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CRANBERRY  CULTURE.

Interesting  Contributions  from  Leading 

Michigan  Growers.

In accordance with  a  promise  made  its 
patrons several weeks  ago,  T iik   T r a d e s­
m a n herewith presents a  series  of interest­
ing contributions on the subject of cranberry 
culture,  from  the  leading  growers of  this 
State.  Letters detailing  the  individual ex­
perience of each were solicited  from  every 
grower  in  Michigan,  seven  of  whom  re­
sponded with articles replete  with interest­
ing information  to  all  seeking  knowledge 
on the subject:
F R O M   D R .  W M .  II.  W A L K E R ,  G L E N   A R B O R .
Yours of recent date,  asking for an article 
detailing my  experience  in  cranberry  cul­
ture,  I reply to as follows:

the  banks. 

I had an unsightly  bog  of  about  twenty 
acres lying between  Glen  Arbor  and Lake 
Michigan,  the  lakes being three-quarters of 
a mile apart.  There was no apparent stream 
of water running into  or out  of  the marsh, 
but water always covered  most of  it in the 
spring,  and would leak out or  evaporate  in 
the course of  the  summer,  until  it  left a 
pond of about two acres. 
In the pond were 
cow lillies and  rushes.  Around  the  pond 
were about twelve  acres of fine wire  grass, 
yielding,  perhaps, one-lialf  ton  of poor hay 
to the acre.  At  the  Glen  Lake  end  there 
was about six acres of yellow cedar and wa­
ter ash.  The water of the marsh seemed to 
come,  mostly, by  soakage  from  Glen Lake 
through a four to five feet  deep,  and seven­
teen rods wide,  sand  bank,  and to leave the 
marsh by the  same  process,  and  evapora­
tion,  out through three  sand  banks or lake 
ridges eleven, thirteen and fifteen feet deep, 
respectively,  and  twenty  rods  horizontally 
through 
I  dug  an  outlet 
through  there  ridges  and  opened  a  deep 
water  channel  (supposed  to  be  an  old 
and  former  outlet  of 
the  upper  lake) 
about one mile on  toward Lake  Michigan, 
at which  extent  of  the  ditch  the  water 
sinks into  the  ground.  The marsh  seems 
to have been part of the  basin  of the upper 
lake,  and to have been  cut  olf,  and the or­
iginal outlet obstructed,  so  that  the  upper 
lake formed a new outlet,  and then the peat 
deposit  of the marsh  took  place,  which is 
from three inches  to  nine  feet  deep,  of a 
coarse,  not thoroughly  rotted  vegetation, 
with five to  ten per  cent,  of  white  sand 
mixed into it. 
In 1870  the  thought  occur­
red to me that the nuisance of the unsightly 
hole might be  made to produce cranberries.
I sent for a work on the  “Culture of  Cran­
berries,” by Joseph I.  White  (it is  publish­
ed at 245 Broadway,  N.  Y., by Orange Judd 
& Co.,  and  costs,  I  believe,  81.50),  and 
studied it  thoroughly.  Then  I  concluded 
that my marsh was  adapted  for  cranberry 
culture,  and I determined to  try it. 
I then 
thought I would have to  get  permission  to 
dig a ditch seventeen  rods  into  Glen Lake 
to insure a more  perfect  supply  of  water, 
but was refused the privilege by a man who 
had a mill power on the outlet  of  the lake, 
although I offered to give him good and suf­
ficient bond, and let him choose  his jury,  if 
we could not agree,  to pay any and all dam­
age 1  might  cause. 
I  did  then  as  “Old 
Hickory” did,  “Swore by the  Eternal” that 
with Ilis blessing,  no  one else  should  pre­
vent  me in  making a  successful  cranberry 
marsh.  So I “pitched in” and  dug an  out­
let,  as  before  stated,  and  dug  about  two 
miles of big and little ditches in twelve acres 
of the marsh.  Then,  when  well  dried,  I 
burned it over.  This was in the summer and 
fall of 1871.  The  next  spring  I set  most 
of  the  twelve  acres  of  the  burned  grass 
stubble to vines,  in hills  two to  three  feet 
apart,  with five to seven pieces of  vines cut 
twelve inches  long. 
I Hooded  the  marsh 
every winter from  November 1 until  about 
1st of June. 
I got no  return in crop of any 
account for seven years,  and but small crops 
until 1881,  when I picked  380  barrels from 
about seven acres of the  marsh,  and on  five 
other acres of thinned vines  and  berries,  it 
was estimated  there  were twenty to  thirty 
barrels,  which I could not  pick  on  account 
of rain and  snow.  Since  that  big  crop I 
have picked only an average yearly of about 
100 barrels.  The cause of ¡failure  lias been 
almost wholly frost,  either  in  J une or  Sep 
tember.  This year has been a failure  from 
frost in June and  September,  sun-scald and 
grass-hoppers in August.

I have  planted  vines  experimentally  as 
follows:  1st.—Onto the  grass, bent  down, 
three to four inches deep.  The grass comes 
lip, but lighter than  before  soaking,  and  I 
mow it yearly,  until the vines get possession 
of the ground, which  they  do  in  three to 
four years; 2nd—onto a patch that I plowed 
of about thirty square  rods,  at  the  end of 
the  marsh, where  the  peat  was  from  six 
inches deep,  out onto sand  at  the  surface. 
On this  patch I have  very nice  vines  four 
years  old  which  have  yielded  quite  an 
amount of berries this  season,  and the frost 
did not  injure  the berries on this  pateh. 
I 
have planted also  where  I  spaded  the turf 
upside down,  and sanded, but  the vines did 
no better  than  where  I  sanded  onto  the 
grass.

I have tried several kinds of vines.  Some 
failed  entirely, .while  others did  only mid­
dling well.  Of  vines  which  will  produce 
fine berries  for  the  market  there is great 
difference in the vigor  of  their  growth to

overcome other vegetation. 
If one is faint­
hearted and not patient  to  labor  year after 
year,  and wait  for his  return  I  advise him 
not to go  into  cranberry  culture, but  if he 
can say “I will have  a successful cr anberry 
marsh,” and can hold  to a  determination to 
the bitter  end,  if  needs  be  so, then,  I  say, 
go ahead.

F R O M  

J O H N   C L A R K E ,  W H IT E F IS H   P O IN T .
Yours requesting experience  in the culti­
vation of cranberries received.  Replying in 
brief will say that I  have  about  ten  acres 
under  cultivation,  part of it  of  two  years’ 
growth. 
I  marketed  the  past year  off  of 
the above 500 bushels of  berries.  The crop 
this year is not all  gathered,  but is  larger 
than last,  notwithstanding  about  one-third 
was  knocked  off  and  lost  by 
the  hail 
storm of Sept 21.  This is the  first time the 
crop lias been injured in this way.

I have had no trouble with insects.
I usually get  the  best  yield  where  the 
sand is  thrown on  top of or mixed with the 
bog,  either  by turning  deep  enough  with 
the plow or shovel,  to raise the  sand on top 
of the bog.

I separate the grass, dirt and  soft berries 
and also separate the berries  into  two sizes 
by putting them through the Champion fan­
ning mill, made by Blake,  Beebe & Co.  My 
first grade of berries will compare favorably 
in size and every other  way  with  the best 
Eastern berries.  My best  berries are raised 
on high ground,  where it is  flooded  only  a 
short time in the early  spring.

I get  berries  picked  for  sixty  cents  a 

bushel.

F R O M   I ).  C .  L E A C H ,  T R A V E R S E   C IT Y .
My experience  in  cranberry  culture  lias 
been brief  and  may  be  of  little  value  to 
others. 
I am quite confident, however,  that 
I have learned some things  that  I  can my­
self turn to  good  account.  But  I  think it 
will generally be found by those wlio engage 
in the business,  that,  with the faithfully re­
corded experience of a  score  of  other  men 
before  them,  they  will  have  to  learn  for 
themselves.  Successful  cranberry  culture 
depends  on so  many things—soil, climate, 
water,  vegetation, insects,  etc.,—that one or 
a dozen men’s  experience  will  not  furnish 
an infallible guide  to  a  new  beginner  in a 
lew field.

For some years I have been reading what­
ever fell in my way on this subject.  White’s 
and Eastman’s books,  a  dozen  or  more  es­
says  in  the  Government  Agricultural  re­
ports, and sundry newspaper  articles,  were 
read and digested,  and  I  began  to think  I 
knew “how to do it.”

So,  in the summer and autumn of  1882,  1 
looked over a  large  number  of  marshes in 
this  region,  sparing  neither  time  nor  ex­
pense,  in trying to  secure a favorable  loca­
tion.  Finally,  I  selected,  after  having it 
examined  by  an  intelligent  gentleman  of 
many years’ experience in the  business, the 
marsh of some fifty acres,  lying west of and 
near the G.  R. & I. railroad and adjacent to 
the village of Walton.  The marsh was cov­
ered with quite a  heavy  growtli  of  grass. 
Much of it is the common marsh  wire grass, 
while on the  boarders  and  dryer  portions 
the grass is of coarser varieties.  Water can 
be kept at any desired level  on  all  parts of 
the marsh during the entire summer  and all 
can be flooded for winter protection.

In the spring of 1883 I had  a  portion  of 
the  marsh  properly  drained,  by  cuttin, 
ditches four  and  six  rods  apart, from the 
borders to the  creek which  runs lengthwise 
of  the  marsh, nearly  through  its  center. 
Not finding vines in the  vicinity  that  were 
satisfactory  to  me,  I  procured  twenty-five 
barrels from Cape Cod. 
I had  them  ship­
ped by a  “fast  freight  line,”  and  conse­
quently they  were  only  fourteen  days  on 
the road.  They were  very  dry  and  brittle 
and I had little hope of their growing.

They were planted  early in  May,  amon 
the  grass,  in  hills  about  eighteen  inches 
apart.  They were planted with a spud made 
for the  purpose,  two  or  three  vines  being 
put in each hill.  Perhaps one-lialf the hills 
sent up green  shoots,  but  they,  for  some 
cause, grew  “beau if ally less”  during  the 
summer,  and probably not  one hill in ten is 
now alive.  What are living  have  general 
ly a sickly and discouraged  look.

In the fall I obtained another  and  large] 
lot of Cape Cod vines.  They reached me in 
fair condition,  and I  confidently  expected 
them to grow.  Part of  them  were  planted 
that fall.  The balance were kept under and 
planted  in  the  spring.  And  right  here I 
may remark that  I have been able to see  no 
difference in results between fall and spring 
planting.

The  result  was  far  from  satisfactory. 
Many of the vines did  not  grow at all,  and 
those that did live  and  are  still  alive, are 
maintaining  an  unequal  contest  with  the 
grass.  The grass seems to have  the best of 
the fight.  A betting  man  would go  ten to 
one that it will win.

I planted in the grass,  without turfing and 
sanding, because others have done so in this 
State and have been successful.  But begin­
ning to have doubts as to succeeding in that 
way on my marsh,  in the  spring  of  1884  I 
graded down a sandbank, three or  four feet 
high,  spreading the  sand over the adjoining 
marsh ground.  Then,  early  in  June, this 
parcel of land—about one-fourth of  an acre

—was planted in hills with a  spud,  as here­
tofore,  the vines  being  cut to six  or  eight 
inches in length, and from two to four pieces 
put in each hill.  These all  grew;  I  do not 
know that a hill missed.  Their growth dur­
ing the summer and  also  the  past  summer 
was entirely satisfactory,  and  they  promise 
well for the future..

I was so well  pleased  with  the  result of 
this last experiment that  in  the summer of 
1884 I graded about two  acres  more  in the 
same way,  putting about six  inches of sand 
over the  marshy surface. 
In  October  this 
ground,  except  a  few  square  rods,  was 
planted with vines  obtained in  the vicinity. 
The planting was completed  in  the  spring. 
These vines have  done  well  and  promise 
well for the future. I  gathered  a  bushel  of 
berries from them this fall.

Last spring I planted another  acre, simi­
larly prepared,  with  vines  procured  from 
Cape Cod.  They have  also  done  well,  al­
though the  growth  has  not  quite  equaled 
that of the home vines  planted  in the  fall. 
Whether the difference is owing to the vines 
or  the soil I cannot say; perhaps both.

One thing more I ought to mention  here, 
uid it is this.  Judging from the past  sum­
mer’s experience it is going  to  cost heavily 
to keep  down the weeds, bushes  and  grass 
on my sanded ground till the vines get mat­
ted over  it. 
It  seems  as  though  all  the 
seeds of the weeds, trees  and  grass, on the 
marsh and lands  round  about,  got  into the 
water and were floated to  and  deposited on 
said ground. 
It has taken a deal of pulling 
uul hoeing to  keep  the  ground  reasonably 
clean the past summer.

This is about all I know  about  cranberry 
culture—just what I have done  and  the re­
sults.  What I don’t  know would fill a col­
umn.

Hereafter,  without  venturing  to  advise 
any other person* how  to  manage,  I shall—
First—Spread  from five  to  six  inches of 
as clean sand as I can  get over every rod of 
ground that I plant.

Second—Cut my vines into pieces not over 
four inches in length and plant  from two to 
two and a  half  inches  deep.  Vines  plant 
more ground when  cut  short,  and  with me 
do quite as well.

Third—Keep the ground moist to the sur­

face until tlie vines are well rooted.

Fourth—Expect  to  be  disappointed  fre­

quently but win in the  end.

Before  I  engaged  in  this  business,  Dr. 
Walker  told  me  I  would  need  “lots  of 
pluck  and  patience,”  and  he  was  right. 
There are more unforseen  difficulties  to be 
overcome,  and  more  chances  for  mistakes 
and  failures,  than  the  inexperienced  are 
willing to believe.  They  read  of  one hun­
dred and fifty barrels  of  cranberries  grown 
on a single acre,  and sold for ten  or  twelve 
dollars per barrel, and imagine it is  an easy 
thing  for  them  to  “go  and  do  likewise.” 
But the fact  is, only  a  favorable  location, 
and intelligent and persevering  efforts have 
secured such results.  Where one has achiev­
ed a grand success.  Many  have  been  only 
moderately  successful,  or  have totally fail­
ed.

The safe way for new  beginners  is to ex­
periment on a small scale and carefully note 
results.  Had I done so  what  knowledge I 
have  obtained  might  not  have  come  in 
“chunks,”  but  I  would  have  reached  the 
same  results,  probably,  and  at  much  less 
cost.

F R O M   S.  H .  C O M IN G ,  S T .  J O S E P H .

There is,  no doubt,  a  great  deal of  land 
in Michigan which  is  naturally  adapted to 
the  cranberry  plant.  Fvery  “old  settler” 
speaks of the profuse wild  crops  that  were 
to be found in all parts  of  the  State.  But 
not every place where cranberries grew in a 
wild stato is well adapted to cultivation.  A 
great many things  must  be  considered  be­
fore being sure one has a successful spot for 
growing this peculiar fruit.  Since  tlie  for­
ests have been cut away a great many places 
have become too dry.  The water  supply is 
not sufficient and cannot be remedied.  Tlie 
artificial supply  sometimes  sought  is liable 
to  unlooked  for  contingencies.  Thus,  at 
Michigan  City,  Ind., 
there is a large  and 
one  marsh, 
improved  at  great  expense, 
which lias borne some fine  crops,  but as the 
surrounding forests were cut  away the land 
was becoming  too dry.  An  artisian  well 
was sunk at quite an  expense,  but  the flow 
of water is of  a  highly  mineral  character, 
uncertain in its effects upon the plants.

In  Berlin,  Wis.,  some  very  expensive 
pumping works were  put in  to supply  one 
of tlie noted marshes,  but the subsoil  in tlie 
supplying canal was  found  to  be  clay and 
when the pumping  was  done the  clay was 
dissolved in  the water and settled a sticking 
coat all  over  the  leaves  of  the  cranberry 
plants, and no crops  have  so  far  resulted 
from the artificial water supply.

In Pemberton, New Jersey,  a  creek  was 
turned from its course and held  in  a  reser­
voir above a large bog,  to  be  used  to flood 
the vines in dry  times,  and as  a  preventa­
tive against frost, but last year, when a frost 
was feared,  the water  was  let  on  and pre­
vented the frost, but before the  water could 
be drawn off it had scalded several thousand 
bushels of berries.

It is only by carefully noting such failures, 
as well  as the successes,  that  one  can  de­

cide intelligently on the^best locations when 
all the conditions are favorable.

Cape Cod and  vicinity  is  probably  the 
best locality,  all tilings considered, for cran­
berry  growing;  yet  there  they  resort  to 
wells,  wind mills and all sorts of expedients 
to secure water  supply and ward off  frosts.
The native cranberries  of  Michigan  are, 
many of them,  as  line  in  quality  as  any 
grown anywhere,  but as a rule tlie Michigan 
berries are exceptionally light colored, many 
of them remaining  white  when  fully  ripe. 
This is no iiimry except  that people are ed­
ucated to think a light  colored berry  is not 
ripe,  and thus give a preference  to the high 
colored Cape Cod berry in market.  An  un­
ripe white berry has a  green  dull  look,  en­
tirely different from the  pure  bright  white 
of the ripened fruit.

So far, the Western  marshes  have  been 
reasonably free from tlie sweeping  devasta­
tions of insects, which have caused so much 
trouble in  tlie East; but no  doubt  these in­
sect enemies will in time  find  tlie  pastures 
afforded  by our  Western  fields,  and  the 
trouble of fighting  them  may be intensified 
by tlie larger extent of tlie Westm marshes.
Tlie business  of  cranberry  growing  has 
become of sufficient importance to be worthy 
a  “Western  Cranberry  Growers’  Associa­
tion,” similar  to  tlie  flourishing  society  in 
New Jersey, which has been a great  benefit 
to its membership.  There is very great ben­
efit in comparing ideas and information.

The  writer  began  growing  cranberries 
fifteen years ago,  and lias  visited nearly all 
important  cranberry  growing  regions,  ami 
yet feels that  lie  is  just  learning  the busi­
ness.

I have just picked  a  crop  of  over  1,000 
bushels, mostly on  vines  planted  three  to 
five years ago,  and think I have  one of  the 
best locations in the  West—with  abundant 
water supply, and one of tlie  best  places to 
avoid frosts to be found  in the  State—with 
a fine quality of “Bugle”  berries,  of  good 
appearance  and  good  keepers,  natives on 
the soil.

FROM DR.  A.  M.  OK ROW,  CHEBOYGAN.
Yours of the -itli  lilt.,  requesting  me  to 
give  you  my  experience  as  a  cranberry 
grower,  is received. 
I can scarcely be  call­
ed a grower at present, as  none of my vines 
have been planted  over  a  year  and  a half, 
but I hope to be  recorded  among  the  cran­
berry producers  before  long. 
I  have  this 
fall finished  planting  five  acres  after the 
most approved Cape Cod fashion.  The vines 
are looking well,  but  tlie  ‘ ‘tip”  worm lias 
made its appearance,  which will  oblige  me 
to flood this fall. 
I intend planting  twenty 
acres next season,  and to  keep on  planting 
until my whole marsh  of  about 200 acres is 
finished.

FR O M   GILES  G IL B E R T ,  M E C O S T A .

Your communication of the 24tli ult., came 
in  my  absence,  and  this  is  my  first  op­
portunity to reply.  Tlie cranberry* marsh at 
Duly  Lake,  which  I  recently  sold  to  Mr. 
Chas. T. Wickes, of  Colby, is  the best nat­
ural marsh I have seen. 
It is  on the outlet 
of the lake and is so situated  that  it can be 
readily flooded from the lake.  It is of about 
twenty acres in extent, but  has  only  about 
four acres of  bearing  bogs.  1 have  never 
expended any  money in  cultivation; except 
for ditches and dams, or dykes. 
It  usually 
yields about sixty to one  hundred barrels of 
choice berries,  nearly as  large  as  the  Cape 
Cod fruit.  Mr.  Wickes intends to cultivate 
the marsh to its fullest capacity.

F R O M   C.  T .  W IC K E S ,  C O L B Y .

Your favor at hand  and  in  reply would 
say 1 understand the amount of the crop this 
year to be  about  eighty  barrels.  There  is 
probably ten or  twelve  acres  of  marsh  in 
bearing and perhaps twenty acres available. 
There has been little  attention  paid to it of 
late,  as Mr.  Gilbert,  tlie former  owner,  did 
not live in tlie  vicinity.

The crop of this year was  gathered when 
I bought,  hence my uncertain knowledge of 
the amount of crop. 
I do not  know of any 
other marsh  under  cultivation in this coun­
ty.

IN   T H E  S A G IN A W   V A I.I.K Y .

From the Bay City Tribune.

Cranberry  culture  is  a  subject  which  is 
considerably  discussed,  but  about  which 
there seems to exist some  very crude  ideas. 
Where the cultivation of this  important ar­
ticle of commerce can  be  successfully  con­
ducted on what  is  called  “waste  land”  in 
the  Saginaw  valley,  is  a  very  important 
question, but those who profess  knowledge 
and  experience  in  relation  thereto  claim 
Very  positively that it is  perfectly feasible, 
and that the marsh land  lying south of this 
city would be considered  a  perfect bonanza 
in the East, and that it might be made so in 
this vicinity by tlie application of tlie indus­
try alluded  to.

Isaac Walker,  or Massachusetts, has been 
in tiiis vicinity for tlie past ten days looking 
over tlie low lands with a  view  of  starting 
the cultivation of cranberries.  He describes 
the method of  culture  as  carried  on on the 
coast  of  Massachusetts  something  as  fol­
lows:  A marsh is  found,  dammed,  so  that 
the water is let in  and  let  out  at  pleasure. 
According to the  Massachusetts method the 
marsh is then stripped of the top part of the 

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A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TOflJHE

Mercantile and manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER  28,1885.

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

_

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Clias. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—Wm. Sears. 
Executive  Committee—President,  Vice-Pres­
ident and Treasurer, ex-offlcio; O. A. Ball, one 
year;  L. E. Hawkins and R.D. Swartout, two
Arbitration  Committee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W. 
Transportation  Committee—Samuel  Sears, 
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur 
Manufacturing Committee—Wm.  Cartwright, 
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening 
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­

Putnam, Joseph Houseman.
Geo. B. Dunton. Amos. S. Mussulman.
Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux.
E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
of October. 
ing of each month.

_  .

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

CRANBERRY  GROWING.

that 

The  T radesm an  surrenders  no  incon­
siderable portion of its space this  week to a 
series of contributions on the subject of cran­
berry culture, which it  trusts will prove  in­
teresting reading to others besides  those di­
rectly connected  with  the  growing  of  the 
berry.  Cranberry culture is a subject which 
is destined to  play  an  important  part  in 
Michigan horticulture in the next few years, 
as both the air  and  water  are more favor­
able to the growth of  the berry in this State 
than  in  Wisconsin.  Neither  is  there  the 
liability to frost which  troubles  our  neigh­
bors  across  the  lake.  These  conditions, 
coupled  with  the  fact 
there  are 
thousands  of  acres of land in  both the Up­
per and Lower Peninsulas admirably adapt­
ed for the culture,  render  it reasonably cer­
tain that  Michigan  will  eventually  attain 
the same reputation for  cranberry  growing 
which is now  possessed  by Wisconsin,  and 
that hundreds of  waste  places, which  now 
only serve as breeding  places  for  malaria 
and mosquitoes,  will  sometime  become the 
sources  of 
considerable  revenue.  T he 
Tradesm an  has  given  some  attention  to 
the subject  in the  past,  and  will  continue 
to do so, holding that anything which tends 
to develop  the  latent  resources  of  a great 
State,  and  thus  add  to  the  wealth  and 
happiness  of  its  people,  is  a  legitimate 
subject  for  discussion, even  though it may 
seem to be foreign to the purpose for which 
this journal is conducted.

TIGHTENING  THE  REINS.

