GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  4,  1885

NO. 76

YOL. 2.
RETAILERS,
L A V IN E

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This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a 
larger profit than any in the  Market,  and  is 
put up in handsome and attractive  packages 
•with picture cards with each case.  We guar­
antee  it  to  be  the  best  Washing  Powder 
made and solicit a trial order.  See prices in  
Price-List.

HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,  •
MICHIGAN.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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CLOVER  SEED

BEANS!

Dealers having a surplus  of  either  Clover 
Seed or Beans can  always  find  a  cash  mar­
ket by addressing

W. T. LAM OBM , A n t,
STEAM  LAUNDRY

71 Canal street.

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

K R IM ,  JONES  A  CO,
Fine Perfumes,

M a n u fa c tu re rs  o f

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

AT.SO  PROPRIETORS  OF

KEMINK’S

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GRAND  RAPIDS. 
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Hazeltine,  Perkins  &  Co.,  Grand  Rapids;  H. 
Walsh & Son, Holland.  Manufactured  by 
N.  G.  VANIIERLINDE,  Muskegon.

JAMES C. AVERY.

James C. Avery & Co

GEO. E. HUBBARD.

Grand  Haven,  Mich.

Manufacturers of the  following brands  of Ci­
Great  Scott,  Demolai  No.  5, 

gars;

Eldorado,  Doncella, 

Avery’s Choice,

Etc.,  $ c.

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Manufactured  Tobacco.
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Unquestionably the best in the  market.  As 
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J o b u   O a u l f L e l d ,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

GREAT  WATCH  MAKER,

JEWELER,

44  CANAI.  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

FOR  MAHOGANY i
HENRY  OTIS,

ADDRESS

IMPORTER,

NEW  ORLEANS

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FIRE,  LIFE &  ACCIDENT

Insurance,

Shoe and Leather......................................Boston
Cooper..............................................Dayton, Ohio
Union........................................ Pittsburgh,  Pa.
Germania..................................Cincinnati,  Ohio

Total Assets represented, $3,516,808.

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

TOWER  &  CHAPLIN,
16 Houseman Block  -  Grand Rapids
P E T E R   D O R A  IT, 

General  Collectors,

Attomey-at-Law,

Pierce Block, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 

Practices  in State  and United  States  Courts. 
Special attention given to

MERCANTILE  COLLECTIONS.

S. A. WELLING
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WHOLESALE

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NOTIONS!

PANTS,  OVERALLS,  JACKETS,  SHIRTS, 
LADIES’  AND GENTS’  HOSIERY,  UNDER­
WEAR,  MACKINAWS,  NECKWEAR,  SUS­
PENDERS,  STATIONERY,  POCKET  CUT- 
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK­
ERS’  SUNDRIES,  HARMONICAS,  VIOLIN 
STRING^, ETC.

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  John D. Man- 
gum,  A.  M.  Sprague,  John  H.  Eacker, 
L. R. Cesna, and J. T. Herrington.

24 Pearl Street

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W. N.FULLER & CO

DESIGNERS  AND

¡Engravers on Wood,

Fine  Mechanical and  Furniture Work, In­

cluding  Buildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

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MICH.

GRAND RAPIDS 

ALBERT  COYE

-JOBBERS  OF—

Horse Covers,  Oiled  Clothing, Awnings  and Tents.

73 Canal Street, Grand Rapids.

We carry a full line  of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field  and garden. 
Parties  in  want  will  do 
well  to  write  or  see  the

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED  CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

SHRIVER, WEATHERLY & CO.,

Grand Rapids, Mich., 

WHOLESALE  AND RETAIL

IRON  PIPE,

Brass Goods, Iron  and  Brass  Fittings, 

Mantels,  Grates, Gas  Fixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam Fitters,
—And Manufacturers of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

ORGANIZED!

Michigan Dairymen  Alive  to 

their Interests.

State  Organization Effected—Thè First An-

nual  Convention  a  Sucoess—Inter-

esting Two  Day!’  Sessions.

Pursuant to call,  thirty  gentlemen  inter­
ested in the subject of dairying  met  at  tlm 
Supervisor’s room,  Court  block,  about  ten 
o’clock,  last  Wednesday  morning,  for  the 
purpose of  organizing  a  State  Dairymen’s 
Association.  The meeting was called to order 
by C. B. Lambert, of East Saginaw, who nom­
inated Hon. S.  L. Fuller,  of  Grand  Rapids, 
as temporary chairman, and E. A. Stowe was 
chosen  temporary  secretary.  Mayor  Bel­
knap welcomed the gathering in  one  of  his 
happy, short speeches, in which he  referred 
to the fact that the men who formerly  came 
to Michigan to buy lumber, shingles and coon 
skins have remained here, and are to-day en­
ergetic and prosperous.  The people  of  the 
State have only lately come to recognize  the 
great  importance  of 
indus­
try,  but  they  are 
the 
wants  of  the  times,  and  they  demand 
pure milk, good butter and wholesome cheese 
at prices which the rich  and poor  can  alike 
afford.  He  declared  that  he  could see  in 
the  faces  of  those  arround  him  that  the 
labors of the convention  would  be  fraught 
with good to themselves and the community 
in which they  live.

the  dairy 
fully  alive 

to 

Chairman Fuller thanked  the  Mayor for 
his words of welcome and proceeded to state 
the objects of the meeting.  There  was cer­
tain work to be done, in a certain way.  The 
primary object was the establishment of the 
milk  products  of  Michigan  on  as  high a 
plane as those of  Iowa,  giving  them a rep­
utation such as we now enjoy as  regards ap­
ples and as regards wheat in  the  past.  In­
cluded under this head  comes the  question 
of the breed of cattle, as no man  can  make 
it profitable dairying with an  indifferent set 
of cows.

On roll-call by the  Secretary, the  follow­
ing gentlemen responded to their names:  R. 
P. Emerson,  Kalamazoo; L. F.  Cox,  Port­
age; Isaac Hoag, B. P. Dean, Cedar Springs; 
John W. Borst, Vriesland; John  N. Lockes, 
E. L. Briggs, Edwin  Fallas, Grand  Rapids; 
S. J. Wilson, Flint; D. M. Angell,  Lamont; 
O. Van Buren, Grand Rapids;  A.  P.  Foltz, 
James  Skinner,  Davison  Station;  W.  H. 
Howe,  Flint;  N.  S.  Andrews,  Dubuque, 
Iowa; K. B.  Edgell,  Hopkins  Station;  D. 
Cunningham,  Geo.  Sinclair,  Hudsonville; 
Jos. Post, Clarksville; A. E. Johnson,  Spar­
ta; Chas. E. Belknap,  Grand  Rapids; Jacob 
Van Putten, Jr., Holland; E. A. Haven, War­
ren Haven, Bloomingdale; R. C. Nash,  Hil- 
liards;  M.  Wiggins,  Bloomingdale;  R.  C. 
Nash,  Hilliards;  W.  S.  Luther,  Ossian, 
Iowa; C. B. Lambert,  East  Saginaw; S. L. 
Fuller, E. A.  Stowe, Grand Rapids.

The question arising as to  whether  deal­
ers in butter and cheese would be eligible to 
membership, Mr. Lambert  stated  that “the 
dealers are one  with  us  and  without  their 
aid we are powerless,” and  as  this  seemed 
to be the sentiment of the meeting,  the sub­
ject was dropped.

Mr. Lambert moved  the  appointment of 
the necessary preliminary committees, which 
the Chairman announced as follows:

On Permanent  Organization—C. B.  Lam­
bert, East Saginaw;  Jas.  Skinner,  Davison 
Station; F. E.  Pickett, Hilliards.

On  Constitution  and  By-Laws—E.  L. 
Briggs, Grand Rapids; W.  II. Howe,  Atlas; 
Warren Haven, Bloomingdale.

On Programme—W.  S.  Luther,  Ossian, 
Iowa; N. S. Andrews,  Dubuque,  Iowa;  M. 
Wiggins, Bloomingdale.

On Dairy Utensils—A. E. Johnson, Sparta 
John W. Borst, Vriesland;  L. F. Cox,  Port­
age.

The meeting then  adjourned to 1:30 p. m.

WEDNESDAY  AFTERNOON  SESSION.

At the afternoon session the following ad- 
*  ditional  dairymen  were  present:  G.  W. 
Griffin,  Davison;  L.  Chapin,  Lowell;  F. 
Richmond, Saranac;  Jos. Post,  Clarksville; 
Chas. Cross,  Carson City; C.  Case,  Crystal;
G. B. Gibbs,  Greenville; W.  Williard, Ber­
lin; C. Post, Belmont; E.  J.  Savage,  Coop- 
ersville;  H.  F.  Buskirk,  Bradley;  John 
Demstra, Drenthe; J. E. Phillipps, Paris; J.
H.  Martin, Grand Rapids; Martin  L. Sweet, 
Grand Rapids; Frank J. Lamb, Grand  Rap­
ids; John T. Cobb,  Schoolcraft; D. P. Clay, 
Grand Rapids; H. Dale Adams.,  Little Prai­
rie Ronde; W.  W. Johnson,  Grand  Rapids.
Mr. Briggs, chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Constitution  and  By-Laws  reported  a 
draft of  the  same,  which  was  read  and 
adopted.

Mr. Luther, chairman  of  the  Committee 
on Programme, reported  the  order of exer­
cises for the afternoon session, the first thing 
in order being a  discussion  on  the  “Dairy 
Cow,” lead by Mr.  Fuller, who  delivered an 
excellent  address, which  was  listened  to 
with marked attention.  His first  statement 
was that if corn  is  king, the  cow is queen. 
If a man wishes a cow for milk qualities on­
ly he should make  his  purchase  with  this 
end in view; if it was cheese  he  was  after 
he should  purchase a  cheese-making  cow. 
You cannot mix cream  of  different  grades 
and make good batter, hence  the  necessity 
for thorough  breeding.  Brains, as  well as

muscle, should enter into  butter-making.  In I 
order to  compete  with  oleomargarine  and j 
butterine, farmers must  provide  something! 
better.  Much depends upon feeding as well \ 
as selection.  The cow is a  machine,  and in j 
order to produce the best results must  have 
the best of feed, care  and  treatment.  The 
men first to improve  their  stock  are  to be 
the successful butter makers.

Mr. Fuller was followed  by  Mr.  Pickett, 
who carried the  subject  somewhat  farther, 
declaring that cows must be treated  kindly; 
even calves from birth must know that their 
owner is their friend.  A cow should  never 
be whipped, and anything  that  is  unfit  for 
man to eat is unfit for a cow to  eat.

Mr.  Richmond  said  that  he  had  had 
considerable  experience in stock raising  and 
in dairies,  and  had  had  best  results  with 
grade  Jerseys.  By  actual  experiment,  he 
had found that the same  cow,  with  proper 
feeding,  will give, in a  twenty-quart  gradu­
ated can, three-fourths of an inch  difference 
in the thickness of the  cream.  He  did  not 
care to give a cow straw diet  three  times  a 
day, and he never used straw in  feeding.

it 

Mr. Andrews believed  in  feeding  a  cow 
from  the  outside.  In  his  opinion, 
is 
poor policy to feed corn to a cow,  when  she 
is standing out-of-doors, and  the  thermome­
ter is thirty degrees below  zero.  In  select­
ing breeds for a  daily,  he  would  avoid  vi­
cious breeds.  The dairy business  pays  the 
best  of  anything  in  Iowa.  During  1884, 
there were spread over the state,  every Sat­
urday night, over $2,000,000  for  dairy  pro­
ducts alone.

Mr. Briggs said that the time would  come 
when certain men would breed  milch  cows, 
would find the  best  stock  for  certain  pur­
poses and would  use  that  knowledge  with 
the  best  results.  During  a  residence  of 
twenty-five years in Kent county, he had seen 
little improvement in cows.

W.  W.  Johnson  said  his  experience  had 
been that the more you  pay  for  a  cow  the 
more you are  cheated.  His  rule  regarding 
feed  is to  increase the feed of a cow just as 
long as she increases  her  milk,  and  in  his 
judgment the feeding is a matter  of  experi­
ment.

Mr. Willard questioned the ability of dairy­
men to govern cows  by  kindness  under  all 
circumstances.  Mr. Lambert related  an  in­
cident  which  came  to  his  notice while  in 
charge of a dairy in Illinois.  Three-quarters 
of the cows were natural  kickers,  and  con­
sequently difficult  to milk,  but  a  boy  who 
went through his work  singing  could  milk 
the  most  vicious  cow  in  the  herd without 
trouble.

Mr.  Wiggins  was  of  the  opinion that  a 
man ought never to raise his  voice  above  a 
common tone in speaking  to a cow.

Mr. Richmond said the best  way to select 
good milkers was to look  into  their  prede­
cessors “way back to their  grandads.”  The 
way to treat hereditary  kickers  was  to  get 
rid of them.

Mr.  Andrews  said  that butter was  moi’e 
profitable  in  Iowa  than  cheese,  as  is evi­
denced  by  the  fact  that the State contains 
GOO  creameries  and  about  270  cheese fac­
tories.

Mr. Howe wanted to know  if  it  was  not 
possible for a cow to be good for both butter 
and cheese, and was  answered  by  Mr.  An­
drews in the  negative.

Mr.  Hoag  claimed  that  it  paid  to raise 

one’s own calves.

Mr. Howe resumed  his  inquiries  relative 
to milk  being  equally  valuable  for  butter 
or cheese, and was assured by Mr.  Lambert 
that  it  is  impossible  to  get  milk  rich  in 
cream and caseine at the same time.

Mr. Sinclair was of the opinion  that  milk 
that  is  good  for  butter  is  also  good  for 
cheese, and that the presence  of  butter  en­
hances  the  value  of the cheese proportion­
ally.

Mr. Dean stated that the  trouble with the 
system  of  allowing  one class of men to do 
all the breeding would be  that  they  would 
grade  the cows  so high  that  the  dairymen 
could not buy them.

Mr. Van Buren believed in  feeding  cows 
while milking.  He considered  meal  good 
feed, but sweet corn better yet.

Mr. Sweet described  his system of raising 
sweet corn.  He sows early in drills, having 
the stalks six inches apart  one way and two 
and a half feet the other, so as  to  grow all 
the ears possible.  He cuts the stalks in the 
cutter, ears and  all, and  obtains  as  much 
milk that way as from any feed he  can fur­
nish.  He has  found  that  corn  and  oats, 
ground together and fed  moderately, is also 
profitable.  He related  an  amusing  exper­
ience he had with  Jersey  cattle, and how it 
cost him about $1 per pound to  fat a Jersey 
cow.  He also detailed  his experience  with 
short-horns, one cow of that  breed  costing 
him $275, which he sold for $75.  He is now 
the  owner of 100  head of Holsteins, which 
he finds to be better adapted for cheese, as a 
rule, than for  both  butter  and  cheese.  In 
his opinion the  average  dairyman  does not 
take enough pains  in  getting  good  water, 
soft water being always  preferable  to hard.
Mr. Clay asked if  any  one  present  had 
had any experience in using cooked food for 
cattle.

Mr. Hoag found  that  cooked food created 
too much heat for milk, but  was  good  for 
beef cattle.

Mr. Clay said he had  been  usipg  cooked

food for some time past in his dairy and that j 
it increased the flow of the milk.  Moreover, 
his cattle do not curl up and shiver,  as  ani- j 
mals  frequently  do  which  are  given  cold | 
food.

Mr.  Cox  said  he  had  obtained  good re-1 
suits from oil meal and bran,  also with com j 
and oats wet up with hot water.  He thought j 
wet food far preferable to dry.

Mr. Sweet asked how long it  was  profita-j 

ble to use a cow in the dairy.

Mr.  Hoag  stated  that  he had seen cows 
give out at eight years, from  overfeeding  or j 
misuse, and he  had  seen  cattle  which  had 
been  milked  for  eighteen  years  and  were 
good  milkers  yet.  The  average would  be j 
from twelve to fourteen years.

Mr. Richmond found  by  experiment  that j 
an average cow was good  for  from  nine  to 
ten months a year for eleven years.

The  discussion  relative  to  cows  having 
been completed, the Secretary read  the  fol­
lowing paper on “Butter Making,”  from D. 
B. Squibb, of Muskegon:

The revenue from the dairy  is  remunera­
tive,  when the product is  properly handled; 
but it requires skill, care  and  attention  in 
manufacturing and preparing  for  market to 
ensure satisfactory returns.
The milk should stand in a clean cellar or 
out house, free from decaying vegetables, or 
other odorous substances which  impregnate 
the milk; and the cream  should be gathered 
every morning, and not allowed to stand too 
long  before  churning.  When  churned, the 
butter  milk  should  be  thoroughly  worked 
out, but not overworked, so  as  to break the 
grain.
In salting, use none but fine salt.  Import­
ed is the best.  Butter salted  with barrel or 
course salt is objectionable, as the best trade 
passes it.
In packing for market, great pains should 
be taken, that the  packages as  well  as the 
butter is inviting and neat.  If packed solid, 
crocks or tubs should be  used, with  bleach­
ed cloth neatly spread over the butter, and a 
layer of fine salt on the cloth.  This excludes 
the air and preserves  the  flavor of the but­
ter.  If in roll, they  should  be  of  uniform 
size, of about two pound  each, neatly wrap­
ped in bleached cloth and packed  in tubs or 
new cheese boxes.  It is not  good  policy to 
pack roll butter in barrels or large boxes for 
shipment, for the roll  becomes  more or less 
broken; and when offered for  sale  presents 
an unfavorable appearance to the purchaser.
Dairymen cannot use  too  much  pains in 
preparing their  butter  for the  market, for 
they have a sharp competition in the  patent 
butters that are flooding our  markets, and it 
frequently occurs that the counterfeit is sold 
more readily than the  genuine, owing to the 
skill with  which it is  handled.  Dairymen 
cannot afford to let this state of affairs exist, 
when  the  remedy  is  within  their  reach. 
Compare the prices  of  common  butter  to­
day,  with the  New  York  State, Iowa  and 
Western Reserve, and  you will  readily see 
that the quality governs the price.
It costs but very  little  more to manufac­
ture a good article of butter  than a common 
one; and much less to sell it.
The  experienced  retailer-  is  aware  that 
where butter is not  sufficiently worked, that 
in a short time the butter  milk  sours  and 
destroys the flavor of the butter and renders 
it unsalable except to  bakers at  a  nominal 
price; and  who  at  times  gets  the 
lion’s 
share.  Too much heat either in  the  dairy 
or on transit to market,  deadens  the  flavor 
and renders it undesirable to  those  who are 
willing to pay  a  just  compensation for the 
article desired.
These few  suggestions are submitted  for 
the consideration of those who are interested 
in the manufacture and  sale of  dairy  pro­
ducts in our State  with a  view  to  further 
discussions, that may lead to permanent im­
provements in this line and enhance our rep 
utation on the general  market in this partic­
ular article and compete  favorable with oth­
er States.

A  considerable  discussion  followed,  pro 
and con the subject, during  which  Mr.  Sin­
clair described the  Elgin  method  of  butter 
making, and Mr. Luther described the  Iowa 
method.

Mr. Lambert  moved  that a stenographer 
be employed to make  a  verbatim  report of 
the proceedings of the meeting, for  publica­
tion in pamphlet  form, which was  discuss­
ed and lost.

Mr. Adams moved  that  the  Secretary be 
instructed to prepare a report of  the  meet­
ing as far as he is able, and publish the same 
for the interest and benefit of  the communi­
ty, which was adopted.

The-meeting then  adjourned  until 7 p. m.

WEDNESDAY—EVENING  SESSION.

Upon calling to order,  Dr. Vaughan,  Pro­
fessor of Chemistry at the Ann  Arbor  Uni­
versity, and Chairman of the Committee  on 
Poisons  of  the  State  Board of Health, ad­
dressed  the  meeting  on  the  subject  of 
“Poisoned Cheese.”  He stated that poison­
ous or “sick” cheese was a  matter  of  great 
interest to dairymen.  It was known as long 
ago as 300 years, and has  been  a  source  of 
much perplexity  to  chemists  ever  since  it 
was  first  known.  The  old  foul-smelling 
cheese, such  as Limberger, never  possesses 
these properties—whenever found  they  are 
found in new cheese. 
It is a prevalent idea 
that sick cheese is caused by someth iug that 
the  cow  has  eaten. 
Some  ascribe  the 
poisonous  principle  to  a  plant,  but  a  pe­
culiarity of the matter is that  no  two  men­
tion the same plant.  In  studying  the  sub­
ject,  there  are  three  objects  to be kept  in 
view—to find out the poison, to find  how  it 
gets there, and to prevent its  getting  there. 
Dr. Vaughan said he was still at work on the 
first question, but hopes to get at the bottom 
sometime in the  future.  An  eminent  Ger­
man writer affirms that the poisonous cheese 
does  not  manifest  itself  on the lower ani­
mals.  In  order  to  satisfy  himself on  this 
point, he experimented on a number of cats, 
which he shut in a room  with  a  bare  floor

and gave them  only  poisonous  cheese  and 
distilled  water.  They  ate greedily  of  the 
cheese, and at tire end of two weeks  seemed 
none the wors  for their  peculiar  diet.  He 
then killed them,  but found  no  evidence  of 
bad  effect  in  the  stomach,  there being no 
reddening  of  the  mucous membrane.  He 
then took some himself, and  was  poisoned. 
Dr. Sternberg, an eminent student of germs, 
obtained some of the germs  from  poisonous 
cheese, developed them on beef tea,  and fed 
them to some of the lower  animals,  also in­
jecting them into  their  Mood,  but  without 
injury to the animals so treated.  He is sat­
isfied  from his investigations  on the subject 
that  the  poison  is  neither  a  vegetable  or 
mineral substance.

During the outbreak last June, samples of 
the  poisonous  cheese  were  sent  him  for 
analysis. 
In  order  to  determine whether 
they  wrere  really  poisonous,  he  ate  some 
himself,  an d was  poisoned.  He then  ob­
tained an alcoholic extract  of  the  cheese— 
in  which  no  germ  could  live—evaporated 
the  residue,  and  proved  it  to be chemical 
poison.  On this point, he is well satisfied— 
that the poison is not  due  to  living  organ­
isms themselves,  but to germs  that  eat  and 
cast out excretions, and that  the  excretions 
are probably the source  of  the  poison.  In 
other words, these germs,  although  vegeta­
ble in growth, are chemical in  analysis,  and 
it  is  the  excretion  of  these  germs  that  is 
poisonous.

In this connection, Dr. Vaughan states that 
w’hen a poisonous cheese is cut, a creamy fluid 
will ooze from the cells.  If blue litmus paper 
is applied to the fluid, and the fluid turns the 
paper an intense red, the cheese is poisonous.
He  next  made  an  aqueous extract from 
the cheese,  and found the aqueous extract to 
be  very  strongly  acid  and poisonous.  He 
extracted  the  water  solution,  and  got  a 
poisonous substance which gave the same re­
actions as morphine.  He has  not  been able 
as yet to secure a sufficient  quantity  of  the 
poison  to  ascertain  the  exact  nature  and 
composition of the  substance.  On  making 
the aqueous extract, the first few  drops dis­
tilled were  found to be  poisonous,  as  they 
caused a smarting of the tongue, dryness  in 
the roof of the mouth, a constriction  of  the 
throat and vomiting and diarrhoea.

This  extract is highly volatile and will de­
compose by standing in a bottle  two  weeks 
.  and then is no  longer  poisonous.  He does 
not  believe  the  poison  is  due to any planò 
the  cow  eats,  but 
is  solely  caused  by 
putrefaction  after  the  cheese  is made. 
It 
may be that tins poison is in  the  rennet,  or 
may be caused by the curds getting too acid. 
The  coining  season  he  intends  spending 
some time at a cheese  factory  for .the  pur­
pose of making a careful study of every fea­
ture  of  cheese-making,  and  determining 
whether 
the  organisms  will  grow  and 
produce other organisms.

Mr.  Pickett  stated  that in Scotland  they 
had a habit of killing the calf  before  it  had 
taken  food.  This  he  thought might cause 
the rennet to be poisonous.

Dr. Vaughan said that  it  might have  had 
something to do with it.  One peculiar  fea­
ture of cheese poisoning is that it has  never 
been  known  to  be  attended  with fatal  re­
sults, although in sausage poisoning as many 
as 75 per cent,  of the cases have been known 
to be fatal.

[Continued on inside pages.]

Dairying in a Nntshell.

At the last session of the Wisconsin Dairy­
men’s Association, a pithy essay was summed 
up thus tersely :

Cows—Select cows  rich  in  butfer-making 

qualities.

Feed—Pastures should be dry,  free  from 
slough-holes and well-seeded  with  different 
kinds of tame grasses, so that good feed is as­
sured.  If the feed is timothy or clover,  cut 
early and cure properly.  Feed  corn  stalks, 
pumpkins, ensilage and plenty of vegetables 
in winter.

