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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1917
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Number 1785
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When the Madness is Ended
The Roll of Honor is long and solemn
In the mourning City of Everywhere,
And they eagerly read its cold, gray column
With eyes that blur and with eyes that stare.
It is read by the haughty and read by the humble,
It is read by the old and read by the young,
And the young grow old and the old hearts mumble,
And it is read in every tongue.
It tells how the blood of a peasant splashes
The dying son of an ancient line—
In the blinding shock and the roaring clashes
They drank to death in their mutual wine.
They had scorned each other, perhaps and had hated,
When the one was poor and the other was rich,
But the barriers false by Caste created
Were not there in the last red ditch.
Oh, the ancient lines are thin and broken,
With their heirs-apparent a list of dead;
But by every splendid and worth-while token
Have the heirs-apparent inherited.
And the stark, white test of the ultimate issue
By the plan of a grim, inscrutable Fate
Has proved the man of the coarser tissue
Blood-heir to the same one on the same estate.
When the guns are still and the madness ended
And back to Peace limp the wraiths of men,
As the heart of the world is slowly mended
What of your laws and your customs then!
Will ye hate as of old the one the other?
Will Caste be reared on the hallowed spot?
Will the name and the fact and the blood of brother
And its promise be all forgot?
Bart Howard.
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SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page
4. News of the Business World.
5. Grocery and Produce Market.
6. Upper Peninsula.
8. Editorial.
10. Shoes.
12. Financial.
18. Butter, Eggs ana Provisions.
20. Hardware.
22. Dry Goods.
24. The Commercial Traveler.
26. Drugs.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
31. Business Wants.
CUFF-TOP SOCKS COMING.
The cuff-top that first
their
socks made
appearance about five years ago
and died a quick and natural death at
that time are beginning to make their
appearance like mushrooms, and, while
no large business has been placed on
them as yet. it is felt that they will find
favor later on when their novelty is
The bulk of the trade
agree that they are too much of a novy-
partly worn off.
elty to gain a following quickly.
An instance is noted in the trade that
would seem to substantiate this belief.
A jobber in the Middle West bought a
‘ase of these cuff-top men’s socks two
years ago and last week reported that
he had just succeeded in disposing of
the last of the original case. Such a
slow seller evidently cannot be expected
to attract much attention.
It is interesting, however, to note that
the better class of trade finds less fault
with them than the cheaper trade, and
this is explained hy the fact that many
of those who buy the cheaper goods do
not wear garters and therefore find that
they do not stay up as well as the loop-
ed-top socks. This objection is not felt
to merit any great consideration since
the trouble is easily remedied. A large
trade reported that they
were making some of the cuff tops and
house in the
found buyers showing a little more in-
terest in them than has been the case
since they were first introduced.
In some quarters it is reported that
the higher grade of women’s silk hosiery
is lagging somewhat on account of the
trend away from luxuries. Medium and
low-end goods are said to be having
a run and are hard to locate in the mar-
ket. Men’s silk lines are equally strong.
The
changed.
cotton situation remains un-
Men’s and children’s supplies
are very hard to locate and the bulk
of the trade is closed up for the present.
Mills refuse to sell very far ahead and
the result is that they have nothing to
offer now, although it is expected that
soon after the turn of the year they will
be in a position to take on some addi-
tional business, even though it may not
be large.
COTTON MARKET STRONGER.
The last week further ad-
vances in cotton quotations. Whether
come is one of the
showed
more are to
problems. The price
seemingly the combined results of the
any
advances being
GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1917
ability of holders to retain their bold-
ings and of the efforts of speculators
who are banking on a small crop and a
valueless.
But the effects on the goods
have been beyond dispute.
large demand, prediction 1s
market
Prices of
fabrics of all kinds have jumped, and
this circumstance, far from checking
purchases, seems to have stimulated
them. It is a phenomenon usually seen
on a continuously rising market. So
new high figures for printcloths and
napped cottons and the various kinds
of bleached, colored, and printed goods
have been accepted as a matter of
course by those who had previously
been afraid to buy at lower levels. In
certain fabrics there are evidences of a
scarcity because ot the unusual demands
from the Government. Yarns have
been particularly strong, with an active
demand especially from the knitters.
The underwear openings disclosed ad-
vances in price from about 45 per cent.
up. This did not serve to discourage
the purchasers, who seem to be worry-
ine more over the question of whether
their wants can be supplied by the mills.
A number of the latter, indeed, stop-
ped taking orders after obtaining a
certain quota. Similar conditions are
shown with regard to other knit goods.
JUST PLAIN PROFITEERING.
The restaurants, hotels and. railway
dining cars are conserving meat. That
is patriotism. They are cutting down
on wheat bread and charging for bread
and butter. That is conservation. But
most of them still continue the system
of charging outrageous prices for pota-
toes which they inaugurated a year ago,
when potatoes were so high that the
cow that jumped over the moon had to
make an extra effort to catch up with
them.
That is just plain profiteering.
A year ago the Government advised
We “done raised
And the result is that the potato
us to raise potatoes.
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crcp is 50 per cent. larger than on the
previous year, and the prices corres-
pondinely low.
Moreover, when prices went up peo-
ple got the habit of cutting down on
potatoes. Not only the restaurants and
as well, use
looks
as though the patriots who raised pota-
hotels, but private homes
less potatoes than formerly. It
toes at the Government request would,
in many instances, have their troubles
for their pains.
There is no reason for those eating
places which cut down on potatoes in
order to conserve them continuing the
custom. There are plenty of Murphys
in the country, and they are fairly cheap.
If you ever get acquainted with
yourself the that
won't company so
agreeable.
chances are you
find your very
BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE.
Necessity is proverbially the mother
of invention, and, judging by the light
OF recent evolution, adversity is the
mother of common sense. So far as food
merchandising is concerned there has
not been so much reversion to “horse
sense’ in a decade as since the war
broke out, and a few faddists and the
Orists had a chance to fade away into
the landscape in a camouflage of de-
served obscurity.
The tremendous economic experimen-
tation in progress at Washington, and
reaching out its influence all over the
country, has played an immense part
in wiping out the crazy idea of “elim
inating the middleman” and shown how
vital has been our seeming intricate sys-
tem of co-ordinated links in the distrib-
Never until Mr.
undertook the task of handling the food
utive chain. Hoover
supply of a Nation and pointed the need
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for the prevailing going machinery of
business organization did the middle-
man feel that he had a safe and sane
ly in governmental
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al circles, and €
showed his appreciation and hts patriot-
and cordially as-
ism alike by willingly
suming his share of the necessary sacri-
fice Most of the and. other
food traders are anxious to demonstrate
S@TOCers
the fairness of the functional expense
they exact from the people by
foregoing
speculative profits and trying to live on
the “fair profit’ accorded them by the
Hoover experts.
Accompanying this recognition of the
legitimacy of the functional middleman
has come a study of two other great
factors of the cost of living; the actual
costs of production and the advance due
strictly to the law of supply and de-
mand. Accountants have very generally
confirmed the fairness of known costs
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and revealed to the public facts they
unofficial
increase
m food Costs in recent years.
Not only
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been shown, but it has
would accept from
Hever
sources as to the remarkable
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has the truth
eone far to east an accusing spothght
force of
1 as
on the farmer as a dictatorial
none too generous public spirit. Anc
for the
he has been, temporarily at least, thrown
strictly speculative middleman,
into the discard.
ee —
\ preliminary statement of the de-
crease in college and university enrol-
ment this year is furnished by the Bos-
ton Transcript, which has gathered fig-
ures from sixty principal institutions.
They show a total loss of 21,000; hap-
pily, only one-seventh of this is in the
entering class. If we take the male
registration alone, the loss is roughly
25 per cent., which seems a great deal
small to
When we
consider that upon the outbreak of war
to Americans but will seem
Englishmen and Frenchmen.
many institutions were half-transform-
ed into military camps, that patriotic
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ardor is naturally high among students,
that college men are economically in
class, that the officers
dependent as a
training camps made a special appeal
to college men, while technically train-
ed were wanted for technical service,
and that many juniors and seniors were
subject to the draft, the wonder is that
we have three out of every four men
left. Th country does not vet need
to worry over wars cutting short the
whole flow of trained men into its fe.
its sempiternal rival,
that Gen HF A
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Lew 1S has ordered
Seattle ts bitter,
Pacoma, rejoicing,
Camp
his men to stay away from the former
city unless given special permission to
go there, while al’ them the free
wing
run of the latter. The reason ts the
alleged bad moral conditions in Seattle.
‘Tacoma is clean in comparison with
Seattle,” he ‘There may b
explains.
some vice in Facoma—that is to be ex
pected—but it is not on an organized
The police officials
been corrupted as
Seattle officials.”
Seattle women have meanwhile planned
to hold a great mass meeting, members
f Women’s
local Red Cross workers being
Clubs
of the Federation «
and the
especially prominent in this, to make
demands for a clean-up of the city.
Mayor
would resign, and states.thait “the clean
Police Department will
Gill has denied reports that he
p> policy oi the
he continued without interruption, and
there will he no change in the head
of that Department.”
a NE CTE OT
Cleveland's Board of Education, up-
on recommendation of Superintendent
Spaulding, has adopted a resolution to
remove teachers of German sympathies.
The Superintendent indicates that this
is on account of “rumors and several
definite reports concerning evidence cf
pro-German sympathies entertained by
teachers.” Hi
sentiment
admits that dis
that
certain
missal, based on may
never be expressed in the schoolroom,
may seem severe, but finds its justifica-
limited to
that
he able to teach patriot-
tion in that teaching 1s not
expression through language, and
teache rs shi ald
ism in a positive way, not merely nega-
tively, to avoid disloyalty.
eae
Two ereat evils menace the American
people—the Kaiser from abroad and the
labor unions from within. It is pretty
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hard for a free country to be forced to
combat two such enemies—-enemies from
without and enemies from within—at
the same time, especially as the two
appear to be working in harmony to
defeat individual freedom in the best
country the sun ever shone on.
A LD
Many a man who thinks he ts
thinking is merely rehearsing the
thoughts of another
Late News From the Saginaw Valley.
Saginaw, Dec. 4—Long live the czar
of Michigan! Mark Brown and Bert
Rutherford, the orator of No. 43, were
the words on the lips of each one of
the 125 people who attended the an-
nual venison banquet at Forester
Temple Saturday night. It was one
of the most successful affairs ever
held of its kind. Thanks were ten-
dered in a three-fold manner by Gor-
don Grant, worthy toastmaster of
the evening, first to Mr. Brown and
Mr. Rutherford for the venison, sec-
ondly to the entertainment commit-
tee, Fred L. Strutz, chairman, and
then to the ladies of the U. C. T.
who prepared and served the bounties
of the evening. Certainly no chef or
set of chefs in gay Paris could have
done better or made a more worthy
showing. Mr. Rutherford, in his
modest manner, gave a brief outline
of their hunting trip and accorded
Mr. Brown credit for killing the deer,
Anyhow, he said it was Brown’s turn
to receive credit, as the latter gave
Mr. Rutherford that credit last year.
Toastmaster Grant called on several
for talks. A poem was written and
read by Mrs. Dan McArthur, which
we would like to see in print, but we
will not ask Mr. Stowe to give way
to business rules this year. It was a
poem of tribute where tribute be-
longs. A_ splendid and _ instructive
talk was given by Mrs. H. L. Ranney
in behalf of the ladies of the U. C.
T., urging the wives of every U. C.
T .to join the organization. She said
that during these trying hours the
ladies had done away with their reg-
ular monthly scciai affairs and were
spending that time working for the
Red Cross. Certainly great credit
must be given them for such patri-
otic endeavor.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Guider, of De-
troit, were at the banquet. Their
many friends were glad to see them.
Mr. Guider is a P. S. C. of No. 43.
Floyd Brown, son of Mark Brown
and a member of the Michigan
Knight Templar ambulance corps
now stationed at Camp Zachary Tay-
lor, Louisville, Ky., is home on a
short furlough. This accounts for
Mark’s absence at our banquet, where
he was certainly missed by a host of
friends.
Saginaw needs laborers. Boys,
don’t be afraid to tell this wherever
you go. Boost!
The Northwest Glass Co., of Sagi-
new, which took over the Michigan
Glass Co. plant here a short time ago,
will be ready for operations about
Jan. 1. It needs about 200 men to
start on and more will be added later.
The company has many contracts to
fill the coming year.
The Michigan Bee Keepers’ Asso-
ciation held its annual convention
here last week, with 200 in attend-
ance. It held a two day session.
Max Heavenrich, head of the Heav-
enrich Clothing Co., one of Saginaw’s
largest and most complete haber-
dasher shops, was host to 225 of Sag-
inaw’s poor children on Thanksgiv-
ing day, at which time he gave them
their annual feast at the Elks Temple,
Much credit is due Mr. Heavenrich
for this annual philanthropical act
toward our poor little citizens.
_ Miss Anna Roth, for sometime past
in the Ed. Mann grocery, on Howard
street, has accepted a position with
the Victor Tatham chain stores here,
the same being conducted successful-
ly on the cash and carry basis. She
is located at store No. 4, formerly
known as the Heller grocery, and
should prove a valuable asset to this
enterprising firm.
Hugo Werner is spending a week
end furlough at home. He is station-
ed at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louis-
ville, Ky. He is a member of the
Michigan Knights Templar ambulance
corps.
The Sonora Phonograph Co., of
this city, has purchased ground ad-
joining the Herzog Art Furniture
Co. and will begin building soon, its
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
present quarters being too small to
accommodate the increased business.
The body of Don McGee, Saginaw’s
famous aviator, who was killed in a
fall Oct. 10, was found in Lake St.
Clair Saturday afternoon, The body
was washed ashore several miles
from the point where he fell and was
found by a couple of duck hunters.
Don was a civilian instructor in avia-
tion at Selfridge Field, Mt. Clemens,
and lost his life when he fell into
Lake St. Clair from an altitude otf
3,000 feet. The remains were cre-
mated at Detroit and burial will take
place from his home in Saginaw Tues-
day afternoon.
Do your shopping early and avoid
the rush, is now the common slogan.
Captains Knoop and Doerman are
very busy these days handling the
big U. C. T. drive for our January
rally. Each side has plenty of -am-
munition and it is only a question of
long windedness as to which bunch
will go “over the top.” We are
cheering for both sides. There is a
bit for each of us to do. Let’s help!
M. Steward.
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Government Aims to Prevent Hoard-
ing of Sugar.
Stanwood, Dec. 3—I have taken
your paper for a long time and have
always found it right on all things,
but now I am up against it. I saw
an article in your paper in regard to
sugar, that merchant in no case should
sell more than two pounds of sugar
to one man at a time, nor in any case
should he charge more than 714 cents
and in no case should he sell it for
less than cost.
Now, where are we at? If the
wholesale houses do not reduce the
cost to us, we cannot sell it at that
price and pay $7.90. Our overhead
expense would not allow us to sell
at 7% cents. Then, again, we have
farmers who live six to eight miles
from here with perhaps six or eight
children, who are sometimes unable
to get to town for two or three weeks
at a time on account of bad roads.
What are we going to do in such
cases—confine sales to two pounds at
a time or give the farmer enough
sugar to last him until he can get to
town when the roads freeze up? With
town customers who can drop in any
time, I see no difficulty ahead, but in
the case of the farmer who lives a
long distance from town, I cannot
see my way out. Will you kindly
throw a little light on the subject?
I want to at all times do as near right
as possible, but this is a puzzle to
me. M. D. Crane.
Mr, Crane is mistaken in the state-
ment that the Tradesman stated that
he must sell sugar at 7%4 cents. The
rule is that he shall sell it at any
price he sees fit between cost and
81% cents—not less than cost and not
more than 8% cents per pound.
The Tradesman does not believe
the Food Administration of the Gov-
ernment is going to be arbitrary or
unreasonable in punishing technical
violations of the sugar ruling, provid-
ing good faith can be shown. If a
farmer who has six or eight children
and lives six or eight miles away
from town came into the store, the
Tradesman would sell him three or
four packages of two pounds each,
providing it looked as though the
roads were going to be so bad he
could not get into town for some days
or weeks. We would make a notation
of this sale in a book, giving in con-
nection therewith, our reasons for
making the excess sale, so that when
the Government inspector comes
around he can be plainly shown that
the violation of the law was not a
willful act, but was done solely in
the interest of dealing fairly with the
farmer.
The theory on which the Food
Control is working is that the con-
sumption of sugar should be restrict-
ed to one-half pound per capita per
week. A family of eight would there-
fore be entitled to four pounds of
sugar per week.
Of course, the Tradesman has no
right to guarantee any merchant im-
munity from arrest and punishment
in the event of his selling more than
two pounds of sugar to any purchaser
at one time, but we believe the in-
spectors will deal very generously
with any merchant under the circum-
stances stated if it is found he con-
fined his sales to the town people and
those living near the town to two
pound packages, and gave the farmer
living remote from town a little lee-
way.
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Live Notes From a Live Town.
Owosso, Dec. 4—We have a sat-
isfactory report from Bill Griffith that
the money handed him last week for
tonsorial expenditures was not all
wasted. Mr. Griffith, after arriving
in town, secured the attendance of
J. J. Brown as a witness and went
immediately to Bill Campbell’s barber
shop and got fixed up some, but neg-
lected to get a hair cut. This we
can overlook, as in these times of
conservation Bill, no doubt, conclud-
ed to let it grow another six months,
so as to get more for his money.
Verily, an honest man is the noblest
work of God.
Ed. McCarthy, of Fenmore, has sold
his general stock of merchandise, to-
gether with store building and farm,
to D. L. Rogers, of Summit City,
who has taken possession. Mr. Rog-
pers is well acquainted in this part of
the territory, having been in business
at this location several years ago.
Dave is an A 1 hustler and is bound
to win. The only thing we know
against his qualifications is that he
used to teach school and “board
round,” but he may have lived this
down by this time. Here’s hoping,
as we ourselves married a country
school ma’am!
Roy Gardham, who has been on the
road for John Detwiler, wholesale
fruit house, for several years, has pur-
chased the Hickory street grocery of
the French Cash Grocery Co. and will
take possession Dec. 1. Roy has been
a winner in the fruit game and will
continue the same hustle in the gro-
cery business, Can't stop that kid
nohow.
Mr. Clunpage, who has for several
weeks been under the weather, is out
again and enjoying better health.
When Clun capsizes, it makes a hole
in the bunch.
Loynes Bros., of Chapin, have sold
December 5, 1917
their stock of general merchandise to
Charles Sutliff, who will take posses-
sion about Dec. 1.
Mrs. W. C. Shepard, of Middleton,
has purchased the brick store build-
ing formerly owned and occupied by
L. H. Moss with a line of drugs and
has moved her large stock of general
stores in the village and under the
supervision of its owner will be a
winner. Honest Groceryman.
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The Meek Butcher and the Irate Fe-
male.
The meek butcher was at dinner,
when he heard someone in his shop
vigorously pounding the floor. He
hastened thither and discovered a
lady—a nice lady—red in the face with
anger at the delay of his coming. Be-
fore he could enquire as to her wants,
she said: ss
“IT want some liver for my cat.”
“T haven’t any, ma’am,” he said.
“Yes, you have,” she thundered,
pointing to one that could be seen
through the ice-house window; “but
you are too stingy to give me any.
I shall go elsewhere.”
And when she had gone, slamming
the door behind her, the meek butch-
er cut off a half-pound of the liver,
wrapped it in paper, and sent it to
the lady’s home by his boy. Then
he went back to his dinner—now
grown cold—and complained to his
wife that the good old days were gone
and that “there is no longer any
money in the business.”
N. B.—The lady fried the liver for
her dinner, and sent the cat out to
the woodshed to catch a mouse.
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Faulty Removing of Hides Causes
Meat Waste.
To show that considerable meat
and fat is wasted in faulty removing
of hides from slaughtered cattle, the
United States Department of Agri-
culture gives out the following: A
Washington dealer states that nine
steer hides purchased by him carried
seventy-nine pounds of waste meat.
A Detroit dealer reports than an avy-
erage of six pounds of waste meat was
found on forty cow and steer hides
received at his plant, and that in ten
days his men scraped 2,177 pounds of
waste meat from hides, or enough to
supply low-grade meat to about 5,000
people for one day.
ing, in addition to causing a loss of
the food value of the meat which is
wasted, results in a considerable loss
of edible fats which remain on the
hides.
Exclusively Wholesale
EFFICIENCY
SINCERITY
INTEGRITY
We were organized upon this basis and our business
is being fostered upon these principles. Thousands of en-
thusiastic friends all over the State have heartily endorsed
our up-to-the-minute methods.
MICHIGAN HARDWARE CO.
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Captain Burgess Writes Grand Rapids
Council.
Camp Mac Arthur, Texas, Nov. 15
—Your letter of Nov. 5, conveying
information as to the benefits of the
C. T. which are to be extended to
members, so long as they remain in
the United States, even though they
are serving as soldiers, is at hand
and this action will certainly be ap-
preciated by such members as have
been called to service. I am pleased
to enclose the assessment fee of $2,
as suggested, which will cover that
and include with same $2 for dues
from Jan. 1, 1918, to July 1, 1918, and
also the dues for Travelers’ Benefit
assessment amounting to 25 cents,
making a total of $4.25. I have been
expecting to write to Grand Rapids
Council, but the many duties before
me and the immense volume of busi-
ness handled from this office has kept
me busy and I have not even answer-
ed urgent personal correspondence.
I certainly appreciate the beautiful
saddle horse presented to me and
can assure you that Rex is all that his
name implies. He is one of the best
mounts we have at Camp McArthur.
I have met a number of the members
of the U. C. T. in this locality and
have been visited by scme from other
sections and received the most hearty
welcome in all cases. The letter from
the Liberty Loan Committee, cons:st-
ing of Brothers J. D. Martin, Homer
R. Bradfield and E. J. MacMillian,
was received and would have been
pleased to file my application with
yeu at Grand Rapids but had already
made subscription for a bond here as
a member of our camp subscription.
Camp Mac Arthur officers and men
have subscribed for over one and one
half million dollars of Second Liberty
Loan bends. Regarding the length
of time before we leave for France,
we are not privileged to state any in-
formation regard ng troop movements,
but the intensive training here is fast
preparing officers and men for foreign
service and will undoubtedly be ready
to leave as soon as complete equip-
ment is furnished.
Complete re-organizat'on of all
regiments has been made and the
126th Infantry consists cf 3,755 officers
and men, which is practically 28 per
cent. more than the entire National
Guard of Michigan prior to last vear.
All are being fed, supplied with cloth-
ing and equipment of all kinds, to-
ether with fuel and forage, and all
incidentals by your humble servants,
the Supply Company, which company
has increased from thirty-seven men
with which we started to 138 men at
the present time. The infantry orygan-
izations have been increased frcem
the fifty or sixty men whom we for-
merly thought to be a fair average to
250 men to each company. The regi-
ment has also absorbed quite a por-
tion of the old 31st Michigan, but we
are all now the new 126th Infantry
and endeavoring to maintain the high
state of efficiency throughout the or-
ganization with which the 32nd have
always been credited. We are now a
part of the 32nd Division, which con-
sists: of one complete fighting unit,
located at Camp Mac Arthur, Texas.
Will always be glad to hear from
Grand Rapids Council and any ind-
vidual members and will always be
glad to answer such correspondence.
Walter N. Burgess,
Captain 126th Infantry.
—_——-— ——
Boomlets From Bay City.
Bay City, Dec. 3—The work of en-
larging and remodeling the club and
lodge rooms of Bay City Lodge, No.
88, B. P. O. E., which has been un-
der way for the past fcur months,
has been completed and both were
thrown open to the members for the
first time Wednesday night. when 2
large class was initiated, The club
rooms have been re-decorated and
furnished throughout with new furni-
ture, rugs and draperies, giving the
Elks the best club rooms in the city,
The lodge room,
if not the State.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
which is also used by the United
Commercial Travelers, has been re-
decorated and other improvements
made which add greatly to the ap-
pearance of the room. The cost of
improvements will be nearly $10,000.
The Babo building, corner Third
and Grant streets, has been refitted
and will be occupied by Chas. Mc-
Peak & Son, who will stock it with
a full line of groceries and will do
a cash non-delivery business.
Curnalia & Duncan, Roscommon,
general hardware and spcrting goods
dealers, have moved their stock to
their new store building, across the
street from their present location.
This is a good move, as it gives them
more room and better facilities for
handling their rapidly increasing busi-
ness.
D. C. Woed, Benton Harbor, repre-
senting the Red Wing Milling Co., oi
Red Wing, Minn., has been ‘working
territory North of Bay City the past
week in the interest of the National
Grocer Co., Bay City branch.
The Chevrolet eight motor,
nearly two years of experimenting
and perfecting, has finally been put
on the market and steady deliveries
have been promised. The Bay City
plant is modern and capable of a
large cutput of the motors.
after
the advertised
BRAND
that sells
IURHUALGAASAASANSASANAL
Sunsweet Prunes
and Apricots
In addition to being the quality brand.
the inspected brand and the guaranteed
brand, SUNSWEET Prunes and Apri-
cots are the national brand.
Link your store to SUNSWEET and
get a bigger and a better business.
SUNSWEET Prunes and Apricots are
Fifteen hundred boys attended the
fifteenth annual State boy’s conference
held in this city Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. The boys were given a royal
welcome and everything was done to
make their stay in the city pleasant.
The next conference will be held in
Jackson. William T. Ballamy.
—_2+>—_____
The Situation in Millinery.
After the short but very successful
vogue of the gold and silver brocade
hats, we find ourselves once more
confronted with that big interroga-
tion point. The dahlia hats that have
been shown in New York to a small
extent for the last three weeks only
meet the fancy of the more matronly
women. The writer has yet to see
ene young woman wearing a dahlia
hat.
The satin
sale,
hats are having a fair
but only in connection with fur
trimmings or fur edgings. The latest
candidates for supremacy in fashion
are the maline hats, that is, hats with
maline combinations. We have seen
rather smart satin hats with upturned
maline edges, hats with satin crowns
= INN >
sizes.
teed.
California Prune and 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.
Let the people know
You Sell Sunsweet
California’s “Nature Flavored”
Prunes and Apricots—the quality brand that is being
popularized by wide-spread advertising and publicity
a wonderful fruit food—and a cheap
food. They are packed in all desirable
The price to the trade is guaran-
Get in touch with your jobber now.
Order SUNSWEET. If he hasn’t them
write us. Valuable dealer helps and other
advertising matter sent on request.
and maline brims, but the right and
successful way of combining maline
has not been evolved as yet. There
might be a sudden run of this kind of
millinery. Several well-informed mil-
linery buyers think that this run will
only appear in the fullest extent in
January.
Two of the “heads of fashion” see
an increased chance for flower hats,
and there are quite a few things point-
ing to a demand for flowers, calculat-
ed to meet its fullest strength about
Jan. 1.
Another prediction, based on ex-
pert opinion, favors larger shapes ot
the sailor and similar types, and it
seems very natural to us that the
change to larger shapes would meet
with great success.
—_——_-~> 2+
C. R. &t. Germaine, who is engaged
in the retail drug business at Decatur,
is remodeling his store and adding
to his equipment a new outfit of Wil-
marth fixtures and a guarantee iceless
soda fountain, purchased from the
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Movements of Merchants.
Vermontville—T. R. Barningham has
opened a meat market in the Alsover
block.
Haslett—Don Herbsons has engaged
in the meat the Smith
building.
Howell—Fire destroyed the Dickson
& Son bakery Dec. 1, entailing a loss of
about $10,000.
Detroit—The Tractor-Truck Sales
Co. has changed its name to the Ccm-
mercial Tractor & Trailer Co.
Bangor—E. W. Fausnaugh has remov-
ed his jewelry and optical stock to Kala-
mazoo and will continue the business.
business in
Victor Menard has en-
gaged in the baking business at the
corner of Clark and Pioneer streets.
Negaunee
Three Rivers—Thomas J. Reed,
hardware dealer, died at his home
Nov. 24, following an illness of but
a few days.
Ravenna—Mills Thompson has
purchased the Owen Harrison meat
market and will continue the business
at the same location.
Bellaire—Bosworth & Pruyn, own-
ers of the Glendale Stock Farm, have
openéd a meat market which they will
supply from their own farm.
Elberta—A. Johnson, dealer in gen-
eral has , purchased the
general stock of the Glerum Store and
is closing it out at special sale.
Rexton—George Warner has sold his
shoe and rubber stock to Saul Winkel-
man, clothing dealer at St. Ignace, who
will consolidate it with his stock.
Detroit—The Russel Co., which con-
ducts a ladies’ furnishing house at 250
Woodward avenue, has increased its
capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000.
City—L. C. Mindle
sold his stock of general merchan-
dise to F. W. Williams & Son, who
will contnue the business at the same
location.
Pelkie—The Farmers Co-Operative
Trading Co. has been organized with
an authorized capital stock of $4,500.
$340 of which has been subscribed and
merchandise,
Sherman has
paid in in cash.
Pontiac—The Markley Commercial
Body Co. has been incorporated, with
an authorized capital of $25,000, $15,-
000 of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.
Boyne City—S. G. Arbuckle, grocer,
has purchased the A. T. Brockway
grocery stock and will continue the
business under the management of
Leon B. Roliscn.
Port Huron—Henry J. Porter has
purchased the interest of his partner,
N. J. Webb, in the Webb & Porter
bakery, at 533 Water street, and will
continue the business under his own
name.
Addison—H. E. Iveson and Ad Haight
have formed a copartnership and pur-
chased the meat market and grocery
stock of Wilson Haight, taking im-
mediate possession.
Houghton—The R. B. Lang Dry
Goods Co. has sold its stock and fix-
tures to Peal & Friend, wholesale dry
goods dealers of Chicago, who will re-
, move them to Chicago.