When Grand  Rapids  first  embarked  in 
the jobbing  business,  she  was  frequently 
able to  compete  with  Chicago  and  other 
large  jobbing  centers  only  by  extending 
longer terms of credit than were allowed by 
the latter. 
In this way,  the market became 
noted for its  laxness  in extending  credits, 
and the  unusually  long  terms  which  the 
bills were frequently allowed to  run.  This 
condition of affairs  continued,  without ma­
terial improvement,  until about half a dozen 
years ago, when there was  a  disposition on 
the part of tl\e jobbing trade to  look at  the 
matter  philosophically  and  an  effort  was 
made to turn the  current  in  another direc­
tion.  Those prominent  in  the  movement 
agreed that the  status  of  the  market  was 
then  thoroughly  established,  and  that  it 
was  not  necessary  to  grant  unreasonable 
credits for tlie  purpose of  competing  w'ith 
other markets.  The  result  of  the  stand 
then taken has been a gradual improvement, 
and the same  determination  to  tighten the 
reins is now manifested to all  sides.  Slow­
ly but surely  the  credit  business  is  being 
brought up to the Chicago basis.

The advent of a  second  wholesale  hard­
ware  establishment  in  Grand Rapids  sug­
gests the idea that the time  is  not  far  dis­
tant when competing jobbing houses  in  the 
drug,  crockery  and  boot  and  shoe  lines 
will be established facts. 
Instead  of divid­
ing the trade of already-established  houses, 
however,  the tendency seems to be to divert 
trade which formerly went  to  Chicago  and 
Detroit.  The rapid development of the ter­
ritory naturally tributary  to  Grand  Rapids 
necessitates a corresponding enlargement of 
her jobbing facilities.

Grand Rapids presents an excellent open­
ing for a soap factory, and a  practical  soap 
maker would find little difficulty in interest­
ing business men in such a project.  With a 
large  home  demand,  and  a  disposition on 
the part of the local  jobbing  trade  to  push 
home  manufactures  and  products  for  all 
they are worth,  a soap factory would be able 
to place its goods without unusual effort, and 
local pride would  tend  to  make  their sale 
continuous and Increasing.

The sale  of  the  Marshall grocery  stock, 
leaving unsatisfied  creditors  to the  tune of 
$800,  furnishes  another  illustration  of  the 
legal flaw which  T he  T radesm an has re­
peatedly pointed out.  The only remedy for 
such injustice  is  the  enactment  of  a law 
making it a criminal offense  for a merchant 
to sell his stock without  first  satisfying his 
creditors,  or  else  turning  the  purchase 
money over to them.

In accordance with the resolution adopted 
at the meeting of the Western Cracker Bak­
er’s Association, held at Chicago  last week, 
local manufacturers have advanced the price 
of  crackers  and  all  sweet  goods  one-half 
cent per pound.

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

I N   T H E   C IT Y .

Daniel Lynch  succeeds  Wood  &  Lynch 

in the lumber business.

Chas. B. Holmes,  late  of  Wayland,  has 

engaged in the meat business  here.

Wm. Abbott  &  Co.  have  re-engaged  in 
the  grocery  business  at  West  Campbell. 
Clark, Jewell & Co.  furnished the stock.

F. W. Littlefield has engaged in  the  gro­
cery business at Boyne City.  Cody, Ball & 
Co.  furnished  the  stock,  D.  S.  Haugh 
placing the order.

The H. G. Allen Publishing Co. has  sold 
Cooper Bros., of Bloomfield, N.  J.,  the sole 
right of selling the  patent  metal  back al­
bum in New Jersey.

Peters & Orr have put in a 24 horse-power 
engine and boiler and sawmill  near  Peters- 
burgh. 
J.  H.  Parker,  state  agent  for 
Chandler & Taylor, furnished the outfit.

W. T. Lamoreaux has just got  in  opera­
tion a second  power  bean  picker,  and  has 
now twenty-two  persons  at  work  convert­
ing  “unpicked” beans into “choice picked.”
J. J. Wright has engaged in  the  grocery 
and meat business at  Chippewa  Lake,  and 
will shortly add a line  of  boots  and  shoes. 
Arthur Meigs & Co.  furnished  the  grocery 
stock, W.  G. Hawkins placing the order.

John Yarger,  formerly of the general firm 
of Moore & Yarger,  at Freeport, has engag­
ed in the dry  goods,  clothing  and  jewelry 
business at that place.  Spring  & Company 
furnished the drygoods stock, W. II. Downs 
placing the order.

A.  Y.  Chapman  purchased  the  grocery 
stock of M.  S. Marshall,  at 258 South Divis­
ion street,  last Friday.  Marshall  surprised 
his friends  and  creditors by leaving  town 
without satisfying any of the claims against 
him.  Report has it that he  has  gone to Il­
linois.

Wm. G. Warner, who has operated a water­
power  sawmill  in  Karney  township,  An­
trim  county,  for  several  years  past,  has 
moved the mill to another part of  the  same 
township and put in  a  Chandler  &  Tayler 
engine  and  boiler. 
J.  H. Parker, of  this 
city, effected the  sale.

T. H. Redmond is  arranging  for a draw­
ing scheme, by which his opera house block 
will pass into the hands of some lucky tick­
et holder,  and he will be clear  of  debt  and 
have a surplus left. 
It  is  understood  that 
there will be 20,000  tickets,  and  that  they 
will be placed at $2 apiece.

The  factory  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Felt 
Boot  Co.  is  now  running sixteen hours  a 
day, and the officers of the  corporation con 
template  increasing  the  working  time  to 
twenty  hours.  Orders  are  now taken  for 
November and December business only, and 
the prospects of a profitable season  are  ex 
ceedingly flattering.

“I expect to see rubber goods take auoth 
er advance  about November 1,”  said  E.  G 
Studley the other  day.  “ The  fact  of  the 
matter is, the supply of rubber  goods in the 
country was never  so low as at present,  and 
the factories are unable  to  get  cloth  from 
the manufacturers as fast as they can use it 
Of course,  much  depends  on  the  weather 
but I think the indications are  excellent for 
higher prices.”

H.  Leonard & Sons’  new  brick block on 
East Fulton street, adjoining the  four-story 
structure  erected  last  season,  has  reached 
the top of the second story.  What  use  the 
building will be put to remains  to be  seen 
although it is  thought  quite  probable  that 
the firm will occupy it  with  its  wholesale 
crockery department.  The comer structure 
is used by the  Grand  Rapids  Refrigerator 
Co.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

J.  B. Matthews,  druggist  at Gregory,  has 

sold out.

J. E.  Bisbee, grocer at Paris,  has sold out 

to A.  II.  Carpenter.

son,  have sold out.

Rockwell &  Powers,  druggists  at  Bron­

A. J.  Mudge  has  started  in  the grocery 

business at Charlevoix.

D.  O. Long, druggist at Edmore,  has sold 

out to Dr.  L.  O.  Crotsor.

F. Den.Uyl»  general  dealer  at  Holland, 

has sold out to Samuel  Den Uyl.

A,  Y. Sessons  has  moved  his  dry goods 

stock from Sheridan to Carson City’.

C.  P. Sweet,  clothier  at  Kalkaska,  has 
confessed judgment to the amount of  $826. 
31.

C. S.  Edwards  will  shortly  remove  his 
drug and  grocery  stock  from  Furnace  to 
Mancelona.

A  Sand Lake correspondent  writes:  H 
F. Hamilton’s grocery  and  variety  store  is 
now open to the public.

Plainwell Press:  Smith & Lawrence have 
bought the dry goods and groceries of Edgar 
Flansburg,  at  Hickory  Comers,  and  will 
continue the business.

Whitehall  Forum:  Shattuck  &  Davis, 
the Montague grocers,  have dissolved  part 
nership.  Mr. Davis  takes  the entire  busi­
ness and  Mr. Shattuck  will  go West with 
Dr.  Kenyon.

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

J. R. Vance has  put  in a  portable  saw­

mill at South Arm.

Samuel &  David  Miller  succeed  J. Mc­
Pherson in the  milling business at  Dailey.
Mellen Smith is building a mill on section 
48,  in  the  vicinity  of  Wallace,  Menom­
inee county.

The Elk Rapids Iron Co. has 28,000 cords 
of  wood  now  in  the yard.  This will  last 
about seven months.

A boot and shoe manufactory is talkfed of 
at Petoskey,  and $4,000  of  the  $10,000  of 
stock has been subscribed.

Trowbridge Bros., the Big Rapids shingle 
and  clapboard  manufacturers,  will  run  a 
camp this  winter on  the  Middle  Branch, 
thirty miles above Evart.

Nashville News:  Robt Brady is moving 
his  family  back  to  Nashville from  Battle 
Creek,  and we understand intends putting a 
saw mill into the old foundry building.

Saranac Local:  FitzGibbons  & King in­
tend to mn the stave  factory  to  its  fullest 
capacity this winter.  They will buy all the 
staves obtainable here,  and  will  also pur­
chase at Muir.

J. E.  McElwee  &  Co.,  whose  picture 
backing factory at Big Rapids was  recently 
destroyed by fire, have  leased  a  portion of 
the Big Rapids Novelty Works and resumed 
the manufacture of easels and stretchers.

STRAY  FACTS.

The Albion grocers now all  close  at  8  p 

m.

closed.

The  Commercial  House,  at  Albion,  is 

S. W.  Herrick lias opened a jewelry store 

Stimers & Rex have started potash works 

at Rodney.

at Elk Rapids.

O. A. Moody, confectioner  at Pentwater, 

is succeeded by W. Moody.

R. Y. Bray succeeds J. E. Tremper in the 

hotel business at Millington.

The square timber men are again at work 

in the Grand Traverse region.

Wm.  E.  Weaver,  late  of  Morley,  has 

opened a meat market at Luther.

Tlios. Wood succeeds  Jas.  S.  Wyckoff  in 

the restaurant business at Elk Rapids.

S.  S. Berry succeeds H.  R.  Lovejoy in the 

musical instrument business at Albion.

The addition to John Otis’ broom factory, 
at Mancelona,  24x100  feet,  is  nearly com­
pleted.
Henry Gunterman succeeds  Geo.  Gunter- 
mau in the meat  market  business  at West 
Bay City.

E.  P.  Larabee is repairing his store build­
ing at Cedar Creek and adding  an  office  to 
the same.
Logs to the amount of 7,000,000  feet will 
be put  into  the  Twohearted  river, Upper 
Peninsula, this winter.

Plainwell  Press: 

the 
butcher,  thinks of locating in Holland City, 
when he leaves Plainwell.

II.  II.  Kelley, 

Battle Creek Call:  The grocerymen have 
agreed to close their stores at 8 o’clock, after 
November  1.  This  is  a  good  move  and 
should be followed by other stores.
•James L.  McCormick and S. H. Webster, 
of East Saginaw,  have  purchased a tract of 
pine on Yellow Dog river, Upper Peninsula, 
estimated to cut 10,000,000 feet of logs.

J. N.  & F.  S.  McGraw,  of  Bay City, late­
ly bought 1,320  acres  of  pine  land  on Te- 
quamenon river, estimated to  cut  7,000,000 
feet of logs,  for which they paid $10,000.

A Stanwood correspondent writes the Big 
Rapids Herald: 
If  the  amount  of  stock 
received by our village merchants is any cri­
terion to go by,  we should judge times were 
improving.

Hill  &  Busch  have  contracted  with 
Charles  Moore &  Co.  to  log  30,000,000 of 
pine on Yellow Dog  river,  Marquette coun­
ty,  a portion to be  put  in  the  coming win­
ter.
Geo. E.  Herrick,  of  the  former  firm  of 
Olsen & Herrick,  at Cadillac, has  formed  a 
copartnership with  C.  C.  Chittenden,  and 
engage«!  in  the  purchase  and sale of  pine 
lands under the firm name of  Chittenden  & 
Herrick.

The Girard  Lumber  Co.,  of Menominee, 
has  let  a  contract  to  Henry  Sargent,  of 
Oconto, for the putting in  of  5,000,000 feet 
of logs on  Paint  river,  a  tributary  of the 
Menominee.  The  same  company  will  put 
in fully 10,000,000 feet besides.

Big Rapids Current: 

It  is  reported that 
Hood, Gale & Co. have purchased  5,000,000 
feet of logs which will be sawed at the Tioga 
mill next summer.  This mill  has been idle 
for two years  past,  and  everyone  will be 
glad to learn that it is to  be  put  in  motion 
again.
Nashville  News:  A  prominent  young 
Hastings  business  man  was  in our village 
the other day.  He had  spent  the  previous 
day in Grand Rapids, and on his way  home 
went to sleep—this fact  accounting  for  his 
visit to Nashville.  He doesn’t want anything 
said about it.

Burton Brothers,  of Hamilton,  Ont., have 
purchased a pine  tract  near  Republic  and 
will convert what is suitable into board tim­
ber, and ship over the Marquette, Houghton 
&  Ontonagon  Ralway  to  Marquette, and 
there load  into  vessels  for  Quebec.  The 
coarser logs will be  made into shingles and 
shipped to L’Anse.

D. C.  Pelton &  Co.,  successors  to A. R. 
Beck & Co., at Nirvana, have  contracted to 
log, saw,  pile and  ship  20,000,000  feet of 
pine for  the  Osterhout & Fox Lumber Co., 
of  Grand Rapids.  They  have  bought  the 
Herbert Thomas logging  railroad  and loco­
motive, and will  move  the  plant on to the 
new job north of Nirvana.
[  Evart Review:  T he Michigan Trades­
m an says that J. A.  Lunney  has  changed 
his base of operations from Evart to Kalkas­
ka.  Not  so.  Mr.  Lunney’s  operations at 
and near  Evart  are  too  important  to  be 
changed; he  has,  however,  a  small  job of 
puttting in some 80,000,000  feet of  pine—a 
trifling matter to him—up  in  that  country.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Anthony  J.  Quist  is  now  working  the 

city trade for John Caulfiel«!.

For  sale  cheap—an  advertising  account 
against Geo.  Owen. Apply at T he Trades­
man  office.

A. E. Brownell,  representing the  Ameri­
can Cigar Co.,  of  Cold water,  was  in town 
over Sunday.

Albert C. Antrim is making an  extended 
tour of the Southern  States  for  the  Anti- 
Kalsomine Co.

Jas. McSkimin,  Western  Michigan  trav­
eler for W.  J.  Gould & Co., of  Detroit,  put 
in Sunday at this market.

It is stated that Will Hawkins  anti  Alby 
Brasted  are working up  a  fine  trade  with 
Johnny Spider, of Webb Center.

P. B. Hill is now  on the road for Judd & 
Co.  The territory covered  by the  house is 
divided between  Mr. Hill  and E.  E. Judd.
All the traveling  men’s  papers  are  kept 
on file at The T radesm an  office,  and  are 
open to the inspection  of  all  interested in 
the subject at all times.

Jim Bradford is getting to be one  of  the 
toniest men on the road.  He  now  appears 
on the street  with a high  silk plug,  which 
was willed  him by an  ancestor.

E.  D.  Shattuck,  traveling  representative 
for E. S.  Pierce,  recently  purchased  an im­
ported Spanish  spaniel  of  W.  H.  Riley,  of 
Mancelona.  The consideration is said to  be 
$150.

Sylvester  Luther,  formerly  presitlent  of 
the Luther  &  Sumner  Manufacturing  Co., 
has engaged to travel for the Newaygo Fur­
niture Co.,  and leaves this week on his  ini­
tial trip.

Mrs. W.  G. Hawkins  and  daughter  have 
returned from Detroit, where they have been 
visiting friends for about three weeks.  W. 
G. put in a portion of his  time at Detroit in 
the  interval.

B.  F.  Emery  went  to  Chicago  Monday 
with  three  Muskegon  customer of  Gray & 
Kingman.  He will return by  way of  Indi­
ana, taking in several  towns  in the North­
ern portion of that State.

The meeting of Grand Rapids Post,  T. P. 
A., which was to  have  been  held at  Tiie 
Tradesm an office  last  Saturday  evening, 
was adjourned  until  November 7, at which 
time  a fidl attendance is requested.

Red Headed  Dave  Smith,  who  cavorted 
up anti down the State for Bannard, Lyman 
& Co.  for a couple of years,  and  assisted in 
the obsequies of that  firm,  is  now  talking 
matches and molasses for Sprague,  Warner 
& Co.

Big Rapids News:  H.  II.  Philipps  is  at 
present traveling  for  R.  Rothchild’s  Sons, \ 
Chicago, manufacturers of  saloon  fixtures. 
“Harv.”  says  the  firm  will  establish  a 
branch house in Grand Rapids  next spring, 
and give him the charge of it.

Although  Geo.  Owen  has  retired  from 
agricultural  pursuits,  he  still  maintains 
possession of his  horse  “Billy,”  which  he 
claims has a record not far  iron 2:40.  The 
result is that Geo. spends his Sundays speed­
ing on the avenues,  instead of  attending di­
vine sendee,  as he  should.

Thos. Macleod, who has carried boot  and 
shoe trunks out of Detroit ever  since  there 
was  any  trade  to  sell  to,  and  who  is as 
proud of the M. C. T. A. as a mother is of her 
first-born,  put in a couple of days  at  Grand 
Rapids last week.  Of course he pulled T he 
T radesm an’s latch-string.

The Detroit CommercUd  says,  “the New 
York T.  P. A.  has  just  ordered  the  pur­
chase of $15,000  of  Government  four  per­
cents with a  portion  of  its  surplus.”  The 
purchase is correct,  but it was the  Commer­
cial Travelers’ Association  of  the  State of 
New York—not the T.  P.  A.—which  made 
the investment.

A Traverse  City  young  lady  sends T he 
Tradesm an a somewhat lengthy  commun­
ication relative  to  the  personal  charms  of 
Chas.  E.  Watson and the superiority of  the 
line of fancy goods he  carries.  The contri­
bution concludes as follows:  “It  would be 
simply impossible to  describe  the  contents 
of his eleven trunks.  We  learn  the admir­
ation of the fair  sex  became so annoying to 
Mr.  Watson—being a  married  gentleman— 
that he was obliged to  discard  his  very be­
coming silk hat,  shave  the  elegant  mous­
tache, cause the loss  of  a front  tooth,  and 
otherwise  disfigure  himself,  to  render him 
less attractive,  but all to no purpose.  They 
couldn’t help it—poor girls!”

A Morley  correspondent writes:  Johnny 
McIntyre,  a member of the “grip-sack brig­
ade,” and a  “bummer”  for  Cody,  Ball  & 
Co.,  of Grand Rapids,  was  in  town Satur­
day.  Every  one who  knows  Johnny will 
remember  that  he  is  perfectly  at  home 
wherever he is.  While  in  Mr. Hicks’ drug 
store he concluded that a good  dose of salts 
was what he  wanted  and  while the  others 
were employed he  stepped  behind  the pre­
scription case and  helped  himself.  Just as 
he was setting the bottle down  the proprie­
tor of the store looked  up  and  saw  that he 
had  taken  morphine  instead  of  salts,  not­
withstanding the  fact  that  the  bottle  was 
labelled.  Antidotes were at  once  adminis­
tered and Johnny is now thinking of “what 
might-have been.”

Dave Haugh, A.  F.  Peake, A. A. Howard 
and  Magenta  Headed  Dave  Smith  spent 
Sunday, the 18th, at  the  Cushman  House, 
Petoskey.  The other  boys  decoyed  Smith 
into attending divine service at the Methodist 
church.  As  he  had  never  been to  church 
before,  and  did  not  know  how  to conduct 
himself,  he was the object of  unalloyed  at­
tention  with  about  half  the congregation 
The report that the minister asked Smith to 
make  himself  at  home  bejiind the  pulpit, 
however,  is  probably  untrue.  Neither  is 
T he  Tradesm an  inclined  to  take  any 
stock in the report that  Smith  put  a  bogus

TWENTY-SIX  DOLLARS.

nickle in the contribution box.  In the after­
noon, the other boys asked Smith to join the I 
T.  P.  A., but,  as he did  not  have  a  dollar | 
with him,  Cushman and the three  travelers 
agreed  to  contribute  a  quarter  apiece,  in  * rom t*ie Chicago Furniture Gazette, 
consideration of Red Headed Dave’s treating j  A leading manufacturer of  chamber  suits
them to a genuine Irish  clog  dance,  which  was indulging in  some  vigorous language to 
he executed as well as he did when  he  first  me a few days ago.  “ When I seethe prices at 
j which those State street fellows are offering
came over from Cork. 

How a Job Lot of Grand  Rapids  Chamber 

Suits was Moved.

--------¡cheap  chamber  suits, I  want  to get out of

Purely Personal. 

town Monday to attend the prize fight.

A.  B. Johnson, the Lowell grocer,  was in  been 8elling right along  at 

Edward Telfer,  of  the  firm  of  Telfer & 
Brooks,  goes to Chicago  next  Monday on a 
business visit.

the  business.  There’s  a  little  suit  we’ve
and  ¡t  has
gone well at that price,  but a  few  days ago 
one of my best customers on  West Madison 
street came in with a  war-whoop,  declaring 
that the same suits  were  retailing at $24.  I 
Dr.  W. Ryno, late  of  Coloma,  has  come j  was disgusted, and, calling  my  ruperinten- 
‘How many  of  those  suits 
‘One  hundred,’  he  re-
Geo. E. Herrick,  of the firm of Chittenden  plied.  <Don>t inake another one>, said j  q
& Herrick, pine land operators  at  Cadillac,  don’t want anything to do with them at  the 
was in town over Sunday. 

to Grand Rapids to reside.  He will resume  dent, I asked: 
medical practice. 

bave y0U cut  0ut?’ 

price!’ ”

Peter C. Brooks, of  the  firm of  Telfer & | 

it is a fact that the price of cheap suits in 
Brooks,  is still in  Detroit  and  will not re-  Chicago  is  very  much  demoralized,  and 
move  to Grand  Rapids  for  about  ten days | thereby hangs a tale.
yet- 
Mr.  Whinery, of  the  firm  of  Whinery
Bros.,  grocers at Ida Grove,  Iowa,  has been 
in town several  days  purchasing  three car­
loads of apples.

I  Not  Ion
ago,  a  certain  Grand  Rapids 
house  wanted  money.  They were  in  the 
predicament suggested by the Colorado man, 
when asked whether  he often had  occasion 
to use a revolver. 
“Stranger.” he  replied, 
“you  might  live  in  this neighborhood  for 
twenty yqars and never once need a revolver; 
but if you did happen to need it,  you’d need 
it almighty bad.”

Oscar  B.  Wilmarth,  Treasurer  of  the 
Grand Rapids Felt Boot Co.,  put  in several 
days at Chicago last week, buying raw stock 
for his corporation.
Darwin’s missing link  lias  turned  up  at j 
Th e  Tradesm an office. 
It is in the shape ( 
of a photographic representation  of  Bryant j 
H.  Howig, formerly editor of the Big Rapids 
Herald, but now a denizen of Marshalltown, 
Iowa.

LeGraml Peirce,  of the  firm  of  Peirce & 
White, was out on  the  road  the  last four 
days of last week,  and  report has it that he 
sold all the  cigars  which  can  be  used in 
Northern Michigan during  the  next  ninety 
days.
II.  F.  Hastings,  the  merchandise  broker, 
has gone to Waukesha, Wis.,  where he will j 
spend several months in hopes that the cura- : 
tive properties of the Waukesha  water may 
restore his  health.  He  is  accompanied by I 
his wife and daughter.

Fred.  D. Yale,  of  the  firm  of C.  S.  Yale 
& Bro., was married September  21 to  Miss 
Lizzie Parsons, a young  lady  well  and  fa­
vorably known  here.  Mr.  Yale  lias  been 
congratulating himself  over  the  fact  that 
few of his  friends  knew  of  his  marriage, 
and it affords T he  T radesm an  no  small 
pleasure to be able to be the first newspaper 
to congratulate so worthy a  young  man on 
his accession.

The  T radesm an is iir receipt  of  cards 
announcing the  wedding of  Frank  Jewell, 
of Clark,  Jewell  & Co.,  and  Miss  Jennie 
Agnes  Osterhout,  on  November  4.  Mr. 
Jewell possesses a large heart and a capacity 
for business which will  enable  him to take 
rank,with the foremost business men of the 
eity,  and his bride  is  universally known as 
one of the  handsomest  young  ladies of the 
place,  and  commands 
the  respect  and 
friendship of all who know her.
Cranberry Topics.

Wm.  C’asner  lias  a  marsh  in  Grattan, 
Kent county,  which  yielded  over 100 bush­
els this season.

