The  Michigan  Tradesman.

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VOL. 3.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  W EDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  11,  1885.”

PEIRCE & WHITE,

JOBBERS OF

CHOICE  IMPORTED  AND 

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th.e Trade.

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both for field and garden, 
Parties  in  want  should 
write to or see the

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our unusually complete stock of
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We have greatly increased our facilities for 
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LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,

(Successor to P. Spitz,)

SOLE  AGENT  OF

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•  «  CHICAGO,  ILL.

TH E  SINS  OF  TH E  FATHERS.
The  first  of  April  in  Lancaster  county, 
Pennsylvania,  is  something  more than All- 
Fools’ Day; it is the great day for adjusting 
all the accounts for  the  year  past,  and for 
entering into  engagements  for  the  year to 
come.  For generations the farmers of  that 
region have crowded  the  year’s business as 
far as  possible  into  that  one  day,  and  it 
probably never occurs to them that accounts 
might more conveniently be settled oftener. 
Ideas have never made rapid progress among 
these slow-going tillers  of  the  soil,  whose 
thorough  conservatism  resisted  the  free- 
school system as long  as  possible.  As  the 
fathers have done so  must  the  sons,  so far 
as circumstances will permit.  Thus  it was 
that on the first of April  five  years  ago, as 
on  scores of  such former anniversaries, the 
county roads were noisy with the passing of 
fann wagons,  all headed in the  same direc­
tion,  and  with  the  town  of  Lancaster as 
their  destination.  Long  before  light  had 
many of the drivers begun their journey, for 
much was to be done ere they could  return. 
The yellow oil-cloth-covered wagons of  the 
Amish fanners were occasionally to be seen, 
but were not as  numerous  as  the  less-con­
spicuous vehicles of tlieir Mennonite  neigh­
bors.  On reaching Lancaster these were all 
ranged in long rows in front  of  the smaller 
taverns with which the city abounds,  while 
the drivers crowded  the  banks,  drawing or 
depositing  money, and  elbowed  tlieir  way 
into the stores and  shops  to make tlieir an­
nual  payments.

“Come,  let us  pass,  will  you?” he  said 
sharply,  and with a lumbering  gait the far­
mer moved aside.

“That is another of your  county million 
ayes,  I suppose,  isn’t  he,  Clem?” question 
ed the other a moment after.

“I don’t know  him,”  was  the  response 
“but lie may be,  for most of these  Mennon­
ite farmers are  well  off,  especially if  they 
are tobacco raisers.”

The latter part  of  Singleton’s  assertion 
was true enough,  but  Heinrich  Bruner,  the 
man who had so deliberately made room for 
the young  men, was  far  from  being  rich, 
though by no means a poor  man.  Like the 
other farmers, he had been making his year 
ly payments and settling his  bank  account 
but unlike many of his neighbors, there was 
not the amount at the  bank  to  his  credit 
that it would have been pleasant to see there, 
To be sure,  he  had,  beside,  odd  sums  tied 
up in bits of stocking  and  hidden  away in 
nooks and corners at  home, but  the  whole 
amount  was  less  that  his  brother Sigis 
mund Bruner at  Petersburg  possessed,  and 
their  cousin, Adam  Bruner,  of  Manheim 
was worth double what the brothers owned 
He was thinking  qf all  this  as  he  turned 
away from the bank,  and when  met by Sin 
gleton and his companion had paused in his 
walk, completely lost in his confused  reck 
onings.  He was not so stupid as the young 
men had imagined, but  he  did  not  grasp 
ideas readily; and,  already  pre-oceupied  as 
lie was,  it needed the stimulus of Singleton’s 
words to rouse him to full  consciousness of 
what was required of him.

It was not an  unpicturesque  throng  that 
filled  the  streets  that  April  day,  and  a 
stranger would have detected within it many 
novel and striking features,  for,  although it 
was not a crowd that  possessed  much  bril­
liancy of color,  it presented great variety of 
costume.  The  Mennonite  women,  with 
tlieir  large  black  silk  sun  bonnets, tlieir 
placid faces within outlined by a white mus­
lin cap-border,  formed  110  small  portion of 
the assemblage; while the  men of  the same 
persuasion,  their  business  done,  in  sober 
gray suits, with clean-shaven faces and close 
ly-cropped hair, tramped  sturdily along  be­
side their wives or  stood  in  groups  on the 
pavement blocking the way,  and  regarding 
the attempts of others  to  pass  them  witi 
much the same absence of comprehension in 
tlieir  lusterless  faces  that  a  cow  evinces 
when she stands across a foot-path chewing 
her cud in  entire  obliviousness  to  the  fact 
that you desire to  pass.  Stricter  members 
of the  Mennonite  faitli—New  Mennists  as 
they  are  called—might  be  known  by  an 
extra breadth of  brim  011  tlieir  wide  black 
hats,  the absence of coat  collars,  and  sim- 
iliar  peculiarities  of  custume.  Less  fre­
quently there  might  be  seen the  singular 
figure of an Amish man  clad in a long  red­
dish-brown overcoat,  witli  numerous  capes 
and skirts reaching to his heels.  Sometimes 
the coat was lacking and the farmer appear­
ed in a jacket fastened  by hooks  and eyes, 
and  characterized  by  a  total  absence  of 
skirts.  Unlike  their  Mennonite  brethren, 
these religionists  wore  beards,  and  their 
hair,  falling to ¡the  shoulders  at the  back, 
was cut squarely across  the  forehead  just 
above the eyes.  Hats  of  extravagant brim 
completed an attire having more oddity than 
beauty to recommend  it.  Occasionally one 
observed an entire  family  of  Dunkards, or 
German Baptists, the  children  of  each sex 
being dressed precisely as  tlieir  elders, and 
looking  in  their  quaint  garb  and  serious 
faces,  like dwarfs,  who had  early faced the 
situation and accepted the  inevitable.

Two young men  in  more  worldly attire, 
who were  loitering  down  King  street in 
seareli  of  amusement,  found  plenty  of  it 
that morning  in  merely  noting  the  people 
about them.  The  taller  and  finer-looking 
of the two  was a  visitor  in  the  town  and 
his friend,  a resident was  enjoying  his ex­
clamations  of  surprise  at  the  unfamiliar 
sights.

“Look at that  poor  old  fellow,  Clem,” 
said the  stranger to the town.  “He doesn’t 
look as if he had a spare  cent to bless him­
self with.”

The old fellow in question  was a middle- 
aged farmer  of  decidedly  shabby  appear­
ance,  who was sitting on the curb stone en­
gaged in eating an  unpalatable-looking sau- 
sauge  whicli he had drawn  from his pocket 
along with a dingy bit of  cheese.  Clement 
Singleton, the  one  addressed, gave  the  old 
man  a  passing  glance  and  burst  into  a 
laugh.

That  is  old  Grouk,”  he  replied;  “but 
your sympathy is quite  wasted  upon  him, 
for he  is a great  tobacco  farmer  of  this 
vicinity, and worth  at  least  half a million.
It is a solemn fact,” he added  observing his 
friend’s look of disgust,  “and I suppose his 
frugal  disposition,  one  evidence of which 
you notice now, helped largely in its acquire­
ment.”

A little farther on,  the  sidewalk was ob­
structed by some packing  boxes,  and in the 
narrow  space  left  for  passage  a  heavy, 
clumsy Mennonite  was  standing  with his 
back to  them.  He  turned  about  as  they 
came near  and  faced  them  with  a slow, 
bovine stare that  was  utterly  devoid of in­
telligence.  He made no offer  to move, but 
merely looked at them with  that  slow gaze 
which, white it anuibed  Singleton’s  friend, 
made Singleton himself impatient

It  had  come  to’ him  to-day  with  some 
force that he was growing old.  He had not 
thought much about it before.  One year of 
his life was  very  like  another,  and  there 
was not  much  in  his  surroundings  tore- 
mind him of the lliglit  of  time.  True,  his 
children  were  growing  up  about  him,  but 
this did not impress him  with  the fact that 
his own  years  were  increasing.  To-day, 
however,  he had  met in  Lancaster Gottlieb 
Hogendobler, whom he had known when he 
was young,  and who  was  now  a  wealthy 
tobacco farmer near Quarryville.  They had 
not met for twenty years,  and Heinrich was 
surprised to find how old and bent his early 
friend appeared,  and  remarked  upon  it ac­
cordingly.  The  venerable Gottlieb did  not 
seem overpleased at the observation.

“Look here once  Heinrich,”  he rejoined, 
laying  his  hand  on  the  other’s  shoulder, 
“j 6u call me old when  you  are the  oldest, 
mein freund.”

ilNcin, Gottlieb,  it is not  so,”  said Hein­

rich,  shaking his head in denial.

“It is so,” maintained the  tobacco farmer 
stoutly.  “On next Pfingstmontag it will be 
my fifty-seventh geburtstag.”

Upon this  confident  statement  Heinrich 
began counting on his fingers and reckoning 
from variousjdata,  such  as  the  year a cer­
tain preacher  came,  the  time  when  apple- 
snitz brought such a high  price 011  market, 
and the year when he  figured  as  the  Bell- 
sclinickel  for  Ills  children’s  amusement at 
Christmas,  arriving at last at the  mournful 
conclusion that if he lived till the next Fass- 
naclit he would be sixty years old.

Sixty  years  old!  And  he  remembered 
that his  father Conrad  was  but  sixty-five 
when he died.  Sixty years  old,  and  there 
were five children yet to  provide for,  and it 
had been Heinrich’s  one  ambition  to  do as 
well for them when  they should  begin life 
for themselves as  old Conrad had for Sigis- 
mund and himself,  and the sisters Christine 
and Veronica when they were married.  Of 
the five children,  Jacob  was  the eldest;  he 
must  be  at  least  twenty-four,  the  father 
thought.  He would  be  wanting to  marry 
soon, and as for  the  next  oldest, Johanna, 
there was  Franz Dieffenbach  coming to see 
her every week.  Nor would  it be  long be­
fore the others would be wanting to  marry, 
and how was he to provide  farms for  them 
all?  Johanna,  the only  girl,  would  go  to 
her husband’s farm  when  she married,  but 
Franz Dieffenbach was not the  man to take 
her with  no  money.  Whatever  happened, 
he must do well by Johanna.

But  Clement  Singleton  had  roused  him 
from his musings,  and the court house clock 
striking  two  reminded  him  that  he  must 
soon be driving home.  Jacob  had  come to 
town with his own  team  and  would return 
when it suited him, but young Heinrich, the 
youngest of his sons,  must be hunted up be­
fore  he  could  start  for  home.  The  elder 
Bruner had left his horses and wagon at the 
sign of  the  Cross  Keys,  and  had  enjoined 
upon his son not  to go  far  from that vicin­
ity,  and as the boy never contemplated even 
a slight deviation from the letter of his fath­
er’s  commands  he  was  easily  foimd.  He 
was an awkward,  shapeless  lad  of  fifteen, 
and when seen by  his  father  was  standing 
before  a  jeweler’s  window, 
lost  in  wide- 
mouthed  admiration  of  the  glitter  with­
in.

“Oh,  father, 

just  look  in  the  fenster 
awhile yet,” he  exclaimed,  when  aware  of 
the other’s presence.

But the elder  Heinrich  remained  undaz­
zled  by  the  sight  of  the  window  and  its 
glories.

It  ish  no  good,”  he  replied.  “Come 
away once; it  ish  all  foolishness,”  and  re­
luctantly the boy obeyed.

As  Bruner  was  leading  out  his  horses

from  the  stable  sheds,  his  foot  hit some 
small object which he  pushed aside without 
looking to see  what  it  was, but  after  Ills 
team was ready to start and young Heinrich 
was already on the wagon  seat, the  farmer 
missed  the  horse  blanket,  which  served 
them also as a cushion, and which had been 
left in the shed.  Going back,  therefore,  for 
the blanket, he passed the same dark comer 
where he had kicked aside the  small object 
in the straw.  Something impelled him now 
to look down,  and there, just at his feet, lay 
a coarse leather  wallet,  which some  visitor 
to the stables had probably dropped notion 
before.  He  stood  gazing  at  it  for  a  mo­
ment in silence,  and then  hearing footsteps 
approaching, he stooped,  picked up the wal 
let and placed  it  in  his  pocket,  and  a mo­
ment later  having  found  the  blanket, had 
climbed with it  into  the  wagon  beside his 
son.  Just what hejintended to do with the 
wallet was not clear to him at that moment, 
for he arrived at  definite  conclusions  with 
great difficulty.  As far as he was conscious­
ness of any idea in  the  matter,  it was  that 
he would take the  wallet  home  witli him, 
see what it contained and afterwards adver­
tise it in the Lancaster papers.  Perhaps be­
fore that  he  might  hear  who  had  lost it. 
Such a thing as the  finding  of  money  was 
so new a thing in his experience that it was 
hard to  know at once what  should  be done 
about it.  His  instinct  told  him  that if  he 
entered the  bar-room  of  the  Cross  Keys, 
saying that  he  had  found  some  money,  it 
might be  claimed by the wrong person, and 
he did not like to be found there  in the sta­
bles counting it over. 
It might be said that 
he had stolen it.  No, he would wait till he 
reached home, he resolved,  as his mind par­
tially cleared  itself  while  he drove  slowly 
out of town; there he could count the money, 
and if  any one should claim  it when adver­
tised, he  would  say first:  “Stop,  my good 
friend, how much did you lose?”  And so it 
would be sure not to get into wrong  hands. 
Having reached this point in  his  soliloquy, 
he urged his horses  into  a faster  gait,  and 
the ten miles of  distance  that lay  between 
Lancaster and his farm were soon overpast. 
He  had not,  spoken  to  his  son  during  the 
whole  time,  but  conversation  was  not  a 
strong point with  any  of  the  Bruners,  and 
the boy thought  nothing  of  his  father’s si 
lence,  being wholly busied  with  the  sights 
he had seen that day. 
It was the  first time 
in his life that he had ever been so far iron 
home as  Lancaster,  and  he  naturally  felt 
that  such  a  serious  event  was  not to be 
lightly contemplated.  A native  of  Borneo 
isiting  a World’s  Fair  could  hardly  have 
been  more  impressed  with  the  novelties 
about him than was tills simple country boy 
by the glimpse  of  life  afforded  by a  few 
hours in this small inland  city, and it is lit­
tle to be wondered at that his  mind did not 
eadily adjust itself to his  suddenly-enlarg­
ed experience.  Thus occupied in mental di­
gestion,  he failed to observe  that his father 
ras  more  than  usually  taciturn,  and  the 
latter did not  mention his  discovery  to  hi 
son,  since  he  could  see no  possible  reason 
for so doing.

The afternoon was well advanced  when a 
turn in the road brought them in sight of the 
Bruner  homestead. 
It  was  a  comfortable 
place  to  look  at.  The  red  brick  house,  a 
story higher at the  back  than  at the front, 
bore in a conspicuous place a lozenge-shaped 
tablet of white marble,  stating that  Conrad 
and  Katrina  Bruner  built  the  house  “in 
Jahre 1831.”  Beyond a neatly kept yard at 
the rear rose a large  yellow barn,  under the 
forebay of which  a  number  of  handsome 
cattle stood switching their tails with a leis­
urely motion,  that implied  110  necessity for 
the act and rather  conveyed  an  impression 
that the switching was merely a good »aim­
ed  condescension  to  popular  prejudice  on 
the subject.  As  the  wagon  drove  into the 
yard,  a  great  commotion  at  once  arose 
among the fowls that had been quietly saun­
tering about till that moment.  Four or five 
guinea  hens,  with  discordant  cries,  ran 
skulking behind  a  row  of  currant  bushes, 
but,  discontented with that place of  refuge, 
soon rose in disorderly flight, alighting near 
the dog-kennei,  and  causing  its worthy oc­
cupant  to  rush  forth  in a  high  state  of 
excitement.  Half a dozen ducks,  which had 
keen sunning themselves by the  fence,  sud­
denly felt it imeumbent  upon  them to scut­
tle across the roadway with  much  apparent 
luiste but little real  progress.  A  few  rods 
further on some liens, which had been stand­
ing in the path  of  the approaching  wagon, 
but  affecting  not  to  perceive  it,  were  at 
length seized with  a  proper  sense  of  their 
peril, while at the same time a painful doubt 
in which  direction to seek safety seemed to 
agitate their minds, as evidenced by purpose­
lessly  rushings to right  and  left and  much 
rapid and excited conversation among them­
selves.

Leaving the wagon  and  horses in  charge 
of Heinrich,  the farmer  entered the  house, 
and  after a word to his  wife and  Johanua, 
who were preparing  supper in  the  kitchen, 
went up stairs to his  sleeping-chamber,  and 
entering, closed and bolted the door.  Then 
drawing forth the black  wallet from the in­
ner pocket where he had placed it, be began 
to examine  its  contents.  That  was  not  a 
brief operation, for the rolls  of  bills it con­
tained  were large and his calculations were

slow,  but at length  he  had  spread  out  the 
last bill before hiyjj,  and  there  was nothing 
beside the money in  the  wallet, which con­
tained 110 clue to the owner. 
It was a large 
sum that was in his hands—a fraction  over 
twenty thousand dollars.  He wondered who 
had been  so  unfortunute as  to lose all that. 
Twenty thousand dollars!  How such a sum 
would swell his credit at the  bank!  Twen­
ty thousand!  That would buy Jacob a hand­
some fann, and leave nearly half for Johan­
na when  she  should  marry  Franz.  There 
would be enough of his own  for  the  others 
when they wanted to  marry  some  day. 
If 
this money were only his,  what an easy way 
it would show  him  out  of  present  diffieul-* 
ties.  The sound of  the  farm-bell  ringing 
for supper broke in upon  his  musings,  and 
pastily placing the money  in the  wallet,  he 
thmst it into a deep chest,  the key of which 
was always carried in his pocket,  and  went 
down  stairs.  Jacob  had  not  yet  arrived 
from Lancaster,  but the rest of his children, 
from  Johanna  down  to  young  Heinrich, 
were present at the  supper-table.  Susanna 
Bruner,  the mother,  was dressed, like other 
Mcnnist matrons,  in sober gray, with a short 
cape, pointed at  the  front  and  back,  and a 
plain  book-muslin  cap.  Johanna’s  attire 
was more worldly in character, for her dress 
was a gay purple,  and  there  were  earrings 
in the small  ears.  But then  Johanna  had 
not yet “entered the  meeting.”  Whenever 
that event should take place, she  would put 
on the plain dress  of  the  sect.  She  had a 
sweet, placid face, not unlike  her mother’s, 
and  seemed  more  intelligent  than any of 
her brothers present.  Of these, Walter was 
the eldest,  a  well-shaped lad of twenty,  but 
with dull,  heavy features,  in  this  resembl­
ing his father as nearly as a young man can 
resemble one  who is  old  and  worn.  Tiie 
next  yoimgest,  Sigismund, named  for  the 
Petersburg uncle, was a  red-cheeked boy of 
eighteen,  whose  appetite  at this  period  of 
life was much sharper than  his  intellectual 
perceptions.  There was no display of affec­
tion among the Bruners,  but  the  family tie 
was  strong,  nevertheless.  As  the  father 
looked  about  upon  his  children,  his mind 
went back to the  money  up  stairs. 
If the 
twenty  thousand  dollars  were  only  his, 
what might he not do for them?  His father, 
Conrad,  when he died,  thirty years ago come 
next Good Friday,  had done well by his four 
children,  and Heinrich would  like to  do no 
less for his.  Truly it would be a good thing 
for him if  lie  should  never  hear  who had 
lost the money.  When supper was over and 
the necessary work at the barn  accomplish­
ed,  the family all  went  to  bed, althongh it 
was not much past seven  o’clock,  and there 
still lingered a faint glow in the west.  But 
people who feel called upon to rise and begin 
the work of  the day  at two  or three  in the 
morning,  have need to be in  bed at an early 
hour. 

,

But Heinrich the elder did  not fall asleep 
as readily as usual,  for he had the money to 
think of. 
I11 his imagination he was count­
ing it over again,  and more than  once after 
his wife was asleep he raised himself on his 
elbow, that lie might look over to the comer 
where the chest  was,  and  satisfy  himself 
that it was  still  there.  What if he should 
keep this money for  himself?  He shudder­
ed  when  he  first  ventured  to  shape  liis 
thoughts in this wise, but soon he  was able 
to think of it  without  a  feeling of honor. 
Surely it would not be so very wicked to re­
tain it,  since it was not for  himself  but his 
children that he  desired  it.  How  could it 
be so very wrong to use for the good of oth­
ers what had come to  him  by chance?  He 
had not  stolen  it.  By the  merest  accident 
he had found it at a time when he needed it 
sorely.  Perhaps it was really meant for him, 
and there was no accident in the matter.

[Continued next week.]

Cold Comfort.

From the New York Times.

A grocer’s boy complained to his employer 
that  he  was  worked  too hard and did  not 
get sufficient rest.  “I  know,  Johnny,”  ad­
mitted  the grocer,  “that you are  kept  busy 
most of the time,  but  I’ll  see  what  can  be 
done.  Perhaps when cold  weather  sets  in 
I’ll let you draw molasses  once in a while.”
Recent scientific  investigations  have de­
monstrated that  timber cut in the  spring is 
not so durable for building  purposes as that 
cut in the winter.  This conclusion is borne 
out by the  opinion of experienced  builders, 
the majority of whom have long held to the 
same view. 
It has  been  found  that wood 
containing large amounts of phosphoric acid 
and potassium is more liable to rot than when 
those elements  are  present  in  only small 
quantities. 
In the spring, standing  timber 
contains about  eight  times as  much  phos­
phoric acid,  and about  five  times  as  much 
potassium as in the  winter;  hence  the de­
sirability of cutting  it  before  the  sap  has 
distributed  these  substances  through  the 
tree.

That  the  American  Indian  still retains 
some of the daring and  cunning  in warfare 
that  characterized  him  before  the  white 
man’s whisky had corrupted  him is  shown 
in the recent  gallant  exploit  of Geronimo, 
the Apache  chief, who  stole  through  the 
cordon of soldiers and  actually entered  the 
military reservation at Fort Apache and car­
ried off his wives in triumph.

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A JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER  11,1885.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Oiyanized at Grand Rapid* (Mtober 8, 1884.

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President—Lester J. Kindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—Wnv Sears. 
, 
Executive  Com mittee-President,  Vice-Pres 
ident and Treasurer, ex-offlcw, O. A^Ball.one 
year;  L. E. Hawkins and K. D. Swartout, two
Arbitration  Committee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W. 
Putnam, Joseph Houseman.
Transportation  Committee—Samuel  Sears, 
Geo: B. Dunton. Amos. S. Musselman.
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, A rthur 
Meigs, Wm. TtLanaoreaux 
_ Manufacturings Committee-
►  E. 8. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening
Regular*Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­

ing of each r i l b n t h . __________
p r   Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on  the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisem ent in the columns of  this  paper.
‘THE TRADESMAN”  CONGRATU­

LATES  ITSELF.

The organization of  the  grocery  trade of 
Grand Rapids is now an  accomplished fact, 
and the object for which  The Tradesman 
has striven for over  two  years is no longer 
a vague unreality.  The  large  number who 
attended the meeting last  Tuesday evening, 
and the character of those who  are promin­
ent in the movement, augur well for the fu­
ture success of the organization,  and it goes 
without saying that the  Retail  Grocers’ As­
sociation of Grand  Rapids  will  accomplish 
the same good for the retail trade of this city 
that  similar  organizations  have  elsewhere 
accomplished for the business  men of  their 
respective localities.

The Tradesman advocated the organiza­
tion of the retail’"trade only after a thorough 
investigation of  the  working of  such asso­
ciations in the Eastern  states, which  inves­
tigation brought with it  a realizing sense of 
the advantages  invariably  obtained by con­
certed action,  intelligently  and  sensibly ex­
erted.  The  possession  of  this  knowledge 
led The Tradesman to the conclusion that 
Grand Rapids should be able to reap similar 
results, and it remains  for  the members of 
the  new organization to determine  whether 
they will swing into line with their no more 
intelligent or  prosperous  brethren  in other 
cities.

As  soon  as  twenty-five  Michigan  cities 
have adopted the  retail  dealers’ movement, 
The Tradesman will  act on  the  sugges­
tion of President Hamilton, of the Traverse 
City Business Men’s Association, and  call a 
State convention,  to  be  composed  of  dele­
gates from each association.

The Supreme Court has declared the anti- 
oleomargarine bill  unconstitutional, on  the 
ground  that  the  body  of  the bill does  not 
conform  to  the  title.  The  decision  was 
written by Justice Campbell, and  concurred 
in by the other judges of the tribunal.

The editor of The Tradesman expresses 
his  thanks  to  the  Grand  Rapids  Pharma­
ceutical Society for the handsome book-case 
which now adorns his office,  as  well  as for 
the kindly sentiments  of  esteem  which  ac­
companied the gift.

Manistee will probably be the next city to 
adopt the grocer  movement.  J. E.  Mailhot 
is taking the  initiative  there,  and  good  re­
sults are consequently to  be  expected  from 
his labors in that direction.

East  Saginaw  will  shortly  have  a  local 
pharmaceutical society, similar to the Grand 
Rapids organization.

