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Thirty-Fifth Year

SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page
2. Jaunty Jackson.
4. News of the Business World.
5. Grocery and Produce Market.
6. What Our Soldiers Eat.
8. Editorial.
10. Dry Goods.
12. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
14. Hardware.
16. Woman’s World.
18. Shoes.
20. Financial.
24. The Commercial Traveler.
26. Drugs.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
31. Business Wants.

 

Western
Congress is credited the intention of
introducing a bill calling for the con-
version of munitions plants into dye

Vo a

Representative in

factories after the war. This would

seem a superfluity. If there 1s any-
thing which the owners of munitions
plants—meaning thereby those mak-
ing explosives—are sure of doing, it
is in converting them into factories
for making
drugs from the various coal tar bases.

dyes, chemicals, and
The biggest of the explosives manu-
facturers is already producing many
of the dyes and chemicals, including
synthetic indigo in quantity, and will
after the war turn out a great variety
of colors whose quality will be fully
equal to the best which ever came
But explosives fac-
tories will not be the only ones which
will change their output. The
and steel metal making
and fabricating works are preparing

from Germany.

iron
and other
for a quick conversion toward sup-
plying the needs of peace. This ap-
plies to other countries no less than
this, | A

case of Vickers, Ltd., which is

good
now
preparing for the manufacture on a
large scale of sewing machines, elec-
trical devices, and a speed controller,
besides wooden ware, engines, boil-
The con-
cern has also acquired the Bosch mag-

ers, and mercantile ships.

neto works, formerly owned by Ger-
mans, and will carry on and extend
its business. this, it wilt
market a new material having about
the weight of
mild strength.
There is no intention on the part of

Besides

aluminum and ap-
proaching steel in
those now making war materials of
doing much scrapping of plant after
the war.

 

HOW TO FIX TEXTILE PRICES.
While the and

fabrics are a little disturbed

makers of cotton
woolen
over the prospects of price fixing for
their products, there does not seem
to be any haste indicated by the ac-
tions of the newly appointed Textile
Administrator. From this it is in-
ferred that no plan has as yet been
matured, even if it has been consid-
ered. It seems to be reasonably cer-
tain, however, that whatever is ulti-
mately determined upon must be ap-
plicable no less to prices which ci-

illustration is in the.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1918

villians must pay than to those pay-
able by- the Government. <Any great
discrepancy between the two acts of
prices will be bitterly resented. In
cases where the Government has
hitherto cut down the asking prices
of textile there has
been no pretense that the latter were
not enabled to make a very satisfac-

tory profit.

manufacturers

Those who have bought

for civilian uses have been forced to

give the mills an inordinate profit.
To curb the profiteering, various plans
have been suggested. One of them,
which has attracted much attention,
was put forward by Malcolm D. Whit-
man, Vice-President of William Whit-
man & Co. His idea was that, in-
of fixing sales prices, excess
protits should be limited by taxation.
This, he insisted, would destroy the
If the Gov-
ernment fixed prices on what it re-
quired, he contended, the manufactur-
ers would even up by charging more

stead

incentive to overcharge.

to civilian purchasers rather than be
spurred up to greater efficiency. A.
letter embcdying these views was
sent to various woolen manufacturers
with the intention of securing their

assent,

 

NEWEST IN WOMEN’S HATS.
A new hat that is
being extensively displayed here has

type of sports
a straw brim and ribbon crown. Gros-
Srain or faille moire ribbon, from a
half-inch to two inches wide, is sew-
ed around the
board effect.

crown in a checker-
Some of these hats are
The

brims are of milan or hemp, and are

stitched with silk or wool floss.

seen in white, pink, and various shades
of blue, Some are also seen in laven-
der, a gocd summer shade, which, ac-
cording to the bulletin of the Retail
Millinery Association of America, has
not been shown or worn to any ex-
tent as yet.

medium-sized

The shapes consist of
roll-side
small

effects, and

and mushrocms with

collapsible

medium

high crowns. Ribbon
cockades or fancy ribbon bows are
used to trim them. The bulletin con-
tinues:

“The
out many summer costumes, the most

attractive of

warm weather has brought

which are linen

with hats to match.

suits
Made of heavy
linen, these hats are embroidered on
the upper
soutache

with
sand.

brim or side crown

braid in white or
Among the shapes are large mush-
rooms with ‘tam’ crowns, short-back

pokes with shell crowns, and large

sailors with wide sides and_ short
backs and fronts. The last-named
embody four-piece corded crowns.

Popular colors are Copenhagen or
delph blue combined with sand braid,
and navy or lavender combined with

white braid,”

CANNED GOODS SITUATION.
The manner in which the trade is
adjusting itself to new conditions of-
fers considerable encouragement to
those who are trying to bring about
conditions of business that will coin-
cide with the aims of the Government.
This, of course, includes everybody,
for the thought uppermost in the
minds of every business man its how
to win the war. Jobbers, in speaking
of these conditions, say that they are
quite

merely

contented if they can make

enough profit to keep their
organizations going to pay their em-
ployes and all those dependent upon

and The
Any-

them, directly indirectly.
spirit of speculation is gone.
that
chance to make big money out of this
or that

upon with suspicion by

one who suggests there is a

item of foodstuffs is looked
his neighbor
and is pretty apt to hear a few words
on the subject of patriotism. Matters
are taken very seriously now that in
other times would have been regarded
lightly.
was a

Earlier in the there
that

seeking undue profits.

season

suspicion erowers were
Perhaps some
of them were. But the impression
that now prevails is that growers are
unable to contract with canners be-
cause of the uncertainty of their labor
and their costs. Hence, canners can-
not name prices to jobbers and job-
bers are not taking the usual chance
The
dif-
will not be
seld in many instances until they are

booked, and in others until the situa-

in selling ahead to retailers.

will follow

The goods

movement therefore

ferent lines.

tion is clear as to what the pack and
packine costs will be.

 

BY ORDER OF THE KAISER.

The worst fears for the Jews in that
pant Of still
Turks are being realized.

Palestine held by the

Very mea-
ger but fairly convincing reports of
brutal deportations from the Northern
Jewish colonies come filtering through
Germany’s doubled-barred gate of
Hitherto it had always
been said that the Turks recognized

censorship.

a certain kinship with their Jewish
subjects and would never persecute
them as they have persecuted the Ar-
menians. But now the fallacy of such
Phe

Young Turks in control of the Otto-

a statement becomes apparent.

man Empire are animated by an in-
sane chauvinism which drives them to
non-Turanian
Jews,

exterminate ail
within the

races
Empire, Greeks,
Arabs, and Armenians alike.

Worst of all, the Kaiser has issued
edict which the Turks

dare not disobey, declaring that the

an ion_ciad

Jew is a menace to Pan-Germanism
and must be exterminated as a pro-
tecticn to the expansion plans of Ger-

many and her allies. The Germans

Number 1812

will, therefore, be held responsible for
these Jewish massacres. By their pol-
icy of playing Pilate they will have

aroused against themselves the ani-
mosity of a powerful, intelligent and
capable race, inhabiting all parts of the
globe—a race which never forgets a

wrong and never forgives an enemy.

 

EMASCULATE EVERY GERMAN
In view of the brutal character of

the German people as exhibited in
their treatment of the people of other
rations, in the raping of every wom-
an, the castration of every man and
male child and the mutilation of ev-
ery infant, there is only one punish-
ment adequate to bestow on the Ger-
man people—the castration of every
adult male in the Kaiser’s empire. Of
such
dealt out

treatment need ‘not be
to the Kaiser, because he
and every officer in the German army

COUESE,

and navy must suffer the loss of their
heads, which will render any further
Unless this
is done—and done most effectively—

punishment unnecessary.

the world will never be safe from the
Crucifiers of Christianity!

 

INCREASING THE TURN-OVER.

With due regards to the remarkable
records made by its mercantile friends
in London, Ohio, and Grand Rapids,
whose turn-overs are, respectively,
twenty-seven and twenty-nine times,
the Tradesman is under the impres-
that Mr Battle

Creek, has set a pace which it will be

sion Kellogg, of
extremely difficult for very many mer-
chants to follow. His detailed state-
ment of what he has accomplished in
the way of turn-over, published else-
$s paper, is decid-
edly interesting reading to any dealer

’

where in this week

who is determined to increase his
sales so as to take rank as a mer-
chant, instead of being content to

be merely a storekeeper.

Our shipbuilders, during May, deliv-
ered to the forty-four
vessels, completely equipped, an aver-

Government

age of nearly a ship and a half a day,
including Sundays. The record for
the five months of the present year,
still of
more than one ship a day, the total
being 170,

while not quite so high: is
Evidently, we are get-
Soon ships will
be built faster than they can be sunk.
There‘is something to be said also for

ting into our stride.

the psychological effect of reading
every morning of so many new ships,
We are not
yet out of the woods, and it would be
foolish to begin hurrahing, but there
can be no harm in a little quiet satis-
over the one sees
nowadays in contrast with those that
one used to know he would see the
moment he found courage to open his
newspaper,

so much new tonnage.

faction headlines

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

June 12, 1918

 

JAUNTY JACKSON.

Central City Heartily Greeted the
Grand Council.

Grand Rapids, June 10—With ap-
proximately 150 delegates in attend-
ance, the twenty-fifth session (or sil-
ver session) of the Grand Council of
Michigan, U. C. T., opened for busi-
ness at Jackson Friday, June 7, 1918,
at 10 o'clock a. m. by W. M. Kelley,
Senior Counselor of Jackson Coun-
cil, who introduced John A. Bennett,
Vice-Mayor of Jackson, who in the
absence of Mayor Wm. Sparks, who
is in Washington, delivered a short
address of welcome, following which
the convention proper was turned over
to John A. Hach, of Coldwater, Grand
Counselor. Before proceeding with
the opening ceremonies, Grand Coun-
selor Hach thanked the Vice-Mayor
for his very hearty welcome.

Appointments of committees im-
mediately followed the opening of the
Grand Council session, and the re-
ports of the Grand Counselor, Grand
Secretary, Grand Treasurer, Grand
Examining Finance Committee, Grand
Executive Committee were read. All
shewed a good growth of the organ-
ization and an excellent condition of
the finances. All reports were accept-
ed and turned over to the proper com-
mittees for final disposition. The rec-
ommendation of the Grand Executive
Committee that all delegates be cut
short one day each in their per diem

expenses met with hearty favor by
the delegates assembled.
Past Grand Counselor John A.

Hach appointed Past Grand Coun-
selor Samuel Rindskoff, of Detroit
Council, to sit in the Past Grand
Counselor's station in the absence of
Past Grand Counselor F. J. Moutier,
cf Detroit, who, owing to a severe
illness, could not be in attendance.
Past Grand Counselor M. J. Howarn,
of Cadillac Council, District Deputy
Grand Counselor F. N. Clay, of Kala-
mazoo Council, were asked by the
Grand Counselor to sit with him at
his station to render assistance to
him in the government and conduct-
ing the business of the session. Grand
Chaplain Chas. R. Dye, of Battle
Creek, in place of giving the regular
ritualistic prayer, offered at the open-
ing of the session a prayer worded in
his own way which contained an es-
pecial appeal to the organization at
this particular time when many of
our members have joined the colors.

The chair of F. W. Wilson, mem-
ber of the grand executive commit-
tee, was vacant from the fact of his
being called by the Government to
work on the War Savings Stamp drive
for Western Michigan. The follow-
ing committees were appointed by the
Grand Counselor for this convention:

Grand Examining Finance—W. ].
Devereaux, Port Huron: John D.
Martin, Grand Rapids; Fred J. Hani-
fan, Owosso.

Jurisprudence—F. L. Day. T. J.
Hanilon, N. T. Eddy, all of Jackson.
Credential—A. G. MacEacheron.

Detroit; J. H. Belknap, Bay
George McClintic, Hillsdale.
_ State of the Order—S. B. Rosen-
field, Detroit; E. D. Sickel. Jackson;
John Quincy Adams, Battle Creek
Mileage and Per Diem—W. S. Law-
ton, Grand Rapids: Tom Follis, Mar-
quette; F. J. Jury, Lansing.
Necrology—F; W. Bramer. Sagi-
naw: S. H. Swift, Adrian; J. E. Close,
Flint.

City;

FE. A. Welsh, Kalama-
zoo: A. F. Rockwell, Grand Rapids,
J. G. Cook, Owosso.

Charter Dispensation — M._ S.
3rown, Saginaw: E. L. Evans, Cold-
water: L. D. Mallory, Port Huron.

Press—F. A. Aldrich, E. G. Tomp-
kins, A. F. Young, Jackson.

Sample Case and Tradesman—John
D. Martin, Grand Rapids; B. D. Mer-
cer, Saginaw.

At the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion at 1:30. Grand Chaplain C.
Dve delivered a eulogy and the names
were read off of those who had pass-

               

ed to the Eternal Council during the
past year, and all members standing
with uncovered heads and repeating
the Lord’s Prayer.

A resolution was offered that the
Grand Council procure an oil paint-
ing of Past Supreme Counselor Frank
S. Ganiard and present it to the Su-
preme Ccunselor in session in Colum-
bus, June 25 to 30, and past Grand
Counselor M. J. Howarn, of Detroit,
who has it in hand, says it will be
ready for presentation at that time.

A committee was appointed to pro-
cure flowers and deliver to Past Grand
Counselor F. J. Moutier, who is con-
fined by sickness to his home in De-
troit.

The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year:

 

Grand Counselor—W, T. Ballamy,
Bay City.

Grand Counselor—C. C.  Start-
weather, Detroit.

Grand Past Counselor—John A.
Hach, Coldwater.

Grand Secretary—M. Heuman, of
Jackson.

Grand Treasurer—Lou J. Burch,
Detroit.

Grand Conductor—H. D. Ranney,
Saginaw.

Grand Sentinel—H. D._ Bullen,

Lansing.

F. W. Wilson, of Traverse City and
E. A. Dibble, members of the Grand
Executive Committee, were re-elected
to succeed themselves.

W. M. Kelley. of Jackson, and H.
R. Bradfield, of Grand Rapids, the

other two members of the Committee,

carry cver for another year.

After the installation of officers,
which ceremony was conducted by
Past Grand Counselor Howarn, of
Detroit, W. T. Ballamy, as the new
Grand Counselor, was handed the
eavel and made appointments for the
coming year as follows:

Grand District Deputies—A. N.
Borden, Grand Rapids; T. H. Hanlon,
Jackson.

Grand Chaplain—J. H. Belknap, Bay
City.

Grand Legislative Committee—John

Clark, Saginaw; W. J. Devereaux,
Port Huron: M. J. Howarn, Detroit.
Railroad Committee—H. Henry,

George FE. Kelly,, Kalamazoo; F.
Bramer, Saginaw.

Hotel, Bus and Baggage Commit-
tee—W. L. McManus, Jr., Petoskey;
M. H. Stiner, Muskegon; C. C. De-
France, Kalamazoo.

Invitations were extended for 1919
convention from Kalamazoo, Battle
Creek and Flint, but the selecting of
a place for next year was left with the
Grand Econ Committee.

C. W. Bosworth, who is a member
of Grand Rapids Council, took the
floor in the interest of the Hotel Com-
mittee of the U. C, T. in having a
hotel inspector for Michigan. A reso-
lution was then introduced that the
incoming Legislative Committee of
the U. C. T. co-operate with the Leg-
islature and the hotel men and bring
about closer relations between them
all.

A number of very beautiful silver
medals in commemoration of the Sil-
ver or twenty-fifth session of the
Michigan Grand Council were award-
ed one to each council in the Michi-
gan Grand Jurisdiction to the mem-
ber securing the largest number of
new members during the year, and
the following members from the dif-
ferent towns were the recipients: C.
R. Buchanan, Flint; H. D. Ranney,
Saginaw: W. T. Ballamy, Bay City;
N. T. Eddy. Jackson; C. W. Chappel,
Hillsdale: L. V. Pilkington, Grana
Rapids: M. F. Reed, Cadillac Council,
Detroit: Newton Root, Kalamazoo;
C. A. Skelton, Marquette: C. B. Whip-
vle, Battle Creek; B. J. Warner, Lans-
ing; E. C. Below, Traverse City; H.
Focte, Muskegon; C. W. Carpenter,
Adrian; James B. Rice, Coldwater:
M. Marx, Port Huron; Owosso, Pe-
toskey and Detroit Councils could not
decide to whom the medal should be
awarded and will report later.

The election of delegates to the
Supreme Council meeting in Colum-
bus June 25 to 30, resulted as follows:
W. T. Ballamy, Bay City; John A.
Hach, Coldwater; M. G. Howarn, De-
troit; John D. Martin, Grand Rapids;
E. A. Welsh, Kalamazoo; A. G. Mac-
Eacheron, Detroit; and F. L. Day of
Jackson; alternates: Sam Rindskoff,
Detroit; M. Heuman, Jackson; W. S.
Lawton, Grand Rapids; M. J. Moore,
Jackson; F. J. Moutier, Detroit; W.
S. Burns, Grand Rapids; J... W.
Schram, Detroit.

Having served for three consecu-
tive years as Grand Secretary, the
title of Past Grand Counselor was
conferred upon Morris Heuman, of
Jackson, and a Past Grand Coun-
selor’s jewel and cap were presented
to him. From the fact that Past
Grand Counselor Moutier, of Detroit,
was unable to attend through sick-
ness, the jewel and cap were sent to
him in the care of Sam Rindskoff.

The following telegram was order-
ed sent to the President by the Grand
Secretary:

“Hon. Woodrow Wilson, Presi-
dent of the United States, Washing-
ton, D. C. The Grand Council of
Michigan, now in session, desires at
this time to extend to you every avail-
able effort on our part to aid and as-
sist you and your administration in
vour difficult task in bringing world-
wide Democracy to a successful con-
clusion. Maurice Heuman, Grand
Secretary.”

The following resolution was offer-
ed by Lou Burch, of Detroit, and
unanimously adopted:

\s it has nsually been the custom
to spend considerable money for the
entertainment of the Grand Council
delegates and friends attending these
meetings, and in view of the resolu-
ion that was adopted last vear, that
owine to the war in progress and
which may continue for some time to
come. the U. C. T. adept all recom-
mendations for conservation of both
money and food stuffs. all festivities,
decorations, parades, ball games be
eJi-minated from this session.

The total expenditure of money.
outside ef the actual delegates’ hotel
and railroad feres, was less than £50
for this meeting. The Grand Coun-
cil has been in the habit of giving
$1.100 to the council entertaining this
convention, to be used as they have
seen fit. Instead a resolution was
adopted for the purchase of $1,009
worth of War Savings Stamps and
the presentation to the Red Cross
war fund of $500.

At 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon a
meeting was called of Absal Guild,
\ncient Mystic Order of Bagmen or
3agdad, Great Ruler Walter S. Law-
ton presiding. Immediately after the
opening ceremonies, word was sent
to the outside gate keeper that all
was in readiness to conduct over the
hot sands the bunch of faithfuls of
Jackson Council who had assembled
at that time for the organization of a
Guild of Bagmen, and working under
the authority of the Imperial Guild,
the officers and members of Absal
Guild of Grand Rapids, many of whom
were delegates to the meeting of the
Grand Council, stayed over Saturday
afternoon to do this work for the
Jackson boys, and a class was brought
in of about fifty. The name selected
for the guild was “Nama” and the
following officers were elected:

Great Ruler—A. H. Brower.

Viceroy—Frank W. Howard.

Prime Minister—S. D. Lewis.

Master of Ceremonies—F. A. Ald-
rich.

Chief of Guides—N. T. Eddy.

Captain of Guards—T. J. Hanlon.

Califf—E. D. Sickles.

Clerk of Records and Revenues—
M. Heuman.

Inside Gate Keeper—E. G. Tomp-
kins,

Outside Gate Keeper—W. Light-
heart.

Before Great Ruler W. S. Lawton
gave up the gavel to Great Ruler A.

H. Brower of Nama Guild, what look-
ed at the start as a very serious mat-
ter wound up with an expression of
good will and fellowship of one of the
members of Absal Guild of Grand
Rapids. W. S. Sawyer asked for the
personal privilege of the floor and in
a very serious voice and expression
of face went on to tell how one of the
boys from Grand Rapids had _for-
gotten some of the promises he made
his good wife at home in the purchase
of neckties, and befcre the Judge Ad-
vocate he pleaded guilty to the of-
fence and threw himself on the court
for mercy. Immediately a number of
the members were on their feet, de-
manding the name of the one accus-

ed, and behold! it was Past Great
Ruler Homer R. Bradfield. Great
Ruler Lawton ordered the culprit

brought befcre him and demanded of
Prince John D, Martin the findings
of the court. Again it looked like a
serious matter, but at the windup a
box was presented to Prince Brad-
held of a beautiful silk tie with the
stripes running diagonally and not
around. Down in the corner of the
box was also tucked away a very
beautiful little vanity make-up box
and a handsomely engraved card with
the words, “Loving memories from
the gang.’

The Grand Rapids boys returned
home Saturday evening. Although
admitting that the number in attend-
ance at this Grand Council meeting
was not as large as in former years,
vet what the meeting may have lacked
in numerical strength, was made up
by the expressions of good fellowship
to one ancther and the resolutions
of loyalty to our Government which
were adopted during the session of
this Grand Council.

John D. Martin.

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Amount of Wool Available.

A number of minor questions,
growing out of the Government’s
taking over wool supplies, are being
gradually thrashed out. Most of
them arise from the perfectly natural
desire on the part of the wool deal-
ers to stay in business. Many were
inclined at the outset to believe that
the margin allowed them for handling
the article was too small to permit of
a profit. With regard to woolen fab-
rics, the contention that there was
not enough machinery to provide for
civilian needs after military require-
ments had been met seems to have
been abandoned. Instead of th’s
more stress is now laid on the al-
leged scarcity of the raw material, and
it is for this reason that garment
manufacturers are urged to use mcre
manipulated fabrics. How much wool
is to be released for civilian purposes
does not yet appear, but it will be
considerable in view of the supply on
hand, or in sight. For the first five
months of this year about 350,000 000
pounds of wool, as near as can be as-
certained, have been consumed in do-
mestic mills. It seems hardly like-
ly that as much as 40 per cent. of this
was for military uses, but, allowing
that much, over 200,000,000 pounds
were available for other fabrics. What
became of that material? And how
much more wool can be used by 2,-
000.000 or so of men in military serv-
ice?

——~-..____
Send Along the Other Three.
Mears, June 10—‘‘Whyinhell” don't
you show a little consideration for
vour friends, readers and subscribers?
It makes me feel like a piker to send

only two forlorn bucks for a paper.

werth $5 to any progressive merchant
like myself. C. A. Brubaker,

Erstwhile known as the Chronic
Kicker.

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Street Railways Perform an Essential Part in the

Nation’s War Program

We Transport the Workmen Work-
ing on War Orders.

Their Use and Necessity Recognized by the Federal Authorities

McAdoo Asks States and Municipalities to Permit Rate
Increases to Meet War Conditions

McAdoo’s Appeal

Copies of the correspondence between the President and Mr. McAdoo have
been made public. The Secretary’s letter to the President follows:

February 15, 1918.

Dear Mr. President: I beg to hand you herewith several memoranda and
letters relating to street railways and other local public utilities furnishing
light, heat and power, which I have been asked to bring to your attention by a
committee representing public utility interests.

These papers indicate the existence of genuine apprehension regarding the
adequacy, under present conditions, of the services and rates of local public utili-
ties, The view is expressed that increased wages and the high cost of essential
materials and supplies have affected them as they have affected tverybody else,
and that united effort will be necessary in order to meet alike the public require-
ments for service and the corporate financial needs upon which that service
depends.

As Secretary of the Treasury, I must take official notice of these matters.
It is obvious that every part of our industrial and economic life should be
maintained at its maximum strength in order that each may contribute in the
fullest measure to the vigorous prosecution of the war. Our local public util-
ities must not be permitted to become weakened. TRANSPORTATION OF
WORKERS TO AND FROM OUR VITAL INDUSTRIES AND THE
HEALTH AND COMFORT OF OUR CITIZENS IN THEIR HOMES ARE
DEPENDENT UPON THEM, and the necessary power to drive many of
eur war industries and many other industries essential to the war is produced
by them. It may be that here and there, because of the prominence given to
less important interests immediately at hand, State and local authorities do not
always appreciate the close connection between the soundness and efficiency of
the local utilities and the national strength and vigor, and do not resort with
sufficient promptness to the call for remedial measures. In such cases, I am
confident that all such State and local authorities will respond promptly to the
national needs when the matter is fairly and properly brought before them

OUR PUBLIC SERVICE UTILITIES ARE CLOSELY CONNECTED

WITH AND ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF OUR PREPARATIONS
FOR AND SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION OF THE WAR, AND THE

UNFAVORABLE TENDENCIES WHICH THE ACCOMPANYING PA-
PERS REVEAL MAY MOST EFFECTIVELY BE CHECKED, WHEREVER

THEY MAY BE FOUND TO EXIST, AND THE NEEDED RELIEF
OBTAINED ONLY BY PROMPT ACTION ON THE PART OF THE

RESPECTIVE LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

I earnestly hope that you may feel justified in expressing the conviction
that the vital part which the public utilities companies represent in the life
and warmaking energy of the nation ought to receive fair and just recognition
by State and local authorities.

Cordially yours,
(Signed) W. G.
The President, the White House.

McADOO.

 

President Approves It

Declares It Is Essential That All Utilities Be Maintained at Maximum Effic'ency

Here is the President’s reply:
The White House, Washington.

February 19, 1918.

My Dear Mr. Secretary: I have examined with care the memoranda and
letters which you transmitted to me with your letter of the fifteenth. I fully
share the views you express regarding the importance of the public service
utilities as a part of our national equipment. especially in wartime. IT IS
ESSENTIAL THAT THESE UTILITIES SHOULD BE MAINTAINED
AT THEIR MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY AND THAT EVERYTHING
REASONABLY POSSIBLE SHOULD BE DONE WITH THAT END IN

VIEW. I HOPE THAT STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES, WHERE
THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO, WILL WHEN THE FACTS
ae PROPERLY LAID BEFORE THEM RESPOND PROMPTLY TO

TH NECESSITIES OF THE SITUATION.

I shall be glad to have you communicate with the local authorities when-
ever the information in your possession suggests that such a course is desirable
and in the national interests.

Cordially yours,
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.

Hon. William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury.

 

The Comptroller of the Currency
In his annual report to Congress refers particularly to the Public Utilities fur-
nishing Electric and Ges Service and operating Electric Railways and calls atten-
tion to the vital part they play in the Naticn’s War Program.
(Excerpt from Annual Revort of Hon. John Skelton Williams,
Comptroller of the Currency
MAINTENANCE OF EFFICIENCY AND CREDIT OF PUBLIC UTILITY
COMPANIES ESSENTIAL
National and State Banks, and many thousands of small and large investors,
have suffered seriously from the decline of the earning capacity of public utility
corporations and the consequent shrinkage in the value of their securities, repre-
senting investments of many hundred millions of dollars. Their losses naturally
diminish the power and disposition of the public to respond to the calls of the
Yovernment for money for war. This danger should arouse, I venture to suggest,
the anxiety and stimulate the efforts of the Congress and of every patriotic
citizen. A more urgent and pressing peril is forced upon our attention by the
obvious fact that we are dependent so largely on the efficiency and strength of
these corporations and on our railroads for speed and success in preparing for
and prosecuting the war.

The corporations referred to supply light, heat, power and electric railway
transportation for passengers and freight. They touch intimately the daily life
of the people. In normal times they have been favorite targets for sneers and
savage criticism from large parts of the public and the press. In some instances,
doubtless, they have deserved and invited hostility. In others, the attacks upon
them probably have been unjust and unreasonable. Frequently they have been
the victims of beneficiaries of local politics, suffering injury in the end in either
ease. Yet, generally, they were able to serve the needs of their communities with
reasonable efficiency and to earn fair returns on the money invested in them.
Now they are threatened with ruin. If they are allowed to sink into inefficiency,
much of the most important war work of the Government will be crippled or
paralyzed.

THE WORK OF THE WAR HAS THROWN UPON MANY OF THESE COR-
PORATIONS STRAINS WHICH THEY ARE UNABLE TO ENDURE WITHOUT
PROMPT HELP. THE COSTS OF THEIR LABOR AND OF ALL MATERIALS
FOR OPERATION, BETTERMENT, AND UPKEEP HAVE INCREASED
HEAVILY AND SUDDENLY. They are required to increase radically and quickly
their service and facilities. Industries manufacturing war munitions and materials
demand of the public utilities corporations constantly greater supplies of power
and light. At the industrial centers, car lines are being rushed and overburdened
by new armies of workers. The gas companies are called upon for gas fer cooking
and heating in quantities beyond all normal caleulations and far beyond their
present capacities. They are urged continually to furnish more coke and coal
by-products, tuluol, and other elements absolutely essential in modern warfare.
Where cantonments have been established, the demands on the resources of
water, lighting, and transportation companies are especially severe; ability to
comply with such demands is necessary for the safety and comfort of the fighting
men in training.

A committee representing the four leading associations, which include all the
principal electric light and power companies, street railway companies, and the
most important gas companies of the country, recently submitted to this office
a report in which attention was asked to the increase within the last two years
in the cost of materials they must use for the maintenance of their properties.
They gave a list of percentages of additional cost, showing among others the
following items: ‘

INCREASE FROM 1915 TO 1917

 

Gipper Wire oe. 180% Castes, malleable 2. ........6. 5 198%
MWe, | (CRSUSIOM 6. ee ee co 100% Copper, base and sheet .......... 147%
Axles a Bead, pig and sheet ...,......... 27%
Acid ee ee 110%
Bras | ee ee 400%
Ca MIG PIAUES | ee eas 270%

The continued and increasing efficiency of these
for the successful conduct of the war. This efficiency is not possible with present
conditions. Corporations proved by their own figures to be approaching bank-
ruptey can not obtain money for improvements or maintenance. On the other
hand, banks and citizens suffering severe losses from investments in the securities
of these entirely legitimate and once promising enterprises will be discouraged
from lending money to the Government or deprived of the means to lend.

