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AS ce oie MAIN EAL NES ABR / ki §LL AD EUDEIG LIDMAK tea Lge LPT OBIT ONIN FERRIS RAED pes WWE CeCe I LPR Ros ee OO ans be 53 j oe “a AS Co \ tL) we 4 RAN 3 : nes a gga. _ Witter CAPA ELA LYE ® Wa (G EL | e 1 moos id & Ke i i) Ks ES AX iy a d : yy 5(OF aaa mie BA (eS eR I a rca : AO (Cari NR AC a EZ, Ss S CPPUBLISHED WEEKLY © 77x Ze TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 2225) US SOP SOULE SS as (SS Cee SAS e “ Sy U mA, BNR I PEELS SON RES GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1917 Wake Up, Mr. Merchant Here Is Your Opportunity . | Posittvely the Most Successful Special Sale : Conductors in America at Your Service i We furnish more bona fide references than all others in the business combined The oldest in the business who personally conduct their own sales Our mode of conducting sales is far different from all others Thirty-Fourth Year se Many years of experience places us foremost in the advertising world where no deception or misleading statements are used to pack your store with eager buyers. All advertising matter must meet with your approval before going to press.. You place the selling price on all goods to be sold; you handle all money taken in at your sale. We conduct your sale under your name, so in the eyes of the people we act simply as salesmen. We are not trade wreckers but Reliable Business Developers, Stock Reducers and Cash Realizers We increase your future business by bringing to your store people who were never there before. (Your competi- tor’s customers.) Who by new business tactics and honorable dealings together with the courteous treatment they all receive at our sales, make them life-long customers. DON'T BE MISLEAD—Use the same careful methods in securing : the services of sales experts as you do in employing your clerks. We have conducted sales for some of the largest and Pe best merchants in America. Write, phone or call, and we will gladly furnish you, without obligation, any information you desire in regard to having a successful sale conducted on your stock. Please mention size of stock when writing. Below isa partial list of our references—write them: < Men’s Clothing Stores Wholesale Houses Department Stores a F,.O. Lindquist, Grand Rapids,’ Mich. August Bros., Rochester, N. Y. J. P. Ryan, Bangor, Mich. ! McQuillan & Harrison, Jackson, Mich. Steifill, Strauss & Connor, Rochester, Blood & Hart, Marine City, Mich. I. Gudelsky, Muskegon, Mich. Solomon Bros. & Limpert, Rochester, Mills & Healey, Grand Rapids, Mich. As Clothing Co. Grand Rabide Mich Practical Clothing Co. New York, Walsh & Meyer, Savannah, Ga. ¥, Star Clothing Co., son: — eisai Strouse & Bro., Baltimore, Md. A. B. Case Co., Honor. Mich. H. C. Jorgensen, Cadillac, Mich. Hayes, Levi Co., New York. Speyer Co., Kalamazoc, Mich. Edward Lonergan, Bridgeport, Conn. Edson Moore & Co., Detroit. DuGuids Department Store, Goble- y M. Katz & Son, Grand Rapids, Mich. I. Strauss & Son, Cincinnati, Ohio. ville, Mich. : Man From Michigan, Muskegon, Mich. Ps desepsig 5 ig gs vel rap Chas. B. Eddy, Hart, Mich. : : : rn Clo. Co., imore, j | <<) National Clothing Co., Grand Rapids, Hirth-Krause Shoe Co., Grand Rapids, Chas. E. Norton Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Mich, Mich, cmrwn JOHN L. LYNCH SALES CO, «= « 28 South Ionia Avenue Wm. Alden Smith Building Grand Rapids, Michigan Ramona is ready, after weeks of preparation, to welcome recreation and pleasure seekers. Dancing Thrillers, Refreshment Booths, Rowboats and Canoe docks freshened, brightened and made more fasci- nating than ever. 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 99 Fort Street, W. DETROIT Dick’s “Blizzard” Ensilage Cutters = — e . T- pvrisig RUNNING, to Suit MOST Every Need DURABLE. See our full line on display at COLISEUM ANNEX, Commerce Ave. Where we have temporary offices until our new building is completed. CLEMENS & GINGRICH CO. Wholesale Distributors Grand Rapids, Michigan Pere Marquette Railroad Co. DUDLEY E. WATERS, PAUL H. KING, Receivers F ACTORY SITES Locations for Industrial Enterprises in Michigan The Pere Marquette Railroad runs through a territory peculiarly adapted by Accessibility excellent Shipping Facilities. Healthful Climate and Good Conditions for Home Life. for the LOCATION OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES. First-class Factory Sites may be had at reasonable prices. Coal in the Saginaw Valley and Electrical Development in several parts of the State insure Cheap Power. Our Industrial Department invites correspondence with manufacturers and others seeking locations. All in- quiries will receive painstaking and prompt attention and will be treated as confidential. Address GEORGE C. CONN, Freight Traffic Manager, Detroit, Michigan ~ Flour Always Uniformly Good Made from Spring Wheat at Minneapolis, Minn. Ceresota Judson Grocer Co. The Pure Foods House Distributors GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN eae aT aaa TONES ae Franklin Package Sugars Pay You A Profit rE These “‘ready-to-sell’’ packages save you the labor and time required to put sugar in bags, save you the cost of the bags and twine and loss by overweight. You can supply the sugar wants of all your cus tomers with Franklin Package Sugars because they include all varieties. Every packaze is guaranteed full weight. Franklin Granulated Sugar is sold in 2 and 5 |b. cartons and 2, 5, 10 and 25 Jb. cotton bags. “A Franklin Sugar for every use’ Granulated, Dainty Lumps, Powdered, Confectioners, Old Fashioned Brown es The Franklin Sugar Refining Company PHILADELPHIA a. ae ¢ ~ =o al fi _ G4 hw aly, . 4 } Thirty-Fourth Year SPECIAL FEATURES. - News of the Business World. 5. Grocery and Produce Market. 6. Hardware, 7. Upper Peninsula. 8. Editorial. 10. Dry Goods; 12. Financial. 15. Curtailing Deliveries. 18. Shoes. 20. Woman’s World. 22. Butter, Eggs and Provisions. 24. The Commercial Traveler. 26. Drugs. 27. Drug Price Current. 28. Grocery Price Current. 30. Special Price Current. 31. Business Wants. HOW WE CAN MAKE GOOD. After twelve weeks of war our navy has failed to solve the one paramount problem before it, namely, the safe- guarding of American munitions and American food cleared for English ports. Not only has the U-boat men- ace not been checked, but its tool has recently become as alarming as at any time in the past. The arrival at a French port of several units of Pershing’s army has demonstrated that the supplies could have been safely transported also. Shortly after the declaration of war it was announced that two engineers had simultaneously evolved the pro- ject (which had been approved by the naval authorities at Washington) of meeting the U-boat menace by build- ing supply ships faster than they could be sunk by the Germans. The supply of enemy torpedoes was limited, was argued, and a submarine without tor- pedoes would be like a copperhead snake with its fangs drawn. If a farmer whose field was infested with copperheads should conceive the idea of sending so many farm-hands into it as would exhaust the virus of the snakes, should they all be struck, the parallel would be complete. Fortu- nately for American naval policy, this plan has not yet been carried very far. In the opinion of the Tradesman the only way to prevent the sinking of our food and munition ships en route to our Allies is to protect them. A number of supply ships, with suf- ficient sea room between them, can sail together conveyed by destroyers. The United States and its Allies have enough freight carriers left, if they are protected, and our navy will not begin to grapple effectively with the U-boat menace until it has abandoned the policy of replacing torpedoed ships by rapidity of building. The traditions of the American navy demand an attack against a Ger- man submarine base. Shades. of Perry and Farragut and Dewey! shall the exploits of our navy in English waters continue to be limited to burn- ing the brine in brilliant dashes to rescue survivors from torpedoed mer- chantmen? Had those responsible for our naval policy begun three months ago to de- GRAND RAPIDS,” WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1917 velop a system of “heavily guarding” cur food and munitions bottoms, the plan would have been devoid of the heroic and the dramatic feature. But competent naval authorities assure us that such a plan would have “madeg good.” : LABOR UNSETTLEMENT. The chief feature at the moment is the wide labor unsettlement. This is extremely serious while it lasts, bit it is to be remembered that England had to pass through the same phase when it first entered the war, and it ib is so serious now that a settlement “must soon be found. The first advance in raw materials was of the greatest benefit. It increased the value of in- ventories and stimulated production, but it has now reached a_ point where it is not an unmixed blessing. In the first place, the cost of raw material is now so high and so er- ratic that it is next to impossible to figure on finished goods, and_ there- fore to manufacture with confidence. Secondly, the cost has advanced to such a point+where it very materially limits normal consumption, Third, such a high cost ties up too much capital in inventories. Some day these will have to be marked down severely. We mention this merely as One of the most difficult features. The situation is.so mixed that it is open to a number of interpretations. There is no question but that war is the most destructive of all influences, and its price must some day be paid sastusuatanunmmenemmem ns] American troops in France mean something more than relief for the rench on the actual battle line. With that must come a proportional im- provement in the economic situation. More Frenchmen can now be spared for agriculture, with a consequent in- crease in the naticn’s food resources. and the increased supplies will be for the use of the people of France. Our own army is to be fed and supplied directly from home. The conflicting requirements of the army and of food production have constituted a prob- lem which the French government has been able to deal with only by half-way measures. There have been serious debates in the Chamber over the release of men of the classes be- fore 1890 for work in the fields. Com- paratively small though the American army on the Continent, may be for some time to come, the number is not negligible in view of the fact that the French government has been send- ing back men from the army to the fields in meagre thousands. The re- lease of even twenty thousand French agriculturists would be an appreciable gain. paid for in lives and in money. The fact that men are being takn by the tens of thousands from productive cecupations to that of destruction limits the output, and is one of the most important influences in main- taining high prices. The. influence of war is always towards inflation, and so long as it lasts it means high prices for commodities and, therefore, in a general way, for stocks. EE Seana eeeanenemenaeee ieee The talk that the war and the loan issues would create inflation, sprang up suddenly and = suddenly faded away. The belief had not perished: it had become obscured. It was thrown into the background by tem- porary concern over the success of the Liberty Loan, the money market, price fixing, the excess-profits tax. It is again making its appearance, and not without reason. The banks do not have to carry a reserve against Government deposits. Their legal re- serve requirements against other de- posits have been reduced. New York members of the Federal Reserve sys- tem, whose legal reserve was former- ly 18 per cent., can now keep 13 per cent, at the Federal Reserve Bank, and as much or as little in their own vaults as they choose. Formerly Fed- There is not one merchant in a hun- eral Reserve notes did not count as dred who has learned this lesson as legal reserve. Now they can be kept Mr. Beard has learned it through in the banks’ own vaults, and will at Fae Gd ce dietinice exasperating: ex. least serve as actual reserve. And “i on top of these changes are the im- mense credits created by banks that The subscribed to the loan, and the pay- ments which the Government is be- ginning to make to manufacturers. eR A folding bed must be pulled down before it can be done up. mane Elsewhere in this week’s paper ap- pears an advertisement for the Worden Grocer Company, in which Frederick C. Beard, the long-time re- tail grecer, states that he turns his grocery stock twenty-three times each year. Mr, Beard is the soul of honor and no one who knows him would question his word for an instant. The Tradesman agrees with the terse ob- servation of Old Barney to the effect that Mr. Beard has solved the prob- lem of merchandising— “keeping stock down and sales up.” successful perience. eee Glee eet workman who walks away from his place of employment on the stroke of the quitting bell never gets anywhere in this world, If he leaves his work before washing his hands he is a sloven whom no one cares to help or encourage. If, on the other hand, he has washed his hands, brush- ed his clothes and combed his hair on The less a man knows the more suspicious he is. for marketwise, as it is now being: Number 1763 his employer's time, so as to be ready to jump when the bell strikes, he is a petty thief, because he has misused time he is paid for to devote to his own personal uses. No employer ever gives such a man a_ passing thought, except to make a mental no- tation that the workman is entitled to no consideration, so far as ad- vancement is concerned. A man who is unfaithful in small things would be a dangerous employe to entrust with larger responsibilities where the op- portunities for betrayal of trust are greater and the damage to the busi- ness through incompetence and _ in- difference is more serious. eee sees The Tradesman commends the sug- gestion of its Traverse City correspond- ent that the hotel keepers in every town will find it advantageous to mark the automobile roads by signs at every road intersection, giving the distance to the town in which the hotel is located as well as the distance to other towns in the immediately vicinity. The unfortu- ate effect of the lack of stich informa- tion is clearly disclosed in the communi- cation of Mr. Follmer, published in the Tradesman of last week. If the local automobilists in each town do not see the necessity of such action, which, of course, would be entirely gratuitous on their part, it would be well for the land- lords to avail themselves of the adver- tising advantage such a system of pla- carding the roads affords. cece es eee Closely bound up with the subject is that of restricting, through embar- goes, all exports to neutral European countries of foodstuffs and goods of various character which eventually find their way into Germany in some form vitally necessary to her. As matters are shaping themselves, it is highly probable that there are serious times ahead for the small nations surrounding Germany who have grown fat on their trade, both licit and illicit, with her. Now, that our Government evidently intends to ex- ercise to the full its pressure along economic as well as along military lines, the help of the United States to neutrals will be the highest char- acter imaginable. and to that extent will help shorten the war. There has been such a strong denand for copies of the Tradesman contain- ing the report of the Merchants Con- gress that the edition is nearly exhaust- ed. Those who are still without copies of the Garver talks for permanent preservation can obtain them from the Worden Grocer Company, the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. and Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. These houses procured quan- tities of reprints from the Tradesman report for distribution among their cus- tomers, 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 4, 1917 Wafted Down From Grand Traverse Bay. Traverse City, July 2—In an article entitled “Mark the Roads,” in last week’s Tradesman, by C. C. Follmer, were some very good things, worthy of consideration by the different busi- ness men in the small towns along the auto roads. We have personally interviewed one or two of the few men who have tried out this form of advertising, particularly hotel men, and they say in every case it has shown a marked increase in business. One advertiser has had signs placed on the main roads one mile apart, out for a distance of nine or ten miles, which read: “7 miles, 6 miles, 5 miles,’ etc., to his hotel, and he finds, in many cases, parties will stop over for a meal or a night’s lodging, who had intended to go farther. Here is where continual suggestion comes in, as you cannot have a hotel sign staring you in the face every mile for an hour without thinking of some- thing to eat, and the next thing is to become hungry. If every hotel man in the small town would adopt this system of advertising, which would cost but a small sum—as from twen- ty to forty signs would do the busi- ness—there would be no lost auto parties and the advertiser would reap his reward. We are pleased to note that Charles Ehrenberger and little son, wha were run down by an auto some weeks ago, severely injuring both, are on the road to recovery. Fred C. Richter has purchased a new ford roadster to make his ter- ritory with. We expect Buhl & Sons will have to double their force in the house to take care of the increase in orders. We notice the question asked in the last issue of .the Tradesman “Why is business not better?” The law of supply and demand has some- thing to do with this. Not long ago prices on certain articles of food stuff, for instance, sugar and flour were soaring daily, and predictions were being made every day, that flour would reach $20 per barrel and other things along the same line. At this time the ultimate consumer, who had the money—and most of them had it —bought from six months’ to a year’s supply and some of them for two years ahead, at a time of year when they had never done such a thing before. Under ordinary conditions, people do not lay in a supply until after harvest, and, consequently, job- bers and manufacturers were not pre- pared in many cases to take care of this rush of business at that time. Results: High prices prevailed for a time. Now no one is buying, prices have declined and business is punk. Mrs. Fred C. Richter entertained about forty of the ladies of the White Shrine of Jerusalem at her home on Union street, last Thursday with a social afternoon, Refreshments were served, a 10 cent collection taken, and the money turned over to the Red Cross, Every one had a very enjoy- able time. C. G. Sherwood, manager of the Hannah & Lay flour mill, has dis- covered that a broken front spring on a car doesn’t assist in driving over the roads between Traverse City and Petoskey. This, no doubt, ex- plains why some of the party thought that the water or coca cola had made him reokless. 5S. 8B T. ——_2.-.-—. You Yourself. Your greatest problem is yourself. You are also your greatest treasure. If you can get yourself determined upon—find out what you are and what you are for—and if you can discover and develop the elements of value in your nature, your life will take on the beauty of orderliness and your need of the savings bank will be less and less, for you will be your own riches. Richard Wightman. Barney Langeler has worked in this institution continuously for over forty-five years Barney says— F. C. BEARD; Grocer BELL MAIN 2705 PHONES | ErrigeNs 34184 van orkut 2. sale _ et wane OEM I Duater va dials anche a ee in - J 2A Vr | Wik ee 1504 Wealthy Avenue Fis Oe Of: D tae. a Viale ini Glprrcnh Aaron FAA 2a Aisa pre aad, Se jon hie K hoe oe (veeben, Le, or Fe autre Kk 7 girth, (7 Clg eee is tule Fide I well remember when Fred Beard started in the grocery business as a young man at Morley. He has always been a keen buyer and close seller. He has surely solved the problem of retail mer- chandising— keeping his stock down and his sales up. WoRDEN ROCER ( OMPANY GRAND RAPIDS— KALAMAZOO THE PROMPT SHIPPERS DO2+Ag a Ire as ie eo 4. i r Sad a rt July 4, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 8 4 } hs | | vs «. “C00 Ce atexeeess D 99 Hg = Ae This trademark appears on the label of every bottle ', | The New Cereal Beverage Which is Having a Wonderful Sale Mile S&S SY S S SNANASSS SANAAAAA AS AARNE Every merchant in Michigan who handles soft drinks will be interested in this remarkable new beverage as it is meeting with great success in its introduction to the public. A big sum is being put into advertising which means that the _ demand will be continually on the increase. The advertising will appear in the newspapers, on the billboards and in every store window. Every merchant should procure a share of the profits on Vita and you should take advantage now of our liberal money back order plan. a | A Money Back Trial Order Plan pe ee f ine lis . ; : i ‘ — Ss. You take no risk in sending in your order on the at- 3 BS « “}. . tached coupon. You have no chance to lose as our agree- ; oy Vie ; ° . ment is to take off your hands any unsold portion any time ty e e within three months from date of order. a Remember, this trial order plan is for your protection “- and we are assuming the entire risk. ‘ | t a ¥\ Bor tied by ( ! Free Advertising Helps ere. ance + “SRERS| EN Ws BErvER SS "1% When we ship your order we will send you FREE a GRAND RAPIDS, MICH: { ~ complete set of advertising cards and hangers for your win- “a. * dows and counter or fountain. - ¢ i Hang this advertising up in a prominent place so that customers can see them. It will help to sell the goods you | order and let customers know you have the new beverage rt fy | to offer them. Cut out and mail today. ww! > Petersen Beverage Co., | Large Bottle Retails at 10 Cents Grand Rapids, Mich. § ao amin oF ae caine E , . bottles and package. 