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Courage was never designed for show,

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It’s written in victory and defeat

And every trial a man may meet.

It’s part of his hours, his days and years,

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Thirty-Fifth Year

SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page
2. Upper Peninsula.
4. News of the Business World.
5. Grocery and Produce Market.
8. Editorial.
10. Hardware.
12. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
14. Shoes.
16. Woman's World.
18. Dry Goods.
20. Financial.
22. Buying Liberty Bonds.
24. The Commercial Traveler.
26. Drugs.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
30. Bankruptcy Matters.
31. Business Wants.

OUR GREATEST CIVIC ASSET.

The gift of another park area to the
adjoining the eft of
Garfield playground some years ago, is

 

 

city, priceless
only one more of many evidences of the
great heartedness of the donor, Hon.
Charles W. Garfield. All his life Mr.
Garfield has unselfishly devoted his
talents in no smail
to the public he serves and the city and
country he loves. His gifts to the city
Boulevard
tion have been altogether too extensive
for a of his means, but if the
eiving him one-thousandth as
future
will receive from his benefactions, he
will feel amply repaid for the sacrifies

time and measure

and) the Park and Associa-
man
attords
generations

much pleasure as

he has made and the physical pleasures
ne has denied himself to do the things
he has done for generations yet unborn.

Mr. Garfield lives his own life and
pursues his own methods and_ ideals,
possessing the courage of his convic-
tions, expressing his sentiments fully
and freely, undeterred by effect or con-
sequences, and disregarding unneces-
sary conventionalities. Mr. Garfield
displays certain outward qualities which
present a very unusual and interesting
combination of traits of character. His
cordiality, his geniality, his bright and
cheerful words of greeting, his buoyant
and hopeful nature, lend to casual in-
tercourse with him a most delightful
charm.

Because of his extended knowledge
and usefulness as a horticulturist, for-
ester, publicist, humanitarian and
philanthropist, Mr. Garfield has hecome
a national figure. Fortunately his em-
inence in the eyes of his countrymen
comes in the years of his sturdy man-
hood when he can enjoy the homage
paid him and the honors so justly his
due. It is not simply that he has been
a good soldier in the battle for better
farming and housing conditions, broad-
er religious views, more practical edu-
cational methods and civic and political
reforms. It is not a case of the people,
in his old age, looking to heroic serv-
ices of his far back in the past. What
they see with kindled admiration is a
man yet in the prime of life, possessing
all the enthusiasm of a man of 30, still
warming both hands at the fire of life:
refusing to fall into a_leisured and
shrunken existence, but freely giving
his name and time and pen and silver

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1918

speech to humane causes and civic bet-
terment. His presence in the
munity is an inspiration and his career
has found appreciation in many other
hearts who have sought to follow his
leadership and emulate his example.
Mr. Garfield is our greatest civic asset
because he is hopeful, useful, radiant
and unquenched.

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CHANCES OF PRICE FIXING.

It is beginning to dawn upon a num-
ber of manufacturers that their course
in boosting prices to the limit is to
Of this fact
there seems no doubt, and the only un-
certainty concerns the method and ex-
tent of the regulation. Three sets of
things are under consideration by the

receive an official check.

War Industries Board, and those who
make the articles have been called into
about them. The

comprise cotton, woolen,
leather manufactures.

conference three

groups and
That the prices
obtained are exorbitant seems to be
demonstrated by the remarkable profits
realized by the makers of such goods,
profits which even such subterfuges as
stock dividends, better-
ments, and the conceal.
While the Government’s requirements
have been obtained, by a mild kind of
prices
civilian needs, even these, it is felt, have
been much above what they should he.
The greatest burden, however. has been
placed on the general public in the pur-
chase of articles of wear, and no limit
seems to have been put on the advances
which have continuous. These
circumstances have been taken into ac-

amounts for
like cannot

coercion, at lower than have

been

count, and it is announced that maxi-
mum prices will be fixed which will
allow a fair, as distinguished from an
extortionate, profit on yarns,
hides and leather. It is said to be only

fabrics,

a matter of a few days before the con-
clusions arrived at will be made public.
The prospect of an enforced drop in
prices is not reassuring to the
profiteers.

VOly

The movie farmer is a gent who does
He doesn’t
ramble wide and free, trilling his long
drawn He spends his time
removing hooks stuck into him by city

not dwell in sweet content.
hi-lo-lee !

crooks, and drives his daughter from
the door and tells her to return no
more. His head is often
shame at stains upon the family name,
and he is always on the track of thugs
to get them papers back. He has no
time to plow or hoe, because the sharp-
ers pester so. And thus he passes all
his time without a reason or a rhyme.
jhe

bowed with

He never works a single stroke.
movie farmer is a joke.

 

The German army will have food
enough to go round when General Foch
gets through with it. There
be so many to feed.

will not

RESTRICTION OF IMPORTS.

Restriction of industries, either di-
rectly or indirectly, is proceeding by
degrees. The lines are getting tight-
ened gradually so that there may be no
unnecessary shock or hurried disrup-
tion of employment, but the effects are
becoming more and more perceptible
Public

given the right of way, so to speak, over

as time goes on. needs are
private ones, as must necessarily be the

case under the existing conditions.
Nothing, above all, is to be allowed to
interfere with the successful operation

The

theory adopted for the purpose is one

of the military forces. general

of priorities. Raw materials are per-
mitted to come into the country in the
order of their importance, and the dis-
such thimes as are

tribution of pro-

duced here is regulated on the same
principle. As an aid to eftectiveness it
has been found necessary to restrict the
things out of the
will

nage that is required for strictly war

sending of country,

not ony because this save ton-

purposes, but also because the articles

cannot be spared. These considerations
are patent in the makeup of the export
conservation list which went into effect
a week age Monday. The
articles listed are not absolutely
hibited
must be obtained before they can
They include both raw

very many
pro-
from exportation, but licenses
be
shipped out.

material and finished products.

In the restriction of imports many
things have to be taken into considera-
tion. |The matter of tonnage is, of

course, the main and controlling one
If there is room on board ships com-
ing this way it is a matter of economy
to use it. Where articles not absolutely
necessary are the only ones to be had
for the purpose they will probably con-
tinue to come in.
the opportunity for a choice, then the

rigidly enforced.

If, however, there ts

priority rule will be
There is to he every inducement to help
along industries which are helpful to-
ward war aims, but none to increase the
production of luxuries which would be
calculated to draw labor away from the
Any redistribu-
view its

making of essentials.
must have in

winning the

labor
ereatest effectiveness in
Another consideration has been

tion of

war.
taken into account in the restriction of
imports, to accomplish which legislation
is pending. This is to prevent the im-
portation of articles, even of primary
necessity, which can he produced in this
country. These articles are quite num-
erous, and are mainly in the classes of
minerals and chemical compounds. The
stimulation of domestic production of
these things may have far-reaching con-
sequences, extending long after the war
doubtless result in

is ended, and will

the firm establishment of many new

raw materials ob-
At the start

industries based on
tainable in this country.

Number 1805

the products may be more costly, but

this excess will be overcome by ex-

perience and by the natural ingenuity

of the people of this country

 

CANNED GOODS SITUATION.

Notwithstanding all the talk on the

art of California tomato growers that

p

that price named by the Government
some time ago of $15 per ton was too
low and that they should have $18 as
a minimum, it is now generally ad
mitted that contracts have been made
with canners on the $15 basis without
much opposition on the part of the

;

erowers. in the East as

wn
f

is said to have been paid, and it is

question in the minds of many in the
trade how much of this would be con

sidered profiteering if it were not

erowers who were dodine it. The

1

Government seemed to think in the

early attempts that were made to es-

basis for Government

tablish a price

contracts that about $2!) was a fair

enouch price, but the growers thought

otherwise. Labor costs will, of cours
enter very largely into the

1 situation,
but there is no doubt that the Govern

ment fully considered this in tl

that

rm

were made at the time. In the
meantime canners are unable to esti-
mate their costs and so Cannot name f:1-

ture prices. Jobbers are unable to

book orders on any basis except in a

few instances and ers who in

retaile

ha it ot pro
thus
rather sur-

other years were in the

viding for their requirements

€atly m the season are
prised to find that they cannot do so
this year. Supplies of old pack can
ned goods are light and no one seems
to have any surplus which he is willing
to share with his neighbor so that
there are very few resales reporte
—

It will be

a real comfort to relatives
of soldiers fighting in France to know

1 eee ' <
that arrangements are beine completed

Red

Cross with American military prisoners

for communication through ‘the

in Germany. Life in German. prison

camps has not, by those returned to

their friends, been reported as agree-

able or pleasant. Yet most of the cap-
sort oft
their

own people, and have received material

tives have been allowed same

intermittent correspondence with
aid in the way of food and clothes from
their homes. Prisoners’ hardships were
largely ascribed to poor food, insanitary

conditions and the inherent brutality of

the German people. No doubt, Ameri-
can prisoners will receive beiter treat-

than the English or French he-

William has

ment

cause every commercial

reason to refrain from rousing unnec-
essary hatreds in America. If the Red

Cross representatives in Switzerland

and neutral officials visiting the camps
in Germany are sufficiently active and
alert, it seems likely that our soldiers
taken captive will not unduly suffer.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

April 24, 1918

 

UPPER PENINSULA.

Rcent News of the Cloverland of
Michigan.

Sault Ste. Marie, April 22—The Lib-
erty Loan was a decided success in
Chippewa county, going over. the top
with $7,000 oversubscribed, with num-
erous precincts yet to hear from.

The brewers seem to have taken
a new lease of life, instead of going
out of business as expected. Our
local brewery, known as the Soo
Brewing Company, changes its name
to the Soo Beverage Company after
May 1. The stockholders are very
enthusiastic over the new change and
expect to sell much more near beer
than they did of the real stuff. As
long as everybody is doing it, there is
no reason why the Soo Beverage
Company, with a capacity of 35,000
barrels per annum, will not be reap-
ing a harvest under the new condi-
tions.

At a regular meeting of the trades
and labor council of the Soo held last
week, the candidacy of Hon. Chas S.
Osborn was unanimously endorsed.
Knowing that our fellow townsman
has the interest of the common peo-
ple at heart, they feel that he will play
his part as Michigan’s man of the hour
in this great crisis.

Miss Anna Ferris has accepted a
position as book-keeper at the Pick-
ford Woolen Mills, succeeding Miss
Alma Quinnell, who has resigned to
take an extended vacation.

“If you value your friends, make
yourself worthy of their friendship.”

A. Morningstar, the vinegar man, is
making Cloverland in the interests of
the vinegar interests this week.

G. M. Smith, of Trout Lake, was a
business visitor here last week.

E. E. Ducap’- well-known lumber-
man of Trout Lake, has been appoint-
ed deputy sheriff, succeeding C. J.
Smith, who resigned.

Miss Winifred Murray, of Mackinac
Island, left last week for Chicago,
where she will purchase stock for her
general store at the Island, which will
soon be ready for the opening of the
tourist season.

“When we look for trouble, it gen-
erally comes in an unexpected form.”

The St. Ignaceites have a new slo-
gan known as “stop kicking.” They
claim it is bad for the liver and diges-
tion and besides does not get us any-
where. Better forget it and invest
in Liberty bonds.

S. G. Newton returned last week
from an extended pleasure _ trip
throughout the United States. He is
back on the job, very much refreshed
and improved in health. He has start-
ed fording throughout the country
looking for business, as heretofore.

Mr. Gilligan, Sr., died last week at
the home of his son J. W. Gilligan,
merchant of Rexton.

The third annual tcur of the East-
ern Michigan Pike Association will
make a start from Detroit a day earli-
er than has been originally planned.
This will bring the pikers to St. Ig-
nace on Wednesday, July 10, instead
of the 11th. At the annual meeting
at Flint it was decided to speed up the
tour with a skip-stop plan, passing
by all communities where work has
been finished on the highways or
where they expect to finish this year.
In this way it is thought the tourists
can reach the Upper Peninsula in
three days, but some of the officials
believe this would be speeding up the
tour too much, so a day is to be add-
ed. This plan will again make East
Tawas and Tawas City a night con-
trol for the tourists, the stop being

 

made at these towns on Monday
night. The remainder of the schedule

calls for night controls as follows:
Alpena, Tuesday, St. Ignace, Wednes
day, Sault Ste. Marie, Thursday. The
Soo is making great preparations to
entertain the visitors and a large dele-
gation is looked for.

“Trying to beat the market is about
as healthy as trying to beat a tiger
that isn’t a rug yet.”

James Hough, of Ozark, is carrying
farming on a large scale, with the in-
tention of developing his famous herd
of Jersey cattle. Mr. Hough will im-
prove the common quality arouna
Ozark in a similar way that the Den -
more and Whitwell brothers have
done around St. Ignace by bringing
in famous bulls from the famous herds
of Holsteins at the Newberry hospital
and the Marquette prison. Chippewa
county is considered an ideal stock
raising community at the present time
and an investment along that line is
considered a move in the right di-
rection,

In Canada one is able to buy pack-
age butter put up in % pound pack-
ages which is separately wrapped in
waxed paper. It seems as if most of
us could afford to buy butter on this
scale. William G. Tapert.

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Premium Coupons Hard to Escape
From.

An interesting study into the status
of premium coupons as an implied con-
tract between the manufacturer who is-
sues and redeems them and the buyer,
is furnished in a recent decision by
Judge Noonan of Buffalo in an action
brought by one Robert D. Payne. against
Lautz Brothers, to compel them to re-
deem certain stamps which they claimed
were invalid because assembled contrary
to the conditions on which the firm ad-
vertised to redeem them.

The facts deduced at
these:

the trial are
On May 1, 1916, the defendant
soap company extensively advertised. on
billboards, etc., in the city of Buffalo,
that it would give a ticket to “Crystal
Beach,” a resort near that city, for a
specified number of coupons taken
from its soaps, the cost price of the
tickets to the public being 25 cents and
15 cents respectively The only restric-
tion upon the defendant’s offer was the
coupons must be exchanged for the
tickets at the Lautz premium stores.

On or after June 1, 1916, Lautz chang-
ed the character of the “Crystal Beach”
advertising by putting certain restric-
tions in it. On May 29th, 1916, the
plaintiff broker presented 100.000 cou-
pons to defendant and demanded 4,000
“Crystal Beach” tickets valued at 25
cents each. The coupons so presented
were acquired prior to May 1, 1916, and
upon the defendant’s refusal to redeem
the coupons for the tickets. the plain-
tiff brought an action for $1,000.

In defense Lautz contended that the
“Crystal Beach” advertisement must be
construed in connection with its other
advertising. Upon the evidence the
court returned a judgement in favor of
the plaintiff broker for the $1.000, with
interest and costs. holding that the
“Crystal Beach” offer of May 1, 1916,
was unrestricted and could not qualify
the rights of the plaintiff who had
accumulated the coupons prior to that
date; that the statements in the Novem-
ber, 1915, catalogue, implied if they did
not absolutely recognize, the right to
traffic in such coupons, and did not re-
strict plaintiff’s right to redeem.

“The defendant in the case at bar
had been offering these premiums for
many years,” said the ccurt in part.
“Whenever it changes its form of ad-
vertising it must have known and taken
into consideration the fact that there
were a great number of outstanding
coupons that it was liable to be called
upon to redeem under the offer then
being made

“In determining the liability of the

defendant we must bear in mind that
its advertisements put out on May 1,
1916, in the form of poster, placards and
handbills, was absolutely unrestricted.
It contained no reference whatever to
any of its previous advertising of any
form. There are no restrictions as to
who shall present the tickets and no
prohibition as to their transfer. It was
an unconditional offer.

“Tt was made with the full know'edge
of the fact that brokers were dealing
in its coupons, as is conclusively shown
by its own cautions in its own adver-
tising. It was made also with the
knowledge that large quantities of its
own coupons issued and acquired by the
holders thereof before the advertising
was done could be presented for such
tickets, because none of the coupons
bear any date and the defendant had
no way of distinguishing between those
acquired before or after the making of
its offer.

“My opinion is that, since the defend-
ant had the right to change its offer
at any time, this unrestricted offer of
May 1, 1916, was open to anyone to take
advantage of with coupons acquired
either before or after such offer was
made, and that it makes no difference
whether said coupons were presented by
a broker or by the persons, who actually
used the soap.”

—_2+2.>—___
Measures to Regulate Woolen Trade
Expected.

As a result of conferences held in
Washington at the close of last week
between the and members
of various divisions of the trade, a
definite exposition of the Government’s
attitude toward the trade is expected in
the near future. The purpose of the
conferences has been to develop means
to regulate more closely wool produc-
tion, marketing and manufacture. The
nature of the regulation is only sur-
mised, but the textile trades as a whole
are interested in it as similar super-
vision will doubtless be exercised over

cotton goods.

authorities

It is not certain that a definite pro-
granime of price fixing is the thing
aimed at, and woolen merchants be-
lieve that if a stabilizing of the markets
could be gained in some other way
price fixing would be avoided. On the
other hand, the Price Fixing Commit-
tee in Washington has taken part in the
conferences and its principles may be
found applicable to the wool industry.

Until the conditions under which
further general business is to be con-

ducted in woolen and worsteds are for-.

mulated a release of the raw materials
now held at the Government’s disposal
is not expected. Control of these stocks
has put an end to trading of all sorts.
Cutters, jobbers, etc., who have men’s
wear fabrics or dress goods under order
are doing all in their power to obtain
delivery of something, if only a few
pieces Not only would such delivery
assure them of some materials with
which to conduct their hasiness with
retailers, but it would give cutters an
opportunity to make up civilian gar-
ments in anticipation of the time when
a larger part of their machinery will be
turned to Government account for the
manufacture of military apparel. Wom-
en’s wear cutters will also be enlisted
in this service and the authorities have
been collecting data on just what can
be expected of this branch of the trade.

Buyers of piece goods have a growing
confidence that the Government will
back them on the validity of a large part
of their standing contracts and several
large selling organizations have ex-
pressed their intention of making full
deliveries, deferred only in proportion
to the engagement of machinery on
new Government orders.

The raw wool trade showed itself a
bit restive last week under the enforced
inactivity. The Philadelphia trade is
reported as operating in the new clip
in the nearer parts of the Middle West
but other dealers have agreed to sus-
pend these operations also. Importation
is generally light with reports from
Buenos Ayres of an unfavorable turn
in the rate of exchange and a greater
scarcity of freight space.

—_»+-2s—_
Spring Shoes For Women.

Oxfords for women are continuing
their popularity in the spring trade,
according to reports from shoe manu-
facturers and jobbers in this city.
Black patent leather and dull finished
black leather seem to be among the
leading finishes of the season up to
now. Gray and brown, however, are
also well sought, and with the ap-
proach of warmer weather a very
substantial demand for white oxfords
is reported to be developing. The ox-
fords this year are higher than- they
were a year ago, usually being of the
five-eyelet type. They are made with
long slim toes and very high heels.

 

be filled by any other jobber.

Exclusively Wholesale

 

SERVICE

We want all of our customers to know that we are in a position to
fill orders promptly, and, we believe, nearer complete than they could

We have anticipated the wants of our trade and are now carrying a
large stock, and are able to supply all reasonable demands promptly.

Do not hesitate to telephone or mail us your orders for anything
that you are in urgent need of, as we know that we are in a position to
give you service that can not be equaled elsewhere.

When in a hurry, don’t forget ‘‘service”’ and ‘“‘prompt shipments.”’

 

Michigan Hardware Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Where the Tradesman Stands on Con-
struction Criticism.

Grand Rapids, April 22—I am in
receipt of an anonymous letter, ac-
cusing me of inconsistency in urging
President Wilson to appoint a Repub-
lican cabinet and also because I urged
the recognition of Theodore Roose-
velt, when he offered to lead a volun-
teer army in the early days of the
war, overlooking the fact that he and
the President are not on friendly
terms.

It is contrary to established usage
among newspaper men to pay any at-
tention to a letter which lacks a signa-
ture, but because the writer of the
letter misrepresents my position be-
fore my readers and mistates the at-
titude of the Tradesman, a brief reply
is herewith submitted.

The writer of the letter errs in
stating that the Tradesman has ever
urged the selection of a Repubiican
cabinet. Such is not a fact and no one
can find a line anywhere in the
Tradesman to justify such a state-
ment. The Tradesman has insisted
from the beginning that during a
great crisis like the present, in which
the liberty of the world is at stake,
we should have a coalition cabinet,
the same as England and France
adopted after persisting in making the
same mistake this country is now
making at a cost of thousands of lives
and millions of dollars. All the wis-
dom of the country is not monopo-
lized by any one political party, anv
more than all the enormous cost of
conducting the war is borne by the
members cf one party. This is a peo-
ple’s war—not a Republican war or
a Democratic war—and the people
should be given an oppurtunity to
show their interest in the outcome in
other ways than by paying taxes.
When the life of the Nation is at
stake, as at present, the President
should select as his advisers. the
strongest men in the country, irre-

 

MICHIGAN 1RADESMAN

spective of their political views and
affiliations and without regard to their
personal relations with the Chief Ex-
ecutive. Lincoln selected as his Sec-
retary of War a Democrat who never
treated his superior with even com-
mon decency. Secretary Stanton ridi-
culed Lincoln to his face and behind
his back, but Lincoln kept him in ol-
fice because he was the most capable

man in the country to manage the
War Department during the Civil
War, I urged the selection of Elihu

Root as Secretary of War, because he
was familiar with the duties of that
office. His great ability would have
placed America at the forefront in the
titanic death grapple now on in Eu-
rope, instead of her taking the com-
paratively insignificant part we are
now playing as the result of the in-
difference and incapacity of Secre-
tary Baker, who entered the war as
a pacifist and has only lately awaken-
ed to the tremendous responsibility
which rests upon him as the directing
force of the War Department. Even
the most partisan friends of the Presi-
dent concede that the appointment of
Mr. Baker was a mistake and that his
retention in office, in the face of his
admitted incapacity, is the most un-
fortunate feature connected with the
prosecution of the war by this coun-
try.

I believe that the sending of Theo-
dore Roosevelt to France at the head
of a volunteer army of 10,000 men—
the expense of which would have been
borne by ardent patriots in the East-
ern States—would have done more to
fire the heart of France and encour-
age her brave sons to continued ef-
fort than a legion of 100,000 men a
year later. The refusal of President
Wilson to listen to the prayers of
France and the pleadings of Mr.
Roosevelt and his friends will prob-
ably go down into history as one of
the most gigantic mistakes ever made
by an American president.

The manner in which the war is
being handled discloses at every turn
the incapacity of many of the men en-
trusted with tasks for which they have
no fitness. We ought to be willing
to concede that England and France
have learned more about war than we
will know for some years yet and that
we will never win the war until we
adopt the methods of our adversaries
and Allies and put men in charge of
the various departments because of
their ability and fitness, instead of
their affiliation with the political party
now in power. I am aware that there
are narrow minded people who think
that any criticism of the party in pow-
er while the country is engaged in war
gives “aid and comfort to the enemy.”
I have nothing but contempt for such
bigoted opinions, because the people
who entertain such ideas and promul-
gate such doctrines place themselves
on the same level as the German peo-
ple, who dare not say a word in crit-
icism of the Kaiser for fear of in-
curring his ill will and being punished
for lese majesty. A man or party
which cannot withstand criticism is in
a bad way. During the Civil War the
Democratic party, in National conven-
tion, declared the war a failure and
Lincoln a usurper. Such a denuncia-
tion did no particular harm, because
it was based on political prejudice.
but constructive criticism by men of
both parties was a great help to Lin-
coln in formulating plans which en-
abled him to dispense with inefficient
officials like his own Republican Sec-
retary of War and prosecute the war
to a successful issue.

Show me a man who objects to
honest criticism and I will show you
a moral coward.

Show me a man who writes an ed-
itor an anonymous letter misstating
his position, and I will show you a
man who would stab you in the dark.

E. A. Stowe.

Brooms Will Be Scarce.

The decision of the Food Adminis-
tration to limit the acreage to be
planted in broom corn, this season,
is causing considerable
trade circles.

agitation in
Last year there was
the promise of a great crop, but un-
fortunately it failed. The crop was
scant and the quality poor, and any
good stock brought enormously in-
flated prices. The result is that the
market is at present absolutely bare.
On top of this situation comes the in-
structions of the Food Administration
putting a limit on the amount vt
broom corn that may be planted.

A recent convention of broom man-
ufacturers in Chicago received reports
which presented a gloomy outlook
not only for the broommaker, but for
the purchaser and a second meeting
is to be held the latter part of this
month or in May by the Central
States Broom Manufacturers’ Associa-
tion.

In Illinois where a large proportion
of broom corn is raised, farmers have
been instructed that they may not
plant more than ten acres of each
one hundred and sixty acres in broom
corn this season. It is pointed out
by broom men that if a similar order
were to be issued in Kansas and Ok-
lahoma the heavy shortage of broom
corn resulting would enhance values
to a point far beyond the reach of
the average housewife.

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Movements of Merchants.

Winn—Bernie S. Root succeeds B.
M. Adams in general trade.

Scottville—Thomas Paasch succeeds
Joseph Lowing in general trade.

Muskegon—Sikkinga & Timmer, gro-
cers, are succeeded by Thomas Sik-
kenga.

Harbor Springs—G. E. Bulock is re-
modeling and decorating the interior
of his jewelry store.

Cedar Springs—Overlie & Miller have
leased their meat market to W. J. Burt,
who has taken possession.

Detroit—The LaBell Funeral Serv-
ice, Inc., has increased its capital
stock from $50,000 to $100,000.

Howard City—Fire destroyed the
warehouse of the Larry Hardware Co.
April 17, causing a loss of about $15,000.

Greenville—The Greenville Supply &
Produce Association, Ltd., is closing
out its stock and will retire from busi-
ness.

Charlotte—F. W. Twichell, formerly
of Potterville, has engaged in the agri-
cultural implement business in the Ger-
ber building.

Detroit—Worth & Co., dealer in
women’s clothing at 230-232 Woodworth
avenue, has increased its capitalization
from $10,000 to $200,000.

Vestaburg—George Eavey has en-
gaged in the ice cream and soft drink
business under the management of
his nephew, Arnold Greenhoe.

Olivet—Frank H. Herrick has traded
his store building, meat stock and 40
acres of land to George Morris for his
farm, giving immediate possession.

Hastings—Hotel Barry, which has
been closed since last December, will
be re-opened May 1 under the manage-
ment of John Sutton, of Detroit.

Nashville—C. R. Quick has sold his
confectionery stock and ice cream par-
lor to Mrs. Ora Condon, formerly of
Belding, who has taken possession.

Holly—C. L. Hudson has sold his
coal, wood and building materia! stock
to J. Lee Montgomery, recently of Or-
tonville, who will continue the business.

Vicksburge—G. M. Dutt has sold his
stock of clothing and men’s furnishing
goods to the Philadelphia Underselling
Co., who will close it out at special
sale.

Zeeland—Theodore Dalman has pur-
chased the Diekema laundry, which has
been closed for some time and will
continue the business under his own
name.

Five Lakes—Elmer G. Moses, dealer
in general merchandise, has merged his
business into a stock company under
the stvle of the Five Lakes Mercantile
Co., with an authorized capital stock
of $8,000, of which amount $4,030 has
been subscrived and paid in in property.

Muskegon—George H. Shoup has
purchased the brick store building ad-
joining the Empress theater building
and will occupy it with his plumbing
stock.

Alma—George C. Blesch has sold
his interest in the stock of the Little
Rock Coal Co. and engaged in a sim-
ilar business under the style of the
Commercial Coal Co.

Detroit—G, A. Lindke, of the Lindke
Shoe Co., has been elected a director
of the Exchange Club, an organization
of business men comprising one repre-
sentative from each line of trade.

Portland—The Portland Co-Operat-
ive Association has been incorporated to
deal in farm and dairy products, with
an authorized capital stock of $5,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
$100 paid in in cash.

Grand Ledge—N. J. Streeter has sold
his grocery stock to Willis W. Shane,
who will continue the business at the
same location. Mr. Streeter will con-
tinue the bazaar store, under the man-
agement of Mrs. Streeter.

St. Johns—Roland J. Frink and Rus-
sel G. Gordanier, both of Lansing, have
formed a copartnership and purchased
the shoe stock and store fixtures of
Hulse Bros. and will continue the busi-
ness under the style of Frink & Gor-
danier.

Smyrna—J. A. Cook, who has con-
ducted a general store here for the past
five years, has sold his stock to Edward
Insley, who took immediate possession.

Petoskey—John Friend has sold his
cigar and tobacco stock to A. J. Dudek,
who will continue the business.

Detroit—The Wall Paper Shop has
been incorporated to conduct a whole-
sale and retail wall paper business,
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, of which amount $6,000 has
been subscribed and paid in, $151.24
in cash and $5,848.76 in property.

Detroit—Albert I. Luke, druggist at
1425 Mack avenue, has merged his busi-
ness into a stock company under the
style of the A. T. Drug Co. with an
authorized capital stock of $15,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in, $100 in cash and $14.000 in property.
The company will conduct a wholesale
and retail business.

Detroit—The Detroit Credit Mlen’s
Association has finally decided on a
fund of $10.000 to prosecute fraudulent

bankruptcy cases. The Association
now has several suspicious persons
under investigation. The intention is

to go to the limit of the law in prose-
cuting such cases. The organization
has been trying to raise this fund for
the past two years and finally succeeded
in convincing its members that it would
be a good thing and that it should be
established.

Manufacturing Matters.

Vestaburg—Fred Farmer has open-
ed a bakery in the Walker building.

Dowagiac—The Rudy Furnace Co. is
building a large addition to its plant.

Detroit—The Defender Auto Lock
Co. has increased its capital stock from
$2,500 to $25,000.

Petoskey—The Hankey Milling Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$100,000 to $150,000.

Benton Harbor—The Gillette Roller
Bearing Co. has changed its postof-
fice to Grand Rapids.

Detroit—The Howie-Berndt Glass
Co. has increased its capitalization
from $15,000 to $20,000.

Detroit—The Detroit Alaska Knit-
ting Mills has increased its capital stock
from $25,000 to $125,000.

Detroit—The Degner-Seymour Man-
ufacturing Co. has changed its name to
the Federal Carburettor Co.

Benton Harbor—The Superior Steel
Castings Co. has increased its capital
stock from $60,000 to $150,000.

Detroit—The Venus Dry-Storage
Battery Co. has changed its name to
the Standard Storage Battery Co.

Bronson—The_ Visel-Conover Co.,
manufacturer of display fixtures has
changed its name to the Visel-Darl-
ing Co., Ine.

Pentwater—The Sears & Nichols
Canning Co. is building an addition
to its plant and erection warehouse
47 x 108 feet.

Mason—John N. Penberthy, harness
manufacturer, died suddenly at_ his
store April 17, as the result of an at-
tack of heart disease.

Detroit—The Radford Block Co. has
changed its name to the W. D. Block
Motor Co. and increased its capital
stock from $20,000 to $50,000.

Saginaw—Fire destroyed the stor-
age house and pattern shop of the
Wickes Boiler Co., April 19, entail-
ing a loss of about $25,000, fully cov-
ered by insurance.

Sparta—The Sparta Silo Co. has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $6,000, of which
amount $5,200 has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Cassopolis—The Cassopolis Cement
Products Co. has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, all of which has been subscrib-
ed and $2,500 paid in in property.

Detroit—The Detroit Mineral Paint
Co. has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $50,000, of
which amount $25,000 has been sub-
scribed and $5,000 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Wolverine Lubricat-
ing & Chemical Co. has been incorpor-
ated with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and $2,500 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Household Furniture
Co. has been organized to manufac-
ture, wholesale and retail household
furniture, with an authorized capital
stock of $18,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Lansing—The Woods Pros. Silo
Manufacturing Co. has been reorgan-
ized into the Lansing Silo Co. The
general offices of the company will be
removed from Lincoln, Neb. here and
the plant on East Shiawassee street will
be greatly enlarged.

Detroit—The Detroit Electric Fur-
nace Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $50,000,
of which amount $27,500 has been sub-
scribed and $5,000 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Detroit Thermometer
Works, Inc., has been organized with
an authorized capital stock of $25,000,
of which amount $12,520 has been
subscribed and $6,540 paid in in cash.