Grain—Corn and oats, corn and  bran,  oil 

meal in small quantities.

Water—Let cows drink  only  such  water 

as you would yourself.

Care of Cows—Gentleness and cleanliness.
Milking—Brush the udder to free it  from 
impurities.  Milk in a clean bara, well venti­
lated, quickly, cheerfully,  with clean  hands 
and pail.  Seldom change milkers.

Utensils—Better have one cow  less  than 
be  without  a  thermometer.  Have  chums 
with inside fixtures; also have a lever butter- 
worker.  Keep sweet and clean.

Care of Milk—Strain  while  warm.  Sub­
merge in  water  forty-eight  degrees.  Open 
setting sixty degrees.

Skimming—Skim at twelve hours  and  at 

twenty-four hours.

Care of Cream—Care must be exercised to 
ripen cream  by  frequent  stirrings,  keeping 
at sixty degrees until  slightly  sour.

Churning—Stir the cream thoroughly ; tem­
per to sixty degrees; warm or cool with  wa­
ter.  Churn 
immediately  when  properly 
soured, slowly at first, with regular  motion, 
in forty to sixty  minutes.  When  butter  is 
formed in granules the  size  of  wheat  ker­
nels, drawoff the buttermilk; wash with cold 
water and brine until no trace of  buttermilk 
is left.

Working and Salting—Let the water drain 
out; weigh the butter; salt one ounce to  the 
pound ; sift salt on the butter, and work with 
lever worker.  Set away  from  two.  to  four 
hours ; lightly rework and pack.

Walker & Farnsworth, the “hill”  grocers, 
have dissolved Mr.  Farnsworth  continuing.
John P. Thomson has purchased the inter­
est of his partner in the grocery business  of 
G. H. Behnke & Co., on East Bridge  street, 
and will continue  the  business  in  his  own

Capt. Ganoe  states  that  the  Barrett  will 
resume her regular daily trips on Grand Riv­
er as soon as navigation opens.  The rate of 
freight  will  be  the  same  as last year, viz.: 
Grand  Haven,  6  cents;  Chicago,  10  cents; 
Milwaukee,  12 cents.

Wm. Karston. has purchased A.  Engberts’ 
store building at Beaver Dam and  put  in a 
I general stock, purchasing  the  groceries  of 
Cody, Ball & Co. and  the  dry  goods of  P. 
Steketee & Sons.  Mr. Engberts has  moved 
his stock to Zeeland, where he  has resumed 
business.

John Otis,  proprietor  of  the  furnace at 
Fumaceville, near  Mancelona, was  in town 
last week on his way  home  from  Chicago, 
where he disposed of 100 tons of  pig iron to 
the Chicago Malleable Iron Works and twen­
ty tons to Griffin & Wells at an average price 
of $18 per ton net at the  furnace.  He  has 
still on hand a stock of  about  400  tons  of 
iron, and is getting out a  large  quantity of 
wood for the coming  summer’s  run, expect­
ing  to go into blast  again about May  1.

L.  S.  Wilson,  of  the  firm  of  Wilson & 
Howard,  at  St. Joseph,  and  clerk  of  St. 
Joseph township, Berrien county, was in the 
city Saturday for the purpose of  paying the 
Grand Rapids National Bank  «6,020 due on 
bonds and interest  from  St.  Joseph  town­
ship.  In  1865  the  township voted «44,000 
to aid in the construction of  the C. & W. M. 
Railway,  subsequently  making  one  annual 
payment  of  «4,000.  The  State  Supreme 
Court having declared such a proceeding un­
constitutional, payments  were  deferred  un­
til  1883,  when  the  Supreme  Court  of the 
United  States  reversed  the  decision of the 
lower court.  The township then paid «15,000 
cash  and  confessed  judgment  for  about 
«100,000, giving new bonds as  collateral for 
the accrued interest.  The indebtedness was 
made payable  in  fifteen  annual  payments, 
this year’s payment amounting to «11,202,75.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

M.  H. Yaughan,  grocer  at  Caro,  has  as­

Fred Nelson has open  a  meat  market  at 

signed.

Whitehall.

P. B. Fisk, confectionery dealer at Manis­

tee, has assigned.

C. G. Powers, general dealer at Sherwood, 

is moving to Quincy.

Andre & Son succeed  Andre Bros, in gen­

eral trade Jennisonville.

Wm. Weed & Co.  have  started  up  their 

basket factory at Douglas.

C. W. Ives succeeds Holland & Ives in the 

drug business at Rockford.
|  Laura Cathcart succeeds  W.  A.  Cathcart 
in general trade at Concord.

Gleason  Bros,  succeed  Perry  Nichols  in 

the meat business at Cadillac.

H. C. Petz succeeds H. H. Everard  in the 

jewelry business at Kalamazoo.

into their new quarters, at Hart.

F. A. Cook & Co. succeed F. E. Turrell in 

the hardware business at  Bellaire.

Frank M. Lester  succeeds  Riley & Gould 

in the grocery business at Mendon.

R. Weertman succeeds  Weertman  & Fis- 

ser in the bakery business at Zeeland.

Nathernson & Bern van succeed F. A. Fish 

in the grocery business at Kalamazoo.

Henry M.  Williams  succeeds  C. G. Park- 
liurst & Co. in the drug business  at  Mason.
Thompson &  Lake,  milliners  at  White­
hall, have dissolved,  Mrs. Lake  continuing.
Snyder & Barton, of Spring Lake, succeed 
O. L.  Heath in the meat  business at Sparta.
Perry  &  Barrett,  hardware  dealers  at 
U n i o n   City, have dissolved,  Barrett  contin­
uing.

Whitmeyer & Barras, crockery  dealers  at 
Ionia, have  dissolved, Mr.Whitmeyer contin-
uing.

E. G. Hunt, of Mason, has  purchased  the 
grocery business  of  Wm. Giberson,  at Har­
rison.

Conner & Chamberlain succeed Mrs. L. B. 
Conner  in  the  boot  and  shoe  business  at 
Charlevoix.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Suite.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Terms f l  a year in advance, postage paid. 
Advertising rates made known on application.

Michigan Dairymen’s Association.

Organized at  Grand  Rapids,  February ~5.  1885.
President—Mariin Wiggins, Bloomingdale^ 
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac,  F.  C. 
Stone  Saginaw  City;  A.  P.  Foltz,  Davison 
Station-  F.  A.  Kockfellow,  Carson  City, 
wttmm'Haven, BUym lngdale^haa  H Bel-
K S v S t S f f i ;   r  o : &
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland:  Jos.  Post,  Clarks
Secretory and Treasurer—E- A.  Stowe,  Grand
Ne^P Meeting-Third Tuesday  in  February, 
1886.Membership Fee—$1 per year.

O ffic ia l O r g a n —T h e  M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n .

Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8, 1884.

Executive  S m ^ tE t-P n g a en t,  Vtoe-rrej

Putnam. Joseph Houseman. 
Geo. B. Dunton. Amos. b. Musselman. 
Meigs. Wm. T. Lamoreaux.
P  S  Pierce  C. W. Jennings.

Arbitration  Committee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W.
,  „ __
Transportation  Committee—Samuel  Sears, 
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur 
Manufacturing Committee—Wm.  Cartwright, 
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­

ing of each month.

POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

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Mret^ce-I^eTident—Lloyd Max Mills-
Second  V ic e -P re s id e n t-S te p h e n  A.  S ears.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. w . Atkins. 
Executive  Committee—President  and  Secre­
tary,  ex  offlcio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N.
B ra d fo rd  a n d  W. G. H aw k in s.  __  
w   ,
Election Committee-JJeo.  H.  Seymour,  Wal­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  ^ m .  B.  Ed­
munds and D. S. Haugh. 
Room  Committee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  Wm.
Boughton, W. H. Jennings. 
Regular Meetings—Last Saturday evening in
Next^M^ting—Saturday  evening,  March 38, 

at “The Tradesman” office.  __________
Mr. Snooks’  present  letter  will  be  read 
with interest by those who deplore the grow­
ing decline in matters of  religious  moment. 
In  a  separate  note  to  the  editor, he states 
that the Corners are “all torn up,” as he puts 
it,  over  the  advent  of  the  roller  skating 
craze, and that lively  times  are  in store for 
the little village.  In his letter for next week, 
he will refer to the  developments  up to the 
time of writing.

The  convention  of  dairymen  was  even 
more  of  a  success  than  its  most  sanguine 
supporters anticipated.  Seldom  has  there 
been greater interest  manifested  in the pro­
ceedings of any body,  and the results accom­
plished  were  amply 
satisfactory.  The 
T radesman and its  editor feel grateful for 
the confidence reposed in  them by the Asso­
ciation,  and  will  do  all  that  lies  in their 
power to merit the recognition so handsome­
ly bestowed. 

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It  is  not  often  that  The Tradesman 
yields so much of its space to  any  one  sub­
ject as it does this week to the dairy conven­
tion.  The  only  excuse  offered  is the im­
portance  of  the  subject,  and  the  pressing 
necessity 
for  co-operation  on  the part of 
the dealer and  consumer.  Not  everyone  is 
interested in the manufacture of  butter  and 
cheese, but everyone ought to  be  interested 
in the production of  wholesome articles and 
use every endeavor to secure that end.

The Northwestern Lumberman takes the 
following common-sense view of the railway 
situation in Northwestern Michigan.

It is reported that a survey for  the Grand 
Rapids & Indiana  railroad  is  Being  made 
from  Cadillac  to Frankfort.  That  should 
not be wondered at.  It would be  strange if 
that company should permit any of  the  oth­
er proposed  roads to get  there first.  There 
is no reason why the  two  railroad  systems 
now in western Michigan  should  not  cover 
the ground and keep out rivalry.  They will 
be foolish if they don’t.

“Better Tackle  the  Job  at  Once.”

From the Northwestern Lumberman.

A project for  improving  Grand  River for 
navigation up to Grand Rapids is  being dis­
cussed in that Talley.  It is thought  that  it 
can be done for «500,000, a capitalist having 
offered to do the job for that  amount.  The 
plan is to deepen the stream by dredging.  It 
is thought that a double  object  will  be  se­
cured by the scheme—Grand Rapids can thus 
be made a lake port, and deepening the Riv­
er will prevent an overflow.  A direct water 
route to this city from  Grand Rapids  would 
be  a  great  benefit  to  that  thriving second 
city of Michigan, 
it also might become the 
initiative for the proposed  waterway  across 
the Lower Peninsula.  It is proposed to ask 
for a Government appropriation to carry for- 
ward the work.  If  the  citizens of the Val­
ley  wait  for  that  they  will  be gray before 
they eret the improvement.  If only «500,000 
is needed, Grand Rapids and the other towns 
interested had better tackle the  job  at once 
at their own  expense.

The  Grocery  Market.

Trade has  been good and  collections  fair 
during the past  week.  Canned  goods  are 
moving more freely,  and  fish  is  starting up 
somewhat.  Large  quantities  of  roasted 
coffee are moving.  Kerosene  oil has  taken 
the usual spring decline.  The other  fluctu­
ations in the market are  indicated  by  the 
change list at the head of Price Current.

Confectionery is steady and  more  active. 
Fruits  are higher  and  in  active  demand. 
Nuts are easy and in fair demand.

H. M. Read &  Co.  succeed  Hathaway  & 
Read in the drug business at  Howard  City.

OLDEST  &   MOST  RELIABLE

"W HOLES ALE

IN   W E ST E R N   M ICHIGAN.

Purely  Personal.

P. W. Travis, general dealer at  Otsego, is 
yisiting the  New  Orleans  Exposition,  ac- 
compained by his wife.

A. Lindermulder rejoices over the  advent 
of a ten pound  boy,  mailing a  quartette of 
male voices in his family.

Geo. W. Bevins, the Tustin  general  deal­
er, was  in town Saturday, on his  way home 
from the New Orleans Exposition.

F. A.  Jenison,  general  dealer at Manton, 
was in town  Saturday, on  his  way  home 
from the New Orleans Exposition.

It is reported that M. Veldman, of the firm 
of Yeldman & Weiringa,  intends building a 
new store on Henry street the coming season.
Frank Gibson, book-keeper forP. Graham, 
has returned from Detroit,  where he went as 
a delegate to the Grand Lodge  of  the Order 
of Chosen Friends.

W. E.  Knox, formerly engaged in the gro­
cery business on Broadway, has  removed to 
Pomeroy & Lawton’s old stand on West Ful­
ton street.  He has  lately  received an addi­
tion  to his family in the  shape of are eight 
and one-half pound girl, making his fifth.

Frank Hamilton, of the firm  of  Hamilton 
& MUliken, Traverse  City, is in the city for 
the purpose of buying goods.  Mr. Hamilton 
is President of the Business  Men’s Associa­
tion of Traverse City,  which  he  reports  as 
working satisfactorily, there  being  already 
sixty members.  Mr. Hamilton is accompanied 
by his wife.

A man who married the  daughter  of  the 
man who patented the process of condensing 
milk says that  he  has  never  regretted  his 
choice.  His wife is getting royalties amoun t­
ing to «40,000 a year.

A man died in  Detroit  a  few  days  ago, 
while buying a cigar.  The dealer  probably 
told him that it was not  imported,  and  the 
shock was too violent.

julius Yogel  has  leased  the  hotel  and 
grounds at the  old  Pioneer Club landing, at 
Reed’s  Lake,  for  a  term  of  three  years, 
and will operate  the  same  as a pleasure re­
sort,  entertaining  respectable  people  only. 
The business will be  run  on  the  European 
plan, and every effort will be made to render 
the landing a pleasant breathing-place.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE

of Andre Bros, has been  dissolved.  The  busi­
ness «ill be continued by H. Andre & Son, who 
will pay all bills against the  late  firm,  and  to 
whom  all  the  accounts  due the late firm  are
p  j e n n i s o n v i l l e , March 2,1885.
A  Good  Chance  for Business.
A Bakery, in Grand Rapids, No.  9,  South Di­
vision Street.  The bakery has a large and con­
venient Ice  Cream  Parlor  and  the  bakery  is 
first-class in all  Its  a p p u r t e n a n c e s   a n d   h a s   a  
good Holland and  general  trade.  The  reason 
for selling is that I am going  into  other  busi
n Grand Rapids, Feb. 27,1885.  J.  V Ogel.

GRAND  RAPIDS  M’F’G  CO.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

Dairy  Implements a  Specialty.

FARMING  TOOLS  OF  ALL  DESCRIPTIONS. 

Factory—Comer Front and Earl streets. • Office and Sales- 
room s-10,12 and 14 Lyron street, Grand Rapids.________

-------PROPRIETORS-------

BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
M O D E L   M I L L S .
Gilt Eli! Patent ail Hite Lit Brails at Flow.

-MANUFACTURERS OF-

Good Goods and Low Prices.  We invite Correspondence.

pull Roller  Process.

Corner Winter and West Bridge Sts., 

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Grand Rapids, Mica.

W M . SEA R S & '
Cracker  Manufacturers

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AMBOY  CHEESE.

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street,  Grand Rapids,  Michigan.

O. W. Knox and W. E. Thorp have moved 

establish an European agency.

Marshall  Statesman:  S.  S.  Burpee, has I 
sold his store and lot  to  Messrs; Myrfeif and 
Theodore  Cook,  formerly  of  this city, but 
now in the hardware business at  Reed City. 
The purchase price  was  «6,300, and posses-, 
sion  w i l l   be  given  June 1st.  Mr.  Burpee 
will sell the present  stock  of  hardware be­
fore that  time.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

The Union  Windmill Co., at  Albion, will 

The  Michigan  Hoop  Factory,  at Morrill, 
has run all winter with a force of 25  hands.
Gibbs Bros, expect to start their  new mill 
at Mayfield about  May 1.  They have bank­
ed nearly a million feet of hardwood logs.

STRAY  FACTS.

R. Conable, of Petoskey, will open  a 

fish

market in Fort  Wayne.

The Covell Brothers,  of  Whitehall,  have 
decided to sell their stump lands for farming 
lands.  The  area  thus  to  be  disposed  of 
amounts to 7,000 acres.

H. A. Spink,  Jas.  J.  Gee, W. B. Nichol­
son  and  J.  Widoe  &  Son have begun the 
publication of a spicy semi-monthly journal, 
at Whitehall which they designate the Home
Tvadcv» 
St. Joseph people aré naturaly elated oyer
the  fact  that  the  St. Charles Hotels which 
has  been  closed  for  about  twelve  years, 
will be opened the  coming  season,  Chicago 
parties having concluded to make the neces­
sary repairs. 

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The  Gripsack  Brigade.

A. B. Morford & Co. have  purchased  the 
general stock and store  building of  Kipp & 
Iden, at Banfield.

It is.  Chatters  &  Talbot—not  Chatlers & 
Talbot—who succeed  B. C. Turner & Co. in 
general trade at Flushing.

C.  Crawford,  formerly  engaged 

in  the 
drug business at  Caledonia,  has  purchased 
the drug stock of W. F.  Hartwig, at Middle- 
ville.

Messrs. Wunch  and  Orser  have  retired 
from the firm of Lane, Wunch & Orser, mer­
chants tailors at  Muskegon.  The  business 
will be continued by Mr. Lane.

It is reported by the assignee  that the as­

sets of  the  Hancock  jeweler,  G.  Deimel, I 
who failed, are  «7,700; 
liabilities,  «7,600.] 
The appraisement lowered it to «6,300.

C. C. Sweet,  hardware  dealer  at  St.  Jo­
seph, is erecting a new brick building, 66x100 
| feet in dimensions, which he expects to com­
plete  by the middle  of  the  present  month. 
He  will  then  add  lines  of  dry goods and 
boots and shoes.

Norton & Lester, general  dealers at Otse­
go, have dissolved Mr. Lester retiring to en­
gage in business  at  Saranac.  Mr.  Norton 
has  formed a  copartnership  with  Gabriel 
Wolff, who will continue the business under 
the firm name of Norton & Wolff.

W. G. Hawkins is  only  thirty-two  years 
old,  but  he  claims  to  have  attended over 
500,000  dances.  And  he  don’t  care  much 
for dancing, either.

W. S. Horn, with Fox,  Musselman & Lov- 
eridge,  will  hereafter  visit  the  Northern 
trade of that house,  making  his first trip in 
that direction the present week.

left  Monday 

Hiram  S.  Robertson 

for 
Washington to witness  the  inaugural  cere­
monies  and  secure  a  commission  as  post­
master at  Colombia  or  lighthouse-keeper at
Pine Grove.

Geo. S. Megee,  Michigan  and  Northern 
Ohio representative for the National Tobacco 
Works, of Louisville, Ky., was  in  the  city 
I last week interviewing  the  jobbing  trade. 
Mr.  Magee has concluded  to locate at Flint.
I  A. B. Handricks, late of  Detroit,  has  en­
gaged to travel for S. A. Welling, taking the 
territory  tributary  to  the  Saginaw  valley, 
formerly covered by  John H. Eacher.  The 
latter  succeeds  J. T. Harrington,  who  sev­
ers his connection with the house,  as North­
western traveling  representative.

A meeting of the traveling men of  Grand 
Rapids  is  called  for  Saturday  evening,  at 
The Tradesm an office, for the  purpose  of 
making  the  necessary  arrangements  for  a 
traveling men’s social party, to be held some 
evening during  the next two weeks.  Every 
traveling man is invited to be present.

HAZELTINE,

OFFICERS.

D ru g s  & flfteb icin es
Michigan  State^PharmaceMllca!  Association.
President—Geo. W. Cfrouter, CharlOToix. 
FirstVice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal-
Se^Sd Vice-President-B .  D.  Northrop, Lan-
Third'Vice-President—Frank  Wurzburg,  Gr d
sJS tary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
TrpflRnrpi—W m . D u p o n t, D etro it.
S

  CommltÆo-H.  J  B™«-n  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. Guudrum. W. H. Keller,  *.,W.
î î S r ^ e   of  meeting-At Detroit, Tuesday. 

October Id, 1H85.

Grand R aéis  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9, 1884.

OFFICERS.

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President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
T re a s u re r—H en ry   B  F airehild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  F.  mge 
low, Jas. S. Cowin. 
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B o ard   o f  T r u s te e s - T h e   P resid e n t,  W m .  H .
V a n  Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Mm.  E.  wmte, 
Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B. 
Qmmbtee on Legisfation—Isaac Watts,  O.  H. 
CommatefGnJT ^ e CM Tters-H. B. Fairchild, 
Regul^^Meeti^gs-^ir^Thursday evening in
Anrupi^Meetings-tfirst  Thursday evening in 
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Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  March  5, 

November. 
at “The Tradesman” office.

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VISITING  BUYERS.

The following retail dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:

White Cloud.

L. S. Wilson, Wilson & Howard, St. Joseph. 
Chas. W. Ives,  Rockford.
C. Crawford, Middleville.
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co.,Lnley P. O.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
W. B. Wilson, Muskegon.
G. W. A. Smith, Smith &  Field  Lumbei  to.,
J. W. Cook, Fennville.
B. Wynhotf, Holland.
F. E. Deming, Freeport,
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
C.  L.  Bostwick,  C.  O. Bostwick & Son, Cau- 
H. B. Irish,  Lisbon.
John Otis, J. Otis & Co., Maneelona.
Lon A. Pelton, Morley.
L. L. Maxfield, Fruitport.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade. 
D.  A.  McLeod,  McLeod  & Trautman Bros.,

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nonsburg.

MWiUard Cahoon, Watt & Cahoon,  Saranac.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

spermacetti.

Advanced—White lead,  pondered hellebore, 
Declined—Nothing.
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ACIDS.

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Acetic, No.  8....................................  ®  @
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........   JO  @
Carbolic............................................   J®  ®
Citric* 
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Muriatic 18  deg..................... •'........  ®  @
Nitric 86 deg...................................
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Sulphuric  66 deg.............................. 
Tartaric  powdered................ •••-•
„
Benzoic,  English.................. f oz 
Benzoic,  German............................  **  ®
Tannic................................................  
lw ®

a m m o n ia.

Carbonate.......................
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................
Aqua 18 deg or 4t............................

$  lb  15

BALSAMS.

Serpentaria 
Seneka .......
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras 
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican..
Squills, white (Powd 35c).............
Valerian, English (Powd 30c).......
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)...

seed s'.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c).............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages..........
Canary,  Smyrna............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c). 
Cardamón,  Aleppee.
Cardamon, Malabar.............
Celery....................................
Coriander, Dest English —
Fennel.................................-
Flax, clean..........................
Foenugreek, powdered.. .t ...........
Hemp,  Russian...............................
Mustard, white  Black. 10c)...........
Quince..............................................
Rape, English..................................
Worm,  Levant.................................

SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage......
Nassau 
.......
do 
do 
. . . .
Velvet Extra do 
do 
Extra Yellow do 
.......
do 
do 
Grass 
do 
.......
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
...............

do 
MISCELLANEUS.

Copaiba............................................
Fir......................................................
Peru..................................................
Tolu...................................................

BARKS.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...........
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select.........................
Bayberry  powdered.......................
Hemlock powdered.........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground....................................
Cubeb  prime (Powd 1 OOo)............
Juniper.............................................
Prickly Ash......................................
Licorice (10 and 25 »  boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure--------- •
Logwood, bulk (13 and 35 E> doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
Lgowood, 14s 
do 
...............
Logwood, lis 
do 
...............
*. • • • •••.• • •
Logwood, ass’d  do 
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

EXTRACTS.

B E R R IE S,

FLOWERS.

Arnica........................
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German.....................

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes......................... ;
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac.......................................
Arabic, extra  select......................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked........ ..................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,  3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts. .. .............
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)...