THE FIRST AND MOST DIRECT RELIEF TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES
CORPORATIONS CAN BE GIVEN BY THE STATE PUBLIC UTILITIES COM-
MISSIONS AND MUNICIPAL AND i ‘AL, AUTHORITIES, WITH THE
BROAD-MINDED CO-OPERATION OF THE PEOPLE GENERALLY, UNDER-
STANDING THE NECESSITIES OF WAR AND REALIZING THAT THE MORE
PROMPTLY ITS BURDENS ARE ACCEPTED THE SOONER THEY WILL BE
LIFTED. It is essential that forbearance and consideration be exercised by
the State Commissions and municipal authorities, and that the corporations
also be permitted to make such additions to their charges for service as will
keep in them the breath of solvency, protect their owners against unjust loss,
and give them a basis of credit on which they may obtain the funds with which
to meet the strain put on them by the Government’s needs. THE BREAKING
CLOWN OF THESE CORPORATIONS WOULD BE A NATIONAL CALAMITY.

Because of the gravity of the situation in this regard, I am moved to ask for
it the careful attention of the Congress and the public. I am impressed with
the importance of early consideration by the Congress and of some measure to
provide directly or indirectly for advance of funds on some conservative basis
to such of these corporations as need help most urgently, so that they can give
adequate service to the Government. The remedy would be unusual; but the
times are unusual.

The amount of railroad and other public service bonds owned by the Na-
tional Banks June 30, 1917, was reported at $763,000,000. This is equal to ap-
proximately 70 per cent. of the capital stock of the banks.

With appropriate aid from the Government through the Congress; with
liberal recognition by local autherities of the present acute conditions, and with
some practical provision to enable the corporations to meet their own needs and
those of the country, the danger now pressing and becoming more serious with
each day will be removed, the general business interests of the country will be
fostered, the ability and readiness of the public to respond to calls for money
will be maintained, and urgent requirements for the defense of the country’s
life and assurance of our freedom and peace will. be met.

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War Finance Corporation Issues Statement

The directors of the War Finance Corporation, the new corporation recently
created by Congress with authority to issue $3,500,000,000 of stocks and bonds for
the purpose of aiding industries essential to the war, have issued the following
statement:

“The directors of the War Finance Corporation have under consideration ap-
plications from many public service corporations doing business in various sec-
tions of the country for loans aggregating a large amount.

“The directors of the War Finance Corporation do not feel that they have
any authority under the law to make loans except upon adequate security as
required by the Act, and they are convinced that the inability of a utility com-
pany to earn a sum at least sufficient to pay its fixed charges, taxes, maintenance
and repairs is conclusive evidence of the inadequacy of its own obligation as
security. The directors of the Corporation feel that the localities served by these
various public utility enterprises should not expect the War Finance Corporation
to make advances to any utility company whose statement shows that it is in
actual need of increased revenue. It is a matter for the local authorities to
determine whether or not an increase in rates, sufficient to maintain the enter-
prise as a going concern, should be granted. It is urged, therefore, that the
proper authorities give prompt consideration to applications made by public
utilities for permission to increase rates, in order that the directors of the War
Finance Corporation may know, when -applications for loans are presented by
public utility corporations, whether or not they will be able to give adequate
security.”

THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS AND UTILIZES OUR SERVICE

Grand Rapids Railway Company
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Movements of Merchants.

Sault Ste. Marie—Fred Bye has en-
gaged in the meat business at 111
Spruce street.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Style Shop

has increased its capitalization from
$10,000 to $25,000.
Muskegon—The Muskegon Utilities

Co, has increased its capital stock from
$25,000 to $100,000.

Six Lakes—Charles Cosselman has
sold his general stock to the Universal
Stores Corporation.

Nashville—G. A. Truman, the pioneer
merchant of this town, celebrated his
81st birthday last week.

Crystal—W. O. Rippey has purchased
the Lakeside hotel of B. F. Smith and
will continue the business.

Saulte Ste. Marie—James Mollnaro
has opened a delicatessen and fancy
grocery store at 305 Ashmun street.

Holland—Peter Boot, pioneer grocer
of West Eighth street, is closing out
his stock and will retire from business.

Manistee—A. R. Baumann has sold
his meat stock and store fixtures to
Whiliam Hoops, who has taken posses-
sion.

Coldwater—E. E. Preston and Ray
Disbro have formed a _ copartnership
and opened a cigar factory at 217 Race
street.

Hillsdale—Isaiah Cunningham, fuel
and grain dealer, died at his home June
6, as the result of an attack of heart
disease.

Custer—C. G. Franz has sold his store
building, grocery stock and meat mar-
ket to E. A. Brayman, who has taken
possession.

Hart—W. F. Lyon, who has _ been
closing out his furniture stock prepara-
tory to retiring, has concluded to con-
tinue in business.

Jackson—J. T. Fagan has purchased
the Ruhl hotel, of Charles Sarvis. Mr.
Fagan has been clerk at the hotel for
the past seven years.

Allegan—Thomas DeMack, recently
of Mishawaka, Ind., has assumed the
management of the Atlantic & Pacific
tea, coffee and spice store.

Olivet—Mrs. Barbara Mead _ has
sold her millinery stock and _ store
fixtures to Mrs. Elizabeth Gage, who
will continue the business.

Hancock—J. Ehler & Co. are closing
out their shoe stock and will retire
from trade. The business was estab-
lished over half a century ago.

Berrien Springs—William Abbott has
sold his restaurant, cigar stand and
rooming house to Ernest M. Jones, of
Coloma, who will continue the business.

Port Huron—The Cochrane Dry
Goods Co. has incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $20,000,
2ll of which has been subscribed and
$9,000 paid in in cash.

Honor—Frank Conklin has sold his
hardware stock to R. A. Conklin, who
has closed his hardware store at Ben-
don and removed the stock here.

Mendon—J. C. Cooper, of Blooming-
dale, has purchased the Wakeman
House and will continue the business,
remodeling and redecorating the in-
terior.

Port Iluron—Gecrge Thompson has
sold his undertaking stock and store
fixtures to A, W. McNinch, recently
of Sandusky, who took immediate pos-
session,

Muskegon—Anton Harnau has open-
ed an ice cream parlor and confection-
ary store at the corner of Pine and
Apple streets, under the style of the
Pineapple.

Vassar—The Henry Price Clothing
Co. has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash,

Battle Creek—Smith & Large have
sold their meat and grocery stock, at
633 Lake avenue, to Carl J. Hollinger,
who will continue the business at the
same location.

Charlevoix—The Box Island Fishing
Co. has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $25,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in property.

Graafschap—J. W. Merton, of Chi-
cago, has purchased the cement block
garage of Nyland & Nash and will con-
tinue the business under the style of
the Wayside Garage.

Lansing—Boyd R. Small, dealer in
clothing, men’s furnishing goods and
hats, at 107 East Michigan avenue, is
closing out his stock, preparatory to
retiring from business.

Coldwater—Harris & Shattuck, un-
dertakers, have dissolved nartnership
and the business will be continued by
R. J. Shattuck, who has taken over the
interest of his partner.

Alma—A. R. Smith, shoe dealer on
East Superior street, is remodeling and
enlarging his store building. Frank F.
Smith has a stock of phonographs and
records in the rear of the store.

 

Battle Creek—John D. Gleason has
sold his bakery at Urbandale to J.
W. Kimble, who conducted a bakery
at Olivet for the past five years and
has now removed it to Urbandale.

Lansing—F. J. Pierce has established
two new grocery stores, one at 415 West
Maple street ad one at 809 West Kala-
mazoo street, making the ninth store
in the chain conducted by Mr. Pierce.

Greenville—F. A. Boelio, of the
Furniture Exchange, who has been
very sick with pleuro pneumonia for
the past six weeks, is slowly improv-
ing and hopes to be back in the store
before long,

Detroit—The Sultan Auto Parts &
Radiator Co. has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, of which amount $6,610 has
been subscribed and paid in, $750 in
cash and $5,860 in property.

Detroit—D. E. Perrin, druggist at
1004 Fourteenth avenue, has merged
his business into a stock company
with an authorized capital stock of
$20,000, of which amount $16,700 has
been subscribed, $1,000 paid in in cash
and $13,500 in property.

Olivet—George Morris, proprietor of
the Sanitary meat market, purchased the
grocery stock of Charles Montague and
has combined the two stocks. He has
sold an interest in the business to H.
C. Cranston and E. W. Belcher, both
of Lansing and will continue the busi-
ness under the style of the Sanitary
Grocery & Meat Market.

Saginaw—Joseph M. Schrems has en-
gaged in the plumbing and heating busi-
ness at 905 Lapeer avenue, introducing
the new fabricated system which pro-
vides for the cutting of parts according
to standardized dimensions and then
assembling them where needed. The
system is used in the construction of
garages, heating plants, houses, etc.

Lansing—Sam Beck, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Louis Beck Clothing
Co. since the death of his father, eight
years ago, left June 10 for the New
York navy yards, where he will enter
service as a navy storekeeper. Mr.
Beck is a graduate of the Lansing high
school in the class of 1908, has taken
one year’s work at M. A. C. and is a
member of the Lansing Elks.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Frazer Paint Co. has
increased its capital stcck from $40,-
000 to $50,000.

Escanaba—The Escanaba Brewing
Co. has changed its name to the Esca-
naba Beverage Co.

Detroit—The Peninsula Cigar Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$15.000 to $50000.

Port Huron—The American Machine
Corporation has increased its capital-
ization from $200,000 to $400,000.

Adrian—The Economy Drawing Ta-
ble & Manufacturing Co. has increased
its capital stock from $75 000 to $150,000.

Saginaw—The FE. A. Robertson Co.,
manufacturers of shirt waists, has in-
creased its capital stock from $25,000
to $100,000.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Malleable
Tron Co. will double the size of its plant
and increase its capitalization from
$500,000 to $750,000.

Detroit—The Lalley Electric Shifter
Co. has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $25,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid in,
$1,000 in cash and $24,000 in property.

Detroit—The Detroit Belting &
Rubber Co. has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, cf which amount $5,000 has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Saginaw—The Berst Manufacturing
Co. will reopen its plant which was aban-
doned several months ago when it re-
moved to Minnesota to be nearer its
supply of raw material. The company

manufactures wooden novelties.
Detroit—The Komel Co. has been in-
corporated to manufacture and sell non-

alocoholic beverages, ice, carbonic gas
and yeast, with an authorized capital
stock of $20,000, all of which has been
subscribed and $10,000 paid in in cash.

Traverse City—The Reliance Manu-
facturing Co., largest maker of shirts
in the world, has taken over the local
plant of the Jackson Skirt & Novelty
Co. which has been closed for several
months and will double the capacity
and open it at once.

Battle Creek—Charles T. Lee, sales
manager for the Kellogg Toasted
Corn Flake Co., has resicned to ac-

cept a position as sales and advertis- '

ing manager of the recently formed
condensed mk combine which ab-
sorbed the Wildi, Hires and Nestles
concerns, and is to be capitalized at
$12,000,000. He is succeeded at Bat-
tle Creek by James O’Brien, lately
New York sales manager for the Kel-
logg Co., and formerly in charge of
the company’s Boston office, previ-
ously to which he was a district man-
ager, for the Shredded Wheat Co.
Mr. O’Brien’s manager in New York
is not yet announced.
—__--.___—
Waded Through on Stilts.

“In the restaurant where I some-
times dine,” remarked Art Borden
the other day. “I ordered last night
chicken soup, and when the waiter
brought same he spilled some of it
on my coat.

“T looked up at him reprovingly,
but only to find him looking down at
me smilingly, quite reassuringly.

“Tt will do no hurt,’ he said; ‘it is
only water.’

“I found the waiter’s diagnosis to
be quite correct; when the soup had
dried out of my coat it left no mark.

“It reminded me of a little story
told by William E. Sawyer. In this
case there were two men eating to-
gether in a restaurant and both had
ordered chicken soup, When one man
had tasted his he said:

“Pll bet the nearest any chicken
ever came to this soup was to wade
through it.’ .

““Humph!’ said the other man. ‘If
any chicken ever waded through this
soup it was on stilts.’

“The chicken soup I got last night
was that kind.”

——_++.—____
Keeping the Records of Your Stock.

There is no line of merchandise
more difficult to keep accurately re-
corded than shoes, and yet, with the
proper system, the problem becomes
simple enough.

Your system
these things:

Keep an accurate record of stock,
providing a perpetual inventory.

Serve as an infallible check on ship-
per and receiving departments.

should accomplish

Show sales, returns, mark-downs,
and average percentage of mark-
down on every line in stock.

Give at the close of each day a com-
plete record of business.

Check up your clerks, prevent mis-
takes in price, make it easy to detect
theft.

Tell at a glance the condition of
any lot of goods in stock, enabling
you to fill in or to reduce as deemed
wise,

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Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.
Asparagus—Home grown, $1 per
doz.
sananas—$7 per 100 lbs.

Beets—New Florida, $1 per doz.
bunches.
Butter—The market is. firm, with

quotations the same as last week. There
is a slight increase in the receipts and
a good consumptive demand. The aver-
age quality is showing a great improve-
ment. There is some butter going into
the warehouses at this time. Continued
good trading is looked for in the im-
mediate future, and quotations will prob-
ably hold about the same. There is a
particularly good demand for medium
grades. Local dealers hold extra fancy
creamery at 41c for fresh. They pay
35c for No. 1 dairy in jars; they also
pay 28c for packing stock.

Cabbage — Mississippi,
crate for large size and $2
ium.

Cantaloupes—California Standards,
$6.50 per crate; ponies, $6 per crate.

Carrots—90c per doz, bunches.

$3.50 per
50 for med-

Cherries—The sour cherry crop is
a great surprise and disappointment.
It will be only about 25 per cent. of
an average crop. The trees apparent-
ly came through the long, cold win-
ter in good shape. They leaved out
nicely and were full of blossoms. The
weather at blossoming time was ideal,
but fur some reason which the grow-
ers are unable to fathom, the yield is
light-probably due to injury to the
trees by the extremely cold weather
last winter.

Cucumbers—$2.35 per
doz. Kankakee.

Eggs—The market is very firm, due
to a scarcity of strictly fancy eggs, the
average receipts showing considerable
heat. There is a fair supply of the
poorer grades of eggs. The market has
advanced about 1c per dozen over last
week, and a continued firm market on
the finest eggs is looked for. There
are still some eggs going into the cool-
ers at this time. Local dealers pay 31c
to-day, cases included, delivered in
Grand Rapids.

Figs—12 10 oz. packages, $1.60.

Grape Fruit—$4@5.50 per box for
all sizes Floridas.

Green Onions—18c per doz. for
home grown.

Green Peas—$3 per bu. for Florida.

Green Peppers—75c per basket for
Southern grown.

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

Lemons—California selling at $10
for choice and $10.50 for fancy.

Lettuce—7c per Ib. for garden
grown; $2.75 per hamper for New
York head; Iceberg, $5.50 per crate.

box for 2

Maple
pure.

Mushrooms—75c per Ib.

Nuts—Almonds, 21c per Ib., filberts,
20c for Grenoble; Brazils, 18c; Mix-
ed nuts, 16%c.

Onions—Texas Bermudas, $1.60 per
crate for yellow and $2.25 per crate
for white.

Oranges — California
57.50@8 per box.

Pieplant—$1 per bu.

Pineapples—$3.50 for 42s; $4 for
24s, 30s and 36s.

Plants—Tomato and Cabbage, 90c
per box; Peppers, Cauliflower and
Salvia, $1.25; Geranium, $1.50@1.75.

Potatoes—Country buyers are pay-
ing 65@75c per 100 lbs. New are now
in market, commanding $3.50 per 100
Ibs. for Florida.

Syrup—$2.35 per gal. for

Valencias,

Radishes—15c per doz, for home
grown hot house.
Seeds—Timothy, $9 per 100 Ibs;

Medium Clover, $32; Dakota Alfalfa,
$23; Montana Alfalfa, $26; Alsike, $26.
Seed Beans—Navy, $9; Red Kid-

ney, $9; Brown Swedish, $7.

Seed Potatoes—Early Ohio, 2c per
Ib.

Spinach—75c per bu. for home
grown.

Strawberries—Home grown range

from $1.75@2.50 per 16 qt. crate.

Tomatoes—Floridas, $7.50 per 6
basket crate; Texas, $3.50 per 4 bas-
ket crate.

Water Melons—60@7
Florida.

Wax Beans—Florida
mands $1.75 per basket.
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The Grocery Market,
Sugar—The market is unchanged for
the week, both raws and refined being
quoted on the same basis as for many
months past. Many refiners are over-
sold, and there is, therefore, some dif-
ficulty in filling orders, but everything
considered, there is plenty of sugar.
The consumptive demand is good. There
is considerable reason to expect an ad-
vance in the price of refined sugar
almost any time. Refiners claim to be
making no money on account of the
very large increase in the cost of labor,
and they are at the Government all the
time to allow them a larger selling price.
Indications are that they may be suc-

cessful very shortly.

Tea—The principal topic of inter-
est in the tea trade is the impending
radical change in overland freight
rates and its possible effects upon the
market. While the cost of laying
down tea here by way of the Pacific
Coast and transcontinental rail lines
will be materially increased after
June 25, when the change of rail
freight rates takes effect, the fact ap-

5¢e apiece for

stock com-

pears to have been without influence
upon demand for spot teas from the
interior, and prices have not as yet
been quotably affected.

Coffee—The market for Rio and San-
tos grades is very weak and very un-
satisfactory from the staindpoint of the
seller who has stock on hand. All
grades of Rio and Santos are a shade
lower for the week. The reason for
the weakness is that the Government
has practically cut the freight rates in
two from Brazil up here, which would
really warrant a decline of a cent a
pound, but probably no such decline as
that will occur, as Brazil will hold the
market up. There are about a million
bags of coffee on the way to this coun-
try, which is very much larger than the
usual stock afloat. In view of these
conditions nobody is buying anything
that he doesn’t have to have at the
moment. It looks now as if prices on
all Brazil coffees would be lower in a
short time. Milds are steady and un-
changed, not having been affected as
yet by the Brazil situation. Java and
Mocha are practically out of it.

Canned Fruit—Offerings continue
very light and in general the market
is firm with one or two exceptions.

Canned Vegetables—The market
continues unchanged for any of the
items on which prices have been nam-
ed for future delivery and there is
very little offering on the spot.

Canned Fish—Tuna prices have as
yet not been named, Salmon is un-
changed, but very high. Eastern
firms are complaining because salmon
which they had bought, and which is
now loaded on cars in the West, can-
not be brought on here on account of
the refusal of the Transportation
Committee to give them a permit.
The committee’s reason is the present
heavy freight congestion, but the
Eastern owners of these goods point
out that the congestion ought to be
removed by the time the goods get
in. However, in many cases this has
had no effect. Sardines show no
change.

Dried Fruits—Out of the uncertain-
ty and tangle of new complications
which have beset the dried fruit trade
thus far this season there seems now
to be a definite programme to be
worked out. Had old methods been
permitted to continue complications
would have been still greater, because
future sales made long before the
crop can be estimated and
prices are made would have carried

before

with them a large element of specula-
tion and_ speculation is
the blacklist. It

matter to change
customs all in a moment, and
so the Administration simply post-
poned the whole problem until the
way would seem clearer. Thus, there
was the original date of May 1 set
for trading in futures, but as that time
approached it was still far from being
settled. Hence, there was the further
postponement to June 1. Then it be-
came apparent that the logical prop-
osition would be to wait until the
crop itself was more clearly defined.
Finally came the proposition that if
prices could be worked out at the
same time the whole situation would
be cleared up. It became necessary

now on
difficult
these _ trade

was a

5

to secure the co-operation of the
growers to this end, and they have
responded patriotically, so that the
conferences now being held will prob-
ably offer a complete solution to the
whole problem and by July 15 it will
be possible to market the dried fruit
crop on a definite basis, eliminating
uncertainty and speculation.

Corn Syrup—Producers are kept
well sold ahead and orders are book-
ed subject to prices prevailing at time
of delivery.

Sugar Syrups—While awaiting the
results of the conference of the trade
committee with the Food Administra-
ticn in reference to the fixing of prices
bus‘ness is practically suspended.

Mclasses—Nothing new has come
to the surface, business being of the
usual routine character with
firm and unchanged.

prices

Cheese—The market on old cheese is
very firm, most of the fancy old goods
having been sold at this writing. The
market on new cheese is very firm, with
quotations about “ec higher than prev-
ious quotations, due to a heavy export
demand and a falling off in the receipts.
The average receipts of cheese show
considerable improvement over a week
Some coming in
We look for

or two ago. makes
show full flavor.
a continued firm market.

grass

fallen out
and at the
weakest
with the possible exception

Beans—The bottom has
of the

writing

market present

beans are the food
product,
of coffee. Pea beans have dropped
to around 10 cents a pound, which is
3c from the highest
Marrows are

a decline of over
point.
for the week and California limas are

abcut 1c lower

now quoted below 13c in a large way.
The sole cause of the weakness ap-
Bears
are among the slowest sellers at the
present time. Instead of exhausting
the spot stock before the new crop
could be gathered, as was expected,
it looks now as if there would be a
unless the demand im-
proves. Green and Scotch peas un-
changed and quiet.

pears to be lack of demand.

carry-over,

Provisions—The market on smoked
meats is steady, with quotations rang-
ing about the same as last week. There
is a good local demand and a moderate
supply. The market on lard is steady,
unchanged quotations, with a fair
supply and a consumptive
demand. The market on_ barreled
pork is steady, with a light consumptive
demand and fair supply. The market on
dried beef is very firm, quotations hav-
ing advanced about %@llc per pound
over last week, due to a very light sup-
ply and a good consumptive demand.
The market on canned meats is very
firm, quotations slightly higher than
previous ones, with a fair supply and a
good consumptive demand.

Salt Fish—The market for mackerel
of all grades is firm, with continued
high prices.

—_2+>____

Joseph J. Frost has sold his grocery
stock at 571 Division avenue, South, to
Beatrice Buell, who will continue the

business at the same location.
— oo

The Michigan Process Coal Co. has
increased its capital stock from $35,000
to $50,000,

good

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

June 12, 1918

 

WHAT OUR SOLDIERS EAT.

The Tradesman is pleased to pre-
sent to its readers through the cour-
tesy of the War Department and
Camp Custer a sample menu served
consecutive
As the menus submit-
ted were prepared and served about
two weeks before the request for same
was received by the Tradesman, there

our soldiers for seven

days in May.

is, of course, no question about their
being an average index of the food
our recruits are doing so well cn.

In the army, as in other walks of
life, there has been recently consider-
able discussion as to rations, as to
the quantity of fats, proteins, carbo-
hydrates, calories, and what-not, nec-
essary to make an American boy most
effectively fight the ‘Germans. This
is the culmination of a Nation-wide,
in fact world-wide, movement. For
years our housewives, whose grand-
mothers cooked mostly, but also ex-
cellently, by rule of thumb, have been
learning from their women’s maga-
zines the exact chemical ingredients
of the food they ought to be giving
their family so as best to serve the
life-purposes of its various imembers,
so that father might earn and spend
the most money with the least amount
of grumbling, brother pass his ex-
aminations. for college as brilliantly
as possible, and sister develop saga-
city to pick the most desirable of her
suitors. Even in remoter regions, in
our lumber camps, something of the
new lore penetrated, and there were
strikes for a scientifically balanced
diet. The old rotation of beef and
eggs, with beans and potatoes on the
side in winter, and “sow-belly” with
ditto in summer, sometimes varied
by dough pie, no longer met the
awakened consciousness of the forest
proletariat. And in Germany three
years of short commons have given
the authorities ample opportunity to
try out a tabloid diet, first recom-
mended, we believe, by Bellamy in
“Looking Backward.”

Fortunately, in our army, despite
much talk and an investigating com-
mittee, called the Food Division, some
theorizing but little experimenting has
been The learned
very soon that, however efficacious a
tablet of the
might sound, as a matter of fact what
kept people in health and spirits was
something that their teeth could get
into and_ their appreciate.
Teutonic investigation tried out new
ideas on prisoners, where there was

done. Germans

proper composition

palates

no protest, ideas such as the famous
stew of sauerkraut and figs, which
latter were cheap because of ship-
ments from Turkey. With what la-
mentable results to the prisoners we
know already! But our army officers
have recognized the, fact that appetite
plays an enormous role in food val-
ues, and have done what seems to be
the reasonable thing. They have
acted on the assumption that a sol-
food-needs about the
same throughout the ages, that Cae-

Sar’s

dier’s remain
legionaries ate
Pershing’s do, allowance
for differences of climate. And so, al-
though they made un tables with all
kinds of chemical formulas to satisfy
their own scientific consciences, they

approximately

what with

tampered practically. not at all with
our soldiers’ ration. In essence it re-
mains preity nearly the same as that
of a hundred years ago, and not so
different from that of Washington's
troopers, except that the latter could
not always get their day's “grub,” and
our boys, except during the confu-
sion of action can, We shall have no
Valley Forges.

The Camp Custer menus are made
up of about the same things as a
farm-hand’s, truckdriver’s or a foot-
ball player’s ration. Whoever does
hard outdoor work has to follow, with
individual variations, this diet. Ma-
jor John Murlin, of the Food Divi-
sion, in an address at the Philadelphia
College of Physicians, said recently
that the consumption of food per man
per day in farmers’ families is quite
similar to that needed for the average
Allied soldier in training. Beef forms
the backbone, the mainstay, of that
menu. Our soldiers get twenty
ounces of beef daily.. The other main
ingredients of their fare are eighteen
ounces of flour, or twenty of corn-
meal, twenty ounces of potatoes, and
then smaller quantities of beans,
sweets, dried fruits, coffee, and relish-
es, Almost anybody, even an invalid,
could manage on this. And in our
mess system the official ration consti-
tutes only a money basis for the sol-
diers’ food schedule. Each company
has its mess and mess officer, who,
with the mess sergeant, and by in-
formal consensus of the men, deter-
mines what will suit his lot best. And
he requisitions this from the Quarter-
master’s Department up to the money
value of the regular army rations for
his command of 250 men. He may
vary the regular diet with sausages
and asparagus so long as he keeps
within his budget.

Under this regime our men have
done remarkably well, in spite of
pocr cooks—good cooks in large num-
bers decidedly scarce. Na-
turally, there is every inducement for
a novice to become skilled in his art

with utmost rapidity, with 250 huskies
ready to wreak vengeance by physical

being

violence on account of culinary omis-
Suffice it to
say the average recruit in camp has,

sions and commissions,

according to official returns, gained
peunds of enlistment.
Anybody with a recruit friend or rela-
tive knows now the living embodiment
of that famous “before and after-tak-
And, then, to fill
out any crannies left by the regular

muscle since

ing” advertisement.

mess, there is the canteen, where ap-
petites insatiable for calories galore
may be sated by purchase of sweets.
In some camps, for the average sol-
dier, this has amounted to almost 500
of these creations of the expert brain.
— —»>2

BLOODY BILL IS A BASTARD.

The reason for the bitter hatred the
Kaiser entertained for his
mother has recently been disclosed
by Captain von der Goltz in his book
detailing his experience as a spy for
ten years in the employ of the Ger-
man government. He has proved to
the satisfaction of any unprejudiced
person thet the Kiser is illegitimate,
his real father being Count Secken-
dorf, who was known to have been

always

intimate with the consort of the
Kaiser’s supposed father for many
years. This explains the dissimilarity
between the Kaiser and other men of
his race and the lack of all resem-
blance between him and his father.
It also serves to explain the dislike
of Bismarck for the wife of the then
Crown Prince Friederick, who ac-
cused her—to quote his own words—
of having “poisoned the fountain of
Hohenzollern blood at its scurce.”

History records the story of the
early attachment of Victoria to
Count Seckendorf and of their fre-
quent liaisons. It alse records the
fact that after she was virtually ban-
ished from Germany by her son, the
Kaiser, the queen mcther quietly mar-
ried the man who had been her para-
mour for years and lived with him as
his wife until she died.

History also records the determin-
ed effort Victoria made to prevent her
bastard son from ascending to the
throne, because of the hesitancy she
felt over seeing the issue of her in-
fidelity perpetuate a gigantic fraud
upon the people of Germany and a
husband whom she respected if she
did not love or honor.

Queen Victoria of England is re-
ported by her faithful biographer to
have once remarked: “All my daugh-
ters turned out well except Victoria,
whom I married to the Crown Prince
of Germany. She would have been
very unhappy if she had been like her
sisters, because the Germans are a
bad lot. They have no use for virtue,
purity or honesty.”

——\_2.-2.->___—__
Hoover is not stopping with meas-

ures for economizing consumption of
foodstuffs, and the country at large is
working up mere of a spirit of sacri-
fice as shown in the inspiring ex-
ample of the State of Idaho in of-
fering every grain of wheat in the
State to the Government for war
purposes. Ex-President Taft says
we can live on 10 per cent. of our
supplies and still have enough, The
Food Administration is alive to the
wasteful method employed at the
source of production. This is well
illustrated in a project to reduce loss-
es of grain, especially wheat, through
greater attention to clean threshing,
which is the outcome cf recommenda-
tions from various sources and study.
It is shown that more than 3 per cent.
of the wheat crop has, in the past.
been lost by hurried and careless op-
eration or inefficient machines. Ef-
forts are now under way to have every
threshing outfit in the United States
put in efficient working order and op-
erated in a manner to save every grain
of wheat possible. To direct the
work, a special Threshing Division
has been created as part of the Food

Administration Grain Corporation.
The Grain Threshing Division will

have National Headquarters at the of-

-fice of the Food Administration, Grain

Corporation, 42 Broadway, New York
City. Particulars can doubtless be
obtained by writing to this address.
Tt is a subject which country banks,
for instance, might investigate with a
view of serving their agricultural
clients, and at the same time helping
the Government in its efforts to win
the war,

SUCCESSFUL SALESMAN.

Wn. T. Ballamy, Grand Counselor of
the U. C. T.

W. T. Ballamy went to Bay City in
1872. He has been a traveling sales-
man since 1890. He represented J.
W. Fales & Co., wholesale paper and
stationery, Detroit, for several years
in Michigan territory. In 1901 he re-
signed and accepted a position with
the Central City Soap Co., Jackson,
selling the famous Jaxon soap. He
remained with this company until the
business was sold to the Proctor &
Gamble Soap Co., Cincinnati, in Au-
gust, 1906, and represented this com-
pany for the remainder of the year in
He then accepted a position
with Phipps, Penoyer & Co., whole-
sale grocers, Saginaw, covering terri-
tory North of Bay City. In July,

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William T. Ballamy.

1909, he accepted his present position
with the Saginaw Milling Co., Sagi-
naw, in the same territory.

