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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1917 élumber 1773

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JOHN L. LYNCH, Proprietor

| - John L. Lynch Sales Co.

It is the duty of every merchant in
a America to know me and about
A my Sales Campaigns

IN EVERY avenue of endeavor you will find one large insti-
tution, one large Enterprise, so it is with the SALES business.
I have been before the American Merchants for twenty years
and now I am the acknowledged Master in my line of work.
I therefore say: “It is the Duty of Every Merchant” to know
me; ,
NO DOUBT, like other merchants you have a bunch of mer-
chandise you would like to get your money out of. We sell just
what you want to dispose of and get the price you want for
same.

Public Reference Library

It will increase your sales wonder-
. fully to have the

John L. Lynch Sales Co.

Conduct a Special Selling Campaign on your Stock

Merchants throughout the United States and Canada
will vouch for us and tell you of the wonderfully successful
sales that we have conducted for them.

Many years of experience places us foremost in the advertising world
where no deception or misleading statements are used to pack your store
with eager buyers. All advertising matter must meet with your approval
before going to press. You place the selling price on all goods to be sold;
you handle all money taken in at your sale. We conduct your sale under
your name, so in the eyes of the people we act simply as salesmen. We are
not trade wreckers but

Reliable Business Developers, Stock
_ Reducers and Cash Realizers _

We increase your future business by bringing to your store people who
were never there before. .(Your competitor’s customers.) o by new
business tactics and honorable dealings together with the courteous treatment
they all receive at. our sales, make them life-long customers. DON’T BE
MISLEAD—Use the same careful methods in securing the services of sales
experts as you do in employing your clerks. We have conducted sales for
some of the largest and best merchants in America.

Write, phone or call, and we will gladly furnish you, without obligation,
any information you desire in regard to having a successful sale conducted
on your stock. Please mention size of stock when writing.

Below is a partial list of our references—write them:

 

 

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MEN’S CLOTHING STORES

F. O, Lindquist, Grand Rapids, Mich.
McQuillan & Harrison, .Jackson, Mich.
1. Gudelsky, Muskegon, Mich.
Star Clothing Co., Grand Rapids,
H. C. Jorgensen, Cadillac, Mich.
Edward Lonergan, Bridgeport, Conn.
M. Katz & Son, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Man From Michigan, Muskegon, Mich.
National Clothing Co., Grand Rapids,
Mich. i
WHOLESALE HOUSES

August Bros., Rochester, N. Y.
Steifill, Strauss & Connor, Rochester.
Solomon Bros. & Limpert, Rochester.
Practical Clothing Co., New York.

Mich.

cam JOHN L. LYNCH SALES CO.» vos

Wm. Alden Smith Building

Strouse & Bro., Baltimore, Md.
Hayes, Levi Co., New York.

Edson Moore & Co., Detroit.

1. Strauss & Son, Cincinnati, Ohlo.
Worden Grocer Co., Grand Rapids. *
Sonneborn Clo Co., Baltimore, Md.

DEPARTMENT STORES
J. P. Ryan, Bangor, Mich,
Blood & Hart, Marine City, Mich.
Mills & Healey, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Walsh & Meyer, Savannah, Ga.
A. B. Case Co., Honor, Mich.
Speyer Co., Kalamazoo, Mich.
W. J. Duffield, Marshall, Mich.
Chas. B. Eddy, Hart, Mich. -
Chas. E. Norton Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keystone
Pulleys and Hangers

Most Modern Design
Shafting, Couplings
Mill Supplies of All Kinds
In Stock

 

 

 

-Adolph Leitelt Iron Works
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Pere Marquette Railway Co.

F ACTORY SITES

Locations for Industrial Enterprises in
Michigan

The Pere Marquette Railway runs through a territory peculiarly adapted by Accessibility
excellent Shipping Facilities, Healthful Climate and Good Conditions for Home Life. for the
LOCATION OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES.

First-class Factory Sites may be had at reasonable prices. Coal in the Saginaw Valley
and Electrical Development in several parts of the State insure Cheap Power. Our Industrial
Department invites correspondence with manufacturers and others seeking locations. All in-
quiries will receive painstaking and prompt attention and will be treated as confidential.

Address GEORGE C. CONN,
Freight Traffic Manager,
Detroit, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Rich Can Buy Nothing Better

The poorest customer you have can afford to
eat Shredded Wheat for his breakfast, but the
wealthiest cannot start his day with any-

’ thing better. While it costs only five or six
cents for a breakfast of

Shredded Wheat

with milk and a little fruit, such a combina-
tion makes a perfectly balanced meal that
contains all the nourishment the human body
requires. Always the same high quality,
always the same fair profit.

The Shredded Wheat Company
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We extend a cordial invitation to all merchants interested to visit
us and inspect our lines of

Holiday Goods

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

We are showing choicest selection of goods from over

Eleven Hundred Factories

Our display is a wonderful revelation of

New Goods
Lowest Prices and
Immense Variety

that should not be overlooked as the early buying merchants are show-
ing by their orders every day since the opening week of June 5th.
Don’t say “I can’t get away.”

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

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

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

WE TRY TO SERVE YOU

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

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

COME AND .SEE US—CORRESPONDENCE INVITED

H. Leonard & Sons

MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS & WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS |

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Thirty-Fifth Year

SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page
2. Upper Peninsula.
4. News of the Business World.
5. Grocery and Produce Market.
8. Editorial.
10. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
12. Financial.
13. Winning Personality.
14. Give Us a Gettysburg.
18. Shoes.
20. Stoves and Hardware.
Woman’s World.
24. The Commercial Traveler.
26. Drugs.
Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
30. Special Price Current.
31. Business Wants.

SOWING SEEDS OF SEDITION.

Confronting the greatest
which threatened the liberties
of a free people, precipitated by the
most blood-thirsty monarch in
tory and conducted by the
brutal people this world has
seen, we ought to present a

menace
ever

his-

most
ever
united
front to the common enemy of civil-
ization and humanity. As a
of fact, what do we see?

matter

A Nation divided into contemptible
factions, cliques, classes and clans—
each bound and determined to use
the war as a weapon to accomplish
their nefarious purposes.

A handful of women in every com-
munity hammering away at the suf-
frage question when they ought to be
making socks for the soldiers.

A million union laborers offering to
be goed and not to go on strike dur-
ing the war if the Government. will
recognize their infamous propaganda
of the closed shop, which is as great
a menace to the freedom of the in-
dividual as Bloodthirsty Bill Kaiser
is to the liberty of the world.

Officials of organizations
preaching sedition and treason by en-

farmer

treating their members not to increase
their crop area and yield unless the
Government establishes a minimum
price for their products which affords
them an abnormal profit of 200 to
400 per cent.

Young women everywhere volun-
tarily quitting positions of responsi-
bility, trust and usefulness, in order
that their out
of the war draft by claiming they have
dependent wives at home.

The 1 Wo IW.
izations of long haired men and short
haired

husbands may sneak

and kindred organ-

women proclaiming the infa-
mous doctrine of opposition to the

draft, peace without victory and set-
tlement without compensation.
College professors, preachers and

politicians of German blood—or worse
yet—corrupted German money,
disseminating the seeds of sedition,
treason and anarchy throughout the
land.

Crowds of loafers at every
corner and cigar stand discussing
source and outcome of the war in-
stead of helping to put it down by the
vigorous use of the musket or the
hoe.

by

street
the

GRAND RAPIDS,

the Presi-
consequent upon the
small minded and cne-sided men who
make up that bureau of the public
service, which have delayed the prep-
arations for the war at a critical peri-
od—quibbles and quarrels which will
cause America

The petty quarrels of
dent’s cabinet,

the loss of a million
men and uncounted millions of money.
There are a hundred other disturb-
ing and
might be

distracting elements which
cited in this connection,
but enough cases have been to con-
vince any fair minded man that the
United States is fearfully handicapped
in the great contest which confronts
it, due to the incompetence, thought-
lessness, indifference and treasonable
attitude of too many of our citizens.
Of course, we are going to win the
war. Berlin will be leveled to the
Potsdam will be destroyed.
Bill will be
to a sour apple tree.

ground,
Bloody Kaiser hanged
But we could
accomplish these results much quick-
er and cheaper and save a million hu-
man lives if could the co-
operation and support of every per-
son who is duly bound to contribute
to this result.

we have

 

PESTIFEROUS PREACHER.

Rev. Daniel Roy Freeman, former
pastor of All Souls church, Grand Rap-
ids, acts as though he was aiming to
pose as-a martyr to Pro-German doc-
trines and activities.

Adhering to the enemies of the United
States, giving them aid and comfort,
1s defined in the Constitution to be an
act of treason. Words only, oral or
written, although treasonable and sedi-
tious, do not constitute an overt act of
treason, but there can be no doubt but
that the activities and propaganda of the
pacifists, Mr. Freeman
professes to be, give aid and comfort
to our enemies.

one of whom
Any utterances which
dif-
ficulties of our Government at this time,
by helping to

have a tendency to increase the
create a sentiment
posed to the vigorous prosecution of the
war, or in favor of a peace before the
attainment of the object we had in en-
tering the war-—namely, the overthrow

Op-

of autocracy and the establishment of
democracy on a secure basis—give aid
Wherever
there is any such sentiment the Germans
are, no doubt, informed of it and obtain
aid and comfort from it, even if they
are not actually conspiring to create it.

and comfort to our enemies.

The authors of such utterances should
either be deported to their friends, the
enemies of their country, or interned
in a prison camp during the war. They
are not loyal Americans, although they
may protest they are, and do not de-
serve to live under the protection of the
American flag. No better proof of their
disloyalty is needed than the fact that
they are giving aid and comfort to our
enemies,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1917

THE LATEST FOOD TRUST.

The oligarchy of the farmer has at-
tained its highest development in Cali-
fornia. For years the producers in that
State have been banding together, pool-
ing their crops, refusing to sell save
through centralized agents and exacting
whatever price they choose, by reason
of being almost complete masters of the
supply of the articles peculiar to their
State. And whenever
them as “trusts,” they proved immunity

anyone assailed
from prosecution, because it was wholly
within their own State where anti-trust
laws are a dead letter and the Federal
authority could not touch them if it was
so disposed.

But now, having controlled produc-
tion—and latterly packing, and prepara-

fion, and initial sales—Colonel Wein-
stock proposes a State-wide pool of
them all. Not only would they co-

operate in agencies and various other
ways at the point of production, but now
it is proposed to advertise co-operative-
ly, maintain joint sales forces, and with
their own specialty salesmen solicit or-
ders directly from the retailers, who are
to be encouraged to “specialize in Cali-
forma) products.” True.
adroit suggestion that it be through “es-
tablished wholesale channels,”

there is an

but there
is something menacing to independent
this which
well justify their sitting up and taking
notice. Once let this master-trust estab-
lish direct dealing with the retailers it
will be but a simple step to eliminate

merchants in scheme may

the jobber as a physical handler or as
a clearing agency.

Nor is all for California
tremendous factor in our food supply.

this is a
lew people outside the trade have any
idea Of it: Tt is no longer a few fruits
or a little wine, but it could probably
be demonstrated, with sugar and flour
that California
one-third of

out of consideration,

supplies not far short of
the stuffs sold in the grocery trade. And
with certain stores specializing in Cali-
fornia products, where would the in-
dependent retailer come in? He would

} off from this big stock
ef stuff, and chains of
or controlled by the consolidated Cali-
fornia interests, selling their hundreds

be easily cut

stores owned

of products, would have the right of
way.

Of course, California will deny any
such intent as this—possibly truthfully
—but the danger of the scheme is none
the less present in the plan outlined in
the resolutions adopted on August 27.
lt California was not to such an extent
a monopolist on these food products
there would be presented a different
situation, but for years tariffs have been
more and more making the Golden State
absolutely mistress of the
Foreign fruits, nuts,
lemons, citrus fruits, prunes and many
others have been slowly receding toward
the Atlantic seaboard. All America re-

American

market. raisins,

Number 1773

joices in our independence of foreign
State-

selling machinery, it

supply, but if that nonopoly of supply
to be strengthened |
control of

is now iy a
wide
might be a good plan to let down a few
tariff bars and let loose a few of our
lean and lank anti-trust dogs of war.
\nother interesting phase of this sit-
uation is contained in the suggestion of
one of the resolutions, which says that
ise 2

if consumers would cents’ worth

a week more of California products the

benefit to the producers of the State
would be $100,000,000 a year. Pray,
what must the increased revenues this
year, when almost every California

product has made such sensational ad-

vances in price—beside which 2 cents

a week is a veritable piker—total ?

 

UNABLE TO GOVERN WELL.

There is something almost pathetic
in the rueful faces of German officials
failure of
The

Beseler,
“We have

would

the
Poland.
Ve n

frankly admits frustration.

as they contemplate

their hopes in Gov-
ernor-General, Gen.
which
HOE tO

He referred partly to the unsympa-
distrustful attitude of the
partly to their sullen and stub-
unwillingness to the
could Von
Had he not
taken to heart the lesson of German

experienced much we

preferred

have experience.”

thetic and
Poles:
born serve in
German army. But what
Beseler have expected?

attempts fer more than a hundred

years to make the Poles of Prussian
Poland contented subjects of the Em-
pire? Whatever
are, they are not good colonizers and

else the Germans

are wofully without talent for getting

on with peoples whom they rule by
right of conquest. Pastor Wagner
has been describing once more the

utter breakdown of German plans in
Alsace-Lorraine. Here is a land and
a people which the German govern-
ment has had in its hands for nearly
fifty years; yet the record has beer
one of such blundering and irritation
alienation

and misunderstanding and

that, when the war broke out. German

military orders spoke of Alsace as
“the enemy’s country.” For an Em-
pire that aspired to world empire,

Germany seems singularly unable to
well the bits of terri-
tory which it has added by the sword
As
winning the good will and confidence
ef the inhabitants, that appears neve~

Fovern ever

close to her own borders. for

to have been dreamed of in German

Imperial philosophy.

Certain disclosures connected wit)
the recent peace proposition of the
Pope to the warring nations of the

world are not given publicity by the
country, although
newspapers

daily papers of thi
the English and French
set forth the facts with startling ex-
actness, Wonder why?

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UPPER PENINSULA.

Recent News of the Cloverland of
Michigan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Sept. 11—O. B.
Norton, of Wilton, North Dakota, ar-
rived here Monday to accept a posi-
tion with the Cornwell Company. Mr.
Norton drove all the way in an Over-
land. He reports the roads as fairly
good with few exceptions and a few
days of rain which kept him back,
making the trip in about four days.
Mr. Norton is pleased to get back to
Michigan again, which seems more
like home than North Dakota.

L. J. LaBelle, manager for The
Kreetan Lumber Co., of Johnswood,
is a business visitor here this week.
He reports having had a successful
summer and is getting lined up for
the big winter’s cut. The Johnswood
mill is one of the best mills in the
United States, and with Mr. LaBelle
as manager, promises to make Johns-
wood a hummer during the winter
season.

Dr. Yale, one of our well-known
physicians, is the happy father of
a new born son last Sunday. He is
receiving congratulations from his
many friends.

Mr. and Mrs. James Buchan, of
East Liverpool, Ohio, arrived last
week to spend a few weeks with Mrs.
Buchan’s parents here. Mr. Buchan
was formerly connected with the D.
K. Moses Co. here, one of our larg-
est retail dry goods houses. Mr.
Buchan is now in business for him-
self at East Liverpool and reports
having made very satisfactory prog-
oe since going in business for him-
self,

The Soo is now under the commis-
sion form of government, with our
former Mayor, Mark Tyman, re-elect-
ed. The commission now consists
of Ed. Stevens, the popular manager
of the National Grocer Co., Charles
A. Byrnes, at the head of the Soo
Lumber Co., M. M. Larmonth, one

  

 

of our well-known attorneys, and
Francis T. McDonald, one of the
Soo’s legal orators. With men of

this caliber, the Soo should show
progressiveness such as it never has
before.

The Chippewa county fair this year
promises to be the best in its history.
Cloverland Park is being put in the
best of condition for the races, which
will be held October 1, 2 and 3.
Barnes Bros. are erecting a large
grand stand. James McDonald, Sec-
retary, has devoted his entire time
for the past two months, engaging
men and teams, grading and putting
the park in first-class condition. One
of the big attractions will be a Wild
West show. There will be merry-go-
rounds and mid-way attractions which
undoubtedly draw out a large at-
tendence.

“Everybody knows that other peo-
ple make mistakes.”

S. D. Newton, of the Booth-New-
ton Co., accompanied by Fred John-
son, Armour & Co.’s representative,
made a record breaking trip to St.
Ignace in Mr. Newton’s large tour-
ing car last week, going over the
Dixie highway. The speedometer
was put out of commission on some
of the bumps, which also stopped the
clock, or we would have had the ex-
act time. From what we can learn
they touched only the high spots
and their advice to automobilists is
not to attempt to cross some of the
roads near Pine River after dark or
during heavy rains.

A letter was received by your
scribe this week from Russel Norton.
former superintendent of our local
high school, but later moving to
Grand Rapids. Mr. Norton is now
at Camp McArthur, Waco. Texas.

His manv friends are pleased to note
that he has taken up Y. M. C. A. work
and intends to go with the boys to
France. This will also be good news
to the mothers of the twelve boys

ym the Soo wha are now in waiting

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

at Waco, Texas. Mr. Norton writes
that he has met the Soo boys and
they are more than pleased to see
him, as they are in his section which,
when completed, will have about 7,000
men. He has four assistants in his
building. While it was a sacrifice to
break up his home and leave his pros-
perous business at Grand Rapids, he
felt he ought to do his duty as he
saw it. He will keep an eye on the
Soo boys and see that they are prop-
erly cared for and kept under good
influences. Their parents will know
they are well looked after under the
supervision of Mr. Norton. He men-
tions that there are three things need-
ed—magazines, books and victrola
récords. If the public desire the boys
to be benefited by the above articles,
they can send same to Mr. Norton.

The steamer Chippewa made her

last trip on the Mackinac and Soo
route last Saturday.
_ The Rotary Club of Chicago en-
joyed an_ excursion to Mackinac Is-
land last Sunday on the steamer North
America. There were about 500 in
the party. In the evening they set
off a display of fireworks and re-
turned to Chicago at midnight.

“To be an optimist is easy when
only the good things of life are com-
ing your way.”

W. E. F. Webber, our popular flor-
ist, made a trip with a party of friends
in his large touring car last week to
St. Ignace. What happened to them
we are not able to ascertain, but we
are told that the machine was safely
towed to the Soo and is again in com-
mission. They must have encounter-
ed a soft spot near Pine River.

“The man who plays poker for
pastime usually passes more or less
coin to the other fellow.”

William G. Tapert.
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Object of Suspicion.

Harry Harwood tells this one ‘on
himself:

“T had an appointment to speak at
a town in Eastern Arkansas on a Sat-
urday, and I arrived on a late train
the night before, carrying nothing
but a small hand grip. I went to a
hotel near the depot. There was no
one on duty at the hour, except the
night porter, and he was acting as
porter, clerk and general overseer.
I registered, and he showed me to a
room; but in a few minutes he came
back and said:

““Boss, my ’struction is, when a
gemman haven’t any baggage, to col-
lect in advance.’

“Why, I’ve got baggage,’ I replied,
pointing to the little grip.

“*T know, sir, boss,’ he said; ‘but
you've stayed too long on that al-
ready.”

—_>2.—___.
“Dealer in Everything” Retires From
Active Business.

Evansville, Ind., Sept. 10—I have
retired from active business and my
son, Arthur E. Miller, is now attend-
ing to my entire mercantile affairs,
and I shall spend the remainder of
my days trying to do something for
humanity. — :

I have just begun an educational
campaign, which I feel is absolutely
necessary in this world, and I am
gcing to send you my literature as
fast as it comes off the press, and it
is my desire that you “dig” into it
and see what is there, and if you find
anything that you think should not
be there, kindly tell me so, and teli
it to me without fear or favor.

The enclosed essays are only three
of the many you will receiye and I
hope vcu will give them your sincere
censideration and_ criticism. My
campaign needs the thought and ex-
pression of men who are advising the
people. Edward Miller, Jr.

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids, Sept. 11—John D.
Martin—sly old dog that he is—cher-
ished the idea that he would pur-
chase an automobile and not let the
Tradesman readers know anything
about it. As is usually the case when
a man tries to put something over on
his friends, he got caught in the act
redhanded.

It is a matter of everlasting regret
that a member of Grand Rapids Coun-
cil should so far forget his American-
ism as to make remarks regarding
the enter of this country into war with
Germany as to render him liable eith-
er to deportation to Germany or to a
long term of imprisonment in Ft.
Leavenworth.

If the customers of By Gee Cripe
Jennings notice how absent minded
he is these days, they need not at-
tribute it to old age or senile decay
—it is due to the fact that his mind
is dwelling on the happenings of Oct.
6, when he will be the honored guest
of Grand Rapids Council for about
ten consecutive hours.

Thomas Ford, while driving his
namesake home one day last week
from Sand Lake, was run into by a
boy driving a delivery vehicle and put
out of business for about six weeks. A
collar bone was broken, one or more
ribs cracked and one wheel of the
ford smashed. He is resting as com-
fortable as possible at his new home
at 19 North Lafayette avenue, attend-
ed by his accomplished wife and gift-
ed daughter.®

People located on the Mackinaw
Trail have -no idea how much they
lose because of the bad stretch of road
between Reed City and Cadillac, due
to the refusal of the German farmers
on the line to vote money to improve
the thoroughfare. It is reasonable
to expect that if the road was made
decently good 200 more automobiles
per day would use this line between
Grand Rapids and Petoskey during
the resort season. This would mean
much to the hotels, restaurants, ga-
rages and merchants along the line,
because, as a rule, people who travel
by automobile are liberal spenders.
As a matter of fact, few people have
the courage to make a second trip
across this expanse of bad road.

Grand Rapids is exceedingly un-
fortunate in being tied up to a prac-
tical monopoly in the moving picture
business, due to the fact that the best
picture houses in the down-town dfs-
trict are owned or controlled by one
combination. Because of this monop-
oly many of the best pictures are not
shown here at all-and those which
are presented are so old they have
already been seen by people who have
occasion to visit other cities. The
travel pictures are so poor and out of
date, in many cases, as to border on
the ridiculous. Showing the cheap
henry ford stuff because it is furnishea
free, when the wonderful Burton
Holmes portrayals can be had for a
reasonable price, is a reflection on the
good faith of the management and
the intelligence of the patrons of
such places of amusement as the Ma-
iestic. As stated in this department
last week, Kalamazoo picture fans
are given better shows regularly for
10 cents than the Majestic furnishes
for 25 cents.

Miss Mildred Wells, daughter cf
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Wells, 1039
Kalamazoo avenue, was married last
Wednesday evening to C. H. Bucher
at the home of the bride. Mr. Bucher
is traveling representative for the
White-Stokes Co., Chicago, and he
will take his bride with him on an
extensive trip over his territory. In
addition to his many other good qual-
ities, the groom is a loyal member of
Grand Rapids Council.

While the big guns are being fired
at Verdun and Lens, don’t forget that
Grand Rapids Council is going to fire
some gun itself on Oct. 6. All ar-
rangements for the big William H.
Jennings rally meeting are nearing
perfection. The invitations are out,

September 12, 1917

the stunts are planned and all that
is needed to make this meeting one
for us to tell our grandchildren about
is YOU. Without your co-operation
it will be a fizzle. With your support
it_can be made the biggest and best
rally meeting old No, 131 ever ex-
perienced—one that will shake the
organization from its lethargy and
give us a momentum for the winter
that will make us heard later on in
the membership column of the Sam-
ple Case. Don’t forget that we are
made up of individual atoms, each one
of whom must do his part if we main-
tain the reputation for enterprise and
activity we have so long enjoyed and
cherished. This is your Council and
every member’s Council. We are
equal partners and share equally the
plaudits of duty well performed or
jointly the chagrins and humiliations
attaching to a disloyal attitude and
indifference. Rouse up and get up
and shake off the cobwebs and bring
grub enough for three and come over
to the Council rooms, 38 and 42 Ionia
avenue, Saturday evening, Oct. 6, and
enjoy yourselves by helping all to
have a good time.

Only two days left in which to pay
assessment No. 139. Get busy.

——_---.
Boomlets From Bay City.

Bay City, Sept. 11—H. W. Paulie,
shoe merchant of Pontiac, last week
vacated the store building he has oc-
cupied for more than twenty years
and moved his stock to a more up-
to-date store which is one of the fin-
est in the city.

B. H. Love, formerly of Toledo, is
the new landlord of the Allmsdorf
Hotel, Holly, succeeding Mrs. Dina
Braubien .

Charles Maynard, proprietor of the
Hotel Stimpson, Milan, for nine
years, has sold this popular hotel to
M. M. Nichol, formerly of Jackson.

Kahn Bros., Vanderbilt, engaged in
the dry goods and clothing business,
have dissolved partnership. George,
retiring, will go to Detroit. The
business will be continued by Phillip
under the old name.

A. H. Brokaw, Turner, State agent
for R. T. French Co., Rochester, New
York, has just completed a business
trip over territory north of Bay City
and reports business good.

W. M. Robinson, Grand Rapids,
State agent for the celebrated Rex
canned meats packed by the Cudahy
Co., Chicago, has been working ter-
ritory on the D. & M. and M. C.
railroads. He succeeded in selling a
carload of goods through the Na-
tional Grocer Co.’s Bay City branch,
the second car this year.

The Bay City Auto Body Co., one
of the city’s new industries, has just
received a large order for truck bodies
from a Detroit firm.

