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“  GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  15,  1885. 

NO. 82.

ADDRESS

MAHOGANY i
HENRY  OTIS.
W. N.FULLER&CO

NEW  ORLEANS

IMPORTER,

DESIGNERS  AND

Engravers on  Wood,
Pine  Mechanical, and  Furniture Work, In­

cluding Buildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND RAPIDS 

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MICH.
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.

e. ROYS £  CO

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

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Special Attention given  to Collections  in City 

or  Country.  Also

FIDE,  LIFE &   ACCIDENT

In su ra n ce,

Shoe and Leather.......................... . 
.Boston
CooDer 
..............................Dayton, Ohio
.........Pittsburgh,  pa.
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Germania.................................. Cincinnati,  Ohio

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Total Assets represented, $3,516,808.

C O R R ESPO N D E N C E  SO L IC IT E D .

TOWER  &  CHAPLIN,
16 Houseman Block  -  Grand Rapids

General  Collectors,

RETAILERS,
LAVINE

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

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,

NEW  GOODS.  New 
Prices down to the whale­
bone.  Goods always sale­
able, and always reliable. 
Buy close and  often.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
MICHIGAN.
P E T E R   DORA.1T,

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Attomey-at-Law,

Pierce Block, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 

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

MERCANTILE  COLLECTIONS.

DRYDEN & PALMER’S 

R O C K   C A N D Y .

Unquestionably the best in  the  market.  As 
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond. 
Try a box.
J o lm  Caulfield.,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.

STEAM LAONDRT

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.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN

Parties having potatoes in car load lots 

can  find  a  quick sale for them 

by writing us.

JEWELER

71  C anal St.,

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

V a n ’s  M agic  Oil,

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GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

COYE  &

-M A NU FACTURERS  O F -

AWNINGS,  TENTS,

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS.

W H O LESA LE  D E A LER S  IN

Oiled  Clothing,  Ducks,  Stripes,  Etc. 

State Agents for the

WATERTOWN  HAMMOCK  SUPPORT. 

SEND  FOR  PRICES.

73  Canal  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

For Sale by F. Brundage  &  Co.,  Muskegon: 
Hazeltine,  Perkins  &  Co.,  Grand  Rapids;  H 
Walsh & Son, Holland.  Manufactured by 
N.  G.  VANbERLINIJE, Muskegon.

SHRIVER, WEATHERLY & CO.,

Manufacturers  of

Grand Rapids, Mich., 

WHOLESALE  AND RETAIL

IRON  PIPE,

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 

Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

HLEMIKTBL'S
Red  Bark  Bitters 

a

iolt Inlet

78  W est Bridge  Street,

•SAND RAPIDS. 

MICHIGAN.

Brass Goods, Iron  and  Brass  Fittings, 

Mantels,  Grates, Gas  Fixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam Fitters,
—And Manufacturers of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

JA M ES  C.  A V ER Y .

GEO.  E .  H U BB A RD .

Jam es C. A ver y & Co

Grand  Haven,  Mich.

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

gars;

Eldorado,  Doncella, 

Avery’s Choice,

Etc.,  Etc.
-JOBBERS  IN-

Manüfactured  Tobacco.

SHOP  GIRLS.

Subjected.

Some  of the Hardships to W hich  They are 

From the Chicago Daily News.

According to  statistics  furnished  by the 
healtii department the fourteen principal re­
tail dry goods stores of the city  afford  em­
ployment to 1,610 girls.  The  establishments 
quoted in the list are all on  the  South Side. 
They are estimated to contain  three-fourths 
of the entire number thus  employed, so it is 
safe to conclude that 2,150 girls and  women 
earn in Chicago their partial or  entire  sup­
port, either as clerks  behind  counters  or as 
heads of departments.  No  one  who has of­
ten visited a large retail dry goods store will 
need to be told that when  400  girls  are em­
ployed hardly half a dozen are so  fortunate 
as to be at  the  head of  any department, or 
whose lot is any degree  less  fraught  with 
hardships and privations  than  that  of the 
other 394.
The words  “hardship”  and  “privation 
have no deeper  significance  to  any class of 
individuals than to  that  commonly  called 
“shop-girls.”  The one great hardship  com­
mon to them all is the  necessity which  re­
quires that they shall stand  behind their re­
spective counters eight, ten, twelve  hours a 
day, as the case may be for six  days  in the 
week, and not appear to know fatigue.  The 
one great privation they  are  subjected to is 
the result of their utter inability  to  live up­
on what they earn, even at the expense of so 
much of their  energies.  A schedule of the 
different wages paid female clerks in  retail 
dry goods stores would be of  little  interest 
here, nor would it  serve  any  purpose. 
It 
would merely show a graduated  scale  from 
$20, a week paid by a munificent house to an 
experienced and trustworthy  forewoman, to 
$2.50 a week  paid to  a  beginner  in  some 
snap-and-go concern which,  like  the  word | 
“corporation,” could be corrrectly defined as 
“a body  without  a soul.”  To  attempt  to 
strike an average would be  a  hazardous un­
dertaking, and  the  information  would  be 
about as interesting as it would be beneficial 
to any one.
But there are  individual  instances  to be 
related, and they tell in  the  plainest  man­
ner what the  average  shop-girl  lias to en­
dure.  One of  tliese  instances  which  was 
very recently brought to the attention of the 
writer is particularly interesting  and pathet­
ic on account of its example  of  unfaltering 
patience and its lesson of  unselfish devotion 
to a dependent.

Several feet back from one of the less fre­
quented streets leading northward  from the 
heart of the city and  something  like half a 
dozen squares this side of  Fullerton avenue, 
stands a  diminutive  frame  house  scarcely 
larger than a dovecote. 
It  still  bears  evi­
dences of bavins: once been painted  brown, 
and  the  picket  fence  which  incloses  the 
house and front yard might once have  worn 
a thrifty, even a pretentious look, but which 
is now sadly out of repair.  You  enter by a 
gate which hangs by  one  hinge, as  it  has 
doubtless hung for the  last  ten  years, and 
approach a front  door  which  in  summer 
would be made  inviting  by  a  leafy  vine 
which now clings to the wall, rough and bar- 
I ren.  You knock and a plaintive voice  bids 
you “come in.”  You obey the summons and 
find yourself in a small sitting room  whose 
floor is covered with a “rag  carpet,”  made, 
doubtless, by a thrifty house-wife  when the 
building was a farm-house, be fore Fort Dear­
born was a dozen years old.  At the window 
opposite the door when  you  enter, you will 
see a slender, stooping  figure  seated  in an 
easy chair knitting.  She has sat there knit­
ting all day, like she has  every  day, except 
when confined to her  bed  for  seven  years. 
She is an invalid, and can barely move from 
her bed in one corner  of the  room  to  her 
chair by the window.  The little  house and 
the lot belong to herself and her  sister, who 
stands all day behind a counter  down-town. 
The taxes on the little  property  are a bur­
den to them, for they have no  other  means 
of support than the $8 a week the one earns 
behind the counter and the pittance the oth­
er makes by her knitting.  The whole is less 
than $9 a week, and there  are  two to keep. 
The house and lot would  bring a few  hun­
dred dollars  (the location is  not  desirable), 
but the income irom the proceeds of the sale, 
if made, would not be sufficient for  the sup­
port of the invalid alone, and what they both 
earn would not so much as board them.

The invalid does not talk  much.  She ex­
pects her sister home at 7, and  a  little  old- 
fashioned  clock  on  a  paper-covered  shelf 
has already struck  the  hour.  Suddenly the 
door opens and the sister is here, quite load­
ed down with things from the grocery round 
the corner.  You will be asked to stay to tea. 
The sister who has just returned is the youn­
ger of the two.  She is  very tired  but  will 
not admit it, and goes directly to the kitchen 
adjoining to  prepare  supper.  The  meal is 
ready in an incredibly short  space  of  time 
(the hard-working girl has  learned  how to 
use her minutes to the best  advantage), and 
after it is over the  dishes are as quickly put 
away.  Then both sisters will  occupy them­
selves with knitting,  or  some  other  light 
work, and if you ask them they will tell you 
simply and truthfully how  they  manage to 
live, and the one  who  stands  behind  the 
counter down-town will assure  you  with a 
cheerful smile that, compared to her  associ­
ates at the  store, she  is  an  “aristocrat,” a 
“capitalist”

“I carry a lunch with me every morning,” 

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Chicago Belie,

she said on this occasion, “and am envied by | Charley  Allcash  Does  the  Agreeable  to  a 
half the girls in  my department  on  that ac-1 
count alone.  The house where I am  employ- 
“Good morning, Miss Spoopendyke!  Aw­
ed pays the  highest wages of any in  town.  | fully glad to see you.  You’re  quite a stran- 
ger, ya-as.  What can  we  show  you  this 
Most of the employees are  thoughtless  and
morning,  Miss  Spoopendyke?  Ribbons? 
can’t see it, but I am positive that for months 
Right  tliis  way,  please.  Here  are  some 
we have been paid our usual weekly stipend, 
we’ve just got in—very nice  quality,  ya-as; 
and not one girl discharged, when  there was 
only  ’sty-seven  cents a  yard.  Sa-ay, Miss 
nothing to do and the house was losing hun­
Spoopendyke, ain’t  you  jest  awfully  glad 
dreds of dollars a day.  The  lowest  salary 
Lent is over?  Why, I think it is  jest  per­
paid is $6 a week.  A  beginner  gpts  that, 
fectly howid.  How  many  yards,  please? 
whether she knows anything  about the bus­
Why, do you  know,  I  haven’t  been  any­
iness or not. 
It  seems to be a  principle of
where fo r’s’much as two  weeks; no,  sir, I 
M r.---------- ’s that no one  in  his  employ
haven’t honest.  Ain’t that awful? And say, 
shall be paid less than 
that.  And  when I 
Miss Spoopendyke, ’pon my word, if I don’t 
show you how almost impossible it  is  for a 
get invited out soon, I’ll forget all about how 
girl to live upon $6 a week, you  may be in­
to dance the Newport with my lady friends, 
terested to investigate the condition of those 
ya-as. 
’S  there  anything  else?  Let’s see. 
who are only paid $4 aud less, and there are 
What size do you wear?  Oh, yes—this way, 
hundreds of them.  One  girl  in  my depart­
please. 
I didn’t see you at  the  oyster  sup­
ment who receives $6 a week is  Continually 
per last Tchuesday.  Oh, you  ought to have 
in debt.  She never has a dime to  pay for a 
been there.  Did we have a nice time?  My, 
lunch  at noon  (a dime is about the  limit of 
1 should say we did!  Gracious, I never had 
any shop-girl’s extravagance  in  that  direc­
’s’much fun.  They had a  jest  magnificent 
tion), and for months at a time I have  been 
oyster stew—jest  perfectly  lovely,  and  we 
one of six or seven girls  who  live at home 
had a nelegant time dipping for  him.  Ber­
to divide ours with her.  But  how  do  you 
tie  Doolittle—he  got  him—tehe-!  ya-as! 
suppose she can ever pay  her  debts?  Her 
Then we played postoffice  and  ring round a 
room  rent is $2 a week—her  share  of  the 
rosy. 
I never had ’s’much  fun  in  my  life, 
rent of a room she  occupies  with  another 
and do you know, Miss Spoopendyke, I nev­
girl—aud that leaves only $4  for  all of her 
er got home till almost ten  o’clock.  Wasn’t 
other expenses.  What can  you do  with 57 
I jest giddy?  But I don’t care—I ain’t been 
cents a day?  Well, she  buys a meal  ticket 
out for so long, and  I  jest  felt  like  being 
for $3, which allows her to draw on  the bill 
sassy—now, 
tehe!  How’s  mother!  She 
of fare to the extent of $3.50.  As  she must 
ain’t been in lately.  Tell her we’ve jest got 
surely have more than $1 a week for  cloth­
in a  nelegant  new  line  of  alpacas—very 
ing and so on, she  must  make  this  ticket 
cheap.  Anything else?  Sa-ay, wont you be 
last say ten days, which allows her  35 cents 
real glad when summer comes?  They’re go­
a day to live upon.  She will  be  very  tired 
ing to have strawberry  festivals  up  to our 
and hungry at night, after  standing  behind 
Sabbath school every week—ya-as; and now, 
her counter all day, and cannot possibly sat­
don’t you tell, but they’re  agoing  to  have 
isfy her hunger for less than 25 cents.  This 
real  strawberries  in  the  shortcake.  You 
leaves her 10 cents for breakfast  and lunch. 
must be sure to .come.  Would  you  like  to 
She takes a cup of coffee and a roll for break­
have tliese sent  home?  Oh, certainly, sepd 
fast, which costs  her  10  cents,  and trusts 
them right up.  Ca-asli.  Let me see, 15 aud 
to luck for her  lunch.  Luck  comes in the 
28—98 cents, please.  Ca-a-ash.  Darn those 
shape of the rest of us, who divide ours with 
boys—I have to do everything in  the store! 
her.  She is just about as  deeply in  debt as 
Here,  you,  cash,  ninety-three  from  five. 
she was a year ago, and  heaven  only knows 
Thank you.  Mary, give the lady a plaque.”
what would  become of her  should  she be 
taken sick.”

W hat Is  W ealth ?

All  persons  have  numerous wants or de-
sires, and anything which  will  gratify tliese 
may be called wealth. 
In order to taring ob­
jects iu such  a  relation  to  man  as to be of 
use, they often must undergo many changes, 
which are accomplished  by labor.  And the 
more  directly  an  object  is  fitted to gratify 
our  desires  the  greater  is  its  value to us; 
this direct use of which an article is capable 
we may term the  intrinsic  value.  Wealth, 
then, is a result of the  desires  in man,  and 
the objects  which  possess  the  qualities  to 
satisfy these desires.  An  object  which, in 
some way, does not minister to the wants of 
man, is not wealth, has no  value.  To  Cru­
soe, on his  island,  iron  was  of  much more 
value than gold, as the latter was of  no  use 
to him in his lonely situation.  Not only are 
material  objects  and  results  articles  of 
wealth, but what we term spiritual may also 
be, as a sermon or an address; these may sat­
isfy our wants as much as clothing and food, 
and are justly considered as wealth.

As life is a necessity to our  enjoying any­
thing else, those articles  which  sustain  and 
preserve life are the most fundamental  arti­
cles  of  wealth,  such  as  food, clothing and 
houses.  But  besides  the  desires  for  mere 
existence,  we  crave  intellectual,  moral and 
social culture.  But  if  the  accumulation of 
riches is the sole object of a  man,  anything 
which retards this he looks upon as so much 
waste;  and  the  acquiring  of knowledge he 
considers as “costing more than it comes to,” 
unless  this  knowledge  can  be used for the 
purposes of still greater gain.  And the same 
of social and  moral  improvement.  But  we 
have other senses besides those of  taste and 
touch,  Tlius  music,  perfumery,  pleasing 
and profitable shows, may truly be  forms of 
wealth.  So also  are  diamonds,  pearls  and 
otliei  precious  gems.  The  fact that these 
articles command  a  high  price and a ready 
sale,  show  how  well  adapted  they  are to 
gratify desires;  some  call  it  vanity, others 
taste.  They  are  Classed  as  luxuries,  and 
their  possession  should  indicate the fact of 
surplus  wealth. 
In  the  accumulation  of 
wealth we first should  acquire  the  necessi­
ties, then  the conveniences,  comforts,  and 
luxuries last of all.

As all the desires  of  man  do  not tend to 
his well-being, so that form of wealth which 
ministers to his evil  desires may  be  termed 
hurtful wealth, and  should  be  discouraged. 
The production of wealth should tend to the 
betterment  of  man  and  not  to his debase­
ment.  There is still another form of wealth 
which  may  be  said  to be useless, namely, 
hoarded  wealth.  There  are  some  people 
who are so  afraid  of  losing what they pos­
sess that they turn everything into  gold and 
silver,  which  they  hide  away. 
It  is of no 
use* to  them  or  any  one else, and as it can 
gratify no desire,  unless  in  the  case of the 
miser, who may enjoy the  sight  and  touch 
the  shining  coin,  and  from  which  he  de 
rives a certain satisfaction.  Money, like all 
other forms of wealth, should he put to some 
use,  either  in  supplying  our  wants  or  for 
purposes  of  further, production.  Hoarded 
wealth is of no good to anyone.

W hitlier ai’e We Drifting.

From the Philadelphia Grocer.

One of the worst  forms  of  wickedness in 
the world is the  endeavor  to  purchase  two 
dollars’ worth of goods  for aDdollar;  or  to 
squeeze out of the general  public the luxur­
ies that should come only with an income of 
$2,000 a year, and only give back  $1,000 for 
it.  Such a course  means  nothing  more or 
less than genteel fraud. 
It cultivates  hard­
ness of heart, trains  people  the  most  con­
temptible  stinginess, and  teaches  pretense 
as a fine art.  Many respectable  people pur­
sue this policy without  knowing  what  they 
are doing.  'They barter and haggle over the 
dealers’ already  narrow  margin  of  profit; 
they choke the  poor  seamstress  until  she 
yields twenty-five cents a day  of her  usual 
wages to secure their custom; they defy hon­
est rules of life and trading,  and  endeavor 
to buy their retail supplies  from  wholesal­
ers, or to develop some trick nominally hon­
est but essentially dishonorable, which  will 
enable them to get wliat they really have no 
right to possess.

Cheap, cheaper, cheapest is their constant 
cry and pursuit.  They care nothing for pur­
ity.  They soon grow ignorant of quality, all 
they desire is quantity.  They  shop  around 
even for medicine which  they  will  walk a 
dozen squares to buy of some  cheap and ir­
responsible druggist.  They are  too blind to 
see that death comes  in at the  door  along 
with their diluted prescriptions, and that the 
economy of a sixpence may cost a life.  Cut­
ting and paring at the price of  every article 
of food which they purchase from  the  gro- 
cor they soon force him to lower his standard 
of quality or to supply them with  adulterat­
ed goods, of the adulteration  which  he may 
be ignorant, for  he,  in  turn, is  forced  to 
measure the article by the  price  which his 
consumer is willing to pay.

A little less  stinginess, a little  more con­
tentment, a good  deal  more  honesty,  and 
more of the spirit of liberality in the way of 
a desire to “live and let live”  would tend to 
correct all this and every one would see that 
there is as much lost  in  cheapening  every­
thing as appears to be  gained  by the  reduc­
tion iu price.
The C l e r k s  of To-Day the Merchants  of To- 

Morrow.

A few years hence and a large  number of 
the bright, intelligent, ambitious young men 
who are to-day “Our Boys” will have become 
our qualified merchants with  stores of  their 
own, graver business cares  and  larger  re­
sponsibilities.  We wish to see the  work of 
their predecessors descend to worthy hands. 
As everything  in  this  country  bears  the 
stamp of progress, we trust that the progress 
may he as marked in  the  characteristics of 
our merchants as in all else.  And so it will 
be if our young friends  give  heed  to  our 
counsels and make good use of their present 
time and opportunities. 
In a great measure 
it will be  like  clerk  like  merchant.  The 
young man who acquires a  practical  educa­
tion, who is bent on success, who  finds him­
self at every year’s end a step farther on the 
road,  more money  saved, more  experience 
acquired, will be the live progressive man of 
the future; while he who simply drifts along

aimlessly, careful neither to profit by oppor­
tunities nor to withstand  temptations,  will 
be the man about whose success we can  say 
nothing hopeful.

The spirit of progress  consists in  not be­
ing satisfied with only doing  as  well as one 
has done before, but  each  time  wishing to 
do a little better.  Our young men  will  not 
have the highest ambition if they set  them­
selves simply to be  as  capable  and intelli­
gent as the present generation of merchants.
A few years hence and  everything  capable  • 
of improvement will have been pushed a step 
forward of what it is now, and we hope that 
the next generation of merchants  will  par­
take of this change.  The young men  of to­
day have a thousand advantages  undreamed 
of in the old-fashion times when  the  veter­
ans in the trade set out on their career.  Any 
old  merchant  will  tell  of  the  wonderful 
changes that have taken  place  since he was 
a young man.  There  are greater  facilities 
for obtaining all  kinds of  knowledge;  the 
means of communication are  infinitely mul­
tiplied, the whole  aspect of the  world  has 
been changed. Wliat, then, Would be thought 
of a man who contented himself  with  pre­
cisely the qualifications that sufficed for  his 
predecessors?

Feat of  the  D ivining  Rod.

The question as to the  magical, or the sci­
entific value of the  “divining  rod”  has just 
been  re-opend  by the  success which has  at­
tended its use at  the  Fletton Wagon Works 
of the Midland Railway Company, England, 
with reference to the discovery  of  a perma­
nent  supply  of  water.  According  to the 
London Sanitary World,  the  company  re­
quires  to  use  about  500  or  600  gallons of 
water every day, and the well on their prem­
ises yielded only one-lialf that  quantity. 
It 
was necessary, therefore, to  supplement the 
supply  by  the  sinking  of other wells or by 
the  construction  of  an expensive system of 
piping.  The former plan was preferred, and 
two  new  wells  were  sunk  to  no  purpose. 
The services of a gentleman  of  the district, 
who bore the reputation of  being  skilled in 
the art of discovering water by means of the 
“divining  rod,”  were  then  called in.  This 
wizard or expert employed for his purpose a 
forked hazel twig, holding one prong of  the 
fork in each hand, the points of the fork be­
ing  directed  to  the  sky.  After  walking 
about the premises for some time, the  point 
of the  fork  suddenly  began  to bend down, 
purely, as” the best evidence goes, of  its own 
accord,  and  to  point  to  the  earth.  The 
wielder  of  the  wand  declared  that  here 
would be found a plentiful supply of  water. 
The  same  indications  were  repeated at an­
other spot, where the twig snapped from the 
violence of its spontaneous and  sympathetic 
motion,  and  the  same  confident  assertions 
were made with reference to the  occurrence 
of  water—assertions  which  the  results  ob­
tained by actually sinking wells  amply  jus­
tified, the quantity  of  water to be  obtained 
being apparently inexhaustible.  Other  per­
sons essayed to use the wand, but it rebelled 
against the usurpation of  its  owner’s  func­
tions, and remained  contumacious and irres­
ponsive. 
If  any  persons,  adds  the  writer, 
require water in unlikely localities, it might 
be well to secure the services of this  diviner 
before he volunteers for a  patriotic  mission 
in favor  of the troops in the thirsty wilds of 
the Soudan.