2 Benersen, Beverage Gp, — a P. ©: 'Addveas....... Ph wees edu Ueeuee cue gurcduG eece ale : GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Dated.. Suge ch oe ae - Ship via.. «Préight. .:..... Express y " ey It is expressly understood that the Petersen Beverage Co. agree to take off my hands any unsold portion any time within 4 a three months from date. e MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 4, 1917 Movements of Merchants. Jackson—The Fisk Coal Co. has increased its capital stock from $10,- 000 to $15,000. Muskegon Heights—E. L. Nessesn has opened a confectionery store in the An- cel] hotel building. Elwell—Albert Anderson has op- ened a grocery and confectionery store in the Taylor building. Lansing—The Isbell-Brown Co.., dealer in grain, has increased its cap- ital stock from $16,000 to $50,000. Ionia—Cobb & Bowerman = succeed George C. Batson in the restaurant and rooming house business on Depot street. Imlay City—Thieves entered the gen- eral store of Hazelton & Linekar, July 2 and considerable stock was carried away. Sheridan—Robert Evans, who con- ducts a general store at Fishville, has opened a meat market in connection with it. Eaton Rapids—Maher Bros., deal- ers in music and musical instruments at Jackson, have opened a _ branch store here. Marshall—Myron S. O’Keefe, of M. S. O’Keefe & Co., book dealers, died at his home June 29, following a stroke of apoplexy. Alpena—Fire destroyed the building and drug stock of Dr. F. B. Cornell June 27, about $10,000. Detroit—Lightning recently struck the store building of the H. R. Leonard Furniture Co., causing a loss of several thousand dollars. Jackson—The Alva F. Watkins Co. has been incorporated with a capitaliza- tion of $5,000 to manufacture and sel! drugs and pharmaceuticals. Greenville—J. DeVlieger & Son, who conduct a grocery store at Beld- ing, will open a branch store in the Slawson block about July 14. Marlette—The Marlette Farmers’ Co- Operative Elevator Co. has taken over the stock and buildings of the Holmes Grain Co. and will continue the busi- store entailing a loss of ness. Alma—James Redman, wholesale gro- cer, is erecting a brick store building on East Superior street which he will occupy with his stock as soon as com- pleted. Dimondale—George W. Elliott, of DeWitt. is erecting a grain elevator with a capacity of 10,000 bushels, which he will open for business about Oct 1. Detroit—William Burnstein & Co. has incorporated to engage in the retail dry goods business at 1497 Michigan avenue with an authorized capital stock of $1,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Jackson—The L. H, Haynes gro- cery store, at 514 North East avenue, was burglarized June 27 and consid- erable stock and the contents of the cash drawer taken. Jackson—The Jackson Fish & Oyster Co. has sold its stock and equipment to Nim Westlund, the former manager, who will remodel and enlarge the store building and install modern fixtures. Harbor Springs—Charles Bassett has purchased the interest of his partner, Henry Stewart, in the mill and general store at Five Mile Creek of Bassett & Stewart and will continue the business under his own name. Bessemer—The Swanson & Carlson Co. has been incorporated to handle groceries, meats and provisions with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, all of which amount has been sub- scribed, $400 paid in in cash and $9,- 600 paid in in property. Carson City—Burglars entered the stores of P. J. McKenna, dealer in gen- eral merchandise, Alex Moore, dealer in general merchandise, and the meat market of McCrary & Jennings July 1, carrying away some stock and the con- tents of the money drawers. Battle Creek—This new wholesale grocery house con- nected with which are certain inter- esting and unusual features. It was formed a few months ago at the ini- tiative of Miss Hope E. Columbus and Miss Rock, also J. C. Myers, all of whom had had experience in the busi- ness in clerical and sales capacities. They interested Howard B. Sherman, a local manufacturer and capitalist, in the enterprise, and have just mov- ed into a handsome and efficient ware- market has a heuse which was dedicated a few nights ago with notable exercises. The remarkable feature of the house- warming was the fact that the festivi- ties were presided over by C. C. Ward, Secretary of the Michigan State Wholesale Grocers’ Associa- tion, and among the notable guests who made speeches were the heads of the two local rival houses, Gods- mark, Durand & Co. and Halliday & Sen, who came in to show a quality of good fellowship in competition which does not often appear in trade. Many prominent specialty manufac- turers were also represented, and the banquet is still being talked about in local business circles. Manufacturing Matters. Flint—The Gordon Shoe Co. has changed its postoffice to Detroit. e Detroit—The Wilkowski Hardware Co. has been organized with an au- thorized capital stock of $15,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Saginaw—The Wickes Boiler Co. has increased its capital stock from $500,000, to $525,000. Saginaw—The Wickes Boiler Co. has increased its capital stock from $500,000 to $525,000. Detroit—The Fire Proofing Ma- terials Co. has increased its capital stock from $10,000 to $25,000. Detroit—The Wadsworth Manu- facturing Co., manufacturer of auto bodies, auto tops and parts, has in- creased its capital stock from $250,- 000 to $650,000. Detroit—The Michigan Sash & Door Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $10,000. all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Detroit—The United Refrigerators Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $10,000. all of which has been subscribed and $5,000 paid in in cash. Muskegon—The Muskegon Smelt- ing Co. has been organized with an authorized capitalization of $10,000, ‘of which amount $7,000 has been sub- scribed and paid in in cash. Detroit—The Kermath-Whitcomb Company has been organized to do general machine work with an author- ized capital stock of $5,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Holland— The Strauss-Rheustron Co., of Chicago and South Bend, Ind.. has leased No. 3 factory of the West Michigan Furniture Co. and_ will manufacture phonographs and other instruments. Detroit—The Lindeme Machine Co. has been organized to manufac- ture cover placing machines for bot- tles with an authorized capital stock of $2,400, all of which has been sub- scribed and paid in in property. Detroit—The Preduction Tool Company of America has been in- corporated to manufacture machine tools with an authorized capital stock of $5,000, of which amount $3,000 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. St. Joseph—The Mathieu & Sons Foundry Co. has engaged in the man- ufacture of castings of all kinds with an authorized capital stock of $6,000, all of which has been subscribed, $650 paid in in cash and $5,350 paid in in property. —_—__><+.—____ Another New Health Beverage. The Peterson Brewing Co. has begun the exploitation of a new non-alcoholic beverage which will be sold under the name of the Peterson Beverage Co. It is pure and wholesome, containing all the nourishing qualities it is possible to retain in liquid from the grains of which it is made. It will be distributed solely through the grocery, drug and confectionery trades. It will not be sold to saloons or other places where alco- holic drinks are dispensed. The mem- bers of the Peterson Beverage Co. are reputable gentlemen who have built up a large business in malt beverages which will be annihilated by the prohibitory law which goes into effect next May. The manufacture and sale of the new beverage will afford them ample op- portunity for the exercise of the same energy and enterprise they exerted so long in other directions, Late News About Michigan Banks. Ecorse—The new bank proposed for Ecorse by business men will have a capital of $25,000 and be known as the Ecorse State Bank. J. M. Allen will be Cashier. Flint—The Industrial Savings Bank has purchased two sites for branch offices—one at Trafalet and North Saginaw streets and the other at Lewis and Broadway. Buildings will be erected in the near future. The Industrial Savings Bank opened for business on July 1, 1909, with a cap- ital of $50,000. Its capital, surplus and profits now are in excess of $600,- 000, and its total resources more than $4,500,000. Bellevue—According to present plans, the new Farmers State Bank of Bellevue will be opened for busi- ness about August 1. Permission has been granted by the State Banking Department to organize the bank with a capital stock of $25,000, and the en- terprise is being promoted by B. N. Keister, President of the Olivet State 3ank. The new bank proposition is strongly in popular favor with the business men of Bellevue and the farmers of this community. Lansinge—G. H. Ziegler, pioneer business man, director in the Lansing State Savings Bank and continuously in business in this city for nearly fif- ty years died recently at his home on East Saginaw street, following an ill- ness of over a year. Mr. Ziegler was 72 years of age and had lived in Lansing for sixty-three years. ——_+-+ 2 ____ Sequoyah, half-white and _half-In- dian, inventor of the Cherckee alpha- bet, Oklahoma’s first contribution to Statuary Hall, is not the first of what might be termed “irregulars” to en- ter that sanctuary. Wisconsin chose wisely—as we may like to recall es- pecially at this time—in paying trib- ute to Marquette by setting up his sta~ tue among those of distinguished figures which sprang from the con- tinent which he help to map. And Illinois perpetuated the memory, Frances E. Willard. Indiana natur- ally thought that her statesmen were sufficiently represented by one statue, choosing for the honor her War Gov- ernor, Oliver P. Morton. The other had to be that of a literary person- age, and so Lew Wallace aids in breaking the array of politicians. So dees Robert Fulton, representative from Pennsylvania. Neither Frank- lin nor Lincoln is in the assembly, al- though Kentucky has the opportunity of honoring herself and her greatest son by presenting a statue of Lincoln, since she has not availed herself of either of the pedestals at her dis- posal. Delaware and Georgia of the original thirteen states are as leisure- ly, Virginia has Washington and Lee. ——_»-+ Remarkable Record. Joseph P. Lynch has returned from Toronto, where he sold over $26,000 worth of goods in eighteen days for G. Hawley Walker, On the eve of his departure he received voluntary testimonial letters from Mr. Walker, . the local newspapers and others who had carefully watched his wonderful record as a sales manager. “es ogi i 43 4 ra {. Y » « ~ 4 o 7 ~ @ » » a . ~ ? yt r ty \¢ v4 A > #: 1 j = at V — ast = = » ioe alii = f “s Less Brilliant Shades and Extreme Designs in Ribbons. We will not claim that all has been well with the selling of ribbons, for more should be used and wider to make the money that this article de- serves, but we can now see more busi- ness on the way in the U. S. summer hats and wider ribbons will use up some of the $7,000,000,000, money that will be spent in this country for dry goods, ammunition, food, etc. In the circle of the United States the money loaned will be spent and under such circumstances think of the improved business, of the ready cash and also of the resources of our country and manufacturers Sunshine and better business came on May 15, and we will keep it if all work to- gether and circulate ribbons galore. especially. The merchants deserve much cred- it for the displays they have made of ribbon in the windows, at the counter and on the aisle tables. Made up into bows, bags, ties, sashes, etc., the beautiful, gleaming ribbons make a bright spot that attracts every one passing. Many are getting rid of old stock and remnants with the aisle tables, one at the other end of the store from the regular ribbon coun- ter with a placard hanging above with ‘the legend: “Ribbon Department Front End of the Store” cr something to bring the regular department into notice. Ribbons have become such a universal article that they should not have only regular seasons, but sell all of the time. Ribbons have been too quiet, but the market remains firm while wait- ing. Among the fall samples gros- grains will be prominent in 1 to 2% inch widths of black, white and col- ors. Tinsels from 4 to 3 inches show gentle buying, but . keeps on. Re- tailers feel that it is late to secure the profits of a full millinery season and will put their efforts on an early fall opening, letting the present stock do the best it can. Adequate labor promises to be scarce and the future outlook must bring higher prices as the cost of production mounts up steadily, One unmixed blessing in the trade is that no large cancellations are flying around. The quantity af red, white and blue ribbons continue to grow in number of yards, not width, as the narrow sells best. Women are wearing this too much: sometimes it though more respect and less free- dom toward our colors might be ad- vised. Jobbers are calling for a few white satins and grosgrains. The expect- ed business of sashes, etc., in the way of dress trimmings has not appeared as yet, but it means the time has only seems a? been delayed for the styles call for it especially for soft, wide sashes for dresses and semi-military jackets that require a sash. It is thought that the long-delayed warm weather will en- liven up sport bands, hats, etc. Very narrow sport ribbons of red, white and blue, four to eight lines, are used for neck ribbons holding an orna- ment or semi-precious stones, etc. Buyers are trying to get away from the very narrow ribbons and to usq In the West 3 to 4'4-inch white grosgrains take. One 2 to 5-inch goods. of the largest Western houses re- cently had a buyer on the spot look- ing around, bought nothing and went home, but when he comes again he will buy. Wide bayaderes are high class for folded belts, sashes, etc., giv- ing a sport-like appearance without the extreme which has greatly di- minished in the former sport effects. Decorative ribbons, next to stripes, are the brocades, then the satins of exquisite shades from black to white. New girdles are of broche and plain satin ribbon, one edging or evenly dividing the other, ornaments often finish one end left hanging, Canary satin brocaded with gold roses is combined with white satin on each side. Black satin edges have the center of black broche with shades The ten- dency for wider goods is very mark: ed. In the meantime narrow failles and grograins are receiving attention in white for midsummer wear. Nar- of pink with green foliage. row write satin ribbons braided as a straw are’ used for entire hats by smart houses. A ribbon skirt is of many lengths of ribbon, white in the center and deepening into pink, apricot and maize on the edges, this is shirred five times around the waist- line. Crush belts of fancy ribbon have suspenders as well as they continue to form pockets that should be light- ly weighted to hold them in place. It is said that retaiers buy from the full general lines as they want a little of everything except much of the wide goods: not but what they do take some of them, but the amount seems so small when compared to the samples shown them. Children’s sashes and hairbows are taking strip- ed ribbons, Roman stripes. Modified Indian designs are seen; they came as an experiment, but are liked and remain. : Colors are certainly brilliant now although sport extremes are subdued Veena me yr Valdas aan oneness ne Of All Jobbers PRESIDENT SUSPENDER CO, Shirley, Mass FLAGS! Tub Proof Cloth double stitched Brtigh 3x5..-...........-- $2.50 Wrench S05..-..-.54.-..2- 1.50 Belgian $x5...........:.--. 1.50 Bulldog Bunting British 3x5 ..... Sos $5 00 French 339... .050..2002- 3.00 Larger sizes made to order Lowell Mfg. Co. Grand Rapids Michigan We are manufacturers of TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED HATS for Ladies, Misses and Children, es lly —-s to - general store trade. Trial rial order solicited CORL, KNOTT & CO., Ltd. Corner Commerce Ave. and Island St. Grand Rapids, Mich. The cMc System of SHELF PRICING is the most efficient and economical. Holder fits any shelf. Cards slip in and out in- stantly without injuring cards or holder. No defac- ing of shelves. No ane —_ —gummed stickers F or labels. Price Cards: 50 cents per 100 Holders: $1.50 per box of 100 Samples free on request Dept.«, CARNELL MFG. CO. 338 Broadway, New York The Goods! Net Prices! When you receive “OUR DRUMMER” catalogue regularly you always have dependable answers to these two important questions: What is the lowest net price at which I can buy goods? Where can I get the goods? Items listed in this catalogue have the goods behind them. The prices are net and are guaranteed for the time the catalogue is in force. Butler Brothers Exclusive Wholesalers of General Merchandise New York Chicago St. Louis Minneapolis Dallas Timely Warning tracts made with the the country. delay. Owing to the heavy demands made by the United States Government upon the manufacturers of Underwear, Hosiery and Sweaters, in order to equip the immense army of soldiers it is raising, and also the tremendous amount of raw cotton that will be consumed for the manufacturing of explosives, it is necessary for the manufacturers to cancel a certain percentage of all con- jobbers. Therefore, we greatest shortage of merchandise in these lines in the history of Our advance fall business was much heavier than it has been for some seasons past and we have only a limited amount of fall goods in lines mentioned above unsold. upon you shortly with these lines and we can not advise you too strongly to arrange for your actual requirements without further Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. Exclusively Wholesale Grand Rapids, Michigan are facing the Our salesman will call < > : ‘ ! i us i 4 . < ¥ 4 - * rev, ‘ > 4 ra! «de? 4 > « < > 5 ¢ * » 4 4 7 « . « . - 4 nm ee ee 2 | 4 ree { oe i i i { $ e “- s ne = é d AY 4 « a « > uo $< } 4a ae € * a - Aa Le » ¢ > a * “ < > 5 ¢ July 4, 1917 in many ways, the designs, though, rather than the colors. Orchid shades are much favored for ribbons and bridesmaids’ costumes. Red and blue ideas and impressions are notable. Moire stripes are seen. Pastel shades are prominent in ribbon-trimmed eve- ning frocks. Silk taffeta scarfs, 24 yards long, are shown for hats and sashes with Persian and Indian de- signs, The sides are hemstitched and on the ends is a fringe of floss on narrow ribbon fringe.——Dry Goods. —*-2-. Activities in Michigan Cities. Written for the Tradesman. The Upper Peninsula Development Bureau will hold its annual meeting in Houghton July 9. President Leo C. Harmon says plainly that the Bu- reau needs help and that to permit the organization to die would set Clover- land back a quarter of a century. The cities of Negaunee and Ish- peming have put the ban on street carnivals this summer. Sault Ste Marie has voted for the commission form cf government. A ‘survey recently made by the Board of Commerce of Manistee shows that two-thirds of the people have gardens this year. The data also shows a large foreign born pop- ulation, with only a third of the to- tal listed being of American birth. Rochester Has installed boulevard lights in place of the old are light system. Muskegon’s rapid growth is a prob- lem to the postmaster in the matter of mail deliveries to the outlying sec- tions. Jackson has voted that hereafter persons liing just outside the city will not be granted city water connec- tions. Ann Arbor voted at special elec- tion to reject the new charter and the commission form of government. The bond issue for a garbage incinerator was also defeated. Escanaba has renewed its contract with the local traction company to furnish power for the municipal light- ing plant for ten years. Higher rates on business phones of the Michigan State Telephone Co., at Pontiac, went into effect July 1, the new rate being $42 or $36 for a party line. This is permitted under the ordinance, as the patrons now ex- ceed 3,500. Almond Griffen. ee Boomlets From Bay City. Bay City, July 2—The twenty-sev- enth annual outing of the Bay City Grocers and Butchers’ Association was held at Wencna Beach, Wednes- day, June 27, and it is stated the event of this year was the best ever held in the history of the Association. Grocers and butchers from Midland, Auburn, Vassar and other towns from the Thumb district were in at- tendance. a : F. J. McCartney, of this city, East- ern Michigan representative for the Johnson Implement Co., has moved to Lapeer, that city being more cen- trally located in the territory. Atlanta, county seat _ of Mont- morency county. was visited by a disastrous fire Wednesday afternoon. Three business buildings and several small structures were destroyed. Corbishley & Son succeeds Corbish- ley & Co., general merchants at San- dusky. : 2 Otto Laderach, a former Bay City shoe salesman and a member of Bay Council, is now conducting two shoe MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 1 stores on Woodward avenue, High- land Park. George Bode, Secretary of the Michigan Shoe Dealers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Fremont, was in De- troit last week adjusting loss on the $78,000 stock of Peter Leszcynski’s department store, which was badly damaged by fire recently. Thomas L. Young has opened a shoe store with an up-to-date repair department at Birmingham. Henry W. Pauli ‘succeeds Pauli Bros., shoe merchants at Pontiac. Thomas McCauley, a former Bay City boy, is manager of the shce de- partment of the Boston Bargain Store, Pontiac, Tom knows shoes from A to Z and is an expert shoe fitter. W. T. Ballamy. 2-2 —___ Sidelights on Celery City and Envi- rons. Kalamazoo, July 3—A. E. of Cloverdale was a city last week. W. G. Simpson, of Delton, who recently engaged in the grocery busi- ness, was a visitor in our city last week. He reports a very good busi- ness in his line. Patton visitor in our KF. A. Saville, city salesman for the Worden Grocer Company, has been confined to his home the past week with a severe attack of ton- sillitis. The Wolverine Motors, Inc., a company which will manufacture high grade touring and roadster models, bas been organized and officers elect- el as follows: A. Hi. Collins Presi- dent and general manager; Harry A. Scott, Vice-President and assistant manager: Howard W. Rice, Secre- tary; F. W. Holmes, Treasurer. These four and William H. Scott constitute the board of directors. This new company is the outgrowth of the Wolverine-Detroit Motors Corpora- tion. Through the efforts of several local business men, it has been brought to Kalamazoo and will oper- ate here. The capital is stated as $125,000, but this will be increased in the immediate future. The new com- pany will. manufacture high grade cars, specializing on a Speedway Spe- cial roadster and a four passenger touring model. They will be designed to sell at $3,000 and up. W. S. Cook. _———».so A Substitute for Cotton, The English have found that bog moss, known technically as spagnum cymbilifolium, when sterilized, makes an antiseptic, light, soft and cool dressing for wounds. It in flannel bags after sterilization. ————__22 > —___ Floyd W. Downing, the Byron postmaster, has erected a nice twenty foot pole on the top of the postoffice and now a nice flag floats there. is packed A homelv truth is better handsome lie. 