Detroit—The Combination
Switch Co. has been organized with
an authorized capital stock of $10,444,
of which amount $8,000 has been sub-
scribed and $3,000 paid in in cash.
Mears—C, A. Brubaker has pur-
chased the Ewald store building and
will occupy it with his stock of gen-
eral merchandise as soon as he has
finished remodeling and enlarging it.
Vassar—The McDonald Clothing
Co. has sold its stock and store fix-
tures to William Parry, who has clos-
ed out his stock of general merchan-
dise at Mullet Lake and will take im-
mediate possession.
Eaton Rapids—Crane & Crane are
erecting two large dry kilns at their
elevator for the purpose of curing the
large percentage of this year’s bean
crop which is wet and unmarketable in
its present condition.
Detroit—The Model Shop, 209 Gra-
tiot avenue, has been organized to sell
dry goods, millinery and jewelry with
an authorized capitalization of $5,000,
which amount has been subscribed, $2,-
500 being paid in in cash.
3elding—The Cash Buyers Union
has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $1,000, which
has been subscribed, $250 being paid
in in It will deal in general
merchandise, farm products and fuel.
Flint—The Copeman Laboratories,
Inc., have been organized to deal in
automobile and devices
with an authorized capitalization of
$50,000, of which amount $30,100 has
been subscribed and $20,100 paid in
in cash.
Greenville—F. A. Boelio has moved
new and second-hand furniture
stock three doors south of his old
stand, into the building formerly oc-
cupied by Z. C. Bohrer. He now has
one of the largest stores of its kind
in Montcalm county.
Savinaw—The U. S. Distribution
Co. has been incorporated to conduct
a general brokerage and fuel busi-
ness with an authorized capitalization
of $10,000, of which $5,000 has been
subscribed, $900 being paid in in cash
and $100 in property.
Comstock Park—The Harmen
Drug Co., of Grand Rapids, has sold
the stock and store fixtures of its
branch store here to the manager, F.
cash.
accessories
his
Lock
F. Laubscher, who will continue the
business under the style of the Com-
stock Park Pharmacy.
Detroit—Gilbert Miller, who con-
ducts a jewelry store on Woodward
avenue, has merged his business into
a stock concern with an authorized
capitalization of $300,000, $150,000 of
which has been subscribed, $1,158.73
being paid in in cash and $128,841.27
in property. The business will be
conducted under the style of Square
Deal Miller.
Sand Lake—M. V. Wilson, the
pioneer druggist of Sand Lake, will
lock his decors Dec, 12 and proceed
to Florida, accompanied by his wife.
He will make his headquarters at St.
Cloud and will be absent until about
April 1. Two reasons exist’ for the
closing of the store—his utter inabil-
ity to obtain a supply of coal and to
take a long vacation while he is still
a young man.
Lansing—The Lansing Retail Mer-
chants Association has unanimously de-
cided to give extra values in merchan-
dise and to conduct special sales on
Thursday of each week during the com-
ing winter. These special days will be
termed Suburban Shopping days, and
are primarily instituted for the benefit
of out of town trade who wish to avoid
the usual Saturday rush and who can
not easily get to the stores in time to
take advantage of sales advertised in
papers of the previous day. Suburban
day advertisements will appear in Tues-
day’s paper. These will be in the hands
of out of town trade Wednesday, giving
plenty of time to attend the Thursday
sales,
Manufacturing Matters.
Detroit—The capital stock of the T.
B. Rayl Co. has been increased from
$150,000 to $400,000.
Ann Arbor—The Drugcraft Co.,
Inc., will increase its capital stock
from $20,000 to $100,000.
Detroit—The capitalization of the
Schermack Wheel Co. has been in-
creased from $1,000 to $100,000.
Detroit—The capital stock cof the
Pronovost Wheel Co. has been in-
creased from $40,000 to $250,000.
Detroit—The C. W. Moore Man-
ufacturing Co. has increased its cap-
ital stock from $2,000 to $200,000.
Detroit—The Birmingham Cream.
ery & Ice Manufacturing Co. has in-
creased its capital stock from $30,006
to $75,000.
Fillmore Center—The Fillmore
Center Creamery Co. has closed its
plant, owing to the high price de-
manded for milk.
Cassopolis—The Cassopolis Ladder
Co, has moved to Three Rivers and
changed its name to the U. S. Wood-
enware Manufacturing Co.
Eaton Rapids—The Eaton Rapids
Woolen Mills, Inc., has been organiz-
ed with an authorized capitalization
of $25,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.
Evart—The Evart Manufacturing
Co. has been incorporated to man-
ufacture general woodwork and forg-
ings with an authorized capital stock
of $30,000, of which $20,000 has been
subscribed, $10,000 being paid in in
cash,
‘
December 5, 1917
Detroit—The Lincoln Oil Co. has
engaged in business with an author-
ized capitalization of $50,000, of which
amount $25,000 has been subscribed,
$650 being paid in in cash and $12,000
in property. :
Ionia—The United Reed & Fiber
Co, has been incorporated with an
authorized capitalization of $750,000
common and $500,000 perferred stock,
which has all been subscribed and
paid in in cash.
Detroit—The Northern Chemical
Co., 725 West Fort street, has been
organized with an author.zed capital-
ization of $5,000, of which amount
$4,800 has beea subscribed and $1,000
paid in in cash.
Detroit—The Detroit Fuel & Foun- “
dry Supply Co., 625 West Fort street,
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $75,000, $37,500
of which has been subscribed and
$15,000 paid in in cash.
Detroit—The Meyer Manufacturing
Co. has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $15,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid in
in property. It will manufacture gaso-
line wall torches and screw machine
products.
Eaton Rapids—Upward of 300 people
are now employed at the Eaton Rapids
Woolen Mills, and the industry is being
operated night and day to keep in hear-
ing distance of the orders that are com-
ing in for the “made in Eaton Rapids
yarn.” Nearly a car load of the woolen
mills product is going out by express
every day, in addition to the heavy ship-
ments that go by freight. For the past
month an express car has been set out
on the side track at the Michigan Cen-
tral depot each day for the woolen mills
to load.
—_++.
President Lake and Secretary Both-
well are preparing the programme for
the Ann Arbor convention of the Re-
tail Grocers and General Merchants’
Association of Michigan, to be held
Feb. 19, 20 and 21. Among the speak-
ers already secured by President Lake
is William R. Roach, of Hart, former-
ly President of the National Canners
Association, one of the greatest in-
dustrial organizations in the United
States.
oo
Baxter & Goodale, who have con-
ducted the Interurban Pharmacy al
Battle Creek for the past two years,
have enlarged their business and have
taken over the room occupied by the
Michigan Railway previous to its
moving to its new quarters. They
will add to their equipment Wilmarth
fixtures purchased from the Hazeltine
& Perkins Drug Co.
ooo —
C. R. St. Germaine, who is engaged
in the retail drug business at Decatur,
is remodeling his store and adding to
his equipment a new outfit of Wil-
marth fixtures and a guarantee iceless
soda fountain, purchased from the
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
Le ey
E. A. Herron, druggist at Lakeview,
who recently suffered a loss by fire,
will again engage in the retail drug
business at that place. The Hazel-
tine & Perkins Drug Co. has the or-
der for the new outfit.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
RY+~> PRODUCE, MARKET
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Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.
Apples—Winesaps and York Im-
perials, $2 per hamper; Baldwins,
Greenings and Wagners, $5.50 per
bbl.; Northern Spys, $6@7 per bbl.
Bananas—$5.25 per 100 lbs.
Beets—$1.25 per bu.
Butter—The market is very firm on
fancy grades, having advanced 1c per
pound over last week’s quotations, due
to extreme light receipts and good de-
mand, There is no material change in
storage butter. Continued high prices
are looked for in best grades of fresh
butter, as the receipts are very light
and production at the lowest ebb for
the whole year. Local dealers hold ex-
tra fancy creamery at 47¢ for fresh and
46c for cold storage; centralized brings
1@2c less. Loca! dealers pay 41c for
No. 1 dairy in jars and 32c for packing
stock.
Cabbage—Home
100 Ibs.
Carrots—75c per bu.
Cauliflower—$2.25 per doz.
Celery Cabbage—10c per bunch.
grown, $2.50 per
Cranberries—$14 per bbl. for Late
Howes; $7.25 per 4 bbl.
Egegs—The market is very firm, prices
ranging about Jc per dozen higher over
last week’s quotations. Receipts of
fresh eggs are extremely light and the
demand cleans up the arrivals daily.
The market on storage eggs is steady
at unchanged quotations, there being a
good consumptive demand. We do not
look for any material change in the egg
situation in the near future. Local
dealers pay 45@46c for strictly fresh.
loss off, including cases. Cold storage
operators are putting out their stock
on the following basis: Extras, can-
dled, 38c; firsts, 36c; seconds, 33c. De-
spite the popular that is
manifested every little while in the form
of accusations against the “immense
hoardings” of eggs in cold storage—
due principally to the lack of popular
conception of what the needs of con-
sumption are, or just what an adequate
supply should be, it does not appear that
the present holdings are at all abnormal
and that by spring the present holdings
will be well taken care of by actual de-
mands of the trade.
Green Peppers—65c per basket for
Southern grown.
Honey—22c per lb. for white clover
and 20c for dark.
Lemons—California selling at $7.75
for choice and $8.25 for fancy.
Lettuce—14c .per lb. for hot house
leaf; $2.50 per hamper for New York
head.
Limes—$1 per 100 for Italian.
Maple Syrup—$1.75 per gal.
pure.
impression
for
Mushrooms—75c per lb.
Nuts—Almonds, 21c per lb.; filberts,
20c for Grenoble; Brazils, 18c; Mixed
Nuts, 16%c.
Onions—Home command
$3 per 100 lb. sack; Spanish, $2
crate.
Oranges — California
$4.25@4.50.
Oysters—Standards, $1.85 per gal.:
selects, $2.25 per gal. Shell oysters,
$9 per bbl. for either Blue Points or
Cotuits; 75c per 100 for Blue Points
and $1.25 per 100 for Cotuits.
Figs—10 lb. layers, $1.65; 20 8 oz.
packages, $1.85.
Grape Fruit—$4.25 per box fer all
sizes Floridas.
Grapes—California Emperor, $5 pe-
keg or $2.25 per crate; Malaga, $7.50
@7.75 per keg.
Green Onions—Shallots,
bunch.
Potatoes—Up State buyers are pay-
ing 75c per bu. The market is weak,
due to lack of cars.
Poultry—Local dealers pay as fol-
lows for live: Turkeys, heavy, 22c;
medium, 17c; small, 14c; thin, 12c¢:
geese, 15c; ducks, 18@20c; springs,
17c; fowls, 16c; old roosters, 12c.
Dressed, 2c above these prices.
Radishes—90c per doz. for large.
Sweet Potatoes—$2.75 per hamper
for kiln dried Illinois.
Tomatoes—30c per Ib. for hot house.
—_+--
The Grocery Market.
Sugar—No change in price cr market
conditions. The trade is becoming ac-
customed to the Government regula-
tions.
Tea—The upward trend of prices has
received fresh impetus and in some in-
stances prices have been marked up.
There is a particularly active demand
for Formosas and a very healthy state
of trade in Java is noted. There have
been further arrivals of the later on
the Pacific Coast, the last steamer
bringing 8,766 packages. Another ar-
rival of tea-at San Francisco within the
past few davs was 17,138 packages, the
port of shipment not being named in the
dispatch. The steamer which brought
it is reported as coming from Manila.
The most prominent feature of the local
tea market is the extreme scarcity of
spot stocks of every description, due to
the transcontinental railway traffic con-
gestion. Those who are in need of
immediate supplies are compelled to pay
premiums on quoted prices in order to
secure them.
Coffee—The market is, perhaps, a
shade stronger for the week, speaking
of Rio and Santos, on account of some-
what firmer news from Brazil. This
was due to reported lack of ships and
by no means goes to the basic question
grown
per
Valencias,
65¢ per
of supply and demand. Milds are
still inclined to be steady, but firm.
Java and Mocha grades are unchanged.
Canned Fruit—The Government is in
the market for whatever supplies can
be picked up, but offerings are light and
business is limited in consequence.
Canned Vegetables—Stocks are being
gradually reduced in jobbers’ hands and
such jobbers as are fortunate or un-
fortunate enough to have goods pur-
chased earlier in the year on a lower
basis of value than prevails to-day, have
been disposing of these goods through
retail channels, on a basis complying
with the new regulations regarding the
sale of food As a
quence, retail distribution is enjoying a
products. conse-
lower basis of price as applied to corn,
peas and tomatoes, than they have en-
This
condition has had little or no effect in
joved fer several months previous.
the way of jobbing prices. There are
practically no offerings of corn in first
hands
changing hands from one jobber to an-
other.
and only a moderate quantity
There is only about 50 per cent.
enough pea seed available to do the
planting the canner will the
coming year. There is not over 50 per
cent. enough seed sweet corn available.
require
The latest developments in the canned
vegetable line indicate a
shortage in deliveries of sauer kraut,
considerable
especially from the heavy packing cen-
ters.
eventually result in
values for the staples named above. It
This evolution of conditions will
a higher range of
is no trouble for jobbers carrying siocks
at low prices to dispose of them very
promptly, and it is presumed that the
retailers se the
lower prices will in turn pass those on
to the consumer. A natural result
would be a diminution of supplies, with
securing advantages of
correspondingly higher prices later on.
Canned Fish—No
been made in salmon prices, but there is
reductions have
no urgency to the demand at present, as
supplies are simply being bought as
they are needed, and as there are no
remainders to speak of in first hands
the Government prices has no effect.
Other the list
before.
Dried Fruits—Rumors
the siiuation in regard to prunes on the
items on are about as
referring to
coast have been rather contradictory of
late, among them being suggestions that
the association had managed to over-
sell.
reports of recent buying back of con-
tracts because of difficulties of shipment
this did not seem plausible, and the mat-
ter was set definitely at rest by a tele-
eram from the association declaring
that there were 20,000,000 pounds of
prunes still unscld. It
therefore, that it was wholly a matter
of transportation. There have been a
number of cars of Santa Claras arrive
during the week, but mostly of small
sizes, anything larger than 50s
exceptional. There are, however, some
of these larger sizes in transit, and in
course of time they are likely to drift
in. While spot supplies are none too
plentiful, there are likely to be some
accumulations later. The demand has
been kept down because of the scarcity,
but whatever business has been lost in
this way cannot be recovered; for it is
not at all likely that people are going
In view of the large crop and
would seem,
being
5
1
to eat more prunes later to make up for
what they didn’t eat
Apriccts are holding pretty firm,
on previous occa-
sions.
as supplies are none too plentiful, with
the top grades entirely lacking. Consid-
erable disappointment is manifested over
the the
Greece currants,
non-arrival of steamer from
and it. 4s
supposed that she is at the Azores. An-
other steamer is supposed to have start-
with now
ed, but no satisfactory news has been
received.
Rice—Business in this market: is still
held up by the paucity of supplies, but
there is no abatement of the firmness
and an increase in demand would be
likely to be followed by an advance, as
present quotations are barely above a
parity with prices the
South, with the upward trend of farm-
prevailing in
ers’ ideas of values in making steady
progress.
Peanut Butter—Advances in peanut
butter are charged to cost of packages
and the good prices paid by oil produc-
the the peanut
than for
nuts, making
this
for
ers
more valuable for use
other purposes.
Cheese—The market is firm, with
light receipts and a fair home con-
The marks
of early made cheese range about the
There
sumptive demand. fancy
same as previous quotations.
is some export enquiry and a fair con-
No
looked for in any grade in the near
sumptive demand. change is
Receipts of fresh-made goods
quality
and concessions being made on that
future.
are showing very defective
class of goods.
Provisions—The market on lard is
very firm, with extremely light pro-
duction and a fair consumptive de-
mand, prices ranging about the same
We do not
look for any lower prices in the lard
market in the immediate future. The
market on compound is steady at un-
there
supply and a
consumptive demand, refiners making
immediate The
smoked meats is steady,
as last
week's quotations, there being a mod-
erate supply and a good consumptive
demand, local packers killing enough
The-mar-
ket on dried beef is steady at un-
quotations, there
as last week’s quotations.
changed quotations, being a
very moderate good
enough for prices.
market on
with prices ranging the same
only for immediate needs.
changed being a
moderate supply and a fair consump-
tive demand. The market on barrel-
ed pork is fair at unchanged: quota-
tions, with a light supply and a light
consumptive demand. The market on
meats is firm at unchanged
quotations, with a fair supply and a
canned
good consumptive demand.
Salt Fish—No change has occurred
in mackerel during the week. The
supply is still small and prices high.
The demand is good considering con-
ditions. We not look for any
change in this market in. the near
future.
do
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The selection of Guy W. Rouse as
Food Administrator for Kent county
is a worthy honor, worthily bestowed.
Mr. Rouse is an energetic and painstak-
ing gentleman and a patriot from the.
ground up. He will give the cause of
food conservation the best thought. and
action of which he is capable, x
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
December 5, 1917
UPPER PENINSULA.
Recent News of the Cloverland of
Michigan.
Sault St. Marie, Dec. 3—It does beat
all—the train service from up North—
that items for the Tradesman could not
make the grade last week, which ac-
counts for the non-appearance of the
Soo items last week. The railroads
seem to be working under the impres-
sion that it is better late than never,
instead of better never late.
“How easy it is to think of the right
excuse at the wrong time.”
The Chesebrough mill, at Thompson,
started up last week for the season.
The company has over 2,000,000 feet
of logs on the skids ready to be cut,
which will assure a prosperous winter
in this thriving village.
L. Winkelman, well-known clothier
of St. Ignace, was the victim of a forg-
ed check last week, which he received
from Clifford Goudreau. He got busy,
however, as soon as the forged check
was discovered, but as Goudreau had
taken the train for Manistique, he was
arrested the next day and taken to St.
Ignace. He had but $1.18 of the money
left when arrested, after giving his
=e a good time and paying his bar
ills.
The hard times seem to have hit St.
Ignace last week when thieves en-
tered the store of Saul, the cloth-
ier, Mulcrone meat market and Dill’s
pool-room and helped themselves to the
pick of the stock. However, getting
fitted out and getting away with it are
two different things in St. Ignace. With
the efficient police force, the thieves
were soon rounded up. They gave their
ages as 17. Two were St. Ignace boys
and one was from Mackinac City. They
are in custody and will make no further
trouble for some time.
William Schoals, well-known lumber
operator, whose headquarters are at
Brimley, was a business visitor here last
week. Mir. Schoals is opening new
camps in the vicinity of Raco and Wel-
ler’s Siding and is figuring on a record
breaking season during the winter.
The steamer Alva, of the Arnold
Transit Co. fleet, running between the
Soo and Detour, closed its season Nov.
30. The taking off of this boat prac-
tically shuts in Drummond Island, De-
tour and Raber for the winter. Judg-
ing by the large amount of supplies
stored there for the winter, there will
be no food famine during the winter.
J. W. Gilligan, well-known merchant
of Rexton, has gone into the lumber
business this year, opening up a logging
job near Rexton.
We are informed that the scribe at
Moran states that they failed to note
any change in the Allenville depot. Do
not know whether this is a compliment
to their rival village or whether he ex-
pected to find some coppers on the floor
of the new remodeled Allenville sta-
tion.
James Doud, one of Mackinac Is-
land’s leading merchants, has purchased
a forty-two acre tract of land in the
woods, which he expects to lumber this
winter. Later he expects to clear the
land and go into the dairy farming,
which should prove a very profitable
venture on Mackinac Island.
Joseph France, our well-known paper
merchant, holds the record so far this
year in the camping party known as the
France-Supe Hunting Party, having
shot the largest buck, weighing in the
neighborhood of 220 pounds. Mr.
France has not missed a season with his
party for the past fifteen years. This
being the first year to hold the cham-
pionship, naturally makes him proud
over his good fortune.
“Instead of trying to mend their ways,
some men could save time by hustling
for some new ones.”
The city commissioners have finally
agreed on the selection of a new city
manager in the person of J. H. Moore.
There were many applicants for the
position. Mr. Moore was formerly com-
missioner of public works at Evanston,
Ind., which office he had for sixteen
years, and comes highly recommended.
From a report received from St. Ig-
nace at the close of deer season, 2,207
deer were shipped across the Straits
of Mackinac from the Upper Peninsula.
There were also thirty-six bears sent
to Southern points. There were about
3,382 hunters, who came from below
the Straits and other points this year
The A. Nicholas, Inc., is the name of
the new store opened at Algonquin last
week, with A Nicholas as manager.
The new building is built of brick. Mr.
Nichelas announces that he will carry
a full line of meats, groceries, provi-
sions, etc., and opens up under the cash
and carry system. With the years of
experience Mr. Nicholas has had in the
wholesale and retail merchandise busi-
ness, his future success is assured.
The Fred Price Drug Co. has opened
a new branch drug store in one side of
the new Nicholas, Inc., store at Algon-
quin. This will give the residents of
Algonquin an opportunity to purchase
their Rexall supplies.
George J. Dickinson and sons, who
conduct a large farm south of the Soo,
have just received a pair of Oxford-
Down mules from the McKerron farm,
Wiscensin. This will make a little ad-
dition to the large stock in Chippewa
county. This progressive farm has
made a specialty of high bred stock and
is a credit to Chippewa county.
Governor Sleeper has honored two of
our esteemed citizens, Judge Lewis H.
Feade, of this judicial circuit, and
Sherman T. Handy, former ex-mayor,
as member of the advisory board of
attorneys to assist the registrants in pre-
paring the questionaires which will be
submitted to them in connection with
the next draft.
The Bartlett Lumber Co., of Sheli-
drake, closed its mill last week for the
season. The hum of this important mill
will be greatly missed by the residents
of that thriving town.
Rudyard has a new restaurant and
lunch room which was opened up last
week by Mr. Woods. This will fulfill
the long want at Rudyard and will be
greaty appreciated by the farmers and
others going to Rudyard.
The Farmers Co-operative Co., of
Rudyard, recently purchased two lots
from James Thornton and three lots
from C. J. Simmons, North of the rail-
road track, for the purpose of building
a warehouse, which, when completed,
will hold 1,000 tons of hay.
“Opportunity waits for no man,
therefore if you have an appointment
with it don’t fail to be Johnny on the
spot.”
J. L. Lipsett, well-known implement
dealer and headquarters for the ford
automobile, is constructing a large ad-
dition to his present huilding which will
give him 27,225 square feet floor space.
When completed. it will be one of the
finest ford repair shops and garages
in Cloverland, being located in the heart
of the city, with entrances on two dif-
ferent streets. It will be equipped with
all the modern machinery to handle re-
pair work. The new structure will be
a credit to Mr. Lipsett and greatly ap-
preciated by the ford owners, as well
as.the many tourists coming over the
Dixie-Highway next season.
The Detour Supply Co. is the name
of the new general store to be opened
at Detour in the near future. The new
building is now almost completed and
the winter’s stock is purchased and en
route. The firm consists of W. H.
Lewis, the well-known merchant, for-
merly of W. H. Lewis & Co., and David
Lamere and Albert Lehman, two of De-
tour’s prosperous lumbermen. They
have had years of experience in busi-
ness. All of their various camps will
be supplied through the store, which
assures a thriving business for the con-
cern.
Jerry Lynch, the lumber king of
Shelldrake, spent a few days with his
family in the city last week. Jerry ex-
pectes that this will be a banner year
in the woods. He has all of his sup-
plies in for the winter and expects to
make a record breaking cut.
Billie Cadreau, well known chef for
the Elks here, returned from a success-
ful deer hunt, bringing in one of the
finest bucks exhibited here this season.
The animal dressed 190 pounds, had a
handsome head and a beautiful pair of
antlers. Billy also made a record dur-
ing the duck season. He seems to know
just where they are and makes all prep-
arations for storing and handling his
game before he enters the woods. He
never yet has failed to make good and
gives some good hunting advise to some
of our amateur hunters.
Vern Lipsett, well-known farmer of
Pickford, shipped one of the finest cars
of shorthorn cattle last week to W. C.
Cornwell’s farm, at Clare, ever shipped
out of Cloverland. Mr. Cornwell was
so well pleased with the stock that he
placed an order for 1,000 head or more
if possible. This speaks well for Chip-
pewa county as a stock raising center.
The Sault is preparing to receive 2,000
tons of coal, being the first consignment
on the way, which will be disposed of
at cost to the residents upon arrival.
Commissioner Burns has been on the
job for some time and is highly pleased
with the results of his efforts which will
be greatly appreciated by the Sooites.
. E. Cornwell, of Saginaw, was a
visitor while returning from an inspec-
tion trip to his timber lands on the
Huron River, where Mr. Cornwell and
party have been hunting deer for the
past two weeks. The party filled their
license and report having had a de-
lightful time, as well as a successful
hunt.
The South Shore rate case, now being
heard in the U. S. District Court at
Grand Rapids, is causing much uneasi-
ness among the commercial travelers
out of the Soo, who have for years been
saving the rebate coupons up to the
time they were discontinued, expecting
to cash in, providing a favorable deci-
sion was reached by the court. Most
of them, however, have sold the coupons
at a discount, while others preferred
automobiles and other sidelines. Should
there be anything coming in, it will be
like receiving money from home to the
possessors of the rebate slips.
The St. Ignace Enterprise last week
completed twenty-three years of suc-
cessful publication. Clyde Hecox, the
well-known publisher, is giving Macki-
nac county one of the best papers in
Cloverland. Clyde is always on the job
and is known as the original newsgetter.
being popular and well known through-
out the Upper Peninsula. Nothing that
is worth mentioning ever escapes Clyde’s
eagle eye. which accounts for the suc-
cess of the Enterprise, which is one of
St. Ignace’s most valuable assets.
Floyd Westin and Frank Nordquist,
of the Snows, went to Detroit some
time ago, with the intentions of win-
tering there, but decided that Detroit
was no place for them, so returned to
their home at the Snows last week,
which they claim has Detroit beat off
the map. William G. Tapert.
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Ornate Fixings in Knitting Needles.
Never was a plain art adorned with
such gay paraphernalia as will be that
of knitting after Christmas if all the
silvered and jeweled knitting needles
and needle holders which are shown in
one of the retail stores are bought for
presents. They are of all sorts, kinds
and colors, and many prices, but none
of the latter very low. The grandmoth-
ers of the early days, who knit woolen
stockings and mufflers, when knitting
was a stern household necessity, would
gaze with astonishment at the ornate
articles now called needles. Knitting is
a stern necessity still, but the women
who have gone into it wholesale have
adopted the gay work bags that’ their
grandmothers never knew, and_ the
needles are only another step in the
same direction and to give Santa Claus
a chance to present a novelty.
As most of the knitting is for the
war, the decorations take a_ patriotic
note. One of the most expensive of the
new novelties is pairs of solid silver
little Liberty bells, fac similes of that
in Philadelphia. They are used to slip
on over the ends of the needles to pro-
tect them. These will cost about $4,
with the plain pair of needles with
which they are shown thrown in. A
real war symbol is another pair of
needle point protectors, also in silver,
in the form of shells. These will cost
about $3. A pair of silver balls for the
same purpose will cost something less.
Small ball-topped silver pieces like pen-
cil point protectors which fit snugly over
the points of the needles cost about the
same,
In the ornamented needles among the
most expensive and also the prettiest
are those of amber with good-sized sil-
ver bal] ends in place of the usual little
amber knobs. These are sterling, vary
in shape slightly, and cost, according to
the amount of metal used, between $2
and $3. Brass needles with jeweled ball
ends cost about $2, and there are others
in steel similarly finished. One of the
prettiest and least expensive of the
fancy needles has the little amber knob
at the end covered with silver deposit,
which is carried in a simple design a
few inches up the needle. These cost
something less than a dollar. There are
wooden needles with fancy ends, and
white bone needles with ends in dif-
ferent colors to suit the individual taste
or to match a work bag, some of them
having little floral designs. A pair of
needles having a flat knob of silver at
the end has a patriotic ornament in the
national colors on it.
Another accessory for the knitter is a
wool holder with a bracelet band at-
‘tached. This is a long pin-like arrange-
ment of metal which goes through the
center of the ball of wool and is secured
by a little fancy head at the other end.
Slender chains attached this to a thin
wire bracelet which will slip over the
hand. When the knitter is at work she
has the ball dangling from her wrist,
and, if she likes it that way, she may
find it a convenience. In sterling silver
these little things cost about $2.50. There
are others in gilt.
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Eggs, Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes.
Buffalo, Dec. 5—Creamery butter
extras, 48c; first 46@47c; common,
45@46c; dairy, common to choice, 35
Butter,
@45c; dairy, poor to common, all
kinds, 33@36c.
Cheese—No. 1 new, fancy, 24c;
choice, 23c; held 26c.
Eggs—Choice, new laid, 50c; fancy
hennery, 58@60c; storage candled,
35@36c; at mark, 32@33c.
Poultry (live)—Fowls, 22@25c;
chicks, 23@25c; old cox, 17@18c;
ducks, 22@25c.
Poultry (dressed)—Turkeys, fancy,
30(@32c; choice, 28@29c; geese, fancy,
21@22c; choice, 18@19c; ducks, fancy,
28c; choice, 26@27c; chickens, roast-
ing fancy, 26@27c, choice, 25@26c;
fowls, fancy, 25@26c; choice, 23@24c.
Beans—Medium, $9.50; Peas, $9;
Red Kidney, $8; White Kidney, $9.50
@10; Marrow, $10.
Potatoes—New, $2.10@2.35 per 100
Ibs, Rea & Witzig.
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December 5, 1917
Honks From Auto City Council.
Lansing, Dec. 3—R. C. Rueschaw
has resigned as sales manager and
director of the Reo Motor Car Co., a
position he has held for the past
thirteen years. He has joined the
Mitchell Motor Car Co., of Kenosha,
Wis., as sales manager and has been
succeeded at the Reo by Forest H.
Akers, former assistant manager.
