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Warranted to Keep Pieties.

Celebrated for its P U R IT Y , ST R E N G T H  
and  F L A V O R .  The  superiority  of  this 
article is such  that  Grocers  who  handle  it 
find their sales of Vinegar increased.  Needs 
but a trial to insure  its  use  in  any  house­
hold.  PREM IU M   V IN E G A R   W O R K S, 
290  F IF T H   A V .,  CH ICAGO.

P rem ium  V inegar can alw ays be found a t M. 

C. R ussell’s, 48 O ttaw a street.

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HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 

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Oiled  Clothing,  Ducks,  Stripes,  Etc. 

S tate A gents for the 

Watertown  Hammock  Support. 

SEND  FOR  PRICES.

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DRYDEN &  PALM ER’S 
U nquestionably th e b est in  th e   m arket.  As 
clear as crystal and as tra n sp a re n t as diamond. 
T ry a box.
Jolin Caulfield.,
Sole A gent fo r G rand Rapids.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 K en t Street.

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
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And “OUR PATENT.”

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

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TO  THE  TRADE.

We desire to call th e  atten tio n  of th e Trade  to 

ou r u nusually com plete stock of
SCHOOL  BOOKS,

SCHOOL SUPPLIES,

And a G eneral Line of Miscellaneous 

Books, Stationery, P aper, Etc.

We have greatly increased o u r  facilities  fo r 
doing ia  G eneral  Jobbing Business, and  shall 
h ereafter be able to fill all orders prom ptly.
We issue separate lists of Slates,  School  and 
Township Books, Blanks,  E tc ^ v h ic h   will  be 
mailed on application. 
Q uotations on any article in o u r stock cheer­
fully furnished.  We have th e A gency  of  the
REMINGTON  TYPE  WRITER 

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For W estern Michigan.

EATON & LYON,

20 and 22 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

SH ERW OO D  H A LL. 

M ARTIN  L .  SW EET.

E ST A B L ISH E D   1865.

JO B B E R S   O F

Wool Robes, 
Fur Robes,

Horse  Blankets,

Write for Special Prices.

Nos.  20 and 22  Pearl st.,  Grand  Rapids.

Blacklist, Label, and Boycott.

Jo h n  McGovern in Chicago Current.

Industry and invention  bring  with  them 
If we welcome 
things we must also accept. 
the  King,  we  must  house  his 
retinue: 
if we forward to the  Prince of Wales an in­
vitation to our festal  table,  we  must  duly 
receive the list of co-banqueters.  With  the 
locomotive came the  Brotherhood  of  Engi­
neers,  with  the  telegraph,  the  operator’s 
palsy; with the printing of books,  the  lead 
colic. 
It is therefore idle to inveigh against 
the  inevitable—the  more  than  inevitable, 
the present and actual.  But  it  is wise to 
contemplate  its  phenomena,  and  educe  a 
knowledge of the motion  and  direction  of 
things.

The forerunner of the boycott would seem 
to have been the blacklist.  As. an  instru­
ment of private reprisal the  proscription  is 
older than history; as an aid  in the making 
of human foods and appliances its  use  was 
invoked for decades before it  bore  fruit  in 
the retaliations of its victims.

But even Napolean fought too often  with 
his enemies, and thus taught them the art of 
war. 
So  long as  the blacklist was in  the 
hands of bosses, what harm?  A  leader of 
the workers  starved  now and then,  but  it 
greatly contributed to the peace  of the gen­
eral  fold.  Thus  a  prominent  working 
moulder in  Chicago—named  Geo. Rodgers,
I believe—walked  the  streets  and  studied 
facades for six months.  The  masters need­
ed his work,  but must have  it  without  his 
tongue.  His  views  on the rights of labor 
“hurt their business.”  With equal success, 
Mr.  Jay  Gould,  a gentleman  well  known 
in leading industrial circles, has often level­
ed the power pf the blacklist against the ob­
structors of his views, and I understand that 
it has rarely failed to work to  his  satisfac­
tion in the Wabash system,  in the  Western 
Union,  and  in  such  other  enterprises  as 
have survived his management  and  cherish 
his direction and care.

In the year 1880  things  came  to  such  a 
pass in  Ireland  that  the  tenant  owed  ten 
dollars of back rent to the landlord and had 
only one proposition to make as  a  solution 
of  the  affair—namely, 
that  the  landlord 
should lend him a dollar.  As the landlord 
was land-poor,  the great Irish  question  be­
came so difficult as to  arrest  the  attention 
of all the world. 
There was  a nobleman, 
the Earl of Eme,  employing  as  his  agent 
one Captain  Boycott.  Captain  Boycott,  in 
addition  to  telling  the  tenants  how  much 
they owed him,  and receiving their promises 
or  threats, occupied a farm of the Earl near 
the Lough Mask,  in County Mayo.  His ten­
ants, having secured two  reductions,  bring­
ing  them below  “Griffith’s  valuation,”  de­
manded 25  per  cent,  more,  which  Captain 
Boycott refused to grant,  and he  attempted 
unsuccessfully to evict the occupants of  the 
Earl’s  lands.  This  action  brought upon 
him  the  condemnation  of all the  people. 
The hands on his  own  holding  left  him; 
shopkeepers  had  no  goods  to sell him—if 
he  wanted  sugar, 
they  were sorry;  they 
were just out of that commodity;  people re­
fused  to speak  with  him;  he walked  as  a 
leper where he had once  gone with good re­
pute.  This thing had to have a  name,  and 
it was formally called  “passive  resistance,” 
and much popular joy in Mayo attended the 
christening.

Now all this was painful to Captain Boy­
cott’s  feelings,  and he reported the matter1 
with particularity to the English contingent 
at Dublin  Castle.  And it-was exceedingly 
injurious  to  his  crops,  which he did not 
fail  likewise  to  mention.  But Mr.  Chief 
Secretary Forster  could only say to Captain 
Boycott that,  if he  would  get  hands, 
the 
Government  would  protect  them;  it  was 
not the  business of the  Empire  to  earn  as 
well as collect the taxes.  So, in November, 
the Captain recruited,  in  the  north  of  Ire­
land,  a party of fifty Orangemen, who went 
down  into Mayo and harvested the crop, the 
Government  patrolling  the  premises  and 
saving the Orangemen from all harm.

The affair  provoked  so  much  comment 
everywhere  that  the name of “passive re- 
sistence”  failed  to  survive,  and  the  verb 
to  boycott  came into  our  language.  No 
man then foretold its future significance.

The  first  shock of feeling throughout the 
world,  after the  merriment  of  non-combat­
ant observers  had  passed,  was  clearly one 
of  repugnance.  There  was something es­
sentially cowardly in  the  boycott. 
It  was 
not open and manly. 
in­
tangible;  it had John Randolph’s celebrated 
drawbacks of a corporation from  a  retribu­
tive standpoint.  Men  said:  “The  boycott 
will never come to America.”

It  was  soulless, 

But it came.  And when it arrived it was 
found to  be  the  workingman’s  blacklist. 
The sailor said:  “Why,  I  recognize  that 
cat;  I’ve been flogged with  it.”  The  boy­
cott was  the same old cat,  the blacklist.

One of the first experiences,  and  a  bitter 
one,  with the boycott fell to  the  lot  of  the 
New York Herald.  Here  was an institu­
tion that was  willing  to  give  a  hundred 
thousand dollars to have its way.  Suppose 
a five cent newspaper,  selling at three cents 
to the newsdealer, were to reduce its printed 
price to three  cents  and  its  price to  news­
dealers  to  two  and  a  half  cents.  That 
would reduce the income  of  the  newspaper 
one-sixth and  the income of the newsdealer

three-quarters.  This  was  not  the exact 
scheme of the Herald, but it  had  that  cast j 
in  its eye.  The newsdealers’ small boycott j 
was put on the Herald,  that  journal  spent 
its §100,000 in fighting  its own distributors, 
and when it  got  weary  it  stopped. 
The 
newsdealers triumphed.

The next serious  boycott  issued  against 
the New  York  Tribune.  The  imbroglio
following  the  discharge  of organized labor 
and the  employment  of  unorganized labor 
by Mr.  Whitelaw Reid so  closely  preceded 
an  exciting  national  election  as  to  bring 
upon the proprietor an  enormous  pressure, 
which he withstood,  much to  the  injury  of 
one of the  presidential  candidates,  as that 
candidate was not slow to think.  But  the 
boycott  was  not over with the election,  and 
is not over  yet. 
I presume  Mr.  Reid  will 
declare  it  has  helped  his business,  but it 
certainly has induced  the  folding  of  Tri­
bunes in other papers to secure their proper 
circulation.

In the now  famous  street-ear  strike  of 
Chicago,  the boss had  put  the  blacklist  on 
sixteen  men.  The  Union  struck.  The 
vast organized Union hosts  of  the  city not 
only  gloated  over  the strike, but aided in 
the  illegal measures  which  terrorized  the 
unorganized labor that drifted into the  tem­
porary vacuum.  The company appealed to 
the authorities.  Their  reply  was  as  the 
reply from Dublin had been:  “We will pro­
tect  your  business,  but we will not do your 
business for you.”  Thus cars loaded down 
with officers rode up and down  the  streets, 
forty officers to a car. 
It was  safe to ride, 
but few passengers  rode.  The  company 
became alarmed.  * ‘This is not a strike we are 
dealing with!”  they said,  “it is  a boycott.” 
The next day the Union label was put on the 
cars,  and  the  public  was  shaking  hands 
with the conductors.  The  good-will  went 
with the Union, without a word.

Now this Union  label  is  only  the  corol­
lary of the  boycott.  Affixed to  beer  kegs, 
hats,  shoes,  cigars,  the label already hand­
icaps all competing lines of goods.

In this age  of trade,  where  every  advan­
tage  is greedily seized, how naturally is the 
drift toward a blind  obedience  of  the  Cen­
tral Union.  Do we  not  face  a  momentous 
epoch,  when a body of delegates, printing a 
slip of paper, may deny its use  to  a  manu­
facturer  and  ruin  his  business,  or  issue it 
unrighteously to a lobbyist  and  make  his 
fortune?

All over the country the  boycott  is  being 
applied. 
In New Orleans the States news­
paper defies it;  in St.  Louis the Republican. 
Mr.  Gould,  with  characteristic  ability,  has 
grappled  the boycotting  power at  its  seat, 
and now proceeds to destroy the Knights  of 
Labor.  He will fail, because he represents, 
as I believe,  all that is  vicious  in  the  prin­
ciples  of  finance  and  business.  Whoever 
shall fight the boycott must battle with it as 
John Brown fought in  the  engine-house  at 
Harper’s Ferry—from unselfish motives.

Society developed in the Old World with­
It 
out this portentous industrial  offshoot. 
is a new scion on the old stock. 
It is, like 
the  harvester,  practically  an  American  in­
vention.  The spectacle of a manufacturer, 
represented  by an orator,  before a Commit­
tee  on Boycott,  unfolding seriatim the rea­
sons why the label should  be affixed  to  his 
goods and refused to his rivals;  then the re­
ports to the Trades Assembly;  and then the 
vote on the  question—this  thing  impresses 
me as something stranger  than  an  Arabian 
tale.  And it is not far off.  The  evil  of  it 
will be  like  locusts in Egypt.  The other 
day I saw a  report  that a vast body of  sa­
loon-keepers  had passed a boycott on a cer­
tain  dry  goods  firm  which  compelled its 
salesmen to keep out of dram-shops.

The  blacklist  (always  a cruel weapon), 
now  becomes  a  two-edged  sword  in  the 
hands of the hundred-handed. 
Stand back 
when they strike, whether you  be friend or 
foe.

It is the  most  important  new  industrial 
idea.  How long will  the  legislatures view 
it without action?  And will they dare op­
pose it?  And  can they equitably regulate 
it?

[N o t e—Mr.  McGovern  is  in  error  in 
stating  that the newsdealers’ boycott of the 
New York Herald  was  one  of  the  first 
cases in this  country,  although,  singularly 
enough,  the Herald was the sufferer by the 
original onslaught.  Boycotting dates back 
about thirty years,  and was,  like the wooly 
cow, homed horse,  and  other  freaks, 
the 
invention  of  the  great moral showman,  P. 
T.  Barnuin.  When  at  the  height  of his 
fame  as  manager  of  Barnum’s museum, 
Tom Thumb,  Jennie  Lind,  etc.,  Mr.  Bar- 
num demanded  certain  advertising  conces­
sions of the New York  Herald,  which  the 
elder Bennett, who was then its owner,  de­
clined to yield.  Mr. Barnum then withdrew 
his patronage from the Herald,  and induced 
the other New  York  amusement  managers 
to do the same.  The  boycott was kept up 
for quite a length of time,  with the result of 
at  last  forcing  Bennett 
to  yield.—Ed. 
T r a d e s m a n .]

A man became  bankrupt  with  liabilities 
of §20,000,  and  in the settlement of the es­
tate, which  yielded  78  per  cent, 
to  the 
creditors,  the  costs  of  the  administration 
amounted to less than §3. 
This happened 
away off in Smaland,  Sweden.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  W EDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  2,  1885

NO. 102

Trade Catalogues.

How Bank-Notes are Redeemed.

American illustrated trade  catalogues ex­
cel all others in the world.  No  other coun­
try produces any in comparison.  With them 
catalogue printing has become  a  wonderful 
and  distinct  business  in  itself. 
It is eon- 
ceeded by the most distinguished  European 
art critics that Americans have surpassed all 
other nations in printing, and have wellnigh 
done  so  in  wood-engraving.  The  great 
silverware houses  publish  more  costly and 
georgeous catalogues than any other  line of 
trade.  They  usually  issue one edition  of 
7,000 copies,  because they have  about  that 
many customers.  One house on  Broadway 
paid  §100,000  for  its  edition of 7,000  last 
year,  while  other  silverware  houses  paid 
sums  ranging  from  §35,000  to  §50,000. 
Another house,  besides  publishing  a  trade 
catalogue,  issues  a  hand-book  for its  cus-. 
tomers at a cost of §6,000.

The §100,000 catalogues were of folio size, 
and contained 400 pages.  They  contained 
about 4,000 words and steel engravings  and 
photographic  and 
lithographic  sketches. 
Each book weighed about fourteen  pounds. 
The  big  edition  consumed  forty-five  tons 
of the finest and heaviest  calendered  paper, 
made expressly for the  purpose,  and  of  a 
higher grade  than  used  in any other work 
of the bookmaker’s art; twelve tons of  card­
board and 3,000 yards of the finest silk cloth 
for the covers.  The  press work alone for 
the 7,000 copies  cost  §3,000,  and  210,000 
sheets of gold  leaf  and  49,000  sheets  of 
silver leaf were used.

In the more economical  catalogues,  such 
as those  issued  by  the  hardware,  stove, 
locomotive,  machinery  and cutlery houses, 
there is  no  such  expensive  character  of 
work, hut they  are printed in the best man­
ner possible, on good  surface  hook  paper, 
and illustrated with the best  wood  engrav­
ings.  The  cost  is  often  from  §8,000 to 
§12,000 for an edition.

Conclusive Evidence.

A  couple  of  gentlemen  stood  on  Vine 
street,  says the Cincinnati Enquirer, talking 
about  one  thing  or another when a beggar 
made  a  plea  for  alms,  showing  that  his 
right hand  was  gone  as  an  inducement  to 
contribute.  One of  the gentleman gave  the 
fellow  a dime, but the other refused to ante 
up.

“ How  did  you  loose  your  hand?”  the 

beggar  was  asked.

“ I was coupling ears and got my hand so 

badly mashed that I had to cut it off, sir.”

“ Oh,  no,  you  didn’t  do  anything  of  the 
kind,” said the  gentleman  who  declined  to 
give the beggar any money.

“ How do you know ?  Was you there ? ” 

impudently retorted the tramp.

“ Yes,  I was  there,”  replied  the  gentle­
man.  “ Your hand was blown off while you 
were trying to steal a watch from my pocket, 
and I am the very one that did it.  The only 
mistake I made was in shooting at your hand 
instead of your heart.”

The  beggar  didn’t  stop  to  parley,  but 

sneaked off with celerity.

“ What becomes of old bank-notes ? ” is a 
question asked and answered in graphic  de­
tail by  a  correspondent  of  the  New  York 
Post:

When the national bank-notes have tramp­
ed about the country until they have become 
ragged and vagabond,  and have reached the 
lowest  depths  of  degradation, 
they  are 
bundled  up  and  sent  to  the  Treasury De­
partment  for  redemption.  Many  million 
of these vagrants  are  received  at  the  De­
partment each year.  They have to  pass  in 
review  through  the  National  Bank  Re­
demption Agency, where those that  are  ut­
terly depraved and good for nothing are sen­
tenced to be chewed up, and those who have 
got in through the force of  association,  but 
are still not so far gone that some good may 
not be got out of them,  are  sent  back  into 
service. 
In  the  place  of  those  which  are 
condemned, nice new notes, crisp and clean, 
are sent out.  The experience of these notes 
is varied,  and in some cases novel and inter­
esting,  but their  tale  is  told  only  by  their 
ragged and dirty appearance when  they get 
back to the department.  The average length 
of time that a new note  can  keep  up  a  re­
spectable appearance is  about  three  years. 
Some have been found at the end of twenty 
years to be as crisp as on  the  day  of  their 
issue;  but these are exceptional cases, where 
they  have  fallen  into  the  hands of people 
who  made  pets  of  them,  and  carefully 
guarded them from rough usage.  The wan­
dering note soon becomes a  tramp. 
It rap­
idly  goes  to  pieces  if  it  starts out for the 
West,  stopping along at the cross-road inns, 
or if it frequents drinking  saloons and falls 
in with low company.  Bad habits tell  on a 
bank-note  very  quickly. 
It  is  hard  luck 
when  it  falls  in  with  a  bloody-fingered 
butcher.  Some have been known to become 
good for nothing under  such  circumstances 
in a few weeks.  They are  subject, too,  to 
all sorts of misfortune by fire and water.

Many  thousands  get  burned  up.  Then 
their  charred  and  blackened  remains  are 
sent to the Treasury  for  redemption.  One 
lady in the Comptroller’s office, in this case, 
has  charge  of  them,  and they  are  sent  to 
her for identification before they can  be  re­
deemed.  Her name is  Fitzgerald,  and  she 
is said to be very expert,  seldom  failing  to 
identify a note, giving its proper name, date, 
and  classification,  no  matter  how  badly 
burnt it is.  Sometimes packages of several 
hundred, done up to be  expressed,  are  sent 
in all stuck together and burnt clear through 
to a black,  crispy mass.  Soc then separates 
them  one  by  one with  a  very  thin-bladed 
knife,  and  places  the  charred  remains  of 
each one  separately  upon  a  glass  slab  and 
examines it very carefully with  a  magnify­
ing glass.  She is familiar with all peculiar­
ities of the issues of the various banks,  and 
a note must be reduced almost to ashes to be 
beyond her recognition, though  to  an  inex­
perienced eye it might not be  distinguished 
from  a  piece  of  grocer’s paper which had 
gone through the fire.

Solid Sense From a Solid Paper.

The Boston  Daily  Advertiser  evidently 
takes but little stock in the cry  against can­
ned  goods,  as the following from its editor- 
rial columns witnesses:

is  probably 

“To  be  told  that  it is unsafe to buy but­
ter,  lard,  canned goods,  catsups and sauces, 
mince meats,  jellies,  flavoring  syrups,  or 
any one of dozens of  other  articles  of  food 
made  or  put  up  and labelled in Northern 
manufactories, 
somewhat 
alarming to Carolina consumers;  yet this is 
precisely  what  the  News  and  Courier is 
preaching  to  its  readers.  On the alleged 
authority  of  Northern journals,  it informs 
its readers that the  greater,  part  of  these 
articles  are  dangerously  adulterated  and 
unfit for use,  and  it  consequently  advises 
home manufacture.  To  overstate an evil is 
never  justifiable,  even  with  good  inten­
tions.  The North has many corrupt manu­
factures;  but to say that all,  or even a large 
part, of his products are dishonest,  is  false. 
Let Southern importers deal only with repu­
table wholesale  merchants,  and  pay  fair 
prices,  and  they  will  get  honest  goods 
every time.

Cistine  is  the  name  applied  to a feebly 
alkaline substance extracted from the leaves 
of  Cistine  Creticui,  an  evergreen  shrub, 
growing near the Mediterranean, which fur­
nishes the resinous body known  as  labdan- 
um.  The  new  derivative  is  said  to be  a 
cardie stimulant.

The New York bankers,  having  accepted 
silver small change in place of the gold they 
advanced to the Treasury,  are now  anxious 
to get as much as possible of  it  into  circu­
lation.  They have sent out some 7,000 circu­
lars to bankers and the like,  asking  them to 
come in this way to the  aid  of  the  govern­
ment  in  maintaining  specie  payments  in 
gold.  The responses have not been encour­
aging.  About  one  in  twenty  thought  it 
worth while to make any answer to the pro­
posal, and of these  many  are  unfavorable. 
The  brilliant stroke by  which  the  bankers 
surrendered to silver without  taking any  of 
the legal-tender dollars,  does  not  seem  to 
excite the admiration of  the  banking  com­
munity generally,

The force of fifty-seven,  all except two or 
three  of  whom  are  ladies,  can  handle just 
half a million notes each day.  This is very 
expert counting.  The notes when they come 
to  be  judged  have  first  to be  ‘counted in.’ 
This  requires  the  ‘counter-in’  to  go  over 
them twice, and she must make no  mistake 
and  pass  no  counterfeit,  or  the loss thus 
caused  will  be  deducted  from  her  salary. 
She is given from  6,000 to 10,000 notes,  for 
which she gives a receipt;  then  she  counts 
them in ;  then she counts them back,  and if 
the two counts agree she is  given  credit for 
them when  she  settles  up  in  the  evening, 
turning in the money bound and labled with 
her name and the amount on each  package. 
If the packages,  or any  of  them  are  found 
short, she has to make good  the  deficiency. 
Next, the notes have to be assorted, those in 
good condition from those in bad condition; 
then they have to be grouped as to denomin­
ation ;  then distributed into banks  of issue, 
and  then  into  denomination,  under  the 
heads  of  banks.  Then  they are  ‘counted 
out.’  The ‘counter-in’ has to  handle them 
twice and the  ‘ counter-out ’ thrice,  but  the 
former has the most responsibility, and must 
be  more  expert.  The  counter-in  handles 
from 7,000 to 10,000 notes  twice,  or  counts 
12,000 to 20,000 per day,  while the counter- 
out handles from 5,000 to 7,000 three times, 
or  counts  from  15,000  to  21,000  per day. 
This  is  provided  they  make  no  mistake, 
which  makes  a  recount  necessary,  and 
doubles the work.

A New  Industry.

One  of the outgrowths of the local option 
movement,  says  a  Baltimore  paper,  is a 
new  industry. 
It  is  putting up what is 
known as  “brandied fruits,”  and  there  are 
several  firms  in the city who have a large 
trade in this business.  A  peach  or a few 
plums  or  cherries  are  put  up in cans of 
whisky, specially labeled and sent into local 
option  districts as canned goods.  A letter 
was shown us a few  days  ago  in  one  of 
these  establishments, 
in  which the writer 
expressed  his  satisfaction at the quality of 
the goods received;  “but,”  said  he,  “my 
customers want less fruit  and more liquor.” 
And this is but one of the  many  devices  to 
circumvent the prohibition policy.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

S. A.  STOWE,  Editor*

Term s $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
A dvertising rates m ade know n on application.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER  2,1885.

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

President—L ester J . Rindge.
V ice-President—Chas. H . Leonard.
T reasu rer—Wm. Sears. 
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Executive  Com m ittee—President,  Vice-Pres­
ident and T reasurer, ex-offlcw-, O. A. Ball, one 
y ear;  L. E. H aw kins and R. D. Sw artout, tw o
A rbitration  Com m ittee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W. 
T ransportation  Comm ittee—Sam uel  Sears, 
In surance Committe—Jo h n  G. Shields, A rth u r 
M anufacturing  Com m ittee—Wm.  Cartw right, 
A nnual M eeting—Second  W ednesday evening 
R egular  M eetings—Second  W ednesday  even­

P utnam , Joseph H ousem an. 
Geo. B. D unton, Amos. S. Musselman.
Meigs, Wm. T. L am oreaux.
E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
of October. 
ing of each m onth.

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AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Mohl & Kenning have compromised  with 
their workmen,  and the full  force  resumed 
work this morning.

E. E. Walker succeeds Walker & McKen- 
dry in the grocery business on the comer  of 
Monroe and Ionia streets.

Chantler  &  Paulson,  general  dealers  at 
Manistique,  have  added  a  line  of  drags. 
Hazeltine,  Perkins  &  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

Wm.  Coach, of this  city,  has  engaged in 
lumbering operations on  an  extensive scale 
near Baraga.  Cody,  Ball  &  Co. furnished 
him with his camp equipments.

The Berkey & Gay Furniture  Co. has re­
ceived orders for the complete equipment of 
the following hotels: Madison Avenue Hotel, 
New  York;  Hotel  Everett,  Jacksonville, 
Fla.; Duval House,  same place.

Dr.  E.  Palmer  and  O.  W.  Hawley  have 
formed a copartnership under the firm name 
of  E.  Palmer  &  Co.,  and  engaged  in  the 
drug business at Bellaire.  Hazeltine,  Per- 
kine & Co. furnished the  stock.

H.  Leonard & Sons  have now in prepara­
tion  the  largest  catalogne  ever  issued  by 
the house, comprising  fifty  pages,  fully  il­
lustrated with the latest  things  in  the  line 
of  crockery,  glassware  and  bazaar  goods. 
The  catalogue will  be  ready  for  distribu 
tion in about three weeks.

D. E.  Me Yean  was  in  the  city  Monday 
and completed the sale of the  grocery stock 
of D. E.  McVean  &  Sons,  at  Kalkaska, to 
Mr.  Clark—brother  of  L  M.  and  M.  J. 
Clark—who will continue the business.  Mr. 
McVean will remove  to  Grand  Rapids  and 
identify himself  with  some  one of  the job­
bing houses here.

Jacob Barth authorizes T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
to state that the store  at  91  Monroe  street 
will be occupied,  about September  10,  with 
a complete stock of ladies’ and misses’ sacks. 
The  venture is  undertaken  by  an  Eastern 
syndicate, which is represented here by  Mr. 
Barth.  The present occupants of the block, 
the general officers of the  Michigan Central
Kailway, will remove to the store now ooou-, 
the  Morton  House  barber  shop, 
pi«l  by  the  Morton  House  barber  shop, | ^
which  will  be  removed  one  store  to  the 
south,  when  the  Anti-Kalsomine  Co. will 
remove  to 
Division Steeet.

the  Rathbum  block 

A 

Jas. B. Taylor, formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery, and  crockery  business  at  Sparta, 
has started  a restaurant at Newaygo.

F. H. Smith has retired from the boot and 
shoe firm of C. L. Morrow & Co., at Adrian. 
The firm name remains the  same as before.
Benton & Frost  have  purchased  the  W. 
A.  Murphy &  Oo.  jewelry  and  stationery 
stock, at Whitehall,  and  will  continue  the 
business.

Grant Bros.,  general  dealers at  Coloma, 
have  dissolved,  George  Grant  succeeding. 
Robert Grant will  take up his residence  in 
Tennessee.

The Middleville  Independent  says  that 
Broom & Slayton, of Hartford,  have  leased 
a store building at Middleville  and  will en­
gage in the grocery business.

A. M. Tinker & Co. and D. A.  Tinker  & 
Co., dealers in hats, caps and gents’ furnish­
ing goods at Jackson, have consolidated the 
two stocks and will hereafter  carry  on  the 
business under the  corporate  name  of  the 
Tinker Merchandise Co.  The capital stock 
of the corporation is 820,000, of which 810,- 
000 is paid in.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

The Wagar Lumber Co.’s office  has been 

removed from  Stanton to Ionia.

Miner  &  Co.  will  shortly  have  a  basket 

factory in operation at  Kellogg.

Glenn  &  Porter,  saw  mill  operators  at 

East Jordan, have put in a planing mill.

Cross & Dyer,  of Standish, intend to bank 

10,000,000 feet of logs the coming winter.

The  Ludington,  Wells  &  Van  Schaick 
Co. is putting a  large  gang  into  its  lower 
mill at Menominee.

Hulburt  &  Butt  recently  completed  a 
It will have a  cut­

shingle mill at Oscoda. 
ting capacity of 75,000 to 80,000.

Sibley & Bearringer have let contracts for 
putting in from 40,000,000 to 60,000,000 logs 
the coming winter on the Rifle and Au Gres 
rivers.  .

J.  H.  Hill  &  Sons  have  started  three 
camps in the  vicinity  of  Sault  Ste. Marie, 
where they intend to put  in 12,000,000  feet 
of  pine.

Conrad Masters,  formerly with Nickerson 
& Collister,  at  Pentwater,  has  leased  the 
grist  mill  at  Lincoln  and  will remove  to 
that place.

The McGraft  Lumber  Co.,  of Muskegon, 
has already begun to log on Clam  and  But­
terfield creeks.  The company intends to put 
in 8,000,000 feet this season.