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Gcerr In Grand Rapids) 1542 Jefferson Avenue Use Tradesman Coupons Double Your Bread Sales No article in your store turns so quick—so clean—so profitable as a superior loaf of bread. Cas The new “Airylight’’ Bakery Loaf is different from ordinary baker’s bread —a fine moist grain and such an appetizing flavor. Your customers will DOUBLE YOUR BREAD SALES if you pro- vide them with this new and better bread. Write To-day for Selling Pian and Particulars Please send “CREAMNUT” particulars **How to Increase My Bread Sales.” Grand Rapids Bread Co. Prescott St. and So. Ionia Ave. ING os coves seg one ee ce ve ca cese PRONWUER sefocs cocci oe ceas os ce sca cuter tec c cs cecsss Mail This Coupon Today July 4, 1917 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN E ee 3 ee oe = My Estate is Small— fee FINANCIAL: :: Shall I Create a Trust? REET] : mM STN Who will assume charge of the financial cares ) je of your family when you are gone? How will the 7 =] we Ves property be managed which you leave behind? yO. —— a These questions can be answered definitely in only one way—by creating a trust in your Will and Effect of Amendments To Federal quired by the Federal Reserve bank. naming a competent Trustee who will serve the Reserve Law. Written for the Tradesman. By signing the bill amending the Federal Reserve law, the President has made effective the change sought in the law. Federal banks are now required to establish domes- tic branches and the Federal Reserve Board is also authorized to establish branches = abroad. Section _ three makes it more convenient for state banks and trust companies to be ad- mitted to Federal Reserve member- ship and provides for their with- drawal if the connection is found un- profitable. These withdrawals, how- ever, require long notice. It pro- tects, through a special rule, state banks and trust companies from ex- cessive examinations, in addition to state bank examinations, confining the examinations to those made by the Federal Reserve bank, of which there will be three annually. Section four allows non-member banks to keep accounts with the Federal Re- serve banks against which they may clear their items. A concession has been forced which much to country banks, known as the Hard- wick amendment, which reads, “Pro- vided further that nothing in this or any other this act shall be construed as prohibiting a mem- ber or non-member bank from making reasonable charges, to be determined and regulated by the Federal Reserve Board, but in no case to exceed 10 cents per $100 thereof, based upon the total of checks and drafts presented at any one time, for collection or payment of checks and drafts and remission therefor by ex- change or otherwise: but no such charges shall be made against Federal Reserve banks.” This clause reminds one of the an- swer a boy got when he asked his father to buy him a shot gun. “My boy,” said the fond parent, “You must never touch a gun until how to shoot.” A privilege with a string to it. Section five which amends section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act, en- larges the amount to which mem- ber banks can accept foreign cr do- mestic bills of acceptance, not to ex- ceed their capital and surplus. The old law restricted the amount to 50 per cent. of the capital of any bank. Section seven is intended to permit the Federal Reserve banks to ex- change Federal Reserve notes for gold and in this way drift into the banks Reserve means section of or fraction you learn idle gold which citizens now carry in their pockets without National use. The Federal Reserve Board es- timates that in this way two or three hundred million in gold will be ac- National banks are no longer requir- ed to keep outstanding a minimum amount of circulating notes and a newly organized National bank is not obliged to purchase or carry any bonds of the United States. Section 10 deals with reserves. Ev- ery member bank or trust company must establish and maintain reserve balances with its Federal Reserve bank, as follows: 7 per cent. of ag- gregate demand deposits and 3 per cent. of time deposits if not in a re- serve or central reserve city; 10 per cent. of aggregate demand, and 3 per cent. of time deposits if in a reserve city: 13 per cent. of aggregate de- mand and 3 per cent. of time deposite if in a central reserve city. Non-member banks are prohibited from making use of the Federal Re- sereve system through member banks. Section 11, the last one of the bill, removes an evident hardship impos- ed upon officers, directors and em- ployes of member banks, who under the old law might be held as preclud- ed from drawing interest on their own deposits and prevented from obtaining accommodatipbns in their own bank. The amendment, how- ever, provides*for restrictions similar to those provided by the State law. The authorization and requirement for Federal lish branches is a further step in the centralization of banking power which may eventuate in the gradual elimination of purely local banks, if Reserve banks to estab- this system is allowed to go too far, and will create a branch banking sys- a peg | EA — sarees PRED ae | THE SHORT LINE BETWEEN GRAND RAPIDS AND CHICAGO FARE—$3.00 one way $5.75 round trip via MICHIGAN RAILWAY CoO. (Steel Cars—Double Track) Graham & Morton Line (Steel Steamers) Boat Train CONNECTING FOR THE BOAT Leaves Grand Rapids Interurban Station Rear Pantlind Hotel EVERY NIGHT AT 9:00 P.M.. full terms without fail. The smaller your estate the more need your family has for the conserva- tion of every dollar. The two prime requisites in the handling of trust funds—safety of principal and stability of income—can be assured only by the constant exercise of sound business judgment, THE ONE THING YOU CANNOT BEQUEATH. This Company specializes in the handling of trust funds. It has the necessary business and in- vestment experience to make its service valuable. Present your problems to our Trust Officer for confidential discussion without obligation. Send for Blank Form of Will and booklet on Descent and Distribution of Property THE MICHIGAN TRUST Go. OF GRAND RAPIDS Safe Deposit Boxes to rent at low cost Audits made of books of municipalities, corporations, firms and individuals. GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK CITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK ASSOCIATED CAMPAU SQUARE The convenient banks for out of town people. the city. district. On account of our location—our large transit facilitles—our s afe ° and our complete service covering the entire field of banking, our autres must be the ultimate choice of out of town bankers and individuals. Combined Capital and Surplus........ Se ena le $ 1,724,300.00 Combined Total Deposits ...................... 10,168,700.00 Combined Total Resources .................... 13,157,100.00 Located at the very cente f Handy to the street cars—the Interurbans—the hotele—the aaine GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK CITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK -ASSOCIATED < * @ ‘4 % . * : re M1 ot i ; E e % t a ays e m ¢ a ~- a 4 » ‘ q Ne a « July 4, 1917 tem in the United States similar to that in force in Canada. Such a re- sult would be a severe check to progress. Experience has shown that no centralized body can so well take care of the needs of a community as a local bank whose directors and of- ficers are of the community, acquaint- ed with its needs, the personality and responsibility of its inhabitants and those of the contiguous territory from which the banks derive their busi- ness. A note of common sense has been struck by the Merchants Association of New York in the announcement that agitation against economy on the part of the people is unnecessary. This decision from a business body so large and influential as the Mer- chants Association of New York is) most enecuraging, as well as wise. That there is no hysterical pulling in of purse strings is shown by the fact that public buying is very much as usual. To start a campaign to keep business moving, in anticipation of a possible slump, would indicate a fear of the future which would tend to precipitate the very condition we wish to avoid. While some read- justments are necessary, there has been no widespread interference with the pecple’s means of subsistence, whence alone can come any substan- tial and continued obstruction of the normal activities of trade. The Merchants’ Association in its announcement says: “It is our ob- servation that such timidity as ex- isted is now passing and that the dis- position of the people is to continue their normal outlays except in the matter of food consumption, in which field wise economy is prevalent.” In eleven months ending May 31, 1917, deposits in the United States Postal Savings banks increased $45,- 500,000 or more than twice the gain for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916. On June 1 the total deposits were $131,500,000 standing to the credit of 690,000 depositors. The May increase was $3,500,000, which com- pares favorably with an increase of $2,000,000 in the corresponding month last year and $1,000,000 in May, 1915. The Postoffice Department reports that thirty-nine offices now have over $100,000 on deposit, eighteen over $1,- 000,000, and eleven have between $500,000 and $1,000,000. Preparations for marketing the bonds of Federal land loan banks are now under way. The programme is to issue the bonds, bearing 414 per cent. interest, in denominations of $25, $50, $100, $500 and $1,000, with interest payable semi-annually. These bonds will be offered by various banks and trust companies at a price slight- ly above par and will net the pur- chaser somewhere around 4.20 per cent. They are based on mortgages taken on farms by the Federal farm loan banks and the resources of the system are also behind the bonds, which are exempt from all taxation except inheritance tax. The offerings will be made in the early part of July and it is expected that about $60,000,- 000 of these securities will be dis- posed of in the first six months. So far about $10,000,000 has been loaned to farmers. The larger loans thus MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 made by states are approximately as follows: California, $1,500,000: Kan- sas, $450,000; Mississippi, $325,000; Montana, $420,000; South Carolina. $300,000; Texas, $800,000; Washing- $500,000, and Indiana, $325,000. Michigan farmers, as a rule, are so well treated by their local banks that there has been no appreciable demand fer the Federal bank assistance. ton, farmer loan The oversubscription of the Liberty Loan has created some amusing and many embarrassing situations. Some of the large Grand Rapids banks lumped their demand, covering the local subscriptions they received and allowing a margin for themselves and for future demands. The result was that the allotment was made on the basis of the lump sum which so cut down the amount of the bonds these institutions were to receive that they cannot fill in full their orders. The allotment made by the Treasury De- partment was: $50 to $10,000 cent. $10,050 to $100,000, inclusive, 60 per cent. $100,050 to $250,000, inclusive, 100 per inclusive, 45 per cent. $200,050 to $2,000,000, inclusive, 30 per cent. $2,000,000 to $6,000,000, inclusive, 25 per cent. $6,000,000 to $10,000,000, inclusive, 21 per cent, One institution in Grand Rapids which sold $185,000 in subscriptions, ranging from $50 to $35,000, received notice that its allotment on $201,500 ordered is $121,500. There is some head scratching to ascertain the most satisfactory way of distributing that $121,500 over $185,000 field. This is but a sample of many other financial institutions. One consoling feature of the situation is that those who are cut down on their allotment will have another chance in September, when another Liberty Loan will undoubted- ly be floated. It is probable that all subscriptions up to and_ including $1,000 will be filled in full. 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Senf, Secretary. 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Let Us Never Neglect Independence Day. Written for the Tradesman, One hundred and forty-one years ago a bell was rung proclaiming lib- erty throughout the land. The thir- teen American colonies that day pro- claimed their independence from the mother country, gantlet to threw down the Britain, and maintained thereafter a war lasting nearly eight years, at the end of which time the British ready to grant America the freedom for which she had fought. Since that hour the thirteen col- onies have forty-eight states, composing a Federal Union that is acknowledged the one transcendant republic of the world. The days of the Revolution were those that “tried men’s souls.’ There came other days of like import, the most severe trial being in 1861 when the state rights dogma flung down nation was grown to the gantlet and dared the Nation to coerce a Lincoln, with the people behind him, accepted the challenge to battle, leading to four years of sanguinary civil war. Every school boy knows how that struggle terminated. Each time when the crisis came the American people were equal to the emergency, coming to the front with patrictic ardor in defense of the Nation and the flag. As we again celebrate our inde- pendence on the Fourth of July, we are again faced with a crisis in the affairs of our Nation. The times are critical, yet there are men and meas- ures ready to meet the conflict which has been forced upon us by the most despotic nation of brutes and_ bar- barians on the face of the globe. It is meet that we celebrate, yet we may do so in a manner befitting the seriousness of the crisis that con- America’s National day ought never to pass without just recognition of its im- portance in the lives of her citizens. We should give gratitude to God for vigilantly “sovereign state.” fronts our Naticn to-day. His many mercies and guard the future with an eye out to the further extension of that free- dom that has made us the best loved land beneath the sun. Unfurl the Stars and Stripes from every flag pole in the land. Meet at various places and read again that marvelous declaration that announced to the world the reasons why a peo- ple subject to the rule of an unjust parent should annul that bond and step boldly out as a free and inde- pendent Nation. patriotic songs, fire the cannon, wave the flag, shout again the anthems of the free. In this way we proclaim our faith in the past, our hope for the future of this great republic. Sing Stand by the flag; stand by Inde- pendence Day, the greatest day ever viven to men for the cleansing of the nations. Let the bloody-minded Kaiser understand that we cancel none of our principles in order to please him or his cohorts. The day we celebrate is a day which has been endeared to the hearts of the American people by the many sac- rifices in the past, by victories won in the cause of freedom and right. Let us not forget in this year 1917 to memorize the day as never before, since we now step forth to do battle, not only for our own safety and fu- ture integrity as a Nation, but to aid other struggling peoples to realize the one grand idea of self government that is being throttled by the despotic and merciless Hun of Central Eu- rope. During the darkest days of the Civil War the North never once forgot the Nation’s natal day, With one-seventh of the population in battle line, fight- ing a seemingly hopeless war for the preservation of the Union, the fires of liberty burned as never before on the hilltops of the North at each re- turn of the Fourth of July. One of the most memorable Fourths was that of 1863. I well re- member the deep anxiety pervading the public mind when, in the midst of a patriotic celebration of the Fourth, the citizens of a North woods village got the first scattering returns from a small village in Southern Pennsylvania, detailing the cpening of the great struggle that was then raging between Robert Lee’s mag- nificent army of the South and the blue-coated legions cf the Union un- der our own General Meade. The speaker of the day, a tall and angular member of the State Legisla- ture, yet of eloquent tongue and de- served ability, read from a newspaper just handed to him by a courier from the city of Grand Rapids the news of a great battle then raging amid the hills of Gettysburg. ‘Perhaps,’ said he, “there is now raging on Pennsylvania soil the de- ciding battle of this war. The rebel army under its ablest commander has invaded a Northern state and the fate of this Republic trembles in the balance.” The hush that followed the reading was profound. The chaplain of the day knelt on the rude plank platform and offered up a thrilling petition to the Most High, pleading for victory and for a final collapse of the great rebellion which had for over two years threat- ened the life of the Nation. The band played, martial airs were sung and the celebration continued on into the night, concluding with a display of fireworks in the evening. Socn after that Fourth came the glad tidings of Union victory at Get- tysburg, also the news of the fall of Vicksburg in the West. There was cause for great rejoicing. From that hour the cause of the Union looked up and two years later the National birthday saw the cruel war at an end, the Republic once more united, under ene flag, the glorious Stripes and Stars flying freely over a reunited country. Old Timer. ‘ We Specialize In Automobile Industrial Public Utility SECURITIES THURMAN-GEISTERT & CO. formerly ALLEN G. THURMAN & CO. Michigan Trust Bldg. & G. R. Savings Bank Bldg. Grand Rapids, Michigan Citz. 4480 Bell M. 4900-01 Kent State Bank Main Office Fountain St. ‘Facing Monroe Grand Rapids, Mich. Capital - - - ~- $500,000 Surplus and Profits - $500,000 Resources 9 Million Dollars 335 Per Cent. Paid on Certificates THE BANK WHERE YOU FEEL AT HOME Generis ameeB NC WE WILL APPRECIATE YOUR.ACCOUNT Largest State and Savings Bank in Western Michigan TRY USI Tele OLD NATIONA =yN LS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 177 MONROE AVE. Complete Banking Service Travelers’ Cheques Letters of Credit Foreign Drafts Safety Deposit Vaults Savings Department Commercial Department I SAVINGS CERTIFICATE Our 3 2 Per Cent A DESIRABLE INVESTMENTS . Fourth National Bank ‘. United States Depositary Savings Deposits Commercial Deposits 3 Per Cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits Compounded Semi-Annually I 3% Per Cent Interest Paid on Certificates of Deposit Left One Year Capital Stock and Surplus $580,000 WM. H. ANDERSON, President J. CLINTON BISHOP, Cashier LAVANT Z. CAUKIN, Vice President ALVA T. EDISON, Ass’t Cashier THE PREFERRED LIFE INSURANCE co. Of America offers OLD LINE INSURANCE AT LOWEST NET COST What are you worth fo your family? Let us protect you for that sum. THE PREFERRED LIFE INSURANCE CO. of America, Grand Rapids, Mich. - July 4, 1917 CURTAILING DELIVERIES. It Will Release 100,000 For War Service. Washington, July 2—Investigations conducted by the Commercial Econo- my Board of the Council of National Defense show that a_ tremendous amount of man-power and money now tied up in unnecessary and wasteful work can be released for immediate war service. It points out that de- livery service in retail stores can be very substantially reduced and that it can be reduced immediately by re- stricting the free delivery of small purchases, by eliminating special de- liveries altogether and by other means. It further points out that, though these changes in methods are requested as a powerful instrument in winning the war, they are based on principles of scund business and should not work a hardship on any- body, but would correct abuses and leakages long suffered by the trade. “There is such urgent need for men and equipment in other work,” says the letter, “that the ccuntry cannot endure the waste which is occasion- ed by the accommodation deliveries of small purchases. If possible, not more than one regular delivery a day should be made over each _ route. These changes in delivery methods should be introduced as soon as prac- ticable, certainly not later than Au- gust 1. LOL7. The Commercial Economy Board has made a careful study of the econ- omies which are possible in the deliv- ery service of retail stores. It has found that the average cost of de- livery in retail grocery stores is not far from 3 per cent, of the gross sales, Often the grocer is called upon to make special delivery of a small ar- ticle and he feels it necessary to do so rather than displease and possibly lose a customer. But there would be no danger of loss to trade throughi declining to make such deliveries if, all the retail grocers in a town or city co-operated. “We realize,’ says Mr. A. W. Shaw, chairman of the Board, “that the co- operation of the public, and especial- ly of the women who do most of the ordering and buying from the stores, is necessary to make these plans a success. To that end we are now. making a Nation-wide appeal to the customer. We are urging purchasers to carry home all possible “packages, instead of having them sent. We are asking the women of the country to plan their orders ahead, to systema- tize their buying so that it will not be necessary to have the grocer’s, wagon make accommodation trips. We are pressing home a slogan Car- ry Your Own. i Signs prominently displayed in ev- ery retail grocery store in the coun- try, asking purchasers not to require needless deliveries, would have a wonderfully beneficial effect. For in- stance, we suggest that every grocer display such a card as this: Don’t have it sent If you can carry it home, Your country needs the men and money now. being wasted in needless delivery of goods. Be patriotic Carry your own. Or such a sign as this: Lighten your country’s burden By carrying your own. Millions of dollars and thousands of men are tied up by needless delivery of goods. These men and this money can b> released for vital service if you will help. It is patriotic to possible parcels Begin to-day. “The werds: ‘This sign is display- ed at the request of the Commercial carry home all Economy Board of the Ceuncil of National Defense’ may be placed upon such a_ sign = as MICHIGAN TRADESMAN we suggest, in case any deal- er hesitates to take the step on his Own initiative for fear of possibly antagonizing his customers. “It has been found that in numer- ous small and medium-sized cities and tcwns, large savings have been made by central or co-operative