¥ 9 Ra eal Tri a VOL. 3. GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, N OVEMBER 1, 1885. desman. NO. 112. TO THE TRADE. We desire to call the attention of the Trade to our unusually complete stock of SCHOOL BOOKS, school Supplies And a General Line of Miscellaneous Books, Stationery, Paper, Etc. We have greatly increased our facilities for doing a General Jobbing Business, and shall hereafter be able to fill all orders promptly. We issue separate lists of Slates, School and Township Books, Blanks, Etc., which will be mailed on application. Quotations on any article in our stock cheer- fully furnished. We have the Agency of the REMINGTON TYPE WRITER For Western Michigan. Katon & Lyon 20 and 22 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. LUDWIG WINTERNITZ, (Successor to P. Spitz,) SOLE AGENT OF Fermentum, The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast. Manufactured by Riverdale Dist. Co., ARCADE, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 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Laundry Soap MANUFACTURED BY THE SINS OF THE FATHERS. The first of April in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, is something more than All- Fools’ Day; it is the great day for adjusting all the accounts for the year past, and for entering into engagements for the year to come. For generations the farmers of that region have crowded the year’s business as far as possible into that one day, and it probably never occurs to them that accounts might more conveniently be settled oftener. Ideas have never made rapid progress among these slow-going tillers of the soil, whose thorough conservatism resisted the free- school system as long as possible. As the fathers have done so must the sons, so far as circumstances will permit. Thus it was that on the first of April five years ago, as on scores of such former anniversaries, the county roads were noisy with the passing of farm wagons, all headed in the same direc- tion, and with the town of Lancaster as their destination. Long before light had many of the drivers begun their journey, for much was to be done ere they could return. The yellow oil-cloth-covered wagons of the Amish farmers were occasionally to be seen, but were not as numerous as the less-con- spicuous vehicles of their Mennonite neigh- bors.. On reaching Lancaster these were all ranged in long rows in front of the smaller taverns with which the city abounds, while the drivers crowded the banks, drawing or depositing money, and elbowed their way into the stores and shops to make their an- nual payments. It was not an unpicturesque throng that filled the streets that April day, and a stranger would have detected within it many novel and striking features, for, although it was not a crowd that possessed much bril- liancy of color, it presented great variety of costume. The Mennonite women, with their large black silk sun bonnets, their placid faces within outlined by a white mus- lin cap-border, formed no small portion of the assemblage; while the men of the same persuasion, their business done, in sober gray suits, with clean-shaven faces and close- ly-cropped hair, tramped sturdily along be- side their wives or stood in groups on the pavement blocking the way, and regarding the attempts of others to pass them with much the same absence of comprehension in their lusterless faces that a cow evinces when she stands across a foot-path chewing her cud in entire obliviousness to the fact that you desire to pass. Stricter members of the Mennonite faith—New Mennists as they are called—might be known .by an extra breadth of brim on their wide black hats, the absence of coat collars, and sim- iliar peculiarities of custume. Less fre- quently there might be seen the singular figure of an Amish man clad in along red- dish-brown overcoat, with numerous capes and skirts reaching to his heels. Sometimes the coat was lacking and the farmer appear- ed in a jacket fastened by hooks and eyes, and characterized by a total absence of skirts. Unlike their Mennonite brethren, these religionists wore beards, and_ their hair, falling to {the shoulders at the back, was cut squarely across the forehead just above the eyes. Hats of extravagant brim completed an attire having more oddity than beauty to recommend it. Occasionally one observed an entire family of Dunkards, or German Baptists, the children of each sex being dressed precisely as their elders; and looking in their quaint garb and serious faces, like dwarfs, who had early faced the situation and accepted the inevitable. Two young men in more worldly attire, who were loitering down King street in search of amusement, found plenty of it that morning in merely noting the people about them. The taller and finer-looking of the two was a visitor in the town and his friend, a resident was enjoying ‘his ex- clamations of surprise at the unfamiliar sights. ‘Look at that poor old fellow, Clem,” said the stranger to the town. ‘‘He doesn’t look as if he had a spare cent to bless him- self with.” The old fellow in question was a middle- aged farmer of decidedly shabby appear- ance, who was sitting on the curb stone en- gaged in eating an unpalatable-looking sau- sauge which he had drawn from his pocket along with a dingy bit of cheese. Clement Singleton, the one addressed, gave the old man a passing glance and burst into a laugh. “That is old Grouk,” he replied; ‘‘but your sympathy is quite wasted upon him, for he isa great tobacco farmer of this vicinity, and worth at least half a million. It is a solemn fact,” he added observing his friend’s look of disgust, ‘‘and I suppose his frugal disposition, one evidence of which you notice now, helped largely in its acquire- ment.” A little farther on, the sidewalk was ob- structed by some packing boxes, and in the narrow space left for passage a heavy, clumsy Mennonite was standing with his back to them. He turned about as they came near and faced them with a slow, bovine stare that was utterly devoid of in- telligence. He made no offer to move, but merely looked at them with that slow gaze which, while it amused Singleton’s friend, + CHICAGO, TLL, ‘Come, let us pass, will you?” he said sharply, and with a lumbering gait the far- mer moved aside. “That is another of your county million- aipes, I suppose, isn’t he, Clem?” question- ed the other a moment after. “I don’t know him,” was the response; “but he may be, for most of these Mennon- ite farmers are well off, especially if they are tobacco raisers.” The latter part of Singleton’s assertion was true enough, but Heinrich Bruner, the man who had so deliberately made room for the young men, was far from being rich, though by no means a poor man. Like the other farmers, he had been making his year- ly payments and settling his bank account, but unlike many of his neighbors, there was not the amount at the bank to his credit that it would have been pleasant to see there. To be sure, he had, beside, odd sums tied up in bits of stocking and hidden away in nooks and corners at home, but the whole amount was less that his brother Sigis- mund Bruner at Petersburg possessed, and their cousin, Adam Bruner, of Manheim, was worth double what the brothers owned. He was thinking of all this as he turned away from the bank, and when met by Sin- gleton and his companion had paused in his walk, completely lost in his confused reck- onings. He was not so stupid as the young men had imagined, but he did not grasp’ ideas readily; and, already pre-occupied as he was, it needed the stimulus of Singleton’s words to rouse him to full consciousness of what was required of him. It had come to’ him to-day with some force that he was growing old. He had not thought much about it before. One year of his life was very like another, and there was not much in his’ surroundings to re- mind him vf the flight of time. True, his children were growing up about him, but this did not impress him with the fact that his own years were increasing. To-day, however, he had met in Lancaster Gottlieb Hogendobler, whom he had known when he was young, and who was now a wealthy tobacco farmer near Quarryville. They had not met for twenty years, and Heinrich was surprised to find how old and bent his early friend appeared, and remarked upon it ac- cordingly. The venerable Gottlieb did not seem overpleased at the observation. **Look here once Heinrich,” he rejoined, laying his hand on the other’s shoulder, “you call me old when you are the oldest, mein freund,.” **Nein, Gottlieb, it is not so,” said Hein- rich, shaking his head in denial. “It is so,” maintained the tobacco farmer stoutly. ‘On next Pfingstmontag it will be my fifty-seventh geburtstag.” Upon this confident statement Heinrich began counting on his fingers and reckoning from variousgdata, such as the year a cer- tain preacher came, the time when apple- snitz brought such a high price on market, and the year when he figured as the Bell- schnickel for his children’s amusement at Christmas, arriving at last at the mournful conclusion that if he lived till the next Fass- nacht he would be sixty years old. Sixty years old! And he remembered that his father Conrad was but sixty-five when he died. Sixty years old, and there were five children yet to provide for, and it had been Heinrich’s one ambition to do as well for them when they should begin life for themselves as old Conrad had for Sigis- mund and himself, and the sisters Christine and Veronica when they were married. Of the five children, Jacob was the eldest; he must be at least twenty-four, the father thought. Hewould be wanting to marry soon, and as for the next oldest, Johanna, there was Franz Dieffenbach coming to see her every week. Nor would it be long be- fore the others would be wanting to marry, and how was he to provide farms for them all? Johanna, the only girl, would go to her husband’s farm when she married, but Franz Dieffenbach was not the man to take her with no money. Whatever happened, he must do well by Johanna. But Clement Singleton had roused him from his musings, and the court house clock striking two reminded him that he must soon be driving home. Jacob had come to town with his own team and would return when it suited him, but ‘young Heinrich, the youngest of his sons, must be hunted up be- fore he could start for home. The elder Bruner had left his horses and wagon at the sign of the Cross Keys, and had enjoined upon his son not to go far from that vicin- ity, and as the boy never contemplated even a slight deviation from the letter of his fath- er’s commands he was easily found. He was an awkward, shapeless lad of fifteen, and when seen by his father was standing before a jeweler’s window, lost in wide- mouthed admiration of the glitter with- in. “Oh, father, just look in the fenster awhile yet,” he exclaimed, when aware of the other’s presence. But the elder Heinrich remained undaz- zled by the sight of the window and its glories. : “Tt ish no good,” he replied. ‘‘Come away once; it ish all foolishness,” and re- luctantly the boy obeyed. As Bruner was leading ie = from the stable sheds, his foot hit some small object which he pushed aside without looking to see what it was, but after his team was ready to start and young Heinrich was already on the wagon seat, the farmer missed the horse blanket, which served them also as a cushion, and which had been left im the shed. Going back, therefore, for the blanket, he passed the same dark corner where he had kicked aside the small object in the straw. Something impelled him now to look down, and there, just at his feet, lay a coarse leather wallet, which some visitor to the stables had probably dropped not long before. He stood gazing at it for a mo- ment in silence, and then hearing footsteps approaching, he stooped, picked up the wal- let and placed it in his pocket, and a mo- ment later having found the blanket, had climbed with it into the wagon beside his son. Just what heZintended to do with the wallet was not clear to him at that moment, for he arrived at definite conclusions with great difficulty. As far as he was conscious- ness of any idea in the matter, it was that he would take the wallet home with him, see what it contained and afterwards adver- tise it in the Lancaster papers. Perhaps be- fore that he might hear who had lost it. Such a thing as the finding of money was so new a thing in his experience that it was hard to know at once what should be done about it. His instinet told him that if he entered the bar-room of the Cross Keys, saying that he had found some money, it might be claimed by the wrong person, and he did not like to be found there in the sta- bles counting it over. It might be said that he had stolen it. No, he would wait till he reached home, he resolved, as his mind par- tially cleared itself while he drove slowly out of town; there he could count the money, and if any one