More Tobacco, Less Cotton.

From the Hartford Times.

AMONG  TH E TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Wm.  P.  Walsh  succeeds  Joe.  Wood  & 

Co.  in tlie saloon business.

Chesire & Powers have engaged in the un­

dertaking business at 39 Canal street.

B. Dickenson has engaged in the  grocery j 
business at  Bellaire.  The  stock  was  pur­
chased here.

F.  H .  Lester has re-engaged in the grocery
business at  Hendon.  Arthur  Meigs & Co. 
furnished the stock.

N.  O. Ward has engaged in the  hardware 
business  at  Stanwood.  Foster,  Stevens & 
Co.  furnished the  stock.

C. W. Skellinger has engaged in the hard­
ware business at Rockford.  Foster,  Stevens 
& Co. furnished the stock.

The O. K.  Dust  Arrester  Co.  has  lately 
sold arresters to  the  Aude  Furniture  Co., 
St. Louis, and G. Merz,  Chicago.

Raub & Beatum have engaged  in the gro­
cery  business  at  Upper  Paris.  Arthur 
Meigs & Co. furnished the stock.

Dr.  Pliebe French and another  lady  have 
formed a copartnership  and will  engage  in 
the drug business at 500 East street.

Hester & Fox have sold a Simonds’ single 
blocker shingle machine to L. Quackenbush, 
at Pleasant Corners,  six miles northwest  of 
Morley. 

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Berkoff & Tirnmer  have  started  in  the 
grocery business  at the  comer  of  Seventh 
street  and  Alpine  avenue.  Cody,  Ball  & 
Co. furnished the stock.

The transportation  companies  announce 
another advance in west-bound freight lates, 
to take effect Nov.  18:  No. 1, 75 cents; No.
3, 00;  No.  3, 45;  No. 4, 35;  special, 35.

S.  L.  Crockett  &  Co.  succeed  Ben.  I. 
Deuel & Co.  in the retail furniture business 
at 17 Canal street.  The  “Co.”  of  the new 
firm is Edmund J.  Hopkins,  formerly in the 
revenue service.

J. H. Parker, State agent for  Chandler & 
Taylor, Indianapolis, has sold Wm.  Gallup, 
of Fowlervilie, a twenty horse power engine 
and boiler and a sawmill with a daily capac-
tiy of 10,000 feet.____________

Parmenter & Ireland have sold  their gro­
cery  stock  to  M.  C.  Sessions.  Chas.  B. 
Parmenter will go on the road again for  the 
Gleason  Wood  Ornament  Co.  Ben.  Par­
menter and Jas.  E.  Ireland are#undecided sfe 
to their future movements.

John H.  Slack,  formerly with W. S. Gunn 
& Sons, and  Ed. Hancliett,  formerly  with 
Foster, Stevens &  Co., have  formed  a  co­
partnership under the firm name of Slack & 
Hancliett and purchased the hardware stock 
of C.  W.  Skellenger & Co., on South  Divis­
ion street.

W.  S.  Hartwell,  postmaster  at  Elmira, 
and V.  J. Jenks,  of  Grand  Rapids,  have
formed a co-partnership under the firm name 
of Hartwell & Jenks and  engaged in gener­
al trade and the  purchase  and sale of wood 
at Elmira.  Arthur  Meigs  & Co.  furnished 
the grocery stock.

H.  Rademaker & Co.  have  purchased  the 
machinery  formerly  operated  by  the  Hall 
Co.,  at Hastings, and are getting out  a  full 
line  of  jointed  fish  roils  for  the summer 
trade.  They have lately issued an eighteen 
page illustrated catalogue of their  base  ball 
bats, croquet sets,  Indian clubs  and jointed
fish rods. 

_________

D. W. Kendall, designer  for  the  Berkey 
& Gay Furniture Co., was  the  first to orig 
inate the square coal stove _ which is now so 
popular.  He  got  out  designs  in  several 
different styles, but the Rochester stove man­
ufacturer to  whom  he  submitted  his  ideas 
would not listen to such  an innovation as 
square stove. 
In about a half  dozen years, 
however,  lie  was  compelled  to  adopt  Mr. 
Kendall’s  ideas, or  fall to  the  rear  ranks 
of the stove makers.

a rou n d  t h e  st a t e.

E.  P.  Gallagher has bought G.  D.  Gould’s 

J. M.  Lyon  succeeds  C.  E.  Brown & Co. 

Lea & Shanan have started a grocery  and 

I).  N.  McKay,  grocery and  crockery deal-

C.  Coon succeeds Coon & McLauriu in the 

5 cent store at Oscoda.

in general trade at Hadley.

meat market at Big Rapids.

South  Carolina  cotton  planters  are,  to 
some extent, abandoning  cotton  as  an  un­
profitable crop, and entering with  some  en­
thusiasm upon the experiment of cultivating 
tobacco.  They  say,  “ N o rth .Carolina  and 
Virginia have grown rich,” on  tobacco,  and 
now it is South  Carolina’s  turn.  The  fine 
golden-colored leaf  of  North  Carolina  and | er at Escanaba, has sold out
Virginia,  such as was  once  used, after  the 
war,  to incite the noted “Lone Jack” smok­
ing tobacco, is tlie kind the  South  Carolin­
ians propose to cultivate in the  middle  and j the livery business at Menominee, 
“up-country”  districts,  a  kind  which  has 
found  fatfir,  under  the  generic  name  of 
“Virginia tobacco,” among smokers in Eng­
land’s upper classes.  For tlie “low-country” 
region,  the-Cuban seed-leaf is thought to be 
tlie  best;  and  tlie  Charlestown  News  ami 
Courier announces that  that  establishment 
is  prepared  to  distribute  packages of  the 
seed, with printed  directions  for  tlie  culti­
vation.

grocery business at Manistique.

kins in the drug business at Homer.

Waite in the drug business at Homer.

Jas.  Frazier succeeds Carlson & Frazier in

A.  N. Hopkins,  succeeds  Iligby &  Hop­

Isaac  Treado  has  bought  his  brother 

John’s liquor business at Michigamme.

F.  A.  Kennedy  succeeds  Lawrence  & 

Bright in the grocery business at Jackson.

Jas.  Russell has purchased a half interest 
in the finn  of  Frank  Clark & Co.,  at  Bo­
nanza.

W.  H.  Wycott,  late  of  Edmore,  has  pur­
chased J.  A.  Aldrich’s  bakery  business  at 
Evart.

Jas.  Fox left Monday  night  for  his new 

home at Sioux City,  Iowa.

Waite &  Webster  succeed  Boughman  & 

Purely Personal.

J. S.  CoiffSaati, tlie Petoskey jeweler,  is in 
town for a few days.  Rumor has it that he 
contemplates purchasing  an  interest in  the I Jackson 
jewelry establishment  of  Will  Hunt,  at 10 I  Homer Strong, tlie St. Louis boot and shoe 
Canal street. 
dealer, lias established a branch store at Mt

Wallace  W.  Hitchcock  succeeds  Hitch­
cock & Burnett in  the  grocery  business  at

. 

II. F.  Hastings writes that the Waukesha  Pleasant., 

water is working  wonders  with  his kidney 
Frank Beamer,  wlio  recently  engaged  in 
trouble, and that it will be necessary for him  the  grocery business  at  Irving,  has retired 
to return uome about  the  20th,  in  order to  from trade.
prevent a famine in  Wisconsin.  The land-  H. Sterns will engage in the meat business 
lord has raised tlie price of board twice since j at  Plainwell, making  the  third  market  at 
his advent In Waukesha. 

j ***** place- 

1 1

* 

Pipp Bros.,  the  Kalkaska  hardware mer­
chants, have started a branch store at South 
Boardman.

G. H. Trefry, general  dealer at Muir, has 
been closed on  chattel  mortgage by Edson, 
Moore & Co., of Detroit.

Frank  Umphrey  and  Fred  Eamst  have 
engaged in the grocery  business  at  Water- 
vliet,  under  the  firm name of Umphrey  & 
Earnst.

Rodenbaugh & Co., grocerymen at Bravo, 
have sold their stock  to  Samuel  Hale,  who 
will remove the same to Lee.  Messrs. Rod­
enbaugh will go to Florida.

S. A.  Caldwell has sold his store building 
at Yates,  and removed  his grocery  stock to 
Print P. O., Oceana  county,  where lie  lias 
erected a new store building.

Wm.  F. Stuart’s shingle and  lumber mill 
at Crofton  is now in  active operation.  Ar­
thur Meigs, who  owns  all  the  land  in the 
vicinity of  the  town,  states  that  Crofton 
would be an excellent location forCa factory 
turning out  hardwood  products; also for a 
blacksmith shop.

m a n u fa ctu rin g  m a tters.

A sawmill will be  put in at West Kalamo 

the coming winter.

Doty Bros.  & Co., of St.  Charles,  whose 
sawmill burned in August,  are preparing  to 
rebuild.

Moore  &  Dutcher,  the  Douglas  millers, 
recently filled an order for 37 barrels of gra­
ham flour for a Chicago bakery.

St. Ignace is crawling up in shipments of 
iron  ore,  90,000  tons  being  the  probable 
amount for 1885.  This is 30,000 tons  in ex­
cess of any previous year.

Hargrave & Son’s  match  factory  at  Bay 
City will be running about January 1.  They 
will give employment to 100 men  and  have 
a capacity of 160  cases a (lay.

S T R A Y   F A C T S .

L.  M.  Ellis,  secretary of the  Mason Road 

Cart Co.,  is  dead.

has been attached.

The Globe Drug & Capsule Co., at Detroit, 

The Gripsack Brigade.

Oliver C.  Shults walks  around behind an 

imported'Scotch terrier.

W. J.  Permar,  representing  the  Toledo 

Spice Co., was in the city last week.

C.  Crawford, Hazeltine, Perkins  &  Co.’s 
new traveler, met with  exceptional  success 
on his initial trip last week.

Parker McAuley, shipping clerk for Eaton 
&  Christenson,  is  taking  Geo.  Holloway’s 
route this week,  and George  is officiating in 
the house.

Manley Jones has  engaged  to  cover  the 
Northern Michigan trade for  W.  C.  Hamil­
ton & Co., proprietors of the Anchor Tobac­
co Works,  Covington, Ky.

The meeting of Grand Rapids Post, T.  P. 
A., which was  to  have  been  held  at T he 
Tradesman  office  last Saturday  evening, 
was adjourned for one week, at which  time 
a general attendance is desired.

II. P.  Colegrove,  E.  R.  Durkee  &  Co.’s 
Western traveler, put  in Sunday  and Mon­
day  at  this  market.  He  always  strikes 
Grand  Rapids  Saturday  night,  as  Soutli 
Division street possesses  a  great  attraction 
for him.

The  Muskegon  correspondent  of  T he 
Tradesman notes the fact that Dick  Man­
gold  purchased  a  millinery  shop  at  that 
place, and that  Johnny  Mangum  visited  a 
Lakeside attraction seventeen  times  during 
Ills recent visit to the Sawdust City.

Dave Smith’s versatility is at last  explain­
ed.  A friend of the only  original  Magenta 
Headed  Dave  states that he  graced the va­
riety  stage  for  several years subsequent to 
his emigration from  Ireland,  playing  Irish 
roles.  He  also  traveled  with a circus one 
year as clown.

It lias been thought desirable to  hold  the 
annual social  party  of  the  Grand Rapids 
traveling men this  season  sometime during 
tlie  week  intervening  between  Christmas 
and New Year’s,  in order  that  the greatest 
number may be able to  avail  themselves of 
the opportunity of  atttending.  A  meeting 
of all interested in the matter is hereby call­
ed,  to be  heid  at  The  Tradesman  office 
Saturday  evening,  November 38,  at  which 
time a full attendance is  requested.

The First National Bank has been  organ­
ized at Sault Ste Marie, with a capital stock 
of .$50,000.

Wm.  Dunning,  of  Williamston,  has ship-

A. W.  Sherwood  &  Co., retail  furniture 
dealers at Allegan,  have  dissolved,  A.  W. 
Sherwood and Andrew Oliver will each con­
tinue the business separately.

Geo. F.  Owen—who posed as the original 
dog  collector  of  the  traveling fraternity— 
sends  The  Tradesman 
tlie  following 
screed,  which was translated from Choctaw 
into English at great expense:  “I notice in 
your last week’s issue that you offer  an ad-
Hpd  from  Mason  a  car  load of poultry  to I vertising account against me for sale.  Now, 
well  know  my reasons for not paying 
New  York  City, consisting  of  about 3,000 j you
In the first place,  1 never or­
tliht account. 
chickens and 500  ducks, geese  and turkesy.
dered  the  notice  printed. 
In  the second 
Howry’s  camp, near  Coleman,  has  been 
place,  tlie  advertisement  was  no  good— 
deserted by all his men,  owing  to  the  fact 
(didn’t catch a  clam).  But  I  easily  com­
that the foreman refused to tell his employes 
prehend  why  you  do  this.  You  seem  to 
what wages were being  paid  woodsmen  at 
want to vent your wrath  on  me  because  I 
Gladwin.
did not get Johnny Spider, of Webb Center, 
to  take  your  paper  for  one  year.  Don’t 
think for a moment that I can’t pay that  25 
cents.  1 have had more than thirty  friends 
offer to chip in and help pay it.  John Cham­
berlain,  of East Jordan, said if I would stay 
there until trade slacked up a little, he would 
get Dan Jerue and start out  and  raise  that 
amount inside of  three  days.  So  you  see, 
Bro.  Stowe, when  you  pitch  into  me  you 
wake up all Northern Michigan.”

Tlie disagreeable weather of the past week 
has affected trade as well as tlie  feelings  of 
business  men.  Foreign  fruits  are  scarce, 
with an upward tendency.  The salmon cor­
ner is likely to elevate the price of that arti­
cle, and as tlie tomato pack was  short,  and 
lias  passed  into  few  hands,  tomatoes  are 
bound  to  go  higher.  Prices  seem  to  be 
stiffening all along the line,  and holders are 
growing more arrogant 

The  Grocery Market.

Candy  is  steady  and  active.  Florida 
oranges are a little lower in price and better 
in  quality.  Rodis  are  without  change in 
price,  anil  the  crop  is  nearly  exhausted. 
Lemons are in better supply and  prices  are 
lower.  Nuts are firm and almonds and bra­
zils are  «  little  higher.  Peanuts  are  firm 
and steady.  Chestnuts are in  good  supply 
and prices are easy;  but  the  quality  is  not 
A1  this  season.  Figs  are good in quality 
and prices are very firm.  They  will  be  no 
lower this year.

Oysters are running  firm  and  prices  are 

lower.

The Question of Cartage.

The  following  paper  was  circulated  by 
Samuel M.  Lemon Monday  afternoon,  who 
secured the appended signatures in about half 
an hour:

Leo. A.  Caro,  Secretary  of  the Michigan 
Division,  T.  P.  A., sends The Tradesman 
the following contribution relative to a sub­
ject in  which  many  traveling  men  are in­
terested:  “The Michigan Divison of the T,
P. A.,  is to he congratulated for the amount 
of successful work  that has been performed 
in the interest of the Mictiigan Division and 
the  T.  P.  A.  The  granting  of  week-end 
tickets is a gratifying result  of the  combin­
ed  action  of  officers  and  members.  The 
Chicago &  Grand  Trunk,  the  D.,  G.  II. & 
M. and the M.  & O.  have already instructed 
their station agents to sell week-end tickets 
to all  members  of  the  T.  P.  A.  who  have 
the new certificate.  All members who have 
not yet paid their dues for  1885, will confer 
a favor on the officers of  the T.  P. A.,  and 
will receive a new card, by sending their as­
sessment at once  to  Jno. It.  Stone,  Drawer 
133, Chicago,  111.  Gentlemen,  we  number 
to-day the strongest and  best organized Di­
vision qf the  T.  P. A.  Put  your  shoulder 
to the wheel and keep the ball rolling.” 

above next week.

Chicago Herald: 

Cranberry Topics.

The  Tradesman  will  comment  on  the 

We,  the undersigned wholesale dealers of 
Grand Rapids, do hereby agree  to  charge  a 
reasonable cartage on all goods delivered  at 
all railway depots  and  steamboat  landings 
in  this  city  of three cents  per  100 pounds, 
excepting  the  two  following  articles,  viz: 
salt, upon which we shall charge  two  cents 
per barrel, and kerosene, which shall be ten 
cents per  barrel.  This  agreement  to  take 
effect December 1,1885.

Shields,  Bulkley  &  Lemon,
Fox, Musselman  &  Loveridge, 
Arthur  Meigs  &  Co.,
Hawkins  &  Perry,
Clark,  J ewell  &  Co.,
Cody,  Ball  &  Co.,
J ohn  Caulfield,
Gr a n d   R a pid s  P a ck in g  Co.

“The greatest  man  to 
jump into a town and  get  acquainted  with 
folks I ever saw was  Jap  Johnson,”  said  a 
well-known  traveling  man.  “Give  Jap  a 
night  and  a  day  in a place and everybody 
there would call him by his first  name,  and 
he’d call everybody the same  way, even the 
girls.  In forty-eight hours, he’d know every 
man, woman,  child,  horse,  dog and cat  in 
the town,  and could tell who  married  who, 
who got drunk once in a while, and who had 
fits or rheumatics.  Give him  three days  in 
a town,  and  he’d  have  every  bit of gossip 
and musty scandals that ever went over  the 
i back fences of that  town  down finer’n silk.
| He was  a wonderful man, Jap was, and  he 
could  sell  goods  like  a  house  afire.  The 
Referring to the  recent  contributions  on 
biggest thing lie ever did, though, was about 
cranberry  growing  published 
in  The 
four years ago.  He had four hours to spend 
Tradesman,  Hon.  D.  C.  Leach  writes  as 
in a little town out  in Western Iowa.  In that 
follows:  “I like  Mr.  Coinings’  suggestion 
time,  he sold two bills of goods, was invited 
of a cranberry growers’ association.  I do not 
to dinner by the  mayor,  decided  four  bets, 
know  as  one  could  be  sustained  in  this 
was  referee  in  a  dog fight, proposed mar­
State, but I would be very glad to meet  the 
riage and was accepted by the  belle  of  the 
cranberry growers of the State and compare 
place,  borrowed  $5  from  her  pa,  beat 
I think such a meeting would be in­
notes. 
another man two games of  billiards, and  it 
teresting and  profitable!” 
In  another por­
happening to be election day, he capped the 
tion  of  the  same  letter,  Mr.  Leach  asks:
mansard by sailing  in  and  having  himself
“How would it do to invite Michigan  cran­
berry growers to meet at your office at  such  elected town  clerk by a majority  of  eleven 
time as they might agree  upon?”  It would 
Will H. Hoops writes  The  Tradesman
afford The Tradesman  much  pleasure  to
welcome all interested in cranberry growing I as follows relative to his condition of health, 
to a meeting, or series of meetings, at its of-  from Manitou  Springs,  Colo.:  “I have this 
flee;  and its  editor would do all that lies in I day mailed yon a cop^ of  a  Denver  paper, 
his  power  to  render the occasion pleasant  containing an.accoimt  of  my  ascent to the 
and profitable.  - 
| summit of Pike’s  I^eak,  14,344  feet  above

votes.

GINGER  BEER.

cret and Became Rich.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.

How a Druggist’s Boy Stumbled  on a  Se­

the level of  the sea. 
It  is a  very  difficult 
task at this season of the  year,  on  account 
of snow.  We  left  our  hotel  at 7 o’clock j 
a. ni., and did not  get  back  until  6 p. m. 
Our horses were pretty well  used up, as the j 
Dr. J. Hameral, editor of Les Deux Monile, 
trail was completely covered with snow and 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  has been in the  city  during 
ice and they had  to  wade  through it  over 
the past week,  and  furnishes  the  Courier- 
half the way.  We  faced  wind  blowing  at 
Journal the following interesting account of 
the  rate of forty-four  miles per hour  from 
tlie accidental origin of ginger beer  and  the 
Windy Point to  the  summit,  a  distance  of 
results which made the inventor  a  wealthy 
three miles, and still I stood the  trip splen­
man:
didly—a fact that goes  to  show I am infill 
“Everybody,” said Dr.  Hamerel,  “knows 
itely better than when  I  left home. 
I con­
i  the Ginger  Beer,  the  popular  drink  of  the 
sider myself as good as  new, haven’t a sign 
j middle  and  lower  Jelasses 
in  England,
of my old  bronchial  trouble. 
I assure you 
the yearly sale of which  (at  one  penny  per 
this is a wonderful  State, 
We  have taken j bottle) reaches millions and millions of bot­
it in  pretty  thoroughly.  We  have  visited
tles.  But the origin of this pleasant, cheap 
every place of  interest  within  100  inilps of j  an(j truly temperate drink is not known, and 
Denver.  We will  remain  here  until  Nov. 
j (joubt whether,  even in England, there are 
15, and then go  to Salt Lake City vUi Den-  many men who could say how and by whom 
ver &  Rio Grande  Railway,  taking  in  the 
it was invented,  The story savors a little of 
wonderful Black  Canon,  Royal  Gorge,  and j 
romance, but I can vouch  for its truth, hav­
Marshall Pass.  The scenery  of  this trip is j 
ing heard it  many  a  time from the lips  of 
said  to be the finest in  the land.  We  have
the  inventor,  who was rather  proud  of  his
been stopping at the Iron Springs Hotel two | achievement, and not without good  reason, 
weeks and will  remain  ten days  more. 
I 
Some 80 years ago, Louis Carez, a boy of 10, 
can assure you I will be sorry to leave here, 
the son of a very poor country  physician  in 
as I think it is the  most  charming  spot  I 
France,  was sent by his father to a school in 
ever  saw.  Mr.  Crosby,  of  Chas.  Root  &
London, in which he got board, lodging and 
Co., Detroit,  is  here  with  us  and is much 
instruction in English in  exchange  for les­
improved in health since  he  came.  He in­
sons in French to the younger pupils.  Eight 
tends remaining until  June  next.  We  are 
months  later,  tlie  schoolmaster  died,  the 
going to-morrow for a two  or  three  day’s 
school was  closed,  and  Louis  Carez  found 
hunt and  expect  to  have a good  time. 
I 
himself alone in the big city without a friend 
wish you would mention in your  paper that j and  with  very 
scanty  resources.  While 
I expect to be  back  on  my  route  Dec.  1.
looking  out  for  another  school, he took  a 
Mrs.  Hoops and our  son Tommie  are  with j 
room in the house of  a  druggist,  in  one  of 
the low parts of  the  city, and  managed  to 
me.”
live on $5 a month,  all that his father could 
send him. 
It was  almost  starvation.  But 
the  poor  boy  had  not  seen the end of his 
troubles.  Olie day, the monthly  remittance 
failed—the  father  was  dead!  The  boy 
would have died of want if it had  not  been 
for the kind charity of the old druggist  and 
his wife.  They had become attached to the 
pretty,  well-behaved  boy,  they  pitied  his 
forlorn  position,  they  gave  him his  room 
and his board until he could obtain a  situa­
tion.  Anxious  to  make  himself  useful, 
j  Louis Carez  swept  and  cleaned  the  little 
Massachusetts  crate, 33%xl2x7%, equal-1 store, and  was  soon  able  to  help  the old 
man in preparing simple prescriptions.  One
New York crate,  (repacked  from  larger | day,  as he was alone in the store, a  woman 
called  for  some  ginger  powder.  Louis 
served her  and,  after  she  left,  tasted  the 
powder.  He  liked  it, but  finding it  burnt 
The first two of these sizes  are packed in 
his tongue,  he mixed it  with  water.  Then 
the country under  pressure  to  make  them 
lie put some ginger powder in one glass and 
carry without chafing and open  tight full in 
in another a little sugar and the contents  of
market.  The  smaller,  repacked New York
crate, will appear  to  be  full  without pres-1 the white paper of a secllitz  powder,  added
| water to both,  poured  the  contents  of  one
sure.
glass into the other and  drank  with delight 
the  pleasant,  effervescing  draught.  The

As  cranberries  are  a  high  priced  fruit, 
there is great temptation to  scant the meas­
ure,  and this practice flourishes through the 
inattention of retailers, many of whom seem 
to buy where they think the price is lowest, 
without regard  to  the  size  of  the  crate or 
barrel.  The  prevailing  sizes  are  as  fol­
lows:

New  Jersey  standard  crate,  23x12x8% 
inches inside  measure,  which  equals  33.9 
quarts grain measure.
in" 29 63 quarts. 

crates or from barrels), 20xll%x7%,  equal-
ing 30 quarts.

From the  New York Advocate.

Cranberry Packages.

.,. 

The  New  Jersey  standard  barrel  is  in 
depth  25%  inches,  diameter  of  head  16%
inches, diameter  of  bilge  18%  niches, and | ginger beer,  althoughtin a 
holds  just * three  New  Jersey  standard
crates.

