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Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  18,  1885.

NO. 113.

VOL. 3.

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[Continued from last week.]

He could employ it to good  purpose,  and 
he knew of no better  thing  than  for a man 
to care for his  own children.

It was  a long  conflict  with  hhnself that 
Heinrich Bruner had  that  night,  as  he lay 
upon  Ills bed, turning  thoughts  like  these 
slowly and  confusedly  in  his  brain,  hut it 
ended at length,  and as  he  fell into a trou­
bled  sleep  he  had  decided  to  keep  the 
money.  When  he  came  down  stairs the 
next morning,  he found  that  Jacob  had re­
turned in the night,  but  he  apparently had 
heard of no one in  Lancaster  whose money 
had been lost.  Nor  did  such  news  reach 
the Bruner  farm  on  succeeding  days.  On 
the  next  market  day  Susanna  earned  the 
marketing to Lancaster,  instead of her hus­
band,  and Sigismuml accompanied her, well 
pleased that the lot of  driver  had  fallen to 
him.  When she returned  in  the  afternoon 
Heinrich listened  anxiously  to  hear  what 
town news  she  had  brought,  but  Susanna 
had  nothing  of  greater  interest  to  relate 
than that her eggs had broughtfa good price; 
that an old customer had praised her cheese 
highly,  declaring  that  it  was  the  best  on 
market,  and  that  Sigismimd  had  worried 
her by driving too fast.  When  it  was evi­
dent that there  was  nothing  more  to  tell, 
Heinrich felt more  easy  than before.  Had 
there  been  any  excitement  about  the  lost 
money Susanna would certainly  have heard 
it talked of on the market, and  in this com­
fortable frame of mind he forgot  to reprove 
Sigismimd,  much to his  wife’s  silent  won­
der.  On the next market-day he went him­
self  to  Lancaster,  but  before  starting  lie 
drew from  the  black  wallet,  still  lying in 
the old chest,  two thousand  dollars,  which, 
after market hours, lie deposited in the bank 
where his other funds were kept.  The next 
week  he  carried  to  Lancaster  double  that 
amount, which,  to  avert  a  possible suspic­
ion,  he placed in another bank; and so, from 
time to time,  he continued to deposit money 
in  the  two  hanks  until  nearly  the  whole 
imount he had found was removed from the 
chest.  And so the  spring went  by,  and as 
Heinrich heard  nothing of the owner of the 
black wallet, he  almost  ceased  to  think of 
the twenty thousand dollars as having  ever 
belonged to another than himself. ■

Early in July  Franz  Dieffenbach came to 
speak witli him about  Johanna,  and he was 
very glad to  be  able  to  say  .that  he would 
give eight  thousand  dollars to  Johanna the 
day she was married.  Of the  remainder of 
the money he had found,  lie  said to himself 
that Jacob should have ten  thousand, while 
two thousand  should  go  upon  interest for 
Walter, 
lie thought Franz seemed surpris­
ed when  lie announced  what he would give 
Johanna,  and so,  in  truth,  the  young  man 
was,  for he had not  supposed old  Heinrich 
hail so much to  spare.  As much as he could 
get  with  Johanna  he  meant  to  take, but 
Heinrich Bruner had done the  honest Franz 
some  injustice  in  thinking  he  would  not 
take Johanna  without  a  marriage  portion, 
if  there was none to be  had.

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On a Sunday  morning,  late  in  October, 
the marriage  took  place  in  the Mennonite 
meeting-house nearest the Bruner farm. 
It 
was a plain  brick  building,  w ith  a  center 
aisle dividing the  sisters’  seats  from those 
of the brothers,  and at the end opposite  the 
door was a platform for the elders.  On en­
tering,  the  women  hung  their  black  sun- 
bonnets  iu  a  long  row  on  the  wall  above 
their  seats,  while  a  corresponding  row  of 
hooks on the opposite wall was soon adorn­
ed with the broad hats  of  the brethren.  A 
wedding was.an  event  that no one cared to 
miss,  and all  the  families in  the neighbor­
hood, as well as all the Bruner kin from far 
and near,  were present,  many  of  the  men 
kissing  each  other  solemnly  on  entering, 
after the  custom  of  the  sect.  A long ser­
mon  followed  the  opening  service,  which 
was mainly  devoted  to  remarks  upon the 
mutual duties  of  married life; upon the ob­
ligation on one  side to  submit,  and  on the 
other to love and protect; and  the  preacher 
concluded  by  requesting  the  two  persons 
proposing  marriage to  present  themselves 
before  him.  Johanna,  w'ho  by  this  time 
had  “entered the  meeting,” and  put on the 
plain dress, came forward from the women’s 
side of the house,  a litlepale, and with eyes 
which saw only the preacher and the sturdy 
figure of Franz, who  was  now  beside  her. 
They were a handsome  pair  as  they  stood 
up in view of the congregation, which gazed 
at them approvingly,  and if Johanna was to 
be judged by her resemblance to her mother, 
then it would be easy to  prophesy  that her 
face  would  always  remain  as  sweet  and 
placid as now,  even after wrinkles had gath­
ered upon it; but the good looks of the groom 
were of a transitory kind; his features would 
coarsen and grow heavy with years, although 
still remaining  as  good-natured  in expres­
sion as at present.

When the  ceremony was  over, there fol­
lowed  a  half-hour  of  congratulations  and 
hand-shakings, and then, after Johanna had 
said her farewell to her parents and brothers, 
Franz lifted her tenderly into his buggy, and 
drove off to his own home, five  miles away, 
which was awaiting its new mistress.  ,

“O fortunate, O happy day 1 
When a new household finds its plan« 
Among the myriad homes of earth. 
Like a new star Just sprung to birth,

•  Yes, father; it is Mary Landis, at Litiz,” I but nothing came of  it 
responded Jacob,  “but she  is  not a  ‘Dutch’  possibly have lost it at 
girl, however.”

And rolled on its harmonious way 
Into the boundless realms of space!’

Not many weeks after this event, as Jacob 
and his father were mending a bit of broken 
fence  in  a  remote  part  of  the  farm,  the 
young man broached a subject  to his fatiier 
that had long been  the  first  thought in  his 
own  mind—that of his marriage.  Jacob was 
not like any of the  Bruners  in  appearance, 
for,  instead of being solidly built like them, 
writh broad,  heavy  features,  he was  some­
what slender,  with a face that  was even re­
fined. 
Indeed,  he  was  unlike  any  Bruner 
that Heinrich had ever  known, but Susanna 
declared he was very like her  brother Fritz, 
w’ho hail  died  when  she  was  a  girl.  He 
wras her  favorite  of  all  the  children, but 
both she and  her  husband  were  somewhat 
in awe of  this  son, who  was  so  different 
from the  others  in  the  family  nest.  For 
some reason  he  hail  conceived  a  dislike to 
the Pennsylvania Dutch  dialect,  which wras 
always  used  at  home,  and  never  w’ould 
speak it when he could make  himself clear­
ly understood in  English.  He  was fond of 
reading,  too, which  his  father  regarded as 
foolishness, tending to make folks  lazy, his 
own reading  being  chiefly  confined  to the 
perusal of  “Baer’s  Almanac,” a frequently 
consulted  copy  of  which  hung  be­
hind the kitchen  door.  However,  as  much 
reading had not  produced  in Jacob the cor­
responding  laziness  that  might  have  been 
expected,  Heinrich  was  disposed  to  think 
that in isolated cases  no harm might follow 
tlxe  practice,  but  he  wras  firmly resolved, 
nevertheless,  to repress studious impulses in 
his other sons.  He  listened  now quite pa­
tiently to all that  Jacob  had  to  say,  but it 
was  some  moments  before  lie  attempted 
reply.

“Wejl,  it  ish  good  for  young  men  to 
marry,” he  observed  slowly,  and  after  a 
pause, during  which  lie  fitted  a  rail to its 
place, repeating,  “it  ish  good  for  young 
men to marry when they  find some girl who 
ish good to work.”

“Yes, yes,  father,” said Jacob, repressing 
his dislike toward his father’s practical view 
of the  matter;  “of  course it is  better for a 
man to marry,  but he must  have something 
to live on,  and I wanted to  know what  you 
would  be  willing  to  do  for  me if  I mar­
ried.”

Vnd have you  found  the  girl  to  marry 
you yet,  already?”  asked  Heinrich,  with a 
circumflex accentuation  of  the  word  “mar­
ry.”

“Nieht Deutsch!” exclaimed  Heinrich,  in 

some dismay;  “ah, but that ish  bad!”

He would  have liked  to say more on this 
point, and to inquire  if  she  were  good to 
work, but  his  awe of  Ills  son  prevented.
Jacob wisely made no  response  to his  par­
ent’s exclamation,  but  waited till he should 
speak again.  His patience  was  nearly ex­
hausted before that event took place,  but at 
last,  when two  more  lengths of  fence had 
been  repaired,  Heinrich  turned  about  and 
looked at his son.

“See here once, Jacob,”  he  began,  “you 
have the right to  marry as  you  please. 
If 
it was a Dutch girl  you  would  marry it ish 
all right, but you docs as you pleases.  Yery 
well,  it ish  you  are  to  marry. 
I will give 
you ten  thousand  dollars,  or I  will  buy a 
small farm for you with the money.”

It was an extended speech for Heinrich to 
make, and he  drew  a  long breath  when  it 
was  ended.

“ You  are  a  good  father  to  me,”  cried 
Jacob warmly.  “I did  not  expect  half  so 
much.  But you must not take for me what 
belongs to the others,” he  added,  as  a sud­
den thought of their claims  passed through 
his mind.

“They ish all  right.  1  have  enough for 
them a’ready,  and for  you,  too,  said Hein­
rich,  stooping  once more  to  his  work; and 
after this the fence-building  went  on in si­
lence.  Meanwhile  Jacob  was  thinking of 
Mary  Landis,  and  lioping  they  might  be 
married  before  winter  was  over,  and  his 
father was thinking of the twenty thousand 
dollars.  How glad  he  had  felt to  be able 
te surprise Franz Dieffenbach  with his gen- 
rosity to Johanna, and now here was Jacob 
equally  surprised  at  what  was  to  be his 
share.  Things had  gone  well  with  Hein­
rich this year.  Never had  his farm yielded 
so well, or his farm  products  brought  such 
high prices.  Hardly a twinge of conscience 
had visited him  on account of his appropri­
ation of the money he had found. 
If it had 
been such a very sinful  act,  how  happened 
it that he had prospered ever since that day, 
was the question  with  which he  had easily 
silenced all self-accusings.

Not long after  this  conversation  a small 
farm  between  the  Bruner  homestead  and 
Lancaster  being for sale,  and  the  price not 
far from  the sum  Heinrich  had  promised 
his son,  it  was  purchased,  after  consider­
able discussion between  the  owner  and the 
elder Bruner, while Jacob set about furnish­
ing the house,  for  the  marriage  was  now 
fixed for the  10th  of  February.  Heinrich 
never objected in his  son’s  presence  to the 
fact that the coming bride was not “Dutch,” 
although he occasionally confided to Susanna 
his fears  that  she  might  not  prove to be 
“good to work,” but Susanna  troubled her­
self butaittle  on  this  point. 
In  her  eyes

Jacob was a person  whose  doings  were to 
go unquestioned,  however  singular  in  ap­
pearance,  and  whose  choice must necessar­
ily be a good one.  When Jacob’s intentions 
were known in the neighborhood  there was 
the usual  discussion  of  such  events,  and 
some wonder was expressed  at  his father’s 
liberality  toward  him  and  Johanna, when 
there  were  yet  three  children  remaining, 
since it had  not  been  supposed  that Hein­
rich was so wealthy  a  man,  but  there  was 
no suspicion of their neighbor’s honesty.

It was about  this  time  of  the  year that 
Andrew Landis, the father of Mary Landis, 
found himself obliged  to  hire a new  farm 
hand in  place  of  one  recently  discharged, 
anil Abel Brubaker, a stout young fellow of 
twenty-five,  presenting himself for  the pos­
ition anil proving himself satisfactory, after 
a short trial, was engaged  Tor  a year.  He 
was a young manJr.  frank, open  manners, 
always ready to/.to  whatever was  required 
of him,  and  he  not  unnaturally  became a 
favorite  with  his  employer.  One  day,  as 
Abel was assisting Andrew Landis  in some 
piece of farm work, he  happened to remark 
that he wondered  why  his  employer  hail 
never  purchased  an  adjoining  field which 
projected awkardly from a  neighbor’s farm 
into liis own,  anil the  possession  of  which 
would give his property much  better shape.
“I had intended  to  buy  that  field and to 
build a new bam also last  spring,” Andrew 
responded,  “and  was  meaning  to  enlarge 
the house,  too; but I was so  unfortunate as 
to lose  a large  sum  of  money  just  as  my 
plans were complete, and on that  account  I 
was obliged to give  up  doing as I wanted.” 
“Is that  so?  How  much  did you lose?” 

asked Abel, with interest.

“About  twenty  thousand  dollars,”  was 
the reply.
Abel could not  find  words to  express his 
sense of the  magnitude  of  such a loss,  anil 
stood with  mouth  half  open  and  hands at 
his side gazing at Mr Landis, while the oth­
er continued.

“It was the first of April, anil I  had very 
foolishly drawn at one  time  from the bank 
all  I thought I  should  need,  for I meant to 
begin the barn and  buy  the  land  that very 
week,  but before I left Lancaster I  found I 
had lost the whole of  it.  Either  some one 
robbed me or the wallet  must  have slipped 
from my  pocket.”

' ‘Anil you  never  heard  of  it yet,  1 sup­

pose?” interposed Abel at this point.

“Not  a  word. 

I  advertised,  of  course,
I  thought I might 
the  Cross Keys sta­
bles,  where I hail put up my horses,  and so I 
searched about there very  carefully, but, of 
course,  to 110 purpose.”

Andrew Landis  ended  with  a sigh.  He 
was not  so  rich a man that  the loss of  so 
much money could be easily forgotten or be 
otherwise than a very serious  thing to him. 
But  Abel’s  voice  broke 
in  upon  his 
thoughts.

“I  was  a  hostler  at  the  Cross  Keys 

a’ready.”
To this his employer made no reply, either 
because he failed to see a  special  -relevancy 
in  the  remark,  or  did  not  notice  clearly 
what was said.

“Yes,  I was a hostler at  the  Cross Keys 
a’ready,  repeated Abel; “but I left there the 
last day of March,  though I had  to go back 
the next day to get a coat I had left.” 

Andrew Landis began now to notice what 

Bnibaker was saying to him.

region,  did not  associate  the  young Jacob, 
whom he had  seen a  few  times at  his em­
ployer’s,  with the  Heinrich  Bruner  he had 
$
known. 
The  conversation  was  dropped  at  this 
point,  Abel  being  required  at  some  other 
part of the farm,  and Lanilis was left alone. 
If it should prove that  Heinrich  had taken 
this money, he  was  determined  that Mary 
should never marry that man’s son, much as 
he liked  Jacob,  and  great  as  he  knew the 
blow would be to  Mary.  Perhaps Heinrich 
Bruner was an innocent  man, but the more 
he thought about the matter, his perceptions 
sharpened at the prospect of recovering  his 
money, the less likely  it  seemed  that  such 
was the case.

The next morning  early  Andrew  Landis 
rode off in his  covered  wagon,  without in­
forming his family  of  his  destination, and 
sometime-before  noon  was driving into the 
Bruner farmyard.  Jacob  saw him coming, 
and went to meet him,  stopping by the way 
to repress  the  farm-ilog’s  too  forcible  ex­
pressions of surprise at the  appearance of a 
stranger.

“ Where  is  your  father,  Jacob?”  asked 
Landis,  not without some uneasy feelings as 
he met  the clear gaze of the young man.

“He is in the  barn, Mr.  Landis.  Shall 1 

go with you to find him?” was the reply.

“No; that will not be  necessary. 

I shall 
easily find him,  I imagine;” and Jacob,  sup­
posing that Mary’s father  wished  to discuss 
some marriage preliminaries  with the elder 
Bruner  was  content  to  let  him  proceed 
alone.

lleinrich Bruner was not in a comfortable 
frame  of  miml  that  morning,  for,  in  the 
course of a talk with Jacob  about the  mar­
riage the other had  mentioned  incidentally 
the loss of Andrew  Landis’ money,  the de­
tails of which he  hail  learned  from Mary. 
The  fear of being  found  out  in  some mys­
terious way, which had only  rarely hovered 
in his miml as  a  remote  possibility,  began 
to take definite shape,Jnow that he was like­
ly to be brought  into  closer  relations  with 
the man he  hail  wronged.  As  the  visitor 
entered the barn Heinrich was stooping over 
some pieces of harness which lie was mend­
ing,  so absorbed in his work that he dill not 
observe the slight noise made by the other’s 
entrance.  When  at  length  he  raised  his 
eyes,  it was  to  see,  just  in  front of  him, 
standing in accusing  silence,  the  objeet of 
his  thoughts.  At  the  sight,  the  leather 
strap dropped  from  his  limp  fingers,  and 
his whole body seemed to  become  smaller, 
as a sudden,  irresistible  thrill  of  tear ran 
through him.  For one long minute the two 
men gazed at each other,  and  the  soft  coo- 
ings of the pigeons among the rafters  over­
head were the only  sounds  that  broke  the 
stillness.  At last.  Andrew  Landis  spoke, 
and there was a hard  merciless  ring  in  his 
voice:

“Heinrich  Bruner,  I  have  come  for  my 

twenty thousand dollars!”

But there  was  no  response.  For  a  few 
seconds Heinrich’s  eyes  gazed  dolly at  the 
speaker,  then came a twitching of the mus­
cles of the  face,  followed  by a  convulsive 
shiver in every  limb,  anil  then,  with a hor­
rible, inarticulate cry, that rang through the 
building and startled the pigeons from their 
lofty perch,  and the old farmer fell back up­
on  the pile of  harness  in  an  epileptic fit. 
Summoned by the  cry, Jacob,  who was not 
far off, came running  to  the barn,  followed 
by Sigismuml.  who  was  also  within  hear­
ing.

[Concluded next week.]

“It was an old coat,  but I hadn’t so many 
clothes I could afford to lose any,  so  1 went 
to the stable the next afternoon  for it.” 

Landis paused now in his work and look­
ed earnestly at the young man,  as if  he hail 
a faint hope  of getting  through  him a clue 
to the lost money.

“You couldn’t have been  there  a’ready,” 
Abel  went  on,  “or  I  should  have  heard 
something then about the money.”

The  countenance  of  the  elder  man fell, 
and he resumed  his  work.  There  was  110 
clue here then.

“I  had  left  my  coat  in  the  stable,  you 
see,” pursued  Abel,  “and when 1 was com­
ing  out  with  it  I  saw  a  man  picking  up 
something from the straw. 
It looked like a 
wallet as near as I could see,  but  I thought 
he  must  have  dropped  it  himself, for he 
didn’t stop to look into it. 
I shouldn’t have 
thought of it again but  for  what  you  have 
just  told  me. 
It  might  have  been  your 
money, now.”

“Did you know the man?”  inquired Lan­

dis, with a slight tremble in his voice.

“It was Heinrich Bruner, who always put 
up his horses at the Cross Keys  since I was 
there,  a’reaily, but I never  knew what  part 
of the county he was from. 
I don’t believe, 
though, he would  have  took  your  money. 
Do  you  know  him  at  all?”  ended  Bru­
baker.
A strange feeling  had  come over  Landis 
as he  heard this  name.  He  knew  it  well 
enough,  and he had heard from  Jacob what 
Heinrich meant to do for his son on his mar­
riage.  By a great effort he controlled  him­
self before Abel, and answered without any 
visible emotion;

“I have seen him on market once or twice, 
and, if it is necessary,  I can  easily find  out 
where he lives.”

“And  if  he’s  got  your  money  you  can 
makd him give it up,” remarked Abel, who, 
since Bruner  was  a  common  name in that

A Salesman’s Foolish Remark.

From the Detroit Free Press.

One of the requisites  of  a good salesman 
is knowing  just  what  to say,  and when to 
say it,  to customers who are  undecided anil 
hardly know what they  want, and to whom 
a word spoken at the right time is sufficient 
very  often  to  effect  a  sale.  Sometimes, 
however,  salesmen  with  a desire of  assist­
ing a hesitating customer, say things  which 
have the opposite effect  from that intended, 
as the following anecdote will show.

A gentleman who was several years youn­
ger than  his  wife,  and  who  was  besides 
small and rather boyish  in  appearance, en- 
tened a dry goods  store  in  a certain  inland 
town with his  wife  and  requested  to  be 
shown some  carpets.  The  propietor  him­
self,  to whom as it happened, they were un­
known,  waited on them, 
very politely his extensive  stock of carpets, 
and exhibited with great pains their  beauty 
and excellence of  quality.  The  gentleman 
and his  wife  seemed  somewhat  undecided 
as to what suited  them  among  the  various 
patterns displayed,  and the  proprietor with 
the laudable desire of  assisting  them to de­
cide,  remarked  blandly to the  gentleman, 
pointing to one of the carpets,  “I think, sir, 
this is the carpet your mother  likes.”

lie  showed them * 

The gentleman looked a  little  surprised, 
but quietly said,  “she is not my mother, sir, 
but my wife.”

The lady said nothing,  but  it is  needless 
to add that she  did  not  find  any  carpet to 
suit her,  and  they left  the  proprietor, who 
felt shat he had lost a  sale  by his  unfortu­
nate remark, a sadder  and  wiser  man. 
If 
there  is  anything  that  a  woman  will  not 
forgive  it is  to  be  thought  older  than  she 
is.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

lercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER  18,1885.
  Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized, at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

, H. Leonard. 

President—Lester J. Rindge.
V ice-President—Chas.
Treasurer—W m. Sears
Executive  Committee—President,  Vice-Pres­
ident and Treasurer, ex-offlcu); O. A. Ball, one 
year;  L. E. Hawkins and R. D. Swartout, two
Arbitration  Committee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W.
—
Putnam, Joseph Houseman. 
Transportation  Committee—Samuel  »-ears, 
Geo. B. Dunton. Amos. S. Musselman. 
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur 
Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux.
M anufacturing Committee—Wm.  Cartwright, 
E. 8. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening
of October. 
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Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­
ing of each month. 
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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 Plainwell Independent, which  is ed­
ited by a representative workingman, strikes 
the nail squarely on the head  in the follow­
ing reference to the labor situation in Grand 
Rapids and the  boycotting  now  being  car­
ried on here:
The writer is a Union man, has had some 
experience in strikes,  and  the great  lesson 
he has learned is that what the majority of his 
fellow workmen  most  need are  methods of 
economy and less waste  of  life  and capital 
in drink, smoke  and  excesses.  We should 
encourage  the  savings  bank,  co-operative 
associations, libraries and churches and dis­
courage the saloon.  When our laboring men 
once begin on this plan, they will have very 
little fault to find  with  capital.  They will 
become capitalists  themselves,  and  encour­
age employers instead of crippling them.

The Baltimore  Trade,  an  able  exponent 
of the canned  goods trade, has  changed its 
make-up from newspaper to  magazine form 
and  added  a  grocery  department.  The 
Trade deserves all  the  success  it is certain 
to achieve in its new departure.

In the death of Charles  S.  Yale,  the job­
bing trade of Grand  Rapids  loses one of its 
brightest  and  most  promising  exponents, 
and the house which he founded is deprived 
of a cool head and experienced hand.

AM ONG  T H E   T R A D E .

B U T T E R   S U B ST IT U T E S.

