointment of a receiver for
the Emerson Motors Co., at New York,
is a regrettable incident. .The public is
to be deprived of a miraculous car cost-
ing less than $400. This is no mere
figment of the imagination; the company
manufactured a real car, and brought
it down on the curb market, and took
pictures of it, and everything. The
company hung immense signs on big
manufacturing plants: “The Emerson
Motors Company,” then drove the real
car that it had in front of a plant, placed
a few drivers and wayfarers about in
nonchalant attitudes, and took photo-
graphs of the scene and sent it out on
circulars. Why the company should
need a receiver is not clear. It must
have sold a lot of stock, and the cost
of engraving the stock was very low,
so that would be mostly clear profit.
—_—_-2-2—____
In the good old days of country
fairs in England it was not unknown
for a farmer to sell small pigs by sam-
ple, the actual pig being tied up in
a bag for delivery. Nor was it un-
known for some crafty farmer to sub-
stitute a cat for the supposed pig.
However, if the purchaser were wary,
he might open the bag to examine
the wares and so let the cat out of
the bag. Hence to-day we say of an
untimely disclosure that it lets the
cat out of the bag.
—_——_.--2—___
The man who does nothing but
sit around and wait for a dead man’s
shoes never cuts much of a figure
in the financial world.
——_2.2.————
Many a man who wouldn’t make a
wife of his cook makes a cook of his
wife.
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