The Massachusetts  barrel  is %  inch less 
in  diameter,  and holds five  quarts less than 
the New Jersey-

discovered.  For several days,  whenever  lie 
had  a  chance,  the  young  inventor experi­
mented in the small  laboratory,  and having 
at length perfected his new beverage, he cal­
culated that he wanted two guineas to man­
ufacture his liquid,  buy  100 bottles, as many 
corks,  and some twine.  Some fine morning, %
Choice  cranberries  also  come  to  market 
from inland districts  packed in flour barrels
holding about six quarts more than the New  he made up his mind to speak to  the  drug- 
gist, explain his idea,  and  beg  the  loan  of 
Jersey standard.  With 
these  facts  and a 
two guineas.  But tlie old man did not see the 
carpenter’s rule,  retailers  of cranberries can 
matter in the same light as the  enthusiastic 
easily determine what sort of  measure  they
| young boy and refused the loan.  However,
“ jfr. French, who has  been  leading a six- j  it was written in the book of fate  that  gin- 
teen years’ fight against short packages, was j ger beer was not  to  be  withheld  from  the 
instrumental in securing the passage of  the 1 appreciating  palates  of  Englishmen. The
wife of tlie druggist had heard  the explana­
New  Jersey law,  and  reports  that  a  large 
tions of the boy, and whether she  had faith 
majority of the New Jersey cranberry grow­
in his invention,  or whether  she  was  more 
ers are in favor of  a  standard package,  but j 
tender-hearted than her  husband, the  same 
the Massachusetts  growers  put  up  a pack- I 
evening, she slipped two gold pieces into the 
age shorter than  the  New  Jersey  one,  and 
hand of Louis out of her scanty savings.  A 
this is demoralizing  the  trade.  The  New 
Jersey  standard  was  copied  after  the  old J 
few  days  later,  he  could  be  seen  on  the 
streets of  London,  carrying  a  basketful  of  x 
Cape Cod package and  now  the Massachu- | 
bottles in one hand, and a glass in the other  Jr 
setts  standard is receding from the original j 
calling:  “Ginger-  beer, 
the  drink  of  the 
Cape Cod one.  This  is a subject which de­
period;  ginger beer, three  pence  a  bottle!”
serves the attention  of  grocer  associations 
A few months afterward,  Louis Carez man­
everywhere.
ufactured and sold  daily  1,000  bottles,  but 
one year later,  lie formed a partnership with 
a Capt. Dubbers, andjestablished large works 
which could scarcely meet the demands, and 
had to be enlarged more than once.  Ginger 
beer sold retail at two pence a bottle.  A fteri^  
four years of partnership, being then twenty- 
one years of age,  Louis Carez sold his share 
in the  concern  to  his  partner  for £ 10,000 
(Usually called Dr.  Pete,  The  Great  Ger­
and went to Paris.  He invested  his capital 
in  the silk house of Vacossin, at  that time,
man Doctor.)  Readers of The T r a d e s m a n  
I  (about the  year  1815)  already  a  very  im­
will find  advertisements,  in  this  issue,  of 
portant one.  But Louis  Carez  was a bom 
Golden  Seal  Bitters  and  Dr.  Pete's  Lung 
merchant,  and  in  1824  the firm of ‘Carez, 
Food for consumption (now called Dr. Pete’s 
i Vacossin & Co.’ had become the largest aneU ^ 
35 cent Cough Cure.)  These  two  prepara­
! richest of the silk trade in France.  He was™
tions are his great  medicines  and  the  ones 
I elected president of the Board  of  Trade  of 
with which he has been so  successful.  Dr. 
j Paris,  president  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
Pete  has  never  asked  one  to describe  his 
[ meree,  was a member of the Legion of Hon-
disease,  but told each one his  trouble  with-
out  asking  a  question.  Thousands  who  orj  ami was many times a  millionaire.  His 
sou,  Alfred Carez, was my chum at college. 
read this sentence will say,  “Yes,  he  told 
I was often a guest in the  house,  and many
me my trouble without  asking  me  a  ques- 
tion.”  His  intuitive  perceptions  being so  a time I have heard the old gentleman, when 
he  had  taken  some  friend through his art„ 
strong, he readily detects the disease.  The I 
suffering j and picture gallery, one of the finest private^] 
giving  of  his  medicine  to  the 
collections of Paris,  say with a smile: 
‘See 
marks a new era in  medicines.
what  can  be  got  out of a bottle  of  ginger 
beer.’ ”

Three  standard  crates of the New Jersey 
packing will  fill  a  standard  barrel of three 
rounded bushels, whereas the Massachusetts 
law provides for one  hundred  quarts level 
measure, which is intended to turn out three 
bushels struck grain measure.  Nothing but 
grain should be sold by struck measure.

To write on steel:  Clean  the  steel  with 
oil,  and cover its  surface  with  a  layer  of 
molten beeswax.  A  sharp-pointed  stick is 
Chas.  £.  Watson,  S.  A.  Maxwell &  Co.’s 
used to write on the wax, so  as  to lay bare
the parts of the  metal  which have to retain j well-known  salesman,  has  opened  up  the 
the writing.  The parts  thus  exposed  are j  samples contained in sixteen pieces 
covered by means of a brush with a  mixture J gage at the ladies’ drawing room, ii 
of six parts nitric acid and  one part muriatic | Hotel,  and  will  continue thee? 
acid.  After five minutes, the metal is plac- j two weeks.  His line compr’- 
ed in water, in order to stop the  further ac- j new and  nobby  in  sta 
tion of the acid mixture. 

The Finest Line of the Season.

j goods, wallpapers,  windo]

Dr. Peter W . Schmidt,

D. E. Prall, the  East  Sagiuaw  druggist,  line of books suitable 

has written President Wurzburg, asking for1 and fine plush goods hav| 
a copy  of  the  constitution  and by-laws o f! the house especially foj 
the Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society, j Watson  hereby  invit 
Mr. Prall intends to  awaken  the  druggists  come to Grand Rapids
and will endeavor to i 
of his city to the advantages of a similar or­
ception while in the cil
ganization.

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STATE  BO ABO  OW  PHARMACY. 
One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Two Years—F. H. J. yanpm ster. Bay City. 
Three Years—Jacob Jfessoil, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arl>or. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next  place  of  meeting—At  Grand  Itapids, 

March 2, 1886.
Michigan  Slate  Pharmaceutical  Association.

(MTITCBRS.

Grand Rapids.

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

Tuesday, October 12,1886.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society,

ORGA NIZED  OCTOBER 9, 1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Win. 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, 
Wm. L. White. 
Committee on Pharm acy— Hugo Thum,  M.  B. 
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.
Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts,  O.  H.
Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin.
Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchild, 
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
each month.
Aunual  M eetings-First  Thursday evening in 
November.
Next Meeting—Thursday evening, December J, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

,  „

Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.

OFFfC EU S.

President—I. F. Hopkins.
Vice-President—John Meyers.
Secretary and Treasurer—O. A. Lloyd.
Regular Meetings—Second and  fourth  Friday 
Next  Meeting—Friday  evening, November 13.

of each month.

ONE  YEAR  OLD.

Second Annual Meeting of the Grand Rap­

ids Pharmaceutical Society.

At  the  second  annual  meeting  of  the 
Grand llapids Pharmaceutical  Society,  held 
at  Tiie  T radesman  office  last  Thursday 
evening,  the following  members  were  pre­
sent:  President  Wurzburg,  Secretary  Es­
cott, Will L.  White,  John  E.  Peck,  II. B. 
Fairchild, Albert F.  Hazeltine, Isaac Watts, 
Eugene  Klein,  II.  E.  Locher,  Theo.  Kem- 
ink  and A.  Sanford.

The  application  of  Wm.  II.  Tibbs,  for 
membership  in  the  Society,  was  received 
and referred to the  appropriate  committee.
Treasurer Fairchild  reported the  receipts 
of the year to be 8102—804 from  initiations 
and  838  from  dues—and  the  amount  on 
hand to be $32.40.  The  report  was adopt­
ed.

Secretary Escott  made  the  following re­

port:

Soon after the  meeting  of  the  Michigan 
Pharmaceutical  Association in Detroit,  last 
year,  the question of organizing a society in 
Grand Rapids was agitated by some of those 
who attended  the  meeting,  and  a  prelimi­
nary meeting was held at the Morton House 
parlors Oct. 0,  1884.  This  meeting was at­
tended *by representatives of ten drug stores, 
all of whom  were  heartily in  favor  of  or­
ganizing,  and a committee was appointed to 
draft a constitution and by-laws.  This com­
mittee  reported  at  a  subsequent  meeting 
held at the same place Oct.  10,  1884, when a 
constitution  was  adopted.  The  organiza­
tion w’as  completed  by the  signing  of the 
constitution and  the  election  of  officers at 
the first annual meeting, which  was held at 
T h e  T radesm an  office,  Nov.  13,  1885. 
Eighteen persons signed the  constitution as 
charter  members, viz.:  Isaac  Watts,  Peck 
Bros.,  C.  P.  Bigelow,  Kemink,  Jones  & 
Co.,  J.  S.  Co win,  W.  E.  White,  R.  A. 
Schouten,  M.  B.  Kimm,  E.  li.  Wilson,  L. 
M.  Herrendeen,  Hazeltine,  Perkins  & Co., 
L. D.  Putnam & Co.,  F.  II.  Escott,  W.  H. 
VanLeeuwen, O.  H.  Richmond  & Co.,  A. 
C. Bauer,  H.  E.  Locher and H. & F. Thutn. 
The following have  been  elected  members 
during the past year:  Geo. G.  Steketee,  I). 
Kimm,  E.  B.  Curran,  T.  A.  Baxter, C. E. 
Escott,  R.  A. McWilliams, Blake Gibson, A. 
Stonehouse, J.  S.  Page, Aaron Clark,  Lucas 
Sclilphorst,  Bochove  &  Sanford,  W.  H. 
Knight, J.  L  Zerkle,  Eugene  Klein, D.  B. 
VanBuren,  A.  F.  Hazeltine, Mills & Lacey, 
W.  II.  Ross,  W.  L.  White, J. W. Hayarwd, 
J.  E.  Hunter and W.  J.  Page.

There have  been  thirteen  meetings  held 
to date (including the two preliminary meet­
ings),  at which a quorum  was  present,  and 
twice no quorum  could be  obtained. 
I am 
sorry that no roll has  been  kept during the 
past  year,  as  it  might  be  interesting  to 
know who attend the meetings  and who do 
not.  This should be  remedied  by  the new 
Secretary.  Scientific  work  has  occupied 
very little  time  in  the meetings  of  the So­
ciety, most of the time being  given to trade 
matters.  The great work  of  the  year  has 
been the securing of uniform  prices on pro­
prietary articles, with what  success you all 
know.  These results  bid fair  to  continue 
during the coming year,  and  give the Socie­
ty more time for the  discussion  of  matters 
relating to pharmacy.

Starting with an attendance  of  only  ten 
at our first meeting, and now having a mem­
bership of more than forty, the  Society  has 
reason to congratulate  itself  on its  success 
and to anticipate groat results in the future.

The report was adopted.
The election of officers  being  next in  or­
der,  President Wurzburg  appointed  Albert 
F. Hazeltine and  A. Sanford as tell«».

Nominations for President being in order,

Isaac Watts nominated  the  present  incum­
bent of that office.

Mr.  Wurzburg  thanked  the  Society  for 
the honor already  conferred  upon  him, but 
suggested  that  the  one-year  term  adopted 
by the State  Association  be  made  the rule 
in  this  Society.  He  nominated  John  E. 
Peck, as in every way qualified for the posi­
tion.

Mr.  Peck declined the nomination,  stating 
that  even  if  elected  he  should  refuse  to 
serve.  He held that the experience gleaned 
during the past year  should  be  utilized  by 
the re-election of every  office, r

Frank  II.  Escott  nominated  Dr.  H.  E. 

Locher.

Mr. Wurzburg receiving six of  the eleveh 
votes  oast,  he  was  declared  unanimously 
elected.  He  thanked  the  Society  for  re­
electing him  to  the  responsible  position of 
President,  and  pledged  himself  to  do  the 
best lie eould  for the  Society.  He said the 
organization was no longer  an  experiment, 
and that even the most enthusiastic promoters 
of the Society  could have hardly anticipated 
tliepresent  stability of the organization.  A 
year of profitable existence has  proven that 
the movement was not  boy’s  play.

John E.  Peck  nominated  Wm.  L.  White 
for  Vice-President, and  Isaac  Watts  pro­
posed the name of  Wm.  H.  VanLeeuwen. 
Mr. White received seven of the eleven votes 
and was declared elected.

II.  B.  Fairchild  moved  that  Frank  II. 
Escott be re-elected  Secretary  by  acclama­
tion.  Mr.  Escott nominated  Wm.  II.  Van- 
Leemven  and  Isaac  Watts  presented  the 
name  of  Jphn  E.  Peck.  Mr.  Escott  was 
unanimously elected.

II. B.  Fairchild was unanimously re-elect­

ed Treasurer.

The  following  were  elected  members of 
the Board of Trustees,  the  President  being 
Chairman  c.r-offieio:  John  E.  Peck,  Wm. 
II.  VanLeeuwen,  Wm.  L.  White and  Isaac 
Watts.

The  President  was  given  time  until the 
next meeting to announce the standing com­
mittees.

John  E.  Peck  moved  that  the  Society 
vote 825 to Secretary Escott as a slight token 
of the appreciation  of  the  members for his 
services.  The motion was adopted.

Isaac Watts moved that  the  Secretary be 
instructed to notify each member who is be­
hind with his dues. 
II.  B. Fairchild moved 
as an  amendment  that  the  Secretary  have 
postal cards printed and notify the members 
each quarter when the dues are payable.  The 
amendment was adopted.

Frank H.  Escott offered an amendment to 
Article 1,  Section 3, of the bf-laws,  so as to 
read as follows:  “Every member shall pay 
in advance to the Treasurer the sum  of two 
dollars as his anuual dues  and shall  be lia­
ble to lose his membership by neglect to pay 
said dues one year.”

Frank J.  Wurzburg moved an amendment 
relative to honorary members, providing for 
their admittance to  membership  in  the So­
ciety.

Discussion of  the  poison  question  being 
then  in  order,  H.  B.  Fairchild  introduced 
the subject  by  the  presntation  of  the  fol­
lowing: 

*

Resolved—That  tills  Society  adopt  the 
following pharmacy regulation of  the  Wis­
consin  Society:  As  an  additional  precau­
tion  in  the  dispensing  «and  sale  of  potent 
medicines,  pharmacists are requested to af­
fix a strip of rough emery cloth around eacli 
shop bottle,  or other  container  from which 
they dispense  morphine  and  other poisons; 
the widtli of  the  aforesaid  strip  to  be  not 
less than one-fourtli  of the  altitude  of  the 
dispensing bottle and to be pasted under the 
label of contents.”

whole establishment  That one case settled 
it.  He never tried it again.

Albert  F. Hazeltine  said  that the physi­
cians in his locality objected strongly to the 
poison label.

Mr.  White  thought  that  every  prescrip- 
iion should bear a statement cautioning peo­
ple against taking more  than the directions 
called for.

Mr.  Peck  enquired  how  this  would  do 
with prescriptions" “to  be  taken  as direct­
ed.”
I  Frank II.  Escott related an  experience he 
hail with a local business man taking a half 
bottle of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral at one dose, 
j which nearly killed him.

Eugene  Kl^in  said  that  much  trouble 
could be avoided  by making  an impression 
on the mind  of  the  receiver.  Most  people 
think that the directions  are plain  enough, 
and look upon any suggestions from a drug­
gist  as  an  interference.  Nevertheless,  he 
advises patients  to  be  cautious and  follow 
directions strictly.

Discussion  then  being  closed,  Mr.  Fair- 
child,  in behalf of the Society, presented the 
editor of  The  Tradesman  with  a  hand­
some black  walnut  bookcase as  a token of 
his services to the drug trade of the city and 
State.  The  recipient  of  the  gift  thanked 
the Society  for this token  of  their esteem, 
and promised  that  he  would  strive  harder 
than ever to do his  duty by  the donors and 
their brethren of the State.

The meeting then adjourned  until Tlmrs- 

dav,  December 3.

First  Examination  of  the  State  Board  of 

Pharmacy.

Thefirst examination for registration under 
section 5 of the pharmacy act  took place at 
Detroit on  Tuesday and Wednesday,  Nov­
ember 3 ami» 4.  Thirty-nine applied for ex­
amination,  but two  withdrew  after the first 
session.  The remaining thirty-seven passed 
a very  satisfactory  examination.  The  ex­
amination was in  writing,  and was divided 
into fifty questions  in  the  identification  of 
dritgs,  fifty  questions  in  materia  medica, 
fifty  questions  in  pharmacy, 
twenty-five 
questions in  chemistry  and  ten  prescrip­
tions.  The Board fixed upon an average of 
50 per cent,  of  all the  questions,  on which 
basis  tiie  entire  class  of  thirty-seven  suc­
ceeded in passing.  Eight of the candidates 
averaged 80 per cent.  Three of  them were 
country druggists and  fiv e  graduates of the 
Michigiin School of Pharmacy.  The follow­
ing is a list of the candidates:
Hiram S. Barnabee,  Mendon.
Lew T. E. Bennett, Port Huron.
Edward Blum, Ann Arbor.
E. E. Caulkins, Pontiac.
A. B. Costerlin, Jackson.  _
T. N. Cunningham, Detroit.
Wm. Curlett, Dexter.
H. P. Swell,  Utica.
R. S. Forbes, Detroit.
Lewis Fullmer,  Detroit.
J. H. Gardner, Lapeer.
L. H. Gardner, Detroit.
W. F. Griffith, Howell.
S. K. Harvey, Detroit.
C. B. Hoyt. Detroit.
E. E. Huyck, Clio.
lili L. Jones, Battle  Creek.
R.  I. Latimer, Jackson.
A. G. Lyon. Mason.
Thos. Madill, Detroit.
Alfred E. McMahon, Millington.
John S. McKibbie, Detroit.
Hobt. S. Mc^pibie, Detroit.
F. N. Mosher,  Lapeer.
A. E. Mummery, Ann  Arbor.
S. J. North, Grand Rapids.
H. Palmer, Ann Arbor.
F. E. Parkinson, Pontiac.
D. F. Rice, East Saginaw.
A. I. Rogers, East Saginaw.
W. I. St. Johns, Highland Station.
C. E. Saelpe, Detroit.
M. Shotwell, Mt. Clemens.
H. H. Spencer, Richland.
W. E. Stevenson, Mt. Pleasant.
Geo. Swift, Detroit.
Louis Wolff, Jackson.

Isaac Watts presented the precaution sug­
gested by  a  Western  drug  journal—that a 
strip of steel be riveted over the neck of the 
bottle and a torpedo  affixed. 
If  the  phar­
macist survives,  the shock is likely to bring 
him to his senses and  preclude  his making 
a  mistake.  Seriously,  Mr.  Watts  recom­
mended  Prof.  Bedford's  rule—two  looks 
and a level head.

John E.  Peck recommended  the use of  a 
rubber band around the  neck  of  the bottle. 
His  ]»resent  method  of  distinguishing  po­
tent  liquids  is to  tie  a  thread  around  the 
neck of the bottle  witli a screw  ot  the  end 
of it.

Mr. Watts  stated that no one should ever 
be allowed to  engage  in  conversation with 
the prescription clerk while  in the perform­
ance of his duties.

Mr.  Peck  remarked  that  one  peculiarity 
of the mistakes made  is  that they are  gen­
erally  made  at  the  hands  of  ‘experienced 
pharmacists.

President Wurzburg  asked  if  it  was the 
custom  of  those  present  to  affix  a  poison 
label to prescriptions  containing poisons.

Mr. Peck stated that the courts had decid­
ed thiit the poison  label  must  be  used in 
such  cases.

The  President  stated  that  ever  since  a 
child had drunk one of his prescriptions, lie 
had been in the habit of so doing.

II.  B.  Fairchild  related  an  experienced 
which came to his knowledge from Batavia, 
N.  Y.  A gentleman  entered  a  drug  store 
and asked a boy for rochelle salts.  The boy 
stating  that  he  did  not  know  where  this 
drug was kept,  the man stepped to the shelf, 
and saying that he would help himself, took 
three tablespoonfuls of  antimony,  from the 
effects of which  he  died.  This  occurrence 
was published in papers all  over  the coun­
try as “another drug clerk horror.”

Mr.  Watts  stated  that  some  physicians 
would  not  allow  their  prescriptions  to be 
taken to drug stores which  make a practice 
of affixing poison labels to prescriptions con­
taining poisons.

Will  L.  White said he once tried putting 
on the poison label,  but  that  the physician 
came around and threatened to annihilate the

Articles which will Freeze.

The  following  goods  are  all  liable  to 
freeze, and as  they are at risk of  purchaser 
when shipped in cold  weather,  it is well to 
anticipate you wants:

Wash.
line.

lus.

Injection  Mathey Cay- 

Hair Dye.
Hill’s  Rose
Hydro- 

Carbolic Acid Crystals.  •
Champlain’s Liquid Pearl.
Constitution Water.
Constitutional Catarrh Remedy.
Dialyzed Iron (except  Glycerated). 
Graffenberg’s Catholicon.
Gouraud’s Oriental Cream.
Hagan’s Magnolia Balm. 
Helmbold’s Rose Wash. 
Horsford's  Acid  Phosphates. 
Ink,  of all kinds.
Injection,  Broil. 
Laird’s Bloom of Youth.
Liquid Bluing.  Liquid Dye Colors.
Lydia Pinkhaui’s Compound.
Mother Noble’s  Syrup.  Milk  Magnesia. 
Mineral Spring Water.
Orange Flower Water.
Perry’s Lotion.  Perry’s Comedone. 
Randall’s Cream Wash.  Rose  Water. 
Shoe Dressing.
Solution Citrate Magnesia.
Carbolic Acid.
Phosphoric Acid.
Thompson’s Eye Water.
Vinegar Bitters.
Winchester Syrup Hypophosphites. 
Wilhoft’s Tonic.
Whittlesey’s Dyspepsia Cure.

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The Poison Question.

The Georgia  Legislature  has  enacted  a 
law compellingfall druggists to keep poisons 
within  scarlet  wrappers.  This  seems  to 
T h e TitADESMAN|to be a foolish provision, 
as the wrappers are easily lost or destroyed, 
after which there is greater liability to make 
mistakes than  ever, owing  to  the fact that 
the  dispenser will  put  a certain  amount of 
reliance upon  the  wrappers  and will  not 
stop to examine the contents of  bottles  not 
so distinguished.

A  Boulder,  Colo.,  physician  purposes 
most feasible method of preventing mistakes 
in dispensing which  T h e T r a d e sm a n has 
yet  seen  advanced.  He  suggests  that  all 
containers  of  poisons  be  made  of  black 
glass, with roughened surfaces, like diamond 
shaped spots.  The black color has a funer­
al  suggestion,  and  the  roughened  surface 
could not fail to remind  the  dispenser that 
he was handling dangerous articles.

9 @ 10
30 @ 35
34 @ 36
60 @ 65
3 @ 5
11 @ 12
12 @ 14
3 @ 4
52 @ bb
18
12 @ 15
12 ® 15
15 ® 18
14
5 @ 6
6 @ 7
40@45
2 00 
50
11 
18
13
14
15 
10
12 
20 
18 
30 
12

Acetic, No.  8....................................
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........
Carbolic............................................
Citric.................................................
Muriatic 18  deg...............................
Nitric 36 deg....................................
Oxalic...............................................
Sulphuric  66 deg.............................
Tartaric  powdered........................
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz
Benzoic,  German............................
T annic..............................................

AM MONIA.

Carbonate.................................$  S'
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
/q u a  16 deg or  3f............................
Aqua 18 deg or  4f............................

BALSAMS.

Copaiba............................................
Fir.
P eru.........................................
Tolu.........................................
b a r k s .
Cassia, in m ats (Pow’d 20c)..
Cinchona,  yellow..................
Elm,  select............. t ..............
Elm, ground, pure................
Elm, powdered, p ure...........
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
Licorice(10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 ana 25 lb doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 fi>  boxes)............... 
Lgowood, Vis 
do 
............... 
............... 
Logwood, \ s  
do 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
............... 
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.
Arnica...............................................   10  @  11
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
25
Chamomile,  Germ an.....................  
25

@ 
@ 
50  @

EXTRACTS.

FLO W ERS.

27
37Vi
9
12
13
15
14

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes.........................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)...............
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......
Ammoniac....................................
Arabic, powdered  select............
Arabic, 1st picked.......................
Arabic,2d  picked........................
¿Arabic,  3d picked.........................
jflrabie, sifted sorts.....................
Assafuentida, prime (Powd 35c).
Benzoin.........................................
Camphor.......................................
Catechu. Is (Vi 14c, Vis 16c)...........
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Gal ban um strained.......................
Gamboge.........................................
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c)...........
Kino fPowdered, 30cl....................
Mastic..............................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c'..
Opium, pu, v il'owd$4.90).............
Shellac, Cmepbcll’s .......................
Shellac,  English............................
Shellac, native...............................
Shellac bleachod............................
Tragacanth  ....................................

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H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGE

H oarhound..................................
Lobelia....................................... • •
Pepperm int..................................
Rue.................................................
Spearm int....................................
Sweet Majoram..........................
Tanzy ............................................
T hym e...........................................
W ormwood..................................

IR O N .

Citrate and  Quinine....................
Solution mur., for tinctures —
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................. 
C itrate..............................................
P hosphate......................................  

