Michigan  Tradesman

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  W EDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  17,  1886.

The Chicago Board of Trade.

From the Chicago Currerft.

the  familiar 

A stranger visiting  Cnicago for  the  pur­
pose of viewing its celebrated  public  build­
ings would  soon  find  himself  on  La Salle 
street,  facing southward.  Before  him,  ris­
ing in stately magnificence,  and  apparently 
blocking up the street, is  a  massive,  cathe­
dral-like structure with central tower of am­
ple and symmetric proportions, and adorned 
near its top with a huge dial-plate, and elec­
tric coronal, and a  veering  miniature “ship 
of state.”  Drawing  nearer  for  inspection, 
the visitor discovers various emblems of ag­
ricultural  and  mythological  origin  carved 
upon the heavy  walls  of  the  granite  pile, 
and over its spacious portal he reads, in let­
ters  of  stone, 
inscription 
“Board of Trade.”  He  knows  now  where 
lie is,  and  begins to  walk  leisurely  around 
the colossal edifice.  The little grinning de­
mons  “squat  like  a  toad”  which  meet  his 
eye and which were  evidently derived from 
the symbolism  of  “Paradise  Lost,” are in­
tended to represent,  he supposes, the victors 
in the speculative contests carried on within, 
while  the  crucified  corner  statutes,  with 
grief-bowed  heads, bearing  on their  shoul­
ders,  like Atlas of  old,  the weight of  over­
hanging  and  projecting ornaments,  are in­
tended, he imagines,  to portray the poor un­
fortunate  sufferers who  came out behind in 
the race  after  sudden  wealth.  Sheaves  of 
wheat and ears  of  com, partly  husked,  in­
termingled  with  uncoutli  images  of  “gor- 
gons dire” and  monsters  of  the  earth  and 
sea, convey more legitimately and pleasant­
ly the true and  specific  purpose  for  which 
this building was erected.

Entering 

the  elaborate  vestibule  and 
mounting  the  broad  granite  stairway  he 
emerges into the  largest  unobstructed  and 
unsupported hall  that has yet  been built on 
either side of  the Atlantic.  A scene of un­
surpassed architectural beauty and commer­
cial activity at once bursts upon his astonish 
ed gaze, and  for  a  moment  almost  takes 
away his breath and senses.  The fairy crea­
tions of  Aladdin’s  lamp  in  the  “Arabian 
Nights” are forcibly  brought  to  mind as he 
contemplates the frescoed walls and the lav­
ish splendor of  equipment  witli  which the 
entire room is finished.  Seemingly nothing 
more could be  added  to  make  this trading 
all a perfect  thing  of  beauty  and so a joy 
forever.

“But what is going  on  here?” the visitor 
risks.  Gathered in circles or hurrying across 
the floor  in  all  directions  he  beholds hun­
dreds of men eargerly  intent  upon the pur­
suit of some individual  yet  common object. 
The different groups are closely huddled to­
gether,  like sheep in an  inclosure, and each 
man is shouting to his  associates at the top 
of his voice,  and  accompanying  his  words 
with frantic gesticulations  and  flushed,  ex­
cited features.  “Is this a veritable ‘Bedlam 
let loose?’ ”  the  visitor  queries  in  amaze­
ment,  “and are all these men crazy?”  Very 
far from it,  he is immediately assured.  The 
cause of this excitement  and of  these rapid 
movements is the simple fact that thousands 
of dollars  are  here  changing  hands nearly 
every minute.  The incessant click of a hun­
dred  telegraphic  instruments  is  conveying 
the knowledge of these hurried transactions 
to all parts of  the  commercial world.  The 
East and the West,  the North and the South 
are alike interested in the  information thus 
imparted, while  grave  and  solid  grain and 
provision merchants  in  Liverpool,  London, 
Antwerp and Paris  eagerly  scan the report 
of each day’s doings.  And thus the harness­
ed  lighting  of  two  continents is kept busy 
scattering abroad the  facts  and figures pro­
duced  in  this  apparently  insane  hubbub, 
On either side of  the hall, and  without the 
line of trading-pits,  are rows of marble top­
ped tables,  on  which  are  deposited sample 
bags of grain,  and around these cluster buy 
ers and sellers,  shippers  and  exporters,  ex­
amining  the  goods  and  determining  upon 
the price  of  exchange.  Market  quotations 
from all the large trade-centers  of  America 
and Europe are received during  the trading 
hours,  and are at once posted  upon conven­
iently  arranged  blackboards.  The  wheat- 
pit usually  attracts the  largest  crowd,  the 
provision-pit comes  next,  and the  corn and 
oat  traders  bring  up  the  rear,  except 
times of special  activity, when  this regular 
order of things is liable to  he reversed. 
In 
the four comers of the hall are small separ­
ate rooms for special purposes,  and on  two 
sides are  galleries,  from  which  astonished 
spectators  look  down  with  feelings  of 
wonderment upon the  turbulent  and  noisy 
scene below.  As a whole, the sight is truly 
a strange and significant one, and the casual 
visitor  usually  turns  away  from  it  with 
brain and heart tossed hy conflicting and un­
wonted emotions and reflections.

