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Volume XII.

The Michigan
Trust Co.

Makes a specialty of aeting as
EXECUTOR OF WILLS
ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATES
GUARDIAN OF MINORS AND
INCOMPETENT PERSONS
TRUSTEE OR AGENT

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Mich.

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j the present cost of material

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1895.

The Hardware Market.
General trade remains about the same
as last reported.

Essential Oils--A fair consuming de-

mand is noted for leading descriptions

Farmers are busy in| in moderate quantities, and the general

their tields,and the dealer is waiting for} market has a steady undertone. Cassia
In the is held firmly.

firm.

meantime, he

business. is’ buy- Camphor is scarce and
Recent rains
have produced a much better feeling | have not yet been fixed at the sources of

and we are all looking fora good fall | Supply, but the feeling there seems to

ing only what he needs. The prices for new crop rose

trade. There is but little change to| be firm, notwithstanding the fact that
note in prices. In many lines of shelf | later estimates place the Crop at 470,000
goods the manufacturers are rey ising | Meticals instead of 420,000 meticals.

their cuts and selling prices, based on Gums fe
lal
al

Camphor continues very strong
and further
Their new prices will probably be ready | have induced freer purchasing by con-
from Aug. 20 to Sept. 1.
Wire Nails—Are firm at the price | Said to be about exhausted.
quoted last week and there nti-_ | in
mation, as yet, whether there will be|thy with the primary markets, where

yor, | and expectations of a

is no Leaves-—-Laurel are easier, sympa-

indicate that stocks in the} quite active and firm, with stocks de-
hands of jobbers at old prices were very | pleted, particularly of prime quality.
light. We quote $2. 35 from stock,
60 to 10, advancing 50, and other

fact would
with | Senna of all kinds continue in good de

as per old card. | scarcity.

at the present price, as they are trying | in single cases nominally steady.

Quinine —~No further
when, | reported, but the
no doubt, prices will be still further ad- | has continued active.
vanced.

to complete an arrangement, similar to
the agreement of the nail men,

1
Sales

large

consuming demand

Values continue

We quote, subject to change | strong.

without notice: Soda, Salicylate--The weakness in

Painted Barbed Wire at mill..... $1.85} salicylic acid has influenced an easier
Galvanized Barbed Wire at mill.. 2 a | Hg aa ' HE EaeS EL a }
Painted Barbed Wire from stock 2 15| Market, and manufacturers have reduces
Galvanized Barbed Wire from stock 250) their quotations.
Window Glass—firm at 75 per cent. | ga
discount from list, and stocks are low Considering the Matter of a Graded
in all sections of the country. It is said | Assessment.
the price will be higher before it is|
. Detroit, Aug. to--An adjourned regu-
lower. i |lar meeting of the Board of Trustees
Che following goods have advanced | was held at the office. F riday, Aug. 9,
at the factories : wit jio. Mclean | F. Lowry, |. A.
Lead Pipe, 10e per 100 Ibs. Murray and G. S. Valmore’ present.

Strap and T Hinges, 10 per cent.
Wrought Butts, 10 per cent.
Shovels and Spades, 40¢ per doz.
Shot, 5c per bag.

S. B. Axes, 50c per doz.

No change on D Bits.

Three new applicants were admitted to
jmembership, and the regular routine
|of business was transacted, after

'the Board settled down to discussing the

| advisability of bringing a graded assess-
advance in| ment plan before the members at
next annual meeting, which resulted = in
the chair-appointing a committee of five
to look into the matter and lay out some
line of procedure. The chair appointed
jas such committee Jno. McLean,

The following shows the the

bar iron, wire nails and cut nails from
January 3 to July 25. The figures are

based on Pittsburg rate and are what
the jobber had to pay:

Hho,

 

 

Bar Iron. Wire Nails. Cut Nails.| A. Murray, Jos. T. Lowry, L. H. Cham-
Jan. 3. oe 5 ‘5 berlin and Lou Burt. I will try and let
Jan. 3 . 90 90 wD c . . —
Feb. : oo 9 5 } you know from time to time, as the com-
veo Ss 90 5 mittee meet, what action they take.
March 21....... 7 Bi i's | It has been suggested by some that a
April 11 95 Sito a . . ie \
April 5... ... 1 00 te *) circular asking the views of each mem-
May? ...... 1 00 85 70 i ber of the Association be sent out with
as ........ 1 00 9 70 the October dues.
y & 1 00 1 00 90 | So
y 3 1 00 1 20 1 05 D. MORRIS, Sec’y.
Pane 6........ 1 05 1 20 1 15 | i : i
ee... 1 10 1 20 i=} oe
! = ‘ ~ me . 1 °
June 20. a 1 15 I 20 1 15 | Dissolution Notice.
eune 27 ...... 115 1 55 1 30
July li... .. 1 20 1 55 1 30 | The firm of Alden & Libby was dis-
eury @...... 1 30 2 6 1 SU | 7 : :
Le | solved by mutual consent July 18, 1895,
The Drug Market. j}and the business will be continued by
Alcohol—The market for grain is|M. R. Alden and E. E. Alden, under
comparatively dull, and the steadier} the firm name of M. R. Alden & Co.,

feeling noted last week seems to have

| in the same store, 93 and 95 South Di-
disappeared.

| Vision street, Grand Rapids.

Cod Liver Oil-—Cable advices from | M. R. ALDEN.
primary markets indicate a_ steadily | C. Ho Leary.
hardening tendency, with values higher, 6 4

and the feeling in this country is cor-| Craver & Merlan have opened a gro-

i a
respondingly strong, but the movement} cery store at Albion. The Musselman

 

during the week has been rather light. | Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

advance |

sumers as the stock outside of refiners is |

any change in the price for September. | prices have declined, owing to more |
Owing to strikes at one or two of the| favorable news concerning the current
mills, and the production being limited, | crop, which is said to be larger than
the output for August is all sold. This | previously estimated. Short buchu are

sizes | mand, and values are strong, owing to|

Barbed Wire--Nowithstanding the re-; Menthol--Quiet and nominal at the|
j °
cent advance, the demand continues | recent decline.
good. Manufacturers are refusing to} Opium —The market has ruled

tame |
accept orders for future shipment, even | during the week, with desirable quality |

are |]

which |

Number 621

The Grain Market.

There is nothing new in the wheat
market—-the same old story of nothing
doing —the exports being only 1,550,000
bushels as per Bradstreet’s report, from
both coasts, which is about 1 )
bushels more than last wee ind is
2,000, OOO bushels less than the « rres
ponding week in 1894 There was an
other decrease hi the Visible t 6S
bushels, against an increase Of 2,000,

 

bushels the

 

 

correspon
vear. t S How 22,00
less in sight in the | ted

 

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;ImMent Crop report

 

 

} port Snows the
spring wheat situation of 6 3-1 yints,
[Dimgme it tO 9§ I-10, against 67 im
| 1804, 67 18 a/ie im 1802 and os
5-10 in 189! n the spring wheat
; States had so large a crop
Che Secretary of State reports the
yield of wheat in this State at I yI-]
| per acre, against 15 0-!I ist ¥Car,.. Of

|about 66 2-3 per cent. an average crop,

while the acreage 1S fully ! per cent.
fless than previous years With all of
these facts, wheat still keeps at low
| points, but we still predict higher prices
| before long. The millers are paying
| O8« for recleaned wheat.
| Corn keeps on growing the corn
belt, and some claim 1 ushels pet
Cre Chere is no doubt but wha this
will be the largest co! seast this
country has ever see consequently
prices are drooping.

Oats go the same way corn does, as
the syndicate has dropped the deal ind

prices are lower.

 

The receipts tor the past week were
32 cars of wheat, which looks small, but
many ol them contained :. bushels
instead of 500, which is the regulation
amount. There were eight cars of cori
and only a lonely one car o tsa
below the hora

eG. AL VOIGT.
> eS

According to a recent i ci¢ yy Di
Lodge in the Engineering Magazine,
lightning is not so easy to ward off by
rods, as Many peopic nay ¢ He Savs
that it is an “oscillatory discharge of
enormous energy, Which Ri
rod, however thick and | in
erly dispose of harmlessly. [t «

 

experimentally shown that

 

ning discharge takes place, even down
such a rod as this, sparks may fly from
it to all conductors near, capable of set-
ting fire to any explosive compound or

gas leak which they

He t

the protection of ordin

imay Coance to en-

counter. herefore recomm

alin
placing of a wire along all the vables,

bul vs the

and down all the

 

COMECIS, With pey haps

a few in between prominent

se the Dullding
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features, so
of
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serves equally well

In network ; any

for the

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a sort wire

( ondu
conductivity |
with

parison durability ; points or pro-

jections to the SKy are usetul to take the

violence of the direct flash at its point

of incidence in a cheap and conspicuous

manner, and earth connections are de-
sirable to save the foundation, the soil,
and the pipes therein from being dam-

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SUCCESSFUL SALESTIIEN.

The Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.’s
tette of Representatives.

WETZEL.

birthplace, and the

Quar-

ALBERT C.
Bay City
fellow *

was his

young ‘came to town’’ in ‘63,

the day before the one sacred to the ar-
rival of the Father of his Country.
While still a baby, the tamily moved to
Zilwaukee, where the child was early

Until fourteen years old
schoo! of the
that

sent to s¢ hool.
he attended the
n he ¢g

German

town, whe raduated-—I like

and then went to the English schools,
taking the three years’ course, with his
diploma at the end of it. So, with two
languages at the tip of his tongue and
the years of school training to back
them, he left the school house tor the
beginning of a commercial life. This

he found ina ral store, one of

best places in the world for an all-round

Vernet

commercial training, and where, as in

this instance, the duties of the post-office |

and those of
ed, it means
Chis life-beginning took place in 1881,
and continued for two years and a half.

an express office are add-

[he next move was a return to Bay
City, in the spring of 1383. Here the
young man of twenty entered the house

long hours and busy ones. |

of Rose, Lewis & (Co., where he re

mained five years. Thinking that the |
time had come for a_ partnership, he |
suggested the advantages of such an
arranvement for life to Miss Helen
Swaby, a high school teacher of Bay

City, with so much confidence in the
success of the enterprise that she con- |
sented. This was in 1888. Severing
his connection with Rose, Lewis & Co.,

he and his partner came to Grand Rap-

ids, the senior member of the lite firm
joining his’ fortunes with F. W. Wurz-
burg’s dry goods house.
Here was another tarrying of five
years there is luck in odd numbers
during which he ran through the whole
gamut in the scale of trade, beginning
with the calico department and finish-

highest note in the octave.
hed

Alexander
the

ing with the
When he had

was looking, like

that point and
other

corporation ot

reac
for

worlds to conquer,

the Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. was form
ed, and Mr. Wetzel went from the old
house to the new, where he became a

partner in September, 1892

And the lite partnership?
a happy one. A little
the happy home on Portsmouth Terrace,

It has been

boy came to bless

five months ago, and

plete SUCCESS.

Mr. We tZeEi 1S
church, Div afi street, and of the Y.
M. C. A. He is a Mason of ten years’

standing, and is a worthy brother of
the K. of G. With his life practically
him, he
believing that the

all, will be

hopes so to run that he
before
to the

before
may win, prize

him, if gained at due

energy and pluck which he puts into the
running.
Ss. BH. SIMMONS.
A good big
these
claims to be
every inducement to be a man of mark.
Nature, at all given the fel-
low a lift —pressed the button as it were
pretty fair understanding that
he must do part of the
Add to this a good big farm, witha man
1

family is not Common in

degenerate times, and whoever

one of a family of ten has

events, has ¢
with a
balance.

his

at the head who can take care of it, and
the rest is a mere question of time. The
farm in question was near Alamo, Mich.

It was owned and occupied by the Sim-
introduced,
whom they

mons family, to whom was

March 28, 1872, a boy

is, so far, a com- |}

a member of the M. E. |

i the

he keeps at it

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

christened **Sam. Until he was fif-
teen, the farm claimed that part of
attention which did not belong to the
school. At fifteen a great
change then the father died.
Che mother had passed away some years

his

country

came, tor

before, the old home was given up, and
the boy found a home with a_ brother
in Council Blufts, lowa. After a resi-

dence of seven months in that city he
went to St. Joseph, Mo., and began the
battle of lite as a newsboy on the rail
road. Eight months saw the end. of
that, and he went into the retail store of
i B. Martie, in: St joe Twe years
after his employer sold out and, when
the St. joseph Auction Co., the pur-
chaser, wanted a salesman to look after
the shoes, the only man who could fill
the bili was the one we are talking
about, and he remained to do it. For
-jthree years he had charge of the shoe

father,
necessity

both the house and store of his

there was but one thing to do

knows no law--and the boy left his
school and left the city of his birth. He
came to Grand Rapids in 1873 and
went to work for the Cappon-Bertsch
Leather Co., where he remained a year.
He then entered the employ of L.
Rindge & Co. now Rindge, Kalmbac h
& Co. -where, in the retail department,
he clerked ten years

Believing then that he could do bet-
ter, he resigned the position, and went
into the boot and shoe business in Grand

K. W.
firm name of Herold & |

Rapids, with Mr. Bertsch, in
under the

Bertsch.

1834,
Chis retail house was in busi-
Herold “|
Hagy. In

ness eight years when Mr.
1

posed of his interest to )

——* 1893, the stock company of
He rold-Bertsch Shoe Co. was formed: }
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FRED E.

HEROLD.
= SIMMONS,

 

department with this company, and then
rand Rapids, to. travel for
Shoe

he came to i
Herold- Bertsch
how holds.

Lo, 2
young to talk

post-

tion he ‘Loo

much about success, by no means con-

sidering himself a model, he believes
that the
right along will get

long

fellow who tries to do his best
somewhere, and, if
enough, even ina
surer ot
wants than the
au. Mr Sim
lately been interested in the
exciting story of Hiram, King of
is a worthy brother of the K. of
Lakeside Club claims him as
his delightful
with his brother at 30 Charles street.

humdrum sort of way, will be
the place he

doesn't try at

reaching
one who
mons has
Tyre;
and he
( the
a member,

and home is

A. HEROLD.

December 22--Forefathers’
Holland City. Fond of
more than a trial for

Was born
Day —1859, in
his books,
him, when fourteen years of
vive up the liked so well.
But when, at that age, a fire

it was

school he

age, to

destroyed |

ALRERT C. WETZEL.
WAL THER.
Buckeye street, made attractive by an
estimable wife and two happy-hearted

children.

FRED E. WALTHER.
It isn’t who can remember
the
earned it.

everybody
and how he
can: It
on the

first money he earned

This

Bucyrus,

Man was |

earned in Ohio, where,
oth of

and he

November, 1864, he was born:

did it in his’ teens, by making

His |

tractor

plans for a schoolhouse.
father

a statement which

COUnLrY

was a Carpenter and a coi

explains how this

young shoe man was able, with the im-
plements of the architect between his
fingers, to earn his first five dollar bill.
It is easy to understand that the boy
began early. He kept up his school
until he was 18, making the most of his
vacations until that time, working at

carpentery during the vacations in sum-
mer.

After leaving school, he was at home
la year and, when i9, he came on

a visit to Grand Rapids. It was a long

 

Morgan & Co.

Manufacturers of

AWNINGS, TENTS,

FLAGS AND CANVAS COVERS
YACHT SAILS A SPECIALTY

187 Jefferson Avenue
DETROIT, lich.

CO A Hee ESALE

 

RETAIL

A MURMAN & GO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

LIME, CEMENT, HAIR, SEWER
PIPE, BRICK, LAND PLASTER,
FIRE CLAY.

We sell Alsen’s German Portland Cement—the

best in the world for sidewalk work.

COAL

SP. BENNETT FUEL AND IGE 60.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

A. HIMES

Wholesale Shipper

 

The Trade
eordially is
vited tow hes
us for sum-
mer prices on

 

| Lime
Cement

e=«COAL

, GRAND RAPIDS.

. WYKES

Wood
Lime
Sewer
Pipe
a
Feed Ete.

CANALS,

THOMAS E

COAL

Correspondence Solicited

45 South Division St. GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

The Mich. Barrel Co.

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH,
MANUPACTURER OF
Bushel Baskets, Cheese Boxes, Bail
Boxes, Axle Grease Boxes,
Wood [leasures.

Are Your Coal Bills too High ?

\ leaky or improperly adjusted valve may
cost you hundreds of dollars per year atthe
coal pile.

Tean show you how to save it by
ing the indicator to your engine.

B. E. PARKS, Engineer.

Address Lock Box 80, Grand Rapids.

-V. SEBRING HILLYER

Consulting Engineer

 

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Structural Iron Work

|

Construction.

Machinery Draughting.
803 Michigan Trust Building
GRAND RAPIDS

L. G. Dunton & Co.

WILL BUY ALL KINDS OF

LUPMBER=Green or Dry

Office and Yards—Seventh St. and C. & W.M.R.R.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Office SCG

Paaiibees os tae

Bi
STATEMENTS;
ENVELOPES,-
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visit. It isn’t over yet and, although | as the crimes which, without question & | Travelers’ Time Table
i : , oe a 6
the visit began in 1883, it promises to | they are guilty of. The table linen, if Mason [ t ult Jat S

extend far into the next century.

is how it happened: He struck the
town and a job about the same time.
Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., retail deal-

that particular build, and ‘they took
him in.’’ Not in a bad sense, how-
ever, for he liked it so well that after a
four years’ course, he went to traveling
for the same house and kept it up for
hve years. The first of these five years |
did the business, so far as Buc yrus |"
was concerned. He became acquainted
with a young lady, Miss Addie Richter |
by name, and long before the wedding
day, October 29, 1880, neither Bucyrus

nor the whole State of Ohio had

a Sin-
gle charm for him. | Ht was Grand Rap-
ids, first, last and all the time, and has

been ever since.
When the wedding

he came back to his

extended his

journey was over,
and

territory into Indiana and

merchandise,

Ohio,

When the Herold- Bertsch Shoe Co. was
organized, in 1893, Mr.  Walthers|
became a member, and_ still keeps up

traveling. He has
twice, by the
by the Grips. A
at 22 Michigan

his been knighted

once Pythians and once

pleasant home is his,
Street; and when asked

when his visit to Grand Rapids will
be over, he said that the matter was
still undecided. He had, however, $20

when he first came here and had put the
in the bank, so that,

he could go back any time.
rest of the

money hnancially,
Like the

human family, so long as he

can go if he wants to, he doesn’t care
to go, and, as I have said, the visit will
probably extend far into the coming
century.

>3+o

THE BACK OFFICE.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
A great deal has been said of late by
who the
regard

welfare of
to the

those have

at

society
heart, in deplorable
condition which society itself
at the the nineteenth century.

‘The newspapers are lurid with accounts

Mm finds

close of

of crime, red and slimy. Canada _ is

renovating her cashier list at the ex-
pense of the States. Depravity is
abroad in our. streets, before nightfall

and after; and all classes, high and low,
seem to be permeated by the very spirit
of evil. a German,
to locate the mischief in the realm of
the degenerate, but there is little
ommend the theory except the
The cause of the degenerac y has not yet
been found, but who are interest-
ed in tracing the deplorable effect to its
while

Only one, has tried
to rec-
name.

those

not yet ready to render an
are willing to admit that the
of testimony, far, shows a
remarkable coincidence in point of time
between unbridled lawlessness and the
appearance of the boarding
house. Consider the matter from what-
ever point you please, the man is a ma-
first and, like all machines,
the greatest care. . The
furniShes the motive power must
The best of oil
joints.

source,
opinion,

burden so

modern

chine
quires
which
be of the best.
lubricate its
necessity, and the very atmosphere, if

not guarded against, will damage with |

its fumes and dust that delicate adjust-

ment which is an_ essential part of
every well-made machine. Now, it isa
well-known fact that all of these condi-

tions are utterly ignored by the average
boarding
hotels

and restaurants.

This | indulged
| :
| long-forgotten

lof naval warfare
ers in boots and shoes, wanted a man of |

jectile

| degenerate

 

 

re- |
fuel |

should }
Cleanliness is a|

kitchen,
life the untold

house and a large majority of jold Eden days,
The basement
dining room and its copartner in mis- |
chief, the cellar restaurant, are as dark |

In, 1S stained with marks o

revels and

microbe-burdened fumes. The
between
and the power of the projectile has been
transferred to the kitchen and the
crockery tells the triumphant story
the victory of the tin plate over the pro-
force of the servant girl,
ance of the scouring brick, and the forks,
of the world,’’ and
the thin jacket of silver, their glory once,
form, with the unkempt knife and

tr ipod where from

aweary robbed of

spoon, a

i the gravy-stained napkin of a disgusted

| guest, the flies, like harpies, await the
}coming of the next Cyclopean feast. The
bell clangs, the flies buzz, the sinister

]

| preyers upon modern society silently file

in and the orgies begin.

‘* Madam, the attitude
of the indicative of
itious regard,
you if
this del
intensified

| an and tone

enquirer are solic-

‘may | venture to ask

you have given me tea or coffee,

ightful morning?’’ In a silence
by the
activity of a dozen
the re

voice

suddenly suspended
and forks

with

knives
‘assuring
satistied of
more than was bargained
of both, sir!”

It is needless to stay beyond the par-
taking of the
tea-plant That,
would sufficiently account for the enor-

Comes answer,

one who is) giving

fOr. a

and chicory. alone,

mities of a Holmes and a Jack the Rip-

per, and, if anything more should be
required to screw the courage to the
sticking point,’’ it would) be the rever-

murderous mallet which
for porterhouse stake.
the the

are honeycombing

berations of the

follows the order
Right
existing

here, then, is cause of
evils which
to-day.
cashier, with the
should flee from
What wonder

modern life What wonder that
the

hands,

his
to
mal-

means in
the
that the

wrath

comer meat

let, in the hands of its vic tims, should
be the means of perpetrating, in a wider
field, the enormities carried on in the

kitchen? What wonder, if
drink be hot prohibited,
ness should increase and

the dreadful
that wicked-
crimes before
unknown should stalk abroad unchecked
and uncontrolled?

With affairs at sucha pass, there is
but one course to follow slovenly board-
ing houses and the
The already
Board of Health are the
Civil Service
Let the
mercy,

restaurants must go!
at hand. The
officers and the
the instrument.
applied without

who only

means are

Reform
system be
let

a practical examination be permitted to

and those pass
go on with the chief functions of civili-
zation—the preparation of food for the
human stomach. Let the law exact that

the dining-room shall be above ground,
and that cleanliness, which is next. to
Godliness, shall everywhere prevail.
Then, indeed, will the Golden Age re-
turn. Then shall the coffee urn fill the
world with its grateful cheer: then shall
the dumpling be no more soggy, the
under pie crust no longer leaden: the
butter not mighty in its strength, nor
the under-done doughnut heavy with
ham fat. Then, another cycle will be-
gin. Then, the evils so long complained

lof will have passed aw: ry like a hideous
/ dream,

and the sons of freed for-

ever from the

men,
the unwholesome

the
living again the

woes of

will realize in newness of
joy of
dining-

Paradise

before a cellar

room was thought of and was

cursed with the modern kitchen maid.

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.

redolent of
contest
plate-armor

table
of

The

| knives have long since cut the acquaint-

the

the

little

insidious decoction of the

     
  
 

 
 
 
 
 

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en a
AS

  

  

We quote for immediate orders the fol]
prices; packed one dozen in box. each jar
sepyrare Compartments. Price subje: t to change

No charge for box or cartage.

Per Grows,

*ints, wide mouth. £6.00
Quarts, wide mouth 6.50
Half gallons, wide mouth 8.50)
Same packed in straw as before, 50 cents per
gross less,
Extra caps ind rubbers $3.50

Rubher rings for Mason jars 230
Mail orders direct to

H. Leonard & Sons, GRAND

RAPIDS.

UBEROID
EADY

OOFING....

All Ready to Lay. Needs
NO COATING OR PAINTING

 

Is Odorless, absolutely Water -Proof, will
‘esist fire and the action of acids.

Can be used over shingles of steep roofs, or
$s suitable for flat roofs.

Will OUTLAST tin or iron and is very much

cheaper.

Try Our Pure

Asphalt Paint

For coating tin, iron or ready roofs.

Write for Prices.

H. M. REYNOLDS & SON
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Ask your h:

Walter Baker & Co. Limited,

The Largest Manufacturers of

t.dware dealer for it

 

on this continent,
have received

A HIGHEST AWARDS

from the great

ZS \ndustril and Food

EXPOSITIONS

IN

Europe and America.
CAUTION: 22,::¢¥ 08 many

labels and wrappers on our goods, consum-
ers should make sure that our place of man-

ufacture, namely Dorchester, Mass.
is printed on each package.

    

 

 

SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE.

Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Dorchester, Mass,

 

June 16, 1895
t Michigan R’y

CHICAGO ana wes

Going to Chicago.

    

Lv. G'd Ray ds 6:00am |} opm *6:30pm *11 Opm
Ar. Chicago....12:05pm 6: 50pm 6:00am 6:25am
ne: from Caienee.

Ly. Chicago ee 7 00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids 12 -40p 10241 6:30am

 

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To and from Muskegon.