A business man  of  Holyoke, Mass., who 
recently went to New Orleans, undertook to 
do some business  incidentally  while  there, 
and was arrested for selling goods by sample 
without a license,  exposing  himself  thus to 
a fine of $50.  After a  delay  of  five  hours 
lie was brought  before a  magistrate, where 
he pleaded his case so effectively that he not 
only escaped with a warning, but in a  quiet 
chat with the Judge a few moments later he 
succeeded in selling him and his clerk speci­
mens of the very products of  Yankee ingen- 
’uity which had just been the occasion of his • 
arrest.

A  solution of oxalic acid  lias  been  used 
for removing ink stains  from  cotton, linen, 
or the fingers, but it is  attended  with  the 
danger of injuring textiles and the skin.  A 
much safer and  better  treatment of ink or 
rust stains consists in the application of two 
parts of powdered cream of  tartar  and one 
part of finely powered  oxalic  acid.  Shake 
up the ingredients well together, and  apply 
the powder with a dry rag to  the dampened 
stain.  When the spot has  disappeared, the 
part should be very well washed..

It seems rather difficult to make any  new 
discovery in medicine  which  Frenchmen do 
not claim to have known  all  about  tor  at 
least a decade.  Thus, at  the February meet­
ing of the Societe de Biologic,  M.  Rabuteau 
said that the properties of  hydrochlorate of 
cocaine were known before 1870, and that in 
1872 M. Laborde had shown its tonic effects, 
and M. Demarnes pointed out its  anaesthetic 
powers in a thesis.

To polish brass  use  ordinary  whiting or 
chalk and a damp cotton or woolen cloth.  If 
the metal is stained  or  tarnished,  then  use 
rottenstone and oil on a cloth, and finish with 
whiting for a gloss. 
If corroded  and black­
ened, use oxalic acid in. water  with  the rot­
tenstone, instead of oil.

It is claimed  by  manufacturers  of  wood 
mosaic that hard maple  on  end  is  several 
times as durable as  marble  and  equally as 
durable as the hardest backed tile.

S a n d s’  P aten t T rip le  M otion

WHITE  MOUNTAIN 

ICE  CREAM 

FREEZER

The  only  Freezer  ever  made  having  three  distinct 
motions,  thereby  producing  finer,  smoother  Cream 
than  any other  Freezer  on  the  market.  Acknowl­
edged  by  every  one  to  be the best in the world.  Over 
300,000  in  use  To-day.  Outside Irons Galvanized, but 
all inside the  can  coated  with  Pure  Block  Tin.  Tubs 
water-proof;  easily  adjusted  and  operated.  We  also 
carry  large  stock  of  Packing  Tubs, Packing  Cans,  lee 
Crushers, etc.  Send for Price List and  Trade  Discounts.

AddressFoster. Stevens & Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Agents for Western Michigan.

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.

ORDER.  A  SAMPLE  BUTT  OF

Mc ALPIN’S

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To  Sot Aside  Mortgages.

On March 28, J. Johnson & Co., drygoods 
dealers at Manistee and Yassar, made an as­
signment to Albert J. Lane.  Just  previous 
to  the  assignment  two  chattel mortgages 
were placed on the  stocks—one  for  $4,000 
given to the Manistee National Bank, execu­
ted last October and recorded March 27, and 
the other $3,165 to the First National  Bank 
of Vassar, executed and  recorded the day of 
the  assignment.  As  the  stocks are worth 
only about $6,000 at  forced  sale,  the  mort­
gage  creditors  would  receive  their claims 
nearly  in  full,  while  the general creditors, 
whose claims aggregate about $15,000, would 
get the cold  shoulder.  Acting  on  this  hy­
pothesis, Bates, Reed & Cooley and Sweetzer, 
Pembroke  &  Co.,  each  of  whose  claims 
amount to about $2,500, and who  are  repre­
sented here by Fletcher & Wanty  and  Nor­
ris &  Uhl, respectively, have caused a bill to 
be filed in the  United  States  Court  in  the 
name of the first  named  firm,  in  behalf  of 
all the creditors, asking that  the  mortgages 
be set aside.  The  grounds  for  the  action 
are that  the  first  mortgage  was  given  six 
months preyious to the failure, and .retained 
by the bank, thus giving the firm a  fictitious 
credit;  and that  the second mortgage,  exe­
cuted the same day  of  the  assignment, was 
given  in  expectation  of  insolvency.  The 
writ is returnable May 28.

A  Ten  Dollar Counterfeit B ill.

FOR SALE— Hotel in one of the finest towns 

of southern Michigan.  Any one  wishing 
to engage in a well-established business can do 
so with a small amount of  capital, as the own­
er is going west.  For full  particulars address 
“Hotel,” care 36  West  Leonard  street,  Grand 
RapidsfMich. 

89*

82tf.

sell cheap to any one who will take it all.  Nich­

ols & Higgins, Morley Mich. 

lumber, including maple, beech, etc.  Will 

FOR SALE—Our entire mill cut of hardwood 
FOR  SALE—T w o  pool tables and  a  Stevens’ 
patent ice-box.  As good as new.  Address,
81tf
C. Blom, Holland, Mich.
F OR  SALE—Clean  stock  of  groceries  and
ed by  good farming country.  For particulars, 
address E ., care T h e  T r a d e s m a n . 
IT^OR  SALE—Our  stock  of  drugs, boots  and 

83*

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shoes, dry goods, groceries and hardware. 
Also  brick  store  building,  23x75,  warehouse, 
dwelling,  stable,  good  well  and  cistern  and 
one  acre  of  land.  Will  sell the buildings for 
$2,500 and the stock at cost.  A.  Young & Sons, 
Orange, Mich. 

A neatly executed  ten  dollar  counterfeit 
bill  has  recently  been  passed upon several 
tradesmen  and  lodging  house  keepers by a 
fellow who is  described  as  being  about  27 
years of age, of light complexion,  and medi­
um height.  The  counterfeit  consists in the 
alteration of a two dollar treasury note with 
Jefferson  head.  This  is  done by pasting
.  paratus,  of  approved  make  and in good
the figure “ten” over the figure “two” in the I order.  Will  sell  cheap,  on account of failing
.  ,  ,  , _, _____    » .. 
j  niinnmm.  health, or will rent same to be run in  my own
right hand corner of the note, and  changing ^ factory.  B. P. Dean, Cedar Springs, Mich.  8itf
the letters “wo” in “two” in.the printed part
. . .  
u  * .I  _  , TX7AMTED—Situation by a  young  man  in  a
of the bill to “en.’  This  latter  part of the  W   grocery or general  store.  Four  years’
counterfeiting  is  in  some of the bills  made | 
Address  Care
by  erasures  and  in  others  by  pasting  the
words  “ten  dollars”  over  “two  dollars.” | F ° o f Sdrag^Ci u ^ ^  
Wherever  the  word  “two”  appears in the 
printed  part  of  the  bill  it  is  erased or 
changed.  A  close  inspection  of  the  bill 
readily shows the alterations.

a  small  stock 
i
in  suburbs  of 
Grand Rapids, Mich.  Apply to H. B. Fairchild, 
City. 

IT'OR  SALE—Complete  cheese-making  ap- 

„  mu- 

,  i.4. 

76tf

90*

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PLUG.

A  RICH  NUTTY CHEW.

Eaton & CMstenson.
S. A. WELLING

GRAND  RAPIDS.

WHOLESALE

AND-

N O T I O N S !

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 
STRINGS. ETC.  *

Particular  attention  given  to  orders  by 

mail.  Goods skipped promptly to any point.

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  John D. Man- 
gum,  A.  M.  Sprague,  John  H.  Eacker, 
L. Ii. CesnA, and A. B.  Handiucks.

21 Pearl Street 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

A JO U R N A L  DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY.  APRIL  15,  1885.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8, 1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—Wm. Sears.
Executive  Committee—President,  Vice-Pres­
ident and Treasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one 
year;  L. E. Hawkins and R. D. Swartout, two 
years. 
Arbitration  Committee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W. 
Putnam, Joseph Houseman.
Transportation  Committee—Samuel  Sears, 
Geo. B. Dunton, Amos. S. Musselman.
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur 
Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux.
Manufacturing Committee—Wm.  Cartwright, 
E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening 
of October.
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­
ing of each month.

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POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28, 1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second Vice-President—Stephen A.  Sears.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.
Executive  Committee—President  and  Secre­
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
Bradford and W. G. Hawkins.
Election Committee—Geo.  H.  Seymour,  Wal­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
munds and D. S. Haugh.
Room  Committee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  Wm. 
Boughton, W. H. Jennings.
Regular  Meetings—Last  Saturday  evening in 
each month.
Next  Meeting—Saturday  evening,  April 25, 
at “The Tradesman” office. •

T. P.A.

O R G A N IZ E D  A T  G R A N D  R A P ID S  A P R IL  11, ’85.

President—Geo. F. Owen. 
Vice-President—Geo. W. McKay. 
Secretary—Leo A. Caro.
Treasurer—James Fox.
Next Meeting—Saturday  evening,  May 
“The Tradesman” office.

at

Chicago jobbers, almost without exception, 
declare that business is  better  in  Michigan 
at the present time than in  any  other  Wes­
tern State.

Charlevoix  business  men  are  moving in 
the  matter  of  a  local  organization for the 
pnrpose of inducing manufacturing enterpri­
ses and otherwise  developing  the  resources 
of the place.

The Connecticut House of .Representatives 
has passed a  measure  which  punishes the 
selling of oleomargarine and butterine unless 
the purchaser is informed of the real charac­
ter of the goods.

The  Tradesman  heartily 

thanks  the 
Traverse City  Business  Men’s  Association 
for their very complimentary resolution con­
cerning this paper  and  its  editor,  assuring 
them that such kindly  remembrances  serve 
to spur us on to greater endeavors in  the di­
rection in which The Tradesman  can best 
serve the interests of the trade at large.

It affords The Tradesman no  small sat­
isfaction to be able to present in  this  issue 
the  full  text  of the  constitution  and  by­
laws of the Traverse  City  Business  Men’s 
Association, an organization in  which every 
merchant of that place may  take  a  reason­
able degree of pride.  The  main  reason for 
yielding so much space to the subject  is due 
to the desire to present a worthy  plan of or­
ganization for the benefit  of  other  associa­
tions of a similar  nature  which  may be'or- 
ganized hereafter.

The  readers  of  The Tradesman are al­
ready so familiar with the disreputable prac­
tices of the Chicago Criterion that it is hard­
ly necessary to refer to another case in point; 
but the inference to  be  drawn from the cir­
cumstance is so obvious  that  The Trades­
man is impelled  to  give  the  same the pub­
licity it deserves.  A  representative  of  the 
Criterion recently approached  the  Chicago 
agent of the Northern Harford Packing  As­
sociation  and  demanded  an  advertisement 
for Red Seal  corn.  The  demand  was  re­
fused,  whereupon  the  representative of the 
blackmailing sheet declared  that  the  Crite­
rion would “make it hot” for him, or words 
to that effect  The manner in which such a 
threat was executed serves to show the utter 
depravity and dishonesty of  the  conductors 
of  the house organ.  With none of the goods 
in stock, and  with  no  probability  that any 
could be secured to fill orders, the Criterion 
openly quoted them at a price below the cost 
to the  jobber,  and  continued  to do so, al­
though repeatedly notified that  such  quota­
tion was inaeurate  and* misleading.  Such 
disreputable practices have served  to  bring 
the Criterion into disrepute and have taught 
the  retail  trade  that  no  reliance  can be 
placed on the “rock bottom”  quotations  fur­
nished by that alleged trade journal.

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN THE  CITY.

Hiram T. Johnson has engaged in the gro­
cery business at  Saranac.  Clark,  Jewell & 
Co. furnished the stock.

Geo. W. De Jonge will shortly  engage  in 
tbe hat and cap and gent’s furnishing  goods 
business in the Porter block on South Divis­
ion street.

S. S. Trevett has re-engaged in the grocery 
business at Muskegon, being now located on 
the corner of Western  avenue  and  Hudson 
street.  Fox, Musselman  &  Loveridge  fur­
nished the stock.

Col. E. S.  Pierce  has  retired  from  the 
clothing firm of  Baldwin,  Pierce  & Co., at 
Manistee, and the firm name  will  hereafter 
be Baldwin & Mann.  Mr.  Pierce  still  re­
tains his connection with the  clothing  firm 
of Mann & Pierce, at Muskegon.

“It requires more good  solid  judgment to 
buy bear skins than any other branch of the 
fur business,” said Wm. T. Hess, of Perkins 
& Hess, the other day.  “As long as  1 have 
been in  the  business,  over  twenty  years, I 
frequently get ‘stuck,’ especially  when I at­
tempt to buy the skins by lamplight.”

The Kusterer Brewing Co. has  leased the 
three-story stone building  on  the  comer of 
Ottawa and  East  Bridge  streets, formerly 
occupied by the  Spiral  Spring  Buggy Co., 
and is fitting the same up  for  use as a bot­
tling establishment.  ¿The  basement  will be 
used as a boiling room  and  for  storage, the 
first floor for bottling and steaming, the sec­
ond floor for packing, labeling  and shipping 
and the third for the repairing of cases.  Ex­
port, Pilsener, Bohemian  and  stock  lager 
beer will be bottled,  the  intention  being to 
carry on the business  on  a  more  extensive 
scale than has ever  been  attempted  in  this 
city.

A R O U N D   T H E   S T A T E .

C. Fant, grocer at St. Ignace, is about sell­

A. B. Pray, general dealer at  Eureka, has 

ing out.

sold out.

N. Fink, the Edmore groceryman, has sold 

out to D. O. Long.

J. C. Bassett has engaged in  the  grocery 

business at Muskegon.

A. T. Nichols & Co. succeed the First Na- 

tionat Bank at Owosso.

Jas. N. Hill, grocer  at  Plain well,  has ad­

ded a line of dry goods.

Alonzo Clark, banker  at  Clinton, will  re­

tire from business May 1.

B. J. Ettleson,dry goods dealer at Edmore, 

has removed to Battle Creek.

Corter & Fuller succeed John  II. King in 

the grocery business at Jackson.

E. E. Riopel succeeds A. J. Stewart in the 

retail drug business at  Detroit.

J. M. Nyce & Co.  succeed  J. M. Nyce in 

the grocery business at Petoskey.

Brisbin  &  Cooley  succeed  Nelson Dan­

iels in general trade at Wacousta.

John McKinley  succeeds  Edward  Davey 

in the grocery business at Detroit.

P. Gilman succeeds Montgomery &  Pease 

in the grocery business at Hudson.

W. W. McOmber  has  sold  his  grocery 

stock at Alanson to Mr. Overholster.

R. Beadle, of Saranac, will shortly engage 

in the harness business at Portland.

Beals  &  Palmer  succeed  Armstrong & 

Beals in general trade at Grand Blanc.

W. Coolidge and C. Kingsley  will shortly 

engage in the grocery business at Hart.

Jas. Worden succeeds McKee  &  Worden 

in the saloon business at Harrison May 1.

1. W. Carrel  succeeds Carrel  & Fisher in 
the grain, wood and wool business  at  Dorr.
Calvin Dillion has sold his  grocery  stock 
at Chippewa Lake to the Chippewa Lumber 
Co.

Moerdyk, DeKruip  &  Co.  succeed  John 
Moerdyk, Jr.. & Co.  in general trade at Zee- 
land.

Zach Chase has bought the property  com­
prising the estate of the late H. H. Crapo, at 
Flint.

G. F. Whitney,  of  Big  Rapids,  has  pur­
chased  T.  F.  Fisher’s  “Boston  bazar”  at 
Ionia.

Caswell & Fletcher  succeed  Geo. C. Wor­
den in the grocery and provision  business at 
Reading.

Harvey  D.  Cutting  succeeds  Cutting &
1 Damon  in  general  trade  and  the lumber 
business at Beaver Lake.

John Ball, formerly engaged  in  the hard­
ware business at Grand Haven, has  engaged 
in the grocery business at Fremont.

G. L. Roof has moved his  boot  and  shoe 
stock from White Pigeon to Sturgis and form­
ed a copartnership with S. Holliday.

Adams & Bailey, dealers  in  general  mer­
chandise  and  agricultural  implements  at 
Caseville, have dissolved, Adams continuing.
Wells, Stone  &  Co.,  the  Saginaw  City 
whlesale grocers, have formed*a stock  com­
pany with $200,000 capital for  the  purpose 
of carrying on their business.  The new cor­
poration will be known as  the  Wells-Stone 
Mercantile Co.

Detroit vs.  Chicago

“I consider Detroit a  better  drug  market 
than Chicago,” said a leading retail druggist, 
the other  day.  “All  things  considered, I 
think the Detroit dealers sell on  lower mar­
gins than the Chicago  houses.”

“As a hardware market, Chicago  will  not 
compare with Detroit,” said a representative 
hardware jobber.  “The Detroit  houses buy 
just  as  close  as  their  Chicago competitors 
afid have the advantage of the latter in being 
nearer  the  manufacturing  centers.  As a 
consequence, Grand Rapids and Detroit have 
succeeded  in  nearly  driving Chicago out of 
the Michigan territory.”

M A N U F A C T U R IN G   M A T T E R S .

* John Kolvoord is repairing and improving 
his saw mill at Hamilton.

Bryan & McConrey, of Howell, will  man­

ufacture 1,000 farm rollers this season.

N. T. Parker  and  Geo. H. Nichols  have 
engaged in the  manufacture  of  cigars  at 
Hastings.

Renwick & Dennis have  lately put in sev 
eral new machines in their broom  factory at 
Kingsley.

It is reported at St.  Ignace that a Chicago 
company has bought a large tract of  land at 
Scott point,  in  that  vicinity,  and will erect 
thereon a mill to cut hardwood lumber.

The  Chicago  Lumbering  Co.,  of  Manis-

tique, is engaged in turning out timber to be 
used in the construction  of  the  breakwater 
and other improvements to  be made  at  that 
place this year.

The Cheboygan  Lumber Co., with mills at 
Cheboygan,  has  about  concluded  the  pur­
chase of 80,000,000  feet  of standing pine in 
the Georgian Bay region.  It is the intention 
to cut the timber and float it  to  Cheboygan 
to be  manufactured.

It is reported that the  Soper Lumber Co., 
of Chicago, will make Menominee a  kind of 
headquarters for a  supply of  lumber for its 
trade.  The company has  this  spring  made 
considerable purchases  of  logs  on Menomi­
nee waters,  to  be  sawed in the mills at the 
mouth of that stream.

W. W. Starkey, the Ionia  shook  and tub 
manufacturer, employs  fifty-five  men  and 
turns out 400 shooks—a  shook  being a com­
plete  hogshead  “knocked  down”  for  ship­
ment—and 275 dozen  tubs  per  week.  The 
tubs find ready  market  at  Chicago,  Cincin­
nati and  other  wholesale  centers,  and  the 
shooks all go to the West Indies.

W. L. & H. D. Churchill, of Alpena, have 
made  arrangements  for  13,000,000 feet of 
logs  from  Alcona  county  (Huron  shore 
south), which are to be towed  to  their  mill 
at  Alepna  to be  sawed.  Otherwise,  these 
logs  would  have  gone  to  Lake Erie ports. 
This firm expects to keep both its mills going 
this season, and manufacture 35,000,000 feet 
of lumber.

S T R A Y   F A C T S .

Job. T. Reynolds has  purchased  an inter­
est in the  banking  house of  Webber, Rey­
nolds & Co., at Fremont.

A birch tree, sound to the core, was lately 
cut at a point south  of  Houghton,  that was 
fifty-two inches in diameter.

B. B. Sutphin has begun the  erection of a 
one-story  brick  structure  for use as a grain 
and wool warehouse at Allegan.
Purely  Personal.

John Caulfield is spending a week  among 

the Northern trade of his house.

W. H. Thompson, proprietor of  the  Man- 
celona  Handle  Co.,  at  Mancelona,  was  in 
town Monday.

Geo. Sinclair,  proprietor of the cheese box 
factory at Hudsonville, was in town last Sat­
urday on business.

G. F. Cole,  traveling  agent  for  the  Mar­
shall Shirt Factory, spent  a  couple  of  days 
at this market last week.

It  is Major E. C. Watkins—not  Major A. 
B. Watson—who is associated  with Geo. N. 
Davis  in  the  brick  business  near  Childs’ 
Mill.

Miss K. L. Kinney, general dealer  at Ma­
ple Hill, was in  town  last  week, putting in 
her spring stock.  She  has  lately  added a 
line of boots of shoes, furnished  by Rindge, 
Bertsch & Co.

The  report  that Capt.  Heman N. Moore 
and David  Arnott  are  contemplating  the 
purchase of John Caulfield’s wholesale  gro­
cery  establishment,  is  pronounced  by Mr. 
Arnott to be without foundation.

J. H. Thaw,  who has  carried on  the gro­
cery brokerage business in this  city with in­
different success for about  four  years  past, 
has given up the battle and gone to Chicago, 
with the intention of locating at some-West­
ern point, as soon as he recovers  his health.
M. M. Stanton,  of  the  wholesale furnish­
ing  goods  house  of  Brewster  &  Stanton, 
Detroit, was in town  last  Saturday,  calling 
on  the trade.  He still tips  the beam at 247 
pounds, and is the  same  jolly  fellow  as  of 
yore.

Thos.  Hill,  general  agent  for  the  Mer­
chants Dispatch transportation line, has pur­
chased a lot on  Henry  street,  just  south of 
Wealthy avenue, and  will  erect  a  cottage 
residence thereon during  the  present  sum­
mer season.

Myron S. Goodman,  for  four  years  past 
bookkeeper  for  Hazeltine,  Perkins  &  Co. 
and Miss Flora B.  McDowell,  billing  clerk 
in the same establishment, were married last 
Saturday at Kendallville, Ind., by Rev. R. S, 
Goodman, father of  the groom.  The happy 
couple will take up their residence on Union 
street.

Warranted, to l»e Fast.

“I wish to look  at  some  of  your  dress 

goods,” she said, with a pretty simper.

“For yourself, miss?”
“Certainly.”
“Here are a number  of  patterns  that are 

very popular at present.”

“Are they the latest shades?”
“The very latest.”
“Are they worn by the best  society?”
“Almost exclusively, miss.”
“Do you think the colors would suit me?’ 
“Admirably. 
I will warrant  them  fast.”

Lindernaan’s Determination.

From the Muskegon Chronicle.

Mr. Linderman, of  Whitehall,  will  agree 
to pay nothing less than a hundred  cents on 
the  dollar to all of his  creditors,  and  has 
made a proposition to them  to  take his fac­
tory and other property in  pledge,  advance 
him money to go on with  his  manufactures, 
and he will work until they have all received 
the full amount of their claims.

