ft 22'208X 2 PAF YORROTIENIC AS 68 MANETTE wy : “ht y ud <6 erence Library, naan Library St 2 aC Sty % =: ZG V7 Ss AC oe 5 AN ce e N IM (¢ : % SAY x aly 5 ie 4. =r eo (Cee Ne See ieee ew Ie ORO Nee & PPUBLISHED WEEKLY 47 2-____ Menace of the Closed Shop. The very union labor leaders who properly insist on “equality of op- portunity” under the constitution are the very men who, in the same breath, are making every effort to defeat that vital American principle by demanding the closed shop. Their strenuous and superhuman effort is to be able to say to every American that, no matter how fit or efficient he may be, he cannot work in certain or any industries, or particular or al! shops and factories, unless first he pays dues and makes oath to stand by the labor union, and usually at any and all events and costs. No matter how inefficient, how un- American or otherwise undesirable he may be, he may step into all the rights and privileges of an American to work, if he submits to their class regulations and domination. This closed shop, this repudiation of the rights of every American citi- zen, is the most despicable menace in all of union labor’s un-American and uneconomic demands and_ en- croachments. The rank and file of organized la- bor is just as fair-minded as you and I think we are. But organized labor is, just like our politics—in the hands of narrow-minded, designing men. Organized labor, to-day, is in the hands of a small minority of reds and radicals of the Foster and Fitzpatrick types, and organized labor under its present day methods has run_ its course. The fact that they are wrong and criminal in their notions is not the point. The point is that thou- sands of men do not know that they are wrong and it is part of our job to help correct this situation. Benjamin F. Harris, President First National Bank, Champaign, Ill. WE OFFER FOR SALE United States and Foreign Government Bonds Present market conditions make possible exceptionally high yields in all Government Bunds. Write us for recommendations. HOWE, SNOW, CORRIGAN & BERTLES 401-6 Grand Rapids Savings Bank Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. : ~ ~ July 21, 1920 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Quantity Buying vs. Good Merchandising The action of one of the large manufacturers of a household article in flattering the retailer by announcing a direct sales pol- icy, and offering the jobbers who have helped them establish their business the privilege of handling their goods without any profit, has brought up again the question of “sales through jobbers ver- sus direct-selling,” A considerable number of our customers have asked if this meant that other manufacturers would follow the same policy and what this would mean to future merchandising. It is our belief that the jobber and retailer combined, form the most economical and satisfactory method of distribution for food products and kindred lines. Direct selling may be of some small benefit to a few of the larger stores, chain stores, etc., but it is a distinct disadvantage to the large majority comprising the balance of the dealers, Direct buying means quantity buying with large stock, or else it means excessive freight charges with a small profit. Direct buying means an accounting system which can take care of the transactions with hundreds of manufacturers whose lines are carried in the retail store, and this entails a large amount of bookkeeping and expense. Direct buying subjects the dealers to the continual annoy- ance of delayed shipments, (loss and damage in transit) as well as the continual calls at the freight house for daily shipments which must arrive. Direct buying means eventually that the cost to the retailer must cover the excessive costs to the manufacturer which are entailed by the tremendous system of bookkeeping (which car- ries accounts with all the retail dealers of the country instead of a comparatively few jobbers), and the losses which must occur from manufacturers handling credits at long distances under no personal contact—whereas, at present, there are practically no losses in accounts which they carry with the wholesalers. This means that, eventually, the prices to the retailers by direct selling cannot be materially less than they are now with the jobbers. Direct selling is in the interest of building up a few larger corporations in the larger cities of the United States, such as chain stores, and tearing down and destroying a large number of smafler independent retailers throughout the country which help to tuild and support the smaller cities. Whereas, BUYING THROUGH THE JOBBER means carrying an account with one, two or three jobbers as the dealer prefers—having all of your goods delivered at one time and the elimination of a tremendous amount of bookkeeping. It means the developing of good merchandising methods by being able to do the largest possible amount of business with the smallest possible stock. It means the survival of a large number of medium and small sized retailers, instead of building up a few large retailers. It means having a constant source of supply near at hand which can be depended upon promptly, instead of the great an- noyance of being out of a large number of items which are de- layed in transit. And distribution by the combined efforts of the wholesaler and retailer means to the consumer the delivery of food products from the manufacturer to themselves at the lowest possible cost of scientific handling. This method through competition must excel any other method from the standpoint of economy, and cost to the consumer must be less than where the manufacture and marketing is controlled by one immense corporation. WORDEN GROCER COMPANY Grand Rapids—Kalamazoo—Lansing The Prompt Shippers. Movement of Merchants. Fowlerville—A. R. Miner has open- ed a self-serve grocery store. 3ancroft—H. P. Shane is remodel- ing and enlarging his jewelry store. Allegan—Charles May has engaged in the jewelry business on Hubbard street. Hersey—Jacob W. Richard suc- ceeds Frank Proctor in the grocery business. Marquette—TheAtlantic & Pacific Tea Co. has opened a store on South Front. street. Corunna—Sherwood Godfrey, re- cently of Bancroft, has engaged in the undertaking business. Shepherd—The Shepherd Elevator Co. has increased its capital stock from $5,000 to $15,000. Hillsdale--The Hillsdale Merchan- dise Co. has increased its capital stock from $30,000 to $60,000. Flint—The John P, Ryan Co., jewel- er, has increased its capital stock from $18.00 to $50,000. Highiand Park—The Peoples State Bank has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $100,000. Flint—The Citizens Commercial & Savings Bank has increased its cap- italization from $150,000 to $450,000. Bridgewater—The Farmers’ Pro- duce Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $50,000. Detroit—The Charles W. Gerbig Co., dealer in varnishes, etc., has in- creased its capital stock from $6,000 to $30,000. Jackson — The Gaylord-Alderman Co., conducting a department store, has increased its capital stock from $150,000 to $300,000. Bancroft—B. D. Rathbun, who re- cently sold his grocery stock to Tres- cott & Morgan, has re-engaged in the same line of business. Bay City—The F. H. Cash Co., wholesale dealer in butter, eggs and cheese, has increased its capital stock from $35,000 to $75,000. Shelby—C. S. Sorenson, who sold his grocery stock about six months ago, will re-engage in the same busi- ness in the Converse building, July 24, Pequaming—The Aura Farmers Co- Operative Association has been organ- ized to conduct a general mercantile business, with an authorized capital stock of $10,000. Commerce—Fire, due to defective wiring, caused the complete loss of hotel Commerce and the store build- ing and stock of general merchandise of H. P. Andrews, July 17. Cedar Springs—H. E. Andrus has sold his drug stock to J. A. Skinner and his store fixtures to parties out- side. He will devote his entire time to the Farmer’s Co-Operative Asso- ciation. Conklin—E. O, Cilley has sold his drug stock to Dr. R. O. Allen, who has been engaged in the drug business at Rapid River for the past four years. He will dispose of his stock at Rapid River. sig Rapids—John C. Jensen, who sold his dry goods and shoe stock about a year ago, will engage in the women’s ready-to-wear clothing busi- ness, under the style of the Vogue Shop, about August 14. Flint—The O. H. Grant Co. has been organized to engage in the cloth- ing business with an authorized cape MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ital stock of $8,000, all of which has been subscribed, $2,000 paid in in cash and $3,000 in property. Muskegon—The Muskegon Rag & Metal Co. has merged its business in- to a stock company under the same style, with an authorized capital stock of $50,000, all of which has been sub- scribed and paid in in cash. Battle Creek—The George R. Ster- ling Co. has been incorporated to con- duct a retail clothing business, with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, of which amount $5,000 has been sub- scribed and $4,500 paid in in cash. Wyandotte—The R. A. Hugill Co. has been organized to deal in auto- mobiles, accessories and supplies, with an authorized capital stock of $20,000, of which amount $10,000 has been subscribed and $2,000 paid in in cash. 3ad Axe—Slack Bros. have merged their agricultural implement and hard- ware business into a stock company under the same style, with an author- ized capital stock of $20,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in property. Detroit—The Detroit Farm Prod- ucts Co. has been organized to con- duct creameries, canneries, cold stor- age plants, etc., with an authorized capital stock of $1,000,000, of which amount $500,000 has been subscribed and $100,000 paid in in property. Eaton Rapids—G. Ben Snyder will engage in the grocery business on North Main street, the Worden Gro- cer Co., of Lansing, furnishing the stock. Mr. Snyder has conducted a variety store here for Many years and the addition of groceries will make his place ef business very con- venient for the people living in the northern part of the city. Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—The Green Lock Co. has increased its capital stock from $12,- 000 to $75,000. Jamestown—The Interurban Cream- ery Co. has increased its capital stock from $3,500 to $5,250. Ypsilanti—The Peninsular Paper Co. has increased its capitalization from $150,000 to $300,000. Highland Park—The Highland Park Cabinet Co. has increased its capital stock from $8,000 to $50,000. Detroit — The Portland Mineral Products Co. has increased its capital stock from $10,000 to $20,000. Zeeland—The Michigan Star Furni- ture Co. has increased its capital stock from $60,000 to $110,000. St. Johns—The Triangle Motor Truck Co. has increased its capital stock from $200,000 to $400,000. Detroit—The Gordon & Pagel Co., wholesale baker, has increased its capitalization from $450,000 to $1,482,- 000. Fowlerville—C. Quackenbush has sold his bakery to Mr. Gilbert, recent- ly of Lansing, who has taken posses- sion. Detroit—The Parsons Manufactur- ing Co., dealer in hardware and auto- mobile supplies, has increased its cap- ital stock from $15,000 to $300,000. Detroit — The Mahon Excelsior Works has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $20,000, $10,000 of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Gibbs City — The Northwestern Land & Lumber Co., lumber manufac- turer and dealer in general merchan- dise, has increased its capital stock from $10,000 to $150,000. Detroit—The National Machinery Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $40,000, $20,000 of which has been subscribed and $10,000 paid in in cash. Detroit—Housewives Bakery Incor- porated, has been organized with an authorized capital stock of $50,000, of which amount $25,000 has been sub- scribed and $5,000 paid in in cash. Shepherd—The Johnston Chemical Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $4,800, of which amount $2,500 has been sub- scribed and $1,000 paid in in cash. Paw Paw—The Beattie & Decker Pickle Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $55,000, $27,500 of which has been subscribed and paid in in property. Ypsilanti—The Ypsilanti Ladder Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, of which amount $5,000 has been sub- scribed, $1,650 paid in in cash and $350 in property. Detroit—The King Folding Dresser Table Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $25,000, of which amount $17,980 has been subscribed, $1,980 paid in in cash and $15,000 in property. Detroit—The Scheuren Mok Mill Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $25,000, of which amount $20,000 has been subscribed and paid in, $3,000 in cash and $17,000 in property. Grand Ledge—The Grand Ledge Rendering Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $13,000 common and $2,000 preferred, $13,000 of which has been subscribed and $3,110 paid in in cash. say City—The National Body Co. has been organized to manufacture and sell automobile and wagon bodies, with an authorized capital stock of $30,000, $15,000 of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Sault Ste. Marie—The Raymond Furniture Co. has merged its business into a stock company under the same style with an authorized capital stock ef $75,000, all of which has been sub- scribed and paid in in property. Highland Park — The Warner Wood-Working Co. has been incor- porated with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, of which amount $6,- 100 has been subscribed, $1,100 paid in in cash and $4,000 in property. Detroit—The Wolverine Enameling & Japanning Corporation has been in- corporated with an authorized capital stock of $20,000, of which $10,000 has been subscribed, $1,000 paid in in eash and $6,000 in property. Detroit—The Carr-Weller Co. has been incorporated to manufacture and sell electrical equipment and devices, with an authorized capital stock of $20,000, of which amount $10,000 has been subscribed and $2,000 paid in in cash. a General Conditions in Wheat and Flour. Written for the Tradesman. : It seems as difficult to guess what wheat will do during the next thirty amount ’ July 21, 1920 days as at any time during the past ninety days. Option trading has been resumed and while December wheat has sold off 12@14c from the opening of the Grain Exchange on the 15th of July, cash wheat for immediate shipment has been firm; in fact, has advanced somewhat. Harvesting in Kansas is practically completed and this is also true of many of the soft winter wheat states. Thus far no serious damage has been done by the rains and it is ex- pected Government estimates will be realized. There are persistent rumors of Black Rust damage in the Northwest, but apparently there is more rumor than truth in the report, as futures have not reflected the strength that would be sure to develop in event any serious damage is being done, There is a bullish factor that should not be overlooked and that is, that while the trade are holding back for lower prices and flour demand con- tinues very light, cash wheat for im- mediate delivery is holding firm and it would seem under these conditions when heavy flour buying materializes, markets will firm up. As a matter of fact, it is the history of grain markets that when everybody is bearish, a bull market generally develops. The reason is logical. In other words. if. prices do not decline during the period of non-buying, they are pretty certain to advance when purchasing develops. This is a market that will bear close watching. Flour could easily decline one dollar per barrel and just as read- ily advance that much. We do not believe the trade should be too thoroughly convinced that lower prices are bound to prevail in the immediate future at least, as the farmer is going to hold onto his grain to a greater extent than he has done for the past two or three years. An- other thing the transporation com- panies are not in position to move grain fast enough to build up much, if any, surplus at milling centers; this means spot cash wheat is going to be in good demand and as long as the demand is strong, prices will prob- ably hold reasonably firm. If, however, the farmer should Prove to be a ready seller and rail- road facilities improve to such an extent it is possible to build up a surplus, lower prices will develop. We have produced, and in prospect, a good crop of wheat, somewhat. in excess of 800,000,000 bushels and this must be counted among the larger crops produced, but it must be remem- bered there is a world-wide demand and the population has been steadily increasing, so it will be necessary year by year to gradually increase the pro- duction of wheat, as well as other food products, to meet the ever in- creasing demand. While we do not consider it wise to load up heavily on flour just at this time because of the uncertainty of the future, we believe the trade should buy in such quantities for im- mediate shipment as will enable them to properly care for a normal demand for flour. Lloyd E. Smith. ¢ ‘ . t i ‘ 4 we nlite fe hee ( ' Tv gore | eee i ‘ t 4 ; ; 4 ' A cn RE in , , a ¢ en i j 4 \ July 21, 1920 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Essential Features of the Grocery Staples. It is always interesting to the re- tail merchant to get the viewpoint of experts in business on the price outlook. One of this type of men is James A. Patten, of Chicago, well known for his connection many years” with the grain trade. cago and In fact in Chi- elsewhere he called He is an au- was king of the wheat pit. thority on grain. This authority is quoted in a spec- ial newspaper article by E. M. Thier- Ty as speaking as follows: Famine food prices are not coming next winter. 'lour ought to come down to $12 or $13) a batrel. Potato prices will probably be cut in, bales. Cost of wearing apparel is coming down to stay down. Farm labor shortage is no longer a serious problem. People are over their “buying fe- ver.” Cost of living generally won’t be higher—with some things going down and none going up. “Mainly food price reduction in the United States depends on whether the spring wheat crop of our country and Canada yields bountifully,” said Mr. Patten. “I think it will. Potato crops are splendid. Prices should come down. We’ve been paying $3 to $3.50 a bushel. I wouldn’t be sur- prised to see that cut in half. “So when people even so-called ex- say famine prices are due next winter, I say no! perts “Even if the wheat crop isn’t boun- tiful, I do not look for higher prices. We've got much more than enough for ourselves. We will give Europe whatever transportation facilities will let us. But even if the export drain is a big one prices of flour ought not be higher. And many things will be If there’s a good crop flour should come down to $12 or $13 a barrel. lower. “Spring wheat crops won’t be ready for another six or eight weeks. We can’t tell what Europe will want—or what they can get; the first because we can’t tell yet what the rest of the world’s wheat supply will be and the second because of the transportation tie-up.” “Lack of transportation may help to bring food prices down here because of the difficulty of shipping it to ports for Europe. And I do not look for heavy buying of options by Europe— at any price because they need it so badly over there—for European buy- ers got stung very badly several years ago and and speculators generally got their legs pulled.” Sugar—Retailers are now ordering’ sugar to buy at not above a certain price. This gives the impression that dealers are pretty well filled up and that they do not purpose to pay extra high prices for sugar, evidently having taken advantage of the fact that any wholesale house may have sugar at two or three different prices. The waycanning stuff is selling, also, is taken to indicate the housewives are fairly well stocked up on sugar also. Eventually it is expected sugar will average along about 25@26c_ per pound. Tea—There has been some _ im- provement in the general demand for tea during the week, although it is still quiet. Stocks in buyers’ hands are reported low and some of them are compelled to come into the mar- ket. Generally speaking, prices are low and tea would seem to be a fair- ly safe buy on the present basis. Coffee—There has been some ten- dency on the part of coffee futures to advance, but it came to nothing because continued weak from Brazil and the market is still duil and weak. Prices are nominally unchanged, although the entire line of Rio and Santos is soft. Rio 7s are actually getting down to pre-war bas- is. Santos 4s are also several cents below the point ruling only a few weeks ago. Mild coffees are from 1@2c per pound lower during the last week or ten days. This is due to in- crease in the available stock in this country and the general feeling of weakness. The coffee market is a good market to stay out of except for everyday wants. Canned Fruits—Orders for occa- sional cars of California fruits, 1920 packing, are still going out to the Coast, peaches and cherries, in the fancy grades, being most wanted, but jobbers as a rule, having protected their initial requirements, are disposed to defer further purchases, their at- titude being that if any carrying is to be done it will be left to the can- ners. Canned news came Vegetables—A very slug- gish market for canned vegetables is all that can be uncovered by a careful canvass of the situation, and as a re- suit of this condition there is an easy undertone apparent, especially in quarters where urgent financial neces- sities impel holders to offer induce- ments to reluctant buyers. There is a considerable disparity in prices on spot standard tomatoes for the reason mentioned. Those buyers who are disposed to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded by the need of sellers for ready money, and can wait for delivery until transportation facil- ities serve, can pick up standard No. 3 at $1.60 New York. On the other hand, jobbers who want immediate delivery have to pay $1.70 for sim- ilar goods that can be moved at once to nearby points by truck. Some Ohto future corn is reported to be selling at $1.30, but brokers admit that jobbers are not inclined to take hold at all freely. The chief topic of discussion just now is the result of pea packing in the West. All ac- counts from packing centers agree that it will be short. Some authori- ties assert that the Wisconsin pack of Alaskas, which is now ending, will be less than 75 per cent. of nor- mal. Vines, as a rule, developed about two pods on the average. Pea lice destroyed considerable pea acre- age for the first time in years. 