A  recent  issue  of the Detroit News con­

tains the following:
Ad irate commission merchant  on  Wood- 
bridge street declares that as soon as he can 
get  rid  of  his  present  accumulation  of 
streaked,  slip-shod,  half  butter  and  half 
salt dairy butter he will  incontinently  quit 
that line of trade,  and thereafter  deal  only 
in creamery and  butter  substitutes. 
It  is 
the  inexplicable  carelessness  of  country 
dealers in forwarding such stuff to  market, 
that is thus forcing the butter trade  over  to 
the creameries and the  butterine  and  oleo­
margarine factories.

The News is not much of an  authority  on 
dairy matters, but it is  certainly  correct  in 
the final statement above quoted.  The won­
derful growth of the bogus  butter  business 
is not entirely due to the fact that butter sub­
stitutes are cheaper than butter,  but  for the 
reason that the product of the butterine fac­
tory is almost invariably uniform and palat­
able,  and is always put up in  merchantable 
shape. 
It  is  this  point in its favor which 
has given butterine a sale which no  amount 
of legislation can destroy.  The  dealer can 
handle it with confidence, knowing that one 
roll is as good as another, and that the same 
grade  from  the  same  factory  will  remain 
uniform during an entire season.

T h e T ra d esm a n is  inclined  to  the  be­
lief that no law can be  enacted  which  will 
prevent the manufacture  and sale of butter­
ine.  The law now on the statute  books  of 
this State,  providing that butter  substitutes 
must be sold for what they really are, should 
be enforced,  and there  the  question  of  law 
ends and the  question  of  personal  prefer­
ence begins. 
It  is criminal to  sell  a  man 
butterine when lie asks  for butter and pays 
for the genuine article,  but it  can  never  be 
made illegal for a merchant to purchase and 
sell any article for which  there  is  a  legiti­
mate demand.  The  matter  of  wholesome­
ness  never  enters  into  the  question,  any 
more than a moral fear of the  consequences 
prevents merchants from selling  acid  vine­
gars,  adulterated  spices  and  confectionery 
or shoddy clothing.

IN   THE  CITY.

The Star Mills will  resume  operations in 

about two  weeks.

Dr.'.P. M. French & Co. have  engaged in 
the drug business at 500 East  street.  Haz- 
eltine, Perkins  &  Co. furnished  the  stock.
OttmanBros. have engaged in the grocery 
business at the comer of Seventh and Davis 
streets.  Shields, Bulkley & Lemon furnish­
ed the stock.

Plato  & Renwick, who formerly operated 
a shingle mill near Greenville,  have  remov­
ed their mill to Rodney and  put in a supply 
store.  The stock was purchased here.

A. V.  Chapman  has  sold  a  half interest 
in his grocery stock  at  258  South  Division 
street to T. B. Martin,  formerly  conductor 
on the C. & W. M. Railway.  The firm name 
will hereafter  be  T. B. Martin & Co.

Sawdust vinegar will  shortly be  a staple 
article in Michigan, as a party of Grand Rap 
ids business  men  propose  engaging  in the 
manufacture  of  the  acid  at  Muskegon 
Grand  Rapids  will  be  the  business  head­
quarters of the sydicate.

The Detroit Commercial  states  that Cur 
tiss, Dunton & Co. have  sold  out.  At last 
accounts Geo. Dunton had purchased  seve: 
different kinds  of  deadly  weapons,  for the 
avowed  purpose  of  interviewing  Editor 
Moore  and  securing  satisfaction.  Messrs 
Dunton and  Moore  will  please  send  their 
obituaries to this office for future use.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

L.  C.  Garrison, grocer at Hudson, has sold 

out.

Milboum.

has sold out.

ville, is dead.

Olivet  has a new  hardware  firm—Ray & 

J. A.  Sickels,  general  dealer  at  Ashley 

D. G. Widder, general dealer at Watrous 

Judge  Thomas M.  Cooley’s  “History  of 
Michigan,” which has just been issued from 
the press of Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,  is one 
of  the  most  valuable  contributions  to  the 
series  of  works  on  “American  Common 
wealths.”  The  origin  of  Michigan  goes 
back nearly to the beginning of  French civ­
ilization  in  America,  and  almost  connects 
itself with the name and fame of Champlain 
The  early  French  explorers  were  familiar 
with  its  territory;  they  reconnoiterd  thor­
oughly its geographic  and  stategetic  pecul­
iarities,  its  two  great  gateways  of  Indian 
movement at  the  Sault Ste  Marie,  and the 
Straits of Mackinac; and  it was  so  early as 
1641, contemporary with  the  settlement  of 
Maryland,  and three  years  before  William 
Penn was bom,  that the Jesuits, Raymbault 
and  Jogues  established  a  mission  for  the 
Chippewas  at  the  Sault—which,  though it 
was  discontinued  afterward,  formed  the 
foundation  of  a  permanent  settlement  by 
Marquette in 1668,  the first  within  the lim­
its of the present State of  Michigan.  With 
its beginnings thus fixed in  that  richly  ro­
mantic soil of the  early  French  settlement 
and exploration,  the narrative of the State’s 
existence comes to us connected  with many 
stirring incidents and details—the contest of 
France and England  for Canada, the grand, 
but ineffectual struggle of the Indians to pre­
serve their old home, the War of 1812,  with 
Hull’s surrender of Detroit and Perry’s Vic­
tory on Lake Erie.

The  compact  entered  into by the  Grand 
Rapids jobbing houses relative to  making  a 
cartage, charge  of  three  cents per hundred 
pounds goes into effect on December 1.  On 
general  principles,  T h e  T ra desm a n  con­
siders  it  no  more  than  just  that  cartage 
should  be  charged,  as  the  jobber  is com­
pelled to pay cartage on all goods purchased 
at other markets and it is the custom to pay 
cartage at  most  of  the markets competing 
with  Grand  Rapids.  The  retailer,  on  the 
other hand, will assert that he  gets  no  pay 
for goods delivered at the  homes of his cus­
tomers,  and that such a rule  ought  to  work 
both ways.  The question is one which  must 
be settled between every jobbing house  and 
Its patrons, and  T h e  T ra d esm a n  is  con­
tent to appear in the tole  of  a  third  party, 
and watch the conflict with interest  and re­
cord its success or failure, as  the  case  may 
be.

McConnally & Spencer,  grocers  at Jones 

ville, have sold out.

er at Niles, is  dead.

Wm.  A. Wetlierly,  boot  and  shoe  deal 

D.  H. Stone  &  Co.,  general  dealers 

Holly, have assigned.

M. V. Brown, general dealer at St. Johns, 

is selling out at auction.

Paul Reed succeeds  Reed & Wood  in  the 

drug business at Adrian.

Geo.  II.  Sorg succeeds  Suit & Sorg in the 

grocery business at Detroit.

J. Brook & Co.  succeed  Ballard &  Brool 

in general trade at Wolverine.

Andrew Ure, general dealer at Jonesville 

is succeeded by J.  C. Joiner.

H.  H. Fuller, clothing dealer at Gladwin, 

has been closed by creditors.

John Herman has removed his ding stoe 

from Phoenix to Lake Linden.

C. W.  Herrick has sold his  grocery stools 

at Greenville to John Bowyer.

Holmes & Co.  succeed Chas. W.  Leech 

the dry goods business at  Mason.

Dibble Bros., general dealers  at  Burnip 

Comers, have added a line of hardware.

Geo. Bowers & Co., boot and shoe dealers 
at Battle Creek,  have  been  closed  by cred 
itors.

Alex.  D.  Edwards  &  Co.,  grocers 

Jackson,  are  succeeded  by  Alex.  D.  Ed 
wards.

Paton  &  Walton  succeed  Paton  & Ele- 

vier  in  the  grocery and notion business 
Armada.

F.  Miller & Co.  succeed A.  & M.  Levy 
the  dry  goods  and  clothing  business 
Houghton.

Macomber & Bale  succeed  E.  A.  Bissell 

(Mrs.  L.  L.)  in  the  grocery  business 
Lakeview.

T. E. Terrill,  late  of  Bellaire,  has  pur­
chased the hardware business of C. F. Phil­
lips at Eaton Rapids.

Burnham  &  Co.,  dry  goods  dealers  at 
Saginaw City,  are succeeded by the Saginaw 
Dry Goods & Carpet Co.

A.  J.  White,  the Bass River general deal­
er,  has sold out,  but will shortly resume bus­
iness in a store of his own.

H.  E.  Grand-Girard  has  purchased M.  B. 
Pierce’s interest in  the  drag  firm of Pierce 
&  Keam,  at Big  Rapids,  and  the  business 
will hereafter be  conducted  under  the firm 
name of H.  E.  Grand-Girard  &  Co.  Mr. 
Grand-Girard also retains an  interest in the 
commission business,  which  will be contin­
ued under the style of M. B.  Pierce & Co.

F. T. Boise, for  eleven  years in the drug 
business at Nashville,  has  gone to Lincoln, 
Kansas, to engage in the clothing trade.

G. C.  Hopkins and  A. B.  Case have pur­
chased  E.  P.  Smith’s  hardware  stock,  at 
Benzonia, and will add  a  line of  groceries.
Luther  Herald:  Mr.  C.  L.  Bennett, of 
Brighton, has gone into partnership with F. 
S. Fletcher  in  the  dry  goods  and  grocery 
business here.

STBAY  FACTS. 

Burham,  capitalist at  Ionia,  is

W.*  P. 

dead.

signed.

has sold out.

ket at Pierson.

Mrs.  H.  Nutt,  milliner  at  Caro,  has as­

Frank  Silvers,  liveryman  at  Tecumseh, 

Cornell & Church  will  open a  meat mar­

The toothpick factory at  Harbor  Springs 

has shut down for a time.

Petoskey has shipped fully 25,000 bushels 

of pototoes thus far this fall.

John Crispe succeeds  Steams  &  Huff  in 

the meat business at Plainwell.

W.  A.  Masters,  grocer  and  stationery 

dealer at Grayling,  has sold out.

E. B. Husted will move  his  planing  mill 

from Petoskey to Grand Rapids.

Harmon Johnson, restauranter and baker 
at Hart,  has sold out to  Wm. H. Summers.
The South  Lyon  Manufacturing  Co.,  at 
South Lyon, has been foreclosed by creditors.
Ovid Union:  Merchants here  inform us 
that trade is 40 per cent,  better than a year 
ago.

John W. Mead,  the Berlin merchant, will 
shortly remove a few doors from his present 
location.

A  protective association has been  formed 
by St.  Johns  merchants  to  guard  against 
dead beats.

C.  Haugliawout, a North  Lansing grocer, 
as severely injured  in  a  runaway  at that 

place recently.

L.  D. Warner, of Woodland,  has  shipped 
so far this season over 5,000 bushels of hand­
picked winter apples.

The Jackson Cracker Co. has begun oper­
ations at Jackson.  The works have a daily 
capacity of 125  barrels. 

Norn & Kent,  sawmill operators and lum­
ber dealers at Sterling  and  Omer,  have dis­
solved, Nora continuing.

*

Frank G. Kneeland,  late  cashier for Har- 
ington,  Saviers &  Co.,  St.  Louis  bankers, 
will start a bank himself.

Wm.  Sullivan, plumber  at  Bay City, has 
assigned.  This is  said  to  be  the first fail­
ure of a plumber on record.

St. Ignace and  Sault  Ste  Marie  business 
men are agitating the construction of a rail­
road between the two places.

The business men of Fremont having suc­
ceeded  in  raising  the  required  bonus,  the 
Muskegon Wood Package and  Basket Co.’s 
factory will be removed to that place

A. stock company with  a  capital  of $25,- 
000 has been  formed  at  Ann  Arbor  under 
the name of the Egan Imperial  Trass Co.

Koclier Bros.,  dry goods dealers at  Nash­
ville,  are excavating for  a  new brick store, 
to be three stories high and 100 feet long.

Holmes & Holty,  for  a  number  of  years 
past in business at Woodland, have emigrat­
ed to Tullahoma,  Tenn.,  where  they will 
engage in trade.

Oscoda will have a national  bank  for the 
first time, commencing  operations  Dec.  15. 
W.  A.  Doyle has organized it with a capital 
stock  of  $50,000,  privileged  to  extend  to 
$ 200, 000.

Grand  Haven  Tribune:  The  firm  of 
Christmas & Bates has  been  dissolved,  Mr. 
Christmas retiring.  Mr. Bates will continue 
the lumber business at the old  stand.  Mr. 
Christmas will go to Duluth.

Ionia  Mail:  F.  J.  Hill  has  purchased 
the machinery and  tools  of  Crosby &  Col­
lin’s machine shop,  located  near McBride’s, 
and will  open  a  machine  shop  either  at 
Stanton or McBride’s at an  early day.

The Knights of Labor of Kalamazoo have 
notified the hardware stores  that  they  will 
boycott dealers who  sell  stoves  or  furnish­
ings made by  Fuller  & Warren,  Troy,  and 
Perry & Co.  and Itathbone, Sard  & Co.,  of 
Albany.

Jacob Seligman,  (“Little Jake,”) of East 
Saginaw,  has sold to  an  English  syndicate 
of  cattle  buyers  his  ranch  in Colorado  of 
7, .500 head of cattle,  3,500  acres  of  grazing 
land and  a  lease  from the government  for 
11,500 acres more,  for $215,500  cash.

Begole, Fox & Co.’s mill  at  Flint, which 
shut down last week for good, will be miss­
ed by a  large  number  of  workingmen. 
It 
has been operated twenty  years and has cut 
160,000,000 feet of  lumber,  and  employing 
an average  of  fifty-five  men  all the  time. 
Their pine on Flint river and  at Harrison is 
now exhausted.

East Jordan Enterprise: 

It is  estimated 
that  Cross  Village,  Petoskey,  Pine  Lake 
and South Arm have deposited about 60,000 
bushels of potatoes in Chicago and Milwau­
kee  markets,  thus  far  this  season.  East 
Jordan and immediate vicinity have furnish­
ed about 18,000 bushels,  nearly one-third of 
the whole amount.

Notwithstanding  the  old  Barnum  iron 
mine at Ishpeming was supposed to be about 
exhausted  and  thought  to  be  practically 
valueless,  fresh  drilling  has  discovered  a 
new  lead  and  now  its  owners think  there 
is still “millions in it.”  Improvements have 
been made in the offices  and*  the  mine will 
be worked all winter.

T.  J.  Sheridan  &  Co.  have  moved their 
shingle mill and  general  stock  from  Lock- 
wood to a point five miles  south  of  Wood- 
yille,  where they have  a  considerable  tract 
tff pine.  C.  L.  Sheridan has  charge  of the 
business,  and  T.  J.  also contemplates  en­
gaging  in  lumbering  operations  at  some 
¡other point not yet decided upon.

T rade  N ew s and Gossip Afloat at Chicago.
When T h e T ra desm a n printed an article 
relative to “sawdust vinegar” a week or two 
ago, the supposition was that nothing of the 
kind was thought  of outside  of the metrop­
olis.  A visit  to a certain  Chicago  vinegar 
factory,  however,  revealed the fact  that the 
“sawdust process” had been in use there for 
several months, and  with excellent success. 
“We buy our sawdust by the shipload,” said 
the enterprising proprietor,  “and  prepare it 
in the same way described in your article. The 
profit is at least 100  per  cent,  greater  than 
with ordinary vinegar made from acids,  and 
as the injurious effect is  lacking in sawdust 
vinegar, my  conscience  is  clearer  than  it 
used to be when I  prepared the  acid  stuff.
I don’t  know  how  many  thousand  ruined 
stomachs can be laid  at  my door,  but until 
sawdust vinegar gets so common that some­
thing still cheaper  will  have to be utilized, 
you eaji set it down for a fact  that  I am an 
honest man and take no unfair advantage of 
my fellows.”

Harry B. Baker lias been placed in charge 
of the Chicago branch of Martin Kalbfleiseh’s 
Sons’  extensive  business.  Mr. Baker is lo­
cated at 29 River street.

“Full stocks of nails” is a suggestive pla­
card displayed in the street windows in sev­
eral hardware establishments.

Robert  M. Floyd,  whose  other  name is 
Heeker,  has  recently  organized  seventeen 
Sunday schools and  now  proposes  to insti­
tute a society for the suppression of all who 
substitute the product  of other manufactur- j 
ers for Iiecker’s goods.

Mr.  Eagle,  who is prominently identified 
with W. F. McLaughlin  &  Co.’s  extensive 
coffee establishment, recently ventured some 
very  cogent  reasons  why  package  coffees 
were better for  the  retailer  to  handle than 
bulk goods.  “In the first  place,” said  Mr. | 
Eagle,  “package coffees  are  blended  better 
than the average  retailer  can do  the work; 
that is,  long experience  enables  the  manu­
facturer  to  blend  a  coffee  which  will  be 
more uniform and make a better  drink. 
It 
is roasted evener than  the  consumer can do 
it, and  put up  in  comparatively  air  tight 
packages.  The packages  are  attractive  in 
appearance,  and the time  that is  ordinarily 
consumed  in  looking  at  several  different 
kinds of coffee is saved when the dealer can 
hand out a package whose merits are already 
known to the purchaser.  Showing  a dozen 
brands of coffee  tends  to  confuse the  cus­
tomer,  and  render  his  knowledge  of their 
merits 
exceedingly  meager.  Moreover, 
every open package of  coffee is  liable to be 
handled by persons whose  hands are not al­
ways  clean,  and  which  may be infected by 
diseases which can be communicated in that 
manner.  These  points  seem  to  me  to  be 
overwhelmingly 
favor  of  package 
goods.”

in 

THE  LOUNGER.

responsibles,  several times to our detriment 
and their own as  well.  A  few  years  ago, 
capitalist  and  laborer  considered their  in­
terests identical,  and both worked  together 
for the common good of both.  To-day,  the 
average workman has come to look upon his 
employer  as  his  enemy,  and  both  govern 
themselves accordingly.  Until  the  present 
discontent  is  quelled,  I  don’t  see  where 
much more money will  be  put  into  manu­
facturing  enterprises,  for  the  reason  that 
business men have no  assurance  that  their 
rights will be protected,  and workmen seem 
lost to all sense of self help except in assist­
ing  in  the  depreciation and destruction  of 
property.”

O U T   ARO U N D .

N ew s and Gossip  Furnished  by  O ur  Own 

Correspondents.

Big R apids.

Frank Robbins,  of  Crapo,  who  recently 
purchased the grocery stock  and  fixtures of 
Geo. W.  Crawford,  has  closed  a  contract 
with 
the  Baker  Lumber  Co.  to  put  in, 
saw and cross pile  5,000,000 feet of  pine at 
Turnbull Siding,  near Hungerford.
Herman Frieberg has opened a  merchant 
tailor shop in the Telfer block.
Big Rapids  continues  to  advance.  The 
latest addition is a bucket shop.
Messrs.  Cole  and  Judson,  the  former  a 
hardware dealer,  and  the  latter  a  lumber­
man, have gone to  Ashville,  N.  C.,  where 
they  will  leave  their  wives  to  spend  the 
winter.  They will look over Florida, North 
Carolina and Louisiana,  with a  view  to  lo­
cating,  providing  they  find  a  climate  and 
business prospects which  suit  them  better 
than Michigan.
J. B. Beaumont,  now  of  San  Jose,  Cal., 
has  been  spending  a  week  in  the  city  on 
business  and  has  sold  his  saw  mill,  with 
forty acres of land at Hungerford,  to  Sum­
ner Barston,  of  this  city.  Mr.  Beaumont 
returned to California  on  Monday.  He  is 
delighted with California,  but says business 
is quite dull there.  His  son  is  a  partner 
with Mr.  Grenell,  in  the  drug  business  at 
San Jose.

L uther.

Dr. E.  Treadgold,  the first druggist here, 
and who soon after  became  a  regular  phy­
sician,  has given  up  his  work  and  re-en­
tered the work of the ministry  at Coleman.
Dr. A.  J.  Collar)  0f  Reed  City,  has  lo­
cated in Luther, and has his office  in  C.  R. 
Johnson’s drug j tore.
Clarence Ferrj8f bookkeeper in  Canfield’s 
camp,  was  married  on  the  10th,  to  Miss 
Sarah Cutler,  0f Luther.
F. S. Fletchgr, general dealer,  and  F.  J. 
Fletcher,  jeweier,  were  in  Chicago  over 
Sunday.
There were two accidents  on  the  Manis­
tee branch of the G.  R.  &  I.  Railway  last 
week,  by which an engine and  several  box 
cars were baaiy wrecked.  These accidents 
happen nearly  every  week. 
It  would  be 
cheaper for the road to put in  decent  rails.

M uskegon.

The Rodgers  Iron  Manufacturing  Co.  is 
constructing  a  new  engine  for  use  in  the 
It will  be  16x20,  low pres­
machine shop. 
sure.
The grocers  have entered  into  an  agree­
ment to close  their  places of business from 
Nov.  15 until April 1,  at 8 o’clock, p. m.  ex­
cept Saturdays  and from  Dec.  19 to Jan.  1.

Newaygo.

My friend  Jim  Stewart,  who  hails from 
the Land  of Corkscrews—sometimes  refer- j 
red to as the  Saginaw  Valley—sends  me a 
S.  D.  Thompson is building shells  in  the 
rear of his store for  the  accommodation  of 
recent issue of  the  East  Saginaw  Courier 
farmers, where they may stable their teams. 
containing  an  alleged  description  of  his 
S. D. leaves for  Grand  Rapids  the  first  of 
wholesale grocery business. 
I was not sur­
the week on business.
prised to learn that he carried in stock nine­
Newaygo  is  proud  of  her  water  works, 
and well she may be.  The  pumps  are  run 
ty-seven different brands of tobacco,  for J im 
entirely by water,  and the only  expense  to 
Stewart is known the length and breadth of 
the town  is  the  hiring  of  one  man.  The 
the land as the worst competition on tobacco 
water which is used  for  drinking  purposes 
of any man in  the  business;  but  when  the 
is furnished by means of two excellent flow­
ing wells.
imaginative reporter—assisted, doubtless, by 
Miles Standish and wife,  of White Cloud, 
Stewart’s elaborate  inventive  capacity—re­
passed the Sabbath in this village.  Miles is 
fers to his aggregate sales of 999,999 barrels 
manager  of  the  Wilson  Lumber  Co.,  and
of pork and about  as many  barrels of flour, j being a hard-working  young  man,  has  the
entire confidence of his employers.
it aceurretl to me that he  could worthily fill 
the shoes now.worn by “Gath” or outrank the I 
champion prevaricator of America,  Eli l’er- 
kins.

Herrington  &  Freeland  have  purchased 
Clem & Ager’s sawmill, three miles north of 
this place.

Reed  City.

*

My friend Fisher,  who is  about  as useful j 
an individual around  Arthur  Meigs & Co.’s 
establishment  as  Arthur  himself,  started i 
for Detroit  the  ’other  night.  That  is,  he | 
bought a ticket for  Chicago,  but  eager  an­
ticipations of a day’s relief from the monot­
ony of  store life  lifted him to the  seventh 
heaven of  unalloyed bliss,  in  consequence I 
of which he  boarded the  wrong  train.  He 
retired early, and was somewhat surprised a 
few minutes later when  a  lady appeared at 
the same berth,  bent  on  the  same  errand. 
The porter was summoned, but as both con­
testants produced indisputable proof of their 
right to occupy “lower five,” the  conductor 
was sent for to adjust the difficulty.  The lat­
ter functionary  discovered that Mr. Fisher’s 
ticket read “Chicago,”  whereas  the lady in 
the case possessed a pasteboard  bearing the 
inscription ‘ ‘Detroit. ”  Mutual explanations 
tollowed, and Mr. Fisher made a hasty toilet, 
and alighted from  the  train at the first sta­
tion,  to take  an incoming train  home.  As 
luck would have it, the  Chicago train was a 
half  hour  late  in  starting  and  Mr. Fisher 
had the satisfaction of knowing that he was 
the only man who  ever  beat a  sleeping car 
company, having  occupied  two  berths for 
the price of one.