should claim it when adver- tised, he would say first: ‘Stop, my good friend, how much did you lose?” And so it would be sure not to get into wrong hands. Having reached this point in his soliloquy, he urged his horses into a faster gait, and the ten miles of distance that lay between Lancaster and his farm were soon overpast. He had not spoken to his son during the whole time, but conversation was not a strong point with any of the Bruners, and the boy thought nothing of his father’s si- lence, being wholly busied with the sights he had seen that day. It was the first time in his life that he had ever been so far from home as Laneaster, and he naturally felt that such a serious event was not to be lightly contemplated. A native of Borneo visiting a World’s Fair could hardly have been more impressed with the novelties about him than was this simple country boy by the glimpse of life afforded by a few hours in this small inland eity, and it is lit- tle to be wondered at that his mind did not readily adjust itself to his suddenly-enlarg- ed experience. Thus occupied in mental di- gestion, he failed to observe that his father was more than usually tactturn, and the latter did not mention his discovery to his son, since he could see no possible reason for so doing. The afternoon was well advaneed when a turn in the road brought them in sight of the Bruner homestead. It was a comfortable place to look at. The red brick house, a story higher at the back than at the front, bore in a conspicuous place a lozenge-shaped tablet of white marble, stating that Conrad and Katrina Bruner built the house ‘‘in Jahre 1831.” Beyond a neatly kept yard at the rear rose a large yellow barn, under the forebay of which a number of handsome cattle stood switching their tails with a leis- urely motion, that implied no necessity for the act and rather conveyed an impression that the switching was merely a good natur- ed condescension to popular prejudice on the subject. As the wagon drove into the yard, a great commotion at once arose among the fowls that had been quietly saun- tering about till that moment. Four or five guinea hens, with discordant eries, ran skulking behind a row of currant bushes, but, discontented with that place of refuge, soon rose in disorderly flight, alighting near the dog-kennel, and causing its worthy oe- cupant to rush forth ina high state of excitement. Half a dozen ducks, which had keen sunning themselves by the fence, sud- denly felt it imcumbent upon them to seut- tle across the roadway with much apparent haste but little real progress. A few rods further on some hens, which had been stand- ing in the path of the approaching wagon, but affecting not to perceive it, were at length seized with a proper sense of their peril, while at the same timea painful doubt in which direction to seek safety seemed to agitate their minds, as evidenced by purpose- lessly rushings to right and left and much rapid and excited conversation among them- selves. Leaving the wagon and. horses in charge of Heinrich, the farmer entered the house, and after a word to his wife and Johanna, who were preparing supper in the kitchen, went up stairs to his sleeping-chamber, and enteying, closed and bolted the door. Then drawing forth the black wallet from the in- ner pocket where he had placed it, he began to examine its contents. That was not a brief operation, for the rolls of bills it con- out his. horses | slow, but at length he had spread out the last bill before hiyp, and there was nothing beside the money in the wallet, which con- tained no clue to the owner. It was a large sum that was in his hands—a fraction over twenty thousand dollars. He wondered who had been so unfortunute as to lose all that. Twenty thousand dollars! How sucha sum would swell his credit at the bank! Twen- ty thousand! That would buy Jacob a hand- some farm, and leave nearly half for Johan- na when she should marry Franz. There would be enough of his own for the others when they wanted to marry some day. If this money were only his, what gn easy way it would show him out of present diffieul® ties. The sound of the farm-bell ringing for supper broke in upon his musings, and pastily placing the money in the wallet, he thrust it into a deep chest, the key of which was always carried in his pocket, and went down stairs. Jacob had not yet arrived from Lancaster, but the rest of his children, from Johanna down to young Heinrich, were present at the supper-table. Susanna Brener, the mother, was dressed, like other Mennist matrons, in sober gray, witha short cape, pointed at the front and back, plain book-muslin cap. Johanna’s attire was more worldly in character, for her dress was a gay purple, and there were earrings in the small ears. But then Johanna had not yet ‘‘entered the meeting.” Whenever that event should take place, she would put on the plain dress of the seet. She hada sweet, placid face, not unlike her mother’s, and seemed more intelligent than any of her brothers present. Of these, Walter was the eldest, a well-shaped lad of twenty, but with dull, heavy features, in this resembl- ing his father as nearly as a young man can resemble one whois old and worn. The next youngest, Sigismund, named for the Petersburg uncle, was a red-cheeked boy of eighteen, whose appetite at this period of life was much sharper than his intellectual perceptions. There was no display of affee- tion among the Bruners, but the family tie was strong, nevertheless. As the father looked about npon his children, his mind went back to the money up If the twenty thousand dollars were only his, what might he not do for them? His father, Conrad, when he died, thirty years ago come next Good Friday, had done well by his four children, and Heinrich would like to do no less for his. Truly it would be a good thing for him if he should never hear who had lost the money. When supper was over and the necessary work at the barn accomplish- ed, the family all went to bed, althongh it was not much past seven o’clock, and there still lingered a faint glow in the west. But people who feel called upon to rise and begin the work of the day at two or three in the morning, have need to be in bed at an early hour. ‘ But Heinrich the elder did not fall asleep as readily as usual, for he had the money to think of. In his imagination he was ecount- ing it over again, and more than once after his wife was asleep he raised himself on his elbow, that he might look over to the corner where the chest was, and satisfy himself that it was still there. What if he should keep this money for himself? He shudder- ed when he first ventured to shape his thoughts in this wise, but soon he was able to think of it without a feeling of ho1ror. Surely it would not be so very wicked to re- tain it, since it was not for himself but his children that he desired it. How could it be so very wrong to use for the good of otb- ers what had come to him by chanee? He had not stolen it. By the merest accident he had found it at a time when he needed it sorely. Perhaps it was really meant for him, and there was no accident in the matter. and a toire Stars. {Continued next week.] —_——_-—_ —=>—@--~<— Cold Comfort. From the New York Times. A grocer’s boy complained to his employer that he was worked too hard and did not get sufficient rest. ‘‘I know, Johnny,” ad- mitted the grocer, ‘‘that you are kept busy most of the time, but Pll see what ean be done. Perhaps when cold weather sets in Til let you draw molasses once in a while.” ee > 7 oe . Recent scientific investigations have de- monstrated that timber cut in the spring is not so durable for building purposes as that cut in the winter. This conclusion is borne out by the opinion of experienced builders, the majority of whom have long held to the same view. It has been found that wood containing large amounts of phosphoric acid and potassium is more liable to rot than when those elements are present in only small quantities. In the spring, standing timber contains about eight times as much phos- phorie acid, and about five times as much potassium as in the winter; hence the de- sirability of cutting it before the sap has distributed these substances through the tree. That the American Indian still retains some of the daring and cunning in warfare that characterized him before the white wan’s whisky had corrupted him is shown in the recent gallant exploit of Geronimo, the Apache chief, who stole through the cordon of soldiers and actually entered the military reservation at Fort Apache and car- tained were large and his calculations were ried off his wives in triumph. MUTILATED PAGE *, ™ ~The Michigan Tradesman, A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE The Gripsack Brigade. Oliver C. Shults walks around behind an imported;Scotch terrier. W. J. Permar, representing the Toledo the level of the sea. It isa very difficult task at this season of the year, on account of snow. We left our hotel at7 o’cloek | a. m., and did not get back until 6 p. m. Our horses were pretty well used up, as the | Pipp Bros., the Kalkaska hardware mer- GINGER BEER. chants, have started a branch store at South | Boardman. G. H. Trefry, general dealer at Muir, has AMONG THE TRADE. How a Druggist’s Boy Stumbled on a Se- cret and Became Rich. From the Louisvillé Courier-Journal. _ IN THE CITY. Wm. P. Walsh succeeds Joe. Wood & Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Siate. ' BE. A. STOWE, Editor. Terms $1 a yearin advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. = | i = WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1885. Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange. ‘Organized at Grand Rapids October 8, 1884. President—Lester J. Rindge. Vice-President—Chas. H. Leo Treasurer—W m, Sears. : Executive Committee—President, Vice-Pres- ident and Treasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one year; L. E. Hawkins and RK. D. Swartout, two ears. Aubttration Committee—I. M. Clark, Ben Ww. Putnam, Joséph Houseman. Transportation Committee—Samuel Geo. B. Dunton, Amos. 8. Musselman. Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur Meigs, Wm. T, Ret : e Manufacturing) ommittee—Wm. Cartwright, E. S. Pierce, ©. W. Jennings. : Annual Meeting—Second Wednesday evening of October. Regular Mectings—Second We ing of each 1ffonth. we +Subscribers and others, when writing to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub- lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver- tisement in the columns of this paper. “THE TRADESMAN” CONGRATU- LATES ITSELF. The organization of the grocery trade of Grand Rapids is now an accomplished fact, and the object for which THe TRADESMAN has striven for over two years is no longer a vague unreality. The large number who attended the meeting last Tuesday evening, and the character of those who are promin- ent in the moyement, augur well for the fu- ture success of the organization, and it goes without saying that the Retail Grocers’ As- sociation of Grand Rapids will accomplish the same good for the retail trade of this city that similar organizations have elsewhere accomplished for the business men of their respective localities. Tre TRADESMAN advocated the organiza- tion of the retail trade only after a thorough investigation of the working of such asso- ciations in the Eastern states, which inves- tigation brought with it a realizing sense of the advantages invariably obtained by con- certed action, intelligently and sensibly ex- erted. The possession of this knowledge led Tre TRADESMAN to the conclusion that Grand Rapids should be able to reap similar results, and it remains for the members of the new organization to determine whether they will swing into line with their no more intelligent or prosperous brethren in other nard. Sears, dnesday even- cities. As soon as twenty-five Michigan cities have adopted the retail dealers’ movement, Tie TRADESMAN will act on the sugges- tion of President Hamilton, of the Traverse City Business Men’s Association, and calla State convention, to be composed of dele- ates from each association. sciusitnieneimimmn ye ge bs = The Supreme Court has declared the anti- oleomargarine bill unconstitutional, on the ground that the body of the bill does not conform to the title. The deeision was written by Justice Campbell, and concurred in by the other judges of the tribunal. TS The editor of Tur TRADESMAN expresses his thanks to the Grand Rapids Pharma- ceutical Society for the handsome book-case ’ which now adorns his office, as well as for the kindly sentiments of esteem which ac- companied the gift. eicecinmmneanescinenaiaeae Manistee will probably be the next city to adopt the grocer movement. J. E. Mailhot is taking the initiative there, and good re- sults are consequently to be expected from his labors in that direction. SS East Saginaw will shortly have a local pharmaceutical