Bad Place  for Dressmakers.

From the Philadelphia Call.

An outlay of $2 will clothe an entire fam­
It is a kind 

ily in Porto Rico for one  year. 
of Washington ball all the year round.

So it Must.
From the New York Journal.

A prominent clergyman calls the face “the 
play-ground of  the  soul.”  Then  a  book 
agent’s cheek must be a prairie.

One of the largest oil  producers  at  one 
time in the United States is under a contract 
to put down five wells for  gas,  oil and min­
erals near Charleston, W. Va.

VISITING BUYERS.

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

Cloud.
& Aldrich, Lowell.
Springs.

C. Henry LaBar, LeBar & Cornwell, Cadillac. 
W. A. Palmer, Carson City.
E. H. Foster, Fife Lake.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
Howard Morley, Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.
L. K. Gibbs, Gibbs Bros.,  Mayfield.
Wm. Beitner, Keystone.
Geo. F. Richardson, Jamestown.
J.  L.  Morgan,  Morgan  Lumber  Co.,  White 
E.  A r   Forman  and  L.  W.  Aldrich,  Forman 
J.  B.  Callahan,  Wagar  &  Callahan,  Cedar 
W. D. Hopkinson, Paris.
E. H. Sisson, Sisson Bros., Freeport.
Abraham Bergy, A. & E. Bergy,  Caledonia.
D. C. Spaulding, Hobart.
H. Freeman, Mancelona.
Wm. Hugh, Hugh & Jones, Morley.
Fred.  Ramsey, White  Cloud.
A. P. Hunter, Hunt & Hunter, Lowell.
W. D. Kelley, Muskegon.
A. L. Power, Kent City.
E. E. Hewett, Rockford.
Miss K. L. Kinney, Maple Hill.
R. McKinnon, Hopkins.
M. V.  Wilson, Sand Lake.
McLeod &Trautman Bros., Moline.
Geo. Sinclair, Hudsonville.
J. H. Edwards, Newaygo.
Oliver Seaman, Big Rapids.
Baron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
W. H. StJuik, Forest Grover.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
Geo. Carrington, Trent,
C. Bergin, Lowell.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
W. S. Root,  Tallmadge.
M. B. Nash, Sparta.
John Smith, Ada.
Harvey Bromley, Hesperia.
S. T. McLellan, Dennison.
J. Omler,  Wright.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
F. C. Selby, Volney.
MissM. E. Snell, Wayland.
John Steffenfleld, Hastings.
Eli Runnels, Corning.
A. DeGroat, Vriesland.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
R. D. Wheaton,  Vermontville.
C. W. Ives, Rockford.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
Dr. John Graves, Wayland.
A. W. Fenton & Co., Bailey.
C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
S. S. Trevett,  Muskegon.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
Leavenworth,  Leavenworth & Co.,  Forman. 
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
E. Cavanaugh, Byron Center.
Mr. Walbrink, I. J.  Quick & Co., Allendale. 
Montgomery, Haire &Giddings, Upper Paris. 
A. P. Hulbert, Lisbon.
Barker & Lehnen, Blanchard.
Julia Ramsey, White Cloud.
P. Jeannot & Co., Diamond Lake.
John J. Ely  Rockford.
J. L. Graham. Wayland.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
W. W.'Pierce, Moliile.
Mr. Carrel, Carrel & Fisher,  Dorr.
Wm. DePree, DePree & Bro., Zeeland.
John Scott, Lowell.
Wm. Graham,  Middleville.
W. A. Williams, Alba.
D. B. Galentine, Bailey.
Mrs. F. E. Hoyt,  Petoskey.
S. L. Alberts, S. L. Alberts & Co., Ravenna. 
W.  H.  Thompson,  Mancelona  Handle  Co., 
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
«
C. B. Nye, Stanton. 
Byron Ballou, Cadillac.
Hiram T. Johnson,  Saranac.
Visner & Dendell,  Hopkins.
J. J. Wiseman, Nunica.
Mr. Judson, Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg. 
Ed. Roys, Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
C. C. Bailey, Fife Lake.
H. Andre & Son, Jennisonville.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
Richmond & Thomas, Harris Creek.
A. B. Foot,  Hilliards.
Alba Handle Co., Alba.
Geo. H. Force,  Morley.
H. B. Irish,  Lisbon.
W. N. Hutchinson, Trent.
O.  B.  Granger,  O.  B.  Granger & Co., Plain- 
J. S. Barker, Sand Lake.
W. D. Hopkinson, Pax-is.
W. B. Pool, Luther.
B. H. Rose, Sherman.
R.  K.  Hesseltme,  R.  K.  Hesseltme  &  Son, 

well.

Casnovia.

Mancelona.

F U R N IT U R E   B U Y E R S .

Horace Prentic% Kalamazoo.

A  Sunday  Euncli.

A traveling man who  has  “been  there,” 

writes as follows of the Sunday lunch:
“Oh a Sunday lunch at a big hotel 
Is the highest thing o d  earth;
So scant, you find it hard to  tell 
When you’ve got your money s  worth.
“You begin  at soup  and taste each dish,

Until you reach tne end;

'  Although you’re through, you vainly 

wish

To begin at soup again.

To  a  Purchaser who  w ill  take our entire 

exit,  we  offer an  exceptional hai-gain.

Nichols  &  Higgins,

MORLEY,  MICH.

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HERCULES !
A n n ih il a t o r  !

The Great Stump and Rock

Strongest and Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts,

Farmers, practice  economy  and  clear your 
land  of  stumps  and  boulders.  Main  Office, 
Hercules  Powder  Company,  No.  40 Prospect 
Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
L.  S. HILL & CO., AGTS.

GUNS,  AUDITION k PISHING  TACKLE,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Is our Agent in Grand Rapids 

JOHN  CAULFIELD
Galvanic  Soap

for our Famous

TR A D E  M ARK.

O. H. RICHMOND & CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

M ANUFACTURERS  O F

R icteoi’s Family Medicines.

RICHMOND’S  LIVER  ELIXIR.

the  market,  50 cents.

The  best  selling liver and  blood  medicine  in 
Richmond’s Cubeb Cream,
Richmond’s Ague Cure,

Richmond’s  Cough Cure, 
Richmond’s Easy Pills,

Dr. Richards’ Health Restorer.
Retailers,  please  order  of  yoxxr  jobbers in 
Grand Rapids, Chicago or Detroit.  If your job­
ber does not handle our goods, we will fill your 
orders.  Pills and Health Restoi'er can be sent 
by mail.  141 South Division St., Grand Rapids.

C. S. YALE & BRO.,

-Manufacturers  ot-

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUINGS,  ETC.,

40 and  42  South  Division, St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH

THE  BEST

EASY  WASHER

MANUFACTURED.

MILWAUKEE.

Furniture  F acts.'

Horace Prentice will engage  in  the retail 
furniture  business  at  Kalamazoo,  having 
purchased his stock at this market last week.
Chas. R. Sligh, vice-president  and general 
manager  of  the  Sligh  Furniture Co.,  has 
gone to New Orleans on a three weeks’ trip.

A b o u t  the Size o f  It.

From theNvatervliet Record.

Any manufacturer or wholesale  merchant 
who wishes to make his  business  known to 
three-fourths  of  the  retail  merchants  of 
Michigan should advertise in the Grand Rap­
ids Tradesm an.

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O F F IC E R S .

Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid.

Professor Dumas once said that the degree 
of civilization or of prosperity to  which any 
country  had  attained  might  be  measured 
with tolerable accuracy  by  the  quantity of 
sulphuric acid consumed in that country.  In 
referring to this  subject, a writer  in one of 
the London trade  papers  concludes  as fol­
lows:

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amazoo. 

President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal­
Second Vice-President—*B.  D*  Northrup,  Lan-
ThinfVice-President—Prank  Wurzburg,  Gr’d 
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Secretary—Jaoob Jesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller,  F.  W.
Next°place  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday, 

Rapids. 

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O F F IC E R S .

October 13,1885.

ter of a minute 

did I begin it?
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O R G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9, 1884.

Improved  Cinchona Bark. 

There was no little can,
There was no little man—

And a quart or more of kerosene was m it; 

He poured the oil, and in much less than quar­

Tbe tale’s too sad and—I can’t go on—Oh. w hy 

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

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Invention o f Importance.

One More Victim.
There was a little man,
And he had a little can,
And upon the kitchen fire,
To make it burn still higher.

President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige­
, T
low, Jas. S. Co win. 
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
„   T>
Wm. L. White. 
Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B. 
..  Tt
’ Kimm, A. C. Bauer. 
Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts,  O.  H.
Richmond, Jas. S. Co win. 
,  ...
Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchild, 
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in
each month. 
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
November. 
„
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  May  7, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

“If we put aside the sulphur mined in Sic­
ily, and the vast deposits not yet  worked  in 
Iceland, we really do  not  know  where  any 
abundant supply of this  valuable  substance 
is to be looked for in nature except in depos­
its of iron pyrites or mundic now  worked in 
Norway and Spain on an extensive  scale, as 
well as in some parts  of  America  and  Ire­
land.  But such deposits  do  not  appear to 
occur very frequently on the earth’s surface. 
Meantime, we are extracting  sulphur  from 
the soda residue, and so working it over and 
over  again  in  the  form  of sulphuric acid.
“In spite of this wonderfully ingenious un­
dertaking, the importance of  which  will in­
crease as years roll on, we notice  with some 
pleasure that an important discovery of  sul­
phur has been macle in  the  little-  island of 
Saba,  about  110  miles  southeast  of  St. 
Thomas. 
It is a volcanic  island, that  is, of 
volcanic  origin, 11  miles  in  circumference, 
and rises 2,800 feet out of  the  ocean.  The 
sulphur as mined  in Sicily  averages  about 
thirty per cent of pure sulphur;  that of the 
island of Saba is said to be considerably rich- 
j  er.  This island belongs to the Dutch.
I 
“Of recent years one  or  two  deposits  of 
I sulphur have been found  in  California, and 
the soil round clear Lake  yields  about  half 
its weight of pure brimstone, which is large­
ly worked, and now supplies  manufactories 
of sulphuric  acid  erected  in  the  neighbor- 
| hood.” 
] 
A correspondent  of  the  London  Chemist j 
^ machine which has  recently been  pat- 
and Druggist asks what will  the  druggists i 
j§ expected to work  wonders for  the 
say to improved cinchona bark? and  goes on  gouth.  The object of the  new  invention is 
to say: 
to grind cottonseed into meal, and by means
There are such things as cinchona barks of i 0f a small press to extract the  oil  from  the
poor quality, and some that are to  a  certain 
seed.  The machine occupies  a  space about 
extent worthless. %an they not be improved? 
five feet square and is eighteen inches across 
Is there no means by which the price of these 
the top. 
It is quite simple  in  construction, 
inferior barks can  be  brought  up to that of 
consisting of  two  revolving  feeders  on the 
the first-rate article?  It is only too true that
top which regulate the amount of seed which
a  certain  kind  of “improvement” has been | g0es jn .  underneath these is a pair of  crush- 
effected of late years.  This is done by means  jng rollers and below  these a third  set  of. 
of a  refuse  product, known  to  chemists  as | rollers to do the grinding.  There is a revolv- 
qainoidine, which can be obtained  at a reas-  jng sifter which separates the meal from the 
onable cost from manufacturers  of  quinine.  jmUs> the  former  after  passing  through a 
The  inferior  barks  are  moistoned  with an ■, sieve being caught in a box,  while  the  hulls 
alcoholic solution of quinoidine and immedi-1 pass to the end of the  machine  and  drop to 
ately rolled  in  cinchona  powder.  The  de-1 the floor.  By means of  the  new  machine 
vice is undoubtedly ingenious;  it  is difficult J  the cotton planters will be  able  to keep and
to  detect  the  sophistication;  but  it can be 
feed their stock  during  the  winter, and by 
detected,  and  if  any  of  our readers would 
using a small press they can make their own 
like  to  know  the  process  by which this is 
oil.  The poor planters can  hereafter  keep 
done we shall be happy to  supply the infor-
a large number of milch  cows  through the 
mation in  these  pages.  After  all,  there is j winfer) insuring a better supply of milk and 
not very great harm done in the world by the  hutter.  A machine, it is said, will  turn  out 
introduction  of  “improved”  bark;  it is the j sjx bushels of meal an hour.  The hulls can 
use(j f0r bedding for cattle, and  as  they 
principle of “improving” that is wrong.  Tin- 
suspecting  dealers  are  thus  caused  to pay j 
  up the liquid manure  an  excellent fer- 
k
considerably more for their  produce  than it [ tilizer is produced  which  will  enrich  the 
is worth;  but as quinoidine  really possesses j  jar^  an(j js an  economical  dressing.  When 
febrifuge qualities, though not so pronounced j  the cottonseed is to be  used  for  fertilizing 
as those of quinine,  it appears, from  a pure- j purp0ses only the jiachine can be  regulated 
ly medical point of view, to be a very ingen-1 simpiy to crush the^eed, the object being to 
ious method of getting rid of  this  superflu-  prevent sprouting.  The  machine  will  then 
ous quinoidine.  The harm done to the man-j turn  out 
twenty  bushels  an  hour.  The 
ufacture of quinine or  bark  tinctures is not j  machine  can  be  adapted to any  number  of 
so great;  but as  regards  the manufacture of j horse powers or  can be  used bv hand.
sulphate of quinine, he not only  pays  more j 
than the bark is worth, but the whole Of the I 
added  quinoidine  goes  into  his  residues,! 
T h e  leading features of  the  proposed En-
which gives to the whole concern not only a | Slish law known as  th®  T ow n  bill, prepar­
ed by the Privy Council, are as follows:
fraudulent but quite a comical aspect.
j  To transfer from  the  Pharmaceutical  So- 
j ciety to the Privy Council  exclusive  control 
I of the regulations respecting the sale of  poi­
son.

A  Massachusetts  correspondent calls our 
attention  to  the  publication,  about  thirty 
To  give the latter  body  power  to  frame
years ago, of a very successful cholera  cure, I ^ in s ti tu te  ~ regulation^  for  storing  poi- 
introduced in this way:  The captain of  an 
ng #
emigrant ship, coming from Europe, had lost I  To create a new class  of  poisons  which 
many of his passengers by cholera, although 
may be sold by any person who will observe 
freely  dosing  all  who  were  sick  with the
the provisions concerning labeling.
remedies  then  usual.  At  last  he  made a 
prescription of his own—one  teaspoonful of 
red pepper  and  a  tablespoonful  of  salt  to 
a  half  pint  of  boiling water,  to be  given
To repeal the exemption  granted  to  pat
as Dot as possible to every patientwhen first  ^  medlcine8 „  tlie rhaxmacy Act „{ i 868, 
taken. 
 ^  
It ts  said  that  tins  srmple  remedy j ^
p„teo„.
acted  as  a charm,  curing  all  the  cases on  M  ¡„rediento shouW „„  Iabeled  ..To 
board that ship, and  attaining  considerable j 
general  populaiity  during  the  time of that 
cholera  visitation.

To prevent the sale of what may be called 
“medical poisons” to  persons  under  seven­
teen years of age.

e , hat those 
ous ingredients should be 
used with caution.”

To legalize the dealing in poisons by drug­

Red Pepper and  Salt  for  Cholera.

Regulating  the  Sale of Poison, 

From the Scientific American.

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gists who employ a qualified assistant 

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Waterproof Cement for  Paper.

Labels can be attached to tin  boxes, or to \ 
other metallic surfaces which are exposed to j 
dampness, in the following manner:  Dilute 
white of egg in an  equal  quantity of  water, j 
or dissolve dry commercial  albumen  in two 
or three times its weight  of  water  and ap-1 
ply the liquid  with a brush  upon  the  two 
surfaces which are to  be  joined..  Iron the 
surface with a hot smoothing iron.  By join­
ing successive layers of paper, in  this  man­
ner paper boxes may be made, which will be 
waterpoof.

The  I) rug  Market.

Business and collections  have been  fairly 
good  during  the  past  week.  Quinine has 
advanced 2 cents per  ounce  for  German in 
large  bulk,  on  account  of  the  war news. 
American quinine,  however,  is  unchanged. 
Carbolic acid is firmer, with  higher  tenden­
cy.  The manufacturers  of  white lead have 
fqrmed a combination  and fixed the price at 
5% cents.  The  other  changes  in prices are 
merely nominal, and are without special sig­
nificance.

In Ceylon, says the Tropical Agricultur­
ist, a patch of four acres  planted  with car­
damons yielded  $6,000  in  one  year.  The 
statement may  be  worth  the  attention of 
those who are trying to  raise  dates,  olives 
and tea in California and elsewhere.

To create a distinction between medicines 
supplied on the prescription of  medical men 
and those supplied by a chemist and druggist 
without such prescription.

Paper  bottles  are  now  made  on  a large 
scale  in  Germany and Austria.  The paper 
must be well  sized  and  is  composed as fol­
lows :  Ten parts of rags, forty of straw, fifty 
of brown wood pulp.  The  paper is impreg­
nated  or  coated  on  both  sides  with sixty 
parts of defibrinated blood,  thirty-five  parts 
of lime powder, and five parts of sulphate of 
alumina. 
twelve 
rolled  leaves  are  coated  again, placed over 
each  other and  then  put into heated molds. 
The albumen of  the blood forms a combina­
tion,  on  pressure  with  the  lime,  which is 
perfectly impermeable to spirituous  liquors. 
These bottles are made in two pieces, which 
are joined  afterwards.

After  drying,  ten  or 

A decision affecting  cubeb  cigarettes  has 
been rendered to the effect  that  no tax will 
be demanded if cigarettes contain cubebs on­
ly; but if they contain any other  medication 
they will be classed as  ordinary  cigarettes, 
and made liable to all the provisions  of  the 
tobacco-tax.

Some of the  wine  makers  of  California, 
taking advantage of  the  uncertainty  of  the 
local market, are  endeavoring  to  introduce 
their products into  England  and  India di­
rect.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Gum Camphor.
Declined—Balsam  Copabia,  Japónica,  Oil 

Wintergreen.

 

 

 

AC ID S.
Acetic, No.  8..................... 
  Jj  ©
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........  30  @
Carbolic............................................  
@
Citric..................... L.........................   55  @
Muriatic 18  deg...............................  
f   ©
J} ©
Nitric 36 deg....................................... 
Sulphuric 66d eg ............................ 
g  ©
owdered. 
Twtarii»  nnwdered...........................  0(4
Tartaric  P'
nglish....................^ o z
t,  E:
Benzoic.
Benzoic,  German............................
Tannic...............................................  **

12  © '

AM M ONIA.

Carbonate.................................$  a
Muriate (Powd. 82c;.........................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................

BALSAMS.

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

BA RK S.
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..........................
b e r r i e s .
Cubeb  prime (Powd 1 00c)........
Juniper.............................................
Prickly Ash......................................
Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.....  ... 
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
...............
Lgowood, V4s 
do 
Logwood, Ms 
do 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...■■••• -• 
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

e x t r a c t s .

f l o w e r s .

Chamomile,  Roman.. 
Chamomile,  German.

15

50@55
40
2  00 
50

11
18
13
14

15 10 
12 

20 
18 
30 
12

27
37M
9
12
13 
15
14

10  @

Aloes,  Barbadoes.........................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).. ...............
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac................ . • • .................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked........ .................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,  3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts..-••••••••••••
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c).
Benzoin.........................................
Camphor..........•••••••••••.'.........
Catechu. Is (V% 14c, Ms 16c)  ............
Euphorbium powdered..................
Galbanum strained......................... 
.Gamboge.......................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................
Myrrh. Turkish '(Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.40)..... .........
Shellac, Campbell’s .........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native. ...............................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth......................................  ”u
H E R B S—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

60®  75
17 
50 
30 
65 
60 
50 
45 a5
25 
55@60
20®   22 
13 
40 
80 
m
00 
a*
35 
20
40 
3 90 
30
26 
24 
30
@1  00

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Hoarhound.......................................................5?
Lobelia.............................................................. ..
Peppermint................................... ■••••’..........7?
Rue— ........................................................£
Spearmint........................................................
Sweet Majoram................................................ "j?
Tanzy....................................................................
Thym e...................  
2?
Wormwood.......................................................™

IR O N .

LEA VES.

Citrate and  Quinine..................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
j  Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
Citrate..............................................
I  Phosphate.......................................
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   13  @
I  Sage, Italian, bulk (Ms & Ms, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   1°
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane......................................
Rose, red......................................

6 40 
20 
7
80
65
14 
6 
20 
30 
22 
16 
10 
35 
30 
35 
2 35

LIQ U O R S.

@2 25 
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky .2 00
@2  00 
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.............1  75
@1 50 
Whisky, other brands.................. 1  10
@1 75 
Gin, Old Tom......................................... J j*
@3 50 
Gin,  Holland................   
2 00
@6 50
Brandy...................................................J ¿5
Catawba  Wines.............................J  §5  ®2 00
Port Wines........ .............................. 165  @2 50

M AGNESIA.

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

22 
37
2 25 
65

O IL S .

l°

Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber,  rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay ¡p  oz.........................................
Bergamont........................................
Castor................................................ 
Croton...............................................
Cajeput............................................
Cassia................................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella........................................
Cloves....................................... •••••
Cod Liver,  filtered.......... 
. ^ gal
Cod Liver, best.........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  p  oz..................... .
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new  crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.................. ..  •
Lemongrass......................................
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  .  —
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal.....................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose  p  oz.........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 50)
Salad.................................................
Savin............................... ..................
Sandal  Wood. German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ..........................
Sassafras...........................................
Spearmint  ..............................
Tansy ......................................
Tar (by gal 50c).................................
Wintergreen..........................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $5.00).......
Wormseed........................................

Ì  50 
45
1  85 
50
1 80 
%  19M
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  10
2 75
1 25 
50
1 60
4  75
8 50 
65
65  @  67 
4 50 
7 00 
55 
@7 00 
@5 00 
@  12
2  10 
4 00 
2 00

1 00 

4 50 
10

do 
do 

PO TASSIU M .

Bicromate.................................P ft
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prus^iate yellow..............................

ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut........................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in %,B and Hs.'...
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 12%)........
Licorice, extra select................
Pink,true..................   •••••«•..........„  ^
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhel, powdered E. I ........ ............... 110
Rhel, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhel, choice cut fingers.................