. C. Brandimore, formerly with
the Reo Motor Car Co. has accepted
a position tendered him by the
Mitchell Motor Car Co. of Ra-
cine, Wis., as assistant sales man-
ager. Mr. Brandimore is a Past Sen-
ior Counselor of our Council and the
best wishes of our entire Council go
with him in his new position.
F. D. Engle (Republic Truck Co.)
started last evening on a hurry-up
trip to points in California, fie ex-
pects to return, however, in time to
spend Christmas with his family.
Mrs. H. G. Gill is seriously ill at
her home, 940 Jefferson avenue,
Grand Rapids. Mr. Gill is a member
of our Council, representing the
John Deere Plow Co., and mceved to
Grand Rapids about a year ago owing
to a change in territorial lines. |The
sympathy and best wishes of our en-
tire Council are with them.
F. H. Hastings has returned from
a very successful trip through some
of the Middle Western States. When
he decided to come home he was in
such a hurry about it that he drove
his tin lizzie a distance of 300 miles
in one day. He still lives, but it is
needless to say that certain parts of
his anatomy are somewhat weary.
M. H. Gun, a long-time member
of our Council, was seriously injured
last Wednesday in stepping from one
of the interurban cars from Jackson.
Mr. Gun is at the Edward Sparrow
hospital, receiving the best of care,
and we hope for his ultimate: recov-~
ery.
.G, W. Miller (Bauerle Candy Co.)
was absent from the Council meeting
Barney Langeler has worked in
this institution continuousty for
over forty-eight years.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Saturday night and thereby hangs a
tale. Late Saturday afternoon he
purchased a new suit which fitted
perfectly except the length of the
trousers. Orders were given for these
to be cut to the proper length and the
suit sent to his home. With the ex-
pectation that the alteration and de-
livery would be made as promised he
hurried home and bundled his_ sec-
ond and third best suits and sent
them to the cleaners. The new suit
arrived on time, but through an er-
ror the trousers had been cut six
inches instead of two. Repeated tele-
phone calls by friends brought only
one answer, “I can’t come. I am
sick.”
A very interesting and well attend-
ed meeting of our Council was held
last Saturday night and our member-
ship was increased by two. W. C. J.
Leetsch, formerly of Victoria Coun-
cil, was received by transfer, and
James G. Hacker, of the Holland Fur-
nace Co., Holland, was initiated into
the mysteries of the order. Our ladies
auxiliary served one of their famous
Bohemian suppers at 6:30 and a busi-
ness session of the Council immedi-
ately followed, at the close of which
the music arrived and all who cared
to indulge in their favorite pastime
cf dancing were given an opportunity.
District Deputy Frank H. Clay, of
Kalamazoo, was present as a repre-
sentative of the Grand Council, in-
stead of Grand Counselor John A.
Hach, who was expected. An invi-
tation was sent the Grand Counselor
to be present at this gathering, but
the letter went wrong and by the time
it was delivered, Mr. Hach had made
other arrangements for this date. He
immediately conferred with the au-
thorities at the Michigan Asylum,
with the result that Mr. Clay was re-
leased for this occasion. At the
Bohemian supper, Mr. Clay, in avery
pleasing manner, addressed the ladies,
urging them for the good of the or-
der to insist that their husbands at-
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Barney says—
tend the regular meetings of the
Council, regardless of that tired feel-
ing which is so apt to make its ap-
pearance on the first Saturday of each
month. He also addressed the Coun-
cil in session in a masterly manner,
giving expression to some just criti-
cisms and complimenting us on con-
ditions which met with his approval.
We are indeed very grateful to the
Grand Council for Mr. Clay’s visit.
H. D. Bullen.
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Plan to Save Postage.
that postage on first-class
mail matters has been advanced to
3 cents, many business men are to
some extent overcoming this added
expense by eliminating the mailing
of receipts. A check is always a valid
receipt, and to help along this eco-
nomical movement, those who pay
bills by check could adopt the fol-
lowing plan:
7
Now
Instead of mailing both the check
and the invoice, have a rubber stamp
made reading “Paid ...... by check
NO eo.. ” Fill in the date and the
check number and file the invoice just
as though it were a receipt. If a con-
troversy comes up later, the notation
on the bill is as binding as the re-
ceipt.
The date of the invoice could also
be entered on the face of the check,
thereby placing the evidence of pay-
ment on one piece of paper.
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J. Holmes Kellogg, grocer at 229
West Main street, Battle Creek, in
renewing his subscription to the
Michigan Tradesman, says: “It is one
of the best papers of its kind printed
and we need it in our business.”
‘(WORDEN grew from small to great—
By DEALING FAIR throughout the State.”
WoRDEN (GROCER COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS— KALAMAZOO
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Mercantile Side Lights on the Celery
City.
Kalamazoo, Dec. 4—Jesse M. Wil-
der, grocer and meat dealer on Par-
sons street, has merged his business
into a partnership with Melvin R.
Adams, of Pullman, who for the past
seven years has been passenger agent
for the Pere Marquette at that village.
M. H. Harris and bride, of Douglas
avenue, returned Tuesday last from
a six weeks’ honeymoon trip to Cali-
fornia, visiting Chicago, Denver, Col-
orado Springs, Salt Lake City and Los
Angeles, returning by way of El Paso
over the El Paso & South Western
and Rock Island.
Charles E. Gray, formerly located
on Portage street in the men’s fur-
nishing goods business, has opened
a new lunch room opposite his former
place of business at 113 Portage
street. The cafe will be known as the
Gray Inn.
B. R. Barber, former manager of
the Worden Grocer Company, and
wife, left Thanksgiving Day for Flor-
ida via the Royal Palm Limited. Mr.
Barber has been in poor health since
the first of September and was
vised by his physician to spend
winter in the Southland. They
pect to locate at St. Petersburg
that vicinity.
Newman Sanford has just com-
pleted a fine double garage at his
home, 1118 Sherwood avenue, to
house his touring car and delivery
autos.
It is stated that approximately 20,-
000 people visited the new First Na-
tional Bank homecoming on Thanks-
giving day. Each lady visitor re-
ceived a change purse and each gen-
tleman a bill book. The bank build-
ing is a handsome structure, occupy-
ing one of the main corners of our
business district, and is equipped with
as fine a vault as can be found any-
where in the country.
Frank A. Saville.
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WASTE MAKES WOFUL WANT.
At the recent meeting of the New
York Section of the American Chem-
ical Society a vote was passed favorable
to having the food laws modified so as
to remove all necessary prohibitions on
food production and confine their opera-
tion to harmful ingredients and dishon-
est labeling.
This was a natural reaction from
theoretical exaction and coming from a
lot of scientists indicated how far along
the road of practicability the food chem-
ist has traveled since the days of Dr.
Wiley’s domination. It is also indica-
tive of the fact that the food chemist
is a much more numerous factor than
in the days when the doctor had things
so nearly his own way, and they have
come to distinguish between foods es-
sential’y unfit and those which might be
questioned only at long range and under
even more remote contingencies. They
have come to discover that “pure” food
does not necessarily mean highest qual-
ity or food of inferior nutrition.
In ‘times like these we are coming to
look for the conservation of foods of
any and all varieties and qualities and
to set aside over-nice distinctions. Hun-
dreds of new foods are being discovered
and new ways to prepare and conserve
the waste of old foods, or foodstuffs
heretofore rejected. are being evolved,
thanks to the chemist and culinary ex-
pert. There is en immense for
research and exploitation, and one of
the benign influences of the wartime
will be its contribution to the world’s
supply of good and cheaper foods.
fieid
Another will be the enforced conser-
vation of foods and our growing ap-
preciation of our prodigality in foods.
We have always had such abundance in
America that saving has not been our
forte, either in the preparation of food
or in our individual rationing. When
Mr. Hoover urged us to. establish
“wheatless days” and “meatless days”
we at first regarded it as a hardship,
and only yet is the rule at all fully en-
forced or accepted. And yet such as
have conformed to the rules have heen
surprised at the ease and comfort with
which a theoretical one-sixth of meat
and wheat can be saved. Some of us
have even come to beieve that it would
be a blessing to have a lit‘! more dic-
tatorial authority to tell us what we
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
“can” eat rather than be left to tickle
our palates as we please or at the dic-
tum of pocketbook limits.
Surely we are learning that James
J. Hill was right when he said we were
not suffering so much from the high
cost of living as from the cost of high
living. Already we are doing things
very comfortably that we once thought
sacrifices. A little thought of domestic
économy in the individual home is ac-
complishing wonders of conservation in
the National aggregate. And the war
has only just commenced. Before its
end we may have made great and last-
ing strides toward a new era of horse
sense in our eating and general per-
sonal and domestic discipline.
It is also probable that we will learn
a great deal about the absurdity of fol-
lowing the eye so much in our selection
of foods. We have already learned
that white flour is impoverished flour
and that our rejection of homely corn
meal is a great loss to our food values.
And now we are finding that in polish-
ing rice we not only lose food value but
also bring upon ourselves far worse
misfortunes.
Advices from Manila state that ob-
servations made in the Culion leper
colony, where the use of unpolished rice
has resulted in lowering the death rate
in eight years from 995 to 1,000 to 106,
are responsible for plans now on foot
for a general campaign against polished
rice.
Reports from the director of health
concerning conditions in the Culion leper
colony disclosed the fact that a high
death rate in the colony in 1908 from
beriberi has been decreased year by
year, and that this decrease is coincident
with the increasing substitution of un-
polished for polished rice. Now that no
polished rice is used in the colony beri-
beri is almost unknown, and the director
of health has undertaken propaganda
for explaining to Filipinos throughout
the islands the menacing effects of pol-
ished rice. It is expected that the dis-
semination of the facts regarding Culion
will result speedily in a lowering of the
death rate.
KEEPING THE HELP BUSY.
These days, when good help is scarce
and hard to get and when every store
is giving more consideration than ever
to the reduction of the labor turnover,
anything that tends to keep people em-
ployed even when, from the department
standpoint, it is not the season for such
employment, is beneficial. Some stores
have found this out, while others let
their help go when the season gets slack
and go to the trouble and expense of
rehiring them later, if they can get them.
There is a certain store, however, that
is keen on keeping down its labor turn-
over to the lowest possible point. It
keeps its workroom forces employed
both in and out of season, setting them
at making lampshades and other novel-
ties, where needle skill is required, when
there is no occasion for them to work
at their regular tradé. Because this
assures the workers of employment all
through the year, the store in question
not only has little trouble in getting
the employes it needs, but also gets the
best ones.
WHAT WORKMEN CAN DO.
It is difficult to pick up a magazine
these days without finding pictures of
women in the East who are doing
men’s work.
Fifty years ago the man who had
to work but ten hours per day con-
sidered himself fortunate. Often
twelve hours were considered a fair
day’s work,
The laboring men claim that they
are intensely patriotic. They work
eight or nine hours per day, and strike
when their wages are not high enough,
and buy a $50 Liberty bond, and say,
“Behold, we are doing our part to-
wards making the world safe for de-
mocracy.”
And while they are doing this, pro-
fessional men and college men, and
boys, and those who have their num-
bers called, are preparing to beat back
the foe. They offer to sacrifice their
lives, if necessary, for the cause of
humanity. They work when they are
told to work, and when they get to
the front they will know no hours.
They will sleep when they can snatch
forty winks. They will eat when the
cocks find an opportunity to get grub
to them, And they draw $30 per
month, out of which they must pay
many expenses.
Isn’t it about time to quit jollying
and coddling these workmen at home?
Isn’t it about time that they under-
stood that they may be patriots, but
they are doing nothing to show it?
Isn’t it about time to tell them to get
on the job and work until they drop
in their shoes? In many instances
their employers, who are paying them
more than they ever received before
in their lives and three times what
they are worth, are willing to pay
them regular price for extra work, but
they look upon the offer with disdain.
Why? Oh, if they work too long
hours there will not be enough work
to go round.
Rubbish. When there is work for
women—doing man’s work—these is
work enough for everybody.
Let the unions, which are coni-
posed solely of slovens and slackers,
take off the limit. Let them allow
their men to work as long as they
want to. This is as little as they can
do. There is much more. This coun-
try can lick Germany, with France as
a battleground, if every man will for-
get his own selfish nature and do his
part. :
CANNED GOODS SITUATION.
It would be difficult to say whether
or not a month under the licensing
system has been entirely satisfactory
to the canned goods trade. So far as
the canners themselves are concerned
it can probably be said that it has
not been satisfactory, for the rea-
son that it has bereft them of inflated
profits on their remaining stocks,
which glittered before their eyes ear-
lier in the season. As to the jobber,
he has been trying to make the best
of it and it has been to him a period
of adjustment. To the consumer
there has been no visible effect as
yet, except that it has forestalled fu-
ture advances beyond present levels.
The upward movement in canned
December 5, 1917
goods prices has undoubtedly been
checked, for there does not occur to
mind a single item on the list which
has advanced in price within the
month. There have been some ma-
terial reductions, notably in tomatoes
and latterly in corn, but the general
feeling in the trade is that there are
other reductions to come: The full
benefits of the licensing system can
hardly reach the consumer this sea-
son. Because of the delay by Con-
gress in passing the bill in the first
place it was impossible for the Food
Administration to get its machinery
in motion in time. That there has
been an unwarranted amount of prof-
iteering in the canned goods trade
this year cannot be denied, and there
is an impression among those who
are usually well informed that there
are goods still tucked away that must
find their way into distributing chan-
nels at lower prices than the pur-
chasers had in mind at the outset.
POTASH WON'T GO VERY FAR.
Because their economic outlook after
the war seems of the darkest, the Ger-
man newspapers and spokesmen are
eagerly clutching at every circumstance
that may afford hope or comfort. Very
recently the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin
urged the need of keeping intact the
German monopoly of potash. The the-
ory on which the Germans are proceed-
ing in this and other matters is quite
simple. After the war Germany will
need vast quantities of raw materials.
To pay for them in cash will be im-
possible. A strong effort will be made
to pay for imports with exports of
goods. As to certain of the latter it
will be difficult to get markets for them
because of the prejudice among the peo-
ple of most of the world against taking
anything marked “Made in Germany.”
This being recognized, the Germans
hope to sell, at least, certain kinds of
articles in which they have or have had
a monopoly. In this category potash
figures. So do, or did, many dyes and
chemical and pharmaceutical prepara-
tions, optical glass, philosophical instru-
ments, etc. But most of these things
are now made about as well and as
cheaply in other countries which have
developed the industries producing them
while the war has been in progress.
None has yet, however, been able to
wrest from Germany the supremacy in
potash. But, should France succeed in
recovering Alsace, which has rich potash
deposits, the German monopoly will be
at an end, and the economic condition
of the country will be especially bad.
Even should this not happen, the amount
of potash that could be sold abroad in
any one year would not go very far
toward paying for the imports that Ger-
many must get.
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At last a sure panacea for mail order
competition has been discovered. It is
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any town can secure nearly absolute im-
munity from the incursion of these
pirates of trade at a small expense to
each merchant. This panacea is not
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injury to the foot, or any wrong de-
tail of fitting—as, for example, a shoe
a trifle short, or a bit too narrow—
is going to be anywhere from five
to ten times as injurious to the child’s
foot as would a similar structural de-
fect or wrong detail of fitting in an
adult’s shoe. That, for one thing;
and for another, the child’s foot is a
growing foot. That means it is es-
pecially sensitive and specially liable
to injury of a more or less serious
nature. For that reason it is not sim-
ply bad business policy to allow a
child to go out of your store imper-
fectly fitted—it is almost criminal.
All of which, and a lot more to the
same effect might be added, leads
one to the conclusion that a poorly
conducted juvenile footwear depart-
ment is perhaps worse than none at
all. If the shoes you are selling for
the little folks of your community
aren’t good values at the price; il
they aren’t dependable and satisfac-
tory, they give your store a bad im-
pression among the people who will
make or break you to-morrow. And,
if the service they receive at your
store isn’t conscientious and thorough-
going, so much the worse.
So long as one is selling children’s
shoes at all, he should endeavor to
sell them judiciously. Put the de-
partment in the limelight. Promote
it energetically. Select the various
lines advisedly; and see to it that ev-
ery salesperson understands the art
of fitting juvenile feet. Win the lit-
tle people to you to-day, and to-mor-
row they will not desert you.
Cid McKay.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11
Harvard System of Accounts For
Shoe Dealers.
Recent correspondence of the Bureau
of Business Research shows increas-
ing interest in stock-keeping methods in
the retail shoe trade. More and more
retailers are enquiring for its stock-
keeping system and are putting the
forms into use.
With the present high price of shoes
it is, of course, especially important that
a retailer watch his stock most care-
fully. There is an appreciable increase
in the investment that a retailer has to
make and the risk that this cxtraor-
dinary tie-up of capital brings is great.
Many retailers have found that they can
keep careful watch of their stock by
using the Harvard System of Accounts
for Shoe Retailers, and thus reduce
their capital investment in merchandise.
The stock-keeping bulletin, with sample
forms, will be mailed without charge
to any shoe retailer upon request sent
to the Bureau of Business Research,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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This Sells the Goods.
In a Massachusetts town an enter-
prising shoe dealer uses to sell stock
shaped upon comfort lasts the slo-
gan: “Sensible shoes for fretty feet.”
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However, the man who thinks he
is going to have his own way after
marriage is apt to have another think
coming in after years.
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Occasionally a man figures on a
reserved seat in heaven because he
once gave away an old coat.
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FOR GRAND RAPIDS FIND
TRATE MARK REGISTERED
This trademark represents the ground floor
plan of our factory. Look for it, ask for it;
it stands for wear, comfort and service.
Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie Company
ORIGINAL MAKERS OF
“THE GRAND RAPIDS SHOE”
Greatly Enlarged in Scope
OFFICERS
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Secretary-Treasurer,
Fremont
We have re-organized under the more liberal
statute enacted by the Legislature of 1917, and are
therefore in a position to insure store buildings,
fixtures and merchandise stocks in which boots
and shoes are included. This greatly enlarges our
scope of operations and increases our usefulness to
our members, who obtain valid insurance in our
company at 25 per cent. less than the regular stock
rate, with an additional discount of 5 per cent. for
prompt payment. All losses promptly and honor-
ably adjusted. Correspondence solicited.
Michigan Shoe Dealers Mutual
Fire Insurance Co.
Fremont, Mich.
President, ALBERT MURRAY, Charlotte
Vice President, JOHN MUFFLY, Kala-
GEORGE’ BODE,
agg og STOCKER, Detroit
H. P. WOODWORTH, Lansing
V. FREDERICH, Traverse City
SOHN A. MARTIN, Monroe
JOHN MUFELY, Kalamazoo
GEORGE BODE, Fremont
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DIRECTORS
We Show Here One of the Live Styles
Bertsch Goodyear Welt Shoe
in our
Line for Men
Here is a shoe you simply cannot go
wrong on for it represents the utmost in
shoe values. Every piece of leather and
every bit of findings is of the very best
material for the services intended.
We carry something like a hundred
BERTSCH numbers in stock—for
your convenience. The range of
styles is sufficient to insure the
necessary staple numbers, also a
goodly number of the more styl-
ish ones.
We believe our line is more
naturally adapted to your needs
than the average. That it is a
business builder and a profit
maker our friends testify.
Samples, catalogue or sales-
man on request.
No. 979—-$3.35
Manufacturers of Serviceable Footwear
Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
December 5, 1917
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SAAN
Detailed Description of War Savings
Stamp Plan.
Written for the Tradesman.
The war savings stamp plan is now
ready to be placed in operation. The
Government through various agencies
will sell stamps in denominations of 25
cents each, or more, with which $5
Savings certificates can be purchased
upon surrendering the book -into which
stamps have been pasted, the $5 certifi-
cate being payable at par at the end of
five years. Cash purchases of these cer-
tificates at $4.12 each during December
can also be made up to $1,000. Secre-
tary of the Treasury McAdoo, and
Frank A. Vanderlip, chairman of the
War Savings Committee, have announc-
ed the regulations under which war sav-
ings stamps can be purchased from duly
appointed agents beginning Dec. 3. Two
classes of agents will be designated for
war savings certificates—those who may
not hold more than $1,000 of stamps for
certificates at one time and who must
pay cash for their holdings, and those
who may hold more than $1,000 worth
and may obtain them upon assignment.
Agents of the first class may obtain sup-
plies such as stamps, certificates and
thrift cards from the various agencies
only upon payment of the current value
of the stamps—that is, during December,
1917, and January, 1918, they must pay
$4.12 for each war savings stamp and
an additional cent for each stamp dur-
ing each succeeding month of 1918.
Thrift stamps will always be sold to
agents at their face value of 25 cents
each. Agents of the second class who
will be permitted to handle stamps with
a maturity value in excess of $1,000
will be required to deposit Liberty
bonds or certificates of indebtedness to
the aggregate amount of war stamps
obtained for sale, plus the aggregate
face value of all thrift stamps obtained.
Most chain stores, railroad companies
and big associations will fall in the
second class, and small stores and agen-
cies acting independently will be placed
in the first class. All agents must be
authorized by the Secretary of the
Treasury upon application through post
offices, banks or state or local war sav-
ings committees now being organized.
The following table showing the cash
surrender value of each war saving cer-
tificate stamp prior to January, 1923, the
date of maturity, has been issued by
Secretary McAdoo:
Month 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922
January ...$4.12 $4.24 $4.36 $4.48 $4.60
February .. 4.13 425 4.37 4.49 4.61
March ..... 4.14 426 4.38 4.50 4.62
Agri ...... 4.15 427 4.39 -4.51 4.63
May .....<. 4.16 428 440 4.52 4.64
June ...... 4.17 4.29 4.41 4.53 4.65
July ot 4.18 4.30 4.42 4.54 4.66
August 4.19 4.31 443 4.55 4.67
September... 4.20 4.32 4.44 4.56 4.68
October 4.21 4.33 4.45 4.57 4.69
November .. 4.22 4.34 4.46 4.58 4.70
December .. 4.23 4.35 4.47 4.59 4.71
Thrift stamps will not be redeemable
in cash except as they may be exchanged
for war savings stamps and then con-
verted into money.
The organizations of thousands of
war savings societies to encourage sys-
tematic thrift in the purchase of thrift
and war savings stamps is one of the
plans in the Government’s war savings
campaign. Ten or more persons, it is
stated, may form such a society and
obtain a charter from the Secretary of
the Treasury. These societies are to
be organized in factories, offices, schools,
clubs, churches and _ neighborhood
groups. State directors are to name
county and local directors to whom ap-
plication for charters are to be made.
When the charter is granted the secre-
tary of the society will be designated as
an official distributor of savings stamps.
Members will be expected to buy from
him or her each week, or pay day, at
least the quantity of stamps for which
he has subscribed.
The fact that the extraordinarily large
payments last week on the Second Lib-
crty Loan were completed with little or
no disturbance to the money market is
encouraging. Call loans on the New
York stock exehange at no time last
week ruled above 414 per cent., the
range having been from 3% to 4 per
cent. This is in contrast with the first
Liberty Loan last June and July when
call money on the New York Stock
Exchange ran up to 10 per cent. That
the biggest piece of financing ever un-
dertaken by the United States Govern-
ment was carried through so smoothly
reflects great credit upon all concerned.
Paul Leake.
Michigan Bankers & Merchants’
Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Fremont, Michigan
We are organized under the laws of Michigan and our officers and
directors include the best merchants, bankers and business men of
Fremont.
We write mercantile risks and store buildings occupied by our
policy holders at 25 per cent. less than the board rate established by
the Michigan Inspection Bureau.
If you are interested in saving one-third of your expenditure for
fire insurance, write us for particulars.
Wm. N. Senf, Secretary.
Perpetuate your property inter-
ests intact by your own self written
law—your legal will.
Have your will correctly pre-
pared. Name this institution Ex-
ecutor. Your family should not suf-
fer from mistakes in so important a
matter.
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
Liquor, Drug Addicts
TAKE SAFETY FIRST
The NEAL Remedies
given at NEAL Institute
will destroy the appetite
at the end of treatment.
A guarantee Bond, for
every patient, with (3) day
Liquor Treatments, upon
request. Don’t doubt nor
hesitate, COME: make us
prove it, at our expense if
we fail; strictest privacy
is maintained to patients,
their friends, at our Home.
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Local Banker Defends Patriotism of
the Farmer.
Allegan, Dec. 3—Not long ago, a
well-known financier of Chicago said
“The farmers of the country will
neither fight, pay taxes nor buy liber-
ty bonds,” thereby placing himself in
the same lime light as the divine who
lost the presidency cf the United
States for James G. Blaine by his un-
fortunate utterance of “Rum, Roman-
ism and Rebellion.” The statement
is a long way from the truth. The
farmer constitutes the conservative
class of our population. He must be
shown before he is convinced, but,
when convinced, is fully as patriotic
as our city brethren. Has the farm-
er a right to distrust Liberty Bonds?
No, not when he understands them
thoroughly. He thinks slowly but
surely. He distrusts financiers, bank-
ers and brokers. The words bonds
and stocks, bankers and_ brokers,
commission houses and bucket shops
are somewhat confused in his mind
and he is very likely to judge one by
the actions of the other. He has
heard of the flotation by J. P. Mor-
gan & Co. of a hundred million dol-
lar bond issue, where the company
purchased the entire lot at 85 cent on
the dollar and placed the issue among
their banking friends at par. He has
seen the Liberty Loan advertisements
side by side with those of the name-
less mining company whose _ stock
has been largely subscribed by some
prominent banker, and such banker
was placing a little of the stock among
his friends, so they could share in
the prospective profits. He has heard
of bond issues sold by representative
bond houses, trusteed by trust com-
panies of excellent standing. When
the security failed he has heard of
the relation of the broker and the
trust company to the project was only
nominal, that they were working
along for their commission and fees
and the buyer should beware. He has
heard of wheat pits, where some
groups of men, financed by leading
banks, have made enormous profits.
He has tried buying some wheat on
his own account. When he comes
out like the proverbial lamb, shorn
not only of his wool but of a large
portion of his hide, he is sore but not
satisfied. He compares himself to
the man who puts his fingers in the
horse’s mouth to find out how many
teeth the horse has and the horse
shuts his mouth to find out how many
fingers the man has—and both had
their curiosity satisfied.
Right in these strenuous times,
when the production of food should
be encouraged to the extreme limit.
he commenced to feed his hogs $2
corn about the first of September, re-
lying, in part, on a twenty dollar
hog market. When he has his pigs
fattened about the first of November
he finds the price paid by the pack-
ers has dropped three or four dollars
a hundred and that the price paid
by the consumer has increased. He
learns that the packing houses car-
ry on their business largely with
borrowed capital, that their bonds
are held by banks and bond houses,
and he wonders who is getting the
benefit of his two dollar corn. In
spite of the urgings of the Agricul-
tural Department and of the food
conservation committees, the farm-
ers are to-day selling their young
pigs and calves below their value be-
cause of the high price of feed and
the unstable prices for cattle and pork
on foot, Let me call your attention
to the following prices:
Average price for hogs in Chicago
Aug. 21 was $19.30; mess pork, car-
lots, $43.50@43.75; lard, round lots,
£22 2522.90. Average price of hogs
in Chicago Oct. 23 was $15.40; mess
perk, $43@44; lard, round lots, $23.80
(23.90. Average beef steers week of
Sept. 19 was $13.50; average beef
steers week of Oct, 22 was $11.39;
plates, the cheapest class of meat,
week of Sept. 19, from 9%4%@14c; Oct.
22, from 104%4@1l5c per pound. From
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13
Allegan, Nov. 5, there were shipped
eighty-nine head of cattle, sixty-two
of them heifers from one to two years
old, which brought the farmer 54@7c
a pound on foot. These prices are
a matter of concern to the manufac-
turer because every increase of price
of food means increase of wages, and
ultimately increase of price of the
manufactured products to the con-
sumer, until such a level is reached
where the consumer refuses to buy.
The farmer looks with suspicion up-
cn bonds and stocks and upon those
who offer them for sale. He is not
quite ready to understand the patri-
otic platform of the financiers, the
presidents of the banks and the bond
houses where they are working with-
out any recompense to themselves,
with a sincere desire to perform their
duty to their Government without a
thcught of personal gain. The farm-
er who in times past has been oblig-
ed to support himself on 75 cent
wheat and $5 pork, raised at a loss,
never has had the time nor the money
to work for his Government without
reward. He gives a half smile of in-
credulity when told the banks and
bonds houses, solely from patriotic
motives, are out time and money in
serving the Government in this crisis.
Even when told by men in whom he
has confidence that they receive no
pay for their services, he quotes from
that good hook which you gentlemen
all read, where Psalmist David ex-
claims: “I said in my haste alJ men
are liars.”
I do not claim for the farmer any
exceptional degree of honesty. He
is just one of the human family like
the rest of us. He is just as honest
as the rest of the human race and
has not, as yet, so far as I can learn,
started any wings for the heavenly
region. He is just as liable to cut
off one or two inches from his cord
wood as the manufacturer is to add
20 per cent, to his price when his
employes have demanded a 10 per
cent. raise in wages, or the banker
to shave a note beyond the legal lim-
its when opportunity presents itself.
But it is time the manufacturers put
their heads together on this market
condition so that both may _ profit
thereby. If the sale of female live
stock from the farm continues at the
present rate, the business men will
wake up too late.
The city man should become better
acquainted with the farmer and his
conditions and the farmer should be-
come better acquainted with the city
man. For years the manufacturer has
sold his product on the market where
his labor has been able to obtain a
living from farm products which im-
poverished the soil and did net re-
turn to the farmer cost. The manu.
facturer of the future must be like
the general of an army. He must see
not only that his employes have
healthful work rooms, but that they
are paid a living wage, and that they
can get their living within that scale.
He must see that the men in the
trenches are supplied with a proper
food train, that the food supplies trav-
el a shorter distance between the pro-
ducer and consumer, that the pro-
ducer receives a better return for his
products and the consumer pays less.