LEAVES.

60®

28®

55®60 
5®  27 
13 
40 
35®
80 
90 
80®
35 
20
40 
3 50 
30 
26 
24 
30
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. .25
..40 
..24 
. .35
..30 
. .25

6 40 
20
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Buehu, short (Powd 25c)................   13  ®  14
6
Sage, Italian, bulk (14s & Vis, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................  18  @  20
Senna, Alex. Bifted and  garbled.. 
30
Senna,  powdered.................................... 
Senna tinnivelli........................................ 
Uva  Ursi........................ ,................ 
Belledonna................................................ 
Foxglove................................................... 
H enbane........................................... 

t  35

10

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash W hisky.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.............................................175 
Catawba  W ines..............................1 25  ®2 00
Port Wines...................................... 1 35  ®2 50

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M AGNESIA.

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

22
2 25

45

6 00

50 
45 
00 
50

17  ®  18Vi 

1 00 

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Almond, sweet....................
Amber, rectified.....................
Anise.........................................
Bay $   oz..................................
Bergamont...............................
Castor..................................
2 00 
Croton.......................................
75 
C ajeput....................................
Cassia.......................................
35
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)
Citronella.......................................
1 20
Cloves...............................................  
1 20
Cod Liver, N. F —  
.........gal 
1  50
Cod Liver, best......................... 
Coil Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Cubebs. P. & W ............................... 
9 00
1 60
E rigeron........................................... 
2 00
Fireweed........................................... 
Geranium  $   oz...............................  
75
35
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 76c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
50
2 00
Juniper berries............................... 
2 01
Lavender flowers, French.............  
Lavender garden 
1  00
.............  
Lavender spike 
90
.............  
Lemon, new  crop............................ 
175
2 00
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ....................... 
80
Lemongrass...................................... 
Olive, Malaga.................... 
@ 9 0
2 76
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  . 
1 25
Origanum, red  flowers, French... 
50
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
1 30
Pennyroyal...................................... 
4 00
Peppermint,  white......................... 
8 00
Rose  $   oz......................................... 
65
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $ 1 50) 
Salad.................................................  65  @  67
1 00
Savin................................................. 
Sandal  Wood, German.................. 
4 50
Sandal Wood, W. 1..........................  
700
Sassafras........................................... 
60
Spearm int................. 
 
@7 00
T an sy ............................................... 4  50  @5 00
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10  @  12
2 35
W intergreen................................. 
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00)....... 
3 50
W ormseed.......................................  
2 €0

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

ROOTS.

14
40
25
3 00
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A lkanet............................................  
20
26
Althea, c u t.......................................  
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................  
17
33
Arrow, Taylor’s, in Xs and Vis. ... 
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
Calamus,  peeled.........................  
20
35
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
20
10
Gentian (Powd  15c)......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)............  11  @  12
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
17
Golden Seal (Powd 25o)..................  
20
20
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
Ipecac, Rio, powdered...................  
1 20
30
Jalap,  powdered.............................. 
Lioorice,  select (Powd 16).............  
18
Licorice, extra select....................  
20
Pink, tr u e ..................................... 
38
Rhei, from select to  oholce....V. .1 00  @1 60
Rhei,powdered E. I , . .....................110  @1 20
i Rhei, choice out  o u b e s...............  
2 00
2 25
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SEEDS.

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Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in 9>  packages..........
Canary,  Smyrna.............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c)
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery...............................................
Coriander, best English................
F en n el..............................................
Flax,  clean.......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3)4)..................
Foenugreek, powdered................*.
Hemp,  Russian...............................
Mustard, white  Black 10c)..ft.......
Q uince..............................................
Rape, English...........................^...
Worm, L evant.................................
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2
Nassau 
........
do 
do 
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Velvet Extra do 
do 
E xtra Yellow do 
do 
.......
do 
Grass 
do 
........
Hard head, for slate use...........
Yellow Reef. 
................
M ISCELLANEOUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.13, $  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto  1 lb rolls............................
Alum .........................................  ^  lb
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
Annatto,  prim e...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........
Arsenic, white, powdered.............
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s .
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans,  Vanilla.................................7
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue V itrio l....................................
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........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red  lingers..........................
Chalk, white lum p..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ....................
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  erusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform................ V..................
Cinchonidia, P. &  W.....................;
Cinchonidia, other brands.............
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................
Cochineal.........................................
Cocoa  B utter.......................  ........
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 lb box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prim e...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
D extrine..........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered.............................
Ether Squibb’s .................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts (bbl.  1%).....................
Ergot, fresh......................................
Etner, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise.............................
Gelatine, Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine. French  ............................
Glassware, flint, 71 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 dis__
Glue,  ca »met..................................
Glue,white.......................................
Glycerine, pure...............................
Hops  Vis and X s.............................
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo...............................................
Insect Powder, best Dalm atian...
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co„ boxes
Iodine,  resublimed........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................
Lead, acetate...................................
Lime, chloride, (Vis 2s 10c & Xs lie)
22
L upuline...........................................
16
Lycopodium....................................
M ace..................... ...........................
35
Madder, best  D utch.....................
30
Manna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ $  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................$  a>
Moss,  Irish.....................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 lb  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, Xd...............
Paris Green....................................
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
37
Quassia  ............................................
Quin in, Sulph, P, & W ........... fl> oz
65
Quinine,  German............................
Red  Precipitate.......................lb
Seidlitz  M ixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber.......................... ...........
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle.....................................
Sal Soda............................................
Salicin...............................................
Santonin..........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Sperm aceti^....................................
Soda, Bi-Caraonate,  DeLand’s__
Soap, White Castile.........................
Soap, Green  do 
........................
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do 
.........................
Soap, Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................
Sugar Milk powdered....................
Sulphur, flour..................................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, Vi gal. cans  #  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin ..........
Tar, 
pints in tin ...............
Turpentine,  Venice................ lb
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................

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O IL S.

Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shield  Cylinder................................................... 50
Eldorado Engine..................................................35
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 30
Challenge Machinery......................................... 25
Backus Fine Engine...........................................30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg............................................. 15 Vi
Paraffine, 28  deg..................................................21
Sperm, winter  bleached................................ 1 40
Bbl 
Whale, winter.......•.............................  70
Lard, extra...........................................  55
Lard, No.  1...........................................  45
Linseed, pure  raw ..............................  43
Linseed, boiled..................................   46
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   70
Spirits Turpentine...............................   40
No, lT u rp   Coach................................1  10@1  20
E xtra  T urp.............................................1 60® 1  70
Coach  Body,................................................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture............................1 00@1  10
E xtra Turp  Damar...............................1 55® 1 60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 T urp........   ..........   70®

V A RN ISH ES.

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PA IN TS

Bbl 
Red Venetian............................ 
IX 
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........   IX 
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  IX 
Putty, com m ercial..................  2X 
Putty, strictly pure........ ........   2 Vi 
Vermilion, prime A m erican.. 
Vermilion,  English.................. 
Green, Peninsular.................... 
Lead, red strictly pure...........  
Lead, white, strictly pure....... 
Whiting, white  Spanish..........  
Whiting,  G ilders'.................... 
White, Paris American...........  
Whiting  Parts English ollff.. 
Pioneer P rep ared F aln ts....... 
Swiss Villa Prepared  Paints.. 

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W M  SEA RS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

A g e n ts   f o r

AMBOY  CHEESE-

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

O Y S

T

E R

S

  !

When  in  want  of a  good  brand  of  OYSTERS, 
don't fail to  get  the  famous  PATAPSOO,  which  is 
guaranteed both as to quality and price.  Sold only 
by  W.  F.  GIBSON  &  00.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich., 
GENERAL  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,  and 
dealers in all kinds of PRODUCE,  JELLY,  MINCE 
MEAT  and  PAPER  OYSTER  PAILS.
Jelly, Mince IMIeeit Etc.

s p r in g   &

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

COMPANY,

DRY GOODS,

Staple and  Fancy

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

W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A. STOWE  &  HRO., P roprietors.

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

Teleplione No. 95.

(. Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapid*  as 

Second-class Matter.1

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER  11,1885.

The Custom of Giving Dry Goods Samples 

and What it Costs.

From the Detroit Tribune.

“The  custom  of  giving samples,” said a 
said a Woodward avenue  dry goods  clerk, 
“costs the  dry  goods  dealers  hundreds of 
dollars annually that would  be a clear  sav­
ing if the practice could be broken up.”

“Is the custom of such long standing that 

it cannot be discontinued?”

“That’s it  exactly.  People  expect  to be 
given samples  and  you  can’t  deny them. 
Silks, costly lace and  dress goods, embroid­
ery,  ribbons  and  everything  goes.  Some 
laces cost over  812  a  yard  wholesale, but 
you’ve got  to clip  off  a  piece for  the first 
woman who asks for it.  We got some dress 
trimming worth 827 a yard.  A woman who 
bought a silk dress yesterday wanted a slice 
of it and I had to give it to  her.  Figure up 
the cost  of  two  inches  of  827  trimming. 
That’s the way it  goes.”

“Do you give samples to everybody?” 
“Well,  nearly  everybody  that  asks for 
them, but  there  is a limit.  Samples of the 
costliest goods are  given  only  to  our  best 
and  richest  customers, persons  who  have 
money to buy  if  the article  pleases  them. 
Hundreds of ladies,  wives  of  rich  men are 
constantly  hunting  for  something  new. 
When  it comes out they buy it, not because 
they need it,  but simply  because it’s a nov­
elty, and they want to have  something that 
the  mistress of the  next  mansion  does not 
possess.”

“Why don’t you get  up  a sample depart­

ment?”

“We come pretty near it.  Of  every new 
piece of goods that comes  in  several  yards 
are cut for  samples  and  put in the sample- 
drawer.  Many  well-regulated  retail  dry 
goods houses have from two to half a dozen 
sample-drawers. 
In  the  country trade the 
practice of cutting samples  is, perhaps, ad- 
vantaheous.  Country  people  write  to  us 
for  samples, which are  nearly always sent, 
and when these paoplecome to town,  if they 
don’t buy a large piece of the  goods  match­
ing the sample,  they  take  something else 
that suits ihem better.”

“ Why  doesn’t  it  work  as  well 

in  the 

city?”

“As a rule you  never hear  afterwards of 
eight out of ten of the women who get sain 
pies.  There  are  hundreds  of  them  who 
have not the slighest idea of  buying a piece 
of the  goods.  They  are  after  patches  for 
quilts—crazy quilts.  When  the crazy quilt 
mania was at its height  we  shut  down  on 
cutting samples of the costly goods.  It was 
something like the picture  card  craze  gift- 
racket, only a good deal worse.”
Weighing a Hair.

“To number the hairs of your head is not 
a very  difficult task,” the refiner of  the as­
say office said.  “A  very close  approxima­
tion can be  made  by  weighing  the  entire 
amount of hair  on  a  man’s head  and then 
weighing a single hair.  The  weight of the 
former  divided by that  of the latter will, of 
course,  give  the  desired  number. 
If you 
will pluck out a hair  of  your  beard,  I can 
show you.”  A long and  straggely one was 
accordingly detached,  the refiner  putting it 
on a scale, which  was  enclosed  in a glass 
case,  and graduated with extreme accuracy. 
With little weights of aluminum he piled up 
one arm untill an equipoise was reached. The 
hair weighed three milligrammes.  “If  you 
reduce this  to  figures,” he  said,  “it would 
require 8,000 hairs  to  weigh  an ounce,  and 
supposing  you  have six ounces,  you have 
48,000 hairs.”

Here’s  a  Hint.
From the Philadelphia Record.

“I suppose I’ll have to go;  but,  indeed,  it 
wasn’t my fault,” said a pretty servant  girl 
when the  mistress of  the  house surprised 
her husband  hugging  the  lass.  “Oh,  no, 
don’t think of going,” replied  the  practical 
mistress;  “since you have been  with us  we 
are saving money.  My husband remains in 
the evenings  watching for  chances to hug 
you,  and I stay home to watch him.  His re­
maining at home is from  81.50  to 82 in his 
pocket every night,  and  I’ll  want  some of 
the money shortly to  buy a new  dress, and 
there’ll be trouble if I  don’t get it.  Oh, no, 
don’t go.  Most  married  women  will not 
have a pretty servant  girl  about  the house; 
but when a pretty  servant  girl  will  enable 
me to get pretty  clothes I’m  willing to tol­
erate her.”

Economy  is  Wealth.

Lady  (to  grocer)—1  notice  you  keep 

cigars.

half a box.

Grocer—Yes mum.  Only  a dollar and  a 

Lady—Is it possible?  Why,  my husband 
sometimes  pays  as  high  as  fifteen  cents 
apiece for cigars.  You  can  send  a  couple 
of boxes. 
It’s the height of folly for him to 
buy cigars at retail  when  they can  be  had 
for so much less by the box.

Accommodating to the Last.

Old  Lady  (to  druggist)—Are  you  quite 
.certain  this  is  carbonate  of  soda—not  ar­
senic?

Druggist—Quite, ma’am; try it and  judge 

for yourself.

PUTNAM & BROOKS
Wholesale Manufacturers of

PURE  CANDY!

A ND  DEALERS  IN

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

BANANAS,  FIGS,  DATES,. 

ISTuits,  E t c .

ENTIRELY  N EW !
Silver Spoon Baking Powder,

3  DOZEN  LARGE  ONE-HALF  POUND  CANS  OF

i X  DOZEN

i  DOZEN

134  PINT  PITCHERS.

7  INCH  COMPORTS.

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. 

W E   G U A R A N T E E  

The SILVER  SPOON Powder to give entire satisfaction.

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,  M IO H .

where in this issue and write for

Arctic  Manufacturing’  Co.,
See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices in  Oar  Lots. 
We are prepared to make Bottom Prices oa anything we handle.
A. B. KNOW LSON,

3 Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Grocers,

A G -E N T S  P O E

KNIGHT  OF  LABOR  PLUG,

* The Beet and X oet Attractive Goods on the Market.  Bead for 

Sample Butt.  See Quotations jn Price-Current.

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W H0L18ALB  F R I0 I  CURRENT.

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

CHECKS.

S IL E S IA S .

OSNABDRO.

BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4..23  ¡Pepperell, 104........ 25
Androscoggin, A4. .21  Pepperell, 11-4....... 2714
Pepperell,  7-4........16ft Pequot,  7-4.............18
Pepperell,  8-4........20  Pequot,  84.............21
Pepperell,  8-4........22ft|Pequot,  8-4.............24
Park Mills, No. 80.. 14 
Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
Economy,  oz..........10
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis Apron.............10ft
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
Otis  Furniture.......10ft
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
York, 1  oz.............. 10
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12
Park Mills, No. 80. .13  York. AA ,extra oz.14 
Alabama brown 
7  ¡Alabama  plaid.......7
Jewell brlwn..........  9ft Augusta plaid........ 7
Kentucky brown.. 10ft Toledo plaid............7
Lewiston  brown...  9ft Manchester  plaid..  7
Lane brown...........   9*4'New  T enn.plaid...11
Louisiana  plaid—   7  I Utility plaid............8ft
Qreene, G, 44 ........   5ft
Avondale,  36..........  814
Hill, 44......................7*
Art  cambrics, 36...1114 
Hill, 7-8....................  6*
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8V4 
Hope,  44.................. 63i
Androscoggin, 54. .12ft
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 4 4 ..............  6ft
bric, 44.................lift
Ballou, 54...............  6
Llnwood,  44..........  7ft
Boott, 0 .4 4 ............  8ft
Lonsdale,  44............7%
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   7
Lonsdale  cambric. 10ft 
Boott, AGC, 44.......9ft
Langdon, GB, 44...  9ft
Boott, R. 34..........  6ft
Langdon, 45........... 14
Blackstone, AA 44.  7 
Masonville,  44.......8
Cbapm an,X ,4 4 ....  6
Maxwell. 44............9ft
Conway,  4-4........... 7
New York Mill, 44.10ft 
Cabot, 44................ 64£
New Jersey,  4 4 ....  8 
6
Cabot,7-8........... 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7ft
Canoe,  34...............  4
7ft Pride of the W est..11
Domestic,  36.
Pocahontas,  4 4 ....  7ft
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9
Slatervllle, 7-8........ 6ft
Davol, 44...............  9
Victoria, AA..........9
Fruit of Loom, 44..  8ft 
Woodbury, 44........ 5ft
F ruitof Loom, 7-8..  7ft 
Whitinsvifie,  4 4 ...  7ft
Fruit of  the Loom,
Whltinsviile,7-8__ 6ft
cambric,  44....... 11
Wamsutta, 44.........10ft
Gold Medal, 44..  ..  6ft
Williamsvllle,  36... 10ft
Gold Medal, 7-8...... 6
Gilded  Age............. 8ft
iMasonville TS..........  8
Crown.................... 17 
No.  10.....................12ft Masonville 8 ............10ft
Lonsdale.................9ft
Coin.........................10
Lonsdale A ..............16
Anchor....................15
Nie tory  O...............
Centennial.............
Victory J .................
B lackburn.............   8
Victory D ...............
Davol.......................14
Victory  K ...............2ft
London....................12ft
Phoenix A ............... 19ft
Paconia..................12
Phoenix  B ............... 10ft
Red  Cross...............10
Phoenix X X ............ 5
Social  Im perial— 16
G loucester............... 6ft
Albion, solid............5ft
Gloucestermourn’g . 5ft 
Albion,  grey............6
Hamilton  fancy....5ft
Allen’s  checks.........5ft
Hartel fancy............5ft
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 5ft
Merrimac D............. 5ft
Alien's pink..............5ft
M anchester............. 5ft
Allen’s purple.......... 5ft
Oriental fancy........ 5ft
American, fancy... .5ft
Oriental  robes........ 8ft
Arnold fancy........... 6
Pacific  robes........... 6
Berlin solid.............  5
Richmond.................6
Cocheco fancy........ 5
Steel River............... 5ft
Cocheco robes..........6ft
Simpson’s ................ 6
Conestoga fancy— 6
W asnington fancy.. 6 
E ddystone...............6
Washington  blues.  7
Eagle fancy............. 5
Garner pink..............5ft
Appleton  A, 4 4 ....  6ft
Boott  M, 44............6ft
Boston  F, 4 4..........7ft
Continental C, 4-3..  6ft 
Continental D, 40 in  8ft 
Conestoga W, 4 4...  6ft 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5ft 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 34........ 5ft
Dwight Y, 7-8..........5ft
Dwight Z, 44..........6ft
Dwight Star, 44—   7 
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Great Falls E ,44...  7
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......6
Indian  Orchard  14 7ft
Renfrew, dress styl 9 
A m oskeag............... 7ft
Johnson  ManfgCo,
Amoskeag, Persian 8ft
Bookfold..............12ft
Johnson Manfg Co,
B ates.........................7ft
dress  styles.........12ft
B erkshire.............   6ft
Slatervllle, 
dress 
Glasgow checks—   7 
s ty le s ..................7ft
Glasgow check8,f’y  7ft
I White Mfg Co, stap 7
Glasgow 
royal  styles........   8  ¡White Mfg Co, fane  8
new  White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
stan d ard .............   7ft  Earlston.........   8ft
P lunket.................. 7ft Gordon..................... 7
dress
Lancaster...............  8  Greylock, 
Langdale................ 7ft|  styles  .....................12ft
Pepperell.  104...... 27ft
Androscoggin, 74. .21 
Pepperell,  114......32ft
Androscoggin, 84. .23
Pequot,  74 ............ 21
Pepperell,  74.........20
Pequot,  84.............24
Pepperell,  84............22 ft
Pequot,  94.............27ft
Pepperell,  94 .........25

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  7ft
Laconia  B, 74.........16ft
Lyman B, 40-in.......10ft
Mass. BB, 4 4 ..........  5*
Nashua  E,40-in....  8ft
Nashua  R, 44........ 7ft
Nashua 0,7-8..........6ft
Newmarket N ........ 6ft
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7
Pepperell  R, 44__ 7ft
Pepperell  0,7-8....  6ft
Pepperell N, 34__ 6ft
Pocasset  C, 44.......6ft
Saranac  R .................7ft
Saranac  E ...............  9

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS. 

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

DOM ESTIC QINQHAM S.

checks, 

HEAVY  BKOWN  COTTONS.

TICKINGS.

Atlantic  A, 44.......7ft¡Lawrence XX, 44..  7
Atlantic  H ,44.......7  Lawrence  Y ,30....  7
Atlantic  D, 44.......6ft Lawrence LL, 44...  6ft
Atlantic P, 44........   6ft Newmarket N ........ 6ft
Atlantic  LL, 44 
5  ¡Mystic River, 44...  5ft
Adriatic,36............. 7ftlPequot A, 44............7ft
Augusta, 44...........   6ft!Piedmont,  36..........6ft
Boott  M. 44............  6ft|Stark AA, 44..........7ft
Boott  FF, 44..........  7ft Tremont CC, 44 ....  5ft
Granlteville, 44—   5ft Utica,  44 ................   9
Indian  H ead,4 4 ...  7  Wachusett,  44.......7ft
Indiana Head 45-in. 12ft | Wach usett, 30-in...  6ft 
Falls, XXXX..........18ft
Amoskeag,  ACA...12ft 
Falls, XXX.............15ft
“ 44.. 19
A m o s k e a g  
Falls,  BB................lift
Amoskeag,  A ....... .12
Falls,  BBC, 36........19ft
Amoskeag,  B .......lift
Falls,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  C.......11
Hamilton,  BT.32..12
Amoskeag,  D ....... 10ft
Hamilton,  D.......... 9ft
Amoskeag,  E ....... 10
Hamilton,  H ___ _  9ft
Amoskeag, F ..........  9ft
Hamilton  fancy...10
Premium  A, 4-4— 17
Methuen AA..........12
Premium  B ............ 16
Methuen ASA........16ft
E xtra 44...................16
Omega A, 7-8..........11
E xtra 7-8...................14ft
Omega A, 44..........13
Gold Medal 4-4.......15
Omega ACA, 7-8.*... 14 
CCA 7-8.................... 12ft
Omega ACA, 44 .... 16
CT 4-4........................14
Omega SE, 7-8........24
RC 7-8........................14
Omega SE, 4 4........27
BF7-8........................16
Omega M. 7-8........22
A F44....................... 19
Omega M, 44..........25
Cordis AAA, 32....... 14
Shetuoket SS&SS W lift 
Cordis  ACA, 32....... 15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32....... 15
Shetucket,  SFS  ...12
Cordis No. 2............ 14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis No, 3............ 13
Stockbridge  fm ey.  8
Cordis No. 4............ lift
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GLAZED CAM BRICS.

W1GANS.

GRAIN BAGS.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

W ashington.......... 4ft
Hookset...........
.  5
Edwards...............
Ked  Cross........ __ 5
S. S. & Sons............ 5
Forest G rove...
American  A ... ...18 00 Old  Ironsides....... .15
.21
Stark A ............. ..  .22ft W heatland..........
B oston.... ........ ....  64£ Otis CC.................. • 10ft
Everett  blue... ....13ft Warren  AXA__ • 12ft
Everett  brown. ....13ft Warren  BB........
.lift
Otis  AX A........ ....12ft Warren CC........... ,10ft
• 12ft
Otis BB............. ....lift York  fancy........
.  6
Manvillc........... ....  6 S. S. & Sons..........
.  6
Masgnville....... ....  6 G arn er.................
Red  Cross........ __ 7ft ¡Thistle Mills..........
B erlin............... ....  7ft Rose.....................
Garner ............. ....7 f t
Brooks............. ....50 Eagle  and  Phoenix
Mills ball sewing.30
Clark’s O. N. F. ....55
.25
J. * P .  Coats... __ 55 Greeh  a  Daniels.
.40
Willimantio 6 cord. 55 M erricks.............
.25
Williraantic 8 cord. 40 Stafford...............
.25
Hall & M anning..
Charleston ball sew
.25
Holyoke...............
ing thread__
CORSET JE A N S.
....  6ft Kearsage.............
.  7ft
A rm ory..........
Androscoggin sat..  7ft Naumkeagsatteen.  .ft
....  6 Pepperell  bleached  7ft
Canoe Ri ver...
....  6ft Pepperell sa t....... ..  8ft
Clarendon.  ...
.  «ft
Hallowell  lmp
Ind. Orch. Imp ....  6ft Lawrencesat....... ..  7ft
....  7ft Conegosat........... ..  6ft
Laconia ..........

Rockport.............

8POOL COTTON.

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COAL  AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
1
8
Ohio White Lime, car lots........ . . 
..
S
Louisville Cement,  per bbl. . 
1
....... 
S
Akron Cement per 
1
 
8
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl, .*•>.............. 
1
8
...............I  0s®!
Car lots 
©
Plastering hair, per tMfnT.................. .  26®
8
Stucoo, perbbl..„^*i7TT.................  
 
1
ä
Land plaster, pee ton...................... 
 
3
S
Land plaster, car lots..............  
  2
 
 
S
F irebrick,per  M............. .....................f25@K
S
Fire clay, per bbl.............| ................... 
3
s
8
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots..f 5 75@6 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 00@6
Canneil, car lots...................................  @6
Ohio Lump, car lots............................  3 1008
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 5006 
Portland  Cement.................. *..........  3 6004

3
1
9
8
1
9
8
8

COAL.