H.  Tunnison, of  Marion  township,  Osce­
ola county,  pickeil eighty bushels  of berries 
from his marsh this season.

The  Tradesm an  acknowledges  the re­
ceipt of a half bushel of fine bell and cherry 
cranberries from  John  Clarke,  the  veteran 
grower  at  Whitefish  Point,  U.  P.  Mr. 
Clarke has sent fifty bushels to M. C. Russell, 
the  Ottawa  street  commission  merchant, 
where the trade can obtain them.

Grand Traverse  Herald:  S. W.  Thomp­
son,  of Green  Lake  township,  sends  us  a 
box of cranberries, grown on  his  marsh  in 
that town,  which are fine specimens of what 
can be done in this line in  Northern  Michi­
gan.  Mr. Thompson has about thirty acres j 
in one marsh which he  has  ditched  and  is i 
now planting.  The waters  of  Duck  Lake 
are  controlled  and  usetl  for  flooding  this 
marsh.  Mr. Thompson has another farm of ¡ 
238 acres  which  can  be improved at  small 
expense.  This farm contains  eighty  acres 
of  good  cranberry'  land.  This  eoulil  be > 
flooded in four hours’ time.

38,306,939 Pounds of Tobacco.

The  Grand  Rapids  house  needed money 

“almighty bad.”

They came to Chicago for  it,  and  ran  up 
against  an  astute  financier  on  Wabash 
avenue.  They had eight  hundred  chamber 
suits of different patterns, and on these they 
they made a strong effort to realize.  To turn 
these into cash quickly and rapidly, they put 
a low figure—a very low figure—on them.

“We’ll take $15,000 cash for the lot!” said 
they.  The Wabash avenue financier smiled, 
slightly closed one eye, and after a moment’s 
consideration—offered $10,000.”

When the men from G. R. recovered their 
senses and their breath,  they  looked  wear­
ily at each other,  and  for a  time  kept up a 
devil  of  a  thinking.  Finally,  mournfully 
admitting that diamonds were tramps while 
their hand was all clubs, they said:  “We’ll 
take it.”  When  they went  home  next day 
they took $10,000  in  cash,  but  the  world 
was of the hue of  ashes.

Those chamber suits  are  now  strung up 
and  down Wabash  avenue, State street and 
West Madison street.  Every furniture store 
with  any  pretensions  to  style  has  several 
suits in ash or cherry setting in the window 
or on the sidewalk,  sprinkled  all  over with 
! signs naming an  absurdly low  price for the 
suit.  Admiring crowds  stop  and gaze, and 
| remark to each other  that  now  is the  time 
to go  house-keeping,  as  furniture  is very 
cheap.  The Newberry Furniture  Co.  elec­
trify the public by the variety and ingenuity 
of  their  announcements.  On  one  suit is 
three placards.  One says:

Grand Rapids Chamber Suits,

$26.00

j On the other side hangs another sign stating 
I  “This suit $20;” while  upon  the  dresser a 
placard sets forth,  “This  M. T.  Suit  only 
| $25.

Seldom is the public so blessed as to have 

three prices on one  suit.

On State street the malady has assumed a 
! different form.  Hildreth has it, and he gets 
| as low as 11.50 for a little  suit  worth at re­
tail about $20,  in the hope  that Colby, next 
I door, will be blasted  idiot  enough to try to 
I get under  him,  knowing  that Colby is not 
“in” on the  farced  sale.  Alongsitle of the 
| suit he puts a pillow  lounge  upholstered in 
! cretonne at the low figure of $11.00, and the 
j  tickets catch the gaping  crowd,  who  know 
enough to know that  the stuff is worth  the 
j  prices  named,  for  kindling,  at  cord-w ood 
[ rates.
Meantime the  Wabash  avenue  financier, 
j  whose  front  name  begins  with  Joe  and 
ends with Deimel, has  cleared  out  his pur- 
I chase and  doesn’t  deny it  but  only smiles 
when it is intimated that he  has  cleared up 
! a round $5,000, and  he is  looking for  more 
men from Grand Rapids.

This is why  my  friend  on  Canal  street 
howls.  But  he  may  be  comforted.  The 
job lot is about absorbed and prices will soon 
get to a normal figure.

Soon to be Married.

The New Star Mills.

At the annual meeting  of the  Lynchburg 
Tobacco  Association,  Vice-President  Ed­
wards  stated  that  during  the  fiscal  year 
from September 1884 to September 30,  1885, 
The  complete  overhauling  of  the  Star 
the  total  sales  of  tobacco  in  that  city 
flouring mills is now well  under  way,  and
amounted to 38,306,939 pounds.  This places j  the probabilities are that operations  will be
Lynchburg ahead of  any  city  in  the world 
resumed  about  December  15.  Besides  a 
in the amount of loose  tobacco  sold  during 
complete  re-arrangeinent  of  the interior of 
the fiscal year.
the structure, the  improvements  consist  in 
the addition  of  seventeen  sets  of  double 
Odell rolls,  ten of the  best  Smith  middling 
purifiers,  automatic scales which  will show' 
the exact  product  of  every  day’s  work in 
flour, bran,  etc.,  and the very latest and best 
bolts, chains,  etc. A new  and  large  Victor 
turbine  wheel is  to be  put  in,  and  steam 
power provided  for so that it can be attach­
ed and  usetl at a  moment’s  notice.  These 
betterments will make  the  Star mill one of 
the best milling properties  in  the West,  in­
creasing the capacity  to  about  400  barrels 
per day.

“Spare-rib  only  nine  cents  a  pound,” 
mused Harry McDowell, as he stood in front 
of a butclier-shop.  “Spare-rib—spare-rib! If 
the story of Adam and Eve is to be believed 
that must mean woman.  Let me see!  One 
hundred and fifty  pounds would  be  $13.50. 
Wives are deuced cheap. 
I  guess I’ll  have 
to lay in one before the market rises.  Mighty 
uncivilized way of selling girls,  though.”

Put Yourself in His Place.

From the Pittsburg Bulletin.

Oysters!

Don’t eat raw chestnuts in the dark.  How 
would you like to be  a  poor, dear,  defense­
less,  fat little worm and be crashed to death 
by a munching giant?

The fast freight lines have notified us that 
they will  be  ready  to  take  shipments for 
Michigan trade Nov. 2.  Customers of Wm.
Mr.  Whinery,  of  Whinery  Bros.,  exten-  L.  Ellis & Co.’s Srar brand oysters are noti- 
sive grocers and fruit dealers  at Ida Grove,  fled that if they will place their  orders with 
Iowa,  who has been in the city several days  me by  Saturday,  Oct.  31, they  will  have 
for the purpose of purchasing 600 barrels of 1 prompt  shipment  by  first  shipment  from 
apples, has placed the order with  Alfred J.  Baltimore.
Brown.  The fruit  will  fill  four cars,  and 
will cost the purchaser $2 per barrel. 

!  37  Canal street,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

B.  F.  Emery,  care Cole & Emery

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IDtuas ¿tflftebicines

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY. 
One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Two Years—F. H. J. VanEmster. Hay City. 
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, M uskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Y e a r s —Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. 
Next place of  meeting—At Detroit, November
Second Meeting—At Grand Rapids, Mar. 2,1886.

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Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

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Grand Rapids. 

President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
First  Vice-President—Frank  J.  Wurzburg, 
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Second Vice-President—A. B. Stevens. Detroit, 
Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. 
Secretary—S. E. ParkeU* Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—Jacob  Jesson,  ceo. 
G undrum, Frank Wells, F. W.  R.  Perry  and 
. ..
John E. Peck. 
Local Secretary—Will L. White, Grand Rapids. 
Next  place  of  meeting—At  Grand  Rapids, 

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Tuesday, October 12, 1886.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O RGA NIZED  OCTOBER 9, 1884. 

O F F IC E R « .

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President—Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B.Fairchild. 
,
Board  of  Censors—President,  Vice-President 
and Secretary. 
„
Board  of  Trustees-The  President,  Wm.  H.
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
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Wm. L. White. 
Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  il.
Kimm. A. C. Bauer. 
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Committee on Legislation—Isaac >%atts,  o.  n.
Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin.
Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchild,
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.____
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday e\ enmg in
each month. 
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Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening m
Next'Meettng—Thursday evening, November 5, 
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at “The Tradesman” office. 

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Muskegon  Drug Clerks’  Association.

O F FIC ER S .

President—I. F. Hopkins.
Vice-President—John Meyers.

SSSSSHSSSnSSriiA- Sft Friday

Nex^M^Wng—Friday  evening, November 13.

Report of Committee on Trade Interests. *
Mr. President and Gentlemen:

In  offering  this  report  your  committee 
deem it advisable to remark,  that they have 
experienced some difficulty in selecting from 
a subject so wide  and  indefinite,  some  ob­
jects which appeal forcibly to all or at  least 
a majority o.f those  engaged  in our  profes­
sion.  Such as we present, however, appear 
to call for prompt  attention,  and if  consist­
ently carried out will certainly work greatly 
to  the  benefit  of  the  retail  druggists  of 
Michigan.

Certainly one of  the  most  important of 
trade interests is the question of the preven­
tion of “cutting” prices; the attempt to con­
trol the retail prices of  patent  medicines by 
the so-called “Campion Plan,” which at one 
time bid fair to  afford a  measure  of  relief, 
has since our last  meeting completely failed 
of its object; and the  experiment has  dem­
onstrated the impracticability of any scheme 
of this character, however  willing both pro­
prietors and jobbers may be to co-operate in 
carrying out its provisions,  so long  as there 
remains so  pronounced  a  division  on the 
subject in the ranks of the retail trade.

The remedy we  propose  is  that  of  local 
organization.  Let  every  member  of  the 
Michigan State Pharmaceutical  Association 
constitute  himself  a  missionary  to spread 
the gospel and sow the seed of unity;  when 
you return to  your homes  on the  adjourn­
ment of this meeting,  take with  you  a de­
termination to throw aside any prejudice ex­
isting in pour minds against  your  competi­
tor iu  business,  and  proceed  to  make  a 
neighbor of him in the  true  sense  of  the 
word,  rather  than  a  foe.  When  this has 
been accomplished,  the  question  of  “cut” 
prices can be readily solved by the adoption 
of  a local  agreement  to  maintain  regular 
rates.  No doubt  many  are  skeptical about 
the feasibility of this plan,  but  the  success 
which  has  attended  its  thorough  applica­
tion in cities  and  towns  where it has  been 
tried,  proves conclusively that it can be car­
ried to a satisfactory result,  when the  trade 
takes the matter in  hand  with a determina­
tion to achieve success.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
The annual meeting of the Grand  Rapids 
Pharmaceutical  Society  will be  held  next 
Thursday evening,  at which time officers for 
the ensuing year will be chosen.  President 
Wurzburg has served  the Society faithfully 
and well,  and T he T radesm an is  positive 
that it voices the sentiment  of every  mem­
ber when it expresses  the  wish  that  he  be 
retained at the head of the  organization for 
another  year.  Mr.  Wurzburg  occupies  a 
middle  ground  which  renders  him  accept­
able to every faction,  and in view of the ser­
vice he has rendered the Society in  piloting 
it safely through its first year  of  existence, 
it is more than  likely that a unanimous bal­
lot will place the same hand at the helm for 
the  next  twelvemonth.  Frank  Escott,  as 
Secretary,  has also discharged the duties de­
volving upon him with  care and  discretion, 
and common justice would  seem  to  dictate 
that he  remain  where  he  is  for  another 
year.

The meeting is likely to  be  peculiarly  m- 
teresing,  from the fact that the poison ques­
tion is to be  discussed  in  all  its  bearings, 
and that  a  cordial  invitation is  extended 
every  drug clerk  in  the  city to attend the 
meeting and participate in the discussion.
The  Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.
Muskegon,  Oct. 2(3,  1885. 

The drug clerks of  this  city  held  their 
second  meeting at the  Arlington Hotel last 
Friday evening,  Oct.  23, and perfected their 
organization.  The constitution and by-laws, 
as drawn  up by the committee  appointed at 
last meeting were with a very few alterations 
adopted.  The organization will  be  known 
as the Muskegon Drug Clerks’  Association. 
The following officers  were  elected for the 
ensuing term,  which is semi-annual: 

President—I. F.  Hopkins.
Vice-President—John  Meyers.
Secretary and Treasurer—O. A. Lloyd. 
Tne Association is represented by the fol­
lowing members:  J.  C.  Terry,  Fred Heath, 
N. Miller,  O.  A.  Lloyd,  Geo.  Le Fevre, 
Peter Van Dieiise,  John  Meyers,  Louis B. 
Glover,  I. F.  Hopkins,  E.  C.  Bond.

The Association  meets  the  second  and 
fourth Friday of each  month.  After  com­
pleting  the  business  of  the  evening,  the 
meeting was adjoHmed to re-assemble at the 
next  meeting, which falls on November  13. 

O.  A.  Lloyd, Secretary and Treasurer.
Percentage of Quinine in Its Salts.

Salt. 

Percentage.

The following table,  prepared  by Fauset, 
will be found valuably  in  calculating  form­
ulae.
Acetate.................................. vu v * i — ;— 8'
Hydrate (the alkaloid precipitated and
dried........................................................°5.i0
Basic chlorhydrate......................................... 81.60
Lactate.............................................................¿8.-«
Basic  bromhydrate........................................¿«.«y
Valecianate.......................... .........................
Basic sulphate (ordinary sulphate)............74.30
Sulphoreinate.................................................
Neutral bromhydrate.................................... 00.00
Neutral  sulphate...........................................57-24
Tannate........................................................... -i0-,su
John S.* Dunn’s valuable paper on  “Anti­
dotes to be Directed  upon  Poison  Labels,” 
read at the recent convention of the Michigan 
State Pharmaceutical  Association,  will  ap­
pear in full in next week’s issue.

Renovating second hand corks lias  grown 
to be quite a trade.  They are collected from 
the retail liquor stores and junk shops at $5 
a  bushel,  or about  4,000  corks, sorted ac­
cording to size,  the dirt  soaked  out  in cold 
water, and then they are steamed in a boiler 
of hot water the  steam  being  kept  in by a 
piece  of  heavy  carpet,  whence  they  come 
out perfectly shaped.  Next they are allow­
ed to  dry,  and  then  are  trimmed  with a 
sharp knife or passed through a cutting ma­
chine.  They are put on the market as “ac­
commodation corks” for cheap beverage bot­
tles.

extracts, 

Another important and  constantly  grow­
ing burden to the druggist is the  custom  of 
many physicians who prescribe some partic­
ular manufacturer's preparations, taking the 
question of judgment and  selection entirely 
out of the hands of  the  pharmacist,  and re­
ducing  him  to  a  mere vendor of “Jones” 
fluid 
“Browns”  elixirs,  and 
“Smith’s” pills.  This practice  becomes es­
pecially  grievous to the druggist in  the lar­
ger cities,  to whom  are  presented  the  pre­
scriptions of so  large  a  number  of  physi­
cians, each, perhaps, with a  preference  for 
a  different  manufacturer’s  preparations, 
thereby necessitating the  carrying in  stock 
Of an endless duplication of the same article 
under  different  labels.  Your  committee 
therefore  recommend, that  some  action be 
taken by this Association, whereby the phy­
sicians of our State,  at least, may be brought 
to understand that  when  they  prescribe an 
official preparation  they  should  append no 
further qualification but leave the pharmacist 
to dispense his  own or any  other  manufac­
ture which he may consider entirely reliable; 
certainly  this  much  confidence  should  be 
felt by the prescriber before sending his pa­
tient to the  dispenser.

Your committee would further call the at­
tention of the  trade  to  the  desirability of 
shortening  the  time  during  which  drug 
stores are kept  open  for  business. 
In no 
other branch of  legitimate  business  are so 
many hours work required; while in cities of 
25,000 inhabitants or over there may be some 
excuse for  the  practice, particularly  when 
the dealer depends largely on  his  cigar and 
tobacco trade,  in  the  smaller  towns  there 
exists no necessity for it.  There  is no rea 
son why a dnig store  should  not  be closed 
as early as  a  grocery  or  a  baker’s  shop. 
When the customers leam that the druggist 
closes with his  neighbors  in  other lines of 
business,  they  will  secure  their  supplies 
earlier; of course the druggist, as the doctor, 
is a “minute man,”  whose  term  of  enlist 
ment expires only with his  retirement from 
business,  and lie must  be  ready  to  supply 
medicines in cases of emergency at all hours; 
but calls of this nature can  be  as easily a t 
tended to  between nine  o’clock  and  mid­
night as  they are  now  between  midnight 
and seven in the  morning.

We wish also to commend tq youtheclos 
lug of stores on  the  Sabbath,  for at  least a 
portion of the day.  The  druggist is just as 
much entitled to his  one  day  in  seven for 
rest,  as is his  neighbor  who  measures rib 
bons or counts  eggs,  and  concerted  action 
on the part of the proprietors will soon give 
it to him. 
If any desire to know how these 
suggestions work in actual practice we refer 
you  to the druggists of Traverse City, where 
they close  at  seven-thirty  in  winter,  and 
eight-thirty to nine o’clock in summer.

Possibly you may think that these are too 
great undertakings to  attempt, but we must 
bear in mind that  this  Association  was or­
ganized  to  bring  about  needed  reforms 
great and small,  and  the  success  attending 
our efforts to secure a State  pharmacy  law 
proves that there is nothing in the  direction 
of reform in  the  interests  of  trade  from 
which we need shrink, either from the diffi 
culties which present  themselves  or the la 
bors involved.
Let us, therefore, fearlessly and resolute 
ly press forward in our endeavors,  until the 
desired object has been accomplished. 

Respectfully submitted,

J ohn J.  D odds,

Chairman Committee on  Trade Interests.

*  Read before the annual  convention of the 
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
at Detroit, Oct. 14,1885.

Funny isn’t it? 

is the last.

The first thing in  a shoe

/

Original Orders.”

From the National Druggist.

A San Angelo,  Tex.,  druggist  sends  us 
t h e  following as typical illustrations  of  the
orders frequently received at that place:

.

. 

1.  Alurema.
2.  Manrania. 
3.  Romero.
4.  Anusi.
5.  Agengible.
6.  Nuer mareiada.
7.  Alcanpor.
8.  Canela,
9.  Aseite decomer.
10.  Cominor.
11.  Tabon castil.
Translated by  the  patient  pisneer  drug 

clerk,  they are.
1.  Lavender.
2.  German chamomile.
3.  Rosemary.
4.  Anise.
5.  Ginger root.
6.  Nutmeg.
7.  Camphor.
8.  Canella.
9.  Sweet oil.
11.  Castile soap.
E.  Y. Johnson & Co., of Henderson, Ky., 
send us a duplicate of an  order  which  they 
recently received,  with  the  request  to  fill 
the drug part:

brown.

20 yards of indigo blue.
10 yards of cotton flannan.
10 yards of unbleached domestic.
2 peare of shoes,  1 No.  13  and  1  No.  12. 
15 cents of penciles.
Intermediate  Arithmetic.
15 cents  of  Clakomergray  and  Spanish 
10 cents worth grine flak seat. 
Translation:
20 yards indigo blue.
10 yards Canton flannel.
10 yards unbleached domestic.
2 pair shoes—one No. 13, one No.  12.
15 cents’ worth of pencils.
15 cents’ worth of chalk of mercury.
10 cents’ worth of  ground flaxseed.

At H is Old  Tricks Again.

The  other  evening  when  it was raining 
torrents John McIntyre rushed into a  Pearl 
street liquor repository and inquired:

“Say,  is my credit good for an umbrella?” 
“Why, yes—if we have  one,”  responded 
the white-aproned .Ganymede, polishing his 
alleged diamond pin with a piece of chamois- 
skin.  Then he .looked  under  the  bar—not 
very carefully—and said:  “Guess we  ain’t 
got none.”

“Well,  I  am  surprised,”  exclaimed  Mc­
Intyre.  “Why,  I should think  you fellows 
would keep umbrellas here to  accommodate 
the public.”

“What!  just to lend folks?”
“Certainly;  isn’t it good for your trade to 
keep people  dry?”  and  he  lit  out,  taking 
with  him  the  contents  of  the  free  lunch 
counter.”

Antidotes to  Aconite.

Every pharmacist  should  know  what  to 
do in case of accidental  or  criminal poison­
ing.  Aconite is such a powerful poison that 
only prompt action can  possibly prevent fa­
tal results.  The stomach  should  be  imme- 
ately  evacuated by  any emetic  that is at 
hand; then  administer  alcohol,  etherf  am­
monia, or digitalis.  Artificial  heat  applied 
the surface  is  beneficial.  Of  course the 
assistance of a physician should be obtained 
i soon as possible,  but  do not  remain idle 
hile he is coming.

A Ridgeway druggist  sold  a  lady aqua 
ammonia instead of  aqua  distillate and she 
ime so nearly dying that she  tlitnks  some 
damages are due her.  The lady will be sat­
isfied if the druggist pays  the  expenses in­
curred in escaping  death.

Testing white lead  need  not  require pro­
found chemical knowledge to  obtain  pretty 
accurate  results.  One  test  is  to  crush  a 
small  quantity  upon  coarse  paper,  which 
fold and bum,  holding  it  over  the top of a 
plate. 
If good,  bright  grains  of  metallic 
lead will drop; if inferior, the  particles will 
be yellowish and flat.  Another  simple test 
is to determine the  opacity of  the pigment. 
The more opaque it is the better it will con­
ceal a  dark  color. 
If,  therefore,  a  given 
quantity of lampblack is mixed with a given 
quantity of each of the  samples  to  be com­
pared—say 100  grains  of  lead  with half a 
grain of lampblack  and  a few  drops of lin 
seen  oil—on  a  marble  slab  or a  sheet  of 
glass,  and the result  compared  the  differ­
ence will be  at  once  visible.  Pure  white 
lead will yield a  light  drab.  Pure  barytes 
will give black.  The more the lead is adul 
terated with barytes, the darker  will be the 
hue of the drab produced.  The same result 
is obtained if white lead is adulterated with 
oxide of zinc, but the latter  exhibits  a  blu 
ish tint.  A third test for opacity is to  hold 
the samples thus  obtained,  after  they are 
spread on the glasss,  between  yourself and 
the light.  You can then  immediately decide 
which is the most  opaque.

Advanced—Licorice  root,  alcohol,  wood al­
cohol, oil spearmint,  oil wintergreen, canthar­
ides.

Declined—Nothing,

ACIDS.

Acetic, No.  8.................................... 
9  @  ¿9
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........  30  @  35
Carbolic............................................  34  @  36
Citric........ . .......................................  60
Muriatic 18  deg............................... 
3
Nitric 36 deg................................. 
Jl
Oxalic..............................................
Sulphuric  66 deg.............................  
j*
Tartaric  powdered........................   5-,
Benzoic,  English....................V °z
Benzoic,  German............................ 
l*
Tannic...............................................

@

AMMONIA.

Carbonate................................ *8*®  1®
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
“
j» qua 10 deg or  3f............................ 
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 
6

@  18 
14
@  6 
@  7
40@45
40
2 00 
50

BALSAMS.

BA RK S.

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........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground....................................

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb  prime (Powd 95c)...............
Juniper.............................................  ®
Prickly Ash..........

50  ®

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
do 
Lgowood, 34s 
...............
Logwood, 348 
...............
do 
Logwood, a8s’d  do 
........ • •
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.
Arnica__ , ........................................ 
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German.....................

FLO W ERS.

®

80®
_ _
"8©

GUMS.

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... .. .. .. .. .. .. .
Assaiœntida, prime (Powd 35c)
Camphor..................... .  •.............
Catechu. Is (34 14c, 348 18°)
Euphorbium powdered—
Galbanum strained.........................
Gamboge..................... .................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino [Powdered, 30cj.....................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $4.90)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s.
■  i  
Shellac,  English—
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached.............................
Tragacanth......................................  “9
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.
Hoarhound........ , ....................................
Lobelia......................................................
Peppermint..............................................
Rue............................................................
Spearmint...............................................
Sweet Majoram.......................................
Tanzy ........................................................
Thyme......................................................
Wormwood.........................  ..................

■  r«i '

IR O N .

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

35@60 
27 
13

35®
8U(®

40 
3 50 
30 
26 
24 
30
® 1  00

.30

6 40 
20

LEA VES.

®

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)...............   13
Sage, Italian, bulk (34s & 34s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  ®  A)
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................ 
22
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
**
Uva  Ursi...........................................
Belledonna.......................................
'oxglove........................................... 
Henbane........................................... 
Rose, red........................................... 