society, similar to the Grand tapids organization. More Tobacco, Less Cotton. From the Hartford Times. South Carolina cotton planters are, to some extent, abandoning cotton as an un- profitable crop, and entering with some en- thusiasm upon the experiment of cultivating tobacco. They say, ‘North. Carolina and Virginia have grown rich,” on tobaeeo, and Co. in the saloon business. | dertaking business at 29 Canal street. business at Bellaire. chased here. business at Mendon. furnished the stock. business at Stanwood. Foster, Stevens & Co. furnished the stock. ware business at Rockford. Foster, Stevens & Co. furnished the stock. sold arresters to the Aude Furniture Co., St. Louis, and G. Merz, Chicago. cery Meigs & Co. furnished the stock. ee nee Chesire & Powers have engaged in the un- B. Dickenson has engaged in the grocery The stock was pur- F. H. Lester has re-engaged in the grocery Arthur Meigs & Co. N. O. Ward has engaged in the hardware C. W. Skellinger has engaged in the hard- The O. K. Dust Arrester Co. has lately Raub & Beatum have engaged in the gro- business at Upper Paris. Arthur ee Dr. Phebe French and another lady have formed a copartnership and will engage in the drug business at 500 East street. Hester & Fox have sold a Simonds’ single blocker shingle machine to L. Quackenbush, at Pleasant Corners, six miles northwest of Morley. ® Berkoff & Timmer have started in the grocery business at the corner of Seventh street and Alpine avenue. Cody, Ball & Co. furnished the stock. The transportation companies announce another advance in west-bound freight rates, to take effect Nov. 18: No.1, 75 cents; No. 2, 60; No. 3, 45; No. 4, 355 special, 25. ee S. L. Crockett & Co. sueceed Ben. L Deuel & Co. in the retail furniture business at 17 Canal street. The ‘‘Co.” of the new firm is Edmund J. Hopkins, formerly in the revenue service. J. U. Parker, State agent for Chandler & Taylor, Indianapolis, has sold Wm. Gallup, of Fowlerville, a twenty horse power engine and boiler and a sawmill with a daily eapac- tiy of 10,000 feet. eee Parmenter & Ireland have sold their gro- cery stock to M. C. Sessions. Chas. B. Parmenter will go on the road again for the Gleason Wood Ornament Co. Ben. Par- menter and Jas. E. Ireland are undecided as to their future movements. John H. Slack, formerly with W.S. Gunn & Sons, and Ed. Hanchett, formerly with Foster, Stevens & Co., have formed a co- partnership under the firm name of Slack & Hanchett and purchased the hardware stock of C. W. Skellenger & Co.,.on South Divis- ion street. W. S. Hartwell, postmaster at Elnira, and V. J. Jenks, of Grand Rapids, have formed a co-partnership under the firm name of Hartwell & Jenks and engaged in gener- al trade and the purchase and sale of wood at Elmira. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the grocery stock. H. Rademaker & Co. have purchased the machinery formerly operated by the Hall Co., at Hastings, and are getting out a. full line of jointed fish rods for the summer trade. They have lately issued an eighteen- page illustrated catalogue of their base ball bats, croquet sets, Indian elubs and jointed fish rods. ee D. W. Kendall, designer for the Berkey & Gay Furniture Co., was the first to orig- inate the square coal stove _which is now so popular. He got out designs in several different styles, but the Rochester stove man- ufacturer to whom he submitted his ideas would not listen to such an innovation as a square stove. In about a half dozen years, however, he was compelled to adopt Mr. Kendall’s ideas, or fall to the rear ranks of the stove makers. AROUND THE STATE. FE. P. Gallagher has bought G. D. Gould’s 5 cent store at Oscoda. J. M. Lyon succeeds C. E. Brown & Co. in general trade at Hadley. Lea & Shanan have started a grocery and meat market at Big Rapids. now itis South Carolina’s turn. The fine golden-colored leaf of North Carolina and j Virginia, such as was once used, after the | war, to make the noted “Tone Jack” smok- | ing tobacco, is the kind the South Carolin- | ians propose to cultivate in the middle and ‘“up-country” districts, a kind which has found fav@r, under the generic name of ‘‘Virginia tobacco,” among smokers in Eng- land’s upper classes. For the ‘ow-country” region, the Cuban seed-leaf is thought to be } | | } } ' the best; and the Charlestown News and | John’s liquor business at Michigamme. Courier announces that that establishment | is prepared to distribute packages of the | seed, witli printed directions for the culti- | vation. >. 2 “ce ‘Purely Personal. Jas. Fox left Monday night for his new | home at Sioux City, Lowa. J. S. Coffinan, the Petoskey jeweler, is in town for a few days. Rumor has it that he contemplates purchasing an interest in the jewelry establishment of Will Hunt, at 10 anal street. UU. F. Hastings writes that the Waukesha water is working wonders with his kidney trovble, arid that it will be necessary for him to return nome about the 20th, in order to ‘prevent a famine in Wisconsin. The land- Jord has raised the price of board twice s eee ; | Waite in the drug business at Homer. D. N. McKay, grocery and crockery deal- er at Escanaba, has sold out. C. Coon sueceeds Coon & McLaurin in the grocery business at Manistique. Jas. Frazier sueceeds Carlson & Frazier in the livery business at Menominee. A. N. Hopkins, succeeds Higby & Hop- kins in the drug business at Homer. Waite & Webster succeed Boughman & Isaac Treado has bought his brother F. A. Kennedy succeeds Lawrence & Bright in the grocery business at J ackson. Jas. Russell has purchased a half interest in the firm of Frank Clark & Co., at Bo- nanza. W. H. Wycott, late of Edmore, has pur- , chased J. A. Aldrich’s bakery business at | Evart. | Wallace W. Hitchcock suceeeds Hitch- | cock & Burnett in the grocery business at Jackson. Homer Strong, the St. Louis boot and shoe dealer, has established a branch store at Mt. Pleasant.. | Frank Beamer, who recently engaged in the grocery business at Irving, has retired from trade. . HL Sterns will engage in the meat business at Plainwell, making the third marke CG been closed on chattel mortgage by Edson, Moore & Co., of Detroit. engaged in the grocery business at Water- vliet, under the firm name of Umphrey & Earnst. have sold their stock to Samuel Hale, who will remove the same to Lee. enbaugh will go to Florida. at Yates, and removed his grocery stock to Print P. O., Oceana county, where he has erected a new store building. at Crofton is now in active operation. thur Meigs, who owns all the land in the vicinity of the town, states that Crofton would be an excellent location forca factory turning out hardwood products; also for a blacksmith shop. the coming winter. Spice Co., was in the city last week. C. Crawford, Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.’s new traveler, met with exceptional success on his initial trip last week. Parker McAuley, shipping clerk for Eaton & Christenson, is taking Geo. Holloway’s route this week, and George is officiating in the house. Manley Jones has engaged to cover the Northern Michigan trade for W. ©. Hamil- ton & Co., proprietors of the Anchor Tobac- co Works, Covington, Ky. The meeting of Grand Rapids Post, T. P. A., which was to have been held at THE TRADESMAN Office last Saturday evening, was adjourned for one week, at which time a general attendance is desired. H. P. Colegrove, E. R. Durkee & Co.’s Western traveler, put in Sunday and Mon- day at this market. He always strikes Grand Rapids Saturday night, as South Division street possesses a great attraction for him. The Muskegon correspondent of THE TRADESMAN notes the fact that Dick Man- Charles, whose | gold purchased a millinery shop at that are preparing tO) piace, and that Johnny Mangum visited a Lakeside attraction seventeen times during his recent visit to the Sawdust City. Dave Smith’s versatility is at last explain- ied. A friend of the only original Magenta Headed Dave states that he graced the ya- riety stage for several years subsequent to his emigration from Ireland, playing Trish roles. He also traveled with a circus one year as clown. It has been thought desirable to hold the annual social party of the Grand Rapids | traveling men this season sometime during 'the week intervening between Christmas | and New Year’s, in order that the greatest L. M. Ellis, secretary of the Mason Road | number may be able to avail themselves of Cart Co., is dead. the opportunity of atttending. A meeting The Globe Drug & Capsule Co., at Detroit, | of all interested in the matter is hereby call- t Frank Umphrey and Fred Earnst have t Rodenbaugh & Co., grocerymen at Bravo, € Messrs. Rod- i S. A. Caldwell has sold his store building i Wm. F. Stuart’s shingle and lumber mill Ar- MANUFACTURING MATTERS. A sawmill will be put in at West Kalamo Doty Bros. & Co., of St. sawmill burned in August, rebuild. Moore & Dutcher, the Douglas millers, recently filled an order for 27 bayrels of gra- ham flour for a Chicago bakery. St. Ignace is crawling up in shipments of iron ore, 90,000 tons being the probable amount for 1885. This is 30,000 tons in ex- cess of any previous year. Hargrave & Son’s match factory at Bay City will be running about January 1. They will give employment to 100 men and have a capacity of 160 cases a day. STRAY FACTS. ice and they had to wade through it over half the way. Windy Point to the summit, a distance of three miles, and still I stood the trip splen- sider myself as good as new, haven’t a sign of my old bronchial trouble. this is a wonderful State. every place of interest within 100 miles of Denver. 15, and then go to Salt Lake City via Den- rer & Rio Grande Railway, taking i >| ‘ , N " . pomagpeatiag | pea in the} it was invented, The story savors a little of wondertu ack Ci ral Gorge, < bie 4 oan ' we mae , eg » And | romance, but 1 ean vouch for its truth, hay- Marshall Pass. > scenery s trip is; : j . ‘ : ee te es. this trip 1S | ing heard it many a time from the lips of said to be the finest in the land. been stopping a » Tron Springs ‘l tw . : oe t the Iron Springs Hotel two | achievement, and not without good reason. weeks and will Dr. J. Hameral, editor of Les Deux Monde, Buffalo, N. Y., has been in the city during ‘the past week, and furnishes the Coyrier- Journal the following interesting account of the accidental origin of ginger beer and the | results which made the inventor a wealthy man: “Everybody,” said Dr. Hamerel, ‘“‘knows the Ginger Beer, the popular drink of the middle and lower felasses in England, _the yearly sale of which (at one penny per | bottle) reaches millions and millions of bot- i tles. But the origin of this pleasant, cheap and truly temperate drink is not known, and | I doubt whether, even in England, there are | many men who could say how and by whom rail was completely covered with snow and We faced wind blowing at he rate of forty-four miles per hour from lidly—a fact that goes to show I am infin tely better than when I left home. I con- ¥ s I assure you We have taken tin pretty thoroughly. We have visited We will remain here until Nov. r » p> e . * We have | the inventor, who was rather proud of his remain ten days more. Ij}¢ w ome 80 years ago, Lottis Carez, a boy of 16, ean assure you I will be sorry to leave here, | the son of a very poor country physician in as I think it is the most charming spot I) prance, was sent by his father to a school in ever saw. Mr. Crosby, of Chas. : . ‘ : . ' Mr Cros Ys of Chas Root &| London, in which he got board, lodging and Co., Detroit, is here with us and is much | improved in health since he came. He in-| tends remaining until June next. We are | instruction in English in exchange for les- sons in French to the younger pupils. Eight months later, the schoolmaster died, the going to-morrow fora two or three day’s | school was closed, and Louis Carez found hunt and expect to have a good time. 1! himself alone in the big city without a friend wish you would mention in your paper that | and with very seanty resourees. While Lexpect tobe back on my route Dee. 1.) jooking out for another school, he took a Mrs. Hoops and our son Tommie are with} room in the house of a druggist, in one of me. the low parts of the city, and managed to live on $5 a month, all that his father could ‘send him. It was almost starvation. But the poor boy had not seen the end of his there is great temptation to scant the meas- | troubles. Ohe day, the monthly remittance ure, and this practice flourishes through the | failed—the father was dead! ‘The boy inattention of retailers, many of whom seem | Would have died of want if it had not been to buy where they think the price is lowest, | for the kind charity of the old druggist and without regard to the size of the erate or | his wife. They had become attached to the - >> 2 Cranberry Package From the New York Advocate. As cranberries are a high priced fruit, | ra) De at| | has been