 

 

CARPETS,

MATTINGS.

OIXj  cloths

B T O m  e t c .

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

G ra n d   R a p id s,

M ich ig an .

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF

TOBACCO.
PLUG  TOBACCO.

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

RED  F O X .........................................................A
BIG  DRIVE 
..............................................5
PATROL 
.........................................................A
-
JACK  RABBIT 
SILVER  C O I N .................................................A
P A N IC .....................................................................A
BLACK PRINCE,  DARK 
.3
BIG  STUMP 
.3
APPLE  J A C K .................................................. 4

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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 ..........................................3
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T .................................... .£
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT  - 
A
.............................................................•£
FRUIT 
O  SO  SWEET 
•£

-

-

-

-

 

-
2c less in 6 pail lots.

-

SMOZHTQ

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.

- 
- 

- 

- 

- 

.5 
.5
.S
.5
.5 
.i

These brands are sold only by

A rth u r M eigs & Oo.

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  SAVJ3  YOU  MONEY.

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WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR  THE

D. D. Mallory & Oo.

F.  J.  LAMB  &  CO.,
Diamond Brand Fresh Oysters

OYSTERS!

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

In Cans or Bulk.  W rite for Quotations.

Elton  &  Christenson

Are now in the market with 

their Famous

GUN
OYSTERS,

CJLXTXTSD  XXT  B A L T IM O R E   BIT

W.  R. BARITES  A  CO.

The Well-Known

J. S. Farren & Oo.

OYSTERS

ARE  THE  BEST  IN  MARKET.

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS

WHOLESALE  AGENTS.

^

“I E C,” Best 10c Cigar in Michigan.
Best6cCigar inSicligan.
CLARK,  JEWELL  &  OO.,
COMING  to  GRAND  RAPIDS

SOLE  AGEMTTS

T N

OAR LO A D S!

0.  W.  Archer’s  Trophy  Com,
0. W. Archer’s Morning Glory Corn,
0. W. Archer’s Early Bolden Drop Corn

CURTISS,  DUNTON & CO.
PAPER, OILS, CORDAGE, WOODENWARE

W E C O IiB S A I iB

EDMUND  D.  DIKEMAN,

JEWELER,

44  CANAL  STREET,

G RA N D   R A PID S, 

- 

M IC H IG A N .

TIME TABLES.

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

Til©  Diamond  Oil  Can,

The Best Glass Can with Tin Jacket in the Market.

O U H T IS S ,  DUKTTOIM  cfc  OO.

51 AND  53  LYON  STREET, 
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
F.  F.  A D AM S   <&  OO.’S

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Fine Cut Chewing; Tobacco is tie very lest dart pods on tie Market.

DARK  AROMATIC
Baton & M e n . Ms.
STEELE  A  CO

■P

G -randl R a p i d s .

J

M ie n ,

Wholesale Agents at Ionia for

DETROIT  SOAP  OO.’S
QUEEN ANNE,

Celebrated Brands of Soaps.

The most popular 3-4 pound cake in the market.

MICHIGAN,

The finest of 1  pound  bars.  A  n   e le g a n t  a n d   O O r -  
r e c t   m a p   o f  tli©  S ta te   w itla   e v e r y  
b O x .

Price-List of all their standard Soaps furnished on application.
Lots of 5 boxes and upwards delivered free to all railroad points.
Orders respectfully solicited.

S T E E L E   tfc  CO.,  IO N IA ,  M IC H .

RINDGE, BERTSOH & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS  AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

A U D

AGENTS  FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

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

14 and  16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
E   2ST  O 1  IsT   E 3  S
From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts made  for 
Complete Outfits.

S O M E T H rtT G  XT3SW

O u s l im a n ’s

MENTHOL INHALER

Michigan  Central.

D E PA R T.

♦Detroit Express....................................  6:00 a m
♦Day  Express..........................................12:45 p m
♦Atlantic Express............................................9:20 pm
Way Freight...................................................   6:50 a m

A R R IV E .

♦Pacific  Express............................................. 6:00 am
♦Mail..........................................................3:50 p m
♦Grand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:50 p m
Way Freight......................................................5:15 am

♦Daily except Sunday.  »Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m.. New York 10:30 
a. in..and  Boston 3:05  p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:50 p. m.

J.T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Chioago & West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail— ............................... 9:15 a m   4:25 pm
♦Day  Express.....................   1:00 p m   9:15 p m
♦Night  Express..................10:40 p m   5:45 am
Muskegon Express............. 4:15 p m  11:15 a m

♦Daily.  +Daily except Sundav.
Pullman Sleeping  Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without  extra charge to  Chioago on 
1:00 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.  m. and 
10:40 p. m. trains.

NEW A YdO  D IV IS IO N .

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

J. H. Carpenter.  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  Mulliken,  General  Manager.

Lake Shore A Michigan Southern.

(KALAM AZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
Arrive. 
Express............................... 7:15 p m 
Mall.......................................9:50 a m  

Leave.
7:30 am
4:00 p m

train 

All trains daily except Sunday.
The 

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  aud  berths 

J. W. McKenney, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GO INQ EAST.

Arrives. 

♦Steamboat  Express.......... 
♦Through  Mail........................10:10 
♦Evening  Express.................. 3:20 
♦Limited  Express...................   8:30 
♦Mixed, with coach...........  
♦Morning  Express..................  1:05 
♦Through  Mail....................  5:10 
♦Steamboat Express...........10:40 p m
♦Mixed............................................. 
♦NightExpress.........................5:10 

G O ING W EST.

Leaves.
6:25 am

10:30 a m

a m 10:20 a m
pm  3:35 p m
p m  10:45 pm

p m 1:10 p m
p m 5:15 p m
7:10 
a m  5:20 am

a m

♦Daily. Sundays excepted.  *Dailv. 
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.
The  Night  Express  has  a  through  Wagner 
Car  and  local  Sleeping  Car Detroit  to Grand 
Rapids.

Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

D. P otter, City Pass. Agent. 

Grand  Rapids  A  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

Arrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 am   11:30 a m  
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac  Ex  4:10 p m  
5:00 pm  
7:00a qi
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 

GOING  SOUTH.

G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
7:15 am
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  6:00 p ui  5:30 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. W ayre Ex.. 10:30 a m  11:46 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac. 11:30 p m

All trains daily except Sunday.

SLE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

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 for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

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GRAND

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and  92 South  Division  Street,
RAPIDS, 

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A superior Remedy for  the immediate relief 
of  Neuralgia,  Headache, Cararrh, Hay Fever, 
Asthma,  Bronchitus,  Sore  Throat,  Earache, 
Toothache,  and  all diseases of the throat  and 
lungs.
Affords quick relief  and  effects  permanent 
cure by continued use.  Every druggist should 
order some in the next order toH A Z  ELTINE, 
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Ask their traveler to show you one  the  next 
time he calls.

Detroit,  M&okinao  & Marquette.

Trains connect with G. R. & I.  trains  for St. 
Ignace, Marquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leaving Grand Rapids at 5:00 p. m., arriving at 
Marquette at 1:35 p. in. and6:10p. m.  Returning 
leave  Marquette  at 7:30 a.  m.  and 2:00  p.  m.. 
arriving  at Grand  Rapids  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.
Gen’l Pass. & Tkt. Agt.,  Marquette, Mich.

E.  W.  ALLEN.

EVERY  CAN  BEARING  SIGNATURE  OF

The  Archer  Packing  Co.

F. 1 DETTENTIMLE», JoHar if M rs,

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

MEANING  OF  “ MERCHANT  OH  TRADER.”
In the matter of Conant,  noted  in the Al­
bany  Law  Journal, the  Supreme Judicial 
Court  of  Maine  held  that  casual  transac­
tions  in  mining  stocks,  independent  and 
outside of an established  business,  amount­
ing in all,  in the course of a year,  to  about 
S3,500, did  not  constitute  a  man a “mer­
chant or trader” within the  meaning  of  the 
state insolvent law.

D E B T O R — E X E M P T IO N — S E L E C T IO N .

In Kansas, according  to  the  decision  of 
the Supreme Court of that state in  the  case 
of Rice vs. Nolan,  a merchant tailor, who is 
‘the head of a family and a  resident  of  the 
state, is  entitled  to  an  exemption  of such 
portion of his stock in trade as  he  may  se­
lect up to the statutory limit of value.  This 
right is absolute,  aud  not  dependent  upon 
any claim to be made by him, and his failure 
to  claim  his  exemption  until the morning 
proceeding the sale  of  his  property,  made 
by an officer upon  an  attachment, does  not 
operate as a waiver of such right.

P R O M IS S IO R Y   N O T E — S IG N IN G   A F T E R   M A ­

T U R IT Y .

After the maturity of a note,  and while it 
was still held by the payee, two  sons of the 
maker,  for  the  purpose  of  inducing  the 
payee not to pass the note into the hands of 
a third person,  and to give  further time  for 
payment, placed their names  under  that  of 
their  father,  already  upon  the note.  The 
New  Jersey  Court  of  Errors and Appeals 
held that there was a good  consideration  to 
support their contract, which was to pay the 
amount of the note on demand, and that their 
contract was not within the statute of frauds.

P R O M IS E   T O   P A Y   D E B T   O F   A N O T H E R .
Where a cropper had raised certain cotton 
)n rented land and his  landlord  was  about 
:o sell it when a person  holding a mortgage 
>n the cotton,  given by the cropper, resisted 
;he sale and threatened to stop it  under  his 
nortgage, and, in order to free the cotton from 
this  threatened  interposition  and  the  law­
suit consequent thereon,  the landlord prom­
ised to pay the debt of his cropper  and  ten- 
int for advances made to him in  raising the 
nop, the  Supreme  Court  of  Georgia  held 
that this was not a voluntary verbal promise 
to pay the debt of another within the statute 
>f frauds, but was a promise  based  upon  a 
valuable consideration.

M O R T G A G O R   A N D   M O R T G A G E E — N O T E .
Where a note and mortgage were  execut­
ed for an amount in excess of the actual  in­
debtedness existing from  the  mortgagor  to 
the mortgagee,  to take up an  old  note  and 
mortgage  given  in  good faith to secure an 
actual indebtedness, with the understanding 
that upon the execution of the new  note all 
the  credits  that  were  upon  the  old  note 
should  be  placed  upon  the new note,  and 
such understanding was carried  out  by  the 
mortgagee,  and in the overstatement  of the 
amount secured there was no intent of either 
party to hinder,  delay or defraud  the  mort­
gagor’s  creditors,  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Kansas  held  that  such  mortgage was  not 
fraudulent in toto,  because upon  its  face  it 
secured  an  amount  of  indebtedness in ex­
cess of that actually existing from the mort­
gagor to the mortgagee.

A Tradesman’s Philosophy.

“Ef  time is money, they’s  dead  loads  o’ 
people  he/,  more  money  than  they  know 
what to do with.”

“Poverty  ought  t’ be  considered  a  good 
friend  o’ man,  fer  it  allers  sticks to  him 
when all other friends desart him.”

“The  best gold comes from  the  roughest 
country,  and the best  and  truest  hearts are 
found under th’ ugly faces.”

“Necessity is like a good  many lawyers I 

kin call to mind—it knows no law.”

“Lots of men talk b’ the yard  and thinks 

b’ the inch.”

“Doctors liev thej>est o’  all  professions. 
Ef they do good curin’,  th’  earth  proclaims 
it, an’ ef they fail,  why  th’ earth  covers  it. 
See?”

“I b’lieve that th’ bread o’ repentance  we 
sometimes eat durin’ oP age is  made  out  o’ 
th’ wild oats we liev sowed earlier  in  lift?.”
“When a man an’ woman’s married, they 
are  made  one  by  th’ mintster.  Now  the 
question is which is the one? 
I’veobsarved 
that  often  there  is  a  terrible  scrimmage 
afore the matter is settled.”

The Tradesmen’s Courtship, 

rhe tailor preserves his suit.
Fhe shoe maker lays his awl at  her  feet, 
rhe blacksmith strikes the iron when it is

rhe wood-chopper  offers  himself as her 
er.
?he carpenter says her  society adz  joy to 
existence.
rhe  dairyman  declares  he  is  bound  to 
fer and can love no udder.
Che  poet wooes her  with a  sonnet,  and 
■ big brother starts out  in search  of  him 
;h a shotgun.
[he furniture  dealer  is  so  much in love 
h her that he is willing to  accept her af- 
tions in installments,  one-tenth down, 
’he mason believes his  chances rest on a 
k1 foundation,  when  he  informs her that 
usal would be mortar-f ying to him. 
h e  sailor  first  ascertains  how  the  land 
i, then  approaches her when she’s in stays 
L informs her that she’s in  need of a first

($toceries.
THE  FIRST  STEP.

The ‘Retail Grocers’  Association of Grand 

Rapids” an Assured Fact.

Pursuant to the call isssued by the  editor 
of The  T r a d e s m a n ,  sixty-three  of the 1T0 
grocers of (Grand Rapids met at The T r a d e s ­
m an office last  Tuesday  evening,  and  re­
solved to organize a retail  grocers’  associa­
tion.  Twelve others sent word by telephone 
and otherwise that they would be  bound by 
the action of the majority.  The meeting was 
called to order by Mr.  Stowe,  who  suggest­
ed the election of  a  chairman  as  the first 
thing in order.  E.  J .  Herrick  and  E.  J. 
Horton were both nominated,  but the latter 
withdrew and the former was elected.  Mr. 
Herrick thanked the meeting  for the honor 
conferred upon him,  and  presented  several 
cogent reasons for  the  organization  of  the 
grocery  trade.  B. S.  Harris  was  elected 
secretary, jrro tcm.,  and was  asked to  read 
the platform of  the  Muskegon Association. 
Four of the points  contained  therein  were 
uwde a declaration  of  principles  for  the 
Grand Rapids organization,  as follows: 

Prevention of wholesale houses selling  at 
retail to private families.
Keeping a black-list of “Beats  who prey 
upon the  trade,  and  a  reliable  Collection 
Agency for bad debts.
To use our united etforts to have the pres­
ent disgraceful  nuisance  of  peddling  and 
peddlers, put under proper  restraints  and a 
heavy license.
To  afford  Farmers  and  Gardners who
S/£?S£

from the time of his becoming a member.

Section 2.  Any member of  this Associa­
tion who shall neglect  or  refuse  to pay his 
dues,  or any assessment  ordered by the As­
sociation,  for three months  after  such  sum 
becomes due,  shall  thereby forfeit his mem­
bership.

Section 3. 

If any person  connected with 
this Association shall by any business irreg­
ularity or for any  cause  render  himself un­
fit to hold his  membership,  it  shall  be the 
duty of  the  Complaint  Committee to inves­
tigate the facts and on the recommendation of 
a majority of said committee the Association 
may at any regular  meeting  thereafter,  ex­
pel such member by a two-thirds vote of the 
members  present.

A R T IC L E   IV .

The officers of  the  Association shall con­
sist of a President,  Vice-President,  Second 
Vice-President,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and 
five Directors, who  shall  constitute the Ex­
ecutive Committee.  These officers  shall be 
elected  annually by  ballot,  and  shall  hold 
their office until their successors are elected.

A R T IC L E   V .

No  compensation  for  services  shall  be 

paid to any officer except the Secretary.

A R T IC L E   V I.

The President  shall preside  at  all  meet­
ings,  if  present; in  his absence,  the  Vice- 
President; he being absent, the Second Vice- 
President.

A R T IC L E   V II.

the  Association. 
It shall also make  all ar­
rangements as to the proper premises where­
in to hold  meetings,  subject to the approval 
of the Association.

Section  3.  The  Arbitration  Committee 
shall consist of  three  members  whose duty 
it shall be to-settle all differences arising be­
tween  members,  and  also to have power to 
settle,  in  behalf  of  the  Association,  any 
questions  arising  between  members  and 
those  not  members.  Their  decision as be­
tween members shall be final.

Section  4.  The  Complaint  Committee 
shall consist of three members of  the Asso­
ciation, who shall investigate all complaints 
made by membors,  and  report  their  action 
upon each complaint to the Association.

Section  5.  The  Law  Committee  shall 
consist of the first three  officers of  the As­
sociation.  They shall have charge of all le­
gal matters pertaining  to  the  Association, 
and also have supervision  of the  Collection 
Department of the Association.

A R T IC L E   X IV .

This Constitution and By-laws may be al­
tered  or  amended  by  a  t\vo-thirds  vote  of 
those present  at  any regular  meeting,  pro­
vided a written notice  of  such alteration or 
amendment has  been  presented at  the pre­
ceding regular meeting.

Horace  McNitt,  general  dealer,  Haring: 

“Couldn’t get along without it.”

i use  to

The Secretary shall  keep  a  record of all 
meetings, conduct all correspondence, under 
direction of the Executive Committee;  keep
***»— * b o o M o rth a tp u r
lie Market of the City,  but  they  shall  not  pose; notify all committees of their appoint
ment,  and  if  requested,  furnish the  chair­
peddle any of  their  goods  from 
house without a vendor’s license.
man of committees with  a copy of  the vote 
under which they were  elected,  or  appoint-

Chairman Herrick stated that with  such

objects in view an organization of the retail j ^  an(j act as secretary for the same, 
could  accomplish  much
trade of  this  city 
good to  the trade at large.  Referring to the 
practice of  some  jobbing  houses of  selling 
the consumer direct,  he stated that he knew 
of several  families  who  were  buying their 
supplies in that way.  An organization could 
remedy such an abuse in short order.

The  Treasurer  shall  receive  and  have 
charge of all moneys of the Association, col­
lect all  assessments  and  annual  dues, pay 
all  bills when  approved  by the  Executive 
Committee, and  report  the condition of the 
treasury  whenever  required  by  such  com­
mittee,  and  shall  give bonds  for  faithful 
care and keeping when required by a vote of 
the Association.

A R T IC L E   V I I I.

Jas. Brooks  referred  to  the  practice  of 
some commission  houses selling  consumers 
a couple of dozen of  eggs or a jar of butter.
A. V.  Chappian and  W.  E.  Knox  advo­
cated the establishment of a central market, 
similar to those  maintained  at  Boston and 
Detroit,  where farmers may dispose of their 
own products.

On motion, the chair  appointed  the  fol­
lowing committee to draft a constitution and 
by-laws:  Henry  A.  Ilydom, W.  E.  Knox, 
Eugene  Richmond,  B.  S.  Harris,  E.  E. 
Walker  and  John  A.  Brummeler.  The 
chairman was instructed to  act as chairman 
•of the committee.

The meeting then  adjourned until  Tues­
day evening,  Nov.  10,  at the same time and 
place.

The  committee  on  constitution  and  by-v 
laws met at T he T r a d e s m a n   office Friday 
afternoon,  and  prepared  a report,  which is 
given below. 
It is  printed  entire,  that all 
may know the exact  wording  of  the  draft 
before the meeting,  and thus be prepared to 
make any amendments  which  may  suggest 
themselves.  The constitution  and by-laws 
will be printed again next week as they will 
stand amended.

CONSTITUTION.

A R T IC L E  

I — N A M E .

The  name  of  this  organization  shall  be 
the “Retail Grocers’  Association  of  Grand 
Rapids.”

A R T IC L E   I I — A IM S   A N D   O B JE C T S .

The aims and objects of this  Association 
shall be  the  business  and social  advance­
ment of its  members,  and  their  protection 
against  such  abuses  as  affect  their  trade. 
Among the advantages  sought to be obtain­
ed are the following:

Fostering a more social feeling among the 

members of the  trade.

The prevention of  wholesale  houses sell­

ing at retail to private families.

The keeping  of  a blacklist  of  beats who 
prey upon the  trade,  and  a  reliable  collec-1 
tion agency for bad debts,  etc.

Intelligence  bureau  where  members can 
procure reliable help and where a record can 
be kept of the same.

Headquarters for the  buying  and  selling 

of stores and other property.

Reforming the present system of  inspect­

ing and sealing of weights  and measures.

Watching  local  and  State  legislation af­

fecting the trade.

Regulating the peddling nuisance.
Buying and selling vegetables  and  fruits 

by weight instead of by measure.

Protection against  unjust  laws  affecting 

the trade.

Protection against  adulteration of  goods, 

fictitious labels, etc.

Shortening the  hours  of  labor whenever 

practicable.

BY-LAWS.

A R T IC L E   I.

Any firm, or  individual,  who  is  engaged 
in the business  of  buying  and  selling  gro­
ceries at retail,  in the city of Grand Rapids, 
m a y  become a  member of  this  Association 
by paying to the Treasurer  the  sum  of one 
dollar, and agreeing  to pay any  assessments 
which  may  be  voted  by  the Association  to 
meet expenses.

A R T IC L E   I I .

Every person or firm becoming a  member 
0f this Association shall be honorably bound 
to conform to the rules,  regulations and by­
laws.

A R T IC L E   I I I .

Sectioa 1.  All  members  of this Associa­
tion shall  pay  one  dollar  for  renewal  of 
membership at the  beginning of  each year,

13® 

14

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“ 
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AXI.E  GREASE.

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

90|Paragon  ..... 

No.
2  H u r l ..................
Fancy  W hisk........
CommonWhi8k —

..doz. 
...doz. 
.. doz. 
I
... doz. 
.. »   gross 4 001 
...  ..........  8  00 !
2 00 
2 00
3 00
4 00
.175
.100

promptly and buy in full packages.
Frazer’s ................  
. .. .1  80
Diamond  X ...........   80 Paragan 25 lb pails. 1  20
Modoc, 4  doz..........8 501Fraziers,25 lb pails. 1  -5
45! Arctic  1 lb cans— 2 40
Arctic 36 lb cans.... 
75 Arctic 51bcans__ 1200
Arctic & lb cans.. 
1 401 Silver Spoon,3doz.7  50 
Arctic 34 lb cans.
BLUING .
25 
Dry, No. 2...............................
45
Dry, No. 3...............................
35
Liquid, 4 oz............................
65 
Liquid, 8 oz...........................
Arctic 4 oz.............................
Arctic 8  oz............................
Arctic 16 oz............................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box 
“  —
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 
*  —
BROOMS.
No. 1 Carpet...........2  50
No. 2 Carpet...........2 25
No. 1  Par lor Gem.. 2  75
No. 1 H url...............2 00
CA NN ED F IS H .
Clams, 1 ft  standards..................
Clams, 2 ft  standards..................
Clam Chowder,  3 ft....................
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  standards....
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.....................
Lobsters, 1 ft sta r.........................'
Lobsters, 2 ft sta r........... .
M ackerel,lft  fresh  standards..
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards..
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  ft.
Mackerel,3 ft in M ustard...........
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled..................
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.......
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river.*:...
Salmon, l f t   Sacramento...........
Sardines, domestic 54s................
Sardines,  domestic  34s...............
Sardines,  Mustard  34s................
Sardines,  imported  3 4 s.............
Trout. 3ft  brook..........................
CANNED  F R U IT S .
Apples. 3 ft standarU8................
Apples, gallons, standards........
Blackberries, standards.............
Cherries,  red  standard..............
Damsons.......................................
Egg Plums, standard? 
.............
Green Gages, standards 2 ft....
Peaches, Extra Yellow..................... " 2k
Peaches, standards............................1 
Peaches,  seconds........................................ J
Pineapples,  Erie..........................................1
Pineapples, standards................................ j "V
Quinces . ............•........................... ..............j  if.
Raspberries,  extra.....................................1  1U

™

CANNED  F R U IT S —C A L IF O R N IA .

..  8@10 

..  @10 
..10@11 
. ,60@ 65 
.. 16@18

Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @1  00
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................  @1  30
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 60
Halford Sauce,  14 pints.........................  @2 20

Ground. 

SPICES.
» 

“Whole.

@ 1% @  734 ® 6% 

....  5  35

SUGARS.

STA RCH.

Pepper................16@25|Pepper
Allspice.............. 12@16 Allspice
Cinnamon...........18@30iCassia —
Cloves  ................ 15@25|Nutmegs
G inger................16@20 Cloves  ...
M ustard..........  .. 15@30
C ayenne.............25@35l
Elastic, 61 packages, per box-----
Cubes  ..............................................
Powdered.......................................
Granulated,  Standard..................
Granulated,  off........... '.................
Confectionery A .......................... v
Standard A .....................................
No. 1, White Extra  C....................
No. 2, Extra C.................................
No. 3 C..............................................
Np.4 C..............................................
No. 5 C..............................................
Corn,  Barrels.................................
Corn, 34 bbls....................................
Corn, 10 gallon kegs.......................
Corn, 5 gallon kegs........................
Pure  Sugar..........................
Pure Sugar Drips................
Pure Sugar  Drips...............
Pure Loaf Sugar D rips...  .
Pure  Loaf Sugar...............
Maple, 34 bbls.......................
10 gal.  kegs.............
TEA S.
Japan  ordinary...................
Japan fair to good..............
Japan fine............................
Japan dust...........................
Young Hyson.....................
GunPowder.........................
Oolong........ ........................
Congo..................................

“ 

SY RUPS.

