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Thirty-Fifth Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1917

 

“ Number 1771

 

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Mr. Jos. r. Lynch |

General Manager

Jos. P. Lynch Sales Co.

Personally writes and plans all advertisements for
every special sale conducted by the Jos. P. Lynch
Sales Co. No hired salesman is sent to your store.
You deal directly with a man who stands out in the
merchandising and advertising field as a past master
in this particular line of endeavor, a man whose
ability and responsibility is unquestioned.

 

 

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Letter Written by One of Our Clients:

KERCHEVAL SHOE HOUSE
‘$17 Kercheval Ave. E. GRODE, Prop.

To Whom It May Concern: Detroit, Aug. 1, 1917.
From the 34st day of May to the 16th day of June, the Joseph
P. Lynch Sales Co. conducted a sale for us, which was a splendid
SUCCESS.
We were caught with an overstock and will admit that some
shoes were as much as five and six years old.

The Joseph P, Lynch Sales Co., of Grand Rapids, moved them
all. Besides these, a great amount of our regular stock, the Big
Surprise being that we banked a good sum of PROFIT MONEY
above our big expenses.

On the opening day the sales amounted to $1,620.89, the entire
receipts being $10,679.35. The lowest day amounted to $347.55.

As to the men themselves, we found them A J in action and
enjoyed having them among us.

We will be pleased to give anyone concerned even more de-

tailed reference of the successful work of the Joseph P. Lynch
Sales Co,

 

GRODE’S SHOE STORE.

 

 

 

Last Saturday, August 26th ©

We opened a Special Sale—not a going out of business
sale—but a Special Sale for 7 days for Miller & Sessions
Men’s Clothing and Furnishings, Fremont, Mich., whose
stock invoiced about $9,000. On Saturday the first day of
our sale we sold $2,063.05 at a profit. The expense of this
sale was less than $100. Write them for full particulars.
Write, wire or phone for all information.

 

 

The Joseph P. Lynch Sales Co.

7 Rooms 506-508 Lindquist Bldg.
44 South Ionia Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Address GEORGE C. CONN,
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teaching housewives the economy
and nutritive value of preserved
and canned fruits. This will tend
to stop the great waste of fruit
and to increase the consumption
of jams, jellies and_ preserves.
This advertising will also greatly
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SPECIAL FEATURES.

2. Upper Peninsula.
4. News of the Business World.
5. Grocery and Produce Market.
6. Men of Mark,

8. Editorial.

9. Retail Salesmanship.
11. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
12. Financial.

14. Good Roads.

16. Hardware.

18. Shoes.

20. Woman’s World.
22. Dry Goods.

24. The Commercial Traveler.
26. Drugs.

27. Drug Price Current.

28. Grocery Price Current.
30. Special Price Current.
31 Business Wants.

 

 

THE POOR LITTLE RICH MAN.

If we are to tax the rich out of ex-
istence let us not do it on false prem-
ises.

It is not true that the poor are giv-
ing their blood and not the rich. The
percentage of the wealthy who have
velunteered for military duty is far
greater than that of the poor. If the
rich man himself does not go his
sons do, and who would not rather
die than lose his son? And there will
be more casualties among the sons
of the rich for they have gone into
officers’ training camps, aviation, and
the like, and officers and aviators in-
cur the greater risks.

Another fallacy is to assume that
all recent profits are “bloody profits.”
Whatever we may think about taxing
the owners cf munition factories de-
clarine big dividends each month, it
is unjust to tax along with them the
man whose increased profits have ac-
crued from the general prosperity
incidental to our having been at peace
while the rest of the world has eager-
ly taken our merchandise and farm
products.

That many merchants have recent-
ly made money is largely due to the
prosperity of the farmer and_ his
purchasing power. The
farmer’s profits are not “bloody prof-
its,’ and the average merchant's are
not. Why should a_ cotton-goods
manufacturer be penalized because he

greater

has been able to export goods to mar-
kets that were formerly controlled by
Germany? To tax wealth
discourage legitimate
Capitalists would
hesitate in future to invest their
money in plants whose profits are

beyond
reason is. to
growth of business.

likely to be conscripted.

The farmer has benefited by the
war more than any one except the
makers of ammunition, It is folly
to give him a subsidy in the shape of
a guaranteed price for wheat and, in
addition, to exempt him from all ex-
cess-profit taxes, and at the same time
discourage other enterprises by con-
ascatory legislation. What justice is
there in penalizing for his benefit the
producer of raiment, the maker of im-
plements, the carrier which brings
the wheat to market? Why should
those who clothe the shivering be

taxed any more than those who feed
the hungry?

Business not connected with war
supplies should be taxed no different-
ly from the farmer nor from the pro-
fessional man whose income has
grown in like proportion, nor from
the laborer, whose wages have risen
from two dollars per day to eight.

He is a poor business man who esti-
mates his profits by the month. It is
best to wait and see what happens.
The conservative business man must
consider his excess war-profits an in-
surance fund against the losses which
are almost inevitable when the reac-
tion comes, Every dealer and every
manufacturer must carry much mer-
chandise and material at present in-
flated prices. He is likely to lose on
such stocks more than he has made.
To confiscate a large percentage of
such insurance fund is unjust. It is
unwise because it undermines com-
mercial stability.

It is not a question of whether the
rich or the poor should bear the bur-
den of this war. The question is, shall
one generation assume all of the bur-
den. This is supposed to be a war
for “humanity” and “democracy.” If
such be the case, our posterity should
help pay for the cost of these bless-
ings.

The aggregate earnings of the
makers of the implements of death
are enormous, but for every such man
there are a thousand makers and deal-
ers in the things of peace.

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BREAD PRICES.

There are two sides to the question
of bread prices. The public is familiar
with its own side; it is anxious to get
as big a loaf for as little money as pos-
sible. But the bakers have a right to

‘reasonable treatment and Mr. Hoover

evidently intends that they, as well as
the consumer, shall have it.

The Baker’s Weekly prints a_ tele-
gram from the Food Administrator in
which he says he is making an investi-
gation into baking costs and trade prac-
tices “to determine what may be done
toward eliminating waste and reducing
the cost of bread,” and he adds that in
this he has the patriotic co-operation of
the war emergency council of the bak-
ing industry and the bakers generally.

The Bakers Weekly says that with a
fixed minimum price of $2 a bushel for
wheat, flour is going to cost the baker
at least $11 a barrel, and that when all
the other costs are reckoned in it is
plain to be seen that the 5c loaf cannot
be restored to its former dimensions.

It would be folly to sacrifice the bak-
ing industry to a merely unintelligent
desire for low-priced bread. The people
are entitled, on the other hand, to the
lowest prices that are fair to the bak-
ers and Mr. Hoover may be depended
on to remember and enforce that fact.

Soliciting Capital For Co-Operative
Wholesale Grocery.

The Grand Rapids Wholesale Gro-
cery Co. which filed incorporation
papers at about a month
ago, has several solicitors at work
among the retail grocers of Michi-
gan, undertaking to secure subscrip-
tions to the capital stock of the or-
ganization. The total capital stock
is $100,000. The stock is sold in $300
allotments. No one is permitted to
take more or less. The subscriber

Lansing

application,
which sum is sufficient to pay the

pays $30 on signing the

solicitor and meet the expense of or-
ganization. As soon as 150 stock-
holders are secured, it is the inten-
tion of the promoters to call a meet-
ing of the
Rapids, elect

stockholders at Grand

directors and _ officers
and proceed to engage in the whole-
sale grocery business, confining the
sales to actual stockholders in the
Goods will be sold at
an advance of 3 per cent. over the
price charged by the manufacturer.

corporation.

It is claimed by the promotors that
this sum is sufficient to meet the run-
organization
surplus for
All goods are sold on ten
days’ time, net cash. No stockholder
excess of $300,

ning expenses of the

and create a future

exigences.

credit in
which is the amount of his invest-
ment in the stock of the corporation.

is given

If he buys a larger amount than $300
at one time, he must send a check
for the excess above $300 and then
pay the $300 within the ten day limit.
The proposed organization does
away with traveling salesmen, credit
man and a large portion of the ship-
ping force, because most of the goods
are ordered shipped direct from the
manufacturer to the merchant. The
office force is confined to a manager,
book-keeper and stenographer, which
holds the selling expense down to a
small figure. The promotors furnish
a manager who has had experience
in other stores of similar character,
the manager to be placed under
bonds to discharge his duties hon-
estly. The claim that
there are eighteen similar establish-
ments throughout the United States,
all grouped together, so far as buy-
ing power is concerned, under an or-
ganization known as the United Re-
tail Merchants of America. This or-
ganization is managed by a board of
directors composed of the presidents
of the various wholesale houses do-
ing business in accordance with this
plan.

promotors

The Tradesman cheerfully gives
place to the above explanation of the
plans of the promotors of the pro-
posed establishment organized for
the alleged purpose of securing a
reduction in the cost of handling

goods in the grocery line between
the manufacturer and the retail deal-
er. To what extent such an arrange-
ment would interfere with the regular
business of the regular jobber can be
easily determined, because the cus-
tom of the promotors is to accept
but one membership from each town,
unless the dealer who has already be-
come a stockholder consents to other
dealers being admitted to the com-
pany.

The gentlemen who are doing the
soliciting are three im number, as
follows:

C. E. Daehler, field organizer, who
resides at 122 East Chestnut street,
Columbus, Ohio.

K. EB. Snow. whe: is
Western

working in
Michigan and makes Ais
headquarters at the Livingston Hotel,
Grand Rapids.

J. L. Desmond, who is working
Eastern Michigan and makes his
headquarters in Saginaw.

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The Government goes on with its war
preparations in elaborate fashion. Its
orders actual and contemplated are so
great that the manufacturers are unable
to provide the necessary working cap-
ital So strong a corporation as the
Bethlehem Steel Co. is reported as stat-
ing that the Government must help out
It is difficult to
market the obligations of even the best

by furnishing money.

concerns at a reasonably low rate of
interest. One of the items is measured
hy $400,000,000 needed to double the
number of torpedo boat destroyers here-
tofore planned. This will involve the
establishment of more shipyards and
the direct investment of Government
money. Among the financial items of
the week is a further loan of $50,000,000
to Great Britain, raising the total of
advances to the Allies to $1,966,400,000.
The Government replenishes its Treas-
ury by issuing $250,000,000 more of
Treasury certificates bearing interest of
3% per cent. and payable November 30.
——_-» 2.

The surplus of garden produce about
Woman's
Council of National Defence, with the
Society, to call
upon commuters with surplus vegetables

Chicago has inspired the

Charity Organization

to bring them into the city each morn-
ing. They are deposited in waiting bins
at the various terminal stations, and
called for by automobile vans which
take them to the homes of the poor.
In many instances local organizations
in the suburbs have distributed contain-
ers and tags to those who will put
vegetables in them.

—_++.

Ideas are often picked up in un-
expected places, and from people nev-
er suspected of having them. Seekers
after new ideas should not despise
lowly places or persons. From them
may accidentally come many valu-

able suggestions.

 

 

UPPER PENINSULA.

 

Recent News of the Cloverland of
Michigan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Aug. 27—Paul
Larmon, one of the Canadian Soo’s
leading grocers, met with a fire loss
last week, resulting in a loss of about
$3,000, covered by $4,000 insurance.
Mr. Larmon expects to rebuild as
soon as possible.

A new ferry company is about to
be organized, doing business between
the two Soos. Captain Charles Rip-
ley, Frank Perry and other people on
this side of the river are endeavor-
ing to promote the project. The only
obstacle will be to secure the nec-
essary customs and immigration in-
spectors from both governments.

Labor day is to be celebrated in
the Canadian Soo this year. Three
will be no demonstration in the
American Soo.

From all accounts there will be a
bountiful crop in Chippewa county
this year. The hay harvest is prac-
tically completed and has been a
heavy crop of unusual good quality.
The potato crop also promises to be
unusual if the weather conditions
continue favorable.

Our esteemed and ex-Mayor, Sher-
man T. Handy, has been appointed
as one of the members of the Ameri-
can committee for the centenary
celebration of peace between English-
speaking nations, which will be held
in London after the close of the war.
Ex-Governor Chase S. Osborn had
previously been appcinted a member,
thereby giving two prominent Soo
men this honor. A statute of Abra-
ham Lincoln has been presented to
the committee bv Charles P. Taft.
of Cincinnati, which will be erected

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and unveiled in London. Formal cer-
emonies will not be held until after
the close of the war, when the two
Soo’ men will probably’ go to Lon-
don.

David Tate, the popular chief clerk
of the Gowan Hardware Company, is
again on the job, after enjoying a two
weeks’ vacation,

“Time and silence often succeed,
where all other agencies fail.”

John P, Connolly, President of the
Connolly Manufacturing Co., left
Wednesday evening for Detroit, from
which city he expects to go to the
officers’ training camp at Fort Sheri-
dan, near Chicago, and try for a com-
mission with the second officers’ re-
serve corps. Mr. Connolly has been
very active in the military work here
and made a splendid captain here for
the home guards. His many friends
here believe that he will land some-
thing better than the rank of captain,
as he is well up in military tactics.

The many friends of Frank Knox,
fax several years managing editor
for the Soo News, will be pleased to
note that he has received a commis-
sion as captain of artillery at the
Plattsburg training camp for officers.
He gave up his newspaper work at
Manchester, N. H., to enter the serv-
ice of his country. Mr. Knox serv-
ed with the famous Rough Riders in
the Spanish-American war, and has
had considerable military experience.

Leon Bellair, former proprietor of
the old Bay City House, in this city,
which after being remodeled was
called the Hickler House. spent the
last week visiting Soo friends. Mr
3ellair is now a resident of Detroit.

The village of Larch is to have a
sawmill, Mr, King, the owner, is at
present constructing the mill to cut

Peter Graham’s stock of logs during
the: winter.

St. Ignace is beginning to feel the
effects of the automobile travel which
has been coming in bunches the past
few weeks from various parts of the
United States. Six automobiles, each
with a. party, arrived there on the
Chief Wawatum last Tuesday after-
noon. The cars came from Ohio and
Ulinois points, filled with pleasure
seekers. Most of the cars are bound
for the Soo and Marquette, while
others are making the journey around
Lake Michigan. With the opening
of the Dixie highway through to the
Soo, there will be a constant stream
of lower country cars arriving and
departing daily throughout Clover-
land.

The war is making considerable
business in this part of the country,
The Government's need of war muni-
tions and materials needed in connec-
tion with the war is keeping the rail-
roads on the jump. The D., S. S. &
A. is overburdened with traffic, and
the Chief Wawatum is obliged to
make many extra trips across the
Straits in order to keep up with in-
creasing business

One of our leading attorneys, Frank
P. Sullivan, and family have return-
ed, after spending a few weeks at
their summer home on Cottage Reef,
at the Snow Islands.

The town of Curtis is getting its
share of automobile travel, as more
than twenty-five automobiles passed
through the village last Sunday.
While they are not on the Dixie high-
way, they have a _ beautiful lake

scenery which is a drawing card to
all pleasure seekers going that way.
“Darwin's theory may be all right,

Ws.
MmECHIGCGAN

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August 29, 1917

but lots of men make monkeys of
themselves.”

The hotel at Trout Lake was the
scene of a terrible tragedy last week,
when a man by the name of Ed. Hol-
lenbeck, of Marquette, came from
Marquette to induce his wife to live
with him. Upon her refusal, he shot
her, three bullets entering the wom-
an’s head, while the porter was hit in
the body by a stray bullet. It is a
question as to whether the two will
survive. The would be murderer
escaped to the woods. Up to this
writing no clue has been found of
him, although the sheriff has a posse
armed with shot guns in pursuit.

Many of the Soo business houses
are temporarily crippled by the leav-
ing of some of their help for army
service. :

The city market at Manistique op-
ened for business for the first time
last week and from all accounts was
a success. Over thirty farmers came
in from all over the country. Prizes
were offered and William Thibedeau,
who came the longest distance, re-
ceived the first prize, as he came
from Manistique Lake. The products
brought to market were many and
varied and everything was good. One
thing especially made the products
look good to the buyer—everything
was fresh and had not been tossed
around in warehouses and depots.
It was quite a treat for the buyer to
walk around at leisure and pick out
whatever suited him best. The peo-
ple of Manistique showed their in-
terest in the new adventure and from
all accounts it promises to be a sac-
cess. William G, Tapert.

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Two ‘Towns Tied Together by

Brotherly Love.

Jackson, Aug. 28—Here in Southern
Michigan is a gem of a little city
called Tecumseh and to miss calling
On one of the Tradesman’s_ best
friends is to miss much, so be sure
and see Frank D. Avery if you wish
to understand how a man can turn
time back.

I was allowed one good guess as to
how old this pioneer merchant was
and found that, after I had added a
couple of years for good measure,
same as he does with groceries, I
still was ten years too low on my
figures and that goes to show that
Tecumseh has the spirit which keeps
all its merchants young.

One night last week there were
over a thousand autos parked about
the streets which had brought farm-
ers and near by town friends in to
see Tecumseh entertain.

Tecumseh is one of the towns which
has never passed up the “glad hand”
and she has reaped her reward.

Driving on to Clinton we find B.
O. Randall & Co. just as “hard at it
as ever,” for George Hard and his
worthy sons are in the game for
fair, just as that store has during the
twenty-five years the writer has call-
ed upon them.

It would do all merchants, no mat-
ter where they are from, a lot of prof-
itable good to visit Tecumseh and
Clinton.

A perfect highway ties Clinton and
Tecumseh together and they work
for one great good, willing to boost
and divide.

See these perfect little cities and
get the spirit which builds brother-
ly love and mail order houses will
have some job to keep their doors
open.

The writer has made these little
cities for a quarter of a century and

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

there is as much pep in the pioneers
as in the younger merchants.
Ralph D. Howell.

It is still a question whether the pend-
ing Federal revenue laws will impose
a tax of 10 or 15 per cent. on each year’s
surplus of corporations, but the holder
of stock in any company may perhaps be
rewarded for a little study of how his
interests will be affected in case the tax
is levied. This is not the excess profits
tax, but a generous dip into the funds
of a company all by itself. It is said
to be the intention of some of the cor-
porations in case this feature of the bill
is adopted, to declare their surplus out
in dividends in order to avoid the pay-
ment of this additional exaction. A tax
would be due on the money represented
by the dividends but it would be at the
ordinary rate of income tax and not the
extraordinary one applicable to sur-
pluses. In the case of companies with
large earnings this, no doubt, would be
good financiering. There are plenty of
corporations however, particularly rail-
roads, which can ill spare any surplus
which drifts into their coffers, for they
need all the funds they can get for main-
tenance and the purchase of equipment.
The excess profits tax will hit just at
the point where one would say least
damage could be done. As the excess
is to be determined by the difference
between the average profits in the years
1911-13 and those of 1916 those profits
may reasonably be considered as de-
rived from the war and therefore should
be liberally used in paying the cost of
war. Companies that were prosperous
before the outbreak in August, 1914,
will fare reasonably well, although they,

too, will be obliged to hand out a con-
siderable sum in most instances.

— 2...

It would now appear that there are,
after all, a few American soldiers in
Europe. The Cologne Gazette describes
them as only a handful, to be sure, but
a handful is something after Von
Reventlow’s masterly demonstration
that the much-vaunted American ex-
pedition consisted of a few ambulance
drivers and Red Cross nurses. Before
many weeks perhaps the official German
war reports will be telling the German
people how indomitably the Fatherland’s
field-grays stood up against the storm-
ing masses of the mythical American
army; even as they have been standing
up against the shock of the British army
that, in August, 1914, was never to ap-
pear in time, or against the Russian
forces which two years ago were a
disorganized mob permanently out of
the war. One could only marvel at the
pathetic credulity of a people which,
after so many deceptions and reassur-
ances, went on believing its rulers that
this would not happen and this must
inevitably come to pass, long after the
impossible had happened and the in-
evitable had failed. But even German
submissiveness has its limits. Sooner or
later the German people will be con-
vinced that they are beasts and not hu-
mans and that there is no hope for
them so long as they continue to be
“dumb, driven cattle’ in the hands of
the most brutal monarch who ever sat
on a throne.

————— 722
Why hurry to reach the top of the
ladder if you are going to fall off
when you get there?

“Discount” Coins.

In certain Western cities, among them
Kansas City and Des Moines, “thrift
campaigns” have given rise to a new
form of currency, known as “discount”
coins. They are made of tin and are
issued in various denominations from
1% cent to 25 cents. Retail establish-
ments in these places, with a view of
encouraging thrift and at the same time
to attract patronage, have made arrange-
ments with local savings institutions by
which they give their customers these
coins as a discount for payments made
in cash. The discount amounts to 2 per
cent., the same rate that the retailer
obtains from his jobber or wholesaler
for paying cash. These coins are ac-
cepted by the savings banks as money
and are used by the thrifty in building
up their savings accounts. The name
of the bank is stamped on the coins, and
while the tins are received as deposits
the banks do not pay out cash directly.
It is reported that these discount coins
have proved very popular with the
stores and with the public.

—_2-2-—e—____
Gasoline at Six Cents.

A short time ago Secretary of the
Navy Daniels had a visitor who an-
nounced his ability to increase the gaso-
line production of the United States
trom 3,000,000,000 to 9,000,000,000 gal-
lons a year, and offered to furnish
“gas” to the Government at 6 cents a
gallon. The man was Louis Bond
Cherry, a Kansas City inventor, and he
submitted samples and the report of a
committee of societies who have exam-
ined his process and given it their ap-
proval.

 

 

 

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

 

 

Barney says—

I saw one of my neighbors the other day get some

goods from a mail order house in Chicago.

By Golly, | can’t understand why every man in

Michigan isn’t interested in buying gocds at home

and developing our own community.

WoRDEN

 

THE PROMPT SHIPPERS

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS— KALAMAZOO

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

1917

August 29,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Romeo—James Haber will engage in
the meat business Sept. 1.

Chase—Charles R. Miller succeeds
Nelson Bros. in the grocery business.

Detroit—The King Motor Sales Co.
has changed its name to the King Auto
Sales Co.

Saginaw—W. J. Davis will open a
music and musical instrument store
about Oct. 1.

New Era—Mrs. Wilson, recently of
White Cloud, has engaged in the gro-
cery business.

Scottville—J. N. Mack has sold his
grain elevator to Miller Bros., who will
continue the business.

Eaton Rapids—Mrs. Agnes. P. Youngs
has closed out her stock of millinery
and will retire from business.

Pontiac—R. M. Bautel has engaged
in the carpet, rug and furniture, busi-
ness at 111 North Saginaw street.

Portland—B. W. Jackson has sold his
cream and produce business to Thomas
Hickey, who will buy and sell poultry
also.

Petoskey—Dodaro
and retail fruit dealers, have removed
their stock to Manistique and will con-
tinue the business.

Saginaw—J. B. Nauer, grocer at 232
North Warren avenue, has soijd_ his
stock and store fixtures to S. C. Gage,
who has taken pcssession.

Kalkaska—The Kalkaska Produce
Co. has purchased from Cole Bros.
their potato warehouse and the spa-
cious grounds on which it is located.

Ypsilanti_-The A. & P. Co., conduct-
ing a chain of grocery stores throughout
the United States, will open a similar
store here in the Post building about

_ Sept. 15.

Alma—J. W. Leahy, formerly en-
gaged in trade at Mt. Pleasant, has
purchased the Rule grocery stock and
will continue the business at the same
location.

Ishpeming—Isaac Gustafson, grocer

‘and meat dealer at the corner of Cleve-
land avenue and Third street, dropped
dead at his home, Aug. 27, as the result
of an attack of heart disease.

Bros., wholesale

Lansing—The Francis O. Lind-
quist Co., of Grand Rapids, has leas-
ed the store building at 216 North
Washington avenue, if which it will
open a branch clothing store.

Newaygo—William Courtright, of
Grand Rapids, has sold his hotel here
to Adolph Swanson, recently of Seat-
tle, Wash., who will continue the busi-
iness, taking, imifiediate possession. :
' Pontiac—The Stewart-Glenn Co.
has engaged in the retail furniture
and home furnishings business with
an authorized capital stock of $24,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

West Branch—The West Branch

‘Grain Co. has engaged in business
‘with an authorized capital stock of

$20,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed, $7,500 paid in in cash and
$12,500 paid in in property.

Detroit—The Rubbo-Lastic Sales
Co. has engaged in business to man-
ufacture and deal in roofing materials
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, of which amount $8,000 has
been subscribed and paid in in prop-
erty.

Battle Creek—The Parker-Jones Drug
Co. has been organized with an author-
ized capital stock of $18,000. It has
taken over the Claude C. Jones drug
stock at 47 West Main street and will
open another store at 42 South Jefferson
avenue. y

Lennon—Charles Hankins, of Flush-
ing, and G. Sherwin Haxton. of Oaks-
field, New York, have formed a co-
partnership and purchased the plant of
the Lennon Grain Co. and will continue
the business under the style of the
Lennon Elevator Co.

Fremont—Joseph P. Lynch of
Grand Rapids, opened a tten day sale
at the clothing and furnishing goods
store of Miller & Sessions last Satur-
day. There were 789 sales, aggregat-
ing $2,063.05 and averaging $2.89. The
largest sale was $63.22.

Alma—Howard Reed, formerly en-
gaged in the drug business at Mt. Pleas-
ant has leased the Eckert building and
will occupy it with a stock of drugs,
about Sept. 1. His brother will be
associated with him and the business
will be conducted under the style of
Reed Bros.

Kalamazoo—Fire of unknown ori-
gin, damaged the grocery and meat
stock and store fixtures of P. E.
Woldendorp, at 759 Portage street,
Aug. 20, entailing a loss of about
$2,000, which was covered by insur-
ance and the meat stock of Dan
Kronemeyer. Loss about 50 per
cent,

Muskegon—Harry Sanford, owner of
the Brundage drug stock, has purchased
the Howard M. Rouse drug stock at
59 Western avenue and will continue the
business at the same location as a
branch store. Mr. Sanford is erécting
a store building at Muskegon Heights,
which he expects to occupy about Oct.
1, giving him three drug stores, all
prominently located.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Jackson—The Maino Machine Tool
Co. has changed its name to the Jack-
son Shaper Co.

Detroit—The Detroit Brick & Fur-
nace Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $10,000,
of which amount $5,110 has been sub-
scribed and $1,510 paid in in cash.

Lansing—The Novo Engine Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$112,500 to $675,000.

Muskegon—The Alaska Refriger-
ator Co. has increased its capitaliza-
tion from $185,000 to $400,000.

Detroit—The capital stock of the
Brown-Hawkins Lumber Co. has been
increased from $50,000 to $60,000.

Sault Ste. Marie—The  Fiborn
Limestone Co. has increased its cap-
ital stock from $215,000 to $250,000.

Benton Harbor—The Twin City
Tent & Awning Co. has increased its
capital stock from $6,000 to $10,000.

Detroit—The Detroit Felt Co. has
been incorpcrated at 1246 Euclid ave-
nue with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, of which amount $8,500
has been subscribed and $5,000 paid
in in cash.

Yorkville—The Cereal Products Co.
plant has been closed following the
commencement of a suit started by G.
G. Wood, to collect $1,000 which he
claims due him. The plant has an ap-
praised value of $22,800.

Holland—The Holland Ladder &
Manufacturing Co. has been incor-
perated with an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, all of which has
been subscribed, $400 paid in in cash
and $9,600 paid in in property.

Benton Harbor—The Electric Special-
ties Co. and the Morrill & Morley Man-
ufacturing Co. have consolidated under
the style of the Benton Harbor Auto
Machine Co., with an authorized capital
stock of $174,000, $87,000 of which has
been paid in.

Payment—The Penny & Youngs
Co. has engaged in the general lum-
bering and sawmill business with an
authorized capital stock of $15,000,
of which amount $10,000 has been
subscribed, $2,500 paid in in cash and
$1,500 paid in in property.

—————+--2__
Doctor Ferguson Writes to John J.
Dooley,

Sydney, N. S., Aug, 19—It will of
course interest you to know that I
just returned from over the Harbor
where I went to church this morning
with the famous Dooleys and had a
lovely dinner. afterward.

J.J. Dooley himself is now devoting
all his time to the immigration work
and has been succeeded by W. H., his
oldest son, who is doing the under-
taking work. '

The Dooleys enjoy hearing me tell
about you and Sadie and seem to
regard it all as a sort of a dream. But
I teld them that I would have you
write them some day on your own
letter head.

Their home faces out toward the
Harbor and the Atlantic ocean, the
most ideal spot one can imagine. It
seems funny that two of the most
prominent business men in the city
of North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova
Scotia, are the very noticeable names
of D. W. Pilkington and J. J. Dooley
—you must mention this to Pilkie.

On our return, Mr. Dooley, who
knows every boat by its name, re-
gardless of the flags it flies, pointed
out two mine sweepers of the cruiser
size and mentioned that they have the
most successful way of cleaning ene-
my mines, exploding the mines with-
out danger whatever.

One interesting vessel to our port
side was the Belgian Relief, with
letters painted on the side 20 feet
high. These were the only colors
we saw. You know that all the craft,
regardless of their size or impor-
tance, whether sail or steam or oil
power, are painted gray. No flags

nor colors whatever are in sight. Yes-
terday when the fleet left in convoy

of seven transports or troop ships,
I would have given a great deal for
the opportunity of talking to some
of you home folks about them. The
proudest looking bunch of battlers
I ever saw afloat except in the movies,
and that is where most people get to
see such things.

Speaking of pictures, one is not
allowed to snap a camera at all on
the coast now. Coming into the
Halifax Basin last week, we _ spied
a larger troops ship than we were
used to seeing and when I asked the
first mate for his glasses—a _ pas-
senger is not allowed to carry such a
thing now—there was a big Scotch-
man right back of me who wanted
me to know that he could tell what
the boat was and he said, “No one
but Americans could make the noise
these troops are making.” He re-
ferred to the band playing and yell-
ing. It might be news to you for me
to say that we have word here since
yesterday that American troops are
already at the front on the firing line
and will be in every opportune branch
of fighting within twenty days.
Quick work, eh?

Everyone should be proud of the
Americans. The atmosphere is so
different here since we have gone to
war. I used to let slurring remarks
go unnoticed when remarks were
made about it being impossible to
make Americans fight—peace at any
price and all that stuff. But it is
different to-day. Americans are on
the tongues of everyone here—their
ways, their good qualities, their abil-
ity, there nerve (this is no small item
in war) and there isn’t one minute or
hour of the day but one hears that
the Americans did this or that, and
that they will go into battle in the
same noisey, rude way that they
shock the quiet populace of Britian.
The hopes for America to gather up
some of the bouquets in this conflict
is no more envied or enviably re-
marked upon as it was a while back.
The Canadians say, go to it, and they
hepe the singing soldiers will come
out singing just like they are enter-
ing—and with just the same voice.
It is wonderful, but it is certainly a
pleasure to meet people now—and to
notice that no one gives us Ned be-
cause we remained neutral so long.
They don’t find fault with us like I
supposed they would, You know
they thought we should have been in-
to it two years before we were—but
we admired our President and said
nothing and were persecuted and we
are all right in the eyes of the civil-
ized world absolutely. And I argue
that it was best the way it turned
out. Every thing happened for the
best and President Wilson was right
after all.

I take a sleeper to-night for Am-
herst. That’s the place where Can-
ada keeps their best Germans. They
lock them up there every night so
the dogs won’t bite them and die of
hydrostrocities. Might mention that
they feed them regularly three times
a day. That is to keep them fat, I
suppose, so they will be more mar-
ketable and bring a higher price in
the spring when Barnum is looking
for side show attractions.

G. W. Ferguson.
——e-

The clothing and furnishing goods
stocks in the two stores formerly con-
ducted by M. Katz & Son—one on Mon-
roe avenue and the other at 507 Bridge
street—were sold by Referee Corwin
Monday to M. Spencer & Co., of Phila-
delphia, for $5,300. The stocks had
previously been appraised by John L.
Lynch at about $9,000.