attached. The First National Bank has been organ- | ized at Sault Ste Marie, with a capital stock of $50,000. A. W. Sherwood & Co., retail furniture | dealers at Allegan, have dissolved, A. W. Sherwood and Andrew Oliver will each con- tinue the business separately. Wm. Dunning, of Williamston, has ship- ned from Mason a car load of poultry to New York City, consisting of about 2,000 chickens and 500 dueks, geese and turkesy. Howry’s camp, near Coleman, has been deserted by all his men, owing to the fact that the foreman refused to tell his employes what wages were being paid woodsmen at Gladwin. | | } ><> The Grocery Market. The disagreeable weather of the past week has affected trade as well as the feelings of business men. Foreign fruits are scarce, with an upward tendency. ‘The salmon cor- ner is likely to elevate the price of thatarti- cle, and as the tomato pack was short, and has passed into few hands, tomatoes are bound to go higher. Prices seem to be stiffening all along the line, and holders are growing more arrogant Candy is steady and _ active. Florida oranges are a little lower in price and better in quality. Rodis are without change in price, and the crop is nearly exhausted. Lemons are in better supply and prices are lower. Nuts are firm and almonds and bra- zils are little higher. Peanuts are firm and steady. Chestnuts are in good supply and prices are easy; but the quality is not A1 this season. Figs are good in quality and prices are very firm. They will be no lower this year. Oysters are running firm and prices are lower. > -o? 2 The Question of Cartage. The following paper was circulated by Samuel M. Lemon Monday afternoon, who secured the appended signatures in about half an hour: We, the undersigned wholesale dealers of Grand Rapids, do hereby agree to charge ¢ reasonable cartage on all goods delivered at all railway depots and steamboat landings in this city of three cents per 100 pounds, excepting the two following articles, viz: salt, upon which we shall charge two cents per barrel, and kerosene, which shall be ten cents per barrel. This agreement to take ' want to vent your wrath on me beeause I Se wes ends did not get Johnny Spider, of Webb Center, ed, to be heid at Tue TRADESMAN office Saturday evening, November 28, at which time a full attendance is requested. Geo. F. Owen—who posed as the original dog collector of the traveling fraternity— sends Tne TRADESMAN the following sereed, which was translated from Choetaw into English at great expense: ‘“‘f notice in your last week’s issue that you offer an ad- vertising account against me for sale. Now, you well know my reasons for not paying that aecount. In the first place, I never or- dered the notice printed. In the second place, the advertisement was no good— (didn’t catch a clam). But I easily com- prehend why you do this. You seem to Don't Or to take your paper for one year. think for a moment that I can’t pay that cents. Ihave had more than thirty friends offer to chip in and help pay it. John Cham- berlain, of East Jordan, said if IT would stay there until trade slacked up a little, he would get Dan Jerue and start out and raise that amount inside of three days. So you see, Bro. Stowe, when you pitch into me you wake up all Northern Michigan.” Leo. A. Caro, Seeretary of the Michigan Division, T. P. A., sends Tur TRADESMAN the following contribution relative to a sub- ject in which many traveling men are in- terested: ‘The Michigan Divison of the T, P. A., is to be congratulated for the amount of successful work that has been performed in the interest of the Michigan Division and the T. P. A. The granting of week-end tickets is a gratifying result of the combin- ed action of officers and members. The Chicago & Grand Trunk, the D., G. H. & M. and the M. & O. have already instructed their station agents to sell week-end tickets to all members of the T. P. A. who have the new certificate. All members who have not yet paid their dues for 1885, will confer a favor on the officers of the T. P. A., and will receive a new ecard, by sending their as- sessment at once to Jno. R. Stone, Drawer 133, Chicago, Ill Gentlemen, we number to-day the strongest and best organized Di- vision of the T. P. A. Put your shoulder to the wheel and keep the ball rolling.” oe 33, Chicago Herald: ‘“The greatest man to jump into a town and get acquainted with folks I ever saw was Jap Johnson,” said a well-known traveling man. “Give Jap a night and a day in a place and everybody effect December 1, 1885. SmeLps, BuLKLEY & LEMON, Fox, MussELMAN & LOVERIDGE, ArtruurR Metas & Co., Hawkins & PERRY, CLARK, JEWELL & Co., Copy, BALL & Co., JoHN CAULFIELD, GRranp Rapips PACKING Co. Tue TRADESMAN will comment on the above next week. Cranberry Topics. Referring to the recent contributions on cranberry growing published in TuE TRADESMAN, Hon. D. C. Leach writes as follows: ‘I like Mr. Comings’ suggestion of acranberry growers’ association. Ido not know as one could be sustained in this State, but I would be very glad to meet the cranberry growers of the State and compare time as they might agree upon?” It would afford Tur TRADESMAN much pleasure to welcome all interested in cranberry to a meeting, or series of meetings, at its of- fice; and its editor would do all that lies in his power to tender the occasion pleasant | | there would call him by his first name, and | he’d eall everybody the same way, even the | girls. In forty-eight hours, he’d know every man, woman, child, horse, dog and eat in | the town, and could tell who married who, / who got drunk once in a while, and who had fits or rheumaties. Give him three days in a town, and he’d have every bit of gossip ' and musty scandals that ever went over the back fences of that town down finer’n silk. | He was a wonderful man, Jap was, and he | eould sell goods like a house afire. The biggest thing he ever did, though, was about | four years ago. He had four hours to spend | in alittle town out in Western Iowa. In that time, he sold two bills of goods, was invited to dinner by the mayor, decided four bets, was referee in a dog fight, proposed mar- } | } } riage and was accepted by the belle of the notes. I think such a meeting would be in-| place, borrowed $5 from her pa, beat teresting and profitable!’ In another por- | another man two games of billiards, and it tion of the same letter, Mr. Leach asks: | happening to be election day, he capped the “How would it do to invite Michigan cran- mansard by sailing in and having himself berry growers to meet at your office at such | elected town clerk by a majority of eleven votes.” | from Manitou Springs, Colo.: day mailed yon a co containing an.ace Will H. Hoops writes Ti TRADESMAN growing | as follows relative to his condition of health, “J have this of a Denver paper, barrel. The prevailing sizes are as fol- pretty, well-behaved boy, they pitied his lows: forlorn position, they gave him his room New Jersey standard crate, 22x12x83 and his board until he could obtain a situa- inches inside measure, which equals 39.9 | tion. Anxious to make himself useful, quarts grain measure. Louis Carez swept and eleaned the little Massachusetts crate, 221¢x12x7!4, equal-| Store, and was soon able to help the old g 29.63 quarts. /man in preparing simple prescriptions. One New York erate, (repacked from larger | erates or from barrels), 20x113¢x7!4, equal- in day, as he was alone in the store, a woman ealled tor powder. Louis served her and, after left, tasted the He liked it, but finding it burnt Then he put some ginger powder in one glass and some ginger ing 26 quarts. she The first two of these sizes are packed in the country under pressure to make them | carry without chafing and open tight full in market. The smaller, repacked New York erate, will appear to be full without pres- | | powder. his tongue, he mixed it with water. in another a little sugar and the contents of the white paper of a sedlitz powder, added water to both, poured the contents of one sure. The New Jersey standard barrel is in | glass into the other and drank with delight depth 25°¢ inches, diameter of head 1614 | the pleasant, effervescing draught. The bilge 18° inches, and | ginger beer, although in a crude state, was New standard | lhad a chanee, the young inventor experi- inches, diameter of holds just , three erates. The Massachusetts barrel Jersey discovered. For several days, whenever he is 14 mented in the small laboratory, and having inch less | in diameter, and holds five quarts less than | at length perfeeted his new beverage, he eal- the New Jersey. Choice eranberries also come to market | from inland distriets packed in flour barrels | holding about six quarts more than the New he With these facts and a gist, explain his idea, and beg the loan of | two guineas. But the old man did not see the culated that he wanted two guineas to man- ufacture his liquid, buy 100 bottles, as many corks, and some twine. Some fine morning, made up his mind to speak to the drug- Jersey standard. earpenter’s rule, retailers of cranberries can matter in the same light as the enthusiastic llowever, easily determine what sort of measure they are getting. Mr. French, whe has been leading a six- | young boy and refused the loan. it was written in the book of fate that gin- teen years’ fight against short packages, was | Ser beer was not to be withheld from the ° instrumental in securing the passage of the | The New Jersey law, and reports that a large wife of the druggist had heard the explana- majority of the New Jersey eraiberry grow- | tions of the boy, and whether she had faith ers are in favor of a standard package, but | in his invention, or whether she was more the Massachusetts growers put up a pack- | tender-hearted than her husband, the same age shorter than the New Jersey one, and | evening, she slipped two gold pieces into the this is demoralizing the trade. The New | hand of Louis out of her scanty savings. A Jersey standard was copied after the old ifew days later, he could be seen on the Cape Cod package and now the Massachu- | streets of London, carrying a basketful of setts standard is receding from the original | bottles in one hand, and a glass in the other Cape Cod one. This is a subject which de- | ealling: ‘‘Ginger the drink of the serves the attention of grocer associations | period; ginger beer, three pence a bottle!” everywhere. | A few months afterward, Louis Carez man- Three standard erates of the New Jersey ' ufactured and sold daily 1,000 bottles, but packing will fill a standard barrel of three | one year later, he formed a partnership with rounded bushels, whereas the Massachusetts | @ Capt. Dubbers, andjestablished large works law provides for one hundred quarts level | Which could searcely meet the demands, and measure, which is intended to turn out three | had to be enlarged more than once. Ginger bushels struck grain measure. Nothing but | beer sold retail at two pence a bottle. a. grain should be sold by struck measure. | four years of partnership, being then twenty- Lape eaten ‘one years of age, Louis Carez sold his share Dr. Peter W. Schmidt, in the coneern to his partner for £10,000 (Usually called Dr. Pete, The Great Ger-| and went to Paris. He invested his capital man Doctor.) Readers of THe TRADESMAN | in the silk house of Vacossin, at that time, will find advertisements, in this issue, of | (ghout the year 1815) already a very im- Golden Seal Bitters and Dr. Pete’s Lung} portant one. But Louis Carez wasa born appreciating palates of Englishmen. beer, ‘* ro : i res 2 » Pp We : . et Food for consumption (now called Dr. Pete's | merchant, and in 1824 the firm of ‘Carez, ar an ‘ ‘ 4 ry’ . r "Ong Tae yr * » ‘ * 35 cent Cough Cure.) These two prepara-| Vacossin & Co.’ had become the largest an O . tions are his great medicines and the ones with which he has been so successful. Dr. Pete has never asked one to describe his disease, but told each one his trouble with- out asking a question. Thousands who read this sentence will say, ‘‘Yes, he told me my trouble without asking me a ques-| [ was often a guest in the house, and many His intuitive perceptions being So |g time I have heard the old gentleman, when The | he had taken some friend through his art and picture gallery, one of the finest private’ collections of Paris, say with a smile: ‘See what ean be got out of a bottle of ginger beer.’ ” richest of the silk trade in Fran He was elected president of the Board of Trade of Paris, president of the Chamber of Com- meree, was a member of the Legion of Hon- or, and was many times a millionaire. His son, Alfred Carez, was;my chum at college. tion.” strong, he readily detects the disease. giving of his medicine to the suffering marks a new era in medicines. —_-—~<- >
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Drugs & Medicines
STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.