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He thought the creditors would get mucn less than that if the expenses of bankruptcy proceedings had to be taken out of what was left of the net assets of the Lanham Mercantile Company. Now, an inexperienced credit man- ager might have accepted Sam Cooke’s proposition and signed the neatly typewritten release he offered. But most of the Men Sam called on were members of the National As- sociation of Credit Men. These men refrained from signing and promptly got in touch with each other through their local associations. When Sam found that 25 cents on the dollar did not interest his cred- itors, he raised it to 30 cents: but he did not notice any wavering on their part. So Sam went back home to Lanham and had a lawyer file a volun- tary petition in bankruptcy with the idea of forcing his creditors to accept a composition settlement on his own terms. The next thing was a telegram from the National headquarters of the As- ciation which reached me in Butte, instructing me to turn loose the In. vestigation - Prosecution Departmen: on the Lanham Mercantile Company. I had just about cleaned up the case I was on and in a few hours I was able to start for Lanham myself. At Lanham, a town of about twelve thousand, I soon learned a few in- teesting things: The Lanham Mer- cantile Company conducted two retail general merchandise stores in Lan- ham and another town fifteen miles away. The secretary of the company, Daniel Flower, was a smart. shifty, fat young fellow of twenty, pretty well educated at school and even more educated in irregular business methods by his illiterate daddy, Henry Fiower. Old Henry ran one of the stores. He had first come into that section thirty-five years before when he was 20. He carried a peddler’s pack on his back then, and soon after rigged up a tent and started selling his goods. He moved into a house that burned down. After that he had sevy- eral other fires and no less than seven When I met him he had lots of money and a number of par- cels of valuable real estate—all in his wife’s name. He was one of those generous husbands who seem to want their wives to have everything they possess. If a doctor ever told Henry he was in for an attack of appendicitis, I believe he’d say, “All right, doc, but you just put it in my wife’s name.” In a short time I found out the Mercantile Company had $35,000 in deposits in several banks, instead of the measly $1,900 cash that showed up on the statement that Sam Cooke had taken to his creditors. [I got in touch with the receiver, who hap- pened to be a fine man. One afternoon, a couple of days after I reached Lanham, I came into the hotel and told the man at the desk I was expecting a telegram and please send it up t- my room. I sat down on my bed, near the head, and spread a lot of my papers over the counterplane. I left the door unlock- ed for the boy who would soon be bringing up that telegram. I was paw- ing over the papers an hour or so, and must have drowsed asleep (I'd been getting about four hours sleep a night), when someone opening the door waked me. I sat up and saw a tall thin fellow wearing a black felt hat at the foot of my bed. Make This Your Bank failures. ay Established 1853 We not only are prepared and equipped to care for your banking needs, but we also WANT TO DO IT in a way which will meet with your unqualified approval CLAY H. HOLLISTER l’resident CARROLL F. SWEET Vice-President GEORGE F. MACKENZIE V.-Pres. and Cashier AISI II IIIA II IIIA AAAS AA IK (EF YOY Michigan Finance Corporation Flint and Grand Rapids 7% Cumulative Participating Preferred Stock with Com- mon Stock. 20 MONTHS PAYMENT PLAN (Detailed information sent on request) CAPITAL $4,500,000 7% Cumulative Participating Preferred Stock. 600,000 Shares Common Stock. 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WEISS Director Vice President and Treasurer Flint Motor Axle Co. Director Industrial Savings Bank. FLOYD A. ALLEN Director President Flint Board of Commerce. President Trojan Laundry Co. E. R. MORTON Director Vice President City Bank, Battle Creek. S. A. GRAHAM Director Vice President Federai Commercial and Savings Bank, Port Huron. HERBERT E. JOHNSON Director President Kalamazoo City Savings Bank. CHARLES E. TOMS Director Cashier American Savings Bank, Lansing. A. C. BLOOMFIELD Director Vice President, National Union Bank, Jackson, Michigan. Old National Bank of Grand Rapids, Registrar R. T. JARVIS & COMPANY INVESTMENT SECURITIES 6052-606 MICHIGAN TRUST BUILDING Citizens Phone 5433; Bell M. 433. Grand Rapids, Mich. Flat Opening Loose Leaf Devices We carry in stock and manu- facture all styles and sizes in THE Loose Leaf Devices. We sell OOsEJEAF G direct to you. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN en i, ¥ ~€2>_ ~€2d_ July 21, 1920 “Look here,” he says, “I’ve just done a favor for a friend of mine and it cost me six thousand dollars; and I’m here to do a favor for an- other friend.” Then he told me he owned this hotel and the whole business block between Clark and South street and it would be worth six thousand to him if I would leave his friend old Henry Flower alone and go home. I told him that if he gathered a flock of gold eagles and perched them up in this room solid to the ceiling it would not be any inducement to- leave town. “That attitude won’t get you any- where,” he says. “We’ve got things all fixed. The judges are friends of ours; they do what we tell them. And no one would get into trouble here if you got hurt in this town. “Look out of that window. Do you see that big oak tree on the hill? Two years ago a man like you come nosing into this section and one morning they found him swinging by the neck from a limb of that tree.” I didn’t make any comment on this. He started pacing up and down past the door. Pretty soon he said: “Another fellow came here on the same kind of investigating foolish- ness that you are doing and one night he got run over on the railroad track just outside the town—accidentally. His body was all tore up. They found a six-shoote on it.” (He looked at me as if he was wondering whether I had anything of any importance under my pillow or in my hip pock- et.) “They found $50 on it too. And the sheriff, acting as coroner at the inquest, fined the corpse $50 for car- rying concealed weapons.” The receiver had told me of the two investigators that didn’t get home, but he had not given me the details about the concealed weapon. “My friend,’ I said, “that is bad, very bad. You fill me with alarm. I have been dealing with this kind of thing for many, many years. In- vestigating various kinds of crooked- ness. Going around all over this great country into the toughest dis- tricts, where a man’s property and MICHIGAN TRADESMAN life are not safe. And you are the very first man who ever offered me a bribe or threatened nty life. I am indeed alarmed. I am almost fright- ened,” I says as sarcastic as ‘you please. He saw plain enough he couldn’t make any impression, so he just said, “You think it over,” and then he went out and slammed the door. I straightened up my papers, pack- ed my grip and stepped over to the receiver's place. When he heard [I had been threatened, he said, “I told you so.” Then he arranged right away for me to live in a private house with some friends of his where I would be safer than in the hotel. Then I began to enquire about the sales that these people had during the Christmas rush. They had done a big business. Employed everyone they could get for their three stores. There seemed to have been a sort of family reunion around Christmas time, too. Miss Mabel Stern, a New York school-teacher, cousin of the Cookes, got off the train at Lanham with a flat straw suit-case on December 15. On the same train was her aunt, Mrs. George Robinson, of North Carolina, and another woman relative from Georgia. They had little leather hand satchels. Just after Christmas these ladies left town and each of them had with her three or four big heavy Saratoga trunks. Zz I got acquainted with a long, lean, lanky, blond negro drayman that did most of the station hauling, and through him and the station men I got all the facts I needed about those trunks. The ladies checked them to points in New York, South Carolina and Georgia and paid excess baggage on them. Through the colored drayman with the long yellow moustache I also got on the trail of a shipment of a num- ber of heavy cases by Charles Cooke, brother of the president of the Lan- ham Mercantile Company, to Mineola, Florida. I found the duplicate way- bill in the station records. George was a shirt manufacturer in that sec- tion, but I found he had recently done WM. H. ANDERSON. President J. CLINTON BISHOP, Cashier Fourth National Bank United States Depositary Grand Rapids, Mich. Savings Deposits Commercial Deposits 3 Per Cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits Compounded Semi-Annually I 34 ‘Per Cent Interest Paid on Certificates of Deposit Left One Year Capital Stock and Surplus $580,000 LAVANT Z. CAUKIN, Vice President ALVA T. EDISON, Ase’t Cashier Kent State Bank Main Office Ottawa Ave. Facing Monroe Grand Rapids, Mich. Capital - - - $500,000 Surplus and Profit - $750,000 Resources 11% Million Dollars 345 Per Cent. Paid on Certificates of Deposit Do Your Banking by Mail The Home for Savings 13 JOIN THE GRAND RAPIDS SAVINGS BANK FAMILY! 44,000 Satisfied Customers know that we specialize in accomodation and service, BRANCH OFFICES Madison Square and Hall Street West Leonard and Alpine Avenue Monroe Avenue, near Michigan East Fulton Street and Diamond Avenuc Wealthy Street and Lake Drive Grandville Avenue and B Street Grandville Avenue and Cordelia Street Bridge, Lexington and Stocking Citz. 4271 Constructive Public Accounting This Department of Our Main Office Prepares Income and Excess Profits Tax and other Federal Tax Returns. Installs General and Cost Account- ing Systems. Makes Audits and Investigations for any purpose desired. THE MICHIGAN TRUST COMPANY PEARL AND OTTAWA Grand Rapids, Michigan Quick Service Safety Vaults on ground floor Hours 9 A. M. to 5 P.M. Bell M. 408 Assets $3 572.588 cM insurance in Force $6000200 iY sy Mercuarrs lirn Insurance ComMPANy WILLIAM A. WATTS, President CLAUDE HAMILTON, Vice Pres. JOHN A. McKELLAR, Vice Pres. RELL S. WILSON, Secretary CLAY H. HOLLISTER, Treasurer RANSOM E. OLDS, Chairman of Board Offices: 4th floor Michigan Trust Bidg., GREEN & MORRISON, Agency Managers for Michigan Grand Rapids, Michigar -figan very little manufacturing. What is the use cf making shirts if you can } get them for nothing from some other nanutfacturer ? These way-bills interested me a lot. [ got me a car and scooted across ‘ountry eighty-nine miles through the In a warehouse id George Cooke’s cases. rked with the Baltimore's “Ss name and showing consignee, the Lanham Lanham. This was gh trip, I can tell you ods hid out all over the At icnwom | und silks and ribbons d hosiery wort thousands of dol- ’ 1 1 3 Ra “ coe = lars packed away under the platforms - - . 3 - 1 1 their show windows and in other ¢ t laces in their stores \s as the bankruptcy court he business men ] ~ 6 ne secu he local newspa- > x strong iney “ C to remove anies had (c- retail store neighborhood. The local daily got into the case r chief, entire re- and carried 1e and the date motto four col- stayed in heaven home knock his The bankrupts were not the only bjects of the graphic pen of the edi- who sometimes got awful person- in his articles. 3 x One morning he described the chief 1ivestigator of the National Associa- tion of Credit Men as the “chief prompter” in the case. “He sets be- side the prosecuting attorney and, as irom time to time he leans over and whispers suggestions in the law- yer’s ear, his shining cranium causes shimmer of light through the court om as its polished surface flashes and recedes and casts back the rays of the afternoon sun.” If you don’t believe it, ll show you the clipping. Before the bankruptcy case was conculded, we had located $35,000 in ish, $15,000 in real estate and $40,000 in merchandise, beside making them withdraw $25,000 in fictitious claims by relatives for alleged loans to the ‘ercantile Company. Also of good accounts receivable not mentioned in their original statement, there were 540,000. The total recovered, $155,- 00, Then there was merchandise they left visible and showed in their inventory amounting to $43,100, and .eir admitted cash balance of $1.900. Se we showed that the Lanham MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Mercantile Company was perfectly solvent and able to pay the $200,009 it owed dollar for dollar, instead of 25 cents on the dollar, the amount they offered to make a terrible effort to scrape together in order to finance the composition. Every one of the bunch was in- dicted, some of them on as many as eight counts, and they afterwards plead guilty. t 1 Which shows that when an unin- vestigated creditor offers to make a composition settlement, don’t be in a hurry to sign on the dotted line. C Do West a Would Abolish Income Tax. Lively interest has been aroused here in a proposal for the abolition i the income tax and the excess profits tax and the substitution of a Sugar-coated consumption tax to be paid by the seller and included in the rice. This system is advocated by Price, New York City, editcr of Commerce and Finance, and Theodore H. ne of the foremost authorities in the country on financial affairs, who addressed the City Club of Washing- ton at a big function during the past week. Mr. Price’s subject was “The Inci- dence of Taxation and Its Reflection.” The speaker said that he was once heartily in favor of the income tax, but that actual experience had con- vinced him that both its angle of in- cidence and its angle of reflection are too acute; and that it is a tax which weakens the incentive to suc- cess because it makes the Government a partner in the profits of one year and leaves the public to bear the loss- es of the next year alone: and that because of its unfairness in this re- spect it leads those who make and sell the goods that we consume to increase their overhead charges to a point that will always guarantee them against loss. “Experience has taught us,” he said, “that the effect of the income tax is only to raise the cost of the things that the poor man must have, because those who have the ability to earn large incomes, being in a small mi- nority, are able to demand higher prices for the services they perform and to pass the taxes that they pay on to the large majority by increas- ing the cost of living. “The income tax and the supertax are inquisitional, provoke resentment, throttle ambition and give an enor- mous advantage to the man who is willing or able stop working and put his capital into non-taxable bonds.” Brother Price was warmly applaud- ed by his hearers, but I doubt very much that Congress will be induced to repeal the income tax in the very near future. The business men of the country will be fortunate if the ex- cess profits tax is wiped out within the next year or two. STOCKS AND BONDS—PRIVATE WIRES TO THE LEADING MARKETS BELL M 290. methou, Fiower. - HIKER PERKINS, EVERETT €GEISTERT UST BLDG. Old Henr* July 21, 1920 > an AO T & SAVINGS ASSOCIATED e S NATIONAL CITY BANK BANK | CAMPAU SQUARE | The convenient banks for out of town people. | the city. | district. On account of our location—our large transit facilities—our safe deposit vaults and our complete service covering the entire field of banking, our institutions must be the ultimate choice of out of town bankers and individuals. Combined Capital and Surplus . $_1,724,300.00 Combined Total Deposits ______............ 10,168,700.00 Combined Total Resources _________._.....~ 13,157,100.00 CITY GR L CI NGS D RAPIDS NATIONA TRUST & SAVI ASSOCIATED AN TF LS The Joy of Living The joy of living largely depends upon the elimination of care and worry. A Living Trust is a plan that will relieve you of the care and management of your estate. “YOU AND YOURS,” our monthly trust letter for July, discusses this matter. We will gladly place you upon our mail- ing list without charge, upon request. [RAND RAPIDS [RUST [‘OMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. OTTAWA AT FOUNTAIN BOTH PHONES 4391 Located at the very center of Handy to the street cars—the interurbans—the hotels—the shopping BAN BAN K K ee % July 21, 1920 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 Community Co-operation in Fighting the subject deserves, fire-prevention ness from the express companies to This article was advertised as “con- Fire. can be and will be one of the greatest the parcel post. The Department has taining no coal tar” when, according A city may have ever so strong an _ factors for prosperity in our state and lacked facilities for safely handling to the Commission, “the company organization for fighting fire, and the Nation, and I would like to impress such an increase in its business and well knew such cement did contain best equipment possible for that pur- this so strongly that universal com- the result is what might have been coal tar.” pose, and yet be weak on prevention. munity co-operation will cease to be expected. In this case it will be noted we have Departmental organization is impor- a dream of fire preventionlists and ——_—_e 2 >___ full notice of the Commissions a tant, and I would be repudiating a become a fact. E. C. Bulger. Montgomery, Ward & Co. in the tention to racecuic the yarties cuilty thing dear to my heart if I said other- —__»<.