Frank H. Williams,
President First State Bank.
Valid Insurance at
One-third Less Than
Kent State Bank
Main Office Fountain St
Stock Company Rates enska. Tae
Merchants insure your stocks, store Capi
sa i : apital - - - ~- $500,000
buildings and residences in the :
oo a Surplus and Profits - $500,000
Grand Rapids Merchants Resources
Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
of Michigan
9 Million Dollars
3 he Per Cent.
Paid on Certificates
Largest State and Savings Beak
in Western Michigan
For the last ten years we have
been saving our policy holders 33 4 %
on their insurance. Wecan and will
do as much for you.
Home Office, Grand Rapids
le Fourth National Bank
4 United States Depositary
Fr
Savings Deposits
Commercial Deposits
3
Per Cent Interest Paid on
Savings Deposits
Compounded Semi-Annually
3%
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
December 5, 1917
How the Bankruptcy Law Can Be
Improved.
The National Bankruptcy law, as it
stands on the statute books at the pres-
ent time, favors the debtor as against
the creditor. It is an invitation for a
dishonest man to cheat his creditors,
and it should be changed in several
ways along lines that I am going to
suggest.
In all cases of insolvency or bank-
ruptcy, the law should be made use of
only by persons engaged in business.
They are intended to be an aid to the
honest, but unfortunate, business man
who, through the natural risks atten-
dant upon business, is unable to pay
his creditors in full.
For this reason the present bankrupt-
cy act should be amended so as to con-
fine its scope to business men only and
to permit a discharge from business
obligations only, as distinct and separ-
ate from personal obligations. In other
words, no man should be allowed to
acquire expensive personal habits and
then live up to them at the expense of
creditors. Such things as liability for
clothes, rent of house or apartment,
and other necessary and reasonable liv-
ing expenses should not be discharge-
able in case the debtor goes into bank-
tuptcy.
Even business men should not be so lax
in their method as to permit their cap-
ital to shrink to such an extent that
creditors get no dividends at all, and
then apply in due course for a discharge
and get it. It should be a prerequisite
for an application for a discharge that
the bankrupt’s estate shall have paid a
dividend of not less than 20 to 25 per
cent. to creditors. It may, perhaps, be
provided, in order to protect the really
honest debtor, that this provision may
be waived by the consent of, say, 80 or
90 per cent. of the bankrupt’s creditors,
both in number and in amount.
Inasmuch as the granting of a dis-
charge in bankruptcy is a favor to the
bankrupt, the law should provide that
the burden of establishing that the bank-
rupt is entitled to his discharge should
be placed upon him, and not upon the
objecting creditor, as the law now pro-
vides.
Another suggestion is that the law
should require the bankrupt to furnish
sufficient funds for the proper adminis-
tration of the estate. As the law now
stands, if a debtor files a petition sched-
uling no assets, the burden of indemni-
fying the referee and paying the other
expenses incurred in an examination of
the estate falls upon those creditors who
seek the examination. There is no way
of recouping these expenses unless as-
sets that belong to the estate are lo-
cated.
Further, the law should provide that,
instead of having a system of providing
receivers and trusteees and attorneys for
receivers and trustees, etc., in each case,
Federal officers be appointed whose duty
it should be to administer all bankrupt
estates; that these officers should act
in conjunction with the office of the At-
torney General and the Federal Attor-
neys of each district, so that, should the
facts warrant it, an investigation may
be started by the Federal attorneys,
who shall at the same time and in the
é
same proceedings, so far as practicable,
endeavor to locate assets and to prose-
cute the person or persons who are
guilty of concealing them.
The law also should be amended so
that failure on the part of a a debtor .to
meet his written obligations, like a
check or note, for a period of, say, a
week or ten days after presentation, shall
constitute an act of bankruptcy. Fur-
ther, that no fees shall be paid to at-
torneys for petitioning creditors unless
it be shown that the acts of these at-
torneys have in some way aided in con-
serving or adding to the assets of the
estate.
Of course, there is no law that is
perfect or can be administered perfect-
ly. Expenses are necessarily high. As-
sets are sold at a forced sale, and gen-
erally realize a sum far below their ac-
tual value. Creditors, as a class, take
too little interest in the administration
of bankrupt estates. This permits the
bankrupt either to buy in the assets at
his own price, or to perpetrate any oth-
er frauds he may desire without hin-
drance on the part of the creditors.
On the rare occasions when one cred-
itor desires to look into the affairs of a
bankrupt estate, the other creditors gen-
erally refuse to co-operate to the ex-
tent of sharing a part of the expense.
The result, therefore, is that if a single
creditor is determined enough to pro-
ceed, he takes all the risk of his attor-
ney’s fees and his expenses, with the
result that if something is realized the
estate, as a whole, benefits. If nothing
is realized, this creditor has lost all that
he has advanced.
Hundreds of times the grocer
could tie a paper sack at the top,
save a yard or two of twine and hand
out a package not as liable to come
undone as if tied round about.
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Customers nowadays will not ac-
cuse you of stinginess if you use only
the amount of wrapping paper or
twine necessary to contain, protect
and securely hold the goods.
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Hammering Away at Williams and
Davies.
Evansville, Ind., Dec. 3—I find it
requires more than one week for me
to real all of the interesting things
in the anniversary edition of the
Tradesman.
I would be pleased to tell Bishop
Charles D. Williams that I agree with
him while he is talking about religion,
but I will not agree with him when he
places it in the “second” class. He
says: ‘And there is that second prac-
tical issue of religion, doing good.”
If “doing good” is not the first issue
of life, then there are no other is-
sues. The trouble with Christian
ministers:is they put their creed be-
fore all else—and leave the business
world to do good. They fight like
hell among themselves, “The only
equipment they bring to us is a few
good intentions.” “The world has
suffered as much from blundering
beneficences as_ from _ intentional
knavery.”
Mr. Williams knows what’s the
matter with us. When we learn to
divide religion from Christianity and
do good all the time, religion will be
lived and we will stop worshiping
Christianity. There’s a difference be-
tween living the truth and worship-
ing individuals and living according
to creeds.
I would like to tell John R. Davies
that all old firms are passing away
and new ones are being organized.
Davies says: “More than forty au-
thors were engaged upon its pages.
While they held the pen and used
their own style, language and indi-
viduality, they were so superintended
as to give to their message a divine
quality which empowers us to speak
of their work as the Holy Scriptures.”
If Jesus Christ instructed only
twelve men, why should there be
“more than forty’ and why is it ab-
solutely necessary that we must lis-
ten to thousands of other men? “Of
the first thirty years of His life, be-
yond a few briet statements, we know
nothing.” If this is true, what’s the
use of taking so much stock in what
we don’t know? All we know about
Christianity is what has been preach-
ed to us—and every minister admits
he does not know very much.
If traveling men were to admit
that they did not know any more
about their goods than Christian min-
isters admit that they don’t know,
they would be called in.
Davies says: “I presume in every
business represented here, especially
if it is of any size or moment, there
are those who, because of incompe-
tence, you would like to discharge
to-morrow.” Every incompetent per-
son is discharged in a well-organized
business, but it is not so in the busi-
ness of Christianity. Any one who
can read the bible can go out and tell
the people that he is inspired by God
and no one can discharge him. Such
is the business that Davies represents.
Edward Miller, Jr.
—_-+>—_—_
Hoover’s Appeal to the Commercial
Travelers.
Washington, Dec. 4—The victory
in this great war may be won, not by
fighting but by food. The men of
England, Scotland, Ireland, France,
Italy and Belgium are fighting. They
are not on the farms. Therefore, the
food production of these nations, our
Allies, has fallen to the point of great
danger.
Our problem is to feed our Allies
this winter by sending them as much
food as we can of the most con-
centrated nutritive value in the least
shipping space. These foods are
wheat, beef, pork, dairy products, and
sugar.
Our solution is to eat less of these
and more of other foods of which we
. have an abundance and to waste less
of all foods.
Our Allies need from us 220,000,000
bushels of wheat. If we continue to
eat and waste wheat as we have.done,
we'ean send them but 88,000,000 ‘bush-
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15
can provide for the difference. Cheap est S yr u p
The same general condition holds
good as to sugar, dairy products, beef
and pork products. If we eat meat
only once a day instead of two or
three times, eat less sugar and but-
ter and fewer fried dishes, we can
keep our army and that of our Allies
in full fighting trim, and can prevent
any danger of starvation of the wom-
en and children of England and
France.
You are peculiarly fitted by reason
of the requirements of your profes-
sion to assist the work of the Food
Administration in a twofold way:
1. By spreading throughout the
length and breath of the land the
gospel of wise food conservation. G :
2. By using your great influence ran a 1 S a en ar O
on the hotels, restaurants and dining e .
ei we me Soames to impress upon :
them their National duty of adopting
and carrying out the voluntary regula- PUBLISHERS
tions which we have sent them, with
a request for their acceptance. WEATHER CHARTS, MARKET BASKET and BANK CALENDARS
To this end you are invited to be-
come a special representative of the
els; but, if we substitute other cereals, FAT °
economize and cut out all waste, we INER S
Syrup made from Crescent Ma-
pleine, sugar and water costs half
as much as good, ready-made
syrup. And the syrup is superior.
Y Sell Crescent Mapleine for its
B) making. * * * * Crescent Mfg.
H Co., Seattle, Wash. Order of
your jobber or Louis Hilfer Co.,
aa Life Bldg., Chicago.
Crescent
Mapleine
MY SIGNATURE
Cexphen
ON EVERY PACKAGE
Food Saving Division of the Food ° °
Adminstration. We shalt greatly ap- We also carry an extensive line of Wall Pockets,
preciate such a patriotic service on DeLuxe, Art Calendars and Advertising Specialties
your part. Herbert Hoover,
U. S. Food Administration.
"Save the Fats. Order Now Territory Open for Salesmen
Gary, Ind., Dec. 4—As I understand
the situation the real reason for the
treated with lye. A chemical reaction
takes place in which soap and gly-
cerine are the products, In the old
home methods the glycerine is left
in the soap and is lost. There should
be no shortage of soap, as it is now
a lye product of glycerine manufac-
ture, and as glycerine is the base for
nitroglycerine and the various forms
of dynamite, much soap will be pro- CAN BE COMPARED TO COFFEE
duced.
But the farmers should save their AS TO QUALITY
meat scraps and try out the fat. This
should be sold to the big soap fac-
especial demand for fats at this time
is because glycerine comes from fat. GRAND RAPIDS CALENDAR CO.
To get the glycerine the fats are 572-584 SO. DIVISION AVE. - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
tories, which recover the all impor- Don’t be fooled by price. Buy where quality
tant glycerine. The talk of a soap
shortage is due, I believe, to a lack . comes first. Buy Jersey Peanut Butter and
of a knowledge of the chemistry of : ; .
soap making. So long as we are us- notice the difference in taste. Order from
ing large amounts of “dynamite, soap i
will be produced in order to get the your jobber today.
glycerine—if the fats can be obtained.
To use the fats in a home soap plant
ee a cannot be re-
covered is almost as bad as to throw -: e ° . °
the fat away. Save the fats and sell Perkins Brothers, Inc. Bay City, Michigan
them to the big manufacturers who
can make full use of them.
R. M. Ladd,
Science Lecturer, Gary Public
Schools.
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War has brought a great respons ibili
retailers, particularly those of Michigan hay
sense of the word. No other class of citizer
the purchasing of Liberty Bonds.
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Consumers do not appreciate tha, gre
under present conditions. Freight delays
practically entirely beyond their knowedg
The retailer has a hundred varjous
people know nothing about. They have ;
tion, slow freight deliveries and increased «
All this calls for a higher btosok reff
dealers have found that efficient organizat
buying are doing wonders in helping the:
merchandise. o
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For that reason, right buying is of
There was a time when a dealer, cot
methods by buying here, there and everywl
the price and goods was pretty apt 4o dol
in almost every town, regardless of where.
from which the goods had to be shipped.
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But the war has changed all this.’
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December 5, 1917
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
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respons ibility to retailers everywhere and the
ichigan have proven themselves patriots in every
s of citizens in Michigan were more loyal in
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late tha, great difficulties the retailer has to meet
ght delays and constant advances in prices are
knowledge.
ed varjous difficulties to overcome that other
hey have added burdens in the way of taxa-
increaséd demands for merchandise.
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rate-of vefficiency than ever before. Many
- Ofganization in their own store and efficient
elpitig them to properly supply their trade with
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ying is of particular importance to the retailer.
| dealer could do business under fairly efficient
ad everywhere. Any salesman who could offer
apt 4o do business with some merchant or other
of where his house was located or the distance
hipped. ~
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This ad. is No. 8 of a series. Accompanying each advertise-
ment are interesting views and facts regarding cities in Mich-
igan and territory contributing to Michigan’s great wholesale
merkets «
Belding, Michigan
Belding’s industries are more
widely known and varied than
those of the average city of
6,000 population. Belding Bros.
& Company and the Richardson
Silk Company, operating four
mammoth _ silk mills, employ
1,500 people.
Belding-Hall Company, re-
frigerator manufacturers, with
two large factories employ sev-
eral hundred men. The Grand
Rapids Brass Company and the
Belding Foundry, recent addi-
tions to the industrial activities,
are in thriving condition. Some
others of our industrial life are
the Belding Basket Company,
Wolverine Paint Company and
‘the Grand Rapids Paper Box
Company. It is in the center
of a rich agricultural district
and with Its excellent schools,
paved streets, modern sewer
system, cheap electric light and
| power, gas and artesian wells
| supplying a completely metered
4 system with absolutely pure
| water, Belding is an incentive
to good citizenship.
Winding the Maypole at
Manistee has a score of fac-
tories, producing
foundry and machinery pro-
ducts, etc., salt blocks, and
lumber mills, and railroad yards
furnish employment and pro-
mote prosperity. Ramsdell thea-
tre, seating 1,400, is one of the
largest and finest theatre build-
ings in Michigan outside of De-
troit. Orchard Beach
most entrancingly
summer amusement center in
the Central West, and affords
a view of 40 miles of Lake
Michigan coast line. The illus-
tration shows the public play-
ground at Orchard Beach.
Manistee has twenty miles of
asphalted highway and asphalt
roads throughout the county, a
Carnegie library, $75,000 federal
’ building, and fine business sec-
tion are other sources of civic
pride.
etailer in War limes
Now it is a question of getting the goods and getting them quick, Be-
cause of the poor freight service dealers cannot afford to have their goods ship-
ped a thousand miles when they can just as well get them from near-by
wholesalers.
The great majority of retailers throughout western Michigan have found
that the Grand Rapids Wholesalers can best supply their requirements,
This is for the reason that transportation facilities are good. The Grand
Rapids Wholesalers know what is demanded by Michigan dealers and they are
making every possible effort to supply this demand.
The present abnormal conditions are forcing dealers to establish closer
relations with their source of supply than ever before, and it naturally stands to
reason that the jobbers closest at hand can give the best service.
Every dealer in Western Michigan can best serve his trade by concen-
trating his buying efforts and by getting all of his supplies from one point.
For the merchants of Western Michigan this point should be Grand Rapids, be-
cause Grand Rapids is logically located, transportation is good, the wholesalers
have the right merchandise and the prices are as low as can be had anywhere.
No matter from what point of view the dealer may consider the present
situation, he cannot help but realize the great advantage and the many induce-
ments Grand Rapids offers him as the logical market in which to buy his mer-
chandise,
Every dealer will profit by coming to Grand Rapids for his merchandise.
Grand Rapids Wholesale Dealers Association.
Orchard Beach,
Manistee, Mich.
Public Playground
furniture,
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beautiful
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ciation.
President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.
Vice-President—Patrick Hurley,
troit.
Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Bent-
ley, Saginaw.
Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson
Detroit; H. L. Williams, Howell; C. J.
Chandler, Detroit.
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HE NEEDS NO DEFENSE.
Unjust Attacks on Retail Grocer Will
React.
Tecumseh, Dec. 3—It seems to me
that our trade papers ought to give a
little more attention to defending the
individual grocer from the attacks of
the daily newspapers and cheap poli-
ticians. Of the five trade papers l
am taking, the only one which seems
inclined to defend the retailer is the
National Bulletin.
Competition in the small towns is
mighty close and in the cities, with
their chain stores and cash and carry
systems, it is even more so.
The grocer performs a_ valuable
service to the community in which
he lives. If the individual grocers
were put out of business and the pub-
lic had to rely on chain stores and
mail order houses, the people would
find themselves much worse off, as
real competition in cost and quality
would be wiped off the map, The
above mentioned stores quote attrac-
tive prices on a few well-known arti-
cles, but the way they throw the
hooks in on the things on which peo-
ple are not posted is a caution. I
have filled a number of orders made
out for mail order houses at their
catalogue prices and will say that 1
never got one yet that my profits
were not more than I would have
received if I had not been following
the catalogue price.
You know, Mr. Stowe, the average
grocer takes less toll for the service
rendered than any other retailer. You
also know that the retailer is not to
blame for the high prices of food
stuff, as has been asserted by cheap
politician and yellow newspaper ed-
itors, who are continually telling the
people that food would be cheaper if
the retailer did not rob them. Every
time the retailer buys a bill of goods,
the price is higher.
Some writer in a Detroit paper the
other day made the assertion that the
grocers charged more for their serv-
ices in distributing goods than the
farmer got for raising them. A man
bright enough to do that would not
stay in the grocery business long.
If he did not get elected to Congress,
he would surely get appointed on
some one of the numberless Govern-
ment commissions.
Now, Mr. Stowe, since you conduct
a paper in the interest of the retailer,
kindly defend us from the evil inten-
tions of our enemies. All we want
is a square deal. Frank D. Avery.
The writer of the above letter is an
excellent type of the small town gre
cer who is so honest that he actua‘ly
bends backwards and who is so cog-
nizant of his own honesty and good
intentions that he is unduly sensitive
to the wicked insinuations and un-
founded charges which are constant-
ly being reiterated in the columns of
the daily press. Whenever the pen-
ny-a-liners on the daily newspapers
are short on news, they can always
manufacture something which mas-
querades as news by imputing to the
retail grocers ideas they never
thought of, practices they never pur-
sued and methods they never dream-
ed of. Retail grocers can no more
control this current craze among the
daily newspapers than they can di-
vert the diurnal movements of the
moon. It is the bete noire of the
grocery business. Dogs have fleas,
chickens have lice, great men have
imitators and retail grocers have to
endure the defamation and unfairness
of the daily newspapers and the cheap
skates who assume to shape public
opinion by misrepresenting the at-
titude of the retail grocers and im-
puting to them crimes they never
committed and offenses they never
even thought about.
In the opinion of the Tradesman it
is unwise for Mr. Avery or any other
good merchant to protest against the
unjust treatment they are accorded
by the daily press. To chafe under it
or toshow that it isembarrassing and
to resent the unfairness of the attacks
is simply to encourage the scribblers
to further and repeated assaults until
they wear themselves out, the same
as they did with the mother-in-law
jokes and the slurs op plumbers as a
class.
The Tradesman again reiterates
what it has stated repeatedly, that
the retail grocer needs no defense,
because he is doing his part in the
great struggle which now confronts
civilization with credit to himself and
with satisfaction to his customers. He
is between the nether stone of food
control on one side and food hoarding
on the other. He is being deceived
every day—many times every day—
by regular and transient customers
who seek to gain an unfair advan-
tage over their neighbors by obtain-
1052 N. Ottawa Ave.
G. B. READER
Jobber of
Lake, Ocean, Salt and’ Smoked Fish, and Oysters
in Shell and Bulk
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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.
Turkeys
Geese, Ducks and Chickens
Telegraph, phone or
write us for special
prices before you sell
Wilson & Co.
20-22 Ottawa Ave., N. W.
Grand Rapids Michigan
SEEDS
Reed & Cheney Co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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.
Onions, Apples and Potatoes
Car Lots or Less
We Are Headquarters
Correspondence Solicited
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Vinkemulder Company
GRAND RAPIDS ro: MICHIGAN
Pleasant St. and Railroads
MOSELEY BROTHERS _ Grand Rapids, Mich.
Wholesale
BEANS, POTATOES, SEEDS
Telephones 1217, or write when have stock to offer
E. P. MILLER, President F. H. HALLOCK, Vice Pres. FRANK T. MILLER, Sec. and Treas.
Miller Michigan Potato Co.
WHOLESALE PRODUCE SHIPPERS
Potatoes, Apples, Onions
Correspondence Solicited
Wm. Alden Smith Bldg. Grand Rapids, Mich.
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
December 5, 1917
ing more sugar and other staple goods
than is permissible under Government
regulation, He lends a willing ear—
in some cases too willing—to crafty
people who obtain supplies on prom-
ises to pay which fail to materialize.
He does more than his share in con-
tributions to churches, charities ana
philanthropies. He pays his taxes
without grumbling and subscribers to
the Liberty Bond issues in larger pro-
portion, considering his resources,
than the members of any other line
of trade. He sends his oldest boy and
his most dependable clerk to the
war. His wife and daughter do their
bit for the Red Cross. He responds
to the call of distress and is first and
foremost in every movement for the
good of the town, the welfare of the
state and the cause of humanity. No
dealer and no man in any vocation is
living up to his opportunities and
pursuing his ideals better than the
average retail grocer.
When Mr. Hoover began issuing
his orders covering the matter of
food conservation, the retail grocers
of the Eastern cities balked and re-
volted. They resented the idea of
being restricted in purchasing sup-
plies and limited in making sales and
advancing prices and many of them
took advantage of the sugar crisis
to increase the price of granulated
sugar to 15 cents per pound. In many
cases sales of cutloaf were made on
the basis of 50 cents per pound. The
same advantage was taken of the
consumer in connection with the sale
of potatoes, apples and beans. The
artificial prices thus maintained by
an infinitely small percentage of the
grocery trade of the country was
brought to the attention of Mr.
Hoover, who immediately issued a sweep-
ing order which was so unfortunate-
ly worded as to apply to every retail
grocer in the country. The Trades-
-man protested, editorially and per-
sonally, against such a sweeping in-
dictment against grocers as a class
and brought the protest to the atten-
tion of the food control department
so forcibly and effectively that an
understanding was'.reached to the
effect that future onslaughts of this
character would be directed against
the actual offenders and not against
the trade as a whole.
Retail Grocers Are Not War Prof-
iteers.
Cadillac, Dec. 4—Wide publicity is
given to certain articles appearing in
some of the leading magazines re-
lative to the enormous profits being
made by the retail grocers. As an
example of this we read in Colliers
an article wherein they refer to the
small retailer as Captain Kidd, Jr.
No doubt there are many instances
of overcharging in the retail business,
as well as in all other lines, but rec-
ords prove that fewer retail grocers
make a financial success of this busi-
ness than in almost any other line.
Again the proof is plain that the
small retailer, because of his small-
ness, is unable to do any great amount
of overcharging, owing to the exces-
Sive competition he must meet. The
customer has, in most cases, the op-
portunity to step in the next door
in order to avoid paying too high a
price.
The manufacturer deals with men
of financial responsibility. The
wholesaler in like manner has every
chance to safeguard his business with
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
the retailer by securing himself with
notes, mortgages or other securities,
but the retailer passes his goods out
to men who have no financial responsi-
bility in many cases, so must depend
on the honesty of his customers. You
may say he must not trust men who
are not honest and yet for the reason
that manufacturers and other em-
ployers of labor do not pay their
labor every night, the laborer must
necessarily get goods on credit, but
when he gets his pay every day he
will be in position to buy for cash.
Then if the grocer sustains losses
from bad accounts the fault will be
his own.
Mr, Hoover is quoted as saying:
“The United States has the most
expensive retail business in the world
and this Administration is now en-
gaged in trying to reduce the operat-
ing cost of retail business. Reduced
cost of operation should result in
reduced prices.”
Mr. Hoover refers to the high cost
of operating retail stores as the rea-
son for high prices, so that it would
seem necessary that an exacting pub-
lic should refrain from demanding
the service it requires before the cost
of operation can be very materially
reduced, and the retailer has signi-
fied his willingness to co-operate with
Mr. Hoover in every way possible.
J. M. Bothwell.
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The present holdings of poultry
can be relieved, the United States
Department of Agriculture suggests,
if the retail dealers will handle the
goods at a reasonable advance over
wholesale prices, This action will
make poultry available at prices com-
paring favorably with other meats,
according to the findings of a con-
ference held between wholesale poul-
try distributers and officials of the
Department of Agriculture. Both
parties to the conference say that
more poultry should be eaten when
the facts are understood by the con-
sumer; and an increased use of poul-
try now, in the opinion of the depart-
ment, will tend to conserve other
meats which are of more importance
to Americans and their Allies in Eu-
rope. The retailers, as well as whole-
salers, it is pointed out, should aid in
relieving the congestion.
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Even his mother-in-law’s coal fire
will look good to many a young man
this winter.
Rea & Witzig
PRODUCE.’
COMMISSION
MERCHANTS
104-106 West Market St.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Established 1873
Live Poultry in excellent de-
mand at market prices. Can
handle large shipments to ad-
vantage. Fresh Eggs in good de-
mand at market prices.
Fancy creamery butter and
good dairy selling at full quota-
tions. Common selling well.
Send for our weekly price cur-
rent or wire for special quota-
tions.
Refer you to the People’s Bank
of Buffalo, all Commercial Agen-
cies and to hundreds of shippers
everywhere.
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NEW CROP
Pure
New Orleans
Molasses
New Crop Molasses is now coming in and we
are prepared to offer same under our standard
brands in standard size cans FULL WEIGHT.
“O & L,” “Lucie”
“Ginger Cake”
Oelerich & Berry Co.
Packers of ‘‘Red Hen’’
NEW ORLEANS CHICAGO
Buy the Best
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Sold in Sanitary Tin Packages---2, 5,
10, 15 and 25 Ib. pails.
Encourage your customers to pur-
chase these goods in bulk as a matter of
war economy.
Sold by all jobbers.
See quotations in
Grocery Price
Current. :
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Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—James W. Tyre, Detroit.
Vice-President—Joseph C. Fischer, Ann
Arbor.
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.
Featuring Practical Gifts For the
Christmas Trade.
Written for the Tradesman.
The hardware store is every vea-
catering more and more to the Christ-
mas gift trade. Just now there should
be evident a very strong trend toward
the practical in gifts, as distinguished
from the purely ornamental. It is pret-
ty generally realized that a gift which
has some practical, everyday use is more
likely to be appreciated by the average
individual or family than something of
a purely decorative nature.
Now, hardware, from start to finish,
is intensely practical. Even the most
ornamental articles handled at the
height of the Christmas season are of
practical, every day value. Cut glass,
brass goods, silverware, trend rather
toward the artistic, but in even these
lines there is discernible a measure of
practicability not evident in goods offer-
ed by some merchants for the Christ-
mas trade.
Consequently, it will pay the hard-
ware dealer to emphasize the idea of
the useful in gifts, not as distinguished
from the ornamental or artistic, but as
distinguished from the article that has
no utility whatsoever.
“Buy useful gifts,” is a good slogan
for the hardware dealer.
I know one merchant not in the hard-
ware line whose stock includes a great
deal of what practical men call bric-a-
brac. Fancy china, ornaments of one
sort and another, aesthetic things, just
the stuff for gifts. A few months ago
a young man came in and asked to
look at something for a wedding pres-
ent.
The merchant started to show the
fancy stuff. Said the young man:
“This stuffs no use. See here, how
much would it cost for an outfit of
kitchen utensils? In aluminum?”
And he wound up by spending $17.50
for aluminum ware instead of perhaps
five dollars for something purely orna-
mental.
That illustrates a tendency toward
the usefulness in gifts that is slowly and
perhaps imperceptibly but none the less
steadily growing. It also shows one
line which a gift campaign can take,
a complete new kitchen outfit for the
housewife whose kitchen equipment is
worn out by years of use. What present
would be more appreciated, or a more
constant reminder of the thoughtful!
giver?
A feature that helps the dealer in
pushing these practical lines as gifts is
the fact that a modern item of well
constricted kitchen equipment appeals
just as keenly to the aesthetic in the
average person as does a pretty parlor
ernament. There are really few things
in any store handsomer than a modern
kitchen range—not the cheap article at
$20 or thereabouts, but the big range
with an overhead shelf and a whole lot
of beautiful nickel trimmings shining
brightly in contrast with the black of
the body. There are probably hundreds
of homes in your own town where wom-
en would appreciate such a Christmas
gift above anything else they will re-
ceive; and would appreciate it even
more if it arrived in time for the cook-
ing of the Christmas dinner.
One reason that such everyday arti-
cles of stock are not pushed as gifts is
perhaps that to most dealers they were
merely commonplace. They are in the
store, in plain sight, every day. To the
dealer, a gift article is something that
has to be ordered specially for the
Christmas trade, and is unseasonable
all the rest of the year.
There is a good sale for such purely
Christmas lines, and the hardware deal-
er cannot afford to neglect them. But
at the same time it will pay him to
look closer and to discover the possi-
bilities in his everyday lines of stock,
in the goods which he carries all the
year round and for which there is a
sale in many instances practically every
month of the year.
The kitchen range isn’t regarded as
a gift article, not because it is unsuit-
able for the purpose, but because the
buying public hasn’t been educated to
its gift possibilities. It is for the hard-
ware dealer, while not neglecting those
gift lines for which there is a ready
demand, to urge also the gift aspects
of other lines which are part of his
everyday stock.
T recall an incident where the prac-
tical in Christmas gifts worked around
very nicely to the artistic and the aes-
thetic. Two young men lived on the
farm with their mother, an old woman.
They came in a few days before Christ-
mas; they had decided to buy her a
present; and they vaguely thought of
something in jewelry, but were attract-
ed by a handsome parlor lamp in the
hardware dealer’s window. They went
in to price it, still arguing as to whether
or not it was suitable. One thought
mother would like it; the other averred
it would only make her more discon-
tented with the bare living room.