Ly. Gd Rapids 6:00a1 l:25pm 6:30pm
Ar. Gd Rz ipids 11:30am 5 m 10: 10pm

Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey /

 

 

 

Lv. G’d Ra; :ids.. 8:00am 1:00pm 11 00p m
Ar. Manistee 12:55pm ;
Ar. Traverse Oity 1:20pm 4:50pm 4:00am
Ar | ix "3:50pm 6:30pm 6:30am
Ar $:20pm 6:55pm 7:00am

Trains arrive from north at 5:30a.1 11:45a.m
1:00p.m., *1:30p.m

PARLOR AND SLEEPIN 5
Parlor Cars leaves I

p.m.:; leave Chicage
Cars leave Grand Rapids

   

ers week de
Oct. 28, 1894

DETROIT. & Northern R’y

Setog to Detroit.
Ly. Grand Rapid ¢:00am 1:20pm 5
Ar. Detroit 11:40am 45
Returning from Detroit.

a
opm

0pm 10:10pm

 

Ly. Detroit... 7:40am 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids 12:40pm 2 n 1 :45pm
Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis.

Ly. G R7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R 11:3 m 10:45pm

 

To and vo L, owell.

 

Ly. Grand Rapids m 5:25pm
ar. from Lowell. _._. 12 40pm 5
THROUGH CAR tC
Parlor ears on
ids and Detroit
ns train. Trais
i. a. Fur

 

 

MIcHIGAN ( CExmrat

“*T1e Niagara Falis Route.’

Express ....__. : 10:20)

 

Detroit
*Atlantic Expre 6
New York E 11
iiy. \ t ¥, Cxcey
» Cars run on ll hight

 

from Detroi t
¢ reaching Detroit at 1:

Parlor cars

 

‘ Pin m.

 

     

leave Detroit 4:35 rriving at G
Rapi ds 10:20p.m. Dire 1 on mad
at Detroit with all through trains ea t over the
Michigan Central Railroad (Canada So ern
Division.) XA ALMQUI-T, Ticket A

   

‘aa Railway
East ard.
No.

 

      

   

  

    
 
   

No. 18 No. &

Ly. G’d Rajids.t 2 11:0 pm
Ar. Ionia i 1:27pm 12:35am
Ar. St. Johns ) n 25im
\r. Owosso Of 3: Jam
\r. E. Saginawi0:50am ; 6:40am
\r 11:30am 4:35p ¢:1d.m
aT. 10:05am 3:45pm »: 40am
Ar 12:05pm 5:50pm 8:5 ¢:. Gam
AT 10-58am 3:05pm 8:2 o:37am
\r H:-tam 4:04p1 9725] *:0V0am

Westward.
For i'd Haven and [1 rediate Pts
For (i'd Haven and kego
For Gd Hav M ee and ¢
For (i'd Have Milwa rar ac
For G’d Haven and

{Daily exeept
from the ea

 

       

pm. Trains arrive O:4
a.m., 10 :10ht-m., 3:15]
Eustward Butfet
car No. | 31 t sleeper
Westward 5 Wagener
Parlor Butfet ear eper
June 23, , 1805

& Indiana Railroad
Northern Div.

GRAND ts ¢ waa”

Saginaw and Cadillae

re Cy... Petoskey & Ma
Oy W Schon fig
Saginaw and Reed City
Petoskey and Mae kinaw.

  

8:00a.m. train a parlorcar
and Mackinaw. 1:40p.m. train }
car for Harbor Springs lo:
sleeping cars for petoske y and

Southern Diy i

in., Ft. Wayne & Kal:

1maz00
Ft. Wayne & Kala

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Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo
mazoo cea u
a.m. train has pa r Car

   

6: O0p. m. train has sleep
Indianapolis and Louisville
Chicago Trains.

 

   

 

     

Ly. G'd Rapids 7:25am *11:40pm
Ar. Chicago oe } 7:10am
i 'Sp.m train has through eoach 11:40p.m.
train hi ts through coach and ‘sles ping car.
si Ch cago 6:50am t3:00pm 11:30pm
Gd Rapids ‘1:30pm $:15pm 6:50am
“3-00p m. train has through ecae 1d 11:30p.m.
has through coach ar 1d sleeping ear
Muskegon Trains.
Lv G'd Rapdist7: m +1:00pm 5:55pm
Ar Muskegon..8:50am 2:10pm 7:00pm
Ly Muskegon.+9: a cae +6 '4:05pm
Ar Gd Rapids10:30am_= 1:15pm 5:20pm
tExcept Sunday. “Day Sunday only.
A. ALMQUIST, . L. Lockwoop,

 

Ticket Agt. Un. Sta, Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt.

 

  

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Around the State.

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Rose City—Frank G. Bill succeeds

Randall & Bill in general trade.

Bellevue—-E. A. Turner

stock of groceries to his bakery business. |

lonia—-R. G. Cooper has retired from
the dry goods firm of Cooper, pon 6k
Co.

Bloomingdale-—David Smith succeeds
Smith &

ness.

Fancher in the harness_ busi-

|

Baldwin —R. |. Matthews succeeds L.

> (Mes KR. f-) Matthews im general
trade.

Lake Ann--E. Bleckmore has_ pur-
chased the meat business of Virgil &
Farmer.

Woodland W. H. Mohler has pur-

England’s harness stock and
the

chased J. J.

will continue the business at

same
location.

Buechner & Schau
the

Kalamazoo suc-

ceed Buechner & Co. in hardware
business.

Muskegon -Potter & Anderson
Potter &
business.

Marshall
Radford &
business.

Holly
ceed Geo. E.
t

Suc-
ceed Brown in‘ the grocery
Chas. -A. Radford succeeds
MeDonald in the grocery
Geo. E. Co. suc-

Pomeroy in

Pomeroy &
the lime and

yUSINESS.

salt br
Rockford-—W. H. Hyde

Hyde & Squires in the elevator and pro-

succeeds

duce business.
Ronk X«
have

Boughman, = dry

Alfred

Lansing
goods dealers, dissolved,
Ronk SUuCCE eding.

Elk Rapids -S. J. Cromie succeeds
Cromie &
city meat market.
Dudley &

chased a_ st

Davis as proprietors of the

Boon Reynolds have pur-

mill here, and. will

ingle
stock and operate it.
Ann Arbor

ceed James Goodyear,

Win. Goodyear will suc-
i, opt. f in
the dry goods business.

Rockford—-The grocery firm of Grein-
er & Smith has been dissolved, M. R.
Smith being now the proprietor.

Portland--C. D. Valentine
moved his dry goods and boot and shoe

has re-

stock from Saginaw to this place.
Battle Creek—L. W. Robinson & Son,

dry goods dealers, have

W. Robinson

Harrison-—T.

dissolved, L..
continuing the
H. Lees,

crockery,

business.
, dealer in

hardware, glassware and

drugs, has removed to Hibbing, Minn.

Jackson Pickles & Platt have moved
their fish, game and poultry market into
]-

arger quarters at 117 South Mechanic

Sree.

Alpena—-Hunter, Glenn & Hunter, of

Detroit, have taken possession of the
Lockwood Sisters’ millinery stock un-
der a bill of sale.

Battle Creek--D. W. Maynard suc-
ceeds O. V. Pratt in the grocery busi-

Mr.
and wood
Albion J. L. Meader & Son have sold
their stock of
Gunnison &

Pratt will engayve in the coal

ness.

business.

and books to
not to Geo. W.
Craver as stated last week.

PrOCeErics

Sanders

Lakeview—E. C. Saxton & Co., cen-
eral dealers, have dissolved. A new
firm has been formed which will con-

tinue the business under the same style.

Jackson O. L. Topping has sold his

stock of goods and fixtures at
to M. M. takes in payment
therefor the stock of groceries and _ fix-
tures at 607 E. Main Mr. Top-
ping will remove to Jackson and con-
tinue the business at the same location.

Dansville

Joy, and

SIrcet.

is adding a}

 

lonia—G. F. Whitney & Son have
sold their jewelry stock and_ store
building to O. V. Berry, who will

continue the business at the
Cation.

Lowell— A.

grocery stock to Loren Barber and Geo. |
| Craw,

who will continue the business at
the same location under the style of Bar-
ber & Craw.
Allegan—J. M.
H. Williams

harness
|

Williams
have

and
the

and Wilts
consolidated their
continue the
Williams

will]
stvle of

stocks
yusiIness under
& Williams.
Albion—-S. N.
born & Mumbrue in
tionery

Osborn succeeds Os-
the drug and sta-
Dr. Mumbrue_ will
return to his former occupation of tele-
graph operator,
Charlevoix—A.

business.

.. Washburn has made
Petoskey,
the dry

arrangements to remove. to
where he will take charge of
“oods department of Levinson’s mercan-
tile establishment.

Jackson. —J. F. Orwick has purchased
the grocery stock and fixtures of M. W.
Cortland

continue

and
the

Coykendall, corner of

Francis streets, and will
business at the same location.

Cadillac—C. W. Lewis, of Flint, is
in the city to conclude arrangements for
a tinal closing sale of the H. E. Aldrich
& Co. clothing stock, which pur-
chased by him last spring.

was

Che clothing stock of
& Merritt,
closed last week under chattel mortgage,

Eaton

Pilmore,

Rapids
Tears which was
has been purchased by Jno. A. Adams,
who will continue the business.

N. W. Oldman’s stock of

groceries was taken possession of last

Coldwater

week to satisfy the claims of a local
bank and
Unsecured creditors will realize nothing
on their claims.
Weller & Ellis bought the |
Deman stock of dry goods and boots and
shoes at Montpelier, Ohio, June 20, ne-
Mr. Weller’s there
to take charge of the business. Now
they have sold their general stock here
to Geo. W. Acker, of Morenci, who will
continue the business.
Kalamazoo--E. L. Harris,
Kalamazoo’s best known grocery clerks,
for eight years with S. Stern, and Eu-
gene Austin, a former well-known
dent and business Kalamazoo,

several outside creditors.
Reading

cessitating removal

one ot

cS. -

man of

have opened a new grocery store at 304 |

West Main street, under the firm
ot EF. L. Harris & Co.
Kalamazoo —-McCullough & Munro, as
butchers, sell butterine and, according
to law, obtained the necessary retailer’s
license. Some time ago requests were
made on them to purchase three tubs of
butterine, thereby securing for the pur-
chaser the butterine at wholesale price.
As a courtesy, Mr. Munro did this and,
in order not to violate the law, he deliv-
ered the butterine as he received it and
even turned over the original bill to the

purchasers. But, in his endeavor not
to break any law, Mr. Munro had run
directly counter to its meaning. By

turning over the butterine in the origi-
nal package he became a jobber in the
eyes of the law, and, not being provided
with a jobber’s license, was liable to a
tine of S600.
tion reached the ears of the government
officials and was investigated by Deputy
Collector Barrett, of Grand Rapids, and
Deputy Marshal Howard, of this city.
They found the facts as given above
and, because it evident that Mr.
Munro had intended no infraction of
the law, and, in fact, had tried to avoid
any violation, the officials were loath to |

In some way the transac-

was

same lo- |

| der of the season.

hame |

  

push the case. Mr. Howard also spoke
in Mr. Munro’s favor, but, as the

distinctly provided for such cases, Mr.

law

Munro was fined but $320, or about half

| the prescribed fine.
Bb. Johnson has sold his}

Manufacturing [latters.
Nadeau-— Nadeau Bros.’ saw and shin-
gle mill here, which was burned recent-
ly, is nearly rebuilt.
Sebewaing—-]. C. Liken is operating

a small saw-mill at Pigeon, cutting

hardwood, mostly. He has a full stock
of logs at the mill.
Otter Lake—Blackinton & Till, foun-

ders, have dissolved partnership and

jare now operating a lumber

retired from trade. The business. will |
be succeeded by Wm. Mudge.
West Branch—The sawmill of the

French Lumber Co. has finished cutting
for the season.
has been shut down three weeks, resumes
operations this week.

Match Co.
logs twice a

Phe Diamond
feet ot

wcrc

Ontonagon

floods 80,000, 000

week. The logs cut on burned
lands, and if

allowed to become dry
would be injured by worms.
Cass City-—Heller

of the roller mills here, have

Bri Ss.

proprietors

leased P.

Atlantic Railway, and has purchased
the saw and planing mills of the Dol-
Co., at Dollarville,
where the logs will be sawed.

Bay City

larville Lumber
A strong and probably suc-
cessful effort is being made by the busi-
ness men of the city to induce Estey &
Calkins, recently burned out at Pincon-
i a plant here.
yard

ning, to establish They
here,
and doing a good business, and the con-
centration of their business would
be to their benefit in many ways. A

site is offered them, but they ask a_ bo-

here

nus besides, as they propose to erect a
plant that would employ nearly too men.

Muskegon ~The Muskegon Wood Rim

|Co. has leased the Nelson piano works

| for a year, with the option of

The shingle, mill which |

lash and rock
ifrom Lake and Antrim counties.
| 400 to 600 rims are obtained from

| feet.

H. Toohey & Sons’ roller mill, at Gage- |

addition to their plant here.

Grayling—Salling, Hanson & Co.

| have started a camp of 45 men on the

Au Sable River, about a mile from this | ’ : : : :
j}miles from Sebewaing, opposite Heis-

place. They will cut and bank all the

Norway owned by the firm along the
river.
South Manistique--Hall & Buell have |

timber land
the Lac La
Porte, Ind.
another

purchased another tract of
in Schoolcraft county, of
Belle Lumber Co., of La
and will continue opertions
year.
Stanton—J. 5.
the creamery building and has formed a

copartnership with O. D. VanDeboget

Holcomb has purchased

started its sawmill last week for the first
time this season, and has stock

It is expected that

enough |
oo © |a large surplus on hand, and the amount
to keep the mill in motion the remain- |

itown, for five years and will run it in

land

purchas-
Al-
working

ing at the expiration of that time.
though the company has been
only about three months, it has built up
a large business, and now plans to make
1Sg6.
white
mainly

200,000 sets of rims before July 1,
rock

obtained

The material used is elm,
maple,
From
1,000
The company will give employ-
ment tO 100 Men.

timber
Webber
sawmill
the Saginaw,
Tuscola & Huron Railroad, about seven

Saginaw-—Having cut all the

tributary to Grossman, Wm. L.
from

proposes to remove his

that place to a point on

terman Island. There is a large quan-

tity of hardwood timber at this point,

about 5,000,000 feet of pine, oak,
elm and other timber on Heisterman Is-
land, which it 1s intended to cut during
the winter and haul across to the main-
land on the ice

mill.

and manufacture at this
The product will come by rail to
Saginaw.
Manistee
in salt

A gentleman well

matters

posted
recently asserted — it

would be a long time before the manu-

| facturers received more than yo cents a

|and Charles Busch. The new tirm wiil
place in the building a two-stone grist |
mill for the purpose of grinding feed,
buckwheat and rye flour.

Oscoda—The Oscoda Lumber Co.

the Pack, Woods & Co. mill, which has |

been idle several weeks, will resume op-
erations in a few days.
Ludington—-The Danaher & Melendy
Co. is making extensive
for lumbering the pine in Luce and
Schoolcraft counties, purchased of I. M.
The

Weston a year ago. company is

building a logging road to the timber
from Danaher, seven miles east of
Seney, on the Duluth, South Shore &

barrel. The developments at the recent
revelation
to some of the more sanguine members
that the market was
The Michigan Salt Co. has

meeting in Chicago were a

who had an idea
unlimited.

is increasing daily, as the consumption
is not up to the standard.

very large shortage of cattle
country this

There is a
in the cat-
and

tle producing year,

jthat has cut off the consumption amaz-

preparations |

The New York wells, with coal
at about 90 cents a ton delivered at the

ingly.

works, can Compete quite successfully
with our fuel the mills.
The recent decline of to cents a barrel
gives us a little more extensive terri-
tory by enabling us to add that much in
freight to the cost of the barrel.

refuse from

 

   

We tell you
How good ——

Highland Brand Vinegar is-
You buy it and you tell us how

good Highland Brand Vinegar is.

eal 0

Highland Brand Vinegar
Is Superior=====

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THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

Grand Rapids Gossip

 

The Grocery Market.
Prices and
values.

firm without
list ‘The
oversold on Diamond
most

Sugar are

change from the full
trust retineries are

A, Candy A and

while the independent refiners

crades ot sotts,

are sold
all
The outlook favors a continued steady

well up to production. on

grades.
market at present prices. The situation
is healthy, and there is a that
the month, when the
canners of large fruits commence opera-

feeling

before end of the

tions, prices will show an advance.

Molasses

tion to buy ahead, on account of the
fear that there will be a scarcity later
on. Both open kettle and centrifugal
grades have been in fair demand.

Buyers show some disposi- |

Stocks are reported as very low, and it}

is said that there is less open kettle mo-
lasses at all points this year than ever
known before.
is fair, and there is no

more to

forward, as the crops are all over.

Come

Teas
tion to induce speculation, but the deal-
ers are looking for a more active request
for fall, which they think will start up
weeks. The of

in a few receipts

Gripsack Brigade.

A new commandment I give unto
you -"' Do’’ others as they will  do’’
you,

Otto Hintermister, of Hastings, has

to travel for F. F_ “
of Detroit,

J. Henry Dawley has sent a challenge

engaged

(a.,

Ingram
in Missouri.
to the traveling men’s baseball club of

Detroit to play a matched game. with
the Grand Rapids boys on any date that
would be convenient to the Detroit grip
Calricr©rs.

Geo. A. Cummer, forme rly of Cadil-

lac, who has been employed in the
wholesale hardware establishment of
Buhl, Sons & Co.,at Detroit, has been

promoted to the position of traveling

.salesman.

MM. (i.

attended the grocers’

B.

picnic

Miller & Co.)
at Ottawa
Thursday and managed to

Read

Beach last

| obtain a ride on the Soo City without a

| ticket.
The demand for foreign |

There is nothing in the. situa-

new |

teas continue free, and stocks are more |

than ample to supply the demand.

Cheese ~The welcome rains have im-

proved pasturage to that extent. that the
cheese manufacturers have reduced their

quotations

lowed suit.

Provisions The market in the early

part of the week ranged toa lower. ba-

It subsequently transpired that
his ticket had been clandestinely pur-
loined by E. J. Herrick.

Geo. W. Wyatt, an old gentleman who
joined the Michigan of the
in 1892, the payment of 75
cents, and who has never paid a death

Knights
Grip by
assessment, Is soliciting alms among the
traveling men by representing that he

What-

is amember of the organization.

| ever may be his necessities, his methods

ithe H. J.

“%c and the jobbers have fol- |

sis, with considerable speculative sell- |

ing and buyers responding slowly ; but
the
the entire position has been changed by

later, and especially toward close,

the exhibition of strength and more ac-
tivity.
Bananas

Importers of bananas. are

loading their vessels very lightly. They
are forced to make low prices in order
to induce straight sales, as the demand
throughout — the limited,
Wholesale
many carloads as they want on consign
to

the commission men, as a whole, preter

COUNTY (ts

distributors can secure

as

ment, if they care crowd sales, but
to devote the greater part of their atten-
tion to the peach, apple and melon crop,
the
fruits now coming in, nearly crowds out

which, with abundance of small

foreign fruits now coming of all kinds.

Oranges The same condition affects

the sale of most forcibly, and
if

arc

oranges
are bought in small
bought at all. A
to be had up
better than
have been bringing comparatively high

they quantities,

few Californias
to the

Sorrentos, which

and, present, sell

Rodis or

are certainly Open to criticism.

E. A. Bishop, who has represented

Heinz Co. in this State for the
past four years, severed his connection
with that house Aug. 1 to embark in the
fruit and produce business at

Logans-

port ind., under the stvie of E. E.
Hewitt & Co., having formed a co-
| partnership with the Rockford grocer

prices, but now, owing to slow. sale,
have come down a_ peg.

Lemons -Have developed a = much]
stronger feeling, and at the Eastern |
sales Friday, fancy marks went at
$5. 12 '4@5. 37 Ausust, so far has
been hot and favorable to high prices,

are certainly most
Any

readers who will compare Grand

which, at, present,

reasonable, all things considered.
of our
Rapids quotations with those of Chica-
Detroit to will
that our merchants are
the matter of favoring the trade
looks to this market for supplies.
grades will

FO, Cincinnati,
which
It is

be

very likely that fancy

not far behind in lfainting fit in his office

and produce dealer. Mr. Hewitt will
attend to the purchasing end of the
business, shipping in carlots to Mr.
Bishop, who will place the goods among
the trade of Logansport and contiguous
towns. Mr. Bishop made many friends
among the trade who will greatly regret
his removal from Michigan and all will
join the Tradesman in extending the
hope that his new undertaking will be
both pleasant and profitable.
a

Purely Personal.

Amos S. Musselman ( Musselman Gro
certo). SS &. (Mills & Lacey
Manufacturing Co.) and Geo. W. Gay
(Berkey & Gay Furniture Co., ) the
latest Converts to the bicycie mania.

Fred H. Ball ( Ball-Barnhart-Putman
Co.) and Frank T. Lawrence (Putnam
Candy Co.) are in Reed City to-day, at-
the of the

Jenks

are

tending annual convention

Northern Michigan Retail Grocers’ As-
sociation.
L. J. Stevenson, Treasurer of the

Commercial Credit Co., Ltd., has gone
to Detroit to attend the annual conven-
tion of the commercial lawyers, agency
managers and credit men. He will be
gone about three days.

G.
Grocer Co.) and wife
troit their vacation, when
they were summoned to Grand

Heman &

far as De-

Barlow (Olney Judson
got as
on surmmer
Rapids
by the announcement of the death of a
neice,

Mr.

The funeral occured Sunday,

and and Mrs. Barlow will return to

| Detroit on their way to Duluth the latter

quoted considerably higher in) our next |
issue, and retailers with light stocks will |

do well to anticipare their wants. for
a couple of weeks and order now.
+-oo
Gillies & Co. have a fiyer from a New
York auction sale-—-a neW Japan tea.
pee L PF. Visner agent.

..,| part of the week.
observe }

ae taken
last
resulting from a = disordered
He was able to resume his usual work
after a few days’ rest, but the daily
newspapers made him very weary by an-
nouncing that he had sulfered a stroke
of apoplexy. The report had no— foun-
dation im fact and the publication of
such a report shows how little reliance
can be placed on the statements of the
daily press on matters relating to busi-
hess ailairs aud business men.

with a
Puesday,
stomach .

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THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

District and County Fairs of [lich-
igan.

> 1
Barry county, Hastings, Sept. 24-2

‘J. M. Bauer, Secretary, Hastine
Branch county, Coldwater, ot 23-
Za, WwW. E. Wri 1a. OeCretary, Coldwater.

_dicdonia Union, Caledonia, Sept.

19-20-21, ©. H. Kinsey. Secretary, Cale-

 

 

Ca In Cou Marshall, Sept |
2 Cumn s >¢ etary Mat
shall

rrievoix Co fy, fas rrda Sept
24-26, |. HH. Stone Cretary, East jor
dan

Coopersville, Co Sept 24-
27, 4. Devo CCl Coopersville.

Eaton county, ( Oct 1-4, G
Oe _ oor tary, Charlotte

Fentor inion. Fenton, ct, i-4

Fenton.
Hadley, Oct. 8-10,

Frank Heath, Secretary,

Hadley district,

 

 

F. A. Smith, Secretarv, Hadley.
Hillsdale, Hillsdale, Sept. 30-Oct. 4,
J. F .Fitsimmons, Secretary, Hillsdale.
Howard City, Howard City, Aug. 27-30,
B. |. Low Secreta Howard City.
1O s lor ia, Scot i7-20
Fred Cutler, jr, Secretary, fonia. |.
Litchticld Union, Litechteld,-Oct. 8-11,
lL. B. Agard, Secreta itchtield.
Mason county, Lux Dept 16-
io W. |. Meiseni pecretary,
Lud rtor i
Midland county, Midland, Se Di. 25-27,
|. G. Culver, Secretary, Midland.

Oceana county, Hart. oe. 24-27,

 

Holl: ana.
Centerville, Oct.
tary, Centerville.

  

Washtenaw county, Ann Arbor, Sept.
pa-27, EF. BE. Mills, Seen tary, Ann Ar-
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Low Distric Fa Association,
Lowell, Se ma 2 UU. UF Hooker, Del -
reta i V j

CeGdar Springs Fair Society, Cedar
Springs, Sept. 3-6, J. B. Callahan. Sec-
e airy Ceda > s

Ottawa and West Kent Agricultural

DOcneiy, be OCPE t7-30, Secreiary.,
Melvin H. Smith, Grand Rapids.

Manistee County Agricultural Soc lety,

: Sent rt ] ‘ A Ye
Onekama, Sept.17-19, John N. Brodie,
sé t iry 5 foi ike

STA ND Dis [CT FAIRS
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C. Garrard, Secretary, Springtield

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I Ke ech » ciary, £ lANnaAPOLs

Ohio, mus, Dep ft. WL OW
Miller Secretary. Co imbus

iri-State Fa Poledo, \ug 20-31
4 Fitzsin Ss OOCTetary Toledo

Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Sept. 10-21,
I Fleming Secretary, North

ity, Indiana, Craw-
13, yv. WwW. Morgan,

. cretary, Crawtordville, ind.