Detroit— The Superior Double
Tread Tire Co., 92 Broadway, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $2,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Onsted—The Onsted Electric Light
& Power Co. has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$8,000, of which amount $5,000 has
been subscribed and $3,040 paid in in
cash.

Detroit—The Rialto Furniture Co.
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $12,000, of which
amount $7,500 has been subscribed and
paid in, $1,500 in cash and $6,000 in
property.

Detroit—The Whitney Co. has been
organized to conduct a general log-
ging and lumber business, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $1,250,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in property.

Detroit—Vivian Dare Products Co.
has been incorporated to manufacture
non-alcoholic beverages, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $3,000, all of
which has been subscribed and $1,000
paid in in cash.

Lansing—-J. F. Bell, receiver for the
Emergency Forge Co., for the past
three years. has rendered his final ac-
counting and reports that all creditors
have been paid 100 cents on the dollar
and all expenses incident to the conduct
of the receivership have been fully paid.

——_.- >
Coat Styles For Late Spring.

The late trade in coats for women
is said to be showing a tendency to-
ward raised waistlines. Pockets of
one sort or another are also more in
vogue than they were earlier in the
season. Where pockets are used, de-
signers have succeeded in turning
them to very good account for decor-
ative purposes. Fur trimmings for
collars and cuffs, and sometimes on
the bottom hem of the coat as well,
are still very popular. With the high-
er waistline, semi-fitted effects are us-
ed from there up, and sleeves are
rather tight.

——_2 ++
Laundry Soap Scarce in Denmark.

There is a famine in laundry soap
throughout Denmark, according to-
Commercial Agent N. L. Anderson of
Copenhagen. Practically no soap of
this sort can now be purchased, al-
though the shop windows are full of
fancy toilet soaps which were import-
ed from France, and the United
States. There seems to be very little
fat available in Denmark for the man-
ufacture of soap,.and there is also a
shortage of caustic soda, potash and
other ingredients.

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at 820 West Leonard street, have open-
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Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.

Asparagus—$3.50 per crate for IlIli-
nois.

Apples—Baldwins, Greenings, $6.50
per bbl.; Northern Spys, $7 per bbl;
Western, $3.50@3.75 per box.

Bananas—$6 per 100 lbs.

Butter—Receipts of fresh are increas-
ing to some extent. The demand is
also increasing and the market is steady
on the basis of quotations of a week
ago. The quality is as good as usual
for the season. We do not look for
any change of any importance in the
near future. However, if we experi-
ence any change, it is likely to be a
slight decline. Local dealers hold ex-
tra fancy creamery at 41c for fresh and
38c for cold storage; centralized brings
1@2c less. Local dealers pay 28c for
No. 1 dairy in jars; they also pay 27c
for packing stock.

Cabbage—$4.50 per 100 !bs. for old;
$2 per 40 Ib. hamper for new.

Carrots—75c per bu.

Cauliflower—$2.50 per case of 1 doz.
Calif.

Cucumbers—$1.50 per doz. for IIli-
nois hot house.

Eggs—The market is unchanged in
Grand Rapids, but slightly weaker in
Chicago. Local dealers pay 34c to-day,
cases included, delivered in Grand Rap-
ids.

Figs—12 10 oz. packages, $1.60.

Grape Fruit—$5@5.25 per box for all
sizes Floridas.

Green Onions—lIllinois, $1.75 per box
of 8@9 doz.

Green Peppers—75c per basket for
Southern . grown.

Honey—22c per Ib. for white clover
and 20c for dark.

Lemons—California selling at $6 for
choice and $6.25 for fancy.

Lettuce—10c per Ib. for hot house
leaf; $2.50 per hamper for New York
head; Iceberg, $4 per crate.

Limes—$1 per 100 for Italian.

Maple Syrup—$2.35 per gal. for pure.

Mushrooms—75c per Ib.

Nuts—Almonds, 21c per tb., filberts,
20c for Grenoble; Brazils, 18c; Mixed
nuts, 16%4c.

Onions—Home grown command $1.25
per 100 Ib. sack; Texas Bermudos, $2.25
per crate for yellow and $3.25 per crate
for white.

Onion Sets—$3 per bu. for yellow
and $3.25 for white.

Oranges—California Navals $4@7.50.

Parsnips—75c per bu.

Pieplant—$1.75 per 40 Ib. box Illinois.

Pineapple—$6 for either size.

Potatoes—Country buyers are paying
60@70c per 100 Ibs. New are now in
market, commanding $3 per hamper for
Florida. Increased demand is expected
to result from the publicity campaign

conducted by the Food Administration
and the Bureau of Markets, but the bad
advice doled out by grange and gleaner
officials has cost the potato growers
hundreds of thousands of dollars, be-
sides placing the farmers in an un-
fortunate light before the patriotic
people of the country.

Radishes—30c per
grown hot house.

Seeds—Timothy, $4; Medium Clover
$19@20; Alfalfa, $16; Alfalfa, Dako-
ta, $14.

Seed Beans—Navy, $9: Red Kidney,
$9; Beans Swedish, $7.

Seed Potatoes—Early Ohio, 2™%c per
Ib.

Strawberries—$7.50 per 24 qt. case
Floridas; $4 per 24 pint case ditto.

Sweet Potatoes—$3.25 per hamper for
kiln dried Illinois.

Tomatoes—$1 per 6 lb. basket.

—_++.—___

Beware of Charles W. La Rue.

The Tradesman warns its readers
against having any dealings with
Charles W. La Rue, corner West Leon-
ard and Scribner streets, except on a
cash-in-advance basis. La Rue started
in the butter, egg and produce business
about Feb. 1 at the location named. He
opened an account with the Leonard
street branch of the Kent State Bank
and uttered a number of checks on the
bank, which were protested for non-
payment. It is claimed that he contin-
ued to issue checks on the bank after
his account had been  peremptorily
closed by the manager. So far as the
Tradesman can learn, La Rue has no
responsibility whatever. Anyone who
ships him gocds on credit does so at
his peril.

———_» ++ —___.

Harold Sears, Manager of the Grand
Rapids Dry Goods Co., and R. C. Par-
ker, Manager of the piece goods de-
partment, left Sunday for New York,
where they will put in a week under-
taking to keep pace with the upward
trend in the dry goods trade.

————_+-+——_——

The Hall Canner Co. has been in-
corporated to manufacture and sell
canners and other devices for can-
ning, with an authorized capital stock
of $20,000 common and $5,000 prefer-
red, all of which has been subscribed
and $10,000 paid in in cash.

—_2++__.

William J. Dykstra has purchased
the dry goods stock of Mrs. G. M.
Loucks 971 and 973 Cherry street, and
consolidated it with his stock at 866
Grandville avenue.

——_2<-.—____

Guy W. Rouse, President of the
Worden Grocer Company, is confined
to his home by a bad cold, threaten-
ing pneumonia.

doz. for home

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—Growers are now able to
meet all reasonable requirements, so
far as granulated and Crown sugars
are concerned. Retailers are now per-
mitted to sell consumers up to 25
pounds and will probably be permitted
to sell 25 pounds to each family for
canning purposes—probably on card. It
is now considered very unlikely that
there is to be any change at all in the
price of refined sugar. About two
months ago refiners indicated that they
intended to ask for an advance, but
they have not done so and probably
will not now, as the situation is better
now than it was then,

Tea—The firm feeling which has
been developing of late was still in
evidence, Except in Javas stocks of
all kinds are getting into small com-
pass as demands of consumption have
been large especially for Formosas
and Javas, and the natural trend of
prices has been toward higher levels.
While there was no quotable advance
in Formosas at the end of the week
it was difficult to locate sellers at the
inside quotations.

Coffee—The market shows a slight
decline for the week, probably 1¢@4c.
The cause is the approaching easing
up of the transportation situation. De-
mand for Rio and Santos coffee is very
light this week, probably because of the
practical certainty that if ships are pro-
vided to get coffee from Brazii here.
the market will undoubtedly take an-
other sharp drop. Milds are quiet, but
due to decline in the near future.

Canned Fruit—There are no offer-
ings of either spot or futures and the
market remains on a nominal basis.

Canned Vegetables—With practical-
ly nothing offering in the way of re-
sales and with offerings of all kinds
light the market is on a nominal basis.

Canned Fish—Offerings amount to
a few insignificant items of salmon
of various kinds at about the basis of
quoted, prices.

Rice—There is a limited demand for
spot stock which is met by equally
light offerings. Prices are nominally
unchanged but strongly tending to-
ward higher levels.

Corn Syrup—To cover the increase
in freight rates an advance of 4c per
100 pounds has been made in prices
on all grades, the basis now being
4.89c for 42 degrees mixing. Demand
continues good but is confined to for-
ward deliveries, as the spot market is
still bare of stock in first hands. All
sales making are subject to prices
prevailing at time of delivery.

Sugar Syrups—So far the expected
increase in supplies, as a result of
freer arrivals of raw sugars, is not in
evidence, but the coming week should
find the market in much better shape
in this respect. Meanwhile the ex-
port demand is unabated and whatever
offers is promptly absorbed on the
basis of quoted prices.

Molasses—Arrivals from primary
sources continue slow and pass im-
mediately into consumption. There
is a continued good demand and a
firm market with prices unchanged.

Nuts—The only business of any con-
sequence during the week has been
some resales of California “walnuts,

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which, being unlicensed, create no dif-
ficulties in that respect. There is not
much doing in other kinds, especially in
imported nuts, owing to the uncertainty
of the general market situation.

Cheese—The market is very much
unsettled, with stocks reported to be
three times as much as they were a
year ago, with an increase in the pro-
duction. The market at this time is
ruling about 3c per pound less than
last year. We do not look for much
change during the coming week.

Provisions—Smoked méats are
steady at unchanged prices, with an
extremely light consumptive demand.
Pure lard is in light consumptive de-
mand at about %c decline. Compound
is unchanged, with a normal demand.
3arreled pork, dried beef and canned
meats are all in light demand at un-
changed prices.

Salt Fish—There has been no
change in the mackerel situation dur-
ing the week. The demand is ex-
ceedingly light, as is usual at this
season, but prices
change.

have shown no
Cod, hake and haddock are
quiet and already beginning to take
a back seat.

—_>-+—___
American Chemical Glassware Better
Than Imported,

The manufacture of chemical labora-
tory glassware in this country is said
to have made remarkable progress
during the last two years. Tests con-
ducted by the United States Bureau
of Standards show that the domestic
products tested are now superior to
the formerly imported Kavalier and
Jena wares for general chemical lab-
oratory use. Thus it is expected that
this country will never again be de-
pendent on foreign manufacturers for
its glassware of this sort.

Prior to the summer of 1914 the
greater part of the chemical labora-
tory glassware used here was import-
ed from Germany and Austria. When
war broke out and these sources of
supply were cut off, there followed a
scarcity of this kind of glassware in
this country, which, it is said, has
only recently been relieved. During
the last two years a number of Amer-
ican manufacturers have increased
their production of such ware, and
many others are manufacturing chem-
ical glassware which they did not pro-
duce before, It is said that practical-
ly the whole of the available supply
now in this country is of domestic
manufacture, much of which is ware
sold under branded names which were
unknown a short time ago.

——_+2>—____
The Pass Word—War.

We must reach the place each one
of us, where we define every decision
in our lives as an act of war policy.

Everything that we do, plan, eat,
wear, must be analyzed and meas-
ured from one single point of view—
will it contribute to the carrying on
of the war, or will it contribute to
its prolongation?

There is no other thing in the world
for us but to define everything in our
lives as acts of military necessity or
policy—Alonzo Taylor.

——-> 2

“The best way to forget your own
troubles is to think a little of. those
OF others” Cl

 

 

6

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, April 22—Mrs. H.
A. Gish has devoted most of her time
for the past three weeks making soul
stirring speeches in behalf of the Lib-
erty Loan.

Hub. Baker (Worden Grocer Co.),
who has been ill since the week be-
fore Christmas, has so far recovered
as to be able to resume his trips on
the road May 6. This will be welcome
news to his many friends, both on and
off the road.

W. H. Mills has leased the Winter
Inn, at Greenville, for five years of
T. B. Winter, who will add another
story to the rear, making an addition
of twelve rooms. The outside will be
repainted and several changes made
to the entrance. A new garage will'be
built in the rear where the old barn
now stands.

David Drummond (Brown & Sehler
Co.) recently had an unpleasant ex-
perience at Fremont, which he de-
scribes in a letter written April 18, as
follows: “I had an experience at Fre-
mont to-day which was entirely new
to me. I finished writing my last
order for the day at exactly 5:55 p.
m. and when I went to the postoffice
I was informed that the mail was
closed and the office closed for the
day or until 7 a. m. the following
morning. I then tried to put my let-
ter for Grand Rapids on the train
and the postal clerk on the train re-
fused to take it. Now it does seem
to me that there is enough friction,
trouble and inconvenience in doing
business these days without this add-
ed red tape or official importance of
the postal employes.” Dave is right—
eternally right—but he should bear
in mind that service under Uncle Sam
is no longer regarded as a_ public
trust, but an opportunity to set one’s
self up as a “tin god on wheels” to
deal out poor service to the people
and chide them as unpatriotic if any
one finds fault. The abandonment of
civil service by the Wilson administra-
tion and the re-establishment of the
Jacksonian theory that “to the victor
belongs the spoils” has lessened the
efficiency of public officials to that
extent that the people no longer have
any right to expect any different
treatment than that dealt Mr. Drum-
mond on the occasion he describes.

The following officers were elected
last Saturday by Absol Guild:

Great Ruler—Walter S. Lawton.

Viceroy—Wm. K. Wilson.

Prime Minister—L. V. Pilkington.

Master of Ceremonies—H. W. Har-
wood.

Chief of Guides—W. S. Lypps.

Captain of Guards—H. F. DeGraff.

Caliph—F. A. Castenholtz.

Clerk of Records and Revenue—J.
H. Mann.

Inside Gatekeeper—H. R. Bradfield.
Outside Gatekeeper—F. E. Beards-
ee.

Delegates to the meeting of the Im-
perial Guild at Columbus, Ohio, in
June—Walter S. Lawton, Wm. K.
Wilson. Alternates, J. H. Mann, H.
R. Bradfield.

Among the visiting members from
out of the city was A. G. MacEachron,
Detroit.

A stag banquet was held at 7 p. m.
at the Crathmore Hotel.

A. G. MacEachron, John D. Martin
and H. W. Harwood gave good talks
on the necessity of good roads in
Michigan, food conservation, buying
of Liberty bonds and reporting slack-
ers. H. R. Bradfield gave a strong
address on our organization, winding
up with reading from the April 10
issue of the Tradesman, “Let the Kais-
er Live.’ To anyone who has not
read it we want to say, send your sub-
scription for the paper and begin it
with the issue of April 10, for that
one copy is worth more than the price
of a yearly subscription.

At the afternoon meeting a service
flag with two stars. representing Capt.
Walter N. Burgess, who is over in
France, and H. Morris Mann at Camp

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Custer, was presented to Absol Guild
by John D. Martin. The next meet-
ing will be held Saturday, May 18.

A certain landlord not a thousand
miles from Grand Rapids devotes
hours every day telling his guest what
a wonderful hotel keeper he is. One
experience at his table or an hour’s
contact with his beds is enough to
satisfy any discriminating hotel patron
that there is a wide disparity between
preaching and practice.

Grand Counselor Hach has ap-
pointed a Grand Examining Financial
Committe, as follows: Will J. Dever-
eaux, Port Huron; John D. Martin,
Grand Rapids; Fred J. MHanifan,
Owosso, This committee will meet at
Jackson June 6, the day before the
Grand Council meets, and examine
the books and accounts of the Grand
Secretary and Grand Treasurer.

Next Saturday night, April 27, will
be the last of the series of the Coun-
cil dances, it being later than former
years on account of fuel shortage.
This last dance the committee hopes
will be as well attended as the spring
party, so everybody put their shoul-
ders to the wheel and turn out and
make the farewell a good one.

Last year we had to be a gardener
to be patriotic and this year we may

Some Results of Violating Hoover
ulings.

Washington, April 22—Found guilty
of violating the Food Administration’s
wheat regulations, the Chatham Grain
Co., of Chatham, N. Y. has been per-
mitted to pay $1,500 to the local chap-
ter of the Red Cross instead of hav-
ing its license revoked. The company
was found guilty of selling wheat flour
to grocers without the required
amount of substitutes, of charging re-
tailers’ margins of profit in excess of
regulations and of selling to individual
consumers more than one-quarter bar-
rel of flour at a time.

Violation of Food Administration
regulations covering the sale of dress-
ed hens cost the Kansas City Market,
of Des Moines, Iowa, $200. Upon
paying this amount to the war fund
of the Y. M. C. A. and signing an affi-
davit to observe all rules and regula-
tions in the future, the firm was al-
lowed to continue in business.

For selling flour without substitutes
or certification, the Farmers’ Co-oper-
ative Mercantile Co., a Scribner, Neb.
mill, has been deprived of its Food
Administration license for thirty days.
Mill officials admitted the offense.
The mill was cited for excessive sales
of flour but was released on promise

 

Written for the Tradesman.

 

EVIL DAYS.

Don’t talk about the devil nor the evil he has done,

That he ever likes to revel in sin and calls it fun,

That somehow he’s the sinner who brought us crime and hate
The jake who got the dinner they meant for Esau’s plate;
Although the world has sunshine where flowers bud and bloom
They never were in his line like wickedness and gloom,

That naught to him is pretty and nothing good nor true

In country, burgh nor city—just evil does he do.

For homes no more are sacred, old age unhonored too—
E’en babes are things of hatred while smiling up at you,
That mother-love and heart-ties are nothing more than chaff
And e’en her baby’s death cries bring but his scornful laugh;
That vows are very vapor—when written never more

Than merest scraps of paper by which he puts it o’er;

Of brothers why! he has none, nor friends of any kind
Delights whenever finds done the evil in his mind.

That nothing can be holy—no reverence nor fear

Believes he lives just solely to rule both far and near.

Don't lay these on the devil—he never dreamed nor knew
Such a catalogue of evil as the world shows up to you.

A pupil he must needs be untutored in ways of crime

Nor ever thought that he'd see the sin-depths of our time.
When you view these days of evil please don’t be such a fool
As to think they’re from the devil—he’s in Deutschland ‘tending school
And when he gets some wiser and learns how it was done
He'll find it was the Kaiser—that cruel—crazy Hun.

Charles A. Heath.

 

 

have to be a gardener to eat. The
way to make sure that you and your
family will have plenty of fresh,
wholesome food during the trying
times that are coming at a cost one
can afford is to raise a garden of
your own.

How often have we gotten into a
town late at night and wanting to sleep
a while in the morning been disturbed
by having the chambermaid frequent-
ly trying our door. There may be
some of us who do not mind this in
the least and there are some of us
who do. The writer, who has been
in some of the large hotels of the
Middle West where the “Do Not Dis-
turb” cards are supplied, has found
them very convenient. Cards are fur-
nished each guest to be hung upon
the outside door knob upon retiring
and are taken in when the party
leaves the room. These cards, upon
enquiry by the writer, have worked
very satisfactory where they have
been used. The cards can be issued
at a small cost by the hotel men and
we wish that the Michigan hotel men
would give this system a trial, be-
cause we feel sure this would be ap-
preciated by all. We would like to
hear from some of them on this sub-
ject. N. H. Carley.

to live strictly up to the Food Ad-
ministration’s regulations.

Six North Carolina flour mills will
suffer for failure to observe Food Ad-
ministration rules and_ regulations.
Charges brought out at a hearing be-
fore the North Carolina Federal Food
Administrator showed that they ex-
acted excessive prices for mill feeds.
The Kernersville Roller Mills, at
Kernersville, was operating without
a license and will not be allowed to
do further business, The Forsyth
Roller Mills, at Winston-Salem, lost
its license for the period of the war.
The other four were closed for tem-
porary periods.

Failure to accept a shipment of po-
tatoes without justifiable reasons
caused the revocation of the Food
Administration license held by the
Connecticut Fruit & Commission Co.,
of Ansonia, Conn. It was ordered by
the Food Administration to close its
business by April 16.

Overcharged For Bran.

Violation of Food Administration
rules and regulations, led to the re-
vocation of the license held by the
Hays Milling Co., Worthington, In-
diana. It was shown that the Hays
Co. charged $45 per ton for bran.
The agreed maximum price is $36.06.

 

April 24, 1918

If the company gives assurances that
it will commit no further violations,
it will be allowed to apply for another
license after suspension of operation
for thirty days.

For failure to accept delivery of a
consignment of eggs, the firm of
Mesh & Co., New York City, has lost
its Food Administration license. Ship-
ment was made to the firm from
Richmond, Va., on Feb. 22 by express.
The express receipt was held until

Feb. 27 and then returned; the egg
market had declined sharply on
Feb. 25. ;

A canvass of the whole country by
the Food Administration shows that
the actual milling output of corn meal
increased from 3,000,000 barrels in Oc-
tober to nearly 6,000,000 barrels for
March. During the past eighteen
months, the output of corn flour has
increased 500 per cent.

Perscns who offer their flour to the
Government are assured by the Food
Administration that their sacrifice isa
direct and immediate help to the fight-
ers and people in Europe. While it is
impossible to ship some of this flour
in the packages in which it is return.
ed, arrangements have been made to
put it into circulation and immediate-
ly ship from the mills an equal amount
properly packed for export. The ex-
act quantities given will be released,
over and above the present pro-
gramme of sending overseas one-half
of the total American supplies. All
flour given up will be paid for on a
fair price basis.

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Allow No Flour or Meal to Spoil.

To prevent losses from spoilage in
certain: flours and meals during hot
weather, the United States Food Ad-
ministration has issued instructions
regarding their storage. Special care
should be taken of the following prod-
ucts:

“Bran, shorts and middlings, corn
products containing the outer coating
and germ, (stich as so-called water-
ground cornmeal and grits), oats and
oat meals, graham and wholewheat
flour, rye flour, barley flour, peanut
meal and soy bean meal.”

These products should be kept mov-
ing and used as soon as_ possible.
When storing is necessary, keep in a
cool, dry, well-ventilated place. Raise
bags of flour and meal sufficiently
from the floor to exclude rats, mice
and insects, also to permit cleaning
the floor under the bags. When many
bags are stored, arrange them in tiers,
leaving space between the tiers to
allow abundant ventilation. Large
stocks should be reduced as much as
possible before hot weather.

Butter, Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes.

Buffalo, April 24—-Creamery butter
extras, 43c; first, 40@41c; common,
38(@39c; dairy, common to choice, 32
@37; dairy poor to common, all kinds
25@30c.

Cheese—No. 1 new, fancy, 23@24c;
choice, 23c; held 25@26c.

Eges—Choice, new _ laid,
fancy hennery, 37@39c.

Poultry (live)—Cockerels, 30@32c;

Eggs,

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old cox, 23@25c; ducks, 30@32c,;
fowls, 383@34c. .
Beans—Medium, $13.50@14.00 per

hundred lbs.; Peas, $14.00 per hun-
dred lbs.; Red Kidney, $14.00@15.00
per hundred Ibs.; White Kidney, $15
@15.50 per hundred lIbs.; Marrow, $15
@15.50 per hundred Ibs.

Potatoes—$1.35@1.60 per 100 Ibs.

Live fowls will be salable again,
commencing April 19.

Rea & Witzig.

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April 24, 1918

 

 

 

 

WHEREIN GERMANY GAINS.

England has spent upon this war
$30,000,000,000 and has not had one
cent in return. France has spent $20,-
000,000,000 without a cent in return.
The United States has spent up to
date about $10,000,000,000 without any
return. Germany has spent $20,600,-
600,000, and if a careful inventory were
made of her assets after three years
and a half, and a little more, of war,
it would be found that on the right
side of the balance sheet she would
show $40,000,000,000. In other words
if Germany should quit to-day, she
would be 100 per cent. winner.

Why is this so? For the last three
years there have been pouring into
Germany processions of hundreds of
freight trains, carrying all kinds of
agricultural implements,
furniture, objects of art, every con-
ceivable kind of a material asset; for
the last three years or more there
have been pouring into Germany an
endless procession of Pullman cars,
passenger coaches, automobiles, every
kind of vehicle; for the last three
years or more there have been pour-
ing into Germany an endless proces-
gion of sheep and goats, and oxen and
horses, every kind of animal, domestic
animal. For the last two years or
more she has pumped oceans of gas-
oline from the oil wells of Rumamia.
For the last two years or more Ger-
many has had an unlimited supply
almost of zinc and lead and tin from
the jead mines and zinc mines of Ser-
bia and Rumania. She has sent over
every day hundreds of carloads of
coal from Belgium and France and
hundreds of carloads of iron ore from
the iron mines of Cambrai.

We in this country pay $6 per day
for laborers on iron ships and $8 per
day for laborers on wooden ships.
The submarines of Germany are be-
ing built and the repairs made upon
other vessels which fly the German
flag have been made for the last three
years by laborers who have not cost
Germany over 10 cents a day—Bel-
gian laborers—the most expert in
Europe, When a coterie of laborers
are required they bayonet them into
the shipyards, and when their muscles
and nerves are burned into ribbons,
they bayonet them into the grave—
and the work goes on.

Ever time they take a man from the

household >

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

farm in Germany and put him in the
trenches, compelling him to give up a
hoe in order that he may shoulder a
rifle, they put in his place a man taken
from either Serbia or Rumania or
Montenegro or from Poland. There
is not a square yard of land in Ger-
many not under cultivation, and there
is not any dearth of labor in its culti-
vation.

The system of transportation on the
Western front is simply marvelous.
The Germans can transport a seven-
teen-inch howitzer from Essen, from
the Krupp Gun Works to the West-
ern front, for less money than it costs
this country to transport a machine
gun from Bridgeport to France.

If with Almighty God going. His
very best in the shape of fruitful sea-
sons to feed not only this Nation but
the world; if with that beneficence,
unmistakably bestowed on His part,
we can hardly feed the Allies and
ourselves, what we will do one year
from now, when, with a million more
men taken from the farms and an-
other million more men taken from
the mines, and only four-fifths of our
present land under cultivation, be-
cause of the lack of labor—Allies
starving, Allies feeling the pressure of
it as they have never felt it before,
our own people feeling it? What will

we do? Where is the labor to come
from? Germany has_ solved that
problem. She takes a man from the

farm and then she replaces him with
one from Montenegro or Serbia or
Poland.

Don’t you ‘see the seriousness of
the problem which confronts us, be-
cause the war, of course, is going to
be won primarily by men, but what
are men without food? You see it.
Isn’t it a great problem? You say,
“Why, import Chinese labor.” How
under the sun are you going to get it
here? Even if we could get the con-
sent of the powers that be, how under
the sun would we get it here?

Take a look at England. England
is the miracle of the war. Three
years ago England only had three
government munition plants. To-day,
England has four thousand. Three
years ago she had what Hindenburg
describes as a “contemptible little
army.” To-day, England has three
million of men on six fighting fronts.
To-day, England is manufacturing
seventeen thousand tons of munitions
per week—can you take it in? Her
four thousand munition plants are
turning out seventeen thousand tons
of munitions per week. How has it
been done? England has not mobiliz-
ed her army, but she has mobilized
the nation. Back of those three mil-
lion men on the firing line are three
million of British women. The wom-
en of England are handling the lathes,
they are filling the shells, they are
making the fuses, they are running
the motor buses, they are driving the
plows, and the threshers and harvest-
ing machines.

Now, what will be our responsibil-
ity? We see the seriousness of the
situation. What will be our responsi-
bility? Why are we in this war? We
are in this war, first of all, as the
champions of democracy. Do we
realize that we are now fighting the

strongest government beneath the
stars? Do we realize there never was
a government on earth like the Ger-
man government in point of strength
and efficiency? We talk about an-
cient Rome, when Augustus Caesar
was the Emperor, when the Roman
Empire contained forty-four provinces
and extended from the Straits of Gi-
braltar to the Euphrates River. At
that time Augustus had under the
Roman legions only 375,000 troops,
a mere bagatelle. We are fighting
the strongest, most wonderful central-
ized government that the world has
ever known. There are twenty-five
provinces in the German empire and
one imperial province, Alsace-Lor-
raine. The Reichstag, the lower
house, is a mere debating society, has
no more to do with the government
of Germany when it comes to a vital
issue than the City Commission of
Grand Rapids, not a bit. The upper
house consists of sixty-one members.
It is called the Bundesrat. Those
sixty-one members are appointed by
the Kings and the Grand Dukes of
the several units that make up the
German empire, For instance, the
King of Prussia, who is the Kaiser,
appoints seventeen of the sixty-one.
The King of Saxony and Bavaria ap-
point each six, the King of Wurtem-
berg four. There are seventeen
provinces of the German empire that
only have one appointed, but those
men are invariably appointed by the
Kings or Grand Dukes making up
those several units.

When Bismarck drew the consti-
tution of the German empire he in-
corporated this wonderful provision:
“Any attempt to revise this consti-
tution, or any attempt to introduce an
amendment to this constitution, can
be killed by fourteen votes.” The
Kaiser, who is the King of Prussia,
controls the seventeen of Prussia, and
also the three of Alsace-Lorraine;
six of his men can be either sick or
traveling, or they can be malcontents.
All he needs is fourteen to keep Ger-
many the absolute monarchy that it
is to-day. There is absolutely no way
of overthrowing that government ex-
cept by revolution, unless the Kaiser
sees a great light and says, “Here, I
am going to give liberty to the peo-
ple.”

We are fighting for the life of de-
mocracy in this world. This is the
last stronghold of democracy which
has been left unviolated. It is up to
us to decide whether we want to con-
tinue to exist as a Hun province, tak-
ing our orders from Berlin, or wheth-
er we mean to maintain the traditions
of Washington, and Lincoln, and
Adams, the men who, by the grace
of God, gave us what we enjoy to-
day. That is the question, that is the
struggle.

 

A gentleman visited the house of a
friend. The butler, an Irishman, acted
very kindly towards him. He waited
upon him at dinner, brushed his clothes,
and saw him in his carriage. The gen-
tleman, who was very miserly, never
offered a tip, so, as a little reminder,
Pat said to him: “Faith, sor, if you
lose your purse on the way, retnember
you didn’t pull it out hereabouts.”

 

April 24, 1918

WHAT IS MOST NEEDED.

Impartial investigation at Washing-
ton having laid bare the realities ot
the war situation, it is now the duty
of our Government to expose itself
somewhat more clearly to the gaze
of the people. It has been shown that
in the case of some of our prepara-
tions for war there has been great
slackness. Yet the Government did
not honestly come pefore the people
and state that mistakes had been made
and unfit men were handling impor-
tant functions. It was left to Con-
gressional committees and private in-
dividuals to do that. Efforts have
been made to conceal these weak
spots and there have been utterances,
such as “three thousand miles away,”
which indicate a large remnant of the
old refusal to recognize any such thing
as war. This although in many ways
our Government has done splendidly.
Now let us have the truth, so far as it
can be made public without endanger-
ing military plans. Let the Govern-
ment be as frank with the people as
the people have been generous to the
Government. The faith of the citizen
has been largely impaired by these
faults of Washington and also by the
circulation from the Western front
of reports which were obviously sent
out to keep up the courage of the en-
tente and our own people. Discern-
ing men can see through these things
and they are disgusted with them.
What this country needs is not a
stimulation of its courage, but such
an impregnation of our minds with
doubt as to the outcome as will lead
us to put forth all skill and all effort
to save Europe, to save ourselves and
to save mankind.