<—___ Toils. ee ite the parties guilty wise. 1 would not for a moment discour- age the possession of an efficient or- ganization or efficient equipment, but I want to emphasize one fact, and that is that an efficient fire-prevention organization is of even greater im- portance to a community than either fire-fighting organization or fire-fight- ing equipment, and I am not certain that I am making it too strong when I say that an efficient fire-prevention organization is more important than both. To have an efficient fire-prevention organization the fire chief and his sub- ordinates must have the co-operation of the entire community. That is, the women’s clubs, the boy scouts, the Y. M. C. A., the Rotary club, the ministerial association, the chamber of commerce, the schools and school children, in fact, each and every in- dividual must work as a common unit all the time. It is a recognized fact that two- thirds or more of the fires of Amer- ica are preventable. Isn’t this strong enough argument for a fire-preven- tion organization in every community, and that every such organization should have the heartiest co-operation 44, er to show a profit. of the entire citizenry? With the community co-operation Parcel Post Losses Threaten Insur- ance Companies. Here’s another tribute to the effic- iency of the Burleson administration of the postal service. All the insur- ance companies specializing in parcel post package insurance under the cou- pon system have recently been called upon to pay such enormous losses as to induce them to contemplate aban- doning the business. The Home In- surance Company has announced that it will no longer insure parcel post packages originating in the Manhattan and Bronx Boroughs. It is estimated that premiums col- lected in New York alone from this particular line of insurance by all the companies engaged in it amounts to no less than one million dollars year- ly. One the basis of current rates, this would be. sufficient to insure goods to the value of $400,000,000, which gives a fairly accurate idea of the extent which New York manu- facturers and merchants have come to depend upon the parcel post for their shipments. So many parcels have been lost dur- ing the recent months that the busi- ness of insuring them is said no long- The Postoffice Department puts it on the traffic con- gestion strike which has diverted busi- Another big mail order house, this time Montgomery, Ward & Co., has been made the subect ojf a formal complaint of unfair competition. The Commission is no respecter of per- sons, and would as soon tackle a big smallest retailer at any country crossroads. octopus as the The respondents in this case are called upon to answer charges of false representations in its catalogue concerning liquid roofing cement, of false advertising or the misbrand- ing of their merchandise. Congress has passed a lot of laws punishing such offenses when committed as to €ertain class ot products, notably drugs, foods, insecticides, etce., but so far it has declined to enact a general status which would cover roofing ce- ment or any of the other articles of general merchandise which have been made the subject of recent com- plaints of misbranding, issued by the Commission. Drug Stores, Fire investigate our proposition. . BRISTOL, Manager Cc. N FREMONT, Bristol Insurance Agency “The Agency of Personal Se. vice’’ Inspectors and State Agents for Mutual Companies Savings to Our Policy Holders On Tornado Inturance 40°; General Mercantile and Shoe Stores 20 to 50’; and Liahility, Hardware and Implement Stores, ani Dwellings 50% Garages, Blacksmiths, Harness All Companies ticensed to do business in Michigan. Write us for particulars. 36 to 40% and Furniture Stores 40’ It will pay you to A. T. MONSON, Secretary MICHIGAN HAVE YOU A GOOD MEMORY? THEN REMEMBER THIS NAME: Michigan Bankers and Merchants Fire Insurance Co. OF FREMONT, MICHIGAN THEN REMEMBER THIS ALSO: That they make you an immediate saving of 25 to 45% on cost of your Fire Insurance. this advertisement word for word. If you can’t, read it over until you can. as well as financially. Repeat It will help you mentally Wm. N. SENF, Secretary. a. STRENGTH woetk ecu: || The Grand Rapids Merchants Mutual i Shoe Dealers Mutual Fire Ins. Co. Fire Insurance Co. to combat the fire waste. To date they have received over $60,000 ‘ in losses paid, and even larger amounts in dividends and savings, a while the Company has resources even larger than average stock company. Associated with the Michigan Shoe Dealers are ten other Mutual and Stock Companies for reinsurance purposes, so that we can write a policy for $15.000 if wanted. We write insurance on all kinds STRICTLY MUTUAL Operated for benefit ot members only. é f Mercantile Stocks, Buildings and Fixtures at 30% present dividend _ : . ae L rls . i - Endorsed by The Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association. _ te» , a Issues policies in amounts up to $15,000. er . Associated with several million dollar companies. =. Michigan Shoe Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance Company Main Office: ALBERT MURRAY Pres. FREMONT, MICHIGAN GEORGE BODE, Sec’y Offices: 319-320 Houseman Bldg. Grand Rapids, Michigan Ie 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 21, 1920 ae Government Acts To The Secretary of War orders immediate release declared surplus at extremely low prices. . By the immediate disposal of its entire surplus si prices at which they will be sold, the Government ¢ CORNED BEEF—CORNED BEEF QUALITY GUARANTEED ‘hese commodities were packed by the leading packing houses of North and South America, are in air- tight tins, and will keep for years. ‘The meats were selected by experts, representing both the United States Government and the packing houses, and only the choicest selections were used.. They were prepared and packed under this same supervision. Six million men and women in the service of their country, at home and abroad, thrived upon them almost exclusively. And an army of 2,000,000, the principal meat diet of which con- sisted of Corned Beef—Corned Beef Hash—Roast Beef army the world has known. Bacon, returned from overseas the healthiest, brawniest -GUARANTEE OF CONDITION ‘he Government guarantees to deliver these meats in perfect condition. The most rigid inspection was made of ticse preducts as they were packed and every single can carries with it the guarantee of the Government to stand back of it, both as to quality and condition. The Corned Beef, Corned Beef Hash, and Roast Beef are packed m ainly in one and two-pound cans— scme in six-pound cans. The bacon is packed in 12-pound cans. DISTRIBUTION—NATIONWIDE. a7 Every available outlet will be used in distributing these meats. Kvery retailer, from the smallest to the : largest, whether he carries groceries or not, will perform a duty he rightfully owes to every citizen in his com- munity by acting as a medium through which these meats will be distributed at the very low prices at which oO they can be sold. » EOCSTON, Army Supply Base. NEW YORK City, 461 8th Ave. CHICAGO, 1819 W. 39th St. § Chief, Surplus Po Office of the Quarter Munitions Building, W ao ee re SOT eee ee ee TS —— July 21, 1920 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 o Lower Living Costs ase and sale to the American public of all meats 7 us stock of canned meats, at the extremely low ient delivers a powerful blow at the high cost of living. ‘F HASH—ROAST BEEF—BACON Every wholesaler, caterer, hotel, restaurant, state institution, municipality, and industrial organization maintaining co-operative purchasing bureaus, as well as every housewife, can and should share in and extend in every possible manner the common benefits of this event. FOR HOME CONSUMPTION ONLY These goods are not being offered for export. ‘This decision of the Secretary of War to distribute them through every possible channel is made in order that the American people, as a whole, may benefit directly by gs yp peo} : y the extremely low prices at which these meats will be sold. Because of the wide publicity to be given to the prices at which the Government will sell these meats, the American people will at once recognize and appreciate the spirit of co-operation to lower the living costs ren- dered by every retailer who participates in the distribution of these commodities. ‘The immense benefits which will accrue to him cannot be measured in dollars and cents. PARTICULARS OF CAMPAIGN ree The prices at which the Government will sell these meats, terms of payment, units of purchase, and where stored, as well as how the Government is prepared to help the retailers distribute them, will be announced in the ; course of a few days. a Particulars of this campaign, the biggest sale of canned meats ever undertaken, will be furnished when completed by any of the Depot Officers, at the following addresses: n St.» SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. ATLANTA, GA., Trans. Bldg. OR Property Division uartermaster General, ding, Washington, D.C. — 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN =n HUTTE = —= MY) DRY GOODS. FANCY GOODS» NOTIONS. TP COC ap Michigan Retail Mire siddeent—D Dry Goods Association. Al. ristian, Owossu. First Vice-l’resident—George J. Dratz. Muskegor : second Vice-l’resident—1tIil. G Waoend- land, Bay City. Secretary-Treasurer—J. W. Lansing. Knapp. Association Now Has Over Three Hundred Members. Lansing, July 20—The following new members of the Michigan Retail 1 | Dry Goods Association have been secured since March 10: >. E. Burgess, Allegan. Nugent's Department Store, Bad Axe. Max Weinberg, Bad Axe. bangor ( o-operative Association, Bangor. liawley Dry Goods Co., Bay City. 3. KK. Scherer, Benton Harbor. C.D. Carpenter, Bie Rapids. }. D. Heinrich, Blissfield. Brookl | nn Culyér-Parker Co., Bb. R. Desenberg & Co., 1). L. Boardman, Buchanan. Zemke Brothers, Caro. W. L. Thoms & Son, Centerville. Charles Maurer, Colon. C. L. Pemberton & Son, Durand. Dew & Schlotzhauer, Elkton. (. EF. Rolland, Fenton. Leo E. Travis, Flushing. Claude D. Hamilton, Fowlerville. fricdman-Spring Dry Goods Co., Grand Rapids. Wurzburg Dry Goods Co., Rapids. Leszezynski & Co., Harbor Beach. John VanTatenhowe, Holland. W. D. Adams, Howell. G. A. Pierce Company, Howell. R. F. Rashid & Bros., Ludington. N. Medalie, Mancelona. (GG. H. Breitenwischer, Manchester. Becker Brothers, Marine City. Joseph Miller, Marine City. Hickmott Co., Mendon. B. H. Carter & Co., Midland. Thomas Griffith, Mount Clemens, Hoftfmann’s Bazaar, Mount Clemens. Chas. A. Ponsford, Northville. \. Hirschberg & Son, Pigeon. Oliver P. Martin, Plymouth. Wallace Company, Port Austin. Ramsey Company, Port Hope. Ramsey Company, Port Hope. Burkhart Brothers, Saline. Women’s Shop, Saline. Maxwell McIntosh, Stanton. Ff. EK. Minne Co., St. Johns. Geo A. Piletz, Ubiy. Franklin & Rayner, Vicksburg. Moine Brothers, Waldron. John P. Geisler, Watervliet. I’. H. Merrifield, Watervliet. FF. P. VanBuren Co., Williamston. Webb & Marrs, Ypsilanti. Davis &! Kishlar, Ypsilanti. Last week, in company with D. Mihlethale, of Harbor Beach, I se- cured eight new members in Huron yi Suchanan. } Grand county. This success was due largely to Mr. Mihlethaler’s splendid in- fluence. They all know and _ thor- oughly respect him. There was a happy greeting to “Darius” at every place we called. It was great pleas- ure to drive through that beautiful country with him in his fine machine. One of the best things our smaller merchants can do, and, in fact, the larger ones, too, is to take a drive up the Eastern Michigan highway and stop off at Harbor Beach. The splen- did new building of the Mihlethaler Company, of steel and cement con- struction, is an ideal place for the business of a department store. It will also do you a lot of good to sit at Mr. Mihlethaler’s desk and let him show you in a very few minutes one of the best methods of store super- 1 ever devised. It won't take him very long to open your eyes to some methods that will do you good. Some of our members have written regarding the trading stamp idea. We quote from a letter recently received: “Trading stamps or any other premium proposition is a poor thing for any merchant unless there is some way he could prohibit every other merchant in town from giving premiums. I believe it is more profit- able to sell some article each day or week at cost or less than cost, and this method would be no more ex- pensive. ] regret to call attention again to the woman who passed worthless checks in Port Huron, Saginaw, Bay City and Muskegon last year. She is Operating again in this state, after apparently having spent the winter months in the south. She is working the same scheme that she worked last year and in order to give informa- tion regarding her methods, I am quoting from a circular just received irom Birmingham, Alabama, Dectec- ive Agency: “One hundred dollars offered for arrest of woman whose photograph appears hereon and which is a good likeness of her. She is described as follows: Age 30 to 35 years, height 5 ft. 10 in., weight 130 Ibs., slender build, brown hair with slight reddish tinge. This woman speaks with a decided Northern or Eastern accent. She has used the following aliases: Mrs. Stella Haynes, Mrs. W. W. Guard, Mrs. S. F. Gates, Mrs. H. M. Franklin, Mrs. Ellen Parker, Miss Virginia Wilson, Miss Susan G. Davis, Florence Wilson, W. E. Anderson, and many other “aliases. “This woman is an expert check operator, and her usual method in passing worthless checks is to oken a small account at some local bank in the city she intends to operate, and when called on for references requests the merchants to call up the bank. While operating in Birgminham, Ala- bama, she rented a room from a private family having a telephone, and as additional reference would write street address of residence and tele- phone number on back of checks, but she never occupied the rented room. This woman is usually accompanied by a man, two small children and a colored nurse, the woman working alone in passing checks, leaving the children and nurse at some hotel.” This corresponds exactly with the methods used in Michigan last year. She has evidently come back North to spend her “vacation” in Michigan. I am not giving the name of our mem- ber who has been swindled this time, but simply give the information that with the first check she secured $10 and with the second $25. Please be on the look-out for her and, if possi- ble, cause her arrest if she attempts to work the scheme in your city. This is a very important matter and we urge our members to co-operate in every way possible not only on your own account, but for the purpose of getting her behind the bars, where she belongs. I have written to the Detective Agency at Birmingham, Vision + . LO US Alabama, asking for copies of the cir- cular offering $100 reward, to+send to our members. This circular gives the woman's picture. Jason E. Hammond, Manager Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass'n. THAT GIVE 100 Per Centr PLUS SERVICE ALL KINDS, SIZES, COLORS, AND GRADES. ASK FOR SAMPLES AND. PRICES. alesboo Till Then. 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Connection with 750,000 telephones in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. hao ee ~ tr rt meee ene [UST TELEPHONE a NOI Dy CITIZENS TELEPHONE COMPANY SE LLM LUNI Cc Se mT = \ July 21, 1920 Woman’s Place in Her Own Home. “I cannot understand why you are not satisfied to live a normal, reason- able home life as your mother and your grandmother did, in your fath- er’s home, until you get married and have a home of your own.” No, he didn’t say it, although I held my breath waiting for the ancient formula of man’s thought about wom- ¢ -——"“a woman’s place is in the home.” Even if he didn’t say it, I knew he thought it. I had not meant to eavesdrop, but this father and daughter sat down right near me; they could see that I wes there; they went right on with the conversation, which evidently had been in progress for some time and concerning a subject about which there evidently was a wide difference Cf opinion and considerable intensity of feeling. “It does seem to me,” the father went on, with the plaintive tone of one to whom life was somehow play- ing false, “as if the whole world had t rned Bolshevik. Here is my own daughter turning her back on her own heme. All her father’s teachings—”’ At that the girl fairly exploded, ex- claiming, “Father, you have no right to talk like that. I have done every- thing you asked me to. I have made good in school and college. Now that I want to find a place and a work in the world and fit myself especially for what I want to do and know I ought to do, you want me to sit by the fire and spin and wait for some man to please come along and honor me with his condescending atten- tions.” “That is a most unbecoming speech,” the father said, with some heat. “Nevertheless, it sufficiently sets forth just what I do think is your duty, and, if I may be permitted still to have any authority in my own house, it represents exactly what you actually will do.” Visibly stiffening, as if his own words confirmed his own determination, he added: “Let us have no more of this non- sense. The subject is closed, so far as I am concerned. You will return home with your mother and me and settle down to a sensible routine, like the sensible girl I know you really are, in spite of all this nonsense about ‘your own work in the world.’ As if your father had not, by his own hard work and thrift, amassed a sufficiency for the support of his own daughter! Besides that, a woman’s place a “Don’t, father! I simply couldn’t bear to hear that old bunk about “‘woman’s place’ again!” And with that the daughter jumped up and fled into the house. The father sighed deeply and with tight lip and set jaw went down the steps and out on the beach by the edge of the water. But I had noticed that the girl’s lips also were tight and her jaw set. Later, when I became acquainted with the family, I heard the whole story. There was nothing new about it; it was simply that of a narrow, unimaginative man, conventionally the kindly tyrant in his own home, to whom his daughter’s desire to do something useful in the world was “Bolshevism!” MICHIGAN TRADESMAN “What is it you want to do2” I asked her. “I want to go to New York and take the kindergarten domestic science.” training and “What is your father’s objection?” “In the first place, he thinks the kindergarten is only for poor. chil- dren, and he doesn’t want me to as- sociate with poor children—says I will catch some disease and probably be- come a Socialist, which to him is rather worse than being a_ burglar. In the next place, he is determined that | and ‘take my place in the social life of which I am naturally a part. J] really believe he would be pleased to have me degenerate into one of those shall stay in my own town aimless, chattering, giggling, flirting ‘social butterflies.’ do it’ simply won't “But don’t you want to be married, and have a home and children of your own?” The pretty face grew inscrutable. She bit her red lower lip until it was white as her white teeth. to me and whispered. “Mrs. Bradish, | body—I am sure you will keep my secret—that is what I do want! And it is just because I feel that my home life, my school and my college have done everything to unfit me to be wife or She turned must tell some- exactly mother or home-maker really that I want to go somewhere and learn something about domestic science—and about children and child-training. My mother sym- pathizes a little, but father says it is positively indecent for me to be think- ing about children at all.” Is there somebody in particular?” I ventured to ask. “Yes, there is, but I wouldn’t dare to tell father that! He says I will marry some one of ‘my own social station,’ and my—my friend is poor. So you see I haven’t any time to lose.” “IT do not know the young man,” I said, “but if he is the right sort, I should say you hadn’t.” Prudence Bradish. (Copyrighted 1920.) ee When the store management has spent its good money to create enthu- siasm among people for its goods, that enthusiasm ought to be at equaled among the clerks. least 139-141 Monror St. ee GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Signs of the Times Are Electric Signs Progressive merchants and manufac- turers now realize the value of Electric Advertising. We furnish you with sketches, prices and operating cost for the asking. THE POWER CO. Bell M 797 Citizens 4261 “APEX” UNDERWEAR for Men, Women and Children With “APEX’ Underwear you can satisfy the women who have to be shown. “AP£X’’ never fails to survive the most severe test. Every mother that gets a look at “APEX” offers 2 hho eT tie her approval for their quality and value. Mothers Know too. Why not send for a few “APEX” Samples NOW? “APEX” “APEX” is tailored Samples to fit Gladly Submitted "ADRIAN. MICH The Adrian Knitting Company Adrian, Michigan 19 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 21, 1920 ~____ —___ Clare Business Men to Work as a Unit. Clare, July 15—About two weeks ago the business men of Clare met and organized a Chamber of Com- merce, electing the following officers: President—W. H. Caple. Secretary—William McAllister. Treasurer—George Collins. Last night was the first real meet- ing of the organization. A banquet was held at the Phelp new cafe. About seventy-five members feasted together in a very enjoyable way, after which they adjourned to the Masonic hall for a business session. The report of Secretary McAllister showed we had 125 members, with over $500 in the treasury. We were disappointed in our speak- ers for the occasion who were to come from Saginaw, but every one present took part in many interesting discussions for the betterment of Clare and community and before it was realized the midnight hour had arrived. Several committees were appointed and Mayor Doherty donated the audi- torium to the Chamber of Commerce for their use for one year, which was graciously accepted. Everyone went home feeling he had the most enjoyable evening the busi- ness men of Clare had ever been privileged to enjoy and realizing fully that Clare now has a real Chamber of Commerce. J. FF. Vatman. ———— it Pennies make dollars, but many a poor, misguided dub has failed, for no other reason than because he leaned to think only in penny denom- inations. COMPUTING SCALES adjusted and repaired Send them in Service guaranteed W. J. KLING 843 Sigsbee St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 49 Market Citz. st. Ss. W., 1361 Grand Beil Rapids M. 1361 EGGS AND PRODUCE WATERMELONS ano CANTALOUPES When you order from us, you are assured of the prompt shipment of the best melons obtainable. VINKEMULDER COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Ceresota k L QO U R Fanchon This is a strong possibility well worth your thinking over: When & the new crop begins to move the car supply is certain to be Barlow’s Aristos Best short, the wheat will move slow- ly, millers will have difficulty getting flour to market. It may be harder to buy flour than to sell it regardless of prices. Keep Puritan this possibility in mind. Don’t Red Star speculate in flour but keep your supply up. JUDSON GROCER CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN You Make Satisfied Customers when you sell “SUNSHINE” FLOUR BLENDED FOR FAMILY USE THE QUALITY IS STANDARD AND THE PRICE REASONABLE Genuine Buckwheat Flour Graham and Corn Meal J. F. Eesley Milling Co The Sunshine Mills PLAINWELL, MICHIGAN Bel-Car-Mo Peanut Butter Your This is deliciously pure, sanitarily made Peanut Butter whose goodness won its way Jobber into all first class jobbing houses. Tell your customers that you have it in stock. Comes in Airtight Sanitary Tins from 8 oz. to 100 Ibs. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 21, 1920 Michigan Retail Hardware Association. President—Geo. W. Leedle, Marshall. Vice-President—J. H. Lee, Muskegon. Secretary—Arthur J. City. ce : ‘Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit. Scott, Marine Preparing Now For the Fall Stove Campaign. Written for the Tradesman. here are always certain days in the summer months when the hard- ware dealer finds relatively little to do in the way of actual selling, and when about all the salespeople have to engross their attention is the task ot keeping cool. One characteristic of the successful He finds some task to occupy every spare mo- man is that he is never idle. ment. But in the summer months the tendency to idle is strong; and there are now and then hot, wilting days when trade is slack and even the most ambitious dealer prefers sit- ting around in his shirt sleeves to in- dulging in manual exercise. Lugging around packing cases and rearrang- ing the stock will always provide em- ployment; but in the hot weather it is not the pleasantest kind of employ- ment, nor always the most profitable that can be found. At this juncture, however, is a good time to prepare for the fall campaign. stove There is a great deal of preliminary work that should and can be done; and doing that preliminary work now will leave the selling seas- on clear for the actual handling of customers. Orders for the fall season, if not already placed, should be looked after promptly. Advertising can be arrang- ed. Prospect lists can be compiled. Indeed, everything that can be done And all considerable in advance should be done. this work requires thought and attention. There are dealers here and there habit of leaving everything until the last mo- ment. They never launch their paint campaign until actual painting has begun, they push hot weather goods the hardest when they personally feel who have an unfortunate the need of refrigerators and window screens; and they doze through the slack midsummer days and wake to the need of preparation for the stove campaign only when the actual stove selling season is right upon them. Then there is a mad rush to get ready; but in nine cases out of ten the procrastinating dealer cannot find time to conduct his campaign as it should be conducted. Eventually he lets things slide, and takes the trade just as it comes. A better method is to select some quiet July or August day when trade is slack and give a few hours careful study to the necessary preparations for fall stove selling. For instance, in these slack hours a lot of advertising copy can be pre- pared. It takes considerable thought and considerable time to put together a good advertisement. If this task is left until the last moment, the time will not be available, and the copy will be just “dashed off” with all the deficiencies that phrase implies. Take a few hours some summer day. look over the literature furnshed by the manufacturers, and pick out the strong, vital selling points featured there. With this material fixed in your mind, it should be possible to draft forceful’ and ae 39 copy. some effective Then take pencil and = rule and Most retail advertisers pay too littl attention to the way their matter is hgure on lay-outs. arranged. They leave that to the printer. It is a better plan however to lay-out your advertisements in advance, when time permits. This, of implies some knowledge of the mechanics of course, ad-setting, and some information as to the limitations of your local paper in this respect. Now is as good a time as any to get this practical knowledge, which will be very helpful to you in mapping out all your ad- vertising. The ad-man on your local paper will probably be ready and willing to give you all possible information. He appreciates the advantage, to the compositors, of advertising copy in- telligently put together: and it is to his advantage to help you to a better understanding of the technique of ad- vertising copy. The prospect list is a necessary ad- junct to every successful stove cam- paign. The stove dealer can divide his public into two classes; those who are not in’the market for stoves and are not likely to be under any circum- stances, and those who “are good prospects. To circularize the former class at the present time is a waste of time and money. True, you are in some slight measure sowing the seed and inducing® a receptive attitude which may be helpful if and when, even- tually, these people are in the market: but your general advertising will these people sufficiently, and they will be influenced, also, by the sales you make to their friends and neighbors who to-day actually are in the market for stoves. reach It is upon this latter class, the real prospects, that you should center your efforts. Many dealers send out to people they think can be induced to buy. the literature supplied by the manufacturers. This is a good means of creating business; but it is neces- INSECTICIDES Arsenate of Lead, dry and paste Dry Arsenate of Calcium Calcium Paste Arsenate Paris Green Tuber Tonic Fungi Bordo Shipment day order is received. Complete stock. Mail your order today. The Edwards & Chamberlain Hardware Co. KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN Jobbers in All Kinds of BITUMINOUS COALS AND COKE A. B. 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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN « ramen rs July 21, 1920 sary to proceed judiciously. Adver- tising literature scattered broadcast is largely wasted; and where it is sent out to promiscious prospect lists, se- lected without any thought to the possibility of actual sales being made, there is a lot of waste effort. Sending out printed matter, especially with the paper situation what it is, becomes an expensive measure where the lists are not carefully supervised. A handpicked, personally selected prospect list is the very best sort of list to use; and its compilation re- quires careful attention. The drawing up of a prospect list will provide oc- cupation for a good many slack mid- summer hours; and it will be exceed- ingly profitable occupation. Prospects are secured in various ways. Every live dealer has a list of people who are considered likely to become regular customers. The addresses are picked up in the course of trade. People who come in to buy something else show interest in the stoves; and the dealer puts them down on his list. Again, an order for stove repairs may come in; and if the stove is found old and in poor repair, the owner is the livest kind of prospect, and the name goes on the list. Gen- eral advertising brings enquiries from other prospects. By these, and other means, prospect lists are compiled. Indeed, the compiling of a prospect list is a task to be carried on from day to day, each name being jotted down as it is secured, and not carried in memory. But a month or two be- fore the season opens a thorough re- vision of the standing list is desirable, involving an extra effort’to add to it and the careful elimination of past prospects who have been actually “sold.” With this list compiled, the direct- by-mail advertising campaign can also be planned ahead. Stove literature furnished by manufacturers supplies the backbone of this advertising. But most dealers find it advantageous to contribute something of their own. Some dealers send out personal let- ters, or other advertising matter with perhaps a certain local coloring spec- cially printed for use in this local campaign. This sort of advertising is educa- tional work; and in many instances it may be some time before it accom- plishes its full purpose. Therefore the dealer should plan a comprehen- sive and persistent follow-up cam- MLCHIGAN TRADESMAN paign, to begin some little time before the active buying season opens and to continue clear through the season. Education work done in August re- sults in sales in September and Oc- tober. It will pay every dealer to devote some time as opportunity offers through the summer to planning his stove campaign. Victor Lauriston. a Opinions of Mackinac Straits Mer- chants. M. M. Hunt, general store, Carp Lake: I have taken the Tradesman ten years or more and I get so much good out of it that I do not expect to keep store without it. I like Mr. Stowe’s type of Americanism. Papers like the Tradesman are what the Na- tion needs.” George D. O’Brien, grocer, Cheboy- gan: ) like the Iradesman. It is just the paper for any one in trade. It keeps me posted and I find what it says under the head Review of the Grocery and Produce Market is al- most always right, and by following its leads I have saved and made many times what the Tradesman costs me. i am only speaking of one of the many good things that can be found in the Tradesman. F. A. Foley, general dealer, Mack- inaw City: “I would not think of keeping store without the Michigan Tradesman. It pays me by far the best of anything I have ever invested in. It is a mercantile trade journal that can be depended upon. It is the friend of every man in trade and de- serves their patronage. When any one in trade helps the Tradesman, he is helping his best friend and a paper that fights for the trade to the last ditch. For my part, I expect to take the Tradesman as long as I am in trade.” : RE. OReilly, Alanson: Phe Tradesman is the best and most loyal paper published in America. As a trade journal it has no superior in its line. While I cannot say that I agree with all Mr. Stowe says, yet we all know he speaks the naked truth and is not afraid to tell it, and at least 95 per cent. of the time he is right and hits the nail square on the head. I say, give us more papers like the Tradesman.” — “Nothing succeeds like success.” Nothing fails so completely as a man who. starts out believing himself a failure. Michigan Hardware Co. Exclusively Wholesale Grand Rapids, Mich. 23 H. 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Kelly, Kala- mazoo. Grand Sentinel—c. Cc, Carlisle, Mar- quette. Business Should Be Given a Free Hand. Grandville, July 20—The business of this copntry is now in a condition that needs careful handling. In saying this I do not mean that big business or small is looking to the Govern- ment for favors. That is not the right spirit by any means. Business that is unable to stand on its own feet is not the best sort of work to engage in, This is, however, not a time for paternalism in Government handling of the so-called problems of the day. A square, out-and-out, hands-off pol- icy is the best in the long run. During the years of war we were subjected to no end of inconveniences because of the necessities of the case. That war has been over for many moons and it is high time that big and little business functioned for them- selves, which they are not doing with this and that commission on the job anxious to point the way for the busi- ness man to pursue. During the Civil War there were no commissions appointed to tell the man of business how he should carry on. Each individual merchant work- ed out his own imaginary problems as best suited his personal equation. To-day we find a different condition. Government has so long interfered with the workings of private corpora- tions its seems impossible to get af- fairs back in the old ways before the war. Supply and demand has been discounted by the interference of Government and to the detriment of the consumer in most cases. We find a party even-now advocat- ing the return of the railroads to Government management. These men —well wishers of their country, no doubt—point to the mess the owners have made of the railroads since they have been returned to them. These seem to think that a scant six months is time enough in which private ownership should demon- Strate its efficiency, forgetting that the Government in the course of its two years management nearly wreck- ed the properties, running behind ex- penses to the tune of three-quarters of a billion dollars. It was a mighty deep hole the Government left the railroads in from which the owners were expected to drag their property to the upper level of a paying proposition. Nothing the Government has essayed to do that properly belong to private ownership but has failed most Jamentably. We see this in the telephone, telegraph and express lines, as well as that of the railroads. Any business that has to be boost- ed with Government aid is not a business for honest men to tie to. Even the Postoffice Department has been so illy managed during the reign of Woodrow Wilson as to have be- come a scapegoat for the flings of disgusted patrons. Under private management, no doubt, the postoffice might be drag- ged out of the slough into which it has been cast and become in time a Paying proposition, besides giving less cause for scandal than as at the present time. Paternalism in government has reached its highest altitude under the present administration. Moreover it has demonstrated beyond cavil the utter incompetency of paternalism to right ceftain wrongs or to better con- ditions which applied under private ownership. It is high time that we were getting back onto solid ground once more; high time that the business struggler has an opportunity to lift himself by his own efforts into a higher plane of commercial bettement. Hands off is the slogan that all business needs to call for in the future, and unless this comes about there will be trou- ble in the offing of even greater mag- nitude than has heretofore been the lot of the business man. The future is in a manner somewhat hazy just at present. That trouble is brewing may not be denied, yet if the men of the business world use their best judgment, unhindered by the interfering hand of Government, there will come a straightening of the kinks which will bring prosperity, in- stead of calamity, to the whole busi- ness world. There are some affairs of state that are peculiarly of a government nature, such as the immigration and taxation questions, and these may well be left. to congressional action, tempered, of course with advice and the good will of those to be affected by such laws. The ordinary business of the coun- try, however, should be allowed to work out its own destiny, unobstruct- ed by Government hindrances and paternal tinkering. In almost every department of Gov- ernment we have too many laws in- terfering with the liberties of the in- dividual. Smart alecks who go to our legislatures think it incumbent upon them to do something for their country, so they introduce new ideas. some of them of a nature to make a dog laugh, yet when put onto the statute books are bothoffensive as well as silly. Less of law, more enforcement, is the true idea which sensible folks would like to see come about. That paternalism which interferes with in- ‘dividual enterprise is not only false economy, but’a disgrace to the state. Big business and small are now in the breakers of a rough and roiled sea which it will require careful man- agement and great forethought on the part of the business world to outride. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. There is no more hopeful individual than the true business man. However dark the immediate future May seem to be, he trims his sails to meet every chance squall, deter- mined to ride through the storm toa harbor of safety. Hands off, Uncle Sam. As in days of old, when an American general prayed for the Lord to stand with his depleted little army against the enemy, the business man now pleads for a free hand and no favors from a well meant paternalism which. if per- sisted in, may spoil all. Old Timer. July 21, 1920 Beach’s Restaurant Four doors from Tradesman office QUALITY THE BEST CODY HOTEL GRAND RAPIDS 1 ithout bath RATES { i Soup with bath CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION sul it(a TO CHICAGO Daily 8:05 P. M. Central Standard Time FROM CHICAGO Daily 7:45 P.M. Central Standard Time Day Boat Every Saturday. Fare $4.10 plus 33 cents War Tax Boat Car leaves Muskegon Electric Station 8:05 P. M. Route Your Freight Shipments “The Goodrich way.’ : Over-night service. Goodrich City Of- I Interurban fice, 127 Pearl St., | Station, With Consolidated || 156 Ottawa R. R. Ticket Offices. II Ave., N. W. W. S. NIXON, City Passenger Agt. GRAHAM & MORTON Transportation Co. CHICAGO In connection with Michigan Railroad BOAT TRAIN 8 P.M. 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This was the verdict of the bunch, numbering about seventy- five, who participated in the annual field day and picnic held at Camp Lake, near Sparta, Saturday, July 17. 