“9
„ £>
" 8°

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. &’Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  @2 50
“Druggists’ Favorite  Rye..................1 75  @2 00
Whisky, other brands.......................1 10  @1  50
Gin, Old Tom.......................................1 35  @1 75
Gin,  Holland.......................................2 00  @3 50
Brandy................................................ J £5  ™
Catawba  Wines..................................1 25  ©2 00
Port Wines.......................................... 1 35  @2 50

M AGNESIA.

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

22
37
2 &>
®

5  @

O IL S.

Almond, sweet.................................
Amber, rectified.............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz.........................................
Bcrgamont.......................................
Castor...............................................
Croton...............................................
Cajeput............................................
Cassia ....................... ........................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella.......................................
Cloves.......................................
Cod Liver, N. F....................... $  gal
Cod Liver, best........... .
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 18
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $   oz........................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c),.
Juniper woed..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
..............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s .......................
Lemongrass......................................
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ...............
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose $   oz.........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 50)
Salad.................................................
Savin.................................................
Sandal  Wood. German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ..........................
Sassafras..........................................
Spearmint.......................................
Tansy............................................... 4 50
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
Wintergreen...............................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00).......
Wormseed.......................................

do 
do 

65

®  1834 

1 00 

2  00 
75 
1  00 
35 
75 
1 20 
1 20
1  50 
6 00 
9 00 
1 60
2 00 
■75 
35 
50
2 00 
2 01 
»0
1  75
2 00 
80
®  90
2 75 
1 25
50
1 30
3 50 
8  00
65 
@  67 
1  00
4 50 
7 00
60 
@7 00 
@5 00 
®  12
2 35
3 50 
2 00

H AZELTINE,  PERK INS  &  CO.
Sole  Control of our Celebrated

have

Prepared  Paint!

The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE.

Read it.

When our Pioneer Prepared Paint is  put on 
any building, and if within three years it should 
crack or peel off, and thus fail to give  the  full 
satisf action  guaranteed,  we  agree to repaint 
the  building  at  our expense,  with  the  best 
White Lead, or such other paint as  the  owner 
may select.  Should any case of dissatisfaction 
occur, a notice from the dealer will  command 
our prompt attention. T.  H.  NEV1N  & CO.
Send for sample cards  an^  prices.  Address

M il. F A  k Cl

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

POTASSIUM .

Bicromate.................................®
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 27c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................

ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 34s and 34s—
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled.............................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  15o).........................
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)............  11
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 25o)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap,  powdered.............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true........................ ...............„
Rhel, from select to  choice.......... 1.00
Rhei, powdered E. I ...................  ..110
Rhei, choioe cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice out fingers.................

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

SEEDS.

2 30
7
10@12
2 50
22
18
4 00

60

18

75

40

do 

. . . .  

6  @

SPONGES.

do 
do 

do 
do 
do 

M ISCELLANEOUS.

ft  234®  3M

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............. .
Bird, mixed in ft  packages..........
Canary,  Smyrna.............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
15
Celery...............................................
10IK
Coriander, Dest English................
10
Fennel..............................................
Flax, clean.......................................
334®
4  © 434
Flax, pure grd (bbl 334)..................
7  © 8
Foenugreek, powdered..................
434® 534
Hemp,  Russian...............................
10
Mustard, white  Black 10c)...........
75
Quince..............................................
7
14
Worm, Levant...............................
26  @250
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage—
» w
............. 
Nassau 
do 
110
Velvet Extra do do 
Extra Yellow do 
85
............. 
65
............. 
Grass 
do 
75
Hard head, for slate use................  
Yellow Reef, 
1  40
................  
2 23
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.13; $  gal.... 
1 35
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s ....................... 
50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........ 
27
'■
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution............ 
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................ 
45
Alum......................................... 
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  ® 
4
45
Annatto, prime.................... 
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........  
434®  5
7
6  @ 
Arsenic, white, powdered. .*.......... 
50
Blue  Soluble......................... 
Bay  Rum, imported, best............. 
2 75
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
2 00
Balm Gilead  BudB............... 
Beans,  Tonka.............................   .. 
2 00
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00  ®9 75
Bismuth, sub nitrate............................ 
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........... 
50
Blue V itriol.................................... 
6 ® 
Borax, refined (Powd  12c).............  
Cantharides, Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, African... 
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d... 
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ... 
Carmine,  No. 40 ............................... 
Cassia  Buds.....................................
Calomel.  American............  
5
Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
Chalk, precipitate English...........  
12
Chalk,  red fingers..........................  
8
Chalk, white lump..........................  
2
1  60
Chloroform,  Squihb’s.................... 
Colocynth apples...............  
1 50
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
17$
cryst... 
Chloral do 
190
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ... 
1 75
Chloral do 
crusts.. 
Chloroform......................................  77  ®  80
Cinchonidia, P. & W......................  18  ®  23
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   18  ®  23
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................  18  @  20
Cochineal......................................... 
40
Cocoa  Butter......................................  
 
Copperas (by bbl  lc)................................ 
Corrosive Sublimate...............................  
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered....... 
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
Creasote............................................  
Cudbear, prime...............................  
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................  
Dextrine.......  .........................................  
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................  
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
Ether Squibb’s................................. 
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............  
Epsom Salts (bbl. 1%).....................  
rgot, fresh...................................... 
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............... 
Flake white...................................... 
rains  Paradise...................................... 
Gelatine, Cooper’s ..................................  
Gelatine. French  ............................  45  ©  70
Glassware, flint, 78 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
12  ©  17
Glue,  cannet..................................
16  ©  28
Slue, white.......................................
Slycerine, pure............................... 16  ©  20
25®  40
40
Iodoform $   oz.................................
85  ©1  no
Indigo...............................................
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 35  ©  40
@1 00
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co„ boxes
4 00
Iodine,  resublimed........................
1 50
Isinglass,  American.......................
7
Japónica..........................................
10  @  15
London  Purple...............................
T jead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (348 2s 10c & 34s 11c)
8
1  00
Lupuline...........................................
45
Lycopodium....................................
50
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................
1234®  13
75
Manna, S.  F .....................................
60
Mercury............................................
2 80@3 05
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........
40
Moss, Iceland............................^ ft
10
Moss,  Irish.....................................
12
30
Mustard,  English............................
18
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
23
Nutgails............................................
60
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
10
45
Ointment. Mercurial, 34d..............
17  @  25
Paris Green....................................
18
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
3 50
Pepsin......................._......................
Pitch, True Burgundy..
6  @ 7
Quassia  ............................................
92  @ 97
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W............ft oz
93® 97
Quinine,  German............................
85
Red Precipitate.......................3g ft
28
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
1 60
Strychnia, cryst...............................
74  @ 78
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  74
35
Saffron, American.  ...................
Sal  Glauber.....................................
10
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................
990
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Oil
Sal Rochelle.....................................
Sal  Soda............................................
Salicin...............................................
Santonin..........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3cl.....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DcLand’s—
Soap, White Castile........................
........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
........................
Soap, 
do  do 
........................
Soap, Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, .flour..................................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, 34 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................f) ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

®  40
15
50
24
20
1  10
50
45
1  10
8
2  ®  3
50
60
14

334®
3®

2  @

do 
do 

434®

®

7

®  8

O ILS.

V A RN ISH ES.

Capitol  Cylinder................................................. 75
Model  Cylinder...................................................60
Shield  Cylinder...................................................50
Eldorado Engine................................................. 3o
Peerless  Machinery...........................................30
Challenge Machinery......................................... 25
Backus Fine Engine...........................................30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil........................................... -6C
Paraffine, 25  deg.............................................. 1534
Paraffine,28  deg— . . . . ....................................21
Sperm, winter bleached.................................1 40
Bbl  Gal
Whale, winter......................................  70 
75
60
Lard, extra...........................................  65 
Lard, No.  1....................................... . 
65
45 
46
Linseed, pure raw..............................  43 
Linseed, boiled..................... ............  46 
49
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained............  70 
90
Spirits Turpentine.............................   40 
45
No. 1 Turp  Coach................................. 1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp............................................1 80@1 70
Coach  Body...................................... •••2  75®3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1 00®1  10
Extra Turp  Damar..............................1 55®1 60
70®  75
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp........
Lb 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
234® 3 
214® 3 
13® IB 
59®60 
16®17 
634 
634 
@70 
@90 
1 10 
1 40 
1 2001 40 
1 00@1 20

Bbl
Red Venetian............................'  Hi
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........ 
l li
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.......... 
lli
Putty, commercial..................  234
Putty, strictly pure..........'. —   234
Vermilion, prime American..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure...........
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gildersr.....................
White, Paris American............
Whiting  Parts English ollff..
Pioneer Prepared  Faints.......
Swiss Villa Prepared  Paints..

FA IN TS

45

2
70

12

15
90

P i

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turf and the cranberry  plants  are  planted. 
The land is flooded for two or three months, 
from April to about  the  middle  of  June; it 
is then dried off and berries allowed to ripen, 
and picking begins in  September. 
In  a fa­
vorable season  the  profits  of  this  crop are 
immense, the yield being sometimes as high 
as 100 barrels to the acre.  The regular price 
for  picking  is two cents per  quart;  and as 
will be seen the profits  are enormous.  The 
cultivated  berry  is  much  larger  than  the 
wild  berry  found  in  the  marshes  of  this 
State; they become of  a redder  color  when 
ripe, and command from $7 to $15  per  bar­
rel in the  Eastern  market;  they  are  easily 
transported,  and  keep,  with  proper  care, 
eight or nine  months.  There  is  always  a 
ready sale for these berries,  as the market is 
never overstocked,  and  there  is a great de­
mand for them in foreign countries.

Mr. Walker says that the  great  difficulty 
to be contended with in the  Eastern  states 
in the  raising  of  cranberries  is,  first,  the 
high price  of  the lands;  second,  the  great 
delay and expense  of  stripping  the  fields; 
and third, the  uncertainty of  the  supply of 
fresh water; because if  the water  supply is 
short the crop fails,  as  an  ample  supply of 
fresh water is indispensable to the raising of 
cranberries.  The marshes  there are  gener­
ally deep and boggy, and so wet  that plow- 
ing up the same is not attempted, while here 
the  land  could  be  dyked  and  dried,  and 
pumped out, and easily plowed,  and  when 
plowed and the turf rotted,  it would  form a 
better bed for the berry than  can  be obtain­
ed by  the  Massachusetts  system.  All  the 
marshes in this county on  the  shores of the 
river and bay could be cheaply converted in­
to the most valuable' property  for  this pur­
pose anywhere to be found.  The climate is 
just right, the  soil  possesses  every  quality 
for their  production,  and  it  is  hoped  that 
this important industry will soon be largely 
developed and  the  waste  lands  turned  to 
this highly profitable purpose.

Thomas  Sackett,  of  Berlin,  Wis.,  the 
greatest  cranberry  grower  of  that  State, 
when asked what  was  absolutely  essential 
to raise a good crop of cranberries  besides a 
piece of marsh ground,  replied,  water!  wa­
ter! water!  It is well known  that  the sup­
ply of water in any marsh or  small  stream 
may not be sufficient for five out of six years 
to raise  a  good  crop  of  cranberries.  But 
here where water can be let in in inexhaust­
ible supply from  Lake  Huron  or  the  Sagi­
naw river,  the  proprietor  of  the  cranberry 
farm is  absolute  master over this  most im­
portant factor,  and can man make  use  of it 
at pleasure.

MICHIGAN  CRANBERRY  GROWERS.

Dr. A. M. Gerow................................. Cheboygan
Win.  Elliott......................................... Cheboygan
C. T.  Wiekes........................................  — 9°i"y
Dr. W. H. Walker........................................... Glen Arbor
W. W. Barton and Louis Gubbin............Leland
F.  G.  Mack........... .......................... . • ..Romulus
S. H.  Comings................................ ¿a:®4,
Henrv S. Hall..................................Three Rivers
D. C. Leach..................................  
John Clarke......................................... Fish Point
Alexander Barkley................. White Fish Point
Wm. Hawkins..........................White Fish Point

Traverse Chty

Wholesale Grocers,

AOBlffTS  FOR

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

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

KNIGHT  OF  LABOR  PLUG,
WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

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

A M B O Y   C H E E S E .

PURE CANDY Î

PUTNAM & BROOKS
Wholesale Manafactnrers of

AND  DEALERS  IN

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

BANANAS,  FIGS,  DATES,_ 

¡¡tTu-ts,  E to .

O Y S T E R S

SPRING

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

O IL .  C L O T H S

ETC.,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand  Rapids,

M ich igan

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF

T O B A C C O
PLUG  TOBACCO.

Offered in this M arket  are  as follows:

RED  F O X .................................■ 
BIG  D R I V E .................................................-
PATROL 
.................................................
JACK  RABBIT 
......................................... •£
SILVER  C O I N .........................................
P A N IC ................................................................. A
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
BIG  STUMP 
APPLE  J A C K ..........................................A

.................................-

- 

- 

- 

- 

-

A

•£

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

FINE  CUT.

THE  MEIGS  FINE  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor 
STUNNER,  D A R K .................................•£
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T .................................•'
•<
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT 
-  £
FRUIT 
- 
O  SO  S W E E T .................................................

.6

- 

- 

: 

- 

- 

- 

- 

2c less in 6 pail lots.

SMOKING.

ARTHUR’S  CHOICE,  LONG  CUT,  BRIGHT 
- 
RED  FOX,  LONG  CUT,  FOIL 
- 
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

Arthur Meigs & Co.

Wholesale Grocers,

W ho w arrant the same to be unequalled.  W e guar­
antee  every  pound  to  be  perfect  and  all  right  in 
every particular.  W e cordially invite you, when  in 
the  city,  to  visit  our  place  of business,  55  and  57 
Canal st.  IT  MAY  SAVMYOU  MONEY.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

CHECKS.

SXLESIAS.

OSNABTJRG.

BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .33 
|Pepperell,10-4........25
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21  Pepperell. 11-4........274
Pepperell,  7-4........164  Pequot,  7-4.............18
Peppered,  8-4....... 20  Pequot,  8-4.............21
Pepperoll,  9-4....... 224¡Pequot,  9-1.............24
Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Caledonia, XX, oz.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
Prodigy, 02........... H
Economy, oz.........10
Otis Apron.............104
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
Otis  Furniture.......104
Park Mills, No. 00.. 11 
York, 1  oz.............. 10
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
York. AA, extra oz.14
Park Mills, No. 80. .13
Alabama brown__ 7  ¡Alabama  plaid.........7
Jewed briwn..........94 ¡Augusta plaid..........   7
Kentucky  brown.. 104.Toledoplaid...........   7
Lewiston  brown...  94 Manchester  plaid..  7
Lane brown!..........94|New Tenn. plaid...11
Louisiana  plaid—   7 
lUtdityplaid...........   04
Greene, G. 4-4........   64
Avondale,  36..........  84
Hill, 44......................74
Art  cambrics, 30...114 
Androscoggin, 44..  84 
Hill, 7-8....................  05£
Hope,  44.................. 6%
Androscoggin, 54. .124
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 44...............  64
bric, 44.................114
Ballou, 54...............  0
Linwood,  44..........  74
Boott, 0 .4 4 ...........   84
Lonsdale,  44............74
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   7
Lonsdale  cambric.104 
Boott, AGC, 44.......94
Langdon,GB,44...  94
Boott, K. 34..........  64
Langdon, 45............14
Blackstone, AA 44. 7
Mason vide,  44.........8
Chapman, X, 44—  6
Maxwell.4 4 ........  94
Cabot?44................ 04i¡New York Mid, 44.104
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  74 
Canoe,  34...............  4
Pride of the W est.. 11 
Domestic,  30..........  74
Pocahontas,  4 4 ....  74
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9
Slaterville, 7-8.......... 64
Davol, 4-4...............  9
.Victoria, AA..........9
Fruit of Loom, 44..  84
Fruitof Loom, 7-8..  74 j Woodbury, 4-4.......... 54
Fruit of  the Loom,  Whitinsvdle,  4 4...  74
cambric,  4-4........ 11  Whitinsvdle,7-8—   64
G old Medal, 44..  ..  04 VV amsutta, 44..........104
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6  Widiamsville, 36.. .104
Gilded Age............. 8 4 1
Crown.................... 17  I Mason ville TS............8
No.  10........ ............ 124 Masonvido  S........... 104
Coin........................10  Lonsdale....................94
Anchor...................15  Lonsdale A ..............16
Centennial.............  
¡Nictory  O...............
Blackburn.............   8  Victory J .................
Davol......................14  Victory  D................
London.................. 134  Victory  K.................. 24
Paconia.................13  Phoenix A .................194
Red Cross..............10  Phœnlx  B .................104
Social  Imperial... .16  Phoenix X X ............5
Albion, solid........... 5 4  ¡Gloucester.............6
Albion,  grey...........6  Gloucestermourn’g.6
Aden’s  checks....... 54 Hamilton  fancy....6
Aden's  fancy......... 54 Hartel fancy............ 6
Aden’s pink............ 64 Merrimae D..............6
Allen’s purple.........04 Manchester..............6
American, fancy__54 Oriental fancy.........6
Arnoldfancy...........6  ¡Oriental  robes......... 64
Berlin solid............. 5 4 1 Pacific  robes.............0
Richmond................6
Cocheco  fancy........6
Steel River..............54
Cocheco robes.........64
Simpson’s ................6
Conestoga fancy.... 6
Washington fancy.. 
Eddy ston e..............6
Washington blues.  74
Eagle fancy............ 5
Garner pink............ 04
Appleton A ,4 4 ....  74
Boott  M ,44...........   64
Boston* F, 44..........74
Continental C, 4-3..  64 
Continental D, 40 in  84 
Conestoga W, 4 4...  64 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  64 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 34........ 54
Dwight Y, 7-8............54
Dwight Z, 44..........64
Dwight Star, 4 4....  7 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Farmers’ A, 44.......6
Indian  Orchard  14 74
Amoskeag............. 74|Keufrew, dress styl 74
Amoskeag, Persian 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
styles.....................104  Bookfold...............124
Bates.......................74 Johnson  Manfg Co,
Berkshire...............  64 dress  styles..........124
Glasgow checks....  7  ¡Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  74
Glasgow checks, f’y 74 
Glasgow 
checks.  White Mfg Co, stap  74
royal  styles........  8  ¡White Mfg Co, fane 8
Gloucester, 
standard..............  74  Earlston...................8
Plunket....................74 Gordon.......... . 
74
Lancaster...............  8  Greylock, 
Langdale..................7 4 1  styles  ....................124
Androscoggin, 74. .21  ¡Peppereli.  104.......274
Androscoggin, 84..23  Peppereli,  114...... 324
Peppereli,  74........20  Pequot,  74..............21
Peppereli,  84........334 Pequot,  84..............24
Peppereli,  9-4........25  ¡Pequot,  94..............274

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  74
Laconia  B, 74.........164
Lyman B, 40-in.......104
Mass. BB, 44 ..........  51£
Nashua  E,40-in....  84
Nashua  R.4-4........   74
Nashua 0,7-8..........64
NewmarketN.  ....  64 
Peppered E, 39-in..  7
Peppered  R, 44__ 74
Peppered  0 , 7-8—   64
Peppered N, 34__ 64
Pocasset  C, 44.......64
Saranac  R...............  74
Saranac  E...............  9

new  White  Manfg  Co,

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

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

P R IN T S .

dress

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

-8. .

TICK IN G S.

Omega ACA, 44___16
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
Omega SE, 44 .........27
Omega M. 7-8.........22
Omega M, 44.......... 25
Shetucket SS&SSW 114 
Shetucket, 8 & SW. 12 
Shetucket,  SFS  ...13
Stockbridge  A.........7
. 1141Stockbridge frncy.  8

64
Falls, XXXX..........184
Falls, XXX............. 154
Falls,  BB................ 114
Falls,  BBC, 36........194
Falls,  awning........19
Hamilton,  BT,32.. 12
Hamilton,  D..........  94
Hamilton,  H ______94
Hamilton  fancy...10
Methuen AA...........134
Methuen ASA.........18
.11

Atlantic  A, 44.......7 4 ¡Lawrence XX, 44..  74
Atlantic  H, 44........ 7  Lawrence  Y, 30....  7
Atlantic  D, 44........6 4 1 Lawrence LL, 44...  54
Atlantic P, 4-4..........  54 Newmarket N.......6 4
Atlantic  LL, 4-4....  5 4 ¡Mystic Kiver, 44...  54 
Adriatic, 36.............  7 4 ¡Pequot A, 44.
Augusta, 44............  6 4 1 Piedmont,  36........... 6 4
Boott M, 44...........   64 ¡Stark AA, 44............74
Boott  FF, 44..........   74 Tremont CC, 44—   54
Granitevffie, 44—   5 4 ¡Utica,  44.
Indian  Head,4-4...  7  Wacbusett,  44... 
Indiana Head 45-in. 124lWachusett. 30-in. 
Amoskeag, ACA... 14 
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19
Amoskeag,  A ........13
Amoskeag,  B ........12
Amoskeag,  C........11
Amoskeag,  D........ 104
Amoskeag,  E ........ 10
Amoskeag, F ..........  94
Premium  A, 44— 17
Premium  B ........... 16
Extra 44..................16
Extra 7-8........  .......144 ¡Omega A, 7-8
Gold Medal 44........15  Omega A, 44
CCA 7-8....................134  Omega AC A,
CT44.......................14
RC 7-8.......................14
BF7-8.......................16
A F44.......................19
Cordis AAA, 32.......14
Cordis ACA, 32.......15
Cordis No. 1, 32.......15
Cordis  No. 2........... 14
Cordis  No. 3........... 13
Cordis No. 4..
Garner..........
Hookset........ ........  5 Washington....... . ..  4^4
Red  Cross — ........  5 Edwards............. ...  5
S. S. & Sons........ ..  5
Forest Grove.
GRAIN  BAGS.
__ 18 00|Old  Ironsides... ...15
American  A.
.  .2341Wheatland........ . . . 2 1
Stark A ..........
Boston_____ ...........   64 Otis CC............... ...104
! Warren  AXA... ... 124
Everett  blue. 
n.......134 ¡Warren  BB....... ...114
Everett brow
Otis  AXA — ........124 : Warren CC....*. ...104
Otis BB.......... ........114 ¡York  fancy....... .. .13^4
Manville..................  6  ¡8. S. & Sons............... 6
Masgnville.............  6  ¡Garner......................0
Red  Cross...............  74 ¡Thistle Mills............
Berlin.....................   74 Rose.........................  8
Garner....................7 4 1
Brooks....................50  Eagle  and  Phoenix
Mills ball sewing.30 
Clark’s O. N. F.......55
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
J. & P.  Coats..........55
Merricks............. : .40
Wifiimantic 6 cord. 55 
Stafford................. 25
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Hall & Manning... .35 
Charleston ball sew 
Holyoke................. 25
ing thread........... 30
Kearsage................ 84
Armory..................74
Naumkeag satteen.  84  
Androscoggin sat..  84
Peppereli  bleached 84 
Canoe Ri ver...........   6
Peppereli sat..........  94
Clarendon.
Hallowell  lm\i>.......6 4 1 Rockport.................. 7
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7  Lawrencesat............  84
Laconia..................  74 ¡Conegosat...............1

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

PA PE R   CAM BRICS.

SPO O L COTTON.

CORSET JE A N S .

W IG AN S.

“ 

“ 

COAL AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Know Ison quotes as follows:

1  00
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
85
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisville Cement, per bbl.................. 
130
Akron Cement per  Dbl......................... 
1 30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl....................... 
1 30
Car lots 
..................... 105@110
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25@  30
Stucco, per bbl......................................  
.1 75
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 50
Land plaster, car lots ..........................  
2 *50
Fire brick, per  M............................... $25 © $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$5 75©6 00 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 0G©6 25
Cannell, oar lots................................... 
@6 00
Ohio Lump, car lots............................3 10©3 25
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 5005 00 
Portland  Cement.................................  3 5004 00

COAL.

Tbl HicMgai Mesman.

A  M E R C A N T IL E   .TOU RNA I,, P U B L IS H E D   E A C H  

W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A.  STOWE  & BRO., Proprietors.