The hardware dealer took time to
question them a bit.
“It’s a nice lamp, but it would look
out of place in that gloomy old den,”
insisted the doubtful one.
“Why not,” asked the merchant,
AGRICULTURAL LIME
203-207 Powers’ Theatre Bidg., Grand Rapids, Mich.
H ARNESS OUR OWN MAKE
Hand or Machine Made
Out of No. 1 Oak leather. We guarantee them
absolutely satisfactory. If your dealer does not
handle them, write direct to us.
SHERWOOD HALL CO., LTD.
Ionia Ave. and Louis St. Grand Rapids, Michigan
BUILDING LIME
Write for Prices
A. B. Knowlson Co.
BARLOW BROS.
NG Bell Phone 596 Citz. Phone 61366
Joseph P. Lynch Sales Co.
Special Sale Experts
Expert Advertising —Expert Merchandising
Ask about our way 44 So. Ionia Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Ar e Nothing as Durable
Electric Signs
Makes Structures Beautiful
Progressive merchants and manufac-
turers now realize the value of Electric
Advertising.
We furnish you with sketches, prices
and operating cost for the asking.
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Cool in Summer
Brick is Everlasting
Grande Brick Co., Grand Rapids
So. Mich. Brick Co., Kalamazoo
Saginaw Brick Co., Saginaw
* Jackson-Lansing Brick Co., Rives
Junction
THE POWER CO.
Bell M 797 Citizens 4261
Foster, Stevens & Co.
Wholesale Hardware
a
157-159 Monroe Ave. :: 151 to 161 Louis N. W.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Wilmarth show cases and store fixtures in West Michigan’s biggest store
In Show Cases and Store Fixtures
Wilmarth is the best buy—bar none
Catalog—to merchants
Wilmarth Show Case Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Made [In Grand Rapids
1542 Jefferson Avenue
December 5, 1917
“brighten up the gloomy old den to
match the lamp? Tell me all about it,
boys, and I’ll see what we can do.”
The boys returned home with a mys-
terious load in their wagon, cajoled the
old lady into going for a few days visit
to her sister in the city, got to work
with paint and floor stain and brushes
--and when the mother came back just
before Christmas there was the lamp
standing on a center table that shone
as bright as new, in the very center of
a living room that had been brightened
up to match the lamp.
Yet few people think of brightening
up a room for mother as a Christmas
present—just because they aren’t edu-
cated to the idea, that wall paint and
floor stain and artistic work done sub
rosa can possibly constitute a gift. None
the less, there are hosts of women who
hunger for more attractive homes; and
host of gift givers who hike to the
jewelry shop or the china store for
pretty vases, which only make the
homes more unattractive by contrast.
When what they should do is to invest
a few dollars in little items from the
hardware dealer’s paint stock, and
brighten up the hemes themselves.
The advantage of featuring such lines
as gifts is, that they do not become
unsalable immediately the season is
over. The risk for accumulating dead
stock, or somnolent stock that must be
carried over for another twelve-
month, is reduced. Of course, not every
family can buy the biggest size kitchen
range for mother, or a set of aluminum
utensils for sister, who has just been
married. But the hardware dealer has
smaller articles for those whose purses
are not so large.
Make up a list of possible gifts this
season for mother, sister, father, broth-
er, daughter, children, and get it printed
for distribution. It will help make
sales. And when you compile that list,
put in it all the practical things you
have to sell that possess gift possibil-
ities. That’s one way to educate the
public. Victor Lauriston.
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Helping the Farmer Helps You.
The trouble with many merchants
is that they do not realize the value
of helping the community in which
they live. They do not see the best
way of helping themselves is by help-
ing the community.
Doing this kind of work is where
business men’s asscciation prove val-
uable. An association of merchants
in a Pennsylvania town this spring
decided to demonstrate their useful-
ness to the community in a practical
way. A carload of seed potatoes
were bought and sold to the farmers
at cost. If the farmer hadn’t the
cash, the association financed him
through the local bank. Now that
was a splendid thing to do for the
farmers, but it likewise helped the
merchants in a very direct and defi-
nite way. It was co-operation of the
kind that counts.
Can you imagine a farmer of that
community so lacking in appreciation
as to send a money order to the mail
order houses for goods that could be
bought from one of those merchants?
Hardly; then why not look for some-
thing that you might do for your
community.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21
REAL MONEY FROM
OVERDUE ACCOUNTS
Help to Support Families of En-
listed Business Men.
The average business or professional
man is confronted with a serious prob-
lem as a result of the entry of this coun-
try into the world war. This is the
matter of supporting his own family
in case he enlists or is chosen to follow
the flag without effecting a complete
depletion of his bank account or the
savings of a lifetime.
The patriotism of Americans in all
walks of life always has been of the
highest quality, but there are many who,
during their term of service, do not
relish the breaking of the nest egg for
the support of their families. To them
relief is in sight through the operations
of the Mercantile Credit Company of
America, with Detroit offices in the
Chamber of Commerce building. This
institution specializes in the collection
of bad accounts for physicians, grocers,
and, in fact, anyone who has an honest
debt due him, and accounts which have -°
been pigeon-holed as impossible, or have
stood on the books for years, are turned
into money. Thus are families provided
for without having to take from the
rainy day fund, the Mercantile Credit
company regularly supplying them with
money collected from what had been
marked bad accounts.
In the instance of debtors who have
removed to another city, they are traced
and made to take care of their honest
responsibilities by an institution whose
officials know their business.
The Mercantile Credit company has
operated for more than a decade in
Detroit, and throughout the United
States and Canada, doing the work in
a dignified way and collecting hundreds
of thousands of dollars for its clients
through its representatives everywhere,
all of whom are secured by bond. It
is the habit of this agency to make no
charge without producing results—De-
troit Free Press.
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Worry knocks more men out than
overwork.
Gillette Safety
Tires and Tubes
Made by the
Chilled Rubber Process
The Gillette Non-Skid is a combina-
tion of the ribbed and vacuum tread,
which prevents skidding and insures uni-
form speed by clinging to solid bottom on
muddy, wet thoroughfares. They will
stand up under most severe usage and
are virtually proof against deterioration.
Also
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Horse Shoe Tires
Wrapped Tread System
Our salesmen are now on the road
soliciting orders for early spring delivery.
Sufficient of your time to look into the
merits of these Tires and Tubes will be
appreciated.
Factory Distributors
BROWN & SEHLER CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Grand Rapids
Store Fixture Co., Inc.
The Place, 7 Ionia Ave., N. W.
BUY AND SELL
Used Store and Office Fixtures
Established 50 Years
BUY
Diamonds. Watches
'cMc PRICE CARDS
put “pep” in prices
Ly
As the price sells most
goods more quickly than
. anyother consideration,
~. all goods on display
Y’ should bear neat and at-
if ‘tractive price cards—the
/ eMc kind.
40 cents per 100
and up
Samples free on request
Dept. :, CARNELL MFG. CO.
338 Broadway, New York
JEWELRY
FOR CHRISTMAS
The HERKNER JEWELRY
CO. solicits your patronage
upon the quality and merit of
their merchandise and the
moderate prices given you
throughout the store.
Our vast buying power en-
ables us to quote you better
values on Diamonds, Watch-
es and Jewelry than you are
= accustomed to paying for
Automobile Robes goods of equal merit.
: : : Our holiday stock is the
_Automobile robes 64 in. x 60 in. largest we have ever shown
single plush, double plush, rubber and invite your inspection
interlined, ranging in price from when in the city.
$3.25 to $11.00.
54 in. x 72 in. auto robes for
rear seat, double plush, rubber in-
terlined, muff robes, mohair and
fur effects, $7.50 to $40.00.
Auto shawls and steamer robes,
all wool, scotch clan patterns, 60
in. x 80 in., $6.50 to $17.00.
Selection packages sent any-
where in Michigan to re-
sponsible people.
HERKNER’S
114 Monroe Ave.
GRAND RAPIDS -
Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd.
30-32 Ionia Ave., N. W.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MICH.
Pere Marquette Railway Co.
F ACTORY SITES
Locations for Industrial Enterprises in
Michigan
The Pere Marquette Railway runs through a territory peculiarly adapted by Accessibility
excellent Shipping Facilities, Healthful Climate and Good Conditions for Home Life. for the
LOCATION OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES.
First-class Factory Sites may be had at reasonable prices. Coal in the Saginaw Valley
and Electrical Development in several parts of the State insure Cheap Power. Our Industrial
Department invites correspondence with manufacturers and others seeking locations All in-
quiries will receive painstaking and prompt attention and will be treated as confidential.
Address Cc. M. BOOTH,
General Freight Agent,
Detroit, Michigan
Leitelt
Elevators
For Store, Factory
Warehouse or Garage
Built for Service
Send for proposal on your
requirements
Adolph Leitelt Iron Works
213 Erie Street Grand Rapids, Michigan —
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
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Y GOODS*”'NOTIO
Staple Dry Goods Markets Are Un-
changed.
The tense conditions in cotton
goods and yarn markets are unchang-
ed. It is stated that the Government
and large cotton duck manufacturers
have arrived at an agreement as to
the price to be paid for large quanti-
ties of heavy cotton duck to be made
during the coming year. The basis
will be about 45 per cent. off the list
for goods suitable for heavy tar-
paulins. Buyers for the civilian trade
have been bidding up as high as 25
per cent. off the list and have not been
able to get merchandise owing to the
control of the output of all grades
under No. 10s by the War Industries
Board. Requisitions for needed sup-
plies in civilian lines will have to be
made through the Priorities Board.
It is useless to hope for any relief
from this general situation on cot-
ton duck while the war lasts. The
Government can use much more duck
of certain kinds than it is getting,
and it has already impressed whole
mills into service and has also en-
couraged carpet, quilt and upholstery
mills into the production of light-
weight ducks than can be handled on
lighter looms. The activity in the
shipping business is a guarantee in
itself that huge quantities of sail
duck and other duck will be wanted.
Prices on finished goods are very
firm, with a rising tendency wher-
ever sales can be arranged. So many
mills now have their goods at value
or withdrawn from sale that price
advances do not come along as fast
as the rise has taken place in gray
cloths, Denims are nominally on a
basis of 30c for 2.20 indigo goods,
but it is stated that some buyers sad-
ly in need of supplies have paid as
high as 33c and will pay higher for
small lots for quick delivery. Staple
ginghams are quoted nominally at
16c, but they are not to had at that
figure from some of the large mills,
and in one instance 16'4c is asked.
Staple tickings are nominally on a
basis of 35c for eight-ounce goods,
but mills will not take orders at that
figure. Orders for prints are not be-
ing accepted freely at 12%c. Many
lines of bleached cottons are at vai-
ue, fruits being quoted nominally at
18c, but have sold at 19c. Lonsdales
were placed at value at 18c.
The anxiety of some of the large
jobbers of the country has been in-
creasing since last week. Buyers who
came here and found the market sold
tightly went home to find that mer-
chandise men did not care to relent
on their restrictions. In one or two
instances buyers were sent back with
instructions to purchase at the best
NEW TTY BA NASR I NOSIS GA AORN IS se veeami ye
prices available such domestics as
bleached and brown cottons, wide
sheetings, tickings, denims and col-
ored duck. It would seem as if goods
were short in some of the jobbing
centers, as unusual efforts are being
made to get lines of domets and oth-
er napped fabrics for immediate de-
livery or for delivery any time up to
April. In these instances buyers are
very willing to accept the 2-10-60 pay-
ment rules that have been laid down
in some houses. More enquiry is re-
ported in the markets for white goods
of plain constructions.
For spot delivery of Argentine wool
buyers will pay premiums for small
lots and are doing so. Some manu-
facturers are taking a look ahead into
fall of next year, when they expect
that shortage will be greater than it
is at present. The smaller manufac-
turers who cannot take Government
work to any great extent are picking
up odd lots of wool where they find
them. The work of getting the wool
trade under closer Government con-
trol goes on steadily. The large pro-
ducers of wool goods are finding it
necessary to work in close harmony
with the Government war boards in
getting out materials that are wanted.
Less price expansion is seen in wool
lines than in cotton.
The burlap situation grows more
acute, as the British government con-
tinues to exercise a large control over
the movement of burlaps out of Dun-
dee.
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Growth of the Cash and Carry Sys-
tem.
There are rumors abroad, although
not very clearly sustained, that Mr.
Hoover is considering some plan
whereby the elimination of expense
in food distribution may be carried
so far as to prohibit retail delivery
and compel people to resort to the
“cash and carry” plan of merchan-
dising. Harry A. Wheeler, Mr.
Hoover’s Illinois deputy, is a most
energetic promoter of the plan, and
was in Washington last week, try-
ing to work it out on the lines he has
employed with some success in Chi-
cago and one or two smaller. cities
of Illinois.
That the movement of eliminating
service costs from the main price for
foodstuffs is growing cannot be de-
nied, For years the associations have
been urging members to make a sharp
distinction between goods and serv-
ice, in order that the consumer might
understand what makes up the high
cost of living, and in these times of
war economy anything that will elim-
inate excessive burdens and make
people “do-it-yourself” is welcome
and has the governmental backing.
The recent mass meeting of retailers,
held at the invitation of the local
wholesalers in New York City, em-
phasized the same idea to a consider-
able extent—that is, retailers were
urged to make a charge for delivery
and credit accommodation, separate
from the price of the merchandise,
and even before that individual gro-
cers here and there had adopted the
plan with more or less success.
Aaron Ward & Sons, of Newark,
have issued a circular stating that
they will “make a charge of 5 ents
on each order, whether it is a yeast
cake, a pound of butter or one box
of groceries. There will also be a
charge of 5 cents on each and every
case of canned goods, box of soap
and other cases of the same size.
There will be a charge of 15 cents
on a barrel of flour and 10 cents on a
half barrel; 10 cents on a sack of pe-
tatoes and 25 cents on a barrel of
sugar.”
For the past two years the Mont-
clair N. J. Community Market has
charged 7 cents for each call of its
cars at a kitchen to make a delivery.
“This plan, with a limited number oi
trips over each route,” says its man-
ager, “seems to us to approach the
solution of the delivery problem so
far as that solution is possible with-
out co-operative delivery where one
set of rigs delivers for all merchants.
“It seems to me that the simple
flat charge is preferable in various
ways. First and foremost, it encour-
ages larger purchases at one time,
thus reducing the cost of store op-
eration. The complicated scale of
charges, I think, will act as an an-
noyance and deter peopie from order-
ing the larger quantities. This wi'l
mean a failure to reduce the expense
of waiting upon customers. The cost
of salesmen’s salaries is around 8
per cent. on average orders, and prob-
ably not half that on large orders;
whereas the cost of delivery is not,
even with ‘free’ delivery, more than
half of 8 per cent.
“But after listening to prophecy of
dire results from charging for de-
livery and having some years of ex-
perience, I have no hesitancy in ex-
pressing the opinion that it is the
just, the economical and the wise
thing to do.”
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If you are wise to-day you can risk
being otherwise to-morrow.
December 5, 1917
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.
penn aia Arar aes
yi RUT aK
Of All Jobbers
PRESIDENT SUSPENDER CO., Shirley, Mass
Special Sales
John L. Lynch Sales Co.
No. 28 So Ionia Ave.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Prices on
Good Goods
When you buy goods from
‘**“OUR DRUMMER”’ cata-
logue you don’t have to wait
until the bill comes in before
you know what you have to
pay. You know it when you
place the order. This is be-
cause the prices you see in
this catalogue are guaranteed
for the time the catalogue is
in force. This keeps them
secure and stable and un-
affected by market rises. If
you are a merchant and want
a copy of this catalogue you
may have one upon applica-
tion.
Butler Brothers
Exclusive Wholesalers of
General Merchandise
New York Chicago
St. Louis Minneapolis
Dallas
Rush Holiday Orders
For your Christmas trade such as Ladies’ and Gents’
Neckwear, Mufflers, Ribbons, Dolls. Sweaters, Toys, Gar-
cers, Arm Bands, Booties and Jackets and Xmas Trim-
mings will receive our most careful and prompt atten-
tion. Many of these are packed in special Holiday boxes.
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WHOLESALE DRY GOODS
ANA ARE A AT a nee
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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December 5, 1917
Inside Information First Disseminat-
ed in the Tradesman.
Detroit, Dec. 5—When the Kaiser
first started his war against civiliza-
tion, the Tradesman immediately stat-
ed that the Kaiser had for nearly
twenty years planned to invade and
subjugate the United States. You
repeated this charge so frequently
that I took it upon myself to contro-
vert this statement to my German
friends, because I believed then that
you were either crazy or resorting
to downright falsehood, Of course,
we now know that you were right,
because we have dcoumentary evi-
dence to prove that official Germany
deliberately planned to subjugate this
country many years ago and has work-
ed to that end—the only obstacle
. standing in the way of such invasion
being the English navy.
Now what I would like to know is
how you knew so long ago as August,
1914, the plans Germany was making
to destroy the freedom of America.
If you have no objection, I should
be glad to know how you obtained
such vital information to this country
years before any other newspaper
man in the United States was made
acquainted with the facts. If this in-
volves any betrayal of confidence on
your part, I shall, of courge, not ex-
pect you to make any disclosures.
Carl Braun.
At the time the Tradesman made
its original statement in this matter
—statements which were met by
jeers and sneers by our German
friends—it was not in a position to
disclose the source from which this
information was obtained. Since that
time the censorship has been remov-
ed and the Navy Department has
done what it usually refused to do
before we declared war against Ger-
many—permitted the public to pe-
ruse the diary of the late Admiral
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Dewey while he was in Manila Bay,
in which he recorded the statement
of Admiral Von Dietrich, of the Im-
perial German Navy, that “in about
fifteen years his master (meaning the
Kaiser) would proceed to absorb
Belgium, destroy France, invade Eng-
land and subjugate America.” The
writer was privileged to peruse a cer-
tified copy of this document while in
Washington in the spring of 1911—
more than three years before the
Kaiser started the war—and his state-
ments made about three years later
were based on this knowledge of the
designs the Kaiser had on this coun-
try for at least nineteen years before
he invaded Belgium and started his
bloody world war.
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Worsted Yarns Strong.
The worsted yarn market shows itself
unchanged. Mills are busy with large
orders on the books, chiefly for Govern-
ment purposes, and current demand, al-
though small, seems enough to absorb
any nearby lots which may be offered.
Buyers for the civilian trade are not
doing much for late delivery because of
the high prices, which most spinners
ask. It is expected that the taking of
forward business in men’s wear and
dress goods will bring more weavers
into the market, and if buying of nearby
lots is not sufficient to cover the cloth
orders taken then without doubt the
market for future deliveries will
broaden.
Buyers comment on the irregularity
of prices quoted by spinners, and a wide
range must be named in any quotation
to be reflective of the whole market.
Thus on contract for 40s two-ply half-
blood from $2.80 to $3 is asked, while
nearer deliveries are said to be available
at around $2.65.
Knitting yarns are in strong position,
with continuance of good demand from
the retail trade. More and more mills
are turning out hand knitting yarns, but
as yet there are no indications of over-
production. Retailers seem to be selling
large volumes despite the numerous
sources of supply nearer the mill which
are offering yarns for army and navy
sweaters, mufflers, wristlets, etc., at low
prices.
Underwear manufacturers find it dif-
ficult to price woolen or worsted gar-
ments for the civilian trade in the
future. Much of the suitable yarn is
being used by the Government and knit-
ters cannot cover ahead for civilian use
with much assurance.
If you did not read the article on
cheese in the Tradesman of Nov. 21,
look it up, merchant, young or old.
Even old heads wish they had had
such pointers years ago.
WM. D. BATT
HIDES, WOOL, FURS
AND TALLOW
28-30 Louis St. Grand Rapids, Mich.
No. 260 at
$12.00 per Doz.
Send us a trial order on this
LADIES’ CAP
Made in any combination of the
following colors of pure worsted
yarns:
White Black
Purple Brown
Maroon Cardinal
Gold Orange
Ox ord Green
Navy Blue’ Royal Blue
Old Gold Khaki
We have Soldiers’ Sleeveless Jackets for
immediate delivery made of fine worsted
yarn in khaki or oxford at $42 per dozen.
Van Lopik Knitting Co.
Zeeland, Mich.
SERVICE
‘QUALITY
STILL TIME
Next week will be too late to take advantage of our
Semi-Annual House Sale
The first day of the sale, Monday, December 3rd, demonstrated how the merchants
appreciated such an opportunity, right at their door.
Is some department of your store a little quiet?
Your store is successful only to the degree of its weakest department.
Why not come in now and get some REAL QUALITY SPECIALS to boom that
department; to make your Holiday sales a real success? °
Sale closes December 8, Saturday, 1 P. M.
Western Michigan’s logical distributing point.
The Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.
Exclusively Wholesale Grand Rapids, Mich.
QUALITY
SERVICE
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
December 5, 1917
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Thought She Was a Widow.
A country storekeeper who is Beach’s Restaurant
= known to his immediate friends as 4 books Ave ibe
= “Bill” Barker went to the city to or- 41 North fon :
der a stock of goods. The goods Near Monroe
were sent on immediately and reach- GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN :
ed home before he did. When the
boxes were delivered his wife hap-
d :
pened to look at the largest box, Pins — .@
when she uttered a loud scream and Pact Prices °
re in et : What More Can You Ask?
neighbor, hearing her screams,
rushed in to her assistance and asked LADIES SPECIALLY INVITED fi 4
Grand Council of Michigan U. C. T.
Grand Counselor—John A. Hach, Cold-
water.
Grand Junior Counselor—W. T. Bal-
lamy, Bay City.
Grand Past Counselor—Fred J. Mou-
tier, Detroit.
Grand Secretary—M. Heuman, Jack-
son.
Grand Treasurer—Lou J. Burch, De-
troit.
Grand Conductor—C. C. Starkweather,
Detroit.
Grand Page—H. D. Ranney, Saginaw.
Grand Sentinel—A. W. Stevenson,
Muskegon.
Grand Chaplain—Chas. R. Dye, Battle
Creek.
Next Grand Council Meeting—Jackson.
Pickings Picked Up in the Windy
City.
Chicago, Dec. 4—Chicago’s great-
est day was Saturday, Dec. 1, when
abcut 16,000 Camp Grant, Rockford,
Illinois, National soldiers, paid Chi-
cago a visit to attend the Camp Grant
and Camp Custer football game, play-
ed on the Northwestern University
grounds. Although Camp Custer
went down to defeat, 13 to 14, they
received as much praise and com-
mendation as the boys from Camp
Grant. Preceding the game in the
morning it was a wonderful sight to
see the Camp Grant boys march
through the loop. Young men, who
have spent less than three or four
months in training, never having any
military experience before, marched
with head up and shoulders’ back,
as though it had been their business
all their lives. It was almost im-
possible to believe it, but in this case
seeing was believing, and if the Kaiser
could have reviewed this great parade,
there would be little time lost suing
for peace. One of the greatest things
noticed during this march was the
way the people are saluting the col-
ors. During the early part of the
summer, just after this country de-
clared war, while the colors were
being carried by, the honor shown the
colors was very lax. The great dif-
ference was decidedly noticeable Sat-
urdav, when thousands of people
stood “at attention.” This goes to
show the American people are back
of the Government.
Butler Bros., of Chicago, threw to
the breeze yesterday their service
flag, showing nearly 200 stars, repre-
senting that number of employes who
have left their service to fight the
Kaiser in some capacity.
Real estate deals in Chicago the
past week have shown a wonderful
improvement, not in numbers, but in
dollars and cents, One of the big
sales that was a feature of last week
amounted to $700,000. On another
deal of two moving picture theaters
to be erected on Sheridan Road,
North, near Wilson avenue, the
amount will figure close to $1,500,000.
Flat building deals and vacants show-
ed a little improvement over the pre-
vious week.
W. C. Vierbuchen. manager of the
old Palmer House from 1902 up to
the present time, has resigned. Col.
Vier, as he is generally known, will
take over a new hotel which is being
built on the South Side in the Hyde
Park district. The above gentleman
is known from one end of the coun-
try to the other by the traveling pub-
lic and all speak very highly of him.
The great time anticipated by the
Jackies at the Great Lakes Naval
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Training Station Thanksgiving day
was far and above all expectations.
Chicago people not only invited them
to their homes, but paid their rail-
road fare there and back, winding up
by giving them theater tickets, foot-
ball tickets and tickets to other
amusements in the city.
The new Union Station being erect-
ed on the West side of the river from
Monroe avenue to Jackson boulevard,
resembles a busy bee hive. Men are
working night and day.
The Chicago newspapers seem to
be giving considerable space to the
former Chief Healy graft case which
is being tried in the courts. Of course,
some people like to read this stuff,
but the writer thinks that a lot of
it would sound better unsaid.
All the Chicago department stores
are now ready to take care of the
Christmas rush, some of them using
an entire floor to display Christmas
toys. When the writer mentions
floor space in one of these big stores,
one realize this means thousands of
feet. Most of them cover close to a
square block.
The football season is now about
over. No doubt we will soon be read-
ing baseball news again.
Charles W. Reattoir.
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Grocers Not All Robbers.
Tecumseh, Dec. 3—I note such re-
flections on the grocery trade in the
public press by Burton F. Brown, who
is connected with the State Dairy
and Food Department. I have been
a retail grocer for many years and,
with hundreds of others in the same
business, have been the victim of
more fortunate individuals, like Mr.
Brown, who succeed in landing a
State or Government job and are not
satisfied to attend to the business they
are hired for, but take advantage o?
their position to make the hard life
of an honest retail grocer still hard-
er. As a matter of fact, no retailer
in any line sells goods on the small
margins that a retail grocer does.
No other retailer gives as much
service without pay as the grocer
does.
Mr. Brown is quoted as saying that
retail grocers are responsible for the
high cost of food. Mr. Brown must
knew that to be incorrect. A few
days since nearly every paper in the
State published a list of prices at
which certain goods were sold in dif-
ferent towns in Michigan. Crackers
in Alpena were quoted at 6 cents
per pound. As a matter of fact, the
wholesale price of good crackers is
from 13'44@14c per pound. Is a re-
tail grocer a robber who sells crack-
ers at a profit of from 12 to 16 per
cent. puts them in expensive bags
and ties them with twine that costs
45 cents per pound? I think not.
I might mention a hundred other
articles that bear similar or even
less margins of profit.
Mr. Brown talks about retailers
demanding a 75 per cent. profit. I
sav. without the least fear of con-
tradiction, that for every retail gro-
cer of that stamp there are 100 hon-
est men.
The harm that comes from such
statements is that people are looking
for someone to blame for high prices
and are ready to believe any kind of
a story if it comes from some man
in public life. Frank D. Avery.
what was wrong with her. Mrs.
Barker, pale and faint, pointed to the
inscription on the box, which read
as follows: “Bill inside.”
Five Stories Completed April, 1917
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DETROIT DOINGS.
Mercantile News From the City of
the Straits.
Detroit, Dec. #—Harry Wright
(Wright, Fendler & Pike) remembers
his old customers in Ohio—merchants
he called on’ in the days when he
traveled on the rcad—every year with
a fresh whitefish, shipped in ice by
express prepaid. The nice letters he
receives each time he does this would
fill a large file.
_ The transportation department of
the Board of Commerce should
bring pressure to bear on the M. U.
T. and the Michigan Railway Com-
pany to accord Detroit shippers to
Grand Rapids the same service they
give Grand Rapids shippers to De-
troit. Under existing conditions, ship-
ment which leave Grand Rapids at 4
p. m. reach Detroit at 3 o’clock the
next morning, being only eleven
hours on the road. On the other
hand, shipments from Detroit to
Grand Rapids, leaving Detroit at 7:30
p. m. do not reach destination until
late the next evening, so they are
delivered the next morning—thirty-six
hours after shipment, If an eleven
hour schedule can be accomplished in
one direction, it certainly can be made
in the opposite direction, providing
proper pressure is brought to bear on
the M. U. T. to handle Westbound
shipments with greater expedition.
Clarence A. Day has been awarded
the contract to get out the pro-
grammes for the hardware conven-
tion at Saginaw and the grocery con-
vention at Ann Arbor and has already
entered upon the work of compiling
the data and soliciting the advertising.
Showing importance of the big ex-
hibit to be staged at the armory, De-
cember 14 to 20, by the Michigan
Poultry Breeders’ Association, many
of the National organizations are
holding their zone or state meetings
here at that time. These gatherings
will bring to Detroit some of the
most prominent fanciers in the coun-
try and all will have exhibits, so there
will be some keen scratching for blue
ribbons.
A. D. Shaw, who is manager of the
new Woodward avenue branch of the
J. E. Wilson Shoe Co., associated with
the firm last August as manager of
the men’s shoe department. He was
at one time with the J. L. Hudson Co.
shoe department; later as manager of
the Royal Oak branch of the Rogers
Shoe Co., and fer some months man.
ager of the Saginaw branch of the R.
& H. Shoe Co. of Detroit,
The statement made by officials of
the Board of Commerce that the next
sixty days would see orders placed
in Detroit for war purposes aggre-
gating $300,000,000 gave a new im-
petus to business conditions, and
caused a great wave of optimism an:
encouragement to sweep over the re-
tailers of the city. The departure of
five thousand young men who left
Detroit to go in training certainly
had an effect on the men’s furnishing
and shoe businesses. It means that
there are fewer purchasers, and the
way for retailers to overcome the loss
is to make a stronger drive for new
business among the people who re-
main. There has been a lull in re-
tail trade, regardless of many special
inducements offered by retailers in
the way of price reductions, which
are much earlier than previous sea-
sons. Rubber business improved ow-
ing to the snow, but it wasn’t a rush,
hence retailers can handle most of the
sales. The first real snow storm,
however, will find many retailers short
of their usual fall stocks.
Negotiaticns have been opened by
a committee from the Board of Com-
merce of Pontiac with Detroit parties
to furnish this city with an auto truck
service between here and Pontiac.