At the convention of the Michigan
Retail Clothiers’ Association, held at
Jackson last week, two Bay City
dealers were honored by the dele-
gates. Howard Ford, of the firm of
Ford & Simon, was elected Presi-
dent, and Leo Marcoux, of The Mar-
coux Co., Secretary-Treasurer.

The retail coal dealers in Chebov-
gan are selling soft coal from the
mines of Ohio and West Virginia at
#5 per ton, while the people of Bay
City are compelled to pay $7 per ton
for soft coal which is mined within
five miles of the city. It looks as if
there was a nigger in the coal bin and
he should be looked after.

W. T. Ballamy.
—_~>+>—__

The continents of the earth are
but one neighborhood now. The
Arabians gather our coffee, the China-
men our tea, the South Americans our
spices and bananas, the Frenchmen
make our wines and silks, the Ha-
waiians our sugar, the Cubans our
cigars, and the Mexicans our revolu;
tions.

 

 

 

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1 | A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

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‘i payable quarterly. Dividend dates—January Ist, April Sst, We offer the unsold balance (approximately eight thousand
H July {st and October Ist. shares) of the authorized issue of twenty thousand shares of our
. Preferred Stock in blocks of ten shares, or the multiple of ten,
aL Exempt from State personal property tax and the normal for delivery to suit your convenience any time within 30 days.

pe Federal income tax.
The first half of the authorized issue was over-subscribed
; Subject to redemption July J, 1924. twenty per cent. last winter. Believing the balance of eight
? thousand shares will be speedily subscribed, we suggest you make

Price, par $10.00 per share and earned dividend to date issued. your reservations immediately.

Facts Worthy Your Consideration

Money invested in a live, progressive concern in your own City,
County or State adds value to your other local property because
it develops business in your City, County and State where it pays
you best to have it developed.

The officers of this Company are well-known, progressive and
avegressive business men who have made good.

This business has been in constant operation for more than
thirty-three years during which time a most excellent trade has
been established.

Fer the year ending June 30th, 1917, our Michigan flour sales
were more than 25,000 barrels greater than for the year ending
June 30th, 1916, and that year’s sales were 22,000 barrels greater
than any previous year’s.

This shows a total increase of more than 47,000 barrels for the
past two years in Michigan flour business, and indications are
this year’s business will be considerably greater than last year’s.

The appraised value of the Company’s assets amounts to ap-
proximately one million dollars, one-third of which is made up
of quick cash assets.

The ouick cash assets are always maintained very much in
excess cf quick liabilities,

All bills are invariably discounted.

During the more than thirty-three years in business not a
single interest payment has been missed, and every obligation
has been promptly and satisfactorily met.

You can at any time make a personal investigation of the Com-
pany’s affairs. The busiress is right here where you can watch
it grow, where you may know the men behind it and meet them
personally.

The Company is in the most prosperous condition of its
career, and profits are steadily increasing in conjunction with
increased business.

Increased Costs Require More Capital

The United States Food Commission has fixed a minimum price of $2.20 per bushel for wheat for the ensuing year, which

basis is approximately 70c per bushel above the daily average cost of wheat for the past two years ending June 30, 1917.

The increase of 70c per bushel this year compared to the two previous years means an added investment of about $75,000.00 in

taw material alone.

REFERENCES:

Dun’s or Bradstreet’s Commercial Reports.

Any reputable bank or banker in Western Michigan.

Our business connections are through the Old National Bank

of Grand Rapids, Mich.

If you have money to invest, it will pay you to make a personal investigation of our proposition immediately.

VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.

Citizens Telephone 4255

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Movements of Merchants.

Thompsonville—D. Jewett has leas-
ed the Commercial Hotel and taken
possession.

Carson City—Miss Florence Ten-
nant succeeds Mrs. C. A. Evey in the
millinery business.

Eaton Rapids—Sam Green has op-
ened a second-hand clothing store on
North Main street.

Big Rapids—The Lewellyn Bean
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $300,000 to $600,000.

Monroe—E. M. Luce has added a line
of women’s ready-to-wear garments to
his stock of bazaar goods.

Ypsilanti—Arnet Bros. have erected
a concrete dry cleaning plant in con-
nection with their tailor business.

New Lothrop—H. L. Hetts lost his
store building and stock of harness
by fire Sept. 2. Loss, about $4,000.

Vestaburg—Earl Walker has closed
out his lunch room and ice cream par-
lor in order to answer the call of the
draft.

Ypsilanti—Sullivan & Cook, cloth-

ing dealers, are remodeling their
store and installing a plate glass
front.

Carson City—Thieves entered the

fruit store of Frank Dionese Sept. 7,
taking the contents of the safe, about
$90 and some stock.

Alma—The Lock-Patterson Co. has
completed the installation of entirely
new fixtures, wall and show cases of
the most modern type.

Dimondale—G. E. Elliott is erect-
ing a grain and produce elevator
which he hopes to have ready for
business about Oct. 1.

Alma—The Alma Elevator Co. is
building a large addition to its plant
which will give it an increased ca-
pacity of 30,000 bushels.

Sigma—Fred Narrin is closing out
his stock of general merchandise and
store fixtures and will locate in a larg-
er town early in the spring.

St. Johns—Mrs. C. A. Evey, re-
cently of Carson City, has purchased
the millinery stock of Mrs. E. N.
Stevens, taking immediate possess‘on.

Conklin—S. R. Holland has closed
out his bakery and ice cream parlor
and. removed to New Era, where he
has engaged in the grocery business.

Onekema—John A. Seymour has sold
his stock of general merchandise and
s‘ore fixtures to Larsen Bros., Inc., of
Manistee, who will consolidate it with
their own.

Lakeview—Smith & Saxton plumb-
ers and dealers in agricultural imple-
ments and automobile accessories,
have dissolved partnership and the
business will be continued by Mr.
Smith, who has taken over the inter-
est of his partner.

Petoskey—A. B. Mudgett, manager
of the Bear River Paper Co., has resign-
ed and will engage in the timber busi-
ness, buying and selling pulp timber,
posts and ties.

Alma—Carl Harry has sold his
grocery stock and store fixtures to
Ralph Miller, who has taken posses-
sion. Mr. Harry has enlisted in the
service of his country.

Allegan—H. H. Cook has purchased
the interest of his partner, C. E. Wood,
in the automobile business and garage
of Cook & Wood and will continue the
business under his own name,

Lansing—J. J. Frost has purchased
the interest of his partner, I. J. Walter,
in the clothing stock of Frost & Walter
and will continue the business under
the style of the C. L. Frost Co.

Morenci—The Town Line Thresh-
ing Co., Ltd., has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$1,000, of which $900 has been sub-
scribed and $450 paid in in cash.

East Jordan—L. Weisman, who was
closing out his stock of general -ner-
chandise at auction, sold the entire stock
and fixtures to Cohen Bros., of Alpena,
who shipped the goods to that place.

Kalamazoo—The Wheeler-Blaney
Co. is remodeling its store at the cor-
ner of Burdick and Eleanor streets
and will carry a line of bath room
fixtures and plumbers’ accessories.

Ishpeming—The grocery and meat
business of the late Isaac Gustafson
will be continued by his son, Clifford,
at the same location, the corner of
Cleveland avenue and Third street.

Detroit—E. J. Plant has purchased
the drug stock of N. A. Lippow, 1278
Fort street, West. Mr. Plant until re-
cently was in the employ of A. A. Be-
grow, druggist at 1406 Fort street, West.

Grand Ledge—The W. L. Ireland
Co. has engaged in the sale of farm
products and automobiles with an au-
thorized capital stock of $25,000, $14,-
500 being subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Kalamazoo—The Mattison Drug
Co. has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $15,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in, $1,500 in cash and _ $13,500 in
property.

Perry—Thieves entered the Messinger
& Snyder meat market and the J.
Spanilio fruit store Sept. 9, carrying
away considerable stock and the con-
tents of the money drawer from each
business place.

Detroit + The Hayward-Goodale
Tire Co., dealing in tires, repairs, etc.,
has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $1,500, all
of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Electrical Brokerage
Co. has been organized to deal in
electrical supplies and equipment with
an authorized capital stock of $1,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
$300 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Rogers-Shaffer Co.
has been incorporated to conduct a
retail boot and shoe business with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, of
which amount $7,500 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Grand Blanc Center—The Grand
Blanc Co-Operative Elevator Co. has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $30,000, of which
amount $17,000 has been subscribed
and $10,000 paid in in cash.

Lansing—The Donsereaux-McNish
Co. has been organized to deal in
ladies’ clothing and millinery with an
authorized capital stock of $5,000, of
which amount $3,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Walkerville—D. I. Purdy has re-
moved his furniture and undertaking
stock to Hesperia and will continue
the furniture business, selling the un-
dertaking stock to Grant Chaney, who
consolidated it with his own.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Co. Farm-
ers’ Co-Operative Association is build-
ing an addition to its plant, at the
corner of Hamilton and Lyons streets,
and will manufacture cheese in con-
nection with its other milk products.

Marshall—W. J. Duffield, who has
been drafted and leaves soon for the
training camp, turned his shoe stock
over to John L. Lynch, of Grand
Rapids, who closed it out complete in
four days last week, realizing $4,248.13
therefrom.

Detroit—Walter H. Mueller, for a
number of years in the employ of A.
G. Riesterer, druggist at 484 Cass
avenue, has gone into the drug business
for himself at 211 Farnsworth avenue,
purchasing the store of Wm. R. Gordon.

 

Mr. Gordon retires to take a -:nuch
needed rest.

Alma—A warrant has been issued
charging William G. Griffin. former

manager of the Alma Grain and Lumber
Co., with the embezzlement of funds
of the concern. The warrant charges
shortage of less than $300. The audit-
ing of the books of the company has
not been completed and the exact
amount is unknown, but it is said that
it may reach $2,000.

Shelby—Hundreds of bushels of cher-
ries were doomed to spoil at the can-
nery here because there was insufficient
help to can the fruit, so the factory
proprietors issued a call for aid. They
got it, from the farms, factories and
pulpits and the entire array of pastors
here were among those responding. The
crop was canned without loss.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Saginaw—Hart Bros, opened their
new sauer kraut factory for business
Sept. 10.

Detroit— The Electric Freezing
System has increased its capitaliza-
tion from $10,000 to $30,000.

Holland—Thieves entered the plant
of W. E. Dunn & Co. Sept. 8 and
carried away tools valued at $200.

Millington — The Stone Road
Cheese Manufacturing Co. has increas-
its capital stock from $1,500 to $5,000,

Kalamazoo—The Vicksburg Paper Co.
has removed its stock and equipment
to Marion, Ind., where it will continue
its business.

Kalamazoo — The Kalamazoo
Creamery Co. has purchased the plant
of the Kalamazoo Brewing Co. and
will occupy it at once.

Monroe—The Monroe Corrugated
Box Co. has filed articles of incorpor-
ation with an authorized capital stock
of $50,000, of which $36,000 has been
subscribed and $5,000 paid in in cash.

Grand Haven—Two explosions at the
plant of Morris Wepsel & Co., Inc.,
manufacturer of daylight fire works,
caused a loss of more than $7,000 and

the total destruction of a concrete
building.
Detroit—The F. A. R. Chemical

Co. has been incorporated to manu-
facture proprietary medicines with an
authorized capitalization of $10,000,
of which amount $6,000 has been sub-
scribed and $1,000 paid-in in cash.

Detroit—The Columbia Automobile
Signal Co. has engaged in business
with an authorized capitalization of
$20,000, of which amount $10,000 has
been subscribed, $200 being paid in
in cash and $1,890 being paid in in
property.

Muskegon—The U. S. Gas Machine
& Pattern Co. has engaged in the

manufacture of gas machines and
blowers, machine work, wood and
metal patterns, with an authorized

capital stock of $30,000, all which has
been subscribed, $2,344.86 being paid
in in cash and $27,655.16 being paid
in in property.

Holland—Figures so far available
in the Veit Manufacturing Co. matter
indicate assets at about $32,000, while
liabilities reach $33,000. The assets
consist of factory with machinery val-
ued at $25,000 and stock in_ trade,
$6,000, miscellaneous assets making
up the remainder of the $32,000. The
liabilities consist of a secured claim
in the form of a mortgage on plant,
held by the First State Bank, amount-
ing to $10,000, which is in process of
foreclosure, and two other secured
claims amounting to $900. The re-
mainder of the liabilities are distribut-
ed amongst unsecured general cred-
itors.

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The Right Words.

The correct selection of words is a
happy faculty in the writing of good
advertising copy. There is a har-
mony in the use of the English lan-

‘guage which even the uneducated ap-

preciate, although they cannot em-
ploy it themselves. This harmony
means the choosing of proper words
to use in their proper places, the ex-
act expressions that will most tersely,
simply and vividly present the writ-
er’s meaning.
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Don’t Crowd Arguments.

If you are given half a dozen verbal
messages at once, the chances are
that you will forget some of them, if
not all, But if you get one at a time

they will be easily remembered. If
more advertisers would think of this
when preparing their copy, and put
the thought in operation, there would
be better and more profitable copy.
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The Grocery Market.

Canned Fruit—California canned

Sugar—There are no new develop-¥ffruits are unchanged, some business
ments in the general situation this¥; being transacted at prices that have

week, it still being a waiting market.

ed to appoint a committee through
which sugar will be purchased for the
United States, the United Kingdom
and the Allies, but until this com-
mitted has been appointed and its den-
nite plan of operation made known
buyers and sellers hold off. There
appears to be a better enquiry for re-
fined sugar and it is believed that the
country trade is not supplied beyond
October 1 and it is also believed that
refiners’ stocks are at a very low
point and that with any kind of a de-
mand refiners will enter the market
for raw supplies at or about present
offerings, or 6c cost and freight, equal
to 7.02c duty paid. The unsold por-
tion of the Cuban crop is small, pos-
sibly not over 100,000 tons, a portion
of which will be needed by the Al-
lies. This may lead to a very acute
situation here previous to the free
movement of beet sugar. Willett &
Gray give the corrected production
figures to August 31 as follows:
2,944.611 tons, against 2,963,295 tons.
Production during August was 97,292
tons, against 44,644 tons a year ago.
Refined prices have been readjusted,
but the range is still 8.40c to 8.50c reg-
ular terms. Tuesday Howels declined
10 points to 8.40c, the same level as
quoted by the American, McCahan
and the Pennsylvania. The Savanah
Sugar Refining Co. also quote at 8.40c.
The Federal maintains its list at 8.50c,
with Warner and Arbuckles at that
level for hards but 25 points lower
fer softs. The effect of the Govern-
ment arrangement to have beet gran-
ulated sold at 7%c is still manifest,
although this sugar will not be avail-
able for at least five weeks. The mar-
ket undoubtedly is settling down a lit-
tle and lower prices in the near fu-
ture are reasonably sure.

Tea—With supplies in sight and
available unprecedentedly light, while
demand from the wholesale grocery
trade is expanding and gives promises
of developing vigorously as the fall
season advances, the market has a
buoyant tone, local conditions being
supplemented by rising costs to im-
port ,in conjunction with the extreme
difficulty experienced in securing ton-
nage, not to speak of the continued
advance in freights.

Coffee—The market is absolutely
unchanged from last week. Business
is still dull, trade maintaining a lis-
tening and waiting policy. Prices are
precisely where they were a week ago
and the demand is still for actual
wants only. Tax still promises to

be 2c per. pound.

' been prevailing for the
The Food Administration is expect-' weeks.

last few
There are no new develop-
ments in Eastern canned fruits. All
packs that have been completed up
to date have been pretty well absorb-
ed. This applies particularly to ber-
ries, which are very closely cleaned
up.

Canned Vegetables—Tomatoes are
a little more active this week, owing
to the fact that receipts in canning
sections have been more liberal. Stan-
dard No. 3s have sold as high as
$1.50 per dozen, f. o. b. factory, and
No. 2s at $1.10. Labor conditions
are more or less upset and it is very
difficult to get sufficient help to take
care of the necessary requirements ot
labeling and shipping. In  conse-
quence, the packers are trying to
place their sales on the basis of ship-
‘ping unlabeled and in plain cases,
buyers to do the rest of the work.
General reports indicate that the
height of the season has been reached
in some sections, but with favorable
weather from now on until frost, it
is fair to presume that a satisfactory
pack will be put up. It does not look
as if prices would be materially low-
er, nO matter what the pack amounts
to. There is nothing new in the corn
situation. Packers are trying to get
up sales that they have already made.
Most sections in the East report un-
settled conditions and the pack is
expected to be considerably lighter
than earlier indications. Very few
goods are being cffered by first hands,
and what few are coming to light are
at considerably higher prices than the
sales for future delivery. The market
is quoted at $1.35 for standard Maine
style corn, f. 0. b. factory. For stan-
dard whole grain shoepeg corn $1.40
f. o. b.; extra standard, $1.50. No
quotations obtainable on fancy. The
principal producing sections on shoe-
peg report from 50 to 60 per cent. of
the normal pack, with no prospects

of any increase over this amount.
Peas are unchanged. Very few of-
ferings from first hands. Demand

fairly good, principally for cheapest
irades obtainable. Deliveries from
Western and New York State pack-
ers have not been completed as yet,
but all preliminary reports indicate
a shortage in practically all grades.
Some canned vegetables, such as
string beans, spinach, mixed vege-
tables, etc., are in fair demand; stocks
extremely light. Prices are well main-
tained in all lines.

Canned Fish—There was no par-
ticular change in the salmon situa-
tion. Wholesalers declare that the
retail trade is not showing any par-

ticular enthusiasm, owing to the high
prices they would be compelled to
charge their customers. Sardines are
not so firm with reports of a little
better catch.

Dried Fruits—For a long time the
local dried fruit situation has been
subject to fits and starts. During
the week principal interest has cen-
tered in prunes, in which there has
been some business done that may be
the forerunner of interesting develop-
ments. This has related chiefly to buy-
ing of contracts by Coast interests,
which action it was difficult to under-
stand except on the hypothesis as it
later developed of an endeavor on the
part of the merger to steal a march
on the association. That there should
be some maneuvering of this kind
during the season was a foregone
conclusion, for it was not at all like-
ly that the Packing Corporation
would give up the prune end of its
business, or any part of it, without a
struggle. However, there has been
no getting away from the fact that the
Prune Association has the upper hand
at the present time, for it is in con-
trol of fully 75 per cent. of the pro-
duction and has already sold enough
to keep the greater part of the trade
supplied for some time to come, some
estimates being that it has already
disposed of 40 per cent. of the total
crop. Of the remaining 25 per cent
of the acreage that did not come in
under the trust’s umbrella it is
thought that possibly 15 per cent. may
have been brought under the con-
trol of the merger while the remain-
ing 10 per cent. represents the ultra
conservatives among the growers who
are out to get all they can on their
own account and believe they stand
a better chance by remaining inde-
pendent. This year, however, per-
centages represent large volume of
prunes, for there is little doubt that
the crop is a large one and those
who are well posted say that the fig-
ures this year will probably make a
record. This, therefore, leaves the as-
sociation in possession of a large
quantity of prunes yet to be market-
ed, made all the more difficult by the
export situation. Great expectations
are indulged in because of expected
possible army and navy contracts,
but if the Government undertakes to
feed a quarter of a million men there
will be that many less in the civilian
population to feed, albeit there may
be many who will take to prunes, who
might not do so otherwise. How-
ever, this same argument is applied
to all foodstuffs for the army and
navy, so that the total food consump-
tion will not be materially increased
by Government orders, prunes in-
cluded. There has been a fair busi-
ness done in other lines but as yet
the market in general has not begun
to show the remarkable activity that
developed about this time last year.

Molasses—No improvement in de-
mand is yet to be noted, but there
appears to be no pressure to sell and
prices are maintained.

Spices—The recent large advance
in silver and freight rates in the Far
East have had the effect of greatly in-
creasing the feeling of uncertainty as
to the near future in nearly every-
thing on the list. . Spot stocks are

   

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being steadily depleted by the active
demands of consumption, and as they
cannot be replaced except at a very

decided advance over prices now pre

vailing here the trend is toward high-

er levels all along the line.
Rice—The

situation presents no

new phases. Home buyers, antic pat-
ing lower prices with increased re-
ceipts, continue to hold off purchas-
ing, except against actual necessities
of the moment, while bids made by
exporters are not acceptable. The
possibility of Government control is
held to be too remote to be a present
market factor. No official intimations
have been given that such control is
to be exercised by the Food Admin-
istration, but in any event present
prices are not likely to be long main-
tained, in the opinion of trade author-
ities, after the crop movement as-
sumes normal proportions.

Cheese—The market is very firm,
showing advances of about 4@*%e
per pound on the various stvles. Re-
ports from country markets have ad-
vanced on an average of Séc per
pound on the different grades. caus-
ing a much firmer feeling ‘n the larg-
er distributing markets. The receipts
are light and the home consumption
is good and there is a large amount
of cheese now being taken for export.
Very high prices are looked for in
this commodity in the near future.
The cheese manufacturers are forced
to pay more for milk than they can
really realize out of the sate of thei-
cheese on account of the high prices
paid for raw material in the country
by condensors.

Provisions—The market on smoked
meats is very firm, with a good con-
sumptive demand and light receipts,
due largely to the extreme high price
of live hogs. High prices will likely
prevail in all pork products for a
short time. The market on lard is
very firm, manufacturers asking 4“4@
Ye pet pound more than the asking
prices of last week. There is a fair
home consumptive demand and a
short supply. The market on com-
pound is very firm, having advanced
™%(@34c per pound over last
week's quotations, due to the extreme
high markets in the raw products—
cottonseed oil. High prices are look-
ed for in compound in the near future,
there being a very. short supply.
Dried beef is very firm at unchanged
quotations, with a light supply and
a good consumptive demand.  Bar-
reled pork is very firm at unchanged
auotations, with a good consumptive
demand. Canned meats are very firm,
quotations ranging slightly higher
over last week’s quotations, there be-
ing a light supply and a good demand.

Salt Fish—No change has occurred
in the fish,market during the week.
Shore mackerel are scarce and high.

2.

The L. H. & D. Fibre Furniture Co.
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $5,000, of which
amount $2,500 has been subscribed,
$1,400 being paid in in cash and $709
in property.

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The President of the United States
is just one of the people temporarily
detailed for special work. Don't rock
the boat.

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Retailers Reluctant to Buy More
Canned Goods.

The feature of interest in the can-
ned goods trade has been the re-
luctance of the retailer to take on
any more stock than he has at the
present time. Jobbers say there has
been a fair business passing, but upon
analysis it usually simmers down to
the hurry orders for the army and
navy that have been coming in right
along for the past several months.
In fact, were it not for this business
the present situation could be describ-
ed as exceptionally quiet.

The one factor which jobbers are
watching carefully at this time is the
effect of the high prices on the ulti-
mate ccnsumer. Last year it seem-
ed possible to get away with any-
thing. The public was rather intoxi-
cated with its sudden acquisition of
wealth, or rather the increase in the
amount of money received for a giv-
en amount of work in comparison
with what it had been in the habit
of receiving. This year the public
is realizing that this increase in
wealth is to a certain extent more
apparent than real, for the purchas-
ing power of the dollar has decreased
to a point where it is again necessary
to count the cost in daily living. In
addition to this there is the fact that
while economy may have become a
necessity with very many people, with
almost every one it has become a fad,
for waste is now considered unpatri-
otic. Hence the public is at war with
war prices and in many commodities
there appears to be a dead line be-
yond which the consumer will go
without rather than submit to what
is regarded as extortion.

In the matter of canned goods the
prices this year, especially of Cali-
fornia products, are much higher than
last year and there is a growing re-
sentment manifested on the part of
the public based on the belief that
some of the advance is not justified.
There is perhaps some justice in this
belief, for some of the prices being
asked are rather hard to reconcile
with known conditions. The retailer
is aware of this and jobbers say that
they are buying sparingly until they
have had a chance to feel out the
public. It is also possible that many
of them have considerable unsold
stocks on hand from the previous
season taken on when the frenzied
buying on the part of the public was

at its height.

—_»22s——_
Sidelights on Celery City and Envi-
rons.

Kalamazoo, Sept. 11—Ground is be-
ing broken this week for the con-
struction of the Dunkley company
factory at the intersection of Fuli-
ford street and Grand Trunk tracks.
Henry Sweet, who has conducted
a grocery store at 926 East avenue,
for the past year, has been succeeded

by Anna B. Hamilton.

Bert Martin, of Gobleville, has
sold his horses and will keep only au-
tomobiles for livery service.

C. J. Welch, the son of E. O. Welch,
has heen spending most of each week
in Washington D. C., in an advisory
capacity in fitting out the Government
trucks with solid tires. Mr. Welch
has been very successful with the
United States Tire Co. and at present
bas charge of the solid tire end of
their business. a

The Kalamazoo Brewing Co., which
recently sold its real estate on Lake

 

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street to the Kalamazoo Creamery
Co., has filed articles of dissolution
with the Secretary of State at Lansing,
thus winding up the affairs of the con-
cern.

_ The Acme Universal Joint Co., is
increasing the capacity and efficiency
of its factory by the erection of a
heat treating plant, 40 x 20 feet in
dimensions. It will be one story
high and of concrete and brick. Floyd
Miller has the contract. The depart-
ment will make it possible for the
Acme company to do all its heat
treating of steel. The concern is
making one of the highest types of
joints now offered the automobile
trade and is doing a large and steadily
increasing business. One of the lat-
est features that appeals to particular
buyers is the efficient system of lubri-
cation that is made possible through
the new type of joint, thus practical-
ly eliminating all wear and friction.