SS mm « ty, Illinois, Catlin,
Aur. 20-2 HM. H. Kidd, Secretary.
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Simple Test for Silk.

ihe tirst thing to do whe you want
to test the quality of a sample ‘of silk is
to try to tear it both lengthwise and
Crosswist lf it gives way readily in

lirection, be sure either that. the
| l the strength or that
1 in part of what
k waste. Pure

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. cheaper
ularly the dark and_ black
vasis of metallic salts that
nd weaken what they color.
| ‘mness of weave by
fonally across the fabric
pnatl Tf it 1s durable
w threads will not

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slip for a

\ manipulation.
Otherwise, the thumb nail will soon make
a space of loose threads as big as itself.
After that ravel out a bit of the silk and
look carefully at the quality of both
warp and woof. Sometimes a pure silk

ward has heavily loaded woof. At
others, especially in satin weaves, so
much of the woof as comes on the sur-
face is of pure silk, with inferior —
ing. The pure silk, unloaded, is of <
lively lustre and very soft to the oe.
If the lustre has been. artificially pro-
duced, the fibre feels harsh and. brittle.
If it is silk, but loaded with metallic
dve, the fibre looks like cotton, but is
omewhat softer.

\nother test of quality is to pull out
thre ads both ways and try their strength
between your fingers. That is, catch
them with both hands about an = inch
apart, give a quick outward jerk, and
note the force necessary to break them.
Chen try to tear the silk along the lines
that the threads come out of. If it parts
so difficultly that there are puckers

* |along the tear, it is proof that it will

wear decently well.

The most valuable of the tests for
either weighting or adulteration of the
fibre is to burn a fragment of the sam-
ple, and also some ravelings of it. If
it is pure and properly dyed, it’ will
take fire with difficulty, even when held
directly in the flame. It will go out al-
most as soon as the flame is withdrawn,
leaving ashes that are nearly jet black.
On the other hand, weighted silk is al-

most dangerously inflammable. It takes |
fire readily, and, once burning, will
smoulder through the piece, leaving

ashes that keep the shape of the cloth,
1

and are of a light yellowish red color. |

If there is cotton mixed with the fibre,

jthe smell of the smoke will betray it.

The —— of a thoroughly good silk
are strength, smoothness, lustre and
without weight, no matter
how thick the texture. Adulteration in-
variably causes a harsh feeling. In
heavy weaves, such as brocade, it is
particularly
foundation is of firm,
— the fabric

richne SS,

“dress goods. 7

en fabric will not only usually last

ser than pure silk when applied to|
better when |

furniture, but it will hang
used a ir curtains or portieres.
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A new process for the preservation of
green fruit during railway transit has
been invented bya Californian. It con-
Sists in sterilizing the air in the car con-
taining the fruit, and it is said to be
more economical than the
frigerating system, and much more suc-
cessful.

small expense, while the expense of the
pr ocess itself is said to be comparatively
nothing compared with the refrigerating

process,

important to see that the |
sound silk, as}
will not repay the

{cost of making. The writer, of course, |
refers especially to silks that are sold as |
For drapery and up- |
| holstery one seldom wants to buy pure |
silk ; a well-made mixed silk and wool- |

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Fruits and Produce

How Prices Are Established on the
Morning Market.

There isn’t ay Use in trying to be
on hand to say good morning to the first
grower on the market, but it occurred
to me, the othe: day, that | would like
to be on hand in time to find out who
settles the prices of fruits and produce

e
and how the thing With this

object in view I got up at 3 o'clock and
-
|

is done.

i
half an hour later nailed a rower who

had not yet located his wagon with
“What do you. charge for peaches this
morning ?"’

and was fairly knocked off
my base to hear, before the question was
fairly out,
ty-ive

‘Whoa! a dollar and twen-
cents !’” How did that man
know? and as I loitered along pricing
produce here and there, | finally found
a promising face and_ settled down to
business. “hice potatoes vou have
there. Dry weather didn’t

affect you,
lL guesse’’

‘You're right, it didn't.
Been the best time fo: potatoes. that
i could ask for | put im about ten
acres this year. They ain't half the
potatoes that
knows how to take care of ‘em |
plant mine in hills, just

folks that get ina lot. of

a square apart,

so I can run between the hills both ways |

with the cultivator. Good many plant
in rows; but that ain't no way. Lhey
don't do half so well. Then, after they
come up, | put the machine through
‘em, once in. eight, revular. Uhat's
what does the business for ‘em. Why,
you can't see a weed among my pota-
toes, any more’n you would ina

was hilling ‘em. He laughed at me, ‘n’
by George, the rain come on ‘n’
p'taters took a start, ‘n’ my,
fairly hear ’em grow."’

them
you could

‘These some of 'em?’’ The load was
among the finest on the market.

‘‘A part of ’em, but not the best.
These yield about 75 bushel to the acre,
but I expect the
hundred. ’”’

others will turn out a

‘These are fine. What do you ask
for ‘em?’

‘Forty-five cents a bushel.

‘How do you fellows establish your
prices? Do you have a board of

growers who fix prices? Suppose vou

had got here first this morning — would
you have put the price at 45 cents? How
do you do it?””

“Well, I'll tell you-—a feller who has
anything to sell has a general idea how
the market
apt tO et thir

is running, and he isn’t very

ws too low, ‘n’ if he does
make a miss of it, it don't take long
to correct it. Now, | was bere day be-
fore yesterday and I could see about
what the market was going to be for po
tatoes, =n then, b Georse, | made up
my mind that them p'taters would bring

$5 cents ‘f they brought anything. |
won t sell 'em-—"’
‘What you asking for potatoes?’? in-

terrupted a buyer.
‘Forty-five cents.’’

‘I'd like to give ve yo cents and take
all you've got.”’

‘Yes, I s’pose you would; but I've
refused the offer once before this morn-
me.

‘You see,’ the grower went on, “I’ve
a place just over here where 1 store
"em, if I can’t get what they’re worth:
and if I can’t get my price one day, |
can another. Thats about how it is.
The market this
good sign what it will be

morning is a pretty
to-morrow
morning, and a feller that keeps his eyes

open won't make a mistake. I'd like

parlor. |
A neighbor come along t’othe day nn’ |!

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

to sell you a bushel or two, if you want

any.
tubers
were first-class: and, thanking the grow-

I was sorry not to buy, for the
er for the favor he had done me, I went
‘ ed he
on to the next man who looked as if. he
asked him the
same question, with the same

would be like ly to know,
reneral
result.

For some reason or other, the dago
the idea of giving these fellows the name
OF St. James! —is not looked upon with
Whether it be the
dirt that clings to it (there

tenderness. dusky
skin, or the
is always a plenty of it), the repulsive
habits, the sordid greed or the vulture-
like instincts which lead him to the
scum of the market, it is difficult to tell,
but no Opportunity is lost to show. this
dislike on every possible occasion.
‘What you want for these?’’ was the

question in the dago language, as a

dirty paw was spread out over a_ bushel |

of clingstones,
‘Fifteen cents.
They were among the best on the mar-
ket that morning, and the regular price
was 30 cents) The man
a lizard up the side of the wagon and,
spreading his eae arms over the
load, he said,
a ae
‘Here, Jim, I’ve sold your pe

Ms eves glittering like a

snake s, ~ Tem all!’’

for you for 15 cents. He says he’ll take
‘em all!’

‘The devil he will!’’ and the dago,
seeing the joke, backed down from. the
wagon as the owner came up, amid a
laughter, and was soon lost. in
the crowd.

roar of

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PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples —Cocking stock is in ample
supply and fair demand at 30@#40c per
bu., while choice eating varieties, such
as Duchess, Sweet Boughs and Red As-
trachan, command 4o@5oc.
beginning to come in. and,
meet ready sale at a little
than other varieties.

Beets-—-New, toc per dozen.

Blackberries, home
out of market and wild stock has ceased
to come in. The crop of both tame and
wild was nearly a total failure, so far as
quality _— quantity are concerned.

as usual,
higher prices

grown, are about

Butter Factorv Greamery is he ld at
istic. ¢ hebes dairy commands 14@ 16c.

Cabbage 4 per foo.

Celery-Home grown, 124 per dozen

} }
Dunches.

Cucumbers~ Large, 25c¢ per bu. Pick-
ling stock, 75¢ per bu.

 

ot pel doz.
Florida stock commands $3
per 2-bu. stand. Sales are meager, as
the price is, practically, prohibitive.
Green Corn--1oe per doz.
Nutmeg,

i ft.

Grapes

\Iluskmelons

sof@ 60c per
doz. Osage.

25 per doz crate.
fom hoe per bu. for
grown Yellow Danvers

Peaches:-This is the big week for
the Hale’s Early variety, which are be-
ing billed out to-day at 8oc @si, but
which will, probably, go considerably
lower before the end. of. the week,
Early Michigans are beginning to come
in and command about the same prices

Onions home-

as Tiate’s | Parly, Early Rivers are
about at an end for this season.
Peal lapp’s Early, fair in quality,

comm a St per bu. Bartletts’,
ent in quality, bring SI 26

Plumis—Blue stock commands Sst.
Lombards sell to-day at $1.50, but will
go lower before the end of the week.
Green Gages are begining rto come in,
commanding about the same
Lombards.

excel-

    

figures a

Potatoes 5c) per bu
small and unimportant.

Tomatoes—S1 per bu. for
grown.

Watermelons—1o@ t2c apiece, accord-
ing to size and quality.

home- |

crawled like |

aches

Handlers pay 10'%c¢ and hold at

'WATKINS& AXE,Wholesale Produce

His Best Recollection.
‘Well, what do you want,
asked the

‘I most forgot what mamma se nt me

sonny: :

PYOcer.

for,’’ replied the perplexed little boy on
the outside of the counter, ‘‘but I think

it’s a can of condemned milk.’

Seed

Weare now receiving New
Crop Timothy.
to buy

 

If you wish
Timothy or Clover
correspond with us. We
handle all kinds Seeds, Al-
syke, Alfalfa, Crimson Clo-
wer, Etc.

We respectfully solicit your orders.

ALFRED J. BROWN CO.,

Seed Merchants,
GRAND RAPIDS

Grand Rapids Fruit Growers Assn.

Each grower sells his own stock
fresh picked each day

R. D. GRAHAM, President.

, J. A. PEARCE, Vice-President.

H. 0. BRASIAN, Treasurer.

M. W. RONAN, Secretary.

Headquarters until Oct. 1 116 LOUIS STREET.

 

Grand Rapids Is Headquarters

For Peaches!

Our crop promises to be large this year, and as
we have had some nice rains late ly, qualits will
be good. We shall handle more this year than
ever before, and are in position to give your
orders prompt an careful attention. Hale's

' |; Early (Freestone) are now in market. and will
SNOWS are |

have a few yellow peaches last of week. Prices
are about ie to $1.25 per bushel. In about two
weeks we shall be getting the Early Crawfords,
sion ete. Send in your orders at limited
price and I will take eare of you. We bill at
market price day of shipment, and our terms are
net cash weekly.

Fe ars. Plums and C rabapples are now coming
int prices reasonable.

‘Apple s. Potatoes Me lons, Cucumbers, (Ce lery,
Onions, Cabbage, ete.. at lowest market prices

We respectfully solicit your mail orders; same
will have our prompt and e areful attention and
benetit of lowest possible prices.

HENRY J. VINKEMULDER,
418-420-445-447 S. Division St. Grand Rapids

State how to ship: Freight or Express and
over what Line.

‘Peaches

If you wish to keep in touch with the
market correspond with us and we
will enter vour name
port which will be mailed r
free of charge. The ¢ rop pro
he a large one and quality

to the standard.

for market re
rularly

mises to

 

s fully up

WRITE US
ALFRED J.

> TO-DAY.

BROWN CoO.
Grand Rapids

 

Send your consignments of

Peaches

BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY and
FRUITS to

GeO. E. Darling & 60.

42 Jefferson Avenue,

142 Woodbridge St.

DETROIT

GEO. E. DARLING
H. H. ROBINSON

W. H. BEACH

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

HAY, GRAIN,
SEEDS,
PRODUCE,

Orders Promptly Filled
Write for Quotations

 

HOLLAND, [MICH.

 

ARTHUR J. WATKINS

FRESH EGGS, CHOICE CREAMERY and DAIRY BUTTER

Northern Trade Solicited

for Meats and Produce Phone 395

Special Attention to Consignments
and Buying on Track.

84 and 86 South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS.

SEEDS, POTATOES, BEANS

We handle all kinds FIELDcSEEDS, Clover.

wheat, Fie ” Peas, Spring Rye, Barley, Ete.
Eggs, Ete. Car lots or less.

sass. Hungarian, Millet, Buck
suy and sell Potatoes, Beans, Seeds

EGG CRATES and EGG CRATE FILLERS.

If you wish to buy or sell write us.

MOSELEY BROS.,

Jobbers SEEDS, BEANS,

WHOLESALE

26-28-30-32,.0TTAWA STREET
Grand Rapids, Mich.
POTATOES, FRUITS.

COMMISSION... si | TVE Pou ltry

caaesioe - BUTTER EGGS, FRUITS and VEGETABLES.

We can get you the Highest Mar-
ket Price at all times.

Y. DETTENTHALER,

= Grand Rapius, Mich.

| 117-119 Monroe Street,

 

 

  

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Devoted to the Best

 

 

Published at the New Blodgett Building,
Grand Rapids, by the

TRADESMAN COMPANY
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance.
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ind Rapids Post Office as
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When writing to any of our Advertisers, please
say that you saw the advertisement in the
Michigan Tradesman.

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STOWE, Epiror.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1895.

 

THE NATIONAL FINANCES.

The tirst month of the new

has not furnished any developments
which int to an improvement in. the
position of the National treasury. It
had not been expected that the figures
showing the treasury workings would
show an equilibrium between receipts

ures for July: but it was

deticit would be consid-

and that there would be in-

Ithy condition of

; Scason.

 

month of July
reached $20,069,697, which is a decrease

compared with the = cor-
month of last serson

responding

expenditures amounted to

which represent an increase Of $1,900, -

compared with the same month last
yea Phe excess of expenditures over
receipts or the month of July was $o,- |
500,000 ; whereas the CxCesS for July, }

1804, amounted to a

deficit,
liv show that the deficit

Instead of a diminishing

principal shrinkage in

enue was in the Internal Revenue De-

partment, where there was a falling off

for the
figures. Onthe other hand,

montana Gf $12,000,000 im

ceipts show a gratifying increase com- |
pared with last year, the gain being
about $5,600,000. There is every rea-
son to believe that the receipts from

steadily during
but, with internal rev-

customs will increase
the present ycar ;
enue receipts diminishing, it 1s
cally imp.
balancing the accounts.

the disbursements for

that there

The schedule of

does not indicate

been any abnormal drain upon the treas- |

about the only noticeable increase

ury,
over July, 1894, being the interest pay-

ments, which showed an increase of $6, -

30 00

Until the national finances can be
placed upon a sound and solid founda-
tion, there can be no revival of confi-

dence, nor can the financial centers. of
the country be fully relieved of the fear
of monetary disturbances. A country
with such vast expenditures to provide
for must have an ample revenue, afford-
ing even a moderate surplus. That would

seem to be the most pressing financial

reform demanding attention, and, when
the
promptly confronted with the necessity

new Congress meets,

Interests of Business Men |

fiscal year |

 

The}

$38, 548, 063, |

trifle over $1,800, - |

the rcyv- |

round |

Customs re- |

practi- |

ssible to think of successfully |

has |

i nue.

The authorities in Berlin are making
la strong crusade against the usurers of
that capital who are fattening on the
i misfortunes of a large proportion of the
people of all classes.
ble to regulate the evil
| but as long as it is the supply of an im-
} perative demand, it will be impossible
| to eradicate it. The root of the

lies in the German military system the
idle

army comprising much of the best abil-
itv that should be for

evil
maintenance of an

the senseless

used

production, This expenditure, con-
stantly augmenting the inheritance of
national debt, has made that boastful

empire actually poor, and the demands
altogether
economic

the
maintain

OF taxation are too SeVETe,

the

incomes. of

considering conditions.
Che
not sufficient to
constantly

aristocracy are
their stand-
Ing without accumulating

debt and
nothing but a struggle to exist and pay-

for the lower classes there is

Itaxes. To eradicate the evils of usury
it will be necessary to abolish or great-
ly modify the military system and put
the armies to The

|conditions in all the army-ridden coun-

 

pr mductive work.

ltries of Europe are similar to those of
Germany in varying degrees.

revival
While
in wheat and

The financial and trade con-
tinues very encouraging.
has been a slight reaction
one or two of the less important metals,
the

caused by reckless

and a complete demoralization of
hard
competition, prices in general have con-
thought that
from export

coal market,
tinued to advance. It is
the withholding of wheat
by the western producers is likely to
work disaster, in that England will look

 

in some degree, |
fopinion has taken its place ;

i ° ‘ i Ms
fof providing increased sources of reve- |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

| is to-day, it

plied to the questioning woman :

industrial }

jear and pleased

ito the prevailing opinion.
It may be possi- | | |

THE READING OF THE ORACLE.
When the world was younger than it
the to refer
all doubtful or difficult questions to the
famous oracle at Delphi, whose answers

was custom

were usually so construed as to conform
Modern life
but
and when,

has given up the oracle, public

years ago, the question, ‘‘What part in

| the world’s work shall the woman take?”’

came up, the public oracle promptly re-

‘Your

| best, your sweetest empire is to please.’

lt was an apt reply. It caught the
the fancy and. corres-
ponded with the idea prevalent a cen-
tury ago of the woman clinging like the
to be

ivy tothe sturdy oak. It began

apparent, however, that in this country,

lat least, where business was early the

|leading idea, the tree, transformed into

 

ifor her supplies elsewhere. The ex-
| ports of this cereal last week were but |
ilittle more than one-third that of the |
| corresponding week last year. Wool |

cotton goods are again advanced. — lron
| has
jand Lake copper has reached 12. cents.

 

The recent speech of Gladstone, in
|which he arraigns the Turkish
the Armenian
the other nations to put an end

vo vern-

ment for atrocities and

Is on

cal
Europe, has. re-
His

with Russia in

ito Turkish misrule in
demand
ithat England unite this
|matter does not receive unqualified ap-

i}ceived much attention.

probation, however. The price of Rus
jsia’s services in this direction would be
her long-wished-for

ithe attainment of

|} goal on the Bosphorus. There are those
who question whether the Russian rule,
in view of her dealings with the Jews
and her Siberian colonies, would be a
| sufficient Improvement over that of the
| Turk to warrant the change.

Among other advantages of the bicy-
is one that has had but little
attention, and yet is of considerable im-
portance the tendency to discourage the
use of strong drink. It is found that
the effect of even a small indulgence is
generally very unpleasant on the wheel
and, frequently, causes accident. Wheel-
men are learning that they must take
their between the wheel and
whisky and the former wins so frequent-
ly that it is a matter of congratulation
to those interested in temperance.

| cle, there

choice

The result of the recent elections in
Australia is a victory for the radicals

atives.

continues firm and active and prices of |
| im the

i . |
continued to advance in some lines |

i observed by
|
there |

a wash-tub, was hardly the form of oak
for a self-respecting ivy to cling to, and
the doubt has been raised that the oracle
is capable of a better rendering. — If
woman's mission is to please, this does
not mean, necessarily, that the clinging
business is the only method of carrying
out Nature’s design. Even if the oak
were ever so sturdy, a vigorous vine of
150 avoirdupois weight might
tiresome, if not monotonous ;
the thoughtful
clinging business, carried to
killed the tree
read. Then the reaction came.
I] and the gentlemen. of
lieved that the woman might stop cling-
ing long enough to make a batch of pies,
and in that way show that her**best and
Byron,

prove
and it was
that the

excess,
the oracle had been mis-
Charles
be-

his court

sweetest empire is to please.’
the poet, could not bear the thought that
the woman he loved. there were several
of her- should beef
beer, and the pleasing, in his peetic eye,
permitted her only
** To eat strawberries, sugar and cream,
Sit on a cushion and sew up a seam.’’

come down to and

meantime, the woman herself
has been thinking. The vine, like the
oak, must adapt itself to existing cir-
cumstances. If use is the requirement
of the age, the vine must meet that  re-
quirement, and the oracle does not say
that the ivy is the only vine, nor does it
say that the wild grape pleases more
than the cultivated Concord or Catawba.

**Cultivated.’’ That is the word upon
the condition Who
most as wife or
cul-

swings.

which
pleases sweetheart,
mother, the ignorant woman or the
tured And even in. baking and
darning, is it not true the more knowl-
edge the baker and darner has, the bet-
‘That is the
meaning of the oracle, and if the woman

'
Onc :

ter she can please? real
can find her *‘best and sweetest empire’’
in clinging less and thinking more, in
being less a dressmaker’s dummy and
more the thoughtful, intelligent being
that intended her to be, the
question is settled and the demand of
| Margaret Fuller is that
| which is the birthright of every being
capable to receive it: the freedom, the
religious, the intefligent freedom of the
universe; to use Its means, to learn its

heaven

conceded ‘‘ for

secrets as far as nature has enabled her,
with God, alone, for her guide and
judge.’’ That granted, the woman has
the world before her, and if the empire
of pleasing leads her into paths where
men have walked until
pleasing to note how green the grass
grows there and how soon in her foot-
prints there are flowers blooming where,

 

now, it will be

it will be/| and a severe rebuke to the ultra conserv-| before she passed, there was only barren

| sand.

 

pe
. .
John Brechting Architect
Grand Rapids.
(Continued from last week)
and, instead of going to an arehi-
tect for the information, he goes
toa contractor who, after listen-
ing tothe intending builder and
probably making a few figures,
ete., he will state a price which
he knows is high enough, for he
thinks it easier to come down in
price than to go up. After some
>» **jangling ” as to the price, the
deal is usually Closed and. if the
contractor has been ‘“Jewed
down” in price any he has his
nin! made up that he will not be
the loser. He then will use a
cheap grade of material and put
up everything as cheap as possi-
ble. When completed, the owner
thinks he has just as good a house
(To be continued)
Anybody having any question
to ask on this subject will be
cheerfully answered.

anil

TO CLOSE UP AN ESTATE

  

 

Good Furniture
Business......

ell @

Established 1887. Always good

growing business. Occupying new build-
ing In prosperous city of 100,000 people.
Large territory tributory to it.
Well selected and complete stock of all
kinds of Household goods.
Yearly business of $50,000 can be done.
Will be sold at a bargain.
No.

TRADESMAN.

Address 1000, care MICHIGAN

 

 

Everything for the

Field and Garden

Clover, Medium or Mammoth, Al-
syke, Alialfa and Crimson, Timo-
thy, Hungarian Millet, Peas and
Spring Rye. Garden Seeds in
bulk and Garden Tools.

Headquarters for Egg Cases and
Fillers.
e ® e

128 to 132 W. Bridge St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

MICHAEL KOLB & SON,

Wholesale

Clothing Manufacturers,
ROCHESTER, N.Y.

Write our representative, WILLIAM
CONNOR of Marshall, Mich, Box 346,
to call upon you and see our fall and
winter lines of Overcoats, Ulsters and
Suits for all ages, prices, fit and make
guaranteed, or meet Mr. Connor at

 

Sweet’s Hotel on Friday, Aug 30, and
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Phriday, Sept. to, 1, 12 and 13, State

Fair Week.

PHONE 509-3 Rings...

 

 

For Boomer’s Express
Moving and Storage.

56 OTTAWA STREET.

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

OUTCOME OF THE TRUSTS.

While the great commercial and finan-
cial trusts, which are formed for the
purpose of crushing out all competition,
of limiting production, fixing prices,
controlling the markets and monopoliz-
ing the trade in articles or in the supply-
ing of service, that are necessary to the
daily life of the population, are the
greatest foes to the welfare and prosper-
ity of the American people, it must not
be supposed that this criticism applies
to the ordinary corporations formed. for
the conduct of business.

Formerly every mechanic owned his
kit of tools and carried them with him
when he engaged to work for some em-
ployer. At that time nearly all the work
of skilled labor was done by hand, and
the superior skill and ingenuity of a
hand-worker made him n especi lz ally va valu-
able. The only permanent plant in any
of the shops of the mechanical trades
were the blacksmiths’ forge and anvil,
the carpenters’ circular saws, the cabi-
netmakers’ lathe, the machinists’ bor-
ing and turning machinery.

To-day all is changed. The machine
has taken the place of the hand-worker
and special skill and deftness in the
use of tools count for nothing. Machin-
ery does all the work of the carpenter
in planing, mortising, molding, scroll-
sawing and the like. It turns out win-
dow sash and blinds, doors, stair-rails,
etc., and leaves to the workman only
the task of putting the parts together.
The machinist enters a vast factory,
where mechanical engines do. every-
thing, but think for him. The shoe-
maker is no longer dependent on a wal-
let containing his awls, pincers and
knife and a stock of wax and bristles.
Inge ious 1 mac hines do all his cordwam-
ing and pegging, &, while the tailor finds
a mechanism which does *s his stitching.
The compositor in a “printing office is
no longer a man deft of hand and quick
of eye, picking types one by one out of a
multiplicity of little boxes. He has
come to be only the manipulator of a
machine, which does everything but
talk.

Thus it is that large amounts of capi-
tal are necessary to provide and main-
tain the great factories and the compli-

cated machines that do all the work that
was once accomp lished “only by muscu-
lar labor and hand skill, and to this end
corporations with the assembled capital
of a greater or lesser number of stock-
holders are required. But no ordinary
stock company is able to monopolize the
necessaries of life or transportation, and
in their general operations Corporations

 

are not only necessary, but are beneti-
cial to the conduct of all sorts of com-
merce and industries. It is the trust
which is the great monopolizer, the op-
erpowering destroyer of all, competition,
the enslaver of the great masses of the
people.