*  *  *

I had a talk the other day with Mr. Smith, 
of  the  extensive lumbering  firm of White, 
Swan & Smith,  who have lately disposed of 
their  entire  lumbering  properties  to  the 
Thayer Lumber Co.  “The only thing which 
impelled me to close out our business,” said 
Mr. Smith,  “was the threatening  aspect  of 
the labor situation.  We  reduced  the  time 
of work from eleven to  ten  hours,  and  the 
next day the men began  agitating the eight- 
hour  system,  and  made  their  boasts  that 
they  would  bring  us  to  time  inside  of  a 
year.  We  always  treated  our men fairly, 
and the majority of them would  gladly per­
form  any  work  we  required of them;  yet 
those same  men  allowed  themselves  to  be 
influenced by shiftless  demagogues  and  ir-

W a ts o n ,

At a meeting of the patrons  of  the  Wat­
son Cheese Co.,  it  was  decided  to  operate 
the factory another year  on  the  same  plan 
as this season.
Frank Kent bought four  tons  of  poultry 
last week.

D eath of Charley Yale.

Charles S.  Yale,  the senior member of the 
firm of Chas.  S.  Yale &  Bro.,  died  at  the 
¡•family residence,  156  South  Division street 
on the 11th, and was buried from St.  Mark’s 
church on  the  15th.  Mr.  Yale  was  bom 
May 19,  1855, and was, therefore,  only thir­
ty years old at the  time  of  his death.  He 
was reared and  educated  here,  and for sev- 
eral years was identified  with Mr. Jennings 
in the extract business.  He  engaged in bus- 
j iness on his own account  in May,  1880,  and 
| on January 1,  1883,  admitted  his  brother,
| Fred.  D.  Yale, to a third interest in the bus- 
I iness, at which  time  the  firm  name  was 
changed to Chas. S. Yale  &  Bro.  By dint 
of  energy  and  shrewdness,  he  built up a 
1 business second  only to  that of  the pioneer 
house, and was in the  enjoyment  of  lucra­
tive returns.  Mr. Yale  was  married  Nov­
ember  3,  1879,  and  leaves  a  wife,  tliree 
children and many friends  to mourn his un­
timely  death.

Good W ords Unsolicited.

Dillman Bros., sawmill  operators,  Pellston: 

“A very nice  paper.”

H. M.  Marshall,  general  dealer,  Lawrence; 

“ Your paper is a good  one.”

It. G. Archer, general  dealer, West  Branch: 

“I like your paper very much.”

L. H. Rice, general  dealer,  Croton:  “I  find 

it is the best paper in Michigan.”

M. P. Shields, general dealer, Hilliards:  “Al­
ways reliable.  Equalled by few, surpassed by 
none.”
Dibble Bros., general dealers, Bum ip’s Com­
ers:  “We could  not  get  along  without The 
Tradesman.”

Chester  D. Woodbury, general  dealer, Port­
land:  “I think you have the best  trade paper 
, aver published in Michigan.”

Charlevoix  Sentinel:  The  Pine  Lake 
Lumber Co.’s mill on  South  Arm will start 
up about Feb.  1.  The  corporation  intends 
to buy about 6,000,000 feet of logs this win­
ter.  The average daily cut  last season was 
36,000  feet.  The  company  is  building  a 
shingle mill.*

Hastings  Banner:  For  some  reason, 
known only  to himself,  D. F.  Riley  skip­
ped town  Monday  night, taking  with him 
his tools, and about $1,000 in cash and good 
securities.  He left  his  stock of harnesses, 
horse  clothing, trunks  and  valises, which 
may  inventory $1,200  or  $1,500, but which 
will not pay  his  outstanding  indebtedness. 
Some state  that  family troubles  caused his 
departure, while others allege it was a move 
to beat creditors.

The furniture factory commenced  at  Al­
ma, by Hutchinson, Taggart  &  Co.  will be 
made  of  wood,  80x100,  two  stories  high, 
and be provided with  a  60-horse  power en­
gine and boiler of greater capacity  for oper­
ating a dry kiln,  etc.  The  sight  has  been 
leased of the D.,  L.  &  N. Railway  on  the 
sole condition that the firm  do  all  its ship­
ping over that  road at a rate not  exceeding 
that  charged  by  other  railroads  entering 
Alma.

Purely Personal.

M.  C. Russell has gone to Louisville with 

six carloads of potatoes.

A.  E.  Banks,  President  of  the Frankfort 

Lumber Co., was in the city last  week.

D. M. McClellan, the Reed City merchant, 
was  recently  married  to  Miss  Carrie  M. 
Gaylord,  of Pontiac.

J. L.  Itece,  formerly  with  M.  Duquette, 
the Muskegon groceryman,  is in town  for  a 
few days in search of employment  in  some 
one of the jobbing establishments here.

M.  L.  Hall,  formerly  invoice  clerk  for 
Jas. E.  Davis & Co.,  at Detroit,  has accept­
ed a  similar  position  with  Hazeltine,  Per­
kins & Co., the  arrangement to  take  effect 
January 1.

L.  M.  Handy,  the  Mancelona  druggist, 
was in town last  Wednesday  and  paid  his 
respects to T h e  T ra d esm a n.  Mr. Handy 
asserts that the report  that  he took posses­
sion of the Carpenter & Grant drug stock on 
a chattel mortgage filed only two days before 
foreclosure is untrue.  He obtained the stock 
on a bill of sale, but has held a mortgage on 
the  stock  since  August,  1883,  which  has 
been on record all the time.

T he Gripsack Brigade.

Dick Mangold says he has disposed of his 
interest  in  the  millinery  establishment  at 
Muskegon.

Fred Selleck exalted the virtues of Amer­
ican Eagle tobacco to  the  jobbing  trade  of 
this market on  Monday.

Manley  Jones has reconsidered his  deter­
mination to go on the road for a plug tobac­
co house,  and  engaged  to  travel  for John 
Caulfield, covering the same territory as for­
merly.

G. II.  Lynch, Jr.,  formerly  Secretary  of 
the Aland Patent Blower  Co., of  Rome,  N. 
Y.,  but now on the road  for  the  Huyett  & 
Smith Manufacturing Co., of Detroit, put in 
Friday and Saturday at this market.

Three  traveling  men  and a hotel keeper 
having contributed enough  to  secure  Dave 
Smith’s admission to the T.  P.  A.,  the boys 
on the road are now circulating a subscription 
paper for  the purpose  of  raising  sufficient 
funds to purchase him a badge.

The  Merchant  Traveler  announces  that 
the next issue  will be from  Chicago,  which 
would seem to indicate  that  the fight made 
against the Garden City  had been abandon­
ed.  The paper will be issued from the head­
quarters  of  the  T.  P.  A.,  at  79  Dearborn 
street.

It has been thought desirable to  hold  the 
annual social  party  of  the  Grand Rapids 
traveling men this  season  sometime during 
the  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  held  at  T h e  T ra d esm a n  office 
Saturday  evening,  November 28,  at  which 
time a full attendance is  requested.

Another letter from  Will Hoops  contain­
ing  the following  additional  particulars  re­
garding his Western  jaunt:  “I am getting 
along so nicely now  that  I have  decided to 
remain here until the 20th,  instead of leav­
ing here the  15th, as  I  wrote you.  This is 
really the most delightful spot I have found 
since I left home.  We have  been here over 
two weeks and  I  have  yet  to  see  the first 
cloudy day.  The  air  is  just as mild  and 
balmly a*? possible.  The temperature ranges 
about  75 degrees right  along  now. 
I will 
be “on hand” December 1 and I will be able 
to see all my old friends within a few weeks 
afterward. 
If I get time I will write  you a 
full account of our  trip.”

John Chamberlain, the  East  Jordan gen­
eral dealer, writes  as follows  relative to his 
efforts to  relieve  Geo.  F.  Owen  from  his 
present  financial  embarrassment:  “Please 
find  enclosed  seventeen  cents  to  apply  on 
Geo.  Owen’s  account.  D.  B.  Jerrue  and 
myself have spent two  days  trying to  raise 
the whole amount, but can only get 17 cents 
from  George’s  friends  as  follows:  H. L. 
Page, 3 cents;  W.  F. Empey,  4 cents;  Jas. 
Shear, 2;  D. B.  Jerrue,  2;  W.  A. Stone, 
2;  Fred.  Boosinger,  2;  J.  Chamberlin, 2. 
The remainder of George’s friends have gone 
to the woods to work and I will see them in 
the spring and collect the  balance of the 25 
cents.  Meantime, his  friends  pray  you to 
be lenient with  George,  as he  means well, 
but at present seems to  be a  little  hard up. 
My reason for thinking so is this:  The last 
time he was here  he  used  the  cabin of the 
steamer “Friant” as a sample room,  instead 
of going  to  the  hotel.  Dan.  Jerrue  says 
that he got same limburger cheese,  crackers 
and a glass of beer  through the side door of 
the saloon for his  dinner.

© r u g e  8. í l ^ c b i c i n e s

STATE  BOARD  OF  PH ARM ACY. 

One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Two Years—F. H. J. VanEmster, Bay City. 
Three Years—Jacob Jessoa Muskegon.
Four Years—Jam es Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next  place  of  meeting:—At  Grand  Rapids, 

March 2,1886.
Michigan  Slate  Pharmaceutical  Association.

o

O F F IC E R S .

Grand Rapids.

President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
First  Vice-President—Frank  J.  Wurzburg1, 
Second Vice-Fresident—A. B. Stevens, Detroit, 
Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. 
Secretary—S. E. Parkell,  Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—Jacob  Jesson,  Geo. 
G undrum, Frank Wells, F. W.  R.  Perry  and 
John E. Peck.
Local Secretary—Will L. White, Grand Rapids. 
Next  place  of  meeting—At  Grand  Rapids, 

Tuesday, October 12,1886.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORG A N IZED   OCTOBER 9, 1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board  of  Censors—President,  Vice-President 
and Secretary.
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
Wm. L. White.
Committee on Pharmacy—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.
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
November,
Next Meeting—Thursday evening, December 3, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

Muskegon Drug Clerks’  Association.

O F FIC ER 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 27.

of each month.

Solution Citrate of Magnesia.*

What  is  the  quality  ol' solution  citrate  of 
magnesium furnished by manufacturers? How 
much is gained by  preparing it instead of  ob­
taining it of the manufacturers?

The first part  of  the  query  can  only be 
answered  by careful  analysis.  Therefore, 
I prepared a solution of  citrate of magnesia 
by U.  S.  P.  formula from Jennings’ carbon­
ate and estimated the  amount  of  magnesia 
which  it  contained  by  precipitating  with 
phosphate of soda, 
igniting  and  weighing 
as  phosphate  of  magnesia  and  calculating 
the amount of  maguesiac  oxide  present  in 
one bottle which amounted  to  5.3  grams or 
81.5 grains.

A sample of carbonate  of  magnesia from 
which the solution  was made  was next cal­
cine«! to find the amount of oxide it contain­
ed,  which equaled 41  per cent,  or 82 grains 
per bottle.

I  next  procured  samples  from  all  the 
wholesale  houses  hi  the  State.  The de­
posits which had  formed  in  some were re- 
dissolvedfn hydrochloric acid, and magnesia 
estimated as in previous sample:

No.  1 contained 27  grains or 34 per  cent, 
of  required  amount;  No.  2  contained  67 
grains,  or 81 per cent,  of  required  amount; 
No. 3 contained 73 grains,  or 89 per cent, of 
required amount; No.  4 contained 62 grains," 
or 75 per cent,  of  required  amount;  No. 5 
contained a solution of  tartrate of soda and 
potassa  without even  a trace  of  magnesia. 
This fraud,  though  bought  of  a  wholesale 
house in this city, was  manufactured out of 
the State.

I also analyzed  three  samples  manufac­
tured by retail  houses  which  attracted my 
attention:

No.  1 gave only a slight acid reaction and 
contained a deposit  of  three-quarters of an 
inch deep, gave 90 per cent, of magnesia.

No. 2 contained 83 per cent, of the requir­

ed  amount.

I have heard much  about  the wickedness 
of Chicago,  but never saw  it so well  illus­
trated as in  No.  3,  which  came  from  that 
city and contained no magnesia at all.

After the foregoing analysis  is it  a  won­
der that physicians regard the  solution as a 
preparation not to T>6 trusted?  We must not 
infer from the  fact that none  contained  the 
full amount of magnesia,  that all were man­
ufactured with fraudulent intent,  but rather 
that some were made  by a formula  similar 
to that  found on page  882 of  U.  S.  Dispen­
satory recommending the use of 75 grains of 
calcined magnesia which is seven grains less 
than that of the U.  S.  P.,  to  say nothing of 
the carbonic acid and water absorbed by the 
oxide,  which varies according to  the length 
of time it has been exposed to the air.

To ascertain the amount  absorbed by var­
ious samples as found in the stores I ignited 
the  following  until  they  ceased  to  lose 
weight:

“  “
“  “
“  “
“  “
“  “
“  “
“  “

No.  1 lost 4.5 per cent,
“  2  “  7. 
“  3  “  7. 
“  4  “  3. 
“  5  “13, 
“  6  “ 15. 
“ 
7  “16. 
“ 
8  “25. 
In the eight samples the  loss varied from 
3 to 25 per cent.  No. 8 was  taken from an 
ordinary shelf bottle,  and  had  been  in the 
possession of its owner so long that he  had 
forgotten  its  maker.  Omitting  this,  with 
its loss of 25 per cent., the  variation  would 
be  reduced  to 13 per  cent 
In the face of 
these figures I should hesitate some time be­
fore recommending a formula  in which cal­
cined magnesia is  used,  did I  not fully be­
lieve that  the 
increase  in weight  could be 
reduced at least one half by being carefnl to 
keep the retainer open  only long enough to
*  Paper  read  before  the  Michigan  State 
Pharmaceutical Association by A. B. Stevens, 
Ph. C., of Detroit. 

<  w

weigh the required  amount  instead of leav­
ing the cover off by the hour.

The  following  formula is a slight  modi­
fication in strength of one published in New 
Remedies, page 280, year 1876:

“

Dissolve the acid  in 8  ounces 

Calcined Magnesia (Jennings)
Citric acid,  grains,
Sugar 
011 lemon,  quarts,
Water 
ounces,
Bicarbonate Potassa,  grains,

grams.
90.
4.8
410. 26.5
900. 62.
2.
.12
12. 360.
30.
2.
Of water,
and  add  the  magnesia.  When  dissolved, 
added the sugar previously  rubbed with the 
oil,  add water to 12  ounces  or 360  grams, 
filter,  add  the  bicarbonate  of  potassa  in 
crystals just before corking.  This  formula 
I have useil for the past nine years with sat­
isfaction,  and believe it to furnish a product 
superior to the U.  S.  P.  in flavor. Jennings’ 
calcined magnesia should always be used, as 
all others which  I tried  tieposit in  a short 
time.

The wholesale price  of solution citrate of 
magnesia is  16  cents  per  bottle.  Cost to 
manufacture same 12  cents,  or  a saving  of
12 cents per bottle.

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
Muskegon,  N ov.  14,  1885.

The regular semi-monthly meeting of  the 
Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association  was 
held at the Arlington Hotel last evening.

I.  F. Ilopkins,  President  of  the  Associa­
tion,  delivered  his  inaugural  address.  He 
said this is the first organization of the kind 
in Northern Michigan.  There  is  only  ond 
other  in  the  State  and  that  is  in  Detroit. 
The members of  this  organization  have all 
started at the bottom of the  ladder,  but it is 
practice and training that make the  compe­
tent pharmacist.  Every member  lias started 
at  the  bottom;  has  begun  where  all  drug 
clerks  begin—by washing  bottles.  He ad­
vised all to be punctual at the meetings.

George LeFever read a paper on “Pepsin.” 
He explained its use and also how it was ob­
tained.  About half an hour  was consumed 
in discussing this subject.

A resolution was  adopted,  tendering  the 
heartfelt  sympathies  of  the  Association’s 
members  to Fred E.  Heath, a brother mem­
ber,  in liis  sad  bereavement  caused  by the 
death of his wife.

Louis B.  Glover was appointed  to  read a 
payer on  “Cocaine,”  at  the  next  meeting, 
which will beheld on the 27th.

N. Miller was  selected to read a  paper on 

“Opium” at the same meeting.

O. A.  L loyd, Secretarv.

He Knew the Kind She Wanted.

From the New York Times.

Servant  (to drug clerk)—Oi want  ttvinty- 

foive cints worth of  powder.

Drug Clerk—What kind of  powder—face 

powder?

Servant—Oi don’t know,  sorr.
Drug Clerk—Who is it for?
Servant—It’s for Mrs. Hendricks, the lady 
what kapes  the  boardin’  house  beyant  the 
corner.

Drug  Clerk—Oh,  yes!  I  useti  to  boanl 
with  Mrs.  Hendricks  myself.  She  wants 
insect powder.

T h e T ra desm a n regrets to learn that an 
unfortunate  rivalry  between  a  couple  of 
Middleville druggists has  impelled  them  to 
cut  the  price  of patent medicines to about 
the wholesale figure.  Such  an extremity is 
to be deplored, as the evil results of  such an 
infraction  of good business  policy last  long 
after  a  local  feud  is  settled,  and  cause 
trouble  in  other  towns  besides  the  place 
where  the  trouble  originated. 
It  is  easy 
enough to lower prices, but very  difficult  to 
elevate  them  again  after  people  have  be­
come  accustomed  to  getting  things  below 
their real value.

The Alexander oleomargarine  factory,  at 
Detroit,  which carried a  test case to the Su­
preme Court and  secured a decision  amiul- 
ling t he law enacted by the last Legislature, 
lias resumed operations.  The State’s inter- 
ence caused the owners considerable damage, 
for which there is no legal  redress.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

Co., Frankfort.

L. M. Handy, Mancelona.
A. E.  Banks,  President  Frankfort  Lumber 
L. N. Fisher, Carrel & Fisher, Dorr.
Geo. P. Stark. Cascade.
B. A. Jones, Leetsville.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
M. V. Crocker, Byron Center.
H. M. Harroun, McLain.
G. F. Gretslnger,  East Saugatuck.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Peter Wingarden,  Vriesland.
J. F. Hacker, Corinth.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
N. Sbaw, Rockford.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
Mr. Seibert, Johnson &  Seibert, Caledonia.
C. Stocking, G rattan.
Mr. Zunder, Zunder Bros. & Co.,  Bangor.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
J. W. Closterhuse, Grandville.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
M. J. Howard, Englishyille.
Norman Harris, Big  Springs.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
S. Cooper, Corinth.
Thos. Smedley, Bauer.
John W. Mead, Berlin.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
E.  P.  Barnard,  buyer New Era Lumber Co., 
Henry  Jacobs,  buyer  Ryerson,  Hills &  Co., 
Cook & Sweet,  Bauer.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
Geo. Scribner, Grandville.
F. L. Blake, Irving.
Moerdyk, DeKrulf & Co., Zeeland.
J. H. Spires, Leroy.
Geo. Carrington, Trent,
John Smith, Ada.
8. Johnson, Johnson Bros., Greenville.
Mr. Plato, Plato & Renwick, Rodney.
Eli Runnels, Corunna.
C. W, Ives, Rockford.
L. K. Gibbs, Gibbs Bros., Mayfield.
Will L. Beardsley,  Hersey.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
A. W. Blain,  Dutton.
T.  J.  Sheridan,  T.  j. Sheridan tc Co.,  Look- 

New Era.
Muskegon,

wood.

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.

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. 
llelmbold’s Rose Wash. 
Horsford’s  Acid  Phosphates. 
Ink, of all kinds.
Injection,  Brou. 
Laird’s Bloom of Youth.
Liquid Bluing.  Liquid Dye Colors.
Lydia Pinkham’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.

Injection  Mathey Cay- 

“ 
“ 

Carbolic Acid.
Phosphoric Acid.  .
Thompson’s Eye Water.
Vinegar Bitters.
Winchester Syrup Hypophosphites. 
Wilhoft’s Tonic.
Whittlesey’s Dyspepsia Cure.

Send in Your Application.

Jacob Jesson has issued  a  second  official 
circular to the  drug  trade,  reminding those 
who have not yet sent in  their  applications 
for registration that they must do so  before 
December  15.  About  2,000  applications 
have been received,  but  nearly  1,000  more 
persons are entitled to  registration  without 
examination.  The  circular  is  issued  as  a 
warning  to  the  latter,  and  the  Secretary 
states that it will be the last notice sent  out 
by the Board.

Hope, Faith and Charity.

Hope.

Fatth.

Charity.

“1 see that Smith is coining up this way;
I hope he’ll settle that account to-day.

He’s feeling for his wallet.  A h!  1 knew 
That he had to come to pay that  balance  due. 

He’s going past, by Jove!  Well, well, no doubt 
Some other creditor has cleaned him out.”

The National Druggist reprints from T h e 
T ra desm a n  a  full  report  of  the  annual 
meeting of the Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceuti­
cal  Society;  also  the  report  of the  recent 
meeting  of  the  State  Board of Pharmacy. 
The journal referred to is  one  of  the most 
practical  drug  publications  in the country, 
and is worthy the hearty support it receives 
in all  sections.  Without  the  “hifaluting” 
ideas which predominate in many of its con­
temporaries,  the National Druggist present 
a table of  contents  which  for clearness  of 
statement and practicability of suggestion is 
almost without parallel in the realm of trade 
journalism.

Perfumes!

Special  Odors.

Fleur fle lis,

it
'18 Alt

Mi H ai,

Jockey C l,

ALSO  A

F T J X j I j   3 L .I 3 S T E
Regular  Odors!

OF THE

PUT UP  IN

1, 2  and 4 oz., ? pound and 

pound glass stopped 

bottles.

Perfumers,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

tine, spermaceti, gum arable.

Advanced—Castor  oil,  white  seed,  turpen­
Declined—Alcohol, aqua ammonia.

ACID S.

Acetic, No.  8.................................... 
9  @
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........   30  @
Carbolic............................................   34  @
C itric.................................................   60  ®
Muriatic 18  deg............................... 
3  @
11  @
Nitric 36 deg.................................... 
Oxalic...............................................   12  @
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................  
3  ®
Tartaric  powdered........................   52  @
Benzoic,  English................... $  oz
Benzoic,  German............................  12  ®
Tannic...............................................  12  ®

10
35
36 
65
512
14 
4
55
18
15 
15

AMMONIA.

Carbonate.................................)P lb  15  @  18
14
Muriate (Powd. 22c>......................... 
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
3  ®  5
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 
4  ®  6

BALSAMS.

Copaiba............................................  
F ir...................................................... 
P eru................................................... 
T olu................................................... 

40@45
40
2 00
50

BARKS.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)............ 
Cinchona,  yellow..........................  
Elm,  select.......................................  
Elm, ground, pure..........................  
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................  
Sassafras, of root............................ 
Wild Cherry, select......................... 
Bayberry  powdered....................... 
Hemlock powdered......................... 
W ahoo.............................................. 
Soap  ground....................................  