/

14 
.  40 
19 
2 90 
28

20
25
17 
33 
12
18 
35 
20 
10
@  14 
17 
25 
25 
110 
30 
12 
15 
35 
@1 50 
2 00 
% 25

@1 20 

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
2 00
........ 
Nassau 
do 
do 
1 10
. . . .  
Velvet Extra do 
do 
ExtraYellow do 
do 
85
........ 
65
do 
Grass 
........ 
do 
Hard head, for slate use................  
75
Yellow Reef, 
................. 
1  40

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

12

do 
do 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ... 
do 

40 
‘  50 
i@  13 
75 
60
3 00@3 25 
40
♦

1581 00 
10 
12 
10 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.22) p gal__  
2 32
1 25
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s....................... 
,50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution......... 
27
12
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
45
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................ 
Alum.........................................  P ft  2M@  3M
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  @  4
Annatto, prime...............................  
45
4M@  5
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........  
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  @  7
Blue  Soluble....................................  
50
2 75
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............  
2 00
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................  
40
Beans,  Tonka..................................  
1 35
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00  @9 75
2 30
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................  
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)....................... 
50
6  @  7
Blue Vitriol  ....................................  
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............  
12
2 25
Cantharides, Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
18
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
22
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ... 
18
Carmine, No. 40.......:......................  
4 00
12
Cassia  Buds..................................... 
75
Calomel. American......................... 
Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
5
Chalk, precipitate English...........  
12
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................  
8
Chalk, white lump..........................  
2
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
1  60
Colocynth  apples............................ 
60
1 50
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 78
cryst... 
Chloral 
Chloral 
1 90
Chloral 
crusts.. 
1 75
Chloroform......................................  85  @  90
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*............   40  @  45
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   40  @  45
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................  18  @  20
Cochineal......................................... 
40
45
Cocoa  Butter.................................. 
Copperas (by bbl  lc)....................... 
2
70
Corrosive Sublimate.......................  
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
@  40
Cream Tartar, pure powdered....... 
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
15
Creasote............................................  
50
Cudbear,  prime...............................  
24
24
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
12
Dextrine........................................... 
1  10
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
50
Dragon’s Blood Mass...................... 
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
45
Ether Squibb’s .................................  
110
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............  
8
2  @  3
Epsom Salts...................................... 
50
Ergot, fresh......................................  * 
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............... 
60
Flake white...................................... 
14
Grains  Paradise.............................. 
25
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................  
90
Gelatine. French  ............................  45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 7') off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cannet........  .......................   12  ®  17
Glue,white.......................... ............  16  @  28
Glycerine, pure...............................   16  @  20
Hops  Ms and Ms.............................. 
25@  40
Iodoform 18  oz................................. 
40
® i  no
Indigo
@  40
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35
4 00
Iodine,  resublimed.........................
1 50
Isinglass,  American.......................
7 . 
Japonica...........................................
©  15
London  Purple...............................  10
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (Ms 2s 10c & Ms 11c)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium ... .^..............................
Mace................ .*...............................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................
Manna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ $  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................$  ft
Moss,  Irish......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1..................... .'..........
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, Md..............
Paris Green....................................  
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin................................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia............................................  
6
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... ft oz  90
Quinine,  German............................  90
Red  Precipitate.......................^ ft
Seidlitz  Mixture..............................
Strychnia, cryst...............
Silver Nitrat«, cryst.......
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 3c].....................
Spermaceti........................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s —  
Soap, White Castile 
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
Soap, 
do  do
Soap, Mazzini
SpiritsNitre,3F..............................  26
30
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .......
Sugar Milk powdered 
Sulphur, flour 
Sulphur,  roll.
Tartar Emetic 
Tar, N. C. Pine, M gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
do  quarts in tin............ 
Tar, 
do  pints in tin...............  
Turpentine,  Venice................ ]8 ft 
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 
Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder....................................................60
Shields  Cylinder..................................................50
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 3o
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg..................................................22
Paraffine, 28  deg.................................................21
Gal
Bbl
75
70
70
60
60
50
53
50
56
53
90
70
36
40
..1 10@1 20
..1 60@1  7C
..2 75@3 0C
..1 00@1 1C
..1 55@1 6C
,  70®  75
Lb 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2H@ 3 
254® 3 
J3@16 
60@65 
16@17 
554 
6  54 
@70 
@90 
1  10 
1 40 
1 20@1 40 
1 00@1 20

Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp..................
Bbl
Red Venetian............................  Di
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........   1M
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  13£
Putty, commercial..................   2)4
Putty, strictly pure..................  2t£
Vermilion,prim'e  American..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure.. 
Lead, white, strictly pur 
Whiting, white Spanish.
Whiting,  Gildersr
White, Paris American............
Whiting  Paris English oliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  Paints..... 
Swiss Villa Prepared Paints..

30 
18 
23 
60 
45 
25 
18 
: 50
@ 7
® 95
@ 95
85
28
1 60
@ 80
35
@ 2
10
9
33
2 15
6 50
38
4
35
5
14
17
9
11
14
@ 28
@ 32OK
Oil
4
54®
354
60
2  70
140
85
25
55
7  @  8

Whale, winter 
Lard, extra 
Lard./No.  1 
Linseed, pure  raw
Linseed, boiled..................................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........

v a r n i s h e s .

@ 2V4

P A IN TS.

O IL S .

77

17

4 

2

*

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)
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................
Cardamon, Malabar.....................
Celery............................................
Coriander, Dest English..............
Fennel...........................................
Flax, clean.......................................  
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3M).................. 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
Mustard, white  Black 10c)...........  
Quince.............................................. 
Rape, English..................................  
Worm, Levant................................. 

SPONGES.

40
20
15
25
20

15
5 @ 6
4 @ 4V4
15 @ 18
2 U0
2 25
20
10
15
354®
4  @  iy%
7  @  8
5  @  6
8
75
6  @  7
14

H Â Z Ë ÏfÎN Ë ,
PERKINS
&  C O

A Windy Conclusion.

From the Merchant Traveler.

“Is March a drummer, mamma?” said 
“Why, no.  What makes you ask, my dear?” 

A little girl with manners arch.
“Because there’s so much wind in 

March.”

The Gripsack  Brigade.

A. D. Baker  will  spend  next  Sunday in 

Traverse City.

F. H.  Browne,  Michigan  representative 
for S. J. Foree & Co., tobacco manufacturers 
of Louisville, is in town  for  a week  or ten 
days.

It is stated that  W. G.  Hawkins  contem­
plates retiring from  the road  and  engaging 
in the manufacture of  phosphates  for fertil­
izing purposes.

Arthur T. Heed, formerly of the  firm  of 
Parker & Heed, of  Muskegon,  has  gone  on 
the  road  for  Blake, Shaw  &  Co.—“Dake 
Bakery”—of Chicago.  His territory includes 
all available towns North  of  the  line of the 
Detroit, Grand  Haven  &  Milwaukee  Rail* 
way, including  the  Upper  Peninsula.  He 
was in Grand Rapids last Saturday.

Thomas Macleod, Western  Michigan trav­
eling representative for H. P. Baldwin 2d & 
Co., of Detroit, was in town Saturday on his 
way home.  He states that  the  M. C. T. A. 
is in a  flourishing  condition, 
the  Pitwood 
death  causing  the  first  death  assessment 
for six months.  The Association has already 
voted the $2,500  insurance  carried  by  Mr. 
Pittwood,  and  is  ready  to pay the same as 
soon as a guardian is  appointed for the ben­
eficiary.

Under the caption of “Truth Stranger than 
Fiction,” Leo  A. Caro  sends  the Merchant 
Traveler a sketch  of  the  recent  career  of 
Judd Houghton, an Osceola county boy, who 
for a time traveled for the late firm of Well­
ing & Carhart, of  this  city.  On  being  dis­
covered “short” in  his  accounts, he  fled  to 
Denver, where he enlisted in  the  34th  regi­
ment, U. S. Army,  stationed at  Fort Garry, 
and afterward at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. 
Tiring of army life, he  deserted  and  went 
to Leadville, where he  found  employment 
as bartender  in  a  gambling  establishment. 
In June, 1884, a  discharged  sergeant  from 
the same company  recognized  the  deserter, 
and demanded $50 hush-money. 
Instead of 
making his peace witli the sergeant, Hough­
ton  succeeded in  getting  him  drunk  and 
stealing his discharge papers, with which he 
fled to Denver, where he  made  a “raise” in 
a faro bank.  While on his  way to St. Louis, 
he was arrested as a deserter, but  on  show­
ing the stolen  papers, was  discharged  from 
custody.  He then proceeded to his home in 
this State, where he arrived  just  in time to 
prevent his wife from getting  a divorce.  A 
reconciliation  followed,  and  Houghton  is 
now “butchering”  on  the D., L. &  N. Rail­
way.  The story  reads  a  good  deal  like a 
dime novel, and it  would  be  interesting  to 
know how much is truth  and  how  much is 
fiction.

Organization of a Local Post of the T. P. A.
Pursuant to call, the following  gentlemen 
assembled at T iie  Tradesman  office  last 
Saturday evening for  the  purpose of  organ­
izing a local post of the  Travelers’  Protec­
tive Asssociation:  James Fox, Geo. F. Ow­
en, Geo. W. McKay,  D. S. Haugh,  Leo  A. 
Caro, L. C. Bradford,  W.  S.  Horn,  L. M. 
Mills, A. D. Baker, John B.  Read, and  Ar­
thur T. Reed, of Muskegon.

A letter  was  read  from  J. L. McCauley, 
Vice-President for Michigan of the T. P. A., 
regretting his inability to be present.

Geo. F. Owen was  made  chairman of  the 

meeting and Leo  A. Caro secretary.

Mr. Caro stated the objects of the Nation­
al Association, setting  forth  the  benefits to 
be derived from a local organization.

Mr. Horn moved that it be  the  sense  of 
the meeting that  the  present  temporary or­
ganization be  made  permanent, which  was 
adopted.

Geo. W. McKay was elected vice-president 

and James Fox  treasurer.

On motion, the chair appointed the follow­
ing committee to draft a constitution and by­
laws for the government of the society:  Leo 
A. Caro, W. S. Horn and L. Max  Mills.

On motion of  Mr.  Fox, 

the  committee 
were instructed to embody in  their  report a 
by-law providing for the  bestowal of  a cer­
tain amount on each member in case of sick­
ness, the same to be raised by assessment.

On motion, the name of  the  organization 
was made the “Grand Rapids Post T.  P. A.
Mr. Owen related the experience  of  a fel­
low traveler at a certain  hotel in  Niles, and 
Mr. Mills set forth the  necessity  for  a rival 
bus line at  Lowell.

The meeting then  adjoururd, to  meet  at 
The Tradesman office on  Saturday  even­
ing, May 2, at 7:30 o’clock sharp.

The new society starts  out  auspiciously, 
witli good promise of  enabling the members 
to accomplish much effective work in the di­
rection in which they will  exert  their  ener­
gies.

Monthly Meeting of the M. C. T. A.

Detroit, April 6,1885. 

Editor of T h e   T r a d e s m a n  :

At the regular monthly  meeting  of  the 
Board of  Trustees of  the M. C.  T. A., held 
at  their  rooms  Saturday  evening,  April 4, 
1885, official notice of  the death  of Wm. H. 
Pitwood, of Mitchell, Dakota, was  received.
On motion a warrant was  ordered  drawn 
for  $2,500  in  favor  of  his  beneficiary (his 
daughter), as soon as the proofs of death and 
the  necessary  papers,  etc.,  were  filed with 
the Secretary.

On motion, advance death assessment No. 
1 for  1885  was  ordered  to  be made to date 
from April 20, and close 30 days from  date.
Payment  of  semi-annual  dues  expires 

April 30.

W. N. Meredith, 
Secretary M. C. T. A.

W h o lesa le

Druggists !

42 and  44  Ottawa  Street  and 89, 91, 93  and 

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co., a n d J ohn L. W rit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Pa in t  a nd  T arnish 

B rushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  R apids  Brush  Co.,  Ma n f’rs  of 

H a ir, Shoe a n d H orse B rushes.

D ruggists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness is  conceded to be  one  of  the  largest, 
best-assorted and diversified to be  found  in 
the Northwest.  We are heavy importers of 
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

W ithers Dade &Cu’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  br an$>  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  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  *

Favorite

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

Gins, Branflies-& Fme Wines.

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 Medioines, etc., we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

H fflT IM M K IlJC O

Wholesale  Grocers,

S o lo   O w n ers  o f

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

The Best and Most Attractive Goods on the  Market.  Send for 

A R A B   PLUG-!
Chew BOOT  P LU G
AND  GET  A  PAIR  OF  BOOTS.
B O O T   P L U G G

124

MATTINGS,

OIL  CLOTHS

ETC.,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand  Rapids,

Michigan-

RAND  RAPIDS  M’F’G  CO,

A M E R C A N T IL E   JO U R N A L , P U B L IS H E D   E A C H  

W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A. STOWE  & BBO., Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING,  3d  FLOOR.
[Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand Rapids  as 

Secondrclaqs Matter .1

WEDNESDAY.  APRIL  15,  1885.

The Last Shot of the  Season.
O, the plumber.
The rich old plumber!
Won’t he go it strong next  summer? 
He can sport  store-clothes 
Lay off at spas,
Happy

And shining collars,
And spend his $  $  $  $.

Happy

Happy old plumber!
To whom a cold winter 

Brings a warm summer.

. 

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last  Resort.

M O R T G A G E — D E B T — P A Y M E N T .

Where the records show  the  existence of 
a mortgage on real  estate, to  secure a nego­
tiable debt not yet due, a purchaser  of  the 
land who makes payment  of  the debt to the 
mortgagee without requiring the  production 
of the mortgage or other proper  evidence of 
the authority to satisfy the record, is  guilty 
of carelessness, and makes  the  payment  at 
his peril.  So held by the United States Cir­
cuit Court for the District  of  Kansas.  The 
oourt declared that the mortgage  was but an 
incident to the debt partaking of its negotia­
bility, and that a party purchasing  the  land 
and seeking to remove the incumbrance was 
obliged to take care that  he  made  payment 
to the proper party.

F I R E  

IN S U R A N C E — “ V A C A N T ”  

P R E M IS E S .
Where the owner of a dwelling, who after 
a tenant has vacated the premises moves his 
furniture into and cleans up the  house with 
an intention of making it  his  residence, but 
during that time does not  actually occupy it 
at night, subsequently leaves  it  temporarily 
on business, and puts a  party  in  possession 
until his return, the house cannot be consid­
ered as “vacant or unoccupied,”  within  the 
meaning of a  clause  in  a  policy  providing 
that if the insured  building  shall “be or be­
come vacant or unoccupied” the policy shall 
be void unless consent in writing is indorsed 
thereon, and he will be  entitled  to  recover 
for a loss occurring during  such  temporary 
absence.  So held by the  Supreme  Court of 
Michigan in the case  of  Slackelton  vs. Sun 
Fire  Office.

S A L E   O F   STO CK   H E L D   F O R   D E B T .

The case of the  First  National  Bank of 
Xenia vs. Stewart et al., decided  by the  Su­
preme Court of the United States, was a suit 
brought against the bank by the administra­
tors of one McMillan  on  account  of the al­
leged appropriation and sale by the  bank of 
certain shares of his own  stock  which  be­
longed to McMillan, but  which  were in the 
bank’s custody.  The bank  justified  its ac­
tion upon the ground that McMillan  was its 
debtor to an amount greater  than the value 
of the stock, and that the stock  was  put in 
its hands as collateral security for  indebted­
ness.  The Supreme Court held that the ver­
dict of the jury in the trial below legally es­
tablished the fact that the bank did not hold 
the stock in question as security for  McMil­
lan’s indebtedness.  “The contention of  the 
bank, therefore,” the  court  says, “comes to 
this—that a creditor who  has  possesion of 
the property of his debtor as his agent, trus­
tee, or  bailee  may,  without  reducing  his 
debt to judgment and without the process or 
order nf any court, and without the  consent 
and against the will  of  the  debtor, sell or 
otherwise dispose of the property and apply 
its proceeds to the payment of his debt.  We 
do not think the  law  gives  a creditor  any 
such right.”

Unprofitable  Counterfeiting;.

“I have a unique counterfeit  silver dollar 
here,” said a bank cashier, as lie threw what 
appeared  to  be  a  Mexican silver  dollar on 
the show-case.  It was dated 1851, and when 
compared with a genuine dollar  a  slight  ir­
regularity  in the  word “Mexicana” was ap­
parent.

“Treasury officials  have recently told the 
public that counterfeiters have been making 
cents out of pure copper,  and  quarters and 
halves out of  genuine coin  silver,  obtained 
by buying and  melting  trade  dollars.  The 
difference  between  the  actual  value of the 
coin  as  bullion  and  its  face  value as coin 
left a liberal margin  of  profit.  But  in this 
counterfeit  greaser,  the  counterfeiters  got 
badly left.  It was made in 1854.  The coun­
terfeiters bought a quantity of silver and di­
luted it so  that  a  dollar would be worth, as 
they supposed, 91 
cents.  A couple of these 
dollars came into the possession of  my fath- 
, er.  He was acquainted will Mexican bullion, 
and concluded to have one of the dollars an­
alyzed.  The  91 %  cents’  worth  of silver 
panned out, and, in addition,  there  were 12 
cents in gold.”

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

W ID B  BROW N COTTONS.

 

P R IN T S .

S IL E S IA S .

CHECKS.

bric, 4-4....... 

 

BLEACHED COTTONS.

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  74
Laconia  B, 7-4.........164
Lyman B, 40-in....... 104
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  54
Nashua  E, 40-in___ 84
Nashua  R, 4-4........   74
Nashua 0,7-8..........  64
Newmarket N.  ___ 64
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7
Pepperell  R, 4-4___ 74
Pepperell  O, 7-8___ 64
Pepperell N, 3-4___ 64
Pocasset  C, 4-4.........64
Saranac  R...............  74
Saranac  E ...............  9

Mason ville TS........   8
Mason ville  S...........104
Lonsdale................   94
Lonsdale A ..............16
Nictory  O...............
Victory J ................
Victory D ...............
Victory  K...............  24
Phoenix A ............... 194
Phoenix  B.............   104
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........64
Pacific  robes...........6
Richmond................6
Steel River.............. 54
Simpson’s ................6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington  blues.  74

Pepperell, 10-4........25
Pepperell, li-4........274
Pequot,  7-4.............18
Pequot,  8-4.............21
Pequot,  9-4.............24
Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz..............11
Otis Apron..............104
Otis  Furniture.......104
York,  1  oz............... 10
York, AA, extra oz.14 
OSNABURG.Alabama  plaid.........7
Augusta plaid........   7
Toledo plaid...........   7
Manchester plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid............  64
Greene, G, 4-4........   54
Hill, 4-4....................  74
 
Hill, 7-8....... 
64
Hope,  4-4.................. 64
King  Phillip  cam­
114
Linwood,  4-4..........  74
Lonsdale,  4-4..........  74
Lonsdale  cambric. 104 
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  94
Langdon,  45............14
Masonville,  4-4.......8
Maxwell. 4-4...........   94
64|New York Mill, 4-4.104
New Jersey,  4-4__ 8
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  74 
Pride of the West. .11
Pocahontas,  4-4___ 74
Slaterville, 7-8........   64
Victoria, AA..........9
Woodbury, 4-4.......... 54
Whitinsville,  4-4...  74
Whitinsville, 7-8___ 64
W amsutta, 4-4.........104
Williamsville,  36...104

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4.........164
Pepperell,  8-4.........20
Pepperell,  9-4.........224
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..........94
Kentucky  brown.. 104 
Lewiston  brown...  94
Lane brown...........   94
Louisiana  plaid...
Avondale,  36..........  84
Art  cambrics,36...114 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  84 
Androscoggin, 5-4. .124
Ballou, 4-4.  ............  64
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott,  0 . 4-4 
..  84
Boott,  E. 5-5
Boott, AGC, 4-4----
94sii
Boott, R. 3-4..........
Blackstone, AA 4-4 
Chapman, X, 4-4...
Conway,  4-4..........
Cabot, 4-4.............
Cabot, 7-8...............
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  74
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  9
Davol, 4-4...............  9
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  84 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  74 
Fruit of  the  Loom,
cambric,  4-4........ 11
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  64
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded Age............. 84
Crown.....................17
No.  10..................... 124
Coin........................ 10
Anchor................... 15
Centennial.............
Blackburn.............   8
Davol.......................14
London__ .'.............124
Paconia..................12
Red  Cross...............10
Social  Imperial — 16
Albion, solid............54
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........54
Aden’s  fancy...........54
Allen’s pink.’. .......... 64
Allen’s purple.......... 64
American, fancy— 54
Arnold fancy........... 6
Berlin solid............... 54
Cocheco  fancy........8
Cocheco robes..........64
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddy ston e.............. 6
Eagle fancy.............5
Garner pink........* .64
Appleton  A, 4-4—   74
Boott  M, 4-4...........   64
Boston  F, 4-4..........74
Continental C, 4-3..  64 
Continental D, 40 in 84 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  64 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  54 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 3-4........ 54
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  54
Dwight Z, 4-4..........64
Dwight Star, 4-4—   7 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Great Falls E ,4-4...  7
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......6
Indian  Orchard  1-4 74'
Amoskeag.............   74
Amoskeag, Persian
styles....................104
Bates.......................74
Berkshire.............   64
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y 74 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........   8
Gloucester, 
standard.............   74
Plunket..................  74
Lancaster...............  8
Langdale
Androscoggin, 7-4. .21 
iPeppereil.  10-4.......274
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 23  Pepperell,  11-4......... 324
Pepperell,  7-4....... 20  Pequot,  7-4...............21
Pepperell,  84....... 224 Pequot,  84...............24
Pepperell,  94 ....... 25  ¡Pequot,  94...............274
Atlantic  A, 4-4.......  7 4 ¡Lawrence XX, 44..  74
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......7  Lawrence  Y, 30—   7
Atlantic  D, 4-4.......64 Lawrence LL, 44...  54
Newmarket N........ 64
Atlantic P, 44........   54
Mystic River, 44...  54
Atlantic  LL, 4-4—   54
Pequot A, 44..........  74
Adriatic, 36.............  74
Piedmont,  36..........64
Augusta, 4-4...........   64
Stark AA, 44..........  74
Boott  M, 44...........   64
Tremont CC, 4-4__ 54
Boott  FF, 44..........  74
Utica,  44................   9
Graniteville, 4-4—   54 
Wachusett,  4-4.......74
Indian  Head,4-4...  7 
Wachusett, 30-in...  64
Indiana Head 45-in. 124
Falls, XXXX......... 184
Amoskeag,  ACA... 14 
Falls, XXX.............154
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB................114
Amoskeag,  A ........13
Falls,  BBC, 36........194
Amoskeag,  B ........12
Falls,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  C........11
Hamilt on,  BT, 32.. 12
Amoskeag,  D ........104
Hamilton,  D..........  94
Amoskeag,  E ........10
Hamilton,  H ..........94
Amoskeag, F ..........94
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  A, 44— II
....16
Methuen AA..........134
Premium  B 
...16
Methuen ASA........18
Extra 44. 
Omega A, 7-8......... 11
Extra 7-8. 
...144
Omega A, 4-4......... 13
...15
Gold Med
Omega ACA, 7-8__14
CCA 7-8.......
...124
...14
Omega ACA, 44__16
CT 4-4..........
Omega SE, 7-8........24
...14
RC 7-8..........
...16
Omega SE, 4 4 ........27
BF 7-8..........
Omega M. 7-8........22
...19
A F44..........
Omega M, 44......... 25
...14
Cordis AAA 
Shetucket SS&S3W 114 
...15
Cordis ACA
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
...15
Cordis No. 1
Shetucket,  SFS 
..12
Cordis  No. 2...........14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3...........13
Stockbridge frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4...........114
Garner....................5  ¡Empire  ....................
Hookset..................5  ¡Washington.............   4%
Red  Cross...............  5  ¡Edwards..................  5
Forest Grove.......... 
|S. S. & Sons............  5
American  A ....... 18 001Old  Ironsides..........15
Stark A ................... 2241Wheatland............. 21
Boston....................  6% ¡Otis CC....................104
Everett blue..........134 Warren  AXA........ 124
Everett brown......134|Warren  BB............114
Otis  AXA.............. 124 Warren CC..............104
OtisBB...................114¡York  fancy............134
Manville..................   6 
|S. S. & Sons.............  6
Masgnville..............  6  ¡Garner...................   6
Red  Cross...............  74 ¡Thistle Mills...........
Berlin......................  74 Rose........................   8
Garner....................  741
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

Renfrew, dress styl  74 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............124
Johnson  Manfg Co,
dréss  styles........ 124
Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  74
White Mfg Co, stap  74 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston.................8
Gordon......................74
dress 
Greyloek, 

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

checks,
new

styles  .............  