—--2.——

James J. Mead, whose grocery store
at Hastings was recently destroyed by
fire, has re-engaged in business, ‘the
Judson Grocer Company furnishing the
stock.

 

 

 

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The manufacturers of beet
sugar in the West held a meeting last
week, at which 80 per cent. of the an-
nual output of beet sugar was _ repre-
sented. Another meeting will be held
later in the endeavor to bring all the
manufacturers together on a proposition
to se'l the entire output at a uniform
price of 7%c per pound. If refined
brings 8c per pound, the manufacturers
will be compelled to pay the growers
$8 per ton fer beets, but if the output
is sold at 7%c, the contract rate of $7
per ton will prevail. As the manufac-
turers can make plenty of money by
selling their season’s run at 7'%c, and
as this is a good year to work with
the Government and the consumers of
the country in holding down the cost
of living, it would seem to be an op-
portune time for the manufacturers to
agree on the proposed plan to hold the
price uniform during the season at 7c.
The acreage devoted to beets this year
is larger than ever before and from
present indications production will be
larger than any previous season in the
history of the industry. New York re-
finers are now holding hards at 8.35@
8c and softs at 8144@8.40c. There is
no doubt in the minds of the refiners
that Mr. Hoover intends to exert full
control of the situation and that as
soon as more pressing matters have
been disposed of that of adjusting sugar
prices will be taken up and _ settled.
On the part of the trade it can be said
that there is not the slightest disposi-
tion to place an obstacle in the way
of the solution of this most serious
problem, but there is a natural, uni-
versal desire that the adjustment of the
delicate matter be made at the earliest
moment with the least possible disturb-
ance of the regular course of business.
As to the methods that will be employed
to secure desires of both the Food Ad-
ministration and the trade, there is felt
the utmost confidence in the efficiency
of Mr. Hoover, aided by the competent
head of the Sugar Bureau he has chosen
in George M. Ralph, to provide a satis-
factory solution.

Tea—There is a continued demand
for tea of all description, with attention
more strongly devoted to Ceylons and
Indias perhaps than to other kinds.
Japan teas of the lower and medium
sorts were in good demand, scarcity and
high prices of Chinas diverting much
buying interest to the former, which are
taken largely for purposes of mixing.
The limited supplies are holding trade
below the level indicated by the appar-
ent requirements of jobbers and _ in-
dividual transactions are limited to
small lots. So far as. reported, there
were no fresh cables

from primary
sources, but all late reports indicate

the probability of further advances with
no prospect of any easing up in the
freight situation.

Coffee—The market is about where
it was a week ago, with the exception
that perhaps there is a trifle better feel-
ing, due to reports from Brazil of slight
frosts. With the enormous available
supply of Brazil coffee, there is no reas-
on for any improvement in the situation,
Demand is very quiet. Milds, Java and
Mocha are all unchanged.

Canned Fruits—There is a tremen-
dous demand for small fruits and espec-
ially berries, all of which are going
to be abnormally scarce and held at
fancy prices. This is said, however, not
to be due to the packers so much as to
the farmers and pickers, who are ask-
ing fancy prices at the factory door and
have no trouble in getting them, so
scarce is raw material. Prices range
fully 50 per cent. above seasonal prices
of last year and if anything are stiffen-
ing as the failure of the crop becomes
more apparent. Gallon apples are also
in strong demand at around $4 a dozen,
and thus far there has been a small
stock offered by packers. Prices are,
therefore, quite commonly nominal
rather than actual.

Canned Vegetables—The
has been one of uncertainty
ned food trades, principally
conditions at the producing end of the
business. Opening the week with toma-
toes selling at $1.45 in Baltimore, and
with little trading at that because of
the feeling among buyers that the prices
were too high, it closed with a firm de-
mand by packers for $1.55, and with
steadily expanding ideas of value that
had already led to talk about $1.75 and
even a dream of $2 tomatoes unless
the Maryland crop turns out better than
appears likely just now. As in every
other food line, the farmers are sitting
firmly in the saddle, and demanding that
all comers settle on the growers’ terms.
In Maryland the crop is not yet near
enough ripening to indicate what it will
be, and such very early fruit as came
out of the fields was pounced upon by
both Baltimore and country packers,
resulting in a fierce rivalry that sent quo-
tations mounting tremendously—from
25c to 75c and a dollar a basket. It
might be expected to drop again as the
main crop comes to hand, but for the
fact that present appearances show very
few tomatoes on the vines, due to the
failure of rains and slight blossoming;
all of. which would presage a scant crop
and a failure of the pack. Jobbers,
however, believe that there will yet be
plenty of tomatoes later on and in fact
regard last week’s heavy rain as worth
millions in setting tomatoes that will
have ample time to ripen for this sea-
son’s pack. Jobbers are well covered

past week
in the can-
because of

with tomatoes at around $1:10-to $t20
if deliveries are made fully, and there
are few buyers interested in the present
prices as likely to affect their buying.
In spot trading, the business is follow-
ing normal seasonal channels, with light
demand and everyone buying only to
cover actual needs of consumptive de-
mand. Tomatoes appear to monopolize
the interest, although toward the latter
“nd of the week there was some en-
quiry for Maryland-Maine style corn,
which found packers as stiff as ever or
more so,.demanding $1.30, and not over
anxious for business at that. There is
a similar stiff demand for prices by
packers on everything else. Peas are
already cleaned up and beans not yet
active.

Canned ifish—The chief interest of
the past week in fish has naturally been
salmon and the condition does not at
this writing please either the packers
or the jobbers. Manifestly the sockeye
pack is a failure, due to the absolute
failure of the sockeye run in the Puget
Sound and Fraser River fishery country.
As had been feared, the landslides of
four years ago, which prevented the
species from spawning, has worked the
near extermination of the sockeye and
they did not appear this year in their
accustomed haunts. Out of’the normal
catch probably not more than a third
of the expected fish were packed, and
the traditional “feur-year run” is a
thing of the past, unless the fish recover
and bob up in some other stream. Esti-
mates are that not more than 400,000
cases of sockeyes have been packed,
whereas fully 1,000,000 cases have been
sold. So short are some packers that
they will not attempt to make any an-
nouncement of an “opening price,’ but
will simply go ahead and fill such pro-
portion of their standing orders as they
can; probably less than 25 per cent. in
most cases. One large packer who is
foilowing that course is filling his or-
ders on the same basis as was an-
nounced by Armsby a few days ago,
viz: $3 for flat pounds and $1.75 for
halves. The packs of other grades are
variously reported to ‘be rather large,
but the reduction which would normally
follow will be offset by the demand oc-
casioned by the shortage of the sockeye
pack. Alaska’s pack is said to be large,
but no estimates of its assortment are
yet available. Opening prices were
promised by packers for Saturday, but
owing to the uncertainty they have all
decided to postpone it, nominally a
week, but probably until after Labor
Day. There is a very little trading dur-
ing the period of uncertainty and spot
stocks are low. When the announce-
ment does come there will probatily be
plenty of trading, although jobbers are
reluctant to load up with anything at
present prices. Other fish than salmon
are not interesting. Tuna is still in
good demand, jobbers who deferred
buying finding it hard to cover, even
at premiums over the opening, but as
the fishing is still reported good they
have hope of easier prices, or at least
freer confirmation. They have not
changed their ideas as to the high prices.
In sardines there is little doing beyond
the normal trading. Prices have not
changed in some time, and everything
depends on the catch as to how large

 

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future
Reports Of conditions in Maine
differ, but a fair pack is expected.

Cheese—The market is very firm at
“Y4@4c advafice on all grades for the
week. This is due to the good con-
sumptive demand and the extremely
light receipts for this season of the
year. The make is lighter, this year
than for previous years, due -largely
to the heavy consumption of milk by
the condensers, which of course robs
the cheese factories of their raw ma-
terial, Condensers are at present
paying abnormally high prices for
milk. There is Some export demand
for cheese and the present firmness
will probably continue.

Rice—The home trade continues to
buy sparingly, but indications point to
an increased demand from that quarter
within the next week or ten days, when
receipts of new crop begin to arrive
here. Advices from the South report
no fresh developments in the crop situa-
tion.

Spices—With an increasing distribu-
tive demand the market has developed
greater activity of late and the tone
throughout is stronger on account of
uncertainty concerning future supplies
as a result of the extreme difficulty ex-
perienced by Far East shippers in secur-
ing tonnage. The sharp rise in silver,
together with the further advance in
freight, operates materially to import
costs and adds materially to the value
of present available supplies. Peppers
are in particularly strong position, with
increasing consumption of black and
demand in excess of supplies of white.
Stocks of cloves are steadily shrinking. -
In China and Sagon cassias there has
been a fairly large movement, but Ba-
tavias are neglected.

percentages~—are- delivered --on
orders.

Salt Fish—The receipts of shore mac-
kerel so far have been very light and
the price is hovering around $28 to $30
a barrel, which is about $4 a barrel
above last year. The quality of the fish
coming forward shows the scarcity of
labor, as evidently the usual pains have
not been taken with them. An occa-
sional offering of Irish mackerel is
being received in this country at very
high prices, but there is hardly enough
stock to consider.

Provisions—Lard is very firm, with
a good consumptive demand, due to
the short killing of hogs by local
packers. Hogs are now at an ex-
tremely high price and packers are
killing only what they need to. Lard
shows an advance during the last ten
days of from 1%4@2c per pound. Com-
pound has advanced 34c, owing to the
light supply. of cottonseed oil and a
good demand. Even higher prices
may occur if the high price of lard
continues. The new crop of cotton-
seed oil will be available in a few
weeks. There are so many conflict-
ing reports about it, it is useless to
forecast it. Smoked meats are very
firm at 1@2c per pound advance, due
to the extremely light receipts and
the good home consumption. Con-
tinued high prices seem likely. Bar-
reled pork is very firm and unchang-
ed, with a good demand and moderate
supply. Dried beef is firm .and..un-
changed, with a light supply and good
demand. Canned meats shaw.a slight
advance and: fair ‘demand. :

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

August 29, 1917

 

MEN OF MARK.
John L. Lynch, the Well-Known
Sales Manager.

To have achieved success through
the patient and careful study of ev-
ery branch of a certain industry is
to have attained an enviable position
among those discriminating persons
who know what hard work means
and who have a high regard for the
man who has justly won the spurs
that he wears. There is something
soothing to the mind in the thought
that one has succeeded in conquering
that world he set out in his young
years to subdue, and to realize that,
although the final heights of achieve-
ment have not been attained, they
are within reach, and even compara-
tively easy of access after years of
patient toil and constant endeavor,
with a goal well in sight to the at-
tainment of which every energy has
been bent.

John L. Lynch was born at Lindley,
Steuben ccunty, N. Y., July 20, 1876.
His antecedents were plain Irish on
both sides and during his earlier
years he had few advantages and his
future looked anything but promis-
ing. He appears to have reached a
conclusion quite early in life that all
he amounted to would be due to his
own endeavor and acted accordingly.
After three years of schooling at
the hands of the gentle sisters of his
church, he proceeded to learn the A.
B. C.’s of merchandising under Levi
Frank, of Buffalo, N.Y. After a num-
ber of years’ service with Mr. Frank—
to be exact about twenty years ago—
Mr. Lynch decided that the field was
large encugh for another entry, so
he decided to branch out for himself
in merchandising and selling decrepit
and “sick” stocks. He was a success
from the start, with the result that he
came under the shrewd eye of W. T.
Farley. of W. T. Farley & Co., New
York City, who conducted a chain of
twelve stores.

Mr. Lynch took complete charge
of this chain of stores for a period
of four years, with credit and profit
to the Farley Co. and—what is still
more valuable—with satisfaction to
himself. A man of the temperament
of Mr. Lynch could not long be kept
down by the confines of even a chain
cf twelve stores. He craved a wider
field scope and a broader field, with
the result that he severed his con-
nection with the Farley Co. and again
embarked in business for himself in
the merchandising field.

This splendid ground work with
Mr. Frank and the Farley Co. gave
him a rich foundation of experience,
with the result that to-day John L.
Lynch is known from coast to coast
and throughout Canada as the Na-

poleon. of the merchandising line,
catering to sick business in all
lines throughout North America.

Ripe in years of experience at an
age when he is in the prime of life,
with a strong and winning personal-
ity, and a keen insight into markets
and. conditions, he holds the full con-
fidence of those who know him and
have had business dealings with him.
-. Mr. Lynch’s wide acquaintance and
reputation as a specialist in his line

—the handling of sales of department
stores, clothing stores, shoe stores
and men’s and women’s ready-to-
wear stores—have built up a clien-
tele second to none in the country.

Some of Mr. Lynch’s recent suc-
cessful sales are as follows: Star
Clothing Co., Grand Rapids: Welsh
& Myer Department Store, Savan-
nah, Ga.; Edward Lonergan Clothing
Store, Bridgeport, Conn-: I. Gudel-
sky, Muskegon; McQuillan & Har-
rison Clothing Store, Jackson;
Tobias Bergey Department Store,
Jackson.

Mr. Lynch was married thirteen
years ago to Miss Anna Wambsgans,
of Burlington, Iowa. They have cne
son, Henry, who is now 6 years ot
age.

Mr. Lynch likes the State of Mich-
igan, with the result that he recently

John L.

purchased. a beautiful home at 1338
Franklin street, Grand Rapids, where
he expects to make his permanent
home.

Mr. Lynch has only one hobby—
outside of his business—and that is
a weakness for golf. He is an ac-
tive member of the Grand Rapids
Golf Club and, as the links are cnly
a block or two from his home, he
spends his leisure hours chasing the
ball which is productive of so much
pleasure and conducive to so much
good health.

With a bright, sunny disposition,
winning personality and clean repu-
tation, John L. Lynch to-day stands
as a type for all that is best in mod-
ern merchandising,

Mr. Lynch wishes it to be known
that the John L. Lynch Sales Co. must
not be confused with other sales com-
panies, as he is the organizer and

 

proprietor of the only John L. Lynch
Sales Co. in this country.
——s.2..>
Late News From the Cereal City.
Battle Creek, Aug. 28—lIt is cus-
tomary for Eisenhood Bros., Dr. and
Jerry, members of the Push class of
the Battle Creek grocers, to enter-
tain the local salesmen calling upon
them once each year and August 25,
11 p. m., the show started, nine in the
party, for Fine Lake. On arrival at
the lake, no better lunch could have
been gotten up by any French cook
than was set before the boys at 12:30.
The evening was spent in telling
stories and experiences on the road
and in the stores. Not a large catch
of fish in number, but as far as the
size, ask Milt. Loomis and Elmer
Clark. I hope that all cur friends
will ask Earl Myers to see the flash
light pictures. Time of retiring, 4
a. m., arising, 4:30. Too much fun
to be troubled with sleep. The boys
who were unable to go missed some-

Lynch.

thing and those who were there will
always remember the good time.

_ Fifteen hundred commissioned of-
ficers will be in Battle Creek by
Tuesday night of this week.

Major General Dickman, of Ver-
mont, arrived at Camp Custer Sat-
urday, Aug. 25, and the Battle Creek
war recreation board is already mak-
ing tenative plans for a reception for
him, This will be held next Thurs-
day evening, Aug. 30, according to
plans, the Athelstan Club having vol-
unteered the use of its club rooms
for the purpose. Major Dickman
says there must be more roads from
the city to Camp Custer to prevent
congestion. There is at present near-
ly 5,000 men employed at the camp
and the work is progressing fine.

Brainard T. Skinner, an old-time
resident of Battle Creek and one of
the active men in building up the
Advance Thrasher Works, died at
his home on Maple street Monday,
Aug. 27.

The Grand Trunk Railway annual

flower show is being held at the
shops this week.

Four new drinking fountains are
being placed at different points about
the city to take care of the wants of
the soldiers and visitors.

The down town section got a rude
awakening Monday morning when
the boiler of the O. K. laundry blew
up. No one was injured in the plant.
The damage was done just before the
regular force came to work. The
night watchman built a fire in the fur-
nace and left the boiler-room. The
roof was blown off and the walls
shaken down. Damage, $3,000.

Jack.

Wool Price Fixing Slow.

Wool manufacturers and other trade
factors interested in army cloth contracts
are finding that the fixing of uniform
prices for raw material and finished
cloths is a slow and decidedly complex
problem. This fact has been brought
home at the conferences held in New
York City of late by the Joint Commit-
tee of Wool manufacturers co-operating
with the Council of National Defense.

The committee has been ready to pro-
ceed with the revision of army cloth
contract prices during the last fort-
night, but has been unable to do so ow-
ing to the fact that the Wool Purchas-
ing Committee in Boston, of which J. P.
Brown is chairman, met with delay in
drawing up a schedule of prices at which
it was proposed the Government should
take over wool stocks, which in turn
were to be sold to the manufacturers
of the fabrics wanted by the Govern-
ment. While waiting until these prices
have been definitely fixed, the Manufac-
turers’ Committee is giving its attention
to details of the Government’s require-
ments for military fabrics.

One of the several matters now en-
gaging the attention of the committee
relates to the action of certain mill rep-
resentatives in going to Washington and
offering to take contracts for army
cloths at prices materially lower than
the committee has deemed advisable for
reliable production.

—_—_o+>___
Shoe Trade Is Doing Well.

Manufacturers of high-grade shoes
for women report that while they are
not doing the volume of business they
did at this time last year, it amounts,
owing to higher prices, to about the
same in dollars and cents. “With the
higher prices that prevail now, retailers
are inclined to be, if anything, a little
over-cautious in their purchases of nov-
elty styles.” said a local manufacturer.
In the staples, however, conditions are
reported to be very different. Sales are
mounting up well over last year’s fig-
ures, both in volume and price, and a big
year is predicted on every hand.

— 2.
Four Special Sales.

The John L. Lynch Sales Co. clos-
ed two very successful sales last Sat-
urday night—one in the dry goods
store of Tobias Bergey, at Jackson,
and another for the Lutz Clothing
Co., at Ann Arbor.

Thursday of this week it starts a
sale in the general store of Murphy
& Jackson, at Pinckney.

Thursday of next week it starts a
sale for J. W. Duffield, shoe dealer
and grocer at Marshall.

—_22.>—___
The’ Grand Rapids Underwear. Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$85,000 to $500,000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 29, 1917.

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BITTEN BY THE SAME DOG.

What is the sense of all this talk
about settling the war with the German
people, instead of dealing with the
Kaiser?

The German people, as a class, are
just as bad as the Kaiser—they have
both been bitten by the same dog.

Already the German people are urg-
ing the Kaiser to seek peace, so far as
the present war is concerned, so as to
be able to immediately begin prepara-
tions for the “next war,” in which the
mistakes made in the present contest
may be avoided.

It is not safe for civilization to de-
pend on the elimination of the Kaiser
in the settlement of the war. We must
eliminate the German people who have
been infected by the virus of im-
perialism to an extent that makes them
equally responsible with the Kaiser for
the starting, maintenance and contin-
uance of the war. They have shared
in the responsibility for the war. They
should share equally in the penalty of
defeat.

There is altogether too much maudlin
sentiment in the daily newspaper and
President Wilson’s messages about the
German people. The German people are
just as much to blame for the war as
the Kaiser himself, because they permit
themselyes to be used as tools and
slaves by the Kaiser and his party, sus-
tain them blindly by adherence to every
expedient adopted by the cruel beasts
who rule the German nation, present
flimsy excuses for every violation of
law and precedent, dig down in their
pockets for the last cent to carry on
the war of extermination and go to
bed hungry in order to feed the brutal
soldiers who are fighting humanity in
the name of the fatherland.

Why prate any longer about the in-
nocence of the German people? They
are not innocent. The blood of every
one of the million victims of German
lust and German cruelty is on the Ger-
man people. They are a nation of
bloodthirsty ruffians—mad dogs made so
by imbibing the madness of the insane
ruler whom they worship as no monster
of iniquity was ever worshipped in this
world before.

Eliminating the Kaiser and the Junk-
ers from the ruling classes in Germany
will never redeem Germany from the
curse which has come upon her, any
more than the martyrdom of the saints

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

of old destroyed the religions the saints
represented. The evil seed is planted in
the hearts and minds of eighty million
people who have shown that they are
just as incapable of self government as
the half civilized natives of the Phil-
ippine Islands and that it will require
a hundred years of government under
the joint direction of the Allies to pre-
pare them for citizenship and associa-
tion with civilized people.

THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS.

Happily Mr. Hoover has started his
work under the best circumstances with
a remarkable general feeling of public
confidence in him, and with a surpris-
ing degree of willingness among busi-
ness men to co-operate with him. These
are the times when business men are
gravitating out into the sheep and the
goats, when a great majority of men
are willing to do business with patriot-
ism uppermost and profits, even reason-
able and normal profits, subordinated.
But business men are, nevertheless, in
business for profit and ought not to be
forced to forego it any more than the
laboring man should be expected to
work for nothing.

The food trade has shown a disposi-
tion to aid Mr. Hoover and keep profits
at a rational level. Occasionally one
does not, and as the spirit of patriotism
grows less keen more are going to fall
into the old ways and run counter to the
spirit of Mr. Hoover’s task. They will
argue that if Uncle Sam is going to
tax profits there must be left some
chance for excess profits and income
to tax. And by the time rational profits
in the food trade are taken care of the
saving will not be anywhere near what
a lot of people have imagined it will
be. :

In any event, it’s a mighty bad start
when everything that comes out of the
ground starts at the farm with so enor-
mously inflated a price as to stagger the
distributers, and their protest only
bumps against the fact that the law lets
the farmer do whatever he wants to.
And even if it didn’t, he would plead
the enormous increase in his farm costs,
due to the scarcity of labor, and recall
that organized labor, too, is exempt.
It would seem as though there are some
very sad flaws in the scheme of Fed-
eral price control, figure it out as best
one may.

 

By international arrangement, Amer-
icans are not only to help the Canadians
harvest the wheat in the Western prov-
inces, but Canadians are to cross the
Maine boundary and help harvest the
potato crop now maturing there. The
welcome on both sides of the border is
to be of the same character: Waiving
boundary restrictions, high wages, good
food and lodging, and reduced railway
fares. As early as last May Canadian
agents were at some of the Western
universities, and had herded a large
number of college students into Mani-
toba to find work on the farms. It is
now stated that Canada needs 40,000
harvest hands for her thirteen million
acres of wheat, which is expected to
produce a quarter of a billion bushels
west of Ontario. The demand for labor
in Maine has been evinced by some very
queer solutions which have been pro-
posed, as the temporary admission of
illiterate immigrants.

USE DUE CAUTION.

The Tradesman again warns its
readers to exercise due caution in
subscribing to the stock of the com-
pany it is proposed to organize to
engage in the wholesale grocery busi-
ness at this market. Before joining
the undertaking it would be well to
look carefully into the antecedents
of the men who are promoting the
enterprise and determine the motives
which actuate them in their present
activities. As a rule, an organiza-
tion in which no one man or set of
men own a dominating interest sel-
dom succeeds; because where each in-
dividual unit has but a small inter-
est, no one feels that he has sufficient
authority to assume supreme com-
mand. Where this is lacking, a busi-
ness undertaking seldom succeeds,
no matter how hard the individuals
composing the organization labor to
accomplish that result.

The sale of groceries at retail now
involves so many difficult problems
and perplexing situations that the re-
tailer who undertakes to assume the
functions of the jobber at the same
time will, to state it mildly, find he
has his hands full. The jobbing of
groceries is a business by itself, full
of pitfalls and traps for the unwary.
It is a business which demands large
capital, wide experience, exceptional
judgment and patient and persistent
effort, No one without these quali-
fications can possibly achieve success
in a business at once so hazardous
and so exacting. A man can venture
into the retail trade without requisite
experience and lose his $1,000 capital
in a skort time. The same is true of
an or,anization of men who venture
to invest $100,000 in a business in
which none of them have had previ-
ous experience.

The Tradesman is making a care-
ful and painstaking investigation of
the character and antecedents of the
men who are promoting this proposed
undertaking and will be able to give
its readers the benefit of its discov-
eries and conclusions at an early date.

What a soldier should carry to the
war in his knapsack has been made the
subject of a homily by an army officer.
The departing warrior is counselled to
discard all Persian luxuries forced on
him by his tender-hearted womer!-folk,
the quantities of woollen socks, wrist-
lets, spirit lamps, eiderdown trench slip-
pers, sewing kits, knitted night-caps,
book-marks, tea-cosies, filigree smelling-
salts bottles, and manicure sets, and
march up the pier at “some port in
Trance” as unencumbered as a Spartan
warrior. Of course nobody asks him
to be so Prussianly brutal as to refuse
any gifts showered upon him at leaving
his “Atlantic port in America.” The
trip is long, and he can day by day take
leave of embarrassing tokens of affec-
tion. He may begin as soon as Sandy
Hook Light goes down below the hori-
zon. But will he? King Arthur said,
“there be proud burdens.” So there be
also dear ones. A strong man can afford
to humor his affections. Although he
may not wear eider-down in the mud
of Flanders, he may keep it hidden
away in his kit, and not for bodily
warmth, either. It will not be what our
soldiers do not carry in their bags that

 

August 29, 1917

will win battles or defend forlorn hopes.
Let them keep whatever gimcracks fancy
or affection dictate. Only one thing no
American boy who crosses the seas to
fight in the war should forget to pack
into his knapsack, and all mothers are
expected to see that he does not forget
it, and that is a marshall’s baton, or its
United States Army equivalent.

ue ae aes

The authorities in Washington are
seriously considering changes in the
draft law, and as the draft itself is near-
ly complete, it can be discussed without
laying any one open to suspicion of de-
siring to hinder the carrying out of
the law. The War Department itself
sees that the selection has not been
without injustices, for it proposes, ac-
cording to the Associated Press, to ask
for an amendment so that all the sons
of one family shall not be taken. A
London paper called attention to the
fact that “the lottery played curious
tricks.” “Thus,” it says, “in one family
of six men five were drawn in low num-
bers, and will be among those first call-

ed, while another family, also with six.

men, all their numbers are so high that,
unless the United States places the full
quota of ten millions in the field none
of them will see active service.” The
mistake made in not exempting medical
students seems now certain to be reme-
died; and a new definition of the status
of married men is looked for shortly
from the President himself. The
Tradesman contends that policemen and
firemen should be exempted. Then there
should be either exemption of conscien-
tious objectors or decision as to the
penalty to which they expose themselves.
Plainly, there is room for much revision,
and every improvement will strengthen
the Government’s position by removing
grounds for complaint of unfairness.

 

How fast the United States may make
progress with her aviation § training
camps is evident from the history of
the Canadian school at Camp Borden.
Work there was commenced on Feb-
ruary 4, when there were four feet of
snow on the ground. In the middle of
winter one and a half miles of railway
and 25,000 feet of asphalt roadway were
laid. Fifty-seven buildings of a semi-
permanent character have been put up,
including officers’ and cadets’ quarters,
barracks for the mechanical staff, work-
shops, and garages. The hangars ex-
tend for three-quarters of a mile, and
face on an aerodrome of 1,000 acres.
To make the place ready 12,000 stumps
had to be taken out of the ground, con-
duits built for waterpipes, sewers, and
so on; yet flying commenced on May 7.
Cadets are now being sent forward to
England in batches of about fifty a
month. The instructors declare that
nowhere have they found such excellent
facilities for training, and the latest de-
vices for the teaching of machine gun
operation, aerial photography, and ar-
tillery observation are employed. The
Royal Flying Corps estimates that camps
similar to that at Borden could be built
for $800,000.

 

The most brilliantly written adver-
tising if not founded on truth, might
as well be dull and stupid. It can
have no lasting effect.

 

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He died young.

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RETAIL SALESMANSHIP.

 

It Requires Tact, Study and Ex-
perience.

The selling of goods is the thing
for which the store exists. With all
your good buying, all your good sys-
tem in store work in every respect,
your good accounting, your adver-
tising, and your window trimming,
you must still recognize that the
whole system rests on your salespeo-
ple.

Salesmanship is a big subject. Most
store workers are not good salespeo-
ple, because they know very little
about salesmanship. It requires study
to make good in salesmanship.

In salesmanship our problem is to
get the customer to know the facts
about our goods and to feel favorably
towards them. Our problem is to
get ideas about our goods into his
mind and the openings through which
the raw material out of which ideas
are constructed pass are the nerves
that pass out from the brain; the prin-
cipal ones being the nerves of sight,
hearing, smell, taste and touch.

In selling goods, the salesperson
who understands these elementary
facts attempts to give his customer
ideas not only through the eye and
ear but also through the sense of
touch, and, if possible through the
senses of smell and taste. The sales-
man appeals to the eye by showing
the goods and pointing out what he
wants to be seen. He appeals to the
ear by telling about the goods, and he
appeals to the sense of touch by get-
ting the merchandise into the hands
of the customer, or, as in the case of
shoes or garments, by getting the cus-
tomer to try them on. Every good
salesman follows this principle of us-
ing several of the customer’s senses,
whether he knows it or not. Every
retail salesman should follow this
principle, appeal to his customer’s
mind by presenting ideas through as
many senses as possible.

Another fact of psychology is that
the rate at which nerve currents enter
the brain and from the brain into the
mind is not the same in all people, nor
is it the same for each person at dif-
ferent times. The salesman must
recognize that if he is presenting ideas
about his goods faster than his cus-
tomer can take care of them, he will
not be understood and will lose in-
terest. Nor must the salesman pre-
sent ideas too slowly or the cus-
tomer’s mind will run away from him
and grow interested in something
else.

When the nerve currents enter the
brain from eye, ear or other parts of
the body they travel with a consider-
able rate of speed; although this
speed varies greatly among indi-
viduals. When the current comes to
its appropriate place in the brain, it
strikes a blow in its particular brain
cell. The marks can be made deeper
in either of two ways—by putting
more force in the nerve current that
causes it, or by repetition or concen-
trating the mind with all its power
on the one incoming idea. One other
thing is necessary and that is plenty
of pathways or connections to the

“

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

mark or identation that represents the
idea to be recalled.

There are two more facts of psy-
chology that I would like to present.
One is that every idea that enters
a customer’s mind is accompanied by
some feeling either good or bad,
pleasant or unpleasant, satisfactory
or unsatisfactory to the customer.
The mind never accepts an idea in a
neutral way. It accepts or rejects
and classifies as good or bad every
impression that your customer re-
ceives of you, your goods, your store
and its equipment and thus either
helps or hinders you in making sales
because of this fact.

The other fact is that every idea
that enters the customer’s mind tends
to be expressed, not only by speech,
but also by such things as brightness
of the eyes, actions of the body,

paniment of what he saw, heard, fe'!t,
tasted or smelled.

Referring to the form of the adver-
tisement in the newspaper, it may be
of interest to note that oblongs are
generally more attractive than squares
and ovals are better than circles. The
oblong of proportions of three in
width to five in length is always at-
tractive. Other forms may be mad@
beautiful, and often most appropriate,
but none are as generally attractive as
the oblong.

Another detail of retailing that has
its effect on the customer is the ar-
chitecture of the store, particularly.
the store front, its construction, and
its colorings. Even the color of paint
used makes a difference that it either
favorable or unfavorable to the kind
of business carried on. Some of the
large chain store concerns have made

 

 

 

 

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smiles and of the face and head. It is
this expression that the salesman
must watch to learn whether he is on
the right track or not, whether he is
showing the right kind of goods or
offering the right kind of selling ar-
guments. One can’t sell goods suc-
cessfully without watching customer’s
expressions.

The customer gets ideas not only
about the merchandise the retailer
tries to sell to him, but also from ev-
erything about the store. The store’s
advertising in some newspaper may
reach the customer before he comes
to the store, and he gets ideas from
that. They may be partly or wholly
unconscious impressions, but in so far
as they reach the mind at all, either
in definite or in indefinite forms, there
is certain to be an effect of feeling
either for or against as an accom-

a scientific study of color schemes
for store fronts.