S. A.  Lewis is building a planing  mill  at 
Flint, which will be enclosed in  a  building 
32x114 feet on the ground. 
It will take the 
place of the one destroyed by fire.

S. D.  Barber,  of  Olivet,  has  purchased 
Elder  P.  Holler’s  grist mill,  at  Nashville, 
and will make  substantial  betterments,  in­
cluding a change to roller process.

A land looker states  that  in  Otsego  and 
Roscommon counties 50,000,000 feet of stand­
ing pine has been killed  by  fires,  and  that 
it will be logged the coming winter.

The Newaygo  Tribune  says:  S.  Dresser 
will engage in the manufacture  of hoops in 
Grant township,  having  just  received  the 
latest improved machinery from Chicago.

Rockford Register: Farling & Cole are go­
ing  to  entirely  overhaul  and  repair  their 
flouring mill and build a  new flume.  They 
also  talk  quite  strongly  of putting  in the 
roller process.

Butters & Peters’ saw and shingle mill, at 
Tallman,  burned  on  the  27th  ult.  Loss,
| 845,000;  insurance,  830,000.  Five hundred 
thousand shingles  were  also  destroyed,  on 
which there was no insurance.

Monroe, Boyce & Co.,  of  Grand  Haven,
recently sold a tract  of  pine  in  Montcalm 
“ I county,  estimated  to  have on it  12,000,000
* 0 0 0   feet,  for  which  *65,000  was
 w lnta „ „ 4  at Greenville.
  - ^ e ^
Detroit capitalists  are  seriously  consider- 
S inn the construction of a railroad  from  Al- 
j pena to Cheboygan,  for the sake of opening 
1 up the extensive  pine and farming-area  be- 
j tween the two  places, which  now  have  no

a r o u n d   t h e   s t a t e . 

F.  H.  Steams,  druggist  at  Detroit,  has  outlet.

sold out.

P. M. Etchell, grace: 

move to Henrietta.

at Jackson, will  re-

H.  F.  Campbell has sold his drug stockât 

Sherman to D. V. Emmons.

J.  L.  Budge succeeds  Budge  & Miller  in 

the drug business at Midland.

Ryerson,  Hills  &  Co.,  of  Muskegon, are
reported to have sold to  Mitchell  Brothers, 
of Cadillac, 43,000,000 feet of pine  in  Mis­
saukee county, the consideration being 8200,-
000.  This pine will  be sawed  at  Crooked 
lake,  where  Mitchell  Brothers  operate  a 
mill. 
It is thought that the pine purchased

Disbrow & Cook, grocers at Vassar,  have | will give the mill an eight years  run. 

removed to Mio, Oscoda county.

have dissolved, Williams  retiring.

in the grocery business at Bay  City.

Putnam in general trade at Northport

Cloud,  and will add a line of groceries.

Putnam  &  Kehe  Bros,  succeed  Jas.  H.

Jas. McCabe  succeeds  Ryerse  &  McCabe 

J.  Oheon is enlarging  his  store  at  White 

L each & R apelge,  general dealers at Rich- 

Dorin  & Williams, druggists at Sheridan,  | 

Cheboygan Tribune:  E.  S. Matteson,  of 
Grand Rapids, and his partner, a Mr. Brown, 
of Manistee, have leased  the shingle mill of 
Quay & Son for a term of  years.  Mr. Mat­
teson  shipped  a  boiler  and  engine  and 
mill complete from McBrides.  The firm in­
tend running for the rest of the season  just 
as the mill is and next spring  put  in  addi­
tional power and an additional shingle mill.
A  Rodney  correspondent  writes:  L.  T.
„
i Wilmarth & Co. have  received  about a mil-
E  A  Parkinson, of Detroit, has purchased  lion and a half of shingles on their  contract
with Gordon Earle and Sprague Bros.  The
entire cut of the two  mills  was  contracted 
for for two months.  *  *  Brower & McKay, 
of Maple Valley,  have purchased the black­
smith’s tools and business of  A.  L.  Thoms, 
and will continue at  the  old  location.  Mr. 
Thoms has purchased  Mr.  Hannaford’s  in­
terest in Blanchard & Co.’s mill.

the E.  E. Miller drug stock at Traverse City.
A.  Y.  Sessions,  of  Hubbardsion,  has 
bought C.  H.  Clement’s  general  stock  at 
Sheridan.

M. E.  Griswold & Co.  succeed  Griswold, 
Campbell & Co.  in the hardware business at 
Middleville.

mond,  have dissolved, each  continuing.

, 

. 

. 

. 

A Paris correspondent writes that E. Fish 
er has  sold his  grocery  stock  to  Mr.  Bar­
ker, of Sand  Lake.

J.  F.  Keeney  &  Co.,  general  dealers  at 
Ferry, has sold out,  and will engage in trade 
at some other point.

C. E.  Iden,  formerly  engaged  in  general 
trade at Banfield, will  engage  in  the  gro­
cery and boot and  shoe  business  at  Vicks­
burg.

W. J. Arnett, grocery and provision deal­
er at Morley, has sold out to his silent part­
ner, W. T. Jones,  and is  reported  to  have 
left town.

C.  Culhane  has  begun  operations  on 
Beaver Lake,  hi the Roscommon county  re­
gion,  on a contract for putting in 14,000,000
feet of pine for  the Torrent  &  Arms Lum­
ber Co., of Muskegon.  The logs will be put 
into Backus  creek,  run  down  that  stream 
and across Houghton lake,  and thence down 
the  Muskegon.  Mr.‘  Culhane  last  spring 
finished a contract with the  same  company 
for putting in 64,000,000 feet of logs, which 
it took him five years  to  complete. 
In  all 
he has driven down 97,000,000 feet  of  logs 
for Torent & Arms.

The Gripsack Brigade.

S.  P. Draa,  of  Adrian,  has  engaged to 
travel for I. W.  Elser &  Co.,  dealers in  lu­
bricating oils, Baltimore,  Md.

The Fremont Indicator says  that Mrs.  C.
E. Morgan—wife of the well-known traveler 
now  rides  around  that  village behind  a 

stead with a good trotting record.

Simon Pure Brown,  Western  representa­
tive for Wallace & Co.,  of  New  York,  was 
in town last week with his wife.  They were 
the guests of Homer Eaton and family.

J. E.  Hubinger,  of the firm  of J.  C.  Hub- 
inger  &  Bra.,  manufacturers  of  Elastic 
starch,  New Haven,  Conn.,  was  in  town 
Saturday,  and placed the  sale of the  goods 
with Clark,  Jewell &  Co.

Sam F.  Nyhart,  Michigan  representative 
for D.  H.  McAlpin &  Co.,  of  New  York, 
has returned from a trip through  the  Sagi­
naw Valley,  and  left  yesterday  for  a  trip 
through the Alpena country.

An old and successful  merchant  recently 
remarked that  “no matter how smart a man 
may be, there is some man  that is  in  some 
ways smarter.”  This sentiment  is  a  good 
thing for traveling men to make a note of.

Even  the  ladies  have  caught  the  fever. 
Mrs.  Hub.  Baker has been visiting at Mount 
Pleasant for several weeks  past,  and  when 
she returned home she brought with  her  an 
auburn-haired brute of the canine persuasion. 
Charley Robinson says the animal  is  liver- 
colored.

When the traveling men  meet  A. D. Ba­
ker on the  road  with a  lady  this week  or 
next, they need not congratulate him on  his 
marriage.  The lady who is sharing his joys 
and sorrows for a fortnight is not his  wife, 
but his sister,  Mrs.  Seeley, of Rochester,  N. 
Y., who has been visiting  friends in Michi­
gan for several weeks past.  Baker’s  many 
young  lady  friends  along  the  line of  the 
road  will  undoubtedly  give  Mrs.  Seeley 
cordial receptions.

It is a well-established  fact  that  an  ac­
quaintance with merchants in Southern terri­
tory is of more value to a salesman  than  in 
other  sections.  The  characteristic  hospi­
tality holds  good  in  this  case.  Salesmen 
and  customers  become  warm  friends, and 
favors are  dispensed  accordingly, but  woe 
be  to  the  inexperienced  traveler  who,  to 
make a sale, deceives,  or  in his great desire 
to  do  business,  promises  what  he  cannot 
fulfill.  Risky,  in any case, with the warm­
hearted, friendly  Southener it is fatal.

C. L. Brown,traveling for J.  L.  Matthews 
& Co., of Detroit,  was  run over by the cars 
at the Flint & Pere  Marquette  depot,  Sagi­
naw,  on the 24th,  and killed.  He  went  to 
the depot and got on the cars, then off again. 
Parties say he laid his hat on the  platform, 
deliberately crawled  under  a  car,  and  the 
train started before there was time to  check 
up.  Clessen L. Brown was about fifty years 
old and leaves a widow, who resides on Elm 
street, Detroit.  About fifteen years ago  he 
kept a grocery on  the  comer  of  Michigan 
avenue and  Rowland  street.  Recently  he 
traveled for O.  B.  Cook  &  Co.,  of Detroit, 
but left that firm  about two  weeks  ago  to 
travel for J.  L. Matthews & Co.

The Arkansaw Traveler  tells the follow­
ing story  illustrative  of the  inquisitiveness 
of commercial travelers  on the  frontier:  A 
drummer  stopped  at a  toll-gate  and asked 
the keeper if  he had any  good,  cool water. 
John,” said the keeper,  turning to his son, 
fetch  me the  gun—the  one  loaded  with 
buckshot.”  “Hold on!” exclaimed the trav­
eler,  “I meant no harm.”  “Well, then,  I’ll 
let you off.”  The  traveler  rode  on,  won­
dering why the question had caused offense. 
He stopped  at a house and  asked  a man if 
he coaid  tell him why  the  gatekeeper  be­
came angry.  “Yes, I can tell you.  He has 
to carry water about a mile and  a half,  and 
and it’s  always warm  by the  time he  gets 
home with it.  Every one  that  comes along 
asks  if he’s got  cool  water.  He  scarcely 
hears  anything  else  from  morning  until 
night.  The  man  who  kept the  gate  last 
year  went crazy,  but this  fellow seems  to 
stand it better.  He is rather even tempered, 
and although  he has  kept the gate  several 
months  he Has  only  killed 
two  drum­
mers,  and crippled a boy. 
I  kept that gate 
once.”  “Did the people annoy you?”  “Not 
much. 
I only had to knock down one  man 
and stab  another one,  but I  only  kept the 
gate a week.”  “Why  don’t the fellow  dig 
a  well?” 
look  here,  a  thousand 
men have asked me  that question.  Strang­
er,  I reckon you’d better mosey.”

“Now, 

Immense quantities  of writing  paper are 
used in the Baltic  provinces  of Russia,  but 
not for  writing.  As  tobacco  is  extremely 
scarce,  the Russian  peasant  makes  a cigar 
out of cabbage leaves and writing-paper,  and 
this he smokes with perfect content.

The Short Measure Fraud.

One of the  most  barefaced  frauds of the 
day,  says the  Bangor  Commercial,  is prac­
ticed by the pickers and dealers  in  berries, 
in the matter of measure,  and  yet  we  sel­
dom hear a protest  against  it. 
In the  ma­
jority of cases,  perhaps  eight  out  of  ten, 
the purchaser of a quart box  of  berries,  so- 
called,  gets  only  three  half-pints,  as  may 
readily be found by turning the  contents of 
the box into a sealed quart measure.  There 
is no excuse for such  imposition  as this; if 
the  picker  or  dealer  thinks  the  price  too 
low,  let him not seek to make up the differ­
ence by cutting down the measure by means 
of  thick  bottomed,  shallow  boxes,  but 
charge a fair price for a fair quart,  for  peo­
ple always like to  know  exactly  what they 
are getting for their  money,  and  such sub­
terfuges as  short  weight  and “deaconing” 
only tend to encourage  sharp  practices  and 
destroy confidence between  buyer  and sell­
er.  The blueberries  sold  in  the  streets  of 
this city are put up in oblong  wooden boxes 
which are often claimed to hold eight quarts, 
never  less  than  seven.  Years  ago  they 
came in what are used for the  larger size of 
ground rock salt boxes, which  might possi­
bly, if shaken  well,  contain  seven and one- 
half quarts, but now  the great  bulk  of  the 
berries  are  sold  hi shallow  boxes  such  as 
smoked herring are packed  in,  and six and 
one-lialf quarts are the  contents.  Still  the 
boxes are claimed to contain seven to  seven 
and one-half quarts.  The berries are cheap 
enough,  perhaps  too  cheap  for  any profit, 
although many of them are carelessly  pick­
ed,  but as before  remarked,  let  a  measure 
be sold for what  it  is,  and make the  price 
accordingly. 
It has been suggested that all 
quart  berry  boxes  be  sealed  according to 
law, 
just  as  grocers’  measures  are,  and 
there  is  no  reason  why  the  suggestion 
should not be earned out.

To manufacture  iridescent glass, tin  salt 
is heated  in  a  furnace  until  it  begins  to 
volatilize and the  glass  is  exposed  to  the 
vapors, when it becomes quickly coated with 
an  iridescent  film. 
In  order  to  obtain  a 
stronger  iridescence,  nitrate  of  barium  or 
nitrate of strontium is added  in small quan­
tity to the tin  salt.  The  glass  is  not  re­
heated for this  purpose,  but the objects  are 
exposed to the vapor while still in the hands 
of the glass blower.

VOIGT,

I H B R F O I - S S E S X M E B ,

GO.,

I m p o r te r s   a n d   J o b b e r s   o f

STAPLE  AND  FANCY 

Dry  G oods !
OVERALLS,  PANTS, Etc., 
our  own  make.  A  complete 
Line  of  TOYS, 
FANCY 
CROCKERY,  and  FANCY 
WOODEN-WARE,  our  own 
importation, for holiday trade.
Inspection solicited.  Chicago  and De­

tro it prices gurranteed.

If  in Need of A nything  in  our  Line,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

PA TEN T EES  AND  SO LE  M ANUFACTURERS  OF

Barlow’s Patent

Send f®r Samples and Circular.

Barlow 

B rothers,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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PRICE-CURRENT.

F. J. DETTENTHALER, Jobber of Oysters,

C. C.  Packard  has  purchased the interest 
of L. J.  Strait in the firm of Strait & Came­
ron,  founders  and  machinists at  Kalama­
zoo.  The  business  will  be  carried  on in 
future under  the  fipn name  of  Packard & 
Cameron.

J. H.  Moores  has sold his  entire lumber­
ing  interests  at  Moorestown,  Missaukee 
county, to the  Ducey Lumber Co.,  of Mus­
kegon,  for 8175,000.  The sale includes for­
ty million feet of pine timber,  the stock and 
entire  property  of  the West  Branch  and 
Moorestown  Railroad,  his  teams,  sleighs, 
and camp  equipment  of  every kind.  The 
continued ill health of Mrs. Moores  and his 
growing  business  interests at  Lansing,  in­
duced Mr.  Moores to make the change.

STRAY  FACTS.

C. D. Dodge  succeeds Price  &  Dodge in 

the coal business at Lansing.

Hawkins & Perry expect to get in the new 

Hawkins block about the 20th.

Miss  Addie  Yerrington  has  engaged  in 

the millinery business at Freeport.

The  total  assets  of  the  Bamum  Wire 

Works, at Detroit,  are 8428,224.22.

Krenz &  Lorenz,  cigar  manufacturers  at 

Ispheming,  have retired from  business.

Miss I. E.  Wright succeeds L.  C. McVean 
in the book and stationery business at Green­
ville.

Mrs.  C. E.  Closs,  of  Grand  Rapids,  suc­
ceeds  Mrs.  M.  S.  Wright in the millinery 
business at Traverse City.

Cheboygan  Tribune:  Alex.  McRae and 
Alex.  S. McDonald are about concluding the 
purchase of John Goulden’s liquor store.

John Canfield,  at Manistee, is building an 
addition to his salt  packing  establishment, 
12x115 feet that will give increased  storage 
room for 2,800 barrels.

TH E  LOUNGER.

A dealer in agricultural  implements  tells 
me a good story  relative  to  the  manner  in 
which  he  was  recently  swindled  out  of  a 
reaper by a Northern  Michigan  clergyman. 
The preacher gave his note for the machine, 
and in the course of  time  the  note  became 
due.  The dealer  made a demand  for  his 
money, but the expounder of  orthodoxy de­
clined to pay, on the  ground  that  the  note 
was dated on Sunday.  The dealer sued for 
his pay,  and the reverend gentleman carried 
the Sunday plea into court, and defeated the 
dealer.  The latter now declares that  if the 
preacher has the  harvester,  he  has  the  ex­
perience.

*  *  *

“If they only knew it,  about half  a hun 
dred men in this State could make small for­
tunes working  up pine  slabs,”  said a well 
known  machinery  agent.  “The mill  mdn 
usually give the  slabs  to anyone  who  will 
keep the  yard clear  of  them,  and  with  an 
investment  of  81,500 in  machinery,  large 
quantities of sash in the  knock down could 
easily  be  turned  out.  Aside  from  boiler 
and  engine,  all 
that  would  be  needed 
are  cut-off  and rip-saws,  planer  and four 
sided sticker,  mortiser  and  tenonder.  The 
manufactured product  could  be shipped  to 
Eastern  markets, 
to  dealers 
there  at  an  enormous  advance  on  the 
cost  of  manufacture. 
I wonder  some  one 
has not  thought of  the  matter before,  and 
improved 
so 
many milling centers.

the  advantage  offered  at 

and  sold 

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

Haven.

Co., Newaygo.

W. Hi  Pipp, P ipp Bros., K alkaska.
H enry  P ruim ,  P ruirn  &  Parsons,  Grand 
D. E. McVean, K alkaska.
J. C. Scott, Lowell.
D r. E. Palm er, E. P alm er & Co., Bellaire.
J . F. M ann, Lisbon.
B. H. Rolpta, Coopersvllle.
Geo.  H.  H obart,  Newaygo  M anufacturing 
Q. A. Lapo, Rosina.
Dibble Bros., B urnip’s  Corners.
C. F.  Sears & Co., Rockford.
Jo rgensen &  H em ingsen, G rant.
L. M. & J. G. Bain,  Carpenter.
Jo h n  J. Ely,  Rockford.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
Gaylord & Pipp, Pierson.
Spring & Lindley,  Bailey.
D. R. Crane, Fennville.
C. K eller, Logan.
P utnam  & B arnhart L um ber Co., Long Lake.
H. W. P otter,  Jennisonville.
Ja y  M arlatt, Berlin.
C. G. Jones, Olive Center.
Wilson, L u th er & Wilson, L uther.
Byron McNeal,  Byron Center.
W. H. Hicks, Morley.
Jas. Campbell, Westwood.
C. E. Blakeley, Coopersville.
Blakeley Bros., Fife Lake.
Wm. B. Wilson, Muskegon.
D r. O. S. Holland, A shland P. O.
R. G. Beckwith, Bradley.
W. W. Pierce,  Moline.
Chafitler & Paulson,  M anistique.
Byron Ballou, Cadillac.
I.  J. Quick, Allendale.
Wm. V erm eulen, Beaver Dam.
Mrs. Jacob Debri, B yron Center.
A. N orris, A. N orris & Son, Casnovia.
H. M. H arroun, McLain.
Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
W. F. Edgerton, G rand  H aven.
F. A. Hitchcock, Ceder Springs.
G. N. Reynolds, Belm ont. 
B. G ilbert & Co.,  Moline.
T. J . Sheridan & Co., Lockwood.
H oag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
Corneil & Griswold,  Griswold.
Jas. Riley, Dorr.
D. R. Stocum ,  Rockford.
A. P. H ulbut,  Lisbon.
Louis Kolkem a,  Holland.
M. J. B utler. Sand  Lake.
H enry H erpolsheim er, Lincoln, Neb.
B. Volm ari, Film ore Center.
Mrs. G. Miller, Ryerson.
Cole & Chaple,  Ada.
J . Scholten, Overisel.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Johnson & Seibert, Caledonia.
H erder & Lahuis, Zeeland.
E. M. Stickney, Stickney & Co., Paris.
H. C. W ard, K alkaska.
D. E. McVean, McVean & Sons,  K alkrska. 
Jo h n  Teisenga, F orest Grove.
Wm. Coach, Baraga.
C. O. Bv/Stwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
B. M. Denison, E ast Paris.
M. J. Howard,  Englishville.
M. A. P o tter, Oakfleld Center.
Jo h n  W. Mead, Berlin.
N orm an H arris, Big Springs.
A. M. Church,  A lpine.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
Mr.  Rockwell, Barber, Ambrose  & Rockwell, 
Thos, Sourby,  Rockford.
B aron & TenHoor, F orest Grove.
W alter H. Struik, F orest Grove.
S. Coper, Corinth.
W m. K arsten, B eaver Dam.
L. T. W ilm arth & Co., Rodney.

,

V erm ontville.

FURNITURE  BUYERS.

nati. 

Mr.  W ehrm ann,  W ehrm ann  &  Son, Cincin­
Mr. Sheaver, Paine F u rn itu re Co., Boston. 
Mr. K ing,  King & Elder, Indianapolis.
Mr.  Davis, w ith M. S. Price, Syracuse.
F. S. Tucker, Peoria.
J. H. Bell, Pittsburg.
W endreth Bros., Chicago.

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Miscellaneous Dairy Notes.

The Vassar cheese factory  is now a fixed 

fact.

Ed. Montague, who sends  milk  from  his 
cows  to the Vienna cheese factory,  realized 
fifty dollars from each cow in  his  herd  last 
season. 
This  sum  includes  veal  calves 
sold,  cheese  made  during the season,  and 
butter made since the factory  closed.  But 
Mr. Montague has taken extra  care  of  his 
cows—another  illustration of  the fact that 
good care of farm animals pays.

Purely Personal.

Dr.  C.  S. Hazeltine has  gone to Mackinac 

Island,  to remain until the 10th.

Miss Lillie  Sligh  succeeds Greg.  Luce  as 
billing clerk for Hawkins  &  Perry.  Greg, 
is now a full-fledged grip carrier.

Bert  Peck,  of  the  firm of  Peck & Co., 
druggists and  grocers  at  Walton,  was  re­
cently married to the belle of the village.

Wm.  T.  Hess  and  Chas.  Pike  have  re­
turned from  a  three  weeks’ fishing trip  in 
the vicinity of  AuTrain, Upper  Peninsula.
John  Snitzeler  left  Monday  for a  two 
weeks’ tour of the  great  dry goods  centers 
of the East—Philadelphia,  New  York  and 
Boston.

A. E.  Brooks, of Putnam  &  Brooks,  has 
returned from a six weeks’ visit with friends 
at Orange,  Mass.  His  family  came  home 
with him.

Chas P.  Coffin,  formerly traveling  repre­
sentative for  Keith  Bros.,  of  Chicago, has 
taken the position of  assistant  book-keeper 
with H. Leonard & Sons.

N. A.  Fletcher, who  is  treasurer  of  the 
Frankfort Lumber Co., recently paid Frank­
fort a visit of the purpose  of  looking  over 
his property interests there.

Mr. Rockwell, of the firm of Barber,  Am­
brose & Rockwell,  general  dealers at  Ver- 
montville,  is in the city with his  family for 
a few days, visiting friends and relatives.

On account of the illness of his bride,  W. 
H.  Pipp,  the Kalkaska hardware merchant, 
was obliged to defer the  ceremony  for  two 
or three weeks,  in consequence of which  he 
is still a single  man.  Congratulations  are 
in order, however.

Cheboygan  Tribune:  Wm.  Albright,  a 
former citizen of  Cheboygan,  recently  died 
in  Petoskey.  The deceased  was about the 
first to  make the  manufacture  of brick  a 
regular  business  in  Cheboygan.  He  also 
started the  first brick  yard in the  Saginaw 
valley.

Misses  Alice  and  Elizabeth  Crookston, 
who have  been  visiting at  Cheboygan and 
Sault Ste Marie for some time past,  are now 
putting in  a couple  of weeks at  Petoskey. 
Miss Alice, who  is rapidly  taking  rank as 
an artist of no mean ability,  made a number 
of sketches at the  places above  mentioned, 
and contemplates  organizing a class  at Pe­
toskey.

James  Stewart,  the effeminate wholesale 
grocer of East Saginaw,  and  Max  Heaven- 
rich,  of  the  well-known  clothing  firm  of 
Heavenrich Bros. &Co.,  also of  East  Sagi­
naw, paid Grand Rapids a  flying  visit  last 
Friday and favored T h e   T r a d e s m a n   with 
a call.  On the editor’s return—he  was  out 
at the time—it was discovered that  a  chair 
and umbrella were missing, and the inference 
is that Jim.  Stewart’s presence accounts for 
the loss of both  articles.  He  left  the  safe 
and wood-box, however.

Fred. D. Lyon,  formerly  engaged in the 
merchandise tailoring business here, but more 
recently  traveling  missionary  for  Belding 
Bros.  & Co.,  has retired  from  the road and 
engaged in  the dry goods  commission  and 
brokerage business at  19 Pearl street.  The 
following houses have  already placed their 
lines with Mr. Lyon,  and several others will 
do likewise  within a  short  time:  John  M. 
Conwdy, dry goods, New  York; D.  Trainer 
& Co., proprietors Omega Ticking Co., Phil­
adelphia; Hitchcock, Esselstyn& Co., wool­
ens,  Detroit;  J. H.  Lesher & Co.,  tailors’ 
trimmings,  Chicago; Eureka  Silk  Co., New 
York;  Springfield  Braid  and  Silk  Co., 
Springfield, Mass.;  G. E.  Daniels,  burlaps, 
New York; John  Farman  &  Co.,  ticking, 
Philadelphia.

The  fact  is  not  generally  known  among 
the traveling  fraternity, but there is  a  stat­
ute in this State requiring commercial travel­
ers to pay a license of  850  per  annum,  and 
pro rata for less period.  The law has  nev­
er been enforced,  however,  and has  always 
been  regarded as a  dead  letter.  There  are 
no  city  ordinances  in  Michigan  exacting  a 
license.

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STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
One Y ear—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Two Y ears—F. H. J. VanBms^i% Bay City* 
T hree Y ears—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
F o u r Y ears—Jam es Vernor, D etroit.
Five Y ears—O ttm ar Eberbach, A nn A rbor. 
P resid en t—O ttm ar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
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fein   Stato  Pharmaceutical  Association.

OFFICERS.

P r e s i d e n t — Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
F irst V ice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal-
S ^o n d V ice-P resid en t—B.  D.  N orthrup,  Lan-
ThirtfV ice-President—F ra n k   W urzburg,  G r’d 
Secretarv—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
T reasurer—Wm. D upont, D etroit.
E xecutive  C o m m itte e —H . J .   Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. G undrum , W. H. K eller,  F.  W.
N ext°piace  o f  m e e tin g -A t D etroit, Tuesday, 

Rapids. 

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October 13,1885.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORGA NIZED  OCTOBER 9 ,1 884. 

O F FIC E R S .

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P resident—F ran k  J . W urzburg.
V ice-President—Wm. L. W hite.
Secretary—F rank H. Escott.
T reasurer—H enry B. 1 airchild. 
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Board  of  C ensors-P resident,  V ice-President 
and Secretary. 
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Board  of  T rustees—The  President,  W m.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  W atts,  Wm.  E.  W hite, 
„   u   t.
Wm. L. W hite. 
Com m ittee on P harm acy—H ugo Thum ,  M.  si. 
Kimm, A. C. B auer. 
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C om m ittee on Legislation—Isaac W atts,  O.  H. 
Richmond, Ja s. S. Cowin.
Committee on Trade  M atters—H. B. Fairchild,
Jo h n  Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuw en. 
R egular  M eetings—F irst  T hursday evening in
A nnual  M eetings—F irst  T hursday evening in
N ext"M eeting—Thursday evening, Septem ber 

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3, a t “The T radesm an” office.

New  Uses  for  Mica.

Second  Annual Meeting  of the  Michigan 

Division, T. P. A.

The second annual meeting of  the Michi­
gan Division,  T.  P. A., was held at Lansing 
last Friday,  about forty  members  being  in 
attendance.  President  Kelsey  called  the 
meeting to order,  and acting Secretary Caro 
wielded the pen.  Seventeen new  members 
joined  the  Division  on  application.  The 
constitution  and  by-laws  of  the  National 
body were adopted for the government of the 
Division.

It was unanimously agreed  to  adopt  the 
following  resolution,  and  pass  the  same 
around among the business men of the State 
for signature:
We,  the undersigned,  do believe it  would 
be for the best moral  interests  of our  com­
munities that all railroads  operating in  this 
State grant to the members of  the T.  P.  A. 
of the U.  S.  a  week-end  ticket, ‘allowing 
them to go home Saturday and  return Mon­
day to the starting point for one fare for the 
round trip.

C.  S. Kelsey,  C.  S.  Peake  and  Leo. A. 
Caro were appointed a committee to present 
the petitions to the  Michigan  general  pas­
senger agents, at their meeting Sept.  20, and 
request favorable action  on the same.