delivery systems. Reports show that less than half the men and equipment are thus required, In fact, the only failures of co-operative deliveries seem to have arisen from inefficient manage- ment of the mechanism of delivery itself. Savings cver the old wasteful method of as high as 75 per cent. are reported to us. The customers, once accustomed to the change. prefer it t~ the individual delivery plan. “Other means, such as making an extra charge for delivery, restricting’ delivery to orders of a certain size end the offering of a cash discount to those who Carry Their Own deserve the most careful ccnsideration. “it is simplv impossible to over- estimate the importance of hushand ing these resources in men. and money, new being squandered, Not less than 100.000 men and millions upon millions of dollars can be di- verted to the definite and imperative war needs cf the Government. There is no question cf the patriotism of both dealers and customers. We feel that when they realize the ne: cessity of these changes they wil’ respond heartily and speedily adjust themselves to the new order, with ultimate prefit to both.” —_—_--2o._. Items of Interest From Byron. Byron, July 2—The drill of the Home Guards of Shiawassee county was postponed from Thursday night, June 29, to a later date. It was to have taken place at Durand. There are eighteen from here who enlisted in the Guards and are drilling week- ly. The ladies of the 'W. C. T. U. here are having a bee and are cleaning up the river bank on the East side of the Shiawassee river and things are go- ing to lock more healthful than in the past. Fred Burkhart, the Bell telephone manager, has been painting his dweli- ing and if you can touch Fred now with a ten foot pole you are going some. S. F. Sexton, our dry goods and shoe dispenser, has been remodeling and painting his home and everything is now up-to-date. M. D. Comstock has been repairing and soon expects to paint his double store building, which is occupied at present by L. E. Tower, groceries and Mrs. Pierce, millinery. Groceryman. Some Facts Regarding Commonwealth Power Railway & Light Co. This Company through its constituent companies owns and operates. successful Public Utility located in six States in the 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 15 Motor Truck Stock As an Investment Higrade Motors Company has been in- vestigated by the industrial committee of the Association of Commerce and while the Association cannot recommend any proposition, the Committee believes the organization planned is worthy of the careful consideration of the public and that the automobile truck company would be a valuable addition to the city’s industry. We shall be glad to furnish such facts and figures as we have at hand relative to the prospects of success of this proposition. We shall be glad to have any persons interested in motor truck investments ad- dress this office for full particulars regard- ing HIGRADE MOTORS COMPANY. GLEN H. DOWNES INDUSTRIAL STOCKS 320, 323 Grand Rapids Phones—Citizens 1511 National City Bank Bldg. Bell, M 3932 First National Bank Bldg., Chicago The Eyes of the Nation Are on the development of the great cement project of Petoskey. No more useful indus- try in the country, either in peace or war, can be created and maintained than the Petoskey Portland Cement Co. There is no speculation in this undertak- ing. It is time tried and fire tested. Invest- ments in cement factories are as profitable Bet- ter buy now while the stock can be pur- as the product produced is permanent. chased at par. Deuel & Sawall, Inc. Financial Agents Petoskey Portland Cement Company Murray Building Grand Rapids, Michigan 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 4, 1917 i" @-¥ —_ Lh >» ° e wy * lee a Pee lie ioe a”. - re ay Sete : 2 N ON a, a ee eee ow RO a im be oseatl ‘ee ee oe ROG es Root) Les { ‘ O THE average man the phrase “Good Roads” often seems to embody an ideal , 44 much discussed but seldom realized, ate That good highways are the keynote of a community’s prosperity, is a self evident “4 proposition, and that the freight rate begins at the farmer’s door is an axiom that is gener- ally accepted, | str No modern tendency speaks more eloquently of the increasing intelligence of our citizens = SS 2% than does the general movement for good highways in Michigan. SSR Wp / . S BP OAVAN ye os i A It has been demonstrated in Western Michigan that the communities where the wagon ae — SC : . Poe Ree ei» roads are good and the means of communication easy, are generally the most prosperous Pen USS a e s s A or ig Sy and show the greatest increase in land values. It is conservative to figure an average in- rend iss ae a See (iy! _ ‘ crease of five dollars an acre where the roads are improved. SS es oy iy, * : A hor, (SH ‘ -- O™~ Good Roads enable the farmer to haul when most convenient and not merely when the | 3 Oy Ce s ; » b by i condition of the roads will permit, and greatly increase the haulage besides. The average hatin Zi «hs horse can draw one ton on a clay road, one and two-thirds tons on a good gravel road and on a macadam road two and three-quarter tons, Ty “fv It is safe to say that good roads cut distance in half. A farm located 20 miles from a rail- io road is brought within 10 miles by the means of good highways. ¢€ §» There are 265,000,000 tons of freight moved annually over the wagon roads of this coun- | try to the markets and railroad stations, exclusive of shipments to wharves and docks. | 7*, », sR 4G THE HEALTH CENTER OF THE WORLD Pa Now that the gigantic Health Resorts tion, the city of Battle Creek is the “health center of the world.” The Battle Creek Sanitarium which started in a seven room farm house fifty years ago now comprises in its properties over thirty buildings. iG The colossal Main Building is about the size of a large ocean liner accommodating 600 patients. The Annex which is nearly as large is also filled to overflowing in the bu of Europe have suspended opeta- JOHN L. KELLOGG, President. Battle Creek Chamber of Commerce. This ad. is No. 3 of a series. Accompanying each advertisement in the future will be interesting Views and fae a 4d Grand Rapids . ie July 4, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 ‘k “Tow OEH FE COMMUNI TY br Ro ms : 4 me y o 4 ‘\ 447-4 oes A [hol pl gee AL, i Lacs Seton RCo Pa > a Seer Fee eee , ag o 2 : r- Pe SO ete = ATA A YL eo Seat” Ss! asl eee ae a oe ne os Rees ote nee \ ie my f Pia Taal =~ “aut al ee Set Sie aan a Oe SOS i Fata Ba me LT OS OO SO a Oe ' One cent per ton saved on the more than 8,000,000 tons hauled over the highways of Michigan every year would mean a saving of at least $80,000. It is difficult to measure the value of good.roads to Western Michigan as a resort region, Suffice it to say that the opening up of the West Michigan Pike and the Michigan Trail has brought large numbers of automobile parties and many thousands of dollars to West- ern Michigan, which otherwise would have gone elsewhere. The completion of these two rf Os main line roads will be of incalculable benefit to every merchant doing business in the terri- tory served by them, The length of the West Michigan Pike is 387 miles, with 282 miles or 73% improved. The Mackinaw Trail is 242 miles long, and has 149 miles or 66 per cent. improved road. Good roads bring prosperity, enable the farmer to get his crops to market at the right time, increase the haulage and lower the cost—augment the area of profitable land and bring more business to the railroads, annihilate distance, increase farm values, stimulate the re- sort business, bring about more and better schools with a larger attendance, better health | NY \ and quicker medical attention, better social conditions and less isolation; increased church Nee | attendance and better citizens. a, Il h HA Just as the Wholesalers of Grand Rapids are interested in the improvement of Michigan Ki KK) iq | as a whole, so should the merchant in every locality be first and foremost in his advocacy of ‘ r ANC Nt any movement for that locality’s benefit. Michigan merchants already are boosters for ( - y [BE MN their respective communities. Wye GRAND RAPIDS WHOLESALERS ASSOCIATION. wr al | Pe BIG RAPIDS, MICH. Two unique advantages are possessed by Big Rapids—a large tributary territory and the possession of abundant water power. A dam within “ ™ the city limits harnesses the Muskegon river, generates now more power than is required and is capable of handling a larger head. Surplus power is available for industries. As a center for a large territory Big Rapids enjoys advantages which are quite exceptional. Few towns of its size in Michigan attract persons from so considerable distances. Practically all of Mecosta county is naturally tributary to Big Rapids, as are the northwestern part of oa, Newaygo county and the southern part of Osceola. L. F. BERTRAN, President. Big Rapids Board of Trade. ing Views and facts regarding cities in Michigan and territory contributing to Michigan’s great wholesale market. _ Wholesalers Assn = eerie a& Sethe, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 4, 1917 Winning the Trade cf Little People. Written for the Tradesman. The shoe dealer whe wins the trade person in middle life, complished something. Appreciably ot a has ac- less than this is accomplished by win- ning the trade of a person who is ad- But the shoe dealer trade of a bright little vanced in age. who wins the boy or girl, has accomplished more; for the younger they are when you get them, the longer their life- chances, consequently the more pairs they are going to buy, either from you or somebody hence the more valuable their good will. And yet so many shoe dealers ap- parently see so little in the children’s If this isn’t an inex- it would be hard And this reminds else; preposition. cusable “blind spot” indeed to find one. me of the experience of a man who confessed to a traveling man on one occasion that he enjoyed everything but the children’s department: that he couldn’t make heads or tails of it; simply didn’t understand the game, and didn’t care for it, and thought there wasn’t enough in it to fuss over. The remarkable thing about this re- markable confession, and what came of it, lies in the fact that the traveling man didn’t sell children’s shoes at all; but he was an alert fellow with a keen merchandising sense, and proceeded to tell that shoe dealer some things. “Why don’t you care for the chil- dren’s game?” he began, “Is there anything mysterious or undignified about it? Weren't you a kid one time? Didn't you wear shoes? I want to tell you youare makinga pro- digious mistake by getting ideas like that in You owe it to yourself to get in the game and find out about this children’s proposition. I’m not exactly a specialist in chil- dren’s shoes, and frankly confess that, personally, I don’t know much aboui them; but just for the fun of it, I’d like to go through your department with you and see what you've got; and then maybe I'll get an idea or two that will help you. If I do you are welcome to them.” To make a long story short, they, went through that department picking out samples of every line carried. They put them in a corner to them- selves—arranged them, if I recall aright, on a table in a well-lighted corner of the children’s department; and there they studied them together, “Too many lines!” commented tha traveling man. And they both agreed on that point. By consulting the size sheets it was discovered that most of the lines were pretty badly shot to pieces—they were out of sizes. Fur- ther study of the samples revealed the fact that lines were not well balanced. your head. The traveling man knew in a general that carry width while others carry length, but original selections had not been reference to this principle. They had duplicating lines of width, but were: short on lengths. So the traveling man suggested that a lot of unpromising lines be discontinued en- tirely; that the best sellers be sized that he get in touch with that might help him out ox: shoes carrying length. And the dealer wise to follow up the suggestion. way certain lines made with especially up; and houses was enough The idea was rather new to him, and suggested further possibilities to the man who was interested really to know about children’s shoes at first hand. So he applied himself to the proposition as he never had before—with the result that he himself got interested. The dealer’s own vital interest stimulated the manager of the shoe department, so that he really got on the job. The kiddies corner was overhauled, bright- ened up, and the lines filled up in there where they were thin, Children’s shoes figured more prominently there- after in both trims and advertising, and the salesmanship took on new life; and the manager and his boss began to take more interest in little people themselves. And that chil- dren’s shoe department took on life right from the jump. Instead. of marking time, it began to go forward. It became, in course of time, a divi- dend-payer; and the shoe dealer who ence admitted that he couldn’t see the children’s proposition came to be a real enthusiast about it. In looking through a recent copy of the Shoe Retailer, the writer’s at- tention was attracted by the following item, entitled, “Little Folks Shoe Shop. The B. H. Gladding Co., has arranged a novel attraction for the children in its Little Folks Shoe Shop. Arthur L. Alfred, President of the company in explanation of the inno- vation said: A well-known artist who loves children and who knows how to make Jack Horner, little Miss Muffit and others seem like real boys and girls, has painted a series of foun beautiful panels, telling the story of Mother Goose and_ her Magic Broomstick, on the walls of the Little Folks’ Shoe Shop. But the chief thing about the Little Folks’ Shoe Shop are the shoes made right for little feet and fitted by experts— always moderately priced and Glad- ding standard of quality, a day with Free sou- venirs are given to every child who is fitted with a pair of shoes—an inter- esting toy free. Something substan- tial and well made, that they can play with and enjoy for a long time.” my OUR TRADE MARK 3 ON YOUR SHOES ERIE A SMALL THING TO LOOK FOR BUT A BIG THING TO FIND TRADE MARK REGISTERED This trademark represents the ground floor Look for it, ask for it: it stands for wear, comfort and service. plan of our factory. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie Company ESTABLISHED 1864 ORIGINAL MAKERS OF ® “THE GRAND RAPIDS SHOE” JULY—TENNIS Tennis Bals and Oxfords in white and black for every foot, on the street or out on the beach. Tennis shoes were originally constructed for out- ing purposes, but not so today. There is a tennis for every use, and we have them in the following grades— Campfire and Champion. The Carmen Pump—a new Ked, White Canvas Kewpie Pump with high covered heel, rubber top lifts and extension welt edge, white rubber sole 3-7 M. & F.—$1.75. Cut prices on low shoes for that July sale. IN STOCK HIRTH-KRAUSE COMPANY Hide to Shoe Tanners and Shoe Manufacturers Grand Rapids, Michigan 4 ‘ at Ts cd s x Ta ¢ > q > 4 y* ms -* We a\e - ~ } « ~ “ &e wily ‘ e * ’ > A € » aja 4 a . “kr ¢ . « » 4th * 4 Ww " * "ot ty ® a ® Le ok a Tay és July 4, 1917 Several things in this little item are worthy of note. First, the pic- tured panels, Children love pictures. Pictures appeal to the eye—and the appeal is instantaneous. Bright and attractive environments mean much. This suggests that the children’s de- partment ought to be made attractive so far as appearances go; and that money spent in pictures, furniture for little people—little chairs and tables and little play accessories—is money well invested. Make the environment right, and the little people will lead their parents to it whether they want to go or not. And then, another thing of interest is the careful fitting. Some clerks don’t know how to fit little feet. I know, for time and again, I myself have had to demand more length in shoes that I have been buy- ing in first class stores for my own little kiddies. If I hadn’t had more knowledge of fitting, or a more vital interest in having my kiddies’ feet properly fitted, they’d probably have had enlarged joints, corns and cal- lcuses by this time. Some of the serv- ice acccrded to little people in shoe stores is slovenly and disgraceful to a degree. If you propose to go after the children’s trade, in the name of good merchandising, teach your clerks how to fit little feet. If they are too dense, too slovenly, too pin-headed to learn, get rid of them and hire someone that can and will learn. This is fundamental. You simply can’t build up a profitable trade in chil- dren’s shoes until you have perfected your service in this department. And then don’t miss that souvenir idea. That’s the thing that makes a hit with little people—something extra, some- thing over and beyond what mother and daddy buys and pays for. It’s this little, inexpensive souvenir that proves to the little tots that you are a real fellow. Give them toys along .with their purchase, and they'll think the shoes are better than they are; and they'll keep coming. Go after the trade of the little peo- ple in your community, for their trade is the best little old trade in town. Cid McKay. —_+22>—___ How Honest Groceryman Began His Vacation. Owosso, July 2—As to-day is the beginning of the commencement of the grocerymen’s vacation, we started in to get rested when ma, who has had her eye on us for several days and also just finished house clean. ing, came out and asked us to take our feet down out cf that chair and come around on the porch. She had a short job for us before we got too lazy to work; so we followed without argument, having tried that befere several times without any success that we could think of just then. She informed us very pleasantly, but in quite a preemptory tone of voice, that she wanted the porch floor painted right away that morning so it would get dry over Sunday. So we hiked out to the woodshed and dug up a pucket of paint that we had hid away to paint a boat with. (We didn’t know she knew we had it.) Then we found a small brush, got into second-hand trotting harness and started in, hav- ing first taken a swallow of of er tanlac to ward off painters’ colic. Ma suggested that if I had a larger brush JI would get along faster. I had got one board painted when a nice old lady, wearing gold bowed spectacles and men’s shoes, came up MICHIGAN TRADESMAN and wanted a subscription for Red Cross work. I tried to tell her that —but I couldn’t tell her a thing, for lack of opportunity to get started on what I wanted to say. So I laid my brush down, went in and got my vest with a Red Cross button on it and a receipt for our bit subscribed and paid in and she smiled and went away, In fact, I smiled some myself and I think my smile was the most genuine of the two. I went back at once and resumed business. Mother again remarked that the brush was too small to get along any. I had three boards painted when a woman came along selling pieplant. Say, she was a good saleslady, and I was obliged to lay my brush: down and escort her around to the garden and show her that we had pieplant enough to make a row of pies that would go around this block. I got separated from her society by telling her that when new potatoes got to a dollar a bushel to bring us a peck. It was getting along towards noon and ma said I had better come in and eat a bowl of bread and milk and not take any nooning, so as to get through to have the paint getting dry. While I was eating a dog came along and tipped the paint over. As it spilled on the ground it didn’t help any on the porch, so I was obliged to mix another batch and as this lot didn’t come out any where near the same color I got some kerosene and an old rag and cleaned off what I had already put on and started all over again. I had just gotten the same three boards painted over when a neighbor across the’ street (who neglected to move the first of May) and was doing it to- day came over and wanted to know if [ would just as soon help him load a coal stove. I went. As he is a light weight cadaverous cuss and had a lame back, I shall always feel that T loaded that coal stove alone. When I came back ma was out inspecting the job and also all dolled up to at- tend a King’s Daughter meeting, but dropped another disconcerting remark that if I didn’t get a larger brush I wouldn’t get through in time to go anywhere the Fourth of July. After she had gone I became convinced my- self that if I tried to finish by hand that I would be fussing around home quite a spell. Another thing: T didn’t want ma to come back and find me on that porch and that if IT made much of a hole in that day’s work I would have to bore with a bigger auger, So T got up off my knees, took the brush out of the carpet sweeper, dipped in into the paint and put it into the lawn mower and had that porch fin- ished in about eight minutes by the watch, which convinced me of the truthfulness of the old adage that “Mother is the necessity of inven- tion.” Honest Groceryman. —_—__»+ > —____ Why He Worried. Crewe—Good heavens, how it rains! I feel awfully anxious about my wife, She’s gone out without an umbrella. Drew—Oh, she’ll be all right. She'll take shelter in some store. That’s Crewe—Exactly. what makes me so anxious. Our Specialty: ‘‘Royal Oak’’ FOR SHOEMAKERS Bends, Blocks and Strips Shoe Store Supplies Wool Soles, Socks, Insoles, Etc. THE BOSS LEATHER CO. 744 Wealthy St. Grand Rapids, Michigan re Vp) a Backed by Quality HONORBILT SHOES Boosted by Consistent Overt: 5 19 H. B. Hard Pan (Service) and Bertsch (Goodyear Welt) Dress Shoe lines The above names represent the quality product of our factory. They represent shoe lines on which we have concentrated our efforts and built our hopes. The good name they have attained means much to the dealers who are handling them. It will mean the same to any merchant who will take up the sale of these lines. Through all the uncertainties of the market conditions we have stead- ily maintained the quality in our shoes. No dealer need hesitate to Sa them now just the same as he has recommended them in e past. Your reputation—Our reputation is at stake every time you sell a pair of BERTSCH or H. B. HARD PAN Shoes. The prices have advanced—they may have to go higher. The quality however will remain the same. We have spent years of time and much money to build up these good names and we wish fo reassure our customers that the quality WILL remain the same. Dealers everywhere are availing themselves of the prestige to be added to their business through the sale of the BERTSCH and H. B. HARD PAN shoe lines. They have found in these lines the qualities that WILL win and hold trade for them. CONCENTRATE on these lines and watch YOUR business grow. Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. Manufacturers of Serviceable Footwear GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Hood’s Great “Bayside” Tennis Considered by many as the greatest selling Tennis shoe ever produced Made with white soles, pressure cured. Note carefully the prices: Oxfords Bals MGM S . 0... 1.02... $0.67 $0.77 Oye .-. 0... |. .62 72 ‘Youths ...... oe 06 .66 Women's ......... -61 ~tt Migges ........... -— 64 Crile s ........... — .59 All on the floor now We have THOUSANDS of cases of Hood Tennis on the floor Grand RapidsShoe ®Rubber® The Michigan People Grand Rapids , 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 4, 1917 — — _ = — =“ WOMANS WORLD | ASD ES So, Zee CFSE = — —_— Most Commendable Progress in Prac- tical Patriotism Written for the Tradesman. On this Fourth of July, nineteen hundred seventeen, this Nation may well congratulate itself on the prog- ress women are making in practical patriotism. Two years ago, even a year ago, patriotism in the mind of the average bright American woman was largely an abstraction. was classed by the moralists as one of the virtues, but it was something quite vague and far away. That it ranked with honesty and kindness and all the rest—was something that she herself should feel and practice, and might demand the occurred something that greatest sacrifices—hardly to her. The type of oratory that con- sists mainly in exalting this country as the greatest and most glorious that the sun ever shone on, invincible on land and sea, did not strongly ap- peal to her. She felt a thrill, of course, with the singing of “The Red, White and Blue” and the “The Star- Spangled Banner,” but it was just a pleasurable emotion that passed away quickly. As to the Fourth of July, she had a womanly dread of its noise and the loss of life and limb caused by its usual foolish celebration. To its significance as Independence Day she scarcely gave a thought. Her mind was fully occupied with her many duties and pleasures. Having always been accustomed to liberty and freedom, she accepted these price- less blessings as a matter of course. How short a time ago that was! And in this little while since we of this country have been brought face to face with this terrible war and have begun to realize what it may involve, how amazingly American women have roused to their duty. Patriotism that was dormant has wakened to life and useful activity. In Red Cross work, in Liberty Loan subscriptions, in en- rollment for all possible kinds of patriotic service, in war gardens, in food conservation in their own kitch- ens, and more than all, in the moral sanction and support they are giving to a vigorous prosecution of the war, our country-women everywhere are doing themselves credit. This of course is speaking in a gen- eral way, It is true there are some who are still apathetic, and others who, from stanch adherence to their pacifist principles, condemn the en- trance of our Nation into the conflict. This is not to be wondered at when you consider that all shedding of blood, all loss of human life in battle, is unspeakably horrible to the sensi- tive modern woman; and when you consider also that while our rights She realized that it - have been disregarded shamelessly, there has as yet been no invasion of our shores. The matter for surprise is not that some women are _half- hearted or opposed, but that so great numbers already are lined up in loyal and enthusiastic support. Should the need continue, many who are now apathetic will become earnest helpers, and at least a portion of the pacifists will turn from their wrongheadedness. conscientious Women of the clearest intelligence see that the cause is a righteous one —that to have staid out of the war longer would have been National dis- grace and infamy. Since the thing must be done, farsighted women are recognizing the great strategic ad- vantage in crushing out autocracy and militarism where they are, instead of allowing them to come across the water, and in doing it right away, rather than at some future time when they would have increased their strength many fold. So much for womanly shrewdness and sense, common And women all over the land are being fired with a noble idealism —they are rousing to patriotism not only in its ordinary meaning of devo- tion to and defense of one’s own coun- try, but in its higher and deeper sense of the duty of giving aid and protec- tion to the oppressed and downtrod- den wherever they may be. Women are learning and learning fast. They are learning that work is better than worry. To those of a nervous, apprehensive temperament, work that keeps busy the fingers and the brain is a godsend in these times. Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter Color and one that complies with the pure laws of every State and of the United States. Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co. Burlington, Vt. 139-141 Mons ne ore GRAND RAPIDS THE list FLAVOR IN a 1,000,000 HOMES Crescent Mapleine produces the rich, ‘‘Golden Flavor.” Preferred flavor now in 1,000,000 homes. Staple. Serves in all the ways any . at other flavoring serves. In addi- Nae | tion, makes a fine syrup. Econom- Maa fo ical. Few drops go as far as a tea- BS spoon of other flavorings. How’s your stock? * * Crescent Mfg. Co., Peart ‘ ~~ jobber or wis Hilfer Co., Peoples Li Bldg., Chicago, Ills. . . Crescent Mapleine Double A (3) 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 American Sugar Refining Company as OUR SAVE THE FRUIT CROP CAMPAIGN in national magazines and principal newspapers is urging millions of people to stop the frightful waste of fruit by using more canned and preserved fruits. This will bring new customers into your store for Domino Granu- lated, the best sugar for canning and preserving. EY American Sugar Refining Company The Most Complete Line of Sugar in the World A Warm Nourishing Meal Shredded Wheat Biscuit with hot milk and a little cream makes a warm, nourishing, satis- fying meal. It not only pleases the palate, but supplies the body with strength and en- ergy for the day’s work. hredded Wheat Tell your customers about the real food value of this delicious cereal, and suggest its use with milk and a little fruit, instead of the egg or meat breakfast that costs many times as much but gives no more nourishment. This Biscuit is packed in odorless spruce wood cases, which may be easily sold for 10 or 15 cents, thereby adding to the grocer’s profits. The Shredded Wheat Company Niagara Falls, N. Y. ‘ ¥ 2 gs © v 4 » . § « ei ite ¢ > a 4 ee. y ¢ * ' r « . + ’ 4 < ° ‘ . 4 “ys “4 - a ad . e is a 14 ¢ > 4 » 4 4 w “ os 7 FM 3 a pe e + » c P - wow of 4 by * ¢ \ Te ¢ » A |e 4 , ‘ 4 n 4 * » % ra 4 s - 2 ~ "\* BY dp, July 4, 1917 A few weeks ago I saw a woman who, although no member of her family possibly could be called upon to go, was worrying herself sick over the war. She was lying awake nights, picturing to herself the terrible state of things if the conflict should extend to this country. Later I met her again. Meanwhile she had joined the Red Cross and subscribed for a Liber- ty Bond. She was doing her bit, and appeared greatly improved in health and spirits. Women are learning democracy. In the past it has been said of the sex, and not unjustly, that they were given to exclusiveness, and attached overmuch importance to social lines and distinctions. They upheld caste. Each one, when circumstances would permit, hedged herself about with the privileges of the aristocrat. They are learning now the great truth that one human being is as good as another. They are learning that poor and low- ly men and women are capable of the highest heroism. They are getting down to first principles. They are learning that fundamentally, human life and welfare rest on homely labor and faithfulness to duty. The mil- lionaire’s wife is coming to feel her obligation to the farm hand, the com- mon soldier, and the woman who works in a munitions factory. If it shall be necessary, the wealthy wom- an is ready to stand shoulder to shoul- der with the humblest toiler. Women are learning that individual ambitions and pleasures and prefer- ences must be subordinated to the common good, Unconsciously per- haps to themselves, they are getting away from the littlenesses that hither- to have engrossed them, and gaining that larger view that this truly terri- ble conflict is bringing to every think- ing mind. Women are making good. And what they have done in the last three months, great as it is, is only an earn- est of what they will do. By those highest in authority, their hearty co- operation is recognized as indispensa- ble. They deserve such recognition and will continue to deserve it. Quillo. a The Judge Had a Fellow Feeling. A gentleman was arraigned before a judge on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He had just entered a store, pretending to be a customer, but proved to be a thief. “Your name is Jim Lockmire?” said the judge. “Ves, sir.” “And you are charged with a crime that merits a long term in the peni- tentiary?” “Yes, sir.” “And you are guilty of the crime?” aan, “And you ask for no mercy?” UNo, sit. “You have had a great deal of trou- ble within the last two years?” “Yes, sir, I have.” “You have often wished that you were dead?” “T have, please your honor.” “You wanted to steal enough money to take you away from this city?” “You are right, judge.” “Tf a man had stepped up and shot MICHIGAN TRADESMAN you just as you entered the store, you would have said: ‘Thank you, sir?” “Yes, sir, I would. But, judge, how did you find out so much about me?” “Some time ago,” said the judge, with a solemn air, “I was divorced from my wife. Shortly afterward you married her. The result is con- clusive. I discharge you. Here, take this $50 bill. You have suffered enough.” —_+<-.___ Many things may be preserved in alcohol, but law and order are not on the list. —-»-- +. —_- Every time some people accept a favor they look for the price mark. 21 Signs of the Times Are Electric Signs Progressive merchants and manufac- turers now realize the value of Electric Advertising. We furnish you with sketches, prices and operating cost for the asking. THE POWER CO. Bell M 797 Citizens 4261 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 Bevo. Warning We are informed that at some cafes, restaurants and gardens beer and strong drinks have been sold under the guise of the popular soft drink These reports have been confirmed sufficiently to compel us to take action. The beverage Bevo enjoys the protection of both federal and state authority. sale and in marketing it, we adopt every possible precaution to protect the public against imposi- tion and to prevent evasion of the law. Bevo is sold in bottles only, we bottle all of it ourselves, and we have adopted a kind of bottle, crown and seals designed to prevent imitation. We shall omit no measure within our power to defend the authority under which Bevo is manufactured and sold, to protect the public from imposition, and to safeguard the good name of this Association. We therefore give fair warning that we shall refuse to sell our products to those who are found guilty of the above offense. ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASSOCIATION In preparing it for a PRESIDENT 6B 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso- clation. President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson. Vice-President—Patrick Hurley, De- troit. Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Bent- ley. Saginaw. Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson, Detroit; H. L. Williams, Howell; C. J. Chandler, Detroit. New Grades For Butter and Eggs. The report of the special trade com- mittee which has been for weeks past studying the matter of a new system of grades for butter and eggs has completed its findings and has filed its recommendations with the several bodies interested, their adoption or rejection of the report determining the practices of the trade in future. While the full recommendation is too intricate to be printed here, the following points may be of value. The butter classification proposed comprises creamery, centralized creamery, held butter, renovated, ladies and packing stock, the defini- tions of which are as follows: Creamery—Butter offered under this classification must be made in a creamery. The cream shall either be separated at the creamery or haul- ed direct to the factory from the farms. Centralized Creamery—Butter of- fered under this classification must be made in a creamery. Cream used in the manufacture of this butter may be gathered direct from the farmers or shipped in from cream stations. Held Butter—Butter offered under this classification shall be butter that has become cold storage butter by virtue of the laws cf the state in which such butter is sold. Renovated—Butter offered under this classification shall be such as is made by melting butter, clarifying the fat therefrom and rechurning the same with fresh milk cream or skim milk cr other similar process. Ladies—Butter offered under this classification shall be such as is col- lected in rolls, lumps or in whole packages and reworked by the dealer or shipper. Packing Stock—Butter offered un- der this classification shall be origin- al butter without additional moisture or salt, from creamery or dairy (but may be from miscellaneous scurces), which has been collected in any quan- tity and packed in barrels, tubs or other containers. It must be of qual- ity for human consumption as food and free from adulteration. The grades provided for are cream- ery, centralized creamery, held cream- ery and renovated, to be graded as extras, standards, firsts, seconds and thirds: ladies as firsts and seconds and packing stock as No. 1, 2, and 3. The standard official score for salt- ed creamery butter shall be as fol- lows: Flavor, 45 points; body, 25; color, 15; salt, 10; and style, 5. The standard official score for un- salted creamery butter shall be as follows: Flavor, 45 points; body, 30; color, 15; and style, 10. Extras—Shall consist of a grade of butter scoring 93 points from May 20 to July 31, inclusive, and 92 points from August 1 to May 19, inclusive. Standards—Standards shall consist of the highest grade of centralized, butter made during the season when offered and shall score 90 points or better. The minimum score of firsts shall at all times be 4 points below the score required for extras. The minimum score of seconds shall be 4 points below the minimum score re- quired for firsts. The minimum score of thirds shall be 5 points below the minimum score for seconds. When creamery butter is offered in carlots it shall be understood to be at least 280 tubs and not over 310 tubs of the make of one creamery, unless otherwise specified. When packing stock is offered in carlots it shall be understood to be at least 18,000 pounds of butter and not over 22,000 pounds, unless otherwise specified. Samples—There shall be drawn as samples for inspection by the inspec- ter not less than five packages from lots less than fifty packages of one mark and invoice, and not less than ten packages from lots of fifty to two hundred packages of one mark and invoice. Where inspector is called upon to inspect lots of butter contain- ing more than 200 packages it shall be discreticnary with the inspector as to the percentage necessary to examine. Grading of Eggs. Eggs shall be classed as fresh gath- ered, storage packed and refrigerator. They shall be graded as extra firsts, firsts, seconds, dirties and checks. “Loss” as used in these rules shall comprise all rotten, broken (leaking), spots, broken yolked, frozen (split), hatched (blood veined) and sour eggs. Very small, very dirty, cracked (not leaking), badly heated, badly shrunk- en, salted and chilled eggs shall be counted one-third loss in all grades excepting seconds, dirties and checks. Fresh Gathered “Etra Firsts”—(Be- tween June 1 and December 1 only) shall be packed in new or standard 30-dozen cases, unless otherwise spe- cified at time of sale; shall consist of July 4, 1917 Mr. Flour Merchant: You can own and control your flour trade. Make each clerk a “salesman’’ instead of an “order taker.”’ Write us to-day for exclusive sale proposition covering your market for Purity Patent Flour We mill strictly choice Michigan wheat, properly blended, to producea satisfactory all purpose family flour. GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN & MILLING CO., Grand Rapids, Michigan Rea & Witzig PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS 104-106 West Market St. Buffalo, N. Y. Established 1873 Live Poultry in excellent de- mand at market prices. Can handle large shipments to ad- vantage. Fresh Eggs in good de- mand at market prices. Fancy creamery butter and good dairy selling at full quota- tions. Common gelling well. Send for our weekly price cur- rent or wire for special quota- tions. Refer you to the People’s Bank of Buffalo, all Commercial Agen- cies and to hundreds of shippers everywhere. -Vinkemulder Company Specials for This Week American Beauty Brand Cantaloupes Fresh cars arriving daily Extra Fancy Quality Prices Very Low East Texas ‘Tomatoes Put up in 6 basket crates Equal to home grown hot house Watermelons The best that grow Long green Tom Watsons Bananas The all year fruit We handle the best Late Valencia Sunkist Oranges Pride of Corona Lemons Corona Beauty Lemons Red Star Virginia Cobbler Potatoes ability, habits and character. W ANTED at Moseley Station, experienced capable man to ——_—_—____—_———_ take charge of warehouse and do the work in buying Beans, Potatoes, Seed, and selling Coal, Cement, Salt, etc. Must have temperate habits — furnish good references in regard to an with wife, preferred, to live in 1 house at Moseley. Address, MOSELEY BROTHERS, Grand Rapids, Mich. ARE YOU IN THE WAR of the present day competition? If so, you must have up to date scales for accurate weight, good cases to display your goods, an account system, a cash register, a safe, or BE A DEAD ONE. We are IT in used or new store or office equipment and cordially invite you to inspect our lines. GRAND RAPIDS STORE FIXTURE CO. 7 lonia Ave., N. W. A Few Fine Seed Potatoes Fresh Vegetables All Kinds Ask us for our weekly market letter We mail it free of charge Vinkemulder Company Grand Rapids, Michigan OO July 4, 1917 clean, fresh, reasonably full, strong, sweet eggs, 60 per cent. and net aver- age weight forty-four pounds or over; no case of sample inspected to weigh less than forty-three pounds. Fresh Gathered Firsts—February 20 to May 15, 65 per cent., and average weight forty-two pounds or over, net; no case of sample inspected to weigh less than forty-one pounds. May 16 to February 19, 50 per cent., and aver- age weight forty-two pounds or over, net; no case of sample inspected to weigh less than forty-one pounds. Fresh Gathered Seconds—February 20 to May 15, 50 per cent., and aver- age weight forty pounds or over, net; no case of sample inspected to weigh less. Balance of the year, 40 per cent., and average weight forty pounds or over, net, no case of sample to weigh less. Storage Packed Extra Firsts—IFrom March 15 to May 31 80 per cent. and for balance of year 70 per cent. of clean, reasonably full, fresh, eggs and weigh forty-four pounds av- erage net per case, no case of sample inspected to weigh less than forty- three pounds. may be 1% dozen, but of this there must not be over one dozen checks per case, nor more than three bad or broken eggs between March 15 and May 31, The balance of the year the average loss may be 134 dozen, but sweet The total average loss not more than six bad or broken eggs. Storage Packed Firsts—l'rom March 15 to May 31, 70 per cent. clean, fresh (reasonably full, forty- three pounds average net weight, no case of sample inspected to weigh less than forty-two pounds. Jalance of the year, 55 per cent. clean, fresh( reasonably full, forty- three pounds average net weight, no case of sample inspected to weigh less than forty-two pounds. March 15 to May 31, the total aver- age loss must not exceed one and one- half dozen, and of this loss there must not be over twelve checks per case, and the bad and leaky eggs must not exceed one-half dozen. Balance of year the loss must not exceed two dozen per case. Of this loss the leaky, bad or rotten must not exceed nine eggs per case. Storage Packed Seconds—From March 15 to May 31, 55 per cent. fresh, reasonably full, forty-two pounds net weight, no case of sample inspected to weigh less than forty-one pounds. Balance of the year 40 per cent. fresh, reasonably full, forty-one pounds net weight, no case of sample inspected to weigh less. The total average loss must not ex- ceed three dozen, of which there must not be over one and one-half dozen checks per case, and not more than one dozen rots, spots or leakers. Refrigerator Eggs—In making of- ferings of refrigerator eggs they may be further designated by stating the month in which they were stored, and the storage certificate shall be taken as prima facie evidence of the day and month when stored. Quantity—A car shall contain 2 to 400 cases, unless otherwise speci- fied, and in cases of settlement 400 7 3 cases. When offering fresh gathered eggs MICHIGAN TRADESMAN for sale, sellers must specify the state where eggs offered were produced and packed. The following number of cases shall be necessary to constitute an inspec- tion: Lots of 100 cases, five half cases; lots of 100-300 cases, eight half cases; lots of 300 cases or over, ten half cases. ~~ A Generous Benedict. A young mountainer brought his sweetheart to the justice of the peace to get married. After the ceremony, the young man said: “Well, Judge, how much do I owe you?” “The law allows me a dollar, but some give me a little more.” “So,” said. the bridegroom, as he pulled out a quarter, two dimes and five pennies and dropped them into the astonished judge’s hand. “Well, here’s 50 cents; with what the law allows you, that makes a dollar and a half, and you can consider yourself well paid for a half-hour’s work.” Paris Green Arsenate of Lead Get Our Prices Reed & Cheney Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Coleman (Brand) Terpeneless LEMON Pure High Grade VANILLA EXTRACTS Made only by FOOTE & JENKS Jackson, Mich. Chocolates Package Goods of Paramount Quality and Artistic Design 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. Use Half as Much Champion Motor Oil as of other Oil GRAND RAPIDS OIL CO. Sg ATS ed We are the Largest Buyers Poultry, Eggs, Packing Stock Butter and Veal IN THIS CITY If not receiving our quotations write us, Get in touch with us before selling. 