W. S. Cooke.

Purely Personal Pencilings From
Port Huron.

Port Huron, Sept. 11—The mem-
bers of Port Huron Council are plan-
ning a big rally and initiation on the
occasion of their regular November
meeting. Committees have been ap-
pointed and a big drive will be made
for new members during September
and October.

A. D. Seaver, representing the Os-
borne-Boynton Co., will make his an-
nual trip to the Northern Peninsula
next week.

George J. Langtry (Morton Salt
Co.) has moved his family from their
summer home at Port Sanilac. He
reports real estate in that vicinity as
being very active, Detroit and Port
Huron parties having purchased near-
ly all the lake front from Port Huron
to Harbor Beach.

A. B. Phillips, sales manager for the
Michigan Produce Company, of De-
troit. has been making a trip through
the Thumb with its traveling repre-
sentative, L. D. Mallory. They arriv-
ed in Port Huron Friday evening with
their King 8, all covered with Thumb
real estate.

Flint has a serve self grocery store.
The customer passes through a turn-
stile at the entrance and is handed
a basket. He selects what he wants
(everything being in packages with
prices attached) and pays the bill at
the exit.

Leo Gougeon (National Grocer Co.)
has been drafted and passed a very
successful examination. He is the
first member of Port Huron Council
to be drafted and all the members of
our Council wish him a_ successful
military career and a safe return.

7. Dp.

Minimization of Male Labor in
Stores.

Detroit, Sept. 11—The United

States Government has given every
retail merchant of this country an op-
portunity to publicly show his loyalty.

The Commercial Economy Board
of the Council of National Defense
advised the merchants of the country,
through this committee, what it de-
sired them to do in order to co-oper-
ate with the Government in bringing
about a minimization of male labor
in the retail stores in order that men
may be released for service when the
Government shall have need of them.

 

 
   

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16-18 Fulton St. West.

The stores were requested to do
their utmost to lessen the number of
deliveries, to reduce the return of
merchandise to a minimum, to curtail
C. O. D.’s and to charge for special
deliveries.

You were advised of this action and
asked to co-operate with this commit-
tee. In order to get a detailed report
of the action taken in every city and
town, we are asking you as to what
action you have taken individually,
and the action the stores of your
city have taken co-operatively. The
public are watching the merchants
very carefully and are measuring their
loyalty by the extent of the co-op-
eration they give the Government.

I would deeply appreciate it if you
would give me by return mail detailed
information of what action has been
taken, or is to be taken by your own
store, and by the merchants of your
city collectively. Oscar Webber,

Member War Advisory Committee.

—_——_ os eo

Bottom Facts From Booming Boyne

ity.

Boyne City, Sept. 11—S. Edelstein,
who has been in the dry goods and
furnishing goods business for the
past sixteen years in this city, has
closed out his store and will remove
to Chicago.

The Hooper & Heaton garage,
which is nearly completed, has been
purchased by the Northern Auto Co.,
of Petoskey, and will be completed
and operated by it in connection with
its ford selling agency.

The Farm Products Co. will open
its new warehouse on Boyne avenue
and Roy street with a harvest dance
next Tuesday night. We were look-
ing for big crops of everything to be
brought here this fall, but the way
Boreas has been acting the past ten
days makes things look a little leary.

W. J. Lewis, the veteran produce
buyer of Boyne City, has been over-
hauling and strengthening his ware-
house on Roy street in anticipation of
a big demand for shipping and stor-
age facilities. He is putting in a new
concrete wall and steel floor support.

The newly re-organized Chamber
of Commerce is ready for business
with permanent headquarters in the
First National Bank block. A perma-
nent secretary will be in charge soon.

Maxy.

—_+22>___

The report from Washington to
the effect that the Government is con-
sidering the plan of refusing the use
of the postoffice department by peo-
ple who are disloyal to the United
States is welcome information. It is
to be hoped the plan will be adopted,
because it will put a crimp in the
business activities of many men who,
while posing as American citizens,
have been giving aid and comfort to
the enemy and conducting clandestine
negotiations having for their object
the undermining of the Republic. The
Tradesman can furnish about fifty
additions to the list of those who
are entitled to wear the badge of dis-
honor. Many of them are so bit-
ter in their conversation and so trea-
sonable in their utterances that they
deserve a worse fate.

The Home of the Quality

Dornbos single Binder Cigar

The Blend Is Different
The Taste is There

You Would Pay 10c for that Flavor

if there were no
DORNBOS SINGLE BINDER
for 5c straight
SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS

PETER DORNBOS r
Cigar Manufacturer

Grand Rapids, Mich.

September 12, 1917

The Price of Wheat.

Much is being and will be heard of
the farmer’s discontent at the $2.20
per bushel price fixed by the Food
Board as the official level for this
season’s wheat crop. But there is
this answer to be made: The farmer
has to. pay much higher prices for
what he buys than he had to pay be-
fore the war. But he certainly does
not have to pay twice as much, and
wheat at $2.20 at Chicago is at a level
more than double the price which
farmers would gladly have taken be-
fore the war began.

The real gist of the matter is that
many farmers, who were sharp
enough to sell early in the present
season, secured $2.50 or better. They
want more now, or at least as much.
From a trade standpoint, the price as
fixed is very high, both for this and
next year’s crop.

Were speculation to be turned loose
again in the wheat market, and the
same class of foreign buying were
to come in to take the surplus off
the market as it did in the season past,
then wheat prices might easily go
above $3 per bushel, and possibly to
$4. The shortage in the crop, the ex-
haustion of visible supplies, and the
urgent demand, would make a highly
sensational market, with very wide
swing of prices. Under existing cir-
cumstances, there is something else
to consider. Even if peace were to
be declared, the farmer would not
only have his guaranteed $2 price for
the next crop, but values would prob-
ably stay high for a considerable time
to come, as a consequence of the im-
mediately increased world’s consump-
tion.

—_——_2---

Edward W. Nelson, chief of the
U. S. Biological Survey, contributes
a remarkable article in the last issue
of the National Geographic Magazine
on “The Rat Pest.” He estimates
that the annual loss sustained in this
country through the destructive char-
acteristics of rats amount to $200,-
000,000. Denmark estimates her loss
at $3,000,000; Great Britain and Ire-
land, $73,000,000; France $40,000,000.
The writer states that rats have from
three to twelve litters per years, each
containing from six to more than
twenty young, the average being
about ten. The young begin to breed
less than three months of age. The
methods suggested to abate or abol-
ish ‘the pest is the making of all
houses, stores and factories rat-proof
and the destruction of the rodents by
both poison and trapping. Rats on
ships can be destroyed by forcing
poisonous gas into the holes. The

article is worthy of careful perusal
and due consideration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 12, 1917

Soap to Be a Good Deal Higher.

Washington is the political capital
of the United States, but as a busi-
ness and manufacturing center it does
not amount to much. When the De-
partment of Commerce issued a trade
report which mentioned incidentally
that imports of palm oil had declin-
ed, some of the correspondents in that
city went so far as to find out that
it is used in soap-making, sc in some
way or other a story was out through
the land that this meant a storage of
soap. Since then the newspapers have
received many letters from soapmak-
ers and others in the trade.

Palm oil is nothing more than a
substitute for beef tallow and other
gocd oils and greases and it is used
in making toilet and some other soaps
when it is cheaper than the others.
Any grease or oil that will saponify
can be used in making soap, and the
trade regards beef tallow as the basic
material, which would be used al-
most exclusively in this country if
enough of it were available. Some
fats and oils will saponify or unite
with the caustic soda or potash with-
out boiling, while others will not so
unite without being subjected to heat.
Caustic soda is the chief alkali now
used in making soap, so the various
grades of soap are determined by the
fat or oil or combinations of them
and the method of manipulating the
soap during the process of manufac-
ture. The British embargo on palm
oil will have very little effect on the
soap industry of the United States.

When the industry was in its in-
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animal oils or fats and, occasionally,
a little olive oil. One important step
in the modern develc pment of the in-
dustry was the use of cocoanut oil,
with which a soap can be made that
will lather in salt water. Very fine
soap is made in Europe with linseed
oil, but soap of that class is made

and used in this country only for
technical purposes. Probably the
greatest advancement made in the

art of soap-making is the use of cot-
tonseed oil, which has added greatly
to the prosperity of Southern cotton
growers. Since the soap-makers be-
gan to use cottonseed oil freely, the
refiners have developed a process of
removing the disagreeable flavor and
odor of the oil and it has become one
of the most important edible oils
available, and its introduction in that
form has been easy because it close-
ly resembles olive oil when properly
refined.

Scap-makers do not consume much
fat or oil that Americans would re-
gard as edible in the form in which
they reach the soap factories, and the
German government's regulation
limiting the use of soap and the quan-
tity to be manufactured and_ sold
proves how desperate must be the
need for edible oils and fats in that
country. Americans are asked to cur-
tail their consumption of butter and
lard so that more can be supplied to
our Allies and to our soldiers in the
field, but it is very unlikely that we
shall be asked to economize in the
use of soap for the purpose of en-
abling refiners to turn soap grease
into imitation butter and edible oil.

Feelings of Father on Sending Son
to War.
Written for the Tradesman.

He never knew.

When first his eyes were opened on
this world of chance and change, he
could not know how much that dawn-
ing life meant to me. It has not giv-
en to soothe, to nurse, to
protect. My life was apart.
was given the duty to see that want
came not to him, that hunger did not
grip, that shelter was provided, that
he was clothed. From dawn to dark
my way was where my hand and mind
could gather the hard won pittance

me
To me

that should give those things. And
always in the back ground of my

heart, his form, his face, in joy or
grief, was held. Dreams of the then,
the now, the time to come, ran
through my mind behind the curtain
of the turmoil of the daily toil.

“He could not know.

The years have passed. Their slow
procession has brought him from tod-

dling, lisping childhood to brawny
manhood. He could not know the
love that followed, watching, every

faltering step, each wayward impulse,
the budding promise of each manly
virtue. Because the fight was hard,
the burden was heavy. Because, to
feed the nestlings I must needs keep
far from the nest, he did not know
me.

He is a part of me and in him I
hoped and prayed to see the full
growth of manly manhood that was
my secret idol that I worshiped, that
I strove for, but never could attain.

The cause of freedom calls. The

”
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world is flaming in the wrath of God.
The teachings of the Most High have
been reviled, been set aside, been
trampled under foot by those who
call upon His name and blasphemous-
ly ask His aid.

My country calls. He
those toilsome hours were spent, has
and,

for whom

heard followed with
the mighty host that crosses land and
teach the madman who pro-
claims himself a part of God, that onty
he who serves can rule.

My son is gone, possibly to death—
mutilation and disease. Perhaps to
moral leprosy—surely not unless my
prayers and precepts have been vain
and God a mocker. But my boy is
gone. As I watched him go, the past
fergotten and the future luring with
golden visions, my heart near burst
with proud agony, for | know that
my boy never would return to me.
For this God placed me in this world
and let my weak and worthless life

hearing,

sea to

go on. : Maxy.
a
Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes.

Buffalo, Sept. 12—Creamery butter,
extras, 431%4@44c; first, 42@43c; com-
mon, 40@41c; dairy, common to
choice, 35@40c; dairy, pocr to com-
mon, all kinds, 31@34c.

Cheese—No. 1 new, iancy, 24c;
choice, 23c.

Eggs—Choice, new laid 40@42c;
fancy hennery, 45@50c.

Poultry (live)—Fowls, 24@27c;
chicks, 25@80c; old cox, 17@18c;
ducks, 21@25c.

3eans—Medium, $8.00; pea, $8.00;
Red Kidney, $7.00; White Kidney,

$8@8.50; Marrow, $8@8.50.
Potatoes—New, $3.75@4.00 per bbl.
Rea & Witzig.

 

 

 

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FOOD CONTROL PROBLEMS.

Price fixing is apparently not as sim-
ple as many of the reformers and agi-
tators would have it appear. No man
ever undertook a great economic ex-
periment under as favorable circum-
stances as Herbert Hoover, but even he
is apparently having his share of trou-
ble. That he is accomplishing a notable
degree of physical conservation in our
food supply successfully cannot be de-
nied and its success will probably prove
a potent weapon in the war, but so far
as reduced cost of foods go it is evi-
dent that there are some laws more
forceful than any passed by even such
great statesmen as those who sit in the
United States Senate.

One of the chief values likely to come
out of this experiment in governmental
price control will be the economic les-
sons to be taught to the Nation at large.
The obstacles met with in the case of
wheat and sugar are only the forerun-
ners of what are to come and in the
end it is likely to be discovered that any
plan that succeeds must rest on com-
promise between an ideal and a practical
standard, rather than on some untried
and fanciful theory. It has been the
lesson of England and France in their
efforts in the same direction and it was
to be expected here. Which need not
mean, however, that governmental au-
thority during the period of the war will
not prove generally beneficial.

A well known wholesale grocer let in
a flood of light as to the cause of the
obstacles when he stated that he
supposed it was a good plan, but any
live man occasionally liked to do a little
thinking on his own account and not
have Uncle Sam do it for him all the
time. Business men are not going to be
easily changed about and the multiplicity
of outside circumstances which have
tempered and modified business prac-
tices are bound to demand recognition
before any new system can be success-
‘fully launched.

Mr. Hoover has proved a very wise
administrator in that his was a person-
‘ality and a mind which recognized at
‘the outset that things that apparently
exist by reason of proved efficiency and
a going machine which has for years
successfully accomplished the task is
‘better annexed to the Government’s war
machinery than torn up by the roots
and discarded.
a marvelous

outpouring of patriotic

Mr. Hoover has enjoyed —

service at the hands of practical business
men and promises to retain it. Because
of it, his conservation plans are not
likely to go astray, but his efforts to
furnish efficiency and at the same time
eliminate very material expense have
not yet demonstrated much promise.

The sugar plan is even more inter-
esting than that of wheat from a mer-
cantile standpoint, by reason of being
two industries in one and dependent
on raw material wholly out of control.
The beet farmer is permitted under the
Food Control bill to engage in all forms
of price inflation, while the cane grower
is either exempt as an American farmer
from prosecution or because he happens
to live in a foreign country. In either
case Mr. Hoover is helpless to check
expense at the starting point, and be-
yond that such elements enter the prob-
lem as freights, foreign competition and
a jovial Senate that plays politics in-
stead of really trying to help him in a
great task, while incidentally scaring
foreign buyers—because they are not as
familiar with the animal as we are—
into buying up all the raw material, so
that we must pay fancy prices to get
any.

Although there is a great deal of
thought involved in arranging a system
of factor margins of profit down the
whole line, it is not very complex and
will go far to furnish a basis for com-
pensating distributers later on in our
paternalistic experiment. So far as any
hints of the probable margins is avail-
able, it appears liberal—in some cases
more than liberal, especially in the case
of the beet sugar producers. Allowing
$1.35 for refining cane sugar is about
the level a normal trade practice has
arrived at, while 25 points for the job-
ber is a good deal moer than an unin-
telligent competition has usually left
for the jobber. As for the retailer, any
guaranteed margin whatever will be
more than he has been uniformly allow-
ing himself, while the broker—middle-
man though he be—is no great burden
on anyone at 10 and 5 cents a barrel.

3ut when one finishes it all, the best
that has been done will be to stabilize
the business, relieve it of speculative
elements—and opportunities—and estab-
lish an orderly industry on a “dead level”
basis. The consumer won’t get sugar
much more cheaply and the cane grower
must sell his raws for a great deal less
than he does now. Control will, how-
ever, have been enthroned if lower
prices are not.

By the way, it might not be a bad
idea for Mr. Hoover to suppress some
of his enthusiastic promoters, lest they
make the conservation movement ridicu-
lous and spoil a splendid National effort.
Already some people are coming to think
that we are being overscared, and that
if we are not more rational, economy
will become penury and niggardliness,
and more harm result than good. While
everyone wants to see our food supply
conserved for the benefit of our Allies,
there is no imminence of a famine here
and no need to get down to a barebones
basis,

All of which is suggested by a story
to the effect that, in order that the
housewife may succeed in getting her
loaf of bread down to the 5-cent size
rather than six—for no one doubts that
the 10-cent loaf will be quite feasible

on the new wheat basis—she must boy-
cott the miller entirely, put in her own
wheat grinder and mill her flour in her
own kitchen by hand. To quote the dis-
patch:

“To turn out the big and cheap loaf
the family kitchen must be equipped
with facilities for grinding wheat and
must use home-made liquid yeast. With
wheat at $2.20 and flour at $11 a barrel,
$3 can be saved by buying the wheat
and grinding it at home. This would
make possible a sixteen-ounce loaf at a
production cost of only 4 cents, depart-
ment experts say.”

What arrant nonsense, practically or
theoretically! What kind of flour or
bread would the housewife be forced
to serve her family as compared with
what she gets now during the long per-
iod in which she would be saving $3 (?)
on a whole barrel of flour? What would
the mill cost and how long would it be
necessary for the family to take their
home-made punishment to save the cost
of the mill before they really began to
save a cent? And if the new plans of
conservation succeed, how long would
it be before flour would be down within
rational limits? And above all, how
many housewives of intelligence would
do it? Or how many of non-intelligence
care a rap about such intricate and rigid
economy?

Far be it from the Tradesman to re-
flect opposition to reasonable measures
of economy and conservation, but there
are degrees of both which are almost
as funny as the picture shows on which
the above mentioned housewife would
spend the pennies she saved by being
her own miller. Why not go further
and grow the wheat in the back yard
and save enough to take the whole fam-
ily to the show?

REE

Aside from the industries whose phe-
nomenal activity is directed toward
supplying war needs, business is some-
what halting and unsettled. One reason
for this has been the uncertainty of the
scale of taxation which would be finally
determined on, there having been at
one time a fear that the imposts would
be virtually confiscatory. Such a course
could only result in checking expansion,
destroying initiative and crippling en-
terprise. But, even with this apprehen-
sion allayed, there are other factors to
cause hesitation. Possibly the chief of
these is the settled belief that the prices
of things to eat and articles of wear,
both directly affecting the general public,
are unwarrantly inflated and must in
due course come down. Coupled with
this is the notion that this price inflation
must cause restriction of buying, of
which there have already been some
premonitory signs. Usually, large crops,
such as are now virtually assured, and
high prices obtainable for them, indicate
general business prosperity. And _ this
will probably be the case now through
those parts of the country where the
residents derive their incomes from
crops of grain and cotton. But, with
commodities’ prices| increased beyond
the raises in wages, the ultimate con-
sumer is likely to put into practice econ-
omies that are bound to have their effect

on business.
—_— EE

Some folks still seem to think that
in spite of all our financial laws the
banks are likely to have the grip.

WHAT JUSTICE DEMANDS.

Why should Germany be asked to
state her terms? What difference
does it make what her terms are or
whether she states them or not? In
the first place her statement of terms
would mean nothing. If made, it
would be modified, twisted, or re-
pudiated as she might think expedient.
The Allies know what the terms of
peace are to be, or if they have not
yet fully decided upon them they at
least know that they will not be
reached by argument with the Central
Powers, but will be decided upon by
the Entente Allies, and will be im-
posed upon Germany and her allies
without regard to the wishes of the
latter. This cannot be done, of course,
until Germany (and that means the
German people as well as the Ho-
henzollern dynasty) has not only
been brought to her knees, but put
upon her back. Germany must be
soundly thrashed and completely sub-
jugated. Berlin must be leveled to
the ground and the Kaiser hanged.
Under no other condition can a just
and lasting peace be secured. And
when that result has been attained,
the fundamental, in fact, the only,
question to be asked and answered is,
What does Justice demand? Every
item of the settlement—restoration,
restitution, indemnity, racial and na-
tional aspirations—must be determin-
ed in accordance with the demands of
justice.

When the war is ended with Ger-
many humbled and repentant and with
her ports and principal cities under
the guns of the Allied fleets and
armies, her people will then be suf-
ficiently tractable to learn and profit
by those lessons of adversity which
they had hoped and had striven to
make the exclusive experience of
others by methods which any nation
half civilized would have scorned to
employ.

 

SHOE TRADE CONDITIONS.

While retail shoe dealers through-
out the country have been doing, *ac-
cording to reperts, an unusually good
business, manufacturers are said to
have been experiencing a rather dull
period for the last three months.
This is thought to be due in great
part to the retailer’s hesitancy as to
carrying a large stock.

But during the past week manufac-
turers report a renewal of buying ac-
tivity from many sections of the
country, and the prospects for the
fall and Christmas trade are -said to
be very satisfactory. Government
buying during the past few months
for army requirements has resulted
in a practical withdrawal from the
market of tan veal leather and has
caused a decided stiffening in the
sole leather market. Of this grade
of leather the Government always re-
quires the best that can be obtained.

The recent easing off in kid-skin
quotations has resulted in some in-
stances in lower prices for glazed kid
shoes, although as yet the effect is
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(INCORPORATED)
Organized June, 1917, under the laws of Louisiana
Main Office: Branch Office:
Detroit, Michigan Monroe, Louisiana

Capitalization, $300,000 Bond Issue, $225,000

A. coming meat industry of great NECESSITY PERMITTING SUBSTANTIAL PROFITS devoid

of experiment and free from labor difficulties, in the

Fast Enlarging Field for Cattle, Hog and Sheep Raising

This Company offers for sale the unsold bonds at par, amounting to $125,000.00, the remaining part of
the total issue covering.

FIRST MORTGAGE, 10 YEARS 6% GOLD BONDS, on 3,154 acres of high cultivated
alluvial lands, particularly adapted and none better suited for grazing, all fenced and an abundant
supply of pure water.

Interest and Principal payable at

FEDERAL STATE BANK, DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

These bonds, in denominations of $100.00 and $500.00, are offered at par with a

Bonus of 20% Full Paid Stock in This Company

The entire bond issue represents only approximately 66° of the actual value of the property.
It is therefore a high-class and safe investment, carrying with it a substantial

STOCK BONUS OF UNUSUAL PROSPECTIVE VALUE,
in an enterprise full of opportunity, permanent in its nature, and permitting great expansion in the
STATE OF LOUISIANA.

Fast developing and now recognized as the most desirable area for raising CATTLE, HOGS
AND SHEEP. The urgency and opportunity presented for a successful enterprise of this char-
acter is clearly outlined in recent press reports.
IMPORTANT
The stock bonus will be withdrawn NOT LATER THAN OCTOBER 10th. It is therefore desirable

to secure bond allotment immediately, and profit also by the accruing value of the Company’s stock in an enter-
prise of unquestionable opportunity.

The advantages in the territory selected for the purpose, the management and other details are fully

described in the printed prospectus of the Company, which we will be glad to furnish, together with copy of
Trust Deed upon application.

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Fiscal Agents
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President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.

Vice-President—Patrick Hurley, De-
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Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Bent-
ley, Saginaw.

Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson,
Detroit; H. L. Williams, Howell; C. J.
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Poultrymen to Discuss Waste Elim-
ination.

When the American Poultry Asso-
ciaticn meets at Hotel Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, September 25 to 28, poul-
trymen from many parts tof the
United States and Canada will dis-
cuss means of co-operating with the
National Council of Defense to aid in
eliminating food waste and increase
poultry production.

“Poultry keeping plays a double
part in this great effort to eliminate
feod waste,” said E. E. Richards,
Cedar Rapids, Ia., President, in a re-
cent communication to the members.
“All around us we find waste in food,
even now, after months of discus-
sion on the subject. The housewife,
no matter how careful she may be,
always has some waste from her
kitchen. In our back yard gardens
there is much lettuce which is not
being consumed. Every cabbage has
outside leaves which may well be fed
to poultry. All these articles if fed
to poultry would not only eliminate
waste, but would be actually produc-
ing food.”

The convention opens with a pro-
gramme, reception and dance, in
charge of the Greater Milwaukee
Poultry Association. The
tion .preper will open Wednesday
morning. On Friday morning follow-
‘ng adjournment the
hecome the guests of Fred Pabst at
his farm near Oconomowoc.

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members. will

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Practical Demonstrations of Value.

At Jamestown, N. Y., recently there
was held a food conference, at which
time various phases cf food conserva-
tion were discussed and explained.
Among the speakers of the day was
Professor H. C. Troy of Cornell Uni-
versity. Professor Troy emphasized
the food value of by-products of the
creamery, skimmilk and buttermilk,
end urged more liberal use of these
focds. He stated that at one cream-
ery he visited he found that 25,000
pounds of skimmilk were dumped in-
to the sewer annually. He urged the
tse of skimmilk and buttermilk as a
drink, and also for the manufacture
of cottage cheese and other dishes.
Much interest was shown in this talk,
and after the close of the conference
the ladies were invited to partake of
dainty dishes prepared from cottage
cheese, skimmilk and buttermilk by
Miss Alice Loeb of Dunkirk. It is
considered that a great dea] was ac-

complished at this conference for the
conservation of the food supply of
this country, and especially of dairy
products, and this may serve as a
suggestion for leaders in other com-
munities. The service of experts
from the Dairy of Agriculture is us-
ually free for a purpose of this char-

acter.
—_——_.- > —___—_
Sane System in Vogue in Denver.

Denver is the only large city in the
country where there are no return
privileges. Goods are sent “on ap-
proval” only when a representative of
the store accompanies the purchase to
its destination and remains until the
selections are made.