The following resolution was unanimously 

adopted:
Resolved—That  it  be  the  sense^ of  this 
convention  that the  Michigan  Division,  T 
P. A.,  accept and abide by  the  decision  of 
the National  board  of directors  as  regards 
the removal of headquarters from Cincinnati 
to Chicago, but that we recommend that the 
board of directors defer all action in  regard 
to this matter until after the Baltimore con­
vention  of the National delegated  body  of 
the T.  P. A.

The election of officers resulted as follows:
President—C.  S. Kelsey, Battle Creek.
Vice-President—A.  F. Peake,  Jackson.
Secretary—Leo. A. Caro, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—J. W. Ailes, Detroit.
Board  of  Directors—L. J.  Koster,  chair­
man, Detroit; Geo. F.  Owen, Grand Rapids: 
G.  B.  Turner,  Kalamazoo;  M.  A.  Seeley. 
Lansing; E.  L. Jones, Battle Creek.

Sergant-at-arms—D.  G.  Crotty,  Muske­

Kansas’ Great Trade in Fire Extinguishers.
From  th e Chicago H erald.

I  was  in  a  little  Kansas  town  selling 
some goods,  and made a call at the  “general 
store,” the  chief  business  place  of  the  vil­
lage.  There were lots of  countrymen  com­
ing  and  going  there  and  standing  around 
md  talking  crops  and  horses  and  politics.
noticed  that  a  good  many  of  ’em  bought 
these hand grenade fire extinguishers—some 
as  many as a  half  dozen.  That  struck  me 
as being a  little  curious,  and  so  I  inquired 
of the  storekeeper.

Oh,  that’s all right,’ he said;  “they use 

em to put out prairie fires with.’

That didn’t  satisfy me,  and so I tackled 
a  farmer  on  the  sidewalk  and  asked  him 
what he was going to do .with the hand gre­
nades.

I’m buying  these to  put  in  our  school 

house,’ he said.

Think’s I  that’s a little funny,  and so  I 
made  inquiry  of  an  old chap  whom  I  had 
met  on  a  former  trip  and  knew  to  be  a 
deacon in the  church  and  a shining  light in 
his community.

Well,’  he says,  in  response  to  my  in­
quiry, but a little confused like, ‘we thought 
it would be a good idea  to have some in our 
meetin’ house in case of fire.”

Just then I  stepped  around  to  the back 
end of the store to see a  new threshing ma­
chine,  and  would you  believe  it?  there  be­
tween  two  big  comcribs  was  a  country 
man with one of those fire extinguishers up 
to his mouth and drinking out of it!

“ ‘Great heavens, man,’ I exclaimed,‘that 

will kill you!’

“ ‘That’s all  right,  stranger,’ he  replied, 
with a  grin;  ‘you  kin have yer little joke  if 
you want to, but I ’spect you come out after 
a  snifter.  The  Prohibitionists  are  right 
smart strict in this town,  ye  know.  Try  i 
little of the gin,  eh?” ’

Sale of Dangerous Poisons.

From  the Oil, P ain t and D ru g  R eporter.

Experiments are under way  for using ref­
use mica as a body for paints,  and an enter 
prising  individual  is about  to apply  for  a 
patent on the process.  The  interested  par­
ties are very enthusiastic over  the prospects 
of supplying  the  world with  mica  paints, 
and crushing  mills  are  about to be erected 
in Greenpoint,  L.  I., Troy,  N. Y.,  and  in 
Connecticut, in the expectation  of having  a 
large  demand  to  meet for  ground  mica, 
which  resembles  white lead  except  in the 
fact that it is much darker in color.

The idea is evidently accepted as fresh by 
those who are attempting to  introduce mica 
as the component part of paints, but a little 
inquiry will convince  them  that similar ef­
forts were made several  years ago  without 
success.  About six years  ago a quantity of 
mica was powdered at a mine in New Hamp­
shire and brought  East to  experiment with 
in  the  manufacture  of  paints  and  axle 
grease. 
It  did  not  answer  the  first  pur­
pose,  but  we understand  that  certain axle 
grease manufacturers  have continued to use 
it with  profit ever  since  and that  it gives 
satisfaction to consumers.  Makers of paints 
in this  city  have  examined  specimens  of 
finely  ground mica, and when mixing it with 
oil were  not  impressed with  the usefulness 
of the article in that line;  it was too  trans­
parent,  having  no body.  They  claim  that 
mica cannot become  a  substitute  for white 
lead or even used in making paints or colors, 
it lacks the essential  qualities in color, den­
sity,  etc.  On  the other  hand  it is  argued 
that a new process will give mica an import­
ant place in the paint  trade and enhance its 
value as a  commercial  commodity.  An ef­
fort is also being made  to have it used as  a 
bronze when colored.  When  entering into 
the manufacture of axle grease, it  is intend­
ed  to  take  the  place  of  plumbago,  as  it 
resists the heat better and is claimed to be a 
good lubricant.  Mica  has  also  been  used 
to absorb nitroglycerine in  the manufacture 
of dynamite, but with little or no success.

The  discovery  of  new  commercial  uses 
for the  article  would  be a  bonanza  to the 
inventor, but  of very  little  consequence to 
the owners  of mica mines  in  a  pecuniary 
sense. 
In  the  principal  mining territories 
of  New  Hampshire,  Connecticut,  North 
Carolina and Virginia are thousands of tons 
of waste product.  The  clippings  of refuse 
matter  is  piled  up  mountains  high  and 
would  require  many  years  of  continuous 
consumption  to  remove  the  debris.  The 
owners in some instances  would gladly give 
the rubbish away, but others  are not so dis­
posed, as  they  think it  has  a  commercial 
value  which  will be  better  appreciated as 
developments in manufacture progress.  No 
price is named  for the  crude  material,  but 
some parties  claim it  is worth  two  dollars 
per ton; the ground mica is offering  on this 
market  at  one  cent per  pound  delivered. 
Why not introduce it  in making  pottery?

That W asn’t  His Way.

“Do you  keep your  books in  double en­

try?”

“That takes more than one book don’t it?”
“Oh, yes,  several.”
‘ ‘Then I don’t keep mine that way. 

I on­

I  don’t  see  how you 

ly keep one book.”

“Only  one  book! 

can get along.”  ; .

“It’s enough  for me.”
“What book is it?”
“My pocket-book. 

I  can  always tell by 

a squint at that exactly how I stand.”

The factory at  Alvarado,  Cal.,  has made 
1,250 tons  of refined beet sugar this season. 
This is said to be four times greater than the 
total sorghum  sugar in the  United  States. 
The Alvarado factory  has been in operation 
six years,  and  its  profits  are  computed  at 
8104,000 on an investment of 8125,000. The 
growers get 84.50  a ton for  beets, and  the 
yield is said  to average  twenty  tons to the 
acre.  The factory pays out about 890,000 a 
year for beets.

gon.

Legislative Committee—M.  J. Matthews, 

chairman,  Detroit,  and six  others.

Hotel Committee—A  Hufford,  chairman, 

Grand Rapids,  and six others.

Committee on Sick and  Disabled—M. M 
Hughes,  chairman,  Bay  City,  and  fifteen 
others.

The following resolution was unanimously 

adopted:
Resolved—That the Michigan Division re 
quest the National board of  directors to use 
such means as they may devise to secure for 
the T. P.  A.  a 5,000 mile book, good  on  as 
many roads as possible.
The following resolution was unanimously 

adopted:
Resolved—That the president send  circu­
lars to the pastors of the  different chinches 
in all cities,  towns and villages of this State, 
asking them to appoint committees  to  visit 
hotels on Saturdays  and  invite  such  mer­
chant travelers  as  might  be  in their places 
over Sunday to attend divine services.

The  meeting  then  adjourned,  to  meet 
sometime next May,  at a  place to  be  here­
after designated by the president and  board 
of directors.

The  Tea  Traffic Competition.

The Southern Pacific Railroad is  making 
efforts to crush the incipient competition  of 
the Northern Pacific  for  the tea  trade,  and 
in order  to  do  it  effectively  has  contracted 
and stands ready to contract to deliver it  in 
New  York  at  $1.75  per  100  pounds.  An 
anomaly  of  the  trade  is  that  this  through 
rate to New York is less than the steamship 
company charges for the same class of goods 
from Yokohoma  to  San  Francisco.  When 
the Central Pacific  had  a monopoly  of  this 
trade, and was charging  three cents and up­
ward per pound for carriage, the officials on 
that road  on  numerous  occasions  declared 
that the traffic wa6 worth  nothing  to  them, 
as it was expensive  to handle  and  but little 
margin  of  profit  in  it—so  light  that  they 
didn’t care to solicit the trade, but only took 
that which fell to it naturally.  Now, when 
opposition springs up, judging by the efforts 
to retain it,  it is really worth having.

A writer in the Pharm.  Zeitung says:  A 
wash compound of equal parts  of  glycerine 
and lactic acid, is an effective application for 
the  removal  of  moth  and  freckles. 
It 
possesses  the  negative  advantage,  also,  of 
doing no harm to the skin.

The  Detroit  Lancet  describes  the  four 
plans for reducing obesity:  The  eating  of 
nothing  containing  starch,  sugar,  or  fat, 
called the Banting system; the eating of fat, 
but not sugar or starch,  called  the  German 
Banting; the wearing .of wool  and  sleeping 
in flannel blankets, instead of sheets,  or the 
Munich  system;  not  eating  and  drinking 
at the  same  time,  or,  rather,  the  allowing 
of a couple of  hours  to  intervene  between 
eating  and  drinking, 
the  Schweninger 
system.

An anxious correspondent writes:  “I am 
about to put a medicine  on  the  market,  in 
I  will  advertise  in  the 
powdered  form. 
weekly papers as  follows: 
‘Those  sending 
me one dollar will receive by return  mail  a 
package of the medicine.’  Now, am I using 
the  mails  for  fraudulent  purposes,  or  is 
there any law  against  doing  business  this 
way, the medicine being a first-class|remedy?” 
The  Journal  of  Commerce  answers  the 
query as follows:  “There is nothing illegal 
in such a course; but so  many  bogus  firms 
and swindlers have  sent out  similar  adver­
tisements through which they have received 
money from a confiding public,  giving them 
nothing  iu  return, that  all  similar  enter­
prises are now regarded  with suspicion. 
If 
the advertiser is a responsible man and con­
ducts the business honestly and above board, 
in his own name, having a place of business 
always open to  the  public,  he  will  not  be 
molested.

From th e Chicago Current.

The news columns of the New York Her 
aid recently directed public  attention to the 
dangers attending  the  present  methods  of 
selling rat and bug poisons.  While the law 
in many States  has  made  careful  provision 
for the protection of  the people through the 
registration  and  proper  labeling  of  such 
poisonous  drags  as  pharmacists  keep  in 
bulk,  yet patent-right poisons are daily sold 
to patrons without register or label.  A  lit 
tie child can get  a  box  of  Rough  on Some 
thing or Other, containing arsenic; the drug 
gist will sell it without  question  or without 
even knowing who sent the child; and some 
poisoner like Maxwell  is  then  at  liberty  to 
kill a houseful of people.  No  one will ever 
know where he got the  arsenic  with  which 
he  did  his  work.  This  matter  needs  the 
attention simply of the executive authorities. 
The law  is ample  to cover the  whole  ques­
tion.

A  Necessary Adjunct.

From   th e  W estern D ruggist.

The  abominable  chirogrophy  of  many 
physicians is not only a fault, but  a  crime. 
A physician who cannot or  will not write  a 
a  clear  legible  hand,  should  be  debarred 
from practice, or at least be required to have 
iu constant  attendance  a  capable  penman. 
A department of Penmanship is  the  crying 
need of the  hour  in  our  medical  colleges. 
There is very  little practical  difference  be­
tween bad  prescription-writing  and  down­
right malpractice.

The Drug Market.

Business  and  collections  are  both  very 
satisfactory.  The  market  is  steady,  with 
the exception of oil lemon,  which  has  ad­
vanced 40 cents per pound.

The Knights of Labor have issued a circu­
lar to business men in Framingham,  Mass., 
asking contributions on the  ground that  all 
efforts to secure increased wages for  opera­
tives are hi the interest of traders.

The Medical  World  says:  “The  injur­
ious action of coffee on the organs of  diges­
tion is said  to  be  obviated  by  the  use  of 
sugar with it,  and in this case  it is not  only 
harmless,  but absolutely beneficial,”

Tartar emetic was recently dispensed in a 
Philadelphia drug  store  for Rochelle  salts, 
resulting in  the  serious  illness  of  several 
persons.  By  some  error  on  the  part  of 
wholesaler or retailer the poisonous salt had 
been placed  in  a bottle  labeled  potassii  et 
sodii tartras.

“My dear,” said  a  frigtened  husband  in 
the middle of  the night,  shaking  his  wife, 
“where did you  put  that  bottle  of  strych­
nine?”  “On the shelf  next to  the  pepper­
mint.” 
“Oh,  Lord!”  he  groaned,  “I’ve 
swallowed it.”  “Well, for goodness sake,” 
whispered his wife,  “keep  quiet,  or  you’ll 
wake the baby.”—New York Sun.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A dvertisem ents  of 25 words o r  less  inserted 
in this colum n a t th e rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cen t  fo r  each 
additional word.  Advance paym ent.

“D ruggist,” Sheridan, Mich. 

of  nine  years’  experience.  A ddress 

WANTED—Situation by  practical  druggist 
FOR  SALE—E ight hundred  dollars  will  buy 

a good stock of groceries,  )4 acre of land, 
and one tw o-story building in a lively business 
tow n.  Address, P ostm aster, Eckford, Calhoun 
County, Mich. 
104*

102*

. 

D RUG  STORE  FOR  SALE—Stock  will  in­

voice  $1,800.  Will  sell  fo r  $1,200  cash. 
Good tow n, good  trade,  and  satisfactory  rea­
sons fo r w ishing to sell.  A ddress “C,” Trades­
man office. 

102*

F OR  SALE—The brevier type form erly used 

on T h e Tradesman.  The fo n t com prises 
222 pounds, including Italic, and  is w ell-assort­
ed and very little w orn.  A ddress this office.
“P A R T N E R   WANTED—A  well-established 
JL  m a n u factu re r  of  proprietary  rem edies, 
having now on  th e  m ark et  a  line  of popular 
patents, wishes a p artn er,  w ith  some  capital, 
to push the sale or sam e.  Address,  “P aten t,” 
care “The T radesm an.” 

94tf

O IL S .

Almond, sw eet..............................!..  45
Am ber,  rectified...............................
A nise....................................................
Bay $   oz...........................................
B ergam ont.........................................
C asto r..................................................  18
C roton..................................................
C a je p u t...............................................
C a ssia..................................................
Cedar, com m ercial  (Pure 75c).......
C itro n ella..........................................
C loves................................................ .
Cod Liver, N. F .........................¥  £al
Cod Liver, b e st..........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W .................................
E rig e ro n .............................................
Fire w eed.............................................
G eranium   $   oz.................................
Hemlock, com m ercial (Pure 75c)..
Ju n ip e r  wood....................................
Ju n ip e r  b erries.................................
Lavender flowers, F re n ch ..........
Lavender garden 
............'..
Lavender spike 
..............
Lemon, new  cro p.............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ........................
L em ongrass........................................
Olive, M alaga..........................
Olive, “ Sublime  Italian   ................
Origanum , red  flowers, F re n c h ...
Origanum» No. 1.............................
P en n y ro y al........................................
Pepperm int,  w h ite..........................
Rose  $   oz...........................................
Rosem ary, French  (Flowers $1  50)
S a la d ............................... - ..................   65
Savin....................................................
Sandal  Wood, G erm an...................
Sandal Wood, W. I ............................
S assafras.............................................
S p e a rm in t.........................................
T a n sy ..................................................4  50
T ar (by gal 50c)...................................  10
W in terg reen . . . . . . . .......................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00).......
W orm seed..........................................

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do 

POTASSIUM .

B icrom ate.................................. ^  ft
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. b u lk ...
Chlorate, cry st (Powd 23c)..............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, b u lk .......
P russiate yellow ...............................

ROOTS.

@  50 
45
1  85 
50
2  10 
©  19)4
2  00 
75 
1  00 
35 
75 
1  20 
1 20
1  50 
6  00
7  50 
1  60
2  00 
75 
35 
50
2 00 
2 01 
1  00 
90 
1  80
1  90 
80
@  90
2  75 
1  25
50
1  40
3  75
8 00 
65
@  67 
1 00
4 50 
7 00
55
@6  00 
@5  00 
@  12
2 10 
3 50 
2  00

14 
40 
20 
3  00 
28

A lk a n e t...............................................
A lthea, c u t........................................
Arrow,  St. V incent’s ......................
A rrow, Taylor’s, in Us and %b__
Blood (Powd 18c)...............................
Calamus,  peeled...............................
Calamus, G erm an  w hite, peeled..
Elecam pane, pow dered.................
G entian (Powd  15c)..........................
Ginger, A frican (Powd 14c)............   11
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)...................
Hellebore, w hite, pow dered...........
Ipecac, Rio, pow dered.....................
Jalap,  pow dered...............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 15)..............
Licorice, ex tra select.......................
Pink, tr u e ...........................................
Rhei, from  select to   choice.......1   00
Rhei, powdered E. 1......................... 110
Rhei, choice c u t  cu b es...................
Rhei, choice c u t  fingers..................

20
25
17
33
12
20
35
20
10
@  12
17 
20 
20
1 20 
30 
15
18 
38
@1  50 
®1 20 
2  00 
2 25

40@45 
40 
2  00 
50

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Oil lemon. 
Declined—N othin g.

ACIDS

Acetic, No.  8...................................... 
9
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040).........  30
Carbolic...............................................  84
C itric....................................................  Op
M uriatic 18  d eg ................................. 
3
N itric 36 deg...................................... 
J1
O xalic..................................................  12
Sulphuric  66 deg...............................  
g
T artaric  pow dered..........................  oa
Benzoic,  E nglish.....................1? oz
Benzoic,  G erm an.............................
T an n ic.................................................

AMMONIA.

6  @ 
50  @

“
0

BARKS.

C arbonate................. .................®  15
M uriate (Powd. 22c)..........................
A qua 16 deg o r  3f.............................  
A qua 18 deg or  4f.............................  
BALSAMS.
Copaiba.................................
Fir.........................................
Peru.......................................
Tolu.......................................
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..............
Wahoo....... .........................
Soap  ground........................
b e r r i e s .
Cubeb  prime (Powd 80c)......
Juniper............................. —
Prickly Ash..........................
EXTRACTS.
Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.........
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft boxes).............
.............
Lgowood, )4s 
do 
Logwood, 14s 
do 
.............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
.........
Fluid Extracts—25 $ cent, off list.
Arnica..........................................  I®  ®
Chamomile,  Roman.................
Chamomile,  German...................
Aloes, Barbadoes........................  
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c).........
Ammoniac..................................
Arabic, powdered  select.............
Arabic, 1st picked.......................
Arabic,2d picked........................
Arabic, 3d picked........................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........  ........
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin...................................... 
Camphor....................................
Catechu. Is ()4 14c, 14s 16c)..........
Euphorbium powdered................ 
Galbanum strained...............
Gamboge...................• •••.......
Guaiac,.prime (Powd  45c)............
Kino [Powdered, 30c]...................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $4.90).............
Shellac, Campbell's......................
Shellac,  English..........................
Shellac, native.............................
Shellac bleached..........................
Tragacanth.................................   3°
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

FLO W ERS.

GUMS.

3714
9
12
13 
15
14

60®

2S@

75 
12 
50 
30 
65 
60 
50 
45 
85
25 
55@60
___
27 
13 
40 
<>ota>
80 
90@1  00 
35 
20
40 
3  50 
30
26 
24 
30
®1  00

Hoarhound............................................... 25
Lobelia.......................................................
Peppermint..............................   ...............
Rue............................................................
Spearmint ............. ...................................
Sweet M ajoram .
Tanzy
T h y m e ..........................................
W orm w ood.................................

25 
30

IR O N .

C itrate and  Q uinine.................
Solution m ur., fo r  tin c tu re s.........
Sulphate, p u re  cry stal...................
C itra te ................................................
P h o sp h a te ....................................

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................   13  @
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s &!4s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, n a tu ra l.......................  18  @
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  pow dered.............................
Senna tinnivelli.................................
U va  U rsi.............................................
Beliedonna.........................................
Foxglove.............................................
H en b an e............................................. 
Rose, re d ..............  ............................

6  40 
20
80
65

14
6
20
30
16
10
35
30
35

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LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash W hisky.2 00
D ruggists’ F avorite  R y e.................1 75
W hisky, o ther  b ran d s...................... 1 10
Gin, Old Tom ....................................... 1 35
Gin,  H olland....................................... 2 00
B ran d y .................................................J
Catawba  W ines..................................1 25
P o rt W ines...........................................1 35

M AGNESIA.

Carbonate, P attiso n ’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Je nning’s, 2 oz..............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  so lu tio n ....
Calcined.............................................

@2  25 
@2  00 
@1  50 
@1  75 
@3  50 
@6 50 
@2 00 
@2  50

22 
37 
2 25 
65

S erpentaria.
S en ek a,
Sarsaparilla,  H onduras. 
Sarsaparilla,  M exican.
Squills, w hite (Powd  35c)................
V alerian, English (Powd 30c).........
V alerian, V erm ont (Powd 28c)—  

SEEDS.

6

@

do 

do 

do 

2 @

110

6  ©

do 
do 
do 

SPONGES.

c ru sts.. 1

M ISCELLANEOUS.

_
2)4®
3  @
4)4®
6  ®

50 
2  75 
2  00 
40 
2 00 
®9  75 
2  30 
50 
7
@ 
10@12 
2  00 
18 
22 
18 
4  00 
12 
75 
5 
12 
8 
2
1  60 
60 
1  50 
1  78 
1  90 
1  75 
80 
28 
28  • 
20 
40 
45 2 
70
,  40 
15 
50
24 
20 
12
1  10 
50 
45 
1  10 
8
,  3
50 
60 
14
25 
90
)  70

15
Anise, Italia n  (Powd 20c)................
5  @ 6
Bird, m ixed in ft  packages...........
4  @ 4)5
15  @ 18
Caraway, best  D utch (Powd  20c).
1 56
Cardamon,  A leppee........................
i 75
Cardamon, M alabar..........................
20
C elery..................................................
10 1 X
Coriander,  D e st  E nglish.................
10
F e n n e l................................................
3&@
4  @ 4)4
Flax, p u re grd (bbl  314)...................
7  @ 8
Foenugreek, pow dered...................
4)4® 5)4
Homo,  Russian.................................
10
M ustard, white  Black  10c)............
75
Q u in c e................................................
Worm,  L ev an t................................... 
14
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
. . . . .  
do 
N assau 
2 00
do 
. . . .  
V elvet E x tra do  . 
do 
85
E x tra Yellow do 
......... 
do 
6o
......... 
do 
Grass 
do 
H ard head, fo r slate u se .................  
7o
140
Yellow Reef, 
.................. 
2  30
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.22; $  g a l—  
Alcohol, wood, 95 p er cent ex. re f. 
1
50
Anodyne H offm an’s ........................
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s so lution.........
12
Arsenic, Fow ler’s so lution............
45
A nnatto  1 ft ro lls.............................  
3)4
A lum ...........................................  ^3 ft 
4
Alum , ground  (Powd 9c)...............  
45
A nnatto,  p rim e.................................
A ntim ony, powdered,  com’l ......... 
Arsenic, w hite, pow dered.............. 
Blue  Soluble......................................
Bay  Rum , im ported, b e st..............
Bay Rum , dom estic, H., P. & Co.’s .
Balm  Gilead  B uds............................
Beans,  T onka....................................
Beans,  V anilla...................................7  00
Bism uth, sub  n itra te ......................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........................
Blue V itr io l...................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  12e)..............
C antharides,R ussian  pow dered..
Capsicum  Pods, A frican ................
Capsicum Pods, A frican  pow’d . . .
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay 
do  ...
Carmine,  No. 40.................................
Cassia  B uds........................................
Calomel.  A m erican..........................
Chalk, prepared d ro p ......................
Chalk, p recipitate E nglish............
Chalk,  red  fingers............................
Chalk, w hite lu m p ............................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .....................
Colocynth  apples.............................
Chloral hydrate, Germ an  cru sts..
Chloral 
c ry st...
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
C hloroform ..........................................  77 @
Cinchonidia, P. &  W ........*..............  23  @
Cinchonidia, other b ran d s................  23 ®
Cloves (Powd 23c)...............................   18 @
C ochineal...........................................
Cocoa  B u tte r....................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc )........................
Corrosive Sublim ate........................
Corks, X  and X X —40 off  lis t.........
Cream T artar, p u re pow dered.......  
Cream T artar, grocer’s, 10 ft b o x ..
Creasote...............................................
Cudbear,  p rim e.................................
C uttle Fish B one...............................
D e x trin e ....................................
D over’s  P ow ders....................
D ragon’s Blood M ass..............
E rgot  pow dered......................
E th e r Squibb’s ..........................
Em ery, T urkish, all  No.’s ..............
Epsom  Salts (bbl.  \% ).........................  
E rgot, fre sh .......................................
E ther, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake  w h ite........................................
G rains  P arad ise...............................
G elatine,  Cooper’s ............................
Gelatine, French  ...............................   45 @
Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 d is—
17 
Glue,  e a im e t......................................   12 @
28 
G lue,w hite............................... 
16 @
20 
16 ®
Glycerine, p u re .......................... 
 
40 
Hops  )4s and )4s...............................  
40
Iodoform  ¡83  oz.
In d ig o __ "..........................................   85  @100
Insect Powder, best  D alm atian ...  35  ©   40 
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co,, boxes 
@1 00
Iodine,  resublim ed.......................... 
4  00
Isinglass,  A m erican........................  
1  50
Ja p o n ie a ........................ v ................. 
7
London  P u rp le .................................  10  @  15
Lead, aceta te ......................................  
15
8
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c & %s 11c) 
L u p u lin e............................................. 
100
45
L ycopodium ......................................  
M ace.................................................... 
50
Madder, best  D u tch ......................  
12)4®  13
M anna, S.  F ........................................ 
75
M ercury..............................................  
60
Morphia, sulph., P. & W.........$  oz  3 00@3  25
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ......... 
40
Moss, Icelan d ............................. *83 ft 
10
12
Moss,  Iris h ........................................ 
M ustard,  E nglish.............................  
30
M ustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  can s......... 
18
N utgalls.............................................. 
23
N utm egs, No. 1................................ 
60
N ux  V om ica......................................  
10
45
O intm ent. M ercurial, )6d................ 
P aris G reen......................................  
17  ©   25
18
Pepper, Black  B e rry ....................... 
2 50
P ep sin.................................................. 
P itch, T rue B urgundy..................... 
7
Quassia  ............................................... 
6  ©   7
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W ............ ft oz  72  @
77 
Quinine,  G erm an.............................  
72®
85 
Red  P re cip ita te........................ *83 ft
28 
Seidlitz  M ixture...............................
1  60
Strychnia, c ry st............ ....................
74  @ 78
Silver N itrate, c ry st........................
35
Saffron, A m erican............................
@ 2
Sal  G lauber........................................
10
Sal N itre, large  c ry st......................
9QQ
Sal  N itre, m edium   c ry st................
OO
Sal R ochelle........................................
2)4
2  15
Salicin.............................................
6  50OQ
S a n to n in ........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy o r Scotch—
40-
Soda Ash  [by keg 3c].................
OD
Sperm aceti....................................
5
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s.
14
Soap, W hite Castile.....................
17
.....................
Soap, G reen  do 
9
Soap, M ottled do 
.....................
11
Soap, 
do 
.....................
14
Soap,  Mazzini»..............................
26  @ 28
Spirits N itre, 3 F ..........................
30  @ 32
Spirits N itre, 4 F ..........................
35
Sugar Milk pow dered.................
3)4® 4
3® 3)4
Sulphur,  ro ll......................................
60
T artar E m etic....................................
2  70 
Tar, N. C. Pine, )4 gal. cans  $  doz
1 40 
Tar, 
qu arts in tin ...........
85 
Tar, 
pints in tin ...............
25 
T urpentine,  V enice.................*83 ft
55
W ax, W hite, S. &  F . b ran d ............
%  8
Zinc,  S ulphate................................... 
7
Capitol  Cylinder......................................
Model  Cylinder...................................... .
Shield  Cylinder........................................
Eldorado E ngine......................................
Peerless  M achinery...............................
Challenge M achinery.............................
.......30
Backus Fine E ngine...............................
Black Diam ond M achinery...................
.......30
.......6C
Castor Machine  O il.................................
Paraffine, 25  deg................................................15)4
Paraffine, 28  deg ................................ *............ .. .21
Sperm, w inter  bleached..................................1  40
Gal
Bbl 
75
W hale, w in ter........................................  70 
Lard, e x tra .............................................  55 
60
55
Lard, No.  1.............................................  45 
Linseed, p u re  ra w ...............................   43 
46
Linseed, b o ile d ....................................   46 
49
N eat’s Foot, w inter  strain ed............  70 
90
Spirits T u rp en tin e...............................   42 
46

 
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PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATION 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co., and John L. Whiting, 

Manufacturers of Fine Paint and 

Varnish Brushes.