Mr, Ballamy became a member of
3ay City Council in 1911 and was
elected conductor a few weeks after
his initiation and was advanced to the
various offices of the Council. He
was elected Grand Page (1915) at
Lansing, Grand Conductor (1916) at
Traverse City, Grand Junior Coun-
selor (1917) at Bay City and Grand
Counselor last week at Jackson.

Mr. Ballamy has been an enthusias-
tic worker in the interest of his home
Council and for the upbuilding of the
order and has been successful in en-
thusing others. The large increase
in membership of Bay Council during
the past three years is due largely to
his energy and ability. He is a man
of sterling character and genial-tem-
perament and has been very success-
ful in his chosen profession and a gen-
eral favorite with the traveling sales-
men and is highly esteemed by his
customers,

—_+-2-2.

In describing the evening entertain-
ment at Allegan, on the occasion of
the visit of the Grand Rapids jobbers
to that city, June 3, the Allegan

Gazette refers to the toastmaster as
“Chauncey Depew Prendergast.” Lee
M. Bierce is given credit as having
uttered a “stirring speech” and Lee
M. Hutchins as having “made a seri-
ous and forceful closing of a pleasant
and very profitable evening.’

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Buyers’ Week in Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids wholesalers have set aside June 24 to 29 as

Buyers’ Week for themselves and their customers.

As the name

implies, this will be a week of trading with many attractive in-
ducements for the live merchants in the Grand Rapids wholesale
territory to come to Grand Rapids on those days to ‘‘look ’em
over’ and see what surprises their friends, the wholesalers, have

prepared for them.

More Than a Buying Week

But it will be more than a buying week, for aside
from the trading, there will be man-to-man talks on
the world situation as it is to-day by men of national
and international reputation. These will not be “lec-
tures” or “speeches.” They will be right from the
shoulder talks on the world situation—commercial,
military and otherwise—and all will be well worth the
time of the livest and best men in the retail and whole-
sale trade throughout Michigan. Then, too, the Grand
Rapids wholesalers, with their daily contact with the
markets of the world, will have an opportunity to dis-
cuss personally with the live and representative retail
merchants whom they serve the actual conditions and
actual needs in the thousands of townships, towns and
cities where their friends, the retail merchants, are
located. Through these conferences, it will be possible
to so co-ordinate efforts as to bring out of the present
situation and the months of uncertainty to come the
very best results for the retailers, their customers and
the Grand Rapids wholesalers who supply their needs.
The retailer who misses this week of conference and
discussion of his problems and his neighbor’s problems

WoRDEN

 

THE PROMPT SHIPPERS

 

will be doubly a loser, for he not only will lose his
cpportunity to get into touch with things as they are,
but he also will lose what is equally important—the
chance to lend his voice and judgment to helping the
week of conference to hold the Grand Rapids merchan-
dising district on an even keel during war times and
to hold together in a co-operating body, and thus enable
to serve itself and those dependent upon it, to the fullest
possible degree.

So Buyers’ Week will mean more than bargains—
and there’ll be plenty of them. It means that every
wholesaler and retailer who puts his shoulder to the
wheel during Grand Rapids Buyers’ Week, June 24,
25, 26, 27, 28 and 29, is going to be in shape to meet
his problems more intelligently and more successfully.
This means more service to his customers, more dollars

in the cash register and more satisfaction to himself.

Our latch string will be out, as usual, to all who
wish to exchange greetings with our officers and work-
ing force and be shown through the various depart-
ments of our establishment by our faithful employe
of nearly half a century, Barney Langeler.

ROCER COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS—KALAMAZOO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

June 12, 1918

 

   

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June 12, 1918.

 

 

 

 

 

 

COME ONE, COME ALL!

The retail merchants of Michigan
will have an opportunity week after
next, through the generosity of the
Grand Rapids wholesalers, to listen to
some remarkable addresses on various
aspects of the Kaiser’s war. The whole-
salers have secured the Evening Press
hall for June 25, 26 and 27. Evening
meetings and the meeting of June 25
will be addressed by Merton S. Rice,
of Detroit, who was across on the other
side in Army “Y” work. The meeting
of Wednesday, June 26, will be ad-
dressed by Bertram S. Pullinger, who
was over there in France three years
as Captain of a Canadian battalion.
Both of these men are preachers. Mer-
ton S. Rice is a Methodist in Detroit
and Captain Pullinger is the rector of
Grace Episcopal church in Detroit. Both
of these men are top notchers and hit
straight from the shoulder. The mer-
chants who hear them discuss the issues
of the war are going to hear something
which will stir them, if there are any
red corpuscles in their systems any-
where, but they are not going to hear
anything that will please them if they
have a drop of the kind of blood which
America repudiated some months ago
when the Kaiser started his war of con-
quest and butchery. Another orator will
be secured for Thursday evening.

If the attendance is large and the
interest intense—as the Tradesman sin-
cerely hopes will be the case—Buyers’
Week will probably become a yearly
features of the Grand Rapids market for
several years. On the other hand, if
the merchants of Michigan fail to avail
themselves of this opportunity to get
in touch with the best thought of the
present day on modern merchandising
methods, any further efforts in this
direction will probably be abandoned.

The time selected for Buyers’ Week
is exceptionally opportune. No great
staple is being marketed at present. re-
quiring the undivided attention of the
retailers. This renders it possible for
most merchants to leave home at this
time without inconvenience or concern.
Furthermore, Grand Rapids, which
noted experts in city development and
embellishment assert is the “greenest
and cleanest city in the world,” is now
in her best attire. The trees, lawns and
shrubbery which are the elory of Grand
Rapids now present their most at-
tractive aspect and are a constant source

of surprise and gratification. This
feature alone is sufficient to justify a
visit to Grand Rapids at this season
of the year by any home owner who
seeks ideas as to the most effective way
to beautify his home by the employment
ot vines and shrubs.

All features of Buyers’ Week are
open to all, without price. All that is
required is a good ear, a quick eye and
a receptive mind. If any merchant finds
himself unable to attend, he should by
all means be represented by his buyer
or chief clerk, so that he may be made
acquainted with the bargains and ex-
ceptional opportunities which will be
available to the retailer on this occasion.

 

In spite of much prediction and some
apprehension to the contrary, general
business conditions have remained good
during the spring season which is about
closing. Here and there over the coun-
try there was a slight lessening in the
volume of transactions, without, how-
ever, a decrease in the money total of
the purchases. In the neighborhood of
plants engaged in war activities and
also in most of the farming regions
business has been quite brisk. Money
obtained from sales of crops, and also
the higher wages received by mechan-
ics, have found their way into ~ mer-
cantile channels, and the selections of
buyers have in most instances been of
rather higher grade merchandise than
formerly. This is particularly true in
the cases of women who have been get-
ting better pay. A reflection of these
conditions is shown in the reports of
the mercantile agencies, which indicate
prompter collections and a lessening of
indebtedness. Last month the total
number of failures chronicled was only
880, involving an indebtedness of about
$13,000.000. This is the lowest for ten
years. The failures for the first five
months of the year are 20 per cent.
less than for the similar period in 1917.
To the encouragement afforded by these

figures additional ground for confidence

is given by the crop estimates, each of
which is more optimistic than its pre-
decessor. Under the circumstances,
business men are taking a hopeful view
of the immediate future.

With England’s change from two to
three cents postage, the list of bel’ -
erent countries that have raised their
postal rates during the war is now
about complete. Both Entente and
Central governments have been forced
to put up charges for transmission of
mail, in order to obtain money with
which to pay the expenses of Ar-
mageddon. How great the pressure
actually has been can be realized only
when we consider that a modern state
considers its postal service the last
Government function it can afford
to economize upon or make money
out of. In this country, our national
policy has always been to carry mail
*t a loss, if necessary, so that the
people might be afforded a cheap and
easy method of communicating with
each other, and be encouraged to read
newspapers and periodicals. This is
now a thing of the past, and people
all over the world must go back to a
time when the “porto” of a letter or
postal package constituted an item
of expense to be carefully computed.

LET US DEAL FAIRLY.

Good cigars which were sold for 5
cents before the war now retail at 6
cents.

Illuminating gas which sold at 80
cents per thousand before the war is
now 95 cents—an increase of 19 per
cent.

The arbitrary hand of the Govern-
ment has made a 50 per cent. advance
in passenger rates and a 25 per cent.
advance in freight rates.

Nearly everything we eat and wear
and every entertainment we go to have
advanced in price from 25 to 100 per
cent. Coffee and potatoes are about
the only exception to this almost uni-
versal upward movement.

The Grand Rapids Railway Co. finds
itself confronted with the same condi-
tions which every purveyor to the pub-
lic is forced to face and has asked the
City Commission for permission to in-
crease its fare from 5 to 6 cents during
the present period of inflation and war
time prices. Of course the Commission
will grant the request and the people
will cheerfully acquiesce in the tempor-
ary increase, because reasonable people
do not believe they should deny to oth-
ers what they claim for themselves—
the right of proper and reasonable com-
pensation for their services.

 

FOOLED THE FOOL FARMERS.

That fine triumvirate of clever schem-
ers—Slocum of Detroit, Cook of Owos-
so and McBride of Vernon—has suc-
ceeded in involving the farmers of
Michigan in a loss of from one to two
million dollars by advising the bean
erowers of Michigan to hold their last
year’s crop for a stated price. While
the Government and the bean buyers
of the State were urging the farmers
to market their crop as a patriotic duty,
the three schemers above named have
arrayed themselves on the side of the
Kaiser by urging the farmers to hold
on for higher prices, which action is
held to be treasonable and pro-German
by every patriotic American.

The result is that the farmers who
listened to the siren voice of these
schemers now find that they have musty
beans on hand, which cannot be mar-
Iketed under any circumstances. Even
the humble sheep refuse to eat them.

All of which leads to the unerring
conclusion that the farmer who pins his
faith to the crafty officials of the
Grange and Gleaner organizations has
only himself to blame if he finds him-
self headed toward the poorhouse and
the Pro-German camp.

 

Just why the German government
should have made a special effort to
secure the release of the convicted spy
and criminal, Von Rintelen, is not clear.
There are plenty of other German sub-
jects in jail in this country for crimes
committed here—some of them former
officials of the German government. In
their behalf it has not moved. The
suspicion is that some one high in in-
fluence at Berlin has interested himself
in Von Rintelen. This is not intelligible
to the general public, but may be to
those who know how particularly of-
fensive Von Rintelen was in his bear-
ing, and how slippery and treacherous
in his activities in this country. He
would be the sort of man to have a
warm friend at court in Berlin. That

 

friend, however, quite overshot the
mark in inducing the German govern-
ment to threaten to execute an Ameri-
can prisoner unless this country agreed
to exchange Von Rintelen for him.
Secretary Lansing made the only pos-
sible reply to this demand. The United
States Government cannot yield to a
threat of brutal reprisals, and will know
how to deal with them if they are at-
tempted. The note of the German gov-
ernment, in this Von Rintelen matter,
was exceedingly ill-timed and exasper-
ating; but after the way in which the
State Department disposed of it, we
shall probably hear no more of the
affair.

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Our threatened controversy with
Holland has latterly dropped out of
sight. So far as the public knows,
the arrangement to exchange provi-
sions from this country for the tem-
porary use of Dutch tonnage is work-
ing smoothly. Certainly there is no
neutral country with which Ameri-
cans would more desire to be in cor-
dial relations than with Holland. We
must regret, therefore, that the Dutch
government has not yet replaced its
Minister at Washington, who some
time ago presented his letters of re-
call. The coming of a new envoy
from Holland would be seized upon
as an occasion for marked expres-
sions of good will by the people and
the officials of the United States. Of
this the Dutch gcvernment may rest
well assured.

 

Whale meat made its initial appear-
ance in Chicago butcher shops last
week, according to the Bureau of
Markets, when one of the local pack-
ing companies received a small ship-
ment by express from Seattle, Wash.
The meat as shipped came in rolls
similar to beef tenderloin rolls, weigh-
ing from five to eight pounds. Trans-
portation costs were excessive, due
to the fact that the meat was shipped
by express, and the meat will sell at
wholesale around 25 cents a pound.
If the venture proves successful it
will be possible to reduce this cost
considerably by handling the meat in
larger amounts and_ shipping it in
regular refrigerator cars.

 

The Food Administration has sent
out a warning that wheat is low in the
bin and urges greater economy on this
side to prevent serious want “over
there.” This shortage comes at a time
when America can most easily go with-
out wheat. The stores are well sup-
p'ied with substitute cereals and over-
supplied with cornmeal in many sec-
tions. Shipments that were caught in
the winter traffic congestion arrived all
at once, causing a piling up of cornmeal
that will result in heavy losses unless
American common sense rallies to pre-
vent meal from spoiling.

When you have a kick to make,
make it and get it over with but
don’t postpone it and go around with
a grouch making everybody else

miserable while you wait.
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You are perfectly justifiable in ask-
ing your clerks to do such things as
you yourself would be willing to do
under the circumstances, but
go farther than that.

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More Business Stirring in Cotton
Goods Market.

There has been a larger enquiry for
some time for some of the lining
twills and sateens. Sheeting business
was rather light. Drills were in good
call with sale opportunities scarce, as
mills are very fully engaged

Finished goods are generally quiet
in the markets. Additional lines of
dress ginghams are being opened
steadily and buyers are placing or-
ders earlier than usual. They have
pressed agents to do something on
spring goods now, as they believe
early orders will enhance the chances
of prompt delivery. Agents are re-
stricting terms in these transactions,
so that buyers are made aware of all
the risks they are assuming in tak-
ing chances on late business under
present conditions, Bleached cottons
are quiet as a rule. Several of the
branded lines are very short in sup-
ply, and will continue more so because
of the lack of loomage due to Govern-
ment exactions.

Tickings, denims and other heavy
colored cottons are so well sold ahead
and are being delivered so irregular-
ly on old orders that it is impossible
to say what may be done on specific
fabrics without special enquiry is
made. Some houses are selling only
mill runouts while others are try-
ing to work out substitute cloths to
take the place of denims and other
fabrics that are certain to be very
scarce for civilan purposes.

It is the feeling in the trade that
price regulation or control is near,
and predictions are not uncommon
that something definite will have been
arrived at before July 1. There are
some merchants who go so far as to
say that definite action will be taken
on the new cotton crop by August 1.
It is known that the Government is
getting behind the movement to fi-
nance cotton through
trade acceptances in order to ease
the financing of the next crop and

- transactions

without endangering the large carry-
over that is in sight to-day.

In the cotton yarn markets the con-
ditions are becoming so clearly at
variance with what is expected in war
times that action is looked for that
will take care of yarn production
needed in Government work. Many
of the coarse yarns are virtually mo-
nopolized by those who have Govern-
ment contracts and prices for the
balance of yarn production are going
up to dizzy levels, without any as-
sistance from the trade. In fact,
yarn merchants have become timid
about the market and would not spec-
ulate now if they were permitted to

do so without interference from Gov-
ernment authorities. Although cot-
ton is high, many of the staple num-
bers of yarns are more than twice as
high as cotton and relatively more
profitable than cotton growing.

The raw silk trade has become con-
vinced that it is prudent for the busi-
ness to be thrown in closer contact
with the Federal Reserve Bank
through the medium of trade accept-
ances. This will eventually eliminate
many troublesome book accounts and
make the trade assets more liquid, a
condition that will be much appreciat-
ed by the dealers at least.

Reports are current in the silk mar-
kets to the effect that some silk mills
are meeting many difficulties in get-
ting coal. Some of these reports state
that the Government authorities are
inclined to regard certain parts of
silk production as non-essential for
the present, and it is claimed that coal
is being withheld from the mills un-
til more pressing needs are taken care
of. Some silk manufacturers have
gone to Washington to look into the
situation, and while there may be
some little grain of truth in the Gov-
ernment definition of silk non-essen-
tials, it is hardly thought probable
that some arrangement will not be
made quickly to show that many silks
are quite as essential, if not more so,
than many of the cottons and other
goods that are still being produced.

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Some Ribbon Difficulties.

The production difficulties that are
fast becoming more apparent in the
broad silk trade are being duplicated
in the ribbon trade with equal speed.
There is no complaint in evidence
about the demand, but on the other
hand the inability of the mills to keep
up with the call is holding the atten-
tion of the entire trade. Just what the
outcome of the situation will be is a

. question, but it is a certainty that the

available supply will soon show a ma-
terial decline, and along with the de-
cline in the stocks is expected an ad-
vance in price to equalize conditions.

Buying has slowed up a bit of late
in mill and selling agent quarters,
but jobbers are still receiving some
call for supplies, mostly of a filling-
in nature. The outlook, however, is
far more promising than most factors
in the trade desire, with supplies no
more plentiful than they are at pres-
ent and than they are liable to be
for the immediate future. The vogue
for wide ribbons that was so pro-
nounced this spring -and which will
most likely continue through the sum-
mer is expected to hold over for the
fall and winter and rule the ribbon
demands for that season,

Allegan—F,. T. Marty, Allegan.
Antrim, Martin G. Smith, Antrim.
Baraga—Thos. C, Brennan, L’Anse.
Bay—Howard R. Ford, Bay City.
Benzie—N. E. Sayles, Frankfort.
Branch—Harry Milnes, Coldwater.
Calhoun—Thos. F. Whalen, Battle Creek.
Cheboygan—John P. Och, Cheboygan.
Clinton—W. R. Osgood, St. Johns,
Crawford—Harry Simpson, Grayling.
Delta—Herman Salinsky, Escanaba.
Eaton—Geo. H. Spencer, Charlotte.

Gladwin—Frank E. Atchinson, Gladwin, .

Gogebic—Thomas Sullivan, Ironwood.
Grand Traverse—F. G. Fairbrother,
Traverse City.
Hillsdale—Lewis Greening, Hillsdale.
Huron—Jas. Elvin, Bad Axe.
Ionia—W. J. Winchell, Ionia.
Iron—D. M. Ross, Crystal Falls.
Isabella—Frank Keenan, Mt. Pleasant.
Jackson—Alfred J. Henry, Jackson.
Kalamazoo—S. O. Bennett, Kalamazoo.
Kent—A. C. Bertsch, Grand Rapids.
Keweenaw—Philip E. Peterson,
Mohawk.
Leelanau—-S. W. Porter, Northport.
Lenawee—Jas. H. Howell, Adrian.
Mackinac—Peter J. Murray, St. Ignace.
Manistee—C. N. Russell, Manistee.
Marquette—Chas. Burt, Ishpeming.
Mason—Chas, H. Brandt, Ludington.
Mecosta—Wm. R. VanAuken,
Big Rapids.

 

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Children, especially adapted to the general
store trade. Trial order solicited.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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time the catalogue is in com-
mission. Moreover they are
expressed in plain figures.
This means that the man
buying from ‘‘OUR DRUM-
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knows exactly what he is
doing. If you are a mer-
chant and have not the cur-
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and one will be sent.

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well as enjoyable.

Buyers’ Week
June 24 to 28, 1918

There will be something of interest to every pro-

In connection with this event we will offer
special values in all our departments.

The program committee has planned to have
speakers of national reputation. They will talk on
very timely topics, especially the war and its effect
Don’t miss this opportunity of visit-
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Missaukee—O. W. Scott, McBain.
Montmorency—M. C. Doty, Atlanta.
Oakland—H. R. McGovern, Pontiac.
Oceana—C. A. Brubaker, Mears.
Ontonagon—Casper Roosen, Ontonagon
Osceola—Hugh MicLachlan, Evart.
Oscoda—Ray Blamer, Mio.
Otsego—John M. Brodie, Gaylord.
Presque Isle—Ira E. Gumm, Onaway.
Roscommon—A,. J. Price, Roscommon.
Sanilac—W. A. Williams, Sandusky.
Schoolcraft—L. Yalomstein, Manistique.
St. Clair—Chas. Wellman, Port Huron.
Washtenaw—Chas. Kyer, Ann Arbor.
Wayne—S. M. Cohen, Detroit.
Wexford—Chas. Ransom, Manton.

Following is the letter I am sending
to each appointee:

I am very glad, indeed, to know that
you will accept the appointment as
County Merchant Representative of the
United States Food Administration.
This letter is for your information gen-
erally and:to acquaint you with the out-
line of our work in such a way that our
co-operative .efforts may be most ef-
fective. I am sure you will find the
following of value.

The State Merchant Representative
has no authority to enforce, make or
modify any of the rules and regulations
of the United States Food Administra-
tion, which authoritv lies entirely with
the State Food Administrator. It is
our duty to convey to the consumer
through the agency of the retailer the
necessity for food saving.

Your work will be to secure the co-
operation of the retail merchants
throughout your county in giving pub-
licity to the Food Administration pro-
gram. You have received your ap-
pointment as County Merchant Repre-
sentative and you. will receive your
publicity material directly from this
office; you will, however, be expected
to work in close harmony and co-opera-
tion with your County Food Adminis-
trator. e ‘believe the prestige of the
County Food Administration will help
very much in making your work effect-
ive, and also that you can assist in the
enforcement of the Food Administra-
tion regulations by keeping always
before your retailers the patriotic side
of food conservation and the tremen-
dous need for it.

It would be well for you, in co-opera-
tion with your County Food Adminis-
trator, to call a meeting of the mer-
chants in the different communities in
your county for the purpose of ac-
quainting them with the work of this
department; give them to understand
thoroughly that this is the retail mer-
chants own branch of the Food Admin-
istration; that we have been asked as
individual merchants to conform to
Food Administration rules and regula-
tions, and that through this organiza-
tion of our own we have the opportun-
ity to do aggressive work for food con-
servation.

Through the co-operation of the mer-
chants of your county secure:

1. A thorough display of Adminis-
tration posters, (which are now being
distributed by this office direct to retail-
ers throughout the state in co-operation
with the ‘Wholesale Grocer Salesmen).

2. Pledges of food conservation win-
dow displavs to be made periodically
(not less than one a month) by each
merchant having a_ display window.
These windows may either feature
wheat substitutes and suggest different
methods of preparing them, or they
mav be “Foodless” windows. getting
their message across by a display of
posters, flags and sign cards bearing
food conservation slogans.

3. Pledges from the merchants who
do newspaper advertising to run as a
part of their own advertising some
food conservation message. even if it
is not more than the phrase “Save
Food.” It would be very effective to
have the merchants combine in each
community to run a full page advertise-
ment devoted entirely to food conserva-
tion.

The most effective way of impressing
food saving upon a community is by a
“Food Conservation Drive,” in which
all organizations of the community join

enthusiastic as we are here.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

with the retail merchants in a big food
fair, for lectures, exhibits, demonstra-
tions of receipts and distribution of
food administration literature. It
should be your aim to organize such a
drive in each representative community
in your county with all organizations
working in co-operation with your re-
tailers. This office is at the present
time gathering material as a result of
drives that have been held at various
places in this state, and we hope in a
short time to be able'to furnish you
with a summary plan of a good work-
able program that has been highly suc-
cessful elsewhere.

The results you accomplish in this
work are going to depend upon the
earnestness and unflagging sense of
responsibility with which you under-
take this office; if you put your best
efforts into it you will soon become as
There is
no bigger job in the Food Administra-
tion than ours; we are helping to tell
Food Conservation to one hundred
million people; we are guiding a Nation
to change its habits of living in order
that we may win the war.

We are right now probably at the
most critical state of the war. You
will, therefore. be especially interested
in some of the things which were said
at the recent meeting of the State Mer-
chant Representatives in Washington,
and of the opinion we formed in regard
to the future direction of our work in
Michigan.

The shipping situation still is very
unsatisfactory. The demand for ships
has made it necessary to divert much
of the tonnage from the transportation
of food stuffs from other countries, and
place a still heavier responsibility upon
this country, in supplying food to the
Allied nations.

The task we have ahead of us for
the next sixty days is to get our people
to conserve wheat. It is probable with-
in that time there will be practically no
wheat left in this country. We must
prepare our people for this eventuality.

The shipping situation also makes it
probable that we shall have next win-
ter as difficult a food situation as we
had this past winter. We do not know
how long the war will last. It it con-
tinues for any great length of time, it
must break into our agricultural pro-
duction. These two facts make it nec-
essary that we accumulate a reserve
from this coming harvest, and, there-
fore, we must push the war garden idea
strongly. Stores of locally produced
foods are going to be very valuable in
enabling this country to accumulate a
reserve of such concentrated cereals as
wheat.

We must continue to use our position
to educate customers in the use of sub-
stitute cereals. Recipes and suggested
outlines for food shows will very
chortly be sent to you from this office
for that purpose.

We are now planning a series of
weekly bulletins: each one a step in a
definitely outlined campaign covering
these different phases of our work, to
extend on into the summer.

Oscar J. Webber,
State Merchant Representative.
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Did Not Like Sound of Sausage.

“Jones,” said a hotel manager to
a waiter, “Why did Harry Ilarwood
at table No. 7 leave so suddenly?”

 

“Well, sir,’ said the waiter, “he

_sat down and asked for sausages, and

I told him we were out of them, but
if he would care to wait a few min-
utes I could get the cook to make
some.”

“Well,” said the manager, “what
then?”

“T went to the kitchen,” resumed
the waiter, “and accidentally trod up-
on the dog’s tail, and of course, it
yelped out. Immediately Mr. Har-
wood got up and left.”

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H. Leonard & Sons

Grand Rapids
Michigan

Cor. Commerce Ave.
and Fulton St.

 

 

Hundreds of Merchants will
visit our city during

Buyers’ Week
June 24-28

and you are

Cordially Welcomed

We've been saving up some wonderfully profitable

BARGAINS because we want to make your visit a

Memorable One

All our staple lines are most complete and

stocks ready to ship today mean much to dealers.

We will display for your inspection
our lines of new

Holiday Goods

Celluloid Sets) Mahogany and Leather Goods,
China Decorated Wares, Cut and Engraved Glass,
Silverware, Clocks, Novelties and our USUAL VARI-
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Toys, Dolls, Books,

Games
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Michigan a, and Egg Asso-
clation
President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.
oe “President—-Patrick’ Hurley, De-
troit.
Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Bent:
ley, Saginaw.
Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson
Detroit; H. L. Williams, Howell; C. J
Chandler, Detroit.

 

 

Candling Eggs, Easy to Do.

A knowledge of candling is essential
to egg grading. Grading is
more and more customary in the sale
and purchase of eggs, because only by
candling can it be made certain that
shipments of eggs comply with Federal,
state, and other reguiations, and because
the most important quality of an egg
—freshness—can be best judged by
candling. The process, in simple terms,
is to hold an egg before a shaded light
in a dark room, and by noting certain
characteristics seen through the
transparent shell to determine its edible
and marketable qualities.

Merchants may improvise a candler
by placing a stovepipe over a kerosene
lamp, cutting a small hole in the pipe,
level with the light. The egg is held
in a slanting position at the opening. It
is twisted a few times to the right and
left and then from end to end, so that
its entire contents may be visible. Care
should be taken that the fingers or hand
do not conceal small blemishes, which
otherwise would be disclosed by the
light. The beginner should study care-
fully the general formation of an egg,
as this detailed knowledge is necessary
for the application of the standards of
various grades and qualities.

becoming

semi-

The yolk ranges in color from light
yellow to orange, and
olive green. The eggs with olive-green
yolks are less desirable because of this
color but are considered edible. The
yolk is contained in a delicate membrane
and on its surface is a small light-color-
ed circular area called the germinal disk
from which the chick develops. The
yolk always floats in the white with
the chick spot on top. Around the yolk
lies a small quantity of thin white and
then a heavy layer of thick white.
Twisted cord-like coils of opaque white
material called chalazae extend from
the yolk through the white toward each
end of the egg and hold the yolk in
position, yet allow it to turn freely.

occasionally is

Between the white and the shell are
two fibrous membranes with an air
space between them. When first laid,
the contents fil] the entire egg, but when
the egg cools the contents shrink and
these membranes separate, forming an
air space. The size of this air space
is important in determining the fresh-
ness of the egg. As the egg ages the
air space increases in size. Most bad
eggs have enlarged air spaces.

A fine, thick white is found in a

fresh egg, and a weak thin white in a
stale egg. As the egg becomes stale the
amount of thin white increases and the
amount of thick white decreases. Sev-
eral classes of bad eggs are indicated
by discolored whites.

The yolk of the fresh egg when twirl-
ed before the candle is seen dimly as a
dark object moving slowly in the white.
The yolk of a stale egg is seen more
plainly than that of the fresh egg. When
the yolk is so weak that the shake of
the egg in candling causes it to break
it should be graded as unmarketable.
In the fresh egg the yolk is slightly
above the center in the large end of the
egg. As the egg becomes stale the yolk
floats higher and nearer the shell.

The start of incubation in a fertile
egg may be detected by a reddish glow
surrounding the germinal spot. (Such
eggs, although considered edible, are
not graded as first.) This reddish glow
is entirely different from the so-called
blood ring, which indicates that the egg
is unfit for food.

Where there is any doubt as to the
fitness for food purposes, the
candler should give the consumer the
benefit of the doubt and reject it.

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More Poultry and Eggs on the Way.
Four district
State leaders,
cialists,
ment of

men and_ thirty-six
all trained poultry spe-
are carrying out the Depart-
Agriculture's programme to
secure large increases in poultry and
production this year. In addi-
tion to these workers there are eleven
extension poultry club men who are
encouraging more efficient poultry
production the boys and girls
states. Recent re-
ports from these poultry extension
specialists indicate that normal pro-
duction will be maintained in prac-
tically every section of the country
this year, in which they are working,
and in many localities an increase over
previous years is expected. The ap-
peal made by department specialists
to city people to increase food pro-
duction by utilizing their table scraps
in feeding small back-yard flocks of
hens is meeting with marked success.
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Demonstrations on Preserving Eggs.

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ess

among
in their various

To teach city people how to preserve
with water glass,
workers of the poultry division are
holding demonstrations in large de-

eggs extension

partment stores in a number of cities.
Demonstrations have been held in
Washington, Chicago, and New Or-
leans, and the plan is to extend the
work to other large cities. Similar
demonstrations have been held in rur-

al schools and at meetings attended by

farmers.

 

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A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter
Color and one that complies with the
pure food yoo of every State and of
the the United S
Manufactured - —- & Richardson Ce.
Burlington, Vt

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Commission Merchants

 

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Reed & Cheney Company ee

ited States Food Administrati
Grand Rapids, Michigan a sees —e

License Number G-17614
Shipments of live aid dressed

 

Poultry w-nted at all times, and
shippers wiil find this a good
market. tr+sh Eggs in good de-
mand at market prices.