18
14
6
7

45
40
00
50

11
18
13
14
15 
12 
20 
18 

10 
30 12

@1  00 
@  7
@  60

27
37*49
12
13 
.15
14

10  @

55@60

35®

D. R. Stoeum, Rockford.
Jackson Coon, Rockford.
L, K. Gibbs, Gibbs Bros., Mayfield.
G. B. Norton, Otsego.
L. M. Lester Otsego.
G. Wolff, Otsego.
Hiram Lull, Whitecloud.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
J. A. Wagner, Eastmanville.
Frank A. Rockfellow, Carson City.
C. E. Kellogg, Grandville.
J. F. A. Raider. Newaygo.
C. L. Frazier, Greenville.
AJary Phelps. Coopersville.
Geo. B. Chambers, Wayland.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
Joshua Colby, Colby & Co., Rockioid.
Wm. Karston, Beaver Dam.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
J. W. Mead, Berlin.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
Jos. Spires, Leroy.
J. Omler, Wright.
B. M. Denison, East Pans.
S. Cooper,  Parmalee.
J  W.  Morton, Quick &Morton, H owaidtitj.
E. C. Foot, West Carlyle.
G. W. Mokema, Graafschaps.
N. S. Loop, Kent City.
Mr. Walbrink, I. J. Quick & Co.,  Allendale.
A. & L. M. Wolff, Hudsonville.
J. Herringa, Ea6t Saugatuck.
F. Broene, East Saugatuck.
John W. Verhoecks & Co., Grand  Haven.
Roys Bros., Cedar Springs,
Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.
Walter Struik, Forest Grove.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
A. Sessions,  Wayland.
Andre & Son, Jennisonville.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
W. W. Pierce,’Moline.
W. J. Arnett, Morley.
H. W. Potter,  Jennisonville. 
.
Frank Hamilton, Hamilton in Milliken, How­
Chas. Cole, Ada.
S. C. Fell. Howard.
Thos. Starrett, Hokon.
John Wagner & Wells, Eastmanville.
R. Carlyle, Rockford.
E. W. Pickett. Wayland.
O. D. Chapman. Stanwood.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin. 
A.  C.  Snyder,  Bassett  &  Snyder,  Cedar 
.
H. Baker & Son,  Drenthe.
Gabriel Wolff, of Norton & Wolff, Otsego.
C  B. Shaver, A. B. Long & ¡son, Blanchard. 
Geo. F. Richardson,  Jamestown.
F. A. Jenison, Manton.
Geo. W. Bevins, Tustin.
Dr. M. Crane, Bonanza.
J. F. Mann, Lisbon.
F. A. Rockfellow, Carson City.
John Graham, Wayland.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
John Gunstra,  Lamont.
Jacob Bartz, North Dorr.
John Giles & Co., Lowell.
Geo. Stevens, Alpine.
M. P. Shields,  Hilliards.

Springs. 

„  _ 

ard City.

~ .

. 

FURNITURE  BUYERS.

Leonard  & Carter, Detroit.
Robert Keith, Kansas  City. 
King & Elder, Indianapolis.
Dewey & Stone, Omaha.
N. Baraleaux, Chicago.
.
Knapp & Stoddard,  Chicago. 
Mr. Wright, of the Tobey Furniture Co., Chi­

.

cago.

Strange, but True.

From the Elk Rapids Progress.

One of our  druggists  remarks  that  The 
Michigan  Tradesman  is  the  best  trade 
paper published—Its  drug  quotations being 
full and complete.

The  Drug  Market.

Business is good and collections are  easy. 
White lead has  advanced  40  cents a  hun­
dred. Other articles in the drug line are about 
steady.

“Speaking  of  the  change  against  drug­
gists by the Grand  Rapids Leader,” said L. 
Max Mills,* traveling  agent  for  Hazeltine, 
Perkins & Co., the other  day, “I have made 
a careful canvass of the situation in my terri­
tory and find that only about one in ten of the 
retail trade sell liquor by the drink.  I think 
this proportion will  hold  good  the country 
over.”

Furniture  Facts.

John Hewitt,  furniture  dealer  at  Capac, 

has failed.

Brown & Burrows  succeed  Brown  & Bil­
lings in the furniture business at ColdwaterJ
Walker & Laur,  furniture  dealers  at Big 
Rapids, have dissolved,  Mr. Walker  contin­
uing.

J.  E.  Wilcox,  furniture  dealer  at  Mt, 
Pleasant, has  assigned to  Y.  F.  Coulogue. 
Liabilities, about #2,000;  assets,  unknown.

Catechu.Is(14 14c, &s 16c)  .......  .
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Galbanum strained..................... . •
Gamboge..^...;
— .............  
Guaiae, prime (Powd  45e).
Kino TPowdered, 30cl.....................
Mastic  ..••••••••••••••••••••••****
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.75)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s.........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth......................................  ®u
HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES

jg
20
40 
4 10 
30 
26 
24 

30@1 00

Hoarhound......................................................fj?
.25
Lobelia......................................................
.25
Peppermint.............................................
.40
Rue.............................................................
.24
Spearmint...............................................
.35
Sweet Majoram........................................
.25
Tanzy........................................................
.30
Thym e......................................................
Wormwood.........................  ..................

IRON.

Citrate and  Quinine......................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
Citrate..............................................
Phosphate..................... ..................

LEAVES.

6 40 
20

10 

14 
6 
20 
30 
22 
16 
35 
30 
35 
2 35

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)...........  13
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s & i4s, 12c).
Senna,  Alex, natural..........18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva Ursi...........................................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove......................................... -
Henbane ...........................................
Rose, red...........................................
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  @2 25 
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...............1
Druggists’ * - .- - — - .
Whisky, other brands..................... 1 W
Gin, Old Tom.................................... 1
Gin,  Holland.....................................2 00
Brandy.............................................. *
Catawba  Wines................................ j g®
Port Wines.........................................1 35

@1 75 
@3 50 
@6 50 
@2  00 
@2 50

LIQUORS.

MAGNESIA.

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution
Calcined............................................

OILS.

Almond, sweet.................................  *5
Amber,  rectified.............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz.........................................
Bergamont.......................................
Castor...............................................   18
Croton...............................................
Cajeput............................................
Cassia.......................... « ......... • •
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella.......................................
Cod Liver,  filtered................ $  gal
Cod Liver, best................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $   oz........ - • ■■ —  ••••••
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden  do 
..............
Lavender spike 
.............
do 
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................
Lemongrass......................................
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive,“Sublime  Italian  . 
....
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal.....................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose  $   oz................................ 
• • •
Rosemary, French (Flowers $1 50)
Salad.................................................
Savin.................................................
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ..........................
Sassafras...........................................
Spearmint.........................................
T ansy............................................... 4 50
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
Wintergreen.........  —
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $5.00).......
Wormseed........................................

POTASSIUM.

22 
37
65

%  50 
45
1 85 
50
1 80 
a   1954
2 00 
75
1 00 
35 
75 
1 20
1 50
3 50 
6 00
7 50 
1 60
2  00 
75 
35 
50
2 00 
2 01 
1 00 
90 
1 40
1 50 
80
@1 20
2 75
1 25 
50
1 60
4  75
8 50 
65 
67
1 00 
4 50 
7 00 
60 
@7 00 
@5 00 @  12
2 20 
4 00 
2 50

65  @

Bicromate.................................V
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................

ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................... ■*...........
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 548 and 548....
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled..................... • ••••
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  15c).-......................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 30c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.
Jalap, powdered..............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 1254)........
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, tru e..,....................................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. I ................... ...110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes.................
Rhei, choice cut fingers............. ..

14 
36 
19 
2 90 
28

20
25
17 
33 12
18 
35 
20 
10
@  14 
17 
25 
25 
1  10 
35 
12 
15 
35 
@1 50 
@1 20 
2 00 
225

ORGANIZED!

[Continued from first page]

Mr. Lambert  then  followed  with a rela­
tion of his own experience in cheese  poison­
ing.  During the  past  season,  he  had  the 
misfortune to be employed in  a  community 
—near Mt. Morris, Genesee  county—where 
the patrous  were  all  cheese  makers,  and 
didn’t want any of his system or theory.  Up 
to May 20, everything  went  well, when 
it 
w’as  discovered  that  there  was  a  large 
amount of  precipitation, and  that the  curd 
was dry and pasty.  The action  of  the  ren­
net wras an unnatural coagulation.  Running 
from the curd was a fluid about  the  consist­
ency of cream, whicli tasted like cream from 
new milk.  He took a good  swallow of  the 
substance and was poisoned.  He lost sight, 
lost control of his muscles, had a cold sweat, 
turned black, was taken  with  cramps, vom­
iting and diarrhoea, and  emitted  from  the 
stomach a green substance.  He  soon recov­
ered, however, and worked  as  usual  until 
June 19, when lie  suddenly became  uncon- 
cious and exhibited all the  symptoms of ar­
terial poison.  This  time he was  compelled 
to remain  in  bed  about  two  weeks, after 
which he resumed his place in  the  factory.
On June 26 the milk began to  come in taint­
ed, and the gaseous vapor from the receiving 
can would frequently stifle him.  The stench 
was stronger at  times, and  on  testing  the 
milk it was found that the  albumen  was en­
tirely  destroyed, and would  not  coagulate 
by cooking up to 212 degrees, nor by the ap­
plication of nitric acid, but  would  stay in a 
liquid form.  Even the  cheese  smelled un­
natural, and  it  was  difficult  to  determine 
which emitted the stronger  odor, the  press 
cloths or the whey  tank.  On  dipping  into 
the tank, a liquid oil wras discovered, which, 
on being mixed  with  ether, emitted a blue 
blaze.  Still another substance  was  found, 
resembling 'Italian  macarroni, with a pulpy 
inner^substance. 
In addition to.these, dead 
mice, rats, toads and a deceased garter snake 
were  brought  to 
light.  Previous  to  this 
time, the contents of the tank were found to 
be a boiling  condition,  and  occasionally a 
sharp explosion would be heard.  This whey 
the patrons insisted on taking home in their 
milk cans, but when he found the exact con­
dition of the tank he refused to  make  their 
cheese, if they insisted on taking the  whey.
They then hired another  man, but  insisted 
upon his cleaning the tank.  Just before the 
job was undertaken, Mr.  Lambert  went  to 
the tank to get a can of the contents,  but be­
fore he got ten feet away, the fumes from the 
can caused him to lose consciousness, and he 
was compelled to keep his bed  for ten days.
The new maker cleaned the tank  thorough­
ly and from that time on there was no.  trou­
ble from tainted milk.

Mr. Lambert’s theory was that the poison­
ing was caused by some of  the  patrons  not 
cleaning their cans properly.  He is  lead to 
this opinion by  the  facts  above  stated  and 
by the additional fact  that  the  milk which 
he refused and was made up into butter pro­
duced a tainted and unsalable  article.

Mr. Pickett  asked  Dr. Vaughan  if  milk 
did not sometimes  produce  a  sickness  sim­
ilar to cheese poisoning, and  was  answered 
to the effect that sour milk,  which  had  be­
gun to decompose,  sometimes produces sick­
ness that is similar to cheese  poisoning, but 
that the ordinary milk  sickness  is an  alto­
gether different matter.

Mr. Howe said he had seen home  rennets 
which had small quantities of flesh substance 
left on them, which tainted the  rennet,  and 
caused poor cheese, whenever he used it.

Mr. Lambert then read a paper  on “Prac 
tical Cheese Making,” in  which  the  writer 
described at length his  system  of  making 
cheese.  Upon being questioned by the chair­
man as to the grounds for his statement that 
bran  produces  caseine,  he  stated 
that 
practical experiments  made  several  years 
ago had demonstrated this  fact to a certain­
ty.  The paper will  be  published  entire as 
soon as space  permits.

Mr. Lambert said that salt did not kill the 
acid.  He salts the curd when  it  is  soft, al­
lows it take the acid when in the  press, and 
by this means makes a  perfect  cheese—one 
that  will  keep  for  almost  any  length of 
time.

Mr. Pickett did not think  that  salt  stop­
ped the action of the acid.  Referring to the 
question of using artificial acid, lie  said that 
his milk bothered him during the  past  sea­
son, as the curd  would  not  cook or get in 
shape to draw off the  whey, and  that he se­
cured good results by using sour buttermilk.
Mr. Sinclair did not  think any stated tem­
perature could be taken for all circumstances. 
The  heating of  the curd gradually  was the 
best.  The adding of acid to assist in cooking 
did not make as good keeping  cheese  as the 
gradual  cooking  process.  Milk  should  be 
cooled to a low temperature immediately af­
ter being drawn from  the  cow,  of  else  de­
composition will set in.  His  experience  in 
cheese making satisfied him that  the maker 
must vary the amount of salt used according 
to the taint.

Mr. Nash saql he came to  the  convention 
to satisty himself on three  points—whether 
salt will stop the action of the acid, whether 
the hot  iron  test  is a test or not, and  also 
which was the best way to  prepare  rennet, 
and also the best rennet to use.

Mr. Pickett asked Dr. Vaughan to express 
himself on the question of  salt.  He replied 
that lie was of the  opinion  that  salt  would 
stop the fermentation process in  cheese, the 
same as it stops  the  decomposition of meat.
Mr. Howe stated that the hot iron test was 
not a perfect one.  Regarding rennet, he  pre­
fers the Bavarian, or rennet extract.

The  convention  then  adjourned  until  9 

o’clock Thursday morning.

THURSDAY— MORNING SESSION.

The Chairman called the meeting to order, 
and hi the absence of a report  on  the  order 
of business by the Committee on Programme, 
called on Mr. Howe to  lead a  discussion of 
Cheddar cheese, and  the  advantages  such 
cheese possess over the  ordinary  Michigan 
cheese.  Mr.  Howe  stated  that  the  over­
crowded condition of the home  market  was 
sufficient  evidence  that  Michigan  cheese 
makers must produce an  article suitable for 
the  English  market.  Exporters  demand 
cheese made on the improved  Cheddar  sys­
tem, soft and mellow, and  close in  texture. 
He took  exceptions  to  the  statement  that 
Michigan chese was  not  up to the standard, 
alleging that the main objection  is the  pre­
judice against the form termed “Ohio flats,” 
as the English demand  a  cheese  weighing 
about 60 pounds.  During  the  past  season 
Mr. Howe has sold his  product  to  Ontario 
»exporters and it has given excellent satisfac­
tion.  When  asked by Mr.  Lambert  as  to 
what he meant by the “Cheddar system,” he 
replied that he meant the improved Cheddar 
system.

Mr. Lambert stated that 99 per cent of the 
cheese made in Michigan at the present time 
are not good shipping  cheese.  Most  of  the 
trouble from porous cheese is caused  by the 
cows drinking stagnant water.  A few years 
ago he was  compelled  to  make up a vat of 
milk in which was  the milk of  one  patron 
who allowed his cattle to drink at a cess pool. 
Soon after making, the  cheese  swelled  up 
from seven  to  eleven  inches,  and  in  two 
weeks they rose up and burst, so  great  was 
the force of the escaping  acids.

Mr. Howe, in response to a question from 
the chair as to the price he realized from his 
Cheddar  cheese, replied  that  his  make  of 
June and July was sold for 9 cents.  For  the 
balance of the season, the owner  was  offer­
ed 11K  cents, which he  refused,  although 
he would be glad to take 11  cents  for  them 
to-day. Considering the shrinkage in weight, 
it is far preferable to sell  in  bulk  for  for­
eign shipment than peddle out at a small ad­
vance to home trade.  The great need of the 
Michigan makers is a market,  where  buyers 
may resort, and where makers and  handlers 
of cheese can meet them.

The question of qualities  coming up,  Mr. 
Lambert stated that full cream—or full stock 
—cheese means all the  cream the  curd will 
retain.

Mr. Skinner,  in  answer  to  this 

Mr. Pickett asked if milk  set  at  78  de- 
- 1 grees was as well as if set at a  higher  tem-

Mr. Skinner did not agree with  Mr. Lam­
bert on several 
important  points  in .cheese 
making.  During  the  twelve  years  he  has 
been in the cheese business, he has used ren 
net enough to commence coagulation in thir- J Pe^ature. 
inquiry, 
ty minutes, after which he allows the curd to j
during  the  past
stand thirty minutes, when  he  cuts  it  both  stated that  ins  averages
wavs  He then heats the^ curd up  from 941 three years had been as follows:  80 degrees, 
* T o i , s , a n a   lets¡6  stand
acid forms, when he  draws  off  the  whey,  and fifty-five one  hundredths; 
and allows the curd to  settle  to the  bottom,! grees, nine  and  ninety-five one  hundredths, 
Mr. Pickett, in answer  to a question  stat­
using from two and  one-half  to  three  and 
ed that a good authority  declares  that  it  is 
one-fourtli pounds of salt, He then  breaks 
impossible to make cheese from  new  milk, 
it up and when cool enough  puts it to press.
that it must first arrive to a  certain  degree 
Mr. Howe described his  process of  mak­
of ripeness.
ing Cheddar cheese.  He heats the  milk up 
to from 82 to 84 degrees, when he  adds suf­
ficient rennet to enable him to cut  in  forty 
minutes.  H e  then heats the curd  up  to  98 
degrees, and draws  off  the  whey, allowing 
the curd  to  settle to the  bottom of the vat, 
when he cuts it  lengthways  and  crossways
He  then
sufficient I appliances  then  consumed  the

During the  session,  the  following  addi­
tional  persons  were  present:  Francis A. 
Rockfellow  and  Edward  C.  Cummings, 
Carson City; D. M. Adams and  Miss  Susie 
Adams,  Ashland; E. W. Heth,  M.  C. Rus­
sell and S. S. Bailey, of Grand Rapids.

The exhibiting of  the  products  of  dairy

„„h  Then he grinds again, adds the  toewb, ci Lmuuquc, xu»y«,

grinds 
acid has developed, uses one-half the araownt i 
. 
remainder" ofthe salt^hc « » tw o  and three  in glass tubes, prepared  before  the  session, 
fourthspounds to 1,000 pounds of milk  and  He then explain«!
does not  put to press  until it  reaches  the 
temperature of the weather, in warm weath­
er After pressing fifteen or  twenty minutes, 
he takes out  the cheese,  turns it  over,  and 
puts it to press again,  allowing it to  remain 
in the press  from  twelve  to  fifteen  hours. 
He then places it in a curing room,  which is 
ventilated  both  by  doors,  windows,  floors 
and roofs and kept as near  to  from 70 to 80 
degrees as possible.  This process has never 
failed  to  produce  a  keeping  cheese,  and 
one  which  commands  a  good price  in  the 
European market.

much butter one  could  expect  from  each. 
Some  had  been  adulterated  with  water. 
Each sample was from  different  cows.  In 
each tube near the  top  was  the  settling of 
the oil.  Some was of a light  yellowish  col­
or, and one in  particular  that  was  darker 
than the others, he explained was  the  best 
sample collected.  He said  that  four and a 
quarter pounds  of  butter  could  be  made 
from 100 pounds of that  cow’s  milk.  She 
was a highly fed animal, grain being  large­
ly used.  The products to be  expected from 

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Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto  1 ft rolls............................ 
Alum......................................... 
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto, prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........ 
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s . 
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
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Beans,  Tonka..................................  
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00  @
Bismuth, sub nitrate...’.................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue V itriol....................................  
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............
Cantharides,Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine,  No. 40 
Cassia Buds 
Calomel.  American 
Chalk, prepared drop 
Chalk, precipitate English 
Chalk,  red  fingers 
Chalk, white lump 
Chloroform,  Squibb’s 
Colocynth  apples 
Chloral hydrate, German crusts..
do 
Chloral 
cryst...
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
do  ,  crusts..
Chloroform......................................  85
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*........ 
40
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   40
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................  18
Cochineal 
Cocoa  Butter 
Copperas (by bbl  lc)
Corrosive Sublimate
Corks, X and XX-40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, p ure powdered.......  38
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear, prime 
Cuttle Fish Bone 
Dextrine 
Dover’s  Powders
Dragon’s Blood Mass......................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s .................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts........................................  
Ergot, fresh
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P 
Flake white 
Grains  Paradise 
Gelatine, Cooper’s
Gelatine, French  ............................   45  ©  70
Glassware, flint, 7') off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cannet.......................  
  12  @  17
16  @  28
Glue,white.............  
Glycerine, pure.................................   16  @  20
25®  40
Hops  14s and 148.............................. 
Iodoform $   oz.........................................  
Indigo......................................... 
 
 
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35  ©  40
Iodine,  resublimed...............................  
Isinglass,  American.............................. 
Japonica.................................................... 
London  Purple.................................  10 @  15
Lead, acetate............................................. 
Lime, chloride, (14s 2s 10c & 148 lie) 
8
Lupuline.................................................. 
1 00
Lycopodium............................................. 
Mace  .................................................. 
„   50
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Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
Manna, S.  F ..............................................  
Mercury............................................  
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Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz  3 00@3 25
40 
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................f  lb
Moss,  Irish......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans......
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, &d...............
Paris Green....................................
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia............................................ .
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Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... ft ozl 05
Quinine,  German............................1 00
Red  Precipitate.......................^ ft
Seidlitz  Mixture..............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  77
Saffron, American.........................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst....................,
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle......................................
Sal  Soda............................................ 
Salicin...............................................
Santonin...........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch-------
Soda Ash [by keg 3cl.....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand s—  
Soap, White Castile.........................
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Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
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Soap, 
do  do 
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Soap, Mazzinl..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26  @
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................   30  @
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
Sulphur, flour..................................
Sulphur,  roll
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, 14 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................ ^ ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................
Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder....................................................60
Shields  Cylinder.................................................
Eldorado Engine—
Peerless  Machinery 
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... ®0
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil............................................
Paraffine, 25  deg..................................................23
Paraffine,28  d e g ..........................................••21
Sperm, winter bleached....................-• -  • • •
Gal
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Whale, winter......................................  70
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Lard, extra...........................................
65
Lard, No.  1...........................................
54
Linseed, pure raw.............................. 
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Linseed, boiled............. ....................   «4
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Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   70
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Spirits Turpentine..............................  36
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Extra  Turp............................................ .. 6U®i  m
Extra  Turp......................................... 
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Purniture............................1 00@j W
No. 1 Turp F
Extra Turp  Damar.......... .................. 1 55©1 60
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1 20@1 40 
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Red Venetian...........................
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  124
Putty, commercial— ............  214
Putty, strictly pure..................  2)4
Vermilion,prime American..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular..................
Lead, red strictly pure...........
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish.......  .
Whiting,  Gilders’.....................
White, Paris American........
Whiting  Paris English cliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  Paints......
Swiss Villa Prepared Paints..

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MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEfflT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co., and John L. Whit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Paint  and  Yarnish 

Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Man f’rs  of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists’ Sundrie

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Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness is  conceded to be  one  of  the  largest, 
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best-assorted and diversified to be. found  in 
the Northwest.  We are heavy importers of 
£5
many articles ourselves  and  can  offer  Fine 
Solid Back Hair Brushes,  French  and Eng- 
glish Tooth and Nail  Brushes  at  attractive 
prices.

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores 
to the fact  of  our  unsurpassed  facilities 
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers 
without delay and in the most approved and 
acceptable manner known to the drug trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.

We give our  special  and  personal  atten­
tion  to  the  selection  of  choice  goods  for 
the drug  trade only, and trust we merit the 
high praise accorded us for so  satisfactorily 
supplying’the wants of our  customers  with 
Pure Goods in this  department.  We  con­
trol  and  are  the  only  authorized  agents 
for the sale of the celebrated

WithersDade&Co’s

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
other  known  brand  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  foy  sale.  We  guarantee  perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

Druggists’  Favorite  Rye,

Which continues to have  so  many  favorite 
among druggists who have sold  these  goods 
for a very long time.  Buy our

We  call  your  attention  to  the  adjoining 
list of  market  quotations  which  we  aim  to 
make  as  complete  and  perfect  as  possible. 
For special quantities and for  quotations  on 
such articles as do not appear on the list such 
as Patent Medicines, etc., we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

H m W P E E lD IU C O

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A.  STOWE  & BEO., Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
I Entered  at  the  Postofflee  at Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter.')

WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  i,  1885.

HOW  SHODDY  IS  MADE.

A New York Tailor on Shoddy and Fulling. 
From the New York Sun.

Those  acquainted  with  the  process  of 
much

manufacture of woolen goods  will be 
amused with the  following:

“1 can tell you how it was made twelve or 
fifteen years ago, when I served  my  week’s 
apprenticeship at it.  They may  have made 
improvements  in  the  milling  since  then, 
though, of course, the product  itself  is  just 
the same mean,  swindling, poisonous  stuff 
it always was.  I was placed  over a  sort of 
machine  something like a patent  straw cut­
ter, only, in lieu of  straw, you  fed it  with 
cloth scraps,  remnants, clippings  and  rags. 
These passed through  the  teeth of the ma­
chine  on to revolving  knives, just  as  in a 
straw cutter, which minced  them  up  pretty 
fine.  After that they passed through anoth­
er and yet another machine, getting  minced 
finer and finer at  each  operation  until the 
stuff was reduced to a coarse powder.  This 
powder was then bolted, and the  fine  pow­
der or dust that passed through the last sieve 
was  the  beautiful stuff  called  shoddy, or 
flock.  Then came the  dyeing  process, and 
the dirty job was complete.”

“How  is  the  shoddy  mixed  with  .the 

cloth?”

“It is simply twisted  up  with  the  warp 
before  the  weaving.  This  gives  fictitious 
weight and durability to a fabric  whose  na­
tive flimsiness  would  otherwise  betray its 
worthlessness.  As it is, it takes a very little 
wear and tear to dust out  the  shoddy, and 
expose  the  general  wretchedness  of  the 
Woof.”