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

Telephone No. 96,

[Entered  at the  Postofflce  at Grand Rapid*  as 

Sectrtid-ckuss Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 28,1886.

CRANBERRY  CULTURE.
[Continued from 1st page.] 

where in this issue and write for

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices in  Oar  Lots. 

We are prepared to M e Bottom Prices on anytMniie handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON,

3  Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

The Latest Feminine Notion.

A pair of good gaiters stood  on the coun­
ter in a  fashionable  boot and  shoemaker’s, 
says a metropolitan  newspaper man.  Tak­
ing  them up I found  that  they were singu­
larly weighted. 
In each  toe was a  slip  of 
lead,  like those sometimes  put on  trotting 
horses to make them  throw  out  their feet 
freely, while  on  the  inside  of the  ankles 
were small hunks of  leather,  similar to the 
devices for curing horses of the habit  of in­
terfering.  The shoemaker said:  “The girl 
for whom 1 made  tiiose  shoes  to  order ex­
pects that they will  improve  her gait.  She 
lias studied the  treatment  of  horses  as to 
faults of step,  and  her  notion  is that  toe- 
weights and  interferes ' are  what will 
im­
part a freedom and springiness to her walk.

“W orthy of Especial  Mention.”

From the Northwestern Commercial Traveler.
Tub Michigan  T radesm an,  devoted to 
the manufacturing and mercantile  interests 
of the State,  is worthy of especial  mention. 
It lias just entered upon its third  year with 
bright prospects for the future.  Located in 
the prosperous manufacturing city of Grand 
Rapids,  it seems to have caught the spirit of 
progress,  and comes to us every week bright, 
fresh and  newsy.  Although  especially de­
voted to the manufacturing  and  mercantile 
interests of the State the commercial traveler 
comes in for a goodly share of its space.  It 
is with pleasure that we acknowledge much 
valuable information  and  many  of  our ex­
change clippings gleaned  from T he Michi 
c a n  T radesm an.

Drawing His Salary.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle.

Customers were scarce  and  the  clerks in 
the big store  were  idle.  One  was  making 
“$4” artistically on a sheet of wrapping pa­
per, when the head of the firm came up and 
said sharply:

“All,  you  are  sketching,  I  see,  Mr. 

Smith.”

“Yes, sir,” replied Smith  nervously.  “I 
was merely—just—only drawing my salary, 
sir; that’s all.”

W hen  in  w ant  of  a  good  brand  of  OYSTERS, 
don’t  fail to  get  the  famous  PATAPSC0,  which  is 
guaranteed both  as to quality  and price,  Sold only 
by  W .  F.  GIBSON  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich., 
GENERAL  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS, 
and 
dealers in  all kinds  of PRODUCE,  JELLY,  M INCE 
M EAT  and  PAPER  OYSTER  PAILS.
J e lly , M i n c e   iLÆesit  E to .

ENTIRELY  NEW!
Silver Spoon Baking Powder,

3  DOZEN  LARGE  ONE-HALF  POUND  CANS  OF

i A   DOZEN

iA   DOZEN

Æ

Mil?n

y eh awa
«L9

1A  PINT  PITCHERS.F o r   O n l y   $ 7 .5 0 ,

Giving to every purchaser a Glass Pitcher or Comport with each can, at 30 cents. 

7  INCH  COMPORTS.

WE  aUARANTEE 

The SILVER  SPOON Powder to give entire satisfaction.

Arctic  Manufacturing'  Co.,

aHAZTD  RAPIDS, MIOH.

/

“I. M. C,” Best 10c Cigar in Sictiigan.
it 5c Cigar in M u

a

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,

3 0 LE  AGENTS.

OYSTERS!
Eaton  &  Christenson

Are now in the market with 

their Famous

BIG  GUN

OYSTERS,

CAXT2TES  X2T *BAI.TXMOK25  B Y

W .   R. BARITES  <&  C O .

The Well-Known

J. S. Farren & Co.
OYSTERS

ARE  TH E  BEST  IN  MARKET.

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS

WHOLESALE  AGENTS.

COMING  to  GRAND  RAPIDS

IN

CAR  LOADS!

D.  W.  Archer’s  Trophy  Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Morning Glory Core,
0. W, Archer’s Early Golden Prep Core

EVERY  CAN  BEARING  SIGNATURE  OF

OHILLIOOTHE,  ILL.

The  Archer  Packing  Co.
F.  J.  LAMB  &  CO.,
Diamond Brand Fresh Oysters

D. D. Mallory & Co.

WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR  THE

In   Cans or Bulk.  W rite for Quotations.

8  and  10  South  Ionia  Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Small Profits.

From the Chicago  News.

“This has  undoubtedly been a bright sea­
son in nearly every  branch  of  trade,  and 
grocers are little  if  any behind  the best in 
the  increase  in  the  quantity  sold,” said a 
prominent wholesale dealer  the other day.” 
“There is one thing  however,” he contin­
ued,  “in which we have not  taken as many 
strides forward as some  others,  and  that is 
in the  matter  of  prices.  While  there  is 
some finning up in certain lines  a majority 
has held about  the  same  gait as  for a long 
while past, and the  less  one  thinks  of  the 
small margins they have afforded  the better 
it is for his peace of mind.’

No  one  expects  profits  in  groceries, 
throughout,  to come up to those branches of 
trade in which  styles, brands  and  patterns 
change with the seasons or at the behests of 
fashion,  but prices have  ranged so very low 
in some goods that  they  have  hardly  paid 
the cost of  handling.  Sugar,  for instance, 
has been below any point reached during the 
twenty years  succeeding  1861.  This,  with 
full fruit crops, enabled  the  eanners to put 
up a large stock of  first-quality  goods,  and 
dealer,  packer  and  consumer  will be  none 
the worse  for  this  fact.  The  fruit  was 
bought at  twenty-five  per cent,  less  than 
was paid last year,  so there  will be a hand­
some margin of profit in it. The salmon catch 
will be a  hundred thousand  cases  less than 
last year,  and a sharp advance  is  expected. 
Importations were  not  specially increased, 
nor were domestic stocks made much in ex­
cess of ordinary seasons.  While  ridiculing 
the idea of anything  like  a boom,  the deal­
ers assert with great  satisfaction  that  they 
are doing a healthy trade, with a prospect of 
still better results.

The Good Old Days.

“I guess those farmers who are  groaning 
about low prices  and  high  taxes,  and  who 
are longing for the good old  times  don’t re­
member much  about  the  good  old  times,” 
said an Orange county  fanner.  “I  can  re­
member when we  used  to  haul  our  grain, 
butter, pork and eggs  all  the way to  New- 
burg,  going one  day  and  coming  back  the 
next.  We generally got fifteen cents a bush­
el for oats,  and ten cents a pound for butter. 
Seventy-five cents a bushel for wheat  was a 
fancy price. 
If we got six or  eight  cents a 
dozen for eggs we  thought  we  were  doing 
well.  Nice, corn-fed pork,  dressed,  we car­
ried to market for 82  a  hundred.  The but­
ter we put on the market in  those days was 
the genuine  Orange  county  article,  yellow 
as gold and as hard as a walnut. 
I have sold 
tubful  after  tubful  for  ten  cents  a  pound 
that would net me seventy-five cents  easily, 
if I had it, or any like it, to sell now.  That 
was before the Erie Railway  came  through 
here and put us up  to  selling  our  milk  in­
stead of making  it  into butter.  We  didn’t 
have any  lime  kept  eggs  to  sell  in  those 
days, either.  As for taxes,  I paid  8100 for 
my farm of 100  acres  when  I  was  getting 
ten cents a pound for butter.  On  the same 
farm now I pay 842.59,  and I have  sold  my 
entire  dairy  of  milk  for  what  is  equal  to 
more than three time ten cents  a  pound  fox- 
butter.  There is a great deal of humbug  in 
this mourning for the  good  old  days,  and I 
know it.”

She Paid Extra.

From the Detroit Free Press.

A  widow,  whose  age  nxight  have  been 
forty,  went into  business  on  Graxxd  River 
avenue a few weeks ago, and the first  nxore 
was to get a sign painted.  The  services  of 
a sign painter were  secured,  and  when  he 
finished his work lie put  on  his  “imprint” 
by placing his initials,  “W.  A.  H.,”  down 
in the left hand corner of  the  sign.  When 
the widow came to  criticise  the  work  she 
queried:

“What does ‘W.  A.  II.’ stand for?”
“Why,  ‘Wanted  A  Husband,’”  replied 

the painter.

“Oh,  yes—I  see,”  she  mused.  “It  was 
very thoughtful in you,  and  here is a dollar 
extra!”

On a Commercial Basis.

A prominent member of a Boston church, 
says the New  York  Tribune,  in  speaking 
the other day  of  a  possible  change in tlie 
pastorate,  said:  “ 1 think  it  is  a matter of 
buying up stock—excuse  me,  I mean pews.
If  Mr.  -----’s  friends  can  buy  up  pews
enough before the parish  meeting they will 
of  course call him. 
If  the  other  side get
the pews, why, Mr.  -----’s  friends  will get
left.  You laugh, but the control of a church 
is a good deal like the control  of  a bank or 
railroad nowadays. 
If  you  can  buy up a 
majority of the pews you  can  run it to suit 
yourself.”

Effect of Prosperity.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle.

“The com crop of the United  States  will 
will be an immense one this  year,” remark­
ed a grain broker  to  a customer  this morn­
ing.

“Hominy bushels?” queried the customer.
“About one and a half billion.”
“A-maize-ing.”
“Yes, it w ill add  to  our  property  great­

ly.”

crop.”

talk ceased.

“Undoubted; I can  cereal  wealtli  in this 

Then the broker got tired,  and  his  corn’s 

Watering milk in Florida is punishable by 

imprisonment for ten years.

Peas constitute tine of  the  leading  crops 
in Ontario as they do in other  parts of  the 
Dominion.  The crop of the  presexxt year is 
estimated at 16,000,009 bushels.

Grrand llapids,

RINDGE, BERTSCH &  CO.,
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AGENTS  FOR THE

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j of. Women s,  Misses1  and  Childs shoes  is  increasing. 
.Send in 
your orders and  they will  be promptly attended to.

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TIM E  TABLES.

Michigan  Oentral.

D EPA R T.

A R R IV E .

»Detroit Express......................................6:00 am
+Day  Express..........................................12:45 p m
»Atlantic Express.................................... 9:20 p m
Way Freight............................................  6:50 a m
»Pacific  Express...................................... 6:00 am
tM ail..........................................................3:50 p m
+Grand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:50 pm
Way Freight.............................................. 5:15 a in
■(Daily except Sunday.  »Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Gi-eat  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaehingthat city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m.,and  Boston 3:05 p. in. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:50 p. m.

J.T. S c h u l t z . Gen’l Agent.

Chicago ft West Michigan.! rEST-iMPI
Leaves.  Arrives,
(Mail..................................... 9:15 am   4:25 pm
+Day  Express.....................  1:00 p m  9:15 p  m
»Night  Express................. 10:40 pm   5:45 am
Muskegon Express.............  4:15 pm   11:15 am
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge to  Chicago  on 
1:00 p. m., and through coach  on9:15a.  m. and 
10:40 p. m.  trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

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

J. H. C a r p e n t e r ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  M u l l i k e n ,  General  Manager.
Lake Shore ft Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
Express...............................7:15 p m 
Mail...................................... 9:50 am  

Arrive.  Leave.
7:30 a m
4:00 pm

All trains daily except Sunday.
The  train 

leaving  at 4 p. m. connects at 
White Pigeon with  Atlantic  Express  on  Main 
Line, which has Palace Drawing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches from  Chicago  to  New  York and 
Boston without change.
The  train  leaving  at  7:30 a. m. connects at 
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
67 Monre street and depot.

Through  tickets  and  berths 

T. W. M c K e n n e y , Gen’l Agent.

Detroit, Grand  Haven ft  Milwaukee.

GOINO EAST.

GOINO  W EST.

Leaves.
Arrives. 
•(Steamboat  Express..........6:17am 
6:25 am
■(Through  Mail....................10:10 am   10:20 am
(Evening  Express............. 3:20 p m 
3:35 p m
»Limited  Express...............  8:30 p m  10:45 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........  
10:30 am
■(•Morning  Express.............   1:05 p m 
1:10 p m
■(Through  Mail..................  5:10 pm  5:15pm
tSteamboat Express..........10:40 p m  10:45 p m
tMixed.................................. 
7:10 am
♦Night Express....................  5:10 am   5:20 am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Train leaving  at  10:45  p.  m.  will make  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday.
The  Night  Express  has  a  through  Wagner 
Car  and  local  Sleeping  Car Detroit  to Grand 
Rapids.

D. P otter, City Pass. Agent.
Geo. B. Ree v e, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

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Grand  Rapids  ft  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

Arrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30am  11:30am 
Ft.Wayne&Mackinac  Ex  4:10p m 
5:00pm 
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
7:00a m
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
7:15 am
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  5:00 pm   5:30 pm 
Mackinac & Ft. Way r e Ex.. 10:30 a m  11:45 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ae.ll:30p m

SLE EPIN G  CAR  ARRANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at  5:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Sleeping and Chair Cars for Traverse City 
and. Mackinac.  Train leaving at 11:30 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw 
City.
South—Train leaving at 5:30 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car lor Cincinnati.

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

Detroit, Mackinac  ft Marquette.

Trains connect with G. R. & I.  trains  for St. 
Ignaee, Marquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
I leaving Grand Rapid»at 5:00 p. m., arriving at 
Marquette at 1:35 p. m. and6:10p. m.  Returning 
leave  Marquette  at 7:30 a.  m.  and  2:00 p.  in., 
arriving at Grand  ltupids  at 10:30 a.  m.  Con­
nection made at Marquette with the Marquette, 
Houghton  and  Ontonagon  Railroad  for  the 
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.
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Gen’l Pass. & Tkt. Agt.,  Marquette, Mich.

E.  W.  ALLEN.

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EDMUND  D.  DIKEMAN,

F.  F.  -A. ID _A_ NÆ S  O O.'S

D M   AROMATIC

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DETTENTHALER, Jobber  of  Oysters

“The  United  States  produces  but little 
coarse salt  Syracuse turns  out  some,  but 
the amount is small  in  comparison  to  that 
produced by the rest of the world.  Coarse 
salt is known to the trade as  ‘solar salt.’

“Salt  is  used  not  only  in almost every 
species  of  cookery, but  in many ways  not 
usually known.  The finest salt is even used 
in the preparation of chewing tobacco.”

Know Your Goods.

is  good;  he  should 

Every grocer should be  familiar with the 
It is not  enough  that he 
goods he  sells. 
knows from  repeated  sales,  if  an  article 
without  having  any  complaints  as  regard 
to  quality, 
sample 
everything he buys and  thus become famil­
iar with them.  We  heard  one  of  our suc­
cessful grocers  say  that  there  was not an 
article in his store that he had not sampled, 
and therefore  he was able to pass  an intel­
ligent opinion on  all  goods  he  oifered for 
sale.  How many  goods  there  are  bought 
every day by the trade,  on the mere  recom­
mendation of a salesman.  How  many can­
ned goods and other  articles are  bought by 
clever  outward 
is 
wrong; don’t trust the  outside  appearances 
of any canned goods. 
If  you  wish to buy, 
insist on having them  opened and sampled. 
It will make you a  better grocer  if you will 
do so. By these tests you will gain a knowl­
edge of goods that can  be  had  in  no other 
way.  We know  grocers  who never  buy a 
load of flour unless it is  first  tried in  their 
own family,  so }t is  with  many goods  that 
every grocer should be conversant with.  It is 
the only way to attain that high standard of 
excellence desired by the trade. 
If  you de­
sire to elevate the standard of goods sold by 
you, you must become acquainted with them
to  do  so is  by practical
and the only  way 
tests yourself.

appearances.  This 

The Grocery Market.

to  expectasions  and 

Business  and  collections  are  both ful­
ly  up 
the  pros­
pects for a good winter’s trade are consider­
ed very favorable.  Kerosene • took  an  up­
ward turn to the tune  of  He  early  in  the 
week,  and another advance  of  He was sus­
tained before the end of the  week.  Crack­
ers and all sweet goods are up  Kc.  Citron 
is stiffer,  and the common grades of rice are 
a little  easier.  Salmon  and  sardines  con­
tinue to advance,  and black strap has climb-! 
ed about 1c higher.

Candy  is steady  and  more  active.  Al­
monds and  cocoanuts are  higher and chest­
nuts are lower.  New hickory  nuts  will be 
in about November 10.  Florida oranges are 
beginning to come  in  in small  lots.  They 
will be more plenty and  cheaper  in a short 
time.  Choice lemons  are  not  plenty, and 
prices range well up.  Common  grades  are 
cheap.  The new crop of figs is fine in qual­
ity and reasonable in  price.

Only one pound in ten of what  is  sold as 
butter in Chicago,  according to  the  Health 
Commissioner of  that  city,  is  the  genuine 
unadulterated article.

The daily production of petroleum is now 
from 58,000  barrels  to 60,000,  and  the de­
mand is about 70,000  barrels,  so that stocks 
are being diminished  at  the  rate of  10,000 
barrels per diem.

Grocers’ Association of the Ciiy of Muskegon.

O F FIC ER S .

„ 

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President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Keift.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—Wm. Peer.
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.
Board of Directors—O. Lambert, W. 1. McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B.Kelly, A.  Towl  and 
E.  Johnson. 
Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—O.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman.  G am t 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  D.  A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeaunot,  R.  S.  Miner  and L. 
Vincent. 
Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
and A. Towl. 
_ 
Transportation Committee—Wm. B, Keift, An­
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of each month.
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, Oct. 21.

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Michigan  Dairymen’s  Association.

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

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PROVISIONS.

 

 

P O R K   IN   BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing & Provision  Co. 

quote  as follows:
Mess, Chicago  packing......................................  0 75
Clear, Chicago packing........................ 
Extra Family Clear.............................................H 00
Clear, A. Webster  packer................................. 13 25
Extra Clear,  heavy.............................................1* 00
Boston Clear..........................................
A. Webster, packer, short cut...........
Clear back, snort cut............................
Standard Clear, the  beBt.....................
DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy...............................
medium.............................
.* 
“ 
light  .................................
Short Clears, heavy...............................
do.  medium.............................
light...................................
do. 
SMOKED MEATS— CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

.11 00

“ 

Hams, heavy.....................................................10
medium..................................................104
lig h t.......................................................104
Boneless Hams................................................104
Boneless Shoulders........................................    6
Breakfast  Bacon.............................................  8
Dried Beef, extra quality..............................  8
Dried Beef,’Ham pieces................................. 10
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle....................64
64
Tierces  ....................................................
30 and 50 ft Tubs.....................................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases.....................

LARD.

LARD  IN   T IN   PA IL S .

B E EF IN  BA RR ELS.

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft racks..................
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case..............................
5 ft Palis, 6 in a case................................
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case.............................
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts—  
Boneless,  extra.......................................
SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.
Pork Sausage...................................................  7
Ham  Sausage.................. 
124
Tongue  Sausage........ ..................................  10
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................  9
Blood  Sausage.................................................   6
Bologna, straight............................................   6
Bologna, thick.................................................  6
Head  Cheese....................................................   6
In half barrels -..............................................  3  76
In quarter barrels................................

P IG S ’  FEET.

.  9 75 
.13 50

 

Americans  have  invested  about  twenty- 
five million dollars as  capital in  the  petro­
leum  oil  business,  which  gives  work  to 
twelve thousand  hands  at  a  wage  cost  of 
nearly five million dollars yearly.  Over 50,- 
000 tons of sulphur are used in  the distilla­
tion of the  oil.

WM.  IT.  SIMMONS,

PINE  AND  HARDWOOD  LUMBER

And Dealer in Pine Land.  Correspondence solicited with parties having either to sell.

WHOLESALE

OFFICE,  58  MONROE  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A.  L.  TUCKER,

Com m ission  Merchant,

167 South W ater St., CHICAGO.

WE  HAVE  STANDING  ORDERS  FOR  LARGE  AND  SMALL  LOTS  OF  AP­
PLES  AND  POTATOES,  AND  CAN  PLACE  SAME  AT  ALL  TIMES  TO  THE 
ADVANTAGE  OF  CONSIGNORS.  WE  ALSO  MAKE A SPECIALTY OF BEANS, 
DRIED  FRUITS  AND  CRANBERRIES,  AND  ARE  IN  A  POSITION  TO  COM­
MAND  THE  HIGHEST  MARKET  PRICE  ON  SUCH  ARTICLES.

ELASTIC  STARCH!

IT  REQUIRES  NO  COOKING.

Groceries.

GERMAN  POTATOES.

No Bigger  than  Walnuts  and  Sold  at 

Five Cents a Pound.

From the Metropolitan Grocer.

It may seem incredible to  some  to  learn 
that  potatoes  are  imported  from Germany 
into this county,  than which  no  other  por­
tion of the globe has  more  agricultural  ad­
vantages, but  stich  is the  case.  Whether 
the potato  grown in German soil  possesses 
any particular  virtue  not  inherent  in  the 
American-grown tuber,  is a question we are 
not able to answer, but  we  do  know  that 
certain classes  of  people, the  world  over, 
deem imported goods of every  sort superior 
to home products. 
In England and France, 
for instance,  the label of an American house 
claims the first consideration of  the epicure 
in the search of something extra nice.  And 
from our foreign correspondents and person­
al observation  we learn that  everywhere in 
Europe American goods  are  found  on sale 
in immense quantities.  On the other hand, 
it seems perfectly natural, when  we consid­
er this vagary of human nature, to find Ger­
man potatoes in the New York market, with 
plenty of  purchasers in the bargain.

The  particular  German  potato  we  have 
in mind has only lately  gained a prominent 
place on our list of imports.  A  few  years 
ago the receipts  were  from  twenty-five to 
fifty bags yearly.  Last year over 1,000 bags 
of German potatoes were sold in New York 
City alone,  and  this season  the  sales  have 
already reached  that  figure,  showing a re­
markably rapid increase  in  their  consump­
tion.  Noticing this  increase,  and  d -siring 
to find out the cause of their  popularity  we 
called upon an up-town  grocer,  who serves 
a particular class of trade  and  asked to see 
his  German  potatoes.  He  displayed  his 
samples upon a plate  which  held  a  dozen 
or more tubers  the  size  of a walnut.  We 
were surprised to  learn  that,  this  was the 
average size, and that,  in spite  of the seem 
ing disadvantage in  this  respect,  the  Ger 
man potato  was a favorite on the  tables of 
several  of  his  wealthier  customers.  He 
sells  them by weight at five  cents a pound, 
and buys them at 3 cents by the  single bag, 
or 2K cents a pound  in ten  bag lots.  The 
bags will average  about 100  pounds.  Re­
garding the demand,  he informed us that at 
present his sales are  one  bag a  week,  but 
during the winter season  from  three to five 
bage.  Curious to know  whether they were 
bought for  any special  object, we were in 
formed that they were considered  the finest 
potatoes for  salad,  and  are  principally us 
ed for that purpose.  Peeled and  broiled in 
lard or butter,  whole,  without  slicing, they 
make a  specially  attractive  dish.  Boiled 
and served in their  peel  and  eaten with a 
little butter  and  salt,  they are  delightful 
Cooked  this  way.  the  potato  should  be 
broken apart with  the  hand  and  not cut 
with a knife.

A Grocer’s Chat about Salt.

From the Chicago  News.

“There  is  no  commodity  more common 
than salt,  but there  is  none  concerning  the 
production of which the  majority  of people 
know so little,” remarked a grocer as he took 
a handful of coarse salt  from  a  barrel  and 
slowly sifted it through his fingers. 
‘ ‘It has 
always been so common that few  ever  give 
it  a  thought,”  he  continued. 
“Almost 
everybody can tell you something  about the 
manufacture  of sugar,  where  coffee,  spices, 
tea, and  other  staples of the  grocery  trade 
are  found,  and  approximate  the  length  of 
time they have been used.  Salt, however, is 
older than  almost  everything  else  of  com­
mon  table  use. 
It  is  mentionsd  in  the 
Scriptures, and Plato refers to it.

