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Thirty-Fourth Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1917

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Who Wins in the Battle
Of Life?

It’s not in the name and the loud acclaim,
That the truest victory lies,

And the men who reach to the highest fame
Are the first to scorn their prize.

There’s many a worse fate in this world
Than to lose an uphill fight,

If you keep the flag of your faith unfurled
And stick to the rule of right.

There’s a lesson taught in the loser’s pain
That the victor may not buy,
That the greatest gain from the strife and strain
Is a purpose pure and high.
From an age uncouth, came the law of ruth,
And the earth is paved with bones
Of men who died while the armies of truth
Made the dead their stepping stones.

In the how and when, the what and why,
And not who won the fight,

In the truest sense life’s-guerdons lie
To the eye that sees aright.

And the dearest prize to the level soul
Is not in praise nor pelf,

But in conscience clean and self-control
Of the man who rules himself.

 

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quiries will receive painstaking and prompt attention and will be treated as confidential.

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include all varieties. Every package is guaranteed
full weight. Franklin Granulated Sugar is sold in
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SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page
4. News of the Business World.
5. Grocery and Produce Market.
6. Reduce Delivery Expense.
8. Editorial.
10. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
11. An Opportunity to Serve.
12. Financial.
14. The Kaiser’s Wanton War.
15. Upper Peninsula.
16. Hardware.
18. Shoes.
20. Three of a Kind.
22. August Auguries.
24. The Commercial Traveler.
26. Drugs.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
30. Special Price Current.
31. Business Wants.

 

 

CANNED GOODS MARKET.

Developments in the canned goods
line during the week have been evolu-
tionary rather than revolutionary.
As in practically every other line of
foodstuffs, the trade has been waiting
on the action of Congress with refer-
ence to the matter of food control,
fearing to make contracts that may
be declared illegal or incurring losses
through the decision of the Govern-
ment to name a fixed price. The prin-
cipal item in the limelight has been
peas. It has been stated that the
Government has placed orders with
canners for 500,000 cases, but it has
been impossible thus far to obtain any
definite statement from any authorita-
tive source on this subject. Never-
theless there has been a clear an-
nouncement of what the Government
will want in the way of canned gocds
and just what assortment of peas
will be required. From the crop
standpoint the reports in regard to
peas have been discouraging, and
there is no doubt now that the pack
will be considerably under that of last
year. The Government, it is under-
stood, will take the peas at cost, plus
12 per cent., which, it is estimated,
might bring the price somewhere in
the neighborhood of $1.10 and if this
is so the question naturally arises as
to why the regular buyer cannot be
treated in the same way. In other
words, if it is to be considered un-
patriotic for the canner to make an
excessive profit out of the Govern-
ment, why should it not be equally so
as regards the civilian buyer?

Still another point of interest is the
possible production of salmon. Ac-
cording to the figures submitted by
experts in the trade, whatever sur-
plus ‘there is from the coming sea-
son’s pack will be furnished by the
sockeyes, which are due this year for
their heavy run. As everything is
topsy turvy nowadays, it would not
be surprising if the sockeyes conclud-
ed to change their habits of the cen-
turies and go out of business, but be-
yond some reports of an obstruction
in the Fraser River from a rock slide
there are no indications that anything
like this will happen. The Columbia
River pack is declared to be almost a
failure, and a wireless alleged to have

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25,

come from Alaska declares that the
pack of pinks will only be one-fourth
of last year’s. But, as one well-known
operator observed. “How can a fish-
erman tell what he is going to bring
home in his basket before he starts
out in the morning?” In other words,
these reports may bear out Mark
Twain’s comment on the premature
report of his death as being “slightly
exaggerated!”

 

RAW MATERIAL TROUBLES.

One of the rumors on which Max-
well Motors has been sold down 1s
that it is in a bad cash positicn, that
it needs working capital, and that,
like Studebaker, it has a swollen
floating debt. The existence of un-
usual floating debts for some motor
companies being admitted, much de-
pends upon the cause for them. They
are an outgrowth of the difficulty in
getting raw materials. The average
automobile factory is, as it were, a
huge assembling plant. All parts and
materials are contracted for; deliv-
eries and shipments are nicely calcu-
lated, so that all parts and materials
may flow in in an equable stream, day
by day. The Dodge Motor people,
for instance, will contract to receive
400 radiators a day, and other parts
and materials numerically to corre-
spond. An automobile plant wil
keep, say, a two weeks’ surplus sup-
ply of materials in its storercoms.
Managers will see to it that the nec-
essary surplus of each part is on
hand, and that the daily or periodic
stream is not interrupted.

If one important part is held up,
there may be havoc. If enough front
axles do not come in, the cars can-
not be assembled; and the surplus
of all other parts is fer the time be-
ing useless. It has recently happen-
ed in some concerns that they have
had cn hand huge inventories, but
inventories that were unbalanced—
as having a great deal more of some
kinds of parts than of others. High
prices, shortage of labor, scarcity of
materials, and freight tie-ups have
recently threatened the current sup-
ply of this part or that. Some auto-
mobile .concerns, unable to contract
as they would like to, have been forc-
ed to go into the open market for
some materials, buying in odd lots,
or. taking such blocks cf things as
they could get—often large blocks,
because one does not know when one
will be able to get them again. This
sporadic, get-what-you-can, open-
market method of buying requires a
much larger working capital than
normal methods. A rumer_ widely
circulated lately is that the cutting
of steel prices by the Government for
all consumers will lead to supervision
of steel sales, and that pleasure-car-
makers will be asked to wait for their
steel until the needs of the Govern-

 

ment and of war-forwarding indus-
tries have been filled.

 

THE SUREST ROAD TO RUIN.

France and Russia are suffering as
much from high prices and inflation
as is England. Germany and Austria
are suffering still more. Germany has
made no attempt to pay as she goes.
She is even borrowing a part of her
interest—the surest road to. ruin.
Mcreover, Germany has been pyra-
miding her loans until she has become
financially but little more than an emp-
ty shell. Her financial stress has be-
come so desperate that good judges,
including some leading international
German bankers, are contident that
Germany cannot hold out much long-
er, even if she can hold together po-
litically and industrially. Admitting
that Germany has performed wen-
ders, economically and financially, as
well as in a military way, she must
have about reached the limit of her
endurance, The political events of
the last two weeks, however, indicat
While
we may be certain that conditions
are worse than the outside world
knows, we know enough to indicate
that a political overturn, possibly as
great as occurred in Russia, may not
be far off. If it does not come this
year, we surely expect it early next
year,

extremely critical conditions.

 

WORSE THAN MARK OF CAIN.

The duly authenticated  publica-
tions now being issued by chroniclers
and historians in the neutral nations
show up Germany in a worse light
than ever—and God knows the record
was black enough before. Besides
poisoning the wells and castrating the
men and boys relinquished to the
Allies in the towns and cities vacated
by the German army, it now tran-
spires that German physicians, both
military and civil, inoculate every
woman and female child with the
germs of tuberculosis, syphilis and
leprosy. To the unprejudiced ob-
server it is very evident that Ger-
many is determined to destroy the
world, outside of her own domain,
by every means that fiendishness can
conceive or devilishness can employ.
When the war is finally over and the
German beasts have been driven
back within their own borders, no
decent man anywhere in the world
will speak to a German, trade with a
German, trust himself on a German
ship, eat German food, read a Ger-
man book or listen to German music
_-and he will continue to hold himself
aloof from German beasts for fully
three hundred years.

 

The report brought back from
France by Dr, Finley that the French
people, in the midst of war’s all-con-
suming demands, are not neglecting

1917

Number 1766

the education of their children, is an-
other preof that the present conflict
is not like any other of equal scope
and destructiveness. Great have been
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the sacrifices made by humanity, most

terrible its losses. At the same time
there is a determination equally great
on all hands to preserve intact the
treasures of civilization. It was early
demenstrated that the present conflict
would bring no repetition of a world
crumbling away into barbarism such
as the dissolution of the Roman Em-
Nor 1s
it to bring a brutalization and deg-

pire under Teutonic invasion.

radaticon of the spirit like that fol-
lowing the Thirty Years’ War; nor
a terrible political reaction similar to
that of the post-Napoleonic period.
These children and teachers of France,
studying in caves, protected by gas
masks, are symbols of the self-con-
sciousness and self-control of Eu
ropean culture, in marked contrast
with the bloody work of the nation o
beasts and brutes across the border
in Germany and behind the German
W hat-
ever happens in Germany will not be

lines in France and Belgium

allowed to retard or obscure the mcr
al, intellectual and aesthetic devel-
opment of the nations who are en-
eaged in the deadly combat with the
hordes: of barbarism and_ brutality
blindly assuming to wear the mantle
of the Almighty. A poilu return-
ine to Paris for his permission finds
himself back once more in the old,
gentle, but keenly intellectual at-
mosphere he knew before the war.
His days at the front are like a night-
mare from which he has awakened
So will all the world awaken, after
peace.

One has to rub his eyes and wonder
after all if he is still in the same old
world when he reads that an aeroplane
has dropped three bombs into the ‘“for-
bidden city,” that portion of Pekin occu-
pied by the government. That appears
to be the fact and to have been the
final coup de grace of the latest Chinese
empire. The performance is typical of
what is going on all over the world.
War and csupervening democracy are
changing all things governmental. The
young emperor has abdicated and China
is once more a democracy or going that
way. This holds good for to-day but
one cannot guarantee anything for to-
morrow.

RET RTE REE TS

During the last twelve months, the
increase in the commercial vehicle
business has been the talk of the busi-
ness world. Its success has been
well-nigh phenomenal, and yet there
are those who insist that the success
already attained only marks the be-
ginning of an era of growth which
will rival anything which has occur-
red in the passenger automobile field.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

July 25, 1917

 

Late News About Michigan Banks.

Halfway—The Halfway State Bank
has been organized with a _ capital
stcck of $25,000.

Coopersvile—The capital stock of
the Coopersville State Bank has been
increased from $20,000 to $30,000.

Ovid—Kenneth F. Crawford, Cash-
ier of the Ovid State Savings Bank,
has resigned his position here and will
go to Detroit in July, where he has
a position with the American State
Sank. Mr. Crawford has been in the
Ovid Bank for eight years and has
been Cashier for over a year. The
position here will be filled by Harold
S. Beardslee, book-keeper in the St.
Johns National Bank.

Saginaw—Archibald C. Milne, Pay-
ing Teller at the Bank of Saginaw,
has resigned to become Cashier of
the Oakwood branch of the American
State Bank of Detroit. Mr. Milne is
President of the Saginaw Canoe Club
and Treasurer of the Saginaw High
School Alumni Association.

Plainwell—The Citizens State Sav-
ings Bank of Plainwell in its latest
statement shows resources of $563,-
Deposits total $529,219. A year
ago resources were $405,358 and de-
posits $373,911. If the bank continues
the present rate of gain, it will be in
the $700,000 class a year hence.

Detroit—The Industrial Morris
Plan Bank of Detroit will open on
August 10, with James A. Hoyt, who
comes from Columbia, S. C., as Vice-
President and General Manager.
Eighty-two banks of this type, which
loan money to workingmen on ex-
ceptionally easy terms, are in opera-

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

 

 

tion in the United States. The Morris
Plan Bank of Detroit will have a cap-
italization of $500,000 and the officers
will be: President, Edwin S. George;
Vice-President, Eugene W. Lewis;
Vice-President and General Manag-
er, James A. Hoyt; Treasurer, Alex-
ander I. Lewis; Secretary and Assis-
tant Manager, John E. Hall. James
S. Utley and Julian Osborne are com-
pleting arrangements for the cpening.
Bay City—The Federal Reserve
Board regards the Supreme Court de-
cision in the case of the First Na-
tional Bank, of Bay City, as “epoch-
al.” This dceision, which held that
a National bank may do a trust busi-
ness, is classed with the Liberty
Loan’s success and- the amendments
to the reserve act which became effec-
tive June 21. In the July issue of the
Federal Reserve Bulletin, the official
publication of the Board, the Bay
City decision is one of the topics dis-
the leading article which
treats of the three developments in
some detail. It is the Board’s be-
lief that the decision will serve as a
notable factor in the campaign to
bring every bank in the United States
into the Federal Reserve system.

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Croswell—The First State Savings
Bank of Croswell has been organized
with a capital stock of $25,000.

Holly—D. B. Lyons, of Scuth
Lyons, is the newly appointed Cashier
of the First State and Savings Bank
of Holly to succeed Charles A. Wil-
son, who will become President of
the institution, succeeding D. D. Had-
ley, who will retire from active work
in the future.

Bottom Facts From Booming Boyne
City.

Boyne City, July 23—The work of
laying concrete pavement on the main
street through the city was commenc-
ed last week and is moving right
along. <A flaw in the bond election
notices delayed the procuring of
funds, but, that having been correct-
ed, we will have the completed road
by the end of next year.

It may be of interest to traveling
men to know that a daily boat line
has been established between Boyne
City and Charlevoix. The increase
in the use of automobiles has been
very discouraging to boat operators
for the past two years, so that no
service was started this spring.

The Carnegie library building is
up to the first floor and work is be-
ing rushed right along. The new
garage and produce warehouse are
beginning to show what they will
look like. If present weather con-
tinues, the farmers around Boyne City
will find ample opportunity for the
use of the latter. Everything is on
the jump. Warm weather and plenty
of rain is keeping the crop situation
just where it is needed.

The Wagner Organization Bureau
began operations last Monday in the
re-organization of the Chamber of
Commerce, Lively interest is being
manifested by the business men and
we not only hope but confidently ex-
pect that Boyne City will be benefittee
in all ways. Maxy.

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Late News From Byron.
_ Byron, July 23—Mrs. William Code
is under the doctor’s care, suffering
from rheumatism.

Miss Lena Tower, formerly em-
ployed by L. E. Tower as grocery

clerk, has accepted a position with
Kk. W. Dewning as postmistress in
the postoffice.

Several automobiles have been in
the ditch on the sides of the cross-
way North of town, The worst place
is in the corporation. The road needs

Barney is away on his

WoRDEN

 

vacation this week

THE PROMPT SHIPPERS

widening. Our city dads had better
look into this, as it has been reported
to the State Commissioner.

Wm. Code, formerly employed by
F. W. Downing in the postoffice and
grocery, has resigned and bought the
barber shop of Howard Barnes. Good
luck to William, as he deserves a good
patronage. -

Harold Close and family are taking
an outing at his cottage at Argentine.

Some of our boys that were drafted:
Arthur Allen, Elton Pratt, Earl
3rookins, Mr. Hall and James Ap-
pleton.

Cecil Benton and mother are quar-
antined at present. Cecil has a slight
attack of scarlet fever.

Robert Bailey was shocked by
lightning last Tuesday. He"had taken
cover under a tree during the storm.

C, C, Harpe, of the Byron garage,
reports a fine business. He says he
handles 100 to 200 cars per week, in-
velving a business of from $1.000 to
$1,800 per month. Groceryman.

The American Grocer outdid itself
this year in the publication of its an-
nual report of the National Wholesale
Grocers’ Association. The proceed-
ings of the convention were presented
with singular fidelity and exactness,
the illustrations were extensive and
approximate and the letter press was
superb. Editor Barrett, like rare old
wine, grows better with age and gives
his readers a mental pabulum each
week which for uplift and inspiration
is not equaled by any trade journal in
the world.

 

STOCK BUYERS
We buy Shoes, Dry Goods, Clothing, etc.
Stocks bought for spot cash.
Write us at once.
PERRY & GLUCK MERCANTILE CO.
292 Gratiot Ave, Detroit, Michigan

 

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July 25, 1917

Late News Notes From the State’s

Metropolis.
Detroit, July 24—The writer has

noticed that when a retail shoeman
sells hosiery and pushes it the line
proves a profitable investment, The
other day the writer sat for one hour
in a leading Woodward avenue store
whic hosiery is handled, where one
particular salesman (working on a
sliding scale basis) made it a point
to suggest hosiery to each customer.
He made three sales of oxfords while
the writer was there, and to each cus-
tomer he suggested hosiery, showed
some samples, talked on the colors
to match the shoes and sold every
customer. In fact, one customer
bought three pairs at 55 cents each.
It goes to prove that hosiery can be
sold in retail shoe stores, and without
great difficulty. It is only necessary
for the salesman to suggest some new
hosiery to a customer without in any
way soliciting the business or being
persistent. The “power of sugges-
tion’ enters largely inte the sale of
any article.

Owing to damp and rainy weather
high shoes have been selling in larg-
er quantities than for many previous
seasons at this particular period of
the year. Past experience has prov-
ed that during July—particularly if
the weather is real warm—retailers
should confine their windows entire-
lv to oxfords and white shoes. But
this year it seems to be an even break
as far as the window is concerned,
there being as many high shoes on
display as low, Some retailers say
that the high shoe is being worn as a
matter of economy, many people
thinking it well to buy them for early
fall. However, others attribute the
high shoe sales entirely to the damp

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

his resignation to become Manager
and buyer of the men’s shoe depart-
ment of R. H. Fyfe & Co., succeeding
Ben B. Berke, who left to enter busi-
ness for himself on Washington boule-
vard. Previous to his association with
the Lindke store, Mr. Jay was man.
ager of an Emerson shoe branch in
Cleveland.

James Salters, assistant to Steptien
Jay, manager and buyer of the men’s
shoe department at the Lindke shoe
store, becomes manager of the men’s
department at the Lindke store, suc-
ceeding Mr. Jay.

Ertell & Butler, 53 Monroe avenue,
are completing their first year as re-
tail shoe dealers for themselves.
Beth men have long been in the field,
but always as employes of others.
Each man has a large list of friends
and customers, and it is not to be
wondered at that they have had a
successful first year. The “Beacon”
shoe is a feature at their store.

The offering jof special bargains
in shoes during special hours is not
a new idea, but it is being prac-
ticed more than ever among Detroit
shee retailers. Apparently the re-
sults justify the plan, because it is
being done at some of the best stores
to clean out odds and ends. P. J.
Schmidt of 32 Michigan avenue, one
morning last week put on sale one
lot of women’s low shoes at $1 per
pair; another lot went at $1.45, and
still ancther lot at $1.95.

The J. L. Hudson Co. has secured
the exclusive Detroit representation
for the “Doughboy” army shoe, the
retail price of which is $11.50.

That there are going to be many
splendid openings for retail shoe stores

in the growing outskirt sections, espe-

tion of time when they will be good
for retail business.

Practically all the downtown wom-
an’s wear stores have retail shoe de-
partments, the exception being B.
Siegel Co., Himelhoch’s and Et-
tinger’s, Worth & Co., as mentioned
previously, are planning to install a
women’s department. Such stores as
Kline’s, Russell’s, Kern’s, Hudson's,
Crowley, Milner Co. and Newcomb,
Endicott Co. report their departments
as very successful.

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Dry Goods Men Will Reduce Return
Evil.

Official announcement will prob-
ably be made by the retail dry goods
dealers of Grand Rapids that the lo-
cal establishments have decided to
cut down the number cf deliveries
and reduce the return goods privilege
to a minimum. This action will be
in keeping with the anncuncement
made in these columns some weeks
ago that the dry goods stores were
considering ways and means to com-
ply with the suggestions made at a
conference held in Washingtor week
before last that everything possible
should be done to help the United
States win the war.

It is understood that the dry goods
Men are going to act in unity and har-
mony in the proposed movement.
They realize that now is the time for
concerted action. By taking advan-
tage of the opportunity to do their
share in the National

York have de-
cided that the way to prevent waste 1
to limit the time in

stores in Greater New

which commodi-
ties purchased at their establishments

can be returned by purchasers and
cash secured again. Men prominent
in the dry goods section who were

interviewed afternoon de-

clared that thousands of articles pur-

yesterday

chased months and sometimes a year
returned daily by
Around the

before were being
customers.
son the evil is

They pointed out
was extravagant, not only because the
had to accept. slightly
and soiled articles, but because a large

holiday sea-
especially
that the

flagrant.
practice
stores used
had to be maintained to handle
these returned goods.

that ccmmencing Au-
1 the purchaser will have
days in

force

It was Said
gust ‘ust

seven which to decide if he
yr she wants to keep the article pur-
chased. None of the men prominent
in the would this
report, saying that at the proper time
the action of the

made public.

campaign discuss

conferees would

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insured in
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weather. cheval. Mack, West Fort street, Grand prevent waste during the war time mine losses by arbitration and then

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Movements of Merchants.

Traverse City—Mrs. Angus Mc-
Cool has opened a restaurant at 131
East Front street.

Bay City—The Hagerman & Stores
Tool & Machine Co. is planning to
build an addition to its plant.

Crystal Valley—M. Y. Miller, former-
ly engaged in trade at Scottville, has
engaged in general trade here.

Detroit—The Wholesale
Grocery Co. has increased its capital
stock from $20,000 to $40,000.

Adrian—The capitalization of the
Adrian Wire Fence Co. has been in-
creased from $300,000 to $600,000.

Superior

Eaton Rapids—The H. A. Good-
rich Co., cream, eggs and poultry
dealer, has changed its name to the

Eaton Packing Co.

Hartford—Ray Wheaton, recently
of Paw Paw, has purchased the bakery
of Mrs. E. Van Woert, taking im-
mediate possession.

Forest Hill—Elmer Post lest his
store building and stock of general
merchandise by fire July 19, entailing a
loss of about $10,000.

Jackson—Carl G. Trumble has leased
the store at 103 West Main street and
will remodel it and occupy it with his
drugs about Sept. 1.
Schooleraft—Toby

stock of
Vicks-

have engaged in the garage and

Bros., of
burg,
automohile accessory business under the
management of Robert Frakes.
Ypsilanti—Thieves entered the gen-
eral store of W. H. West, at Cherry
Hill, July 21 and carried away
$135 in

about
cash and considerable stock.
Carson City—John L. Lynch closed a

Saturday

night for Gittleman & Co., dealer in
mens, womens and children’s clothing.
Grand Ledge—W. B. Teman has

sold his stock of general merchandise
to M. Koningberg, formerly of Lans-
ing, who will continue the business

Otsego—Vern Ludwig has purchased
the Ludwig estate in the C. P.
confectionery and

Ludwig
stock and
will continue the business under his own

grocery

name.

Saginaw—Adolph Gluck, who has con-
ducted a grocery store and meat mar-
ket at 800 Throop street for the past
fifteen years, died at his home July 23
of a complication of diseases.

Muir—Emery Danner has sold his
stock of general merchandise and
store fixtures to his head clerk, James
B. Ludwick, who will continue the
business at the same location,

Albion—H. H. Sheldon, who has
conducted a drug store here for the
past twenty-one years, has sold his
stock and store fixtures to Arthur
Smith, who has taken possession.

Alma—Slater & Goodes, dealers 10
men’s furnishing goods, have dissolv-
ed partnership and the business will

be continued by Fred W. Goodes, who
has taken over the interest of his part-
ner.

Lansing—R, T. Treadwell has en-
gaged Joseph P. Lynch, of Grand
Rapids, to conduct a sale of his shoe
and jewelry stock at 1029 Washing-
ton street, starting Saturday of this
week.

Casnovia—Hutson & Kuhn, deal-
ers in dry goods and groceries, have
dissolved partnership and the busi-
ness will be continued by M. Hutson,
who has taken over the interest of
his partner.

Schcolcraft—Walter Nesbitt has
sold his grocery stock and store fix-
tures to the three other grocers of
the town and will go to Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas, to enter the officers’
training corps.

Detroit—The Fraser Hardware Co.
has been organized at 352 Kercheval
avenue, with an authorized capital
stock of $15,000, of which amount
$10,000 has been subscribed and paid
in in property.

Pontiac—The Oakland Grocer ‘Co,
has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capitalization of $20,000, of

 

which $14,000 has been subscribed,
$1,000 paid in in cash and $13,000
paid in in property.

Petoskey—The Petoskey Garage &

Sales Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capitalization of $20,-
000, ef which amount $11,650 has been
subscribed, $765 paid in in cash and
$4,000 paid in in property.
The Alpena Art & Nevelty
Co. has been incorporated to manufac-
ture ladies and children’s clothes w‘th
an authorized capitalization of $5,000,
ef which amount $3,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Andrews’ Brothers
Co. has been incorporated to handle
fcod products on commission with an
authorized capital stock of $20,000, o:
which amount $10,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Howard City—A. F. Petrie has or-
Elevator Co. to

Howard City,
Harvard and numerous other
has taken over
the R. W. Moulton elevator here.

 

Alpena

ganized the Pierson
conduct

Pierson,

elevators at
points. The company

Remer, of
dealers in fuel and build-
also Vice-President and
director of the Saginaw Sandstone
srick Co. died at his home, July 22,
following an attack of heart disease.
Ishpeming—The E, A. Johnson Co.,
under the management of Edwin
Johnson, has taken over the interest
of the E. Johnson estate in the
stock of general merchandise cf the
A. Johnson and will continue
the business at the same location.

