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EIU NS SS LA 5 Ress < Sake g I ' ‘ > e 7 , z : \| Thirty-Fifth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, § 5 17 Number 1779 A :" 2 CRIA A AARNE i + % $ L » > > » 2 : * + | + The Wind Before the Dawn ) ' x | x Since the cherubim o’er Eden flashed the menace of the sword e 4 Upon sacrificial altars hath the blood of martyrs poured. 1 \ + Through long ages, dark with midnight, though its beams fell faint and far, y » ce 5 z God’s Own hand within the shadow kept alight Hope’s guiding star; a » | : While the slaves of greed and power, God endowed to think and feel, > ‘ ; x Sought their heritage of Freedom in war’s thunderous appeal. x But at last the far-flung power of the boasted right of Kings Vanished before the sunlight that the dawn of Freedom brings! s There is clang of breaking fetters and the crash of falling thrones, For a strange new note is sounding in the war's chaotic tones; WI A In the throes of deadly conflict, crowns and kingdoms pass away— vv w Like a storm before the coming of a new and perfect day. vv a YY om ha" 1 ve . * & a ~ ‘ - . 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They shall speak the final word. 4 Under Freedom’s starry banner, men of brain and men of brawn— ot oe ot oe bt be be be et et et et oe ee oe vw wv wv ,vwwvewvyvY.Y + . aA RRR ARK For the power of the nation is the wind before the dawn! v sa Edith Daley. v rar 4 pA ADD RRARKRAR RRR ARR r ‘ Ss ee eoepeeeese ee SE v wv ve vwev dy. pee PREPARE EARLY For the Holidays This Year Get your FANCY CHRISTMAS PACKAGES ordered without delay. There is certain to be a shortage this season on account of labor conditions, so buy now and be safe. Two Large Complete Lines Lowney’s Fancy Package Lneeeee Putnam’s Fancy Package Capo Pasaam: Factory, ¢ Grand Rapids, Michigan Pere Marquette Railway Co. FACTORY SITES AND 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 - Ceresota Flour Always Uniformly Good Made from Spring Wheat at Minneapolis, Minn. Judson Grocer Co. The Pure Foods House Distributors GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN You Can Buy Flour — SAXOLIN Paper-Lined Cotton Sanitary Sacks DUST PROOF DIRT PROOF MOISTURE PROOF BREAKAGE PROOF The Sack that keeps the Flour IN and the Dirt OUT Ask Your Miller in Your Town —he can give you his flour in this sack Our co-operative advertising plan makes the flour you sell the best advertised flour in your community For samples and particulars write THE CLEVELAND-AKRON BAG CO., CLEVELAND It Is a Complete Meal Shredded Wheat isa meal. With milk and a little fruit, at a total cost of five or six cents, it satisfies the appetite and provides enough actual nourishment to give anyone a good start for a day’s work. Call your customers’ attention to the econ- omy and food value of Shredded W heat Tell them that every member of the family can eat it for any meal in any season. =a) Lhe Shredded Wheat Company , Niagara Falls, N. Y. * d ( « x ‘ ‘ , ¥ Ps 4 2 > X ‘ \ =“ \ 4 « > be i‘ Pei 4 ¢ r } 4 “s . , 1 4 4 » La > ~ y ‘ > e ‘€ ‘ i | + » _ i >. ae a te Se SAY a BA SAU LPF o Thirty-Fifth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1917 Number 1779 SPECIAL FEATURES. Page 2. World Peace. 4. News of the Business World. 5. Grocery and Produce Market. 6. Upper Peninsula. 8. Editorial. 10. Butter, Eggs and Provisions. 12. Financial. 16. Woman’s World. 18. Shoes. 20. Hardware. 22. Dry Goods. 24. The Commercial Traveler. 26. Drugs. 27. Drug Price Current. 28. Grocery Price Current. 31. Business Wants. UNJUST ASPERSIONS. Hoover Unfairly Indicts Both Pro- ducers and Retailers. Tecumseh, Oct. 22—Cannot you give us one of your strong editorials on the misstatements which have been in all the papers for the past week throwing the blame for high prices of food prod- ucts on the retailers? No class of people are doing so much for the people as retail grocers, but, like some others in high authority, Mr. Hoover seeks to make the people think the blame belongs to the men who per- form the most service for the least money. Frank D. Avery. The Hoover Statement. The food administration considers ‘hat, subject to co-operation from the farmers and the retailers, the corner now has been turned in high prices and that most of the essential commodities should one after another continue to show reductions between now and the end of the year. The food administra- tion has no control of either the grower or his organizations, nor of the great majority of retailers. The foundations have been laid for regulation of the in- termediate trades, and where these reg- ulations have come into force and the trades co-operating finely, considerable results are evident in the wholesale prices. The current prices at which flour is being sold at the mill door in jute bags vary somewhat with the locality and freight charges on wheat, Toledo show- ing the lowest prices at $10 for first pat- ent and $9.70 for second patent, the highest being Buffalo, at $10.70 for first patent and $10.40 for second patent, Minneapolis being $10.60 for first patent and $10.46 for second patent. This shows a large reduction under August prices. The regulations on the distribution of wheat and the manufacture of flour were put into force the middle of September. The average retail prices on first pat- ents in 796 cities on Oct. 13 was $13.77 or from $1.50 to $2 per barrel higher than is warranted by the price being made by the millers. In other words, the retail price has not wholly respond- ed to the reductions made by the millers. The bean harvest this year is esti- mated by the Department of Agricul- ture at approximately 7,000,000 bushels in excess of last year and promises an abundant supply. The growers’ associa- tions in prominent bean-producing states are holding beans for from 13% to 15 cents per pound, as against an average price realized by the grower last year of 8 cents per pound. There has been 100 per cent. increase in the Manchurian bean crop, and it is now estimated at 2,000,000 tons. Owing to shipping short- age. virtually the only outlet is to tm: United States, and these beans will flow into the American market from De- cember until March below the prices now being demanded for American beans. The corn harvest this year is 600,- 000,000 to 700,000,000 bushels over last year, and will be generally availablc about the end of November. The price of corn rose to $2.30 per bushel in July and now stands at $1.90 per bushel in Chicago. New corn is quoted in Chi- cago at $1.13 per bushel for December, and indicates nearly a 40 per cent. drop in corn meal when the corn is generally available. The Tradesman considers the on- slaught on the retail grocer as entirely unjustified and not borne out by the facts. lead to the belief that, notwithstanding Its investigations and con¢lusions the pernicious atmosphere which pre- vails in the ranks of the farming and laboring classes, which has resulted in forcing the price of farm products and labor up to unprecedented limits, the Sonocer, as a class, has dome more to maintain the equilibrium than any other interest. He has, in too many instances, sold goods at the old-time ratio of profit on cost, well knowing that when he comes to replace the goods going over his counter with fresh supplies, they will cost him more than the retail price he has been selling at. The grocer has seen the cost of doing business in his line gradually advance until it has reach- ed unheard of figures, without recouping himself as he has every reason for doing by forcing his own prices up to the level of the prices of farm products and hand labor. Now that labor is fully employed and there are two jobs open to every idle man who wants to work, the time is op- portune to establish the cash and carry system on a firm and permanent. basis. The present wasteful methods of the credit and delivery systems have no jus- tification in the present emergency which We must do busi- ness on the smallest possible margin in confronts the world. order that we preserve the country and serve the people to the best of our abil- ity. We cannot do these things by con- methods of the tinuing the wasteful past, which force us to take an im.- proper toll out of the goods which pass through our hands. The grocer who has the vision of a seer and the mind of a prophet will recognize these con- ditions and improve the present oppor- tunity to so restrict his credit and de- livery systems that they will be in keep- Unless he does this, he will find himself out of ing with the spirit of the times. joint with existing conditions and grad- ually lose out in the fierce race for ex- istence and supremacy which now con- fronts the country. oo Some folks have so little music in their souls that they can’t keep the even tenor of their ways. a The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth. NINE PER CENT. The Tradesman is in INTEREST. Feceipt Of a circular letter now being sent out by M. D. merchant, Girard, the Pentwater general which is the most patriotic appeal which has been brought to the attention of the Tradesman during the Liberty Loan campaign. The document is| as follows: While I am debarred from active service in the present war, I am will- ing to do my bit in any way possi- ble. 1. To those of moderate means who purchase LIBERTY BONDS I will allow a 5 per cent. discount on all cash purchases at my stOre up to the amount of their bonds each year while the war lasts. This discount is bona fide from regular selling prices and makes your bond net you 9 per cent. during the continuance of the war. 2. Should you wish to sell your bond, I will guarantee you par for it at any time during the war. 3. ©hould you wish to borrow on your bond, I will assist you in bor- rowng up to within 2 per cent. of its face at 6 per cent. interest during the continuance of the war. Should you need credit at any time, I will extend you six months’ credit on your bond for any purchases you may require without interest. Yours For World Freedom! If more merchants had taken such a patriotic stand, the raising of the quota in their respective communities would not have caused so much concern. Hats off to Mr. Girard! a CANNED GOODS SITUATION. \ general slowing down in the can ned goods demand is noticeable, so fai as the general trade 1s concerned, but there is still active buying for jobbers of offers within reason, in order to fill the requisitions for the army, 0! which there are always some on hand. depending Retailers, however, are now on the deliveries of goods al- ready contracted for, but which in most instances are slow ,and_ back- ward. However, thus far jobbers say there has been no great distress no- ticeable. as most of them have enough supplies: on hand to keep them going for some time to come, The one item on the list for which there is no longer any enthusiasm is that of tomatoes. There is a dispo- sition on the part of Southern canners to still hold out for higher prices, but the trade here think prices have gone high enough and in Secms to any event there are enough offers at resale to fill any orders that may be imperative, but of which, actually, there appear to be few. In the been a great deal of talk and account, Dut salmon market there has nuch negotiating for export few actual orders have been consum- mated. l[ruits of all descriptions are } in demand, but there is so little offer- ing that there is scarcely a market. Until the law permits Mr. Hoover to initiate a policy of retail price-fixing, if it should have to come to that, noth- ing would seem to stand in the way of an alternative policy of price-indicating. By this we mean an authoritative state- from the Food ment Commissioner's ofhce of what a fair price for various commodities would be in various local ities. Such an estimate need not enter into calculations of fractional parts of a cent, such as unfortunately becloud so many of our investigations. Once a fair norm is established and made generally known, the public in its dealings with 1 the retailer will be in a position to re- cognize extortionate prices trusting to personal impressions on the subject Especially would the wide publicity for a fair price norm do away with the absurd variations in price which obtain from store to store in the same locality. The consumer at present can- not argue from the price of coal at the mine to coal in his bin, or from whole- sale food prices to retail food prices, because the subject of distribution is a darksome book to him. It should not 1 ee a } ve difficult to work out such a scheme for him in regular bulletins, a procedure which might mean hardships in isolated would bring relief to the eases, but public and vindicate the retail dealer from the unjust aspersions he cast on the trade in his vicious onslaught of last Thursday. >> The loss of six out of a fleet of less than a dozen raiding Zeppelins reafirms the established lesson of the inefficacy of the balloon airship for military pur- poses and especially for offensive pur- poses. lf we ask why in face of such should against experience Germany have sent ferth her Zeppelins England, one answer may be that, having these monster gasbags on her hands, Germany might as well try to squeeze all the | profit out of them she can while the | war lasts, A special reason for the 1 i latest raid on Eneland is to be found in the General Staffs desire to brace up a slackening morale at home. On the eve of a winter of comparative lull in the land fighting, and another long winter of semi-starvation and general wretchedness and gathering discontent, it may be of some gain to make a com- bined demonstration of the Fatherland’s With her courageously still impressive armies Haig’s gunfire, her fleets in action in powers. holding under Russian waters, her armed cruisers raidins in the North Sea, and her air ships hovering over enemy soil, Germany serves notice on her opponents, on her own people, that she is still very much in the fight. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 24, 1917 WORLD PEACE Impossible So Long as Teutonic Ideas Prevail. Clatskanie, Oregon, Oct. 20—The sub- ject of universal peace has been a very popular one for several years past in the United States and, therefore, has had many advocates and has now. If a minister of the gospel wishes to bring himself prominently before the denom- ination to which he belongs, he advo- cates world peace; perhaps hoping the world will take cognizance of him which, to his great disappointment, it does not. A would-be statesman climbs onto the highest stump he can find and proclaims himself an advo- cate of world peace and that he will devote his energies to that end so long as the breath of life lingers in his self-sufficient body, hoping the world will rally around that stump and commission him to go ahead and see that the world is at peace and that it stays at peace, but the world doesn’t rally. If a certain king or emperor has taken it into his head to prepare for war, he rushes to the Hague and sets about formulating plans for a world peace—at least until he is prepared for war; but there always seems to be some hitch in perfecting the plans and world peace does not formulate. Sometimes a crafty American Sec- retary of State becomes possessed with the idea that world peace would be a gocd thing for the world, but the world has other ideas of what a good thing is and goes on finding an excuse for fighting in the latest ap- proved and uncivilized manner on the old battle grounds. A few years ago these same minis- ters of the church and _ would-be statesmen, and ex-Secretaries of State were holding forth from the same high stumps and from the same pul- pits, but their theme then was not “peace on earth, good will toward men.” The sentiment which rang out from the international line on the North to the international line on the South and from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific shore, was Remember the Maine, And the Maine was Re- membered, proving that the war spirit in the United States is healthy and strong when the sign is right. Now who of all the anxious advo- cates of world peace will say that the sentiment was wrong or that the cry, Forget the Maine, would have been right? Who will say that Cuba, the Philippines or even Spain herself would have been better off to-day, or to-morrow if the Maine had been forgotten? The trouble is that the advocates of world peace are advocating an utter impossibility. If thev were to start a campaign to try and convince the American people that a trip to Mars is feasible, and by going to Mars on a junket they would gain a lot of valuable informat‘on about how to build canals and dig irrigation ditches, they would not be advocating , anything more impossible than the idea of a permanent world peace. That is not simply a statement of mine. It is a fact based on the uni- versal laws of the Sunreme Power. The whole universe is at war, a never ending struggle between the forces of attraction and expulsion, positive and negative. light and darkness, heat and cold. the strong crushing the weak —all fighting each other and always must fight each other. Nature can- net be at peace, else all nature would he dead. We are told by those who claim to know that the moon is with- out any atmosphere, that it has no water, no heat, therefore no life: that all is cold and dead. Well, until this world gets to he like the moon. there will be no universal peace and can be none. Did you ever notice how all nature is at war? Every species of animal, fish, fowl or insect is at war with every other species of animal, fish. fowl or insect, from the elephant to the ant, from the whale to the min- a given time. now, from the eagle to the humming bird, on down to invisibility. Take a drop of water from the pond and place it under the microscope. You will see the animalcules fighting to the death, the stronger killing the weaker, although their natural life- time is only a few seconds at most. The human family is part of nature. In fact, some human families think they are really an important part ctf nature. At any rate the animal na- ture seems to be pretty well develop- ed in most of them, which is natural, too, seeing that the human race is only one of the many races of ani- mals which infest this world. They also make war on all the other races of animals. They are bred and born to fight. For instance, a young ani- mal of almost any other species will try to play with anything it meets, alive or dead; but the young human will try to fight, the first thing, as soon as he can stand on one end. When two small boys meet as stran- gers, if they can work up a fight, they afterwards consider ‘themselves ac- qua‘nted. A boy who has no fight in him is despised as a coward who will probably never amount to much. Men will fight to see a girl who has doffed her reputation and most everything else give a leg show on the stage. Men who are neighbors will fight if a dog barks under their window. Individuals will fight if a neighbor’s chicken scratches a corner of their garden or if a rooster crows in the morning disturbing their sleep. Individuals, some of them the best men in the world, will fight and kill each other for a thousand and one real or fancied insults or encroach- ments,.and men and angels would dis- pise them if they wouldn’t. Well, na- tions are individuals collectively. Show me one nation, any nation, that has lost the war spirit and I will show you a nation that has added nothing to science or the wellbeing of our race in a thousand years. Then there is the matter of racial economy. All figures in connection with the census of a nation show that under normal conditions the pop- ulation steadily increases—some na- tions perhaps faster than others—at Now, supposing there had been no wars during the last six thousand years of which we have fairly reliable history, what would be the condition of the world’s popula- tion? Europe has been overflowing for hundreds of years, notwithstand- ing all the wars which have devastat- ed that Continent. Millions and then more millions have emigrated during the same time. If there had been no wars and the consequent plagues and famine, Europe would be a pest house, or else they would be throwing their babies in the river, as they did for ages in India—a prac- tice that some Christians consider was the fault of their religion, but which originated in the necessity of keeping down an over crowded population; simply one form of birth control. In a few hundred years this country would be in the same condition. How long since China started out to con- aver the world? What have the Chinese contributed to the advance- ment of science, l'terature. inventive venius—anything that is better or different from what they were athou- sand years aso? It is not from lack of that nation’s resources, but because it has lost the martial spirit; that is, if it ever possessed it. The people of a nation must go ahead or stand still and to stand still is to he left be- hind by other nations which are go- ing ahead. Factories must rise and the products of these factories must be sold. The goods which are not needed at home must crowd their way into other countries. Jealousies will spring up and the nation must either hold its own or hack out. To ‘ hold its own it must ficht competition and fight armies as well It may get licked and some will be killed. but the national snirit cf “try again” will still be left. Then it will start in and prepare to do it all over again as soon as peace has been restored. A great deal has been said and writ- ten about disarmament, especially in America. It is argued that if the na- tions would disarm, or at least only arm enough to regulate their own in- ternal affairs, there could be no wars. If a nation has to arm to keep peace within, how can it expect there will be, peace from without, unless it is pre- pared. to enforce peace? For just as soon as one nation makes up its mind that it has a grievance against another nation, there is going to be trouble, because no two men can see everything from the same standpoint. There are many men and they have many minds, each one believing he has a mind of his own. In a moment of anger any attempt at argument is useless. Lawmakers will flare up and fight in the halls of Congress, state sen- ators and state representatives will argue over proposed laws until they come to blows, doctors will argue about the treatment a certain patient should have until they come to blows. Preachers will argue points of doc- trine until they come to blows, try- ing to pound their beliefs into the oth- er fellow. whether he will or not. thereby proving that they are mem- bers of the church militant here on earth. Then how can anyone en- dcwed with reason, expect represent- atives from the different nations to agree on matters of vital importance to one that are a decided disadvan- tage to the other? The fact of the matter is they could not agree and would not if they could. Then why look forward to a world peace? When America and England were one nation they could not agree, so Americans went to war for their in- dependence and won their independ- ence. Peace was signed by both England and America, but a few years later they went to war again over a new grievance. Some years ago the American states could not agree among themselves, so one half of the Nation had to lick the other half into good behavior, Incidentally, about a million men were lost in the opera- tion. The English people could not agree on who would be king. so they went to war and fought each other for years, until the claimants and most of their friends either died or were killed. A short time ago the Balkan states went to war with Turkey, and after thrashing Turkey, went to war among themselves over the spoils. All this is history and history has a habit of repeating itself. We are told treaties could be drawn up between nations, agreeing to sub- mit all differences to arbitration. and thereby do away with the war. Yes. and the nations would probably all agree on the terms and sign seal and ‘deliver the documents to one another. Then what? As soon as any one ot the Teutonic nations found it to be in their interest and in their power to prepare for war thev would probably do so. History proves that in nearly all the wars which have shaken the world, treaties have been hroken by barbarian peoples, just as the German government sneeringly referred to a solemn and binding treaty with Bel- gium. as a “scrap of paper.” But we hear some say “all the other nations would be a unit in compelling that nation to regard its treaty.” Just so. Then all the other nations would have to arm and prepare for war, even as at the present time every nation which has enough self respect is compelled to arm and prepare to fight Germany, a nation so brutal and arrogant as to believe it could lick the world in arms. There is too much difference of opinion and too many conflicting in- terests to expect any neace agreement that can possibly be drawn up to last. Talking about world peace—that is, permanent world peace—sounds well, perhaps, but it is*a waste of sound, a waste of talk, a waste of brains, be- cause the brains will never be born that will be able to accomplish what the Supreme Power of the universe cannot do—change human _ nature. Religion cannot do it, because all re- ligions we are acquainted with have been at war and nearly all of them are at war now. It is useless to say Christianity can do it, for Christianity has been in more wars during the last 1800 years, than any other re- ligion in that period; and most of them have been wars in which Chris- tians or Christian nations were the aggressors. Indeed, the whole state of the Christian church in all its branch- es here on earth is militant, recogniz- ing the fact that war is at least a part if not the whole of nature. I wish that some one might be in- spired to write an American Mar- seillaise, with power to awaken Amer- ican manhood and womanhood to the fact that American freedom is worth fighting for. Englishmen proudly boast that “Britons never will be slaves.” What have our American pacifists to say about Americans meekly taking their orders from Berlin? R. R. Robinson. 2+ Cut the Bonds of Liberty. To say a Liberty Bond is a sword to cut Liberty’s Bonds is not merely a figure of speech. It is a literal truth. Liberty, bound by lack of funds, is fet- tered, shackled, chained in the most shameful way! Liberty, beautiful, free Liberty, bound, ought to be a con- tradiction of terms! We can make it so. It is our duty, even more than it is our privilege, to forge a sword, better, finer than any Damascus or Toledo blade, that will sever the dis- graceful bonds and free forever our liberty and the liberty of all civiliza- tion. And we can do it without a cent of expense to ourselves. Give Liberty enough to buy her freedom, and yet spend nothing. For buying a Liberty Bond is not spending, it is saving; more, it is investing. Why hesitate to put your money where it is sure of a fair interest, where it is safe from your own oft-regretted extrava- gance and from your prodigal friends’ wily pleas for borrowing? To be sure, this is the selfish view. But human nature is selfish. To hu- man nature, therefore, we say, buy Liberty Bonds for your own benefit. Buy Liberty Bonds to help your ccuntry in her need! Help forge the great sword that will cut the Bonds of Liberty even as Alexander cut the Gordian knot! Figures of speech, you say? Very well; then let yours be the speech of figures! Money talks!! Carolyn Wells. —2 2+ +___ Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans, and Potatoes. 