20-22 Ottawa Ave., N. W. Grand Rapids Michigan Watson-HigginsMlg.Co. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Merchant Millers Owned by Merchants Products sold by Merchants Brand Recommended by Merchants New Perfection Flour Packed In SAXOLIN Paper-lined Cotton, Sanitary Sacks Boats DAILY 9:00 P. M. VIA Muskegon Interurban (Train with Electric Star) and Goodrich Line The All Year Route FARE $3.00 Grand Rapids Station 162 N. Ottawa Ave. City Ticket Office 127 Pearl St., N. W. EGG Stock—always in the market, quick returns. not receiving our weekly quotations write us. KENT STORAGE CoO. WE BUY : WEB EGGS WE SELL Make us your shipments when you have fresh quality Eggs, Dairy Butter or Packing We sell Egg Cases and Egg Case material. If GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Automobile Losses By Fire, Theft and Liability Melt Away Many Fortunes. Mr. Automobile Owner: With 24,000 policies and $70,000 of cash in banks, makes the Company sub- stantial and able to stand the shock of serious losses. Should you injure some party seriously and they assume an un- reasonable attitude and attempt to take away your fortune by the cold hand of greed, you will want the assistance of a company with experience, with an army of 24,000 policy holders prepared for de- fense. You will receive ample pro. tection. Where the claims pre- sented are fair and _ reasonable, they will be paid at once. Three hundred thirty-five claims have been promptly paid. Cost $1.00 for policy and 25c per H, P. state rating. Citizens’ Mutual Auto Ins. Co. HOWELL, MICH. FREE! FREE! Every wholesale grocer, every retail grocer and every wholesale or retail grocer’s salesman or, in fact, anyone at all interested in the gro- cery business, should read this great grocery publication regularly. Special July issue gives the inside facts as to just how I started with a small amount of capital and built a great national business within the short period of six years. It also gives the de- tails, how the running of this NERS = MACARONI advertisement in more than 5,000 country weeklies, 350 daily newspapers and the leading national women’s publications is today increas- ing the profits of every retail and wholesale grocer in the United States. The July issue gives the story of Macaroni in detail; shows why genuine macaroni can be made only from Durum wheat; tells why Maca- roni not made from Durum wheat is not genuine: contains my personal guarantee that Skinners Macaroni is made from the highest possible qual- ty of Durum wheat. If you wish to know more about your business and more about the Skinner national adver- tised line of Macaroni products, simply write your name and address plainly on a postal card, stating your business or firm and address me personally, Paut F. Skinner, PRESIDENT SKINNER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OMAHA, U.S. A. 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 4, 1917 sa Pickings Picked Up From the Windy City. Chicago, July 2—Chicago celebrated June 28 as Naval Training Day at the Naval Training Station. Thousands of people made the trip over the in- terurban and Northwestern Railroad to witness the sham battles, boxing bouts, trench digging and other va- rieties Of amusements. It is reported that all profits received from enter- tainments where admission was charged went to the Red Cross. The Art Institute of Chicago has made a new rule for the benefit of soldiers, sailors and visitors by keep- ing the doors open on Saturday eve- nings until 10 o'clock. This is done for the reason that so many of the soldiers and sailors are not able to come into the city except on that night. Men in uniform are admitted free at all times. Women accom- panying uniformed men are also ad- mitted free. A lot of interesting customs origi- nate in war time. The latest has cde- veloped in Evanston, Chicago’s sub- urb, called “Safety Pin Day,” which is to take place next Thursday. All safety pins collected will be turned over to the Red Cross to be used in the base hospitals in Europe. There is hardly a day goes by in the city that there is not some form of collections made on the street. People are not considered in style unless they sport a Liberty button, Red Cross button, American flag, carnation or rose on account of the different variety of collections now being made throughout the city. Chicago was shocked last Saturday night upon receipt of news from Mil- waukee that the Christopher Cclumbus, excursion steamer, had been wrecked on its return from Milwaukee. Most of the iniured were students at the Chicago University summer school. The Christopher Columbus is an old whaleback, with three upper decks. This boat plies between here and Milwaukee from the opening of navi- gation until it is impossible to moye a boat in midwinter, It was one of Chicago’s excursion boats. One of the most interesting news items the past week is that which was published in the Republican, a city hall newspaper. This paper runs in large black type across its face “MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON is to-day the most popular man in the United States.” Of course the only question is, Is Chicago the United States? because it has been said that he could not be elected for the most minor office as a choice of the people. Chicago was again shocked Friday to hear of Graham & Sons private bank being closed. This bank for the last forty years had the distinc- tion of being one of the largest, if not the largest and minst reliable banks in this country. When “Andy” Graham, its founder, was in active control, there was no business or fi- nancial matter entrusted to his care but what turned out a success. Since his death the bank has been under the control of his two sons and widow. In the short space of time through the tightening of the money market, it seems, they were unable to meet their financial responsibil- ities, not through any crooked work of any description, but it is reported merely from the fact that their mort- gage bonds and real estate holdings had tied up too much of their capital and when it came to a point where they had to meet a $750,000 note, they were forced to close their doors. It is reported from reliable quarters that every dollar to the very penny will be paid to the depositors. This about winds up the private banks in the city of Chicago. One of the big bond issues being: floated now in Chicago by the Green- abaum Sons Bank & Trust Co. is the Brevort Hotel. These bonds are be- ing floated in small amounts, carry- ing an annual interest rate of 6 per cent. No doubt they will be taken up in a hurry, because the Brevort Hotel is very popular and runs to Capacity at all times. One of the most unique and attrac- tive window displays to-day in the city is that of Marshall Field & Co., at the corner of Washington and) State, showing two beautiful Ameri- can flags from the center of the win- dow platform to the ceiling at an angle of 45 degrees, with an Ameri- can eagle flying through the center. The traffic department were kept busy Saturday clearing the sidewalks of people whose attention was called to this beautiful sight. From the talk one hears from some of the flat owners in the city there is apt to be a few public hangings, especially from those who bought coal at from $10 to $15 per ton early in the spring to take care of their wants for next winter, and then hear- ing that some of the adjoining prop- erty owners are now buying it at #6, $7 and $8 per ton. This means that soft coal has taken a drop in Chicago. Fourth of July celebrations this year will be more noticeable than in the past three or four years. It seems that everyone is patriotic and that most every section of the city is giving a local celebration, fire- works, balloon ascensions, and a va- riety of red lemonade and popcorn. Charles W. Reattoir. Five Stories Completed April, 1917 HOTEL BROWNING GRAND RAPIDS NEWEST Fire Proof. At Sheldon and Oakes. Every Room with Bath. Our Best Rooms $2.0@; others at $1.50. Cafeteria - Cafe - Garage OCCIDENTAL HOTEL FIRE PROOF CENTRALLY LOCATED Rates $1.00 and up EDWARD R, SWETT, Mer. Muskegon tue Michigan Bell Phone 596 Citz. Phone 61366 Joseph P. Lynch Sales Co. Special Sale Experts Expert Advertising —Expert Merchandising 44 So. Ionia Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich. Don’t Despise the Drink- ing Man—Help Him Don't kick a man because he is drunk. Help him. Surely every man is worth saving. Drop us a line and let us tell you how we can aid him. Ad- dress The Keeley Institute, 733-35 Ottawa Ave., N. W.. Grand Rapids,Mich, ELI CROSS Grower of Flowers And Potted Plants WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 150 Monroe Ave. Grand Rapids United Automobile Insurance Exchange Carries Auto Insurance at Cost Without Mutual Liability For Particulars Address Home Office: 737-741 Michigan Trust Bldg., Grand Rapids. Mich. Detroit Office: 524 Penobscot Building, Detroit, Mich. CODY CODY CAFETERIA HOTEL IN THE HEART OF THE CITY Division and Fulton $1.00 without bath RATES $1.50 up with bath IN CONNECTION NeW Hotel Mertens GRAND RAPIDS ROOMS WITHOUT BATH $1.00 Uni ON with eee eaece or : tub) $1.50 St Oeics =) coins te x be AID, “ # tisha ps 7 ae eae I Aa ‘Sa Dy Vd = of Ss LP ay “gs 7g Fiza % an L Pe - (GED Aa to) feohioa {ey 'L> A Fire Proof Always at Your Service THE CITIZENS TELEPHONE COMPANY’S LONG DISTANCE LINES. CONNECTION WITH OVER 250,000 TELEPHONES IN MICHIGAN ALONE. THE STATE OF 117,000 TELEPHONES IN DETROIT Citizens Service Satisfies July 4, 1917 THE SUPREME COUNCIL. Observations By Grand Counselor Hach. Coldwater, July 3—While it is not defined as one of my duties as Grand Counselor to report or make mention of the Supreme Council session, I feel IT would not be doing justice to the cause were | to let this opportunity pass. The recent session was my first opportunity to attend as a delegate and | was truly rewarded for the time devoted by the inspiration I received, It has been my privilege during my lifetime to attend many conventions of various kinds, but it has never been my privelege to meet with a better and cleaner body of men than that of the Supreme Council of the Umted Commercial Travelers at their annual Personal John A. Hach convention at 26th to 29th. TL wish I could devise some means of conveying to the minds of the traveling men what these sessions mean to every one of them, individ- ually. I am sure there would be less complaint regarding service rendered by hotels and railroad corporations. | also feel that if the manufacturers, jobbers and wholesalers throughout the State knew what it would mean to them in dollars and cents in the course of the year they would lend willing assistance to the committee of our order on excess baggage and transportation and would feel well paid for their services and I would at this time call their attention to the recent amendments to our constitu- tion relative to their membership, it is surely worth their consideration and to the rank and file of the travel- ing fraternity | venture the assertion that if they could be brought to un- derstand what our order means to them in life and to their loved ones in misfortune, they would avail them- selves of the first opportunity and privilege to affiiliate with and become a part of the greatest, best and noblest organization that ever gave an obligation, one man to another. The work of the various jurisdic~ tions in connection with the Red Cross and Liberty Loan Bonds stands out boldly as truly worthy of atten- tion and the consideration of those who will in time be called upon to do their bit in a way which will bring grief and sorrow into the homes of many by substituting the musket for the sample case and the satisfaction of knowing that they and theirs are not neglected or forgotten is truly a source of satisfaction. Time and space prevent mention of the many men devoting their time to this ses- sion. Suffice to say that the Michigan delegation was not the least in evi- dence. E. A. Welch, of Kalamazoo, de- serves hearty commendation for the Columbus, Ohio, June MICHIGAN TRADESMAN days of long hours devoted by him on the state of the order committee and nobody could do more to a noble cause than was the result of the re- port of his committee. Michael Mowarn, of Detroit, who is looked upon as one of the guiding spirits of our cause, was in evidence, as usual, by his unselfish devotion. A. G. McEachron, of Detroit, has the ear marks of a valuable addition to the Supreme cause if he can be brought to realize that not all the world is for him to conquer and not all things of sufficient importance to warrant resorting to a telegram. Wilbur S. Burns, as a first timer, did well after overcoming the inclina- tion to put everything on a business basis by mixing tiptop soap with fra- ternal duties. Samuel Rindskoff was on hand in case of an emergency and many times was counseled with by members of lesser experience, J. Montier, of Detroit, proved to be the watch dog of the delegation and was always on hand when want- ed. The writer, by virtue of its being his first appearance in fast company, centented himself with the privilege of listening to the wise councils of greater experience which I trust I may avail myself of in the councils of the Michigan jurisdiction. The constitution, as revised, will in due time be in the hands of the sub- ordinate secretary of each council and I sincerely hope for its appreciation by the provisions of which every member should feel a personal obli- gation to enlist the interest of every eligible traveler in our cause. To the traveler who is not affiiliat- ed with us, I would suggest that he avail himself of the opportunity to do his duty to his family and loved ones and his further duty to his pro- fession and learn what is being done to better his condition and his ex- perience in travel more pleasant and profitable. John Hach. Leisure Hour Jottings From Jaunty Jackson. Jackson, July 2—Howard Holmes, of the Bacon-Holmes Milling Co., Chelsea, was in our city Monday, looking after orders from the bakers and grocers. Wilbur S. Burns, of Grand Rapids, made his first appearance at the Su- preme Council meeting in Columbus last week. On the second day of the session he made his maiden speech before the 180 delegates and was well received. This was the means of his being asked to place the name of a man in nomination before the Su- preme body, which he also did with much credit to himself and the Mich- igan delegation. After being laid off for four weeks with a fractured arm, Maurice Find- ley has returned to his work with rank S. Ganiard, wholesale grocer. E. A. Welch, of Kalamazoo, did much valuable work for the Supreme Council during its session last week in Columbus, He was on the State of the Order Committee and_ their deliberations this year were of spe- cial importance. The report was one of the best ever made to the Supreme Council. A. G. MacEachron and M. G. Howarn, both of Detroit, were on the floor of the Supreme Council many times and were influential to a large degree in its legislation and deliber- ations. With the passing of the 4th of July we will have to look forward to coun- ty fairs, but don’t go beyond that just yet, for what follows will come soon enough. It is a great relief to have a lull in advancing prices and it seems real- ly good to know that some staple commodities that go on our tables are really getting lower in price. Spurgeon. —-—_+-2.-._____- _Marrying a man to reform him 1s like trying to make a satisfactory omelet out of a bad egg. Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, July 3—Walter Law- ton improved the good weather this week by painting his porches, for- getting that he might want to use them July 4. John D. Martin writes as follows: “Knowing the columns of your val- uable paper have always been open to both sides of any controversy, I respectfully ask short pace. It is a fact | am a firm believer in the ef- ficiency of aeroplanes, but positively deny trying to demonstrate their aerial flights from the rear seat of a Franklin Sedan, It is a fact that I got a bump on my bean and that one of the ribs on the top of said car got badly bent from the contact, but it did not come from any voluntary ac- tion of mine, Mrs. Martin and my- self were the guests for the day of some of our good friends going over many miles of the beautiful drives that Western Michigan is justly fam- ed for. The day was beautiful, the roads were fine, the air was exhilarat- ing, the new green foliage was a marvel and we had only recently been treated to a most delicious dinner at Muskegon. Is it any wonder—in the light of all these distracting features —that our host should have overlook- ed an occasional ae in the road?” Harry A. Spindler, President of the Michigan Hardware Co., accompanied by his family, left the city very early in the morning of July 4 for Traverse City, traveling by automobile. John Haring, the Norwood grocer, and his wife accompanied the party in their own machine. They expect to return home by Saturday night. Verne G. Snyder, who has clerked in the hardware store of Charles A. Ireland, of Ionia, for the past eight years, has succeeded to the territory formerly covered by James. B. Shaughnessy for the Michigan Hard- ware Co. Mr. Snyder will take up his residence in Cadillac in the near future, so as to be in close touch with his trade. Mr. Snyder is a man of strong parts and his employers and associates are expecting to see him achieve marked success in his new position. Mr, Shaughnessy retires from the road to take an active part in the management of affairs in the house as assistant and understudy te President Spindler. ——_—_o-2-e——_- Max Mills Now Manages Two Hotels Portland, Oregon, June 30—I en- close herewith a clipping from the Oregonian of this morning which may be of interest to yourself and the many other friends of our old-time friend, P. H, Carroll. | am very busy with the two hotels on my hands, although | have a very loyal assistant in Mr. Shepard, my son-in-law. My son, Wayne,’ is in the U. S. Engineering service, and M., Jr., is a Sergeant in the Third Oregon Infantry. Mrs. Mills and our grandson, Tom, Wayne’s boy, now live at our home just across the street from our daughter, Rae. Lloyd M. Mills. For several years Mr. Mills—who traveled for the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., of Grand Rapids, for more than twenty-five years—has conduct- ed the Franklin Hotel, at Portland. He has now taken over the Hotel Blackstone also. The two hotels are only three blocks apart, so they can be handled advantageously by one management. Philip Carroll has received a com- mission as Captain in the regular army and is now stationed at the Presidio, at San Francisco. He was bornin Grand Rapids, son of the late Patrick H. Carroll, the remarkably successful shoe salesman who died about ten years ago. He attended 3ishop Scott Academy, studied six years in Paris and in Switzerland and had three years’ training at West Point, after which he finished at the University of Michigan. He received his appointment to West Point from Michigan. He was in Grand Rapids about three months ago, having made a trip across the continent from New York when the war broke out to ap- ply for a captaincy, which was quick- ly accorded him. ——_+ > Bottom Facts From Boyne City. Boyne City, July 2—Boyne City was last week subjected to a visita- tion which will have a lastine effect. Two hundred and fifty of the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority, in convention at Charlevoix, decended upon the town, Every effort was made to cap- ture the invading force, but they got away, vowing that the reception given them would surely bring them back again. A tour of Pine Lake on a beautiful June day is inducement enough for any one to go into ecstacy. Our city is in the throes of street improvement just now. We are ready for concrete pavement, but not enough cement on hand tobegin paving. This defect will soon be remedied, however, and then the tourist can scoot through the town without being obliged to waste any time in looking at the attractive location. If rumors about the streets are true, we will have some important news concerning some of our large industrial enterprises next week. The storm of last Saturday night did considerable damage to the young crops North of the city by washing out and flooding some of the just. out-of-the-ground plants. No excitement this week. ery Bond and Red Cross over. Now it is just work. a fire, so long as the blaze lasts it is interesting, but when the fire is out the healing up and drying is just plain everyday work, That is what is ahead of us now. Maxy. ee ee What Farmers Can Buy With Their Produce. Mancelona, July 3—A few years ago we scld a farmer a Milburn wagon complete for $60 and he gave us 600 bushels of potatoes in payment. Now for 600 bushels of potatoes we could give: Milburn wagon, The Lib- drives are Just like box and seat $ 90.00 Dort automobile 745.00 John Deere manure spreader 145.00 Delaval separator, No. 2 75.00 Syracuse plow, No, 61 17.00 One Minute washing machine 12.00 Land roller 32.00 10-18 dise harrow 38.00 16 tooth wood frame spring tooth harrow 10.00 3 H. P. Fairbanks-Morse oil en- gine 77.50 500 capacity Fairbanks platform scale 15.00 John Deere mower 60.00 Steel range 40.00 Ohio riding cultivator 35.00 AND, IN ADDITION, $300 IN CASH. : Wisler & Co. a Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Potatoes. Buffalo, July 4—Creamery butter extras, 37@38c; first, 36@36'%c; com- mon, 34@35c; dairy, common _ to choice, 31@35c; dairy common, all kinds, 30@32c Cheese—No. 1 new, fancy, 23%c, choice 23c. Eges—Choice, new laid 34c; fancy 36@37c. Poultry (live) — Fowls, Broilers, 24@30c; old cox, ducks, 23@2é4c. Beans—Medium, $9.00; Red Kidney, $8.00@8.50; White ney, $9.00@9.25; Marrow, $9.00. Potatoes—New, $5.00@6.00 per bbl. Rea & Witzig. hennery, 21@24c; 16@17c; $9.00 Kid- pea, wants to three 10 cent bibulous man he takes two 15 When a practice economy cent drinks instead of ones. —__-+> Circumstances occasionally force a man to admit that other people's troubles are almost as great as his own, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 4, 1917 _ “> DRUGGISTS i ” se a ay) nL “ WNL inn} SUNDRIES TOA Ss A Ue Ae 3 Bh ES — Resolutions Adopted By Michigan Board of Pharmacy. If any licentiate of the Michigan Board of Pharmacy enters