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

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

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

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 Michigan

 

 

 

 

E. P. MILLER, President FRANK T. MILLER, Sec. and Treas.

Miller Michigan Potato Co.

WHOLESALE PRODUCE SHIPPERS
_ Potatoes, Apples, Onions

Correspondence Solicited

Grand Rapids, Mich.

F. H. HALLOCK, Vice Pres.

Wm. Alden Smith Bldg.

 

 

SERVICE

rrIOwary

Largest Produce and Fruit Dealers in Michigan
ANOTHER MESSAGE

Blue Arrow Brand Matches—Our New Member.
When Piowaty handles it—IT’S QUALITY.

M. Piowaty & Sons of Michigan
MAIN OFFICE, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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

 

 

 

Onions, Apples and Potatoes
Car Lots or Less

We Are Headquarters
Correspondence Solicited

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Vinkemulder Company
GRAND RAPIDS co! MICHIGAN

 

 

Send us your orders

ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS

-will have quick attention.
Moseley Brothers, GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

Both Telephones 1217 Pleasant St. and Railroads

 

 

 

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Perkins Perfect Salted Peanuts

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

 

Perkins Brothers, Inc. Bay City, Michigan

 

 

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Above shows the crowd which assembled in front of the general store Sh W
of Thomas & Bassett, Cedar Springs, March 2. A significant feature of eer aste

the gathering was that there was not a pound of sugar in the store at

the time.

Many paper bags of sugar break

 

 

Errors in Weight of Print Butter.

Washington, D. C.—In order to as-
sist butter manufacturers in comply-
ing with the Federal net weight law,
the United States Department of Agri-
culture made a study in 400 butter-
making establishments, weighing
some 13,000 packages of print butter
to determine the causes and methods
of preventing the error in weight of
butter sold in packages. The chief
causes, which are discussed in de-
tail in Circular 95, Office of the Sec-
retary, were found to be: varations in
the physical conditions of the butter,
inaccuracies and incorrect methods
of adjusting the printing machine, in-
accurate scales, and carelessness of
the operator.

The moisture and salt content of
butter made under similar conditions
vary from day to day, and are not
uniformly distributed throughout the
mass of butter even in the single day’s
churning, according to the circular.
This lack of uniformity causes errors
in prints which vary from .08 to .1
of an ounce per pound print, and al-
though the variations from this cause
are small they still contribute to the
total error. The investigators found
numerous cases of inaccuracy of
scales, due to rust and dirt which had
accumulated as a result of careless
treatment, and which caused a vari-
ance of several hundredths of an ounce
per pound. Many scales were out of
balance also, which emphasized the
necessity of frequent adjustment.

To secure accurate pound prints,
the circular recommends the follow-
ing methods of machine adjustment:
Weigh at least 5 per cent. of the
prints made, weigh five to ten pack-
ages together and check the weight
four to five times at intervals during
each churning, resetting the machine
if necessary until proper weight is
obtained. It is believed that with such
a procedure the difference of the aver-
age weight from sixteen ounces need
not be more than .05 or .06 ounce if
no other cause of error is present.

—-oe-s—————_
Urges Use of Dairy Products.
The New York State Food Com-
mission does not view the dairy pro-
ducts requirements in anything like
the way the Federal Food Adminis-
tration has taught us to believe. The

“ while being wrapped or delivered.
former now urges housewives to cease

conservation of milk, butter and Many pounds of loose sugar are
cheese, pointing out that unless they thus wasted.

change the procedure laid down by
the Federal authorities a long time
ago “a serious milk shortage will re-

Franklin Package Sugars

sult in the near future’ because of save this loss No broken paper
great discouragement to the dairy in- bags. No spilled sugar. No SCOOp-
terests. Butter and cheese, it is de- <2. : :
clared, are piled up in storage in un- me and Warr re: The sturdy coll
precedented amounts. tons and cotton bags are weighed,
Possibly this is all true, but while wrapped and sealed by machine in

we are ‘turning to the wall” that part a :

of the Federal food card relative to the refinery, They are ready - ag
dairy products we cannot but wonder in your customers’ hands.

why the prices of butter and cheese
do not show greater reductions.

The Franklin Sugar Refining Company

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Enthusiastic Patriotism. PHILADELPHIA
Tens of thousands of people have a
cheerfully given up their flour for aa ‘‘A Franklin Cane Sugar for every use’’
the use of the Allies. From every / Granulated, Dainty Lumps, Powdered,

State in the Union come reports of Ra ‘Confectioners, Brown
the success of the total abstinence ™
movement. Some of the flour has
come from farmers who had held a
certain amount for use through the
season. Other flour has come from
people of the towns and villages and
cities who have determined that un-

til the next harvest at any rate they We Buy We Store We Sell
will eat nothing made of wheat flour, kK G G S G G S G G S

It is very important that the patriotic
action GF hese thousands eae and We are always in the market to buy FRESH EGGS and fresh made
women should not be confounded with DAIRY BUTTER and PACKING STOCK. Shippers will find it to their
_ surrender of hoarded flour. interests to communicate with us when seeking an outlet. We also offer
Beales ae pees and the F ood you our new modern facilities for the storing of such products for yourown
Administration is ready to use all of account. Write us for rate schedules covering storage charges, etc. WE
SELL Egg Cases and Egg Case material of all kinds. Get our quotations.

 

 

its machinery to stamp it out, but the
flour which came out in such a plenti- _ ..
ful stream in response to the demand Kent Storage Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan
for food for the fighters was not
hoarded flour. It came from the
stores upon which the people were : .
depending. for their support during ‘ ‘

the spring. In giving it up they per- Signs of the Times Sand Lime Brick

formed a voluntary act of patriotism. Are Nothing as Durable

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A quick profit maker So. Mich. Brick Co., Kalamazoo

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Michigan Retali Hardware Association.
President—John C. Fischer, Ann Arbor.
Vice-President—Geo. W. Leedle, Mar-

shall,
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine

Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

 

 

The Hardware Dealer and His Sum-
mer Holiday.
Written for the Tradesman.
I believe in the gospel of work.
Hard work will accomplish more in

the hardware business—or in any
other business—than anything else
you can put into it. If you would

secure the best returns from any en-
terprise, you must do everything you
can to push it ahead.

Right now, the call for every Amer-
ican is to do his utmost; to do more
work himself, that other men may be
let go for the essential work of de-
stroying autocracy, While our young
men are saving democracy, we must
do their work in addition to the
work we used to do. The call of the
hour is for every individual to secure
and retain for himself the utmost de-
gree of working efficiency.

That is why I still champion the,
merchant’s—yes, and the salesman’s
—holiday.

Hardware dealers are usually not
by any means eager for holidays. The
grind gets into their bones, and they
would prefer, as a rule, to keep going
in the same old rut. To break away
from the store, to leave its manage-
ment in the charge of someone else,
isn’t always an easy thing; and many
a merchant in times when his value
was not.as great as it is now has
found it hard to tear himself away,
even for a short two weeks.

Yet the merchants who have done
so, have come back many times more
efficient, and with a viewpoint
of their business, and with fresh ideas.
That is the advantage of a holiday.

No man—that is, no healthy, nor-
mal man—needs to sit down for two
long weeks and do absolutely noth-
ing. No healthy, normal man wants
to do that. No healthy, normal man
could stand the strain of two weeks
of absolute, uninterrupted idleness.

new

in the sense of a
that the hard-

It is not rest,
cessation from work,
ware dealer needs, and that helps
him so much. It is change—the
breaking away for a brief while from
the daily routine, and the dip into
new scenes, the rubbing up against
new folk, and the contact with new
ideas.

The man who works, day in and
day out, at the same occupation all the
year round, will always need a holi-
day; and he will be foolish not to
take it.

So, if you can possibly do it—and
don’t take “No” for an answer—fig-

ure into your plans for the coming
summer those two weeks away from
the everyday job.

What sort of holiday do you take?

I know a good many merchants
whose holidays are post-graduate
courses in business. They lift them-
selves out of the retail hardware
store for a little while, and spend
the time .visiting the big cities, the
wholesale and manufacturing centers,
getting a wider understanding of the
great business of which they form so
vital a part.

It pays a man to know the leaders
in his business—to know them per-
sonally, to study their methods. Big
men are an inspiration to any man
who wants to improve. Contact with
them is a stimulus. You get new
ideas, that help; you get the inspira-
tion of seeing how big things are
done; you get a first hand knowledge
of what goes into the making of the
goods you sell, and of the problems
that the manufacturer, the wholesaler
and the big retailer have to face.

I know another merchant who often
took his holiday trip to a smaller
town, and studied the mercantile
methods there.

“Sometimes,” he said, “I came
home with greater confidence through
running up against fellows that didn’t
do things half so well; and sometimes
I came home mighty humble and
mightily helped because I’d found
a way of doing things better.”

This sort of holiday involves a
change; and change is the great thing
in a holiday. A breaking away from
the everyday rut, a shaking up of the
mental processes, a stimulus to bet-
ter work—these energizing
are worth two weeks of any
time.

A good many merchants like to
break away entirely; to go to the
seashore, the lakeside or the woods,
to fish or hunt or swim or go for long
tramps, to watch the birds or study
the flowers.

factors
man’s

That sort of thing, too, is a stimu-
lus. It is not laziness. Laziness does
not rest a man. But getting back to
nature for a while is getting back
to healthful activity. Most merchants
need more physical exercise than they
get; the sort of exercise that will call
a host of unused muscles into play,
and will leave you sore and tired after
the first day and fresh and reinvigor-
ated after the second. You get that
out of doors, if you get it anywhere.

“T’ll miss the summer cottage this
year,” a storekeeper told me the cther
day.

“Aren’t you going out to the lake?”
I asked.

“No. and

It’s war-time, it seems

AGRICULTURAL LIME
BUILDING LIME

Write for Prices

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

MPCRA

SANITARY REFRIGERATORS Conserve Food,
Increase Your Profits. | Write at once for Catalog.
No. 71 for Grocers—No. 93 for Residences—No. 62 for
Meat Markets—No. 51 for Hotels and Restaurants.
McCray Refrigerator Co. 844 Lake St.,Kendallville, Ind.

OUR OWN MAKE

HARNESS 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 CoO., LTD.
Ionia Ave. and Louis St. Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

Attention Merchants!

Insure with the Grand
Rapids Merchants Mutual
Fire Insurance Co.

We will insure you at 25% less
that Stock Company rates.

No membership fee charged,

We give you 30 days to pay your
premium and do not discriminate.

We are organized to Insure Build-
ings, Stocks, etc., any where in the
State of Michigan.

Since our organization we have
saved our members Thousands of
Dollars, and can do, proportionally,
the same for you.

 

Home Office, Grand Rapids

 

 

See our
Special
Demonstration
During
Buyers’ Week

Commerce Ave. and
Cherry St.

New Dick’s “Blizzard”

 

ENSILAGE
CUTTERS

Largest
Display of
ENSILAGE
CUTTERS
in the
Country

CLEMENS & GINGRICH co.

Distributors for Central Western States

One Block
From Union Depot

Grand Rapids

 

 

Foster, Stevens & Co.
Wholesale Hardware
wt

157-159 Monroe Ave. ::

Grand Rapids, Mich.

151 to 161 Louis N. W.

 

 

213 Erie Street

 

 

Leitelt
Elevators

For Store, Factory
Warehouse or Garage

Built for Service

Send for proposal on your
requirements

Adolph Leitelt Iron Works

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

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June 12, 1918

a waste of time—although every year
I’ve gone there, I’ve seemed capable
of twice as much work when I got
back. But I want to do something
practical. So I’m going to put in
two weeks at harvest time as a farm
hand.”

“With wages?”

“Sure. The farmer was glad to
get me, at that.”

There’s a practical sort of holiday
that will do the average mental work-
er a whole lot of good.

The merchants in a Canadian town
last year banded together to supply
necessary farm help to the farmers
of the surrounding community. Their
town was a small place, perhaps 1,000
people; and in the farming country
round about there was a pronounced
scarcity of help. Instead of calling
public meetings and making speeches
to induce somebody else to go back
to the land, these men agreed to
spend their holidays on the farm, to
get their clerks to spend their holi-
days on the farm; and they so ar-
ranged it that their holidays were
timed to provide the farmers with
help just when they needed it most.

There was a practical sort of holi-
day; a holiday that met a great and
pressing need. And it was just as
good a holiday as any other could
have been. It gave the man behind
the counter or at the desk what he
needed—change from the every day
routine, the stimulus of new _ asso-
ciations and new scenes, the strength
that comes of physical activity out of
doors. And what holiday can give
anyone more than that?

It gave those men, too, a better un-
derstanding than they could ever
have gotten behind the counter, of the
farm and its needs. That alone was
worth the time they put in.

Victor Lauriston.
—_———>--+—___.
No License Required of Implement
Retailers.

Retailers of farm equipment are not
required to secure licenses, but they
must not profiteer, says a statement
issued by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, explaining cer-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

tain features of President Wilson's
recent proclamation establishing a
licensing system for the farm imple-
ment trade.

The provisions of the Food Control
Act of August 10, 1917, under which
was issued the President’s proclama-
tion of May 14, 1918, bringing under
license the manufacture, importation,
distribution and storage of tools, im-
plements, machinery and certain other
farm equipment, expressly exempt re-
tailers as such from licensing require-
ments and define a retailer as ‘“‘a per-
son, co-partnership, firm, corporation,
or association not engaging in the
wholesale business whose gross sales
do not exceed $100,000 per annum.”

However, under the provisions of the.

Food Control Act, retailers will not
be allowed to profiteer. Under the
regulations issued with the President’s
proclamation retailers engaging in
such practice will not be able to se-
cure a supply of farm equipment.

The regulations provide that a li-
censee shall not, without the express
sanction of the Secretary of Agricul-
ture, sell any farm equipment to any
person engaged in the business of
selling or utilizing such equipment,
if the licensee has knowledge that
such perscn, after the regulations be-
came effective, has violated the pro-
vision of the Food Control Act by
making an unjust or unreasonable
rate or charge in selling or otherwise
handling or dealing in such equip-
ment, or by holding, contracting for,
or arranging for a quantity in excess
of the reasonable requirements of his
business for use or sale by him for a
reasonable time.

—_»+.—__
Recognition of the Trade Press.

Washington, June 10—Mr. Hoover
has requested us to thank you for
sending to him the advance sheets
from the Michigan Tradesman con-
taining a copy of his speech on the
milk situation.

A ereat deal of credit for whatever
success the Food Administration has
achieved belongs to the trade jour-
nals which, like yours, have helped to
spread the ideas which the Food Ad-
ministration has wished to impart to
the people of the country. Without
the hearty co-operation of the trade

 

being shown at

Five Other Big Acts.

If you were in the Memorial Day parade, see
yourself in the pictures of the great spectacle

RAMONA

THIS WEEK

A splendid vaudeville bill is also presented,
which includes Pereira String Quartette and

 

 

the lakeside.

 

Outdoor life at this season is most glorious,
and ‘“‘Ramona’”’ is outdoor in the grove by

press our conservation
would not have succeeded.

We again express our appreciation
of the support of your influential pa-

per. U. S. Food Administration.
OO

If a pessimist is born with a silver
spoon in his mouth he naturally ex-
pects it to choke him sooner or later.

campaign

 

TAKE THE BOAT TO

CHICAGO

Goodrich Steamship Lines

and

Muskegon Interurban Ry.

 

Sunday—Wednesday—Friday

7:05 P.M.
$3.50 $7.00
One Way Round Trip

Half the Rail Fare

Upper $1.25
BERTHS tree: $1.50

Tickets Sold to All Points

Interurban Station
124 N. Ottawa Ave.

Goodrich City Office
127 Pearl St., N. W.

 

 

 

 

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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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Horse Shoe Tires

“The Lucky Buy”’
Made in All Styles and Sizes

The Horse Shoe cut-ins are unique
and effective—preventing side slip-
ping and insure uniform speed by
clinging to solid bottom on muddy,
wet thoroughfares.

They are built of Sea Island fabric
imbedded in pure rubber by the
Racine Horse Shoe One Cure Wrap-
ped Tread Method. They're proof
against blowouts. Extra mileage—
25% extra mileage is built in.

Red and Gray Inner Tubes

built to give uninterrupted service
for years and to be absolute proof
against slow leaks, deterioration and
decay.

Factory Distributors:

Brown & Sehler Co.

Grand Rapids Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

1908—Peaceand
prosperity! Ameri-
ca’s battleship fleet,
“Ready for a fight
or a frolic,” as Ad-
miral “Bob” Evans
remarked, gone on
its 45,000-mile,
around -the-world
cruise, pointing out
to all nations the fact
that we had become
a power to be reck-
yned with, and a
cruise which Euro-
pean experts said
could not be completed. But
it was!

1918—America in the Great
War, throwing its every energy
into the combat to make the
world a decent place to live in.

In 1898, TRUMAN H.
NEWBERRY, one of the organ-
izers of the Michigan Naval
Reserves, served through the
Spanish war as a lieutenant on
she “Yosemite,” which was
‘manned by Michigan’s Reserves.

In 1908, TRUMAN H.
NEWBERRY prepared the
battleship fleet for its famous
cruise and from assistant

. A. Templeton, Genera! Charrman
Paul H. King, Executive Chatrman

 

 

1898—1908—1918

Three Signal Years in American History

1898—War with Spain!
brought by America to oppressed Cuba and Philippines,
the United States taking its firm place asa world power.

 

Truman H. Newberry

— ans

United States Senator

Published by The Newberry Senatorial Committee

eens

Humanity and liberty

secretary became
Secretary of the
Navy in the Roose-
velt cabinet.

In1918, TRUMAN
H. NEWBERRY,
again a volunteer, a
Commander in the
Third Naval District,
including New York
City and Brooklyn
navy yard, the most
important naval di-
vision in the country.

A man of national
distinction, of unflagging devo-
tion to his country, of able ser-
vice in peace and war, of high
character, genial, approachable
and sympathetic, TRUMAN H.
NEWBERRY is amanon whom
not only all Republicans but all
the people of Michigan can unite.

In this crisis, the office de-
mands the ablest and most
experienced man available to
help conduct the nation’s affairs.
TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY is
such a man. Every Michigan
voter can support his nomination
and election with confidence in
his record, his ability and his
100 percent Americanism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

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How Do You Do Your Work?

Are you one of the persons who
cannot work in a crowd? If you are,
you are most unfortunate, for it is
a fact that in this busy age most of
us have to learn to do our work wher-
ever we happen to be. It is seldom
that we find it possible to work in
seclusion, shut away from the noise
and rush of business.

Most large business concerns are
beehives of activity, Unless one can
find it possible to concentrate on the
work in hand, even in the midst of
confusion, it is plain to see that much
time will be lost and much energy
wasted in this rushing world, where
each one faces many duties in many
lines of activity.

Edna Ferber, one of the most suc-
cessful writers of the day, wrote her
first successful novel, “The Man Who
Came Back,” while her family was in
the throes of house moving. Louisa
M. Alcott, one of the most beloved
of American authors, wrote many of
her books for girls at the bedside of
her invalid mother.

Most of the successful women of
both America and England have had
many other duties added to those of
breadwinning.

Now that woman has had to en-
ter the business world and to give her
every effort to various avenues of
commerce, unless she has the pow-
er of concentration on whatever work
is before her she will find herself
sadly at a loss.

All business is carried on along
certain well defined lines, just as every
household is conducted according to
certain rules and regulations, but
there comes a time in every business
when the usual order is disturbed,
and unless each part of the concern
is adjusted in such a way as to con-
nect with the other part it is true
that things will be always in a state
of more or less confusion.

Most women do their work either
in a haphazard way, which is de-
structive of any kind of settled rou-
tine, or else they get into such a rut
that it is impossible to pull them out
to face any emergency which may
arise. Everything goes very well as
long as the usual procedure is not
disturbed, but let the least thing, un-
expected, happen and at once the
whole world seems to be turned up-
side down.

Now that women are entering the
avenues of business which were once
entirely given over to men, it be-
hooves them to acquire poise and to
learn to concentrate upon whatever
is in hand if they are to make any very
real success.

There is no reason in the world

why one should not be able to do the
daily task set before one in the com-
pany oi other’ people if the other per-
sonalities are not allowed to obtrude
themselves upon one’s attention. But,
on the other hand, it is the easiest
thing in the world to fritter away
one’s time with those around one if
you will allow it. A moment here and
a moment there and the next thing
one knows the work of the day is
away behind and the work of the
morrow piled on to that of to-day.

Men have a way of concentrating
on the work before them which to a
woman of experience is quite wonder-
ful, When they play they play, and
when they work they work. That is
their secret.

It is very seldom you see two men
together during business hours that
they are not transacting business in
one way or another.

They may be talking over their
lunch, or smoking together, or walk-
ing downtown together, but if it is
in business hours you may feel very
sure that when they are engaged in
conversation it has to do with some
work they have in hand.

But maybe in the afternoon on the
golf links or in the evening at the the-
ater they will apparently have for-
gotten that there is such a thing as
business and will be all the better for
that forgetting.

It may seem to you that it is hard-
ly fair to compare you in any way with
the man or woman of large affairs
when perhaps you have just started
out in business. But this 1s not true,
for every ceg in a machine is of vast
importance, else it would not be given
a place in the machinery.

Never torget, if you are a part of
the business world, that it makes no
difference what your duties may be—
they are of the utmost importance.
3ut do not make the mistake of think-
ing that you yourself are of any great
importance taken separately from the
organization you represent.

That is one mistake that so many
women just business
world make—they forget their work
in their interest in themselves.

entering the

The fact of the matter is that in
the business world you are of no im-
portance whatever except in connec-
tion with the work that it is your duty
to accomplish day. There is
only one way you can do this work
properly, that is by concentrating up-
on it every minute of your working
time.

each

Try to cultivate concentration and
single mindedness of purpose and see
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June 12, 1918

Our Boys Are Well Fed.
Average Menu For One Week at
Camp Custer.

The editor of the Tradesman re-
cently addressed the following letter
to the War Department at Washing-

ton:

Grand Rapids, June 5—It has oc-
curred to me that if I could print,
under the authority of the War De-
partment, a ccpy of the menu of any
ore of the cantonments for the period
of a full week, it would be an edu-
caticnal feature of much value and
would do much to quiet any misap-
prehension on the part of parents as
to whether their boys are being prop-
erly fed. It would also tend to de-
stroy the effect of the propaganda
so industriously promulgated by. Ger-
man sympathizers in this country to
the effect that our soldiers are not
being properly fed.

Considering the fact that our pub-
lication is located in the North and
circulates mostly in the North and
Middle West, I think it would be well
to select some Northern cantonment,
Camp Custer or Camp Grant prefer-
red.

If you happen to think well of this
suggestion, | should be very glad in-
deed to have you give it your early
attention. E. A. Stowe.

From the War Department.

Washington, June 8—I beg leave
to acknowledge receipt of your let-
ter of June 5, in which you request
authority to print a menu of any one
of the cantonments for a period of a
full week, Camp Custer or Camp
Grant preferred, Your letter has been
referred to the Commanding General,
Camp Custer, Michigan, for any ac-
tion he may deem advisable.

Paul Giddings, Adjutant General.
From Camp Custer.

June 10—There is no objection to
veur using the enclosed menus.
These were real and not theoretical
menus and were selected at random.

By command of Major General
Kennedy: C. Liniger,

Major, N. A., Division Adjutant.

May 24-25, 1918.
Supper—
Veal Cutlets,

Creamed Pctatoes, Lettuce Salad,

Apple Pie,
Bread, Butter, Tea.
3reakfast—

Boiled Rice, French Toast,
American Fried Potatoes,
Grape Fruit,

Bread, Butter, Coffee.
Dinner

 

Vegetable Soup,
Roast Spare Ribs and Dressing,
Mashed Potatoes,
Hot Slaw,
Hominy Pudding,

Bread, Butter, - Coffee.
May 25-26, 1918.
Supper—
Salmon, Cold Corn Beef,

Hash Brown Potatoes,
Oranges
Bread, Butter, Tea.
Breakfast—
Pork Chops,
American Fried Potatoes,
Grape Fruit,
Bread, Butter, Coffee.
Dinner—

Roast Turkey and Pork,
Creamed New Potatoes,
Brown Gravy,

Creamed Peas, Radishes and
Green Onions,

Fruit Salad, Pineapple Cookies,
Strawberry-Short-Cake and
Ice Cream,

Bread, Butter, Coffee.

May 26-27, 1918.

 

Supper
Cold Pork, Potato Salad,
Strawberry-Short-Cake,
Fruit Salad,
Bread, Butter, Tea.
Breakfast—
Scrambled Eggs, Boiled Rice,
French Fried Potatoes,
Stewed Prunes,
Bread, Butter, Coffee.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17

Dinner—
Rice Tomato Soup,
Roast Pork,
Mashed Potatoes, Brown Gravy
Rice Pudding,
Fruit Salad,
Creamed Pie and Cake,
3read, Sutter, Coffee.
May 27-28, 1918.
Supper—
Macaroni and Cheese,
Potato Salad,
Plain Cookies,
Bread, Butter, Ice Tea.
Breakfast—
Oatmeal Mush, Pork Sausage,
Hot Cakes,
American Fried Potatoes
Stewed Peaches,
Bread, Sutter, Coffee. ©
Dinner—

Pea Soup, Roast Veal,
Mashed Potatoes, Brown Gravy,
String Beans, Pie Plant,
Tapioca Pudding,

Bread, Butter, Coffee.
May 28-29, 1918.

Supper—
Curry of Veal,
Rice,
Hash Brown Potatoes,
Cold Slaw,
Plain Rolls, Butter,
Breakfast—
Fried Mush, Veal Cutlets,
French Fried Potatoes,
Apple Sauce,
Butter,

Cocoa.

Bread, Coffee,
Dinner—
Rice Tomato Soup,
Boiled Beans,
Breaded Tomatoes,
Sliced Pickles, Sliced Onions,
Chocolate Cocoanut Pudding,
Apple Pie,
Bread, 3utter, Coffee.
May 29-30, 1918.
Supper—
Cold Meat,

Iflash Brown Potatoes,

Beans,
Pickles, Salad, Pie,
Bread, Butter,
Tea.
3reakfast—

Oatmeal Mush,
Scrambled Eggs,
Creamed Potatoes,
Stewed Prunes,

Bread,’ Butter, Coffee.
Dinner—
Chicken Fricassee,
Mashed Potatoes
String Beans, Baked Parsnips,

Rice Pudding,

Plain Cakes,

Bread, Butter, Coffee.

May 30-31, 1918.

Supper—
Chicken Pie, combination Salad,
Hash Brown Potatoes,
Plain Cake,

Bread, Butter, Tea.
Breakfast— :
Oatmeal, © Ham Omelet,

Hot Cakes,
French Fried Potatoes,
Stewed Peaches,
Bread, Butter, Coffee.

Dinner—
Noodle Soup, Fried Fish,
Mashed Potatoes,
Creamed Peas, Lettuce Salad,
Corn Starch Pudding,
Bread, Butter, Coffee.
———__2>- >

Not Like Mother Used to Make.

Johnny and his mother were dining
with a friend. The first course was
chicken soup with macaroni in it.
The hostess watched Johnny as he
sat quietly gazing into his plate. Fin-
ally she asked, “Why don’t you eat
your soup, Johnny?”

“T don’t care for it, please ma’am.”

“But your mamma said you liked
chicken soup.”

“T do like mamma’s chicken soup,
but she don’t put the windpipes in.”

 

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18

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

June 12, 1918

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why PM’s Necessarily Increase the
Selling Cost.

“PM’s vary widely, ranging from
5 cents to $1 per pair; 10, 15 and 25
cents are the most common figures.
Practically all the dealers relying
upon PM’s claim that, when proper-
ly supervised, they are the best meth-
od of moving slow-sellers, odd lots, and
old styles, thereby keeping the stock
clean and reducing leftovers.

“Some retail shoe dealers assert
that the use of PM’s results in a large
number of dissatisfied customers;
others state that there is no evidence
of dissatisfaction among the pur-
chasers of PM shoes. It is very pos-
sible, however,that the latter class of
retailers are mistaken, for it is ob-
viously difficult for any retailer to de-
termine definitely the number of dis-
satisfied customers—the dissatisfac-
tion showing only negatively in a
failure to return. A customer may
buy a particular style of shoe only, or
buy only occasionally at a store, be-
cause of the fact that he was not sat-
isfied with a PM purchase made some
time before. Had it not been for that
sale of the PM shoes, the customer
might have become a regular patron,
buying all the footwear for his fam-
ily at that store. Where PM’s are
used, it frequently happens that a
salesman becomes more interested in
selling shoes on which PM’s are plac-
ed than in selling shoes that surely
fit the needs of the individual cus-
tomer.

“In one store in the Middle West,
the proprietor informs the bureau that
it has been his practice to wait on
all customers who have come into
the store infrequently during the past
few years. These customers were not
what he could cail regular patrons.
Fully half of them told him that they
had not been satisfied with shoes
which they had bought in the store
on a previous occasion. Upon investi-
gation, the proprietor found that the
shoes which had not given satisfac-
tion in practically every case were
shoes on which a PM had been plac-
ed.

“Retailers who have given up us-
ing PM’s state that one of the chief
reasons for doing this is because a
new customer to whom a PM shoe
is sold often gets a wrong impression
as to the store’s character, its policies,
and its style ideas, and the customer
is lost for all time. Many say that
they dispose of odds and ends and
misjudged styles by radically reduc-
ing the price and offering them, as
bargain inducements, to customers
whom they know well. The reason
for the reduction is explained, and
customers who want style and quality

but cannot afford the prices for the
popular styles when they are at the
height of fashion are glad to accept
a good shoe at a bargain price, which
offsets the fact that the goods are a
little out of style.

“One retailer says, “Since we dis-
continued the practice of giving PM’s,
we have noticed nothing but favor-
able results. Right after they were
discontinued the old stock moved at
nearly the same rate as before. The
condition of our stock to-day is bet-
ter than it has been in years with
the PM system. If a clerk won’t do
his share of work on old stock with-
out expecting to hold up the employ-
er for PM’s he ought to be discharg-
ed so quickly that it would be a les-
son to all others.