B E R R IE S .

11
18
13
14
15
10
12
20
18
30
12

Cubeb  prime (Powd 95c)............... 
@  90
6  @  7
Juniper............................................. 
Prickly Ash......................................  50  ®  60

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 251b doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 fi>  boxes)...............
...............
Lgowood, V48 
do 
Logwood, 14s 
do 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.
Arnica...............................................   10  ®
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German.....................

FLO W ERS.

27
3714
912
13 
15
14

GUMS.

60®  75
Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c).................. 
12
50
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
Ammoniac.......................................  
28®  30
65
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
65
Arabic, 1st picked..........................  
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
55
50
Arabic,  3d picked............................ 
35
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
25
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
55®60
Benzoin:........................................... 
Camphor..........................................  
25®  27
13
Catechu. Is (Hi 14c, 54s  16c)............ 
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
35®  40
80
Galbanum strained......................... 
80®  90
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
35
Kino [Powdered, 30c).....................  
20
Mastic..............................................
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
3 50
Opium, pure (Powd $4.90)............... 
30
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
26
Shellae,  English.............................. 
Shellac, native................................. 
24
30
Shellac bleached.............................. 
T ragacanth......................................  30  ®1 00

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H oarhound...................................................... 25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Pepperm int...................................................... 25
Rue..................................................................... 40
S pearm int........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................................36
T anzy................................................................ 25
T hym e...............................................................30
W ormwood.......................................................25

IR O N .

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

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   13
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s & %b, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  U rsi...........................................
Beliedonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
H enbane...........................................
Rose, red............................... ..........

LIQ U O R S.

4  00
20
7
65

®  14 6
®  20 
30
16 
10 
35 
30 
35 
2 35

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2  00
@2 50 
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.................... 1 75
®2 00 
Whisky, other brands......................... 1 10
®1 50 
Gin, Old Tom......................................... 1 35
®1 75 
Gin,  Holland......................................... 2 00
@3 50
B randy..............................................175  @6 60
Catawba  Wines..........................
®2 00 
Port Wines.
®2 50

..1 
.1 35

M AGNESIA.

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

O IL S .

Almond, sweet..........................
Amber, rectified.......................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz.........................................
Bergamont.......................................
Castor................................................  17
Croton...............................................
C ajeput............................................
Cassia...............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella.......................................
Cloves...............................................
Cod Liver, N. F ............. ........gal
Cod Liver, best.........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W ...............................
E rigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  ^   oz...............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s...................
Lemongrass........................ '............
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  I ta lia n ...............
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose  $   oz.........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers f  1 50)
Salad, $   gal......................................
Savin.................................................
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ..........................
Sassafras...........................................
Spearm int.......................................
T an sy ............................................... 4 50
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
W intergreen.................................
Wormwood, No, 1 (Pure $4.00).......
W ormseed.......................................

45  ® 50 
45 
00 
50 
2 25 
®  18H 
2 00
1  00 
35
120 
1  20
1  50 
6 00 
9  00 
1  60
2  00 
75 
35 
50
2  00 
2 01 
1 00 
90
1  75
2 00 
80
®  90 
2 75 
1 25 
50
1  30 
4  00 
8  00
65
2 75 
1 00 
4 50 
7 00
60 
®7 00 
@5 00 
®  12
2 35
3 50 
2 00

do 
do 

POTASSIUM .

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

ROOTS.

A lkanet............................................
Althea, c u t.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in )4s and His__
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered........ .........
Gentian (Powd  15c)...................
Ginger, African (Powd 14o)............  11
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap, powdered.............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, tru e ........................................
Rhei, from seleot to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................110
Rhel,ohoioe out  cubes............. .
Rhei, ohoioe cut fingers.................

14 
40 
25 
3 00 
28

®

20
25
17
33
12
20%
20
10
12
17 
20 
20
1 20 
30
18 
28 
38
1 60 
ll 20 
2 00 
2 26

5 @ 6
4 @ 4H
15 ® 18
1 50
1 75IK10
10
15
3*@
4 @ 4H
7 ® 8
4‘A® 5K
10
75
14
25 ®2 50
2 00
1 10

6 ®

P

45  ®

12  @  17 
16  @  28 
16  @  20 
25®  40 
40
85  @1 00 
35  ®  40 
®1  00 
4 00
1 50
10  ®  15 
15
8
1  00
45
12)4®  13
60
^  oz 2 80®3 05
40
ÿ lb
10
12
30
18
60
10
45
17  @  25
18
2 50
7
6  a   7
lb oz 92  @  97
93®  97

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

SEEDS.

do 

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in lb  packages...........
Canary,  Smyrna.............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c).
Cardamon,  Alep pee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery................................................
Coriander,  nest  English................
F en n el..............................................
Flax, clean..................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3)4)..................
Foenugreek, powdered..................
Hemp,  Russian...............................
Mustard, white  Black 10c)............
Q uince..............................................
Rape, English..................................
Worm,  Levant.................................
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage......:
Nassau 
........
do 
do 
. . . .
Velvet Extra do 
do 
.......
ExtraYellow do 
do 
do 
Grass 
do 
........
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
.................
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.17, $  gal.... 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ox. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution.............
Annatto  1 tb rolls............................
Alum .........................................  ijp'ib
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
Annatto,  prim e...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’i
Arsenic, white, powdered.............
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best. . 
. . . . 
Bay Rum, domestic, H.,P. & Co.’s.
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..........................
Beans,  Vanilla.........................Í..Ü7
Bismuth, sub  nitrate...................]
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).....................
Blue V itrio l..................................
Borax, refined (Pow«i  12c).". ".."  
Cant harides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, A frican...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
Cassia Buds.........................
Calomel.  American................ ........
Chalk, prepared drop...............
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lum p.....................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .............
Colocynth  apples.......................... ]
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform ......................................
Cinchonidia, P. &  W.........*!!."!!"
Cinchonidia, other brands........ .."]
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................
Cochineal................................ ’.'.Y.'.'.
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 B> box..
Creasote..........................................
Cudbear,  prim e............... " !] ] H!
Cuttle Fish Bone.................
D extrine.......  .....................
Dover’s  Powders..............]]]]]]]]]
Dragon’s Blood Mass............
Ergot  powdered.....................
Ether Squibb’s ..................... .
Em ery,Turkish,all  No.’s.!.!!.]]!
Epsom Salts (bbl.  1%).....................
Ergot, fresh.............................!!!!!!
Ether, sulphuric, U. S. P ...!!!!!"
Flake  white.............................!!!!!!
Grains  Paradise................."!!!!.*!
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ...................].]]]
Gelatine. French  ........................]].
Glassware, flint, 78 off,by box 6Óoff 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dls....
Glue,  c a u n e t..................................
Glue,white.............................. !!!!"
Glycerine, pure................ . . ” ........
Hops  V4s and )4s...................... ...]]
Iodoform $   oz.......................... ] *' *
Indigo................................. ..." “ ]’!
Insect Powder, best  Dalm atian... 
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co., boxes
Iodine,  resublim ed......................
Isinglass,  American.................
Japónica..................................!!!!!!
London  Purple...................!"."!!."
Lead, acetate..............................]]]]
Lime, chloride, (Hs 2s 10c j
i 11c)
L upuline............................
Lycopodium.....................
M ace..................................
Madder, best  Dutch..]].!
Manna, S.  F .......................
M ercury........................ ]]]
Morphia, sulph., P. & W

do 
do 

do 
do 
do 

Moss,  Irish...............................
Mustard,  English................."
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 lb  cans!
Nutgalls....................................
Nutmegs, No. 1................!!!!!!
Nux  Vomica......................... ]]
Ointment. Mercurial, )4d...."
Paris Green..............................
Pepper, Black  Berry........... ]
Pepsin.......................................
Pitch, True Burgundy...!..". 
Quassia  ....................................
Quinine,  German.
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 3cj.....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand's.!.."
Soap, White Castile........................
.........................
Soap, G reen  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, )4 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin ..........
Tar, 
pints in tin .............
Turpentine,  Venice................$  n>
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................

do 
do 

do 

O IL S .

Capitol  Cylinder...............................
Model  Cylinder................................................... go
Shield  Cylinder.............................................].50
Eldorado Engine.........................................!!!! .35
Peerless  Machinery......................................""30
Challenge Machinery......................................... 25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... ao
Black Diamond Machinery.............................]]30
Castor Machine  Oil..........................................l]ec
Paraffine, 25  deg.............................................. 1554
Paraffine, 28  deg..................................................21
Sperm, winter bleached...............................  140
__ 
Bbl  Gal
Whale, w inter......................................  70
Lard, extra...........................................  55
Lard, No.  1...........................................  45
Linseed, pure raw ..............................  48
Linseed, boiled..................................   46
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   70
Spirits Turpentine.............................   40
No. lT u rp  Coach.................................. l  10@1  20
E xtra  T urp............................................l  60@1  70
Coach  Body........................................... 2 75@3  00
No. 1 Turp Furniture............................1 00@1  10
Extra Turp  Damar...............................l  65@1  60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp......................  70®  75

V A RN ISH ES.

PA IN TS

Bbl
Red Venetian...........  ................   H i
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........   1J£
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  Hi
Putty, commercial,..................   2)4
Putty, strictly pure..................   2%
Vermilion, prime  American..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red striotly  pure....... ...
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish.......
Whiting,  Gilders .....................
White, Paris Amerioan.......... .
Whiting  Paris English oliff..
Pioneer Prepared  T aints.......
Swiss Villa Prepared  Paints..

9

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Iapigi

O Y S T E R S

y |  When  in  want  of a  good  brand  of  OYSTERS, 
g j don’t fail to  get  the  famous  PATAPSCO,  which  is
guaranteed both as to quality and price.  Sold only 
bv  W.  F.  GIBSON  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich., 
GENERAL  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,  and 
dealers in all kinds of PRODUCE,  JELLY,  MINCE 
MEAT  and  PAPER  OYSTER  PAILS.___________
Jelly, Mince ¡Mlea/t Eto.

n
WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

T O B A C C O
PLUG  TOBACCO.
RED  F O X .................................................
BIG  D R I V E ....................................................
PATROL 
.................................................
JACK  RABBIT 
SILVER  c o m . .........................................
P A N IC .................................................................
BLACK PRINCE,  DARK 
BIG  STUMP 
.................................
APPLE  JACK 

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

-
- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

-

-

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

F IN E   CUT.

A gents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE.

37, 39 & 41 K ent  Street.  Grand  Rapida,  Michigan.

a ± Manufacturers

»  P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONL1

HOUSE  &  STORE  SHADES  MADE  TO  ORDER.

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Nelson  Bros.  &  Co.

-

- 

- 
2c less in  6 pail lots.

THE  MEIGS  FINE  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor
STUNNER,  D A R K .................................
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T .................................
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT  -
FRUIT 
O  SO  SWEET 

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SMOZXXTG.
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- 
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ARTHUR’S  CHOICE, LONG  CUT,  BRIGHT 
RED  FOX,  LONG  CUT,  FOIL 
- 
- 
GIPSEY  QUEEN,  GRANULATED 
- 
OLD  COMFORT,  IN  CLOTH 
- 
- 
sin AT.  OF  GRAND  RAPIDS,  IN  CLOTH 
- 
DIME  SMOKER,  IN  CLOTH  - 
- 
2c less in  100 pound lots.

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.2 
.2
-2
-27
.24 
.24

Send  for 
C atalogu e 

ana 
Prices*

H E S T E R   &  ITO X,

S A W   AND G2HST MILL MACHHT3DB/Y\

MANUFACTURERS  AGENTS  FOR

ATLAS works

MAMKFACTUEEKS of

INDIANAPOLIS.  INO.,  U.  S . A .
ISTEMÌ ENGINES & BOILERS.,
fCarry Engines and Boilers in Stock I 

for  immediate delivery. 

1i S a S

^Êêêm èèË êL

Planers, Matchers, Moudlers and all kinds of W ood-Working Machinery, 

And Dodge's Patent 
Write  for  Prleee. 

Saws, Belting and Oils.

<rfCth e ^ s i^ rio rity . “

“ mP‘e  P“ ‘lei
>3»  OAKES STREET. OltAKP  BAPIPS.  MICH

 

Wholesale Grocers,

a g e n t s   f o r

KNIGHT  OF  LIBOR  PLUG

W H OLESALE  D E A LE B S  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

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

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

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99

OIX-I  CLOTHS

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

MANUFACTURED  BY

Geo. T. W arren & Co

L . . .   ■ 

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BTOm  e t o .

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

M ich ig an .

A  MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A.  STOWE  &  BRO., Proprietors.

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

Telephone No. 95.

[Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand Rapid«  as 

Second-class Matter.I

WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 18,1885.

B E T A IL   GROCERS’  ASSOCIATION 

OF  G R AN D   RAPIDS.

ORG A N IZED   NOVEM BER  10,  1885.

President—Erwin J. Herrick.
First Vice-President—E. E. Walker.
Second Vice-President—Jaa. A. Coye. 
Secretary—Comeiiiu s A. Johnson.
.
Treasurer—B. S. Harris. 
Board of  Directors-Eugene  Richmond,  Wm.
H. Sigel, A. J. Elliott, Henry A. Hydorn  and
Annual meetings—Second Tuesday in Novem-
Reguiar  meetings—First  and  Third  Tuesday
Next  meetings—Tuesday  evening, December
_________ _

Evenings of each month. 
I. 

j£nox

_

FULLY  ORGANIZED.

Constitution  and  By-Laws  Adopted  and 

Officers Elected.

About fifty representative  grocers attend­
ed the first  annual  meeting  of  the  Retail 
Grocers’ Association of Grand  Rapids, held 
at The T radesman office on the evening of 
November  10.  Secretary  Harris  read  the 
minutes of the last meeting,  which were ap 
proved, and subsequently  read  the  report 
of  the  committee  on  constitution  and  by­
law's.

Henry A.  Hydorn  moved  that  the  draft 

of constitution and by-laws be adopted.

Jas.  A.  Coye  moved  as  an  amendment 
that  the  report  be  adopted  by  sections, 
which was carried.

The constitution  and  by-laws  were  then 
read section by  section,  and  several  minor 
amendments  were  made, after  which they 
were adopted as a whole as amended.  They 
appear in full in corrected form on the eighth 
page of The Tradesman.

C u sh in g ’s Manual was  adopted  as a rule 

of proceedure.

Jas. A. Coye  moved  that  the  Law Com­
mittee be instructed  to  formulate  a  system 
of rules for the government of  the members 
in  dealing  with  dead  beats,  which  was 
adopted.

Wm.  H. Sigel  moved  that  each  member 
send in  a  list  of  bad-paying  customeis  at 
each meeting, winch wras adopted.

The following resolution was adopted: 
Resolved—That  any  member  trusting  a 
dead-beat knowingly,  shall be fined five dol­
lars which shall be added to the general fund 
of the Association.

The election of  officers  for  the  ensuing 

pear resulted as follows:

President—Erwin J.  Herrick.
First Vice-President—E.  E.  Walker. 
Second Vice-President—Jas.  A.  Coye. 
Secretary—Cornelius A. Johnson. 
Treasurer—B. S.  Harris.
Board  of  Directors—Eugene  Richmond, 
Wm. H. Sigel,  A.  S. Elliott,  Henry A.  Hy­
dorn and W.  E.  Knox.

The standing committees will be announc­
ed by  the  President  at  the  next  meeting, 
which will be held at T h e T ra desm a n of 
fice on the evening  of  Nov.  17.  The  next 
regular meeting  thereafter  will  be  held on 
Tuesday evening,  December  1.  Every re 
tail grocer doing  business  in Grand Rapids 
is invited to  identify  himself  with  the  or­
ganization,  and thus  encourage  the  move­
ment  with  Ills  influence.  Application for 
membership  can be  made  at  any  regular 
meeting.
Masquerading as a Man  for Fifteen Years.
The  Kansas  City  correspondent  <»f  the 
Assiciated Press notes the  following pecul­
iar circumstance:

for 

and 

Some two years  ago a smooth-faced  indi­
vidual came to this city and started a saloon, 
which was  conducted  successfully,  and re­
turned the owner a handsome profit.  Later 
the same individual, who was known  to the 
business men of Kansas City by the name of 
Frank Gray, opened a grocery  store at Sev­
enth and  Wyandotte  streets,  and  soon  se­
cured a paying patronage.  During this time 
Frank Gray dealt  largely in real estate,  and 
the investments he made  showed him to be 
possesed of great  business  tact.  Recently, 
however, he  became  involved  in a lawsuit, 
and the sensational discovery was made that 
Frank Gray was a woman named Mrs.  Mary 
B. Walcott.  This  revelation  brought forth 
still  others  and  it  was  soon  learned  that 
lias  been  masquerading 
Mrs.  Walcott 
for  fifteen 
has  a  married 
daughter  living  in  this  city.  During her 
dual existence Mrs.  Walcott  has smiled up­
on the ladies and transacted  business like a 
man, but when she visited Columbus, Ohio, 
she went dressed  in  clothes  becoming her 
sex.  While she was in  this  city,  however, 
her disguise was so complete  and her  voice 
so masculine that no one  suspected that she 
was a woman.  No  reason  is  assigned  for 
her peculiar action  in  thus  disguising her­
self.  The discovery was made  through the 
medium of a divorce suit, brought by a man 
named Green against his wife, on the ground 
that she was  altogether too  intimate  with 
Gray.
„ 
When the big store of II. S. Crocker  was 
burned at San Francisco the  other day,  and 
while he stood by the  pile  of  ashes  vainly 
seeking to conjure a good phoenix therefrom, 
he was handed this message  from  his fam 
ily at Sacramento:  “Telegraph  particulars 
of fire in store.”  Seizing  a  pencil he wrote 
upon the back of the telegram,  grimly smil- 
ing the while,  “No ptttteui«*«  No «tar».”

Tne Whole Story.

PUTNAM & BROOKS
Wholesale Manufacturers ef

PURE  CANDY

0   a n d   d e a l e r s   i n

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

BANANAS,  FIGS,  DATES,> 

TSTu-ts,  E to .

These brands are sold only by

Arthur M eigs & Co.

Wholesale Grocers,

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

SPRING

COMPANY,

1

WHOLESÀLB  PRICE  CURRENT.

W ID E   BROW N  COTTONS. 

SIL E S IA S .

OSNABURG.

BLEACHED COTTONS.

¡Nictory  O.
| Victory J . .

Androscoggin, 9-4..23  ¡Peppered, 10-4
21  ¡Peppered, 11-4........3754
Androscoggin, 8-4
1654 Pequot,  7-4..............18
Pepperell,  7-4___
20  Pequot,  8-4..............31
Pepperell,  8-4__
22541 Pequot.  9-4..............34
Pepperell,  9-4 —
CHECKS.
11 
iPark Mills, No. 90..14 
Caledonia, XX, oz 
10  ¡Park Mills, No. 100.15 
Caledonia,  X, oz.
10  Prodigy, oz..............11
j  Economy, oz......
10  Otis Apron..............1054
i  Park Mills, No. 50 
11  Otis  Furniture.......1054
Park Mills, No. 60
Park Mills, No. 70..12  ¡York,  1  oz...............10
Park Mills, No. 80. .13  ¡York. AA, extra oz.14 
A lab am a b ro w n —   7 
¡A labam a  p la id .......7
J e w e l l   briwn..........  954 Augusta plaid........ 7
Kentucky  brown.. 1054 Toledo plaid........  *
Lewiston  brown...  954 Manchester  plaid..  7
Lane brown...........   954 New  T enn.plaid... 11
Louisiana  p la id ...  7  I Utility plaid............654
Greene, G.  4-4........   554
Avondale,  36..........  854
Hill, 4-4......................754
A rt  cam b rics, 36.. .1154 
Hill, 7-8......................636
A ndroscoggin, 4-4. .854 
Hope,  4-4.................. 63£
A ndroscoggin, 5-4. .1254
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 4-4...............  654
bric, 4-4.................1154
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Linwood,  4-4............754
Boott, 0.4-4..............854
Lonsdale,  4-4............734
Boott, E. 5-6—
Boott; AGC, 4-4.......  954  Lonsdale  cambric. 1054
Boott, R. 3-4..........  554 Langdon, GB, 4-4...  »54
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  7  ¡Langdon.  4a..........14
Chapman,X,4-4....  6  (Matonville,  4-4.......8
Conway,  4-4........... 7  Maxwell.4-4  . ..... .  954
Cabot, 4-4................   634lNew York Mill, 4-4.1054
Cabot,7-8................   6  ¡New Jersey,  4 4 ....  8
Canoe  34..............   4  Pocasset,  P. M. C..  754
Domestic,  36.........   754 Pride of the W est.. 11
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9  Pocahontas,  4 4 ....  ¿54
Davol  44  .............   9  Slaterville, 7-8........... 654
Fruit of Loom, 44..  8541Victoria, A A ......... ®
F ruitof Loom,7-8..  7k W oodbury,44......  636
Fruit of  the  Loom, 
(Whitinsville,  4 4 ...  754
cambric.  44 ....... 11  Whitinsville, i-8—   654
Gold Medal, 44..  ..  634  Wamsutta, 4 4 ..... 1054
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6  Williams ville,  06.. .1054
Gilded Age.............   8341
Crown  ....................U  (Masonville TS.........  8
No 
io!...................1254  Masonville  S............1054
Coin 
..................I®  Lonsdale................... 954
A nchor.....................15  Lonsdale A ...............16
Centennial............................  
B lackburn.............................  8 
Davol......................î^,/lir]cî ory  5 ...............  (m/
London...................H^lXl.ctory  Ç ............... ioi/
Paconia....................12  Phoenix A .................1954
Red  Cross................ 10  Phœnix  B ............... 1054
Social  Im perial... .16  IPhoenix X X ............a
Albion, solid........... 554 ¡Gloucester.......... ,-•••*$
Albion,  grey.............«  Gloucestermourn g.554
Allen’s  checks........5541Hamilton  fa n cy ....554
Ailen’s  fancy..........5541Hartel fancy............ 554
Allen’s pink.............55fc Merrimac D.............. 554
Allen’s purple..........554 M aneheater............. ■* • -
Am erican,fancy....554¡Oriental fancy........554
Arnold fancy............ «  ¡Oriental  robes..........654
Berlin solid.............5  Pacific  robes.............6
Cocheco fancy........5  ¡Richmond.................«
Cocheco robes..........654 Steel  River................5/4
Conestoga fancy— 6  Simpson s ...............6
Eddy sto n e ...............6  W ashington fancy.. 6
Eagle fancy............. 5  Washington  blues.  7
Garner pink.............5541
Appleton  A, 4 4 ....  654¡Indian Orchard,40.  8
Boott  M, 4-4........... 63i|Indian Orchard, 36.  754
Boston  F. 44..........  756 Laconia  B, 74.........1654
Continental C, 4-3..  654 Lyman B, 40-in....... 1054
Continental D, 40in 8VMass. B U .44.........  536
Conestoga W ,44...  654 Nashua  E,40-in....  854 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  554 Nashua  R, 44.. 
136
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  6  NashuaO, »-8...
Dwight  X ,3 4 ........  55*¡Newmarket N
Dwight Y, 7-8..........5341 Pepperell E, 39-i
Dwight Z, 44..........  636 ¡Pepperell
Dwight Star, 4-4....  7  Pepperell  O,  .-8
Dwight
Pepperell N, 34. 
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Pocasset  C, 44..
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Saranac  R ..........
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Saranac  E ..........
Farmers’ A, 44.......6
Indian  Orchard  14 7541
Amoskeag  —
Amoskeag, Persian l
styles....................
B ates.......................
B erkshire.............   1
Glasgow checks....
Glasgow checks, t y 
checks,
Glasgow 
royal  styles........
Gloucester, 
new
standard  .............
P lu n k et..................
L ancaster...............
styles  .......>........ 1254
Langdale.................
Androscoggin, 74..21  IPepperell.  104...... 2754
Androscoggin, 84. .23  Pepperell,  114.......£54
Pepperell,  74........30  Pequot,  74.............. ¿1
Pepperell,  84........2354 Pequot,  84.............. 24
Pepperell,  94 ........35  ¡Pequot,  94...............3754

7541 Renfrew, dress styl 9 
354 Johnson  ManfgCo,
Bookfold..............1214
754IJohnson  ManfgCo,
654!  dress  styles....... 1254
7  ¡Slaterville,  dress
styles.....................754
754 
White Mfg Co, stap 7
| White Mfg Co, fane  8 
8 
(White  Mani’g  Co,
7541  Earlston.................854
754 ¡Gordon....................7
8  Greylock, 

W ID E BLEACHED COTTONS.

f i n e   b b o w n   c o t t o n s .