@6 81 
@ 634 
@ 6% 
634® 634 
6  @ 834 
574® 6 
534®  534 
534® 5?6
30@32 
33035 
@  35 
@1 75
............bbl 23®  35
.......34 bbl
30®  38
.5 gal kegs @1 96
.......34 bbl
@  85
.5 val kegs @1 85
@85
@90
__ 15@20
....25@30 
,...35@45 
. ...15@20
__ 30@50
... .35@50
33@55@6C
.... 25@30
e__ 351U mlerwood’s <'apper 35
..........34
agle67 Sweet  Rose
.......64 Meigs &Co.\.S tunner38
.......50 A tlas.............. ........... 35
.......60 Royal Game.. ........... 38
.......65 Mule E ar....... ............65
.......60 Fountain....... ........... 74
.......60|Old Congress. ........... 64
__ 66 Good L uck... ............52
.......651Blaze Away.. ........... 35
...... 65 Hair L ifter... ............30
...... 70 G overnor___ ........... 60
.......70 Fox’s Choice. ..........  63
.......451 Medallion__ ........... as
...... 49! Sweet Owen.. ........... 66

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

. 

PLU G .

The Meigs..........
Red  Bird...........
State  Seal..........
Prairie Flower  . 
Indian Queen...
Bull  D og..........
Crown  Leaf......
M atchless..........
H iaw atha..........
Globe  .................
May Flower.......
H e ro ..................
Old  Abe. 
..
Rum ......................................................
Money...................................................
Red  Fox...............................................
Big Drive..............................................
Seal of Grand Rapids.........................
D urham ...............................................
P a tro l...................................................
Jack Rabbit.........................................
Snowilake............................................
Chocolate Cream................................
Nimrod.. 
..................... ....................
E. C........................................................
Spread Eagle.......................................
Big Five Center..................................
Woodcock  ..........................................
K nigntsof  Labor...............................
Railroad...............................................
Big Bug...............................................
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...........................
Black Bear.........................................>
King 
...............................................
Old Five Cent Times........................
Prune Nuggett,  121b........................
Parrot  ................................................
Old Tim e............................................
Tramway............................................
Glory  .................................................
Silver  Coin.........................................
Buster  [D ark!..................................
Black Prince [Dark]........................
Black Racer  [Dark].........................
Leggett & Myers’  Star.....................
Clim ax...............................................
Hold F a s t..........................................
McAlpin’s Gold Shield.....................
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.  ..
Cock of the Walk  6s........................
Nobby Twist......................................
Acorn .................................................
Crescent............................................
Black  X ..............................................
Black  Bass.........................................
Spring.................................................
C rayling............................................
Mackinaw..........................................
Horse Shoe.........................................
Hair Lifter.........................................
D. and D., black................................
McAlpin’s Green  Shield..................
Ace  High, black...............................
Sailors’  Solace..................................
2c. less in four butt lots

Lusk’s.  Mariposa.
2 00
1 2?
i u-
* g?
-

20

CHOCOLATE.

A pricots....................................2 25 
Egg Plum s................................ f  J” 
G rapes......................................." J "  
Green Gages.............................\  ¿9 
Pears.......................................... .. 
Quinces.....................................*  ‘"
Peaches.....................................*
CANNED V EG ETA BLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay............................
Beans, Lima,  standard............................
Beans, Stringless, Erie..  .......................
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked..................
Corn,  Trophy............................................
“  Red Seal..................* .....................
“  Excelsior........................................
Peas, French............................................
Peas, Marrofat, standard.......................
Peas, Beaver............................................
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden.............................
Succotash, standard...............................
Tomatoes, Trophy..................................
Tomatoes.  Hillsdale...............................
Boston 
...............36, German  Sweet
Baker’s ......................38 Vienna Sweet
Runkles’ .................... 851
Green Rio........  9@13
Green J ava.......17@27
Green Mocha.. ,23@25 
Roasted Rio— 10@15 
Roasted Java  ..23@30
72 foot J u t e .......1  25 
60 foot Ju te .......  1 00 
40 Foot Cotton__ l  50 
Bloaters, Smoked Yarm outh.......
Cod, whole.......................................
Cod,Boneless..................................
H a lib u t..........................................
Herring 34  bbls................ ; ...........
Herring, Holland, domestic........
Herring, Scaled.............................
Mackerel, Penny bbls............—
Mackerel, shore, No. 2,34  bbls...
“  121b kits
“ 
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» 
No. 3,34 bbls................
12 ft  kits...........
Shad, 34 b b l....................................
Trout, 34  bbls.................................

*• 
“  10 

CORDAGE.

.. 
** 
*• 
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CO FFEE.

F IS H .

10 

“

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Roasted  M ar... 17@18 
Roasted Mocha.28®30 
Roasted Mex...  @16 
Ground  Rio—   9® 16 
Package  Goods  @13!»
¡72 foot Cotton...
¡60 foot Cotton...
[50 foot Cotton...

2 00 
1  75

...S5@90 
...  @5 
,534@634 
... 11@12 
...2  75 
...85@95 
... 18@22 
.. 4  75@5 
...5 00 
...  80 
...  70
..  3 50 
...  62

CANDY, FRUITS  AND  NUTS. 

do 
do 

’"’M IXED

9@ 934

STICK.
................................ 

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows :
Standard, 25 ft boxes  .......................... 
8 34@®
Twist, 
¡Cut Loaf 
..................... 1034@11
Royal, 25 ft  pails.....................................   @ 9
Royal, 200 ft bbls.......................................   @834
Extra, 25 ft  pails........................................10@10V4
Extra. 200 ft bbls....................................... 9  0   934
1 French Cream, 25 ft pails........................   ©1234
Cut loaf, 25 ft  eases..........................  
1234®
Broken, 25 lb  pails.................. 
10®1034
 
Broken,200ft  bbls..'.........................................9® 93*
FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.
Lemon  Drops.............................................12® 13
Sour Drops....................................  
Peppermint  Drops..................................14®la
Choeolate Drops.............................................. 15
H M Chocolate  Drops.................................... 20
um  Drops  ..................................................... 10
Licorice Drops................................................. 20
A B  Licorice  Drops........................................12
Lozenges, plain................................................ 15
Lozenges,  prlnteu  ..........................................18
Im perials..........................................................15
M ottoes.............................................................15
Cream  Bar........... .....................................13® 14
13
Molasses Bar.. 
Caramels....................................... .
.18@ 20
.......20
Hand Made Creams.....................
Plain  Creams...............................
.........17
......20
Decorated Creams.......................
.14® 15
String Rock..................................
Burnt Almonds............................
"...15
Wintergreen  Berries................
FANCY— IN   BULK.
Lozenges, plain  in  pails.............
Lozenges, plain in  bbls...............
Lozenges, printed in pails..........
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..........
Chocolate Drops, in palls...........
Gum  Drops  in pails....................
Gum Drops, in bbls.....................
Moss Drops, in  pails....................
Moss Drops, in b b ls ....................
Sour Drops, in  pails....................
Imperials, in  pails.......................
Imperials  in bbls.........................

@1234
@11
@1234
.113 4 0 1 2  
. 121 ¿@13 
...7  @734 
...  G@ 634 
.10  @1034
..............9
...........12
. 1234@13 
11  @12

 

FR U ITS.

@ 7  00 
@ 4  50 
@ 5  50

Bananas  Aspinwall....................
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls...............
Orungos, Florida..........................
Oranges, Rodi  Messina..............
Oranges,  Naples..........................
Lemons,  choico...........................
Lemons, fancy.............................
layers, new,  TP ft .................................
............15  @17
Figs,
,   trails do  ............................ .......  @4
Dates 
,  34 do  d o ............................
Dates 
,   skin.....................................
Dates 
Dates 
,   34  skin................................
Dates,
i,  Fard 10 ft box TP  ft ..................... !."."ll34@12
Dates 
,   Fard 50 ft box TP ft .......................................1034@11
Dates 
,  Persian 50 ft box TP ft ...............
Apples, T9  doz..........................................
Pine

. 4  «i0(@  5  0G

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PEANUTS
Prime  Red,  raw  TP  1b.........
Choice 
d o ..........
Fancy 
do  .........
Choice White, Va.do  ........
Fancy H P..  Va  do  ........
NUTS.
Almonds,  Tarragona........
Ivaca..................
Brazils.................................
Chestnuts, per bu ..............
Filberts, Sicily...............  ..
Barcelona...........
Walnuts,  Grenoble...........
Marbo................
French...............
California..........
Pecans,  Texas, H. P ..........
Missouri.............
Cocoanuts, TP100................

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

1  @  434 
I34@ 5
@  534 
5@ 534 
»34® 6
S  @19 
7  @18 
@10 
@3 00
2  @1234 
1  @12
4  @1454

@12 
@13 
@  10 
@4 50

HIDES. PELTS  AND  FUKS. 

Perkins & Hess quote sis fol.ows: 

HIDES.

Green ....TP ft @  7 Calf skins, green
Part cured...  i>34®  854
Full cured__
Dry hides and
k ip s...........

or cured__
@10
@ 9*4 Deacon skins,
$  piece.......20 @50
@13
SH EEP PELTS.

Shearlings......
Lam bskins__
Old wool, estimated washed TP ft...
Tallow............... 
.............................

. ..20 @40
.........................20 @50

Fine washed $  ft 24@27j Unwashed. 
Coarse washed... 18@22|

W OOL.

EKES1I  MEATS. 
Mohrhard  quotes  the

John

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

trade  sellini
5  © 634
6  @   654
5  @  534 
434® 5
8  ©9
7  © 8 
7  @ 8
9  @ 10 
10  @11
@ 13
@11

@ 40
@ 48
@ 48
@50
@ 46
@ 46
@ 48
@ 46
@ 46
@ 46
@ 44
@ 40
@38
@ 35
@46
@ 46
@ 46
@ 32
@46
@37
@ 46
@38
@ 62
@ 46
@ 38
@ 46
@ 46
@ 46
@ 35
@ 85
@ 35
@46
@ 46
@46
@ 46
@51
@ 37
@ 46
@46
@44
@ 35
@ 40
@ 46
@ 46
@ 45
@ 44
@36
@ 36
@ 46
@ 35
@46

jo  “ 

“  12 ft  kits............................................  w
“ 
.:.........- .........................  W
White, No. 1,34 b b ls....................................5 50
White. No. 1,12 ft kits.................................1 «j
White, No. 1,10 ft k its................................. 
j*
White, Family, 34 bbls................................ -2»

 

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

»* 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
** 

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

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
4 oz....................................... 16«  2  50
6 oz.........................................3 50  4  00
8oz..........................................3 50  5 00
No. 2 Taper.........................125 
l  o0
No.  4  “ 
1 Tp  3 00
34 pint  round....................... 4 50  7  oO
No.  8...................................... 3 00  4 25
No. 10.....................................4 25  6 00
@16
@ 36
5%@6
12@
.  53K@  6 
.  434@   534 
.10  @10*4 
1254 
@   834 
@ 2  75 
@ 3  40 
@ 2  70
..........934

FRUITS
Cherries, dried,  pitted........................
Citron,  new..........................  
..........
Currants,  new......................................
Peaches, dried  ....................................
Prunes, Turkey, new..........................
Prunes, Turkey, old............................
Raisins, new Valencia.  .....................
Raisins,  O ndaras...............................
Raisins,  Sultanas..'.............   .............
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels..................
Raisins, London Layers.....................
Raisins. California London  Layers..
W ater White....... 1134  I Legal  Test..
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square........................ 1  00
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor.....................l  to
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor..................... -
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round........................1  »0
Oshkosh, No.  2.................................................J 90
Oshkosh, No.  8.................................................1  50
SwediBh...................... 
,  ....
Richardson’s No. 8  square........................... J  oo
............................1  50
Richardson’s No. 0 
Richardson’s No. 734, round..........................J  ”0
Richardson’s No. 7 
............................1  50

K E R O S EN E  O IL .

MATCHES.

do 
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MOLASSES.

Black Strap.................................................. 48@lg
Porto  Rico.......................... -........................28@30
New  Orleans,  good.....................................38@42
New Orleans, choice....................................48@.»0
New  Orleans,  fancy................................... a2@t»5

34 bbls. 3c extra.

OATM EAL.

Steel  c u t................ 5 25|Quaker, 48  lbs.........2 a':
maker, 60 fts........2 50
Steel Cut, 34 bbls.. .3 00
m aker bbls........... 6 00
Rolled  Oats........... 3 25

PIC K L E S .

do 

Choice in barrels med............................  @6 25
Choice in 34 
............................  @3  50
P IP E S .
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,234 gross........  @1 85
American  T. D.......................................   @  90
Choice Carolina......634
Prime Carolina......534
Good Carolina.......6
Good Louisiana......6

Java  ................   @6
P a tn a .......................6
Rangoon.........5*a@634
Broken............3 54 @354

SA LERA TUS.

DeLand’s pure....... 634|Dwight’B....................534
Church’s  ................ 534 Sea  Foam..................534
Taylor’s G. M.........634lCap Sheaf.................. 534

34c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

100 3 ft pockets.......................................  

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................ 
28 Pocket.................................................  
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, 34 bu. bags............... 
Rock, bushels..................... 
SA UCES.

Parisian, 34  pints........ ................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.............
Pepper Sauce, green........... .........
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring—  
Pepper Sauce, green, large /ing.

2 30
3 25
3 50
»5
J
1 65
80
2  80
80
26
2»

@2 00 @  75 @  90 
m  85 
$1  70

SMOKING

Old T ar.......................40i Sweet Lotus................32
A rthur’s  Choice...... 22 Conqueror..................23
Red Fox.....................26 G rayling.....................32
F lirt..........................  28 Seal Skin.................... 30
Gold  Dust..................26 Rob Roy.......................26
Gold  Block................30|Uncle  Sam................. 28
Seal of Grand Rapids  ¡Lumberman............. 25
(cloth)..................25 Railroad Boy...............38
Tramway, 3  oz......... 40| Mountain Rose............18
Ruby, cut Cavendish :J5 Home Comfort.......... 25
Boss  .......................... 15 Old Rip........................55
Peck’s Sun................18 Seal ol North Caro-
lina, 2  oz................ 48
M i ners and Pudd lers. 28 
Seal of North  Caro-
Morning  Dew  .
lina. 4oz..................46
.22| 
Chain................
.24; Seal of North  Caro-
Peerless  ..........
lina, 8oz..................41
.22 
Standard ..........
.21 Seal of North  Caro-
Old Tom...........
.241 
lina, 16 oz boxes__40
Tom & Je rry ...
.25 Big Deal.....................27
Joker................
. 35 Apple Jack.................24
T raveler..........
,25|King Bee, longeut.. .22 
Maiden.............
.40 Milwaukee  Prize__ 24
Pickwick  Club.
..28
261 Rattler 
Nigger  H ead..
.22 Windsor cut plug.
H olland...........
.16 Zero  .....................
G erm an...........
,;K)< Holl and M ixed__
Solid Comfort..
.32 Golden Age..........
Red Clover.  ...
.30 Mail  Pouch..........
Long Tom........
.26 Knights of Lai or. 
N ational..........
. 261 Free Cob Pipe......
T im e................
SHORTS.
. ,23¡ Hiawatha —  
Mayflower .  ...
. .22 Old Congress.
Globe................
Mule E ar....................22|
Lorillard's American Gentlemen.......  @  75
Maccoboy............................  @  55
Gail & Ax’ 
@  44
Rappee.................................  ©  >»
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................  ©  45
Lotzbeek  ...............................................   @1 30
Star brand,  pure  cider...............................  8@}2
Star brand, white wine...............................  8@12

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

VIN EGA R.

SN U FF. 

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M ISCELLANEOUS.

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Bath Brick im ported............................ 
95
American............................. 
»»
Barley...................................................... 
©3
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
190
do  No.  2.......................................  
1  50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.............  
7  80
Cream Tartar 5 and l0 ft cans.............  15@25
Candles, Star..........................................
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   @14
Extract Coffee, V.  C.............................   @80
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. 
...................  @A5
Gum, Spruce...........................................  30@35
Hominy, $  bbl.......................................  
,@4 00
Jelly, in 30 ft  palls.................................
Peas, Green Bush..................................   @1  3o
Peas, Split prepared.............................   @ 334
Powder, Keg..........................................   @3 00
Powder,  34 Keg......................................  @1
Sage  ........................................................
OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F elix ..........................  

1  25

F. J. D ettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

New  York  Counts.............................................. 33
F. J. D. Selects..................................................... 30
Selects ..................................................................¿J
F .J . D................................................................... f9
Standards  ........................................................;•"*
Selects, by bulk............................................... |  ™
Standards, by  bulk.........................................•  ¿6
Shrewsbury shells, $   190...............................1 25
Princess Bay  Clams, V 100............................; .7f
New York  Counts, TP  100...............................1  40

FR ESH   F IS H .

Mackinaw Trout................................................7
W hiteflsh....................-...................................   7
Cod  ...................................................................
Sun  Fish.............................................................“
Rook Bass.........................................................   ®
P e rc h ...........................  
*
DuokBill Pike.................................................. «
Wall-eyed  Pike................................................. 7
Smokes White Fish.........................................
Smoked T rout.................................................
Smoked S tu rg e o n ..........................

 

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Local shippers  are offering  §1.25 ]9 
bbl.  for  fruit  alone,  although  some  outside 
buyers are paying $1.30.  Dealers hold fall fruit 
at about $1.50 ]p bbl. and winter at $2.

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

unpicked and $1 for  hand-picked.

Butter—Michigan creamery is firm at22@25e. 
Sweet dairy is  very  scarce and is  in aetive de­
mand at 16@18, while old packed  readily  com­
mands 9@12.  Low grades are in plentiful sup­
ply at 6@8c.

Butterine—Creamery packed commands 20e. 
Dairy rolls are held at 15@16c and solid packed 
at 14@15c.

Cabbages—In fair demand  at  $3  100.
Choeso—The  best  factories  now hold  their 
product  at 1C34@11 which compells jobbers  to 
quote  September  and  October make at 1134®
! 12c.
|  Cider—10c  gal. and $1 for bbl.
|  Celery—20@22c T9 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 $2.25@2.50 $  bu. for choice.

Eggs—Fresh are worth 20c,  and  pickled  are 

moving freely at  18@20c.

Grapes—Concords bring 334@lo]p ft.  Malaga 

$5.50@$8 TP bbl.

Honey—Choice new in comb is firm  at  1454® 
5c.
Hay—Bailed, $15 in small lots and $13  in  car 

lots.

30@32c.

Hops—Brewers pay 8@10e T9  ft.
Onions—Home-grown. 75cTP bu. or $2.25 T? bbl. 
Pop Corn—Choice commands $1 TP  bu. 
Potatoes—Burbanks command 35c  and Rose 

Poultry—Fairly  well  supplied.  Fowls  sell 
for 9® 10c;  chickens,  10@llc;  ducks, 13c;  and 
turkeys, lie.

Quinces—$2.50 per bu.
Squash—Hubbard, quoted nominally at lc TP 

ft, although very little is moving.

Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys command $3.25 and 

Baltimore» $2.50.

Turnips—35c T9 bu.

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

Wheat—No Change.  The city millers pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  88;  Fulse,  85c;  Clawson, 
85c.

Cora—Jobbing generally at 54@o5c  in 100 bu. 

lots aud 48@50c in carlots.

car lots.

Oats—White, 33c in small lots  and 28@80c  in 
Rye—48@60c TP bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $5.75 TP bbl. 
In  sacks  and  $6  In  wood.  Straight,  $4.75  TP 
bbl. In sacks and $5 in  wood.
Meal—Bolted, $3.75 TP bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 TP ton.  Bran, $13 
TP ton.  Ships, $14 TP ton.  Middlings, $17 TP ton. 
Corn and Oats, $20 TP ton.

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Grocers’ Association of the Ciiy of Muskegon.

OFFICERS.

„  

„  _  

President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Keitt.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—Wm. Peer.
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.
Board of Directors—O. Lambert, W. L McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B.Kelly, A.  fowl  and 
E.  Johnson. 
„ __,
Finance Coinmittce—Wm.  R. Kelly*  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—"O.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. I. McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman.  Garrit 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keitt,  D.  A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot,  R.  S.  Miner  and L. 
„   ....
Vincent. 
Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keitt 
and A. Towl.
Transportation Committee—Wm. B, Keitt, An­
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
Regular meetings—First and third W ednesday 
evenings  of each month.
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, Nov. 18.

„   „  

Michigan  Dairymen's  Association.

Organized at Orami Rapids,  February 25,  1885.
President—Milan Wiggins, Bloomingdale. 
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac;  t  .  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, Hilhards; 
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland:  Jos.  Post,  Clarks­
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand 
Next  Meeting—Third  Tuesday  in  February, 
Membership Fee—$1 per year.
Official Organ—The Michigan Tradesman.

Rapids. 
1886.

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PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids  Paoking  oi  Provision  Co. j 

PO R K   IN   BA RRELS.

quote  as  follows:
Mess, Chicago packing, new........................11  00
Mess, Chicago  packing.............• •................JY  £3
Clear, short pork, Chicago  packing......... 11  50
Back, clear short cut, Chicago  packing.. .12 00
Extra family clear, short cu t....................... 11 00
Clear. A. Webster  packer, new................... J- 00
A. Webster packer, short cu t.......................12 oo
E xtra pig, 6liort c u t.......................................11 ‘5
E xtra  clear, heavy.........................................*- oo
Clear back, short cu t.....................................u
DRY  SALT  MEATS— IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy............. ...................
lig h t..................................  
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.............................  
light.................................... 

“ 
534
”
do. 
»
do. 
6
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  O R  PL A IN .
Hams, heavy.....................................................JO
•*  medium.......................................... — 1634
lig h t......................................................1034
“ 
Boneless  Hams................................................11
Boneless Shoulders.........................................  ®
Breakfast  Bacon............................................
Dried Beef, extra quality.............................   »
Dried Beef,'Ham pieces................................. 10
Shoulders cured  in sweet pickle....................6
Tierces  ....................................................
30 and 50 ft T u b s.....................................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases..................... 

LARD.

67s

LARD IN  T IN   P A IL S .

B E EF IN   BA RRELS.

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.................. 
734
3 ft Pails, 20 in a ease.............................
734
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case................................ 
774
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case.............................. 
9 37 
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs-----
13 00
Boneless,  ex tra.......................................
SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.
Pork  Sausage.....................................................634
Ham  Sausage..................................................11
Tongue  Sausage...........................................  10
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................  834
Blood  Sausage.................................................   534
Bologna, straight............................................   534
Bologna, thick..................................... 
634
Head  Cheese....................................................   534
In half barrels................................................  3  75
In quarter barrels.........................................

P IG S ’  FEET.

A R T IC L E   IX .

The  Executive  Committee  shall  provide 
rooms for  the  Association,  shall  audit  all 
bills and direct payment  of  the  same,  and ] 
shall have power to fill  all  vacancies in the 
Board of Directors.

A R T IC L E   X — O R D E R   O F   B U S IN E S S .

1.  Roll call of officers.
3.  Reading  of  the  minutes  of  the  last 

meeting.

mittees.

Admission of members.

4.  Reports of special  and  standing  com­

5.  Reading of  correspondence.
('».  Unfinished business.
7.  New business.
8.  Election of officers and appointment of 

committees.

9.  Report of Treasurer.
10.  Adjournment,

A R T IC L E   X I.

The annual  meeting  of  the  Association 
shall beheld on the second Tuesday of each 
November.

A R T IC L E   X II.

The regular meetings  of  the  Association 
shall be held on the second and fourth Tues­
day of each month.  Special  meetings  may 
be called  by the  President  on the  writtten 
request of five  members.  Fifteen members 
shall constitute a  quorum  for  the  transac­
tion of business.

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A R T IC L E   X I I I.

' 
At  the  first meeting  of  the  members  of 
the Board  of Directors  after  their election, 
the President shall, subject to their approval, 
appoint  the  following  Standing  Commit­
tees:

Section 1.  The  Finance Committee shall 
consist of three members of the Board of Di­
rectors,  whose duty  shall  be  to  audit  all 
bills, to examine the books and  accounts of 
the Secretary and  Treasurer,  and  to  make 
a semi-annual report  of the  financial condi­
tion of the Association.

Section  2.  The  Committee  on  Rooms 
shall consist of thçee members of the Board 
of Directors,  and  shall  have  entire  control
of the rooms  and furniture belonging to the

ELA S TIG   STAR C H !

IT  REQUIRES  NO  COOKING.

JEWELL  &

SOLES  AGENTS,

A Family of Boiler Makers.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

BARROW S.

BALANCES.

AUGERS AND BITS.

Spring...
Railroad 
Garden..