This will compete with the D. U. R.
and it is believed would afford more
prompt shipments, Plans call for
trips between the two points made by
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
two three-ton trucks with trailers of
equal carrying capacity.
H. C. Wordley succeeds the late
James Reid as representative of Ed-
son, Moore & Co., in Upper Peninsular
territory. He was transferred from
the Port Huron territory to Ishpem-
ing, where he and Mrs. Wordley will
reside. Fred Phillips, special repre-
sentative of the house, who has been
in the territory since the death of
Mr. Reid, has returned to Detroit.
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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids, Dec. 4—The Good
Homes Show in the Klingman build-
ing is a high grade affair and is
worthy of patronage by all. The ex-
hibits are arranged with much taste
and artistic excellence and are worthy
representations of the scope and va-
riety of the greatest furniture produc-
ing center in the world.
Moses Dark has joined the Grand
Ledge of Freaks founded by Ed.
Frick. He took half a day off last
Saturday and went to hear Fiske
O’Hara with the missus. Kind friends
are considering the idea of having a
commission appointed to determine
the mental condition of both Mr. Frick
and Mr. Dark. It is so unusual for
them to desert their desks during
business hours. that their attitude is
alarming their friends.
A school for lumber salesmen is
advocated by Julius Seidel, of the
Julius Seidel Lumber Co., St. Louis.
“A trade school where employes can
get an education in our business that
will better fit them for their positions
is greatly needed,’ says Mr. Seidel.
“Our superintendent of public instruc-
tion has instituted special training
courses fostered by preparatory for
certain lines of business. Why should
not the lumbermen do likewise? Such
a school of instruction should be
fostered by local, state and National
associations of lumbermen to the end
that our business may be elevated
and the public better served. We can
well afford to have on our pay rolls
competent architects and engineers
in an advisory and promotive capacity.
Such experts should be employed
jointly by all the lumber dealers in
this city to study thoroughly all the
uses of lumber, and to be in a posi-
tion to advise consumers how to build
with wood to get the best satisfaction
and longest service.”
“Traveling salesmen and the agents
of the great industrial organizations
fully realize that the railroads are
vital factors in the war, and that upon
the American railroads defeat or vic-
tory for the American arms may, to
a great extent, hinge. In order that
the burden of the railroads may be
made as light as possible, the traveling
men are carrying as little baggage as
they can get along with, and are rap-
idly eliminating all excess baggage
and sample trunks and cases.” Such
were the statements of August H.
Sollit, a representative of the Wilson
Co., Chicago packers, recently. Many
salesmen, he said, are substituting
catalogues and photographs for the
heavy sample trunks they formerly car-
ried. They carry only small samples
of the goods they sell using these
samples to show the quality, while
‘photegraphs are being used to show
the finished article. The rapid ad-
vances made in color photography
during the past few years makes it
possible to truthfully present the ap-
pearance of any article. Mr. Sollit
asserted. Many of the travelers’
organizations have requested that
their members eat only light break-
fasts, eliminating meat at this meal.
Some of the crders have also request-
ed that the members give preference
to those hotels which are co-operating
with the Food administration by ob-
serving meatless and wheatless days.
David Beauchene, who has been em-
ployed for several months as _ sales-
man in the Burns Cigar store, at
Houghton, has resigned to take a
traveling salesmanship position with
the Remington Typewriter Co,
M. T. Collins, of Newaygo, has tak-
en a position with the National Brass
Works of Grand Rapids, and at pres-
ent is traveling in West Virginia.
C. C. Benson, for seven years sales-
manager in the salt department for
the Stearns Salt & Lumber Co.. at
Ludington, has accepted a position
as assistant sales manager in the gen-
eral offices of the Heinz Pickle Co..
in Pittsburg. This concern has a force
of 800 salesmen in the United States
and thirty-two branch offices.
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Sugar Problems Which Confront the
Grocer.
Lawton, Dec. 4—Will you kindly
favor us with replies to the follow-
ing enquiries:
1, Will you please give us the
name of the Federal Food Adminis-
trator for Michigan?
2. In your issue of Nov. 28, in an
article regarding sugar, you say a
retailer must not sell over two pounds
to a purchaser. Our country trade
cannot get to town often enough to
make two pounds last them from trip
to trip, How can we get by this?
3. How does it happen the mail
order houses are allowed to ship
sugar in here to private individuals
in twenty-five pound lots?
We thank you in advance for your
trouble and trust we may be of serv-
ice to you sometime.
L. Stern & Co.
1. The Federal Food Administra-
tor for Michigan is George A. Pres-
cott, who has an office and
his headquarters in Lansing.
2. This question is fully and com-
pletely covered by the reply of the
Tradesman to the letter from Mr.
Crane, published on the second page
of this week's issue.
3. Mail order houses are not per-
mitted to sell any sugar in twenty-
five pound lots or at any price ex-
makes
cept at some figure between cost and
8% cents per pound. Sears, Roebucx
& Co., who had advertised to furn'sh
granulated sugar at 7% cents during
November and December, hias_ ex-
pended $50,000 in notifying their cus-
tomers that they can not make good
on that previous quotation. The C4i-
cago Wholesale Grocery Co, has
withdrawn its 4 cent quotation on granu-
lated in combination with purchases
of other goods. If any dealer is cog-
nizant of any sale or shipment of
sugar on any other basis than that
above stated after Nov. 26, and will
furnish the Tradesman proof of same,
we will undertake to see that the of-
fending dealer is diciplined and prop-
erly punished.
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Wholesale Price of Bread Lowered.
The Schulze Baking Co. announces
that a new loaf weighing from 16 to
17 ounces will wholesale at 7 cents,
the 8 cent loaf unchanged in weight
will wholesale at 714 cents, and the
12 cent loaf, 24 ounces and over, will
wholesale at 11 cents, no change in
weight.
A. B, Wilmink announces that a
one pound loaf will wholesale at 714
cents, the old price being 8 cents, for
from 17 to 18 ounces and a one and
one-half pound loaf for 11 cents, re-
placing the 26 and 27 ounce loaf at
12 cents.
The City bakery announces a 14
ounce loaf for 6 cents, replacing the
6% cent loaf of similar weight and
a loaf of 27 ounces at 11 cents, re-
placing a similar weight at 12 cents,
while cream bread will stay at 12
cents a loaf.
Marketing Brazilian Coffee Crop a
Problem.
According to estimates of recog-
nized authorities, there seems every
likelihood that Brazil's ccffee crop
this year will exceed anything that
has ever before been recorded. It is
expected that the State of Rio de
Janeiro alone, with a normal average
of 2,750,000 bags, will this year send
in between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000
bags. In Espirito Santo it is esti-
mated that close to a million bags
will be produced, compared to last
year's 750,000-bag crop. Sao Paulo’s
this year is placed at over
12,000,000 bags by local experts.
A crop. so. plentiful, however,
unexpectedly on a market
that is limited to its narrowest pur-
chasing capacity by war conditions,
is not looked forward to by coffee
men, according to Consul General
Alfred L. Moreau Gottschalk in Rio
de Janeiro, with anything like opti-
mism. While the inaccessibility of the
Central Powers and of Russia, Greece
and the Balkans, together with the
limitations of supplies to neutral
countries, it is generally felt that
even the disposal of a limited crop
would have been a difficult task.
The one redeeming feature of the
situation from the standpoint of the
trader is that the keeping qualities
of the coffee are good, the bean suf-
fering no deterioration from storage
under proper conditions. There is
some question, however, as to wheth-
er or not Brazil has the necessary
capital or the staying power to ac-
cumulate and keep the crop in re-
crop
thrown
serve for some future rising market,
and it is said that traders in the
Southern republic rather expect
American importers to take consid-
erable quantities to hold against the
close of the war.
The quality is said to be regular
and good in all the coffee that has
come out of the plantations since last
June.
The action of the Government. in
liquidating all German fire insurance
companies doing business in this coun-
try will meet with the cordial commen-
dation of every patriotic citizen. Two
reasons were presented for such action
—the insolvency of the companies and
the fact that they were all playing into
the hands of Germany through their
inspection systems. It is interesting to
note that the action of the Government
was based solely on the latter charge,
all of the companies having been found
to be part and parcel of the infamous
German spy system.
The Gordon Drug Co., Battle Creek
will open a first-class drug store
about Dec, 10. They will be equipped
with a guarantee iceless soda foun-
tain furnished by the Hazeltine &
Perkins Drug Co.
Local grocers who have wisely re-
fused to advance the price of cigars
until the market on tobacco products
became stablized, decided at a meet-
ing last evening to increase the price
to 6 and 11 cents. The advance in
the price of 10 cent cigars to 12 cents
has never been justified except on the
pernicious practice of profiteering.
26
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
December 5, 1917
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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Leonard A. Seltzer, Detroit.
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.
Michigan State Pharmaceutical
ciation.
President—P. A. Snowman, Lapeer.
Secretary—F. J. Wheaton, Jackson.
Treasurer—E. E. Faulkner, Delton.
Next Annual Meeting—Detroit.
Asso-
Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As-
sociation.
President—W. F. Griffith, Howell.
Secretary and Treasurer—Walter S.
Lawton, Grand Rapids.
Medical Profiteering.
I am amazed to hear that many of
the medical profession are reaping a
rich harvest from those who wish to
be examined in to find any
physical weakness which may cause
order
them to be exempted from military
duty. One physician in good stand-
ing has recently boasted of the large
income he is making by examinations
of this kind. He claims that he states
only what he finds, and that in no
case claim any disability
where there is none, yet he charges
from
does he
three times his usual
office fee for the office examination!
Of course, any increase over the usual
fee can not for a moment be defend-
ed. Either the physician who is
guilty of such practice lays himself
open justifiably to the suspicion of
promising to find a cause for exemp-
tion, or he is taking an unprofession-
al advantage of the patient’s need,
to charge “all the traffic will bear.”
To take into consideration, not the
but the need of
what the mercantile
profiteers are doing, charging more
than is justifiable for sugar, milk,
bread, etc. Gentlemen and _ patriots
are supposed to frown upon. such
procedure, and it seems to me that
the representative bodies of medical
men all over the country should at
once set their public disapproval
against any such action as charging
unusual office fees for the examina-
tion of drafted men. Perhaps if you
will give publicity to this, the drafted
men themselves will avoid medical
offices where this contemptible prac-
tice obtains. ‘Annie Nathan Meyer.
——_» 2 ___
American-Made Salvarsan Advertised
Advertising copy in current med.cal
publications announces that Salvarsan
(Dr. Ehrich’s “606”) is now being
made in America, and is available for
commercial use, being sold direct to
the medical profession from the labor-
atories of H. A. Metz, Inc., New York
City. The copy is also signed by the
Farbwerke-Hoechst Company, of
New York. Readers of the Trades-
two to
cost of an article,
the buyer, is
man will remember that the urgent
need of this compound was cne o:
the strong arguments presented to
Congress for the abrogation of Ger-
man patents during the period of the
The medical copy, being in-
tended for doctors, advertises it un-
der its correct name of Dioxydiam n-
carsenobenze Dihydrochloride.
Dr. Simon Flexner, of the Rocke-
feller Institute, New York, announced
last week the discovery of what he
claims to be:a new and better remedy
war.
than Salvarsan, which he calls A-189,
which can be marketed for 6 cents a
dose, as against $3 a dose for Salvar-
san, His discovery was reported at
the annual meeting of the National
Academy of Science at Philadelphia
——_-+->
Lemon Juice That Will Keep.
It is not at all times convenient or
inexpensive to secure good lemons;
when, however, it is, here is a way
which will enable the druggist to pre-
pare the juice for future use: “Strain
any convenient quantity of expressed
iuice through a cloth and then mix the
liquid with about one-fourth its vol-
ume of powdered talc and shake for
about fifteen minutes. Then place
aside for half an hour. Next shake
again for a few minutes and once
more let stand, after which filter
through paper, add 10 per cent. of
sugar to the filtrate and bring to a
boil.
“During this time place the bottles
to receive the juice in a kettle of wa-
ter, fill them with water and boil them
in the kettle. Empty the bottles, pour
in the boiling lemon juice as quickly
as possible and close up at once with
a good cork previously dipped into
paraffin. Juice prepared in the man-
ner is said to possess unlimited keep-
ing qualities.”
2-2
Cashing In On Old Business.
“Goodsmith—50,000.” In local pa-
pers, on billboards, and in his win-
dows a druggist thus advertised his
name and the numbe1.
After he had succeeded in arous-
ing considerable interest he displayed
50,000 old filled prescriptions that he
had accumulated during his many
years in business. This was proof to
the public of his high repute as a
pharmacist among local physicians.
——_+-.—____
Nothing New.
“The practice of medicine has cer-
tainly changed. When I was young,
the doctors used to bleed their pa-
tients.”
“Huh! I don’t see that they’ve
changed in that respect.”
— +2 >
Sound judgment is responsible for
a lot of silence.
Soap From Sewer Fat.
Vice-Consul Arthur FE. J. Reilly
writes from Stockholm, Sweeden,
that the manufacture of soap from
sewer fat has been taken up by the
Happach Soap Co. which has worked
out a new methed for the purpose.
There are also plans for using native
vegetable fats, such as beechmast,
horse-chestnuts, etc. All this due to
the shortage in raw materials for the
soap and soft-soap industry.
—_——— >
A Merchant’s Rain Check.
With every 50-cent purchase made
on a rainy day a drug store issues
rain checks. These are redeemable
any day for 10 cents at the soda
fountain. It stimulates rainy day
shopping.
Chocolates
Package Goods of
Paramount Quality
and
Artistic Design
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 still open for the right
Write for our agent proposition NOW. Know the
facts—then you will make no mistake.
Heystek & Canfield Co.
MICHIGAN
For
Kalamazoo
It’s Pure, That’s Sure
Its Good
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PIPER ICE CREAM CO.
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, Boric (Powd.) ..18@ 25 Hi oe 9 00@9 25 Capsi
Boric (Xtal) : 2 SCION 5. 5..., 2 75@3 00 apsicum ....... @2 15
S Carbolic .... 18@ 25 Eucalyptus 5 0 Cardamon @e io
ru 9 e Citric. MC 75@ 78 Hemlock, male 1 25@1 35 Cardamon, Comp @2 10
4 1S S undr Muriati fog os ene 94@1 00 Juniper Hemeion “< 75@2 00 Catechu .. pial es
a 1eS Muriatic ....... 3%@ § Juniper Wood » ,00@20 20 Cinchona --.... @1 60
{ aaa... 9@ 15 Lard, extra .... 75@3 00 Colchicum ...... @2 36
. Seek seaeleas. 60@ 70 Lard, No. 1.... i; aa © Cubes ......... @2 40
mea 3%@ 5 Lavender Flow. 7 @1 95 Digitalis @2 3
10ner fe. 105@110 Lavender, G 00@7 25 Gentian @1 90
; + i . Ammoni c Lemon _.. ar’n 25@1 40 Ginger .... @1 50
f \ Water, 26 deg a | Linseed, boiled bb 00@2 25 Guaiac oe @2 50 :
Wis ia” 17@ 25 Linseed, | _bbl. @1 23 Guaiac, A @1 90
OO e Wee wae tie i Linseed. 20 less 1 33@1 43 Iodine | peanwast @1 8
‘ S an Carbonat eg. .-10%@ 15 Linseed, 1 nn @1 22 Lodine, Coloriess @1 80
. a : © weeee 144 @ 16 : , rw less 1 32@1 42 Ir , olorless @1 75
: Chloride . Mustard, tru 7 wom cle. a1 6
fe tiv i rr —6lUlUE teense 25 @ 8&5 Masined, Z bee - as ta... @1 60
Balsamgs Neatsfoot rtifil oz. @200 Myrrh ....0.0.... @1 65
: We Gone ands actteed : Copaiba ..... times oS a 1 80@1 9% en ves @2 50
' : ived at the time when all of the orders tak an yao oe ia, « Gane” 73@5 00 Opium oo. $3 ep
’ y us in the earl aken ir (Oregon) .. 40@ wallow ........ 8 pium, Camph. @
. | y part of : Peru @ 50 oO .... 3 00@3 10 Opium, D @1 80
: sundries ' the season for holiday goods, special i 5 50@6 75 acc nas 2e
3 ties, etc. have been filled, and we tak oo EO GOte Gn saa’ 1402 wien @1 65
s , e take occasion t Bark Origanu : 0
-e our appreciati : O express Cassia . Ori vie Deore @2 50 Paints
- €, P ton of the splendid business for this seas Cassia Guay wane tone 2 2502 on Lead, red dry .. 14@11%
i on. m (powd. 35c) 30 Peppermint |... To Whe Gy Ole
We have, however ‘ : Sassafras (pow. 35c) @ 35 Rose, pure |. 30. a % Gone ce @l1ig
» a liberal stock in a lar ‘ Scap Car Gowan’) @ 30 Rosemary Flow 12032 00 Ochre, yellow bbl. @ 1%
chandise ie Mex wai et ee ge variety of mer- Sae 6.22.0... 23@ 25 Pandshwood, En 50@1 75 Patty yellow less 2 @ 95
; ee lc lL, lO, ee 7 nai 5 Mad Wenetm bat 3@ 6
this is in large quantities, but oliday trade. None of Cubeb Bagge 1 40@1 50 eooee ‘ue 1 i5@2 oo -Red Venet'n be i
die tek » but a good assortment can be had from ao 209 35 Spearmint. aT 7985 00 Whe ao @ 30
“pon any day. Prickley “Ash...” 8 oe ee dl 3302 00 Whiting ae e 3
‘ seas e* «use. 4 00@4 25 1 H. P. Prepd. 2 ikge 28
We are, therefore, appealin t h, Licorice os 60@ 65 Turpentine, bbls. we “ M '
who may ha iy g to the late buyer and to those Poise pd fe es We SS eS 4 Iscellaneous
ve sold certain li green, tr. 5 50@5 75“ ctanalid . 5
ines and desire t : Flowers Wintergreen, sweet ‘cao0606l 95@1 05
stocks, Immedi o replenish their Arnica on ee oo These sst: L@ 15
* ediate shipment can be made u recei Chamomile Yo a wp aterarecs art 1 1 teal a Alum, powdered and 5
and we shall be ver lad pon receipt of order Chamomile Rom. 2 00@2 20 Sees ..-. 10 00@10 20 Sround ......... 14@ 17
16@ y glad to hear from any of our custom Gums ro oe Tae eu Sule.
ers, Acacia P Fate ........
c ‘ : a dst... 75@ 80 oo Rosas stale 3 60@3 70
: H ' Acacia, Sorts 1... 400 99 bBichromate .... 1 90@2 00 powdered
2 aze tine & P i Noeu eden eae iq Dramide. ------- 60@ 70 Cantharades po ; @ 15
vy erkKins Dru C a eee Ae WF Camanate --... 1 80@2 10 arades po 2 00@6 00
oe g 0. Ricca (Cave zoe ae 40 o.. aaae at 00 Calomel ........ 2 56@2 60
ye (Soc. Pow, 60) @ 55 Cie fe Oe can 35@ 40
a . : etida, ... ‘ powd. ..... Carmi plas
* Grand Ra ids - Asafoetida, ae Goan CC 0@ % | isa wie eedes 6 50@7 00
a » Michigan Pure Powd. lodida: 80@1 00 Cassia Buds ... @
: A Cunaahor eee aan 2 50 Permanaganate’ S a 66 Chives 77@ =
ome ae a fee ka @5 2 Chalk Prepared ..12@ 15
ae Guaiac ) russiate, red ..2 75@ @haik Piesin @ lb
i na powdered os 66 Sulphate d ..3 — 00 ae Precipitated 10@ 15
Ps INO ......ceeeeee fe ee ‘hlorofor an7 2
rial eyadercd a “ gn Roots C cee ses s@4 06
Hoe uecacas 65) Alkanct Cocaine... 11 ¢ oe ae
‘ e powders Ge 8. sa. 2 00@11 20
8 Ih Mgren, wowdered | @, ai ised poudcrea 209? 39 orks, thas sage?
. l Opium, powd o 00@42 : Calamus . = 3 s, list, less 55%
4 O Gols. ciak, @42 20 lecampane, pwd 5u@3 50 Copperas, bbls. @
: one Shellac on % “ta 20 Gentian pes lag 309 = craeees less .. 2%4@ i
Shellac, Bicached 80 Ginger, African opperas, powd. .. 4
‘ 7? ean 2 as a “powdered ...... 20@ 25 Ce Sublm. 230@2 a
7 WwW Tragacanth powder 250 Ginger, Tika’ «ae @ Cte ee oe
os hen you talk over the tel : Turpentine ...... tog? oo “uuser, Jamaica, hae 65@ 70
a é By - telephone your lips should Insecticid eee gan” 22@ 30 Dover's Powder 's 7596 00
q be ab t | : Oy 1 Abieaia es ineeae ea. i 8 00@8 20 Emery, All Nos. io i
ou valf an ineh from tl] i Blue Vitriol, bbL 23@ 30 Pacis powd. ..3 25@3 50 Emery, Powdered 4 *
: 1e mouthpiece of the in- Blue Vitriol, less 12%@ 20 Licorice, powd.... $6@ 49 tvsom Salts, bbls. @ 4%
t gis strument. Aoietene. Mix Dry 20@ 25 ae powdered 30@ 35 fo Salts, less 6@ 10
ab Boke, powdered 20g 38 Breot, powdered 2 Teq8 op
\ Bs le eae ea @ tos wos” 75@1 25 Flake White iso. 00
a 2 Lea a... @ «6 Geamwend toa 75@1 25 Formaldehyde Ib. 21@ 20
, mov If d, Arsenate P osinweed, powd : é yde lb. 21@ 2
Seis they are more than an inch from tl Lime’ and ae MQ 4¢ Saranparilia, "fona, ? °” Glassware, fail 1 75@1 90
s rom. the mouthpi Solution, gal. ground .. jlassware, full cs. 58%
: ‘ 1ece Paris Gre & -- 15@ 26 Sarsaparilla Mexi 75@ 80 Glassware, less 50 ”
4 vou will find i en reen ..... 55@ 60 aparilla Mexican, Glauber §;: %
a. 3 d it d : : ¢ Srguma .-...... ilauber Salts, bbl. @ 2%
r 4] : iffcult to transmit the consonant piper!’ Seam Squills os eo we a. hee ee %
: i ce iper Ice Cream Co. ills, powdered 45 » Brown ..... 25 35
; sounds clearly, such as B T s Kalamazoo . Tumeric, powd. .. sg 20 ae Brown Grd. 28 35
; . o , I’, D, F, Z, ete ebaed Vanilla ........... go Valerian, powd... @1 00 Glue. White -2+ 380@ 36
. tf Buk, Special idan” $9 sen on oe ee
vou hold the t Brick, Fancy ...... ee Amise ...........; 35@ 4 Ops ..... woe. 45@ 60
2 ele 9} i a Fo $0 Anis : U @ fading ..)...., a
phone closer than a half inch e Leaves ee Se ee ee 5 5908 14
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m your lips you cannot mak El couaea fee ee Gane -++- 10@ 15 Lycopdium ..... 7ne. oo
: ed nake vo 7 r J. 85@2 OG - fe 85@ 90 Ma 15@ 00
your words sound Sage, bulk ...... 67@ Cardamon a > era i A 85@ 90
clearly 1 Sage, % loose .. 72 10 Golory (Powd. 50) 880° 45 Mace, powdered .. 95@1 00
e a y and the nasal sounds, M and N i Hieul Sage, powdered *: 2@ 78 Coriander “eo a oo "4 25@4 50
7 sete N in particular foe, Alex ..... O@10 teencl 30@ 35 } me sce M0 ee
> Senna, Tinn. : Fennell ......... Nux Vomica .... x
Q do not enter the transmitter i Senna’ Tina, pow. 500 66 Mak yeeea ete Pees tee pow. @ 20
ya E er in the way they should em pow. Seg SS Wiax, ground .... Tae 32 Pepper, Since pow. 35
hag? ’ cn Fo! We fetes cos ti Gee bee a
’ Aly : Olis Hemp .... pow. si * Pitch, ‘Burgundy .. @ 15
Alwavs talk rj : Lob were: uassia ..... pi ee
ys talk right into the telephone WR ER i a Bo sae ee ee ae ! 30@1 00
CO M ochelle Salt
ates, it Minerg: Sage <3 3 Lecaroe oe i
Alcea © aca 700@7 20 Poppy . powd. .. 22@ 30 Salt Peter’....... 36@ 3
monds, Sweet, BODDY «++ ++e0+++s @1 00 Seidlitz Mixture .. 41
sak Sci. 135@160 Rape ............ o° 25 Soap, green ..... oe m0 30
fmitation aati @ 20 Soap mott castile 22%4@ 35
Amber, crude .._ @ 15 Sabadilla, powd. 35 = See. wae come
Amber, rectified 1 75@2 00 Sunflower ' @ CABO -.-ceeees @19 00
Michigan State Amber, Fectined 3 5092 18 Worm American ..."Q 2p “its. "put nares
ih Telephone Company Bergemont <<. $ oga ge Worm “evant «- 3 00@1 19 Soda ‘Ash 2+... 8K@ 30
:- Cassia es : me: * | Tinctures peeing Bicortaniats 3@ 6
54 SESEOR oo. occ ee MPEG) oo. ccs cs moe 9 DAL cece eeeee 2
a Cedar Leaf . a A i a 61 << eee Comper. @1 2
e eu. ie? 90 ABINCH! 0600625. @3 15 Sulphur, roll ... 4%@ 10
be all 100@1 25 Asafoetida ... @4 4 Sulphur, Subl. 4 9-10@ 10
5 Cloves eeeees 5 50@5 75 Belladonna‘... @4 40 Tamarinds .-..... 15@ 20
es Cod Liver ..... 4 < 50 Benzoin ........ @2 50 mer ree SeROtS 2 +< @ 90
aa SG aaa 00 Heesoan Compo’d @3 30 El gg Ven. 50@4 75
Ge 2 0002 2 Gantharadies @2 40 Witch Hazel 1 ss@ 4
aradies ... @3 90 Zin azel ... 1 35@1 75
c Sulphate .,.. 10@ 16
Wad a+
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
GROCERY PRICE CURRENT
These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing.
Prices, however. are
liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled
at market prices at date of purchase.
ADVANCED
Lemon Peel
Orange Peel
Cream of Tartar
Flour
DECLINED
Calif. Lima Beans
Galv. Pails
Galv. Tubs
= —
ARCTIC AMMONIA : Clams CHEWING GUM
12 oz. ovals, 2 doz. box 2 40 Little Neck, 1 lb. .... 1 60 Adams Black Jack .... 65
Clam Bouillon
Burnham’s t .... 23 26
AXLE GREASE Burnham’s a Seales 3 75
Frazer’s Burnham’s qts. ...... 50
1M. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 00 Corn
1tb. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 35 Fair
3% Ib. tin boxes, 2.dz. 425 Goog a a
10%. pails, per doz. 6 00 Pancy A
15Ib pails, per = 7 20 ak a.
i. ils, . » ke 00
apm. pals, per doe r Monbadon (Natural)
BAKED BEANS per GOR. .....cccsess
No. 1, per doz. ....... 1 35 Gooseberries
No. 2, per doz. ........ 225 No. 2, Fair ..........
No. 3, per doz. ....... 275 No. 2, Fancy ........0.
iny
BATH BRICK om
<<... 95 Stan@ard ............ 1 25
Lobster
BLUING a ID. oo.c chess ceos. 2
Jennings’ Oh UD. coscccuecccceccs BD
Condensed Pearl Bluing Picnic Fiat .....0c000 8 1D
Small, 3 doz. box .... 1 95 Mackere!
Large, 2 doz. box .... 2 40 Mustard, 1 Ib. ....... 1 80
Foiger’s Mustard, 2 Ib. ...... - 2 80
Summer Sky, 6 oz., Soused, 1% i... . 1 60
per GOR. 6... .ce. 45 Soused, 2 Ib. ....... os 2 7D
Summer Sky, 12 oz., Tomato, 1 Ib. ........ 1 50
per om ...........% 85 Tomato, 2 Ib. ....... 80
Mushrooms
BREAKFAST FOODS Buttons, %s ......... 30
Buttons, 18 ....sccsee 60
Bear Food, Pettijohns 2 - :
Cracked Wheat, 24-2 ..46 Hotels, 18 ........... @44
Cream of Wheat .... 7 60 Oysters
Cream of Rye, 24-2 .. Cove, 1 ib. ........ 1 20
Quaker Puffed Rice .. 4 30 Cove, 2 Ib. ........ - @1 80
Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30 Plums
Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 190 Plums .......... 1 50@2 00
Quaker Corn Flakes .. 2 75 Pears In Syru
Washington Crisps .. : 80 No. 3 can, per ds. 2 50@8 00
Wheatena ............ 5 10 ct
Evapored Sugar Corn Marrowfat ......1 25@1 35
hae gg hcg aaa Z ¢ Early June .... 1 50@1 60
et eo vei -- 280 Early June siftd 1 8091 15
Krinkle Corn Flakes ..2 80 Peaches
Mapl-Flake, Whole +: sng id Jaen a see 4
WHORE ..cccce-oscee °
Minn. Wheat Food .. 6 50 Pineapple
Ralston Wheat Food Grated ........ 1 75@2 10
Large, 188 ..... 290 Sliced .......... 1 45@2 60
Ralston Wht Food ‘18s 1 95 Pumpkin
Ross’s Whole Wheat ~iad seeekeebeeaecee ss : rH
i i occ ess beeen BO oe tac cce ese
onan Wi Food .. 4€50 Fancy ............-.- 1 50
Shred Wheat Biscuit 4 25 No. 10 ............... 3 90
Triscuit, 18 ......... 2 25 Raspberries
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 250 No. 2, Black Syrup .. 2 00
2ost Toasties, T-2 .. 3 30 No. 10, Black ...... 10 50
Post Toasties, T-3 .. 330 No. 2, Red Preserved 3 00
Post Tavern Porridge 2 80 No. 10, Red, Water .. 10 50
BROOMS Salmon .
als Gl, B. .. 98) OO Ge ek ee
Parlor, 5 String, 25 Ib. 8 25° Req Alaska .......... 2 85
Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 00 Med. Red Alaska .... 2 60
Common, 23 Ib. .....- -] Ek Ae ......... 2 20
Special, 23 Ib. ....... 7 2 Sardines
Warehouse, 23 Ib. .. 10 00 Domestic, \s eee 6 50
Domestic, % Mustard 6 50
a Domestic, % Mustard 6 25
es 00 Norwegian, %s.....