A few years ago five and ten cent
stores were painted all sorts of colors.
The owner of several of them made
up his mind that he would find out
what color was best for a 5 and 10
cent store business. After a careful
study he concluded that red and gold
was the best. He applied these colors
to all of his stores with success. Now
it is hard to find a 5 and 10 cent store,
whether owned by a syndicate or an
independent, that is not painted red
and trimmed with gold and gold
lettering. Red and gold is the scien-
tific color scheme for the 5 and 10
cent business at the present time.

Grocery chains are working with
orange and gold, yellow and gold and
white. Red seems to be the wrong
color for food stores. The United

?

Cigar Stores have settled upon red,
black and white, with gilt lettering.

Department stores are likewise
working towards a more uniform sys-
tem of architecture and_ coloring.
They are finding that there is har-
mony of architecture of the store
with the goods to be sold which
when followed helps the store to suc-
ceed, and when not followed hinders
success.

Window trimming presents ideas
to customers and likewise good or
bad feeling, The entrance and door-
way produce a favorable or unfavor-
able impression upon all who enter
and go out. Uneven steps, sloping
walks, slippery places, sticking doors,
squeaky hinges, doors that slam with
a bang, doors hard to open or close,
all cause customers some: irritation
or bad feeling, and while these are in
most cases but very small things,
they hinder the successful selling ot
goods.

The internal arrangement of the
store, the layout of the counters and
shelving, the location of the goods
and the ways in which the goods are
displayed are all important factors in
building a good impression in a cus-
tomer’s mind. If that impression is
not good, it will be bad.

One of the difficult matters abott
all of these details is that what gives
good impressions to one customer
does not necessarily appeal to an-
other in the same way. The best that
a retailer can do is to build and plan
his store and its displays in such a
way as to appeal to the largest possi-
ble number. It will be impossible
to suit everybody perfectly.

Next in order among the things
likely to attract the customer’s atten-
tion and to produce ideas and conse-
quently feelings is the salesman him-
self. The way he approaches the cus-
tomer, the way he stands, walks, his
looks, his interest, the way he is dress.
ed, his voice, the way he speaks, his
cleanliness of clothes and person are
highly important factors in giving
a good or bad impression in the cus-
tomer’s mind.

The salesman needs to be appropri-
ately dressed for his work. Not too
flashy or richly, nor too poorly. Eith-
er extreme will attract attention to
itself and will detract from the pur-
pose of the store and of the salesman
to sell goods, Jewelry and ornaments
of all kinds are likely to give trouble.

I once knew a traveling salesman
who said that his house gave him a
diamond stick pin for a Christmas
present because of his excellent work.
He said to me, “Do you know, that
stick pin lost me more sales than any
other thing I could mention? Often
when I had a customer on the poiny
of getting deeply interested in my
proposition, his eye would catch that
diamond and he would look at that
instead of me, with the result that I
had to go all over my selling talk
again.”

The importance of the voice of the
saleman is nowhere so evident as in
the use of the telephone. Not one per-
son in ten knows how to use the tele-
phone properly. Nothing goes over
the wire but the sound of the voice.

 

 

 

10

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

August 29, 1917

 

If the face is wreathed with smiles, if
the eyes sparkle with pleasure, while
the voice is cold and reserved, the
listener at the other end of the line
gets nothing but the cold, reserved
voice expression and forms his im-
pressions of the speaker according-
ly.

Another matter of importance is
the salesman’s breath. Doctors tell
us that one person out of every eight
or ten has a bad breath. I need not
tell you that this makes a difference
in selling. The unfortunate thing
about it is that the person who has
a bad breath never knows about it
until told. Store managers should
handle cases of bad breath in a frank
manner, and every salesperson should
make sure that his or her breath is
right by getting some frank friend
to say whether the breath is sweet
or not.

Successful retail selling rests upon
a thousand and one details, all per-
formed well. Good retail salesman-
ship consists in making all the condi-
tions right for the display of our mer-
chandise under favorable conditions,
and then in showing the merchandise
in detail just as the customer wants
it shown. Paul H. Neystrom.

——_..-2——___
Remarkable Growth of the Condensed
Milk Business.

Few people realize the extent of
the recent development of the busi-
ness of drying or condensing milk in
this country. Only a comparatively
few years ago the number of estab-
lishments engaged in this
could be ccunted on one’s fingers and
toes. To-day we are informed that
there are about 250 such plants with-
in our borders and this number is
being added to very rapidly.

industry

The effect that this rapid develop-
ment has had upon the production of
other dairy products
great. No definite figures of output
are available but we are

may be very
informed
from a reliable source that a manu-
facturer of condensed milk,
in touch with the industry,

closely

recently

that the in-
E output of condensed
and dry milk this year was sufficient

stated in Washington
crease in the
11

to very nearly account for the existing
shortage in our reserve of
butter.

This great
of concentrated milks
iefiy to the war. wl
a tremendous increase to our export
trade. The extent of this

may be judged by

production
has been due
rhich has brought

increase
the latest reports
Department of Commerce.
During the eleven months ending
May, 1914, before war was declared,
our total exports cf condensed milk
were 14,987,676 pounds. This quan-
tity was increased to 34,906,181 pounds
the same period the following year,
to 130,901,388 pounds during the
eleven months ending May, 1916,
nd for the eleven months ending
fay, 1917, we shipped out 218,811,997
pounds.

of the

tw

There has lately been some report
quieter market for condensed
milk, and rumors that the embargoes
against neutrals will reduce future
export outlets. These embargoes may
have some effect and the higher re-
tail prices now prevailing will tend
to reduce our domestic consumption.
But on the other hand we have the
enormous demand for condensed milk
to feed our army and the continued
demands from the Allies, and the
various relief societies. To-day our
condenseries are still outbidding
a competing outlet for milk
and there is no sign as yet that the
industry has been over-developed.
—_——_+- > ____
The Pacifist.

I do not want to go to war

(I fear I might be shot)
My flag? It’s but a piece of cloth,

My country? Tommyrot!
T'll argue with the enemy,

And talk him sane again.

It is the only thing to do,
With such mistaken men!

or a

many

I'll let him walk upon my neck,
And rip and swear and rave

And when he’s all worn out, I'll say
Decidedly, ‘‘Behave!”’

But should it chance that he forgets
Himself, and. kills me?—Boo!

I won't be here to care a hang
What happens, then, to you!

 

 

This is an exact copy of a bill of goods we shipped to J. K. Jacobs, June 22nd,
1864—fifty-three years ago.
Keokuk, Iowa, June 22nd. 1864, Mr. J. K. Jacobs bought of S. Hamill & Co.,
Wholesale Grocers, No. 100 N. E. Corner Main and Fourth Sts. Terms cash.
Gross Fare Net @ Total
Me tee ee MCR ee 130% less 12% 118 a3 $ 15.69
more MC Bee lL. 112 10 11.20
On voc Dwight Soda _..........;.. 60 19 6.25
ie hest No. 25 W. EH fea _........... 70 less 16 54 1.88 101.52
Me ae aerial Tee ol cic... 76 ~=6less 16 60 175 105.00
be ee So Crushed Sugar ........2..... 96 less 13 83 ,26% 22.35
% Ble 35c “Try Me’’ Tobacco ........ 37 .26 9.98
% Doz. Handled Shoe Brushes ....... 2.50 1.25
1 Dor. Com. Shoe Erushes .;........ 2.00
ok tec Alam ws... 29 7 2.28
. Box voc Coopers . 2... iee sae eel. 30 4l, 1.60
Seem MMECHOS (cols o te 1.06 5.00
. Doe tone Walte Cords ............ 3.50
Lion i Ma Rope ..... LL... 3914 25 9.88
. coe 2 Woon Palle ...........,.....- 3.40
. Der. 2 Hoop Falls ........2c..%-... 3.75
Loon oer Vine | ges ees. 10 5 .70
Poaeeece PRY Lo. eos ec eee le, 12 7% .90
. Box Se? City Glass ............. 5.75
be te No. 1 Mackerel ..............2. 10.75
7 Bunches Cotton Yarn 2-7, 3-8, 2-9 .. 6.50 45.50
Ree ee. CO ETON 8 eee 8, 8.84
Deer oe Meer oo i cee 72 less 21 251 17% 44.37
ee 200 eer og ees 303 less 22 281 .20% 58.05
ee OE Re 0 oc oo 19 1.15 11.50
1 Box Star Tins Tobacco ............ 2014 -85 17.43
| Box Slow Cake Tobvaces ..........-. 17 -80 13.60
| Box Ne Pius Tobacce ..............; 20 .65 13.00
L Bae Try Peaches |... ........ssecsss 53% Aa 9.09
Box W. Basins .......;......... 5.50
Sox Vite Crackers ..-:..--:..2.-:% 4.50
§ Bdle Bags Paper, 3-80, 3-100, 3-125 9.15
te Fit FIBRE Qj. 2 ose cis eas 5 less 7s 4.00
PO oe ee oe ee eee vee 50
$567.78
a Bae Prime Coffer ......65...4:--5-. 166 46 76.36
$664.14

 

 

 

Time to Stock Lanterns

We have just received two

 

 

The lantern season is now nearing.
carloads of

Defiance No. 2 Short Globe and
Triumph No. 2 Cold Blast
lanterns, made by the Defiance Lantern and Stamping Co., which we are

offering at right prices. Mail in your order now while our stock is com-
plete.

 

Michigan Hardware Co.

Exclusively Wholesale Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

American Sugar Refining Company
SAVE THE FRUIT CROP

Our advertising is telling millions of people that if
they use more canned and preserved fruits they
will not only help to stop the great waste of fruit,
but will also have delicious, healthful and econom-
ical foods to vary winter’s menus.

This advertising will create a greater demand for Domino Granu-
lated, the best sugar for canning and preserving.

American Sugar Refining Company

The Most Complete Line of Sugar in the World

 

 

 

 

Perkins Brothers

Jersey
Peanut Butter

Has a rich delicious peanut butter flavor the
children love to taste. Wise mothers serve it
because they know it makes strong, healthy
children and reduces the high cost of living.

Mr. Grocer, demand Jersey Peanut Butter
from your jobber and watch your sales on this
product increase.

Only the best peanuts are used in making
Jersey Peanut Butter. Quality comes first.

Write us if you cannot buy from your jobber.
«

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Perkins Brothers, Inc.
Bay City, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 29, 1917

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Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso-
ciation

President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.

Vice-President—Patrick Hurley, De-
troit.

Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Bent-
ley, Saginaw.

Executive Committee—F, A. Johnson,
Detroit; H. L. Williams, Howell; C. J.
Chandler, Detroit.

 

 

 

Difficult Task Ahead For Administra-
tor Hoover.

The act of Congress which has
thrown upon an individual the power
to control the trade in foods and other
necessaries has placed upon the
chosen Food Administrator, Herbert
Hoover, a_ responsibility which no
man can fulfill by individual effort if
it be assumed that the duty imposed
involves a revolution of existing agen-
cies of distribution. The field of
trade conditions, methods and cus-
toms in all the numerous commodities
of farm production is so broad, so
varied, that no one man could master
the details of all, weigh causes and
effects, and direct changes of trade
movements which could reasonably
be expected to economize distribu-
tion. Mr. Hoover evidently appre-
ciates this fact. He has drawn to-
gether at Washington numbers of
men supposed to be especially quali-
fied by experience to estimate trade
conditions in different commodities,
and to suggest methods of improve-
ment and restriction upon a genera!
principle that producers must get
enough to encourage an ample pro-
duction and vet that consumers must
obtain supplies at reasonable pr’ces
These men have undertaken a d ffi-
cult task. In some lires of staple
product the more fully they under-
stand the prevailing conditicns and
economies of distribution the more
difficult will it be for them to suggest
changes and restrict‘ons with any
confidence of beneficial results, for
the wise man, as well as the angel,
may fear to tread where fools would
rush in blindly or misled by fa'se
conceptions.

When it comes to forcing changes
in the distribution of dairy and poul-
try products it is to be hoped that
nothing will be done to disrupt the
existing machinery without the most
thorough knowledge of its compara-
tive efficiency and economy. It is to
be hoped also that speculative profits,
so far as they may be gained in the
essential carriage of goods in cold
storage to equalize seasonal differ-
ences in production, may be judged
from the experience of several years
and not by any one alone. An ex-
amination of the results of such deal-
ings during a period of years will
show conclusively that no control of
market values contrary to the law
of supply and demand has been pos-

sible when a seasonable supply and
demand are considered, and that ex-
ceptional profits have been, in the
main, balanced by exceptional losses.
both arising from a failue to estimate
future conditions accurately—a fail-
ure that will inevitably be met occa-
sionally, no matter who, or what
combination of circumstances, de-
termines the general policy of ac-
cumulation and unloading so long as
men lack omniscience. And the ex-
treme uncertainty cf financial results
from the necessary business of con-
serving perishable foods for seasons
of natural scarcity would make ut-
terly destructive any policy that
would limit the normal profits of op-
erators while leaving them to bear
the normal losses.

—_—__»+>___
A Sidewalk Business Getter.

A Los Angeles dealer painted
bright lines of paint from h‘s window
to the curb. They attracted immedi-
ate attention from everyone who
passed that way and as they converg-
ed at the show window, they drew the
eye to the goods. The paint lines
extended up the store front to the
glass, where they were continued
within by strips of crepe paper of the
same shade and width and each of
these strips terminated at some of-
fering of merchandise which was
marked at a special price.

 

Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color

A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter
Color and one that complies with the
pure food laws of every State and of
the United Statee

Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co.
Burlington, Vt

 

 

Use Half as Much

Champion Motor Oil

as of other Oil
GRAND RAPIDS OIL CO.

 

 

Coleman

(Brand)
‘Terpeneless

LEMON

Pure High Grade

VANILLA

EXTRACTS

 

Made only by

FOOTE & JENKS
Jackson, Mich.

Vinkemulder
Company

 

 

Headquarters for
Bananas
Oranges

Lemons

Home grown
and
Southern

Fruits
and
Vegetables

Send for our weekly price list

 

 

Vinkemulder
Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

Were a Co.

 

We are the Largest Buyers
Poultry, Eggs, Packing Stock
Butter and Veal

IN THIS CITY

If not receiving our quotations write us,
Get in touch with us before selling.

20-22 Ottawa Ave., N. W.
Grand Rapids Michigan

 

 

 

 

NERS

THE BEST

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MY SIGNATURE

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Paris Green Arsenate of Lead
Get Our Prices

Reed & Cheney Co.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

Mr. Flour Merchant:
You can own and control your
aCe oe: ee EO CELT MOC). a: MEE

man instead of an order taker.

Write us today
for exclusive
sale proposition
covering your
beet bd <1 COdY

Ne dasoytl

Flour

We mill strictly
choice Michigan
Wheat properly
blended to pro-
duce a satisfac-
tory all-purpose
family flour.
GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN & MILLING COMPANY.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

eer Sack ideal hia the flour as and the dirt OUT.

 

Rea & Witzig

PRODUCE
COMMISSION
MERCHANTS

104-106 West Market St.
Buffalo, N. Y.

 

Established 1873

 

Live Poultry in excellent de-
mand at market prices. Can
handle large shipments to ad-
vantage. Fresh Eggs in good de-
mand at market prices.

Fancy creamery butter and
good dairy selling at full quota-
tions. Common selling well.

Send for our weekly price cur-
rent or wire for special quota-
tions.

Refer you to the People’s Bank
of Buffalo, all Commercial Agen-
cies and to hundreds of shippers
everywhere.

 

 

 

CONGRESS TIRES

Congress Non-Skids are daily proving their
absolute reliability and exceptional durability
by giving thousands of users hundreds, often
thousands of miles of sat sfying service in
excess of their guarantee.

Yet Congress Non-Skids are moderate
priced.

You will insure yourself real “satisfying
service’’ from your tires, at less cost per
mile, by making your next new tire a Con-
gress Non-Skid.

Distributors,

Sherwood-Hall Co., Ltd.

Ionia Ave. and Louis St. Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

W ANTED at Moseley Station, experienced capable man to

St take charge of warehouse and do the work in
buying Beans, Potatoes, Seed, and selling Coal,
Must have temperate habits and furnish good references in regard to

Man with wife, preferred, to live in our
MOSELEY BROTHERS, Grand Rapids, Mich.

ability, habits and character.
house at Moseley. Address,

Cement, Salt, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

EGGS

Stock—always in the market, quick returns.

not receiving our weekly quotations write us.

KENT STORAGE CO.

WE BUY
WE STORE
WE SELL

Make us your shipments when you have fresh sais Eggs. Dairy Butter or Packing
We sell Egg Cases and Egg Case material. If

EGGS

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 29, 1917
: : : ae : : : 3 UITE apart from the possibility that
y = : F I N AN C I A L z he may die before you do, is it fair
|, So : Ut - = x to burden an already busy friend with
—y) \- a L | ey S the responsibility or administering your
nw Le 1 Sy estate and advising those you leave

 

 

 

 

Effective Food Control Measure Now

in Effect.
Written for the Tradesman.
Touching general business so

closely, the food control measure re-
cently passed by Congress is of vital
interest to all concerned, the banker,
merchant, manufacturer. professional
man and wage earner. From careful
study of the situation unbiased opin-
ion has it that no corporation, firm
or individual engaged in business
along legitimate lines need entertain
any fear of disaster in connection
with the administration of the law
by Herbert C. Hoover. His an-
nouncement, issued immediately af-
ter his notificaticn of appointment,
following a conference with the Pres-
ident, gives good grounds for the
statements made above. It is clearly
in accord with the expressed senti-
ment of the public concerning the
need and scope of regulation and
should cause no anxiety to those
whose methods of doing business de-
mand a reformation little short of
revoluntionary, The announced pur-
poses of the administrator of the
measure is in full accerd with what
the framers of the law intended should
be its functions—the elimination of
vicious speculation, extortion and
wasteful practices, the stability of
prices, conservation of home
plies, safeguarding of exports and full
co-cperation with the Allies in feed-
ing their people. In other
Mr. Hoover's energies will be de-
voted to conserving necessary sup-
plies at home: to prevent exploita-
tion and extortion and to extend to
the Allies aid deemed essential and
even vital to American interests dur-
ing the progress and until the end of
the war.

Instead of taking an antagonistic
course with regard to the business
men of the Nation, the food admin-
istration courts their co-operation.
There is no thought of interfering
with legitimate trade, industry or
commerce. This is clearly shown by
one of Mr. Hoover’s statements. in
which he says: “I do not helieve
that drastic force need be anplied to
maintain economic distribution and
sane use of supplies, by the great
maicrity of the American people. 1
have learned a deep ard abiding faith
in the intelligence of the
American business whose aid
we anticipate and depend upon to
remedy the evils developed by the
war, which he admits and deplores
as deeply as ourselves; but, if there
be those who expect to exploit th's
hour of sacrifice; if there are men or
organizations scheming to increase
the trials of this country we shall not
hesitate to apply to the full the dras-

sup-

words,

avetage
man,

tic coersive conferred

us in this instrument.”

powers upon

The meaning of this statement is
plain. Nor can there be any misun-
derstanding as to the class for whom
it is intended. Instead of
with the situation
tionally or with

dealing
locally, or sec-
separate individuals
or interests, the effort will be made to
effect constructive
as will render

such regulations

gambling, extortion and
other wasteful practices impossible.
The public is promised definite re-
lief from the exactions of business
pirates. Those whose energies have
been devoted to the invention of trade
precesses which cheat the producer
and consumer alike and bring into
disrepute honest trades will be dealt
with according to their desserts. The
administration of this food control
law, if carried out along these lines,
means that the unscrupulous com-
binations now contrclling the sources
of supply of agricultural products,
those of the mines and the forest,
of the products commonly recogniz-
ed as among the necessaries of life,
will be broken. When this is ac-
complished thrcugh the operation of
law, and in a calculated to
strengthen rather than weaken both
individual and collective honest ef-
fort, the people of the United States
will have cause to rejoice.

way

outside oi

e individuals
loover says: “Seventy per

c
As to th
trade, Mr. I
cent, of the our people are well known
to be as thrifty and careful as any in
the world and they consi me but lit-
tle or no more than is necessary. It
is not too much to ask the other 39
per cent. by similar living to reduce
their The United
States has in its abundance and its
waste an ample supply to carry the
distressed abroad, as well as the pop-

consumption.

ulation at home, over the next winter
without suffering.” i

Late authentic advices indicate the
demand of producers and manufac-
turers of food stuffs that a maximum
price be fixed will be complied with.
There is sound econcmic reasoning
back of this demand if the Govern-
ment is to exercise control over these
commodities. It would be plain in-
justice, amounting to confiscation of
fruits of labor and industry, if the
public thrcugh the Government should
seize foodstuffs and fix any ‘price
they might elect to pay for them.
Such a policy would defeat itself be-
cause neither production nor manu-
facturer can be carried on success-
fully without being allowed a reason-
able profit. The farmer, the packer,
preserver and manufacturer of food
stuffs is entitled to an assurance of
profit under Government control and

behind ?
HE Grand Rapids Trust Company
makes a business of such matters
and is especially equipped through train-
ing and organization to handle them
efficiently. Its service costs no more.
ONSULT your attorney today, in-
struct him to draw your will and
in it name this company as trustee or
executor.

Send for booklet on ‘‘Descent and Distribution
of Property’’ and blank form of will.

[FRAND RaPios [RUST | OMPANY

MANAGED BY MEN YOU KNOW :
OTTAWA AT FOUNTAIN. BOTH PHONES 4391

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS INATIONAL CITY BANK
CITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK

ASSOCIATED

 

CAMPAU SQUARE

The convenient banks for out of town people. Located at the very center of

one isla Handy to the street cars—the interurbans—the hotels—the shopping
istrict.

On account of our location—our large transit facilities—our safe deposit vaults
and our complete service covering the entire field of banking, our Institutions must
be the ultimate choice of out of town bankers and individuals.

Combined Capital and Surplius..................$ 1,724,300.00
Combined Total Deposits ..............cccccees 10,168,700.00
Combined Total Resources ............eecceecs 13,157,100.00

 

GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK
CITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK

-ASSOCIATED

 

 

 

      

 

 

August 29, 1917

it is altogether probable that this as-
surance will be given and lived up
to. It has been argued by some pro-
ducers that a minimum price is all
that is necessary. This is a mistake.
A minimum price for the producer
will mean little to the consumer un-
less he is protected by a maximum
price, because extortion could be eas-
ily practiced. The cost of prceduction
of all food stuffs and other necessi-
ties of life is practically a known
quantity, subject, of course, to fluc-
tuations caused by climatic condi-
tions, transportation matters and la-
bor troubles, but the minimum and
maximum prices can be easily adjust-
ed to take care of them. What is
needed—what will make the admin-
istration of the food control no bur-
den—is a square deal and the practice
of honesty in business and trade. If
all in business had practiced and
would practice the Golden Rule,
there would be no occasion for Gov-
ernment control of the necessities of
life. But as there are those who pay
no attention to the Golden Rule,
Government supervision has become
necessary, Both law and authority
are behind Mr. Hoover whose open-
ing announcement gives promise of
square dealing all arcund. If it gets
this, the public will be satisfied.

General business conditions are
everywhere more satisfactory and
the sentiment in financial circles re-
flects a more hopeful condition of
thought as to the immediate future.
Money is becoming easier and much
financing will be accomplished within
the next sixty days without any trou-
ble. As an indication of this, one in-
stance can be cited. A certain build-
ing contract in the East involving a
cost of upward of a million dollars
was secured about a month ago. The
contractor was advised by his bank-
ers to hold off for a while. This week
he was.told to go ahead, he could
have all the money he needed. This
is held to be a good illustration of the
present situation. Another strong
commentary on the strength of the
banks and general financial situation
is the fact that a check for $96,111,-
111.11, drawn by J. P. Morgan & Co.
in favor of the Canadian government
in payment for $100,000,000 Canadian
twenty year war loan bonds passed
through the New York clearing house
without causing a financial riffle.
This is the largest check ever passed
through the clearing house and there
was not the slightest disturbance in
the money market, Railway earnings
are breaking all records. Manufac-
turers in the Middle West are enlarg-
ing their plants and there is renewed
industrial activity which leads no less
a financial authority than Arthur
Reynolds, Vice-President of the Con-
tinental & Commercial National Bank
of Chicago, to say he is convinced the
country is entering upon a period of
the greatest prosperity the country
has ever known.

It is gratifying to note that, ac-
cording to Government reports, more
than 343,000 square miles, to say
nothing of home gardens, have been
planted to important food crops, thus
placing under cultivation one-ninth
of the entire area of the United States.
Bumper crops of corn and oats and

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

record crops of barley, rye, white and
sweet potatoes, tobacco and hay show
that the farmers of the country re-
sponded to President Wilson’s ap-
peal made last April to produce larg-
er crops this year for war use.
Paul Leake.
a
Late News Notes From the State's
Metropolis.

_ Detroit, Aug. 28—Building permits
issued last week for new structures
and additions totaled $351,565, an in-
crease of $19,000 over the preceding
week. The total is far below the fig-
ures for the same week in 1916. Three
brick store buildings at 1099 Chene
street for J. Pilkiewicz, costing $25,-
000; a steel shed and mold loft for the
Imperial Shipbuilding
Atwater street between Dubois and
Chene, estimated at $17,000, and a
warehouse for Armour & Co., on Al-
fred street, between Dequindre and
Orleans, costing $12,000, were the
principal items of the week.

W. L. Perkins, formerly proprietor
of the Crawford House, Windsor, has

purchased the business of the Iro-
quois Hotel, on Columbia _ street,
west, for $25,000. The hotel is six

stories high and has 100 rooms, sev-
eny-five with bath. The place is new-
ly furnished throughout.

A motor trip through the East
planned by James Carleton and fam-
ily, of Lakeview, was brought to an
abrupt end in this city, when the new
Chandler car driven by Mr. Carleton
as far as Detroit was stolen. The
automobile was located after a hunt
of a few days only to be stolen again
shortly before police arrived to take
it in charge. Later the machine was
recovered on a road leading into the
city where it had been abandoned,
none the worse for the experience.

Wisper & Schwartz, dry goods deal-
ers, 2085 Jos. Campau, expect to move
into a new building to be complete’
for them at 2143 Jos. Campau avenue
about Sept. 1. The new store will
have a frontage of 30 feet and a depth
of 100 feet and will be modern in
every respect.

Jacob Majchazk, dry goods dealer,
corner of Canfield and Orleans has
opened a branch store on Jos. Cam-
pau avenue, Hamtramck.

William Burnstein & Co, has in-
corporated to engage in the retail
dry goods business at 1497. Michigan
avenue.

A men’s furnishing goods store has
been opened at 1785 Grand River ave-
nue under the style of the Bradley
Smart Shop.

Donald’s department store, 1404
Mack avenue is closing its stock of
shoes and will devote the space to
additional women’s and men’s goods.

Peter J. Leszczynski has rebuilt his
store at 873 Russell street following
the disastrous fire of June 21. The
store will be remodeled and further
alterations completed this fall.

C. W. Garwood, well known in
Michigan as a former shoe salesman,
has engaged in the dry goods busi-
ness at 88g@Springwells avenue. Mr.
Garwood’s territory consisted of the
Western’ half of Michigan where he
represented a shoe manufacturing
firm for a number of years.

Mrs. S. L. Reed, Grand River ave-
nue, has enlarged the interior of her
dry goods store. An addition was
built to store and the entire build-
ing has undergone alterations.

_ E. Ferguson, who represented
Burnham, Stoep! & Co. in Ohio for
the past three years, has resigned to
engage in business in Bucyrus, Ohio.
H. J. Pratt, former assistant manager
of the wash goods and dress goods
departments is now covering the
same territory, specializing in the
piece goods lines. Mr. Pratt will
make his headquarters in Columbus.

—_—_»-> +» ____

About being carried away with en-
thusiasm, the worst feature is that
we always have to walk back.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

August 29, 1917

 

GOOD ROADS.

What They Mean to Farmer and
Merchant.*

The world is looking upon peoples
and things from the standpoint of as-
sets and liabilities, not figuring solely
from a money basis, but with the idea
of an adequate return from an inyest-
ment, whether it is brains, brawn or
money. The return must be in any one
of the thousand and more things which
go to make up the sum total of what
we are all seeking—happiness.

The automobile has demonstrated to
the farmer and business man that their
aims and ideals are one and that their
social and financial interests are ident-
ical; that they are linked together in a
common cause—general betterment.

The business man knows it is to his
interest that the farmer be prosperous
and happy; that the better the farms
in his range of operations, the better
his business will be. The farmer knows
that a large and prosperous community
within his range is an advantage to
him. They are assets to each other and
are a mutual investment. The longer
the range of the farmer becomes, the
greater is this asset to him; the longer
the range of the business man the more
valuable is the asset to him.

What makes this range? What is this
link connecting the two? Good roads!
The better the road, the larger the in-
vestment and consequently the greater
the asset.

Government investigations give the
following authoritative figures regard-
ing the benefits of good roads: “The
percentage of increase in the value of
rural property due to the improvement
of the roads on which the land fronted
ranged from 41 to 102 per cent. The
cost of hauling was reduced 17.8 cents
per ton mile. The school attendance in-
creased 10 per cent.”

Let the work of making Michigan a
better place in which to live through
building good roads go on!

No modern tendancy, with the pos-
sible exception of the war registration
returns, speaks so eloquently of the in-
creased intelligence of the citizens of
Michigan as does the ever increasing in-
terest in the building of roads.

Progressive railroad men are free to
say that they sce the increased pros-
perity which the railroads derive from
Improved highways mean
more regular distribution of freight
trafic throughout the year. Besides
they increase the amount of territory
the railroads can draw on. In other
words—and this is something the farm-
ers of Michigan are beginning to see
—the profitable farm land comprises a
strip of land on either side of the rail-
roads. The wider this strip is made,
by the building of good roads, the rich-
er and more profitable the territory be-
comes to the carrying companies.

Good roads cut distances in half. A
farm twenty miles from a railroad is
brought within five miles by the means
of good roads.

The farmers of Michigan, and nore
especially the farmers of Tuscola coun-
ty, were among the first to sense the
economic and social value of improved
highways. Their progressiveness and
foresight in building the first state re-

*Address by John I. Gibson, at good

good roads.

 

roads celebration at Cass City, August 24.

ward road in 1905 is what has brought
us here to-day to do honor to Horatio S.
Earle, who made the construction of
State reward road No. 1 possible and
who, at the time this road was built,
was our first and only unconstitutional
State Highway Commissioner.

Good roads invariably increase the
prosperity of the farming communities
by enabling the farmer to haul his crops
to market when most convenient and
when the state of the market warrants,
and not merely when the conditions of
the road will permit.

Good highways greatly increase the
haulage and at the same time are the
means of reducing the wear and tear on
harness, wagons, etc., very materially.
The farming communities where the
wagon roads are good and the means of
communication easy are invariably the
most prosperous, and up to date.

As a factor in increasing the country
school attendance good roads are well
worth while. Investigation shows an
increase in the average school attendance
cf from fifty-nine to 100 to seventy-
eight in 100 in districts where the roads
are improved, as against five in 100
where bad roads are the rule.

Good roads, combined with increased
wages and better working conditions
for farm help, will go a long way to-
ward combating the exodus from the
country to the city.

An attempt has been made, with some
success, to discourage the building and
maintenance of roads while the war
lasts. This is a mistaken policy, for the
reason that good roads are more neces-
sary now than in times of peace, be-
cause of the urgent necessity which war
forces on the country of moving troops.
food and material safely and quickly.

It was the splendid highways of
France which saved the day and forced
the German retreat at the Marne by en-
abling Gen. Galleni to send reinforce-
ments quickly from Paris by automo-
bile.

