AROUND THE STATE.
MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.
Sevewaing—Fred Krause, butcher, is
succeeded by Geo. Gremel.

Marengo—Frank Reed is succeeded by | : :
reenlie | Geiken have formed a copartnership and

J. C. Cooper in general trade.
Ubly—David Crory, Jr., succeeds R. E.
Adamson in the drug business.
Gobleville—Frank S. Post has sold his
hardware stock to Vickers & Redding.
Alden—Meyers & Filannelley succeed
Fred Meyers in the hardware business.
Mt. Pleasant—Edmund A. Fox suc-
eeeds Price Peak in the drug business.
Ludington — J. A. Benson succeeds
Benson & Haller in the meat busiaess.
West Branch—Thos. S. Glenn succeeds
tobertson & Glenn in the drug business.
St. Charles—Willis & Downing
Willis & Co. in the grocery busi-

sue-
eeed
ness.

Reading
& Cortright,
dead.

Dailey—Whitmore & Higgins are suc-
ceeded by Whitmore & Hardy in general
trade.

Lenawee Junction—J. A.
dealer in farm implements at this place,
is dead.

Marshali—Frank
chased the bakery
Keller.

St. Ignace—Murray
chased the
Warren.

Detroit—Wallace, Bell
David

 

Newton Cortright, of North

boot and shoe dealers, is

Rogers,

Keefer
business of

has
Jas. Me-
have pur-
of Jf.

Bros.
grocery business
& VanBianchi

succeed Vallace in the grocery

business.

Almont—P. H. & H. J. Willert have
purchased the hardware stock of C. G.
MeEntee.

Mason—C. W. Randall has moved his
shoe stock into the west store of the Pad-
dock block.

Jonesville—Frank Barber & Co.
ceed Rawson, Barber & Cu. in the furni-
ture business.

Sodus—Versaw

 

suc-

& Buckman succeed
Sylvester Parks in general trade and the
drug business.

Flint—Saunders & Terbush have pur-
chased the grocery and produce business
of C. L. Carman.

Detroit—Pinger & Lano,
dissolved.

bakers, have
The business will be contin-
ued by Jacob Lano.

Vassar—E. J. Burr & Co. are succeeded
by Schank & Dean in the
implement business

Cedar
opened a shoe store at Evans, which is in
charge of Frank Dee.

Coloma—Schairer & Kreitner succeed
Vincent & Wright in dry goods,
grocery and crockery business.

Pontiac—Elliot & Durant
their shoe stock to Pauli &

agricultural

Springs—J. A. Spooner has

the
have sold
Nusbaumer,
who took possession last week.

Akron—Thos. Heartwell succeeds
Heartwell & Myrick in the grocery, dry
goods and boot and shoe business.
Fishbeck and C. J.
Cook have purchased the grocery and
boot and shoe steck of Jones & Son.

Howell—Andrew

Bass River—Gilbertt Gates has sold
his stock of groceries to A. J. White
and will remove to Kaikaska county.

Kalamazoo—Geo. W. Taylor is suc-

business.
White Cloud—Champion & Hayward,

pur- |

| name of a new shoe firm here.
._|J. Deverell will have active management

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& Devereil is the
George

Lapeer—Lincoln

of the business.

Charlevoix— Lou See and G. C.
will shortly open a new grocery store in
the Bartholomew block.

Middleton—J. W. Patterson & Co. have
sold their stock of general merchandise
to A. B. Armstrong, of Chicago, the
“company” of the old firm.

Owosso—E. L. Devereaux has sold his
grocery stock to Hookway & Son, for-
merly engaged in the grocery and crock-
ery business at Grass Lake,

Northville—T. J. Smith & Co., of
Mancelona, have bought out the grocery
stock of D. B. Wilcox and will continue
the business at the same location.

Newaygo—J. T. Bruce and E. C.
Blanehard have formed a copartnership
under the style of Bruce & Blanchard and
embarked in the feed and produce busi-
ness.

Wayne—M. A. Coan, who recently
opened a shoe store here, did not suc-
ceed in doing a good business and so
packed up his goods and left for parts
unknown.