3uffalo, Oct. 24—Creamery butter extras, 4414(@45c; first 43@44c; com. mon, 41@42c; dairy, common to choice, 35@40c; dairy, poor to com- mon, all kinds, 32@85c. Cheese—No. 1. new, 1 fancy, 26@ 26™%c; choice, 25%4c@26c. Eggs—Choice. new laid, 44@45c; fancy hennery, 50@58c. Poultry (live) —Fowls, 20@24c: chicks, 24@28c; old cox, 17@18c; ducks, 21@25c. Beans—Medium, $9.00@9.50: peas, $8 50@9.00; Red Kidnev, $7.00; White Kidney, $8.00@8.50; Marrow, $9.00@ 9.50. Potatoes—New, $1.40@1.60 per bu. Rea & Witzig. «a October 24, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Retail Merchant Must do his duty in making subscription to the Second Liberty Loan. He of all men should buy war bonds to the limit of his resources, be- cause the investment is secure, the interest rate is fair and the cause is the greatest which ever confronted the men of this world. The possession of these bonds relieves the average investor from taxation to the extent of his holdings. Every merchant—no matter how small or large his business may be—should contribute to the cause of human freedom. Your jobber will in all probability be willing to take over your bonds in liquidation of your account in case you get in a tight place and wish to relieve yourself from the investment. Many mer- chants who subscribed for the First Loan have subscribed for the Second Loan, but we must have hundreds of additional subscriptions in order to secure the amount we are expected to raise in this district. You can take any denomination desired and pay for same at the rate of 2 per cent. a week. At the end of 50 weeks the bond will be yours, our boys at the front will have been properly supported and our country will have been saved from invasion by a foe which is actuated by the most inhuman motives the world has ever known. After you have decided on the amount of bonds you can take, urge your clerks and store assistants to do their part also. Buy These Bonds! Grand Rapids Liberty Loan Committee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Movements of Merchants. Morrice—C. O. Robinson has engaged in the business of potato buying. Belding—N. P. Maloney & Co. have engaged in the produce business. Scottville—A. Kiedo opened a restaurant and cigar store in the Miller building. has Allegan—Durand & Co. are closing out their stock of meats and will retire from business. Paw Paw E. R. Laverty has closed out his stock of bazaar goods and re- moved to Niles Stanton—Lewis E. Brown has added lines of hosiery and underwear to his stock of bazaar goods. Charlotte—The Hancock Manufactur- ing Co., making brass automobile ac- cessories, sustained a loss of about $4 000 by fire Oct. 21. Fremont—E. M. his stock of harness and harness acces- sories to Ross Hartwell, who will con- tinue the business. Paw Paw—E, B. Lonewell has sold stock and Clapp & possession. Vaughan, has sold store fixtures Co., who have his grocery in ©. OB: taken Jackson—C. A. Shehan will open a drug store at 220 South Mechanic street, Oct. 27, under the style of the Shehan Pharmacy. Red Jacket—Joseph Vlasich has op- ened a men’s furnishing goods, cloth- ing and shoe store in his store build- ing at 611 Scott street. Detroit—The Maurice W. Fox Co., automobile dealers, 156 Milwaukee ave- nue, has increased its capital stock from $60,000 to $120,000. Owosso—Charles A. Lawrence, conducts a department store, suffered a loss by fire, of $30,000 to his stock Oct. 20. who The loss is covered by insurance. Hancock—Michelotti & will open a restaurant and ice cream par- the building Nov. 1 under the style of the Roma Restau- rant. Jackson—E. W. Chapin, cigar dealer at 161 West Main street, had the con- cy lor in Rouleau tents of his cash register taken by thieves, who broke into the store, Oct. 18. Fremont—Allison TI. his interest in Miller has sold the Fremont Auto Co. to his partner, Robert F. Southard, who will continue the business under the same style. Alma—The Francis O. Lindquist Co., of Grand Rapids, has leased a store in the Merchants Building Co. block and will occupy it about Nov. 1 with a stock of clothing. Alma—FEarl grocery Winslow Bros., will close it out at special sale, pre- paratory to occupying the store build- ing with a stock of drugs, Crampton has sold his stock to who ore ea Seem cee Rhodes—The Rhodes Elevator Co. has been merged into a stock corporation with an authorized capitalization of $5,000, $3,000 of which has been sub- scribed and paid in in cash. : Lennon—The Lennon Elevator Co. has been organized with an author- ized capital stock of $25,000, which amount has been subscribed, $23,507.- 56 paid in in cash and $1,492.44 in property. Holland—A. M. Tood is erecting a large cement building for a hemp fac- tory which he expects to have ready for business about Dec. 1, to manufac- ture the product of his 300 acre hemp held m Ganges. Alma—Nassar Bros., who conduct a wholesale fruit and vegetable business) have sold their stock of Fortino Bros., who will continue the business in con- nection with their retail confectionery and fruit store. Detroit—The Detroit Jewish Stock Co., 1140 Penobscot building, has been incorporated to conduct theaters with an authorized capitalization of $5,000, which amount has been subscribed, $2,000 being paid in in cash. Manistique— Lawrence Beaudoin has sold his meat stock and butcher’s equipment to Levine Bros., who will add a line of groceries to the stock and continue the business as a branch to their Riverside ‘Grocery. Bad Axe—Willard Babcock, of De- troit, has purchased an interest in the I’, W. Hubbard & Co. properties at this place and Palms. The enterprise in- cludes the general store, banks, grain elevators and several store buildings. Grand Haven—C. M. Nay has pur- the interest of his partner, William Klocksein, in the meat mar- ket of Klocksein & Nay and will con- tinue the business at the same location on Washington street, under his own name, Detroit—John J. Uller, engaged in the wholesale poultry business at 415 Russell street, has merged’ it into a stock company to be conducted un- der the style of the John J. Uller Co., with an authorized capitalization of $20,000, all of which has been scribed and paid in. chased sub- Coldwater—Straight & Swain have sold their clothing stock to Harrison and Roy Fletcher, who conduct a clothing store at Ypsilanti under the style of Fletcher & Fletcher. The Celdwater store will be conducted under the same style, with Harrison Fletcher as manager. Detroit—W. T. M. Weir, engaged in dry goods and men’s furnishing business at 1540 Warren avenue, has merged his business into a stock com- pany under the style of the Weir Co., with an authorized capital stock of $12,000, of which $6,350 has been sub- scribed and paid in in cash. Clare—H. E. Chatterton, formerly engaged in the farm produce business at Mt. Pleasant, has merged his busi- ness into a stock company under the style of the Clare Hay, Grain & Bean Co., with an authorized capitalization of $10,000, of which $5,000 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Manufacturing Matters. Saginaw—Bliss & Van Auken are re- building their flooring plant, which was recently destroyed by fire. Detroit—The Larrowe Construc- tion Co. has increased its capital stocx from $30,000 to $300,000. : Detroit—The Republic Knitting Mills has been organized with an au- thorized capitalization of $50,000, which amount has been subscribed, $30,000 being paid in in cash. Ludington—Lubetsky Bros. & Kleiner will erect a two-story brick and steel cigar factory on the corner of Dowland and George streets at a cost of about $20,000. They expect to occupy it about Jan. 1. Detroit—The John Schlaff Cream- ery Co. has been organized with an authorized capital stock of $500,000, of which $388,500 has been subscrib- ed, $8,910.33 paid in in cash and $329,- 589.67 in property. Detroit—The Detroit Proceessing Co., 911. Dime Bank building, has been incorporated to manufacture chemicals, with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, of which $5,100 has been subscribed and $3,000 paid in in cash. Detroit—The Sherwood - Gilmore Motor Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capitalization of $60,- 000 common and $5,000 preferred, all of which has been subscribed, $1,200 being paid in in cash and $7,282 in property. Charlotte—Warren Stoddard has be- gun suit in Circuit Court, asking for the dissolution of the Eaton Rapids Foundry Co., which was incorporated in 1908. Mr. Stoddard claims he is the heaviest stockholder and also the largest creditor, having loaned the com- pany $6,000. Holland—Anton Seif, Jr., has con- verted the Holland City Brewery into a cheese factory, which will open for business Nov. 1, under the style of the Holland Cheese Co. The company will also make butter and for this purpose has purchased the Rusk creamery, Northeast of town. Menominee—Operations have been started at the Menominee River Sugar Co. and, while the season is somewhat late this year, the supply of beets is much larger than in 1916, due to the re- sponse of beet growers in this section to the request by the Government that more sugar be produced this year, su that the United States can furnish more sweets to her Allies. The plant will operate about seventy-five days and will supply more than its quota of the sugar to be asked of the United States. —_++.___ Late Bank News. St, Clair Heights—The First State Bank of St. Clair Heights has been organized with an authorized capital- ization of $50,000. October 24, 1917 Alma—Karl R. Adams, Assistant Cashier at the Alma State Bank, has been elected Cashier of the institu- tion. Pinconning—The State Bank has increased its capital stock from $25,- 000 to $30,000. Mason—F. E. Densmore who has been Cashier of the First State and Savings Bank of Mason since its or- ganization in 1890, has tendered his resignation and J. B. Dean, Assistant Cashier has been advanced to the po- sition of Cashier. Ovid—The State Savines Bank has increased its capital stock from $25,- 000 to $50,000. Burlington—The Burlington State Bank has been organized with a cap- ital stock of $25,000. More Call For Fine Worsteds. There are said to be quite a vol- ume of reorders coming in for fine worsteds from manufacturers of men’s clothing. It seems that this is due, in great part, to the manufacturers having taken comparatively small lots of these fabrics earlier in the season because of the high prices they commanded, which it was felt would not be paid by the retail cus- tomers. Apparently, however, they were wrong in this premise, for men’s suits of the higher grades are moving freely, and as a result manufacturers have had to replenish their depleted stocks of these fabrics to meet the demand. —_++-~>____- Rich Fabrics in Evening Frocks. Simplicity of line, which is in strong contrast to the rich fabrics used, is the feature of the fall season in eve- ning gowns. According to reports from local manufacturers, metal cloths, beaded tulles and brilliant vel- vets in attractive color combinations are used in gowns made along straight narrow lines. Soft draperies in ap- propriate shades appear, but with no suggestion of the bustle silhouette in the best sellers. Fur trimming, as in less formal dresses and suits, is said to be very popular. —_+2++—_____ The starvation of England by the U-boats has by this time passed into a highly speculative future, even ac- cording to Tirpitz. But it is doubt- ful whether at any time even Tirpitz expected to starve out England. The principal purpose was undoubtedly to hamper the conduct of the war on land. Official figures for the third quarter of the year show that 2,642 British vessels have been diverted from normal trade to regular or auxil- iary naval service, Since the Admir- alty has been taking over the larger and swifter ships we may safely as- sume the same average of 4,500 tons to the ship that we have used in cal- culating the destruction of tonnage by the submarines. This would show nearly 12,000,000 tons diverted to war purposes. Before England consented to accept a peace of starvation she would have brought back into the food service several millions of this tonnage. It would have seriously af- fected the millitary plans of the Allies, but it would have nullified the unfounded hope of a British collapse upon which the German people have heen fed. sha ae en weten nes anpamengag one SIN 8TH MaRS SuhmONtET gee: otets lethaeyen weqedn see wee: t+ € > , 4 >» 4 * 4 oo < o9¢ a " » 6 a Ny fe a q >» > ok <7 - ¢ > 4, ? ag , & “a q Po 4 _ fr < ’ sR ‘ 4 Py ‘ € , , 4 » 4 + « 4 > > < S86 y a . " > & a Ny ‘* 4 q ey « . 4 > a * a q & ° ‘ , + + * a in 4 . October 24, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 we se ses ee — a 2 po e x ’ ba Pry | 4 awry, \ . A = bie Review of the Grand Rapids Produce Market. Apples—Wolf River fetch $1.75 per bu.; Winesaps and York Imperials, $2 per bu.; Baldwins, Greenings and Wagners, $5.50 per bbl; Northern Spys, $6 per bbl. Bananas—$4.34 per 100 Ibs. Beets—$1.40 per bu. Butter—The market is steady on a decline of 2c. The receipts of fresh creamery are very moderate and grad- ually decreasing. There has been a fairly active demand, with a cleaning up of most of the receipts of fresh creamery butter. There has also been considerable butter withdrawn from the cold storage warehouses during the. past week. No material change is looked for in the butter situation in the near future. Local dealers hold extra cream- ery at 42c in tubs and 43c in prints. Centralized brings 1c less. Local deal- ers pay 38c for No. 1 in jars and 33c for packing stock. Cabbage—Home grown, 75c per bu. Carrots—75c per bu. Cauliflower—$2 per doz. Celery—20c per bunch. Celery Cabbage—10c per bunch. Eggs—The market is very firm, due to extreme light receipts of fancy fresh eggs and a good consumptive demand for same. Receipts of fine eggs are cleaning up daily. The market on stor- age eggs is somewhat unsettled at this writing, due to a surplus in the various warehouses throughout the country. We do not look for any great change in either the fresh or storage egg market. Local dealers pay 37%c for fresh, loss off, incluling cases. Cold storage oper- ators are putting out their stocks on the following basis: Extras, candled, 38c; first, 37c¢; seconds, 35c. Figs—10 lb. layers, $1.65; 20 8 oz. packages, $1.85. Grape Fruit—$6.50 per box for all sizes Floridas. Grapes—Wordens, Concords and Niagaras commond 22c for 8 lb. climax baskets and $2 per doz. 4 Ib. baskets; Delawares, $3 per doz. California Tokays command $2 per crate. Green Onions—18c _ per bunches for home grown. Green Peppers—50c per basket. Honey—22c per lb. for white clover and 20c for dark. ‘Lemons—Calffornia selling at $7 for choice and $7.50 for fancy, Lettuce—15c per lb. for hot house leaf; $2.50 per hamper for New York head. Limes—$2 per 100 for Italian. Maple Syrup—$1.75 dozen per gal. for pure. Mushrooms—75c per lb. Musk Melons—California honey dew $2.50 per crate of 6 to 10. Nuts—Almonds, 21c per Ib.; filberts 20c per lb.; pecans, 19c per lb.; wal- nuts 19c for Grenoble; Brazils, 18c: Mixed Nuts, 16%c. Onions—Home grown command $3.25 per 100 Ib. sack; Spanish, $2 per crate. Oranges—California Valencias, $4@ 4.25. Peaches—Smocks, Lemon _ Frees and Gold Drops, command $1.25@ 1.50 per bu.; New York Elbertas fetch $2 per bu. Pickling Stock—Onions, $1.50 per box. Pears—Sickles, Anjous and Duchess command $2 per bu.; Keerers, 1.25@ 1.50 per bu. Potatoes—$1.35 per bu. Poultry—Local dealers pay as fol- lows, 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 above quotations. Radishes—15c per doz. bunches for small. Sweet Potatoes—$4.75 Virginia. average 3c per bbl. for Tomatoes—75c per bu. for green. —_—-2.->——__ The Grocery. Market. Sugar—The market is still in a cha- otic condition, but the situation is likely to be simplified within the next two weeks, due to the introduction of beet granulated. Nearly if not all of the Michigan factories have started this week and will be able to make ship- ments early next week. have only a few bags of sugar on hand and are doling it out sparingly. The same is true of local retailers, most of whom confine their sales to 5 pounds at Local jobbers a time. The price of beet sugar will be 7i4c at the factory, plus the New York freight rate to destination. This aver- ages about %4c, so sugar will cost the jobber approximately 7%4c. The jobber is permitted to add only %c profit. which will force him to make sales at ap- proximately 734c. The retailer will not be allowed to sell granulated at more than 9c. Tea—Little ness has come up for attention and no price changes have occurred. The tone is steady to firm, with brokers still op- timistic on the outlook for the imme- diate future. There are vague hints of developments of an important character in prospect. Coffee—The market is still very dull and weak, the quotation on No. 7 Rio, green and in large quantities, being 8c. No. 4 Santos, an equally standard grade of that coffee, is quoted in the same way at 9'%4c. These prices are extreme- ly low; in fact, are almost down to the cost of production, but it seems impos- more than routine busi- sible to get them up in view of the small demand and the very large avail- able supply. Buyers are taking stock merely for actual seems to be willing to anticipate his wants. Java and Mocha are steady to firm and unchanged. Canned Fruit—There are only light offerings of all the fruits and the mar- ket remains strong. Gallon apples are still in demand but are hard to find. Canned Fish—There is active demand at the moment in com- parison with the recent activity, but the trade has no fear of all the salmon being that The market remains strong on the basis of needs, as nobody HOL a VOry wanted can be furnished. quoted prices. Dried Fruits—Two showing themselves in the dried fruit situation which may become impor- tant. The first is that of transporta- tion, the reports of which coming from the Coast offer very little en- couragement. The shortage is giving all concerned considerable worriment and especially the railroads which depend upon the movement of the California crops for a considerable portion of their revenue. The other Factors are car factor is the heavy demand being made by the Government for dried fruit for army rations, and their heavy purchases are causing further shipments to the trade, as they must be given prefer- ence. All of this has a tendency to hold the spot situation firm, as deal- ers say that supplies remaining from the old crop may be needed if new crop supplies do not come forward fast enough, While there have been arrivals thus far, they have been only the beginning, with little to hope for in the way of the irreg 1- lar continuance. Prunes continue firm, but there have been no advances of any moment. Raisins are firm, but the trade is waiting for new arrivals. Peaches and apricots are also in de- mand and firm. delays in regular some Rice—In the absence of spot supplies of any consequence buyers are unable to cover urgent necessities and prices are nominal. Reports from the South indicate no letting up in the conditions that have brought record high prices for the season’s beginning and the tendency here is consequently toward higher lev- els as present spot quotations leave a margin of profit that is always neg- ligible. Cheese—The market is steady, quota- tions ranging about 1c per pound lower on the various styles, due to a good supply and a light consumptive demand. The fresh receipts, crease in quantity and also however, show de- MmOFre OF less defective quality, due to poor pas- We do the near consump- turage in producing sections. not look for any change in future. tive demand and some export enquiry. Corn Syrup—Business for prompt de- livery is still restricted. tive, having been decidedly stimulated by the scarcity of sugar. Provisions—The market on firm, quotations ranging the same as last week. Pure lard is in light supply, with a fair consumptive demand. The local packers are cleaning up their daily make every day. The market on com- There is a gcod home Demand is ac- lard is pound is very firm, due to shortage of the raw product and a good consumptive demand. in this commedity, as it is gradually Higher prices are looked for becoming scarcer. The consumption is generally improving, due to the extreme high prices of pure hog lard. The mar- ket on smoked meats is very firm, with a good consumptive demand and mod- erate supply. Local packers are killing only enough for their immediate needs. Barreled pork is very firm, with quota- tions ranging about 50c@$1 per barrel higher. There is a moderate supply and a good consumptive demand. Drief beet is steady, with unchanged quotations, there being a fair supply and a good consumptive demand... Canned meats very firm at unchanged quotations, with a light supply and a good consumptive demand. Salt Fish—Mackerel scarce and very firm and high. are extremely Some shores are coming in at $33@34 per barrel, in a large way, for small sizes. This is probably $10 per barrel above Some fish are about to the Magdalen wil also range about $10 above normal. normal. come in. from Islands which Treland is also sending mackerel over $28@29 per barrel, this Cod demand shortly, but is not here at around being from $1011 above normal. wil! be in figuring to any extent yet. ———>+.____ The Bean Situation. On account of the lateness of the in- coming crop, the market in beans has ruled rather firm. However, it is ex- pected that the Government will sooner or later put a price on beans, and while nothing definite has been decided, gos- sip would indicate that the the $7 new beans so far price will be around mark. Receipts of have been compara- tively light, with a fair demand, which has had more or less to do with keep- ing the market in a very firm condition. Beans from all angles are selling at a much less price than we are asking for Michigan beans right now and it that are i a position to lower this price, California, would seem unless we Colorado, New York State and others will be getting the business which right- fully belongs to Michigan. South American beans are being offer- ed out of New York City from $1@3 per bushel below the price of Michigan taken, in a great account of their E. L. Wellman. beans and are being many instances, on food value. ——_+--<__ Timely Warning By Local Revenue Collector. Grand Rapids, Oct. 23—It would be of interest to your readers if you would publish the fact (unless you have already done so) that all single persons having net annual income of $1,000 or more and all married per- sons having a net annual income of $2,000 or more must on or. before March 31, 1918, make return thereof to this office for the year 1917. They will not be required to pay tax, how- ever, except on the excess over these figures, In order to receive the prop er blanks at the proper time, they should send their names to this of- fice to be placed upon the mailing list. It would also be of interest.to vour readers if you would publish the fact that. the documentary stamps required by the new revenue law to be used after Dec. 1, 1917, will be on sale:ai the various postoffices throughout. Emanuel J: Doyle: MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 24, 1917 UPPER PENINSULA. Recent News of the Cloverland of Michigan. Sault Ste. Marie, Oct. 22—Business at the Soo is evidently good with John D. under the efficient manage- ment of Paddy Moher. It is neces- sary that a new office building, garage, barn and wagon shed be put up in addition to the present warehouse to take care of the largely increasing business at the Soo. This will set John D. back about $10,000 when com- pleted, and from present indications the automobiles will be able to get plenty of gasoline during the winter. Clinton Collins, for many years a well-known representative for the National Biscuit Co. here until about four years ago, when he entered into the candy business, which was discon- tinued on account of Mr. Collins or- ganizing the Chippewa Automobile Co., of which he was manager, which position he held until last week, has accepted a more profitable position with a Detroit automobile company as salesman, makiny his headquarters at Seattle. Mr. Collins will be greatly missed here, as he was active in the Good Roads Association of Chippewa county ‘and prominent in civic mat- ters. Friends tendered Mr. and Mrs, Collins a farewell dinner, wishing them every success in their new field. Escanaba is to have a new broom factory built on the property leased by A. J. Pippin for that purpose. The new company will install a broom manufacturing plant formerly located at Stephenson and will employ at least fifteen men as a starter. John W. Moffley has been appointed Secretary of the War Council for Chippewa county, to succeed Stanley Bullivant, whose removal from the city necessitated his resignation. With wheat so precious and neces- sary to our Allies, it seems that we in America should readily ‘“acknowl- edge the corn.” D, K. Moses proprietor of the Leader store here, but now living in New York was a business visitor here last week. Mr. Moses is always glad to get back to the Soo, which always looks good to him. The Dunham & King mill, at Drum- mond Island, has been purchased by a Bay City firm and from information received will probably be in opera- tion during the coming winter. The Bailey mill, also at Drummond, is again in operation. With the above two mills operating this winter, Drummond Island will be a lively place. J. R. Berry, well-known merchant of Oak Ridge Park, has taken a large contract to lumber the timber owned by J. L. Lynch, near Trombley. “Many a man who is sure he is right lacks energy to go ahead.” Clyde Hecox, the well-known editor of the St. Ignace Enterprise, was a business visitor here last week. He assured the hunters the deer will be more plentiful than in other seasons, ‘while the partridge hunting has been almost a complete failure this fall, with but few exceptions. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hopkins, pro- prietors of the Woodcraft store, at the Snows, have closed their place of business for the winter and expect to spend the winter in the South, re- turning early in the spring to get ready for the summer season. Erard Bros., well-known jewelers at St. Ignace, are retiring from busi- ness, selling off their entire stock of jewels, fixtures, etc. They have not mentioned any plans for the future as yet. John LaPlaunt, of St. Ignace, has opened a barber shop in the Metevier building, on State street. A new front is being put in the building, which will add to the beauty of the street. Richard Doud, son of James Doud, of the Doud Mercantile Co., Mackinac Island, died last week after an opera- tion. Mr. Doud clerked in the store for a number of years and leaves a large circle of friends besides the parents to mourn his loss. “Money talks, but it seldom comes uncalled.” Menominee sends in the report that Charles Salewsky has started digging his potatoes, which are averaging about 500 bushels to the acre, which is over 100 bushels per acre over last year’s yield. If others are aver- aging as well we can well afford an- other meatless day and get the habit of making potato bread. Coal Administrator Garfield prom- ises to raise prices on bituminous and lower same on anthracite. That’s hard. “Some people worry enough, but don’t worry early enough.” At least, that’s what our credit men tell us. William G. Tapert. _—_.--.