“But in ready-made clothing?”
“There is no  means  of  detecting it  save 
by wearing the goods.  You have to trust to 
the honesty of the firm of  whom  you  pur­
chase.  Though I don’t deal  in  ready-made 
goods myself, it is no more than just for me 
to say that  many firms that  deal in nothing 
else are perfectly honest  and  trustworthy, 
and whose guaranty of  what  they warrant 
is as good as gold.  Only, in addition  to the 
precautions I have given you,  be  very care­
ful, in choosing  goods, whether  made up or 
not, to know  that  the  material  has  been 
properly fulled.  Without a  perfect  course 
of fulling, woolen cloth  will  always shrink 
upon becoming  damp.”

What is the proper means of fulling?
Fulling  is  the  last  or  finishing  process 
through  which cloth passes, or  should  pass, 
before it is ready for  the  weaver’s  use.  It 
is  a  process  by  which  cloth 
is  scoured, 
cleansed and thickened.  It consists of a  se 
ries of pestles or stampers, which alternately 
fall into and rise  out  of  a  trough,  through 
which the cloth is being passed,  along  with 
fuller’s earth or some other  cleansing  mate­
rial.  This process, besides ridding the cloth 
of the grease and oil used in preparing wool 
prevents it from shrinking  thereafter,  upon 
coming in contact with wet.  You often  see 
trousers,  for  instanee,  that  looked 
large 
enough, and even overlarge, when  first  put 
on, but which, nevertheless,  shrink  up  too 
small or all out of shape, after  encountering 
a single hour of wet  weather.  That  is  be­
cause the material was not thoroughly fulled 
In selecting clothing material, always  make 
sure that it has been properly fulled.

But how can an inexperienced person  tell 

whether it has been properly fulled or not?

He can’t.  There is no way  by  which  he 
can.  His only safeguard in this respect is to 
take his tailor’s  word  for  it.  Hence,  how 
important it is for every man to have an lion 
est tailor!  Let me repeat my warning, young 
man.  In selecting clothing material, beware 
of shoddy, and put your faith  in  an  honest 
tailor.”

The  Invention  of  Machine  Made  Lace. 

From the English Illustrated Magazine.

Very little had been done before  the  day 
on which Hammond and  his wife sat drink­
ing in a public  house  in  Nottingham—then 
reputed  a  notorious  town  for  ale-bibbing. 
Hammond had improved the machine  above 
referred to, and,  so  far  as  can  be  learned, 
was a clever  workman,  thoroughly  conver­
sant with the meshing art, but endowed with 
so little application  and  self-government  as 
to  render  his  knowledge  of  very practical 
use.  He and his wife appear to  have  been 
in the habit of drinking  to  excess  together. 
In 1768 the happy pair were without money, 
credit or regular employment, and  intoxica­
ted  into  the  bargain,  when Hammond cast 
his lack-luster eye upon the broad  lace  bor­
der  on  his  wife’s  cap  and a lace caul, and 
thought he could imitate the fabric.  Having 
borrowed  some  silk,  he went to work upon 
his frame,  at  his  home in the Rookery, and 
produced a net which, with the assistance of 
his wife, was made into caps,  having  some­
what the appearance of  lace, and which met 
with ready sale.  He called the article  Val­
enciennes  lace,  although  it  had no precise 
resemblance to that fabric.  Hammond  pro­
duced very salable articles,  and, by  making 
them, obtained a  precarious income, “work­
ing by day and drinking by night.”

Subscribers and others,  when writing 
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

Unsigned  Checks  and  Drafts.

From  Carpet Trade and Review.

It  seems  superfluous  to  advise  business 
men to be always careful to sign checks and 
endorse drafts, yet one  of  the common inci­
dents of the counting-room is  the  discovery 
that some check or draft lacks the  signature 
essential to make it any more  valuable  than 
waste paper.

It  saves  time  to make  sure on this point 
before mailing the paper,  and  to  American 
business affairs  the  proverb,  “Time is mon­
ey,” 
is  peculiarly  applicable.  Then  due 
care  in  such  matters,  besides  saving  time 
and trouble to  the  maker of the paper, pre­
vents  a  greater  loss  of  time,  and perhaps 
temper,  and  money  as  well  on the part of 
him who recieves the check or draft.

For  example:  A  dealer in some distant 
city is indebted to  a manufacturer or jobber 
New  York,  the  bill  is  due  at a certain 
date, and when that time  comes  the  manu­
facturer,  opening  a  letter  from the debtor, 
finds enclosed a draft—unsigned, and  there­
fore  worthless.  It  may  be  that a week or 
more must pass  before  the oversight can be 
corrected,  and  during this time the creditor 
is deprived from the use of money on which 
he  had  confidently  counted. 
Perhaps  he 
loses the interest besides, for it is not always 
exacted in these cases.

Sometimes the omission of  the signature, 
we regret to say, is intentional, and is only a 
device to gain time for the debtor, at the ex­
pense of the creditor.  It  saves  the  former 
the trouble of  asking for  an extension, or it 
allows  him  to  draw on a bank in which he 
has no funds by giving him time  to  deposit 
the  amount  necessary  before  his  check or 
draft is presented there in proper  form.

But whether the failure to sign such papers 
is unintentional or premeditated, it is certain 
that  the  temporary  advantage  which  may 
follow  will  never  repay  the  business man 
for the presumption  of  either  absent-mind­
edness or trickery which necessarily results.

Silence  Gave  Consent.

Once  upon  a  time  there was a drummer 
who  met  a  lovely  girl.  She belonged to a 
family who had everything they wanted and 
she was the one woman  to  whom  he never 
wanted to sell  anything.  She  returned  his 
affection.  So  novel  was  the  sensation  of 
meeting  a  force  he  could not cope with, so 
entirely  strange  the  feeling  of  being con 
quered  and  subdued,  that he could not tell 
the  old  gentleman  anything  about  it.  It 
was a case where he could not combat oppo­
sition,  and  even  his ingenious  brain could 
not  fashion  any  plot  which  should over­
whelm the  evident  predilection  the  family 
la d  against him.  But  she  loved  him,  and 
that was all.  She told her father.  The old 
gentleman’s  hair 
rose  in  wrath.  He 
stormed

“What, let you marry that blow-pipe, that 
swivel-tongued, brass-cheeked thing. Never! 
You may die an old maid.  You  may  select 
a husband from  the  dime museum, but this 
copper gas generator, never!”

“But, pa, I want to marry him.”
“Look here, child.  If  that  fellow  ever 
comes  in to talk to me about you, I’ll throw 
him  out  of  the  window. 
I’ll—I’ll—why 
confound  it,  girl,  haven’t  I  had  my ears 
talked off by him about his  darned  samples 
and stock?  Don’t  I  know  him?  Don’t 
you let him come and talk to me.  If he can 
talk like that about business,  I  don’t  know 
what he’ll do about love.” .

“But, pa, 1 will marry him.  You may as 

well let him ask you.”

“All right.  I’ll  listen to him.as long as I 
can, and when 1 get  worn out I’ll kill him.” 
She  told  her  lover  of  the interview, and 
he  only  remarked:  “Never  mind,  I’ll  fix 
him.”

So the drummer  went  into  the old man’ 
library.  The  irate  father  sat  in  an  easy 
chair, waved  his  hand  to the drummer and 
fixed  himself  in  an  attitude  of  despairing 
resignation.  The  drummer  had  his hat in 
his hand.  There was silence.  The old man 
was astonished.  Still  the  drummer  spoke 
not.

“Well ?” said the old fellow. No response, 
The drummer twirled liis hat in his hands 

and kept his eyes on the floor.

“Arn’t you going to speak at all ?”  yelled 
the old  fellow.  Never  a  word  from  the 
drummer.  After a few minutes’ silence the 
old fellow  said  meekly:

“Look here, young man, you want to mar 
ry my daughter.  Take her.  If you are  ca 
pable of  keeping  your  mourth shut so long 
for her sake you must love  her.  But—well 
—you’ve got me.  Take her and be  happy.

“Thank  you,” said the  drummer.  “Good 

morning.”

There are now 117 cotton seed oil mills in 
the United States, nearly all of  them  being 
in the South.  Competition has  resulted  in 
the increasing of the price of seed,  and  the 
reduction  of  the  price  of oil until several 
mills  have  been  forced  to  suspend.  It is 
stated that $200,000 were sunk by the Mem­
phis oil  mills  last  year, and few mills can 
run more than four months in the year.

Quay, Killen & Co.’s new stave amd head­
ing mill at Bailey will have a daily  capacity 
of 30,000  flour  barrel  staves,  2,500  sets  of 
flour  barrel  headings,  12,000 packed barrel 
staves and 750  sets of circled packing barrel 
heading.  The firm also  run  a  twenty-hand 
shop at Grand Rapids,  working  mainly  on 
packing barrels for the Chicago market.

Dr.  Tyndall  states  that  of  the  radiant 
energy set up by a gas flame,  only  the  1-25 
part  is  luminous;  the hot  .products of com­
bustion carry of at least four times as much 
energy as is radiated, so that not  more than 
one hundredth part of the  heat  involved  in 
conbustion Is converted into light.

W ID E   BROW N COTTONS.

CHECKS.

S IL E S IA S .

bric, 44........ 

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

d o m e s t i c   g i n g h a m s

E IN E   BROW N  COTTONS

Renfrew, dress styl 7 54 
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............1254
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles.........1254
Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  754
White Mfg Co, stap  794 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston...  ........  8
Gordon....................  754
Greylock, 
.1254

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  754
Laconia B, 7-4.........1654
Lyman B, 40-in....... 1054
Mass. BB, 4-4............594
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 854
Nashua  R, 44 ........  754
Nashua 0,7-8............694
Newmarket N ........   654
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7
Pepperell  R, 44__
Pepperell  0,7-8___ 654
Pepperell  N ,3 4 ....  654
Pocasset  C, 4-4.........694
Saranac R ............  754
Saranac  E ...............  9

Masonville TS........  8
Mason ville  S ..........1054
Lonsdale...................954
Lonsdale A ............. 16
Nictory  O...............
Victory J ................
Victory D ...............
Victory K ...............  254
Phoenix A ............... 1954
Phoenix B ..............1054
Phoenix X X ..........5
Gloucester...............6
Gloucestermourn’g.6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy............6
Merrimac D.............6
Manchester.............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........654
Pacific  robes........... 6
Richmond................ 6
Steel River.............. 554
Simpson’s ................6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues.  754

Pepperell, 10-4....... 25
Pepperell, 11-4....... 21%
Pequot,  74..............18
Pequot,  84..............21
Pequot,  94 ..............24
Park Mills, No. 90..14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz..............11
Otis Apron..............1054
Otis  Furniture..... 1054
York,  1  oz............. 10
York, AA, extra oz. 14
OSN ABURO.Alabama  plaid.......7
Augusta plaid........ 7
Toledo plaid...........   7
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   654
Greene, G,  44........   554
Hill, 44 ....................  754
Hill, 7-8....................  694
Hope,  44 .................  694
King  Phillip  cam­
  1154
Lin wood,  4-4..........  754
Lonsdale,  44..........  7%
Lonsdale  cambric. 1054 
Langdon,GB,44...  954
Langdon. 45........... 14
Masonville,  44...... 8
Maxwell. 4 4 ...........   954
New York Mill, 4-4.1054 
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  754 
Pride of the West. .11 
Pocahontas,  44—   754
Slaterville, 7-8........   654
Victoria, AA..........9
Woodbury, 44........   594
Whitinsville,  4-4...  754
Whitinsville, 7-8___ 654
W amsutta, 4-4.........1054
Williamsville,  36... 1054

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 21
Pepperell,  7-4........16%
Pepperell,  8-4........20
Pepperell,  9-4........22%
Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Caledonia,  X,oz.,.10
Economy,  oz..........10
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
Park Mills, No. 70. .12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13
Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn..........9%
Kentucky brown.. 1054 
Lewiston  brown...  954
Lane brown........... 954
Louisiana  plaid...
Avondale,  36 ..........  854
Art  cambrics, 36.. .1154 
Androscoggin, 44..  854 
Androscoggin, 5-4. .1254
Ballou, 4-4...............  654
Ballou, 54...............  6
Boott, 0 . 44............  854
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGC, 44.......  954
Boott, R. 34..........  554
Blackstone, AA 44.  7 
Chapman, X, 44—   6
Conway,  44............7
Cabot, 4-4...................6%
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Canoe,  34 ...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  754
D w ig h t Anchor, 4-4.  9
Davol, 44...............  9
Fruit of Loom, 44..  854 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  7r 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  4-4........11
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  694
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded Age............... 894
Crown......................17
No.  10.....................1254
Coin......................... 10
Anchor.................... 15
Centennial.............
Blackburn.............   8
Davol........................14
_jondon................... 1254
Paconia........... — 13
Red  Cross............... 10
Social  Imperial — 16
Albion, solid............554
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........554
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 554
Allen’s pink..............65^
Allen’s purple.......... 654
American, fancy— 554
Arnold fancy............6
Berlin solid.............   554
Cocheco fancy.........8
Cocheco robes.......... 654
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone............... 6
Eagle fancy..............5
Garner pink..............654
Appleton A, 4-4—   754
Boott  M, 4-4...........   694
Boston F, 4-4..........754
Continental C, 4-3..  654 
Continental D, 40 in 894 
ConestogaW,4-4...  654 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  554 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 3-4........ 554
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  594
Dwight Z, 4-4.......  694
Dwight Star, 4-4....
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterpnse ÉE, 36..  5 
Great Falls E, 4-4...
_ armers’ A, 4-4.......6
Indian  Orchard  1-4 754
Amoskeag............... 754
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.................... 1014
Bates.........................754
Berkshire -.............  654
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f ’y 754 
checks,
Glasgow 
royal  styles........ 8
Gloucester, 
.
new 
standard.............   PA
Plunket.................... 754
Lancaster...............  8
Langdale.................. 794
Pepperell.  104__
Androscoggin, 7-4. .21 
Pepperell,  114...
Androscoggin, 84. .23
Pequot,  7 4 ...----
P e p p e r e l l ,  *1-1...........20
_ Pequot,  8-4..........
P e p p e r e l l ,   8 4 .......... 2254
5 "IPequot,  94..........
Pepperell,  9 4 ....... 25
SOWN  COTTONS.
HEAV Y  BRO’
754¡Lawrence XX, 4-4 
Atlantic  A, 44.......  754
7  Lawrence  Y, 30..
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......7
654 Lawrence LL, 44.
Atlantic  D, 4-4.........654
554 Newmarket N __
654
Atlantic P, 44........   554
554 Mystic River, 44.
Atlantic LL, 44—   654
554
754 Pequot A, 44.......
Adriatic, 36..........
754
654 Piedmont,  36..........  654
Augusta, 44........
694 Stark A A, 4-4..........  754
Boott M, 4-4........
794 Tremont CC, 44—   554
Boott  FF, 44.......
594 Utica,  44................ 9
Graniteville, 4-4.. 
7  Wacbusett,  44.......  754
Indian  Head, 44. 
254|Waehusett,  30-in...  694
Indiana Head 45-ii
.14 Falls, XXXX........ 1854
ACA.. 
Amoskeag, 
.19 Falls, XXX............ 1554
“ 4-4.
Amoskeag 
13 Falls,  BB............... 1154
A .......
Amoskeag, 
.12 Falls,  BBC, 36....... 1954
B .......
Amoskeag, 
.11 Falls,  awning....... 19
C.......
Amoskeag, 
.1054 Hamilton,  BT, 32. 12
D.......
Amoskeag, 
.10 Hamilton,  D........
E .......
Amoskeag, 
9%
•  954 Hamilton,  H........
954
F ........
Amoskeag, 
.17 Hamilton  fancy.. 10
A, 44...
P 
.16 Methuen A A ........ 1354
lium  B ..........
P
.16  Methuen ASA....... IS
Extra 4-4................
II
.1454 Omega A, 7-8........
Extra 7-8................
lOmega A, 4-4........ 13
.15 
Gold Medal 44.......
.1254 ¡Omega ACA, 7-8... 14
CCA 7-8..................
.14 Omega ACA, 4-4... 16
CT 44 .....................
.14 Omega SE, 7-8....... 24
RC 7-8.....................
.16 Omega SE, 4-4....... 27
BF 7-8.....................
.19 Omega M. 7-8....... 22
AF4-4.....................
..14 Omega M, 4-4........ .25
Cordis AAA, 32..... 
.15 Shetucket SS&SSW 1154
Cordis ACA, 32... 
.15 Shetucket, S & SW.12
Cordis No. 1,32—
..12
.14 Shetucket, «SFS 
Cordis  No. 2........ .
.13 Stockbridge  A __
Cordis No. 3........
.1154 Stockbridge frncy .  8
Cordis  No. 4.........
ZED  CAM BRICS.
.  5 Empire  .................
Garner...........
.  5 Washington.......... .  49Í
Hookset..........
.  5 Edwards................ .  5
Red  Cross.......
S. S. & Sons............ 5
Forest Grove..
G R A IN   BAGS.
American  A ........18 OOjOld  Ironsides.........15
Stark A ................... 22541Wheatland..............21
Boston 
.............   694 (Otis DC....................1054
Everett blue......... 1354 Warren  AXA.........1254
Everett brown......1354 Warren  BB............ 1154
Otis  AXA..............1254 Warren CC..............1054
Otis BB...................11541 York  fancy............ 1354
Manville..................6
Ma8gnville.............   6
Red  Cross...............  754 ¡Thistle Mills............  D
Berlin.....................   754 Rose.........................  8
Garner....................  7541
Brooks...................'.50
Clark’s O. N. F....... 55
J. & P.  Coats.......... 55
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread............30
Armory..................754
Androscoggin sat..  854
Canoe River...........   6
Clarendon.................654
Hallowell  Imp.......694
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7
Laconia..................  754

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Merricks.................40
Stafford...................25
Hall & Manning— 25 
Holyoke...................25
Kearsage................ 8*
Naumkeagsatteen.  854 
Pepperell bleached 854
Pepperell sat..........954
Roekport.................
Lawrence sat..........854
Conegosat...............  7
COAL  AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS 
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
1  05 
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl....................
90
Ohio White Lime, car lots....................
1 40
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
Akron Cement per  Dbl......................... 
1 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1  40
J8
Car lots.................................................... 1 
30 
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25®
1 75 
Stucco, per bbl.......................................
3 75
Land plaster, per ton... . ......................
«u
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $25 ®q$35
Fire clay, per bbl..................................
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 25@6 50
Cannell,  car lots.................. ............... „ 
¿5
Ohio Lump, car lots—
3 26@3 50 
Blossburg or Cumberland, par lots..  4 50®5 00

S. S. & Sons............. 6
Garner....................6

W ID E   BLEACHED COTTONS.

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

.3254
.21
.24
.2754

SPO O L COTTON.

CO RSET JE A N S .

W IG AN S.

styles

DENIM S.

dress

c o a l .

(Soobs.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

TIME TABLES. 

Mic h ig a n (Central

A R A B   PLUG- !

Tie'Best ani Most Attractive M s  on tie Marìet,  M for Sample 

• Bntt.  See Quotations in Price-Cnrrent.

Fox, Musselman & Loveridge
JE2T1TIXTGS  A   SMITH,
Arctic  Manufacturing’  Go.,

Sole  Owners.

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE

S t . ,

SO  Lyon
Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR

Grand Rapids.

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_A .rotio  B a k i n g   P o w d e r .
We manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be  first- 
class.
We  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virginia  and  Tennessee  Peanuts, 
Almonds, Brazils. Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  TKTalnuts  and Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

Dandy 
Nuts
OraugGS
Oysters
Putnam  &  Brooks.
SPRING

We are agents for the CEL­
EBRATED  J.  S.  FARREN  & 
CO.’S Oysters and are prepared 
to fill  orders for  large  or  smalj. 
lots, cans or in bulk, at the  low­
est rates.

We handle  FLORIDA Or­
anges  direct from  the  groves. 
The crop is large and fine  and 
low prices are looked for.

COMPANY

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

T h e   N i a g a r a ,   F a l l s   (R o u te.

D EPA R T.

A R R IV E .

♦Detroit Express........... .........................  6:00 am
+Day  Express.........................................12:45 p m
+Atlantic Express............................................9:20 pm
♦Pacific  Express............................................  6:00 am
+Mail...................................................    3:20p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express............................10:25p m
tDaily except Sunday.  ♦Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

J. T. Schultz. Gen’l Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
tMail........................................9:15 am
tDay  Express......................12:25 p m
♦Night  Express..................   9:35 pm

Arrives, 
4:05 p m 
11:15 p m 
6:00 a m
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
9:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.
Express.................................... 4:15 p m  4:0.5 p m
Express..................................   8:05 a m  11:15 a m
All trains arrive and depart from Union De­
pot.
The Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
F. &  P. M.  trains to  and  from  Ludington and 
Manistee.

J. H. Ca r pen t er,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  Mu l l ik e n ,  General  Manager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

All trains daily except Sunday.
The  ntrain 

(KALAM AZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
Arrive. 
Express................................7:00 pm  
Mail.......................................9:85 a m 

Leave.
7:35 am
4:00 p m
leaving  at 4 p. m. connects at 
White Pigeon with  Atlantic  Express  on  Main 
Line, which has Palace Drawing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from Chicago  to  New  York  and 
Boston without change.
The  train  leaving  at  7:35  a. m. connects  at 
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
Through  tickets  and  berths  in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
67 Moure street and depot.

J. W. MoK en n ey, Geu’l Agent.

* 

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING W EST.

GO ING EA ST.Arrives.
tSteamboat Express..........
tThrough  Mail.....................10:15 a m
tEvening  Express.......................3:20 pm
♦Atlantic Express...............  9:45 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........
tMorning  Express..............12:40 p m
tThrough  Mail..................  5:10 pm
tSteamboat Express...........10:40 p m
tMixed..................................
♦NightExpress...........................   5:10 am

Leaves. 
6:20 a m 
10:20 a m  
3:35 p m 
10:45 p m 
10:30 a m
12:55 p m 
5:15 p m
7:10 a m 
5:30 a m
Express
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and
Train leaving  at  5:15  p.  m.  will  make  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday.
The mail has  a  Parlor  Car to  Detroit.  The 
Night  Express has a through Wagner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.
D. P otter, City Pass. Agent. 
Geo. B. Re e v e, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Dailv 
Passengers  taking  the  6:20  a.  n 

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

G O IN G   SOUTH.

Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex  3:55 pm  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 pm  
Mackinac & Ft. Way 1 e Ex.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

G O IN G  NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves
10:25 a m 
5:00 p m 
7:10 a m
7:00 a m 
4:35 p m 
11:45 p m

S LE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at 5:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and 
Mackinac City.  Train leaving at 10:25 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse 
City.
South—Train leaving at 4:35p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. L ockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit,  Mackinac  &  Marquette.

GOING
WEST
Ac. I Ex.

STATIONS.

PM. 
6 50 
3 08
1 10 
11 25 
30

PM. I 
4 50 Ar. 
4 40 .... 
3 30  ... 
1 27  ... 
12 00 A 
12 15|D 
11  02 
AM.
8 30 
7 00
PM.
9 00 
AM.
9 35

Dep.

Ishpeming 
. Negaunee.. 
. Marquette. 
. Reedsboro.

Seney 
Newbury
.St. Ignace__ Ar.
Dep.
Mackinaw City  Dep. 
Ar.
Dep.  Grand Rapids  Ar. 
...............Detroit................

GOING
EAST
Ac. I Ex.

AM. 
7 30
11 05 
1  10
12 40 
2  40
PM. 
6 30

1 30
1 40
2 20
4 19
5 45
5 30
6 38
□9 00 
9 30
7 00 
3 30

Connections made at Marquette  and Negau­
nee with the M. H. & O. R. R. for the iron, gold 
silver and copper districts; at Reedsboro  with 
a daily stage  line  for  Manistique;  at  Seney 
with tri-weekly stage for Grand  Marais; at St. 
Ignace with the M. C. and G. R.  & I.  Railways 
for all points east and south; also  daily  stage 
line to Sault St. Marie.

F. M tfLLiG A N , G. F. & P. A.

OIL.  CLOTHS

DESTO-,  DESTO.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids,

Michigan.

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E UST Gr 1 2ST IE S

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
ing,  Pulleys  and Boxes. * Contracts  made for 
Complete Outfits.
W.  O,  Denison,

88,90  and 92 South Division Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN

and as to the mode  and  method of  raising 
the necessary fund to  complete  and  equip 
the building,  the specific purposes for which 
it was to be used, and  the  way 
in  which j 
its business was to be conducted.

CONSIGNMENT— BILL  OF 

LADING— PAY­

MENT.