Saginaw—Charles_ C.
Remer Bros.,
ers supplies,

late E.

Hart—-Thomas Welsh & Son had
special sale at their general store last
Saturday and moved goods to the
amount of $902. This amount did not
take into consideration the goods which
were exchanged for butter and eggs,
which brought the total up to over
$1,000.

Watson—The Watson Store Co.
has engaged in the wholesale and re-
tail grocery, meat market and gener-
al mercantile business with an author-
ized capitalization of $30,000, all of
which has been subscribed, $8,458.75
paid in in cash and $21,541.25 paid in
in property.

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Jilo Corporation has
changed its name to the Balagaran
Corporation.

Battle Creek—The American Stamp-
ing Co. has increased its capitalization
from $5,000 to $75,000.

Jackson—The new plant of the Amer-
ican Fork & Hoe Co. will be completed
and in operation by Oct. 1.

Detroit—The \Newcomb-Endicott
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $1,000,000 to $2,500,000.

Detroit—The Standard Lumber &
Coal Co. has increased its capitaliza-
tion from $100,000 to $250,000.

Alma—The Superior Baking Co. has
completed its plant and will open its
wholesale bakery about August 1.

Comstock—The Comstock Auto-
matic Pump Co. has changed its name
to Kalamazoo Pump Co. and its post-
office to Kalamazoo.

Alma—The Republic Motor Truck
Co. has opened a restaurant and cafe-
teria for its employes, in a_ building
which it has just completed.

Johns—The Triangle Truck Co. is
erecting a plant which it hopes to have
completed and in operation by Nov. 1,
manufacturing one and one-half ton
trucks.

Manistique—The Manistique Potash
Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $1,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Tecumseh—The Quaker Oats Co. has
purchased the plant of the Uncle Sam
Macaroni Co. for $125,000 and will con-
tinue the business, enlarging the plant
and increasing its output.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Shipbuild-
ing Co. has been crganized with an
authorized capital stock of $350,000,
of which amount $200,000 has been
subscribed and $35,000 paid in in cash.

Hamtramck—The Hamtramck Bot-
tling Works has been organized with
an authorized capital stock of $5,000,
all of which has been subscribed, $4,-
000 paid in in cash and $1,000 paid in
in property.

Greenville—The Montcalm Cream-
ery Co. has been organized with an
authorized capitalization of $12,500,
all of which has been subscribed, $2,-
362.41 paid in cash and $10,137.59
paid in in property.

Detroit—The Wolverine Pickle Co.
has been incorporated with an auther-
ized capital stock of $25,000, of which
amount $25,000 has been subscribe,
$7,256.07 paid in in cash and $12,743.-
93 paid in in property.

Sand Bay—The W. A. Rideout Co.
has engaged in the lumbering busi-

ness with an authorized capital stock
of $5,000, all of which has been one
scribed, $1,450 paid in in cash and
$3,550 paid in in property.
Detroit—The Pioneer Trailer Cor«
poration has been organized to man-
ufacture auto parts and machinery

with an authorized capital stock of. L

$30,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and $3,000 paid in in cash.
Battle Creek—The
Banding Machine Co. has been in-
corporated with an authorized cap-

American Cigar? E

ital stock of $10,000, of which amount «}

$6,850 has been’ subscribed, $1.750
paid in cash and $5,100 paid in in
property. t

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Copper Country Butchers To Picnic.

Hcughton, July 23—The date for
the eighteenth annual picnic of the

Calumet Butchers’ grme whieh
was announced for Aug. 1, has geen
changed to Aug. 8 because of ®con-
flicting affairs. The picnic is to be
held at the Calumet & Hecla park.
The Red Jacket band will play and
will also march in the parade the
morning of the day.
markets of the district will close for
the day, it is announced.

W. J. Reynolds is te be the princi-
pal speaker at the park. Joseph
Fisher, Jr., will be grand marshall,
his aides being George and Charles
Strucel. <

The Executive Committee is an-
nounced as follows: Joseph Tousane!
Joseph Players, W. A. Williams,
Joseph Betzler, Henry Limback,
James Craze, Joseph Trudell, Jasper
Olson, Tony Bayuk, Joseph Grendot-
i, Joseph Schneller and John Fratz.

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Total watermelon shipments frome

Georgia up to the present time agere
gate only a little less than 5,000 cars,
out of 10,644 for the entire South-,
2astern melon belt. With
bringing anywhere from $60 to $150
f. o. b. the track, it can easily be seerw
just what this means to Georgia. The
average price is right around $100
a car, for the melon crop this year is,
one of the classiest seen in several
years. The melons are large and
sweet, and, as a result, they are bring~”
ing top prices. At an average of $100
a car the return to Georgia
farmers so far has been about a half
million dollars. The bulk of this has
gone to the growers in the extreme
Southern portion of the State.
of the melons in that section are now
being shipped, although some will
still be going forward during the next
two weeks. Previous to the opening *
of the season the dry weather affect-
ed the crop to a certain extent, bm
during the last two or three weeks
there have been a number of good
rains throughout the melon belt, and
the crop has responded nobly. <

W. A. McIntyre, Saginaw Valley
representative of the Michigan Hard-
ware Company, is taking a layoff fom
a month, His trade will. be covered

melons

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in the meantime by James B. Shaugh- ,

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Trouble is ‘a sieve through which
we sift our acquaintances. Those who,
are too big to drop through are our
friends.

The Harley Smith Furniture CoA
has increased its capital stock from
$10,000 to $25,000.

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The Grocery Market.
Sugar-—There is no gainsaying the
fact that the sugar market has been
strong the past week, and inasmuch as

the refiners furnished the reason for

»,an advance of 4c in raws, the improve-

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ment can in no sense be considered as
speculative. Refiners have been for a
long time indifferent to offerings of
August, in the expectation that the
iarge receipts for this season of the year
would bring the usual concomitant of

‘lower prices, but were finally compelled

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by the force of circumstances to drop
the waiting policy and replenish supplies
for future meltings. The latter are
heavy, 65,000 tons, since the refiners
are generally two to four weeks behind
in domestic deliveries. It was only log-
ical that the price of refined
would sympathize with the advance in

sugar

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70 points, consequently the American
and Howells abandoned the 7%c level
which had been maintained for so long

734c, still, however, restrict-
ing buyers. Other refiners are at the
8'4c level but would be unable to ship
promptly, even were the higher level
effective, as is expected to be the case
shortly. It is pointed out that the
‘country is in the midst of the hot weath-
er consumption which calls for much
sugar, and, in addition, there is the pre-

“serving demand that should be extra

large, what with the persistent em-

phasis laid on the necessity of the Na-

tion saving the fruit, Washington and
refiners being one in this wise propa-

eanda. Most circles think that the in-
* visible supplies have been greatly de-
pleted, not believing that the accumu-
,lation by consumers the last spring
- under the stimulus of the fear of a
sharp advance was at all general, the
average buyer, moreover, having drawn
t% on the sugar steadily for current re-
quirements.

**the confidence

¥

is a firm tone reflecting
of the trade in the situa-
tion. The hopeful sentiment is based
largely on the freight conditions on the
Pacific, which are delaying shipments of
new crop teas, making the small supplies
in this country the more appreciated
by those in need of replenishing. Vor-

Tea—There

. . .
mosas have been more active during the

week for this reason, and it was con-
sidered doubtful if any quantity could
be bought under 25c. In the Far East
there is little improvement reported, it
being difficult to arrange for shipping

* because of the scarcity of vessels avail-

-

able and, in addition, very high rates are

asked. Japan is taking care of its own
crop, but otherwise there is chaotic
condition noted. In addition, China

and India feel the effect of high silver,

* duction in the former country.

which will probably cause smaller pro-
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exchange situation is a cause of much
trouble.

Coffee—The market remains unchang-
ed for the week, but the undertone is
still dull. Peace prospects which would
open Europe to coffee
greatly enhance the price, are more re-
mote than ever.

and probably
Prices are all unchang-
ed, but inclined to be weak. This in-
cludes milds.

Canned Fruit—Demand is not in evi-
dence at the present time, the trade
being await clearer
definition of Government policy.

Canned Vegetables—The market for
tomatoes is decidedly irregular. While
the f. o. b. factory price has been quoted
as high as $1.85 at times, the official
report of the National Canners’ Associa-

inclined to some

tion does not show any business beyond
$1.75, with sales as low as $1.70. Future
2s have sold at $1.10 and 1s at 80c, while
10s have brought $4.55. Peas are quot-
ed nominally at $1.20, but many canners
are asking $1.25.
Canned Fish—The
be awaiting developments in regard to
future salmon, while there is no demand

trade appears to

for spot. Reports in regard to sardines
are a little more favorable.

Dried Fruits—There has been some
Government buying of prunes on the
Coast, and holdings have been so stead-
ily
tically on a 934c base.

reduced that they are now prac-
The domestic
demand, however, is down to a mini-
mum in all markets. Jobbers report that
their customers are well enough sup-
plied with old pack prunes, and in fact
with all dried carry them
through until the new crop is available.
The disposition of the remaining stocks

fruits, to

of old prunes, therefore, depends upon
what export demand there may be and
what supplies the Government may take.
As to the former, there is export en-
quiry in the market and foreigners are
apparently willing to pay a slight pre-
mium over domestic prices. The difh-
culty, however, is in securing the ton-
nage, and if this could be
it is declared that remaining supplies
will be very quickly disposed of. There
is no buying ahead, however, either of
spot or futures, simply because the trade
cannot lay a course by which to steer,
with the food bill pending in Congress
and no intimation as to what its final
form may be. Brokers say that they
have never seen business quite so flat

overcome

as it is at the present time, because even
in ordinary dull times there is usually
a little business stirring here and there.
In the present instance, however, the
same uncertainty faces all alike, and
neither buyers nor sellers know which
foot to put forward. Indications
favorable for large crops of peaches
in California, but from present indica-
tions it is more than likely that high

are

prices will prevail as a rule, owing to
the strong combination existing in Calt-
fornia among the growing interests.
Rice—The market here is dull and dis-
tinctly heavy, reflecting the lack of de-
mand and the greater inclination of
holders to liquidate at concessions if
possible. The domestic buyer feels that
with the new crop but a few weeks: off
he can afford to look on. Export de-
mand is flat and there is a disposition
of France to resell some shipments here.
Cheese—The market is
prices ranging about tc per pound lower

steady at

than last week, due to lower prices pre-
The
quality.
The market is fairly steady on the pres-

vailing in the producing sections.
cheese arriving is very good
ent basis of quotations, and if we do
have any change it is likely to
further slight decline.

Sugar Syrups—There is no change in
this market.

be a

Prices are steadier, as the
offerings have been rather well cleaned
up the past week and refiners are not
pressing supplies on the market. Sales
offices were closed Saturday.
Tapioca—There has been more specu-
lation in forward shipment tapioca dur-
ing the
routine

week, the spot movement being
at steady prices. Exports en-
quiry is reported to be larger, tending
to reduce local supplies.

Cocoa—There is a quiet tone to the
market, but it rules steadier after the
recent reaction.
arrivals still
London mail

Large stocks and free
keep indifferent.
that
at auction was presented in very small
quantity, but demand was not stimulat-
ed thereby; full to a shade better prices

buyers

advices state cocoa

were, however, realized in the business
done.
Tapioca—The
quiet, with a fair spot demand at steady
prices. London mail advices note easi-
ness there. It is pointed out that busi-
ness continues very difficult of accom-
plishment, even though holders are will-

market is generally

ing to submit to further price conces-
Bids, no matter how far below
recent nominal
unobtainable.
Spices—The market is irregular, but
prices for the most part are steady, with
cloves firm on the spot scarcity, supplies
being delayed en route to the United
States, with the embargo
in the situation.
the spot, especially white, sales of 75

sions.
values, are practically

also a factor

Peppers are easier
tons being reported in the trade, al-
though futures are maintained. The
preserving demand is expected to help
the movement of spices to grinders in
the near future.

Molasses—The market continues quiet
and routine. There is a steady tone for
all grades in sympathy with the South.

Salt Fish—There is no change in the
market for mackerel during the week.
little
right along at about unchanged prices.
The market is steady and the demand
light.

Some stock is coming forward

Provisions—The consumptive demand
for everything in the smoked meat line
is normal, at prices ranging about the
same as they have been for the past
month. Pure and compound lard are
in very light demand at prices ranging
about ec per pound lower. Dried beef,
canned meats and_ barreled
about steady, with a light demand at
unchanged prices.

pork are

5

Women’s Place in Industry Assured.
War’s certain toll is men.
under

England,
felt the
pinch of a shortage of labor in her
industrial enterprises. In United
States an increasing number of cases

war conditions, has

the

longer
up the
burden cf maintaining essential pro-
duction. in a

might be cited where, men ne

available, women have taken

recent issue of the

“Iron Trade Review” a elimpse was

given of the situation as it exists in
English munition plants, where wom-
en

are this

country women now are performing

doing men’s work. In
a highly necessary task in the manu-
which it
would be impossible to ccnduct a war
such as the United States has enter-
ed.

facture of without

gages,

In a New York State plant fine
gages are made for testing high ex-
From the time the raw

this

plosive shells.

material enters until if

reaches the most delicate and intr.cate

factory

stages, men perform all the opera-
The

gentler

tions. final touch, however, is

left to
nerve-racking

hands, Lapping, a
ppins

closely detined

and
task, is done exclusively by women
found to
accurate, less subject tc
and

They have been be more

nervousness

more consistent workers. Hour

after hour their attention must be

riveted to one small gage. There is

an eternal sameness about every day’s

work. There are no new problems
to be met, no deviation trom the
straight-line process, no belts break

to relieve the monotony, a shutdown
of power provides no moment's re-
spite, It is a steady tax on physical
and nervous powers that men cannot
endure for protracted periods. Due
to the the
toolmaker’s field, long thought to be
man’s litte
doubt that they have come to stay.

war, women have entered

exclusively. There is
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A canning factory financed entirely
by Baguio (Philippine Islands) cap-
ital, and intended to care for the con-
stantly increasing output of Bagu’o
fruits and vegetables is the latest evi-
dence of progress and prosperity in
the mountain capital. Co-operative
cwnership of the plant by the owners
of the gardens is one of the plans of
the originators of the new enterprise
Valley
land, newly put under cultivation, is
another.
the

well

and a great tract of Trinidad
The co-operative plan calls
the Igorot
that of the

Japanese, the canning plant to take
1

for aid of eardeners

as as Chinese and
their entire output if they desire t:
sell. As a stimulus to this the small
farmers will be assured a share in the
profits of the plant. Army and navy
contracts for the troops in the Philip-
pines will be one of the objects of the
local
sale firms will aid in the distribution

of the products.

canning company. and whole-
It has been decide |
to wait some months before orderin:
the machinery, in the hope that the
present high cost of tin will go down:
but additional land

large tracts of

have already been put under cultiva-
tion.
Se
D. V. Lynch, of Jacksonville, Flori
da, has
the Joseph P.

Lynch, the sales ccnductor.

come to Grand Raipds to jot:

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July 25, 1917

 

REDUCE DELIVERY EXPENSE.

 

Cansumers Urged to Carry Home
Their Purchases.

If the powers in Washington con-
tinue their investigations of the com-
mon practices of life we shall all of
us very soon become very much
ashamed of ourselves, ashamed of
our easy acceptance of wasteful ways
of doing things: ashamed of our lazy
habit of letting others do for us what
we might easily do for ourselves,
ashamed of the intellectual shiftless-
ness which takes it for granted the
way a thing is done must be “all
right” or at least “good enough.”

There is a group of zealous patriots
at work in the Government bureaus
and in the Council of National De-
fense looking into the every-day hab.
its of average Americans—not for the
purpose of putting us to shame—al-
though they are doing that—but sole-
ly to see where they can release men,
money and energy for the appalling,
the limitless needs of present-day hu-
manity.

A world at war cannot tolerate
sloth, waste and indulgence. Every
needless activity must be suspended.
We must get our lives onto a basis
of needs—not of whims and self-in-
dulgence. That is the meaning of the
patient examinations of the way we
do things which are being pushed by
the Commercial Economy Board of
the Council of National Defense.
Their effective demonstration of the
way we have been feeding tens of
thousands of loaves a day of good
wheat bread to pigs and chickens
threugh these terrible years when
Belgian, Serbian, Albanian and Ar-
women and children (were
starving for bread has made some
people ashamed, Practically all the
bakers of the country are cutting out
that waste. It is only here and there
that a baker is found who, in the hope
of gaining a competitive advantage
by turning his stale bread returns into
chicken feed, fights the change. The
women have been asked to take care
of such. They will do it as fast as
they discover them.

The same Board which has rallied
the women to co-operate in saving the
wasted loaves, is calling on them now
to co-operate in another saving—one
vastly greater, one which if properly
conducted will free not less than 100,-
000 men and a tremendous amount of
equipment to be used where they are
really needed.

Just as in the case of bread, this
new saving comes through a reform
in one of the every-day practices of
life—the way we get our daily gro-
ceries, meat, fruit, vegetables. They
come to us almost like the manna
from Heaven. All you did in the
case of manna, I believe, was to pick
it up: all we do in case of our gro-
ceries is to ask for them—ask for them
at any hour of the day—a dozen times
a day if we will—in any quantity, a
hox of matches, a half dozen bananas,
a peund of steak, and presto, it is put
on the kitchen table.

The thing which takes no fore-
thought on our part, which just hap-
pens, is pretty sure t> be an expensive
thing to somebody, Washington, in
the interest of the Kaiser’s war, has

menian

been trying to find out what it costs
to relieve the women of the country
of the need of forethought in order-
ing, in making it possible for them to
ask and get anything that they find
they want for their households at
any hour of the day. It is a big price
we pay.

The Bureau of Commerce has found
that in the city of Washington it
costs 7.4 per cent. of the gross sales
of food to pay for its delivery. On
a food bill of about twelve and three-
quarter million of dollars in 1916,
Washington paid over $900,000 for
sending the stuff to the purchasers.
Naturally, it cost more to deliver
some things than other’s. Ice, bread.
milk and ice cream cost Washington
most.

What is true of Washington is true
the country over, so the Commercial
Economy Board finds. It estimates
that the gross delivery expense of re-
tail grocers in the country is over
$75,000,000 a year. What is this sum
used for? For the hire of men to
put up packages, torunthe number of
wagons and trucks required, to put
them in at your door, to go to your
house not once but often a half dozen
times a day.

Take any town of the country of
ten thousand people and it probably
is spending 3 per cent. of the net
sales of groceries for delivery to the
purchasers. Again and again these
purchasers come to the grocery, the
butcher, milk depots, in carriages or
cars, but they rarely think of taking
home their purchases. A woman will
buy a package of cereal and expect
it delivered. She will rarely think of
carrying a half dozen rolls, although
she is on her way home.

As a matter of fact, the merchant
does not often want her to carry her
packages. His promptness and will-
ingness to serve her irregular and
careless habits of buying is one of the
ways he builds up good-will, Our
canny merchants err in spoiling cus-
tomers; in gratifying their whims, in
fetching and carrying for them until
a woman has come to feel sometimes
that if she offers to carry a bundle she
will be classed as an undesirable cus-
tomer.

The great necessity on us demands
a prompt, vigorous cutting out of the
waste in all delivery of foods. I
have spoken here only of food prod-
ucts, but we all know that what has
been said applies equally to all sorts
of shopping, and particularly to de-
partment stores. The report of the
Commercial Economy Board declares
that in our great cities the cost to the
department store of delivering pack-
ages is from 8 to 25 cents apiece. It
is no uncommon thing for the cost of
delivering an article to exceed the
cost of the article, and probably one
half of the daily purchases of a de-
partment store might be carried home
by the women themselves.

How is all this vast, unnecessary
use of men and horses and trucks and
money and time to be cut out and the
delivery system put on a rational basis
where it is strictly confined to what
is necessary?

There are not a few towns in the
country where it has already been
put on such a basis by co-operative

deliveries. Ann Arbor, Michigan,
has had such a delivery conducted by
its merchants for eight years. For-
merly it took seventy wagons to
carry home the daily buyings of the
people—now it takes but eighteen.
In other towns there has been a sav-
ing in cost of from 25 to 75 per cent.

Wherever a co-operative delivery
has been well managed, the average
saving has been around 50 per cent.

Of course, this means a reform in
the method of ordering. One delivery
a day is all that ought to be expected
under present conditions. If a woman
knows that is all she will get she will
quickly and easily reform her ways—
or carry her extra bundles.

The Woman’s Committee of the
Council of National Defense firmly
believes that all that it is necessary
to do to-day to secure hearty anc
prompt co-operation from women in
carrying out such savings as this that
their fellow-committee on the Coun-
cil of National Defense has demon-
strated to be possible, is to let them
know that it is asked. It urges wom-
en everywhere to aid in the reform.
They can very properly encourage
their merchants to establish control
or co-operative deliveries and call on
them to limit their deliveries to not
over one a day on each route, cut-
ting out accommodation deliveries
altogether, They can discipline thema

selves to regular and thoughtful or-4,

dering. They can carry small pack-
ages. They can discontinue the
wasteful practice of having goods
sent home “on approval,” which near-
ly always means waste effort in de-

livery as well as extra charges within
the stores. In a certain department
store with total annual sales of $3,-
000,000 returned goods amount to 20
per cent., involving a waste of more
than $50,000 annually.

Each women will do her part if
groups of women everywhere will
spread the reasons why the Govern-
ment through the Women’s Commit-
tee is making this request, there wil!
be no doubt that we shall see .one
hundred thousand men freed from
useless service.

A package in the hand will then be
as truly a badge of honor as a Red
Cross button on the coat lapel.

Ida M. Tarbell.
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Arkansas is so accustomed to be-
ing at the foot of the list of states thax
she will feel.no shame over the dis-
closure that she has only one automo-
bile for every 116 persons. The rest
of the country, however, will hope
that Mr. Creel’s bureau will stop the
sending of this disgraceful informa-
tion abroad, The country as a whole
is far ahead of Arkansas, there being
a car to every twenty-nine persons.
But the states are not ranged quite
as one would expect. At the top
stands Iowa, where every two ox three
families, or, in the more _ scientific
lingo of the census, every eleven per-
sons, are blessed with an automobile.
Then come in order California, Ne-
braska, and South Dakota, while we
are informed that the New England
States are more uniformily supplied
with cars than any other section.

his will announce the organ-
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THE GOSPEL OF WORK.

Work is the one controlling im-
pulse and necessity of life. It is the
law of action. Its worth and need are
demcnstrated every hour and its val-
ue correspondingly increased. It is
the panacea for every ill and repre-
sents the great power of existence.

Work is the synonym of prosperity
and the other name for success. It
stands for the vastness of human
frogress and the sum total of every
achievement. There is nothing hu-
man that can succeed without it, and
noth:ing enduring that has not been
led by it.

 

RESULT OF THE DRAFT.

Hitherto it has been in the spirit of
America to give her sons for the serv-
ice of war out of free will; but since
the people through Congress lias or-
dained otherwise it behooves us to
recognize that the drawing of lots
carried out under precautions
guaranteeing equity to every
the ten
view of

was
one of
million men concerned. In
this fundamental considera-
tion we may overlook certain defe-ts
in what we may call the subsidiary
mechanics of the draft by the remov-
2l of which avoidable uncertainties
and anxieties might have been averted
or alleviated. If the War Depart-
ment’s plans for calling up about a
quarter men and the
50 per cent. of exemptions
work out, then all those on the reg-
istry list whose number was not
among the first 1,300 or 1,400 draw-
ings are tolerably assured that they
will not be in the first draft of 687,-
000 men. It was an excellent prov:-
sion, however, to fix the relative li-
ability of every name on the list, as
that will enable every man to judge
of his chances of called into
service as the percentage of exemp-
tions establishes itself, and after that.
if it should come to a call for the
second National army of half a mil-
lion men provided for by Congress.

Whether the Arministration has
thought cut all the subsequent steps
f the new armies we

million and a

estimate of

being

in the creation of
do not know, but it is highly probable
that changes and corrections will be
made on the basis of experience.
These do not, however, invalidate the
initial operation of the draft. Criti-
cism has arisen about the assignment

what we know of the confusion in in-
structions issued to exemption boards,
we are not at all certain that expl cit
rules for the working of the exemp-
tion principle have been formulated.
We still think it a mistake that mar-
ried men were not exempted as a
class. Consideration of the very
small number of married men who
are without dependents is more than
outweighed by the strain imposed
on the conscience of the vast major-ty
who are entitled to exemption, but
who may hesitate to claim it. It
also be decided whether exemp-
tions are final or not; that is to say,
whether a married man who has been
exempted is permanently immune or
goes to the bottom of the list. And
there remains, of course, the general
policy of the Administration towards
the conscientious opponent of war.
This is not a question which comes
up before the local exemption boards,
but it is an issue upon which the
country eagerly awaits a clean-cut
statement from Washington.