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM

PRINTS.

dress

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

 

 

T IC K IN G S.

m ............

| Wachusett,  44 

Atlantic  A, 44.......7»4¡Lawrence XX, 44..  7
Atlantic  H, 44.......7  Lawrence  Y ,30....  7
Atlantic  D, 44.......656 Lawrence LL, 4-4. ‘'  «if
Atlantic P ,44........  556¡Newmarket N ......  65*
Atlantic  LL, 44 ....  5  ¡Mystic River, 4 4...  554
Adriatic, 36............. IH S???0 
Augusta, 44........... H^jPiedinont, Jo..............054
Boott  M, 44............  ®36 ¡Stark
Boott FF, 44..........  734jTreinont CC, 44—   554
Graniteville, 44—   536 ¡Utica,  4-4-- • y •.......
Indian  Head, 44.. .  7 
...  .54 
In d ia n a  Head 45-in. 1254 ¡Wachusett,  30-m...  636 
Amoskeag,  ACA. ..1254|Fal}s,XXXX..........1854
Amoskeag 
“ 44..19  Falls, XXX............1554
Amoskeag,  A .......-J’- 
I*!!8’  Hun'-i«.......iau
Amoskeag,  B ........ 1154 Falls,  BBC, 36......... 1954
Amoskeag,  C........ 11  FaUs  awning.. 
.. 19
Amoskeag,  D ....... 1054¡Hamilton,  BT. 32.. 12
Amoskeag,  E ........ 10  ¡garni ton,  D...........954
Amoskeag, F ..........  954 garni ton,  H ....  - •  »54
Premium  A ,4-4— 17  Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  B........... 16  Methuen AA  ........1-
Extra 44 .................. 16  MethuenASA.......1654
E x tra7-8..................145410mega A, 7-8...........11
Gold Medal 44........15  ¡Omega A. 44 .......1 »
PCA 7-8 
............. 1254 Omega ACA, 7-8— 14
prji a_a 
"...............14  Omega ACA, 44— 16
RC 7-8 
D  Omega SE, 7-8.......24
BF7-8. . .................... 18  Omega SE, 44.......37
Omega M. 7-8
A F44.......................1»
¡Omega M, 44.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32.......14
Shetueket SS&SSW 1154 
Cordis  ACA, 33....... 15
Shetueket, S & SW .12 
Cordis No. 1, 32....... 15
Shetueket,  SFS  ...12
Cordis  No. 2............ 14
.........  Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3............ 13
Cordis No. 4........... 11541 Stockbridge  frncy.  8
G arner....................5  ¡Empire^...................
Hookset...................  5  W ashington...........  436
Red  Cross...............   5  Edwards.................   »
Forest Grove.......... 
|S. S. & Sons............  o
American  A ..........18 OOiOld  Ironsides........la
Stark A 
................22561W heatland.............. -1
Boston ....................  »46¡Otis ¡£C...................1046
Everett  blue..........1 »4 ¡Warren  AX A ......... 1354
Everett  brown.......1354 Warren  BB.............1154
Otis  AX A ...............1254 Warren CC.............. 1054
Otis BB................... 1154¡York  iancy.............1354
Manville..................« 
Masgnville............. 8 
Red  Cross................  754¡Thistle Mills..........
B erlin.......................  7541 Rose.......................   »
G arn er.....................  7541
Brooks...................50  ¡Eagle  and  Phoenix
Clark’s O. N. F ......55  Mills ball sewing.*)
J. a P .  Coats.........55  Greeh  &  Daniels...35
Willimantic 6 cord.55  M erricks................ 40
Willimantio3 cord.40  Stafford  ..................35
Charleston ball sew 
Hall ft Maiming— 3o 
ingthread........... 30  ¡Holyoke.................. 35

|S. S. & Sons................. «
|G arner........................8

GDAZED CAMBRICS.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

SPOOD COTTON.

GRAIN BAGS.

WIGANS.

d e n i m s .

CORSET JEANS.

A rm ory..................  656|K e a rsag e ...........  754
Androscoggin sat..  754 Naumkeagsatteen,  754
Canoe River............8  Pepperell  bleached  754
Clarendon...............654 Pepperell sa t............854
Hallowell  Im p.......6M Rockport. 
..............654
Ind.Orch. Im p.......  654 ¡Lawrence sat.......... 754
Laconia..................  754 IConegosat.................854

COAL AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
1  00 
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl..................
85 
Ohio White Lime, car lots..................
1 30 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl................
1 30 
Akron Cement per  Dbl.......................
1 30 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl...................
.1 05@1  10
Car lots
Plastering hair, per bu .........................  25®  30
Stucco, per b b l .^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ W
......................................  
I   76
Land plaster, per to n ............................ 
g w
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
»ou
Fire bnok, per  M.................................. *-5 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
® w
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots..*5 75®6 00 
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots..  6 00®6 So
Canned,  oar lo ts ..^ ............................ 
00
Ohio Lump, ear lots..................
BJossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50®5 00 
Portland Cement............. ..................  * 50©4 00

T.OI. h h l 

COAL.

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ADAMS  <&  OO.'S  PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
ENGINES

dark  aro m atic

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

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G rand r ia p id s .
Mieli.
See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

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

3  Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

APPLES!

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

EARL  BROS.,  Commission  Merchants,

Reference—First National Bank.

157  S.  WATER  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL

STEELE  A   CO,

»9

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   ologant  and.  c o r ­
rect  m ap  o f  tlie  State  w itli ev ery  
b O z .

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.
STDDIjD  tfc  OO.,  IONIA.  MX  H

RINDGE, BERTSOH & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

A2TD

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.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN, SOMETHING N EW
MENTHOL INHALER

O uslim an’s

S M B :

JEW

■ ' 

44  CANAL  STREET,

■  1. ^  

Designed Expressly for Inhaling Menthol.
A superior Remedy for the immediate relief 
I  of  Neuralgia,  Headache, Cararrh, Hay Fever, 
“*»  V»  |  Asthma,  Bronchitus,  Soro  Throat,  Earache,
j  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 to HAZELTINE, 
|  PER K IN S  &  CO.,  W holesale  Druggists, 
i G rand  Rapids,  Mich.
____  __  I  Ask their traveler to show you one  the  next

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN. 1 time he calls.

g*«! tfjue'

W ,  C,  D en iso n ,

88,90 and  92  South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

TIME TABLES.

Miohigan  Central.

DEPART.

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

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

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

J.T. Sc h u lt z, Gen’l Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
»Mail......................................9:15 am
+Day  Express.....................   1:00 pm
»Night  Express...................10:40 p m
Muskegon Express.............   4:15 p m

Arrives, 
4:25 p m 
9:15 p m 
5:45 a in 
11:15 a m
»Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge to Chicago oil 
1:00 p. m., and through coach  on9:15a.  m. and 
10:40 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

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

J . H. Ca r p e n t e r .  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J .  B.  Mu l l ik e n ,  G en eral  M anager.
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  DIVISION.)
Arrive. 
Express...............................7:15 p m 
Mail.......................................9:50 a m  

Leave.
7:30 a m
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 oneliourfor dinner)with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
67 Monre street and depot.

Through  tickets  and  berths 

J. W. M c K e n n e y , Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST.

GOING W EST.

Leaves.
Arrives. 
tSteamboat  Express.......... 
6:25 am
tThrough  Mail..................... 10:10 a m  
tEvening  Express................ 3:20 p m  3:35 p m
•Limited  Express................  8:30 p m  10:45 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........  
10:30 a m
tMorning  Express..............   1:05 p m  
tThrough  Mail..................  5:10 pm  
tSteamboat Express.......... 10:40 p m
tM ixed............................................. 
»Night Express....................  5:10 am   5:20 am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
The Night  Express  has  a  through  Wagner 
Car and  local  Sleeping  Car Detroit  to Grand 
Rapids.

D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent.
G e o . B.  R e e v e , Traffic Manager, Chicago.

10:20 am

1:10 p m
5:15 pm

7:10 am

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac E x.  9:30 am  
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac  Ex  4:10 p m 
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.

Arrives.  Leaves.
11:30 a m 
5:00 p m 
7:00 a m

GOING  SOUTH.

G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  5:00 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Wayi> e E x.. 10:30 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac. 11:30 p m

All trains daily except Sunday.

7:15 a m 
5:30 p m 
11:45 p m

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 andChairCar for Mackinaw 
City.
South—Train leaving at 5:30 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lo ck w o o d, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit,  Maokin&o  <& Marquette.

Trains connect with G. R. & I.  trains  for  St, 
Ignace, Marquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leaving Grand Rapids at 5:00 p. in., arriving at 
Marquette at 1:85 p. m. and 6 :lu p. m.  Returning 
leave  Marquette  at 7:30 a.  m.  and 2:00 p.  m., 
arriving  a t Grand  Rapids  at 10:30 a.  m.  Con­
nection made at Marquette with theM arquette, 
Houghton  and  Ontonagon  Railroad  for  the 
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.
Gen’l Pass. & Tkt. Agt.,  Marquette, Mich.

E.  W.  ALLEN.

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  L ast Resort.

ATTACKS!I'.NT-----FRAUDULENT 

CONVEY­

ANCE.

According to the decision of  the Supreme 
Court  of  New  Hampshire,  as  general  at­
tachment of  all  a  debtor’s  interest  in  real 
estate in a town does not hold land  fraudu­
lently conveyed  by the  debtor in  a deed re­
corded before  the attachment  and conveyed 
by his fraudulent  grantee  after the  attach­
ment to an innocent purchaser for value.

STATUTE  OF  LIMITATIONS— PROMISSORY 

NOTE.

When  a  certain  promissory  note  was 
made in Jmiuary,  1872, the  time of  limita­
tion of an action in such a  case was sixteen 
years,  under an act of  the  Illinois Legisla­
ture of 1849.  By  an  act  passed  in April, 
1872,  the time of limitations of such actions 
was made ten years.  The later act express­
ly repealed the earlier  one, providing,  how­
ever,  that  the  later  statute  should  not  be 
construed so as to  affect any  rights or  lia­
bilities or any  causes of  action  that  might 
have accrued before it took effect.  The Su­
preme Court of Illinois  held  that the  latter 
statute did not  apply to  the  note  in  ques­
tion, but that  the same was  subject to  the 
rule of  limitation  laid  down  in the  earlier 
lawr.
■CONTRACT  OF  SAX E— FAILURE  TO  DELIV­

ER.

The case of Norrington  et  al.  vs.  Wright 
et aL, decided  by the Supreme Court of the 
United States, arose upon a contract to pur­
chase 5,000 tons of iron rails to be delivered 
at  the  rate of  about 1,000  tons per month. 
The deliveries in some months were greatly 
below  and  in  others  greatly  in  excess of 
1,000 tons,  in consequence of  which the de­
fendants  declined  to  accept  certain of the 
shipments.  Judgment given for the  defen­
dants in the United States Circuit  Conrt for 
the Eastern  District  of  Pennsylvania  was 
affirmed by the Supreme Court, which  held 
that the plaintiff’s failure to make such ship­
ments  as  the  contract  required  precluded 
them from maintaining the action.

NOTE INDORED IN BLANK— UNAUTHORIZED 

INSERTION.

While, generally speaking,  one who signs 
and delivers a note in blank will  be deemed 
to have authorized  the  party «to  whom de­
livered to fill in  the  blanks  in  respects  es­
sential to the completeness  of the  note as a 
note,  such  as  the  date,  the  amount,  the 
name of the  payee,  and  the  place  of  pay­
ment,  yet this does not authorize the holder 
to crowd into the  body of  the  note a stipu­
lation in no manner  essential to the note as 
a  completed  instrument.  So  held  by  the 
New York Court of Appeals  in the  case of 
Myerhauser vs.  Dun. 
In this case the court 
held that the idsertion of a clause providing 
that the note  would  bear  after  maturity  a 
greater rate of  interest  than the rate allow­
ed by law  was  unauthorized,  and that such 
an unauthorized  insertion  would release an 
accommodation  indorser  from  liability  on 
such a note.
MATERIAL  PROVISION— PLACE  OF  SHIP­

MENT.

A contract was made  for the  purchase of 
500 tons of pig iron,  “at  §26  per  t< n cash, 
in bond at New Orleans  for  shipment from 
Glasgow as  soon  as  possible,  delivery  and 
sale subject to ocean risks.”  The  iron was 
shipped from Lieth instead of Glasgow, and 
the purchaser refused  to  receive it.  Upon 
suit brought the United States Circuit Court 
for the Eastern District of Missouri held that 
the provision of the  contract  that iron  was 
to be shipped  from  Glasgow was not a ma­
terial provision of the contract  so far as the 
suit was concerned.  The Supreme Court of 
the  United  States,  however,  reversed  the 
judgment of the Circuit Court,  holding  that 
it had neither the means nor the right to de­
termine why the parties to the contract spec­
ified “shipment  from  Glasgow,”  but  was 
bound to give effect to  the  terms which the 
parties had chosen for themselves.

INSOLVENT  DEBTOR— PREFERENCE.
According to the decision of  the Supreme 
Court of Illinois,  in  the  case  of  Hanchett 
vs.  Kimbark etal.,  an  insolvent debtor may 
prefer one  creditor  and  pay  him  in  full, 
though it exhausts all his  meaus and leaves 
him  nothing  with  which to pay his  other 
creditors,  who arc. equally meritorious; and 
a creditor may use whatever persuasive abil­
ities he may possess to  induce his debtor to 
turn over his  property to pay him in full in 
preference  to  all  others;  and  though  they 
may receive  nothing,  the  conduct  of  such 
creditor in so doing does  not  render  him in 
law,  whatever the  moral  aspect  may  be, a 
mala fide purchaser, and  by reason thereof, 
chargable with notice  of  any  defect  in the 
debtor’s title to the property,  or of any fraud 
in his purchase of the  same,  and  this is the 
law  whether  the  creditor  purchases  the 
goods in  absolute  payment  of  his  debt, or 
obtains a transfer and  delivery of them into 
his possession as security  for  its  payment, 
and agrees to account  to  his debtor for any 
overplus after his debt is  paid.

A Philadelphia  paper  says  a  pound  of 
feathers is as  heavy  as  a  pound  of  lead. 
That depends. 
If a pound of feathers were 
to fall from a third-story window and alight 
on a man’s head,  and  five  minutes  later a 
pound of lead were to fall the same distance 
from above and strike him on the same spot, 
he would be  willing  to  swear that the lead 
weighed a ton more than the feathers.

OY STERS I 

E&tiOD  &   Christenson FiDe G,lt 
I 

Are now in the market with 

their Famous

BIG  GUN
OYSTERS.

CANNED  XN  BALTIMORE B Y

W .  R. BARITES  CO.
F.  J.  LAMB  &  CO.,
Diamond Brand Fresh Oysters

D. D. Mallory & Co.

WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR  THE

In Cans or Bulk.  Write for Quotations.

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

The "Well-Known

J. S. Farren & Co.
O Y S T E R S

ARE  THE  BEST  IN  MARKET.

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS

WHOLESALE  AGENTS.

16306133

" 

“I. IC,” Best 10c Cigar in Ugai.
,lest 5c Cigar Micligai
CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
COMING  to  GRAND  RAPIDS

SOLE  AGENTS.

J C N

CAR  LOADS!

0.  W.  Archer’s  Trophy  Core,
0. W. Archer’s Morning Glory Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Early GeUen Drop Corn

EVERY  CAN  BEARING  SIGNATURE  OF

The  Archer  Packing  Co.

n T T T T . T . T n r v i » w m T  t t . t

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P R M J tlT .
F.  J.  DETTENTHALEB, J(*lw of  OostK

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(Groceries.

JACOB  EINESTEIN.

He Paj'S His  Compliments  to the Travel­

ing  Fraternity.

Editer Dradesman:

D e a k Sir—Effery day since der reunions 
I make up my mind dot  I  would  write mit 
you und dold  you  all  aboudt it, but to  told 
you der dzuth* I  haf been  awful  seeck  like 
neffer vas.

According mit  mine  agreement  mit  der 
Schteve Sears,  he  meeds me  by der  depot 
mit a  two  horse  buggy vagen,  unt I  goes 
mit him  by der  hotel  of  Mr.  Sweet.  Und 
by der ghost  von mein  granfadder’s pipe,  I 
had schoost so nice a time  as  I  effer  could 
haf mit Kaiser Wilhelm.  Some  how or an- 
nudder I schoost lofe der Schteve Sears like 
a brudder.  To told  you  der honest  druth, 
Schteve he keept his wort aboudt  filling me 
up mit beer. 
I vas so chuck  full  von  beer 
dot  I  forgots  me  mine  own  name,  and 
thought I was Bismark,  Joe Reed, or  some 
odder greadt  man.  Of  course,  1  knowd it 
all der dime dot I  vas  a  great  distinguish 
man, but all der dimes forgets  who I vas.

When I goes mit Grand  Rapids again mit 
some of  dose  reunions,  I  dakes  mine  frau 
mit me to help me oudt.  Den I don’t get so 
full  I  can’t  see  der  processions.  Effery 
dime when I puys  my  crackers unt  cheese 
after dis  you  can  be  schoore  dot  Schteve 
gets dem orders.

You can dold Cliim Prad dot venhe comes 
again up, if it  makes  nottings difference to 
him, he can pring dem bost office bapers mit 
him.

Some dings  aboudt  dot  drug  store pusi- 
ness gets me oxcited.  Yen I vas  by Grand 
Rapids I puys me a schmall stock of  drugs, 
von leedle Ilank Fairchild to go in mit mine 
groceries; unt now olt Schleberholtz told me 
as 1 must get a  schertificate  baper  von  der 
Schtate or I vas  soon  arrested.  All I puys 
was schoost  a  leedle  whisky  und  quinine 
unt I can’t tell me  how  I  shall  make any 
mistake and pisen  some  one  mit dot.  Der 
is alltogedder too much Yankee  humbug in 
dese country.  Effery  body he  vants a law 
to brotect himself  unt  beat  somepody else.
A  nice ting dot voidd be  auf a man gets der 
gramps unt  vants a  leedle  schnapps  und 
bebbermint.  You  moost  get a schertificate! 
to sell  him  der  medicine  vat  keeps  him 
from going deadt.

John Mackendire sends  me  a bostal  cart 
dot he call on me mit a full line von sambles 
in a few days.  Ouf he  coomes,  I hopes he 
don’t bring his appedite mit him.

Arter Meigs he haf  got up a new  schnap 
for to advertise Red Fox,  so he knock down 
der brice vot flower unt pimeby der  farmers 
gets only fifty cents a bushel for dere wheat 
und dot makes  dull  dimes  in  der  gundry; 
but he need not think he can buck dose mil­
lers down.  Dey  vas  to  scharpe  vor  him. 
Schoost  look  py  dot  Rowe.  Two  or  tree 
years ago he vas bookkeeper.  Now lie rides 
in his own buggy vagen.

Chorge Owen he  writes  me a  ledder dot 
mine tog Pen Putler gets der plue ribbon by 
der schtate fair. 
I don’t see any money von 
dose dransaxiuns, unt I vish  he  vould send 
him home.

Kindly menshun der fackt in your baper der 
Yalter Blow Horn don’t  brought back mine 
fish pole yet.  Ouf I got a  memory like dot 
feller,  I could blenty money make.

A chentleman draffling  man  by der name 
von Hi Robinson sendt  me  a brospectus by 
der  Knights von  Pytlieras und  vants me to 
send in my name  to  be  a  member  of dot 
scosiety.  You schoost told him  NO in ital- 
licks. 
I got  me  blenty  von  dem  scosiety 
ven I vas mit dem  Sons von  Malta  in Mil­
waukee.  Got no use for  dese  tings  in my 
peesiness.  Ouf he  vould excuse  me,  I vas 
blenty happy.

Sometime last week  Dick Mangold,  Ogle I 
unt Cass Pradford vas by mine  schtore  ven 
I vas avay.  Dick unt Ogle dey vant to rent 
part von mine  schtore for a millinery shop. 
Schoost preak  dot  news  schently  to  dem, 
dot I vould rather haf a hornets  nest  in the 
bosom of mine bantaloons than such a pees­
iness in mine grocery store.  Und you might 
menshun der fackt to Prad dot he don’t need 
to lief no more demperance  tracks on  mine 
gowuters. 
It interferences  mit  mine  drug 
drade.

Should you see dot leedle Baker vot  sells
for Foster,  Stevens & Co.,  vot got so mooch 
interest by Traverse  City, ouf  he  come up 
here I puys  from him  a  pig order for  cash 
mit dem discounts.

Yours druly,

J ake Einestein.

The First Carload of  Saurkrout.

Ludwig Wintemitz,  the  well-known vin­
egar and yeast jobber, has ordered a carload 
of  saurkrout,- which  will  not  only  be  the 
first of the season, but will  be  the first full 
carload of krout ever brought to Grand Rap­
ids.  Mr. Wituemitz has bought the krout at 
a low figure, and is  prepared to  furnish the 
retail  trade—no  consumers  need  apply— 
the best  article  for  the  money  ever  offer­
ed  at  this  market.  Prices  quoted  to  the 
country trade  on  application.  Address  L. 
Wintemitz, Arcade, Grand Rapids.

Durability of  Woods.

In some tests made with small squares  of 
various woods buried au inch  in the ground, 
the  followjK  results  were  noted:  Birch 
and  asp e iJP c ay e d   in  three  years; willow 
and horse chestnut in four years;  maple and 
red beech in five years; elm,  ash,  hornbeam 
and  Lombardy poplar in  seven  years; oak, 
Scotch fir,  Weymouth pine and silver fir de­
cayed to a.depth of half  an  inch  in  seven 
years;  larch,  juniper  and  arbor-vit»  were 
uninjured  at  the  expiration  of the  seven 
y m n .

o. w. blain & go., Produce Comission Merchants,
Foreip ami Domestic Fruits, Southern  M etals, Etc.

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

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  A 
pondence solicited.  APPLES  AND  POTA TOES

All orders filled at lowest m arket price.  Corres- 
S  in car lots  Specialties. 
NO.  9  IO N IA   ST.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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97  and 99  Canal Street, 

CORRESPONDENCi:  SOLICITED.

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

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

Wholesale  k  Coimission—Butter  k Bgu a
ELASTIC  STARCH
IT  REQUIRES  NO  COOKING.

CLARK, JEWELL & 00,

SOLE  .A-OEIsTTS,

mes.