The difference between an ordinary
corporation and a trust is this: The
former is an assemblage of persons,
each contributing a given amount. of
capital far the conduct of a business en-
terprise. A trust is an aggregation of
corporations engaged in the same_busi-
ness. One of these corporations may be
operating with a capital of $1,000,000.
If twenty such corporations combine to
form a trust this trust operates with a

capital of $20,000,000. With such a vast
money power enormous effects can be
accomplished.

The first thing done is to buy up or
crush out all_competition in the trust’s
line of business. This done, as many
of the trust’s factories as may be neces-

 

sary are shut off from work, and. the
production of the article manufactured
is so limited as to reduce the supply.
This puts up the price, which can be
kept up at the will of the managers, and
thus the masses of the consumers are
placed directly at the mercy of a single
vast monopoly. Such methods may be
carried on until they control the produc-
tion of all necessaries, and already sev-
eral important lines of business have
been monopolized. Having secured
control of the production of the chief
articles of universal consumption, the
railroads will next be taken. in hand,
and all the parallel roads on the conti-
nent will be placed under one manage-
ment, so that there will be no competi-
tion in the transportation of freights
and passengers, finally accomplishing
the total enslavement of the entire pop-
ulation.

But is there no remedy for all this?
Che remedy for which the Populists are
clamoring is the creating of a vast gov-
ernment despotism to monopolize all in-
dustries, all capital and all production
for the general benefit. There has never
yet been such a government on the face
of the earth, but there will be if the
modern socialists of this country can
accomplish their — startling
Nevertheless, the evil they are trying to

designs,

combat is a terrible one, and desper-
ate men should not be blamed for pro-
posing desperate measures.

The true remedy in reach of the peo-
ple who desire to preserve their free in-
stitutions is to have Congress and the
State Legislatures pass stringent laws
against all trusts and monopolies and
crush them out. This is the proper
remedy and the patriotic remedy. Let
the people look to that.

——_— > te —.--
UNIONISM IN THE ENGLISH ELECTION.

The result of the recent elections in
England marks a reaction in the social-
istic tendencies of unionism which
would seem to be an indication to the
anarchist leaders that the masses of the
people are yet believers in law and or-
der. It is the misfortune of trade unions
that the blatant demagogues and agita-
tors get to the front and pose as the
leaders and representatives of labor. At
the last ‘‘Congress’’ of trades unions a
year ago, the socialistic element made
itself so prominent and was so rampant
that it disgusted sensible labor men.
This fact did not become apparent to
these leaders; so this year, just before
the elections, they held a convention at
which a platform was adopted compris-
ing planks of the rankest socialism.
One provision was that land, manufac-
tures, trade and commerce should be
nationalized.
all candidates to receive union support

The requirement was that

must subscribe to this platform, and the
edict went forth that all trades-union-
ists should vote for no one who would not
thus subscribe. Their scheme was a
bold one and could not tail to show the
actual sentiment of the people. The
result was decidedly disappointing. A
year ago the boast was made that the
unionists would be given the balance of
power by this election. Instead of. re-
alizing this there is so great a reaction
that the ‘‘party’’ will have no signifi-
cance in the next parliament. Not
only that but to this year’s meeting of
the congress the unionists of many
large districts are refusing to send del
Coates.

The significance of all this is that the
socialism of trades-unionism is in no
degree representative of the sentiments
of the people. The curse of unionism,
both in England and in this country, is
that the rank and file consent to be
duped and led, to be misrepresented by
anarchistic demagogues.

 

Give Us Your Ear

We have a carload New Teas due
next week. If any of our friends are
interested in Japan Teas, new or
old, we can do them lots of good.
WOODENWARE.......has declined un-
til present prices are so extremely
low we dare not publish them.
Write us.

We Offer for a Snap

 

Hynes Marrow-
fat Peas, 2s, new, at 48c per dz.

350 cases Eclipse Tomatoes, 3s, at
77\4c per dz. in 5 case lots, net
cash.

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10

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Getting the People

Art of Reaching and Holding Trade
by Advertising.

It is as impossible tor an advertise-
ment constructor to build successful ads.
from his unaided mind, continuously,
as it is to continually draw water from

a well which has no source of supply.

The writer must seek his inspiration
from his surroundings and by actual
contact with the world of advertisement
writers. Otherwise, like the immova-
ble rock, he will gather a_ covering of
moss, rendering impenetrable the rays
of enlightenment and advancement in
the manufacture of ** people-getters.”’

It is the continual practice of the suc-
cessful writer of selling literature to
keep thoroughly in touch with all forms
and manner of advertising. ‘Thus, an

}

| { brought about,

interchange of ideas 1s

which results in lasting benetit to both
himself and the woods he sells.

lt iS my aim, im these articles, to
bring about such an exchange of ideas
among the ad. writers) both merchants
and clerks. who are readers of this de-
partment, that a mutual good may fol-
low, and that by such reciprocity each
may help the other to a higher and more
plane of advertisement
lrades-

trade-bringing
construction. Lo this end, the
Iv invites each reader
either employer or employed

man especial
to CGnh-
tribute something of his own manufac
ture, as often as possible, thereby GIV-
ing and receiving new and practical
hints from actual advertisements each
week. In this way the department may
be made of much greater value than
it now is under one man power. The
Tradesman hopes this) proposition will
be considered and meet with a favorable
response.

The average business correspondence
of a mercantile house furnishes a won-
derfully rich mine of ideas for advertis-
ing, which may be utilized in any line
of goods. For instance, we will say
that you are engaged in the drug busi-
ness. Each day’s mail brings you let-
ters and circulars exploiting the merits
of the various articles handled by the
druggist. These circulars and = other
media are in a large number of in-
stances the products of brainy men who
have brought to bear their best efforts
and years of study and experience in
the school of advertising both as pupil
and master—to the attainment of the
greatest possible value of words as argu-
ments why you should carry in’ stock
and sell these goods. While their efforts
are, in the main, largely viven to ex
reasons why you can and
selling ~"O.,

pounding
should make money by
Puffy’s Pure Malt
a thousand and one ways you would

Ponic,’” showing im
never have thought of otherwise the ad-
vantages which will accrue to vou by
handling it, yet, on the other hand, you
will find specious arguments advanced
why the buying public must use. the
tonic.
which has the drawing power of an elec-

They will tell you, in language

tric locomotive and which is as con-
vincing, almost, as if the tonic had ac-
tually cured you of some physical ill,
that human-kind cannot exist without
this Spec ific.

The fact that so much time. effort,
brains and money are expended in pro-
curing the best advertising literature
for their wares by manufacturers, makes
the ideas collated from such advertising
by the retail merchant of so much more
value. If you wish to advertise your
wares successfully, then watch carefully

 

 

your correspondence for new ideas, and
don’t contained
therein to go unheeded.

A novel idea for shoe window dress-

allow a_ suggestion

ing is given by an enterprising Eastern
dealer. He has in some way procured
a pair of side-lace ladies’ shoes of pru-
nella, which he alleges to have been
handed down from Revolutionary times.
These are placed attractively in his
window, in close companionship with a
pair of up-to-date side-lace shoes, each
bearing an appropriate inscription.
The difference between the two, con-
trary to all expectation. is not great.
The old-timers have long, slender toes,
light soles and, were they not somewhat
dilapitated, would quite closely resem-
ble modern styles.

The junior member of the firm of
Boomgaard & Son
hardware dealers at Grand Hav-

Boodemyn Boom-
gaard
en, has a rhythmic ear and a very good
conception of what constitutes profitable
advertising for hardware- something
out of the ordinary. I am pleased to
be permitted to reproduce it here for
the benefit of the Tradesman readers :

We have too many goods,

But not enough money.
We'll sell cheap tor cash
Do you think it funny?

We have barbed wire and nails,

Caldron kettles with bails.

Also shovels and spades,

Of different grades,

Cook stoves and ranges,

Screen doors and hinges,

Shot guns and pistols,

Paint brushes all bristles,

Ready-mixed and handy ;

Oils, glass and varnish,

Nickel goods that do not tarnish,

Rubber hose and nozzles.

Cow ties and ox muzzles,

Oil stoves and pesters,

Ice-picks and egg-beaters,

Ice cream and stomach freezers,

Ice-tongs and lemon squeezers,

Tea pots and kettles with spouts,

Hog rings for the snout,

Flat and round nose pliers,

Dash churns and butter tryers,

Powder, shot and loaded shells,

Dinner pails and cow bells,

Cuttlery for table or pocket,

Chisels with shank or socket,

Doors, windows and molding,

lo hang, swing or folding,

[ron wheel-barrows,

And cultivator harrows,

Plows for turning sod,

Measures for peas in pod,

Cradles with fingers on top,

Forks and rakes to reap in the crop,

Pumps both iron and wood,

Pipes for city water, when good.

Step inside and you'll exclaim,

More truth than poetry in this game.

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Prints, Perciles. Wes) Muslins. D:iess
Ging i«oms, S:tines, and hund.eds of
novelli s which we must turn into
eash. We shall inangu ate open war-
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claiming that he had the right to. select
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THE WOMAN IN BUSINESS.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

The question which engrosses the
business world of to-day is not who or
how, or why, but what. Genealogy, the
wearisome detail of .
long-winded wherefore are not wanted.
Chere is no time for them. Results are
called for: and interfering
with these results is swept without cere-

anything

Mony from counting room and office by
the besom of business. The law of
primogeniture does not hold in trade.
He who can make good use of his en-
ergy, time and, above all, his thought,
so as to swell the balance on the right
side of the profit and loss account, is the
man, not for the day and the hour only,
but for all time.
When that business principle was first
laid down, it became at once a barrier
which the inefficient found it impossi-
ble to pass. Better than anything else,
it attracted to the business world the
longing eyes of woman, who, shackled
to the washtub and the teacher’s desk,
timidly asked, after wearisome years of
waiting, that the same opportunity and
liberty that a man has in civilized so-
ciety should be extended to the woman
at his side equal or unequal in special
powers, but an equal member of society.
She should) prove her power as he
Might she? There was but
one answer, and with a ‘‘yes,’’

proves his.
as hearty
unexpected, the long-headed

business man, on

as it was
purely business prin-
ciples, opened to the woman every avo-
and there she
is to-day, ready to stand or fall, as the
her brain and hand shall be
found to meet the wants and needs of

cation at his command:
work ot
the world, on pure business principles.
A publishing house wants a. stirring
story and Harriet Beecher Stowe writes
one for him, which enriches him and
frees a race: 4
Elizabeth
the call.
in art,

mais, |

poem is called for, and
Barrett
‘‘Give me,’’ says the dealer

Browning answers

something in the line of ani-
and Rosa Bonheur paints him a
vigorous group of Normandy horses.

Is it objected that works of genius
hardly fall within the pale of business?
It is submitted that business, whatever
its development, makes that develop-
ment the unerring sign of the genius
The early Astor had
the genius for making money in furs,

which created it.

and he made his fortune in that manner.
Vanderbilt took to steam-
boats and lo, the famous palaces on

Cornelius

Fifth avenue, as the result of genius in
Adelina Patti wanted a
fortune, and she had it for a song.
selva Lockwood decided to earn her

steamboating.

living as a lawyer, and she hammered
at the doors of the Supreme Court of
the United) States until that august and
learned body voted to let her in. The
tield of
women, whose skill with knife and phial

medicine is. brightened by

has made them a_ blessing; and a wo-

man has been known to fill successfully
for years the arduous position of a coun-
try postmaster,

Chis is the woman in business. There
she stands, and there is the record she
has made, to be criticised by the same
business which is used in
brother.

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be all the brighter for the experience
she has had in. the exacting world of
trade.
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JANE CRAGIN.

How She Furnished an Example of
Practical Philanthropy.
Written for tac TRADESMAN.

lt was a wet, disagreeable day, and

that for
do. It was no

a country store means little to
kind of
out in, and that,
Jane Cragin, in
told Huxley to

hour or so

man to be probably,

was the reason why

waterproof and rubbers,
take of thin

while she

Care 75 1Or an

went out to look around.

It was evident that she had no end in

view. She stopped on the steps and

watched the clouds as they dripped and

drifted. She looked up the single sreei
in the village and saw nothing. She
looked down, and nothing but the bend
in the road just beyond Joe Wilkinson’s

barn claimed her attention, and the only

thing there was the big tree that had
forced the road out of a= straight) line.
There might have been someth ing in the
drooping branches of the big elm which
finally started her down that way for
trees do have a lang ruage of their own

and that morning the rain-pattered
leaves did seem to beckon to the little
woman, and away she went.

The walk down there was over thie

wet, gravelly road, bordered by the

rain-beaded grass. She was prepared
for both, and when she found that the elm
and had really nothing to

thinking that

had fooled her
show her,she kept right on,

it was better after all to be out there
where things were growing than to be
shut up in the store, trying to add long
columns of figures when she didn’t feel
like it.

What a pretty picture the river made

}

overhanging al-
and then
hills

out of the

ders into the green meadows,

as it crept

wound on to the old mill, where the

came together to keep the ruin from go-

ing down the then turbulent stream!
The a the mill had long been
over. ‘he flume was washed away ; the

and the gaunt

aimst tin

ae were partly gone,

roof stood out ag

ribs of the
green trees on the hillside behind = it.

Che wheel which had done good service

some of it. The rim still de-

but the

was there

scribed its circle, buckets were
drizzling

and fell

rain
into the

almost gone; and the
dripped trom the wheel
pool

All at needs, ’’ she
at the
a troop olf vigorous

below.
aid to herself, as
pleasing

she looked picture, 1s

to have boys racing

about it ;’? and even as she was saying
it, a ** whoop’? from lusty lungs went
bounding against the neighboring hill
sides. One-—three- where in the world
did those tive children, apparently all
of an age, come from? Was there any-
body living now in the old Woods
house, a little farther down the road?

She would see later on, but now she
must tind out who these children were ;

and down she scrambled to the old ruin.
\ loose

me, and,
of the old

announced her
stood at the
mill, the children

ned stone com-

as she

entrance

crowded

forward to see who the intruder might
be.

“Well, you younkets, a fine play-
ground you have here.  Are’nt you
afraid of falling on these old, wet tim-
bers?’’

"O, we don't care if we do. ’ [won't
hurt us.”

‘*Where do you live?’’

‘Just down the road, on the. old

Woods place. *’
‘I used to know the folks who lived

there, but I don’t know you. What’s
your name, boy?’’
‘*My name’s John Neely, and these

are my brothers;* and the gaping

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group stood wondering what was com-

ing next.

“Well | don't know that [ have
enough to go around, but you shall have
what there 1s;’> and Jane Cragin took

from. her pocket a package of sorted can-
dies and passed them to John, the largest
expecting to see the others make a
sweets ; but they did = noth-
With the a judge
into their wait-
himself the
inter-

boy,
rush for the
ims of the
the boy sifted the candy

sort. air or

ing hands, keeping for

smallest part. Jane began to be
ested.
‘How old are
‘Twelve. ”’
‘Don’t you
‘No, ma am."

you, John?”’

fo to Sc hool ?”

**Can you read?”’
‘*Not very well.
a little
often. ’’
““Why don’t you go to
‘| Jane’ indicated that she
ting ready for a lecture.
fell for a

Mother
has time,

teaches me
when she but that isn’t

school?’’ and

Ss voice was get-
moment.
not
lifted his sober eyes

The boy’s face
Then with
seen at twelve, he
to Miss Cragin’s face, and said:
‘Mother is too poor to send any of us
We can’t

too well, an’

an earnestness, often

any of us read any
that

to school.

I’m the only one can

write. Mother says our clothes are not
goo | enough for school. We have been
living here about six months. Mother

does all she can, an’ the rest of us do
what we can, but it’s pretty hard some-

times. Tommy, don’t bite your apron
that way.”’

‘Is your father alive?’’

A rush of red in the boy’s face was
followed by a pallor that made Miss
Cragin wish that she had not asked the
question ; but the boy, hesitating but a

minute, went bravely on.
| No, ma’am -
ran away and left us when
little
tice that mother cried for days and days,
and when I tried to do all I could to
help her, she stopped crying and
he best. I

but a long time ago, he
‘Tom
I was large enough to. no-

Was a
baby.

said
she guessed it was all for t

haven't seen her cry since. We have
some hard times, but, unless we get too
hungry, we don’t care for that. It isn’t
going to last much longer. 1I’m_ twelve
now and going on thirteen and, while
I’m not large for my age, I can soon
get something to do to earn a little
money, and mother says a little some-

times goes a great ways. She earns al-
zo to work we
want to eat, and that’ll
deal. Don’t you
I’m large enough now to do something?
bat | think | am.”
straightened himself to
wasn’t so small after all.
from the village and
tell mother that I could earn $3 a week,
she’d be the gladdest mother in all the
world. Do you live in the vy illage;

don’t you think | could?’’
‘I know you can.

and when |
all we

most enough,
can have
be a. good S’ pose
Mother says not,
and the
show that he
“If | should come

boy

and

Get your cap and
come right along with me this minute. ”’

‘I haven’t any cap, so we
right off. Shall we?’’

They went at once, and the children
started home on the run to tell what had
John. It showered a little
before they reached the store, but Jane’s
waterproot was equal to any little thing
like that; and, by the time the long
walk was ended, it was pretty plain that
the home at the old Woods place was in
need of everything that
desirable.

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Business in the Milltown store, on
Jane’s arrival, became brisk. All hands
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light work--and the boxes and bundles
and baskets which went into that deliv-
ery wagon were something extensive:
and when Cyrus drove off with John,
comfortably clad on the seat beside him,
it was hard to tell which was the *‘ glad-
dest’’ — John in his new suit, Huxley with
his load of goods, or warm-hearted Jane
Cragin, as she watched them drive away
to the deserted, work-worn woman, who,
for so many weary years had *‘earned
almost enough’’ to keep the wolf from
the door.

The next day Miss Cragin called at
the Woods place. She was warmly wel-
comed, and when the lively conversa-
tion about the delivered were
over, it was found that Miss Cragin had
a scheme which she hoped, Mrs.
Neely’s help, to carry out. There was
a vacant house not far from the. store
corner, and it could be rented for al-
most nothing. She had thought of this
because they needed a boy to run. er-
rands in the store. They wanted John,
if she could spare him, and in that case
he must be near. They would pay him
$3 a week ; and Mis. Neely, by being in
the village, would find more work to do
and so get along more easily than where
she was. Would she be willing to take
the cottage?’’

A week later found
and five very happy
care of the little house and its neglect-
ed surroundings. The boy John
made himself a necessity in the store,
and a good many times afterwards Jane
Cragin was heard to remark that. that
walk in the rain was the best walk she
ever took; and Huxley, hearing her,
replied, **Yes, and that load of goods
we took over to the Woods
paid for itself more than a
times.

Loot Is

with

a happy woman
children taking

soon

place has
hundred

Of course, the boys had to have their
say about it; and one day, after Jim had
finished a
which Miss Cragin appeared as a saint
with the traditional ring of fame above
her revered head, Sid remarked: ‘* The
fact is, Jim, they are mighty nice peo-
ple, both of them, and Cy isn’t a bit be-

long-winded encomium, in
a

hind Jane, now, I tell you. I heard
about him long before I came to Mill-
town, and that was one reason why |

think
when | was working on the farm, that a

wanted to come here. I used to
store was one of the best places for a
man to make himself looked up to and
respected; and the more I see these
people and know them, the more | am
convinced that that ts the niche in life
I want to fill. You can see yourself
that Cy’s the man of the village,
influence he is

and
just see the going to

have when the gets bigger.
Mother has always talked about my_ be-
ing a doctor, because grandfather was
one. 1 don’t take to it at all. |

to be a storekeeper; and, after I’ve got

place

want

as good an education as the best college
can give me, I’m coming right back to
this store, or some other, if I can’t get
in here, and do for the place what Cy
and Miss Cragin are The
educated storekeeper is to be the man
of to-morrow, and if I don’t happen to
be on hand when that time comes, | can
learning and

doing now.

do what I can to make my
my influence tell on the people and the
town where I live. That is better, in
my opinion, than all the doctoring and
lawyering when there are too many of
Benton &

’em already. il
The other member of the future firm
was not given, for a signal from the
front store summoned them both to
duty, and the castlebuilding came to a
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THE MICHIGAN

that if the ideas of the embryo eee
keeper should generally be carried out, |
the benetits which this country would |
receive from a nation of bred |
tradesmen with all that the training im |
plies, business life in

college

America would |
assume a dignity and an importance be- |
fore unknown and would) make. these
sterling qualities of citizenship felt in
the market places of the world.
RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
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Information Gathered in Experience.
“Pipe Hole” in the Iron Age.
This is the season of the

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year when |
people have brought their kitchen stove |
out into the summer shed and are experi-
encing difficulty in getting their cake
done the right brown, and are making
more or less trouble with the stove deal-
er on account of it. It is not strange that
a stove that has been connected with an
8x8 or larger flue of two or three. stories
in height fails to operate satisfactorily

when its chimney consists of some old
pipe shoved up through the shed_ roof.
Another feature that acts as a drawback
is the high temperature of the air at
this season which naturally does not press
so hard to enter the fire aswhen the weath-
er is cooler and there is a great. differ-
ence in the temperature between the air
coming out of the top of the chimney
and the air out of the doors. Cheap ex-
periments will prove expensive in se- |
curing satisfaction, and the best. thing
to do is to run up a6-inch pipe at least,
and oftentimes better a 7-inch pipe, to
almost the same height as the chimney
with which the stove has been previous-
ly connected.

It is a little out of season to talk
about double heaters, but many a double
heater has failed to prove. satisfactory
when the weather suddenly set in sharp
aud cold. Then all the doors in the
house are kept closed, and each room
may be said to bea sealed chamber.
This interferes with the passage of air
from the room in which the double
heater is set to the room above, which
ordinarily it heats, and as a result the
uper room oftentimes is cold. Where such
a result is experienced it can be readily
remedied by placing another register in
the floor of the upper room and connect-
ing it with the face plate in the ceiling
of the room in which the heater is. set.
This will make a circulation of air in |
the two rooms, and will enable the cold
air in the upper floor to come into. the
lower room to take the place of the
heated air which is discharged from the
heater through the register up stairs.

The average dealer looks on the work
of repairing stoves as profitable, partic-
ularly when he has careful men to do
the work. Oftentimes it is necessary to
put a grate or fire pot in a cooking or
heating stove at the residence of the
owner, and the man who comes in and
makes a lot of dirt for the house-
keeper need not expect her continued
patronage. Some stove jobbers make it
a point to take from the shop a lot of
old newspapers, which they spread on
the floor under and around the stove. to
catch any of the dirt that may fall out
during the work of repairing. Then
they make it a point to thoroughly clean
the stove before they start in to work.
This takes but a few minutes, and. en-
ables the work to be done with more
comfort and less dirt in the house.

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‘here has been received at the Navy
Department a sample of steel three-
quarters of an inch in thickness which
had been pierced by a rifle bullet of a
cailber than that of the present
army rifle, or about thirty. The sample
is interesting in that it shows that the
torpedo boats may be rendered useless
by good shots from such rifles. The
distance at which the steel sample was
pierced was about 200 feet. A torpedo
boat's armor, her boiler and explosives
might easily be pierced at this distance,
or before she could make her projectile
dangerous to a ship. The bullet was |
of steel and pointed. It made a re- |
markably clean hole in the steel. |

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ABOUT SHOPLIFTERS.

Many May be Caught, but Few are
Prosecuted.
From the New York Sunday News.

A person unfamiliar with the crimi-

nal statistics of this citv would come to

the conclusion from reading the news-

papers that trials and convictions for

shoplifting are very common; but the

testimony of the official records proves

that such 1s not the case by any means.

Che annual report of the Board. of
Police Justices professes to vive a clas-

sified statement of all cases of crime

that come under review in the police

courts. Unfortunately, however, for the

person who ts seeking to get at the list

of shoplifters, their crime is not. clas-
sified by its popular name.

In the legal vernacular there is no
such thing as shoplifting. Che offense
so described comes under the head. of
‘larceny,’ or one of its three subdivis-
ions grand larceny, petty larceny and

larceny from _ the Under
whic h partic ular one isthe grand conun-
drum..

The only way of obtaining the exact
information, say for the last twelve
months, is to overhaul the judges’ min-
utes, which consist of a mass of man-
uscript big enough to fill a good-sized

woodshed.

premises,

If you have the physical strength and

courage to attempt a job of this magni-
tude you will tind, after having dug

down to the depths of five or,six months,
that the number ot shoplifting cases is
amazingly small compared with the
number of other kinds of cases.

Phere are annually brought before the
police justices of New York some 40,000
persons charged with crime. The con-

victions for larceny reported tor 1893

were in the neighborhood oi 1,500. One
of the principal clerks) in the record
room of the Court of Special Ses-
sions at the Tombs was asked what

proportion the number of cases of shop-
lifting bore to this total. He smiled as
he said:

“1 know most people think that shop-
lifters are a numerous class, but. that’s
where they're wrong. [ don’t suppose

 

that the proportion is greater than one
in fitty.
He hit it almost exactly right. The

actual proportion was one in torty-five.

The question arises, therefore, do
these figures correctly represent the real
state of the case? There are some. rea-
sons for believing that they do not.
There is a good deal mo.e of that. sort
of crime than the records reveal. Here

are some facts tending to show it:

A few days News reporter
had a conversation with a detective sta-
tioned in a store on Broadway, between
Union square and iw uty-third street.