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DISEASES OF IMMORALITY.

The Nation is fairly well alive to
the importance of stamping out tu-
berculosis. Smallpox has been re-
duced almost to the rank of minor
health routine, In New York City the
cases reported, per thousand of pop-
ulation, for the year 1916 were less
than 3.5 for tuberculosis, and .001 for
smallpox. But for syphilis, the dead-
ly by-product of sexual immorality,
the figure was nearly 3.6 per thou-
sand. And that great scourge, pres-
ent curse of the living and assurance
of misery for thousands yet unborn,
is treated by society as if it were not.
The soil in which it grows is ignor-
ance, fostered by silence.

Of all known diseases, none is more
inimical to the Nation’s health than
syphilis. Only less dangerous, and
probably much more prevalent, is its
twin, gonorrhea, Although these
have been held for ages in justifiable
fear, in our time society has treated
the subject as a sealed book. The
whole matter has been taboo, save in
the professional discourses of the doc-
tors and the ill-favored activities of
the wretched qaacks who have thriv-
ed amid the silence. Happily now for
the human race, the seals on the book
have been broken, and the leaves are
being ‘turned. The silence is to be
abclished: the ignorance which it has
fostered is to be dispelled. The young
men and the young women, and the
babes unborn, are going to have a
chance for their lives.

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The Tradesman advises its readers
who have policies in any fire insurance
company with a German name to have
them cancelled at once and re-writ-
ten in an American company. Ev-
erything German in name—individual,
corporate or otherwise—should be ig-
nored and obliterated from now on,
henceforth and forever.

——EEE

If a man makes cynical remarks
about women it’s doughnuts to fudge
that some one of them has been us-
ing him for a doormat.

the past week, with no one very much
the wiser for it all. Indeed, most of
our men of affairs are ready to con-
fess themselves completely at sea cn
this subject. They have read the
news from Berlin and are puzzled
to make head or tail of it. The near-
est approach to deduction from it is
that, where there is so much smoke,
there must be some fire. The word
“peace” has of late been so much in
the mouths of Germans of every
stripe, that it is obvious that some-
thing must be up.
It is suspected by
industrial interests of Germany will
eventually be heard from, and that
possibly they have had not a little to
do with the recent vagaries of the
Reichstag. Say what one will about
the German people, it will not be
claimed that German manufacturers.
shipowners, merchants, etc., are lack-
ing ordinary judgment.
There is reason to believe that their

some that the

business

feeling regarding the future of
German finance and industry is one

of genuine alarm. There are some
things about which it is not neces-
sary to reason, and the general eco-
nomic outlook for Germany is one of
these. Unless the commonly accepted
principles of trade are all at fault,
German industry must necessarily
view the future with alarm. So long
as the Empire could cherish the hope
of a huge war indemnity, the indus-

trialists could be kept quiescent. But
that hope no longer exists.
The autocracy in Germany have

little to gain by such a peace as the
Allies will consent to; in fact, they
have everything to gain by continu-
ing the war. The industrialists, on
the contrary, have nothing to lose
(more than they already have lost)
by peace, and everything to gain. The
nation derives its bread and butter
from the activities of its industrialists
rather than from those of its political
rulers. Hence, in the final analysis
it can better afford to see the latter
crushed than the former. While
there are some at this financial center
who believe that the German people
will be docile to the Hohenzollerns
to the last crack of doom, others, and
probably the majority, believe that
there is a point at which even the
German worm will turn. Is it near-
ing that point?

Our stock markets have not been
very successful in answering that
question. It is perhaps natural to
ascribe the recent fluctuations in se-
curities to rapidly changing views re-
garding the outlook for peace.
Among the more thoughtful observers,
however, the vagaries of our markets
during the past week are to be traced
rather to our own Governmental ac-
tivities. For more than two years
and a half this country has been able
to view the European war, with all
its contingencies, with a fair amount
of equanimity. Our people were pre-
pared to take the chance of holding
their own economically when the war
should be over—with them it was
largely a question of patient waiting,
The situation is very different to-day.
We also are now at war and under

gencies to mind that undoubtedly
have begun to be reflected on Wall
Street.

For one thing, the fact is being in-
cessantly reiterated that the Govern-
ment will want the last dollar of ev-
ery person, small or large. We must
save; the extension of general busi-
ness must, during the war, be taken
care of out of current earnings rather
than out of the accumulated capital
of the Nation. Hence, every one is
cautious: and additionally so because
at the moment no one knows what
elements are going to constitute his
net income in the future, out of which
he must live, finance his improvements
and extensions, and buy Government
bonds.

It must not however,
from what has already been said, that
the underlying feeling is one of pes-
simism. There is a great deal of
doubt regarding the time that must
elapse before the German nation is
once more clothed and in its right
mind, and there is also not only a
ereat deal of doubt, but also a great
deal of irritation, with reference to
the methods that are being outlined
at Washington. Although it would
not be accurate to say that the situ-
ation has reached a pass where every
prospect pleases, while only man is
vile, it is a fact that the economic
prospect would be viewed with com-
posure if the human element, both in
Berlin and in Washington, were
somewhat less turbulent.

be inferred,

However, we shall live through the
war, with all its crimes and fatuities,
and some day once more transact our
affairs for business purposes and with
business judgment. It is surprising
to note the added cheerfulness which
so many persons take on when they
begin to talk of that eventuality. It
is apparent that it is not post-bellum
conditions that are vexing their minds.
It is taken for granted by many that
immediately on the conclusion of the
war this country will be appealed to
for capital by all quarters of the
world, and that the capital will go
abroad in the form of commodities.
Whatever other misgivings we may
have, our minds are clear on this
point—which, after all, is the most
important one for us in the whole dis-
cussion of the war and its conse-
quences.

The new Chancellor of Germany said
in his first speech in the Reichstag that
all Germany wanted was an honorable
place. The brutes and ruffians who
make up the rank and file of the Ger-
man people would not recognize any-
thing honorable if they should meet it
on the street. All Germany knows
anything about is dishonor, treachery,
violation of treaties, brutality, indecency
and devilishness. The same thing ap-
plies to any German in this country who
stands up for the Kaiser, either openly
er privately. He is a dangerous man
to harbor in a free country. .

 

Make every occasion a great occa-
sion, for you never can tell when
someone may be taking your measure
for a larger place.

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The established standard size and weight oatmeal pack-
ages sell at 12c and 30c. This is the most economical basis for
your customers—and the most profit for you

Quaker Oats and Mother’s Oats will not be changed in
size or weight.

Smaller size packages, or partly filled packages, contain
less goods proportionately and sell at a less price only at the
expense of your customer’s welfare and your profit.

Housekeepers will soon find that the comparison is unfav-
orable. Perhaps leading to complaints and endless explanations.

Quaker Oats Best Value

Quaker Oats at 12c and 30c a package costs only one-
fourth as much as the average food. Very many housekeepers
have discovered this for themselves. Because of these facts,
grocers are doing a double business this year. Our mills are
taxed to their capacity.

Eighty million advertisements commencing August Ist,
will tell the other women over and over again about this food
economy

Fall orders for Quaker Oats and Mother’s Oats are now
unprecedented.

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Appeals to Retailers to Cut Poultry

 

Prices.
The Department of Agriculture ,jhas
made an appeal to the retail dealers

to reduce the price on frozen poultry,
so that the market will not be over-
stocked. It was declared that the
present congestion in the frozen poul-
try market can be relieved if the re-
tail dealers will handle the goods at
a reasonable advance over wholesale
prices.

This action
available at prices comparing favor-

would make pouitry

ably with other meats, according to
the findings of a conference held in
Washington last week between whole-
sale distributors and officials of the
department. In the statement issued
to the press on this matter the de-
partment states:

“Both parties to the conference say
that more poultry should be eaten
when the facts are understood by the
consumer; and an increased use of
poultry now, in the opinion of the de-
partment, will tend to conserve other
meats which are of more importance
to Americans and their Allies in Eu-
rope. The retailers as well as whole-
salers, it is pointed out, should afd in
relfeving the congestion.

“Broiling chickens are especially
abundant and those of prime quality
sold in June on the wholesale market
in New York at an average price of
22 cents a pound. A year before the
average price was 27 cents during the
same month. There are unusually
heavy holdings of dressed poultry in
cold storage. Unless these stocks
are moved quickly, farmers who have
increased this year's flocks in re-
sponse to a patriotic appeal will not
have notmal marketing conditions
when their surplus comes on the mar-
ket.

“The parties to the conference
agreed that the storage supplies of
poultry in the summer of 1916 were
unusually low because of small orig-
inal holdings and large export de-
mands. This resulted in unusually
high prices to producers during the
fall and winter of 1916. The supply
was unexpectedly heavy and large
stocks were stored at high costs.
Then export demands fell off, the
wave of economy affected the home
demand, and the storage stocks mov-
ed slowly. The net result, according
to the Department, is that almost ev-
erybody ought to enjoy chicken din-
ners now at decidedly reduced prices,

and without a feeling that they are
using up needed meat supplies. In
short, it is said to depend on the re-
tailers whether cheaper chickens will
be available.”

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Trying It on Peaches.

Fixing prices by Government judg-
ment and Government decree has to
overcome the difficulty that no price
stands by itself alone. Any single
price is the product of other prices,
and unless all these subsidiary prices
are duly fixed the main price, which
is fixed under this theory, stands on a
false basis.

Suppose that the Government
should undertake to regulate the price
of peaches. It would then have to
regulate the cost of cultivation, the
cost of picking cost of transportation,
the cost of sale and actual delivery to
consumer, and also the behavior of
the weather all through the year. If
in a given case there was a mortgage
on the peach orchard, the Govern-
ment would also have to regulate the
cost of that.

But these details would only be a
stafter toward arriving at “a just
price” for peaches. The men who did
the cultivating and the pickers and
the transportation people. and the
grocers would all have their subsidi-
ary expenses, and in order to get at
anything like a “just price” for the
single product in which they are all
concerned it weuld be necessary to
regulate all their subsidiary costs.
This done a new list of subsidiary ex-
penses would thereby be drought on
the table; and so the process would
eo on until about all the prices that
make up our multitudinous daily ex-
changes would have to be examined,
judged and regulated.

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T. P. A. Picnic at Bostwick Lake.

Grand Rapids. July 24—This is to
be a basket picnic,

When—Sunday, July 29.

W here—Bostwick Lake,

Start—9 o’clock sharp.

From—City Hall.

What you are to do—Notify Com-
mittee at once how many seats there
are vacant in your machine.

What your wife is to do—Bring
the lunch for yourself and family.

What the kiddies are to do—Come
all and have lots of fun.

What the committee will do:

Aute—Arrange for seats for every-
body.

Refreshments—Arrange for coffee
and suitable eating quarters.

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AN OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE.
Herbert Hoover’s Appeal to Retail
Grocers
Washington, July, 26—In your sec-
tion, during the summer months, there
will undoubtedly be some excess of
fresh vegetables and fruits sent to
your market by the farmers who have
raised large quantities of such pro-
duce at the urgent request of the Gov-
ernment. We ask that the retail gro-
cers “do their bit” by setting aside
a prominent section of their stores
for the handling and display of fresh
vegetables and fruits and push the
sale of them during the period i
which they come into the market in
great quantities; that retail grocers
promote the sale of fresh produce, to
the exclusion, so far as possible, of
non-perishable foods which can readi-
ly be sold during the winter months.
In order that the large surplus of
perishables may be turned most ef-
fectively to the National good, three

great efforts must be made:

1. The public must be induced to
consume the vegetables during the
growing season, in substitution for
the great staples, such as meat, sugar,
wheat, corn and other cereals, These
staples can and must in large part be
saved’ over for the winter. Our Na-
tional diet comprises only 14 per cent.
vegetables. If this amount is dou-
bled, the public health will undoubt-
edly be improved, staples will be sav-
ed and living will unquestionably be
cheaper.

2. The surplus over current re-
quirements, including carrots, turnips,
beets, potatoes, sweet potatces, cab-
bages and various other vegetables
should be stored by the producers and
wherever possible by consumers.
They can be bought more cheaply in
summer and will keep if stored in
cool, well-ventilated places.

3. The surplus of fruit and many
vegetables should be canned, either in
the home or in community canneries.

Some vegetables and fruits may be
advantageously saved by drying,
either in the home or in community
centers.

The retail grocers of the country
have a great potential influence, In
this National crisis, which is grave
beyond the realization of most men,
wé are confident that the retail gro-
cers can be relied upon to render the
important National service that op-
portunity now offers them. Your co-
operation will, I trust, be prompt and
constant. Will you not make it your
personal business day by day to aid
unflagingly in the various ways that
are here indicated.

This effort on the part of retail
grocers to encourage the consumption
and canning in the home of fresh
vegetables and fruits will save just
that much non-perishable food during
the winter months, and it is most es-
sential that all food possible be sav-
ed for ourselves and the Allies by
whese side we fight.

You can be of further service to
your country if you will see that a
cemplete stock of glass jars for can-
ning purposes in the home is carried
by you and made available for your
customers as wanted, so that when an
unprecedented oversupply of fresh
vegetables and fruits arrives you can
sell these glass jars to the housewife
and personally encourage her to pre-
pare a sufficient amount from the ov-
erstock that will be received to sup-
ply the needs of her family during the
winter: months.

The retail grocers can further serve
by supporting the housewives’ organ-
izations and clubs who have become
interested in this service through a
country-wide campaign. You can
arouse their enthusiasm and assist in
arranging for a central place where
such surplus foods may be canned in
those thickly populated and metropol-
itan districts where adequate house-
hold facilities are not available. It
has well been suggested that . in the
present erisis portions ‘of public

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school rooms, basements or other
suitable space connected with
churches, would be appropriate places
in which this highly important work
could be conducted.

America’s success in the present war
depends not alone upon her fighting
men at the front, but upon the extent
to which those at home bend their
efforts toward the conservation of the
Nation’s energies and resources, par-
ticularly her food which is required for
the urgent needs of herself and those
she has joined in the common fight
for humanity. Yout patriotic co-
operation and help in making effec-
tive the suggestions contained in this
letter will furnish a valuable contri-
bution to the country’s cause at this
time. The need is urgent and the op-
portunity is great. The result an-
other year may be most disastrous if
the farmers who have been universally
urged to increase production do not
find a fair market or do not secure
adequate profits for their perishable
produce. Herbert Hoover.

——_>+.__
Farmers Waiting To Be Asked To
Pay.

“Why are you so far behind in
your payments?” enquired a Grand
Rapids jobber of his customer about
two weeks ago.

“Because I have over $2,000 on my
books which I cannot collect.” was
the reply.

“Why can’t you collect the ac-
counts?”

“Because the men who owe me
seldom come to the store on account
of their being so busy on their farms
at this season of the year.”

“If they don’t come to you, you
should go to them. The money be-
longs to you and you should get it,
so as to be able to pay your bills
promptly.”

The retailer scratched his head and
walked out of the jobbing ‘house in
a thoughtful mood.

The next morning he got up early
and started out with his machine
about 8 o'clock.

“Where are you going?”
his wife.

“After money from those who owe
1s,’ he replied.

enquired

“You're wasting your time,” said
the wife. “Farmers are too busy
nowadays to be bothered with paying
bills.”’

Three days later, the merchant
walked into the office of the jobber
laid $900 in bills on his desk.

“Where did you get the money?”
asked the jobber.

“Took your advice,” was the reply.
“Got $400 the first day, $300 the sec-
ond and $200 to-day. Found the farm-
ers were just waiting to be asked.
Some of them say they never pay
store bills until asked to do so.
am going out again next week. [f
I am as successful as I was this week,
I will be able to,discount all my bills
and hold my head up like a man.”

—_22.___
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Written for the Tradesman.

While the plan of Michigan bank-
ers to create an industrial bureau for
the purpose of agricultural education,
described in last week's Michigan
Tradesman, is of vital importance to
the Nation, its possible field of use-
fulness is much broader and, if prop-
erly handled, the bureau can become
an invaluable aid in sclving the food
problem.

There has recently been in session
at St. Louis a convention of repre-
sentatives of farm organizations and
co-operative associations throughout
the country with a total membership
aggregating 5,000,000. This gather-
ing may or may not be important,
but its avowed purpose of forming
a Nation-wide buying and selling or-
ganization, gives the key to the op-
portunities of the bankers for further
beneficial efforts. For more than.a
decade state bankers’ associations
have scught to encourage the estab-
lishment in different parts of the coun-
try of agricultural schools and home
classes for the training of students
in agricultural pursuits. In Michigan,
as already state, the plan has crystal-
lized into action. It is through this
proposed industrial bureau that the
bankers and merchants co-operating
can with advantage go a step further
and insist on a thorough crganiza-
tion of Michigan farmers with a veiw
of protecting themselves from the
conspiracies of food speculators and
monopolies. While the state granges
have done some excellent work in
bringing the farmers together, they
have fallen short of the purpose here-
in mentioned. The reason, it is sug-
gested, that banks should add the
marketing feature to their agricultural
programme is that, co-operating with
the merchant in financing the purchase
of agricultural products, they can to
a certain extent prevent such a mo-
nopolistic movement on the part of
the farmers as would make as heavy
a burden on the consumer as that en-
tailed through speculative hoarding.
Banks thus taking a hand in the dis-
tribution of farm products would as-
sure a market for them at reasonable
prices. Such a movement would
mean millions to the banks, which
would also be doing a patriotic duty
in cutting down the high ccst of liv-
ing. United action on the part of
the banks would hold in check the av-
aricious farmer, because if he did not
play the game fairly he would natur-
ally be deprived of financial support.

Without some restraining influence
there is danger in a too thorough or-
vanization of farmers, for the reason
that they are exempt from the opera-

tion of anti-trust laws, as are the
labor unions, both of which, as a
simple matter of justice, should have
been included. If there should prove
a tyrannical use of power through
farmer organization— National, state
or county—it could be counteracted
through the formation of consumers’
leagues operating in conjunction with
banks and merchants. Of course, the
details of such organizations would
have to be worked out, but the project
is worthy of most serious considera-
tion. :

There is a persistent rumor that an-
other Liberty Loan will be called for
by the Government about the middle
of September. Eastern bankers who
have made a close study of conditions
believe this course unwise—and their
arguments have merit, They contend
that it is perfectly possible for the
United States to strike a balance of
receipts and expenditures that will
permit the Government to go through
this year, if need be, without going
to the people with another Liberty
Loan. 3e it understood, however,
that there is no lack of patriotism
in this position, but to defer the loan
until the early part of 1918 would be
a most welcome development to those
upon whom the labor of the distri-
bution of the bonds will fall. It would
afford a most welcome breathing spell.
Not only would such postponment
be good business, but it would allow
time for further individual accumula-
tion which would ensure a more rapid
and satisfactory absorption of the
bonds by the people, thus leaving the
banks still in condition to meet cur-
rent industrial and commercial de-
mands. It would really whet the pub-
lic appetite for the bonds and, as
stated, would enable capital to finance
railroad, utility and industrial com-
panies, many of which have refunding
cperations which have to be met and
others which are in need of new
money, particularly as they are han-
dling work requiring plant extension
The capital needs of many of these
companies have been directly created
by Government orders.

Bankers also point that the Govern-
ment will have at the minimum in
191% the full proceeds of the $2,000,-
000,000 Liberty Bonds and the pro-
ceeds of $2,000,000,000 Treasury Notes.
The approximately $925,000,000 now
out will be retired through the Liber-
ty Loan, which will leave the decks
clear for their re-issuance in the fall.
By a little planning, the Government
can make this $4,000,000,000 last the
year, even allowing for advances to
the Allies. It is also urged that Con-
gress should immediately by special
act allow the Treasury to increase the
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$5,000,000,000. The bankers who ad-
vocate this plan argue that if England
could carry $5,500,000,000 in the bil
market, the United States with the
Federal Reserve banks and its big gold
reserve, should be able to do better.
To quote a financial authority: “It
would clear the financial skies im-
mensely if Washington would com?
out with a clear cut statement and
say emphatically that no more Liberty
bonds will come out this year.” This
is a question that should be seriously
considered by Michigan bankers and
is a subject they should bring up at
the convention of the American Bank-
ers’ Association—the National body.

Benjamin Strong, Governor of the
New York Federal Reserve Bank, has
outlined a plan whereby the savings
of the people can be accumulated an |
invested in United States securities
withcut causing undue expansion of
credit. With regard to wage earners,
Mr. Strong makes the following sug-
gestion: “The fourth class of bond
buyers and in some respects the most
important in war, is the great body
of wage earners and salaried people
who frequently have no bank account
and spend about all they earn. There
are many millions of such in this
country whose condition would be
materially improved and whose at-
titude toward their Government will
be benefitted if they can be induced
to buy bonds, But how can this be
brought about? Only by showing
them how to cultivate the saving
habit.

“Take one industrial organization
as an example, employing say 20,000
laborers. If these men earned on au
average $1,200 a year and can afford
to save $100 per annum, their employ-
er could enter into agreements with
them whereby $8 say, could be de-
ducted from the pav roll every month
and deposited in bank for future in-
vestment.”

This, of course, is an excellent
plan and Mr. Strong further suggests
that during the process of setting
aside this money it could be invest-
ed in short time Government obliga-
tions which would be exchangeable
for long time bonds when the required
$50 or $100 had been accumulated.

This idea would be all right in floa:-
ing the new Liberty Loan, but should
stop there—that is the investment of
Government securities. The savings
should then be diverted to savings
banks and thus aid in furnishing need-
ed capital for railroad and industrial
expansion and development. through
the purchase of bonds of these enter-
prises.

During the war the transfer of bank
credits from individuals and corpor-
ations to the Government itself will
not cause undue expansion, for the
Government is spending the money as
fast as it gets it. The credit set aside
for Government use must be instantly
paid out again for supplies, pay of
soldiers and sailors and for civil es-
tablishments.

As soon as such credit for the Gov-
ernment is made on the books of
the bank, it is checked against by the
Government, which turns it back to
the producer and manufacturer and
through them to the wage earner
again. It is both wise and necessary,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13

in view of future requirements of the
Government, that some system of sav-
ing in advance of the Government’s
demands be devised, but care should
also be taken not to weaken the bank-
ing power of the country in this
process.

It is not only the banker who should
turn his attention to the great problem
of financing the war, but every manu-
facturer, merchant, professional man
—in fact, every bread winner in the
country—is vitally concerned in_ it,
and the greater publicity given to
the matter and the wider the ds-
cussion, the more satisfactory will he
the results.

The silver lining behind the cloud
of war is beginning to appear. One
of the indications of an early peace is
the careful buying by shrewd bank-
ers of Allied government bonds.
These same bankers have always said
that he would be a careless investor,
indeed, who would be without a
block of these bonds when the “flut-
terings of the peace dove’s wings
should be detected above the thunder
of the cannon and the rattle of ma-
chine guns.”

These same banker purchasers ad-
mit they look for the end of hostilities
this fall, that the Kaiser’s forces, dis-
couraged by the hardships at the
front and at home and by the failure
of the U-boat campaign, cannot much
longer withstand the pressure of the
victorious Allied armies on the East-
ern and Western fronts,

Paul Leake.
———

Following the example of Leland
Stanford, which in turn followed the
University of Chicago, the University
of Washington—no small institution—
has determined to put into effect the
continuous session plan. As at the other
universities, there are to be four “quar-
ters,” with brief vacations at Christ-
mas and in the summer. Faculty men-
bers will be presumably allowed to take
as vacation any one quarter they choose,
suitable arrangements being made. The
University of Washington can adapt
itself to the new plan easily, as it has
followed a schedule of its own in past
years, and its summer vacation has al-
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In making their announcement the au-
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that the new system will enable students
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to study and recite in them more fre-
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THE KAISER’S WANTON WAR.

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der Germany.

New York, July 26—I write to-day
in pursuance of a high purpose, a
purpose which at this fateful momeut
is one and the same wherever,
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to dare everything and never to cease
nor rest until the accursed thing whicn
has brought upon the world the un-
utterable calamity, the devil's visita-
tion of this appalling war, is destry-
ed beyond all possibility of resurrec-
tion.
That accursed thing is not a _na-
tion, but an evil spirit, a spirit which
has made the government possessed
by it and executing its abhorrent and
bloody bidding an abomination in the
sight of God and men. :

What we are now contending for,
the side of our splendidly brave
1d sorely tried Allies, after infinite
forbearance, after delay which many
of us found it hard to bear, are the
things which are amongst the high-
est and most cherished that the civil-
ized world has attained through the
toil. sacrifites and suffering of its best
in the course of many centuries, _

They are the things without which
darkness would fall upon hope, and
life would become intolerable. :

They are the things of humanity,
liberty, justice and mercy, for which
the best men amongst all the nations
—including the German nation—have
fought and bled these many genera-
tions past, which were the ideals of
Luther, Goethe, Schiller, Kant, and
a host of others who had made the
name of Germany great and beloved
until fanatical Prussianism run amuck
cume to make its deeds a by-word ind
a hissing. .