“The  pure  brine  from  which fine salt is 
made is found in immense quantities in sev­
eral parts of the world.  This brine is found 
hundreds  of  feet  below  the  surface. 
It  is 
pumped into vats and passes through differ­
ent  stages  into large  iron  pans, where  the 
water  is  evaporated  by  boiling.  The  salt 
crystals are drawn into molds and subjected 
to a high temperature in a drying-room.  The 
cakes are  crushed  and  sifted before  being 
placed  in  the  bags  for  market.”

“Where  are  some  of  the  largest  salt 

works?”

“At Syracuse, N. Y.; Saginaw, Mich., and 
Cheshire,  England.  The English salt is bet­
ter than ours. 
I  attribute  this  entirely  to 
the exercise of greater care  in  its  prepara­
tion.  Nearly forty thousand tons of English 
salt were received in  New York last  year.”

“How is coarse salt formed?”
“Coarse salt is made from sea  water  and 
is  not  subjected  to  artificial  heat.  The 
strongest salt water is found along the coast 
of  the  Mediterranean  and  its  islands  and 
about the West Indies.  Two  or  three  feet 
of water is run directly from the ocean  into 
shallow ponds, and the entrance to the ponds 
then closed.  The  water  is  evaporated  by 
the sun and wind,  and the deposit of salt  is 
left on the bottom. 
It requires four  or  five 
months  to  evaporate  three  feet  of water. 
The salt is then gathered in piles  like  sand 
and is ready for  delivery.  The  amount  of 
the crop depends entirely upon the water, as 
does the quality to a  great  extent.  A  dry 
and  windy  season  will  produce  the  best 
coarse salt, the crystals being dry and hard. 
If  there  is  but  little  wind and the atmos­
phere is damp the salt will be fine and poor.”

“What is rock salt?”
“Just what the name implies—a  salt that 
is mined.  There are the great salt mines of 
Russia. 
It  is  also  found  in  the state  of 
Louisiana,  in  England,  Ireland-  Austria; 
and San Domingo.  The • Louisiana  salt is 
very  clear  and  pure.  That  of  Austria  is 
absolutely  so,  and  shows  100  parts  of 
chloride of sodium.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

 

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BLUING .

CANNED  F IS H .

AX LE  GREASE.

»01 Paragon 

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.

soaked peas, sardines, salmon.

 
...................................4
BROOMS.

Advanced—Kerosene,  black  strap,  citron, 
Declined—Nothing.
These prices  are  for  cash  buyer8,  who  pay 
promptly and buy in full packages.
Frazer’s ................  
. . . . . . . . 1  80
Diamond  X ...........   80 Paragan25ft pails.1 30
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50|Fraziers, 25 ft pails.1  25
Arctic 4  ftcans 
  45! Arctic 1 ft cans— 2 40
Arctic 4  ft cans....  75 Arctic 5ft cans— 12 00 
Arctic 4  ft cans.  .  1 401 Silver Spoon,3 doz. t  50 
Dry, No. 2............................................ doz. 
2a
Dry, No. 3............................................doz. 
45
Liquid, 4 oz,........................................ doz. 
35
05
Liquid, 8 oz......................................... Soz* 
Arctic 4 oz.........................................*   kross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz...........................................................  ° 00
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   "  ””
Arctic No. 1 pepper box....................................  - J™
Arctic No. 2 
“ uo
Arctic No. 3 
No. 1 Carpet...........2 50 No.  2 Murl.............. 176
No. 2Carpet...........‘3 25 Fancy  Whisk...........100
No. 1  Parlor Gem. .2 75 Common Whisk—   7o
No. 1 Hurl...............2 00
Clams, 1 ft  standards.................................. 1  16
Clams, 2 ft  standards.................................. 1
Clam Chowder,  3 lb........................................oo
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards..................... 1  15
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................  1 90
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic......................................J ¿5
Lobsters, 11b star.........................................J ™
Lobsters, 2 1b star.........................................* 90
Mackerel,lib  fresh  standards..................1  00
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards..................3 oO
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 1b................5 25
Mackerel,3 1b in Mustard........................... »25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled..................................3
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river...................... 1 5o
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river...................... 2 30
Salmon. 1 1b  Sacramento........................... 1 39
Sardines, domestic 4 s ..
............................ 
»
Sardines,  domestic  4 8 .............................. 
15
Sardines,  Mustard  4 s .................................  10
Sardines,  imported  4 s ...............................   J4
Trout. 31b  brook.......................................   4 .>0
Apples, 3 1b standards.................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards........................2 40
Blackberries, standards.............................   «■>
Cherries,  red standard...............................   b0
Damsons.......................................................J  90
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................l  JO
Green  Gages, standards 2 ft......................1 40
Peaches, Extra Yellow..................... -•••••2 40
Peaches, standards............................I  7o@l 95
Peaches,  seconds........................................J 2®
Pineapples, Erie......................................... J 75
Pineapples, standards................................1 50
Quinces........................................................J
Raspberries,  extra.....................................i  JO

CANNED F R U IT S .

CANNED FRUTTS—C A L IF O R N IA .

CHOCOLATE.

Lusk’s.  Mariposa.
2 00 
1  85 
1 85
1 85
2 25
2 20
.3 25 
.  95 
.  80 
.1 65 
.1  05 
.  90 
.1  00 
.1 75 
.1  60 
.  70 
85 
.  90 
.1  00 
.1  00

Apricots....................................2  25
Egg Plums............................,. -2 JO
Grapes.......................................-  J®
Green Gages.............................2  10
Peas...........................................  2 65
Quinces.....................................2  75
Peaches.....................................«  50
CANNED V EG ETA BLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay....................
Beans, Lima,  standard....................
Beans, Stringless, Erie..  ...............
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked..........
Coro,  Trophy....................................
“  Red Seal..................................
“  Excelsior................ ................
Peas, French.....................................
Peas, Marrofat, standard................
Peas, Beaver.....................................
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden.......................
Succotash, standard.........................
Tomatoes, Trophy............................
Tomatoes,  Hillsdale........................
Boston...................... 36jGerman Sweet........... 25
Baker’s .....................38 Vienna Sweet  ........... 23
Runkles’ ................... 351
Green Rio........  9@13  I Roasted Mar... 17@18
Green Java...... 17@27  I Roasted Mocha. 28@30
GreenMocha.. .23@25  Roasted M ex...  @16 
Roasted Rio.... 10@15  (Ground  Rio....  9@16 
Roasted Java ..23®30 
| Package  Goods  @131
72 foot J u te ....... 1 25  172 foot Cotton.... 2 25
60 foot Jute.......  1  00  160 foot Cotton... .2 00
40FootCotton__ 1 50  150 foot Cotton— 1  75
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth......................85@90
Cod, whole................................................
Cod,Boneless............................................. ®4@64
H alibut.................................................. 
i 1©1“
Herring 4   bbls.............................. 
 
Herring, Holland, domestic,  new.............   90
 
Herring,  Scaled.............................................18@22
Mackerel, Penny bbls.................................. 5 50
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, 4   bbls....................... 5 00
“ 
...........   80
“ 
................   70
No. 3. 4  bbls...............................3 50
“ 
12 ft  kits...........................   62
“  10  “ 
55

“ 
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imported  “ 

121b kits 

CORDAGE.

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Catsup, Tomato, pints..........................   @1 00
Catsup, Tomato, quarts  .....................   @1  35
Horseradish,  4  pints............................  @1 00
Horseradish, pints.................................  @1 30
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, 4  pints.........................  ©2 20

Ground. 

SPICES.

Whole.

SUGARS.

STA RCH.

Pepper............... 16@26IPepper..................   @19
Allspice..............12@15 Allspice................   8@10
Cinnamon.......... 18@30 Cassia.....................10@11
Cloves  ................ 15@25 Nutmegs  .............60@85
Ginger  .............. 16@20|Cloves  ...................16@18
Mustard............. 15@30
Cayenne............25@36!
Elastic, 64 packages, per box....................  5 35
Cut  Loaf.................................................  © 74
Cubes......................................................  @  74
Powdered...............................................   @ 74
Granulated,  Standard..........................  
©6 94
Granulated,  oif.....................................   © 64
Confectionery A ....................................  64©  64
Standard A ..............................................6 56© 64
No. 1, White Extra  C............................  6 4©  64
No. 2, Extra C.........................................  64®   64
No. 3C......................................................  54©   6
No. 4 C......................................................  54©   54
No. 5C......................................................  54© 54
Corn,  Barrels......................................... 
30@32
Corn, 4  bbls............................................ 
33@35
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................   @  35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @175
Corn, 44 gallon kegs.............................   @1 60
Pure Sugar....................................... bbl  23®  35
Pure Sugar Drips........................ 4  bbl  30©  38
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 96
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............4  bbl  @  85
Pure  Loaf Sugar.  :.............5 gal kegs  @185
Maple, 4  bbls.........................................  ©85
10 gal.  kegs...............................   @90

SY RUPS.

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PLU G .

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

Japan ordinary.........................  
15®20
Japan fair to good....................................... 25@30
Japan fine...................................................... 35@45
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
GunPowder................................................35© 50
Oolong.....................................................33@55@6C
Congo.............................................................25@30
Sweet  Rose...............34
Fisher’s Brunette__ 35
Meigs & Co.’. Stunner38
Dark AmericanEagle67
Atlas...........................35
The Meigs.................. 64
Royal Game............... 38
Red  Bird....................50
Mule Ear....................65
State  Seal.................. 60
Fountain....................74
Prairie Flow er.........66
Old Congress..............64
Indian Queen............60
Good Luck.................52
Bull  Dog....................60
Blaze Away............... 35
Crown  Leaf............... 66
Matchless..................65! Hair Lifter..................30
Hiawatha..................65 Governor................... 60
Globe  .........................70j Fox’s Choice............  63
May Flower.............. 70j Medallion................... 35
H ero..........................45|SweetOwen................66
Old  Abe.  ...... ...........49|
Rum.........................................................  @40
Monejj.....................................................   @48
©46
Red  Fox..........
@50
Big Drive..................................
@46
Seal of Grand Rapids.............
@46
Durham....................................
©48
Patrol.......................................
@46
Jack Rabbit..............................
@46
Snowflake.
..............................
@46
Chocolate Cream.....................
©44
Nimrod.....................................
@40
E. C............................................
©38
Spread Eagle............................
@35
Big Five Center...............
©46
Woodcock  ...............................
@40
Knigntsof  Labor....................
@46
Railroad....................................
@32
Big Bug....................................
@46
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12................
@37
Black Bear............................. .
@46
King 
.......................................
@38
Old Five Cent Times..............
@63
Prune Nuggett, 121b..............
@46
Parrot  .....................................
©38
Old Time..................................
@40
Tramway.................................
©46
Glory  ........... ..........................
@50
Silver Coin..............................
@36
Buster  [Dark].......................
@36
Black Prince I Dark].............
©36
Black Racer  [Dark].............
©46
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........
@46
Climax....................................
@46
Hold F ast........
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   ©46
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  ©51
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Nobby Twist...........................................  ©46
Acorn......................................................  ©46
Crescent.................................................   @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................  ©40
Spring......................................................  ©46
Crayling.................................................  @46
Mackinaw...............................................   ©45
2
HorseShoe....................................... i...  @44
Hair Lifter..............................................  @36
95
D. and D., black......................................  @36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................  @46
Ace  High, black....................................  @35
Sailors’  Solace.......................................   @46

3c. less in four butt lots.

104@U

 

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9@ 94

84@9

•  STICK.

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 lb BOXES.

................................ 
MIXED

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :
Standard, 25 1b boxes............................ 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 ft  pails............................................  9© 94
Royal, 200 ft bbls.......................................   @84
Extra, 251b  pails........................................10@JO4
Extra, 2001b bbls....................................... 9 © 94
French Cream, 25 ft pails.....................124© 13
Cut loaf, 25 ft cases...................................124®
Broken, 25  1b pails.....................................10@104
Broken, 200 lb  bbls....................................  9@ 94
Lemon  Drops............................................13© 13
Sour Drops.. -..., (....................................13@14
Peppermint  Drops..................................14© 15
Chocolate Drops.;..................................... 
  15
HM Chocolate  Drops.................................... 20
Gum  D rops....................................................10
Licorice Drops................................................. 20
A B  Licorice  Drops........................................12
Lozenges, plain................................................ 15
Lozenges,  printed...........................................16
Imperials............. -...................................... ..15
Mottoes.............................................................15
Cream  Bar..................................................13@14
Molasses Bar.....................................................13
Caramels.................  
18@20
Hand Made Creams......................................... 20
Plain  Creams................................................... 17
Decorated Creams...........................................20
String Rock............................................... 14© 15
Burnt Almonds..............................................  22
Wintergreen  Berries..............................       ..15
Lozenges, plain in  pails.......................  ©124
Lozenges, plain in  Dbls.........................  @11
Lozenges, printed in pails....................  ©124
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.................... 114@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails...................... 12!»©13
Gum  Drops  in pails............................... 7  @74
Gum Drops, in bbls..................................  6© 64
Moss Drops, in pails............................. 10  @104
Moss Drops, in bbld.........................................  9
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails................................124© 13
Imperials  in bbls.................................11  @12
Bananas  Aspinwall.............................
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.........................  @7 50
Oranges, Florida, bbls......................... 5 50@6 00
Oranges, Rodi  Messina......................... 
©6 00
Oranges,  Naples...................................
Lemons,  choice......’.'........................4 50® 5 00
Lemons, fancy.......................................   @6 00
Figs, layers, new,  $  ft..........................15  @17
Dates, frails do  ....................................  @ 4
Dates, 4  do  d o ........   .........................  5 © 54
Dates, skin..............................................
Dates, 4   skin.........................................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft....................114@12
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  1b..................... 104@U
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft...............
Pine Apples, $   doz...............................
PEANUTS.
Prime Red,  raw  $1  ft...........................   4  @ 44
d o ............... 
Choice 
do  ............................  @ 54
Fancy 
Choice White, Va.do  ............................ 
5® 54
Fancy H P..  Va  do  ............................54® 6
Almonds,  Tarragona........................... 18  @184
Ivaca.....................................17  @174
Brazils....................................................   @9
Chestnuts, por bu............,.................... 3 50@4 00
i Filberts, Sicily.......................................12  @124
Barcelona...............................11  @12
Walnuts,  Grenoble.............................. 14  @144
Mar bo.....................................
French...................................
California.............................   @11
Pecans, Texas, H. P .............................11  @13
Missouri................................9  @  10
Cocoanuts, 

100....................................  @4 50

........ 44© 5

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NUTS.

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HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as fol-ows:

HIDES.

Green__$  ft  ©  7 Calf skins, green
Part  cured...  84©  84
Full cured__  
Dry hides and

or cured__
@10
© 94 Deacon skins.
$  piece.......20 @50

kip s...........   8  @12

SH EEP PELTS.

@40
Lambskins................... ..................................80 ©50
Old wool, estimated washed $  ft........ @25
Tallow...........................
........................   44© 44

Fine washed 
Coarse washed... 18@22|

ft 24@27¡Unwashed.......... . 

2-3

W OOL.

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  sellin 
54® 64 
64®  7 
@ 54 
44® 54 
8  @9
7  @ 8
8  @ 9 
¡0  @11 
1  @12
@13
©11

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides.....................
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters....
Dressed  Hogs............................
Mutton,  carcasses....................
Veal............................................
Pork Sausage............................
Bologna......................................
Fowls..........................................
Spring Chickens.......................
Ducks  ................ ......................
Turkeys  ....................................

FR U ITS

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Shad, 4  b b l........................................................2 50
Trout, 4   bbls.....................................................» «¡9

“ 
“  10  “ 

2 oz............................$   doz.l 00
4 oz.......................................1 50
6 oz........................................2 50
“ 
8 oz........................................3 50
“ 
“  No. 2 Taper......................... 1 25
......................... 1 75
“  No.  4 
“ 
4  pint  round...................... 4 50
» 
1 
..................... 9 00
*•  No.  8.......................... ...........3 00
«  No. 10...................................4 25

12ft  kits............................................  ">
............................................  60
White, No. 1,4 bb ls....................................5 50
White, No. 1,12  ft kits.................................1 00
White, No. 1.10 lb kits.................................  8n
White, Family, 4  bbls......................................2 25
Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
2 50
4 00
5 00 
1 50
3 00 
7 50
15 00
4 25
6  00
@16
Cherries, dried, pitted..........................
@35
Citron,  new...........................................
5@54
Currants,  new 
Peaches, dried
Prunes, Turkey, new............................  51£@ b
Paunes, Turkey, old.............................   44® 64
Raisins, new Valencia.......................... 94@10
Raisins,  Ondaras..................................  
_
Raisins,  Sultanas..................................   *4@  84
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels....................  @2 76
Raisius, London Layers.......................  ©3 40
Raisins, California London  Layers... 
Water White........104  I Legal  Test..............9%
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square.........................1  00
Grand  Haven,  No. 200,  parlor...........................1 7»
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor.......................... 2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round..............................1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2...................................................... J 00
Oshkosh, No.  8...................................................... 1 50
Swedish............................................................   7o
Richardson’s No. 8  square................................. 1 00
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................ J  50
Richardson’s No. 74, round................................1 00
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
.............................150
Black Strap..................................................18@19
Porto  Rico................................................... 28@80
New  Orleans, good.....................................38@42
New Orleans, choice................................... 48@50
New Orleans,  fancy...................................52@55

K E R O S EN E  O IL .

m o l a s s e s .

m a t c h e s .

@2 70

4  bbls. 3c extra.

OATM EAL.

do 

P IC K LES.

............................  @3
P IP E S .

Steel  cut................ 5 25|Quaker, 48 fts......... 2 35
Steel Cut, 4  bbls.. .3 00 Quaker, 60 fts.........2 50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 25|Quakerbbls.............6 00
Choice in barrels med............................  @6 25
Choice in 4  
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @3 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,24 gross........   @1  86
American T. D.......................................   @  90
Choice Carolina.......641 Java  .................  @6
Prime Carolina.......64 P atna......................A
Good Carolina........5  Rangoon...........54@54
Good Louisiana...... 6  (Broken..............34@34
DeLand’s pure........64|Dwight’s ...................64
Church’s  ................54 Sea  Foam.................54
Taylor’s G. M......... 54iCap Sheaf..................54

SA LERATUS.

R IC E .

4 c  less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................
28 Pocket..........................   ....................
10031b pockets.......................................
Saginaw or  Manistee............................
Diamond C........... ..................................
Standard  Coarse....................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags....
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, 4  bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................
Parisian, 4   pints..................................   @2 00
75 
Pepper Sauce, red  small
©  90 
Pepper Sauce, green.......
@1 35
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring.......   @1 70

2 30 
2 25 
2 50 
95
1 60
1 65 
80
2 80 
80 
25 
28

SA UCES.

SMOKING

Old Tar......................40< Sweet Lotus.................32
Arthur’s  Choice......22jConqueror.................. 33
Red Fox.................... 26 Grayling......................32
Flirt..........................28 Seal Skin......................30
Gold Dust.................26!RobKoy....................... 26
Gold Block...............30 Uncle  Sam...................28
Seal of Grand Rapids  ¡Lumberman.............25
(ploth).................25; Railroad Boy.............. 38
Tramway, 3 oz........ 40lMountainRose............ 18
Ruby, cut Cavendish35 Home Comfort..........25
I  Boss  .......................... 15 Old Rip........................55
Peck’s Sun...............18;Seal ot North Caro-
linn, 2  oz................48
MinersandPuddlers.28 
Morning  Dew........... 25 Seal of North  Caro-
Chain........................ 22 
lina, 4oz.....................46
Peerless  ....................24 Seal of North  Caro-
Standard..................22 
lina, 8oz.....................41
Old Tom........ .............21 Seal of North Caro-
Tom & Jerry........... 24 
lina, 10oz boxes____40
Joker........................ 25 Big Deal........................27
Traveler..................35 Apple Jack...................24
Maiden.......................25 King Bee, longeut.. .22
Pickwick Club........40!Milwaukee  Prize— 24
26 Rattler....................... 28
Nigger Head..
Windsor cut plug__ 25
Holland......................33
Zero  ...........................16
German......................16
Holland Mixed.......... 16
Solid Comfort............30
Golden  Age............... 75
Red Clover.................33
Mail  Pouch...............25
Long Tom.................. 30
Knights of Lator__ 30
National....................26
Free Cob Pipe............27
Tim e........... ..............26

SHORTS.

Mayflower.................23| Hiawatha...
Globe.......................... 22i Old Congress
Mule Ear....................22|

SN U FF.

Lorillard’s American Gentlemen —
“  Maccoboy............................
Gail & Ax’ 
..........................
Rappee.................................
“ 
Railroad  Mills  Scotch........................
Lotzbeek  ..............................................

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VINEGAR.

Star brand,  pure  cider.......................
Star brand, white wine.......................

..23

@  75 
@  55 
®  44 
@  35 
@  45 
@1 30
.  8@12 
.  8@12

M ISCELLANEOUS.

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Bath Brick imported..........................
American...........................
@3 
Barley....................................................
1 00 
Burners, No. 1 .....................................
1  50 
do  No.  2......................................
60
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand...........
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans...............   15@25
Candles, Star...........................................  @124
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   ©14
Extract Coffee, V.  C........ , ......... .........  
<@80
F elix..........................  
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.  — ............  @35
Gum, Spruce............................................   30035
Hominy, $  bbl...........................................  @4 00
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.................................44® 5
Peas, Green Bush......................................  @1 35
Peas, Split prepared.................................  @ 34
Powder, Keg..............................................  @3 00
Powder,  4  Keg.........................................  @1 75
Sage  .....................................   

1 25

do 

 

OYSTERS AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

New  York  Counts........................... 
F. J. D. Selects................................................. 3*
Selects..............................................................«2
F. J. D............................................................... %
Shrewsbury shells, ^   100............................. 1  -5
Princess Bay  Clams,  100............................. ..75
New York  Counts, ¥   100...............................1 50

35

 

FR ESH   F IS H .

Mackinaw Trout..............................................  7
Whiteflsh........................................................... 7
Cod  ....................................................................If
Sun  Fish...........................................................  “
Rook Bass.........................................................  «
P erch................................................................  4
Duck Bill Pike.............................................    g
Wall-eyed  Pike................................................  7
Smoked White Fish.........................................
Smoked Trout...................................................
Smoked Sturgeon............................................

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Local  shippers  are  offering  $1.25 $  
bbl.  for  fruit  alone,  although  some  outside 
buyers are paying $1.50.  Local dealers hold fall 
fruit at about $1.25 $  bbl.

Beans—Local buyers pay 50c@90c  bu.  for

unpicked and $1 for  hand-picked.

Butter—Michigan  creamery  Is  firm  at  20c. 
Sweet dairy is very  scarce and is  in active de­
mand at 16@1S, while old packed  readily  com­
mands 5®12.  Low grades are in plentiful sup­
ply at 0@8c.

Butterine—Creamery packed commands 18c. 
Dairy rolls are held at 16c and solid  packed  at 
15c.

Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand  at  60 

$  doz.

Cheese—The  best  factories  now  hold their 
product  at  lCc,  which  compells  jobbers  to 
quote  September  and  October make at 104® 
lie.

Cider—10e@124 $  gal. and $1 for bbl.
Celery—20@22e $  doz.  bunches  for  Kalama­

zoo or Grand Haven.

Clover  Seed—No  -selling  demand.  Dealers 
pay $4.50@$5 for medium  seed.  No mammoth 
seed is offered.

Cranberries—The  market  is  well  supplied 
with both cultivated  and  wild  berries,  which 
command $2.50  bu. for choice.

Eggs—Fresh are worth 20c,  and  pickled  are 

moving freely at 18@20c.

Grapes—Concords bring 34@4c 

ft. and Del­
awares, 6@7c.  Niagaras,  20c.  Malaga.  $5.50® 
$6 $  bbl.

Green Peppers—$1 ]9 bu.
Honey—Choice new in comb is Arm atl4@15c. 
Hay—Bailed, $15 in small lots and $13  in  car 

lots.

ft.

Hops—Brewers pay 8@10c 
Onions—Home-grown,  65c $  bu. or $3  $  bbl. 
Pop Corn—Choice commands $1 $   bu. 
Potatoes—Shippers are taking advantage  of 
the favorable weather and good prices offered 
at Southern markets and shipping large quan­
tities.  Price  holds  stiff  and  competition  is 
active  and  strong.  Burbanks  command 35c 
and Rose 32c.