In the case of Rulil et al. vs. Corner et al., 
decided by the Maryland Court of  Appeals, 
it appeared that  the  appellees,  commission 
merchants in Baltimore, received a shipment 
of a carload of “Champion” flour of *125 bar­
rels  from  Merian  &  Co.* of  Minneapolis, 
Minn., without order,  who  advised  the ap­
pellees of the shipment by letter, stating the 
price at which the firm should sell the flour. 
No bill of lading was sent the appellees, but 
at the time of the  shipment  a  shipping re­
ceipt was taken from the  railroad  company 
for the flour, and  that,  with a draft  on the 
appellees for $500, was  placed in  bank for 
transmission to  Baltimore, but  was  subse­
quently  withdrawn  and  was  never  sent. 
Subsequent to the shipment to the  appellees 
Merian & Co. received  an  order  for  flour 
from the appellants,  and  decided to change 
the shipment and to send to  the  appellants 
this car of flour on their order  with a bill of 
lading.  Accorclingly the  Chicago  agent of 
the  railroad  company  was  telegraphed  to 
hold  the  flour, as  Merian & Co. wished to 
change the consignment  to  the  appellants, 
but in the meantime the flour came to Balti­
more labeled for the appellees  and  was de­
livered to them.  The bill of lading in favor 
of the appellants, with a draft  on  them for 
$615, was presented by Merian & Co. to  the 
Security  Bank of  Minnesota,  and  the  draft 
was cashed by the  bank, which  sent  both 
bill of lading and draft to the Bank of Com­
merce in Baltimore, to which  bank  the ap­
pellants paid the draft, and  received in con­
sideration of such payment the bill of lading 
for the flour.  Ascertaining  that  the  flour 
had been received  by the  appellees, the  ap­
pellants demanded  payment  of  the  same, 
and the Baltimore & Ohio  Railroad, the car­
riers of the cargo, demanded the flour.  The 
lower court decided that the appellees  were 
entitled to it, but the Court of  Appeals held 
that the appellants were the  proper  custo­
dians of the flour,  having  ordered  and paid 
for it, the appellees  not  having  ordered it, 
and that they had the right to maintain their 
action in the case.

PENCIL  PORTRAITS—NO.  41.

Silas K. Bolles, Better Known as “Captain.”
S. K.  Bolles was born at  Trenton, Oneida 
county,  New  York,  November  30,  1839. 
When thirteen  years of age his  parents  re­
moved to Hillsdale,  this  State,  where  Silas 
entered the  employ of a  hardware  firm  to 
learn the tinner’s trade.  Two years later he 
went to Delavan, Wis., where  he worked in 
a hardware store about two years.  He then 
returned to this State, locating at Coldwater, 
where he remained  most of  the time  until 
1872.  During this time he was a  partner in 
a hardware business,  and for a time  carried 
on  the  hardware  business  at  Union  City. 
Coming to  Grand  Rapids in  1872,  he  was 
identified with E. W. Markham for a couple 
of years, when he accepted a  position  with 
Carpenter, Judd  & Co., with  whom  he  re­
mained a similar  period.  He then traveled 
m Michigan and Wisconsin for a year selling 
cutlery for  Randall,  Hall & Co., of Chicago. 
His next move was to engage with  Locha & 
Webb, cigar manufacturers of this city, with 
whom he remained  about a  year,  covering 
the Michigan trade.  He then  identified him­
self with B. S. Tibbetts, the Coldwater dear 
manufacturer, with  whom  he continued on 
the best of  terms  for  five  years.  He  has 
since  represented  G. H.  Mack  &  Co.,  of 
Cleveland,  and  J. W.  Cough try &  Son,  of 
Cigarville, N.  Y.,  but  he  is  now  engaged 
witli Glaser &  Frame,  of  Reading,  Pa., in 
whose behalf he visits the  jobbing  trade  in 
Michigan and Northern Indiana and Ohio.

Mr.* Bolles  probably  possesses as even  a 
temper as any man who  ever  lived.  He  is 
the very soul of honor,  being concientious in 
all  his  dealings! business  and  otherwise. 
Though past the age when  men  attempt to 
“set the world afire,” he is,  nevertheless, an 
active and efficient worker, and is able to at­
tract and  hold  n©  inconsiderable  trade by 
reason of his well-known integrity and good 
nature.

BUSINESS LAW.

♦
B rief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

--------  

o f Last  Resort.

STATUTE OF  LIMITATIONS— ABSENCES.
The “trips” of a commercial  traveler last­
ing several months at  a time are “absences” 
within the meaning of a  legislative  provis­
ion suspending the  operation of  the statute 
of limitations, where  the  traveler  being  a 
resident of the state,  leaves no settled  place 
of abode therein and no family on a member 
of which process  can be  served,  according 
to the decision of the St. Louis Court of Ap­
peals.

MEASURE  OF  DAMAGES— INJURY  TO  GOODS.
Where goods are injured  while in  transit 
the  measure of  damages is the  reasonable 
market value of the  goods at  the  point of 
destination at the date at which they should 
have arrived there  according to the carrier’s 
undertaking, less what they  were  worth at 
the date when they did arrive  in  their dam­
aged  condition.  So held  by the  St.  Ijouis 
Court of  Appeals.

FRAUDULENT  CONVEYANCE---- RELATION-

SHIT.

In the case of Caudill  vs. Goeble, decided 
by the Kentucky  Court  of  Appeals, certain 
conveyances  from a mother to her daughter 
and son-in-law were  held  to be fraudulent, 
the grantor  being  indebted at  the time in a 
sum sufficient to swallow up her estate,  and 
the relations of the parties  being such  that 
the grantees,  who failed to explain  satisfac­
torily how  the  recited  consideration  was 
paid, must have known of the  financial em­
barrassment of the grantor and of the fraud­
ulent design.

STATUTORY  CONSTRUCTION----COMMERCIAL

DESIGNATION.

The English Adulteration act  of  1875  re­
quired, under penalties, that articles of food 
sold be of “the nature, substance  and  qual­
ity” of the article demanded.  In construing 
this statute the Queen’s  Bench  Division of 
the High Court of Justice  lately held  (Lane 
vs. Collins)  that when “milk” was asked for 
the statute was sufficiently complied  with if 
skimmed milk was supplied;  that is to say, 
milk 60 per cent,  deficient  in  butter  fat. 
This  decision,  according to the  report, was 
put upon the ground that skimmed milk was 
the milk of commerce.

LANDLORD AND  TENANT—W AIVER OF  SUM­

MARY REMEDY.

According to the decision of the  St.  Louis 
Court of  Appeals,  if the  landlord  in a ten­
ancy from month to month  takes  the  ten­
ant’s  negotiable  note for  rent  in  arrears, 
and accepts payment  of  rent for subsequent 
months he waives the right to the  summary 
remedies given by the statute for the posses­
sion and for the rent for which he has taken 
the note.  By the acceptance of the tenant’s 
note,  in the absence of  an  agreement to the 
contrary, the  debt, according to  the  court, 
loses its distinctive character of rent and be­
comes  an  ordinary  indebtedness, and  the 
summary remedies given by  the  statute are 
waived in respect of installments of  rent al­
ready due by accepting  subsequent 
install­
ments.

INSURANCE 

POLICY— INCREASED  RISK—  

WAIVER.

In an action on a policy of  insurance  the 
act of the insurerer who  has  knowledge of 
an increase of risk by a change of use of the 
insured premises  without  objecting  to the 
same,  or  canceling  the  policy,  will  be 
construed as a waiver of his right of forfeit­
ure of the contract  by  reason of  such 
in­
crease  of  risk.  So  held  by the  Supreme 
Court of Louisiana in the case of  Storey vs. 
The Hope Insurance  Company.  The  court 
held that parol testimony was  admissible to 
show such waiver,  although the policy,  con 
tained a clause requiring  the  agreement of 
the insurer to be indorsed on the policy, and 
said that if the insurer, after  knowledge  of 
the increase of  risk,  continued  to  receive 
premiums, he would be held to have waived 
the forfeiture.

FRAUDULENT  CONVEYANCE— NOTE  AND 

MORTGAGE.

Where a note and mortgage  were  execut­
ed for an amount in excess of the  actual in­
debtedness existing from  the  mortgagor to 
the mortgagee to take up  an  old  note and 
mortgage given in  good  faith to  secure an 
actual indebtedness,  with  the  understand­
ing that upon the execution of  the new note 
all the credits that were upon the  old  note 
should be placed  upon  the  new  note, and 
where such understanding was  carried  out 
by the mortgagee, and in the  overstatement 
of the amount  secured  there  was no  intent 
of either party to  hinder,  delay  or  defraud 
the  mortgagor’s  creditors,  the  Supreme 
•Court of Kansas held  that  such  mortgage 
was not fraudulent in toto because upon  its 
face it secured an  amount  of  indebtedness 
in excess of that actually existing  from  the 
mortgagor to the mortgagee.”

for 

SUBSCRIPTION— INCOMPLETE  AGREEMENT.
A subscription in  these  words, “We, the 
undersigned,  hereby  subscribe 
the 
amount of stock  opposite  our  names, and 
agree to pay the same in  four  quarterly in­
stallments,  viz.:  February  15,  April  15, 
June 15 and August 15, for  the  purpose of 
forming a company to erect  an  academy of 
music,” was held by the  Supreme  Court of 
Georgia to  be, on  its  face, an 
incomplete 
agreement, as being entirely  silent as to the 
location and  nature of  the  structure, as to 
whether the company was to be a joint stock 
company an incorporation as to what amount 
was necessary to accomplish the object sought

t o  BOOT  PLOO
AND  GET  A  PAIR  OF  BOOTS.
BOOT  PLUG

Is a new brand of Tobacco, witli  a  new  sweet  flavor  that 

can not be excelled.  Chewers who have given it 

a trial will take no other.

We pack a TIN  ORDER in one of the  lumps  in  each  Butt 

which is good for either one pair of heavy No.  1  Kip 

Boots, or one pair of  Fancy  Calf  Boots,  or 

one pair of Calf Button Shoes.

HOW TO  GtET THE  BOOTS.
• 
Send  the  Boot  Order  with  size  wanted,  Name,  Town, County and State 
plainly written to the undersigned, and they will forward the boots by the next 
Express.  DON’T  FORGET  TO  MENTION  THE  KIND  WANTED.

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Tobacco Manufacturers,

Canal  and  Monroe  Streets,  CHICAGO,  XXiZ«.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL  FIRST  CLASS  JOBBERS.

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STRAIGHT  GOODS—NO  SCHEME.

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John  Caulfield,

Sole Agent.

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WMiisalG  k  Cofflniission-ButtBr  k  Eggs  a  Specialty.

Choice Butter always on hand.  All Orders  receive Prompt and Careful Attention.

125  andl27 Canal Street, 

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Grand Rapids, Michigan.

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Car  Lots, 
f  e are prepare! to mate Bottom Prices 01 anythinir we handle.
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117 Monroe  St.

Woodenware, Twines and Cordage,  Paper, Stationery,  Ker­

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Of the increased requirements on  the tin­
ner, as  compared  with  former  times,  the 
House  Furnisher  says:  “The  tinsmith, 
now-a-days to be  able to  properly  compete 
with ironmonger and the stove  manufactur­
er, must possess at least some  pretension to 
mechanical science; for  his  simple  pot, or 
pan, or lid, is something more than that.  He 
has now to do with  apparatus  skillfully de­
vised and  fitted  with 
interior  mechanism 
which will produce results that the tinsmith,, 
before him never dreamed  of.”

The statistics of the petroleum  pipe  lines 
of Pennsylvania show that the production of 
oil in 1884 was 24,104,160 barrels, represent­
ing a daily  consumption  of  66,038  barrels. 
In 1863, the consumption was 63,021  barrels 
daily.

“Can you give me the  definition  of  noth­
ing?” 
inquired  a  school  teacher.  “Yes, 
mum.  It’s  a  bunghole  without  a  barrel 
around 
little  Ted  Saunders, 
whose father is a cooper.

it,”  shouted 

It pays Western  farmers to shell their com 
and sell the  cobs  separately.  The  demand 
for corn-cob  pipes  has  raised  the  price of 
hitherto worthless cobs to $24 a wagon load.
The Maine  Legislative Committee  on Ag­
riculture has voted that the amendment pro­
hibiting the manufacture and  sale  of  oleo­
margarine in the state ought to pass.

For  all  kinds  of  foreign  and  domestic  FRUITS,  PRODUCE,  and  MANUFACTURED 
GOODS  of every  description.
Having been in business in this city for the past twelve  years,  and  having  an  exten­
sive acquaintance with the Wholesale and Retail trade in this vicinity,  we are able to give 
our shippers the benefit of our long experience.
Any goods consigned to  us  will  have  our  best  attention.  We  have  STORAGE  >r 
over FIFTY carloads, either for light or heavy goods, and will furnish same for any length 
of time, at reasonable rates.  If, at any time, there should be anything in this market you 
should wish to purchase, no matter what it is, we would  be  glad  to  correspond  with you.

71  Canal Street, Grand Rapids.
DETROIT  SOAP  CO.’S

QUEEN  ANNE

S O A P
-------IS  NOT-------

is not

A (“smash up the clothes boiler,” “throw away the wash-board,” “wash without labor”) Soap; 
A (grand piano, gold  watch, bouse and lot with every bar,  “save  the  wrappers”)  Soap;  is  not 
A (towel, napkin, dish-rag, dry goods store thrown in)  Soap;  is not 
A (here to-day and gone to-morrow)  Soap; is not
A (sell a quarter of a bos, and have the balance left on your hands) Soap;

-------BUT IS-------

The very best article in laundry and general family Soap ever put ort the market.
Big and lasting trade.  Good margins to dealers.  Grocers, if you  have  never 
tried “QUEEN ANNE SOAP,” buy a sample box and you will always continue 

to handle it.CODY,  BALL  &  CO.,

Wholesale Agents for “Queen Anne” and all  1 
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of Detroit Soap Co.’s Standard Brands. 

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51 and 53 Lyon Street 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.
We are  sole Michigan 
agents for the  celebrated 
“3P” brand,  packed by  J. 
S.  FARREN  & CO.,  Bal­
timore, and are  prepared 
to fill orders  for  CAN  or 
BULK oysters at the low­
est  market  prices  either 
from  here  or  from  Balti­
more direct. NO BETTER 
GOODS PUT UP.  H. M. 
BLIVEN  has  charge  of 
this department and will 
give your  orders person­
al and prompt  attention. 
We solicit your order.

P u tn am   &  Brooks. 
JO B  PRINTING.

The  Tradesman  office  lias  now  first-class  facilities  for  doing

all  kinds  of

Commercial  Work,

Such as Letter, Note and Bill  Heads,  Statements,  Cards,  En-

velopes, Blank Orders, Circulars, Dodgers, Etc.

NEW TYPE, NEW PRESS, CLEAN WORK.

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[Continued from 3d Page] 

ORGANIZED!

Mr. Luther stated  that  he saw Col. Rob­
ert M. Littler in  Chicago  on  his  way  to
i Grand Rapids, and that  Mr.  Littldr  wished
i 
stated that  he  was in  hearty  sympathy
the other samples  were  given, and  the ex-■ wdh the  objects of  the  new  organization 
planations were listened to with interest.  A I alld would be glad to hear  from  the  mem- 
committee of three were appointed to collect I bers 0f the Association at any time, 
samples for another test, and the convention j  Ml%  Lambert 
adjourned until 1:30 p. m. 
t  Thursday—a f t e r n o o n  se ssio n. 

then  read  a  paper  on 
;  “Creamery Butter,” which was ordered pub-
lished by vote of the convention.

The first business in order was  the  read-  Mr. Clay wanted to know  if  it  was not a 
ing of the report of the  Committee  on  Per- j good idea  to  encourage  small  dairies  and 
manent  Organization,  which  was  as  fol-  Sinan  creameries.  Also 
if  better  butter 
S could not be made on a small than on a large
lows. 

Your Committee on Permanent  Organiza-1 scaie. 

large  factory-
men loomed up over the  smaller  dairymen. 
Prof. Arnold asserts that the farm  creamer­
ies excel  the large factories  in  the  quality 
of butter, and  in a  recent  competitive  ex­
hibition the farm creameries  carried off  all 
the honors.  Under the  factory  system, the 
cream loses its identity and  has  no  distinct 
flavor.

tion,  fully  realizing  the  responsibility  that  Mr> Wilson said that  the 
must devolve upon the officers  that  shall be 
chosen at the first meeting, in order to make 
this Association a success in the future,  and 
owing to being comparative strangers we have 
been somewhat at a loss to make  selections.
But after due deliberation we have made se­
lections  of  the  following  gentlemen  and 
earnestly hope that they will accept the pos­
Mr. Andrews—who is himself  the  owner 
itions assigned to  them, with a sense of the 
of a large creamery in  Iowa—said  that  Mr
responsibility that will  devolve  upon  them 
and that they will spare  no  pains to  make j  Wilson’s remarks were correct, but  that the 
I whole matter resolved itself  into a question
the  Association a success: 
For  President—Marlin  Wiggins,  Bloom- j  0f dollars and cents.  The reason  the  large 
j creameries exist  is  because  they  can  pay
For  Yice-Presidents—St  Clair,  W.  H.  more for the  cream  than it is worth to the 
H o w e ,  Capac; Saginaw, F.C. Stone, Saginaw  farmer  to  make  into  butter.  The  farm 
City; Genesee, A. P. Foltz,  Davison;  Mont-  creamery is the  best, but  not  always  the 
calm, F. A.  Rockfellow, Carson  City; Len- j m0st  profitable,
Mr. Dean said his cattle did well on  cook­
awee, B. Davis,  Jasper;  Van  Buren, War­
ed food, but did not increase their milk.  He 
ren  Haven,  Bloomingdale;  Kent, Chas. E. 
found it did not pay to scald the food.
Belknap, Grand  Rapids;  Kalamazoo, L. F. 
«Mr. Yan Buren said he had  found  by ex-
Cox, Portage;  Ottawa, John  Borst,  Yries-
land; Allegan, R. C. Nash, Hilliards:  New-'  periment that dry feed paid better than wet.
The following letter  from  Hon.  Seward 
aygo, D. M. Adams, 
j Baker, relative to his anti-butter  substitutes 
Post, Clarksville.
A. Stowe,  Grand  Rap- i bill, now before  the Legislature,  was  read 

Ashland;  Ionia,  Jos. 

ingdale. 

For Secretary—E. 

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L a n s in g ,  Feb. 23, 1885.

C. B. L a m b e r t, 
F .  E .  P ic k e t t, 
Jas. Skinner. 

| and placed on file.:
j 
|  j Ir  e . a . Stowe," G rand Rapids,  Mich.
I  Deab gut—Yours of the 19th at hand and 
| in reply will say that  it  will  be  impossible
Chairman  Fuller  then  called  the  newly-  for me ^  be present at your convention. If I 
elected President  to the  chair, assuring him  bad known of it sooner, I surely should have 
„£ the arduous tash be was a b o u t t o «  | u n it e d
and  bespeaking  for  him  the cordial co-op-. *  ^  copies of my bill, as it  is  yet in the
eration of every member of  the Association.  hands of the  committee, but it prohibits en- 
Mr  Wiggins, on taking  the  chair,  spoke i tirely the manufacture  and sale of  any sub-
| stitste for butter under a penalty,
ouKotantinllv as follows* 
S i n c e  the thing has become agitated, I am
substantial^  as  o
* 
told that such  a  bill  would  be unconstitu-
Gentlemen of the Conventio  . 
tional.  The reason that I  have  not  called
I thank you for the honor 
rt of the bill from the committee 
ferred upon me, and in accepting it 1 already 
| is that I have been busily engaged in getting
feel the burden to  which 
^   f  ! all the information on  the  subject possible;
able temporary chairman 
to which he emphatically d^ ll“ffvtohbpec? w 1 such as the general make up  of  the-  differ- 
substitutes  and  their  effects  as  regard 
our permanent c h a i r m a n .  
It  may  ^   that i 
we do not see or realize  the  full  weight oi j 
t h
*  something ought to be done, and just
the duties that may  devolve  upon us.  But | 
we do see the necessity  tor  co“ce^ dh£ ad I what that something is  seems quite  hard  to 
intelligent actemou the  part  ^ . e t e g a n , g(Jt at 
, have n0  douM  but  what  my m
dairymen.  To
uledee  to  you, I would Pass as ifc is>  but 1 do/?’t  ™ nt £  en: 
best of my ability is what  I  . 
_ 
pieage 
y  > ! act a [aw that the Supreme Court  would set
and I take it that  in  electing  me  you  have
each and everyone pledged me your support. |  Th*e Xew Tork law  provides  for  a com- 
have heard  during  this  con-  m^sioner> at a salary, to look after the mat- 
From what 
vention, tti© intelligent  d&iryniftn  will  uis- j ^  —j —  ai—
«».a  imnnoari  .in
ter and see that no frauds  are 
imposed  on 
cover that it is not wise  to  feed  all of his 
the people in this line.  Whether  the  peo­
cows alike, and that all  cows  are not to be 
ple of this State  would  sanction  anything 
judged alike—that some are good  for butter 
of this kind remains a question.  Their sen­
and some  are good for  cheese.  _ More  than 
timent heretofore has been  against  creating 
anything, we have learned that it is not safe 
any new offices.
to go by rule, that one man’s way may be as i
I would like if your convention would dis-
good as a n o t h e r  s, thatextenial  vigila^e  s  ^
 ^  gubject thoroughly  and  draw  up 
the price of good butter and cheese.  Again  goine resolutions that win help  me to  solve 
1 thank you tor  this  unexpected  and  un  | tMg probiemj for certainly something  ought 
j to be done to prevent this growing encroach-
sought honor. 
Mr. Pickett offered  the  following  resolu-1 ment upon tiie rights of  the  dairymen  and
farmers of our State.
Mr. Wellman has also  introduced  a  bill 
which has the same effect as  mine, which is 
also in the hands of the committee.
Hoping that your  convention  will  adopt 
for  these
Mr. Fuller moved that a vote of thanks  e , grievances may be had.  T remain
__________| ______  I remain

Resolved—That the  thanks  of  this  con­
vention be tendered Mr. Fuller for his faith­
ful labors as presiding  officer  the  past two
da^rS‘  Trt  „ 
tendered the Secretary for his efforts  in  be- j 
half of  the  Association,  which  w»s  unani-1 
mously adopted. 

thanb<; he  some method by which a  redress  for
Yours truly,
Sew ard Baker.

j  Six crocks of  butter  brought  in  by Mr.
Mr. Lambert offered the  following resolu-1 Q ay frora his dairy farm in Newaygo  coun-
ty were examined  by  a  committee  consist­
ing of C. B. Lambert, J. H. Martin and Geo. 
Sinclair, who reported as follows, the figures 
being based on a possible 55 points:

Resolved—That the thanks of the conven­
tion be tendered Prof. Yaughan  for  his  in­
structive address on  cheese  poisoning, and 
also to the Board of Health for  bearing  the 
expenses incident to Dr.  Yaughan’s  visit to j 
this city. 
j

tion, which was unanimously adopted: 

tion, which was unanimously adopted:

Mtt 

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Mr. Pickett presented  the  following com­

munication and moved its adoption :
To the Michigan Dairymen’s Association : 
Gentlemen—I  hereby  tender  you  the 
free use of two or more columns of  space in 
The Michigan Tradesman  for the  publi­
cation of such matters as it maybe desirable 
to put before the dairymen of this State.
Trusting that you will accept  the  offer in 
the same spirit in which it is made, I  am 
Yours truly,  E. A.  Stowe. 

The offer was  accepted  with  thanks, and

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A special committee consisting of  Messrs. 
J. H. Walker and W. W. Johnson  reported 
as follows:

Your Committee on  the  Chum  for  Tes-

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Holh^ 
Declined—Kerosene oil, citron,  ondara  rais­

codfish, salmon, pearl barley.
ins, apricots, currants, package  coffees.

a x i*e   g r e a s e .

............. 801 Paragon.....................60
............... 60 Paragon, 25 ft pails 1 20

Frazer’s 
Diamond.
Modoc........ ................651
Arctic 54 ft cans—   45! Arctic l f t  cans... .2 40 
Arctic 14 lb cans. . . .   75 Arctic 5 f t  cans. . . .  12 00 
Arctic % ft cans.  .  1 40|
Dry, No.   .......................................... ¿oz. 

B A K IN G   PO W D ER .

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CA NN ED  F IS H .

CANNED F R U IT S .