This appalling conflict which has
been drenching the world with blood
is not a mere fight of one or more
peoples against one or more other
peoples.

It goes far deeper.

It sharply divides the soul and con-
science of the world.

It transcends vastly the bounds of
racial allgiance.

[t is ethically fundamental.

In determining one’s attitude to-
wards it, the time has gone by—if it
ever was—when race and blood and
inherited affiliations were permitted
to count.

A century and a half ago Americans
of Enelish birth rose to free this
country from the oppression of the
rulers of England. To-day Ameri-
cans of German birth are called upon
to rise, together with their fellow-citi-
zens of all races, to free not only
this ccountry but the whole world
from the oppression of the rulers of
Germany, an oppression far less cap-
able of being endured and of far
graver portent. :

Speaking as one born of German
parents. I do not hesitate to state it
as my deep conviction that the great-
est service which men of German birth
er antecedents can render to the
country of their origin is to proclaim,
and to stand up for those great and
fine ideals and national qualities and
traditions which they inherited from
their ancestors and to set their faces
like flint against the monstrous doc-
trnes and acts of a rulership which
have robbed them of the Germatiy
which they loved and in which they
took just pride, the Germany which
had the good will, respect and admir-
ation of the entire world.

I do not hesitate to state it as my
solemn conviction that the more un-
mistakably and wholeheartedly Amer-
icans of German origin throw them-
selves into the struggie which this
country has entered in order to res-
cue Germany, no less than America
and the rest of the world from those
sinister forces that are, in President
Wilson’s language, the enemy of all

mankind, the better they protect and
serve the repute of the old German
name and the true advantage vo: the
German people.

I measure my words, They are
borne out all too emphatically by the
hideous eloquence of deeds which
have appalled the conscience of the
civilized world. They are borne out
by numberless expressions, written
and spoken, of German professors
employed ,by the state to teach its
youth.

The burden of that teaching is trat
might makes right, and that the Ger-
man nation has been chosen to ¢x-
ercise morally, mentally and actual-
ly, the over-lordship of the world and
must and will accomplish that task
and that destiny whatever the cost cn
bboodshed, misery and ruin.

The spirit of that teaching, in its
intolerance, its mixture of sanctimoni-
ousness and covetousness and its self-

gighteous assumption of a world-im-

proving mission, is closely akin to
the spirit from which were bred the
religious wars of the past through the
long and dark years when Protestants
and Catholics killed one another and
devasted Europe.

I speak in sorrow, for I am speak-
‘ing of the country of my origin and
1 have not forgotten what I owe to
it.
I speak in bitter disappointment, for
I am thinking of the Germany of for-
mer ‘lays, the Germany which has
contributed in no small degree to the
store of the world’s imperishable as-
sets and which, in not a few fields
of human endeavor and achievement
held the leading place among the na-
tions of the earth.

And I speak in the firm faith that,
after its people shall have shaken off
and made atonement for the dread-
ful spell which an evil fate has cast
upon them, that former Germany is
bound to arise again and, ‘in due
course of time, will again deserve and
attain the good-will and the high re-
spect of the world and the affectionate
loyalty of all those of German blood
in foreign lands.

sut I know that neither Germany
nor this country nor the rest of the
world can return to happiness and
peace and fruitful labor until it shall
have been made manifest, bitterly and
unmistakably manifest, to the rulers
who bear the -blood-guilt for this
wanton war and to their misjin-
formed and misguided peoples that
the spirit which unchained it cannot
prevail,’ tha, the hateful doctrines and
methods in pursuance of which and
in compliance with which it is con-
ducted are rejected with abhorrence
by the civilized world, and that the
Over-weening ambitions which it was
meant to serve can never be achieved.

The fight for civilization which we
all fondly believed had been won
many years ago must be fought over
again. In this sacred struggle it is
now our privilege to take no mean
part and our glory to bring sacrifices.

‘ Otto H. Kahn.

The officials of the Louisville & Nash-
ville Railroad have been prevented by
the Secretary of War from executing
such a coup as years ago made those of
the Pennsylvania lines in a similar sit-
uation famous. The Pennsylvania, dis-
agreeing with the Western Union Com-
pany, sent out gangs of axemen, who
laid the poles of the telegraph corpora-
tion low all along the tracks. The Louis-
ville & Nashville was about to do the
same, but Secretary Baker has inform-
ed them that they must come to an
agreement. [ailing in this, the Govern-
ment will jikely step. in and take over
the telegraph wires, whereupon any
tampering with them will be punished
severely.

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July 25, 1917
UPPER PENINSULA.

Recent News of the Cloverland of
Michigan.

Sault Ste. Marie, July 23—This week
was the opening of summer at the
Soo. If we can fix it up with the
weather man to continue the~ hot
spell for the next two months, our
summer resorts will be able to make
good. It has been a long and tire-
some wait for a big tourist trade.
Great preparations have been made
and the hot weather is the only as-
surance which the resort keepers have
to call the tourists North.

Walter Ufland has assumed the
management of the retail department
of the Booth fisheries here. He has
had nine years’ experience in that
line, which has well fitted him for the
position.

“Give a hint to a sensible man and
the thing is dene.”

D. N. McLeod, well-known lumber-
man and merchant of Garnet, return-
ed last week from Chicago and an-
nounced the closing of a big deal in
timber lands, whereby the D. H. Mc-
Leod Lumber Co. acquires the tim-
ber rights on 40,000 acres of land
and secures the contract to deliver
to the paper and pulp mill at Man-
istique 10,000 cords of pulp wood each
year for the next ten years. The
money involved in it is about $200,000.
Mr. McLeod is one of the enterpris-
ing boosters of Cloverland and_suc-
cess has always crowned his efforts.

The new dry kiln at the Brown
Lumber Co., at Manistigue, is nearly
completed. It will be one of the best
plants of Cloverland. The structure
is of cement and brick, 25 x 60, and
has three compartments. It is heat-
ed with steam from the power plant.
The floors will have a double track,
with a capacity of four cars in each
compartment. During the week ten
carloads of tin boxes and automobile
blocking have been shipped which was
certainly a good start. A neat office
is being constructed near the street,
which will be a credit to the hustling
town of Manistique when completed.

Delmar Houde, formerly Canadian
salesman for the Cornwell Company,
now one of the leading retail mear
merchants in the Canadian Soo, was
married last week to Miss Winifred
Rapin, of the American Soo. The
bride is one of the best looking young
ladies in Cloverland and the gragom
is also considered one of the mm&st
handsome men of his profession in
the city. He is a practical meat man
and has made a success during his
business career. The couple have a
host of friends to wish them prosper-
ity and every joy in their matrimon-
ial venture.

“A pessimist likes a thing he can't
enjoy and an optimist enjoys the
things he can’t like.”

Temporary co-operative associa-
tions were formed last week at Dafter
and Soo township by R. H.. Ells-
worth, of the U. S. Department of
Markets, The purpose of these as-
sociations is to investigate the feasi-
bility of forming co-operative mar-
keting associations for farmers, also
the standardization and handling of
farm produce.

“Treat a rich man kindly. You
might be willing to let him lend you
some money some day.”

The many friends of Rundel Maltas,
son of our esteemed druggist, were
shocked to hear of the accident on
the Canadian racetrack on his motor
cycle. When speeding from 75 to 80
miles an hour he skidded, striking his
head against a fence post, resulting
in instant death. Rundel Maltas was
a promising young man of 18, with
a large circle of friends. He was one
of the most popular young men in the
city. The bereaved family have the
sincere sympathy of their numerous
friends throughout the city and coun-
try.

- Archie S. Smith, who for the past
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15

agent for the district of Algoma, Can-
ada, has been engaged by the board
of directors of the Dunbar School of
Agriculture here to succeed A. L.
Buser as superintendent, who resign-
ed a short time ago. The faculty of
the Country Agricultural School will
be greatly changed this fall. It has
been very prosperous in years past
and has a bright future under the
new management.

Dennis Sayers, our popular auto
traffic cop, whose accident was men-
tioned in the last issue, died in the
Soo hospital Sunday. This was a se-
vere shock to the entire community,
as Dennie was one of the best known
men in Chippewa county, having serv-
ed as deputy sheriff under former
Sheriff Bone and later was appointed
motor cycle cop. He gave the Soo
the best regulated automobile traffic
in the State. The family have the
sympathy of the entire community.

The Standard Post & Tile Co., op-
erating at Moran and St. Ignace, has
purchased the pavilion prcoperty at
St. Ignace and is preparing for an
extensive operation at the latter place
this season. It is expected that the
mill will be removed from Moran dur-
ing the fall and winter. It is rumored
that there will be an additional fac-
tory, which will add to St. Ignace for
a busier town.

Mose Yalomstein, proprietor of the
Hub, one of the Soo’s. furnishing
houses, entertained a few of hs
friends in his commodious launch to
an elaborate luncheon at Squirrel Is-
land last Sundays After luncheon a
trip was made to Echo Bay, return-
ing to Sugar Island, where an evening
luncheon was served. The weathe:
was ideal, although there was a h t
time in town, the cool breezes of St.
Mary’s river and the entertainment o}
the host will long be remembered by
his guests. William G. Tapert.

2+
Sidelights on Celery City and Envi-
rons.

Kalamazoo, July 24—Mrs. J. L. Mont-
gomery has given to the city of Battle
Creek property for a community mar-
ket with the stipulation that it be used
for such an enterprise. Valuation, $50,-
000. The city started the improvement
at once.

Committees have been namd = and
started the work of raising $100,000
as a cantonment fund to meet the ex-
pense of building the cement road to
the grounds and paying the farmers
for the rental of their property. If left
to the Government it would not be paid
until fall. The name of the cantonment
is now Camp Custer.

Good news from our boys who are
with Dr. Case at the hospital corps at
Allentown, Pa. All well and working
hard.

H. N. Randall, of Portland, Oregon,
brother-in-law of Porter Bros., the can-
tonment contractor, was killed Tuesday
by a M. C. Railway fast train, just west
of Battle Creek. He became confused
and “‘killed’’ his motor on the track.
The train was late and was running
seventy miles an hour.

Battle Creek Council held its regular
meeting Saturday night and we added
three to our number: Howard K. An-
derson, of Berdan & Co.. Toledo; C. O.
Morris, of Kellogg’s Corn Flake Co.,
and Charles I. Webster, of the Union
Steam Pump Co.

Battle Creek Council is organizing a
degree team and when the fall work
starts it will be in shape to do the
work in a way that the Council may
feel proud. We have the boys who can
do. it.

If any brothers of the U. C. T. have
sons who will be in Battle Creek as
soldiers and our Council is notified, an
effort will be made by the members of
No. 253 to make them as much at home
as possible.

If any U. C. T. would like to know
how to become a farmer and grow po-
tatoes, he should send a card to W. LI.
Masters and get the desired informa-
tion, Jack.

 

 

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Systematic Plans Will Produce the
Best Results.
Written for the Tradesman.

In the hardware business, as in ev-.

ery other line, system has made great
strides in recent years. The merchant
realizes that, to keep up with his com-
petitors, he must have his business
at his finger-ends.

Nevertheless, there is in most busi-
nesses a perfectly human tendency tg-
ward haphazard methods; and it ta e
an effort on the part of most nf€r-
chants to plan their work definitely,
and then to work their plan faithfully,
I know whereof I speak, for I have
seen the inside workings of a good
many businesses.

As a rule, it is easier to plan than
to work the plan; but the difficulty in
carrying out plans once made is in
many instances due to the fact that
the plans were not sufficiently thought
out in the first place. The human
factor, of course, enters into every
business, and accounts for numerous
variations. Some merchants can plan
their work in every detail, but fall
down badly when it comes to execu-
tion. Others find it difficult to decide
what to do, but once a decision is
made they are adamant in seeing that
it is carried out.

The ideal combination is the ability
to map out prospective work in de-
tail, together with the capacity to
carry out the plans made in their en-
tirety.

One merehant in my experience con-
vinced himself of the desirability of
rendering accounts to credit custom-
ers promptly every month. The ex-
perience of other merchants show-
ed him that bad debts were frequently
piled up merely through the careless
habit of letting customers get months
behind. The merchant sent out his
bunch of accounts on time the first
month. The next month he was a day
late. The third month something un-
foreseen cropped up. He let the ac-
counts go for three or four days.
Then he made another postponement
for a trivial excuse. Finally he said,
“Qh, it’s the tenth of the month.
Tl let them go over until next
month.” By the time next month ar-
rived the merchant decided to render
a few accounts where he was sure
of getting the money he needed; the
rest could wait.

Merely through failure to work the
plan, the whole benefit of the plan
was negatived.

I have in mind another store where
the partners planned an extensive cir-

 

cular-advertising campaign. They
bought a stencil duplicator, and a
typewriter—cost $115. Also, they de-
cided on a blue color scheme and
bought 10,000 letter-heads on blue
paper and a similar supply of en-
velopes. They decided to send out
circular letters every month to a large
prospect list, They ran the scheme
one, two, maybe three months. It
produced business—lots of it.

jut the letters did not show up well,
the blue of the paper being a bit too
dark to contrast well with the rather
faint black of the stencil. The diffi-
culty could have been remedied by
substituting a contrasty red ink for
the black, a very simple device. In-
stead of that the circulars missed for
one month, then, two, then three. Then
the plan was dropped entirely. The
firm has to-day one typewriter, cost
$100, one duplicator, cost $15, 9,000
letter heads, cost about $20—$135 of
capital tied up in stuff that is produc-
ing no returns whatever. Yet a slighr-
ly more careful planning would have
covered that vital detail of color con-
trast; and a little more executive ca-
pacity would have carried on a plan
which, in spite of the handicap men-
tioned, had produced good initial re-
sults..

Because plans require a little effort
to carry out is, however, no reason
why the merchant should not plan
his work ahead. It is, on the other
hand, good rceason for him to say to
himself: “Whatever I plan, I am go-
ing to put across if it kills me.” There
are many directions in which the
hardware merchant could save time
and labor by planning his work. Here
are some of them.

Newspaper advertising. Sit down
at the beginning of every month and
decide what lines it will be seasonable
to feature. Then jot down on paper
the order in which you will feature
them; the dates on which you will
change your advertising copy and the
subjects for each change. If catch-
lines or ideas for copy occur at the
time, jot them down too. Some mer-
chants write out their advertising
copy a month ahead.

Window display. The same idea
applies to this form of publicity. Us-
ually it is good policy to co-ordinate
your display and your advertising.
Put on display in the window the
goods you are advertising in the news-
paper. Where this policy is adopted,
newspaper advertising and windcw
display can be mapped out together,
with a great saving of labor.

When putting together a display,
sketch the details on paper. This
gives you an idea of the arrangement
you want, and saves you time in put-
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Circular advertising. If you plan
to circularize your customers, outline
a plan covering six months anyway,
Any less time is no fair test of mail
advertising. Jot down on paper ahead
of time the lines you will feature for
each of the six months. You won'r
think of them all, but the list you do
think of will give you something to
start with. As additional ideas occur
to you, jot them down. Then, when
the first of the month comes, you
won’t sit down with a blank sheet and
a blank mind to compile “that infernal
circular.”

Credits, Watch them closely. See
that accounts are rendered regularly
to credit customers. If they are not
paid promptly, follow them up. Don’t
be harsh, but be businesslike.

Salespeople. Do you try to train
them, or are you just letting them
develop themselves? Do you try to
interest them in the business, or are
you leaving them to their own re-
sources? Is your sales staff a disci-
plined army, or a mob? Salespeople
are merely human; the good will do
well without help, the poor will do
badly no matter how much you help—
but all will be better for definite di-
rection, and the average fellows won't
do much without it. Encourage them
individually, get their ideas and im-
part your own, talk over the goods
with them. Try to make them an
effective fighting unit for better busi-
ness. :

These are just a few hints that will
help you to better results.

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Live Notes From a Live Town.

Owosso, July 23—The United Dairy
Co, has purchased the large cement
building of Frank Weidman, on RoR.
avenue, and the business will be con-
ducted from that location, with milk
to the patrons at 5 cents a quart or
more if necessary. :

Niles Wiggins hes traded the Mill-
er Company grocery to Samuel Beck-
erman, of Detroit, for a large rooming
apartment in that metropolis.

James A. Locke, of Vernon, has
closed out his stock of general mer-
chandise and has discontinued busi-
ness. Back to the farm for Jim.
Brick store and fixtures for sale.

E. D. Horne has purchased the stock
and fixtures of Palmer & Simmonds,
the Reliable Grocers, and will con-
tinue the business at the same loca-
tion under the supervision of Mrs.
Horne. If Ed. had one more link,
he would own a chain of grocery
stores. | :

S. C. Carmel, the Middleton tavern
keeper, who was obliged to close the
dining room of the Hotel Middleton
last March on account of inability
to obtain help, has re-opened that
part of his hotel and will put up three
squares per day. :

The city officials and Welfare As-
sociation of our fair hamlet have of-
fered several cash prizes for the best
amateur garden in the city limits and
we are after their kale. So far it
looks to us as though all the others
are in a hopeless minority and we
have begun to plan what we would
do with the money. One thing we
feel pretty sure about: we have the
tallest potato vines that ever happen-

ed. Their average height now is
about four feet and every time it

rains they grow some more and we
are having quite a few showers nights
and some rainy days. As we are anx-

ious to accelerate their growth, we
have driven stakes at each end of the
row and stretched binder twine at in-
tervals of a foot or so to keep them
in a sort of a perpendicular position.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

We did this so we can run the lawn
mower along each side of the row,
as mother said she thought they would
do better if there wasn’t so much
grass among the vegetables, so we
are going to give it special attention
and mow it right down every two or
three weeks. We read a short time
ago where an expert vegetable pro-
ducer planted potatoes in a box like
a layer cake, put some straw in the
bottom, then some dirt and laid seed
potatoes around at the preper dis-
tance apart and covered this. with
straw and earth and then more seed
potatoes until the box was filled and
covered with straw. Each layer was
supposed to grow a bushel of spuds;
producing about ten bushels in a box
four feet square, This plan looked
gecod to us, so we borrowed Fred
Hanifin’s piano box that he once used
as a chicken farm and fixed it up as
per instructions, having first placed
it on a couple of saw horses. We
have patiently awaited developments
and it begins to look like a howling
success. One thing we overlooked:
the bottom of the bex was made of
slats which we possibly should have
securely boarded up, because as the
potatces mature they begin to drop
through as they get too heavy for the
vines. Potatoes from the size of a
hen’s egg up to a ccbble stone. Moth-
er sets the clothes basket under it
now and when we get home Satur-
day night we carry it in (full of po-
tatoes) and empty it in the cellar.
If this experiment proves a success
we have drawn plans and_ specifica-
tions for erecting a silo about 30 feet
high by the side of the house with the
bottom at a slant so the potatoes will
rcll into the cellar and do away with
the present extra exertion. If the
Chronic Kicker or any other readers
have any improvements to offer we
are just a new beginner and are open
for pointers. If any one doubts the
veracity of this item write S. E, Al-
mack, of Sheridan, as we have been
in his employ at intervals for sev.
eral years and he knows what we can
accomplish in the capacity of scien-
tine gardening.
Honest Groceryman.
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So He Does.

“Why don’t you open the door?
That may be Opportunity knocking.”

“It’s more apt to be a bill collector.”

“Well, if you only knew it, a bill
collector offers a good opportunity
to get out of debt.”

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Cassius L. Glasgow, hardware and
implement dealer at Nashville, writes
as follows in renewing his subscrip-
tion to the Michigan Tradesman:
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Holiday Goods

CELLULOID AND METAL TOILET AND MANICURE SETS,
LEATHER GOODS, CHINA, CUT-GLASS, TOYS, DOLLS, BOOKS,
GAMES, BRASS HOUSEHOLD WARES, SIVERWARE, CLOCKS
AND NOVELTIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

We are showing choicest selection of goods from over

Eleven Hundred Factories

Our display is a wonderful revelation of

New Goods
Lowest Prices and
Immense Variety

that should not be overlooked as the early buying merchants are show-
ing by their orders every day since the opening week of June 5th.

Don’t say “I can’t get away.”

Other men are as busy as you but they have learned that goods “well
bought are half sold,” and in this year of wonderful changes IT IS IM-
PERATIVE that you see a line of goods like ours before buying.

To attempt to order from your home town with so many NEW,
NOVEL AND SNAPPY THINGS as we are showing would be an in-
justice to your business as the people are depending upon you to save
them from ordering elsewhere.

PRESENT PRICES WON’T LAST and our early orders cannot be
duplicated as raw material and labor are constantly rising. Besides there
is a greater shortage in these lines than last year and factories cannot
be depended upon for re-orders.

WE TRY TO SERVE YOU

We mark our goods in plain figures. We have increased our sample
tables ONE THIRD to accommodate goods NEVER SEEN BEFORE
in preparation for the greatest Fall and Holiday business you have ever
had.

We will hold orders until shipment is desired. We give Holiday
dating, sell to merchants only and have no connection with any retail
store.

COME AND SEE US—CORRESPONDENCE INVITED

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Make Your Findings Move More
Briskly.
Written for the Tradesman.

It’s a cinch they won't move Sr:sk'y
unless scmebody makes them. If
you are selling them, that somebody
ought to be you.

This ought to be a good summer
for findings—and is already proving
to be in many communities. Laces
and polish and rubber heels and many
other items of findings too numerous
to catalogue, are going fine, so many
dealers report, How is it with you?

By analyzing the items that go to
make up one’s findings department
stock, one will observe that they are
designed for one cf three specific pur-
poses; to make shoes look better,
impart more actual foot comfort, or
to last longer. Sometimes, as in shoe
laces, the same item serves a two-fold
purpose—improves the looks and adds
to the actual foot-comfort.

All three of these objects are legiti-
mate and important. Take polish, for
example—most any dealer can sell
more shoe polish than he is selling,
if he would only think so, and then
get busy along the right lines. Shoe
dressing improves the look cf shoes
more than any other single item one
can think of. Not only improves the
looks of them, but keeps the leatner
moist and pliant, free from grit and
dirt, and so preserves the fiber of the
leather, making the shoes last longer.
This is not theory, but fact. It has
been proved.

There are days when the idea of
economy is uppermost in peoples’
minds. We are being reminded of
the importance of cutting out wast?
in almost every publication cne sees.
The notion is in the air. Link up
your shoe polish selling to this cur-
rent notion, and so make it a dividen4-
payer. Have shoe polish tr’ms and
sales. Feature shoe dressings of
various kinds strongly. And so with
laces and everything else in the find-
ings department.

And then play up the idea of ap-
pearances. Too many people are care-
less about the appearance of their
shoes. Careless habits grow upon
one. Unless one’s attention is cal'-
ed to it, he may not be conscious of
the increasing shoddiness of ‘iis foot-
wear. If the average service of a
pair of shoes going out from y<ur
store is five months’ wear, and the ap-
pearnce of that average paid during
the last three months is dull, dingy
or shoddy, through lack of proper
attention—neglected heels worn
laces, and crying need of polish, and
other items of neglect that impair
their looks, you are not in any wise
benefitted, as a dealer, so tong as the
average pair continues to give sub-

stantial service and a new pair is not
bcught; but, if you could sell, say 50
cents worth of findings of one sort or
another, whereby the wearer could
vastly improve the looks of his shoes
during those last three months, both
you and the customer would profit
thereby: he’d have better looking
shoes—shoes that would reflect more
credit upon you as a dealer and upon
him as a_ citizen—and, in addition
you'd have the profit on a 50 cent sale of
findings. Isn’t that sun-clear? ‘There-
fore in selling findings you are net
militating against your regular lines.

Shoes are notoriously abused and
neglected. Of all the articles <f hu-
man apparel, nothing else fares so
arduously as shoes. The _ highly
finished surface is filmed over with
dust and grit. The moisture from
the feet and the moisture from with-
out, in the way of dew and rain, dis-
solves, but does not entirely remove,
this foreign substance; and the ex-
cellent finish is temporarily blurred
or dimmed. It ought to be removed.
Dressing should be applied. The
shoes should be kept neat by frequent
polishing—and it doesn’t take long
to apply the polish and brighten them
up. And so other accessories should
be had as they are required. Worn
heels put otherwise neat-looking
shoes on the blink. Not only so, but
they throw the shoe out of balance.
Suggest either having the heels built
up—or better still, a pair of rubber
heels—in either event, something for
your repa‘'r department, but closely
linked up with findings, and all for
the sake of better appearances.