Stock that is so old that you almost
have to fight to get a customer to
take it had better be junked. Stock
that is good, but just a little hard to
sell should be worked on by all clerks
and they should not expect to be paid
extra for doing so. We have not
found the least trouble in having our
clerks do their bit on old stock. In
fact, they seem to take pride in sell-
ing some of the older shoes. They
consider it a feat of salesmanship.
We have a thorough understanding
with our men about it, they know
why the styles were discontinued, and
what we expect in regard to old stock.
They are well satisfied. Soon after
PM’s were stopped we increased the
clerk’s pay in such a way that we
tried to equalize any deficiency caus-
ed by the lack of PM’s in cases where
we thought the clerks had used it
honestly. Thus it costs us the same to
get the goods sold, but we do not
have the dissatisfied customers.

“Over one-half of the stores from
which the bureau has information use
PM’s. Their use, however, is more
common in stores selling high-price
shoes than in stores selling low-price
shoes. About 34 per cent, 57 per cent.
and 92 per cent. of the stores selling
low, medium, and high-price shoes,
respectively, make use of PM’s.
While these percentages show that
the use of PM’s increases with the
price of the shoe sold, the figures are
more striking than the percentages
indicate, for all but 20 per cent. of the
low-price, and 32 per cent. of the
medium-price stores make very little
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high-price shoes made us of PM’s as
an established method of moving
slow-selling stock.

A greater predominance of novelty
styles in the high-price stores is prob-
ably the reason for this greater use
of PM’s. High-price stores, also, are
most reluctant to reduce the price of
their shoes and thus encourage any
price competition when they are re-
lving upon service and style as the
characteristics of their business. Al-
though only about 34 per cent. of all
stores selling low price shoes use
PM’s, more than 80 per cent. of these
stores are lecated in cities with a pop-
ulation of over 100,000. Since the
only considerable demand for high-
price shoes is confined to the large
cities, not only high-price stores which
make use of PM’s but high-price
stores which do not use them are
found chiefly in cities of 100,000 pop-
ulation.

“The size of the store also is an
important factor in determining
whether or not PM’s are used. The
average volume of all stores selling
medium-price -shoes using PM’s is
$42,000, while $23,000 is the average
volume for those not using them.
The volume of business roughly indi-
cates the number of salesmen em-
ployed, and since the use of PM’s
varies with the number of salesmen,
it also varies with the volume of busi-
ness. In only a few stores in which
the proprietor and one regular sales-
man do the selling are PM’s used.
In stores where the proprietor also
acts as salesman, PM’s are used in 4
per cent. of those employing one oth-
er regular salesman, 29 per cent. of
those employing two regular sales-
men, 52 per cent. of those employing
three regular salesman, and 75 per
cent. of those regularly employing
four or more salesmen.

“In stores selling low-priced shoes
and using PM’s the common figure
for salesforce expense is 7.4 per cent.,
and in those not giving PM’s the
salesforce expense commonly amounts
to 8.4 per cent. of net sales. This
salesforce expense does not include
the expense for PM’s. In the medi-
um-price stores, salesforce expense is
approximately the same for those us-
ing PM’s and for those not using
them. If the common figure for PM’s
is added to the percentage shown for
salesforce expense, however, it is
found that those giving PM’s sell at
slightly higher expense than those
not using this method.

“Among the stores selling low-price
shoes, 80 per cent. of those using
PM’s hold clearance sales while only
72 per cent. of those which do not
give PM’s hold such sales; in the
medium-price stores 85 per cent, giv-
ing PM’s and 74 per cent. not giving
PM’s hold clearance sales. Clearance
sales are apparently more common
among stores giving PM’s than among
stores which do not follow this prac-
tice. The featuring of novelty styles
in many of the stores that give PM’s
accounts in part for the necessity for
both clearance sales and PM’s in the
same business. It also probably indi-
cates that in some cases at least there
is poor buying all the way through.
It certainly shows that PM’s do not

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

clean the stock.

A retailer who gives PM’s general-
ly has a higher percentage of return-
ed goods than a dealer who does not
give PM’s. Taking all groups of
stores together, 1.5 per cent. of gross
sales is the common figure for re-
turns—that is, for the shoes brought
back to the store on which full credit
or full cash value is allowed to the
customer. In the stores that do not
give PM’s, the common figure for re-
turns is 0.97 per cent. of gross sales,
whereas in stores which do give
PM’s the common figure for returns
is 1.76 per cent. The volume of re-
turns is generally greater in all class-
es of merchandise in high-price stores,
but the difference in the case of shoes
between stores that grant PM’s and
those that do not is so great as to
indicate that the practice of giving
PM’s results in a substantial increase
in returns and thereby adds to the
cost of doing business, for it costs
at least as much and frequently more
to sell shoes that are returned as to
sell shoes that are not returned.—Har-
vard Bureau of Business Research.

—_»-.—____
Planning For the Annual Meeting.

Mt. Clemens, June 10—The annual
convention of the Michigan Shoe
Dealers’ Association will be held at
Grand Rapids, Sept, 10 and 11.

Elwyn Pond, of Flint, President,
and A. B. Gemmer, of Mt. Clemens,
Secretary, were in Grand Rapids re-
cently to make preliminary arrange-
ments for the State convention.

After a splendid luncheon at the
Grand Rapids Association of Com-
merce with the manufacturers, whole-
salers and retailers, a local committee
of arrangements was formed under
the chairmanship of Mr. Timmons, oi
the Wialk-Over store. Other mem-
bers of the committee are Samuel
Krause, of Hirth, Krause & Co., How-
ard F. Johnson, of Rindge, Kalmbach,
Logie Co., D. T. Patton, Grand Rap-
ids Shoe & Rubber Co., G. J. Wissink,
Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., James Fox,
of Ringe-Krekel Co., Floyd Welsh,
of Welsh Shoe Co., C. F. Waters, E.
S. Bedford, E. M. Dickinson and Lee
H. Bierce, Secretary of the Grand
Rapids Association of Commerce.

The convention will be held at the
Hotel Pantlind and the Grand Rapids
wholesalers and manufacturers will
furnish the entertainment, which fact
alone assures the convention a huge
success,

The programme in detail has not
been arranged, but war problems as
they effect the shoe trade will have a
prominent part.

Further announcement will be made
from time to time through the col-
umns of the Tradesman.

A. B. Gemmer, Sec’y.

 

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Buyers’ Week

Grand Rapids
June 24 to 29, 1918

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Gompers and His Gang in Complete
Control.

Director General of Railroads Mc-
Adoo has finally approved the plans
for the merger of the leading express
companies into one corporation under
one head. The American, Adams,
Southern and Wells-Fargo companies
are to be included and the new com-
pany, which will be known as the
Federal Express Company, will have
a capitalization of $30,000,000. The
capitalization is the combined valua-
tion of the purely physical assets of
the old companies, Mr. McAdoo
making no allowance for good will
or other assets, not represented by
the property devoted to the express
business. The Great Northern,
Northern Pacific and the Western
Express companies will be left in-
tact for the present. The first two of
this latter group are owned by the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
Railroad Companies. They are said
to have declined to go into the com-
bination because no guarantee of
earnings, such as was given to the
railroads, was made. The agreement
made with the railroad administration
is that the new company will pay 50%
per cent. of its gross earnings to the
Government as rental for the privil-
ege of operating on the railroads, and
out of the balance the company will
pay its operating expenses and a divi-
dend of 5 per cent. on its stock. The
companies taken over have a com-
bined capital of $57,000,000, but a good
deal of this is represented by invest-
ment holdings, with which the Direc-
tor General of Railroads has nothing
todo. The new company starts under
favorable auspices, as the express
traffic is now doing a volume of busi-
ness totaling $200,000,000. Express
rates will be regulated by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.

Another development of serious im-
portance to general business is the
action of Director General of Rail-
roads McAdoo in approving the in-
creases in the wages of railroad em-
ployes recommended in such generous
proportions by the committee ap-
pointed by him to investigate the sit-
uation, and in some instances going
his committee one better. To such
an extent has the edict of salary in-
crease gone, it is estimated that the
railroad payroll of the Government
cantrolled railroads of the United
States has been added to to the
amount of $325,000,000 per year. Im-
mediately following this step is the
announcement that, to meet this ad-
ditional expense and to provide for
higher costs of fuel, materials, etc.,
radical advances in freight and pass-
enger rates are necessary. Mr. Mc-

Adoo, with his usual mathematical
promptness, figured that railroad ex-
penses would be raised in the ways
indicated to the staggering sum of
$830,000,000 to $860,000,000 per year,
and so raised passenger and freight
rates on a corresponding _ scale.
Freight tariffs were advanced 25 per
cent. and passenger fares from 2 and
2% cents to 3 cents per mile, with
corresponding adjustments in special
fares. The higher rates are expected
to yield added revenue of $800,000,000
to $900,000,000. The wage adjust-
ments are retroactive and date back
to January 1, when the Government
formally assumed responsibility for
the operation of the railroads. The
advance in passenger rates become
operative June 10, and on June 25 the
freight rates, advance goes into effect.
In strong contrast with its policy
when the railroads were struggling
along under corporation ownership
and control, the Interstate Commerce
Commission allowed no grass to grow
beneath its feet, and climbed into the
McAdoo band wagon with remarkable
promptness, giving immediate approv-
al to the advances named by the Di-
rector General of Railroads.

The whole hearted support given
the Government by business men in
the cheerful payment of taxes, pur-
chases of Liberty bonds and generous
contributions to the Red Cross and
other worthy movements; the sacri-
fice of time and money in the various
money raising campaigns has so es-

‘tablished their loyalty to our country

that a word of criticism cannot be
construed as anything but construc-
tive. Therefore, it can be plainly
said that if it is urged that transporta-
tion as an element of cost enters into
the prices of all commodities and so
large an addition to transportation
charges as that now announced means
necessarily a further increase in com-
modity prices, speaking of them as a
whole, the reply must be that the ad-
vances in freight rates need not have
been so large if wages had not been
so largely advanced in such an ar-
bitrary manner. Wages of railroad
employes, especially the trainmen, in-
cluding engineers and firemen, have
been repeatedly raised within the past
few years, the roads yielding to
threats of strike, etc., until they were
the best paid class of wage earners,
even before the Government took
control of the lines, and it is by no
means certain that the present pro-
digious advances could not be avoid-
ed. This last arbitrary advance gives
rise to unpleasant surmises, one of
which is political, it is being hinted
that Mr. McAdoo is
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methods. Protection for his financial af-
fairs or for those dependent upon him, is
best accomplished through the Trust De-
partment of this company. Rents, Notes
and Mortgages collected, and Funds re-
invested, acts as executor under Wills: in
fact conducts the private affairs of any
soldier, while he is away, in an intelligent
and competent manner---for a very small
fee. Consultations are confidential.

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

THE MICHIGAN TRUST Co.

OF GRAND RAPIDS

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of the country?

June 12, 1918

paign in 1920, and that his unbusiness-
like and labor coddling action may
have been influenced by that proposi-
tion. Even if this may not be true,
the surmise has an effect on public
opinion, especially in this crucial peri-
od of the country’s affairs and is
therefore regretable.

The high cost of living is given as
a reason for liberal dealing with wage
earners. The cost of living is high,
but the question arises, Should this
class of wage earners only be reliev-
ed of the burden? Profiteering is
everywhere condemned and the Presi-
dent in his Red Cross speech said
“Give, give until it hurts.” The coun-
try nobly and gladly responded to
that appeal. Heavy taxes are impos-
ed on the man of large means as his
share of the burden of war. Then
why should the laboring element
alone be given a free hand and allow-
ed to indulge in the meanest form of
profiteering while the Nation is sore-
ly pressed to provide funds to prose-
cute the war? Of course, such meth-
ods are dictated by Gompers and his
gang of blunderers and plutocrats who
appear to be in complete control in
Washington. Is not the liberality
toward this element a discrimination
against that portion of our people
whose salary or income is fixed in
face of the doubling of the cost of
living?

The business interests of our coun-
try and our State are willing and anx-
ious to do all in their power to aid
in the winning of the war, but they
are entitled to some consideration.
Unnecessary burdens, such as the ex-
orbitant increase in railroad wages
and rates, are open to and call forth
just criticism.

Additional evidence of the basic
soundness of the general situation
is found in the fact that the 20 per
cent. of subscriptions to the Third
Liberty loan bonds has been made
with no visible effect on the money
market, nor upon interest rates, even
in the face of the final payments of
income and excess profit taxes to be
made on or before June 15.

In connection with Government fi-
nancial activities another serious ques-
tien arises: What effect will the con-
tinued vigorous stamp
campaign have upon the savings banks
It is not long since
that the centennial celebration of the
establishment of savings banks oc-

war savings

curred. These instiutions have for a
century been teaching thrift which

has had much to do with the great
development of the Nation and with
successfully meeting the demands of
the Government for the prosecution
of the war, and stand ready and will-
ing to do all that can be done. In
dealing with this question, the New
York Financial and Ccmmercial
Chronicle calls attention to the ad-
dress of Myron T. Herrick, President
of the Society for Savings at Cleve-
land, Ohio, outlining the future of
these institutions, as affected by
Government competition. It is a vital
and serious question that should re-
ceive the most careful consideration
at the coming conventions of the
Michigan Bankers’ Association, and
the National body—the American

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Bankers’ Association. Schools, col-
leges, railroads, municipal improve-
ments of roads, highways and indus-
trials, either by bonding on its col-
lateral effect, have been aided and
maintained by the savings banks.

3ecause we are now in need of bil-
lions for uses never before consider-
ered; because we are selling stamps
and bonds in unprecedented quanti-
ties; because we have established a
Federal Reserve system; lowered the
reserves of commercial banks; given
National banks trust company pow-
ers; set up a Nation-wide land bank
system (which, it is alleged, may re-
ceive savings accounts), the question
arises, Is all this justifiable for failure
to preserve these savings institutions
which have been such vital factors in
the growth of the Nation? There is
danger—great danger—that through
Government competition, as now
practiced and planned, that savings
and thrift, so far as the results are
concerned, will pass permanently in-
to the hands of the Government
through the slow drying up of the
savings banks. Instead of being de-
stroyed, the savings banks should be
protected and encouraged.

Paul Leake.

Gov. Stanley, of Kentucky, has gone
President Wilson one better. The
President modestly bought a few
sheep, pastured them on the White
House lawn, and the other day dis-
posed of the wool for the benefit of
the country.
be outdone, has established a drove
of hogs on the State House lawn.
The Governor's purpese, it is. said,
is to give the Kentucky farmers an
object-lesson in hog raising. Wheth-
er this means that the farmers of
Kentucky do not know how to raise
hegs, or merely that they need to be
stirred up to raising hogs whether
they know how or not, we are not in-

The Governor, not to

formed. But there are the hogs, turn-
ing the grounds about the State
House into a miniature battlefield,

and themselves into the food that
will win the war. The example set
by Gov. Stanley ought to be widely
fellowed. All of our State -capitols
have lawns, some of which, under the
hands of landscape architects, have
become things of beauty. But we
are at war, and beauty must be cast
before swine.
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Activities in Michigan Cities.
Written for the Tradesman.

The Kalamazoo Chamber of Com-
merce will form a convention bureau,
having charge of all work in connection
with securing Conventions and enter-
taining visiting delegates.

The Sheet Metal Contractors’ Asso-
ciation of Bay City has agreed on a
uniform charge of $1 an hour for me-
chanics and 50 cents an hour for help-
ers, this advance in scale being due to
an increase in the wages paid their em-
ployes.

Pontiac will boost its water rates,
with advance especially high on the flat
rate in order to bring about the installa-
tion of meters.

Traffic Manager Mueller, of the Lan-
sing Chamber of Commerce, estimates
that the coming boost in freight rates
will mean an increase of a million dol-
lars in the freight bills of local shippers.

Lansing has passed a milk ordinance
which requires producers hereafter to
pasteurize the milk or submit their cows
to the tuberculin test.

The Standard Oil Co. will establish a
large distributing station for Western
Michigan at Muskegon, bringing much
of its supplies to that city by boat.
There is belief also that the Michigan
Central Railroad will extend its lines
to that city.

Flint’s new charter provides for a
public welfare department with various
activities, including supervision of the
poor and censorship of theaters.

Creditors of the Monroe Motors Co.,
of Pontiac, have started friendly re-
ceivership proceedings and believe that,
after re-organization, the company will
be able to continue business. The lia-
bilities are $538,000, with assets only
slightly less, it is said.

The Merchants’ Transit Co. will start
its first boat out of Charlevoix and other
Northern Michigan ports June 6, con-
tinuing the sailings about every five days
during the early part of the season.

The Petoskey Portland Cement Co.
will improve its property, just west of
the city, the work to include building a
slip at the water front to accomodate
vessels of 20-foot draft. large storage
arrangements and increased crusher
capacity.

The Central Michigan Products Co.,
capital $60,000, has been formed at St.
Louis and has taken over the old brick
and tile yards West of the city. New
kilns are being built and all kinds of
clay products will be turned out.

Saginaw will be made a central dis-
tributing point for products of the
Standard Oil Co., starting July 1. About
fifty people will be employed at the of-
fices there, some of them coming from
Detroit and South Bend.

Port Huron manufacturers insist the
city must provide adequate hospital ac-
comodations for their employes. They
are asking for a new building of 100
beds at once. The present institution
there is inadequate.

The Osceola County Board of Com-
merce will hold its annual meeting at
Evart July 4 and it will be the greatest
patriotic demonstration ever held in the
county. There will be speakers of Na-
tional fame, a great parade and Osceola
county’s service flag will be unfurled.

Officers of Battle Creek, after a sur-
vey of pool rooms and others places

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

where boys and men are wont to hang
out, say they do not believe there are
ten idle men in the city.

Marshall has voted to buy a motor
driven fire truck. Almond Griffen.

—_—_~-2s——
Effect of Flour Substitutes on the
Farmer’s Wife.

Ann Arbor, June 3—With so many
flour substitutes obtainable and so
many ways of preparing each one for
food it seems no hardship at all to
comply with the Food Administra-
tor’s request to abstain from eating
any wheat products until after harvest
—just a few weeks now. But the
abundance of other bread material and
the willingness to aid in saving wheat
for our army and the Allies are only
small factors of the problem.

Upon the housewife falls most of
the burden and responsibility of ful-
filling the pledges of others or com-
plying with the request. The city
housewife convenient to § grocer,
butcher and baker, who can prepare
or secure a meal without cooking any-
thing may not find the task so great
as one who does most or all the bak-
ing and cooking for a family or for
boarders. Even these complain about
the fifty-fifty regulations and the vic-
tory bread made only in part of corn
meal. What of the farmer’s wife who
must forego the great convenience of
baking white and graham bread twice
a week and filling in with cereals,
griddle cakes, johnny cake, rice, gems,
etc., using her full 50 per cent. of flour
substitutes?

The successful operation of the
farm may fail if hired men are not
pleased as well as nourished by their
meals. No citv employer faces this
inevitable problem. Nor is this all.
Many a farmer’s wife has heretofore
occasionally or frequently done team
work two or three hours at a time,
forenoon and afternoon, and then pre-
pared a meal in the hour before dinner
or the half-hour before supper. In
order to do it she must have bread
that will keep palatable more than six
or twelve hours. She must have can-
ned fruit and some pastry baked
ahead. In the past there may have
been a boy to help with garden work
and poultry, besides bringing in wood,
water, vegetables etc., and perhaps
bearing a hand with the housework.

Now if the main farm worker has’

gone to the army, the garden-chore-
hov takes his brother’s place in the
field and mother’s tasks are increased
bevond last year.

Can mother do it? is the question
to be answered before one or all can
nledge themselves to comply with the
latest food request. The Food Ad-
ministrator asks only those who can.
He realizes that there may be infants,
invalids, aged and infirm people who
could not live and be well if forced
to accept such radical changes in diet.

Another thing: While mother is
spending far more time than formerly
to fix up appetizing dishes from flour
substitutes to save twenty-five, fifty
or even 100 pounds of flour before
harvest. she may have to leave un-
done garden work, care of poultry or
even field farm work which might re-
sult in producing or saving from 100
te 1,000 nounds of food.

Everv family must adapt themselves
to their own conditions—or rather
thes must save in the way that will
covnt most.

Don’t bind mother to any pooular
method or plan without determining
whether it is going to help save or
whether it will only increase her tasks
and defeat the very aim of food con-
servation.

If the early settlers of Michigan had
flour enough to make white bread for
companv they were fortunate indeed.
Tf they lived now with all the various
flour substitutes to be had and all
kinds of canned fruit, meat and vege-
tables in the stores. they could get
along without any flour and be very
thankful not to have to live on pork,
potatoes and corn meal. Minion.

June 12, 1918

THE

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Executor under Will. Do not neglect
to insure the future of those dependent
upon you. Instruct your attorney to
draw your will at once, and in it have
this strong Trust Company named as
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One hundred years ago, grandmother made bread and rolls —
of melting sweetness with good, old fashioned rye flour.

Grandfather swallowed her flaky piecrust and tarts with a
sigh of delight. Then he went forth with the sinew and
nerve and shrewdness that subdued the virgin forests and
conquered a continent.

 

Again in these strenuous days, we have need for muscle
and nerve and brain power, and

  

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is the result.

We have entirely remodeled our Star Roller Mill—the oldest
mill in this city. Special machinery, which is absolutely
necessary to mill Rye successfully, is all installed. Now
we make the best Rye Flour ever produced in Grand Rapids.

We use genuine Michigan White Rye, and the loaf your
patrons get from the Rye Loaf Flour is sweet and ruggedly
nourishing.

‘“‘WHEN ONCE YOU TRY IT, YOU’LL ALWAYS BUY IT”
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HAT more interesting or instructive pilgrimage than a visit to the new home of

this new flour? The process of milling RYE LOAF is entirely different than that

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Grand Council of Michigan U. C. T.
os Jrand Counselor—W. T. Ballamy, Bay
ity.

Grand Junior Counselor—C. C. Stark-
weather, Detroit.

Grand Past Counselor—John A. Hach,
Coldwater.

Grand Secretary—M. Heuman, Jackson.
Grand Treasurer—Lou J. Burch, De-
troit.

Grand Conductor—H. D. Ranney, Sag-
inaw.

Grand Page—A. W.
kegon.

Grand Sentinel—H. D. Bullen, Lansing.
— Chaplain—J. H. Belknap, Bay
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Ammunition Sheet For Michigan
Wholesale Grocer Salesmen.

Detroit, June 10—This week’s mes-
sage is one that you may well be
proud to carry to your customers, li
is possible because of the splendid co-
operation which the United States
Food Administration has had from
you and from the retail merchants of
this country. The Food Administra-
tion message has been put across. The
living habits of 100,000,000 people
have been changed without riot or
other serious disturbance, and Ameri-
ca is swinging forward into the fight
for Democracy.

The following comparative state-
ment of shipments of wheat, beef and
pork tell their own story:

Wheat—July 1917 to May 1, 1918,
amount available for export, with
normal consumption, would have been
10,000,000 to 30,000,000 bushels.
Amount shipped to the Allies during
this period, by reason of wheat sav-
ing, 110,000,000 bushels.

Beef—Export shipments of beef be-
fore the war per month, 6,000,000
pounds. Export shipments for year
1917, 20,000,000 pounds. For the
month of March 1918, 80,000,000
pounds.

Pork—Export shipments of pork
before the war per month, 50,000,000
pounds. Export shipments for entire
year 1917, 150,000,000 pounds. For
the month of March 1918, 308,000,000
pounds.

But you must say to your custom-
ers, there can be no let-up on our
food conservation work.’ There are
before us at least eight months of
dangerous shortage before the ship-
ping programme can be fully effect-
ive.

Detroit, June 10—That is your mes-
sage this week, Our stocks of wheat
are rapidly diminishing; the critical
situation on the Western Front has
resulted in two things which vitally
concern the food problem:

1. It has become necessary to
withdraw ships from all trade routes
to other countries which were help-
ing us supply the Allied nations with
food, and has placed upon us the en-
tire burden of their food supply.

2. Immense quantities of food
stores have been lost in the recent
German advance and we must replen-
ish these, which must necessarily re-
sult in our having to send at once
more wheat than we have planned.

There are large stocks of substi-
tute cereals on the hands of dealers
in Michigan, which are in serious
danger of spoiling during the warm
weather. If. these substitutes spoil
it is an economic waste which has no
place in war.

It is time for the people of Michi-
gan to pledge themselves to no wheat

until after harvest. Let’s start some-
thing!
Facts.

“Wheat is now the very symbol of
life to our Allies.”

Herbert C. Hoover.

Normally we consume 42,000,000
bushels of wheat per month.

We have 56,000,000 bushels of wheat
in this country to last us for the next
sixty days, 30,000,000 bushels of this
must be exported (probably much
more, now) leaving 26,000,000 bushels,
let’s send that too.

Fifty per cent. of the food of France
is bread, Their country is under the
heel of the oppressor and they are
fighting our fight. We have no right
to ask them to change their habits of
living now.

Our job right now is to keep our
Allies from demcralization in the
home trenches. Hunger is the great-
est demoralizer, we must avoid it by
saving food. Oscar Webber,

State Merchant Representative.

_——2s eo
Shows an Annual Turn-Over Thirty-
nine Times.

Battle Creek, June 10—Last August
you gave the readers of the Trades-
man an account of a turn-over .n an
Ohio store which was, I think, twen-
ty-seven t-mes per year.

At that time we showed a turn-
over of thirty-four times per year.

This store has lately changed hands,
having been purchased by Niergarth
Bros., of Reed City, and here is a
history of the store, which we are a
little proud of:

The stock invoiced March 7, 1917,
$1,058, and at that time the business
being done was around $200 per week.

We moved the stock March 24 to
a vacant store, nearly a block from
the first, taking, we will say, all of
the old trade with us. This stock
was invoiced in August the same year
and was then a trifle less than $1,000.
At that time we were doing a busi-
ness around $700 per week. The stock
and fixtures were sold and invoiced
again June 2, 1918. The invoice June
2 was $1,309 and the last twelve weeks
we did a business of $16,221, or an
average business of $1,351 per week.

For the last twenty weeks we did
a business of $24,432 or an average of
$1,221 per week.

On a $1,300 stock of goods for the
whole length of  time—fourteen
months and about three weeks—we
did a bus‘ness of $56,312, or an aver-
age turnover of (as I figure it) thirty-
nine times per year!

And this with a run-down trade in
a new location to start with.

I will say, further, it has been a
w'nner. financially.

Can you beat it?

J. Holmes Kellogg.

The Tradesman cheerfully doffs its
hat to Mr. Kellogg as the most suc-
cessful disciple of the doctrine of
turn-over which has’ ever’ been

brought to the attention of this office.

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“No; you don’t want that. This is
what you want. Now just——” He
has quit clerking and gone to work
in a shop, and he does not know yet
that his way of antagonizing cus-
tomers was the main reason he could
not hold a job as clerk,

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June 12, 1918

DETROIT DETONATIONS.

Cogent Criticisms From Michigan’s
Metropolis.

Detroit, June 11—Did you write a
letter to a soldier this week?

IF. S. Sleder, druggist at 1157 Chene
street, is having a new front install-
ed in his store and the interior re-
modeled.

Fire caused a loss of $10,000 in the
Parke, Davis & Co, plant Saturday
night.

P. C. Palmer, department manager
for Burnham, Stoepel & Co., is in
New York this week on a business
trip.

Sam Foote, for a number of years
in charge of the perfume department
of the Michigan Drug Co., has resign-
ed and moved to New York where
he has opened a brokerage office.

Leonard Frawley, city representa-
tive for Burnham, Stoepel & Co. and
member of Detroit Council, expects to
leave this week for the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station, having suc-
cessfully passed an examination for
enlistment in the Navy.

Mrs. James Jonas, wife of Senior
Counselor Jonas, of Detroit Council,
is seriously ill and was removed last
week to a hospital.

Actions speak louder than words.
If Detroiters run short
of coal this winter, the next best
thing they can do is to go where coal
is a non-necessity—according to the
State Fuel Administrator.

The Federal State Bank has opened
a branch bank in a new building erect-
ed by them at Oakman and Davison
avenues. This is the fifth branch for
the Federal State Bank in Detroit.

The cheering news of the rapid re-
covery of Past Grand Counselor B
J. Moutier has been received and it is
heped he will be able to leave his
home within a few days.

Detroiters fared well at the U. C.
T. Grand Council meeting in Jackson
last week. C. C. Starkweather was
elevated to the position of Grand
Junior Counselor, Lou J. Burch was
re-elected Grand Treasurer, M. G.
Howarn and A. G. MacEachron were
elected delegates to the Supreme
Council meeting to be held in Colum-
bus June 25, Sam Rindskoff, alternate
delegate and District Deputy for
Lower Michigan, A. G. MacEachron
and Sam Rosenfield, chairmen on two
important committees and J. W.
Schram alternate delegate to the Su-
preme Council meeting. Not a poor
showing, say we, although Cadillac
Council as recipient of most of the
Detroit honors is fully deserving ot
the recognition bestowed on it by
the Grand Council. It was on a mo-
tion made by Treasurer Burch that
the resolution to donate $500 to the
Red Cross and the purchase of $1,000
worth of War Savings Stamps was
made and carried. The decision was
left to the Executive Committee as
to the location for the next Grand
Council meeting. Although no mem-
ber has committed himself, the choice
undoubtedly lies between Battle
Creek and Flint, with the latter city
probably landing the convention.
Martin F. Reed was awarded the sil-
ver fob for obtaining the greatest
number of applications for member-
shiv in Cadillac Council. :

J. E. Bauk, druggist, has moved his
stock and fixtures from Davison Road
to 881 East Forest avenue.

Leo Berman, Cleveland representa-
tive for A. Krolik & Co., was in the
city last week to attend the shriners’
meeting. Mr. Berman was a member
of the large class that was initiated.

J. R. Rauch, pioneer general mer-
chant of Plymouth and well known
in Detroit, has sold his stock and
fixtures to Detroit parties.

The Detroit Drug Club will hold
its annual automobile outing at Lake
Orion, Wednesday, June 19. Auto-
mobiles will leave Woodward and
Ferry avenues at 9 a. m. sharp. Plen-
ty of good eats and entertainment are
promised and the affair needs but fol-

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

low along the same lines as former
years to assure the happy druggists
and their friends a day of joy and
irivolity. H. S. Carpenter, druggist
at 211 East Jefferson avenue, is Secre-
tary of the organization.

C. A. Grinnell, Vice-President of the
Grinnell Bros, music house, was
elected President of the Allied Mus-
ical Industries of the United States
at the meeting in New York last
week.

Roy Mott, recently appointed city
salesmanager by A. Krolik & Co.,
gave a banquet to the sales force un-
der his charge at the Hotel Statler
last Friday evening.