The question as to the right kind of
material to use in road building is a
much mooted one. It is very evident,
though, that our system of road build-
ing is faulty and that we are wasting
large sums of money by our present
methods. The automobile traffic is
wearing out the macadam roads almost
as fast as they are being built and it
is high time that steps were taken to
put an effectual curb on the speeders
who are the most culpable, so far as
eating up the surface of the roads is
concerned. Bituminous top dressings,
in many instances, have proved inef-
fective. In my opinion, where it is not
feasible to build a concrete or brick
road, a properly constructed gravel road
gives the best service; but until we. es-
tablish a thoroughly organized road
patrol system under state control, we
will continue to spend public money
without getting value received. What
I have said applies for the most part,
to truck or main traveled roads.

Good roads tend to annihilate dis-
tance. They transform the waste places
to fertile lands. They result in better
farms and more cultivated land, better
crops and cheaper transportation, more
and better schools and larger attendance,
better health and prompt medical at-
tention, more  neighborliness, better
rural social conditions and conduce in

no small degree to “better farming,
“better business’ and “better living.”
——_»-+.—___

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: rons.

Kalamazoo, Aug. 28—D. J. Taylor,
the South West Street grocer, an-
nounces that he is going out of busi-
ness and will close out his stock and
fixtures.

E,. P. Wolendrop, the Portage
Street grocer, lost his entire stock
by fire. The loss is fully covered by
insurance,

Nineteen additional long distance
toll circuits will be added to the ser-
vice in this city as fast as linemen
now at work can string the wires.
These will include four new lines
between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek,
which will make twelve between the
two cities. Three additional lines
to. Grand Rapids, two to South Haven,
three to Three Rivers, and seven un-
der construction by the Atlantic and
Pacific Telephone Co. This increase
in lines is rendered necessary by the
great amount of Government business
now being cared for by the telephone
lines.

Mrs. O. H. Clarke, of this city,
President of the Michigan Equal Suf-
frage Association, Friday morning
received from Samuel Gompers, chair-
man of the department of labor of
the Council of National Defense, an
appointment as chairman for Mich-
igan of the women in industry de-
partment of his committee.

Kalamazoo will be represented at
a meeting of health officials from
Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, Jackson
and other communities within easy
distance of Camp Custer, to be held
in Jackscn, September 12, for the pur-
pose of discussing uniform measures
for the control of vice. The meeting
has been called by the health depart-
ment of Jackson at the request oi
Mayor Sparks, of that city.

Beginning Monday, September 3,
the second annual convention of the
Kalamazoo Loose Leaf Binder Co.
will be in progress in this city, con-
tinuing for five days.

H. I’. Prange, a Kalamazoo opti-
cian, is filling an order for a quantity
of glasses to be sent to Paoning Sze,
China, at once, The order was plac-
ed by C. C. Elliott, M. D., an Ameri-
can doctor in China. Special con-
struction is necessary, the ‘frames
having been ordered with a flat bar
between the lenses, instead of the
usual bow, owing to: the peculiar
shape of the Chinese nose. Another
peculiarity in connection with the or-
der is that practically: all of the lenses
must be concave, indicating that they
are near-sighted people, whereas, in
this country, convex lenses are in
greater demand. This is the second
order Mr. Prange has received from
Mr. Elliott. W. S. Cook.

——_e--.——.

Sparks From the Electric City.

Muskegon, Aug, 27—Milton Steind-
ler is going East in a few days. We
hear that the attraction is becoming
irresistible and will soon be transfer-
red home. :

Nick Heeres (Moulton Grocery Co.)
also John Peters each have a new
daughter. No wonder John was
planting extra garden truck. |

A, W. Stevenson reports a fine gar-
den. The misses does the work and
A. W. does the rest. ” :

Say, Gabby, we never wrote any-
thing yet we would not put our sig-
nature to. :

Sullivan merchants, Fred Sheringer
and John Conklin, will have an op-
ening labor day. If everything goes
as planned, it sure will be some time.

The loss by fire of the Peoples
Milling Co. plant Friday night was a
very serious one, as we hear it will
not be rebuilt. Mr, Frost, by hard
work, has made it a paying proposi-
tion and deserves credit.

Anybody wishing a good collector
should write Harold Foote. Refer-
ence, letter sent to delinquent U. C.
T. members, as it surely brought in
the coin. : ‘

Rumor says E. C. Welton is going
to change jobs, He is going out sell-

enemy, it behooves

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ing auto fat and will pose as a living
example of what it will do.

Anyone looking for serious compli-
cations might find it by buying the
Conklin elevator.

We think we ought to shoot the
editor of the Tradesman on sight for
permitting his correspondents to re-
fer so ungraciously to us so frequen-
ly. To wait for sunrise would be put-
ting off an important duty.

E. P. Monroe.

—__»2.—____
Suppressing German Fire Insurance
Companies.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 27—It
having been brought to the attention
of President Wilson that the Amer-
ican branches of nearly all the Ger-
man fire insurance companies are of-
ficered by men whod are disloyal to
the United States, and that many of
them are actually paid spies of the
German government, the President
has under consideration the issuance
of an order prohibiting such com-
panies doing business in this country

during the war.

It is understood that positive evi-
dence on this point has been sub-
mitted to the President by the Amer-
ican Defense Society, of New York,
which has done much to unearth the
workings of the secret spy system
which Germany is maintaining in this
country through the insurance com-
panies and other points of contact
with business men. This system has
its ramifications in every city and
town in the country, its agents being
in many cases, Germans who stand
well in their communities as bankers.
tanners, wholesale dealers, retail
merchants and men engaged in pro-
fessional pursuits.

Considering the perfidious charac-
ter of the work carried on in this
country, in behalf of our common
every patriotic
American to use due care to restrict
his dealings to those who are not
doing business under German names,
corporate or otherwise.

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Depressing figures presented by the
Food Administration as to the world’s
meat shortage have one redeeming
aspect in assuring America of a
steady increase in the stock-raising
industry. The production of hogs,
which had increased slowly for years,
has been accelerated until we have
6,275,000 head more than when the
war began. The production of cattle
had been decreasing; it turned up-
wards with a small rush in 1915; now
we have 7,090,000 head more than at
the war’s beginning. The Food Ad-
ministration says that the number of
sheep has decreased, but it is probably
measuring by the index of the sheep
slaughtered the last fiscal year, and
it is know that the demand for wool
has made stockmen keep animals yal-
uable for this and for breeding. Sheep
have decreased on Eastern farms, but
increased on Western ranges. With
hogs at the astounding price of near-
ly $20 a hundred pounds—the record
of $11 a year ago was thought amaz-
ing—and beef very high, it is certain
that agriculture will bend every ef-
fort to raise more live stock. The
prices of registered breeding-stock
have lately reached unprecedented
figures. The pity is that, from the
standpoint of the world’s emergency,
the best America can do will seem
little, Since the war started the
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Pointers for the Hardware Dealer in
September.
Written for the Tradesman.

In September the hardware dealer
will have more scope for his energies
than in the hot summer months.
Doubtless by means of the midsum-
mer clearing sale, if not by the ac-
tual demand, the seasonable summer
stock has been pretty well cleared
out; and the store is in shape to move
forward the regular fall lines, which
should henceforth be featured.

Early buying is, of course, more
than ever essential in a year like
this. In this connection, have every-
thing ready for the traveler when he
calls. If you put off preparing your
order until the traveler comes, you're
bound to forget some item on the
one hand, or on the other to order
too freely. Look ahead, plan ahead,
figure ahead, and avoid mistakes,

Strictly summer lines should be
pretty well cleared out by the end of
August. Experience has shown that
it is better to sell odd lines in the
waning days of the season at at-
tractive prices than to wait until the
end of the season and carry the goods
over to another year.

With summer goods thus disposed
of, the dealer will find the problem
of featuring fall goods much less dif-
ficult to solve. The stove department
can be enlarged by utilizing the space
formerly given over to bulky lines,
such as refrigerators, lawn mowers,
haying tools and screen doors. The
stove department is, of course, an
item of prime consideration. If pos-
sible, sufficient space should be al-
lowed to show each stove in stock
to advantage and make it possible to
demenstrate them to customers.

With the approach of the shooting
season, hardware dealers will natur-
ally aim to push shooting and sport-
ing goods lines. To get the business
it may be necessary to go after it,
particularly if the dealer is just build-
ing up a sporting goods department.
Yet there is no better way of laying
a sure, sound foundation for this de-
partment. Simply because you keep
sporting goods and your stock is al-
ways clean and attractive is no espe-
cial reason why people should pur-
chase your gocds. The sporting en-
thusiast takes his business to the
man he knows personally. Go out
after the business, and you'll find
that not the least of the advantages
of this aggressive policy is that it gets
you acquainted with sport enthusi-
asts.

Splendid window and interior dis-
plays can be made with guns, rifles,
ammunition, hunting knives, camping
outfits and similar paraphernalia. Ii
desired, special inducements can he
offered to interest the public in this
department. A price to the hunter
bagging the largest amount of game,
or to the winners of the district foot-
ball pennant, is a sure way to get
your store into the public eye and to
draw trade.

With many households the fall is
“moving time,” and with many others
September and October are quite as
active in the paint up and clean up
line as the spring months. The fall
paint campaign can be made a very
important factor in business if it is
given adequate attention, Here,
early preparation and an early start
are very helpful. You should follow
up the prospects whom you failed
to land in the spring, should go after
new prospects, and, finally, should
keep after them persistently. A per-
sistent follow-up campaign by mail,
coupled with personal effort wher-
ever the opportunity offers, will land
considerable business in exterior
paints and interior decorations.

The fall fair presents a good op-
portunity for the aggressive merchant
to advertise his lines. It is of course
the great opportunity for the imple-
ment trade; while a good many hard-
ware dealers have booths in the
“main building” at the county fair
where they give especial attention to
stoves and ranges. Souvenirs and
advertising literature are distributed,
the names of prospects are secured,
and occasionally sales are made.

It is a mistake to put a green junior
in charge of the fall fair booth. Town
and country are both represented in
big afternoon and evening crowds
which the county fair is sure to draw.
It will pay the hardware dealer to be
on hand personally; or, at least, to
put the booth in charge of one of
his most capable salesmen.

Many hardware dealers limit the
fall fair exhibits to heaters and ranges.
This is merely the following out of
an old custom. The exhibit can be
profitably broadened to include new
lines which have not yet had a large
sale and which the dealer is desirous
of introducing. Thus, a dealer last
year featured a demonstration of an
interior finish, with good _ results.
Similarly, aluminum ware can be
shown and even demonstrated. It is
important to select for display and
demonstration lines which will appeal
to both town and country customers.

.One reason why the dealer should.
if possible, make it a point to be
present in person at his booth at the
county fair is, that here is a first class

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opportunity to meet people person-

ally, I am inclined to think that per-
sonality carries more weight with
country customers than with town

customers; and that the former are
more apt to cling to the store whose
owner they know and regard as a
personal friend. So if you can spare
the time, get out to the county fair,
meet people and get acquainted.

In opening his fall business the
merchant should not forget the ad-
vertising value cf demonstration. A
range demonstration, or a series of
range demonstrations, is a good
christener for the fall stove campaign.
Country customers are perhaps more
interested in demonstrations than
city people, probably for the reason
that they come into town more rarely
and hence do not see them so often.
The fall fair gives the merchant an
opportunity to take his demonstra-
tion to the country customer. Where
facilities are not too limited, range
demenstrations can be held; paint
demonstrations; demonstrations of
devices of one sort and another all
the way from the patent potato peeler
to the vacuum sweeper.

Demonstraticn, too, can be used
very effectively in the store this
month. Five minutes of intelligent
demonstration is worth an hour of
argument. It may be possible to get
an expert. It is better still, however,
to train a member of the staff for this
work, or to have some local woman
do it; for, somehow, the demonstra-
tion carried out by the man or woman
we know is more convincing than that
put on by the elib stranger.

William Edward Park.

—_——>+-
The Old Store Crank.

I am an old crank.

I know it, because I hear them say
so behind my back,

It makes me peevish when I see
buyers spending time and energies
on bum jobs when they can’t take
care of their regular customers who
want to pay full price.

I always get cross when I see a
dozen saleswomen gossiping while
customers are trying to spend money
with us.

I lose my temper when I see any-
one sell a garment that doesn’t fit—
for I hate to see us making enemies
for the store. .

I’m a crank about people being on
their jobs, keeping their ambition
going at top speed, looking bright
and cheerful and serving customers as
best they can.

I never can get used to buyers
waiting until all of a wanted article
is sold before they begin to think
of getting more.

I fuss over all the unnecessary
delays I see every day in almost ev-
ery department of the store. I don’t
see why everybody can’t do it now.

I am ill-natured over salespersons
making out addresses wrong and then
kicking because of their credits.

I always have a grouch when I see
expensive stock thrown around care-
lessly.

In short, I’m a grump, grouch, fuss-
budget and _ first-class crank—but
there’s a lot of things to be cranky
about in my store!

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17

Married Men and the Draft.

Detroit, Aug. 28—Protest has arisen
over the rulings of the exemption
boards in drafting married men be-
cause their wives or other depend-
ents may somehow take refuge in
their absence with relatives, near or
remote, Or may otherwise scrape to-
gether the elements of existence dur-
ing the probable duration of the
separation.

Do not such rulings place the ques-
tion of dependency altogether upon
the wrong grounds? If and when it
becomes necessary to draft the en-
tire manhood of this Nation into the
ranks, it goes without question that
the married state will be no cause for
exemption. But we have not yet
come to that point, nor made any ap-
proach to it.

We have enrolled ten million men
of military age, and are engaged, by a
process called ‘selective draft,” in
choosing out of this number some-
thing under 700,000 qualified to serve
in the first contingent, We have
adopted this process for the express
purpose of avoiding the blunders and
injustices of the hit or miss volunteer
system.

Yet, upon the gamble of a lottery,
the boards are now drafting men ac-
tually supporting wife or children in-
to the very first contingent, while per-
mitting literally millions of young
men whose numbers were drawn lat-
er, but who have no attachments or
obligations of any sort to burden
them, to wait until the last. To be
sure, they are excusing men whose
dependents would become public
charges or starve to death immedi-
ately upon the husband's departure.
But is not this a very small part of
the question to be considered?

The drafting of married men nec-
essarily involves the breaking up of

homes, the dishonoring of obliga-
tions, the forfeiture of leases or
house-building loans entered into;

and, in short, produces the most seri-
ous derangement of the social struc-
ture of the Nation. It is not a mat-
ter of individual hardship; it is a pub-
lic calamity.

What though the wife may return
to her parents, or find charity from
other quarters? Is it a good thing
for the state that a woman, adult and
married, should have her home de-
stroyed, the reliance and support oi
her husband taken from her, and the
possibility of maintaining herself in
her own generation ruined; and she
herself made a burden upon the old
generation, upon parents passed their
earning prime, whose life must end
long before hers, or upon brothers
or more distant relatives already
bearing burdens of their own?

It may ultimately be necessary in
this war to draft the entire body of
our manhood, the .whole to-morrow
of our race, taking young boys and
married men together. But surely
this is not the first trick to be pulled
out of the box.

If there is to be any “selection”
at all in the selective draft, the sys-
tem must be applied to take first
those whose departure does not tear
ereat holes in the structure of our
homes and the foundations of so-
cietv. And this last is what the
drafting of married men does, wheth-
er or not their wives keep some nour-
ishment in their bodies during the
husbands’ absence.

Carroll E. Robb.
+.
Hay for Your Breakfast.

Robert M. Cranmer, a chemist of
Penn Yan, N. Yl, is experimenting
with hay as a food for humans. He
has had 100 pounds of prime mixed
timothy and clover hay ground to
the consistency of flour and finds that
the hay flour can be used for bread
making and other food articles for
which flour and corn meal usually

are used.

 

The Business Building Line

Men with the accumulated wisdom of experi-
ence judge in terms of quality rather than in terms
of cost.

The estimation which GEM AUTOMOBILES
and MOTOR TRUCKS are held in is greater
today than ever before—and greatest among those

who have known, used and sold them longest.

Yet GEM MOTORS are not high priced.
They are within the means of the great mass of
The same is true of the stock
It is still to be obtained at

motor purchasers.
of the company.

par—$10 per share.

DEUEL & SAWALL, INC.

Murray Building,
Citz. 7645

Financial Agents

Grand Rapids, Mich. Bell M. 2849

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LHIGRADE, TRUCKS ZHIGRADE,

/HIGRADE,

‘““EXCESSIVE speeds are disastrous to all classes of
motor trucks, yet there are indeed few drivers who can
resist the temptation to speed—they don’t pay for the
repairs to the truck, and perhaps have not the least idea
what such repairs cost.

By means of a Governor, it is possible to absolutely limit
the truck speed without in the least affecting the power
of the engine. Will relieve the vital working parts of
strains and vibrations, eliminate excessive consumption
of gasoline and oil because of the perfect motor control,
save tires and springs and prevent the troubles that put
trucks in the repair shop.

Many cities, and even entire states, are passing legislation
regulating the speed of all motor trucks, for, as everyone
knows, damage to roads and liability to accident increase
in direct proportion to the speed.

The Governor supplies just the right amount of gas to
motor, permitting the driver to get the maximum power
at all speeds up to the danger point, and automatically
shuts off the power when that point has been reached.
The speed can be easily regulated by merely turning an
adjusting screw, yet no amount of tinkering will enable
the driver to get a higher speed unless he breaks the seal,
which is ample evidence that a new driver is needed.”’

SAVE WASTE — APPLY HIGRADE ECONOMY TO
YOUR DELIVERY SYSTEM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HiGRADE Motors COMPANY fp

SALES OFFICES EXECUTIVE OFFICES
23 VOORHEES AVE. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
BUFFALO, N. Y.

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PLANT, HARBOR SPRINGS

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

August 29, 1917

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attractive Equipment for the Shoe
Store.
Written for the Tradesman.

The up-to-date shoe store of the
present is a vast improvement in many
particulars over the old-fashioned
shoe store of other days. Furniture,
equipment and accessories have serv-
ed to brighten it up and make it ever
so much more attractive. Shoe store
furniture to be sure isn’t bcught and
installed merely for the sake of beau-
tifying the store. Floor coverings.
seatings, fitting stools, mirrors, dis-
play cases and cabinets, and whatever
else the store may possess by way of
furniture and equipment, are designed
of course to answer certain needs,
but it is certainly to the credit of re-
tail shoe merchants and the manufac-
tures who produce furniture and ac-
cessories for the shoe store that these
things have been made attractive as
well as serviceable.

Take seatings for example. Time
was when the plainest of chairs or
very unattractive settees of the most
inexpensive sort were used. They
were amply strong to support the
customer’s weight while being fitted,
but such things had no artistic merit,
no charm as furniture. But now the
progressive shoe store is provided
with rich and sumptuous seatings.
The chairs or settees, as the case
may be, are made of fine selected
cabinet wood—generally quartered oak
—and beautifully finished and uphol-
stered. Inasmuch as floor space is
an important item in the shoe store,
these seatings are required to furnish
the maximum of seating capacity
along with the minimum of: bulk.
This requirement has furnished the
manufacturer of shoe store furniture
with a very definite problem. But
he has worked it out satisfactorily.
Chairs and settees admirably suited
to the requirements of the shoe store
—creations that leave almost nothing
to be desired—can now be had. One
can get in them in stock finishes—i. e.
in almost any of the usual finishes
such as golden oak, fumed, early Eng.
lish etc., or one can have them made
up in special finishes. The better
sort of seatings mow to be had pos-
sess real merit as furniture. The de-
signs carry style, The chairs or
settees have character. They help
to enhance the beauty and charm of
the room in which they are placed.

In the matter of cabinets and show-
cases even more progress has been
made, for it is in this respect espe-
cially that the shoe store has made
its most notable progress. The old-
time store had very limited facilities
for interior displays and trims. There
were tables and ledges and perhaps

a single small glass case, but for the
most part only a monotonous disp‘ay
of cartons along the walls of the store,
Even these were not uniform. It was
only at a later date that uniform car-
tons were introduced. And of course
the merchandise displayed on tables
and in open bins (if indeed the lat-
ter could be styled a method of dis-
play) couldn’t long be kept in good
condition. So the old type of shoe
store was not a very attractive place.
People were not drawn thither by
the charm of beautiful furniture,
equipment and furnishings but rath-
er by definite shoe requirements.
But shoe dealers have learned that
it pays to make the shoe store attrac-
tive, and that one of the very best
ways of making the shoe store in-
viting is to equip it with display
cases and cabinets wherein may be
revealed the charm of attractive shoes
and footwear ornaments and acces-
sories. So, in addition to the window,
which exhibits such things to the peo-
ple on the street, there are now in-
terior cases and cabinets for display-
ing these things to people in the
store. The very first case one fre-
quently encounters is the so-called
island case, which is located between
the windows of some stores of mod-
ern design. In one shoe store the

writer calls to mind, there is a cabinet’

or case on the inside of the store di-
rectly in front of the entranceway,
with doors to the right and left lead-
ing into the store room. Its base is
on a level with the floor of the win-
dows—i. e. about sixteen inches above
the street level—and it extends as
high as the top of the window. The
upper part is made of glass on the
four sides, and provided with glass
shelves at intervals of sixteen to
eighteen inches, The case is five feet
and a half in width and sixteen inches
in depth, and stands about seven or
seven and a half feet in height.
The glass counter arrangement is
growing in popularity. One of the
merits of it is that it can be added
to like the so-called elastic book-
case. One can start with a single
section and then keep on adding sec-
tions. Some dealers have an impres-
sion that their floor space is too val-
uable to be taken up by counter
cases, but my own feeling is that they
are badly mistaken. But granting
that such is the case, one still has
wall space that may very well be
spared for this purpose. And so we
have what I have termed the wall
cabinet. It doesn’t take up any floor
space whatever, for it is built in the
wall. In front it is flush with the
shelving, and it extends back of
course to the wall. It should have a
frame about it in harmony with the

 

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ESTABLISHED 1864

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woodwork of the rcom, and it should
be neatly finished inside and illum-
inated to bring out the best results.
It serves to break up the monotomy
of the usual stock arrangement. And
it provides a good place for the dis-
play of fine foctwear.

Every argument that anybcdy can
use for displaying footwear in shoe
windows applies ‘to interior foot-
wear trims. For people are looking
around while in the store. Even tf
they do not have to wait for a clerk
to attend their needs, there are mo-
ments between fittings when they
have an opportunity to look around;
and then of course during rush hours
there are times when customers must
wait their turn. While they are
waiting, why not have someth‘ng they
can look at? Attractive trims in
nearby cases or in wall cases will im-
mediately catch the eye and supply
them with something worth seeing.

In the matter of foctwear orna-
ments and jewels, fine footwear cre-
ations and findings of all sorts, the
display is the big end of the game.
The goods don’t move until they are
attractively displayed. The shoe
dealers who are grumbling about find-
ings not selling will generally be
found to be the fellows who are not
displaying findings in any com-
mensurate way. They are waiting on
the call that doesn’t come. Let the
people see what you've got in these
lines.

All of which means that in order
to get into the game and round up
the trade in paying quantities, one
must make his store attractive. This
is accomplished by means of attrac-
tive furniture and fixtures. They cost
money, to be sure, but this is the
point—they pay. Cid McKay.

Activities in Michigan Cities.
Written for the Tradesman.

M. H. Hoisington, of the Bond
Steel Post Co., Adrian, is giving half
his time to the duties of Secretary
of the local Chamber of Commerce.

Owosso has prepared plans for a
city office building and rest room.
The rest room is provided in compli-
ance with the State law.

Machinery has arrived for the new
potash plant at Marquette, an indus-
try that will utilize all the wood ashes
of the county.

Niles suffers a severe loss in the
destruction of the T. W. Ready cap-
sule factory by fire, which throws
100 people out of work. The busi-
ness will: be removed to Chicago.

Muskegon has adopted a jitney bus
ordinance, which takes effect Sept.
15. Owners must pay a license tax
and file a bond for $2,000. Drivers must
be examined by the chief of police.
No passengers will be allowed to
ride on running boards. The license
tax ranges from $10 to $20 a year,
depending on size of car.

Chippewa county is getting ready
for a big fair to be held at the Soo
Oct, 1-3.

Flint has adopted new license fees
for peddlers which considerably re-
duce the charges adopted five years
ago. They are as follows: For sell-
ing articles other than fruit and vege-
tables, on foot from house to house,
$15 per year; for selling stuff other

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

than fruit and vegetables from horse-
drawn wagons, $20 per year; same
from motor trucks $25; for sub-sell-
ing fruit or farm produce from cart
or wagon, $3 per year. The ordinance
does not require a license from those
who sell articles made or produced
by themselves. A bond of $100 a
year with two sureties is required.

Ann Arbor is preparing to enter-
tain 800 delegates at the Knights of
Pythias grand lodge convention, to
be held there Sept. 4-7.

Saginaw has 552 acres of “food pre-
paredness” gardens, which does not
include hundreds of small garden
plots in backyards.

Government agents have been in
Calumet for the past ten days going
over the books and cost sheets of
the mining companies and conferring
with officials on the cost of produc-
ing a pound of copper. Similar data
is being secured in other mining dis-
tricts and is believed to be for the
purpose of enabling the Government
to set a price on copper for war
needs. _

Detroit has bought cne-tenth of its
fuel supply, paying $3 a ton for 20,000
tons and $3.25 for another 1,000 tons.
The city recently rejected all bids on
200,000 tons, because the price was
uniform at $3.25 a ton, the $3 Govern-
ment limit, plus 25 cents for broker’s
charge. '

The Upper Peninsula Development
Bureau will hold its next meeting
Aug. 30 at Sault Ste. Marie.

Cadillac’s new auto truck plant con-
tinues to expand, the new building,
a second unit, 65 x 160 feet, being al-
most ready for use.

Battle Creek is trying a new plan
of handling traffic at two of the busi-
est downtown corners. Two officers
are stationed at each crossing, one
in the middle of the street to direct
traffic, while it is the duty of the oth-
er to answer questions and direct per-
sons across the street.

The R. S. Elliott Potash Co., com-
posed of Reed City men, is a new
industry at Big Rapids and has in-
stalled a two-kettle ashery to take
care of the wood ashes at that point.

Almond Griffen.
—_2+ 2+ >—__—_

Of course we all want to get on the
safe side, but it’s often a question
which is the safe side.

by Quality
Boosted

by Consistent

Advertising |

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Our Specialty: ‘‘Royal Oak’’
FOR SHOEMAKERS
Bends, Blocks and Strips
Shoe Store Supplies
Wool Soles, Socks, Insoles, Etc.

THE BOSS LEATHER CO.
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Shoes That Make Both
Friends and Money
For You

Are the shoes you should tie up to.
the country find in

The BERTSCH Shoe Line

all the good features of both style and quality.

The BERTSCH shoe line will please most of the
people who come into your store.

Dealers in all parts of

It will make friends of them for you and your place
of business.

This makes the BERTSCH a line you should tie up to

_ Get started on this line—you will find it the best
trade-puller and money-maker on the market.

 

 

HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO.

Manufacturers of Serviceable Footwear GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

USED AUTOS

—My Specialty. Largest Stock—
Runabouts $65—$350 Touring Cars $150 and up
What have you to trade? Easy terms.

Dwight’s Used Auto Ex. 230 Ionia, N.W.

 

 

 

Work Shoes That Could Really be Called
“Fine” Have Been Rare for the
Past Year or Two

 

Our No. 2316 @ $3.35 is an exception

 

Of course we
don’t mean that
this work shoe is
adress shoe. It’s
not that and don’t
even resemble
one.

It’s a work shoe
of extra clean and
smooth black
moose stock, with
extra quality
soles; with finer
workmanship
than is usually
found in goods of
this character.
The soles are full
double. Eyelets
full length.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try a case of No. 2316 and you will be greatly pleased.

Grand RapidsShoe ®Rubber®

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

August 29, 1917

 

 

 

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WOMANS WORLD

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Not 3 Flavors?

Why continue to sell but two
flavorings — lemon and_ vanilla?
Crescent Mapleine, the rich
“Golden Flavour,’’ is just as staple
» aseither. Has more uses. Blends
& with all flavorings—and nearly all
i foods. Makes a wonderful syrup.
f Sell Jemon, vanilla and Crescent
Mapleine. * * Crescent Mfg. Co.,
Seattle. Wash. Order of your job-
ber or Louis Hilfer Co., 1503 Peo-
j) ples Life Building, Chicago.

CRESCENT
MAPLEINE

Bell Phone 596 Citz. Phone 61366
Joseph P. Lynch Sales Co.
Special Sale Experts
Expert Advertising —Expert Merchandising
44 So. Ionia Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

ELI CROSS

Grower of Flowers
And Potted Plants
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
150 Monroe Ave. Grand Rapids

 

Judged by Color of Wool in Their
Laps.

We were sitting in the front room
of the pleasant home of Amelia E.
Barr. The windows were opened, the
faint haze of approaching Indian
summer dimmed the fervor of the
August sun. There were sounds of
merry laughter from adjoining porch-
es, and on a settee in the shade of a
tree on the opposite lawn two girls
sat busily knitting.

“T trust for the glory of my sex,”
said Mrs. Barr, “that the women are
not beginning to treat this Red Cross
work as they would a fad, something
absorbingly interesting in the begin-
ning, but palling as time goes on.
That would be nothing short of a
tragedy.”

There was a pause. She looked
‘over her spectacles at the girls on
the opposite lawn.

“Now that young lady over there is
not remaining true to her colors.
All spring and summer she knitted
industriously every afternoon, and
the wool that flew over her needles
was dark blue or gray. I admired
her for it immensely, I know she
has no brother in the army, and I
learned that she had no sweetheart.
She was not actuated by any person-
al interest, but solely through the
greater instinct of patriotism and
loyalty. She doesn’t know how many
times I have glanced over her way
and said a little prayer for her, and
asked God to increase her number.

“Then one day, while she was mak-
ing a dark blue scarf, she had a call-
er. The caller carried in her arms a
fluffy mass of pale blue wool on which
she industriously knitted, pausing ev-
ery few minutes to try it on. My
little Red Cross worker was inter-
ested. I trembled for the result. A
few days later the girl called again,
and this time she wore a pale blue
sweater with white collars and cuffs.
My little friend tried it on. The in-
fection was beginning to work. The
next day when she appeared on the
lawn she was knitting something of
the palest yellow. Her sister is wear-
ing it now. Yesterday she came out
to take her seat under the trees with
her arms filled with pink wool. My
dear, that young woman has deserted
her colors! She no longer knits for
the Red Cross; she is knitting a rain-
bow collection of sweaters for her
sister and herself.

“Just glance at any porch as you
pass along. A few months ago every
woman was sending her needles
through blue, gray or khaki. Now
she is making something prettier and
it will never be worn in the army,

“I do not condemn. I can only re-
gret. It has meant so much to the

Nation that all the young girls had
joined the ranks of workers. More
than in the material results, for if you
do not know that the sight of every
girl knitting for the Red Cross has
done more to awaken patriotism in
the hearts of the young men than all
the posters, literature and bugle calls,
you do not know the sex.

““She is knitting for me,’ I heard

a young man say the other day; ‘I

can’t do less than fight for her.’

“Then, too, the women are not cur-
tailing expenses as they should. So
much is said about the conservation
of food that the conservation of
clothes is escaping. Every sweater
a girl knits for herself is equal to the
price of two sweaters made for the
Red Cross. Every girl should have
one. But knitting them is so fas-
cinating, the colors are so beautiful,
and the styles so varied, that almost
every girl is making a collection of
them! Just as girls) when I was
young, made a collection of buttons
for a charm string.

““T cannot afford to give anything
to the Red Cross,’ I heard a woman
say a few weeks ago, ‘but I will give
my labor and knit for them.’ I ap-
plauded her, for who could give

more? The second day she passed’

with her knitting, she carried it in an
expensive bag. ‘My dear,’ I said to
her, ‘a paper bag from the grocer’s
would have served the purpose, and
the three dollars that bag cost you
might have been your donation to
the cause.’