Owosso—Walter S. Lusk has sold his
shoe stock to this brother, who will con-
tinue the business under the style of E. W.
Lusk. W. S. will follow rural pursuits
on his farm near Elsie.

Petoskey—Eugene F. Rose and Robt.
S. Shafer, who conducted the grocery
business under the style of Rose &
Shafer, have dissolved, each continuing
business in his own name.

Adrian—Harry E. Cook and George
Marvin have purchased the boot and
shoe stock of Adolph Wheeler and will
close it out. Mr. Wheeler has conducted
the business since 1881, and states that
he will retire from business life for the
present.

Dexter—The C. H. Stannard shoe stock
has been sold at auction to Joseph King,
of Ypsilanti. The stock was appraised
at $1,191, and sold for 6314 cents on the
dollar. The book accounts, amounting
to $372, were bought by H.S. Holmes
for S86.

Kalamazoo—Jacob Louis, who keeps a
grocery store at 429 East Ransom street,
awoke very early last Tuesday morning
and found a burglar in the store. He
alarmed his son, and the two gave chase,
but he escaped, leaving behind one of
his rubbers. Nothing was taken.

Saginaw—Chris. Graebner, who has
been connected with the shoe house of
Heavenrich & Co. for ten years, has
severed his connection therewith and be-
come a member of the firm of Graebner
They will shortly open a
boot and shoe store at 414 Court street.

Traverse City—S. K. Northam has sold
the 32-foot lot on Front street, east of
his hardware store, to Peter and Henry
Tonnelier of Benton Harbor, for a con-
sideration of $3,400. The purchasers
will immediately erect a two-story brick

| building, with a depth of 70 feet, which
| they will occupy with a stock of liquors.

Fisher Station—Nicholas Bouma, who

| has been engaged in trade here over
eeeded by the Geo. W. Taylor Co., in-|
corporated, in the cluthing and tailoring |

dealers in greceries and shingles, have |

sold their business to B. J.

Townsend.

grocery

i

thirteen years, has sold his stock, store
building and residence to Douwe Van
Bruggen, who will continue the busi-
ness. Mr. Bouma will remove to Grand-
ville and open a general store at Jenison-
ville, handling lines of dry goods, boots
and shoes and groceries.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

| Jackson—F. C. Davis, wu hias beeu
local manager for D. M. Osborn & Co.
for the past four years, has formed a co-
partnership with F. E. Davis, who has
been salesman and collector for the same
house for the past two years, under the
style of F. C. & F. E. Davis and em-
barked in the real estate and collection
business at 206 East Main street.

Coloma—A new general store will be
opened here about April 15 under the
style of Stanley G. Guy & Co., the co-
partners being Mr. Guy (who has clerked
for several years for O. B. Hipp, the
Benton Harbor clothier) and F. B. Van
Horn, who has long been engaged in the
dry goods and clothing business at Ben-
ton Harbor. The new firm will carry
lines of dry goods, clothing, furnishing
goods and groceries.

Detroit—A smooth-looking gentleman
recently walked into the shoe store of C.
J. Merbach, at 122 Gratiot avenue, and
purchased a pair of cheap shoes and rub-
bers. He tendered a check for $12.50,
but he only got $5 in change back. He
was to call the next morning. He didn’t
come, and Mr. Merbach sent the paper to
the Dime Savings Bank, where it was
pronounced worthless. Mr. Merbach
now has his eyes peeled for the man.

Flint—Judge Wisner, of the Genesee
Cireuit Court, has appointed Morey T.
Andrews receiver of the Swinton & Rey-
nolds Company, Limited, of this city,
and required him to give a $10,000 bond.
The receiver is instructed to sell at cost
the stock of books, stationery, ete., at re-
tail until April 1, when the stock remain-
ing unsold is to be disposed of at public
auction. The motion made by David
Swinton, of Saginaw, for the dissolution
of the injunction restraining him from
selling the stock under chattel mort-
gage. was denied.