3y 9:30 a. m. a good crowd had gath- ered at Fulton park and each member who came with his auto made room for some other member who had not yet acquired the expensive habit of an automobile and in that way all were nicely taken care of. The com- mittee, Perry E. Larrabee, chairman, assisted by Gilbert N. Moore, L. E. Stranahan, Harry J. Shellman and Walter E. Lypps, left at an earlier hour and “blazed the trail” for the string of autos to follow. At each and every turn the committee had nailed up neatly printed signs read- ing, “Bagmen, turn right” or “Bag- men, turn left,” whichever the turn was, so any who did not know just how to reach Camp Lake did not have any difficulty or get lost on the way. The bunch starting from Fulton park made quite a procession and there were some not able to get started at 9:30, but who followed later and by 11:30 the crowd was there, ready for whatever the committee offered. The announcement was then made that a five innning game of indoor ball be played while lunch was being spread on the tables in a beautiful shady spot selected for this purpose. This parti- cular game of ball was staged by two teams consisting of the fats and the leans. L. E. Stranahan acted as of- ficial umpire. In a public article like this we do not feel privileged to talk real plain, but we do say this, there were times when “Stranny” needed protection from violence. When all were seated at the tables, we sadly missed two of our good friends, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Stowe, whose inability to be with us we all sincerely regret- ted. At the conclusion of the dinner, consisting of nearly everything men- tionable good to eat and excellent coffee made from the justly celebrat- ed Morton House brand, the commit- tee again got busy with the different sports and contests that were pulled off, but, as the space for this article is limited, it is absolutely impossible to go into all of the details of the sports and games, but there were tugs of war for both the men and the ladies; also foot races for ladies and men and girls under 18 years old. There were ball throwing contests, standing jump, lemon race, relay race, prizes for the best looking lady, best looking man, three legged race, a run- ning race for the little tots from three to six, a prize for the largest lady, one for the smallest lady and one for the most popular: man. In -nearly everyone of these races and contests there were at least two prizes and sometimes three and between the dif- ferent games and contests to create and keep up the interest and pleasure the committee would pull off differ- ent drawings for candies and cigars, so that at no time during the entire afternoon was there one dull moment. One event that was pulled off, not already mentioned, was the boat race for men and it was quite evident to the spectators on the shore, watching the different boats coming toward them, that many of the Bagmen had never tried to row a boat. before larger than one he could tie a string on in his bathtub at home. One of the very unique features carried out by the committee was the numbering of all the programs starting from one up and to each person was given one of these programs and when dinner was announced it was up to you to find a corresponding number to the one on your program at a place at the table. These programs were retain- ed by each member and the reason for holding these programs was not given until after all the other events had been entered into and all of these numbers were then placed into a hat and drawn out by a little girl and the number on the thirteenth programme taken from the hat entitled the per- son who held it to take home with him a beautiful black leather bag. Also another nice feature, the head of each family seated at the table was given a pound package of Morton House coffee. At this time the Bag- men extends thanks to our good friend, E. A. Stowe, of the Tradesman, for the complimentary programs fur- nished for this occasion. Cigars were donated by the Judson Grocer Com- pany, Lubetsky Bros. & Kleiner, Woodhouse Company and the H. Schneider Co. The Morton House coffee.in pound packages was donated by the Worden Grocer Company. Lily White flour and Rowena Self Rising Biscuit flour by the Valley City Mill- ing Co. Silver Foam by the Grand Rapids Products Co. and ginger ale by Folger. About 5:30 the committee made the announcement that before breaking up to go home there was ice cream and cake to be served with boxes of candies for the ladies and cigars for the men. To say that this committee deserved great credit for all the arrangements and carrying out in detail of this outing is putting it very mildly. Even their own wives said they were bully good fellows and did fine. Again, we say that we would like to go into details and tell of the great pleasure expressed by the different lucky ones in these dif- ferent contests. We would like to describe in detail some of the beauti- ful and costly articles donated by the different firms at the solicitation from the committee. There were neckties, table scarfs and pillow tops, boxes of stationery, silk stockings, bottles of toilet water, automobile timers and spotlights, electric irons, electric lamps, umbrellas, collar and cuff sets, pieces of furniture; in fact, almost everything that could be used on an occasion of this kind. We would like to mention some of the expressions dropped by different members, com- plimentary to the committees for their work, but we can’t do it within our space, but two or three items we do want to make mention of, one being, the “Quaker Oat” smile that came over the face of Allan Rockwell when the announcement was made that his number was the lucky num- ber that drew the leather chair. Fred DeGraff wore a happy smile because there was lots of cheese on the table. These are the only two that we will make special mention of, but it is a fact that more good times, good things to eat and prizes were dis- tributed then it ever was the writer’s privilege to witness or participate in at any field day outing of this or any other fraternal organization. As this same committee will stand as the ways and means committee for a ser- ies of dancing parties for the coming winter, judging from the results of their efforts for this field day outing there will be some fine parties pulled off by the Bagmen. John D. Martin. >> List of Creditors of E. Allen Conklin. E. Allen Conklin, the Reed City produce dealer who recently took ad- vantage of the bankruptcy court, has filed the following list of creditors: : ‘ Secured. First National Bank, Reed City $6,770.00 Sam T. Johnson, Reed City ______ 500.00 Postal Turner Auto Co., Evart __ 1,000.00 Unsecured. Evart Savings Bank, Evart ____ $ 775.00 American Logging Tool Co., Evart 22.75 James FE. Echlin, Evart ___.______ 9.50 Sullivan Supply Co., Saginaw __ 13.84 Cady Waiile, Eivart . 327. William Shore, Evart ______ John Brockway, Reed City iG A: W. Dieks, Reed City — | Ivart Co-operative Association, BNVSrt oe 200.00 Adrian DeWindt, Evart ________ 210.60 Ladish Milling Co., Milwaukee __ 963.75 Martz Bros., Big Rapids Sone 694.70 Haynes Brothers, Cadillac ______ 7.50 Fyr Fyter Co. (residence unknown) 13.50 tobins Milling Co., Salina, Ka. 2.50 Bittin: Bros., Reed City =. 16.45 William Horner, Reed City __._ 200.00 po eee & Son, Reed . iy 4.05 Cadillac Produce Co., Cadillac _. 102.42 Cedar Co-operative Exchange, Cea ee 453.94 JH. Hale & Sons, fonia . 360.00 John Marcinkewciz, Evart ______ 300.00 3randon & Richardson, Evart _. 50.00 John E. Beach, Flint Se 75.00 Review of the Produce Market. Apples—Harvest varieties, small in size and poor in quality, command $4.50@5 per bushel. Bananas—9'4c per Ib. Beets—Home grown, bunches. Blackberries—$5 per crate of 16 qts. Sutter—The market is steady, with receipts about normal for this season. There has been a slight accumulation of butter, but there has been an ad- vance of about le per pound during the last few days. The average qual- ity for this time of year is very good and there is a good home consump- tion. There will be no material change for the balance of this week. Local jobbers hold extra creamery at Soe and first at 54c. Prints 2c per Ib. additional. Jobbers pay 36c for packing stock. Cabbage—Home grown, bu. and $3.75 per bbl. Cantaloupes—Arizonia stock is now selling on the following basis: 30c per doz. $1.35 per Standards, 455 2 $5.50 momya: 946,026 4.50 Evaes 2.65 Roney Dew oo 75 Carrots—30c per doz. for home grown. Cauliflower—$3.50 per doz. for Cal- ifornia. Celery—Home grown ranges from 65@75c per bunch. Cherries—The crop of sour is the largest the State has ever known and it is estimated that fully half the crop will spoil on the trees, owing to the shortage of help to pick and market the crop. Local jobbers sell at $2.50 per 16 qt. crate. Cocoanuts—$1.50 per doz. per sack of 100. Cucumbers — Home house, $1.85 per doz. Currants—$3.50 per 16 qt. crate for either red or white. Eggs—The market is very firm. The receipts of strictly fancy eggs are in very good demand, the average arrivals showing more or less heat defects. There is a very good con- sumption of eggs at this time, caus- ing the arrivals of fancy eggs to be purchased immediately. We look for a continued firm market in eggs. Job- bers pay 40@42c f. o. b. point for fresh candled, cases. Egg Plant—$4.25 per crate of 24 to 36. Gooseberries—$3 per 16 qt. or $10 grown hot shipping including crate. Green Onions—25c per doz. bunch- es for home grown. Green Peppers—$1 per basket. Lemons—Extra sell as follows: fancy Californias 360 size, per box =... $5.50 S00) Size) pér box - 8 = 5.50 270 size, pes box ....) 5.50 24) size, per box 2... 5.00 Fancy Californias sell as follows: 360 size, per box 22 $5.00 300 Size, per box __..._._____ 5.00 aM size, per box i... 4.75 240 size, per box _5. 4.50 . pe a Green Peas—$3.50 per bu. for home grown. Lettuce—Home grown, $1.50. for head and 85c for leaf. Onions—Texas Bermudas, $2.75 per 50 lb. crate for White and $2.50 for yellow; California 25c per crate 25 higher; California in 100 Ib. sacks, $3.50. Oranges—Fancy California Valen- cia now sell as follows: im oo $8.00 CO 8.00 150 8.00 L7G A 8.00 ZU0 8.00 26 ee 8.00 200) A 7.50 200) 7.00 620 6.75 Parsley—60c pe doz. bunches. Pieplant—$1.50 per bu. for home grown. Pop Corn—$2.25 per bu. shelled rice, 10c per Ib. for ear; Potatoes—Home grown are increas- ing in volume every day. They are still small in size and find an outlet at from $2@3 per bu. Maryland Cob- blers are still arriving, finding an outlet on the basis of $5 per bu. Radishes—Outdoor grown, 20c per _doz. bunches. Raspberries- for black. Spinach—$1.25 per bu. String Beans—$3.50 per bu. Tomatoes—Home grown, $1.65 per 7 |b. basket. Water Melons—70@90c for Flori- das or Georgia. -$5.50 for red and $4.50 Wax Beans—$3.50 per bu. W hortleberries- 16 qts. $4.50 per crate of > 2. Ten Additions in a Single Week. Lansing, July 20-—The past week was spent im Sanilac county im 4a membership campaign. The follow- ing names were added to our list of members: Brown City Brown City. Ehler & Auslander, Biller’s Dep’t Store, C. E. Doyle & Son, Decker Stock Co., Ind., Decker. K. H. McKenzie, Sandusky. McCaren & Co., Carsonville. Zemke Bros., Cass City. Geo. W. Paldi, Snover. Thomas H. Taylor, Imlay City. We now have 311 members. At the time of the organization of the As- sociation in September, 1918, forty- seven merchants signed the member- ship list. It is my ambition to have at least 347 members by the time of our Saginaw convention, Sept. 14 and 15. The list of our membership has been sent to all of our members re- cently and I would urgently request our members to interview any neigh- bor merchants who are not as yet members, and if possible secure their membership before the middle of August. During the past week I had a very efficient helper, Harry Ford, of the firm of H. & G. Ford, of North Branch. Mr. Ford, whom LI _ nick- named “Henry,” with his ford sedan, made the dust fly over the Sanilac county roads. The country was beautiful; the crops fine; “Henry” Was very energetic, very courteous and a fine companion. In this con- nection I would suggest that, since we have canvassed the most of the larger towns, about the only way now to secure members is to go by auto from village to village. If any of our members desire to render service similar to that rendered by Mr. Mih- lethaler and Mr. Ford recently, I will promise to pay for all the ne and victuals and give him a good time Don’t be bashful and backward about coming forward with your proposi- tion. In one day, with a good man with his machine, I can do more work for the Associatién than in three days traveling alone by train. Jason E. Hammond, Manager Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass'n. Co-operative Co., Shabbona. Croswell. Marlette. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN = fc GS’ DRUGGISTS SUNDRIES 3 ) ray) Wi iyps = ? ay) LD. Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—H. H. Hoffman, Sandusky. Secretary and Treasurer—E. T. Boden, Bay City. Other Mem bers—Charles Ss. Muskegon; Geo. F. Snyder, James E. Way, Jackson. Koon, Detroit; Serving Malted Milk Cold. There is a decided difference of opinion as to the proper way of serv- ing malted milk cold at a soda foun- tain. Any method of serving is prop- er when the customer designates the method. Again, usage makes some difference in various localities, but the natural conclusion must be that, at a soda fountain, unless it is otherwise specified, the drink will be prepared with carbonated water. At many fountains the dispensers have fallén into the bad habit of preparing cold malted milk with milk even when the customer does not specify milk in any way. This has spoiled the possibility of uniform service because once the patrons of a fountain become used to receiving a certain service it is hard to get them into the habit of ordering correctly. * Malted milk is good served either way, but unusually rich and delicious when properly prepared with carbon ated water and a little good cream. Whichever way you usually prepare it, be sure to advertise it also the other way, so that the customer can secure it either way. Most people who drink cold malted milk want it sweetened with one of the fountain syrups. Chocolate, va- nilla and coffee are the most popular ones but others are occasionally called for. carbonated water draw from an ounce to an ounce and a half of the desired syrup into a mixing glass; add an ounce of rich cream, and when you are going to shake by hand add a little fine ice and lastly two heaping teaspoonfuls of malted milk. Then mix thoroughly either with the electric mixer or by hand. Then add enough carbonated water to fill a glass, using the fine stream mostly so as to make it light and fluffy, then strain into a clean glass. This is best served plain, al- though some top it with whipped cream. To my mind it is sufficiently rich without the cream. It is nice poured over a portion of ice cream placed in the bottom of the glass and served with a spoon. To serve with To serve with milk, draw the de- sired syrup into a 12-ounce. glass Some like just a little plain syrup and I have had them want it mixed with- out any syrup, some asking for a lit- tle salt. There are exceptions; most people will call for one of the three popular flavors. Fill the glass a lit- tle more than half full with milk, then add two heaping teaspoonfuls of malt- ed milk and mix thoroughly with the electric When smooth add enough milk to fill the glass, pour from shaker to glass and back a couple of times and then pour into a clean glass. mixer. If the customer desires something real nourishing add an egg to either formula just before mixing and you have produced a liquid lunch that is truly worthy of the name. Very few dispensers realize, even yet, the possibilities that there are in malted milk at the fountain. If they did, they would be more interested in learning how to prepare it so as to use it to make friends for their foun- tains. E. F. White. —_——_2-._____ Moth Liquids. [ Campher 25 grams Naphthalene _______ 50 grams Nitcobenzol ___ 10 mils Denatured alcohol __ 815 mils Oil of turpentine ___1000 mils - Coeool 5 grams Naphthalene ________ 20 grams Acetic ether 5 mils Denatured alcohol __ 100 mils + Combo + 10 grams Naphthalene _______ 40 grams (oom 100 grams Od of clove 10 mils Oil of turpentine ___ 100 mils Denatured alcohol __ 900 mils a pheno, 7. 30 grams (amphor 30 grams Benzime - 500 mils Great care should be taken, as ben- zine is highly inflammable and its vapors are very explosive. For these reasons the following modification is proposed, which is comparatively safe to use: 2. feenol 2 10 grams Camphor 2 30 grams Carbon tetrachloride 500 mils Beonee 500 mils —_22>__ Weighing a Perfume. It was the Italian physicist Salvioni who devised a microbalance of such extreme delicacy that it clearly dem- onstrates the loss of weight of musk by volatilization. Thus the invisible perfume floating off in the air is in- directly weighed. The essential part of the apparatus is a very thin thread of glass fixed at one end and extended horizontally. The microscopic objects to be weighed are placed on the glass thread near its free end and the amount of flexure produced is ob- served with a microscope magnifying 100 diameters. A mote weighing one- thousandth of a milligram perceptibly bends the thread. —_2>-.__ Success or failure is largely the small matter of keeping your out-go a little under your income. Liquid Tar Shampoo. This may be prepared by adding oil of tar to the finished soap instead of perfume, in the proportion of about an ounce or two to the gallon, or pine tar itself may be added to the fixed oil before saponification. The compound tincture of green soap of the National Formulary modified as above should give you what is desired. Another formula is as follows: 2.—Cottonseed oil _________ 20 ozs. Sodium hydrate ____ 3 ozs. Potassium carbonate ____ 5 drs. Aron me re Distilled Water ________22 ozs. Dissolve the sodium hydrate in half the water, add the oil and 15 fluid- ounces, agitate frequently until the oil is saponified, then add the alcohol and the potassium carbonate dissolv- ed in the remainder of the water. o.-—Gteen or soft soap _____ 12 ozs. Potassium carbonate ___ 2 ozs. eke 2 drs. Ata 16 ozs. Water, to make ____ 64 ozs. Mix all and dissolve, let stand a few days and filter. ——_~++>____. Moth Cakes. 1. Oil of lavender __.. 1% dram Naphthalin | 1 dram Carbolic acid, crystals 2 drams Camphor, powdered 4 drams Hard paratin 4 ounces Melt together in a water bath and cut into small squares; wrap these in tin foil, and again enclose in a paper containing printed directions: “These cubes are to be placed in the bed or about the room, where they impart an agreeable odor and purify the air as well as scent it.” _ (oer 5 parts Black pepper _________ 10 parts pees 10 parts ras Z parts Essence lavender ______ 2 parts Essence cloves _______ 1 part Paratan 8 100 parts Melt together and make into pastil- les. ———_ o_o ___ Don’t call down anyone until you first call up and make sure that they’re wrong. July 21, 1920 COLEMAN ®rand) Terpeneless LEMON and Pure High Grade VANILLA EXTRACTS Made only by FOOTE & JENKS Jackson, Mich. CANDY TRADE Mark The “DOUBLE A” Kind Made by People Who Know How Our record of over fifty years of continuous growing business, not only in Michigan but all over the United States, speaks for itself, You take no chances when you buy “Double A’’ Brand. TRADE The AK Good Sign of Candy Mark Made in Grand Rapids by NATIONAL CANDY Co. PUTNAM FACTORY Grand Rapids, Michigan Ask for a copy of our latest price list, We are agents for LOWNEY’'S in Western Michigan. RA MONA “The Park Beautiful” The Ideal Place For Your Guting TWICE DAILY Mats. 3:00 Nights 8:30 AUDEVILL f N AN CIN 8:15 Every Evening Hentschel’s Orchestra Boating, Fishing, Picnics, Pavilions. Plan your Picnic today. Don’t miss the Jack Rabbit, Merry Go-Round, the New Frolik, Manhattan Bathing Beach, Fishing Pond, Chinese Restaurant. Every Day is Your Day at Ramona nant —————— » July 21, 1920 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 e Wholesale Drug Price Current @ @ Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue. OSSI 0 LU [ not Acids ae Sweet, aaa Tinctures Sori pe 200 @ 2 MHtation = .____ 5@1 00 ; - 3oric (Ft owd.) --20, @ a] Amber. crude 3 00@3 95 Aconitte _.. @1 85 foric (€xtai) ._... 20 @as pe a Aloes @1 65 Ng ic 35@ , 50@3 7 oe ce ae @Carbolie, =... _ 35@_ 41 —— ee 4 seers by. Arnica : @1 75 Citric —_---_---- 125@1 35 Bergamot 9 009 26 Asafoetida ——_—- @3 9" B bl a 34@ “oc eet nage 9 COO! 25 Belladonna @1 40 Nittic (220000 oie Seas a a 3enzoi ( uy a 0 a oun alin aie a6 450@4 75 Benson Compo 3 13 Sulphuric ~_---. 3%@ enae! aaa Le 3 aa be mach 5 @2 70 Tartaric ~-----.-- 98@1 10 Citronciia ___ 1 50@1 75 Cantharadies -- @3 00 e e inate Cloves .._-_-_-_ 5 00@5 25 Capsicum Ge 3 Gacoanut — 50 Cardamon : @1 50 ring war He daze Hg HP Sed iver 4 ee 8 chan Con. BE ‘ (~~ eM Gen 5@2 ce --- Water, 14 deg. _- 9@ 16 Cotton Seed 22. 2 3502 6 ao @2 40 Carbonate --___- 22@ 26 Wigeron ---. 10 00@10 25 Colchicum - Gs Chloride (Gran) -- 20@ 30 GCubeb 13 50@1 Cyncis @3 00 O Balsams Hemlock, pure 2 00@2 25 Gentian - 1 40 Copaiba _.--.. 00@1 20 Juniper Berries 8 00@8 25 Ginger ue @2 00 Fir (Canada) -. 250@2 75 Juniper Wood 3 00@3 25 = GUaiac -------_- alu , ae Fir (Oregon) 7 Som a0 Lard extra's. 2 182 28 augue: Ammon, gi But possibly the SEASON of 1920 will convince you that your wag 2 50@2 75 Lavender Flow 16 50@16 75 10dine, Colorless @2 00 ) : : Lavender Gar’n 1 75@2 00 ron, clo. ------ @1 50 92% trade will demand a new and up-to-date equipment. This Barks lonen 2. $454 bf po ts likel ; : : Cassia (ordinary) 45@ 60 Linseed boiled bbl. @206 Mytrh_ ————-_____ as = is likely to be the case. You will want a job on which the fac- Cassia (Saigon) 50@ 60 Linseed bid less 2 16@2 26 Oiigy, TCA --- = 1 90 t h d 4 Sassafras (pow.70c) @ 65 Linseed raw bbl. @204 obit, ~Gamsn~ &f 3? ory has expended every effort and energy. But such a job Soap Cut (powd.) sia 4 Linseed raw less 2 14g2 24 Gitems’ tenaeaia oi = ‘ i So | 40e) ee oo ustard, true, oz. 2 95 = ss requires time. Won’t you place your order soon for the earliest Mustard, artifil, oz. @ 75 cect er ants i ; : : errles Neatsfoot ____ 1 75@1 95 Spring delivery? We shall be delighted to furnish facts and aan 190@2 00 Olive, pure 5 5006 0b fsiies, oe sagi@: Otre, Malaga, . o Patate Juniper —_________ 10 20 yellow | -----~- 75@4 00 = Lead, red dr 1 : Olive, Malaga, ‘ 7 Ae i DROP A LINE TO A. W. OLDS. Prickiey “Ash. @ 90 green... 3. 75@4 09 ead. white dry 154@ 16 Extracts Orange, Sweet 12 “er 25 Ochre ae oa oe 16 io. mee 2001 3 Sen ce as@i so Ochre. yellow less 2% 5 Eises howe. ““ Pennyroyal -.. 3 00@3 25 hye Vanui 4” aoe : Flowers Peppermint ~_ 10 00@10 25 Re “dV net en Pa << 7 e e : Rose, pure __ 24 00@25 00 enetn Hing. 24@ 7 azeltine erkins Drug Co. | ania gga go ossmary Plows 2 8002 7 Wilting, bole ==. aig Se | ee oe ag eee, ee ee 5 5 oe : ° : Sassafras, true 3 00@3 25 4 H. P. Prep. 3 75@4 00 G ran d R a p 1 d S, M Ic h 1 g an Gums Sassafras, arti’l 1 50@1 75 Acacia, Ist _..._. 60@ 65 Spearmint _. 