Poultry—Fairly  well  supplied.  Fowls  sell 
forl0@llc;  chickens,  ll@12c;  ducks, 13c;  and 
turkeys, 11c.

Quinces—$2.75 per bu.
Squash—Hubbard, l@14o.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys  command  $2  and 

@ 

3

Baltimores $2.50.

Tomatoes—About out of market.
Turnips—40c $  bu.

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

Wheat—2c  lower.  The  city  millers pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  88;  Fulse,  85o;  Clawson, 
85c.
Corn—Jobbing generally at 54@56c  iu 100 bu. 
lots and 48@50c in carlots.
Oats—White, 33c in small lots  and  28@30c  in 
car lots.
Rye—48@50c $1 bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 ¥  cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $6.75 $  bbl. 
in  sacks  and  $6  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.75  $  
bbl. In sacks and $5 in wood.
Meal—Bolted, $2.75 V bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  #  ton.  Bran, $13 
N ton.  Ships, $14 ^ ton.  Middlings, $17 V ton. 
Corn and Oats, $20 V ton.

CLARK  JEWELL & CO.,

SOLE  AGENTS,

(TRATTO R A P ID S ,

M IC H

tial menagerie.  They  said  to a  huge star, 
“who are you?”

“Uranus,” was the reply.
“You’re another,” said they.
“At  which  the  stars  in  their  courses 

groaned in chorus.

The journey  is  at  last  over  and  with a 
glad cry the voyagewrs strike cheesa flrma.
In a trice Jacques cuts  a  huge  fragment 
from the surface of the moon,  and  wraps it 
in a silk handkerchief.

“Let us descend,” said he.
They try.  Horrors !!!  They cannot  de­

Who can  describe their horrible situation, 
hunting for days on the moon’s  surface,  for 
rocks to put in their  i>ockets, to  give  them 
weight.

At last their powers  fail,  and  they  fall 

fainting in the sand.

Suddenly a cry  rings  on  the  air,  “Sav­
ed !  Saved!!  Saved !!!”  exclaiihs  Jac­
ques in a paroxysm of joy.  “I have  found 
it.”

“What?” gasped his friend.
“A copy  of  a  comic  paper in  my vest 
pocket;  we have nothing  to  do  but  read 
the jokes.”

In a few  minutes  more  the  adventurers 
are falling through the air at a frightful rate 
of speed.

c h a p t e r  v.

The foreman is yelling for  copy,  and  we 

shall have to condense this last chapter.

Jacques—glfid cry—green  cheese—beer— 
Bless you,  my children —Do  you  take  this 
woman?—I  do—superb collation,  elegant— 
$—$—$—newspaper  reporters—$—$—$— 
recherche,  beautiful—accomplished  etc.— 
23 corner  brackets—26  silver  plated butter 
dishes.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

ber Co., Woodville and Diamond Lake.

L. B. Chapel,  Ada.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
J. M. Reid, Grattan.
Ed. Roys, Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
John Graham, Wayland.
Gus. Begman, Bauer.
Mr. Thayer, Wood & Thayer, McBrides.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
Mr. Walling, Walling Bros., Laraont.
I. J. Quick, Allendale.
John Danaher,  Baldwin.
Mr. Jcnney, buyer forGeo. E. Wood, Cadillac. 
Chas. ( ole, Cole & Chaple, Ada.
R. M. Smith, Luther.
A. B. Johnson, Lowell.
McW Idiarns & Co., Lowell.
Den Herder. DenHerder & Tan is,  Vriesland. 
Fred Kieft, Grand Haven.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
A. Purchase, South Blendon.
H. M. Harroun, McLain.
Jacobi DeBri, Byron Center.
C. E. & S. J. Koon.  Lisbon.
E. B. Wright, manager West Michigan Lum­
Dr. O. S. Holland, Ashland.
Adam Wagner, Eastmanvillc.
C. W: Ives, Rockford.
A. L. Power, Kent City.
Jas. Towle,  Greenville.
J. H. Anderson,  Edgerton.
E. C. Foot, West Carlyle.
M. Heyboer,  Drenthe.
J. Wingarden,"Grand Haven.
E. P. Watson, Muskegon.
R. Workman, Zeeland.
D. R. Stocum, Rockford.
J. G. Lamoreaux. Fennville.
Jos. P  Cordes, Alpine.
J. A. Sprague, Bailey.
S. Buckner,  Luther.
John Yarger,  Freeport.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
W. A. Williams,  Alba.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
Jorgenson & Hemingson, Grant.
John J. Ely, Rockford.
A. 13. Foot,  Hilliards.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
H. W. Potter,  Jennisonville.
Saruh Tompsett,  Edgerton.
H. H. Moore, Lakeview.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
Geo. D. Sisson, Sisson &  Lilley  Lumber  Co., 
Wm. McMullen, Wood Lake.
Mr. Cornell, Cornell & Griswold, Griswold.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
T. J. Sheridan & Co., Lockwood.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
T. J. Smedley, Lamont.
O. R. Bush, Stowe’s Siding.

Lilley.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Colorado  Steel  Mills.

An important industrial  feature  may  be  | 
found in the starting up of the Colorado Coal 
& Iron Co., of Bessemer, near Pueblo Color­
ado.  The company  lias  received  large or­
ders for rails,  and  as  it  employs a  good 
many men,  activity at  Bessemer  will  react 
favorably elsewhere in that State. 
Interest 
in Colorado has been  directed to the  advis­
ability of extending tiie manufacture of nails 
and  merchant  bar  iron  there.  Colorado 
nails have  already  supplanted  those  from \ 
Eastern markets in that State.

The tin deposits of New South  Wales are 
estimated by the colonial  geologist  to cover 
an area of 5,440,000 acres, but it is supposed 
that the  area  is  really  much  greater  than 
that, as new fields of tin are  continually re­
ported.

The manufacture of fish glue is conducted 
in the  far  East  by  washing  the  scales  of 
fish and placing  them  in a  glazed  earthen 
jar, which is then stopped and placed under 
water until the scales are reduced  to  a  vis­
cous mass,  which is then  dried. 
In Japan 
a species of algae is softened in  cold  water 
and  then  boiled,  which  dissolves  it.  On 
cooling it forms a solid gelatine  which does 
not impart to  jellies  or  other food the  dis­
agreeable glue  taste  inseparable  from bone 
gelatine.

Headquarters

FOR

Western  Michigan!

VlnoyardL  A. O-

VinoyardL  S. O.

OUT  AROUND.

GREEN  CHEESE.

A Trip to the Moon by an Expectant Lov­

Prom Texas Siftings.

er.

CHAPTER I.

Jacques Courbeaudocq was a  lawyer.
He was a criminal lawyer.
It  is  sometimes  difficult  to  distinguish 
which is the criminal,  and which is the law­
yer, but let that pass.

Lawyers are men who collect  claims on a 

5 per cent,  basis.

t he rest.

You get the 5 per cent.—the  lawyer  gets 

scend.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 
• 

Correspondents.

M a r s h a l l .

The shirt factory formerly owned and op­
erated by Cole & Stone will  be  removed  to 
another location unless our citizens subscribe 
for  stock  to  the  extent  of §10,000.  The 
matter  was  taken  in  hand last week,  and 
already  < >ver  half  the  amount needed  has 
been secured.  When the stock is all taken, 
the manufacturing department  will  receive 
several  new  machines,  with  a view to en­
larging the capacity of the'■factory.

N ew aygo.

The Newaygo Furniture  Factory  is  run­
ning a force of thirty men,  and  turning  out 
some excellent work.  Sales are light, but a 
favorable outlook is spoken for.
Prof. J.  B. McGratn,  formerly  of  Grand 
Itapids,  is soon to be married to  Miss  Lena 
Jacobi,  a daughter of Fred, the jovial Dutch 
store-keeper.
A visit to the  pail  and  tub  factories  re­
veals the fact that those institutions are not 
idle.  On  one  pail  lathe  are  turned daily 
900  pails, and 250  tubs  are  the  result  on 
one tub lathe.  The  paint  shop  gives  em­
ployment to about ten men, and a carload of 
pails and tubs is shipped nearly  every  day. 
An  additional  engine  and boiler are being 
placed in position at the dry-kilns.
Mrs. J. A.  Swan,  who has been limning a 
fancy store and dressmaking  establishment 
in connection, has closed out her stock,  and 
retired from  business.
ltumor has it that M. S. Angell,  a former 
druggist of this place, but recently of Grand 
Itapids,  is coming back to "Newaygo  to  en­
gage in the same business*
The store known as Earl Bros., Bridgeton, 
this county,  has been vacated by them,  and 
taken  possession  of  by  Wm.  Boone,  the 
owner, who resides at Fremont.

H ersey.

Chas.  L.  Gray  &  Co.’s  mill  at  Kvart  is 
completed.
Strawberry  Lake  mill and the  Brown  & 
Gouly shingle mill,  in Cedar, township,  are 
both shut down for the winter.
A  traveling  man  from  Chicago,  selling 
notions,  tried to make a day’s  board bill  by 
checking his baggage to Eyart,  and arriving 
early next morning,  walked to Heed City be­
fore breakfast  to  take the eastbound train. 
Mrs.  Sweet,  the  landlady,  took  the  same 
train to Evart and  attached  the  trunks  for 
board.  The traveling man,  seeing  her take 
passage at llersey,  went  on  to  Sears,  and 
sent the board bill back, but too late to save 
costs.
Potato  buyers are  purchasing  and  ship­
ping the root quite freely to  Baltimore  and 
Louisville.  Twenty-five cents  is  the  price 
paid here.

D e t r o i t .

solved, Wm.  Hamilton continuing.
chattel mortgage on his stock.

Wm.  II.  Harris & Co., jewelers, have dis­
John  Glees  has  discharged  a  $888.23 
J. N.  Smit, the pawnbroker,  is dead.
Wm.  Mitchell’s  feedmill  was  recently 
damaged by fire t<3 the extent of $4,000.  No 
insurance.
Peter Dingeman’s planing mill was recent­
ly damaged by fire to the extent  of $20,000. 
The premises were insured for $12,000.

D ig  Rapids.

the  business 

Fred Dodge, of Stanwood, has  purchased 
the stock of merchandise  of  J. II.  Morrell, 
located on East Maple street,  and will carry 
on 
in  the  same  building. 
Mr.  Morrell  will  continue  his  loan,  insur­
ance and real estate business.
A.  It.  Gilles  does  not  put  in an appear­
ance, although he wrote back to Mrs.  Gilles 
that he would return Saturday  last.  Some­
thing  like  $500  in  attachments  hold  the 
household effects  and it is  understood  that 
Mrs. Giles will allow them to be sold.
S.  S.  Wilcox  &  Co.  have  purchased  the 
building  owned  by  Smith  & Graham  and 
occupied as a livery  stable  and  blacksmith 
shop.  The purchasers have put in a  set  of 
hay  scales  and  will,  in the spring, convert 
me building to their own use.
The  project  to  change  the water works 
system and locate the pumping works at the 
upper dam and use pure  water  from wells, 
with water power instead  of  steam  power, 
was carried by a large majority.  The  trav­
eling fraternity should hail the clnmge with 
delight,  as now the  majority  of  lintels  use 
the filthy river water for cooking  purposes, 
with the whole sewerage of the city  empty­
ing into the river just above the waterworks 
building.
S. J.  Lift,  the clothier,  who  occupies  the 
building  lately  vacated  by Joslin,  is nego­
tiating with the city for the renting of Mich­
igan avenue to plant to corn another spring, 
as  he thinks  travel will not  interfere  with 
the crop.  And still Big  Rapids’ reputation 
continues to draw new firms here.
E.  R.  Keith, formerly of the firm of Verity 
& Keith,  left Saturday  for  Ashville,  North 
Carolina,  accompanied  by  his  wife  and 
daughter.  They  intend  to  make Ashville 
their future home.

Cadil^tc,

than 

During  the  past  two years,  Cadillac  has 
been  suffering  from  not  only  the general 
business  depression,  but  also  from a local 
one of elephantine dimensions,  growing out 
of the heavy failures here in the autumn  of 
1883.  For  the  same  length  of time,  our 
merchants have well-nigh had a struggle for 
existence and many have  been  greatly  dis­
couraged.  Some have gbfle to other places, 
and to-day there are  probably  more  empty 
stores in Cadillac than at any previous  time 
in her history.  However, trade has  of  late 
been steadily improving.  Laborers can find 
employment  at  almost  any  camp,  and at 
much  higher  wages 
last  season. 
Fanners  also  find  ready  market  here  for 
their products and are already moving them 
at  a  lively  rate.  Trade  in  nearly  every 
branch is increasing and a much better feel­
ing  exists  among  our  business  men.  Our 
prospects  for  another  railroad  are  very 
bright, and  a  survey  has  just  been  com­
pleted from Baldwin to this place, mider the 
direction of the Chicago &  West  Michigan. 
The  Toledo  &  Aim Arbor Railway is also 
looking wistfully in this direction,  and  this 
wistful lness is reciprocated to the extent  of 
$35,000 bonus,  voted at last  fall’s  election. 
In addition to the above,  a  business  men’s 
association was organized by our  represent­
ative business men this week, and its object 
will be to encourage  our  present  manufac­
turers,  and if possible induce others to come 
here.  Cadillac is certainly  convalescent.
Andrew  Brien,  contractor  and  builder, 
visited friends in Grand Rapids  last  week.
Newark & Sorensen  and LaBar  &  Corn- 
well are already buying  large  quantities  of 
potatoes,  paying 25 cents per  bushel.  The 
first car of the season was shipped  out  this 
week.  The former  will also purchase  and 
operate  a  hay  press  here and will buy  up 
the hay from the farmers and bail it for the 
local  trade.  This  enterprise  requires  an 
outlay of several hundred dollars.

Lawyers  get  more  rest  than  any  other 

class of professional men.

Jacques had red hair.
It was so fiery that the building  inspector 
ordered him to wear a fire escape  down  his 
back.

The foregoing statement is poetic  license 

—that is,  it’s a lie.

Jacques loved  a  beauteous  maid  named 

Jondrette.

Jondrette’s papa  was  a  retired  sausage 

manufacturer from Chicago.

He had been knighted  by the  New  York 
genealogical bureau on payment of $40. The 
trinity of life to him,  was  his  pipe,  cheese 
and beer.

Love for Jondrette caused  Jacques’ heart 

to beat wildly from mom to night.

It beat so  loudly  as to annoy the  rest of 

the boarders.

But by all means let us avoid turning this 

original romance into a farce.

“I will ask for her  hand,”  said  Jacques.

C H A P T E Il  I I .

A glorious full moon throws her splendid 
radiance o’er the palace of  Jondrettc's papa 
in Fifth Ave.

The family bull dog  is  pouring  forth his 

soul in the back yard.

A young man kneels at  the  feet  of  Jon- 
Ilis hand is  clasped  in  the 

drette’s papa. 
lily-white flipper of Jondrette.

Jondrette is weeping.
In a short space of time she has shed four 

quarts of tears.

To be more explicit—a gallon.
Nothing would soften the  hard  heart  of 

the old man.

and other crimes.

gasped Jacques.

In vain they threaten to  commit  suicide 

“Will nothing  move  your  hard  heart?”

“Yes,  Monsieur,  she is yours-----■”
A wild cry of joy broke  from  the lips of 
the  happy  pair,  and  rang  and  re-ochoed 
through the awful silence of  the  dark dun­
geon-no we mean through the richly f urnisli- 
nished apartment.  (The fact is we were get­
ting this story mixed up with next week’s ro­
mance, and beg the reader’s  pardon for  the 
mistake.)

“On one  condition,”  continued  the  old 

man witli a scornful laugh.
^ .“Name it,” said both in a breath.

“That you bring me a chunk of the green 
cheese from which the moon is made,  to eat 
with my beer,” said the old man with a hid­
eous leer.

Jondrette gave a low moan  and fell faint­

ing over a King Anne rocking chair.

“I will do it,” said Japques.

C H A P T E R   I I I .

For days Jacques tasted nothing.
He  pored  night  and  day  over  works  on 

astronomy.

Memory and appetite alike failed.
He even forgot to charge a  client  $5,  un­
der the head of  advice,  for  asking the  time 
on the steps of the City Hall.

One day the title of an old book on an old 
book-stand caught his  eye—“The Moon, by 
Bjornbog Skijajoghog, the great  Norwegian 
astronomer.

He purchased the book and fell to devour­

ing it like a madman.

Suddenly  a  yellow  paper  fell  to  the 

ground.

It bore the following cypher:
“Noomelit ot yaw sih elddap dnaecapsni 
miws  nac  ell 
.ytivarg  11a  sesol  sthgin 
evif  dna  syad  evif  rof  shgual  ohw  eno 
ynA.

Jacques spent weeks over the riddle.
One day when on the verge of madness he 
happened to look backwards at it.  All was 
clear in a second.

The riddle read:  “Any  one  who  laughs 
for five days and live  nights,  loses  all grav­
ity.  He can swim in space  and  paddle his 
way to the moon.”

“I shall succeed,” said he.
C H A P T E R   IV .

At noon  of  the  17  Fevrier,  two  figures 
were ascending on the car of the high eleva­
tor at Coney Island.

They were Jacques and a friend.
The friend had had a  little  friendly  mis­
understanding with the  bank  of  which  he 
was cashier,  and  gladly  consented to a tour 
for his health.

The  two  men  had  provisions,  a  huge 
cheese knife,  and  40  pounds  of  humorous 
papers.

When they reached the  top of  the  eleva­
tor they looked straight up and  commenced 
to laugh.  They read and laughed and laug- 
ed and read.

People said,  “they are mad.”
For five days and five  nights  they laugh­

ed.

At the end  of  that  time  they  had  no 
weight.  Their gravity was completely over­
come.

They could float in space.
With a glad shout  they  sprang  out  into 
the ether,  and  began  to  paddle  like  mad 
men for the moon.

On and  on  they sped,  paying  their  re­
spects to the Big and Little  Bear,  the  Seal, 

the Walrus,  and other animals in  the celes-if

X

m

RO OFING PLA TES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Tegue................ 5 50
IX, Hx20, choice Charcoal  Teme...........   .  7 00
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Teme................ 11 00
IX, 20x28, cboicC Charcoal Terne.............   14 00

Prevailing  rates at Chicago  are as follows:

AUGERS AND B ITS.

RO PES,

BARROW S.

BALANCES.

Sisal, 14 In. and  larger__ \ ..........................   9
Manilla................ ...........................................  15
Steel and Iron 
Try and Bevel 
Mitre  ...........

Ives’, old  style...................................................dis 60
N. H. C. Co..........................................................dis 60
Douglass’ ........................................................... dis 60
Pierces’ ...............................................................dis 60
Snell’s ..................................................................dis 60
Cook’s  ..................................................... dis40&10
Jennings’, genuine...........................................dis 25
Jennings’, imitation...............................dis40&10 !
SH EET IKO N.
Spring................................................................. dis 25
Nos. 10 to  14.
............................$4 20 
Railroad...................................................... $  13 00 | Nos. 15 to  17
..............*.....2  4 20 
Garden...................................................... net 33 00
Nos. 18 to 21..................................  420 
Nos. 22 to  24..............................       4  20 
Nos .25 to  20.................................  4 40 
No. 27..............................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   tt>...........................  
In smaller quansities, $   lb__ *,............ 
No. 1,  Refined..........................................  
Market  Half-and-half............................ 
Strictly  Half-and-half............................ 

Hand.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
Cow..........................  .......................... dis 
Ho
15
Call............................................................dis 
Gong........................................................ dis 
20
Door, Sargent..........................................dis 
55

SQUARES.
.............................. dis  60&10
..............................dis  50&10
..............................dis 
20
Com. Smooth.  Com.
3 00
3 00

3 10
8 30
3 30
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

6
0*4
13 00
15 00
16

TINNER S SOLDER.

BOLTS.

$3 00

’ 

Stove......................................................dis $ 
40
76
Carriage  new  list...................................dis 
Plow  ...................................................... dis  30&11
Sleigh Shoe..............................................dis 
75
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................... dis 
50
Wrought Barrel Bolts........................... dis 
55
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs...................... dis 
50
Cast Square Spring................................dis 
55
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob...............dis  55&10
Wrought Square....................................dis  55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush.............................dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush..................................................   50&10&10
Ives’  Door............................................... dis  50&10

BRACES.

40
Barber..................................................dis $ 
Backus.....................................................dis 
50
50
Spofford...................................................dis 
Am. Ball.................................................. dis  net
Well, plain........... .......................................$
4 00 
Well, swivel.............................................;  .
4 50

BUCKETS.

BUTTS,  CAST.

Cast Looso Pin, figured........................dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed.........dis
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
Wrouuht Loos«  Pin............................ dis
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned............dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
dis
Wrought Table......................................dis
Wrought Inside  Blind.........................dis
Wrought Brass......................................dis
Blind. Clark’s......................................... dis
Blind, Parker’s......................................dis
Blind,  Shepard’s...................................dis

tipped....................... 

 

60&10 
60&I0 
60&10 
50 Jc 10 
60 
60& 5 
60& 5
60& 5 
60 
60 
85&10 
70&10 
70&10 
70

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10.................................................per m
Hick’s C. F............................................
G. D.......................................................
Musket...................................................

CATRIDGES.

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

C H IS ELS.

Socket Firmer........................................dis
Socket Framing.................................... dis
Socket Corner........................................dis
Socket Slicks..........................................dis
Butchers’Tanged  Firmer...................dis
Barton’s Socket  Firmers.................... dis
Cold.........................................................net
Curry, Lawrence’s.......  ......................dis
Hotchkiss  .............................................dis
Brass,  Racking’s................
Bibb’s ..................................
B eer.....................................
Fenns’...................................
C O PPER .

COMBS.

wO
50
50
40&10
60

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $  to
14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................

D R IL LS

ELBOW S.

EX PA N SIV E  BITS.

Morse’s Bit  Stock................................dis
Taper and Straight Shank...................dis
Morse’s Taper  SoSnk...........................dis
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net
Corrugated............................................ dis
Adjustable.............................................dis
dis
Claris, small, $18 00;  large, $26  00. 
Ives’, 1. $18 00 ;  2. $24 00;  3, $30 00. 
dis
American File Association  List.........dis
Disston’s ................................................dis
New  American......................................dis
Nicholson’s............................................ dis
Heller’s ..................................................dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps........................... dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

GA LVANIZED  IRO N ,
14 

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
15

FILES.

12 

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

$.85
20&10
34&10
20

60
60
60
60
30
33)4

13 
GAUGES.

H IN G ES.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

HOLLOW   W ARE.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ..............dis
50
20
Maydole & Co.’s.....................................dis 
Kip’B...................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes&  Plumb’s................................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel...............30 c list 40
Blacksmith's Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction........ .............dis 
60
40
Kidder, wood track..............................dis 
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3..............................dis 
60
State............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4)4  14
3)4
and  longer..............................................
10)4
Screw Hook and Eye,  )4  .................. net
Screw Hook and Eye %...................... net
8)4
Screw Hook and Eye  5£......................net
7)4
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................net
7)4
60&1Ü
Strap and  T.......................................... dis
Stamped Tin Ware....................................
60&10
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................  20&10
Granite Iron  Ware..................................  
25
Grub  1............................................... $11 00, dis 40
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................  12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings__ $2 70, dis 66*4
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..  3 50, dis 66)4 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings..................................... llst.lO  15, dis 66)4
70
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 1155, dis 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s................... d 
40
Hemacite............... 
50
dis 
66)4
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis
Mallory, Wheelnr  Sc  Co.’s..................... dis
66)4
Branford’s ............................................... dis
66*4
66)4
Norwalk’s.............................  .................dis
65
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...................dis
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s ............................ dis 40&10
Coffee, P. S.&W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s ........dis  40&10
Coffee,  Enterprise.....................................dis  25
Adze  Eye..................................... $16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt Eye..................................... $15 00 dis 40&10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEVELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HO ES.

 

 

N A ILS.

Common. Bra  and Fencing.

2 

2)4 

MAULS.

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

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

PLA N ES.

O IL E R S.

R IV E TS.

PA NS.

Broken packs )4c $  ft extra.

rates.