Prevailing  rates at  Chicago  are  as  follows: 

The Turnbull family,  composed  of  eight 
sons, all boiler makers,  is probably the most 
Ives’, old  style......................................... dis  HI
exceptionpl in that respect of  any family in 
60
N .H .C . Co................................................dis 
the country.  All the sons learned the trade 
60
Douglass’ ..................................................dis 
Pierces’ .....................................................dis 
60
of their father in England.  Thomas started 
Snell’s ........................................................dis 
60
the first boiler  shop  in  Muskegon  in 1868,
Cook’s  ...................................................... dis40&10
selling out to his brother Luke in 1867.  The | Jennings’’, S m R a M o n . V . V . ' . dis40X10 
latter  continued  the  business  until  1879, 
when he sold out to his brother  Joseph and 
partners,  who carried on the business under 
the style of the Turnbull  Boiler Works Co.
Joseph sold out  in  1883,  when  he went to 
Stillwater,  Minn.,  where he is stiii  engaged 
in  the  boiler  business.  Richard  recently 
left the  Industrial  Works, 
re-organlze the Turnbull  Boiler Works Co., 
at Muskegon,  where  he now resides.  Rob­
ert now lives in Minneapolis, and lias a saw­
mill at Stillwater.  John is a wealthy cattle 
operator in  Chicago.  William  still  works 
at his trade at Muskegon.  James is running 
the  boiler  shop  at  Sarnia,  Out.  All  the 
brothers are large,  finely framed  men, none 
of  them  weighing  less  than  180  pounds.
They are all proficient workmen and several j  Tv* 
of them are quite wealthy.

Stove..........................................................dis $
Carriage  new  list
Plow  .........................................
Sleigh Shoe...............................
Cast Barrel  Bolts....................
Wrought Barrel Bolts...........
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.......
Cast Square Spring................
Cast Chain...............................
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob.
Wrought Square.....................
Wrought Sunk Flush.............
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................
Door..............................................

H and..........................................
Cow........................................................ dis
Call..........................................................dis
G ong...................................................... dis
at  Bay City,  to j Door, Sargent........................................dis

. .dis 
.. .dis 
..dis 
. .dis 
..dis 
. .dis 
. .dis 
. .dis 
.. .dis 
...dis 
.dis

50
55
60
55X10
55X10
30
50X10X10 ! 
lis  50&10

BRACES.

BOLTS.

BELLS.

- 

several 

Safely moving a tall mill chimney has been 
accomplished 
times.  Chimneys 
which have  been  caused  to  lean  slightly 
through settling  of  the foundation,  may be 
straightened again by sawing out the mortar 
between courses of brick at the base. A chim­
ney  100 feet high and 13 feet square at  the 
base will be varied over  8  inches at the top 
by the removal of 1  inch at the base.

A  combination  of  merchants in Eastern 
Pennsylvania proposes to  abolish  itinerant 
peddling,  which 
is  injuring  their  trade 
greatly.

B arber......................................................dis if
Backus...................................................dis
Spofford..................................................dis
Am.  Ball................................................. dis
Well, plain.................................................. *
Well, swivel.................................................

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed.........dis
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
Wrounht Loose  Pin.............................dis
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip ............dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned............dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
dis
W rought Table...................................... dis
Wrought Inside  Blind......................... dis
W rotight Brass...................................... dis
111 ind. Clark’s ......................................... dis
Blind, Parker’s ...................................... dis
__ dis
Blinc

tip p e d ....................... 

Shepard’s...............
CAPS.

 

 

 

4 00 
4  50

60X10 
60X10 
f WclO 
50X10 
60 
60& 5 
60& 5
60& 5 
60 
60 
65X10 
70X10 
70X10 
70

A Warning.

Pain is given for the wise purpose of inform­
Ely’s 1-10......
ing us of the presonce of danger  and  disease.
Hick’s C. F .. 
Any  little  excitement  of  an  unusual nature 
G. D ....
disturbs  the  balance  of  the system, the  her-1  Musket, 
vous  energies  are  exhausted,  and  headache 
and a hundred other disturbances  are  the  re­
sult.  Many  of  the  miseries  of  modern man 
and womanhood might be cured  and  prevent­
ed  were  their  approach  heeded and resisted, 
having  their  origin  in  derangements  of  the 
liver and blood, dyspepsia,  jaundice,  indiges­
tion, costiveness and other unwholesome  con- 
didions.  Evils of a diseased nature  find a cer­
tain cure by the use of Golden Seal Bitters.  In 
this  m edicine,'hature,  aided  by art. has pro­
duced a rare combination of medicinal proper­
ties, wisely  adapted  to  the  cure  of  diseases 
common to mankind.  The vitalizing principles 
embodied in Golden Seal Bitters will assuredly 
cure i’ 
l.rtkendm vn dyspeptic.  Sold by Haz- 
eltiiu 
■< i-Uiiis  X  Co.,  wholesale  druggists,
Gran* .»Molds, Mich. 

115

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

land.

Lee Deuel, Bradley.
Calvin Durkee, Altona.
B. Me Neal, Byron Center.
D. C. Loveday, East Jordan.
Geo. H. Remington, Bangor.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
S. A. Caldwell, Print P. O.
Frank Bredeway, Drenthe.
G. P. Stark,  Cascade.
M. Jonkman, Holland.
F. H. Lester, Mendon.
W. S. Hartwell, Hartwell X Jenks, Elmira. 
Jas. Campbell,  Westwood.
S. T. McLellan, Denison.
E. E. Hewitt, Hewitt X Teft, ltockford.
Mr. Emmons, Emmons X Emmons,  Grattan. 
Ira S. Jeffers,  Palo.
Mr. Leach, Leach X  Forrester, Pierson.
B. Dickerson, Bellaire.
Eli Bunnels, Corunna.
Gus Begman,  Bauer.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
L. B. Chapel, Ada.
W agner X Bro.,  Plainwell.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Canuonsburg.
Wm. Coach, Baraga.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
H. M. Freeman, Lisbon.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Jos. Omler, Wright.
Jas. Moerdyk, Moerdyk, DcKruit  X Co., Zee- 
W. S. Boot, Tallmage.
Jos. Rodgers,  Hastings.
B. Gilbert & Co.,  Moline.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
J ay Marlatt, Berli n.  *
Cole X Chaple, Ada.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
A. A. Weeks, Grattan. 
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Sisson s Mill.
J. N. Waite, Hudsonville.
Dr. O. S. Holland, Ashland.
R. H. Topping, Casnovia.
Chas. Young, Otsego.
W. L. Warue & Son,  East Jordan.
A. W. Fenton X Co., Bailey.
H. P. Dunning, Allegan.
Nagler X Beeler, Caledonia.
F. M. Storms, Plainwell.
J. C. Scott, Lowell.
J .  S. Coffman, Petoskey.
J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand  Lake.
B. Volmari, Filmore Center.
Fred Voorhorst X Co., Overisel.
G. Earl, Rodney.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
Wm, Mermeulen, Beaver Dam.
Hoag X Judson, Cannonsburg.
Den Herder & Tauis, Vriesland.
C. K. Hoyt. Hudsonville.
J. H. Spires, Leroy. 
8. M. Geary. Maple Hill.
Notier & Lokker, Graafschaps.
Several Michigan  dairymen  will compete 
for the  $10  premiums  offered  for  the best 
packages of butter  and for the  best cheese, 
respectively, offered by  the  citizens of Chi­
cago  to  attract  exhibits  to  the  American 
Fat Cattle and Dairy Show  at  Chicago this 
week.

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,

Attention is directed to the  exchange  ad­
vertisement  printed  in  the  Miscellaneous 
column this week.

MISCELLANEOUS.

i

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.
SITUATION  WANTED—By an educated Hol­
land young man.  About  throe years’  ex­
perience in drug business.  Even  acquainted 
with grocery trade.  A high salary not wanted. 
Address A. B., care T r a d e s m a n   office.  112* 
FM)R  SALE—136 acres of timber land, mostly 
maple and beech, within 1V4 miles  of Kal­
kaska.  Will exchange for stock  of  boots and 
shoes, dry goods and groceries.  The  land lies 
nearly level, and is traversed on the  back  end 
by a brook trout  stream.  Steam  mill  within 
Yt mile, and good roads in every direction.  Ad­
dress, “Kalkaska,” careTHETRADBSMAN.”  12tt
pHYSICIAN
_______   WANTED—A  good  regular
physician, wlio can  come  recommended, 
_  
can  hear  of  a  good  location, good pay, little 
opposition,  in  splendid  farming  and  fruit 
growing  section,  which  can  be  obtained  by 
renting  property  of  retiring physician.  Ad­
dress. W. Kyno, M. I)., 251  Gold  Street, Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 

H5*

Only 35 Cents.

So  confident  are  wo  that Dr. Pete's 35 cent 
Cough Cure will not disappoint  the  most  san­
guine  exdectations  of  a  single broken-down 
consumptive invalid, that we warrant it.  Had 
we not the most perfect confidence  in  its  vir­
tues, we would not think of  offering  it  as  we 
do.  Sold by Hazeltine,  Perkins  X  Co., whole­
sale druggists, Grand Rapids. Mich.

The m ost popular W eekly new spaper devoted 
to  science, m echanics, engineering, discoveries, m - 
ventions and p atents ever published.  Every num ­
ber  illustrated  w ith  splendid  engravings. 
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publication furnishes a m ost valuable encyclopedia 
of inform ation which no person should be w ithout. 
The  popularity  of  th e  S c i e n t i f i c   A m e r ic a n  is 
such  th a t its  circulation nearly  equals th a t  of all 
other papers  of its class com bined.  Price.  $3 20 a 
year.  D iscount to Clubs.  Sold by all newsdealers. 
MUNN & CO., Publishers, Ko. 361Broadway, N.  Y.
A m * 3F PwV ■SF i *   M unn & Co. have
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rngmamamamasmBamtsumm  practice 
before 
th e  P ate n t  Office  and  have  prepared 
more  th a n   O n e   H u n d r e d   f b o u ~  
s a n d   applications lor patent»  in  tfio 
U nited  S tates  and  foreign countries. 
Caveats,  Trade-M arks,  Copy-rights, 
—   A ssignm ents,  and  all  other  papers  for 
inventors  th e ir  rights  in  th e 
securing  to  
U nited  States,  Canada,  England,  tra n c e , 
Germany  and  other  foreign  eountries,  pre­
pared a t short notice and on reasonable term s.
Inform ation  as to  obtaining p atents cheer­
fully given  w ithout  charge.  Hand-book» of 
—  inform ation  sen t  free. 
P ate n ts  obtained 
through M unn X Co.  are  noticed  in th e  Scientific 
A m erican  free.  The  advantage of such notice is 
well  understood  by  all  persons  who  w ish to dis-
P Addr“ i 1sei^U N N t8 X  CO,.  Office  SCIENTIFIC 
A m erican.  361  Broadway,  New  x o rt.
Having been witnesses of the  truly  miracu­
lous cures made by Golden Seal Bitters, we do 
not hesitate  to say that there is no other  rem­
edy for blood, liver,  stomach  and  kidney  dis­
eases, half its equal.

THE  PHILLIPS  STEEL  POINT 
SN O W   SH O V EL

_____  

OUT  AROUND.

river,  and  yet  reports  that  not  nearly  as
many logs will be put in this winter as last
News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own !  Henry Jacobs, of Muskegon,  manager  of
C0-'  h“   bCe,' 9l0,>PlJ,g
N' WSandGT o L p o n ^ .  
Sears
Cross  Villa««. 

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Trufant.

Three  Rivers.

Daniel Dailey has purchased Moses Ilani- 
J.  L. Thompson,  of Harbor  Springs,  has  to rebuild, 

The sawmill of Hileman, Hessar & Co., of 
this place,  has shut down  indefinitely,  hay­
ing cut their last log on the  6th.  The  mill 
has run thirteen seasons and cut  over  100,- 
000,000 feet.

The Michigan Hoop Co., a new enterprise
ire, is  now  in  active  operation,  turning 
he
out from 4,000 to 6,000 hoops per day.  It is 
the intention of the company  to  double  its 
present capacity another season.  The com­
pany  has  the  Michigan  agency  for  the 
Campbell hoop machines  and  the  Concord 
saw sharpener  and  knife  grinder,  and  has 
ordered machinery  for  the  manufacture  of 
spokes and handles.

a .  Pierce,  whose  hoop  factory  was  re- 
liu’s shoe shop and  Dan  “ waxeth  strong.”  eently destroyed by  fire,  has  concluded  not 
G. Sleezer’s new bowl  factory  is  now 
opened up a boot and shoe store in  the  new \ 
up and enclosed.  The main building is 20x 
Burnett Mock.
80 feet in dimensions,  with an  engine room 
Shurtk ff Bros,  will move  into  their  new 
31 feet square.
store about Dec.  10. 
It is 35x70 feet in  di­
mensions.
Homer  Bros.,  clothiers,  of  Petoskey, 
will  open  a  branch  store  here  in  a  few 
weeks. 
„  ,
M.  Scott,  alias  “The  Liliputian,”  has 
opened a blacksmith shop on State street.
Geo.  B.  Martindale,  oUr hardware man, 
Bovee & Kelsey,  our  “hardwood”  lumber­
man,  A. T. Burnett, our “hard money” man, 
Shurtleff  Bros.,  our  “hard-working”  men 
and X.  G.  Burtt,  our  “hardy”  man swell 
their potato bins to the tune of from  500  to 
800 bushels daily.
D.  W.  Root,  the baker,  is  tearing  down 
and building larger.
The hardwood  lumber  firm  of  Bovee  A 
Kelsey are preparing for a big cut  the  com­
ing winter. 
,
C.  B. Fenton, fancy goods dealer at Mack­
inac  Island,  will  open  up  a stock  of  dry 
goods  here  in  exchange  for  Indian grass, 
bark and quill work  for  next  season’s  use 
on the Island. 
Geo. F.  Owen,  (too  well-known,)  called 
up one  of  our  business  men  by telephone 
from Petoskey last week,  and  gave  the  in­
strument to a young lady to receive the rep­
rimand due him for past jokes.
Geo.  McClellan’s  meat  market occupies 
the front store in the McSimon block.
Overholt Bros.’s mill, Gill Bros.’ mill and 
B. C.  Lark’s mill, situated from five to seven 
miles east and south-east of here will all  be 
stocked with hardwood logs and the lumber 
drawn here by teams this winter.
W. Monroe, of Clarendon,  Pa., an  ex­
perienced  mill  man,  takes  charge  of  the 
large hardwood mill here this season.
For a safe and profitable investment here, 
a chair factory would meet with  more  than 
ordinary  encouragement,  as  hundreds  of 
cords of hardwood that would not  make At 
lumber could be used in the enterprise.

Cadillac’s railroad prospects  are  growing 
brighter and the people are  proportionately 
encouraged.
The Cadillac end of the C. & N.  E.  It. R. 
is now being extended into the business por­
tion of the city.  The northern terminus will 
be at Lake City in a few  days.
Lewis Bellaire, of Yosberg &  Bellaire,  is 
now rusticating in Newaygo county.
M. Greenbauer,  formerly  employed in M. 
lloewer’s tailoring establishment,  has  gone 
into business for himself.

H i«  R a p i d s .

Cadillac.

,  _ _ 

„

C.  L.  Bird is now proprietor  of  the meat 
market in the old school house building.
R.  A.  Moore has sold his logging railroad, 
cars,  horses and camp outfit to Mr. Cody,  of 
the firm of Cody &  Moore,  and  retires  for 
the present to take a rest.  He  has  cleared 
$30,000 in the past two  years.
It  is rumored  that  LaFora  S.  Baker is 
about  selling  the  lumbering  business  at 
West Troy to the Osterhout & Fox  Lumber 
Co., of Grand  Rapids.
George W. Crawford has  suspended lum­
bering operations at Otter,  because the C.  & 
W.  M.  Railway,  which was to  take his logs 
to Muskegon,  has raised the rate.
A.  Sachen &  Sons  contemplate  engaging 
in the clothing  business  at  Grand  Rapids 
next spring.
Clark & Lacey have  opened a saloon and 
bowling  alley  in  the  old  Gleason  saloon 
building.

L a k e s id e .

The small shoe stock on Lake street own­
ed by O. Christensen  is  to  be moved,  this 
week,  into  Johnson  Bros’,  new store build­
ing.  The stock is to be  enlarged.
A. W.  Fowler,  who  has  been postmaster 
here since the  office  was  first  established, 
has resigned in  favor  of  H.  H.  Whipple, 
who has  bought  Fowler’s  stock  of confec­
tionery and stationery. 
If no  difficulty  oc­
curs in appointing the  new  postmaster,  the 
office will change hands next week.
Almost  the  entire  summer’s  cutting  of 
lumber on Muskegon lake is sold and await­
ing shipment.  Vessels  and  barges will be 
kept briskly at work until the close  of nav­
igation.  Most of the mills  will  shut down 
this week for  the  season.  There  are  no 
more logs in their booms and the main boom 
is closed.
Lakeside is  to  have  a  poultry company. 
Blooded fowls and eggs for breeding will be 
supplied.

Boiler  Insurance.

In steam  boiler  engineering the only  ob­
servable  change  seems  to be the  slow but 
steady gain made in the introduction of wa­
ter-tube coil  boilers  and  sectional  boilers, 
and in the exteution of  a rational system of 
inspection and test while in operation.  To- 
lay the intelligent  owner of  boilers secures 
inspection and  test, with  insurance, by in­
telligent engineers,  ami  responsible  under­
writers,  as invariably  as  he obtains  inspec­
tion and insurance of his buildings.  Under 
this system,  steam  boiler  design,  construc­
tion ami  management,  is  becoming  a  dis­
tinct art based  upon  real knowledge.  The 
system of  forced  circulation  proposed  by 
Trowbridge and others,  seems  to me  likely 
to prove useful in the solution  of  the prob­
lem to-day presented.—Thurtston.

A clever  swindle  was  that of  a Boston 
man who built two houses side by side,  one 
for liimself  and  one to sell. 
In  the  house 
he sold he had placed a furnace  against the 
party wall of the cellar,  and from its hot air 
chamber lie had constructed Hues to heat his 
own  domicile.  The  owner  of  the  other 
house found it very  hard  to  keep his own 
1 louse  warm,  and  was  astonished  at  the 
amount of coal it took to  render  his family 
comfortable,  while  the  dishonest  builder 
kept himself warm at his neighbor’s expense 
nearly a whole winter before the sharp trick 
was discovered.

The penny is not in circulation at Atlanta, 
Ga.  A prominent business man of that city 
says that the merchants  are  opposed  to  its 
introduction there, because they would have 
to  sell  for  two  cents  what  now brings  a 
nickel.

HENRY  KRITZER,
NEWAYGO 

PROPRIETOR

Roller Mills
“Crown  Prince”

MANUFACTURER  OF  T1IE

B R A N D .

ALWAYS  UNIFORM  IN  QUALITY. 
FINEST  GRADES  OF  WHEAT  AND 
BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR  A SPECIALTY. 
BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR,  ROLLER  PRO­
CESS,  GUARANTEED  PUKE.

H a r t f o r d .

The  hotel  formerly  known  as the Rich­
mond house has been purchased of the  pro­
prietor,  Ralph Richmond,  by E.  A.  Palmer, 
M. D., and is now undergoing repairs.  It will 
be under the management of John  McAllis­
ter,  who recently run the Lake View  at  St. 
Joseph. 
There are ten  apple  buyers  located  here 
this fall.

'

Holland City.

Trade during the past week has been dull, 
the  heavy  rains  being  the cause,  and  the 
shipments of potatoes and apples are rapidly 
declining to what they were a week ago.  At 
that time,  it took  1,000  empty  barrels  per 
day  to  equal  the  requirements  for  apple 
shipments alone.  Aside from the rail ship­
ments,  three  vessels  are  kept  constantly 
busy transporting this staple alone.  All our 
manufacturing establishments  are  running 
full time,  and our large  tanneries  are  more 
than busy.  The force of  men  employed  is 
larger than ever before, and all who  under­
stand  the  trade  who  apply  lor work  find 
work.  Great improvements are in  order  in 
this line,  and our city will soon be called the 
“tanbark town of Michigan.”  The building 
boom will  undoubtedly continue  all winter. 
Foundations for many  new  buildings  were 
laid again this week,  among them one  for a 
residence for the president of Hope  College 
on the college campus and a $10,000 church 
on the corner of Market and  Ninth  streets. 
A beautiful new college  building  will  soon 
be  erected  on  the  college campus,  to  cost 
twenty thousand  dollars.  Macatawa  Park, 
never thought of in  ■winter,  but  visited  by 
thousands during the heated term, will have 
more cottages erected than  in its whole his­
tory next year.

Muskegon.

•T. E.  Mailhot, the Manistee grocer, writes j 
Secretary Peer as follows:  “Please send me I 
a  copy  of  the  constitution and by-laws  of 
the Grocer's Association of  your  city.  We 
are thinking of  establishing  an  association 
here,  and would like to look  over  your con­
stitution.”
Several dozen bushels of  fine  cranberries 
—large in size and rich in  color—have  been 
brought to this market from the marshes up 
the river.  Several wild marshes are now be­
ing cultivated by settlers in  the  vicinity  of 
Twin Lake.
Barcus Bros,  will shortly put in a grinder 
and polisher, and engage in the manufacture 
of band saws of the most approved style.
Frank L.  Orcutt,  who sold more bad eggs 
while in the commission business  here than 
all the other  dealers  put  together,  is  now 
keeping books for a Minneapolis commission 
firm.
W. J.  Kinney has sold his interest  in  the 
Simmons  &  Kinney  Manufacturing  Co. 
to  W.  I).  Kelley.  Mr.  Kinney  will  en­
gage  in  another  manufacturing  enterprise 
here.
T.  M.  Lander,  who was formerly engaged 
in the commission  business  here,  but  who 
has lately been engaged in the same business 
at Benton Harbor,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Lander Bros.,  has bought  his  partner’s  in­
terest,  and is now along.
The grocers are already beginning  to  see 
the  good  results  of  organization.  Up  to 
within a few weeks ago,  the ordinance rela­
tive to peddlers and huxsters  had  not  been 
enforced; but concerted Action on the part of 
the members of the Association is  likely  to 
bring about the reform of this abuse.
Messrs.  Torrent  &  Ducey  own  a  large 
tract of timber  land  in  the  vicinity of St. 
Regis Lake,  Franklin county,  N.  Y.,  which 
is a favorite locality  with  sportsmen  from 
New York City.  Several have erected camps 
and temporary  abiding  places  on the bank 
of the lake,  and a  few  days ago it occurred 
to them that it  might be well  to  secure the 
permission of the owners,  in order  to avoid 
actions for trespass.  Whitelaw Reid, of the 
New York TrUjunc,  was delegated to  com­
municate  with  Messrs.  Torrent  &  Ducey, 
who  readily granted  the  privileges  asked 
for.

Newaygo.

; “ "'  •’*' •

The  C.  & W.  M.  Railway runs a log train 
every Sunday for the benefit  of1).  P.  Clay, 
who  is  drawing  his  logs from Hess  Lake 
and having them sawed in  his  mills  at  this 
place. 
During  the  coming  whiter,  Henry  D. 
Woodard will p»t inter the Muskegon  river 
about 1,000,000 feet of hemlock.
“¿’urg,” who represents  J.  H. Thompson 
& Co., of  Detroit,  and  who -always  has, a 
new scheme, lias been “doing up” the trade 
here the past week.
M.  V.  Bartron has had no difficulty in pur­
chasing  6,000,000  feet? of  logs  along  me

$

%

HOOFINO PLATES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne.................5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne. 
.......  .  7 00
10,20x28, choice Charcoal T erne... , ...........11 00
IX, 20x28, cholcC Charcoal  Terne..............  14 00

ROPES.

SQUARES.

...............  9
Sisal, 4  In. and  larger............... 
Manilla............................................................   15
Steel and Iron...................................  
  dis 60&10
i Try and Bevels......................................dis  50X10
I Mitre  .....................................................dis 
20
Com. Smooth.  Com.
$3 00
3 00

.dis
Nos. 10 to  14..................................$4 20 
...$   13 00 
Nos. 15 to  17..................................  4 20 
.net 33 00
Nos. 18 to 21 
4 20 
j Nos. 22 to  24 
4 20 
. 
Nos .25 to 26
4  40 
dis  $ 60X10 I No. 27..........
4 60 

SHEET IRON.

3 00
3 10
3 20
3 30

new list net

over 30 inches

All sheets No, 18 and  lighter 

T IN   PLA TES.

13 00
15 00
16

T IN N E R ’S SO LDER.

wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET  ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, fl  tt>...........
In smaller quansities, $   lb__
No. 1,  Refined..........................................
Market Half-and-half............................
Strictly Half-and-half........................
Cards for Charcoals, $6 75. 
1(4x14, charcoal..........................
IC,
..  6 00
10x14,Charcoal..........................
IX,
..  7 50
12x12, Charcoal.......................... ...  6 50
IC,
12x12,  Charcoal  .........................
IX,
..  8 50
14x20, Charcoal..........................
IC,
..  6 00
14x20,  Charcoal.........................
IX,
..  750
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal........
9 00 
11 00 
IXXX,  14x20. Charcool........
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal
13 00 
20x28, Charcoal........
IX, 
16 00 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal__
6 50 
DX,  100 Plate Charcoal 
8 50 
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal__
10 50 
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal..
12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1  50  to 6 75 

rates.

TR A PS.