>__ Local Grocery Store Changes Owner- ship. Arthur Cox, grocer at 747 Scrib- ner avenue, has sold his stock to Stoel M. Frost, who has already taken pos- session. Mr. Frost was born in Paris township, Kent county, March 4, 1858. He attended the Patterson school house and completed his edu- cation at Lisbon, coming to Grand Rapids in 1881 to take a clerical posi- tion with the grocery house of Her- rick & Randall. After working three and one half years for this firm, he entered the employ of Rice & Moon, with whom he remained two years. The Parmenter & Ireland grocery store claimed his attention for the next year, when he effected a sale of the stock to W. P. Sessions, who continued the business for a year under the management of Mr. Frost. The next four years were spent with the wholesale grocery house of the Ball-Barnhart-Putnam Co. He then removed to Cleveland, where he was employed four years by W. P. South- worth. Another year was devoted to the service of the Hoyt-Kent-Sefton Co.. when he returned to Michigan and managed the Kirtzer store, at Newaygo, for two years. Since then he has been connected with the gro- cery department of the I. M. Smith Mercantile Co. and other local mer- cantile houses. Mr. Frost was mar- ried to Miss Frances Edwards, of Medina, Ohio, in the fall of 1897. He has two daughters, both of whom are married and reside in California. He resides at the corner of Third and Turner streets, belongs to the Woodman and attends the Baptist church—when he goes to church. a Boomlets From Bay City. Bay City, Oct. 22—James A. Pel- ton, hardware dealer at Bentley, has sold his branch store at Rhodes to John Levandoski, formerly of Mid- land City, who took possession Oct. a5. H. A, Hardy, of the Hardy Music Co., Standish, has moved to Bay City and will engage in the same line busi- ness here. D. D. Pattie, Ruscommon, has soid a half interest in his drug stock to H. J. DeWaele. The business will be continued under the name of D. D. Pattie & Co. The members of Bay Council show- ed they are patriotic and are standing by President Wilson by voting to purchase a $500 Liberty Bond. The many friends of Past Coun- selor R, S. Richards will be pleased to learn that he has recovered from an attack of rheumatism which con- fined him to his home for eight weeks. He will start Mcndav on his North- ern Michigan trip. W. T. Ballamy. Activities in Michigan Cities. Written for the Tradesman. The growth of Flint is shown by the fact that of the forty-three build- ings now in use for school purposes, twenty-eight are temporary buildings which are made use of until new schools can be erected. The new shipyard at Manistee has started operations and will soon be employing 300 men, confining its op- erations to rebuilding barges for ocean-going purposes. Adrian has been advised by the lo- cal light and power company that the price charged for steam is advanced from 45c to 75c per thousand pounds because of the high price of coal. The city will probably contest this action. People operating taxis at Ann Ar- bor have asked the City Council for an amended ordinance permitting higher rates, because of increased op- erating expenses. The Escanaba Broom Co. has start- ed operations at Escanaba, employing fifteen men. This plant was former- ly located at Stephenson. The postoffice at Pontiac has been made the central accounting office for Oakland county, which makes this office headquarters for all supplies and stamps used in twenty-nine post- offices, or all the other postoffices of the county except Royal Oak, Bir- mingham and Oxford. Affairs of the bank at Dowagiac which failed ten years ago, with $275.,- 000 due to 930 creditors, will be final- ly wound up at Kalamazoo Nov. 12. Trustee Kimmerle has paid seven dividends to creditors. Members of the Arbeiter Band, Sagmaw, at a recent meeting unani- mcusly endorsed the purchase of Lib- erty Bonds. Jitney buses operate from Alma to nearby towns, doing a thriving business. It is said that almost half of St. Louis is working in Alma now and are carried back and forth by the gas gulls. A special livestock demonstration train is being operated this week over the Mackinaw division of the Michi- gan Central Railroad under the au- spices of the Northeastern Michigan Development Bureau. The village of Manchester has enacted an ordinance forbidding rail- way trains from running through the corporation limits at a rate exceeding twelve miles per hour. More than 500 students enrolled during first week of the evening schools at Jackson and signs point to a record-breaking year. Type- writing is most popular, with stenog- raphy second. The brewery at Holland, after fifty years of making “suds,” is being con- verted into a cheese factory, to be operated under the name of the Hol- land Cheese Co., with Anton Sief, Jr., at the head. The company by Nov. 1 will begin turning out full cream, Leyden and Neufchatel cheese and arrangement has already been made with jobbers of Chicago, Milwaukee and elsewhere to handle this product. The company will also go into but- ter-making and for this purpose has bought the Rusk creamery, northeast of Holland. The village of Morrice has adopted an ordinance requiring street peddlers to pay a_license fee of $5 per month. The Laughray Silo Co., of Port- land, has voted to add $7,500 to its capital stock and will enlarge the plant. Thirty members of the Litchfield high school military company recent- ly marched to the Adams farm, near town, and assisted in digging 5,000 bushels of potatoes. They were paid for their services and were given a big dinner at noon. The Manisteean is the title of the new official paper of the Manistee Board of Commerce. Scottville has opened a new build- ing which serves many useful pur- poses, including city hall, jail, fire headquarters, rest room and com- munity hall. Almond Griffen. ——__++-—__- Educational Features of the Good Hioomes Show. The public educational exhibit now being arranged for by President Kurtzworth and the teachers of the school will be an exhibit of the events of the various schools, citizens creed and better homes. In the grade schools art work on home planning and home manage- ment, decorations, and better color schemes will be in charge of Miss Calkins and the grade school teach- ers. Cooking in the grade schools and sewing will be handled through exhibits and booths. Also a number of talks and lectures in the theater. Manual training in the grade schools will show furniture making by the boys, designing and drawing by the boys, etc. The high school department takes up the higher work of drawing and designing, of various exhibits and per- sonal demonstrations. The manual training department of the high school includes architectural drawing, furniture making, carving and wood working, etc. The domestic science department of the high school will be one of the best features of the educational ex- hibit and will comprise cooking, sew- ing, dress making, millinery _ work, house work, etc. Standard meals along the war times will be prepared. Models of dress making work will be shown. These exhibits all combined will make up a most wonderful collection of lessons, in the school of Grand Rapids. A large space will be given for the Industrial School for a liberal arts exhibit. —_+>+—____ Chicago’s stockyards report as one result of the war an enormous in- crease in the number of girls and women employed; Morris & Co. have authorized the statement that they have 7,000 of them, or three times aS many as a year ago. The new workers are in very large part at tasks upon which only men were recently employed. To meet the necessity of avoiding belts, closing doors, open machinery, and so on, the plant de- signed what it calls feminalls, and after some preliminary reluctance the women have taken to them in creasing numbers. in- Meanwhile, wom- en have been introduced into Chicago hotels in the capacity of elevator run- ners, and are giving excellent service. t October 24, 1917 Seasonable Scint/llations From Saline Saginaw. Saginaw, Oct. 22—Saturday night will long be remembered in U, C. T. circles, as it was one the livest meet- ings held in months. To be sure, the ladies were to a great degree re- sponsible for the large attendance (as usual, if you want a turn-out, just Say eats), as they gave a pot luck supper and certainly they are to be commended for the way they. han- dled the affair. Promptly at 7:30 the meeting was called to order by act- ing Senior Counselor H. D. Ranney. The following new applications were received: Lawrence W. Lambertson (repre- senting Symons Bros. & Co.). Joseph R. La Forge, 519 South Kenney street, Mt. Pleasant (repre- senting Symons Bros. & Co.). Frank Whaley, Wesley Hotel, Sag- inaw (representing Hart Bros.), After the regular line of business was finished, the initiation of candi- dates was in order, four being present to take the work, as follows: P. G. Cook, Saginaw, box 62 (repre- senting Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co, Chicago). Raleigh Griffith, Saginaw (repre- senting the Cornwall Co.). Fred Rollands, Saginaw (represent- ing A. Krolik & Co., Detroit). Chas. W. Adams, 428 South Park, on (representing U. S, Graphite Co.). During the initiation of candidates the surprise of the evening occurred, Mark Brown entered, accompanied by Eugene Welch, of Kalamazoo, one of Michigan’s most energetic and en- thusiastic U. C. T.’s. Mr. Brown ar- rived just in time to bestow the spe- | cial rites of the occasion on a new member, P. G. Cook. If any one can make the cold chills run up your spine, he surely can by his eloquent and impressive delivery. Owing to the death of Wm. Mc- Gregor, S. C., and the resignation of Mike Conoton, J. C., an election was held, with the following result: Senior Counselor—O. C. Gould, who is a P. S.C. Mr. Gould lives at 316 Cherry street and represents the In- ternational Harvester Co., and the way he started out makes any one envy him his way of doing things. The Junior station was filled by the election of Frank Bremer, one of our (not has beens but will be’s) boys who is always ready to do his bit toward helping to build a still mightier and greater order. Mr, Bremer is con- nected with the Saginaw Sheet Metal Works, East Genesee avenue, Sagi- naw. George A. Pitts was elected Con- ductor. He is a most conscientious and willing worker, who will fill the office with credit to himself and the Council. He sells for the Saginaw Milling Co. Dan McArthur, another of our live wires, was placed at the Page’s sta- tion by unanimous vote. He has al- ways been a hard worker for No. 43 and if he is as earnest in his work for Morley Bros. as for the U. C. T.’s, we know they realize his worth in the sales force. The last office to be filled, that of Sentinel. afforded the only real con- test of the evening. Mark Brown, in a sterling manner, nominated Bert Rutherford. H. D. Ranney put in nomination the name of one of our young and enterprising business men, Orin Leidlien, the Thumb representa- tive for Lee & Cady, Saginaw, but Bert had a little longer reach than Orin, so nosed him out of the race. In electing Mr. Rutherford to this office, No. 43 has taken another step forward and the boys of old No. 43 will feel well repaid for the confi- dence they have bestowed in this man when in a few years he will be filling the Senior Counselor chair. The next high spot of the evening came when Eugene Welch, ex-mem- ber of the State of the Order of the Supreme Council, told us in his lik- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN able manner of the shining stars of Saginaw Council, alluding to such men as_ Foley, Brown, Ranney, Mercer, Rutherford and the men of the Council as a whole, especially complimenting us on our ways of conducting our business. .We gladly and rightly confer on Mr. Welch the title of Czar of Michigan, II, and his presence here is always welcome. Fred Strutz announced that the first dance of the season would be held Saturday evening, Nov. 3. The hall has not been selected yet. Watch for late announcements. Boys, plan on being there and help Mr. Strutz make these entertainments a complete success. For the earnest work he and his co-workers have done so fay this year they deserve a lot of credit. No. 43 is planning on a big rally day at the January meeting. At this time the degree team from No. 143 will be on hand, as now planned. Cadillac Council is one of the real councils of the State and its degree team is, speaking plainly, a bird, so get busy and get a big bunch for them to work on. To make this meeting deubly interesting plans are being laid to have Gov. Albert Sleeper pres- ent, he being a member of Saginaw Council. Altogether now, push, pull and boost. A, M. Roberts, formerly in the gro- cery business on Asylum street, Flint, has moved his stock on the Fenton road, R. F. D. from Flint. Dollar day in Saginaw was a com- plete success this year and it is doubt- ful if Billy Sunday were to come here, whether he would prove as big a drawingcardas Harry Gardner, the hu- man fly. It is claimed that 30,000 people witnessed his three dare devil performances. M. V. (Mike) Foley, who for the past several years has represented the Saginaw Custom Shirt Co.. has ac- cepted a position with the Wm. Mooney Shirt Co., of Grand Rapids. the Saginaw concern having gone out of business. Stack & O’Connell, merchants at Lennon, have dissolved partnership Mr. Stack buying out Mr. O’Connell The latter soes on a farm. J. W. Harwood, of Harbor Beach has sold his meat market to Mr Hamlin. of the same city, who wil! conduct the husiness under the name of Hamlin’s Market. Mr. Hamlin is also agent for the Dodge car. Watch Saginaw county in the great- est race ever run, the contest being staged between Liberty Bonds on one side and Kaiser Helldom on the other. Score to be reported at » later date. L. F. Johnson, Caseville grocer, has sold ont to Mr Sternberg of the same citv Charles Waconlander. one of the eldest grocers in Flint has disposed of his store to John Manke, on the Richfield road. W. S. Lawton. of Grand Rapids, our Past Grand Counselor of Michi- gan, was in the city on business the past week, T F Wolf. hardware dealer at Mt Clemens and Secretary of the R. T. & V. 1D. Association. was here last week, attending the State conven- tion. Wm Terpien. vounsest memher ot the sales force of the National Grocer Co, this city. is having a hard time explaining to his friends and custom- ers that it was his hrother and not he who was married last week. Most every one he meets wants to congratulate him and in return. of course, expects a wedding cigar. At the present price of cigars, Bill says no wedding bells for him. Fred Crowe, implement dealer at Owosso, was in Saginaw attending the State convention of the R. I. & V_ OD. Association. He is one of the directors of the Association. S: H. Hamady is the proud owner of the finest equipped grocery store in Flint. His store is located on Glenwood avenue. Hammon Bros., of Flint, have sold their grocery stock on Avenue A to George Hunt. Fred Rabeck & Son, of Bancroft, have sold out to W. I. Hill. H. G. Pound, owner of the Blue Front Stores, of Flint, recently bought out F. S. Baker, Saginaw and Tenth street. Don’t forget that Thanksgiving and Christmas card for our boys in the Government service. The retail grocers of Saginaw go On a Strictly cash basis Nov. 1. It was so decided at a joint meeting of the wholesalers and retailers there last week. Many interesting talks were given on various subjects by those present, the chief one being by one of Saginaw’s oldest and most en- terprising grocers, at which time he startled his hearers by announcing that he intended to go on a cash basis Nov, 1, whether the other dealers did or not. This was Thomas Ryan, on North Jefferson avenue, and prob- ably no two grocers do as big a credit business as he. It is a great under- taking, but he is fully convinced that it is the call of the hour. The time is here under preset conditions and these conditions must be met, both for his sake and that of the consumer. His plan is to help Hooverize the food question and this can best be met by doing a cash business. He recently bought the A. L. Kurtz gro- cery stock, on East Genesee avenue, and turned it into a cash-and-carry store with the result that to-day he has doubled the business formerly done by the former owner who con- ducted a credit business. E. Zimmerman, maracer of the local branch of the Loose-Wiles Bis- cuit Co.. was in Chicago. Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit on business last week, L. M. Stewart. ——_22.> He is a mean father who has his whiskers shaved off because the baby likes to pull them. 7 Pampered by Politicians, Farmers Become Artful Dodgers. The one tion is the weak spot in the situa- attitude of the tarmers. They will neither buy Liberty Bonds, pay taxes, sell their produce or fight [ have asked many out of town bank- ers who have called here about farm- ers paying taxes, and I have learned of but one instance in which a farm- er has paid an tax. They have profited throughout the entire period of the war, but are unwilling to help the Government in any of the four ways mentioned. The has income Controller of the Currency estimated the income of the United States to be about, $40,- 000,000,000. Of estimates farm produce and animals to bring a gross return of about $17,000,000.- 000. The farmers, according to this estimate, are getting 42% per cent. gross this he of the country’s income and giving nothing out of it. It is left for the Government to and sell to the remainder 5714 while the raise taxes its bonds per cent., class which as a whole has profited most escapes any burden. The farmer has been pampered by politicians until he seems to feel he is in a preferred class. He doesn’t want to buy Liberty Bonds, he doesn’t to fight and he avoids his in- come tax. It is about time the farm- er should appreciate his position in the country and help do his part in a war as much benefit as for those who are putting up the money and doing the fighting for him. E. D. Hulbert. want for his The Hand of Abraham Lincoln ples of the World, “Tt is * * * for us here to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us * * * that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.’’ Abraham Lincoln ages. The deathless spirit that guided his hand as it wrote these words remains, a heritage that none can take away from us. Citizen of the United States of Amer- ica, your Government lays before you its Bonds of the Second Liberty Loan. Yours is the most wonderful priv- ilege that has been reserved for any man —for, as your hand signs your applica- tion for one of these Bonds, it becomes the hand of Abraham Lincoln, helping to guard your own hearthstone, to wipe away the agonies of Nations, and to pre- serve for all time the liberties of the Peo- belongs to the MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 24, 1917 ¢ nlike any other paper.) Each issue Complete in Itself. DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BUSINESS MEN. Published Weekly by TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Subscription Price. Two dollars per year, if paid strictly in advance. Three dollars per year, if not paid in advance. Canadian subscriptions, $3.04 per year, payable invariably in advance. Sample copies 5 cents each. Extra copies of current issues, 5 cents; issues a month or more old, 10 cents; issues a year or more old, 25 cents; issues five years or more old, $1. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice as Second Class Matter. E. A. STOWE, Editor. October 24, 1917 WAR TAX INCONSISTENCIES. There can be no doubt but that in arranging so vast a piece of financing as the War tax and excess profits law, Congress used its best endeavor to be fair, but in spite of these ef- forts gross inequalities have crept in- to the bill, undoubtedly the result of the nervous worry of the last hours of the Congressional conference on the bill and the determined effort to get a bill before both houses rais- ing a certain amount of money. In two respects these inequalities are so self-evident that it is strange they were not taken care of. One was the levying of an 8 per cent. excess prof- its tax on everything above $6,000 income of those who have a nominal capital. It compels the professional and salaried man to carry a larger proportion of the burden of the war than do corporations. The other is in the case of salaried men when their income is fixed. They must pay up, although they cannot, as in the case with corporations, pass part of the burden on to the consumer, and they are thus obliged, in addition, to share the burdens passed on through high- er prices. The law making power cre. ating this position is distinctly unfair. Section 209 reads as follows: “That, in addition to the taxes im- posed by existing law and by this Act, in case of a business or trade having no invested capital or not more than a nominal invested capital, there shall be levied, assessed and paid in lieu of the tax imposed by this title, a tax of 8 per cent. of the net income only of such business or trade, in excess of $3,000 in case of a cor- poration, and $6,000 in case of a part- nership or individual.” As explained by a Treasury official, in this section of the new law a gen- eral tax is laid in the case individuals having trade or business, or profes- sions of 8 per cent. on all their trade or professional earnings over $6,000. Thus, for example, if a single man has an income of $10,000, he would first pay 8 per cent. on the difference be- tween $6,000 and $10,000, or $320. In computing his tax under the two reg- ular individual income tax provisions, the old law and the new, this tax of $320 would be deducted from the in- come of $10,000, and on the remainder, after deducting the exempted amount of $3,000 provided in the old law, or on the sum of $9,680 less $3,000, he would pay 2 per cent. nominal tax of the old law. “The balance in this par- ticular case,” says this authority, “would be $6,680, and 2 per cent. of this amount would be $133.60. Then, by the terms of the new income tax law, the tax payer with $10,000 in- come would have to pay another 2 per cent. on all income over the limit of $1,000 set in the new law, or 2 per cent. on $8,680. This tax would be $172.29.” Is not this whipping the devil around the stump with a vengeance? It matters not whether the salaried or professional man earned his salary during the three years before the war; he must pay anyway. This sec- tion of the bill cannot properly be call- ed an excess profits tax. In addition to this extreme tax the salaried man, as a consumer, as indicated, must pay interest taxes on all articles of con- sumption which are taxed under the new law, as these taxes will be pass- ed on to him by the manufacturer. Corporations are treated differently. They are permitted to deduct the re- turns of their business for the three pre-war years fixed by the new law up to a certain point before they are. ex- pected to pay an excess profits tax and then, if they find it too burden- some, they can secure a measure of relief through an increase in prices to customers. Not only does the law place this heavy penalty upon the salaried and professional men, but through the sin of omission specially favors the man who receives his income from invest- ed money, the remittance man, and the idle rich with plenty of income and no occupation. While it is not the desire of any loyal American hav- ing the best interests of the Nation at heart to evade his share of the bur- den of war, he has a right to expect an equitable distribution of this taxa- tion. This section of the tax law is justly criticised and the new Con- gress at its session in December should either repeal it or amend it so as to bring it within the scope of fairness. The Peoples Co-Operative Store has been organized at Holland by 300 work- men, each contributing $10 to the cap- ital stock. No person is permitted to hold more than one $10 share. Therein lies the weakness of the system. It is a fundamental theory of business that in any undertaking a dominant interest must be owned by one person or set of persons. Where this method does not prevail the project necessarily fails to accomplish the object aimed at and soon languishes and decays. The American workingman is not sufficiently disciplin- ed to entrust his money to a mass and calmly await results. Because his in- terest is as great as the others, he wants an equal voice in the management and direction of affairs and, by insisting on this right, he again verifies the truth of the old adage that too many cooks spoil the broth. eeeeenmnesesneanacaneees A nation that is unwilling to make sacrifices for others is unworthy of liberty for itself. IS PRICE FIXING WANTED? The statement from Mr. Hoover that prices must come down was not unex- pected. It was and is merely a question of time. Still it must be borne in mind that prices have been fixed by the Gov- ernment only on wheat and sugar, and that the fixing has not as yet reached the ultimate consumer. It looks like the case of coal, where also prices have been fixed but the material is not forth- coming, and bears a striking resemblance to the instance of the horse that any one person could lead to water but whom not even twenty could make drink. There are many kinds of food, of which great quantities have been grown or produced, but whose prices are high because of in- adequate transportation facilities. There are also quite a number the prices of which are artificially swollen by a re- fusal of the growers to let go of them. Every one knows the potato and bean crops of the country have been enor- mous, but still the consumer finds he must pay exorbitant prices to obtain them. In the case of another food com- modity—eggs—the price has been held at an extortionate figure by a ring of speculators who started early in the year to put the articles in cold storage and prevented them from coming to market. Although attention was called to this circumstance months ago, no ac- tion was taken to frustrate it, and now the speculators are even attempting to get the aid of the Government to uphold them in their extortion and save them from the losses they must sustain unless they obtain outside aid. They point to the fact that they paid the farmers high prices for the eggs, but fail to state that these prices were the result of their own efforts to corner the market. If now, only a prison sentence could be dangled in front of these conscience- less speculators. This brings up the question as to what kind of things the Government should attempt to fix prices for while the war continues. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States is now trying to get the opinions on this of business men connected with Boards of Trade and other commercial bodies all over the country. There are those who wish fixed prices on not only foodstuffs but also raw materials of different indus- tries just as has been done in the case of iron and steel. They say this will tend to stabilize the industries and en- able manufacturers and others to make their commitments with some sense of security. Curiously enough, when the New York Merchants’ Association Com- mittee held a public hearing on the mat- ter during the past week, not a single advocate of fixed prices appeared, but many were there to oppose the notion. It may be that what was done in the case of wheat has been rather discour- aging to those who had believed in the efficacy of the price-fixing plan by the Government. It is certain that many are not convinced that the guarantee of $2 per bushel for 1918 wheat will help toward securing a larger crop than would ordinarily be the case. There are quite likely to be persons lacking in ambition who will raise less than usual because at the high price of $2 per bushel their wants will be satisfied with what they will obtain from fewer bush- els and they will have so much less work to do. This world is made up of different kinds of people, including a number whose ambition extends little beyond their immediate needs. THE SHORTAGE OF SUGAR. To one familiar with economic his- tory there could hardly be anything more striking than the significance at this critical time of a shortage in the supply of sugar. Before the discovery of the Indies and mercantile relations with them sugar was a product hardly known to the people of Europe. In the times of Sir Walter Raleigh and Shake- speare it was a rare luxury in England. Now it is and long has been considered a necessity. It has been plentiful and cheap, and still has been made largely a luxury in its ingenious uses for re- fined tastes. A serious official statement is put out now for inducing our people to econ- omize in the use of sugar and conserve the supply for two or three months in order to keep down the price and spare enough for the absolute needs of our friends abroad, especially in France. The production for this year from the chief sources has yet to reach the mar- ket and there is a scarcity mainly due to the exhaustion of the old supply from Cuba, that from Hawaii having been abscrbed by the Pacific Coast peo- ple and the beet sugar supply being con- fined to the Middle and Far West. There is shortage all the way through and prices are up, at least double what they have been in normal times. The Food Administrator is seeking to put a strict limit not only on the price, but on the domestic sales, so that our friends abroad may be relieved. The new crop from Cuba and Porte Rico will not begin to come into the market until December, and the ex- pected amount is not less than 4,000,000 tons. The harvesting and grinding of the Louisiana cane is just beginning, and the move will be on in a month or so in Hawaii. From there 50,000 tons is expected to reach the Atlantic Coast by the beginning of the new year. Mean- time the beet sugar product will be coming and there will be plenty. The wholesale price is officially lim- ited and retail dealers are now called upon to restrict their sales to customers and thereby reduce consumption until the new supply is available, instead of aggravating distress by an unfair dis- tribution. This cannot be enforced, but it should be cheerfully complied with, not only by the dealers but by their cus- tomers. All consumers should be will- ing to do their part, to dispense with extravagant and luxurious sweets and curtail domestic use, for the sake of the suffering abroad, until the day of sugar plenty comes again with the new year. Nothing really succeeds which is not based on honesty; sham in a large sense is never successful. Pre- tension is nothing, power is every- thing —Whipple. Because people are attracted to your store to-day by certain features, don’t think those same features will continue to attract them continually. ~~ bs October 24, 1917 “ETERNAL DETESTATION.” The action of the German Ameri- can Insurance Co. and the German Aliance Co., in eliminating the word “German” from their titles on the ground that the real Germans on the other side of the water and pseudo German-Americans in this country have brought the name German un- der “eternal detestation,” will meet with the hearty response and com- mendation of patriotic American peo- ple everywhere. In promulgating the announcement of the change in name, an officer of one of the companies says: “Much as the German people in Germany have done to dishonor the German name and bring it into everlasting reproach, we consider the attitude of many of the people of German de- scent in this country as equally blameworthy, because they have dem- onstrated that they, too, are dishon- est and unworthy of