“T hope my years give me the privi-
lege of friendly criticism. I am 87
years of age, and I have lived through
several wars, I realize, more than
my younger sisters, what the future
has in store. We learned during the
Civil War that vanity had no place in
a women’s life. We got right down
to the grass roots in those days, and
forgot all personal adornment in the
struggle for existence. We will have
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more than powder and paint and rib-
bons.

“The grocers are now charging
from 2 to 5 cents on every delivery
of groceries. If a woman spends 75
cents, she pays 71 cents unless she
carries it home. I am waiting with
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pick up their parcels and save their
pennies... It is a question of only a
short time when the next step will be
taken, “The price of paper has made
the cost of paper bags a big item
with us,’ the man behind the counter
will say. ‘We will have to charge
you extra for the bags.’ The thrifty
woman will buy a market basket. But
how many women will spend several
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could get one to answer every pur-
pose at the 10 cent stores?

“Or, if she does not want to make
even this expenditure, she will take
the empty bags, of which every kitch-
en has a supply, to market with her,
and put off buying her basket as long
as the supply lasts.”

Mrs. Barr celebrated her 87th birth-
day early in the spring by beginning
work on her 75th novel, and she did
not begin writing until she was past
50 years of age. She has known sor-
row more intimately than most wom-
en. She bore her husband twelve
children, and only three reached ma-
turity. Her husband and two chil-
dren died of yellow fever within a
week, and shortly after her husband’s
death a child was born that lived a
few hours. She spent the best years
of her life in turning from cradle to
coffin, and to cradle again, but her
anguish has not embittered her.

“IT am as interested in life,” she
says, “as when I was at 50, with this
difference. The sorrows of the world
affect me less. As I draw nearer to
the end they become more and more
remote.

“T have had many trials, but they
have all been for my good. I am sure
this war will be for the spiritual good
of the world, or it would not be sent.
We need something to draw us near-
er the Father: to make us think of
more serious things; to awaken us
spiritually, and this war is having
that effect as nothing has had in
years.

“But just tell the young girls for
me that they must not be slackers,
and that just now the world, in pass-
ing their doorsteps, is judging them
largely by the coler of the wool in
their laps.” Francis L. Garside.

—_—_»++_
Monster Picnic Held by Manistee
Merchants.

Manistee, Aug. 27—‘The biggest
boost stunt ever pulled off in West-
ern Michigan.”

This is what Manistee merchants
are saying about the first big annual
merchants and farmers’ picnic, held
at Orchard Beach, Manistee. Here
are a few of the accomplishments of
the picnic:

Entertained the largest crowd ever
assembled in Manistee for a picnic
event—over 10,000 people.

Fed farmer patrons over a ton of
beef and 7,500 buns, with pickles,

bananas, coffee, lemonade, milk,
sugar, etc., in proportion. Every-
thing free.

Parked over 500 farmers’ automo-
biles and over 1,000 teams. ol

The big attraction at the picnic
was the U. S. S. Isla de Luzon with
her 151 bluejackets from the Great
Lakes naval training station, Great
Lakes, Ill, and the Navy band of
thirty pieces, trained by John Philip
Sousa. The band and blue jackets
eave several parades and drills, the
Isla de Luzon being in Manistee
harbor for two days. On the second
day a baseball game between the
Manistee C. A. C. team and the Isla
de Luzon team was played, the lo-
cals winning 7 to 5. The proceeds
went to the Naval Relief Society.

Speakers at the picnic were -Con-
gressman James C. McLaughlin, Pro-
fessors Kock and Carmody, M.
C., and Lieutenant L. M. Weichelt,
We SN we:

Two days prior to the picnic mer-
chants of Manistee held their first
big automobile trade extension tour.
Fifteen cars participated. The pic-
nic was advertised with big banners
on cars, toy balloons inflated and re-
leased on passing farmers’ houses,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

by the distribution of confederate
currency carrying advertising and by
the blowing of herns, each person
on the trip being provided with a
trumpet.

Farmers were reached by a special
letter inviting them to the picnic.
Enclosed with this letter was a ticket
admitting the farmer and his family
to all the entertainment provided by
the merchants of Manistee. In addi-
tion to this the Manistee News-Advo-
cate issued a special picnic edition,
a copy of which was mailed to every
farmer in the local trading area. Bills
and pecsters advertising the event
were also posted extensively about
the county.

The crowd that gathered was the
largest that ever assembled in Man-
istee. The picnic, it is believed, will
have a tremendous influence in in-
creasing the farmer trade of this city,
and merchants are already planning
on raising double the picnic fund
next year. J. C. Beukema.

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Soft Drink Situation in Bad Way.

Saginaw, Aug, 28—As a bottler of
soft drinks, I wish you would turn
yeur 14-inch guns on the soft drink
question in this State, especially the
following drawbacks:

1. Pernicious and continued price
cutting in the face of present high
manufacturing costs,

2. Lack of co-operation in main-
taining bottle deposits and a rigid
conservation of the supply of bottles
which the wasteful Michigan pecple,
dealers and consumers alike, seem to
blindly ignore, when no new bottles
are to be had and second-hand ones
are costing over twice what new ones
used to.

The average consumer is like a child
and should be protected as to the
sugar content and purity of the bever-
ages he is drinking. I make bold to
assert that no concern can put out
goods at the prices some of them are
doing at present and be honest with
themselves or their customers, or,
rather, I should say the ultimate con-
sumers, for only about one retail deal-
er in six cares a whcop for the health,
happiness or satisfaction of the con-
sumer. C. A. Judd.

Mr. Judd is more than half right
in his strictures on the business he
himself represents. There is no line
of business to-day where competition
is so strong, where filthy and unsan-
itary conditions so generally prevail
and unbusinesslike practices are re-
sorted to such an extent as in the
soft drink business. Only a_ short
time ago a druggist in Detroit was
aprehended selling Vernor’s ginger
ale from Vernor bottles which had
been re-filled by a manufacturer who
did business in a filthy horse stable
under unspeakable sanitary condi-
tions. The manufacturers in this line
owe it to themselves to organize a
State association, with membership
open only to men who are doing busi-
ness as it should be done and keep
an inspector in the field to put out of
business those manufacturers who re-
sort to unbusinesslike practices and
conduct their premises under unsani-
tary conditions.

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He was running a small provision
store in a newly developed district,
and the big wholesale dealers found
him very backward in payment of his
accounts.

They sent him letter after letter,
each more politely threatening than
the last. Finally they sent their rep-
resentative down to give him a sport-
ing chance, :

“Now,” said the caller, “we must
have a settlement. Why haven't you
sent us anything? Are things going
badly?”

“No. Everything’s going splendid-
ly. You needn’t worry. My bankers
will guarantee me all right.”

“Then why haven’t you paid up?”

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Stay.

Prices have been advancing for the
last two years, and we are all making
more money than we did_ before.
Passing through a period of rising
prices, no matter what judgment we
showed, provided that we did not sell
short, we have made a profit. We
have experienced prosperity, but there
are things to be said on the other
side.

The wool market is up to stay. Ac-
cording to my judgment, we shall see
a permanently high level of values.
Labor is a big factor in manufactur-
ing to-day. All industries are going
at high pressure and many men are
being used in farming to secure the
necessary larger crops. In this tre-
mendous demand for labor we have
difficulty in keeping our establish-
ments going. We of the textile in-
dustry are fortunate in employing a
large percentage of women and min-
ors as distinguished from machine
shops where men predominate.

Most mills in the country are run-
ning a little short. All fear the re-
sults of the draft and the calling out
of the National Guard is already tak-
ing men, Take our four mills at
Columbia, S. C., as an example. They
employ 1,600. We had had those
mills cnly a few days when the mili-
tia was called to the Mexican border
and 100 of our best men left us. They
are trained men and they will be ca‘'l-
ed again. The effect of the draft we
do not know. Textile establishments,
however, are characterized by the em-
ployment of the younger element of
iabor and many will doubtless be
called.

All recognize that we must make a
radical-advance in wages. When I
was in the West last winter I was
surprised to find how few advances
had occurred prior to last fall. Tex-
tile establishments in the East gave
three increases up to January and
one since then. Taking the Pacific
Mills, these increases compounded
total 45 per cent. The average wage
was $10 before the war; it is $14.50
now.

It is surprising how American dye.
stuff manufacturers have adapted their
product to our needs. With few ex-
ceptions they fill the bill. We now
hear that a large plant is about to be
turned to making synthetic indigo.
We were obliged lately to import
from China. The Pacific Mi'ls
bought indigo in China, paying $200,-
000 above the price paid before the
war, a premium of about $1 per
pound.

The amount of insurance on our
plants and stock is greater than ever

before. Compensation insurance paid
this year is twice what we paid in
1916. Business men have been forced
to borrow large sums of money and
the interest is proving a large item.

Taxation is more important than
heretofore. All corporations have to
carry a large part of the burden of
this war. If the Government takes
away half cf all profits, it will make a
serious hole in assets. If normal
profits are to be based on the averace
profit for 1911, 1912 and 1913, that is
a serious thing, for those were slim
years.

Prices are extremely high. This
may curtail distribution. The basis is
shifting constantly. Every time we
have attempted to set a price new
elements have come in within a few
days to compel a change.

In the future consumption will un-
doubtedly be curtailed, entirely apart
from the fact that so much produc-
tion is going to the Government. Pro-
duction is not full and there is not
enough help to run mills full,

I would not advise anyone to spec-
ulate. We must pursue a policy on
the basis that we are not in business
for a few weeks, but that we will be
in business after the war is over. We
must pursue a policy to keep us in
business. There is nothing to war-
rant fear of the future.

Let me speak in conclusion of Goy-
ernment purchases. It is to the in-
terest of the textile industry to do
its part. Government purchases sca
far as wool gcods are concerned are
a large factor, but not a factor of
serious bearing on our business for
the moment. I do not believe it is
the factor in wool goods that it is in
cotton goods. The Government sud-
denly came into the market for heavy
duck for three times what the coun-
try normally turns out. I know what
the largest producers of duck are do-
ing, and their action is wholly with-
out criticism.

As near as I can get at it, profits
are small,’ ccmpared with profits now
possible in commercial business, or
what the iron and steel industries
are getting on Government work. I
think the textile industry has done
a favorable piece of work under trying
conditions. The Government has at-
tempted not to sacrifice commercial
business, but needs have been such
that all commercial business in heavy
duck has gone by the board. If the
war continues more commercial busi-
ness will be interfered with. Primar-
ily, we must help win this war, but in
doing so we must do what we can
to keep the textile industry on a safe
and sound basis.

Edwin Farnham Green.

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Where Food Survey Is Being Taken.

Washington, D. C., Aug. 28—Food
stocks held in retail establishments
in New York City and in the city and
rural portions of forty-three counties
in various parts of the country are to
be inventoried August 31 by a detail-
ed and personally supervised survey,
conducted by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. Estimates
from these figures will make it possi-
ble to approximate the quantity of
all of the food on hand in such es-
tablishments in the country. To get
this result the counties have been
selected with great care, including
some as presenting conditions which
will reflect varied types of life and
industry. The survey of retail stocks
is only one of the four now under
way, the other three being the stocks
on farms, in wholesale commercial
establishments and storages and in
the homes of the consumers. Aside
from the cities and counties in which
the detailed work will be done, the
survey of retail stocks of food will be
handled by schedules !through the
mails.

The actual work of making the
surveys will be directed by the Bu-
reau of Markets of the Department,
assisted locally by the agents of the
Bureau of Chemistry and of the States
Relations Service. Other local afen-
cies, such as boards of trade, cham-
bers of commerce, retail grocers’ as-
sociations, farm bureau agents, and
other state, county and city officials
have assured the Department of their
assistance. The blanks for detailed
reporting of stocks on hand are dis-
tributed locally in cities by local
health and police officials under the
direction of the Bureau of Chemistry,
and in rural communities by county
agents and patriotic organizations un-
der the general direction of the States
Relation Service.

Aside from New York, where an
inventory will be made, the largest
city selected as a part of the basis of
estimating is Cleveland, Ohio. Its
county, Cuyahoga, was selected be-
cause Cleveland is centrally located
with reference to large industrial
centers and may be considered as a
typical manufacturing and commer-
cial center. A detailed survey of New
York City will be made as a separate
problem: but owing to its large size
it cannot be used as a part of the basis
for estimating for the entire country,
since it would completely overshadow
the total of all the other selected
districts combined.

The second group of counties in-
cludes the cities of Syracuse, N. Y.;
Dallas. Tex.; and Altoona, Pa., with
its outlying towns of Tyrone and
Juniata. These three are thought to
represent conditions as they exist in
a city which denends on manufactur-
ing. one which has a big agricultural
back-countrv, and one which depends
on the mining industry.

The grouping, as a whole is in ac-
cordance with population. The first
group, represented by Cleveland, is
for metropolitan districts with a pop-
ulation of 200000 or more. The sec-
ond group includes counties with
cities of a population of 50,000 to 200,-
000. The third group takes counties
with cities 25.000 to 50,000; fourth,
from 10.000 to 25,000; and so on down
to 2,500, and then certain counties
having no city cr village of 2,500 pop-
ulation.

In the third group of counties are
the cities of Montgomery, Ala.: Tope-
ka, Kans.; Binghamton, N. Y:; and
Sacramento, Cal.

The fourth group includes; Concord,
N. H.; Butler, Pa.; Jackson, Tenn;
Towa City, Ia.; and Walla Walla,
Wash. :

Group five has five cities with their
outlying county population. They
are: Oneonta, N. Y.; Americus, Ga.;
DeKalb, Ill: Bowling Green, Ky.:
and Provo, Utah.

Group six includes ten counties with
cities of from 2,500 to 5,000 and the
index cities are Springfield, Vt.;
Stroudsburg, Pa.; South Boston, Va.;

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Allegan, Mich.; Lake Geneva, Wis.;
McPherson, Kans.; Marshall, Mo.;
Canton, Miss.; Stillwater, Okla; and
Marshfield, Ore.

The final group, in counties having
no towns as large as 2,500 population,
includes 15 towns, as follows: Eaton-
ton, Ga.; Carthage, N. C.; Seaford,
Del.; Rosedale, Ind.; Pembina, N. D.;

Marysville, Kans.; Hartford, Ky.;
Lawrenceburg, Tenn.; Enterprise,
Ala.; Fairhope, Ala.; Rector, Ark.;
Mansfield, La.; La Grange, Tex.;

Castle Rock, Colo.; and Raymond,
Wash.

These places have been selected be-
cause of the impossibility of making
a complete inventory of the stocks
of the smaller retail concerns through-
out the country. This careful and de-
tailed survey of the retail stocks in
the representative cities and rural
districts, together with results obtain-
ed from schedules that are mailed
out, forms the basis on which the re-
tail stocks of the whole country will
be estimated.

It is known, of course, just what is
the actual population of each of the
seven groups represented by the forty-
three counties, and just what propor-
tion their population bears to the
population of the group and to the
country as a whole.

—_+-+—___

Actual Food Conditions in Germany.

Carl Ackerman, the United Press
correspondent in. Berlin until the
severing of diplomatic relations, in-
cludes in his new book, ‘Germany,
the Next Republic”, a schedule which
shows at a glance the food situation
in Germany:

What You Cannot Eat or Drink.

1. Rice.

2. Coffee.

3. Pea,

4. Cocoa.

5. Chocolate.

6. Olive oil.

7. Cream.

8. Fruit flavorings.
9. Canned soups or soup cubes.
10. Sirups.

11. Nuts.

12. Dried vegetables, beans, peas,
etc.

13. Candy (a very limited number
of persons can buy % of a pound
about once a week.)

14. Malted milk.

15. Beer made of either malt or
hops.

16. Caviar.

17. Ice cream.

18. Macaroni.

What You May Eat.
Food obtainable only by card.

1. Bread, 1,900 grams per week per
person.

2. Meat, 250 grams (14 pound) per
week per head.

3. Eggs, 1 per person every two
weeks.

4. Butter, 90 grams per week per
person.

5. Milk, one quart daily only for
children under 10 and invalids.

6. Potatoes, formerly nine pounds
per week; lately, in many parts of
Germany, no potatoes were available.

7. Sugar, formerly two pounds per
month, now four pounds, but this will
not continue long.

8. Marmalade, or jam, 14 pound per
month.

9. Noodles, % pound per person
per month.

10. Sardines, or canned fish, small
box per month.

11, Saccharine (a coal tar substi-

tute for sugar), about twenty-five
small tablets a month.

12. Oatmeal, one-half of a pound
per month for adults, or one pound
per month for children under 12 years.

What You Can Eat
Foods which every one with money
can buy.

1. Geese, costing $1.60@2
pound.

2. Wild game, rabbits, ducks, deer,
etc.

3. Smuggled meat, such as ham
and bacon, for $2.50 per pound.

4. Vegetables, carrots,
onions, cabbage, beets.

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5. Apples, lemons, oranges.

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spinach;

6. Bottled oil made from seeds
and roots, for cooking purposes, cost-
ing $5 per pound.

7. Vinegar, fresh fish, black crows.
8. Toads and snakes.
9. Slippery elm bark for gravies.

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Grand Council of Michigan U. C. T.

Grand Counselor—John A. Hach, Cold-
water.

Grand Junior Counselor—W. T. Bal-
lamy, Bay City.

Grand Past Counselor—Fred J. Mou-
tier, Detroit.

Grand Secretary—M. Heuman, Jack-
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Grand Conductor—C. C. Starkweather,
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Depend on Quibbles to Precipitate
Litigation.

The Tradesman has _ frequently
stated that the possession of a policy
in a stock fire insurance company is
nothing more than a license to sue
and be sued. A striking case in point
is that of Goldberg & Berner, of Bay
City, who find themselves forced tu
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under policies held by them in three
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the fire victims:

Bay City, Aug. 27—Replying to
your favor of Aug. 22, enquiring as
to the defenses of the insurance com-
panies in the Goldberg & Berner
suits, I beg to say they have filed
their pleas in each of said actions,
which are substantially the same. In
addition to the plea of the general
issue or the general denial of the
right of action of plaintiffs, they give
notice of three special defenses which
they will make and attempt to show
on the trial as follows:

1. That plaintiff is not entitled
to maintain its action or recover on
the policy because it is a copartner-
ship composed of four members car-
rying on business in Bay City with-
out having filed in the office of the
County Clerk of Bay county a certifi-
cate in writing setting forth the full
name and address of each person
composing the firm, as required by
Act 164 Public Acts of 1913, and that
the contract of insurance for said rea-
son is void.

2. That the policy is void and
plaintiffs cannot recover because a
change took place in the interest.
title and possession of the subiect of
insurance, without the consent of
defendant, subsequent to the issuing
of the policy and the making of the
contract of insurance, in that the
company had no knowledge of such
change of title and interest.

3. Policy is void and no recovery
can be had thereon because plaintiffs
misrepresented material facts and
circumstances concerning the loss and
the amount thereof and also concern-
ing their interest in the property—the
subject of the insurance—plaintiffs
representing the loss was greatly in
excess of the actual amount thereof
and that it was the sole and uncon-
ditional owner, when the facts were
otherwise and were unknown to the
insurance companies; and that said
misrepresentations were made by
plaintiffs for the purpose of influenc-

ing defendant and to secure the pay-
ment of a larger sum of money than
should have been required, etc.

We do not anticipate any serious
difficulty from these several lines of
defense. There may be some ques-
tions which we will have to prepare
carefully on relative to the construc-
tion of Act 164 of the Public Acts of
1913, but we believe we have our case
in such shape that they will fail to
defeat our right of action. We have
no fear whatever on the question of
proving the amount of plaintiff's loss
and that the loss was an honest one
and that the value of the property in-
sured was fully up to the amount
stated by the insured at and prior to
the issuing of the policy.

They are depending, in our opin-
ion, very largely on being able to
show that at the time the policies
were issued, the insured did not fur-
nish all of the information to the
companies which could have been
furnished relative to their partner-
ship and the persons composing the
partnership, but we have no fears on
this point because under the decisions
of our State and other states of the
Union the insured is not held to an
absolute duty to advance disclosures
not asked for, not enquired about and
not apparent or material at the time
the insurance is applied for. The ab-
solute gcod faith of the plaintiffs in
our pleas is shown and the fact that
at the time the insurance was taken
out some fact or circumstances not at
that time material nor important as
affecting the risk of the insurer which
the insured did not volunteer to dis-
close or make known and which was
not enquired about, the insured hav-
ing acted in absolute good faith can-
not, under the decisions of our
courts be held to be in viola-
tion of the Michigan Standard Poli-
cy. We consider our strong point
is that the title, ownership and
possession of property at the time the
insurance was taken out continued ac-
tually and in every respect the same
frcem that time on until the fire oc-
curred and that the utmost good faith
was exercised by the plaintiffs in all
their communications and dealings
with the insurance companies and its
agent. A further important point in
the case: The agent forwarded the
application for insurance precisely as
he took it to the insurance companies.
They accepted the application and
prepared and forwarded the policy
for delivery, collected the premium
and made no enquiry nor attempt to
get any further information regard-
ing the assured or the nature of their
organization or the character of their
ownership of the property, being ap-
parently satisfied with the conditions
as reported to them in the application
for the insurance by their agent. This
apparent satisfaction continued until
after the fire occurred when, for the
first time, they raised the question
of being properly informed as to the
title of the property and the char-
acter of the ownership. We think
their objection is too late and with-
out force and will not be recognized
by the courts.

We take pains to give these par-
ticulars, as you apparently seem to be
interested in knowing the defense of
these insurance companies and hope
the same will be satisfactory.

James Donnelly,

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August 29, 1917

Sagacious Suggestions from Saginaw
Salesmen.

Saginaw, Aug. 28—Howdy, folks!
Yep, back from my vacation. Course
I worked all the time, just the same.
Can’t be idle these war times, you
know.

Lest you forget where Saginaw is,
I’ll jar your memory. It’s in Michi-
gan and to-day stands out as one of
the most promising cities (outside of
Detroit) from an industrial stand-
point. If you don’t believe me just
have a little patience and watch us
grow.

One of the largest plants soon to
be in operation is the Saginaw Ship
Building Co. This company was in-
corporated only last July and to-day
has contracts to fill amounting to ov-

er $3,000,000, Walter C, Hill, Treas-
urer of the company, and C. W
Stivers, Secretary, have been in

Washington, D. C., for some time
and last week wired President and
General Manager E. W. Wheeler that
they had secured an enormous con-
tract. The ships will be of regular
ocean going freight type, 260 feet long
with a 431%4 foot beam. This means
employment for 1,000 men and is cer-
tainly a big thing for our town.

Another good manufacturing com-
pany here is the Saginaw Plate Glass
Co., one of the largest of its kind in
the U. S. -F. M. Hanson is now on
his way to San Juan, Porto Rico, with
three carloads of glass. Comprised
in this shipment is a complete equip-
ment for three drug stores in the
above named city.

R. T. Mills, of Toledo, Federal in-
spector of grains, spoke to 200 hay
and grain merchants at the Bancroft
Hotel one evening last week.

January, 1918, will find Wilson &
Co., of this city, in their new home
and storage plant on Water street on
the same site where the old plant was
which burned last winter. The
equipment and appliances will be the
most modern designs and construc-
tion throughout.

W. J. Orr, of this city, President
of the Michigan Bean Jobbers Asso-
ciation, is in Washington at the re-
quest of Herbert C. Hoover, Nation-
al Food Director.

We care not for the price of coal
this winter if only they will take the
$ mark off our National dish.

Our food administration announced
last week that 600,000 traveling men
had pledged themselves to a wheat-
less and meatless meal every day. We
will wait and see who makes the
first kick to the hotel proprietor be-
cause there’s no bread or meat on the
table.

Howard Douglas Snyder, local rep-
resentative for the Corn Products
Manufacturing Co., either expects his
wife to join the Red Cross and go to
France or else make application to
Uncle Sam as a cook in case he is
drafted, as he was seen most of last
week at the Y. W. C. A. practicing on
the fair sex the art of cooking onions
and making French fried potatoes in
the same pot containing sizzling hot
Mazola oil.

The following appeared in a local
paper last week:

“Ww. H. Aubrey, manager of the
Hotel Vincent, has already enlisted
ten cooks for service in the war de-
partment at the Battle Creek can-
tonment. He is in charge of recruit-
ing CROOKS for this section of the
state.”

I think the paper owes an apology
to Mr. Aubrey. Having a personal
acquaintance with the gentleman in
question, I have always found him an
honest business man. As for cooks
being crooks, I have nothing to say.
I do know that Howard D. Snyder,
the Mazola man is a gentleman.

The Hart Bros. Co., of this city, the
new wholesale grocery house, has
been incorporated with a capital of
$275,000. They have been in the
flour and bean jobbing business for
years and have warehouses in most
of the principal cities of the Middle
West. They have also absorbed the

MicHiGAN TRADESMAN

Saginaw Valley Canning Co.
lowing are the officers:

President—M. J. Hart.

Vice-President—Fred ‘C. Hart.

Secretary & Treasurer—John T.
Hart.

Directors—Wm, J. Baer, G. E.
Hart. F. C. Hart and M. J. Hart.
They are located on Hamilton ave-
nue, W. S., and are at present doing
an extensive business.

H. F. Schreiber, Secretary and
Treasurer of the J. W. Ipple Co.,
West Side merchants, died at his
home, 306 North Porter street, last
week. He was connected with the
above company for over twenty-five
years. A son, Dr. Carl F. Schreiber,
is a Professor at Yale.

Fellow travelers, cut out your shoe
shines and hotel tips for next week
and send that money to the tobacco
fund for our boys in the trenches.
Think it over! The use of tobacco
may be a bad habit, but think what
a consolation it is to the men in the
blood-soaked trenches of Europe.

Chicago markets quoted hogs at
$19.75 per hundred, Our friend,
Silverstein, says: “Ve should vorry.”

The Saginaw Malleable Iron Co.’s
plant is almost completed and Gen-
eral Manager Charles F. Drozeski
says it will be in operation early in
September. Several hundred men
will be employed and the prospective
output has already been marketed.
Another point toward a bigger and
better Saginaw.

E. L. Gardiner, alias Hole in the
Wall Gardiner, has on display in his
show windows on North Washington
avenue several bottles of champagne
which were taken off the Vatherland,
the German liner, when interned for
the war in New York harbor. Such
a display is O. K. now, but after
May, 1918, would have to be heavily
guarded.

The Benford & Cooney mattress
factory, on Water street was burned
last Tuesday with a loss of $8,000.
At the same hour fire broke out in
the Electric Vehicle Service Co. plant
and did damage to the extent of $15,-
000. ’ \

The local chapter of the Red Cross
is doing wonderful work Are you
doing your .bit?

Stockholders of the Saginaw Motor
Car Co., manufacturing the Yale 8,
have authorized an increase in cap-
ital stock with which to buy material.
A number of outside capitalists are
interested in the future of the com-
pany and it is stated no stock will
be placed on the market. They figure
on building 1,000 cars next year. This
will help Saginaw, too.

J. B. Nauer has sold his grocery at
232 North Warren avenue to S. C.
Gage, who has been with the Daily
News for the past fifteen years as
Associated Press telegrapher. Mr.
Nauer bought this store several years
ago and by his tactful business meth-
ods built up an excellent business.
Mr. Nauer is now giving his entire at-
tention to his South Washington ave-
nue store, where he has been in busi-
ness for the past fifteen years, as-
sisted by his son, Alvah, who was
acting manager during the time his
father was at the Warren avenue
store, Mr. Gage has retained the
service of Cyril Nauer to assist him
in the management of the new store.

General . Superintendent Jas, L.
Hayes, of the Pere Marquette, says
they are looking forward to wonder-
ful business the coming winter—so
much so that added railroad equip-
ment to the extent of $3,000,000 has
been purchased, including 1,000 auto
cars to be delivered next month and
twenty-five new locomotives of the
large type to be delivered in Novem-
ber.

The .Central Michigan Auto Sales
Co., controlling the sale of Stude-
baker cars in this section, has moved
from the corner of Warren and Genes-
see avenue: to its new home, at 702
East Genessee avenue,

O. R. Henkel, Manager of

Fol-

the

Jeffers Strand Theater, has resigned,
owing to poor health, and moved to
Chicago. Charles A, Leach, Jr., will
take his place. He comes from Jack-
sonville, Florida. Mr. Leach is a
thorough theatrical man and_ will
prove a valuable asset to the already
popular show house. The winter
vaudeville season soon opens.

The Saginaw women surely are do-
ing their bit toward making things
more pleasant for our boys in the
trenches. Over 800 women are now
knitting sweaters and socks. They
need more help, too, in this wonder-
ful work.

L. W. Yunker, 656 Sheridan ave-
nue, is making great preparations for
the opening of his new cash grocery,
to be held about Sept. 15. Mr. Yun-
ker is one of Saginaw’s most progres-
sive grocers and during his ten years
in business he has gained the con-
fidence and respect of a large trade.
He visited many of the leading mer-
chants in the larger cities, getting a
line on how to arrange his store,
stock and fixxtures in order to serve
the public best. He has remodeled
his store and, without a doubt, has
one of the best equipped stores in
the city. He has added a dry goods
department and on the opening day
expects to draw large crowds by
some rare offerings in merchandise.

Wonder if the Kaiser has a stand
in with the weather man that we
should suffer such miserable cold
weather in August!

Without a doubt the German-Amer-
ican insurance companies know where
Editor Stowe stands.

R. J. Bernicker, grocer, formerly
on Hamilton street, W. S., has pur-
chased the grocery stock owned by
Mr. Shock, 502 Brockway street.

J. Lorenzo, one of Saginaw’s old-
time merchants, with headquarters on
the corner of Johnson and Weadock
streets, has presented his daughters
with a fine Buick touring car. Now
they have the car, wonder if father
is to stand the gasoline bill. too?

Don’t forget Sept. 4. Turn out to
make it a memorable affair. This is
the date set by the Citizens War
Commitee to give a farewell to our
boys who leave their homes and loved
ones on Sept. 5 to answer the call
of our Government. Close up your
place of business and turn out. You
owe it to the boys.

John (Jack) Baker, who when not
nursing broken bones, represents the
National Grocer Co., of this city, is
fast on the way to recovery. Jack,
during his balmy days was a noted
baseball player and in trying to “come
back” while wearing the U. C. T.
colors on the ball lot July 4 had
the misfortune to break his leg. We
saw him piloting his tin lizzie last
week, so feel sure he will soon be
back on the job, which will be pleas-
ing both to Jack and his upper coun-
try customers.

M. McCallum, who came here a
short time ago from Vassar and
opened a pool room and cigar store,
has sold out and gone to Alma,
where he expects to start a like busi-
ness.

At the last regular U. C. T. meet-
ing held in Foresters Temple, Past
Senior Counselor William MacGregor
was elected to fill the Senior Coun-
selor’s chair for the remainder of the
year, the vacancy being caused by
the resignation of E. E. Putnam.
Great preparations are being made
for a grand rally on Sept. 15. Flint,
Owosso, Lansing and Bay City have
been invited and are expected to be
on hand in large numbers, bringing
with them candidates to be initiated.
There has been no charge in the
various committees which were ap-
pointed by E. E. Putnam at the be-
ginning of the year. Mr. Mac-
Gregor has personally visited each
member of the several committees
and all have pledged their support in
helping to make this a fruitful year

 

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for No. 43. There {s a tot of timber
to work on and _ still increasing in
numbers, owing to the great indus-
trial growth of our Greater and Bet-
ter Saginaw. Watch the Tradesman
for further and important announce
ments. If you are not a subscriber
to this valuable journal, do your bit
and send in the necessary coin and
address for a regular weekly deliv-
ery to your home. Remember the
date, Sept. 15. The following gentle-
men were made members of No. 43
at the last meeting:

William Atkins, representing
International Harvester Co.