R. E. Carroll, of Bronson, has join-
ed the sales force of Burnham, Stoe-
pel & Co. and will cover the Lower
Michigan territory in the capacity of
general salesman.

L. W. Williams, who has been ill
at his home for some time, is again
cut and is calling on the trade. Mr.
Williams is a charter member of De-
troit Council.

Cadillac Council, true business-like
style, has a permanent office at 302
Buhl Block, where one or more at-
taches of the organization will al-
ways be found—in or out.

Final arrangements for the Build-
ers and Traders Exchange annual out-
ing to Put-in-Bay have been made,
the date being set for June 25.

The new Hotel Fort Shelby, on
Lafayette boulevard, a few moments’
walk from the heart of the city, has
been opened. Several innovations
will be found in the Hotel and to
thousands of Michigan traveling men
the fact that John C. Thomson is
manager speaks volumes for the re-
sultant service.

Now that Detonations is again graz-
ing in the Tradesman _ field, who
knows but what others of the old
school might also attempt to stage a
comeback? James M. Goldstein.

—_»2 22>
Recent News of the Cloverland of

Michigan.
Sault Ste. Marie, June 10—James
Mollnaro, who formerly conducted

the Manhattan restaurant, on Ash-
mum street, has opened a new deli-
catessen store in place of the restau-
rant, which is one of the best loca-
tions in the city. Mr. Mollnaro ex-
pects to carry a full line of fresh gro-
ceries, greens, fruits and a cold lunch
counter service, which, undoubtedly,
will be greatly appreciated by the
many transients and tourists, as well
as the public in general.

Martin Narkowski, proprietor of
the Soo meat market on Spruce
street, has sold out to Fred Bye, who
formerly conducted a market at
Spruce and Johnson streets. This is
considered one of the best locations
in the city and, with Mr. Bye’s past
experience along that line, the busi-
ness will undoubtedly prove a_suc-
cessful undertaking. Mr. Narkowski
expects to engage in other lines, but
has made no definite arrangements
for the future as yet.

A. H. Eddy, proprietor of the Eddy
Food Emporium, attended the con-
ference called by the State Food Ad-
ministration at Lansing, representing
this district.

That the Soo business men will be
in the swim this summer has been
manifested when the summer term
in the large and commodious swim-
ming pool at the high school was op-
ened for the summer, providing a
large enough class could be arranged.
It required not less than twenty mem-
bers to start the term, but it just took
a once over to get over forty of our
prominent business men to take ad-
vantage of this splendid opportunity,
enabling them to take their weekly
plunge in the crystal pool where the
temperature is just right and the
gathering congenial. This is one of
the best get-together movements ever
started in the city and is a novelty as
well. Herb Fletcher, Assistant Cash-
ier of the Sault Savings Bank, is con-
sidered one of the best swimmers in

Chippewa county and was the unani-
mous choice as instructor for the
business men’s class. He has gained
the reputation of a fish in the water.
With the experience he has had since
the pool has been opened, he will see
that all are good swimmers before the
term closes.

“Attempts to make hay while the
sun shines are as apt to be failures as
things of the morning after.”

Mrs. M, Schwegler, of Detroit, ar-
rived at Mackinac Island last week
and has opened a curio store for the
season.

Dr. Guy Bailey, the health officer
for Mackinac Island, has put on a
campaign, backed by the Mayor, for
the residents to put their premises in
a sanitary condition and _ beautify
their lawns, whereby the Island will
be one of the most attractive and
well-kept summer resorts in the State.
Everybody is interested and will co-
operate with the doctor to make this
a banner year for this famous summer
resort.

The Hossack mill, at the Snows,
has started operations for the season
cutting hardwood. This will put ad-
ditional hum in the activities of
Cedarville.

“The snow man quickly melts but
its different with the heart of the
iceman,”

Miss Jones, former teacher of the
Detour high school, will assist Post-
master McFee, of Hessel, this season,
beginning her duties June 17.

The tourists are beginning to ar-
rive at Brevoirt Lake from Ohio
points. Several have already come to
spend the summer.

“Watches and rivers do not run long
without winding.”

William G. Tapert.
—_+- 2 —____—
Bottom Facts From Booming Boyne
City.

Boyne City, June 11—Farm Agent
Smith is more than busy in his or-
ganization work among the farmers.
In anticipation of the full crop move-
ment, farmers around Boyne City are

getting together on the marketing
problem. Boyne City is looking for

profitable results from the effort for
more efficient marketing, both to the
city and the farming community.

A freight line has at last been es-
tablished between Chicago and the
Northern lake ports, including Boyne
City, and our merchants are looking
for a release from transportation con-
ditions which are hardly conducive
to either serene temper or plethoric
bank accounts. Claims for lost, stray-
ed or stolen goods are all right, but
they don’t clothe the naked nor shoe
the barefooted and, anyway, when
goods are ordered, it is with the ex-
pectation of supplying seasonable
wants. Summer goods delivered in
November and winter goods in April
don’t seem to fit the mark or market.

The North side of Water street,
which has been an eyesore to every-
body for the past two years, and a
cause for stumbling and profanity to
every pedestrian, is being put in de-
cent condition by the construction of
a new side walk from Lake to Park
streets. Boyne City, like so many
other towns, needs a miniature Gen.
Foch to take supreme and continu-
ous command of the public improve-
ments,

The steamer Griffin unloaded a car-
go of coal this week for the Iron
Company. The boat took the place
of the C. I. C. O. A., which is now in
Government service. The Griffin is
about 50 per cent. greater capacity
than its predecessor and will carry
ore for the Boyne City and East Jor-
dan plants this season.

The schooner Sands and barge
Jackson, in tow of the tug Crawford,
are loading for Georgian Bay at the
W. H. White Co. docks. The former
was a lumber carrier out of Manistee
many years ago, when that town was
noted for shingles, sawdust and fleas.

The foundation of the Traction En-
gine Co’s, factory is in. The ma-

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chinery has begun to arrive and J. O.
Heinze, of Detroit, the General Man-
ager, has arrived and taken charge of
the work. A way through the tangle
of transportation dithculties, priority
erders and general vicissitudes of war
business seems to have been made
and this industry is in a fair way to
be an accomplished fact.

William H. White has gone to
British Columbia, where he is devel-
oping his timber interests near Van-
couver under the direction of the
Michigan Trust Company. The ac-
tivities include the construction of
railways, docks, sawmill, chemical
plant and sulphide plant, involving an
ageregate expenditure of several mil-
lion dollars. Mr. White receives an
annual salary of $12,000 per year dur-
ing the preparatory period and is
practically given a free hand in the
gigantic task he has undertaken. Mrs.
White and her family will remain in
Boyne City until fall, when they will
take up their residence on the Coast.
Mr. White’s many friends are greatly
rejoiced over the happy outcome oi
his affairs and that the purchase of the
Vancouver timber, which resulted in
his financial downfall, will now make
him many times a millionaire.

Judge Harris started Monday morn-
ing for Camp Custer via Grand Rap-
ids, where he spent Monday night.
He telephoned his friends from Grand
Rapids that he found the Mackinaw
Trail in excellent condition, except
the stretch in Osceola county, North
of Reed City, which he pronounces
the worst road he ever had the mis-
fortune to undertake to navigate.
Why Osceola county persists in im-
nairing the automobile travel to
Northern Michigan via the Mackinaw
Trail by lack of action on its wretch-
ed roadway is more than the rest of
us “Up North” can understand.

Maxy.

—_—_>-.___

Sparks From the Electric City.

Muskegon, June 11—The large ad-
dition to the Continental Motors Co.
is nearing completion.

L. J. Townsend, Middleville hard-
ware merchant, is disposing of his
stock to E. J. Merrifield, of Bloom-
ingdale, and J. F. Follmer, of Vicks-
burg. Just what disposition will be
made is as yet unknown.

The Michigan Railway Company
has removed the chairs from the par-
lor sections of some of the cars and
replaced with seats, thereby increas-
ing their capacity.

W. W. Richards says that new head
gear is not a wig—just a new in-
sulator to prevent brain leaks.

We glean this from a Chicago ice
cream and candy journal: “A certain
Muskegon candy jobber came near
losing his star salesman recently, as
many of his friends decided he had
gone insane. Being in a small town
one night he received the following
telegram from his wife: “Twins ar-
rive to-night. More by mail to-mor-
row, whereupon the excited father
answered as follows: ‘Cannot reach
home before to-morrow. If more ar-
tive by mail to-night, return to dead
letter office at once. Billy.’”

You often hear that a ford can go
anywhere, but H. F. Foote and Her-
man Anderson know now that it will
not climb a tree; in fact, they recent-
ly made a failure trying it at Twin
Lake. We hear Foote tried flying
at the same time.

If the Kaiser is in trouble, why
don’t he tell it to the marines? They
are on the job looking for him.

A. W. Steenson attended the Grand
Couneil of the U. C. T. in Jackson
last week. We have not seen Steve.
so cannot say how well he enjoyed
things, E. P. Monroe.

——_e.>___

The Phillips-Michigan Co. has been
organized to manufacture and sell au-
tomatic sprinklers, with an authorized
capital stock of $5,000, of which
amount $3,000 has been subscribed
and $1,000 paid in in cash.

 

 

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Leonard A. Seltzer, Detroit.
Secretary—Edwin T. Boden, Bay City.
Treasurer—George F. Snyder, Detroit.
Other Members—Herbert H. Hoffman,

Sandusky; Charles S. Koon, Muskegon.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso-
ciation.
President—P. A. Snowman, Lapeer.

Secretary—F. J. Wheaton, Jackson.

Treasurer—E. E. Faulkner, Delton.

Next Annual Meeting—Detroit, June
25, 26 and 27, 1918.

 

Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As-
sociation.
President—W. F. Griffith, Howell.
Secretary and Treasurer—Walter S.
Lawton, Grand Rapids.

 

 

Status of the Drug Market.
Purchasing by local consumers and
dealers is generally restricted to hand
to mouth quantities.
products, crude and manufactured, are

Stocks of many

small, however, and with the offerings
light the general market remains firm.
Quicksilver is stronger owing to a
diminution in supplies. Permanga-
nate of potash is weaker owing to
keener competition due to an absence
of demand of consequence. Supplies
of santonine are small and materially
higher prices are demanded by hold-
ers. Saccharine lacks quotable change
but the market is firmer, influenced by
some increase in the demand of late.
Quinine quiet in second
hands. Benzoic acid and benzoate of
soda are weak owing to a lack of de-
mand
are reported at further concessions
in prices. South American copaiba is

continues

of consequence and offerings

weaker owing to an absence of en-
quiry. A further advance has oc-

curred in wormseed oil owing to in-
creasing scarcity. The general list of
essential oils is firm with the trading
Sales of aloes are
Japanese
refined camphor continues quiet and

quiet. soccotrine

reported at higher prices.

further shading of the price of slabs
is noted. Gum oilbanum is firmer ow-
ing to a decrease in supplies. Quinine
seed is strong at a further advance
due to scarcity. Cream of tartar is
easier in second hands owing to a
falling off in demand and freer offer-
ings.

higher.
diminishing
and prices have been advanced to $45

materially

Santonine is
Supplies are small and
per pound for crystals and $45.50 for
powdered.

Quinine is quiet in second hands,
but offerings are light as a rule and
holders generally demanded $1.05 and
upward per ounce.
possible, however, to purchase at $1
per ounce.

Quicksilver is stronger in second
hands. Arrivals from the coast have
been comparatively small for some
time past and spot supplies are light.
Prices are advanced to $118@120 per
flask, according to seller.

Saccharine is in fair demand. Sup-

It was said to be

plies appear to be light and the mar-
ket is firm at $20@22 per pound for
soluble.

Antipyrene is quiet and the situa-
tion lacks new features, the market
remaining steady at the recent de-
cline.

Sugar of milk is meeting with a
steady enquiry and the market con-
tinues firm at 50@52c per pound.

—_~+22—___
Kill Flies and Save Lives.

Kill at once every fly you can find
and burn his body.

The killing of just one fly now
means there will be billions and tril-
lions next summer.

The conditions produced ty the
long and severe winter have made dif-
ficult the removal and proper disposal
of refuse and filth accumulations that
will facilitate the breeding of disease-
germ-carrying flies.

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Clean up your own premises; see

and insist that your neighbors do
likewise.
Especially clean “out-of-the-way

places,” and every nook and cranny.

Flies will not go where there is
nothing to eat, and their principal
diet is too filthy to mention.

The Fly Is the Tie That Binds the
Unhealthy to the Healthy!

The fly has no equal as a germ “‘car-
rier; as many as five hundred million
germs have been found in and on the
body of a single fly.

It is definitely known that the fly
is the “carrier” of the germs of ty-
phoid fever; it is widely believed that
it is also the of other dis-
eases, including possibly infantile pa-
ralysis.

“carrier”

The very presence ci a fly is a sig-
nal and notification that a housekeep-
er is uncleanly and inefficient.

Do not wait until the insects begin
to pester; anticipate the annoyance.

The early summer months are the
best months to conduct an anti-fly
campaign.

The farming and suburban districts
provide ideal breeding places, and the
new born flies do not remain at their
birth place but migrate, using rail-
roads and other means of transporta-
tion, to towns and cities.

Your friends and members of the
family now in the service should be
reminded of the danger of the house
fly in camps and co-operate with their
superiors for the elimination of this
deadly pest.

Kill flies and save lives!

Easy to Get.
Young Man—So Miss Ethel is your
oldest sister? Who comes after her?
Small Brother—Nobody ain’t come
yet; but pa says the first fellow that
comes can have her.

If Customers Do Not Come.

One druggist secures a steady prof-
itable trade from a large factory near
at hand, instead of a straggling pa-
He uses a little plan that
calls only on his spare time, of which
he formerly had plenty because of
his distance from the busy retail por-
tion of the city.

Every forenoon he sends over to

tronage.

the factory a soda fountain menu done
on a duplicating machine. It shows
the items for the day and varies from
day to day. Since many of the em-
ployes carry lunches he gets orders
for ice cream to be delivered to
groups that pool their refreshment
money. He also sells lemonade and
other drinks in summer, and coffee in

winter. Ralph Evans.

 

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The Non-Poisonous Fly Destroyer

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Catches 50,000,000,000
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PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW FOR

Soda Fountain Fruits and Syrups

 

 

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We Are Distributors of
J. Hungerford Smith Co.’s Fruits and Syrups
Royal Purple Grape Juice
Welsh Grape Juice

Coco Cola

We Also Carry a Full Line of Soda Fountain Accessories
WRITE FOR PRICE LISTS

 

 

Putnam Factory Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

Tables
Mixers

Many Have Delayed

The Season Has Been
Back ward

Prohibition became effective May Ist.

Demand for soft drinks increases, naturally,
necessarily and automatically.

We are in a position to serve you now, viz:

Soda Fountains
Chairs
Holders
Spoons
Also

Syrups, Fruit Juices,
Chocolate Flavors, Etc.
Write our Mr. Arthur W. Olds for a date.

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WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURREN'!
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Acids Cubes ......:. 9 25@9 50 Capsicum ....... @2 16
Boric (Powd.) ..18@ 26 Jigeron ........ 3 25@3 50 Cardamon ...... @2 10
Boric (Xtal) . 18@ 25 Hucalyptus .. 1 25@1 35 Cardamon, Comp. @1 60
Carbolic ......... 78@ 81 Hemlock, pure 1 75@2 00 Catechu ........ @1 69
Citic 6... 110@1 15 Juniper Berries 17 50@17 75 Cinchona ....... @2 35
Muriatic ........ 34@ — Wood .. i “et 00 Ping gpa Sauces @2 40
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depend on right buying as well (ge 3... Go 70 Lard, No. 1 .... 1 85@1 95 Digitalis ........ @1 9%
i Sulphuric ....... 3 5 vender ow @7 25 CuGran . 2.3.4... @1 60
as right selling Wartaric 2. ....6. 1 tet 15 Lavender, Gar’n 1 25@1 40 AONEGr ... 14... @2 00
. : Lemon ......... 2 00@2 2% Guaiac .......... @1 9
Ammonia Linseed, boiled bbl. @1 62  Guaiac, Ammon @1 80
Water, 26 deg. ....12@ 20 Binseed, bid less § 72@1 7 Iedime .......... @1 50
Water, 18 deg. ..10%@ 18 Linseed, raw, bbl. @1 61 lodine, Colorless @1 75
Water, 14 deg. 9%@ li Linseed raw less 1 71@1 76 Iron, clo. ....... @1 60
Carbonate ..... @ 20 Mustard, true, oz @2 25 Kino ............ 1 66
Chioride ....... 1 00@1 10 Mustard, artifil oz. @2 00 Myrrh ........... 2 50
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Acacia, powdered 60@ Carbonate _..... 1 sowz uv Calomel ........ 2 56@2 60
nae Aloes (Barb. Pow) 30@ 40 Chiorate, gran’r 65@ 70 Capsicum ....... 35@ 40
Aloes (Lape Pow.) 30W 30 Chiorate, xtal or Cc F 4
eys e an le Oo Aloes (soc, Pow. 90) @ 85 pane sue 65 armine ........ 6 50@7 00
e — eee. : ou Oe anise een ia 40 pena Buds ..... @ 40
Q s < MUNG ......... @2 7% Iodide ......... 4 59@4 GG Cloves .,......... 77@ = 85
/ °° ure ..... wecce @2 50 Permanaganate 5 50W5 6U Chalk =
Grand Rapids ? Michigan Campnor ....... 1 35@1 40 frussiate, yellow @i 7 Cl - _— hy ae »
Guaine) |... ..... 4100 Prussiate, red ..3 75@400 “alk ‘recipitated 12@ 15
nna powdered wk’ - SUlpuate .........; @ 90 Chloroform ...... 90@ 97
@ ..... eccceces Chioral Hydrate 2 17@2 2
inv, powdered .. 75@ 80 Reets Coe ue TT . — a
ee @ Aiken ....... $ at oe Goce Baselc’ Ve 13 &
Myrri, powdered | W 15 asivod, powdered — S¥W 89 Corks, list a
Opium ...... 30 00@30 50 Calamus ........ 20WS 290 Copperas, bbl %
Vpium, powd. 382 50W33 00 Wlecampane, pwd. tow 40 Copperas, | mot 3
; a 8% 5oyap3e Ol Se : wer as, less 3%@ &
Opium, gran. 382 d90Ww33 V0 Genuan, powu. 27W 35 Copperas, powd. 4 1
Snellac ...... cees 00M YO Ginger, Airican, Corrosive Sublm. T2002 a
Shellac, Bleached 90W 95 powuereu ...... Zow 30 Gream Tartar 80 86
iragacanth .... 260@3 00 Ginger, Jamaica ..30@ 35 Cuttlebone Y 7a 90
Tragacanth powder 250 U:suger, vaiuaica, Dextrine ........ san 15
Turpentine ...... 15@ 20 powdered ...... 22@ 30 Dover's Powder 5 1506 00
Insecticides Gulucusess vow. Ss wws ay Emery, All Nos. 10 15
‘ »,  ipecac, powd... 4 v0W4 45 jomery, Powdered 8@ 10
Arsenic seer eee ees 20@ 30 PUORICG SL. is 6. ee 43w dU Epsom Salts, bbls 4%
Biue Vitriol, bbl = @1l% . .corice, powa. 40W 20 Epsom Salts, less 5@ 8
Biue Vitriol, less 12@ 20 Urris, powdered 40W 42 Brgot ‘1. 1 25@1 50
Bordeaux’ Mix Dry 20@ 26 voxe, powdered 20@ 25 Ergot ‘powdered 2 75@8 00
Hellebore, White Rhubarb ........ 75@1 22 Wake White 16@ 20
powdered .......38@ 45 icnuparb, powd. 1 vuwl ov Formaldehyde, lb. 23@ 30
Insect Powder .... 40M 60 kosinweed, powd. 25@ 30 Gelatine . ".«. 1 78@1 90
hppa a bi 34@ 44 © sarsaparilia, —, Glassware, full cs. 8%
Ame an uiph Bround §........ 5 80 Glassware.
Surulion, gal. .. 20@ 35 Sarsaparilla Mexican, eaten Eby @ 2%
turis Green .... 4844@54% @FOUNG .....-.; 1 vwwl tv Glauber Salts, less 3%@ 4
Squills .......... 36@ 40 Giue, Brown ..... 35
Ice Cream syuuis, powdered 45@ 65 Giue, Brown Grd. eo 85
tiper lee Cream Co., Tumeric, powd. 20W tv Glue, White .... 30@ 35
kw 95 Yalerian, powd. .. @100 Glue, White Grd. 30@ 35
wun Special Flavored 1 00 Seeds GY cee enss aa i
ba ick, Plain aca ceesqe 1 20 MHISe <2. 25... ~-s 42@ 45 Toaine oe 5 60@5 90
finiek, Baney ........ 160 Anise, powuered 41@ 50 Fodotorcn: a) fe 59@6 74
Men U0... 525-4: me ta ae Sa :
Leaves Canary 20 26 i ad, Bove tate 29@ 30
eee eens oo i ro. ;} ee 25 5
ici, poward 2 ge 10 Caraway 6.2... a4 ee 730. 90
‘cae powdrd v0@ Cardamon ..... 1 80@2 00 Mace, powdered 95@1 00
Sage, bulk ...... S7@ 10 Celery (Powd. 65) 55W 60 Menthol ........ 4 50@4 75
Sage, % loose .. 72 8 Coriander ........ 36@ 45 Morphine Kae
Sage, powdered .. 55 80 c 3 35 lorp line 15 45@16 00
Senna, Alex ..... leew Cet ve 3 Nux Vomica ... 22%@ 30
Soana “Fn. 40 45 Bennell .......<... 90@1 WW =Nux Vomica, pow. @ 20
Senna. Tinn. pow. 50 55 Flax ........0+5-- 10@ 14 Pepper black pow. 35@ 40
Wu Cedi D 30@ 35 Flax, ground ..... 10@ 14 Pepper, white ..... @ 50
Va UES -------- ec aad pow. — a Pitch, Burgundy @
AEMP cer eeeserces C o Gace 2... 21s... 2¢ 5
Olle Pa oo ie ‘ee 80 Gene 7 imo
a Bitter, _ Mustard, yellow .. 35@ 40 Rochelle Salts -.-| 54@ 60
true ..ceeeee 18 50@18 75 Mustard, black .. 25@ 30 Saccharine, OZ. -« @1
‘Almonte Bitter, Mustard, powd. 35@ 40 Salt Peter ........ 36@ 45
a aes. 7 00@7 20 ous secece payt ss aan ° Seidlitz Mixture .. 45@ 50
. monds, uo UINCE ....0006 Soap, green .....
Made in a Model Factory Wee as. 2 S250 dlgge ........-+. 0G SO gan wnat cae
sien. Sweet, See saeeaiin Sey 9 . Soap, white castile
imitation ...... io@ Vv abdadilla, powd. PASS 2... enc. 2
Handled by All Jobbers Sold by All Dealers | amber,"cruai' "3 ves 25 Stnower "1..- 8%@ 12 Soap, white casttio ©
: i: i Amber, rectified 3 50@3 7 orm American .. less, per bar @3 00
Enjoyed by Discriminating Smokers fcuk tae Ot ee om am ae
rgami eee oda Bicarbonate
Cajeput ........ 2 00@2 25 Tinctures Soda, Sal ..........2@ §&
Cassin: 5 .i5..... 3 50@3 75 Aconite ......... @1 65 spirits Camphor .. @1 25
Castor ....wceee 3 40@3 65 gs Se @1 35 Sulphur, roll .... 4%@_ 10
JOHNSON IGAR O M k — ast waeas ae © peer ota aces Si = Sulphur, Subl. 51-10@ 10
E onella ..... Asafoetida ...... Tamarinds ...... 15@ 20
G. d. C C ’ akers Glevee. .......<; 460@4 75 Belladonna @285 Tartar Emetic .... @ 90
GR AND RAPIDS Cocoanut ....... 40@ 50 Benzoin .... @2 50 Turpentine, Ven. 50@4 76
Cod Liver ...... 5 60@5 76 nzoin Compo’d @8 30 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@3 00
Cotton Seed .... 2 05@2 20 Buchu .......... @2 40 Witch Hazel .... 1 35@1 75
Croton ......... 2 00@2 25 Cantharadies .., @3 ® Zine Sulphate 10@ 15

 

 

 

 

 

28

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

June 12, 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

Citron
Lemon Peel
Orange Peel

DECLINED

Van Camp’s Milk

 

 

  

 

Baskets
—— cs — CHEWING GUM
rctic Bran uittle Neck, b see 160 Adams : aa os
12 oz. 16c, 2 doz. box 2 70 Ciam Bouillon anes oe ca -
16 oz. 25¢c, 1 doz. box 175 Burnham's ¥% pt. . 225 Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 70
32 oz., 40c, 1 doz. box 2 85 Burnham’s pts. ...... 375 Beechnut ............ 70
Burnham's qts. ...... 760 Doublemint 2.222222... 70
AXLE GREASE Corn Milage Spruce .......;.. - 65
Diamond, 1 lb., 4 dz., dz.55 Fair ..... Hershey Gum .......... 55
Mica, 1 Ib., 4 dz, dz. 110 Good .... 285 Juicy Mrut .......:..., 70
Mica, 3 Ib., 2 dz. dz. 2 75 MOMCY ..nssoseece Sterling Gum Pep. .... 70
Mica, 25 lb. pail ...... 1 40 French Peas Spearmint, Wrigleys .. 70
Spearmint, 6 box jars 4 0
BAKED BEANS a. aa. 70
Nn. |, per Ook ....... 1 35 BOD ooo bees ello, 70
No. 2, per doz. ........2 25 No. 2 — iO, Sm... 75
No. 3, per doz. ....... 360 No. 2, Fancy ......0...
Hominy CHOCOLATE
ae BRICK Standard ............ 1 25 Walter Baker & Co.
oe Lobster German’s Sweet ....... 24
BLUING % ID. ......eeeeee ee» 190 Premium .............. $6
Jennings’ “4 LO ee encore BUD Garnens ... 1-2 28
Condensed Pearl Bluing Picnic Flat ..... cocoe 8 U8 Walter M. Lowney Co.
Small, 3 doz box .... 2 25 Mackerei Premium, %s .......... 35
Large, 2 doz. box .... 260 Mustard, 1 tbh ....... 80 Premium, %8 ......... 35
a 2 es cece : “4 CIGARS
used, 1 See seee }
GREAKFAST FOODS Soused, 2 ib. ......... 2 75 Peter Dornbos Brands
Bear Food, Pettijohns 2 85 Tomato, 1 lb. ........1650 -. Pamibos <
Cracked Wheat, 24-3 ..460 Tomato, 2 Ib. ":...... 299 ¢ Dornbos Sin. Badr. 40 00
. 0 5c Dornbos Perfecto 4u 00
Cream of Wheat .... 75 Mushrooms 6c Van D
Quaker Puffed Rice .. 435 pittons is oC Te
Quater Pulled Wheat 435 Bitions is ........ @50 :
Quaker Brkfst Biscuit 190) jroteis, is 221.1221) @44 Johnson Cigar Co. Brands
Quaker Corn Flakes -. 2 90 : : Ousben Duteh Masters Club 75 vv
Washington Crisps .. 340 4 129 Dutch Masters Banq 75 0v
WHOEATENS Los eke tens 5 40 aay 2 Ib. Lee tae ee 1 80 Dutch Masters Lnv. 75 OV
Grape Nuts ce eeeeeee 2 85 ’ eS crtree eer Dutch Masters Pan. 72 00
Sugar Corn Flakes .. 3 25 Plums butch Master Grande 72 00
Holiand Rusk ....... 10 Plums .......... 150@2 00 Dutch Masters Lond. 72 00

Krinkle Corn Flakes ..2 80
Mapl-Flake, Whole

WORE goes epee eee
Minn. Wheat Food .. 6 50
Ralston Wheat Food

Large, 18s ..... pee 2 OD
Ralston Wht Food 18s 1 95
Ross’s Whole Wheat

eee eseseeeee

Saxon Wheat Food .. 4 50

Shred Wheat Biscuit 4 25
Triscuit, 18 ......++- 2 25
Pilisbury’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 Ib. .. 9 50
Parlor, 5 String, 25 Ib. 8 75
Standard gma 23 Ib. 8 50
Common, 23 Ib. ...... 8 00
Special, 23 a sree 7 75
Warehouse, 23 Ib. .. 10 50
BRUSHES
Scru
Solid Back, 8 in. .... 1 00
Solid Back, 11 in. .... 1 25
Pointed Ends ........ 1 00
Stove
NG, 8 usa skese ssacees 1 OO
es ee ae 1 50
Me bk .c) oe. lee > 2 00
Shoe
Mo. L iss---..- aose 8 09
No - ...s.- Sickeesee 1 80
BB i cicce peo eee 1 70
Sie. b ... cco cceess eos 2
. BUTTER COLOR _
Dandelion, 25c size .. 2 00
CANDLES
Paratine, GB ..+cs++> 4%
Paraffine, 128 .....-.» 15%
UR no cee crew ce 65
CANNED GOODS
Apples

3 lb. Standards .. @1 60
No. 10 @

©. ope se cheeses @2 25
Standard No. 10 .. @9 50
Beans
Baked oo. oes kes 1 25@2 25
ted Kidney 1 25@1 35
Sivime ...--..+s 1 50@2 00
Wax 6... 1 50@2 00
Biueberries
Siaminen 4 o et. @1 75
PU AW oo ee ec cece @ 8 00

Pears In Syrup
No. 3 can per dz. 2 50@3 00

Peas
Marrowfat ...... 1 35@1 55
Early June ..... 1 60@1 70
Early June siftd 1 70@1 85
Peaches
PAG cc cceossecce 50@1 75
No. 10 size can pie @4 25
Pineappie '
Grated... 1 75@2 10
RHCER o.oo, 1 45@2 60
Pumpkin
Pair... 3... coe 30
Good ..... boss keee ce . Ao
DANCY oc ckcesscssace 1 60
No. 10 .......3.55+--- - 400
Raspberries
No. 2, Black Syrup .. 2 40
No. 10, Black ...... 10 50
No. 2, Red Preserved 3 00

No. 10, Red, Water .. 10 50

Saimon
Warrens, 1 lb. Tall .. 3 35
Warren’s, i Ib. Flat .. 3 45

Red Alaska ......... 2 85
Med. Red Alaska .... 2 60
Pink Alaska ......<.. 2 20
Sardines
Domestic, 48 ...... -- 6 50
Domestic, % Mustard 6 60

Domestic, % Mustard 6 25
Norwegian, 4s ..... 15@18

Portuguese, %s .... 30@35
Sauer Kraut
INO. 3, CAME ....sc eens 1 65
No. 10, cans .......-s-
Shrimps
Dunbar, is Goz. ...... 1 60
Dunbar, 1%s doz. .... 2 80
Succotash
Fair ececcoeeansses BE
RS ec eco ees 1 90
PBRCY .ccccnccccesse
Strawberries
BtMeAN § . ng ses oes 50
MORCY (625204. ese 2 90
Tomatoes
No. 1% ....+ piccbonee 0 oe
oe ieee -- Soe
NO. TO oc. cab cess ces 8 00
Tuna
Case
%4s, 4 doz. in case .... 4 50
16s, 4 doz. in case .... 7 50
1s, 4 doz .in case ....10 00
CATSUP
Van Camp’s, % pints 1 90
Van Camp’s pints .... 2 85
CHEESE
POS ese cess @29
PORIIRGS jose eee. @25
OU nec ccce n> @24
ee ee @
Limburger ...... @26
Pineapple ....... @
WG fissccac. @
hap SAR ....... @
Swiss, Domestic @

Hl Portana |. ....... 42 50
Gee Jay 2
Dutch Masters Six .. 42 50
Dutch Masters Hand

MBMS nec oos ss 42 50
Dutch Masters Baby
Grand .. 8... e ees 2 50

Little Dutch Masters 42 50
SC: Wo ioe... ck. 42 50
Dutch Masters

Secongs .......... 37 50

Worden Grocer Co. Brands

Boston Straight ..... 37 50
Trans Michigan ..... 40 00
Sees ees sce 43 00
Court Royal occcce ee 48 00
Hemmeter’s Cham-

DION oo ckece oc coce 42 50
Iroquois .............42 50
La Azora Agreement 42 00
La Azora Bismarck . 7 00
Whaleback
¥ oo s Hand Made 36 00

M4 doeswessecess.. 40 60

CLOTHES LINE

Per doz.