confidence. They have not only betrayed the trust re- posed in them as American citizens, but have actually plotted to aid and abet the dastardly beasts on the cth- er side of the water in the cruel work of plunder, rape, rapine, murder and hatred which they have precipitated among friend and foe alike. Wew'sh to have no dealings with such people, because we propose to keep our com pany immune from such cattle. No German will be employed by this company in any capacity whatever.” THE EGG CROP. The .consumption of eggs in the United States is approximately one ege per day or one case per year per capita, there being 360 eggs in a case. A handy rule for reckoning the weekly egg consumption of any given locality is to double the popu- lation and divide by one hundred, which results in about the number of cases consumed weekly taken the year round. The production of eggs is well dis- tributed throughout the country, and in this respect differs greatly from tobacco, rice, citrus fruits and other localized crops and the problems of distribution are correspondingly dif- ferent. An outline the shape of an egg, placed over the map of the United States with Chicago in the center, the point of the egg resting on Scranton, Pa., the Southern limit including Tennessee and the Northern limit Lake Superior with the butt of the egg cutting Kearney, Neb., ap- proximately bounds the states and the Province of Ontario wherein eggs are produced in as large or larger numbers than they are consumed. An exception is found in some parts of Texas and Oklahoma not included in the oval. Eggs are universally consumed in the United States and less than 1 per cent. of the crop is exported. The production, therefore, is approximately equal to the con- sumption which may be roughly di- vided into: One-third consumed on the farm; one-third consumed in small towns; leaving one-third of the crop for the large markets. Of the third which comes to mar- ket about one-fifth or 20 per cent., goes into cold storage at some stage MICHIGAN TRADESMAN of the movement and it will be ob- served that this represents not to exceed 6 or 7 per cent. of the whole crop. The last mentioned fact is ex- ceedingly important and must be constantly borne in mind when con- sidering the influence of supply and demand upon prices. A reduction of 5 per cent. in a season’s production or an increase of 5 per cent. in a season’s consumption of eggs would result in an extreme lowering of re- serves unless counteracted by an adjustment to higher prices, and the reverse holds true of an increase in production or a decrease in consump- tion. With this fact in mind the sensitive movements in the quotation will be readily understood; also the highly speculative nature of the busi- ness of storing eggs. Uhere are two seasons of produc- tion, which, broadly speaking, include the spring season from January to June inclusive, and the fall August to October inclusive. periods vary somewhat Owing to climatic and local influences and overlap, so that there are only four to ‘six weeks in the year when the supply of strictly fresh eggs ap- proaches nil. This period lies be- tween November 1 and December 15. eeeeenenninreiesee eens season, These Now it is the country boy’s turn to alarm the public. He has been exam- ined by the recruiting officer ‘and found wanting, After the first draft, a great cry went up that our urban youth had degenerated since the Civil war, that the “counter-jumper” was no longer the plough-boy’s equal. Gradually, however, it was developed that city boys, taking them by and large, had about come up to expecta- tions. Unemotional patriots, there- fore, will take this new alarm, sound- ed by a United States medical officer in Baltimore, with a grain of salt. There are no standards by which the country boy of to-day can be compar- ed with the country boy of fifty-odd years ago. Doubtless, examinations in Civil War times were much less rigid than now. A young chap scarce ly needed to be a model of physical perfection to be allowed in our army. The condition of his teeth scarcely mattered; water was not expected to flow under the arches of his feet with- out wetting them; his eyesight prob- ably bothered the recruiting sergeant little, that is, anything short of blind- ness. There seems to be absolutely no reason why our country ycuth should have degenerated in the last half-dozen decades. Sanitation has improved rural condition, and the spe- cial causes alleged for the city boy’s falling off, crowding, under-nourish- ment, overwork, etc., do not exist in the country. In other words, there were strong men before Agamemnon, and will be again hereafter. The man who steps to pat himself on the back after hitting the ball will never get safe to first and he won’t make any great hit with the grand- stand, either. EEE It’s as easy for most women to be good as it is for some men to be no good. Carried Home by a Patriot Reports on results of the adoption of the recommendations, cov- ering the curtailing of deliveries, minimizing returned goods and C. O. D. privileges, that men may be released for service on the call of the Government without unfortunate results to the merchant, have been extremely pleasing, showing that practically every live city and every state is pretty well lined up and endeavoring to carry out the wishes of the Government as closely as possible. In view of the demand from every section of the country for a universally adopted STICKER, the Tradesman Company hereby recom- mends that every merchant immediately adopt for use on all “Take With” purchases a sticker reading as follows: | CARRIED HOME FROM (Merchant's Name Here) BY A PATRIOT | These stickers can be supplied by us on the following basis, properly imprinted in the center: 41060... ............. $1.75 MO00........... 3.00 & O06............ ...... 4.75 10,600.................. 6.75 This is a good way to start the co-operative and enthusiastic spirit of carrying home all possible purchases. It is now a certainty that every man, woman and child will feel it a matter of pride to be seen w:th a bundle having one of these stickers attached to it. Be one of the first to use these stickers. Tradesman Company Grand Rapids Michigan ‘| DUTCH MASTERS SECONDS Will stimulate your trade Handled by all jobbers G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Makers GRAND RAPIDS October 24, 1917 L_— =— S = ~~ - = 7 an wean Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso- ciation. President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson. Vice-President—Patrick Hurley, De- troit. Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Bent: ley, Saginaw. Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson Detroit; H. L. Williams, Howell; C. J Chandler, Detroit. Grocer Must Worship at Shrine of Service. One who enters the ness with the soon ends up with the grocery busi- “get-rich-quick” idea “get-out-quick” fever raging in his veins. The grocery business is essentially one of service. The grocer who gets up early; con- is best to please or white, good looking, pered, is the one scientiously rich and poor, blac or single. ; does h 1 a z 2 k married homely or pleasant or ill-tem who is going to succeed. The grocer must be a hard work- ing man, willing to work twelve hours a day. and then some. He does not need to enlist un to become a good der the starry flag citizen. If he does his full duty as a law-abiding honest grocer he will be carrying his share of the burden. People ask and expect favors from the grocer that th merchants in other lines of trade. Your average grocer takes all this as a matter of course and is courteous with it all. He is very apt to be ill spoken of by the very people he is giving his best efforts to please: yet has not this always been the way of the world? One who enlists for service must not mind the or the ominous head iey do not expect o! wagging tongue shake. Yet faithful service brings with it a pleasure that is real and In the there is satisfying. social and financial world always someone waiting to ‘ump into one’s shoes. They can breath to leave the body, are they to climb the ladder to fam: er riches, and take the place of th- fallen envied one. Yet he who lives this to look forward to, for while the scarcely wait for the So anxious for service has not world admires. no one is anxious 1 follow in the tracks of the toiler and burden team. The greatest pleasures to be found in life are the result of work: well cone. The grocery business appeals to the work side of a man. Every turn he makes during the day seems to open up some new avenue of work. It appeals to the mind also, for one has continually to keep his brain clear and wide awake. It appeals to the social element in man, for how long would a man suc- ceed if he was cool and indifferent to the people in his locality? The idea of doing away with the service end of the business is a great mistake. To my mind the strongest hold one has on the trade is along that particu- lar line. It can be made a real pleasure if done in the proper spirit and not grudgingly. Of course it would be like working a pump-handle and no water coming out, if the pay did not go along with it. Even the grocer needs a few dollars once in a while to keep the band playing. So do not let this “carry your goods home” idea get you “in Dutch.” especially the female con- like to be catered to. People. tingent, Personally I have not changed my tactics in the least in regard to de- liveries It is a pleasure to me to be able to send a nice large order home for a good customer and I know it is ap- preciate d. If they care to “tip” the boy, as they frequently do, it is up to them. I would feel like a brute if I left delicate frail woman lug home her heavy purchases. That is one condition where I would say to the Government, “Hands off!” War or no war, grocers, let us use our brains and good common sense. Frank Scott. +» ___. Odd-Penny Prices On Food. In the present movement for rea- some sonable profits on staple foods the re- tail grocer will find many opportuni- his prices on the Sales of groceries ties for readjusting odd-penny basis. have been hampered for years by the that is, prices nickels and dimes. Odd- penny prices have been used to build up the tremendous sales of depart- ment mail-order houses as effective for the small An interesting adapta- tion of the odd-penny price is being made by the cigar stores to meet in- so-called round prices; in even stores and and are just retail stores. creased revenue taxes on cigars, cigarettes, and _ tobacco. Articles which were formerly sold for 5 and 10 cents are priced variously at 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, and 14 cents to maintain both the standard quality and size of package. Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter Color and one that complies with the pure food laws of every State and of the United States. Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co. Burlington, Vt. The Price Of Wheat Is Stabilized and at a price over $1.25 under last -year’s high mark which, in turn, means $ 6 abarrel less. The miller’s profit is fixed by the federal government at a very low sum and the customer gets the benefit, as he properly should. The quality of New Perfection Flour is a little better than ever and next year we hope to still further progress. With prices reasonable you should handle the best at all times. Watson-Higgins Milling Co. Onions, Apples and Potatoes Car ‘Lots or Less We Are Headquarters Correspondence Solicited Vinkemulder Company GRAND RAPIDS sa: MICHIGAN WE COVER MICHIGAN M. PIOWATY & SONS Distributors of Reliable Fruits and Vegetables MAIN OFFICE, GRAND RAPIDS Branches: Saginaw, Bay City, Muskegon, Lansing, Jackson, Battle Creek, South Bend, Ind., and Elkhart, Ind. WHEN READY TO SELL, WE WISH TO BUY YOUR BEANS, GLOVER SEED, POTATOES, ONIONS, FRUIT CALL OR WRITE MOSELEY BROTHERS WHOLESALE BEANS SEED GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN POTATOES Either ‘Phone 1217 a> 4 y aw { « < > . 4a s « » 4 4 t 4 ¢hi> a < o October 24, 1917 Plan For Selling Christmas Gifts. “Nearly time to think about selling Christmas gifts,” said a member of the executive staff of a department store of moderate size. “I’m going to try a new angle on an old scheme this time, and I don’t mind showing my hand in advance, as the scheme is not my own and couldn't hurt me if our nearest rival were to try it, as it is merely a good plan to move the higher priced and more exclusive novelties carried by almost any de- partment store with a clientele which has money in quantity and doesn’t object to spending it. “Instead of a _ regulation ‘house beautiful’ idea, or an absolutely dis- tinct department given over to house- hold goods, both of which schemes are now as common as flies in Aug- ust,” the department store official continued, “I am going to make an intensive drive on my patrons’ pocket- books by building in the centre of the store’s main floor a small house dec- orated in the most approved modern way. To sell furniture and so on, you think? Not by any means; that is, not jist. for that purpose, al- though we won't scare away any patron who may be pleased at such furniture as he may admire there. I shall make the interior of that little house as attractive as possible and it will be lighted appropriately as to its various rooms and halls with electric lights, each lamp and fixture bearing the price in plain figures and they won't be cheap. The walls I prob- ably shall have covered with framed pictures of different sorts, each also marked with its price. The chairs standing about, covered with gayly colored cushions, will bear prices, as also will the cushions and the mir- rors, ornamental tables with fancy gifts thereon and the _ player-piano, victrola and so on, each will bear its price, plain to the passer-by. The idea will be not so much to show how a house should be furnished as to display high-priced gifts, yet fol- lowing the ‘unities’ as to house fur- nishing. It will not be an advertise- ment, merely as such, but a practical attempt to sell goods on sight. And the staff of clerks that will hover about will be the cleverest from each department that can be spared to answer questions about the stock and bring out the gifts’ good points. selling “Unlike the usual ‘house beautiful’ idea, just as much effort will be made to sell the toilet articles dis- played on the chiffoniers and dressing tables as the furniture. Jewelry in jewel boxes, books rarely bound, and perfume in holiday holders and_ bot- tles will be prominent. Gifts for men—especially .for the soldier and sailor from well-to-do families—will be featured in one part of the house and ought to bring a ready response. Comfort kits, athletic outfits, good for men at the cantonments, and various articles of appeal to the de- fenders of the country will not be kept in the background, and I think that tobacco and smoking utensils of various kinds, if one may call them MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 that, will appear up in front of this department. “The psychological effect on cus- tomers of the segregation of novel- ties has often been observed, and it is my belief that segregating them in this particular way, as they will appear amid their natural surround- ings, without especially seeming to do so, will have its particular response. Curiosity makes the customer stop; the look-in fascinates, the customer is impelled to investigate and the clever clerk with the ready answer helps to clinch the sale. Most especially shall I make an effort to keep the green, the uninformed and slow. salesman and saleswoman away from this plan. The superintendent as well as the department heads will help me select the right clerks. “In short, the most attractive things in the whole store will be featured in, my first floor house scheme, and each class will be ar- ranged in such a way by experts— department heads as well as display managers—as to put forward its greatest advantages. “This idea,” continued the depart- ment store man, growing rosy with enthusiasm, “I believe could be car- ried out in a much smaller way with correspondingly good results. For in- stance, one might try segregating a certain number of the higher priced goods that are particularly attractive as Christmas gifts. Arrange them in an unusual way and make the light- ing scheme somewhat extraordinary, as lighting has a most pronounced beneficial value to the articles shown, and place in charge experienced clerks able to offer suggestions un- obstrusively, and you may be able to induce customers to buy many times what they would have pur- chased without such special effort.” ————_>-.-_ >... Sensible Suggestions From a Sensible Man, Detroit, Oct. 22—Mr. Hoover is asking housewives and_ the public generally to cut living expenses—a cent here, two or more cents in other ways, meatless and wheatless days, etc., to help win the war by sending the necessary supplies to our boys and the Allies. The Fuel Administra- tion is asking all to reduce the amount of heat in homes and offices. Several millions of citizens of this country are in need of fuel. Families and especially children are suffering trom cold. They could be supplied very quickly, if business and pleas- ure interests in every town and city in the United States and Canada wculd at once stop every electric light display sign. These signs are not absolutely necessary and in the present distress by need of fuel, would be one of the largest savings which could be made, afford sufficient fuel for every family and get things in good shape for next year’s work and supplies. Instead of paying huge sums for using these display signs, I would suggest that business interests, the- aters, movie picture places and all users of these signs devote the amounts of money now spent for the upkeep of these display signs by the purchase of Liberty Bonds, thus do- ing a triple benefaction, making the people comfortable, keeping necessary business plants operating and giving Uncle Sam the necessary funds to auickly push this war to a successful finish. John R. Wood. Poultry Shippers: We pay highest market prices. Get in touch with us. We do not charge commission. We make prompt returns. SEEDS Reed & Cheney Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Rea & Witzig PRODUCE COMMISSION M7 WILSON & Co.| vy V 20-22 Ottawa Ave., N. W. Grand Rapids Michigan MERCHANTS 104-106 West Market St. Buffalo, N. Y. GUARANTEED Established 1873 Live Poultry in excellent de- maud at market prices. Can handle large shipments to ad- vantage. Fresh Eggs in good de- mand at market prices. Fancy creamery butter and good dairy selling at full quota- tions. Common selling well. a MANUFACTURED BY THE BEL-CAR-MO-NUT cea eee hd Send for our weekly price cur- GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. rent or wire for special quota- tions. Refer you to the People’s Bank of Buffalo, all Commercial Agen- cies and to hundreds of shippers every where. Sold in Sanitary Tin Packages— 2, 5, 10, 15 and 25 Ib. pails— by all wholesale grocers See Quotations in Grocery Price Current LOVELAND & HINYAN CO. CAR LOT SHIPPERS Potatoes, Apples and Beans Write or telephone when you have anything to offer Association of Commerce Bldg. Grand Rapids, Michigan E. P. MILLER, President Miller Michigan Potato Co. WHOLESALE PRODUCE SHIPPERS Potatoes, Apples, Onions Correspondence Solicited Wm. Alden Smith Bldg. Grand Rapids, Mich. F. H. HALLOCK, Vice Pres. FRANK T. MILLER, Sec. and Treas PEANUT BUTTER CAN BE COMPARED TO COFFEE AS TO QUALITY Don’t be fooled by price. Buy where quality comes first. Buy Jersey Peanut Butter and notice the difference in taste. Order from your jobber today. Perkins Brothers, Inc. Bay City, Michigan wt Sy — Zz > Z C) > ati st} (HL (Ga \ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ny ‘aN)) wun Cadre enn aen i i > a Grand Rapids Banks Set Fine Ex- 15 and cents being interest at 4 per ample to Country. cent. interest, h ng the bond as col- lateral until oaid ( and wivine yar aterai until pai 10T, ana giving nve a cow ‘ oor bear +7 . ¢ 4 months’ time in which to for it This is the spirit that will wi numerous enquiries as of converting the to 1 per cent. Liberty Loan bonds into second issue 4 per cent. bonds, Sec tary of tn “There will, in the r 3 ‘ a ernie ¢ Treasury McAdoo announces be undertaken. 1 { 1433 h- “ : + ponds require that an interest per cent. adjustment be made on each and every bond converted. The Treasury Depart- ment has devised a method whereby this adjustment of interest can, in a large measure, be made without the payment of any cash by any holder of the bond to the Government, or vice versa. ers of the 314 per cent. bonds are re- minded that the date new bonds into whi to be converted is Nov actual conversion can until that conflict of d: ‘ Liberty Loan Committee of New York in a circular recently issued, this state ment is made: “This issue of the 314s is convertible into any subsequent issue, provided the holder converts within six months from the date of the new issue For example, the holder of the present 225 can convert into the proposed 4 per cent. bonds, provided he does so before May 15, 1918. If he issue of 4 per cent. bonds, he then he- converts into the comes subject to all conditions of every kind, including the conversion features of the 4 per cent. bonds, except that the bonds issued for such conversion are to be identical with the 3!4s as maturity of principal, interest dates and date and ferms of redemption.” While no definite terms of adjustment or interest have been announced, it is reasonable to suppose that the 4 per cent. bonds exchanged for the 314s will have the first coupon payable Dec. 15, and 4 per cent. interest from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15. Take, for example, a $100 bond. The first coupon would be for $1.79, $1.46 being 312 per cent. to Nov. } > i. new experience this si able. If the holders of € uld the Government reap any great benefit f the $3,000,000,000 Loan? In explana- tion it may be said that ersion of 3'4s is entirely outside $3,000,- 000,000 call and will be effe } t ‘ted through +; ‘nae Sit awace e +r ae ia . a special issue of 4s especially author- iz€d ior that purpose, so that the $3,- 000,000,000 or more now being raised a will not be reduced by conversion. Consistency is a jewe been found in the possession of union labor. On the one hand. union labor leaders, particularly Gompers speaking for the American federated bodies. are professing unc Administration in the loyalty to the prosecution ot the war and have made frequent public assurances that union labor would re- frain from action that would interfere id. On the with work needful to that « “t other hand, the epidemic of strikes all over the country in all kinds of indus- trial enterprises has recently been on a scale never before equalled. So per- sistent have been the demands for high- er wages and so ruthless has union labor been in attcmpting to enforce its de- mands that the professions of loyalty union men are mere mouthings uttered solely and patriotism on the part of to divert the attention of the people from the black hearted treason which is cherished in the breast of every union man in the country. Union labor de- mands and cessation from work or threats to quit have assumed the atti- tude of a “fire in the rear.” You hear much criticism on profiteering of the mercantile class, and yet this is profit- eering of the worst kind—taking ad- vantage of the country’s needs to en- force exorbitant demands. Business in- terests have willingly aided the Govern- ment on price fixing. The exigencies of war have warranted drastic actions as to the fuel and food supply, yet the most cold blooded, selfish and arbitrary profiteering is going on in the union labor field, thus far unchecked or con- demned by the venal and unscrupulous union labor leaders. Are not these labor GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL {CITY BANK CITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK ASSOCIATED CAMPAU SQUARE The convenient banks for out of town people. Located at the very center of the city. Handy to the street cars—the interurbans—the hotels—the shopping district. On account of our location—our large transit facilitles—our safe deposit vaults and our complete service covering the entire field of banking, our institutions must be the ultimate choice of out of town bankers and individuals. Combined Capital and Surplus..... Deeeeseeeee es $ 1,724,300.00 Combined Total Deposits ..:......-...-.--.---- 10,168,700.00 Combined Total Resources ................. ... 13,157,100.00 GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK CiryY TRUST A&A SAVINGS BANE -ASSOCIATED October 24, 1917 Over 85", of the wills filed in court, it is estimated, contain errors that would be fatal in any other formal document. Although it’s hard to ‘‘break a will’’ every contest costs the estate—costs the beneficiaries. The one safe way is to draw a legally correct will— and to abiatut this experienced institution the Executor. Send for Blank Form of Will and Booklet on Descent and Distribution of Property THE MICHIGAN TRUST Co. OF GRAND RAPIDS Safe Deposit Vaults on ground floor; Boxes to rent at very low cost. Audits made of books of municipalities, corporations, firms and individuals. > October 24, 1917 pirates affording aid and comfort to the enemy? There is a splendid campaign on for the over-subseription of the Liberty Loan, a share of which is neu- tralized and nullified by demands which, if granted, will absorb a portion of the proceeds and still further enhance the high cost of living. We should all bear our just proportion of the burdens of this war, labor not excepted. It should voluntarily consent to an extension of hours and be content with fair remun- eration for its work. If it does not, it should be compelled to “assume a virtue (patriotism) even if it has it not.” Union labor should no more be exempt from Government regulation than are the producers and distributors of food and fuel. Paul Leake. 2-2-2 Happy Marriage Puts Quletus on Woman Suffrage. Detroit, Oct. 23—Many wrong im- pressions about woman suffrage are abroad which are gained from news- papers and from propaganda spread by those who are prejudiced. Ordinarily, men wish the women to have everything they really want, but personally, I do not believe that those women who. desire “equal rights,” if they obtain their right to vote, will be one whit happier. Zz Ce w > oO Le wm & > z October 24, 1917 14 Foes in Our Own Household. The man who still asks “why we oppose pre- : . : 2 nee a - j "wroin S$ im Our m ¥y ana our i1n- ss or politica! ie 4 t and tné - 141 : Of weaith ana nom- inal opponent: the man greed who cares for nothing but ya its, and the sinister creature who plays upon and infi passions of envy and violence: the hard ma- terialists, the self-indulgent lover of ease and pleasure, and the silly senti- mentalist—all nent foes of our own household. these are the perma- From their ranks are drawn our im- mediate foes: the faint hearted who fear Germany. the puzzle-headed who her, and the men of foul soul who do her evil bid- refuse to understand ding. The Hun within our gates mas- querades in many disguises: he is our and he | dangerous enemy: should be hunted down without mercy. High-minded men and women should brace their souls against the menace of peace without victory for the right. It is worse than idle to talk of a league to enforce peace for the future, unless we, who are now partners in the league to smite down wrong in the present with iron will carry the war through to overwhelm- ing triumph. Theodore Roosevelt. —_+2+>____ War Taxes Here to Stay. As the crushing weight of the re- cently enacted war taxes becomes ap- preciated and realized. there will be a general shifting of investments. The small investor in stocks affected only by the double tax laid on corpor- ations, can continue to hold his shares if he wishes and hope for better things. The large holder, however, is affected also by the heavy super- taxes on individual incomes and must either change his investments or be content with a small income. Many investors are rather thought- lessly assuming that the war tax is a temporary burden which will disap- pear after peace is declared This hope is likely to prove illusory. Af- ter the war there will remain an enor- mous debt to be liquidated, and as it is paid new ways will be found for using the revenue, so that the reduc- tion of the tax will be slow and diffi- time and to mz ais have to be overcome hefore this re- sult ca € assured are preminent in +1 ee ° . 