T H E   C E L E B R A T E D

Pioneer  Prepared  Paints.

—Also fo r the—

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manufacturers of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

D r u g g ists’  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
lish  Tooth  and  Nail  Brashes at attractive 
prices.

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores  to 
the fact of our  UNSURPASSED  FACILI­
TIES 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 received  from  hundreds 
of our customers the most satisfying recom­
mendations.

up

We  give  our  special  anil 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  satis­
factorily supplying the wants of our custom- 
tomers with PURE  GOODS in this  depart­
ment.  We CONTROL and are  the  ONLY 
AUTHORIZED AGENTS  for  the  sale  of 
the celebrated

WITHERS  DADE  h  CO.'S

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD  FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WIIISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be excelled by  NO 
OTHER  KNOWN  BRAND  in the market, 
but superior in all respects to most  that  are 
exposed for sale.  We  GUARANTEE  per­
fect  and  complete  satisfaction  and where 
this brand of goods lias been once introduced 
tlie future trade has been assured.

W e are also owners of the

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

V A B N ISH ES.

PA IN TS.

No. 1 T urp  Coach................................... 1 10@1  20
E x tra  T u rp ............................................. 1 60@1  70
Coach  Body............................................. 2  75@3  00
No. 1 T urp F u rn itu re ............................ 1  00@110
E x tra T urp  D a m a r..:...........................1  65@1  60
Jap an  D ryer, No.  1 T u rp .......................  70®  75
Lb
2® 3
2® 3
2® 3
2)4® 3
234® 3
13@16
53@60
16@17
6)4
6)4
@70
@90
110
140
1  20@1  40
1  00@1  20

Bbl 
Red V en etian .............................   1% 
Ochre, yellow  M arseilles.........  1)4 
Ochre, yellow  B erm uda...........  1)4 
P u tty , co m m ercial...................   2)4 
P u tty , strictly p u re ...................  2)4 
V erm ilion,prim e  A m erican.. 
V erm ilion, E n g lish................... 
G reen, P en in su lar..................... 
Lead, red  strictly  p u re ............  
Lead, w hite, strictly  p u re .......  
W hiting, w hite  S panish........... 
W hiting,  Gilders*....................... 
W hite, P aris A m erican............  
W hiting  P aris English cliff.. 
Pioneer P rep ared   P a in ts....... 
Swiss Villa P repared  P a in ts.. 

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 
Siich  articles  as  do  not appear on the list, 
such as  PATENT  MEDICINES,  etc.,  we 
invite your correspondence.

Mail orders always receive onr special and 

personal attention.

HAZELT1NE, PERKINS & GO

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A.  STOWE  &  BBO., Proprietors.

Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. 

Telephone No. 95,

I Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter.~\

WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2,1885.

BU SIN E SS L A W .

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

m e c h a n ic s ’  l i e n .

Public property cannot be the subject of a 
mechanics’ lien,  unless it  is  expressly  pro­
vided by statute ;  such  property  is  by  im­
plication  exempted  from  lien  statutes  as 
much as from general tax laws,  and for the 
same  reasons. 
So  held  by  the  Supreme 
Court of Michigan in the case of Knapp  vs. 
Swaney.”

l i a b i l i t y   o f  

s u r e t i e s — t r e a s u r e r ’s
BOND.

The undertaking of sureties  on a treasur­
er’s official bond is that  he  shall  faithfully 
perform his  duties;  this  involves  tne  obli­
gation of making correct  reports,  conform­
ing to statutory requirements, as well as the 
payment  of  funds  in  his  custody;  and  a 
false report by  the  treasurer  constitutes  a 
violation of official duty and  a breach of his 
bond,  rendering  the  sureties  liable  to  the 
parties  injured  for  such  damages  as  are 
the legitimate consequences of the wrongful 
act.  Supervisors of  Tompkins  vs.  Bristol, 
decided by the New York Court of Appeals.

MUNICIPAL  BONDS —  VALIDITY —  RAIL­

ROAD.

Bonds issued by a town for  the  construc­
tion of a railroad under  an  act  authorizing 
the same,  upon consent being obtained  of a 
majority of the tax-payers,  are  void  unless 
such consent has been actually  given.  The 
town  is  not,  however,  remediless  in  case 
the assessors,  contrary to  the  fact,  certify 
that the requisite consent has been obtained, 
or in case  the  commissioners,  acting upon 
the  certificate,  issue  the  bonds,  but  may 
have the proceedings reviewed by certiorari. 
Town of Ontario  vs.  Hill,  decided  by  the 
New York Court of Appeals.

EXTRADITION— RIGHTS  OF  FUGITIVE  UN­

DER  TREATY.

Where  a  fugitive  from  justice  has  been 
brought back to the country  from  which  lie 
has fled,  on a warrant of  extradition in con­
formity with the terms of a  treaty  existing 
between  two  governments,  he  cannot  be 
proceeded against or tried for  any  other of­
fenses than those mentioned in  the  treaty, 
and for which he  was  extradited,  without 
first being afforded an opportunity of return­
ing,  though this doctrine has no application 
where  the  fugitive  has  been brought back 
forcibly,  and  not  under  the  terms of  the 
treaty,  or under an extradition warrant.

NOTE  PAST  DUE— LIABILITY  OF  MAKERS,
The case of Coykendall vs. Constable, de­
cided by the New York  Court  of  Appeals, 
was one in which the owner  of  a  past  due 
note,  payable to bearer,  placed it in  a  bank 
for collection.  The plaintiff,  at the request 
of the principal debtor,  paid the  note to the 
bank,  and  the  bank  remitted the proceeds 
thereof to the owner,  and delivered the note 
to  the  plaintiff.  The  court held that  the 
plaintiff obtained a good  title  to  the  note 
and could maintain an action thereon against 
the makers as sureties, and notwithstanding 
the bank had no authority to  sell  the  note 
yet the owner by receiving and retaining the 
money had ratified the act of  the  agent and 
was bound by it.

Railways and their Employees.

In  the  September  issue  of  the  P opular 
Science M onthly there is begun  a  series  of 
articles  on  “ The  Relations  of  Railway 
Managers and  their  Employees.”  The  au­
thor,  Dr.  W.  T.  Barnard,  is the manager of 
the Baltimore &  Ohio  Railroad  Relief  Or­
ganization,  and  should, therefore, be compe 
tent to deal with the difficult phases  of  this 
question.  He  states  that 
in  no  busi 
ness, with the exception possibly of mining, 
have  friendly  relations  between  employer 
and  laborer  been  so  little cultivated as  in 
the railroad business; and nowhere,  too,  are 
there more abundant opportunities to devel­
op  such  relations  of  protection  and trust, 
One of the chief reasons leading  to the lack 
of attachment on the part  of  the  employee 
for  the  interest  of  the  corporation is  the 
loose tenure which he possesses.  Subordin 
ate officials may  discharge without explana­
tion those under them.  Instead there should 
be rigid accountability from  the  highest  to 
the  lowest.  Dr.  Barnard  deals  with  th 
question  almost  solely  from  the  business 
standpoint,  and asserts that  “ a wise policy 
if  not  higher  considerations than those  of 
self-interest,  should  prompt  the  manage 
ments of large corporations to provide, even 
at  considerable  expense  or  financial risk 
not only for the protection of their employees 
from or idemnity for the effects  of  injuries, 
but also for their physical, mental and moral 
improvement.”  In this number, the practical 
value of benevolent societies fostered by the 
railways is insisted upon,  and  attention  is 
called  to  the  workings  of  such  organiza­
tions in European countries.

An anxious inquirer asks: 

“  How do  all 
the doctors live?”  We don’t know unless it 
is  because  they  refrain  from  taking their 
own medicine.—Boston Post.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

w id e   b r o w n  c o t t o n s.

P R IN T S .

SILESIA S

bric, 4 4 .....................11 Vi

BLEACHED COTTON8.

Pepperell, 10-4......... 25
Pepperell, 11-4............ 27 Vi
Pequot,  7-4.............. 18
Pequot,  8-4.............. 21
Pequot,  9-4.............. 24
CKS.
P ark  Mills, No. 90. .14 
P ark  Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz...............11
Otis  A pron...............10Vi
Otis  F u rn itu re ........10Vi
York,  1  oz................ 10
York. AA, ex tra oz.14 
BURG.
A labam a  plaid......... 7
A ugusta p laid...........7
Toledo p laid ............   7
M anchester  plaid..  7 
New  Tenn. p la id .. .11 
U tility p laid.............. 6Vi
Greene, G.  4 4 .........  5Vi
Hill, 4 4 .....................7 Vi
Hill, 7-8.....................  654
Hope,  4 4 ................... 654
K ing  Phillip  cam ­
Linwood,  4-4__ ...  7Vi
Lonsdale,  4 4 ...........  754
Lonsdale  cam bric. 10Vi 
Langdon, GB, 4 4 ...  9Vi
Langdon,  45.............14
Masonville,  4 4 ......... 8
Maxwell. 4-4............   9Vi
New Y ork Mill, 4-4.10V4 
New Jersey,  44 —   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7Vi 
Pride of th e  W est. .11 
Pocahontas,  4 4 —   7)4
Slaterville, 7-8.........  6)4
V ictoria,  A A .............9
W oodbury, 4 4 ...........554
W hitinsville,  4 4 ...  7Vi
W hitinsville, 7-8____6)4
W am sutta, 4 4 .........10Vi
W illiamsville,  36...10)4

A ndroscoggin, 9-4. .23 
A ndroscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4........16Vi
Pepperell,  8-4........ 20
Pepperell,  9-4........22Vi
CHE
Caledonia, XX, o z ..11 
Caledonia,  X, o z .. .10
Economy,  oz......... 10
P ark Mills, No. 50. .10 
P ark Mills, No. 60..11 
P ark Mills, No. 70..12 
P ark Mills, No. 80. .13 
OSNA
A labam abrow n—   7
Jewell  briw n...........9V4
K entucky  brow n. .10)4 
Lewiston  b ro w n ...  9V4
Lane brow n............9Vi
Louisiana  p laid—   7
Avondale,  36...........  8 Vi
A rt  cam b rics,36. ..11 Vi 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8Vi 
A ndroscoggin, 5-4. .12 Vi
Ballou, 4-4................  6Vi
Ballou, 5-4................  6
Boott,  0 .4 4 ............8Vi
Boott,  E. 5-5............   7
Boott, AGO, 4-4.......9Vi
Boott, R.  3 4 ...........  5V4
B lackstone,A A 44.  7 
Chapman, X, 4 4 ....  6
Conway,  '4 4 .............. 7
Cabot, 4 4 ................. 654
Cabot, 7-8.................   6
Canoe,  3 4 ........—   4
Domestic,  36.............7)4
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9
Davol, 4 4 ................  9
F ru it of Loom, 44 ..  8Vi 
F ru ito f Loom, 7-8..  7Vi 
F ru it of  th e  Loom,
cam bric,  4 4 ......... 11
Gold Medal, 4 4 ..  ..  6%
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded A ge................ 854
Masonville TS...........8
Crow n.......................17
M asonville  S ...........10)4
No.  10.......................12 Vi
L o n sd ale..................9)4
C oin...........................10
Lonsdale A ..............16
A n chor..................... 15
N ictory  O ................
C entennial..............
V ictory J ..................
B la c k b u rn ..............  8
V ictory  D ................
D avol.........................14  ,
Victory  K ................214
London..................... 12 Vi
P hœ nix A ................ 19)4
P a c o n ia ....................12
P hœ nix  B ................ 10)4
Red  Cross................ 10
P hœ nix X X ............. 5
Social  Im p erial— 16
Albion,  solid............5)4 G lo u cester..............6
Glou cesterm ourn’g . 6 
Albion,  g re y .............6
H am ilton  fa n c y — 6
Allen’s  checks......... 5)4
H artel fan cy ............6
A den’s  fa n c y ...........5)4
M errim ac  D ..............6
Allen’s p in k .............. 6)4
M an ch ester............. 6
Allen’s p u rp le...........6)4
O riental fa n c y ........ 6
A m erican, fan cy — 5)4
O riental  robes........ 6)4
Arnold fan cy ............6
Pacific  robes............6
Berlin solid..............  5)4
R ichm ond.................6
COcheco  fa n c y .........6
Steel R iv er...............5)4
Cocheco robes.......... 6)4
Simpson’s .................6
Conestoga fa n c y — 6
W ashington fa n c y .. 
E d d y sto n e ................6
W ashington  blues.  7)4
Eagle fan cy ..............5
G arner p in k .............. 6)4
A ppleton  A, 4 4 —   7)4
B oott  M, 4 4 ............   654
Boston  F, 4 4 .............7)4
C ontinental C, 4r3..  6)4 
C ontinental D, 40 in  8)4 
Conestoga W, 4 4 ...  6)4 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5)4 
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 3 4 ...........5)4
Dwight Y, 7-8.............5)4
Dwight Z, 4 4 .............6%
Dwight Star, 4 4 —   7 
E w ightS tar,40-in..  9 
E nterprise EE, 36..  5 
G reat Falls E, 4 4 ...  7
F arm ers’ A, 4 4 .......  6
Indian  O rchard  14  7)4
A m o sk e ag ................7)4
Amoskeag, P ersian
sty les..................... 10)4
B a te s.......................... 7)4
B e rk sh ire................  6)4
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f ’y  7)4 
Glasgow 
royal  sty les.........  8
Gloucester, 
stan d ard ...............  7)4
P in n k e t..................... 7)4
L an caster...............   8
L angdale................... 734
A ndroscoggin, 74. .21 
A ndroscoggin, 84. .23
Pepperell,  7 4 ........20
Pepperell,  8 4 ........22)4
Pepperell,  9 4 ........25
A tlantic  A, 4 4 .......7 \  Law rence XX, 44 ..  7)4
Law rence  Y, 30__ 7
A tlantic  H, 4 4 .......7
Law rence LL, 4 4 ...  5)4
A tlantic  D, 4 4 ......... 6)4
N ew m arket N .........  6)4
A tlantic P, 4 4 .........  5)4
Mystic River, 4-4...  5)4
A tlantic  LL, 4 4 —   5)4
Pequot A, 4 4 ...........  7)4
A driatic, 36..............  7)4
Piedm ont,  36.............6)4
A ugusta, 4 4 .............. 6)4
Stark AA, 4-4.............7)4
Boott  M, 4 4 ............   634
T rem ont CC, 4-4__ 5)4
Boott  FF, 4 4 ..........   734
Utica,  4 4 ................. 9
G raniteville, 4 4 —   534 
W achusett,  4 4 ......... 7)4
Indian  H ead ,4-4...  7 
W achusett.  30-in...  634
Indiana H ead 45-in. 12)4

Renfrew , dress styl  7)4 
Johnson  M anfg Co,
B ookfold.............. 12)4
Johnson  M anfg Co,
dress  sty les.........12)4
Slaterville, 
dress
sty les.....................  7)4
W hite Mfg Co, stap  7% 
W hite Mfg Co, fane  8 
W hite  M anf’g  Co,
E arlsto n ................  8
G ordon.......................7)4
Greylock, 
styles  ................... 12)4
Pepperell.  104...... 27)4
Pepperell,  114...... 32)4
Pequot,  7 4 .............21
P equot,  8 4 .............24
Pequot,  9 4 .............27)4

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  7)4
Laconia  B, 7-4......... 16)4
Lym an B, 40-in........10)4
Mass. BB, 4 4 ...........  534
N ashua  E, 40-in__ 8)4
N ashua  R, 4 4 .........  7)4
N ashua 0,7-8.............634
N ew m arket N .........  6)4
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7 
Pepperell  R, 4 4 —   7)4
Pepperell  O, 7-8____6)4
Pepperell  N, 3 4 ___ 6)4
Pocasset  C, 4 4 ......... 6%
Saranac  R ...............   7)4
Saranac  E ................  9

FINE BROWN COTTONS.

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

W ID E BLEACHED COTTONS.

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

checks,
new

dress 

TIC K IN G S.

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

Falls, X X X X ........... 18)4
Falls, X X X ...............15)4
Falls,  BB..................11)4
Falls,  BBC, 36.........19)4
Falls,  aw ning......... 19
H am ilton,  BT, 32.. 12
H am ilton, ,D .......... 9)4
H am ilton,  H _____   9)4
H am ilton  fa n c y ... 10
M ethuen A A .......... 13)4
M ethuen ASA........ 18
Omega  A, 7-8..........11
Omega  A, 4 4 ..........13
Omega ACA, 7-8__ 14
Omega ACA, 4 4 __ 16
Omega SE, 7-8........ 24
Omega SE, 4 4 ........ 27
Omega M. 7-8 .........22
Omega M, 4 4 ..........25
Shetucket SS&SS W 11)4 
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Shetucket,  SFS  ...12
Stockbridge  A .......7
Stockbridge  frn cy .  8

Amoskeag,  AC A .. .14 
Am oskeag 
“ 4 4 .. 19
Amoskeag,  A ........13
Amoskeag,  B ........12
Amoskeag,  C........11
Amoskeag,  D ........10)4
Amoskeag,  E ........10
Amoskeag, F .............9)4
Prem ium   A, 4 4 ___17
Prem ium   B .............16
E x tra 4 4 .......... ........16
E x tra 7-8.......... 
14)4
Gold Medal 4-4......... 15
CCA  7-8..................... 12)4
CT 4 4 .........................14
RC 7-8.........................14
BF 7-8.........................16
A F 4 4 .........................19
Cordis AAA, 32........14
Cordis  AC A, 32........15
Cordis No. 1, 32........15
Cordis  No. 2.............14
Cordis  No. 3.............13
Cordis  No. 4.............11)4
G a rn e r.............. . . . .   5 E m p ire ...................
H ookset............ ....  5 W ashington........... 4%f
5
Red  Cross......... ....  5 E dw ards.................
5
S. S. & Sons............
F orest G rove...
A m erican  A ... ...18 00)Old  Ironsides....... 15
Stark A .............. ..  .22)41 W h eatlan d............ 21
B o sto n .............. ....  654lOtis  CC................... 10)4
E v erett b lu e ... __ 13)4|Warren  A X A ........
i m
E verett  brow n. __ 13)41 W arren  B B ........... 11)4
Otis  AX A ......... __ 12)4|Warren CC............. 10)4
Otis B B .............. __ li)4|Y ork  fa n c y ........... 13)4
S. S. & Sons............
M anville............ ....  6
M asgnville....... ....  6 G a rn e r...................
Red  Cross......... ....  7)4 Thistle Mills...........
B e rlin ................ ....  7)4 Rose........................
G arner  .............. ....  7)4
B ro o k s.............. ....50
Mills ball sew ing.30
Clark’s O. N- F. ....55
J. & P.  C o a ts... ....55 Greeh  &  Daniels.. .25
W illim antic 6 cord. 55 M errick8................ 40
S taffo rd ................. 25
W illim antic 3 cord. 40
H all & M anning... .25
Charleston ball sew
ing th re a d __ ....30 H olyoke................. .25

Eagle  and  Phœ nix

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

spoon cotton.

GRAIN BAGS.

WIGANS.

DENIMS.

6
6

8

CORSET JEANS.

A rm o ry ............ ....  7)4 K earsage................ .  8)«
A ndroscoggin s a t..  8)4 N aum keag satteen .  8)4
Pepperell  bleached  8%
Canoe R iver__ ....  6
Clarendon......... ....  6)4 Pepperell s a t......... .  9)4
Hallo well  Im p. ....  654 R oekport................
Ind. Orch. Im p. ....  7 Lawrence sa t......... .  8)4
L aco n ia............ ....  7)4 Conegosat..............

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COAL AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio W hite Lime, p er  b b l..................... 
1  00
Ohio W hite Lime, car lo ts..................... 
85
1  30
Louisville Cement,  p er b bl...................  
A kron Cem ent p er  bbl.......................... 
1  30
Buffalo Cement,  per b bl........................ 
1  30
.......................1  05@1  10
Car lots 
P lastering hair, per b u ..........................  25®  30
Stucco, p er b b l.......................................... 
1 75
Land plaster, p er to n .............................. 
3 50
2 50
Land plaster, car lo ts.............................. 
F ire brick, p er  M.................................... $25 ®  $35
F ire clay, p er  b bl..................................... 
3 00
A nthracite, egg and grate, car lo ts..$6  00®6 25 
A nthracite, stove and  n u t, car lo ts..  6  25®6 50
Cannell,  car lo ts..................................... 
@6 00
Ohio Lum p, car  lo ts..............................  3  10@3  25
Blossburg o r Cum berland, c a r lots..  4 50®5 00 
P o rtland  C em ent...................................  3 50®4 00

COAL.

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF

T O B A C C O .
PLUG  TOBACCO.

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

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.50
..............................................................46
.38

RED  F O X ...................................................48
BIG  DRIVE 
PATROL 
JA C K   RABBIT 
SILV ER  C O I N ......................................... .46
P A N IC ...................................................................46
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
BIG  STUMP 
A PPLE  J A C K ......................................... .4Q

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2c less in orders for 100 pounds of any one brand.

F IN E   CUT.

THE  M EIGS  FIN E  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor 
STUNNER,  D A R K .................................38
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T ............................... .50
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT 
FR U IT 
O  SO  S W E E T ..........................................30

.40
................................................................. .32

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- 

- 

.35
.38

.64

2c less in 6 pail lots.

S M O s n ra .

ARTHUR’S  CHOICE,  LONG  CUT,  BRIGHT 
-  - 
RED  FOX,  LONG  CUT,  FO IL 
GIPSEY  QUEEN,  GRANULATED 
- 
OLD  COMFORT,  IN   CLOTH 
- 
SEAT,  OF  GRAND  RAPIDS,  IN   CLOTH 
DIME  SMOKER,  IN   CLOTH 

-  - 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 
2c less in-100 pound lots.

- 

.22
.26
.26
.27
.24
.24

These brands are sold only by

Arth u r M eigs & Go.

Wholesale Grocers,

W ho w arran t th e sam e to  be unequalled.  W e guar­
antee  every  pound  to   be  perfect  and  all  right  in 
every particular.  W e cordially invite you, w hen  in 
th e  city,  to   visit  our  place  of  business, .55  and  57 
Canal st. 

IT  MAY  SAVE  YOU  MONEY.

SPRING

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL.  CLOTHS

ETC.,  e t c .

6 and 8 M onroe S treet,

Grand Rapids,

M ichigan.

BROW N’S

Paper Ba g
Twine  Holder!

AND

(COMBINED.)

Patented  April  29th,  1883. 

CAPACITY  2,500  BAGS.

Saves  tim e,  bags  and  valuable 
counter  room. 
Is  neat  and  orna­
m ental,  constructed  of  m alleable 
iron,  neatly  Japanned,  w ith  steel 
w ire needles, and will n ever g et o u t 
of repair.  W eighs about 6 lbs. and 
occupies  18  inches square of space. 
Can  be  adjusted  to  any  height  of 
ceiling.  Is suspended  from  ceiling 
directly  over  co u n ter  w ithin  easy 
distance o f  salesm an.  F or  fu rth e r 
inform ation 'address
GEO.  R.  BROW N,

PALMYRA, N. Y. 

SOLD  BY
F ranklin M acVeagh & Co., Chicago, 111.

Arthur Meigs & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
CURTISS,  DUNTON & CO.
PAPER, OILS, CORDAGE, WOODENWARE

W H O LESALE

GOOD
ENOUGH

G O O D
ENOUGH

These  Oil Cans in Stock all Sizes. Plain and with Wood Jacket.

Tlxe  IDisiTYioxici  Oil  Can,

The Best Glass Can with Tin Jacket in the Market.

o u r t is s ,  x>xjKra?o3\r  c«3  00.

51 AND  53  LYON  STREET, 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

D.  W.  Archer’s Trophy Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Morning Glory Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Early Golden Drop Corn

NO.  2.  AND  3  CANS.

YOUNG,  TENDER  AND  SW EET,

NATURAL  FLAVOR  RETAINED. 

GUARANTEED  PURITY.

$1,000  IN   GOLD.

NOT SW EETENED W ITH  SUGAR 

NO  CHEM ICALS  USED.

NOT  BLEACHED  W H ITE. 
NO  W A TER  IN   CANS.

The Trade supplied by Wholesale Grocers Only.  Respectfully,

THE  ARCHER  PACKING  00.,  Chülicothe, IDs.

PETEHSBURQ,  VA.,

S.  W.  VENABLE  &  OO,
1ST I  3VE  3R.  O   ID

MANUFACTURERS  OF

AND  OTHER  FAVORITE  BRANDS  OF

Plug Tobacco.

NIMROD 
E > c 
BLUE  PE T E R .......................................................38 | In  lots of 72 pounds or over tw o cents less

....................................................... 44 I  SPREAD EAGLE............................................... 38
. ..........................................40  BIG  FIV E  CENTER........................................ 35

See  Our  W holesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to M e Bottom Prices on anythiniwe handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Tie M i n  M esu a i.

Post A., M.  C.T.  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
F irst Vice-President>—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second  V ice-President—Stephen A.  Sears. 
Secretary and T reasurer—L.  W. Atkins. 
E xecutive  Committee—P resident  and  Secre­
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
Kraut ora ana  w. u . naw siu». 
Bradford and W. G. Hawkins.

TIME TABLES.

Michigan  Central.

DEPA R T.

♦D etroit E xpress......................................   6:00 a m
+Day  E xpress............................................ 13:45 p m
♦A tlan tic E x p re ss.......................................... 9 ;20 p  m
Way F reight......................................................   6:50 a m
♦Pacific  E xpress..............................................  6:00 a m
+M ail.............................................................3:50 p m
+Grand  Rapids  E xpress.................................10:50 p m
W ay F re ig h t.........................................................5:15 a m

tD aily except Sunday.  ♦Daily.
Sleeping  cars  ru n   on  A tlantic  and  Pacific 

A R R IV E .

Express. 

...
,  D irect  and  prom pt  connection  m ade  w ith

, 

—  

-  -- 

p iw tin n  Committee—Geo  H  Seym our,  Wal-1  G reat  W estern,  G rand  T runk  and  Canada 
E \ace  F ra n k lin rtv .  H D o w n s,  Wm.  B.  E d -!  Southern train s in sam e depot a t D etroit, thus 
i  avoiding transfers.
|  The D etroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Room  Com m ittee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  >v m.
i  D raw ing  Room  and  P arlor  Car  fo r  D etroit,
'  reaching th a t city a t 11:45a.m., New Yorkl0:30 
Regular  M eetings—L ast  Saturday  evening  in 
a. m .,and  Boston 3:05  p. m. n ex t day.
A tra in  leaves D etroit a t 4 p. m. daily except 
N ext  M eeting—Saturday  evening,  A ugust -J, 
Sunday w ith draw ing room  car attached, arriv­
_____________
ing a t Grand Rapids a t 10:50 p. m.

• 
rounds and D. S. Haugh.
Boughton, W. H. Jennings.
each  m onth. 
a t “The Tradesm an” office. 

.

J.T . Sc h u l t z, Gen’l A gent.

Grand Rapids Post T.  P. A.

Organized a t Grand Rapids, A pril 11, 1885.
P resident—Geo. F. Owen.
V ice-President—Geo. W. McKay.
Secretary—Leo A. Caro.
T reasurer—Jam es Fox.
N e x t M eeting—S u b je c t to  call  o f  P resid e n t.

The  Horrors  of  Morphine.

“ Give me only  a  few  drops; 

for  God s 

sake,  give me just a little.”

These words, says the New York Journal, 
came from a shruuken-faced man who stood 
in front of a drug  store on  William  street 
yesterday,  as  he  raised his hands  appeal- 
ingly.

“ I  cannot  give  you  any,”  replied  the 
druggist,  as he closed the door on the man’s 
face.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.  A rrives,
tM a il..................................... 9:15 a m  
4:35 p m
+Day  E xpress...................... 13:35pm   10:4 5 p m
♦Night  E xpress................... 8:35 p m  
4:45 a m

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

tD aily except Sunday.

♦Daily. 
P ullm an Sleeping  C a u   on  all  n ight  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  cbasge  of  careful  at- 
i  tendants w ithout  ex tra  charge  to  Chicago  on 
!  13:35 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
i 9:35 p. m. trains.
Leaves.  A rrives.
i  E xpress...................................4:15 p m  4:05 p m
!  E x p ress................................. 8:05a  m  11:15a m
I  All train s arrive and d epart from  U nion  De-
P The  N orthern term in u s of  this Division Is a t 
|  Baldwin, w here close connection is m ade  w ith 
!  F. &  P.  M. train s  to   and  from   L udington  and 
|  Manistee.. 

J. H. Ca r pen ter,  Gen’l Pass. A gent.
J.  B.  Mu ll ik en,  G eneral  M anager.

_ 

.

Lak«  bhcro & Michigan Southern.

i 

. 

’ 

1 

J 

,. 