17 50@17 75 Miscellaneous Acacia, 2nd ----. 55@ 60 Sperm -__----_. 2 75@3 00 2 : Acacia, Sorts --_. 35@ 40 Tansy ___-_____. 950@9 75 Acetanalid --.__ 95@1 15 Acacia, powdered 45@ 50 Tar, USP _______ ao. fem - 16@ 20 i pea fous — ag a vennne oe @2 05 aia ate a oes Cape Pow Turpentine, less 2 15@2 25 around = —_______ é Aloes (Soc Pow) 1 1091 50 Wintergreen, tr. Bismuth, Subni- Asafoetida -... 450@5 00 __ 5 J 12 00@12 25 hate 2 75@4 00 Row. 2) 6 75@7 00 Wintergreen, sweet Borax xtal or Camphor ___--- 245@2 50 birch —._____. 8 00@8 25 «=, Powdered --_. 11%@ 16 Guaige: 0 @140 Wintergreen art 1 20@1 40 Cantharades, po 2 00@6 60 Guaiac, powdered @1 - Wormseed _-. 12 00@12 25 Gn a ao “ no eS Ee @ 8d ormwood __ 16 00@16 25 apsicum = ____~__ ‘ 5 Kino, powdered @1 9% Carmine ._. 7 25@7 66 c o j , < ul ee 1 40 Cassia Buds —..... 50 60 Jusi One f ive mak kon 1 50 Potassium COG ag 75 Opium _______ 11 50@12 00 pore ee oe 60 Chalk Prepared 16@ 18 Opium, powd. 13 00@13 60 Bichromate -... 5 65 Chioroform —.. 55@ 6d Out of 227 Onan ae 13 00@13 60 Bromide Aisne 10@1 15 Chloral Hydrate 1 70@2 10 Ghalide 20: 1 75@1 85 ee —— yt < oa re 13 60@14 05 @2 25 ate, gran'r 5 Cocoa Butter _.. 70@ 86 : ioe G a 5007 7 25 Chlorate, xtal or . Corks, list, less 50%. : E HAVE 227 different makes Tragacanth ae “as 00 j pee. Sai ta 28@ 35 Copperas, bbis. . @ 6 : Turpentine _..___ 40 eyaAMGe oo 30@ 60 Copperas, less -. 64%@ 12 of tires to choose from. Out - lodide ———___ sc § 0@4 28 Copperas. powd. 64@. 15 -ermanganate__ 5 5 Corrosive Sublm 2 01@2 10 of that number we have chosen one, the Lee ag pe Sellow 3G 6 Cream Tartar .. 1a 7 seems cat Gl 7 Prussiate, red 1 85@2 00 =§Cuttlebone ——- S0@e oO one that we believe will give you more Wea MiG. ica He ie “UPEate -—-— o* fe moe o 7306 00 5 ; . Bordeaux Mix Dry 18@ 28 j & mileage, more security, and more satis- Hellebore, | White a Roots are, ‘Dowden cs) 10 ‘ powdered --..-. Alkanet _.._ 3 50@3 75 = Enpsc Salts, bbls @ 05 faction for your money than any other. Insect Powder -- 90@140 ‘Blood, powdered 606° 72 Ebsom Salts’ lees 5%O 10 poe ee 35@ 55 Calamus ee 2 . -_ ae eer @7 50 campane, pw 2 5 rgot, ,owdered @s 00 BRAENDER TIRES are our selec- Dry -----~---- 12%@ RH Gentian, powd. 27%@ 35 Flake White -._. 15@ 20 : : Paris Green --.. 48@ Ginger, African, Formaldehyde, lb. 65@ 75 tion for you because we’re convinced ee “que isa OS mn ringer, Jamaica 574%@ 5 rlassware, less 5 that they are good enough to stake our Arctic Ice Cream Co. onan jiveics. on F Glassware, full case 58%. ' powdered ____ Vy D Gl 2r Salts, Dbl. 02 business reputation on. We know the Bulk, Chocolate ~~ 1 38 Goldenseal, pow. § 38 $0 Glauber Salts less 3M@ 1 Pp’ Y Bulk. Caramel _ 145 anecae. powd. - a4 a 5 & Glue, Brown aoe 1@ 30 piel £0 0 af wee eee = = = 6 (6 lOU.060606[6U6BS a e, pow 5 slue, Br Grd. 19g are made right because the BRAEN- Bulk, Grape-Nut ----135 TLicorice, powd. 40@ 50 Glue, White —~ 3s@ 40 : : i Bulk. Tatth a 136 Qtris, powdered 40 45 Glue, White Grd. 330 40 DER conscience will not permit them Brick, Vanill. i“ Poke, powdered 40 45 Glycerine —_.__ 37@_ 55 hoe conan 149 Rhubarb -______ 225@2650 Hops 22 1 60@1 75 to be made any other way. They’re Bien @icanict a Rhubarb, powd. @2 00 ftodine _...... 5 70@5 90 Brick’ St oc 1 60 Rosinwood, powd. 30@ 35 Ilodoform ______ 7 00@7 30 S foot Brick’ Butt ad 1 60 Sarsaparilla, a’ et lane, Bentats . a p 30 - co SOON: ycopodium -.. 5@3 50 wT Piper Ice Cream sae Sarsaparitia ae as Ly oad 25g 90 , ee ace °-owdered 95@1 00 © Cord and fabric tires and tubes. | a ee io ie... 35 ® Menthol _____ 12 00¢ m2 20 Bulk’ Gatccsal ---- 1 30 Squills, powdered 60@ 70 Morphine -___ 12 50@13 20 Bu Geate-Nui ----- 1 30 Tumeric, powd. “ 30. Nux Vomica ____ 30 Ho, fates 1s Valerian, powd. 200 Nux Vomica, pow. 26 36 Bulk, Tutti Fruiti -_ 1 36 Po, on |? 2S Brick Wantlia 544 Seeds Pepper, white _... @ 60 Brick, Chocolate _... 1 60 Arise 38 40 EP itch, Burgundy 20@ 25 Brick, Caramel --___ 160 Anise, pene 40@ 45 Quassia es & Brick, Strawberry __ 160 Bird, is ------__- be S Oe ee 1 eo Brick: Turd peuia — ge Canary sq Bechslie Sale .. 1 & 3 Brick any combinat’n 1 60 eae. Po. ns 20 25 Pe ge ——— 20 = a ardamon --__. 50 2 OE ara 3 jeauee Celery, powd. .55 45@ 50 £Seidlitz Mixture 40 45 oan Coriander powd .25 16@ 20 Soap, green —-____ 2 35 5 Buehu) ---- C600 Hn 0@ 25 Soap mott castile 22%@ 26 MICHIGAN HARDWARE CO. a Sage, bulk 67q 70 Fennell -------_- 20g so. gs 7 BUI (ase 2 @25 00 i / i. Sage, % loose -__ 72@ 78 Flax ieee eran a 5 aa Soap, white castile — Grand Rapids, Mich. a Sage, powdered -_ 55@ 60 foenugreek pow. 109 20 _ less, per bar... @2 75 f pean — = 2 a Lo Worn 2. 10@ 18 Seda Ash 06@ 10 4 enna, mn. .._ ¢ a0 Tohelia 175@2 00 ‘Soda Bicarbonate 3%@ 10 Senna, Tinn. pow. 35 40 Sod c Mustard, yellow -.45@ 650 a, Sal ---__- 2 5 : : . (a Uva Ursai -.-.. 25 30 Mustard, black __ 36 40 lam Se ; 1 Ei : . ony 76 Suiphur, ro eee %4@ Braender Rubber and Tire Co Olls Quince a i60@1 75 Sulphur, Subl. — 5@ 10 Factory : Rutherford, N. J Almonds, Biter... Rape 2 15@ 20 ‘Tamarinds ____- 25@_ 30 true (0 16 00@16 26 i oo 35 Tartar Emetic 1 03@1 10 Almonds, Bitter Sabadilla, powd. 30@ 35 Turpentine, Ven. 50@6 00 artificial "2 50@2 75 eee as 16 25 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 60@2 00 Almonds, Sweet, Worm American 45@ Witch Hazel -. 1 60@2 15 true ......... 1 75@2 @0 Worm Levant 50 1 80@1 90 Zine Sulphate — 16 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, ing, and are intended to be correct at time of going t within six hours of mail- oO 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 | DECLINED | Fruit Jars Cheese Mazola AMMONIA Blackberries CHEESE Arctic Brand 3 Ib. Standards ..... erick ae is OZ. 16, 2 doz. box 380 No. 1b @13 00 Wisconsin Flats __ ss 3p 16 oz. Zoc, 1 doz. box 2 00 Longhorn A ao OZ. 45c, | dos. box 3 25 Beans—Baked New York co 38 Moore’s Household Brand Brown Beauty, No. 2135 Michigan Full Cream __ 30 i2 oz., 2 doz. to case 2 70 Campbell, No. 2 .... 1 56 Fremont, No. 2 _ 1 69 CHEWING GUM AXLE GREASE van Camp, % ib. 80 Adams Black Jack __ 70 Van Camp, 1 ib. . 1 35 Adams Bloodberry ____ 70 Van Camp, 1% ib. ___ 1 60 Adams Calif. Fruit 76 Van Camp, 2 tb. _.. 1 88 Adams Chiclets ss ap Adams Sen Sen 70 Beans—Canne iS Yiicatan =. 70 Red Kidney ____ 1 35@1 45 ‘an Flag Spruce_ 70 Seine 1 35@2 70 mans Pepsin _ _=._—sBA MOS C2 1 35@2 70 Beecinut 90 Liga 1 20@2 35 Doublemint «ss 70 Red 95@1 25 oucy Pruih 70 Spearmint, Wrigleys __ 70 Clam Bouillon en ee 65 Burnham's {i oz. __. 2 50 CHOCOLATE Standard _..__ 1 45@1 65 Walter Baker & Co. Country Gentleman __ 2 00 Caracas 8 43 Maine .._._ 1 90@2 25 Premium, %s or %s __ 56 25 Ib. pails, per doz. 18 80 Walter M. Lowney Co. x Pp : ___ Hominy Premium, %s 50 Van cop 1 50 iremium, Gs 50 BLUING sactsen 22 1 30 CIGARS Jennings’ Condensed Pearl ,, 1 National Grocer Co. Brands pmall, 3 doz. box __.. 2 55 1% Ib. ki Rajah, Diplomat- ce Lares. 2 dor. box _..270 . — aw bei icaS ~------------ 70 00 BREAKFAST FOODS Cracked Wheat, 24-2 4 60 Cream of Wheat __._ 9 00 Grape-Nuts 3 80 Pillsbury’s Best Cer'l 2 90 Quaker Puffed Rice -. 5 60 Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30 1 3 Quaker Brkfst Biscuit Quaker Corn Flakes 35 Raiston Purina —_____ 4 00 Ralston Branzos —_--- 2 70 Ralston Food, large -. 4 Ralston Food, small _. 3 Saxon Wheat Food —-- 5 50 Shred Wheat Biscuit 4 Triscuit, 18 Kellogg’s Brands Toasted Corn Flakes 4 90 Toasted Corn Flakes individual 2. 23 Koumiies 2000 4 20 Krumbles, Individual 2 00 Siete 2 00 Deer 2 60 Peanut Butter ~-._._ 3 65 No. 1412; doz. ___ 2 25 Bran 3 60 BROOMS Standard Parlor 23 lb. 5 75 Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib. __ 8 00 Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 60 Ex. Fey, Parlor 26 lb. 10 00 BRUSHES Scrub Solid Back, 8 in. ____ 1 50 Solid Back, 11 in. __ 1 75 Pointed Ends ________ 1 25 No. 1 No. 2 No. 1 No. 2 BUTTER COLOR Dandelion, 25c size __ 2 00 1 Perfection, per doz. __ 1 75 CANDLES Paraffine, 6s ________ 16 Paratiine, 12s 16% Wine 40 CANNED GOODS Apples 3 Ib. Stan ds sf; 25 No. 10 oe 7 00 ce so! Mackerel Mustard, £26 1 80 Mustard, 2 ib. 2 2 80 mpoused, 1% ib, _ 1 60 Soused, 2 ib, .. 2 75 Mushrooms per can 1 40 per can__ 1 00 Buttons, ls, Hotels, ls, Plums California, No. 3 _.-_ 2 40 Pears In Syrup Michigan = 0? 0 California i... 5 50 Peas Marrowlat _._ 1 60@1 90 Early June -... 1 45qw1 90 Early June sifd 1 75@2 40 Peaches California, No. 2% __ 4 75 California, No. 1 ___. 2 40 Michigan, No. 2 -..___ 4 26 ree, eallons 2 12 00 Pineapple Grated, No. 2... 4 00 Sliced No. 2 Extra __ 4 75 Pumpkin Van Camp, No. 3 ___ 1 66 Van Camp, No. 10 ___ 4 60 Lake Shore, No. 3 _._ 1 35 Vesper, No. 10 ______ 3 90 Salmon Warren's 1 lb. Tall __ 4 10 Warren's % Ib. Flat 2 60 Warren's 1 lb. Flat __ 4 25 Red Alaska 3 90 Med. Red Alaska ____ 3 50 Pink Alaska __ 2 25@2 40 Sardines Domestic, %s __ 6 00@6 50 Domestic, %s __ 7 00@8 060 Domestic, %s __ 7 00@8 00 California Soused ____ 2 00 California Mustard __ 2 00 California Tomato __ 2 00 Sauerkraut Hackmuth, No. 3 ___. 1 60 Silver Fleece, No. 3 1 60 Shrimps Dunbar, 1s doz. 2 Dunbar, 14%s doz. ____ 3 76 Strawberries Standard No. 2 ______ 4 5@ Fancy, No. 2 ss 5B ar Tomatoes NO. 2 1 35@1 75 Ne. 3 1 80@2 35 No. 190 @7 00 CATSUP Snider’s 8 oz. ______ 1 85 Snider’s 16 oz. ______ 3 10 Royal Red, 10 oz. ____ 1 35 Nedrow, 10 ox. _.... 1 4 Royal Red, Tins ____ 10 00 El Rajah, corona 74 00 El Rajah, Epicure, 50 74 00 Isl Rajah, Epicure, 25 83 00 {i Rajah, Ark, 50__ 65 Ov kil Rajah, President, ee 100 00 50__ 65 00 Mungo Pk., Perfectos 75 00 Mungo Park, African 90 00 Mungo Park, Gold Sinnd, 5) 2 100 00 Mungo Park, Gold Stam, 2 oo 105 00 Discount on Mungo Park. Lots of 400, $1 per 1,000 Lots of 1,000, $2 per 1,000 Lots of 2,500, $3 per 1,000 Worden Grocer Co. Brands Harvester Line. Record Lreakers, 50s 76 00 Delmonico, 5d50s ____ 76 UU Panatelia, 60s 76 OO Epicure, 40s kavorita Extra, 50s 97 50 Presidents, 50s ____ 115 00 Royal Lancer Line Favorta, 508 _. 75 00 Imperiales, 50s ~_____ 95 00 Magnificos, 50s __.. 112 50 La Azora Line Washington, 6us - 75.00 Panatelia Foil, 50s .. 75 00 Aristocrats — 75 00 lverfecto Grande, 50s 37 50 Ooera, 602 — o7 00 Sanchez & Haya Clear Havana Cigars. Made in Tampa, Florida Diplomatics, 60s -._. 95 00 Hosa, 206) 115 00 Bishops, 508 ....... 115 00 Reina Fina, 50s Ting 115 00 Queens, 5g ........ 135 v0 Worden's Special —_ 150.00 Ignacia Haya Made in Tampa, Florida. Extra Fancy Clear Havana Delicados, 508 -_... 120 00 Primeros, 508 ~..___ 140 00 Rosenthal Bros. R. B. Cigar (wrapped in tissue) 50s ..... 60 00 Lewis Single Binder 58 00 Manilla Cigars From Philippine Islands Adoba, 100s .......... 37 50 Other Brands Pee B. i, Hemmeter Champions, Oe ea 59.06 El Dependo, 20s _____ 37.50 Court Royal, 50s ____ 61 00 Court Royal, 25 tins 61 00 Knickerbocker, 50s __ 58 00 Boston Straight, 50s 56 00 Trans Michigan, 50s 58 00 Templar, Perfecto, S05) 28 100 00 iriquois, 505 58 00 CLOTHES LINE emp, 50m 3 00 Twisted Cotton, 50 ft. 3 25 Twisted Cotton, 60 ft. 3 90 Braided, 50 ft. Sash Cord eee ee eee a 0 COCOA BaxersS) 0 53 Bunte, 15c size 55 Bunte, ib. 2 50 Bunte, Fi 48 Clevelan@g 2225) 6 41 Colonial Ws Go) 35 Colonial, %s pes 8 Hersheys, Hersheys, Binion: 36 Lowney, Lowney, Lowney, Use 47 Lowney, 5 Ib. cans ____ 48 Van Houten, Si 12 Van Houten, %s 18 Van Houten, 5 36 Van Houten, is 65 Wan-Biy oe 36 Wepe 2 33 Wibaer, 4s 33 Wibpr, Ys 33 COCOANUT ¥%s, 5 lb. case Dunham 46 Me, > ib. Case 45 4S & ls, 15 lb. case 45 6 and 12c pkg. in pails 4 75 Bulk, pails 2 38 Bulk barrels 35 48 2 oz. pkgs., per case 4 15 48 4 oz. pkgs., per case 7 50 COFFEE ROASTED Bulk mi0 bees amon 33@40 Maratano 33@40 Mexican oo 40 uatemain = = = Java as oe Bogota _ oa 40@43 Peabermy 60 0) 33 Package Coffee New York Basis Arbuciie 9 38 50 McLaughlin’s XXXX McLaughlin's XXXX pack- age coffee is sold to retail- ers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaugh lin & Co., Chicago. Coffee Extracts N. 8. per 100 1. 10% Frank's 250 i ais 14 50 Ib. Hummel’s 50 1 —. 1) CONDENSED MILK Magie, 4 doz, |. 12 85 Leader, 4 doz: 10 65 EVAPORATED MILK Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. Pet Yau bet, Bapy 2 Van Camp, Tall Van Camp, Baby ___ CID MW eer nrgad o Oo Dundee, Tall, doz. __ 15 Dundee, Baby, 8 doz. 50 Silver Cow, Tall 7 45 Silver Cow, Baby —__ 10 MILK COMPOUND Hebe, Tall 4 doz. | 6 8p Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. __ 6 00 Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 5 70 CONFECTIONERY Stick Candy Pails Horehound 36 Siangara oo 34 Cases Pure Sugar, 600s __ 5 25 a Boston Sugar Stick_. 38 Mixed Candy Pails Broken 36 Cnt feoat oe 35 erocerms: 2 24 Kindergarten 36 eager 36 Premio Creams ______ 48 Rove 33 a 27 French Creams _____ 38 Speciaities Pails Auto Kisses (baskets) 33 Bonnie Butter Bites__ 36 Butter Cream Corn __ 41 Caramel Bon Bons __ 37 Caramel Croquettes__ 34 Cocoanut Waffles ___ 38 Coffy Toffy Fudge, Walnut ____ 37 Fudge, Walnut Choc. 38 Champion Gum Drops 28 Raspberry Gum Drops 28 Iced Orange Jellies __ 34 Italian Bon Bons ____ 3 AA Licorice Drops 2 ib. box; 2 2 16 Mancnus: 220 34 Nut Butter Puffs ____ 36 Chocolates Pails Assorted Choc. ______ 40 Champion 2 38 Honeysuckle Chips __ 53 Klondike Chocolates__ 47 Napobs 22 47 Nibble Sticks, box __ 2 85 Naot Waters Ocoro Choc. Caramels 45 Peanut Clusters _____ 52 Quintette 9k. 40 Rering Victoria Caramels ___ 42 Gum_ Drops Champion 28 Rasoherry (6 28 Havorite 20 31 puperior 2 29 Orange Jellies ______ 32 Lozenges A A Pep. Lozenges __ 38 é A Pink Lozenges 38 A A Choe. Lozenges 38 Motto Lozenges —____ 40 Motto Hearts 1... 40 Hard Goods Lemon Drops .._. ___ 38 O. F. Horehound Drps 38 Anise Squares _. 38 Peanut Squares _____ 40 Rock Candy _—_.-. 90 Pop Corn Goods Cracker-Jack Prize __ 7 40 Checkers Prize 7 Cough Drops Boxes Putnam Menthol ____ 2 25 Pint ISrOS, 2 1 ks COOKING COMPOUNDS Mazola Pints, tin, 2 doz. ____ 7 75 Quarts, tin, 1 doz. _. 7 25 % Gal. tins, 1 doz. _. 13 75 Gal. tins, 4% doz. ~ 13 30 5 Gal. tins, % doz.. 19 56 COUPON BOOKS 50 Economic grade __ 2 50 100 Economic grade 4 50 000 Economic grade 20 00 1,000 Kconomic grade 37 50 Where 1,000 books are ordered at a time, special- ly printed front cover is furnished without charge. CREAM OF TARTAR 6 ib. boxes 2 75 > ib. boxes 2 76 DRIED FRUITS Apples Evap’ed, Choice, blk __ 17 Apricots Evaporated, Choice ___ 36 Evaporated, Fancy ____ 45 Citron 10 ib. box oo 50 Currants : rackares, th oz. . 22 Boxes, Bulk, per ib. _. 22 Peaches Evap. Choice, Unpeeled 24 Evap. Fancy, Unpeeled 26 Evap. Fancy, Peeled __ 28 Peel Lemon, American ____ 36 Orange, American ___. 36 Raisins Choice S’ded 1 lb. pkg. 24 Fancy S'ded, 1 Ib. pkg. 25 Thompson Seedless, 1 tb. Ee 26 Thompson Seedless, bak 2 24 California Prunes 80-90 25 Ib. boxes _.__@15 70-80 25 lb. boxes ___@16 60-70 25 lb. boxes ___@17 5U-60 25 Ib. boxes ___.@20 oF 40-50 25 lb. boxes ___@24 30-40 25 lb. boxes __.@28 FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans Med. Hand Picked ____ 8% California Limas ____ 16% Brown, Holland ______ 6% Farina 25 1 Ib. packages ____ 2 80 Bulk, per 100 Ibs. —__ Hominy Pearl, 100 lb. sack __ 5 50 Macaroni Domestic, 10 lb. box__ 1 10 Domestic, broken bbls. 8% Skinner's 24s, case 1 37% Golden Age, 2 doz. __ 1 90 Moulds; 2 doz. 1 90 Pearl Barley Chester 7 00 Peas pecoteh, 3b, 7 Sout, ib, 2g Sago Mast India 11 Taploca Pearl, 100 lb. sacks ____ 11 Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05 Dromedary Instant, 3 doz., per case 3 76 July 21, 1920 FISHING TACKLE Cotton Lines Linen Lines Small, per 100 yards 6 65 Medium, per 100 yards 7 25 Large, per 100 yards 9 00 Floats No. 1%, per gross __ 1 50 No. 2, per gross ____ 1 75 No. 2%, per gross __ 2 25 Hooks—Kirby Size 1-12, per 1,000 _. 94 Size 1-0, per 1,000 _. 96 Size 2-0, per 1,000 __ 1 15 Size, 3-0, per 1,000 __ 1 32 Size 4-0, per 1,000 Size 5-0, per 1,000 __ 1 95 Sinkers No. 1, per gross —.___ 65 No. 2, per gross _____ 2 No. 3, per gross _____ 85 No. 4, per gross _____ 1 10 No. 5, per gross _____ 1 45 No. 6, per gross _____ 1 85 No. 7, per gross _____ 2 30 No. 8, per gross _____ 3 35 No. 9, per gross ____ 4 65 FLAVORING EXTRACTS Jennings Pure Food Vanila Terpeneless Pure Food Lemon 4 Per Doz. i Dram 17 Cent | 40 1% Ounce 25 Cent __ 2 v0 2 Ounce, 37 Cent 24% Ounce 40 Cent 2% Ounce, 45 Cent 4 Ounce, 65 Cent ____ S$ Ounce $1.00 0 7 Dram. 17 Assorted__ 1% Ounce, 25 Assorted 2 v0 bt CO OT GO Co Co DO Cal o FLOUR AND FEED Lily White, % Paper PlGa a i ee Graham 25 Ib. per cwt 6 00 Golden Granulated Meal, oe IDS per Gad oo 5 60 Rowena Pancake Com- pound, 5 lb. sack __ 7 2¢ Rowena Buckwheat Compound, 5 lb. sk. 7 7@ Watson Higgins Milling Co. New Perfection, %s 15 00 Meal Gr. Grain M. Co. Bolted: 2 5 40 Wheat NO. 1 Red 2 65 No. 1 White = (0 > 6s Oats Michigan Carlots ____ i 15 Less than Carlots a 2 Corn arlots oo 00 Less than Carlots ____ 2 12 Hay Carlots 36 00 Less than Carlots .. 38 00 Feed Street Car Feed ___ 80 00 No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd 80 00 Crecked Corn 80 00 Coarse Corn Meal __ 80 00 FRUIT JARS Mason, pts., per gross 8 60 Mason, qts., per gro 9 75 Mason, % gal., ero 13 3 Mason, can tops, ero 2 85 Ideal Glass Top, pts. 10 00 Ideal Glass Top, qts. 11 00 Ideal Glass Top, % Palion 22 GELATINE Cox’s 1 doz. large __ a 45 Cox’s 1 doz. small __ 90 Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 2 26 Knox's Acidu'd doz. 2 25 Minute, 3 doz. NeInen 8 1 50 Oxford 22 | ae Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 55 Plymouth Rock, Plain 1 35 Waukesha 10 » bait _- - \ - - € ~ « x wi + ~ + b * ~ ” yy j a ‘ - Tay, + > a > ; a Le July 21, 1920 MICH:GAN TRADESMAN 29 HIDES AND PELTS PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Tripe SNU Seasoning WOODENWARE Hides Peeeicn iron — Kits, P6 Ibs) 90 Swedish Rapee 10c 8 for 64 Chili Powder, 15c ____ 1 35 Baskets Gresn, Woo i hed Gun Ga ee 4 bbis., 40 Ibs. ------ 1 60 Swedish Rapee, 1 Ib. gis 85 Celery Salt, 3 oz. ---_ 95 Bushels, wide band, Gc eG [ t I asoline 9 Vp bbls., 80 Ibs. _._-.. 2 00 Norkoping, 10c 8 for __ 64 Sage, 2 07, 20 90 wire handles 2 20 Gu Me 1 ay a ee Go a Casings Norkoping, 1 Ib. glass -_ 85 Onion Salt’ _"-__7--. 1 35 Bushels, wide band, Cured, No. 2 “2. 16 Capitol Cylinder, Iron Hogs, _per Ib. ______ @65 Cotediaccn 1 tb : ae 85 Toner ae 0 a 35 wood ees ee 2 Calfskin, green, No. 1 25 Bbis, 2c 53 Beef, round set ___. 19@20 ~ ' oc: 7 GIBes oY ‘onelty, a 429 Market, drop h andle 1 00 Calfskin, green, No. 2 23% Atlan ic Red Engine, a Beef, middlcs, set_. 50@60 SOAP Kitchen ie C3. 60 Market, single handle 1 10 Calfskin, cured, No. 127 Iron Bbls. "| 36.8 Sheep, a skein 1 75@2 00 I S. Kirk & C an iT aoe a ea t, oe ee 1 60 Calfskin. cured, No. 2 2514 Ww mck ean se o f James S. Kirk Sompany na JON , IZ. ‘ Splint, large — Ss & Horse Neod ce a 6B Late Black, Iron sue Eneolored Oleomargarine American Family, 100 7 85 Savory, L600 ee oe 90 Splint, medium _£& Horse) No 2 (os 6 8 Polarine, Iron Bbis. 55.8 Solid Dairy: 0 28@29 Jap Rose, 50 cakes __ 4 85 Thyme, 1 (O% ~------- 20 Splint, small ss Ss , me Me | Country Rolls 22 30@31 Kirk’s White Flake __ 700 Tumeric, 2% oz. ---. 90 Its Ola Weel 75@1 50 Poca : RICE Lautz Bros. & Co. eh Butter Plates Pamibs (2 301 00 Pancy Mead) 2 Acme, 100 cakes ____ 6 75 Escanaba Manufacturing Shearlings __-_.__ 50@1 00 Barrel, 1,200 count __ 16 00 Blue Rose 15 50 Big Master, 100 blocks 8 00 ;-; oor : Kalt Ebls., 600 count oe Climax, 106s 6 00 eee ee ee art ne é Mitivac (O00n 0 MUZZY, 4: ). DKES. ty Standard Wire End Tallow >» gallon kegs SE 4 00 ROLLED OATS Climax, 120s cr cs 5 25 Powdered, barrels 71 Prime) ooo @ Monarch, bbls. __ 11 59 Queen White, 80 cakes 6 00 Argo, 48 1 lb. pkgs. __ 4 i Ni n cart 1 26 Noo ee Gt a Smalt Rolled Avena, bbls. 13 09 Qak Leaf. 100 cakes 6 75 is No et ae No. 2) ea ne ne @ 5 ae ay a ere 20 00 Steel Cut, 100. in sks. 6 50 Queen Anne, 100 cakes 6 75 Kingsford NA carton sp 5 Galind eee ao ag 7 Me Se , “ Ib. sacks 6 40 Lautz Naphtha, 100s 8 00 Silver Gloss, 40 1 lb. _. 114% No lk pies 1 84 Wool oc Quaker, 18 Regular __ 2 70 le ; : No. 8-50 ext - oart o 4 Unwashed, medium @25 Gherk ' Quaker, 20 Family __ 6 85 Swift & Company Gloss Na 4.50 ju is ip Ss ih 1 59 Unwashed, rejects__ @20 Zarrels oleae 9 Classic, 100 bars 10 oz. 7 Argo, 48 1 Ib. pkes... 415 No. 100 MATA ak. 1 50 Fine _ @30 Blue eupctc er 2 . a woe ae Swift’s Pride, 100 9 oz 5 Argo, 12 3 Ib. pkgs. (i eee i Market dull and neg ° ROMA eee oo & og olumbia, % pints __ 2 25 Quick Naphtha Argo, 3 5 lb. pkgs. ___ 3 40 eglected. 5 gallon kegs -_----- 500 Columbia, 1 pint _-_ 4 00 White Laundry, 100 Silver Gloss, 6 3 Oe ie 4. oo 9 Durkee’s large, 1 doz. 5 80 814 OZ. 6 75 Silver Gloss, 12 6 lbs. 1114 Barrel, 5 gal., each —- * 40 is Honey 6 ne Durkee's med., 2 doz. 6 75 Wool, 24 bars, 6 oz. 1 95 oe a each —. 