Iron Mountain—The merchants of this
place are tired of fooling with transient
merchants, who run into town for a few
weeks, make & pot of money, and then
skip without helping out the taxpayers
with even a dollar. An ordinance has
been passed providing for the paying of
a license fee, ranging from $20 to $60,
according to value of stock carried, which
must be paid before the transient is per-
mitted to open his doors and do busi-
ness. It is modeled after an ordinance
which has been in force at Ishpeming
for some time, and which wa- found an
effectual instrument in freeing that town
, of the fly-by-night merchant.

 

Durand—The hardware firm of De
| Camp & Clemens has been awarded dam-
ages to the amount of $500 against the
Moline Plow Co. This case, which oc-
cupied the attention of the Shiawasse
Circuit Court six days, grew out of an at-
tachment suit brought by the plow com-
pany to satisfy a bill against the Durand
firm. DeCamp & Clemens claim there
was no just cause for bringing this ac-
tion; also that the litigation whieh fol-
lowed the attachment ruined a prosper-
ous business for them. The Co-opera-
| tive Foundry Co., of Detroit, put a
| second attachment on the goods of the
| firm and is now defending a similar suit
| for damages, with very good prospects of
having to pay up for being too hasty.

 

 

|
MANUFACTURING MATTERS.
Detroit—The Detroit Fly Paper Co.
| is succeeded by the Decoy Fly Paper Co.
Middleton — Clem Naldrett succeeds
Naldrett Bros. in the elevator business.

 

 

 

North Muskegon—The Standard Box
Shook factory began operations last
week after a long idleness.

Cheboygan—The Cheboygan Lumber
Co. has secured a full stock of logs, and
the mill will run day and night the entire
season.

Bay City—The Crump Manufacturing
Co.’s plant is running with a force of 83
men and a large amount of business has
been booked.

Saginaw—The Quinnin Lumber Co. is
operating a sawmill eleven miles north-
west of Lake Station. The company is
also buying hardwood lumber at various
points.

Bay City—The Warren Lnmber Co. is
hurrying forward the construction of the
planing mill being constructed by that
company.

Saginaw—Hon. Ezra Rust, who has
been an extensive lumberman for many
years, and who is still interested in tim-
ber properties, although he has retired
from active business, takes a rather pes-
simistic view of the lumber business,
and calculates that it will go slow for
three or four years yet.

Saginaw—The late C. H. Plummer
owned about 46,000 acres of timber land
in Arkansas, which was attached by Col.
A. T. Bliss, who had extensive dealings
with Mr. Piummer. It is now stated
that Col. Bliss has accepted this land in
full settlement of his claims against the
Piummer estate. It is said to contain
fully 200,000,000 feet of timber, mostly
oak. %

Bay City—A large force of mechanics
are at work hurrying forward repairs on
the mill of the South End Lumber Co.,
and it is expected the plant will be
ready to start operations April 1, if the
river is open at that date. The company
has 6,000,000 feet of logs stored in booms
near the will, and has 22,000,000 feet
contracted for to be towed to the mill
during the season, insuring a full stock.
A considerable portion of this cut will be
put into the dock yard purchased re-
cently by Turner & Fisher.

Muskegon—The Amazon Hosiery Co.,
of Michigan City, Ind., with a branch
factory in Chicago, has purchased a
tract of land here, fronting 300 feet on
Western avenue, with a depth of 2,775
feet, to which the company will remove
as soon as the necessary buildings can
be erected. To secure theenterprise the
Chamber of Commerce gives $10,000.
The company was driven out of Lllinois
by the law prohibiting the employment
of women in factories longer than eight
hours per day; and, by a strange coinci-
dence, the law was declared unconstitu-
tional by the Illinois Supreme Court a
few hours after the contract to remove
the factory to this place was executed.

Manistee—At all the sawmills full
forces of millwrights and mechanics are at
work and the repairs are all being rushed
so as to have things in readiness for the
earliest opening. The time of starting
the mills will also be much later than
last season and that of course will cut
quite a figure in the production and also
will serve to keep the lumber off the
market longer, as the necessity for dock
room will not be felt when the mills are
idle. Last season Peters’ was the first
mill to start, and they began operations
March 5, and the others between that
time and April 1. This year there are
none that have any intention of starting
before from the first to the fifteenth of
April.

 

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