1 
“ W h at’s th e row?”  he  asked. 
“ This  man  is a morphine fiend,’’  replied 

(KALAMAZOO  d iv is io n .)
A rrive. 
The la tte r began a vigorous  pounding  on  :  E xpre9B.................................7:15 p m 
th e   door,  and  presen tly   a   policem an  ap-I  M ail......................................9 :5 0 a m  
peared. 

Leave.
7:30 a m
4:00pm
leaving  a t  4  p. m . connects  a t
W hite Pigeon w ith  A tlantic  E xpress  on  Main
Line, which has Palace D raw ing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from   Chicago  to  New  Y ork  and 
Boston w ithout change.
The  tra in   leaving  a t  7:80  a. m. o u in ects  a t 
“ On,  for  heaven’s  sake,  -give  m e ju st a i  w h ite Pigeon (giving one h our for dinner) with
special New Y ork E xpress on Main Line, 
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured a t  Union T icket office, 
67 Monre stre e t and depot.

All train s daily exoept Sunday,
The 

the druggist,  “ and  1 can’t sell him any.”

tickets  and  b erths 

Through 

tra in  

little!  See,  I have money.”
The  policeman  led the man away,  but in j 
ten minutes he  was back again.  The police- j 
man again appeared  and  dragged  the  man | 
off in the direction  of the station house.

Detroit,  Qr&nd  Haven &  Milwaukee.

J.- W. McK e n n e y , Gen’l A gent.

the kind-hearted policeman.

“ If you’ll go home I’ll  let  you  go,”  said | 

A rrives.
tSteam boat  E xpress..........   6:17 a m
-(-Through  M ail............................. 10:10 a m
•(■Evening  E xpress................3:30 p m
♦Limited  E xpress.................  6:37 p m
tM ixed, w ith  coach............
■(■Morning  E xpress..............  1:05 p m
th e  proprietor  to  sell him   a  sm all |  -(-Through  M ail...................  5:10 p m
'  -(-Steamboat  E xpress.......... 10:40 p m
tM ixed
♦Night E xpress.....................  5:10 a m

The man promised  to  go  directly  home 
and started away. 
An  hour  afterward he i 
was  again  in  front  of  the  drug store be-1 
seechin 
quantity of  morphine.

GOING EAST.

GOING  W EST.

Leaves, 
6:35 a m 
10:30 a m 
3:35 p m 
6:30 p m 
10:30 a m
1:10 p m 
5:15 p m 
10:45 p m 
7:10 a m 
5:30 a m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  ♦Daily. 
Passengers  taking  th e  6:35  a.  m.  Express 
m ake close connections a t Owosso fo r Lansing 
and a t D etroit for New York, arriving th ere at 
10:00 a. m. th e follow ing m orning.
P arlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  E ast  and 
West.
Train leaving  a t  10:45  p.  m.  will m ake  con­
nection w ith M ilwaukee steam ers daily except 
Sunday. 
The mail has  a  P arlor  Car to   D etroit.  The 
N ight  Express has a through W agner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car D etroit tc G rand Rapids.
D. P otter, City Pass. £ g e n t. 
Geo. B. Ree v e, Traffic M anager, Chicago.

_  

„„

. 

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

A rrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac E x .  7:00 a m   10:35 a  m 
F t. W ayne & M ackinac  Ex  3:55pm  
5:00pm
7:10 a m
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati E x . 
7:15 a m
M ackinac & Cincinnati E x .  3:50 p m 
6:00 p m 
M ackinac & Ft. Wayi e E x .. 10:35 a m  11:45 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

SLE EPIN G   GAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All train s daily except Sunday.
N orth—T rain  leaving  a t  5:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  W oodruff  Sleeping Cars for  Pctoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  T rain leaving a t 10:35 a. m. has 
com bined Sleeping and Chair Car tor  Traverse 
City. 
.
South—T rain leaving:at 4:35p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, G en’l Pass. A gent.

_  

, 

Detroit, Mackinac  & Marquette.

T rains connect w ith G. R. & I.  train s  fo r  St. 
Ignace, M arquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leaving G rand Rapids a t 11:30 a. m. and 11:00  p. 
m., arriving a t M arquette a t 1:45 p. m.  R eturn­
ing leave M arquette a t  3:00  p.  m., arriving  a t 
G rand Rapids a t 6:30a. m . and 5:45  p. m.  Con­
nection made a t Marq u ette w ith th e M arquette, 
H oughton  and  O ntonagon  Railroad  fo r  the 
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper D istricts.
Gen’l F rt. & Pass. A gt.,  M arquette, Mich.

F.  MILLIGAN.

Goodrich Steamers.

Leave  G rand H aven Tuesday, T hursday  and 
Sunday evenings, connecting with train  on D. 
G. H. & M. Ry.  R eturning, leave Chicago Mon 
day,  W ednesday  and  Friday  evenings,  a t  7 
o’clock, arriving a t G rand  H aven  in  tim e  fo r 
m orning train  east.

Grand River Steamer.

The  Steam er  B a rrett  leaves  h er  dock  for 
G rand  Haven, Mondays, W ednesdays  and  F ri­
days, retu rn in g  on altern ate days.

JUDD  cfc  OO.,

JOBBERS of SA D D L E R Y  H A R D W A R E

And Full Line Sum m er Goods.

102  CAN AL  STR EE T.

C. S. YALE & BRO.,
F L A M   EIT6ACTS

—M anufacturers  o t—

B A K IN G   PO W D E R S,

BXjUIXOS,  e t c .

40  a n d   42  S o u th   D iv isio n ,  St.

G RAN D   R APID S, 

- 

M ICH IGAN

This  time  another  policeman  hove 

in 
sight,  and in response to the  druggist’s  de­
mands ordered the  morphine  “ fiend”  away. 
Threats were  useless,  and  the  policeman 
It  was  in vain,  he 
cuffed  the man’s ears. 
still  pleaded  for  the  drag. 
the 
policeman shoved the man away.  The lat­
ter  seemed  very feeble and fell headlong to 
the pavement.

Then 

When  he  got  up the blood was flowing 
from his mouth,  but he refused  to  go  away 
and the policeman was  compelled  to  take 
him to the station.

“ They  can  talk  about 

liquor  ruining 
men,” said the druggist,  “ but  when  opium 
once gets its grasp on a man he’s gone.”

An  accident  in  a  foundry  at  Melbourne, 
Australia,  has led to the discovery  that  the 
plunging of iron castings into a  mixture  of 
molasses and water softens the metal to such 
a degree that  it  can  be  punched,  bored  or 
tapped  as easily as wrought iron. 
It is not 
stated if the iron must be hot or  cold  when 
treated to its  bath of  sweetened  water,  but 
we presume  the  point  can  be  settled  with­
out  much  trouble  by  any  one  anxious to 
avail himself of the  discovery,  which  looks 
as  if it would prove to be far from the  least 
valuable  to  those  that  have been madfe  in 
iron manufacture within a few years past.

Doctors  sometimes  use  ambiguous 

lan­
guage otherwise than  in their prescriptions, 
as, for example, in the case of one who writes 
to a friend in Rome from a summer resort:  ‘ ‘I 
am terribly busy,  but I hope to finish  off all 
my patients  in  about a fortnight, and I shall 
then take o good holiday.”

A  Calumet  correspondent  writes  as  fol­
lows  concerning  a  disreputable  character 
who formerly traveled for  a  Grand  Rapids 
jobbing  house  and  is  altogether  too  well 
known here:  A  drummer by the name of Max 
Markwell,  representing a  Milwaukee  cigar 
house,  attempted  a little sharp play  on  one 
of his customers, but with poor results.  Last 
fall he sold Mat  Blau,  of Calumet village,  a 
bill of cigars that were worthless.  He  af­
terwards agreed to take  them back the next 
time he came to town.  Last Monday morn­
ing he called at Blau’s saloon,  and  was  in­
formed that Mr.  Blau was away at his work, 
some seven miles from there.  He then  told 
Mrs.  B.  that he would go and  see her hus­
band,  and went away.  He came back in the 
afternoon and  told  Mrs.  Blau  that  he had 
seen  her  husband  who  told him to call on 
her  for  the  amount of the cigars. 
So  she 
paid him eighteen dollars  and  some  cents, 
and Markwell  left  her.  When Blau came 
home he was not alone  surprised  but  very 
angry.  He started  in search of Markwell, 
and  found him at the Commercial house, but 
room, 
Markwell 
and refused to be interviewed. 
Blau  then 
went to attorney Curtiss,  who  advised  him 
to get a warrant,  which he did. 
The same 
was placed  in the hands of marshal  Tonkin, j 
who also  was  refused  admission. 
After 
considerable talking the officer got the dram- J 
mer as far  as  the  stairs,  where  Markwell j 
gave  him  the  slip,  and  went  back  to liis 
room.  The marshal  again made a raid and | 
this time got Markwell out,  who,  seeing the 
officer was determined,  offered to settle,  but j 
the offer was refused, his prisoner must eith-! 
er give bonds,  or  go to  the cooler.  Finding j 
bondsmen,  he  went  to  justice  McDonald,  | 
and had his bail fixed.  By this time  it was j 
midnight. 
Tuesday  morning  the  matter ] 
was settled, Markwell  returning  the  eigh­
teen dollars  and paying all costs.

to  his 

gone 

had 

F.  F.  A D A M S   <fc  O O .’S

DARK AROMATIC

fine Cnt M v  Toliacco is the very best (lari goods on the M et.

G-randL Baplcis,

Mieli,

5

H E S T E F .

  <& 

F O X ,

M A N U FA CTU RERS  AGENTS  F O R

>SrBI A T L A S  S $

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND„  U.  S 
»TcIM ViPIM  W

m a nufacturers  of

MV

S A W  AND GRIST MIX.!. MACHI2TBB,Y,

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of‘Wood-Working Machinery, 

Saws, Belting and Oils.

A nd Dodge’s P a te n t Wood Split Pnlley.  L arge stock k ep t on  hand.  Send  fo r  sam ple  pulley 

and become convinced of th eir superiority.

W rite   fo r  P ric es. 

130  O A K ES  S TR EE T.  G RA N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH .

RINDG-E, BERTSOH & CO.,
BOOTS  AXTD  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

We have  a splendid line of  goods for  Fall  trade  and guar­
antee our prices on Rubbers.  The demand for  our  own make 
of Women’s,  Misses’  and  Childs shoes  is  increasing.  Send in 
your orders  and they will be promptly attended to.

14 and  16 P earl S treet, G rand Rapids, Mich.

AGENTS  FOR  THE

JE N N IN G S  &  SM ITH ,
Arctic  Manufacturing*  Co.,

PROPRIETORS  OP  THE

20  Lyon  St.,  G-rand  R apids.

ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR

Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

Avrotio  B alcine  P o w d e r

-------- AND---------

"W".  C,  Denison,

88,90  and  93  South  Division  Street,

G RAN D   RAPID S, 

-  M ICHIGAN.

G.

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

Send  for  new 
for 

Price - List 
Fall Trade.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED

EDMUND  D.  DIKEM1N,

JE W E L E R ,

44  CA N A L  STR EE T,

GRAN D  R APID S,

M ICH IGAN .

P ro p rie to rs  o f

VOIGT  MILLING  CO.,
CRESCENT
FLOURING  MILLS,

M a n u fa c tu re rs  o f th e   F o llo w in g   P o p ­

u la r   B ra n d s  o f F lo u r:

“  C R E SC E N T ,”

“ W H IT E   RO SE,”

“ M ORNIN G  G LO R Y,”

« R O Y A L   P A T E N T ,”  and 

“ A L L   W H E A T ,”  Flour.

Retailers,  please  order  of  your  jobbers  in 
G rand Rapids, Chicago or D etroit.  I f  your job­
ber does n o t handle o u r goods, we will fill your 
orders.  Pills and H ealth R estorer can be sent 
by m ail.  141 South Division st., Grand Rapids.

&

Wholesale Manufacturers of

P U R E   C A N D Y I

AND  DEALERS  IN

Oranges,  Lemons,
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates, 

N U T S ,

E T C ! .

W M .  S E A R S  &   C O .
Cracker Manufacturers,

Agents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE-

37, £ 9  & 41  K ent  S treet.  G rand  Rapids,  M ichigan.

P O R T A B L E  A N D   ST A T IO N A R Y

E 2ST C3-1 IST El S

From  2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
G rist Mills, Wood W orking  M achinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  m ade  for 
Complete Outfits.

Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out fii-st on 
the ball.  The  CANDLE 
Boots are double th ic k  
on  the  ball,  and  give
DOUBLE WEAR
UTost econom ical rub­
ber Boot in the market. 
Lasts  longer  than  any 
other  boot,  and 
the
PRICE  NO HIGHER. 
Call  and  es­
anime  the 
goods.

HERCULES!
A nnihilator

The G reat Stum p and Rock

Strongest and Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts.

F arm ers, practice  economy  and  clear  your 
land  of  stum ps  and  boulders.  Main  Office, 
H ercules  Pow der  Company,  No.  40  Prospect 
Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
L.  S. H ILL & CO., AGTS. 

GUNS,  AMMUNITION  & FISHING  TACKLE,
*  G RA N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH .

Rubber
BOOTS

—  W ITH —

DOUBLE  T M

FOR SALE BY

E. G. Studley & Co.,

M anufacturers  of  LEATHER  AND  RUBBER 
BELTING, and all kinds of  RUBBER  GOODS, 
Fire D epartm ent and m ill supplies.  Jo b b ers of 
“Candee”  R ubber  Boots,  Shoes  and  A rctics, 
H eavy and Light R ubber Clothing.  Salesroom 
No. 13 Canal street.-  Factory, 26  and  28  P earl 
St., GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

H A Z E L T IN E ,  PE R K IN S  &  CO.  have 

Sole  Control of our  Celebrated

t!

The ONLY P ain t sold on a GUARANTEE.

Read it.

W hen our Pioneer P repared P ain t is  p u t  on 
any building, and if w ithin three years it should 
crack or peel off, and th u s fail to give  th e   full 
satisfaction  guaranteed,  we  agree to  rep ain t 
the  building  a t  our  expense,  w ith  th e  best 
W hite Lead, or such other paint as  the  ow ner 
m ay select.  Should any case of dissatisfaction 
occur, a notice from  the dealer will  com m and 
ou r prom pt attention.  T.  H .  NEV1N  &  CO.

Send fo r sam ple cards  and  prices.  Address

H azelfi, Perkins & Co.

M IC H .

G RA N D   R A P ID S ,

CLIMAX- 

PLUG TOBACCO^ 
JgD T/NTAG .

O. H. RICHMOND & CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

M ANUFACTURERS  O F

Bictaond’s Family Medicines.

RICHMOND’S  LIVER  ELIXIR.

The  best  selling liver  and  blood  m edicine  in 

the  m arket,  50 cents.

Richmond’s Cubeb Cream,
Richmond’s Ague Cure,

Richmond’s  Cough Cure, 
Richmond’s Easy Fills,

Dr. Richards’ Health Restorer.

sula Business Men.

The second  convention  of  the  business 
men of the Upper  Peninsula  meets at Ish- 
peming on September 8, and the indications 
now are that it will be largely attended  and 
productive  of  valuable  assistance  to  the 
commerce of the  peninsula and of Lake Su­
perior  in  general..  A  full  representation 
will be had for every county in the peninsu­
la, whereas at Marquette many of them  did 
not have a single member.  Committees ap­
pointed to confer with the Boards of Trade of 
the Northwest  will  report  that the  boards 
of Detroit,  Milwaukee, Duluth,  St. Paul and 
other cities have taken  action in the matter.
The enlargement of the Sault Ste.  Marie’s 
Canal is an affair of vital  importance to the 
rapidly growing commerce  of the lake,  and 
Duluth and other cities on the lake are deep­
ly interested  in the success of the  conven­
tion.  The suggestion  has  been made,  and 
will prpbably be acted on,  that  Duluth,  Su­
perior  and Ashland  send  delegates  to the 
peninsular convention.  Those towns  have, 
at least,  as much  interest  as  Marquette, 
Houghton and Hancock in  making the con­
vention a successful  one in this  particular.

R o d e n ts in  a   G rocery S tore.

From  th e H udson G azette.

There’s nothing small about the  rats that 
have held forth in G. J. Perkins’ grocery store. 
The boys discovered a nest under  the coun­
ter the other day made of scrip money rang­
ing from 10 cents to $5.  The most of it had 
been  “chawed”  pretty fine,  but  several $2 
bills  and a number of smaller pieces of scrip 
can  be easily  put  together.  Mr.  P. has  a 
cigar box full of the fodder and will try and 
have  the  government  redeem  some  of  it. 
There is probably $30 in the nest.

One of the  greatest  obstacles  that small 
manufacturers  and  dealers  meet with is  a 
disinclination of customers to pay  promptly 
when they are perfectly able to do so.  Men 
trying to  do  business on  small capital  are 
not infrequently  driven out  of trade  from 
this cause.

Mr.  Gladstone  is  the  owner  of what  is 
probably  the longest pencil  ever made.  A 
manufacturer  at  Keswick  has  sent  him a 
walking-stick thirty-nine inches long, made 
of cedar,  and forming a large pencil,  with  a 
lead  nearly  half  an  inch  square  running 
through it.  The curious  pencil  has a solid 
silver band bearing an  inscription  in verse.

Michigan Dairymen’s  Association.

Organized  at  Grand  Rapids,  February  25,  1885.
President—M ilan W iggins, Bloomingdale. 
V ice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac;  F.  C. 
Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A.  P .  Foltz,  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafellow,  Carson  City; 
W arren H aven, Bloom ingdale;  Chas.  E. Bel­
knap, • G rand  R apids;  L.  F.  Cox,  P o rta g e; 
Jo h n  Borst, V riesland;  R. C. Nash, H illiards; 
D.  M.  Adams,  A shland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks­
ville. 
.Secretary and T reasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand 
Rapids.
N ext  M eeting—Third  Tuesday  in  F ebruary, 
1886.
M embership Fee—$1 per year.
Official O rgan—T h e   M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n .

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M ISCELLA N EO U S.

H em lock B ark—The local  tan n ers  are  offer­
ing $5 p e r cord delivered, cash, which  price  is 
fully as satisfactory to the inland  shippers  of 
N orthern  M ichigan  as  th e  Chicago  and  Mil­
w aukee quotations, which are $7@$7.50 a t both 
m arkets.  New Y ork and Boston  tanners  pay 
$8.50.
Ginseng—Local dealers pay $1.50  per  pound 
fo r clean washed roots.
Rubber Goods—Local jobbers are authorized 
to  offer 45 per cent, off on standard  goods  and 
45 and 10 p er cent, off on second quality.

F R E S H   M EA TS. 

%

Jo h n   M ohrhard  quotes  th e   trad e  selling 

prices as follow s:
Fresh  Beef, sides....................................   6  @ 7
Fresh  Beef, hind  q u a rte rs...................  7  @  8
Dressed  H ogs...........................................   6  @634
M utton,  carcasses...................................  534 @  6
V eal.............................................................  8  @9
P ork  Sausage........................................ .  734@  8
Bologna.....................................................   8  @ 9
Fow ls..........................................................12  @13
Spring Chickens......................................  @16

H ID E S , P E L T S   A N D   FU RS. 

P erkins & H ess quote as foLows:

G re e n __ ^  ft  6  @634
P a rt  c u re d ...  7  @  734
Full curqd__   834@  834
Dry hides and 

k ip s ............   8  @12

H ID ES.

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

o r cu red __   @10
$   piece....... 20  @50

SH E E P P EL TS.

Shearlings................................................. 10  @25
L am b sk in s................................................20  @40
Old wool, estim ated w ashed $  f t.........  @20
Tallow .........................................................  4J4@  434
Fine washed 3P lb 20@25IUnwashed............  
2-3
Coarse washed...16@18|

W OOL.

(Groceries.

O U T  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

Mishawaka, Ind.

Sept. 1—The m an u factu rers here all rep o rt a 
good  volum e  o f  business  and  fa ir  m argins. 
They  are. all  unam inous  in  the  opinion th a t 
m atters have taken a tu rn  fo r the  better,  and 
th a t th ere will be a  constant  im provem ent  in 
business from  this tim e on.

G eneral M anager Fisher, of th e P erkins W ind 
Mill & A x Co., reports a b etter  trade  th an  last 
year, and excellent prospects for fall trade.

Chas. A. Loring, form erly with W etzell Bros., 
a t G rand Rapids, is  now  book-keeper  fo r  the 
Perkins W ind Mill & Ax Co.

The Dodge M anufacturing Co.  is  increasing 
th e capacity of its w orks, w ith a view  to   tu rn ­
ing  o u t  200  pulleys  p e rd e y .  W. B. Hosford, 
vice-president of the corporation, has invented 
and applied for letters p a te n t on  a  cut-off  ar­
rangem ent, which can  be utilized on old-style, 
sliding-valve engines, and operated w ithout an 
ex tra   eccentric, the device m aking the engine 
practically  autom atic.  One  of  th e arra n g e­
m ents is now in use on one  of  th e  com pany’s 
engines, and is so satisfactory in every respect 
th a t th e com pany has  concluded to  engage  in 
th e  m anufacture of the im proved engines on a. 
large scale as soon as the  necessary  buildings 
fo r th a t purpose can be erected.

W allace  H.  Dodge,  president  of the D<#lge 
M anufacturing Go., has lately securred  a  p at­
en t on his rope transm ission,  w hich  prom ises 
to play an im portant p a rt in fu tu re   m anufac­
tu rin g  m atters.  The  inventor  fondly  antici­
pates  th a t 
rope,  transm ission  will  event- 
fu lly  supersede the present belt system .

“O ur  m anufacturing  enterprise  had a  curi­
ous beginning,” said Mr. Dodge, in speaking of 
the  rapid  grow th  of th e corporation  bearing 
his  nam e. 
“In   1878  I   was  engaged  in  the 
hardw are business here in  M ishawaka,  and  a 
fellow here got up an  im proved  w agon  jack. 
Charley  W oodbury,  Sargent  &  Co.’s  right- 
hand  traveling  m issionary, declared  th a t the 
jack  would have an  im m ense sale,  if  properly 
pushed.  I accordingly ren ted  a small power on 
th e canal, and began  the  m anufacture  of  the 
article.  In  two years, th e  country was flooded 
w ith w agon jacks, and from  th a t I   worked  in ­
to hardw are woodenware and from  th a t to the 
split pulley business, and here we are to-day.”

i

on a charge o f frau dulently disposing of m ort­
gaged property, and th e prisoner w as released 
on bail.  H e w as subsequently  re-arrested  on 
a charge of obtaining goods  und er  false  p re­
tenses—giving H aw kins &  P erry   a  check  for 
$100 at th e tim e he  purchased  th e  stock  on  a 
bank w ith which he had no  deposit  account— 
and u p  to p resen t W riting he has been  unable 
to obtain bail. H e will have a hearing on Sept. 3. 
H aw kins & Perry, by th e ir  attorneys,  Delano 
& B unker, have replevined from   Louis  Aloir, 
six  barrels  of  flour,  and from  Amos Cheney, 
2,683 pounds of feed and 2,445  pounds  of  oats. 
The  w rits  are  retu rn ab le  in  Ju stice  R yan’s 
co u rt on Septem ber 4.

R ig  R a p id s.

Sept. 1—There has been a  m arked  im prove­
m e n t in all branches of  trad e  in  th e   last  ten  
days, and dealers are m ore hopeful.  The dull- 
tim es look, w hich has characterized  them   for 
the  p ast  eighteen  m onths,  is giving place  to 
the  old  business  sm ile.  O ur m erchants  are 
supplying quite a num ber of lum berm en  w ith 
com plete  cam p  outfits,  and  a  good  lum ber 
trad e  is  expected  d uring  th e fall and w inter 
m onths.

The L eggett store is  being  repaired  by  Ed. 
K eeler  fo r  a  stock  of  groceries  and  a wood 
office, he being  quite  extensively  engaged  in 
stove wood trade.

A. Sachen is responsible fo r the  rum or  th a t 
he  has  been  looking  abroad  fo r  a fav o ra­
ble location fo r th e  Sachen  clothing  stock  a t 
Big Rapids, of which Jak e Sachen is m anager.
W ork on the Comstock block still continues, 
although it is claimed by th e Common Council 
th a t th e building sets  about  th irty   inches  in 
th e street.  Should it be com pleted against the 
protestations of th e  city,  it  will  undoubtedly 
have to be rem oved sooner o r later.

th e 

Mr.  Bridges,  of 

lum bering  firm  of 
Bridges, Snell & Co.,  of  n ear  Escanaba,  is  in 
the city and reports fa ir prospects fo r th e firm 
in  its  new  field  of  operation.  W ith a single 
circular saw, about 50,000 feet of lum ber is cu t 
per day.  The firm   has  a  sm all  general  store 
which, besides  furnishing  its  em ployees w ith 
goods,  has  a  cash  trad e  of  about  $500  p er 
m onth.

I t  is reported th a t F.W . Joslin  has  leased  a 
store a t  Ashville,  N. C.. to which place he will 
shortly move his stock of clothing.  Mr. Joslin’s 
ill health  and  th e   very  favorable opinion  he 
has conceived of th e above nam ed  tow n,  it  is 
said, lead him  to  m ake the  exchange.  Twelve 
years of honorable dealing- and business en ter­
prise have given him  a prom inent place am ong 
o u r citizens who will reg re t his rem oval.

Shelby.

Sept. 1—G. W.  Woodward  & Son  are  m aking 
extensive  repairs  on  th e ir  grain  elevator. 
Am ong o th er things, they are  p u ttin g   in  new 
elevators and im provem ents,  w hich  will  give 
th eir building a 10,000 bushels capacity.  They 
rep o rt th a t sixty p e r cent,  of  th e  w heat  now 
in the hands of farm ers in Shelby  and Oceana 
counties  is not m erchantable,  on  account  of 
th e w et w eather in harvest.  This  will  be  bad 
news  fo r  a  good  m any.  The  o at crop  is  the 
largest ever known, being from  40 to 80 bushels 
to th e acre.  Apples  are a large crop.  Plum s, 
ditto.  Peaches  are  a  large  crop  in  places. 
Corn  and  buckw heat  will  depend  upon  th e 
w eather.  I t will tak e from  fo u r to   six  weeks 
of dry, w arm  w eather to m atu re the  corn.  If 
we have this, th e crop will be a large  one.

L. Andrews, by his agent, W. A.  Phelps,  has 
shipped since Ju n e  1 of this year 5,000 cords  of 
hem lock  b ark  from   points  on the P entw ater 
branch,  H art,  Mears,  R othbury  and  Shelby, 
Shelby leading.  The m arkets  have  been  Chi­
cago and Peoria, 111.

Since May  1,  the  Shelby  stave  factory  has 
cu t 1,500,000 staves, which it is expected will be 
all jointed by th e first of  Novem ber.  The fac­
to ry   bought  last  season  about  1,200  cords 
of bolts.  From   th e  size  of the apple  crop, a 
dem and for 2,000  barrels  is expected this fall.
Oliver  W heeler,  w ith  W heeler  Bros.,  was 
m arried on the 25th u lt.to M rs.Id aM . Achilles. 
They have gone to New H am pshire a n a  bridal 
trip.

T h e   G rocery  M arket.

Trade is  good  generally,  with  very fair 
collections,  and the outlook  is encouraging. 
Sugars have advanced since last  quotations 
and the market  is  still  very  firm.  Codfish 
has advanced,  although  we  do  not  change 
quotations.  London layer raisins  are  very 
high.  New Valencias are due  in a week or 
two now,  and  will be  reasonable in  price. 
Cheese is firmer with  an  upward tendency.
Candy is active and firm, and a shade high­
er.  Nuts  are  firm  and  in  good demand. 
Fruits are steady and in fair demand.

A commercial revival is looked for in Can­
ada.  The number of failures there is stead­
ily decreasing.

Thurber, Whyland & Co., the New  York 
wholesale grocers,  intend to open  a  branch 
establishment at St.  Paul, Minn.,  similar to 
the one they  already  have  at  Minneapolis. 
It will be under the  management of Mr.  H. 
C. Baker.

Charlevoix.

Sept. 1—Messrs H arris & R ifenberg,  of  Mus­
kegon. are m aking preparations to  have work 
commenced on a large four-story flouring mill 
here.  The mill will be  roller  process,  w ith  a 
capacity of 100 barrels per day.  This will m ake 
Charlevoix  the  pincipal  grain  center  of  the 
P ine Lake region, while heretofore  th e   farm ­
ers  of  this  vicinity  have  been  obliged to go 
elsew here to dispose of th e ir  grain.

Jam es  S.  Smithson,  a  retired  m erchant  of 
Chicago, has let a contract to Jerom e H eath to 
build a S3,500 cottage  here, a t  the  Chicago  re­
sort.

Mrs. M. L. L itney has sold a one-half in terest 
in h er m illinery store  to  Mrs.  G.  H.  Carr,  of 
S utton’s Bay, and they have let a   contract for 
th e building of a new  store.

L. L. C arr’s fru it store w as’broken  into  last 

T hursday exening, and $15 in m oney taken.