........................................aa^'ross 45no
ici 4 oz...........................................  gross 4 uu
8  00 
2 00
3 00
4 50
...17
No.*,2 Hurl..
Fancy  Whisk..........100
Common W hisk....  75

Liquid, 8  
Arcti«
Arctic 8  oz.........................
Arctic 16 oz........'.......-N—
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.. 
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 
No. 1 Carpet.............2 50
No. 2 Carpet............ 2 25
No. 1 Parlor Gem..2 75
No. 1 Hurl................2 00
Clams, 1 ft  standards..................... .............£40
Clams, 2 ft  standards................................... * Sx
Clam Chowder,  3 f t . . . . . . . . ........................7  «V
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards..................... £ ua
Cove Oysters, 2  ft,standards  ..................  190
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled..................   75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled..................... 1 05
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic......................................£ ¿2
Lobsters, 1 ft star..........................................    fx
Lobsters, 2 ft star........... ............................ “
Mackerel, lf t   fresh  standards..................l  00
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards................. b 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t................. 325
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard.........................  
“
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled.................................. " "9
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river........................£55
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river.......................
Salmon, lf t   Sacramento................................. 1 oo
Sardines, domestic 54s.................................
Sardines,  domestic  %s...............................   £*/*
Sardines,  Mustard  ^ s .................................  ™
Sardines,  imported  14s............«•..................  ££/2
Sardines,imported 14s........•  •-...............  sj
Sardines, imported 14s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  5»
Trout. 3ft  brook.......................................
Apples, 3 ft standards . 
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie.................... 2 TO
Blackberries, standards...................................£ ”0
Blackberries,  Erie 
..............................1 40
Cherries, Erie, red........................................£  ¡S
Cherries, Erie,white w a x ....:..................£  2”
Cherries, French  Brandy, quarts..............- 5U
Cherries,  red  standard........ ..:..................£
Damsons........ .  ■•  .....................................£ VX
Egg Plums,standards 
.............................. £
Gooseberries, K raft s B est..............................£ 00
Green Gages, standards 2ft.............................£ 4U
Green Gages,  Erie........................................£
Peaches, Extra Yellow.................... ;
Peaches, standards...........................1  7o(®£ XX
Peaches,  seconds........................................£ XX
Pie Peaches,  Kensett ..............................." I S
Pineapples, E rie........................................\
Pineapples, standards......................................£ ¿V
Plumbs, Golden  Drop.................................••••£ 9?
Quinces.........•••••••••;....................................£ Tk
Raspberries, Black,  Erie................................. £ £9
Raspberries, Red,  Erie.....................................1 3°
.1 30 
Strawberries, Erie... — .......................
.1 40
Whortleberries, McMurphy s............. .
CANNED  FRUTTS— C A LIFO R N IA ,
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 40|Pears.......................3 TO
Egg Plums.............2 50 Quinces................... 2 90
........3 00
Grapes................... 2 50 Peaches
Green Gages.......2   50|
Green Gage?-----
Asparagus, Oyster Bay..............................“ $5
Beans, Lima.  Erie...................................... 1  XX
Beans, String, Erie ..  .................................
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   J®
Beans, Stringless, E rie..^........................   9«
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked......................l<60
Corn, Erie......................................................}  ix
Corn, Red  Seal............................................. *
Corn,  Acme.......................... ....... ................j £V
Corn, Revere.................................................\ XX
Mushrooms, French,  100 in  case.............^   TO
Peas, French, 100 in ca se..........................-3  to
Peas, Marrofat, standard...........................1
Peas, Beaver............. 
-XX
Peas, early small, sifted............................ i
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden..........................••••  ito
Squash, E rie.......................... . • • • • —  • —
Succotash, Erie............................................ 1
Succotash, standard.................................. -  w
Tomatoes,Red Seal......................................... w
Boston.......................36|German Sweet..........2o
Baker’s .................'..M Vienna Sweet  ..........23
Runkles’ ................... 35|French Sweet............22
Roasted Mex... 17@20 
Green Rio....... 11©14
Ground  Rio—   9@17
Green Java......17@27
Arbuckle’s .......  @14M
GreenMocha.. ,23@2a 
X X X X ............  ©14%
Roasted Rio — 10@17 
Dilworth’s .......  @14%
RoastedJava  ..23@30 
Levering’s .......  @14%
Roasted Mar... 17@18 
Magnolia..........  @14%
RoastedlMoch a. 28@30
72 foot J u te ....... 1 25  160 foot Cotton... .2 00
60 foot Jute.......  1  00  50 foot Cotton... .1  <5
40 Foot Cotton —  1 50  IFiSH.
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.....................   75
Cod, whole............................................  
1%@
Cod, pickled, Vt  bbls....................................8 ®0
H alibut......................................................... „ £3
Herring %  bbls............................................z  to
Herring,  Scaled...,............. -......................
Herring,  Holland.........................................
Mackerel, No. 1, % bbls............................... 5 50
Mackerel, No. 1.12 ft  k its.........................   90
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  %  bbls................ 4 00
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  kits.......................  65
Shad, Yt b b l..................................................3 5°
......... 4 25
Trout, No.  1, Vi  bbls.......................
.........   85
Trout, No. 1,12  ft kits....................
..........7 00
White, No. 1, Vi b b ls.......................
..........3 00
White, Family, Vt bbls....................
..........  90
White, No. 1,10 ft kits....................
..........1 05
White, No. 1,12 ft kits....................
flavoring extracts 

CANNED VEG ETA BLES.

cobdage. 

CHOCOLATE.

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PIPES*

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SOAP.

SAUCES.

SALERATUS.

2 40
~30
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£
1 55
80
3 20
80

Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,2% gross........  @1 86
American T. D.......................................   @  9®
Java  .................6%@6%
Good Carolina........6
P atna.......................6
Prime Carolina...... 6%
Rangoon.......... 5%@6%
Choice Carolina...... 7
Broken.....................324
Good Louisiana...... 5%
DeLand’s pure........514 ¡Dwight’s ....................614
Church’s  ................ 514 Sea  FoMa3L-i ..  .....6l4
Taylor’s G. M.........514 S., B. &L. s B est....5%
Cap Sheaf................5k |SALT.
60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................ 
28 Pocket.................................................  
100 3 ft pockets.......................................  
Saginaw F in e......................................... 
Diamond C.............................................. 
Standard Coarse.................................... 
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........ 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........  
American, dairy, 14 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................
@2  00 
Parisian, 14  pints..........................
@5 00 
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.
@3 00
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 14 pts.
Picadilftr, 14 pints................................   ©1 00
©  ¿5
Pepper Sauce, red  small............. * —  
Pepper Sauce, g reen ............................  @  90
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............  @1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 70
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @1 00
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ......................  © j 35
Horseradish,  14 pints............................  ©1 00
Horseradish, pints.................................  ©J 30
Capers, French surfines.......................  ©2 25
Capers, French surfines, large...........  
©3 50
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle..................  ©3 85
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle..................  @6 50
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Co. s—   @7 TO
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co.’s ........   @4 00
Olive Oil, 14 pints, Antonia & Co.’s—   @2 00
GelerySalt,  Durkee’s .........................  @  90
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, 14 pints.........................  @2 20
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large..........  ©4 8o
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, small........  @2 90
@4 85 
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne..........
@3 30 
©3 45 
@3 45 
@3 60 
@4 20 
@4 10 
© 534 
3 60 
3 30 
3 15 
*  3 30
3 15
4 85 

“  Cameo..............
“  Monday...........
“  Mascot............
“  Superior, 60 lft bars
Old Country, 80 bars, 80 fts.,  wrapped 
Old Country, 80 bars,80 fts.,unwrapped
Old Country, 801 ft bars.......................
Kirk’s American  Fam ily..................
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India........................................
do.  Savon.......................................
do.  Satinet......................................
do.  Revenue..................................
do.  White Russian.........................
6 75
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory.................
2 80
Japan  O live.........
3 60
Town Talk.............
4 10 
Golden Bar.............
3 35
Arab........................
3 60
Amber.....................
4 20 
Mottled  German..
@3 15 
Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................
@3 20
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........
Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well..........  @3 00
Badger............................................ 60 fts  @614
Galvanic „ .......- vr
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br
@  16 
Tip Top.......................................3ft bar
@6 75 
Ward’s White Lily.................................
@4 20 
Handkerchief.........................................
5 25
Babbitt’s ................................................
4 10
Dish R ag................................................
5 00 
Bluing......................................................
10
Magnetic.................................................  
*
4 50
New  French Process..
S p o o n ....,...................r....................... ;
5 00
Anti-Washboard................
3 25
Vaterland...............................................  
Magic....................................................... 
f 00
Pittsburgh. .. .. .. .. .. ..  —  ................... 
4 00
Acme, 70 lf t   bars........ ..........................  @ 6
Acme, 25 3 ft bars..................................   @ 6
Towel, 25 bars  .......................................   @f £5
Napkin, 25 bars........... ••••,...................   @5,4o
Best American, 601 ft blocks...............  ©
Palma60-1 ft blocks, p la in .................  @ 5%
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped...........   @3 oo
@4 85
Master, 100-% ft cakes
Stearine, 100  % ft cakes.......................   @4 85
Marseilles, white, 100 % ft  cakes........   @6 00
Cotton Oil, white, 100 % ft  cakes........  @6 00
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, wrapped...........   © 7
German  Mottled, wrapped........... .. 
@ 6%
Savon, República, 60 ft box.................  @ 5%
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks................  
© 514
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks.:------ 
@ 4%
London Family, 3-lb bars 801b.............   @3 80
London Family, 4-ft bars 80 1b.............   ©3 80
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.............. ‘—   @3 60
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................  @3 75
Climax, 100 cakes,  wrapped................   @3 05
kes. wrapped....................   @2 15
Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped 
@1 25 
Marseilles Castile. Toilet,3 doz in  box
@4 20
A 1  Floating, 60 cakes..........................  
_ 0  „
Matchless, 100  cakes..............................  @3 50

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SPIC E S.

Whole.

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STARCH.

@454
@4%
@6%
@6
@7
@ 6%

Muzzy Gloss 1 ft boxes

Pepper................ 16@25|Pepper.................   @19
Allspice ...............12@15 Allspice...............   8@10
Cinnamon........... 18@30 Cassia...................  @10
Cloves  .................15@25 Nutmegs  .............60@65
Ginger..........:.. .16@20 Cloves  ..................  @18
Mustard...............15@30
Cayenne.............25@35|
@ 6%
Kingsford’s, 1 ft pkgs.,  pure..................
3ftpkgs.,  pure...............
@654
1 ft pkgs., Silver Gloss—
@8
@854
6 ft pkgs., 
“  —
1 ft pkgs., Corn  Starch—
@8
(Bulk)  Ontario....................   @5
@6@52
3 ft boxes...
6 ft boxes............................  @654
bu lk......................................  @454
Corn, 20 ft......................................  @654
“  40  ft........................................  @654
5%
554
6%
5
6

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“ 
Gilbert’s Gloss l f t ............................... . • • 
“  3 ft cartoons...................... 
“ 
“ 
“  crates...............................  
“  bulk................................... 
“ 
“  Corn, l f t .......................................  
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box,  bulk....... 
“  Laundry, bbls, 186  fts............. 
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages............. 
“  Gloss,  36 3 sp  packages...........  
“  Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate—  
“  Corn, 401 ft  packages.............
Oswego  Gloss.........................................
Mirror  Gloss...........................................
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................
Piel’s Pearl..............................................
American Starch Co.’s
lf t   Gloss.................................................
10oz  Gloss.............................................
3ft  Gloss.................................................
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes.........................
Table Corn...................................... 40 ft
Table  Corn..................................... 20  ft
Banner, bulk...........................................
Cut  Loaf.................................................
Cubes........................................................
Powdered................................................
Granulated,  Standard..........................
Granulated, Fine  Grain.......................
Confectionery A ....................................
Standard A ..............................................
Extra C, White.......................................
Extra C....................................................
Fine  C......................................................
Yellow C................   ..............................
Dark  C....................... *............................
Corn,  Barrels.........................................
29 
Corn, 54 bbls............................................
@  32 
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................
@1 60 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................
@1 45 
Corn, 454 gallon kegs.............................
23@  35 
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl
30@  38 
Pure Sugar Drips.........................54 bbl
@1 96 
Pure Sugar  .Drips................ 5 gal kegs
@  85 
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............54 bbl
@1 85
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs
Japan ordinary.............................................22@25
Japan fair to good........................................30@35
Japan fine.......................................................40@50
Japan dust.....................................................J5@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
GunPowder............................... ............. ■ •-35@50
Oolong.....................................................33@55@60
Congo............................................................. 25@30

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@3%
@6
@7
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B E EF IN  BA RRELS.

LA RD IN   T IN   P A IL S .

P O R K   IN   BA RR ELS.

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

The Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

@36
Peeler, 5 cents........
@38
quote  as follows:
Big Nig.....................
isiwu
P ie ...........................................................  
Knights of  Labor...................................  @46
Heavy Mess, new  ......................................... 13 75
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...............................   @46
S. P. Booth’s,  clear....................................... 13 75
@37 
Black Bear...............................
Pig, clear, short  cut.....................................14 75
@46 
Extra Family Clear.......................................15 00>
King 
.......................................
@38 
Old Five Cent Times...............
Extra Clear Pig.............................................14 75
@62 
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft...............
Clear, A. Webster  packer........................... 15 50
@46
Standard Clear, the  best.............................16 50
Parrot  ............................. —  •
@38
.............. 
Extra Clear,  heavy.......................................15 75
Old Time
Tramway.................................................   @48
Boston Clear.................................................. 16 GO
Big Sevens, dime cuts..........................   @45
Clear Quill, short cut.».................................15 37
Black Diamond........................’.............  @35
DRY  SALT  MEATS— IN   BO XES.
Trotter, rum flavor...............................   @70
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
7
do. 
Half Cases.............. 
754
Boot  ........................................................  @44
B. F. P.’s Favorite.................................  @46
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
7
Old Kentucky.........................................  @46
Half Cases.......... 
7%
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Big Four,  2x12.......................................   @46
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
7
Big Four, 3x12.........................................  @46
7%
Half Cases  .............  
do. 
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12.....................   @46
754
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
Turkey, 16 oz., 2x12...............................   @46
medium.............................  
754
Blackbird. 16 oz.,  3x12..........................   @35
light.................................... 
754
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @46
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
8
Glory  ......................................................   @46
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
8%
Durham......................  
@48
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
8%
Silver Coin......................  
@50
8%
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Buster  [Dark]........................................  @36
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........ 
754
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @36
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases........  
7% *
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Bellies, extra quality, 200 ft cases........ 
8
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @46
Climax.....................................................  @46
7%
Tierces  ..................................................... 
Hold F ast................................................  @46
30 and 50 ft Tubs...................................... 
8
MeAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @46
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases.....................  
8
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.......... 
f ”
@51 
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................
8%
= 
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft racks..................... 
Nobby Twist...........................................
3 a> Pails, 20 in a case............................... 
@46 
8%
Nimrod....................................................
@46  5 ft Pails, 6 in a case.................................  
8%
Acorn._....................................................
854
io a> Pails, 6 in a case............................... 
¡»46 
Crescent.................................................
Black  X ...................................................
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
10%
Black  Bass............. ................................
11
- . „  Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
Spring......................................................
. 
light........  
@46 
11%
Crayling.......................... ......................
;=;t.  Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle............ 
754
Mackinaw...............................................
@45  Extra Clear Bacon...................................  
10
HorseShoe..............................................
@”   Dried Beef,  Extra...................................  
II
Hair Lifter..............................................
-  
D. and D., black......................................
@36  Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts.............10 50
MeAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................
@46  Extra Mess Chicago packing............................. 10 25
Ace  High, black....................................
- 
Sailors’  Solace.......................................
@46  Pork Sausage.....................................................  8%
Red Star, Rough and Ready, 2x12.......
@46  Ham  Sausage........:..........................................12
Red Star, Rough and Ready, 3x12.......
@46  Tongue  Sausage............................................  11
Red Star, flat, 3x12.......  ......................
@46  Frankfort  Sausage..........................................11 □
Red Star, black. 24 oz............................
@4»  Blood  Sausage...................................................   654
2c. less in four butt lots.
Bologna, ring...................................................  654
„  Bologna, straight..............................................   654
Long Tom—
Tramway, 3 oz..........40
...... 30 Bologna,  thick...................................................   654
National...................26
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35
Heaa  Cheese................................................... 654
Time.........................26
Boss  ...........................15
Conqueror................23
Peck’s Sun.................18
In half barrels.....................................................  3 50-
Grayling...................32
Miners and Puddlers.28
In quarter barrels..............................................   1 90
Seal Skin...................30
Morning Dew............26
In kits..............................................................
Rob Roy................... 26
Chain...........................22
Uncle  Sam................28
Seal of Grand Rapids 25
In quarter barrels.........................................  1 50
Lumberman.............25
K in g ...........................30
In kits.............................................  
80
Railroad Boy.............38
Flirt  ...........................28
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
Mountain Rose........ »18
P u g ............................ 30
press, and are good only for that date, subject 
Home Comfort..........25
Ten Penny  Durham.24 
to market fluctuations.
Old Rip....................55
Amber, 14 and lf t — 15
Two Nickle................25
John  Gilpin............... 18
Star Durham.............25
Lime Kiln Club........ 47
Durham No. 2........... 55
Blackwell’s Durham.90
Golden Flake Cabinet 40 
Vanity Fair............... 90
Seal of North Caro­
Dim e...........................25
lina, 2  oz................48
Seal of North Caro­
22
Standard...............
lina, 4oz................. 46
Old Tom................ ...21
Seal of North Caro­
Tom & Jerry........ ...24
lina, 8oz................. 41
Joker......................
Seal of North Caro­
Traveler................ .. .35
lina, 16 oz boxes__40
Maiden.................. ...25
Big Deal.................... 27
Topsy, paper........ ...27,
AppleJack................24
Topsy, cloth.......... ...30
King Bee, longcut*. .22 
Navy  Clippings... ...26
Milwaukee  Prize— 24
Boots..................... .. .iH)
Rattler......................28
25
Honey  Dew..........
Windsor cut plug__25
Gold Block........... ...30
Zero  .........................16
. ..25
Camp Fire............
Holland Mixed.........16
...19
Ororioko  .............
Golden Age.............. 75
Durham, 54 ft — ...60
Mail  Pouch..............25
do  % ft”__ ...57
Knights of Lator— 30
.. .55
do 
54  ft-.-.
Free Cob Pipe...........27
...51
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Honey Bee................27
...4(j
Pickwick Club...
Durham,  S., B. & L..24 
Nigger Head.......
Dime  Durham...25@26
...22
Holland...............
Old Tar......................10
...16
German...............
Golden Flake,cabinet40
Solid Comfort— .. ..31
Nigger Hair..............26
32
Red Clover..........
Mule Ear.................. 23|Acme........................16
Hiawatha.................22 Globe........... .............1*
Old Congress............ 23|
Pure Cider.........8@12 White Wine..........  8@12
Boraxine  ............................................  @3J®
1776 $ f t ...............................................  @1054
Gillett’s $  f t .......................................  
Jk-1*
Soapine pkg.........................................  7@10
Pearline $ box....................................   @4 50
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft papers...  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs  @4 25
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap  @4 25
Lavine, single boxes, 80 54 ft papers..  @4 15
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 54 ft paprs  @4 00
Twin Bros.........1 65  IWilsons............... 1 65
Magic................1 75  I National..............1 65
Bath Brick imported.......................... 
95
American........................... 
60
Barley.................................................. 
©3
Burners, No. 1 ......... ........................... 
J  to
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1 50
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand............  
8 00
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans............  15@25
Candles, Star.......................................   @1354
Candles,  Hotel.....................................  @14
Extract Coffee, V.  C...........................
Felix........................  
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.....................   @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.....................   @40
Gum, Spruce.......................................   30@35^
Hominy»  bbl....................................   @4 00
Peas, Green Bush................................  @135
Peas, Split prepared...........................   @ 3
Powder, Keg.......................................   @3 50
Powder,  54 Keg...................................  @1  33

,30@50
¡Fall pelts—  
.60@75
mer skins  pcel0@20|Winter  pelts 
. 
2-3
Fine washed <p ft 20@22IUnwashed...
. II 554
Coarse washed.. .16@18|Tallpw........
2@  10
Bear.............   @10 OOlMuskrat....... 
Fisher  ........ 4 00@  6 00 Otter............4 00@ 5 00
Fox, red.......  25@  1 00 Raccoon.......  
5@  80
Fox,  gray...  15@  85 Skunk  .........  15©  75
M artin........   25@  1 00 Beaver, ^ ft.l 00@  2 25
M ink...........  
10@ .  30

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Be^f, sides....................  
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................  7  @ 854
Dressed Hogs.........................................   6  @ 654
Mutton,  carcasses.................................  6  © 654
Veal..........................................................  954@10
Pork Sausage..........................................  8 @ 9
Bologna....................................................  9 @10
Chickens.................................................   @13
Turkeys  .......................... 
@14

New York Counts................................................33“
F. J. D. Selects  ...................................  
30
Selects............................*................................... 26
F .J. D....................................................................19
Standard  .............................................................18
Favorite................................................................ £7
Medium............................... ...............................
Prim e.................................................................-  14
New Fork  Counts................................................2 00
Selects, per gallon................................................1 65

Beeswax—Small demand at 30c.
Buckwheat—$4.50 $  bbl.
Beans—More demand and  market more  act­
ive.  Unpicked  command  75@90c, and choice 
picked find good shipping demand at $1.25.

Codfish............................J..............................9
Haddock.............................................. 
 
Smelts__ !......................................................... 10
Mackinaw Trout................................................8
Mackerel...............*.......................................... 12
whiteflsh  ........................................................... 9>

Green__ ft  6  @ 7  Calf skins, green
or cured__
Part cured...  754@ 8 
Full cured__   8  @ 8% Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 
$  piece__
.kips............  8  @12
Shearlings or Sum- 

5@  40|Deer,  ]j)ft... 
OYSTERS AND  FISH,

«Standards............................................... 1 00@119

Greening readily commanding $2.25$ bbl.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows: 

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS- 

for  choice,  Baldwins  and 

COUNTRY  PRODUCE,

FRESH  MEATS.

©Iff 
0^@50

Apples—Firm 

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

SH E E P PEL TS.

F R ESH   F IS H .

VIN EGA R.

OYSTERS.

6  @8

SHORTS.

YEAST.

H ID E S .

S K IN S .

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CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follow s:

 

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STIC K .
Straight, 25 ft  boxes.............................   9 @954
Twist, 
..............................  954@10
 
Cut Loaf 
@12
M IX ED .
Royal, 251b  pails................ .............’........ 10@1054
Royal, 200 ft bbls............................•%........9@ 954
Extra, 25 ft  pails.......................................
Extra, 200 ft bbls............................................. 1054
French Cream, 25 ft pails.............................. 13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases........................................ 13
Broken, 25  ft pails...............*..........................11%
Broken, 200 ft  bbls..........................................105>i
Lemon Drops.;.........................  ............. — 14
Sour Drops.......................................................15
Peppermint  Drops........................................15
Chocolate Drops.............................................16
H M Chocolate  Drops...................................*0
Gum  D rops........................................... 
 
Licorice Drops..................................................*0

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

FANCY—IN   BU LK .

Lozenges,  printed.......................................... 16
Imperials.........................................................15
M ottoes............................................................15
Cream  Bar....................................................... £4
Molasses Bar....................................................££
Hand Made Creams........................................ **
Plain  Cream.................................................... £°
Decorated Creams..........................................*3
String R ock................................................... £g
, Burnt Almonds..............................................
Wintergreen  Berries........ ............... .............1°
Lozenges, plain in  pails....................... 1354@14
Lozenges, plain in bbls.................................. 1*
Lozenges, printed in pails............................ l£54
Lozenges, printed in  bbls............................£3
Chocolate Drops, in pails.......................... . ..14
Gum  Drops  in pails................................. 754©»
Gum Drops, in bbls...................................654@7
Moss Drops, in pails........................................l£
Moss Drops, in bbls.........................................  954
Sour Drops, in  pails.......................................•£*
Imperials, in  pails........................................... £|
ImDerials  in bbls....................................  • • •  16
Oranges, Messina and  Palermo..........  ©3 00
Oranges, Valencia.................................6  00@6 7o
Lemons,  choice....................................* 50@a 50
Figs,  layers new,  $  ft..........................   © l*/4
Figs, baskets 4 0 ft^ ft..........................   @8
Dates, frails 
do  ............................  @  4
Dates, % do 
do  ............................  @ 6
Dates, skin..................................................  @ 
Dates, 54  skin........... ................................  @ 
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft....................  854@ 9
Dates, Fard 50 ft box f lft......................  @7
Dates, Persian 50 ft box l if t ....................  @ 654
PEA NU TS.
Prime  Red,  raw  ^   f t .........................
5© 5%
Choice 
do  ............................. 
Fancy 
do  ............................   5%@  5/4
Choice White, Vd.do  ............................ 
5@554
Fancy H P ,. Va  do  ...............:...........  754@8
Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft......................  17@18
Brazils, 
d o ........ . 
8@  °/4
Pecons, 
d o ................... 
9@£2
Filberts, Sicily 
d o ...................   @}4
Walnuts, Grenobles  d o .................  14@15

FR U IT S .

do 
do 

NUTS.