2 . Airlne, Noo 10 2: 4 00 ee : urkee’s Picnic, 2 dz. 3 00 Wool, 100 bars, 6 oz. 8.15 otone, «0 Bale -------— oo Airline, NOL Ho Ea 6 00 pape Loge oe 30 00 Snider's large, 1 doz. 2 40 Wool, 100 bars, 10 oz. 13 50 iS eo Ee 91 Stone, 6 gal. -------- 18 Airline, NO. (25 225. 900 2, Ballon kegs --—_-__ 650 Snider’s small, 2 doz. 145 Peerless Hard Water, Pe bees ee Halt barrels 22 16 00 50s 410 [6 3 Ib. packages ____ 92 Clothes Pins BESS SIL SA TM DE Ue | al eer arama gs cenncra piety ot pele 2. 6 yackages Yy, = es " _. HORSE RADISH SALERATUS Peerless Hard Water, te fo eo e ee htees ---- 9% Escanaba Manufacturing ber dog, to) et al 1 00 Packed 60 iis. in box © 100s 2 2 soo . eo ee ‘O. i PIPES Arm and Hammer __ 3 55 No. 60-24, Wrapped 5 40 JELLY Cob, 3 doz. in box -. 125 Wyandotte, 100 Sg |) 3 00 Me aearian Coniaite “nor No. 30 24, Wrapped __ 2 75 Pure, per pail, 30 Ib. 6 25 ee Ge orn .. No. 25-60, Wrapped -- 5 40 ris: See CARPE... SAL SODA Pilger cette Hal Barkin oe JELLY GLASSES No. 808, Bicycle -__-_ 400 Granulated, bbis. ___ 9 15 salen are < as ne ot No. 1%. oan No. 1, Star Carrier _. € 00 8 0c) penldog 9 4, Biekett oe 300 Granulated. 100 Ibs es 2 25 . Box contains 72 cakes. It +H ee aa eG 40 NG OF Stan Casniee 1s d6 Granulated, 36 2% Ib. is a most remarkable dirt Plue Karo, No. aa dz. 4% -No. 1. Star Sge Trays 8 00 MAPLEINE POTASH Dackases (0 0 aT) 269 and grease remover, with- Flue Karo, No. 2%, 2 - No. 2, Star Eee Tray 16 00 Babbitt’s, 2 doz 2 75 : out injury to the skin. t0Z. roo -xr--t-5---- 4 9 oz. bottles, per doz. 1 75 i are Blue Karo, No. 5 1 dz. 4 90 2 oz. ose per doz. 3 3 v0 PROVISIONS SALT . Sewing ee. ‘ Biae Dia No. 10, Ce ea ha rarkig " - botties, per doz. 5 Sapolio, gross lots __ ie ae oes a oer as 1 st See - 8 oz. bottles, per.doz. 19 Bo Barreled Pork i Solar Rock Sapolio, half gro. lots 550 Red Karo, No. 1%, 2 a oe 4 Eork lined, 9 in. -____- 90 Pints, per doz. ______ 00 Clear Back __ 48 00@49 00 56 1b. sacks (0000 | 70 Sapolio, single boxes 2 75 C028 =. 3 00 | ork tinned, 10 in. __... 90 Quarts, per doz. ____ 33 00 Short Cut Clear 40 00@41 00 Sapeno, hand — 3.00 Red Karo, No. 2, 2 dz. 4 60 % Gallons, per doz. 5 25 es LC Common Queen Anne, 60 cans 3 60 Red Karo, No. 2%, 2 ae : Gallons, per doz. -___ 10:00. Clear Wamily 2.0 48 00 Granulated. Fine ____ 2.75 Snow Maid, 60 cans -- 3 60 R a iro. No. 6 2 dz. z 10 ‘roi oe auerr 5 Dry Salt Meats Medium, Fine _______ 2 80 Re d Ke: a No. ‘Io, a In pee eaient ‘spring 3 25 MINCE MEAT sp Bee 32 00@34 00 ae Powders ; doz. ee ASa Wet eee a om None Such, 3 doz. ; c eS -- 04 Snow Boy, 100 S5¢ ____ 4 00 No. 2, pat. brush “hold 3 25 gase for a 5 60 ‘ Snow Boy, 60 14 oz. 4 20 Pure Cane Ideal, No. 7 295 oe 3 doz. case Lard ane ee aa ni : a Ha qeee ppm mop — ; = OF 4 75 is ee 23@2314 * »0Y, & 5. Good en 20z cotton mop heads 5 - MOLASSES 80 Ib. tubs an iy Sed roe a ae . New Orleans 69 Ib. tubs ----advance % ae ae Tahncous KNX 100 : 8 75 TAAL SAV Gre 10 at Galvani 5 25 oe eet eee Be 0 Ib. baits ga ee % Lautz Naphtha, 60s _- 360 lea & Perrin, large -- 5 75 12 qt. Galvanized ____ 6 00 thoice 35 «=U Tb. pails ---~ 4 ine O'Clock 95 Lea & Perrin, small __ 3 25 tt. Galvanizec 7 oo [tr 65 10 lb. pails ___-advance 1” SALT a “pha ee é 50 Deuce oo : 1 25 Fibre siialoletiol 9 1 Tee : 5 Ib. pails __--advance a a cee 2 Rosal Mint 2-0) 1 56 ya : ee oe o\nalf barrels so extra 2 'D. pails —_-advance 1 Ge aes 0 pee. 3 ee Tonasce 3 Rub No-More 5 50 ee ig s Pride lL 25 Toothpicks Fak, arge Reeannhy: ‘ { ‘turin NUTS—Whole Smoked Meats A avail Escanaba a facturing Almonds, Terragona 35 Hams, 14-16 Ib. 38 @40 CLEANSERS. Capers, -_-____________ No 48 Brea | 1 &5 Brazils, large washed 26 Hams, 16-18 lb. 37 @39 Nie 400. Banco 9 75 Fancy Mixed __---.-- Hams, 18-20 Ib. 36 @38 ITCHEN No. 56-3500 Braco es Filberts, Barcelona __ 32 Ham, dried beef Per case, 24 2 Ibs. __ 2 40 , I No. 100-2500 Emco = 00 Peanuts, Virginia raw 16 sets ————— == 41 @42 Five case lots See WMeditm 2. 6 2 ‘ Peanuts, Virginia, rinuinali or er aad 24 @25 ‘ choice ee 49@52 Tiane roasted (220 18 ‘icnie Boile SALT FISH Fancy - 2.5 GUGGE Peanuts, Spanish ___ 25 Hams 222 35 @40 Cod Bac ked-Fired Med'm Mouse, wood, 4 holes __ 60 Walnuts, California __ 39 Boiled Hams _-. 59 @60 3asket-Fired Choice Mouse, wood, 6 holes __ 70 Walnuts, French —___ Minced Hams -- 18 @20 Widdled: 6 ie Bcee mired Fancy Mouse, tin, 5 holes ____ 65 Bacon {200 35 @52 Tablets, 1 Ib. ________ No 1 Ninhs 0 | @55 Mat. wood 7 1 00 Shelled Maplets 1% ib. 1% Siftines, bulle | 02 @2t Rat, spring 1 00 Almonds ee a 65 Sausages Wood boxes | Sittings. | Ib. pkes.. @23 Mouse, spring .______ 30 Peanuts, Spanish, Bologna i 10 Ib. es ee 2 75 lie Hollanc Herring : Gunpowder | _ Tubs Peanuts, Spanish, Frankfort Moyune, Medium -- 35@40 |. Ve 9 00 100 1 Ob 25 Pork dots Standards, bbis. _-|- Moyune, Choice --_-. 40@4 i 1 8 ~------- 42 aa Peanuts, Spanish, Neg Yo MM. Dbig, No. 2 Fibre ee 38 00 Zou Ib. bol 241% Toneve ii Standards. kegs 22 _ Young Hyson a No. 3 Fibre 33 Pecans 95 Headcheese --.------- 14 Y. ME kees (2 ore ee A a st ot a o i an y es ron tor cn cnr S fancy So ea ae 50@60 Medium ralvi ZO a vu Walnuts —_-----_---_- So Herring a Small Galvanized _.. 14 00 Beef o1ong OLIVES Bonciess 30 00@35 00 K K K K, Norway 18 pene ae ie be mp Washboards Bulk, 2 gal. spa e veh 1 ae Rump, new -- 40 00@42 00 rae i eee ene eeu Wauce [2 53@7s Banner Globe ---_-- 8 00 Bulk, 5 gal. kegs each 10°95 | ee ee Cem ‘ moe e Brass, Single .. 3. 9 50 Sinfted, 4 en. 1 80 Pig’s Feet ee eG Glass, Single _______ 8 50 Stuffed, 15 07. 50 oned. Ore 2 ae Sh can © 4.40 per cas English Breakfast Single Peerless __-___ 9 00 Pitted (not stuffed) %s bbls hme ai 89 can cases, $4.40 per case Congou, Medium -. 40@45 pouble Peerless __. 11 00 4670 22 3 00 oe 39 Ibs. ~--- 10 00 Trout Congou, Choice ____ 45@50 Northern Queen ___. 9 00 Manzanilla, $8 oz. -... 1 45 i} bl : Cl Ae Oo No. 2. 260 Tbs. 2. 12 SODA Congou, Bancy ---- s0@60 Universal 2. 10 00 Lunch, 10 97.002 2 00 Cae een amen rT Nou Td) 40 Ibe 2 Bi Carb, Kegs 4 Congou, Ex. Fancy 60@80 Our Best __~----_-- 10 00 funch, 16.02) 2-2 3 25 No. 1, 10 tbs. 2 Se ee Queen, Mammoth, 19 L Gannes Meats No: t. 73) Ibs, a SPICES Ceylon Window Cleaners 0%. ~--_-----_----... 5 50 Red Crown Brand oe Pekoe, Medium - 40@45 12 in. = 1 a Mammoth, 23° = Gorned_ Beef, 24 1s -- 3 90 Mackerel Whole Spices Dr. Pekoe, Choice__ 45@48 in 1 85 ————— (9 Roast Beef, 24 1s -___ 3 90 : Allspice, Jamaica __-. @18 Flowery O. P. Fancy 55@60 Ce 2 30 Olive Chow, 2 doz. cs Ve eal Loaf, 48 %s, 5% Mess, 100 Ibs. ee 25 00 Cloves, Zanzibar ____ @60 er 468. (2 2 50 1 65 Mess, 50 Ibs. __._... 13 25 Sd ys — = 6 Det COG eee ee ee Og ° a da ic 395 Cassia, Canton —___- ~ @30 Veal boat, 244s. foe Foe = 30 Cassia, 5¢ pkg., doz. @40 TWINE Wood Bowls ienna Style Sausage, Re a ae Singer, African —---- Gis @éttonm, 3 ply cane _... 15 f% in. Butter... 2 66 AS468 ——gp anna 1 49 ee es ae Ginger, Cochin -—--—- @20 Cotton, 3 ply balls 2. 75 15 in. Butter 2WW- 7 00 Virginies, Se sie ae ee Mace, enane @75 Hemp, 6 ply oe) Olt in. Butter 11 00 hs ee 2 80 - . = p, ply ---------- v Z Potted Meat, 48%s -_ 52% No. 1, 10 Mixed: No, 1 @17 19 in. Butter _.____—- 12 «6 Potted Meat, 48 %s 90 : Mixed. 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Maetc, ¢ doz, 2 0 12.5 th pete ee Se Gas ape oo Te . eis PONE Slice eef, 5 027. --). é ang -~------- ‘ Sunlight, 1% doz. --- 1 35 Fae PT in crate SHOE BLACKING Notmesso. @36 WICKING wast Woon 4 dou __ 2 6 15 1b halle Tee te Mince Meat aaa he Foree 3 dz. : 50 oe wonice ee @3 No. 0, per gross ____ 70 Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 35 = : a ara ae NY andy Box, small ... 1 26 GC ------- © No , per gress ____ 80 ne Condensed Bakers baick 30 Bixby’s Royal Polish 125 Papper, Cayenne —_- @29 No. 2) per gross _--. 120 _YEAST—COMPRESSED on ee Moist in glass __.__. 650 Miller's Crown Polish 90 Paprika, Hungarian-- @60 No. 3, per gross ---_ 190 Fleischman, per doz. -_ 28 30 Freight Rates Sure To Get Big Boost. Are you ready for a big boost in freight rates? If not, you should put your house in order, for it is coming as surely as death and taxes. admits the railroads need more revenue, and almost every- body is willing to stand for a moder- ate increase in freight rates, but the proposition that stares the business men of the country in the face to-day is a raise of more than 50 per cent. to meet the demands of the railroad managers based upon the necessity of making a dividend return of ap- proximately 6 per cent. after conced- ing to railroad labor a wage advance of at least half a billion dollars. The railroad managers and_ the shippers have come to grips on this big issue before the Interstate Com- merce Commission and the question will be threshed out before the Com- nussion adjourns, if it takes all sum- mer. There is every reason to believe that the Palm Beach suit will have gone to the cleaners for the last time this season before a final decision of this momentous case is reached. The Commission is now engaged in determining a basis of freight rates to meet the provisions of the recently enacted law under which the railroads were returned to their owners. Be- cause of a very general feeling of sympathy with the railroads by busi- ness men in all industries, the ship- pers are by no means as numerously represented before the Commission in this case as usual in big issues involv- ing general increases, which means two things; first, that the roads are likely to secure a larger advance than would have been the case had the contest been sharper; and second, the general shipping public will have lit- tle or not information as to what is going on before the Commission un- til its final decision is reached. That the total increases demanded by the railroads and by labor will amount to a 55% per cent. increase in freight rates, is the declaration made before the Commission during the past week by Clifford Thorne, who added that if this increase should be suddenly placed upon traffic “it would demoralize American industry.” Mr. Thorne is one of the most prominent representatives of the pub- lic in the rate increase hearing now under way, and his testimony is re- ceiving careful consideration at the hands of the Commission. Mr. Thorne is special attorney for a number of shipping associations or- ganized in the Middle Western States for the handling of farm products, and he has been retained by these in- terests presumably because of his ag- gressive opposition to previous efforts of the railroads to boost their freight schedules. But, however radical his views may be in this case, he is put- ting forward statistics which are basic in their scope. He cannot be said to be seeking to secure special favors for any particular class of shippers. Mr. Thorne’s fundamental point against the proposed new freight schedule is the contention that while the railroads are undoubtedly entitled to the rate of return as specified in the Cummings Act, the rate should be based upon a proper valuation and not upon a capitalization which rep- Everybody MICHIGAN TRADESMAN resents an overvaluation of several billion dollars. The railroads have taken the in- come and expenditures of 1919 as a fair basis on which to figure future’ expenses and profits. This position Mr. Thorne attacks and points out that even if it is a fair one the calcu- lation of the railroads involves a big error in that they allow for increased expenses next year but do not con- cede any increased income due to the larger business which, in the very nature of things they will be called upon to handle. In Mr. Thorne’s opinion, the rail- roads will need only 18 per cent. in- crease for all operating and mainte- nance expenses and the 6 per cent. dividends guaranteed by the new rail- road law. When asked what plan he would suggest for handling all the proposed freight increases which may be necessitated by the awards of the Railway Labor Board now sitting in Chicago, Mr. Thorne said: “I can see no objection to the Com- mission, without hearings, adding that increased cost to the present figures, making the rate advance cover both propositions, If the railroad corpora- tions and railroad labor are both suc- cessful in their entire demands, and if the method of applying the ad- vance wholly to freight proposed by the railroad corporations in this pro- ceeding be also applied to the increase occasioned by the wage advance, it will mean an increase in freight rates for the country as a whole of 55% per cent., based upon the railroads’ methods of making the computations. “In the East and South this will mean 60 per cent.; in the West it will mean about 50 per cent. Such an added burden of two billion dollars annually, or over 50 per cent., sud- denly placed upon the freight traffic of the United States, will be demoral- izing to American industry. “No man could foretell the conse- quences, at a time when some indus- tries are striving to keep down their charges, and if possible to reduce them. In the railroad industry, as in some other industries, however, I do not believe that it is possible, but it is possible to keep the advance down within certain limits.” In common with many other ship- pes, Mr. Thorne takes the position that all the increase in the revenue of the railroads should not be secured through higher freight rates, but that Passenger traffic should also be re- quired to bear its share. He puts it this way: “If you adopt the policy of making a 5 per cent. increase on passenger traffic and the balance on freight, to take care of the present case, you will then have produced somewhat of a similarity in the operating ratios in the two branches of this industry as indicated by the figures of last year. We suggest, however, that a different method should be adopted to care for further increased costs. “Any advance occasioned by the wage increase should be spread out over the entire earnings of the rail- road from all sources. If the Labor Board grants an increase in wages of $500,000,000, and the advance in this case should be modified by at least the factors we have outlined in de- tail, then the results would be as follows: An increase of one-half of 1 per cent. per passenger mile on passenger traffic, plus an increase of 20.26 per cent. on all other traffic (instead of 5514 per cent. on freight), would produce sufficient revenues to July 21, 1920 take care of the present needs of the carriers added to an increased wage of one-half billion dollars.” Nothing could be clearer than that the country is in for a very heavy increase in freight rates. The only point at issue is the exact amount. Shippers will be curious to know, however, whether with the higher rates will come better service. Surely, if the railroads are to have a few billion dollars added to their annual receipts, they should be required to show a degree of efficiency far in advance of anything seen since the transportation system of the country first began to be demoralized by the effects of the big world war over three years ago. —_72s___ Water Jewels. Written for the Tradesman. What a bit of pleasing story July’s sun revealed today, Iascinating like the glory Of the land where fairies stay. Spoken not in worded whispers Nor did fancy move the lips, Just the soft and summer zephyrs Told it with their finger tips. They had caused a wondrous stirring On the broad and quiet bay Till in wavelets it was whirring Like a sea of stars at play. Then the sun sent down a glory Into every jewel there, Which reflected back the story:— There is beauty everywhere. Charles A. Heath. Pep is the soul of progress. Grocers’ Display Counters This glass front counter shows the goods. Goods well displayed are half sold. Are you interested? If so, let us give you full particulars and price. DETROIT SHOW CASE CoO., Detroit, Mich. The 1920 Pack of Henkel’s, Self Raising Pan Cake Flour and Self Raising Buckwheat Compound will be mighty Fine. In fact it will be the best piece of goods on the market. WHY pay extravagant prices for other Brands? Serve your trade a guaranteed Quality product with a ri NOTE PRICE AND PACK: 1% lb. Carton, 2 doz. to case __________ @$ I 9 Ib. Sack, 10 toa bale ______.. @ 3.55 per bale 1 UGSeckStoatee @ 3.50 per bale © > Bere... @ 43.50 per bbl. Give your Fall order to your Jobber now. We solicit correspondence if further information is desired, Commercial Milling Company, 29 per doz. ght price by getting DETROIT nine... aa? ee July 21, 1920 Are Americans on the Downward Road? Grandville, July 20—A defense of the Old Cap Collier detective story, as well as dime and nickel novels, by Irvin S. Cobb in the Saturday Eve- ning Post, although written in a humorous manner, yet contained more than a modicum of fact. No boy ever went to the bad from reading a dime, a nickel or Cap Col- lier thriller, because of the fact that the villian was always punished in a manner fitting his crime and the good boy or man as surely rewarded. There were no sex problems dis- cussed in those stories of a bygone age. No vampires, triangles of nasti- ness, nor suggestive words that lead to sin and crime. The editor of Bea- dle’s dime series expressly forbid any- thing of an underworld nature enter- ing into these novels, having rejected manuscripts that would to-day be con- sidered very correct. There are two very distinct factors going to make up the criminal budget of to-day—moving picture drama and the automobile. The former teaches all manner of criminality, while the latter affords a quick getaway, so that the modern world has a so-called problem on its hands that will require a complete turning over of methods and regula- tions. It is readily recognized that much of the scenario stuff is of a nature to lead to the corruption of our youth, and this, connected with the under-clad condition of the feminine half of the social world, is leading young people down to perdition as fast as the manager of the infernal eo can well take care of them Bank robberies, holdups and various stunts have found in the young ready imitators in the real world, and there wili be no letup while wild west schemes of a criminal nature are per- mitted to disgrace our new style thea- ters. Picturing of vampires drawing the youth to ruin and despair are not uncommon. And the troubles and home disagreements of husband and wife caused by a third party leads to separation and the making of a demigod of the destroyer of homes, which all tells heavily in the minds of our youth, serving to demoralize and disturb conjugal relations. Nothing of so debasing a nature was ever known in our history until the advent of the moving pictures. It is not the fault of the scenario itself, but its wrong application which does the harm. Doubtless censorship which permits such miscalled elevated art takes its cue from the present scandalous modes of dress permitted by society of to-day. Our grand- mothers would turn in their graves could they look upon the world at the beginning of the Twentieth cen- tury. The world is not what it was, this is admitted, yet to retrograde rather than progress is not favorable to the stability of government. It is said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Even so the American of to-day is fox-trotting while his child is frequenting the so-called great master pictures of the scenario world, there to be corrupted in his morals and manners to the everlasting dis- grace of his manhood—and the girls are treading the same road! “Look out, I’ll shoot your head off!” Thus a four-year-old tot on return- ing from a moving picture exhibit of cowboy deviltry, as supposed to exist on our Western plains at the present time. A few days later this same young America was on the street with a fac simile revolver, snapping it at pedestrians, calling on them to throw up their hands and hand over their valuables. The small laddies and lassies are quick to imitate, and the teaching of these spectacular and de- basing exhibitions of art in the name of popular amusement is of a danger- ous nature. There has been so much said about the elevating calling of the teachers in our public schools, and this ought MICHIGAN TRADESMAN to be true. Next to the home the school room is the place for the best ideas to be inculcated in the budding minds of our youth. However, when some of these childrens’ guides are ready to adjourn school for a day, that the faculty may take in a pic- ture show, we may well cry out with some of our politicians, “Heaven pro- tect us from our friends.” Automobile joy-riding is fast de- generating into rides to death. There is little use, however, of pointing out the dangers attending these calami- tous escapades Rome as well as other nations of the ancient world fell because of the corruption of her people. It is un- necessary to state that America is treading the same pathway that led to the downfall of those