CHARGING  FOR  CARTAGE.

Grocers’ Association of the Ciiy of Muskegon.

A Custom Discarded Two Years Ago to be 

Revived.

%  The following circular letter has been sent 
to every patron of  this  market  during  the 
past week:

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,  Berkley  &*Lemon,
Fox, Musselman  &  Loveiiidge, 
Arthur  Meigs  &  Co.,
Hawkins  &  Perry,
Clark,  J ewell  &  Co.,  p 
Cody,  Bali.  &  Co.,
J ohn  Caulfield,
Grand  Rapids  Packing  Co., 
Curtiss,  Dunton  &  Co.,
Eaton &  Christenson,
Spring  &  Company,
II.  Leonard  &  Sons,
The  Gunn  Hardware  Co.,
Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.,
Putnam  &  Brooks,
Bunting  &  Shedd,
Moseley  Bros.,
Telfer  &  Brooks,
M.  C.  Russell,
Ira  O.  Green,
W est  Mich ig a n  Oil  Co.,
F.  J.  L am b  &  Co.

J.  C. Bonnell,  Pres.

A jobber who has been  prominent  in  se­
curing the adoption of the  cartage  question 
by the Grand Rapids  jobbers  advances  the 
following  reasons for  his  action: 
In  the 
first  place,  jobbers  are  compelled  to  pay 
cartage on almost  every  article  purchased. 
Grand Rapids jobbers have  to  pay  just  as 
much for their goods as Chicago  or  Detroit 
wholesalers do, and through legitimate com­
petition the former have  to  sell  as  low  as 
competing  markets. 
Inasmuch  as  Grand 
Rapids stands ready to  meet  the  prices  of 
other markets, there is  no  reason  why she 
should not share the  same  advantages pos­
sessed  by  her  competitors.  Chicago,  De­
troit  and  Toledo  all insist upon exchange, 
which Grand Rapids does  not.  But  in  the 
matter of cartage,  there  seems to be no rea­
son why we should not stand witli our ri\ als. 
I think when the retail trade  come  to  con­
sider the matter in all its bearings, they will 
decide that it is no more than  fair  that  we 
should  nave  the  small  amount our  agree­
ment calls for.”

But  one  dissenting  voice to the jobbers’ 
agreement  has  yet  reached The Trades­
man office. 
It comes  from  Petoskey,  and 
bears the  autograph  of  J.  L.  Alger,  who 
writes as follows:  “I solemnly swear that I 
will  pay  no cartage  for Grand Rapids job 
bers.”

The Grocery Market.

Business and  collections  are  both  fairly 
good.  Sugars are  about  the  same  as  last 
week.  An  advance  of  nearly  two cents 
per gallon on kerosene oil,  is  a  pretty sure 
indication that  the  Standard  Oil  Company 
has at last got  the  oil  business  in  its  own 
hands.  Other articles  in  the  grocery  line 
are about steady.

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade sellini
prices as follows:
..  5  @  634
Fresh  Beef, sides..................
..  6  @634
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..
..  5  @  534 
Dressed  Hogs.........................
..  434@  5 
Mutton,  earcasses................
..  8  @9 
Veal.........................................
..  7  @ 8 
Pork Sausage........................
..  7  @ 8 
Bologna..................................
..  9  @10 
Fowls.....................................
..10  @11 
Spring Chickens..................
..  @13
Ducks  ..................................
..  @11
Turkeys  ...............................

O F FIC ER S .

_  _   „ 

President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Win. B. Keift.
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.  Towl  and 
. m i
E.  Johnson. 
Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—O.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman.  Garrit 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  D. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeanuot,  R.  S.  Miner  1 
Vincent.
and A. Towl. 
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
evenings  of each month.

Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
Transportation Committee—Wm. B, K ent, An­
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, Nov. 18.

... 

„  

.

Proceedings  of  the  M eeting  of  the  A sso­

ciation.

Muskegon, Nov.  11,  1885.

The meeting was called to order by  Pres. 
H.  B.  Fargo.  The  roll  call  of  officers 
showed all present but Garrit Wagner.
The  report  of  the  committee  on  rooms 
and library  was  read,  and  the  committee 
wa3 instructed to make arrangement to rent 
the rooms  in  the  southeast  comer  of  the 
Good Templars’ hall,  at a  rental  of  $1  per 
meeting, the hall to be well  lighted,  heated 
and use of janitor included. 
It  was  moved 
and supported that the  secretary inquire as 
to the different localities  in  which  market 
places  are  maintained  and  the  rules  and 
regulations governing  same.  The  motion 
was carried.
It was moved and supported  that the sec­
retary procure some  plan  of  collecting  ac 
counts against debtors for use of  the  mem 
bers of the organization,  to  be  acted  upon 
at our next regular meeting.  Carried.  1 he 
Association  then  adjourned,  to  meet  one 
week from date at 7:30 o’clock.

Wm. Peer,  Secretary

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:

P O R K   IN   BA RRELS.

m 

____ ____ ______ _  ^ 

Mess, Chicago packing, new.........................11 00
.10 00
Mess, Chicago  packing..
.1150
Clear, short pork, Chicago  packing 
Back,*ciear shortcut, Chicago  packing... 12 00
Extra family clear, short c u t.....................ll  w
Clear. A. Webster  packer, new..................
A. Webster packer, short cu t.....................l-J
E xtra pig, short c u t........................
E xtra  clear, heavy..........................
Clear back, short c u t........................

..11  75 
.12  00 
13  50

I  HriM

DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy.................................
medium.............................. 
lig h t..................................  
Short Clears, heavy.................................
medium.............................
light....................................

.* 
44 
do. 
do. 
SMOKED MEATS— CANVASSED  O R  PL A IN .

®
®

Hams, heavy.....................................................j|L
•4  medium................ ............................... fx?7
lig h t.......................................................W34
44 

Boneless  Ham s................................................ “
Boneless Shoulders.........................................  ”
Breakfast  Bacon............................................  **
Dried Beef, extra quality.............................   »
Dried Beef, Ham pieces.................................R|
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle..................6
Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 ft T ubs...................................... 
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases.....................

LARD.

,1..
•»

* “
9 50 
13  50

LARD IN  T IN   P A IL S .

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks..................
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  ease..............................
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case.................................
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case , . . . , ...................... 

B E E F IN   BA RRELS.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts.... 
Boneless,  e x tra .......................................
SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED,
Pork  Sausage...........................................
Ham  Sausage...........................................
Tongue  Sausage........... ........ ................
Frankfort  Sausage.................................
Blood  Sausage.........................................
Bologna, straight....................................
Bologna,  thick.........................................
Head  Cheese.........., ................................

P IG S ’  FEET.

In half barrels.........................................
In quarter barrels..................................

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.

WHOLBSALB  FBI0B  CURRENT.

'  

4 
“ 

BROOMS.

BLU IN G . 

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

CANNED  F IS H .

AX LE  GREASE.

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.
Frazer’s 
90|Paragon.................1 80
Diamond  X ...........   80 Paragan25ft pails.l 00
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50|Fraziers,25 lb pails.l  2o
Arctic % ft cans....  45| Arctic  1 ft cans. ...2 40 
Arctic M ft cans....  T5i Arctic 5ft cans  . ..12 00 
Arctic Yt ft cans.  .  1 401 Silver Spoon.3 doz.7 50 
n.
Dry, No. 2........................................... doz
45 
Dry, No. ............................................doz
35
Liquid, 4 .............................................doz.
doz. 
65
Liquid, 8 oz.........................
.......gross  4  00
Arctic 4 oz..........................
..........   8 00
Arctic 8  oz........................
...........   12 00
Arctic 16 oz........................
................................2  00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box..
.................3  00
“
Arctic No. 2 
!........................4 00
Arctic No. 3 
44
No.  2  H url............... 175
No. 1 Carpet............2 50
Fancy  Whisk...........100
No. 2 Carpet............2 25
75
Common Whisk. 
”
No. 1  Parlor Gem..2  .5
No. 1 H url...............2 00
Clams, 1 ft  standards.................................... J J®
Clams, 2ft  standards.................................... i  '
.2  00
Clam Chowder,  3 ft
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards..................... 1  15
Cove Oysters, 2 ft  standards....................  1  «0
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic......................................*  ™00 
Lobsters, 1 ft sta r..
..2 90 
Lobsters, 2 ft sta r........... • • • • .........
..1  10 
Mackerel, 1 ft  fresh  standards....
. .3 50 
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards....
..5 25 
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t...
..5 25 
Mackerel,3 ft in M ustard...............
..3 25 
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled.....................
..1 55 
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river..........
..2 30
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river..........
Salmon, l f t   Sacramento............................
Sardines, domestic 548.................................
Sardines,  domestic  Vis.............................   15®lo
Sardines,  Mustard  &s.................................  "
Sardines,  imported  148...............................   "
Trout. 3 ft  brook..............................  —   4 &u
Apples, 3 ft standards .................................  
-W
Apples, gallons,  standards.........................- 4U
Blackberries, standards.............
....  80 
Cherries,  red  standard...............
....1  00 
Damsons................   ....................
....1   40 
Egg Plums, standards 
.............
....1  40 
Green  Gages, standards 2 ft.......
....2  40 
Peaches, Extra Yellow...............
75@1  95
Peaches, standards.....................
...........................1 50
Peaches,  seconds.........................
......................I 75
Pineapples,  Erie..........................
....................150
Pineapples, standards................
.......................145
Q uinces.........................................
............................1  10
Raspberries,  extra.......
C A L IF O R N IA .
CANNED  F R U IT S

CANNED  F R U IT S .

Lusk’s.  Mariposa. 
2 00

2 25 
A pricots...................................."7*
Egg Plum s.................................« J«
G rapes........................................-  ™
Green Gages............................. *  ¿0
Pears.......................................... 3 ™
Quinces..................................... -
Peaches..................................... * 00
CANNED VEGETA BLES
Asparagus, Oyster Bay..................
Beans, Lima,  standard..................
Beans, Stringless, E rie...............
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.......................
Tomatoes,  Adrian..........................
Tomatoes, Three Rivers...............
Michigan  full  cream ....................
Half skim.......................................
Skim  — ........
B oston...........
Baker’s ..........
Runkles’ ........
Green Rio—  
Green Ja v a ... 
Green Mocha. 
Roasted Rio.. 
Roasted Java
72 foot J u t e .......1  25
60 foot Ju te .......1  00
40 Foot Cotton— 1 50

CORDAGE.

CH EESE.

CR A CKERS.

XXX 
..........•;*••••
;  5 per ceut. off in 10 barrel lots.
F IS H .
Bloaters, Smoked Yarm outh-----
Cod, whole.....................................
Cod,Boneless..................................
H a lib u t.........................................
Herring 34  bbls................:..........
Herring, Holland, dom estic...  . 
Herring,  Scaled............................
M a c k e r e l, Penny b b l s ........ .......
Mackerel, shore, No. 2,34  bbls.. 
-  
12 ft kits
«« 
10 
No. 3. 34 bbls...............
“ 
12 ft  kits...........
10 
.....................
“  
Shad, 34 b b l..................................
Trout, 34  bbls...............................
12 ft  kits............................
...................
10 
White, No. 1,34 b b ls....................
White, No. 1,12  ft kits.................
White, No. 1,10 ft k its................
White, Family, 34 bbls.................

•• 
.. 
«• 
“ 
“  

“ 
44 

“ 
“ 

44 

•*

44 

@1134 
@1034 
@ 6

CO FFEE.

CHOCOLATE.
..........36IGqrman Sweet...........25
........ 38i Vienna Sweet  ...........23
..........35|
.  9@13  I Roasted  M ar... 17@18 
,17@27  Roasted Mocha.28@30 
.23@25  Roasted M ex...  @16 
I0@15  Ground  Rio—   9@16 
,23@30  I Package  Goods  @1334 

72 foot Cotton —  2 25 
60 foot Cotton— 2  00 
50 foot Cotton —  1  75

__ 85@90
----@5
. .534@634 
...... 11@12
!."..'!S5@95
...... 18@22
__ 4  75@5
.......5 00
....   80
.......  70
..... 3 50 
.......  62

@2  00 
Parisian, Yt  pints.............
@  75 
Pepper Sauce, red  small. 
90
Pepper Sauce, green
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............   @1  ®
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........  @1  70
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @1  00
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................   @1  30
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, 
pints.........................  @2 20
Ground. 

P epper................16@25!Peppcr..................  @19
Allspice..............12@15 Allspice................  8@10
Cinnamon...........18@30 Cassia....................10@11
,60@65 
.... 16@18

Whole.

SPICES.

,15@25 Nutmegs 
,16@20 Cloves 
,15@30 
,25@35l

SUGARS.

Elastic, 64 packages, per  box....
@ 7X 
Cubes  ............................................
@  7Ji 
Powdered......................................
@ 6% 
Granulated,  Standard................
@6 81 
Granulated,  off............................
@ 6V4 
Confectionery A ..........................
@ 6% 
Standard A ....................................
6%@ 634
No. 1, White Extra  C..................
6  @ 634 
No. 2, Extra C...............................
5%® 6
_   .
No. 3 C............................................  
No.4C.....................................................   5V4@  554
554®  5?
No. 5 C............................. 
 
30@32 
Corn,  Barrels....................................... .
33@35 
Corn, H bbls............................................
@  35 
Corn,  it) gallon kegs...............................
@1 75 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................
@1 60 
Corn, 4V4 gallon kegs.............................
23®  35 
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl
30®  38 
Pure Sugar Drips........................Yt bbl
@1 96 
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs
@  85 
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips..............Yt bbl
@1  85
Pure Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs
Maple, % bbls.........................................  @85
10 gal.  kegs...............................   @90

SY RUPS.

44 

TEA S.

Japan  ordinary.............................................15@20
Japan fair to good........................................25@30
Japan fine...................................................... 35®4a
Japan dust.....................................................}8@30
Young Hyson................................................30@50
GunPowder.................................................. 35® 50
Oolong...................................................  33@55@6C
Congo.............................................................25@30

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

 

PLU G.

Fisher’s B runette... .35|Underwood’s Capper 35 
Dark AmericanEagle671 Sweet  Rose............... 34
.64 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner38
The Meigs.
. .50 A tlas...........................35
Red  Bird..........
,. .60 Royal Game............... 38
State  Seal........
.. .65 Mule E ar.................... 65
Prairie Flower 
.. .60 Fountain.................... 74
Indian Queen.. 
.. .60)Old Congress..............64
Bull  D og...—  
.. .66iGood L uck.................52
Crown  L eaf—
... 65 Blaze Away...............35
Matchless........
... 651 Hair L ifter.................30
H iaw atha........
...70: G overnor.................. 60
Globe  ...............
...701 Fox’s Choice...........   63
May Flower__
.. .451 Medallion.................. 35
H e ro ................
... 49: Sweet Owen............... 66
Old  Abe.
Rum .........................................................
  @48
Money...................................................... 
Red  Fox...................................................  @48
Big Drive.................................................   @50
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @46
D urham ..................... 
@46
P a tro l......................................................  @4»
Jack Rabbit............................................   @46
Snowflake...............................................   @46
Chocolate Cream....................................  @46
Nimrod....................................................   @44
E. C...........................................................  @4°
Spread Eagle...........................................  @38
Big Five Center......................................  @35
Woodcock  ..............................................  @46
Knigntsof  Labor..................................   @46
Railroad...................................................  @46
Big  Bug...................................................
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...............................  @46
Black Bear..............................................  @37
King 
......................................................  @46
Old Five Cent Times..............................  @38
P rune Nuggett, 12 ft..............................  @62
Parrot  ....................................................   @46
Old T im e.................................................   @38
Tramway.................................................   @46
Glory  ......................................................  @46
Silver  Coin..............................................  @46
Buster  [Dark].......................................   @35
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @35
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @35
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @46
Clim ax....................................................   @46
Hold F a s t....................... 
@46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................  @46
Nickle Nuggets 6 and fci ft  cads..........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s ..............................  @37
Nobby Twist...........................................  @46
A corn......................................................  ©46
C rescent.................................................   @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
Spring......................................................  @46
G rayling.................................................   @46
Mackinaw...............................................   @45
Horse Shoe..............................................  @44
Hair Lifter............................................ •  @36
D. and D., black......................................  @36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................  @46
Ace  High, black....................................  @35
Sailors’  Solace........................................  @46

 

 

2c. less in four butt lots.

20

CANDY. FIMMTS AND  NUTS.

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows :

do 
do 

,
9® 9,4

STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes............................ 
.............................  
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
. , ...................1034@D
MIXED
Royal,25ft  pails......................................  @ 9
Royal, 200 ft bbls.........................................J ® 8#
Extra, 25 ft  pails..................................... 10@1034
Extra, 200 ft bbls....................................... 9 @ 934
French Cream, 25 ft pails.........................  @1234
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases...................................1234®
Broken, 25  ft  pails.....................................10@1034
Broken, 200 ft  bbls....................................9@  93*

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

 

Lemon  Drops.............................................12@13
Sour Drops.................................................13® 14
Peppermint  Drops...................................14@I5
Chocolate Drops..............................................15
H M Chocolate  Drops.................................... 20
Gum  Drops  ................ 
10
Licorice Drops................................................. 20
A B   Licorice  Drops........................................12
Lozenges, plain................................................15
Lozenges,  printed................
Im perials............................. .
M ottoes.............................................................10
Cream  B ar................................................ 18® 14
Molasses Bar.....................................................13
Caramels.....................................................18@20
Hand Made Creams......................................... 20
17
Plain  Creams.......................... 
Decorated  Creams.............. :..........................20
String Rock........................ 
 
  14@15
Burnt Almonds................................................22
Wintergreen  Berries...................................... 15

 

 

 

FANCY—IN  BULK.

Lozenges, plain in  pails.......................  @1234
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.........................  @11
Lozenges, printed in pails....................  @1234
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.................... 1134@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails......................1234@13
Gum  Drops  in pails.................................7  @734
Gum Drops, in bbls.................................6® 634
Moss Drops, in  pails.............................10  @1034
Moss Drops, in bbls.........................................  9
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails................................ 1234@13
Imperials  in bbls.................................11  @12

FRUITS.

Bananas  Aspinwall.............................
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.........................  @7 00
Oranges, Florida....................................  @4 50
Oranges, Rodi  Messina........................   @5 50
Oranges,  Naples....................................
Lemons,  choice....................................4 50® 5 00
Lemons, fancy.......................................
Figs, layers, new,  f) ft.........................15  @17
Dates, frails do  ....................................  ©  4
Dates, 34 do  do  ....................................
Dates, skin.  ..........................................
Dates, 34  skin.........................................
Dates, Kurd  10 ft box $   ft.................. 1134@12
Dates, Fard 50 ft box ]9 ft....................1034@H
ft................
Dates. Persian 50 ft box 
Pine Apples, $   doz...............................

PEANUTS.
Primo I.od,  raw $   1b.............
d o .............
Choice
do  .............
Fancy
Choice White. Va .d o ........ .
d o ............. ............. 5K@ 6
Fancy H P ..  Va

........... 4  @ 4V4
........... 4 */i@ 5
...........   @ 5 Mi
.............  
5@ W%

do
do

44 

NUTS.
Almonds,  Tarragona........
Ivaca..................
Brazils.................................
Chestnuts, per b u ...............
Filberts, Sicily__
Walnuts,  Grenoble..

.12
Barcelona...............................11
14
Marbo.....................................
French....................................
California...............................
Pecans,  Texas, H. P .............................11
Missouri................................9
Cocoanuts, T? 100....................................
OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

44 
44 
44 
“ 

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS'.

New  York  Counts....................................
F. J. D. Selects.. 
....................................
Selects.......................................................
F. J. D.........................................................
S tandards............'....................................
F avorites..................................................
Mediums  ..................................................
Prim es.......................................................
Selects, by bulk........................................
Standards, by  bulk..................................
Shrewsbury shells, 
100.......................
Princess  Bay  Clams, ]j) 100....................
New York  Counts, ]j)  100.......................

FR ESH   FISH .
Mackinaw T rout....................... 
..........
W hiteflsh.................................................
Cod  ...........................................................
Sun  Fish...................................................
Rock Bass..’..............................................
Perch  .......................................................
Duuk Bill Pike.........................................
W all-eyed  Pike.......................................
Smoked White Fish.................................
Smoked T rout..........................................
Smoked Sturgeon....................................

@19 
@18 
@10 
@3 00 
@1214 
@13 
@14V4

@12 @13 
@   10 
@4 50

....1  40

.12

SMOKING

Old T ar.......................40i Sweet Lotus................32
Arthur's  Choice...... 22 Conqueror..................23
Red Fox.....................26 G rayling..................... 33
F lirt........................... 28 Seal Skin.....................30
Gold D ust................. 26 Rob Roy.......................26
Gold  Block................30 Uncle  bam..................28
Seal of Grand Rapids  ¡Lumberman............. 25
(cloth)................. 25 Railroad Boy...............38
Tramway. 3 oz.........40 Mountain Rose............18
ltuby, cut Cavendish 35 Home Comfort.......... 25
Boss  .......................... 15 Old Rip........................55
Peck’s Sun............... 18 Seal or North Caro-
Miners and Puddlers.28|  Lina, 2  oz................ 48
Morning  Dew........... 25 Seal of North  Caro-
Chain..........................22 
lina, 4oz...................46
Peerless  ................... 24 Seal of North  Caro-
lina, 8 oz...................41
Standard ....................221 
Old Tom.....................21 Seal of North  Caro-
Tom & Jerry .............24 
lina, 16 oz boxes— 40
Joker.........................25 Big Deal......................27
T raveler.................. 351 Apple Jack...................’-4
Maiden..................... 25 King Bee, longcut..  .22
Pickwick  Club........ 40 Milwaukee  Prize— 24
Nigger  Hoad........... 26 R attler.........................28
H olland....................22 Windsor cut plug— 25
G erm an....................16 Zero  ................  
J6
Solid Comfort..........30 Holland Mixed.............lb
Red Clover................32 Golden  Age.................75
Long Tom................. 30 Mail  Pouch.................-5
N ational...................26 Knights of LaLor... .30
T im e......................... 261Free Cob Pipe............. 2»
Mayflower —
G lobe...............
Mule E ar.......'........... 22|
@
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen
Maccoboy.............................   @
44
@
Gail & Ax’ 
......................
@  35 
Rappee............................
©  45 
Railroad  Mills  Scotch....................
@1 30
Lotzbeok  .........................................

SHORTS.
.. .231 Hiawatha__
.. .22 Old Congress.

SN U FF.

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44 

 

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Local  shippers  are  offering  $1.25 

bbl.  for  fruit  alone,  although  some  outside 
buyers are paying $1.50.  Dealers hold fall fruit 
at about $1.50 $  bbl. and winter at $2.
.  Beans—Local buyers pay 00c@f l.25 *p bu. for 
unpicked and hold city picked at  $1.50@1.80  $  
bu.

Butter—Michigan creamery is firm at22@25c. 

Sweet dairy is  very  scarce and is  in active de-  • 
mand a t 16@1S, while old packed  readily  com­
mands 9@12.  Low grades are in plentiful sup­
ply at 6@8e.

Butter! ne—Creamery packed commands 20c. 
Dairy rolls are held at lo@10c and solid packed 
at 14@15e.

Cabbages—In fair demand  at  $8 
Cheese—The  best  factories  now hold  their 
product  at 1CH@H which com pells  Jobbers  to 
quote  September  and  October make at 11)4@ 
12c.