 

Good “politics” and good roads do
not invariably go together in Indiana.
More than one County Commissioner
there is marked for defeat because he
dared to vote for appropriations for
better highways. If that State were
alone in its backwardness, the matter
might not be serious, but Hoosiers
who cannot contemplate the spending
of money upon roads without horror
are representative of too many people
all over the country. All the argu-
ments except one were on the side of
the roads. Federal officials empha-
sized the military value of improv-
ed highways. State and local officials
pointed out once more the profit to
farmers in having roads that would
facilitate their getting their produce
to market at the best times. Nor did
the counties stand alone, The plan
was for systems of highways cover-
ing a considerable area. One county
might be willing to put up with rough-
ness and mud, but that meant a gap
in the line. The fact, however, that
the improvement could not be had for
nothing weighed heavily in certain
places. In spite of warnings, some
Commissioners went ahead and voted
money for roads. Since county of-

ficials are chosen as Republicans and

Democrats, and not for ability, there

iS Opportunity to wage the fight un-

der the guise of party politics, which

complicates the situation to the ad-

vantage of the unprogressive element
of the communities affected.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

READY FOR THE TEST

The pinch of the food question, so far as it affects wheat and its prod-
ucts, is now here and will become more acute as the weeks pass between
the present and the time when the new crop is harvested. It is certain
that the demand for export will not decrease, necessarily it must become
more imperative—more the sacred, supreme duty of this country to meet
—as the fighting continues and food is destroyed or captured by the
enemy,

Every bushel of wheat and every bag of flour shipped out of the
United States to the forces in the field and to the people whom they are
fighting for in Britain, France and Italy contributes that much to the suc-
cess of the cause. The time has come when food supplies are as es-
sential as ammunition in winning the war, and wheat flour is the prin-
cipal and most important item in these supplies.

Thus the American miller is a factor of the most supreme impor-
tance in the present grave crisis. He must not only furnish wheat flour
for the allies and their fighting men as well as the American troops, but
he must also manage to satisfy the demands of the consuming public
at home by the production of something that will answer as a substitute.

During the next three months, or until the new crop is harvested,
there will be a period of steady reduction of wheat supplies without any
abatement of the demand for export of wheat products. This situation
comes with the lowest visible supply on record.

The Food Administration has accomplished the impossible; there
was actually no exportable surplus on this crop, nevertheless it has man-
aged to supply the needs of the allies and the American troops abroad
from the available supply, thanks to the American people, who were will-
ing to deny themselves in order that others might be fed.

The magnitude of this accomplishment and its enormous importance
will be realized and more fully appreciated when the final figures on
this year’s crop, the amount of wheat grown, the consumption at home
and the exports to the allies, are shown in all their tremendous signifi-
cance. Such an achievement is unparalleled in all history.

Now comes the final test, that of patient endurance. The seeding of
wheat has been unusually large, and the crop prospects are most ex-
cellent. With reasonably favorable weather the United States shoud,
within a few months, harvest a total wheat crop of eigh hundred and
fifty million bushels and there is a possibility that it may reach a billion
bushels. With the lesser figure safely gathered, the wheat problem for
another year is solved.

After providing the most liberal amount for home consumption and
seeding, there will remain more than enough fully to satisfy the foreign
requirements, Thereafter, the operations of the wheat and flour trade
can return to a condition closely approaching the normal; there will be
little need for government control, because there will be plenty of raw
material; the duties of the United States Grain Corporation and the Miil-
ing Division will become largely supervisory, and the trade can once
more resume its usual functions.

To none, not even to the millers and members of the grain trade
themselves, will this condition of affairs be more welcome and sati--
factory than to the Food Administration and those who have devoted
themselves with such zeal and personal self-sacrifice to the accomplish-
ment of its gigantic task. These agents of the Government are as anx-
ious to be relieved of their great responsibilities at the earliest possible
moment, as they were willing to assume them in response to the call of
their country.

Meantime there lies between this time and the consummation of the
desire of all concerned in the harvesting of the new crop a brief period
of extreme stress, during which every interest connected with the mak-
ing and the marketing of flour, including the consumer, will be called

upon to make still further and greater sacrifices for the sake of their
country’s great cause; a time when, almost literally, wheat must be aban-
doned as an article of food for home consumption, and every bushel that
is available shipped abroad. :

This will be the real test, and a true sacrifice. Are the people of the
United States willing to go without wheat in order that the great ob-
ject may be accomplished? On the answer to this question depends the
outcome. The very old and the young, as well as the delicate and infirm,
must, of course, be taken care of and provided with wheat bread. Be-
yond them, however, there need be no consideration. If need be, every
normally healthy American can deny himself wheat, and survive. It has
come to this—that he should be prepared to do so.

Nothing now matters except to win this war, and wheat is a great
factor in doing so.

As for the American millers, there can be but one answer, and this
will be unanimous. It is this: “We will do our part, whatever is neces-
sary and whatever be required of us. We will not fail.”

Before the new crop comes into market they may and probably will
be required to make bricks wholly without straw, Very good, they can
and they will do it. If there be no wheat to grind they will make flour
from other cereals, whatever is available and whatever is wholesome.
They will meet conditions and demands as they arise.

Millers have their own standards of flour excellence, they have their
precedents and traditions, they know that there exists no real substitute
for wheat flour equaling it in wholesomeness and nutritive value, but
they are large-minded enough to realize that in this grave emergency
standards, precedents, traditions and all trade conditions of whatever
nature are as nothing in comparison to the great essential object to at-
tain for which this country has gone to war.

They are ready for the coming pinch, and prepared for the supreme
test. In order to keep faith with the milling industry, the Food Admin-
istration has had as much flour as possible ground in American mills.
Sut it takes longer to load a ship with flour than with wheat, and time is
an essential element in such times as these, when every day’s delay
counts. If, therefore, it be advisable for the Food Administration, in

_ order to expedite deliveries, to ship wheat instead of flour, American mill-

ers will uncomplainingly agree that it should be done without the slight-
est consideration of their interests. It is more important that the cause
be served than that their plants should be kept busy.

American millers will stand solidly back of the Food Administra-
tion, which has given them their autonomy and self-government, which
has trusted them and given them the privilege of co-operating with their
government to the common end, dear to the hearts of all true American
citizens. They will be found as steadfast and loyal at the finish as they
were at the start. Heart, soul and body, with all their abilities, with
all the power of their productive capacity, with every ounce of strength,
every dollar of capital, to the limit of their endurance and more, they
are with their country in this struggle, and will recognize no sacrifice
too great and no test of endurance too severe if thereby they may serve
the cause.

The Northwestern Miller need not take a consensus of trade opinion
in this crisis in order to pledge anew at the close of this unprecedented
year, as it did at its beginning, the absolute willingness of the American
millers to meet all requirements, whatever they may be. It is wholly un-
necessary, Whatever may be asked of them by the Food Administra-
tion, from now until the end, they are prepared to perform, gladly.
promptly and without complaint. They are ready for the test, and will
endure steadfastly to the finish, regardless of the effect upon their own
interests —The Weekly Northwestern Miller, April 17, 1918.

 

We are assembling a supply of Fancy White and Dark Rye, Fancy Northern Barley Flour, High
Grade Rice Flour, and the Best White Corn Flour that can be milled, and with our usual line of High Grade
Cereals will be prepared to fill the gap until the new crop of wheat flour arrives.

 

 

JUDSON GROCER CO.

THE PURE FOODS HOUSE

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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President—John C. Fischer, Ann Arbor.
Vice-President—Geo. W. Leedle, Mar-
shall,

Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine
ity

Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

Pointers For the Hardware Dealer in
May.
Written for the Tradesman.

With the end of April and the be-
ginning of May, the hardware deal-
er will appreciate the value of what-
ever preparatory work he did in the
dull winter months. Getting ready
for the demand ahead of time, plan-
ning window displays and newspaper
advertising in advance, he will now
be able to concentrate on salesman-
ship. And salesmanship is now a de-
cisive factor in making the spring
campaign a success.

The hardware dealer should not be
in a hurry to take out his window
displays of housecleaning utensils.
The housecleaning season lasts prac-
tically through the spring. Much de-
pends, of course, on the weather. Much
depends, too, on the individual house-
wife. Some start housecleaning early
and get through with a rush, some
start late and try to make up for lost
time; and some prolong the agony
from very joy of it.

 

 

In any event these housecleaning
lines appeal strongly to women cus-
tomers, and help to bring them into
the hardware store. So, instead of
side-tracking the housecleaning dis-
plays, they should be changed around,
and new ideas introduced to empha-
size the fact that the season is grow-
ing late, and that modern devices will
help the busy housewife to clean up
in record time.

Then do not forget the paints.
Keep them displayed all the time.
Link up the paint department with
the housecleaning lines by showing
stains, enamels, varnishes and other
specialties that will be wanted in the
house to assist the brightening-up
process. Impress on the housewife
the value of paints and allied lines,
their hygienic value and the ease with
which they can be applied. Push
paints, for there is profit in the pro-
cess.

Gardening tools should not be dis-
played to their fullest extent. It is
with these articles that the hardware
dealer can work into his displays the
most realistic touch of spring, Put
plenty of green into the window. Em-
phasize the arrival of spring. Let
the window carry this message to the
customer:

“Buy Garden Tools Here—and Now.”

In this, as in other window trims,
sufficient attention is now always giv-
en the “message.” The trimmer is

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told to put on a display of garden
tools, and he arranges a variety of
garden tools in the window. To be
most effective, that display should
carry a message straight to the mind
of the man who sees it. Garden tools
in themselves suggest gardening; but
can’t you emphasize the message.
Make it urgent.

In the accomplishment of this end,
good show cards will help. Just a
few words. “Early planting means
early vegetables.” “Do your bit in
food production.” Make that back
yard pay your taxes.” Epigrammatic
phrases, words with a punch to them,
are what you want for your show-
cards.

Then work in a bit of green—grow-
ing plants, a flooring of spaded turf,
a miniature garden with rows mark-
ed off by string and pegs with empty
seed packets to distinguish what is

planted. Actually plant it, and let
the window stay until the plants
show. Use this for the center of your

display, re-group the surrounding ar-
ticles from time to time, and you'll
attract attention.

During May a good assortment of
carpenter’s tools can be shown to
advantage. Whatever building con-
ditions may be, the workman in
springtime always looks to it that his
kit is in good shape. On occasions
an entire window can be devoted to
tools, arranged artistically and classi-
fied as to sizes and prices. Builders
hardware should also be shown.

A little later on, an initial display
can also be made of refrigerators, ice
cream freezers, water filters and oth-
er hot weather goods. It is not wise
to leave these lines until too late.
Show them a bit in advance of the
season; get people thinking about
buying before they feel the actual
need; and follow up with a repeat
display when the season is actually
started.

Here is a neat design for a display
of ice cream freezers. Erect steps
in the window for several feet, cov-
ering them with white; over this put
cotton in rugged form, sprinkling
diamond dust on the cotton. From
the roof of the window suspend long
strips of cotton in irregular fashion,
hanging down and running over the
edges of the ice cream freezers. Be-
tween the freezers show the imitation
of drifting snow. Price each freezer,
and work in a catchy card or two
referring to the need of something
cooling on a hot day. The effect of
such a display on the first really hot
day in later spring will be notable

Winter stoves are now relegated to
the background, but in their place
gas, gasoline and oil stoves can be

 

Leitelt
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For Store, Factory
Warehouse or Garage

Built for Service

Send for proposal] on your
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213 Erie Street Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

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Wholesale Hardware
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The constant loss of perishable foods through waste and spoilage is an incessant drain on your

profits. Day after day this loss goes on—materially increasing your cost of doing business and cutting down:

your profits. A McCRAY will not merely eliminate this loss—but it will turn the loss into actual profits.

The McCRAY Patented System of Refrigeration keeps all perishable foods as fresh, finely flavored
and salable as when they leave the dairy, creamery, cooling room or garden.

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conform to all legal requirements for the sanitary display of foods—and are used in the U. S. Pure Food
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There is a McCRAY model that will exactly meet your store's requirements. We also build special
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pushed. There is a market for kitchen
ranges all the year round, while these
other lines sell at their best in spring
and summer. A display now will not
merely make a good many sales, but
will pave the way for further business
with summer campers and cottagers.

Then the sporting goods depart-
ment should be pushed with vigor.
Starting out with fishing tackle, the
merchant can, as the season advances,
include baseball, tennis, football,
yachting supplies, auto and _ bicycle
accessories, and other incidentals. A
good economical display of fishing
tackle can be made by simply stretch-
ing a net, either diagonally from the
back wall of the window to the floor,
or in a semi-circle the full length of
the window, using apple-green for the
background and floor, helped out with
artificial leaves and moss, Display
such goods as floats, quills, lines, arti-
ficial minnows, etc. on this net, using
the floor for the hooks in boxes, min-
now buckets and large goods, which
would not very well be placed in the
net.

Too much stress cannot be laid on
the proper displaying of sporting
goods. Indeed, much of the dealer’s
success in handling these lines de-
pends on the skill with which they
are displayed. They are not reckon-
ed among the necessaries of life, and
therefore require good display. Many
dealers fail to secure the trade that
is at their doors because they do not
push the sporting goods lines prop-
erly.

Swat the fly goods—screen doors,

wire screen, fly swatters, fly traps, -

etc.—are once more timely, and call
for at least one good display.

Then with the close of May, the
season of June weddings is at hand,
and before this month goes out. the
far-sighted hardware dealer will have
begun, through newspaper advertis-
ing and window display, his appeal to
this valuable class of trade. Nor
should mailing list advertising be
neglected. Experience shows that it
is singularly fruitful in direct results.

Victor Lauriston.
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Contentment.
Written for the Tradesman.
Not in spacious studded halls
With tanestried bejewelled walls
Where the sun-rays slowly pass
Through the colorings of the glass
Where lnxury has made its test
Of the finest, rarest, best:
Where to live they contemplate
Want or need must never wait,
Though there he but a desire
Instantly does lack retire:
Happiness perhaps may be
In studded halls of luxury.
Give me rather, thougn, the place
Tike found first the human race
Tm a garden neath the skies
Where the beauty satisfies.
Where the snow-drops—bits of glee—
First in spring do welcome me.
Then the crocus. joyous too—
Opens its cup of varied hue,
Followed by the scillas’ grace
Contented flowering In their place.
Tike a host the tulips come
Pink and white and crimson some
All with tintings rich and rare—
Fairy artists sure were there.
Nor no sooner have they passed
Bloom the friendly unsurnassed
Pansies fair of every shade—
Tust of lovliness are made.
How bespeaks each upturned face
“In your heart I claim a place,”
So my world is all complete
With the pleasures which I meet
Daily in my garden fair
When the flowers are blooming there.
Charles A. Heath.

———_?--<———- —
The profit-maker in your store to-
day is the friend-maker, not merely
the sales-maker.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Re-Use of Binder
Riddle.
Characterizing the problem as a
world riddle, the United States Food
Administration’s fiber experts believe
that a means to salvage used binder
twine may eventually be found al-
though it will tax inventive genius to
the utmost. The United States and
Canada will use his year close to 300
million pounds of binder twine for
which farmers will pay about $75,000,-
000. When bundles of grain tied with

Twine—World

this twine pass through threshing ma- —

chines, under present methods, the
twine is cut to pieces, mixed with the
straw and completely lost.

Shortly before the war, Germany,
where habits of saving are instilled
into all the people, attempted to solve
the problem but failed to discover any
plan or device, commercially practica-
ble, that would prevent the loss.
While the aggregate waste is large,
the unit to be recovered is very small.
For the average sheaf of grain, about
two feet of twine is required and each
of these bands is worth, at present
twine values, about one-tenth of a
cent. The second-hand value is, how-
ever, scarcely a third of this amount
since the used twine must be collect-
ed, knots removed, the fibers of the
bands re-separated, reduced to tow,
re-carded and again manufactured in-
to twine.

The belief is expressed that any suc-
cessful device must be entirely me-
chanical since human labor in the
United States is too valuable to justi-
fy any method involving hand work;
the device must probably be made a
working part of the threshing ma-
chine, A prominent firm of New
York fiber merchants of established
reputation is now assisting in the ef-
fort by advertising through the trade
press for suggestions and devices
whereby farmers or threshermen can
save the twine from total loss.

In calling attention to possibilities
and also the difficulties to be over-
come in this branch of conservation,
the Food Administration again em-
phasizes the necessity for farmers to
save bags of all kinds, burlap, rope
and especially canvas. This is a pa-
triotic service in which all may join.
Military demands for these products
must be satisfied first, a fact which
combined with shipping difficulties
causes all articles made from fiber
to be valuable.

———
What Will the Answer Be?

It matter not what a man claims
as a reason for justifying the retard-
ing or holding back of our war activ-
ities. We must stand on results.

What will we say when our boys
return from France? How are we
going to excuse our negligence to
them when they return legless, arm-
less, and eyeless (if they return at
all), knowing that the reason for it
was that we failed to back our boys
at the front:—

That the boy’s very father refused
for some reason or other to make him
another shell to shoot, or another bay-
onet with which to defend himself;
or refused to load a sufficient amount
of food supplies on ships, or refused
to build ships so that the food and

clothing, comfort even medical sup-
plies might be carried to him across
the sea.

What are you going to tell them?
How are we going to square our-
selves with them and our consciences?

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If there is a leak in your store sys-
tem, you'll not get very far until it
is plugged up.

 

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

 

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Sand Lime Brick

Nothing as Durable
Nothing as Fireproof
Makes Structures Beautiful
No Painting
No Cost for Repairs
Fire Proof
Weather Proof
Warm in Winter
Cool in Summer

Brick is Everlasting

 

Grande Brick Co., Grand Rapids
So. Mich. Brick Co., Kalamazoo
Saginaw Brick Co., Saginaw

Jackson-Lansing Brick Co.
Junction

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Sunbeam Auto Shawls and
Robes

They are supplied in a large variety of
patterns. The very attractive patterns
in fast color are appreciated.

Made expressly for the motor car trade,
gasoline-driven or electric machines.
These shawls can also be used by trav-
elers, either by rail or boat. :

They are also very convenient in the
home as ‘‘slumber”’ robes, or as extra bed
cover on cold nights.

Descriptive catalog on request.

BROWN & SEHLER CO.

Home of Sunbeam Goods
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

 

HARNESS 9U8 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

 

 

/ THE USERS OF TIRES

 

Here is the only cushion Rubber tire tnac
will interchange with a pneumatic and give
added height to the wheel, costs little to
maintain as it is sectional. 10,000 miles
guarantee; 26,000 miles efficiency.

Send for circulars. Agents wanted.

SECTIONAL TIRE CO.
Box 50, Muskegon Heights, Mich.

 

Signs of the Times
Are

Electric Signs

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

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

THE POWER CO.

Bell M 797 Citizens 4261

 

 

 

Michigan Shoe Dealers
Mutual Fire
Insurance Company

Fremont, Mich.

 

Our Responsibility Over

$1,500,000

 

We write insurance on all kinds
of mercantile stocks and buildings
at a discount of 25% from the
Board Rate with an additional 5%
discount if paid within twenty
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Store and Window Awnings made to
order of white or khaki duck, plain and
fancy stripes. Write for prices.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

ANGLEFOO

The Non-Poisonous Fly Destroyer

Safe, Sanitary, Sure.
Catches 50,000,000,000 &
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Michigan SS and Egg Asso-
clation

President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.

— -President—Patrick Hurley. De-
troit.

Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Sent:
ley, Saginaw.

Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson
Detroit; H. lL. Williams, Howell; C. J
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Should Grocers Have More Profit?

A retail grocer in Salina, Kan., has
been taking the pains to analyze the
character of his sales since govern-
mental control prevailed and claims
to have discovered that the average
retail grocer cannot strictly observe
the rules as to fixed prices on the “li-
censed list’ and get out of his or-
dinary transactions with a whole skin.
In the course of a carefully prepared
study of the problem, he says, with-
out any manifestation of indignation
but a decided grievance:

“T know the theory is that the Gov-
ernment allows us to make a narrow
margin on the staples, expecting us
to make a wider margin on the lux-
uries, thus equalizing our profits.
But that theory does not work. The
salaried people are hard pinched to
make ends meet. They are not buy-
ing luxuries. They are forced to con-
fine their purchases to the absolute
staple necessities. Consequently our
trade in the fixed price staples is in-
creasing, while our trade in the lux-
uries is decreasing.

“When I used to pay $1.25 for flour
and sold it for $1.50, I made a profit
of 17 per cent. Now, if I pay $2.50
and sell for $2.75, I make a profit of
8 per cent.

“When I paid 10c a pound for ham
and sold it for 15c I made 331% per
cent. Now if I pay 30c for ham and
sell it for 35 I make 14 per cent.

“When I paid 25 cents for butter
and sold it for 30 cents I made 1624
per cent. Now if I pay 50 cents for
butter and sell it for 55 cents I make
8% per cent. profit.

“When I used to pay 7 cents for
crackers and sold them for 10 cents |
made a profit of 30 per cent. Now
if I pay 17 cents for crackers and se’l
them for 20 cents I make 15 per cent

“When I used to pay 10 cents for
a peck of potatoes and sold them for
15 cents, I made 3314 per cent. Now
if I pay 40 cents and sell them for 45
cents I make 11 per cent.

“When I used to pay 80 cents a
dozen for corn and sold it at 10 cents
a can I made 33% per cent. Now if I
pay $1.45 for corn and sell it at 15
cents per can I make 20 per cent.

“T figure that my cost of doing busi-
ness is 16 per cent. It has increased
about 1 per cent. during the past year.
This is not an excessive cost. It is
probably about the average of all the
grocery stores in the State. On this

basis I computed just what I made or
lost over my cost of doing business on
each of the ‘restricted items’ on which
the Fair Price Boards are expected
to establish the retail price, on the

business of Friday, March 8. The re-
sult follows:
Losses.
Totalamt. Actual Per ct.
sold. loss. loss.
Bie oes ese $ 2.23 $0.07 3
Reams: oo. k Sek 1.68 03 2
Heo 55. lls ese 6.04 40 61%
OM i secs eee 4.40 40 4
Evaporated milk 92 04 5
OU goose ee ec cue 85 05 8
AORN oo eck cec ces 1.85 09 5
Breer ee 15.15 95 614
Rye Hour .........5 77 02 2.
BOOUr occ ec eeee sts Boek 26 10
Graham flour ...... 60 02 4
Potaoes ....--5-..- 11.23 47 6
Corn meal ......... 2.20 91 %
Profits

Amount Actual Per ct.
sold. profit. profit.

 

CROPBC ooo. eec eee $4.43 $0.01 1-3
Pork chops ........ 8.60 os 4
MAMOOM 2 fico. ae 1.69
Corn starch ........ -56 02 4
Oatmeal |... os 3.74 -04 1
No Profit or Loss
RUOUMINY | oe es, ce ee $ 0.20
Worieg fee 5 ee ec ee ce een 2.52
ite WARCR  o ees eke $73.03
Net Brouie . 5 565 eee 46
NEE AORBER oo. co. ecko es ae cece 2.79
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“I kept a careful record of the busi-
ness done on Friday, March 8, 1918,
at my store. It was a fairly
sentative day. It gave this astonish-
ing result:

Votal sales for the day $318.18.

Goods on which price
is fixed by the Gov’t. 73.03 Loss $2.33

repre-

 

Meat ............ 2. 51.01 Loss 50
Ber ta se 20.00 Loss .90
Veeetapies .....-..... 36.00 Pront  .i2
Other 2oo0ds .......... 438:14 Proat 2.16
Total losses on day’s sales ........ oo
Total profits on day’s sales ........ 3.48
Net ioss on day’s business ........ oo

“The above situation was brought to
the attention of the Food Administra-
tion, and one of the officers com-
mented as follows upon it:

“What the grocers seem to need,
according to this showing, is an in-
crease of about 10 per cent. in the
present fair price schedule. That 10
per cent. could be added to the
schedule without anybody _ really
knowing the difference, except the
grocer, whose profits would thereby
be protected. The grocers should go
before their local price boards and
make the necessary showing, and get
the board to increase the schedule
prices a few per cent. to take care of
their losses.’ ”’

Malted Milk Not a Licensed Com-
modity.

Several months ago it was ruled
that malted milk was a licensed com-
modity under the general heading
“powdered milk.” Subsequent de-
velopments have demonstrated that
no necessity exists for considering
malted milk a licensed commodity
and it is hereby ruled that manufac-
turers, importers and distributors of
such commodity are not required to
handle the same under a license.

Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color

A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter
Color and one that camplies with the
pure food = of every State and of
the United Sta

Manufactured by om. & Richardson Co.
Burlington, Vt.

 

 

 

Watson-HigginsMls.Co.
Merchant
Millers

Owned by Merchants

Products sold by
Merchants

Brand Recommended
by Merchants

NewPerfection Flour

Packed In SAXOLIN Paper-lined
Cotton, Sanitary: Sacks

 

 

 

Rea & Witzig

Produce
Commission Merchants

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

Established 1873

United States Food Administration
License Number G-17014

Shipments of live and dressed
Poultry wanted at all times, ex-
cept hens and pullets, and ship-
pers will find this a good market.
Fresh Eggs in good demand 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,

 

 

“The Piowaty Chain Still Grows”

The opening of our new branch at Kalamazoo adds another link.
Let us handle your requirements in Fruits and Vegetables and be as-

sured of a constant supply.

M. Piowaty & Sons of Michigan
Main Office, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Saginaw, Bay City, Muskegon, Lansing, Jackson, Battle
Creek, Kalamazoo, Mich., South Bend and Elkhart, Ind.

Branches:

 

 

Onions, Apples and Potatoes
Car Lots or Less

We Are Headquarters
Correspondence Solicited

Vinkemulder Company
-: MICHIGAN

GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

Send us your orders

ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS

will have quick attention.

Moseley Brothers, GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

Both Telephones 1217

Pleasant St. and Railroads

 

 

E. P. MILLER, President

Miller Michigan Potato Co.

WHOLESALE PRODUCE SHIPPERS
Potatoes, Apples, Onions

Correspondence Solicited

Wm. Alden Smith Bldg.

F. H. HALLOCK, Vice Pres.

FRANK T. MILLER, Sec. and Treas.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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Chain Grocer Adopts “Help Your-
self” Plan.

The H. G. Hill Grocery Co., of
Nashville, Tenn., operating a chain
of forty-five stores and aiming at
various schemes for cutting down
distributive expense in the food trade,
has opened the first of a series of
“Help Yourself” stores, and promises
that if it meets with success others
will follow. The scheme looks very
much like the “Piggly-Wiggly” sys-
tem recently described in these col-
umns. As described by the Hill
Company:

“About fifteen feet from the en-
trance there is a railing across the
front, with two turnstiles, the one to
the left being used as an entrance and
the one to the right as an exit.

“On entering the store the cus-
tomer goes through the turnstile on
the left, helps himself or herself to
a basket and begins shopping. The
shelves against the wall are lettered
in alphabetical order, beginning with
‘A.’ Under ‘A’ will be found every-
thing beginning with that letter. For
example: Asparagus, apricots, am-
monia, etc. Next comes ‘B,’ with
baking powder, beans, etc., and so
on around the store to ‘X,’ ‘Y,’ and
‘Z,, when the customer finds herself
at the cashier’s desk ready to check
out and pay for the purchases made.

“A low counter in the center of
the store contains flour, meal and
those things that are sold in bulk.
The price of every article on both
shelves and counter are plainly mark-
ed, so the customer can see at al!
times just what is being bought and
just how much it is costing.

“When the customer finishes se-
lecting what she wants and comes
around to the cashier's desk she pays.
On a counter outside of the front
railing there is a table with paper and
string to do the necessary wrapping,
if there is any to be done. The bas-
ket given to the customer upon en-
tering the store is merely loaned and
is to be returned after her shopping
is complete. If, however, the basket
is wanted, it can be kept upon paying
a nominal charge of 4 cents.

“As can be seen from the forego-
ing, the plan is simple, quick and
decidedly efficient. It saves time,
money and men.”

—_»-2+—___

Use Potatoes to Save Wheat.

Washington, April 22—Use of po-
tatoes to save wheat is demanded by
the present situation, because great-
er quantities of wheat must be con-
served, for the use of the American
forces and the Allied armies in Eu-
rope, and also because an unusually
large supply of potatoes remains in
the hands of the growers. Great
quantities of these will go to waste
unless they are used even more freely
and in a greater variety of ways than
is customary in American families.

With the basic price of wheat fixed
as at present, flour is $13.70 a barrel,
or 7 cents a pound. If, then, potatoes
can be obtained at $1.20 a bushel,
which is 2 cents a pound, it is an
economy as well as a war service to
use potatoes as a substitute for flour
in bread making. Even at 3 cents a
pound the potatoes cost no more than
flour.

The potato has a place in our food
list which no other vegetables occu-
pies. It appears on the tables of
countless families at least once a day

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and often at all three meals, and is so
much a part of our daily food that we
miss it almost as much as we would
bread if we have to go without it.
Its popularity is based on more than
accident or custom. It is palatable
and wholesome, supplies much food
material, and has some special food
qualities to its credit. Although we
prepare it in almost endless ways as a
vegetable served with meat and oth-
er foods, we also use it for soups and
salad making, sometimes for desserts,
and with flour in baking. That we
can use potato with flour is not sur-
prising, for the food substance potato
supplies most abundantly is starch,
and it is largely because of the starch
they contain that the world uses cere-
al grains as breadstuffs. It will very
often be found, with a little experi-
menting, that one-third to one-half
of the flour in some favorite recipe
can be replaced with mashed potato.
Herbert Hoover.
_——-o-oe-o

Germans Now Sell Artificial Meat.

German newspapers are full of ad-
vertisements of synthetic substitutes
for articles that have become rare.

A recent addition to the list is an
artificial meat, to which the name oi
milfix has been given, It is sold in
tins, each of which costs 84 cents.
Milfix is advertised as the best possi-
ble substitute for fresh meat. The
advertisement adds that milfix should
be well treated with pepper, salt,
onions and other tasty additions,
which are apparently intended to hide
its real flavor.

A Dresden firm advertises an ex-
cellent substitute for coffee. This is
sold at $1.14 a pound. The adver-
tisement says: “This substitute for
coffee has an excellent taste and an
agreeable aroma, and the highly hon-
orable housewives who try it will be
completely satisfied, and will become
regular customers.”

A Berlin firm advertises a substi-
tute for tobacco, described as being
made of the most noble smokable
leaves. It may be mixed with real
tobacco or can be smoked alone in a
pipe.

—_——_...>——____
The American’s Creed.

I believe in the United States of
America as a Government of the peo-
ple, by the people, for the people:
whose just powers are derived from
the consent of the governed; a de-
mocracy in a republic; a sovereign
nation of many sovereign states; a
perfect Union, one and inseparable;
established upon those principles of
freedom, equality, justice, and hu-
manity for which American patriots
sacrificed their lives and fortunes.

“T therefore believe it my duty to
my country to love it, to support its
Constitution, to obey its laws, to re-
spect its flag, and to defend it against
all enemies.”

13

 

Knox Sparkling Gelatine
A quick profit maker
A steady seller Well advertised

Each package makes
FOUR PINTS of jelly

AGRICULTURAL LIME
BUILDING LIME

Write for Prices

A. B. Knowlson Co.
203-207 Powers’ Theatre Bidg., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Blue Vitrol, Nitrate of Soda,
Acid Phosphate, Paris Green,
Arsenate of Lead

Reed & Cheney Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

Do the Housewives in Your
community buy their
Mapleine fromYOU?

REMEMBER, you can order from
your jobber or Louis Hilfer Co.,
1205 Peoples Life Bldg., Chicago.
(M-166)

Crescent

Mapleine

“‘The Delicious Golden Flavor’’
Nationally Popular

 

 

 

Sugar Cards

Weare prepared to fur-
nish the most approved
form of sugar card, printed
on both sides, with detach-
able stub, as follows:

1000... . $6.15
1500...- 8.00
2000..-- 9.55

We can furnish these
cards in any quantity on
a day’s notice.

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids

 

 

Spiller Luter d Lqy C-

Wholesale Butter, Eggs, Cheese and Margarine

We are in the market for unlimited quantities of eggs;

wire, phone or write for prices.

We seil once-used Egg Cases and Filler
at 20c, f. o. b. Detroit.

14 Market Street

DETROIT, MICH.

 

Eastern Market

 

 

Perkins Perfect Salted Peanuts

are sold to those who demand high grade goods.
Order from your jobber today.

 

Perkins Brothers, Inc.

Bay City, Michigan

 

 

G. B. READER

Jobber of
Lake, Ocean, Salt and Smoked Fish, and Oysters
in Shell and Bulk

1052 N. Ottawa Ave.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

COLEMAN 8rand)

Terpeneless

LEMON

and Pure High Grade
VANILLA EXTRACTS

Made only by

FOOTE.& JENKS
Jackson, Mich.