In the city of Chicago, two leading
State street merchants are authority
for the statement that nine big stores
on the world’s greatest shopping
throughfare handle $30,000,000 worth
of merchandise needlessly each year

because of the “return goods evil.”
—_.2.>————_
Investigaters have proved the tre-

mendous loss of eggs between the
hen’s nest and the consumer’s table.
This loss much of which could be
avoided, and all of which is regretta-
ble and a reflection on the trade, is
bad enough in ordinary times, but in
this war period, when every ounce of
foodstuff should be saved, it is doubly
serious. In this connection the ef-
ficient carrying results of the Cutler-
Monesmith shock-absorbing device
should appeal particularly to rati-
roads, to shippers and to conserva:
tionists alike. We have no interest
in the device, but we do feel an in-
tense interest in any method which
will do away with damage to eggs in
transit. Every egg shipper and every
egg carrier should be interested to
an even greater extent. The pecul’ar
feature of the experiments with the
device is that thus far the railroads
have shown no interest. Each suc-
ceeding shipment seems to show
transportation of the product in prac-
tically perfect condition as regards
breakage, refrigeration and damage
from other sources.

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from Crescent Mapleine. The
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place in dining cars and in many
leading hotels. In addition to mak-
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Pickings Picked Up in the Windy
City.

Chicago, Sept. 10—Autumn in Chi-
cago is looked forward to by lovers
of “horse flesh. This is caused by the
Lincoln Park Board Commissioners
allowing amateur races on the team
track. This is participated in by hun-
dreds of horse owners. The running,
trotting and pacing contests attract
crowds of people. This is a half mile
track, straight away at the Northern
end of Lincoln Park.

Roseland, Ill, suburb of Chicago,
in the city proper, is to have better
facilities for reaching the lake front.
There is being built on 103rd street
a new car line from Michigan avenue,
Roseland, to Lake Michigan, When
this is complete the people in the ex-
treme Southwestern part of the city
will have a direct line to the lake
front and the South Chicago bathing
beach.

Poor Chicago is still playing hide-
and-seek with the Mayor, William
Hale Thompson. Matters have gone
so far in Chicago, as well as the State,
pertaining to the stand that the
Mayor has taken, in behalf of the
war question, that the Governor has
had to step in and interfere with the
management of the city in regard to
anti-war talk and the newspapers have
gone so far in antagonizing the
Mayor that he has entered a number
of libel suits against newspaper ed-
itors and some individuals. No doubt
the courts will have a merry session
for the next few months.

It is the intention of the Chicago
Motor Bus Co. to keep the streets
free of all snow and ice that they
operate busses on during the coming
winter months. If this is followed
out, no doubt these streets will be
overcrowded with automobile users,

Speeders and ioy riders, as a rule,
wind up their happy moments with
the following parties in session:
Lawyers, sergeants, doctors, nurses
and coroners.

One of Chicago’s popular druggists
is John Heiland, 650 West Madiscn
street. This store has been in the
same location for a great many years.
He publishes each month a four sheet
paper called Heiland’s News. It is
distributed among the people on the
West Side free of cost, being filled
with some very interesting local mat-
ters, as well as bringing forcibly be-
fore the people in that section mat-
ters pertaining to merchandise han-
dled by the above dealer, who reports
that during all the yeurs of his busi-
ness career he never experienced a
dull season.

All of the loop show houses are
now opening for the winter season,
after being closed’ the past two
months for repairs, also by reason
that during the months of July and
August the loop amusement places
do not stand much of a show with
such places as Edelweiss cafe, on the
South Side and the Bismarck gardens
on the North Side.

The officials, as well as the better
class of citizens in Chicago, are now
talking very seriously of passing an
ordinance that will do awav with all
singing and cabaret entertainment in
saloons and small cafes, leaving the
large and up-to-date cafes as well as
the leading hotels the only places
where this kind of amusement will
be allowed. This will be a great im-
provement and will do away with a
wonderful amount of crime breeding,
that, no doubt, originates in some of
the low dives in basements on some
of the side streets where this form
of entertainment is allowed.

Mayor William Hale Thompson
now comes out with the story that
spotters and spies have placed dic-
tagraphs in his apartments at 3200
Sheridan Road. Poor old Bill.

Well. well, the women of Chicago
have put a weekly newspaper on the
market. At last the woman has come
into her own in the way of proper
representation before the public. The
first issue was given to the public
under the name of the Woman's Press.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

It is an eight page newspaper and
eight columns to the page, filled with
articles and pictures of interest to
women. Mere man is not entirely
forgotten, but close to it. The first
page pictures of the first issue were
of Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, Presi-
dent of the Illincis Equal Suffrage
Association, and Mrs. Frank O. Low-
den, wife of the Gov ernor. The lead-
ing story of the first issue is that of
a recent convention of committees of
the National Council of Defense at
Springfield, Ill. There is a good
sprinkling of clean advertising and
plenty of high grade articles.

It is reported that the large oil
photo of Mayor Thompson, which
once hung on the wall of the Illinois
Athletic Club library, has dis ap-
peared, and in its place has appear-
ed a group of American flags. The
Mayor was at one time President of
the Club and one of the founders.

The camps of the different Illinois
regiments which were located in and
around Chicago have about all been
withdrawn, some going to the Eastern
seaboard, others to Texas and others
to Camp Grant at Rockford.

The Field Museum of Natural His-
tory is rising impressively out of Lake
Michigan at the south end of Grant
Park. The construction of this build-
ing is remarkable because ‘it stands
on “made land,” a thing which to
less resourceful people would be won-
derful. About 50 per cent. of the
work is completed and the structure
will probably be finished early in 1919.
Work upon the museum was started
in July, 1916, after the plans had been
re-arranged three times, once to face
west in Grant Park, another to face
south in Jackson Park and_ finally
the present arrangement to face north
in Grant Park. A large amount of
work was necessary preliminary to
its construction on the present site.
Water ccvered practically the entire
site which had to be brought eight
feet above datum through filling.
Between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 yards
of filling was necessary to bring it to
the required height. The basement
elevation of the building is 34 feet,
the terrace 40 feet and the first floor
elevation 50 feet. Another part of
the preliminary work was the elimin-
ation of rust from the steel for the
structure which had been fabricated
and stcred upon the site for about
five years. It had to be cleaned by
the sand-blasting method. All the
steel for the building is on the site
and about one-half of it has been set.
A huge amount of material was re-
quired. It will take about 11,000,000
brick, of which about 6,000,000 has
been set. 315.000 feet of marble, of
which 90,000 feet has been set and
about 2,500 tons of terra cotta. Be-
fore actual werk on the building could
be started it was necessary to drive
9,200 piles. About 500 men are at
work on the job. The building will
represent a total cost of $5,000.000.

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Unpatriotic Attitude Assumed By

Some Farmers.
Written for the Tradesman.

Volumes have been written about
the “poor farmer” and_ legislative
measures galore have been proposed
for his protection; laws have been
enacted exempting agriculturists from
the provisions of the anti-trust law,
giving the public the idea that, as a
class, they are down trodden, abused
and restricted. Now, when the test
comes, it finds them as selfish, grasp-
ing and as monopolistic as those who
tried to corner eggs and other ne-
cessities of life. Protests have arisen
at fixing $2.20 per bushel as the max-
imum price of wheat. Authentic re-
ports have it they are holding back
their grain for higher prices. Not
many years ago they threw their
hats in the air with joy’ when wheat
went to a dollar. This does not ap-
ply to all of them, of course, as there
are real patriots among them, but
the number who are hanging back on
the sale of the products of the soil is
sufficient to warrant severe criticism.
This is not a time to milk the public
or hamper the Government which is
striving to be fair to both producer
and consumer. The farmers are not
the only people who are affected by
price fixing, which, if carried on upon
lines outlined, should prove perma-
nently beneficial to the country, even
after the war is over. The fear that
it will permanently keep _ profits
down is but hasty judgment. The
men President Wilson has chosen to
investigate the cost of production of
the basic commodities are trained,
successful business men who have no
wish to destroy the enterprises in
which they are vitally interested.
While their desire is not to interfere
with legitimate profits, their duty is
to prevent greedy, piratical manufac-
turers from unscrupulous hoarding
and reaping exorbitant profits while
the public, our country and the Allies
suffer. Fair minded, honest business
men do not resent equitable regula-
tion as a war measure, realizing that
corporations and individuals must
share their proportion of the cost of
the war.

The danger to business does not
exist in the price fixing as being car-
ried out, but with Congress: with the
un-American Stones and LaFollettes
in the National Senate who are howl-
ing to place additional and heavier
burdens on corporations which would
produce an unscientific and dangerous
strain. :

With taxation amounting to little
less than confiscation, compulsory re-
duction of prices and higher prices
for labor, there would be little to
draw from later. In other words, ex-

cessive taxation of corporate and in-
dividual incomes, together with the
meeting of the increasing demands of
labor, would soon kill the goose which
lays the golden egg.

With the approach of the time for
launching the second Liberty Loan,
it is pertinent to call attention to the
fact that the first loan was floated
through the patriotic endeavors of
bankers, trust companies and brokers
without cost to the Government and
at considerable actual expense to
them, not only in cash but in time and
neglected business. It would seem
but fair that in launching the new
loan sufficient concessions should be
made to the banking interests to at
least cover the expense of the cam-
paign. Paul Leake.

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Short Sayings of Great Men.

Harry W. Spindler—My kingdom for
a nickel.

Old Barney—I am the oldest man in
the grocery business in Michigan.

Sherwood Hall—I have solved the
problem of living—six meals a day and
a good snooze twice a day.

J. Ogden Armour—Cultivate personal-
ity and make a good first impression.

Roger W. Babson—Our banks are
operated by the capitalist class and for
the capitalists alone.

Orville Wright—The army with the
most eyes will win.

Elihu Reoot—There is not as much
disturbance in all of Russia as there is
in the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt—I am a retired
commander-in-chief of the United
States army and eligible to any posi-
tion of command over American troops.

Brand Whitlock—The breweries are
the one institution the Germans have
respected.

Romain Rolland—-The two moral
weaknesses which this contagious war
has most completely revealed are the
weakness of Christianity and Socialism.

Woodrow Wilson—If you live in a
place where you can sit around a stove
in a country store and spit tobacco
juice in a sawdust box you are more
likely to have opinions than if you live
in New York.

Secretary of State Lansing—I do not
know in the annals of history an in-
stance where a people, with truly demo-
cratic institutions, have permitted their
government to wage a war of aggres-
sion, a war of conquest.

—__2-—.____
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WINNING PERSONALITY.

 

Part It Plays in a Merchant’s Suc-

cess.
Written for the Tradesman.

It is a notable fact that the great
heroes of history were not alone
great in themselves, but they had the
knack of choosing men as generals
under them to carry out their plans
who were the best of their kind.

It requires considerable skill to se-
lect the best material to aid the plan-
ner of a campaign in carrying his
ideas to a successful conclusion. Na-
poleon had that skill, as also had our
own General Grant, and there were
others. These men, heroes of his-
tory, showed great mental penetra-
tion in their manner of selecting their
lieutenants. Without this knack it
is doubtful if their deeds would have
been recorded in history as the great-
est men of their time.

It is the same way in the business
world. A man to become great in
any line of endeavor must have this
knack of choosing his subordinates.
As well as possessing a pleasing, in-
viting personality of his own, he
must perforce select his clerks with
a view to extending in wider degree
the personality that has attracted cus-
tomers to his place of business.

A young man once started in an
obscure little cubbyhole of a_ build-
ing, in a modest part of a consider-
able town. Nobody noticed him at
the start; certainly not the big mer-
chant of the town, who, when some
one called his attention to the fact
that a new man had opened a store,
engaging in the same line of business
as himself, laughingly remarked that
the poor fellow wouldn’t last long—
“about ninety days perhaps.”

Perfect faith casteth out fear.
Horace Palmworth had this faith
when he entered upon his business
career in that village.

Randolph Studford, the big mer-
chant, who had been doing business
in that burg for twenty years, did not
possess this faith. He had been jog-
ging along in a rut, doing a fair busi-
ness, holding his own at any-rate
when the stranger opened the little
store around the corner.

A little later, when he opened the
village paper to see one whole page
covered with an advertisement of
said newcomer, Studford laughed
louder than ever. Pointing at the
page, he said, speaking to his head
clerk:

“What'd I tell you, Jarvis, that fel-
low’s got more flubdubs in his head
than brains. Just look at that ad-
vertisement! Covers a whole page to
tell about a $300 stock. One would
think he had a big city to cater to.
He won't last long.”

“It’s a big advertisement for a
small store,” agreed the clerk.

This was true and yet that first ad-
vertisement attracted the attention it
was meant to do. Many new faces
came into the little store. Palmworth
was at this time his own clerk and
he had one of the most pleasing per-
sonalities imaginable. Even the chil-
dren could not resist the bright smile
and persuasive manners of the new
man.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Gradually there came a falling off
in the trade of the big store. The
smile that had at first spread over
the face of Randolph Studford when
the name of the little store was men-
tioned soon vanished. The big fellow
of the’ village grew vexed and un-

easy.
Not the one advertisement, but
others more alluring followed, and

the beauty of them all was that they
told nothing but the truth, dressed
in dashing colors. The genial per-
sonality of Palmworth drew every
day, every week, every month. until
at the end of the first year he was
obliged to enlarge his salesroom and
take on a clerk to aid in selling goods.

When he found customer after cus-
tomer dropping off and learned that
they were attracted to the little store
around the corner, Studford grew
vexed insofar that he questioned
some of those who had deserted him,
upbraiding them for their conduct,
which to him seemed ungrateful.

This, of course, was the worst
thing he could do for his own good.
People won’t stand to be scolded
about where they choose to trade.
Every merchant loses a customer now
and then. He should be careful not
to show resentment and should greet
the one gone stray with his usual
cordiality. If this quitting has been
without cause, be sure the customer
will return to the first store, after a
time.

At the end of ten years we find a
decided change in the fortunes of
Studford and Palmworth. To-day the
latter is the big gun of the business
world in town. The former has made
no advancement; is in fact still mov-
ing along in the old rut, making few
new customers, not holding all of the
old ones.

The personality of the man who
started the little store around the
corner; his strict honesty; his resolve
to never have a dissatified customer
leave his store; his genial, whole
souled treatment of all, from the
veriest tot of 3 to the old man or
woman of 90, has won him both fame
and shekels, He is now the leading
merchant of the village. He is also
alive to the best interests of the
place, never throwing a brick when
a bunch of marshmallows would do
better.

Personality wins every time. Try
it, ye grumpy, fault-finding grouches
and see for yourselves how it works.

Old Timer.

—>-2—___..
Stumping a Scientist.

Old Mr. Brompton is a very clever
man: he has enough degrees after his
name to supply a platoon of scientists.
Yet the other day his little granddaugh-
ter utterly confounded him.

“Grandpa,” said she, “I saw some-
thing funny running across the kitchen
floor without any legs. What do you
think it was?”

Grandpa thought and thought, but at
last had to give it up.

“What was it?” he asked.

“Water!” replied the little lady
triumphantly.
—_+-.—___

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September 12, 1917

 

GIVE US A GETTYSBURG.

End the Struggle By Mighty Sweep
to Berlin. <
Written for the Tradesman.

The present methcds of conducting
hostilities is so far removed from that
of the Napoleonic wars as to seem
unregenerate and disrespectful of the
honors of real Even back in
the sixties there were armies in the
field which marched out to battle to
the music of fife and drum, with bay-

wart.

onets agleam, all the pomp and
panoply cf glorious war!
Glorious war! How have the
mighty fallen! All the glamor of

battle has been swept into the scrap
heap by the trench diggers of Europe.
No more can the “Old Guard” do
prodigies of valor on the ensanguined
field, as galloping steeds, bearing their
magnificently plumed riders, plunge
into the thickest of the fight, oft
times turning the tide which trembled
en the crest, by furious sabering of
the foe.

At Waterloo the Old Guard went
in at the finish to be almost complete-
ly wiped out by the hot shot of the
enemy. On_ other fields, such as
Austerlitz, Marengo and Borodino the
French cavalry slew more at the
finish than fell in the heat cf battle.
The French cavalry pursued the flee-
ing enemy, scattering and dismem-
bering the hosts that at the opening
of the fight hurled solid phalanx
against the infantry of France.

Napoleon was a miracle of soldierly
activity and his name crowns all oth-
ers as the greatest military hero of
the world.

The dangers of the battle field were
far ‘greater then, even with the old
fashioned muskets of the infantry and
the smooth bore cannon, than now.
Thousands died in the camps of fever
other thousands perished of seeming-
ly simple who to-day are
saved for future work.

After three years of war not one
great battle has been fought that can
compare with some of those bloody
struggles on the open fields of Eu-
rope. There were Waterloo, Gravel-
lotte, Sadowa and Sedan, each a ter-
rific and sanguinary clash of arms,
each bringing results fatal to one side
in the bitter contest of the time.

No such heavy boomed at
Gettysburg as have marked the strug-
gle along the Marne; and yet the for-
mer battle laid low more men in a
short three days than fell in a fort-
night in some of the present day con-
tests. This, of course, takes into ac-
count the number of men engaged in
both spheres of action.

The present trench warfare must
have a depressing effect on the sol-
dier. Denied the excitement of a
great rush across open fields where
the foe may be encountered man to
man, the sodden groups huddling in
the damp trenches waiting for they
know not and this going on
from day to day, month to month,
lengthening into years, seems to be
something dreadful, almost beyond
the power of human endurance.

If the horrid spell of trench life
could be broken it does seem as if
the war might be brought to a speedy
termination. Less lives would be

wounds

guns

what,

sacrificed by an open rush against
the foe than by huddling within dark
and dismal trenches, waiting, waiting,
waiting indefinitely for something to
turn up in favor of one side or the
other.

A fight in the open field, man to
man, as at Waterloo, would sooner
end the awful suspense that has
wracked all Europe for more than
three years. It is time something was
done to end this wicked and causeless
bloodshed, even at the cost of thou-
sands of lives which will be quad-
rupled by still another year of linger-
ing trench-hiding.

There is something dreadful in the
thought of war. Mothers shrink from
seeing their sons go out to battle,
feeling, no doubt, that the chances
for ever seeing that boy again is
against her. Truth to tell the chances
fer that boy’s return, sound and
whole, is as thirty to one, even if the
war should last indefinitely.

Those who were killed in action in
our Civil War, lasting four years,
were about thirty in one thousand.
That doesn’t seem large when we take
into account the fact that many of the
fiercest battles of that war were
fought in the open, man to man, with
no shield such as the European trench
affords. This fact cught to give th<
mother courage to face the situation
with a feeling that her boy is about
as safe from harm in Europe with
the American army as he would be
on a hunting excursion in the autumn
in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

General Grant termed “the
butcher” by a certain clique in the
North after he crossed the North
Anna and set his army facing toward
Richmond in 1864. fis plans were to
crush the Confederate armies, leav-
ing towns and cities to take care of
themselves.
certainly been the thief of time with
the Federals before the coming of
Grant to the East. One very prom-
inent general, who had been long in
command of the Army of the Poto-
mac, was aptly dubbed “the Chicka-
hominy grave digger” because of his
ponderous methods of delay, masterly
retreats, and much trench digging.

was

It is true that the deaths in the
Potomac army from sickness compar-
ed to losses from battle were as five
to one. It seemed to the indomitable
Grant, who had conquered the re-
bellion in the West and was now at-
tached to the Eastern army, that it
were better to sacrifice a few more in
action, thereby shortening the war,
than prolonging the contest for years
with the death rate from fevers five
times greater.

Modern warfare is, indeed, puzzling
The present rate of progress bids fair
to prolong the war indefinitely while
thousands of brave boys die by inches
in the trenches. Better by far sacri-
fice a few more men and end the
struggle in one mighty sweep to
level Berlin to the ground, than hide
in miles of trenches for another three
years, which ensures the loss of count-
less lives unnecessarily. Give us a
Gettysburg or Waterloo and shorten
the struggle! Old Timer.

——__2-.——__
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15

 

Unspeakable Condition of the Aver-
age County Hotel.

If there is anything more designed
to strike the traveler with deep gloom
and homesickness than the average
hotel of the small towns in the Mid-
dle West, I do not know what it is.
The broken fly screens, the ragged
curtains, the dirty wash bowls and
pitchers, the grimy towels, the filthy
soap, the suspicious looking bed, the
cracked looking glass, the dim, irre-
ligious little electric light, the sticky
salt cellars, the unnamable coffee, the
unspeakable toilet arrangements, all
conspire to give the traveler who has
to be in a new town every day a feel-
ing of physical and mental depression
which he can overcome only by ac-
cepting the average hotel as a part of
the programme of a traveler’s life.

Some one is to blame for these
hideous conditions. I wonder that
the great army of Gideons does noi
do something. In my opinion a lit-
tle effort along reformation lines
would be ten times as productive of
results as to place Bibles in rooms
not fit for a clean hog to live in.

At one town of four thousand pop-
ulation, I spoke to an audience of
3,500 people, and outside the tent was
a line of motor cars half a mile long.
The town was rich in beautiful homes.
And I had come out of a “hotel,” the
“best” in the place, where my room
did not even contain a chair, and the
only place I dared lie down was on
the outside of the bed.

Of course, the reformer should be
able to rise above his surroundings.
That is true. When it comes to the
hotel in the small American town,
I not only rise above my sutrround-
ings, but I get up as early as I can
and “check out.” I confess I have
as much courage as most men, and I
believe we can get rid of the saloon
and bad politics and war, but when
it comes to reforming the hotel in
the small town, I lose heart.

Charles M. Sheldon.
——_+ ++ —___
Paternalism in Finance Run Wild.

It looks as if, under the hand of the
Federal Reserve System and_ the
Treasury Department, paternalism in
finance will run wild.

Not satisfied with steps to control
all independent banks, weaken trust
companies and corral the entire gold
supply, the Government—if the bond
bill introduced Sept. 1 becomes a law
—will be authorized to issue a new
form of Government security—war
savings certificates to the amount of
$2,000,000,000. These will be model-
ed after the school savings bank plan.
Designed to attract the small investor,
these securities will be offered to the
public in small sums through the post
offices, receipt of funds by the Gov-
ernment to be evidenced by stamps
in a special book kept by the investor
—like gold trading stamps or school
savings—not more than $100 to be re-
ceived from one person at a time,
nor could the holding of these securi-
ties by any one person exceed $1,000.
These certificates to be redeemed bv
the Government: at any time within
five years. Further information re-
garding the plan of our would-be fi-
nancial dad can be found in H,. R.
No. 5901, page 152.

According to latest Government
estimates of Michigan crops and

prices, the buying power of Michigan
farmers amcunts to $281,156,460, as
against $195,501,300 in 1916 and $1538,-
639,990 in 1915. It may be said that
the two principal causes of this in-
crease are the educational and finan-
cial assistance given by Michigan
bankers and the growing realization
of the force of the President's appeal
for a larger food supply.

While there has been nothing
panicky in the stock and bond mar-
ket situation there has been cons‘der-
able depression, watchful
waiting as to the outccme of the crops
and congressional action on taxation.
The heart of finance fluttered pain-
fully when La Follette and his crowd
wanted to increase the tax war profits
60 to 75 per cent., but, as an Eastern
financier remarked, there is a great
deal of difference between wind and
wisdom and between LaFollette and
statesmanship. The proposal was de-
feated 55 to 20 and business breathed
easier. This and more encouraging
crop. reports have restored. confi-
dence to a great degree. While the
bill, as it stands, and as it will prob-

due to

ably pass, is burdensome enough,
business is relieved that the _ irre-

sponsible and destructive element in
Congress is not in control of the
situation.

Facing the new
should cause no uneasiness as to
meney conditions. While call money
will, undoubtedly, be dearer, there
will be plenty to take care of indus-
trial and commercial needs at rates
within reason. The full burden of
Government financing will not be im-
mediately felt, as the payment for
Government bonds will be distributed
over a long period of weeks and a
part of it will be returned to indus-
tries as fast as it is paid in for sup-
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aging.

Liberty Loan

—_—__.2-2
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The President has appointed a commission and they have named the price they
will pay at the various terminals for the 1917 crops of wheat:

GOVERNMENT WHEAT PRICES

Prices for the leading kinds of cash wheat in the various markets, as compiled
by the Chicago Herald from the official basic figures as fixed by the government
for this season, compare as follows:

Dark hard winter, dark northern spring, amber durum—

Chicago, Kansas

New Orleans, City, Minneapolis, New
Galveston. Omaha. St. Louis. Duluth. Buffalo. Baltimore. York.
Now ft 25... 2c... 2.24 2.19 2.22 2.21 2.29 2.33 2.34
Noi 622.300 54.2 2.21 2.16 2.19 2.18 2.26 2.30 2.31
NGG ee 2.18 2.13 2.16 2.15 2.23 2.27 2.28
No. 4) cece e ols 2.14 2.09 2.12 2.11 2.19 2.23 2.24
Hard winter, red winter, northern spring, durum, hard white—
Noi f .. 2... 0... 3 “ a1 2.1 2.29 2.30
No; 2 2221s. 2.17 2.12 2.15 2.14 2.22 2.26 2.27
NO. 6S) 2. ose. 2.14 2.09 2.12 2.11 2.19 2.23 2.24
Nor: 4 ...00 2.10 2.05 2.08 2.07 2.15 2.19 2.20
Yellow hard winter, white club—
No: ft 32.23.0500; 2.16 2.11 2.14 2.13 2.21 2.25 2.26
No. 2.1... 2.13 2.08 2.11 2.10 2.18 2.22 2.23
No. 3 eso. 2.10 2.05 2.08 2.07 2.15 2.19 2.20
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The Millers will buy their wheat of the Government, price to be based on the fixed
price at the various terminals, plus the expense of elevation, the expense of the gov-
ernment commission, carrying charges, etc., which will probable figure around 3% cents
per bushel.