Solid Backs Bim 1... 128 Portuguese, %s"//)) 30035
Pointed Ends ........ 1 00 Sauer Kraut
NO. 3, CANS cccccccsce 2 1D
Stove No. 10, cans ......e00.
WO gg ecco ceees 1 00 Shrimps
WO De bo ce ccccesceces 1 50 Dunbar, ls doz. ...... 1 25
We cv ccccccncsecee 2 0 Dunbar, l%s doz. .... 2 40
ccotas
No. 1 slated ieuen 100 Fair ....ccccescce oo
No. oe 1 30 ft coceonesstone Lecce 90
No. 8 ..... bicedeeoeee 1 70 ANCY -ccccccsccceve
WO: Eg oon ccc eceese 1 90 . . Strawberries co
TAROT occ cacccccce
: BUTTER COLOR Fancy ..... a 4
Dandelion, 25c size .. 2 00 Tomatoes i“
CANDLES : 1 75
Paraffine, 68 .......... 11 8 60
Params, 128 ......... 12
USI oo ono ico c cc ccese 46 a
ase
CANNED GOODS %s, 4 doz. in case .... 4 50
Applies 1s, 4 doz. in case .... 7 60
3 lb. Standards .. ls, 4 doz. in case ....10 00
No. oeeeevece @5 00 CATSUP
Van Camp’s, % pints 1 ~
Blackberries se os Van Camp’s pints ... 27
pee bews bebe cee a 5
Standard No. 10 @9 59 r CHEESE =
AND cocecceeues
s Carson sotedl @30
Pees... 5.5... 1 25@2 25 Brick ........ coe @32
Red Kidney .... : 25@1 35 Leiden ..... ous
String ......... 150@2 00 Limburger ...... @32
WOR oiosccl ss. 150@2 00 Pineapple ...... : @
. Blueberries POM 45 asec @
Standard .......... @175 Sap Sago..... @
Ne. 10 ............. @8 0 Swiss, Demestic @e
Adams Sappota ...... 70
Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 65
Beeennit 5 ..... esses 65
Doublemint ............ 67
Flag Spruce 65
Hershey Gum 45
Juiey rut .50...05..2) 67
Sterling Gum Pep. .... 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys .. 67
Spearmint, 6 box jars 3 85
Wacetan 222. k es 65
MONO 20:66. .c. eke 65
o. i Chim... ee 70
Wrigleys (5 box asstd.) 65
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.
German's Sweet
Premium
COTACBR ieee c coos sac.
Walter M. Tsaaesie Co.
Premium,
Premuur, ie
CLOTHES LINE
Per doz.
No. 40 Twisted Cotton 1 50
No. 50 Twisted Cotton 1 80
. 60 Twisted Cotton 2 35
. 80 Twisted Cotton 2 50
No. 50 Braided Cotton
. 60 Braided Cotton
. 80 Braided Cotton
No. 50 Sash Cord ....
No. 60 Sash Cord ..
. OD SUEP —. 4.5.25.
No. 72 Jute ....-.22-. 1 40
. 60 Sieel ..... 266k 1 30
wWrnopore
wooanwe
naIoowcj’e
Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 00
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
COCOA
Bakers ........ eceeee 39
Cleveland ..,...5...-.:. 41
Colonial, 4s ........ os SP
Colonial, AOR oo cce beeee Be
RODS ois skse cca ue 42
ae biw'ac ME cosconsse Oe
Hershey’s, %s
Bayer 3 oss soso es
Lowney, 8s
Lowney, %S8
Lowney, %s
Lowney, 5 Ib.
Van Houten,
Van Houten,
Van Houten, %s
Van oo ES is ceccees 65
Wan-te .....-5-2+-..5 a
WEDD ..-sccccce poeeeecs
Wilbur, AGE .occes oe a3
WVSIDMN, 2B occ ecsece
COCOANUT
Dunham's per lb.
ys, 6 Ib. case .......... 32
4s, 5 Ib. case ........ 31
\%s, 15 Ib. case ........ 31
1s, 15 Ib. case ........ 30
1s, 15 Ib. case ......... 29
%s & %s, 15 Ib. case .. 30
5 and 10c pails ...... 25
Bulk, pails ..... seece 2D
Bulk, barrels ........ 1814
Baker’s Brazil Shredded
70 5c pkgs., per case 3 00
36 10c pkgs., per case 3 00
16 10c and 33 5c pkgs., .
mer CASE .5..---5---
Bakers Canned, doz. 1 10
COFFEES a
Rio
Common ..... esueckee Un
ROMP | oo. coc cneses soe 19%
Choice ...... shceees es Oe
Fancy cepecsieesucs am
Peaberry ........-... 23
Santos
Common ..... sedccese Oe
eit ¢..... cpceeseaese BOs
ORDICO pccacesecceccs Eh
WANCY oocsscoccccescs OF
POBDOITY 4.2sseccss oe
Maracalbo
DAP cictctcvcnccescs Oe
CBGIOD fo ccsecccsuesse
Mexican
CRBION sp cccsscccsoescc OP
PRRCY, oo cccsccoccescss TB
Guatemala
Fair
Java
Private Growth .... 26@30
Mandling .......... 31@36
AUEOIR ick ee ccce ee 30@382
Mocha
Short Bean ...... -. 25@27
Long Bean ........ 24@25
Bm. i, 0.G. 2.2.2.0: 26@28
Bogota
Fair ...2.5... eee ee
ANCY oc noes 26
Exchange Market, Steady
Spot Market, Strong
Package
New York Basis
Arbuckle 21 50
McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin's XXXX
package coffee is sold to
retailers only. Mail all or-
ders direct to W. F. Mc-
Laughlin & Co., Chicago.
Extracts
Holland, % gro. bxs. 95
Felix, % gross 115
Hummel's foil. % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43
ee ee a
CONDENSED — “
Carnation, Tall ......
Carnation, Baby ..... 6 10
Dundee, Tall 5
Dundee, Baby ...
Heke, Tall ...c....s.
Hebe, Baby ..-........ 5 00
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Horehound .......... 16
Standard ....sc2..e0 16
Cases
Jumbo ......... Ss hieee 17
Big Stick ........... 17
Boston Sugar Stick .. 20
Mixed Candy
ails
Broken <....5..5.. 4. 18
OE AE ce eee es 18
French Cream ....... 20
Grocers: .........-.5. 13
Kindergarten ........ 19
BPOGer oo cc cese cones 17
MIONATCR ...50e050055 15
NOVELTY 1 acs 3.55.5 ss 18
Paris Creams ....... 19
Premio Creams ...... 22
ROwA o ee o eas 16
Special ........-. 86% .16
73D occ ccc sees e 14
Specialties
ils
Auto Kisses (baskets) 19
Bonnie Butter Bites .. 23
Butter Cream Corn .. 21
Caramel Bon Bons .. 21
Caramel Croquetes .. 20
Cocoanut Waffles .... 20
Coffy Toffy
National Mints 7 lb tin 24
Fudge, Walnut ...... 22
Fudge, Choc. Peanut 21
Fudge, White Center 21
Fudge, Cherry ....... 22
Fudge, Cocoanut .... 22
Honeysuckle Candy .. 22
Iced Maroons ........ 22
Iced Orange Jellies .. 19
Italian Bon Bons .... 20
seuy MEMO ..:..-sse0 18
AA Licorice Drops
© 1D; DOK os... c) 175
Lozenges, Pep. ...... 20
Lozenges, Pink ...... 20
Manchus ....:-....... 20
Molasses Kisses, 10
1 OOK oe cia 20
Nut Butter Puffs .... 20
Star Patties, Asst. .. 22
; Chocolates Pails
Assorted Choc. ...... 22
Amazon Caramels .. 23
Champion ......-...2¢ 19
Choc. Chips, Eureka 26
ClNMAR o.oo eas 20
Eclipse, Assorted .... 21
Ideal Chocolates ..... 21
Klondike Chocolates 27
NMAMODS oo cces eos 27
Nibble Sticks, box ..1 75
Wut Waters .......:. 27
Ocoro Choc Caramels 25
Peanut Clusters ...... 30
@uintette ........... 22
Regina ......... eeeee 18
Star Chocolates ......
20
Superior Choc. (light) 22
Pop Corn Goods
Without prizes.
Cracker Jack with
COUDON 2.566655... es 50
Cracker-Jack Prize .. 3 75
Checkers Prize ...... 3 75
Cough Drops
oxes
Putnam Menthol .... 1 85
Smith Bros, ...... ccec 1 OD
NUTS—Whole
Almonds, Tarragona 21
Almonds, California
soft shell Drake ...
Brazils 18
Filberts
Cal. No.
- 20
158. 8. .... 24
Walnuts, Naples .....
Walnuts, Grenoble 22
Table nuts, fancy .16%
Pecans, Large ....... 17
Pecans, Ex. Large .. 20
Shelled
No. 1 Spanish Shelled
Peanuts ...... 16 16%
Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled
Peanuts ...... 164%@17
Pecan Halves ...... @90
Walnut Halves ...... 65
Filbert Meats ...... @42
Almongs ©.......... @60
Jordan Almonds ;
Peanuts
Fancy H P Suns
MAW fo aa 18% @14%4
Roasted ...... 14%, @15%
H P Jumbo
BAW. 6250.4. 14% @15%
Moasted ...... 15%@16%4
CREAM TARTAR
Barres or Drums ..... 63
SOMOS oe ee 15
DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Evap’ed, Choice, blk @16
Evap’d Fancy bik.. @
Apricots
California ....... .. @25
whi
Corsican: 00... 1... @27
Currants
Imported, 1 lb. pkg .. 26
Imported, bulk
Peaches
Muirs—Choice, 25 lb. .. 12
Muirs—Fancy, 25 lb. .. 13
Fancy, Peeled, 25 Ib. ....
Peel
Lemon, American ...... 22
Orange, American .... 23
Raisins
Cluster, 20 cartons
Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr. 9
Loose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 8%
L. M. Seeded 1lb. 10% @il
California Prunes
90-100 25 lb. boxes .
80- 90 25 lb, boxes .
70- 80 25 lb. boxes ..@12
60- 70 25 lb. boxes ..
50- 60 25 lb. boxes ..
40- 50 25 lb, boxes ..@15
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
California Limas .. 16%
Med. Hand Picked ... 15
Brown, Holland ......
Farina
25 1 lb. packages .... 2 50
Bulk, per 100 Ib. ........ 9
Original Holland Rusk
Packed 12 rolls to container
3 containers (40) rolls 3 80
Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sack .... 6 00
Maccaroni and Vermicelll
Domestic, 1 lb. box .. 76
Imported, 25 lb. box ...
Pearl Barley
Chester 4.15.5. 5,3: 00
Portage 020365 .3. cas ¢ BO
Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu. 7 50
Split,
Sago
Mast India ..........:. 15
German, sacks ........ 15
German, broken pkg.
Taploca
Flake, 100 ib. Sacks ... 15
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks ... 15
Pearl. 36 pkgs. ..... - 275
Minute, 10c, 3 doz. ....8 25
FISHING TACKLE
tO 1 ee
a4 to 2 igs 3... 8
a tO. 2 an ce. 8.
1% to 2 int: 23... :, Meese ct ae
ain: oe. oskascces 10
BM, eee. sé paces CD
Cotton Lines
No. 1, 10 feet ..... scene 0
NO. 2, 16 feet .....;5.5 7
No. 8, 15 feet ....... ca ce
No, 4, 16 feet .......... 10
30. feet ..5.5.6.6 11
» 15 feet .......... 12
1D 1606 3... .0.s50. 15
Ab f60r ......... 18
15 2006 2 .ccu00.<, £0
Linen Lines
Small 2....5.. caeaenceae 20
Medium ........ seuss oo 26
RATES os eceses scious Oe
Poles
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80
- 2 Ounce 30 Cent
December 5, 1917
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings D C Brand
Pure Vanila
Terpeneless
Pure Lemon
Per Doz.
: Dram 15 Cent .....
1% Ounce 20 Cent ...
2% Ounce 35 Cent ...
2% Ounce 40 Cent ...
4 Ounce 55 Cent ....
8 Ounce 90 Cent .....
7 Dram Assorted ‘
1% Ounce Assorted a
FLOUR AND FEED
bt 00 C109 DD LO et et
oe te
o
Grand Rapids Grain &
Milling Co.
Winter Wheat
Purity Patent ...... 11 35
Fancy Spring ...... 12 50
Wizard Graham 11 00
Wizard, Gran. Meal
Wizard Buckw't cwt. 7 00
RVG os ee 11 00
Kaw's Best ......... 12 50
tes City Milling Co
Lily White .....3..:. 11 50
Light Loaf ......... 11 10
Granam | oc. ook. cs cece gu
tranena Health ..... 5 00
Gran. Weal 2... 3...6,. 5 50
Bolted Meal ......... 5 40
Watson-Higgins oe ‘eT
New Perfection ....
Tip Top Flour ...... ii 0
Go.den Sheaf Flour 10 60
Marshalls Best Flour 12 00
Watertown Wisconsin
BVO 0. 10 00
Worden Grocer Co.
Quaker, %s cloth 10 85
Quaker, 4s cloth .. 10 75
Quaker, %s cloth .. 10 65
Quaker, %8 paper .. 10 75
Quaker, 4s paper 10 65
rvansas Hard Wheat
Worden Grocer Co.
American Eagle, %s 11 95
American Hagle, 4s 11 835
American Hagle, %s 11 75
Spring Wheat
Judson Grocer Co.
Ceresota, %s cloth .. 12 30
Ceresota, 4s cloth .. 12 20
Ceresota, %s cloth .. 12 10
Worden Grocer Co.
Wingold, %s cloth .. 12 10
Wingold, 4s cloth .. 12 15
Wingold, %s cloth .. 12 05
Meal
BOMCE 66 oc ccc ec es 10 55
Golden Granulated .. 10 75
Wheat
GG ee ic ae et - 2 08
White .... 2.0.6.2... 2 05
Oats
Michigan carlots ...... 65
Less than cariots ..... 68
Corn
CATIOTS co seat a 14
Less than carlots 217
Hay
Carlote . 6. ssc 6. oe. 20 00
Less than carlots .. 22 00
Feed
Street Car Feed .... 75 00
No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd 75 00
Cracked Corn ...... 80 00
Coarse Corn Meal .. 80 00
FRUIT JARS
Mason, pts., per gro. 7 00
Mason, qts., per gro. 7 40
Mason, % gal. per gro. 9 85
Mason, can tops, gro. 2 75
GELATINE
Cox's, 1 doz. large ... 1 45
Cox’s, 1 doz. small .. 90
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 75
Knox’s Sparkling, gr. 20 50
Knox's Acidu’d doz. .. 1 85
Minute, 1 doz. ....... 1 25
Minute, 3 doz. ........ 3 75
Meson’ so. es 1 50
Oxford (26002 se, 75
Plymouth Rock, Phos, 1 40
Plymouth Rock, Plain 1 25
Waukesha ........... 1 60
GRAIN BAGS
Broad Gauge, 12 oz. .. 24
Climax, 14 oz. ........ 29
Stark, ‘A, AG OR oo occ 5
HERBS
BORG 46655050555 boec ccs 2
OOS foie
Laurel Leaves ........ 15
Senna Leaves ......... 25
HIDES re sid PELTS
des
Green, No. 13h)... 18
Green, No.2) ...5.3.; 17
Cured, Noo 1.22.5)... 20
Cured, (NO. 2.....,.. 19
Calfskin, green, No. 1 26
Calfskin, green, No. 2 24%
Calfskin, cured, No. 1 28
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 26%
grorae, No.) ...2.,.. 7 00
Horse, No. 2 ........ 6
elt:
Old Wool ........ 75@2 00
LOADER oe is 50@1 50
Shearlings ....... 50@1 50
allow
BUMG oes e lie co @13
Mo, f ioe. @12
MO. 8 ace. a; car TE
1° A>
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2. eS ae ae ee
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witee wt
December 5, 1917
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
29
Wool
Unwashed, med. ..
@60
Unwashed, fine .... @55
FURS
Coon, large ..:........ 00
Coon, medium ....... 2 00
€oon, ‘small .......... 1 00
Mink. JATHO 1... 4.5... 4 00
Mink, medium ........ 3 00
Mink, small .......... 2 00
Muskrats, winter ..... 45
Muskrats, fall ........ 30
Muskrats, small fall .. 15
Muskrats, oo bees cue 05
Skunk, No. 1 .......-.. 3 00
Skunk, No. 3 Selcpeecas 2 00
Skunk; NG: 3 ........% 1 00
Skunk, No. 4 ..... - 50
HONEY
A. G. Woodman’s Brand.
7 O8., per Gos. ......0%
20 oz., per doz. ...... 3 90
Sg RADISH
Per doz.
JELLY
5Ib. pails, per doz. ..
15lb. pails, per pail ....1 30
30lb. pails, per pail ....2 50
Jiffy-Jell
Straight or Assorted
her GOn ool. esses ck
Per case, per 4 doz. 4 60
Eight Flavors: Raspberry,
Strawberry, Cherry, Lem-
on, Orange, Lime, Pine-
apple, Mint.
JELLY GLASSES
% pt. in bbls., per doz. 25
% pt. in bbls., per doz. 27
8 oz. capped in bbls.,
per dom «2.6... s.. aes ae
MAPLEINE
2 0z. bottles, per doz. 3 00
1 oz. bottles, per doz. 1 75
16 oz. bottles, per dz. 16 50
32 oz. bottles, per dz. 30 00
MINCE MEAT
Per case ...0.......,, 3 75
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle .... 56
Choice 2.05. ...... cccee Oa
Good ..... bec anaes
MCOOK oil. eaetes
Half barrels “20 extra
Red Hen, No. 2% .
Red Hen, No. 5
Red Hen, No. 10 .... 65
Uncle Ben, No. 2 .. 30
Uncle Ben, No. 2% ..
Uncle Ben, Non 5.2.
Uncle Ben, No. 10 ....
Ginger Cake, No. 2 ..
Ginger Cake, No. 2%
Ginger Cake, No. 5 ..
0. & 7 Open Kettle,
wobnwrpwhpp
co
S
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Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 20@1 30
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 1 15@1 25
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 aa 15
Stuffed, BOS 10
Stuffed, 5 oz. ........ i 15
Stuffed, 14 oz. ........ 50
ee (not stuffed) :
eae eae. : 0
Manzanilia, 8 OF 2... 1 10
Lunch, 10 oz. ....... 1 60
Lunch, 16 oz. ....... 2 60
ee Mammoth, 19 a6
Queen, Mammoth, 28
Meds eceeecs ce wee 6 2b
Olive Chow, 2 doz. ‘cs.
WEF GOR. oo occ 25
PEANUT BUTTER
Bel-Car-Mo Brand
4 oz. 4 doz. in case ..3
7 oz. 2 doz. in case .. 2 90
8 oz. 2 doz. in case .. 3
18 oz. 1 doz. in case .. 3
5 Ib. pails, 6 in crate 5 50
10 Jp: pails: .......2.. 19
1 1D, Pause 2.06... 18%
20:-4b. pails... 2.6... 18
50. db. ,EIMS 3.463. 6... 17%
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Tron Barrels
Perfection: .........-.
11.
Red Crown Gasoline .. 21.5
Gas Machine Gasoline 35.9
VM & P Naphtha .. 21.
cae Cylinder, Wood
WADIS. 600 ee a 36.9
Capitol Cylinder, Tron
Bbls.
Atlantic Red digcine
Iron Bbis. | ...0. 7. 21.9
Winter Black, Iron
Big: 5 oases se ce. s 11.9
Polarine, Iron Bbls. 38.9
PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count 12 00
Half bbls., 600 count 6 =
5 gallon kegs eo ees . 26
Small
Barvels oe. ee 14 00
Half barrels ........ 7 50
5 gallon kegs ..... - 280
Gherkins
Marre oie ses ss 25 00
Half barrels ........ 13 00
5 gallon kegs ........ 4 50
Sweet Small
FROTTOIS o ecicise vccsac a4 00
Half barrels ........ 12 50
5 gallon kegs ........ 4 20
PIPES
Clay, No. 216, per box
Clay, T, D. full count 80
Cob, 3 doz. in box .. 1 25
PLAYING CARDS
No. 90 Steamboat .... 2 25
No. 808, Bicycle ..... 3 50
Pennant: <<. . 022.50... 3 25
POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz. .... 1 90
‘PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork
Clear Back .. 51 00@52 00
Short Cut Clr 48 00@49 00
Bean. .....5.., 00@48 00
Brisket, Clear 52 00@53 00
Pi
lg
Clear Family ....... 35 00
Dry Salt Meats
S P Bellies .. 32 00@33 00
Lard
Pure in tierces ..29%4@30
Compound on 22146 @23
80 lb. tubs ...advance %
60 lb. tybs -advance %
50 lb. tubs . advance y
20 Ib. pails ...advance %&
10 Ib. pails ...advance %
5 Ib, pails ...advance 1
3 lb. pails ...advance 1
Smoked Meats
Hams, 14-16 Ib, 28 29
Hams, 16-18 lb. 27 @28
Hams, 18-20 lb. 26 @27
Ham, dried beef ;
SOUS oc. se 29 @30
California Hams 23 @23%
Picnic Boiled
Hams ........ 31 @32
Boiled Hams .. 41 @42
Minced Hams .. 20 @21
Bacon ......... 37 @42
Sausages
Bologna ....... cacece LO
LAN Gy ee 2 <2 ka
Hrankfort . 0660s. ee. 17
OPK o.oo... lee. 14@15
Veal ........ se siesa dee ED
MODBUG : .. ce ccc cee wees EE
Headcheese .......... 14
Beef
Boneless .... 25 00@27 00
Rump, new .. 30 00@31 00
Pig’s Feet
PG DIS. cso cee 1 75
% bbis., 40 Ibs. ...... 3 40
we DRIS: eo. ec eck 9 00
Hb 6... thee ee uee 16 00
Tripe
Wits, 15 Ws. .25....... 90
% bbis., 40 Ibs. ...... 1 60
% Dbis., 80 lbs. ..:... 3 00
Casings
Hogs, per ib. .2..:..... 35
Beef, round set .. 19@20
Beef, middles, set .. 45@55
Sheep .......... 1 15@1 35
Uncolored Oleomargerine
Solid Dairy ...... 23 26
Country Rolls .... 28 @29
Canned —
Corned Beef, 2 lb. .. 50
Corned Beef, 1 lb. .. 3 75
Roast Beef, 2 Ib. . 6 50
Roast Beef, 1 Ib. .. 3 75
Potted Meat, Ham
Flavor, 448 sec easee 55
Potted Meat, Ham
Flavor, %68 ........¢ 95
Deviled Meat, Ham
Plavor, 4S ....... aac O28
Deviled Meat, Ham
Mlavor,. 348 ........ 1 00
Potted Tongue, %s .. 55
Potted Tongue, %s .. 1 00
RICE
Pancy ..... beeesis - 8@8%
Blue: Rose .:...... @8
Broken ...... See cic
ROLLED OATS
Monarch, bbls. ...... 0 00
Rolled Avena, bbls. 10 25
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sks. 5 10
Monarch, 90 Ib. sks. .. 4 90
Quaker, 18 Regular .. 1 75
Quaker, 20 Family .. 5 60
SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, % pint .... : 25
Columbia. 1 Pint... .. 4 00
Durkee’s, large, 1 doz. 4 20
_Durkee’s, small, 2 doz. 5 00
Snider’s, large, 1 doz. 2 40
Snider’s, small, 2 doz. 1 45
SALERATUS
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Arm and Hammer .. 8 10
Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls. .... 1 40
Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs. 1 50
Granulated, 36 pkgs. ..1 40
SALT
Common Grades
100 3 lb. sacks ...... 3 15
70 4 lb. sacks ...... 3 05
60 5 lb. sacks ...... 3 05
28 10 lb. sacks ...... 2 90
66 Ib. sacks .:....... 48
28 1b. sacks 3.2... 27
Warsaw
6G Ib. sacks ..........
28 lb. dairy in drill bags 30
Solar Rock
56 Ib. sacks: ........... 48
Common
Granulated, Fine .... 1 80
Medium, Fine ....... 190
»
SALT FISH
Cod
Large, whole ...... @12
Small, whole ...... @i11
Strips or bricks 15@18
Povioe® oo... 5.. @1
Holland Herring
Standards, bbls. .... 13 50
¥. b
bls. Seka wes - 15 00
Standard, kere ..... 85
: kegs Seascale a5 96
Herring
Med. Fat Split, 200 Ibs. 8 00
Laborador Split 200 Ib. 10 00
Norway, 4 K, 200 lbs. 16 50
Special, 8 lb. pails .... 70
Scaled, in boxes ....... 17
Boned, 10 ib. boxes .... 17
Trout
No. t, 100 lbs. ....... 50
No; 1, 40 Ibs: ....... « 2 26
No. 1, 10 Yhs. ...... 90
No. ft. & the. ..... eee xf
Mackerel
Mess, 100 lbs.
Mess, 40 Ibs.
Mess, 10 Ibs.
Mess, 8 lbs.
No. 1, 100 lbs
No. 1, 40 Ibs.
No. 1, 10 Ibs.
Lake Herring
100° ths. 2. cs. 00
40 IDS. 2s... 2... ae. . 2 85
50 bao 2c. scsae) GS
S$ Ibs. . 20. 54
SEEDS
BMISG ek: 35
Canary, Smyrna .... 9
Caraway .......... 15
Cardomon, Malabar ‘1 20
Gelery ..... Ssecccces 40
Hemp, Russian ...... 7%
Mixed Bird .......... 9
Mustard, white ...... 22
POppY . 2.2. ....-...-- - 70
Rane ..0. lee el. -. 16
SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large 3 dz. 3 50
Handy Box, small 1 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish 85
Miller’s Crown Polish 85
SNU
in bladders ... 37
Scotch,
Maccaboy, in jars ...... 35
French Rapple in jars .. 43
SODA
IBOXGS 40662500, 5%
Kegs, English ........ 44%
SPICES
Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica ..9@10
Allspice, lg. Garden @11
Cloves, Zanzibar .. @48
Cassia, Canton .... @20
Cassia, 5c pkg. doz. @35
Ginger, African .... @15
Ginger, Cochin @20
Mace, Penang ...... @90
Mixed, No. 1 ...... @17
Mixed. No. 2)..::... @16
Mixed, 5c pkgs. dz. @45
Nutmegs, 70-80 .... @85
Nutmegs, 105-110 .. @30
Pepper, Black ..... @30
Pepper, White ..... @32
Pepper, Cayenne @22
Paprika, Hungarian
Pure Ground in Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica .. @16
Cloves, Zanzibar @60
Cassia, Canton - @32
Ginger, African .... @24
Mace, Penang ..... @1 00
Notmess 20.5... .. @36
Pepper, Black ...... @30
Pepper, White ..... @40
Pepper, Cayenne @30
Paprika, Hungarian @45
—
Kingsford, rs Tbs. --. o%
Muzzy, 7 Plats pkgs. 9%
Ingsford
Silver Ge 40 1lb. 916
Gloss
Argo, 48 5c pkgs.
eee
2 40
Silver Gloss, 16 3lbs. .. 9%
Silver Gloss, 12 6Ibs. .. 9%
Mu
48 1b. packases Seteus. OS
16 3lb. packages ...... 9%
12 61b. packages ...... 9%
50 Ib. boxes .......... 6%
SYRUPS
——
Barrels ...... eeeeecee.
Half barrels ..........
Blue Karo, No. 1%,
2 doz scaeces & OG
Blue lh No. 2, 2 dz. 3 80
Blue Karo, No. 2%, 2
OGe, oe 4 60
Blue Karo, No. 5. 1 dz. 4 45
Blue Karo, No. 10,
OOM. sc cece csc cu. 4 30
Bee aces No. 1%, 2
washes oo oeuas 3 20
Red. Teale: No. 2, 2 dz. 4 05
Red Karo, No. 2H 2dz. 5 00
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 4 85
Red Karo, No. 10 %
GOR cocks cuccceee.. £40
Pure Cane
Bale 2... te ecs.. secaee 16
Good: 2...5. 0.25, we 20
Choice ...... 25
Folger’s Grape Punch
Quarts, doz. case ... 6 00
TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large ....... 75
Halford, small ....... 2 26
TEA
Uncolored Japan
Medium 2
Choice a
DANCY 2.0... sess @ 45
Basket-fired Med’m 28@30
Basket-fired Choice 35@37
Basket-fired Fancy 38@45
No, 1 Nibs .....:... 30@32
Siftings, bulk ...... 9@10
Siftings, 1 lb. pkgs. 12@14
Gunpowder
Moyune, Medium .. 28@33
Moyune, Choice 35@40
Ping Suey, Medium 25@30
Ping Suey, Choice 35@40
Ping Suey, Fancy .. 45@50
Young Hyson
Chotee ...... seceee 28@30
Raney .............. 45@56
Oolong
Formosa, Medium .. 25@26
Formosa, Choice 32@35
Formosa, Fancy 50@60
English Breakfast
Congou, Medium 25@30
Congou, Choice .... 30@35
Congou, Fancy - 40@60
Congou, Ex. Fancy 60@80
Ceylon
Pekoe, Medium .... 28@30
Dr. Pekoe, Choice ..30@35
Flowery O. P. Fancy 40@50
CIGARS
Peter Dornbos Brands
Dornbos Single
INGO 2... case ss 37 00
Dornbos, Perfectos .. 37 00
Dornbos, Bismarck 73 00
Allan D. Grant ...... 65 00
Allan By. 2.0... 22... 35 00
Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand
Dutch Masters Club 75 00
Dutch Masters, Ban 75 00
Dutch Masters, Inv. 75 00
Dutch Masters, Pan. 75 00
Dutch Master Grande 72 00
El Portana
Dutch Masters, 5c
Ss. ¢. WwW.