 

 

 

! ( We Buy ! ( We Store

We are always in the market to buy FRESH EGGS and fresh made
DAIRY BUTTER and PACKING STOCK. Shippers will find it to their
interests to communicate with us when seeking an outlet.
you our new modern facilities for the storing of such products for your own

Write us for rate schedules covering storage charges, etc. WE
SELL Egg Cases and Egg Case material of all kinds. Get our quotations.

Kent Storage Company,

account.

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Side Lights on Shoe Repairing.
Written for the Tradesman.

It has been estimated that the shoe
repair business of America amounted
to $500,000,000 during the last twelve
months. If that estimate is correct.
then we spent approximately $5 per
capita on shoe repairs during last
year.

It is undoubtedly true that the re-
pair business of this country has in-
creased by leaps and bounds during
the last four years. Evidently the
American people look upon shoe re-
pairs as a wartime measure.

The growing scarcity of leather and
Iqather substitutes, and the conse-
quent increasing price of same, have
made it imperative for every man,
woman and child in this country to
stretch each pair of shoes to the max-
imum of their serviceability. And that
means get ’em soled, half soled, or
otherwise repaired to prolong their
usefulness.

National conservation as well as in-
dividual saving suggest the propriety
of this course; and never—at least in
recent years—has the repairer had

such a strong argument as he now
finds for promcting his work.

When the Government is urging
men, women and children to refrain
from buying any article however
small or inexpensive without which
they can at all manage to get along;
when everybody—high and low, rich
and poor—are urged to save, and in-
vest their savings in Liberty bonds
or War-savings stamps—the repair
man has an argument that cannot be
resisted. By helping to make an old
pair of shoes wear a few weeks long-
er, the repairer is contributing his
bit towards the National conservation
of an indispensable war material; and
so helping by just that much to win
this war.

In other days there has been a great
deal of talk about individual econo-
my, and many people have doubtless
deceived themselves into the notion
that they were practicing economy;
but as a matter of fact we were a
Nation of spendthrifts. This is prov-
ed incontrovertibly by our annual ex-
penditures for booze, tobacco, candy,
chewing gum, amusements, and

TRADESMAN

countless other things that are un-
necessary or injurious—in other
words luxuries. It was due to our
National craving for such things that
our per capita accumulation was re-
duced to such a shameful figure. We
made the money, but we foolishly
squandered it.

This war is teaching us how to
save, The aggressive Liberty bond
drive now on, and the ones that have
preceded it, together with the Nation-
wide campaign in behalf of War-
saving stamps, have served to teach
the American people a much-needed
lesson. What will a National debt
of ten billions, or even twenty-five
billions amount to, if the American
people can be taught to save?

I am not charging that we were
reckless and extravagant in our ex-
penditures for footwear. A _ few
might have been, and doubtless were;
but not so the rank and file. But the
point is, we are learning to economize
even in the realm of necessities.

The repair business of the country
is largely in the hands of retail shoe
dealers. The larger towns and cities
of course have their shops which are
devoted exclusively to the repairing
of shoes, but the bulk of the busi-
ness is taken in by shoe dealers. And
it’s immaterial to the shoe merchant
whether he makes his profit on a new
pair or an old pair brought in for
repair purposes.

Some one has recently made the
statement in an article written for a
popular shoe publication that the
average profit on the repair job is
equal to the average profit on a new

 

April 24, 1918

pair of shoes. This may, or may not
be true. I am not in a position to
say; but suppose the profit on a re-
pair job was only half the profit on a
new pair, still it would pay the shoe
dealer to solicit and take care of re-
pair work. And I arrive at this con-
clusion in this way. The average
length of the additional service im-
parted to a pair of shoes by virtue
of their repair is perhaps about 50
per cent, of their wear prior to re-
pairs. In other words if a pair of
shoes will wear say six months with-
out half-soling, a repair job will add
about three months additional wear.
If, then, the shoe dealer makes half
as much net profit out of the repair
job as he did on the original sale,
it’s a fair proposition both to himself
and to his customer; and as far as
the dealer is concerned, it should be
immaterial whether the customer
elects to buy a new pair or get his old
ones half-soled.

Looking at the matter from anoth-
er angle, this increasing repair bill
of the U. S. A. is quite a wholesome
proposition. There is a limit to the
leather and other suitable shoe ma-
terials available for civilian shoes;
and it would seem far better to con-
serve this material wisely and dis-
tribute its use through the seasons
of the year in such a manner as to
produce only so many shoes as may
be made well—that is in keeping with

‘established standards of value, and in

harmony with our traditions and
ideals of shoe values. To increase
production beyond a certain fixed
point—a point fixed by grim war

 

 

 

 

Look for the Name Hood

on Canvas Footwear
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All its name implies,
Heavy Brown Duck,
Bullseye Quality,
Rubber Soles.

Men's Blucher.... $1.90

The Bayside

i Bals Oxfords
oe Shee nee ce 1.80 Men’s...... $1.40 $1.30
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Good Women’s.. 1.35 1.25
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Refined Dress Shoe.
Fine White Duck,
Loose Lining,
Leather Insole,
Pneumatic Heel.

The Korker
It’s Cheap
Care is taken to make the best possible at the price.

LARGEST STORE IN MICHIGAN.

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conditions that demand that a cer-
tain very large proportion of our
leather go into soldier shoes—would
mean an inevitable cheapening ot
American shoes. Inferior leathers
and substitutes would have to be
used in ever-growing quantities. And
that would spell disaster to every-
body in the trade.

So, for the sake of making the
really good shoes last as long as
they can be made to last, the repair
business is a timely aid to the shoe
industry of this country; and a veri-
table boon to retail shoe dealers.

For the customers’ sake—who
should now be learning the lesson of
individual economy—and for his own
sake, the retail shoe merchant should
get into the shoe repair game as ag-
gressively as he possibly can.

Cid McKay.
— 2.2. —___
First Gun in the Low Shoe Campaign.

Shoe dealers can aid to create in-
terest in Low Shoe Day by asking
their local newspapers to publish the
following description of the
under an appropriate heading:

Dame Fashion and Uncle Sam have
formed an entente alliance and have
issued a joint and several edicts to
the American people, pronouncing
Sunday, May 5, National Low Shoe
Day. This means that every man,
woman and child, who desires to keep
in the good graces of both must rele-
gate high shoes to the closet and ap-
pear next Sunday neatly shod in low
shoes.

It is an edict that will be cheerfully
obeyed. Not only is the season of the

event

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15

year at hand when the Low Shoe is
the most comfortable footwear to be
had, but it is clear to all people that
the conservation of leather is im-
perative, if the United States is to suc-
cessfuly conclude its task “over
there.” The soldier must be well
shod. Through the very nature of his
werk, he uses up shoe leather at an
amazing rate. The quartermaster de-
partment of the United States army
has figured that each of the hun-
dreds of thousands of boys in khaki
will have worn out nine pairs of shoes
by this time next year. This is proof
positive of the absolute necessity for
the conservation of leather by the
American people.

The people of the United States are
patriotic. They are heart and soul
with our boys in trench and camp. In
every way they have demonstrated
their desire to make sacrifices in or-
der that this world may be “safe for
democracy.” They will welcome
National Low Shoe Day as another
opportunity of manifesting their patri-
otism. And at the same time it is
a manifestation that demands no sac-
rifice, for all must agree that from
now on until the frost is on the pump-
kin, the Low Shoe is the most serv-
iceable, the most comfortable and
neatest of footwear. Local dealers,
advised of the date of National Low
Shee Day, have bought accordingly,
and to-day are offering patrons the
very latest footwear of this descrip-
tion. Make it a point to see your
dealer to-day and pick out your pair
so that you may be a properly clad
patriot on Sunday, May 5.

 

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GREY KID SHOES

At Once Shipment

GREY Kid No. 2807

Flexible McKay
Louis Heel
Lace
Sizes 3 to 7
Widths B to D

Price $6.15

GREY Kid No. 2843

McKay
Louis Heel
Lace
Sizes 3 to 7
Widths B to D

Price $5.25

 

 

 

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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This ad produced results—READ IT

Another ad brought 46 inquiries from customers

 

Sell a Pair of
Good Shoes

and you increase your assets;
for the good will of your cus-
tomer is the best asset you
can have.

But, sell a cheap shoe, and
your margin of profit shrinks
into a loss, for your cus-

tomer is then encouraged to |

take his
where.

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Sell Rouge Rex Shoes

“FOR THE MAN WHO WORKS”

Our own tannage and manufacture. From hide to shoe, and
then to you, all under our personal direction and supervision.
They bring the smile of satisfaction to dealer and wearer.

Hirth-Krause Co.

Hide to Shoe
Tanners and Shoe Manufacturers

GRAND RAPIDS,

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Quality is Always Recognized

in whatever form it may be expressed.
No person can fail to see in the

Bertsch and
H. B. Hard Pan Shoes

all that the art of good shoe making can put
into a shoe to form that unusual combination
of STYLE and WEAR RESISTING QUALITIES
which these lines possess.

You simply cannot go wrong on the BERTSCH
(dress) and H. B. HARD PAN (Service) Shoes,
Mr. Dealer. Every shoe must measure up to
the high standard of quality set for our goods.
That’s why there is such a tremendous volume
of sales on shoes which bear our name.

Get started on these lines. You’ll find them
all high class, honest money makers.

BUILT FOR SERVICE—WEAR LIKE IRON

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.

Manufacturers of Serviceable Footwear GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Official Don’t List for
Women.
Gossip must cease and women must
learn to keep secrets if the United
States is to win the war, says an of-
ficial list of “Don'ts” issued by the
Committee on Public Information for
the benefit of the women of America.
Here are some of the things that
the Government considers all-impor-
tant:

Men cannot win this war without
the help .of women.

Don’t confirm these old slanders.
“Women talk too much,” “Women
can’t keep a secret.”

Don’t pass along any information
that your men folk may carelessly or
trustiully pass along to you.

Don’t fail to report to the nearest
officer disloyal or suspicious remarks
or behavior on the part of anybody,
native or foreigner.

Don’t forget that some of the most
dangerous enemies of the country
in time of war are native Americans
of the greatest sincerity.

Don’t forget that this war will end
to our advantage only when it ends
with victory.

Don’t let jealousy of other women
whose men get to the front or are
kept at home make you suspicious of
motives cr influence. The organiza-
tions and individuals are all parts of
a complicated machine; each cog must
fit in its place and move when need-
ed.

Don’t accuse the stay-at-homes of
base motives. Many of them are
more eager to be abroad than some
that are there. The success of the
men in France depends on the energy
of the men at home. For every man
in a trench a great many men are
needed in the rear, or the fightiag
line will fail of ammunition, food,sup-
plies, funds, equipment and re-inforce-
ments.

Don’t forget that cynicism and sar-
casm are the cheapest things on
earth, but may prove deadly in their
result.

Don’t forget that it is treason to
give aid and comfort to the enemy.
Nothing comforts the enemy more
than the feeling that the war is un-
popular at home and that the people
are against it.

Don’t rail against conscription. It
is the fairest, squarest, most demo-
cratic method ever devised. It was
forced on the country by the terrific
man power of the enemy, based on a
conscription policy in force for gen-
erations.

Don’t underestimate your own abil-
ity to" help. The day has long passed
when women were expected to sit
idle and wait for wars to end. Wom-

American

en are invaluable, not only at the front
as nurses, ambulance drivers, clerks
and canteen managers, but just as
valuable at home. Knitting and ban-
dage making are important, and there
are hundreds of activities of direct
service, not to mention the number-
less industries in which women are
replacing the men at the front.

Don’t forget that “many mickles
make a muckle.” The little bit of
information you have may seem ut-
terly unimportant, yet it may furnish
a spy with just the confirmation he
or she needs; or it may piece out
some fabric that needs only a patch
or two to be complete; or it may give
to him or her, a hint or a clew lead-
ing to discoveries of fatal consequence
to the ones you love or to others, or
to the Nation.

Don’t minimize the minor matters.
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a horse the rider was lost;
for want of, etc., etc., the Nation was
lost.” The news you know may fur-
nish the nail to the shoe, or the
horse, etc., which will help the enemy
toward success.

Don’t cavil at our Allies. Their
interests are ours and ours are theirs.
It is a case of all for one and one for
all. For three years they have pour-
ed out their precious lives and treas-
ures and endured untold privations
and losses. We have been enabled to
organize our army and our fleet in
the shelter of their living, dying ram-
part. They have taken a tremendous
toll from our enemy. We should be
patient with their impatience at our
delays, and we should begrudge them
no assistance—financial, physical or
spiritual. We should show them that
we, too, can save and spend and fight.

Don’t fail to reverse the peace-time
rule. Remember that in war every-
body is suspicious, until he is proved
innocent, especially in a country of
such mixed population and such va-

riety of tradition as the United
States.
Don’t forget that Germany has

made use of spies to an extent far
beyond the dreams of any other na-
tion, in peace or war. This country
contained thousands of secret agents
of Germany long before the war be-
gan. Thousands have since been add-
ed, not to mention the fact that among
the millions of Germans, Austrians,
Hungarians and other hostile nations,
countless enemies exist, eager to be of
any possible service to their native
lands and against their adopted coun-
try. :

Don’t make it difficult for your
men folk to do their duty. There are
times when tears are treasonable.

Don’t relax your vigilance. Keep

April 24, 1918

 

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of your neighbors and the people you
encounter wherever you go.

Don’t permit yourself or others to
slight the flag or ridicule the sacred

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picious and you hesitate to take it to
the local authorities, write to the De-
partment of Justice, Washington, D.
C., giving as many facts as possible.
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confidence.

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April 24, 1918

Bird Life on Wane—lInsect Life on
Increase.

Grandville, April 22—There’s not a
bird in all nature not the friend of
man.

The law against the sparrow has
practically exterminated the feather-
ed tribe and we are reaping what we
have sown. In place of birds we have
swarms of insect pests which make
life of farmer and horticulturist mis-
erable.

We ask what is it all for? Why
this intense desire to exterminate our
feathered friends? It has been said,
how true I do not know, that without
the birds human life on the earth
would become extinct in ten years.

Why the hand of the State has been
raised against the sparrow and not
against the robin and some others
of the feathered tribe is a mystery.
The robin is in every respect as de-
structive to crops. Did you ever see
a cherry tree in full fruit without
from one to half a dozen robins en-
joying a feast at the expense of the
owner?

The law protects the robin while
it outlaws the sparrow.

Neither one should be outlawed, al-
though some people seem to con-
sider the English sparrow no better
than a rattlesnake. Even at farmers’
institutes I have heard learned men
extol the law and suggest numerous
ways for destroying the small bird,
among others that of doping corn
with poison and scattering it where
these birds congregate. It is a pleas-
ure to these great intellects to note
how many hundreds, perhaps thou-
sands, of sparrows may be thus ex-
terminated in a single day.

This manner of doing up the out-
law is, however less sportsmanlike
than hunting him with dog and gun.
One man in an interior county of
Michigan became famous as a spar-
row slaughterer, having at one time
brought in to the clerk of his county
for bounty more than 1,200 sparrow
heads. Wonderful prowess, almost
equal to going over the top on the
battle front in Europe!

At another time two parties of
grown men (not boys) enjoyed a
day’s hunt, not for tigers or wild
and vicious animals, but for the pur-
pose of seeing which gang could kill
the most sparrows!

The party winning the prize—a
dinner of several courses—showed a
record score of several thousand
birds. Brave and glorious consumma-
tion of a single day’s sport! How
many other innocents were slaughter-
ed deponent saith not—the newspa-
pers did not record these latter. Be-
sides the dinner, there was, of course,
the State reward, paid from the pock-
ets of the taxpayers of this State
to aid in encouraging the spread of
insect life and helping on the sale
of the various poison sprays which
go to fill the coffers of the manufac-
turers.

How could one farmer live sixteen
years on a farm and raise abundant
crops of grain, hay, vegetables and

~ fruit without seeing the necessity for

killing one of the birds that inhabit
the woods and fields if the English
sparrow is the frightful evil and pest
claimed for him by our learned en-
tomologists and ornithologists? It is
a mistaken notion that we must ex-
terminate a whole tribe of birds when
we discover one of them taking a
kernel of the farmer’s grain,

It is this mistaken notion which
has wrought so much evil in the land.
Stand by the birds, good farmer.
Stand by the robin, the bluebird, the
wren, the catbird, the shrill- mouthed
bluejay, the gentle and almost do-
mesticated quail, the blackbird, the
crow and, last but not least, the Eng-
lish sparrow!

We need them all, to the last one,
if we would rid our fields and or-
chards of insect pests which are
threatening to wipe out all farm pro-
duction. Try this method for three

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

years or during the war and note the
effect. Fifty years ago we had heard
nothing of arsenate of lead as a ne-
cessity in our food production. The
forests teemed with bird life and the
fruits and vegetables were of the
best. To-day, without this deluge of
poisonous sprays, there’s nothing do-
ing in the line of raising food for the
striving millions of our land.

It is an unpleasant condition that
confronts us, and it is truly a con-
dition and not a theory, as we all
know. The English sparrow is here,
and we irust he is here to stay. One
man [| knew was asked what bird was
the most destructive of all the feath-
ered tribe. His answer was not the
sparrow, but the robin! Doesn't
seem possible, does it? Yet this man
found robin redbreast the worst feath-
ered enemy he had to encounter. He
had a cherry orchard, the pride of
his heart, Ah, you ought to see those
cherries when the trees were red with
the fruit. But along came this fly
in the ointment, robin redbreast, and
laid waste the rich, juicy fruit, much
to the disgust of our friend.

What did the cherry owner do but
take down his shotgun and slaughte:
a few of his imagined enemies, the re-
sult being that he was hauled up be-
fore a magistrate and severely tined.
Angered beyond sanity by his punish-
ment the owner of the cherry orchara
sharpened his ax and sailed in. The
slaughter was fearful, that orchard
of trees being laid low to the ground.

“Tf I can’t protect my own proper-
ty from being destroyed, I'll get rid
of that property,” declared the man.
Foolish? No doubt, yet he felt that
way, even as a great State sometimes
feels when a little brown sparrow
dares to peck at a bit of standing
grain and ordains through legisla-
tion the extermination of that small
bird.

I do not remember how long the
sparrow-killing law has been in force
—several years at least—and the spar-
row is still with us. He’s a doughty
little Britisher and surrenders his life
dearly.

Bird life in Michigan is surely on
the wane. Insect life is surely on
the increase. I think no one is eager
to dispute this fact. Is it not time,
then, that something was done, to
make a change for the better, a
change which will tend to curtail the
spread of insect pests rather than to
encourage them by laws which are
detrimental to bird life, laws made,
perhaps, to please some farmers and
more sportsmen? The quail, one of
our insectiverous game birds, is be-
ing exterminated. There should be
no open season for this bird. It
should be protected every hour and
every minute in the twenty-four.

Space forbids my entering into a
defense of my position here at this
time. Later I hope to be able to speak
a good word for the quail, also for
the despised crow and, perhaps, for
some others equally detested.

Old Timer.
——~-o
A Tale of the Teeth.
Written for the Tradesman.

“That is fine—breathe natural and deep.
Take it easy—everything’s all right;
Nothing could be better; and a—sleep
Soon a—sailing—like a—bird in flight
You’ll be.’’ See! my pilot’s far behind,
I alone am sailing—floating—fast
On beyond—in the unknown I find
Worlds anew. Catastrophes at last
Seem oa near. Now my plane almost
alls
Something like a jolt, a jar is felt!
Rhythmic voices are discordant calls.
Why! my engine Jammed, and gas 1
smelt!
“Yes—we have them  all—sure—every
one;
Plenty time, don’t hurry; just rest right
there;
You’ll be better now the job is done.
Fifty dollars—thank you—we are
square.”’
Charles A. Heath.

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eyes only—let your mind have a little
exercise occasionally.

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What One Delivery Per Day Has
Accomplished.

Washington, April 22—A pamphlet
to assist retail merchants in adjusting
their delivery service to war condi-
tions has just been issued by the Com-
mercial Economy Board of the Coun-
cil of National Defense. It is based
on the experience of the several thou-
sand stores which have gone to one
regular delivery a day, eliminated spe-
cial deliveries, restricted the return
privilege, or organized co-operative
delivery systems, in accordance with
the Board’s recommendations. The
experience of these stores is summar-
ized to serve as a practical guide ior
others, particularly in meeting the la-
bor problems that will arise from
forthcoming drafts for the army.

One delivery a day, the Board
states, is now the rule in leading
stores in at least twenty of the large
cities of the United States and in
scores of smaller cities and towns. As
a result, the delivery departments of
the stores are operating with from 15
to more than 50 per cent. fewer men
than ‘formerly. These cities include
Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Cin-
cinnati, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Oakland, Columbus, Dayton, Spokane,
Seattle, Toledo, Washington, Port-
land, Louisville, Oklahoma City, In-
dianapolis, Des Moines, Canton and
many others.

Reports of savings made have just
been received from twenty-six repre-
sentative department stores. These
stores had been making two, three or
four regular deliveries a day and -vent
to one. In addition, most of them
eliminated special deliveries and re-
stricted the return privilege to three
business days from the time of pur-
chase, which the Board has also rec-
ommended. As a result of these
changes, the number of men employ-
ed on deliveries in the stores had been
reduced an average of 39 per cent.

Savings in similar proportions have
been made in grocery and specialty
stores, and in small towns as well as
large.

The pamphlet cites a typical case
from a village in Maryland. A gro-
cery store went from two deliveries a
day to one. At the same time it d's-
rontinued special deliveries which it
had allowed before without restric-
tion. In a leaflet circulated amou:
its customers it explained the pur-
pose of the readjustment, namely the
conservation of labor for war use.
It promised that the money saved
would be shared with customers. The
store had two delivery wagons, and
before the readiustment both had been
on the streets all day. Two months
after the readiustment, an increase of
business nothwithstanding, the wag-
ons were regularly making all the de-
liveries between 1 and 6 o’clock in
the afternoon and the drivers were
able to spend the morning inside the
store putting up telephone orders. At
that time the owner estimated that
if he had remained on the old delivery
basis he would have had to employ
at least two more men to take care oi
the increase in his business.

A case from a Middle Western city
of 200,000 shows how the savings are
made in department stores. Before
the readjustment the store regularly
used three trucks. One covered the

North section of the city three times

a day. Another covered the East
section three times a day. The third
covered the South and West sections,
which are less populous, twice a day.
After the change to one delivery a
day, one truck covered the Northern
section in the forenoon and in the
afternoon the South and West sec-
tions. The East portion. in which the
deliveries are heaviest, was divided
into two parts, and a second truck
covered one part in the forenoon and
the other in the afternoon. Thus two
trucks instead of three did the work.

The booklet gives in detail the ex-
perience of a number of stores of vari-
ous kinds and sizes. In no case known
to the Board has any store, after mak-
ing a thorough trial of the single de-
livery plan, returned to more than one
delivery.

The saving from restricting the re-
turn privilege is illustrated from a
New York department store. During
the first month, the goods returned
by its customers amounted to $162,-
000 less than in the corresponding
month the year before, although its
volume of business was larger.

A group of department stores in a
Middle Western city—and their cus-
tomers—are being saved the cost of
700 special deliveries a day, throigh
the elimination of that privilege.

Co-operative delivery systems,
which the Board recommended for
small and medium-sized cities and
towns and for the larger cities where
practical, have brought about even
larger savings, proportionally, than
the one delivery a day plan. In a
small Texas town, for instance, there
were six grocery stores and each
maintained a truck, After they or-
ganized a co-operative system, one
truck did the deliveries for all. In
one of the largest Middle Western
cities, all the department stores have
united in a co-operative system ior
their suburban deliveries. Half the
trucks are now required to render the
same service.

The pamphlet describes the orzgan-
ization and methods of a number of
co-operative delivery systems now in
successful operation.

The special object of the delivery

recommendations was to make it un-
necessary for stores which lost :!e-
liverymen through the draft or other
causes to bid against farms, munition
works, shipyards and other vital in-
dustries for substitutes. Besides doing
this, the readjustments have in a
number of cases shortened a long
working day for deliverymen. And
they have enabled merchants to meet
the increasing demand from their cus-
tomers for closer prices on goods.
- The changes are part of a broad
plan for voluntary conservation of
commercial resources. The Board is
co-operating similarly with the woolen
cloth and clothing, the shoe and leath-
er, the paint and other industries in
eliminating needless uses of labor,
materials, equipment and capital in
those industries.

The delivery pamphlet is called
“Economy in Retail Service” and may
be had upon application to the Board
at Washington.

—2--2—_—_

Goods that do not sell do not be-
long in your store, no matter how
well they look in the showcases or
on the shelves.

 

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QUALITY

To-day your boy is reaching out
for your hand. He is in a trench in
a foreign land 3,000 miles from

home. He said good-bye to all he
holds dear and is staking his life for
your happiness because he trusts you
to stand back of him. He has no
money, no food, no guns except as
you supply him.

Your government is offering Bonds of the Third Lib-
erty Loan that your boy may have the sinews of war to

-make the best fight when he goes out “Over the Top” into
No Man’s Land and matches his strength against cold steel.

You are not asked to give this money. You are asked
to loan it to the United States of America.

In fact, you are asked to buy a mortgage on the
United States, the richest government in the world. These
Bonds are Uncle Sam’s promises to pay just as the dollar
in your pocket is Uncle Sam’s promise to pay. The differ-
ence between a $100 bill and a $100 bond is that while the
bill is never worth more than $100, the bond—because it
draws interest—earns an income for its owner.

Save for the Third Liberty Loan. Invest
in the Third Liberty Loan. That is the
way to lend a hand. That is the way to
make a nation invincible for freedom and
justice.

Every bond bought now is a direct fighting aid to
this boy in the trenches in France.

Even if your district has subscribed its quota, con-
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April 24, 1918

Rates For Short Hauls Materially
Increased.

Levering, April 14—We wish to in-
form you of what we consider as an
exhorbitant freight rate charged by
the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway
Co. from Petoskey North to stations
between there and Mackinac City, and
between which points they have no
competition.

We are listing a few of the rates
from Grand Rapids to Levering and
also from Petoskey to Levering for
comparison, and ask if you think we
are getting a just rate North of Pe-
toskey?

Petoskey is twenty-three miles dis-
tant irom Levering while Grand Rap-
ids is 219 miles.

We have expense bills from both
points to show we are correct.

If you consider it worthy of atten-
tion to our neighbor merchants you
may print reply in Tradesman.

Reed & Co.

 

Grand Rapids, April 15—I am in re-
ceipt of a letter from Reed & Co., of
Levering, complaining over the freight
rate on groceries from Petoskey to
Levering (twenty-three miles), as
compared with the rate from Grand
Rapids to Petoskey (219) miles, as
follows:

Grand Rapids
to Petoskey

Grand Rapids
to Levering

Flour and Feed..10 19
Sugar) ....0.0..5.- 15 28.5
Raisins (3000) ccs. 19 35.5

On taking this complaint up with
the General Freight Agent of the G.
R. & I., I was informed that his de-
partment was powerless to act, be-
cause the Commission ordered the
above rates into effect Jan. 3, 1918,
document 1193. As there is a mani-
fest discrimination in these rates—
at least to a layman who has the mis-
fortune to be a shipper—I write to en-
quire the occasion of promulgating
such rates. E. A. Stowe.

 

Lansing, April 18—We have yours
of April 15, showing freight rates on
certain commodities from Grand Rap-
ids to Petoskey and from Grand Rap-
ids to Levering, If we get your mean-
ing correctly, as to the above, you de-
sire to compare the rate from Grand
Rapids to Levering with Petoskey to
Levering, assuming that the Grand
Rapids houses and Petoskey houses
compete for Levering trade.

If so, we find the rate on flour and
feed, Petoskey to Levering is 5th
class, or 10c per cwt., for a distance
as stated by yourself of 23 miles;
while the rate from Grand Rapids to
Levering, a distance of 214 miles, is
19c per cwt. The rate on sugar, un-
der Rule 26, from Petoskey to Lever-
ing is 15c per cwt., and Grand Rapids
to Levering 28.5c per cwt. The rate
on raisins, which are 3rd class, from
Petoskey to Levering is 19c per cwt.,
and from Grand Rapids to Levering
is 35.5c per cwt. :

You state that the General Freight
Agent of the G. R. & I. informs you
his department is powerless to act, be-
cause this Commission ordered the
different rates in effect January 3, 1918
_D-1193. You state it is manifest
there is discrimination in these rates
and you ask the reason.

In reply, we are very glad to ex-
plain fully that when application was
made to the Interstate Commerce
Commission for an advance in class
rates, the Commission stated to the
carriers that their rates for short hauls
were entirely too low and increased
them very materially, When the Ex-
aminer’s recommendations were made
to the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion, they further increased the rates
recommended by the Examiner, em-
phasizing the fact that the short haul
rates in the past have been consider-
ably too low, from the fact that
terminal expenses, fixed charges, ov-
erhead expense, etc., were practically
the same on a ten mile haul as a long

‘clothing

MICHI@AN TRADESMAN

haul, and that, therefore, in propor-
tion, the short mileage rate should be
very much higher than the long mile-
age rate.

After this theory had been adopted
by the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion, and this Commission recognized
that to a large extent the principle
involved had been properly expressed,
the carriers made application to this
Commission for authority to make ef-
fective the rates which they proposed.
While we recognized the justice of
naming a higher rate for short hauls
than long hauls, we were unwilling
to adopt the Interstate Commerce
Commission rates on the zone basis
proposed and reduced them consider-
ably, especially in the Northern por-
tion of the State. If shippers will in-
vestigate, they will find, on the basis
of the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion tariffs and rates in effect that the
rates in Michigan are considerably
less. Keeping in mind the decision
of the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion as to the recent advance over the
short haul, we do not think, for the
difference between twenty-three miles
and 214 miles, that there is an unrea-
sonable difference expressed in the
tariffs in effect.

We have gone thus far into this
question because we appreciate your
sincerity in making the enquiry and
desire that you may fully understand
the basis on which these rates were
made. C. L. Glasgow,

Chairman Michigan Railway Com-
mission.

—_~>+>___

Reckless Extravagance.
Frank Hamilton, the Traverse City
merchant, was raised in
Maine, and he loves the Pine Tree
State yet, although he admits that
many of the people are just a “little
nigh.”

“When I was a boy,” says Mr.
Hamilton, “there was an old fellow
in my town who was reputed to have
all kinds of money, but he was never
known to let go of a cent if he could
help it. It was currently reported that
the only time he ever bought a news-
paper was the day Lincoln was as-
sassinated.

“He used to make his wife keep a
strict account of every cent she spent,
and would go over it carefully, and
take her to task for any extravagance.
One day he was casting up her cash
beok, and turning to her he said, se-
verely:

“Look here, Mirandy. Here's 25
cents for a mustard plaster and a
dolier’n five cents fer havin’ three
teeth pulled. There’s a dollar’n thir-
ty cents spent in one day fer your own
pleasure. D’ye think I’m made of
money?”

——_-+-~> 2 —___

Nicholas Silvius, who engaged in the
dry good business on Ottawa avenue
Nov. 5, 1878, and has continued ever
since, has sold his stock to a Chicago
company, which has shipped it to that
city. Twenty years ago Mr. Silvius
erected the brick store building at
1001 Ottawa, which he has since oc-
cupied. He is the oldest merchant on
the street in point of years of service.
If Mr. Silvius had remained in busi-
ness seven months longer he would
have rounded out a career of forty
years of faithful service to the public.
He has always stood well with his
customers and creditors, all of whom
join in hoping he may live long to en-
joy the competence he has gained
by patient endeavor.

Furs For Fall Wear.

All kinds of foxes will be greatly
in demand in manufactured furs this
fall and winter, according to Alex
W. Louis, merchandise manager for a
local manufacturing furrier.

“For fall it looks as if the demand
for foxes will be very large,” said
Mr. Louis yesterday, “Foxes of all
kinds will be called for—natural,
blues, whites, silvers, and dyed skins.
I would not be surprised to see quite
a call for black furs, as the American
losses doubtless will be large in Eu-
rope and black will be worn, natural-
ly, by those who have given their
boys to freedom’s cause.

“Hudson seal, mole, squirrel, broad-
tail and caracul will be much used for
coats and coatees. For capes and
stoles mole, Hudson Bay sable, mink
and squirrel wii! be the leaders, as
these furs are well adapted to the
manufacture of the merchandise men-
tioned.