‘How long have you been doing duty
here?’’ he was asked. i

' Since the 22d of last December, *’
was the reply.

‘*Do you find inuch occasion for your
services?’’ |

|| Plenty of it.”’

‘Can you tell me how many cases of
shoplifting you have detected in that in-
terval?

He took a memorandum book
from his and, after glancing
over two or three pages, answered :

“Up until last Mlouday I had arrested
twenty-four of these thieves. ”’

‘Were they all taken to the station
house?”’ /

"Notail Fifteen of them begged so
hard or made such
that my
them vo.

**What became of the nine others?’

“Six were discharged on account of
the firm’s refusal to appear against them,
and three are now awaiting their trial.’

In other words, out of twenty-four
caught in the act, only three are likely
to suffer the legal consequences. The
victims of their crime were too tender-
hearted to prosecute them.

There is a Fourteenth street firm that
keeps three detectives constantly on the
watch. The reporter interviewed two
of these and received from them accounts
essentially similar to the above. Dur-

avo, ine

little |

por ket

plausible excuses
employers concluded to let

ing the last two months they have had
over thirty cases.

‘*How many of them are likely to go
to trial?’’ asked the reporter.

‘*Well, > returned the detective, in a
puzzled sort of way, ‘‘perhaps half a
dozen.”

It was evident from his tone and man-
ner that he thought half a dozen a_ big
average in thirty days. They were
mostly women and young girls. They
pleaded dire suffering for need of the
necessaries of life, or a first offense,
and the members of the firm, in. spite
of the detectives’ advice, inclined. to
the side of mercy.

\t a dry goods store on Sixth
the reporter was told that out of eight
detained under suspicion, or
observed secreting articles, during five
weeks past, only one had been held for
trial.

‘They beg so pitifully and make such
promises of reform that the firm is reluc-
tant to appear against them. I believe
that in a majority of this clem-
ency is bad policy. Two of the parties
who thus got off I have seen here several
times since, and although I did not |
catch them stealing they doubtless came
prepared to steal if they got a chance.’? |

This detective also gave the reporter |
an account of his discovery of an entire- |
ly new wrinkle in the shoplifting line. |

A lady, say, has an account at two |
different establishments. At one of
them on a certain day she purchases |

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some lace, and at the other some velvet.
She has been shadowed for several
weeks by a shoplifter, who ascertains
that the articles purchased are charged |
to her account and sent ‘home. <A note
iis also taken of the particular clerks |
} with whom she transacts her business.
On the day in question the ‘‘ shadow’?
goes to the establishment at which the
lady has bought the velvet and orders a |
quantity of lace in her name. The
clerk notifies the cashier and the cash-
ier sends word back that it is all right.
‘*My coupe is waiting outside,’’ she
‘*be kind enough to deliver the
parcel to the coachman,’’ and she moves |
off, apparently to do some shopping in |
another department. The delivery boy, |
meanwhile, deposits the parcel in the |
coupe, the thief comes out as soon as he |
is gone and directs the coachman. to!

Says,

 

drive her to the store where the lady has |
purchased the lace.
Here the same process is gone through |
with. An order for velvet. is entered |
upon the account of the customer, the |
merchandise is taken out to the coupe, |
and the double swindle is) successfully |
consummated. a
‘The cleverness of this trick,’’ said
the detective, ‘*is obvious. A wealthy
lady who keeps a running account at |
two or three places, where she makes
purchases daily, is not apt to charge
her memory with particular dates, or to
remember exactly at which store she
purchased certain articles. At the end
of six months or a year, when her ac-
count Is sent in, the items for the lace
and velvet fail to excite her suspicions,
because she has a general recollection
of having purchased both lace and vel-
vet. Although the account may seem to
her larger than it ought to have been
the chances are ten to one that she. will] |

settle it without enquiry or objection.’

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In illustration of the absurd excuses
which kind-hearted storekeepers are in
the habit of accepting the detective re-
lated the following :

‘A party of four persons came into
the store one afternoon and wanted to
look at some jewelry. There were two
men and two women, all well-dressed
and respectable-looking. One of them,
aman of venerable appearance, with
snow-white hair and moustache, seemed
desirous of buying a ring for one of the
women. He selected several from the
tray and passed them to her.

‘I was standing where I could dis-
tinctly observe his movements. When
she passed the rings back to him I saw
him press one of them against the palm
of his hand with his third finger and re- |
turn the others to the tray. By a skill- |
ful contraction of the muscles of the |
palm he managed to retain the stolen |
ring and was going out of the store with

 

it, when I stopped him at the doorway. |

‘I askedthim to step back to the of- |
fice with me. He went without the |
least show of embarrassment. ~* Be kind |
enough to show me what you have in|
your right hand,’ I said. He extend-
ed his hand, quite as if he had nothing
to be ashamed of, and there was the
ring.

;

‘His simulated surprise was as fine a|
bit of acting as 1 ever saw. It com- |
pletely imposed upon the proprietor of |
the store. The man declared that he |
was wholly unconscious that he was car- |
rying off the ring, and my employer ac- |
cepted his declaration as a truthful |
one. |

Under these circumstances it is not to]
be wondered at that convictions for!
shoplifting are so few in proportion to |
he whole number of convictions. Even |
in Cases in which the criminal intention |
is evident from the false pocket and
side slit in the femae shoplifter’s skirt, |
the charitable disposition of the store- |
keeper seems generally to be stronger |
than the desire to inflict punishment.

|for a number of

Assisting Manufacturers.

A leading manufacturer has written a
letter to the Baltimore American in
which he says: ‘‘! personally know of a
number of factories here, established
years, well managed
and showing from 15 to 20 per cent. an-
nual profit in times of prosperity, which
would like to. increase their business,
‘‘but they are unable to do so because
they have not relatives or friends to sup-
ply the capital or to secure favors from
banks.’’ The writer advocates the estab-

lishment of an industrial bank, which
shall be represented in the cor-
porations and = which — shall take

stock. He believes the mutual arrange-
ment could be worked with satisfaction
and profit. In its comments the Amer-
ican Says:

‘It is undeniably the fact that our

banks ought to be more liberal with the

manufacturers, and yet their position
is the legitimate one that they can take
no risks in concerns in which they
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Clerks’ Corner

The Necessity of Learning to Think.

Here is a story | caught on the fly a
day or two ago: A woman ordered a
piece of ice from the grocery. The boy
who brought it was_a German. He put
it on the dumb waiter in the basement
After pulling with all
her strength she exclaimed, *‘Gracious!

to be hoisted up.
How heavy this ice is! The grocer has
given me good weight.’’ In due time
she succeeded in getting the dumb wait-
er up, and found, to her astonishment,
the boy seated on the ice. With what
breath she had left she demanded,
‘‘What did you make me pull you, up
here for?’’ ‘‘Why,’’ was the answer,
‘‘T thought the cake would be too heavy
for you to lift, so | came up to help you
off with it.’’

One good thing about such stories is
that there is little, if any, truth in them:
and this one will serve as a fair sample
of its class. The point to be brought
out is that the boy, by a little thinking,
might have saved the woman a. great
deal of needless exertion and himself a
scolding for his stupidity. In the course
of twenty-four hours, if report tells the
truth, there is a great deal of this. stu-
pidity lying around loose in a grocery
store, and the store isn’t always in the
country. The other day a clerk was tak-
ing the eggs from a basket on one end,
of the counter to a box on the other end,
three in each hand, six at a trip. The
proprietor watched him for awhile, and
then, with a laugh, told him to take the
basket to the box and so save time and
lessen the risk of breaking the eggs. A
clerk starts out with a delivery) wagon
and drives several times over the same
route ; and when asked why he doesn’t
take the sensible way, he answers in the
form, cL didn't
think So the order is left im. the
wrohg place, or an hour after it is

old — sterreoty ped

needed, and when the irate housekeep-
er reports the carelessness, and the clerk
is reproved for it, out comes another
expression which the grocer is tired of
hearing: "1 can't think oft
thing !’’

every-

Right, my boy, you can’t; and what
a blessing it is that it is not expected
of you. For that very reason, fix up
things in that little corner of the world
which you call your own. If a poor
memory bothers you, make out a daily
programme for it and insist that it
shall be carried out. Get things where
you Can control them, instead of having
them control you; and by the time that
happens, everything you do will show
that there has been thought behind it.
Phis [-don’t-know business never pays.
Occasionally it may be excusable, but,
when it becomes chronic, it is simply
stupidity—a mental condition wanted
nowhere. This is the class which ride
up the waiter and spend the morning
carrying eggs, and seeing if they can
touch the teeth of a whirling buzzsaw,
and peppering their friends with shot
from guns they didn’t know were load-
ed. Think, boy, first, last and all the
time; and the day’s work, although
tiresome, will be not only a_ pleasure,
but a delight.

One of the first results of this think-
ing will be to know where things belong
and to keep them there. It may cost
you a little trouble, but there is no rea-
son why the clerk in an ordinary store
should not be able to tind in the dark,
if need be, what he wants. He can’t
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expect to do it at once without effort, but,
to make himself effective, he must keep
track of things, he must keep himself in
good order, and, most of all, if he ex-
pects to amount to anything, he must
first learn to think.
UNCLE Bop.
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Incompetent Analysts.

As an example, showing just how
much the opinion of the ordinary *‘ex-
pert’’ analyst, employed by municipal
and other public boards, is worth, we note
a case tried in London the other day. A
party was arrested for selling impure
powdered ginger, the charge having
been made on the anaiysis of a Mr. Est-
court, of Manchester, ‘* borough (burro
would more nearly fit the case) an-
alyst,’? who certified that the sample
obtained by him contained 25 per Cent.
of exhausted ginger. On trial the de-
fendants submitted analyses from Dr.
Campbell Brown and Dr. Collingwood
Williams, both well-known chemists of
Liverpool, certifying that the sample
(a portion of which had been retained
and submitted to them) was pure, high-
grade ginger, Dr. Brown adding. that
““no one who knows anything about gin-
ger can contend that the samples. are
Other than high-class ginger.’’ The
Somerset-house (government) analysts
also testified that the sample consist-
ed of genuine, unexhausted, ground
ginger. Of ccurse the case was dis-
missed, but not until the defendants had
been put to great trouble and expense
to prove their character.’’

This is but a sample of what is occur
ring nearly all the time in England and
elsewhere, where local boards have the
power to arrest merchants and apothe-
acries on the dictum of self-styled **ex-
perts’’-men possessed of a smattering
of chemical knowledge, not enough to
enable them to earn a decent living at
private practice, and who therefore
eagerly snap up public appointments,
with their meagre emoluments, merely
to keep from starving.

It is a well-known fact that the salar-
ies attached to the office of public chem-
ist, both in England and America, are
too small to attract the attention of com-
petent men, except Ih fare imsStances:
and hence they are usually filled by
mediocre and incompetent men. In
those cases where the fees are deter-
mined by the amount of work done and
number of cases made, or amount of
fines assessed = and collected, the
tempatation to find impurities, — fal-
sifications and adulterations is very
preat, much greater than can be re-
sisted by the ordinarily impecunious ex-
pert, and this ts especially the case
where the accused are too poor or too
timid to make a fight. The fine and
costs are usually much less than the fee
of the average attorney, to say nothing
of court costs, etc., and so they settle,
as the shortest way out of the difficulty.
We will add that this is the surest way
fo make rascals. A man who com-
pounds with his conscience, and barters
his reputation to save a small (or large)
sum, is in a state of moral decline
which fits him to become a_ sophistica-

tor, a substituter, or any other petty vi- j

olater of the law.
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A prominent St. Louis hotel man
wanted a divorce from his wife, with
whom he has not lived for some time,
but he wanted it in a quiet way. So he
went to the village of Hillsboro, in Jef-
ferson county, put up at a little hotel and
announced himself as a resident of the
place. After a short stay, he filed an
application for a divorce in the county
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THE ERA OF MECHANICAL EVOLUTION.
Written for the TRADESMAN.
There has never been a time in his-
tory when there was so rapid a growth of
the present.
his is a statement which has been true

the mechanic arts as at

and pertinent for a number of years
for the present seems to be ap-

a culmination from a begin

past,
proaching

nin still within the memory of those

of middle age, when special attention

besan to be given to mechanical exact-
the
real prec isk were tirst

ness time when instruments ol
employed to
accuracy of the ma
the

of machine

cuide and test the

chins

S wore. At about same

'
t
time the modern methods

making by the use oo os and
‘templates, making it possible to
have all similar parts in) machines of
the same kind interchangeable, came in

to practical use. These were the great

evolutionary advances, making the mod-

1 machine possible.

But at no time has the rapidity of

the forward movement been so great as

at the present. The advance during

vast few vears is wondertul, almost

bevond belicf, and yet the immediate

future promises developments far more
wondertul.

it is

the causes of the pec uliar activity of the
othe!

interesting to inquire what are

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inmediate

}
Singic

present. Perhaps ho

cause can compare with the bi-

cvcle. The Un prec edented demand for
these machines during the past few
months, especially has made require

ments of the manufacturing facilities ol
of any other
Po meet this

the country far in €Xxcess

machine or imstrument.

demand, required the use of machinery

of vyreat exactness, and the manutacture

of such machinery has been largely
stimulated. Factories have been estab

lished all

| over the counrty, in

numbers, and the facilities of those a
have been increased

Thus the

constitutes a con

ready in

to the

operation
limit of possibility.
bicycle manufacture
siderable factor in this evolution.

bicyele is exert
the
In the past,
limitation to the

In another way, the
future of

1
ing avyreat influence on

mechanic al possibilities.
use

the most positive

of machinery has been the lack of sufti-

cient mechanical knowledge amony the
masses of the people to enable them to
properly use and care for such machin-
ery. The first requisite in the
E machine was that it
require skill to
working order. This
the great

vention
or designing of a
keep it in
limitation has al
to the

The

should not
ways been hindrance

more general use of machinery.

effect of the
education of

use of the bicycle in the

the vreat masses of the
people in what is requisite for the pro
per care of machinery cannot fail to ex-
ert a tremendous influence in the imme-

diate future in the use of machinery of

kinds.

hands of a boy, man or woman is a

all Every wheel put into’ the

schoolmaster in mechanical science, of
no mean qualifications. The cost makes

it an object of solicitude, and its deli-

cacy requires a degree of care and skill
in its preservation which cannot fail to be
an effective object lesson that will qual-
ify the pupil to properly care for and
operate almost any ordinary piece of
mechanism.

Phe
cannot fail to be
in the output of machinery of all
he critical

this education

eChnormous

consequence of
increase
kinds.

point in the success of the

an

g carriage, for instance, of
which we are just now learning so much,
is the the

hands such carriages must be put.

self propellin

into whose
The

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skill of

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mechanical education just mentioned
will go far to decide that point.
Wonderful as is the present mechan-
ical developments, the future promises
a development vastly more wonderful.
A significant occurrence in this connec-
tion is that of the
most extensive locomotive manu-
this country- the Baldwin
Philadelphia, with the great
electrical concern, the Westinghouse, of
Pittsburgh.
ises a great advance In
is predicted that in a

recent consolidation

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or the

works, ot

This) consolidation prom-
locomotive en-
vineerimy and it
trains will be

hour. in

short time the speed ot

i590 miles an

the
development

increased to

other directions, promises of me-

alinost or
perhaps quite as wonderful. No

It will inevitably
the
most

chanical are
one
can predict the end.
forces of

of the

involve the harnessing of
the

wants of

nature to service of

physical man.

W. WN. FE.
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A Co-operative Scheme.
From the New York Shipping List
An effort

tiint vlass

made to control the
industry by the dissatistied
Phey have mapped out a plan
of co-operation and given it in) charge
committee to execute. it is
all members of the

would number
35,000. It is proposed to get a free site
extensive tactories sufficient to mo-
re the flint glass industry, and to
establish a community of workers sim-
Pullman idea. Instead of
sustain a single
union is to advance the nec-
essary funds for organizing the socialist
commonwealth, and tax every member
vularly until the project is) self-sus
taming.

Che Co-operative looks
well on paper, and the walking agitators
would like to carry it out, but there is
no probability of any competition being
established trom this source. ‘There are
too many discordant elements. and too
many ambitious officers who want to be
dictators, for any united effort ina prac-

 

WOrKETS,

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paying 00 to

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tical way to be a sucess. Regular man-
ufacturers of flint glass are not dis-
turbed over the new developments.

They feel satished that quarrels would
soon terminate the existence of a corpo-
ration founded on such a basis, and are
inclined to believe that the suggestion is

merely a strike for higher wages. If we
are not mistaken, similar action has
been taken im previous years.
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A fine chance for an inventor is the

manufacture of a simple machine which
will run by steam, electricity, or clock-
work, on the trip-hammer principle,
cancel a stamp with each descent of the
aml «enable a

hammer, quick-fingered

clerk, in an office of moderate size, deal-

ing the letters one by one, to do in
a total of two hours a day what now

takes him six or eight. The third-class
post offices, where the annual > business

is not less than

$1,900 and falls any-
where short of $8,000, are 2,601 in num-
ber. The postmasters are allowed so
much money, out of which thev must

pay the expenses of their offices, and it
therefore, to
along with as little paid
it, by the
machine as has been suggested

is an object to them, vet

clerical help
as possible. use of sucha
here, a
third-class postmaster could turn all the
cancellation and postmarking business

over to one clerk and still have a good
deal more of the latter’s time than now
to apply to other business, he would

welcome the chance. The machine
ought to be made to sell outright for
$200 or $300, or rent for, say $50 a year.
With a small additional outlay for
power, the postmaster would be in pos-
session of a great money and_ labor-
saver. The advantage to the maker of
the machine in having the postmaster
to deal with diectly instead of the Gov-
ernment would be very great also.

 

 

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Association Matters

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

WHITE: a oF

President, E.
" GEO,

Treasurer, J.

secretary, i.
LEHMAN.

Sugar Card Granulated.

544 cents per pound. i

10 pounds for 50 cents,

OWE

> pounds for 25 cents

20 pounds for $1,

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association
Byron C. Hint; Secretary, W. H. Por
Treasurer, J. F. HELMER.
Sugar Card Granulated.
544 cents per pound, 93, pounds for
19 pounds for #1.

President
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dO Cents

Northern Mich. Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J. F. TaTMAN, (¢
Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Leroy.

lare: See

Treasurer,

retary, «. A.
FRANK SMITH

— Business Men’s Association.

President, A. D. WuHippLe: Secretary G.T. Camp
BELL; Tre asurer, W. KE. Couurms.
Michigan Hardware Association.
President, F. S. CARLETON, (‘a umet: Vice Presi

  

dent, Hexay C. Wenen ix

Treasurer, HENry C. MINNIE,

Grand Rapids Fruit Growers’ Association.

President, R. D. Grauam; Secretary, M. W
Ronan; Treasurer, H. O. BRAMAN.

t: sécretary-

tion Rapids,

 

 

Fourth Aunual Excursion of the

Jackson Grocers.

Jackson, Aug. 1o--The fourth annual
excursion and picnic of the Jackson gro-
cers, under the auspices of the Jackson

Retail Grocers’ Association, was held at

 

the usual time, the second Thursday. in
August. In order to satisfy the public,
and find a pleasant and inviting loca
tion, the committees spent a it deal
of time in visitit ie diffe ‘rent resorts, and,
after careful de Pee ci decided that
Diamond Lake, on the Air Line [Divi-
sion of the Michigan Central Railway,
was the proper place. The distance
(nearly 90 miles) seemed like avery
long ride, and was thought by some. to
be too far, but on the assurance of

the
railway company that it would take tl
trains through in two and a half h
or less, it was decided to ac cept
cation, and the terms offered by the
railway Company.

ic
ours

tne i0-
}

The excursion train was run in. three
sections of eleven cars each. Che tirst

section started at 6:20 a. m., the others
following at intervals of twenty mi
utes. The run was made in

good time as agreed, and 2,000

fully as

people

 

the largest number ever taken on one
excursion from the city -were landed at
Forest Hall Station before to a.m.

Too much cannot be said in praise of
the manner in which the company han-

dled the great crowd. Traveling Passen-
ger Agent Hall, Assistant Superintend-
ent Fisher, Mr. Mercer, of the Ticket
Department, and Mr. Moste ticket
agent at Jackson, accompanied the dif-
ferent sections, and looked carefully af

arding tie

 

  

ter every detail reg running
of the trains, w * Conductors Hic

mah, McKain and Mulligan took excel-
lent care of the merry people in their
charge The monstrous mogul engines
which made such excellent time were
handled by Engineers Black, Johnson

and Weeks.

Diamond Lake is one of
bodies of water in Michig
shore line of about twelve miles, nearly
all of which ground. There
quite a large island in the center of the
Lake, well covered with mag
forest trees, and a very pleasant
resort located thereon. There are sev-
eral resorts around the Lake, also many

the pre ttiest

an, having 2

is solid

also has

hia :
camping parties located in cosy places.

Fhe excursionists all left the cars at
Forest Hall Station and, after a_ short

walk to the grounds, where they quickly
disposed of their lunch baskets and
other articles which they did not _—— to
be burdened with, were soon scattered

over the grounds of the various resorts,
and on the Lake. The three steamers,
the sail boats, ges all the row boats
were kept busy all day.

The grounds were well sup »plied with
booths, where were to be had eatables
for the hungry, drinkables (soft only)
for the thristy, with fruit and ice cream
in abundance for those that wished.
Meals were furnished at the various ho-

nificent |

i sion conducted under

| trains

tels, for those that had not provided
themselves with provender before start-
ing.

The usual program of sports and
events, which have heretofore been a

feature of our excursions, was dispensed

 

 

 

with on this occasion, and, in its stead,
two games of base ball were arranged,
the first between the wholesale grocers
and their employes, and the retail g¢ro-
cers and their employes. The second
was between the Jackson Athletic

| ind the Concord base ball team.

- elegant trophys had been pur-
chased for the competition, the trophys
to be played tor each year until one. of
the clubs shall have won it three times,
it then to be the property of the win-
Hers.

Che tirst game was called fi a. mm.
and was hotly contested for four
Dees - in the scorching rays of a

idda un, on a very rough aud horri-
bly ci usty stubble field which 1 been

had
wholesalers th

The

burned over.

it best to give their adversaries the
game the tirst year, fearing that should
the wholesalers be defeated on this oc-
casion, the retailers would have to keep
the trophy,decause they would have no
competitors on future eX ursions and it

a | |
would look like a put-up job, where the

retail grocers made a present to their
club. The wholesalers do not see. the
lt of the game the same as the _ re-

 

 

tailers do, but there is
in that.

Che

nothing strange

second game was for blood and |
a second trophy. It was called at 3) p.
m. The Concord club had been having
their own way with ¢ lake from neighbor-
ing towns, and thought they were = in-
vulnerable, but the Jackson boys laid
them out by a score of 20 to | :
\fter the ball game the excursionists
vegan gathering their belongings, eat-
ing the remnants of their lunch, and

toward the
( rowd.,

wending their way

tired but happy

Station, a

he trains began leaving the resort at
6:15, the sections about twenty minutes
apart, the same as in the morning, and
the great crowd that celebrated the
fourth outing of the Jackson grocers

  

<d in the lock

The

atte! rae d the

were all lan
in the even

that has

City
usual

bya oc
good fortune

Jackson Srocers on

previous occasions staid by us again
this year, as there was not a single cas-
ualty of any kind reported during the
day. The benefits acquired by the gro

}

fact. by all
~aching, and

the

cers. and. In}

people,
far re

are
that

SO SO NUMcrous,

it seems to be as necessary for the Jack-
son grocers to have ‘‘their day’’ each
year as it ts to try to do business in the
interval.

This, the fourth annual of the Associ-
ation, has added much to the friendly
feeling that has been brought into trade
throurh the organization. Five years

 

looked at each other as
enemies and apparently
assumption that every other
fit late with. To-
both in and out of the
all work in harmony and

frocers
ir they were
acted on the
yrocer was not
d

td) ASSOC
y the
\ssociation,

SIOCETS,

 

 

do business with each other like mem-
bers of one large family
! i a ' hic . | »| }
Let Us KCC Up cine LOOK WOrK Wtil
every tradesman will look upon his. fel
low tradesman as a good and loyal

brother!

W. EL PORTER, Sec’y.
>ee i
Ninth Annual Picnic of the Grand |

Rapids Grocers.
annual

Phe ninth picnic and
the
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’
held at

and was

the
Assi at ia-
last

auspice Sof
Ottawa Beach
the

Scr ics.

tion
Chursd:

Was
Ly,
the

and one

affair of entire Two special

egular train were run in

the
On arriving

in
at

each direction, handling crowd

an admirable manner.

the Beach the crowd scattered to the va-
rious resorts around Black Lake, com-
ing together again at 2 o’clock to par-

light ride on Lake

was by all means

ticipate in a day
Michigan, which

most enjoyable feature of the occasion.
A match game ball was played
in the forenoon between the retail

of base

fro-

cers and retail clerks of Grand Rapids,
resulting in the of the latter
of 7 An exhibition of
crew of the life-saving station at 5 p.
leted the
ing the

victory by

a score to oO. the

and dur-
and their
well
and
picnic
eason.

: official program,
the
to

com]
evening grocers

returned their homes,
the
voting the
most — event of the

>>

euests

pleased with day's enjoyment
unanimously

the

grocers’

Annual Meeting of the Grand Rapids |

Retail Grocers’ Association.