In the realm of findings articles
designed to promote foot comfort,
there are many excellent commodities
—heel cushions, rubber and _ fiber
soles, insoles for tender, callous feet:
powders for perspiring feet, corn- and
bunyon plasters, arch props; and var-
ious and sundry orthopaedic appli-
ances. It is surprising to know how
many people have trouble of one kind
or another with their feet. Some au-
thorities have asserted that not’more
than one person of ten has absolutely
sound and perfect feet, with no trou-
ble of any kind. That may be an ex-
treme statement—I don’t know--but
the fact is there is a tremendous de-
mand for things of thissort. Things
designed and made to make the feet
feel more comfortable.

Now it is a well-known fact that
all sorts of foot-ailments are aggravat-
ed by hot weather. Especially is this
true of people who are on their feet
much during the day, standing at a
counter or walking about the shop or
factory. Consequently the demand
for such findings items is correspond-
ingly greater during the hot months.

 

They All Agree

Hot

Ideal weather for Tennis.

August Dry

Tennis Shoes the Ideal footwear for hot, dry
weather, and we have them in bals and oxfords with
or without heels, in white or black, for every member
of the family.

Mail us your order, and be prepared.

 

Hirth-Krause Company

Tan the Leather and Make the Shoes
Grand Rapids, Michigan

July 25, 1917

 

 

No Value Equal to

this line is offered you to-day
at anywhere near the price

936—Men’s Gun Metal Calf, G. W.
NEOLIN Out Sole, Last 29,
Tip Button ............ «oss $5,140

935—Men’s Blucher, same as 936,
NEOLIN Out Sole......... 3.35

The same shoes except with leather out-
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960—Leather Sole and Heel,
Button... 6... $3.25

979—Leather Sole and Heel,
Blucher .......... 3.25

If you are not handling these
numbers you should stock them
at once.

They give splendid service and
will win instant favor in your
community.

 

 

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During the hot months, then, is the
time to sell them.

Get it out of your head. that findings
is a little old unimportant side line.
Give findings a real chance And see if
they don’t make good. The profit
on such articles is surely worth goinz
after—provided you can get the busi-
ness in paying quantities; ‘and you
certainly ought to be able to do that
if you have any really adequate con-
stituency. In other words, the trade
that is able to.afford a shoe dealer a
living, ought, if intensively worked in
regard to. findings, furntshattrac-
tive possibilities. Because you are
not selling findings to any large extent
in your community does not prove
that findings could not be sold there
if properly pushed. ‘Get behind them
and see if they won’t move.

Cid McKay.

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Activities in Michigan Cities.
Written for the Tradesman.

3ay City’s summer taxes are $23.51
per $1,000, or 48 cents less than last
year.

Ann Arbor has entered into con-
tract with H, H. Wagoner, of Hunt-
ington, Ind., for building a garbage
incinerator and making collections
of all garbage under the supervision
of the health office, for $6,000 a year.

Escanaba will entertain the Upper
Peninsula Medical Society Aug. 2 and
a. {

Benton Harbor has secured a new
industry, the Chicago'Stove & Range
Co., which will erect factory build-
ings there.

Maurice W. Odell is
chosen Secretary cf the
Board of Trade.

“Business as Usual” is the motto
of the Gratiot county fair, to be held
Aug. 28-31 at Ithaca.

Charlevoix’s new Government fish
hatchery will be located on the site
of the city waterworks building, which
is being razed for the purpose.

Hancock has adopted an ordiance
requiring junk dealers to pay an an-
nual license fee of $100.

Three Rivers has adopted a garbage
ordinance, which takes effect Aug. 8.
The city pays the collector of garbage
$50 annually and the maximum fee for
collections paid by each househald is
35 cents a month. People may still
feed their chickens garbage, or it may
be burned. It must not be buried,

the newly
Fremont

Three Rivers has granted the use of
the North side of ‘Third avenue for
market Monday,
Wednesday and Saturday mornings.
The plan will be tried out for a few

public purposes

weeks,

Hart business men agree to con-
tribute $4,000 a year to promote the
best interests of the town.

The village council of Hartford has
appointed a committee to furnish
plans and estimates of the cost of the
proposed factory building for the Re-
liance Picture Frame Co.

Cadillac will paint all telephone
and electric light poles an olive green.

An automobile bus line has opened
between St. Breckenridge
Wheeler and Merrill, wh'ch makes two
round trips daily.

Boyne City is putting on a Civic
fevival, directed by outside profes-
sionals.

Louis,,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Flint begins to see the need of a
building code to comply with the new
State housing law. An, ordinance pre-
pared by the Buildefs and Traders’
exchange is being considered.

Almond Griffen.
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Boomlets From Bay City.

Bay City, July 23—Sams Bros. Gro-
cery is the name of the new firm which
recently opened up business at 1018
Third street.

The Archambeau_ grocery
moved from 508 Sixth street
McKinley avenue. :

Clarence Evans, succeeds W. A. Senay
in the retail grocery trade on Rossiter
avenue, Flint. :

John Quarters and his son, Harry,
will engage in the retail grocery trade
at East Tawas and will occupy the Con-
klin building. They expect to be ready
for business about July 25. The Na-
tional Grocer Co., Bay City branch, will
furnish the stock.

Dilas & Cook have leased and are
remodeling the store building at 207
Center avenue, formerly occupied by A.
B. Griswold, and, when completed, will
use it as a restaurant. It will be known
as the Harmony Cafeteria. :

The girls in the office of the Aladdin
ready-made house factory have organ-
ized a band. They have been practising
for nearly two months and are planning
to give a public concert in Wenonah
Park in the near future. The Aladdin
girls band is being instructed by Emil
Hutcherruth. Its manager and presi-
dent is Miss Theo Heglund. As this
makes seven band organizations in the
city, we should have plenty of music
this season.

The Robert Gage Coal Co., of this
city, has purchased from George A.
Marston, referee in bankruptcy, all the
interests of the Caledonia Coal Co., of
Saginaw, the consideration being $12/-
000. The Saginaw mine will be operat-
ed under the new management and coal
lands at Auburn, near this city, will be
developed.

Bay City’s postoffice receipts for the
year ending June 30 were $223,033.68,
an increase of $8,369.65 over the receipts
of the previous fiscal year. The receipts
for the Saginaw office for last year
were $185,878.13, an increase for the
year of $387.66.

Notwithstanding the high cost of
living, the property owners of Bay City
will pay 48 cents less on each $1,000
than a year ago. We hope when we pay
our taxes we will find that this informa-
tion is true. W. T. Ballamy.

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That the high prices of cereals,
and especially rice, have stimulated
production is shown by ‘the report
from official sources in California that
the largest planting of rice in the his-
tcry of the Sacramento Valley has
been made. Plantings of rice exceed-
ed those of last year by probably more
than 30,000 acres. The area devoted
to this cereal is roughly estimated at
110,000 acres, but these figures re
main to be confirmed. The greater
part of the rice crop was planted in
good season and the present condi-
tion is generally satisfactory.

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THREE OF A KIND.

Commanding Positions Held by the
Sears Family. :

It is not often that one family oc-
cupy dominant positions in the com-
mercial life of a community for three
generations in direct descent, but such
is the case with the Sears family, as
illustrated and typified in the careers
of William, Stephen and Harold
Sears.

William Sears was a native of Ash-
field, Franklin county, Massachusetts,
where he was born June 20, 1818. His
early educational advantages were
those of the schools of that vicin'ty.
In the earlier part of his business life
he passed some five years in the dry
goods trade at West Troy, N. Y. At
Albany, N. Y., October 16, 1845, he
married Judith Adams. She died at
Grand Rapids in 1875. They had three
children, of whom one, a son, died in
1852; another son, Stephen A., is still
living, and a daughter is now Mrs.
C. D. Lyon. After leaving West
Troy, Mr. Sears went South and liv-
ed in Virginia about seven years.
From that State he came to Grand
Rapids in 1857, and took an interest
with Jefferson Carson in the “Head-
quarters” bakery and victualing-house,
adjoining Irving Hall on Monroe
street. In 1860 he purchased Mr.
Carson’s interest and continued the
business by himself. It was not the
nature of Mr. Sears to drift slowly,
but to “push things,” hence in 1862
he purchased a building that had been
erected for a flouring mill on Water-
loo, between Ferry and Louis streets,
where he put in steam machinery for
cracker making exclusively, and was
soon in the full tide of success in that
branch of manufacture; the store in
Irving Hall block being continued,
with rapidly increasing trade in crack-
ers and sweet goods and other table
supplies. In 1867 he was joined by
his brother, Samuel Sears, and Joel
Merchant, the partnership name being
Sears & Merchant, In 1868-1869 they
built a new factory, the three-story-
and-basement brick block now occu-
pied by the National Biscuit Co. at
35 to 41 Bond avenue, and fitted it
with the best of revolving ovens, ma-
chinery and other appliances for the
manufacture of crackers and cakes
for the wholesale trade. When in
1873 Mr. Merchant withdrew, the
firm name became William Sears &
Company; the other copartners hav-
ing been his brother, Samuel and his
son, Stephen A. Sears. The factory
and sales office were models of con-
venience and good taste in finish and
adaptation to their uses. There Mr.
Sears enjoyed the satisfaction of
building up an industry not excelled
in the quality of its products: with a
volume of business the largest of its
kind done by any establishment in
the State. The business was later ac-
quired by the New York Biscuit Co.,
which was subsequently absorbed by
the National Biscuit Co. Mr. Sears
was financially interested in several
other industrial and business enter-
prises; was a stockholder in the Ala-
bastine Company, and also in the Na-
tional City Bank and the Fourth Na-
tional Bank. Politically, he was a
supporter of the Democratic party.

 

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Stephen A. Sears.

Although not a member, he was an
attendant at the Park Congregational
church. He was one who attended to
his business in all its details with
methodical care, energy, honor and
tact, and conducted it successfu'ly.
As a citizen and neighbor he was
public-spirited, frank and genial, en-
joying general respect and good will
wherever he was known.

Stephen A. Sears.

Stephen A. Sears was born Oct. 3,
1853. We was educated in the public
schools of Grand Rapids. He entered
the employ of William Sears & Co.
when quite a young man and learned
every hranch of the business, includ
ing the manufacturing, selling and
managerial departments. For many
years he traveled on the road, where
he was so popular and successful that
he came to be known everywhere as
a prince of good nature and good fel-
lowship. On the sale of the Sears
bakery to the New York Biscuit Co.,
Mr. Sears was made manager of the
local branch and placed in charge of
all the other plants in Michigan. On
the merger of the New York Biscuit
Co. into the National Biscuit Co., he
was made a director of the latter
corporation and given charge of the
manufacturing department. This too
him away from Grand Rapids, re-
maining long periods at Chicago, Bos-
ton, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Indi-
anapolis and Cincinnati, during which
time he re-organized the plants in
those cities, changing everything from
the ground up. He was hampered
several times by strikes—mostly on
the part of union teamsters—but han-
dled them so expeditiously and effec-
tively that he came to be looked upon
as the diplomat of the system. He
was at one time manager of the West-
ern department, with headquarters
at Chicago, and for some years was
“close to the throne” at the executive
offices of the company in New York.
Mr. Sears voluntarily retired from
active connection with the corporation
three or four years ago, since which
time he has devoted his entire at-
tention to recreation and restoring

 

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his health, which was shattered by too
close application to business,

Mr. Sears was married Nov. 10,
1880, to Miss May Godfroy. Two
children blessed the union—Stephen
and Harold. Mrs Sears died Oct. 16,
1892, and two years later he married
Miss Marion Davis, who died about
four years later. William Sears, who
is now in the U. S. Navy, was a son
of this marriage. Mr. Sears subse-
quently married Mrs. Austin K.
Wheeler.

Mr, Sears is a Mason up to and in-
cluding the Shrine and K. T. degrees.
He is a member of St. Mark’s
(Episcopal) church and has always
done his share in the prosecution of
work of a charitable or philanthropic
character. He is genial in disposi-
tion, loyal in his friendships and true
to himself in all the relations of life.

Harlod W. Sears.

Harold William Sears was born in
Grand Rapids Nov. 28, 1885. He at-
tended the public schools until he
completed the eighth grade, when
he spent five years at the Montclair
Academy, Montclair, N. J., from which
institution he graduated on the liter-
ary course in 1905. He then entered
the employ of the local branch of the
National Biscuit Co., where he spent
about three years in the mechanical
department, learning every detail con-
nected with the manufacture of baked
goods. In 1908 he went on the road
for the house. On the retirement of
Walter K, Plumb as manager, in 1911,
he succeeded to that position, retain-
ing it until Nov. 15, 1916, when he re-
signed to take the position of Treas.
urer and Manager of the Grand Rap-
ids Dry Goods Co., tendered him by
the directors of that corporation. He
has made several changes during the
time he has been in his new position,
including the following:

In the piece goods department Wil-
liam B. Holden has been succeeded
by Ray Parker, who has covered
Central Michigan territory several
years for Marshall Field & Company.

In the notion department Charles
Fasoldt has been succeeded by George
Sargent, who has had many years’
experience.

Charles W, Sargent, who has had
charge of the hosiery, underwear and
knit goods department for several
years, has also taken charge of the
overall and men’s furnishing goods
department.

In the book-keeping department
Frederick W. Greulich has been suc-
ceeded by Frank J. Neuman.

The result of these radical changes
and others of a hardly less impor-
tant character is already manifest in
the increased volume of business
which is coming to the house, due to
the enlargement and diversification of
the lines of goods carried, the addi-
tion of many new customers and the
increase of the average bills now sold
old customers, which may be attrib-
uted, to some extent, to the fact that
every traveling salesman now shows
his full line to every customer he
calls on every time he calls. In other
words, the day of “order takers” has
passed, so far as the Grand Rapids
Dry Goods Co. is concerned. Every
man on the road for the house is a
salesman and lines up to the definition

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

of the word with singular exactness.
Leaving the trunks at the depot and
calling on the trade with a few sam-
ples over the arm is a thing of the
past. The books have been closed on
half way method and shipshod prac-
tices.

From now on the _ trade—every
member of the dry goods trade in this
territory—will be called on regularly
and ample time accorded each cus-
tomer, present or prospective, to make
his selections under the most approv-
ed methods.

In the meantime the stock has been
re-arranged and reclassified, new fix-
tures have been added and the insti-
tution started on a new career along
more modern and up-to-date lines.

Mr. Sears was married Oct. 5, 1912,
to Miss Katherine Barnard Goodman.
Two boys have blessed the union, one

 

er did. Both of Mr. Sears’ immediate
ancestors began life under less fav-
orable auspices than the subject ot
this sketch and both were slower in
attaining the goal of their ambition
than Mr. Sears has been. Arguing
from this hypothesis, Mr. Sears has
clearly demonstrated that he
“worth raising.”

Mr. Sears is a man of pleasant ad-
dress, charming personality and cour-
teous demeanor. He is a careful
student of the theory of business as
applied to the manufacture and dis-
tribution of merchandise in the most
economical and effective manner and
he has well defined ideas along these
lines which time, experience and ob-
servation have converted into funda-
mental principles. He has espoused
the wholesale dry goods business as a
life work, believing it to be an un-

was

Harold W. Sears.

about 3 years old and the other about
1 year old, The family reside at 333
Washington street and worship at
St. Mark’s church. Mr. Sears belongs
to the B. P. O. E., but does not do
much at it. He has no other fraternal
affiliations, his home possessing more
attractions for him than all the lodges
and clubs in the world.

Mr. Sears combines in his mental
make-up two important family traits
—the steadfastness and conservatism
of his grandfather and the progres-
siveness and driving qualities of his
father. Some one once remarked that
if a son is not a better man than his
father he is not worth raising—mean-
ing, of course, that the son, being
heir to better educational advantages
than his father and having his father’s
example before him, ought to be able
to find himself and “arrive,’ so to
speak, at an earlier age than his fath-

dertaking worthy of the best thought
and most painstaking effort which a
man can give a business he likes and
in which he expects to achieve a high
degree of success. That his efforts
will be richly rewarded and that he
will gradually assume a commanding
position in the trade, none of his
friends doubt for a moment.

 

We are manufacturers of TRIMMED AND
UNTRIMMED HATS for Ladies, Misses and
Children, especially adapted to the general
store trade. Trial order solicited.

CORL, KNOTT & CO.. Ltd.
Corner Commerce Ave. and Island St.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Slip-pon Veils,

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plies—a veil you slip on that
requires no pins, no tying—
just slip it on.

For motoring, golfing, rid-
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out-door wear. Can be worn
over a small hat, under a large
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We carry in
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black, brown
white and grey

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Grand Rapids
Dry Goods Co.

EXCLUSIVELY
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

July 25, 1917

 

AUGUST AUGURIES.

 

Seasonable Goods the Retail Grocer
Should Feature.

Written for the Tradesman.

August is pre-eminently the month
of the electric fan and the fly-swatter.
There is a moral in this for the gro-
cery department. As in July, the gro-
cery department should be kept clean
and kept cool—only more so. The
grocery which looks cool and is cool
will attract customers. Hence, a few
electric fans—even a single fan—will
probably be good business. Anything
white is suggestive of coolness. The
sprinkling of the floor with water oc-
casionally will help a great deal.

There should be a steady trade in
soft drinks, where these are handled.
The merchant who keeps soft drinks,
aerated waters of all kinds, mineral
waters and similar beverages on ice,
and advertises the fact, do a
pretty steady trade in these lines.
It is a trade which grows. People
get into the habit of buying cool stuff.
The line pays best for pushing. A
grocer who, for instance, pushes lime
juice will sell five or ten times as much
as the grocer who just stocks it, and
leaves it to sell itself.

A catchy summer lunch window dis-
play can be made up with a showing
of biscuits on plates, cooked meats
and similar ready-to-eat commodities,
preferably covered with large-mesh
cheese cloth or netting: and as a
center piece, a pail containing a good-
sized chunk of ice and several bottles
of ginger ale, lemon sour or the like.
Of course every now and then the
water will have to be emptied and the
ice removed. The display is one sug-
gestive of coolness and easily prepared
meals. Hence, it is timely.

will

The preserving season will continue
through August, and the merchant
who handles home grow and imported
fruits will find them in steady de-
mand. Melons are an attractive line.
Of the native fruits, the late berries
are in season early in August, the
first apples are coming in, while later
plums, pears and other fruits come in-
to season.

The grocer who features fruits can
sell other lines in conjuncticn with

them. For instance, there are pre-
serving accessories—sugar, sealers,
rubbers, etc. These lines ought to

be given their share of advertising.
Then, too, certain spices are used in
conjunction with fruits, as preserved
ginger with pears, The merchant who
knows a few good recipes for special
preserves and pickles will find the
knowledge helpful in extending his
trade. A good many merchants now-
adays run a series of new but carefully
tested recipes in connection with their
advertising.

Another line that
in connection with fruits is cereals—
that is, the ready-to-eat cereals. The
grocer who studies his goods will no-
tice that most of these cereals have
suggestions as to ways in which they
can be served with fresh fruit. The
merchant can add to his sales by ad-
vertising such suggestions—just a few
words giving a hint cf the daintiness
of these dishes for breakfast or
luncheon and the ease with which they
are prepared.

can be pushed

“Saving labor” is a summer watch-
word, It gives the merchant a good
excuse for pushing ready-to-eat cere-
als, soft drinks, fresh fruits and fancy
biscuits. Also, it is a good advertise-
ment for the provision counter, In-
stead of cooking a roast on a hot sum-
mer day, the housewife can get meat
ready cooked and far more tasty at
the grocer’s provision counter. Hence,
the provision counter should be made
a prominent feature. Cooked meats
of various kinds, displayed in a clean-
ly and tasteful manner, will make
many sales. These suggestions of
easily prepared lunchecns can be car-
ried into the newspaper and other
advertising. Now, too, when peop'e
are looking for meals that can be pre-
pared with the minimum of effort, is
a good time for the wideawake sales-
man to make personal suggestions.
The housewife who now forms the
habit of patronizing the grocer’s pro-
vision counter will, in future emer-
gencies, repeat her patronage.

The pickling season comes naturally
as an aftermath or late accompani-
ment to the preserving season. In
early August the merchant should
make his final preparations. It is per-
haps good policy, when selling fruits
and preserving accessories, to call at-
tention to the fact that you will have
a complete stock of the best quality
of pickling spices. Thus one sale can
be made to lead on to another. Pur-
ity and quality should be the keynote
of all advertising, personal talks and
show cards dealing with spices and
vinegar. An important point is to
provide for the proper storing of
spices in air-tight receptacles, in or-
der that quality may be maintained.

There is still in August a steady
demand for camping goods and
picnic supplies; and the “ready to
eat” foods—ccoked meats, fancy bis-
cuits, soft drinks, fresh fruits and sim-
ilar lines—can in this connection be
successfully pushed. Olives, pickles,
sauces and condiments of one sort and
another are also popular for picnic
and camping purposes. Aggressive
pushfulness is needed here. Good
window displays and strong adver-
tising copy are essential to attract
the trade.

Most merchants experience in Au-
gust a let up cf energy. The tendency
is strong to say, “There isn’t
business worth mentioning, anyway;
what’s the use of working too hard”

any

This tendency is not all bad. If it
encourages early closing, shorter
hours, and, perhaps, a weekly half

holiday, the results may be counted
good. If it leads the merchant to
take his two weeks off and to that
extent to break away entirely from
the daily grind, that, also, is good.

But while you are doing business,
whether in mid-summer or mid-win-
ter, you should attend to business with
all your heart and soul. Whatever
is worth doing at all, is worth doing
to the very best of your ability. If
trade is, normally, slack in summer,
the rent goes on just the same. While
you are in the store you,should put
forth your very best efforts to make
the store a paying proposition, and
encourage your salespeople to do
the same.

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ily as at some other seasons is all
the more reason why the merchant
should go after business energetically.

It is for just this season that one
very successful grocer advertises stren-
uously in August—the month when
some grocers cut off their advertising
entirely. The natural slackening
in trade, he says, needs to be counter-
acted, and to this end there is nothing
more effective than energetic advertis-
ing and attractive window display. If
he has not so many customers to deal
with, he devotes more time personal-
ly to each customer. That is why
his trade, at least, holds its own in
the “slack” month.

There are one or two special stunts
which can be pulled off successfully
at this season. Farmers are busy and
don’t come to town very often. There
is, however, the rural telephone at
hand. One grocer makes a practice
of calling up the farmers’ wives of his
acquaintance, and orders.
He has the orders ready for them
the minute they arrive, and thereby
saves them a lot of time—and on the
farm at midsummer time is a valuable
commodity. Naturally, the grocer
can suggest time saving foodstuffs as
well, and this also helps business.

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A good advertising scheme was tried
by a merchant in a small town last
vear. On Saturday nights he bulle-
tined the results of sporting events
of local interest—local contests, as
well as the big league games, the lat-
with the local
telegraph agencies. Tle was the only
retailer in town who did this, and a
good number of people who came
around to watch the bulletins remain-
ed to make purchases. Important war
bulletins would probably be a feature
this year. Arrangements for the use
of telegraphic material of this. sort
can be made, either with local news-
papers or direct with the telegraph
companies. Often an_ enterprising
newspaper is glad of the opportunity
to post its bulletins in store windows
and thereby advertise its news serv-
ices.

August is, pre-eminently, the fly
month, Fly papers and fly swatters
are in ready demand. Not merely
should the merchant keep his store as
free of flies as possible, but he will
find a ready sale for various fly kill-
ing devices. A fly swatting window,
comprising all the various devices for
exterminating the obnoxious musca
domestica will, in August, attract the
maximum of attention. Unfortunately
(from the sanitary point of view) it
is difficult to interest most people in
fly swatting until the fly nuisance be-
comes pronounced. When the fly
nuisance becomes pronounced, how-
ever, there is no difficulty in selling
fly killing materials and appliances.

August, rightly looked at, is a month
of opportunities for the grocery de-
partment—cpportunities whose price
is continued pushfulness and aggres-
siveness. William Edward Park.

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A Substitute For Cotton.

A writer in Le Matin, Paris, dis-
cusses the question of a substitute
for cotton, and in connection there-
with he refers to the plant known as
typha, which grows almost in any
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ponds, marshes or water courses.
The general cultivation of this plant
would give a good utilization of large
areas of unproductive ground. It is
easy to cultivate the plant, for it is
grown from seed and also by dividing
up the root, and this latter is in fact
the easiest method of planting. The
root is always planted in watery
grounds. The plant bears a_ pod
which opens when ripe and scatters
its contents to the winds, and this
substance in fact has some resem-
blance to cotton; upon analysis it is
seen to be composed of almost pure
cellulose. This plant is not unknown
in cther countries, and it is said that

efforts are being made in different
places to make use of this valuable
material in order to replace cotton,
wool and jute. Countries like those
of Europe which do not produce cot-
ton would have an enormous advan-
tage in using the proposed substitute,
provided, of course, it is really able to
replace cotton as a fabric, which
however, is not yet proved. But as
to its use as a source of cellulose there
would seem to be no doubt as to its
value for such purposes. Another
use would, of course, be for the paper
industry.