“Milady will have many pretty
styles to choose from. As all women
want furs, the besi-selling ones will
depend almost entirely on the pur-
chasing power of individual consum-
ers. An ambition of most women is
to possess sables, and the demand for
Hudson Bay sables will be very large
during the coming season. The catch
of these animals was small this year,
which presages a scarcity, but prices
are still at ‘reasonable’ levels.

“With so many motor cars in use,
summer furs have become a necessity
with a great many women. The pres-
ent demand for them is proving this.
Mole, squirrel, and chiffon and iur
trimmed capes are much in demand.
They are not only pretty to look at,
but are really useful.”

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gowns are also being decorated pro-
fusely with beads and spangles, it was
pointed out by an authority in the

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bead trade yesterday, and business
from this source also has been heavy.
—_+-+-___
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Official Reasons Why Germany Start-
ed the War.

Written for the Tradesman.

A gratifying announcement comes
from the National capital to the effect
that every department of the
Government has been made a war-
making body, the intention being to
interfere as little as possible with the
accustomed channels of trade. This
was clearly announced by the War In-
dustries Board when it gave out its
first preferential list of industries to
be favored in the matter of full sup-
plies. It is stated the list will undergo
material amplifications and _ exten-
sions, as necessity requires. The fun-
damental policy of non-interference
with business beyond the point of ac-
tual necessity is being expressed in
other Government organizations.
This, if carried out, will be of material
benefit, showing that in spite of the
exigencies of war, American business
is looked upon as one of the most
essential safeguards of the Nation
and is to be treated accordingly.

Corporate securities maturing in
May aggregate $83,488,490, compared
with $89,893,170 in April and $87,707,-
854 in May, 1917. Railroad securities
lead in the amount due, $31,687,190
with public utilities and industrials
following with approximately $25,942,-
000 and $25,854,100, respectively.

As a result of months of most care-
ful investigation the United State-
Department of Commerce announces
that Germany went to war to gain
greater control over markets for her
manufactured goods and over the
sources of raw materials that enter
into the making of such goods, and
that the gigantic failure of these com-
mercial aims is already apparent. The
investigation included German _polit-
ical, industrial and commercial ac-
tivities, both before and after the outit-
break of the Kaiser’s war. The pri-
mary object of the report of the De-
partment of Commerce is to throw
light on Germany’s preparedness for
trade after the war. To aid in reach-
ing an intelligent conclusion on this
subject many pages are devoted to
such subjects as Germany’s wartime
industries, trade organizations, money
and banks, raw materials, labor condi-
tions, land and water transportation,
war loans, taxation and proposed mo-
nopolies. The report says that, owing
to the uncertainties of war, most of
the measures for entering foreign
trade are still in the stage of discus-
sion, only a few having received legis-
lative sanction. Many of the indus-
tries have been syndicated or con-
solidated; an imperial ministry of
economic affairs has been created:
subsidies have been voted to rehabili-

tate the merchant marine; steps have
been taken to promote the export of
German goods under the giuse of neu-
tral products.

“In spite of the obstacles which will
confront the Germans, however,” says
the report, “it will be well to bear in
mind the fact that there is need of
preparing for defense in order that
German business may not continue its
old methods of quiet penetration in
one country after another. People
everywhere are now awake to the in-
famous methods of Germany, but the
mistake must not be made of under-
estimating the recuperative power of
the Germans and of over-estimating
the effect of the billions resting upon
Germany as the result of the war.
There is danger that even in defeat
this economic reality of seventy mil-
lion Germans in the middle of Europe
are going to continue to dream the
dreams of Middle Europe, followed
by dreams of Middle Africa, and also
the dream of a German world.”

New Zealand will penalize those
who can and do not suscribe to the
new $100,000,000 war loan by fining
them double the amount of their in-
come tax and taking their surplus
funds for investment in bonds bear-
ing only 3 per cent. interest.

The steadiness of the securities mar-
ket indicates a calm confidence, not
only in fundamental business condi-
tions in the United States, but as to
the favorable outcome of the gigantic
struggle now going on across the
ocean, and this in spite of the fact
that the battle of Picardy has dem-
onstrated to the American people and
our Government that the German
military power is not exhausted and
that the English and American news-
papers have been superficial in talk-
ing about starving Germany out, that
the Teutonic gains from the collapse
of Russia may be even greater than
anticipated and that the causes oi
constitutional, parlimentary govern-
ment and individual liberty can be
saved only by redoubled effort on our
part. In short few persons believed
Germany to be as strong as she is.
The real situation is now more gen-
erally understood and it is probable
that the plan to increase an army
from 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 or 3,000,000
men will be carried out. Should this
be done military expenditure would be
between five and six billion dollars.
This would raise our total war ex-
penditure, including loans to the
Allies, to approximately $1,600,000,000
per month. So large a military add:-
tional outlay if made will require larg-
er loans and possibly heavier taxes.
Such are likely to be financial results
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ern front, Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo, in a Liberty Loan address,
is credited with forcasting heavier
taxes in the statement, “I do not think
we have applied taxation strongly
enough.” Every one realizes that,
due to war and in war times, taxes
must be heavy, but there is a limit—a
danger line—beyond which it is not
wise to go and it is a question as to
whether any increase will not reach
and pass the danger mark. Under the
law of Oct. 3, 1917, and previous laws,
levies of taxes are being made of such
magnitude and of such a nature that
no parallel can be found in the first
year’s legislation of any other coun-
try engaged in the war. It is believed
when the returns are all in the pres-
ent income and excess profits taxes
will yield from $500,000,000 to $1,009,-
000,000 more than has been estimatec,
by the treasury officials that amount
being $2,427,000,000.

Through interpretation and stretch-
ing of the new laws their scope has
been greatly extended. The excess
profits tax law interpretations are
glaring examples. When the differ-
ences of the two houses were being
adiusted in conference, the conferees
inserted a clause providing that in
trade or business having no invested
capital, or not more than a nominal
capital, a tax equivalent to 8 per cent.
of the net income of such business
or trade should be levied in excess of
a reduction of $3,000 in the case of a
corporation and in excess of a reduc-
tion of $6,000 in the case of a partner-
ship or citizen. This was meant to
reach dentists, physicians,
etc. who are in receipt of large in-
comes who would otherwise be ex-
empt from the excess profits tax. To
reach that class of people the words
“tirade” and “business” ‘were defined
by the law itself as including “pro-
fessions.” It was never intended that
this 8 per cent. excess profits should
apply to the ordinary salaried man
no matter what his salary might he,
but the commissioner of Internal Rev-
enue ruled otherwise. The law is full
of inequalities and should be amend-
ed so as to simplify it so the ordinary
citizen can understand its terms. The
New York Commercial & Financial
Chronical very sensibly suggests that
the excess profits tax be changed so
as to make a real tax on excess prof-
its, that is a tax on profits in excess
of what they were before the war, in-
stead of a tax on the excess above 7
or 9 per cent. on the invested capital.
If it is intended to apply the 8 per
cent. excess profits tax to salaries, the
law should go a step further and
make the tax applicable to income
from investments. As it is now in-
terpreted the man whose income
comes from services is discriminated
against in the favor of the man who
has inherited his income, or derives
it from past accumulations.

Paul Leake.
—_—__+++>—__

Live Notes From a Live Town.

Owosso, April 22—Owosso_ Coun-
cil held their first regular meeting un-
der the generalship of the new officers
Saturday evening, with a few extras
thrown in. About twenty-five mem-

bers with their wives, mothers and
daughters met at 6 p. m. at Connor's

lawyers,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21

‘cafe, owned and operated by Uncle

Bill Lovert, and such a lunch! Gee
Whiz! Say, if any of you fellows ever
strike town on an empty stomach, go
right over to Uncle Bill and call his
attention to your condition. The
event was intervened by the rendition
of several vocal selections by Hani-
fan’s Sextette, composed of Messrs.
Fred Hanifan, Fred Vandyne and
Glen Reynolds and Mesdames Harry
Northway, Fred Vandyne and Miss
McIntosh. J. B. McIntosh butted in
when he could get a chance. After
lunch the Senior Counselor took the
chair and called on several members
for a four minute talk. J. D. Royce,
who resides three miles East in the
city of Corunna, took the cake, in
fact ran away with the whole bread
wagon and separated himself from
more oratory in four minutes than
we ever heard in thirty, and any one
who didn’t already own a few Liberty
bonds bought one before he went
home. At the close of the social
function the brothers repaired to the
Council room, and the ladies called
on Mary Pickford at the Strand movie
after voting to organize a Ladies’
Auxilary at the next regular meet-
ing.

T. O. Jones, with Armour and Com-
pany, meats and provisions, has mov-
ed from Lansing, the City of Energy,
to Owosso, the City of Push, and
taken up his residence at 1027 North
Adams street. Evidently Mr. Jones is
a man of keen perception and knows
a good thing when he sees it. In the
up-to-date vernacular, Welcome to our
city!

L. H. Richards, of Perrinton, has
purchased a store building in Sylvania,
near Toledo, and has already taken
possession. His brother will conduct
the Perrinton store at present, having
taken an interest in that portion of the
business.

T. W. Tewksbury, of Morrice, land-
lord of the Morrice Hotel for the last
twenty-five years, is laid up with a
stroke of apoplexy and is in a serious

condition, but with chances for a
possible recovery.
The dining room of the Hotel

Shaffer, at Crystal, is closed for the
present. The main entrance to good
chuck is at Walter Beard’s restaurant,
which is A 1 bully up, good feed ana
plenty of it, like mother cooks. Fact!

Fred Hanifan comes to the front
with another automobile story that
sounds good—when he tells it—but
leaves a possible doubt in the minds
of listeners as to its entire veracity.
Fred says he was driving up some
where in a sap bush district when the
auto in which he was riding (a ford)
gradually slowed down to a dead
stop. Investigation revealed the fact
that an important ingredient of loco-
motion was lacking. “Out of gaso-
line” was the verdict. Two miles to
the nearest farm house. Fred says
he climbed over a barbed wire fence,
got a sap bucket and filled the gas
tank with maple sap, cranked her up
and off she went good as ever. About
thirty miles further on he heard some-
thing rattling around in the radiator.
The chauffer stopped the machine.
Fred got out and raised the lid and
took out a cake of maple sugar that
weighed about four pounds.

Honest Groceryman.

——>2>—___
Editorial Repartee.

An editor received this letter from
a fresh youth:

“Kindly tell me why a girl always
closes her eyes when a fellow kisses
her.”

To which the editor replied:

“Tf you will send us your ,photo-
graph we may be able to give you the
reason.”

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There are four principal reasons of
prudence and policy which should be
carefully considered by the holder or
prospective buyer of Liberty Loan
Bonds. These reasons may be briefly
outlined as follows:

1. It is the policy of shrewd invest-
ers to diversify their investments at all
times, never putting all or any large
part of their wealth into one enterprise
or one class of securities. The very
rich man will hold a larger percentage
of high-grade bonds than will the man
in moderate circumstances; but the fac-
tor of safety should be accorded due
consideration by all investors, large or
small. The late James Stillman, one
of our greatest financiers, stipulated in
his will that his executors should not
invest more than one-sixteenth part of
his fortune in any one security. The
man who is possessed of $5,000, $10,000
or $100,000 of investment funds should
be even more concerned with the time-
honored admonition not to put all his
eggs in one basket. The best form of
diversification, the greatest assurance
of safety, lies in placing a reasonable
portion of one’s capital in the very
highest grade of securities. This brings
us down to the second consideration.

2. No intimate knowledge of the
science of political economy is required
to bring the realization that the bonds
of a government which are sold to its
cwn pecple are of higher rank than
any other securities. No matter how
many such bonds may be issued, nor
how high the rate of interest paid the
interest payments or liquidation of prin-
cipal cannot subtract a dollar from the
national wealth. And in so far as we
hold the bonds of other countries to
which we have made advances those
countries must pay tribute to us in the
form of interest, which tends to reduce
taxation and other entailments by just
so much. Amasa Walker. commenting
on our financial position immediately
after the Civil War, covered this point
very briefly and forcibly. Dr. Walker
said:

“Tt is a great misfortune that we are
deeply in debt as a nation. If that
indebtedness were wholly to our own
people it would be very favorable, for
then, as a people, we should owe noth-
ing at all, since what was to the debit
of one citizen would be to the credit
of another.”

3. History shows us that following
all great wars there is a more or less
protracted period of depression after
the first imperative work of reconstruc-
tion is completed. In such periods of
depression capital is concentrated in
comparatively few hands and is not
fully employed, therefore the price de-
manded for capital falls rapidly, which
is the same thing as saying that prices
of all bonds and other instruments hav-
ing a fixed price of return will rise.
According to precedent and with due
allowance for the extraordinary sever-
ity of the present war it is not improb-
able that shortly after the war is over
capital will seek investment in ordinary
bonds at as low a figure as 4 per cent.
and in Government issues at 3 per cent.,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

or a little below. This would mean that
a 4% per cent. Liberty Bond should
command a market price of about 140.
On a 3% per cent. basis for capital the
bond would command about 120. We
may predict with the greatest confidence
that the owner of Liberty Ponds will
find an opportunity to dispose of them
at figures materially above the price
paid long before these securities reach
maturity.

The fourth reason is infinitely more
important than any of the others in
present circumstances. It is this:

4. The buyer of Liberty bonds buys
insurance on everything he owns.
This statement applies to the own-
er of any property, but particularly to
those who favor security investments.
We frecuently hear the contention that
capital can now be invested to bring a
return of 5 or 6 per cent. on a safe
basis as compared with only 4% per
cent. on the Liberty Bonds. The com-
parison is fundamentally unsound to
begin with, as the higher the character
of a security the lower the income re-
turn. The Government bonds represent
the very highest character of invest-
ment. In the years preceding the Eu-
ropean war the average return on such
premier investment securities as British
consols, French rentes and United
States bonds was approximately one-
half to two-thirds the return obtainable
on high-grade seasoned railroad and
industrial bonds and stocks. That is
to say, a 3 or 4 per cent. Government
bond will normally sell at par when 5
or 6 per cent. bonds and stocks are
selling at par.

But these are not normal times. If
the struggle for national and individual
rights should be lost, the 5 or 6 per
cent. return on most investments would
be endangered, not alone as to income,
but as to the principal itself. No con-
ceivable disaster could shake the integ-
rity of the Government loans, which are
a prior lien on every dollar of wealth
and every stick and stone of property
we possess. To put it another way, the
Government has power to tax away al!
individual or corporate profits and even
to confiscate principal itself if such
drastic measures were necessary to up-
hold the credit of the Nation.

This is an extreme illustration, but it
forcibly brings home to us the necessity
of ensuring the status of all the prop-
erty we may own by promptly and cheer-
fully providing our proper individual
pro-rata of the money needed to carry

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on the war. I do not mean to suggest
that it is necessary or even advisable
for the holder of securities or property
which shows him a higher rate of return
than can be secured by the purchase of
Liberty Bonds to at once divest himself
of his holdings and put the proceeds in
the war issues. What is most vitally
necessary is that those who have an in-
come in excess of their living neces-
sities should put this surplus into the
bonds on the theory that such purchases
constitute insurance, at a very low
premium rate, on all other possessions.
Many of those who have no surplus in-
come will discover, after a brief self-
examination, that they can easily create
a surplus by a little self-denial, a little
curtailment of luxuries and a little
elimination of waste.

The foregoing comments are con-
fined to questions of policy and self-
interest, with no reference to moral
obligations. What I have undertaken
to show is that the purchase of Liberty
Loan bonds is good business as well as
good patriotism. Judging from the
gratifying results in former loans, we
may depend upon a prompt and con-
scientious response from a majority of
our citizens. To the limited number
who depend upon the cfforts of others
to protect them, it may be stated that
they are endangering the whole struc-
ture, and are, incidentally, branding
themselves as belonging to the most

selfish and_ short-sighted class of
slackers. Thomas Gibson.
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Old National Bank Again Promoting
Home Gardens.

Grand Rapids, April 23—As you will
remember, the Old National Bank last
year engaged an M. A. C. man to
supervise the Home Garden plans
here in Grand Rapids, As a result
of this, which you also will recall with
pleasure, I am sure, Grand Rapids
gained for herself the reputation of
being the Garden City of America
and was cited from Washington to
Wilson—you thought I was going to
say Tacoma—as a bright and shining
example of what a city could do in the
Home Garden movement if she set
about it. As a matter of fact we were
fortunate enough to have here in
Grand Rapids an agricultural agent
who was heart and soul in the move-
ment, and when the Old National
Bank assumed the expenses for Witl-
liam Murphy, the Garden Man, fur-
nished him with a machine and financ-
ed him in every detail, the garden plan
was a success.

The Old National has engaged
Charles Kellogg as supervisor of
home gardens in Grand Rapids this
year. He will work under the direc-
tion of H. G. Smith, Kent county
farm agent, and will carry out the
home garden work as inaugurated by
William Murphy last year.

Mr. Kellogg will be at the Old Na-
tional Bank between 12 noon and 2
p. m. on week days, and can be reach-
ed at other times through the Kent
County Farm Bureau. His services
will be at the disposal of any who
may need advice and suggestions as to
how they best may cultivate vacant
land. He also will assist in placing
at the disposal of gardeners vacant
lots which will be loaned by their
owners for gardening purposes during
the 1918 season.

I am writing you this because I
thought that if you were in sympathy
with the Home Garden idea your
opinions as to what Grand Rapids has
done and your justifiable pride in

Grand Rapids’ garden record would
move you to carry something in the
Tradesman on the subject which
would be of benefit to the many cities
in which you circulate.

George A. Murphy.

—_>+>—___
Boomlets From Bay City.

Bay City, April 22—The silver cup
presented to Bay Council by Past
Senior Counselor R. S. Richards, to
be awarded to the member who secur-
ed the largest number of applications
for membership during the year end-
ing April 1, 1918, was won by William
T, Ballamy. The cup is a beauty and
Mr. Ballamy was greatly pleased to
receive it, but with his characteristic
generosity, he refused to accept it as
a permanent gift. He will retain it
one year and will then present it to
the counselor who demonstrates that
he is the champion hustler of our
Council for new members. Get busy,
fellows!

Former Judge L. P. Coumans died
last Saturday morning. Mr. Coumans
was an able lawyer and a man of ster-
ling character. His death is a great
loss to Bay City.

Our city was greatly shocked last
Tuesday by the sudden death of B.
Belworthy, who had been one of Bay
City’s leading merchant tailors for
forty-seven years. He was a man who
was very popular among those who
knew him best.

Fred Nentwig, manager of the shoe
department of H. G. Wendland & Co.,
of this city, will move to Saginaw,
having purchased the interest of the
late Alton D. Stalker in the firm of
Erhard & Stalker, shoe merchants.
This may be a good investment for
Fred, but it is difficult to understand
how anyone who has resided in Bay
City for several years can enjoy life
in Saginaw.

Henry Rohr, proprietor of the Re-
public Hotel, this city, will succeed J.
T. Huntington & Son, as landlord of
the Calkins House, Clare, May 15.

23

W. F. Broderick, Clare, is closing
out his shoe stock.

Midland, one of the live towns of
Michigan, is improving in appearance,
as large substantial buildings are be-
ing erected on the sites of those de-
stroyed by fire. The new bank build-
ings, which is nearing completion, is
a beauty.

W. L, Mars, express agent, Glad-
win, is erecting a two-story brick
building on Main street, which, when
completed, will be occupied by Post-
master Wilmot with a complete and
up-to-date stock of dry goods and
clothing.

Sam Goldburg & Sons, Gladwin, are
erecting a cement building in which
they will store their surplus stock.

George Hause, Rhodes, has sold his
hardware stock to Levandoski &
Varity, who have consolidated it with
their stock of hardware.

Mrs. F. L. Van Tyle, wife of Past
Senior Counselor Van Tyle, who was
recently operated upon at Bay City
hospital, has sufficiently recovered to
be removed to her home on Cass ave-
nue.

George Day, formerly proprietor
of the Hotel Bennett, Mt. Pleasant,
is again behind the desk of this popu-
lar hotel. George was known as one
of the most genial landlords in Mich-
igan. Here’s hoping he still wears
the smile that will not come off.

J. H. Belknap.
—_———-—-p——__—__
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if I ever caught you stealing jam
again?”

Tommy scratched his head with his
sticky fingers.

“Why, that’s funny,
should forget it, too.
can remember it.”

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Suppose Your Salesmen Were Real
Merchants.

Down in the Southern part of
Georgia there is a patent-medicine
drummer who has a peculiar strangle-
hold on his retail trade.

At first glance you would suspect
him of being an animated testimonial
of the “before taking” variety, for he
certainly upsets the regular dope
about pep, punch and personality.

Yet each New Year’s Eve, as the
annual sales totals are added up, he
romps home an easy winner. It is
a most uncanny habit he has had for
*steen years.

The secret of his success is simple
—so much that it sounds bromidic.
He is not merely a peddler of pink
pills—he is a peddler of ideas.

Professional confidences prevent
me from mentioning the name of his
alcoholic exhilarator. But it ‘is one
of those that barely get by and where
a few flexible State laws permit, com-
petition is carried on as a species of
guerilla warfare.

But old Steve Tompkins romps
home because he knows more than
merchandise. He knows merchandis-
ing.

If a druggist intends to remodel his
store and puzzles about the placing
of the ice cream counter, he waits un-
til Steve comes around. If he wants
a hunch for a mystery window or a
new wrinkle for a Saturday special.
Steve is his little manual of selling
dope which is sedulously consulted.

Now here is the moral. Steve
Tompkins ‘was never a “born sales-
man.” Which is more, he apparently
could never cultivate what your psy-
chologists call a selling personality.
And the less said about his goods, the
better. Realizing these handicaps—
which would crush many men—he
has pioneered a new trail and so
studied the retailer’s problems that
he has become an itinerant symposi-
um of merchandising advice. He
makes good in a rather roundabout
fashion, because every druggist on
the territory respects his knowledge
—and incidentally purchases his emas-
culated nose-paint out of sheer grati-
tude.

Now suppose old Steve sold ycur

line. How much better chance he
would have. And suppose he had the
grace and charm of manner of your
dubbiest cub salesman!

Twist the idea around and you get
my point. How much better would
your staff of human dynamos be if—
as Steve is—they were trained mer-
chandise men who could look at things
from both sides of the counter, and
teach your customers to give better
service to their trade. For, from a
purely commercial point of view, you
are interested in having your dealers
efficient, because the most efficient
dealer sells the most merchandise.

Take a case that cropped up in Penn-
sylvania last year. The local agent
of a well-known paint manufacturer
had handled the line for eight years.
Sales were increasing each season, but
it was a one-mouse power proposition
—not at all commensurate with trade
possibilities. There was a change in
traveling men and a new chap who
had clerked in a paint shop was put
in charge. Right away he diagnosed
the reason for slim sales. The agent
was a contractor who used most of the
stuff himself. What little he sold ai
retail would hardly. paint a _ doll’s
house.

Now this had been going on right
under the old salesman’s nose for
years, He sensed that something was
wrong, yet he was so stale on the
job and ignorant of merchandising
principles that matters would have
drooled indefinitely.

But no sooner did the new sales-
man hit the town than he had a rev-
ular Hague Conference with the mer-
chant. In a few well-chosen words
he told him that for years he had pass-
ed up all the profitable retail trade—
because his store was hardly the
place shoppers would care to visit,
because he had no retail selling staff
and business was gravitating across
the street.

You can’t always get away with
it so easily, but this chap knew his
business and in fifteen minutes the
merchant told him to make a list of
recommendations which would be
followed to the letter. This list in-
cluded new counters, new floor cov-
ering, re-arrangement of electric
lights, window background and fix-
tures—in fact, complete reburnishing
and redecoration.

The salesman knew how to do it,
and the retailer kept his word. Not
only that; he became so enthusiastic
that he persuaded his wife to take
charge of the decorative end of the
business. So now this particular town
is pointed out as one of the bright
spots on the territory. Business is
increasing, not because of the sales-

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just as well shop via catalogue. And
this of course, included the purchase
of groceries, boots and shoes, cloth-
ing, etc., as well as washing machines.
It was a chance suggestion thai
solved a big part of the problem. The
salesman recommended the formation
of a local shopping bureau to which
a farmer could telephone his order
and have it delivered complete. The
man on the job would distribute it
among a half dozen merchants and
the one having charge of that par-
ticular route would see the order
reached its destination promptly.

In another case, a merchant who
had always paid his bills promptly,
began to slide. He got hard up. Or-
dinarily the credit man would have
unleashed his series of hungry past-
due letters which conclude with thai
sympathetic phrase: “In the absence
of check by 15th we shall send draft.”
But the matter was referred to the
salesman for personal investigation.

Because he knew merchandising, he
sensed that behind the merchant’s fail-
ure to ‘discount bills there must be
some fundamental trouble. He real-
ized—as most men don’t that in these
days of war prices the retailers’ stock
represents an investment of from a
third to a half more than in 1914.
So he probed below the surface and
discovered that likewise the accounts
receivable were proportionately great-
er.

Obviously there was but one thing
to do, and the salesman did it. He
planned a collection system for the
retailer, to help him get his money
so he could pay his bills. Moreover,
he advised a discount-for-cash policy
with interest for book accounts which
would help the merchant keep his
head above the financial maelstrom.
All this, of course, took a Sunday
morning, but the salesman realized
that ultimately he would profit from
this service.

These few
rare.

examples are nothing
Rather they are typical. Similar
instances are bobbing up every day —
only the average salesman fails to
notice them. And of course he can-
not suggest a cure when he cannot
even diagnose the trouble.

Poor old Steve Tompkins never at-
tended a sales convention, but he read
books on retail costs and selling plans
and studies business articles, and that
is something every man on your trav-
eling force can do.—F. C. Kuhn in
Printers’ Ink.

—_+--2—___

J. De Hoog, inspector for the Grand
Rapids Merchants Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Co., will call on the merchants of
Rockford, Howard City, Belding and
Greenville next week in behalf of his
corporation.

———_+->—___

The remarkable analysis of the exist-
ing wheat problem reprinted from the
Northwestern Miller and published on
page 9 of this week’s edition, is worthy
of a careful perusal by every Trades-
man. reader.

—

Geo. Bruton (Worden Grocer Com-
pany), who has been ill for two
months with stomach trouble, starts
out on his route again to-morrow,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Rules Governing Flour and Sugar
Sales.

Lansing, April 23—No retailer of
wheat flour is permitted to sell or
deliver any wheat flour unless he, at
the same time, sells and delivers an
equal weight pound for pound of one
or more of the following wheat flour
substitutes.

Hominy.

Corn Flour.

Rolled Oats.

Rice Flour.

Sweet Potato

Corn Grits.

Edible Corn Starch.

Oatmeal.

Buckwheat Flour.

Soya Bean Flour.

Cornmeal.

Barley Flour.

Rice.

Potato Flour.

Feterita Flour and Meals.

Whole wheat and graham flours are
subject to the same rules as other
wheat flour, except that in selling
whole wheat or graham flour, contain-
ing at least 95 per cent. of the entire
wheat, six-tenths of a pound of sub-
stitutes must be sold with every pound
of whole wheat or graham flour. In
event the dealer has no substitutes,
he must not sell the flour.

Rye flour and potatoes must not be
sold as wheat flour substitutes.

Flour.

Certification.
Retailers are not permitted to ac-
cept from consumers certifications

showing substitutes on hand, Sub-
stitutes must accompany all flour sold
or. delivered.

Limitations.

Retailers of flour shall not sell more
than one-eighth barrel of flour to
local consumers nor:more than one-
quarter barrel to rural consumers.

Mixed Flours.

Retailers shall not sell mixed flour
containing more than 50 per cent. of
wheat flour to any person unless such
person purchases from him at the
same time an amount of wheat flour
substitutes sufficient to make the total
amount of substitutes, including sub-
stitutes in the mixed flour, equal to
the total amount of wheat flour in
such mixed flour.

For Other Than Human Consumption

There should be no exception made
to the ruling that wheat flour should
not be sold for purposes other than
human consumption, except in in-
stances where manufacturing concerns
are producing Government material
necessary for the conduct of the war.
In the main, corn starch, barley flour,
tapioca flour and glue should meet
all requirements for paste.

Sweepings, or in some cases, flour
badly damaged by smoke or foreign
odors, (like kerosene or fertilizer)
may be sold for purposes other than
human consumption on receiving a
permit from the United States Food
Administration.

Prices.

Retailers in flour shall not take a
profit in excess of 10c on each 12%
pound sack or 15c on each 24% pound
sack and ic per pound when sold ir:
less than the above quantities.
Concerns Operating Under Bakers’

License.

Licensed bakers, which includes
hotels, restaurants and _ institutions
holding bakers’ licenses, may purchase
for baking purposes only in the ratio
of three pounds of wheat flour with
one pound of substitutes.

Prices.

Granulated sugar (bulk) should re-
tail: for not to exceed 9c per pound—
this will allow the seller about 34c
per pound profit over delivered cost.

Brown sugar (bulk) should sell for
a price which does not exceed the
retail price of (bulk) granulated
sugar.

Special sugars, like crystal domino,
cubes, pulverized, etc., should be sold
at a price which will give the retailer
only a normal pre-war profit.

Jett) on

Quantities.

On account of the supply of sugar
available, it will be necessary for the
retailers to sell only a limited amount
to his customers.

1. Not to exceed two to five pounds
to a family residing in town and from
five to ten pounds to a family resid-
ing in the country is the limit.

2. The customers’ distance from
the market as well as the size of the
family should be taken into consider-
ation.

3. The larger consumers of sugar,
like hotels, restaurants, and boarding
houses, should be supplied in propor-
tion to the limit placed on families.

Absolute Necessity.

The above rules are promulgated
and will be enforced because of the
absolute necessity of further conser-
vation of wheat and wheat products
throughout the country. This is a
war order and must be obeyed, Deal-
ers failing to obey these rules to the
letter will be refused the right to pur-
chase any licensed food commodities
from licensed wholesalers, jobbers or
manufacturers and will subject them-
selves to other penalties provided by
law.

Let us remember that every flag
that flies opposite the German one is
by proxy the American flag, and that
the armies fighting in our defense un-
der these flags cannot be maintained
unless there is food enough for them
and for their women and children at
home. There can only be enough
food if America provides it. And
America can only provide it by the
personal service and patrictic co-op-
eration of all of us.

Let us remember that our associates
in the great world war depend upon
America for food as they have never
depended before and they ask us for
it with a right which they have never
had before. To-day they are our
associates in a great war for democra-
cy and liberty. They are doing the
fighting, the suffering, and dying in
our war, and will be carrying this
burden for months to come.

George A. Prescott,

Federal Food Administrator for
Michigan.

—_.+.——__
Campaign to Increase Potato Con-
sumption.

Chicago, April 23—The United
States Food Administration and the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture are starting a campaign through-
out many sections of the country to
stimulate the people to eat more pv.-
tatoes during the next two months.
This is being done in order to aid in
getting to the market and into use
the very large quantities of potatces
which are still being held in shipping
sections and which, if unusual efforts
are not made, are in danger of being
the farmer’s hands. Con-
sidering the present lack of wheat, it
is essential that such a valuable sub-
stitute as potatoes be used and that

none be allowed to go to waste.

If a campaign urging a greater use
of potatoes is to be successful, it is
necessary that the price to the con-
sumer be sufficiently low to enable
him to purchase liberally. It is gen-
erally agreed that consumers will not
buy freely if the retail price exceeds
$1@1.20 per bushel, or from 25@30c
per peck on No. 1 stock. Liberal
supplies must be kept coming to the
market at prices which will allow the
retailer to sell at not to exceed these
figures if the “drive” is to accomplish
its purpose.

In order to have plentiful supplies
on hand to meet the stimulated de-
mand, which a publicity campaign will
cause, dealers doubtless will place
larger orders than usual and the ef-
fect probably will be evident at ship-
ping points. Under usual conditions
this would tend to cause a fise in
price, but it is desired to sound a
warning to both growers and distribu-
tors that the present conditions are
not “usual” and that if the price at

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shipping points is raised unduly, such
action on the part of growers and dis-
tributors will make it necessary for
wholesale and retail prices in the mar-
kets to be advanced. This will im-
mediately threaten the success of the
campaign, for if consumers, after hav-
ing been told that they can get po-
tatoes cheaply, see prices going up,
they will feel they have been imposed
upon, will stop buying potatoes freely
and will leave the situation as it is
now.