The pier head light, fo r which th e  people  of 
this  place  have  labored  so long and success­
fully, has been com pleted  w ith  its  additional 
trestle w ork to the shore.  The cost was $4,000. 
The  supplies,  including  150  red  glass  lam p 
chim neys,  90  gallons  kerosene  and  3  brass 
lam ps are here.  The lam ps will be lighted for 
th e first tim e this evening.

Coldwater.

Sept.  1—F.  V.  Smith,  for  fo rty   years  a 
clothier here, has sold o u t to  J.  H. Buggie,  of 
Hillsdale.

Mrs. Geo. M. Dum ond & Co.’s m illinery stock 
has been disposed of to Mrs.  J.  A.  Torrey,  of 
New York.

Burlingam e & Co.’s saloon has been closed on 
a chattel  m ortgage  held  by  F .W . Jordan,  of 
Findlay, Ohio.

Vicksburg.

Sept. 2—The Ives & Bush M anufacturing Co. 
has received advantageous offers from  several 
neighboring towns,  b u t  the  gentlem en  com­
posing the com pany  p re fe r  G rand  Rapids  to 
any other location which has  been  suggested 
to them ,  and will rem ove th eir plant and busi­
ness to th e Valley City, if properly encouraged 
by the business m en o f th a t  place.

Saranac.

Aug. 29—L. M. L ester will shortly open a mil­

linery departm ent in his store.

Dr.  B.  E.  H ess,  form erly  of  Bonanza, has 

started  a d rug store a t Clarksville.

O. J. B retz & Co.’s fu rn itu re  store  is  nearly 

ready fo r occupancy. 

.

Rondo.

Sept. 1—Philander Pike has  sold his grocery 
stock and will engage  in  th e  retail  fu rn itu re 
business,

E.  L.  Hoffman,  our  enterprising  general 

dealer, has added a lin e of boots and shoes.

Otter Lake.

Sept. 1—A fire here on the night, of  the  28th 
ult.  destroyed  J.  W.  W ebb’s  d rug  store  and 
Geo. Goldsw orthy’s m eat m arket.  W ebb’s loss 
is  $1,500,  and  his  insurance  $1,000.  Golds­
w orthy’s loss is $200, w ith full insurance.

Kalamazoo.

Sept. 2—I t is now know n th a t the Acme Man­
ufactu rin g  Co. is considering  th e  question  of 
rem oving  its  plan t  and  business  to  Grand 
Rapids, or some o ther im p o rtan t business cen­
ter, in order th a t b etter m an ufacturing facili­
ties m ay be obtained.  No definite  conclusion 
has y et been arrived at, b u t  the  fa c t  th a t  the 
m atter  is  u n d er  consideration  gives  good 
ground  fo r  th e  belief  ih at  a  rem oval  will 
eventually occur.

C. H. D utton & Co. have gotten o u t a  line  of 
vertical engines and boilers, from  two to eight 
horse-power, and a line of  horizontal  station­
ary   engines,  from   fo u r  to twenty-five horse­
power, which are m eeting w ith a large sale.

Muskegon.

Sept. 1—J . C. B assett, who bought an ew  gro­
cery stock of H aw kins & P erry , a t G rand Rap­
ids,  about  five  m onths  ago,  and engaged  in 
business a t low ertow n, n ear th e brew ery, sub­
sequently  gave ¡Messrs.  H aw kins  &  P e rry   a 
ch attel  m ortgage  on  th e  stock.  E arly  last 
w eek he conceived th e  idea of  closing o u t  th e 
stock at a sacrifice, fo r th e purpose of convert­
ing  th e  sam e  into  cash,  and  the  m anner  in 
which he slaughtered the goods  created some­
thing  of  a panic  in  th a t  p a rt  of  th e  town. 
These  facts  com ing  to   th e  atten tio n   of  the 
holders  of  th e   m ortgage,  they  dispatched 
Leslie Freem an to  M uskegon,  who  foreclosed 
th e m ortgage and took possession of th e stock. 
H e then secured& w arrant fo r B assett’s-arrest,

ELASTIC  STARCH.

L a te s t  I m p ro v e d .
THE  TRADE.

TO

This  starch  deserves  the  attention  of every  Grocer who aims to  keep  first-class 
goods to  please their customers.  This starch is put up in fancy colored  packages  and 
highly perfumed. 
It is sold to you on its own merits ;  warranted as represented,  or we 
will  cheerfully refund you your money, providing  directions  are  complied  with.  This 
starch  is  made  entirely  different  from  all  other  starch,  and  is  the  only  starch  in the 
United States that is put up  by  men  who  have  a  practical  experience  in  the  laundry 
business.  How to laundry linen  has  been  kept  a  secret  long  enough,  what  can  and 
should be done in every family.  B y using this starch your shirts,  cuffs and collars  wil* 
be just as stiff and nice, with that  beautiful  polish  as  when  first  bought  new.  A   few 
other advantages this starch possesses over all other starch  is: 
It requires  no cooking. 
Keeps the Iron from  sticking, and linen from  blistering while  ironing.  One  package  is 
warranted to go as far as a pound and a half of any other starch made.  The  manufac­
turer  offers  one  hundred  dollars  in  gold  if  this  starch  prooves  injurious  to  the  finest 
linen.  W e  keep the Elastic Starch in stock.  Can we send  you  a  trial  box  with  your 
next order? 
It will please your customers.  Fancy advertising streamers go with every 
case.  See quotations.  Trade supplied  by

Clark, J ©well <& Co.

Special notice to the trade—J.  C.  Hubinger & Bros, are the inventers and originators 
of the Elastic Starch,  and they  didn’t  have  to  borrow  or  steal  the  name  and  fame  of 
their  neighbors  in  order  to  sell  this  starch.  Grocers,  beware  of  worthless  imitations 
which have recently been put into the market to deceive the  public.  Be  sure  that  the 
name of J.  C.  Hubinger  &  Bros.,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  is  upon  each  box  or  packagej 
without which it cannot be  genuine.

The  Coming Convention  of Upper Penin­

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  fo r  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

prom ptly and buy in full packages.

A dvanced—Sugars, pickles.
Declined—Nothing.

A X LE  GREASE.

 

 

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doz. 25

CANNED  F IS H .

. CANNED F R U IT S .

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.

 
 
BROOMS.

F razer’s .................   2 80|Paragon  ..................1  80
D iam ond.................1  75 P arag an 2 5 ft pails. 1  20
Modoc, 4  doz..........2  50|
A rctic Ya ft can s__   451 A rctic  1 ft  can s— 2  40
A rctic }-i fl> c an s 
  75 A rctic 5 lb c an s— 12  00
A rctic Yu B> cans.  .. 1 40|
BLU IN G .
Dry, No. 2.................................. 
Dry, No. 3..............................................doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,......................................... doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz........................................... doz. 
A rctic 4 oz........................................... ¥   gross  4  00
A rctic 8  oz.........................................................   f  00
A rctic 16 oz.......................................................   12  00
A rctic No. 1 p epper bo x.................................   2 00
A rctic No. 2 
3  00
A rctic No. 3 
4  50
No. 1 C arpet...........2  50! No.  2  H u rl................. 175
No. 2C arpet...........2  251Fancy  W hisk........... 100
No. 1  P arlor Gem .. 2 75 Com m onW hisk—   75
No. 1 H u rl.............. 2  00|
Clams, 1 lb  sta n d ard s.......................................... I 40
Clams, 2 lb  stan d ard s.......................................... 2 65
Clam Chowder,  31b............................................. 2 20
Cove Oysters,  1  lb  standards............................ 1 10
Cove Oysters, 2  lb  stan d ard s..........................  2 00
Cove O ysters, 1 ft  slack  filled.......................  75
Cove O ysters, 2 ft slack filled............................ 1 05
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic............................................. 1 75
Lobsters, 1 ft s ta r.................................................2 00
Lobsters, 2 ft s ta r .................................................3 00
M ackerel,lib  fresh   stan d ard s.........................1 00
M ackerel, 5 ft fresh   sta n d ard s.........................6 50
M ackerel in Tom ato Sauce, 3  f t.......................3 25
M ackerel,3 ft in M ustard................................... 3 25
M ackerel, 3 ft broiled..........................................3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia riv e r.............................. 1 40
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia riv e r..............................2 60
Salmon. 1 1b  ¿Sacramento................................... 1 25
Sardines, dom estic 34s............................          6
Sardines,  dom estic  ¡4s...............................  
11
Sardines,  M ustard  34s...................................  10
Sardines,  im ported  Ha.................................  13
T rout, 3 1b  brook..........................................  .2  75
Apples, 3 1b sta n d a rd s...................................  90
Apples, gallons,  stan d ard s............................... 2 40
Blackberries, sta n d ard s.....................................1 05
Cherries,  red  sta n d ard .................................  80
D am sons................................................................ 1 00
Egg Plum s, standards 
................................1  40
G reen  Gages, standards 2 f t.............................. 1 40
Peaches, E x tra Y ellow .......................................2 40
Peaches,  stan d ard s............................. 1  75@1 95
Peaches,  seconds.................................................1 50
Pineapples,  E rie.................................................. 2 20
Pineapples, sta n d ard s........................................ 1 70
Q u in ces.................................................................. 1 45
R aspberries,  Black, H am b u rg .........................1 70
A pricots, L usk’s ...2  40|Pears.......................3 CO
..2  90 
Egg P lu m s...............2 
50 Quinces ...
..3  00
G ra p e s......................2 
50 Peaches ..
G reen G ages........... 2 50|
CANNED  V EGETA BLES.
A sparagus, O yster B ay.....................
Beans, Lima,  sta n d ard .....................
Beans, Stringless,  E rie .....................
Beans, Lewis’  Boston B aked..........
Cora,  T rophy......................................
Peas, F ren ch ....................................................
Peas, M arrofat, stan d ard .............................
Peas, B eaver.................   ...............................
Peas, early small, sifted ...............................
Pum pkin, 3 ft G olden....................................
Succotash, sta n d ard ......................................
Tom atoes, T rophy..........................................
B o sto n ............ .......... 361 G erm an  Sweet
B aker’s ........... ...........38|Vienna Sweet
R unkles’ .........
Green R io__ .  9@13 Roasted  M a r.. 17@18
. 17@27 Roasted Mocha.28@30
G reen J a v a ...
,23@25 Roasted M ex.. Tj©20
Green Mocha.
9@16
. 10@15 G round  R io...
Roasted Rio..
,23@30
Roasted Ja v a
..  1  25
72 foot Ju te   ..
..  1  00
60foot  J u te ..
40 Foot Cotton ...1   50
Bloaters, Smoked Y arm outh..................
..5@6
Cod, Boneless.
..  11
H a lib u t.........
...2   50
H erring 34  bbls............
H erring, H olland, dom estic................... ...  70
...1   10
...22@24
H erring,  Scaled............
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, 34  bb ls.............. ...5   00
12 ft kits  __ ...  80
........... ...  70
10 
...3   50
12 ft  k its...................... ...  62
10 
...2   50
...3   50
' 12 ft  k its ........................ .....................  60
...............................................  55
10 
W hite, No. 1,34 b b ls ......................................5  00
W hite, No. 1,12  ft k its...................................  80
W hite, No. 1,10 ft k itB ...................................  70
W hite, Fam ily, Yt b b ls...................................2 65

“
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4*
4*
Shad,  34 bbl  ..
T rout. 34  bbls
“ 

Package  Goods  @1224
72foot Cotton.
60 foot Cotton.
50 foot Cotton.

3  25
95 
1  60 
1  05 
1  75 
1  70 
90 
1  80 
85(5x95 
90 
1  00
.........Sí)
.........23

No. 3,  34 bbls
“

CANNED  FRUTTS— C A L IF O R N IA .

..2  25
..2  00
..1  To

CHOCOLATE

CORDAGE.

44 
44 
“ 
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CO FFEE.

F IS H .

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@1 00 
@1  35 
@1 00 
@1  30 
@3  50 
@2 20
@4  60 
(§>3  35

Catsup, Tomato,  p in ts.................
Catsup, Tom ato,  q u arts  ............
H orseradish,  Yt p in ts...................
H orseradish, p in ts........................
H alford Sauce, p in ts.....................
H alford Sauce, 34 p in ts................
D etroit Soap Co.’s Queen A nne.
“  M onday.........

SOAP.

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SPIC E S.

G round.

P e p p e r. . . , ...........16@25
A llspice.................12@15
C innam on............18@30
Cloves  ..................15@25
G in g e r..................16@20
M ustard................ 15@30
C a y e n n e .............. 25@35
K ingsford’s, 1 ft pkgs.,  pure

STARCH

Whole.
P e p p e r..............
@19
A llspice............
C assia...................  @10
N utm egs  .............60@65
Cloves  ..................  @18

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SUGARS.

. . . .  @834

@6 34
3 f t   p k g s .,  p u r e ....................... .  @654
1  f t   p k g s .,  S i l v e r   G l o s s . .. .  @ 8
O f t p k g s . ,  
1 1b  p k g s .,  C o r n   S t a r c h . ..
( B u lk )   O n t a r i o .........................

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

@ 8
@ 5
<&  7%
Cut  Loaf..
@   7% 
Cubes  ___
P ow dered.
@   7% 
@ 7  06
S t a n d a r d ....................................
G ranulated,  off...
@  7 
Confectionery A ......................................
@6  68 
@  0% 
S tan d ard A ................................................
E x tra C, W hite.........................................
@  6 34 @ 6J4 
E x tra C.......................................................
Fine  C.........................................................
@  6
»72534
Yellow C...............................................
D ark C .........................................................  5
Corn,  B arrels...........................................
30@32 
82@34 
Cora, Yt bbls...............................................
Corn,  L0 gallon kegs.................................
@  35 
Corn, 5 gallon k eg s..................................
@1  75 
Corn, 434 gallon kegs...............................
@1  60 
P u re  S ugar......................................... bbl
23@  35 
30@  38
P u re Sugar D rips................. .....Y t  bbl
P ure Sugar  D rip»............... .5 gal kegs @1  96
P u re Loaf Sugar D rip s...
.........34 bbl
@  85
.5 gal kegs @1  85
P u re  Loaf S ugar................
t e a s .
Ja p an   o rd in ary...................
. ..22@25
Ja p an  fa ir to good..............
...30@35
Ja p a n  fine.............................
... 40@50
Ja p an  d u st............................
...15@20
Young H yson......................
__ 30@50
G unP ow der..........................
__ 35@50
O o lo n g ................................... ...................33@55@60
C ongo....................................
.. .25@30
D ark AmericanEagleff
Sweet  R ose................45
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner38
The M eigs....................64
A tla s............................ 35
Red  B ird..................... 50
Royal Gam e................ 38
State  Seal....................60
P rairie F lo w e r.........65
Mule E a r..................... 65
F o u n tain ..................... 74
Climber....................... 62
Old Congress...............64
Indian Q ueen.............60
Good L u ck ..................52
Bull  D og..................... 60
Crown  L e a f................66
Blaze A w ay................ 35
M atchless..................65 H air L ifte r....................30
H iaw ath a..................67 G o v ern o r..................... 60
Globe  ..........................70 Fox’s Choice.............  63
May Flow er.............. 70 M edallion..................... 35
H e ro ...........................45 Sweet Ow en..................66
Old  Abe. 
PLU G .
O p o rto ................................ 
@70
M essm ate..................................................   @52
Big  R in g ....................................................  @46
Cherry  B ounce........................................  @44
B u s te r ...................................................  
  @40
N im rod........................ 
@44
 
E. C..............................................................   @40
Blue  P e te r................................................   @38
Spread E ag le.............................................  @38
Big Five C enter........................................  @35
Red  F o x .....................................................   @48
Big D rive....................................................  @50
Seal of G rand R apids. ............................  @46
D u rh a m ......................................................  @46
P a tr o l......................................................  .  @48
Ja ck  R abbit...............................................  @46
Snow flake..................................................   @46
Chocolate Cream ......................................   @46
Woodcock  .................................................  @46
K n ig n tso f  L abor....................................   @46
R ailroad......................................................  @46
Big  B u g ......................................................  @33
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12.................................  @46
Black B ear.................................................  @37
K ing 
.........................................................   @46
Old Five Cent T im es...............................   @38
P ru n e N qggett, 12 f t...............................   @62
P a rro t  .......................................................   @46
Old Time :..................................................   @18
T ram w ay....................................................  @48
Glory  .........................................................  @46
Silver  Coin................................................   @50
B uster  [D ark]..........................................  @36
Black Prince [D ark]..............................  
  @36
Black R acer  [D ark]................. 
  @36
Leggett & M yers’  S ta r............................  @46
C lim ax........................................................  @46
Hold F a s t ..................................................   @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @46
Nickle N uggets 6 and 12 ft  cads...........  @51
Cock of th e W alk  6s...............................   @37
Nobby T w ist.............................................  @46
A c o rn .........................................................  
©46
C re sc e n t....................................................   @44
©35
Black  X ...................................................... 
Black  Bass.................................................  @40
Spring.........................................................  
©46
G ra y lin g ....................................................  @46
M ackinaw..................................................   @45
H orseS hoe................................................   @44
H air L ifte r................................................   @36
D. and D., black ........................................  @36
McAlpin’s G reen  Shield........................   @46
Ace  H igh, black......................................  @35
Sailors’  Solace..........................................  @46

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FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

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.......................9 00  15  00

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

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
4 oz.............................................1 50  2  50
6 oz.............................................2 50  4  00
8 oz.............................................3 50  5  00
No. 2 T ap er...........................1  25 
No.  4 
..........................1 75 
34 pin t  ro u n d ....................... 4  50 
l  
No.  8.......................................3  00 
No. 10 
.............................. 4 25 
FR U ITS
Cherries, dried,  p itted ................................  
C itro n ............................................................. 
C u rra n ts........................................................ 
Peaches, dried  ............................................ 
P runes, T urkey, n ew ..................................  
10@13
P runes, French, 50 ft  boxes.................. 
Raisins, V alencias................................... 
9@934
Raisins,  L ayer V alencias...............  
@1234
Raisins,  O ndaras....................................   @13
Raisins,  S ultanas....................................   734®  834
Raisins, Loose  M uscatels.....................  @3  00
Raisins, London L ayers........................   @3  60
Raisins, D ehesias....................................   @4 25
Raisins, California  L ayers...................   @3  10

1 50
3 00
7 50
4 25
6 00
@16
28@33
424@5
12@13
@434

K E R O S EN E  O IL .

MATCHES.

W ater W hite.........1(534  I Legal  T est...............834
G rand  H aven,  No.  9, sq u a re................................1 50
Grand  H aven,  No.  8, sq u are................................1 50
G rand  H aven,  No.  200,  p arlo r............................ 2 25
G rand  H aven,  No.  300, p a rlo r............................ 3 50
G rand  H aven,  No.  7,  ro u n d ................................2 25
Oshkosh, No.  2.................................................... 110
Oshkosh, No.  8.....................................................160
Sw edish................................................................  75
Richardson’s No. 2  sq u are............ .................2  70
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
..............................2  70
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
..............................170
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
..............................2  55
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 
.............................175

MOLASSES.

Black  S tra p ......................................................14@16
P orto  Rico........................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good........................................ 38@42
New Orleans, choice.......  ............................ 48@50
New  Orleans,  fa n c y .......................................52@55

34 bbls. 3c extra.

OATM EAL.

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PIC K L E S.

SA LERA TUS.

Steel  c u t................. 5  25|Quaker, 48  fts..........2 35
Steel Cut, 34 bbls.. .3 00 Q uaker, 60  fts......... 2 50
Rolled  O ats............3  60|Q uakerbbls..............6  00
Choice in barrels m ed................... .........  @5  25
Choice in 34 
.............................   @3  25
P IP E S .
Im ported Clay 3 gross............................2  25@3  00
Im ported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............   @2  25
Im ported Clay, No. 216,234 gross.........  @1  85
A m erican  T. D.........................................   @  90
R IC E .
.......... 634@634
I Ja v a
.6 
Good  Carolina.
P a t n a ........................ 6
P rim e C arolina........634
R an g o o n ...........5j4@624
Choice Carolina........7
B roken....................... 334
Good L ouisiana........53Sí
Dwight’s .................... 534
D eLand’s p u re ......... 534
Sea  F oam ..................534
C hurch’s 
..................534
Cap  Sheaf..................53a.
Taylor’s  G. M ...........534
2  25
.................... 
60 Pocket, F  F   D airy
2  20
...................  
28 P o ck et.....................
_____ P ____| | ____ | ........... ....................  
2 45
100 3 ft  pockets
I  00
Saginaw  o r  M anistee.............................  
160
Diamond  C................................................  
Standard  Coarse......................................  
1  »5
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bag s......... 
80
2  80
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. b ag s—  
80
H iggins’ English dairy bu.  b ag s......... 
Am erican, dairy, 34 bu. b ag s................ 
25
Rock, b ushels..... ...................................... 
28
P arisian, 34  p in ts....................................   @2  00
P ep p er Sauce, red  sm all.....................   @  75
P ep p er Sauce, g r e e n ..............................  @  90
P ep p er Sauce, red  large rin g ..............  @1  35
P ep p er Sauce, green, large rin g .........  @1  70

SAUCES.

2c. less in fo u r b u tt lots.
40 Conqueror

SMOKING

.......23
.......32
Grayling
.......30
Seal S kin__
.......26
Rob R oy.......
Uncle  Sam ..................28
L u m b e rm an .............. 25
Railroad Boy.............. 38
....40 Home C om fort......... 25

Old T a r................  
A rth u r’s  Choice....... 22f
Red F o x .......................26
F lirt.......................... 28
Gold  D ust....................26
Gold  B lock..................30
Seal of G rand Rapids
Tram w ay, 3  oz..
Ruby, cu t Cavendish 35 Old R ip......................
Boss  ..................... ....15 Seal of N orth Caro-
.48
Lina, 2  oz...............
P eck’s S un.......... ....18
Miners and Puddlers.28 Seal of N orth  Caro-
lina, 4oz................. .46
M orning  Dew__ ....25
Seal of N orth  Caro-
C hain.....................
lina, 8oz................. .41
Peerless  .............. ....24
.22 Seal of N orth  Caro-
S tan d ard ............
lina, 16oz boxes... .40
Old Tom ..............
....2 1
Tom &  Je rry ....... ....24 Big D eal..................... .27
A p p le ja c k ................ .24
Jo k e r...................
....35 King Bee, longcut..
T ra v e le r............
....25 M ilwaukee  P riz e ... .24
M aiden................
....40 R a ttle r...................... .28
Pickw ick  Club..
.25
Nigger  H ead__ ....26 W indsor cu t p lu g ..
.16
....22 Zero  ........................
H o llan d ..............
.16
....16 Holland Mixed.......
G erm an ..............
....30
Solid C om fort...
.25
....32 Mail  P o u ch ............
Red Clover.........
.30
Long Tom ........... __ 30|Knights of L ai o r ..
.27
N a tio n a l............ __ 26! F ree Cob P ip e .........
T im e ................... __ 261
G lobe................... __ 211 H iaw ath a...........:..
Mule E a r............ .......23| Old Congress...........
L orillard’s A m erican G entlem en.......   @
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Gail & A x’ 
@  44
®  35
Railroad  Mills  Scotch............................  @  45
Lotzbeck  ..................................................  @1  30
Elastic, 64 packages, p er  b o x .....................  5  35
P u re  Cider...........8@12 W hite W ine...........  8@12
95 
Bath Brick im p o rted . 
90 
A m erican.
©3 
B arley............................
1  00 
B urners, No. 1 ............
1  50 
No.  2............
8  00
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.
Cream T artar 5 and 10 ft can s..............  15@25
Candles, S tar.............................................  @1334
Candles,  H otel..........................................  @14
E x tract Coffee, V.  C...............................   @80
Gum, Rubber  100 lum ps........................   @30
Gum, R ubber 200 lum ps.........................  @40
Gum, Spruce.............................................   30@35
Hominy, $   b b l.........................................   @4  00
Jelly, in 30  ft  p ails..................................   @434
Peas, G reen B ush....................................   @135
Peas, Split prep ared...............................  @  334
Pow der, K eg.............................................  @3 00
Powder,  34 K eg........................................  @1  75

M aecoboy.............................  
............................ 
R appee..................................  

F e lix ............................ 

M ISCELLANEOUS.

VIN EGA R.

STA RCH.

SHORTS.

SN U FF.

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F. J . D ettenthaler quotes as follow s: 

OYSTERS.

 

 

F. J. D. Selects....................................................... 35
Standards  ............................................................. 25
FRESH  FISH.
M ackinaw T ro u t........................  
6
W hiteflsh  .............................................................  6
Black B ass...........................................................   8
Cod  ........................................................................13
Sun  F ish ..............................................................   5
Rock B ass............................................................   5
P e r c h ...................................................................   4
D uck Bill P ik e ....................................................  5
Wall-eyed  P ik e ..................................................   6
Smoked W hite F ish ............................................10
Smoked T ro u t...................................................... 10
Smoked S turgeon...................  
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834@9
9@ 934

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

P utnam  & Brooks quote as fo llo w s:
STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes................................ 
.................................. 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
MIXED
Royal, 25 ft  p ails........................................  9@  934
Royal, 200 ft bbls.....................‘...................   @834
E xtra, 25 ft  pails.........................................10@1034
E xtra, 200 ft bbls.........; . ............................9  @  934
French Cream, 25 ft p ails...................... 1234@I3
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases.............. ......................1334©
B roken,25  ft  p ails..................................... 10® ¡034
Broken, 200 ft  bbls.............................................  9@ 9!*
Lemon  D rops...............................................12@13
Sour D rops....................................................13@14
P epperm int  D rops.....................................14@15
Chocolate  D rops.................................................15
H  M Chocolate  D rops...................                    .20
Gum  Drops  ........................................................10
Licorice D rops.................................. 1! .20
A B  Licorice  D rops..............................!!!!!! .12
Lozenges, p lain ...................................... '... '. '.io
Lozenges,  p rin te d ................................... ..*!!!16
Im p e ria ls........................................................  !!l5
M o tto es.............................................................1 5
Cream  B ar.................................................... 13@14
Molasses B a r........................................................13
Caram els........................................................18@20
H and Made Cream s............................................20
Plain  Cream s........................................................ . .17
D ecorated  Cream s.....................................!.! .20
String R ock.................................................. 14@15
B u rn t A lm onds...................... 
22
W intergreen  B erries.......... .............................15
Lozenges, plain  in  pails........................  @1234
Lozenges, plain in  bbls..........................11  @1134
Lozenges, printed in pails.. .................   @1234
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..................... 1134@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails....................... 1234@13
Gum  Drops  in pails.................................. 7  @734
Gum Drops, in bbls...................
...............   6©  634
Moss Drops, in  pails................
............10  @1034
Moss Drops, in b bls...................
......................   9
Sour Drops, in  p ails.................
...................... 12
Im perials, in  pails.....................
............1234@13
Im perials  in  bbls......................
..........   11  ©12
FRUITS.
Bananas,  A spinw all.......... .
............1  50@2  50
Oranges, Rodi  M essina............
............5 00@5 50
Oranges,  N aples........................
............4  75@5  00
Lemons,  choice..........................
.......... 6 00@  6  50
Lemons, fan cy ............................
00®7  50
.......... 10 @11 
Figs, layers, ^  f t........................
D ates, frails  do  ........................
@  4 
D ates, 34 do  d o ........................
@  6 
Dates, sk in ..................................
@  434
D ates, 34  sk in .............................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box 
f t.......
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 
f t.........
Dates, P ersian 50 ft box p  f t ...
Pine Apples, ^   doz...................
PEANUTS.
Prim e  Red,  raw   fl  f t.............................  4  @434
do  .............................   434@  5
Choice 
do  .............................  @534
Fancy 
Choice W hite, Va.do  .............................  
5@  534
Fancy H P,.  V a  do  .............................   534@  6
Almonds,  F errag o n a. . . . , .....................18
Io aca....................................... 17
B razils....................................................... 9
Filberts, Sicily......................................... 12
Barcelona.................................11
W alnuts,  G renoble................................ 14
M arbo.......................................
’  F ren ch ..................................
C alifornia................................
M issouri..................................

Pecans,  Texas, H. P ...............................10
Cocoanuts, $100..................................... 4  00@4  50

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©1734
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@1234
@12@1434

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The  Grand Rapids  P acking  &  Provision  Co 

P O R K   IN   BA RRELS.

quote  as  follows:
Mess, Chicago  packing........................................ 10 00>
Clear, Chicago packing........................................11 00
E x tra Fam ily Clear................................................11 00
Clear, A. W ebster  p ack er.............................
E x tra  Clear,  h e a v y ........................................
Boston Clear.....................................................
A. W ebster, packer, short  c u t.......................... 10 75
Clear back, short c u t............................................12 50
Standard Clear, th e  b e st..................................... 12 75-
d r y   SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Short Clears, h eavy..................................  
7
m edium ............................... 
7
lig h t...................................... 
7
Long Clear Backs, 500  ft  cases.............. 
734
Short Clear Backs, 500 ft  cases.............. 
744
Long Clear Backs, 300  ft  cases.............. 
7%
Short Clear Backs, 3001b  cases.............. 
73s
Bellies, ex tra quality, 500 ft cases......... 
7
Bellies, ex tra quality, 300 ft cases......... 
734
Bellies, extra quality, 200 ft cases......... 
734
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PL A IN .
Boneless  H am s.................................................. 1034
Boneless Shoulders..........................................6
B reakfast  B acon..............................................   8
D ried Beef, ex tra  quality ...............................  934
Dried Beef, H am  pieces............................
Shoulders cured  in sw eet pickle............
. 
Tierces  .......................................................
30 and 50 ft T u b s.......................................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases......................
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  rack s...................
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  case...............................
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case.................................
10 ft Pails. 6 in a c a s e ...............................
E x tra Mess Beef, w arranted 200 fts.......
Boneless,  e x tra ...........................................
SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.
P ork  Sausage.....................................................   7
15
Ham   Sausage...................................  
Tongue  Sausage.............................................  10
F ra n k fo rt  Sausage...................................  
10
Blood  Sausage....................................................  6
Bologna, stra ig h t..............................................   6
Bologna,  th ic k ....................................................  6
Head  Cheese.......................................................  6
In  half b arre ls..................................................  3  25
In  q u arter b arre ls...............................'...........