1 the report of the commission that has had general supervisicn of the rebuild- ing of Salem. Mass. The requirement of noncombustible roofs fought was VWwdas y persons financially interested in the use of shingles. The requirement f a larger amount of open space be- tween houses was anathema to specu- ative builders, as was the ban on In the face destruction caused by a fire that owed its spread to the lack of just such precautions, however, they appealed with no little force to the wooden “‘three-deckers.” of the body of citizens, who have supported the Commission also in its efforts for sanitary improvement of the 256 acres burned over. It is admitted that aes- thetically the Salem does not equal the best parts of the old.°*The first aim in rebuilding was utility, and not so much attention was paid to preserving the colonial appearance of the city as might have been. Even so, the general attractiveness of the rebuilt part excels that which it re- places, while the speculative builders have to admit a rise of values to a point higher than before the fire. Kent State Bank Main Office Fountain St. Facing Monroe new Grand Rapids, Mich. 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Complete Banking Service Travelers’ Cheques Letters of Credit Safety Deposit Vaults Savings Department Foreign Drafts Commercial Department Our 3% Per Cent SAVINGS CERTIFICATES ARE A DESIRABLE INVESTMENT Fourth National: Bank United States Depositary WM. H. ANDERSON, President J. CLINTON BISHOP, Cashier ‘Savings Deposits Commercial Deposits 3| Per Cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits Compounded Semi-Annually Per Cent Interest Paid on Certificates of Deposit Left One Year Capital Stock and Surplus $580,000 LAVANT Z. CAUKIN, Vice President ALVA T. EDISON, Ass’t Cashier October 24, 1917 Pickings Picked Up in the Windy City. Chicago, Oct. 22—One of the busi- ness conditions most noticeable in Chicago to-day is the number of chain stores throughout the city. It is a common thing to see chain drug and grocery stores, tea and coffee houses, but now a person sees under one head a chain of delicatessen stores, inde- pendent cigar dealers and garages, double the number of moving picture shows owned and controlled by dif- ferent stock companies, but with all the chain stores merchandise of ail description is going up. A correction of an item in last week’s issue referring to the Chicago Arena, the largest ice skating rink in the world. H. C. Wood is Vice- President and General Manager, not Second Vice-President, as _ stated therein. Through his efforts the Arena has been brought prominently to the front. One of Chicago’s successful retail cigar merchants is A. J. Howlett, who has opened a cigar and tobacco store in the Distributors building, Clark and South Water streets. Mr. How- lett is a Bay City, Michigan, product, and is laying the foundation of a very successful business in Chicago. All of the cabarets in the city are acain getting considerable publicity on account of catering to minors and no doubt before a few of them get squared away, they will have their licenses taken away from them by the officials. Through the cabarets in the last week or two a couple of young girls have disappeared. One of the big real estate deals the last week is that of the Feltman- Curme concern, shoe dealers, taking over a lease in the retail shopping section of State street, at an annual rental of $32,000. Employes of the City Comptroller’s office had the distinction the other day of sending to camp Logan, Texas, to one of their former associates in the office, a letter measuring 252 feet long, containing 6,300 words, written on a roll of adding machine paper. The only obstacle now standing in the way of the widening of the Michi- gan avenue-Rush street boulevard ex- tension is the Kirk Soap Co. This factory stands directly in the path of the improvement and until such time as the present controversy is settled in the courts, where the owners of the factory have taken the case, this part of Chicago will remain an eye- sore to everyone who frequents the neighborhood of the Rush street bridge. Chicago was well spotted Sunday with Camp Grant soldiers who were given the privilege of spending the week end in Chicago. Anyone visit- ing the city would surely have seen a sight in this new drafted army. One of the great patriotic demon- strations will be Liberty loan day, Wednesday, Oct. 24. The city is pre- paring for the greatest celebration it has ever known and from the way things look it will be a great suc- cess. One of Chicago’s most prominent. physicians, Dr. Baxter Miller, who besides having an extensive residence practice. was house physician for most of the prominent loon hotels, died suddenly in his office, 30 North Michigan avenue, Friday afternoon last. The doctor had just returned from visiting a patient and complain- ed of not feeling well. A short time after his assistant, Dr. O’Connor, found him dead on the couch. The Regent Tailors have leased from Charles G. Stevens the second and third floors of the building north- east corner Monroe and_ Jefferson streets, term of years, total rental $35,000, The space will be occupied by the tailors as their main offices and factory. , Performance is better than promise. Practice is better than _ profession. This sounds like a joke; but go out and see how many people promise MICHIGAN TRADESMAN who do not perform, and how many people profess that do not practice. You would think that they did not know anything about fidelity to con- tract. Herman Cushman, Vice-President of A. S. Krieder Co., has purchased from Captain John Roberts, President of Roberts & Oake, staticned with the quartermaster’s department at Kan- sas City, the latter’s beautiful country estate, known as Richmond Hill, one and one-half miles west of Barring- ton, said to have been held at $55,000. The estate comprises forty-three acres of land, partly timbered, and a most attractive fourteen-room resi- dence. The purchaser conveyed in part payment the residence, 434 Gcreenleaf avenue, 160 x 250, in Glen- coe, for $18,000, subject to $5,000. Too many too long shots are just as bad for the speculative builder as they are for the gambler on the races. The Western Steel Car and Foun- dry Company of New Jersey has con- veyed to the Chicago and Calumet River Railroad, a subsidiary corpora- tion, which operates an industrial rail- road, 8,288 acres between One Hun- dred and Thirty-fifth and One Hun- dred and Thirty-eight streets and the Nickle Plate railroad and the Calu- ment River, for $44,579. The con- veyance is made subject to an incum- brance of $1,073,000 on this and other holdings of the grantor. It is generally known that the thir- ty-five blocks comprehended in the loop district have more factors of value than any like amount of area in any other big city on earth. The greatest single factor is transporta- tion, and with our facilities here we have the ability to bring more peopfe into and out of the district, per day, than occurs in any other city. That, with the skyscrapers in the district, a type of building not allowed in the European cities, means that each foot of ground has a capacity to earn $3 for every $1 as compared with London or Paris. Graham, Anderson, Probst & White are receiving bids for the new ware- house which the Union Station com- pany will construct on the east side ef Canal street between Randolph and Lake streets for Butler Bros. It may cost around $3,000,000. The bids will be all in in a few weeks. If the bids are not too high construction will be- gin shortly. The building will be fourteen stories high and will front 382 feet in Canal street and 151 feet in Washington and Randolph. It will be of the most substantial construc: tion; a duplicate almest of the large structure extending on Canal street from Lake street to Randolph street. This is an opportunity for contrac- tors to contribute what they can to keeping the building alive to such an extent as necessity may require. It is worth while tu call attention to the fact that a few weeks ago the municipality had in mind the construc- tion of a large building in the South- western part of the city. It was pro- posed to let the work by contract. Bids were invited but when they were opened they were found to be so high —so excessive—that the commission- er of public works, Frank I. Bennett, came very nearly deferring construc- ticn indefinitely. It had been sug- gested that the city do the work itself. This brought a quick response on the part of the contractors. They used their influence to open up the matter again. They asked for another op~- portunity to submit bids, and to see what could be done about reducing the cost. Charles W. Reattoir. —_+- > The Three Essentials. There are three things a man should get out of his business—profit, perma- nence and _ pride. Without profit, it isn’t business, but only a hobby. Without permanence, it’s only an existence, Without pride, it’s only drudgery. “The Better Home Means Better Children— Think This Over’. Grand Rapids Better Homes Exposition Klingman Exhibition Building November 28th—December 8th, 1917 The Show that Every Prominent City, Civic, Com- mercial, Industrial, Art, Educational and Woman’s: Organization Has Officially Endorsed, and has appointed Co-Operative Committees to Aid In Its Success. 75% of the 50,000 Square Feet of Educational and Commercial Exhibit Space Now Contracted For. HAVE YOU JOINED ON? HAVE YOU SELECTED YOUR EXHIBIT SPACE? Write for Floor Plans Showing Spaces Taken. Address—Louis W. Buckley, Managing Director BETTER HOMES EXPOSITION Klingman Exhibition Building GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN As Strong As Gibraltar We must finance our men whoare fighting in France. Bond. houses and banks handle Liberty bonds as readily as cash. Liberty bonds, up to the value of $5,000 are exempt from every kind of tax. The United States has never repudiated its debts. Liberty bonds are an indebtedness of the nation. BUY LIBERTY BONDS UNTIL IT HURTS Then even up your income by in- vesting an equal amount in the capital stock of the Petoskey Portland Cement Company which is destined to be one of the greatest dividend payers of the age. Better get in your order early, so as to secure your holding at $10 per share. The price will positively be advanced to $11 per share January 1, 1918. Deuel & Sawall, Inc. Financial Agents Murray Building Grand Rapids, Michigan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ' ‘)\) — — WOMANS WORLD = Necessity of Obedience in the Fam- ily. Military training is in the air these days, and one naturally thinks of obedience as the essence of it. I have been wondering abcut the young men in the various training camps—what sort of mental preparation they have had for the kind of discipline to which they must now adapt themselves. For it is undoubtedly true that obedience has been out of fashion of late, Not long ago I heard a man say that what the American youth needed was “to learn to obey without thinking.” In- deed? Isn't that one of the things we find fault with in the German sys- tem? Do we really want that sort of thing as the basis of American conduct? Jf we are to have a nation of folk who “obey without thinking,” who is to give the orders? What sort of authority are we to install over ourselves who can be trusted with the power conferred by such an attitude on the part of the mass of the people? No, what we want in America is a discipline of another sort: the obed- ience that we should cultivate is not unthinking, but definitely intelligent. Even our soldiers, exactly obedient for the time being for the purposes of unified action to a common end, would not be worthy of the name American if their obedience were of the blind, unthinking kind that some of our militarists think they believe in. Seme day—soon, we hope—the war will be over, and the military kind of discipline will cease to be necessary. Individual initiative, action, and self- government will again become the normal operation of our citizens. It is of the obedience that we need and should cultivate for the purposes of ordinary life that I would speak, Obedience is regarded by many as the chief virtue of childhood. Grant- ing that, it must not be forgotten that there is little virtue in obedience for its own sake. The purpose of it is, or ought to be, at bottom, the gaining of self-control. to outside authority through fear. without the consent of the mind, is a miserable thing; really iniurious to all concerned. Teaching to a child the right kind of obedience is one of the most delicate and difficult tasks the parent has to perform. It calls first for self-control on his own part Since the demand for obedience in- Obedience volves restrictions upon natural im- pulses. it imposes habits of action in accordance with the interests of oth- ers—one’s friends, family. neighbors, the community as a whole After all, law, in the best sense, is simply the expression of the judgment of the community as to what each must do or sacrifice in the control of his own desires and impulses, for the sake of the peace and welfare of all the rest. It is in preparation for living under law in this sense that we require obedience of our children before they are able to realize the reasons for it. Authority in the first instance is personal. The child meets it first in father, mother, nurse and_ teacher. From the very outset of his life, he must accept the judgment of these in opposition to his own. Do you see, then, how important it is that this personal authority should be wise, considerate, consistent, self-con- trolled? Even in its smallest exer- cise it affects the whole after-life of the child. Your insistence upon obed- ience must be reasonable and based upon fundamental principles of uni- versal or at least general applica- tion. Erratic, arbitrary and unreas- onable requirements, which are. not intelligible to the child, create a sense of injustice and do only harm. Cer- tainly, there are times when, for the child’s own sake, instant obedience must be had without thought or ques- tion, but as soon as practicable the reason for it should be made plain to him. If you establish in his mind early the assurance that your com- mands are habitually reasonable, he will more and more accept those which at the moment he does not understand. Nothing is much worse or mcre common than bribing them to obey-— unless getting obedience through fear by threats. The obedience given for pay of some kind, or because of fear of punishment, is a pitiful thing, Chil- dren should be trained to do right for its own sake, because they know it is right. The other course appeals to the lowest motives, and should never be resorted to, The way in which parent or teacher exercises authority has the profoundest effects upon the life of the child. The effort should be always to accomplish at the ear- liest possible moment the substitu- tion of self-control for outside au- thority. “The principal business of parents and teachers,” a very wise man said to me once, “is to fit the child as soon as possible to get along without them.” The purpose of obedience is to give the child as quickly as possi- ble the kind of self-imposed authority that will make obedience, in the sense of subservience to others, unneces- sary. You cannot begin too early in the life of the child to enforce this kind of obedience. A mere baby can learn not to touch certain things, not to do certain things; to respect the rights and possessions of others. In a very short time he will learn not to med- dle with father’s papers, mother’s work-basket. It is easy too, to con- trol his physical functions, by requ/r- ing a fixed regularity in his habits. Remember always that these things are for his sake more than for yours. Kirkpatrick, one of the wisest of child-students, in his “(Fundamentals of Child-Study” says that “obedience is a temporary and immature virtue, which becomes mature and lasting only when it grows into free self- control, by appropriating outer laws and making them inner standards of condut.” Froebel says that “between edu- cator and pupil, between request and October 24, 1917 Coleman (Brand) Terpeneless LEMON Pure High Grade VANILLA EXTRACTS Made only by FOOTE & JENKS Jackson, Mich. American Sugar Refining Company a ra nS Domino Granulated Sugar Is Ready to Sell No scooping, no weighing, no wrapping, no waste —the neat, sturdy packages are always ready to sell. Domino Granulated Sugar satisfies your customers because it is high quality clean cane sugar protected by carton or bag. Granulated, Tablet, Powdered, Confectioners, Brown Sold in convenient packages American Sugar Refining The Most Complete Line of Sugar in the World Coffee. om Gea neon cn Don’t you “trig the wheel” a little bit As the days go by it becomes easier and easier for dealers to find a market for ‘*‘WHITE HOUSE” Now-a-days folks expect every well-regulated grocery to have it ready to hand out on demand: and are disappointed if it hasn't. CO Faae ia) Distributed at Wholesale by kas JUDSON GROCER CO. — Grand Rapids, Mich. 6 MIO).A ye A ay 5 le Ca, 2S) SO Lows FAR 4 October 24, 1917 obedience, there should invisibly rule a third something to which educator and pupil are equally subject. This something is the right, the best.’ The clear knowledge, soon felt by the child, that so-and-so that you re- quire of him is right, that it is best for him to do it, will automatically inspire obedience. This is training for conscience and will, and its effects are profound and life-long. No law is self-enforcing. The com- mon-sense of the community must accept it, or it falls into disuse. And the enforcement must be fair, reason- able, and consistent; it must appeal! to the average citizen’s sense of jus- tice, utility, and fair play. So it must be in the management of children. You must not ask of the child what you would not and do not do your- self, or what does not or at least ought not appeal to him as right and wise and fair. Obedience under such conditions prepares him for his life as a part of the nation. In such obed- ience he finds the truest freedom. The soldier’s obedience, if it is to be in any right sense American, is his own voluntary submission to the common purpose. On _ no. other ground can military discipline be jus- tified. For the purposes of normal life, the obedience that we want is that of free men and women, gladly subordinating their own desires and impulses to the common welfare in willing and conscious compliance with the authority long ago established within themselves. Is it this kind of obedience that you are training your own child to give? Prudence Bradish. ——_+++____ What Unionism Means in the House- hold. It was a cold, drizzly afternoon, and the lady of the house was lying down. Just as she was falling into a restful doze the door bell rang in- sistently. She heard voices in the hall, and then the summons of the maid, “Some ladies to see you, ma’am.” “Have you their cards?” “They said they came on business, ma’am.” “But I have asked you not to dis- turb me to see agents when I am taking a nap.” “But these are not agents, ma’am. They are ladies.” Making a hasty toilet she descend- ed to the reception room. “We are a committee of the House- maids’ Union. You employ union help?” “Ves. And I have complied with all the rules of the union. I get my own breakfast. Jane goes to work at 11 o’clock and is through at 7. We had to buy a new set of dishes as she leaves the dinner dishes, and I am not very strong, and cannot get up early enough to wash them. We have a cold dinner Sunday from one of the menues in the Union House- maid’s Cook-book, with which your union so kindly supplied us. I have installed a gas range, as I am not al- ways here to put coal on the old range, and the union rules forbid the maid doing such work. I had just spent $250 to install electric washing machines when the union rule was MICHIGAN TRADESMAN changed, and the maids were forbid- den to do any washing. It is really too bad to waste all that money. You see, I cannot have anybody come in to do the washing, as the union rule says that wash ladies must be given a full week’s work, and we cannot afford to buy clothes enough to keep one busy. I wish that you would take a look at Jane’s room. She has furnace heat, electric and gas lights, and the new bath room that I have installed for her is a dream. It was a little inconvenient for me, but after the passage of the new rule prohibit- ing maid’s baths in the basement I was obliged to give up my dressing room for that purpose. I hope the dear girl appreciates it. There is real- ly but one fault to be found with her room. It was quite large at first, but the rule in regard to fresh paper when- ever we changed maids has compelled us to put so many layers on the walls I am afraid that before long it will be too small for some of the book- cases. “We know all that,’ replied the Sunsweet Quality THe CYYP IN are not SUNSWEET. > [IMOVIE = IMMINENT O They must be passed by state in- spection and by our own even more rig- orous inspection. They must be the best prunes and apricots produced—or they Live grocers everywhere will realize what this means to them in the way of cots from your jobber. dealer helps and advertising matter. spokesman, frigidly. “But what we came to see you about is the garbage can. It now stands down by the alley. It is against the rules for the maid to carry the garbage down there.” “But what am I to do? The driver of the garbage wagon told me the other day that it is against the rules of his union to come up to the house for the can. I want to obey every rule of the union, and have tried to do so, but can think of no possible way.” “The union has a rule to cover such cases,” replied the spokesman, se- verely. “Oh do tell me what it is. relieved!” TI am so “Here it is. Rule 1147, page 421, By-laws of the Housemaids’ Union: ‘When a house sits twenty feet or more from an alley, thus making it impossible for the maids to empty garbage in cans which are placed as specified by the rules of the Ancient and Honorable Association of Gar- bage Gentlemen, the house must be moved back to the alley.’ ” i i WHHL Before SUNSWEET Prunes and Apricots earn the right to bear the SUNSWEET label, they must conform to the highest standards of growing, curing and packing. this country. Order SUNSWEET, California’s “Nature Flavored” Prunes and Apri- We will gladly send you upon request valuable California Prune & Apricot Growers, Inc. SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA A co-operative growing and marketing association including more than 85% of the growers engaged in this industry in California. tii, The State and Our Own Rigid Inspection Guarantee increased sales and new _ customers. Stocking SUNSWEET means selling SUNSWEET—not only because of their superior quality—but because this brand will be popularized by a broad ad- vertising campaign to the women of 17 “That is simply splendid! I knew what you ladies would find a way out of it for me. You are so good about everything! I will telephone my hus- band to have the once.” house moved at “And while it is being done,” re- plied the spokesman, “I would call your attention to the next rule, which that until such arrangements have been completed, in order that there shall be no infringement of the rule, the family must take their meals at a restaurant. We have been very lenient about this, and permit the maids to empty their own garbage.” says “Oh, ladies, that is so good of you!” +++ Responsible Man Needed. “What 1 want,” said Farmer Corn- tossel, “is a man in whose honesty, discretion and skill I can place im- plicit reliance.” “You want a_ confidential secre- tary?” “No, | dont | want 2. man fF can trust to dig potatoes.” Gui: i HULU 1AM MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 24, 1917 18 Ararel State 4 . Te Aaa oy — an rie te Cle ~ cS dX @ Wx. = =e a . = 2 = = = = =F = > < = ee = = 3 5 = x 2 i= = rs = = = 3 i S ZREVIEW °F t# SHOE MARKET : Zz = = = — = Fz = > Z = = = = > ipm= )4 =z = = 7 toe ~- —s 4 aon a eel - Z N > = 2 y wy 4 ° SA on Ga = 4 BY) = WS J yf Aa ys. a1 Careful Fitting the Best Store Policy. Written for the Tradesman. There are two aspects of correct fitting. Looking at it from the cus- tomers’ point of view, it’s a service which the dealer is under obligation to render his trade. Considered from the merchant’s standpoint, it is a store policy. And yet the two ideas are so intimately intertwined it is almost impossible to consider the one apart from the other. In these pages attention has been called time and again to the evil con- sequences of careless and incorrect fitting. Corns, callouses, broken-down arches, ingrowing nails, painful macerations, and other dis- eases, injuries and malformations of a more or less serious nature—are not unfrequently directly traceable to a pair of ill fitting shoes. bunions, It has only been in recent years that this whole subject of fitting has received an emphasis commensurate with its importance. In view of the importance of cor- rect fitting, both from the customers’ and the retail dealers’ best interests, it may be worth while considering some causes contributing to poor fit- ting. After which it will be in order to discover, if we may, how these causes may be removed or overcome so as to ensure proper fitting. For one thing, so many customers are dominated by the size octopus. A woman, for instance, acquires the notion that she has a 3 A foot, be- cause at some time in the past she has worn a snug-fitting, neat-appear- ing shoe which the dealer informed her was a 3 A. This may, or may not, have been the case. And even if it were, it doesn't prove conclusively that the foot in question was a 3 A foot. It might, for instance, have been a 3% D or a 4 B foot. There are appreciable differences in the lasts of different manufacturers. Some sizes run larger, in certain respects, than others; some carry width, some length. But men as well as women get ob- sessed by a certain size number, and the clerk will find them peering at the little row of numbers on the lin- ing to discover if they can, the size and width. Ridiculous procedure! Remind them that they are not buying arithe- matic symbols, but shoe comfort. Try to get them to see how unimportart those more or less “arbitrary size- markings are compared with actual foot-comfort and foot-health. I recall a painted hint prominently displayed in a Western shoe store that I happened to visit some years “Don't ask for your size; let us fit your feet.” Some people can wear a close-fit- ting shoe and get away with it, but others can’t. Sensitive feet must be fitted sufficiently large to relieve the foot of undue pressure at any given point, otherwise there'll be trouble. Sofar as outward looks are concern- ed, there’s very little difference be- tween A and B, but there may be a ago, which read: very real difference to a foot in the shoe. In the school of experience one gradually acquires caution. I know people who do not hesitate a moment te discard a pair of shoes that they’ve worn only a few days, having made the discovery that the shoes are pun- ishing the feet. And I commend them for so doing, It’s a mistaken idea of eccnomy that prompts one at any time to wear shoes that do not fit. Of all species of refined torture un- der the canopy, none I think is worse than suffering feet. Uncle Sam has detailed orthopedic surgeon to visit the cantonments and look after the feet of the men under training. The duties of these spe- cialists are two-fold: first, to ensure the proper fitting of shoes worn by the men now taking intensive military training, and second to prevent, as far as possible, troubles incident to the work which the men will do. Fit ‘em long—i. e. with plenty of room for the toes—is a pretty good method to follow. In other words, fit from the heel to the ball of the foot. When one puts on a new pair of shoes and walks around gingerly cver a 6x9 rug, the toes of the foot are not thrust down into the toes of the shoe as far as they will be when he gets out on the street and walks naturally. In the act of walking the toes flex back and forth in the shoes. If there isn’t ample room for the toes, there'll be trouble. But there will be plenty of room if the ball of the foot corresponds with the ball of the shoe, for the last provides for sufficient tox room if the shoes are properly fitted. In rush hours when customers are waiting and the dealer or the sales- man is anxious to close the sale and attend the wants of another custom- er, there is a strong temptation to hurry the process. But this doesn’t pay. It makes a bad impression upon the customer you are waiting on at the time as well as the one who 1s waiting his turn. Unless there is something very urgent on hand the party waiting will wait patiently if he discovers that you are conscien- tiously fitting the customer ahead of him; for he thereby feels assured that he will also be accorded the same Uncertain Leather markets and consequent high priced footwear, are causing people to turn from the extreme high prices and seek a good strong line of footwear that can be bought at medium prices. THE BERTSCH SHOE FOR MEN on account of its well known style and good qualities, makes an ideal shoe to meet this popular demand. Good people everywhere are realizing more and more that in this line they have a shoe in which the style and quality combination is just right. Wear-resistance is one of the things people again expect to find in their shoes, and that is where the BERTSCH shoe makes most of its friends. The superior grade of material used, together with careful work- manship, make the BERTSCH one of the best service-giving shoes on the market. The BERTSCH is replacing a lot of high priced lines and you, Mr. Dealer, should investigate it fully if you are not now handling it. You can win and hold the substantial trade in your community on this line. Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. Manufacturers of Serviceable Footwear GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BE AN AMERICAN! BUY A Liberty Bond One Hundred Dollar Bond NOW is going to save the life of many of our brave boys. Do your bit, don’t give from your surplus but make the sacrifice. Hirth-Krause Co. Tanners & Shoe Mfrs. Grand Rapids, Mich. ~ fe a Y October 24, 1917 ° conscientious service when comes. If your customer seems to prefer a last not suited to his or her feet, it is better to try to dissuade them than to let them go out with a pair that will prove unsatisfactory in the end. A quiet but confident attitude on your part—the assurance of the man who knows—will generally ov- ercome any scruples or prejudices that they may have. And this is a part of your duty as a shoe retailer. It’s easier, of course, just to let the sale slide along the line of least re- sistance, but this. isn’t always best. And sometimes you will discover a pair of feet that you cannot proper- ly fit with anything you have in stock. Where such is the case it is better to be absolutely frank than to sell a pair that will not prove satisfactory. In the latter case you are pretty apt to lose their good will for all time. And this you cannot afford to do for the sake of a single sale. Any store that emphasizes the im- portance of correct fitting and con- scientiously follows this policy will make good in the end; for this is one of the most important factors in the retail game. Cid McKay. —~<-~—_____ Huge Orders in Foot Gear. Washineten, Oct. 22—Contracts have been awarded here for a million and a half pairs of boots for the Rus- sian army at a total cost of $7,500,- 000. The awards were made by mem- bers of the Russian Purchasing Com- mission, advised by the committee of supplies of the Council of National Defense. These contracts, with those placed by the War Department for the Amer- ican armies, make the enormous total of 8,400,000 pairs of footgear which have been piaced in the past week. This will result in heavy calls upon the output of the tanners both for uppers and sole leather. The Central Leather Company is sharing largely in the contracts be- ing placed in this country by the Russian government and will natur- ally receive its part of the business resulting from the contracts for the American army shoes, while the American Hide & Leather Company, as one of the biggest producers of uppers in the United States, must al- so benefit from the Government ex- penditures. The price of $4.65 per pair which has been fixed for the War Department’s shoe contracts was established by the Council of Nation- al Defense as allowing a fair margin of profit and the fact that the bids submitted at the price named by the Government were for a quantity 15 per cent in excess of that named in the advertisements is taken to indi- cate the manufacturers considered the figure reasonable. ++ Enlarge the Scope of the Company. Fremont, Oct. 22—The policy hold- ers of the Michigan Shoe Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. held a meeting at Lansing Oct. 17 and de- cided to enlarge the scope of the com- pany so as to insure all classes oi mercantile stocks where they consist in part of foot wear; also the store buildings housing same. The arti- cles of association were amended to conform to this change and the of- ficers were instructed to file amended articles with the Insurance Commis- sioner, The company has $1,500 of the first Liberty Bonds and the of- ficers were instructed to purchase $5,000 of the Second issue. It has $1,544,500 insurance in force. Secre- tary Bode confidently expects to be able to increase his volume to $5,000,- 000 within the next two years. his turn MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Amount of Material Available. No data have been furnished show- ing what will be the probable wool needs of the military forces in any year. It is known that 35 per cent. of reworked wool, or shoddy, is used in the fabrics supplied. Does any one suppose that there will be required for each man in the service as much as thirty pounds. of beyond what he would use in civilian life? But, even at that, a force of 2,000,000 men would only use up _ 60,000,000 pounds, which is a little more than 10 per cent. of the amount ordinarily consumed in the mills of the country in peace time. Now, of the country is pounds. The fiscal wool the wool clip about 289,000,000 imports for the last despite the British em- Australian wool, totaled 300,000,000 pounds of clothing combing wool. These imports are to be enlarged decidedly by the coming here of Australian wools, of which 70,000,000 pounds have al- been released. Then, too, the recent census a very large quantity of this country, much of it in the possession of the mills, not one of which complained of a scarcity. So it happened that, when the woolen and worsted manu- facturers first were called to Wash- ington to consult the head of the Commercial Economy Board they had to show him, first, that he was not familiar with the facts in the case, and that some of his sugges- tions would be hurtful rather than otherwise. year, bargo on nearly and ready showed wool in —_+++__ Avoid Overheating and Save Coal Supply. Avoid overheating your houses this winter. Do not let the temperature stay above 68 degrees. Everybody do this and millions of tons of coal will be saved in this country. This will mean: more coal to prosecute the war. Smaller annual fuel bills. Improvement in the health of the people. Several channels of heat waste com- mon in American homes were point- ed out by the State Board of Health in a statement recently. One is, the chimney, through which an enormous amount of heat is wasted. Windows are loosely constructed; roofs provide other means of loss. At a time like this, when fuel is scarce and the Gov- ernment needs all the coal it can get fer war work, all such leakage should be stopped as much as possible. —_—_+ 2. Frank H. Clay, manufacturer auto accessories, Kalamazoo: “It is with pleasure I hand you check for sub- scription although I feel that I am receiving several times the $2 in val- ue. You are certainly producing a paper that is more than a price cur- rent or trade journal. You are giv- ing your readers very valuable advice in many directions and you are al- ways fighting on the right side, open and above board, favoring none, no matter who suffers. I bespeak for you a most prosperous future and many years of usefulness to the community which you are serving.” PPCHVSLVHTTOVOTTTTTOLOTTORSTOVSITS? OUR TRADE MARK ON YOUR SHOES of | A SMALL T ay BUT A BIG THING san TO FOR TRADE MARK REGISTERED This trademark represents the ground floor Look for it, ask for it; it stands for wear, comfort and service. plan of our factory. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie Company ESTABLISHED 1864 ORIGINAL MAKERS OF “THE GRAND RAPIDS SHOE” Tene neaneeeesseeeesesaseeansacasenaiens GOOD STYLE ____ Activities in Michigan Cities. Written for the Tradesman. Mayor Mey, of St. Louis, gives notice that beginning Oct. 19 the city light and power plant will shut down each night at 11 o’clock and will also shut down one-half of each day, probably afternoons, until such time as coal can be secured or until the water in the river raises. systematically Mayor Cambrey, of Pontiac, who has been investigating the garbage problems of other cities, says it is probable that next spring the com- mission will take steps to enact an ordinance requiring all householders to patronize the collection system and that an amount sufficient to handle the work will be placed in garbage next year’s budget. He finds that thirty-four out of forty-eight cities from which reports were received handle the collection by general tax- ation, while seven of them put the cost up to the householder, as has been the system followed in Pontiac. In twenty-five of these cities farmers MICHIGAN TRADESMAN are allowed to collect garbage and haul it away for feeding purposes. Flint is courses in opening night school various branches of the automobile trades, in order to hitch the schools closer to the city’s lead- ing industry. A course in the paint- ing and enameling of automobile bodies is one of the latest added, which will be practical in view of the fact that 200,000 automobiles will be finished in Flint this year. Sault Ste. Marie will have a new creamery—one of the finest north of the straits. The Business Men’s Association of Niles has named a committee of three to co-operate with a local building and loan association in issuing $400,- 000 worth of stock, the money to be used in building new houses for working men there. Manistee merchants will observe their second semi-annual dollar day Oct. 18, under direction of the retail trade committee of the board of com- merce. The beet sugar factory at Menomi- nee has started the season’s. opera- tions and the beet crop this year is fair, with price to farmers $2 per ton higher than last year. The factory will operate night and day for about ninety days. employing 300 men. Lansing has hired Dr. Schubel of East St. Louis to take charge of city earbage collection and the piggery. Hartford village places the kibosh on noisy motors by adopting an or- dinance forbidding the use of auto- mobiles or motorcycles without prop- er mufflers or with the cut-outs open. The Parker Manufacturing Co., of Detroit has bought the plant of the Star Motor Co. at Ann Arbor and will manufacture drill chucks there. The company has $75,000 capital and will soon employ over 100 men. Ishpeming would like lower fire in- surance rates, or a reduction from fourth class, and is taking steps to- ward improving its waterworks and fire alarm Government after a year’s work of surveying the Saginaw River valley, report that $6,057,000 must be expended to bring about im- munity from flood damage. The prin- cipal item is channel improvements and levees and it is claimed the im- provement un-water 90,000 acres of fertile lands. Almond. Griffen. —_—_~+->—__—_ The Merchant’s Bit. The country is passing through an systems. engineers, would unusual period, one that marks the beginning of a new epoch in its busi- ness and political life. The merchant must be more alert than ever to feel catch the drift of change, and shape his policies accord- ingly. Read carefully the daily papers, read trade journals and Gov- ernment bulletins, and co-operate with the Food Administration in creating a sentiment in your locality in favor of the Government policies; it will not only be patriotic, but will keep you abreast of changing de- mand. out conditions, > A wise man keeps on good terms with his wife, his conscience and his stomach, 21 DORNBOS Single Binder Cigars Put up in Special Christmas Packages Christmas is coming, No doubt we all know it. When we feel happy and gay We desire to show it. By some tokens we trust Our friends will hold dear We make glad their lives Through the coming new year. But what shall we smoke? That’s easy to say, There’s Dornbos Single Binder That we all carry away. In compliance with the requests of my many customers, I have decided to put up my famous Single Binder cigar in a Christmas Package (either 25 or 50 boxes), beautifully embellished and ac- companied by a Christmas card for use of the My traveling representatives and jobbing salesmen will donor in designating the recipient of the gift. exhibit this package on the occasion of their next visit to the trade. Be sure and get in your orders early, because these goods are sure to be heavily oversold. * « / How Our Christmas Package Will Look The Blend is Different. The Taste is there. SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS PETER DORNBOS Cigar Manufacturer 16-18 Fulton St., West Grand Rapids, Mich. real shortage of wool that some have claimed exists. It is believed that sold for Blood & Hart, Marine City, Michigan, population 3,500 in nine 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 24, 1917 ¢@ SE Need of Wool Census. EVERY MERCHANT IN MICHIGAN , wa The details of various lots of wool Can use the ee on non Saige : = = : to build up their business, s ou 4 eo % = z that are not available for Government Sain atone. ateci ana fixtures, sauce P 1 = : DRY GOODS use are anxiously awaited by those stock, raise money or clean up odd os = > : : lots left in stock. We can get you a ‘ , = = who do not agree that there is the good price for your merchandise. We 6 = = ~ = = — — ss (((uuee FANCY GOOD New Bureau at Washington to Help Retailer. Back of the recent brief announce- ment in the daily press of a project for the establishment within the Unit- ed States Chamber of Commerce cf a Bureau of Business Economics is a promise of the most ambitious under- taking yet attempted for the study and solution of the problems of the American retailer. This definite, com- prehensive move to get at the very heart of the retailers’ problems may inspire with hope if not with mediate reassurance the National ad- vertisers who are dubious with re- spect to the retail situation. im- It is desirable to emphasize at the outset that this new project in the Chamber of Commerce of the Un'ted States is presumed to tackle the troubles of retail merchants in al! lines. Because the inception of the basic idea is credited to the Commit- tee on Retail Co-operation of the Na- tional Wholesale Dry Goods Asso- ciation the impression has become current, from the fragmentary an- nouncements thus far made, that the new trade bureau aims to serve the interests of only the larger operators wholesale and retail, and is restricted to the dry goods field at that. As a matter of fact the new bureau, while aiming to survey every section of the mercantile field, will address itself particularly to the difficulties of the small retailers—difficulties that have multiplied appreciably since the beginning of the war—because it’ is the small storekeepers whose future is especially imperiled. Particularly significant is the fact that several of the leading National associations of retailers have signi- fied their intention to co-operate ac- tively in furtherance of the work of the new institution. It is generally admitted that if all National associa- tions of retailers were as efficient as the best of them (or rather their “service” bureaus), there might be little reason for accepting outside aid, but high standards in this respect are by no means universal. Even the National cfficers of retail organiza- tions that come pretty close to 100 per cent. efficiency seem inclined to fall into line and accept, with thanks, any aid the new National bureau can render. This new Bureau of Business Eco- nomics has no connection with the Commercial Economy Board of the Council of National Defense. The undertaking of the Commercial Econ- omy Board is purely a proposition “for the duration of the war,” where- as this later project aims to build up within the National commercial body a permanent institution that will be continuously on the job in behalf o! better storekeeping. Until the new bureau is on its feet no detailed ‘investigative programme will be announced, but the promoters are evidently willing to undertake a large contract, for they promise re- search with respect to any and all business practices to which the aver- age retailer is committed—price-mak- ing, use of windows for display, cost keeping, sense of proportion in ad- vertising and what not. The present intention is to have the Business Economics Bureau undertake research work on no controversial subject that has already been disposed of by the National Chamber through the medium of its various special com- mittees or by referendum. Thus, for example, the subject of resale price fixing upon which the Chamber has already taken its stand, will not be reopened unless new circumstances present themselves whereby the in- terests of retailers are particularly affected. —_2+++___ Conference of Woolen Men. After a great deal of preliminary fussing came a rather lame and in- conclusive result from a conference of woolen goods manufacturers with representatives of the Commercial Economy Board held in New York last week. The trouble came from the fact that the beard started wrong. It should have taken example from Mr. Hoover, the Food Administrator. He took the public into his confidence, told how much wheat was available, and how much would be needed for the Allied powers. This left a bal- ance for the use of the people of this country of a size that called for the exercise of economy. In the case of wool, clothiers and other garment makers, as well as the manufacturers of woolens, were told at the outset that styles must be changed and edulterations put into fabrics because cf the scarcity of wool and the needs cf the military forces. No figures were presented and none have been publicly given out in support of the proposals made. Indeed, it has been tacitly admitted by the Commercial Economy Board that the wool supplies on hand are ample for all needs, but they say these may not be sufficient if the war should last, say, ten years The inference is that sheep will cease to grow wool in neutral countries in war time. So far as the shipping situ- ation goes, which concerns the bring- ing of foreign wools here. every one knows this will improve from now on. and that the tonnage used for this purpose is not the kind that would b> employed in the. war. zone.. there is considerable wool on hand that could not be used by the Govern- ment, and that the Australian wool recently released for shipment to this country will contain much that can only be used for civilian require- ments. The grades of the various stocks that exist are not known, and it is pointed out that only by an ex- act census can this information be obtained. ——_..<>——____ He that doeth what he will, doeth not: what he ought. We are manufacturers of TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED HATS for Ladies, Misses and Children, especially adapted to the general store trade. Trial order solicited. CORL, KNOTT & CO.. Ltd. Corner Commerce Ave. and Island St. Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Store Fixture Co., Inc. The Place, 7 Ionia Ave., N. W. BUY AND SELL Used Store and Office Fixtures UNITED SALES CO. 431 Houseman Bldg. Grand Rapids, Mich. EXPERT SALE PROMOTERS For Merchants Any Line WRITE FOR PLANS FREE United Agency Reliable Credit Information General Rating Books Superior Special Reporting Service Current Edition Rating Book now ready Comprising 1,750,000 names— eight points of vital credit information on each name— no blanks. THE UP-TO-DATE SERVICE Gunther Building CHICAGO se ILLINOIS 1018-24 South Wabash Avenue days, $17,774.00... Write them! We sold for George Duguid, Gobleville, Michigan, population 350 opening day of the sale over $2,000.00. Write them! ro ees We have worked wonders for others and can do same for you. Write to-day for information, dates, references, etc. Please mention size of stock. John L. Lynch Sales Co., 4 .” 28 So. Ionia Ave., oa Grand Rapids, Mich. Veen lait RT Lan / PE elke 0] SPU BR oto PRESIDENT SUSPENDER CO,, Shirley, Mass. The Book That Takes the Risk Out of Buying a For many years “OUR DRUMMER” with its net guaranteed prices has been famous for taking the risk out of retail buying. This is more than ever the case now (46 in these unusual times. It not only makes buying se- cure from the price stand- point, but it removes uncer- k ( tainty in the way of getting goods. Back of the prices in this book are huge open aa stocks of the merchandise it “% advertises. lo @ * ‘@" Butler Brothers Exclusive Wholesalers of General Merchandise New York Chicago St. Louis Minneapolis Dallas Quality Merchandise—Right Prices—Prompt Service | FLANNEL SHIRTS Don’t fail to see our splendid line of Flannel Shirts. These numbers are made up in plain gray, blue and heather mixtures with flat or military collar. Priced from $6.50 to $21 per dozen. This is good sea- sonable merchandise and pays you a good profit. Grand Rapids Paul Steketee & Sons Wholesale Dry Goods Michigan October 24, 1917 Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, Oct. 23—A regular meeting of the Bagmen of Bagdad was held Saturday evening, Oct. 20, in the U. C. T. Council chambers, it being the first meeting since the cere- monial series held in Bay City June 2. Great Ruler W. E. Mellinger, who has moved to California, sent in his resignation, which was accepted and W. S. Lawton was elected to preside during the remainder of the year. Several business matters were brought up, among which was the creation of a burial fund. Each mem- ber will pay in $1 and upon the death of a Bagman each member will be assessed $1 to keep the fund intact. Further progress of the insurance feature will be announced later. A regular business meeting will be held the third Saturday in November, when plans will be made for the big ceremonial the third Saturday in De- cember. With the arrival of October, the bathing girls on the cover of the mag- azines are changing to evening dress. Camouflage is an ancient art. We used to work it with a big geography when we wanted to read a red backed novel during school hours. Just because Pontiac, Flint and Lansing are auto manufacturing cities, is no reason why parking laws should not exist. It is almost impossible to find room for a bus to discharge i:ts passengers at a hotel. John D. Martin, appointed by Grand Counselor Hach to further the drive for Liberty Bonds among the com- mercial men of this vicinity, reports that one member of No. 131 purchas- ed $2,000 worth of Anti-Kaiser pills. From all reports, the purchase of bonds among local traveling men will exceed $10,000. Clare McPherson, formerly with Jackson & Tindle, of Pellston, and recently with A. B. Large, of Bellaire, has accepted the management of the Charles Weiffenbach Co.’s store, at Bellaire. Horace Weiffenbach, for- mer manager, has been called for Uncle Sam’s New National Army and expects to leave Oct. 25 for Bat- tle Creek. At a Liberty Bond meeting held at Alden last week, $2,100 were sub- scribed—$1,800 of which was sub- scribed by the ladies present. Must be they know the combination of their husbands’ trouser pockets. The greatest union label in world is the American Flag. O. E. Bohannan, proprietor of the hotel and cafe at Elk Rapids, is clos- ing out his business and will move to Kansas Dec. 1, were he has purchas- ed a farm. Looks as though he is taking up arms against old H. C. L. Only sixty-three days before Christ- mas. Do your shopping early. Any one having a good winter over- coat to swap for a suit of B. V. D.’s, please notify Homer Bradfield. The hotel and eating house at the P. M. depot, at Traverse City, has closed its doors, due to the prevail- ing malady, H. C C. R. Bell, popular groceryman of Mesick, has roses blooming in his door yard, They are the Magna Charta and Killarney variety. Why California? “Uncle Louie’ Winternitz left Mon- day for Chicago en route for West Baden and St. Augustine. He _ will spend the winter at the latter place. He was given a farewell party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas b. Ford, on North Lafayette street, Sat- urday evening. While here he evolv- ed a new card game from his inner consciousness which, by common con- sent, has been given the name of Winternitz. It is played by two or more persons, who are dealt ten cards each and have the privilege of dis- carding the same as in rhum under certain conditions. Mr. Winternitz says that his month’s stay in Grand Rapids is one of the most pleasant memories of his life. : Rufus Boer, who has been serious- the MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ly ill in a hospital for several weeks, is slowly recoveriny. The Bell family held a family re- union at Big Rapids Saturday. All the big and little Bells were present and a gala day was spent in figuring out the distant relation and the high cost of living. _As a concession to America, Eng- lish may now be spoken over the telephone in Paris. This will also save the wear on the instruments that would be caused by the Ameri- can effort to talk French. Antrim county boasts of fine roads and in most cases justly, but a strip of road between Central Lake and Bellaire is in such a condition that no man can remain a good Methodist and travel over it. James Cavis, of the Cavis Cigar Co., Traverse City, who enlisted in heavy artillery and has been station- ed at Sparta, Wis., for some time, writes that they expect to leave for over seas duty in a short time and would not write until he reached France. C. H. Carpenter, proprietor of a cigar store and barker shop in Beulah, is recovering slowly from an opera- tion for appendicitis. Julius Hale, of Thompsonville, is building a fine new garage, 30x 100 feet, on Main street. Mr. Hale con- ducts a cigar store, pool room and barber shop. A, B. Large, druggist at Bellaire, has been appointed chairman of the Liberty Loan committee and is or- ganizing his forces throughout the township for a mighty drive to kick the h out of Kaiser Bill. We could but notice last week that the hotels at Traverse City gave the best of attention to handling the throng of ladies acting as delegates for the Federation of Women’s Clubs, while commercial men who are regular guests of the hotels were left to shift for themselves and find rest and food as best they could. It hardly seems fair to the traveling fraternity to be thrust out and rates and accommoda- tions given to a delegation that per- haps will never visit the city again and especially to those who might do more good by staying at home and attending to the needs of the family. Have you secured that dance ticket? Five dollars means twelve dances and some dances. Remember Saturday evening, Oct. 27, at 8:30, at the U. C. T. hall on Tonia avenue, iust off of Monroe street. Good music, good floor and a good live crowd. Come and bring a friend. The Phoenix Hotel, at Charlotte, has been taken over by W. G. Epley, of Paw Paw, and is being remodled and renovated so that the traveling public will find as good a hotel as any place can boast of. Morris Mann, of the Fifteenth Hos- pital Unit, stationed at Battle Creek, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harvey Mann. The area of the earth is 196,940,000 square miles—56.255,000 square miles Mr. Flour Merchant :. You can own and control your flour trade. Make each clerk a sales- man instead of an order taker. Write us today for exclusive sale proposition covering your market for Ie deeozl Ia (oy a AZ ebeee ine (aaa choice Michigan Wheat properly blended to pro- duce a satisfac- >» tory all-purpose SEW esP OR mp ecole ews UT a Me SN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Sack that keeps ine flour UN and the dirt OUT. of land and 140,295,000 square miles of water. Why worry about the place to play golf or a place to bathe? Just one hundred years ago a man was permitted to sell his wife in open market at Dartmoor, England, for $11, but times have changed. Old Ht. C.L. is upon us. W. S. Katzenstein, export chemist for the Antrim Iron Co., at Mance- lona, returned Saturday from a busi- ness trip to Buffalo. Dont forget the U. C. T. Saturday night, Oct. 27. Mrs. Esther C. Beers, grandmother of Mrs. John D. Martin, died Satur- day morning at 2 o’clock at the Mar- dance 23 tin residence from complications re- sulting from a broken hip in a fall received about four weeks ago. The body was shipped to Cooper Satur- day evening, where burial took place Sunday in the old family burying ground. Mrs. Beers was in her 87th year. The funeral .was held in the church in which the deceased was married to her first husband in 1853. ‘The pall bearers were all nephews of the deceased, members of the Huntley family. BE. V. Pilkington. ——__—-e Although money talks, it doesn’t always make a satisfactory financial statement. the new law. ernmental requirements. THE NEW INCOME AND EXCESS PROFIT TAX LAW calls for returns based mainly on aver- age net income and capital invested. The proper in- terpretation of these terms is of the utmost import- ance to all business men in arriving at correct figures. Our Public Accounting Department is ready to audit and examine books and records for the purpose of obtaining reliable data touching on all phases of Systems installed complying with certain gov- Consultations and work strictly confidential. Full particulars given upon request. Call, telephone or write. THE MICHIGAN TRUST COMPANY Audit Department. SERVICE QUALITY Exclusively Wholesale Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. QUALITY SERVICE 24, 1917 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ee ing $495,00 of common and $39,000 er Le of preferred stock, All the latter has CODY HOTEL Pe ~ a “sys since been retired at par and the ND RAPIDS €#s = == = ="Ze stockholders have exercised rights of GRA eae ts = = = . oo. = Bs subscription to $155,000 of the new RATES; $! without ba ae 7 Kk . " é common stock at par. 1$Lzoup with bath a a a { G ——_++-__ CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION zs ee . s =e Being a Good Citizen. f = SD. =fE, Fe A good citizen is not only one who : ( “8 7% 1 si Y 5 wouldn’t steal from his neighbor, or OCCIDENTAL HOTEL a) & oS SPEEA Ay) murder him, or embezzle from his FIRE PROOF y employer. Nor-is he necessarily a — oe Fx ‘ iti , S ; 4 Rates $1.00 and up Fs. good citizen who pays his. bills onwaAue & sure. de. Sm promptly and votes regularly. He Grand Council of Michigan U. C. T. Grand Counselor—John A. Hach, Cold- water. Grand Junior Counselor—W. T. Bal- lamy, Bay City. Grand Past Counselor—Fred J. Mou- tier, Detroit. Jack- Grand Secretary—M. Heuman, son. — Treasurer—Lou J. Burch, De- troit. Grand Conductor—C. C, Starkweather, Detroit. Grand Page—H. D. Ranney, Saginaw. Grand Sentinel—AL, W. Stevenson, Muskegon. —— Chaplain—Chas. R. Dye, Battle eek. Next Grand Council Meeting—Jackson Traveling By Automobile and Better, One of the main advantages the salesman traveling via automobile en- joys is the opportunity to carry sam- ples which I find is the only way to sell goods. I can also make more towns per day and give customers more time. There are a good many small towns on my territory where it would not pay me to get off the train and spend half a day’s time between trains for a $25 order. The way the train service is on my territory the best I could do would be to make two towns a day. By machine I can av- erage four towns and give my trade plenty of time. Approximately half of my terri- tory is off the railroad. The follow- ing figures will show where a machine is profitable for the house and the only way to make a large territory of small towns profitably. I would have to team my territory twelve days per month at $7 per day, or a total of $84. I cover the Same ground via automobile in six days at $5 per day or a total of $30. Take $300 as an average day’s busi- ness. Cheaper Via Team Team 12 days at $7 per day ..