The Food Bill provides for licenses for every miller of a capacity of 100 barrels per
day or over. Under the license system as proposed by our government no mill will be
permitted to sell in excess of 30 days’ output, and every mill will be required to make a
periodical report to the government showing the amount of wheat on hand, the amount
of flour on hand and the amount of flour sold. All wheat and flour in excess of 30
days’ output is subject to commandeering by the government at the price paid for it.

You Can Readily See that under the above conditions there will be no speculation
in flour.. It will be for each flour customer to line up with some reliable mill or jobber
who can take care of his requirements promptly. We have been large distributors of

High’ Grade Flour for many years, and you will make no mistake if you place your
business in our hands.

See our well known brands on the opposite page.

Judson Grocer Co.
The Pure Foods House Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADES WMARN

September 12, 1917

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Improve the Quality of Shoe Store
Service.
Written for the Tradesman.

The writer recalls reading some-
where a shaving soap advertisement
which ran somewhat like this: “We
couldn't improve the quality of cu:
shaving soap, for that was already
as good as we know how to make it,
sO we improved the quality of the
container.” And then the advert's-
ing man proceeded to dilate on the
beauty, convenience and charm of the
little metal box in which it came.

Paraphrasing this shaving soap ad-
vertisement, one may say of his shoe
store that, while he is unable to prom-
ise better shoes for the money than
he has already been offering, he will
endeavor to grade up constantly in
the matter of store service with the
definite purpose in mind of makine
it just as nearly 100 per cent. efficient
as is humanly possible. And_ the
writer will stake his reputation as a
student of the psychology of adver-
tising on the claim that an announce-
ment built up along this line will pro-
duce paying results in any sizeable
shoe-buying community at any time.

This must necessarily be true, for
the service-end of the shoe retailing
business is quite as important as the
commodity end of it. It is only with-
in comparatively recent years that
students of merchandising methods
have come to place upon service the
emphasis to which it is entitled.
Hitherto it wasn’t sufficiently stress-
ed. But we have learned better. We
have become accustomed to the tru-
ism that the customer is entitled to
service along with the merchandise
he happens to buy.

If this is true as a general propo-
sition, it would seem to have a spe-
cial application to retail shoe deal-
ers, for here, as perhaps in no other
line of merchandise—assuredly in no
other line of wearables—the duty of
adequate service is imperative.

Conscientious Fitting.

When one mentions service in con-
nection with the retail shoe store, one
somehow just naturally thinks of
fitting, for it is in this function of the
retail shoe dealer especially that the
highest type of service is required.
True enough this requirement may
not be articulate, for in many com-
munities people do not themselves
appreciate what expert fitting is, and
what a tremendously vital bearing it
has on scientific and economical foot-
wear purchases. But the requirement
is there just the same, although it
hasn’t been definitely expressed in
words. It pertains to the very func-
tion of the retailing of shoes, for
shoes must not only be distributed,
they must also be judiciously dis-

tributed. It isn’t enough merely to
figure, so many people in my com-
munity whose business I may reason-
able count upon: so many pairs per
annum to each—therefore—and order
accordingly. The prcblem of stock
selection is vastly more complicated
than that.
the several sources available, the very
best shoes compatable with the foot-
wear needs and the purse-capacities
of one’s constituency.

 

It involves buying, from

And it also includes the obligation
ef giving each and every patron of
your store a careful, individual fitt'ng
when he or she calls to make a se-
lection of a pair of shoes. In other
words it isn’t enough merely to sell
shoes. Shoes must be sold right.
And nobody must be permitted to
leave a shoe store with a pair ci
shoes that do not fit. You can’t af-
ford to allow this, much less encour-
age it in any way. The most funda-
mental and vital thing in the devel-
opment of an adequate shoe store
service, is the mastery of fitting. Fit-
ting should be with the dealer and
his clerk a conscientious thing.

Several days ago the writer was
talking with the customer of a big
department store when the conversa-
tion happened to swerve around to
shoes. And this is what he said about
their shoe department:

“Yes, I agree with you that they
carry a bully good line of men’s
shoes. Don’t know anything about
their women’s and children’s lines,
but their shoes for men are top-
notchers. But they don’t know a
blooming thing about fitting you, If
you don’t watch ’em, they'll put a
7% or an 8 D on a foot that requires
a 9 A—and I know, for they’ve fitted
me short. I’m past 40, and I never
had a corn in my life until recently,
and everytime I feel a throb of pain
on the little toe of my left foot. I
think of that shoe department. T be-
lieve they have the best line of men’s
shoes for the money in the whole
city. I have absolutely no complaint
to make insofar as last, material and
construction are concerned. The
shoes are stylish and serviceable. But
I don’t buy any more footwear in that
store, for they don’t know how to use
the measuring stick, and they can’t
fit one’s feet.”

Equal Chances for Little Dealers.

In the development of service the
little dealer has equal chances with
his big competitors. Indeed, the odds
would seem to favor the small dealer,
for he has a better chance to develon
his service intensively.

And the development of service in-
sofar as the retail shoe store is con-
cerned is largely a matter of taking
thought, or taking pains. This is

 

People are going to find it more and

more of a burden fo pay the high prices

that have been attained by the so-called
“‘Specialty”’ or ‘“‘Nationally Advertised’”’
shoe lines.

That is why dealers are turning more to the

Bertsch Shoe Line for Men

to meet the demand for a comfortable, stylish, service-giving
shoe at a moderate price.

The BERTSCH is filling this demand and is making many
friends for every dealer handling it.

Naturally as more people become familiar with it the de-
mand for the BERTSCH shoe will be permanently greater.

We are increasing our capacity to meet the increased de-
mand that is being made on our factory.

The BERTSCH shoe won its reputation through ifs uniform
wearing qualities—these will remain so.

It IS the best line—style, quality and price considered—that
is offered you to-day.

For the success of your business YOU should RECOMMEND
and SELL the BER}SCH shoe line to your trade.

 

 

HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO.
Manufacturers of Serviceable Footwear GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

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illustrated by a story that I ran across
somewhere recently.

A certain man went into a shoe
store complaining to the dealer about
a pair of new shoes he had bought
the day before in another store. He
said they pinched and hurt his feet.
Also said he went back to this store
where he had bought them and told
the clerk, but the clerk informed him
that it was too late to register that
sort of a complaint, that the shoe;
were soiled, and he’d have to keep
them, and that nothing could be done.

The customer naturally didn’t relish
this sort of treatment. The clerk
seemed entirely too disinterested.
The dealer who heard this tale of woe
examined the shoes and measured the
man’s foot, and found that he hadn’t
been properly fitted. He was wear-
ing an A last on a D foot. So he
brought out a pair of shoes that fit
right and felt good, and the customer
tock them right off the reel. And
then this dealer told the customer
that, if he’d leave the other shoes
with him a day or two, he’d see what
could be done. He dampened the
leather and stretched the shoes over
night. And the following night he
repeated the process. Then he iron-
ed them out neatly, thus making them
fully half a size larger.

When the customer came in a few
days later and tried them on, he sad
they felt all right and he thought he
could wear them without any discom-
fort or injury. He wondered why the
clerk in the first store couldn’t have
taken as much interest as this second
dealer had done. He told the dealer
he would remember that. And he
did. Some days latter he brought in
a friend or two who made several
purcHases. This man was a walking
advertisement for that dealer who
put himself to a little troubie to help
a customer out of a bad hole. It pays
to take trouble if one is thereby im-
proving the quality of his store serv-
Ice,

When it comes to buying, the big
dealer can often get better terms than
the small dealer. Shoe manufactur-
ers are so anxious for the business
of the big dealer that they will make
concessions that they refuse to grant
to the little dealer. But this advan-
tage can largely be overcome by the
small dealer if he will develop in-
tensively his store service.

In view of the fact that all of our
industries will be drawn upon heavily
during the next year—and possibly
two years or longer—for both me
and material, it isn’t likely that you'll
be able to get any better shoes fo-
the money than you are now get-
ting, but there’s no limit to the im-
provement you can make in the serv-
ice. Cid McKay.

—_2+2__

Comfortable Customers Buy more.

Salesmen wear light-weight sweat-
ers in a Western department store,
and the temperature is maintained
considerably below ordinary room
warmth. This contributes greatly to
the comfort of shoppers dressed in
street wraps and helps particularly
in bringing to this store women who
contemplate a prolonged tour of shop-
ping.

Where the Mail Order Fiend Does
Not Thrive.

Brooklyn, Sept. 11—-I very much
wish my old friend Stowe could visit
these grand people. One visit to a
truly small city with the widest main
street of any Michigan town and up-
to-the-moment business houses would
convince him at first sight that he had
truly arrived in a town which knows
little of the mail order fiend.

A fine bank building houses, a real
institution and we have general stores
which are more like department
stores; also hardware stores which
would grace a city of many thousand
people.

The beautiful shade trees carry a
real story of one man’s devotion to
his chosen town. Pause to think of
a man who left his work at any and
all times to replace a tree which had
met with accident or pined away.
Where did you ever hear of so public
spirited a man who in this act gave
his all, for he was not blessed with
money. In Brooklyn the trees are a
perpetual and everlasting monument
to his memory.

In Brooklyn is the first industry of
its kind in the State, exclusively de-
voted to preparing high grade pop-
corn for the grocer. This double
plant has reached a centract growth
among the farmers about Brooklyn
of 2,300 acres for a season.

Be branch of merchandising
points to the metropolitan idea, from
furniture, drugs, groceries down
through the line to an exclusive cigar
store.

Michigan has many up-to-date small
cities and auto drivers are rapidly
learning of these gems of the State.

The “youngest man” who is ac-
tive in and for Brooklyn is the Presi-
dent of the local bank, E.. J. Ennis.
A better known gentleman could not
be found in the country and he is
a genuine friend to B rooklyn and its
people. Ask the people. Without Ed.
Ennis many a young man would m'ss
half his life and, his start for success.

There should be many subscribers
for the Tradesman in Brooklyn, be-
cause it is their kind of a paper.

When you visit a town of a thou-
sand and find every man a_ booster,
it is well to stay the day and meet
the people, because it will leave a last-
ing and good effect on oneself.

Driving from Grand Rapids to To-
ledo it is easy to visit Brooklyn, Clin-
ton and Tecumseh. To miss these
towns is to miss much and there are

other towns which are smaller, but
along the same line of hustle.
Southeastern Michigan has the

right number of good small towns,
with good railroads and highways
and plenty of fine lakes full of good
fish and no better people ready to
give vou the glad hand. What more
should we want?

Come over our way, friend Stowe.
Most of us have read the Tradesman
for more than thirty years.

Ralph D. Howell.

——_oeo
Experience is the father of wisdom

and memory the mother.
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The way to avoid great faults is
to beware of small ones.

 

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President—James W. Tyre, Detroit.
Vice-President—Joseph C. Fischer, Ann
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Spirit of Welcome Helps to Bring
Business.
Written for the Tradesman.

A chap from down East called on
me the other day, and incidentally
told me about an experience in a
town of 1,200 people. He dropped in-
to a drug store. The druggist was
reading his newspaper. He did not
get up; he did not even look up.

My friend coughed, shifted his feet,
drummed on the counter; went
through all the usual stunts to attract
attention. Finally:

“Good evening,” he said.
the proprietor?”

“Yes,” grunted the druggist, with-
out even looking up. “Say, can’t you
wait until I finish my paper?”

And he went on jreading.

Said my friend: “People in that
town know him. They come there,
and wait, because they know when
he does get ready to wait on them,
he’ll put up his stuff right.”

But the man who doesn’t know him
gets a shock—and goes elsewhere.

I have in mind another merchant
with whom I deal quite a bit. I drop-
ped into his store on a busy Satur-
day night. He was waiting on a
customer; there were two more ahead.
He said, “Excuse me,” and greeted
me. “J’ll attend to you as soon as I
can,” he said. Then he went ahead
with the other customer, careful, at-
tentive, to all appearances unhurried.

Not long ago I heard that merchant
drumming his gospel into a _ clerk,
pleasantly, patiently, but very clear-
ly and specifically. “Keep at these
orders until you see a customer come
in,” he said, “but the minute a cus-
tomer comes in, you drop the orders
right away and wait on him. The
customer comes first.”

I have gone into a store where a
couple of clerks were gossiping with
a bunch of hangers-on—not custom-
ers, not people who were buying or
looking at goods, but fellows who
had dropped in to discuss topics that
had nothing whatever to do with the
business. I have waited while they
went on gossiping. I have stood by
with money in hand while clerks, yes,
and occasionally proprietors, swap-
ped funny stories with fellows who
couldn’t pay if they did buy. That’s
not business.

I have dropped into other stores
for news items, and many and many
a time the proprietor has said: “Ex-
cuse me a minute,” and gone to wait
on acustomer. That’s the right kind
of business.

“Are you

The customer comes first. That’s
a mighty good axiom to follow in
your hardware store. You say you
do follow it, yourself; that you drop
everything in order to wait on the
customer. That brings us to the very
meat of the matter.

How do you do it?

In what spirit do you greet the in-
dividual who interrupts your gossip
or your reading for the cold-blooded
purpose of buying a package of carpet
tacks?

Do you grunt and growl, and frown,
and glare at him as if you would like
to wring his neck? Do you greet
him with an air of indifferent resigna-
tion, as though he were a necessary
evil? Or do you put on your pleas-
antest smile, and extend the glad
hand?

It’s the spirit in which you greet
the customer that counts for a lot in
selling. It’s not enough to drop ev-
erything and wait on him: you ought
to welcome him, to greet him pleas-
antly, to meet him more than half
way, to make him feel that you are
blamed well pleased at the chance to
meet such a thorough good fellow.

The spirit of welcome is something
that you can’t conjure up out of ag-
gravated feelings. If you’re sore at
being interrupted in your newspaper
reading, the soreness is pretty sure
to show through. To give the hard-
ware customer that feeling that he’s
thoroughly welcome and that you’re
whole-heartedly at his service, you
must feel that way. You can’t imitate
the real thing.

But if you’ve educated yourself to
feel good toward any and every cus-
tomer, to recognize that the custom-
er has first call on your time and at-
tention, then it will be hard work to
make even the crankiest customer feel
other than at home.

Whatever you're selling in the
hardware line, the customer is more
likely to buy if he feels that you’re
a personal friend of his. Show him
right at the start that you’re inter-

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ested in him, that you’re anxious to
find what he wants, to help him make
a satisfying choice from your stock.
When you’ve got your personal rela-
tions on a friendly basis, you’ve gone
a long way toward preparing for the
actual sale.

This. may sound like theory, but
I’ve seen it demonstrated in actual
hardware selling time and again be-
yond all possibility of contradiction.
It makes a whole lot of difference
what impression you make on the
man you're dealing with. If he finds
you warm and friendly, he’s a lot
easier to convince than if you are cold
and_ indifferent.

A good many hardware salesmen
fall occasionally into the rut of in-
difference without actually knowing
it. Perhaps you’ve been up late last
night with the baby, or perhaps you
have worries of your own that the
world knows nothing of, or perhaps
you're not feeling your best—anyway,
if Jones comes in and asks for a dou-
ble chopping knife, you just say,
“We haven’t got any” and let him go
out again. Yet if you were feeling
your normal self you’d show him the
single chopping knives, anyway; and
if you were in A-1 form, you'd point
out that a food chopper at $2.75 would
do the same things and several hun-
dred more, would do them quicker
and easier, would outlast five dollars
worth of chopping knives. Yes, and
you'd sell the food chopper, too.

There are time when it’s hard to
keep from feeling tough, and when
waiting on customers is an aggrava-
tion—but forget it! Try to train
yourself in the idea that the big busi-
ness of life is to sell hardware, good
hardware, hardware that you believe
in, to folks that you like; and try to
educate yourself, too, in the idea that
every man is likeable. Remember
that selling hardware is the main
thing, that other events are interrup-
tions, and that if you’re called away
from the counter, you'll never be
happy until you get back to it. It
takes a bit of self-drilling to get this
mental attitude, but it does help a lot
to develop the habit of regarding
your work as a real pleasure, and
your customer as a friend whom
you’re anxious to satisfy.

Victor Lauriston.
—_—_+22s—__

Trees for Beauty and Profit.

It is told of the Norwegian poet
Bjornson that he always carried about
with him a pocketful of the seeds o!
trees, scattering handfuls of them
broadcast during his walks and drives.
He was even noted among his friends
for urging every one else to do like-
wise. Tree planting he considered a
matter of very great importance. And
yet how many of us ever stop to con-
sider how much, how very much, we
are dependent upon trees for our com-
fort and pleasure, and what the land-
scape would be without them? How
little attention is ordinarily given
them, how few we plant, and even
after planting them how seldom do
we stop to note how all is going with
them! If each year property owners
would only plant two trees they
would soon have homes worthy the
name. Even if the tree planters did
not live to enjoy their full growth

they could leave no finer monument.
How cool and refreshing a shaded
roadway looks on a hot August day!
For this purpose the red cedar, or
Bolle’s poplar, or Norway maple,
and pin oak are excellent, and, with
the exception of the cedar, are all of
rapid growth.

In England, a portion of the larger
country places is always given up to
trees, and called the park where the un-
derbrush is kept down so that the trees
may have plenty of room to grow in,
A portion of many of our own wood-
lots managed in somewhat the same
fashion would yield a very good sup-
ply of firewood, as well as proving a
very great attraction, not only to
ourselves, but to the town or
village in which we live. Indeed,
such a place would be twice the
value of a_ treeless  neighbor’s
place, and on most places there is
more or less rough, useless land
where a crop of trees could be most
profitably grown. Now that so many
chestnuts have succumbed to disease
and the hickories are being attacked
by borers, it might be well to experi-
ment with other varieties suitable for
foresting, such, for instance, as the
coffee tree, whose geographical dis-
tribution is from Central New York
and Pennsylvania, West through
Southern Michigan to the Minnesota
River and South to Tennessee. This
tree, where forest grown, reaches a
height of from 60 to 100 feet, and a
diameter of from 114 to 3 feet, while
the wood has good commercial value.
The black cherry is another admir-
able tree for foresting, the trunk of-
ten being free from branches for a
distance of 70 feet, and the wood is
always in great demand cabinet
makers. But, quite aside from the
ever-practical point of view, what
could be more charming than a coun-
try place with its long boundary line
marked with fine shade trees, and
the North side thoroughly protected
by a tall evergreen windbreak? Sure-
ly the most indifferent must acknowl-
edge that these friendly and_ help-
ful trees always add beauty and com-
fort to one’s surroundings,
vide delightful resting places on a
summer’s day. Thus let Arbor Day
be celebrated by every one with a
bit of land by an actual tree-planting.

Edward K. Parkinson.

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TAKE SAFETY FIRST

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given at NEAL Institute
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at the end of treatment.
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OUR APPEAL TO
SAVE THE FRUIT CROP

The great waste of fruit every year is
costing this country dearly. We are
striving again this year to stop this waste
by our “Save The Fruit Crop’’ adver-
tising campaign. This advertising 1s
urging people to use more canned and
preserved fruits. It is also increasing
the demand for Franklin Granulated
Sugar, a splendid sugar for canning and
preserving.

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Handled by All Jobbers Sold by All Dealers
Enjoyed by Discriminating Smokers

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Flowers and Plants Adapted to Early
Autumn.

Late midsummer and early autumn
always bring a fresh touch of color
to the garden, for it is the season of
the phloxes, the great hydrangeas, the
helianthus, and all the other stately
autumnal flowers—the gathering and
concentration of months of warmth
and sunshine. The gardener expects
much of these late flora, they have
been so very long about their task
and although perhaps they have less
of grace and tenderness than those of
early spring, still they possess greater
strength of stalk, and more of bold-
ness and virility, and surely the big
phloxes continue the most magnifi-
cent flower of September, showing
superbly against a line of green and
exhaling a delicate yet pronounced
odor. Indeed the phlox is one of our
most varied and valuable hardy peren-
nials, with its upright, compact habit
of growth and long period of bloom.
The colors of the flowers are also
wonderfully rich and varied—white,
pink, rose, orange, scarlet, salmon,
crimson, lilac, lavender, violet, purple,
and mauve. A period of continuous
bloom from July to October may be
had by the wise planting of a suc-
cession of varieties and the cutting
off of the first trusses.

The modern phlox, as we know it
to-day, is of hybrid origin and the
family tree from which it originated
is the polemoniaceae. The parent
plants were known as the phlox pan-

iculata (decussata) and the phlox
maculata, and from these most of the
highly developed varieties have
sprung. The phlox paniculata was an

erect plant growing to a height of
from two to four feet, with pinkish-
purple flowers varying to white. The
other parent was more slender, short-
er in stature, and with a spotted stem
and purple flowers. Both parents are
indigenous to our soil in the United
States, although up to 1850 they were
seldom seen in our gardens. About
that time, however, floriculturists he-
gan to experiment with these two
varieties, and by 1885 such improve-
ments had been effected that it seem-
ed as though perfection had actually
been reached. But this was not the
case, fer while the chief advancement
up to that time had been the develop-
ment in the size and shape of the
blooms, all improvement as to color
had been neglected.

In the early days there were end-
less varieties of pink, purplish, and
slate-colored flowers, sometimes with,
and often without, deeper coloring at
the center; later came the bright reds
then orange-scarlets of wonderful
brillancy, and in due course the rich
purples and deep violet-blues. Un-

fortunately, at the present time, many
of the late-flowering kinds are being
totally neglected, a very great mis-
take, for although the flowers are
somewhat smaller, the panicles are
denser and more pyramidal. Here is
an excellent opportunity for the flow-
er-lover to cross the quality of late
autumn with some of the finer strains
of phloxes. A splendid bloom has
been obtained in England resulting
from a cross between P. Paniculata,
and a hybrid form secured from a
cross between P. Canadensis and P.
Laphamii. These two are early flow-
ering plants, ten to eighteen inches
in height, with small panicles of blu-
ish and fragrant flowers. The new
strain, P. Arendsii, is also a vigorous
grower of branching habit, with
flowers varying in color from white to
rose, and pale violet and often at-
tains a height of two feet, while it
produces a long succession of flowers.

Among the other hardy varieties of

phicx, worthy of special mention, is
phlox subulata (moss or mountain
pink), a dwarf species suitable for

low borders and rock garden plant-
ing. It forms a mat of charming
moss-like foliage, is a profuse bloom-
er, producing in May great masses
of pink or blue flowers, which hide
the foliage completely. Heavy frosts
are not injurious to it, but where the
winters are mild and damp it some-
times dies away.

There are three methods of propa-
gating phlox, namely by seeds, cut-
tings, and divisions. The hybrid
phlox will not breed true to seed, but
about 40 per cent. of the seedings
will be as good as the parent, and the
best results with seeds are obtained
by cross pollination. The seeds
should be sown in flats indoors, in
February, in a moderate temperature,
and as soon as the seedings are large
enough to handle, each one should
be transplanted to a two and a half-
inch pot, to be grown either in a
ereenhouse or a ccold-frame. Early
in the spring as soon as the ground
has hecome sufficiently warm, the
new plants should be set out in their
permanent positions, about twenty to
thirty inches apart, and if handled
thus the blooms may be had the first
season.

Where one wishes to perpetuate
varieties of merit, propagation by cut-
ting is resorted to, and the time for
this is in the autumn from the flower-
ing stems which have been previously
cut back just after flowering. Select
cuttings two to three inches long,
preferably with a heel, and root them
in a sand in a_ shady cold-frame.
When the roots have formed, pot
them in a light sandy loam and winter
over in a well-protected cold-frame,

store trade. Trial order solicited.

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

Of All Jobbers
PRESIDENT SUSPENDER CO., Shirley, Woe

 

 

 

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

Elevators

Electric and
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Hand or Machine Made
Out of No. 1 Oak leather. We guarantee them

absolutely satisfactory. If your dealer does not
handle them, write direct to us.

SHERWOOD HALL CO., LTD.
Ionia Ave. and Louis St. Grand Rapids, Michigan

Sidney Elevator Mfg. Company
Sidney, Ohio

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Wholesale Dry Goods

Grand Rapids a Michigan

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These Are Days When It
Pays Every Merchant
to Come to Market

Combine with a trip to the Great
West Michigan State Fair a visit
fo your wholesaler........

We have always made an effort to show
attractive specials in every department
Fair Week. This year will be no exception.

With the market as it is every merchant
who can get in personal touch with whole-
sale stocks and their buyers will gain
knowledge of great value in making his
future plans.

At no time of the year could there be
more good reasons for coming. Why don’t
you come, combine business with pleasure
and go back better fitted in every way. to
conduct your Fall Campaign?

 

 

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then set out the young plants in the
spring in their permanent places.
Perhaps the easiest way for the ama-

teur is to take up the plants in the *

autumn and to divide the clumps w th
a knife. Phlox increases by under-
ground stolens growing outward and
it is these vigorous young shoots
which give the best plants. The new-
ly divided plants should be set out
immediately, and in the case of the
dwarf and creeping’ kinds, large
plants may be changed into several
smaller ones by shaking some light
soil among them in summer, and then
dividing them in the autumn when
the trailing branches will have be-
come well-rooted. The care of phlox
is very simple, and they are gross
feeders, but the soil should be well
werked to a depth of two feet, and
enriched with well-rotted manure.
Light soils require more manure than
the heavy ones, where spot disease
is apt to develop when too much ma-
nure is used. In hot weather phlox
should be mulched with well-rotted
cow manure as the plants have a ten-
dency to make surface roots. June is
the proper month in which to mulch,
and a moderate amount of shade is
also necessary for the best develop-
ment of these most satisfactory plants.
—__22>——
Late News Notes From the State’s
Metropolis.