Wholesale and retail dealers in
nearly all of the principal cities are
pledging themselves to handle pota-
toes on narrow margins of profit and
push to their sale. Newspapers aré«
giving thousands of dollars worth of
free publicity. Food Administration
and Department workers are demon-
strating methods of using potatoes
throughout the whole country.
Through the co-operation of all par-
ties involved, the campaign which is
now under way, may aid very mater-
ially in solving the present deplorable
situation by moving into the markets
very substantial quantities of potatoes
now held in shipving sections. How-
ever, since the movement depends to
a large extent upon what the consum-
er pays, every effort must be made by
growers and distributors to keep po-
tatoes moving into the markets free-
ly and at reasonable prices.

— —_+ +. ____

Sparks From the Electric City.

Muskegon, April 22—We were glad
to note that in our absence, Cousin Bill
took up his pen in behalf of Muskegon.

Harold Foote has a new ford and
Herman Andersen undertook to teach
him to drive it last week. Herman says
that at times Harold seemed to act
nearly human when getting instructions.
Once he got his foot fast between the
pedals and nearly ran down the Stan-
dard Oil Co. truck. Herman advises
all parties invited for a ride with Foote
to double their insurance and then not
to go.

Muskegon merchants are planning on
a dollar day Thursday, April 25, and
it is reported that many fine bargains
will be offered.

We did not suppose that when we
told the plain facts as related to us by
Landlord Smith at Front Lake con-
cerning the bear episode there we were
going to be called a plain liar every
time some fellow in Michigan saw even
a track. However, the Keen Kutter
salesman tells us that there is a river
in Texas where the fish are so plentiful
that they wear the scales off each other
in passing and E. Z. Sheldon, of Green-
ville, says that there is a creek out West
where they have to drive the fish out
of the way before they can ford the
stream and Vinnie Porter savs he has
sold so many trucks this year that they
had to keep the factory running nights
to fill his orders, so you see there are
many more who may be doubted.

We are advised by those who know
the facts that Muskegon has secured
the much-talked-of ship yard. If such
is the case, it will surely add greatly to
our growth and prosperity.

Workmen are changing the old picture
show, corner Western and _ Jefferson,
into an up-to-date store, which will be
occupied by Jeannott & Nelson as a shoe
store. This firm has been in business
here for a year and is fortunate in se-
curing this valuable corner.

Guy C. Anderson, brother of Mrs. V.
C. Lulofs, died Sunday after a year’s
illness.

Very many Muskegon people are ill
with influenza and pneumonia is very
plentiful, many deaths being reported
in the last few days.

Muskegon elks are planning to have
one more celebration before May 1.
We venture to predict there will be
many an aching head next day.

Talk is cheap, but not over a long
distance telephone we discovered.

E. P. Monroe.

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at the soda fountain. Without havine
accurate figures to go by, I should
estimate that there are in this coun-
try three times as many soda foun-
tains as there are drug stores. Ox
this estimate there are over one hun-
dred thousand soda fountains in the
each one used three
sugar a day, the annual
soda
fountains would be over one hundred

country, and if
pounds of
consumption of sugar at the

million pounds.
The question is, to what extent can

we replace part of this sugar by
glucose? J have prepared the follow-
ing formula for my fountain

and up to the present have found that

soda

it makes a very palatable drink with

the various fruit flavors, chocolate,

maple, etc.:

Granulated susar ........__. 414 Ibs.

Liquid glucose ....234 Ibs. (or 1 qt.)

Distilled water, sufficient to make
1 gal.

Mix~in a pan, raise to the boiling
point, stirring until properly mixed,
then strain into a bottle: when cold.
cork and keep in a cool place.

The specific gravity of this syrup
is 1.291. It is, therefcre, lighter than
U_S. P. syrup and is less sweet. But
soda fountain syrups have always been
made sweet, if not too
sweet, and it is possible, after a time,

extremely

that a less sweet syrup will be more
in favor through the gradual wean-
ing of the people from their previous
use of an excess of sugar.

It is impossible to say at this time
what will be the keeping properties of
this syrup; as far as I can judge, it
will not keep so well as the official
syrup. On this account it would be
well, in trying it out, to make only
sufficient for a few days, at the most
for one week at a time, until its keep-

ing properties have been well tried
out.

This formula, as it stands, will save
44 per cent. of the sugar used at soda
fountains, substituting for it a sweet-
ening substance which has already
been very largely used in candies and
which in recent months has been
used to a greater extent than former-
ly in the manufacture of ice cream.

It would not seem objectionable
from any point of view to use glu-
cose, because ordinary cane sugar
ingested passes through the
glucose stage in the stomach before
it is assimilated.

when

It is desirable that this formula be
tried thoroughly in a small way in
a large number of soda fountains so
that the experience of many may help
to improve it. At a time like this
when sugar is admittedly scarce and
when the homes are being denied
their usual allowance of sugar, the
soda fountain properties of this coun-
try are in a position to be of direct
assistance to the whole population as
well as to our Allies.

Now is the time to act. Try out
this formula, improve it if you can,
and do your best to use as little cane
or beet sugar as possible at the soda
fountain during the remainder of the
war.

Do not put off a trial of this formu-
la, Act now. If you do not.
are not a true patriot.

F. A. Upsher Smith.

you

_o- oa
To Remove Oil-Paint Spots From
Glass.

If the window panes have been be-
spattered with oil paint in painting
walls, the spots are, of course, easily
removed while wet. When they have
become dry the operation is more dif-
ficult and alcohol and turpentine in
equal parts, or spirit of sal ammonia
should be used to soften the paint.
After that go over it with chalk. Pol-
ishing with salt will also remove paint
spots. The salt grates somewhat, but
it is not hard enough to cause
scratches in the glass: a subsequent
polishing with chalk is also advisable.
as the drying of the salt might in-
jure the For scratching off
soft paint spots sheet zinc must be
used, as it cannot damage the glass
on account of its softness. In the
case of silicate paints (the so-called
weatherproof coatings) the panes
must be especially protected, because
these paints destroy the polish of the
glass. Rubbing the spots with brown
soap is also a good way of removing
the spots, but care must be taken in
rinsing off that the window frames
are not acted upon.

glass.

The Druggist as a Government Aid.

“If this war is to be won,” says
Carl Vrooman, Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture, “we shall have to put
several armies in the field; the army
of soldiers in the trenches, the army
of food producers, the women’s army
of food conservers, and the patriot
army of civilians in the business and
political world.”

That portion of the retail drug
trade of America that is left at home
to conduct business, constitutes an
army of over 45,000 stores in which
there are fully 100,000 or more per-
sons engaged. If it were possible to
secure the co-operation of this large
number of individuals to the extent
of setting the example and by word
cf mouth urging customers to great-
er conservation, a great good could
be accomplished; and the united effort
would be a big step forward in the
direction of the end of the war.
little willful
There undoubt-
edly is, however, a big waste due to
carelessness, and a neglect of oppor-
tunities to effect savings and offset
economic loss through the abuse of
service accommodations.

There are literally hundreds of
ways in which you can do effective
work in helping the Government, and
the enumeration of a few of them will
undoubtedly assist you in recalling
others:

1. There is much German propa-
ganda being circulated and believed
by the unthinking Correct
statements.

2. Urge conformity to the rules of
the Food Administration and practice
it.

3. Remove the impression that the
war will be of short duration.

There is
waste in drug stores.

probably

false

4. Impress upon your customers
the principle at stake in this war and
the results of an enemy victory.

5. Plan in advance, as far as pos-
sible, the replacement of men who
are of military age.

6. Make an effort to save glass-
ware, fuel, sugar, syrups, light, pa-
per, wooden containers, and waste in
all lines.

7. Try to co-operate with your
sources of supply to facilitate deliv-

‘eries.

8. Prevent waste that occurs in
the purchase and sale of bulk prod-
ucts.

 

April 24, 1918

9. Suggest to your customers that
they can assist in shortening the war
by coming for and carrying home
their purchases.

10. Systematize delivery systems
so that a minimum number of trips
can be made in one day.

11. Show your patriotism by co-
operating in every effort to stimulate
public interest in the Red Cross.
Thrift Stamps, Food Administration,
Liberty Bonds and other good work.

12. Anticipate your needs and or-
der in quantities that will enable you
to reduce return and dead stock to a
minimum,

13. Never forget that, however
small what you may be able to do
may seem to you, multiplied by thou-
sands it swells the total amount of
good work.

————~>+ >

If you are supposed to open the
store at 7:30, be there and turn the
key no later than that time every
morning and the habit will be worth
money to you.

 

A Quality Cigar
Dornbos Single Binder

One Way to Havana
Sold by All Jobbers

 

Peter Dornbos
Cigar Manufacturer
16 and 18 Fulton St., W.
Grand Rapids 2 Michigan

 

 

Chocolates

 

Package Goods of
Paramount Quality
and
Artistic Design

 

 

 

PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW FOR

Soda Fountain Fruits and Syrups

 

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We Are Distributors of

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Royal Purple Grape Juice
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We Also Carry a Full Line of Soda Fountain Accessories
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April 24, 1918 MICHIGAN

 

 

During the season of $917, there was a time when the manu-
facturers and wholesalers could not fill their orders for Insecticides,
on account of an unusual demand which was prompted by state
and government officials,

The federal government has recently called for a report
from all of the manufacturers and wholesalers of Insecticides,
and the government states clearly that they must know upon
what parties they can rely for the proper distribution of In-
secticides at the right time during the coming season.

A word to the wise is sufficient and we would advise that
the retailers buy Insecticides early because we may be called upon
later to distribute the same according to the command and
direction of the federal government.

This message is to our customers and we trust will be thor-
oughly considered.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

LITTLE
DUTCH MASTERS
CIGARS

Made in a Model Factory
Handled by All Jobbers Sold by All Dealers
Enjoyed by Discriminating Smokers

 

They are so good we are compelled to work full capacity
to supply the demand

 

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GRAND RAPIDS |

 

 

 

 

 

Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 30
Cassia (Saigon) 90@1 00
Elm (powd. 35c) 30@
Sassafras (pow. 85c) @ 380
Soap Cut (powd.)

G00) 5...) cece 25
erries

Gubeb .......... 60@1 70

WISN eco. 30@ 35

Juniper ........... 9@ %6

Prickley Ash .... @ 30
Extracts

Lieorice ......... 0 65

Licorice powdered 95@1 00
Flowers

Arnica .........; 1 50@1 75

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

Gums

Acacia, lst ..... % 80
Acacia, 2nd ...... 65@ 1%
Acacia, Sorts .... 40@ 60
Acacia, powdered 60@ 70
Aloes (Barb. Pow) 30@ 40
Aloes (Cape Pow) 25@ 30
Aloes (Soc. Pow. 80) @ 75
Asafoetida, .... @2 26
Asafoetida, Powd.

BUre .occccecuc @2 50
Camphor ....... 1 35@1 40
GulaiaeG ........... @ 7
Guaiac, powdered @ 80
Kino ............. 70@ 76
Kino, powdered .. 75@ 80
BEGERR .. ccc cess @ 65
Myrrh, powdered @ 70
Opium ....... 33 00@33 50
Opium, powd. 36 0U@36 50
Opium, gran. 36 V0@s86 50
BHCHAG: ..0.......6 8d

7a@

Shellac, Bleached 85@ 90
Tragacanth .... 2 50@3 00
Tragacanth powder 2 50
Turpentine 15@ 20

Insecticides

Arsenic: .........-
Blue Vitriol,
Blue Vitriol, less 124%@ 20
Bordeaux Mix Dry 20@ 25
Hellebore, White

powdered .......38@ 45
Insect Powder .... 40@ 60
Lead, Arsenate Po 34@ 44
Lime and Sulphur

Solution, gal. .. 20@ 35
Paris Green .... 4834@54%
Ice Cream
Piper Ice Cream Co.,
Kalamazoo
Belk Vanilla ..........; 95
Bulk Special Flavored 1 00
Brick, Plain .......... 1 20
Brick, Bancy .......- 1 60
Leaves
Buchu 2.16.5... 1 85@2 00

Buchu, powdr'd 2 00@2 10
Sage, bulk ...... 67@ 70

e, % loose .. es 18
Sage, powdered .. 55 60
Senna, Alex ..... 1 40@1 50
Senna, Tinn. .... 40@ 45
Senna, Tinn. pow. 60@ 65
Uva Ursi ........ 18@ 20

Olls
Almonds, Bitter,

© wee. 15 CO@IE 00
Almonds, Bitter,
artificial ..... 7 00@7 20
Almonds, Sweet,
true ......... 1 35@1 60
Almonds, Sweet,
imitation ...... 16
Amber, crude .. 2 00@2 25

Amber, rectified 2 50@2 75
Anise 00@2 25

eoeeescces

Bergamont .... 8 00@8 25
Cajeput ....... 1 35@1 60
@€assia- ........- 3 50@3 75
CAStOM ccc. 3 40@3 56

Cedar Leaf ..... 1 75@2 00
Citronella ..... 1 00@1 25

@loves 2 .......- 4 50@4 75
Cocoanut ....... FH 4 5
Cod Liver ...... 5 35@5 60
Cotton Seed .... 2 00@2 10
Croton ........- 2 00@2 25

Pennyroyal .... 2 25@2 50
Peppermint -. 4 254
Rose, pure .. 30 00@32 00
Rosemary Flows 1 60@1 75
Sandalwood, E.

1 ee 17 50@17 75
Sassafras, true
Sassafras, artifi’l os 85

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Spearmint ..... 4 75@5 00
Sperm .....- . 2 70@2 80
"PANSY .......0.<- 4 25@4 50
Mar USP _....... 45@ 60

Turpentine, bbls. @ 48
Turpentine, less 53@
Wintergreen, tr. 5 50@6 75
Wintergreen, sweet

birch ...... -- 400@4 25
Wintergreen art 1 26@1 50
Wormseed ... 12 00@12 25
Wormwood . 6 00@6 2

Potassium

Bicarbonate .... 1 90@2 00
Bichromate 6
Bromide
Carbonate ......
Chlorate, gran’r
Chlorate, xtal or
powd. .......2.6 100@ 76
Cyanide .....<.:.. 70@ 90
Jodide ......-. ‘
Permanaganate 5 50@5 60

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Prussiate, yellow @1 75
Prussiate, red ..3 75@4 00
Sulphate .......... @ 90
Reots
ARanee ....... 3 25@3 50
Blood, powdered suW da
Calamus ........ 50@s8 50
Elecampane, pwd. 1@ 20
Gentian, puwd. zo@ 3v

Ginger, African,

powderea ...... 25@ 30
Ginger, Jamaica ..30@ 35
Ginger, Jamaica,

powdered ...... 22@ 30

Goldenseal pow. 8 00@8 20

Ipecac, powd... 4 V0@4 25
Liicerice .......... 35@ 40
Licorice, powd. .. 30@ 40
Orris, powdered 35@ 40
Poke, powdered 20@ 25
Rhu ceccaccs (OGRE 20

Rhubarb, powd. - 25
Rosinweed, powd. 25
Sarsaparilla, Hond.

ground ........ 80
Sarsaparilla Mexican,

@round ........ 1 QU@1 10
Squill@ <.....<... 35@ 40
Squills, powdered 45@ 65
Tumeric, powd. .. 20@ 2»
Valerian, powd. .. @1 00

Seede

AMISG 2 oo ccc c 42@ 45
Anise, powdered 47@ 50
Bird, 18 ...;....... 18@ 19
CORY gc scaacase 1@ 20
Caraway ........ @ 90
Cardamon ..... @2 00
Celery (Powd. 60) 48@ 55
Coriander ........ 36 45

BE cc cae cecacese 30 35
Mennell ........... 90@1 00
Migs <2... 35s 10@ 14
Flax, ground ..... 10@ 14
Foenugreek pow. rt 25
Hemp <.c-cccc.s Se 13
Lobelia .......... 40@ 60

Mustard, yellow .. 25@ 30
Mustard, black .. 25@ 30

Mustard, powd. .. 28@ 35
RORY <.......-.:- @1 0c
Quinége ........ 1 40@1 50

RODG .c..ccceccee LEQ 20

Sabadilla ....... @ 36
Sabadilla, powd. 36@ 45
Sunflower ...... 8%@ 12
Worm American .. 25

Worm Levant .. 1 00@1 10

Tinctures

Aconite ......... @1 65
MlGGe W.. 6.68... 1 35
APUGR oc. .5.- 3 15
Asafoetida ...... @4 40

onna .... @2 85
Benzoin ........ @2 50
Benzoin Compo’d @s 30
Bechu ........<- @2 40
Cantharadies ... @3 90

TRADESMAN 27

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

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N ) W 1S the ‘Time to Buy Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day o1 issue

Acids Cubebs ........ 9 00@9 25 Capsicum ....... @2 15
Boric (Powd.) ..18@ 25 Wigeron ....... 2 75@3 00 Cardamon ...... @2 10
Boric (Xtal) .... 18@ 25 Eucalyptus 1 25@1 35 Cardamon, Comp. @1 60
Garbotic ......... 78@ 81 Hemlock, pure 175@200 Catechu ........ @1 60
Gire oe. 110@115 %<Juniper Berries 20 00@20 20 Cinchona ....... @2 35
Muriatic ........ %@ a . ; eee . en ceeees @2 40
ARSENATE OF 7 Nitric a 10%@15 rd, @ ses « COS wee eeeeee @2 33
EAD Oxalie ........... 0@ 70 Lard, No.1 .... 1 85@1 95 Digitalis ........ 1 90
PARIS GREEN aaa ‘"31%@ 6 Lavender Flow. 7 00@7 25 Gentian ......... $1 60
Tartaric ....... 1 05@1 10 Lavender, Gar’n 1 ae, = soe ttt eeeeeee @2 50
: OMON .o.cc. <5 MOG) coca ce ace 1 90
TUBER TONIC i ee ue 2 Linseed, boiled bbl, @1 62 Guaiac, “Ammon, g1 80

yater, 2 he oka 2 inseed, bid. less 1 72@1 77 lodine ..........
ARSENIC COMPOUNDS Wee ee tae i Linseed, raw, bbl. @1 61 fodine, Coloriess gi 15
BLUE VITRIOL eat eg. .. I4G@ inseed, rw. less 1 ,71@1 76 Iron, clo. ....... 1 60
GQ aocc 16 @ 20 Mustard, true, 0z. @2 25 ONG ogee esis. 1 65
Chioride ....... 55 @ 60 Mustard, artifil oz. @200 Myrrh .......... ‘ 2 60
SULPHUR ine Neatsfoot ...... 1 80@1 95 Nux Vomica ..!. 33 18
COLORED PAINTS Copaiba ....... 140@1 6 Olive Malaga Oulu, “uae | MN

Fir (Canada) .. 1 256@1 50 volt ’ 15@4 : *
WHITE LEAD Fir cae |. , 20, 8 Olive, Malags, —" 2a

CTU wees eee eeee SECGn ,... 52... 3 75@4 00
LINSEED OIL PO ..... 2... 1 75@2 00 Orange, Sweet . 4 25@4 50 P.
TURPENTINE, Etc. Origanim, pure, G2 60 Lead, red ary 11%

Barks Origanum, com’l @ 7% Cao red dry .. 11% @12\%

Lead, white dry 111446@12
Lead, white oil 114%@12

Ochre, yellow bbl. 1
Ochre, yellow less 2 g *
Eutty ... 1... 3%@ 6
Red Venet’n bbl. 1 @ 5
Red Venet’n less 7 6
Vermillion, Amer. 250 30
Whiting, bbl. ...... @ 23
Whiting ........ 3y 6
L. H. P. Prepd. 2 40@2 75
Miscellaneous

Acetanalid ..... 1 10@1 20
AMO o6o6 12@ 15
Alum, powdered and

Ground ......... 14@ 17
Bismuth, Subni-

ate 68. 4 00@4 10
Borax xtal or

powdered ...... 10@ 15
Cantharades po 2 0O@6 50
Calomel ...... -- 2 56@2 60
Capsicum ...... - 8@ 40
Carmine ........ 6 50@7 00
Cassia Buds ...., @ 40
Cloves... 2.4.3. 77@ 8

Chalk Prepared ., 12@ 16
Chalk Precipitated 10@ 15
Chloroform ....., 90@ 97
Chloral Hydrate 1 92@2 12
Cocaine eeeeee Ll 75@12 30
Cocoa Butter .... 50@ 60
Corks, list, less 55%

Copperas, bbls. .... @ 3
Copperas, less .. 3%@ 8
Copperas, powd. .. 4@ 10
Corrosive Sublm. 230@2 40
Cream Tartar .... 73@ 76
Cuttlebone ....... a
Dextrine ........ 10 16
Dover’s Powder 5 75@6 00
Emery, All Nos. 10 1b
Emery, Powdered 8 10
Bpsom Salts, bbls. 4%
Epsom Salts, less 6 3
Ergot .......... 1 25@1 60
Ergot, powdered 2 76@8 60

Blake White .... 16 20
Formaldehyde, Ib. 23@ 30
Gelatine ...... -- 1 75@1 90

Glassware, full cs. 8%
Glassware, less 50%

Glauber Salts, bbl. @ 2%
Glauber Salts, less 34@ 7
Glue, Brown ..... 25 36
Glue, Brown Grd. 25 35
Glue, White .... 30 36
Glue, White Grd. 30 35
Glycerine ........ 78 96
FIGUS cc ccicccneee. @ 75
TGQ@MRG 2... 5.4.8.
Iodoform ....... 6 59@6 74
Lead, Acetate ....31 35
Lycopdium 2 25@2 50
MARGG oo ccecccee, @
Mace, powdered .. 9$@1 00
Menthol ....... 4 26@4 50
Morphine 16 60@17 00
Nux Vomica .... 224%@ 30
Nux Vomica, pow. @ 20
Pepper, black pow. 835@ 40
Pepper, white .... 45
Pitch, Burgundy .. 16

1

Quassia .......... 16
Quinine ........ 1 00@1 05
Rochelle Salts ... 50@ 55
Saccharine, oz. .... 1 75
Salt Peter ......<<; 45

36@
Seidlitz Mixture ..43@ 50
Soap, green ...... “ 30
Soap mott castile 22%
Soap, white castile

ASG) ee @27 00
Soap, white castile

less, “per bar .... @2 7
Soda Ash ....., 4%4@ 10
Soda Bicarbonate 3%@ 7
Soda, Sal ....ccccce 5
Spirits Camphor .. 1 25
Sulphur, roll ... ‘49 10
Sulphur, Subl. .... 6 10

Tamarinds ....... 15@ 326

Turpentine,
Vanilla Ex.
Witch Hazel .... 1 35@1 75
Zinc Sulphate .... 10@ 15

 

 

   

28

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

April 24, 1918

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing.

and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.

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

Bluing

Catsup

Limburger Cheese
Salad Dressing
Ground Ginger
Ground Pepper
Soap Powders

UtCLINED

Condensed Milk

 

 

AMMONIA

Arctic Brand
12 oz. 16c, 2 doz. box
16 oz. 25c, 1 doz. box
32 oz., 40c, 1 doz. box

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AXLE GREASE
Diamond, 1 lb., 4 dz., dz. 55
Mica, 1 lb., 4 dz., dz. 95
Mica, 3 lb., 2 dz. dz. 2 50
Mica, 25 ib. pail ...... 1 40

BAKED BEANS

No. 1, per doz.
No. 2, per doz.
No. 3, per doz.

eer enee

BATH BRICK
English

BLUING
Jennings’
Condensed Pearl Bluing |

Small, 3 doz. box ....
Larce, 2 dor. bOX .... 2 60

BREAKFAST FOODS
Bear Food, Pettijohns 2 =
Cracked Wheat, 24-2 ..
Cream of Wheat ....
Quaker Puffed Rice ..
Quaker Puffed Wheat
Quaker Brkfst Biscuit
Quaker Corn Flakes ..
Washington Crisps

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UMPRTOM 555-5455. 40
Grape Nuts ......... 2 85
Sugar Corn Flakes .. 3 25
Holland Rusk ...... 4 80

Krinkle Corn Flakes ..2
Mapl-Flake, Whole
Wheat .....-.-e-s00
Minn. Wheat Food 8
Ralston —" Food
Large, 188 .....«.-
naison Wht Food ‘18s
Ross’s Whole Wheat
Biscuit

axon Wheat Food .. 4 50
shred Wheat Biscuit 4 25
Triscuit, 18 .....---. 25
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 2 50
Post Toasties, T-2 .. 4 10
Post Toasties, T-3 .. 4 10
Post Tavern Porridge 2 80

BROOMS

Fancy Parlor, 25 lb. .. 9 50
Parlor, 5 String, 25 lb.
Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 50

Common, 23 Ib. ...... 8 00
Special, 23 Ib. ..-..- 7 75
Warehouse, 23 lb. .. 10 50
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. .... 1 00
Solid Back, 11 in. .... 1 25
Pointed Ends .......- 1 00
Stove
Mo. 8 ...54.--s- cceeee 1 00
Oi RD ge k cece sseee 1 50
Ma 0 oe ase 2 00
Shoe
Mae. Lic ovecor recs’ pee 00
SE ee 1 30
No. Speesceee pe Us
BED. Bbc cceccus specs 2 OP

- BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 25c size .. 2 00

CANDLES
Paraffine, 6s
Paraffine, 12s
Wicking

CANNED GOODS

Applies
3 lb. Standards ..
No. 10

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@1 60
@4 75

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Clams
Little Neck, 1 lb. .... 1 60
Clam Bouillon
Burnham’s % pt. .... 2 25
Burnham’s pts. ...... 3 75
Burnham’s qts. ...... 7 50
Corn
Pair 05. ace.
Gopd ....-..-...- s-eee 2 Sp
Fancy eeocecccvccoee
French Peas
Monbadon (Natural)
per doz. eeccccscccce
Gooseberries
No. 2, PAW ....s6e556
No. 2, FAMCY ..ncccccse
Hominy
Standard ............ 1 25
Lobster
MD. occ ecee se. seeee 2 oe
Me ID. ccc ecsse opesses 2 1D
Picnic Flat .......... 15
Mackerel

Mustard, 1 Ib.
Mustard, 2 Ib. ..
Soused, Le lb.
Soused, 2 Ib
Tomato, 1 Ib.
Tomato, 2 Ib.

 

Mushrooms
Buttons, %s ........ . 80
Buttons, 16 ....c..-+- 50
Motes, 16 ........... @44

Oysters
Cove, 1 ib. _....... 1 20
Cove, 2 ib. .......-- 1 80
s
Pause ..... 5.55. 1 50@2 00
Pears In Syr -_
No. 3 can, per dz. 2 50@8 00
Peas
Marrowfat ...... 1 26@1 85
Early June .... 1 50@1 60
Early June siftd 1 60@1 75
Peaches
Pie) occa ees e 50@1 75
No. 10 size can pie @4 25

Pineapple
Grated ........ 1 75@2 10
Sliced .......... 1 45@2 60

Pumpkin
Pair ....... ceekeseece 30
S00 oc sccese sce se 1 40
Wancy ....+° pebeee cee c 1 60
No: 20 .........-.- oes 4 00

Raspberries
No. 2, Black Syrup .. 2 40
No. 10, Black ...... 10 50
No. 2, Red Preserved 3 00
No. 10, Red, Water .. 10 50

Salmon
Warrens, 1 Ib. Tall .. 3 35
Warren’s, 1 Ib. Flat .. 3 46
Red Alaska .......... 85
Med. Red Alaska .... 2 60
Pink Alaska ........ - 2 20

Sardines
Domestic, 48 ........ 6 50
Domestic, 4% Mustard 6 60
Domestic, % Mustard 6 25
Norwegian, 4s ..... 15@18
Portuguese, %s .... 30@35

Sauer Kraut
NO. 2; cane .......:.. 1 65
No. 10, CBOB .....220 °

Shrimps
Dunbar, is doz. ...... 1 50
Dunbar, 1%s doz. .... 2 80
: Succotash
Fair eccccesesccos OB
Good 2. scenes sossbuccs 2 OD
Fancy ..ccccccccccne

Strawberries
Riamaire |... 25... 50
Fancy .............. 2 90

Tomatoes
No. 1% ....- Sb ise oes 40
ND. © .4..ites sssceces LD
Mp, 00 2.6360... 8 60

Tuna
Case
4s, 4 doz. in case .... 4 50
igs, 4 doz. in case .... 7 50
1s, 4 doz. in case ....10 00

CATSUP
Van Camp’ s, % pints 1 4
Van Camp's pints .... 2

CHEESE
PEIN: .25,51655-- @29
Carson City @28
Pe. ."
Ee, geo eee-
Limburger ...... @28
Pineapple ....... @
oem ls .. @
Sap Sago ........ @
Swiss, Domestic... @

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack .... 65
Adams Sappota
Beeman’s Pepsin
Beechnut

Doublemint ............ or
Flag Spruce ....... cos (OD
Hershey Gum ...... eee ~
suicy Hroit ...... 5...)

Sterling Gum Pep. .... 65

Spearmint, Wrigleys .. 67
Spearmint, 6 box jars 8 85
Yucatan ..... pecs. -. 66
Zeno ..... re - 65
O. K Gum ....... 12508. 70
Wrigleys (5 box asstd.) 65
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.
German’s Sweet ....... 24
Acermiim ..0. 5 35
Caraces ......,.....). 28

Walter M. Lowney Co.

Premium, %s .......... 35
Premium, ee 2.555... 35
CLOTHES LINE

Per doz.
No. 40 Twisted Cotton 1 80
No. 00 Twisted Cotton 2 1u
No. 60 Twisted Cotton 2 75
No. 80 Twisted Cotton 2 90
No. 50 Braided Cotton 2:25
No. 60 Braided Cotton 2 60
No. 80 Braided Cotton 3 10
No. 50 Sash Cord .... 3 00
No. 60 Sash Cord .... 3 50
No. 60 Jute ......:.. 1 45
NO. 72 Jute ......55.. 1 60
No. 60 Sisal .....5.... 1 60

Galvanized Wire

No. 20, each lvéft. long 1 90

19, each 100ft. long 2 10
- 20, each 100ft. long 1 00
- 19, each 100ft. long 2 10

 

COCOA
makers oo 2 39
Bunte, 10c size _.....,. 88
Bunte, % Ib. Z
Bunte, 1 lb.
SAeveland .........
Colonial, 4s
Colonial, %s
eS ec ee
Hershey's 4s .......... 32
Mershey'’s %8 .......... 30
eauivier oo ol . 36
Joowney, WS .......-.... 38
Towney, Ua... 37
LOWNEY, 468 .........5- 37
Lowney, 5 lb. cans .... 37
Van Houten, %s ....... 12
Van Houten, 4s ....... 18
Van Houten, %s ........ 36
Van Houten, Is ........ 65
Wanita... 0.25... ... 36
Wend ................., 33
Wir, 6 ....;....... 33
Wilbur, %5 ..........., 32
COCOANUT

Dunham’s per Ib.