$84.00 6 days’ lost time, $3 per day .. 18.00 6 days’ lost time, salary and ex- penses, —. 60.00 Via Auto 6 days’ auto expenses, $5 per oa 8 $30.00 6 days’ time saved, $3 per day 18.00 6 days’ expenses saved at $10.. 60.00 I estimate that it costs approxi- mately 7c per mile to run a machine. this takes in depreciation and invest- ment. I could figure 15¢ per mile and still make more money for the firm over the cost of travel via rail and team. Another point, in traveling via train you can figure on losing two days time per month (at least) taking late trains in the a. m. and early trains in the p. m. and waiting for trains several hours late. This would mean approximately $600 to $1,000, accord- ing to the territory, where with a ma- chine a salesman is always ready to go. In other words a machine is a good paying investment for the boss but hard on the man. Personally | would rather travel via machine, as I do not like to loaf around a town several hours after my work is done. E. V. Hansen. —_———__ Late News Notes From the State’s Metropolis. Detroit, Oct. 23—As an expedient to avoid delaying shipments and fa- cilitate using full car space on the earlier as well as the later outgoing trains, in handling the heavy volume of traffic now moving, five express companies doing business in Detroit, announce that on November 1, they will discontinue vehicle pick-up serv- ice in Detroit at 5 p. m. daily. This plan is expected to give the companies one hour additional time to assure Prompt dispatch of all business on the same day it is received. Under the present plan a large proportion of the business comes to the com- panies, practically at the close of the shippers’ day of business they say, forcing delay in shipment and caus. ing damage through haste in handling. The companies discontinuing collec- tion at 5 p. m. are the Adams, Ameri- can, National, Wells Fargo and West- ern. As part of its winter course of study, Detroit Chapter of the Amer- ican Institute of Banking has in- augurated a series of weekly lectures on the organization, examination and departmental division of a bank. J. M. Dodge, of the Highland Park State Bank of Detroit, is in charge of the series. The lectures are to be given at the Board of Commerce ey- ery Friday evening. Mr. Dodge has had long experience as bank ex- aminer and Secretary of the Michi- gan Securities Commission. He has been a frequent contributor, also, to the leading banking publications. In addition to the course in elementary banking conducted by Mr. Dodge, Detroit chapter is to have a Thurs. day evening course in banking law, with F. H. Aldrich as_ instructor. Both the law and elementary bank- ing classes are open to all members of the chapter. Arrangements have been made by which the Essex Motor Co.. recently incorporated by officers and stock- holders of the Hudson Motor Car Co. takes a lease for three years of the property known as the old Studebak- er plant No. 5. The property has a frontage of 200 feet on Franklin and on Guoin streets, with a depth of 200 feet between St. Aubin avenue and Dequindre street. The entire area is covered by a one and three-story building containing about 60,000 square feet of floor space. Subscriptions to the $155,000 of new stock issued by the Russel Motor Axle Co. will have been paid in full by October 31, when the company will have a paid in capital stock o} $650,000 compared with $150,000 on October 31, 1915. The present addi- tion to capital stock was authorized at a special meeting of the stockhola- ers, September 21, when the corpor- ation’s authorized capital stock was increased from $600,000. comprising $500,000 of common and $100,000 of preferred stock to $750.000 all com- mon stock. There was then outstand- does all these things and more. He believes in his community and_ the laws that are made for its betterment. He avoids doing himself all those things that he hires men to punish the other fellow for doing. Instead of considering himself an exception to restrictions, he endeavors to be a splendid example of the wisdom of them. In a word, he does cheerfully and gladly what the law says others must do. * 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. Cafeteria - Cafe - Garage Muskegon i! Michigan HOTEL HERKIMER GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN European Plan, 75c Up Attractive Rates to Permanent Guests Popular Priced Lunch Room COURTESY SERVICE VALUE 139-141 Monroe St Lees Orn GRAND RAPIDS. MICH Beach’s Restaurant 41 North Ionia Ave. Near Monroe GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Good Food Prompt Service Reasonable Prices What More Can You Ask? LADIES SPECIALLY INVITED Pa One half block fosf of the Union Station GRAND RaPIOS NICH price from $3 25 to $11 00. $15 °00, $20.00 to $40.00. Auto shawl and steamer robes, 30-32 Ionia Ave., N. W. Dakota CON ABA I LA CAA I Ro ak Automobile Robes Largest and finest assortment in the State “Chase Quality.” 60 in. single plush, double plush, rubber faced, rubber interlined, ranging in 54 in. x 72 in. auto robes for rear seat, double plush, rubber interlined, muff robes, mohair and fur effects: $7.50, $9 50, $10.50, $11.50, $12.50, $14.00, all wool, scotch clan patterns, 60 in. x 80 in., $6.50, $8.50, $10 00, $11.00, $12.00, $15.00, $17.00. Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd. 54 in. x Grand Rapids, Michigan DETROIT SERVICE a a (ssi) TELEPHONE a NOT EY Each and every one of the 117,000 telephones in Detroit may be reached direct from your Citizens Telephone. Copper Metallic Long Distance Cir- cuits Connect with 250,000 Telephones in the State. Citizens Telephone Company , \¢ 4 , 2 . “tZ, J Lm a Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—Leonard A. Seltzer, Detreit. Secretary—Edwin T. Boden, Bay City. Treasurer—George F. Snyder, Detroit. Other Members—Herbert H. Hoffman, Sandusky; Charles §. Koon, Muskegon. Next Examination Session—Grand Rapids, Nov. 20, 21 and 22. Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation. President—P. A. Snowman, Lapeer. Secretary—F. J. Wheaton, Jackson. Treasurer—E. E. Faulkner, Delton. Next Annual Meeting—Detroit. Michigan State Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As- sociation. President—W. F. Griffith, Howell. Secretary and Treasurer—Walter S. Lawton, Grand Rapids. Quinine Still Rising Among Second Hands. Fear of legislation of one kind cr another at Washington, difficulty in securing ocean freight room even when export licenses are obtainable, increasing delays in domestic trans- portation and the high prices demanded for many drugs and chemicals all have a tendency to make consumers adhere to a very conserva- tive course in making purchases. In the main, however, the market is charac- terized by the same firm tone which has been noticeable for some time past. Carbolic acid is an active fea- ture of the list. Prices have been advanced by manufacturers, and as spot supplies are small higher prices are also demanded by second hands. Quinine sulphate continue to meet with good enquiry, especially for American salt, and some dealers have advanced prices further. Acetphen- etidin is weak and lower under freer offerings, due to a lack of demand of consequence. Coumarin is higher owing to scarcity. The demand for lycopodium has been light recently and the market is weaker on keener competition dealers. Sac- charine again receives good enquiry and the market continues to present a firm appearance. White castile soap is higher, owing to increasing scarci- ty. The general list of essential oils is firm, while higher prices are de- manded for wormwood oil. owing to a further shrinkage in stocks. Japa- nese refined easier, in- fluenced absence of demand. Epson salt is lower owing to some increase of late in offerings. continues to meet with a good en- quiry amongsecond hands and the mar- ket is stronger. Sales are reported early in the day at from 85@87c per ounce for American sulphate in lots of 1.000 to 5,000 ounces and later on some holders advanced the price to 90c an ounce. Pure alcohol is easier, ow- ing to competition. Sales have been reported of 190 proof sugar cane and cologne spirits at $5.21@5.22 and easy, with sales reported in a small way at 84@87c per gallon. Acetphenetidin is abnormally among camphor is by an Quin'ne weaker, owing to a lack of demand of consequence and competition and prices have been reduced to $8.50@9 per pound. Coumarin is stronger at $19@20 per pound, the rise being due to scarcity. Nitrate of silver has been reduced by manufacturers to 525¢c per ounce in lots of 500 ounces. Cuttle- bone is in fair demand and firm, with sales of French at 38c per pound. — +2 >___ Maintaining the Glory Standard for American Perfumes, “Let us set for ourselves a standard so high that it will be glory to live up to it. Then let us live up to it and add a new laurel to the crown of America.” When the first of the drafted men to make up the National army report- ed for duty, President Wilson ad- monished them in the foregoing words to set up the glory standard This advice should not only be heed- ed by the men who go to the front, but it should likewise be heeded by every American business man and every American citizen. If there ever was a time to display loyalty, this is the accepted time. Unfortunately for business honesty and business loyalty, however, many merchants handle goods, knowing them to be falsely labeled, particular- ly as to the place and country of manufacture. No other business suffers so much from misrepresentation as the per- fumery and toilet preparation indus- try. It is a disgrace that some Amer- ican manufacturers put up goods with labels to deceive the purchasing pub- lic to believe they are manufactured in Paris. The words of uttered under this situation. President Wilson, other conditions, fit The Parisian is proud of the fact that France makes good voods. Americans make good per- fumes which are appreciated not only at home, but also abroad. It is a matter of patriotism that American tradesmen who handle and sell toilet preparations appreciate prevailing conditions and show theit loyalty to American efforts to create and maintain the glory standard in business. There is no éxcuse what- ever for any .merchant to stock up end to feature goods that are falsely labeled. It is not only disloyal, un. patriotic and unbusinesslike, but it is contrary to law. Buyers of toilet preparations and perfumery should not encourage deceit and illegal. meth- ods in marketing goods. business The Federal law prosecutes those who make false statements in adver- tising. Every label on a bottle may be construed as an advertisement. It is illegal to misbrand any preparation as well as to state falsely the place of manufacture. The Manufacturing Perfumers’ As- sociation of the United States, as well as the Perfumery [mporters’ Associa- tion, are strongly opposed to these methods. We earnestly ask the co- operation of the buyers of every es- tablishment to refrain from buying or featuring such goods. Give every man a square deal. If there is a de- mand for goods made in Paris, see that the customer is not deceived, but receives what is demanded and paid for. Do not sell misbranded goods at fictitious prices. See to it that when anything bear- ing the Paris label is sold, that the money actually goes to the Paris manufacturer, and not to some Amer- ican manufacturer, who does net put up goods of sufficient merit to stand the test of competition. “Let us set for ourselves a standard so high that it will be glory to live uy to it. Then let us live up to it and add a new laurel to the crown of America.” ,A. M. Spiehler, President Manufacturing Perfumers’ Association. +. Bone Dry Beverages. The undertakers are working over- time in Colorado since the Violet Cocktail became popular. The Violet is composed of Jamaica ginger, sugar and water. The Delirium Fizz is all the rage in Maine. It is made from diluted wood alcohol, powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Out in Kansas the Aurora Borealis is making a big hit. It is made from bay rum and seltzer. Nebraska prefers the Whang Whiz- zer. It is a mild concoction made from witch hazel and sweet spirits of nitre. Virginia is getting along tempor- arily on the Snake Developer. This is composed of peppermint, liniment and molasses. —_++2___ His Customers Can Not Get Away. “You look disgruntled,” said the shoe man. -“Yes,” snapped the druggist. “Had a little rush just now, and a couple of prospective customers walked out without being waited on.” “They seldom get away from me,” declared the shoe man. “I take off their shoes as soon as they come in.” October 24, 1917 War Has Boosted Sales of Candy. Our boys in khaki are gladdening the hearts of proprietors of confec- tionery stores. Here is another pe- culiar development in the evolution of business directly resulting from our entrance into war. Under the law men in uniform are strictly for- bidden the use of spirituous liquors. To such a rigid change in their meth- od of living our men in uniforms are not accustomed. They require some substitute as a nerve solace, especial- ly those men who are not tobacco users. Candy has been the natural choice as a substitute because it is toothsome, satisfies and results in no physical harm. Where once the slo- gan was “Send her a box of choco- lates and make her happy,” it may soon be changed to “Send your boy at the front a box of chocolates; it will cheer him in his hard work.” Over there, somewhere in France, Great Britain has been sending her boys countless boxes of sweetmeats. for she found candy a great aid in keeping them contented with their hard lot. We shall soon have nearly one million men under arms, who, be- cause of the restraints under which they have been placed, as a military necessity, will develop an increased desire for sweet things to eat, and this new source of trade will in- crease considerably the business of our makers of confectionery. In fact, they are already realizing an impetus to their business from this new field. —_+-.____. Lavish promises lessen credit. It’s Pure, That’s Sure Piper Ice Cream Co. Kalamazoo, Mich. To-day’s Flavoring Crescent Mapleine, the ‘Golden Flavour," is today’s flavoring. A few drops go as far as a teaspoon of other flavorings. No other flav- oring is so rich—none so econom- ical. Are you selling Crescent Mapleine? Modern economy prac- tices mark it the first flavoring. Look to your stock now. * * * * Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash. Order of your jobber or Louis Hilfer Co., 1205 Peoples Life Bldg., hicago. : Crescent Mapleine kind of agent. GRAND RAPIDS “CRITERION” House Paint, Flat Wall Paint and Finishes THE CRITERION PAINT LINE is made especially for Michi- gan needs—gives perfect protection, maximum spread and costs little compared with brands that offer less. SOME MICHIGAN TERRITORIES are stil] open for the right Write for our agent proposition NOW. Know the facts—then you will make no mistake. Heystek & Canfield Co. MICHIGAN 4 is ‘= é say . «> 4 A > \@ ’ ‘so ‘¢ , ‘ne . + oa © « oF t- 4 a a, October 24, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 Late News From the Cereal City. hardened experts such as the mem- WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Battle Creek, Oct. 22—Mr. and Mrs. _ bers of the said society. What hither- Le = Masters ie at oo to had been a mere hobby might de- Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day o1 issue soa ay ee aw ae 1 CL of Vir- velop into a great patriotic function. Acids Cuneta ........ 8 50@8 75 Capsicum ...... @1 95 ginia, stationed at amp uster. The Wie i eG : i - . Wieeran 2 75@3 00 Cardamon @2 00 One of the best meetings Battle rhe high cost of living might be re- Borie (Powd.) u@ 3 F oot macscee « (9@3 00 Cardamon ...... D2 0 } dé : : Boric (Xtal) 17@ 25 Eucalyptus 1 25@1 35 Cardamon, Comp. @1 50 Creek Council has had for a long duced radically by the discovery of Garholio = 68@ 71 Poet etag pure 1£ 00@1 7% Cateehu ........ @1 33 : Dee ne tae. Colla a : : Gime Jo. G uniper Berries 20 00@20 20 Cinchona ....... @2 25 time was ee “ oe One an edible tomato can, for ssa Ae ot > ate ela ae * Juniper Wood .. 2 75@3 00 Colchicum... @2 25 stranger crossed the hot sands and Naturally, some casualties might be Nii $@ 15 ard, extra .... 190@2 00 Cubebs ......... @2 25 said he liked it. abcd. a L Puc. Gee... 60@ 70 Lard, No. 1 .... 1 85@1 95 Digitalis ........ @1 40 E. B. T. Schumacker, of Cadillac, ¢*Pecte ete we eres GP eS Sie %@ 5 Lavender Flow. 7 00@7 25 Gentian ......... @1 40 Detroit, visited No. 253 Saturday eve- heroic commission in the exercise of ‘Tartarie ©... 1 05@1 60 - pga Gar’n 1 + cae = thas Seo dede @1 75 : cue ee « 5 MUGIAG: 2.00.6, « ning and gave the members something their patriotic duties. But what of Ammonia Linseed, boiled bbl. @1 13 Guatac. Agno. a a to remember. He gave us an inter- that? A monument, say the fac- Water, 26 deg. ..11%@ 15 Linseed, bid less 1 23@1 30 Iodine .......... @1 70 esting talk on Liberty Bonds and the eG as ae Water, 18 deg. .. 742@ 12 Linseed, raw, bbl. @112 Iodine, ‘Coloriess @1 50 ai he Abe i ¥ simile of a chafing-dish containing Water, 14 deg. 6@ 10 Linseed, rw, less 1 22@1 30 Iron, clo. ........ @1 50 special work he is doing for the Y. ice a Neehota icht easily Carbonate ..... 14 @ 16 Mustard, true, oz @225 Kino ............ @1 55 M. C. at Camp Custer. If any strang- octopus a la : eres Wer eee) 6 ONMEIaG ....... - 25 @ 35 Mustard, artifil oz. @200 Myrrh .......... 2 10 er wants information regarding the console their relatives, with a liberal Balsame ae secses 1 ih fe - Nux Vomica .... @1 55 2 r - > f T i / Sie: . . ; ve, pUFG .... & SUG a wonderful work the Y. M. C. A. is pension payable in meal-tickets. Copaiba ....... OGG Gc Mae res “Camph. | ot 80 doing, just ask any cf the Y. M.'C. - . Fir (Canada) 1 25@1 50 vie 0. 20@250 Goum Dechewa Seu A. boys at any hut at the camp. No Phe *s oreatest loss i Fir (Oregon) 40@_ 50 Olive, Malaga, Rhubarb @1 2 le countrys greatest loss in men, : oe = Oro ........ @1 2 finer treatment could be offered any : ; OEE cca ccecccce 50@5 75 SYCOCN ~...cceoe 2 50@2 65 thus far in the war, must have found Tolu ............. 75@1 00 Orange, Sweet . 4 25@4 50 one who visits any of the huts. Just i i Origanum, pure @2 50 Paints a good word for the Y. M.C. A. A. most Americans braced to read of Barks Guam court @ 75 lead, red dry .. uya@ny, good word is always a treat. such disasters as the sinking of a Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 30 Pennyroyal 2 25@2 50 lead, white dry 11 @11% Ed. Guild, of Detroit, gave Battle 7 i Cassia (Saigon) 90@100 fbeppermint .... 450@4 75 Lead, white oil 11 @11% mice ee gave attle transport. That she went to the bot- Elm (powd. 35c) 30@ 35 Rose, pure 26 ‘ges 00 Ochre, yellow bbl. @ 1% Creek Counci Saturday evening his tom homeward bound, instead of on Sassafras (pow. 35c) @ 30 Rosemary Flows 1 50@175 Ochre, yellow less2 @ 5 regular visit while spending the week a oe Soap Cut (powd.) Sandalwood, EB. Putty ........ | 3@ 6 end at home. Jack her voyage to France with 1,200 sol- S5@) ois ol 23@ 25 je 15 00@15 20 ned Venet'n bbl. 1%@ 5 ' jera je - aa : ‘ Sassafras, true 1 50@1 75 ted Venet’n less 2@ 5 ——_+--+—__ ; diers, is a piece of good fortune, Sond Berries 0@1 50 Sassafras, artif'l 50@ 60 Vermillion, Amer. 25@ 30 What has beccme of that society of Despite all the skill and foresight co. ee 20@ 25 Spearmint ..... 475@5 00 Whiting, bbl. ...... 3 ‘ ae et a on bs He Wes ce ee ee 10@ a Sein... 5... 1s@200 Whiting ........ 34@ 6 serious-min¢ ed persons whose object shown by 1e ar and Navy Jepa ~ heap all ea @ 30 Tansy ......+-. 3 50@3 75 L. H. P. Prepd. 2 15@2 25 it was to meet once in so often at ments in sending troops to France, ve Tar, USP ........ ¢ 39@ 50 ‘ . : Nea aq ge a ‘ ae Extracts Turpentine, bbls. @ 59 Miscellaneous dinner for the purpose of testing the the possibility of a great calamity has Licorice ........ 55@ 60 ‘Turpentine, less 64@ 69 Acetanalid 85@ 90 a e ; : ae é LIGNE oct eas a $ food value of all sorts of strange dish- always been present, The fact that Licorice powdered 85@ 90 Wwitcce pil hin “le 16 es? Nothing edible was indifferent the losses on the Antilles involved Flowers birch cevecees 400@4 25 Alum, powdered and to them. They were willing to try but few fighting men will not lessen Arnica ............. @3 00 Wintergreen art 1 25@1 50 Bround ......... M4@ 17 : i ‘ : Chamomile (Ger.) 75@1 00 Wormseed ..... 3 See? 75 Bismuth, Subs anything once. With the present food the regret that so many lives were Ghamomile Rom. 2 00@2 20 Wormwood 5 25@5 50 ag ni- swesu . . . ee io Geet mami asn ets romani oe inte emir crc ee eee sewae ae o ‘ problem on his hands, it would appear taken by the lurking submarine. Sea- Gua Potassium Borax xtal or that Mr. Hoover ought to give this men cr stokers are just as truly ser- Acacia, Ist ..... 75@ 80 Bicarbonate .... 1 «< 00 powdered ...... 10@ 15 t ve 81 i ie : Acacia, 2nd ...... 65@ 75 Bichromate ...... 55@ 60 Cantharad ‘ society an official status, as Testers vants of the Nation as soldiers, and Acacia, Sorts 40@ 50 Bromide ....... 170@2 00 Ga) on gee N : ¢ | aie ; ate TMeE ae teaale wiekone sir lives Acacia, powdered 60@ 70 Carbonate ....... @2 00 BIOMOL . +. 22200 2 56@2 60 of New Foods for the Administration, are just as freely risking their lives Aloes (Barb. Pow) 30@ 40 Chlae gran’r 95@100 Capsicum ......, 35@ 40 Shark, squid, mussels, sea-weed, de- for their country. Heavier losses alae eae 25 Chlorate, xtal or Carmine 6 50@7 vO Aas : af iG | a : : oes (Soc. Pow. 60) @ 55 Q@We ooo, 0@ 175 Co cayed __ birds’-nests, crayfish, osage will surely come to America, if the Asafoctida. : @2 26 Ponies Loe Lb 00 Cassia Bods @ 40 oranges, cactus shoots (using the war goes on, but this first toll of Asafoetida, Powd. Fodide ......... 8 50@38 60 Cloves ........... 60@ 65 . aes : Be a ere... ce. es Ei a te ... 5 25 tnalk Prepar : thorns as toothpicks after the ample death necessarily carries with it a Gatien cee aoe < Hiiaeiaie ccbaw & 75 — yo 6@ ” meal), all these would be fair sub- peculiar shock, and a special appeal Guaiac ........... 45@ 50 Prue ate red @3 a Chilnectivais ” an 7 jects of enquiry by practiced and to sympathy. bona debi tic 06 = ee ee @ Chivrat Hydrate 1 wea la Kino, powdered .. 75@ 80 Roots Cocaine ...... 10 45@10 60 Meyacn oe. @ 55 Alkamet ........ 2 0e@a 16 Corus Sites .-.. SQ 60 Myrrh, powdered @ 60 Blood, powdered 25@ 30 Corks, list, less 55% Opium |...... 40 00@40 20 Calamus ........ su@s 50 Cepperas, bbls. .... 2 Opium, powd. 42 00@42 20 Hlecampane, pwd. 16@ 20 Copperas, less .. 24@ 7 Opium, gran. 42 ee 20 Gentian, powd. 30@ 35 Copperas, powd. .. 4@ 10 Shellac 2... ..... 0@ 80 Ginger, African, Corrosive Sublm. Y s0@2 40 Shellac, Bleached 85@ 90 powdered ...... 0@ 25 (ream Tartar .... 65@ 70 Tragacanth .... 250@3 00 Ginger, Jamaica ..30@ 35 Cuttlebone ....... eg *% Tragacanth powder 250 Ginger, Jamaica, Dextrine ........ W@ 15 ° 9 e Turpentine ...... 10@ la powdered ...... 22@ 30 Dover's Powder 5 75@6 00 Goldenseal pow. 8 00@8 20 Emery, all Nos. 6@ 10 ruggis S un r1es Insecticides lpecac, powd. ..3 25@3 50 Emery, powdered 5@ 8 Arsenic) ...:...... 23@ 20 Licorice .......... 35@ 49 Epsom Salts, bbls. @ 5 Blue Vitriol, bbl. @ 11 Licorice, powd. .. 30@ 40 Epsom Salts, less 6@ lu e Bule Vitriol less 11%@ 16 Orris, powdered 30@ 35 Ergot .......... 1 25@1 50 Bordeaux Mix Dry 20@ 25 Poke, powdered 20@ 25 Ergot, powdered 2 75@3 00 a 10ner y Hellebore, White Rhubarb ......... 75@1 00 Flake White .... 15@ 20 powdered ....... 38@ 45 Rhubarb, powd. 75@1 25 Formaldehyde lb. 19@ 25 Insect Powder . 40@ 60 Rosinweed, powd. 25@ 30 Géelatine ....... 1 90@2 00 e Lead, Arsenate Po ue 44 Sarsaparilla, Hond. Glassware, full cs. 58% Lime and Sulphur ground ........ 75 80 Glassware, less 50% OO S an O V e 1eSs Solution, gal. 15@ 25 Sarsaparilla Mexican, Glauber Salts, bbl. @ 1% Paris Green ..... 55@ 60 Bruna (0 00.0... 65@ 70 ao Salts less 2@ a Squilia .......... 35@ 40 ue, Brown ..... : e Ice coca : Squills, powdered so 65 bia ene Grd. ue * ; . iper Ice Cream Co., Tumeric, powd. .. 13@ 20 Glue, bite .... 5 The sample line or the above are now in our show Kalamazoo Valerian, powd. .. @1 06 Glue, White Grd. 30g 3 . . * Bulk Vanilla ........... 80 Giycernmig ........ 80 95 room in Grand Rapids. Our stock was bought early this Huts Secial Wiawarea $4 Seeds WM oeccs suis 45@ 60 © . . Brick. PiAin. .......... 6s 20 AMIS | occas 35@ 40 lodine ......... 4 50@4 60 season and the greater portion of it has arrived so that Brick, Fancy .......... $0 Anise, powdered ..40@ 48 lodoform --.... & $8@5 70 1 i i Bird, ts ......... - ead, Acetate .... we are already filling orders for goods in the above lines. Leaves oo “ae @ ioe 27508 a a Buchu ........ 1 75@1 8 Caraway ........ ac. 9G Mace ............: 8@ 90 On account of the conditions among manufacturers Buchu, powdr'd 1 8592 00 Cardamon “...., 88 200 Mace, powdered’. 9991 oa . ® MBG, DUN ..ccce Celery (Powd. Soy, © Menthe! ....-c. 2 and the large demand for merchandise of this class, we Sage, % loose .. 72@ 78 Coriander ........ 45 Morphine .... 17 00@17 65 oe Sage, powdered .. 60 MD ecco ee 300 35 Nux Vomica .... 224%@ 30 are advising our customers to buy early and allow us to Gon, Alex e666 wan 90@1 00 Nux Vomica, pow. @ 20 ‘ Senna, Tinn. 40@ 45 Bias ............ 7%@ 12 Pepper, black pow. 35@ 40 ship at the earliest dates. Senna, Tinn. pow. 50@ 55 Flax, ground .... 7%4@ 12 Pepper, white ..... @ 46 Uva Ursi ........ 18@ 20 Foenugreek pow. 19@ 25 Pitch, Burgundy .. @ 15 We, therefore, ask you to let us know by an early die Hemp --+-+s+-+- a ee sents a oe 1 1 eas . CIGNA ae are MING occ555remium, Xs .......... 35 Twist, Small ........ 17 | Imported, 1 lb, pkg. .. 22% Kien ....-.--...- 1 lb. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00 Burnham’s ats. 1..... 7 Premium, %s ioe Cases Imported, bulk ...... 22 Axle Grease .......... 1 oy ge boxes, 3 doz. 2 35 Corn le Jumbo ....... tec eees Aa Peachts . an Sige ga = ee eee soe CLOTHES LINE a ee 2 Brine Coit, 25 Ib. .. 12 Baked Beans ......... 