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

SPO OL COTTON.

G R A IN   BAGS.

TIC K IN G S.

W IG AN S.

DENIM S.

14-4.

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Mer ricks.................40
Stafford...................25
Hall & Manning__ 25
Holyoke...................25
Kearsage................  84
Naumkeag8atteen.  84 
Pepperell  bleached 84
Pepperell sat..........94
Rockport................   7
Lawrence sat..........  84
Conegosat...............  7

CO RSET JE A N S .

Armory..................  74
Androscoggin sat..  84
Canoe River...........   6
Clarendon.................64
Hallowell  Imp.......64
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7
Laconia..................   74

It is proposed to  form a company,  with  a 
capital stock of 375,000,  for the  purpose of 
doing the towing on  the  Erie  canal  in  a 
wholesale way. 
It v?ill  require  600  mules, 
and by the proposed system 350 boats can be 
towed at 13 cents  a  mile  for  the  season, 
whereas under the present practice  of  indi­
vidual towing it costs 23 cents  per mile.

Thomas Schofield, aged 91  years,  walked 
nine  miles  to  pay  his  subscription to a pa­
per. 
It  is  the  general  impression  among 
publishers that there  are  a  number  of  sub­
scribers who are  waiting  until  they  are 91 
years old to come in and pay for their paper.

COAL AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl...................
1  00 
Ohio White Lime, car lots..................
85 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl................
1 30 
Akron Cement per  bbl........................
1  30 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl.....................
1 30 
Car lots
.1 05@1  10
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25®  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
6 50
Land plaster, car lots......................... 
2 50
Fire brick, per  M...................................$25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl............................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots..  6 25@6 60
Cannell, car lots...............................  @6 00
Ohio Lump, car lots.........................  3 10@3 25
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00 
Portland Cement...........................  3 50@4 00

COAL.

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PROPRIETORS  OF  THE

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ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR

Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

.A.rotio  Baking  Powder.

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

97  and 99 Canal Street, 

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Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

SPRING  &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

See  Onr  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Car  Lots, 
f  e are prepared to make Bottom Prices oa anything we handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON,

3 Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

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

can not be  excelled.  Chewers who have  given  it 

a trial will  take no  other.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

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.

H O W   TO  GET  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.

T o b a cco   M anufacturers,

Canal  and  Monroe  Streets,  CH ICAGO ,  ILL.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL  FIRST  CLASS  JOBBERS.

FARMING  TOOLS  OF  ALL  DESCRIPTIONS  !

Dairy  Implements  a  Specialty.

Factory—Corner Front and Earl streets.  Office and Sales­

rooms—10,  12 and 14 Lyron street,  Grand  Rapids.

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Woodenware, Twines and Cordage, Paper, Stationery,  Ker­

osene and Machine Oils,  Naptha and Gasoline.

51 and 53 Lyon Street

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SAMPLES  FURNISHED  ON  APPLICATION.

S.  W,  Venable  &  Co.,  Petersburg,  Va.
Oysters 
and Fish 117  MONROE  ST.
JOB  PRINTING

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

velopes,  Blank Orders,  Circulars,  Dodgers,  Etc.,  Neatly 

and Promptly Executed at The Tradesman office.

CONSTITUTION

And By-Laws of the Traverse City Business 

Mien’s Association.

CONSTITUTION.
A rticle I—N ame.

This organization shall be called the Trav­

erse City Business Mente Association.

A rticle  II—Object.

The objects of this Association shall be to 
cultivate better  social  relations, for  mutual 
„protection, and to promote the general inter­
ests of its members and of the  Grand Trav­
erse Region.

A rticle III—Membership.

Sec.  1.  Any  merchant,  manufacturer, 
dealer, manager  or proprietor of  an  estab­
lished, honorable business,  who has resided 
in Traverse City for the space of six months, 
and is a taxpayer, shall be  eligible to mem­
bership.

Sec. 2.  Any person desiring to become a 
member of this Association, must  be recom­
mended by two members  in  good  standing, 
receive three-fourths vote  of  the  members 
present at any regular meeting pay the Secre­
tary the sum of two dollars as a membership 
fee, and sign the Constitution and By-Laws.

A rticle IV —Honorary Members.
This Association, by a three-fourths  vote, 
at any regular meeting,  shall  have power to 
admit persons  as  honorary  members, who 
shall be entitled to all the  privileges of  the 
Association, except voting, but shall  not be 
amenable to the rules  and  regulations  pre­
scribed for regular  membership.

A rticle  V —Officers.

The annual dues shall be  50 cents a quar­

ter, payable in advance.

Honorary members shall pay  one  dollar j 
.  i

per year. 

A rticle IV—Disabilities.

No member who is in arrears  for  fees or j 
dues sh:i!l be entitled to vote or to any of the j 
privileges of the Association.

A rticle V—Expulsion.

Any member guilty of an act that shall re­
flect upon the  good  name  and  character of 
the Association, may be dropped from mem­
bership upon a  three-fourths  vote  of  the 
members present at any regular meeting.
A rticle VI—V isiting Members.

Only those eligible to  membership  shall 
be admitted  as visitors to regular  meetings.

A rticle  VII—V oting.

All officers and three members at  large of 
the Executive Committee shall be  voted for 
by ballot without nomination.
A rticle  V III—V oting  for  Members.
Persons seeking admission to the Associa­

tion shall be voted for by ballot.

A rticle  IX.

A majority of a committee shall constitute 

a quorum of any committee.

A rticle  X—Treasurer’s  bond.

The Treasurer shall give a bond for  $500, 
with two good  sureties, to be  approved by 
the Executive Committee.
A rticle  XI—Compensation  of  Secre­

tary.

The general Secretary of  the  Association 
shall be paid such  compensation as  may be 
decided upon  by the  Executive  Committee.

A rticle XII—Rules.

Ordinary parliinentary rules to govern the 

deliberations of this Association.

The officers of this Association  shall con­
sist of a President, two Vice-Presidents, Sec 
retary and Treasurer.

A rtice  XIII—A mending B y-Law s.
These by-laws may be amended by a three- 
fourtlis vote of the members  present at  any 
regular meeting.

A rticle V I—D uties of Officers.
It shall be the duty  of  the  President to 
preside at all meetings of the Association, to 
preserve order, to  appoint standing commit
All communications from  the committees, 
tees on rating, transportation, and finance, to 
such as lists, circulars, statements, etc., shall
perform such other duties as usually pertain I ]je considered as strictly  private  and  confi
to presidents of such organizations.
dential.  They are for the use and benefit of 
A rticle VII—D uty of  1st  V ice-Presi­
the members of the  Association exclusively. 
Any member making an  improper  use  of 
such will lose his membership  and  all  the 
privileges of the Association.

A rticle  XIV.

It shall be the duty of  the  1st Vice-Pres­
ident to preside in the absence of the  Presi­
dent, and during such  absence  to  perform 
the duties of that officer.

OBLIGATIONS.

dent.

1. 

It shall be the duty of each member to 
furnish the Association  with  the  names of 
his objectionable and delinquent  customers 
and to furnish any other information  which 
will be of advantage to the members.

2.  The  Association shall  provide a book 
in which to keep a register  of  objectionable 
and delinquent  customers  and other  useful 
information for the use  and  inspection only 
of the members.

3.  Any member  exposing  this  book  or 
the names therein to  other  than  members 
shall be liable to expulsion at  any  general 
meeting by a three-fourths vote of the mem­
bers present.

4.  Willful violation of the rules and obli­
gations of this Association subject a member 
to a fine, reprimand,  suspension  or  expul­
sion without appeal, but no expulsion  shall 
take place without proper investigation  and 
a three-quarters vote of the  members  pres­
ent.

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SALT.

ONONDAGA F. F. SALT
AMERICAN  DAIRY  SALT  CO. 

Sole Manufacturers. 

(Limited.)  Chemically purified and W a r r a n t ­
e d  pure as any in the market.  Used by a great 
majority of the Dairymen of the country.  Un­
excelled for Butter, Cheese, the Table  and  all 
Culinary  purposes.  Got medal at Centennial 
“for  purity  and  high  degree of  excellence.” 
Dairy goods salted with it took first premiums 
at New Orleans  World’s  Fair,  N.  Y.  Interna­
tional Fair, Milwaukee Exposition, and always 
wins  when  there  is  fair  competition. 
It  is 
American, and c h e a p e r   and b e t t e r  than any 
foreign salt.  Try it.  Address
J. W. Barker, Sec’y, Syracuse, N. Y.
CREA M   T E S T E R !
With six glasses for testing six  cows’  milk  at 
same  time.  Price  $1;  large  size  glasses  $2, 
either free by mail.  Agents wanted. Circulars 
with  full  particulars  for  stamp.  WYMAN 
L.  EDSON,  Union  Center,  Broome  Co., N. Y.

CabineUtamery and" 

W I L S O N ' S
^

AND  A LL  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 ia l 
terms.
The woman’s 
friend. It saves 
three-fourths 
of the  labor  in 
b u tter-m a k ­
ing;  easily  op­
e r a te d ;  you 
raise 
s w e e t  
cream  fr 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  CBEAMEKY 
CO.,  FLINT,  MICH.
SHI

B A S K E T S  

B O X E S

A N I >  

im.

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A rticle  V III—2nd V ice-President.
The duty of the  2nd  Vice-President shall 
be the same as the  1st  Vice-President, and 
shall act only in the  absence  of  both  the 
President and 1st Vice-President.

A rticle IX —Secretary.

It shall be the  duty  of the  Secretary  to 
keep the minutes of the meetings of the As­
sociation, to issue such notices as the  Presi­
dent may direct,  and  do  such correspond­
ence, and keep such  records as  may  be de­
sired by the officers and committees.
A rticle X —Treasurer.

The Treasurer shall receive all money  be­
longing to the Association, giving his receipt 
for the same, and pay all  orders  drawn on 
him, which must be  signed by the President 
and Secretary, and report as often as desired 
by the Association.

A rticle  XI—Committees.

There shall be four  standing committees, 
consisting of Rating Committee of seven mem 
bers, a  Transportation  Committee of  three 
members, a Finance Committee of five mem­
bers  and an Executive Committee  of  seven 
members.  The Executive  Committee  shall 
be composed of the President, the  Chairman 
of the Rating, Transportation  and  Finance 
Committees, and  three  members  at  large 
who shall be elected by the Association. 
A rticle X II—D uties of Rating Commit­

tee.

It shall be the duty of the Rating Commit­
tee to prepare from the data  furnished it in 
writing, by the members of  the Association, 
a monthly report, or oftener if  advisable, of 
the standing and responsibility of the parties 
so reported, rating them  without  prejudice 
in a brief and intelligent manner.
A rticle X III—D uties  of  Transporta­

tion  Committee.

The Transportation Committee  shall have 
charge  of,  look  after, and  inquire  into all 
matters pertaining to freights and  transpor­
tations of a general nature for  the  Associa­
tion.
A rticle XIV—D uties  of  Finance Com­

mittee.

It shall be the duty of the  Finance  Com­
mittee to audit all accounts  and to  investi­
gate the matter of insurance,  for  the benefit 
of the Association.
A rticle XV—D uties of Executive Com­

mittee.

The duties of the  Executive  Committee, 
shall have charge of all  matters of  general 
interest of the affairs of the Association.
A rticle X V I—Term of Offices.

Each of the officers aud  members of  the 
standing committees shall hold  their offices 
one year, or until their successors shall have 
been elected.

A rticle XVII—A mendment.

This Constitution may  be  amended  by a 
three-fourths vote of the members present at 
any regular meeting, provided a  written no­
tice of proposed change shall have been giv­
en four weeks previously.

BY-LAWS.

A rticle  I —Meetings.

The regular meetings of  this  Association 
shall be held the  first  Wednesday  evening 
of each month at 8 o’clock.

A rticle II—Special Meetings.

The President shall call a special meeting 
upon the written request of seven  members, j 
giving due notice to all  members and speci­
fying the object of the meeting.

A rticle III—Fees and D ues.,

Each member of the Association shall pay 
the Secretary $2 upon signing the  Constitu­
tion and By-Laws.

HAHILTOH’S  PATENT

Is the best device ever invented for Quoting Prices.  Advertising Arrival of 

DISPLAY  CHART
$2.50

You  cao  do  more  Advertising
THIS  SIGN

New Goods,  Calling Attention to Old Ones, etc.,  etc.

$ 1 0 0

For the small sum of $2.50 by using

Than for $100 used in any other way. 

Chart—Patented February 19,  1884.

Every person  on  tlie  street  will  read what  you have to 

say, because it is something entirely new, and

TIMETABLES. 

M i c h i g a n  Î Te n t r a l

The N iagara  Falls  Toute.

D E PA R T.
♦Detroit Express..................
.......  6:00 a m
+Day  Express.......................
.......13:45 p m
t Atlantic Express................
.......9:20 p m
A R R IV E .
♦Pacific  Express..................
.......6:00 am
tM ail......................................
....................  3:30 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express. 
.................... 10:35 p 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  10:35 p. m.

J. T. S c h u l t z .  Gen’l Agent.

ANY  LIVE  BUSINESS  MAN CAN 

ATTRACT MORE CUSTOMERS 

BY  THE  USE  OF

THIS CHART

Than injany other manner.

ZDoiscx*jL]p'tloxi. s

The  accompanying  cut  represents  the  chart  in  use. 
Size of Chart, 2 feet wide  by  3  feet  high,  made  of  hard 
wood, elegantly finished.  The  feet are so constructed as 
to be removable at will, and when removed the frame can 
be  hung  up  on  the  wall  or in the window.  The letters 
| are 2 inches in height, kept in a strong, neat box contain­
ing labeled appartments for each  letter.  Each box  con­
tains over 300 letters, figures and characters.  To set up a 
line, place the upper edge of the letters in  the groove  in 
the under edge of a slat in the frame and allow the letter 
to  settle  down  in  the  groove  in the upper edge of the 
lower slat.

THE  CHART
H. J. Cortright,  M . Ait., Duel Me, Mid.

PR IO R   OP  C H A R T   <&  BO H  OFX.ETTERS, COM PLETE $2.50
Sent to any address on receipt of price.  Make all Post Office Orders, etc., to Albion, Mich.  Agent wanted in United States and Canada.

Can  be  set  up  more  rapidly  than  it  can  be  printed.

Chicago & West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail......................................9-: lif a m  4:05 pm
tDay Express..................... 12:25 p m  11:15 p m
♦Night  Express..................  9:35 pm   6:00 am
♦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.

NEW AYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.
Express.................................4:15 pm   4:05 pm
Express.................................  8:05 am   11:15 am
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. C a r p e n t e r ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  M u l l i k e n ,  General  Manager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

+ S te a

i t  E ix p r e s s .

GO ING EAST.

A irri v e s .

J . W. M cK e n n e y , Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

Expr<
Mail.
All
The:  ntraiin 

Arrivt?. 
.......................... 7:00 p m 
m 
i daily except Sunday.

Leave.
7:35 a m
4:00 pm
leaving  at 4 p. mi. connects at
Whit*3 Pigeon with  Atlantic  Express  on Main
Line, whicli has Palace Drawing Room  Sleep-
ing Coaches  from  Chicago  to  N<ew  York and
Bostc
hout change. 
ii  leaving  at  7:35  a. ni. connects  at
The
Whitie Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with
special Net,v York Express on Ma.in Line.
1  Thi•ough tickets  and  berths
in  sleeping
’ coaclîes cairi be secured at  Union Ticket office,
6T Monre street and  depot.

77.7   9;:4i5  p   m 10:45 p m

+Thr<n i g h M sl i l ..............’.’.7.7. io :15 a m

+ E v ei
♦ A tla u n tie !Exp
+M ixie d ,  w i t h c o a c h ’.!

+ M o r
+ T h r(n i g h M a11.............
t S t e a ,m bo£i t   Ï ¡ x p r e s s .
+Mix<3d...
♦ N i g li t  E x -p r o
+Dsiily ,  e
P a t s s e n g
m a k e  clos<
a n d  8it D e i

Leaves.
6:20 a m
10:20 a m
3:35 p m
10:30 a m
E x p r e s s . . . ....... 12: ’ll)  p   m 13:55 p m
5:15 p m
7:10 a m
:10am 5:30 a m
D a ily ,
.  Express
3SSO f  C>r Lansing
iiriving  there at
Parlor Cars on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
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 o t t e r ,  City Pass. Agent. 
G e o .  B .  R e e v e , Traffic Manager, Chicago.

m s  a t  O
t  f o r  N ciw   Y o r k ,

10:00 :

O p m
i o :40 p m

t a k i n g ■  t h e   6:iÎ0

d a y s  e x c e p  t e d .

E x p r e s s . . .

I 

Grand  Eapids  &  Indiana.

GO ING NORTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

Arrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m  10:25 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac  Ex  3:55pm 
5:00pm
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
7:10 a m
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.- 
7:00 a m
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m  4:35 pm 
Mackinac & Ft. Way i e Ex.. 10:25 a m  11:45 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

SLE 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 o c k w o o d , Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit,  Mackinac  & Marquette.

STATIONS.

GOING
EAST
Ac. Ex.

GOING
WEST
Ac. Ex.
PM.I
4 50|ai*.
PM. 4 40 .......
6 50 3 30 .......
3 08 1 27.......
12 001A
1  10 1215 Id
11 25 11 02.......
7 30 AM.I

q
aeney

Ishpeming
.. Negaünee...
.. Marquette ..
..  Reedsboro ..

Dep. 1 30
1  40 AM.
.................. 2 20 7 30
4  19 11  05
D
5 45 1  10
A 5 30 13 40
6 38 2 40
PM.
8 30|Dep. __ St. Ignace.. ..Ar. □9 00 6 30
7 OOlAr. 
PM.I
9 00 Dep. 
AM.
9 351. 

Mackinaw City Dep. 9 30
Grand Rapids Ar. 7 00
3 30

.. .......Detroit___

..  New bur v  ..

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 i l l i g a n , G. F. & P. A.

your own Bone,
Meal,  Oyster  Shells, 
JGKRAHAM  Flour  and  Corn 
Jill till' ifeii H A N D  BdCXXaXi 
lOO  per 
cent, more made in keeping poul­
try.  Also  POW ER  M I L L S   and  FARM  
FEED M IL L S .  Circulars  and  Testimonials sent 
on application.  W IL S O N  B R O S ., Fusion, P a .

_ 
Qgjr (F.  Wilson’s  Patent). 

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY
E  1ST C3-13ST 33 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 .  C,  D en iso n ,
GRAND  RAPIDS, 
MICHIGAN.

88,90  and 92 South  Division Street, 

-  

PURE  G A N D Y !

AND  DEALERS  IN

Oranges,  Lemons,
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates, 

NUTS,
E   T   O.

THE  COOLEY  GAN,

Improved by the Lockwood Patent.

Used in the  creamery 
for  butter  only,  they 
.paid the patrons in J uly, 
1884,60c  and  the  skim­
med  milk  per  100  lbs. 
Lowest  price  of 
the 
year.
In  the  creamery for 
gathered  cream 
they 
paid  the  patrons  from 
15c  to  27c  per  cream 
gauge for the  year 1884.
In the factory for but­
ter  and  cheese  they 
paid  the  patrons  $1.75 
per 100 lbs.  average,  for 
the season.  They show 
better results in dollars 
and cents than anything 
yet invented.
Write foractual work­
ing  figures  furnished
_____________   by successful creamery
men  of  known  reputation,  who  have  used 
them as above.

JOHN  BOYD,

Sole Manufacturer, 199 LAKE ST., CHICAGO.

DETROIT  SOAP  OO.’S

QUEEN  ANNE

W 

S  O  -A-13

-------IS NOT-------

is not

A (“smash up the clothes boiler,” “throw away the wash-board,” “wash without labor”) Soap; 
A  (grand piano, gold  watch, house 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 box, and have the balance left on your hands) Soap;
The very best article in laundry and general family Soap ever put on the market.
Big and lasting trade.  Good margins to dealers.  Grocers, if you  have  never 
tried “Q,UEEN ANNE SOAP,” buy a sample box and you will always continue 

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

to handle it.CODY,  BALL  &  CO,

Wholesale Agents for “Queen Anne” and all  1 
f 

of Detroit Soap Co.'s Standard Brands. 

f t r a n r l  " R ani/fo
U I  Ctllu  lta J J iU o i

(Groceries.

Sweet harbinger of early spring,
What recollections thou dost bring 

New Maple Sugar.
I sing thy praise;
Of early days.