Cider—10c 
Celery—20@22c $) doz.  bunches  for  Kalama­

gal. and $ 1 for bbl.

100.

zoo or Grand Haven.

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

Cranberries—The  m arket  is  well  supplied 
with both cultivated  and  wild  Michigan  ber­
ries,  which  command  $2.25@2.50  1)  bu.  for 
choice;  Capo Cod are hold at $3@3.25 |p bu.

Eggs—Fresh are worth 20c,  and  pickled  are 

,

moving freely at  19@20c.

Grapes—Malaga, $5.50@$6 $  bbl.
Honey—Choice new incomb is firm  at  14)4@ 

VINEGAR.

Star brand,  pure  eider..................
Star brand, white wine..................

M ISCELLANEOUS.

.  8@12 
.  8©12

15c.

lots.

do 

do 

95
Bath Brick im ported.....................
American........................
@3 
Barley................................................
1  00 
Burners, NO. 1 .................................
1  50 
do  No.  2.................................
7  80
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.......
Cream Tartar 5-and 10 ft cans.............   15@25
Candles, Star...........................................  @13»
Candies,  Hotel.......................................   @14
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................  @80
F e lix ..........................  
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps.......................  
.@3»
Gum, Spruce..........................................   30@35
Hominy, 
Mincemeat.............................................®^@ 7
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.................................
Peas, Green Bush..................................   @1  “
Peas, Split prepared..............................  @ 3M
Powder, Keg........................................... 
66
Powder,  Yt Keg......................................  @J  *5
Sage  ........................................................  @18
Sauerkraut, 32 qt. barrell.....................5 00@5  50

bbl.......................................   @4 00

I 25

HIDES, FELTS  AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

G reen__ $  ft  @7
Part cured...  8V4@ 834
Fulloured__   @ 934
Dry hides and 

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

Calf skins, green 
Deacon skins,

or cured....  @10 
$  piece.......30  @50

SH E E P P EL TS.

Shearlings...............................................|0   @40
Lam bskins...................... 
........... ®   WQ
Old wool, estimated washed $  ft........   @36
Tallow......................................................  4)4® 4tt

Fine washed 
Coarse washed.. .18@22|

ft 24@27 (Unwashed............ 

2-3

WOOL.

Hay_Bailed, $15 in small lots and $13  in  ear 

Hops—Brewers pay 8 @ 1 0 c ft.
Onions—Home-grown. 75c $  bu. or $2.25 $  bbl. 
Pop Corn—Choice commands $1 $   bu. 
Potatoes—Burbanks command 40c  and Rose 
occasionally find sale at 30  cents,  as  they  are 
rotting badly.

Poultry—Fairly  well  supplied.  Fowls  sell 
for 9@10c;  chickens,  10@llc;  ducks, 13c;  and 
turkeys, 11c.

Quinces—About out of market.
S quash—H u b b a rd , q u o te d  n o m in ally  at lc $  

ft, a lth o u g h  very little is m oving.

Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys command $3.25 and 

Baltimores $2.50.

Turnips—35c %) bu.

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

Wheat—2c  higher.  The  city  millers pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  90;  Fulse, 88c;  Clawson, 
88c.
lots and 48@50c in carlots.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 54@55c  in 100 bu. 

car lots.

Oats—White, 33c in small lots  and 28@30c  in 
Rye—48@50c 
B arle y —Brewers pay $1.25 $  ewt.
Flour—No change. Fancy Patent, $5.75 V M>1* 
in  sacks  and  $6  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.76  #  
bbl. in sacks and $5 in  wood.
Meal—Bolted, $2.75 ¥ bid- 
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 V ton.  Bran, $13 
y  ton.  Ships, $14 V ton.  Middlings, $17 
ton. 
Corn and Oats, $20 V ton.

bu.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
« 
“ 

Jennings’ 2 oz —  
4oz__
6 OZ............................
80Z......................
No. 2 Taper..........
No.  4  44 
........
34 pint  round —
1
No.  8..................
No. 10...............  ■
FR U ITS

Lemon.  Vim ilia.
doz.l 00 1  40
.
2 50
............. 1 50
4 oc
............2 50
............. 3 50
5 OC
1  50
............. 1  25
3 OC
.............1 75
.......4 50
........... 9 00 15 00
............. 3 00
4 25
6 00
...  .......4 25
@16
Cherries, dried,  pitted.......................
@36
Citron,  now.........................................
6@6}4 
. 
Currants,  new....................................
12®
Peaches, dried  ..................................
.  5?4@ 6 
Prunes, Turkey, new.......................
.  434® 534 
Prunes, Turkey, old.........................
,1034@1034 
Raisins, new Valencia......................
1234 
Raisins,  Ondaras...............................
@  834 
Raisins.  Sultanas...............................
@2 75 
Raisins, Loose Muscatels, new.......
@2 50 
old..........
@3 25 
Raisins, London Layers..................
@2  70
Raisins, California London  Layers
W ater White........ 12%  | Legal  Test..............1134
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square........................ 1  00
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor..................... 1 7o
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor..................... j
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round........................ 1 50
Oshkosh, No.  2..................................................}  ”x
Oshkosh, No.  8..................................................1 “9
Swedish............................................................ ,  I"
Richardson’s No. 8  square............................l  0U
Riehardson’BNo. 9 
.............................150
Richardson’s No. 734« round.......................... 1  00
Richardson’s No. 7 
............................ 150
Black  Strap...................................................J8®*“
New  Orleans,  good......................................u8®4-
Netv Orleans, choice.................................... 48@50
New  Orleans,  fancy........   ......................... o2@55

K E R O S E N E   O IL .

MOLASSES.

M ATCHES.

do 
do 

“ 

“ 

34 bbls. 3c extra.

OATM EAL.

do 

Steel  c u t................ 5 25jQuaker, 48  fts........2 35
Steel Cut, 34 bbls.. .3 OOiQuaker, 60  fts....... 2 50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 25[Quaker bbls........... 6 00
P IC K LES.
@6 
Choice in barrels med...........
@3 50
Choice in 34 
...........
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 .......................................   ©
Choice Carolina...' .*.634 Ja v a .................   @9
P a tn a .......................6
Prime Carolina.......
Rangoon.........5?i@5y4
Good Carolina........5
Broken............3)4@3}4
Good Louisiana...... 5
DeLand’s pure........5H|Dwight’s ....................W
Church’s  .................5)4 Sea T oam ..................5)4
Taylor’s  G. M......... 5)4lCap Sheaf.................. 5)4

SALERATUS.

R IC E .

)4c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F   Dairy............................
28 Pocket.................................................
1003ft  pockets..................;••••.............
Saginaw or Manistee............................
Diamond C............................................
Standard Coarse...................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu- bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags....
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, $4 bu. bags...............
Rook, bushels........ .......... ....................

2 30 
2 25 
2 50 
95
1 60
1 55 
80
2 80 
80 
25 
28

classification committee of east-bound trunk 
lines to change its classification of eggs,  but­
ter and  dressed  poultry  so  as  to  make  its 
rate cover car loads and  less than car loads.
On Friday, Lorenzo Fagenstein, an expert 
chemist of  Chicago,  addressed  the  conven­
tion on the means of detecting spurious but­
ter.  Butterine, he  claimed,  was  not  only 
unwholesome,  but poisonous  to  the system 
of the partaker.  The  same  men  who  had 
ruined the export pork trade  had now near­
ly ruined the export trade  in  butter.  Pro­
hibition in Europe  was  not  for protection, 
but to prevent  the  importation  of  packing 
house refuse,  which,  by a villainous concoc­
tion,  was transformed into the semblance of 
butter  and  imposed  upon  the  Europeans. 
Mr. Fagenstein used  many  analytical illus­
trations in support  of  his  views. 
lie  said 
that butterine usually  contained  nitric,  sul­
phuric,  muriatic,  and  nitro-hydrochloric 
acids,  as well as alkalies and soap.  A sam­
ple of butterine  purchased  on  State  street 
was  analyzed  before  the  convention  and 
found to contain 10 per cent, of soft soap, 

The Secretary  submitted  statistics show­
ing that of the total annual exports of butter 
and butterine but one-third was genuine but­
ter,  the  balance  being  oleomargarine  and 
butterine.  Europeans  were  not  willing to 
pay  the  American  price  for  good  butter 
English people would rather have fresh but­
terine from Denmark than stale butter from 
America.  America could  not compete with 
Danish dairymen in the manufacture of but­
ter.  The climatic changes and long time oc­
cupied  in  getting  butter  from  Iowa 
to 
England imperiled the quality of  the article 
and certainly  aged  it,  while  Danish butter 
was  in  the  English  markets  within  three 
days  from  the  time  it  left  the  churn. 
It 
was  argued  in  the  discussion  that Danish 
butter  was  superior to  American butter  on 
account of the greater  care  given  to stock. 
American cows should be better fed and bet­
ter protected from inclement weather.

A. sensation was  created  by the report of 
a special committee  that  exhibits of butter­
ine had been admitted to  the State Board of 
Agriculture’s  dairy  department  at  the  fat- 
cattle  show.  The  Board asserted  that the 
butterine exhibitors were  admitted  because 
it was charged  by  Mr. Armour that a great 
part  of  the  dairymen’s  exhibit  was  butter 
containing spurious  material,  and  that Mr. 
Armour  had  said  there  were  thirty-eight 
creameries in the  West  buying this neutral 
material of Armour &  Co.  On the strength 
of’  Mr.  Armour’s  statements  the  Board 
adopted a resolution that  no  awards should 
be given unless  the  judges  were  satisfied 
that the butter was thoroughly pure.

A  committee  was  appointed  to  wait  on 
md demand of the officers  of  the  Board  to 
name the violators of pure butter manufact­
ure, or withdraw the charges made.  In case 
the committee is met with a refusal, counsel 
will be engaged and legal  proceedings com­
menced.  Mr.  Seymour, of New York,  prom­
ised $1,000 toward a fund to  defray the ex­
penses of a slander  suit  against  Armour & 
Co.  and the Board.

Michigan Dairymen' Association.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements  of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each 
additional word.  Advance payment.
K  ANTED—Situation in wholesale  or  retail 
grocery  establishment  by  a  man  of 
twenty-five years’ experience.  City references 
furnished.  Address to Wm. Sears & Co.  113*
IjpOR SALE—Or  exchange  for  stock of iner- 
chandise, groceries, dry goods,  or horses, 
' 
wagons, sleighs, cash or something else, a two- 
story frame double store.  Can  be  rebuilt  for 
hotel.  Situated in a  fast-growing  village.  A 
good chance for some 0110.  Address “Z.” care 
118*
T h e  T r a d e s m a n. 
K ANTED—To exchange, a good 80  acres  of 
wild land and some choice  village prop­
erty for  a  stock  of groceries.  Address “Gro­
115
cer,” care T r a d esm a n. 
Si'OR  SALE—A  neat clean stock of books an d  
stationery atKalkaska, Mich.  Only stock 
’ 
in town.  Will invoice about $800.  Or  will  ex­
change for small tarm  in  Southern  Michigan. 
115
C. S. White, Kalkaska. Mich. 
I?OR  SALE—At a bargain, or  will  exchange 
for other goods,  six  chests  tea.  grocer’s 
scales, cheese  safe, etc.  For further  particu­
115*
lars, address, “Tea,” care T r a d esm a n. 
IpOR  SALE—136 acres of timber land, mostly 
maple and beech, within 14 miles tJf Kal­
kaska.  Will exchange for stock  of  boots  aud 
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 
Va mile, and good roads in every direction.  Ad­
dress, “Kalkaska,” care T h e  T ra d esm  a n.”   12tf
■ HYSICIAN  WANTED—A  good  regular 
physician, who 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.  Ryno, M. D., 251  Gold  Street,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 
■POR  SALE 
The  font  of  brevier  type  for- 
merly ui
d on T h e T r a d e s m a n .  The font 
comprises 222 pounds, with  italic,  and  can  be 
had for 30 cents a pound.  Apply  at the office.

113*

M O T I C E   s

T he  copartnership  existing betw een Al­
bert,  Chas.  A.  and Jas.  A.  Coye  is  this day 
dissolved by  m utual  consent, Jas.  A.  Coye 
retiring.  T he  business  will  be  continued 
at the old  stand  by  the  undersigned,  who 
will receive and  pay all  debts.

Albert Coye, 
Chas. A. Coye.

Nov.  16,  1885.

R i i b b e i
m n j
i

mm THSOK

B à l i .

Ordinary Rubber B 
always wear out firs 
the ball.  The C’AXi 
Boots are double tit 
on  the  ball,  and  j
DOUBLE WEAR.
Most economical rub­
ber Boot in the market.
than  any 
other  boot,  and 
the
PRICE  NO HIGHER. 
Call  and  ex-

BOGUS  BUTTER

Gets a Bad Black  Eye at the Hands of the

Dairymen.

Special Correspondence of T h e T ra d esm a n.
C h ic a g o .  N ov,  14,  1885.

The  twelfth  annual  convention  of  the 
Butter,  Cheese  and  Egg  Association  con­
vened in this city  on  Tuesday.  President 
John J. Macdonald wielded the  gavel,  and 
Col.  R.  M.  Littler  sat  at  the Recretary’ 
desk.  Governor Oglesby, Mayor  Harrison 
E. Nelson Blake. President of  the Board of 
Trade,  and Mr.  Linn,  President of the  Pro 
duce Exchange,  welcomed  the  delegates  to 
the  city.  Messrs.  Windsor,  of New York. 
Upton,  of Boston, Hatcher, of Philadelphia, 
and Kinnard,  of Baltimore, responded.

President Macdonald,  in the course of his 
annual address,  presented the following sta 
tistics  of  the  trade: 
In  1850  there  were 
manufactured 313,345,000 pounds  of  butter 
and 103,500,000 pounds of  cheese,  while  in 
1880 there  were  manufactured  806,673,000 
pounds of butter and 243,158,000  pounds of 
cheese.  The exports of butter had increased 
from  $1,215,463  in  1850  to  $18,862,407  in 
1880.  The total value of the  dairy product 
of the United States is $500,000,000, exceed 
ing the products of oats, wheat, cotton, steel, 
or pig-iron.  The amount invested  in  dairy 
cattle exceeds the enormous  sum  of  $700, 
000,000.  The total would have been greater 
had it not been for the loss  of confidence in 
the goods caused by the exportation  of  im 
pure dairy  products,  which  were  sold  for 
genuine.  By  this  means  the  dairymen’s 
reputation 
and 
shrewdness  had  become  synonymous  with 
rascality and fraud, and the  interests repre 
sented by the convention  placed  in  deadly 
peril.  He thought under such circumstances, 
that the delegates  should  place  themselves 
on  record  as  opposed  to  such  degrading 
practices.

for  enterprise,  energy 

On Wednesday,  B.  F. Van Valkenburgh. 
of the committee on statistics,  reported that 
the total receipts of dairy  products  at  New 
York for the year ending Nov. 30,1884, were 
$40,999,158.  For  1885,  the  value  of  the 
dairy  receipts  reached  $38,547,911,  a  de 
crease of $2,464,021.  The report as a whole 
showed  a  total  decrease  in  the  past  two 
years  of  nearly  six  million  dollars,  which 
was due to the sale of butter substitutes,

Hon. Norman J.  Coleman,  United States 
Commissioner  of  Agriculture,  said,  in  the 
course of somewhat extended remarks,  that 
the proprietors of  artificial  butter  factories 
had been  particularly  chary  of  giving  any 
statistics or information as to  their  process 
of manufacture.  The result of all inquiries 
into their methods, however,  had proved the 
un healthfulness  of  the article,  principally 
owing to the use of nitric  acid  as an ingre­
dient.  Witnesses  have  testified  to  its  in­
jurious effect upon their clotiling and  shoes 
while engaged in the  factory,  and others of 
its injury to the  stomach.  Against the em­
ployment of the poisonous compounds  used 
in  this  questionable  trade  farmers  them­
selves  have  the  remedy 
in  their  hands. 
They will find little difficulty in discovering 
who the parties  are  that  purchase  and  use 
such articles, and then let  these  parties  be 
tabooed  in  dairy  associations,  agricultural 
conventions, or the social circles.  Mr.  Col- 
man suggested that a  bill  be  carefully  pre­
pared to submit to Congress at the approach­
ing session to protect not  only the innocent 
purchaser and consumer of a counterfeit ar­
ticle of butter,  but the  important  dairy  in­
terests of the country.

T.  D.  Curtis  followed  with  an  address 
upon “Imitation Butter—Morally,  Commer­
cially  and  Legally  Considered.”  Morally, 
the sale of a  counterfeit  article  as  genuine 
is highly demoralizing  to all in any way en­
gaged in the  business.  Commercially,  the 
effect of imitation butter lias been  most dis­
astrous in that it has thrown suspicion on all 
butter, thus causing a  revolt  of  the  public 
palate  and  injuring  the  dairy  and  cheese 
manufacturing interests of  the  country  be­
yond  computation.  Legally,  the  question 
is,  How far can the law intervene  and  how 
can it be enforced?  The answer to  this  is 
bounded by the intelligence  and moral  sen­
timent of the people.  They have the power, 
and  if  they  will  may  go  to  the  limits  of 
strict honesty and legislation.

Resolutions were introduced and referred, 
to the effect that,  the sale  of  imitation but­
ter being detrimental to the trade  and  pub­
lic morals,  Congress be petitioned to  pass  a 
law prohibiting the coloring of  butterine  to 
look like butter,  and  compelling  dealers  to 
inform purchasers which is which.

J.  K.  Brown,  Commissioner  of  Agricul­
ture for the state of New  York,  denounced 
the sale of artificial butter as a deception and 
a fraud.

W.  I. Chamberlain,  secretary of the Ohio 
State  Board  of  Agriculture,  took  for  his 
subject,  “The Crime of Counterfeiting  and 
Adulteration.”  Mr.  Chamberlain  thought 
it was a  singular  state  of  things  that  per­
mitted the  adulteration  and  counterfeiting 
of food when the counterfeiting of the coun­
try’s currency was matte a  heinous  offense, 
rendering  the  offenders  liable  to  the  ex­
treme penalties of the  law.  The adultera­
tion and counterfeiting of butter and cheese 
was equally as disastrous to a great and, un­
til recently,  a rapidly-growing branch of the I 
Nation’s commerce as  the  counterfeiting of 
currency.  The  manufacture  and  sale  of 
oleomargarine  as creamery  butter  was  a 
death-blow at the dairy interests of  Ameri­
ca,  and  could  not  be  too  severely  con­
demned.

J.  W.  Gould,  of  Ohio,  addressed  the 
meeting upon the subject  of  “Co-operation 
Against Adulteration,”  in  which  he urged 
unanimity of determined  action against the 
manufacture of bogus batter upon  the  part 
of  all  the  dairy  and agricultural organiza-

tions of^the country.  The Wisconsin  dele­
gation submitted resolutions  similar  to  the 
others, which were also  referred.

Wilbur Johnson,  of Oskaloosa,  talked  to 
the convention upon  “A Higher Standard.” 
Mr. Johnson  favored the  maintaining  of  a 
high standard of butter by the great  cream 
eries and cheese factories  of the country as 
the surest means  of  establishing the  super 
iority of the  genuine  over  the  spurious ar­
ticle and  enabling  consumers  to  detect the 
difference.

Geo.  M.  Stearns,  a Chicago manufacturer, 
being  called  upon  to  address  the'conven- 
tiou,  described  the  process  of manufactur­
ing oleomargarine,  the properties  of  which 
are the fat of the highest  grade  cattle  and 
the wholesale price of which to-day is  from 
lit o 11%  cents.  To  say  that oleomarga­
rine  contains  ingredients  deleterious 
to 
health and that it is made of  ‘.‘soap-grease 
is unfair and  false.  Butterine,  in  which 
the  fat  of  swine  was  used,  called  in  the 
trade and  branded  as  creamery  butterine, 
contained  from  50  to  60  per  cent,  pure 
creamery  butterT”the  remainder- beiñg  the 
finest leaf lard,  salt and water.  Mr. Steams 
was in  favor  of  butterine  being  manufac 
tured and sold as butterine. 
In the discus­
sion which followed,  Mr.  Stearns  produced 
a  letter  received  by  him  from  an  Iowa 
dairyman  for  an  order  of  100  pounds  of 
neutral,  with which  he  wished “to  try  the 
process of adulteration.

lion.  II.  W.  Hatch,  who  stated  that  he 
represented  the  creamery  and dairy  inter­
ests  of  the  First  Congressional  District of 
Missouri,  made  an  address  in  defense  of 
these  interests  and  condemnatory  of  the 
manufacture of the bogus article.  He wish­
ed a few members  of  Congress  might have 
been present to hear the head of a great but­
terine manufacturing concern of Chicago de­
clare  in  convention  that  his  business  was 
anything but an  honorable  one.  He hoped 
that if the gentleman  in  question could ap­
preciate  his  position  in  the ^commercial 
world he would write Ur the Iowa dairyman 
who wanted adulterous  materials that if he 
wanted to keep out  of the  penitentiary and 
s^ve his soul from perdition lie would never 
put the poisonous stuff in his butter.  Should 
he at any time  in  future  be  called upon to 
again represent  his  district  in Congress he 
would introduce  a  measure to put the man­
ufacturéis of the bogus article under the In­
ternal  Revenue  laws,  which  would  put  a 
weigher,  brander and  inspector in such fac­
tories to handle their  product.  He  would, 
further than that,  favor a law  to indict,  try, 
and  convict such  manufacturers; and when 
convicted imprison them for thirty days and 
compel them to live on the  product of their 
factories.

Mr.  Stearns, taking the floor, was asked a 
number of embarrassing questions  concern­
ing the butterine  trade,  one  of  which  was 
why the  manufacturers  of artificial  butter 
used the terms  dairy  and  creamery  butter, 
and others  which  had  long  been  identical 
with the  dairy  interests.  Mr.  Warman,  of 
New  York,  a  large  handler  of  butterine, 
stated that he  never  handled a  pound  of it 
under any other name than  its true one.  He 
believed that the butterine men were as hon­
est  in  their  transactions  as  dairymen  are 
[hisses],  and that they were  no more desir­
ous of  humbugging  the  public.  All  were 
working  for  their  own  personal 
interests, 
and he thought the dairy and  creamery men 
present had heaped their abusive names and 
terms upon butterine purely through  selfish 
motives.

Hiram  Smith,  of  Sheboygan  Falls,  fol­
lowed with an address against  the  artificial 
product, as  did Messrs. J. H. Seymour and 
John H.  Smith, of  New York,  in which the 
latter  gentlemen  were  particularly  severe 
upon the methods of  butterine  manufactur­
ers and all who handled the product.

On Thursday, the  Committee on Legisla­
tion,  recommended an  import  duty on eggs 
brought  from  Europe,  approved  the  New 
York  law  requiring  dealers  to  sell  butter 
substitutes for what they really are, and rec­
ommended  that  Congress  be  requested  to 
establish a standard of  purity  for milk and 
that  the  several  State  Legislatures  adopt 
that standard.  The report was subsequent­
ly  adopted.

The Committee on Resolutions  presented 
a report  condemning  the  manufacture  and 
sale of bogus butter,  requesting Congress to 
enact measures looking toward the suppres­
sion of the  busines,  and  recommending the 
appointment of  a  legislative  committee of 
three members from each state.  An amend­
ment to the  report  calling  on  Congress  to 
place a tax  of  10  cents a  pound on all infl­
ations  of  pure  butter  was  adopted,  after 
which the report as a whole was adopted.