LARD IN  TIN   PA IL S .

B E EF IN  BA RRELS.

.10 25 
.13  50

P IG S ’  FEET.

LARD.

6

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.
Apples—New fru it com m ands 40c 

bu. and
$1.50 $  bbl. fo r eating and 25c $  bu.  and  $1 
bbl. fo r cooking.

Beans—Dealers  pay  75c@$l  ^   bu.  fo r  un­

picked and sell city picked fo r $1.25.

B lueberries—A few  sm all lots are com ing in 
from  day to day.  Fancy stock com m ands $2.25 
@$2.50, while soft finds  slow  sale  a t  from   50c 
up j
B lackberries—In  good dem and a t 8@9e.  The 
crop is light, and prices are bound to rule high.
B u tter—Michigan  cream ery  is  in  m oderate 
dem and at 18@20e.  Sweet dairy is in active de­
m and  a t  14@15c,  while  low  grades  are going 
begging a t 8@12c.
C abbages—New sto ck  is in  f a ir  d em and  a t  60 
$  doz.
Cheese—Slightly firm er,  full  cream   readily 
com m anding 734@834o.
Celery—25c $  doz. bunches fo r Kalamazoo or 
Grand H aven.
Clover Seed—In  good dem and,  w ith  lim ited 
supply.  F air to good Medium commands $6.50 
and choice recleaned  $7.  Mammoth is]held at 
ST.50.

14c.

doz.

tra .  Musk, $1 

bbl. or  $1 ^  bu.

in  p rice, fre s h  sto ck  co m m an d in g   12c.

Corn—Green, 8@10c $  doz.
Crabapples—50c $  bu.
Cucum bers—15@20e ^  doz.
E ggs—U nch an g ed  as to   dem and,  b u t  s tiffe r 
Grapes—$1.25 $  1 raw er of about 25  fts.
G reen Onions—25@30c $  doz  bunches.
Honey—Choice new in comb is firm  a t  1334® 
Hay—Bailed, $15@$16 $ to n .
Melons—W ater,  $15@20  $   100,  packages  ex­
Onions—Southern, $3 
Plum s—California*  $1.75  $   case.  D om estic 
Peaches—Michigan early freestone $2.75@3 $  
P ears—California,  $3@$3.50  3P  case.  K en­
Pop Corn—Choice com m ands 4c 
Potatoes—New potatoes  are  so  p lentiful  in 
m ost localities th a t regular quotations are o u t 
of th e question.  Jersey   or  B altim ore  sw eets 
com m and $4.50 $  bbl.
12@13c. 
Spring chickens, 16.

$2.50 $  bu.
bu.
tucky B artlett, o u t of m arket.

P oultry—V ery 
Squash—Sum m er, 134c $  ft.
Tom atoes—P len tifu l a t 5Q@75  bu.
T urnips—40c $  bu.
Tim otny—$2 $  bu.

scarce. 

Fowls, 

ft. 

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

W heat—2c  lower.  The  city  m illers  pay  as 
follow s:  L ancaster,  82;  Fulse,  78c;  Clawson, 
78c.
Corn—Jobbing generally a t 55c in 100 bu. lots 
and 51c in carlots.
Oats—W hite, 35c in small lots and  30c  in  car- 
lots.
Rye—56c $  bu.
B arley—Brew ers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—25c lower.  F ancy P aten t,  $5.75 

bbl. 
in  sacks  and  $6.' in  wood.  S traight,  $4.75  $  
bbl. in sacks and $5 in  wood.
Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  $  ton.  B ran, $13 
38 ton.  Ships, $14 $  ton.  Middlings, $16 $  to n . 
Corn and Oats, $22 $  ton.

GRAND  RAPIDS  FURNITURE.

Rise and  Progress of an  Important Indus- 

try.
N O .  I.

Théo. M. C arpenter in T rade B ureau.

A bustling,  growing Western  city of 50,- 
000 inhabitants,  situated in a beautiful  val­
ley; picturesque  hills covered  with forests, 
and  green  fields  on  either  side;  abroad, 
shallow  river  flowing  through  the  valley 
with a descent of  eighteen  feet to the mile, 
forming the rapids from  which the city  de­
rives its  name;  great  manufactories cover­
ing both  banks of the  river,  and  filling the 
air  in their  immediate  vicinity  with  the 
cheerful hum  of moving  machinery;  taste­
ful  business  block,  built  mostly  of  light 
brick, on  all the principal  streets;  elegant 
residences and broad lawns in all portions of 
the city,  except the business center, evidenc­
ing an unusual .degree of thrift and comfort 
among  all  classes.  These  are  the  distin­
guishing  features  of  the Grand  Rapids  of 
to-day.

Half a century  ago this  fertile  and pros­
perous region of Michigan was a wilderness. 
The  busy city of to-day  was  then a  quiet 
hamlet,  consisting of a  few frame  and log 
houses,  shut in on all  sides by  vast forests, 
where Indians  and  wild  beasts roamed at 
will.  The dozen railroads that now center at 
the  city  were  represented by  wagon trails 
through  the lonely fastnesses.  There  was 
no hint  of the  greatness  of  the town  that 
was to be.

The  growth  of  manufactures  in Grand 
something  marvelous. 
Rapids  has  been 
Small and weak in its  beginnings, the man­
ufacturing industry  has  advanced  steadily 
and with a constantly  growing  ratio of  in­
crease  until  it  has  attained  proportions 
equaled in no other  city  of  like size in  the 
world.  By far the larger  part of this won­
derful growth has occurred within  the past 
twenty years,  and more than half of it with­
in the last decade.  Mammoth factories and 
vast warehouses have arisen  as if by magic, 
and hard-working,  capable mechanics  have 
been  transformed  into  wealthy  manufac­
turers and capitalists.  The history of these 
transformations  reads  almost  like  a  fairy 
tale.

latter  afterwards  went 

who conducted a retail  furniture store, buy­
ing most of their goods  in the Eastern  mar­
kets.  Eagles died in 1854, aud Pullman re­
tired from the business within a few months. 
The 
to  Chica­
go,  and has  since,  as  the  world  knows, 
achieved fame and fortune in  the manufac­
ture and  operation of  sleeping  cars.  Wil­
liam Haldane,  better  known  as  “Deacon 
Haldane',”  was also  engaged in  the manu­
facture  of  furniture  on  a  modest  scale. 
But practically at  that  time  Messrs.  Pow­
ers & Ball  monopolized  the furniture busi­
ness in Grand Rapids.

With the spring of  1854 the puling infan­
cy of  the industri’  came  to  an  end.  The 
child  it was  thought  had  become  strong 
enough to stand  upon its  feet,  and it  pro­
ceeded forthwith  to make  the attempt,  as­
sisted, with great difficulties  and many fail­
ures, by fond and proud parents.  In the early 
part of the  year mentioned E. W. Winches­
ter, of Keene, N. H., came to Grand Rapids, 
and entered  into  co-partnership  with Dea­
con Haldane.  This  alliance  did not  prove 
wholly advantageous to both parties,  and in 
the spring of 1855 the partnership  was dis­
solved, Mr. Haldane continuing the business. 
Soon afterward E.  W.  Winchester  formed 
a partnership with his  brother,  S. A. Win­
chester,  and this firm built  a factory on the 
site where now stands the great  warehouse 
of Messrs.  Nelson,  Matter  & Co.  Deacon 
Haldane, after continuing the business for a 
time,  sold his machinery, good-will and real 
estate to Doras M.  Fox, who  conducted the 
business  until  he was  obliged  to  go into 
bankruptcy,  and in  1860 the  establishment 
was closed up.  Shortly before the failure of 
Mr. Fox,  George Widdicomb began the man­
ufacture of furniture, continuing until 1863, 
or thereabouts, when  he sold  out.  Messrs. 
Turnham &  Buddington  entered  the field 
also about this time, but  were not very suc­
cessful,  and they  also sold  out  their busi­
ness a few years afterward.  The Winches­
ter  Bros,  became  financially embarrassed, 
aud on September 15,  1857, just before the 
great panic of October 1,  1857, 
their estab­
lishment  passed  into  the hands  of C.  C. 
Comstock,  who was  then  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of lumber,  sash,  doors,  etc., 
employing about eighty  men.

Foremost among the  industries  of Grand 
Rapids stands the manufacture of household 
furniture.  The growth of this great  indus­
try has been  more  marvelous  than  that of 
all others.  To  trace this  growth  from  its 
infancy through the various stages of its de­
velopment to  the  point  of  its  present at­
tainment shall be the province of the writer 
in the present and  subsequent  articles. 
In 
the prosecution of this  work,  under  neces­
sarily restricted conditions, and within com­
paratively  narrow  limits,  many  facts  of 
minor  importance  will  undoubtedly  be 
omitted.  . Yet the aim will be  to make  the 
narrative as complete in outline as possible, 
and to supply  all details  that are  essential 
to a thorough understanding  of the subject.
So far as can  be learned  at  the present 
day,  the  first  furniture  manufactured  in 
Grand Rapids was made by Wm.  T. Powers, 
who is still living in this  city, hale  and en­
terprising at the age  of sixty-five,  and who 
has been  for nearly  forty  years  identified 
with the interests of the Y alley  City, being 
one of the largest owners of  manufacturing 
property.  Mr. Powers came to Grand Rap­
ids in June,  1847,  and during the same year 
engaged in the manufacture  of furniture  in 
an old building known as the “Owl’s Nest,” 
on the river bank, at the  east end of Bridge 
street  bridge.  Mr.  Powers’ manufacturing 
operations were  conducted on a very modest 
scale, his entire working force consisting  of 
one man, not including  the proprietor, him­
self a skilled  cabinet  maker  (as  skill  was 
accounted  in  those days).  Grand  Rapids 
and the region round  about was then rapid­
ly filling  up with pioneers,  and  these  pio­
neers needed furniture of some sort for their 
rude houses.  Mr. Powers, with  his factory 
operated by  one-man power,  produced  the 
kind of furniture required by his patrons, as 
is evidenced by the fact that his business pros­
pered and  grew so rapidly  that  the resour­
ces of his establishment were soon taxed se­
verely.  Being  unable to  manufacture  ev- ; 
erything required, he soon began  to bring a 
part of his goods from the East.  After two 
years’ 
successful  business  Mr.  Powers 
found it desirable to take hi  a  partner, and 
E.  M. Ball became associated  with him un­
der the firm name  of  Powers & Ball.  The 
business continued to  prosper and increase, 
and  more men were gradually  added to the 
working  force  of  their  factory. 
In 1851, 
Messrs.  Powers & Ball decided  to manufac­
ture their  own lumber,  and  they  therefore 
erected  an  up-right  saw-mill.  Near this, 
soon afterwards,  they built  a cabinet shop, 
which at  that time  was  considered a large 
establishment,  giving employment at first to 
twenty-five  and  afterwards  to  about forty 
men.  They opened  a  salesroom on  Pearl 
street,  and did  a  lucrative  business,  each 
member  of the  firm laying  the foundation 
for a handsome  fortune.  The  partnership 
continued until 1855, when it was dissolved, 
Mr.  Ball retiring.  Mr.  Powers  continued 
in the furniture  business  until  18(51,  when 
he closed it out and devoted  himself  to the 
lumbering business and to other enterprises. 
Mr.  Powers  erected the  first  circular saw­
mill  in  the State. 
It  was at  that  time  a 
great  curiosity,  attracting  visitors  from a 
distance of many  miles,  who could  believe 
the remarkable  stories  told  of it  achieve­
ments only  after personal inspection.

In 1853 the  city of  Grand  Rapids  had  a 
population  of about  3,000,  and the  region 
surrounding it was very sparsely populated. 
Besides  the firm  of  Powers  &  Ball there 
were two or three other firms engaged in the 
furniture business in a small  way.  One  of 
these was  the firm  of  Eagles  &  Pullman,

A Narrow Escape.

“Keep a sharp lookout while on the run?” 
echoed an  engineer. 
‘Should  say  we  did. 
The man that tries to nui an enjine without 
Keeping his eyes peeled gets  left  sooner  or 
later. 
I’ve  heard  about  fellows  out  West 
that would start out on a run  with  a  board 
reaching across from the driver’s seat to the 
fireman’s, and a deck of  cards,  but  I  never 
tried that.  Just to show you how necessary 
it is for  a man to keep his eye  on  the  rails 
ahead of him,  let me tell  you  a little story. 
I was running  along  one night  in Southern 
Michigan some  years ago. 
It was a blowy, 
rainy, nasty night,  and in times like  that  a 
man is doubly watchful.  For hours I never 
took my eyes from the wet,  glistening  rails 
ahead  of  me,  except,  of  course,  when  we 
stopped at stations.

“ All at once I saw  in  front  of  me—how 
far ahead I couldn’t tell—a glimmer of light. 
I barely saw it  before 
It was just a spark. 
it disappeared.  Was it a lightning bug? 
I 
hadn’t seen any  that  night.  What was it? 
That I couldn’t  answer.  But  my instinct 
told me to stop the  train,  and  stop it I did. 
It was mighty lucky I looked at it that way, 
for that glimmer of light was  caused in  the 
oddest way  you  ever  saw.  You  couldn’t 
guess it in a week.

“A farmer was walking  along  the track, 
when he discovered a short bridge  so badly 
washed out by the  freshet  that to run upon 
it with a train meant a wreck.  He  tried to 
start a fire with paper and his clothing,  but 
couldn’t do it.  He had one match left.  He 
kept that until I got  close  to him,  his plan 
being to strike the match,  hold it in his hat, 
and wave it across the track as he had  seen 
the brakemen do when they wanted to signal 
stop. 
It was his hope that I would see  the 
blaze before it was blown out.  He no soon­
er struck the match than out went the blaze. 
It was merely a  flash, but  I saw  it and the 
farmer  had  saved  the  train.  What  if  I 
hadn’t made it a rule to keep  my  eyes peel­
ed along the rails  every  minute  while run­
ning?”

Notable Journalistic Success.

From  the Ovid Union.

One of the most  notable  journalistic suc­
cesses of  a weekly  newspaper in Michigan 
within the past  two years,  is that of  T h e  
M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n ,  published by E. A. 
Stowe & Bro.,  Grand Rapids.  The country 
has been flooded with worthless  advertising 
sheets for years,  aiming to  cover this  very 
field, but it was left  for the  Stow Brothers 
to make a  paper that will  circulate  among 
commercial  and  business  men,  and  they 
have done it, and are making money, and so 
is the careful  reader  and  judicious  adver­
tiser who peruses the paper.

Employer and Employed.

From  th e Chicago  C urrent.

The grocers,  butchers  and  small  traders 
in many cities keep records of various kinds, 
in which they enter the moral  and financial 
standing of the  people  in  their  region. 
It 
thus  often  happens  that  a  wage-worker’s 
name will be marked  in  terms  which  will 
lead  the  dealers  to  press  credit  on  him at 
every turn,  while his reputably-rich employ­
er will  be  printed  or  written  down  as  a 
good man to sell goods to for cash.  It is bet­
ter  to be such  a  poor man than such a rich 
man.

The pruning-hook of the Scriptures was a 
heavy tool and cut by  a blow like  a  bill  or 
machete.

Ibarbware.

Faults of Boiler Tubes.

Leakage at  the tubes  ends  is one of  the 
most frequent and annoying defects to which 
the ordinary horizontal and  upright tubular 
boilers are subject,  and while it is not neces­
sarily, on its first appearance, dangerous,  it 
indicates that something  is wrong,  either in 
the  construction  or  management  of  the 
boiler, and it should be attended  to at once, 
for if neglected,  the resulting  corrosion  of 
the head and tube ends will  speedily induce 
a dangerous condition.  Many explosions of 
upright tubular boilers have  resulted solely 
from this cause,

Faults  of  construction  may  consist  of 
insufficient  rolling  or too severe  rolling  or 
expanding of the tubes;  by which  the ends 
may be split,  or cracked,  so that it is impos­
sible to- keep them tight.  The second defect 
is, perhaps, more  frequent  than  the  first. 
The feed-pipe is also very frequently wrong­
ly located in the head close to the tubes, and 
when it is,  and cold feed-water  is used,  the 
tubes in the  immediate vicinity  are  almost 
sure to show a chronic leak.

A heavy  coating of  scale  on  the  heads 
between the tubes is  sure to  set them leak­
ing severely,  as the water  is thus kept away 
from the head and  tube-ends,  and  they be­
come  overheated. 
In  this  case  the  only 
thing that will do any  permanent good is to 
remove the  cause,  that is  the  scale,  when 
generally  if the  defect has  not  existed for 
too long a time,  the tubes may be rolled and 
made  tight  again.  But  a  comparatively 
short time of severe  leakage in tliis case  is 
pretty sure to so  severely  corrode  the ends 
that new tubes are required.

This collection  of scale  is also  a fruitful 
source of burning and  cracking of the back 
tube-sheet.  The front end  of  the boiler  is 
not so much  subject to  this  action,  as the 
heat  to  which  it is  subject  is not  so  in­
tense. 

The, removal of  a heavy  coating  of  in­
crustation from between the tubes  of a boil­
er is sometimes a  matter  of some  difficulty 
unless due intelligence is used.  With “stag­
gered” tubes, very bad water,  and where the 
boiler is worked hard, the case is much com­
plicated,  and the  almost  sole  reliance is  a 
judicious  use  of  solvents,  coupled  with 
proper cleaning,  as often  as the  boiler  can 
be spared for  the  purpose.  With  properly 
arranged tubes, much  help can  be obtained 
by  the use  of proper  chisels and  scraping 
tools.  Still no  rule  of  procedure  can  be 
given that will apply  to all  cases.  A thor­
ough  examination of  each case, 
is always 
necessary to  determine the best  method  of 
procedure, and it is always  easier to keep  a 
boiler clean, than it is  to clean it after it  is 
badly fouled.

Rusticating at Rice Lake.

A party of sportsmen  consisting  of  John 
B.  Read  (Broadfoot,  the  Guide),  O.  N. 
Watson  (Nobinway),  Tom  Belknap  (Suc­
cotash),  and  Mr. Pearl (Gray Bird)  left the 
city last Saturday for a ten day encampment 
at  Rice  Lake,  Newaygo  county.  Among 
the  articles  taken  along  for  every day use 
were the following:

Five boats.
Five shotguns.
Five revolvers.
Five bowie knives.
Five fish poles.
Five q u a rt flasks  (tilled).
One ju g  (also filled).
One case (quarts).
One dem ijohn (extra  fine).
One ten t, 10x12.
One thousand shells.
One hundred pounds pork.
One bushel beans.
One barrel crackers.
One bag salt.
Fanners living in the vicinity of Rice Lake 
would do well, to keep close  watch  of  their 
corn  fields  and  melon  patches  during the 
boys’ stay.  They would also do well to lock 
up their daughters and chickens.

Saws of the bronze age have  been  found 
in Germany and Denmark.  They are  cast, 
and the teeth were evidently cut by chipping 
and grinding.

A Pittsburg paper says:  “A map of Pitts­
burg under ground a year  or two hence will 
look like a picture of a course  wire screen.” 
All the natural  gas under  and around  the 
city is likely to  be developed.

The  Perkins  Wind  Mill  &  Ax  Co.,  of 
Mishawaka,  Ind., whose advertisement  ap­
pears for the first  time  on  another  page  of 
this issue, makes a specialty of  sixteen and 
eighteen foot gear mills, for  grinding  feed, 
shelling  corn  and  performing  other  light 
farm work.  This branch of  the  wind  mill 
business  has  been  prosecuted  for  about  a 
year past,  with most excellent success, both 
as regards the  large  number  of  sales  and 
the  universal  satisfaction  of  purchasers. 
Those is need of gear  mills  would  do  well 
to send to the above establishment for prices.
The Russian stove  is made  of fire-resist­
ing porcelain,  is always  ornamental,  and  is 
frequently a  highly  artistic,  handsome  ar­
ticle of furniture. 
Internally  it  is  divided 
by thick fire-clay walls into  several upright 
chambers  of flues,  usually  six in number. 
Some dry firewood  is lighted in  a  suitable 
fireplace, and  is supplied  with  only  suffi­
cient air to effect  combustion,  all  of which 
enters below  and passes  through  the  flue. 
The productions  of combustion,  being thus 
undiluted  with  unnecessary  coal  air,  are 
very highly  heated,  and  in  this state  pass 
up and down through the different compart­
ments.  At  the  end  of  this  long’  journey 
they have  given up  most of  their  heat  to 
the twenty-four  heat-absorbing  surfaces of 
fire-clay  walls.  Then  all  communication 
with the  chimaey is cut  off,  the  fire is put 
out, having done its  work,  and  the interior 
of the stove has bottled  up its caloric ready 
for emission  into  the  room,  and,  passing 
through  the  non-conducting  walls  of  the 
stove,  is radiated into the apartments.

How Nuts and Bolts are Made.
From  the Stove and H ardw are Reporter.

Very few people  outside of those directly 
engaged in the  business  have  any  idea  of 
the quantity and  value  of  nuts  and  bolts 
manufactured  throughout  the  West.  The 
nuts and bolts  are  largely  used  in  several 
leading industries,  and  vast  quantities  are 
shipped from  the  factories  to  the  smaller 
trade centers.  Vehicles,  railroad and street 
cars, bridge machinery and  fanning  imple­
ments use many tons.  The  bolts  are  first 
forged and  fashioned  by  strong  men,  and 
then passed to the pointing machines.  The 
* ‘pointer” sits in front of  his  machine  and 
governs its action by a pedal.  With the left 
hand a bolt is placed  in  a  socket,  so  con­
structed as to  hold  it  firmly  whatever  its 
size  or  length.  .Pressure  upon  the  pedal 
forces  the  sharp  steel  knives  against  the 
bolt and instantly a  rounded  point  is  cut. 
The bolt is then allowed to drop out  of  the 
machine down a slide into an iron  pan  and 
another is substituted.  After being pointed 
the bolts are  taken  to  the  “cutters,”  who 
work  at  much  larger  machines  than  the 
pointers.  Two bolts are  cut at once,  and  a 
pump supplies  a  constant  dripping  of  oil 
upon them,  in order to  keep the  bolts  and 
dies from breaking or  wearing.  The  bolts 
are placed in the center of  the  sink, which 
is kept full of oil to supply the pump.  The 
cutter sits or  stands  directly  in  front,  and 
regulates the machine by  hand.  A  bolt  is 
placed in the socket and given a shove  into 
the dies.  While  the  thread  is  being  cut, 
another  bolt is  placed  in  position  for  the 
other set of dies,  and when the thread is cut 
the dies open  and  the  cutter  removes  the 
bolt.  After cutting the  bolts are washed in 
a boiling solution of soda to remove  the  oil 
and make  them  clean  for the  nut-tapping 
and for packing.

The nut-tapping machines have from four 
to six pulleys and the same number of  ped­
als and sinks filled with oil.  The  taps  are 
of steel and sharped so  as to leave a perfect 
thread after cutting through  the  nut.  The 
worker at the machine puts his foot upon  a 
pedal  and  the  tap  rises.  He  then, lays  a 
nut  directly  beneath  the  tap  on  a  plate. 
Removing  his  foot  the  tap  descends,  and 
while it is forcing its way through the oper­
ation is repeated with the next tapper.

When  a tap  becomes  full  the  “tapper” 
steps upon the  pedal,  stops  the  motion  of 
the full tap,  loosens it by means of a thumb­
screw,  dumps its contents on  the  slide  be­
hind,  replaces the top and repeats the  oper­
ation.  The nuts are then washed and taken 
to another room where young persons  from 
eight to ten years  old, called “nutters  on,” 
by the aid of small machines screw the nuts 
up on to the bolts.  Bolts that are too  long 
to work on the nutting machines  are  given 
to another set of workers who  finish  them.

,

The Good  Time Coming.

New Y ork Correspondence D etroit Free Press.
The  belief that a general revival of  trade 
is near at hand  grows  wider  and  stronger. 
Even the  chronic  croakers  begin  to  admit 
that doomsday is postponed a  while longer. 
All kinds of business men  talk  more cheer­
fully than they did  a  month  ago, and some 
are so sanguine that they almost become ex­
travagant in picturing the prosperity of  the 
near future.  These will  probably be disap­
pointed,  but there  certainly is reason to ex­
pect a marked change  for  the  better  in the 
next  six  months.  One  good  sign  is the 
steady decrease  in  failures,  as  reported by 
the  commercial  agencies.  As  compared 
with last year,  the  improvement  in this re­
spect is very great.  Another in seen in the 
bank statements,  which  show  much  more 
activity in the movemonts of money.  Many 
down town bank men say the indications in 
this  line  show  more  promise  than  they 
could have hoped  for  a  few  months  ago. 
All  the  leading  wholesale  houses  report 
favorably on the  general  outlook,  especial­
ly in the West and South,  and  some  are  as 
busy as they were in the most active  times. 
Those with extensive Southern  connections 
make the best reports of  all,  and  Southern 
men—merchants  and  others—visiting  here 
corroborate what they say about better feel­
ing and  brighter  prospects  in  all parts of 
this important section.  Pennsylvania sends 
highly encouraging accounts  as  to the  iron 
interests,  and good reports  also come  from 
manufacturing  towns  in New England and 
elsewhere.  The drift of  all  the indications 
is, that the business energies of the country 
are  again  coming  into  active  play,  with 
strong assurances  that  the  revival  will  go 
on.  Whether it will result in another boom 
or not would be hard to tell,  but it might be 
quite as well  if  it  did  not.  Booms  are all 
right while they last,  but when the  exhilar­
ation is  over  there  is  generally  a  state of 
things not exactly happy.

There is evidence that  wedges were  used 
in preparing the stones for the pyramids  of 
Egypt,  and there is no  reason to doubt  that 
they  were  used  several  thousand  years 
earlier.  Of course the Greeks claimed its in­
vention,  but they were greater liars than in­
ventors.

One of the Bessemer  steel  companies  in 
Pennsylvania  has hit  upon  a  novel  and a 
very good form of  inducement to their  em­
ployes  to remain  continuously  in  service 
without going on a strike.  After they have 
been employed for a year they increase their 
regular pay one per  cent.,  and  one-half  of 
one per  cent,  every  six months  thereafter, 
up  to  five  years’  service.  The  increase, 
however,  is too  slight to  be a very  strong 
inducement.  Besides,  the  rates  of  wages 
can be reduced by the company at any time. 
In  adjusting  rates of  wages  the  company 
will probably  take  into  account  the  extra 
per centages they have agreed to pay.

RO OFING  PLATÜ8.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  T erne..................  5  £0
IX , 14x20, choice Charcoal  T ern e..............  7  00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal T ern e................. 11 00
IX , 20x28, choice Charcoal  T ern e..............  14  00

RO PES.
Sisal, H In. and  larg er..........
M anilla......................................
SQUARES.

7%
14

SH EET IR O N .

Steel and Iro n .......... ...............................dis  60&10
Try and Bevels........................................ dis  60&10
20
M itre  ........................................................dis 
Com. Smooth.  Com.
*3 OO
3 00
3 00
3 00
3 10
3 20
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 ....................................  4  20 
Nos .25 to  26 ....................................   4  40 
No. 27 ................................................   4  60 
wide not less th an  2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In  casks of 600 fts, $   ft>.............................  
In  sm aller quansities, $   f t......................  
No. 1,  Refined............................................. 
M arket  H alf-and-half.............................  
Strictly  H alf-and-half.............................  

5H
6

13  00
15  00
16

TIN N E R ’S SOLDER.

T IN   PLA TES.

Cards fo r  Charcoals, *6  75.
10x14, Charcoal................................  6  00
IC, 
10xl4,Charcoal................................  7  50
IX , 
12x12, Charcoal....................................   6 50
IC, 
12x12,  C h a rco al................................   8 50
IX , 
14x20,Charcoal.................. 
IC, 
6  00
IX , 
14x20,  Charcoal.................................  7  50
IX X , 
14x20, Charcoal................................  9  00
IX X X ,  14x20, Charcool.................................  11  00
IX X X X , 14x20,  Charcoal..............................   13 00
20x28, Charcoal..................................   16  00
IX , 
DC, 
100 P late C harcoal.............................   6  50
100 Plate Charcoal.............................   8  50
DX, 
DXX,  100 P late Charcoal.............................   10  50
DXXX,  100 P late Charcoal...........................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  P late add 1  50  to  6  75

 

rates.