%s, 56 lb. case ..... oseee OP

4s, 5 lb. case
4s, 15 lb. case
gs, 15 lb, case .
1s, 15 Ib. case
%s & %s, 15 Ib.
5 and 10c pails .
Biik, pals ..........
Bulk, barrels .....:..
Baker's’ Brazil
70 7c pkgs., per

 

case 4 20
36 14c pkgs., per case 4 20
16 14c and 33 7c pkgs.,

Der CARR Uo os. 4 00
Bakers Canned, doz. 1 10
COFFEES ROASTED
Rilo

COMMON .....sc0c0se0 19
OU cies ccccee scald See
Choice ... ooo - 20
BOUNCY -csccesce coos 21
Peaberry ....... a |
Santos
Common ............. 20
ee wosee ae
MOIDID gk cess cesce ese 21
Pancy ........- cesses ae
PRADO ..-. 65... ess 23
Maracaibo
Per ...5..- Se
Choice ....... ose
Mexican
Choline ......... coseoe OO
TT eee Se 26
Guatemaia

-ders direct to W. F

Java
Private Growth .... 26@30
Mandling .......... 31@365
Aukola ............ 80@82
- Mocha
Short Bean ........ 25@27
Long Bean ........ 24@25
H. L, O. G. ........ 26@28
Bogota
RAMP oki sccceessccess Oe
Fancy ..... ceeseens ae

Exchange Market, Steady
Spot Market, Strong

Arbuchkie (2. 5...5.4.. 21 00
McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXxX
package coffee is sold to
retailers only. Mail all Hdl
Cc-
Laughlin & Co., Chicago.
Extracts
Holland, % gro. bxs. 1 30
Felix, % gross 1
Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43
CONDENSED MILK

 

Carnation, Tall ...... 5 50
Carnation, Baby 4 85
Hebe: Tall ........ 5c. 5 00
Hebe, BAY ........-> 4 90
Per TA oo el. 5 50
Pet; Bape |... sa 3 60
Nan Camp, Vail ..;..; 5 50
Van Camp, Baby ..... 3 60
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Horehound .......-.. 18
Brandard ............ 18
Cases
OUIBO Cocca es cece ce 19
Bis Stick .......-.... 9

1
Boston Sugar Stick .. 22
Mixed Candy

Pails
Broken 22.2... 35.. s- a0
Cit eat)... ........ 19
French Cream ....... 20
POCONB. oo... cc ss 13
Kindergarten ........ 20
SCORE ows sec te cee ss 18
MEDUOTER _ 3... .es ce. 16
BIOVeltyY «2. 4... e 19
Paris Creams ........ 22
Premio Creams ...... 24
ROVel oo eee: 17
BOCCIAN 250055. .5.. 6.4, 17
OO ec eee a alcea 16

Specialties
ails

Auto Kisses (baskets) 21
Bonnie Butter Bites .. 23
Butter Cream Corn .. 24
Caramel Bon Bons .. 22
Caramel Croquettes .. 21
Cocoanut Waffles .... 20
Coffy Toffy .......... 22
National Mints 7 Ib tin 26
Fudge, Walnut ...... 22
Fudge, Choc. Peanut 21
Fudge, White Center 21
Fudge, Cherry ....... 22
Fudge, Cocoanut .... 22
Honeysuckle Candy ..
Iced Maroons
Iced Orange Jellies s. 38

Italian Bon Bons .... 20
AA Licorice Drops

S ib. bOx ......... 85
Lozenges, Pep. ...... 21
Lozenges, Pink ...... 21
MAMCRUS ooo oe os ono e 20
Molasses Kisses, 10

1; DOK ee. es 22

Nut Butter Puffs .... 22

Star Patties, Asst. .. 24
Chocolates Pails
Assorted Choc. ...... 23
Amazon Caramels ... 25
Champion ........,... 22

Choc. Chips, Eureka 27
Eclipse, Assorted .... 23
Klondike Chocolates 27

INBDODA .....-cesess0s 27
Nibble Sticks, box ..1 75
Nut Waters ......... 27
Ocoro Choc Caramels =
Peanut Clusters ......

@uintette ............ 33
ORI once css bse oes 21
Star Chocolates ..... - 23

Pop Corn Goods

Cracker-Jack Prize .. 4 40
Checkers Prize ..... 4 40

Cough Drops

OxXesS
Putnam Menthol .... 1 35
Smith Brog. ......... 1 35
COOKING COMPOUNDS

Crisco
a6 4 ib: came ........ 10 25
24 1% lb. cans ...... 10 25
6 6 1b; Cans ........; 10 25
29 30; cams ......... 10 25
Mazola
5% oz. bottles, 2 doz. 2 60
Pints, tin, 2 doz. .... 7 20
Quarts, tin, 1 doz. .. 6 75
% gal. tins, 1 doz. .. 13 25
Gal. tins, % doz. .... 12 80
5 Gal. tins, 1-6 doz. 18 50
NUTS—Whole

Ibs.
Almonds, Tarragona 21
Almonds, California

soft shell oa oo

TRO 8 nena scenes 18
PUbCTIS 2... acces occ ae
Cal. No. 18. @ .... ™

Walnuts, Naples

eevee

Walnuts, Grenoble ...22
Table nuts, fancy ....16%
Pecans, Large ..... ce ae
Pecans, Ex. Large .. 20
Shelied
No. 1 Spanish ~—
Peanuts ...... @16%
Ex. Lg. Va. ghetiea
Peanuts ...... 16%@17
Pecan Halves ...... @90
Walnut Halves @70
Filbert Meats ...... @42
Almonds .......... @60
Jerdan Almonds .....
Peanuts
Fancy H P Suns
ROW oo. sok 17@17%
Roasted: .......- 19@19%
H P Jumbo
A oc 18@18%
MOBSICO .. 2.4... 20@20%
Spanish Shelled,

No: 4) 52... 17@17%
CREAM TARTAR
Barrels or Drums ...... 66
BOkes oe oe. 70

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
Evap’ed, Choice, blk @16
Evap’d Fancy blk.. @
Apricots

California ........... @2l
ww
California ..<...... 18@21
Currants

Imported, 1 lb. pkg. .. 26

Imported, bulk ...... 25%
Peaches
Muirs—Choice, 25 Ib. .. 12
Muirs—Fancy, 25 lb. .. 13
Fancy, Peeled, 25 Ib. .. 16
Peel
Lemon, American ...... 22
Orange, American .... 23
Raisins

Cluster, 20 cartons

Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr.
Loose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 9
L. M. Seeded Lb. 10% @11

California Prunes

90-100 25 lb. boxes ..@08%4
80- 90 25 lb. boxes ..@09
7U0- 80 25 lb. boxes ..@10
60- 70 25 lb. boxes ..@11
50- 60 25 Ib. boxes ..@12%
40- 50 25 Ib. boxes ..@13
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
California Limas 15

Med. Hand Picked ... 15
Brown, Holland

eeeeee

Farina
25 1 lb. packages .... 2 65
Bulk, per 100 lb. ......

Original Holland Rusk
Packed 12 rolis to container
3 containers (86) rolls 4 32

Hominy
100 lb. sack .... 6%

Macaronl.

Domestic, 10 lb. box ..
Imported, 25 lb. box ..

Pearl,

1 30

Skinner’s 24s, case 1 87%
Pearl Barley
Chester .............35 7 25
TOMBS 2.0 8 50
Peas

Green, Wisconsin, lb. 11

Sout 16) oo. 10%
Sago

Hast India ........... - 16

German, sacks ........ 15

German, broken pkg.
Taploca

Flake, 100 lb. sacks ...°15
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks ... 15

Pearl, 36 pkgs. ...... 75
Minute, 10c, 3 doz. .... 3 55
FISHING TACKLE
Cotton Lines
Mo; 2; 15 feet ....0..... 10
INO, 3, 19 feet ...2.....; 11
No: 4,15 feet .......0¢. 12
mG. >, 16 feet .. 0.2.5.2; 14
No. 6, 15 feet ...>...... 15

Linen Lines
Small, per 100 feet .... 50
Medium, per 100 feet .. 55
Large, per 100 feet .... 65

Floats
No. 1%, per dozen ..... 13
No. 2, per dozen ...... 15
No. 3, per dozen ....... 20
Hooks—Kirby
Size 1-12, per 100 ...... 8
Size 1-0, per 100 ....... 9
Size 2-0, per 100: ....... 10
Size 3-0, per 100 ....... 11
Size 4-0, per 100 ....... 14
Size 5-0, per 100 ....... 15
Sinkers
No. 1, per gross .«...... 60
No. 2, per SYOSs ....... 60
No. 3, per gross ....... 65
No. 4, per grosg ....... 75
No. 5, per gross ....... 80
No. 6, per gross ....... 90
No. 7, per gross ....... 1 25
No. 8, per dozen ....... 1 65
No. 9, per gross .......2 40

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings D C Brand

Pure Vanila
Terpeneless
Pure Lemon
er Doz.
7. Dram, 15 Cent ....; 1 25
1% Ounce 20 Cent ... 1 75
2 Ounce 30 Cent .... 2 60
2% Ounce 35 Cent ... 2 75

2% Ounce 40 Cent ...
4 Ounce 55 Cent .... 5 0¢
8 Ounce 90 Cent ..... 8 50
7 Dram Assorted 1 25
1% Ounce Assorted .. 2 00

FLOUR AND FEED
Grand Rapids Grain &
Milling Co.
Winter Wheat

Purity Patent... :. 12 00
Fancy Spring ...... 12 50
Wizard Graham .... 11 70
Wizard, Gran. Meal 12 50
Wizard Buckw’t cwt. 8 00
BVO 16 00

ne wer ag Milling Neg
Lily

eee etcnn 12 25
Graham 2)..2..3..... 5 70
Granena Health ..... 5 80
(Gran, Meal |... 2)... 6 20
Bolted Meal > 70

Watson-Higgins Milling Co.
New Perfection ..... 11 60
Worden Grocer Co.

Quaker, \%s cloth None
Quaker, 4s cloth None
Quaker, %s cloth None
Quaker, %s paper .. None
Quaker, 4s paper .. None

Kansas Hard Wheat
Worden Grocer Co.
American Eagle, %s 11 00
American Eagle, 4s 10 95
American Eagle, %s 11 20
Spring Wheat
Worden Grocer Co.

Wingold, %s cloth ..11 00
Wingold, %s cloth Sold Out
Wingold, %s cloth Sold Out

Meal
Bolted 60. cs. 11 80
Goiden Granulated .. 12 00
Wheat
POG oo ee 2 08
White ....5.05.00.5 2 05
: Oats
Michigan carlots .... 1 00
Less than carlots .. 1 05
Corn ;
Camiots oso. 1 85
Less than carlots .... 1 90
Hay
Canlots . ooo: 29 00
Less than carlots .. 30 00
Feed
Street Car Feed .... 71 00
No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd. 71 00
Cracked Corn .....: 2 50
Coarse Corn Meal .. 72 50

FRUIT JARS

Mason, pts., per gro. 7 40
Mason, qts., per gro. 7 80
Mason, % gal. per gr. 10 15
Mason, can tops, gro. 2 80

GELATINE
Cox’s, 1 doz. large ... 1 46
Cox’s, 1 doz. small .. 90
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 75
Knox’s Sparkling, gr. 20 60

Knox’s Acidu’d doz. .. 1 85
Minute, 1 doz. ....... 1 26
Minute, 3 doz. ........ 3 15
Nelson’s .......0....-. 1 50
Oxford: . 66s 16

Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 40
Plymouth Rock, Plain 1
Waukesha ....... sags 1-60

GRAIN BAGS
Broad Gauge, 12 oz.
Climax, 14 oz.

HERBS
Sage) o.oo 3. SGeaceeseos Le
Hops ..... cacctasececes Ae
Laurel Leaves ......... 20
Senna Leaves .......... 45
HIDES AND PELTS
Hides
Green, INO. 1) .o.2... 4
Green, Mo, 2... .05. 3. 10
Cured, No. 1)... ..5, 14
Cured, No. 2 3.2.5 .. 13
Calfskin, green, No. 1 23
Calfskin, green, No. 2

Calfskin, cured,

1
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 23%
Horse, No. 1 6
Horse, No. 2

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Wool PIPES
cee med. @60 Cla No. 216, Herring Gunpowder Faucets Washing Powd
( : ee g Powders
ee ee ee ee See ee ee St eee oer ee ee oe
deceee i; ca r ned, Me cecece Snow Boy, 6 mG;
Cob, ae cian canke 25 Spiced, 8 Ib. pails ..... 95 Ping Suey, Medium 25@30 Cork lined. 10 in. ...... 90 Snow Boy. 48 pias .. 456
HONEY No. 90 Steamboat 2 25 Pagid Pu ece wanes”. wees Mop Sti oe Ey, eee > Se
A. G. Woodman’s Brand. No. 808, Bicycle ..... 8 50 7 1, in be Ceneae Lp ng Suey, Fancy .. 45@650 Trojan wee cks 135 Snow Boy, 20 pkgs. .. 47
OZ., per doz. ........ Sen ae . 1, ee ee hmm Eelam spre ...--.--
20°02. ber doz 12027. sce cee TN ee ee o...: 0 Young Hyson No. f common stn 1 35
eo. 1. eee cee g cee ceecceeee | @ pat Gioeh hold
HORSE RADISH iegpe > ee oO a Mackerel oF ‘Sane makes Ee SPECIAL
Oe ee a ' eal No. 7 2.2... ..: :
Per doz. |... . 90 oe a Mess, 100 Ibs. ...... . 22 00 Oolong 120z. cotton mop heads 2 75 Price Current
Clear Back .. 52 00@58 09 {css 60 Ibs. ........ So ieee. Metum .. ner Pails tS Src
Short Cut Clr 50 00@51 90 . Ls . or Cece -. ec ani
ue jDELLY aa. 47 00 to@tl 00 —s oo. seeconcee a : Formosa, Fancy 50@60 : - Sas oF , “ SALT
o Db. De i 5 » 4, i0UU IDS. .....4. . : sees y
pails, per pail .. 3 25 Brisket, Clear 55 or 00 No. 1 60 ihe * 44-10 s Sadie Breakfast va Galvanized .... : . Diamond Crystal
weeees es @ eeccece : ongou chose teetcee cee
Jiffy-Jell Clear Family ....... 85 00 Ot AM set ene “ Cuca Cae nose
peritfaight or Assorted Dry Salt Meats § er ake Herring Cees Wares |. GO sue tee ee
Coe 1 15 Bellies ... 31 00@32 00 = 8 _‘Wbs. .............. 54 Co 1c rch, packages .. 2 00
mike per 4 doz. .. 4 60 Lard ‘ais ae : _ eek er te ieee ™
ig: avors: Raspberry, Dae 4 . SEEDS eylon
Strawberry, Cherry, pst Conpoind cae’ Me eos Anise ce... 35 Pekoe, Medium .... 28@30 veewe
on, Orange, Lime, Pine- 80 Ib. tubs ...advance % G2@ary. Smyrna ..... 15 Dr. Pekoe, Choice ..30@35 Mouse, wood, 2 hoels .. 22
ie: go ib. tubs ccinavance  Gardomon,” Misia” 1 8 i jee a
oe oe eee oe cIGARs 12 at: Galvanized ©... 17
JELLY GLASSES 10 Ib. pails ... advance % Mixed’ oo sees 1% Peter Dornbos Brands jae eee tase : 70
15lb. pails, per pail ....1 45 5 Ib. pails ...advance 1 i TO woreceeece 9 Dornbos Single | ; .
30lb. pails, per pail ....2 65 3 Ib. pails ...advance 1 woe ee > See... 37 00 fe) eed" _— 30
8 oz. capped in bbis., Smoked Meats face” ee an " Dornbos, Perfectos .. 37 00 Rat, spring ............ 75 24 2 lbs. shaker ..... 1 70
ee . ee eee 15 = Dornbos, Bismarck |) 73 00 — jae ee eee oS 5 TS
Tams, 16-18 lb. 29 @30 : u 50 2 S tape ...... 5 7%
MAPLEINE Hams, 18-20 Ib. 28 @29 tints he es a Johnson Cigar Co. Brands No : zie ee a a 4 ne. as ol 5 50
am, dried beef , ‘ : Dutch Masters C 15 NO. We 2... 3... - 24 12 iD. flake ....... 4 75
i = boniee bee YP 7 Sets o......-.- 29 @30 Binders ga q > Dutch Masters Nhs 75 ie No. 3 Fibre ...--.--- 13 50 280 Ib. bulk butter ... 3 38
16 bottles / California Hams 23%4@24 Miller’ a i 9 Dutch Masters Inv. 75 l.arge Galvanized ... 12 75 280 lb. bulk cheese ... 3 38
oz. bottles, per dz. 16 50 Pienie B 2a iller’s Crown Polish 90 Dita HV: = 1 00 Aeeatim eatvanized 1! 25 80 Ib. bulk shake 3 88
82 oz. bottles, per dz. 30 00 Penic Boiled a4, SNUFF Dutch Mester gents, 22 9% Small Galvanized ... 10 00 28 Ib. cotton sk, butter 40
_, Hams ..... ele Swedish Rapee, 5c, 10 for 40 a as er Grande 72 00 ; : 56 vo te ee pe
Boiled Hams ... Dp Cc, or El | tana, sm: ) ) . cotton sk butter 85
__MINCE MEAT te ny | SWOdIRR Rapes, £1 ef7 4) Tl Portana. 1000 Ines af fc Washboards 35 Ib. D. C. coarse .. 48
Per case |... $88 Ppacan 0. SF @45 Norkoping, 10c, 8 for ..64 El Portana, 2500 lake 40 rhe Banner, Globe ....... 4 25 70 lb. D. C. coarse ... 90
Saimaeee : Norkoping, 1 lb. glass .. 60 G. J., less than 300 : 12 50 peass, Sinele ........ 700 D.C. stock briquettes 1 30
g Copenhagen, 10c, 8 for 64 «@ : 300 lots cir Glass, Single ........ 400 D.C. block stock, 50 Ibs. 40
MOLASSES Bologna ........ [Ue Gere sen th ches Gh kl Po Gee 1150 Double Peerless 6 50 : i
New Orleans Uiver oo. ~os 32 pe ane fe ts Sale lots 1000 Single Peerless 5 50
Fancy Open Kettle .... 66 Frankfort .... 17 SODA de Dutch Master & S.C..W. Nosthern. ane '
peel — reas iieis Bi Carb, Kegs ...... 3% Back Me aan - P seige a iggy aoee ; a Morton’s Salt
Gsoe ..... a a Veal a. aeeee 11 300 aueuited oo 236 50 Unt i hg oo 5 00
BEOCK oc... cee. MOVBUG 2c... cscs s - SPICES 2,500 assorted ...... 35 50 ee ee
Half barrels 5¢ extra Headcheese i, 14 Whole Spices 2% cast de , Window Cleaners
hod ato 60 ga Aves Tense 668 pune, Ot OF oa in 1 65
Red Hen, No. 214... 3.00 Boneless 25 00@27 00 Alispice. le. Garden @11 te... 1S
a¢ en an 8 95 : ; oves, Zanzibar @55 orden Grocer Co. B 6 im... 2... 0
ted Hen, No. 10 ..... 309 Rump, new .. 30 00@31 00 Cassia, Canton .... @20 eT eae escent: 23
Uncle Ben, No. 2 2 50 Pig’s Feet Cassia, 5c pkg. doz. @35 Texe Michigan ..... 37 50 Wood Bowls YD Lad
Uncle Ben, No. 2% 300 % bbla. 22-20... .eee- 175 Ginger, African .... @15 Ld 4300 18 in, Butter _....... 1 90
Uncle Ben, No. 5 .... 325 % bbls, 40 Ibs. ...... 840 Ginger, Cochin @20 Court Roval 0.0.2... 4300 15 in. Butter ........ 7 00 SALT
Uncle Ben, No. 10 .... 3 00 % bbls 5.0). seccccees 9 00 Mace, Penang ...... @90 Hemmeter’s Cham- 17 tm Butter ......- 8.00
Ginger Cake, No. 2... 3 25. 1 bbl. ........ cececes. 16:66 Mieed No. ft ...... @17 DION 42 50 19 in. Butter 11 00
Ginger Cake, No, 2% 4 10 Tripe Mixed, No. 2 ....... @16 Irequoie §¢ 6... 42 50 ee '
Ginger Cake, No. 5 .. 310 Kits, 15 Ibs. ......... 99 Mixed, 5c pkgs. dz. @45 La Azora Agreement 4° 00 WRAPPING PAPER
O. & L. Open Kettle, ¥% bbls., 40 Ibs. ...... 1690. Nutmegs, 70-80 .... @45 Ta Azora Bismarck . a 00 «Fibre, Manila, white .. 5
Nie eel, 5 25 % bbis., 80 Ibs. ...... 3.00 Nutmegs, 105-110 .: @40 Whaleback ..........' 50 Fibre, Manila, colored SRnSAtr comene7
. Casings dle 2 ue b L. s Hand Made 36 00 No. | Manila ........ 6%
MUSTARD ors, ner Ib. ......:... » write ..... eee ce oa ce 40 0 Butchers’ Manila ..... 6
¥% Ib. 6 lb. box 30 Reef, 4 set... 19@20 Pepper, Cayenne @22 TWINE Kraft ee ae 81%, Per case, 24 2 Ibs. .... 1 80
aa ‘ ea as , Beef, middles, eet .. 45@55 Paprika, Hungarian . A Wax Butter, short c’nt 20 Five case lots .....- - 170
Sheep ........., 15@1 35 Pure Ground In Bulk Cotton, 2 ply _........ 63 Parchm’t Butter, rolls 22
OLIVES Saealeead Pan a Allspice, Jamaica .. @16 Coton, 2 Diy .......... 65
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 50@1 60 Solia Dairy BO . Cloves, Zanzibar @68 emp, GW 2.3... 34 YEAST CAKE Anere
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs @1 40 (Country Rolla .... cos oo oo @32 Wool. 100 Ib. bales 18 Magic. 3 doz. 74 | SYAFORATSR “Se
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 25@1 30 oes tinger, African @25 Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 100 )=«6Tall 6 00
E Wed eae 9 Canned Meats Mace, Penang ..... 1 aa tea” ll ee
Stuffed, Nt aaa adh i 38 Corned Beef, 2 Ib. .. 660 Nutmegs ........... ase White Sate fo coat 17 yoaee gt a 1 15 ae De om nan :*
Stuffed, 14 oz. ....... 2975 Corned Beef, 1 lb. .. 875 Pepper, Black ..... @35 White Wine, 80 grain 22 Yeast Foam, 1% Go 85 Manufactured by Grand
Pitted (not stuffed) Roast Beef, 2 Ib. .... 650 Pepper, White |... @42 White Wine, 100 grain 25 on ee oe
10 OR eae. 75 a a 1 Ib. .... 875 Pepper, Cayenne @30 YEAST—COMPRESSED Sold by_all jobbers and
Manzanilla, 8 oz. .... 1 23 eo eat, Ham Paprika, Hungarian @45 Oakland Vinegar & Pickle Fleischman, per doz. .. 20 National Grocer Co., Grand
Lunch, 10 02. 2.2... 15 avor, 48 ......... 55 STARCH Co.’s Brands SOAP Rapids.
Munch) 16 62) 2600.) 2 75 he Lager Ham Pe Highland apple cider L
— ere Deviled ‘Ment, ‘Ham’ Kingsford, 40 Ibs. .. 9% Q2kland apple cider .. eT BAKING POWDER
OZ. eee os: 5 50 ea am Muzzy, 48 11b. pk 3 State Seal sugar ..... Acme, 100 cakes ..... 9 25
Queen. Mammoth. 28 prlavor, M8 a 52 , Kincatane 9 Blue Ribbon Corn . Big Master 100 blocks 6 00 Ryzon
OF ee : am akland white pick Climax ............... 4 75 D i
Olive Chow, 2 doz cs Flavor, %s ........ 1 e aorta “—-. 7. Packages free. ante Queen White ........ 5 00 bese — aie ere
per doz. 2, 2 50 eee aonane, ws .. nen ae oun 2, “0 wiciic Oak beat ...........- 5 95  10c size, % Ibs. 4 doz. 90
otted Toneue. a .. 100 ee 19. °° PES. .-.- a & OF Q >; 3
bee one oo wd a Silver Gloss, 18 3lbs. .. Wa 0 per creas” a aesen a pe 5 Zo aS ieee ly pe 2 doz. 1 62
Silver Gloss. 12 6lbs. .. ot No. 1, per gross 6h Proctor & Gamble Co. 35c size, 1 lbs., 1 doz. 3 15
Bel-Car-Mo Brand HOMNCY J..ccceccceoe Muzzy No. 2. per $ eee vA MiGMOS 6.0 0.5.....0.. 5 00 $1.50 size, 5 Ibs. % dz. 13 50
6 oz. 1 doz. in case .. 290 Blue Rose ........9 @9% 48 1!b. packages ...... 9% No. 3, per oo we thery, € o@ «........ 5 90 a ease ee
12 o2. 1 doz in case |. 250 Broken .:........ 7% @7% 16 3lb. packages ...... 9% oe Bee acs 1 45 Evory, 10 67. ........ 9 60
12/2 1b, pails) 220.2. 5 75 ROLLED 12 6Ib. pack Bla orcs, 4 90
5 Ib. pails, 6 in crate 700 Monarch, bbls. oe an ae eee Re ee c ee
10 Ib. pails Ben ee 21% ~=Rolled Avena, bbls. 12 00 Bushels (00:02... 50 Swift & Company 5c CLEANSER
45 tb. pails ..4........ 21 Steel Cut, 100 lb. sks. SYRUPS Rushels, wide b ie Hee ; :
oo cae ee, 20% Monarch, 90 1b. sks. .. 6 00 Co We ee nk SND Bride 4. +----- aa
60 ib. ting) ee 20% Quaker, 18 Regular 1 75 rn ne et, drop handle .. 70 White Laundry ...... 5 35
, gu . Barrels ............... 72 Market. single handle 75 Wool, 6 oz. bars 5 16
Quaker, 20 Family .. 6 60 Half barrels ........... ™  Solint, large ......... 5 73 Wool, 10 oz. bars .... 7 00
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS SALAD Ss Blue Karo, No. 14, Splint, medium .. 5 On , . aoc.
Iron Barrels Columbia, % pint 2 25 @ COA coi ae $66 Splint, small ........ 475 Tradesman Company
Perfection .....<:.-..: 12.2. Columbia. { pint ....: 400 Blue Karo, No. 2, 2 dz. 3 30 Willow, Clothes, large = = Black Hawk, one box 3 75
Red Crown Gasoline ..23.20 Durkee’s large, 1 doz. 5 25 Blue Karo, No. 2%, 2 Willow, Clothes, small Black Hawk, five bxs 3 70
Gas Machine Gasoline 39.7 PDurkee’s. med, 2 doz. 5 75 GOR eee. 410 Willow, Clothes, me’m Black Hawk. ten bxs 3 65
V. M. & P. Naphtha 22.7 Durkee’s Pienic, 9 doz. 2.75 Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 95 7 i.
Capitol Cylinder, Iron ‘nider’s, large, 1 doz. 2 40 Blue Karo, No. 10, % Butter Plates _ Box contains 72 cakes. It
BIS.) Cee ee 38.4. gmider’s. small, 2 doz. 145 doz. ............... 70 Ovals is a most remarkable dirt
Atlantic Red Engine, SALERATUS Red “Karo, No. 1%, 2 % Ib., 250 in crate ..... 45 2nd grease remover, with-
Tron! Bbis) 3.00. 200.. 2 Packed 60 Ibs in box. cos ..-..--.....-.- 280 % Ib. 250 in crate ..... 45 out injury to the skin.
Winter Black, Iron Arm and Hammer 815 Rod a No. 2, 2 dz.355 1 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 50
Sen a 5 v Scouring Powders
Bois sa 13.9 Wyandotte, 100 %s 300 Red Karo, No. 2% 2dz. 440 2 Ib., 250 in crate ...... 55 ;
Polarine, Iron Bbls. 41.4 ’ oF Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 4 25 3 Ib., 250 in crate ..... 70 Sapolio, gross lots .. 9 60
G SAL SODA Red Karo, No. 10 % 3 Tb., 250 in crate ...... 90 Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85
PICKLES Gee ae ee AOR ie esee eens 4 00 Sapolio, single boxes 2 40 ———
Medium ps se - ac s. cs. 1 90 urn Cane Wire End Sapolio, hand ........ 2 40 ‘
Barrels, 1,200 count 12 00 rranulated, 86 pkgs. 2 00 mw 1 Ib., 260 in crate .... 45 Queen Anne, 30 cans 1 80 Guaranteed to equal the best 10c
Half bbls., 600 count : a SALT G a. 2 1b., 250 in crate ...... 40 Queen Anne, 60 cans 3 60 kinds. 80 can cases $3.40 per case.
5 gallon kegs ....... cn eer oe oe ct 3 Ih. 250 in crate ...... a ot ae Ce: ee
56 Ib. sacks 5 20 5 . q Oe ee ee
beet bee TABLE SAUCES 5 Th., 20 in erate ...... 76 AXLE GREA
Small Common Halford, large ....... 75 : So Powd ug
Berle one e 1400 Granulated, Fine 200 Halford, small ....... 2 26 Spence ee Eee Ct oe
Half barrels ........ 750 Medium, Fine ........ 10 a Ce ae ee 3 ee ak ae
5 gallon kegs ...... 2 80 SALT FISH TEA Rarrel. 10 gal., each .. 2 55 soe Phi 100 .. 5 BO
od Uncolored Ja Jine O'Clock .......” 00
herkl iB pan Clothes Pins Nine O Clock ........ 4 00
esse - eeu a 25 00 ieee: ae tees one Medium ............ 20025 Round Head Lautz Naphtha, 60s ..
Half barrels .......- 13 00 Strips or bricks .. 16@19  Faney Poe fe gree... ea.
§ gallon kegs -....... 4.00 Pollock ............ Bi Ree iy iccaias Mea Cartons No. EL Ste Saw. 1 GM PRED isc!
Holland Herring Basket-fired Choice 35@37 Egg Crates and Fillers 400 Pheee cases. 5 50
Sweet Small Standards, We ace Basket-fired Fancy 388@45 Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 24 Queen Anne Soap Pow-
Barrels ..... pretense 28 . VoM: pols: 2... No. 1 Nibbe ........ @832 No. 1 complete ........ 50 der, 60 pRes. ...... 3 60
5 gallon kegs ....... : hi Standard, Kegs ...... Siftings, bulk ...... @14 No. 2 complete ........ 40 Old Dutch Cleanser, 1 lb. boxes, per gross 11 40
Half barrels ........ 14 50 M. MOGs ........... Siftings, 1 lb. pkgs. @17 Case, medium, 12 sets 1 80 1008 ....4. We cc eaee 60 3 Ib. boxes, per gross 29 10

 

  

 

 

30

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

April 24, 1918

 

BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.

Proceedings in the Western District
of Michigan.

Grand Rapids, April 16—John K. Bur-
kett, of Kalamo, Eaton county, has filed
a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. Ad-

judication has been made and the matter
referred to Referee Corwin. No meeting
of creditors has been called. The sched-
ules of the bankrupt show liabilities
amounting to $1,049.26 and assets amount-
ing to $803.35, consisting of stock in trade
as grocer at Kalamo, $250; household
goods, $200; fixtures, etc., at store, $300;
and accounts due petitioner, $53.35. The
household goods and stock in_ trade,
amounting to $450, are all claimed as ex-
empt to the bankrupt. Following is a
list of creditors of said bankrupt:
Secured Creditors.

National Grocer Co., Jackson ....$310.00
Unsecured Creditors.

Arbuckle Bros., Chicago .......... $ 18.64

Enterprise Aluminum Co., Masil-

Sion, Whip |... .+e- 5c. 10.58
Sarah E. Johnson, Bellevue ...... 28.37
National Biscuit Co., Grand Rapids 26.45
Northrup, Robertson & Carrier,

CST a 253.22
National Grocer Co., Jackson 18.00
Barber State Bank, Vermontville 100.00
Mrs. Lulu Jeffers, Wayland ...... 36.00
Lamb & Spencer, Charlotte ...... 175.00
Dr. L. McEachran, Vermontville 10.00
Farmers Merchants’ Bank, Nash-

Wee ce 63.00

tee ee a $1,049.26

April 22—In the matter of Joseph Fox,
bankrupt, Grand Rapids, the first meet-
ing of creditors was held this morning. It
appearing that there are no assets in
the estate, no trustee was appointed, and
the estate will- be closed out at the
expiration of twenty days.

The examination in teh Plank Flexible
Shaft Machine Co. has been adjourned
to May 6. An offer of $2,500 has been
received from William Maxwell, of Kala-
mazoo, for all of the assets of this es-
tate, which assets are appraised as fol-
lows:

Stock in trade
Advertising and

 

ee
office supplies

pn SSEICR oS " (2.75
Patterns and drawings .......... 600.00
Merchandise, mechanical and

mipciracal .....-............... 4,657.98

Total $10,406.39

The assets will be sold to the highest
bidder on May 2, at 2 o’clock p. m.