Detroit, Sept. 14—Detrcit’s largest
food exposition will be offered in the
3elle Isle Coliseum for two weeks
starting Sunday, September 17. There
will be more than sixty food and
household appliance displays, lectures

by food expert’s every evening, a
cooking school with demonstrations

on canning foods and food economy
every afternoon, concerts by a wom-
en's band and the numerous amuse-
ment features in the Coliseum itself.

David R. Henry, with the sales de-
partment and in charge of dealer sales
promotion work for Scripps-Booth
corporation, has received his call as
a volunteer for the transportation di-
vision of the quartermaster depart-
ment. He will report for duty in Fort
Crook, Neb. Mr. Henry will have the
rating of sergeant.

Members of group 10 of the Mich-
igan Bankers’ Association are to have
their annual meeting, September 14,
in the Bloomfield Hills Country Club
as guests of the banks and trust com-
panies of Detroit. The group  com-
prises members of the association 1
Oakland, Macomb and Wayne coun-
ties. A reception is to be held at the
Bloomfield Hills Country Club at
noon, Luncheon will be served at
1 p. m. and the business meeting 15
to follow. Among the speakers
scheduled for addresses are Hal H.
Smith, General Counsel of the State
Association, and Abner E. Larned,
head of Detrcit’s Liberty Bond sales
organization. W. T. Bradford, chair-
man of the group, is receiving many
reports from bankers intending to be
in attendance.

The past week saw quite a change
in the displays of the downtown and
outskirt retail shoe dealers, there be-
ing few exhibits of summer footwear
or announcements of clearance sales.
Instead the windows and_ interior
stocks were transformed into displays
of fall footwear. Despite warm
weather there was considerable buy-
ing of fall footwear, and particularly
was trade heavy on children’s foot-
wear. In this respect it is noticed
that most of the dealers who are do-
ing any advertising emphasize the

fact that they carry “large stocks
of shoes especially adapted for
school.”

The Crowley, Milner Co. ended its
semi-annual mill-end sale with the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

biggest business on record.
plied to every department.

The new branch of the Walk-Over
Shoe Store on Woodward avenue,
near Grand Circus Park, Detroit, will
be opened for business on Sept 15. ac-
cording to the present plans of J. E.
Wilson, proprietor. It will be quite
an event inasmuch as it will com-
memorate the thirteenth year of the
establishment of Mr. Wilson in busi-
ness at 153 Woodward avenue, which
is his main store.

A. Jannuzzi, formerly with R. H.
Fyfe shoe store, has opened a shoe
repairing establishment at 3116 East
Jefferson avenue.

The following interesting remark
was recently made by henry ford: “I
have tried to look for seme good that
may come out of the war, as some
good can usually be found coming
out of the worst. I believe this war
will impress us with the fact that we
are the most wasteful Nation on the
globe, and that we will follow lines
that will make more for economy and
efficiency.”

Flint has a “serve-self’’ shoe store
—there are no. salesmen—just the
manager and cashier. You go in and
help yourself, try on a pair of shoes
—the price and size is marked on the
box—if you like them you take them
to the manager who sees that they
are wrapped, and you then pay. You
are not induced to buy—its entirely
up to you. The “serve-self” idea is
no longer an innovation in Flint. The
people of that city are used to it, and
they enter the store as if they knew

This ap-

just. where to get the shoes they
want most.
Richard Rogers and L. L. Shaffer

have engaged in the shce business in
the Book building under the style of
the Rogers-Shaffer Co.

—_——_--—___—
It Depends On Yourself.
Its’ a gay old world when you’re gay
And a glad old world when you're glad;
But whether you play
Or go toiling away
It’s a sad old world when you're sad.

It’s a grand old world if you’re great
And a mean old world if you’re small;
It’s a world full of hate
For the foolish who prate
Of the usefulness of it all.

It’s a beautiful world to see
Or it’s dismal in every zone.
The thing it must be
In its gloom or its glee
Depends on yourself alone.

139-141 Monroe St
Both Phonas
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

The Goods!
Net Prices!

When you receive
“OUR DRUM MER”
catalogue regularly you
always have dependable
answers to these two
important questions:

What is the lowest net
price at which | can buy
goods?

Where can I get the
goods?

Items listed in this
catalogue have the goods
behind them.

The prices are net and
are guaranteed for the
time the catalogue is in
force.

Butler Brothers

Exclusive Wholesalers of
General Merchandise

New York Chicago
St. Louis Minneapolis

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Grand Rapids
Store Fixture Co., Inc.
The Place, 7 Ionia Ave., N. W.
BUY AND SELL
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Underwear Deliveries
Fairly.
The primary end of the underwear
market is the quietest division of the
knit goods trade. This state of apa-
thy, however, affords agents an op-
portunity of gauging the situation
with the wholesalers and retailers,
both as regards the progress of fall
deliveries to the latter trade and the
shaping up of spring 1918 selling
from jobber to retailer.

Progressing

Little is heard now in the way of
serious complaints from jobbers not
getting their fall goods delivered as
promptly as usual. This does not
imply that deliveries of the merchan-
dise are going forward on time, for
with army business none of the mills
are able to maintain even the back-
ward shipping schedules that were in
effect before the Government orders
further complicated the already diff-
cult production situation. But it does
seem to mean that the wholesalers
appreciate the difficulties with which
underwear manufacturers are con-
tending, and that they are inclined
to accept the state of things with
as good grace as possible, willing at
the same time to be as lenient as nec-
essary under the conditions.

Within the past
ports have been current respecting a
certain few mills who are said to have
canceled orders for fall booked from
their customers under the pretext
that the Government had comman-
deered their plants and delivery of
any further civilian garments was im-
possible. —

week further re-

Everybody knows there has been
no commandeering by the Federal
authorities. The point the Govern-
ment has made was that regular pro-
ducticn should be interfered with as
little as possible during the time army
garments were in course of manu-
facture, and to the end that this
should be done we have the knit
goods committee, which is co-oper-
ating with the Council of National
Deferse and superintending the plac-
ing of Government orders where they
can be taken care of and upset civilian
production the least. Incidentally,
mills which try this commandeering
excuse for canceling are likely to be
dealt with in a firm way by the Gov-
ernment, for it will not be tolerated.

As far as jobbers’ experiences in
selling the new lightweight lines at
the higher prices are concerned, in
four or five cases where wholesalers’
salesmen have been out it is reported
that retailers have shown « disposi-
ticn to take hold more strongly than
the jobbers desired. The above re-
ports, however, come from only one
section of the country, that of houses

in the Baltimore and Philadelphia dis-
tricts, so it is not representative: of
the country at large. The general sit-
uation cannot be sized up as yet, nor
can it be until more iobbers have
their spring lines out on the road.

As for prices, everyone admits that
the retailers who have not yet got
their figures on present-day cost basis
will have trouble. ‘The largest re-
tailers are possibly the worst offend-
ers, many of them selling underwear
on the old basis still, and when it
comes to making a jump from the 50c
garment to the $1 mark it will not be
so easy to convince the average cus-
tomer as would have been the case
had the advancing been done gradual-
ly and covered a period dating back
six months or a year, when it be-
came apparent to everyone that val-
ues were on the upward march.

The largest stores have an addi-
tional factor to overcome—that of
having educated the public to watch
their advertisements for cut-price
sales, with the result that many peo-
ple never buy their season’s require-
ments until very. attractively priced
goods are offered. The efforts and
methods these retailers will use to
get their customers to pay the ad-
vanced figures will be interesting to
watch.

————--_»>2_a___
More Activity in the Ribbon Market.

As it is now impossible for the
trade to supply the dark warp prints
in 80-ligne widths in sufficient quanti-
ties to meet the call. the ordering is
now done very freely on 65 and 75-
ligne varieties. There seems no diffi-
culty about supplying all these latter
goods wanted at present, although
how long this will remain true of the
situation cannot be said for the reason
that the majority of the trade has not
been making them up for stock.
There seems no lessening of this de-
mand for dark warp prints, which
are not only wanted for immediate
and comparatively near delivery but
which are also being ordered for fu-
ture shipment.

A large ribbon merchant who this
fall began distributing better grade
goods for the first time is completely
sold up through December and Janu-
ary on such merchandise suitable for
knitting and sewing bags. Delivery
of these new orders starts September
15, and as they do not conclude until
the end of January it is evident that
they will go into consumption next
spring and summer. Furthermore,
the dealer believes that knitting and
sewing bag purposes are the require-
ments for these goods. The ribbons
referred to sell for from 414c to 414¢
per ligne, and the line offered sold
up very quickly.

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A large ribbon merchant shed some
interesting light on the gros grain
Situation yesterday, with the result

that he is still to be convinced that ®

the use of such ribbons will not ex-
tend largely into, if not throughout,
the coming spring season. This man’s
Western salesman just advised the
house not to sell out gros grains if
there should be any accumulation of
this season’s goods. He takes this
to mean that there are prospects tor
them next season, notwithstanding
the fact that many of the trade be-
lieved they might finish up with this
fall’s millinery business.
——_22>—___

We should consult three things in
all our actions—justice, honesty and
utility.

 

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

 

 

 

 

   

Five Stories Completed April, 1917

HOTEL BROWNING
GRAND RAPIDS NEWEST

Fire Proof. At Sheldon and Oakes.
Every Room with Bath.
Our Best Rooms $2.00; others at $1.50.
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USED AUTOS

—My Specialty. Largest Stock—
Runabouts $65—$350 Touring Cars $150 and up
What have you to trade? Easy terms.
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Rates $1.00 and up
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September 12, 1917

THE SCOTCH IN AMERICA.

Said Wilfred Laurier in a post-pran-
dial address, ‘“‘Wherever there is a good
thing in the world, there you will find
a Scotchman camped close beside it.’
Certain it is that many of the best
things in our country have been made
the better by the association with them
of Scots or men of Scotch descent,
although such interpretation of the
phrase was probably at the moment be-
yond the former Premier’s meaning.

Politics, business, literature and
science, every field of professional and
social endeavor, bear the imprint upon
them of Scotch ability. To rehearse the
names of Scots, or descendants of Scots,
who have played a prominent part in
the history of the United States is to
call the roster of some of the most

prominent figures in its annals. Of our

twenty-seven Presidents, five, Monroe,
Hayes, Grant, Roosevelt and Wilson,
had Scotch blood, and seven, Jackson,
Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, Arthur, Har-
rison and McKinley had Scotch-Irish
blood in their veins. Early colonial his-
tory fairly bristles with Scotch names
among its governors and_ legislators;
the Revolutionary War shows in addi-
tion to such personalities as General
Stark and Anthony Wayne, a dozen
others of prominence who were of
Scotch stock, while the Civil War had
such leaders as Scott, Grant, McClellan
and Lee—who claimed descent from
Bruce himself — Stonewall Jackson,
Johnstone and Stuart. John Paul Jones
was Scotch and Commodore Perry of
Scotch descent, as was that less revered,
if no less respected, seaman, Captain
Kidd. In the field of literature Scot-
land has a lien on Cooper, Irving and
Poe; in that of science, on Asa Gray
and Maria Mitchell; in oratory and
statesmanship, on Patrick Henry, Web-
ster and Clay, and in business, on A.
T. Stewart and Andrew Carnegie.

The original settlers from whom
sprang this notable citizenry came to
America in two streams of migration,
the one from Scotland direct, the other
by way of Ulster. They came for the
most part in search of greater freedom,
in a smaller degree as prisoners of the
Commonwealth, which sold them into
the service of the American colonies.
New England, New York and New Jer-
sey, as well as South Carolina, Virginia,
and North Carolina received the mass
of the immigrants, and from them
drew both strength and inspiration. The
record of their achievements as in-
dividuals, as well as the general course
of their activity, would require many
books to relate.

 

As having had a great influence on
the increases of price, particularly in
the textiles, the orders from the Gov-
ernment must be taken into account.
The effort to provide quickly for the
needs of a million or more of troops
skinned the market of many fabrics
and finished articles, and also threw
on the mills a great deal of work
which had the preference over ci-
vilian or trade orders. Anything like
prompt delivery, therefore, called for
higher prices—sometimes justified and
sometimes not. A good deal of the
rush for military requirements is
over, and it is only a question of a
short time when the mills will be

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

seeking orders. Future ones from the
Government will not be of the over-
wheming character that the original
ones were, and will, consequently, be
more easily handled and without con-
flicting with the demands of general
trade. Scattered through the period
of a year, the supplies for an army as
large as is likely to be mustered in
will be a comparatively small percent-
age of the capacity available in mills
and workshops, and will cease to be
much of a factor in affecting prices.
The need also of lowering prices toa
hold and extend the export trade will
be another inducement to bring arti-
cles to lower levels of market value.

 

NHAT CAUSES UNCERTAINTY.

It is not expected that any marked
restriction of buying will be shown this
fall in what may be called essentials.
Next spring is the period looked for-
ward to with some doubt in this regard,
and yet it is at present that purchases
have to be in hand to be made up for
sale at that time. Errors in judgment
are apt to be costly should prices take
a drop in the meantime or should the
public not take kindly to the inflated
ones based on the raises in the primary
markets. Then, too, the character of
the buying may be largely influenced by
the frame of mind induced as a result
of extremely high prices for the actual
necessities of life. The natural ten-
dency would be for persons to lop off
expenditures and to buy nothing unless
it was actually needed. Already this
disposition has shown itself in the ef-
forts of persons to raise and can food-
stuffs, to do odd jobs which were for-
merly given to hired men, and to make
over, patch, or repair clothing, shoes,
and other articles instead of buying
new ones. A habit of this kind is apt
to spread, particularly in view of the
appeals made for economy and thrift
during the war period. With such pros-
pects in view, it is not surprising that
buyers are very conservative just now,
contenting themselves with attending to
immediate needs. Nor are they being
especially prodded to do otherwise, both
manufacturers and jobbers being no
more confident of the outlook than are
they.

 

THE KAISER’S BOAST.

In a recent address to his troops,
Bloody Bill Kaiser boastingly assert-
ed that he had “carpeted Europe with
corpses.”

The Kaiser has achieved distinc-
tion as the boss butcher of the world
and the biggest liar in evidence since
Lucifer was dropped into the lower
regions, and in this case he told the
truth. He has in truth murdered
more men, women and children than
any other fiend in the history of the
world.

 

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The German mind appears to pos-

ness an irresistible fascination in
committing crime. A hospital, a

church, a nun, a priest, a woman, a
child, is a worthy object of German
warfare. The murders from the air
in England may have palled a little
on the experts: To murder the
wounded and their ministrants may
be a new sensation, such as drowning
enemy sailors gave one German sub-
marine captain of genius.

BETTER LET IT ALONE.

The Tradesman has referred, from
week to week, to the work of the pro-
motors who are undertaking to secure
sufficient subscriptions among the retail
grocers of Michigan to establish a job-
bing house at this market under the
style of the Grand Rapids Wholesale
Grocery Co.

Pending the investigation of the men
connected with the enterprise and the
record of similar companies organized
to conduct business along similar lines
at other market, the Tradesman has
withheld expressing a definite opinion
on the project. It is now in a position,
however to advise its readers to have
nothing to do with the undertaking, be-
cause it is not based on correct business
principles. Some of the reasons for
making this statement are as follows:

1. The character of the men who are
most active in the movement is not such
as to command the utmost confidence.
The leading spirit in the undertaking
has promoted eleven different companies
and later dropped out of the active man-
agement, several of them having failed.

2. It is impossible for any corpora-
tion of the kind proposed to do business
on 3 per cent., which is the ratio of
profit proposed by the promotors,

3. It is not possible for these com-
panies to obtain many lines of staple
goods, because manufacturers do not
care to do business with any institution
which is so conducted as to be a demor-
alizing factor in the mercantile field.

4. Grocers who have joined these en-
terprises at other markets fail to secure
the advantages they expect and many
of them assert that their subscriptions
were obtained under false pretenses.

There are other cogent reasons why
the project should be avoided, which the
editor of the Tradesman will discuss
personally with any subscriber who can
make it convenient to call at the publica-
tion office.

 

EASIER TO GET GOODS.

It is becoming somewhat easier to get
goods in general and especially in all
metal lines. The demand still continues
heavy, particularly from the Govern-
ment and from the Allies, but the enor-
mous productive capacity of the country
has finally begun to tell. The general
consuming demand continues heavy.
Throughout the country stocks of mer-
chandise in the hands of dealers, both
wholesale and retail, are generally large,
but there is no disposition to cut prices
to force sales, since it is generally real-
ized that such a course would defeat its
own object by creating distrust as to the
soundness of the present level of prices,
and thus tend to curtail buying. The
general belief is that the great and un-
precedented harvest yields at prices most
remunerative to the farmers furnish a
substantial basis for a large and sus-
tained volume of business during the
remainder of the year.

——

“ONWARD WITH GOD.”
From the air, as from the sea and
the land, the pious Kaiser speaks that
“Onward with God” which, in his
infamous Bremerhaven speech to the
German troops about to start for
China in the Boxers’ Rebellion of
1900, took the form illustrated by a

thousand savageries in this war:

 

25

If you meet the enemy, you will de-
feat him, give no quarter. make no
prisoners; let whoever falls in your
hands be doomed. Just as a thousand
years ago the Huns, under their King
Etzel, made for themselves a name,
which to this day is a mighty one in
tradition, so may your appearance
make the name German be feared for
a thousand years in China, so never
again will a Chinaman dare to look
askance at any German.
his Huns were
weaklings compared
with their scientific and thorough suc-
c€essors.

Etzel and
and

King
milksops

POTSDAM PLANNED
for forty years. And out of its plans
grew an inhuman machine—terrible
in perfection, terrible in power, ter-
rible in its challenge to the demo-
cratic faith in the capacity of men
to govern themselves.

Potsdam’s plans are to be over-
thrown, not by a million minute men
who rise up over night, nor by the
valor of good intentions. But by oth-
er plans as thoughtfully conceived, as
painstakingly developed, and as bril-
liantly executed.
thinks,

As Potsdam so Germany

acts. As America thinks, so America
acts. To think straight and far just
now is to contribute to the vitality

ut J

of the very source of American pow-
er—public opinion.

——

 

So rarely comes good news out of
Germany that, when it does, all the
world should be notified. The Ger-
mans are melting down their bronze
statuary for use in munition works!
A 42-centimeter shell is not a thing
of beauty as it advances whining
through the air at you. On the other
hand, neither is that monstrous Ger-
mania of the flowing brazen locks.
Given the choice of one or the other,
hypersensitive souls who have any re-
eard for art whatever would prefer
the shells to the wretched statues
erected everywhere by the nation of
beasts who walk on two legs but oth-
erwise bear no resemblance to human

beings.

 

Factory and Land for Sale
by Public Auction

In re:

Damien Lalonde Limited

1000 Christophe Colomb Street,
Door and Sash Factory of Montreal,
In Liquidation.

To be offered for sale by public auction
at No. 69 St. James Street, Montreal, on
THURSDAY, 4th OCTOBER, 1917, at
Eleven o’clock,

24 lots of land in St. Denis Ward, City
of Montreal, containing over 80,000 feet of
land with buildings tnereon erected, com-
prising 2 storiés solid brick building, 150
x 90 ft., iron framed, concrete foundations
and ground flooring, gravel roofed, upper
floor mill construction with saw mill and
joiner shop, kiln and machine shop, heat-
ing and lighting system, water works and
one 8-car railway siding to C. P. Ry., and
all the machinery therein contained, lum-
ber sheds, stables and keeper’s dwelling,
etc., etc.

Conditions of Sale:
sume the mortgages
10% on adjudication, balance of pur-
chase price on completion of deed of
sale as per conditions of sale deposited

Purchaser to
of $76,000.00, pay

as-

at the Office of the Liquidators, who
will give any other information on de-
mand.

VINET & DUFRESNE,
Liquidators,
99 St. James Street, Montreal.

 

 