No. 40 Twisted Cotton
No. 50 T'wisted Cotton
No. 60 Twisted Cotton
No. 80 Twisted Cotton

@mewnmmwvnytie
bn
or

No. 50 Braided Cotton

No. 60 Braided Cotton 60

No. 80 Braided Cotton 3 10

No. 50 Sash Cord .... 8 00

No. 60 Sash Cord .... 3 50

No. 60 Jute ;:........ 146

No. 72 Jute ......5.25 1 60

No. 60 Sisal .......... 1 60
Galvanized Wire

No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90

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

 

 

No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
COCOA
Baker's ic... ...,5.- Sees BO
Bunte, 10c size ........ 88
Bunte, % Ib. i
Bunte, 1 Ib
Cleveland
Colonial,
Colonial,
ANE gobo wena coeesesccce
Hershey’s \%s ....... dos Ge
Hershey’s 8S .........2. 30
PAMVIEE 2 occ ncecccssccs 36
Lowney, Xs ....... cose ae
LOWREY, ES oon aces sse 37
Lowney, 48 ......2.0. 37
Lowney, 5 lb. cans .... 37
Van Houten, %s ....... 12
Van Houten, \%s ....... 18
Van Houten, %s ........ 36
Van Houten, is ........ 65
WOOD -EAA oe coos cece. 36
WEDD oo caecses cesses os
Wilbur, %8 ....... - 33

Wilbur, TES cccshscscesc Be

COCOANUT
Dunham’s per Ib.
5 Ib 2

weeececcos

8, 15 lb. case ........ 30
1s, 15 Ib. case ......... 29
%s & %s, 15 lb. case .. 80
5 and 10c pails ...... 4 25

Baik, PAUS 26.655. 0ss hg
Bulk, barrels ........
Baker's’ Brazil Bhredtea

70 7c pkgs., per case 4 20
86 14c pkgs., per case 4 20
16 14c and 33 7c pkgs.,

per case 4
Bakers Canned, doz. 1 20

COFFEES ROASTED
Rio

Common ......-...2.. 19
a eee cto 19%
CHOICE osc oe ca eos 20
ee Cg. a eee 21
PEARY ooo ies cs 23
Santos
Common .1.....-.... 20
MO ee se 2014
Choice .2).50542.5..... 21
WPAMCW fe sess 23
POCAMETY 6c eee ce 23
Maracaibo
MAIO coe elects 24
Chote 6.20. cs 25
Mexican
CORGICR ee ae 25
PONOW be ols. 26
Guatemala
MAM ce eee, 25
MARCY. .0000 03. kk 28
Java
Private Growth .... 26@30
Mandling .......... 831@85
AUROIR 2250... 30@32

Mocha
Short Bean ........ 25@27
Long Bean ........ 24@26

H, L, O. G. .....-., 36@28
Bogota

Tg a

UTECY oes se ou

Exchange Market, naoay
Spot Market, Strong

Package

New York Basis

Arbucide .....5552..5. 21 00
McLaughlin’s XXXX

McLaughlin’s XXXX
package coffee is sold to
retailers only. Mail all or-
ders direct to W. F. Mc-
Laughlin & Co., Chicago.

Extracts
Holland, % gro. bxs. 1 30
Felix, % gross ...... 1 15
Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin, % gro. 1 43

CONDENSED MILK
Carnation, Tall ..... 5 00
Carnation, Baby 4 40
Mebe, Ta ........55 5 OU
Hebe, Baby .......... 4 90
Pet Dat os. cese, 5 00
Pet, Bapy .........5- 3 20
Van Camp, Tall ..... 5 00
Van Camp, Baby .... 3 20

CONFECTIONERY

Stick Candy Pails
Horehound ....... eo a0
StandarG ........0.6> 18

Cases
DUINDD oko cose eee ss 19
Big Stick ....... bebe ae

Mixed Candy

ails
SPOKEN 40.5.6... +ss0<5 19
Cut tyoat oo. oes ee. 20
French Cream ...... 21
GrocerB ......2. - 2
COCRTS og ec ce esse 13
Kindergarten ........ 22
BAC eae es cen o 19
NOW: occ e tien o 20
Premio Creams ....... 26
BEOVR cco ac wee 18
PRCCIDN cu ce se cones 19
™ 15 O 2.0.2... 17

Specialities
ils

a
Auto Kisses (baskets) 22
Bonnie Butter Bites.. 25
Butter Cream Corn .. 25
Caramel Bon Bons .. 24
Caramel Croquettes .. 23
Cocoanut Waffles .... 21
Coffy Toffy
National Mints 7 lb tin 26
Fudge, Walnut ...... 24
Fudge, Choc. Peanut 23
Fudge, White Center 23
Honeysuckle Candy .. 22

Iced Maroons ........ 24
Iced Orange Jellies .. 20
Italian Bon Bons .... 21
AA Licorice Drops

5 ib: box ......... 1 8B
Lozenges, Pep. ...... 22
Lozenges, Pink ...... 22
MOMCRUS 6500366 sb ees 21
Molasses Kisses, 10

i: BOE ok: 23

Nut Butter Puffs .... 23
Star Patties, Asst. .. 25

Chocolates Pails
Assorted Choc. ...... 24
Amazon Caramels .... 26
Champion ..s.ssecces 23

Choe. Chips, Eureka 28
Klondizxe Chocolates He

NADOUR. 6205505 6000s s
Nibble Sticks, box ..1 i
Nut Wafers ..........
Ocoro Choc Caramels so
Peanut Clusters ...... 32
QGuintette ........-.-. 24
BOP iNA 4625s os eels 22
Star Chocolates ..... 24
Pop Corn Goods
Cracker-Jack Prize .. 5 65
Checkers Prize ...... 5 65
Cough Drops
Boxes
Putnam Menthol .... 1 35
Smith Bros. ......... 1 35
COOKING COMPOUNDS
Crisco
36 1 Ib. cans ........ 10 26
24 1% Ib. cans ...... 10 25
6 6 Ib. cans ......... 10 25
4 9 lb. cans ......... 10 2
Mazola

5% oz. bottles, 2 doz. 2 60

Pints, tin, 2 doz .. 7 50
Quarts, tin, 1 doz .. 7 0
% gal. tins, 1 doz. . : 18 =
Gal. tins, % doz. .... 12 8
5 Gal. tins, 1-6 doz. 18 £
NUTS—Whole

Almonds, Tarragona 21
Almonds, California

soft shell Drake ..
MEAZUS ieee eee 18
PaIDerts .. 3... ae. see 20
€al, No: 1, S. S. .... 24
Walnuts, Naples .....
Walnuts, Grenoble ...22
Table nuts, fancy ....16%
Pecans, Large ....... 17

Pecans, Ex. Large .. 20
Shelled
No. 1 Spanish Shelled
Peanuts @
Ex. Lg. Va.
Peanuts ...... 1634@17
Pecan Halves 90

Walnut Halves .... @70
Filbert Meats ...... @42
Almonds .......... @60

Jordan Almonds ....

Peanuts

Fancy H P Suns

Raw osc cece cs 18@18%

Roasted ....... 20@20%
H P Jumbo

Ray so... oe

Roasted ...... 211% @28
Spanish Shelled,

MNO. 1s 1 ook4 cease 18@18%

CREAM TARTAR
Barrels or Drums ...... 70
BG5O8 hi ceccscs Gecocesa: Us

DRIED FRUITS

ppies
Evap’ed, Choice, blk @16
Evap’d Fancy bik.. @
Apricots
California ........... @2i
Citron
California ::2....<¢.3 @30
Currants
Imported, 1 lb. pkg. .. 26
Imported, bulk ...... 26%

Peaches
Muirs—Choice, 25 ib. .. 12
Muirs—Fancy, 26 lb. .. 13

Fancy, Peeled, 25 lb. .. 16
Peel

Lemon, American ..... 27

Orange, American ..... 28
Raisins

Cluster, 20 cartons ...
Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr.
Loose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 94%
L. M. Seeded 1lb. 10% @11

California Prunes
90-100 25 lb. boxes ..@08%
80- 90 25 lb. boxes ..@09
70- 80 25 lb. boxes ..@10
60- 70 25 lb. boxes ..@11
60- 60 25 lb. boxes ..@12%
40- 50 25 lb. boxes ..@13

FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
California Limas .... 15%
Med. Hand Picked ... 15

Brown, Holland ......

Farina
25 1 lb. packages .... 3 65
Bulk, per 100 lb. ......
Original Holland Rusk

Packed 12 rolls to container
3 containers (36) rolls 4 32

Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sack

Macaroni.
Domestic, 10 Ib. box .. 1 30
Imported, 25 lb. box ..
Skinner’s 24s, case 1 87%

Pearl Barley
Chester 2.5... sees FeO
POTTAZO: os ccecccesccs 8 BO

coos 6H

Peas
Green, Wisconsin, lb. 11
Splut, 1b. 22... 5655... 10M
Sago
Haat India ...........s5. 6
German, sacks ........ 18
German, broken pkg.

Tapioca
Flake, 100 Ib. sacks ... 16
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks ... 15
Pearl, 36 pkgs. ...... 3 75
Minute, 10c, 3 doz. .... 3 55

FISHING TACKLE
Cotton Lines

A TOOU occa cus 20
20 TOGt 6 ...ceu.s- 1k
be Cr) oa ee L
45 f0Gt 1... cciccc'e 14
AG TeGt 3 .......6. 1D
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 .

Size 2-0, per 100 ...... 10

Size 3-0, per 100 ...... . i

Size 4-0, per 100 ....... 14

Size 5-0, per 100 ....... 15
Sinkers

No. 1, per gross

No. 2, per gross

No. 3, per gross

No. 4, per gross

No. 6, per gross

No. 6, per gross

No. 7, per gross .......1 25

No. 8, per gross ..... 1 65

No. 9, per gross ..... , 40

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings D C Brand

Pure Vanila

Terpeneless

y we Lemon
Per 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 ... 3 00
4 Ounce 55 Cent .... 5 0¢
8 Ounce 90 Cent ..... 8 50
7 Dram Assorted ... 1 26
14% Ounce Assorted ..“

FLOUR AND FEED
Grand Rapids Grain &

Milling Co.
Winter Wheat
Purity Patent ......
Fancy Spring ......

Wizard Graham ce

Wizard, Gran. Meal 11 70
Wizard Buckw’t cwt. 8 00

RYO 2... eae 13 00
Valley oe ee Co.
Lily White ...... ve. 12 2D
Graham 2. .0..02....¢ 70
Granena Health ..... 5 80
Gran. Meal ......:.. : 70
Bolted Meal ....... 2 0 20

Watson-Higgins Milling Co.
New Perfection .... 12 00
Worden Grocer Co.
Quaker, %s cloth .. None
Quaker, %s cloth .. None
Quaker, ¥%s cloth .. None
Quaker, %s paper .. None
Quaker, 4s paper .. None
Kansas Hard Wheat
Worden Grocer Co.

American Eagle, %s 11 40
American Eagle, 4s Out
American Eagle, %s Out

Spring Wheat
Worden Grocer Co.
Wingold, %s cloth Sold Out

Wingold, %s cloth Sold Out
Wingold, 4s cloth Sold Out

Meal
Botee:: ssh acess 11 50
Golden Granulated .. 11 70
Wheat
ROG cocccccsaicce ccocs Bees
WUE oovcc sc ceccetsen BOD
Oats

Michigan carlots ..... 80
Less than carlots .... 8

Corn
See ue a tec e << 2

Carlots

Less than carlots .... 1 80
Hay

CAPIGtS. 6 cccdeck occas 24 00

Less than ‘carlots -. 26 00
Feed

Street Car Feed .... 69 50
No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd. 69 50
Cracked Corn 71 0
Coarse Corn Meal .. 71 00

FRUIT JARS a
Mason, pts., per gro. 7 60
Mason, qts., per gro. 8 00
Mason, % gal. per gr. 10 35
Mason, can tops, gro. 2 80

 

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June 12, 1918

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

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 50
Knox’s Acidu’d doz. .. 1 85
Minute, 1 dos. ....... 1 25
Minute, 3 doz. ........ 83 76
Welson's ..c..os ce. 1 80
Gxtord oo : 75
Plymoutn Rock, Phos. 1 50
Plymouth Rock, Plain i 30
Waukesha

GRAIN BAGS

Broad Gauge, 12 oz.
Climax, 14 oz
Stark, A, 16 oz.

Hops
Laurel Leaves ......... 20
Senna Leaves .......... 45

HIDES AND PELTsS
Hides

Green, No. 1
Green, No. 2
Cured, No. 1
Cured, No. 2
Calfskin, green, No.
Calfskin, green, No. 2 26%

Calfskin, cured, No. 1 30
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 28%
Horse, NO. fo oo... 6 00
Horse, No, 2. .....; 5 00
elts
Old Wool ........ 75@2 00
MDS ole. se. 50@1 50
Shearlings ....... 50@1 50
Tallow
PEImMe 2000 coe, @13
Oe ce ce @12
INO, 2a eel. @11
Wool
Unwashed, med. - @65
Unwashed, fine ~. @55
HONEY
A. G. Woodman’s Brand.
7 O2,, Der OZ. 2.52.65.
20 oz. per doz. ...... 4 50

HORSE RADISH
Per doz.

JELLY ‘
15lb. pails, per pail ....1 45
301b. pails, per pail ....2 65

Jiffy-Jell

Straight or Assorted
Per dom, .......5....
Per case, per 4 doz. ..
Eight Flavors: Raspberry,
Strawberry, Cherry, Lem-
on, Orange, Lime, Pine-
apple, Mint.

JELLY GLASSES

8 oz. capped in bbls.,
per doz.

MAPLEINE
2 oz. bottles, per doz. 8 00
1 oz. bottles, per doz. 1 75
16 oz. bottles, per dz. 16 50
32 oz. bottles, per dz. 30 00

MINCE MEAT
POP CASE 2.5.5.0... 3 88

MOLASSES
New Orieans

Fancy Open Kettle .... 68

Cheice oo... 58
GOOG re cic i cedccas es
BLOCK cece ick ckc ccc c eee
Half barrels 5c extra
Red Hen, No. 2 ...... 2 70
Red Hen, No. 2% .... 3 20
Red Hen, No. 5 ...... 3 35

Red Hen, No. 10 ....
Uncle Ben, No. 2 ....
Uncle Ben, No. 2% ..
Uncle Ben, No. 5 ....
Uncle Ben, No. 10 ..
Ginger Cake, No. 2 ..
Ginger Cake, No. 2%
singer Cake, No. 5 ..
O. & L. Open Kettle,

m moot WO COD CO
wo
o

NOD See. 25
MUSTARD

% Ib. 6 Ib. box ....... 30
OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 50@1 60
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs @1 40
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 1 25@1 30

Stuffed, 5 oz. ....... os § 26
Stuffed, 6- oz. ........ 1 35
Stuffed, 14 oz. ....... 75
Pitted (not stuffed)

TR OR oie css e clic « « 75

Manzanilla, 8 oz. .... 125
Lunch, 10 oz. 1

Luneh, 16 oz. ........ 75
Queen. Mammoth, 19
OZ. 5 50

Queen, “Mammoth, “28°
DE Guaceienccecacec. @ tO
Olive Chow, 2 doz. cs.
per doz. .........-.. 2 50

PEANUT BUTTER
Bel-Car-Mo Brand
6 0z. 1 doz. in case .. 2 90
12 oz. 1 doz. in case .. 2 50
12.2 1b. pails ..:.... - 5 75
5 Ib. pails, 6 in crate 7 00

30 tb: pails .........5.. 21%
bo Ip. pails .....:.... 23

mo 1D: patis .......... 20%
50 Ib. tims’ ............ 20%

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Iron Barrels
Perfection .....,.0..°. 12.2
Red Crown Gasoline ..23.2
Gas Machine Gasoline 39.7
V. M. & P. Naphtha 23.2
Capitol Cylinder, Iron
BOIS) otc ce eee
Atlantic Red Engine,
Fron BBs) o.oo.
Winter Black, Iron
PDI oe ee 13.9
Polarine, Iron Bbls. .. 44.4
PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count 12 00
Half bbis., 600 count oa

5 gallon kegs ...... 2 60
Small
Barrels ....:....... 14 00
Half barrels ........ 7 50
5 gallon kegs ...... 2 80
Gherkins
Barrels -..........2. 00
Half barrels ........ 13 00
5 gallon kegs ........ 4 50
Sweet Small
Marreln, oo. 8 00
5 gallon kegs ....... 5 00
Half barrels ........ 14 50

PIPES
Clay, No. 216, per box
Clay, T, D. full count 980
Cob, 3 dnz. in box .. 1 25

PLAYING CARDs

No. 90 Steamboat .... 2 25
No. 808, Bicycle ..... 8 50
Pennant ...... eo cee ee 3 25

POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz. ..... 2 65

PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork
Clear Back .. 52 00@B3 00
Short Cut Clr 50 00@51 00
MGQn 32002... 47 00@48 00
Brisket, Clear 55 00@56 00
BA ce eee occee-
Clear Family ....... 35 00
Dry Salt Meats
S P Bellies ... 31 00@32 00
Lard
Pure in tierces. .274%4@28
Compound Lard 23%@24
8

0 Ib. tubs ...advance
60 Ib. tybs
50 Ib. tubs ...advance

20 Ib.
10 Ib.
5 Ib.
3 Ib.

.. advance
..-advance
pails ...advance 1
pails ...advance 1

Smoked Meats

pails

adva ‘

.. advance
%

pails h

Hams, 14-16 lb. 30 @31
Hams, 16-18 lb. 29 @30
Hams, 18-20 Ib. 28 @29
Ham, dried beef

BEUS oo 29 @30
California Hams 21 @21%
Picnic Boiled

Hams ..5..... @32
Roiled Hams 39% @40
Minced Hams .. 20 @21
Bacon ...2...... 387 @45

Sausages

BGIOSNA  .. 6. cs. cece: 16
WAVOR 5.3.0... ts so ee
Mrankfore ...3:...066. 28
Perk ..... foes 14@15
Meal oc scl... ceca Re
PROM@UG .. 0. cece cece s EE

Headcheese .......... 14
Beef
Boneless .... 25 00@27 00
Rump, new .. 30 00@81 00
Pig’s Feet

6 DIS: eee ae. 1%
™ pis. 40 ibs. ...... 3 40
te DOIS. .. 0 os... 9 00
HOWOE esa Ceo. 16 00
Tripe
Rite. 16 tbe 2... Lk. 90
% bbis., 40 Ibs. ...... 80
% bbls., 80 Ibs. ...... 3 00
a
Hogs, per Ip; ..........
Reef, round set .. 19@20
Beef, middles, set .. 45@55
Stieep ...-5..... 1 15@1 35
Uncolored Oleomargerine
Solid Dairy ...... 283@ 26
Country Rolls .... 28 @29
Canned Meats
Corned Beef, 2 lb. .. 6 50
Corned Beef, 1 lb. .. 3 75

Roast Beef, g lb. .... 6 50
Roast Beef, 1 Ib. .... 3 7%
Potted Meat, Ham

Fiavor, 48 ........; 668
Potted Meat, Ham

Flavor, 4468 «........-
Deviled Meat, Ham

Flavor, 4s ........ 7: 82
Deviled Meat, Ham

Flavor, Mose.

Potted Tongue, 4s .. 55
Potted Tongue, %s .. 1 00

RICE
BanGy. ool
Blue Rose ....... 9%@9%
Broken ......:... 71%@1%

ROLLED OATS
Monarch, bbls. ...... 2 00
Rolled Avena, bbls... 12 75
Steel Cut, 1U0 Ib. sks.
Monarch, 90 lb. sks. .. 6 00
Quaker, 18 Regular .. 1 75
Quaker, 20 Family .. 5 60

SALAD DRESSING

Columbia, % pint .... ‘2
Columbia. 1 pint ..... 00
Durkee’s large, 1 doz. 5 25
Durkee’s, med, 2 doz. 5 75
Durkee’s Picnic, 2 doz. 2 75
Snider’s, large, 1 doz. 2 40
Snider’s, small, 2 doz. 1 45
SALERATUS
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Arm and Hammer .. 3 15
Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3 00

SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls. .... 1 80
Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs. 1 90

Granulated, 36 pkgs. 2 00
SALT
Solar Rock
56:1b. SACKS... ..: 50
Commor
Granulated, Fine .... 2 00
Medium, Fine ........ 2 10
SALT FISH
Cod
Large, whole ...... @14
Small, whole ...... @13
Strips or bricks .. 16@19
PoWoOeK 225.55. 05.0. @12%
Holland Herring
Standards, bbls. ....
Yo MM. Dols, 20.5.0 1:
Standard, kegs ......
Vio Kees 2
Herring
Full Fat Herring, 350
to 400 count ......
Spiced, 8 Ib. pails ..... 95
Trout
INO. 1, 100 Ths. ....... 7 50
INO. 1, 40 Ibs. .......; 2 25
INO. FF, 10 Is: 2.00 l 2. 90
INO. f, 3 IDA 2. 3s 75
Mackerei
Mess, 100 Ibs. ....... 22 00
Mess, 50 Ibs. ........ 11 65
Mess, 10 Ibs. .......,. 2 60
Mess, & Ibs. ......... 2 05
No, © 100 ¥hs. ...... 21 00
No. t 60 ibe. ...... - 1110
No: 1, 10 Iba. .. 2... 2 50
Lake Herring
§ Ws oe 54
SEEDs
MNTIS@ co oe. 38
Canary, Smyrna ..... 15
Caraway .:.......... 15
Cardomon, Malabar 1 20
Celery ..... weet ects 45
Hemp, Russian ....... 8
Mixed Bird .......... 9
Mustard, white ...... 25
Poppy .:....-........ 40
Rape 2... co. -. 16

SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large 3 dz. 8 50
Handy Box, small .. 1 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish 1 20
Miller’s Crown Polish 90

SNUFF
Swedish Rapee, 5c, 10 for 40
Swedish Rapee, 1 Ib. gls 60
Norkoping, 10c, 8 for ..64
Norkoping, 1 Ib. glass .. 60
Copenhagen, 10c. 8 for 64
Copenhagen, 1 Ib. glass 60
SOAP
Lautz Bros. & Co.
Acme, 100 cakes 5
Big Master 100 blocks 6 00

Clem a oe la 5 00
Queen White ........ 5 90
Oak lear .......... 5 40
Queen Anne ......... 5 40
Proctor & Gamble Co.
BGnO’ oo. 0602... 5 00
Evory, 6 02) .o....0.2. 5 90
Ivory, 10 a7. .......: 9 60
WRAP oe 4 90
Swift & Company
Swift’s Pride ........ 4 90
White Laundry ...... 5 35

Wool, 6 oz. bars .... 5 15
Wool, 10 oz. bars .... 7 00

Tradesman Company
Black Hawk, one box 3 75
Black Hawk, five bxs 8 70
Black Hawk, ten bxs 8 65

Box contains 72 cakes. It
is a most remarkable dirt
and grease remover, with-
out injury to the skin.

Scouring Powders
Sapolio, gross lots ..

Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85
Sapolio, single boxes 40
Sapolio, hand ........ 4n

Queen Anne, 30 cans
Queen Anne. 60 cans
Snow Maid, 30 cans ..
Snow Maid. 60 cans ..

Wt 1 et 9 DD mw
oo
°o

Washing Powders

Snow Boy, 100 pkgs. . 5 #5
Snow Boy, 60 pkgs. .. 3 55
Snow Boy, 24 pkgs. .. 5 00
Snow Boy, 20 pkgs. .. 5 25

Soap Powders
Johnson’s Fine, 48 2 5 75
Johnson's XXX 100 .. 5 75
Rub-No-More ........ 5 50
Nine O’Clock 4
Lautz Naphtha, 60s ..

Oak Leaf Soap Powder,
24 pkgs.

£00 pkes, . 2.2.2.5... 5 50
Queen Anne Soap Pow-

der, 60 pkgs. 3
Old Dutch Cleanser,

LO

SODA
Bi Carb, Kegs

SPICES
Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica --9@10
Allspice, lg. Garden @11
Cloves, Zanzibar .. @55
Cassia, Canton .... 20
Cassia, 5c pkg. doz. 35
Ginger, African .... @15

Ginger, Cochin .... 20
Mace, Penang ...... 90
Mixed, No. 1 ...... @17
Mixed, No. 2 ....... @16
Mixed, 5c pkgs. dz. @45
Nutmegs, 70-80 .... @45
Nutmegs, 105-110 .. @40
Pepper, Black ..... @32
Pepper, White ..... @32

Pepper, Cayenne
Paprika, Hungarian
Pure Ground In Bulk

Allspice, Jamaica .. @16
Cloves, Zanzibar @68
Cassia, Canton 32
Ginger, African .... @25
Mace, Penang ..... @1 00
Nutmegs .|.:....... 36
Pepper, Black ..... @35
Pepper, White ..... @42
Pepper, Cayenne @30
Paprika, Hungarian @45
STARCH
Corn

Kingsford, 40 Ibs. ..
Muzzy, 48 1lb. pkgs

Kingsford
Silver Gloss, 40 lib. .. 9%
Gloss
Argo, 48 5c pkgs. .... 2 40
Silver Gloss, 16 8lbs. .. 9%
Silver Gloss, 12 6lbs. .. 9%
Muzzy
48 1b. packages ...... 9%
16 3b. packages ...... 9%
12 #lb. packages ...... 9%
50 Ib. boxes 2... 6%
SYRUPS
Corn
Barrela 0.2 6... 72
Half barrels ........... 75
Blue Karo, No. 1%,
2 doz 2 65

Blue Karo, No. 2, 2 dz. 3 30
Blue Karo, No. 2%, 2
OM ta 410
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 95
Blue Karo, No. 16, %
GO. 3 70
Red Karo, No. 1%, 2
doz

oA Se es 2 80
Red Karo, No. 2, 2 dz. 3 55
Red Karo, No. 2% 2dz. 4 40
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 4 25
Red Karo, No. 10 %
GON oe. 00
Pure Cane
Wate.
Good oo...
Oh ateo
TABLE SAUCES
Halford, laree ....... | 3 75
Halford, small ...... 2 26
TEA
Uncolored Japan
Medium) ............ 20@25
CHOICE 2000. 28@33
Haney o.6) 000.2... 36@45
Basket-fired Med’m 28@30
Basket-fired Choice 25@37
Basket-fired Fancy 38@45
NO: LT CNIDDS .. 00... @32
Sifttmes, bulk ...... @14
Siftings, 1 lb. pkes. @17
Gunpowder
Moyune, Medium 28@33
Moyune, Choice 35@40
Ping Suey, Medium 25@30
Ping Suey, Choice 25@40
Ping Suey, Fancy .. 45@50
Young Hyson
Choige 65002 5.2 28@30
RaOney 80 45@56
Oolong
Formosa, Medium .. 25@26
Formosa, Choice .. 32@35
Formosa, Fancy 50@bu
English Breakfast
Congou, Medium 25@30
Congou, Choice 30@35
Congou, Fancy -. 40@6v
Congou, Ex. Fancy 60@80
Ceylon
Pekoe, Medium .... 28@30
Dr. Pekoe, Choice 380@$5
Flowery O. P. Fancy 40@50
TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply .......... 65
Cotton, 4 ply

Hemp, 6 ply .......... ‘:
Wool, 100 lb. bales .... 18

VINEGAR
White Wine, 40 grain 17
White Wine, 80 grain 22
White Wine, 100 grain 25

Oakland Vinegar & Pickle
Co.’s Brands
Highland apple cider
Oakland apple cider ..
State Seal sugar .....
Blue Ribbon Corn ..
Oakland white picklg
Packages free.

WICKING
0, per gross
1, per gross
2, per gross
3, per gross

WOODENWARE
Baskets

No.
No.
No.
No.