One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Two Years—F. H. J. Van nEmster, Bay City.
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next place of meeting—At Grand Rapids,
pope *, 2, 1886.
Michigan State baa stial ‘iarcsian
OFFICERS.
President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
First Vice-President—Frank J.
Grand Rapids.
Second Vice-President—A. B. Stevens, Detroit,
Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit.
Secretary—S. E. Parkell, Owosso.
Treasurer—Win. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—Jacob Jesson, Geo.
Gundrum, Frank Wells, F. W. R. Perry and
John E. Peck.
Local Secretary—Will L. White, Grand Rapids.
Next place of meeting—At Grand Rapids,
Tuesday, October 12, 1886.
Wurzburg,
irand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884.
OFFICERS.
President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank,H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors~President, Vice-President
and Secretary.
Board of Trustees—The President, Wm, H.
Van Leeuwen, Isauc Watts, Wm. E. White,
Wm. L. White.
Committee on Pharmacy —Hugo Thum, M. B.
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.
Committee on Legislation—isaac Watts, O. H.
Richmond, Jas. $8. Gowin.
Committee on Trade ‘Matters—H. B. Fairchild,
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in
each month.
Annual Meetings—First Thursday evening in
November,
Next Meeting—Thursday evening, December 3,
at **The Tradesman”’ office.
Haskegon Drag Clerks’ Association,
OFFICERS.
President—I. F. Hopkins.
Vice-President—John Meyers.
Secretary and Treasurer—O. A. Lloyd.
Regular Meetings—Second and fourth Friday
of each month, |
Next Meeting—Friday evening, November 1.
ONE YEAR OLD.
Second Annual Meeting of the Grand Rap-
ids Pharmaceutical Society.
At the second annual meeting of the
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society, held
at Tue TRADESMAN Office last Thursday
evening, the following members were pre-
sent: President Wurzburg, Secretary Es-
eott, Will L. White, John E. Peck, H. B.
Fairchild, Albert F. Hazeltine, Isaac Watts,
Eugene Klein, H. E. Locher, Theo. Kem-
ink and A. Sanford.
The application of Wim. H. Tibbs, for
membership in the Society, was received
and referred to the appropriate committee.
Treasurer Fairchild reported the receipts
of the year to be $102—-$64 from initiations
and $38 from dues—and the amount on
hand to be $32.40. The report was adopt-
ed.
Secretary Escott made the following re-
port:
Soon after the meeting of the Michigan
Pharmaceutical Association in Detroit, last
year, the question of organizing a society in
Grand Rapids was agitated by some of those
who attended the meeting, and a prelimi-
nary meeting was held at the Morton House
parlors Oct. 9, 1884. This meeting was at-
tended'by representatives of ten drug stores,
all of whom were heartily in favor of or-
ganizing, and a committee was appointed to
draft a constitution and by-laws. This com-
mittee reported ata subsequent meeting
held atthe same place Oct. 16, 1884, when a
constitution was adopted. The organiza-
tion was completed by the signing of the
constitution and the election of officers at
the first annual meeting, which was held at
Tue TRADESMAN Office, Nov. 18, 1885.
Eighteen persons signed the constitution as
charter members, viz.: Isaac Watts, Peck
Bros., ©. P. Bigelow, Kemink, Jones &
Co., J. 8S. Cowin, W. E. White, R. A.
Schouten, M. B. Kimm, E. R. Wilson, L.
M. Herrendeen, Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.,
L. D. Putnam & Co., F. H. Escott, W. H
VanLeeuwen, O. H. Richmond & Co., A.
C. Bauer, H. E. Locher and H. & F. ‘Thum.
The following have been elected members
during the past year: Geo. G. Steketee, D.
Kimm, E. B. Curran, A. Baxter, C. I
Escott, R. A. McWilliams, Blake Gibson, A.
Stonehouse, J. S. Page, Aaron Clark, Lucas
Schiphorst, Bochove & Sanford, W. H.
Knight, J. I. Zerkle, Eugene Klein, D. B.
VanBuren, A. F. Hazeltine, Mills & Lacey,
W. H. Ross, W. L. White, J. W. Hayarwd,
J. E. Hunter and W. J. Page.
There have been thirteen meetings held
to date (including the two preliminary meet-
ings), at which a quorum was present, and
twice no quorum could be obtained. Iam
sorry that no roll has been kept during the
past year, as it might be interesting to
know who attend the meetings and who do
not. This should be remedied by the new
Secretary. Scientific work has occupied
yery little time in the meetings of the So-
eiety, most of the time being given to trade
matters. The great work of the year has
been the securing of uniform prices on pro-
prietary articles, with what success you all
know. These results bid fair to continue
during the coming year, and give the Socie-
ty more time for the discussion of matters
relating to pharmacy.
Starting with an attendance of only ten
at our first meeting, and now having a mem-
bership of more than forty, the Society has
reason to congratulate itself on its success
and to anticipate great results in the future.
The report was adopted.
The election of officers being next in or-
der, President Wurzburg appointed Albert
~.
Isaac Watts nominated the present incum-
bent of that office.
Mr. Wurzburg thanked the Seciety for
the honor already conferred upon him, but
suggested that the one-year term adopted
by the State Association be made the rule
in this Society. He nominated John E.
Peck, as in every way qualified for the posi-
tion.
Mr. Peck declined the nomination, stating
that even if elected he should refuse to
serve. He held that the experience gleaned
the re-election of every oflice.r
Frank H. Esecott nominated Dr.
Locher.
Mr. Wurzburg receiving six of the eleven
votes cast, he was declared unanimously
elected. He thanked the Society for re-
electing him to the responsible position of
President, and pledged himself to do the
best he could for the Society. He said the
organization was no longer an experiment,
and thateven the most enthusiastic promoters
of the Society could have hardly anticipated
thepresent stability of the organization. A
year of profitable existence has proven that
the movement was not boy’s play.
John E. Peck nominated Wm. L. White
for. Vice-President, and Isaac Watts pro-
posed the name. of Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
Mr. White received seven of the eleven votes
and was declared elected.
H. B. Fairchild moved that Frank H.
Escott be re-elected Secretary by acclama-
tion. Mr. Escott nominated Wm. H. Van-
Leeuwen and Isaac Watts presented the
name of John E. Peck. Mr. Escott was
unanimously elected.
H. B. Fairchild was unanimously re-elect-
ed Treasurer.
The following were elected members of
the Board of Trustees, the President being
Chairman ex-officio: John E. Peck, Wm.
H. VanLeeuwen, Wm. L. White and Isaac
Watts.
The President was given time until the
next meeting to announce the standing com-
mittees.
John E. Peck moved that the Society
vote $25 to Seeretary Escott as a slight token
of the appreciation of the members for his
services. The motion was adopted.
Isaac Watts moved that the Secretary be
instructed to notify each member who is be-
hind with his dues. H. B. Fairchild moved
as an amendment that the Secretary have
postal cards printed and notify the members
each quarter when the dues are payable. The
amendment was adopted.
Frank H. Escott offered an amendinent to
Article 1, Section 3, of the by-laws, so as to
read as follows: ‘‘Every member shall pay
in advance to the Treasurer the sum of two
dollars as his anuual dues and shall be lia-
ble to lose his membership by neglect to pay
said dues one year.”
Frank J. Wurzburg moved an amendment
relative to honorary members, providing for
their admittance to membership in the So-
ciety.
Diseussion of the poison question being
then in order, H. B. Fairchild introduced
the subject by the presntation of the fol-
lowing:
H. E.
Resolved—That this Society adopt the
following pharmacy regulation of the Wis-
consin Society: As an additional precau-
tion in the dispensing and sale of potent
medicines, pharmacists are requested to af-
fix a strip of rough emery cloth around each
shop bottle, or other container from which
they dispense morphine and other poisons;
the width of the aforesaid strip to be not
less than one-fourth of the altitude of the
dispensing bottle and to be pasted under the
label of contents.”
Isaac Watts presented the precaution sug-
gested by a Western drug journal—that a
strip of steel be riveted over the neck of the
bottle and a torpedo affixed. If the phar-
macist survives, the shock is likely to bring
him to his senses and preclude his making
a mistake. Seriously, Mr. Watts recom-
mended Prof. Bedford’s rule—two looks
and a level head.