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Baked Be 8 31% lb. tin boxes 2 oe S ebceee 7 50 Carhcna 20 0 35 Twi ; Smell .:..; 1 Sceidives OD '
Baking oar a 1 aig pails, per oo ‘ 25 Corn hte we val a 28 ist, Small .....,.. . Imported Currants (
Bath Brick ...., 14 . pails, per doz. _. 00 Premium wney Co. Ju Cc I ed, 1 Ib. pk , We:
soe 251b. ez. 2.7 2 , mS. mbo . ases [Import g. ..19 A
Bluing rick .......... i ae a ices 1g Premium, %s (00000201 35 Jumbo, Small ........ 17 od. bem gee As
pcobtect Woca we ee ae ee 4, h
tng ei 1 -_ Monbadh net, eas 35 Big Stick «0.2.2.0... in” Muirs—Cholee, #
Brushes pret erees | oe ae per doz. LL ae per . (Natural) CLOTHES LINE ston Sugar Stick .. 20 Mana tence’ oy me a Bb
cr GMce 1 No. 3. Pam 45. eS Nee e sous nee No. Per Mi i fancy, P ; t 4. 418
co 1 NO. 8, Der doe 22 No. 2 Fair renee No. 49 Twisted Cotton 130 a eoled, 26 1b. EE
c BATH B > No. 2, F re No. 60 Twis ed Cotton 1 70 roken ......... Pails Lem Peel .)
Caniics oe English ... RICK @NCY .......0.6 No. 80 oo. Cotton 2 20 a tot 16 Orn on, American ‘,
Ganned Goods 0.00." 3, 3 teens. $5 Standard Mery Geraci e Gene Hy Orange, American <0"
oon . * oa : x oe eenee By
th a ed al a al 2 Jen ee --. 120 0. 60 Braided Cotton 175 Kindergarten ... vee ce Raisin om
S@ esses eee e ees c nings’ Lobs No. 80 Brai otton 2 00 ergarten ' Cluster, .
—— a, : Pte root Bluing i “4 ee 1 90 <e 4 aoa : _ oon: Kes ig — Pieetlbiraday Cr. : +
ec leecks, Large, , box 6. 1s eee ee 0. 60 Sz : sce ee OO rh of. .0ose : , r. 9 x
Cigars ooo eeeeeees 12 ee ee 246 poe aa ee eee Novelty -evseeesere ea deeded 1b sou Git” ‘oe
C AMOR . 32.3... - Bt é olger’s Mack ce 5 s. 72 dite .......... 25 s Creams ....... : $4 @11 (
ease ogy apdons sinoteoa & “phe eggs boomin _o. Premio Creams’... 4, caltfornla Prunes .
Cee Ss: P ehebecuc cc H lb. ceneee G se eeee 3 L ee - 5 lb. j 3
es ee 45 Soused, 1% 1b. 722.22. 28) No. 20, each ioott. ton Special vee, |; Bee boxes ..@10 * ee
oe eee Wo ieheoteoatee s Soke 1 ep No. is cach tour, long 2 10 * Hoy, Greanae --.. 3470" 80:35 Ib. boxes “ging
Br oe eee 5 EAKFAST To : > |. ene - , each 100ft. & 10 VO Bil 5 lb. box ne “fy
Be FOODS atk CC Cc No. 19, e - long 1 00 ore 14 50- 60 25 es ..@12% | 4
Dried rik . Cone erties 290 Butt Mushrooms 2 80 green long 210 Specialties 40- 50 25 “s “pent O18 e ¢
hee sees Crea , 24-2 .. ons, aker’ uto Ki Pai --@16 .
e a of Wheat .... 460 Buttons og sees see. @30 Clevelat Le 39 enti ae (baskets) ag FARINACE S|
Farinaceo m of Rye, 24 750 Hot p MB sccece and ... e Butter Bi 9 OUS GOOD .
Fishing Tackle... 5 Game eo uffed Rice 2 els, IS we eeeeeeees oud Colonial, %3s ........0. - Botter Cream — = Cae Beans ? ’
~ cae Ae oo ge al aker P .. 430 ea ae 5 aramel B =. 20 ‘alifornia Li }
Decar oa Extracts .. . Quaker Brktet ae 439 Cove, 1 me — Epps _ Mined = Fateeaal Cro Bons .. 18 Med. Hand Pick Le je
Fruit Ja Feed ...... ® Quaker Corn Fl ioc op Cee 8h... @1 29 Hershey's, ‘8 42 Cocoanut i saga Brown Holland en :
een 6 Ringo ase - 2% . ae rere @1 80 ssereney's, oe 32 Cofty Totty les :... 16 i sseees 8 2
eatena .. 230 lem s ee heen . ational Mints 7 1b 4 .. 19 25 1 arina « , oe
Gelatine G vanced Hucar ene 510 .. | Pears In § 1 50 ine a. 3g Fudg ints 7 Ib tin 22 Ib. packa «ee
ge ea 5 Grape er Corn No. 3 more In Syru @2 00 Lowney, 2. Cee 38 Fudee, Walnut nen . Bulk, per 100 ag woes 2 50
pie eeeece € Sugar Corn Flakes.” 2 85 mn, per dz. 2 80@3 00 ican. o. .. 37. Fudge, White Peanut 17 Ori + seccreee 9 (
Herbs " oo Rusk lakes .. 2.80 Marrowf nose von: 5 Ib. cans .... :. rudge, Chane oo. = Packen 3 Holland Rusk
~ ad eg ea a 6 on eo: : Early es seers ot 35 Van Houten’ ‘a uae i Fudge, Coroanut .-.. = 3 Sie cay container
Horse Radish e>.000 : ee 7 in ahiese aoe pees a. aa. vee
es 6 bie Wheat Food’ ”” 405 Pie Peaches — Houten, 7 36 Iced Orange nat hn 20 Pearl ann min
J reer Wheat Faot ° ) No. 10 aize can 1 25@1 50 Wan-Bta ......-....- Galea ee oe lee , 100 Ib. sack .... 6 00
. e, i Pst a aaa e walep Cc :
yell a... Staten = cee ceees 2 90 Pica ple @3 7% Wilbur, is ............ 82 AA “i Mello ......... : ie Domestic, and Vermicel
aU , Boe Wht Food 18s 1 Grated pple wae etre 33 : Licorice Dro . I ic, 1 lb. b i
Sey oon ne nee ev neon | — S ae, 1 75@2 10 ie ee S t.. a oe mported, 25 Ib. box’...
elly Glas: pee e eee eee 6 Sax (eS ese escuccl... 1 se p nge3, Pe — :
Bees .- 20... 7 oe sd an — ’ 450 ©6Fair Pumpkin oF 6 Dic QCOANUT LOnenees, Pink ae 18 Chester Barley
M Tris ae iscuit fee cere eeee ts nham’s “ae sae Portage Becca see
Mapleine - : : Triscuit, 18 oe aas : -~° oe okie eed : 20 o ot CABG ..... per Ib, ‘eae Kisses, 10 16 age ..... tiecige ce ce $ 3
“ianned __... > : " 210 Fancy oo... . Dasa es X «eee :
aos wee . oo ee T2, 380 No. 10 .......2000.0. igs 4s, 15 Ib. case ».----. 31 Nut Butter Puffs ... 20 Green, Wiscous!
aoc. ; oo Toasties, sto he Raspberries 3 90 8, cc. oe . 31. Star Patties, pv eae 18 Split, 1b, a bu. 7 00
Mustard ............- : vern Porridge 2 80 No. 10 oe -- 100 48 = se et ee = : Chocol ae - 8%
N N Fa BROOMS No. 2, Red Preserved iS Po ee ko Aseorted Chea... me Ao eee .
i... . pone terior = i .. 7 2 0. 16, Red, Water. 7 28 Bulk, pails »....++--. at Poot Carsmasie 2” a Garman, 0he 3s
bine a , » Strin 9% ih 7 OF oe ulk, b: bebe aedicea 2 mpion ee an, b es eapees ID
Standard Pa B, 25 Ib. 7 25 r; Salmon » barrels ... Ch Lene e ee roken pk
1 Warre Bakers iirasil Shr 18} oc. seee 19 DEB.
Olives ted oo: 23 eg 23 Ib. : - Warne, i . . -. 320 70 be A ages Bhivedded Climax... Eureka 25 Flake ios eee
eh bed ck 7 ial, 9 y waa f eee s a 3 € or} ase cli tase een cose oo ’ ‘
Pp 7 Ib oe. 6 25 — Alaska ..... ” : 10c pkgs., per case 3 = Ideal C Assorted . . Pearl, 100 i sacks .., 15
Petroleum Products Ao ee eB Med. Red Alaska meee 4 reg aan be ones Waane Ge “++ 20 Pearl, 36 pee gacks «2, 15
ay ° > oe cese ov) eevee : ge
a 7 Fancy, Whisk ...-.... i 7 ae 209 Bakers ie te” Nabobs ee +25 finute, 10¢, 8 doz. 8 oe
ne Cc 7 BRUSHES _ 7 foe sh 6 25 ae Nibble Sticks, Box’. 30 FISHING TACKLE .
—— 7 Jomestic, % ee eb Ase afe ¢ ee % : E
eee pet ee ceases 7 Solid Merk ® bs Domestic = oe 6 25 COFFEES ROASTED Ocoro Choc Gasameig 25 a ae eee
seeeeeeeees 7 Solid Back, 11 oe Wace. is ee te Rio Peanut aa 1% to 2 i Coo
ne = Pointed Ends Ms bees = Portuguese, ved eeee ee ata Flag fo DB cesses - 1% to 2 ig E
a +... 2. ee o we Semen fae 7 ina . seco eeeces 2 j Le .
eee et s No. 3 Stove No. 3 a Kraut ' lasted eS ea, Star Chocolates..." 17 3 nasi ee s
Ses ; Mo eee ec oe oa. a 15 Wee ee Superior gl ees 5
2 90 1 ns Peab oes Choe. (1 cl 20
Salad BO 8 ees 125 punb Shrimps ise Pop C » (light) 19 Cotton Lines a s
Balerstug ene oooo-: ~~ ae ee Le eee cence MOU prizes Mee ee eS
eee ee fo. 3 ........ , e $ Se air .... r ; oe oo .
= oda... . hg es } 00 Fair Succotash 2 40 Choice , * ae maps with ae é, 15 eon eee ; ¢
Ss Sete eet ee ee eee cs é jue eeesedonces os ise ae dota chker dock pec” 3 4, ee a
Be ea [ms 1 70 ey vteteeeeeeneeaecs 1 80 BEE oro poten eo ees ere 3 - ee eet we eeeeeeee 10. ‘¢ L
Shoe Blackin ehoeece. 9 SUTTE eee 90 pirate oversee M s o besse 8 4D No. 7 5 feet ea es 1 4%
Snuff Bo. : 9 Dandeli R COLOR Standard erries Fair aracaibo ugh Drops N , 15 feet «- 1a C
Soap retin ese 9 elion, 25c size .. 2 00 —<_ 2 00 a oe ee Putnam M Bows No. - 15 feet oe eas 15 4 C
eee eee reeeet 14 CAND gee seats eo ee eee 25 Smith enthol .... S Sta 18 C
ee te 4 paremne, 68 ---, ni Choice .. Mexican Bron 1... 138 wae sm
Spices ...-------+.+--- 9 Paraffine, 128 ........ 10 BB bs enna see enn 1 40 ips fc a lee Smal es - ee
Syrups wel ee eeeress 9 Wicking oe UTE 4 No. 10 - eneel te Fancy ....--..... oe = NUTS—Whole Medium econ. eeu 20 c
bobetponses 9 cee eee tees eos obs G eeee Al ar Dil ccie Vt Gee 2 = C
CA Tuna : uatemala monds, T Ibs. Se, 6
a NNED GOODS : Fait ssesesesee. Almonds, Tarragona 21" pana, goles os = <
auces . A “4s, 4a : Case ‘ancy csee 20 aliforni Poles
ee 9 3 Ib. Stana pples ie 4 "Si in case .... — 28 we shell Tiaica Bamboo, 16 ft ‘ *
Bi ctats fete ote > aes 10 No. 10 ards .. i, Bos, 50 cote.» 750 Priv Java wae co eas Batoe 44 oe doz. 60 AC
i 0 cee lll @4 25 ; z. in case ....1000 M ate Growth C Pres ..,.. seecese Bamboo, 18 ft.. per doz. 55 A I
pels anelgee 12 Black s CATSUP ao. St eee al No.1 8. 8. ...... FLAV +» per doz. 80 & §
2 Ib berries Snider’s % pints Agbola 31@35 Walnuts Ha el ed ORING EXTRA » Uf
Vinegar .......-. 12 Sinndaca tic ah 1 75@2 00 Snider’s pints ........ : 50 ges oe 30@32 Walnuts, Gon eee: Jennings D C Bra =i , ¢ :
ee si siate -. @8 00 CHEESE __ Short B cna able nuts @... Pure V;: n ke
Washing P. Ww. Beans Acme . ESE Lon A eck. io oo 25 Pecans La fancy 138@14 anilla = Y}
Wooden oo Red Kidney cone 125@2 25 Baie City .... - * ra. 24@25 Pecans, Ex. Lange’ |. i oe agen lf
iia  T ne 1 . ric oe seer . * Ss erate ots “ o is, eee ee /
accoie Paes Sicees 2 — eos rneerce 1 ee a Leiden een: @2s a Bogota 26@28 No 1 OP aie ape oa ounce Menage ea ae it a5 ;
we FS ee im cere Stee eeeece > u sie eiee
Yeast Cake |. sta an, Blueberries 50@2 00 Pineapple. 2.2...” 12501 Fancy eee esse seen 26 Bx. te. Va. Si tea ‘ounce Flat. ..27. 2 25
teers ae eee ee 1 40 oe es gt 35 Spot nee,“ Market, Steady prcanuts Shelton Veeokina. 2 25
vssceosesece VSS Swies, Dotnentic - hia Fecan Halves . O80 — a
, Domesti N “ nut Halves... q
' @ Arbuckle. York Basis Filbert Meats at oe i oe Panel ae a :
scorceceie ihe Stee ademas” ge Sere eee 35
an Aimonds .., 2% 2% tee or 2 8
2 ounce Wine 2 25
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FLOUR AND FEED van
11% ~ Grand Rapids Grai ae Form =
12% 4, uiing co Straight 2s neeortea 18 Ih pails ©_-eavanse . og
Winter Wheat oa 4 Be ee eee Meas, 10° : det
> Wine per dom von ce 5 Ib. aie etree 4 oe an Ibs. ...... 1650 Ho osa, Medium .. 25@28 Smok!i
14% Fancy Spring :..... 11 65 Seven Flavors: Raspb on ao og = ie” rmoes, Fancy: tide 8
ES aoaees 2 : serena a ge : oe. one Mess, 10 Tos ov a ormosa, Fancy 50@6e ae raat 24 & 7 ox. 36
eo lo hbeasial poran. Meal. 10 7 Oranse: Lime, Pineapple. Hama, ies Ie non No. foe H 20 Gongot Medium. Pe ee as
ao (4A mire Govt cut. 606 Hams, 18-20 Ib. @22 0. 1, 40 Ibs. 2.221, ¢ 79 Congou, Ch um = 26@30 BB, 14 oa 200201012188 00
SBI Rye «0. c en. 11 00 JELLY GLASSES nadie No. 1, 10 tbe, 22222022 4 7s Congou, Tonys aan cee eS eer
i Valley Cily Mullin Cc 1% pt. in bbls., per doz. 25 sets ...... 29 “> ce 6 a. a Biter bg acu i
vyateg 4 % pt. in bbis., per do . on @30 4 eR ce 400 cy 60@80 Banner, 6... '"" 2 88
: oy etal 11 i # pt capped PEE z 27 Bicnte 2 oe 20% @21 a = eecessecccecce #86 P@ltGe wales Banner, sO titttteees 5 76
4 iin. . oo | ee eee
@ D Guiness ‘Gace a wocee 20 gen s+------ 194000 SMe ........... 2 Vueoe a Choice .. 3035 Belwooa, Mixture,” 10; 2 88
g eee 3 oo. Boiled Hams ":. 36°@37 ang SEEDS ry O. P. Fancy 40@50 Big Chief dixture, 10c 94
@25 ‘ «| Bolted Meal .....0.. 3 Bn i on one per doz. 300 Bacon co. 33 O36 Canary,” Sniyena _ "Fine eu zt Bork : =e :
(»  Watson-Higgins Milli 1 oz. bottles, per doz. 1 75 Sausag: Caraway oo... 5 ae ee nl Burba,ae
wat eine Bre 16 sat, yer doz 175 sausages pm hs ll es 75 AR Peg ce eee 1 45 Bull Durham, 10c ..° 5 8
25 Tip Top Flour i ge bottles, per dz. 3000 iver... oc oo s ie eee {og Blt Burhan 18
Golden Sheaf Flour 11 45 boa... 8a bo ee aT Mixed eee if Bes Race fai i oi ff Be "one ote
ese ee a8 : Be igi Mixed Bird ....... stt* g@ Dan Patch, 4 oz 6 oz. 38 Buck Horn, se om.7: 673
. : atertom est Flour a ve ee hc cu oes 11 Poh dag white ...... 20 Lap Patch, -. 7 53 Buck Hare 7. Seu: 76
[ee a eee, 0 eae... SL PP ee ae cai sii . . : .
. cr ie MoLAsses Tongue 222220012 7 ee 70 oer 16 oz. .... 7 80 ae Pipe, 6c .... _ 52
& rocer Co. Fancy Open Kettl a ee _ ee BT ek Soom oa
12 Quaker, paper ...... 1150 Choice ettle .... 50 Beef Hand Bo ‘anata May Blower 18° ox 4 i Binck Swan ca
ae 32 jose 20 on fe eee ne 3 nig w.. ap onean oa Handy, Box at xs 2 Re Unie Seeds ey ae : vee : :
a ‘ ansas Ha Mook ump, new .. 30 a Bi : h 16 on... | erat Be ae
2 ss smiorden Grocer ‘Go. Half barrels 2c extra % bbl Pig’s a ” Miller's Cnn ypoligh a ome s cs tees 3 90 Carnival, Se . +easns 5 70
oe Bee ican Eagle, %s 1250 Red Hen, No. 23 ‘ . wu  blaade Oita ae tial Sais
| ee a oes. ae a Jibwa, 10c ....... Carnival El 89
2 i American baste is 1 Piet ee er “ seni 40 tha 3 40 ry in bladders ... 37 Ojibwa, 8 and 16 oz il 10 Cigar Cit 16 Om ..... - 40
: gic, te ig ao Red Hen Nec Bcc Bag BB Sto 2 843 Maccaboy, in jars .... 35 Petoskey Chief, 7 oz. 2 2 Cigar Clipe Johnson 30
‘ + Spring Wheat Rese eres st aaee. 12 00 nce woul in jars ., 43. Petoskey Chief, 14 oz. 4 80 Identity, 8 ‘a a 16 on 30
: all saSbting, Wheat sia wa ao Boxes . ODA —— and Honey, 5c 5 76 Darby Cigar "Cutth oz. 30
te : onan cade i. ic me 0 TAO ae a een eo Kegs, English ........ of Red Bell, en On .... 4 20 ane Cubes “le 30
= Geresota, HS oan 18 10 DBOX esses. Soe. 2 oe :----- SPICES Red Bell, 20c ........ 2 10 n Cake, 36c ..
~ Ceresota, %s foe Bulk, 1 gal. : oe stub ot Gu eat Sr oa
. oo. 8 pate, 3 a IVES oa 20 oe ae Whole Spices Sweet Cuba, canister $1 Gun Cake ri 1 90
: a ao Bulk, 2 gal kegs 1 05@1 15 Hogs, per lb. ... 35 Atneics Jone --9@10 Sweet Cuba, 5c a Cream 500 Se... .. 5 76
ga A wont acta isp Rube APore OPE Be aa RE ger, BESS eid Gee meg
i , 48 cloth .. 12 65 tuffed, See . ‘ es, set .. » Canton 2 vba, % Th ft nips, | :
o% i é Wisecld Me cloth | 42 ce ee ee Oe ks 7 isorss Cassia, Se pkg. doz. O88 Sweet Burley, ‘sc 1 rie Shee pac
3 eo; Bolted Meal i rigy (not stuffed) ' aoue oe red Butterine Ginger African ..... @1s Sweet Evia: = oe Dills Bae 1% oz. . 73
uaa a ne . @iry ...... 22 nger, C sees S y; Of. .. 2 45 est, 3 D esas
De Sas 10 55 Manzanina, a oe Country Rolls ....25 Ont Lis peccie aoe. e* posi baal 16 oz. 5 50 bee eo 18 a woes z
unch, 10 02. bs al a ; ist, % gro. .. . , seks
Wheat Lunch, 16 ne Vee ; ee Gis eee Meats Mixed. No. 2 eS @1 Telegt ae : i Duke's pases Se oe i
oo ae : " ae ag Mammoth, 19 Corned Beef, i 1b. e 3 op Wt Be pkgs. dz. @45 Tiger, “Be 7 oni. 8 00 Duke's Caio “mee :
a a ee ee ee Sines fae Se TR aoa ER PRE tact
cone i een, Mamr : < oan : Lo gor epper, Black a @30 Uncle D el, me. 60 BA @on 7
ae fn na : 0. a Wow oa? em cites 5 04
Less tnan carlots 17 Olive See 2 doz. cs. Flavor, ee Ham 5 eevee White .... @32 ee Fashion i6. pices 5 12
Corn per doz. ........... 6 Ye Ham" Y Pamke “Serneant @22 Anas Necey, 100 Rashion. 16 on... b 28
see es cle ae 1 A ’ é . ngaria ; 7. Pe : ee
Ceo ee oe PEANUT BUTTER Deviled Mest, Ham’ 95 Pure Ground In Bulk — pbPle+ 10 Ib. bute 20"%2°5 Rive Brow, we 22000 a
2 Bel-Car-Mo Brand Flavor, Vs. m Allsnice, Jamaica .. @16 Day’s Work, 7 & 14 1b, a ent” cut’ Big «23
ay 4 : Devi ES wceccacee 52 Cloves, Zanzibar 2 ae Drummond N Ny Bie
4 oz. 4 doz. in case ..3 60 eviled Meat, Ham Cassia’ Canton = og 44 and 5 at. Leaf, 2 F OB l0c * ‘ie
Deas tosh Gack. . 1900 7 oz. 2 doz. in case .. 2 90 Flavor, 48 ....... 100 Ginger, pe ae @32 Dr oe eS pee a0 Four Roses, 100 -...- $6
carlots .. 26 00 8 oz. 2 doz. in case . #30 Potted Tongue, Ys. 55 Mace, 'P frican . @24 oe ae Oe Glad Frans 1s Boss a
St Feea Hues 1 doz. in case .. 3 30 Potted Tongue, %s .. 1:00 Raa er 00 Hetiie ae es Gala Hand, Be... 01) ‘8
a a are Pa %5 . 10 Ib. gers 6 in crate 5 - Fancy RICE LS ca Black"... @30 Ble 6 6 and 12 Ib. a0 colt Star, se ai 2 ‘0
Cracked Corn io 8 pels 2. Fancy .s.sceeee. .. 808% RePrer, White @3e our, @ and 16 tb. 32 Gall & Ax Navy, 86 6 00
= oe 75 00 13 Co a “ha Pepper, Cayen Boot Jack, 2 $ - x Navy, 5c
Coarse Corn Meal .. 81 50 A - pore Sue 17 Broken .......--.e0- - aoa Hungarian os Bullion, 16 = nae : au eco : :
FRUIT JAR otins 20008. 16% ROLLED OATS ao 16 oz. ...... 11 48 Growler, 30e ae 2 00
Mason, pts S PET Monarch, bbls. -.. 10 2 ao imax, {4a oz. nn. ag Glam : “fn ¢ 99
Mason, ats., ao gro. 7 00 ROLEUM PRODUCTS Rolled Avena, bbls. 10 50 Kingsf oy Climax te 4 Hand a 3 oa “
Mason, % gal sro. 740 perfecti Iron Barrels Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sks. 5 20 M gsford, 40 Ibs. .. 9% Gli ORC OM Fo. 6.5, 47 Hand Made, 2% oz. . 418
se er gro. 7 40 ee rel ao ae 5 uzzy, 48 llb. pkgs. 9% max, 5c tins ..... 600 Hazel N e, 2% oz. .. 50
4 Sal. Der Bro. 9 Rel ee ae a aa ea vb 10 i Kingsford 2 Creme de Menthe, ib. 65 Hone ree G6 2.3.55 6 00
oe = ve o 21g Quaker, 18 Regular «. 1 75 Oiteer Gioss “ Derby, B Ib. fo. a Mowe @ 10c .... 12 00
x Sox’ i, : ew Ua 2 oe N ct : ae ‘ | alia oo
eS don large | ‘ Capito a one - a‘ Hs os ce woe a ane ~ 5e Teas ee 2 40 pong tte a : = » a Shen ee 8 io
, : : itol_ Cylinder, : a Silver Gloss, 1¢ Bdees, 2 Ib ...... a aS ee Pe
wanes Sparkling, doz. 175 Capitol Cylinder, Iron 33 Columbia. 1 pint ..... 400. Silver Gloss “ 3Ibs. .. 91% Gold Hone 6 ok * tamer 3 50
Knox's etamiee. tox, 1 7 pita y er, Iron Durkee’s, large, 1 doz. 4 20 aac 6lbs. .. 9% Gold Hove 4 — 12 Ib. 58 King Bird, 7 oz oes 3 50
ox’ * ete ee ee | | ee, See etic ste 8 ise i , ; , 7 n ! oe
Knox's Acidu’d Oe. 1 eae Bed Sane bog" be ig one. 2 doz. 5 00 48 IIb. paeearee os 9% & @ PF aaa a = a po Bird, ie _..... 11 bs
Minute, oa 12 Winter Black a oe Gicer , large, 1 doz. 2 40 16 3lb. packages tees be Granger Twist, 6 Ib. . 50 la Bird, Ge ....... 5 76
ee bz Winter Black ees... i r’s, small, 2 doz. 145 12 6lb. packages ...... 9% G. T. W., 10 and 21 Ib. 40_—_Litt! unka, Se ........ 5 76
f Nelson's .........0.., OE Micah yao 7.9 SALERATUS ib bores... 6% Horse Shoe, 6 and 12 1b. 48 Lucky awe 8
B .. Plymouth Rock. Phos. 75 PICKLES Packed 60 tbs. in bo SYRUPS 4 Honey Dip Twist, 5 — Le Re eu tien
Plymouth Rock, ee 1 40 Medium Arm and Hammer 31 Corn and 10 Ib. ..... { 49 Le Reis’ Paw ae
, Plain 125 Barrels, 1,200 count .. 9 50 Wyandotte, 100 %s Ls Zz Barrels ...... yn Tar, 5 and 8 Ib. 40 Mvrile N wes Hee. in 82
GRAIN BAG Half bbls., 600 count 6 25 SAL SO ee Half barrels ...... 0.0. ne ao an Navy. LR
“ae 2 : Hat ia i 3 amuatht ‘SODA ae Bie Karo, ee Bentueny pers. 12 Ib. 32 Maivaee Cae eo 5 =
imax, 14 0z 1) 20) 3B mall Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs aro, Wi - Fiecteseng a8 Mato : oi
“ eee cad arrels ...... Cia Bee Sat 80 Maple bip. i ores
Stark, A, t6 of: ........ Half barrels ...... y 2S ag a 0 acon i Bie Kare No ba FA Merry Whom oe ig. : ve 7: :
Sag HERBS 5 gallon Kegs io. 2 coment a 2 ae Nobby Spun Roll ih Nigger Hate ge 0000 ¢ o
ys. erk om oi ncet ce ae pun ; 5g igge |e 2
oe r i Pking a an oe mon Grades ; a wae _ 5, 1 dz. 445 Parrot, 12 Ib. “ 6 & 3 58 —— Hair, ide .... 11 &
a i Barreda. ccieeeees 00 00 $ Ib, sacks ...... 8 15 pill , No. 10, % Patterson’s Nat. T.eaf. * Rear Head, 5c .... 6 40
Be aca ogi $93 70 4 sacks 4 piesa Ro Gey 430 Peachey, 6, 12 & 24 Ib. 47 ce Head, 10c ... 10 56
eee eeees Sweet Small _ 28 10 Ib. sacks ..---- 3 = pea o. 1%, 2 Picnic Twist, 5 Ib. _ oe Ma Cos” She
ec a eee ease Sinaii” 78 18 1, aa ee gee ee 85a 320 Piper Heidsieck 4&7 1b. 69 Old Mill. ’€ 1-12 gro. 11 52
AND Barrels vveescses~ 24 00 56 Ib. sacks ........ ae Ne 2 2 dz. 405 Piper Heldsieck, per dz. 9 Ola E D. Sd... .... 5 76
pe bdiaan ING Eo voi Giees 18 5 gallon kegs ee 4 20 Wareaw ae ” Red Karo, No. lees ; 38 Red’'Cr . ie ~ ‘ On Crp Be - “ %
reen, NGO. 2 .3.:..... 17 56 Ib. Red Karo, on | " le. 2 ana a aos P. Owe“ ‘
Cured, No. 1 ........ 20 Clay, N PIPES 66 Ib. sacks... -.-.. a. Scrapple, 2 and d'doz 48 P a oa we a
Cured, No. 2 er Se 216, per box y in drili bags 20 Bic ence 60 Sherry Cobbler, 8 on, $3 P. 8. aa, wren tn
* Galfskin, green, No. 1 1 25 oe . D. full count 5 56 Ib ee Rock Fair abe 16 ona Head, 12 omen... 48 Bat fiand iris
5 * 2 ’ fe ae cece cer cccsccsece . CRS wccoe (ok ean spear aa, oz... ; : 1 on
5 ERE ERE RSE on ARMS EAS oy cranamel He as og foie oe oe Rae ae’
! | Calfskin, , No. 7 . 90, Steamboat .... G MON i  eainests Geane Bil Gus oie 28 tb eal, 16°08.
4 ¢ Calfskin, cured, No. 2 25% No. 15, Rival assorted 1 50 nae tine 1 80 quate’ as Grape Punch Star, 6, 42 and 2 1b 2 oe oo
‘ No. 20, Rover, enam’d 1 75 B Ring) 0. 05..). 1 90 8, Goz. case Standard Navy, 7%, 15° ‘S Peerless, Ie ‘sioth” 1 82
0 Ola Wool rs@2 00 No 822, Special ...... 2 00 SALT FISH aa a ca i i Becrime ie paper 28
: oe 159 9 No: St Special -.-.. 2 00 Halford, large ..... 3 75 Ten Penny, ees 36 Peerless, 10c paper ..10 &0
0 Shearlings ...... 5001 5 ee: SOs Seve | a Ler: wh cae Halford. small...” 3 98 Town Talk, § and 12 Ib. 35 Peerless, 25¢ ......+ 2 40
: NS ane atcyee 8 range, SF on - Tuubec ent s - ai $$ Peerless, S0e ....... 4 80
: | ce aa set + WHET vase an, - le 4 1b. 33. Plaza, 2 gro. case .. 5 76
WG. 2 3. ss @12 Babbitt’s. 2 doz. 1 90 ce es upiaa erage ae ae ot
We Fs... @11 PROVISIONS _ PO es oo @...7°"" 2838 S Pie, Bag, iF
g Oice ........ A Soaibratheor:
‘ Wool Barreled Pork ioe ek Fancy .. "1! eas Am “Oni n Scrap’ 2 5 40 Edie oats aia ig 2B
; Unwashed, med. @so Clear Back .. 44 00@45 00 Y. M., ee 6 Basket-fred Med'm 2803) Bag ms Ee ae Virginia, ii a
) Unwashed, fins .... gos ort Cut Cir © 00@43 00 Standard, kegs "..:: 90 Basket-fired Choice 35@37 Cutlas, 2% oz. 6.20... * 36 Queen Quality, gt el
5 HONEY ao Se M6 00 ¥. Of. kegs ........... Ne i — Pit Wane SThoaet * a Tob R st tei 6 09
5 A. G. Wood ’ he... Herrin Siftings, bulk .... 1. $10 ey Comb Beran, Se 100 prose =k
4 0z., per fon : 5 _ Clear Family .... 35 00 Tabiseder Souk foo Ibs 8 00 Siftines, as pkgs. 12@14 Honest “Scrap, be" <4 i Bop Ber ie dor: 4 9
: ! : : s Y ae ’ + eee
oe par don . “Paint {aborador Sp 2 0 Ib 10 a0 o Guiaeunser Mall Pouch, 4 doz. 5c 2 oe baer Roy, 50c doz. .... 4 90
, eee gp IY, Salt Mente oe oe oe Mayors, Medium .. 28@33 on Songs, SC 23)... . 576 ¢ . M. 5c gross .... 5 76
a OM ones na : ae Special, § Ib. pails... to Moyune, ‘Choice 3@40 Od) oe, % gro. .. 5 50 _& M., 14 oz. doz. .. 3 80
JELLY a ba in tierces 24 @25 Boned, 10 Ib, boxes .... 17 Ping, Suey, Medium oeose Red Band,” se. if sro. 3 00 Soldier Boy, 10¢ ere 10 50
mpound Trout au , ‘Sere am 8 alee ee
a. Sib: Pails, per doz. .. Compound Lard 19 @19% No. 1, 100 Ibs. ........ "cg Eine Suey. (Choice s5@40 eee A ee s
- pals, per dor... OTs. tube eee . Suey, Fancy .. 45@50 g ae. oO ol tee
se Bae advance ig N° ns ® a ae Sure Shot, 6c, % Stag, GO a cacua 11 62
, S205 60 tb. tub: ia aa g yson Yankee G ? gro. 5 76 Stag, 8 o 1 ‘
“advance i No: 1, 10 1b a m0 a" won + e Girl Scrap 20z. 6 00 St , 8 oz. glass .... 4 50
Bele § noice... ” is Hawes Scena ar ¢ oe Stag, S0c glass ...... § 40
cecccsesess 45@656 Peachey Scrap, 6c 5 76 et eos i as
awe Sweet Caporal, 1 oz. 60

 

 

 

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30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN September 12, 1917
Bread is the Best Food

Sweet Be i0e os 2 1 Ib oc say vn anata It is the easiest food to digest.