George E. Atkins, who travels for
the Saginaw Auto Supply Co.

Jesse L. Bettis, salesman for the
Benton-Poor Cigar Co., Jonesville.

All of these travelers live at Vas-
sar. Boys, we welcome you and
trust you can be with us often.

Eugene Trogen, grocer on North
Michigan avenue, has returned to the
city after a six weeks’ absence. Mr.
Trogen has poor health and was
away for a rest.

E. M. Owen, the busy Proctor &
Gamble salesman in Northern Mich-
igan, was around among jobbing
friends Saturday, quoting car lot
prices as usual.

Frank Stiles, State manager for the
Postum Cereal Co., was in the city
last week looking after the Postum
products,

If the sun does not soon shine, my
pumpkins won’t get big enough to
take to the fair in September.

Martin H. Kessel and W. H. Friers,
two of Saginaw’s most popular drug-
gists, have formed a partnership and
purchased the drug stock formerly
owned by Eli B. Dean, corner of
Hancock and Michigan avenue, West
Side. Mr. Kessel is proprietor of a
drug store on South Michigan ave-
nue and during the past five years
has built up an excellent business.
“Mart,” as he is known to the travel-
ing fraternity, is held in high esteem
as a sound and reliable business man,
one who has established a firm busi-
ness on business principles and not
by the so-called cut rate route. He
will be in personal charge of the new
store, while his other store will be
most ably looked after by William
Hinds. The latter has been with Mr.
Kessel for the past four years and
through his earnestness and hustling
ability has achieved success. W. H.
Friers has attained an enviable repu-
tation in pharmacy and can be held
up as one of the most successful
men in his line in Northern Michigan.
He has conducted stores in Northern
Michigan and here for the past twen-
ty years. His main store is located
in Southern Saginaw and is enjoying
a healthy and prosperous business,
the same being built on real service,
courtesy and fair prices. Mr. Friers
has a host of friends who wish him
well and hope that the new firm, to
be known as the Kessel-Friers Drug
Co., may prove a real success to both.

H. D. Miller, who represents the
Pacific Coast Borax Co., came to
Michigan territory recently from the
East and has selected Saginaw as his
headquarters. Mr. Miller is a young
man of pleasing personality and we
are sure he will find this an excellent
field to expound the real merits of
Twenty Mule Team borax. He, with
Mrs. and baby Miller, live at 615
Owen street. L. M. Steward.

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The appointment of W. J. Orr, of
Saginaw, as bean buyer for Uncle Sam
during the period of the war, is a
worthy honor, worthily bestowed. Mr.
Orr has had a long and varied experi-
ence in handling this great staple and
will prove to be a most competent and
faithful servant to the Government in
the present emergency.

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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 28; 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-
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President—W. F. Griffith, Howell.
Secretary and Treasurer—Walter S.
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Chemical Wealth in Lake Waters.
The most noted example of an in-
land sea in the United States is the
one in Utah. This lake contains prac-
tically the same salts as occur in
the waters of the ocean, only at a
much higher degree of concentration.
Further West, in the States of Ore-
gon and California, there are a num-
ber of lakes of various sizes, contain-
ing waters in some cases_ heavily
charged with valuable salts readily
recoverable. Epecially noticeable
among these are the Searles Lake, in
the lower part of California; Owens
Lake and Mono Lake, in the Eastern
part of California. These lake waters
contain considerable quantities of
sodium carbonate, which is used in
the households, as well as industries.
The borax content of these waters is
also considerable and offers a readily
available source for this salt. Some
potash is recovered, and a great quan-
tity of common table salt is also
obtainable from these lake waters.

The origin of these salts is in many
cases hard totrace. In some cases they
are undoubtedly due to an arm of the
ocean becoming land-locked and the
water gradually evaporating, produc-
ing concentrated salt solution; but
since in some there are present salts
which do not occur in the ocean wa-
ters, it has to be assumed that these
salts have been leached out from
the surroundings, in most cases high
mountain ranges.

The war, with its accompanying high
prices for ‘chemicals, has brought
these lake waters to the attention of
the American Chemical Society, and
plants are already established and are
being established on the edges of
these lakes where, through solar
evaporation, as well as artificially,
various salts are separated from each
other and obtained in marketable
condition.

A remarkable incident with these
waters is the fact that they seem
to be continuously fed from subter-
ranean sources, since they maintain
practically a uniform concentration of
salt solutions, The natural evapora-

tion, which takes place from the sur-
face of the lakes during the hot, dry
summer season, does not seem to ma-
terially vary the salt percentage in
the lake waters.

The waters of these lakes belong to
the people of the United States and
whoever places a pipe-line to the
edge of the water and pumps the
water out of them has the right to
the salt contents of the same, with-
out any further cost.

J. -W. Beckman.
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Liquid and Tablet Rouge.

The liquid preparations usually re-
ceive a fanciful name like “vinegar
rouge” (if a small amount of acetic
acid be added), “maiden’s blush” or
“bloom of roses.” The tablet form
is usually called ‘theater rouge.”

Liquid.
 Capmise .-.). 2. 1 dr.
Ammonia Water ....... 6 drs.
Water... 7 ozs.
Spirit of Rose .......... 2 drs.

Mix, set aside twenty-four hours or
longer if necessary, agitating fre-
quently until the ammcnia has evap-
orated, then filter.

2 BOs «6s, 24) grs.
Water ........ 2... 3. drs.
Glycermn  ...:......... 1 de.
AMicohol. ......... 2. 4l4 ozs.
Cologne Water ...... 3  iOZs:

Mix and dissolve.

Tablet.

1. Carmine |... 1 drs.
Acacia Powder ........3 drs.
Tottam = 4 ozs.

Mix all intimately, rubbing to very
fine powder, then add water in small
proportions to make a doughy mass
and form into round tablets of about
the diameter of a silver dollar.

2., Parafin Wax .........: 4 ozs
Petrolatum, White ..... 6 ozs
Fos .....20......2.. 2. 4 drs.
Oil Bitter Almond ..... 20 dps.

Heat the paraffin at a gentle heat,
add the petrolatum, ‘stir well, allow
to cool somewhat, and finally add the
oil.

Schnonda or Rose Sympathique.

This preparation contains alloxan,
a white crystalline substance derived
from uric acid which turns red on
exposure to dir. It is best mixed
with fatty substances to form a white
cream, as fcllows:

Sweet Almond Oil’...... 6 ozs
Spermaceti .............. 1% ozs.
Mvaite Wax ......55-.... 1% ozs.
Distilled Water .......... 2 ozs.
AuOkan 662006 1% oz.
Oil Bergamot ........,..-. 75 min.
Od: Legipn 2.2... 2c: 30 min.
Oil Rose, Synthetic ...... 15 min,
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The future is what we hoped the
past might have been but wasn’t.

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids, Aug. 28—By Gee
Cripe Jennings is walking on air these
days because of the good things in
store for him Saturday evening, Oc-
tober 6, at the regular meeting of
Grand Rapids Council.

Miss Myrtle Proper, daughter of
H. L. Proper (Burnham, Stoepel &
Co.) leaves Thursday for Sand Point,
Idaho, where she will teach school
during the coming year. Two years
ago she taught a year at Whitehall,
Mont. H, L., who has been spending
the summer in a cottage on Spring
Lake, will bring his family back to
the city next week, so his son can
start school at the opening of the fall
term.

James M. Goldstein, chief factotum
for Burnham, Stoepel & Co., was in
the city a couple of days last week.
He wore deep mourning because he
was recently rejected for the U. S.
Army on the sole ground that he has
the flat foot. Jim says he would rath-
er be rejected on that ground than
because he had the flat head. He
could hardly get from his Grand Rap-
ids friends long enough to eat and
sleep, but finally succeeded in get-
ting to the union depot by resorting
to the back streets. He is putting in
a few days at Lakeview, where his
father is engaged in general trade
and his son has been rusticating for
the summer.

“The death of David S. Haugh re-
moves one of my oldest and best
friends,” remarked Joe F. O. Reed,
the other day. “I took Dave up the
road on his first trip and introduced
him to the trade. We _ had been
steadfast friends ever since. His
death leaves only three of us active
in the class of 1870 and 1880—Bill
Keasey, Willard James and myself.
Dave Smith belonged to the class un-
til he retired from the road a year
or two ago. We shall never forgive
him for pulling away from us without
saying good bye. Perhaps he didn’t
have the courage to part company
with the boys he had traveled with
and the trade he had sold so many
years, fearing he might break down
and thus exhibit a side of his charac-
ter of which his friends had never
dreamed. Dave Haugh was the soul
of honor and I never can tell you how
much I shall miss him. You couldn't
paint his picture in too glowing col-
ors to suit me.’ (

If the traveling men of Grand Rap-
ids want to do the wholesale grocery
houses and the traveling salesmen
who represent them a good turn, they
can accomplish that result by notify-
ing the editor of the Tradesman
where solicitors for the capital stock
cf the proposed Grand Rapids Whole-
sale Grocery Co. can be apprehended.

John A. Sherrick (Rindge, Kalm-
bach, Logie Co.) still takes time to
entrance audiences with his eloquence
occasionally, Last Friday evening he
conducted an entertainment at St.
Paul’s M. E. church, on Jefferson ave-
nue, which called forth a large and
enthusiastic audience.

Those members of Grand Rapids
Council who enlist or are drafted in-
to any department of the army serv-
ice should notify the local Secretary
at once. Special provision has been
made by the Supreme Council where-
by a member of the order can retain
his social standing, although his in-
surance is discontinued while in the
service. Then, upon his return, he
may be reinstated to indemnity
claims, provided he is in good health
and has no physical injury. Notice
that a member has gone to the service
should be sent by him or some mem-
ber of his family, as the Secretary can
not accept mere hearsay and, there-
fore, would not know how to report
the matter to Columbus, This is
very important and we hope you will
heed it.

The Brown & Sehler Co. gave its
annual picnic to its employes and
their families last Saturday and two:
special cars, carrying 150 men, wom-

August 29, 1917

en and children left the interurban
depot promptly at 8 o'clock for Jen-
ison Park, where it was pretty well
demonstrated that a picnic entered
into in the proper spirit is surely a lev-
eler of time, for if we were to judge
from the actions alone there was no
one there over 21. Cash prizes were
offered by the company and the win-
ners in the various events, together
with their prizes, were as follows:

1. Pin tail on donkey, Miss Mary
Thiel. Prize $1.

2. Sack race,
75 cents.

3. Hobble race, Geraldine Barkley.
Prize 75 cents.

4. Potato race,
Prize 50 cents.

5. Egg race, Viola Simon.
peund box of candy.

6. Pipe race, Mr. and Mrs. George
Coleman, Prize $1 each.

7. Human _ wheelbarrow
Hutzel and Al. Ackerman.
each.

8. Ladies’ ball throwing contest,
Mrs. Al. Ackerman. Prize 75 cents.

9. Tug of war (W. D. Brown and
Allan F. Rockwell, captains), W. D.
Brown and associates, Prize 2.

10. Bean guessing contest, Jack
Thiel. Prize $1. Judge of events,
A. F, Rockwell.

A spirited game of indoor base ball
was played, the winning team receiv-
ing a $5 cash prize. Score 16 or
thereabouts to somewhere around 4
or 6, Umpire, Herman Balk.

Ice cream and coffee were served.
The day was ideal for basket lunch-
eons and all efijoyed’ themselves
hugely.

Every member of our Council
should come out Oct. 6 to our By Gee
Gripe Jennings rally meeting and
show this grand old man, who is
rounding out fifty years of road serv-
ice aS a commercial salesman, that
our hearts are in the right place.

Yes, we are in this war to the fin-
ish and we will accept no terms of
peace until the kings and queens are
all removed from the rhum deck.

The executive committee, at their
last meeting, appo‘nted the follow-
ing officers to fill office until the next

Harold Simon. Prize

Edward Moran.

Prize,

race, R.
Prize $1

 

Criterion

WALL PAPERS
PAINTS
.WINDOW SHADES
HEYSTEK & CANFIELD CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

It’s Pure, That's Sure

 

 

     
 

Piper Ice Cream Co.
Kalamazoo, Mich.

ItsGood

or.

  

 

Grand Rapids
Store Fixture Co., Inc.
The Place, 7 Ionia Ave., N. W.
BUY AND SELL
Used Store and Office Fixtures

 

 

Signs of the Times
Are

Electric Signs

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

We furnish you with sketches, prices
and operating cost for the asking.

 

 

THE POWER CO.

Bell M 797 Citizens 4261

 

 

 

 

 

917

 

 

 

 

and. children,

August 29, 1917

annual election in March: L. V.
Pilkington, Conductor, in place of
Captain Walter N. Burgess, resigned;
Chas. C. Perkins, Page; and John B.
Wells, Sentinel.

After our experience last Saturday,
we are prompted to enquire of the Su-
preme Council whether the indemni-
ties of the U. C. T. cover any acci-
dental or pugnacious injures received
while acting as judge of athletic
sports at a picnic.

Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Godfrey and
son, Bobbie, of Brown & Sehler Co.
are spending their vacation in the
East. They spent Saturday and Sun-
day in Buffalo.

It would be a capital idea if every
member of our Council would learn
his term pass word. You never know
when this will come in play and if
fraternalism means anything to you,
you must put yourself in a position
to use it. For instance, a gentleman
wearing the button came to the Sec-
retary recently to get a $50 check
cashed or identified, but he was un-
able to give either the permanent or
term pass word. He could not give
the grip, nor could he show his re-
ceipt. Therefore, it was impossible
to give him any assistance, no mat-
ter how deserving he might have
been. Shortly before that. another
man representing himself to be a
counselor asked for a small loan to
bridge him over Sunday and went
through the test without hesitation
and got the desired loan just as un-
hesitatingly. Both seemed prosper-
ous, but were in a position that is
liable to come to any of us and need-
ed a little temporary assistance.
Ceme up to the Council and get
posted, as we know a lot of you fel-
lows must be getting rusty.

The next meeting of the Council
will be held Saturday, Sept. 1.

Arthur Kleen Kutter Borden, wife
leave Friday morning
on their vacation, which will consist
of an automobile trip to Kokomo,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

Ind. in their new Maxwell, They
will stop en route at Lawton and at
Dowagiac, where they expect to call
on Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Wood, Jr.,
members of No, 131 and former citi-
zens of the “City that knows how.”

By the way, come to think of it,
that slogan, “Grand Rapids knows
how,” must be pretty nearly extinct
by this time. Why don’t we write it
on the registers?

However, we will revive it when
Grand Rapids advertises the West
Michigan Fair East and South of the
city limits.

We don’t consider this any of our
business, but wish to remark, paren-
thetically, for the benefit of Mrs. H.
B. Wilcox, that it might be well for
her to keep an optic focused on Hart-
well, as we have it on good author-
ity that he is “playing the ponies”
with more or less—mostly less—suc-
cess.

Don’t forget to pay your assess-~
ment No. 139 and get your receipt.
The time expires Sept. 14.

len F. Rockwell.
———_>+ +
Leather From Fish Skins.

A representative of the United States
Bureau of Fisheries is endeavoring to
bring about closer co-operation among
fishermen, tanners and manufacturers in
the development of the use of skins of
aquatic animals in the production of
leather. An effort will be made to as-
certain what the difficulties and prob-
lems are and how they imay be solved.
The bureau will lend all possible assist-
ance in the development of this industry.
Wilmington, Del., Newark, N. J., New
York, Boston and various other points
have been visited for the purpose of
getting in touch with tanners who are
prepared to take hold of this work ener-
getically.

 

are at the Bancroft Hotel.
conditions of the markets.
or before September Ist.

: appreciated.

 

HOLIDAY GOODS

Druggists’ Sundries
Stationery
Books and Novelties

The sample lines of the above are now in Saginaw,
Michigan, at 119-121 Franklin Street, South.

Our Mr. L. W. Hoskins is in charge and headquarters

We advise early buying and shipping on account of

This exhibit will be in our store in Grand Rapids on

An early date for your call at either location will be

Yours respectfully,

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

37

 

Prices quoted are

Acids
Boric (Powd.)

17@_ 25
Boric (Xtal) 25

 

Carbolic
CiUBIG @. 2s... sve
Muriatic
INGERIG oc cee es
Oxalic
Sulphuric
Tartaric
Ammonia
Water, 26 deg. 10@ 15
Water, 18 deg. .. 6%@ 12
Water, 14 deg. .. 5%4@ 11
Carbonate ..... 14 @ 16
Chloride ........ 25 @ 35
Balsame
Copaiba ....... 1 40@1 65
Fir (Canada) .. 1 25@1 50
Fir (Oregon) .. au@ _ 50
Herd ........ aac 50@5 75
FROM ccc c ee coe -. T@1 00

Barks
Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 30
Cassia (Saigon) 90@1 00
Elm (powd. 35c) 30@ 35
Sassafras (pow. 35c) @ 30
ae Cut (powd.)

eee a clvas es 23@ 25
Berries

O@UbER 2 oc. cece 20@1 30

BES occ cae sas 5@ 0

GUNIDEF <.....2.-. 10@ 15

‘Prickley Ash .... @ 30
Extracts

Lieorice ......... 60

Licorice powdered 85@ 90
Flowers

Armica ....6.--ce -- @3 00

Chamomile (Ger.) 75@1 00
Chamomile Rom. 2 00@2 20

Gums
Acacia, Ist ..... 75@ 80
Acacia, 2nd ...... 65@ 75
Acacia, Sorts 45 50
Acacia, powdered 60@ 70

Aloes (Barb. Pow) 30@ 40
Aloes (Cape Pow) 20@ 25
Aloes (Soc. Pow. 60) @ 45

Asafoetida, .... @2 25
Asafoetida, Powd.

Pure .....2.. : @2 50
Camphor ........ 95@1 00
Gugiae ........... 45@ 5v
Guaiac, powdered @ 60
MOMMG 2... ct. ck - 70@ 75
Kino, powdered .- T@ 80
NEVER 2.45.06 58 S 40
Myrrh, poner 50
Opium ....:.. 5 00G 35 20
Opium, powd. = 00@35 20
Opium, gran. 35 te 20
Shelige .... 2:5... 80
Shellac, Bleached ioe 95
Tragacanth ape 50@3 00
Tragacanth bowaer 2 50
Turpentine... l0@ 1b

Insecticides
WAISENIC ........-.- 23@ 30
Blue Vitriol, bbl. .. @ 12

Blue Vitriol less 12%@ 20
Bordeaux Mix Dry 224%4@30
Hellebore, White

powdered ....... 38@ 45
Insect Powder .... 40@ 60
Lead, Arsenate .. 20@ 40
Lime and Sulphur

Solution, gal. 15@ 25

Paris Green ..... 55@ 60

 

Ice Cream
Piper Ice Cream Co.,
Kalamazoo
Bulk Vanilla. ........5% 80
Bulk Special Flavored 90
rick Plain ..........<« 25
Brick, Fancy ..... Seces SO
Leaves
PUCHY 2. cee. oe 1 75@1 85
Buchu, powdr’d 1 aa 00
Sage, bulk ...... 70
Sage, % loose a 78
Sage, powdered . -o 60
Senna, Alex ...... 70@ 75
Senna, Tinn. .... 40@ 45
Senna, Tinn. pow. 50@ 55
Uva Ursi .......: 18@ 20
Olis
——. Bitter,
eae 2 15 00@16 00
‘bi eek. Bitter,
artificial ..... 7 00@7 20
ee Sweet,
fBuG 2.20... 1 35@1 60
‘Binonds. Sweet,
imitation ...... 75
Amber, crude .. 1 75@2 00
Amber, rectified 2 50@2 75
Anise ..... aeeee 2 00@2 25
Bergamont
Cajeput
Cassia
Castor ..cccocee
Cedar Leaf .... 1 50@1 75
Citronella ...... 1 00@1 25
Cloves ......-. 3 50@3 75
Cocoanut ........ 40@ 50
Cod Liver ...... 4 75@5 00
Cotton Seed .... 1 65@1 75
Croton .....<.- 76@2 00

nominal, based on market the day oi issue

Cubens: ........ 7 50@7 75
HWigeron .......-. 1 75@2 00
Eucalyptus 1 25@1 35
Hemlock, pure 1 50@1 75

Juniper Berries 20 00@20 20
Juniper Wood .. 2 75@3 00
Lard, extra ....
Lard, No. 1 .... 1 85@1 95
Lavender Flow. 7 00@7 25
Lavender, Gar’n 1 25@1 40
Hemon: ......... 2 00@2 25
Linseed, boiled bbl. @1 3
Linseed, bld less 1 45@1
Linseed, raw, bbl. @1
Linseed, rw. less 1 44@1
Mustard, true, oz. @2
Mustard, artifil oz. @2
Neatsfoot ...... 1 8
Olive, pure .... 3 00@4
Olive, Malaga,

yellow .......
Olive, Malaga,

green
Orange, Sweet . 4 25@4
Origanum, pure @
Origanum, com’l @
Pennyroyal .... 2 25@2
Peppermint .... 4 00@4
Rose, pure 26 00@28
Rosemary Flows 1 50@1 75
Sandalwood, E.

I. 15 00@15 20

Sassafras, true 1 50@1 75
Sassafras, artifi’l ae 60
Spearmint ..... 3 00@3 25
SGM 4... s aces 1 15@1 25
Tansy ......-.. 3 50@3 75
Tar PISe «2.4... 30@ 40
Turpentine, bbls. @ 48
Turpentine, less 55@ 60

Wintergreen, tr. 5 50@5 75

Wintergreen, sweet
Direh ........ 4 00@4 2

Wintergreen art 1 25@1 50

Wormseed ..... 7 50@7 75
Wormwood 4 75@5 00
Potassium
Bicarbonate .... 1 90@2 00
Bichromate ...... 55@ 60
Bromide ....... 1 70@2 00
Carbonate ..... 1 60@1 75
Powdered ...... 60@ 65
Chlorate, gran’r 95@1 00

Chlorate, xtal or

BOWE... occu sss 70@ 75
Cyanide ...... aaa @1 26
fodidG <........ 3 50@3 60
Permanaganate ... @5 25
Prussiate, yellow @1 50
Prussiate, red .... @3 50
Sulphate .........- @ 90
Alkanet ........ 00@2 10
Blood, powdered 20@ 2d
Calamus ........ 50@3 50
Elecampane, pwd. 15@ 20
Gentian, powd. 30@ 35
Ginger, African,

powdered ...... 20@ 25
Ginger, Jamaica ..380@ 35
Ginger. Jamaica,

powdered ...... 22@ 30
Goldenseal pow. 8 00@8 20
Ipecac, powd. 3 25@3 50
Licorice .......... 35@ 40
Licorice, powd. .. 30@ 40
Orris, powdered 30@ 35
Poke, powdered 20@ 25
Fnuberd ......... 75@1 00
Rhubarb, powd. 75@1 25

Rosinweed, powd. 25@ 30
Sarsaparilla, Hond.
Sroune ........ 75@ 80
Sarsaparilla nee
ground ....... .. 35 40
Souilia .......... 40

36@
Squills, powdered 80 65
Tumeric, powd. .. 13@ 20

 

Valerian, powd. .. es 00
Seeds
Amise _....5...... 5@ 40
Anise, powdered ..40@ 46
Bird, Is <...... cc. @
Canary .......% -- 10@ 15
Caraway ........ 85@ 90
Cardamon ..... 1 80@2 00
Celery (Powd. 50) 80 45
Coriander ........ 36@ 45
PH oe cece es 25@ 30
Fennell ..... ..-. 90@1 00
jE ee 7%@ 12
Flax, ground T%@ 12
Foenugreek pow. 19@ 25
THOME 2... .ccces 8%@ 12
Lobelia. .........- 40@ 50
Mustard, yellow .. 19@ 25
Mustard, black .. 19@ 25
Mustard, powd. .. 22@ 30
POOPY «6-5 0045-s @1 00
Quine. .......<..- @1 25
Bape. 2.....0.-. 4.5 15@ 20
Sabadiia. ...«..<. @ 35
Sabadilla, powd. 35@ 45
Sunflower ...... 7@ 10
Worm American .. @ 25
Worm Levant .. 1 00@1 10
Tinctures
Aconite ...cccee @1 25
@ 9%
@2 30
gt 65
Belladonna ..... 1 85
Benzoin ..... @1 40
gg Compo’a @2 70
Buchu .......... @1 80
Cantharadies wes @3 35

Capsicum ....... @1 55
Cardamon
Cardamon, Comp. @1 25
Cateechu .%....>. @ 9%

Cinchona ...... @1 95
Colchicum ...... @1 90
Cubebe ........< @1 80
DigitaHs ..6.cc6 @1 10
Gentian § ...cccce @1 15
Ginger ...... ees @1 55
GUBIBG® . 6 as cncce @1 40
Guaiac, Ammon. @1 25
Jo@ine .....<.... @2 lv
Iodine, Colorless @2 10
Bron, Gl. ..... aa @1 20
King ......... aac 1 25
PAVE in... cs wea 1 45
Nux Vomica ... @1 2
Opium = ......4,4. @7 50
Opium, Camph. @1 25
Opium, Deodorz’d @9 00
Rhubarb ........ @1 05
Paints

Lead, red dry -13544@13%
Lead, white dry 13 @13%
Lead, white oil 13 W13%
Ochre, yellow bbl. @ 1%
Ochre, yellow less 2 @
Putty

Red Venet'n bbl. 140
Red Venet’n less 2@ 65
Vermillion, Amer. 25@ 30
Whiting, bbL ...... 3
Whiting ........ 34@ 6
L. H. P. Prepd. 2 15@2 25
Miscellaneous

Acetanalid ....... 65@ 72
Alum ....2....... 10@ 12
Alum, powdered and

ground. ........ 12@ 15
Bismuth, Subni-

Gate .......; 3 60@3 70
Borax xtal or

powdered ...... 10@ 15
Cantharades po 2 00@6 00
Calomel ...... -- 2 56@2 60
Capsicum ....... 35@ 40
Carmine ........ 6 50q@7 00
Cassia Buds ..... @ 40
POV CT ee i 35@ 40
Chalk Prepared .. 6@ 8%
t‘halk Precipitate 7
Chloroform nee 850) 93

Chivral Hydrate : aoe 13
Cocaine .....<<< 15@9 35
Cocoa Hutter ... “ee 70
Corks, list, less 55%
Copperas, bbls. .... @ 2
Copperas, less .. 24@ 7
Copperas, powd. .. 4@ 10
Corrosive Sublm. 2 30@2 40
Cream Tartar .... 6U@_ 6d
Cuttlebone ....... “ss 70
Dextrine ........ lw@ 15
Dover's Powder 3 75@4 00
Emery, all Nos. 6@ 10
Emery, powdered 5@ _ 8
Epsom Salts, bbls. @ 5,
Epsom Salts, less 6@ 10
BMGU oy occecccs 1 25@1 50
Ergot, powdered 2 75@3 00
Flake White .... 15@ 20
Formaldehyle lb. 19@ 27
Gelatine ....... 75@1 85
Glassware, full cs. 65%

Glassware, less 54%

Glauber Salts, bbl. @1%
Glauber Salts less 2@ 6
Glue, Brown ..... 25@ 35
Glue, Brown Grd. 25@ 35
Glue, White .... 30@ 35

Glue, White Grd. 30@ 35
Glycerine ........ 73 85
HGOS 6645 a S. 456@ 60
fodine ......... 4 50@4 60
Iodine .......... 4 50@4 60
Iodoform ...... 5 68@5 70
Lead, Acetate 21@ 25
Lycopdium ........ @2 25
MBCG@ occ cecscck. 85@

Mace, powdered .. 95@1 00
Menthol ....... 4 25@4 50
Morphine 14 00@14 65

Nux Vomica .... 22%@ 30
Nux Vomica, pow. 20
Pepper, black pow. 35@ 40

Pepper, white ..... 45
Pitch, Burgundy .. 15
Quassia ..... ecoee 12@ 15
Quinte = .2...4.-. 90@1 00
Rochelle Salts .... 48@ 55
Saccharine, oz. .. @3 40
Salt Peter ....... 39@ 50
Seidlitz Mixture . ag 45
Soap, green ......

25
Soap mott castile 22% @ 25
Soap, white castile

case

Soap, white castile
less, per bar .... @1l

Soda Ash 4

Soda Bicarbonate 2%@

Soda, sassces ae
Spirits Camphor .. @ 176
Sulphur, roll 49-10 10
Sulphur Subl. .. ‘"@ 10
Tamarinds ....... 20
Tartar Emetic .... 85
Turpentine, Ven. 50@4 75

Vanilla Ex. pure 1 00@1 50
Witch Hazel ... 1 10@1 50
Zinc Sulphate .... 10@ 15

 

 

  

 

 

 

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Chewing Gum ........

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Cocoanut ......-+.55--.

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Dried Fruits .........

Farinaceous Goods
Fishing Tackle
Flavoring Extracts ..
Flour and Feed

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Grain Bags .......-..

Hides and Pelts

 

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Jelly Glasses .........

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Meats, Canned

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Playing Cards ........
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Wrapping Paper .....

 

 

 

 

 

15th. pails, per doz. ..7 20
25%. pails, per doz. ..12 00

BAKED BEANS

Mo. 1, per doz, _...... 1 35
No. 2, per doz. ........ 2 25
No. 3, per doz. ....... 2 75
BATH BRICK
Mogiion ...... 95
BLUING
Jennings’

Condensed Pearl Bluing

Small, 3 doz. box .... 1 95
Large, 2 doz. box .... 2 40
Foiger’s

Summer Sky, 6 oz.,

per doz. ...3.. 45
Summer Sky, 12 oz.,

per Gor. ........... . 85

BREAKFAST FOODS

Bear Food, Pettijohns 2 90
Cracked Wheat, 24-2 ..4 60

Cream of Wheat .... 7 50
Cream of Rye, 24-2 ..
Quaker Puffed Rice .. 4 30
Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30
Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 1 90
Quaker Corn Flakes .. 2 75
Washington Crisps .. 2 30
Wheatena ............ 5 10
Evapor’ed Sugar Corn
Grape Nuts ......... 2 85
Sugar Corn Flakes .. 2 80
Holland Rusk ........ 3 80
Krinkle Corn Flakes ..2 80
Mapl-Flake, Whole

chet: A RS 4 05
Minn. Wheat Food .. 6 50
Ralston Wheat Food

Large, 18% ........ 2 90

Ralston Wht Food 18s 1 95
Ross’s Whole Wheat
RUE ooo cuc ee eee
Saxon Wheat Food .. 4
Shred Wheat Biscuit 4
‘Triscstt, 48 ...,......
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 2
20st Toasties, T-2 .. 3 30
Post Toasties, T-3 .. 3
Post Tavern Porridge 2

BROOMS

Fancy Parlor, 25 Ib. .. 7 50
Parlor, 5 String, 25 lb. 7 25
Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 7 00
Common, 23 Ib. ...... 6 50
Special, 23 ib. ....... 6 25
Warehouse, 23 Ib. .... 8 00
Common, Whisk ...... 1 30
Fancy, Whisk ........ 1 75
BRUSHES
Scrub

ru
Solid Back, 8 in. .... 75
Solid Back, 11 in .... 95
End

Pointed yo 85
Stove
NO. 3 6..5-..-+-.5...- 90
MEO: SD cee oes estes 1 25
PS Fis ieee cece es 1 75
Shoe
MO. 8 oo ee 1 00
MO. 2 oes ce ieee 1 30
Do: @ .o ee cce 1 70
Mo. 6 oo... 1 90
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 25c size .. 2 00
CANDLES
Paraffine, 68 ........
Paraffine, 128 ........ 11
Wiking ....0........ 20
CANNED GOODS
Appies
3 Ib. Standards ..