John E, Peck recommended the use of a
rubber band around the neck of the bottle.
His present method of distinguishing po-
tent liquids is to tie a thread around the
neck of the bottle with a screw ot the end
of it.
Mr. Watts stated that no one should ever
be allowed to engage in conversation with
the prescription clerk while in the perform-
ance of his duties.
Mr. Peck remarked that one peculiarity
of the mistakes made is that they are gen-
erally made at the hands of ‘experienced
pharmacists.
President Wurzburg asked if it was the
custom of those present to affix a poison
label to prescriptions containing poisons.
Mr. Peck stated that the courts had decid-
ed that the poison label must be used in
such cases.
The President stated that ever since a
child had drunk one of his prescriptions, he
had been in the habit of so doing.
Ii. B. Fairchild related an experienced
which came to his knowledge from Batavia,
N. Y. A gentleman entered a drug store
and asked a boy for rochelle salts. The boy
stating that he did not know where this
drug was kept, the man stepped to the shelf,
and saying that he would help himself, took
three tablespoonfuls of antimony, from the
effects of which he died. This occurrence
was published in papers all over the coun-
try as ‘‘another drug clerk horror.”
Mr. Watts stated that some physicians
would not allow their prescriptions to be
taken to drug stores which make a practice
of affixing poison labels to prescriptions con-
taining poisons.
Will L. White said he once tried putting
on the poison label, but that the sp
/jcame around:
during the past year should be utilized by |
whole establishment. That one case settled
it. He never tried it again.
Albert F. Hazeltine said that the physi-
cians in his locality objected strongly to the
poison label.
Mr. White thought that every prescrip-
iion should bear a statement cautioning peo-
ple against taking more than the directions
called for.
Mr. Peck enquired how this would do
with prescriptions ‘to be taken as direct-
ed.”
Frank H. Escott related an experience he
had with a local business man taking a half
bottle of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral at one dose,
which nearly killed him.
Eugene Klein said that much trouble
could be avoided by making an impression
on the mind of the receiver. Most people
think that the directions are plain enough,
and look upon any suggestions from a drug-
gist as an interference. Nevertheless, he
advises patients to be cautious and follow
directions strictly.
Discussion then being closed, Mr. Fair-
child, in behalf of the Society, presented the
editor of Tae TrApDresMAN with a hand-
some black walnut bookcase as a token of
his services to the drug trade of the city and
State. The recipient of the gift thanked
the Society for this token of their esteem,
and promised that he would strive harder
than ever to do his duty by the donors and
their brethren of the State.
The meeting then adjourned until Thurs-
day, December 8.
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First Examination of the State Board of
Pharmacy.
Thefirst examination for registration under
section 5 of the pharmacy act took place at
Detroit on Tuesday and Wednesday, Noy-
ember 3 and4. Thirty-nine applied for ex-
amination, but two withdrew after the first
session. The remaining thirty-seven passed
avery satisfactory examination. ‘The ex-
amination was in writing, and was divided
into fifty questions in the identification of
drugs, fifty questions in materia medica,
fifty questions in pharmacy, twenty-five
questions in chemistry and ten prescrip-
tions. The Board fixed upon an average of
50 per cent. of all the questions, on which
basis the entire class of thirty-seven suc-
ceeded in passing. Eight of the candidates
averaged 80 per cent. Three of them were
country druggists and five graduates of the
Michigan School of Pharmacy. The follow-
ing is a list of the candidates:
Hiram S. Barnabee, Mendon.
Lew T. E. Bennett, Port Huron.
Edward Blum, Ann Arbor.
EF. E. Caulkins, Pontiac.
A. B. Costerlin, Jackson.
T. N. Cunningham, Detroit.
Wm. Curlett, Dexter.
H. P. Swell, Utica.
t, S. Forbes, Detroit.
Lewis Fullmer, Detroit.
J. H. Gardner, Lapeer.
L. H. Gardner, Detroit.
W. F. Griffith, Howell.
S. K. Harvey, Detroit.
C. B, Hoyt, detroit.
E. E, Huyck, Clio.
Eli L.. Jones, Battle Creek.
R. i. Latimer, Jackson.
A. G. Lyon, Mason.
Thos, Madill, Detroit.
Altred E. MeMahon, Millington.
John S. MeKibbie, Detroit.
Robt. 8. Mci@bbie, Detroit.
F. N. Mosher, Lapeer.
A. E. Mummery, Ann Arbor.
8S. J. North, Grand Rapids.
H. Palmer, Ann Arbor.
F. E. Parkinson, Pontiac.
D. F. Rice, East ‘Saginaw.
A. I, Rogers, East Saginaw.
W.I. St. Johns, Highland Station.
C. E. Saelpe, Detroit.
M. Shotwell, Mt. Clemens.
H. H. Spencer, Richland.
W. E. Stevenson, Mt. Pleasant.
Geo. Swift, Detrait.
Louis Wolff, Jackson.
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Articles which will Freeze.
The following goods are all liable to
freeze, and as they are at risk of purchaser
when shipped in cold weather, it is well to
anticipate you wants:
Carbolie Acid Crystals. -
Champlain’s Liquid Pearl.
Constitution Water.
Constitutional Catarrh Remedy.
Dialyzed Iron (except Glycerated).
Graifenberg’s Catholicon.
Gouraud’s Oriental Crean.
Hagan’s Magnolia Balm.
Hair Dye.
Helmbold’s Rose Wash. Hill’s Rose
Wash.
Horsford’s Acid Phosphates. Hydro-
line.
Ink, of all kinds.
Injection, Brou. Injection Mathey Cay-
lus.
Laird’s Bloom of Youth.
Liquid Bluing. Liquid Dye Colors.
Lydia Pinkhain’s Compound.
Mother Noble’s Syrup. Milk Magnesia.
Mineral Spring Water.
Orange Flower Water.
Perry’s Lotion. Perry’s Comedone.
Randall’s Cream Wash. Rose Water.
Shoe Dressing.
Solution Citrate Magnesia.
o Carbolie Acid.
- Phosphorie Acid.
Thompson’s Eye Water.
Vinegar Bitters.
Winchester Syrup Hypophosphites.
Wilhoft’s Tonic.
Whittlesey’s Dyspepsia Cure.
(> o- —--
The Poison Question.
The Georgia Legislature has enacted a
law compellingfall druggists to keep poisons
within scarlet wrappers. This seems to
THE TRADESMAN to be a foolish provision,
as the wrappers are easily lost or destroyed,
after which there is greater liability to make
mistakes than ever, owing to the fact that
the dispenser will put a certain amount of
reliance upon the wrappers and will not
stop to examine the contents of bottles not
so distinguished.
A Boulder, Colo., physician purposes
most feasible method of preventing mistakes
in dispensing which Tur TRADESMAN has
yet seen advanced. He suggests that all
containérs of poisons be made of black
glass, with roughened surfaces, like diamond | §
shaped spots. The black color has a funer-
al suggestion, and the roughened surface
mint; spermacetti.
Declined—-Nothing.
Citrate and Quinine........-...-..
Solution mur., for tinctures......
Sulphate, pure crystal............
MAN ic acak oss encncdnsesnpaaas
PROSDRAIO oo ooo os ce sens acal ene s
LEAVES.
Buchu, short (Powd 25¢)...........
Sage, Stalian, bulk (48 & 85, 12¢)..
Senna, Alex, natural..............
Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled..
Mane MOWUETOR,. «055.5 s0ccs+sa0-
MesaseA CEI VOILL, ots oe eee
ec ira he os cece ans
WRG OGIN con oe cs cen ces cen see eee
NOI OUO. ks kc cea oe bh ns cs aeceael
PO gg i cs ok os eens we eens
TOG PA i nce eas be he
LIQUORS.
W.,D. & Co.” s Sour Mash Whisky.2
Druggists’ Favorite Rye..........
Brandy
MAGNESIA.
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0Z........
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20Z.........
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution....
COLON ce cis vaea ca caen ees
OILs.
Almond, sweet.............: cas
PIN DOT, TOCTIIOG cas cconsnssceee ss
Pe as cca bs aa eces Leeson ene
TH DD ORG cea ad cn cn ns naka cllees as
DOP ARINONEG cis span saacencs coun ss'
OO ok onc coi nc ves 46 he yee chase
Oe a ore a wk el ga rea nn ees
CE Sc i heen nnn ne deee nuns
gE ES Oe OE hE ee
Cedar, commercial (Pure 75¢e).....
MU OPIGII coe cc de ees ence wseneas
OO cls adeaasamhesaan as
Cod taver. Nie... 2. teks. -® gal
Cod Liver, best......... ap
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co. 5,16
Cubebs, P. & Ww
OI oo oe ois be ei ca ec cas baked
AOI gg ois ca leh cack cece cuans
Geranium % 0z
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper MBE cious ceccuas
Juniper berries..............--
Lavender flowers, French.....
Lavender garden
Lavender spike
Lemon, NOW Crop...........0...0..
Lemon, Sanderson’s...............
TOOT OBA ak ooo nna c cd ec os
Olive, Malaga...........
Olive, ‘Sublime Italian .
Origanum, red awreh French..
Origanum, No.1
Pennyroyal .............. cess ence ee
Pepper meek WENIOG, cicsin a ca kava ca es
Rose # 0
nd lad French (Flowers $1 50)
icp sees oeawec ce cease
RR a og cot cone as case nue’
Sandal Wood, German............
Sandal WOO, Wid, ..i-cces senses
PAMBDSURN 2.5. oess dues ecasens Sete
Spearmint .
ee ee ry
ee meee ee ee meee reece ec eens
Pay (OY BR) DUC). 6 okies ccvenccicnccas
WIRCCTOTOOD «0.35 + cca cecwnccsees
Wormwood, No. 1(Purg $4.00).....
WOPTIBOCG 5 ocak cs oo os cn is cadence
POTASSIUM.
BIVOMRIO (ono sis cakes cu dpe vse 8 tb
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 27¢).........
Jodide, cryst. and gran. bulk.....
Prussiate yellow................4.-
ROOTS.
Ae ns coh yoo oc eae de anaes
UPROAR, CIE. 6 occ cvewcc'cs sa cceucense
Arrow, St. Vincent’s............
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and \s..
Blood (Powd 18¢)............00000+
Calamus, peeled...
Calamus, German w.
Elecampane, powdered
Gentian (Powd 15c)................
Sinaes, African (Powd l4c).......
r, Jamaica bleached........