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Signs of the Times
Are

Electric Signs

Progressive merchants and manufac-
turers now realize the value of Electric
Advertising.

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and operating cost for the asking.

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You’ve enjoyed it at restaurants and other places—now you want
your family and your guests to join you in the same pleasure.
That’s one of the joys of serving Bevo—to hear your guests
say how good it is — then to listen to their arguments as to just
what it is. If they haven’t seen the bottle they’ll all agree that
it is something else —if they have seen the bottle each will have
a different explanation for its goodness.

Bevo is nutritive—pure through pasteurization and steriliza-
tion —non-intoxicating, wholesome and thoroughly refreshing.

Note — Bevo should be served cold.

Get Bevo at inns, restaurants, groceries, department and drug stores, picnic
grounds, baseball parks, soda fountains, dining cars, steamships, and other
laces where refreshing beverages are sold. Guard against substitutes—

ve the bottle opened in front of you.

Bevo is sold in bottles only—and is bottled exclusively by

ANHEUSER-BUSCH—ST. LOUIS

Anheuser-Busch Branch
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

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Grand Council of Michigan U., C. T.
Grand Counselor—John A. Hach, Cold-

ter.
gy Junior Counselor—W. T. Bal-

lamy, Bay City.
aikes Past Counselor—Fred J. Mou-

tier, Detroit.

Grand Secretary—M. Heuman, Jack-
son. S
Grand Treasurer—Lou J. Burch, De-
oit.
ae Conductor—C. C. Starkweather,
Detroit.
Grand Page—H. D. Ranney, Saginaw.
Grand Sentinel—A, W. Stevenson,
Muskegon.

Grand Chaplain—Chas. R. Dye, Battle

Creek. i
‘Next Grand Council Meeting—Jackson.

 

Pickings Picked Up in the Windy
City.

Chicago, July 23—The Chicago peo-
ple the past week have been thrilled
with excitement, owing to the drait
lottery, and up to Friday night all
one could hear was, “Do you think
they'll get my boy?” When the draw-
ing started. Friday morning it was
most impossible to walk on the streets
on account of the crowds gathering in
front of the store buildings where the
list of numbers being drawn were
posted. It is now being reported in
some of the newspapers that some of
the addresses given by the young men
the day they registered was that of
vacant property. So from the way it
locks the Federal courts will, no
doubt, be kept busy for the next few
months taking care of such men that
are caught making falsifications.

One hears at this time lots of ex-
cuses from those who registered as
to why they should not be drafted,
and it is comical to hear what stands
they are going to take to get out of
going to the front, but it is very grati-
fying to note that the majority think
differently and from the general line
of talk one hears throughout the day,
there will be no trouble in the Gov-
ernment getting the required number
in the first call.

R. Stone, one of Chicago’s repre-

sentatives of the American Tobacco
Co., cigarette department, was all

smiles Saturday, when he notified his
friends that he had been one of the
first called in the draft, claiming that
good things come all in a bunch. A
few minutes after giving the informa-
tion pertaining to his number, he also
was notified his home had just been
blessed with a 9 pound boy. He says
he has already started to train him to
be a soldier.

In the last few days it has been
brought forcibly to the city’s atten-
tion that they need more bathing
beaches, that all of the public beaches
and municipal beaches are still short
of bathing spaces. This is caused by
some of the street ends being block-
ed with railroads, old buildings and
private property owners.

Chicago is now working cver time
in equipping the entire boulevard sys-
tem with very much up-to-date boule-
vard lights. When this is completed,
Chicago, will have one of the best
lighted boulevard systems in the world
no doubt.

Real estate transfers in Chicago the
past week have been a little bit off,
other than one or two new = subdi-
visions which have been opened up.

The moving picture convention
closed Saturday night with a grand
ball held in the new Morrison ball-
room, As many of the stars in the

movie world as could possibly get to
Chicago attended this affair, it be-
ing the first ever held in this ball
room. A_ beautiful loving cup was
presented to the star of the movie
world by Harry Moir, President of
the Moir Hotel Co., who suggested
the most appropriate name for the
new ballroom.

One of the best organizations form-
ed in Chicago of late is that known
as the Garage Owners Association.
This organization was formed for the
purpose of giving satisfactory service
to care owners and setting a stan-
dard price for work done and guar-
anteeing quality of service. If the
members live up to the principles of
their organization, it will do a won-
derful lot of good, both to themselves
and the general public.

It will be a good thing for auto-
mobile drivers who intend visiting
Chicago to bear in mind the latest
ordinance passed by the City Council
to always come to a full stop when
about to cross a bculevard or tura
into a boulevard while riding on a
street that is not a boulevard. The
police department is enforcing this
rule and the judges are imposing
some pretty stiff fines. Most of those
fined up to date have been outsiders
not familiar with the ordinance.

The Chicago Motor Bus Co. op-
erating a chain of houses on the North
Side, from the loop to Devon avenue,
are doing business to capacity. Peo-
ple are taking to those busses like

fish to water.

Some of the eye sore buildings
which have stocd for a great many
years at the corner of twelfth and

Michigan avenue are now being raz-
ed, which will improve that part oi
the lake front and not give the people
coming into the city the idea that
Chicago is out of date, but will in-
press them as to how beautiful Mich-
igan avenue is.

The advertising campaign designe |
to increase the consumption of poul-
try is already bringing good resvlts,
according to local dealers in that ar-
ticle. The campaign has been in oOp-
eration only a few weeks. The lower
prices in poultry, together with the
advertising of the fact that poultry
in comparison is a cheap food, has
done much to increase consumption.
The danger in the situation lies in the
fact that the strong movement of
poultry is likely to cause operators
to seek to force prices upward, This
would at once check the demand. it
is feared, and undo all the good work
which has been done. The advertis-
ing campaign would also be nullified,
since the people would find, on seek-
ing to buy, that the price of poultry
was not “as advertised.” The heavy
stock of dressed poultry had been
considered something of a menace.
and now that the public is buying
liberally it is believed that the situa-
tion will soon reach what can be term-
ed an even keel.

Charles A. Reattoir.

E. R, Webber, who recently pur-
chased the I. M. Smith Co. depart-

ment store at public auction, is clos-

‘ing out the grocery stock and fixtures

with a view to discontinuing that
part of the business altogether. He
will also replace most of the fixtures

in the other departments with new
fixtures and, as soon as the junk in
the present stock is closed out, he
will add new stock and continue the
business on a larger scale than it
has been conducted in the past.

Sharlie M. Berman, buyer for the
Berman Department Store, at Kings-
ton, was in the city most of last week
placing orders for furniture and fur-
nishing goods. This is his fifth sea-
son in the Grand Rapids furniture
market. He placed his order for holi-
day goods with H, Leonard & Sons
for the first time in the history of the
store, finding the line ahead of his
expectations.

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Rates $1.00 and up
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July 25, 1917

 

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DAY

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FARE—$3.00 one way
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Graham & Morton Line

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Boat Train CONNECTING

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT

June 30, 1917

Merchants Life Insurance Company

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Mortgage Loans on Real Estate.

ADMITTED ASSETS
daa $2,003,468.09

Policy Loans and Premium Notes........ 52,269.91

Bonds ......

(Within Reserve)
8 ...... 32,965.00

Oe i a....................:.....- 249,070 71
Interest Due and Accrued........... ae. 49,451.04
Net Uncollected and Deferred Premiums. 84,026.90

Total Admitted Assets .......... i

 

.. $2,471,351 65
LIABILITIES

Ee a ee . $1,956,758.41
Claims in Process of Adjustment ......... 32,502 00
Premiums Paid in Advance........... 2. 33,771 18
ee see FOr Eames ........ 0. eens ccuees 9,211 52
AM Other Liahiiitics..................:.. a 3,928.97
Cia ............... $400,000.00

Surplus .....

aa, cayascs  Seyke? Dd

Surplus to Policyholders . De case. 435,179 57
TO cei cine ee. Danes 2,471,351.65

Total Insurance in Force $58,403,744.00

 

 

 

OFFICERS
WILLIAM A. WATTS, President CLAUDE HAMILTON, Vice President
_ JOHN A. McKELLAR, Vice President CLAY H. HOLLISTER, Treasurer RELL S. WILSON, Secretary
DIRECTORS

LEWIS H. WITHEY, Pres. Michigan Trust Co., Grand Rapids, STUART E. KNAPPEN, Attorney, Kleinhans, Knappen & Uhl,
Mich. Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLAY H. HOLLISTER, Pres. Old National Bank, Grand WILLIAM A. WATTS, Pres. Merchants Life Insurance Co.,
Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids, Mich.

CHAS. H. BENDER, Vice Pres. Grand Rapids National City JOHN A. McKELLAR, Vice Pres. Merchants Life Insurance
Bank; Pres. City Trust & Savings Bank, Grand Rapids, Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mich. RELL S. WILSON, Secretary Merchants Life Insurance Co.,

HENRY IDEMA, Pres. Kent State Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLAUDE HAMILTON, Vice Pres. Michigan Trust Co., Grand JOHN J. SEERLEY, Attorney, Seerley & Clark, Burlington,
Rapids, Mich. Iowa.

R. W. IRWIN, Vice Pres. Grand Rapids National City Bank; Cc. C. CLARK, Attorney, Seerley & Clark, Burlington, Iowa.
Secretary Royal Furniture Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. J. L. EDWARDS, Pres. Merchants National Bank, Burlington,

WM. H. GAY, Pres. Peoples Savings Bank; Pres. Berkey & lowa.

Gay Furniture Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

FRED J. KUHLEMEIER, Burlington, Iowa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 
 

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Leonard A. Seltzer, De-
troit.
Secretary—Edwin T. Boden, Bay City.
Treasurer—George F. Snyder, Detroit.
Other Members—Herbert H. Hoffman,
Sandusky; Charles S. Koon, Muskegon.

 

Future Meetings—Houghton, August
22 and 23; Grand Rapids, Nov. 20, 21
and 22.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso-

ciation.
President—P. A. Snowman, Lapeer.
Secretary—F. J. Wheaton, Jackson.
Treasurer—E. E. Faulkner, Delton.
Next Annual Meeting—Detroit.

 

Michigan ‘Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As-
sociation.
President—W. F. Griffith, Howell.
Secretary and Treasurer—Walter S.
Lawton, Grand Rapids.

 

 

Board of Pharmacy Makes Important
uling. :

Muskegon, July 23—I am _ sending
herewith what is probably my last
official correspondence in matters of
the Pharmacy Beard. | have taken
pains to present the matter of the
twenty-five year law resolution so
that it will be understood. If you
have not room for the whole article,
you may abridge it as you see fit, only
bringing out the point we wish to
emphasize. We went before the
Legislature with a bill to accomplish
the same thing, but failed to get it
through. Seltzer thought out this
way of accomplishing it. Give him
credit for being “some thinker.”

The Twenty-five Year Law.

Act 403, of the Public Acts of 1913,
was intended to permit the Board of
Pharmacy to register any person as
a Registered Pharmacist who had
been registered for twenty-five years
as an Assistant Pharmacist, or, as
now called, Registered Druggist. The
wording of the law was so ambiguous
through the use of the term “assistant
druggist” that it was interpreted by
many as meaning that any apprentice
or clerk who had worked in a drug
store for twenty-five years might
register as a Registered Pharmacist.

The Board of Pharmacy, accepting
this interpretaticn, has registered

many persons whose qualifications as
pharmacists have not been sufficient
to warrant their registration as Reg-
istered Druggists even. The present
Board of Pharmacy, having obtained
information from the legislator who
originally introduced the bill that it
was never designed to apply to any
one except registered persons, adopt-
ed the following preamble and resolu-
tion at its meeting in June. An opin-
ion has been obtained from the At-
torney General that the point is well
taken and that the action of the Board
is entirely in accordance with the
law:

Whereas—In the original pharmacy
law of 1885, being Act 134, PublIc
Acts of 1885, there were recognized
two classes of pharmacists, Register-
ed Pharmacists and Registered As-
sistant Pharmacists; and

Whereas—In 1905 this Act was
amended and the term Assistant
Pharmacist was changed to Register-
ed Druggist; and

Whereas—The terms Druggist and
Pharmacist are used interchangeably
and are commonly considered synon-
ymous; and

Whereas—The term Assistant
Druggist has never been legally de-
fined; and

W hereas—The term Assistant
Pharmacist has been legally defined;
and

Whereas—As a result of being un-
defined, the term Assistant Druggist,
as used in Act. 403, Public Acts ot
1913, may be interpreted in such a
manner as to entirely nullify the
pharmacy law; therefore be it

Resolved-That the Michigan State
Board of Pharmacy, by authority
given it in Sec. 4, of Act. 134, Public
Acts of 1885, as amended, accept the
legal definiticn of Assistant Pharma-
cist of the original Act and the legal
definition of Registered Druggist in
the same Act, as amended, as the
legal definition of Assistant Druggist
mentioned in Act 403, Public Acts of
1913. Charles S. Koon, Sec’y.

 

 

The Board of Pharmacy has had
many secretaries—capable, incapable
and otherwise—but none has been
more painstaking in his work than
Mr. Koon, who has always held him-
self in readiness to respond to every
call in the line of his duty to the
soard, no matter how trivial or ex-
acting the demand might be. Mr.
Koon has been especially courteous
to the Tradesman during the years
he has served on the Board and acted
as Secretary, for which the Tradesman
desires at this time and in this con-
nection to express its appreciation and
extend its hearty thanks.

>>
New Registered Pharmacists and

Registered Druggists.
Muskegon, July 26—The following
candidates were successful at the ex-
amination held June 20-22, 1917:
Registered Pharmacist.
Barr, Blanche, Battle Creek.
Butland, Frank J., Detroit.
Buttykay, E., Detroit.
Cross, Don V., Minerva, O.
Gaudy, Harold A., Ypsilanti.
Gruver, Harry W., Detroit.
Heustis, L. C., Colorado
Colorado.
Hinds, Wm. E. R., Saginaw.
Larke, R. A., Rogers.
Luke, C. E., Sturgis.
Lawrence, Henry, Marine City.
Lillotte, L. L., Pinconning.
Mayo, Edw. D., South Haven.
Millman, H, F., St. Johns.
Milkolasek, C. F., Detroit.
Osborne, H. A., Genoa.
Saurman, Earl, Grand Rapids.
Stage, Walter, Sturgis.
Shilson, Leon J., Traverse City.
Wilson, Wm. R., Ann Arbor.
sruce, Calvin, Detroit.
Crippo, Jas. J, G., St. Charles.
DeLaney, Leo B., Detroit.
Lelyaniles, Alex., Detroit.
Drugociu, Nicholas, Detroit.
Evans, Orlie C., Detroit.
Force, Wm. G., Columbiaville.
Harroun, Geo. A., Kalamazoo.
Huntley, C. G., Springport.
Johnson, Paul S., Ironwood.
Moreau, Wm. T., Detroit.
Nichols, Amy Lucy, Detroit.
Reed, Howard B., Mt. Pleasant.
Torrey, Alvah E., Armada.
Whiting, O. J., Port Huron.
Wolohan, L, J., Detroit.
Registered Druggist
Barbarin, Rhea E., Freeland,

Springs

Bennett, Neil E.. New Haven.
Beattie, Marie O., Kalamazoo.
Carr, Earl R., Rudyard.
Campbell, J. C., Belleville.
Crysler, E. W., Ft. Collins, Col.
Crandell, H, C., Manistee.
Dorland, Lloyd, Marlette.
Friedrich, R. L., Detroit.
Ferguson, M. K., Adrian.
Green, Wilfred R., Detroit.
Holmgren, F. W., Ishpeming.
Haase, Frank C., Owosso.
Henderson, B., Newberry,
Johnson, Andw. V., Muskegon.
Knoob, Wm., Detroit.
Maulbetsch, John, Ann Arbor.
Milner, Jos. I., Detroit.
Romeyn, Dick, Holland.
Rehor, Fred L., Hastings.
Reveno, Wm. S., Detroit.
Schwerdtfeger, A, H.,
Springs.

Snyder, Claude H., Detroit.

Smiley, Granger M., Ann Arbor.

Train, Alger J., Flint.

VanLoo, Abram, Zeeland.

Woodward, Merle M., Ann Arbor.

Walker, Graham R. Cheyenne, Wyo.

Wangberg, Ingwald, Ishpeming.

Wistrand, W. H., Menominee.

Buelow, Raymond P., Detroit.

Charles S. Koon, See’y.
Why “Concurrent” Should Be Ta-
booed.

Detroit, July 23—In looking through
the Tradesman of July 18, in an ar-
ticle under the heading “Use your own
form” we note that you advised a
manufacturer in Kalamazoo that his
policies were invalid because of the
presence of the word “concurrent.”

Your article does not state in what
connection the word concurrent was
used in the policies referred to, but
as the clause “Other concurrent in-
surance permitted” has been incor-
porated in insurance forms since time
immemorial we are curious to know
if it is this use of the word that in-
validated the policies referred to, and

if so upon what court decision is your
opinion based?

' Edson, Moore & Co.
Replying to the above enquiry the

Tradesman begs leave to state that its
determination to abolish the word
“concurrent” in fire insurance riders
is not based on any court decision,
but on the claim of every insurance
adjuster who is called upon to settle
a loss where the insured is not over
bright or financially strong, In such
cases the first thing the adjuster says
is, “Your policies are void, because
they are not concurrent.”

If he is able to make any impression
on the insured by this talk, he next
intimates that perhaps he can per-
suade the companies to pay 25 or 50
per cent. of the loss, purely as a
gratuity. Most adjustments of small
mercantile losses nowadays are done
by adjustment bureaus. You probably
are familiar with the kind of men these
adjustment bureaus employ to do
this work. If you don’t know, any
retail merchant who has ever had a
fire can quickly inform you. If the
adjustment bureaus were not owned
by the fire insurance officials, the sit-
uation would not be so bad; but it
is almost absolutely impossible to se-
cure independent action along hon-
orable lines from the insurance com-
panies when the settlements are once
placed with the bureaus, because of
the graft there is through the vicious
ownership of the bureaus, which are
a ring within a ring, thus represent-
ing the epitome of a craft, selfishness
and criminality. Insurance officials
admit that the word “concurrent”
means nothing and that it is incor-
porated and retained in the riders
solely as a catch phrase to entrap

liarbor

July 25, 1917

the unwary. It does not add anything
to the security of the policy holder,
It is used solely to further an evil
purpose and no policy holder should
permit such a vicious trap to be laid
for him to accomplish his undoing in
the event of a loss by fire.

22.
Fire Insurance That Does Not Insure.
Say City, July 26—The stock fire
insurance companies are, apparently,

paying few losses nowadays unless
compelled to do so by the courts.

It is pretty tough on a merchant to
pay the present exorbitant rates for
fire protection and then have to hire
a lawyer and face heavy court costs
in order to enforce his rights, but that
seems to be the only course open to
many men who patronize stock com-
panies.

Goldberg & Berner, grocery and
meat dealers, who conduct a_ store
on Columbus avenue and who had a
branch store in Salzburg until last
January, when it was burned, have
commenced suits against five insur-
ance companies to collect the insur-
ance on the burned stock. The de-
fendants are the Continental Fire In-
surance Cc., the Commercial Union
Fire Insurance Co., the Atlas Assur-
ance Co,, the Minneapolis Fire &
Marine Insurance Co. and the Ger-
man lire Insurance Co., and $1,600 ts
claimed to be due from each of these
concerns,

The plantiff’s store in Salzburg was
burned on January 24 and they claim
a loss of $12,000 and allege that none
of the companies carrying insurance
on the stock have complied with the
terms of their policies and adjusted
the loss. James Donnelly is the at-
torney for the plaintiffs.

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I could have a new spring hat.
Hubby—And if you would live on
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Paris

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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 'aw, as follows:

00 labels, 25 cen‘s

200 labels, 40 cents

500 labels, 75 cents
1000 labels. $1.00

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Labels sent postage prepaid
where cash accompanies or-
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through any jobbing house at
the Grand Rapids market.
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Company
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

July 25, 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

Baskets
Canned Apples
Hominy

Sait

Starch

 

 

 

Ammonia

Baked Beans ........
Baking Powder ......
Bath Brick
Bluing
Breakfast Food
Brooms
Brees 2.5L as.

Candles
Canned Goods
Catsup
Cheese
Cnewme Gum ...--..+
Chocolate
Cigars
Clothes Lines
OR cc ee
Cocoanut

 

Cr sae ls 3.

Confections
Cream Tartar

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Dried Fruits .........

Farinaceous Goods
Fishing Tackle
Flavoring Extracts
Flour and Feed
Fruit Jars

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Gelatine
Grain Bags

Herbs
Hides and Pelts
Horse Radish
Honey

Jelly
Jelly Glasses .........

Mapleine
Meats, Canned
Mince Meat
Molasses
Mustard

Pp
Petroleum Products .
Pickles
Pipes
Playine Cards ........
Potash

Rice

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Ss
Salad Dressing ......
Rereretue ............
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Seed Pee ke eueeee
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Snuff
Soap
Soda
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Starch

 

Vinegar

Ww
Washing Powders ....
Wicking
Woodenware
Wrapping Paper .....

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Pettijohns Bear Food

 

 

 

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AR Clams
<r Little Neck, 1 Ib. .... 1 45
2 0z. ovals, 2 doz. box 2 00 Clam Boulllon
AXLE GREASE Burnham’s % pt. .... 2 25
Frazer’s Burnham’s pts. ...... 3 75
1Ib. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00 Burnham’s ats. ...... 7 60
1m. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 35 Corn
3%%b. tin boxes, 2 dz. 4 25 Pair ...6.2... peeee
10%. pails, per doz. See: Goapd .... i... 1 85
15tb. pails, per doz. 7 20 FANCY . oo icsccecces
25m. pails, per doz. ..12 00 French Peas
BAKED BEANS Monbadon (Natural)
e Per G08. ....5c esses
No. 1, per doz. ....... 1 35
No. 2, per doz... 2 25 caf —
No. : pect es or oO. i. wee eee oe 6
. pking tee — NG. 2; FAnRey 2. ck cose
ae Hominy
English .............. ~ eee ............ 1 20
BLUING Lobster
Jennings’ a ID. 526... peeueee cee 2 OO
Condensed Pearl Bluing We MS oc ce cess cus. 3 10
Small, 3 doz. box .... 195 Picnic Flat | Seeeen eo -- 8
Large, 2 doz. box .... 2 40 Mackerel
Folger’s Mustard, 1 Ib. ....... i 80
Summer Sky, 6 oz., Mustard, 2 lb. ....... 2 80
Der Gon ¢ oc. 45 Soused, 1% Ib. ...... 1 60
Summer Sky, 12 oz., Soused, 2 ib. ......... 75
per apz. §.,. . 5... 85 Tomato, 1 Ib. ........ 1 50
BREAKFAST FOODS Tomato, 2 Ib. ....... 2 80
sear Food, Pettijohns 2 90 Mae. 30
Cracked pi iest. 24-2 ..450 Buttons, Is ........., 50
Cream o eat .... 7 50 4600
Cream of Rye, 24-2 .. Hotels, 168 .......:. -- @44
Quaker Puffed Rice .. 4 30 Oysters
Quaker Puffed Wheat 430 Cove, 1 Ib. ........ @1 20
Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 190 Cove, 2 Ib. ......... @1 80
Quaker Corn Flakes .. 2 60 Plums
Washington Crisps .. 230 Plums .......... 1 50@2 00
5

Wheptena 6... ocscn.
Evapor’ed Sugar Corn

Grape Nuts ......... 2 85
Sugar Corn Flakes .. 2 50
Holland Rusk ........ 3 80

Krinkle Corn Flakes ..2 80
Mapl-Flake, Whole

WVRPRE o.oo cee lee 4 05
Minn. Wheat Food .. 6 50
Ralston Wheat Food

Large, 18s
Ralston Wht Food 18s 1 95
Ross’s Whole Wheat

Biscwit . occ ccsceecs
Saxon Wheat Food .. 4
Shred Wheat Biscuit 4 00
STInCUEE, 18 5. 44...
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 2
?ost Toasties, T-2 .. 3
Post Toasties, T-3 .. 3 30
Post Tavern Porridge 2

BROOMS
Fancy Parlor, 25 lb. ..