Mo: 10 .o.26. @4 25
Biackberries
See 1 75@2 00
Standard No. 10 @7 50
Beans
Baked ......... 1 25@2 25
Red Kidney .... 1 25@1 35
Sizing .....<i».. 1 50@2 00
Wax .......... 1 50@2 00
Blueberries
Standard ........0655 1 40
MO. FD io icoecciccscess te

PRUCY os cece cces
French Peas
Monbadon (Natural)
per GOR. .....2256556
Gooseberries
NO. 2, War 22...) ....
No. 2, Fancy .....::...
Hominy
Standam .............
Lobster

0c. pesoccsetcn Bw ED
Picnic Flat ..... sees
Mackerel
Mustard, 1 lb.
Mustard, 2 Ib.
Soused, 1% Ib.
Soused, 2 lb.

Tomato, 2 Ib.
Mushrooms
Buttons, %s ......... @30
Buttons, 1s ..... soeee @B0
Hotels, 1s @44

Oysters
cove, ib @1 20
Cove; 2 ib. ....2...; @1 80
Piums
Pimms .......... 1 50@2 00
Pears In Syrup
No. 3 can, per dz. 2 50@3 00

1 20

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see eseos

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Peas
Marrowfat ...... 1 25@1 35
Early June .... 1 50@1 60
Early June siftd 1 60@1 75
Peaches
PIG. 55554. 1 25@1 50
No. 10 size can pie @3 75
Pineapple
Grate@ ..... 5. 1 75@2 10
iced ....5..5.. 1 45@2 60

 

Raspberries

. 2, Black Syrup ..
10, Black .......
. 2, Red Preserved
No. 16, Red, Water .. 7 25
Salmon
Warrens, 1 Ib. Tall ..
Warrens, 1 Ib. Flat ..
Red Alaska ....... . wap
Med. Red Alaska ....
Pink Ajpake ..........
Sardines
Domestic, %s ........ 6 25
Domestic, % Mustard 6 00
Domestic, % Mustard 5 50

  
 

Norwegian, %s .... 11@16
Portuguese, %s .... 22@30
Saver Kraut
No. 2. cane ....... eos 2 90

No. 10, cans ......; os
Shrimps
Dunbar, 1s doz. ...... 1 25
Dunbar, 1%s doz. .... 2 40
Succotash
Fair eereceseseese ef
Good wos 4 50
Pancy ...... peepee ne
Strawberries
Standard ....sssc0 seo 2 00
WOMCY ooo cheese oc ew 2 75
Tomatoes
MO. oo. 03s. 1 40
Ne. 8 (65... -Ses..
Mo; 10) oe
Tuna
Case
%s, 4 doz. in case . 4 50
148, 4 doz. in case .... 7 50
1s, 4 doz. in case ....10 00
CATSUP
Snider’s % pints ...... 1 50
Snider’s pints ..... -. 2 50
CHEESE
DONOR core wccecss 29
Carson City .... 26
UE go ok cee @26
EIGOR oceans @
Limburger ...... @29
Pineapple ..... 1 25@1 35
TORE ocba5, ce @1
Sap Sago ....... @

Swisz, Domestic @

 

CLOTHES LINE
P doz.

er
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 6
No. 60 Sash Cord .... 3 00

Mo. 60 Jute .......... 1 25
No. 72 Jute ...... beee 2 eo
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 (0
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10

COCOA

Bakers «25. ..6..5.5.5-
Cipveinnd oo... leeks
Colonial, %s ........
Colonial, %s . oe
BCOPB noe se sse :
Hershey’s, \%s ..
Hershey’s, %s .........

  
 

uylier ....:... bee eeee
Lowney, \%s ...
TINY, VE on wenccsc
LOWNCY, WB ...cccccee
Lowney, 5 Ib. cans
Van Houten, %s ...... 12
Van Houten, %s ...... 18
Van Houten, %s ...... 36
Van Houten, ls ........ 65
Wan-E eb be es eceece - 36
WUBBD coicsc ewes os coe hen 33
Wilbur, 4668 ....0.-2550% 33
Wiour, WS iver cecss-s 32
COCOANUT
Dunham’s per Ib.
gs, 5 Ib. case .......... 32
148, 6 ID. CASO .cceccee BL
Us, 15 1D. case ........ 81
14s, 15 lb. case ........ 30
is, 16 ib. Case ....-..-. 29
%s & %s, 15 lb. case .. 30
5 and 10c pails ..... 4 00
lk, PAIS. 20-6600 20
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.,
per case ....... tes
Bakers Canned, doz. .. 95

acta ROASTED

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COMMON .....5..205% 19

AR oe eck ons 19%

ues: oo. 20

BOMCY ..-.+<- ses sbe 21

BCBROITY: 2 ccc ec ess 23
Santos

Common ....... bees 20

ga Se 2046

NOICR oa cc tec ee 21

HARROW (2 55.5055135.-45 23

PEADOITY 2.225 occ k es 23

Maracaibo

Mair 4... sss eee Oe

Cholee ...06 25
Mexican

CROCK 2. oe oe geeks 25

PARC oo 26

Guatemala
Wate ie. ee okt. 25
Raney 0 28
Java

Private Growth .... 26@30

Mandling .......... 31@35

BUEKOIN 4.55525 ...,. 30@32
Mocha

Short Bean ........ 25@27

Long Bean ........ 24@25

BH; i, O.G,. .3..00.. 26@28
Bogota

BAI occ bees eee <a ce 24

PANCY: ©. oo Seeks sks

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Exchange Market, Steady
Spot Market, Strong
Package
New York Basis
ATDUCKIO ...50c00625 21 50

 

Boston Sugar Stick .. 20
Mixed Candy

Pails
BSTOKOCR ooo sees cess 16
ut oat oo .:. lo. 17
French Cream ......, 17
STORES 2 ol oko. 12
Kindergarten ........ 18
eater sees ces 16
MeRATCN oo. 06156. l 6, 15
Novelty. .2......2,.5. 17
Paris Creams ....... 18
Premio Creams ...... 21
BOVOR) oo ee. 14
BOCCAN 14
Valley Creams ....... 18
MAO ec 14
Specialties

Pails
Auto Kisses (baskets) 19
Bonnie Butter Bites ..21
Butter Cream Corn .. 20

Caramel Bon Hons .. 1X
Caramel Croquetes .. 18
Cocoanut Waffles .... 16
Coffy Toy .:........ 19
National Mints 7 lb tin 22
Fudge. Walnut ...... 18

Fudge, Choco, Peanut 17
Fudge, White Center 17

Fudge, Cherry ........ 16
Fudge, Cocoanut .... 17
Honeysuckle Candy .. 20
Iced Maroons ....... 20
Iced Orange Jellies ., 1%
Italian Bon Bons .... 16
Jelly Mello ........ oes AD
AA Licorice Drops

> iD. Dox ..... «~. 1 60
Lozenges, Pep. ...... 18
Lozenges, Pink ...... 18
MARNCNUS ...0...<5500. 16
Molasses Kisses, 10

1b. bOX . 2.66.6. ss. 20

Nut Butter Puffs .... 18
Star Patties, Asst. .. 19

: Chocolates
Assorted Choc. ......
Amazon Caramels .. 22
Champion ........... 9
Choc. Chips, Eureka 25
CUmax oo: sees 99
Eclipse, Assorted .... 20
Ideal Chocolates .... 20
Klondike Chocolates ..25
Nabobs
Nibble Sticks, Box .. 30

Nut Wafers .......:. 25
Ocoro Choc Caramels 23
Peanut Clusters ..... 28
@uintette ...:........ 21
Regina

Star Chocolates ..... 1
Superior Choe. (light) 19
Pop Corn Goods

Without prizes.
Cracker Jack with

 

COUPON. o.oo... ; - 3 50
Cracker-Jack Prize .. 3 75
Checkers Prize ...... 3 75
Cough Drops
Boxes
Putnam Menthol 1 35
Smith Bros. .......... 1 35
NUTS—Whole
bs.
Almonds, Tarragona 21
Almonds. California
soft shell Drake
Brazils ..... es sacs gos
#iberts ........ eeaes
Cal No. 18 8. ......
Walnuts, Naples .....

Walnuts, Grenoble ...

Table nuts, fancy 13@14

Pecans, Large .......

Pecans, Ex. Large
Shelled

No. 1 Spanish Shelled

Peanuts ..... 16
Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled
Peanuts ...... 164%@17
Pecan Halves ..... @80
Walnut Halves .... @54
Filbert Meats ..... @42
PAMONGR 22.50.5565, @45

Jordan Almonds ..,

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN -
piece . vie Peanuts
| ing. CHEWING GUM McLaughlin’s XXXX
These quotations are carefully corrected weekly within six hours of mailing ~~ po McLaughlin's XXXX fancy H F gums
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are Adams Sappota ....... 79 package coffee is sold to Rag oe 11% @11%
liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled Beeman’s Pepsin |... 62 ‘fetailers only. Mail all or- = Roasted ..... 12%@12%
: Beechnut .............. 69 ders direct to W. F. Mc-  P Jumbo
at market prices at date of purchase. Chiclets 0-60. ... 5: 133 Laughlin & Co., Chicago. Raw oi coe: 138% @13%
Doublernmnt 2.222777", 64 Ba oo se Roasted ..... 14% @14%
Olland, 2 gro. DXS. o
ADVANCED DECLINED Pe eons sete teens = Selig, 44 aeons... 1 15 CREAM TARTAR
Juicy Fruit ....../ 077° 64 Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85 Barrels or Drums .... 58
Canned Tomatoes Sterling Gum Pep. ..” 62 Hummel’s tin, % gro. 143 Square Cans ........... 3
Sterling 7-Point ....... 62 BOXES ........+0eeeeeeee
Spearmint, ge og a 7 = aa. as SG 20 Fancy Caddies ......... 70
pearmint, Ox jars Carnation, Baby ..... 6 10 IT
Spearmint, 6 box jars 3 85 Dundee, Tall 5 50 pany ,
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_—— oe ae —— Lhe oes ; Hebe, Baby .......... 5 00 eee a
rigleys ox lots ..
Index to Markets 1 2 0, Tm 75 CONFECTIONERY California .......... @25
By Col n Stick Candy oi se biteen
y umns Clams CHOCOLAT Horehound .......... 5 i
ee Little Neck, 1 Ib. ....145 | Walter Baker & Co. Standard .........5.- 16 Corsican .......+.+..+6. 26
12 oz. ovals, 2 doz. box 2 40 Clam Bouillon German’s Sweet ....... 24 Standard, Small ..... 17 Currants
AXLE GREASE Burnham’s % pt. .... 2 2 Premium .............. 85 @wist, Small .......- 17 Imported, 1 lb. pkg. ..19
Frazer’s Burnham's pts. ...... 37 OATACAM .ooo.-0. Ls. 28 Cases Imported, bulk ...... 18%
1 1%b. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00 Burnham’s ats. ...... Walter M. Lowney Co. SUTARO ooo sls as. 17
Axle Grease ......... 1, 13 1%. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 35 Corn Premium, \s .......... 85 Jumbo, Small ........ 17% Peaches
3% lb. tin boxes, 2 dz. 425 Fair ......... eee eee Premium, %s ..... 10) 35) Rie Stick |. 7 Muirs—Choice, 25 Ib. .. 12
10Ib. pails, per doz. ..6 00 Good ................ 1 85 Muirs—Fancy, 25 lb. .. 13

Fancy, Peeled, 25 lb.

Peei
Lemon, American ,
Orange, American ....

Raisins
Cluster, 20 cartons ase
Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr. 9
Loose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 8%
L. M. Seeded, 1lb 10% @10%

California Prunes
90-100 25 Ib. boxes ..
80- 90 25 Ib. boxes ..
70- 80 25 lb. boxes ..
60- 70 25 lb. boxes ..
50- 60 25 lb. boxes --@13
40- 50 25 lb, boxes .

FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
California Limas .... 17%
Med. Hand Picked ....10
Brown Holland ...... 8

Farina
25 1 lb. packages sais
Bulk, per 100 lb.

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

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Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sack .... 6 00
Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 1 lb. box ae
Imported, 25 lb. box
Pearl Barle
Chester ....... wie 6 60
Portage ios. 8 00
Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu. 7 06
SPL Ih 13%

Sago
East India ........, ses io
German, sacks ......._ 16

German, broken pkg.

Tapioca
Flake, 100 Ib. sacks ses 2D
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks jo. ie
Pearl, 36 pkgs.

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Poles
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Jennings D C Brand
Pure Vanilla

Per Doz.
7 dram Panel ....... 95.
14% ounce Panel ..... 1 35
2% ounce Panel ..... 2 40
2% ounce Taper ..... 2 25
2 ounce Plat ........ 2 25
Terpeneless
Pure Lemon
Per Doz.
7 dram Panel ....... 95-
1% ounce Panel ..... 1 35
2146 ounce Panel ..... 2 40:
2% ounce Taper ..... 2 25.

2 ounce Flat ........ 2 26

 

 

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FLOUR AND FEED
Grand Rapids Grain &
Milling Co.

Winter Wheat
Furity Patent ...... 11

Fancy Spring :
Wizard Graham .... 11
Wizard, Gran. Meal 10 75
Wizard Buckw’t cwt. 6 00

RYO (02 oe, e 11 00
Valley City Milling Co.
Lily White ........ 11 85
Might Loat 3.606655. 11 45
Graham §............. 4 90
Granena Health ..... 5 00
Gran, Meal ooo. cc.... 4 70

Bolted Meal

Watson-Higgins = Co.
New Perfection .... 11 85
Tip Top Flour ...... 11 35
Golden Sheaf Flour 10 95
Marshalls Best Flour 10 95
Watertown Wisconsin
EOVG. dc wacs ss Wetaces 10 00
Worden Grocer Co.

Quaker, paper ...... 12 00
Quaker, cloth ...... 12 00
fansas Hara Wheat
Worden Grocer Co.
American Eagle, %s 13 50
American Eagle, %s 13 40
American Hagle, %s 13 30

Spring Wheat
Juason Grocer Co.

Ceresota, %s ....... 14 20
Ceresota, 48S ....... 14 10
Ceresota, %s ....... 14 00

Worden Grocer Co.
Wingold, %s cloth .. 14 25

Wingold, 4s cloth .. 14 15
Wingold, %s cloth .. 14 05
Meal
Bolted: 2.00.02... 05... 10 55
Golden tzranulated .. 10 75
Wheat
PRCG. fe ea aes 2 00
White ioc cgo. cee... 1 95
Oats
Michigan carlots ...... 75
Less tnan carlots .... 77
Corn

CanIGlG soci cc. toes k 2
Less than carlots 77
Hay
Carlots occ ogo we 19 00
Less than carlots .. 20 00
Feed
Street Car Feed . 70 00

No. 1 Corn & Oat ‘Fa 70 00
Cracked Corn ...... 75 00

Coarse Corn Meal .. 75 00
FRUIT JARS
Mason, pts., per gro. 7 00
Mason, qts., per gro. 7 40
Mason, % gal. per gro. 9 85
Mason, can tops, gro. 2 75
GELATINE
Cox’s, 1 doz. large ... 1 45
Cox’s, 1 doz. small .. 90
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 75

Knox’s Sparkling, gr. 20 50
Knox’s Acidu’d doz. .. 1 85

Minute, 1 doz. ........ i 2d
Minute, 3 doz. ....... 3 75
Nelson e ..........-... 1 50
OMtora .. 6... sca see 75

Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 40
Plymouth Rock, Plain 1 25

GRAIN BAGS
Broad Gauge, 12 oz. .. 24
Climax, 14 oz.
Stark, A, 16 oz.

Laurel Leaves
Senna Leaves

HIDES AND PELTS
Hides

Green,

Green,

Cured,

Cured, No. 2 eee

Calfskin, green, No. 1

Calfskin, green, No. 28%
>

Calfskin, cured, A
Calfskin, cured, No. 2

Pelts
Old Wool ........ 75@2 00
WADB 20.5 sce. 50@1 50
Shearlings ...... 50@1 50
Tallow
INO) Do a. @12
NO. Foy... @11
e Wool
Unwashed, med. @60
Unwashed, fine .... @55
HONEY
A. G. Woodman’s Brand.
7 oz., per doz. ......--;
20 oz., per doz. ...... 3 25

HORSE RADISH
Per-Go0e:* so ..6.505s Secce ae
JELLY

5Ib. pails, per doz. ..
TAlh. pails. per pail ..
30lb. pails, per pail .

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Jell-O

Assorted Case .......
Lemon (Straight) .... 2 85
Orange (Straight) .... 2 85
Raspberry (Straight)
Strawrerry (Straight) 2 85

Chocolate (Straight) 2 85
Chocorate (Straigrt) 2 85
Peach (Straight) .... 2 85

Jell-O ice Cream Powder.

doz.
Assorted Case ...... 2 85
Chocolate (Straight) 2 85
Vanilla (Straight) . 2 85

Strawberry (Straight) 2 85
Lemon (Straight) ... 2 85
Unflavored (Straight) 2 85
Jiffy-Jell

Straight or Assorted
Per dom. ...,....00...- 1 15
Per case, per 4 doz. -. 4 60
Seven Flavors: Raspberry,
Strawberry, Cherry, I.emon,
Orange, Lime, Pineapple.

JELLY GLASSES
% pt. in bblis., per doz. 25
% pt. in bbls., per doz. 27
8 oz. capped in bbls..
per doz.
MAPLEINE
2 oz. bottles, per doz. 3 00
1 oz. bottles, per doz. 1 75
16 oz. bottles, per dz. 18 00
32 oz. bottles, per dz. 30 00
MINCE MEAT
Per Case ......722.2.. - 3 45

MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle .... 50

Choice 2.2.6... ce... 43
GOOG oie. ccs cc cess 37
SIOGKR oo. o).e ee cece sc
Half barrels 2c extra
Red Hen, No. 2% ....2 90
Red Hen, No. & ...... 2 90
Red Hen, No. 10 ......2 80
MUSTARD
% Ib. 6 lb. box ........ 16
OLIVES

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Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 10@1 20
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 05@1 1b
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 oot 10

Stuffed, § oz. ........ 10
Stuffed, § oz. ......:. 1 60
Stuffed, 14 oz. ...... 50
Pitted (not stuffed)

TA OFF 25.0055 .-.5.. 2 50
Manzanilla, 8 oz. 1 10
Eumeh, 10 07. ....... 1 50
sy 1G O70 22... 2 60

Olive Chow, 2 doz.
per doz.
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Iron Barrels

Perfection. ..i.. 50000. 10.
Red Crown Gasoline .. 21.5
Gas Machine Gasoline 34.9
VM & P Naphtha .. 20.

oa Cylinder, ee
Bale oo... c i cca 4
Capitol Cylinder, Iron
Bale ...c..5 ceases - $32.9
Atlantic. Red Engine -. 19.9
Winter Black ....... - 10.4
PolarimG ....scccccces Stso
PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count .. 9 50
Half bbls., 600 count 6 z
5 gallon kegs ........ 22
Small
Barrels ....2.¢5--05 6 - 11 00
Hal? barrels ......... 6 25
5 gallon kegs ....... 2 50
Gherkins
Barrels ...0.,..2...- 14 00
Half barrels. ........ 75
5 gallon kegs ........ 2 75
Sweet Small
Barrels ......¢.-. «.. 24 00
Half barrels ...... ..11 50
5 gallon kegs ........ 4 20

PIPES

Clay, - 216, per box
Clay, T. D. full count 80
Con .....:-- 90

PLAYING “CARDS
No. 90, Steamboat .... 85
No. 15, Rival assorted 1 50
20, Rover, enam’d ; =
No. 572, Special ......
No. 98 Golf, Satin fin. 3 28
No. 808, Bicycle ...... 2 25
No. 632 tot whist 2 50

TASH

Babbitt’s. ee doz.
PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork

Clear Back .. 44 00@45 00

id Cut Clr 42 00@43 00

Bean 2.22.0... 40 00@41 00

Brisket, Clear @46 00

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Clear Family

Ory Salt Meats
S P Bellies .. 24 00@25 00

Lard
Pure in tierces 24 @25
Compound Lard 19 @19%
80 Ib. tubs ...advance %
60 lb. tubs ...advance %
50 lb. tubs ...advance %

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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. pails ,..advance
. pails ...advance
Ib. pails ..:advance 1
. pails ...advance 1
Smoked Meats
Hams, 14-16 Ib.
Hams, 16-18 lb.
Hams, 18-20 Ib.
Ham, dried beef
sets ... 29 @30

California “Hams 20%@21
Picnic Boiled

Hams ........ 19%@20
Boiled Hams .. 36 @37
Minced Hams ..17%@18
Bacon 2... ous. 33 @36

Sausages

Bologna ....ccccascae

TAVOGR oo. co cca ccc cee

Frankfort ....ccsccsce U0
Pork ...2........ 4@15
Weal oo occa a «. Of
TOMRUG 1.0.6 ..5. 5k. oe 1E
Headcheese ..... eecce 54
Boneless ..... . 00@27 00
Rump, new .. 30 00@31 00
Pig’s Feet
a6 DDIM: col cec ec cceee © Oe
% bbls., 40 Ibs: ..... - 8 40
Me DIS: 2... lee. 6 00
1 ma Ue oeuesecsceucs 12 00
Tripe
Kite, 36 Whe. .......2.. 90
y% bbis., 40 Ibs. ...... 1 60
% bblis., 80 Ibs. ...... 8 00
Casings
Hogs, per ib. ........ 35

Beef, rounds, set .. 19@20
Beef, middles, - -- 45@65
Sheep 1 15@1 35
Uncolored Butterine
Solid Dairy ...... 22 @25
Country Rolls ....25 @27

Canned Meats
Corned Beef, 2 lb. ..
Corned Beef, 1 Ib.

Roast Beef, 2 Ib. .... 6 25
Roast Beef, 1 lb. .... 3 25
Potted Meat, Ham
Flavor, YS ..ccccce 65
Potted Meat, Ham
Miavor, 369. 055... 95
Deviled Meat, Ham
Hiavor, %S <...-.... 52
Deviled Meat, Ham
Blavor, 368 ...:..... 1 00

Potted Tongue, \%s .. te
Potted Tongue, %s ..

RICE
Raney ............ - 8@8%
Bule Rose .. @8
Broken ......... see a

ROLLED OATS

Monarch, bbls. .... 10 00
Rolled Avena, bbls. 10 25
Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sks. 5 10

Monarch, 90 Ib. sks. .. 5 00
Quaker, 18 Regular .. 1 75
Quaker, 20 Family .. 5 60
SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, % pint .... 2 25
Columbia. 1 pint ..... 4 00
Durkee’s, large, 1 doz. 4 20
Durkee’s, small, 2 doz.
Snider’s, large, 1 doz.
Snider’s, smail, 2 doz.

SALERATUS
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Arm and Hammer .. 3 10
Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls. .... 1 40
Granulated, 100 lbs. cs. 1 50
Granulated, 36 pkgs. ..1 40

SALT
Common Grades

100 3 lb. sacks ...... 8
70 4 Ib. sacks ...... 3 06
60 5 lb. sacks 3 0
28 10 lb. sacks ...... 3 9
56 Ib. sacks ......:. 48
28 Ib. sacks 27

Warsaw
566 ID. saeKe ...:...... 6
28 lb. dairy in drill bags 20

Solar Rock

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5G Ib. sacks ........... 43
Common
Granulated, Fine .... 1 80
Medium, Fine ....... 1 90
SALT FISH
Cod
Large, whole ...... @i1
Small, whole ...... @10%

Strips or bricks 12144@16
Pollock @ 9
Holland Herring
Standards, bbls. ..... 18 &@
Y. M., bbia. ......... 18 @
Standard, kegs ..... 85
Y. M. — Se cceee ees 96

rrin
Med. Fat Sonit. S00 Ibs 8 00
Laborador Split 200 lb 10 00

Norway 4 K, 200 Ibs. 16 50
Special, 8 Ib. pails .. 7
Sealed, in boxes ...... 17
Boned, 10 Ib. boxes .... 17
Trout

No. 1, 160 los: ...<...¢ 7 50
No. 1, 40 tbe. ..:..... 2 26
No. 1, 10 IOs. ....cceeee

No. i, S$ Whe, 3... .6icccce

Mackerel
Mess, - Ibs. ...... 16 60
Mess, 40 Ibs. ........ 7 00
Mess, 10 IDS. .....; «. LS
Mess, 8 Ibs. ....... 1 56
No. 1, 100 Ibs. ...... 16 50
No. 1, 4@ Ihe ........ o
No. 1. 10 Ibs. ........ 1
Lake Herring

TOG Whe. 2... 1... wcuee 0
4G The. gcc cc ccc 2 OE

TQ Thm cc... eee e ce 8S
& Whe. ......- Seccceca GM
SEEDS

IMG foci sca e ccacae
Canary, Smyrna ...... 1“

Caraway ...

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Cardomon, Malabar 4 te
@elery ..............
Hemp, Russian ....... 1%
Mixed Bird ....... 9

Mustard, white ...... 20
PODBY «cc sien es Setccee CC
RapG@ ooo cuek cst eee 15
SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large 3 dz. 3 50
Handy Box. small .. 1 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish 85
Miller’s Crown Polish 8&5
SNUFF

Scotch, in bladders ... 37
Maccaboy, in jars .... 365
French Rapple in jars .. 43
SODA
ORGS oo. ccc ce. swe “o
Kegs, English ....... . 4
SPIC
Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica ..9@10

Allspice, lg. Garden @11
Cloves, Zanzibar .. @34
Cassia, Canton .... @20

Cassia, 5c pkg. doz. @35
Ginger African ..... @15
Ginger, Cochin ....
Mace, Penang .....
Mixed, No. 1
Mixed, No. 2
Mixed, 5c pkgs. dz. ois
Nutmegs, 70-80 .... @85
Nutmegs, 105-110 .. @30
Pepper, Black .... @30
Pepper, White .... @32
Pepper, Cayenne .. @22
Paprika, Hungarian
Pure Ground In Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica .. @16

Cloves, Zanzibar ... @40
Cassia, Canton .... @32
Ginger, African .... @24
Mace, Penang ..... @1 00
Noutmers ..........- @36
Pepper, Black ..... @30
Pepper, White @38
Pepper, Cayenne ... @30
Paprika, Hungarian @45
STARCH
Corn
Kingsford, 40 Ibs. 914

Muzzy, 48 Iilb. pkgs. 9%

Kingsford
Silver Gloss, 40 llb. .. 9%
Gloss
Argo, 48 5c pkgs. .... 2 40
Silver Gloss, 16 3lbs. .. 9%
Silver Gloss, 12 6lbs. .. 9%
Muzzy
48 ilb. packages ....:. 9%
16 3lb. packages ...... 9%
12 6lb. packages ..:... 91%
60 ib. boxes .....3:.. 6%
SYRUPS
Corn
Hiarrele 2.06... 6c... +. se
Half barrels ..........
Blue Karo, No. 1%,
GOA: soso cece. 3 05

Blue Karo, No. 2, 2 dz. 3 80
Blue Karo, No. 2%, 2

doz.
Blue Karo, a - 1 dz. 4 45
ae eas 10, %

Red "Ware: No. 4
Red Karo, No. 2% 2dz. 5 00
Red Karo, No. 4

eer eeeenereeesores

@helee -.............
Folger’s Grape Punch
Quarts, doz. case ... 6 00

TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large ........ 8 75
Halford, small ; 26

TEA

Uncolored Japan
Medium 20@25
Choice
WANG 6.006. cosa -ss
Basket-fired Med’m
Basket-fired Choice
Basket-fired Fancy
No.°1 Nibs ..... Gee
Siftings, bulk ......
Siftings, 1 Ib. pkgs.

Gunpowder
Moyune, Medium ..
Moyune, Choice
Moyune, Fancy ....
Ping Suey, Medium
Ping Suey, Choice 35@40
Ping Suey, Fancy .. 45@50

Young Hyson

Choice
Fancy

10

Oolong
Formosa, Medium .. 15@38
Formosa, Choice .. 33 ——
Formosa, Fancy .. 50@60
English Breakfast
Medium .. 25@30
Choice ....
Be Paicy 40@60
ancy 60@80
Ceylon

Pekoe, Medium .... 28@30
Dr. Pekoe, Choice .. 30o38

Flowery O. P. Fancy 40@50

TOBACCO

Fine Cut
Be 4.6. ss... se 45
Bugle, tin pail ...... 4 50
Bugle. ie >.......... 00
Dan Patch, 8 and 16 oz. 38
Dan Patch, 4 oz. .... 53
Dan Patch, 2 oz. .... 5 76
Fast Mail, 16 oz. .... 7 80
Hiawatha, 16 oz. .... 8 00
Hiawatha, 6c ........ 5 76
May Flower, 16 oz. .. 9 36
No Limit, 8 oz. ...... 1 95

No Limit, 16 oz. .... 3 90
Ojibwa, 8 and 16 oz 27
1

Petoskey Chief, 7 oz. 2 30
Petoskey Chief, 14 oz. 4 60
Peach and Honey, ” 5 76
Red Bell, 14 oz. .... 4 20
Red Bell, 20c ........

ss
a
o

Sterling, L & D, 5c ..6 76
Sweet Cuba, canister 9 16
Sweet Cuba, 5c « &@

Sweet Cuba, 10c ...... 96
Sweet Cuba, 1 Ib. tin 4 60
Sweet Cuba, % Ib. foil 2 40
Sweet Burley, 5c L&D 5 76
Sweet Burley, 8 oz. .. 2 45

Sweet Burley, 16 oz. 5 50
Sweet Mist, % gro. ..5 76
Sweet Mist, 8 oz. .. 11 10
Telegram, 6c ....... 5 76
‘imer, GO ............ 6 00
Tiger, 25¢ cans ...... 2 50
Uncle Daniel, 1 Ib. .. 60

Uncle Daniel, 1 oz. .. 5 23

Plug
Am. Navy. 16 oz. ...... 35
Apple, 10 Ib. butt ...... 41

Day’s Work, 7 & 14 * 42
Drummond Nat. Leaf,

and 5 Ib.
Drummond Nat. Leaf,

per dom. ...... accaqce 96
Battle Ax ‘
Bracer, 6 and 12 Ib. .. 30
Big Four, 6 and 16 Ib. 32
Boot Jack, 2 Ib. ....... 90
Boot Jack, per doz. .. 96
Bullion, 16 oz.
Climax Golden Twins 49

Climax, 14% oz. ....... 44
Citra, 7 OM, 5s oc icce es 47
Climax, 5c tins ...... 6 00
Creme de Menthe, lb. 65
Derby, 5 Ib. boxes .... 28
G Broe.. 4 ib ........-. 66
Four Roses, 10c ........ 90
Gilt Edges, 2 lb. ...... 50

Gold Rope, 6 and 12 Ib. 58
Gold Rope, 4 and 8 Ib. 58
G. O. P., 12 and 24 Ib. 40
Granger Twist, 6 Ib. .. 50
G@ T. W., 10 and 21 Ib. 40
Horse Shoe, 6 and 12 Ib. 48
Honey Dip Twist, 5

Sie a ‘

T., 5% and 11 Ib. .. 40
Gentine Navy, 12 lb. 32
Keystone Twist, 6 Ib. 45

Kismet, 6 ib. .......... 48
Maple Dip, 16 oz. .... 5 04
Merry Widow, 12 lb. .. 32

Nobby Spun Roll 6 & 3 58
Parrot, Ib.
Patterson’s Nat.
Peachey, 6, 12 &
Picnic Twist, 5 Ib. . 50
Piper Heidsieck 4&7 ‘tb. 69
Piper Heidsieck, per dz. 96
Polo, 3 doz., per doz. 48
Hed Croge .....<.s--s- 32
Scrapple, 2 and 4 doz. 48
Sherry Cobbler, 8 oz. 33
Spear Head, 12 oz. .... 46
Spear Head, 143%, oz. .. 46
Spear Head, 7 oz. .... 50
Sa. Deal, 7, 14 & 28 lb. 30
Star, 6, 12 and 24 Ib. .. 48
Standard Navy, 7%, 15
and 30 Ib,
Ten Penny, 7 Pago 12 Ib. 35
Town Talk, 3
Yankee Girl, Me “t 24 Yb. 33

  

Scrap
Ali Wed, Se .......... 5 76
Am. Union Scrap .... 5 40
Bag Pipe, 5c .... . 5 88
Cutlas, 2% oz. ... «26
Globe Scrap, 2 oz. .... 30

Happy Thought, 2 oz. 30
Honey Comb Scrap, 5c 5 76
Honest Scrap, 5c 1 55
Mail Pouch, "4 doz. 5c 2 00
Old Songs, 6c ....... 5 76
Old Times, % gro. .. 5 50
Polar Bear, 5c, % gro. 5 76
Red Band, 5c, % gro. 6 00
Red Man ‘Scrap, Ge .. 3 42
Scrapple, 5c pkgs. .... 48
Sure Shot, 5c, %& gro. 5 76
Yankee Girl Scrap 2oz. 6 00
Pan Handle Scrp \% ger 6 00
Peachey Scrap; 5c .... 5 76

1

Smoking

All Leaf, 324 & Tox. 38
Be, 2% O88 .:...c:-ss O@
BB, 7 ox.