In the matter of M. Katz & Son, bank-
rupt, Grand Rapids, a special meeting
of creditors has been held. The second
report and account of the trustee, show-
ing balance on hand as per last report
$6,833.64, additional receipts of $55.90,
total, $6,889.54, disbursements for admin-
istration expenses, preferred claims, and
a first dividend of 10 per cent., $2,653.34,
leaving a balance on hand to date of
$4,236.20 was approved and allowed. Cer-
tain administration expenses were. or-
dered paid, also a second dividend de-
clared, the amount of which has not yet
been determined.

 

St. Joseph, April 15—Charles A. Snider,
engaged in a retail variety store business
at Sturgis, filed a voluntary petition and
the same, in the absence of the District
Judge, was referred to Referee Banyon,
who entered an order adjudging the peti-
tioner bankrupt. The schedules disclose
the following liabilities and assets:

Preferred Claims.
Mrs. J. D. Salsig, Schoolcraft ....$575.00
Sturgis National Bank, Sturgis 500.00
Kalamazoo State Bank. Schoolcraft 500.00
Unsecured Claims.
Butler Bros., Chicago
J. F. Walton, Sturgis
H. Leonard & Co., Grand Rapids 18.30
Brach & Sons, Chicago 5
S. Daneman & Sons Co., Chicago 15.70

 

H. J. Ranshbure Co., Chicago ..... 10.00
Pitkins Brook Co., Chicago ...... 14.68
Auburn Post Co., Auburn ........ 3.6
Miller & Hadley Co., Toledo : 1.5!
Washington Mills Co., New York 40.49

Saalficld Pub. Co., Akron ........ 20.00
.’ Wort Bros, Dayton ........... 32.38
Nat. Stamping & Engraving Co.,
Ce

jy. S. Schwab, New York .....-.

Billstein- Kopper Co., Cleveland
Runkle Co., Kenton, Ohio

Federal Enameling Co., Pittsburg
Silicon Glass Co., Pittsburg ......
Western News Co., Chicago .....
Kunstader Bros., Chicago ........
Becker Paper Co., Ft. Wayne

Royal Candy Co., Milwaukee ......
HB. S. Tayior Co., Rochester ......
Star Paper Co., Kalamazoo ......
Neff Novelty Co., Cumberland

Talcito Ogawa Co., Chicago
I. Kann Co., Chicago
The N. Y. Book Co., New York

Bione Eros, Chicago ............-
Plaza Music Co., N. Y.
Redner-Cortright Co., Battle Creek
Dudley Paper Co., Lansing
Jos. Schlageck, Toledo
Foster Music Co., Chicago
Bethesda Glove Co., Bethesda, O.
Corticella Silk Co.. Chicago
Standard Oil Co., South Bend

 

x. D. Burt, Dalton, No Ye .;.---.. 4.36
Johnson Paper Co., Kalamazoo 10.84
Bowman-Hosterman Co., Cleveland 52.01
Roberts & Lydick, Chicago ...... 10.80

A. Foster Musie Co., Chicago .. 22.50
suckeye Paper Co., Toledo ...... 11.06
New Idea Pattern Co., N. ~ cee. BL
Inter States Ry. Co., New York 7.42
Silverburg Imp. Co., New York .. 2.84
Journal Publishing Co., Sturgis .. 20.08
. R Childe, Chicars .-.....0).. 03. 3.92
George R. Turner, Sturgis ........ 7.00
G W. isuce, Sturgis .............. 3.50
H. W. Hagerman, Sturgis ........ 12.90
m G. Heald, Stureis’.......25.0.2. 14.00

 

$1,357.39

Assets.
SUOCKk OF BOOGB |. o.oo ck: $1,100.00
Housenola goods ................55 200.00
$1,300.00

April 16—In the matter of Sam Walper,
bankrupt, of Benton Harbor, the final
meeting of creditors was held at the
referee’s office. The trustee’s final re-
port and account, showing no. assets
found, was considered and approved and
allowed. Creditors having been directed
to show cause why a certificate should
not be made recommending the bank-
rupt’s discharge, and no cause having
been shown, it was determined that such
favorable certificate be made. The trus-
tee was authorized not to interpose ob-
jections to the bankrupt’s’. discharge.
An order was entered closing the estate
and discharging the trustee. The record
book and files were returned to the
clerk's office.

April 17—In the matter of Lee Dornan,
Jermone J. Hamlin and Dornan & Ham-
lin, a copartnership, bankrupt, of
Glenn, an order was entered by the ref-
eree confirming the trustee’s report of
sale of the partnership assets to George
Tourtellotte, of South Haven, for $1,066
and the individual assets of Lee Dornan
to Will Foster for $180. The trustee was
directed to file his second report and
account for the purpose of calling a meet-

ing of creditors to declare a first divi-
dend of 5 per cent.
April 18—In the matter of Louis F.

Brown, bankrupt, of Niles, an order was

. entered by the referee confirming the
trustee’s report of sale of the stock of
clothing to Charles H. Zwergel and
Gustav J. Pammel, of Niles, for $3,085.

The trustee filed his report of exempted

property, recommending that the bank-
rupt be allowed $179.25 in lieu of his
specific property exemptions.

April 19—In the matter of Ralph Reed,
bankrupt, of Three Rivers, the trustee
filed his final report and account, show-
ing total assets of $193 in cash and re-
quested that the final meeting of cred-
itors be called for the purpose of de-
claring a first and final dividend and
closing the estate.

In the matter of Charles A. Snider,
bankrupt, an order was entered calling
the first meeting of creditors at Kala-
mazoo on May 4 for the purpose of
proving claims, the election of a trustee,
the examination of the bankrupt and the
transaction of such other business as
may properly come before the meeting.

April 22—In the matter of Louis F.
Brown, bankrupt, the trustee filed his
first report and account, showing total
receipts of $3,102.75 and no_ disburse-
ments, with request for a first dividend.

The same was considered and approved
and allowed. A first dividend of 10 per
cent. was declared and ordered paid to
all unsecured creditors. The first order
of distribution was entered and_ the
meeting adjourned for ninety days.
—_se-o>
Submergence Does Little Damage to
Flour.

An interesting test of the power of
wheat flour to resist water soaking
is reported by the Northwestern Mill-
er, which may prove of interest if any
effort is ever made to raise any of
the four ships sunk in British waters.
It is a well known fact among sailors
that flour will not only float after
immersion in sea water, but suffers
very little damage.

To ascertain the actual damage a
baker in New South Wales submerg-
ed a bag of flour in the ocean and
left it in the water sixty-seven hours.
A ninety-eight pound weight was nec-
essary to sink a 150-pound bag, which
would supported seventy-five
pounds on top of the water, it is
estimated, or half of its own weight.
When lifted and weighed, the bag
scaled 155 pounds. It was dried for
four days and yielded 120 pounds oi
perfectly dry flour, the bag and waste
weighing twenty-eight pounds. Bak-
ed into bread, it gave perfect results.

have

Entire Town Goes on Cash Basis
May 1.

Sutton, Neb., April 17—Owing to
conditions over which we have no con-~
trol, we have, after going over the
matter thoroughly, decided that we
will put our respective businesses on
a cash basis on and after May 1, 1918.
Under old conditions the retailer
bought from the wholesaler on terms
of thirty and sixty days, but at the
present time our goods are sold to
us on ten days’ time, which to all
practical purposes is cash, for it is
now taking ten days to obtain the
goods. We do not wish to impose
hardships upon any one and do not
think going on a cash basis at this
time, when prices are high and nearly
everyone has ready money, will cause
any of our customers a very serious
inconvenience. The prices of all our
goods are increasingly higher on ac-
count of the war and if we are able
to obtain cash for them when we
sell them, we can sell correspondingly
cheaper. After May 1 we will keep no
book accounts whatever and we sin-
cerely ask that you do not request
credit, as we will have no place to
make the charge, and neither of us
would be satisfied if we were to try
to keep this memorandum from mem-
ory. In other words, we expect to
keep no books whatever after May 1.
1918. New conditions are arising ev-
ery day which have grown out of the
war and this is one of them. We
sincerely trust that our customers
will adapt themselves to this new
condition as readily as they have to
all other conditions that have been
caused by this great war.

In order to make this cash basis
effective and so that our customers
may get the full benefit of reduced
prices by paying cash, we have de-

cided to make all unpaid accounts
due and payable on or before May 1,
1918, so that we may clean up our
books and have the mcney with which
to conduct our business in a way that
will reduce prices to our customers.
On our unpaid accounts we. will
charge interest at the rate of 10 per
cent, commencing May 1, 1918. Trust.
ing that all our friends and patrons
will see the wisdom of this new move,
both from their standpoint and curs,
and that it wilt prove mutually satis-
factory.

We the undersigned business men
of Sutton, Neb., hereby agree to con-
duct our business after May 1, 1918,
on a strictly cash basis.

Gemar & Griess, general store.

Figi & Rauscher, general store.

C. E. Pope, confectionery.

Sutton Clothing Company, clothing,

Lilliedoll Bros., drug store.

J. R. Easley, jeweler.

Kelly’s Cafe, cafe,

Wm. Reuter, harness shop.

Henry Schiedemann, meat market.

11. E. Anderson, photographer.

EB, L. Bays.

Alex. Bauer, painter.

J. C. Olinger, commission firm.

Peter Kniss, feed store,

H. C. Ochsner, restaurant.

Wieland Bros., general merchandise.

H. Wiedenbech, general merchan-
dise.

Wm. B. Baehr, jeweler.

Griess & Fleming, clothing.

Carl Held, drugs.

J. J. Bauer.

George H. Sinner, pool hall.

Peter Becker, meat market.

Brehm & Son, meat market.

Jacob Bender & Son, implements.

Sutton Lumber Co., lumber and
coal.

Griess Coal Co., coal.

 

Commodities

beans, in bulk (pkgs. of 25

standard sardines

fruits

of the statute and the rules.

or replacement value.”

freely competitive conditions.

modity or in other commodities.

certain dealers.
pends upon his cost of operation.

charges.

given to this feature.

 

MAXIMUM MARGINS ON SALES BY WHOLESALERS
TO RETAILERS.

SUCAG ee
Wheat and rye four ..............:
Lard, lard substitutes, bulk (pkgs. of 50 Ibs. or over)
Standard hams, bacon .......:.....

All flours (except wheat and rye) ................
Lard and lard substitutes, in pkgs. (less than 50 Ibs.) 8-10%
Condensed, evaporated milk ....................6.

Rice, hominy, grits, oatmeal, rolled oats, cornmeal,
Ibs. or over)

Rice, cornmeal, hominy, grits, oatmeal, self-rising
four aad rolled oats, all in pkes. .....-.......
Corn oil, corn syrup and cottonseed oil ..........
Standard and extra standard licensed canned veg-
etables and pink, chum and_ red

Standard, choice and extra choice licensed

_ Any gross margins upon sales to retailers in excess of the fore-
going margins will be regarded as prima facie evidence of a violation

These margins are guides only.
The margin is still limited to a “reasonable advance over the actual
purchase price of the particular goods sold without regard to market

No commodity covered by this rule should be sold at a margin
above delivered cost (actual purchase price, plus freight to railway
terminal in jobber’s city or town) of the particular goods sold which
will yield any greater profit than the dealer customarily enjoyed on
the same commodity in the pre-war period on an even market under
High margins, even if customary during
pre-war period are not justifiable now.
excused by lower margins on other transactions in the same com-

Costs of business and customary margins differ widely even within
small areas and for this reason the foregoing maximums are variable:
for instance, in the case of canned salmon, from 12 to 15 per cent. But
even the lower margin, 12 per cent. may be an unreasonable margin for
The reasonable margin for any particular dealer de-

The margins named are ample to include all ordinary carrying
If general conditions should later necessitate the carrying
of goods for a longer period than usual, further consideration will be

Maximum Margins
Over Delivered
Cost.
15c-25c per 100 lb.
50c-75¢e per bbl.
1%4c-2c per Ib.
1c-2c per lb.

10-12.%4%

salmon and 12-15%

dried

They do not change the rules.

Unreasonable margins are not

 

 

 

 

 

   

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April 24, 1918

BUSINESS-WAN

Advertisements inserted under this head for three cents aw
continuous insertion.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

For Sale Or Exchange—Grocery store,

 

Pontiae, Michigan. Inventory $4,000.
Will reduce. Easy terms. 659 Michigan
Tradesman. 659
Barber Shop—The best three-chair

shop in Southern Michigan, with or
without building, at a bargain. DeCou-
dres, Bloomingdale, Michigan. 658

For Sale—Landis No. 3 harness stretch-
er. Address Harness Maker, 816 Eureka
St., Lansing, Michigan. 643

For Sale Cheap—One Brecht 9—12 re-
frigerator; one good 8 foot counter for
meat market. Poelstra & Broekema,
Kalamazoo, Michigan. 644

For Sale—Rexall store, Southern Mich-
igan; population 1,200; nearest town 12
miles. Clean stock drugs, books and sta-
tionery. Good fixtures,: low expenses.
Address No. 645, care Michigan Trades-
man. 645

For Sale Or Rent Below Value—Build-
ing, living rooms and complete fixtures
for grocery and market. Clean stock,
about $900. Good business. A snap for

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

For Sale—A clean. up-to-date
ware stock in a Western
town. Population about 1,200. Stoek in-
voices $6,000. River and rail transporta-
tion. Fine climate. No wind. No cold.
No blizzards. Have two stores, must sell
one, will ship out any undesirable stock.
A rare chance for a good little business.
Address Box 147, Dayton, Wash. 660

hard-
Washington

 

 

For Sale—Electric light plant, 75 K. W.
generator transformers, three miles of
poles, 30 year townhsip franchise, good
residence and tenement house on one
acre of ground in village. Forty acres
of land one mile from house, 18 acres
of bearing fruit, $9,000. Part cash. bal-
ance on contract. A snap for a man
who can do his own electrical work. Lo-
cated in Northern Michigan. Resort

town. Hallock, 135% East Fulton St.,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 661

 

For Sale—General merchandise stock,

good _ location and business. Owner
wishes to retire. Guy V. Cole, Three
Rivers, Michigan. 662

 

Salesmen Wanted—Liberal commis-
sions paid for selling Columbis Healing

 

someone. No. 657, Michigan Tradesman. Powder to dealers. Address, Sturtevant
657 Co., Box 14, Hartford, Conn. 663
For Sale—900-acre farm including

stock and tools, good buildings; suitable
for sheep, stock and general farming,
within 100 miles of Grand Rapids, on
main line of railroad. Depot, store and
school on farm, $28,000. Will trade for
dry goods stock or sell part cash, bal-
ance on contract. Hallock, 135% East
Fulton street, Grand Rapids, oe

 

A Money Maker—The finest equipped
billiard and pool academy west of New
York; 20 tables; rich mahogany furnish-
ings; central location, in town of 150,000;
cost $25,000 to equip. Right up to the
minute in outfit—from match safe to
registered oil paintings—occupying two
floors. Elevator service, electric fans and
ventilators. This outfit has to be seen
to be appreciated. Owing to ill health
owner will sacrifice for $12,500, part
cash, balance on contract. Just at the
time bonedry iaw goes into effect and
people are seeking this kind of amuse-
ment. A chance of a lifetime. Investi-
gate at once. Opportunities like this are
rare. Hallock, 185% East Fulton street,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 656

Have You a Good Business To Sell?—
Chicago has the money. Send full par-
itculars. Herbert, 906 M. TT. Webster
Bldg., Chicago. 647

For Sale—Property consisting of cider,
sorgum, feed and sawmill, warehouse,
coal sheds and residence in village of
Weston, Michigan. Would consider farm
property in exchange. Fred E. ‘Ash,
Adrian, Michigan. 649

Brick Plant For Sale—Forty-three
miles from Birmingham, Alabama. Ca-
pacity 46,000 brick per day. Bargain
Write L. W. Clardy, Childersburg, a

 

 

 

 

For Sale—National cash register, new-
est style, oak finish, six drawer. Bargain
for quick disposal. Boston Store, St.
Louis, Michigan. 651

If you want to buy, sell or trade your
business, see Hallock, 135% East Fulton
street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 654

For Sale—Fine drug store located in
good farming district Central Michigan.
Invoice about $2,500. No fountain. Will
sell on time. Must sell by April 30.
Address No. 613, care Michigan Trades-
man. 6138

For Trade—Farm lands and city prop-
erty located in Missouri, Illinois, Wis-
consin, California, Michigan, New Mex-
ico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Da-

 

 

kota, Texas, Alabama, Canada, Colo-
rado, for stocks of merchandise. W.
Hurd Clendinen, Zion City, Ill. 635

 

A Real Opportunity. :

For Sale—One of the best paying fur-
niture and undertaking stores in a town
of 2,000 to be found anywhere in the
State of Michigan. Must sell as the doc-
tors have ordered me to leave this
climate if I wish to live. Would not sell
on a bet if not just as stated, for I am,
and have been making big money. Ad-
dress No. 636, care Tradesman. 636

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
Houseman Bidg., Grand Rapids, Ss

 

 

For Sale—Nearly new Detroit auto-
matic scales, also one McCray grocer’s
refrigerator at bargain prices. Ells-
worth Brothers, Wheeler, Mich. 646

Wanted—To hear from owner of good
business for sale. C. C. Shepard, Minne-
apolis, Minnesota. 664

 

Ten Parsons’ Bakery Wagons For Sale
~—-Side entrance. Complete set of cake
and pie drawers, bread cabinets and feed
boxes. Busy Bee Candy Kitchen Co.,
Columbus, Ohio. 665

One Jewell Hand Carbonator for soda
fountain. Used only two seasons. Guar-
anteed to be as good as new. Cost new
$145; will sell for $55. Write City
Bakery, Litchfield, linois. 666

For Sale—In finest town in the State.
Cash Corner. Ideal location for transient
and excellent neighborhood trade. No
trouble keeping overhead away below
10% here. A-1 reasons for selling. Answer
No. 667, care Michigan Tradesman.

667
hotei, furnished.
Michigan. Sickness
Bargain if taken at
Smith, Alma, Mich. 669

For Sale—Two lots at good resort near
railroad. F. H. Glascott, Hopkins, Mich.

668

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. Fast,
Detroit. 678

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. Washington Ave.,
Saginaw, Michigan. 3a5

Bargains—Bargains—Businesses, any
kind anywhere. Send for free magazine.
Western Sales Agency, Minneapolis,
Minnesota. 548

For Sale—General merchandise stock.
Excellent location and business. Owner
wishes to retire. J. A. Cartright, Mason,
Michigan. 634

Bargain For Druggists—Will sell my
stock of drugs consisting of pharma-
ceuticals, powder and crude drugs, pat-
ent medicines, sundries and National
cash register, etc., at 50 per cent. dis-
count. List furnished on _ application.
Theo. G. De Peel, Onondaga, Mich. 642

Pay spot cash for clothing and fur-
nishing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 106
FE. Hancock, Detroit. 608

For Sale—Clean grocery stock, inven-
torying about $3,500. Doing a good cash
business in town of 1,400 population.
Owners subject to military service. 530

Collections—We collect anywhere. Send
for our ‘‘No Collection, No Charge’”’ offer.
Arrow Mercantile Service. Murray Build-
ing, Grand Rapids, Mich. 390

For Sale or Exchange—A modern ten
room house located in best part of Battle
Creek, Mich. Apply to I. Netzorg, Elsie,

628

For Sale—Summer
Finest location in
reason for selling.
once. B. FEF.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mich.

HELP WANTED.
Experienced Drug Clerk, Wanted—
Young man, strictly honest, ambitious

and reliable. No  fountain—good pay.
F. R. Skinner, St. Charles, Mich. 653

SEE NEXT PAGE.

Advertisements received too late to run
on this page appear on the following
page,

 

TS DEPARTMENT

ord the first insertion and two cents a word for each subsequent

No charge less than 25 cents. Cash must accompany all orders.

   

   

Loose Sugar Loss Is

Sheer Waste

Many paper bags of sugar break
while being wrapped or delivered.
Many pounds of loose sugar are
thus wasted.

Franklin Package Sugars
save this loss No broken paper
bags. No spilled sugar. No scoop-
ing and wrapping. The sturdy car-
tons and cotton bags are weighed,
wrapped and sealed b¥ machine in
the refinery. They are ready to put
in your customers’ hands.

The Franklin Sugar Refining Company

PHILADELPHIA

‘A Franklin Cane Sugar for every use’’

Granulated, Dainty Lumps, Powdered,
‘Confectioners, Brown

 

 

 

Economic
oupon Books

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

Free samples on application

AMG

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

  

High Bush Barberry Must Be De-
stroyed.

Appeal is now being made to Gov-
ernor Sleeper, food administrators,
mayors and city councils and park of-
ficials throughout the State to take ac-
tion which will result in gangs of men
with grubhooks and shovels going
through public and private grounds
on an errand of destruction. For
the threat of the black-stem rust is
abroad in the land.

To assuage the grief of amateur
landscape gardeners let it be known
at once that not all barberry is
threatened, It is the high bush
variety, botanically vulgaris, which
harbors the fungold which, wafted by
the winds from bush to bush and on
to the grain fields of the country, takes
hold in wheat and some other grains
of similar growth and produces the
blight called black-stem rust.

The high bush barberry is not the
low growing, viviously prickly, red-
stemmed bush which is oftenest seen
in cities fronting an embankment of
which the taller growing and darker
green spireas are the general back-
ground. The condemned bush is the
one which commonly is permitted to
grow from knee to waist high, has
dark green to blackish stems and is
not so profusely armed with spines
as its smaller and innocent brother.
One other, less common, variety
comes under the ban with the high-
bush kind. This is the one with pur-
ple leaves, so distinctive in appearance
as not to be mistaken.

“Michigan used to be a great spring
wheat State, and efforts are now being
made by farmers and food production
promoters here and in Washington
to bring it back to that status,” said
Prof. G. H. Coons, plant pathologist
of the agricultural college. “The two
enemies of spring wheat in the past
have been the dry, hot period at the
blossoming time of the grain, and the
black-stem rust. The climatic condi-
tion we cannot change. But the dis-
ease condition, really the greater cause
of disaster than climate, can be
changed. Rust can be vastly reduced,
if not wholly eradicated. To do it
the cause of the disease must be eradi-
cated, and that is the high bush bar-
berry and its cultural varieties, in-
cluding the bush with the purple
leaves.

“In the great wheat states of Min-
nesota and the Dakotas, loss from
rust in 1914 was $25,000,000. The loss
to Michigan wheat from black rust
has never been calculated, but it runs
into the millions. Losses were so
great that farmers all but ceased to
grow spring wheat, which, because ef
its late period of maturity, is especial-
ly subiect to the pest.

“The increase of rust in spring
wheat in this State was precisely co-
incident with the increase of plant-
ings of common barberry around
dwellings on farms, and in cities and
villages. The wide use of this plant
in ornamentation for cemeteries is 2
prolific cause of disaster.

“The fungus which causes rust of
wheat begins its life in the barberrv
bush, spreads to the common grasses
and soon to the grain fields. The

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Japanese barberry is immune to at-
tack, and is not threatened by this
campaign against the common vari-
ety.”

A congress of nurserymen, city
foresters and managers of cemetery
associations held during the winter
took up this subject and won the
backing of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. It is claimed
that Congress is to come through with
a good-sized appropriation with which
to wage the war.

—_2---~e —___
Development of Rural Motor Express

Washington, April 23—After thor-
cugh investigation the Highways
Transport Committee of the Council
of National Defense has urged upon
the State Councils of Defense the pro-
motion of Rural Motor Express lines
to connect the farms with the cities,
thus expediting the production of
food-stuffs. The plan is to use the re-
turn-loads system, by which farmers
can ship into the city all varieties of
farm products such as milk, dairy
products, calves, hay, grains, and par-
ticularly perishable products, and re-
ceive in return from the city farm im-
plement parts, seed, fertilizers, gro-
ceries and other supplies.

The supplies which the farmer needs
from the city can be ordered by the
farmer in the morning over the phone
and delivered at his gate the same
afternoon. These rural expresses have
already been started in many localities
and have proved their value by pro-
moting an increase in food produc-
tion, In many farm communities
where the express is in operation the
farmers state that any interruption
of the service would immediately re-
sult in reduced production.

The development of the Rural Mo-
tor Express, the Highways Transport
Committee hopes, marks the begin-
ning of a system of universal farm
transportation over all the main high-
ways, making the farmers gate a ship-
ping platform alike for his outgoing
products and his incoming supplies.

One of the main advantages of the
rural express system is that it re-
duces labor. In some places the haul-
ing formerly done by five men with
wagons is now being done, at many
times the speed, by one man with a
truck. The other men relieved from
their task at hauling are at work in
the fields cultivating additional acres.
Most of the express lines already es-
tablished are private enterprises. They
can be started to advantage by in-
dividuals in the country who know
intimately the problems of the farmers
in their particular sections.

—_».7.____

Fourth Letter to Michigan Whole-
sale Grocery Salesmen.
Detroit, April 23—Enclosed herewith
we are sending you bulletin to dealers
containing rules governing flour sales.
Also our Ammunition Sheet to whole-
sale grocery salesmen No. 4, and the
sheet of cuts which accompanied our

bulletins last week.

We appreciate very much, indeed, the
way you handled material which we
sent you last week, and we have taken
pleasure in sending on to Washington
the copy of the Michigan Tradesman,
which you mailed to us

We would ask if you received any
newspaper releases issued by the Food
Administration similar to the enclosed.
If you have not, we will endeavor to
have you placed on the mailing list for
these food administration releases. They
contain a great deal of material which
should be valuable to the publication
for retail merchants.

Oscar Webber,

State Merchant Representative for
Michigan.

Ammunition Sheet No. 4.

The message we are giving you for
your customers this week is tremen-
dously big and interesting. It is build-
ing for next winter. We must plan our

 
  

food reserves for next winter now.
The degree of seriousness of next win-
ter’s food situation will depend upon
what we do these coming summer
months. This summer ours must be a
land of vegetable gardens.

1. Tell your customers that’ while -

they are eating the produce from their
gardens, they are saving wheat, meat
and fats—which we must send to Eu-
rope.

2. The average garden last year was
one-tenth of an acre and produced 636
pounds of food.

3. If every family in America, not
farmers, would raise an average garden,
they would relieve the railroads of car-
rying 160,000 carloads of vegetables.

In these times of railroad congestion,
anything which frees more cars for
transporting soldiers and munitions is
patriotic service.

4. Note these figures received from
Washington this week. Since January
1 the decrease of home-grown meat in
England has been: cattle 65 per cent.,
sheep 40 per cent., hogs 68 per cent.—
over the same period 1916. France has
just reduced her bread ration by one-
third. Meat is so high as practically to
prohibit it to a great part of the popu-
lation. Bread constitutes over one-half
the diet of the French nation. Under
this new regulation

Children less than 3 years old will
receive 344 ounces per day.

Children from 3 to 13 years old will
receive 7 ounces per day.

Persons from 13 to 60 years old will
receive 10%4 ounces per day. (Workers
of this class 3%4 ounces more).
Persons over 60 years old will receive
7 ounces per day.

The situation is indeed critical, and
whether it is to be materially relieved
next fall and winter depends upon what
we do these coming months.

We ask you to give this message to
your customers this week:

That they make their stores a center
for the garden movement in the com-
munity and urge it by window displays
in their advertising and have their
clerks talk it to their customers.

_—__.
State Must Conserve Sugar For Can-
ning.

Lansing, April 22—Supplies of sugar
for soft drink manufacturers must be
curtailed, even though these manufac-
turers have contracts to supply army
camps in order that there may be con-
served enough. sugar to meet require.
ments of the fruit and vegetable can-
ning season, according to advices re-
ceived from Washington by George
A. Prescott, Federal Food Administra-
tor for Michigan.

Mr. Prescott’s information adds
that while there is a plentiful supply
of sugar in Cuba, transportation fa-
cilities are so limited that in order
that the canning season be not with-
out enough sugar to meet the de-
mand, especially from housewives and
those factories having contracts for
the army or navy or foreign govern-
ments, every possible saving must be
effected and the ration restricted to
three pounds per person per month.

Ice cream manufacturers must re-
strict their output to 80 per cent of
their 1918 manufacture and so cer-
tify if they are to be permitted to
buy sugar in quantities.

Mr. Prescott states that a sched-
ule of non-essentials requiring sugar
for their manufacture is now in course
of preparation and should be ready
for official publication soon,

_oo—_____—_
Can the Kaiser.

Each paper, book and magazine
Spouts upward like a geyser

Recipes for saving things.
We're growing thin and wiser.

We salt down beans, dehydrate greens,
Store foods like a miser;

We're going to preserve the world,
And also can the Kaiser.

Fuel Administrator Garfield has is-
sued an order dealing with the produc-
tion of enameled ware. The reduction
in this case is 50 per cent.

  

April 24, 1918

Farm Specialists.

In our little town, oh! sad to tell,

There is a merchant who doesn’t know
how to sell,

A sawyer who doesn’t know how to saw,

A teacher who doesn’t know how to
teach,

A preacher who doesn’t know how to
preach,

A painter who can’t paint very well,

A. printer who doesn’t know how to spell,

An odd-jobs man with never a jop,

A cobbler who doesn’t know how to cob,

A miller who doesn’t know how to mill,

A butcher who doesn’t know how to kill,

A racer who doesn’t know how to race,

A mason who doesn’t know how to mace,

A clocksmith who can not mend a clock,

And doctor who doesn’t know how to
oc;

And, since none of these are busy men,

You will find them again and yet again,

Ever anon and a few times more,

‘Round the stove in Mendolsen’s store,

Each talking freely and through his hat,

Doing the one thing they are expert at,
Giving advice to farmers.

—_2--

Mr. Hoover feels moved to note, in
one of his bulletins, that a throng of
faddists are seizing the opportunity to
impress their diverse “gospels” upon a
harassed public. Worshippers of dan-
delion greens, of corn dodgers, and of
dried apples rush forward with a shout
when they hear that the Administra-
tion approved the use of their particu-
lar fetish—as a war measure. In this
connection Bernard Shaw should be
given his due; although he has lived
for thirty-three years on vegetarian
menus, he will not allow people to
cherish the hope that they may come
to be like him if they follow his prac-
tice, for macaroni cannot make a
Shaw. Fanatics have to-day such
freedom to pursue converts’ as they
never dreamed of. Mrs. Brown at last
can speak her mind, for Mr. Hoover’s
sake, about Mrs. Jones’ extravagance.
Uncle can compel the children, in the
name of patriotism, to eat no end of
oatmeal. Every one who has had a
suppressed longing to impose his no-
tions on others may now indulge in
his pet form of tyranny, and who
shall dare object when he does it for
his country alone?

— +2. —____

Representatives of the Automatic
Machine Bottle Manufacturers’ Asso-
ciation have voluntarily agreed with
the United States Fuel Administratior:
to curtail their production of less essen-
tial articles, both in the interest of fuel
conservation and to give the utmost
possible opportunity for the manufac-
ture of glass jars and other food con-
tainers. Specifically, those bottle man-
ufacturers who are not occupied en-
tirely with the manufacture of food con-
tainers will curtail their total output 15
per cent., the curtailment to be effective
in the less essential portion of their
production. A very large quantity of
fuel is consumed in the manufacture
of glass articles, and the effect of this
arrangement will be to concentrate the
manufacture of bottles upon those
which are necessary for food and med-
icinal purposes.

 

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For Sale—A live new general stock of
stavle dry goods. ladies’ and men’s fur-
nishings, in the livest town in the State
of Michigan, Flint. Store will do about
$30,000 business tris vear. Stock will in-
voice about $10,000. owned at the old
prices, and will sell at invoice price. If
you want a money making business and
have got the money, address No. 671,

 

 

eare Michigan Tradesman. 671
For Sale Or Trade For Stock Mer-
chandise—120-acre farm near’ Milan.

Sand loam soil. Good house, large barn
and other out buildings. Well drained.
Wm. N. Benge, Milan, Michigan. 670

     

 

   
    
  
  
  
  
       

    
   
   
 
   
  
   
    
   
   
   
  
 
   
    
   
     
 
 
  
 
    
   
  
   
   
    
   
 
   
   
   
  
    
 
 
  
  
   
   
 
 
   
    
  
 
 
   
  
 
  
 

    
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
  
  
   
    
   
   
   
       
  
    
  
   
  
  
    
  
   
   
 
 
 
 
   
    
 
  
 
 

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