At the annual meeting of the Grand |
Rapids Retail Grocers’ \ssociation,
held at the office of the Michigan
‘Tradesman on oe evening, Aug.

Oo, President Whi

» presided.
Annual reports yi"

DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid A

1, Rasch pienie prizes S$ 250

 

  

Paid Order No. 46 20 OO

17 14 00

{8 > 60

19 10 OO

dU 1 6

al 90 OO

O 53

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ae > 00

Total disbursements $194 29

RECAPITULATION.

Total receipts $195 97

Total disbursements 194 29

Balance on hand 1 68

‘I Wo or lers issued by the e ap
proval of the Executive 5

 

heen presented for payment

of E. A. Owen, end another for
the Tradesman Company.

 

 

In addition to
hands a certific:

above

ite of de} osit for

ssa lass
omcers being 1n Or- | there is now $ interest due.
der, Secretary Stowe presented his an- | Tl 1 /
1 - i a * Te? rt r ‘ Inte re
nual as follows - 1c Trepo;rt Was accepted an

report,

Our total receipts from dues during the past
year have been $90.78, which I have turned over
to the Treasurer in the sums and on the dates
stated below, and for which I hold his receipts:

Sept. 4 $11 83
Nov. 21 eee: 20 50
April 19. . i. \ & 50
July 18.. 33 15
Aug. 6 16 80

During the year I have dra awn eleven orders on
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The Pic Committee n
} report reg: ng arrange! s consum-
mated he ninth al Al pienic,
which was ac¢ epted and adop d,

4 vote of thanks was tendered the
ri. |. Heinz Co. for contril x 1,000

| badges for
|} Was
the

the Treasurer in settlement of bills approved by
the Executive Committee. as follows:
Order No. 46—B. P. O. Elks . 82% 0]
47—Radcliff & Holt 14 00 |
18-—Tradesman Company 15 60

49—FE, 2 Stowe a0 OO

5s0—B. P. O. Elks 4 66

d1—E. A. Stowe 10 OO
52—Tradesman Company \ 30 53
3—Frank T. Lawrence > OO |

5
54—E. A. Owen i 300
d)— E. A. Cloonan
i—Tradesman Company
Total
The report was accepted and adopted.
lreasurer Lehman presented his an-
nual report, as follows:

P09 RY

RECEIPTS.
Balance on hand
Reed from Sec’

#105 19

 

Total $195 97

receipts

 

the pic Secretary

 

instructed to inform. the
action of Assoc
A vote of thanks was also tendered E.

A. Stowe for waiving any claim for

donor ot

iation

 

   

compensation aS Secretary since jan. |
1895 ; also for furnishing room and.  ele-
vator service for the meetir xs of the As-
sociation.

In view of the fact that the emplovy-
ment of a salaried Secretarv is under
consideration by the Association, Mr.

Lehman moved
be deferred until

OF omicers be

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Why is there such a sale

we trust will be given the same rece

on this bran«

private brand if the goods are right. so we have
tion the fcatenath has

» JESS Plug Tobacco J =r
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Ist—Because it is made of the choicest of
~nd—Because it is wrapped with the
3rd— Because it is cased to suit the taste of the large ; castes of chewers
{th—Because it is sold »t a price within the reach of all.
Jess Fine Cut Tobacco
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

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STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

 
  

   

One Year - GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia
l'wo Years cc A GBEE, Charlevoix
Phree } . S. E PARKILL, Owosso
Four Years F. W. R. Perry, Detroit

\. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor

      

 

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rr. W. KR. Peaey. Detroit.
re: r, GEO. GUNDRUM, Tonia.
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MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION,

 

 

President. Geo. J. Warp, St. Clair.
Vier sidents, S. P. WaitMarsH, Palmyra:
G. C. Paitiips, Armada.
sex ry, B. Scam Rk. Grand Rapids.
rreasurer, WM. Dut r, Detroit.
e Comuni F. J. Worzevec, Grand
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GRAND RAPIDS PHARMACEUTICAL
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REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

JOBBER OF

Paints, Oils, Brushes,

and 1

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the same style, Ss generally con-

ceded to be one ¢ most successful
in the State.

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\Ir. Schuster is also President of the : E
Electric Lighting Company of Kalama- Varnishes, tc.

William

and |
financially, with several other manufac-

oo, and is identified, actively

PLATE and WINDOW GLASS.

26-28 Louis St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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Mr. Schuster’s record as a citi-

 

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makes its influence felt: and the citi-

Permanent Cure for

NEURALGIA

Handled by all Jobbers.

 

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They needed an Al- |
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Prepared by
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BAY CITY, MICH.

chose him.

derman in 1892, and

 

 

 

 

 

needed him 1

 

 

 

place he holds in the opinion of the |
city government may be gleaned from |
the fact that he heads the list in the}
chairmanship of standing committees,
tl of Finance, a position second. to |
none in importance, and one which|
calls for sound judgment and a clear |

knowledge of the principles o

business and their practical appli- |

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cation.
Julius Schuster, of Desenberg & Commercial success, and a place high
Schuster, Kalamazoo. in public regard, are strong indications
That ‘“‘comparisons are odious’’ is} Of social distinction and a happy home.
shown nowhere more conclusively--and, | Here, after all, is where the real man | Will you allow us to give you
ue i y than in bring-| appears; for here, best of all, are to be
2 il results. Great |Seen the results of what training and A | OIN I ER
tress s he time at d Money prosperity can do to make the home c S
: \ i" the common | ‘the dearest spot on earth.’? Mr. Schu- ie
i x ) ¢ nmon , , ; i
Cr ee ee oe a ee -| The S. C. W. is the only nickle
schools of the | ed States. There are|Ster has nothing to say of this side of} _.
. ae gees i 1 4 ol Cigar, Sold by all Jobbers traveling
Ha study, elective and non-elec- | 1s life; but those who have stepped G 4 id ie tees
ve, Covering long periods of years, | over the threshold of 510 South Burdick from Grand Rapids an y wal wid
d, whe pleted, the boy in- | Street, are ready to speak of the kindly| Straub, Jobbers of Confectionery,
. ioe . _ ‘ i i
tended for business dt dees this vrade | Courtesy and the warm-hearted hospital- Muskegon. Wes do not; claim this
na “ cross lots’? there, and, | ity which delighted them, and to wish| Cigar to be better than any 10 cent
au : ind spe with a that others, whom similar fortune has| Cigar made, but we do claim it to be
mndwt o expert cam read, | favored, might dispense as generously | aS good as any 5 cent Cigar that; is
e 20es in ¢ before he is} and as gracefully the good things with| sold for a nickle.
eady for it and ds fault with a sys*| Which their culture and their well-di- |
am Ae teach nothin’ rected industry have surrounded them.
Dhese 7S a cit t ere itly 1 the - 2 2!
ld world Cit ul for example The Growing Trade of Japan.
Vere € subje ol S sxKetch was The commercial linportance of Japan, |
\ \ -;] a7 «6sRan } ~ E
Westpha ‘pri’ 27, 1042.) now that she is becoming to be more |
me the is ready for} Widely recognized than before, is likely |
iy s decided what his course | to become overestimated in some quar- |
ee a scclies 5 ters, while in others the tendency will |
: > ' : be to underrate it. The. statistics of |
teri ) s arried itiently t I ' : } ° - |

: orien Pe ee '© | Japanese trade, however, furnish a. sur- |
end, ad the boy goes from the SCnoo! | prising record of advance, and one] :
to his life we repared. Hecanread:} which will not easily be discounted |

: ) ;
le « spel] © can cast accounts: he|*V¥Ch among te most prosperous na- |
si wer ends a handwriting |tioms- From 1884 to 1892 her output of |
oe sk ee ~ | textiles increased from $5,000,000 to| IN THE COUNTRY.
Te qi apne >35,000,000, of sevenfold in six years. |
im St i ‘ SsuCN things are Phe exports of Japanese products seven | a
added as he « n food use of, and} years ago amounted to about $55,000, - |
they are taught 1¢ has a facile use but in 1892 this had increased to | Ff) W RUHE MAKER
ae $75,000,000, or 40 per cent. The activ- | ' ' ' '
i} ee ee ly i ac } a 7
COTE ‘ . oo ty in siik manufacture has been sharply | *
it was this thorough training in th . . i
pane : eg Tag! - leit for some time by European manu- CHICAGO.
SCDOOIS OF the ratheriand which Lie " 4 : |
1Ci '. | facturers. These facts are interesting
Schuste ‘kK with him to the wholesale in t nselve¢ S, and they are especially fF. 3 BUSHMAN Adi. 528 donn a KALAMA700
h or Stk erg & Si grocers at} Valuable as a basis on which to form a|
B CICrekK | russia where he served an de Finite conception ot Japanese com- |
eee Ts years before | mercial probabilities.
co s to America een |
eo a eccied tae ine In taking a train on the Pennsylvania |
oT er 1 Si teste nM ICEL rer- | ql i it |
ve i aint a Rialroad from W ilmington to Washing- |
5 oni : ton recently, Engineer George Freder- | e
Desenbero & C, a il icks, with engine No. 92, made the run
es f from Louden Park to the Navy Yard, a| a
lve i cw 1¢ u és i . i ‘ i
sii ane t oe distance of thirty-five and a half miles, be 99
oa , | in thirty-three and a half minutes. The |
ne ‘ oO See Ss et Ss OF The south- } “7 J
oe os : i ive and one-tenth miles between Land- |
yx On Of iC COUNTTry, he Closed his " : |
a he a cit. | vet and Anacosta was covered in three |
ee eT ii aa es As eae ea 02 miles per | cra
‘ of Alabama. Ready, then, to nel. 1 t a Tate eq . : 102 miles per : :

i ’ : : ; 10ur. iS, It 1S Said, beats . Fo | : ta hy 0 5 :
on with his work, he came back to Kal- ; : i gl thy S Salt € ats the record | SSRl A SIC protection against Cattle
amazoo and was associated with a Mr, |_°" “@P!@ railroad travel for’ that dis- | ST Fly. A valuable Antiseptic Oint
es Te _| tance with a train.- Engine No. 92 is a “nt for st *k f all kj a4 . oe ie, ‘
Nathanson under the firm name of Na- : men OF StOC Ora i ls ii | : ts 1 f r Sores
thar Schuster, until] the death of | °°" °° recently sent from the Altoona nas. an De USCC Or Sores OF

auSteT, UNI ‘ath oO

when he formed

 

a copartnership with Myer Desen-
berg, under the style of Desenberg &
Schuster, and embarked in the grocery

 

Dusine which is still

conducted under

Makes an excellent Hoof Ointment.

Manufactured by

‘Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle,

Send for Pamphlet of Testimonials, ete.

| Bruises.

 

GRAND RAPIDS
MICH.

PEAS 3]

Pay the Best Profit.J-Order from your jobber

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHOLESALE PRICE

Advanced — Oi] Anise Oi] Cinnamon, Biehrom Potash

Acidum

Aceticum. $

Benzoicum, German
Boracic.

‘arbolicum
Citricum
Hydrochlor
Nitrocum
Oxalicum
Phosphorium, dil
Salicylicum
Sulphuricum
Tan

 

Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg
Aqua, W deg
Carbonas
Chloridum

Aniline
Black.
Brown
Red
Yellow i
Baccez.
Cubere ..po. &
Juniperda.......
Xanthoxylum
Balsamum

Copaiba
Pen...
Terabin, Canada
Tolutan..
Cortex

bies, Canadian
Cossie ..
Cinchona Flava
Euonymus atropurp
Myrica Cerifera. po
Prunus Virgini.
Quillaia, grd
Sassafras a
Uimns...po. 15, erd
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza Glabra
Glycyrrhiza, po

Hzematox, 15 lb box
Hzematox, Is Ss
Hematox, 4s.

Hematox, 4s
Ferru
Carbonate Precip
Citrate and Quinia
Citrate Soluble.
Ferrocyanidum Sol
Solut. Chloride
Sulphate, com’]
Sulphate, com’l, by
bbl, per ewt i
Sulphate, pure

Flora
Arnica
Anthemis .
Mecca ..........
Folia

Barosma. : :

Cassia Acutifol, Tin
nevelly....

Acutifol, Aix.

officinalis, 1s
and \%s

Ura Ursi.

  

Gummi
Acacia, ist picked
, 2d picked
a, 3d picked

a, sifted sorts

 

ape po. 15
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 60
Ammoniac
Assafcetida be. 5
Benzoinum
Catechu, ts
Catechu, '%4s
Catechu 14s.
Camphors
Euphorbium.. po. 35
Galbanum.
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Gamboge po
Guaiszeum po. 35
Kino po. £2.00
Mastic .

Myrrh po
Opii po. ¥3.00773 20

Shellae
Shellac, bleached
Tragacanth
Herba

Absinthium..oz. pkg
Eupatorium .oz. pky
Lobelia os
Majorum Oz.
Mentha Pip..oz. }
Mentha Vir. .oz
Rue OZ.
TanacetumV oz. pkg
Thymus, V..oz. pkg

Magnesia.
Caleined, Pat.
Carbo Pat
Carbor K.& M
Carbonate, Jennings

 

  

  
 

 

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Oleum
Absinthium
Amygdalx, Dule
Amygdala, Amare
Anisi Saas
Auranti Cortex
BOreainit......
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60 | Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 100 1) I ‘
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| Sanguis Draconis 17 dO 3 00
SOP SaDO, We ee pe 110
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ROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the{trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail

de alers.

Phey are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.

It is im-

possib le to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-

erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
Subscribers are ao requested to point out any

those who have

poor credit.

our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible | use € to dealers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

AXLE GREASE. Chicory. Raisins. i ! HERBS.
doz. gross | Bulk 5 Ondura 29 Ib boxes.. oe | omer... 15
\uror ao 6 00) Red 7 Sultana 20 1b boxes.. 6% kee ll 15
oO 60 7 00 : L | Valencia 30 1b boxes... GUNPOWDER.
he =4) 5 a) CHOCOLATE. t
s. 9 00 Baker's. —— Goobs.. | Rifle— Dupont’ s. i
.60 SOO ¢ » Sweet | Farina. . i Kegs .. Oe ane 3 2
Paracon S 600] P | Bulk ...... ..... 3 | Half Kegs 1 90
i cayeeam > r > on | Grits. | QuarterKegs...... co.
BAKING POWDER. | Walsh-DeRoo C > 00 iD CAans.... 30
Acme. CLOTHES LINES. bea a-VeEnoo c ’s 6 lb cans. : 18
th as 5 | Cotton. 40 ft. per doz 9% Ba Hominy. 2 oF Choke Bore— —Dupont’s ||
ad do 7 | Cotton, 50 ft, per doz Ab) Flake, "50 ib. ‘drums...... 1 50 os .... 4 25
ido 1 00 | Cotton, 60 ft, per doz 1 35 | | . . ° Half Kegs.. / ..2 40
Bulk 10 | ( otton, 70 ft, per doz 1 55 | | Lima Beans. il Quarter Kegs fae
ie Cotton, 80 ft, per doz 1 9 | peerless evaporated cream.5 7 | Dried . Oeitih tame 3
p phages 55 | Jute, OO ft, per doz ~ | Macaroni as Vermicelli.
OZ » | Jute, 72 ft. per doz.. 95 COUPON BOOKS. Eagle Duck ~ Dupont Ss.
1 10 il : Domestic, 10 lb. box...... 60 Kegs .... 11 00
1 2 00 CLOTHES PINS. Imported, 25 Ib. box......2 50 Half Kegs... 7 75
. #005 gross boxes 1) Pearl Barley. | Quarte rKe gs. a 00
COFFEE. Empire ...... Sur | ibeans.,........ 60
) . ‘heste 914
2 Green. —— - ' INDIGO.
1 40 Rio. ee 115. | Madras, Ib, boxes. 55
“om rg hea C 5. 18. F.,2,3 and5ib boxes... 50
Split, per Ib. ! 234 ’
sib 6 doz Case. SD J _ | Rolled ee ny JELLY. i
1} {doz ecuse 1 69 ‘“Tradesman.’’ Somes bee 1 20 15 - — i. =
i tb ~ doz case.. - $ 1 books, per 100 > 00 | Schumacher, % bbl... 2 id ib a 70
Telfer S.. . Santos. % 2 books, per 100 > 50! Monarch, bbl.... 3 60 eo oo '
‘ Is ¢ - 1 | Fa 19 | $ 3 books, per 100.... > 00! Monarch, % bbl. 19 LVe.
85 | Good 3) | £5 books, per 100 3 00 | Quaker, cases 2 Condensed, 2 doz ..........1 30
: Sq | 210 books, per 100 10) Oven Baked Condensed, 4 doz.. 2%
Peaberry > | £20 books, per 100.. > 00] Lakeside co
lb rts) Mexican and Guatamala. ‘“Superior.’’ | Sago. LICORICE.
bh i) eae 59 | § 1 books, per 100 2 59 | German . 2 | Pure a i 30
1 Tb cans. 1 50 | Good =: | $ 2 books. per 100 300 | East India.......... ° | Calabria . 25
se Fancy ---"4) = 3 books, per 100 3 50 | Wheat. q_ | Sicily. i4
BATH BRICK. Maracaibe. ¢ 5 books’ per 100 4 00 tee — = Root... coe 10
oa — ) o* : 242 1b packages ?
dozen in case. : Prime “3 | $10 books, per 100 5 00] -
\r ‘O} Milled 24 | #20 books, per 100 6 OO ea MINCE MEAT.
_— r Java SSS |
: | : eas, =
BLUING | Interi +1 2: | FISH. L <> SS a
Gross | Private Growth ae Ce.
Aret On s va Mandebling 28 Georere cured. a &
Are : Mocha. j co ca Georges genuine. @ Fi
Are Pa ‘Universal. Georges selected a6
\t Ox. * i —— per 100 3 00 Strips or brieks..... 6 @9
Al ' $ 2t-ooks, per 100... 3 50} e
Are x. | Roasted. . choke I ae ano 400/. Halibut. nl
Are | To ascertail 1 Cost of roasted #5 books, per 100 5 900 | Smoked ee @12
Mexican lie d _* | coffee, add 's¢ per Ib, for roast | $10 books, per 100...... 6 00 | Herring. Mince meat, 3 dozin case. .¢
Mex can liquid & oz. and 15 per cent. for shrink | £20 books, per 100 : 7 00 Holland white hoops keg. 80 | Pie Prep. 3 doz in case... ..:
BROOMS. . Above pri ces on coupon .00KS | Holland white hoops bb]
o shnnaete are subject to the following Noewertan.. ......... MATCHES.
> oo | Arbuckle ! 21.80 | quantity discounts: Cound 00 lbs... 255 Columbia Match Co.'s wore”
1 75 | Jersey. ai 00 200 books or over... 5 percent | Round 40 Ibs............. 1 30 | Columbia Parlor.
1 60 | 500 books or over...10 per cent | Sealed... Boe ‘Dit er. pee a
> =e | 1000 books or over 20 per cent lamonc ateh ¢ 0. - rane 8
Lion Coffee aoks or over. 20 i Plackerel. a is
85 | Coupon Pass Books, | No. 1 100 Ibs. vetees inehoe Pacis 1 70
1 00} Fine Assortment of Summer Can be made to represent any | No. 1 40 Ibs. ... \No © oe _. “10
>50| Games ow in the aatk (ages. denomination from $10 down. No. ! 10 Ibs | Export Paras ee
CANDLES. 16 Ounces “Net 20 books ............ cle) hgh a ha i
| 50 books... 291 no.2 Dieta. ...........- MOLASSES.
lb boxes. 10 | Cases 100 lis. t 21 8- 10 ie books 3 00! No.2 101bs Blackstrap.
b boxes. : . oo -y se hooks . 6 25] Family % es rete ee eee es Sugar house.... 107.12
co i | Cabinets 120s. Same Price ao ° = Family 10 Ibs...... Cuba Baking.
CANNED GOODS. | 90¢ Extra for Cabinets. »00Kks.. - vs Sardines. iV... 12014
| iu | oe _ | Credit Checks. cues bee.............. oo Porto Rico
oe ee ee) ee “1 80) 500, any one denom'n..... 3 00 Trout. | a, ae 20
% aa oo waa | Extract. | 1000, any one denom'n ved ahaa le decaia at eae aa : os | Fancy nn 30
I ’ es : ~- | 2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00} No.1 401bs 4 ’
1 to deferthe put i- | Valley City 44 gross ‘2? | Steel punch 7% 1No.1 lbs 58 New iiailins,
tion of full list under this head | Felix % gross 1 1 fie... ee ae 18
until our issue of Sept. 4 | Hummel’s foil 44 gross 85 Wh Good... SS)
: | Bice ic i oe ‘ itefish. iota
CATSUP Hummel’s tin 44 gross 1 43 | DRIED FRUITS. No. i wo. Fam | Extra good. “4
MOthe...__. 700 600 250| Choice ; oe. 27
Blue Label Brand, . DOMESTIC. 40 Ibs. 310 2% 130] Paney .................... 30
nt 25 bottle 2 Apples. wea. 5 ria 40 Half-barrels 3¢ extra.
@r r = poor ; | sundried. 6%] 8 Ibs. nu @ & OIL CANS.
ud coz. bottles | Evaporated 50 Ib boxes 7 _ | i :
a wh Brand. 100 packages in e 4 T ACTS. Crystal valve, per doz... 4 00
me nt in Pr ae OD a Be California Goods. FLAVORING EX R Crystal valve, per gross. 36 00
> =f) sige cco Bxs Bgs | Souders’. KLES
Pi — ' COCOA SHELLS. Apricots .. i 82 834] Oval bottle, with corkscrew. | PIC L 5.
Qu 1art per | 50 ih bass ou, | Biackbermies. |)... i Best in the world for the | Medium.
| Less q 3 oo . | money. Barrels, 1,200 count.....
% ‘ cages eaches., 814 814 | eS Half bbls, 600 count....
grOss. | 1] un i packuag 4 1 Pack a 614 6i2 | rt 1 Regular Small
2 I~ 00} CREAT TARTAR. | Pitted Cherries. a ; Grade ce
1 02 Size ....18 OOF Cirjetly pure S)i Pronnelice | a Lemon. Barrels, 2,400 count........ 5 2
Liq. Glue] z 9 60! pelfer's Absolute 30 | Raspberries........... | ! doz | Half bbls, 1,200 count..... 3 15
i" | Grocers’... «+» an Dee | isi : ~ OZ so} m
Leather Cement, | C i oo / vision. 4 oz 1 50| Clay, No. — ae ot
i re | CONDENSED MILK. Loose nee i Clay, T. : fullcount...... ©
1 OZ Size 12 00 | i ? Crow1 31 Regular | Cob, No. 1 20
9 oz siz 1X 00 1 doz. in case. | own. Sette eee eee 2 Vanilla | COD, NE a. ee a we 2
: 3 Crown., PCa . 4 ans POTASH.
- i i rown “a » 7
Rubber Cement. | pe us) > | fe ee = 20z......120| 48 cans in case.
| Seg LeERAS FOREIGN. hl 40z.. 2 40 / Babbitt’s.... oe 1 00
2 oz size 2 OO | , | a Currants. ere i Penna Salt (o.’s........... 300
i | Patras bbis.._.. fe @2% | \ XX Grade |
CHEESE. | | Vostizzas 50 1b eases... @2% | Dee RICE.
at | Schuit’s Cleaned. Domestic.
wo | aes. @54 202 1 50 | Carolina head............ 5%
ou | one... @5 4 oz :6o;| Comins NOt... CS
ak | tibpackapes...._.. a6 Carolina No. 2 4%
giz | Peel. Mi Gauie | Sroken.............. a. oo.
a | Citron Leghorn 25 lb bx = I Vanilla. mnenntee.
6 @ 7 | Lemon Leghorn 25 }b bx a. Japan, No. 1. cae 434
a it | | Orange Leghorn 2 Ib bx | -O2.....-. (| gepan, NO.2.......... ... aig
dam @1 Ww N. Y. Condensed Milk Co.'s | Prunes. | 4oz......0 ©/| Java. No. a cc...
Leiden. @ 2 | brands. 25 Ib boxes. Jennings. cb No. 2 re
Limburger. @ Gail Borden Eagle.. 7 40 | California 100-120,..... 414 | Lenion Vanilla | Fetme.............-.......-
Pineapple . @ 2 | Crown 6 25 | California 90-100.,. 54 |2ozreguiarpanel.. 75 20 SAL SODA.
Roquefort.... @ Daisy oe EE 6 |40z regular panel..1 50 2 00; Granulated, bbis........ 1 10
Sap Sago... @ 18 « ‘hampion ee ee een 644 | 6 oz re gular panel. .2 00 3 00 Granulated, 100 lb cases. .1 50
Schweitzer, imported @ 24 —— tt. -4>5 | California 60-2......... 74 | No. 3 taper 1s > 00! Lemp, bb...... -........ 1
Schweitzer,domestic @ 14 | Dime ..335| 4 cent less in bags | No 4 Taper.........1 50 2 50] Lump, 145lb kegs.......... 1 10

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
    
  
 
  

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash buyers or those of strong credit “usually buy closer than
errors Or Omissions, as it is

 

 

 

 

 

 

; Cassia, Batavia and Saigon
[Caces, Shion.
| Cloves, Amboyna
Cloves, Zanzibar

Ginger, African...

| Ginger, Cochin

| Ginger, Jamaica.. oe
| Mace, Batavia.