 

 

Bull Durham, 10c .. 10 86
Bull Durham, l6e .... 1 45
Bull Durham, 8 os. -- 3 60
Bull Durham, 16 os. .. 6 72
Buck Horn, 6c ...... 8 76
Buck Horn, 10¢ .....11 52
Briar Pipe, Be ....... 5 76
Briar Pips, 10¢ ......11 53
Black Swan, &e ...... 5 76
Black Swan, 14 oz. .. 3 50
Bob White, 6c 6

Carnival, 5e
Carnival, So ......
Carnival. IG oe ...... &
Cigar Clip’ Johnson 30
Cigar Clip’g Seymour 30
Identity, 3 and 16 oz. 30
Darby Cigar Cuttings 4 50
Continental Cubes, 10c 90
Corn Cake, 35c ..... 8 85
Corn Cake, 20c
Corn Cake, Bc ccc.ce @ WG
Cream, 50c pails ....
Cuban Star, 5c foil .. 5 76
Cuban Star, pails .... 4 40

Chips, 10c .......... 10 30
Dills Best, 1% oz. acs 8
Dills Best, 8% oz. .... 177
Dills Best, 16 oz. -
Dixie Kid: Ge ........ 48

Duke’s Mixture, 5c ..

Duke’s Mixture, 10c ..11 62
Duke’s Cameo, be. - § 76
Eyum, Ge .........,: ; 76
BF A. 4 68 .c:... 04
EF. A, 7 oe

Fashion, 16 Ge 4...
Fashion, 16 oz.
Five Bros., 6c
Five Bros., 10c
Five cent cut Plug” aa ae
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Sees acecskl @&
Four Roses, 10c ...... 96
Full Dress, 1% oz. -
Glad Hand, 6c ... 48

Gold Block, l0c ...... 12 00
Gold Star, 50c pail .. 4 60

Gail & Ax Navy, Be 6 00
Growler, Se ....,...... 48
Growler, We ........ 1 50
Growler, 30¢ ........ 3 00
Giant, to ......-.... -- 6 00
Giant, 40¢ ........... 418
Hand Made, 2% oz. .. 50
Hazel Nut, Se ...... 00
Honey Dew, 10c .... 12 00
Hunting, Ge .......... 38
I POG cae cuss oe, 8 10
I x bL, im pails ...... 4 95
Kiln Dried, 16 oz. ... 3 50
King Bird, 7 oz. ...... 2 16
King Bird, 10c ...... 11 62
King Bird, 5c ....... 5 76
La Turka, Se ........ 5 76
Little Giant, 1 Ib. .... 28
Lucky Strike, 10c .... 96
Le Redo, 3 oz. ......10 20
Le Redo, 8 & 16 oz. .. 40

Myrtle Navy, 10c ....11 52
Myrtle Navy, 5c 57
Maryland Club, 6c .... &0

Mayflower, 5c ........ 6 00
Mayflower, 10c ...... 1 00
Mayflower, 20c ...... 1 92
Nigger Hair, 5c ...... 6 00
Nigger Hair, — cece EO
Nigger Head, 5c .... 5 40
Nigger Head, 10c ... 10 &
Noon Hour, 6c ......

Old Colony, 1-12 gro. 11 52
Old MN, Ge. ..cceecee 5 76
Old English Crve 1% ~ =
Old Crop, Se ........

OH Crop, 35e ...~.<... : ‘3

P. S., 8 oz. 30 Ib. case 19

P. S., 3 oz., per gro. 5 70
Pat Hand, 1 oz. ...... 63
Patterson Seal, 1% oz. 48
Patterson Seal, 3 oz. 96
Patterson Pa 16 oz. $ 00
Peerless, 5c ......... 5 76
Peerless, Sc cloth ..11 52
Peerless, - paper 7710 80
Peerless, 26¢ ........ 2 40
Peerless, io se eeawes ; 80
Plaza, 2 gro. case .... 5 76
Plow Boy, 5c ....... . 5 76
Plow Boy, 10c ...... 11 40

Plow Boy, 16 oz. .... 5 40
Pedro, 10c
Pride of Virginia, 1%.

Pilot, 7 oz. doz. ...... 4 os
Queen Quality, 5¢ .... 48
Rob Roy, 5c foil .... 6 00
Rob Roy, 10c gross ..11 52
Rob Roy, 25c doz. .... 2 50
Rob Roy, 50c doz. .... 4 90
S. & M. 5c gross .... 5 76
S. & M., 14 oz. doz. .. 3 80
Soldier Boy, 5c gross 5 76
Soldier Boy, 10c ......10 50

Stam. Ge . 06.45 enw 5 76
Stag, 10e ......-. occeeke Me
Stag, 8 oz. glass .... 4 50
Stag, 90c glass ...... 8 40
Soldfer Boy, 1 Ib. .... 4 75
Sweet Caporal, 1 om Vs

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

August 29, 1917

 

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

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—

Sweet Lotus, 5c ....
Sweet Lotus, 10c ....
Sweet Lotus, 16 oz. .. 5 5
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
Summer Time, 14 oz. 3
Standard, 5c foil .... 5 76
Standard, 10c paper 9
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, re 20 2 oe
Tom & Jerry, Oz. 76
Turkish, hy 2-9 6 76

 

Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags .. 48
Tuxedo, 2 oz. tins .... 96
Tuxedo, 20c .......- 2 04

Tuxedo, s5c tins .... 8 15
Union Leader, 5c coli 6 00
Union Leader, 10c
pouch ........---.» 11 52
— Leader, ready
ut

Union Leader 50c box 5 10
War Path, 5c ........ 6 00
War Path, 20c ...... 1 84
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 ...... 00
Wild Fruit, 10c ..... 12 00
Yum Yum, 5c ........ 5 76
Yum Yum, 10c ..... 11 52

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
ONS 6 ee 35 00

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

E! Portana

Dutch Masters, 5c
5. c. WwW.

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

2% trade discount on 300
or more

2% cash discount on all
purchases.

Worden Grocer Co. Brands
Worden’s Hand Made

Londres, 50s Wood .. 33 00
TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply .......... 44
Cotton, 4 ply ....-...- 44
ED, 2 OF oie ce ces ds 25
Hemp, 6 ply ....-s-.0- 30
Flax, medium ......... 35
Wool, 1 Ib. bales ...... 17
VINEGAR

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

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

WICKING
No. 0, per gross ........ 35
No. 1, per gross . oa- 2D
No. 2, per gross ....... 60
No. 3, per gross ....... 90
WOODENWARE
Baskets

Bushels
Bushels, wide band ..
Market, drop handle .. 55

Marxet, single handle 60
Splint, large ........ 4 00
Splint, medium ....... 3 50
Splint, small ...... 3 00

Willow, Clothes, large
Willow, Clothes, small
Willow, Clothes, me’m

Butter Plates
Ovals
% Ib. 250 in crate .... 35
% Ib., 250 in crate .... .

1 Ib., "250 in crate.......

2 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 50
3 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 20
3° Ib., 260 in crate ...... 90

 

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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
42

No. 1 complete ........

No. 2 complete ....... 35
Case, medium, 12 sets 1 30

Faucets
Cork lined, 3 in. ....... 70
Cork lined, 9 in. ...... 80
Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring ........ 1 35
Eclipse patent spring 1 35
No. 1 common ...... 1 35
No. 2, pat. brush hold 1 35
Mieal, No. 7 |. .....:.. 1 35
12lb. cotton mop heads 1 75
Palis
10 qt. Galvanized .... 3 50
12 qt. Galvanized .... 4 00
14 qt. Galvanized .... 4 50
bre 5. ces: 5 50
Toothpicks
Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00
eat oo 85
Traps

Mouse, wood, 2 hoels .. 22
Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. 45

10 qt. Galvanized .... 1 55
12 qt. Galvanized .... 1 70
14 qt. Galvanized .... 1 90

Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65

Rat, wood .........:-.-- 80
met, SPOTING ............ 75
Tubs
No. 1 Hibre .....:..:- 16 50
Noe. 2 Wire ........; 15 00
No. 3 Fibre ......:... 13 50

Large Galvanized ... 12 50
Medium Galvanized 10 75
Small Galvanized .... 9 50

Washboards
Banner, Globe ...... 3 75
Brass, Single ........ 6 75
Glass, Single ........ 4 00
Double Peerless ..... 6 25
Single Peerless ...... 5 50
Northern Queen ..... 4 75
Good Enough ........ 4 65
Univergzal ........is.. 5 00

Wood Bowls
13 in. Butter ..

15 in. Butter .. -
17 in. Butter ......

 

19 in. Butter

WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre Manila, white .. 8%

Fibre, Manila, cvoiored
No. 1 Manila ........ 8%
Butchers’ Manila .... :

Swale cco, sce. 10%
Wax Butter, short c’nt 16
Wax Butter, full c’nt 20
Parchm’t Butter, rolls 19

YEAST CAKE

Magic, 3 doz. ......;. 115
Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00
Sunlight, 1% doz. .... 50
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. .. 1 15
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85

Window Cleaners

Bo iM. 2 eee ces «+s 3 ie
a8 IMs. ote cco esieus & BO
16 in. -.3.... coebeceess 2 00

sorlocal sh Iipments
im paper or

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and stock

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BAKING POWDER
KC

10c, 4 doz. in case .... 95
15ce, 4 doz. in case .... 1 40

25c, 4 doz. in case ....
50c, 2 doz. plain top
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
AI.1. Pure Food Laws, both
State and National.

Royal

| 10c size ...
im %4Ib. cans
6 oz. cans
4 %lb. cans
H# %1b. cans
M44 1b. cans ..

wm 68 bo NO et
aaasas
oon as

23 70

 

SALT

eer

FREE RUNNING

SALT
mC

 

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

SOAP
Proctor « Gamble Co
TOOK ..ccncecceccses 4 Tb

Ivory, 6 OZ: .:.:...... 5 25
Agory, 10 OZ. 23 0c... 8 65
Ser - 4 35
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’Clock ....... 3 85
WASHING POWDERS.
Gold Dust
24 large packages .... 5 75
100 small packages .. 5 60

AXLE GREASE

 

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

The Only Five Cent Cleanser

Guaranteed to Equal the Best 10c Kinds

 

80 Can Cases ...-- $3.20 Per Case

 

Handled by All Jobbers

 

Place an order with your jobber. If goods are not satis-

factory return same at our expense.—FITZPATRICK BROS.

 

 

FITZPATRICK BROTHEKS' SOAP CHIPS BBLS.‘
White City (Dish Washing) .... ..... viseees seeee BIG IDB..66-. [De
Tip Top Kemetic)... 2... pe cee ct sececs + s200 IDB... es FOR
No. 1 Laundry 88% Dry.......----++--.++++- ele ....-225 Ibs.....- | PRICES
Palm Soap 88% Dry .. ee -++-+--800 Ibs... -

 

 

“SEND FOR SAMPLES

 

Bread is the Best Food

It is the easiest food to digest.

It is the most nourishing and, with
all its good qualities, it is the most
economical food.

Increase your sales of bread.

FLEISCHMANN’S
YEAST

secures perfect fermentation and,
therefore, makes the most whole-
some, lightest and tastiest bread.

Sell bread made with

FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST

 

 

 

The Iron Safe Clause

in Fire Insurance Policies,
which is frequently used as a
club by unscrupulous insur-
ance adjusters to coerce mer-
chants who have suffered loss
by fire to accept less than the
face of their policies, has no
terrors to the merchant who
owns a York fire proof safe.

This safe is carried in stock and
sold at factory prices by the Western
Michigan representative of the York
Safe & Lock Co.

GRAND RAPIDS SAFE CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Advertisements inserted under

continuous insertion.

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

Show Cases For Sale Cheap

FOUR OUTSIDE SHOW CASES, ALL

PLATE GLASS, MIRROR BACK,

MARBLE BASE, WIRED FOR

ELECTRICITY.

TWO 18 INCHES DEEP. 25 INCHES
WIDE, 7 FEET HIGH.

ONE 21% INCHES DEEP, 27 INCHES
WIDE, 7 FEET HIGH.

ONE 18 INCHES DEEP, 18 INCHES
WIDE, 7 FEET HIGH.
APPLY TO JOHN ZANT,
CARE BOSTON STORE,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

For Sale—Stock general merchandise.

New, fine location. Doing good cash
business. Money maker. Invoice $7,000.
Reason for selling, sickness. Leading

store town 800. Cash, no trades. Act

 

 

quick. Rusk Brothers, Galt, Mo. 279
For Sale—Stock of drugs, books, wall
paper. You will see a bargain at my
price. Eighty-three years old is why.
Call and see me. Frank Smith, Ypsilanti.
283
For Sale—Clothing, furnishing and

shoe business, $5,000. Good, clean stock,
30 to 40 per cent. under present prices.

Long lease, good brick room 22x 95:
Rent $25 per month. Town 800 popula-
tion. Two railroads. Investigate. Krum
& Co., Wolcottville, Indiana. 284

 

Bakery For Sale—Good paying busi-
ness. Come and look it over. Wm. Eby,
Durand, Michigan. _ 285 _

On account of failing health, I offer for
sale my cheese box business and factory
located in Carson City, Michigan. A
good business. Price $2,000. Terms to
suit. C. R. Mallory, Carson City, Mich-
igan. 286

 

 

For Sale—General country store in one
of the best farming districts in Van
Buren County. Present owners wish to
retire from business. This is absolutely
a clean stock and a first-class chance
for any one wishing a _ general store.
Building and stock valued at about
$12,000. Stock will invoice about $6,000.
Will accept part payment, time on bal-

 

lance. Address No. 287, care Michigan
Tradesman. 287
For Sale—$8,000 stock of dry goods

and shoes. Good stand in a good town.
J. D. Haynes, Durant, Oklahoma. 288

Gas For Country Homes—Patent auto-
matic acetylene generator for lighting,
cooking and _ heating. Patent for sale.
Royalty or partnership. H.  Prillwitz,
0357 Soe Marshfield Ave., Chicago. 289

For Sale—Old established grocery and
meat market; good location; doing a
profitable business in one of the _ best
cities in Michigan. Excellent farming
community. Will sell at right price.
Snap for the right party. Address No.
280, care Michigan Tradesman. 280

Bakery-Delicatessen—Cantonment here
means splendid opportunity. Box 308,
Battle Creek, Michigan. 281

For Sale—In a town of 70v in Southern
Michigan, a clean stock of clothing. fur-
nishings and shoes. Address No. 265 care
Tradesman. 265

For Sale—$500 National cash register.
Will sell for $250. Address 431 La Grave
Ave., Grand Rapids. 267

Hotel For Sale—Four-story brick, 35
rooms, well furnished. Steam heat,
electric lights, water. Doing good busi-
ness. Only hotel. $5,000 cash will
handle. Hotel, Blissfield, Mich. 269

SPECIAL SALES

Merchants wishing to retire from business
or reduce stocks will be interested in our
plans. Information free. Write or wire.

UNITED SALES CO.

 

 

 

 

. bought before raise.

 

431 Houseman Bldg. Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

For Sale—Established light manufac-
turing business in Kalamazoo, will ‘sell
controlling interest to right party who
would manage same. Might take real
estate as part pay. Goods easy to sell
and pay good profit. F. H. Clay, Kala-
mazoo, Michigan. “ 256

Patent—Have patent on farm specialty.
Will put out on royalty basis. Unlimited
demand if properly handled. G. S.-Wash-
burn, Story City, Iowa. 257

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

BUSINESS-WA

 

Bazaar and notion

FOR SALE rere

“Famous” in Traverse City, with or without
lease of building. Opportunity for right man.
Thomas H. Sherman, Administrator
Traverse City, Mich.

 

For Sale—Wholesale produce business,
established twelve years, in best city in
Michigan. Reason for selling, ill health.
Address No. 290, care Michigan Trades-
man.

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

Sales GUpeued—W. L. sttucum, safe ex-
pert and lucksmith. 128 Ann St., N. B.,
Grand Kapids, Michigan. 104

Cash Buyers of clothing,
goods and furnishings.
stocks,
Detroit.

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shues, dry

Parts or entire

H. Price, 194 Forrest Ave. 7
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of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn, Sag-
inaw, Micnigan. 757
Merchants Please Take Notice! We

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

For Sale—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 32x 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

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

stocks
Greene Sales Co.,
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Merchants wishing to sel! stocks
or a portion of same at an ad-
vantage, should get in touch with
us.

Weickgenants Dept. Store,
Battle Creek, Mich.

 

For Sale—Clean stock of groceries and
crockery in one of the best towns of
Michigan, Good location and good trade.
Will invoice about $3,000. Address No.
164, care Tradesman. 164

Collections everywhere. We get the
money and so do you. No charge unless
collected. United States Credit Service,
Washington, D. C. 57

For Sale—Stock of dry goods, clothing,
ladies’ furnishings and ready-to-wear,
doing good business, mostly cash. Goods
Doing $30,000 to
$35,000 business yearly. Stock will in-
ventory $15,000 to $18,000. Am leaving on
account of ill health. Store rent reason-
able. I. Saulson, Munising, Mich. 262

For Rent—Store building, 16x50 feet,
with basement 16 x 30 feet, also barn and
garage room if desired. Splendid loca-
tion for meat market, milk depot or
laundry. Next to a grocery and feed
store doing a good business. This is in
one of the livliest little cities in Western
Michigan. . Splendid opportunities for a
hustler. Carlson & Butcher, 1435 Peck
street, Muskegon Heights, Mich. 263

Automatic Daily Statement of Busi-
ness—Fits any business; tells every-
thing; worth thousands of dollars. to
any firm; never offered for sale before;
send 35 cents for sample; box 260,
McKinney, Texas. Salesman wanted,
50 cents for particulars. - 240

POSITION WANTED.

Position Wanted—As book-keeper or
manager in some line business. Have
had 16 years experience in general mer-
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HELP WANTED.

Young man not over thirty-five years
old with experience in general hardware,
to buy an interest in hardware business
in Central Alabama. Business well es-

 

tablished, good proposition for right
party. This offer is for cash, not ex-
change. Price about $10,000. Robbins

Hardware Co., Selma, Alabama. 266
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and card writer, just one small window
to trim. Must have experience as shoe
salesman. Steady position and good sal-
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with salary wanted in first letter. Ad-
dress Peoples Bargain Store, Saginaw,
Michigan.

Clerk wanted for country store in
Northern Michigan. Some experience
necessary. Married man preferred.

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Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.

Apples—Home grown Red Astrachans
and Duchess fetch $1.50 per bu.

Bananas—$4.50 per 100 Ibs.

Beets—30c per doz. bunch for home
grown.

Butter—The market is very firm
following an advance of ic per
pound over last week. This is due
to the good home consumption and
the fact that there is some buying
for storage, also to the decrease in
receipts, due to the hot weather in
the producing sections. This is cut-
ting down the quantity and also the
quality. Most of the best marks now
being received are showing heat de-
fects. Fine butter is scarce and a
continued firm market is indicated.
Local dealers hold fancy creamery at
41c in tubs and 42c in prints. Local
dealers pay 36c for No. 1 in jars and
31c for packing stock.

Cabbage—Home grown 75c per bu.

Cantaloupes—Ponys from Benton
Harbor command $2 for 54s and $2.25
for 45s and 36s: $1.50 per flats of 12
to 15: Indiana Gems, 90c per basket;
standards, $3 per crate; flats, $1; Ben-
ton Harbor Osage, $3 per crate of 12.

Carrots—20c per doz. bunches for
home grown.

Cauliflower—$1.75 per doz.

Celery—Home grown, 30c per bunch.

Eggs—The market is very firm for
fancy marks, but dull as to under
grades. The greater part of the re-
ceipts of fresh eggs are showing
heat defects on account of heat in
the producing sections, There is at
present a wide range of prices among
the different grades. The week has
brought an advance of 1c on fine
eggs and continued high prices are
looked for for some time. There is
a good home consumptive demand.
Local dealers pay 35c for fresh, in-
cluding cases, loss off. Cold storage
operators are beginning to put out
their stocks on the following basis:
Extras, 38c: firsts, 36c; seconds, 34c.

Figs—Package, $1.25 per box, layers,
$1.75 per 10 Ib. box.

Green Corn—30c per doz. for home
grown.

Green Onions—18c per dozen bunch-
es for home grown.

Honey—18c per Ib. for white clover
and 16c for dark.

Lemons—California selling at $8 for
choice and $8.50 for fancy.

Lettuce—75c per bu. for garden grown
leaf; $1.50 per hamper for home grown
head.

Limes—$2 per 100 for Italian.

Maple Syrup—$1.50 per gal. for pure.

Mushrooms—75c per Ib.

Nuts—Almonds, 18c per Ib.: filberts,
16c per Ib.: pecans, 15¢ per lb.; walnuts,
16c for Grenoble; 15%4c for Naples.

Onions—California, $3 per 100 Ib.
sack: Illinois, $2 per 70 lb. sack; Span-
ish, $1.65 per crate.

Oranges—California Valencias, $4@
4.25.

Peaches—White varieties from Ben-
ton Harbor command $2 per 6 basket
crate. New York shipments are due to
arrive about Sept. 3.

Peppers—Southern command 50c per
basket.

Pop Corn—$2.25 per bu. for ear, 6%
@7c per tb. for shelled.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Potatoes—$4 per bbl. for home grown.

Poultry—Local dealers pay as _ fol-
lows, live weight: heavy hens, 22@24c;
light hens, 20@21c; cox and stags, 14@
15c; broilers, 24@28c; geese, 18@20c
for young and 15@16c for old; ducks,
21@22c. Dressed fowls average 3c above
quotations.

Radishes—10c per doz. bunches for
small,

Rhubarb—Home grown, 75c per 40
lb. box.

String Beans—$1.75 per bu.

Summer Squash—$1.50 per bu.

Sweet Potatoes—$7.50 per bbl. for
Virginia.

Tomatoes—Home grown hot house
50c for 8 lb. basket.

Water Melons—$3.50 per bbl. of 12
to 14 for Florida.

Wax Beans—$1.75 per bu.

Whortleberries—$2@2.25 per 16 qt.
crate.

———— oa —
Bottom Facts — Booming Boyne

ity.

Boyne City, Aug. 27—Your corre-
spondent was not out of town last
week. He was strictly in town. Got
mixed up in the Chamber of Com-
merce re-organization business and
it was some strenuous stunt. One of
our old war horses in civic affairs
was going to take off his hat to the
erganizer if he got $600 pledged sub-
scriptions. We got 256 three year
subscriptions, ensuring a working
fund of over $3,000, and we are still
growing. We are going to make a
noise like a town the coming year.
Just you listen.

The Boyne City Lumber Co. re-
ports the biggest shipment of lumber
the past month of any in the past
three years. Of course, all hands are
grouchy for being so crowded with
work, especially the manager.

The tanning company reports be-
ing handicapped by the draft. It has
lost ‘a good many men sent to the
armv. Omar Jones, who has been
in the office for six years. will soon
exchange the pen for a rifle and join
the Sammies at Battle Creek.

The work on the B. C., G. & A. ex-
tension is progressing favorably and
will be completed in time for the fall
shipping of crops. It will be a great
help to the farmers along the line.

The crops around Bovne City are
looking more than fine. The weather
has been ideal and our farmers are
beginning to lose their anxious ex-
pression. This is no Eden, but we
vsnally have enough to eat with a
little left over. However, it is a
little early to talk very loud. There
is quite a little woods roads to navi-
gate before harvest. Maxy.

—_——_—-_>--_o—_—_—

Dried Fruits—Jobbers generally are
strongly arrayed against the packers
in estimating the fairness of prevail-
ing prices for the whole line of dried
fruits. Manifestly the prevailing
prices are uniformly out of reach of
past ideals and buyers are distinctly
sore at what they charge is due to
the “hoggish” attitude of the pro-
ducers, who have things their own
way and are making whatever prices
they choose, confident that their con-
trol of the entire available supply
gives them the right to do as they
please. They justify their action by
claims of exaction by the farmers
and the scarcity of farm labor.

—_2.s——

Molasses—The usual summer inactiv-
ity is without influence upon the tone
of the market which remains strong as

a result of present light supplies.
; —_——_22o—_

It is easy to convince a man that
he is smarter than you are.

Status of the Drug Market.

Quieter conditions prevail in the mar-
ket for drugs and chemicals. Many
buyers are inclined to purchase sparing-
ly, pending further developments in the
general situation. Meantime the gen-
eral market retains a firm tone. A de-
velopment of considerable interest is
the recovery in the market for light
soda ash. This is due to a falling off
in the offerings and an increase in the
demand. Caustic soda is stronger, ow-
ing to the smallness of supplies on the
spot. Quinine continues to meet with
a good enquiry, and the market is firm-
er, with sales of American sulphate re-
ported at a further fractional advance.
Sales of dynamite glycerine are report-
ed at the recent rise. Chemically pure
glycerine meets with an increased re-
quest and the market remains firm.
Benzoic acid is lower, owing to com-
petition among sellers and some fur-
ther shading of benzoate of soda is
also reported. Laurel leaves are firmer
on a decrease in supplies. English mus-
tard seed has advanced again on in-
creasing scarcity. Dextrine has been
reduced 25 points by leading makers.
Quinine ‘continue to meet with a good
enquiry among second hands. Supplies
have diminished of late and some hold-
ers demand 83c per ounce for American
sulphate. Sales are reported at 82}4c.
Opium is quiet. The London Chemist
and Druggist of August 11 says: *3tocks
of Turkey druggists’ opium are now ex-
hausted on spot. There are buyers of
Persian at from 45s to 46s per pound,
but with small supplies sellers ask 47s
6d on the spot. The authorities still
prohibit regular importers bringing into
this country any Turkish or Serbian
opium, and have themselves failed to
provide supplies. The position is there-
fore acute, and will be increasingly so
later in the year.” Lycopodium is in
moderate request and the market re-
mains firm at $2@2.25 per pound. Sales
are reported within the range. Menthol
receives a fair enquiry, and the mar-
ket apparently remains firm. Glycerine
is more active, and the market remains
at the advance previously noted. Sales
of dynamite are reported at 65c per
pound in carloads. Cassia buds have
been revised downward to 14!@l1ic
per pound.

—_o.-s——
Boyne City Chamber of Commerce
Organized.

Boyne City, Aug. 28—Boyne City
now has a Chamber of Commerce
organized on the departmental plan
with an annual budget of $3,225, a
membership of nearly 200, and a paid
full time Secretary-Manager. The
organization was perfected by the
Wagener Organization Service Bu-
reau of Detroit, which conducted the
educational campaign, the member-
ship campaign and installed the sys-
tem. The plan includes five depart-
ments and forty divisions. The de-
partments are now being organized
and include divisions sufficient to
care for all civic, commercial, indus-
trial and agricultural problems. The
Board of Directors consists of the
following leading merchants and busi-

men:

President-—Charles T. McCutcheon,
Manager Boyne City Electric Co.

Vice - President — Sabin Hooper,
Cashier Peoples Bank.

Treasurer—I. Nurko, general mer-
chandise. ;

Director Organization Affairs—
George. Houghton, livery and garage.

Director Industrial Affairs—E. John
Olson, manufacturer.

August 29, 1917

Director Business Affairs—John
Parker, grocer.

Director of Civic Affairs—Samuel
C. Smith, Cashier First National
Bank.

Director of Agricultural Affairs—
William F. Tindall, farmer.
——__+2.-s———

Eggs, Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes.

Buffalo, Aug. 29—Creamery butter,
extras, 411%4@42c; first, 40@40%c;
common, 37@38c; dairy, common to
choice, 33@38c; dairy, poor to com-
mon, all kinds, 31@33c.

Cheese—No. 1 new,
choice, 22@22c.

Eggs—Choice, new
fancy hennery, 44@48c.

Butter,

fancy, 23c;

laid 39@40c;

Poultry (live) —Fowls, 22@25c,
chicks, 23@30c; old cox, 16@17c

ducks, 21@25c.

Beans—Medium, $8.20; pea, $8.20;
Red Kidney, $7.50; White Kidney,
$8@8.50; Marrow, $8@8.50.

Potatoes—New, $4.00 per bbl.

Rea & Witzig.

am
A sales manager who spends a
great deal of his time on the road
usually thinks over his business prob-
lems on the train, He found that
when he marked down the valuable
ideas that occurred to him at such
times on cards or odd papers which
he happened to have in his pockets,
his notes frequently became lost or
illegible. He dislikes carrying a note-
bock. So now when he starts a trip
he puts a dozen postcards, addressed
to himself, in his pocket. He jots
down his ideas on these, and mails
them. They greet him, on top of his
mail, when he returns to the office.

—_22->

A tobacco store displayed in its
windows a large picture of Sherlock
Holmes smoking his proverbial pipe.
Underneath was the sign: “Sherlock
Holmes says, ‘No one ever committed
a crime with a pipe in his mouth.”

—_—_~+22>__

Chas. N. Remington, Jr., the mer-
chandise broker, received to-day a
carload of Warren’s Columbia River
Salmon which contained upwards of
$15,000 worth of goods.

—_+22—__—_

The Hulst & Van Heulen Fuel Co.
has changed its name to the Van
Heulen Fuel Co.

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale—Grocery stock and fixtures.
Invoice about $4,000. Located in a good
town of about 700 population and doing
a good business. Address Grocery, care
Michigan Tradesman. 291

Business Chance—The Atlantic. Hotel
and Railroad eating house for sale at
White Cloud, county seat. This is an
exceptional opportunity and should ap-
peal to you if you wish something good
at a desirable price. J. L. Ubellar,
White Cloud, Michigan. 292

For Sale—Restaurant at a bargain; do-
ing $2,000 worth business month. Only
one in city. Mrs. E. A. Swann, Howell,
Michigan. 293

Wanted—Position in general _ store.
Have had experience as buyer and man-
ager. Can give A 1 references. , Age 36
and unmarried. Employed at present.
Address No. 294, care Tradesman. 294

Wanted—Stock general merchandise.
State size stock. D. H. Hampton, Ma-
comb, Illinois. 295

For Rent—Sept. 1, store 22x44 or
double store 44x44. Suitable for quick
repairing and shoe store, millinery, gro-
cery, cigar store, etc. Best location on
corner, Main street. in city of 5,000. En-
quire of N. M. Welch, Charlotte, ge

 

Change Position—Experienced grocery
manager, salesman, show card writer,
window trimmer, married. Address 297,
care Tradesman. 297

For Sale—To close the Harry Dailey
estate, we offer the grocery stock and
business..at Alto, Michigan, at.a_ ha
gain for quick sale.

 

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Grand Rapids Trust
Co., Administrator, Grand Rapids, Mich-
igan. 298

   

 

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