7
Parlor, 5 String, 25 Ib. 7 25
Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 7 00
Common, 23 ib. ...... 6 50
Bnerial, 23 tb. ......- 25
Warehouse, 23 Ib. .... 8 00
Common, Whisk ...... 1 30
Fancy, Whisk ........ 1 75
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. .... 76
Solid Back, 11 in. .... 95
Pointed Ends ........ 85
Stove -
ne, 8... pie cceheee-
1D. gece ee see 1 26
No. ns: piee cesses 1 75
Shoe a.
Se 1 30
MWe 8 2 se 1 70
Me. 8 ice eee 1 90

BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 25c¢ size .. 2 00

CANDLES
Paraffine, GB ........
Paraffine, 128 ....+... 11
WEUCKIDR oii cs ees ees 20

CANNED GOODS
Apples
3 lb. Standards .. @1 10
me: 20 ocicic ese @3 90

Slackberries
PID. oo eis ee cs 2 00
Standard No. 10 .. @7 25

Beans
Baked ......2.s 1 25@2 25
Red Kidney .... 1 25@1 35
String ..... ++... 1 50@2 00
UGE cece nce 50

Biueberrles
PRNIRI g oven cce ste 1 40

ao. 1 Peek at elceee 72

Pears In Syru 7.
No. 3 can, per dz. ” @3 00

Peas
Marrowfat ...... 1 25@1 35
Early June .... 1 50@1 60
Early June siftd 1 60@1 75
eee

PaO eee ee 1 25@1 50

No. 10 size can pie @3 75
Pineapple

- 1 75@2 10

1 45@8 6

Pumpkin

Grated
Sliced

 

Raspberries
No. 2, Black Syrup .. 1 60
No. 10, Black ........ 7 00
No. 2, Red Preserved 2 50
No. 16, Red, Water .. 7 25
Salmon
Warrens, 1 Ib. Tall ..
Warrens, 1 lb. Flat .. 3 25
Red Alaska ........
Med. Red Alaska .... 2 40
Pink Alaska ...... -.. 2 00
Sardines
Domestic, 48 ........
Domestic, % Mustard 6 00
Domestic, % Mustard 5 50
Norwegian, %s .... 11@16
Portuguese, %s ....22@30
Sauer Kraut
NG. & ORNS ..<--cs-s6 2 4D

INO. 10, CAME ocoscscces
Shrimps

Dunbar, 1s doz.

Dunbar, 1%s doz, ....
Succotash

ces. 2 oe
2 40

Fair eevreeeeaeeese
Good ....
Fancy
Strawberries.

Standard ...... eeeecuene Oe
Fancy .....+ pébecesesu BOP

Tomatoes
MO, 2 .. oie estes 1 65
ROO. Bos coed aco kes 2 00
NG, BD oo cic cecesscace 6 75

Tuna
Case

Ys, 4 doz. in case ....4 >

%s, 4 doz. in case ....7 5
1s, 4 doz. in case ....10 00
TSUP
Snider’s % pints ...... 1 50
Snider’s pints ....... 2 60
CH SE @2
OE . 5s soso ces >
Carson City @26
UOC cc eaeeusds @26
Leiden .......... @
Limburger ...... @29
Pineapple ...... 1 26@1 35
WO Ghee es 1 80
Sap Sago ........
Gwins, Domaatic %

3

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack .... 62

 

Adams Sappota ....... 70
Beeman’s Pepsin ..... 62
Beechnut ............ -. 60
ROMMCIOIS oe - 133
Doublemint ........... . 64
Flag Spruce ......... - 62
Hershey Gum .......... 48
Juley Sruit 2.2.5... 5,. 64
Sterling Gum Pep. .. 62
Sterling 7-Point ....... 62

Spearmint, Wrigleys .. 64
Spearmint, 5 box jars : 20
Spearmint, 6 box jars 3 85

WeCAtTAN oe os. 62
MONO 3s oe... bocce OM
Smith Bros. Gum ..... 62

Wrigleys 5 box lots .. 61
Oo. K. Gum 75

CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.
German's Sweet ....... 24
Preminim .............. 35
Caracas ...:........ .. 28
Walter M. Lowney Co.
Premium, %g .......... 35
Premium, %s ..... a2. 2D
CLOTHES LINE

Per doz.

No. 40 Twisted Cotton 1 30
No. 50 Twisted Cotton 1 70
No. 60 Twisted Cotton 2 20
No. 80 Twisted Cotton 2 40
No. 50 Braided Cotton 1 75
No. 60 Braided Cotton 2 00
No. 80 Braided Cotton 2 50
No. 50 Sash Cord .... 2 50
No. 60 Sash Cord .... 3 00

No. 6) Jute ....... 25. 1 25
No. 72 gute ....-....; 1 40
No. 60 Sisal ....;.....; 1 30

Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 00
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
COCOA
BAKOrR 5.8. bess. lcs lee
Cleveland ..........-...
Colonial, %s
ae 6s

—.......,.......
Harshers, ys ..
Hershey’s, %s
Huyler

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LOwWney, 8 .........->
Lowney, %s
Lowney, 8 .......... 37
Lowney, 5 lb. cans .... 37
Van Houten, %s ...... 12
Van Houten, %s ...... 18
Van Houten, \s ...... 36
Van Houten, Is ........ 65
WOR os ok acess 36
WVG@RD ..5-2..2-2.55 a |
NVGQRED,. 48 .o0i.2 2s ce 33
Wiper, US ........-.6- $2
COCOANUT
Dunham’s per lb
igs, & ib, case .........- 32
1448, 5 ID. CABO ......-. 81
%s, 15 Ib. case ........ 31
168, 15 lb. case ........ 30
is 15 iD. GCAaee ....--..- 29
%s & %s, 15 lb. case .. 30
5 and 10c pails ..... 4 00
Bulk, pails ..... toa ee
Bulk, barrels ........ 1814
Baker’s Brazil Shredded

70 5c pkgs., per case 2 80
36 10c pkgs., per case 2 80
16 10c and 33 5c pkgs.,
Her COBC ...1..2256 2
Bakers Canned, doz. .. 95

COFFEES ROASTED
Rlo

   

Common ......+.5.>5 19

WARE oc eee eee es 19%

MOOD oo cccsee esc 20

POY occ eco e cnc ns 21

ROADAITY 2 eccc os sees

Santos

Common .......... <b. oe

2 Seee cae 20%

ROIOB: 5 piece cccaes o> 21

OT eo cae eto a 23
23
24

COICO 2 a eee 25

Mexican
ey ee 25
Pema 5.4. sacs 26
Guatemala
RID oe ee aac e ea 25
PO oosc eo cok sss 28
Java

Private Growth .... 26@30

Mandling

MO oo ca es

Short Bean

Lo Bean

H. oO.

EP eco eet eee

Pancy .....-

 

cy 26
Exchange Market. Steady
Spot Market, Strong

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McLaughliin’s XXXX

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

Extracts

Holland. % gro. bxs. 95
Felix, % gross ...... 1 15
Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43

CONDENSED MILK
Carnation, Tall ......6 20
Carnation, Baby ..... 6 10

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Hebe, Tall .......... 0
Hebe, Baby .......... 5 00
CONFECTIONERY

Stick Candy Pails
Horehound .......... 15
Stantand ... oo. G. 15
Standard, Small ......16
Twist, Small 6 cea eas 16

Cases
oanbo 3.2... 16
Jumbo, Small .. -- 16%
ig Stick . ooo 16
Boston Sugar Stick .. 18
Mixed Candy
ails
Broken .,........ sco. 40
ut Goat... . 63. | ea

French Cream .. . 16
eroeers oo...

Kindergarten ........ 17
Header (20... 8. pe 4D
Monarch ....... Secces 1A
Novelty ......... bobo e sae
Paris Creams ........ 17
Premio Creams ..... 19
BROVAL occ e cece esse ce 42
Special .........0¢. Secs a8
Valley Creams ....... 17
~ iO... cece saa ae
Specialities
Pails
Auto Kisses (baskets) 17
Bonnie Butter Bites ..21
Butter Cream Corn .. 19
Caramel Bon Bons .. 18
Caramel Croquettes .. 17
Cocoanut Waffles .... 16
Cotty Toffy ........:: 19
National Mints 7 Ib tin 22
Fudge, Walnut ...... 18
Fudge, Choco, Peanut 17
Fudge, White Center 16
Fudge, Cherry ....... - 16
Fudge, Cocoanut .... 17
Honeysuckle Candy .. 18
Iced Maroons ..... occ 18
Iced Gems .......... 18
Iced Orange Jellies .. 16
Italian Bon Bons .... 15
Jelly Mello ........... 15
AA Licorice siiasat
B ib, box .....,. 50
Lozenges, Pep. ...... 17
Lozenges, Pink ..... ~ at
MaAnCnus .....552--50 16
Molasses Kisses, 10
8D, OX os ecccsecass 48
Nut Butter Puffs .... 16
Star Patties, Asst. .. 17
Chocolates Pails
Assorted Choc. ...... 19

Amazon Caramels .. 20

ChAMpION ........... 18
Choc. Chips, Eureka ..24
CUA 2... cles 18
Eclipse, Assorted .... 19
Ideal Chocolates ..... 19

Klondike Chocolates ..24

IIADODS 62. ca eee. ee 24
Nibble Sticks ........ 26
Nut Wafers .......... 24
Ocoro Choc Caramels 22
Peanut Clusters ...... 27
Quintette ......... see
ROPING ooo ec ac es pe at
Star Chocolates ...... i8

Superior Choc. (light) 19

Pop Corn Goods
Without prizes.
Cracker Jack with
COUPON ......664-25. 3 50
Cracker-Jack Prize .
Checkers Prize ...... 3 75

Cough Drops

B
Putnam Menthol ....
Smith Bros.

NUTS—Whole

Almonds, Tarragona 21
Almonds. California
soft shell Drake
Brazils
ROUNDER oo sea ca.
Cal. No. 1S. S.
Walnuts, Naples
Walnuts, Grenoble ..
Table nuts, fancy 13@14

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ee neee

Pecans, Large ptaccee
Pecans, Ex. Large
Shelled

No. 1 Spanish Shelled
Peanuts ..... 6 @16%
Ex Lg. Va. Shelled

Peanuts ...;... 17@18
Pecan Halves ...... @80
Walnut Halves .... @654
Filbert Meats ...... @42
Almonds ....0. <0. @45

Jordon Almonds on.

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Peanuts
Fancy H P Suns
BAW 26.52.50: 114%4@12%
Roasted’ 14% @13%
H P Jumbo
Raw ..25..55 134% @13%
Ronaten vcs e 144@14%

CREAM TARTAR

Barrels or Drums .... 58

Square Cans 2.......... 62

BOSOS bs oes acess 57

Fancy Caddies ......... 70

DRIED FRUITS

Apples

Evap’ed Choice blk... @13

Evap’ed Fancy blk @
Apricots

California .......... @25
Citron

Corsican: .3... 060.555. cc ee
Currants

Imported, 1 Ib. pkg. ..19

Imported, bulk ....... 18%

Peaches
Muirs—Choice, 25 Ib. .. 12
Muirs—Fancy, 25 Ib. .. 13
Fancy, Peeled, 25 Ib. ....

Peel
Lemon, American ..... 20
Orange, American ...... 21
Ralsins

Cluster, 20 cartons ..
Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr.
Loose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 8%
L. M. Seeded, 1lb 10%@10%

Callfornia Prunes

90-100 25 lb. boxes ..@10
80- 90 25 lb, boxes ..@10%
70- 80 25 Ib. boxes ..@11%
60- 70 25 Ib. boxes ..@12%
50- 60 25 Ib. boxes ..@13
40- 50 25 Ib. boxes ..@15

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
California ice eae 11%
Med. Hand Picked ....
Brown Holland

Farina
25 1 lb. packages .... 2 50
Bulk, per 100 lb. 9

Original Holland Rusk
Packed 12 rolls to container
3 containers (40) rolls 3 80

Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sack .... 5 75

Maccaronl! and denies
Domestic, 1 Ib. box ..
Imported, 25 Ib. box ...

Pearl Barley
Onester 26.0). 6 50
Portage ...5....... 6.

Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu. 7 00
Split, Ib. %

eoecoecseccce

8ago
East India

poses sass 15
German, sacks ........ 15
German, broken pkg.
Taploca
Flake, 100 lb. sacks ... 15
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks ... 15
Pearl, 36 pkgs. .....,

FISHING TACKLE

me t0 tin... co.cc e
Mi tO 2 im... 7
Mm to 2 im: . 65.52... 9
1% to 2 in.
2 in.
3 in.

eres eseoseeceeeses 2

Cotton Lines

No. 1, 10 feet ........ 6
No. 2, 16 feast ...:.... 7

 

No. 6, 15 feat ....,... 18
No, 7, 15 feet ........ $5
No. 8, 15 feet

No. 9, 15 feet

Linen Lines
Oe ce y ins | 20
Medium 26.6.6. , 26
LOTR ee ee 34
Poles

Kamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 56
Bainhoo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Bamhoo, 18 ft., per doz. 80

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Jennings D C Brand
Pure Vanilla

No. 1, % 02. .....:2505 8
No. _ 1M OF. yuGc. 1 35
No. 4, 2% O08. 2) 5.,;.; 2 40
No. . 2% oz. Taper ..2 25
2 og, Fiat .....<... . 2 00
Terpeneless
Pure Lemon

No 1, % oz. Panel .. 85
No 2, 1% oz. Panel .. 1 20
No 4, 2% oz. Panel .. 2 25
No. 3, 2% oz. Taper 2 00
2 of Fiat ........, eee 2:00

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Puri Wint — eS Jell 8
fail oe Assorted ny
ee ek 13 80 —- fae oe 3 doz. - lb. pails 9
Wiza talam ... 15 range ight) .... 2 85 - oe
rd. G oo «6 (Str: % 5 pails van
Wizard Gran. Meal 13 0 aspber aight) .... 2 85 Ib. pai advance %
Rye. Houete cnt 00 ora perry (Straight) 3 ee #1. pals -:tadvanes 7 7. Mackerel 10
woeteee es ci olat raigh 5 -. advan Mesa. 100 29
Vaile te eeeee 00 Choco e (Stra ght) 2 8 Ha Smoke ce 1 ess, Ibs. .
Lily a Mi 12 50 Peach (S Gay 2 $B a ie16 Mente — 10 Ihe. ......, 1860 Form Cut
Light oo SS J (Straight) 285 12 - ie oe ee Mess, 8 Ibs’ oe Formosa, Mediux
pia iatead stoners: Pgon ell-O ice C Fin 18 ma 18-20 Lg 21 on No. 1. g be, ae: 1 85 were oo * 26@28
Sane re ig1o0. «(AS ream P oats dried bee: 20% @2 No. 1 rm i. _- ¥ 56 . Fancy _: 8203 s
Granena Health... 5 ssort owde ets . ef 1 No. Po 1 En y.. 6 Al mok
Hoe, Meal ee 50 Ghocalee Case ply California Ham 2 1, 101 sored a Congou” Me Break 50@60 All Leaf -
iran. Meal ......... 56) an a Tene a : pee eee 9 @30 8610 120, Toe, se. 650 Congou, Choice wee on we
Seal ee illa trai 85 Boi 8 21 0 Ib H * u, Choice %4 7
Wateon-Higgin il _5 20 Vanilla. (Straight). | a 98 ony {9 ° erring Congou, so s %@30 BB, ft oo oa
ew Perf ggins Millin 5 10 Lemon Try (Strai ween oe 85 ee a 19% 10 ihe ce eal 4 0 ongou, m * ” 30@35 nt 14 oz ey 8 00
Tip ‘Top on ne Ce. Lemon (Straight). cS teen lama .. 33 ox Q Ibs. eee sere 235 Pek c Fancy 60080 Gade: eal “
ea oS . tratghi) 2 oe oe i. Mela” a) Badger, 1 on. 00
Marshalls cot ao 13 25 p sails ee x sm 3 Ose Anise SEEDS 54 = 2 ie oe P Bie antes 5 04
ee 5 1 oe t or As hea ss anary, Smyrn: owery 0. P. Far -- ssqs0 8 Ot, Meo scce, 5%
Rye .... Wisconsin o 2 ian cen as eonted aoe ay emilee Caraway myrna .... . P. Fancy 30@35 Banner, 400 Pigs. 5 76
Word se aeeeess Seven Fi per 4 doz. .. 115 rankfort ....... sooo 18 Cardomon, Malat crease 8 TOBA 40@50 Bi wood, Mixture, «3 &
Q en G .. 1200 «Stra lavors: - .. 4 Pork fas eeeee Cel on, Malabar 15 Bl F cco ig Chi tutuea 16 8 2
uak rocer wher 3s: R 60 aac ery . alabar ot Ine Bi ef, re, 1 @
Cus paper Co. Orange ra Chene Penn coos 17 Hace isles 1 20 Bugle, iin | Cut Bu Chief, a4 oz. “ 3
weer, tou as IELLY ¢ Bineeopte. Mined Bird 00 Baal, ie oe Durtiam, Seo... * fo
Wo NG gta % pt. i Y GL : Mustard, white .. oe ugle, 0c... 459 Bull urham, l0c. “sa
hee eee Go 2 Ot im el ae oppy . i... 9 Da atch, 8 and 16 “na a ng -- 5 86
Siena ws . s. POPPY veeeeeseeeesee . 2 co i. 16 f=? am -+ 10
peice Eagle er Co. 8 P in bbl , per do Bon Be He 0 Dan ch, 4 16 oz. & B urh » 1lbe 80
an Peele ue . Ze S., Z. 25 eles SOI, Henge gic Pat OZ. . . 38 ull D oe, eh
Renertean ol ue + s per oo jo 27 Rump, et 25 00@27 0 Handy Bo BLAGCKING a Fast Mail, 16 a 5. u 63 Buck + is ‘oa a 3 80
4 e, i A ce ° eee oe a Ng , oO ese n, a |.
oo eecawe $M "aia 8 EG al eh ot Bere | ee ee
son eat 0z. b Ss, pe 4, bb reece Miller’ oyal -- 1 y_ Flo 7 <7 4 00 ri pe, & yore
Ceresot Grocer C 16 0 ottles. r doz. 3 \% Is., 40 apanet es er’s Cr Polish 25 No Li wer, 16 cu. & 16 Bl ar Pipe a. <li §2
Canecta, 1s - as on Sa 00 bbls. eat 1% own Pol g5 Nol 4a Har Five, 100 -..... & 76
Hal ape oz. b Ss, per . 1 75 He DBIS. seseeeevereee 34 Scot SNUF ish uimit > ee aR Black war. fa 1
Ceresota, 4s .. 140 ottles dz. 18 ee ee 0 ch, 1 F 85 Osib » 16 suck 2 Swan. 14 7
2 0 once tae ieee ae 600 Mae n blad ane @ 02. a 5 an, 14 oz.
, %S oo 3 Pe NC ee a, ell cabo ders Jib wad 16 on 3 Whi 14 oz. |. 5 76
Wi Worden Grocer ¢ 13 80 <0 0 00 A Deis, a 12 09 French fave 4 a Oj}bwa, ci is ‘oz’ | 40 Carnival, a oe
‘ingold er C ternene 8 Is. meee n jars. etoske and 16 oz. 11 Carnival, $2 oa. 00
w ee O. MOL 45 %™%b Aw Boxe SoD rs .. 4 skey 160 10 arnival, oa
Wingold, 4s cloth 2. Lf Bo wrancy New, Oriean bi AB a oo 8 Bore i § Betoatey Chiet, 1 NA Clear’ Cio ge 8
148 pve Uta 96 Choi Open ar Ho pega 3 00 pliah 5% Red and H , 14 oz 4 30 ‘Nigar Cl ps a 40
“0 + 14 80 Ce ttle .... 60 Boe manda ce All wenn _— % Sher Bell, 20 gaa 76 fone 34 Seymour 30
: ak St ee a + teeeeees spic Ss al by Cleaner -
Golden Granulated .. 10 80 “Half hettehs bs ena 37 Beet, middles, pea uy idan Allspice, Famatca,..2@10 tae D, 5c . 2 10 Sak cee ot 4 30
cere ess otees “ Mecca. Seaaibae hee orn Cake, 35
oe Rot Hen No 2 = gi saree Bre ila ainer FS ate, Genes, 8
Te es Red Hen’ No. s0.2 Cc airy utter! ssia, 5 7... a Swe uba, 10c .... 5 Cr Cake, 20c ...... 3 55
ua ens a 2: a ee ae ore, ee Ginger Af pkg. doz. @20 ae au ta i a pi gg eta tenes 2
Michi ea 2 OB "No. 10 122012 80 Rots 7.1.25 Gunes, teen — oe ae San sere a Cuban’ Sta oa 5 76
eo carl . 5 % Ib. 6 MUSTARD antem on Caen Boe M @27 Mace, Pe ochin .... @15 Psi: Burley 4, Ib. foil 2 re ae eg foil 4 70
ss than ne oe. 92 B "GLivi oe see 2 — Minca: No LT os ooo Sweet Burley, to 5 78 Dilie 0c pails .... yy
te ulk aC 1 oa eef 1 Ib. . 6 6 aA as ' Sw urley Ci teat 1a sess 2 ae
oo ee gue fee = ; ace ae 0 Mixed, 5c. 7 2 aoe: ee Y, 1602.” 5 80 Dills Best. 332 oe
Less in sees Bulk, 2 gal. hace 1 10@ Esp Beef, 2 Ib. 3 49 Nutme 5c pkgs. dz. 16 T eet Mist, % gro. Cte fee West 3% — 79
oe 2 35 poh 5 eal Kean 1 aoe 20 otted ay nT 6 60 ate 70-80. az. @45 Telegram L & of. . ..6 7 Dixie eat. 16 Oz. -
Lo 4a 8 ed, 5 egs 1 ean 1b Flavor , Ham 340 Pe egs, 105-110 .. @35 iger, Be. We co, 1119 Duke’ id, 5 . Li
Ca Ha 49 Stuffed corer * Cue 3 vac ee pper, B 10 .. Tiger, Be .--.-....... 576 PD e’s Mi C sue 78
Carlots sores ao Stuted! $b... 1 as Pasievors ee oe. se Benbers White ax Uncle Be sang 0 8 ae Babee Mixture Be '8
a a eine cnot eee 60 viled Meat, Hat Pencus. tone sees @32 scle Wasee 4 Drum, ameo, ‘5c - “i
ae & a be statenay 50 Wace a ia 100 prika, H ne nicl. 1 os. .. 60 Fr , Se [fe 52
ie Feed t Men ) He r, ¥, m Pu ungari @22 oz. ee ea 4. © 9
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The Only Five Cent Cleanser

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

12

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Sweet Lotus, 5c .... 5
Sweet Lotus, 10c ....
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 ...... 98
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. 1% cut plug 70
Seal N. C. 1% Gran. .. 63
Three Feathers, 1 0z. 48
Three Feathers, 10c 11 52
Three Feathers, and

Pipe combination .. 2 25

Tom & Jerry, 40c .... 4 00
Tom & Jerry, 20c ... 2 00
Tom & Jerry, 3 oz. .._ 76
Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 76

Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags .. 48
Tuxedo, 2 oz. tnis .... 96
Tuxedo, 20C ....eceee. 2 O04
Tuxedo, s5c tins .... 8 15
Union Leader, 5c coli 6 00
Union Leader, 10c

11 52

WO cee bee
Union Leader, ready
ee kg eee
Union Leader 50c box 5 10
War Path, Sc .......- 6 00

War Path, 20c ...... 1 60
Wave Line, 3 oz. ..... 40
Wave Line, 16 oz. .... _ 40
Way Up, 2% oz. .... 5 75

Way Up, 16 oz. pails 36
Wild Fruit, 5c 6

Wild Fruit, 10c
Yum Yom, Sc ........ 76
Yum Yum, 10c
Yum Yum, 1 Ib. doz. 5 40

CIGARS
Peter Dornbos Brands
Dornbos Single
Binder
Dornbos, Perfectos .. 35 00

Dornbos, Bismarck 70 00
Allan D. Grant ..... 65 00
Atlan DBD. ...-5-6--<--6 35 00

Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand
Dutch Masters Club 70 60
Dutch Masters Inv. 70 00
Dutch Masters Pan. 70 00
Dutch Master Grande 65 00
El Portana

Dutch Masters, 5c

Ss. Cc. W.

Gee Jay

Johnson’s Straight

Above five brands are
sold on following basis:
Less than 300 ........ 35 00
300 assorted .........- 35 00
2500 assorted ........ 33 00

3% trade discount on 300
or more.

2% cash discount on all
purchases.

Werden Grocer Co. Brands
Worden’s Hand Made

Londres, 50s Wood .. 33 00
TWINE
Cotton, & By <..----s- 40
Cotton, 4 OY cues ece 40
Je, 2 OI kao oe -s- 25
Bem, 6 ply ......--0- 30
Wiax, medium ......-.. 35
Wool, 1 Ib. bales ...... 17
VINEGAR

White Wine, 40 grain 12
White Wine, 80 grain 17
White Wine, 100 grain 20

Oakland Vinegar & Pickle
Co.’s Brands
Highland apple cider 22
Oakland apple cider .. 17
State Seal sugar ..... 14
Blue Ribbon, Corn ... 12%
Oakland white picklg 12

Packages free.