Steel.  Game......................................................
Onaida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ............dis 35
Oneida Community, Hawley X Norton’s. .60X10
Hotchkiss’  ....................................................60X10
S.  P. X W.  Mfg.  Co.’s .................................. 60X10
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1  50 #  doz
W IR E.
Bright  Market__
............................  dis  60X10
Annealed Market. 
.............................dis 
70
Coppered Market. 
.............................dis  55X10
Extra Bailing..
...............:................  dis  55
Tinned  M arket............................................ dis  40
Tinned  Broom............................................ $  lb  09
Tinned Mattress.........................................$llb 8%
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................dis 40@40X10
Tinned SpringSteel...................................dis3754
Plain Fence...............................................$  lb 3yt
Barbed  Fence..................................................
Copper.......................................................new  list net
Brass.................................. 
Bright..................................................... dis  70X10
Screw Eyes.............................................dis  70X10
Hook’s ....................................................dis  70X10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes.........................dis  70X10

W IR E GOODS.

 

W fEN CH ES.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe's Genuine....................................... dis  50X10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
65
Coe’s Patent, malleable...................... dis 
70
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis 
70
Screws, new  list.......................................  
80
Casters, Bed  and  Plate...........................dis50X10
33%
Dampers, American................................. 

M ISCELLANEOU S,

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES.

widths and  lengths.

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co.  quote f. o. 
b. ears  as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch..................................per M $44 00
Uppers, 1%, 154 and 2 inch........................   46 00
Selects, l inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 154,154 and 2  Inch........................   38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop,  1 inch.................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 1J4,154 and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   16 n0
No.  1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........................   17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 In., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet..........................  17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................   13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........................   14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet........................   13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all
.8 00®  9 00 
33 00 
27  00 
15 00 
12 00 
12 00 
15 00 
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................
Norway C and bettor, 4 or 6 inch.............
20 00 
18 00 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................
14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................
9 00 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common....
Bevel Siding,  6  inch.  Clear.....................
20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 f t...........
10  00
$1 additional for each 2  feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6in.. No. 2 common__   14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinaL 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4in., 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.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles............. 
3 JO
3 00
J X X X 18 in.  Thin.....................................  
2  75
IX X X 16 in................................................. 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
1  75
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in .............................  
1 40
Lath  ....................................................  1  75® 2 00

50 A and B Stripsi, 4 or 6 i n ..........
C S .rips, 4 or ( inch..................
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.......
20 No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  fee
25 No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet...............
40 No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch..............

12 oO 

HARDW OOD LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows
for dry stock:
©13 00
Basswood, log-run............................
Birch, log-run................ ................... 16 0J@20 00
®25 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2............................
®13 00
Black Ash, log-run............................
Cherry,  log-run................................ 25 00®35 00
@55 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2........................
Cherry,  cull....................................... 10 00® 12 00
Maple, log-run................   ............... 12 00® 14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run........................ 1U 00® 12 OO
@16 00
Maple, Nos.  1 and2............................
@25 OO
Maple, clear, flooring.......................
@25 00
Maple, white, selected.....................
@15 00
Red Oak, log-run...............................
@20 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2.......................
@25 00
Bed Oak, No.  1, step  plank.............
@55 00
Walnut, log-run.................................
@75 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2......................
@25 OO
Walnuts,  culls................... f ...........
@11 00
Water Elm, log-run..........................
W h ite Ash,  log-run.......................... 14 00@16 00
@23 OO
White wood,  log-run........................

WOODEN WAKE.
........... 7  50
Standard  Tubs, No. 1.....................
: .  .......6 50
Standard  Tubs, No. 2.......................
........... 5 50
Standard  Tubs, No. 3.......................
........... 1 50
Standard Pails, two hoop................
........... 1  75
Standard Pails, three hoop.............
........... 2 10
Dowell Pails.......................................
........... 8 25
Dowell Tubs, No. 1............................
............7 25
Dowell Tubs, No. 2............................
........... 6 25
Dowell  Tubs,  No. 3..........................
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes........... ............. 2 00
Rolling Pins....................................... .............1 00
Potato Mashers................................. .............  75
.. .2 25
Clothes Pounders.............................
Clothes Pips....................................... .............  55
Slop Stocks......................................... ............. 1 25
Washboards, single.......................... ............. 1 75
Washboards, double........................ ............. 2 25

BASKETS.

40
Bushel, narrow  band....................... ............. 1 60
Bushel, wide band............................ ............. 1 75
1 Clothes, splint.  No. 1....................... ............. 8 50
1 Clothes, splint.  No. 3....................... ............. 4 00
1 Clothes, willow, No. 1....................... .............5 00
1 Clothes, willow. No. 2....................... ............. 6 00
1 Clothes, willow. No. 3.............   «,... ............. 7  00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—The local  tartners  at*e  offer-
ing $5 per cord delivered, cash.
Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.5Q®1.60  $   lb
1  for clean 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

. per  m $ 65 
60

new list
........ dis
........ dis

40

50
50
40X10
60

■ V »»

. doz net 
... .dis 
__ dis

$.85
20X10
%X10
20

CATRIDGES.
R.m Fire, U. M. C. X Wincheste
Rim Fire, United  States...........
Central Fire.................................

C H IS ELS.

Socket Firm er.............................
Socket Framing..........................
j  Socket Corner.............................
I  Socket Slicks...............................
I  Butchers’ Tanged  Firm er........
I  Barton's Socket  Firmers..........
Cold.............................................
■  Curry, Lawrence’s .....................
!  Hotchkiss-  ..................................
I  Brass,  Racking’s .......................
|  Bibb’s .........................................
I  B e er............................................
i  Fenns’..........................................

COMBS.

COCKS.

*  

i  Planished, 14 oz cut to size.......

CO PPER .
14x52, 14x56,14 x60................

D R IL LS

EX PA N SIV E  BITS.

Morse's Bit  Stock.....................
I Taper and Straight Shank........
!  Morse’s Taper  So5nk........ .
ELBOW S.
I  Com. 4 piece, 6  in .....................
j Corrugated.......................................
Adj ustable.......................................
I  Claris, small, $18 00:  large, $26 00.
Ives’, 1. $18 00 ;  2. $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.
j  American File Association  L ist...
j Disston’s .........................................
New  American................................
Nicholson’s.......................................
Heller’s ............................................
I  Heller’s Horse Rasps.....................
GALVANIZED  IRO N ,
Nos. 16 to 20, 
22 and  24,  25 and
14 
I  List 

F IL E S .

26,  27
15

12 

H IN O ES.

lis
Ils
Ms
iis

HOLLOW   W ARE.

Discount, Juniata 45@10, Chareoa! 50@10.

13 
GAUGES.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.
HAMMERS.
Maydole X Co.’s .......................
I  Kip’s .........................................
Yerkes X  Plumb’s ..................
........... 30 e list 40
i  Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.......
Hand. .30 c 40X10
I  Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel 
HANOERS.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-l’riction....................... dis 
60
Kidder, wood  track............................... dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3................................dis 
60
State............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
354
and  longer..............................................
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ...................net
10%
Screw Hook and Eye %......................net
854
Screw Hook and Eye  M......................net
754
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.................... net
754
60X10
Strap and  T ........................................... dis
60X10
Stamped Tin W are....................................
20X10
Japanned  Tin  W are.................................
Granite  Iren  W are..................................
HOES
..$11  00, dis 40 
Grub  l ...............................
11  50, dis 40
Grub  2...............................
Grub 3.................................................  12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings.... $2 70, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings..  3 50, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
mings..................................... list,10  15, dis 66%
70
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list,1155, dis 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd X  Co.’s................ d 
40
H em acite........................... ..................dis 
50
Russell X Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis  66%
Mallory, Wheelur X  Co.’s ................... dis  66%
Branford’s ............................................. dis  66%
Norwalk’s...............................................dis  66%
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ................... dis  65
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s ...........................dis 40X10
Coffee, P. S.XW.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40X10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s ....... dis  40X10
Coffee,  Enterprise..................................... dis  25
Adze  Eye..................................... $16 00 dis 40X10
Hunt  Eye................................$15 00dis40X10
Hunt’s .........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

N A ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

MAULS.

O IL E R S.

keg $3 00
50

10d to  60d..........................................
8d and 9 d adv..................................
6d and 7d  adv..................................
4d and 5d  adv..................................
3d advance.......................................
3d fine  advance...............................
Clinch nails, adv.............................
I  lOd  8d 
6d  4<
Finishing 
Size—inches  J  3 
1
3 
254 
keg 
$1  25  1 50  1  76  2 
ails—Same price as  above. 
M OLLASSES OATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  .......................
.......dis 70
.......dis
70
Stebbin’s Genuine........... -..............
.......dis 25
Enterprise,  self-measuring..........
....  dis 50
Sperry X Co.’s, Post,  handled.......
.......dis 55
Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent............
...  dis 50
40
Brass or  Copper.......................
Reaper..................................... per gross, $12 net
50
Olmstead’s .
15
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.............................. dis
Sciota Bench...............................................dis
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.....................dis
Bench, first quality___ : . ........................dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood and 
50
Fry, Acme............................................... dis
Common, polished................................. dis60X10
Dripping..................... .......................... 1? ®  6@7
Iron and Tinned...............................  die 
40
Copper Rivets and B urs..................... dis  50X10
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 
“B” Wood’s pat. planisbed, Nos. 26  to 27 
9

PA TEN T  PLAN18AED  IR O N .

PLANES.

R IV ETS.

PANS.

Broken packs %c y ib  extra.

fio. 1.

Manufactured Expressly for the Michigan Trade.

B i  a  i  Size—IC
Oil  R *

W eight, three pounds, Oil finished.
FIG.  1,  BENT  BLADE,  STEEL  POINT.
FIG. 3, STRAIGHT  BLADE,  STEEL  POINT.
FIG.  3,  STRAIGHT  BLADE,  IRON  POINT,  (not  o il e d .) 
BOY  SHOVELS,  (like fig.  2)  IRON  POINT,  (not  o il e d .) 
FOR  SALE  BY
CODY,  BALL  &  CO.,
ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  CO.,
CLARK,  JEW ELL  &  CO.,
JOHN  CAULFIELD,
SHIELDS,  BULKLEY  &  LEMON, 
HAWKINS  &  PERRY,
FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  OO.

V O IG T ,

S B S R P O I i g ^ g a i M a B .

<&  c o . ,

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

STAPLE  AND  FANCY

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

troit prices gurranteed.

Ohio Wall Paper Co., Cincinnati......  75,116.20
Nelson Bros. & Co., Grand Rapids—   31,430.03
And thirty others,  whose  purchases were 
less  than  $50,000  each;  making  the  total 
amount of the pool purcliases, $3,324,187.66. 
Of  this  amount,  there  was  sold  alone  to 
three  Chicago  pool  jobbers  $960,870.84. 
Thus it will be seen that nearly one-third of
this amount is credited to Chicago.

T h e   fig u re s   b e lo w  

To more clearly show the amount credited 
to  each  city, we  give their figures in  their 
relative order:
$960,870.84
C h ic a g o .............................. 
...............................................................  250,996.54
B o s to n  
P h ila d e lp h ia .....................................................  226,721.64
C i n c in n a t i.........................................................  215,456.91
N e w   Y o r k ........................................................... 210,571.95
P i t t s b u r g ...........................................................  183,197.41
S t. L o u is .............................................................  153,945.55
in d ic a te   t h e   a m o u n ts  
t h e   p o o l 

s o ld   b y   t h e   p o o l  m a n u f a c tu r e r s   t o  
jo b b e r s :
W h itin g  & C a m p b e ll,  N e w   Y o r k .........$505,230.30
W m .  H .  M a irs  &   C o.,  B r o o k ly n ............  446,049.89
H o w e ll & B ro s., P h ila d e lp h i a ..............  364,508.18
W a rr e n , F u lle r  & L a n g e ,  N e w   Y o rk .  318.451.24
F r .  B e c k  & C o., N e w   Y o r k ......................   223,632.77
R o b t. G ra v e s  & C o., N e w   Y o r k ............   205,394.63
F .  E . J a m e s ,  N e w   Y o rk .............................  193,866.41
M .  H .  B irg e  & S o n s,  B u ffa lo ..................   164,356.84
W m . C a m p b e ll & C o.,  N ew   Y o r k ........   141,645.24
G eo . W . A lle n  & C o.,  N e w   Y o r k ..........   130,688.81
C h ris ty , W a lc o tt & C o., N ew  Y o r k ___   86,894.04
A . J a r d in e  & C o., R a h w a y , N . J ............   13,374.28
This  is  the  first  time  that  Whiting  & 
Campbell  have  headed  the  list,  Wm.  H. 
Mairs & Co. having  held  that  position  for 
years. 
It is because they were more fortun­
ate in bringing out “taking” patterns.

Following are the pool sales of  the  asso­

ciate manufacturers to the pool jobbers: 
Breed, Cresswell & Washburn, Phila-
delphia.........................................$111,076.80
Carey Bros.,  Philadelphia..................  94.587.83
Glednill, Menkin & Harris, New York  90,780.62 
H. Bartholomae & Co., New York—   86,302.37
Wilson & Fenimore,  Bristol, P a ........  76,229.17
Westerberg, Jefferson & Co., New
...........................................  46,559.82
Howell &  Bourke, Philadelphia.  . 
20,298.12
E. Leisner, New York.......................  . 
4,260.30

York 

OTSTEHSI

State Agency for Wm. L. Ellis & Co.’s

B H Ä B T D

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 ant Oyster Depot

37  Canal  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Rubber

— WITH —

DOUBLE  THICK

BALL

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

FOR SALE BY
E. G. Studley & Co.,

Manufacturers of LEATHER  AND  RUBBER 
BELTING, and all kinds of  RUBBER  GOODS, 
Fire Department and mill supplies.  Jobbersof 
“Candee”  Rubber  Boots,  Shoes  and Arctics, 
Heavy and Light Rubber Clothing.  Salesroom 
No. 13 Canal street.  Factory, 26  and  28  Pearl 
St., GRAND  RAPIDS. MICH.

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A  livelihood  ior  agents of either sex  selling
ASBESTUS  INSOLES
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WARM  THE  FEET  IN  WINTER,COOL  IN  SUMMER 
A  PREVENTIVE & CURE

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CCC°>BUX I282.CINTI. 0.. C O L D S

CONSUMPTION,RHEUMATISM, AGUE,NEURALGIA. 
ANY  SIZE  $1 PER  MAIL  OR AT DRUGGISTS.SH0EST0RES 
CLEANSED  WITHOUT  DAMAGE  BY P I  R   £

e n r a s a r e   r o o t .

WALL  PAPER.

The Condition of  the  Trade and  Prospect 

for  the Coming Season.

New York Correspondence Chicago Tribune.

The wall paper  men  have  begun  to dis­
tribute their samples for  next  spring’s bus­
iness,  and  there  is  accordingly  some  little 
excitement  in  the  jobbing  branch  of  that 
trade.  The samples are a surprise to every­
one. 
In points of cheapness, durability and 
beauty of  color  and  design  they excel  any 
yet  produced.  The  improvements of  ma­
chinery and the various  inventions and dis­
coveries of last  year  being  taken  into con­
sideration, the unusual  cheapness  and  fine 
quality would  create  little  cause for  com­
ment were  it  not  known  that  the  fifteen 
largest  manufacturing  establishments  are 
under the  domination  of  a  rigid  Commis­
sioner and managed as a pool.  Other pools 
have had a tendency  to  bring  high  prices 
from the consumer, but this is not  that sort 
of a  pool, apparently. 
It  is  claimed  that 
the manufacturers did  not  earn  even a fair 
percentage last  year  and  that  they do not 
expect to make a fortune  out  of  the forth­
coming product of their mills.  This is said 
to be due to the  fact  they  are  all  taking a 
pride in their business and each endeavoring 
to outdo the other as to the  grade of  g09ds 
instead of  cutting  under  the  prices of  one 
another as in  years  past,  when  the  grades 
of  paper  grew  worse  and  worse  until  it 
threatened the  utter  ruin of  the  industry. 
During this time wall  paper  fell into disre­
pute. 
It  was  no  better  than  whitewash, 
and whitewash  and  paint  carried the day. 
The pool has  now  been  in  operation for 
about six years,  and  during  that  time  wall 
paper and  its  concomitant ornaments  have 
advanced  in public  favor.  Wall  paper is 
now quite the fashion,  and  the forthcoming 
designs are destined to increase the strength 
of its hold on the popular fancy.  The firms 
included in the pool  evidently  make  more 
money than they did before the pool was or­
ganized, but the prices are  cheaper because 
the grades of  goods  are  superior. 
It is a 
source of wonder that the  prices  remain so 
low when the  whole working system of the 
pool is so excellent; but there seems to lie no 
inclination to advance  them.  The business 
of the pool is  transacted  by  the  Commis­
sioner who  resides  in  Boston.  He is  em­
ployed  by the  fifteen  manufacturers  who 
comprise the pool,  and  all  sales are report­
ed to him at the end of  each month and the 
close of each season.  Outside of  the  regu­
lar pool there are  associate  manufacturers, 
who maintain prices  but  do not pool  their 
earnings as the  others do.  The  total busi­
ness of the pool jobbers last year amounted, 
the poorest the pool has yet had,  to $3,300,- 
000.  The pool comprises all the wall paper 
manufacturing houses in  the  United States 
except four.  Most of  the  wall  paper fac­
tories are situated in the three cities of New 
York, Philadelphia and Brooklyn.  Not one 
of them is west of  Buffalo.  There are fifty 
pool  jobbers  in the  United  States,  all of 
whom sell  at manufacturers’  prices and are i 
allowed a discount for their  sales of 10 and 
15 per cent.  To  get a discount  of  10  per 
cent,  they are requested  to  pay over $1,000 
to the pool,  and to get 15  per  cent, off they 
must pay  $2,000.  This  money is not a de­
posit but a contribution,  which constitutes a 
purchase of membership in the pool as a job­
ber. 
If a  jobber  cuts  the  manufacturer’s 
prices to undersell a competitor he is “fired” 
out of the pool and  denied  the right to pur­
chase any more goods, tiie  pool  being then 
the  gainer  to  the  tune  of  his  $1,000  or 
$2,000 already paid.  The following  shows 
the total purchases of  jobbers  in  the  cities 
named:  Chicago,  $960,870;  Boston $250,- 
996;  Philadelphia,  $226,721;  Cincinnati, 
$215,456;  New  York,  $210,571;  Pittsburg, 
$283,197; St. Louis,  $153,945.

There are but  three  jobbers  in Chicago, 
although it took the  lead in last  year’s bus­
iness.  These are:  S.  A.  Maxwell  & Co., 
whose proportion of the business was $413,- 
204;  J. J.  McGarth,  $364,057;  and  Spoor 
Mackey, $183,608.

The reason why the  New York  trade ap­
pears so small in the  showing  made by the 
Commissioner  in his report is that the bulk 
of the bnsiness in New York is done by  the 
manufacturers  themselves.  There  are but 
two jobbers in this city.

Wall Paper Pool Figures.

From the W esternj^tationer.

The wall paper pool this year includes all 
the  manufacturers  of  wall-paper  in  this 
country except three firms.  Of the twenty- 
six  members,  fifteen  are  located  in  New 
York city and Brooklyn.  The trade in this 
branch of industry last year was the poorest 
since the organization  of  the  pool,  yet  its 
members  sold  31,000,000  rolls, or 248,000,- 
000  yards.  Of  this  amount,  one  firm  is 
credited with having sold 6,000,000 rolls,  or 
a half million more than  the  next  highest. 
Hand made goods to the value of over $100,- 
000 annually are said to be sold by one man­
ufacturer alone in New York.

Below will be  found  the  amount  of  the 
sales of thirteen jobbers of the  pool  for the 
past year in the order in which  they  stand. 
These figures will, we  believe, be  found  to 
correspond with those reported  by the com­
missioner of the pool:
8. A. Maxwell  k Co., Chicago...........$413,201.51
J. J. McGrath, Chicago......................  364,067.38
Jos. Hill, New York............................139,934.60
Spoor McKay, Chicago.....................  183,608.97
Pusey k  Kerr, Pittsburg...................  151,188.51
L. Voight A Sons, Cincinnati............  140,341.71
G. w. Clark k  Co., San Francisco......  112,466.06
E. L. * F. S. Rollins, Boston.............  98,698.33
Brown, Eager & Hull, Toledo............  90,710.41
Newcomb Bros., St. Louis...............   78,560.72
Elder k  Bentley,  Philadelphia.........  76,721.64
F. W. Rosenthal k  Co., St.Louis......  75,384.83

W H O L E S A L E

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  SONS,
Crockery, Glassware, Eta
Bronzed Iron and Rich Gold

ASSORTED  PACKAGE

L ibrary Lamps.

C02TSXSTX2TG OF

1  348 F.  B. Iron Pendant  14 White Cone  Shade 
.  1.75 
1  1388 Polished Brass Pendant 14 White Cone Shade  2.00 
1  1388 
2.25
3.60
1  13971 
3.85
1  1397* 
1  1395* 
5.00
$18.45 
Above prices complete, with new slip burner, 

44 
41  11 
“  36 prisms 14 white “  “ 
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44  dome  44 
14 dec.“  44 
44 

44 
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14 Deco. 

44. 
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chimney and bell.  Package at cost 

Large Cuts of above  Pendants,  and  of  our  full  line  with 

reduced prices on application.

Electric Light

Founts,  Stand  Lamps,  Hanging;  Lamps 

and Brackets in the  Greatest 

Variety.

No.  1  Brass Founts,  $1  each.  Harp  for  same,  15 cts.  each. 
No.  2  “ 
“  any  kind,  $1.50  each.  Harp  for  same,

25 cents each.

No.  2 Stand  Lamp,  Brass,  $1.75  each.  With  shade  com­

plete, $2.00 each,

No.  2  Stand  Lamp,  Nickel,  $2  each.  With  Shade  com­

plete,  $2.25 each.

Two Light Store  Pendant,  24  inch  spread,  Trimmed  com­

plete with No.  2 Brass Founts,  any kind, $4.50.

Two Light Heavy Ornamental Store Pendant, 48 in. spread, 
trimmed comp, with No.  2 Brass  Founts, any kind, $7.50.
THE GRAXTD RAPIDS  B.OLLBR MILLS

The  Favorite  Brands  are

MANUFACTURE  A

APPLES!

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

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

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  00.,

EAST E N D   BRIDGE  ST.  BRIDGE,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

We 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,
H E S T E R   <&  FOX,

157  S.  WATER  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

Reference—First National Bank.

SAW  AND GRIST MXX.X. MACHINERY,

MANUFACTURERS  AGENTS  FOR

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

Saws, Belting and Oils.

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley.  Large stock kept on  hand.  Send  lor  sample  pulley 

ana become convinced of their superiority.

Write for Prices. 

130  OAKES STREET.  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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 offeree! for the price-  We  furnish  500 
“Gutter Snipes” advertising the cigar, with every first order for 500 of them.  We want 
one good agent in every town to whom we will give exclusive sale.

MANUFACTURED  BY

Geo. T. W arren  & Co

F L I N T .  M IO H .

HERCULES !
Annihilator !

The Great Stump and Rock

Strongest and Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts,

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

GUNS,  AMMUNITION  & FISHING  TACKLE,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ALBERT COYE & SONS
A W N D T G S , T E N T S

---------MANUFACTURERS  OF---------

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN  

Oiled Clothing, Ducks, Stripes, Etc.

73  Canal Street, 

-  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  CO.  have 

Sole Control of our Celebrated

Pioneer  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 
satisfaction  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.  NEVIN  &,  CO.
Send for sample cards  and  prices.  Address

Hazeltme, Peris & Go.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

The  Best  Newspaper  in  America, 

and  by  far  the  Most  Readable.

Agents  wanted  everywhere  to  earn 
money  in  distributing  the  Sun’s  Pre­
miums.

The  most  interesting  and  advanta­
geous  offers  ever made  by  any  News­
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No Subscriber ignored or neglected. 

Something  for  all.

Beautiful and Substantial Premiums in 
Standard Gold and otherWatches,Valuable 
Books,  the Best  Family Sewing  Machine 
known to the trade, and an uneqnaled list 
of objects of real utility and instruction.

C. S. YALE & ERO.,

—M anufacturers of—

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUIKTOS,  ESTO-,

40  and  42  South  Division,  St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN

Rates,  by Mail, Postpaid: 

DAILY,  per Year (without Sunday) $ 6  00 
DAILY,  per  Month (without Sunday) 
50
SUNDAY,  per  Year 
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FOR  EVERY  DAY  IN  THE  YEAR  7  00 
WEEKLY,  per  Year 
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P E R K I N S   &  HESS,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS  IN

NOS.  122  and  124  LOUIS  STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS.  M ICHIGAN. 

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

o. w .  blain & co., Produce Commission Merchants,
Foreign aM  Domestic  Fruits, M em   Vegetables, Etc.

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled at lowest m arket price.  Corres­
NO.  »  IO N IA   ST.

pondence solicited.  APPLES  AND  POTATOES  in car lots  Specialties. 

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Wholesale  &  Commission-Butter  & Eggs’a Specialty.

Choice B utter always on hand.  All  Orders  receive Prom pt and Careful Attention. 

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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

CHOICE BUTTER A SPECIALTY! 
CALIFORNIA  AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRUITS  AND VEGETABLES.  Care­
ful A ttention Paid to Filling  Orders.
_____ M.  C.  RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st., Grand Rapids.

A.  L.  TUCKER,

Commission  Merchant,

107 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.

WM.  F.  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.

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