Mustard, Trieste

Nutmegs, No. 2...
| Pepper, Singapore,
| Pepper, Singapore,

— i
white

40 11b packages.........
Kingsford’s
40 1-lb packages...
Gib boxes _....
Common Corn.
2 hoses...
40-lb boxes
Common Ghee,

1-lb packages......
3-lb packages...

 

 

 

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Must: urd, Eng. and Trie ste 22
I

| SEEDS.

SN ie 13

| Canary, Smyrna... 6

‘Caraway... 10

| Cardamon, Malabar...... 80

| Hemp, Russian. 4
Mixea Bind....... ee 414
Mustard, wittte........... 6%

frooee ............... 8

[eeee 4

| Cuttle Bone. 20

j SYRUPS.

j Corn.

| Barrels... 18

| Half bbls. 20

| hn Cane.

| Fair See

| Good.... . 20

eee 25

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.
| _— Lee 9%
‘assia, China in mats . 9%

C assia, Batavia in bund....15
Cassia, Saigon in rolls.... ..32

| Cloves, Amboyna. 22
Cloves, Zanzibar. 11%

| Mace, Batavia.... 70

| Nutmegs, fancy _--...

a

imeimiers No 2... oe

| Pepper, Singapore, black...10

; Pepper, Singapore, white. . .20

| Pepper, shot. ee en 16

Pure Ground in Bulk.

| Allspice

| Cassia, Batavi ia

 

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16
24
20
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HH Stan

. 6%

Pepper,Cayenne.......
Sage ‘ J
“Absolute” in Packages.
4s
apes ae
‘Cinnamon....... 84
Cloves. . 84
Ginger. ‘Jamaica a. S4
Ginge r, Afric an S4
mouse... S4
Pepper... 84
ae S4
STARCH.
Kingsford’s Corn.
| 20 1-Ib packages. .

614

Silver Gloss.

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5
5
7
33
3

 

| 6-lb packages 34
| 40 and 50 1b boxes 4
Barrels . : ye
| SODA.
sOXeS Pa. . ab
Kegs, English. . 434
SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
| Cases, 243-1b boxes.........1 00
| Barrels, 320 1bs _, 2a
| Barrels, 115 214 lb bags. a“ 4 00
| Barrels, G5 ilbbaes.....: 3 7%
| Barrels, 3010 lbbags...
| Batter, 56ib bags...._._.
| Butter, 20 14 lb bags....
| Butter, 2801b bbis..........2 3
Butter, 224 Ib bbis..........2
} Common Grades.
| 100 3 Ib sacks. oe ec 2 OO
60 5-1b sacks... 1 8
28 11-lb sacks 1 70
| Warsaw.
| 56-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 30
| 28-lb dairy in drill bags.. 15
| Ashton.
| 56 1b dairy in linen sacks 60
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks 60
Solar Rock.
56-1b sacks.... a
| Common Fine.
| Saginaw le
Manistee ... eee et
SNUFF.
Scoteh, in bladders......... 37
Mac caboy, i jeS......-.-.. OO
| Freneh Rappee, in jars. .

 

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

SALERATUS.
Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s . ol.
aa / 3
Dwight’s 3 30
Taylor's 3 00
TOBACCOS.
Cigars.

Edw. V tuhe’s brands.
Signal Wive...... .35 00
Zk. E. 35 00
ee 7 homas 35 00

J. Johnson’ s brand

SW

a 00
a. J. Re ynol is” bead,
Hornet’s Nest 35 00
Private brands.

Quintette .. 35 00
New Brick 35 00
SOAP.

Laundry.

Allen B. Wrisley’s brands.
Old Country 80 1-lb. 3
Good Cheer 60 1-lb 3 §¢
White Borax 100 4;-1b 3

Proctor & Gamble.

Concord : 88
Ivory, 0 6c.... Lk 6 75
Ivory, 6oz.... ‘ene Oe
Lenox 20
Mottled German. oo
Town Taik...... 3 20
Dingman brands.
Siete bOx.......... os &
5 box lots, delivered 3 8
10 box lots, delivered os io

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s
American Family,
American Family,

N. K. Fairbank & Co.
Santa Claus
Brown, 60 bars
Brown, 80 bars

brands.
wrpd...323
plain

 

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’s brands

9 0S Oe

Lautz Bros. & Co.’s bré ids.
Acme... 3 65
Cotton Oil. 6 00
Marseities......... $ OO
Master 4 00

Thompson . & Chute brands.

 

Silver 3 &
Mono 3 30
Savon Improve d 2 50
Sunflower 2 80
Golden ...... 3 2
Economical ral

Henry Passolt’s hbeene.

 

Atlas, 5 box lots, del.. 3 60)

Scouring. |
Sapolio, kitehen, 3 doz 2 40)
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz 2 40]

 

Re fo -.& Se
Mm 2. .4 37
Me So... 437
No. 4 1 3%
No. & 3
No. 6 42
No. 7 418
No. 8 $i
No. 9 4 06
No. 10 40
No. 11. 3 94
No. 2 3 87
No. 13 3s
No. 14 a a oe
TABLE SAUSES.

Lea & Perrin’s, large 4 7
Lea & Perrin’s, small 2 te
Halford, targe o
Halford smal] 2
Salad Dressing, large. 1

 

Salad Dressing, 3mall

WASHING POWDER.
G AOna

100 packages in case a

a5
WICKING.

No. 0, per gross 25

No. 1, per gross 30

No. 2, per gross 4)

No. 3, per gross 75

CRACKERS.

The N. Y.
as follows:

Biseuit Co. quotes

Butter.

3lb. carton 6
Family XXX as oo

Family XXX,31b carton 6
Salted XXX a
Salted XXX. 3 1b earton 6
Soda.
Soda XXX 5,
Soda XXX,31b earton 6
Soda, City q
Crystal W: afer 10
Long Island Wafers 11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton” |

Oyster.
are Oyster, X XX 6
|. Oys. SXX.L 1b carion. 7
Farina Oyster, XXX 6

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SWEET GOODS~- Boxes.

Animals 1045
meats Cone Wi ater 12
Bel Rose 8
Cocoanut Taffy 8
Coffee Cakes 8

rrceed Honey
Graham Crackers 8
Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 6%,
Ginger Snaps, XXX city 615
Gin. Snps,X XX home made
Gin. Snps.X XX scalloped... 6%
Ginger Vanilla 8
Imperials : 8
Honey

 

Jumbles,
Molasses Cakes. . 8
Marshmallow
Marshmallow Creams
Pretzels, hand made
Pretzelettes, Little German
Sugar Cake

Sultanas

Sears’ Lunch

 

Cream Bar

 

 

 

 

‘ot Ch a
Molasses Bar ..... DO
Hand Made Creams. 80 @90
Plain Creams 60° (SO
Decorated C reams Ta)
String Ror : “60
Burnt Almonds 125 @wo0
Wintergreen Berries 60
i Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib.

boxes “3A

| No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib.

boxes Se adi
so. 2 wrap, ed, 2 Ib.

boxes i a

FRUITS.
Medt Sweets, 150s.3 25

176s, 200s So @
Rodi and Sorrentos

160 Imperials 400 @
200s
100s in Flats $50

Lemons.
Extra Choice 360

New Verdillis 150 @
Extra Choices 300

New Verdillis 150 @
‘ancy 300 New Ver-

illis 5 OO

ney 360 Novem! er

‘eut 5 00 /
Extra Fancy 360 6 00
Extra Fancy 300 600 @

Bananas.

\ definite price is hard to
hame, as it varies according to
size of bunch and quality
fruit.

i Small bunches io @is
i Medium bunches 1 2 1 50
Large bunches 1d Ge oo

| seymour Xi .... 5, |
| Seymour XXX,

| Fig-,

Foreign Dried Fruits.

Fancy Layers

 

| 10 to 16 Ibs

Figs, Choice Layers
10 ib —

igs, Naturals in

Dalen. Fards in 101b
boxes

Dates, Fards in 601b
cases

Datex, Persians, G.

| Ms 60 1b eases

Dates, Sairs 60 Ib
cases

| Ta
| Pecans,

NUTS.

Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds, Iv:
Almonds, California,
soft shelled

Brazils new

Filberts
Wainuts,
Walnuts

 

Grenob e
French
lit No. 1

soft

Walnuts, Ca
Walnuts,

shelled

, fancy

ts, choice

hezas HP... §

Chestnuts

Hickory Nuts per bu.,
Mich

Coeoanuts, full sacks

Butternuts per bu

Black Walnuts per bu

Peanuts.

 

   

ay Vv » tame
Vanilla Square | ee P., Gam
Vanilla Wafers r .

i | Faney, H. P., Game

CANDIES.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes
as follows:
Stick Candy.

»bIs. pails
Standard , 6 @7
Standard Il. H ! 6 @i
Standard Twist 6 @7Z
Cut Loaf 4 @es
cases
Extra H. i 8%
| Boston Cream B45

| Competition
| Standard
| Leader

Gowans & Sons’ Brands.
Crow 3 30
German Family ! _@ oo
American Grocer 100s 3 6
American Grocer 60s 3 ©
N.G : 3 30
Mystic White 3 80
Lotus 40
Oak Leaf 3 5}
Old Style 2 55
Happy Day 3 10

STOVE POLISH.
Nickeline 14 gross 1 00 |
Nickeline % gross 2 OU
Nickeline 1 gross. 1 OO

SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
treight from New York to your
shipping point, giving you
eredit on the invoice for the
amount of freight buyer pays
from the market in which he
purchases to his shipping point,

  

 

including 20 pounds for the
weight of the barrel.
Doming ...... Lau ee a ae
Cut Loaf 5 al
Cubes 4 4
Powdered ... 5 Ow
NXXX Powde | > iS
ranulated in bbls .4 &
anulated in bags 4 62
Fine Granulated.........- 4 62
Extra Fine Granulated.....4 7
Mine 4... .4
Diamond Confec. 4 62
Confec. Standard A. 4 50

Mixed Candy.

bbls. pails

Royal
Conserves
Broken
Kindergarten
French Cream

 

Valley Cream @i2
Fancy - In Bulk.
Pails
Lozenges, plain @ 8%
Lozenges, printed @ o
Choe. Drops li @I12
Choc. Monumentals @12
Gum Drops ' @ >
Moss Drops ! @
Sour Drope....... as
Imperials @9
Fancy—In § Ib. Boxes.
Per Box
Lemon Drops 50
Sour Drops ()
Peppermint Drops. (60
Chocolate Drops ab
H. M. Choe. Drops oD
Gum Drops  @a
Licorice Drops 18 @
A. B. Licorice Drops (id
Lozenges, plain. (60
Lozenges, printed @65
Imperials ae @60
Mottoes aw

 

| Faney,

| Choiee,

Roasted

eg
tion
Fancy, H. P.. Asso
tion Rousted
H. P., Extras
Chotee, 1. F., Extras,
Roasted

Associa

ia

Iz
DiS
D0
mn 9
112

9 ps

“3 6D

i
de
7M
st,
615 |

Fish and Oysters

Fresh Fish.

Whitefish a 8
Trout ... a. a a
Black Bass. @ is
| Halibut Ca 13@ 15
Ciseoesor Herring.. a 6
Bluefish »
Live Lobster, per Ib a 16
Boiled Lobster ~* is
Cod a. am iz
Haddock ' a 8
No. I Faaenel au 9
Pike “ i
Smoked Whi te a 8
Red Snappers . @
Col River Salmon oa 2
Mackerel ita 2
Shrimps, per gal 1 00@1 %
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per 100 ..) 2o@l 50

| Clams.

per 100

Bie ines in Cans.

T5100

F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands.

F mae itven Counts
F. J. D. Selerts

1a

Qn
KT

‘Grains and Feedstufis

Wheat.

| Old
| New

ew in Socks.
Patents

| Second Pate: it.

|
|

Straight

i Clear..

Graham

|} Buckwheat

Rye

6S
6s

A)
00
i)
60
60
450

he oe

ww ce

3 60 |

Subject to usual cash dis

count.
F lour in bblis., 2

rer bbl.
ditional.

ad-

Meal.
Bolted

 

    

 

Granulated
Hay.

No. 1 Timothy, ton lots 1X OO
No. 1 Timothy ton lots new1l5 00
Oats.

Car lots 26
Less than ear lots 0
Feed and Milistuffs.

St. Car Feed, 20 00
St. Car Fee a. .19 a0
No. } Corn 19 OO
No ; Sper Is 50
Unbolted Corn Meal Is AO
Winter Wheat Bran... 15 50
Winter Wheat Middlings..17 50
Sere 14 00
Corn.

Car lots 43
Less than car lots vi
Perkins & Hess pay as fol

lows:
Hides.
Green 6140, 7
Part cured... “8
ase ured B14 914
Dry 94@11
Kips. green 6 i
Kips, cured Bl4@, 9
Calfskins, green Si5f 10
Calfskins, cured 10!,@ 12
Deaconskins 2 3
Pelts.
Shearlings > 20)
Lambs . 30
Old Wool 1) a
Wool.

Washed 10 Is
Unwashed : >» @is
Miscellaneous.

= 4
r l @2
L@ 2

2 WOG@2 2

 

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing

 

  

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

and Provision Co, quotes as fol
lows:

Barreled Pork.

Mess 10 50
Back ss IZ 2
Clear back 12 50
Short cut 11 00
Pig 13 00
Bean

Family '

Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies a
Briskits 64,
Extra shorts 645

Smoked [leats.

Hams, 12 1b average 1044
Haims, . 1014
Hums, 16 1b : 10
Hams, 20 lb averag 134
Ham dried beef i 11
Shoulders (N. Y. 714
Bacon, ar 81,
California hams 7
Boneless hams i 9
Cooked ham 11
Lards.
Compuund, tierces... 5
Faioily, tierces bly
Grange 7
Kettle (our own).... ih5
Cottole: e : 614
{ Cotosuet : : 6
50 lb Tins advance ly
20 Ib Pails advance »
10 lb Pails advance i
5 lb Pails ndvunce i
3 lb Pails advance 1
Sausages.
Bologna 5
Liver .
Frankfort... 7
Pork
Blood
Tongue .
Head cheese
Beef.
Extra Mess 7 00
Boneless .. 9%
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs SU
14 bbis, 40 lbs 1 td
bbls, 80 lbs Oo
Tripe.
15 Ibs %
14 bbls, 40 Ibs : -- | oO
bbis. 80 Ibs Ff 2
Casings.
rom <... ao
Beef rounds 5
Beef middles 4
Butterine.
Rolls, dairy 11!
So:id, dairy . 11
Rolls, creamery
Solid, eamery :
aaa Meats.
Corned beef, 2 lb.. 2 15
Corned beef, 15 Ib 14 50
Roast beef, 2 Ib 20)
Potted ham, 4s rin
| Potted ham igs toa
Beviledham, <$.... 7d
Beviledham, ‘4s 12
Potted tongue \s..... w
Potted tongue %s....... 1 25

FRESH MEATS.

 

 

Beef.
Carcass > ‘
Fore quarters s6qh 4
Hind quarters s 4
Loins No. 3 10
Ribs 1 1?
Rounds i 614G@n, 7
t hucks 314@, 5
Plates 214), 3

Pork.
os 6

Mutton.

Careuss Loe. 15a, 5
Spring Lambs : 6 Qi
Veal.

Careass 6 @é
OILS.

The Standard Oil Co. quotes
s follows:
Barrels.
mC bo
i. -W Mich. Hdlt @ 8
Test Headlight @ 4
\ s
(rnso t Ww
ler l iS
Winter a 8
ck, SUmMmer, @ iM
From Tank Wagon.
Eocene . 8
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt “a6

 

 

er & Teagl
be
Barrels.

ane “lo
White Ql4
ross, W. W.Halt as |

Na aphtha..... % 8%;

Stove aki @ 9

From Tank Wagon.
Palaci
Re

 

Cross W. idlt 6

d

.

Crockery and
Glassy

LAMP BURNERS.

  
   
  

 

 

    

  

  

 

No. 0 Sun 2
No. I San is
No. 2 San 7
Tubular 5
Security, No. 1
Security No. 2
Nutmeg
Arctic 1
LAMP CHIMNEYS--Common. |
Per box of 6 doz. |
No. 0 Sun 1 85}
No. 1 Sun 2 OO}
No. 2 Sun 2 80}
First Quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, |
Wrapped d > 10)
No. | Sa |
wrapped || east
Oo. 2 su oY |
wrappe 3 25]
|
|
No. @ Su top |
wrapped and | i 2 5d |
No. | San c in top |
wrapped a “ 2
oOo 2 war I top
wrapped aaa d 3 75 |
Pearl Top. }
No. i Sun, wrapped a |
labeled co s G0)
No. 2 Se wrapped a |
labeled 4 70}
o, 2 Hinge, wrapped and
labeled 4 88 |
}
Fire Proof—Piain =
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb 3 40]
No. ¢ Sun, plain bulb $ 40 |
| La Bastie.
No. ' Sun. plain bulb, per
doz ‘ foot
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per
doz |
No, 1 « —_ per doz }
No. 2Cy p, per doz \
|
cee |
No. 1, Lime (65¢ doz i) |
No. 2, Lime (70e doz
No. 2, Flint (80e doz
Electric.
No. 2, Lime (70c doz 1 00
No. 2, Flint (s0e doz t 40
Miscellaneous. Doz
r. Rochester 5U
g 15
ninator Bases ' 1 00
lots, 5 doz ‘4
Porcelain Shades 1
, 12 doz 90 |
Mammoth Chimneys for Store |
Lamps. Doz. Box |
No. 3 Rochester. lime 150 4:
No. 3 Roehester i im 4
No.3 Pearl top, o1
Jewel glass 1s 32
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
lime. lio 5
No. 2Globe Incandes.
flint 2 00 rD
| No. 2 Pearl glass 210 60

       
 

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OIL CANS. Duz
‘ans With spout 60
roth WIth Spout (We
rol wit I Dy
1W i ’ i)
Wit s , >
Ww tat (Kw)
‘ Lc W 50
Feans, Mim'eh 10 5
Nacefas iM)
ee Cans.
] iH pine 1 0
1 ”)
M)
10 00
oy)
Oo
40
12
15
ea Ox 1d e¢ « 5
No
1Ci 5 1
No.0 Tubular. b
cases 1 a } 26,

LAMP WICKS.

 

 

Are
Convinced
Of the
Value

Of the

Tradesman

Company’s

Coupon
Books.

They will

Please you
And

‘Save you

Tloney

 

 

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a
New

~

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Shoes and Leather

know clerks who,
stances, would smile and look pleasant
and ask her to call again? But you

 

 

GOOD SALESMEN.

Some Peculiarities by which
May be Known.

isher in Boot and Shoe

They

Allen F Reeorder.

Che art of selling goods (for it is an
le up of the following cond
all, a thorough know]
voods to be sold, gained
experience and closest
letails. Next, the faculty
a customer with the idea
your business, and are
the truth.--this | without
‘If obnoxious or over im
, that innate politeness
ly in the gentleman.
een sa d that il

 

can sell a Customer something

Dut it takes a salesman to
something h t want,

true Of cx everybody in_ trade

ut anvbody wanted,

 

Cvervyining al Lie
1 “i : ..
BiS REIZHDOT, tt would

  

    

e whether the salesman
rtist or amachine. But in these
close competition and numerous

styles and tastes, the possibility OL any
ercha Keeping evervthing that is
Calied tor is prec ided.

Under such conditions the true sales
man shines. Not that 1 would nave
him by his superior knowledge of his
rE ds or by his Suavity of manner ce
CEIVe a « ner o1 browbeat Him into
buying something he doesn’t want, but by
the foregoing qualities to turn his tastes

  

   

 

 

  

wa but vou have got nt cork

sole, and just about in the desired grade.

But he doesn’t want a cork, never wore
one Some MiV told im that cork bus
ness was a a fake Oo cork about it
Now, Mr. Salesman, get in your work.

If you know how that shoe is made. tel]

him all about it That you know it is
ao Phat there is no rea

eputadie ictory to Counter-

Ss > CicCap as any

could be substituted.

Very ure OF IL CORK 15

more impervious to dampness than a
leather sole Phat it acts as a cushio

tl king a more com-

is and the many

brought to his at-

proper
pore p< I :
reasonable

m, and the pr

manner,

ane?

  
 

ten to one

vidual
vidual

 

of your ce that he didn't
want will bosses’ till that
night And if you sold him a good
shoe he | be better satisfied than with

=“_e “a oo ! os Tt al

what he came in Or, and you tl sell him
his next pair and the next, as lone as
you treat him properly.

Now, salesmanship.

n't deceived him, \
him, but you

You have-

Dulldoze

that Ss

ou didn
sold him something he

  

 

   

didn’t want simply because you didn’t
have what he asked and you had
genius enough to turn taste in :
other directior You ¢ have got 1
of your customer easier by simply

ing him that you ‘Midn’t have what he
wanted. But that isn’t what you draw
your $20 every Saturday night for.

How y of you know of clerks,
who, a customer Comes in, States
het clerk gets it; tries it on
pe He thinks his sale is made,
ly st what she asked for. us-
tomer admires it; thinks it’s a good
shoe, so much prettier than any she has
seen in the city. But “‘Guess | won't
take them.’’ Now Mir, Clerk, keep
your temper. True, the aggravation has
been terrible. You are justified in be-
ing mad-—even in swearing a little--but
not till after your tormentor is gone.
_ FO ou i the coal house and

aie I ask again, how many of you

 

ought to do all that even though she is
exasperating, she buys shoes sometimes.
ont if you get hot under the collar and

mak - her mad, you can depend upon it
she won't buy any of you, and most
likely not in the store where you are

employed.

lhe strong-minded old maid = school
marm, who has an idea how a shoe
should be made, and doesn’t allow any
‘young upstart to tell her a kind of
shoes she ought to wear,’’ may make
you mad, and she may not buy any
shoes of you this time, but when she
goes the rounds and finds her advanced
8 of footwear have not yet been ma-
terialized, she will most likely remem-

al
ber the salesman who was polite to her

 

 

 

 

and didn’t try to make her believe
didn’t know much about shoes, and
come back and let you fit her out in the
‘ non, every-day shoes, that her less
lectual sisters wear.
hen there come the fond parents of
first “‘tootsy wootsy.’” Baby must
shoes—something soft as silk, and
pretty as a dream, but it must not even
touch the little pink toes. You ay I] <a
infants’ stock over from end to end
hnal sell a pair for four bits_ you
make nine cents profit. But you a
supposed to look just as pleasant as

though you had sold an eight dollar pair
in about ave ininutes, which re pre coats a

it { >
It )

 

Wi ant some

 

and mamma will

 

shoes by and by, and little **tootsy
will be a big rough boy some day, and
then you can get your revenve.

\nd now there is another phase : |
known plenty of clerks who were fu
competent to show up the goods

vood shape, and all of that, but who

couldn't close up the bargain to Save
their lives. It seems to bea knack that
some clerks lack entirely. | snes two
clerks in the same store. One
certain oe one time,

him out of the wz ay in fi ve
r knows all about shoes
Is equ ae as ers but he can't
the Sale at The moment the
customer tinds the ehtest objection,
instead of answering the supposed E: -
by a simple argument, he will go
pull down another shoe, and so on,
full, the customer’
exhausted, ane i
gets up and walks out.

focus all.

slis

un —
Ss patience

Th many

the ledge
ibsolutely

he

Is

cases

\ customer should be shown plenty of
stuff, so as to Impress him with the fact
that your stock is complete, but not

to muddle him all up till he

enough
i

don’t know what he Chen, when

]

walits

he is pleased, or you think he is,” brit

ine thing to a tocus, right there. R«

member your time is’ being paid for
and it ought to be of some value, and
don’t allow yourself to spend the morn
ing in his company, no matter how
agreeable it may be.

Chen, as to appearance —It’s not ne¢

for a clerk to be a dude—in fact,
ldn’t be. He should be eat,

  

and especihi tlly keep his feet we i]
dressed, if

he is selling shoes.

  

    

He should cultivate as large an ac
quaintance as is practical without neg-
his business, for that is real
m of his stock in tr: ide, and one
leaviest: arguments he can brin ig
to bear when he wants to make a ch; ing
is his acquaintance with a good class
of trade.
This seems to me to cover the

important portion of the ground.

 

addit on, be careful, be nee. 5
a worker with a big W, be honest, “i
respectable, read the trade papers, and
for such a clerk there is an absolute
certainty that some day he will be a
proprietor and be tear hing others how to |
sell goods at retail

~+oo

Trade between the Puget Sound re-

gion and Central and South America
has developed very largely in the last
year or so, and several new lines of

ica have been put on between

the two. Another new line, to run be-
_— Tacoma, Wash., Panama, and
outh American ports, hi is just been es-

tablished. and will commence sailing
this month. |

under such circum- |

she |

 

-RINDGE,

- KALMBACH

4 OODe

12, 14 and 16 Pearl Street

Manufae

We make

market,

ture

the best lin

 

Candee Rubbers

© Ag,

Dealers, Please Take Notice - - - -

Pr
our

Federals and

tit >
Lillie

baperin’s,

lay i

We
We

res advance 5 ) per cent. Oct. 1. Until that
) per discount.

Jersey S, 20 and 12 Der Cent. discount.

prices on ( andees, 21 cent.