Butter—Somewhat  easier, on account of the 
warmer weather.  Dairy finds slow sale  at  16@ 
j  17c for  choice  rolls  and  15@16c  for good solid 
|, packed.  An  inferior  article  is  to  be  had in 
endless variety at from 8@12c.

Butterine—Solid  packed  creamery  com­
mands 22c,  while  dairy  is  quoted  at  14@15c 
for solid packed,  and 16@17c for rolls.

Beets—No shipping demand.
Clover  Seed—No  local  shipping  demand. 

Dealers quote choice stock at $5.

Cabbages—$5@$6 $  100.  Very little moving.
Celery—15@25c $  doz.
Cheese—Somewhat  firmer,  on  account  of 
decreased stocks,  Michigan full cream readily 
commands  I254@1354c,  while  skim find occas­
ional sale at from  954@10c.
£0
and  $15 for bell  and bugle.
Eggs—Stiffer  in  price,  on  account of Lent 
Fresh readily command 22c, and limed find oc­
casional sale at 17c.

Cider—12c $  gal. for common sweet.
Cranberries—Firm at $14 for bell and cherry, 

Hops—Brewers are paying 15c for best Mich­

igan, with few offerings.

ed.

Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at 12@14c. 
Hay—$9@$10 for new, and  $12@$13 for bail» 
Mince Meat—7c $  ft for home made.
Onions—$3 $  bbl. for yellow or red.
Pop Corn—3c $  ft for choice.
Potatoes—Somewhat firmer in  consequence 
of  considerable  shipments  being  made  to 
Southern  cities,purchases being  made  at 25@ 
30c.

Poultry—Fowls,  9®10c.  Chickens,  12@13c. 

Turkeys, 14c.

Squash—Slow sale at 54e $  ft.
Turnips—25c $  bu.
Timothy—No shipping demand,  and  dealers 
buy  only  for  prospective  wants,  holding  at 
$1.75 for choice.

G R A IN S  AND  M IL LIN G  PR O D U CTS. 

Wheat—2c lower.  Lancaster,  79;  Fulse,  75; 

Clawson, 76c.

f
*>

and 40@43c in carets.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 46c in 100 bu. lots 

lots.

Oats—White, *Sc in small lots and 30c  in car- 
Rye—52@54c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.10@$1.20 $   cwt. 
Flour—Unchanged. Fancy Patent,,$5.70$ bbl. 
in sacks  and  $5.95  in  wood.  Straight, $4.70 $  
bbl. in sacks and $4.95 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 $  cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $  ton.  Bran, $15 
$  ton.  Ships, $16 $  ton.  Middlings, $17 $  ton. 
Corn aad Oats, $23 $  ton.

 

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“ 

_
Lemon.  Vanilla. 
Jennings’ 2 oz............................V  doz.l 00 
1  40
4- OZ.....................................1 DU  e. DU
4 oz.
4 00 
..........2 50
6 oz............................
500 
........ 3 50
8 oz............................
1 50
........ 1 25
No. 2 Taper.............
3 00 
........ 1 75
.............
No.  4  “ 
7 50
........ 4 50
Vt pint  round..........
15 00
........9 00
1 
“ 
.........
4 2! 
........ 3 00
fío.  8.
No. 10...................................4 25
6  00

FRUITS

@7%
f,A7/
@854
@16

Apples, Michigan.................................
Apples, Dried, evap., bbls.................... 
Apples, Dried, evap., box.....................
Cherries, dried,  pitted..........................
Citron......................................................
Currants.................................................
13@14 
Peaches, dried  ......................................
@1 70 
Pineapples,  standards.........................
@554 
Prunes, Turkey, new............................
9%@10 
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes.................
@ 9% @12%
Raisins, Valencias.................. ..............
Raisins,  Ondaras..................................
Raisins,  Sultanas.................................   9
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels....................  @2 75
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @3^5
Raisins, Imperial Cabinets..................  @3 TO
Raisins, Dehesias..................................   @4 25
Water White........12% | Legal  Test..............1054
Grand Haven,  No.  9, square..............................2 15
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square.............................. 1 65
Grand Haven,  No. 200,  parlor...........................2 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor...........................3 7o
Grand Haven,  No.  7,  round..............................2 25
OshkoBh, No. 2.......................................................|  "J
Oshkosh, No.  8.......................................................1 X®
Swedish............................................................. „
Richardson’s No. 2  square................................. 2 70
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
Richardson’s No. 8  do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
do 
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 

............................ 2 70
..............................170
..............................
...........................J

KEROSENE  OIL.

MATCHES.

MOLASSES.

Black Strap.............................................14@£®@£®
PortO  RiCO..........t .........................................qaialo
New  Orleans,  good......................................
New Orleans, choice.....................................tg@ro
New Orleans,  fancy......................................

54 bbls. 3c extra.

OATMEAL.

Steel  cut 
............. 5 50|Quaker, 48 fts......... 2 25
Steel Cut, 54 bbls.. .3 00 Quaker, TO fts.........2 50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 50iQuaker bbls............6 50

PICKLES.

do 

Choice in barrels med..................................... 5 50
......................................“ 40
Choice in 54 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy................... 
Dingee’s pints 
....................- “ o m
American qt.  in Glass..................... ............. ~ ~x
American pt. in Glass........................................
C. & B. English  quarts...................................“
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkine,  qum^8--  5 75

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TOBACCO—F IN E  C U T - IN   P A IL S .

State  Seal.............. 60|Matchless.......................65
Brother Jonathan.. .32 Hiawatha...................6<
Diamond  Crown......58 G lobe...........................-0
May Flower............... 70
Rose Bud....................50
H ero...........................45
O.  K.........................,-45
Atlas...........................35
Our  Bird.................... 30
Royal Game............... 38
Peaches  .................... 38
Mule Ear.................... 65
Red  Bird.................... 52
Peek-a-Boo.............   32
Opera Queen..............40
Fountain......................74 j
Sweet Rose.................45
Old Congress..............G-t-
Green Back............... 38
Good Luck.................52
Fruit...........................33
Good and Sweet........45
O So Sweet.................31
Blaze Away............... 35
Prairie Flower...........65
Hair Lifter.................30
Climber......................62
Governor...................60
Indian Queen............60
Fox’s Choice............  63
Doak’s 50 center.......38
Medallion...................35
Huckelberry  ............30
Sweet Owen............... 66
Bull  Dog....................60
Old  Abe.................4 9
Crown Leaf............... 66

T r a d e s m a n  was designated the  official  or  . make a thorough test, they  satisfied  them-
j selves that there was sufficient  merit  to  in-
gan of the Association. 
The Committee on Exhibits  made the fol-1 duce each one of the Committee to  invest in
is a s5mple  way of com"
v,-  I paring the value of cows and testing the val-

To the officers and members of the Michi-1  ue Qt- Injjk f0r butter and  cheese.

lnwintr renort  which was accented * 
lowing report, w 
gan Dairymen’s Association:

The convention then  adjourned  sine  die.

1 thera-  We tbink 

P f 

Your Committee on Dairy Exhibits would 

report the following exhibits: 

j 

t iie  e x h ib it o r s.

J. Van Putten &  Co.,  Holland—Four ash j  The  personel  of  the  exhibitors  present 

butter tubs. 

was as follows:

Flint Cabinet Creamery  Co.,  Flint—Wil- j  R. p. Emerson,  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
son Cabinet Creamer; Wilson Barrel  Churn. | Acme Manufacturing Co., Kalamazoo.  S. J.
N.  S. Andrews,  Dubuque,  Iowa—Adams! Wilson, Flint Cabinet  Creamery  Co., Flint. 
Test  Chum; Harvey  Transportation  Can;  c .  B.  Lambert,  Michigan  Dairy  Salt  Co.,
East Saginaw.  N. S. Andrews, representing 
Harvey Milk Setter.
himself  and  Haney & Campbell,  Dubuque, 
Iowa.  E. W. Heth, Grand Rapids Manufac­
turing Co.,  Grand  Rapids.  Jacob Yan Put- 
ten, Jr., J. Yan Putten & Co., Holland.  W. 
S. Luther, Jas. McAdam,  Ossian,  Iowa.

W. S.  Luther,  Ossian,  Iowa—McAdams 

Michigan Dairy  Salt  Co., Saginaw—Sam­

Acme  Manufacturing  Co.,  Kalamazoo—

ples of fine dairy salt.

Butter Tub.

Acme Cabinet Creamer, large and small size, I 
Dairy Queen Churn. 

--------

special mention.

Chum; Davis Swing Chur; Butter Print. 

Grand Rapids  Manufacturing  Co.—O.  K. 

The Acme Manufacturing Co., of Kalama- 
I zoo, which was represented  at  the  conven-
The exhibits  are  such  that  your  Com-! tion  by  Mr. R. P. Emerson,  the  Secretary 
mittee cannot  give  any  preference,  but  on j  and Treasurer of  the  corporation,  made an 
the whole consider them far  superior to the j  exceptionally fine  showing—one  calculated 
old  system  of -making  butter  and  would j to inspire  confidence  in  their  goods.  The
Acme creamery was admired by every dairy­
commend the same to all butter makers. 
man  present,  and  several  placed  orders 
All of which is respectfully submitted.
A. E. J ohnson,
with  Mr.  Emerson.  In  an  informal  man­
J. W.  Borst, 
ner it was learned that 800  of  the  creamer­
L.|F. Cox.
ies  and  butter  coolers  are  already  in the 

Committee.

[Continued on 7th page]

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Parisian Sauce

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must* iLltin/jnu/m fjrncmily of 
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the ÇnepeJ«
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fcJ OP FttCNCH COOKlN®
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Foster,

Stevens 
&  Co.
Roller Skates, Skate Bags & Boies

H EA D Q U A RTERS  F O R

The New Era All Clamp Skate

—AND—

PAf0.JULY.3XI.

The  New  Era  Rink  Skate.
We  claim  the  NEW  ERA to  be the  moslj 
economical  roller  skate  in  the  world,  an<^ 
this  in  connection  with their  immense  pop1- 
ularity with those who have  used  t  cm,  com­
mend them to the attention of every rink own­
er  in  the  country.  Gur  Clamp  Skate is the 
only screw clamp made which  operates'all the 
clamps with one key at the same time.
The “VINEYARD” Skates are very popular, 
and we carry a full line of A. C., S. C. and C.

The Vineyard Roller All Clamp were  patent­
A  nice line  of SKATE  BAGS AND  BOXES) 

ed  July  13,  1880, and April 27,1881.
carried in stock.

*

ORGANIZED!

[Continued from 6th page] 

hands of practical dairymen, and  that up to 
the present time every  one  has given excel­
lent  satisfaction.  The  Dairy  Queen is the 
•only  churn  which  will  work  successfully 
with windmill power.  The goods have been, 
placed in the hands of Foster, Stevens & Co., 
who  will  carry  a full line of the creamers 
for butter making;

HOW  TO  JOIN  THE  ASSOCIATIOIN.

Article 3, of the constitution, provides that 
-“any  person  of  good  repute may become a 
member of this  Association  on  payment of 
the  required  fee,”  which  is  $1  per  year. 
This sum can be sent to either the President 
or Secretary, either of whom will  forward a 
receipt for the same.

POINTS GLEANED  AT THE  CONVENTION.
Charlotte will have a cheese  factory next 

summer.

Brooks & Smith expect to start their cream­

ery at Nashville about May. 1.

The combined stocks of cheese on hand in 
New York,  London and  Liverpool,  are  ex­
ceptionally large.

Geo. Dunwell is preparing to  operate  the 
idle factory at Wayland the  coming  season, 
which is undergoing repairs.

B. C. Nash,  who assisted Frank E. Pickett 
at the Coldspring factory, at  Hilliards,  last 
year, has re-engaged with  him  for  another 
season.

E. J. Savage has purchased the old cheese 
factory near Coopersville, and will use the in­
terior of the structure  and  the  clieese-mak 
ing apparatus in the  factory  he  is  building 
in  Coopersville.

Geo. Sinclair,  late of St. Charles,  111.,  lias 
purchased the cheese box factory of D.  Cun­
ningham  &  Co.,  at  Hudsonville,  and will 
continue the business,  making a specialty of 
cheese box  heading.

Chas. Cross, of Carson City, and  C.  Case, 
of Crystal,  attended  the  convention for the 
purpose of gaining  an  insight  into the busi­
ness, with a view to starting a factory about 
eight miles from Carson City.

“1  have  seen  a  considerable  number of 
herds  of  Holstein  cattle  in  Illinois,” said 
President Wiggins, after looking  over  Mar­
tin L. Sweet’s herd of 100,  “but I never  saw 
so fine a lot of cattle, taken  as  a  whole,  as 
Mr. Sweet’s.

W. H.  Howe, formerly a  cheese  operator 
in Canada, but for the past three years mak­
er at the Alexander Lobban factory, at Atlas, 
has leased the Capac  Cheese  Co.’s  factory, 
at Capac, and will make only the  best  qual 
ty of Cheddar  cheese.

In addition to the bills  introduced  in  the 
House of Representatives by Messrs. Seward 
Baker and C. Wellman, prohibiting the man­
ufacture and sale of butterine  and  oleomar­
garine, Mr. Samuel  W.  Smith,  of  Pontiac, 
has introduced a similar bill  in  the  Senate.
F. A. Rockfellow  and  Edward  C,  Cum­
mings, the former  a  general  merchant and 
the 
latter  a  banker  at  Carson City, who 
graced the convention  with  their  presence, 
have concluded to  erect  a cheese factory  at 
Carson  City  as  soon  as  the weather mod­
erates.

“I make it-a point to keep  a  dairy  scrap­
book,  said  Frank E.  Pickett, the Hilliards 
cheese maker, “and would recommend every 
dairyman to do the same.  I clip every  arti­
cle  which  meets  my  fancy relative to the 
care of  cows and butter and cheese making, 
and find that the  amount  of  valuable infor­
mation I glean  in  this  way more than com­
pensates  me  for  the  time  and  trouble  in­
volved.”

Creameries  in  Michigan.

The  following  is  a partial  list  of  the

creameries in this State. Those knowing of
other establishments of the kind, are respect­
fully invited to make the fact known, as it is 
desirable that a complete list  appear in  the 
forthcoming report of  the  Michigan  Dairy­
men’s Association.
Brooks &  Smith.....................................Nashville
L. F.  Cox................................................... Portage
J. O. Chapin &  Bro.....................................Lowell
F. Richmond.............................................Saranac
H. F. Buskirk............. '............................Bradley

Manufacturers of Dairy Appliances.
The following is believed to be a complete 
list of the manufacturers of dairy appliances 
in this State:
Buckeye Churn  Co.,  churns...................Dundee
Geo. Sinclair, cheese boxes........... Hudsonville
Delaware Co. Creamer  Co........Benton Harbor
Michigan Dairy Salt Co........................ Saginaw
J. Van Putten & Co., butter  tubs........Holland
Flint Cabinet Creamery  Co.........................Flint
Acme Manufacturing Co...................Kalamazoo
Under the heading, “His usual enterprise,” 
the  Grand  Rapids  Democrat  pays  The 
Tradesman  and  its  editor  the  following 
compliment: “The Michigan Tradesman,. 
Mr. E. A. Stowe, proprietor  and  editor,  ex­
hibited  its  usual  enterprise  this  week by 
coming out with a full report of the proceed­
ings of  the  State  Dairymen’s  Association. 
Mr. Stowe acted as Secretary of the meeting, 
and was largely instrumental  in  organizing 
the Association.  His energy and abilities in 
the  matter  have  been  appreciated,  and are 
warmly acknowledged by the Association.”

?  

W I L S O N ’S

Cabinet Creamery anâ Barrel Churn

AN D   ALL  D A IR Y   S U P P L IE S .

To  first  pur­
chaser  in  new 
locality,we will 
give  s p e c i a l  
terms.
The woman’s 
friend. It saves 
three-fou r t h s 
of the  labor  in 
b u t t e r - m a k ­
ing;  easily  op- 
;e rated;  you 
raise 
s w e e t  
cream  f r o m
s w e e t   milk;
you have sweet milk to feed which  trebles  its 
value.  Send  for  circular.  Agents  wanted. 
Address  FLINT  CABINET  CBEAMEBY 
CO.,  FLINT,  MICH.

■Win
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ROPES.

Sisal,14In.and  larger........................... 
Manilla............................................................  ‘*34
Steel and  Iron......................................di&  fO&lO
Try and Bevels............................... —  dis
Mitre  .................................................... dis 
20
SH EET IR O N .Com. Smooth.  Com.

SQUARES.

»

3 00
3 00
3 00
3 20
3 40
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14.................................. 20
Nos. 15 to  17.................................  4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................   4 20 
Nos .25 to 26..................................   4 40 
No  27 
...........................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $1  fi>............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   lb.....................  
No. 1,  Refined........................................... 
Market  Half-and-half............................ 
Strictly  Half-and-half............................ 

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O/s
^3 W
00
16

T IN N E R ’S SO LDER.

T IN   PLA TES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal..............................   ®
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal...............................  »
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal...............................  ° 50
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal..............................   » °o
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal..............................   ° «0
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal..............................   ° gJJ
IX, 
IXX, 
14x20, Charcoal..............................
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................  
50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  “  50
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal..............................   18 00
100 Plate Charcoal............................  6 50
DC, 
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  »50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal............................ 
«J
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........... - 
If 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to 6 75 

rates.

TR A PS.

.

 
 

W IR E .

dis  55&10

Steel, Game................................. ..............
Onaida Communtity,  Newhouse s. . .... .dis  rfo 
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton s—   w
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  "X
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s............................. • • • ••  60
Mouse,  choker................................... ii
Mouse,  delusion................................ $1 26 fi aoz
Bright Market....................................   d?8
Annealed Market.................................“is 
Coppered Market.................. 
Extra Bailing.................. 
dis
Tinned  Market.......................................... -d}8
Tinned  Broom...........................................     ®
Tinned Mattress............................... 
?&
Coppered Spring  Steel..................dis 40@40&lu
Tinned Spring Steel..................................
Plain Fence................................................ ^n>d/4
Barbed Fence.............................................  
.
Copper................................................new  J]8^nei
,   „
Bright.................................................... dis  70&10
Screw Eyes............................................ dis*  70&10
Hook’s ...................................................dis  70&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes.........................dis  70&10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled........... . .
Coe’s Genuine............. .'.................- • • - dis
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe’s Patent, malleable...................».dis

50&10
65
70

W IR E  GOODS. 

W l-ENCHES.

 

 

M ISCELLANEOU S.

Pumps,  Cistern...................................dis  60&20
Screws, new  list.................................. - - -. 
°0
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
Dampers, American.............................. 
3334

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co,  quote f. o. 

b. cars as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 134,134 and 2 inch.........................  46 00
35 00 
Selects, 1 inch..........................................
38 00 
Selects, 134.134 and 2  inch.....................
30 00 
Fine Common, 1 inch..............................
20 00 
Shop, 1 inch........................••;••••
32 00
Fine, Common, 134.D4 and 2 inch........
15 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  .
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.....................
17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.....................
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet...
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.....................
17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.....................
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet....
16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet.......................
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet..........................   17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet...  ..................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........   11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet........... .............  13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and lengths.........................8 00@ 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ..................... 
..  33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................   27 90
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet..........
15 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch................................  12 00
20 00 
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............
18 00 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ..................
14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................
9 00 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common—
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.....................
20  00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 ft............
10  00
_
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft. 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 common....  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
35 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..
26 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................
16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n 
14 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
3 30 
i X X X 18 In. Standard  Shingles.............
3 20 
1 X X X 18 in.  Thin......................................
2 80 
{ X X X 16 in................... ...........................-
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............
2  00
1 60
No. 2or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................. 
2 00
Lath  ............................................................. 

12  00 

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

Patchin & Abbott quote car lots as follows.

White Ash, Log-run, dry............................$13 00
Black Ash,  Log-run,  dry............*■.............. 12 00
Maple, Log-run, dry..,....................................13 00
Maple, Nos. land 2, dry, clear.......................18 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2, clear,  flooring.............23 00
Maple, Surface, dry, clear, flooring.............30 00
Red Oak, Log-run, dry....................................17 00
Red Oak, No. 1 and 2, dry, clear........   — 23 00
Red Oak, No. 1 and 2, clear, flooring........... 23 06
Red Oak, surface, dry, clear,  flooring........30 00
Red Oak, No. 1, dry, clear, step  plank........25 00
Birch,  log-run,  dry........................................ 22 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2,  dry,  clear.....................30 00
Basswood, log-run...................  
12 00
Cherry,  log-run.............................................. 25 00
Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2, dry, clear.....................55 00
Cherry, cull,  dry..............................................15 00
Water Elm. log-run, dry................................ 10 00
California Redwood, No. L dry, clear......... 60 00
California Redwood, shingles, day, clear 

one  bunch  covers,  26  sq.  ft. 
laid 5 in. to the  weather........... bu  95

 

SHIPPING  BASKETS  AND  BOXES

MANUFACTURED  AT

•TOE MICHIGAN BASKET,.FACTORY QFil 
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A . W .   W E L L S  

at  co Ji

ST JOSEPH, MICH.

I .  SCNP' FOR' ILLUSTRATED  PRICE.m

6. ROYS &  CO

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Prevailing  rates at Chicago  are as follows: 

 

 

 

 

t

CA PS.

BE LLS.

BO LTS.

COMBS.

BRACES.

C H IS ELS.

BUCKETS.

BALANCES.

BA RROW S. 

CA TRIDG ES.

BUTTS,  CAST.

............................ 

AUGERS AND B IT S .
Ives’, old  style..........................................d*8
N.H .C. Co................................    
59
Douglass’ .......................... ...., ..............dis 
60
Pierces'...................................................d is 
60
dis 
Snell’s 
60
Cook’s 
dis40&10
Jennings’, genuine..................... 
j1.8 
Jennings’, imitation................................dis4U«iu
Spring.........................................................dis 
25
«  !q   nn
Railroad.......................................................$
Garden.......................................................net
Hand.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
Oow  .......................................................dis 
fio
Call............................................................ dis 
15
20
Gong.........................................................dis 
Door, Sargent..........................................dis 
55
Stove......................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage new  list...................................dis 
75
Plow  .......................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe............................................dis
50
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................. dis
55
Wrought Barrel Bolts......................... dis
50
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.................... dis
55
Cast Square Spring.............................. dis
60
Cast  Chain.............................................dis
55&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis
55&10
Wrought Square..................................dis
30
Wrought Sunk Flush.......................... dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’ Door............................................. dis  50&10
40
Barber...................................................dis$ 
Backus................ '.................................dis 
50
Spofford.................................................dis 
50
Am. Ball................................................dis 
net
Well, plain...................................................$  4 00
Well,swivel.................................... 
4 50
Cast Loose Pin, figured......................dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........dis  60&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
Wrouuiit Loose  Pin........................... dis 
60
Wrought  Loose Pin, acorn tip.......... dis 
60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned..........dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
60& 5
tipped................................................dis 
W rought Table........ ............................ dis 
60
60
Wrought Inside  Blind........................dis 
Wrought Brass.................................... dis 
65&10
Blind. Clark’s....................................... dis 
70&10
Blind, Parker’s.................................... dis 
70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s................................. dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3__ per gross  18 00
Ely’s 1-10...............................................per  m $65
60
Hick’s C. F ............................................  
G. D........................................................ 
35
Musket.................................................. 
60
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list 
50
Rim Fire, United  States........................dis 
50
Central Fire............................................. dis  %
70
Socket Firmer....................................    dis 
Socket Framing......................................dis 
70
Socket Corner......................................... dis 
70
Socket Slicks...........................................dis 
70
Butchers’Tanged Firmer................. dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers...................dis 
20
Cold.......;.  . . .........................................net
Curry, Lawrence’6.............................. dis 
Hotchkiss  ............................................ dis 
Brass,  Racking’s........................................  40&J0
Bibb’s .........................................................   49&10
B eer.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.......................................................... 
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $fi>  34
14x52,14x56,14 x60 .........................................  37
35
Morse’s Bit  Stock..................................dis 
Taper and Straight Shank..........: 
20>
dis 
Morse’s Taper  So5nk.............................dis 
30
Com. 4 piece, 6  in........................... doz net $1 00
Corrugated..............................................dis  20&10
Adjustable.............................................. dis  )6&10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.  dis 
20
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00;  3, $30 00.  dis 
25
American File Association  List........ dis  50&1Q
Disston’s ........................ 
dis  50&10
New  American........... ..........................dis  50&10
Nicholson’s............................................. dis  50&10
Heller’s ...................................................dis 
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps............................dis 
33%
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
12 
List 
15 18
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis
Maydole & Co.’s ....................................dis
Kip’s .......................................................dis
Yerkes&  Plumb’s ................................dis
30 c list 40 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel....................
.30 c 40&10
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction.......................dis 
60
Kidder, wood  tra.k...............................dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3...............................dis 
60
State............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
and  longer..............................................  
3%
1014
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ...................net 
814
Screw Hook and Eye %.......................net 
Screw Hook and Eye  %...................... net 
714
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................net 
714
Strap and  T........................................... dis  60&10
Stamped Tin Ware....................................   60&10
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................   20&10
Granite Iron  Ware................................... 
25
Grub  1................................................ $11 00, dis 40
Grub  2................................................  11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........$2 70, dis 76
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings__   3 50, dis 70
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings........................................ list,10  15, dis 70
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list,1155, dis
70
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s....................d 
40
Hcmacite............................................... dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list...... dis  70
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s............—..........dis  70
Branford’s .....................................................dis  70
Norwalk’s.......................................................dis  70
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  65
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................dis  40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malléables dis 
40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s ................dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise........................................dis  25
Adze  Eye......................................$16 00dis40&10
Hunt Eye......................................$15 00dis40&10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
14 

13 
GAUGES.

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

HO LLO W   W ARE.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

HAMMERS.