Gol en Seal (Powd 25c).. vias
Hellebore, white, powdered. . Ueuaee
J hace. PEO sae vcieccs
eee teases arareeeee
wdered
ee select (Powd AB)en eee if
eee eresooes
«
Li
ee
pi, from select to choice....¥..
aL powdered
Whisky, other brands............. 1
ORES. CV OR oa iy none deesase ons 1 35
OUP PEO oc oc ee ss cuca cee dees : 2
sia eb th Oe ee 60 abe £e bee ee 4 6.0 ew ‘
Cates WG on oe is ec acens ac 1 25
PPG WOR ce neue cena e ks 1 35
Licorice, extra select. ak We chekanse
Pink, true
E.I Rema ee eressene
MDOB.....-.. 00+ ‘
Bwaet MAIOFAI ,. 6... .- sees eet oes n ha enenee é
13
00
75
10
li
NN occa ks sk ks be ot dn hee os 4 50
10
WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.
Advanced—Gum arabic, 2nd pick; oil pepper-
ACIDS.
POE NG Bees ces cate cts 9 @ 10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35
MPO oi cai dene hs aes bees 34 @ 36
Re Sac eee at 60 @ 65
mauviatic 18 GOR. 62.0. ewe: 3 @ 5
PEI OO AOE ios he oo eee bas ese . 2M Oo 28
OP ie ig a ace bun aca wees wana 2 @ i
Sulphuric GGdeg...........5-.6.05- 8@ 4
Tartaric powdered................ 52 @ 5b
Benzoiec, English............. 8 0Z 18
Benzoic, GOrman...........- +... 2 @
MRS ia, a Leis ik ose ate pines nsec 122 @
AMMONIA,
CAFNORAtO. . oo oa daa kes ces eta ys gh 1 @ 18
Muriate (Powd. 220). -.......00.e00. 14
Aqua l6 deg or Bf... ......-...00-- 5 @ 6
Adnn 18 dew Or 40... 2... ks anne eee é@ 7
BALSAMS.
OMPOOIIR. 5 iis ate canescens esha anes 40@45
a Sawec daa wah enen ene 40
i eink ec cece ene 2 00
uaa se heh cane nk inbene ne 50
BARKS.
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20¢)........ ll
Cinchona, yellow............+-++- 18
PUlen BOLO... cos cB scececcndccees 13
Elm, ground, pure..........--..-+: 14
Elm, powdered, pure...........--- 15
Sassafras, of root............-.-..- 10
Wild Cherry, select..............-- R
Bayberry powdered.............-- 2
Hemlock powdered..........-.---- 18
RROD og on oc eae sn nen aueeee > 30
Soap ground. . ....:......00-..--- 12
BERRIES,
Cubeb prime (Powd 95c).......--. @ Ww
FORRIOR on nas oo co gan eae sdeace: . £62 7
PIO AB iio dixon evnness> «+ 50 @ 60
EXTRACTS.
Licorice (10 and 25 a 25¢).. 27
Licorice, powdered, pure......... 37%
Logwood, bulk (12 ans 35 D doxes). 9
Logwood, Is (25 Ib boxes)........-- 12
Lgowood, a8 MO oe, 13
Logwood, 4s G6 2... 15
Logwood,a8sd dO | ........-- 14
Fluid Extracts—25 ® cent. off list.
FLOWERS.
IO os a cock ok cb ae oo cue pens ne 0 @ uh
Chamomile, Roman............4.. 25
Chamowilé, German.............- 25
GUMs.
Aloes, Barbadoes...........- ‘ede 60@ 7
Aloes, Cape (Powd 20¢)..........-- 12
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60¢)....... 5
Ammoniae OO TEE VG GER a 28@ :
Arabie, powdered select.......... 65
Arabic, Ist picked.........-.-..+-- 60
Arabic,2d picked............+--++- 55
Arabic, 3d picked.........-.-.-.+++ 45
Arabic, sifted sorts...............- 35
Assaf centida, prime (Powd 385¢).. 25
RN a 5 a ns oe tne es anes 55@60
DAANOR oe aes kc aven nese neta 25@ 27
Catechu. Is (4 l4c, 48 16¢e) . 13
Ft “someting powdered...........- 35@ 40
Galbanum strained................ 80
MAP OORO. ok 5 cack ao auies ope ee- +. > 30@ 90
Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c).. G 35
Kino [ Powdered, 30c]............-. 20
eas aeaere :
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 4c). 40
Opium, pure iP eer MO). si ckae 3 50
Shellac, Caivobdcli’s... eet 30
Shellac, su: ‘ugh Oia aa eee 26
Shellac, native............--csee0e: 24
Shellac bleached................4+. 30
MPU OORT ooo... ci. inde co ecae ee 30 @1 00
HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES.
TROOP ROUNG oo i eck suka se ease sane See
Ta as a cous ba boas ee ween 25
POppeOrmint.... 2... cen cenccree ceecneecans 25
Pe a ca ce as Conta cess an ae gece a 40
SPOarMint .. 2.2.6... cece cece es cece ec ce en weeee 24
Ms eis ea ca cae ces evan eee i
MIO oe ceca eens ee cena ceaee 25
IRON.
2 00
wawSS ate _® De wa t
esunesssssanese’
14
40
°
3 00
9
?
a
RSESSESSSSESRESSSESRERRE
Serpentaria.. 50
RROMMOMIR cal ic ch cace cy icancecvacases s 60
ene Hondurus........... 49
20
Saunlie white (Powd 35c).......... 15
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28¢).. 20
SEEDS.
Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢).......... 15
Bird, mixed in b packages....... 5 @ 6
Canary, Bepyrne.. .. 5. i. cs. ~- 4£@ 4%
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd We). b&b @ 1
Cardamon, Aleppee............... 1 5v
Cardamon, TERE hy oc oak ca cnks i 76
WOE beac a be lackal sc keas cs sces 15
Coriander, pest English........... mf
WOOO aise isos ac cebu doles 1b |
WE, OO oo a ccc ase ca ccs 3%@ |
Flax, pure grd (bbl 344)............ 4 4% |
Foenugreek, powdered........... ~ Fea 8
PROUD, TROGBION. 66.8 os codices ok. nD 5%
Mustard, white Black 10¢)..¢..... 10
MII oc cai ce caddeccckuntsaeas i)
TAO, MOGHER |. 5 6... cc cc cc ue se i & @ 7
WON, BOVONE 6. oc. cine cc ccke sass: 14
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50
Nassau do oe 4... 2 00
Velvet Extra do do (ae 1 10
Extra Yellow do eos 85
Grass do Oa. 65
Hard head, for slate use........... 75
Yellow Reef, OO ca ues: 1 40
MISCELLANEOUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.13, ® gal.. 2%
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 35
Anodyne Hoffman’ ce ect 50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 2
Saewe BW OO oi voc in vcncku cess 45
WO ee es oc cs cl oe ae a os b : 3
Alum, ground (Powd 9¢)...... . is “— '
Annatto, prime...............0000- 45
Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 4%@ 5
Arsenic, white, powdered auhades 6 @ 7
Blue Soluble.................. ves 50
Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2 75
ay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00
Hann Gilead Hads................. 40
Beans, TOMES. . 2... 6.6. .o 6 esc. e ce 2 GO
Beans, Vania... 5. 6.26. cece nose 700 @9 75
Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 2 80
Bine. Pill (Powd ie)............... 50
PRG VVGMIGE ooo oes coed ccc cess &€ @ fF
Borax, refined (Powd 12¢)..... ... 10@12
Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 2 50
Capsicum Pods, PEMIOCA occas... 18
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d.. 22
Capsicum oe Bombay do... 18
MPI, OCG. ic Sona cc os nau 4 00
eee 12
Calome). American................ Th
Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5
Chalk, precipitate English........ i2
Cnaik, Od fugerh................. 8
Chalk, white lum Su 2
Chloroform, Squibb’s S. ia 1 60
Colocynth apples................ 60
Chioral hydrate, German erusts.. 1 50
Chloral do do cryst. 1 78
Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90
Chioral do do. crusts.. 175
CORON oo ok Mi ek cc... i7 @ 80
Cinchonidis, P. & W......<.......” igs @ 2
Cinchonidia, other brands......... 8 @ &
Cloves (Powd ey: aes Ades on as ae 18 @ 2
Cochineal . be sceekens ss dbueee us . 40
Cs eee... 45
Copperas (by bbl le)............... 2
Corrosive Sublimate............... 70
Corks, X and XX—40 off list......
Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... @ 40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 i box.. 15
ee ee 5
CUOOOT, DIEING... 5.6 cos oo ocean ee 2
Cuttle Fish Bone................... 20
PIORUPING 6 ook. oc ona cs xe Ge etea ce 12
Dovers Powders.................. 110
Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50
Ergot powdered................... 45
PRUOR RO ioc nn cic ence aes oss 110
Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 38
Epsom Salts (bbl. 13g).............. 2@ 3&3
WERSOL, FEOG oo oo ooo ke kcccn cece 50
Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 60
TO WE ooo ns oc ees oso nace 14
Craims VOregige.. .... 6. 5.15.5 veces 15
Gelatine, Cooper’s................. 90
Gelatine, French .............6...:; 4 @ 7
Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis... .