In grocers’ windows thou dost lie.
And for thy saccharine juices sigh 

The source of joy;
The girl and boy.

Fain on thee would they make a raid, 
Because, of sweet, thou art not made 

And care no  rap.
Of Maple sap.

What art thou made of no one asks, 
Of scrapings of the  sugar casks 

Friend of the masses—
Or stale molasses.

It is enough that thou art sweet,
And when a boy takes thee to eat,

Not hard to break;
He “takes the cake.”
The maple sap begins to flow 
“New maple sugar,” and we know 

When thou art here;
That spring is near.

Grit for Grocers.

The small grocer is fond of  sugar.  He al­

ways has sand in it.—Boston Budget.

“Why is sugar dirt cheap?”
“Because there is more sand in it than su­

gar.”—Boston  Times.

“Is 

this  strained  honey,  Mr.  Short- 

weights?”

“Yes’m,” promptly replied the grocer, but 
compromised by softly  apologizing to  him­
self that the  honey  might  be  glucose, but 
had strained  the  truth  about  the  honey.— 
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.

“Oh, yes,” chattered a  grocery  salesman 
from S t Louis, “our goods  are  way  down. 
Never sold groceries for such  figures in  my 
life.  Now, take sugar; sugar is dirt cheap.” 
“I know it is,” replied the  country  mer­
chant, “but as I am not  handling dirt now I 
buy my sugars  in  Chicago.—Chicago  Her­
ald.

“We always deliver our  goods  free,” said 
the grocery clerk to a recently  obtained cus­
tomer.

“What!” exclaimed the  young  lady,  evi 
dently greatly  surprised  at  the  announce­
ment.  “Do you mean to stand there and tell 
me that you deliver your sugar free?” 

“Certainly, miss.”
“Free of what?”
“Why, free of charge, of course.”
“Oh, I thought perhaps you wanted me to 
believe that you delivered it free from sand. 
I   have  had  too  much  of  it.”—Yonkers 
Statesman.

Two-Faced Travelers.

From the Evansville Argus.

A merchant  may  give a traveling  man a 
two-for-a-nickel cigar  and  light a ten  cent 
one himself, and the tourist  may thank him 
kindly at the time, but  as  soon  as  he gets 
from the merchant’s sight he will curse him 
vocally or mentally, according  to  his  feel­
ings.

The  Grocery Market.

Business has been “rattling,”  and  collec­
tions fairly good, during the past week.  Su­
gars  are a  trifle  weaker, and  pickles  are 
considerably “off.”  Pork, lard, flour and al­
most all staple  articles are on the  boom, in 
consequence of interesting war news.

San  Francisco  gets  900,000  bananas  a 
month from  the  Sandwich  Islands.  The 
number of bananas on a bunch averages 110, 
and they bring in  that city at  wholesale  $4 
per bunch.  The sale is  large, but to the re­
tailer the profit is  small.

Coffee made with distilled water is said to 
It  seems 
have a greatly  improved  aroma. 
that the mineral carbonates in common  wa­
ter render the tannin of the coffee berry solu­
ble, but the drug will not dissolve  in distill­
ed water.

A prize of a gold watch put up recently by 
a tradesman of Ottumwa,  Iowa, to  any  one 
guessing the  number of seeds  in a  certain 
pumpkin on exhibition, was  won  by a far­
mer’s daughter, who guessed the exact num­
ber—494.

A groceryman of  Keokuk, la., who has a 
keen eye to  busness,  in  subscribing $1 to a 
church entertainment, added after his signa­
ture, “the only place in Keokuk  where  you 
can get sixteen pounds of sugar for $1.”

A reduction of $200 a car on oranges  and 
raisins has been made by  the Southern  Pa­
cific and  connecting lines. 
In cousequence, 
six or seven cars a  day  are  shipped  from 
Southern California to the East.

The smoker who persists  in  smoking in a 
crowd to whom  smoking is  offensive  is as 
boorish as the non-smoker, who grumbles in 
a company where all but himself  are enjoy­
ing the weed.

By reason of the French blockade of  Chi 
nese ports, the  tea  supply in  New York is 
becoming limited, and fears are  entertained 
that this country will be affected  with a tea 
famine.

“Will you  join  me in a  smoke?”  asked 
Jones.  “Certainly. 
I’m  accommodating,” 
replied Brown.  “Now, then,” said  Brown, 
“the next thing is the cigars.  Have you got 
any?”

An entensive match factory is to be estab­

lished at Nashville, Tenn.

A judge who had been  a  great  scamp  in 
early life, recognizing  an  old  acquaintance 
in a prisoner brought  before  him,  and  sup­
posing himself safe from  recognition, asked 
what had become of  the  companions of his 
early life of crime.  The reply  was, “They 
are all hanged, your Honor, except  you  and 
me.”

Caulfield is selling medium pickles at $4.50 
per barrel, and full cream cheese at 11 cents. 
His mail order business  is  increasing  since 
he took his agents off the road.

John Caulfield Is closing out large lines of 

canned goods at very close prices.

Organized  at  Grand Rapids,  February 25,  1885.
President—Milan Wiggins, Bloomingdale. 
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac;  F.  C. 
Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A.  P.  Foltz,  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafellow,  Carson  City; 
Warren Haven, Bloomingdale;  Chas. E. Bel­
knap,  Grand  Rapids;  L.  F.  Cox,  Portage; 
John Borst, Vriesland;  R. C. Nash, Hilliards; 
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks­
ville. 
.
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand 
Rapids. 
Next  Meeting—Third  Tuesday  in  February, 
1886.
Membership Fee—*1 per year.
Official Organ—T h e   M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n .

_   . ■'  ,

_ 
. 

Miscellaneous  Dairy  Notes.

F. Miller has been  engaged  as  maker  by 

the Watson Cheese Co.

The Cooper anti-oleomargarine bill, which 
passed the Pennsylvania Senate,  met with a 
storm of opposition  in  the  House  and  was 
withdrawn.

A stock company for the  manufacture  of 
liquid cheese is preparing to seek incorpora 
tion in New York, backed by  German  capi­
tal.  The product will look like maple syrup 
and have all the pungency and  other  good 
qualities of American cheese.

C.  B.  Lambert,  the  well-known  dairy 
writer  and  operator,  has  gone on  the road 
for  Davis  &  Rankin,  manufacturers  of 
creamery  supplies  at  Chicago.  He  will 
spend  several  months  in  Michigan  after 
which he will travel in Ohio and Pennsylva­
nia.

The editors of the  Northwestern Farmer 
and Dairyman, of Portland,  Oregon, write
as follows concerning the awakening in dairy
matters on the Pacific coast:  “Having  just 
read the proceedings of the Mighigan Dairy­
men’s Association, from which we learn that 
you are Secretary of same, we take the liber­
ty of addressing  you, asking  the  favor of a 
copy  of  your  constitution  and  by-laws. 
There is to be a meeting  of  dairymen  here 
on the 13th, for the formation of  an  associ­
ation in their interest, and  the  early receipt 
of yours would assist us in forming our laws 
and regulations.  We have  just  secured the 
passage of a State  law  against  bogus  dairy 
products, and we  now  wish to  organize to 
enforce it.”

Appreciated  Honest  Endeavors. 

Merchant—“Hasn’t  Fogg  made  his  ap­

pearance yet this morning?”

Head Bookkeeper—“No, Sir.”
“Strange!  Have you examined his books?” 
“Yes, sir;  they are correct to a cent.” 
“What about the cash-drawer?”
“Not a cent gone.”
“That is very strange.  Can you explain it?” 
“I have just heard that he had  eloped.” 
“With my daughter?”
“No, sir;  with your wife.”
“Poor wretch! How I pity him. Stay. You 

say he has no money?”

“None that I know of.”
“Make out a check for a hundred thousand 
and  mail  it  to  him  care  of  John  C. Eno. 
That’ll reach him. 
It shan’t be  said  that I 
failed to appreciate  the honest endeavors of 
a poor young man.”

The California  orange  growers  have  dis­
covered a new process for removing  all sub­
stances that injure  the  appearance  of  their 
fruit.  They put a half bushel or  so  of  dry 
sawdust in a barrel and then  pour  in two or 
three boxes of oranges, and turn slowly with 
a crank.  The fruit comes  out  as clean and 
bright as a gold dollar.  One man  can clean 
about eighty  boxes  a  day,  while  washing 
ten boxes is a good day’s work.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Baldwins, russets  and  other  stand­

ard  varieties readily command $3.35@$3.50.

Beans—Unpicked  command  75@90c,  and 
choice  picked  find  good  shipping  demand at 
$1.25.

Butter—Dairy  finds  slow sale  at  16@17c for 
choice rolls, while 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 15@17.

Clover  Seed—Good  local  shipping demand. 

Dealers quote choice recleaned at $6. 

Cabbages—$5@$8 $  100.  Very little moving. 
Celery—Nearly out of market.
Cheese—Michigan  full  cream  readily  com­
mands 12@13Mc, while skim find occasional sale 
at from  9M@10c.

Cider—12Mc $  gal. for common sweet and 15c 

for sand refined.

Cranberries—Bell and bugle firm at $14 $  bbl. 

and $3.75@$4.25 $  crate, according to  size.

Dried  Apples—Evaporated,  7@8c;  common 

quarters, 4@4Mc.

Nggs—Trifle firmer and somewhat scarce, on 
account of cold weather.  Dealers  are holding 
their stocks at 15c.

Hops—Brewers are paying 15c for best Mich­

igan, with few offerings.

Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at 14c. 
Hay—Bailed, $13@$14.
Onions—$3.25@3.50  bbl. for yellow or red. 
Pop Corn—Very scarce, the supply not being 
equal to  the  demand.  Choice  commands  5 
cents.
Potatoes—Dealers  are  still  paying  35c  for 
choice  stock,  delivered  on  board  cars.  The 
staple is a trifle weaker in the  eztreme  Sonth, 
but  holds  its  own,  with  firm demand, in  the 
States farther North.

P o u l t r y —Very scarce.  Fowls, 9@10c.  Chick­

ens, 12@13c.  Turkeys, 14c.

Turnips—25c $  bu.
Timothy—Good  shipping  demand,  dealers 

holding  at $1.85 for choice.

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

Wheat—8c  higher.  The  city  millers  pay as 
follows:  Lancaster, 90;  Fulse,  87;  Clawson, 
88c.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 54c in 100 bu. lots 

and 51c in carlots.

Oats—White, 42c in small lots and 39c  in  car- 

lots.

Rye—58c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.10@$1.20 $   cwt. 
Flour—Higher.  Fancy Patent, $6 $  bbl. 

in  sacks  and  $6.25  in  wood.  Straight,  $5  $  
bbl. in sacks and $5.25 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.35 $  cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  $  ton.  Bran, $16 
ton.  Middlings, $18 $  ton 

¥  ton.* Ships, $17 
Corn and Oats, $20 $  ton.

SALT.

SA UCES.

60 Poqket, F F  Dairy............................
38 Pocket.................................................
100 3 ft pockets.......................................
Saginaw F ine.........................................
Diamond C..............................................
Standard  Coarse....................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags —
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, Vi bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................
Parisian, Vi  pints.................................
@2  00 
@  75 
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
90
Pepper Sauce, green
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............  @1  35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1  70
Catsup,-Tomato,  pints..........................   @1  00
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ......................  @1  35
Horseradish,  M pints............................  @1  00
Horseradish, pints.................................  @1  30
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, M pints.........................  @2 20
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large..........  @4  85
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, small........  @2 90
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne..........  @4  85
**  Cameo.......................  @3 30
“  Monday....................  @3 45
“  M ascot.....................   @3 45
“  Superior, 601 ft bars  @3 60
3  60
3  30
3  15
3  30
3 15
4  85

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India........................................  
do.  Savon....................................... 
do.  Satinet.....................................  
do.  Revenue........... *5..................  
................ 
do.  White Russian.. 
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory................. 
Japan  O live......... 
Town Talk.............. 
Golden Bar............  
Arab........................ 
Amber....................  
Mottled  German.. 

6 75
2  80
3 60
4 10
3 35
3 60
3 60

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Procter & G amble’s Y el vet..................  @3 15
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 20
Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well..........  @3 00
Badger........... ................................ 60 lbs  @6)4
Galvanic.................................................   @4 05
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br  @1894
Tip Top....................................... 3ft bar  @  16
Ward’s White Lily.................................  @6 75
Handkerchief.........................................  @4 20
Babbitt’s ...............................................  
Dish R ag........................... 
 
Bluing...................................................... 
Magnetic.................................................  
New  French  Process............................ 
Spoon...................................................... 
Anti-Washboard.................................... 
Vaterland................................................ 
Magic........................................................ 
Pittsburgh..................................... „—  

5 25
4  00
5 00
4  10
4  50
5 00
5 00
3 25
4 00
4 00

 

.  @19
.  8@10
.  @10
.  @18

SPIC E S.

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Whole.
Ground.
Pepper............... ,16@25 Pepper.............
,12@15 Allspice...........
Allspice............
,18@30 Cassia...............
Cinnamon........
.15@25 Nutmegs  ........
Cloves  .............
Cloves  .............
.16@20
Ginger .............
.15@30
Mustard............
,25@35
Cayenne  ..........
Kingsford’s, 1 ft pkgs.,  pure..................
3ft pkgs.,  pure..................
1ft pkgs., Silver Gloss__
6 ft pkgs., 
“  __
1 ft pkgs., Corn  Starch__
(Bulk)  Ontario..................
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft boxes............................
3 ft boxes............................
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“  Corn, 20 ft.......................................
“ 
“  40  ft.........................................
Gilbert’s Gloss, 1  ft..................................
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Linen Gloss, 3 ft........................
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Corn, 1 $ ....................................

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SUGARS.

TEA S.

SY RUPS.

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

©
@ 6M 
é@  6M 
@ 6M 
@ 6M 
@  5% 
@ 5M 
@ 5M 
@ 5M 
@ 5M 
@ 5

Cut  Loaf.................................................
Cubes  ......................................................
Powdered................................................  t
Granulated,  Standard..........................
Granulated, Palissade..........................
Confectionery A ....................................
Standard A ..............................................
Extra C, White.......................................
Extra C....................................................
Fine  C......................................................
Yellow C...................................................
28 
Corn,  Barrels.,......................................
30 
Corn, M bbls............................................
@  32 
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................
@1 60 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................
@1 45 
Corn, 4M gallon kegs..............................
23@  35 
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl
Pure Sugar Drips.........................M bbl
30®  38 
@1 96 
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............M bbl
@  85 
@1 85
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs
...22@25 
Japan ordinary__
.. ,30@35 
Japan fair to good.
...40@50 
Japan fine...............
...15@20 
Japan dust.............
.30@50
Young Hyson........
Gun Powder..................................................35@50
Oolong....................j...............................33@55@60
Congo..................... ............... ......................25@30
State  Seal..................60
Atlas...........................35
Royal Game............... 38
Prairie Flower..........65
Mule Ear.................... 65
Climber..................... 62
Fountain.................... 74
Indian Queen........... 60
.......60|Old Congress.............. 64
Bull  Dog........
“  Good Luck.................52
Crown  Leaf.............. 66
Blaze Away..........;.. 35
Matchless..................65
Hair Lifter................. 30
Hiawatha..................67
1 Governor...................60
Globe  .........................70
Fox’s Choice............  63
May Flower.............. 70
H ero..........................45 Medallion ,
Old Abe..................... 49 Sweet Owen...
Chocolate Cream....................................   @46
Woodcock  ..............................................  @46
Knigntsof  Labor...................................  @46
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...............................   @46
Black Bear..............................................   @37
King 
......................................................   @46
Old Five Cent Times..............................  @38
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft..............................  @62
Parrot  .....................................................  @46
Old Tim e.................................................   @38
Tramway.................................................   @48
Glory  ......................................................   @46
Durham...................................................  @48
Silver Coin..............................................  @50
Buster  [Dark],......................................  @36
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @46
Climax.....................................................  @46
Hold F ast................................................  @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @46
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Nobby Twist...........................................  @46
Nimrod.....................................................  @46
Acorn......................................................  
©46
Crescent............................................ 
  @44
 
 
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................  @40
Spring......................................................   @46
Crayling....................................... 
  @46
Mackinaw................................................  @45
HorseShoe..............................................  @44
Hair Lifter..............................................  @36
D. and D., black......................................  @36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................  @46
Ace  High, black....................................   @35
Sailors’  Solace........................................  @46

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SMOKING

Tramway, 3 oz..........40|Uncle  Sam..................28
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35 Lumberman..............25
Boss  .......................... 15 Railroad Boy.............. 38
Peck’s Sun................ 18 Mountain Rose..........18
Miners and Puddlers.28 Home Comfort..........25
Morning  Dew........... 26|01d Rip........................ 55
Chain..........................22! Seal of North Caro-
Peerless  ....................24 
lina, 2  oz..................48
Standard................... 22! Seal of North Caro-
lina, 4oz...................46
Old Tom......................21
Seal of North  Caro­
Tom & Jerry..............24
lina, 8oz...................41
Joker...........................25
Seal of North Caro­
Traveler.................... 35
lina, 16 oz boxes__ 40
Maiden........................25
Big Deal......................27
Pickwick  Club.......... 40
Apple Jack.................24
Nigger Head..............26
King Bee, longcut.. .22
Holland......................22
Milwaukee  Prize___24
German......................16
Rattler........................28
Solid Comfort............301
Windsor cut plug— 25
Red Clover.................32
Zero  ...........................16
Long Tom...................30
Holland Mixed.......... 16
National.................... 26
Golden  Age............... 75
Tim e...........................26
Mail  Pouch............... 25
Conqueror.......:........23
Knights of Labor__ 30
Grayling.................... 32
Free Cob Pipe............27
Seal Skin.................... 30
Rob Roy........................26

SH ORTS.

Globe............................ 181 Hiawatha.................22
Mule Ear....................23| Old Congress............. .23

Pure  Cider..........8@12 White Wine.......... 8@12

VIN EG A R.

A X I.E  GREASE.

1 

................ SOlParagon.....................60
¡Paragon, 25 ft pails 1 20

Frazer’s 
Diamon 
Modoc......................... 551  _  _
B A K IN G   PO W D ER .
Arctic Vs ft cans —   45| Arctic lf t  cans....2  40 
Arctic \  ® cans —   75 Arctic 5 ft cans— 13 00 
Arctic Hftcans.  .  1 40|
TVrv  No  2 

Biauid* 8 oz...................'.7.7.7.7.7.25: 

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BROOMS.

CA NN ED  F IS H .

W A  Y ................................................I  «V

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

......................... 
..............................4 w
No. .2 Hurl............
Fancy  Whisk.......
CommonWhisk...

Arctic’4ozz".::::::.'::.'  ............... *  g™88 * “
Arctic 8  oz......................................................^
Arctic 16 OZ....................................................  n on
Arctic No. 1 pepper box...............................   " XX
Arctic No. 3 
.  cn
Arctic No. 3 
No. 1 Carpet.............*
No. 2 Carpet...............2 35
No. 1  Parlor Gem.. 3 75 
No. 1 Hurl..................2 06
Clams, 1 ft  standards.................................. i s
Clams, 2 ft  standards.................................. |  S
Clam Chowder,  3 
• • • • • • • ........................? fx
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards.....................j  10
Cove Oysters, 3  ft  standards  ..................   1 90
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled..................... j 05
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic..................................... i  X5
Lobsters, 1 ft star............................... ......... £ 7?
Lobsters, 3 ft star........... - - -.................. "  ix
Mackerel, 1 »   fresh  standards..................l W
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards................. 6 aO
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t .................o ¿a
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard............................
..3 35 
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled..........
1 55 
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river
3 60
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river.......................f
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento............................A att
Sardines, domestic Ms................................. 
„
Sardines,  domestic  Ms...............................
Sardines,  Mustard  Ms.................................  j*
Sardines,  imported  Ms...............................
Sardines, imported Ms... —   ....................  ™
Sardines, imported Ms, boneless...............
Trout. 3 ft  brook........................................  *
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CANNED F R U IT S
.
Apples. 3 ft standards 
pies. 3 ft standards .■■■ ■■■■ ■■.......................„ 2X
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie 
pies, gallons,  standards, Erie............... f
ickberries, standards...................................j ”2
Blackberries  m   J 
.ckberries.  Erie.............................................{ î?
Blackberries,
ickberries, Hamburg...................................4 22
Blackbe 
irries, Erie, red.............................................2 22
Cherries,
Cherries, Erie,white wax.............................)  m
; Cherries,  red standard................................J JK
Egg Plums,standards 
...............................) TX
Green Gages, standards 3 ft............................ 4 S’
Green Gages, E n e....................................... „
Peaches, Extra Yellow..................... . 
Peaches, standards............................1 
Peaches,  seconds..........................................i
Pineapples, E rie.............................................7 7X
Pineapples, standards.................................     !g
Raspberries,Black,  E rie...........................j
Raspberries,  Black, Hamburg......................jg
Raspberries, Red,  Erie................................1
....1 30
Strawberries, Erie............................... . .
CANNED  F R U T T S -C A L IF O R N IA
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 40|Pears............................3 to
...2 90 
Egg Plums..............2 50 Quinces.
..3 00
Grapes.................... 2 50 Peaches
Green Gages.......... 2  50|
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.................................... 3 S”
Beans, Lima,  Erie.............................................i 7?
Beans, String, Erie ...  ..................................1 2?
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................
Beans, Stringless, E r ie ...........................   ™
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...........................j w
Corn, Erie.........................................................   1 i?
Corn, Red  Seal...............................................-
Corn,  Acme.............................. 
...............i  in
r .n v n   A ................................................... - .. ....................... *
rv,,.n  BfiVfiffi  ..........................................1 )V
Corn, Revere.
.1  00
Corn, Camden.........................................
32 00
M u s h r o o m s , French,  100 in  e a s e ............
33 00 
Peas, French, 100 in c a se.....................
.1  70 
Peas  Marrofat, standard.....................
.  90
Peas, Beaver.
’ early small, sifted..............................1 89
Peas, early sn 
95 
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden
1  10 
Squash, Erie ............................
Succotash, Erie........................
90 
Succotash, standard................
Tomatoes, Red Seal................
CHOCOLATE.
16|German Sweet..
Boston................
. .38 Vienna Sweet  .
Baker’s ...............
. .35|
Runkles’ .............
c o f f e e . 
J@13 
Green Rio...
.17©2 
Green Java..
,23@25 
Green Mocha 
. 10@15
Roasted Rio.
Roasted Java ..23®30 
Roasted  Mar...l7@18 
Roasted Mocha.28@30
72 foot J u te ........ 1 25  172 foot Cotton . .. .* *
60 foot Jute.......  1  00  60 foot Cotton... .3 00
40 Foot Cotton___1 50  150 foot Cotton— 175
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.....................   80
Cod, whole.....................................................
Cod,Boneless................................................. •
Cod, pickled, M  bbls................................... ® 50
Halibut ..........................................................o in
..2 50 
Herring M  bbls.......
...18@20 
Herring,  Scaled.......
. L  80
Herring,  Holland
Mackerel, No. 1, M bbls...............................■> ¡>0
Mackerel, No. 1,12 ft  kits..........................1 00
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  M. bbls............. 
o 35
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  kits.......................1 00
Shad, Vi b b l.................................................. 2 50
.4 40 
Trout, No.  1, Vi  bbls..
.  90
Trout, No. 1,12  1b  kits
White, No. 1,54 bb ls....................................•  t  -
White, Family, 54 bbls................................ 2 50
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................  90
White, No. 1,12  ft kits............................... .1 05
Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 40
2 50
4 00
5 00 
1 50
3 00 
7 50
15 00
4 25
6  00

4 oz..............................................1 50
6oz.......................... 
8oz..............................................3 50
No. 2 Taper...............................1 25
No.  4 
54 pint round.............................4 50
1 
No.  8...........................................3 00
No. 10............................  