1 : — per doz. ..720 Fancy |. .....:...5. No. 40 Twisted Cotton 1 39 Boston Sugar Stick .. 20 foe - a. ‘a0 18 Baking Powder ...... 11 - pails, per doz. ..12 00 French Peas No. 50 Twisted Cotton 1 70 Mixed Candy : ree Bath Brick .......... 1 BAKED BEANS Monbadon (Natural) No. 60 Twisted Cotton 2 20 Pails Peel Blaine ..............-. i - | . A nee Oe No. 80 Twisted Cotton 240 Broken 17 Lemon, American ..... 20 Breakfast Food ..... . Po OZ. ....+--- 1 35 No. 50 Braided Cotton 175 Gyt Loaf 707 7 Urange, American ..... - 2] elev aigaas muleatal aiinane 1 =e: 2. per doz ........ = . Gooseberries No. 60 Braided Cotton 200 yr, nC Bese a as |............ 5 MOR per Gon. ....... 2p Re SE cme es No. 80 Braided Cotton 250 Grocers om e Raisins oo . 2 DT onbscccsos No. 50 Sash Cord FOCErS 2... -1 120-18 Cluster, 20 cartons ... Butter Color - a. BATH BRICK Hominy No. 60 Sash Cord :... : = Kindergarten ........ 19 Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr. 9 Cc nglish .............. > tute c+ Meee Ce — Poe ce Ue ec 17 Loose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 8% oi .........::.-- 1 BLUING Lobster No. 72 BO ccs fo 15 L. M. Seeded ilb. 10% @11 —— Gente ee - : Contees win Bluing : »- pekep se cee secuan 2 P: Sisal .......... 1 30 cine Creams ....... 19 : California Prunes Soci ola ai aaa 2 Small, 3 doz. box a. Picnic i 3 75 Galvanized Wire Premio Creams ...... 21 90-100 25 lb. boxes --@10% Chewing Gum ........ 3 Large, 2 doz. box :... 2 40 oa No. 20, each Wott. long 190 Syeda 222000007 fh Doe he ee (eoeete .-..,...--- 3 Folger’s Mustard, 1 Ib. ....... 139 No 19, each 100ft. long 210 Valley Creams ....... 1 © 90 oth bakes ein, ee geese 10 Summer Sky, 6 oz., Mustard, 2 Ib. 111777: go No. 20, each 100ft. long100 x 109 | 14 50- 60 25 lb. b Li Sn Clothes Lines . oo aga peceeece es 45 Soused, 1% Ib. ....-. 1 60 No. 19, each 100ft. long 210 ~~ YO crreet terres oe ee. ai orga 2... ummer Sky, 12 oz., Soused, 2 Ib. ..... 2 75 Specialties : Gorpanuk ..........-. 3 per dor. .......... -- 85 Tomato, 1 lb. ........ 160 COCOA Pails Coffee. veceeereees 3.4 BREAKFAST Foops ‘Tomato, 2 Ib. 722222, 280 Baker's ........ vessseu 39 Auto Kisses (baskets) 19 PARINACE iM GOODS enfections .......... eveland ..... coe oe 41 onnie Butter Bites ..22 : : ns Mushrooms i Cream Tartar ....... 5 Bear Food, Pettijohns 290 p Colonial, 4s .......... 35 Butter Cream Corn .. 20 California Limas .... 17% Cracked Wheat, 24-2 ..4 60 Buttons, eect B89 Colonial, ys .... 83 Caramel Bon Bons °! 19 Med. Hand Picked ....10 _- ream of Wheat .... 750 Hotels, is "TIT. @aq EPPS ...--...- seseesees 42 Carame! Croquetes .. 18 rown Holland ...... 8 Priced Fruits ......... 5 Cream of Rye, 24-2 .. , ee he Hershey's, %s ......... 32 Cocoanut Waffles .... 17 Farl Quaker Puffed Rice .. 4 30 Oysters Hershey’ Coffty Ey : arina y’S, %8 ......... 80 Oy Toy... 55... .. 20 25 1 lb. packa: F Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30 Cove, a ib. ....... - @120 Huyler ........... ++ee. 86 National Mints 7 lb tin 24 Bulk, per 100 _" nase = Farinaceous Goods 5 Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 190 Cove, 2 Ib. ......... @1 80 Lowney, % ........ .»» 88 Fudge, Walnut ...... 20 : * sneeeees ® Fishing Tackic _..... 5 a Corn Flakes .. 2 75 ums Lowney, %s .......... 37 Fudge. Choc. Peanut 19 Original Holland Rusk Flavoring Extracts 5 ashington Crisps .. 230 Plums .......... 150@2 00 Lowney, %s .......... 87 Fudge, White Center 19 Packed : Flour and Feed .....- Wiest: ...........- 5 10 Pears In Syru Lowney, 5 Ib. cans .... 87. Fudge, Cherry ....... 18 acked 12 rolls to container West Sere .......-..- 6 Evapor’ed Sugar Corn No. 3 can, per dz. 2 fogs 00 Van Houten, %s ...... 12 Fudge, Cocoanut...) 1g % Containers (40) rolls 3 80 Grape Nuts _......... 85 Peas Van Houten, \%s ...... 18 Honeysuckle Candy .. 20 : G Sugar Corn Flakes .. 280 Marrowfat ......1 25@1 35 an Houten, %s ...... 36 Iced Maroons ........ 20 Pearl one ineetine 20.8... 6 esata a geracs ss 80 arly June .... 150@1 60 Van Houten, 1s .. - 65 Iced Orange Jellies |) 17 rl, Ib. sack .... 6 00 ia a ........-. 6 Sate 4 oe - akes ..2.80 arly June sifta 1 60@1 75 von pe nebese -» 86 Italian Bon Bons .... 17 Maccaroni and Vermicelll apl Fla e, Whole ou as 4 slg a pee ce ese a = Jelly Mello pect: 16 Domestic. 1 lb. box .. 75 ro 6 a piece eee ese . Pie . 5 , we enecceseeee AA Licorice Drops mported, 25 lb. b ¢ ; Minn. Wheat Food .. 6 50 seen teense @150 Wilbur, %s ..... Peete 32 ; ' + Hides and = Pere . 4. 6 Ralston Wheat Food No. 10 size can pie @3 75 " % a Pl > te a 50 Pearl Barl Horse Radish ....... 6 Large, 18s ........ 2 90 Pineapple ieee, Pink cote 19 Chester Sih 6 50 ES ee 6 Ralston Wht Food 18s 1 95 Grated ........ 1 75@2 10 D i al Ib ar ee oe eke : Portage Cilia riugia os 8 00 an J : —- Whole Wheat Sliced .......... 1 45@2 60 ys, 5 ib. wea sed 32 Molasses Kisses, 10°” ef a ce pa BD . ..- isentt ooo. coke Pumpkin , : soeuesaen bo: aa . eas aie 7 Saxon Wheat Food .. 450 Fair ........ gauge sop Be Se eee eee BE ee oo.~SCSTeen, ~Wisconsin, bu. 7 00 a 8. 6 Shred Wheat Biscuit 425 Good 149 (4% 15 Ib. case .. 8 ot eee See... 20 Solit, ib 13% Jelly Glasses ........ 7 Toe & .... Wanty -... ses Pe ee ee eet . a Tae ie +A ae ne io : M Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 250 No. 10 ......... ------ 390 Vs & ts, 15 Ib. case .. 30 : Chocolates Pails East India Mapleine ang z Phang a zs . -. i s ap agp ble $99 © and 10c pails ...... 425 cores a. enses = German, sacks ........ 16 Meats, Canned ...... ! ’ ee o- 28 10c pkgs., p fdeal Ghee ‘ Pearl, 36 Nas 4 Fancy Parlor, 25 Ib... 8 00 \Warrens, 1 lb. Tall .. 3 25 16 10c and 33 5e pkgs., deal Chocolates .... 20 Min 2 pkgs. ...... 2 75 ° Parlor, 5 String, 25 Ib. 775 Warren’s, 1 Ib. Flat .. 330 per case ........++- 2.09 Flondike Chocolates . 36 inute, 10c, 3 doz, ....8 26 Olives 7 Boeken tone, Se Tee Ta en siake 0 aegis tice noes FISHING TACKLE io ob ees ss ews « ‘ ommon, 23 lb. ...... 7 25 Led, ve sf Ss Seay D ao 7 : ’ : a Pink Alaska oo. 2 20 Nut Wafers ......... 25 % tol i : Petroleum rctiicks 7 eae ane 8 . .... § 7s ‘ Sardines COFFERS ROASTED Ocoro Choc Caramels 24 1% to 2 in. ...... ’ Som itotker .* 7 ele re Domestic, %s ........ 6 50 Rio Peanut Clusters ...... 30 i, Of 2...) sf Peanut Butter ...... z BRUSHES Domestic, 4% Mustard 6 50 Common ...........++ 19 Quintette ..... Sense 22 intm2tm ......... « i Sees ee ee ee : a Serub Domestic, 3 Mustard 6 25 ad De paetowescececce 19% SS econ eeoe se 18 [6 2... 15 PS nee ee ence eee eee tea ack, 8 in. .... 100 Norwegian, \%s..... 15@18 DICD . occ 5 sees sccce ae Star 10cOlates ..... 19 Bin: OEE raving Canis ....... i Goll back Ge Portuese, oe 30@35 Raney .2).......1.... 22 Superior Choc. (light) 20 - setter sesss 4 ae tenn iene 7 Pointed Wats 1 00 Sauer Kraut = Peaberry eesee eneccecce 23 Pop Corn G Cotton Lines teens eeeee Stein No. 3. cans .......... 2 75 Santos wi sg No. 1, 10 feet .......... 5 R so. 109 No. 10, cans .......... NUNN ..ccpass--->- OD. Caer pe i gag No. 2, 15 feet ......... 7 Biss Ss NS ? 1 50 Shrimps Fair ..... seseseeceees 20% coupon ” 3 50 No. $, 16 fect ......5... 8 Rolled Oats ......... eg Mp 1... 8. 2 00 ea ee 3 cenice so eeercccncces ; Cracker-Jack Prize |” 3 75 2g . 7 Oe tr rereenss 10 . Seen BNCY onccen en csncnse } S i eg - 9) eet ......... Il .S No oe 1 00 Succotash ee ee = 40 No. & 46 feet ;......55. 8 Salad Dressing ...... 8 N . poe Fair seresccecveccs 88 Cough Drops No. 7, 15 feet seb ebee ees AD aa. 60 g No. 2 ............0. MO Geode 1 90 Maracalbo Boxes No. 8, 15 feet ......... 18 Sel Solon 2... 8 N ; greets 1 70 WOMEY oko. cc kaccc ce MGW cece esse ce ecss Oe Putnam Menthol oo, 1 35 No. 9, 15 feet Sicasahec Cae Sat ees. 8 oO See ee rs chess sss 1 90 Strawberries Choice ........+-..+4. 25 Smith Bros, .. 1 35 ot Minh = 2 BUTTER COLOR ae oe rccccce 72 eee ie Linen Lines eee sie coc 9 i ancy ..... Pea eer - NUTS— mau ........ eerercece Shoe Blacking ....... 9 Rae gets ea -- 2 No. 9 ._, romatoes = a “ae Ibs, Medium’ o0..00.01 oe te 9 Ss +B sence cee ceeeecees monds, Tarragon’ © Large ...... sees eee eee 84 ee is 41 Farafine, 6s .......... 11 NO. 3) ..ssseeeeeeeee a Fair To . 25 Almonds, California. Poles Soda Co 9 Segre sina Ae - No. 10 tees teeeee . Rsary 0 eo 28 ent shell Drake ... Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60 pies .... oo. 9 Bo 5 RO ine cocoa 5 5 Bamboo, 14 ft er doz. 65 Case .. Java F , “P . co FT ; CANNED GOODS %s, 4 doz. in case .... 450 [Private Growth .... nee ol ea. aan Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80 Beh eta tales Applies ls, 4 doz. in case .... 7 60 andling .......... 5 Walnuts, Naples ..... 3 Ib. Standards .. ls, 4 doz. in case ....10 00 Aukola ........... - 30@32 walnuts, ieeamie peg earn oe OEE ae » Be Pe ........... @5 00 ~ CATSUP — Mocha Table nuts, fancy 18@14 — ee rer corte ae i a yan Camp’s, % pints 190 Short Bean ........ 25@27 Pecans, Large ......~ Soe lc a. /:. 09 Wan Camp’s pints ... 275 Long Bean ........ 24@25 Pecans, Ex. Large .. hee 7 Standard No. 10.) @8 75 ee on a. 0, Gc. ..... -.. 26@28 Shelled ure —— oie Vinegar ..... Ce 10 ieee eee Bogota No. 1 Spanish Shelled 7 Dr ) - Ww Baked ......... 1 25@2 25 —— a RUNG np cesses -e ss sce BA Peanuts ...... 16 @16% 1% Sei ge lee 178 ne Red Kidney .... 1 25@1 35 : BAMCY: 65. 5h06:scccisa 2 Lg. Va. Shelled 2 Ounce 30 : Washing Powder 11 ; Leiden .......... @ Exch e Cent . 2 60 A gee sonal 10 Sirine . 1 50@2 00 Limbureer @32 change Market, Steady Peanuts ...... 164%@17 2% Ounce 35 Cent 2 75 wane ........- — UU 1 bt se CE ------ Spot Market, Strong Pecan Halves . 80 21 re Wrapping Paper 11 . @200 Pineapple ....... @ sees % Ounce 40 Cent ... 3 00 Blueberries aon @ siieeeiacee hd acon Halves .... @55 4 Ounce 55 Cent .... 5 00 Waiaie Cate - gag ee cba : : op eae eeeee - @ New York’ Basis Annee meen ears 7s 45 ; ee . sto de 8 = peeckenes ; ; eesbsbesreuiae wiss, Domestic lmonds °..” a ee fe @ Arbuckle ............ 2150 Jordan Almonds ..... 14% Ounce Assorted .. 2 60 a 5 ‘oe 4 cw ‘ * ne ¢ £ ‘ ‘us ’ 1% . fs oO, d 1 ‘ Z * coe, 4 s & | } 1 & & a ‘ > = x «apie * 1917 or 80 ui 16 00 0 15 16 COO NrHowo-MK — ww eQoaqg we eee ee ee ee 7 * wee oo G i@ October 24, 1917 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN FLOUR AND FE 8 és | : 29 Grand Rapids Grain & __Siffy-Jell 9 8 $ 1 Milling Co. P Straight or Assorted 20 Ib. pails ...ad 0 Waiter Wenest a 0m cc 1 15 10 Ib. pails phony her kom 4% xv Mackerel 11 Purity Patent edi ‘a ae SD ge per 4 doz. .. 4 60 3 i pails ee Mec ro Ibs. .. 650 Formo coe — cy i Z avors: Ab t i ares Mess, 40 Ibs Pee sa, I i on moe Wiese ae be 12 50 Strawberry, ‘ieee’ Coe beats ...advance 1 = Mess, 10 a a 700 Formosa, Ca “oo. Palis Wizard, Gran. Meal ee Orange, Lime, Pine. ams wee Meats Mee, 6 6... 135 Formosa, Fancy .. =0@60 10 qt. Galvani Te Buckw’t cwt 7 . apple, Mint. » Pine- Hams, ae tg = @29 Pk 4 mote ...... = bp English Breakfa ules 7 br Galvanized 7 e VO cevccves . es a ae . @28 NO. ? ‘40 its ° Con oe s qt. vee. 40 ee itty cance on Rk Mae ce Siena gee Galvanised <5 £89 vanes ct -.. 125 is pt. in bbls., per doz. 25 aol eef cage Gani” 175 Congou, Fancy el 5 50 y Milli Ys 25 2 D " " Lily White ~ << Co aa per doz. 27 California Hams - oe a L Uae. 7 4 06 Congou, Ex. Fancy ann - 0 Toothpicks a , ed i a Z : a Ka 1 Pe X. a iy 60@86 a Pca 2 oy 11 45 per doz. is _ 27 sie os Nira - Mie 235 Ppekoe, M serten idear” 100 packages .. 2 00 Granena Health ..... on M ae Boiled Hams .. 4 @32 Se o Dr. Sg ‘Choi a. lll 85 Bolted MRE os... ob 2 02 bee oer a anced Hams 20 ee Anise sEere Flowery O. P Fanc ‘a N ae Se oe fae pe Oe Be a: : . P. Fancy 40@5 I e Meal .....5... 5 10 1 oz. bottles, per _- 00 FCO) 20.4... 36 @44 Canary, eo 35 CIG 250 on wood, 2 hoels a atson-Higgins Mill 16 oz. bottl . 75 Sau Caraway Na 5... 9 ARS use, wood, 4 «a ao New P. me Co, 32 es, per dz. 16 50 Bolog sages ~ Re ssc a aes 5 Peter D , 10 qt. G holes .. 4 erfection . 0. 32 oz. bottles, pe ologna .... Cardomon, J arta I Dornbos Brand 2 jalvanized : ™p Top Flour ...... a Pa See da gas «Liver... 1.0... 555 15 Celery falabar 1 20 dornbos Single ands y at. Galvanized |_|! 1 55 Golden Sheaf on PR MINCE MEAT fos 12 Hemp ECE oa 45 Sinde@r. . 32... 4. 37 4 qt. Galvanized |... 7c ee ei 95 oo “ he 17 Mixey’ oe aoe ae 1% Dornbos. Perfectos _ 37 00 Mouse, wood, 6 holes” 1 90 Watertown est Flour 50 3 ce 5 Veal es “ee Tie asa ye Solas 9 Darehes, _Bismarek 73 a me tin, 5 hae ; " YO cessecceee SSES de a, Po » White ...... 22 Gi » Grant .. Re An wood ... a Ww ---- 10 00 New Orlean Headcheese ...----+-- 11 Be are eee ees 70 Mia Be 4... oe Wat, aie |... 80 orden Grocer C Fancy O ee oct aisles 14 ee 35 00 ties 7 one oO. aoe pen Kettle .... 56 - wale euicc: on Acicins Tol : ee a 7 Se it 00 ra Se a. * 52 Pace 25 00@27 00 Handy Box aoe a Co.’s Brand N Tubs ea tes Lee A tack - ae ie, ump, new .- 30 00@31 Handy pas, ee 3 az. 3 50 ute Pio ers Club 71 50 oO F Bilve ...... Worden aoe on Half barrels 2c extra 1 Pig’s Feet . oe Royal. Poli gs wien Mata ban. ae 2 ae American Eagle is 12 59 Red Hen cag me bbs, eee 75 Miller's Crown Polish 85 Dutch Master G ane 7150 No. 3 Fibre .......... 15 6 American Eagle, » No. 2% . $ 2 4 While, 40 the, ...... : SNU ’ 85 wg Masten Grands 6750 Parce Gakcuela 13 i fie, is 1240 Red Hen, No -320 % bb eee 3 49 Scotch, i FF El Portand Large Galv - — Geis HA ee, Ne: 8222 : i Pa ae Wee foe in ae a 8 Masters, 5c Medium eos a io pring Whea S00 oe eee: 00 Frencl as J Ss tte 35 . LW. > ze 10 Judson Grocer eo: 4 MUSTARD Kits Tripe 2 we jars .. 13 Gee Jay Small Galvanized . 9 ue Coe bs as be 1% Ib. 6 Ib. box ... 1. & oe ve Peete. 90 Boxes ; A Johnson’s Straight Wisiiiaae : 0 oe eae y Me oe BORGS ooo ans nest ey 8 oo ee 1270 Bulk, 1 gal VES 4” feel ote 2 8 eoege oe oe ie ae oo Worden ee Co . Bulk, 2 gal. kegs i is01 3 ey per ib. 35 Allspi Leo Lae i ae ig 7 Glass, Single Reo ‘ i 5 . u ee nae ie as Allspice, Jamaicz 4 M0 ascarica 3 = 36 50 buble Pearlcas wing ga seth iz gp Sune Pee se'd Heat’ Pound sai’ isigle AMpiee. le Garde ait Rs ae BR meee ee , \s cloth .. 0) Soe Ones onesie 1 ? , set .. 45@55 oves, Zanzibar a UU ASSOTTCE os: 1s. - 24 50 on SB isi: . Wingold, %s cloth .. - > Stuffed, Pe od - Sheep .:.......: 1 inate Cae a @48 | 2% cash discount on / 0 Northern Queen 5 50 5 tuffed, 14 oz. Uncolor 2135) Cassia, 5 anton @20 purchases. a od Enough 13 eon Meal eee (not stuffed) 50 Solia ade Oleomargerine Se — pkg. doz. @35 ee Universal .. 4 65 Bolted ccaciated 7, 19 58 Mansanitia, oe! 1.02 ee cee @is _ Worden's Hand Made. a Lunch, 10° co... FO Cc Mace, Penang a 20 Londres, 503 W Made 13 in. Bu owt Wheat OZ. ... anned Meats Mixed No £ :. @90 » 508 Wood 35 0 15 ater s+ a. tease 16 0 Bee 50 Corned Beef, Po Ve (Ca @ir .. 35 00 5 in. Butte woes 2 OC ies a Pee Manno. 2 “ Corned Beef, i _ i : 2 Mixed 30 pl cee eee oie Cot wine 13 in Butter ae $00 ecccccce Zz. ae s oe en , oC pkgs. Z 47 otton, : oo Michi Oats oe. Mam poses 00 Roast Beef’ i Ib. .... 6 26 ule. 70-80 se . Cotton [_2 eee eee 44 MENT se8 anes 11 00 Michigan a 65 moth, 28 | Potted Meat i. 3 25 ent aaa 105-110 |* @ * oC : Pia ed. 44 WRAPPING PAPE 3 than cariots . 68 Olive Chow, 2 doz. cs 5 Flavor, \s cepper, Black os , ply .... Fibr ; R re : Homie, we. Bonner Wane @30 Vo 95 tibre Manila, whi Corn per doz. ... Potted Meat, + | pp ', White ..... @32 p, 6 ply .... Mi wee cae Carlots a svecececeees 214 wo Pata moe @32 Plax, medium ......... a Ne | mae ; Jess than carlots ... PEANUT BUT Deviled Meat, Ham 95 ka, Hungarian Wal it tea. 35 Butchers’ Manila |.) 6% 121% Gar Garseee eee Flavor, rey Ham aa Ground in Bulk ol, 1 Ib. bales 17. Kraft s’ Manila 64 ‘ Ha n WS cues : Allspice, Jamaic: i Oe - Guise a a : ; oz. 4 doz. in case ..3 60 as iled Meat, Ham 52 Claes, sesh a .. @16 a VINEGAR Wax Butter, short c’n 9 fo ain a oo z. 2 doz. in case .. 290 P lavor, %S ...... 00 Cassia, Ca oC yar @56 White Wine, 40 grai : Wax Butter full e’nt 16 Ss .. 00 oz. 2 doz. in case .. 3 30 otted Tongue, %s . Ginger, ASH on .... @32 White Wine, 80 oral 15 Parchm’t But cnt 20 ‘ Feed bring 1 doz. in case 3 00 Potted Tongue les ne Mace 1 Sohcan @24 White Wine, 100 grain 21 ter, rolls 19 treet Car Feed . pails, 6 in crate — ae @10 oan = YEA No. oo. © ont fa % . y Ls pails ..... eek . 2 Fancy cies 8@81 Vouier Biack tenes oc Oakland Vinegar & Pi Magic, 3 sae CARE racked Corn ...... 80 00 25 1 pails 2.25.0... 11% Blue Rese... @8% Pepper, wa @30 i Co.’s Brands ckle Sunlight, 3 doz. 1.1.0, 216 Coarse Corn Meal .. 8000 50 pails .......... BRORGG ..< 055-455, a Pepper, Cyne @%0 Pita ine apple cider Sunlight, ig d a! 00 re ae tins .......5.- 16% nienarte Gre OATS Paprika, Hungarian @45 Soe apes caer Yeast Foam, 8 os 0 n, rch, sarian @ 45 ; ‘ s a me *oam. _ *: Mason, pts. per gro. 7 00 PETROLEUM PRODUCTS frei’ Dae Wee at s } Blue Ribbon Corn. st Foam, Ug dos! 5 Mason, gto ber 0. 140 portection on eaagS Monarch, 106 Ibe sis, 5 20 “Corn Oakland white pick in. sees Mason, can to : My Lecce 10 onarch, 90 ; : Kingsf ackages fr in. : . me 2% nod Gown Gaull ‘ eee” lb, sks. .. 510 M ord, 40 Ibs. 9 ee. Hy Wer #8 es chron es 1 65 GELATINE Aus Sahn € ne .. 21.5 er, 18 Regular 1 75 uzzy, 48 llb. pkgs. % 16 hy ecies 65 Gave | cee is Cac © te asoline 34.9 @uaker, 20 Family “7 Seam 9% WICKING ieee, 1 85 Cox’s, 1 ane —— «ec 1 46 Ca: aphtha .. 21. SALAD : 60 Silver Gloss. 4 No. 0, ee 2 30 _ small pitol Cylinder DRESSING 0 1b. .. 9% No.l Be retsee: 35 Knox’s Sparklin oo ee Bale » Wood Columbia, % pi Gloss _ fe oe oe aor ing, doz. 1 75 et ea Col i ae oe No. 2, per gross ....... a P ; Knox’s an gr. 20 50 ae Cylinder, Iron _ Dace. ine 1 ee 4G Fine ae a TS per gross ....... “4 oe & Gamble Co. Knox's Acid 2 BF 20 80 Bale ov snsn acess 32,9 Durkee’s large, 1 oz. 4 20 Sitver Gloas, 14 ig a ee ee Fi «4. 60 , ’ OZ 1.5... 25 lantic Red Engine SGnitera , 2 doz. 5 00 s. .. 9% WOODE yory, 6 oz. . Heute. S don J 3 75 Winter Black .. re ae eae eal large, 1 doz. 240 48 1lb. pa muary one Ivory, 16 oa. «cece & OS Nelson's oe oe Polarine an ae er’s, small, 2 doz. 1 45 16 31b. a ackanes ae ee a 9% Huehiels ee " ts 1 20 SOF cick. 8 65 Oxford ivan ee ese ee - SALERATU . Gh cae 9% ushels, wide band 2 a Sell More Bread ar i J The best bread is made with Fleischmann’s Yeast Mi Ask about our way BARLOW BROS. Grand Rapids, Mich _ ELI CROSS Grower of Flowers And Potted Plants WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 150 Monroe Ave. Grand Rapids NERS MACARONI MY SIGNATURE Cf 59 PACKAGE 2 4 ee +| $ ny wd MT cn SCHULZES Franklin Package Sugars Are Uniform In Quality and Sweetness ees For many years Franklin Package Sugars have been famous as “The Standard of Purity.” They are made from Sugar Cane by the most modern refining processes, great care being taken to maintain uniformity and secure the greatest sweetening power. Such sugar is sure to please your customers, and ycu can make a profit out of the steady sale that follows. The ready-to-sell cartons and cotton bags save you loss by overweight, save the cost of paper bags and twine. Franklin Granulated Sugar is sold in 2 and 5 Ib. cartons and 2, 5, 10 and 25 Ib. cotton bags. *‘A Franklin Sugar for every use”’ Granulated, Dainty Lumps, Powdered, Confectioners, Old Fashioned Brown 0 The Franklin Sugar Refining Company Philadelphia . vt ae) ITE TT peel Ie tree 1917 4 fon "ness. October 24, 1917 Advertisements inserted under this head for three cents a word the first insertion and continuous insertion. BUSINESS CHANCES. If you want to buy a paying grocery in a Western Michigan town of 2,000, doing $30,000 a year, answer this ad- vertisement to the Tradesman, No. 395. 395 For Sale—Blacksmith — shop, stock, tools. Good business; no opposition. W. M. Savitz, Algonac, Michigan. 396 For Sale—Twelve hundred acres virgin timber located in Ontonagon county, Michigan, consisting of cedar, pine, birch, basswood, elm and hemlock. Close to river and railroad. Address A. P. Huellmantel, 1388 Ford Ave., H. P., De- troit, Michigan. 397 For Sale—Good, clean stock dry goods, groceries, boots, shoes, furniture and undertaking, invoicing about $10,000. Location Central Michigan, splendid farming community. Good live proposi- tion; will bear closest inspection. Ad- dress No. 398, care Tradesman. 398 Drug Stock and _ Fixtures for cheap or exchange for real estate in small town. Fine location, good busi- ness, up-to-date stock. Address Box 44, Romeo, Michigan. 399 sale Absolute control, sale rights, new Ford accessory; well introduced JU. S. terri- tory; a great bargain for someone; pres- ent owner drafted. Address J. A. Bray- ley, Mercer Hotel, Kansas City, ipa ae 40 Grocerteria—In my two store rooms and warehouse in Central Rock Island at street railway junction for Davenport and Moline, reaching 125,000 people, offers unequaled opportunity. No competition. Kk. H. Guyer, Rock Island, Illinois. 401 For Sale—General stock of merchan- dise. Prices and terms to suit. Pros- perous trade. Address No. 403, care Michigan Tradesman. 403 TI want a stock of merchandise or live stock or diamonds for improved Florida grove or small farm; all enquiries answered. P: Phillips, Mlanchester, Tennessee. 402 Bakery For Sale—59 x 160 feet. business for forty I will sell it Doing years on this place. reasonable. Everything modern. N. Ritter, 1218 Oak St., New Albany, Indiana. 404 For Sale—Tea and _ coffee business. Going business. A good proposition with active routes and customers. R. 3O. Prendergast, Trustee, care Worden Gro- cer Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. 405 Would you invest ten dollars for a rattling good prospect of receiving $243.70 yearly income for life? If so, communi- cate with Harrison Brothers, Branch 1, Poughkeepsie, New York. 384 For Sale—Grocery and notion stock. Good town. Cash business. Inventoried about $1,800. Fixtures $500. Discount twenty per cent. G. W. Fuller, Plainwell, Michigan. 388 For Sale—$3,500 stock of general mer- chandise near town or 800 population. Rich farming community. Annual sales $25,000. No trades. Reason for selling, difference among heirs. ->—___ No day without -an advertisement. ' Lumberman’s Bank has Do Not Propose to Compete With Retailer. Chicago, Oct. 23—At the session of the executive board of the National Retail Grocers Association, held last week in Washington, a report was made bearing on the rumor that the retailers were to have formidable competition from Armour & Company, Sol Westerfeld, Vice-President of the Association, submitted a report to the board, based on a conference with J. Ogden Armour, President of Armour & Company. Mr. Wester- feld’s report contained the following statement from Mr. Armour: “T am not going into the retail bus- iness, Neither will Armour & Com- pany. There is no crying need for such a move now and if there ever is, I hope it will not come in my life- time for I do not intend to add the woes of retailing to the burdens of manufacturing and wholesaling. “With reference to the rumors you speak of, I will say this: Neither Ar- mour & Company nor myself are in any way interested in chain stores or like enterprises and as President of Armour & Company, T can state that we have no intention of acquir- ing any such interests. There is nothing to the rumors. “Tt ought to be apparent to any thinking man that we could not go into the retail business on any scale ex- cept one so vast that it would enable us to handle our entire output of food products. Ten stores, or a hun- dred stores, or a thousand stores would not be enough, and we could not expect to have customers for the remainder from among our retail competitors. It would be folly for us to enter the retail business for it would require the expenditure of mil- lions upon millions of dollars and the result would not be pleasing either to us or to the public which frowns upon monoply. “While I am convinced that there are too many retailers for their own best interests and those of the gen- eral public, and while I know that there are some bad retail practices which ought to be eliminated, I am, nevertheless, well aware of the handi- caps under which the retailers of the Nation work and I regard them, on the whole, as being indispensable. They are far from being overpaid for the service they give. “There will be no change in our policv toward the retailers. We wil} continue to regard them as our co- workers and not in any sense as our competitors: We will continue en- deavoring to create a ready market for their goods, because as they pros- per, so will we, Let me reiterate: we are not going to compete with our own customers in the retail business.” Believing the foregoing to be of considerable interest to the retailers, we submit it in the hope that you sec fit to publish it. Armour & Company. —_>+>—____ Sparks From the Electric City. Muskegon, Oct. 23—The National been torn down to the last story and by the end of the week will be completely razed, A. W. Stevenson, who visited Mar- quette Oct. 13, reports Marquette Council as a very live wire. They had three candidates and are looking for- ward to a 200 membership. Steve says that when it comes to entertain- ment they surely deliver the goods. Harold Foote is traveling for Swift & Co. He has Muskegon and Grand Haven territory. Castenholz Bros. have changed ownership, three of the brothers re- tiring. William Castenholz and John Albers Sons. have organized the Castenholz-Abers Co. Frank W. Clark has moved into his new garage at Bellevue. Muskegon Council will hold a rally Nov. 17. The ladies are to be invited and a good time is promised. They now hold their meetings over the Koon & Hoppersted drug store. Milton Steindler was out Saturday to the meeting, but had to go home early to see a friend(?). We have no patience with the fel. low who cannot conform to the menu on the table meatless and wheatless days. Two very annoying circum- stances happened in my presence at a hotel very recently. Neither party looked to us as if they ever had a square meal at home. Be sure and buy a Liberty Bond! Boys, it is your duty. I am on my way up North looking for bears. E. P. Monroe. —_+-2—____ Will one of the peace conditions in- volve a return of Belgian and French art treasures removed by the Germans since 1914 from the occupied territories ? Until the present war’s outbreak, every one had supposed the custom of nations changed since Napoleon’s time, so that it would no longer be possible for a conqueror to fill his museums with plunder. That supposition, like so many others, seems to have been given the lie by the Kaiser, whose agents have ruth- lessly emptied the Antwerp and Brussels museums for the benefit of Berlin. Even the Emperor’s grandfather, in the war of 1870, took practically no toll of Paris art treasures. Malice has ascribed this moderation to the lack, in that Spartan generation, of appreciation for art, which led those earlier invaders to con- fine their activities, for the most part. to ormolu clocks and_ silver services. The modern Prussian, however, from the Crown -Prince down, has become an art connoisseur—with no more knowledge of the subject than a hog has of matrimony. Hence the very thorough clean-up made of art objects. The brutal Germans—every German is a brute in this war—are determined to make Berlin an art center. prefer Paris because of its greater na- tural charm and also because it is in- habited by gentlemen instead of bar- barians, they will, in any event, be forced to visit the Prussian capital in order to see Rubens’s “Descent from the Cross.” A’ monopoly of the world’s potash supply, and a collection of stolen art, is to keep the world at Germany’s mercy—unless the terms of peace pro- vide otherwise. —_+2>____ Every Child His Own Salesman Chidren were successfully enlisted as salesmen by a Chicago laundry owner. He regularly allowed cus- tomers who brought and called for their bundles a 20 per cent. discount. He offered the youngsters this dis- count on any work they might bring in and deliver for him. BUSINESS CHANCES. To Rent—Fine modern brick hotel in lively town of 3,200. Thirty-six sleeping rooms, two baths, steam heat, electric lights. Would rent dining room and kitchen separately, or the whole. None but experienced hotel man need apply. Address No. 406, care Tradesman. 406 Cash Buyer of clothing, shoes, dry goods, furnishings and carpets. Parts or entire stocks. Charles Goldstone, 333 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 407 For Sale—Grocery stock, $90 daily trade, invoice, $5,000, rent $30 per month; five minutes walk from tower clock. Meat market in same store. Weekly trade, $350 to $400. Invoice, $1,000. Rent, tele- phone, heat, delivery—all $35 per month. Can be bought together or separate. Holt Bros., 222 Widdicomb building, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 408 For Sale—Only exclusive dry goods business in college town. Small: stock. Store and fixture rent reasonable. Frank U, Green, Agent, Olivet, Michigan. 409 If tourists wa ao rR wad % . é ; ‘ i “ag a3 he wu : 2 i . ee i P io « & - a yee é ? f ; «ae s a ie ts e¢ g a * » ‘ < * x = * fe le ih #4 bop é > kn ” é ©