ancient em- pires. Every sensible person knows this to be true. It is to be hoped the turning point toward better things will come before it is everlastingly too late and that the better element of American citizenship will note the handwriting on the wall and take heed and turn a square corner before we as a people have sinned away the day of grace. Old Timer. SANITARY REFRIGERATORS For All Purposes Send for Catalog McCRAY REFRIGERATOR co. 944 Lake St. Kendallville, Ind. Toilet and Bath Woolens and Fine Fabrice Toilet an Bath Sand Lime Brick Nothing as Durable Nothing as Fireproof Makes Structures Beautiful No Painting No Cost for Repairs Fire Proof Weather Proof Warm in Winter Cool in Summer Brick is Everlasting Grande Brick Co., Grand Rapids So. Mich. Brick Co., Kalamazoo Saginaw Brick Co., Saginaw Jackson-Lansing Brick Co., Rives Junction 31 BUSINESS WANTS DEPARTMENT Advertisements inserted under this head for five cents a word the first insertion and four cents a word for each subsequent continuous insertion. If set in capital letters, double price. display advertisements in this department, $3 per inch. is required, as amounts are too smali to open accounts. No charge less than 50 cents. Small Payment with order OWNER MUST SELL—Modern 3-story brick hotel in busy county-seat town. 50 rooms, rate $3.50. One of the leading hotels in the Thumb. Also 120-acre farm in the sugar beet belt, two miles from Sanduskey. Also 160 acres, eight miles from Sanduskey. Good buildings, and drainage perfect. Also 225 feet of Lake Huron frontage on Dixie Highway, with finest grove on the shore and one new $4,000 bungalow. Wire or write for ap- pointment. J. S. McDonald, Sanduskey Mich. 972 1 want to buy a good grocery. F. C. Harlow, Keego Harbor, Mich. 3 HELP AND POSITIONS FURNISHED --in all manufacturing, business, and professional lines. Properties bought and sold on commission. American Business Isxchange, Box 227, Benton Harbor, Mich. 974 For Sale—Stock 0 reroceries, shoes. dry goods and men’s furnishings. Stock will inventory around $12,000; also store building, 26x 85 feet, together with four lots with barber shop which rents for $52 per year, and ice house, 18 x 30 feet. Price on buildings $4,000 at inventory. Will take in trade one-half in real est: ite, balance cash. George KH. Seaman, Bailey Mich. 975 For Sale—Clean grocery food fixtures in a live town of 10,000 population. Doing about $60,000 business this year. Stock will invoice about $6,000. Fixtures $1,600. In building 25x90. Can buy or lease building. Two blocks from nearest grocery. Address Carlson & Butcher, 143 Peek St.. Muskegon Heights. Mich. 976 For Sale—Confectionery and restaurant for sale, located in a live town of 3,500 Only restaurant in place. The chance of a life time. $1,000 will handle deal. Ad- dress No. 977, care Michigan Tradesman. stock and 977 HOTEL PROPERTY FOR SALE— Rental from business rooms $55 per month. Price, terms, business, etc. right. No opposition. Address F. E. Farr, Proprietor, Bronson, Mich. 978 Will pay cash for whole or part stocks. Louis Levinsohn, Saginaw, Mich. 979 If you want to sell or exchange your business, no matter where located, write Black, 120th St., Chippewa Falis, Wis consin. 980 A Bargain- Grocery store, good paying proposition. Owing to ill health must sacrifice, For information, write 1008 North Johnson St., Bay City, Mich. 981 For Sale—Oklahoma City Hardware business, second largest in city of 100,000 population. Established 15 years. Gross sales in 1919, $116,000. First three months 1920, $55,000. Sales estimated for 1920 at $200,000. Invoiced $75,000 on December 31, 1919. Carey-Swanson Co., Herskowitz Bldg., Oklahoma City, Okla. 982 For Rent—90 ft. store building, cen- trally located in one of the best business blocks. Seegmiller Bros., Cadillac, Mich. 983 MEAT CUTTER WANTED A first-class meat cutter and meat man to take entire charge of our meat market on wages and commission basis. Must understand cutting meat for fine trade and be a judge of good meat. Only high class man wanted. Meat sales last year $50,000 Entire sales of store (meats and groceries) $115,000 Apply at once. CASH MERCANTILE CO. Escanaba, Mich For Sale—Drug store in a Southern Michigan town. for a physician. Michigan To Exchange —For mercantile business, twelve hundred eighty acre unimproved ranch near Rolla, Kansas. $30 per acre. Shull Mercantile Co., Plevna, Kansas. thriving (00d location Address No. 961 care Tr: udesman. 961 962 For Sale—General stock of : dry goods will be for sale July 28. Store can be rented for one year. Fixtures can he sold or rented, W. Doughty, Mt. Dle: asant, Mich. 965 FOR SALE—At once, fixtures and stock ‘On merchandise consisting of dry goods and furnishings. Best location in a good industrial center of Central Michigan. Must sell on account of other business interests. Address No. 964, care Michigan Tradesman. 964 If you are thinking of going in busi- ness, selling out or making an exchange, place an advertisement in our business chances columns, as it will bring you in toucn with the man for whom you are looking—THE BU SINE SS MAN. Butter-Kist pop corn machine, nearly new, first-class condition guaranteed. $450, cost nearly double. J. A. Skinner, Cedar Springs, Mich. 966 Wanted—Competent floor man exper- ienced in store advertising or window oe Up-to-date town in Okla- hema ol fields: CC. F. Calkins & Co., Pone a ¢€ ity, Oklahoma. 967 For Sale—General cash business and meat market. Just right distance from mammoth steel plant. Splendid store and fixtures. A snan for one or two live men. Best reason for selling. Will rent or sell premises. Apply J. C. Whitney, Sandwich, Ontario, Canada. 960 CASH REGISTERS REBUILT CASH REGISTER CoO. (Inc.) 122 North Washington Ave., Saginaw, Mich. We buy sell and exchange repair and rebuild all makes. Parts and supplies for all makes. FOR SALE—Hotel Yeazel, Frankforv Mich. On shore of Lake Michigan, and two miles from beautiful Crystal Lake. The resorters’ paradise. Three-story, brick, thirty-two rooms, steam heat, electric lights, newly furnished. Do a CAPACITY business twelve months of the year. Fine investment. Sell on account of death. Cash or terms. Mrs. WwW. S. ¥e azel. 945 For Sale—-Stock and fixtures of up-to- date grocery. Good clean stock, excel- lent location: four year’s lease at an exceptionally low rent. Good chance for two live young men, or man with son. Same hands past five years. A fine es- tablished business. Must be sold. For further particulars write No. 984, care Mic higan Tradesman. 984 “Will Sell—Bakery and grocery proper- ty, now operating, building and complete equipment, account of wife’s health. This property is well worth investigating. Building is 28 x 75, two stories and base- ment, with an addition to rear. Modern, with electric power and light wiring. Plumbing and sanitation. Centrally lo- cated, with alley at side and rear. Every- thing in good first-class condition. Town with 7,000 population and several large factories in the best farming section in the State of Michigan makes this an ideal location. Act quick. Address No. 985, care Michigan Tra 985 “For Sale—Stock “and store 1ilding lo- cated in good Southern Michigan town in a very rich farming community. Store is a three-section building 66x 72 feet. This building is absolutely modern, in every respect, with electric lights, steam heat, water system, etc., doing a general merchandise business. handling groceries, meats, hardware, boots and shoes, no- tions, wall paper, paint, chinaware, etc. in one part of the building, while in the other part we handle automobiles and accessories, fence, farm implements and tile. We also have one of the two coal yards in the town. Last year’s sales were $30,000, and this year’s will double that of last. Address No. 986, care Michigan Tradesman. 986 For Sale—Our stock of merchandise, groceries, dry goods, furnishings, shoes. Will inventory about $14,000. Will re- duce stock to suit purchaser. Store can be rented, or bought at a bargain. Write Ryan & Crosby, Merrill, Mich, 948 ATTENTION MERCHAN’ r'S—When in need of duplicating books, coupon books, or counter pads, drop us a card. We can supply either blank or _ printed. Prices on application. Tradesman Com- - pany, Grand Rapids. Pay spot cash for clothing and fur- nishing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 106 E. Hancock, Detroit. 566 WANTED General “merchandise, gents furnishing, or dry goods business. All correspondence strictly confide ntial. - R. Graham. Cadillac. Mich. 955 For Sale—Chandler & Price 10x12 Gordon for $200. In use every day, but wish to install larger machine. Trades- man Company. EVEREADY STORAGE BATTERY PEP Guaranteed 114 years and a size for YOUR ear SHERWOOD HALL CoO., Distributors Local Service Station, Quality Tire Shop, 117 Island Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. LTD., 32 PRICE ADVANCE CHECKED. New propositions on staple and fancy ginghams have been placed be- fore buyers for their consideration in the coming week. The Amoskeag Company has made new list prices on the same basis as that named last January and some. other gingham handlers are now ready to show their new spring goods and will name prices on them shortly. The feature of widest importance is that the rise in prices has been check- ed and the mills are absorbing the extra costs of production in their mar- gins of profit. During the past six months, since prices were last named on gingham fabrics, prices paid have run above the list a matter of 2@3c per yard, but deliveries at the top prices have consisted only of small run-over lots. These top prices have been forgotten and the old list estab- lished. Since the lists were issued in January mills have made a 15 per advance in wages, and they have suffered a doubling in the price of coal. Contrary to hopes and ex- pectations, fast dyes have neither be- come plentiful nor cheap in the pre- War sense. There is also another, feature of the situation that indicates pretty clearly how mills feel about the future. The product of the Amoskeag Company, for example, is offered to April 1, delivery beginning December 1. Prices are guaranteed until date of in- voicing. Normally, the delivery dates would begin in October or earlier. And there would be stocks of goods on hand. Just now there are no mill stocks and the goods to be cent. some delivered on orders now in hand can- not be fully ready before December. On many goods deliveries on orders in hand cannot be completed before January 1. Announcement by the Amoskeag Company that prices are guaranteed until invoicing means that if the market does go lower the buyer will pay only the market price ruling at the time of shipment. The mill proposition, as reflected in the agents’ circulars, means that the buyers of ginghams must now proceed to place orders. They Have no cause for worrying about price on the goods up to the time of delivery. They will also have the assurance of receiving the goods they order if they can be manufactured. Should a sim- ilar policy be followed by other con- that are to be called on to name prices in the near future it is probable that production will not be impeded as it is being impeded in the case of wool goods and silk goods. The dress fabric buyers are in New York in large numbers this past week to attend their various conventions and to look about at the various of- ferings in all sorts of dress fabrics. It is the general opinion in the trade that there will be no buying of any moment for spring at current prices until the visitors have had plenty of time to look over the whole market. This will not be unpleasant to sellers, as they have concluded that the gray goods markets have not yet fully set- tied and they are quite willing that buyers shall take their full time. While some prices have declined dur- ing the past week there have been date of cerns i a A el a TT EES Bic 5 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN several signs indicative of a firmer bottom to the markets than buyers are talking about or than many sell- ers are crediting. Raw silk has ceased to gryrate speculatively and the feeling among importers is that they can choke off incipient speculation. When this con- dition becomes a little more apparent there will be merchants who will an- nounce their policies for spring and start up a moderate line of business with selected customers. Some of the dress goods houses handling wor- sted goods do not expect to do much before August 15 or September 1 on staple dress goods prices for spring 1921. REDEDICATE AMERICA. Two years ago now the American forces in France began their counter- at Chateau-Thierry which halted and threw back the German advance. We recall this event not with any purpose of re-echoing the nauseating chatter, now happily fall- en silent, about “how America won the war.” We do recall the event with pride as one to whose memory offensive every American must always. thrill because it was the day on which America’s soldiers took their first notable part together with the Allies in opening the attack which ended four months later in victory. That period, which began two years ago, when America finally added a decisive strength to the forces of the Alhes gallantly holding the wavering until she was ready, was the great period of the war. It was the period in which our determination was finally developed most clearly in action; and it was also the period in which our purposes were most clearly developed in private thought and pub- lic utterance. The unity of will and deed which America then attained made it possible for’ us to achieve for the general cause what we did achieve. Now, two years afterward, we find ourselves almost dissociated from the friends of those days and engaged really in settling in a general election what we as Americans propose to do about the victory which we in com- mon with the Allies then gained. In the first week of November, almost exactly two years from the day of Germany’s final admission of defeat and the conclusion of the armistice, we shall take a Nation-wide vote which will determine largely what is to be our attitude as a Nation toward the issues then left unsettled and the obligations disregarded and denied un- til now. The clarity of purpose and the unity of will which exalted and made bright those days have been tragically obscured. It is for us now, in the anniversary of that period of mutual triumph, to recreate the de- termination which then gave us power lines and to rededicate America to the ideals which then gave the world hope. The habits you form count for more than the resolutions you make, because a habit is ai living resolution. Don’t grumble or complain about the weather—you can’t change it— no one ever has. FRANCE SOUND AT HEART. France celebrated last Wednesday the fall of the Bastille. It was her second celebration of the event that marks the winning of her liberty since the fall of the Bastille of Prussian militarism, and the fourth since we were privileged to join in a special way in the observance of the historic anniversary. In the two years that have fled since Foch sent the invading Germans headlong home, the world, or part of it, has evinced a disposition to look with critical eyes upon the nation whose iron steadiness in 1914 first astonished and then thrilled hu- manity. People have made the amaz- ing discovery that France is human. Having been shattered by the same foe twice within a generation, she is found guilty of acting exactly as any other nation would ‘act under the same circumstances. She offends some of her erstwhile admirers by mani- festing a determination to arrange matters so that there shall be no third blow. This is hard to forgive—espec- ially if one is 3,000 miles away and has neat little plans for solving every- thing which would work perfectly if only human nature were different. How fortunate it was for both the Old World and the New that human nature as displayed in the land of Joan of Arc is what it is! It was France that showed brutal Germany and the world that the arrogant Prus- sian war-lords had undertaken an im- possible task. They knew it at the Marne, but they had to learn it again at Verdun. And France never seem- ed to tire of teaching them. It was as if the Kaiser’s bestial and blood- thirsty legions had been created for the sole purpose of giving France the opportunity of demonstrating the highest glories of human daring and human fortitude. We saw her assailed by the most terrible enginery that science had been able to devise, as- sailed suddenly and unexpectedly, and compelled to meet the full force of the shock in the very moment of the onset. Caught off her guard, France parried until she could get herself in- to a position to fight on something like equal terms. Then was witnessed one of the most dramatic spectacles of history. While the dumb, driven German forces, “clad in complete steel,” were advincing by mighty steps towards Paris, Joffre, employing such tactics of delay as were at his com- mand, summoned into being the ar- mies upon whom rested the fate of France. While she fought, she pre- pared to fight. As soon as she was ready, she struck, and the Marne be- came immortal. When can such glory fade? And when will the world cease to be sur- prised over its surprise at the revela- tion that France was not the strange, exotic thing it had thought her? How could a people achieve what her peo- ple was achieving in art, in letters, in science, in mechanics, and not be sound at heart? We are all proud to stand beside her to-day, proud that we had a part in repelling the in- vader from her sacred soil. We hail it as a happy augury that our share in the great event began on the day of her anniversary. In peace as well as in war she needs our support. Let July 21, 1920 us not withdraw in the calm the hand we extended in the storm. To the noble trinity of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity let us add Unity. NO GOING BACK. Fiften-dollar shirts marked ‘down to seven-fifty means the beginning of the end of an epoch. It has been a time in which generations of cynics will take joy. People were asking themselves while the agony of the war was upon us what values the fu- ture holds in compensation for so much pain. The answer of the armis- tice seemed to be: “Silk values.” Through the clouds of a world’s suf- fering there were stout hearts which discerned the glimmer of a new life, but it was only the shimmer of silk. Humanity when its trial was hardest upon it talked in terms of sackeloth. But it surrendered to silk. The cynic’s case is easy enough. The vanities, extravagances, appetites, callousness of the human animal were only stimulated by the spectacle of a bleeding world, and even while men were dying by the millions their fel- low men safe at home—their own kin. it might be; their own wives at work in the munition factories—were react- ing in terms of silk. But there is an- other possible view. It is one which must confess that out of the agony of hundreds of millions well-being was born for other millions. That is the paradox of life. It has been, however, a well-being expressed in much wider terms than silk. The whole standard of life has been raised for the workers of the world, and the laborer’s silk shirt is only the banner of his advance. That banner may be lowered but not necessarily in defeat. It may mean only that the peace has been signed and conquests recognized. Silk shirts, pianos, fake diamonds and chromos were the most conspicuous reaction of the worker to high war wages, but they never were the most important results. Silk and Pianos -were only the spume of a great wave of better food, better clothes, better housing and wider pleasures. The spume will vanish; the forward surge will not get back. It is part of the tragi-comedy of Progress that the blood of men shed in Flanders should have made it pos- sible for their wives and children in England to win good food and decent garments. But it is due to the men who died that what they won for their families with their own lives should not be besmirched. The silks of the new order will vanish; the essentials of a new and better life will] remain. And even if it means a problem of high wages, of industrial unrest, of difficult adjustment, it is best for the world that there shall be no going back. —_—_—_—_—_—_—— Freedom is ment. essential to No one can do his greatest work when his mind is cramped with worry, anxiety, fear, or. uncertainty, any more than he can ‘ physical work with his body in a cramped position. Absolute freedom is imperative for the best brain work. Uncertainty and doubt are great ene- mies of that concentration which is the secret of all effectiveness, achieve- . do his best’ me 2 egy