TRAPS.

Steel,  G am e.........................................................
Onoida C om m untity,  Newhouse’s ............dis  35
Oneida Com m unity, Hawley & N orton’s. .60&10
H otchkiss’  ...................................................... 60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Oo.’s ....................................60&10
Mouse,  choker......................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................. *1  26 §  doz

WIRE.

B right  M arket......................................  dis  60&10
A nnealed M arket....................................dis 
70
Coppered M arket.................................... dis  55&10
E x tra Bailing...............................................  dis  55
Tinned  M arket...............................................dis  40
Tinned  Broom ............................................^  ft  09
Tinned M attress.............................................. ft  8%
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................dis  40@40&10
Tinned Spring Steel...................................dis 37 %
P lain Fence.................................................$  ft  8%
Barbed  F ence.....................................................
Copper................................................. new  list n et
B rass.................................................... new  list n et
B right......................................................... dis  70&10
Screw Eyes................................................ dis  70&10
Hook’s ......................................... •........ dis  70&10
Gate Hooks and  E yes............................dis  70&10

WIRE OOODS.

W rEN CH ES.

 

B axter’s A djustable,  nickeled...............
dis  50&10
Coe’s G enuine.................  
65
Coe’s P a te n t A gricultural, w rought, dis 
Coe’s P aten t,  m alleable.........................dis 
70
Pum ps,  C istern........................................dis 
70
85
Screws, new  list.......................................... 
Casters, Bed  and  P la te ............................ di850&10
Dam pers, A m erican..................................  
33%

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Six Brains a Years.

The  novel  computation  has  been made 
by a  German  histologist  that  the  human 
brain is composed of  no less  than 300,000,- 
000 nerve  cells, each an  independent body, 
organism,  and  microscopic  brain so  far as 
concerns its vital  relations.  As each nerve 
cell is  estimated to  live about  sixty  days, 
5,000,000 must die  every day,  about 200,000 
every hour,  and nearly  3,500 every  minute. 
The  dying  cells are  replaced  by  an  equal 
number of their progeny,  and once  in every 
sixty days a man’s brain is entirely renewed.

fosterT
STEVENS 
&  CO.,
10 a t 10 inns si,
Jobbers of
Hardware!

¥ E   SOLICIT 

THE

Dealers’

*2  40

TRADE 
AND  NOT 

THE

Consumers’
FOSTER, 
STEVENS 
&  CO.,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Prevailing  rates  a t  Chicago  are  as  follows: 

AUGERS AND B ITS.

60
Ives’, old  sty le.. .•.......................................dis 
60
N. H. C. Co...................................................dis 
Douglass’ .................................................... dis 
60
Pierces’ ........................................................dis 
60
60
Snell’s ........................................................... dis 
C ork’s  ..........................................................dis40&10
Jennings’,  gen u in e...................•.............. dis 
25
Jennings’,  im itation..................................dis40&10
Spring..........................................................dis 
25
R a ilro a d ........................................................$  13  00
G arden......................................... .............. n et 33 00

BA’LANCES.

BARROW S.

BE LLS.

H a n d ...................................I.............. ...d is  $  60&10
60
C ow .......................................................... dis 
15
Call............................................................dis 
G o n g .................   .................................... dis 
20
Door, S argent.........................................dis 
' 55

BOLTS.

Stove........................................................ dis  $ 
40
75
Carriage  new   list................................. dis 
Plow  .........................................................dis  30&1C
75
Sleigh Shoe............................................. dis 
50
Cast B arrel  B olts..................................dis 
W rought B arrel B olts......................... dis 
55
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs....................dis 
50
Cast Square Spring.............................. dis 
55
Cast  Chain..............................................¿is 
6q
W rought B arrel, brass  k n o b .............dis 
55&10
W rought S q u a re ...................................dis 
55&10
W rought Sunk F lush...........................dis 
30
W rought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
P lu sh ......................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  D oor...............................................dis 
50&10

BRACES.

B a rb e r.....................................................d is*  
B ackus........................ ............................dis 
Spofford...................................................dis 
Am. Ball.................................................. dis 

40
50
50
n et

Well, p la in .................................................... $  4  00
Well, sw ivel.................................................... 
4  50

BUCKETS.

BUTTS,  CAST.

Cast Loose P in, figured.......................dis 
60&10
Cast Loose P in, Berlin bronzed.........dis  60&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis  60&10 
W rought N arrow , bright fast  jo in t, .dis  50&10
W rounht Loose  P in ........'.....................dis'
60 
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip .............dis
60&  5 
W roughtLoose Pin, jap an n ed .............dis
60&  5
tip p e d ....................*. T............. . __ dis
60&  5
W rought Table................................. __ dis
60
W rought Inside  Blind................... __ dis
60
W rought B rass................................. __ dis
65&10
Blind. Clark’s ...................................
.. ..dis 70&10
Blind, P ark er’s ................................. __ dis
70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s ............................. __ dis
70

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10...........................................
Hick’s C. F ........................................
Gr. D ....................................................
M usket...............................................
*

CA TRIDG ES. 

R.m  Fire, U. M.C. & W inchester new list
Rim Fire, U nited  S tates................ .........dis
Central F ire ...................................... .........dis

•  C H ISELS.

Socket F irm er.................................. __ dis
Socket F ram ing............................... __ dis
Socket C orner................................... __ dis
Socket Slicks.................................... __ dis
B utchers’ Tanged  F irm er............ __ dis
B arton’s Socket  F irm ers..............
__ dis
Cold...................... ............................
__ net
Curry, Law rence’s .......................... __ dis
H otchkiss  ........................................ __ dis
Brass,  B acking’s ...............................
Bibb’s ................................................
B e e r....................................................
Fenns’..................................................

COMBS.

60
35
60

60
60
40

75
75
75
75
40
20

40
25

50
50
40&10
60

CO PPER .

D R IL LS

ELBOW S.

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

Planished, 14 oz cu t to size............ ........... ¡ « f t   30
..  36
M orse’s B it  Stock............................ ...d is
35
T aper and Straight S hank.............. ...d is
20
Morse’s T aper  So5nk...................... .. .dis
30
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................. doz nel *.85
C orrugated........................................
... dis 20&10
A d ju stab le......................................... ...d is %&10
Clar’s, small, *18  00;  large, *26  00.
20
dis
dis
Ives’, 1, *18  00;  2, *24 00 ;  3, *30  00.
25
A m erican File A ssociation  L ist.........dis
60 
D isston’s ...................................................dis
60 
New  A m erican.............................. 
dis
60 
Nicholson’s ............................................... dis
60 
H eller’s .................................................... dis
30 
33 %
H eller’8 H orse R asps............................ dis
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
18
L ist 

GA LVANIZED IR O N ,
14 

22 and  24,  25 and 26, 

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

D iscount, Ju n ia ta  45@10, Charcoal 50@10. 

P IL E S .

27
15

12 

 

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .................dis 

50

13 
GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

HOES.

H IN G ES.

HANGERS.

HOLLOW   W ARE.

20
Maydole & Co.’s .........................................dis 
K ip’s ......................................................... dis 
25
40
Y erkes &  Plum b’s ....................................dis 
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel............................30 c list 40
Blacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel, H and. .30 c 40&10 
B arn Door K idder Mfg. Co., Wood tra c k  dis  50
Champion, anti-friction......................... dis 
60
Kidder, wood  tr a c k ............................... dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3..................................dis 
60
S tate.............................................. per doz, n et, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
3%
and  longer...................................  ...........
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ................... net
10%
Screw Hook and Eye %...................... net
Screw Hook and Eye  %....................... net
Screw Hook and Eye,  %......................n et
7/4
60&10
Strap and  T ..............................................dis
Stam ped Tin W are......................................  60&10
Japanned  Tin  W are...................................  20&10
G ranite  Iron  W are....................................  
25
G rub  1..................................................*11  00, dis 40
G rub  2............ '....................................  11  50, dis 40
G rub 3....................................................  12  00, dis 40
Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings__ *2  70, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings..  3 50, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
m ings........................................list,10  15, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, trim m ings  list,1155, dis
D raw er and  Shutter,  porcelain......... dis
P icture, H. L. Ju d d  &  Co.’s ....................d
H e m a c ite .................................................dis
66%
Russell & Irw in Mfg. Co.’s new lis t.. .dis
66%
Mallory, W heel n r  &  Co.’s ....................... dis
66%
B ranford’s ...................................................dis
66%
Norwalk’s .......................................... 
dis
Stanley R ule and Level Co.’s .................... dis  65
Coffee,  P arkers  Co.’s ......................................... dis 40&10
Coffee, P. S.&W .Mfg. Co.’sM alleables dis  40&10
Coffee, Landers, F erry & Clark’s ......... dis  40&10
Coffee,  E n terp rise.......................................dis  25
Adze  E ye....................................... *16  00dis40&10
H unt  E ye.......................................*15 00dis40&10
H u n t’s ........................................... *18  50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.  '

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

N A ILS.

Common, B ra  and Fencing.

 

keg 
lOd to  60d..................................... 
8d and 9 d  adv..................................................
6d an d 7 d   adv.................................... .............. 
50
4d and 5d  adv..................................................  
75
3d  advance.......................................................   1  50
3d fine  advance.............................................  
3  00
Clinch nails,  ad v ................■............................   175
Finishing 
4d
I  lOd 
Size—inches  J  3 
1)4
Adv. $  keg 
*1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
MOLLASSES GATES.

8d 
2% 

6d 
2 

MAULS.

O ILER S.

PLA N ES.

Stebbin’s P a tte rn   ........................................ dis  70
Stebbin’s G enuine..........................................dis  70
E nterprise,  self-m easuring........................ dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.....................dis  50
Zinc o r tin, Chase’s P a te n t.......................... dis  55
Zinc, w ith brass bo tto m ................................dis  50
B rasso r  Copper.............................................dis  40
R eaper........................................p er  gross, *12 n et
Olmstead’s ................................................. 
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y ............'................... dis
Sciota B ench...................................................dis
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fan cy ....................... dis
Bench, first q u ality .......................................dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
50
Fry, A cm e.................................... . •••........ dis
Common, polished.................................. ,dis60&10
D ripping.................................................. $   &  6@7
Iro n  and  T inned.................................... dis 
40
Copper R ivets and B u rs......................dis  50&10
“A” Wood’s p a te n t planished, Nos. 24 to  27  10 
“ B” Wood’s p at. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 
9

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

R IV E TS.

PA N S.

15

B roken packs Ho $  ft extra.

O Y S T E R S !

State Agency for W m . L.  Ellis &  Co.’s

LEONARD  8l  SO

BARGAINS  FOR  PROGRESSIVE  MERCHANTS.

BALTIM ORE OYSTERS
On and a fte r Sept. 1st., we will  he  prepared 
to   fill  all  orders fo r this well-known brand of 
Oysters, canned fresh a t the  packing-house in 
Baltim ore.  No  slack-filled  o r  water-soaked 
goods handled.  B. F. E m ery will atten d  to the 
orders  fo r B altim ore shipm ent as usual.  Spec­
ial  E xpress  and  F reig h t  rates  to  all railroad 
tow ns in  Michigan.  W e  have  exclusive  con­
trol Y ork R iver Brand.

COLE  &  EM ERY,

Wholesale Fish ani Oyster Depot,

37  Canal  St.,  Grand  Rapids, M idi.

pii& iT O iC k,

K  

IMPROVED

B a k i n g
p o w d e r

This  Baking  Pow der m akes th e  WHITEST, 
LIGHTEST and m ost  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits. 
Cakes, Bread, etc.  TRY  IT   and be convinced. 
P repared only by th e
Arctic  Manufacturing  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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W ËËSÊS

$17"  PER   O.A.SE.

An assortment of 500 pieces of our GENUINE Patent Fire-Proof  Tin-Ware  to  retail 
at 5  cents each,  leaving you a clean profit of $3 per case,  or over  45  per  cent,  on  the  in­
vestment.  Only  “ every day sellers ”  in  this  assortm ent.  No  dead  stock  to  lay  aside. 
Compare the contents of this case,  and  you  will  find  more  salable  goods,  far  superior  in 
quality and much lower in price than any other assortment of 5  cent goods.

Tln.3   Mystery  Ostse  Contains

24 Coffee or Tea Pots.
24 3-quart Milk Pans.
24  1-quart  Covered Saucepans.
36  10-inch  deep Pie Plates.
12  1-quart Stamped Dippers.
6  8-quart Dish Pans.
36  Pint Cups,  Patent  Handles.

inch Stamped W ash  Bowls.

36  Large  Graters.
36  Mugs,  Patent  Handles.
24 
24  i-quart  High Buckets.
24 3-pint Stamped Stew Pans.
24  i-quart Cups.
24 2-quart Milk Pans.

24  13-inch  Long  Handled  Spoons. 
26  Deep Scolloped  Gem  Plates.
14  1-pint Stamped Dippers.
24 4-cup  Muffin  Pans on  Sheet.
54  g-inch  Dinner  Plates.
12  34-pint Patent Decorated  Cups. 
12  1-pint  Lipped  Measures.
M L   " 7 -

3

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PIBOE33  FOR

Every Piece a Bargain at 5 Cent

A great m any will bring»10 or  15  cents each.

Do not make a mistake, but use your own judgement in this matter and we think you 
will agree with ns that it is folly to pay a higher price for a  case  of inferior  goods,  when 
yon can buy the same number of articles that you can  GUARANTEE  TO  GIVE  SATIS­
FACTION in every respect,  at lower prices.

E L   L E O N A R D   &   S O N S .

AHDREW  W Œ REHG0

Ä »

JACOB  EIN ESTEIN .

The  Old

Man  Finally  Subscribes 
“The  Tradesman.” 
S w a r t z s t e in ,  August 28, ’85.

for

Mr.  Schtow, Editor von  d er Dradesm an.

Dea r  Sir—More  as a goot  many  dimes 
have  seen  your  baper und  haf  found me 
oudt a goot many dings dot would  be  great 
benefitz of I knowed it before,  so inside dese 
letter you may  find  one tollar for wich you 
may sent me one tollar worth D r a d e s m a n .
I vould shust like  to  tole  you  vonce  how 
mooch  drouble  I  haf  mit  dese  drafeling 
mans.  Understood me now,  I don’t say as 
dey vould sheat, but if you don’t vatch  dem 
shust so glose like ter Tuyfel  you  vill  get 
oxacly left sclwore.  Yen I puy me my new 
schtock,  I get it  von L.  H.  Randall & Co., 
vot hadt Messmofe in  mit him und I puy it 
py Dick Werner,  cause of  course he could 
spraken ze  Cherman. 
I get along mit his 
talk all right, uncKL find  me  no  fault  mit 
his shuger but  Bonder und Blitzen  how  he 
schlap  it to me  on tea,  coffee,  spice  und 
tobac;  but  dot haf nodding to  do mit Dick. 
He been a goot feller scliure.

is  atority. 

By und by along come dot Chim Fradfort 
und  he showed me how I  got  slieated  by 
Dick,  so  I puy me  once a bill by him mit 
Arter  Miggs.  Now  here I must tell  you 
somedings.  You see  old  Jake  Schleiber- 
holtz vot keeps grocery  und  saloon  schust 
across  the  road,  he been a Repooblican und 
he  haf got der bost offeece  mit  him  now 
more  ash  ten  years already,  so I tink me 
dese way—dot I  speek  mit  Prad  aboudt  it 
und see vat  he  say. 
So ven Prad he come 
mit mine haus I call  him mit ter back room 
und tole him shust  how  I  vas  skituate,  so 
Chim he schwell up und say  he  can  fix  me 
oudt oxacly right.  He say dot Arter Miggs 
have more  bolitix  enflunce  than  all  the 
Grand  Rapid  grocers put togedder und if I 
will  be strate Democratz und buy mine gro­
ceries von him I shall have the offeece.  Vel,
I say I like blenty well ter offeece*, but don’t 
like  ter  pay  more  as ter goots vas vort for 
to get it;  so he  put  his  hand in his pocket 
und prings out der  D r a d e s m a n   und  say 
dis 
All  right,  I  say,  go 
aheat, und I buy me for  more as  two  hun- 
tred tollar vort groceries;  und he eat dinner 
mit me und his team for wich I don’t take a 
cent,  all on  agount  of  der  bost  offeece. 
Shoost  about a hour after he vas gone mine 
frow she come  in  ter  sclitore  und  pick  up 
der D r a d e s m a n  baper vot he  left  und  she 
say to me, Jake,  did you  bought  groceries 
von dot baper,  und  I  say  yes.  Veil, 
it 
vould do you  goot to see the sclnnile on dot 
voman’s face.  Youoltsuckker, she say, dot 
I  don’t forgot 
baper vas shoost a year olt. 
dot  drick,  but it  makes  nodding oudt. 
I 
I  ask Prad how dey get 
get  der  offeece. 
rid for olt Schleiberholtz  und  he  said dot 
vas  easy  kenuff, cause he vas a  defensive 
partys son. 
I don’t  oxacly  catch  on,  but 
spose Prad knows  der  ropes  alright.  Dis 
vas last Aprile,  und  I  hear  me  nottings 
about  bost  offeece  yet und I get me blenty 
statesments von  Arter  Miggs,  but  you  bet 
he don’t get a cent till I get the bost offeece 
bapers.  Oh, my, vont old Schleiberholtz be 
mad!  De  onder  day  along come  anonder 
Prad  von  Fox  Mooselman,  und make me 
blenty sheap brices. 
I  gif  him  bromise  to 
buy  fon  him, but 1 don’t know dot he vas a 
demberance  lecture.  Last  week  Sharley 
Robinsen  and  Pa  Evans  staid  by me all 
night  and  in  evening to bass dime ve blay 
benny anty.  As I  has  no  shecks  ve  use 
beans und I vas banker.  After a while dey 
get  schleepy  und  I  cash dere beans next 
morning. 
I count me oud the beans und I 
haf  five tollar und twenty cents more beans 
ash I haf money.  So I right avay write  to 
'der N.  Y.  Olipper  to  see  if  dot vas fair 
blay.  Neffer mine; I get even mit dem, 
owe dem both.  Don’t  forgot der tollar und 
don’t forgot der baper.

Yours druly,

J a c o b   E i n e s t e i n .

More Enterprising than the Yankees.
“This  talk:—you  know—all 

talk 
about Yankee enterprise is mostly all  bosh, 
you  know,” he was saying to a man  he had 
picked up at the ferry, if  the  Detroit  Free 
Press man is wholly reliable.

this 

“As how?”
“Well,  I  picks up a woman in Canada— 
you  know—and  I  marries her for a spec. 
I  gets her life insured—you know—and we 
comes to Detroit. 
She  was taken ill—you 
know—and  I  goes to a druggist and makes 
a proposition.  Bless me,  if he didn’t fairly 
turn white!”

“As fur what?”
“Why,  I  was  to get a bit of a prescrip­
tion—you  know—and  he  'was  to  make a 
mistake and put up  poison.  The  woman 
dead, no one but me  could  prosecute,  and 
instead  of  that I  was  to divy with him on 
the life insurance.”

“And he wouldn’t?”
“He drove me out of the store—you know 
—refused  a  dead  sure thing on a cool five 
thousand!”

History  Repeats  Itself.

“Papa,  did  you  ever  smoke when you 
was a boy?”  asked a ten year old  Brooklyn 
lad, who was  vigorously  chewing  coffee  to 
disguise  the  vile  odor of a cigarette which 
clung to him still.

“Yes,  once,”  replied  the  father,  as he 

sniffed the smell of tobacco in the air.

“What did your papa say?” asked the boy 

with unusual  interest.

“He didn’t say a word, my son;  but  this 

is what he did when he found it out.”

When  the  father  finished, the tempera­
ture of his scion was several  degrees  hotter 
than the ambient atmosphere.
Thus history repeats itself.

T H E   P E R K I N S   W I N D

ae s»t*
Money.
It has been in constant use 
fo r  15  years,  w ith a  record 
equalled  by  none.  Wa r­
r a n t e d   n ot  to  blow down 
unless th e tow er  goes  w ith 
it; or ag ainst any wind th a t
does not disable substantial
farm  buildings; to be p erfect;  to  o u tlast  and 
do b e tte r w ork th a n  any other m ill  m ade.
A gents w anted.  Address P erkins W ind Mill 
& Ax Co.,Mishawaka, Ind. M ention Tradesm an.

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L U M B E R , L A T H   A N D   SH IN G LE S.

The Newaygo M anufacturing  Co.  quote f . o. 
b. cars  as follows:
U ppers, 1 in ch .................................... p er M $44  00
U ppers, 114,1 V* and 2 in ch ..........................  46  00
Selects, 1 in ch ................................................   35 00
Selects, 1J4, H4 and 2  in ch ..........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 in ch ...................................  30 00
Shop, 1 in ch ........................ ...........................  w  2S
Fine, Common, 1*4, VA  and 2 in c h ............   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t..........................  16 oO
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 fe e t..........................  11  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......  15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe e t..........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 fe e t..........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 f e e t.........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t....... ....................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 fe e t............................  17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.......   12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t..........................  13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 fe e t..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 f e e t.......  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe e t..........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 fe e t..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t............................  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe e t..........................  13  00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all
w idths and  len g th s............................8 00@  9  00
A and B Strips, 4 o r 6 i n .............................   33 00
C Strips, 4 o r 6 in ch ......................................  27  00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths..........................  15  00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  fe e t................  12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 fe e t...................................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  in ch ...................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  in c h ...................................  12  00
Norway C and b etter, 4 o r 6 in ch ..............  20 ""
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ...................  18
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.................................  14
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Com m on—  
9
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.......................  20
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 f t ............   10
$1 additional fo r each 2 fe e t above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B .....................  36
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C............................  29
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, com m on..  17 
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 com m on—   14 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. SI  00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  C lear..  35
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C............................  26
Dressed Flooring, 4 o r 5 in., No. 1  com ’n  16 
Dressed Flooring, 4 o r 5 in., No. 2  com ’n  14 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, SI  OO additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............. 
3  1
3  0
^ X X X 18 in.  T h in ........................................ 
2  7
/ X X X  16 in.................................................... 
No. 2 o r 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............. 
17
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in ...............................  
1 4
L ath  .......................................................   1  75® 2 0

The L’Anse Sentinel relates  a good story 
on a minister who allowed his zeal to get the 
better of his judgment:  Our worthy friend, 
Rev. Mr.  Cartright, will never lose anything 
for want of zeal.  He tackles sinners of all 
shades and descriptions and  under  any and 
all circumstances. 
So  far  has  he carried 
this peculiarity that he has  offended a great 
many Christians of the Catholic pursuasion. 
But,  like many other things, there  is a ridi­
culous  side  to  this  method  of  converting 
sinners.  The other day a commercial drum­
mer named Pierce,  traveling for  a  Milwau­
kee house,  was going to  Pequaming,  and it 
happened that Mr.  Cartwright  was  placed 
with him in the same seat.  Conversation was 
opened, as a matter of course, but the drum­
mer had wrongly anticipated  the  calling of 
our clerical friend,  supposing  him  to be  a 
fellow drummer,  and  offered  him  a  cigar. 
Mr.  Cartwright informed the drummer  that 
he had discontinued such pemicous hapits as 
smoking, drinking,  swearing  and  chewing 
tobacco some years ago,  which  aroused the 
curiosity of our commercial  friend not a lit­
tle,  and  he  asked  with  some  amazement 
what house  he  was  traveling  for. 
“Pm 
traveling for the Lord,” solemnly replied Mr. 
C.,  “and I should be glad to have  you  join 
us.” 
“First-class  house,  no doubt, and it 
would be a  pleasure  to  travel  with  you,” 
s a id  the drummer,  “but my  house pays bet­
ter salaries,  and I  think  I  will  stay  with 
them a while longer.”  Negotiations  were 
broken off at this point.

Davenport,  McIntyre  &  Co.,  of  Moore- 
ville,  will  embark in the business of manu­
facturing butter this season.  The capacity 
of  their machinery will be 20,000 pounds of 
butter per day.

W O O D E N W A R E .

7  00

Standard  Tubs, No. 1........................................ 8
Standard  Tubs, No. 2........ 
Standard  Tubs, No. 3..............................................6 00
Standard Pails, two hoop...................................... 1 60
Standard Pails, th ree hoop...................................1 85
Dowell P ails...............................................................2 10
Dowell Tubs, No. 1............................................. 8  7
Dowell Tubs, No. 2............................................. 7  7
Dowell  Tubs,  No. 3............................................6  7
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................................. 2 00
B u tter  Ladles........................................................... 1 25
Rolling P in s.............................................................. 1 00
Potato  M ashers..................................................  75
Clothes P ounders....................................................2 25
C lothesP ins.........................................................  65
Mop Stocks................................................................ 1 25
W ashboards, single.................................................1 75
W ashboards, double............................................... 2 25

BA SK ETS.

Diam ond  M arket............................. :...............   40
Bushel, narrow   b an d ............................................. 1 60
Bushel, wide band...................................................1 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 1...................... 
Clothes, splint,  No. 2..............................................3 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 3..............................................4 00
Clothes, willow, No. 1..............................................5 00
Clothes, willow, No. 2............................................. 6 00
Clothes, willow, No. 3..............................................7 00

3  50

H A R D W O O D   L U M B E R .

The fu rn itu re  factories  here  pay  as  follows 
@13  00
0J@20 00
@25  00
@14  00
00®35 00
@55 00
00@12 00
00@15 00
00@14 00
@16  00
@25 00
@25  00
@15  00
@20  00
@25  00
@55  00
@75  00
@26  00
@11  00
00@16 00
@23  00

fo r dry  stock:
Basswood, log-run...............................  
Birch, log-run......................................... 16 
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2...............................  
Black Ash, log-run...............................  
Cherry,  log-run......................................25 
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2............................ 
Cherry,  cu ll............................................ 10 
Maple,  log-run....................................... 13 
Maple, soft,  log-run............................. 11 
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2..............................  
Maple, clear, flooring................<.........  
Maple, w hite, selected........................  
Red Oak, log-run................................... 
Red Oak, Nos. 1  and 2.......................... 
Red Oak, No.  1, step  p lan k ................ 
W alnut, log-run....................................  
W alnut, Nos. 1 and 2............................ 
W alnuts,  cu lls......................................  
W ater Elm, log-run.............................  
W hite Ash,  log-run...............................14 
W hitewood,  log-run............................ 

ETE^W "  OXC3--AJF?..

They are a novelty in the Cigar line.  Every one of them is naturally speck­
led.  The greatest sellers ever put on the market.  We solicit a trial order from 
every first-class dealer in the State.  Fully guaranteed.

K e m i n k ,  J o n e s  &  C o .

F O R   SAL*E  BY

G R A N D   RAPID S,  M ICH.

At  M anufacturors’ Prices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

HOUSE  &  STORE  SHADES  MADE  TO  ORDER. 

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

N elson  Bros.  &  Go.
o . w . blain &   c o ., Proto Commission Merchants,
Foreign a i Domestic Fruits, M a n  Vegetables, Etc.

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled a t lowest m ark et Price.  Corres­
NO.  9  IO N IA   ST.

-DEALERS  IN-

pondence solicited.  APPLES  AND  POTATOES  in c a r lots  Specialties. 
Q

Wlotalfi  &  Commission-Bntter  & Eggs'a

■pi  p i 

t  1  T  » 

Choice B u tte r alw ays on hand.  All  Orders  receive P rom pt and Careful A ttention. 

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

No. 1 Egg C rates  fo r Sale.  Stevens’ No. 1 p a te n t fillers used.  50 cents each.

97  and 99 Canal Street, 

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Grand Bapids, Michigan

CHOICE  BUTTER A .  SPECIALTY! 
CALIFORNIA  AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRU ITS  AND VEGETABLES.  Care- 
ful A ttention Paid to  Filling  Orders.

M.  C.  RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st., Grand Rapids.
P E R K I N S   &  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

d e a l e r s   i n

F U L L   L I N E   O F   S H O W   C A S E S   K E P T   I N   S T O C K .

WIEBENGO  BLOCK,  PINE  STBEET,

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

Wholesale Grocers,

G

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KNIGHT  OF  LABOR  PLUG,

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

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Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

TH Z GRAÏTD R A PID S  ROLLER.  MILLS

M A N U FA C T U R E   A

The  Favorite  Brands  are

“ SNOW-FLAKE,”  AND “ LILY WHITE  PATENT,”  AND 

FANCY  PATENT  “ HOLLER  CHAMPION.”
Prices are low.  Extra quality guaranteed.  Write for quotations.

EAST  END  BBIDGE  ST.  BBIDGE,  GBAND  BAPIDS,  MICH.

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  CO,,
CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO,
Groceries  and  Provisionsï

WHOLESALE

83, Sä and 87  PEARL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 120  OTTAWA  STREET, 

NOS. 132  and  134  LOUIS STREET.  GRAND  RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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