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iRoasted M ex...1>@20
Ground  Rio__ 9@16
Arbuckle’s .......  @14M
X X XX.............   @HM
Dilworth’s .......  @14M
Levering’s .......  @14M
Magnolia..........  @14M

Jennings’ 2 oz............................$   doz.l 00 
2 50

1  75
..................... 9 00
4  25

1  20 
1 00

FLA V O RIN G  EX TRACTS.

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FR U ITS

Apples, Michigan..................................
@7 Vs
Apples, Dried, evap., bbls.................... 
@8*4 @16 
Apples, Dried, evap., box.......
Cherries, dried, pitted...........
@28 
Citron.......................................
@454 
Currants..................................
12@13 
Peaches, dried  ......................
@1 70 
Pineapples,  standards..........
5@5!i 
Prunes, Turkey, new.............
10@13
Prunes, French, §0 ft  boxes..
Raisins, Valencias................................. 
9j|©'0
Raisins,  Ondaras......................................  @1*54
Raisins,  Sultanas..................................   8  @10
Raisins, Loose  MUscatels.  @2 55
Raisins, London Layers.  @3 20
Raisins, Dehesias..................................   @4 25

Water White........1254 I Legal  Test..............1054

K E R O S E N E   O IL .

M ATCHES.

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 75
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round..............................2 25
Oshkosh, No.  2..................................................110
Oshkosh, No.  8...................................................... 1 60
Swedish.............................................................  75
square.......................2 70
Richardson’s No. 2 
Richardson’s No. 6 
....................2  70
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Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
.............................170
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Richardson’s No. 9 
....................2 55
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 
............................175

M OLASSES.

Black Strap.............................................14@16@18
Porto  Rico..................................................... 28@30
New  Orleans,  good...................................... 38@42
New Orleans, choice....................................
New  Orleans,  fancy........   ......................... 52@55

54 bbls. 3c extra.

OATM EAL.

Steel  cut................5 50
Steel Cut, Vi bbls.. .3 00
Rolled  Oats...........3 50

Quaker, 48 fts.........2 25
Quaker, 60 fts.........2 40
Quaker bbls............6 00

P IC K L E S .

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Choice in barrels med................   ............. 
.4 25
Choice in Vi 
......................................3 00
L—j
P IP E S i 
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @3 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,254 gross........  @1 85
American T. D........................................  @  90

R IC E

Good Carolina........6
Prime Carolina......6)4
Choice Carolina......7
Good Louisiana......5%

Java  .................6?4@65!£
P atna.......................6
Rangoon.......... 5yj@6%
Broken......................3%

SA LERATUS.

DeLand’s pure...... 5V4 lDwight’s  
............. 6M
Church’s  ...............5)4 Sea  Foam................5)4
Taylor’s G. M.........5)4ÍCap,Sheaf..............5)4

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YEAST.

Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft papers...  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs  @4 35
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.  @4 50 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap  @4 25 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 M ft papers..  @4  15
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 M ft paprs  @4 00
Twin Bros..........1 66  IWilsons.................1 65
Magic.................1  75  1 National...............1 65
M ISCELLANEOUS.
95 
Bath Brick imported..................
60 
American...................
@3 
Barley............................................
Burners, No. 1 .............................
1  00 
1 50 
do  No.  2............. ...............
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand..
8  00
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   15@25
Candles, Star...............................
@14 
Candles,  Hotel............................
@80 
Extract Coffee, V.  C..................
F elix...............
@30 
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps...........
@40 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps............
30@35 
Gum, Spruce...............................
@4 00 
Hominy, «  bbl............................
@1  35 
Peas, Green Bush.......................
@ 3M 
Peas, Split prepared..................
@3 5u 
Powder, Keg...............................
@1 93
Powder,  M Keg..........................

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

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FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes.............................   9 @ 9M
................................9M@10
Twist, 
 
@12
Cut Loaf 
MIXED.
Royal, 25 ft  pails.................................... 9M@10
Royal, 200 ft bbls........................................  @9
Extra, 25 ft  pails........................................11@11M
Extra, 200 ft bbls........................................10@10M
French Cream, 25 ft pails................................13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases........... ..............................13
Broken, 25 Tb pails....................................11@11M
Broken, 200 ft  bbls...........................................10M
Lemon Drops................................................... 14
Sour Drops........................................................ 15
Peppermint  Drops........  .............................. 15
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 16
H M Chocolate  Drops.....................................20
Gum  Drops  ..................................................... 10
Licorice Drops..................................................20
A B   Licorice  Drops........................................12
Lozenges, plain................................................ J5
Lozenges,  printed........................................... 16
Imperials..........................................................15
M ottoes............................................................. 15
Cream  Bar.............................................. 
14
Molasses Bar.....................................................13
Caramels............................................................20
Hand Made Creams..........................................20
Plain  Creams....................................................17
Decorated  Creams........................................... 22
String Rock..................................................... .15
Burnt Almonds............................................   22
Wintergreen  Berries...................................... 15
Lozenges, plain in  pails........................12)4@13
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.................  
  11H@12
Lozenges, printed in pails.................... 1314@14
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................12)4@13
Chocolate Drops, in pails.................... 13  @14
Gum  Drops  in pails........... ..................... 71/£@8
654
Gum Drops, in bbls................................... 
Moss Drops, in  pails.............................. 1014@lli4
Moss Drops, in bbls................. 
9
Sour Drops, in  x>ails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails................................13®  14
Imperials  in bbls...................................  @12
Oranges, Messina and  Palermo..........3 00@3  50
Oranges, California...............................3 00@3  50
Lemons,  choice...................................   3 50@4 00
Lemons, fancy.......................................4 25@4  50
@12*4 
Figs,  layers new,  $  ft................
® 8 
Figs, baskets 40 ft ^ ft.................
®  4 @ 6 
Dates, frails 
do  ...................
Dates,  do 
do  .................
@ 4 
Dates, skin....................................
@ 5 
Dates, Vi  skin...............................
8Vi@ 9 
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft..........
@ 7 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box fi ft...........
@ 6)4
Dates, Persian 50 ft box ^ ft.......
PEANUTS.
4 Vi
Prime Red,  raw  $   ft..................
<®  o
Choice 
do  .............................  
do  .............................   5}4@  5A
Fancy 
Choice White, Va.do  ............................ 
5@ 5)4
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ............................  6  @ 6i4
Almonds,  Terragona, 
ft....................  17@18
do  ....................  
Brazils, 
8@  8V4
9@12
do  ....................  
Pecons, 
do ....................12V4@14
Filberts, Sicily 
Walnuts, Grenobles  d o ..................... 1214@15
“  .....................11/4®12)4
Walnuts, French 

FRUITS.

NUTS.

do 
do 

 

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows: 

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 
h i d e s .Calf skins, green

Deacon skins, 

or cured__   @10
f) piece.......20  @50

Green__ ^ ft  6  @  6)4
Part cured...  7i4@  8
Full cured 
  8  @ 8J4
Dry hides and

k ip s............  8  @12
Shearlings or Sum- 

s h e e p  p e l t s .

1 

W OOL.

IFall pelts............ 30@50
mer skins % pcel0@20| Winter  pelts...60@l 00
2-3
5M
2@  10
Muskrat....... 
Otter........... 1 00@ 4 00
Raccoon....... 
5©  75
Skunk  ..........  15@  75
Beaver, $  ft. 1 00@ 2 25 
Deer,  f  ft...  10®  30

Fi ne washed $  ft 20@221Unwashed...........  
Coarse washed...16@18|Tallow...............  
Bear.............
Fisher  ........
Fox,red......
Fox,  gray...
Martin........
M ink...........

@12 JO 
00® 4 00 
25®  1  00 
15@ 1  00 
25® 1 00 
5@  40

S K IN S .

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

New York Counts............................................... 35
F. J. D. Selects  ................................................... 32
Selects..................................................................
F. J .D ..................................................................f
Standard  .............................................................
Codfish...........................  
®
Haddock...........................................................   7
Smelts.................................................................fO
Mackerel............................................................**
Whiteflsh  ..........................................................   9

FR ESH   F IS H .

 

trade  selling

FRESH  MEATS.
John  Mohrhard  quotes  the 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides....................................  6 @8
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters....................  7 @8)4
Dressed Hogs...........................................  6 @ 6)4
Mutton,  carcasses..................................   6 @ 6)4
Veal..........................................................  8)4@ 9
Pork Sausage...........................................  8 @ 9
Bologna.............. 
9  @10
Chickens...................................................H @J?
Turkeys  .....................................................  @1»

 

 

PROVISIONS.

do. 
do. 

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

P O R K   IN   BA RR ELS.

SMOKED MEATS— CANVASSED  O R  P L A IN .

quote  as  follows:
A. Webster, packer, short cut.........................13 75
Clear back, short cut......................................... 1» 50
Extra Family Clear.............................................14 12
Clear, A. Webster  packer................................. 14 50
Standard Clear, the  best...................................15 75
Extra Clear,  heavy.............................................15 00
Boston Clear.........................................................lo «5
DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
7%
medium.............................  
794
light— .............................. 
794
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
8)4
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
8)4
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
8)4
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
9
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........ 
794
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases........  
8
Bellies, extra quality. 200 ft cases........ 
8)4
Boneless  Hams....................................... 
  10)4
Boneless Shoulders..........................................  ‘94
Breakfast  Bacon............................................  9
Dried Beef, extra quality............................. 11
Dried Beef, Ham pieces— ........................... 13)4
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle...................  7
794
Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 ft Tubs...................................... 
8
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases.....................  
»
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft racks.................. 
8)4
»94
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case................................ 
8?s
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.............................. 
8)4
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts............11  00
Boneless,  extra..............................................15 00
Pork  Sausage...................................................  7
Ham  Sausage....................................................12
Tongue  Sausage...........................................  H
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................11
Blood  Sausage.................................................   6)4
Bologna,  ring...................................................  6)'
Bologna, straight............................................   6)4
Bologna,  thick................................................... 6)4
Head  Cheese.......................................................6)4
In half barrels................................................  3 25
In quarter barrels............
In kits.................................
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
press, and are good only for that date, subject 
to market fluctuations.

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.

LARD IN   T IN  P A IL S .

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

P IG S ’ FE E T .

LARD.

£4

W A SH IN G  PO W D ERS.

Boraxine  ................................................  @3J5
1776 « f t ...................................................  @16V4
Gillett's « f t ..............................................   @ 
Soapinepkg.........................................  7@10
Pearline« box..............................  

 

  @4 50

Michigan Dairymen’s Association.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

t a t  Rapids ta n  and Seed Go.,

SEED  MERCHANTS,

W A R EH O U SE S: 

71  Canal  St.,  and  Cor.
Ionia and  Williams 

Streets.

7 1   CANAL,  ST. 
Grand Rapids, April 13,1885. 

I 

O FFIC E"

 

“ 

Dear  Sirs—Below  we  hand  you  jobbing 

prices for to-day:
Clover, Choice recleaned...............60 ft bu  6 06  ■

“  Prime.................................... 
“  5 90
“  5 75
“  No.  2.......................................... 
“  Mammoth Prime..................... 
6 56
“ 
“ 
12  06
•*  White...................... 25c $  ft 
“  A lsyke................... 25c $   ft 
“ 
12  00
“ 
15  00 t
Alfalfa or Lucerne 25c $1 ft 
Timothy,  Choice..............................45ftbu  1 86
Prime  ..  ............................. 
1  75
“ 
Hungarian  Grass............................ 48ftbu  100
1 06
Millet, common................................... 
“ 
“  German................................... 
“  1 25
Red Top.............................................. 14 ft bu 
86
Blue Grass........................................... 
2 06
“ 
Orchard  Grass..................................... 
2 50
“ 
Buckwheat........................................48ftbu  106
Peas, White Field................... 60 ft bu  1 25
Rye, Winter........................................56 ft bu 
85
“  Spring.........................................  
1 06
Wheat, Spring....................................  
1 25
Barley, Spring.......................... 
ft  bu 90
Prices on Rape, Canary,  Hemp and all other 
seeds on  application.
The above prices are  free  on  board  cars in 
lots  of  5  or  more  bags  at  a  time.  Cartage 
on smaller quantities.
We  also  carry  the  largest  line  of  Garden 
Seeds in Bulk of any house in the State west of 
Detroit, and would be  pleased  at  any  time to 
quote you  prices. 
’
All  Field  Seeds  are  spot Cash on receipt of 
goods. 
SPECIAL  NOTICE—To  avoid  disappoint­
ment, please  note  that  above  prices  are  for 
to-day  only;  subject  market  fluctuations. 
Orders will be  filled low as market on  arrival. 
Will make firm offers by wire when  requested.

“ 
“ 
48 

. 

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I . T. Laurean, Ait.

USE

Parisian Sauce

P 53

8?S

3 C

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i m p r o v e ®

« A K I N 6
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.f

GRAND  RABIDS,  MICH.

If  in Need of A nything in  our  Line,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

P A TEN T EES  ' AND  SO LE f M AN UFA CTU RERS  OF

Barlow’s Patent

til

Send for Samples and Circular.

Barlow 

Brothers,

GRAND RAPIDS

MICH.

THE “NEW LYMAN"

Every  Stove  Dealer in  Michigan

SHOULD  SEE

VAPOR  STOVE

FOR.  1SS5.

Two,  Three  and  Four  Burners

i  Operated by one Generator.

The; fourth!Burner”*Back  of  center  one  is  for’ baking 

leaving the three front  ones  clear and unimpeded 

by an oven,  More work can be done on this 

Stove than on any other form of Sum­

mer Stove ever made.

THEmirHAS

BUT

IMITATORS
MANY 
No Rivals.
FOSTER.  STEVENS  &  GO.

Send for Circulars.  W e sell at Factory Prices.

C H A N S  RAFH3S,  M ICHIGAN.

AGTS.  FOR  WESTERN  AAIOKCIO-A-TT.

T liis !Ad.vertisem.ent w ill A p p ear tout  O nce.

t tQUICK  MEAL 

Gasoline Stoves.

55

FORK’S  PATENT.

Ib a r b w a r e ,

Discovery of Gypsum  Beds near Buffalo.
The Buffalo Cement Co., which  has  been 
Investigating the existence of gypsum strata 
on Buffalo Plains, has succeeded  in  finding 
an  excellent  quality  of  cement  material 
twelve feet below the  surface.  Below  this 
material  for  seventy feet  the shafting went 
through ordinary building stone of  superior 
quality, and at the depth  indicated  a bed of 
pure gypsum was found, thirty-seven feet in 
thickness.  A  stock  company,  some of the 
members of which are already  interested in 
other cement works  and  quarries,  is  about 
being formed,  and  articles of  incorporation 
are drawn and the work of  excavating  will 
be begun at once.

Manufacturers  of  cement  and plaster at­
tach little importance to the discovery of the 
extensive deposits of gypsum  near  Buffalo. 
“The most important deposits  known,” said 
a prominent manufacturer, “are those of the 
Paris  basin  at  Montmartre,  from  which 
oomes the common name  ‘plaster of  Paris.’ 
It is  found  in  Switzerland,  England,  Ger­
many, Austria, Mexico, South America,  Af­
rica,  India,  China  and  the  United States. 
There are extensive mines  in Virginia, here 
in Grand Rapids,  at  Fort Dodge, Iowa, and 
in Nova Scotia.”

“The plaster business is peculiar  in some 
respects,” continued the manufacturer.  “The 
fact is the price  is  extremely  low  now—so 
low, in fact, that  no  number  of  discoveries 
will make  it  lower.  Large  quantities  of 
black  gypsum  are  mined  in  central  New 
York  for  agricultural  purposes,  and there 
are already extensive quarries  on  the south 
shore of .Lake Erie.  Gypsum has thousands 
•f uses.  The most  important is its applica­
tion  to  the  soil  as  a fertilzer and as a top­
dressing to lawns.  It has a wonderful effect 
on  grass,  making  it  appear  much  greener 
and more thrifty  than  anything that can be 
used. 
It is an  ingredient  of  nearly  all ce­
ments, its use in the  art  of  building  being 
derived chiefly from  Mexico,  where the  an­
cients  used it in their stucco  houses.  Then 
it is used in pottery, statuary of the cheapest 
kind,  stereotyping  and  kalsomining.  All 
the  terra  alba  now  used  is  simply refined 
gypsum.”

The  History of Coke.

From the Local Trade  Journal.

The history of the discovery of  coke  and 
the development of the traffic has never been 
written.  Authentic information of  the first 
use of coke in this country, places it in 1817, 
when it was employed by Col. Isaac Meason, 
one of the earliest founder of western Penn­
sylvania, in refining iron  at  the  Plumsock, 
or Upper Middleton mill, a few  miles  from 
the Youghiogheny River. 
In 1818  the  use 
of coke was attempted by blast furnaces, but 
it had to be abandoned because the blast was 
too light, being  only  five  pounds  to  the 
square inch.  Even when the value of  coke 
as a furnace fuel was  fully appreciated, the 
enjoyment of its advantages was  prevented 
by inability to increase  the  blast. 
In 1885 
Williams  Frimstone  manufactured  good 
gray-forge iron at the Mary Ann  furnace, in 
Huntington county, with coke produced from 
Broad Top coal. 
In  the  same  year  F. II. 
Olipliant, Fairciiance  furnace, near  Union- 
town, exhibited at  the  Franklin  Institute, 
Philadelphia, samples  of  iron  made  from 
blue lump ore smelted  with  coke. 
In 1840 
the Great Western  Iron  Works, at  Brady’s 
Bend, built four  coke  furnaces. 
In 1841-2, 
coke was made on the banks  of  the Yough­
iogheny River and  shipped  in  flat-boats to 
Cincinnati.  A  gentleman  who is  well in­
formed in all the details of  the  coke  busi­
ness, says that Dudleg, an English iron man­
ufacturer in the sixteenth century, is entitled 
to the discovery of coke.  He used it for the 
same purpose to which it  is  applied  now, 
smelting.  The manufacture of coke in Con- 
nellsville region did not rise to  the  dignity 
of a business until the close  of  the  decade 
of 1858, when it was carried on  principally 
at Dawson’s Station,  on  the Youghiogheny 
River, six miles below  Connellsville, by the 
Cochrans, who  are still in  the business, and 
to most of whom it has brought great riches.

How  Annealing Makes  Metal  Pliant.
The  annealing  of  wire,  glass  and  other 
substances renders them  soft,  more  ductile 
and less  brittle.  A  substance  is  annealed 
by simply heating  it and  allowing it to cool 
gradually.  Recent experiments have result­
ed in the conclusion that the heating  results 
in a kind of rupturing or cracking open;  and 
in  seeking  an  explanation  of  this,  it  is 
thought that in bringing the substance—take 
wire  for  illustration—suddenly  to  a  white 
heat, the  air  held  both  physically  and me­
chanically in the wire,  is  expanded and ex­
ploded, tearing its way out  and  leaving  fis­
sures and cracks all over the surface.  These 
fissures  are. plainly  visible  and assume the 
tom and ragged appearance that might come 
from such  explosions  of  the  contained air. 
The wire, before stiff, is now soft and yield­
ing, simply because it is cracked, and  bends 
readily  at  every  break  on  its surface.  To 
illustrate this, we have only to  paint a sheet 
of  paper  with  gum-like  dextrine,  or  even 
mucilage;  when the paper is stiffened, draw 
it over a sharp edge and crack the  gum, and 
the paper will  bend  freely  in  every  direc­
tion.  Here the cracks are visible,  and  it is 
easy to see that they allow the gum to bend. 
It may, from this,  be seen  that annealing is 
a rupturing  or cracking  of a  substance, and 
that its  softness  and  pliability  result  from 
the free play given by the cracks.

Immense beds  of  kaolin,  used  for  the 
manufacture of white ware, have been found 
near Chattanooga, Tenn.  A  company  with 
$25,000 capital has been  organized  to work 
them.

The Sharpening of Tools.

Instead of oil, which thickens  and smears 
the stone,  a mixture of glycerine  and  spirit 
is recommended.  The  proportions  of  the 
composition vary according to the  class  of 
tool to be sharpened.  One with a relatively 
large surface is best  sharpened  with a clear 
fluid, three parts of glycerine  being  mixed 
with one part of spirit.  A  graver  having a 
small cutting surface  only  requires a small 
pressure on the stone, and in such  cases the 
glycerine should be mixed with  only two or 
three drops of spirit.

Telegraph  wires have to be renewed every 
five or seven  years.  The  Western  Union 
Telegraph Co. exchange about one thousand 
tons of old wire  for  new  every  year.  The 
new  wire  costs  from  seven  cents to eight 
cents per  pound,  and for the old about one- 
eighth of acent a pound is allowed.

The feat has been  accomplished  of  send 
ing seventy-two simultaneous messages over 
one telegraph wire.  But what use  is  there 
in such wonderful facilities until there is in­
vented a  messenger  boy  who  can  travel  a 
quarter of a mile  in  less than  an hour.

Some of the Southern  papers  are discuss­
ing  the  cheapness  and  durability  of  solid 
wood walled houses.  That is, houses whose 
walls are built up of boards or plank laid flat 
upon each other.

A Pennsylvania oil king  who  has made a 
fortune in the  last  three  years,  is advertis­
ing for a wife.  Very properly, he  demands 
that the lady shall  be “refined.”