the mili- tary service during the present war his registration will not be lapsed on account of the non-payment of the annual renewal fees during his term of service. Registered druggists or candidates who have not completed the required four years’ experience, who enter the hospital or ambulance service, will be permitted at a future examination to present affidavits for the time actual- ly spent in such service in lieu of the pharmacy experience ordinarily re- quired. It is desirable that the Secretary cf the Board be notified of the fact of entrance of the licentiate into the mil- itary service, so that proper notation may be made in the register. After Juy 1 address all official cor- respondence to E. T. Boden, Bay City. Charles S. Koon, Sec’y. ——s- Too Much Law and Lack of Unity. At the recent convention of the Tri- State Wholesale Grocers the follow- ing item among resolutions present- ed and adopted was most important, says the Confectioners’ Journal: “Resolved—That we deplore the efforts and perisistent attempts of special interests in different states from year to year to secure special laws. each relating to the manufac- ture, branding and sale of one par- ticular food product, or one special class of such products, particularly as numerous and conflicting special laws of this kind work a great hard- ship upon food manufacturers and wholesalers, all of whom do business in two or more states, and unques- tionably increase the cost to consum- ers without any corresponding bene- fit We are certainly a law-ridden peo- ple. We are obliged to stand for ev- ery year, five times aS many new laws on all sorts of human affairs, especially food and drug affairs as are enacted in Great Britain. The greater part of this legislation origin- ating in prejudice or official ignor- ance is a nuisance and a burden to the business people of the Nation. It can be stopped when we wake up and elect the right kind of men to office. The trouble is that the drug trade is divided. Whereas the legal and medical professions have one set of organizations, our interests are di- vided between that of the manufac- turer, wholesaler and retailer, ‘| In the National field we have six organ- izations, viz., the National Wholesale Druggists’, the Proprietary, N. A. R. D., American Pharmaceutical, the As- sociation of Pharmaceutical Chemists and the American Drug Manufactur- ers, many of the above with state or local units. It sometimes occurs that one di- vision will be fathering a certain measure and another division will be fighting the measure. What is want- ed is an effective clearing house of legislative thought. It is indeed true that united we stand, divided we fall. The result has been some most ob- noxious legislation. The subject is of growing and utmost impcrtance and it is to be hoped that the presi- dents of the various state associat’ons who are presumably at present think- ing about what they will say in their presidential addresses will take up this vital topic and offer suggestions that will enable the various divisicns of the drug trade to pull together. As the late lamented Franklin remarked on a certain historic oc- casion,. “If we don’t hang together, we shall all hang separately.” o_o _ Better Time Then. Crawford—Did you always turn over a new leaf at the beginning of the year. Ben Crabshaw—Oh, no. When I was a kid I found that the best time to do it was about two weeks before Christmas. Criterion WALL PAPERS PAINTS WINDOW SHADES HEYSTEK & CANFIELD CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. lil AULA Paris Green Labels The Paris Green season is at hand and those dealers who break bulk must label their packages according to law. We are prepared to furnish labels which meet the require- ments of the law, as follows: 00 labels, 25 cents 200 labels, 40 cents 500 labels, 75 cents 1000 labels, $1.00 HILUUAUULEUUUESULATEUT Labels sent postage prepaid where cash accompanies or- der. Orders can be sent through any jobbing house at the Grand Rapids market. HUNT Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, Mich. 1 To Dornbos Single Binder Dealers These Are Four Reasons Why you find our popular Single Binder tara antl telctes CAR MANUFACTURER. H t 16-18 Fulton St.. West A Real Business Getter and Holder 1.—It is Hand Work—Made with but a Single Binder. This insures a free smoker—giving the best results with the selected stock which we use. 2.—The blend is Different—The faste is there. And your customers would pay 10 cents for that flavor if there were no Dornbos Single Binder. And it always is wrap- ped in Tinfoil—_The smoker gets all he pays for— nothing is lost. 3.—It has been building a friendship for 21 years, and has thousands of cheerful boosters. 4.—Our guarantee goes in every box and helps sell the goods. PETER DORNBOS CIGAR MANUFACTURER 16-18 Fulton St., West Grand Rapids, Michigan et @% i a a, m. ¢ "y » A 4 *« . * y , F, ‘ & © yf Tox TT 4 * » “ ‘ » 4 ® It’s Pure, That’s Sure ItsGood For @ You PIPER ICE CREAM CO. Kalamazoo :: Michigan o * | | « 5 > * + 1 “ { } _ - “tt OAS o - J uly 4, 1917 MI Cc CaSO HIGAN na TRADE eC 7" * P White OO WHOL aris G Lead S P ESA : rice L Le reen, Li » Mixed Bori He —— E DRUG ad B ime & Pai Boris (Po clds are no PR . Bug Fi S ints Garhe cau mina ICE ini ulph ’ Cc corres 1) 17 c 1, bas CU ishes, Li ur Solu olors in beat ernie a 25 Sls ed on m RREN 2? ® te . Ni le He saseseuns 614 jo ea a on tion, Ar - Bee 86@ 80 Eucalypti cage the d i 1 s Sul Co teeeteees 3%4@ o J ocr I 5 75 a Sod . 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Ven. -. @ 0 Zin h H pure 50@ 85 e cuhahade 1 ana 75 tae 1 . MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 4, 1917 GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing. and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices. however. are liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled at market prices at date of purchase. ADVANCED Krinkle Corn Flakes Canned Apples Canned Peaches Tuxedo Smoking Twine Baskets No Limit Fine Cut Flour DECLINED Canned Tomatoes Black Pepper 2 —— ——— Index to Markets 1 ot By Columes ARCTIC AMMONIA —---- 12 0z. ovals, 2 doz. box 2 00 Col AXLE GREASE A i: . i. Se 1 . Woo oxes, 4 doz. 3 00 ce eee kl 1,13 1%. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 35 3%Tb. tin boxes, 2 dz. 4 25 B 10%. pails, per doz. ..6 00 Baked Beans ........ 1 15%b pails, per doz. ..7 20 Baking Powder oa 14 25m. pails, per doz. ..12 00 Bee CG BAKED BEANS Breakfast Food ...... A. No. 1, per dow 22: 135 BIOnne ....... 2... a. ONO. 2 per dow... 2 25 Bremen |... i =MNe 3, per Goze... 2 75 Butter Color ......... 1 BATH BRICK c Porte 95 Sates 1 BLUING Canned Goods ...... 1, 2 Jennings’ Catsup Se ; Condensed Pearl Bluing Cheese ............... 2 Small, 3 doz. box .... 1 95 Chewing xakt 2 -. -- ; Large, 2 doz. box 2 Chocolate ca ee teehee 3 Folger’s ears 2. ke 12 Summer Sky, 6 oz. Ciothes Lines ....... 3 eke ll _ 45 oe enue preter ee : Summer Sky, 12 oz., ete eee errr: : per @oz 2.1... 85 eee ciclo. o. 4 montections .......... 4 BREAKFAST FOODS Cream Tartar .....-- 5 Bear Food, Pettijohns 3 50 = racked Wheat, 24-2 ..4 50 peereeee 5 ream of Wheat .... 7 50 ne ee + Cream of Rye, 24-2”. F Quaker Puffed Rice .. 4 30 Farinaceous Goods 5 Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30 Fishing ToeKe ...... 5 Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 1 90 Flavoring Extracts .. 5 Quaker Corn Flakes .. 2 60 Flour and Feed ...... 6 Washington Crisps .. 2 30 Bratt Jars ........... © Wheatena ........... 5 10 hata Sugar Corn ‘ “ srape NUS ......... 85 rir agi cettertceeene : Sugar Corn Flakes .. 2 50 Grain Bags .......... Holland Rusk ........ 3 80 Krinkle Corn Flakes ..2 80 fl ee 6 Mapl-Flake, Whole Hides and Pelts ..... 6 WVMPSD oo c ee ee A 05 Morse Hadish ........ 6 Minn. Wheat Food .. 6 50 Renee: . gk ee 6 Ralston Wheat Food luaree 285 ......... 60 J Ralston Wht Food 18s 2 45 Oy ee eacess 6 Ross’s Whole Wheat lly Giesses ......... 7 IGCHIT cco cc aes — Saxon Wheat Food .. 4 50 M Shred Wheat Biscuit 4 00 Mapleine ........-... 2. Weseote 1S 2 10 Meats, Canned ...... 8 Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 2 50 mance Beat ......... 7 20st Toasties, T-2 .. 3 30 Molasses ........-.-- 7 Post Toasties, T-3 3 30 meter ets es. 7 Post Tavern Porridge 2 80 N BROOMS Nuts ......-........5- 4 Fancy Parlor, 25 Ib. .. 7 50 Parlor, 5 String, 25 lb. 7 25 : ° Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 7 00 ieee... Se. 7 Common, eh 6 50 P Special, 23 Ib. ......-. 6 25 Petroleum Products . 7 Warehouse, 23 Ib. .... 8 00 el 7 Common, Whisk ...... 1 30 pes ee ce 7 Fancy, Whisk ........ 1 75 Playing Cans... s. 7 BRUSHES Potash Coe oceeee eee 7 Scrub Exoviswens _........-. 7 Solid Back, 8 in. .... 75 Solid Back, 11 in. .... 95 - Pointed Ends ........ 85 ON ce. ; sieve Rolled Oats .....-... No. 3 s No. Salad Dressing ...... g No. Saleratus 8 oe Soda 8 No. ee 14 No. Salt — 8 No. Ll ee 9 No. oe Biackine ...... 9 BUTTER COLOR Snuff .......+---+++0. 9 Dandelion, 25c size .. 2 00 PE oe oes esos ees 14 RR ee eae 9 CANDLES PO oo coc concen eee 9 Paraftine, 66 ........ ol eee 9 Parattine, 126 .....-.. 11 SYTUPE .. noc ccccccsee 2 Wittine _..........., 20 spe ee Table Sauces ........ . ED ccs cbescerenccess 2 Ib, standards oc @1 00 Tobacco ........ Ue ow, Gh @2 ID 5g oe eee cee 12 Blackberries Vv cm. ...3 4.46 75@2 00 WERT ooccnssccece- 12 Standard No. 10 .. @7 25 w Beans ; ae BBaken. 2... 1 25@2 25 Wicking icobeanalpee 12 Red Kidney .... 1 25@1 35 Woodenware ......... 12 ag te eeeeeeee : 50e2 os x 2... Wrapping Paper ..... 13 tissues bie ¥ Bitar .nnwccecs ove 1 40 WORK CORD ccevescces UB MO. WD ic ccccccccecee 1 Clams Little Neck, 1 Ib. .... 1 45 Clam Boulllon Burnham’s % pt. .... 2 25 Burnham’s pts. ...... 75 Burnham's qts. ...... 7 60 Corn Meir. oo. ceaeee 000 oo. ..2 3c... 1 85 WANCY ..<.s5 osesene French Peas Monbadon (Natural) per Goze oo. scaes Gooseberries No. 2 Mar ..2....... No. 2, Fancy ...... pees Heminy Standard -. 2.0.2.2... 1 20 Lobster Mm ID Looe 1 90 we Me 3 10 Picnic Plat .......... 3 75 Mackerel Mustard, 1 tb. ....... 1 380 Mustard, 2 lb. ....... 2 80 Soused, 1% Ib. ...... i 60 Soused, 2 ib, ......... 2 75 Temato, 1 tb. ........ 1 50 Tomato, 2 tb. ....... 2 80 Mushrooms Buttons, %s ......... @30 SertAOne, 16 . 2.5.6.6. @50 Motels, 46 5... @44 Oysters Cove, 13h. ........ @1 20 Cove, 2 1b. ..5.....: @1 80 Plums Plumes) ..0 0... .c. 1 oe 00 Pears In Syru No. 3 can, per dz. 2 £0@3 00 Peas Marrowfat ...... 1 25@1 35 Early June: .... 1 50@1 60 Early June siftd 1 60@1 75 Peaches me oe 1 25@1 50 No. 10 size can pie @83 75 Pineapple Craten ..... 6 1 75@2 10 Sliced <2. ...0. - 1 46@2 60 Pumpkin Meir 5.65555 6.6 esas 10 Seed . on ancsces esece 2 oD WANCY . ces cee ess cons a BO 0. 20 oo see 50 Raspberries No. 2, Black Syrup .. 1 60 No. 10, Black ..... 8 00 No. 2, Red Preserved 2 50 No. 10, Red, Water .. 7 25 Salmon Warrens, 1 Ib. Tall .. 3 10 Warrens, 1 Ib. Flat .. . 25 Red Alaska ........ 75 Med. Red Alaska .... 3 40 Pink Alaska ......... 2 00 Domestic, 4s . Domestic, % Mustard 6 00 Domestic, % Mustard 5 50 Norwegian, %s .... 11@16 Portuguese, %s ....22@80 Sauer Kraut No. 3 Cane ......00 ae 75 NO. 10, CBNB .cccccescs Shrimps Dunbar, is doz. ...... 1 25 Dunbar, 1%s doz. .... 2 40 Succotash Fair eecscceccesoes O8 S000 .5seesseswoe ee Strawberries Standard ........020c0 3 OD MOREY 2 6 oc5c5iessscon Be Tomatoes IG: 2 oo aac ss bee as es 1 65 MOS oie eeca ee Sioa ee 00 WO. 10) ica eae e es 6 75 Tuna Case %s, 4 doz. in case ....4 50 %s, 4 doz. in case ....7 50 1s, 4 doz. in case ....10 00 CATSUP Snider’s % pints ...... 1 50 Snider’s pints ....... 50 CHEESE BOM 565s soe @29 Carson City @26 BACK osc ssc eeees @26 Leiden ....... ee Limburger ...... @29 Pineapple ...... 1 25@1 85 Edam ..... uc 1 80 Sap Sago ........ oO Swiss, ‘Dom Domestic % 3 CHEWING GUM Adams Black Jack .... 62 Adams Sappota ....... Beeman’s Pepsin ‘ Beechnut Cnictets .... 5.4.5... .. 1 33 Colgan Violet Chips .. 65 Colgan Mint Chips ... sere eres cee ees Dentyne .......... B7 Lowney, 5 Ib. cans we Ot Van Houten, %s ...... 12 Van Houten, \%s ...... 18 Van Houten, %s ...... 36 Van Houten, 1s ........ 65 Wan-BEta ........ ie Webb ....... Wilber, %s8 Wilber, %s8 COCOANUT Dunham's per lb 448, © ib, Case ......-.-- %s, 5 Ib. case ........ 31 %s, 15 lb. case .. . ok 14s, 15 lb. case . ——. oD ie, 15 1h. case ......-.. 29 %s & %s, 15 lb. case .. 30 5 and 10c pails ..... 4 00 Bulk, palis .......... 20 Bulk, barrels ........ 18% Baker’s Brazil Shredded 70 5c pkgs., per case 2 80 36 10c pkgs., per case 2 80 16 10c and 33 5c pkgs., mer CABC ....4-5..- 2 Bakers Canned, doz. .. 95 COFFEES ROASTED Rio Dh occ sees oo ae rar Doce ce ree secu ssc 19% ROMOUOD cose pecan cease 20 MBOCG ncn ec coc cesse ss OE Peaberry 23 Common .... 20 mae... 20% Choice ..... 21 Fancy 23 Peaberry 23 WAIT ion ccce 24 Choice 25 Choice 2.60055 bees OD PeMOy .oc cae AE 26 Guatemala DO occu. oes peeeee Paney § .....-5.5 becca OC Java Mandling Private Growth .... gas Aukola Mo Short Bean ........ 25@27 Long Bean ..... --. 24@25 t. Om .....65 - 26@28 Bogota Walt oc. sss pebee cess + 24 Fan 26 an My Market. "Steady Spot Market, Strong Package New York Basia Arbuckle 21 50 eeeeseeseee 4 McLaughlin’s XXXxX McLaughlin’ XXX s Nat. Leaf 9x eens ead, Sc... pn HIDES AND PELTS aa UU . 2a oS _< Res ‘Karo, No. 1%, 2 <0 Fe eee oh “fhe te eG "740 56 des is tenes «.. 24 00 ore «+ "Red Ware. No. 2 2 da 300 Piper wnt, 6 ih .... 50 © eur Ga... 4 ue ag 2 eas ote 19 5 aus bees De — 50 28 Ib. sacks ....e.e0 Ay Ret ers, Ne. Sig 2G oda, an Piper Hotlsiock gtk 69 old Mri, Se fom © 82 Gaeed. Mo. 4 ....... = P Gee o_o Red Karo, No. 5, 2.455 Polo, 8 doz., pe z. 96 Old English Crve 1% c 5 76 , oe cele. 21 IPES 56 lb. sac R ’ .5.1dz.455 Red _ per doz. 48 Old rve 1% oz. 96 Glired, No. 2 vies, 20 Giay, Se". fall°count $5 Jb sachs i igaze OO specgene es: 48 Seranpie, 2 and Gaon’ 48 Crop 856 220. of Calfskin, green, ad 30 Gob. count 80 Solar Rock Pure Cane S erry Cobbler, 8 oz. 33 S., 8 oz. 30 Ib. cas 3 48 Catecin, cured. a 2 28% See le ge «(8 lb. sacks ........ 88 Wair ........-...- 16 see Head, 12 oz. .... 4¢ P. a ¢ om, Ber EI. 7 19 Calfskin, cured, No. 132 =No. 90, St CARDS ba = enue) |, spear Head, 14% oz. .. at Hand, 1 oz. 7 ' , No. 2 30% eamboat .. mmen Cc ecesee 20 Spea : 73 *' 46 Patterson Seal, 144 os. 63 380% No. 15, Rival assort a. 8 Granulated, Fine ... 16 ao se recccess tse: 95 Sa. D Head, 7 oz. . 50 Patios Seal, 1% oz. 48 Pelt No. 20, R ed 1 50 Medium, Fin . 0 olger’s Grape Punch eal, < 14 & 28 ‘lb. erson Seal, 3 oz. Old Wool ... 18@2 No. 572, — enam’d 1 15 : @ ...--2-. 175 Quarts, doz. case c Star, 6, 12 and 24 Ib. 30 Patterson By 16 an él 96 fate 50@ 00 No. 98 jal ...... 2 SALT TABLE Standard Navy, 7%, 15— 48 Peerless, Z. : 00 onl haga 5001 00 No, a0 _oolt Satin fin. 2 25 fren Halford, oe eee nae oe w Peerless, oe eioth’ at 82 a. No. 832 Tourn't whist 260 Small’ 6. ee $75 Town ‘Talk, 1402... eo pea ae ‘No. 1.. POTAS mall, whole ...... T / Yankee Girl, 12 & 24 Ib s Weetes We... 04 sl @6 Babbitt’s. 2 doz Strips or bricks 1. = Sandan idee an 4 08 Eales see ae - acece 190. Pollock S 11%@15 Uncolored J a, 2 gro. case PROVISIONS ock ......... Medium apan Plow Boy, 5 wace & 76 . Wool Holl -+++ @ 8% Cho gece cos . 20@25 Scrap Plow Bov C ceceesss 5 78 vnwasnes, Wh. gp Gea BREESE EP Staas a pet aie Bettas tsi ae ac; i. eee 3 , fine @52 Seact Cut Cir & . M, scene wae. Soe ee . Union Scrap oF edro, sees Be 1 00@42 00 Standa ee -fired Med'm 28@30 Bag Pipe, 5c 11.5 40 Pride of Virginia, 13° 11 93 A. G. sauna Brisket," Gica Ore 0 5? ieee 85 Beeketenred Fancy 384s Cutias, 2% te caress |] te of Ving a go Bra: a. ide 4.4 tele 4 ele N a 5 e crap, pO ueen Qu wc“ 7 oz., per d _ nd. PIB... esse eee renee Her o. 1 Nibs ...... Hi , 2 OZ. .... 30 ality, Se .... 20 . pe ce 90 Clear Family ... Med. Fat S fit, "20 Siftings, bulk ...... — Here Thought, 2 oz. 30 Rah Roy, Se fol .... @ a i ok. 2 75 te a 2900 Laborador Split 200 Ib 10 00 Siftings, 1 Ib. pkgs. 12014 ee ee Ts Roe ee a gee 62 a e orw, : ; rap, 5c .. oy, ie a peas RADISH @ P Bellies... en Special, . a — 16 50 Moyune Comeenaer At Pouce a dou. io 1° Rob Roy, > ps vee B 50 We ele wa caaile sae 4 90 : Lard Scaled, in boxes -. Moyune, Ch .. 28@33 Old mee. Ge .......+ %-a & M. 5e er os 5lb. — Sonn in tierces 2274@28 Boned, 10 Ib. boxes .... i Moyune, woes soon Gone mone & es Oe 5 & M., 14 07, doz. .. 4 i 1BIb. pails, per doz. .. 80 “eget Lard 19 @19% Trout Ping Suey, Medium 25@30 Red Band, 5c, e gro. 5 76 oldier Boy, 5c gross 5 7 30Ib. pails, per pail .. 105 60 ib tubs ....advance % a 1, 100 Ibs. ... 3 Ping Suey, Choice 35@40 Red Man Scrap + are 600 Soldier Boy, 10c ......10 as pails, per pail .. 2 00 50 Ib. ae ++ 5 % No. _ a ibe. pen : = Ping Suey, Fancy .. 45@50 ener 5c pkgs. e..1 “ Stag, ieee abba _o fe -.- advance ck, fe Young Hys ure Shot, 5c, secs Stag, oo — Wek te ..2..2... pa Choice ......... i 28@ Yankee Girl pl A ie : 76 Stag. 8 oz. glass arneee 52 : Fancy 30 Pan Handl 00 Stag, 90 -- 450 weccccccecees 456@66 Peach ndle Scrp % ger 6 00 Sold ie glass ...... 8 40 achey Scrap, 6c ....5 76 Sw er Boy, 1 Ib. .... 4 75 eet Caporal, 1 oz 60 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 4, 1917 SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT 12 13 14 Sweet Lotus, 5c Sweet Lotus, 10c ....11 52 Sweet Lotus, 16 oz. .. 5 50 Sweet Rose, 2% oz. .. 30 Sweet Tip Top, 5c .... 50 Sweet Tip Top, 10c .. 1 00 Sweet Tips, % gro. ..11 52 Sun Cured, 10c ..... , ws Summer Time, 5c .... 5 76 Summer Time, 7 oz. 1 65 Summer Time, 14 oz. 3 50 Standard, 5c foil .... 5 76 Standard, 10c paper 9 60 Seal N. C. 134 cut plug 70 Seal N. C. 1% Gran. .. 63 Three Feathers, 1 oz. 48 Three Feathers, 10c 11 52 Three Feathers, and Pipe combination .. Tom & Jerry, 40c .... Tom & Jerry, 20c ... Tom & Jerry, 3 0z. .. Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags .. 48 Tuxedo, 2 oz. tnis one 96 ot nmr > So Tumelo, OC ....-20s00 04 Tuxedo, soc tins .... 8 io Union Leader, = coli 6 60 n Leader, 10c a pce bee etc 11 52 tnton Leader, ready o Union Leader 50c box 4 10 War Path, 6t ........ 6 00 War Path, Pee 2. coos 1 60 Wave Line, Bp Ok. .o5.. 40 Wave Line, 16 oz. .... 40 Way Up, 2% oz. .... 5 75 Way Up, 16 oz. pails . 36 Wild Fruit, Sc ...... 00 Wid Fruit, 10c ..... 12 00 Tam Yum, 5c ........ 5 76 Tum Yum, i0c ....- 11 52 Yum Yum, 1 Ib. doz. 5 40 CIGARS Peter Dornbos Brands Dornbos Single ee... ek 35 00 Dornbos, Perfectos .. Dornbos, Bismarck 70 00 Allan D. Grant ..... 65 00 PO 35 00 Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand Dutch Masters Club 70 ¢0 Dutch Masters Inv. 70 00 Dutch Masters Pan. 70 00 Dutch Master Grande 65 00 El Portana Dutch Masters, 5c Ss. Cc. W. Gee Jay Johnson's Straight Above five brands are sold on following basis: iness than 300 ........ 35 00 200 assorted .........- 35 00 2500 assorted ........ 33 00 3% trade discount on 300 or more. 2% cash discount on all purchases. Werden Grocer Co. Brands Worden’s Hand Made Londres, 50s Wood .. 33 00 TWINE Cotton. 6 ply ......... 14) en, 4 ply ......... 40 20, 2 DIP 5... kk. 25 Hemp. 6 ply .......,-- 30 Hiax, medium ....:.... 35 Wool, 1 tb. bales ...... 17 VINEGAR White Wine, 40 grain 12 White Wine, 80 grain 17 White Wine, 100 grain 20 Oakiand Vinegar & Pickle Co.’s Brands Highland apple cider 22 Oakland apple cider .. 17 State Seal sugar ..... 14 Blue Ribbon, Corn .. Oakland white pickig 12 Packages free. WICKING No. 0, per gross ........ 35 No. 1, per Sross ....... 45 No. 2, DET GYOKS ....... 60 No. 3, per gross ....... 90 WOODENWARE askets Bushels Bushels, wide band .. 1 25 Market, drop handle .. 45 Market, single handle 50 Splint, large ........ 4 00 Splint, medium ....... 3 50 Splint, small ........ 3 00 Willow, Clothes, large Willow, Clothes, small Willow, Clothes, me’m Butter Plates Ovals % Ib., 250 in crate .... 35 % Ib., 250 in crate .... 35 1 tb., 250 in crate ...... 40 2 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 50 3 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 70 6 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 90 Wire End 1 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 35 2 Ib., 250 in crate ..... - 45 3 ib., 250 in crate ...... 55 5 ib.. 20 in crate ...... 65 Churns Barrel, 5. gal., each .. Barrel, 10 gal., each .. 2 55 Clothes Pins Round Head 4% inch, 5 gross ...... 65 Cartons, No. 24, 24s, bxs. 70 Egg Crates and Fillers Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 20 No. 1 complete ........ 42 No. 2 complete ....... 3 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 spring ........ 1 35 Eclipse patent spring 1 35 No. 1 common ...... 35 No. 2, pat. _ brush hold 1 35 — No: 7 ........ 5 3 12lb. cotton mop heads 1 75 Pails 10 qt. Galvanized .... 3 50 12 qt. Galvanized - 400 14 qt. Galvanized .... 4 50 Pitre og 4 00 Toothpicks Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00 eal 85 Traps Mouse, wood, 2 hoels .. 22 Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. 45 10 qt. Galvanized .... 1 55 12 qt. Galvanized .... 1 70 14 qt. Galvanized .... 1 90 Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70 Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65 Bet, wood ..... 2. 80 hat, sorne ......).). 75 Tubs No 1 Wb. 16 50 No. 2 Pibre ......_.. 15 00 No. 3 Fibre .......... 13 50 Large Galvanized ... 12 50 Medium Galvanized 10 75 Small Galvanized .... 9 50 Washboards Banner, Globe ...... 3 75 Brass, Single ........ 6 75 Glass, Single ........ 4 00 Double Peerless ..... 6 25 Single Peerless ...... 5 50 Northern Queen ..... 4 75 Good Enough ........ 4 65 Universal ..... 2... 5 00 Wood Bowls 3 in. Bitter ........ 1 75 145 in. Butter ........ 3 15 ij in. Butter ........ 6 75 19 in. Butter ....... 10 50 WRAPE:ING PAPER Fibre Manila, white .. 8% Fibre, Manila, colored No. 1 Manila Butchers’ Manila .... 8 BOG ae 10% Wax Butter, short c’nt 16 Wax Butter, full e’nt 20 Parchm’t Butter, rolis 19 YEAST CAKE Magic, 3 doz. Sunlight, 3 doz. 1 Sunlight, 1144 doz. .... 50 Yeast Foam, 3 doz. .. 1 15 Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85 Window Cleaners a2 et 1 65 i ool. Ll. 1 85 AS AO. 24. - 2 30 PVCU UE Carlots or local yatnoveel rete bulk or sacked in oe iper or jute. Poultry and stock charcoal reais UE ROUT Ta ST (aie Successor tuM O DEWEY CO BAKING POWDER Kc 10c, 4 doz. in case .... 95 15¢e, 4 doz. in case .... 25c, 4 doz. in case .... 2 35 50c, 2 doz. plain top 4 50 80c, 1 doz. plain top 7 00 10 Ib. % dz., plain top 14 00 Special deals quoted up- on request. K C Baking Powder is guaranteed to comply with ALL Pure Food Laws, both State and National. Royal | 10c size ... 1 00 7 %lb. cans 1 45 6 oz. cans 2 00 J41b. cans 2 55 %lb. cans 3 95 H 1lb. cans .. 