HANGERS.

33)4
25

ELBOW S.

C O PPER .

H IN G ES.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

D R IL LS

COCKS.

M ILLS.

F IL E S .

HO ES.

50

. 

N A ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

2 

2% 

MAULS.

lOdto  60d....:....................................$  k eg$2 30
8d and 9 d adv...............................................  
25
6d and 7d  adv..........  ................................... 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance.....................................................  1  50
3d fine advance........................................... 
3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  1  75
I  lOd /  8d  6d  4d
Finishing 
Size—inches  |  3 
134
$1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES OATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  .......................j.............dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine....................................... dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring.......................dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled................   dis  50
Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent........................ dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom............................. dis  50
Brass or  Copper.......................................... dis  40
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................  
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................ dls  15
SciotaBqnch.................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy...................... dis  15
Bench, first quality.....................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood and 
Fry, Acme................................................ dis 
50
Common, polished................................... dis60&10
Dripping................................................$   ®>  6@7
Iron and Tinned.................................. dis 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.....................dis  50&J0
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 1034 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PA TEN T  FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

PLA N ES.

O IL E R S .

R IV E T S.

PA N S.

9

Broken packs 34c $  B> extra.

R O O FIN G  PLA TES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................6 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7  75
IC. 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne.................12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Tem e...............16 90

Cheese Factories In  Michigan.

The following is a list of the cheese factor­
ies in this State, so far as known.  Those cog­
nizant of other factories, or of any  errors in 
the present list, are requested  to  notify  the 
Secretary of  the  Michigan  Dairymen’s  As­
sociation, as it is desirable  that  a  complete 
list bepublished in  the  forthcoming  report 
of the Association:
Clark, Baker & Co....................................  Adrian
G. B.  Horton...............................................Adrian
---- Gibson..................................................Allegan
Alexander Lobban (Davison).....................Atlas
A. P. Foltz (Richfield)...................................Atlas
Theobald  Rottaeh............................ Anchorville
J. B.  Tornay...................................... Anchorville
Hiram  Barrows........................................Armada
Leopold Mayer......................................... Athlone
E. F.  Preston..........................................Bismarck
Warren Haven & Co......................Bloom ingdale
Frank Wilmot (East).................Bloomingdale
G. D. Scofield  (South)..............   .Bloomingdale
-----Henderson..................................... .Brockway
Martin Wait &  Sons...................................Butler
W. H. Howe..................................................Capac
B. P. Dean...................................... Cedar Springs
E.  J. Savage...................................... Coopersville
J. H.  Murdaugh.................................'u-.Croswell
J. T.  Henderson.....................................Croswell
James Skinner (Star)................ Davison Station
Jacob Beller.............................................. Detroit
Regenmorter & Demstra....................... Drenthe
Albert W ilkinson...................................... Du ndee
Allen Miller.............................................. Eckford
Durfee & Flinn................................................Elm
Davis  Wildy.....................................................Elm
Wildy & Keaton............................................   Elm
M. S.  Doyle.....................................................Elsie
W. H. Smith (Old  Fairfield)...................Fairfield
B. E. Peebles (Peebles)...........................Fairfield
Rufus Baker.............................................Fairfield
Theodore Rottaeh.............................Fair Haven
Wm.  Allen......................................... Farmington
Calvin  Lapham................................. Farmington
Samuel  Locke  .................................Farmington
Arth ur Power...................................Farmington
Asa  Smith......................................... Farmington
Daniel Richards (Burton)...................... 
Flint
H.  Goliver................................................ Fostoria,
L.  Hubbenger...............................Frankenmuth
Otto Herder (Original  Fairfield)__ Fruitridge
James  Webb......................................... Goodsells
Frank E. Pickett (Coldspring)..............Hilliards
S. M. Eggleston  (Springdale)............... Hilliards
K. B. Edgell (Springbrook)__ Hopkins Station
John Elliott........*.......................................... Iosco
Jas. A. Dunbar (Dunbar)...........................Jasper
B. Davis & Co. (Amboy)__ / .....................Jasper
L. A. Beldon.............................................. Judge’s Corners
J. Joslin.......................................................Livonia
L.  Joslin.....................................................Livonia-
Samuel  Wygeyr..........................................Lowell
Lynn Cheese M’f’g Axs’n..................... 
Lynn
Frank White..........tfi.................................Mason
A. J. Colvin (Medina))..............................Medina
P. S. Lee.....................................................Morenci
Henry Pelgrim............................. New  Holland
Walter  Board well........................................Olivet
J. S. Griswold...................................Parshallville
W. A. Smith... .*..........................................Plank Road
John Varsen.................................................Plank Road
Raisin Union Cheese  Co.............Raisin Center
Cheese and Butter Ass’n............... Rawsonville
Fuller &  Gleason................................. Richmond
Peter Blake................................................... River Bend
Wells, Stone &  Co...................................Saginaw
G. W.  Ward......................................St. Charles
J. Q. Walling.................................................... Salt River
Davis & Brown.............................................South Fairfield
A. E.  Johnson..............................Sparta Center
Stryker &  Dugan......................................... Stark
Geo. Ward...........................................       -Tyner
H. W. Dikeman..............................Vermontville
JohnBorst (Fa'rview).........................Vriesland
I. B.  Smith..............................................Wayland
Geo.  Dunwell......................................... Wayland
Leighton Cheese Association............... Wayland
...Winfield
L. S. Cobb..'.
__ Weston.
M. C. Haywood &  Co..................
... .Weston
P. C. Ostrander  (Nile)................
__ Weston
F. B. Gurden (Riverside)...........
..i. Weston
Geo. Delano (Raisin  Union)__
..........Y ork
Davenport &  McIntyre.............
__ Zeeland
Richard Redhead (Amber)........
.. .Zutphen
S. H. Oatman (Clover Hill)........
Idle factories at  Saranac  (Rathbun),  Salt 

River, Rfeese, Mt. Moms  (Vienna).

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each 
additional word.  Advance payment.
I^OR  SALE—Cheap for  cash,  a  small  stock 
*  of  drugs  and  medicines  in  suburbs  of 
Apply to H. B. Fairchild, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.
76tf
City.

W ANTED—A  situation  as  traveling  sales­

man or clerk in a jobbing establishment. 
Have  had  eight  years’  experience  in  retail 
trade, and can give good references.  Address. 
“M,” care “The  Tradesman.” 

WANTED—An old, experienced  butter  and 

cheese-maker,  who  can  furnish  unex­
ceptionable references as to  ability  and  char­
acter,  desires  a  permanent  situation  in  a 
creamery or factory in this  State.  Address  L, 
care T h e  Tradesman.

81*

WANTED—A  situation  as  traveling  sales­

man for a grocery house.  Have  had  15 
years’  experience  in  the  grocery  business. 
Would prefer the route of the G. R. &  I.  R.  R. 
north.  Best of references given.  Enquire  at 
T h e T radesman  office.
W ANTED—Steady  situation  by  an Ameri­
can  38  years  of  age,  who is a practical 
mechanical  draftsman  and  pattern  maker. 
The best of references as to ability and charac­
ter.  Correspondence solicited.  Address  T. W. 
Beal, Box 566, Sandwich. 111.
IX)R  SALE—Our stock of  groceries  and  flx- 
tures—the best location in the State..  We 
' 
out of business, and will  offer some
one a bargain.  For particulars,  address John 
jiver  for  Lovejoy  &  Herrick,
R.  Snyder,  reeei 
75tf
Big Rapids, Mich.
iX)R  SALE—A well-established business hav- 
ing a cash trade and a fine assorted  stock 
' 
of groceries, for sale cheap.  Place of business 
well  located on  South  Division street,  Grand 
Rapids.  In connection with the stock, the  ad­
vertiser has horses,  delivery  wagons,  sleighs, 
harnesses  and  everything  in  good  shape to 
continue the business.  Object of sale is,  poor 
health.  Anyone looking for a first class  loca­
tion  can  do  no  better,  as  the stock must be 
closed out.  For further information, apply to 
"Grocer,” care of “The Tradesman.” 

75tf

FOR  SALE—A  nice,  clean  stock  of  drugs 

and  stationery.  No  old  stock.  Will  in­
ventory  less  than  $2,000.  Doing  a nice busi­
ness.  Owner has other business  to attend  to. 
Inquire of The Tradesman. 

________73tf

F e r m e n t u i n .

The  Only  Reliable  COMPRESSED  YEAST. 
Grocerymen  and  bakers  wishing  to  add  a 
good-paying  article  to  their  stock  would  do 
well to send for samoles and prices, which will 
he furnished free.  Directions  for  using with 
each package.

P.  SPITZ, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Is our Agent in Grand Rapids 

for our Famous

Galvanic  Soap

THE  BEST

EASY  WASHER

MANUFACTURED.

MILWAUKEE.

G. S. YALE & BRO.,
M O «   EXTBiCTS!

—Manufacturers  ot —

BAKING  POWDERS,’ 

.  ’

BLUINOS,  ETC.,

Skate Bags for ail clamp Skates.

40  and  42  South  Division, St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

- 

MICH

■Ip

Skate Boxes for all clamp Skates.

We solicit inquiries,  and  should  be  glad to 
quote prices to dealers and rink managers.
FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  00.

If in Need of Anything in  our  Line,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

PA T E N T E E S  AND  SO LE  M AN UFA CTU RERS  OF

BED’

Barlow’s Patent

U H   S i i l i
Barlow  Brothers,

Send for Samples and Circular.

GRAND  RAPIDS

MICH.

*AKfilG
POWDER

This  Baking  Powder makes the  WHITEST. 
LIGHTEST and most  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits, 
Cakes, Bread, etc.  TRY  IT  and be convinced. 
Prepared only by the
Arctic  Manufacturing  Co.,

GRAND  RABIDS,  MICH.

l1885

Good Words Unsolicited. 
J.  A.  Slater, general  dealer,  Dash: 

the paper very  much.”

•I  like

Rose Leaf, Fine Cut,
Navy Clippings 
and Snuffs

Í^TRYlJIÍi»

A cigar maker from Key  West  writes  as 
follows:  “There  are  ninety-niue  factories 
here, employing thousands of  cigar  makers. 
Every person you meet on the street is  a  ci­
gar maker.  They do not pay as good a price 
here as they do in the North.  In  the  shop 
where I am working, they pay for a five-inch 
Sumatra wrapper and seed filler, handwork, 
$11 perM, which is not as good astheWest- 
erfi price.  There are  hardly  any  strangers 
here, except Cabans.  Board is $6 per week.
England imports nearly $25,000,000 worth 
of cheese a year.'The average price paid for 
the imported article is a little less than elev­
en cents per pound.  Canada sends a higher 
priced article than  the  United  States,  and 
the largest amount of  any  one  country  in 
comparison with  previous  years.  The  in­
crease from  the  United  States  has  been 
slight, and the  product of  Holland  cannot 
compete with American cheese.

A grocer said in  an  advertisement:  “My 
deceased bookkeeper is dead, and I want an­
other to fill his place.”  There was not much 
of a rush for the  situation. 

•

From  present  indications  there will be a 
increase  in  building  enterprises  all 

great 
over the country in the coming year.

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

DUNHAM’S

NEW  GOODS.  New 
Prices down to the whale­
bone.  Goods always sale­
able, and always reliable. 
Buy close and often.
ORDERS P R 0IP W F 1L ®

THE  BEST  IN   THE  WORLD!

PRICE 50 CENTS.

WBBTBBH  MEDICHE  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A   Solem n  D isqu isition  on  the  D eclin e  o f 

SOLIMAN SNOOKS.

R eligio u s Interest.

Cant Hook Corners, Feb. 25,  1885. 

Mister Editer of Traidsman:

Dear  Sir—Notwithstandfn 

the  awful 
roads we have  been  havin  with  snow  so 
deep that one team  cant  pass  another, we 
have been enjoyin a revival  at  the Comers. 
We have had a noted minister  from  Massa­
chusetts laborin hear to weeks.  He is called 
the  Kev. Mr. Ropemin,  the  Boy Preacher. 
He  is not so  terrible  young  as  you  mite 
think.  He got that name about 45 years ago 
when he began to labor in  the  Lord’s vine­
yard and it has hung to him ever sence.  We 
have had quite a refreshin season and  quite 
a number of converts have been made.  But 
still, as I was  tellin  Sister  Spriggs  tother 
night, .as I was taking her home,  it seems as 
if something was a missen from  the  Word, 
sence the old times we used  to  have.  She, 
the widder, said:

“I think so too, Bro. Snooks.  Just  think 
of the time we had the winter  them  Briggs 
gals went forrard and the two  Mania  boys 
got converted and over 40  jined the fold.”
' “Well, I shood  remark, 1 gess  I  do  re­
member it; what a snorter  of  a meetin  that 
was, Sister Spriggs.  That is  the  time  old 
Ben Jones  cum  out  and  jined  and  quit 
drinkin tor more than a month, you  remem­
ber.”

“Yes, twas that winter I do beleve.  Yes,
I kno  twas,  now, becoss I remember I  was 
married the  next  spring.  What a  strange 
thing it is, Bro. Snooks, mat we  shood meet 
way up here  in  Michigan  after  all  these 
years, haint it?”

“It is funny, for a fact.  I  never  had  no 
more idear of seein you up in ’these  woods 
than nothin.”

“So with me, I little  thot  when I used to 
see you holdin forth at the  debatin  society, 
back  thar  in old  lnjianna,  that  the  time 
wood ever cum when that same good  lookin 
feller  wood—Lookout! Soliman! You must 
be more careful, you must, really, we almost 
tipped over in that big snow drift then.  Let 
me drive a while.  Now  Soliman, do  stop, 
what if we shood meet somone.”

“Now, really, Medda, did you  think  that 
I was—but no! it cant be, Oh!  you  dear lit­
tle woman.  1 remember  of  thinkin what a 
pretty red cheeked gal  you  was, the  night 
we had that dance at  old  Jake  Stubbinses 
log tavern.  Do you remember that  night?” 
“Well I shood  remark that 1 did, why, it 
seems only last week to me.  That  was the 
dance whar that Sam  Hooper  got  choaked 
on a chunk of dried beef at supper.”

“Yes, and  whar  Bill  Brackett  had  his 
pants burned  most off of  him, by  the  big 
lire in the old  Dutch  fire  place,  while  we 
was  dancin  the  Money  Musk.  Ha!  ha! 
ha!”

“No, we was dancin the Yirgina  real that 
time, becoss I remember I was  dancin  with 
Tommy Moony and he catched his heal on a 
nail in the floor and  fell  flat as a  pancake 
when he went to do-see-do.”

“My! what  times  we  used to have, did- 
dent we? and I tell  you  what, the  preachin 
‘ in them days  had  more  bizness  in it in a 
minnet, than a hull  sermon  does  now.  Do 
you  remember  how  Old Parson  Slammer 
used to pound the pulpit and  bang  out  fire 
and brimstone, Hell and Damnation?  My 
sakes alive! how the  sinners  back  thar by 
the water pail, used to shake in their  shoes 
and tremble at his discriptions.”

“I shood say so, for I cum  out  from  the 
World and the Flesh  under  his  preachin. 
The sermons now are too  genteel  and  are 
smothed over so to  not  oifend  the  welthy 
sinner.”

“Right you  are, Sister  Spriggs, right  you 
are to be sure.  The old Devil has  had  his 
horns knocked off, his forked tail tucked up 
under his broad cloth coat, his  cloven  hoof 
concealed in a neat  boot, and  in  fact, he is 
gettin to be such a respectible old  chap that 
the sinners dont care a copper for him.” 

“Yes, and I tell you Bro. Snooks, that the 
bad  place  aint  what  it used  to  be.  The 
change makes me  sad  and  forlorn.  What 
has become of the good old never  dyin fires 
of Hell, whar the worm dyeth  not  and the 
wicked wail and nash ther  teeth  threw  all 
etamity?” 

*

“Yes, and then  another  thing I notice  a 
great  change in.  Where  Hell  used to be 
hotter, yea, ten times hotter  than a furnace, 
they have now  got it toned  down  so  it is 
just nice and  comfortable,  speshaly  durin 
such cold weather as we are  havin  now. 
I 
tell you, widder,  if this thing  keeps on, this 
departin from the  old  landmarks, inside of 
ten year they will have  Hadees  turned into 
a skatin park.”

“1 fear  so, really,  Bro.  Snooks, I do  in­
deed.  Then look at the way they liaye took 
to preachin late years about the  character of 
the Allmighty.  Instead of the  Bible  God, 
such as good old  Parson  Slammer  used to 
preach, they have got up a new one of  their 
own, that is  not  a  wrathfull,  jealous,  fiery 
God as of old, that visits the iniquity of  the 
fathers upon the children even to the fourth 
generatioifland  ‘burned  in  his  wrath’  to­
wards the wicked.”

“Thats so, sister.  It  just makes me sick, 
when I he^em  going  on,  about God  being 
so kind, lovin, gentle and mercifull  and  all 
that  Why, any one with half  an  eye  can 
see' that aint no way to fetch sinners  to  the 
ank8hus seat and then it aint  Bible teachin, 
no how.  We shood fear  God, and  how can 
a sinner be made to fear such a Bein as they 
preach now?”

“Its a fact; why, you wood hardly believe 
it, Soliman; but  when I was  over to Mount

Pleasant last month, I attended the  Baptist 
cliurch and the minister  said in  his sermon, 
that he had no doubt but that God  in his in­
finite  mercy, might  save,  once 
in a  great 
while, a Catholic, or  even a  Seven Day Adr 
ventist.  Did you ever?”

“No, lie be dumsquiddled if I ever did. I 
shood have smiled to  have  seen a  minister 
admit such a damnable  doctrin  as  that  25 
year ago.  Why them Advents have got Hell 
down so it aint 20 minnits 
long, and  as for 
heat, well 1 don’t kno, but seems to me they 
have got it about like wheat  stubble burnin, 
which you kno haint so allfired hot but what 
a feller cood stand it even longer.”

“Oh li ti s   just awful!  Why  they might 
as well be Infiddles and done with it.  What 
is the use of bearin  your  cross to be saved, 
if there  haint  nothin  to  be  saved  from? 
Wont you come in, Bro. Soliman?”

“Well, bein as this  conversation is so sor­
ter interestin, I  gess  I  will.  So  lie  jest 
hitch the hoss under that shed  and give him 
a triffle o’  hay and bide a bit.”

“Now, Sister Medda,” sais I, after we was 
seated nicely before  the  fire, with a pan of 
red apples, a pitcher  of  cider, a mince  pie 
and a pan  of  fride  cakes  on the  table be­
tween us, “as you was a remarkin just afore 
we cum in, they  mite  as  well be Infiddles, 
as to cut and change about the Word of God 
to suit each  new  fangled  sect  that  starts 
up?”

“Lands Alive! it makes me feel  like  get­
tin up and preachin myself, when I see such 
goins on.  First one thing goes and then an­
other.  They have accomodatingly stretched 
out the six good old  days of  creation to six 
million years and I presume they will stretch 
to six hundred  million,  if some of them Ge- 
ologer fellers  asks it.”

“I presume so, and they have got the flood 
cut down to a mud puddle  and  Noahs  ark 
to a canal boat, with a few  pigs  and  other 
domestic fowls in it.”

“Yes, and Joshua  diddent  command  the 
sun and moon to stand still the  greater part 
of a day.  Oh!  no; he  just  simply  got  it 
retracted, whatever that means, as I heard a 
Methodist minister  preach a while  ago.  1 
tell you, Bro. Snooks, I am sick of  such rot.
I say, let us  stand up squar to  the  truth of 
Sciipter and not yield  a peg.”

“Thats whats  the  matter, widder, I  say 
the  same.  Its no*  use to  give  in to  them 
scientific chaps a mite, for  if  you  give  an 
inch, they want a thousand mile right off.  I 
think the church made a mistake when they 
give up years ago to that  old  Coperny  cuss 
and admited the  world  was  round.  That 
opened the door to all these  other  new fan­
gled notions.”

“Very true, but I  suppose  as a matter of 
fact the world is  sorter  round, so they had 
to do that.” 

i

“Well,  well, I doiit kno what we are com 
in to, Ime sure.  Them are  mighty nice ap­
ples widder.  Raised em yourself, hay?  How 
did you keep this cider so nice?”

“Why, I put half  a  pound  of  that  sally 
cetic acid into the barl, dont you  remember,
1 bought it of you last fall.”

“Good skeme.  Well I must be goiu.  Say 

sposin I call for you Sunday agin?”

“All right, I shall be pleased to tend after 
noon and evenin meetin at the Corners, good 
bye—now Solim an! ain’t you ashamed? Ac 
tin so, you are  as  bad as a  young  feller of 
twenty.  Bye, bye.”

“Just between you and me,  Bro.  Stowe, 1 
always feel best when I am  a  little  asham 
ed,  and I had  a  mighty  refreshin  evenin 
with the dear widder.  Now, in my opinion 
widders  kno so well  how to make a  feller 
happy.  They kno mens  failins  and  weak 
spots, and they realize  the  sollem fact that 
an empty man is no good on earth.  So they 
proceed to fill him up to once.  Part  of  our 
little conversation  I  dont  report, as it does 
not consarn the publick very overly tnuch.

As I drove homeward  over  the  sparklin 
snow,  I gazed into the blue vault of Heaven 
at the untold  millions of stars  whirlin  on 
ther orbits threw  space,  and I thot to  my 
self, what a Mistery art Thou, oh! Maker of 
the Universe;  that Thou shoodst  find  time 
amidst-Thy  great  employment,  of  runnin 
and guidin this vast  concorse  of  suns and 
worlds, to come down to the earth long enuff 
to tell the Hebrews how  to  make bread and 
to  attend the revival at Cant Hook Corners 
With thoughts  thus  uplifted  above  the 
cares of this earth, I wended my  way threw 
tne straight and narrow road, amid the piled 
up snow drifts.

Yours Splemly,

Soliman Snooks,

G. D., P. M. and J. P.

To merchants having marble counter  tops 
the following recipe for cleaning may  prove 
of interest:  Wipe off the dust with a  piece 
of chamois, then  apply  with a brush a good 
coat of gum arqbic, of  about the consistency 
of  thick  mucilage,  expose 
it  to the sun or 
wind  to  dry. 
In  a  short  time  it will peel 
off;  if all the gum should not peel off  wash 
it with clean water and a  dry  cloth. 
If the 
first  application  does  not  have  the desired 
effect, it should be tried again.

The 

latest  application  of  wood  is as a 
dressing for wounds in  the form  of  what is 
termed “wood wool.”  It 
is  jinely  ground 
wood, such as is used in the  manufacture of 
paper.  It is a delicate-fibered, soft,  yellow­
ish white substance, capable of absorbing an 
immense quantity of liquid.

A Wisconsin  lumberman  has  invented  a 
sled  witfi  hollow  shoes  that  will make ice 
roads.  Steam  and  hot  water  are  forced 
through perforations In the shoes so that the 
snow  may  be  softened,  packed  and frozen 
into gutters that will bear the runners of the 
heavy logging sleighs.

You  can  do  more  ADVERTISING  FOR  THE 
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The Chart is 2 feet wide  by  3  feet  high, made of 
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The letters  are  2  in.  in  height,  kept in  a  strong, 
neat  box  containing  labeled  apartments for each 
letter.  Each box contains over 300  letters,  figures 
and characters.
Price of Chart and box of Letters Complete $2.50, 
or I will send it by Express Prepaid to all Points in 
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