WICKING
No. 0, per gross ........ 35
No. 1, per gross ....... 45
No. 2, per gross ....... 60
No. 3, per gross ....... 90
WOODENWARE
askets
PES bivg occ cc cee 1 20

Bushels, wide band .. 1 25
Market, drop handle .. 55
Market, single handle 60
Splint, large ........ 4 00
Splint, medium .......
Splint, small 3
Willow, Clothes, large
Willow, Clothes, small
Willow, Clothes, me’m

Butter Pilates
Ovals
¥% Ib., 250 in crate .... 35
% Ib., 250 in crate .... 35

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1 Ib., 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 .. 2 40
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 ....... 35
Case, medium, 12 sets 1 30

Faucets
Cork lined, 3 in. ....... 70
Cork lined, 9 in. ...... 80
Cork lined, 19 in. _..... 90
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring ......... 13

Eclipse patent spring 1 35
No. 1 common 1

No. 2, pat. brush hold 1 35
Ideal, No. 7
12lb. cotton mop heads 1 75

Pails
10 qt. Galvanized .... 3 50
12 qt. Galvanized .... 4 00
14 qt. Galvanized .... 4 50
Fibre <...01.......5.. 4 00
Toothpicks
Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00
a ae 85
Traps
Mouse, wood, 2 hoels .. 22
Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. 45
10 gt. Galvanized .... 1 55
12 qt. Galvanized .... 1 70
14 qt. Galvanized .... 1 90

Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70

Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65

Rat, wood .............. 80

Ral, sore ..o cc: 75
Tubs

No, 1 Fibre .......... 16 50

No. 2 Eibre ....:.... 15 00

No. 3 3bre ....:....- 13 50

Large Galvanized ... 12 50
Medium Galvanized 10 75

Small Galvanized .... 9 50
Washbeards
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
Mxtivereeal 2.4... ..++.5 > 5 00
Wood Bowls
13 im. Butter ........ 75
15 in. Butter ........ 3 15
17 th. Butter ......- - 6 75
19 in. Butter ....... 10 50

WRAPP:NG PAPER
Fibre Manila, white .. 8%
Fibre, Manila, colored
No. 1 Manila .s
Butchers’ Manila .... 8
Kraft 10
Wax Butter, short c’nt 16
Wax Butter, full c’nt 20
Parchm’t Butter, rolls 19

emer were er eeee

YEAST CAKE
Miasic, 3 dor ........ 1 15
Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00
Sunlight, 14%, doz. .... 50

Yeast Foam, 3 doz. .. 1 15
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85

Window Cleaners

i i. |... 3... 1 65
Le ee ae 1 85
AB TR. oo cceccee scan ne - 2 30

   

 
 
   
      

PU aG EL UD

Carlots or local shipments.
bulk or sacked in paper or
jute. Poultry and stock
charcoal

DEWEY — SMITH CO., Jackson. Mch.
Success

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BAKING POWDER
KC

10c, 4 doz. in case .... 95

15c, 4 doz. in case .... 1 40
25ce, 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

- 100
1 45
2 00
2 55
3 95
4 95

23 70

10c size .
4 4b. cans
6 oz. cans
%lb. cans
# %1b. cans
4 1lb. cans ..
4 5ib. cans

 

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SALT

Serre

Morton’s Salt
Per case, 24 2 Ibs. .... 1 80
Five case lots

SOAP
Proctor & Gamble Co.

LONOK occccvssncesne € 70
Evory, © OZ. cecccsesss 0 49
ivory, 10 G%. .2eces5- 9 60
BBP 6 lee ee sc ece -.- 4 60
Swift & Company
Swift's Pride ........ 4 75
White Laundry ...... 4 85
Wool, 6 oz. bars .... 5 15
Wool, 10 oz. bars .... 7 00

Tradesman Company
Black Hawk, one box 3 50
Black Hawk, five bxs 3 45
Black Hawk, ten bxs 3 40

Scouring :
Sapolio, gross lots .. 9 50
Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85
Sapolio, single boxes 2 40
Sapolio, hand ........ 2 40
Scourine, 50 cakes .. 1 80

Scourine, 100 cakes .. 3 50
Queen Anne Scourer 1 80

Soap Compounds
Johnson’s Fine, 48 2 3 25
Johnson’s XXX 100 5c 4 40
Rub-No-More ....... 4 50
Nine O'}CIoCK ........ 3 85

WASHING POWDERS.
Gold Dust

24 large packages ....

100 small packages ..

5 75
5 60

AXLE GREASE

 

1 lb. boxes, per gross 8 70
3 Ib. boxes, per gross 23 10

 

White City
Tip Top

Palm Soap

(Dish Washing)..........-

(Caustic)......------------
No. 1 Laundry 88% Dry.......-----+:seeeeee eee e eres

88% Dry ..-----

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Place an order with your jobber.
factory return same at our expemse.—FITZPATRICK BROS.

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Try them.
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Your customers will DOUBLE YOUR BREAD SALES if you pro-
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31

   

   

BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head for three cents a word the first insertion
continuous insertion.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Store For Sale—General merchandise
store and coal business for sale in a
small town located in an excellent farm-
ing district of Berrien county. Good
business and small expenses. Bargain
if taken at once. Address No. 215, care
Tradesman. 215

 

 

MR. MERCHANT!

Do you want to increase your business?
Do you want to cut down your stock?

Do you want to turn your stock into
cash at a profit?

We can accomplish all this for you in a ten
day advertising and selling campaign.

Write today for information. no obligations.

UNITED SALES CO.
431 Houseman Bldg.
GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

For Sale Or Tracte—First-class meat
market with iceing plant, doing a profit-
able business. Owner is compelled to
look after other business interests. Ad-
dress No. 170, care Michigan Tradesman.

 

170
Wanted—General merchandise, dry
goods or shoe store. Will pay cash.

Price must be reasonable,

Ben Harris,
La Belle, Missouri. 210

 

Sales Conducted—Merchandise
reduced or closed out.
Jackson, Michigan.

stocks
Greene Sales Co.,
13

 

For Sale—Clean stock of shoes and
staple dry goods and men’s furnishings
about $1,800. Can be easily moved. In-
vestigate soon. Ideal proposition. Ad-
dress No. 200, care Tradesman. 200

 

For Sale—Drug store in small town;
also desirable residence. Good opening
for doctor. Write for information. J.
H. Myers & Co,, Ridgeland, Miss. 202

 

For Sale—General country stock and
two-story building on an acre lot located
in a good farming summer resort sec-
tion, established trade, fine chance for a
live man with limited means. Address,
H. M. Atwood, Holland, Mich. 205

 

Cash Registers—Let us
price on rebuilt cash
makes—sizes—styles. Largest used ma-
chine dealers in Michigan. Save you
money, terms to suit. Will exchange for
your machine. The s'. C. Vogt Sales Co.,
215 So. Washington Ave., Saginaw,
Michigan. 158

quote you
registers. All

 

Safes Opened—W. L. Slocum, safe ex-
pert and locksmith. 128 Ann St., N. EB,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 104

 

Cash Buyers of clothing, shoes, dry
goods and furnishings. Parts or entire
stocks. H. Price, 194 Forrest Ave. East,
Detroit. 678

 

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. 187

 

Merchants Please Take Notice! We
have clients of grocery stocks, general
stocks, dry goods stocks, hardware stocks,
drug stocks. We have on our list also a
few good farms to exchange for such
stocks. Also city property. If you wish
to sell or exchange your business write
us. G. R. Business Exchange, 540 House-
man Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. 859

Cash Buyer of clothing, shoes, dry
goods, furnishings and carpets. Parts or
entire stocks. Charles Goldstone, 335
Gratiot Avenue, Detroit. 63

 

Stock of General Merchandise For Sale
—Dry goods, clothing, shoes, ladies and
men’s furnishings and groceries. A busi-
ness that has paid $60,000 in profits in

15 years and can be increased. Good
country town of 1,000. Brick _ store,
20x70 with 14x28 L. Steam heat and
electricity. Stock of $10,000 to $12,000

mostly bought before advanced;
will sell at cost price. Object in selling
to get good tenant for building. Address
S. W. M., care Tradesman. 218

prices

 

For Sale—At 90 cents, clean $3,500 shoe
stock in one of the best towns in Central
Michigan. See Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie
Co., Grand Rapids. 219

 

For Sale—Store in Michigan which paid
35 per cent. on capital stock last year.
We carry a stock of $20,000 dry goods
and ladies ready-to-wear. Population
10,000. A fine chance for the right party.
Part cash required. Address No. 192,
care Michigan Tradesman. 192

 

For Sale—Drug stock, doing business
in J.incoln, residence district, low rent,
small expense. Invoice, $3,400 to $3,700.
Fixtures only one-tenth of invoice. Clean
stock. Good reason for selling. Address
881 No. 27th St., Lineoln, Nebr. 220

 

For Sale—One of the best groceries in
Southern Michigan city of 35,000, doing
upwards of thirty and has the location,
room and foundation for a $45,000 busi-
ness inside of six months. It will take
between $2,000 and $2,500 to buy it. This
is a bang up bargain and takes real
money. No cats and dogs goes. My
health makes me sell. Write or call
Cc. C. James, 1428 Bemis St., Grand
Rapids, Michigan. Citizens phone a

 

For Sale—Fine oak shoe fixtures 190
feet long, 13 feet high, removable shelves,
rolling ladders, Lamson carrier system,
settees and stock cheap. Address J. L.
Merz, Muncie, Indiana. 223

For Sale—General country store at
Winn, Michigan, in the heart of an Al
farming country and a lot of good farm-
ers. ‘Winn is located in the center of a
circle of towns, like the hub of a wheel.
It is 9, 10, 11, 12, 18 and 16 miles to the
other towns. Nine miles to the nearest.
Good territory to draw from. Best loca-
tion in Isabella county for a country
store. Brick store building 32 x 100, with
L 18x50. Good farm house, barn, lots
and teams. Everything to continue the
business. Will sell the real estate or
rent. Expenses cheap. Practically noth-
ing when compared with city expenses.
Stock and fixtures will invoice $13,000.
Doing good business. Come and see it if
you are interested. Act quick for I am
going to sell. B. M. Adams, Winn, Mich-
igan. 224

 

 

Merchants wishing to sell stocks
or a portion of same at an ad-
vantage, should get in touch with
us.

Weickgenants Dept. Store,

Battle Creek, Mich.

 

 

 

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 pay
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

Bakery-Delicatessen—Cantonment here
means splendid opportunity. Box 308,
Battle Creek, Michigan. 222

 

 

For Sale—Stock of merchandise con-
sisting of ladies’ furnishings and mil-
linery located in a busy little town sur-
rounded by good farming country. In-
cluding fixtures will inventory about
$2,000. Address Darke & ies >

Scottville.,

 

For Sale—Old established grocery loca-
tion and meat market on main thorough-
fare in Grand Rapids. Stock and fixtures
will inventory about $6,000. Annual sales,
$70,000. Address No, 225, care Michigan
Tradesman. 225

For Sale—Clean stock of groceries and
crockery in one of the best towns of

 

Michigan. Good location and good trade.

Will invoice about $38,000. 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

HELP WANTED.

 

 

Clerk wanted for country store in
Northern Michigan. Some experience
necessary. Married man ___i preferred.
Wages $50 to $75 according to ability.
Address No. 204, care Tradesman. 204

 

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. 195

No charge less than 25 cents.

and two cents a word for each subsequent
Cash must accompany all orders.

    

 

 

 
 
      
      
      

War Boosts Motor Trucks
Thousands Are in Demand

J. ELMER PRATT, president HIGRADE
MOTORS COMPANY, says 1917 production will
outpoint all records. That the war will help the
motor truck business is a foregone certainty. Europe
with all her facilities and several years production to
start with, found herself shy of motor transportation
by about 9 to 1.

Mr. Pratt, as a veteran in the sales of motorears has
proven his statement by asking for delivery of HI-
GRADE trucks August 1 to fill the call of agencies
already established. The Production Department is
making good its promise to Mr. Pratt on delivery.

Why don’t you, as an investor, take the time to give
this company a serious consideration as to its future
possibilities.

Capital Stock $250,000, all common at $10 par value
per share.

 

 

GLENN H. DOWNES

INDUSTRIAL STOCKS
320, 323 Grand Rapids Phones—Citizens 1511
National City Bank Bldg. Bell, M 3932

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

«

July 25, 1917

 

Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.
Apples—Harvest varieties from the
South command 75c per climax basket
and $1.50 per bu.
Asparagus—Home_ grown
doz.
Bananas—$4.50 per 100 Ibs.
Beets—25c per doz. bunches for home
grown.

$1.10 per

 

Butter—The market is active at prices
ranging the same as last week. The
make is reported to be larger than usual
at this season of the year. The quality
arriving is very good. We are not
likely to experience any change of. any
consequence in the immediate future.
Local dealers hold fancy creamery at
38c in tubs and 38c in prints. Local
dealers pay 33c for No. 1 in jars and
29c for packing stock.

Cabbage—Home grown 90c per bu.
from Arizona
command $3 for 54s and $3.50 for 45s
and 36s; pinkmeats from Arizona, $1.50
per Hats of 12 to 15;
Georgia, $1 per flat.

Carrots—20c per doz.

Cantaloupes—Ponys

pinkmeats from

bunches for
home grown.
Cauliflower—$1.75 per doz.
Celery—Home grown, 35c per bunch.
The quality is improving daily.
Cherries—Early Richmonds
command $1.60 per 16 qt. crate; sweet

(sour)
varieties, $2.25 per crate.
Currants—$1.50 per crate of 16 qts.
Eges—tThe receipts are falling off to
a considerable extent. The quality is
account of the
hot weather. The market is

also depreciating, on
steady
basis as. it
The market is likely
to remain unchanged for another week
at least.

on about the
was last week.

same

Local dealers pay 33c for
fresh, including cases, loss off.

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—t8c per lb. for white clover
and 16c for dark.

Lemons—California selling at $6 for
choice and $6.50 for fancy.

Lettuce—60c per bu. for garden
grown leaf; $1 per hamper for home
grown head.

Limes—$1.25 per 100 for Italian.

Maple Syrup—$1.50 per gal. for pure.

Mushrooms—75c per Ib.

Nuts—Almonds, 18c per Ib.;
i6c per tb.; pecans, 15c per I\b.;

filberts,
wal-
nuts, 16c for Grenoble; 15'%c for Na-
ples.

Onions—Texas Bermudas yellow com-
mand $1.50 for large and $1 for small
crate; Spanish, $1.50 per crate.

Oranges—California Valencias, $4.50
($4.75.

Peas—$1.50 per bu. for home grown.
bells fetch
per climax crate; Georgia Elbertas com-
mand $3 ditto.

Peaches—Georgia $2.75

Peppers—Southern command 50c per
basket.

Pop Corn—$2.25 per bu. for ear, 6%
(@ic per |b. for shelled.

Potatoes—$5 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@@216c; ducks,
Dressed fowls

22@23c. average 3c

above quotations.

CJ

small.
Raspberries+-$2 for red and $1.50 for

, black.

Rhubarb—-Home grown, 75c per 40
Ib. box. co ae

String Beans—$1.25 per bu.

Summer Squash—$2 per bu.

Tomatoes—$4 for 6 basket crate,
Texas; hot house, $1 for 8 lb. basket.

Water Melons—$3 per bbl. of 12 to
14 for Florida.

Wax Beans—$1.25 per bu.

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Proceedings in the Western District ©

of Michigan,

Grand Rapids, suly 18—Charles J.
Worfel, a cigar manufacturer of this
city, has filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy. Adjudication has been
made and George S. Norcross appointed
custédian for the receiver. Appraisers
have been appointed, who have ap-
praised the stock at $248.95. The bank-
rupt’s liabilities amount to $1,264.17,
while his assets are scheduled at $235,
of which $200 is given as stock in trade
assets. The first meeting of creditors
has been called for August 1. Following
is a list of the creditors:

Louis Peters & Co., Detroit .....$ 50.00
Reichert Leaf Tobacco Co., Mil-

WOMKPO 6 kee 275.00
Zuehler Leaf Tobacco Co., Detroit 51.00
A. W. Kaecher & Co., Chicago 100.00
Jorn H Clark, City: 2.5.25...) 200.00
; &. Clear Box Co. City ...... 84.17
Charlies FEF. Worfel, City .......... 35%00
Commercial Savings Bank ........ 150.00

July 19—In the matter of Arthur J.
Thornbury, bankrupt, Ionia, a final meet-
ing of creditors has been held. The
trustee’s final report and account was
approved and allowed and a dividend of
50 per cent. declared and ordered paid.

July 23—In the matter of James Van-
denberg, bankrupt, Big Rapids, a sale
of all of the assets of this estate, except
the bankrupt’s exemptions, was had and
the assets sold to Fred D. Vos for $1,450.
The sale was immediately confirmed.

July 24—Mendel Katz and Louis Katz,
as M. Katz & Son, operating
as the Star Clothing Co., Grand Rapids,
have filed voluntary petitions in bank-
ruptey, including a petition for consid-
eration of an offer of composition to be
made at a meeting of the creditors. The
offer as proposed is 50 per cent. on all
claims not entitled to priority, to be paid
20 per cent. in cash and 30 pex cent.
in notes, payable $500 per month. The
schedules show assets of approximately
$13,400 and the following are listed as
creditors of the bankrupt:

  

Preferred Claims.
July taxes, Monroe avenue store $ 52.32
July taxes. Bridge street store 45.78
Secured iiavilities ..5-5--.5.0 4. 1,000.00

Unsecured Claims.
S. Fein Bros. & Co., Milwaukee $880.13
Ackerman Bros., Milwaukee .... 225.
International Raincoat Co., N. Y. 303.
J. G. Leinbach & Co., Reading, Pa. 216.78
Rosenthal & Goldberg, New York 108.00

Rindge, Kalmbach & Logie, Grand
Ma ee 112.65
Dantzig Clothing Co., New York 48.50
Preston Shirt Company, N. Y. .. 386.06

  

BH. & &. Cohen, New York ...... 450.00
Carson. Pirie Scott Co., Chicago 710.00
Keith Bros. & Co., Chicago -..... 105.00

3urnham, Stoepel & Co., Detroit 43.28
Knickerbocker Knitting Mills,

CHGVGIONIGE ook cee eee 65.00
Cluett Peabody & Co., Chicago .. 50.00
G. R. Shoe & Rubber Co.,

Grand Rapids 287.32

Cohen Himmel & Co., Buffalo ..1,212.50
Schattman Rosenberg & Schattman,

mew York ...1...4.........:. 90.00
Saul Bynes & Co., New York ... 175.00
Buckskin Mfg. Co., Evansville .... 50.00

Marcus & Hochenberg, New Yor 150.00
Fine Hirsch Wolff & Co., N. Y. 200.00
Morris Mover, Youngstown, Ohio 134.00
Samuel Phillipson & Co.. Chicago 250.00
Victor Neckwear Co., Cleveland . 51.00
John V. Farwell & Co., Chicago 350.00
Smith Wallace Shoe Co., Chicago 131.00

Hirshey Rice Mfg. Co., Columbus 126.00
Morganstein & Reiser, Baltimore 264.75
Motor Clothing Co., Baltimore 148.60
Crowley EGros., Detroit ........... 659.28
Welch Mfg. Co., Grand Rapids 56.00

Martin Blumenfeld & Co., N. Y. 600.00

lamson Co, Boston ............: 90.00
Majestic Belt Co., Detroit ........ 113.50
H. Polskin & Son, New York 66.00
A Levy, inc, New York ......., 88.00
Caradine Harnest Hat Co.,

Bt. Towis 22.0.1... .45. 3c: 35.40
Rosen & Herman, New York .... 302.50
Racine Trunk Co., Racine ....... 87.25

Regal Hat Company, Chicago .... 72.00
Reed Tandler Co., Grand Rapids 10.20

Simon & Sacoby, Cleveland ...... 69.00
1. S. Woolen Label Co., N. Y. 39.10

Vanderween & Romyn. Grand Rpds. 16.10
Worlds Best Suspenders, New York 100.00
Young & Gardner Co.. Chicago 51.23
John Thomas Batts, Grand Rapids 13.50

Bray Robinson Curry Woolen
Mills. Lotinsville . ...:.0.70..5; 123.00
The Celluloid Co., Chicago ...... 35.30

Radishes—10c per doz. bunches for

J. Friedman & Co., Chicago .... 160.21
Parrotte McIntyre Co., Chicago © 252.75
L. Heller & Co., Chicago ....... . 12.50
M. L. Stone & Co., New York ... 71.73
Miehigan Garment Co., Greenville 18.00
Troombacher Banov & Co., New York 72.25
Am. Raincoat Co., Cleveland .... 66.00
Commercial Savings Bank, Grand

RADIOS | ica cies a ee se .- 3,800.00
G. R. Herald, Grand Rapids ..... 25.00
G. R. Press, Grand Rapids ...... 13.60
G. R. News, Grand Rapids ........ 75.00
De Standaard Pub. Co., Grand

ORS ee ee ae sp ee nse 53.50
De Grondevet, Grand Rapids ...... 18.00
Calvinist Pub. Co., Grand Rapids 15.00
Dunn Electric Co., Grand Rapids 53.58
Zevalkink Transfer Co., Grand

UN ck eas wee en's Se ea,”
Mich. St. Car Adv, Co., Grand

BAOIGS 0.6 oo se soso we sn koe 39.25
Cc. W. Mills Paper Co., Grand

iis 2 ce ee ae 4 00

White Printing Co., Grand Rapids 5.00
Chas. A. Cove, Grand Rapids 12.30
Observer, Grand Rapids 10.00
Mary Angrist Katz, Grand Rapids 425.00
G. A. Wolf, Grand Rapids ...... 166.00

$15,343.09

2 ————_
Jottings From Jaunty Jackson.
Jackson, July 24—Jackson has the

largest wheel works in the world. :
Jackson has the largest rim_ tfac-
torv in the werld.
The Mott Wheel Works will be
running in full force here in the next

-few weeks.

The prison has made arrangements
to take all the surplus vegetables and
fruits the growers may have and can
them in unlimited quantities.

John D. Riley, the East Main street
grocer, says that when competitors
offer commodities for less than thev
can be replaced at. he lets the busi-
ress ge to them. His plan seems to
be successful, for he always sells at
a fair price, gives his custcmers the

best of treatment and service and has
always been financially on the right
side of the ledger. ‘

Jackson is a low market for sugar
at present. The National Grocer Co.,
we understand, is quoting granulated
in bulk at $8.10. Mail order houses
in Chicago quoted under date of last
Saturday at $815, f. 0 6. Chicago,
and the market has gene up 10 cents
since then. The National Grocer Co's
is a large corporation and a policy

of this kind for one of two things—,

keep down the high cost of living or*
step on the tces of smaller dealers,
Jackson at these prices should do the
sugar business of the State.

Brown, Davis & Warner have ins
stalled a new two-ton Federal truck,
It is painted in black and gold and one

of the best looking jobs on = our
streets.
W. R. Spencer, wholesale grocer,

is building a new summer home at

Brewn’s Lake.

Donald Finch, salesman for thé*
Union Paper & Bag Co., of Detroit,
has been spending his vacation with
his parents in this city.

Many parents of our city are anxious-
ly looking for the war to close, now
that their sons have been drafted.

Spurgeon.

John L. Lynch opens two new sales
Saturday—McQuillan’s clothing store
($40,000 stock) at Jackson and A. Dietz
& Son, general dealer at North Adams.

-—_—__®-0-@ =. —

Some men who believe in the di-
vision of labor let their wives do “1}
the work and they do the rest.

 

We Are Headquarters for Campers’ Ouffits

   

CHILDREN’S PLAY TENTS

5x5-foot size, 4-foot walls,
stripe top; price ...... . $ 7.00
6x6-foot size, 4-foot 6-inch

walls, stripe top; price ..$ 9.50

7x7-foot size, 6-foot walls,

scupe top; price ........ $13.00

WALL TENTS

 

7x7 to

16x30
AUTOMOBILE TENTS

Made of tan

No poles required.

water-proof duck.

ee $25.00

7x7 size, price ......

$12.50 value .... $10.00 4.
Chains and hooks, ete.
This Hammock,

 

 

 

i aE Gg 5 = a 5 = ta TT at
OTHER COUCH HAMMOCKS

Steel frames with chains and

hooks—$6.00, $7.00, $12.00,

Wee oon
Hammock Stand
Hammock Canopy

$13.59
ile $3.75
tae $4.00
AUTOMOBILE COTS
Without legs, steel frames, lay
on top of seats, $10.00 to $12.00
Win lees, 2... $13.00 to $15.00

ARMY STYLE COTS
$3.50 to $5.00
Double (ste |... aka $7.00
Other Cots,.... 3. ., $1.90 to $2.50

Tent
Cots

   

Single Cot, 28 X
Tout G inches .. 5 eis eas $13.00
Double cots, 44 inches by 6 '
foot G inches 2... ..,). 2. aud

CHAS. A. COYE, Inc.

Campau Ave. and Louis St.

Grand Rapids, Michigai

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