Good  Words Unsolicited.

G. C. Rogers, general dealer, Burton:  “Your 

paper is all right.”

E. Gillett, general dealer, Clearwater:  “ T h e  
M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n  is  the best paper o f  the 
kind I have ever seen.”

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES. 

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co,  quote f. o. 

b. cars  as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 1%, 1*4 and 2 inch.........................  46 06
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 1*4,154 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30  00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   20 00
Fine, Common, 1*4,1 54 and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  16 gO
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,-14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
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 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet........ . 
12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.......................... !...  12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 00
Norway C and better, 4or6inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common__  
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16ft.-.........   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 6in., No. 2 common__   14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
' X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 30
X X X 18 in.  Thin.....................................  
3 20
2  80
X X X 16 in................................................. 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................. 
160
Lath  ......................................................1 75® 2 00

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

 

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BARROW S.

BALANCES.

AUGERS AND B IT S.

Prevailing  rates at  Chicago  are  as  follows: 
60
Ives’, old  style..........................................dis 
N. H. C. Co................................................ dis 
60
60
Douglass’ ..................................................dis 
60
Pierces’ ................................................... dis 
Snell’s ........................................................ dis 
60
Cook’s  .............................  
wdis40&10
25
Jennings’,  genuine.................................dis 
Jennings’, imitation................................dis40&10
Spring........................................................ dis 
25
Railroad..............................................,....$   13 00
Garden.......................................................net 33 00
Hand.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
69
Cow.......................................................... dis 
15
Call............................................  
  dis 
g on er-........ ........................................dis 
20
Door, Sargent......................................... dis 
55
Stqye.....................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage  new  list.................................. dis 
75
Plow  .......................................................dis  30&1C
75
Sleigh Shoe..............................................dis 
50
Cast Barrel  Bolts...................................dis 
55
Wrought Barrel Bolts...........................dis 
50
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs......................dis 
Cast Square Spring.............................   dis 
55
Cast  Chain...:....  ..........................".dis 
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob...............dis  55&10
Wrought Square ................................... dis  55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush............................ dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
,  Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives  Door..............................................dis  50&10
Barber.............................................dis$ 
50
Backus....................................................dis 
50
Spofford..................................................dis 
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&I0
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis  60&10 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint.. dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin.............................dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped................................................. dis  60& 5
WroughtTable...................................... dis 
60
Wrought Inside  Blind......................... dis 
60
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 3x254, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3_per gross 
18 00

BUTTS,  CAST.

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

40

CA PS.

Ely’s DIO...................................J... —  per  m $ 65
Hick’s C. F......................................
60
G. D.................................................
35
Musket............................................
60

,  CATRIDGES.

Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list
Rim Fire, United  States............... ........ dis
Centra. Fire.................................... ........ dis

CHISELS.

Socket Firmer............................... __ dis
Socket Framing............................ __ dis
Socket Corner............................... __ dis
Socket Slicks.................................
.. ..dis

50
50
X
70
70
70
70

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

40
20

COCKS.

COMBS.

D R IL L S

C O PPER .

14x52,14x56, 14 x60.........................

Butchers’ Tanged Firmer........
...dis
Barton’8 Socket Firmers............... ...dis
Cold................................................... __ net
Curry, Lawrence’s.......  ................. ... dis
33%
25
Hotchkiss  ....................................... .. .dis
Brass,  Racking’s............................
40&10
Bibb’s ..............................................
49&10
B eer.................................................
4Ü&10
Fenns’...............................................
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........... ........« f t   34
..  37
Morse’s Bit  Stock.......................... ...dis
35
Taper and Straight Shank............. ... dis
20
Morse’s Taper  So5nk..................... .. .dis
30
Com. 4 piebe, 6  in............................ doz net $1 00
Corrugated......................................
...dis 20&10
Adjustable........................................ ...dis %&10
EX PA N SIV E B ITS.
Claris, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.
dis
20
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.
25
dis
American File Association List..
60
...dis
Dlsston’s ........................................... . ..dis
60
New  American......................................dis
60
Nicholson’s.............................................dis
60
Heller’s ..................................................dis
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps........................... dis
33%
Nos. 16 to 20, 
28
List 
18

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
15

Discount, Juniata 45@10, Charcoal 50@10. 

ELBOW S.

F IL E S .

12 

HINGES.

HANGERS.

HOLLOW  WARE.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ..............dis 
50
Maydole & Co.’s .................................... dis 
20
Kip’s ...................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes&  Plumb’s................................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel......................30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction......................dis 
60
Kidder, wood tra.k..............................dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3..............................dis 
60
State     .......................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  414  14
and  longer.................................  ..........
3*4
Screw Hook and Eye,  54  ...................net
10548*4
Screw Hook and Eye %...................... net
Screw Hook and Eye  %...................... net
7*4
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................................... 
35
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 66*4
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..  3 50, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings......................................list,10  15, dis 66%
70
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list,1155, dis 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s....................d 
40
Hemacite............................................... dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis  66%
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s ......................dis  66%
Branford’s ................................................dis  66%
Norwalk’s..................................................dis  66%
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  65
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ..................................dis  40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s Malleables dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s............. dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise.......................................dis  25
Adze  Eye..................................... $16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt Eye......................................$15 00 dis 40&10
Hunt’s .........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

LEVELS.
MILLS.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

KNOBS.

HOES.

NAILS.

MAULS.
OILERS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.
lOd to  60d....................  ......................¡p keg $2 35
 
8d and 9 d adv....................................... 
35
6d and 7d  adv..........•...................................  
50
75
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
3d  advance..................................................... 
l  50
3d fine  advance........................................... 
3  00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  1  75
I  lOd  8d 
Finishing 
6d  4d
2 
1*4
2*4 
Size—inches  (  3 
$1 25  1 50  1  75  2 00 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
MOLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... 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.................................dis  15
Seiota Bench................................................. 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............................................... «  
ft  6@7
Iron and  Tinned..................................dis 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.................... dis  50&I0
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 1014 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

9

Broken packs *4c *p ft extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

ROPES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7  75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...............16 90
Sisal, 54 In. and  larger...................................  8
Manilla...................................*.........................  1454
Steel and  Iron.......................................dis  50&10
Try and Bevels...................................... dis  50&10
Mitre  ..................................................... dis 
20
Com. Smooth.  Com.

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES.

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

Nos. 10 to 14....................................$4  20 
Nos. 15 to  17 ..................................   4  20 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4  20 
Nos.. 22 to 24..................................   420 
Nos .25 to 26 ..................................   4  40 
No. 27 ..............................................  4  60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 fts, $   ft............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   ft.....................  
No. 1,  Refined........................................... 
Market  Half-and-half............................ 
Strictly  Half-and-half............................ 

6
654
13 00
15  00
16

t i n n e r ’s  s o l d e r .

300

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

10x14, Charcoal.................................  6  50
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal................................   8 50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal.................................  6 50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal..............................   8 50
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  6 50
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal................................  8 50
IX, 
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal................................  10 50
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool................................  12  50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal.................................  14 50
20x28, Charcoal................................   18  00
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal.................................  6 50
DX., 
100 Plate Charcoal.................................  8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.................................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.............................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to 6 75 

TIN  PLATES.

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel, Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ..........dis 
.'15
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Oo.’s......................................  60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 26 «  doz
Bright  Market......................................  dis  60&1C
Annealed Market..................................dis 
70
Coppered Market.................................. dis  55&10
Extra Bailing.............................................  dis  65
Tinned  Market...........................................dis  40
Tinned  Broom............................................$ f t   09
Tinned Mattress....................................... ^ ft 854
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................dis 40@40&10
Tinned Spring Steel, ,4...............................dis 3754
Plain Fence...............;...............................ft  354
Barbed  Fence...................................................
Copper.................................*............new  list net
Brass...................................................new  list net
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  50&10
65
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe’s Patent, malleable.......................dis 
70
Pumps,  Cistern.....................................dis  60&20
80
Screws, new  list........................................ 
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
Dampers, American................................. 
33%

MISCELLANEOUS.

WIRE GOODS. 

WrENCHES.

‘

The Burners of the “QUICK  MEAL” Stoves this year are not operated  by 
a needle valve, but by a “SWITCH  VALVE,” which, when closed, shuts  off the 
Gasoline  from  the  screw  threads  entirely,  thereby  making  leaks 
impossi­
ble.  The burners can be turned down very low without puffing  out.  But  the 
distinctive feature of the “QUICK  MEAL,” the “taking point,” which  gives it 
the advantage of all other stoves, will never be changed,  1.  e.,  the  simplicity 
and  ease  with  which  It  can  be  opened, closed and regulated.  There are no 
thumb-screws to turn, to burn the fingers  with, and  to  confuse  people.  The 
patent lever-valve is a “dead open and shut.”  When the little  knob is pusbed 
over  to  the  word  “Open,”  it  is  open,  and  when  it  is  pushed  to  the word 
Closed, 
it is  closed  and  no  mistake.  That is all there is to it.  No one can 
use it wrong.

Our  patent  “SAFETY  TANK”  attachment,  with  which  all  the  “Quick 
Meal’  are furnished this year, has been so improved and perfected  that it not 
only necessitates the extinction of eyery light, but no burner can be  re-lit  be­
fore  the  filler-cap  has  been  properly  closed.  The fittings and finish of the 
stoves in general have been much improved.

m

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.,  Agts. 

The Hubert Patent

Send for circulars and Price List.  We sell at factory prices.

Foster,  Stevens  &  Go.

AGENTS  FOR  WESTERN  MICHIGAN.

THIS ADVERTISEMENT WILL APPEAR BUT  ONCE.

Dealers in Grand Rapids:

%W~  The great popularity of this Stove is shown by being sold by the following  Hardware 
WHITWORTH  &  ALDEN,  West Bridge St.
N.  B.  KR0MER  &  SON,  Plainfield Ave.
BARST0W  &  00.,  South Division St.
J.  F.  FAILING  &  00.,  South Division St.
J.  J.  MELIS,  17 and  19  Grandville Ave.

None of these will  handle  any other Vapor Stove.

Foster,

Stevens 
&  Co.

-AGENT&-

10 and 12 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapida. 

Send for Circulars and Prices.

The Ic M p  Trailern

Readers of this paper who  avail  themselves 
of the information obtained from its columns, 
by advertisement or otherwise,  are  requested 
to notify their correspondents of the source of 
their information.

SO LTM AN   SN O O K S.

Result of Election at tlie Corners.
Cant H ook Corners, April 9,  1885. 

Mister Editer of Traidsman:

Dea r Sir—Tlie snow  is  nearly  all gone 
and about ten inches of nice  mud and water 
has taken its place.  Pottses  run is way  up, 
nearly a foot above high water mark and un­
less it begins to go down  soon, I  fear  that 
something may happen.  The caff paster and 
city pound is half under  water  and it is re­
ported  that  tlie  water  has  got  into  old 
Pottses suller and ruined two crocks of  but­
ter and 7 bushels of early  rose  potatoes by 
causin  them  to  sprout.  The  potatoes  is 
what sprouted, not  the  butter.  A big  jam 
of ice has jamed agin the  middle  bridge by 
the cant hook factory  and  great  danger is 
apprehended that it may overflow the bridge 
or carry it away.  If it shood, why  the goose 
pond will overflow, the  cooper  shop will be 
under water and  Pottses saw mill  will  get 
so damp in the engine room  that  the engin­
eer will catch the rheumatics.

Town meetin is over and  all 

the  excite­
ment that we have been a havin  ever  senee 
corcus day.

And we beat em!
Hurray! for our side.
We had 8 tickets in the field in this town­

ship.  To wit:  Namely:

Union  Ticket.

Prohibition Ticket.

Citizens Ticket.
Republican Ticket.

Prohipublican  Ticket,

Taxpayers Ticket.
Township  Ticket.
Democratic Ticket.

I tell you, the Grabbag  office  has  had a 
regular picnic of it this  year  printing  tick­
ets.

I am on the board  of  election  as  senior 
justice, and we had to work  all  night  and 
part of next day to count  up.

There was the most  scratcliin  of tickets I 

ever saw.

The Union ticket came out  ahead of  the 
hull heap and I gess it has come  out  ahead 
most all over the state.  They  say  my  old 
friend and comrad,  Major Morse, is elected. 
Bully for Ben!  I voted  the  Union  ticket. 
I made up my mind  about  last  November 
that I had  bung  to  the g. o. p. about  long 
enuff. 
It used to  be  tlie  boss  party  and 
dont 1 remember  it,  but  sence a  Democrat 
has got the dispensing of the post offices etc. 
the g. o. p. has not got tlie hold, so to speak, 
upon the affections of  the enterprising voter 
as it once had.

Potts was elected  justice  of  the  peace, 
Wilkins was elected  treasurer, and  who do 
you suppose  was  elected  township  clerk? 
why, no one but just Algeron P. Banks—our 
Algeron!  And this  is  the  first  office  the 
young feller ever had. 
I wish  you cood see 
him.  He is settin up the cigars to “the boys” 
now, and l wood not wonder  if it wood cost 
him more than he will get out of  the office, 
but he dont care for that.

When a feller gets his first office, he  dont 
care a darn for the  expense.  Well  do I re­
member the first  office I  ever  got. 
I was 
duly elected constable  on 
the  Republican 
ticket and if I did not feel my oats, then,  its 
no matter.

I set up $4 worth of drinks  and  cigars on 
the office, to “wet it,” as the boys termed it. 
And we got it so  “wet”  that  5  or 6 of tlie 
boys got into 
the  cooler  to  dry  out  that 
night

The only case I had during  my first term 
of office, was a call  to  chase  after  a  hoss, 
with a set of replevin  papers. 
I  was so ex 
cited that I  never thot  about  expenses.  So 
I went and used up 2 days work  in  harvest 
time and paid out §13.75 of  my own money 
for expenses and I never found the hoss, nor 
got a cent for my time and money, but I had 
the “honor,” you bet, in my own  mind, any 
way.

I used to meet a pretty  girl  on the street, 
and as I strutted  past her I wood  think, “1 
wonder if she knows that I am  an  officer.”
1 was young then.  But the  thirst for of­
fice never leaves  the  average  American, at 
least until he gets into the Presidential chair. 
And even then lie will  figger  for a 2nd and 
3d term.

Some time I must tell you  of  my  exper­
ience in various offices  and  also  of “How I 
joined the Indipendant Order of Pythonics.” 
But I have not got time  now. 
I am  stock­
ing up with spring  goods, in  expectation of 
a good summer trade. 
I tell you  we  must 
have a boom in trade  this  summer.  Cause 
why?  One  reason  is, that  folkses  sheets, 
table  cloths,  napkins, towels,  shirts,  etc., 
have got so worn out that  they  must  have 
new ones soon, or be  reduced  to the simple, 
cheap and eligant fashion of  the  days when 
ail the people of the earth  raised  Cain and 
got Able to dress, and  Eve said “I dont care 
Adam for expense,  order  me  half a dozen 
more fig leaves and some spruce trimmings.” 

Yours politica’ly,

Soliman Spooks,

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

The grocer has used sugar as a  leader un­
til he has been led into all sorts of folly.  Su 
gar at cost does not lead  the  public  into a 
grocery store half  as  fast as it invites  the 
sheriff.  All  leaders which  are  made  lead­
ers by throwing off profit and  selling at cost 
lead to bankruptcy.

Good  Word  for  “The  Tradesman”  from 

Traverse  City.
Traverse City, April 6,  1885. 

E. A. Stowe, Editor o f T h e T r a d e s m a n :

D ear Sir—As requested by the Traverse 
City Business Men’s Association, I herewith 
enclose a copy of  our  Constitution  and By- 
Laws, which the  Association  granted  you 
permission to publish.  1 am also  requested 
to present you with the following resolution 
which was  adopted unanimously at  our last 
meeting.

Resolved—That we tender our thanks  to 
the editor of  The Michigan  Tradesman 
for the complimentary notice of our  Associ­
ation ; also expressing our high  appreciation 
of his paper in supplying  a  long-felt  want 
among the merchants  of  our State; furnish­
ing, as he  does, a  medium  through  which 
merchants may gain most valuable  informa­
tion ; augmenting the social relations  among 
the business men  of the  State ;  inviting ex­
pressions of opinion  on  matters  pertaining 
to the highest interest  of  trade ;  exposing 
and denouncing all, forms  of trickery and il­
legitimate methods  of  doing  business,  and 
an invitation be extended  to  him to yisit us 
whenever lie is in the place.

Yours respectfully,

C. E. Lockwood,

Secretary Traverse  City Business  Men’s 

Association.

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Creates  a New Era 
in  Store  Furnish- 
ING.  It  entirely su- 
the  old 
persedes 
style  wherever  in­
troduced.

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Satisfaction Guaranteed 
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had  from
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et/ncfT  Hardware 
D ealer,
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send your 
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orders  di­
rect to
Torrance, Merriam & Co,,

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Manufacturers 

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TROY, N.Y.

1885

Rose Leaf, Fine Cut 
Navy Clippings 
and Snuffs

S w i s s * 8»
McALPIN’S

PLUG  TOBACCO

Is  the  most  Delicious  Chew  on  the 

Market.

SOLD  BY ALL JOBBERS.

"SFIOCIES 

0 3 S T  3 L « Y

Luminous  Bait

IN  THE  WORLD.

Patented Feb. 13,  1883.  Re-issue Aug. 28,  1883.

FISHING SURE CATCH  DAY  OR NIGHT.

HARD  AND  SOFT  RUBBER  MINNOWS. 
No. 7, 70c each;  No. 8, 80c each; No. 9,90c each.
FLYING  HELGRAMITES.  No.  0,  80e  each; 
No. 1, 85c each;  No. 2, 90c each;  No. 3,  $1 each.
Samples ot' above Baits  sent post paid on re­
ceipt of price,  or any three for $2.
MALL.  GLASS  MINNOWS,  TRIPLE  HOOK 
FEATHERED, 60c each.
SOFT  RUBBER  FROGS,  TRIPLE  HOOK 
FEATHERED, 60c each.
SOFT  RUBBER  GRASSHOPPERS,  SINGLE 
HOOK, 60c each.
SOFT  RUBBER  DOBSON,  SINGLE  HOOK, 
60e each.
DEXTER TROLLING  SPOON AND MINNOW 
Combined, Triple  Hook  Feathered, 60c each. 
AKRON  TROLLING  SPOON,  Triple  Hook 
Feathered, No. 1, 50c  each;  No.  2,  55c  each; 
No. 3, 60e each;  No. 4, 65c each.
Send for descriptive circulars and testimonials. 
Liberal discount to the Trade.

Enterprise  M |  Co., Akron,  Ohio.

DUNHAM’S

c a W i
W B  MEDICINE  CO,

T H E   B E S T   I N   T H E   W O R L D ! 

PRICE 50 CENTS.

-   GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

S T R A IG H T   GOODS—ITO  SCH EM E.

C

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John  Caulfield,

S o le   Agent.

WM. SEARS & GO.

Cracker  Manufacturers,

A g e n t s   f o r

-A.LABO'ST  CHEESE.

37, 39 & 41  Kent  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
RINDG-E, BERTSCH &  CO.,
BOOTS  A N D   S H O E S .
BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

AGENTS  FOR THE

Our spring samples are now ready for inspection at prices as 
low as the lowest.  We make  a Gent’s  Shoe to  retail  for  $3  in 
Congress,  Button  and Bals that can’t be beat.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Choice  Butter a Specialty !

Oranges,  Lemons, Bananas, Apples, 

Cranberries, Cider, Etc.

Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

M.C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G'd Rapids.
P E R K I N S   <&  H E S S ,
Hides, Purs, W ool & Tallow,

-----DEALERS  IN-----

NOS.  132  and  124  DOUISSTREET.  GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.

M U S K E G O N   B U S IN E S S   D IH E C T O E T .

A. W . MOSHER <&  CO.

¡Wholesale  and Commission Dealers in

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P in e

CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED.
Street,  -  M usls.egon,  M ieli.

S.  S. MORRIS  &  BRO,
Jobbers  of  Provisions,

PACK ERS

—AND—

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Streets.

ORCUTT  &  COMPANY,
Bntter, l m , dieese, Fruit, Grain, Hay, Beef, Pork, Proice.

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

Consignments  Solicited. 

MUSKEGON, MI0H

H. LEONARD & SONS,
Crockery, Glassware & Lamps

Importers and Jobbers of

16 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

AGENTS  FOR

Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles1  American  w.  G. Ware.
Wedgewood  &  Co/s  English  Ware.

A N D

Special Prices given on STONEWARE m.Car.Lots.
The “.GOOD  ENOUGH ”  5 and  10 gal.  OIL  CANS.
The “ EMPRESS ”  1-2,1  and 2 gal.  OIL  CANS.
Galvanized Iron Grocer’s OIL  TANKS,  $7.00 each.
Engraved Globe Crimp Top Lamp Chimneys.
u LA  BASTIE ” Toughened Glass Chimneys will not Break.
We Sell our Labeled “ FLINT ” Glass Chimneys at the same 
Price others ask for Second Quality,  when five  boxes  of 
any styles are taken.

We deliver Lamp  Chimneys, Stoneware  and Kerosene Oil at 

any depot in this city free of Cartage.

Send  for  our  Illustrated  Price  List  of Crockery,  Glassware 
and Hanging Lamps, showing Package  Lists  and  open 
stock Prices of onr full line.

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

BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
MODEL  MILLS.
Gilt  E ie  Patent  anH  White  Leaf  Braids  ef  Flour.

-MANUFACTURERS  OF-

Good Goods and Low Prices.  We invite Correspondence.

F u ll  Roller* P r o c e ss.

Corner Winter and West Bridge Sts., 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

APPLES !

We have a large Western order  trade  for  Apples  in  ear  lots,  as  well  as  a 
good local demand, and also handle Evaporated and Sun-Dried Apples 'largely. 
If you have any of these goods to ship, let us hear from  you,  and  we  will  keep 
you posted on market prices and prospects.  We also handle  Beans  and  Pota­
toes.  Liberal Cash Advances made on Dried Fruit, also on Apples in  carlots.

EARL  BROS.,

169  S.  W ater  St.,  C liicaso,  111.

REFERENCE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

CLARK,  JEW ELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions!

W H O LESA LE

83,85 aid 81  PEARL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 12«  OTTAWA  STREET, 

-  MICHIGAN.
GRAND  RAPIDS, 
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DARK  AROMATIC

Fine Cnt Chewing; Tobacco is the very best dark pods on the Market.

G-rand Rapids,

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