UG, CAGE. oo. occ ced cass ss 2@QN
CG WO once c,h ss ec cc... . 6 64 BB
Glycerine, pure bees bobs ds cheedccua- 16 @ 20
RU FOG Git EG... cg oo oc occ ce, 25@ 40
lodoform # OZ. A a 40
ne 8 @1 0
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 35 @ 40
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co,, boxes @1 00
Iodine, resublimed................ 4 00
Isinglass, American............... 1 50
a, My discal e neu cucu ics Y 4
OO TUN oo... oc cccadacceues 10 15
ae ° 15
Lime, chloride, (48 2s 10e & 4s lle) 8
Lupuline Nee lege chokes ees ace se 1 00
PP OOMOGIIUN 66 oo ce occas cs ceeccee is 45
WN ee el ee ee ce cec ccs 50
Madder, best Dutch 24@ 13
I oc ies oo kane cc 75
Mercury. as 2 did awe ues ohana wcs 60.
orphia, sulph., P.& W...... 0z 2 80@3 05
Musk, Canton, H., P.& ae oa 40
Moss, ac # ib 10
Me BE ois voc bees ccc ec cs 12
Mustard, English.................. é
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 b cans...... 18
TINUE, gous s ch cc ci seed es cd avacanes 2
En OS A ee ee 60
Me WOM os ai cece cc es 2 10
Ointment. Mercurial, 4d.......... 45
Cy li @
Pope’ Peimok Merry... 25.56.6224. 18
1 ee ea 2 50
Pitch, _o— PUP@Ondy...........+. 1
RN eer est idaencanen dient 6 @
uinia, Sulph, P, & W........ boz 2 @ 97
Mine, Gorman, ..... 2... 5. oc cces 92@ 7
Red Precipitate............... B Ib 85
BOTGUIA MIEUULO. . 2... 5 ce cc ec ce ces 2
Strychnia, cryst............. Geechee 1 60
Silver Nitrate, cryst............... 74 @ %8
Satfron, American. ............... 35
Wy Ci anc scons ccetee @ 32
Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10
Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9
We Ga 65 bs ck ns nade cc daca as 33
oe Ee ua. &£ @ a
er iis se Sa ec es ee ese nue 215
ee ie cca kes se 6 50
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 38
Soda Aeh (by keg Se).............. 4
MCC k 66 ou ne cece ccs censes 37
Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s. 4%@ 5
Soap, White WORN «Ss i sdcs icone. 14
Soap, Green do 17
Soap, Mottled do 9
Soap, do do i
WN oo oo os cd sv ice ads 14
PI RIGO, OE oo ons cous caccecses 2 @ 2
ae NE ee en 30 @ 382
Sugar Milk powdered.............. 35
SOF: OIE. oon ii as cn'cc eens oes 34@ 4
Sulphur, OEE oss sess ek cane e Na occa 3@ 3%
PUM TOIMORIG, oon o's cca cn cauccecsas 60
Tar, N.C, Pine, % gal. cans ® doz 27
Tar, ao quarts in tin....... 1 40
Tar, do pintsin tin......... 85
Turpentine, Venice........... 8 b 25
Wax, White, S. & F. brand........ 55
MRA PAIN, oc cae s oe cd a 7 @ s
OILs.
CE CE iiss beak saws cus ewnc ids nes 75
TOO COPE nik oo coke cc ceceas caus dccnecas 60
OTR COE bic cnc cc cnc ce pedenwecncaccuast
MCP OGC FIO. 6 oo ost oe sa ccc ce coeae cease sees 35
POGRICHE MOGOINONY.. oc. ocak nd oc acac ences 30
Challenge Machinery................02.00005 «020
BGORUS FING FNWING. . oo oc cv ccc ene succes cs 30
Black Diamond Machinery.................... =
Castor Machine Oil..........
PU OIINO Oy CORE, cic cous cc cccs cause cx cs iby,
We GO oon ann bs eink ngcn de dcas vecncus 21
Sperm, winter bleached boa c eu leks oa ecaneeeas 1 40
: Bbl = Gal
Whale, winter..... Ws ce bbc ceissacuns 70 15
MM, OMENS 5 ocd cvececesnaccabeuess 55 60
is oa ie ce ones od noes dots 45 55
Linseed, pure raw...............200- 43 46
ROO, RUE bs bs 4 bb ccd oea keacanse 46 49
Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 70 90
Spirits Turpentine................... 40 45
VARNISHES. :
WO Py CORI ance cc cee see lagaccs 1 10@1 20
WOO vis occ ee cde cescdckeasesees 1 60@1 z
CE Pgs iy docdccks besten dccuce 2 156@3
No. 1 Turp Furniture.. caseeas “boos 10
Extra Turp Damar.................... 1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp...... ....... 70@ 75
PAINTS
Bbl Lb
Red Venetian.. ceanuk: Be 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3
Putty, commercial ............ 2% 24%@ 3
Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 2 3
Vermilion, vine American.. Hoi8
Vermilion, nee. EE Na 58@60
phe pes A ype ares aah 16@17
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Economy is Wealth.
Lady (to grocer)—I notice you keep
cigars.
Grocer—Yes muni.
half a box.
Lady—Is it possible? Why, my husband
sometimes pays as high as fifteen cents
apiece for cigars. You can send a couple
of boxes. It’s the height of folly for him to
buy cigars at retail when they can be had
for so much less by the box.
—— roo
Accommodating to the Last.
Old Lady (to druggist)—Are you quite
certain this is carbonate of soda—not ar-
Only a dollar and a
WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker Manufacturers,
Agents for
AMBOY CHEESE.
37, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
OYSTEHRS
When in want of a good brand of OYSTERS,
don’t fail to get the famous PATAPSCO, which is
guaranteed both as to quality and price. Sold only
by W. F. GIBSON & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, and
dealers in all kinds of PRODUCE, JELLY, MINCE
MEAT and PAPER OYSTER PAILS.
Jelly, Mince Meat Etc.
SPRING &
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
BUTTER!
i Sao
CARPHTS,
PUTNAM & BROOKS
Wholesale Mannfacturers of
PURE CANDY
AND DEALERS IN
ORANGES, LEMONS,
BANANAS, FIGS, DATES,
ETC. ETO.
6 and 8 Monroe Street,
COMPANY,
Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS, ©
MATTINGS,
OIIs CLOTHS
HNTIRELY NEW
3 DOZEN LARGE ONE-HALF POUND CANS OF
Silver Spoon Baking Powder,
WITH
AND 1144 DOZEN
144 DOZEN
7 INCH COMPORTS.
1144 PINT PITCHERS.
For Only $7.50,
Giving to every purchaser a Glass Pitcher or Comport with each can, at 30 cents.
WE GUARANTESE
The SILVER SPOON Powder to give entire satisfaction.
Grand Rapids,
Michigan.
THE LEADING BRANDS OF
TOBACCO.
Offered in this Market are as follows:
PLUG TOBACCO.
RED FOX mee
BIG DRIVE “=
PATROL oo
JACK RABBIT -
SILVER COIN -
PANIC
BLACK PRINCE, DARK
BIG STUMP -_ -
APPLE JACK - -
2c less in orders for 100 pounds of any one brand.
FINE CUT.
THE MEIGS FINE CUT, DARK, =e flavor
STUNNER, DARK -
RED BIRD, BRIGHT eS
OPERA QUEEN, ae wo
FRUIT - -
O SO SWEET 1 ee
2c less in 6 pail lots.
Arctic Manufacturing Co.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MIOFtL.
See Our Wholesale Quotations else-
where in this issue and write for
Special Prices in Car Lots.
We are prepared to make Bottom Prices on anything we handle.
A.B. KNOWLSON,
3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.
FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE
Wholesale Grocers,
AGENTS FOF,
KNIGHT OF LABOR PLUG,
RED FOX; LONG CUT, FOIL -
GIPSEY QUEEN, GRANULATED
OLD COMFORT, IN CLOTH -
DIME SMOKER, IN CLOTH - -
2c less in 100 pound lots.
SMORING.
ARTHUR'S CHOICE, LONG CUT, BRIGHT
SEAL OF GRAND RAPIDS, IN CLOTH
These brands are sold only by
Arthur Meigs & Co.
Wholesale Grocers,
Who warrant the same to be unequalled. We guar-
antee every pound to be perfect and all right in
every particular. We cordially invite you, when in|4n
the city, to visit our pace of Oe 55 and 57} Senn
WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.
“
WIDE BROWN COTTONS.
Androscoggin, 9-4..23 |Pepperell, 10-4...... 25
Androscoggin, 8-4..21 |Pepperell, 1l-4......27%
Pepperell, a3 evesee 164%4|Pequot, 7-4......... 18
Pepperell, 8-4...... 20 |Pequot, Oh oc unans 21
Pepperell, of ee 224%4|Pequot, Y-4......... 24
CHECKS.
Caledonia, XX,0z..11 |Park Mills, No. 90..14
Caledonia, X,o0z...10 |Park Mills, No. 100.15
Economy, 02....... 10 \Prodi i OB Lik ssaas ll
Park Mills, No. 50..10 |Otis Apron......... 10%
Park Miils, No. 60..11 (Otis Furniture..... 10%
Park Mills, No. 70..12 |York, | oz.......... 10
Park Mills, No. 80..13 | York, AA, extra 02.14
Mar ay
Alabama brown.... (Alshosee — ata 4
Jewell briwn....... on Augusta plaid...... 7
Kentucky brown..10%/Toledo plaid........ q
Lewiston brown... 944|/Manchester plaid.. “J
Lane brown........ 9%|\New Tenn. + aid..
Louisiana plaid.... 7 (|OUtility plaid........ 7
BLEACHED COTTONS.
Avondale, 36....... 844|Greene, G, 4-4...... 5%
Art cambrics, 36...11%)Hill, 4-4............. 7
Androscoggin, 4-4.. 844| Hill, ea cuantacclacea 6%
Androscoggin, 5-4..12%|Hope, 4-4...........
Ballou, 4-4........-. 644| Kin Philip cam-
Ballou, 5-4.. 6 THRO, 46... oc cc seus
Boott, O. a4... 8%|Linwood, 44....... 1%
Boott, E. 5-5........ 7 |Lonsdale, 44....... 7
Boott, AGC, 4-4..... 9%|}Lonsdale cambric. =
Boott, R. 3-4....... 5%4|Langdon, GB, 4-4
Blackstone, AA 44, 7 |Langdon, 45........ ey
Chapman, X, 4-4.... 6 |Masonville, 4-4..... 8
Conway, 4-4... ... 7 |Maxwell.44........ 9%
Cabot, 4-4........- . 64%|New York sae 9 4-4.10%
Cabot, 7-8. .......--- 6 |iNew J oreey a a
Canoe, 3-4........-- 4 |Pocasset M.C.. 1%
Domestic, 36....... 744|Pride of the West..11
Dwight Anchor,4-4. 9 |Pocahontas, os Ee
Davol, 4-4.........- 9 |Slaterville, 7-8...... 6%
Fruit of Loom, 4-4.. 8%|Victoria, AA....... 9
Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 744|Woodbury, 4-4...... 5x
Fruit of the Loom, Whitinsville, 44... 7%
cambric, 44...... ll |Whitinsville, 7-8.... 6%
Gold Medal, 4-4.. .. 6%|Wamsutta, 4-4......10%
Gold Medal, 7-8..... 6 |Williamsville, 36...10%
Gilded Age......... 8%
SLA.
CrOWN........--+e0e- |Masonville TS...... 8
Me Ps vc cccaacces 13 Masonville S....... ri
CO vlan iccececess Lonsdale ...........
BOE. 6 os co dns acs 13 Lonsdale A......... 16
Coodeanie .. suavdaenes Nictory O..........
Blackburn . Victory J i... .6.e0e:
TN co oc cc ede i Victory D..........
pe ern ies Victory K.......... 2%
Paconia ...........:- PROOIES A... 6