Gee Jay
Above four brands are
sold on following basis:
Less than 300 ...... 37 00
300 assorted ......... 36 00
2500 assorted ........ 35 00
2% cash discount on all
purchases.
Worden Grocer Co. Brands
3
Boston Straight ..... 7 00
Trans Michigan ..... 37 50
@ oP. te 2 oe... 37 50
Court Royal ....._... 43 00
Hemmeter’s Cham-
MOM ooo e ee 42 50
HFOQUOIS ........:.... 42 50
La Azora Agreement 38 50
La Azora Bismarck ..70 00
Whaleback
eee eee es 0
TWINE
Cotton, $ ply .......... 47
Catton, 4 piy .......... 47
dtite, 2 ply ........... 25
Hemp, 6 piv .......:.... 32
Flax, medium ......... 35
Wool, 100 Ib. bales .... 18
VINEGAR
White Wine, 40 grain 15
White Wine, 80 grain 21
White Wine, 100 grain 25
Oakland Vinegar & Pickle
Co.’s Brands
Highland apple cider
Oakland apple cider ..
State Seal sugar .....
Blue Ribbon Corn ..
Oakland white picklg
Packages free.
WICKING
No. 0, per gross ........ 35
No. 1, per gross ....... 45
No. 2, per gross ....... 60
No. 3, per gross ....... 90
WOODENWARE
Baskets
Hushele <.2...-.2.... 20
Bushels, wide band ..1 45
Market, drop handle .. 55
Market, single handle 60
Splint, large ........ 4 00
Splint, medium ....... 3 50
Splint, small ........ 3 00
Willow, Clothes, large
Willow, Clothes, small
Willow, Clothes, me’m
Butter Plates
Ovals
250 in crate
250 in crate
1 “Tb., 250 in crate
2 Ib., 250 in crate ..
3 Ib., 250 in crate
5 Th., 250 in crate
Wire End
1 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 45
2 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 50
3 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 6¢
5 lb., 20 in crate ...... 70
Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal., each .. 2 55
Clothes Pins
Round Head
4% meh, 5 gross .... 70
Cartons, No. 24, 24s, Dxs. 75
Egg Crates and Fillers
Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. =
No. 1 complete ........
No. 2 complete ....... 35
Case, medium, 12 sets 1 30
Faucets
Cork lined, § im ......: 70
Cork lined, 9 ft. ...... 80
Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring ........ 1 35
Eclipse patent spring 1 35
No. 1 common ...... 1 35
No. 2, pat. brush hold-1 35
Ideal No 7 .... 4... 5. 35
12th. eotton mop heads 1 7h
Palis
10 qt. Gaivanized .... 3 25
I2 qt. Galvanized .... 3 75
14 qt. Galwanized .... 4 25
BIBEG . 62.6.2... 5 50
Toothpicks
Eiri 100 packages .. 2 00
NGGaN 26 acc cce ce 85
Traps
Mouse, wood, 2 hoels .. 22
Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. 45
10 qt. Galvanized .... 1
12 qt. Galvanized .... 1 70
14 qt. Galvanized .... 1
Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65
Frat, wedge .............. 80
Rat spring -........... 75
Tubs
No. 1 Fibre .........- 16 50
No. 2 Wibre ........- 15 00
No. 3 Fibre ...-...2.; 13 50
Large Galvanized. ... 12 00
Medium Galvanized 10 25
Small Galvanized .... 9 25
Washboards
Banner, Globe ...... 3 75
Brass, Single ........ 6 75
Glass, Single ........ 4 00
Double Peerless ..... 6 25
Single Peerless ...... 5 50
Northern Queen ..... 4 75
Good Enough ........ 4 65
Wriversal ............ 5 00
Wood Bowls
Id im. Butter ........ 1 90
1S in, Butter ........ 7 00
V@ im. Butter ....... 8 00
39 in, Butter ..:..... 11 00
WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre Manila, white .. 5%
Fibre, Manila, colored
No. £ Manila ...:.... 6%
Butchers’ Manila 6%
Loy: 14 a 9
Wax Butter, short. ¢ ‘nt 16
Wax Butter, full c’nt 20
Parchm’t Butter, rolis 19
YEAST CAKE
Magsie, 5 dog. ........ 1 15
Sunlight, 3 dez. ...... 1 00
Sunlight, 1% doz. .... 50
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. .. 1 15
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85
Window Cleaners
SOAP
Lenox
Ivory, 6 oz.
Ivory, 10 oz.
RESP oe. cas cecees esee
Swift & Company
Swift's Pride ........ 4 75
White Laundry ...... 4 85
Wool, 6 oz. bars .... 5 15
Wool, 10 oz. bars .... 7 00
Sete ere rere ens
cee eserees
Tradesman Company
Black Hawk, one box 3 75
Black Hawk, five bxs 3 70
Black Hawk, ten bxs 3 65
Box contains 72 cakes. It
is a most remarkable dirt
and grease remover, with-
out injury to the skin.
Scouring :
Sapolio, gross lots .. 9 50
half gro. lots 4 85
Sapolio,
Sapolio, single boxes 2 40
Sapolio, hand ....... . 2 40
Scourine, 50 cakes .. 1 80
Scourine, 100 cakes .. 3 50
Queen Anne Scourer 1 80
Soap Compounds
Johnson's Fine, 48 2 3 25
Johnson’s XXX 100 5c 4 40
Rub-No-More ....... 4 50
Nime O'Clock ......<. 3 85
WASHING POWDERS.
Gold Dust
24 large packages .... 5 75
100 small packages .. 5 60
SPECIAL
Price Current
ARCTIC
EVAPORATED MILK
"TAM ob 6 00
Baby |. 00.42.42... 4 25
Manufactured by Grand
Ledge Milk Co.
Sold by all jobbers and
National Grocer Co., Grand
Rapids.
BAKING POWDER
KC
10c, 4 doz. in case .... 95
lic, 4 doz. in case .... 1 40
25c, 4 doz. in case .... 2 35
50c, 2 doz. plain top 4 50
80c, 1 doz. plain top 7 00
10 lb. % dz., plain top 14 00
Special deals quoted up-
on request.
K C Baking Powder is
guaranteed to comply with
ALL Pure Food Laws, both
State and National.
Royal
# 10c size ... 1
4 4%lb. cans 1
6 0z. cans 2
5 %lb. cans 2 55
%lb. cans 3
llb. cans .. 4
Zs 5lb. cans 23
1 Ib. boxes, per gross 8 70
3 lb. boxes, per gross 23 10
PU CHLOE
Car lots or local shipments.
bulk or sacked in paper or
civic deed and ahd
charcoal.
‘DEWEY ~ ee Jackson, vag
ek Ye tole toM.O. DEWEY CO.
THE ONLY
5c CLEANSER
Guaranteed to equal the best 10c
kinds. 80 can cases $3.20 per case.
SALT
| rane
SALT
Sr xo,
Morton’s Salt
Per case, 24 2 Ibs. .... 1 80
Five case lots ....... 1 70
30
The Passing of the Free Deal.
While the war has given business a
lot of new problems to solve, it is con-
soling to know that at the same time
it is automaticaly eliminating old trade
evils that had been regarded as impreg-
nably established. A good many in-
stances of this kind have occurred dur-
ing the last three years. None has been
more important than the war-time de-
cline of the free deal.
Perhaps, in itself, the free deal is
legitimate enough, but it has been so
grossly abused that it had become a
selling evil of the first magnitude. Man-
ufacturers have long recognized the deal
as a great friction-maker in the ma-
chinery of trade relations. Hence there
had been an ever-growing tendency to
discourage the giving of free goods. So
deeply, however, had the custom fast-
ened its tentacles on distributing meth-
ods that it took some great cataclysm,
like the world-war, to uproot it. For
the past three years, one by one manu-
facturers have been discontinuing the
free deal. With materials in most lines
as scarce as they are, there is no excuse
for giving away goods. It has, there-
fore, been easy to stop the practice.
But now the question is, will the free
deal come back after conditions are re-
stored to normal? Manufacturers feel
that to a certain extent it may, but they
claim it is not likely it will ever regain
the hold that it once had. The free deal
represents a certain period in the de-
velopment of distribution. When manu-
facturers first faced the problem of dis-
posing of heavy production, it was nat-
ural for them to cultivate the large buy-
er. To compel as many big purchases
as possible, every sort of inducement,
including free goods, was offered. But
it was soon seen that selling large quan-
tities to dealers did not complete the
distribution of the goods. Selling the
merchandise to the consumers also was
found to be necessary and this could
not be left entirely to the dealer. There-
fore, the manufacturer had to adver-
tise. This was the next step in the
evolution.
And as a result, to-day the ideal of
the country’s leading manufacturers is
not to unload big quantities of their
goods on the dealer, but rather to have
a constant flow of them going through
his store to the consumer. This adver-
tising accomplishes, and it is this. the
free deal failed to accomplish. So what-
ever the use of the free deal in the
future, it is now pretty generally recog-
nized that it cannot be used as a sub-
stitute for advertising.
And conditions to-day, with raw ma-
terials scarce, and the trade and con-
sumers ready to approve of measures
of economy, are favorable to a cleaning
up.
—_—_-.e._o
Official Statement of German’s The-
ory of Living.
“We are so much greater than other
nations that whatever we do to advance
our own interests, at the cost of theirs,
is right and praiseworthy. If we kill a
great many of them, those who survive
wil] in the end be improved, because
they will work for us and learn some-
thing by observing us. Any deceit is
proper and morally correct if it benefits
us; and when we practice a policy of
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
terror upon those who oppose us it is
really philanthropy and shows how gen-
tle we are, because the survivors learn
through our cruelty that it is useless to
oppose us, therefore they the sooner
submit their wills to ours.
“We cannot do wrong, no matter what
we do, so long as all that we do is for
our own benefit. And, since our nature
is warlike, war is beautiful and neces-
sary. We study in peace times how to
use every man of us in time of war,
and that is our great glory. By our
bright swords we will take possession
of the earth, which ought to belong to
us, because we are Germans. We be-
lieve in the heaviest possible breeding of
babies, that they may grow up and be
trained to carry liquid fire and poison
against any opposition to us.
“And, all the same, we are the only
real peace lovers in this malign and
prejudiced world, which, except for us
the Austrians and the Bulgarians and
the Turks, is composed exclusively of
stupid ruffians who were so jealous and
envious of us that they forced this -war
upon us, hoping to make some money
out of us by annihilating us. We love
peace, and are fighting for our mere
existence—that is, the right to adjust
our frontiers so that they will include
the countries which we have conquered
by the sword. For instance, we must
never again be threatened by an invasion
through Belgium. We prepared for this
war as no country ever before prepared
—not even in 1870 when we made war
on France—and we were forced to be-
gin it because we had to begin it before
somebody else did.”
—_++2—___
Motor Coats and Wraps in Demand.
Although automobile sales and the
use of pleasure cars this fall are said
to have fallen off considerably, there
seems to be practically no letup in the
demand for smart motor coats and
wraps for women. Local manufactur-
ers of these garments report that the
fall season has been unusually good,
with the high-priced elaborate lines
as much in demand as the medium
and lower grades. The
cape, military in its effect and fre-
quently with army or navy decora-
tions and trimmings, has been among
the most popular styles of the season.
662.
Some men are too honest to steal
an umbrella on a rainy day because
they have their eyes on bigger game.
sleeveless
Watson-HigginsMlg.Co.
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
Merchant
Millers
Owned by Merchants
Products sold by
Merchants
Brand Recommended
by Merchant:
NewPerfection Flour
Packed In SAXOLIN Paper-lined
Cotton, Sanitary: Sacks
“The Gift that Lives is the Gift to Give”
Victrolas
Pianos
Player Pianos
These are Gifts jl
that ‘“‘Live’’ A
Largest Stock
in Western
Michigan
Sold on Convenient Monthly Payments
202 Monroe
Friedrich’s
Ave.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
December 5, 1917
American Sugar Refining Company
i we
Reduce your bag and twine expense by selling
olin
: 0 Package
Sugars
These neat, strong cartons and cotton bags of clean cane sugar
are always ready to put into your customers’ hands.
a
American Sugar Refining Company
The Most Complete Line of Sugar in the World
nourishment.
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
The Shredded Wheat Company
A Warm Nourishing Meal
Shredded Wheat Biscuit w.th hot milk and a
little cream makes a warm, nourishing, satis-
fying meal. It not only pleases the palate,
but supplies the body with strength and en-
ergy for the day’s work.
Shredded Wheat
Tell your customers about the real food value
of this delicious cereal, and suggest its use
with milk and a little fruit, instead of the
egg or meat breakfast that costs many times
as much but gives no more ©
December 5, 1917
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31
BUSINESS -WANTS DEPARTMENT
Advertisements inserted under this head for three cents a word the first insertion
and two cents a word for each subsequent continuous insertion. No charge less than
25 cents. Cash must accompany all orders.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
For Sale—Grocery and meat market.
Doing $2,500 monthly. No trades. Ad-
dress W. B. Harris, Smithville, oe
Wanted-—To hear from owner of good
general merchandise store for sale. State
price, particulars. D. F. Bush, Minne-
apolis, Minnesota. 460
For Sale Cheap—Small stock of hard-
ware and furnace supplies, also store
building. Herman C. Oelke, Wausau,
Wisconsin. 461
Wanted—To buy a good set of tinner’s
tools. Herman C. Oelke, Wausau, Wis-
consin. 462
For Sale—Stock of good, clean’ gro-
ceries in tre richest farming country of
Minnesota. Stock and fixtures’ invoice
$3,500. A. M. Beach, Canton, —_——
6
For Sale—Beautiful Oakwood Farm,
near Saginaw, Michigan. 100 acres; soil
productive; new buildings, all kinds, in-
cluding tile silo; price and terms very
reasonable. For details address the own-
er, F. J. Southwell, Chesaning, cer ay
Walnut Meats—Buy them direct from
grower. Light colored meats, halves and
pieces mixed. 55c per pound. Also have
cheaper grade walnuts 25ec and 30ec per
pound. Almond nut meats 56%c per
pound. Ship ten pounds, express prenaid.
Free samples on request. I sell olives.
W. G. Flint. 808 E. Fifth street, Los
Angeles, California. 465
For Sale—Drug stock and _ fixtures.
Clean and up-to-date. Good growing
business town, 3,000 nopulation. Inven-
tory about $3,800. Address No. 466, care
Michigan Tradesman. 466
Clean stock. Good
town, 1,800 population. Daily cash aver-
age $87.22 for entire year. Stock about
$2,500. I have made good, so can you.
Best of references. Address No. 467,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 467
For Sale—Best suburban grocery propo-
sition in Lansing. Absolutely not an un-
salable article in the store. Will re-
duce stock and make terms to right
party. Address No. 453, care oe
For Sale—Grocery.
For Sale—Grocery, long’ established,
doing fine business, complete stock, large
surplus. Age owner reason selling.
Charles M. Oldrin, First National Bank
Bidg., Ann Arbor, Michigan. 454
Feed, Fuel and Gasoline Business—
Splendid opening in the heart of citrus
fruit belt of San Joaquin Valley. H. D.
Crumly, Manager, Strathmore, Tulare
County, California. 456
For Sale—General stock, consisting of
dry goods, groceries, boots, shoes, etc.
Located in Ionia County, Michigan, sur-
rounded by one of the best farming dis-
tricts in the State. Will invoice $7,500
to $8,000. At present doing $2,500 annual
business. Overhead expense $4.50 per
day. Reason for selling owner drafted
for military service. Closest inspection
invited. Address No. 457, care Trades-
man.
For Sale Cheap Or Exchange For Real
Estate—Stock of drugs and fixtures. Will
sell half interest to live wire. Located
in best town in Michigan. Address No.
437, care Michigan Tradesman. 437
Soft drink bottling plant, established
twenty-eight years. Death, reason for
selling. Big buy for some one. Mrs. C.
Shuttz, 39 Cherry street, Wyandotte,
Michigan. 4
Down Town—Good shoe location, half
store with large modern window. Rea-
sonable rent. For information write to
The Hub, 115 Michigan Ave., Detroit,
Michigan. 440
Wanted To Purchase—Used time clock.
Bryan’s, 444 So. Fourth, Louisville,
Kentucky. 443
For Sale—General stock inventorying
about $1,200. Annual sales, $12,000. Can
be increased. Rent low. Good reason for
selling. Will sell with or without fix-
tures. Fred Narrin, Sigma, Mich. 446
For Sale—Good clean stock of general
merchandise in country town of Southern
Minnesota. Will invoice about $9,000.
Doing big business. Can give good rea-
son for selling. Address No. 447, care
Michigan Tradesman. 447
Laundry For Sale—Wichita’s best laun-
dry. Annual net profits fifteen thousand
dollars. Terms. Write or call 308 Barnes
building, Wichita, Kansas. 449
For Rent—First floor and basement of
the Masonic Temple in the hustling town
of Reed City, Michigan. 5,400 ft. floor
space; steam heat. Grand opportunity
for furniture and undertaking establish-
ment. John Schmidt, Reed City, Mich-
igan. 450
We can sell your store or other prop-
erty, any kind, anywhere. For quick
sales address Northwestern Business
Agency, Minneapolis, Minn. 468
Merchandise Auctioneer—W. E. Brown,
office 110 North Mitchell St., Cadillac,
Michigan. Ten years’ experience. 451
For Sale—Restaurant at East Lansing.
Doing good business; good opening for
bakery in connection; none in place;
soda fountain. Box 1032, East Lansing,
Michigan. 433
Safes Opened—W. L. Slocum, safe ex-
pert and locksmith. 128 Ann St., N. E.,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 104
Cash Buyers of clothing, shoes, dry
goods and furnishings. Parts or entire
stocks. H. Price, 194 Forrest Ave. East,
Detroit. 678
Will pay cash for whole or part stocks
of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn, Sag-
inaw, Michigan. 157
Merchants Please Take Notice! We
have clients of grocery stocks, general
stocks, dry goods stocks, hardware stocks,
drug stocks. We have on our list also a
few good farms to exchange for such
stocks. Also city property. If you wish
to sell or exchange your business write
us. G. R. Business Exchange, 540 House-
man Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. 859
For Sale—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
For Sale—General stock of merchan-
dise. Prices and terms to suit. Pros-
perous trade. Address No. 403, care
Michigan Tradesman. 403
Collections.
We collect anywhere. Send for our
“No Collection, No Charge” offer. Arrow
Mercantile Service, Murray’ Building,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 390
Cash Buyer of clothing, shoes, dry
goods, furnishings and carpets. Parts or
entire stocks. Charles Goldstone, 333
Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 407
Cash Registers—We offer exceptional
bargains in rebuilt National or American
Cash Registers. Will exchange your old
machine. Supplies for all makes always
on hand. Repair department in connec-
tion. Write for information. The J. C.
Vogt Sales Co., 215 So. Washinbton Ave.,
Saginaw, Michigan. 335
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THE CLOVEN HOOF.
The addition of a war tax of one
cent per ounce to first-class letter post-
age made the big catalogue concerns
squirm, but with characteristic enter-
prise they went promptly to work to
devise some method of beating the new
levy. Among the schemes adopted was
that of making up their mail by cities
and towns of destination, stamping let-
ters at the rate of two cents and ship-
ping them in bulk by express to be
dumped into the local post offices and
distributed as “drop” letters.
No sooner had the mail-order people
begun the local dumping process than
their operations were detected by vigi-
lant retail merchants and protests began
to pour in upon Postmaster General
Burleson, who immediately met the is-
sue and circumvented the slackers and
shirkers by issuing the following amend-
ment to the postal laws:
“2. When persons or concerns of any
city or place send their letters in bulk
for mailing for local delivery at a post
office at another city or place, such let-
ters are not drop letters and are not
entitled to the drop-letter rate but shali
be charged with postage at the rate of
three cents for each ounce or fraction
of an ounce.”
It is doubtful that any level-headed
business man really believes in the wis-
dom of placing a tax upon the use of
the mails, which, in the interest of busi-
ness and for the welfare of the Nation,
should be as free as possible. If there
must be a tax, however, the mail-order
people should pay their full share.
——_-+
Kinds of Hardware Selling at Pres-
ent.
Usually when building activities
decline they decline generally all over
the country, and building materials
of all kinds are affected very much
alike. Now it is not so, because of
unusual conditions brought about by
the war. The financial world is dis-
couraging all enterprises of construc-
tion, believing it wise and necessary
to conserve all the liquid capital pos-
sible for Government taxes. This
strikes especially at construction in
the large cities. But, out in the
country, where the farmers are pros-
perous, conditions are somewhat dif-
ferent. Farm buildings are being con-
structed where necessary to store the
great harvests of this year. Also
dwellings are being built, although
in modest measure.
Consequently, in builder’s hard-
ware, cheap and staple items, such
as strap and T hinges, rim door locks,
and steel door butts in old copper
finish, are selling fairly liberally.
While, on the other hand, the demand
for such high-priced hardware as
bronze front door locks, with accom-
panying expensive trim, has fallen
to comparatively small proportions.
Cheap sash cord, largely for repair
work, still sells freely.
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Status of the Drug Market.
The general market remains firm.
There are comparatively few changes
in prices, those having occurred being
confined, as a rule, to commodities of
minor importance. Epsom salt is easier,
the demand having been rather light
recently. Denatured alcohol is easy
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
owing to a lack of demand of impor-
tance and competition among sellers.
California honey is higher owing to a
further decrease in supplies. Benzoic
acid and benzoate of soda are scarce
and still higher prices are demanded by
some holders. Coriander oil is higher
owing to increasing scarcity. The gen-
eral list of essential oils is firm. Henna
leaves are firmer on a decrease in sup-
plies. Florentine orris root has ad-
vanced further on a shrinkage in stocks
and uncertainty regarding future sup-
plies. Higher prices are demanded for
South American canary seed. Supplies
of Japan wax has decreased and the
market is firmer. Caustic soda is easier
in second hands owing to an absence of
demand. Caffeine alkaloid is still in
small supply among second hands and
the market remains firm at the recent
advance of $12.50@13 per pound. Quick-
silver was in fair request and the mar-
ket apparently was firm at the advance
previously noted to $115 per flask. Hon-
ey has been advanced to 18.20c per
pound. There has been a good enquiry
of late and supplies have diminished.
Acetanilid is meeting with a good de-
mand and the market retains a firm
tone.
Developing Uncle Sam’s Love of
Candy.
Surely America is “The Land of
the Candy Kid,” and accordingly the
existing shortage of sugar has be-
come a mcre serious problem with
us than with many of the other bel-
ligerent nations. Statistics have been
eathered to show that previous to the
year 1850 America’s use of sugar nev-
er exceeded twelve pounds per cap-
ita, whereas it has been steadily
mounting for the past three-quarters
of a century until it is to-day more
than six times that. .
The following figures, based on our
consumpticn per capita, compiled bv
an authority in Boston, indicate by
decades how cur sweet tooth has been
developing:
IBN 810 | i.e
SRIU0-18S0 .. 4.3 ee ee es eee. 8
EROO-1hs0 5... ee ee 9
1630-1540 .. cee eee oe ee ee oo 12
SRA SGD 22 ee ee 22
S6o0-1800 .... 5. 26
AGO0 3600 . i. ee se 23
SSTO-BSO 2... 252.5. oe eee 3<
ABAD -3BO0 2.8. e eee ee eee ee 44
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1917
A very good demand for phono-
graphs is reported from all sect’ons
of the country. Holiday buying in
these lines is said to have started in
already, and in a number of case;
manufacturers say they have rece ved
duplicate from retailers for
nearby deliveries to keep their lines
intact for the rest of the season.
While cabinet pieces and period styles
are selling, the great bulk of the busi-
ness is being done, according to re-
port, in those lines retailing around
$100 and under. Quite an extensive
export business has been done dur-
ing the last few months, especially
with Eurcpe, where the machines are
used behind the lines to afford amuse-
ment to the soldiers.
orders
Actvities in Michigan Cities.
Written for the Tradesman.
“Made in Saginaw” week opens Jan.
14 in that city, with exhibitions in
downtown store windows. The Board
of Trade has the matter in hand and
the object is to show the home peo-
ple the diversity and extent of the
goods manufactured in Saginaw.
Starting this week it costs more to
live in Detroit. Transportation by
street car has advanced to 5 cents,
or near that figure, while milk is
boosted 2 cents and now costs 14
cents per quart.
The city beautiful committee of the
Saginaw Board of Trade has been
assured by Pere Marquette and Mich-
igan Central officials that conditions
will be bettered at the passenger sta-
tions.
Flint’s winter tax rate is $10 per
thousand of assessed valuation, as
compared with $8.80 a year ago.
The Stearns mill, at Ludington, has
closed down, after forty-seven years
of operation. With it passes the
lumber industry of that city.
James Ludington, after whom the
city was named, was the first man
to conduct lumbering operations
there.
An industrial survey has been start
ed at Port Huron under the guidance
of the Chamber of Commerce.
Sault Ste. Marie has engaged a
harbor master to look after the boats
which tie up at docks and block the
river traffic.
Middleville has voted to engage an
extra night watchman.
Ann Arbor’s new garbage disposal
plant will be ready for operation in
a few weeks. H. H. Waggoner has
the contract for disposing of garbage
in an incinerator for a period of five
years at $6,000 per year, which in-
cludes payment for the construction
of the plant. At the end of the con-
tract period the plant is to become the
property of the city.
Mayor Mundy, of Bay City, has ve-
toed the action of the alderman in
giving the Valley Telephone Co. the
right to increase its service rates.
Flint is considering an ordinance
to do away with fake auctions and
sales.
Pontiac is planning a public com-
fort station, to be located near the
court house, on Huron street.
Pontiac has built 2.75 miles of sew-
ers, 3.29 miles of curbs and gutters,
three-fourths of a mile of storm
drains and 6.19 miles of water mains
1917. Almond. Griffen.
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Status of the Bean Market.
The bean market has been very quiet
the past week and the Government has
still limited the price on which it will
buy beans to 115¢c per pound. This,
together with the light demand from
the general trade, has lowered the mar-
ket about 25@40c per bushel,
during
Government restrictions on grocers,
limiting their profits, offers no induce-
ment for the jobber to buy more than
for his actual needs. Also the Trans-
portation Department is now insisting
that at least 60,000 pounds of beans be
loaded as a carload which has minimized
the carload buy in all directions.
California beans are about 75c per
December 5, 1917
100 lower. The demand is practically
nil.
An effort is being made by Market
Director McBride and others to provide
a way to care for the wet beans. All
elevator owners and canners are putting
forth their best efforts, regardless of
profit, to make some sort of market for
the farmers, so that they may realize
something for the crop they have pro-
duced. Ernest L. Wellman.
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Says Dress Goods Will Open High.
One of the best-posted dress goods
men in the New York market predicts
that, when prices are made on 35 and
36 inch cotton-warp storm serges for
fall of 1918, about six weeks from
now, they will open at 60@65 cents
a yard, against 50@52™% cents, the
opening quotations for the current
fall. This will be due largely in the
sharply advanced cost of both wool
and cotton. It may be in anticipa-
tion of coming events that many of
the retailers have been .picking up
these goods in increasing quantities
of late, both for immediate and spring
delivery. Mohairs are beginning to
move from second hands for spring
delivery, and a call is noted also for
48- and 54-inch cream all-wool gabar-
dines for spring. A big season is pre-
dicted for both. Really gcod mohairs
are already very scarce.
2.
The leading industries welcome the
proposed change in the administration
of the railroads of the Eastern states
as promising them better deliveries
of material and easier shipments of
finished product. It is inadequate
transportation as much as anything
else that has restricted these activi-
ties. It is claimed by railroad men
that the fault thus far has been large-
ly with Government officials. Cer-
tainly the best ability in the trans-
portation line has been enlisted in the
administration of the roads thus far.
It is the opinion of men in the iron
and steel trade that any revision of
prices by the Government hereafter
will be upward inasmuch as _ costs
have increased since the recent price-
making. The general business in
this line will, doubtless, continue to
fall off because the requirements of
the Government are constantly in-
creasing. It is said that every pound
of the 33,000,000 tons of steel produc-
ed in the United States in normal
times is needed by the Government,
a considerable part of it for the use
of our Allies.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
For Sale—No. 1 grocery stock, invoices
about $3,000. Sales over $30,000 per year.
Best city of 5000 in Central Michigan.
Sell at inventory. Reason for selling ill
health. For particulars address Oppor-
tunity No. 1, care Tradesman. 469
For Sale—Complete studio. ‘Will sell
at a bargain if taken at once. O. A,
Wendt, Standish. Michigan. 470
Wanted—Grocery or general merchan-
dise stock. One of our parties has heen
drafted and the other one. desiring to
engage in business with which he is
more familiar, offers to trade or sell
this first-class milling proverty for above
named stock. This is golden opportunity
to get into a good business. Also have
some good land to trade for stock. Full
varticulars in answer to enouiries. Mon-
roe Model Mills, Monroe, Wisconsin. 471
Wanted—First-clase shoe r man,
who has some machinerv,
and power furnished.
store on the main street in a town of
70.000 porulation in Northern Indiana.
Address Shoemaker, care Tradesman.
47
revair man,
Good shop
In first-class shoe