TIN  PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

10x14, Charcoal.................................  6  00
IC, 
10xl4,Charuoal.................................   7  50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal.................................  6 50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal........ Vf................  8 50
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  6 00
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal................................  7  50
IX, 
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal................................   9  00
IXXX, 14x20, Chareool................................   11  00
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  13 00
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal................................   16 00
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  6 50
DX,  100 Plate Charcoal..............................  8  50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal............................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........................  1250
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 6 75 

TRAPS.

 

WIRE.

Steel, Game......................................................
Oneida Comrauntity,  Newhouse’s .........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s..60&10
Hotchkiss’  ..................................... 
60&10
S. P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s...................................60&10
Mouse, choker.................................. 
,20c^ doz
Mouse,  delusion.......................... ,.-. .$1  50 #  doz
Bright  Market.................................... dis 
60&1C
Annealed Market................................ dis 
70
Coppered Market................................ dis  55&10
Extra Bailing................................ 
dis  55
Tinned  Market...........................................<jjg  40
Tinned  Broom...................................... .’¡¡¡ja>  09
Tinned Mattress...................................... $  ft  8)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................dis 40@40&10
Tinned SpringSteel.................................... dis 37^4
Plain Fence...............................................$  n> 3)4
Barbed  Fence..................................................
Copper...............................................new  list net
Brass................................................. new list net
WIRE GOODS.
Bright.......................................
70&10
Screw Eyes...............................
70&10
Hook’s .....................................
70&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes...........
70&1Ü
WrENCHES.

__ dis
.. ..dis 
....dis 
....dis

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...
Coe’s Genuine............................................
.......dis
50&10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis
65
Coe’s Patent, malleable.....................dis
70
70
Pumps,  Cistern...................................dis 
Screws, new  list.......................................  
80
Casters, Bed  and  Plate...........................disSO&lO
Dampers, American................................. 
33)4

MISCELLAN EOUS.

L V M IIE U ,  L A T H   A N D   SH IN G L ES.

The Newaygo Manufactur 
:ig Co, quote f. o.
b. cars  as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch.......................
....per M $44 00
Uppers, 114,1)4 and 2 inch...
...............  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..........................................
...............  35 OO
Selects, 1)4,1)4 and 2  inch.....................
......  38 00
.. 
Fine Common, 1 inch.............................
30 00 
Shop, 1 inch..............................................
20  00 
Fine, Common, 1)4,1)4 and 2 inch........
32 00 
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet..
16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.....................
16 nO
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.....................
17 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet...
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........... ............  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................
17 00 
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......
12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................
14 00 
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......
12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.. . ....................
14 00 
11  00 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................
12  00 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet........................
13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all
widths and  lengths......................... 8 00® 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ..................... ..  ..  33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch............................. .. 
27 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths..................... 
15 OO
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................  12 On
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 q0
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  ¡14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common.... 
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6  inch.  Clear.....................
10 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 ft............
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
36 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................
29 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C........... .............
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.. No. 1, common..
17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6in.,No. 2 common__
14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
3 10
3 00
X X X 18in.  Thin..........................;........ 

IXXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  

20 00 

2  75
XXX 16 in................................................. 
o. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
1 75
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16 in.............................  
140
Lath  .......................................... .........  1  75® 2 00

WOODEN W Alt.»:.

Standard  Tubs, No.  I.................................... 8 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 2..................................... 7 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 3 ................................... 6 00
Standard Pails, two hoop................................1 60
Standard Pails, three hoop............................ 1  80
Dowell Pails......................................................2 10
Dowell Tubs, No. 1............................. ,...........8 75
Dowell Tubs, No.2...................... ".................7 75
Dowell Tubs,  No. 3........................................ 6 75
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes.........................2 00
Butter Ladles..................................'...............1 25
Rolling Pins.....................................................1 00
Potato Mashers............................. 
75
Clothes Pounders............................................ 2 25
ClothesPins......................................................  65
Mop Stocks.............................................................1 25
Washboards, single......................................... 1 75
Washboards, double........................... 
2 25

 

 

BASKETS.

Diamond  Market............................................  40
Bushel, narrow band......................................1 60
Bushel, wide band..................... .....................1 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 1................ 
3 50
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

 

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

 

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
®13 00
Basswood, log-run.............................. 
Birch, log-run...........................................16 0vJ@20 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.............................  
®25 00
  @13 00
Black Ash, log-run................ 
Cherry,  log-run........................................25 00®35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2..........................   @55 00
Cherry,  cull..............................................10 00@12 00
Maple,  log-run.............................. ,...12 00@14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run..................... 1. .10 00® 12 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2.............................   @16 00
Maple, clear, flooring...................... 
@25 00
Maple, white, selected............  
@25 00
Red Oak, log-run.................................  @15 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2................ 
@20 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank...............  @25 00
Walnut, log-run..................................   @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........................  @75 00
Walnuts,  culls....................................  @25 00
Water Elm, log-run............................ 
@11 00
White Ash,  log-run.................................14 00@16 00
Whitewood,  log-run..........................   @23 00

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—The local  tanners  are offer­
ing $5 per cord delivered, cash.
Ginseng—Local  dealers pay  $1.50@1.6O  $  
for dean washed roots.
Rubber Goods—Local jobbers are authorized 
to offer 40 and 5 per cent, off on standard goods 
and 40,10 and 5 percent, off on second quality.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each 
additional word.  Advance payment.
"ITTANTED—Drug or grocery stock  in  grow- 
VY 
ing  Northern  town,  in  exchange  for 
house and lot, team and cash.  Or will exchange 
house and lot for similar property  elsewhere. 
Address J. L. Handy, Woodstock, Mich.  llOtf

Ill*

110*

’ 
in town.  Good  chance  for  a  man with 6mall 

stock and utensils in trade.  The only oven 
family.  Satisfactory reasons for selling.  Ad­
dress J. Hoare, Pentwater, Mich. 

IjiOR  SALE—Bakery  business,  with  small 
FOR SALE  CHEAP—a   good  80  acre  farm, 

1)6 miles from Bonanza,  Ionia Co., Mich., 
or would trade for new stock goods.  Forty-five 
acres, well-improved, remainder chopped  and 
into pasture.  Price $2,800.  Frank  W. Clark & 
Co., general dealers, Bonanza. 

1 
situated at Casnovia, Mich,, opposite  the  new 

IT'OR  RENT—The  drug  store  building  with 

fixtures, drawers, shelving, counters, etc., 
hotel.  Formerly  occupied  by  Ed.  Farnbam. 
Will rent cheap for drug store.  Address J. M. 
Dean, Grand Rapids, Mich.  Lock Box 20.  110*

’  a live town in  Northern  Michigan.  Only 
drug store.  Reason, otherbusinessthat needs 
my attention.  Will invoice from $600  to  $800. 
Address H, care T h e  T r a d e s m a n . 

IjHIR SALE—A small select stock of drugs in 
C. E. A. VOIGT A CO.
STAR  MILLS,

Proprietors  of the

Ill*

M a n u f a c t u r e r s   o f   t h e   f o l l o w i n g   p o p ­

u l a r   b r a n d s   o f   F l o u r .

“ STAR,”

“ GOLDEN  SHEAF," 

LADIES’  DELIGHT,” 
And “OUR PATENT."

A  F IN E   ASSORTMENT.

WRITE  FOB  PBICES.

Skate Repairs Carried in Stock.

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

DRYDEN & PALMER’S 
ROCK  CA3STDY.
Unquestionably the best in the  market.  As 
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond. 
Try a box.
jolm  OaulfleldL,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.

STEAM LAUNDRT

43 and 46 Kent Street.

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK  AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders  by Mall and Express promptly at­

tended  to.

CLIMAX-
PLUG TOBACCO

Rubber
BOOTS

— W IT H  —

DOUBLE  THICK 

BALL

Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out first on 
the ball.  The CANDEE 
Boots are double thick 
on  the  ball,  and  give
DOUBLE WEAR.
Wnat. economical rub- 
ber Boot in the market. 
Lasts  longer  than  any 
other  boot,  and  the
PRICE NO HIGHER
Call  and  ex­
amine  the 
goods.

SALE BY
E. Gk Studley & Co..

Manufacturers of LEATHER  AND  RUBBER 
BELTING, and all kinds of  RUBBER  GOODS. 
Fire Department and mill supplies.  Jobbers of 
“Candee”  Rubber  Boots,  Shoes  and  Arctics, 
Heavy and Light Rubber Clothing.  Salesroom 
No. 13 Canal street.  Factory, 28  and  28  Pearl 
St., GRAND  RAPIDS. MICH.

OYSTERS!

State Agency for Wm. L. Ellis & Co.’s

BRAND

BALTIMORE OYSTERS
Complete change of prices,  owing  to  an  in­
side price on Freight.  Wecan now give dealers 
an inside price.  B.  F.  EMERY  will  attend  to 
the orders for  Baltimore  shipments  as  usual. 
No slack filled or water soaked  goods handled. 
Our goods are all packed in Baltimore.
COLE  &  EMERY,

Wholesale Fish ani Oyster Depot,

37  Canal  St.,  Grand  Kapids,  Mich.

WAIVER OF DEMAND AND NOTICE.

An indorser of a note does  not  by taking 
security from  the maker waive demand  and 
| notice of non-payment,  according  to the de­
cision of the Rhode  Island  Supreme  Court 
in the case  of, Whittier  vs.  Collins.  The 
court said that  the  current of authority did 
not  sustain the position  to  the contrary as­
sumed by certain  of  the text-book  writers, 
and added:  “The general  rule  of  an  in­
dorser’s  liability  is  so  well  understood  in 
commercial circles that no  exception should 
be engrafted upon it which is  not  required 
by  reason  or  necessity. 
Indorsements of 
negotiable paper have become  such a neces­
sary part of business affairs  that  the  rules 
relating to them should be as simple and sta­
ble as possible. * If they should hedged about 
with  unreasonable  or  unnecessary  excep­
tions the plain man would become bewilder­
ed,  and  the  law,  instead  of  showing  a 
straight path  of  conduct,  would  entangle 
him in a thicket  of  unexpected  liabilities. 
Why should the receipt of security make an 
exception to the rule that an  indorser  is en­
titled to  notice  of  non-payment?  *  *  * 
An  indorser,  receiving  no  notice  of  non­
payment,  may think the note is paid, or may 
be wTongly informed  that  it is  paid,  and 
surrender the security,  only to  learn  later, 
if this -were the doctrine,  that he has waived 
notice, anif is still  liable  without his secur­
ity.  Again, the security he  supposed to be 
good may  prove  to  be  worthlesss.  More­
over,  if the fact  that  the  indorser  would 
eventually lose nothing is  to  effect  his  lia­
bility, the  solvency  of  the  maker,  from 
whom the indorser could eventually recover, 
might be shown with equal reason, as ground 
to hold the indorser liable.  The liability of 
the indorser is not dependent upon  his ulti­
mate loss  or  reimbursement, but  upon the 
rules of mercantile law',  and  hence it  does 
not depend upon the  fact of  security or no 
security.”

F O R G E R Y — C H A N G E   O F   D A T E   O N   C H E C K .
The question,  what is sucli  a material al­
teration in a check as  to  constitute forgery 
and render a bank liable for payments made 
on the altered instrument, was  involved  in 
the case of  Craw'ford  vs.  The  West  Side 
Bank,  decided by the  New  York  Court  of 
Appeals. 
It  appeared  that  on  April  20, 
1882,  the plaintiff,  intending  to  be  absent 
for  some time, on April  22,  drew  a  check 
for $700 payable  on  the  West  Side  Bank, 
payable to the  order  of his bookkeeper, put 
it in his safe and  told  the  bookkeeper  that 
it was there,  and that  if  he,  plaintiff, was 
not back by noon of  the  22d to  take it, in­
dorse it and procure the  money on  it  from 
the bank and  use  it in  plaintiff’s  business. 
The next day the  bookkeeper  changed  the 
date of the  check  from  the  “22d”  to the 
“21st,” procured the money  on  it  from the 
bank and absconded.  The plaintiff brought 
suit against the bank to recover  his balance 
on  deposit.  The  bank  defended,  arguing 
that the loss for  the payment  of  the check 
must fall on the plaintiff, that the bank was 
only bound to know the signature of its cus­
tomer, that it was proper  for  it  to pay  the 
amout for which  the  check  was  originally 
drawn; that the alteration was  not  a mater­
ial alteration,  and consequently  did  not af­
fect the validity of  the  check;  that as the 
bookkeeper  was  Crawford’s  clerk the re­
ceipt of the money by him bound  Crawford, 
the same as if it had been paid  to him  per­
sonally,  the bookkeeper being  his authoriz­
ed agent,  and that  th6  plaintiff  was  negli­
gent.  The plaintiff  contended  that  as  the 
change of date made  the  cheek  payable a 
day  earlier  it  was  a  material  alteration 
which constituted  a  forgery and  made the 
check void,  and  that, beiug  void,  it was no 
authority to the bank to pay the mbney, and 
that on the question of negligence the plain­
tiff could no more have prevented  the alter­
ation than he could have  prevented  a com­
plete fabrication  of  the check, the  parties 
having had a right to rely upon the criminal 
laws of the land to prevent the  commission 
of such a  crime.  The  Court  of  Appeals 
held that the alteration  was a forgery,  and 
that the altered  check  was no  authority to 
the bank to pay  the  money,  and  therefore 
gave judgment absolute to Crawford against 
the bank.

Coal  Production in  France.

In the north of  France the  production of 
coal  for  1884  was  but  9,430,000  tons  as 
against 10,050,000 tons in 1883,  a falling off 
of more  than  6 per  cent.  The  decreased 
output is the  more  significant  of  the  de­
pressed condition of  industries  there,  inas­
much as it is the  first  time it has  occurred 
since 1849. 
It is added  that,  “according to 
the returns for the first half of 1855,  the de­
crease  is likely to be  still  more  marked.” 
The imports of coal into France  during  the 
first half  of  the  current  year  amount to 
about 11 per cent.

Proprietors of

VOIGT  MILLIHG  CO.
CRESCENT
FLOURING  MILLS

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

A T T A C H M E N T — P E N  S IO N   M O N E Y .

Pension money when received or deposit­
ed with or loaned to another may be attach­
ed  or  garnisheed,  and  when  invested  in 
realty  may be  subjected  to  garnishment, 
although conveyed to the  pensioner’s  wife, 
according to the decision  of  the  Kentucky 
Court of Appeals.

C O N S T IT U T IO N A L   L A W — S A L E   O F   L IQ U O liS .
An act passed by the Legislature of  Ken­
tucky  prohibiting  the  sale  of  spirituous 
liquors in Hardin county  was  held  not un- 
constitiition because of prohibiting  the  sale 
of liquor by a druggist to a  physician  to be 
used by the latter for medicinal purposes.

P A B T N E B S H IP — N O T IC E   O F   D IS S O L U T IO N .
As to  persons  who  have  never  had  any 
business transactions with a  firm, notice by 
publication in a newspaper,  published at the 
place of  business  of the firm of its dissolu­
tion or the withdrawal of a  member,  is suf­
ficient; but as to those  who  have  had  pre­
vious dealings with  it,  actual  notice  or its 
equivalent must be showTn to  protect the re­
tiring member from  liability for  debts sub­
sequently incurred in the firm name.  Meyer 
et al. vs.  Krolin  et  al.,  decided by the Su­
preme Court of Illinois.

A S S IG N M E N T  F O R  C R E D IT O R S — M O N EY  P A ID  

* 

B Y   M IS T A K E .

When an assignee for the  benefit of cred­
itors has by  mistake paid over  to a creditor 
a portion of the proceeds of the property as­
signed to which a preferred  creditor was in 
fact entitled a county  court  has  power  un­
der  the  General  Assignment  act  (New 
York), upon petition of the creditor entitled 
to the fund and  upon  notice to  the one re­
ceiving it,  to order the  latter to  return  the 
amount received  to  the  assignee,  to be by 
him paid out as directed by the assignment. 
So held by the New York Court of  Appeals 
in the matter of Morgan.

E V ID E N C E ------B A N K IN G ------ A U T H O R IT Y  

O F

C A S H IE R .

In a suit against private bankers of a city 
or town upon a note given by their clerk and 
cashier for money  borrowed  by him in  the 
firm name and appropriated to his own use, 
in which the cashier’s authority  to  give the 
note is put in issue, evidence of the  custom 
of bankers at such place  to  borrow  money 
on time is proper as  tending  to  show  that j 
the borrowing  of  money  was  within  the 
scope of  the  ordinary and  customary busi­
ness of the defendants.  So held by the Su­
preme Court of  Illinois in the case of Crain 
et al.  vs. the  First National  Bank of Jack­
sonville.

S A L E   O F   R E A L   P R O P E R T Y — M IS R E P R E S E N ­

T A T IO N .

The owners of a distillery desiring^to sell 
wrote,  in  answer  to a  letter of  inquiry,  a 
letter describing  the  property  and  added: 
“If you .will run out  and  see  property and 
it suits we can probably come to satisfactory 
terms.”  The  person to  wiiom  this  letter 
was  written  examined  the  property,  sev­
eral times,  taking with him an  experienced 
distiller,  and  then  purchased  it   The Su­
perior Court  of  Kentucky  held  (Smith vs. 
Fowler)  that  the  purchaser  wras  not in a 
position  to claim  speculative  damages  be­
cause the water  supply was  not as great as 
represented in the letter wriften to him, but 
that letter was manifestly intended to induce 
the purchaser to come and see and act on his 
owrn investigation, as he did.

P E N A L T Y  F O R  R E F U S IN G  T O  T R A S N M 1T   M E S ­

S A G E .

The case of  The  Western  Union  Tele 
graph Co.  vs.  McGuire, decided  by the  Su­
preme Court of Indiana,  arose out of  an ac­
tion to recover a statutory penalty for refus­
ing to transmit a message.  The  defendant 
company set up the plaintiff was a transient 
person or stranger, that his  message requir­
ed an answer, and that a by-law of the com­
pany,  which  plaintiff  refused  to  comply 
with, required  pre-payment  or  deposit  in 
such a case.  The  court  held  that  it was 
fairly inferable that the sender of a message 
was to pay  for  the  answer,  that  the  tele­
graph company had  a  right  to  proceed on 
this natural  inference  and  take  reasonable 
measures to obtain compensation for its ser­
vices, and that a rule requiring  a  transient 
person to deposit the amount legally charge­
able for an ordinary  message  was  reason­
able. 

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W H A T  C O N S T IT U T E S  A  N A V IG A B L E  S T R E A M .
According to the decision  of the Supreme 
Court of Alabama  in  the case of  Lewis et 
al.  vs. Coffee  county,  to  constitute  a  nav­
igable stream it  is not  requisite  that there 
should be sufficient  water for  the  common 
uses of trade and  commerce  during all sea­
sons of the year. 
It must,  however,  as  the 
result of natural causes, be  capable of  val 
uable floatage  periodically  during the year, 
and so continue long enough at each  period 
to make it susceptible of beneficial use to the 
public. 
It must be of  such  character as to 
be of actual,  practical  utility to the  public 
as a channel of  trade  and commerce.  The 
court,  applying  these  rules  held  that  a 
stream of which  the  only evidence of  nav 
igability was that it  “was  a  stream  upon 
which logs  could  be  floated  only at  high 
water, or  during a  freshet, by  the  public 
generally,  to Pensacola, Florida, where they 
were generally marketed,” could  not be ad' 
judged a navigable stream.

G. S. YALE & BRO.

-Manufacturers  of—

BAKING  POWDERS,

BXaIJmG-S,  ETC.,

40  and  43  South  Division,  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN

SH ERW OO D  H A LL.

M ARTIN  L .  SW EET.

ESTABLISHED  1865.

JOBBERS  OF

Wool Robes, 
Fur Robes
Horse  Blankets,
Write fer Special Prices.

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

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

The Great Stump and Rock

Strongest and Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts,

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

H. LEONARD & SIMS,
¡Crockery, Glassware, Etc.

WHOLESALE

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Any merchants intending to put in a 
(stock or replenish their line of Iron and 
Rich Brass Finish Library Lamps, with 
or without  prisms, are invited  to  send 
for our  complete  Illustrations  and net 
prices, which are as low, or lower, than 
have  been  offered  by  any  firm.  Our 
stock was bought late, thus giving our 
customers the  advantage  of  the  great 
reductions made in this  line since Sep­
tember, and is now practically complete.
We would he pleased to have you call 
and look through our sample  room  on 
second  floor  when  in  the  city,  where 
we  are  able  to  show  the  most  com­
plete  assortment  of  goods  offered  in 
Michigan,  some  of  which  cannot  but 
prove  of-interest  to  every  merchant. 
To those who have not received our Il­
lustrated Catalogue, we would ask per­
mission to  forward  one, thus  giving  a 
partial list of our stock, which is  quite 
impossible in newspaper advertising.

H. LEONARD & SONS

16  MONROE  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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APPLES!

W e have a large Western order trade for Apples in car lots, as well as a good local 
demand, and also handle both Evaporated and Sun-dried Apples largely. 
If you  have 
any of these goods to ship, or any Potatoes or Beans, let us hear from you, and we will 
keep  you  posted on market price and prospects.  Liberal cash advances made on dried 
fruit, also on apples in car lots.

EARL  BROS., Commission Merchants,

Reference—First National Bank.
THE GRAND RAPXDS RbXAER MILLS

157  S.  WATER  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL

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MANUFACTURE  A

  IMPROVED PATENT  ROLLER FLOUR.

The  Favorite  Brands are

“ SNOW -FLAKE,”  AND  “ LILY  W H ITE  PATENT,”  AND 

FANCY  PATENT  “ ROLLER  CHAM PION.”

Prices are low.  Extra quality guaranteed.  Write for quotations.

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  C0„

EAST  END  BRIDGE  ST.  BRIDGE,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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99

This new brand of cigars  (to retail at 5 cents)  we put  on  the  market  guaranteeing 
them to equal, if not excel, any cigar ever before offered for the price.  W e  furnish  500 
“Gutter Snipes” advertising the cigar, with every first order for 500 of them.  W e want 
one good agent in every town to whom we will give exclusive sale.

MANUFACTURED  BY

G e o . T . W  a r r e n  & C o

FLINT. MICEC.

H E S T E R   <Ss  FOX,

MANUFACTURERS  AGENTS  FOR

SAW  AJNT3 GRIST MILL MACHINERY, 
FkENGINE

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Semi for 

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WORKS

M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F

I N D I A N A P O L I S .  ! N D „   U .  S .  A .
STElM EHSIN£S »  BOILERS
Carry  Engines and  Boilers In Stock 

(or  immediate  delivery.

Planers, Matchers, Moudlers and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery, 

Saws, Belting and Oils.

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pnlley.  Large stock kept on  band.  Send  for  sample  pulley 

ana become convinced of their superiority.

Write for Prices. 

130 OAKES STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

Ladies’ bustles are used  so  extensively as 
a means of smuggling that the Burnese cus­
toms officers have published a notice declar- 
in that “these  apeudages  must  henceforth 
be searched though with  the  necessary  po­
liteness.”
P E R K I N S   &  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

 & FISHING  TACKLE,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

DEALERS  IN

GUNS,  A

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NOS.  13»  and  134  LOUIS  STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK' OF CAKE TALLOW  FOR MILL  USE.

o. w. b l a in  & co., Produce Commission Merchants
Foreign aid Domestic Frits, Solan  W attes, Etc.

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled at lowest market price.  Corres 
NO.  9  IONIA  »T

pondenee solicited.  APPLES  AND  POTATOES  in car lots  Specialties. 

-DEALERS  IN-

Wbotale  H o iissM -M t H iss'a Specialty.

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

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

No. 1 Egg Crates  for Sale.  Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used.  50 cents each. ^

97  and 99 Canal Street, 

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

Manufacturers o f the  Following Pop­

ular Brands of Flours

1 CRESCENT,”

“ WHITE  ROSE,”

“ MORNING  GLORY,”

“ ROYAL  PATENT,” and 

“ ALL WHEAT,” Flour.

CHOICE BUTTER A SPECIALTY! 
CALIFORNIA  AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRUITS  AND VEGETABLES.  Care- 
fid A ttention Paid to Filling Orders.

M.  G.  RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st, Grand Rapids.