Bushels
Bushels, wide band .. 1 8
Market, drop handle .. 7
Market, single handle 7
Splint, laree ....._... 5 7
Splint, medium

Splint, small
Willow, Clothes, large
Willow, Clothes, small
Willow, Clothes, me’m

Butter Plates

Ovals
250 im erate .... 45
250 in erate .... 45
1 ID, 250 in erate ..... ao
2 ID., 250 m crate 5d
)

4% Ib,
1% Ib.,

Ib., 250 in crate
lIb., 250 in crate

Wire End
Tb.;, 250 in erate .....
; 250 th erate ..... 55
Ib, 250 im crate ..... 65

TIb., 20 in erate ...... ‘to

CIWw bo

Churns
Barrel, 5 gal, each .. 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal. each .. 2 55

Clothes Pins
Round Head
4% inch, 5 gsross .... 1 10
Cartons, No. 24 24s bx. 1 15

.Egg Crates and Fillers
Humpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 24

No. I complete ........ 50
No, 9 complete ........ 40
Case, medium, 12 sets 1 &0
Faucets
€ork lined: 3 im. ....... 70
Cork lined, 9 &®. ...... 80
Cork Hned. 16 tm ...... 90
Mop Sticks
Trojan Springe ....... 1 50
Eclipse patent spring 1 50
No. | common ...... 1 50
No. 2, pat. brush hold 1 50
Ideal: Ne 7 225.1... 59

120z. cotton mop heads 2 75

Patis
10 qt. Galvanized 4 50
12. qt. Galvanized .... 5 00
14 qt. Galvanized .... 5. 50
Mipbre: 201)... 5 50
Toothpicks
Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00
SO CE 85
Traps
Mouse wood, 2 holes .. 22

Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. 45
10 qt. Galvanized .... 1 65
12 qt. Galvanized ....
14 qt. Galvanized

Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70

Mouse, tin. 5 holes .... 65
Rat; wood... .2......... 80
Rat, sprime ............ 75
Tub
No. ft Bibra (3. ....... 16 50
Ne. 2 Fibre ........-. 15 00
No. = Fibre _......... 12 50
Large Galvanized ... 15 00
Medium Galvanized 13 00
Small Galvanized .. 11 50
Washboards
Banner. Globe ...... 4 75
Brass: Single |... ... 7 00
Glass, Sinele ......... 5 00
Double Peerless ..... 1 26
Single Peerless ..... 6 25
Northern Queen ..... § 25
Good Enough ........ 5 26
Universal ............ 5 50
Window Cleaners
12) 1 65
WO tr se 1 85
16 tm. -......:. 2. .:, 2 30
Wood Bowls
18 im Butter ........ 1 90
15 im. Butter ;........ 7 00
7 tn Butter ....... 8 00
9 tn. Butter ......;. 11 00

WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre, Manila, white .. 5
Fibre, Manila, colored

Ne. 1 Wantia ........ 6
Butchers’ Manila ..... 6
Kraft 9%

Wax Butter, “short e’nt 20
Parchm’t Butter, rolls 22

29

YEAST CAKE
Magic. $ dos. ........ 1 15
Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00
Sunlight, 144 doz .... &

Yeast Foam, 3 doz. ..
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85

YEAST—COMPRESSED

Fleischman, per doz. ..24

SPECIAL
Price Current :

 

SALT
Diamond Crystal

 

24 2 Ibs. shaker ..... I i
a6 2 IDS tahle ....... 1 30
I50 2 Ibe. tele ....., 5 75
( 4 1bs. table ....... 5 50
24 02 Ib fate ..... |. 4 75
280 Ib. bulk butter ... 3 38
280 lb. bulk cheese ... 3 38
280 Ib. bulk shaker .. 3 88
28 Ib. cotton sk, butter 40

56 Ib. cotton sk butter 85
$5 Ib. D. C. coarse .. 49
“0 Ib. D. C. coarse _... 90
D. C. stock briquettes 1 30
D. C. block stock, 50 Ibs. 40

Morton’s Sait

 

Fer case, 24 2 Ibs. .... 1 80
Five case lots ....... 70
ARCTIC
EVAPORATED MILK
Wall 5. 0506.3. cca: 6 00
aby «ke ts. 4 25

Manufactured by Grand
Ledge Milk Co.

Sold by all jobbers and
National Grocer Co., Grand
Rapids.

BAKING POWDER
Ryzon
The Perfect Baking Powder
10c size, %4 Ibs. 4 doz. 90
18c size, % Ibs. 2 doz. 1 6%
soe size, 1 Ybs., 1 doz. 3 i
$1.50 size, 5 Ibs. % dz. 13 50

bo

o

THE ONLY
5c CLEANSER

 

Guaranteed to equal the best 10c
kinds. 80 can cases $3.40 per case.

 

1 Ib. boxes, per gross 11 40
3 lb. boxes, per gross 29 10

 

 

30

Bankruptcy Matters in Southwestern
District of Michigan.

St. Joseph, June 3—Eugene H. Beach-
am, an engineer of Kalamazoo, has filed
a voluntary petition and been adjudicat-
ed bankrupt. The matter was referred
to Referee Banyon. The schedules of the
bankrupt disclose no assets above his
statutory exemptions and the following
ereditors:
efé

Ella Messenger, Aurora, Ill. ......$372

Harry F. Taylor, Indianapolis .... 177.34
Henry H. Kasson, Chicago ....... 170.00
Henry M. Svebilius, Evanston .... 35.00
Kine Motor Co., Chicagco .......... 2.50

Larson Auto Repair Shop, Chicago 26.00
- Auto Moulding & Mfg. Co., Chicago 15.00

$808.61

June 4—In the matter of Marion J.
Otis, bankrupt, Benton Harbor, the final
meeting of creditors was held at the
referee's office ond the trustee’s final
report and account were approved and
allowed. The final order of distribution
was entered and a first and final dividend
of 43 per cent. declared and ordered paid
to all unsecured creditors. Creditors
having been directed to show cause why
a certificate should not be made recom-
mending the bankrupt’s discharge, and
no cause having been shown, it was
determined that such favorable certifi-
cate be made. It was further determined
that the trustee be not authorized to
interpose objections to the bankrupt’s
discharge.

June 6—Hemo G. Mejeur. Kalamazoo,
engaged in the retail meat business with
his brother. under the firm name of
Mejeur Brothers, has filed a voluntary
petition and been adjudged bankrupt.
The following are listed as creditors:

Hemo J. Mejeur, Kalamazoo ....$371.00
Star Paper Co., Kalamazoo ...... 7.56
Armour & Company, Kalamazoo 42.00
® Sapers, Balamazoo ............ 28.11
Fred S. Garrett, Kalamazoo ...... 9.70
Carl Johnson, Kalamazoo ........ 198.08
Pastoor Brothers, Grand Rapids .. 57.81
Vette & Zuncker, Chicago ........ 100.08
Consumers Power Co., Kalamazoo 3.00

Michigan Telephone Co., Kalamazoo 3.00
Johnson Paper & Supply Co.,

BaD ge ee eee ee 7.30
$827.64
Preferred and Secured Claims.

City of Kalamazoo, taxes .......- 3 27.05
City Savings Bank of Kalamazoo 365.22
Abel Schipper, Kalamazoo ........ 303.00

Menne Hoogerman and Ceert
Mekeur, Kalamazoo ........-..... 412.15
$1,107.42

Assets.

Real Ceres $350.26
Cash on Hand o.oo tee. - 5.06
cet Nh eC 27.65
Ponnenonl «spes (.......-......-- 150.00
Come. HOrHPS eit) .. 656+. ee 400.00
Carriages and other vehicles .... 150.00
Machinery, tools, ebt. ........-... 840.00
Debts due open accounts .......... 185.59

$2,208.56

June 7—In the matter of Thomas M.
Hogan, bankrupt, the first meeting of
creditors was held at Kalamazoo. There
heing no assets to administer, an order
was entered by the referee that no trus-
tee be appointed and no further meeting
of creditors be held. Unless cause to the
contrary is shown, the estate will be
closed within 30 days.

June S8—In the matter of Eugene H.
Beacham, bankrupt, an order was entered
by the referee calling the first meeting
of creditors at Kalamazoo on June 21,
for the purpose of proving claims, the
election of a trustee and the transaction
of such other business as may properly
come before the meeting.

—_+-.
Anticipating Freight Tieup.

Fearing that there may be a gen-
eral tieup in the movement of freight
next fall, and that the supply of emp-
ty cars will be so limited as to be little
more than sufficient to care for Gov-
ernment needs, the furniture trade of
the country is said to be having its
fall supplies shipped out now wher-
ever immediate shipment is possible.
And, in quite a few instances, present
orders include not only requirements
for next fall, but for next winter as
well. Thus, in some cases, business
is going ahead of this same period a
year ago, and many manufacturers are
experiencing a rush of orders which
under the present labor conditions are
not easily handled.

eeeesesestsasedllinciaialeccnceschdeseat

Big Neckwear Season.
Simplicity in dress styles and fa-
brics has proved to be a boon to the
neckwear trade. As one authority in
the trade pointed out, brightly hued
collar and cuff sets are needed prop-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

erly to set off simple garments, and
the result has been one of the best
spring seasons on record both as to
volume of sales and as to the cash
involved. Organdie collar and cuff
sets have been popular, filet has sold
a great deal, and pique has been well
up among the leaders. Foulard neck-
pieces have been and still are wanted
in liberal quantities, navy blue being
Vests and
vestees have also been big sellers in
all parts of the country.

the favored background.

———_+~.___
Veils Are Popular.

Styles have favored veils for wom-
en during the spring season and sales
have been on an unusually large scale,
according to a number of local manu-
facturers. All shapes and sizes have
been taken, although in some quarters
it is said that square veils have been
given the preference. While black
has been in demand, such colcrs as
navy blue and various shades of gray
and brown have been the leaders in
the spring and summer business. Va-
rious dotted veilings are popular as
‘ell as flowered and figured designs.
Scalloped borders are also liked.

—_>-.—___

Leather Goods Market Active.

The market for all leather goods,
such as traveling bags, suit cases,
portfolios, etc., is strong with a tend-
ency toward higher prices, according
to reports. Buying has been on a
large scale, considering present prices
and conditions, and in the majority of
cases it seems to be the better grades
that are most actively sought. Va-
rious comfort knits in leather folders
for soldiers have been consistently
well bought since this country en-
tered the war. Leather hand bags
and hand purses for women are also
said to be in good demand.

—_»-.—___

His Men Have Reason to Stick.

London, Ohio, June 11—At the be-
ginning of each year a retail mer-
chant buys several $50 bonds and one
$100 bond. To each salesman who
remains in his employ for six months
thereafter he gives a bond: to the
one who not only has this record but
also has made the best sales record
he gives the $100 bond. There is
therefore a double reward to work
for.

Just now the merchant is holding
Liberty bonds, to be distributed July
1, He is sure they have proved more
desirable to his salesmen than the
equivalent in money.

Walter Engard.
——— oS
Finishing Touches Are Vital.

“Though wartime economy is an
important factor in the cloak and suit
trade,’ said a large manufacturer re-
cently, “this does not mean that mak-
ers can get away with poor workman-
ship. More than ever before, women
are demanding full value for their
money. They examine before they
buy, and every little detail must be
right. These finishing touches mean
a great deal to the general appearance
of the garment, and the manufacturer
who values his gcod name should pay
strict attention to them.”

—_»2~+_____
Just because -a married man does

the things his wife wants him to is

no sign that he is stuck on the icb.

When a minister has a_ praying
congregation behind him he doesn’t
have to worry about his back salary.

 

June 12, 1918 « Bs

 

 

 

Are You All Set For y
Grand Rapids Buyers’ | - 4.
Week T

 

June 24, 25, 26, 21, 28? f

If you haven’t yet notified your wholesaler friends in Grand

 

 

Rapids that you are going to be here, tell them to-day, and plan

 

to be here as much of the five big days as is possible.

Don’t Get the Idea ‘7

that this meeting is just a sort of midsummer convention for ft

 

is more than that.

 

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Think What It Will Mean

to have all the wholesalers of Grand Rapids and hundreds of

 

their friends from about the State, in a five day conference on 4,

the market conditions present and future of ‘a

The Most Serious Period

in the history of merchandising in the world’s history. c @

 

 

Plenty of Bargains | i

will be open to the retail merchants who come, so they can make’
immediate profits from their visit, aside from getting the real

inside of the facts and conditions which they must face and

 

anticipate in the months to come.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The General Program | 4
has not as yet been completed because the plan is to make it the i
best possible up to the day it starts But you may rest assured : |
that the Grand Rapids Wholesalers will make Buyers’ Week well (a
worth every minute of the time you spend with them. |
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

31

 

BUSINESS - WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head for three cents a word the first insertion
and two cents a word for each subsequent continuous insertion. No charge less than

25 cents. Cash must accompany all orders.

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

For Sale—Garage 52x 140, brick and
cement, in county seat; best garage in
town and fine opportunity for the right
man. Write W. J. Parker, Corunna,
Michigan, owner. 760

 

Garage and Good
For Siale—Best location
consider selling half interest to right
party, but would rather sell all. Address
H. E. Morris, Hill City, Kansas. 761

Automobile Agency
in town; would

 

For Sale—Stock of general merchan-
dise, in good farming community and
factory town. Will reduce stock to suit
purchaser. Residence and. store build-
ings at low rent. Must sell on account

 

of . draft. Address Fred LEichenberg,
Parklake, Michigan. 768
For Sale—General stock located in
church center in good farming country.
Stock will inventory about $3,000. An-
nual sales $20,000. No bad debts. Store

buildings, barn and blacksmith shop can
be purchased for $2,000. Address Mrs.
P. J. Bresnahan, Parnell, R. R. from a

(6

 

For Stale Cheap—One Champion ac-
count register. Address F. W. Kauffman,
Cummings, Kansas. 766

 

Bargains, Bargains—Businesses, any

kind anywhere. Send for free magazine.
Western Sales Agency, Minneapolis,
Minnesota. 648

 

Cash Registers—We offer exceptional
bargains in rebuilt National or American
registers. Also fireproof credit systems.
All makes. We buy, sell or exchange.
We carry a full line of supplies. Address

 

The J. C. Vogt Sales Co., Saginaw,
Michigan. 335
Wanted—Second-hand cash register,

for cash. Address A. F. Hunt, 215 So.
Washington Ave., Saginaw, Mich. 767

 

Excellent Business Opportunity—Room-

ing-house, down town. | Twenty rooms,
heat, bath, janitor service. Books show
good paying business. C. E. Crothers,

125%, Ottawa Ave., Grand Rapids, 2

 

For Rent—Corner store’ building on
main street, plate glass and copper front
down stairs and large show window up
stairs. Balcony in rear first floor, size
of rooms twenty-two by eighty feet. Fine
location’ dry-goods' store, permanent
bankrupt store or complete hardware
store. N. B. Hawkins & Co., Portland,
Ind. 749.

 

For Sale—Restaurant in live town of
3,500; reasonable price: doing good busi-
ness. Write for further particulars to
Mrs. Louise Johnson, Howell, Mich. 751.

 

Grocers and other merchants—Roof’s
Daily Sales Cards—Twelve trial cards,
10 cents. Roof, Grocer, Albion, —

 

For Sale—Grocery store and meat mar-
ket. Will inventory about $1,200 to
$1,500. Good resort business. Mrs. B. W.
Miller, Charlevoix, Mich. 754.

For Sale—One Hobart Electric Cof-
fee Grinder, % H. P., good as new, cost
$175, worth over $200 to-day. Selling
price, $100, if taken at once. One 4 lb.
Dayton Automatic Platform Scale in

 

 

first-class condition, cost $45. Selling
price, $15. One Automatic Beeman Oil
Tank, cost $45, good as new. Selling

price, $15. Above goods to be sold to
satisfy trust mortgage. . J. Goodrich,
Attorney for Trustee, 626-627 Post Bldg.,
Battle Creek, Mich. - 755.

 

For Sale—My partner having gone to
war and being of draft age myself, must
sell at once the ice business in town of
Chelsea. No competition. Outfit includes
horses, wagons, ice houses and everything
used in ice and teaming business. Evert
Benton, Chelsea, Mich.

Bakery—Well established. Present
owner in possession 18 years. Good chance
for young man. Can buy premises or
rent bakery and living rooms. Very con-
venient. Mixer and moulder. Hot water
heat. Owner getting too old. Address
Bellevue Baker, Bellevue, Ohio. 759.

wom-

 

 

For Sale—$5.000 stock of men's.
en’s and children’s shoes in good loca-
tion in city of 6,000 inhabitants. Best
farming country in the State. Reason for
selling, am 72 years old and cannot at-
tend to business longer. Jacob Sum-
mers, 141 South Main St., Charlotte,
Michigan. 133

52,000 ACRES CHOICE WESTERN PINE
Timber tall, thrifty, clean-bodied, soft
and light. Logging conditions excellent.
Land well watered and valuable.
TWENTY THOUSAND ACRES
DOUGLAS FIR
Tall, thrifty timber suitable for ship
stock. Fine logging chance. Well lo-
cated; immediately accessible to railroad
transportation.
M. C. Griswold (Managing owner)
505 Fenton Bldg., Portland, Orgeon.
734

 

For Sale—Grocery stock and fixtures,
rent low, location good. Extra good
proposition for man and wife. Reason
for selling other business. Address Lock
Box 247, Owosso, Michigan. 738

 

Collections—Claims,
where on commission; no collection, no
charge. Tri-State Mercantile Agency, P.
O. Box 1028, Detroit. 740

For Sale—Counter fixtures, cheap. One
Burroughs adding machine, 1 Underwood
typewriter, 1 individual 5 drawer Na-
tional Cash Register, 1 individual 6
drawer National Cash Register, two 16 ft.
Sherer-Gillett Patent grocer counters.
Jim McGuire, Buckley, Michigan. 745

collected every-

 

 

$20 Little Giant Automatic Soda Foun-
tain, $10 cash. Order direct from fac-
tory, save agent’s commission. Estab-
lished fifteen years. Grant Manufactur-
ing Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 743

Wanted—To buy veneer or lumber,
any widths, any lengths, any thickness:
job lots; state lowest price. Western
Veneer Products Co., 907 S. 22nd St.,
St. Louis, Missouri. 746

 

 

For Sale—An up-to-date grocery and
meat market, high-class trade. Stock
and fixtures will invoice around $4,000.
Address Box 195, Independence, Kansas.

729

If you want to buy, sell or trade your
business, see Hallock, 135% East Fulton
street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 654

 

 

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
someone. No. 657, Michigan Tradesman.

657

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. 78

 

Pay spot cash for clothing and ‘fur-
nishing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 104
E. Hancock, Detroit. 608

Collections—We collect anywhere. Send
for our ‘‘No Collection, No Charge’’ offer.
Arrow Mercantile Service. Murray Build-
ing, Grand Rapids, Mich. 390

 

 

Will pay cash for whole or part stocks
of merchandise. Louis I.evinsohn, Sagi-
75

 

 

naw, Michigan.
HELP WANTED.
Retail Shoe- Salesman Wanted—Give

age, experience, salary expected, refer-
ences and full particulars in first letter.

Also state how soon you ean come.
Butler’s Largest Shoe Store. Address
A. Ruff’s Sons, Butler, Penn. 765

 

Wanted—Experienced
partment store man as a partner and
manager of an_ established business,
modern store and equipment, located in
the best city of 4,500 in Michigan. Other
business demands owner’s attention. Ad-
dress No. 768, care Michigan Tradesman

768

up-to-date de-

 

POSITION WANTED

Wanted—Position in grocery or general
store. Have had thirty years’ experi-
ence in general merchandise. Am fully
qualified to manage or help manage mer-
eantile business. Do you want such a
man? Address No. 762, care Michigan

762

 

Tradesman.

 

Position Wanted — Manager—Buyer.
Clothing and men’s furnishings desires
position with responsible firm doing an-
nual business of $50,000 to $200,000. Fully
acquainted with manufacture of clothing
and the best markets. Credentials A1.
Will invest if conditions warrant. <Ad-
dress E. J. P., care Tradesman. 770

 

Wanted—To buy a stock of dry goods

for cash, or trade a farm for mer-
chandise. Wm. N. Benge, Milan, 7 ee

SEE NEXT PAGE.

Advertisements received too late to run
on this page appear on the following
page.

We Have the Most Complete Line
of Flour and Feed in
Western Michigan

New Perfection Flour
Perfection Corn Flour
Perfection Corn Meal

Perfection Barley Flour
White Corn Meal
Pancake Flours
Dairy and Horse Feeds

Watson-Higgins Milling Co.

Grand Rapids - - - Michigan

 

Our latchstring will be out to our visiting friends
June 24-29.

 

 

 

Red Crown
Gasoline for Power

The modern motor and improved carburetors have demon-
strated beyond question that gasoline made especially
for motor fuel—as Red Crown is made—will give the most
power—the most speed and the most miles per gallon.
Red Crown, like your automobile, is built to specifica.
tions and Red Crown specifications have been worked
out by the most eminent petroleum chemists and auto-
mobile engineers available.

Red Crown contains a continuous chain of boiling point
fractions, starting at about 95 degrees and continuing to
above 400 degrees. It contains the correct proportion of
low boiling point fractions to insure easy starting in any
temperature—the correct proportion of intermediate boil-
ing point fractions to insure smooth acceleration—and the
correct proportion of high boiling point fractions with
their predominence of heat units to insure the maximum
power, miles and speed.

These are the things that make Red Crown the most ef-
ficient gasoline possible to manufacture with present day
knowledge.

For sale everywhere and by all agents and agencies of

STANDARD OIL COMPANY

(INDIANA)

Chicago U.S. A.

 

 

 

  

32

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

June 12, 1918

 

A, Krolik & Co.’s New Building at
Detroit.

The new building occupied by A.
Krolik & Co. wholesale dry goods
merchants and manufacturers, is one
of the finest commercial structures of
its kind in the country. To make
plans for its construction successful
members of the firm visited different
sections of the country to get the
newest ideas as to the best methods
for the rapid assembling and distri-
bution of goods. An innovation was
established in devoting the greater
part of the main floor to the charg-
ing and packing rooms in order to
further facilitate the handling of or-
ders, instead of devoting the space to
the display of merchandise, as has
been usual in the past. Included in
the equipment are two huge spiral
chutes used for conveying the small-
er orders to the charging room. Three
large high powered elevators care for
the larger loads. From the packing
rooms the shipments are carried to
loading platforms below on a special-
ly constructed conveyor. The latest
types of pneumatic tubes are used in
distributing orders to the various de-
partments. The building is strictly
fireproof, nine stories high, exclusive
of the main and sub-basements, has
a frontage of 200 feet on Jefferson
avenue and extends 200 feet on Ran-
dolph to Woodbridge streets. The
average space per floor is 25,000
square feet, The firm owns and op-
erates two modern factories in De-
troit, manufacturing house dresses,
aprons, flannelette night wear, pants
and overalls. It also controls and
sells the output of a large mill in
Eaton Rapids, manufacturing sweater
coats, wool sox, gloves and mittens,
and a mill in Detroit manufacturing
gloves, mittens and hockey caps. The
business was founded in 1871 and the
new building with its modern facil-
ities and greatly enhanced space is
the natural result of the steady, con-
tinued growth since that time. Mem-
bers of the firm are Henry A. Krolik,
Day Krolik, David Scheyer, Joseph
N. Krolik and Julian H. Krolik.

———o...__

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids, June 10—The Wood-
house Company now has eight travel-
ing representatives and all of them
make their calls on the trade by au-
tomobile—six furnished by the house
and two owned privately by the driv-
ers. Manager Payette is so exasper-
ated over the freight service—or lack
of it—which is such a severe handicap
on the shipment of goods by jobbers
generally, that he is considering the

establishment cf a line of motor
trucks to Muskegon, Big Rapids,
Tonia, Lansing and- other nearby

points.

Walter S. Lawton is doine double
duty these days—his duty to his house
and his dutv to the Michigan Phar-
maceutical Travelers’ Association in
making arrangements for the enter-
tainment features of the forthcoming
meeting at Detrcit later in the month.

We are all glad to note that Jim
Goldstein is back on the job again
and that his hand has not forgotten
its cunning during the long vacation
he has inflicted on the fraternity. Jim
certainly has a nose for news and his
feld is so broad and comprehensive
that he apparently meets with little
difficulty in “covering his beat” well
and thorouchlv.

Hon. Fred M. Warner of Farm-
ington, was in town Tuesday on his
way to Chicago. He is making no

concerted canvas for the nomination
for U.S. Senator, like his Detroit and
Soo competitors, believing that in
war times like these the people should
not have their attention distracted
from the great issues at stake by the
political ambitions of any man. Mr.
Warner, as usual, bears himself with
dignity and discretion and meets
with friends with no more cordiality
than during the three terms he serv-
ed the State so successfully and sat-
isfactorily as Governor.

William Judson, Guy W. Rouse, Ed-
ward Dooge and Edward Winchester
are all in Cleveland this week attend-
ing the annual convention of the Na-
tional Wholesale Grocers’ Associa-
tion. They are all accompanied by
their wives.

Ed Litchenfeld, representative for
the Remington Typewriter Co. in the
Northern Peninsula, with headquar-
ters in Escanaba, has mysteriously
disappeared, and no trace can be
found of him, although search has
been made. He was at Menominee on
May 3, and left that city on that date
for St. Paul. He has been traced as
far as Ellis Junction, and then there
is a blank. H. J. Fogtman has arriv-
ed in Escanaba from Oshkosh to take
charge of the territory for the Rem-
ington Co. He stated that Litchen-
‘eld was one of the best salesmen on
the Remington staff, and that his ac-
counts were correct to a cent. It is
his belief that Mr. Litchenfeld met
with foul play at Ellis Junction.

——>.+ >

Big Things in Store For Saginaw.
Saginaw, June 11—The Saginaw
Malleable Iron Co., announces that
its capitalization has been increased
from $500,000 to $750.000 and that the
two unit furnace will be doubled with-
in a short time. Within the immediate
future it is planned to make of this
plant an eight unit furnace. The
Malleable Tron Co. was started in
Saginaw in the spring of 1917, and
‘“hen the additions to take care of the
doubling of capacity is concluded
there will be employed 600 people.

W. C. Durant, of the General Mo-
tors, has taken practically all of the
increased capitalization. This an-
nouncement follows on the heels of
the new grey iron plant called the
Central Foundry Co.. to employ 800
people, and the Wolverine Tractor
made public a week ago.

The Saginaw Shipbuilding Co., al-
ready possessed of contracts of twelve
steel vessels, has been allowed twelve
of 130 bottoms let out to Great Lakes
yards. The ship yards. contracts now
amount to about $18,000,000. With
the new plants and the expansion of
present concerns. Saginaw is now in
need of 3,000 additional workmen and
to take care of these and those already
in Saginaw the housing problem has
been taken up and is being worked

out. Chester M. Howell.
Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes.

3uffalo, June 12—Creamery butter
extras, 42.@43c; first, 41¢; common,
38@40c: dairy, common to choice, 32
(@38c; dairy poor to common, all
kinds, 28@30c.

Cheese—No. 1 new, fancy,
choice, 22@22'%c; held fancy 25@26c.

Eggs—Choice, new laid, 36@37c;
fancy hennery, 38@40c.

2c:

Poultry (live)—Cockerels, 27@29c;
old cox, 23@25c: ducks, 30@31c;

fowls, 30M32c; Broilers 50c Ib.
Beans—Medium, $12.50@13.00 per
hundred lIbs.; Peas, $12.50@13.00 per
hundred lbs.; Red Kidney, $13.00@
14.00 per hundred lbs.; White Kidney,
$14.50@15.00 per hundred lbs.; Mar-
row, $13.50@14.00 per hundred lbs.
5.00 per bbl. Rea & Witzig.
5.00 per bbl. Rea Witzig.

—_—_—__->-—____
Any man who depends on wages
will acquire a lot more money than
the man who depends on wagers.

—_——>-?o————_——_
Wit is the cayenne pepper of con-
versation and the salt of literature.

Penalties Imposed on Michigan Food
Grafters.

Flowerfield—The Flowerfield flour
mill has been ordered closed during
June by George A. Prescott, Federal
Food Administrator for Michigan, on
charges of having taken excessive prices
for feeds and general non-compliance
with food regulations.

Vicksburg—E. H. Minor,’s flouring
mill has been closed for one week and
a payment of $25 to the Red Cross for
excessive profits and for selling flour
without substitutes.

Portage—C. J. Logan has been penal-
ized $15, to be paid the Red Cross, for
violations of food regulations.

Benton Harbor—Charles D. Hunt was
given the alternative of handing $25 to
the Red Cross or being closed up for
violation of flour regulations. He paid.

Minard—The grist mill of J. G.
Cheetam has been closed for operating
without a license. The issuance of his
license will depend upon his observance
of the closing order.

——_»7.—— -
Facts About Flag Day.

Flag Day was originated in 1889 by
Prof. George Bolch, of New York,
who intrcduced into his kindergarten
the practice of holding special ex-
ercises in celebration of the adoption
of the flag by Congress, June 14, 1777.

The flag adopted that day, which

was the first authentic American flag,
and so officially designated by Con-
gress, was made at the suggestion of
George Washington, and the popular
legend is that it was sewed together
by Mrs. Elizabeth Ross (Betsy Gris-
com), at 239 Arch street, Philadelphia.

22>»
Geo. W. Gilkey Elected Manager
Michigan Paper Company.

Plainwell, June 11—At the regular
monthly meeting of the directors of
the Michigan Paper Co., held here
yesterday, George W. Gilkey was
elected director, Secretary and Man-
ager of the corporation, to succeed
his late father, who died about a
month ago.

Mr. Gilkey has been identified with
the Michigan Paper Co. ever since he
completed his education and is well
grounded in both the details and gen-

eralities of the management. He un-
dertakes his new duties with the

hearty co-operation and best wishes
of every director and stockholder of
the corporation.

ee ————

E. B, Fuller, general dealer, Mont-

rose: “I could not get along without
the Tradesman.”

BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale—Show cases, five drawer cab-
inet National cash register, Burroughs
adding machine, two hat cases, counters
and tables. My stock is entirely cleanea
out and fixtures will be soia cneap. Ad-
dress F. E. Holmes, Mt. Morris, —

 

 

 

Sale—Up-to-date grocery stock
In Ann Arbor.  Invoiced
Address 772, care hae

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For
and fixtures.
$2,000 to $2,500.
igan Tradesman.

 

30-32 Ionia Ave., N. W.

Buyers Week

‘June 24-25-26-27 and 28

It will pay you to visit our city during this
week. Come and see us and let us make your visit
both pleasant and profitable.

 

Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd.

Wholesale Automobile Tires and Accessories

Saddlery, Carriage and Heavy Hardware,
Iron and Steel

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

We Want You With Us

 

 

to do so.

Exclusively Wholesale

 

Mr. McAdoo rules that we cannot use train
service for our annual trade extension ex-
cursion this year, so we ask our customers
to come to us during Buyers’ Week—June
24-29, We will make it an object for you

 

Michigan Hardware Company

 

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

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