4 95 4 5lb. cans 23 70 MorTONS alta Te te eee cls Morton’s Salt Per case, 24 2 Ibs. .... 1 80 Five case lots ....... 1 70 SOAP Proctor #& Gamble Co. LeOnOk conn. £2 76 ivory, 6 oz. ......, sc. DB ID ivory, 10 oz 9 60 eT ce -. 4 60 Swift & Company Switt's Pride .,,.._.. 4 50 White Laundry ...... 4 25 Wool, 6 oz. bars .... 4 65 Wool, 10 oz. bars .... 6 50 Tradesman Company Black Hawk, one box 3 50 Black Hawk, five bxs 3 Black Hawk, ten bxs 3 40 Scouring Sapolio, gross lots 9 Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85 Sapolio, single boxes 2 Sapolio, hand ........ 2 40 Scourine, 50 cakes 1 Scourine, 100 cakes .. 3 50 Queen Anne Scourer 1 Soap Compounds Johnson’s Fine, 48 2 3 25 Johnson’s XXX 100 5e 4 40 Rub-No-More ....... 4 50 Nine O'Clock .;..._. 3 85 WASHING POWDERs. Gold Dust 24 large packages .... 5 100 small packages .. 5 or on o AXLE GREASE 1 Ib. boxes, per gross 8 70 3 Ib. boxes, per gross 23 10 The Only Five Cent Cleanser Guaranteed to Equal the Best 10c Kinds 80 Can Cases ...... $3.20 Per Case Handled by All Jobbers Place an order with your jobber. If goods are not satis- factory return same at our expemse.—FITZPATRICK BROS. FITZPATRICK BROTHERS’ SOAP —_— BBLS. White City (Dish Washing)............. oe 210 lbs...... a Tip Top WN as sees es ee ess. oekinees 250 Ibs...... fos No. 1 Laundry 88% Dry.................000- ceereceeee- 220 lbs.....- | PRICES Palm Soap 88% Dry ostsecess os 6 s+ eoeeccce ese ase OO IDB sco sa. SEND FOR SAMPLES Bread is the Best Food It is the easiest food to digest. It is the most nourishing and, with all its good qualities, it is the most economical food. Increase your sales of bread. FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST secures perfect fermentation and, therefore, makes the most whole- some, lightest and tastiest bread. Sell bread made with FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST TULL ar fe OFFEE oF wRicGHt © eld or Nae +e Adal -CHI aon Coffee is a Kingdom OF ALL-SORTS AND “White House” Coffee IS KING of That Kingdom Which is your customer likely to prefer? Distributed at Wholesale by Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. ry Ct t ‘ A om ™ 4 » “ A © oh Ys t % wat 4 | 4 . X . ¥ . s e ¢ ° { 4 { ¢ . * La 4 , ° 8 “a i i H a‘ 4 i” % a July 4, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT 31 Advertisements inserted under this head for three cents a word the first insertion and two cents a word for each subsequent continuous insertion. BUSINESS CHANCES. _ For Sale—About 100 miles north of Grand Rapids in thrivmg town of 1,000 population, a clean up-to-date grocery stock. Centrally located. Will sell or rent building reasonable. Address No. 160, care Michigan Tradesman. 160 For Sale—Good, clean grocery stock in good live town. Good location. $8 month rent. Snap. Invoice about $1,000. All cash business. Have other business. Address Box 66, Byron, Michigan. 165 Cash Registers—Let us quote you price on rebuilt cash _ registers. All makes—sizes—styles. Largest used ma- chine dealers in Michigan. Save you money, terms to suit. Will exchange for your machine. The o'. C. Vogt Sales Co., 215 So. Washington Ave., Saginaw, Michigan. 158 Wanted—We wish to hear from gro cers, meat dealers and others who are going out of business and wish to get into a profitable line where their mer- chandising experience will be valuable. Our proposition does not require removal from your home town. McConnon & Company, Dept. X, Winona, Minn. 163 Safes Opened—W. L. Slocum, safe ex- pert and locksmith. 128 Ann St., N. KB., Grand Rapids, Michigan. 104 For Sale—Clean stock of groceries and crockery in one of the best towns of Michigan. Good location and good trade. Will invoice about $3,000. Address No. 164, care Tradesman. 164 Collections everywhere. We get the money and so do you. No charge unless collected. United States Credit Service, Washington, D. C. 57 Cash Buyers of clothing, goods and furnishings. stocks. etroit shoes, dry Parts or entire H. Price, 194 Forrest Ave. East, 678 Wanted—To hear from owner of good general merchandise store for sale. Cash price, description. D. F. Bush, Minne- apolis, Minnesota. 176 One K-40 three and one-half ton Kelly- Springfield Motor Truck, equipped with Hydraulic Hoist Steel Dump __ body, eighty-one cubic feet capacity. Eight months’ use, A-1 condition. The Oval Wood Dish Co., Tupper Lake, New York. 185 For Sale—One meat market outfit, new cooler 8x 10x 6, all tools new. Address A. C. Renkes, Clarksville, Michigan. 186 $500 per week general merchandise business, double store, home stock, etc., free and clear, to trade for feed barn. Somebody's opportunity. Small point. Overhead like four corners. J. Cooper, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. For Sale—Grocery stock and _ fixtures. Will inventory about $1,800. Will sell at inventory. Reason ill health. Reason- able rent on a lease for a term of years. Address No. 174, eare Michigan Trades- man. 174 railroad W. 137 For Sale—First-class, paying up-to- date summer resort; profit of $3,500 each year and resort work lasts only two months a year. This is a dandy propa- sition. Fasy payments. Write to W. N. King, Waverly, Minnesota. 190 For Sale—Hardware and implement husiness in good vrowing town in South- ern Colorado. Has gravity water sys- tem, electric lights, cement sidewalks, and is railroad junction. 100d stock and farming country surrounding. Ad- dress F. D. Potthoff & Son, Antonito, Colorado. 191 For Sale—Store in Michigan which paid 25 per cent. on capital stock last year. We carrv a stock of $20,000 dry goods and ladies’ ready-to-wear. 10,000 popu- lation. A fine chance for the right party. Part cash required. Address No. 192, care Michigan Tradesman. 192 _ For Sale—Plumbing, heating, tinning and electrical business. Good live town of about 2.000 population, with electric lights, sewer and water system. This is a well established business and will pav to investigate. Will invoice about $3,000 Reason for selling, owner wishes to retire from business. Address O. H. Neuden- feldt, Enderlin, North Dakota. 193 Good established For Sale—Grocery. trade, mostly cash. All fresh and clean stock and fixtures. As owner has other business will sell this cheap or trade for farm. Address No. 196, care Tradesman. ee rea, CONDUCT YOUR OWN SALES—Save 90%. Usual cost. Hundreds of sales have been suecessfully conducted under our supervision. We furnish advertising, circulars, signs and detailed instructions. Write now for particulars. Commercial Advertising Co. (Sales Experts), Grand Rapids, Michigan. 97 * Free For Six Months—My special offer to introduce my magazine, “Investing for Profit.’’ It is worth $10 a copy te 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, 488-28 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago. 800 General Merchandise and real estate auctioneer. Closing out and_ reducing stocks, address Leonard Van Liere, Hol- land, Michigan. 799 Will pay cash for whole or part stocks of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn, Sag- inaw, Michigan. * %67 For Sale Cheap—Or exchange for real estate, stock of drugs and fixtures. Fine location. A. HE. Ferguson, Romeo, Mich. 181 For Sale—First-class, meat and fancy grocery market. Established business, best location in best town in Michigan. Write H, 129 E. Front St., Traverse City, Michigan. 17 Will Sell Or Exchange—Farm of 240 acres, Jackson county, for drugs, hard- ware, general merchandise or small farm on car line. Chas. « Maynard, Milan, Michigan. 175 Excellent Opening—For a bazaar, fur- niture and undertaking business. A new two-story brick building 2914 feet by S80 feet. Wired completely for electricity; basement and first floor heated by a fur- nace. A 50-barrel cistern for soft water in basement. The entrance to the base- ment is level with the surface of the ground. The building is centrally located on the main street. Parties interested phone or write Frank Weber or Roy T. Weber, Saranac, Michigan. 177 EVERY MERCHANT IN MICHIGAN Can use the John L. Lynch Sales Co., to build up their business, sell out their store, stock and fixtures, reduce stock, raise money or clean up odd lots left in stock. We can get you a good price for your merchandise. We sold for Blood & Hart, Marine City, Michigan, population 3,500 in nine days, $17,774.00. Write them! We sold for George Duguid, Gobleville, Michigan, population 350 opening day of the sale over $2,000.00 Write them! We have worked wonders for others and can do same for you. Write to-day for information, dates, references, etc. Please mention size of stock. John L. Lynch Sales Co., 28 So. lonia Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. No charge less than 25 cents. 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 Bidg., 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—Harness stock of Theodore Nohe, deceased; invoices $1,500. Clean, new stock. In business three years; only shop within 15 miles. Located in one of the best farming _ sections of Illinois. Profitable and nearly cash busi- ness. Fine opening. Address R. W. Ruckman, Amboy, Illinois. 15 For Sale Or Exchange—Furnishings lease, 40 room hotel. If interested write for particulars, 225 W. High St., Bryan, Ohio. 189 HELP WANTED. Wanted—Experienced window trimme1 and card writer. Must also be shoe salesman. Splendid opportunity for ad- vancement. State salary wanted. Apply Peoples Bargain Store, Saginaw, Mich- igan. 188 ~ Wanted—Registered pharmacist or man with drug store experience. State age, references, experience, etc. Schrouders, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 182 Wanted—Young man _ experienced in dry goods and floor coverings to fill posi- tion in the leading store in Southern Michigan city of 6,000. References re- quired. Address No. 195, care Michigan Tradesman. \ POSITION WANTED. Young man experienced in men’s fur- nishings, desires steady _ position. Al references. Address No. 194, care Trades- man. 194 For Sale—My entire property at Angell, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, con- sisting of three acres of land, dwelling house, store building, stock of general merchandise and fixtures. Good business, an ideal location, good reason for selling. Prices and terms very reasonable. If interested call or write Wm. A. Ander- son, Angell, Michigan. 184 Cash must accompany all orders. For Sale—Men’s first class furnishings, clothing and shoe store for sale. Doing excellent business. First-class iscation, nominal rental. Established thirty years. Always made money. Stock in first- class shape. Located in prosperous city of 65,000, Northern Michigan. Reason for selling, illness. Apply now to No. 166, care Michigan Tradesman. 166 You Can Buy Flour— _. SAXOLIN Paper-Lined Cotton Sanitary Sacks DUST PROOF DIRT PROOF MOISTURE PROOF BREAKAGE PROOF The Sack that keeps the Flour IN and the Dirt OUT Ask Your Miller in Your Town —he can give you his flour in this sack Our co-operative advertising plan makes the flour you sell the best advertised flour in your community For samples and particulars write THE CLEVELAND-AKRON BAG CO., CLEVELAND denomination. tion. Four Kinds of Coupon Books Are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or Free samples on applica- bret TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. THE MASTERY OF THE AIR. Now that the United States is definite- ly in the war and is to be considered an essential unit in it, the brains of the country are working on the problem of how best to achfeve a successful out- come. What we need is the cheapest solution; the cheapest in lives, in time and in money. The subject of air navi- gation received serious consideration during the early period of the war, but has not been so strongly in the public eye of late. It would be a good thing to bring attention back to it. The Zep- pelins. it is now conceded, have proved a costly failure. They are so big as to be easy marks for anti-aircraft guns and entirely too slow to get away from fast airplaines. They can no longer be considered a factor. The mastery of the air, which they were expected to ac- complish, has not been secured by them. The advantages that will accrue to the side that secures the uncontested control of the air are almost unlimited. It is well known that the airplane acts as the eyes of the artillery, directs its shots, reports their effect and corrects the aim of guns that have missed. It is not so well known, however, what other work the airplane is capable of doing if it can overcome resistance of its own kind. On the Western front it is well known that the Germans have been en- trenched for so long that they have had time to build complicated trench systems and bombproof cellars that cannot be reached by the heaviest and strongest artillery fire. To capture these requires a large expenditure of lives that can ill be spared. Airplanes can, however, when in control of the air, strike far back of these lines of trenches, destroy break up infantry movements, industrial plants and, not the least important factor, at- tack and uproot the submarine bases on the coast. In fact, only a little re- flection is necessary to show that by communications, destroy means of complete mastery of the air it will be possible to inflict such damage upon the German enemy that he cannot continue to fight. —_+<++___ o- The Time of Opportunity. America’s entrance into the world war has aroused much eager ques- ticning as to the conflict’s probable effect upon business. The outlook is decidedly reassuring, The coun- try’s leading experts believe that busi- ness, far from being harmed by the expansion of the war, will be bene- fitted by it very materially. This conclusion is based on a care- ful survey of things as they exist now. In this survey everything was taken at its face valuation. No ef- fort was made to make anything ap- more favorable than it really was. No facts, unwelcome or other- wise, were covered up. Unless some unthinkable thing transpires, the war will not reach American It is only in keeping with economic laws that under these conditions America should prosper on a vast scale even though we are at war. Looking at the thing even from a pessimistic angle, cold hard logic forces one to the conclusion that America is going right on prospering. pear soil. There is not a fraction of the rea- son for trepidation that there was when the trouble in Europe started. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN And everybody knows how absolute- ly groundless the fears of business men proved at that time. Have con- fidence. This is a time of opportuni- ty for those who will use it—Butler Way. —_22..—___. A Crooked Salesman and His Work. No one concern has the monopoly of crooked salesmen, but K. K. Bell, gen- eral manager of the Calumet Baking Powder Company, is the victim of one whose operations are worth mention. Mr. Bell was obliged to leave Chicago in the very midst of the recent conven- tion of wholesale grocers to help prose- cute a former salesman for whom the company had been looking for several months, and who has just been rounded up in Georgia working his little game. It appears that for months past the company has been hearing from the South of visits upon the trade by a for- mer salesman of that district still taking orders, some of them unsually large, making attractive prices, offering deals and doing a land office business. Inci- dentally, he usually borrowed money in advance of the goods, making plausible explanations for his necessity, and, of course, fleeing for new realms before anyone could overtake him. His crook- edness is thought to aggregate many thousands of dollars, and when the com- pany learned of his apprehension, Mr. Bell hastened off to help prosecute the offender. —_+2+—____ Disclosures Coming to Light. The Tradesman learns, on author- ity it deems absolutely reliable, that F. E. Davis, who succeeded in vic- timizing the merchants of Michigan to the extent of $1,200 and would probably have secured ten times as much if he had not been promptly exposed by the Tradesman, came di- rect from South Dakota, where he secured $12,000 in shipments of but- ter and eggs before he decamped. But for timely interference of the Tradesman he would probably have repeated the same result in Grand Rapids, It is a source of much satis- faction to the Tradesman that only one of its readers was among Davis’ victims. The others were shippers who have been repeatedly importun- ed to join hands with the Tradesman, but “could see no use” in trade ‘iour- nals. ——--~ It is a matter of common knowledge that Germany has repealed all laws re- lating to the illegitimacy of children and that every woman in Germany— married or single—who refuses to do her part in increasing the population of the country is made “officially preg- nant” by official edict. The women of other nationalities who are sojourning in Germany are forced to submit to this inhuman practice which is now univer- sal among the German people. Two Grand Rapids women—a widow and her young daughter—who were in Ger- many at the time the Kaiser started the war, have not been permitted to leave the country and have been compelled to submit to the brutal lust of the most brutal nation which ever existed to con- form to the official edict of the Kaiser, who is bending every energy to per- petuate a race of beasts to supplant the civilization of the ages. Review of the Grand Rapids Produce Market. Asparagus—Home grown $1 per doz. Bananas—$5 per 100 lbs. Beets—60c per doz. bunches for home grown. Butter—There is an active demand for all grades of butter. Receipts have increased during the past week and have been cleaned up on arrival at unchanged prices. The quality arriving is the best of the year. The make is about nor- mal. No important change is looked for in the immediate future. Local dealers hold fancy creamery at 36c in tubs and 37c in prints. Local dealers pay 32c for No. 1 in jars and 28c for packing stock. Cabbage—New California commands $3 per 90 Ib. crate. Cantaloupes—Ponys from California command $3 for 54s and $3.50 for 45s. Carrots—40c per doz. bunches for home grown. 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; home grown, 80c per bunch. Cocoanuts—$6.50 per sack containing 100. Cucumbers—$1.10 per doz. Eggs—The egg market is firm and unchanged, with an increased consump- tive demand. There is a considerable falling off in the production and the eggs now arriving show good quality for the season. The market is healthy on the present basis and if there is any change during the next week, there will probably be a slight advance. Local dealers pay 29c for fresh, including cases, holding case count at 30c. Figs—Package, $1.25 per box; layers, $1.75 per 10 Ib. box. Green Corn—35c per doz. for Illinois, Green Onions—18c per dozen bunches for home grown. Honey—18c per Ib. for white clover and 16c for dark. Lemons—California are selling at $5.25 for choice and $5.75 for fancy. Lettuce—6e per Ib. for garden grown leaf; $1.75 per hamper for Southern head; $3 per crate for Iceburg from California. Maple Syrup—$1.50 per gal. for pure. Mushrooms—75c per Ib. Nuts—Almonds, 18¢ per Ib.; filberts, 16c per Ib.; pecans, 15c per lb.: walnuts, 16c for Grenoble; 15'%4c for Naples. Onions—Texas Bermudas command $1.60 per 45 Ib. crate for yellow and $1.75 for white. Oranges—California Valencias, $4.50 (4.75. Peas—$1.75 per bu. for home grown. Peppers—Southern command 60c per -basket. Pineapples—Floridas are now in :mar- ket, commanding $4 per crate. Pop Corn—$2.25 per bu. for ear, 614 @ic per lb. for shelled. Potatoes—Old command $2 per bu.; new, $8 per bbl. for Virginia. Poultry—Local dealers pay as fol- lows, live weight: heavy hens, 23c; light hens, 21@22c; cox and stags, 15 @18c; broilers, 38@40c; geese, 15@16c; ducks, 22@23c. Dressed fowls average 3c above quotations. Radishes—10c per doz. bunches for small. Rhubarb—Home grown, 3c per 1b. or 75c per 40 Ib. box, July 4, 1917 Strawberries—Home grown are now in the market, commanding $2 for 16 qts. The crop is a heavy one. Squash—Button, 4c per lb. Tomatoes—$4 for 6 basket crate, Tex- as; hot house, $1.50 for 8 lb. basket. Water Melons—$4 per bbl. of 12 to 14 for Florida. Wax Beans—$3 per hamper from Florida. A Toast to Bread. Here’s to the backbone of civiliza- tion—bread. It satisfies when noth- ing else can satisfy. When the nectar of the gods tastes flat and insipid in the merry quaff, and when the menu with its surfeit of viands and victuals fails to please, good, sweet, nutritious wheat bread comes like a ministering angel to put courage and spirit into the hearts of men. Arrayed in no delicious frostings or tempting garn- ishments, bread wields the scepter in its regal sway. Companion of prince and peasant, at home in cabin and castle, it is, indeed, builder of men ana of nations—our daily bread. Geo. F. Wright. —»+++___ A-1. Few people when they say of an article of excellent quality that it is A number one, know the origin of the phrase which they are using. It is a classification of wooden ships used by Lloyds Maritime Insurance Association. The letter stands for the construction, the number for the equipment of the vessel, the whole indicating that the ship is in all re- spects seaworthy. —_2-+—__ Even the Shark Is Useful. The use of shark skins for leather is becoming a large industry, and many fishing sloops are now engaged in the business of catching sharks. This work is common in both the At- lantic and the Pacific. The shark has never been considered as anything more than an enemy of man, but the leather industries of the country are finding a good use for them. —_2<+.___ The Tradesman would go even furth- er than Theodore Roosevelt suggests in his 4th of July speech at Forest Hills and suppress all newspapers published in the German language and the teach- ing of German in the public and private schools of the country. Everything German must be blotted out completely if democracy and humanity are to rule this world. Every person who. still clings to the German tongue and in- sists on using it in any way is a menace to free institutions and is an especially dangerous person to tolerate in a free country while the gigantic struggle with the cohorts of tyranny is in progress. —_++2>___ The child is indeed father to the man; the former builds houses of blocks and the latter builds a block of houses. —~+~-.____ The Sterling Desk Co. has changed its name to McLeod Furniture Co. —>-.—___. To avenge our wrongs costs more than to protect our rights. BUSINESS CHANCES. For Sale—Well established grocery business. Must be sold at once to settle an estate. Address, 120 East Main St., Battle Creek, Michigan. 198 “4 -