20, 12 and 12 per cent. discount. A de-
| plac ing orders will cost you mone y.
have a full line of Felt Boots.
also carry the finest line of Lumbermen’s

Socks in Michigan.

STUDLEY & BARCLAY.

‘rs and Jobbers of

can take ‘ Boots and Shoes

e of Medium Priced Goods in the LIN
You can improve your trade by band]

NO. 4 MONROE ST.

ling our goods

Grand Rapids, Mich.

or the

BOSTON RUBBER
SHOE CO.’S
GOODS

fh
—

Agent

 

XN
TOE

ANDE
NEEDLE

 

 

Owing to the Great Advance in Leather,

Boots and Shoes

are nece ssarily muel

 

advaneed in price

“ KEEDER BROS. SHOE (0.

 

-HEROLD - BERTSC H SHOE

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in

~: BOOTS, SHOES & RUBBERS

     
  
      

superiority

5 and 7 Pearl Street
GRAND RAPIDS,

Sidie AgemIS WALES: A FEAR RUBB RS

We
Piee:

carry in stock Regular, Opera,
and Needle

idilly

prepared tc

   

in quality

lave a great many things purchased before
the advanee that they are still selling at old
prices, and balance of the line at not one-half
of the adva ce of the cost to manufacture the

goods to-day

It will pay you to examine our

ie Of samples when

t our representative calls

on you,

) 100 7 NOM Iorig | iL, Gland Ro ids.

     
    
 

MICHIGAN

Toes.

furnish a Rubber

, Style and fit.

of

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

*)
iS
‘ww

 

Peculiarities of the Shoemakers of
Gotham’s Various Colonies.
From the New York Sun.
Between factory-made shoes and ma-
chine repairing ‘‘while you wait,’’ the
old-fashioned, self-employing shoemak-

er has a hard struggle for existence.
Even the shoe stores have gone into
cobbling and you see in their windows
such notices as “‘Of course we mend

This means still another com-
enemy to the cobbler. Never-

shoes. ’
petitive

theless, shoes are. still cobbled all over
town in every language known to this
community and the cobbler is worth a
glance or two, if only because he seems
doomed.

The French quarters, old and new,
abound in cobblers, and on the whole
the French self- employing shoemakers

are perhaps the best situated of any.
They are skilled men, often making a
specialty of fine shoes and the French

style of shoemaking
from other styles to keep the French
shoemaker’s customers true to him de-
— competition. There are an unusu-
ally large number of shoemakers in the
new French quarter and they take pains
to make modest proclamation of their

differs suffic iently

specialty. fhe Secretary of Agricul-
ture, while he still lived in Nebraska
and wore long boots, had them made by
a aocnalerion shoemaker down on

the edge of the old) French quarter and
sent out to him by post. As the Secre-
tary is a man_ to hold to his old friends,

doubtless since his) promoticn trom a
practical to a theoretical farmer he still

employs the same.

There are a host of Italian shoemak-
ers in each of the several Italian quar-
ters. Some of them are about the crud-
est mechanics of their craft, still a.
ing to the antiquated art of pegyin
and putting the largest and roug hest
patches on anything that comes their
way. Since the advent of very cheap
factory shoes, by the way, patched boot-
gear is much less commion than it once
was. Every country-bred person recalls
the clever devices of the old-fashioned
country cobbler in the days ol patched
boots. ‘There was not only the haltf-sol-
ing and heeling of these days, but sol-
ing, tipping, side patching, footing and
even foxing, this last a wholesale device
for covering a hopelessly damaged boot
with two-thirds of a new upper. Vhe
Italian cobblers come nearer than any
others to imitating the fruitful devices

of their old-time rural fellow-crattsmen.
The Italian colony is thrifty above any
other part of this community and its
members do not commit the exirava-
gance of throwing away cheap tactory
made shoes when they begin to leak,

‘They carry them to a cobbler of their own

race and he cobbles at a miraculously
cheap. price that makes one understand
why he keeps shop in a doorway and

shares his bedroom with half a dozen
of his countrymen.

German cobblers swarm all over the
large and densely populated are 1 OCCU-
pied by their countrymen. The Ger-

nan cobbler is often a fancier of plants

or canary birds, and his unwashed win-
dows are usually backed with an array
of live greenery. One sees now and

then in the German quarter a shop with
three or four workmen, an
dence eF prosperity. But the Teutonic
foot is often of a sort to demand special
treatment at the hands of the shoemaker
and to drive to despair the dealer in
ready-made goods. Close upon the Ger-
man quarter, toward the south, is the
Jewish quarter, with many cheap cob-
blers occupying miserable holes, and
able to obtain little but patching to do.
‘True to the imstinct of the race, the

Hebrew cobbler often joins to his me-
_chanical trade a mercantile business in
second-hand goods. There must be

unusual evi- |

hundreds of men and women that always |

buy shoes at second-hand. Lower Sixth
avenue and Carmine street are thick
with Jewish dealers in second-hand
shoes. They commonly occupy a deep
basement, which is really a cellar, and
the stairway to. the shop is completely
lined with the merchant's stock in trade,

a motley array such as could’ hardly be
duplicated in the largest shoe hous¢ in
town. Below stairs are yet other boots,
shoes, slippers

corner is
the worst
and where

a shoemaker’s bench where
of the stock is put in repair
customers may have
done. ‘The proprietor will mend, m: ike
or trade. If you have but one foot he
will provide it with a boot, and if your

shoes do not fit he will take them in
trade and give you a pair to your lik-
ing.

One finds far down town a few self-
employing shoemakers that still com-
mand custom because of some pecul-
larity in their work. Merchants, brok-
ers and all sorts of well-to-do folk ac- |

customed to pay high for their shoes go |

to such men bec ause
iently situated.
Cobblers lend a helping hand to one

they are conven-

another in the present struggle with a
crushing competition, and a few. still
make good wages. A Jewish immi-
grant, who came penniless to this. city
not Many years ago, was taken in by a
cobbling — fellow countryman. He |
learned the trade and in six or seven

years was the
ing shoe

proprietor of two flourish-
Sometimes a cobbler
makes room in his shop for a craftsman
of related trade, the upper sewer, for
example, whose business Ht is to Own a
sewing — and make uppers. for
the high-priced custom  shoemak
One tinds now and then a skilled shoe-
maker in a high and squalid apartment

stores.

ers.

of a tenement. Having lost his place
of regular employment, and being too
poor to hire a ground floor shop, he
hopelessly seeks to carn a living from
what work his neighbors can send him.
Such a man with a small specialty, as
making shoes for the lame or for child-
ren, may gradually make a _ place for
himself, but the ordinary worker finds
his trade in such circumstances a vain

Strugy te.

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I‘hree steel canal boats of a new be
sign are being loaded at Lorain, Ohio,
with Steel rails, for use on street rail-
ways in New York. Two more boats
will be loaded with export flour, and
the five vessels will start for New York
next Tuesday, going via Lake Erie to]
Butfalo, and thence down the Erie Canal

 

in tow of a propeller which has been
especially built tor the purpose. The|
canal boats, which have been built with }
aview to making them seaworthy on |}
the lakes, are 270 tons each, 98 feet over |
all, 17'6 feet wide, and io feet depth of
hold lwo more propellers and thir-
tech ‘canal boats are being constructed
and will soon be ready for service. The |

experiment of sending these
direct to New York without ; i reshipment

of cargoes at any point is being watched

with much interest in marine and rail-
road circles, and it) 1s ok predicted
that the venture will ultimately result
In a revolution of the east and west
bound freight traffic. The experiment
of sending shipments to New York |

reassigninent will

tried from Chicago.
-ee

A steamer running on rails is a curi-
ous sight to be near Copenhagen.
Iwo lakes are separated by a narrow
strip of land which rails are
running water on either

without
next be

undoubtedly

seen

on
Into the side.
The steamer, which is 44 feet long and
carries 70 passengers, guided to the
rails by piles like a ferry slip,

wheels on either side which fit the
and is driven full speed up one side
the incline and down the other into
water on the other

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people are raising a strong
protest against the continuance of the
horse-canning industry in that State.

They claim that it will injure the repu-
tation of the State and of other canning

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rails

of
the
side.

Orevon

industries. ‘Lhey don’t want people to
say or think “‘dead horse!’’ when
they see the brand ** Oregon’’ on canned
meats. The horse cannery has _ started

business, but little 1s known of its busi-
ness yet.
i a
P. Steketee & Sons offer
can prints at old prices,
present advance in prices.
> oe
Write us for special prices on oil cans
and wash boilers just to get acquainted.
| William Brummeler & Sons,

all Ameri-

regardless of

and rubbers, and In one | Rapids.

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vessels |

laid |

It has |

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Attorney,

Gid. Rapids, Mich.

The Bradstreet
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and in London, England.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP. may reasonably expect a better rate pre- Millers! Attention! Fe SALE—HALF INTEREST IN A WELL-

- B S | h 8¢@ established drug store located in best town

1 - ailing yest State cheese is worth 8@ We have for sale a number of NEW PURIFI- | in Upper Peninsula mining district. Stoek also

News from the Metropolis---Index 81%4c for small size. ERS, FLOUR DRE-SERS and SCALPERS. All ineludes stationery, blank books and wall paper.

.etail trade is ox i alers are | Standard Machines at much less than the cos: of | Cash Sales, $8,000 per year. Will sell half in-

of the Market. ick — trade is good and dealers are manufacture: also two sets STEVEN'S ROLLS, - rest for $1,500 cash and permit purchaser to
2 °

Special Correspondence. DOUBLE, 6x12. smooth. One PERPENDICULAR pay for balance of interest out of profits of busi-

 

N Vik A vi Aa ue Ant aiinnale BEEKER BRUSH MACHINE. Address ness. Purchaser must be able to take full charge
Cw OR, upust 10-—A5 1 season ' " " SPOONER & HAL, of business, as present Owner must remove to

grows near autumn, trade generally im-| Monthly Report from Secretary Owen. ped Rapids, Mich, | Warmer climate on account of ill health. Ad-
‘ ? | “ . ‘ a ’ ' 1S r¢ -) -oTe ichigs Trade ‘ RO
proves, and this week we have observed Grand Rapids, Aug. 10---Twenty-two | Room 34, Powers’ Opera House BI’k. dress N select Mic higan d'rad smian, 20
‘ nuch better feeling in the grocery | a] lj . a bershi oo \ 7ANTED —TO EXCHANGE DESIRABLE
a mucli I I 1ing nh i Ss ao auditions tO. Our membership Were | reside nee property or vacant lots loc: ated
trade, although at no time have the job- . :
, ne “a en ee TI " te ;| ms ide during July—nineteen active and |For Bargains in Real Estate, : ae “ — —— <4 oon : — —

aS it Giscouragced, cre 18 a Pood | ve } or general stock. Ac ess BOX 1296, Benton Har
: 4 7 canes f pees ine Agta | three eae -as follows: | in aga of the State, hor Mich. gis
steady volume of tre Se ee i ee (Wires SO. ; = OR EXC “GE oINE F
are that from now on this will be the ACTIVE. | es SALE OR EXCHANGE—A FINE MILL ;

constant report. Prices all along the
line are firmly adhered to and, it con-
cessions are made at all, they are kept
very still.

r. EL Powell. Chicaco property, 40 horse water power; would make
= =e, ago. | |} a good fish hatchery: excellent spring creek;
C. RK. Prior, Marshall. | G. \ \ e Ames well loeated on r: vilroad; store building, 20 x 90:
W. H. Culver, Grand Rapids. 106 Phoenix Block | hay scales: side track; agric ultural ware house;
al 7 ne | Eo : |. saw mill and planing mill: two small houses;
W M1. H. Maxwell, Peoria, Ill. | BAY CITY, MICHIGAN one nice large residence; all well rented except
D. L. Strong, Flint. | mills run by owner: excellent potato and wood
4. B. Daggett, Warsaw, N. Y. | | market: plenty of hardwood saw timber near by.

 

 

 

Coffee maintains | its former firm pos!-

tion, and, althoug h some are predic ting

       

    
 

      
     

 

 

 

l Al Oe ee | Exchange for farm or city property. Address
a descent, the fact remains that some ee > . IDG W. H. N., care Michigan Tradesman. S11
large Sai alc bls are taking place in E. A. Lubbs, Grand Rapids. . \ .ANTED—PARTNER TO TAKE HALF IN. ‘
the aggregate, and dealers do not wait G. Fred Blickle, Grand Rapids. Faun rs terest in my % bbl. steam roller mill and r
Aare “co ning downward’’ movement Wm. H. Bowers, Milwaukee, Wis. Wyre VERY elevator, situated on railroad; miller pre ferred;
for tl oming d nware i nt. | ia : : Fu nk lest m™ |}good wheat country. Full dese ription, price,
Che market is pretty well sold up, and | one — —— mag inaw eas Pre rr as ao terms and inquiries given promply by «ddressing
+} Feu rmlv adhered | mi 1 “remont. D a iE erkir . ‘ Mich. 7
the quotation or a is fi mly adhe red | r nie a — ig youl Sila PATENTE: ees Saka er ae oe = = ee ot
to for No. 7 Rio. ere are afloat 514, - sb. S, JT, It. k t t i) ANGE—- th FR
fon Tae nst 412,961 bags last W. W. Fordham, Elmira. ae WTA PE Aa TONG . and stock farm ten miles from city, for stock
» oo | et Se } ae Schr we hens _. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. of merchandire. Address L. & C ., 667 Madison
year. Mild sorts are also well held and, eo ee wos. a | avenue. Grand Rapids. S07
cm Sianaos Brazils. are keepine f. D. Franklin, Coming, N. Y. .
nt ocean - mages iy Cee (G Hanis {- 3 ie oe DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES:
up the recor for full figures. Pancy; ‘~ 7. Fiarris, Lansing. : 4 | corner location: stock in good condi:ion and
java coffee is worth from 28@ 21Ic. John all. McKelvey, Grand Rapids. | WANTS COLUMN. | business paying. Good reasons fo selling. Ad
~ Teas are sellir everyday man- Calvin C. Wynn, Detroit. | dress Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo, Mich. 176

 

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eo Eg : j MISCELLANEOUS
cle, either as to movement or prices. Mm F Miner, Lake Odessa. JOR SALE OR WILL TRADE FOR PROPER- : rs
Phe Te 15 a2 fecime that the miarkel 1s a H. D. McDuff, Allegan. ty located near the corner of Hall and W* 2 LY \L - —— SC 7 I IRON, oe
: } { r 1 | adi @ stock veneral . hirt and overall eu tinzs and rub- ’
le firmer, but nothing is known <¢ > ci 1] } | Madison avenue, a stock of general me rchandise, :
oie 23 - a ” othing is Kno Bi W. R. Bil ings, Holland. | consisting of groceries, dry goods, boots and | ber. Write for pe ces. Wm. Brummeller & Sons,
Se I shall shortly issue a second appeal | shoes, flour, feed, etc. Good reasons for selling, | 2608. Ionia St., Gran+! Rapids. "Phone 640. 804
_Raw sugar has been attracting consid- +] f 1 | ay. | For particulars call or address on the premi-es$ pied SALE CHEAP COMPLETE SET TIN- j
igar nas I 1 attracting 1a } . 217 . yare ae to ca . 4 ' ' : ig
rable attention Every indication is to those of our hep mbe ci whe on in at | 805 Central avenue, Grand Rapids. sig ner’s tools. Address P. W. Holland, Chapin,
ng oe rears, couched in the following language: | Mich. 734
aa higher quotations and that very i ie | oo DRUG, PAINT AND GROCERY TR , >
; i : . ees le a ee | . ee se \NTED—BUTTER, EGGS, OULTERY, PO-
soon, oa very large transactions have Know ing your loyalty to our Assoc la | stock Nearest drug competition, eight W tatoes, onions, apples, oats oo ee te ; pad
; | hs x e 2 ie ae ‘
been recorded. Refined sugars: have}tion, and feeling that it has been an | miles. Cash sales, $100 per week tent 6 per responde nee solicited. Watkins & Axe. S186
: ; : a : . ;}month. Address Cash, care Michigan Trades South Division street. Grand R: 1 a+
sold well and some excellent orders | oversight in you in hot paying the iaSt | man. S17 : oo ii co Abita tai nee
“ga eee ie a. Se | JANTED—EVERY DRUGGIST JUST COM
deal bee rl " / ived a : mig - town | assessment, I send you this second no- | BIG CHANCE FOR SOMEONE—JEWELRY \ mencing business, and every o: © already
ageaiers. ne roubie whicn whoilesai- |

  

og i : ,.,} tice. I encolse a health certificate which | 4 A stock, tools and fixtures, to the amount ‘| of | started, to use our system of poison labels. What

ers in Chicago have so happily settled] | : a .300, can be bought for $550, with first class lo- | has cost you #15 you can now get for $4. Four

will have a_ good effect on the Western | the constitution provides must bele cation. Address No. 813, care Mic higan Trade teen labels do the work of 13. Tr desman Com
’ ° oS r ' ci ae man

trade. signed by all delinquent prior to. re- ' 13. pany, Grand Rapids.

 

Molasses are firm and those who are instatement, which please sign and re-
in the market are taking such stock as] turn with your remittance. We have § s
a. mecd engaging : ———. had an unusual number of deaths this uhe S eal Ri e
seg ee ee ee ee year, twelve of our members having laid
down their grips and gone to that land

*
Pirces are firmly held, however, and noj ‘Fem whic h no trave aan farns. 0 tar, el] ns O a
indications of weakness are apparent. ) everything is paid. We have one more eeeeee0

The rice market remains firm and|death claim, which will be ordered paid AS THE VERY BEST

holders are inclined stric tly to adhere to] at our next Board meeting and we have |

quotations. No sign of weakness is ap-| the money to pay it. Could you see the an 5 CENT CIGAR see —

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arent, notwithstanding the a that we | letters of thanks which come from the F. E. BUSHMAN
1 7 : : ER, CHICAGO. ee
are about on the eve of the greatest rice | wives of our deceased brothers, | feel . . . 523 John St., KALAMAZOO
harvest we have ever had. that you would never let another assess- 999O990090966060606006006066060606006 09000060606600006 i
Spices are steady. The movement is}|Ment go by or begrudge the — ; ] : ®
of ordinary character and former quota- | amount you have — in for their re o ( h j a 7 al sie >
i Pie i . . ar quarters, 1aAVEs, /OUNGS
tions prevail. Some quite large transac- | ied, None of us can tell = will he} @ OCO a DC incss ae oa ses ea eject “"e
tiotis in China cassia have been re-|the next; and the feeling of relief you 3 Pets gc gegi ane °
ported, will have to know that you i ive left 13 Just the thing for prem
a med soods are movine moderate ly. those loved ones ina position in whicl 1l@ an on Ons | a fine trade cone T
mh. : si l they will not have to be turned out pag +
Che outlook for tomatoes in the Eastern ] ld ld l] th | @ An endless variety of the toothsome dainties to be found at — auc +
part of New Jersey and in Delaware and oS Cole worl Wi more than) ¢@ o
ao a. o. . i Lee a repay you for the few dollars it has cost | @
Mar nd is said to be mighty precari- be : >
TORR . Hazard, of Shrewsbury, N. ] you. Now, brothers, let us have a quick : — ey “ a Hl 2
oe t ee = ll response to this a peal. va °e
2 > most successful : ‘Ts : | i
one of the “a t . esstul prey rs of = ia oe ee ee 3 5 and a 2. lonia Se. GRAND RAPIDS .
matoes in the Country, Says ne was able ee —— eee
Darth at Meek dois Sidebar: cas bas ace ee POPC OOS OPO OOD OOO OOOO O O00 0O000000000000000600000006
each 1,000 feet long and similar reports} J- Clark & Co. have embarked in the
are heard from other parties. The to- grocery business at Kalamazoo. The A SO lu e ? ANG Acknowledged Leader...
mato Is gay and festive, however, and | Worden Grocer Co. furnished the stock e = ‘
when it is perfectly evident that there °
are no tomatoes whatev r the fr it be- : . SOLD ONLY BY
gins to get in its work; and although} Are You Looking
we hear disc ouraging reports now, the | for Business ? .
chances are that we will have plenty of | ee . na
he 3 cans. Standards are worth from | @ e §
5(470 \ ery low prices pre vail for | FOR SALE e ry
pe aches. " Baltimore packers are busy | ° :
on white stock. Apples are selling for| ° Scams RAPIDS, Mich.
future delivery at $2, delivered in his|
city. . ” Sutin ipa
Lemons and oranges are moving much | GRAND er MICH. 3 .
more freely than last week and prices | —— — $ $ :
} ani Br eae cn which at . eet mn e .
show some advance, a h at the mo- | cape: Mz ae ‘ry, Foundry and $ $
ment 1s very firmly adhered to. Califor-| Boiler Shop, with Tools, Patterns and > é
Nia oranges are worth trom $2@2.75 per sood wi ot the business. fen ited — e e
I ; e ¢
con in center of the city, on the bank of the 8 :
Dried fruits and nuts are steady. The | river and near the railroad. Now in op- e .
comand is sicher ng, but for the time | ¢ ration and doing a fair business. $ :
of year is, iaps, all that could be ex- Size of ground, 160 x 170 ft. Machine Shop, s :
pected. 1 i one story, 60 x 65 ft. Foundry, 60 x 60 ft., two e will never find you over the washtub if you use $
Butter is in fair request for the 9 st —— ggg bre oo Shop, two stories, : e
& which sell 2020 Wc _ | 50x 100 feet icksmith Shop, in rear, 50 x 60 e s
qualities, whi ap sei a 20@20'%c. Up ft., two forges. Engine Room, 33 x 20 ft. Engine e 2
on the whole the market can be called | and Boiler of % horse power Capacity. Vacant ~ ©
firm. | Sround for storage, 60 x 160 ft. @ Itmakes the clothes clean and white, without the bac k-breaking proces breaking process. It §
Cheese is in light demand. Receipts | Wil) be sold cheap and on easy terms, to close 5 will save your strength, save your money, save your clothes. Try itnextwash- 6
are moderat however. : 1 rithi , | an estate, WM. T. POW « @ day. Sold by all grocers. OLNEY & JU DSON GROCER © o., e ‘
Z noderate, howe » and within a} Grand Rapids, Mich. * Wholesale Age mts, Grand Rapids, Mich. § ‘
. few days, if they grow no larger, we: By Wm. T. Powers, Survivor Seccccseccccoocecoooce ee eee ecoee =

 

 

 

 

   
 
  
  
    
    
    
  
    
   
    
        
      
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
  
  

 

      

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        

 

 

 

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TRADESMAN © COMPANY'S
Be >| POISONOUS DRUGS |—
Because he 1S haunted with V1ISIONS of unpaid book ARRANGED IW FOURTEEN GROUPS WITH an ANTIDOTE FOR EACH GROUP.
: : How to Use Them rey erating ad masibes of te enteies all to be tach ote eae
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CAUTION—Use no ether system of Poison Labels with this list,
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Coupon Book System ta Ee
d 223 2 e aim if
which is now in use by progressive merchants every-
where.
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Briefly stated, the coupon system is preferable to the pass book method because
it (1) saves the time consumed in recording the sales on the pass book and transfer-
ing same to blotter, day-book and ledger; (2) prevents the disputing of accounts; (3)
; puts the obligation in the form of a note, which is prima facie evidence of indebted-
ness; (4) enables the merchant to collect interest on overdue notes, which he is un-
able to do with ledger accounts; (5) holds the customer down to the limit of credit
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established by the merchant, as it is almost impossible to do with the pass book.
Are not the advantages above enumerated sufficient to warrant a trial of the There are 113 poisonous drugs sold, which must be labeled as such, with the
coupon system? If so, order from the largest manufacturers of coupons in the coun- | Proper antidote attached. Any label house will charge you 14 cents tor 250 labels,
: the smallest amount sold. Cheap enough, at a glance, but did you ever figure it out
try and address your letters to —113 kinds at 14 cents—g15.82. With our system you get the same results with less
detail for less than one-third the money.
Sent prepaid to any address, when cash accompanies order, for $4.
Grand Rapids Grand Rapids
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PAYS FOR ITSELF

a Every two months and makes you 600 per cent. on the
investment. It prevents all errors in weighing and

| STOPS THE LEAKS

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ee Bonaparte, Iowa, April 22, 18%.

118-124 State St., and 77-7
Cash MERCHANDISE

9 Madison St.,
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Chieago, Dee. 31, 1894. GENTLEMEN: In reference to yours of recent
i date regarding the Computing Scales which you
The Computing Seale Co., Dayton, Ohio: sent us, permit us to state that they have ex-

GENTLEMEN: We have had your scale in use , ceeded our expectations, giving us the utmost
: ave ie me ey satisfact on. We consider it one of our greatest
since November 24, 1894, in our butter, cheese | e9nyeniences in our store, and knowing it, as we
and meat department. We find them to do ey- ; now = and from the experience we have had
m. Our clerks can wait on | from its usage in the store, we would not dis-
ae ae ae a th es _ ; pense with it for ten times its value. Any ordi-
more customers and assure them accuracy in €V | nary clerk, with common school education, can
ery respect. We can recommend them as the | expedite business equal to two or three clerks,
most economical*seale in use for meat markets | 42nd we prize it as one of our foremost fixtures
1 : . y , in ourstore. We consider and feel that ours has
1d groceries rs truly : . ’
and groceries oer es paid for itself in two months.
Yours truly,
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