Sweet Lotus, 16 oz. .. 5 50 2 Ib., 250 in crate fonete 45 _ It is the most nourishing and, with

oe ar + at +4 3 Ib., 250 in crate ..2... 55 ise ery co oa rf all its good qualities, it is bie thot

Sweet Tip Top, 5c .... : ; c; oz. in case .... ’

eee ig agp at = oe ih Sag oe ’ 25¢e, 4 doz. in case .... 2 35 economical food,

eet Tips, bee
Sun Cured, l0c .....-. 98 Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 40 ~ * 3 p08 ie o Increase your sales of bread.
Summer Time, 5c .... Barrel, 10 gal., each .. 2.55 %0c, 1 doz. plain top

Summer Time, 7 oz. 1
Summer Time, 14 oz. 3
Standard, 5c foil .... 5 76
Standard, 10c paper 9
Seal N. C. 138 cut plug 70
Seal N. C. 1% Gran. .. 63
Three Feathers, 1 0z. 48
Three Feathers, 10c_ 11 52
Three Feathers, and

Pipe combination .. 2 25
Tom & Jerry, 40c .... 4 00
Tom & Jerry, 20c ... 2 00
Tom & Jerry, 3 oz. .._ 76
Turkish, Patrol, 2-9 5 76
Tuxedo, 1 oz. bags .. 48
Tuxedo, 2 oz. tins .... 96
Tuxedo, 20c . 2
Tuxedo, s5c tins .... 8 15
Union Leader, 5c coli 6 00
Union Leader, 10c

Ms oe pecee ese 11 52

Union Leader, ready ac
SE pce bern esceesee

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 .....- 6 00
Wild Fruit, 10c ..... 12 00
Yum Yum, 5c ........- 5 16
Yum Yum, 10c ....- 11 5

Yum Yum, 1 Ib. doz. 5 40

CIGARS
Peter Dornbos Brands
Dornbos Single
Winder .....---.--< 35 00

Dornbos, Perfectos .. 35 00

Dornbos, Bismarck 70 00
Allan D. Grant ..... 65 00
Allan D. .-..-------« 35 00

ohnson Cigar Co.’s Brand
Duteh Masters Club 70 00
Dutch Masters Inv. 70 00
Dutch Masters Pan. 70 00
Dutch Master Grande 65 00

El Portana

Dutch Masters, 5c
Ss. Cc. W.

Gee Jay

Johnson's Straight

Above five brands
sold on following me:

are

Less than 300 ....... 3
300 assorted ........- 35 00
2500 assorted ........ 34 00

2% cash discount on all
purchases.
Worden Grocer Co. Brands
Worden’s Hand Made

Londres, 50s Wood .. 33 00
TWINE
Mntton, 3 ply ...--..-.- 44
Cotton, 4 ply ...--...- 44
Jute, 2 PU .---s------- 25
Hemp, 6 PIF ..--.-+5+- 30
Wiax, medium ........« 35
Wool, 1 lb. 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
Oakland apple cider ..
State Seal sugar .....
Blue Ribbon Corn ..
Oakland white pickle
Packages free.

WICKING
No. 0, per gross ........ 35
No. 1, per gross ....... 45
No. 2, per gross ....... 60
No. 3, per gross ....... 90
WOODENWARE
Baskets
RUSRPIS 22... kee e ss 1 20
Bushels, wide band 1 45

Market, drop handle .. 55
Market, 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

vals
% Ib., 250 in crate .... 35
% Ib., 250 in crate .... 35
1 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 40
2 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 50
3 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 70
3 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 90

Clothes Pins
Round Head
4% inch, 5 gross ...... 65
Cartons, No. 24, 24s, bxs. 70
Egg Crates and Fillers
Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. a
4

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

No. 2, pat. brush hold 1 35
Ideal, No. 7 13
12lb. cotton mop heads 1 75

Palls

10 qt. Galvanized .... 3 50
12 qt. Galvanized .... 4 00
14 qt. Galvanized .... 4 50
HiT ice. 5 50

Toothpicks
Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00
Ideal
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

mat, WO0G .......-..-..+ 80

Bat, Spring _.........:. 75
Tubs

No. 1 Wibre .........; 16 50

me. 2 Fabre .....-.5 15 00

No. 3 Wibre .......... 13 50

Large Galvanized ... 12 50
Medium Galvanized 10 75
Small Galvanized .... 9 50

Washboards
Banner, Globe ...... 3 75
Brass, Single ........ 6 75
Glass, Single ........ 4 00
Double Peerless ..... 6 25
Single Peerless ...... 5 50
Northern Queen ..... 4 75
Good Enough ........ 4 65
Universal ........., 7. 5 00

Wood Bowls
iS in: Mutter ........ 90
1D tn: utter oo. S: 7 00
17 in. Gubler 1. .... 8 00
19 in. Butter ........ 11 00

WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre Manila, white .. 5%

Fibre, Manila, colored

No. 1 Manila ........ 61%
Butchers’ Manila .... 6%
mya... 9

Wax Butter, short c’nt 16
Wax Butter, full c’nt 20
Parchm’t Butter, rolls 19

YEAST CAKE
Magic, 3 doz. ........
Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00
Sunlight, 1% doz. .... 50
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. ..
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85

Window Cleaners

 

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SALT

rere

Morton’s Salt
Per case, 24 2 Ibs. .... 1 80
Five case lots ..... ss 2 90

10 Ib. % dz., plain top 14 00

Special deals quoted up-
on request.

K C Baking Powder is
guaranteed to comply with
ALL Pure Food Laws, both
State and National.

      
  

Royal
10c size ... 1 00
H 4b. cans 1 45
6 oz. cans 2 00
‘ee. ¥21b. cans 2 55
oo ‘| %lb. cans 3 95
f . fy 1Ib. cans .. 4 95
lee 4 Sib. cans 23 70

 

Guaranteed to equal the best 10c

kinds. 80 can cases $3.20 per case.
SOAP
Proctor & Gamble Co.
LenOK. ....-5-:- oseee 7D
ivory, 6 Of. 2.0.0.0... 5 25
Ivory, 10 oz. ....... -. 8 65
EAR scl pons ee eee s 4 35
Swift & Compan)
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 60
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
Wine 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 lb. boxes, per gross 23 10

OE VCH UD

Car lots or local shipments.
bulk or sacked in paper or
jute. Poultry and = stock
charcoal

DEWEY — SMITH CO., Jackson, Mch.

Successor toM.O. DEWEY CO

     
   
         
     

 

FLEISCHMANN’S
YEAST

secures perfect fermentation and,
i@ therefore, makes the most whole-
‘ some, lightest and tastiest bread.

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American Sugar Refining Company
a ae

A bigger sugar business for you

More Domino Granulated Sugar is being sold
than ever before because of our “Save The Fruit
Crop” advertising urging the public to use more
canned and preserved fruits.

Are you linking your store to this advertising
by displaying Domino Granulated and the other
Domino Cane Sugars?

American Sugar Refining Company

The Most Complete Line of Sugar in the Worid

 

 

 

You Can Buy Flour —

SAXOLIN

Paper-Lined Cotton
Sanitary Sacks

DUST PROOF
DIRT PROOF
MOISTURE PROOF
BREAKAGE PROOF

The Sack that keeps the
Flour IN and the Dirt OUT

Ask Your. Miller in Your Town

— he can give. you his flour in this sack

Our co-operative advertising plan
makes the flour you sell the best
advertised flour in your community

For samples and particulars write

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

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Shoe Store For " Sale—Store ‘located in
& prosperous farming town of about
900, with 3,500 surrounding country to
draw trade from. Established over seven
years; stock clean and up-to-date, most-
ly staple lines. No other store in town
selling shoes. Machine repairing shop
in connection with store clears $100 a
month. Will sell at invoice. Invoice
about $3,000. No trade considered. Will
stand rigid investigation. Continued ill
health cause of selling. Address J.
Campos, Morgan Hill, California, 272

Confectionery, Soda Fountain and Cigar
Business For Sale—Established. Loca-
tion center of Detroit, reasonable. Ad-
dress Hermon & Hicks, 89 Washington
Blvd., Detroit, Michigan. 311

For Sale—Drug store in Kalamazoo,
doing a paying business. Will invoice
$3,500. Can be bought for $2,500 cash,
or one-half cash and balance in easy
payments. This is a bargain for a young
man wishing to establish himself in
business for himself. Address R. Van
Avery, corner North and West Sts.,
Kalamazoo, Michigan. 312

“For Rent—Sept. 1, store
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, =

Bakery For Sale—Good paying busi-
ness. Come and look it over. Wm. Eby,
Durand, Michigan. 285 _

For Sale—5,000-lb. freight elevator,
platform 8x10 feet. §. M. Isbell & Co.,
eackson, Michigan. 306

For Sale Cheap—Several outside dis-
play cases suitable for dry goods store.
Write or call on R. C. Herpolsheimer,
ec-o Herpolsheimer Co., Grand Rapids,
Michigan. 313

For Sale—Suburban grocery, live prop-

 

 

 

 

 

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osition; residence in connection; real
estate valued $5,000; stock invoices $2,500.
Cash proposition only. Address A. P.
Parker, Rochester, Minnesota. 314
For Rent—Two new. stores on good

business street, less than one block from
main corners. Building in splendid shape
and in desirable surroundings. Can give
lease from three to five years. The J. WwW.
Bailey Co., Lansing, Michigan. 315
To sxchange—Farm and income prop-
erty for merchandise. Address Real Es-
tate Exchange, Stanton, Michigan. 316
- For Sale—Steam roller feed mill and
blacksmith shop combined with Stude-
baker Auto Agency service station. Work
for two men. Write owner. W. H.
Chambers, Lancaster, Wash. 317

~ For Sale—Stock of harness, blankets,

 

 

 

robes, shoes, coats and mitts. All goods
new—bought under the old price. Must
sell at onee. Lock Box 11, Metamora,
Michigan. 318

 

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 —

Tradesman.
FOR SAL Bazaar and notion
stock of the
“‘Famous”’ in Traverse City, with or without
lease of building. Opportunity for right man.
Thomas H. Sherman, Administrator
Traverse City, Mich.

 

 

For Sale—Grand Rapids corner store,
dry goods and groceries. Main thorough-
fare. Excellent business. Good rea-
sons for selling. Address No. 304, care
Michigan Tradesman. 304

For Sale—General merchandise stock
showing best results any Michigan town.
Owner’s health necessitates selling. Will
aid right man making reasonable pay-
ment financially. Will take good farm,

 

 

right location. Address No. 308, care

Tradesman. 308
For Rent—Store, Belding, Michigan.

First-class location for shoe store. En-

quire Miss Carrie Holmes,
Phone 368.

For Sale—Drug stock and _ fixtures.
Nearest drug store to Camp Custer and
to Gull Lake, Michigan summer resort.
Only drug store in town. Owner wishes
to practice medicine exclusively. Terms
cash. R. E. Weeks, Augusta, a

716 Broas.
299

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

For Sale—Hotel Schooleraft, Adrian,
Michigan, having 27 rooms exceptionally
furnished with large restaurant, best in
city. Hotel furnishings and restaurant
offered at $3,000; building can be rented
on long lease or can be bought on terms
with sufficient down payment. This is
an opportunity for the right people; also
skating rink or dance hall, 125x70 feet
can be used for light manufacturing or
garage; will be sold at appraised value,
$3,500—cost three times this amount to
build. Reason for sale, death of pro-
prietor, widow closing out estate. Come
at once, correspondence not desired.

319

For Sale—An old established hardware

 

business, with the only tin shop; stock
and fixtures will inventory about $5,000.
Most all stock was bought at the old

price; will sell at inventory for quick
sale. If interested address Box 320, care
Tradesman, 320

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. 290

Cash Registers—Let us
price on rebuilt cash
makes—sizes—styles. Largest used ma-
chine dealers in Michigan. Save you
money, terms to suit. Will exchange for

 

 

quote you
registers. All

your machine. The o. C. Vogt Sales Co.,
215 So. Washington Ave., Saginaw,
Michigan. 158

 

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

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

Wili pay cash for whole or part stocks
of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn, Sag-
inaw, Michigan. 187

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

 

 

 

Merchants wishing to sell stocks
or a portion of same at an ad-e-
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.
money and so du 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
bought before raise. 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 —
street, Muskegon Heights, Mich. 263

Hotel For Sale—Four-story brick, 35

We get the

 

 

 

rooms, well furnished. Steam heat,
electric lights, water. Doing good busi-
ness. Only hotel. $5,000 cash will
handle. Hotel, Blissfield, Mich. 269

 

Wanted—5,000-lb. freight elevator, plat-
form 8x10 feet. S. M. Isbell & Co.,,
Jackson, Michigan. 306

Special viv Sales

For Retail Merchants. Any line. Closing
out complete or reduction. Write for terms
anddates Information free.

UNITED SALES CO.
431 Houseman Bldg. Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

Bakery, confectionery and ice cream
parlor for sale, about 75 miles from
Chicago. Doing a good business. Good

reasons for selling.
vestigate.
Illinois.

Would pay to in-
Harry Brown, Belvidere,
309

No charge less than 25 cents.

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

 

 

 

Next Week is Fair Week

As usual, we shall expect to meet and greet many
of our customers next week on account of the West
Michigan State Fair. Make our store headquarters
while in the city. We will care for your bundles and
give you the latest news regarding market conditions
in our line.

 

 

 

Michigan Hardware Co.
Exclusively Wholesale Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

DWINELL-WRIGHT CO.’S

Whi te House

Be Coffee Fa
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Make people realize, when they try
them, that they have received fullest
value—which is the sentiment every dealer
should be scrupulous to inspire in the minds of
his customers if he would hope for continued
patronage and the recommendations of his
faithful and honest service—which, in a cumu-
lative way, is a tremendous business-pusher.
WITH EVERY PACKAGE YOU DO UP, BE
SURE THAT SATISFACTION GOES WITH

 

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Economic Coupon Books

They save time and expense.
They prevent disputes.
They put credit transactions on cash basis.

Free samples on application.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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32

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

September 12, 1917

 

Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.
Apples—Wealthys, Red Astrachans

and Duchess fetch $1.50 per bu.

Bananas—$4.50 per 100 lbs.

Beets—$1.40 per bu.

Butter—The market is very firm,
showing advances of undergrade cream-
ery butter averaging about 1c per pound
en the different grades, due largely
to cooler weather in the producing sec-
tions, causing a shorter make of fine
butter. Continued high prices are look-
ed for in creamery butter in the im-
mediate future, there being a good home
consumptive demand and some export
enquiry. Local dealers hold fancy
creamery at 43c in tubs and 44c in prints.
Local dealers pay 38c for No. 1 in jars
and 32c for packing stock.

Cabbage—Home grown, 75c per bu.

Cantaloupes—Ponys from Benton
Harbor command $2.25 for 54s and $3.50
for 45s and 36s; $1.50 per flats of 12
to 15; Benton Harbor Osage $1.75@2
per crate of 12; Colorado Standards,
$3.50 for 45s and $1.50 for flats.

Carrots—$1 per bu.

Cauliflower—$2 per doz.

Celery—Home grown, 30c per bunch.

Eggs—The market is very firm, with
quotations about 2c higher than one
week ago. The receipts are moderate
and a good consumptive demand. We
do not look for any lower prices in
eggs in the near future. Local dealers
pay 37%c for fresh, including cases. loss
off. Cold storage operators are putting
out their stocks on the following basis:
Extras, 40c; firsts, 38c; seconds, 35c.

Figs—Package, $1.25 per box, layers,
$1.75 per 10 lb. box.

Grapes—Wordens from Southern
Michigan command 30c per 8 Ib. basket.
The local crop is still green on the vines,
awaiting sunshing and warmer weather
to ripen it.

Green Corn—30c per doz. for home
grown.

Green Onions—18c per dozen bunches
for home grown.

Honey—18c per lb. for white clover
and 16c for dark.

Lemons—California selling at $7 for
choice and $7.50 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—$1.75@2 per gal. for
pure.

Mushrooms—75c per lb.

Nuts—Almonds, 18c per lb.; filberts,
16c per lb.; pecans, 15c per Ib.; walnuts,
16c for Grenoble; 15%4c for Naples.

Onions—Home grown are now in
market, commanding $2 per 65 Ib. sack;
Tilinois, same; Spanish, $1.75 per crate.

Oranges—Califernia Valencias, $4@
4.25.

Peaches—White varieties from Ben-
ton Harbor command $2.50 per bu.;
Elbertas from Maryland fetch $2.75 per
bu. Arrivals from New York will not
reach this market before Sept. 20.

Peppers—Home grown command 50c
@$1 per basket, according to size.

Pears—PBartlett fetch $2.50 per bu.

Plums—Blues and Lombards com-
mand $2 per bu.

Potatoes—$1.35 per bu.

Poultry—Local dealers pay as follows,
live weight: heavy hens, 25@26c; light
hens, 21@22c; 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—$2 per bu.

Summer Squash—$1 per bu.

Sweet Potatoes—$6 per bbl. for Vir-
ginia.

Tomatoes—$3 per bu.

Water Melons—$3.25 per bbl. of 12
to 14 for Florida.

Wax Beans—$2 per bu.

Whortleberries—$2@2.25
crate.

per 16 qt.

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Boots For Service Wear.

A novel officer’s field service boot,
designed especially for cavalry and
artillery officers, is now being shown
in this market by a well-known man-
ufacturer of footwear specialties for
men. This boot, which is as nearly
waterproof as it is possible for hu-
man endeavor to make it, is seven-
teen inches high and retails for $40
a pair. It is made of brown cordovan
leather, on a blucher fast, and laces
across the instep. Lace gussets at
the top of the boot, cn the outer side,
allow it to be fitted as snugly as the
wear may desire. An interesting fea-
ture is a spur rest in the form of a
slight projection at the top of the
heel in the back.

The same manufacturer has also
brought out an officer’s parade boot
in imported Scotch grain and brown
cordovan leathers. This boot, which
is half an inch higher than the service
boot, and with also incorporates the
spur rest at the back of the heel, re-
tails at $50 a pair.

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Old Terms May Be Continued.

According to a report heard in the
retail millinery trade, it was decided
at the recent meeting of the National
Association of Ladies’ Hatters to
drop the discount question and to
permit all members of the Association
to give any terms and discounts they
choose, without violating the rules of
the organization. This is taken in the
trade to mean that the members may
continue to sell at the old terms if
they so desire. This action is be-
lieved to have resulted from the de-
cision arrived at at the women’s gar-
ment peace meeting that was held not
so very long ago, and at which it was
decided to make the question of terms
optional with the sellers.

 

 

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U. C. T. Round-Up at Marquette.

Hancock, Sept. 10—Traveling sales-
men of the Upper Peninsula are go-
ing to have a “pow wow” at Mar-
auette next Saturday evening with the
Copper Country bunch as guests of
honor. An initiation of a class of
twenty-five will be the opening fea-
ture of the festivities.

When Hancock Council went out
of existence a few years ago the mem-
bers affiliated with Marquette Coun-
cil. There have been few times in
this period that the “boys” were able
to fraternize, except on the trains or
while waiting for a busy merchant
to see him.

“Jack” Johnson, of Dollar Bay, and
Jay R. Pearce, of Hancock, have been
commissioned to undertake a “round
up” of the Copper Country salesmen.
The trip will be made by automobile.
leaving here Saturday about noon and
reaching Marquette about 6 o'clock.

Traveler Instantly Killed.

Eaton Rapids, Sept. 10—C. J.
Harris, of Lansing, traveling sales-
man for the Cudahy Packing Co., was
struck and instantly killed by a west-
bound Michigan Central train last
Wednesday forenoon at a grade cross-
ing between Onondaga and Rives
Juncticn. , The statement of the en-
gine crew is to the effect that Mr.
Harris’ automobile was standing par-
allel with the railroad at the crossing,
and that his head was hanging over
the door of the car, which gave the
appearance that he was sick or suffer-
ing from a fainting spell. The car
was so nearly clear of the track that
only the pilot beam hit the rear fen-
der, and the same beam cut a large
hole in the back of the unfortunate
man’s head, which resulted in his
death. The body was brought to this
city and prepared for burial and
Wednesday night was taken to the
Harris home in Lansing. Mr. Harris
made regular trips to Eaton Rapids
for the company he represented and
was well known among the business
men here. He is survived by his wife
and two sons.

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Skirt Buying Has Been Active.
Buying in the skirt market has been

considerably more active during the

past few weeks than in the same peri-
od a year ago, in spite of prices which
at first were thought prohibitive. Re-
tailers throughout the country are
said to be showing considerable pref-
erence for taffeta and satin garments,
both in black and in navy blue. Serges
and broadcloth are also extensively
sought, although volume in these
purchases is necessarily somewhat re-

stricted, owing to the abnormally high.

prices prevailing. Style changes in
most cases are slight, those of last
year predominating, except for minor
details in some instances.

 

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BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

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-

323

For Sale—Good, clean grocery stock in
good, thriving town. Doing all cash busi-
ness. Inventory between $900 and $1,000;
not many fixtures. Can cut stock down
if desired. Will sell at invoice price
for cash. Rent $8 per month—fine loca-
tion. Address Box 321, care Tradesman.

321

Designs, cartoons, showcards and il-
lustrating. Jas. T. Carroll, Commercial
Artist, Baird, Mississippi.

 

 

PntUTes!

Fixtures!

 

 

store fixtures.

The undersigned having purchased
the entire store and office fixtures with
the barn equipment of the

Ira Jl. Smith Department Store

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

will offer the same for sale at very at-
tractive prices to save the cost of cart-
age and freight to our warehouse.

COMMENCING

Tuesday, Sept. 18th, 1917

at the Smith Stor €, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Consisting of Floor, Wall, Coat and Suit Show Cases,
Tables, Counters, Shelving, Stools, 2 Large Safes,
Typewriters, Adding Machines, Time Clock, Shoe
Fixtures, Gas and Electric Fixtures, Office and Cash-
ier’s Desks, 125 feet of Ground Glass Office Partitions,
1 Large Meat Refrigerator, Toledo Computing Scales,
Hobart Electric Coffee Grinder, 1 Large Hobart Meat
Grinder, 1 Four Hole Butter Refrigerator, 2 16 Foot
Counter Refrigerator Display Cases, 1 Team Mules,
1 Horse, 5 Delivery Wagons, 5 Set Delivering Sleighs,
1 Auto Delivery Car, Harness, Blankets and all other

 

 

 

W. Maxwell Merchandise & Salvage Co
KALAMAZOO, MICH

Remember This Sale Takes Place in Grand Rapids

 

 

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