Col.  Littler  reported  that the receipts  of 
butter at  Chicago  for  the  current year to 
Nov.  1, were 80,000,000 pounds; shipments, 
3,000,000 pounds.  Receipts of cheese,  32,-
500.000 pounds;  the  shipments  were  23,-
800.000 pounds.  The  fact  that  shipments 
of butter were greater than the receipts was 
in part due  to  butterine  being  shipped as 
butter.  The  statistics  of  the  manufacture 
of butterine in Chicago  from  May  1,  1883, 
to May 1,  1884,  showed  a  manufacture  of 
about 10,000,000 pounds; from May 1,1884 to 
May 1,  1885, about 13,000,000 pounds and the 
quantity for the current year was  estimated 
at 20,000,000 pounds.  The direct exports of 
butter  from  Chicago  for  year  to  Nov.  1, 
1885, were 2,200,000 pounds; cheese,  4,650,- 
000 pounds.  The  receipts  of  eggs  for the 
same period  were  429,000; shipments, 168,- 
000.

Washington Winsor,  of  New  York,  was 
elected  President  of  the  Association,  and 
Col. Littler was re-elected  Secretary for the 
thirteenth üma  J

A resolution  wis  adopted requesting the

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

ROOTING PLA TES.

9

ROPES.

SQUARES.

AUGERS AND B ITS.

Prevailing  rates  at  Chicago  are as follows:

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne................5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............   7 00
IC, 20x28, ohoice  Charcoal Terne................ 11 00
tX , 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne.............   14  00
60
Ives’, old style.......................................*dis 
N
”   H. C. Co............................................. dis 
60
Douglass’ .......
60
....d is 
Sisal, 4  in. and  larger................................... 
Pierces’ ....................
60
__ dis 
Manilla............................................................... 15
Snell’s ........................
60
....d is 
Cook’s  .....................
...... dis40&10
Steel and Iron...............................  
Jennings’,  genuine.
....dis 
25
Try and Bevels.................  
Jennings’, imitation
___dis40&10
Mitre  .................................................  
BA
Spring........................
....d is 
25
„  
BA
Nos. 10 to 14....................................$4 20
R ailroad....................
........ $  13 00
Nos. lo to  17..................................   4 20
Garden......................
__ net 33 00
Nos. 18 to 21........................  
4  20
i
Nos.22to  24......................................4 20
Nos .25 to 26.................................  4 40
]  lì UB «Ml
j  
H and..........................
dis  $ 60&10  No. 27
w«  ot 
4 60
Cow..........................
.dis 
Call.............................
. .dis 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
........................................
G ong............. 
..dis
Door, Sargent........................................<jis
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   lb...................
In smaller quansities, $   ft.......
.  T IN N E R ’S SO LDER.
No. 1,  Refined.................................
Market  Half-and-half..........
Strictly  Half-and-half..................

C0A10 
50&10 
20
Com. 
f  3 00 
3 00 
3 00 
3  10 
3 20 
3 30
over 30  inches

dis
dis
."dis
Com. Smooth.

All sheets No, 18 and  lightei 

SH EET IR O N .

sa  _ 

. .  

 

13 00
15 00
16

'

 

BOUTS.
Stove................... 
dis 1
 
Carriage  new  list.....................                dis
Plow  .................................. • 
' hio
Sleigh Shoe........................  
..dis 
Cast Barrel  Bolts.............
... dis 
W rought Barrel Bolts__
...dis 
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.
.. .dis 
Cast Square Spring.. 
.. .dis 
~ 
Cast Chain...  .............................
.. .dis 
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob....
.. .dis 
Wrought Square..........................
. ..dis 
Wrought Sunk Flush................ .
dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob 
Ives’  Door..

‘  In* '

Flusn.

60
55&10
55&10
30
.......  50&10&10
.......dis  50&10

BRACES.

BUTTS,  CAST.

B arb er..........
Backus..........
Spofford........
Am. Ball.......
Well, p lain... 
Well, swivel..

40
.......dis f  
50
-----dis 
50
.......dis 
.......dis 
net
........... $  4 00
.............  
4 50
Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed.........dis
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
Wrounht Loose  Pin............................dis
WroughtLoose Pin, acorn tip............ dis
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
.dis
Wrought Table.............
........dis
Wrought Inside  Blind.
........dis
Wrought Brass.............................
........ dis
Blind. Clark’s .............................
........ dis
Blind, Parker’s .....................
........ dis
Blind,  Shepard’s..................... . . ."
........dis

60&10 
60&10 
60&10 
50&10 
60 
60&  5 
60& 5
60& 5 
60 
60 
65&10 
70&10 
70&10 
70

tipped ...

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10.........................................
Hick’s C. F ..................
g . d .......................................
Musket......................................... "

CATRIDGES.

K.m Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester
Kim Fire, United  States.............
Central Fire....................................

C H ISELS.

Socket Firm er...............................
Socket Fram ing............................
Socket Corner...............................
Socket Slicks.................................
Butchers’ Tanged  Firm er...........
Barton’s Socket  Firm ers...........
Cold............................................... .
Curry, Lawrence’s ........................
Hotchkiss  .....................................
Brass,  Hacking’s ..........................
Bibb’s ............................................
B eer...............................................
Feans’........ .....................................

cocks.

COMBS.

. per  m $ 65 
60

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

.......dis
.......dis
.......dis
—  dis
----dis
.......net
...d is
----dis

60
60
40

75
75
75
40
20

40
25

50
50
40&10
60

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..........
14x52,14x5*1,14 x60.......................

CO PPER .

DRILLS

ELBOWS.

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

Morse’s Bit  Stock.................... ..........dis
Morse’s Taper  So5nk............... ..........dis
Com. 4 piece, 6  in..........
__ doz net
$.85 
Corrugated................................. ..........dis  ;
20A It) %&10
A djustable................................. ..........dis 
;
Clar’s, sniuJI, $18 00;  large, $26 0«.
20
Ives’, 1. $18  00 ? 2, $24 00;  3, $30 00.
American File Association  List..
Disston’s .........................................
. ..dis
New  American...........................................
Nicholson’s.............................................djs
Heller’s ..................................................dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps............................ dis  £
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
15

g a l v a n iz e d   ir o n .
14 

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

PIL E S.

12 

13 
GAUGES.

H IN G ES.

.......dis

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

HOLLOW   W ARE.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ..
50
Maydole & Co.’s ..................................
20
Kip’s ....................................................
Yerkes &  Plumb’s ..............................
40 
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................
1st 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Bara Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction........................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.  44  14
and  longer..............................................
34
Screw Hook and Eye,  V*  ...................net
104
Screw Hook and Eye %......................net
84
Screw Hook and Eye  %......................net
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.................... net
Strap and  T ........................................... dis
60&10
Stamped Tin W are....................................
60&1Ü
Japanned  Tin  W are.................................
20&10
25
Gi’anite  Iron  Ware..................................  
Grub  1............................................... $11 00, dis 40
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 40
G rub3.................................................  12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings__ $2 70, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings..  3 50, dis 66*3 
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
mings......................................list,10  15, dis 66%
70
5, dis
dis
70
.  (1
40
50
dis
66 S
.dis
.. dis 66%
. .dis 66%
. .dis 66%
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...................dis  65
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s ............................dis 40&10
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s ........ dis 40&10
Coffee,  Enterprise.....................................dis  25
Adze  Eye......................................$16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt  Eye......................................$15 00dis40&i0
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

Drawer and  Shuttei 
Picture, H. L. Judd 
H em acite...............
LOCKS—DOOR. 
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s........
Branford’s ..................................

mattocks.

porcelain.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HOES.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

N A ILS.

T IN   PLA TES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6  75.
10x14, Charcoal.........................
IC, 
6 00 
10xl4,Cbarcoal.........................................
IX, 
60
12x12, Charcoal.........................6 
50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal  .......................  
IX, 
«50
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal..................
6  00
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal.................
7 50 
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal.................
9 00
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool.................
11  00 
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.................. 
^  w
12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add l" 50  to  6 75 

 

rates.

I 

TR A PS.

W IR E.

Steel, Game..............................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhoiise’s ... 
dis  35 
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60& 10
If.. P- & W.  Mfg.  Oo.’s............................. ".60&10
Mouse,  delusion...............................91  50$ doz
Bright  Market.............
.......dis  60&1P
Annealed M arket........
........ dis 
70
Coppered Market........
........ dis  55&10
Extra Bailing................
.............   dis  55
Tinned  M arket.............
...............dis  40
Tinned  Broom...............
............ $ ft  09
Tinned M attress...........
............. $  ft 84
Coppered Spring  Steel
...dis 40@40&10
Tinned Spring Steel__
..............dis 37 H
Plain Fence....................
........... $ ft
Barbed  Fence...............
Copper............................
Brass............................
Bright...............
Screw Eyes.......
H ook's..............
Gate Hooks and

...............................new  list net
...............................new list net
WIRE GOODS.
70&10
70&10
70&10
70&10

...dis 
... dis 
...dis 
...dis
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine.......................................dis  50&10
Coe s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
65
Coe’s Patent,  malleable.....................dis 
70
Pumps,  Cistern...................................dis 
70
Screws, new  list.......................................  
¿0
Casters, Bed  and  Plate....................... "disSO&lO
Dampers, American................................. 
334

Eyes...........
WrENCHES.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

LUMBER, LATH  AN1> SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co.  quote f. o. 
b. cars  as follows:
Uppers, l inch....................
. ..per M $44 00
Uppers, 14,14 an d 2 inch.
.............   46  00
Selects, 1 inch..........................................
...............  35 00
Selects, 14,14 and 2  inch.....................
...............  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch..............................
30 00 
Shop, 1 inch....................................
20  00 
Fine, Common, 14 ,14  and 2 inch........
32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet..
15 0016 rrt)
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.....................
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.....................
17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t...
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.....................
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.....................
17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet__
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet.......................
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................
17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet__ !  12 ÖÖ
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........   11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet.........................  13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00®  9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ............................  33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  27  90
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths........................   15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................  12 On
No. 1 Fencing. 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 o0
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14  50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common.... 
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 6 in.. No. 2 common__   14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  oom’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
1 X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles............. 
3 10
3 00
■< XXX 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
I XXX 16 in.................................................  2  75
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
1  75
No. 2 or Sin. C. B. 16  in .............................. 
140
Lath  ....................................................   1  75® 2 00

9 00

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

 

16 

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run.............................  
@13 00
0J@20 00
Birch, log-run................  
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2..............................  @25 00
Black Ash, log-run.............................   @13 00
Cherry,  log-run................................... 25 
00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  aud 2..........................   @55 00
Cherry,  cull..........................................10 
00@12 00
Maple,  log-run.................  
12 
00@14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run........................... lu 
00@12 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2..............................  @16 00
Maple, clear, flooring........................  
@25 00
Maple, white, selected.......................  @25 00
@15 00
Red Oak, log-run................................. 
Red Oak, Nos. 1 a n d 2................... 
  @20 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank............... 
@25 00
Walnut, log-run..................................  
@55  00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2................... • ...  @75 00
Walnuts,  culls....................................  @25 00
W ater Elm, log-run  .......................... 
@1100
White Ash,  log-run........................... 14  00@16 00
Whitewood,  log-run.......................... 
@23 00

 

~ 

~  ~  »  ■  ■ 

MAULS.
OILERS.

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

lOdto  60d............................................$  keg $3 00
WOODEN W ARE.
25
8d aud 9 d adv...............................................  
Standard  Tubs, No. 1..................... 
7 50
6d and 7d  adv............................................... > 
50
Standard  Tubs, No. 2...........................................6 50
4d and 5d  adv...............................................  
75
Standard  Tubs, No. 3................................    ..5  50
3d  advance....................................................   1 50
uu  au V uiiLG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   X  ijyj  1  ~ 
w
3 00  Standard Pails, two hoop...............................1  50
3d fine  advance........................................... 
Standard Pails, three hoop.............................1 75
Clinch nails, adv........................................... 
l  75
Dowell Pails.......................................................2 10
Finishing 
6d  4d
1  lOd  8d 
Dowell Tubs, No. 3................... 
8  25
Size—inches  ( 3  
2 
14
24 
Dowell Tubs, No. 2............................................7 25
Adv. $  keg 
f 1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 
Dowell Tubs,  No. 3..........................................6 25
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes........................... 2 00
M OLLASSES GATES.
Butter Ladles....................................................1 25
Stebbin’s Pattern  .................. ............... dis 70
Rolling Pins.......................................................1 00
Stebbin’s Genuine.................... ................ dis
70
Potato  Mashers...............................................   75
Enterprise,  self-measuring... ................ dis 25
Clothes Pounders.............................................2 25
ClothesPins..................... 
65
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled. ...............  dis 50
Mop Stocks.........................................................1 25
Washboards, single......................................... 1 75
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.  .. ................ dis 55
Washboards, double........................................ 2 25
Zinc, with brass bottom ;........ ................ dis
50
Brass or  Copper....................... ................ dis 40
Reaper.................................. . .per gross, $12 net
Olmstead s ................................
50
Ohio Tool Co.’8, fancy............ ...............dis
15
Sciota Bench........................... ............... dis 25
Saudusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy... ............... dis
15
Bench, flrstquality................................. dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood  and
Fry, Acme..............................
50
Common, polished...........................  . .dts60&10
Dripping................................. ...........#  ft  6@7
Iron and Tinned.....................
40
Copper Rivets and Burs....... .......... dis  50&I0
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished. Nos. 2S  to 27  9

Diamond  M arket............................................  40
Bushel, narrow  band.......................................1 60
Bushel, wide band............................................l 75
Clothes, splint.  No. 1.......................................3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2.......................................3 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 3.......................................4 00
Clothes, willow, No. 1.......................................5 00
Clothes, willow, No. 2.......................................6 00
Clothes, willow, No. 3.......................................7 00

Hemlock Bark—The local  tanners are  offer­
ing $5 per cord delivered, cash.
GLnseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.59@1.60  ^   ft 
for clean washed roots.
Rubber Goods—Local jobbers are authorized 
to offer 40 and 5 per cent, off on standard goods 
and 40,10and 5 percent,  off on Becondquality.

Broken packs 4o Rjl ft extra.

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

MISCELLANEOUS.

PLANES.

BA SKETS.

RIVETS.

M.N9,

 

MICHIGAN  EXHIBITS.

The  following  Michigan  butter  makers 
exhibited sample  tubs of  their products: G.
B.  & C.  S. Smith,  of  Eagle; John T.  Clark, 
of  Clinton; and  H.  R. Kingman,  of Battle |  Lns*s~ion 
Creek,  in  competition  for  the  $100  gold 
watch; the same in  competition  of  the $10 
cash prize  offered by the  citizens  of  Chica­
go;  S.  B. &  C.  S.  Smith,  of  Eagle,  in com­
petition  for the $100 gold medal.

The “Honest Farmer” in a New Role.
“You  can’t  sell  me  any  of  your  butter­
ine,” said a regular customer at a  reputable 
grocery establishment the  other day.

“Why not?” asked thejgenial  grocer.
“Because I get  my  butter  of  a  farmer,” 

was the reply.

“What farmer  furnishes  you?”  inquired 

the man of tea and allspice.

“M r.---------- ,  who  brings  me  a week’s
supply every Saturday,” responded the con­
sumer.

The grocer dropped  the  subject  and  the 

customer departed.

“Do you know the farmer your patron re­
ferred 
to?”  asked  a  reporter  of  The 
Tradesman, who happened to  be standing 
near when the  conversation  above referred 
to occurred.

“No,” replied the grocer.
“Well, he  is  one  of  those  farmers  who 
never owned a cow in his life.  He lives on 
a rented place half  a  dozen  miles out, buys 
garden  truck  of  the  surrounding  farmers, 
and peddles the same from  house to  house. 
The genuine butter your customer expatiates 
upon was  bought  at  a  certain  commission 
store here at 14 cents a pound.  It was sold for 
dairy butterine,  but  became  ‘pure  farmer’s 
butter,’ as soon as it was  worked  over  into 
rolls  at  the  man’s  home.  Hundreds  of 
housekeepers are  congratulating themselves 
over their luck  in  securing  fanner’s  butter 
at 20  cents  a  pound,  when  they  could get 
the identical article of you or any other gro- 
ceryman at 16  cents. 
I have  the names of 
sixteen alleged  farmers who  are  practicing 
this deception right along,  and  as soon as I 
have made a complete list I shall place it at 
the disposal of the  Retail  Grocers’ Associa­
tion,  and  allow  the  members  to  take  such 
action in the matter as they think best.”

“I knew there were  one  or  two  farmers 
who were engaged in the  transposition bus­
iness, but I didn’t think the practice was so 
general as  you  say it  is,”  said  the  grocer. 
“One thing is  certain,  however,  and that is 
that the people are beginning to look upon the 
‘honest farmer’  with  merited suspicion, and 
I think the time  is  not  far  distant  when a 
reaction  will set in  in  favor  of  the  down­
trodden and much-maligned  groceryman.

FOR  SA L E  B Y
E. (jt. Studley & Co.,

Manufacturers  of LEATHER  AND  RUBBER 
BELTING, and all kinds of  RUBBER  GOODS. 
Fire Department and mill supplies.  Jobbersol 
“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.
A Warning.

Pain is given for the wise purpose of inform­
ing us of the presence of danger  and  disease. 
Any  little  excitement  of  an  unusual nature 
disturbs  the  balance  of  the system, the  ner­
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 bo 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  medicine,  nature,  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 the broken down dyspeptic.  Sold by Haz- 
eltine,  Perkins  &  Co.,  wholesale  druggists, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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OYSTERS!

State Agency for Wm. L. Ellis & Co. s

shall beheld on the second Tuesday of each 
November.

ARTICLE  XII.

*  The regiflar meetings  of  the  Association 
shall be held on  the  first  and  third  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.

THE  PHILLIPS  STEEL  POINT 
SNOW   SHOVEL

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  CO.  have 

Sole Control of our Celebrated

Pioneer  Prepared  Paint!

The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE.

Read it.

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FIG .  3 .

F IG . 1.

MamifacturedJExpressly for the Michigan Trade.

Siroitst  Ltttet,  Gtapsl,  Haiisitst,

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

»

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A.  L.  TUCKER, 

Commission  Merchant,

167 South W ater St., CHICAGO.

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

WHOLESALE

H. LEONARD & SONS,
Crockery, Glassware, Etc.
Bronzed Iron and Rich Gold

ASSO BTED  PACKAGE

Library Lamps.

COXTSXSTXXTG  OP

1 348 F. B. Iron Pendant 14 White Cone  Shade 
1  1388 Polished Brass Pendant 14 White Cone Shade 
1  1388 
1  13971 
1  1397* 
1  1395J 
Above prices complete, with new slip burner,

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“  36 prisms 14 white “ “
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“  “  dome  “
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14 dec.“ 
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14 Deco. 

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1.75
2.00
2.25
3.60
3.85
5.00
$18.45

'  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,  B anging  Lamps 

and B rackets in  the  Greatest 

V ariety.

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

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.  W ith  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.

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MloH.

CONSTITUTION  AND  BY-LAWS

Of the Retail Grocers’ Association of Grand 

Rapids.

C O N STITU TIO N .

ARTICLE  I— NAME.

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

ARTICLE  II— AIMS  AND  OBJECTS.

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  aifect  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
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.

B Y -L A W S .

ARTICLE  I.

ARTICLE  XIII.

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 three members of the Board 
of Directors,  and  shall  have  entire  control 
of the rooms  and furniture belonging to the 
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 members,  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.

Any firm, or  individual,  who  is  engaged 
in the business  of  buying  and  selling  gro­
ceries at retail,  in the city of Grand Rapids, 
may become a  member of  this  Association 
by paying to the Treasurer  the  sum  of one 
dollar, and agreeing to pay 25 cents quarterly 
dues  in  advance,  and  any  assesssments 
which  may  be  voted  by  the Association  to 
meet expenses.

ARTICLE  II.

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

ARTICLE  III.

Section 1.  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 2. 

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.

ARTICLE  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. 

ARTICLE  V.

No  compensation  for  services  shall  be 

paid to any officer except the Secretary. 

ARTICLE  VI.

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

ARTICLE  XIV.

This Constitution and By-laws may be al­
tered  or  amended  by  a  two-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. 
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Only  35  Cents.

So  confident  are  we  that Dr. Pete’s 35 cent 
Cough Cure will not disappoint  the  most  san­
guine  exdectations  ol'  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 Hazel tine,  Perkins  &  Co., whole­
sale druggists. Grand Rapids. Mich.

HENRY  KRITZER.
NEWAYGO 

Roller Mills
“ Crow n  Prince”

MANUFACTURER  OF  THE

P R O P R IE T O R

BRAND.

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

CLIMAX- 

PLUG TOBACCO, 
RED TIN

ARTICLE VII.

The Secretary shall  keep  a  record of all 
meetings, conduct all correspondence, under 
direction of the Executive Committee;  keep 
a list of the members in a book for that pur­
pose; notify all committees of their appoint­
ment,  and  if  requested,  furnish the  chair­
man of committees with  a copy of  the vote 
under which they were  elected, or  appoint­
ed, and act as secretary for the same.

ARTICLE  VIII.

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  Finance 
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.

ARTICLE  IX.

The  Executive  Committee  shall  provide 
rooms for  the  Association, and  shall  have 
power to fill  all  vacancies in  the  Board  of 
Directors.

ARTICLE  X— ORDER  OF  BUSINESS.

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

meeting.

3.  Admission of members.
4.  Reports of special  and  standing  com­

mittees.

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

committees.

9.  Report of Treasurer.
10.  Adjournment

ARTICLE XL

TbeumnaJ  meeting  of  the  Association

A  livelihood  for  agents of either sex  selling 
ASBESTUS INSOLES
WARM T H E  FEET  IN  W INTER, Ç50OI* IN  SUMMER.
A PREVENTIVE&CURE

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N euralgia.
STS.SHOESTORFS
GX2TSEXTG BOOT.
p*We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck 'Bros.,  Druggists, (Irand Rapids, Mich

S E B F O X i S S E X M S B

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our  own  make.  A  complete 
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FANCY 
CROCKERY,  'and  FANCY 
WOODEN-WARE,  our  own 
importation, for holiday trade.
Inspection solicited.  Chicago and De­

troit prices gurranteed.

B

R A N D

BALTIMORE OYSTERS
Complete change of prices,  owing  to  an  in­
side price on Freight.  We can 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,

37  Canal  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Wholesale Fish and Oyster Depot,
ALBERT COYE & SONS
AW NHTCS, TENTS

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W H O LESA LE  D EA LER S  IN  

Oiled Clothing, Ducks. Stripes, Etc.

73  Canal Street, 

-  G rand  Rapids, Mich.

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C. S. YALE & BRO.,
FLAMII  BXTRAGT8!

—M anufacturers  ot —

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B L U I N G S ,   3 6 3 T O .,

40  and  43  South  Division,  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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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

Haiti!, Ptrtus & Ci,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

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Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

H E S S ,

DEALERS  IN

NOS.  133  and  134  LOUIS  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

CHOICE  BUTTER  A   SPECIALTY’! 
CALIFORNIA  AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRUITS  AND VEGETABLES.  Care­
ful Attention Paid to Filling  Orders.

M.  O. RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st., Grand Rapids.
WIsÆ.  F .  S I NÆ AÆ O  IST S ,

WHOLESALE

PINE  AND  HARDWOOD  LUMBER,

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

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

BUY

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SNOW  SHOVELS
Gurtiss, Dunton & Co.,
Paper  and  Woodenware,

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