Among such reflections,  doubtless, are the 
following:  “Is the influence of this notable 
Chicago institution  wholly  beneficent upon 
the welfare of the city and  its tributary ter­
ritory? 
Is  it  absolutely  necessary  to  the 
carrying on of the legitimate  grain and pro­
vision trade of  the country that there should 
be such  violent  proceedings?”  Concerning 
the last query the  visitor  might  at  first be 
inclined  to  answer  negatively,  and  argue 
with  himself  thus:  Grain  and  provisions 
are constantly being bought and sold at oth­
er points in the land without  any  such hur­

rah  and  excitement,  and  why  cannot  the 
same be done here?  Such an enormous out­
lay of money as this building  and  business 
involves,  and  such  a  wild  hullabaloo  are 
surely incongruous with  the  quiet  transfer 
of such common articles as  wheat,  corn and 
pofk.  Why  not  meet  together  calmly,  in 
some common center,  and  dispose  of these 
products  in a sober  and  rational  manner? 
And it must be confessed  that  the visitor’s 
argument would be a good one if it were not 
for one element of this trade  which he does 
not  accurately estimate  or  properly under­
stand.  This element  is known  in  popular 
parlance  as  speculation,  and  constitutes 
more than two-thirds  of  the  entire activity 
presented to view.  The regular  legitimate 
transactions on  all  Boards of  Trade  could 
indeed be  carried  on  without  so  much at­
tending commotion,  but in that case the bus­
iness itself would  shrihk  to very  moderate 
proportions  as  compared  with  its  present 
volume.  Dealing in  “futures” of grain and 
provisions imparts that element  of  risk and 
danger to the trade which  causes and inces­
sant  and  rapid  fluctuation  of  values,  and 
is attended  with so  much  nervous  anxiety 
and  commercial  uncertainty.  Hence  the 
silent argument  of  the visitor  virtually re­
solves  itself  into  this  proposition:  Could 
the grain and provision trade  of  this  coun­
try be condncted in  such  a way as  to elim­
inate entirely the speculative  element, as is 
the case in many of  the  markets of the Old 
World?  Such a question is a very far-reach­
ing and  important  one,  and  would  be an­
swered in different ways by different minds. 
At the present time  the majority of  replies 
among those  engaged  in  it would  make a 
prepondering  and  decided  negative.  Still 
the fact remains that in former  times, even 
in Chicago, this  speculative  feature of  the 
business  was  almost  wholly  absent.  The 
growtli of  speculation in  grain  and provis­
ions has sprung apparently from the growth 
of the trade  itself.  Little  by little it crept 
in  among  regular  and  legitimate  transac­
tions,  and soon spread  itself over the entire 
area whicli those transactions  covered.  At 
first only an unimportant adjunct of the bus­
iness,  it has  now  grown to  such  immense 
proportions as to throw legitimate and regu 
lar trade far  into the  shade.  To-day, two- 
thirds or more of all the trading done on the 
floor of the  Board  is  purely  speculative in 
character. 
It is buying and  selling futures 
or options.  Just now the May option is the 
favorite deal, and  buying  and selling grain 
and provisions  deliverable  next May  make 
up the bulk of the  daily  exchanges.  Take 
tlxis dealing in futures away from the Board 
of Trade and its hall would  become at once 
a quiet lounging place  for  shippers and ex­
porters.  No such building in fact would be 
needed,  as  a  much  less  expensive  room 
would accommodate all who would  natural 
ly gather there.  The present colossal struc­
ture, it should always  be  remembered,  was 
erected by speculators  for  speculative trad­
ing  principally,  and  the  shipping  and  ex 
porting  business  carried  on  at  the  same 
time and place forms only an inconsiderable 
part thereof.  Under present circumstances, 
therefore,  it would  be  nearly  or  quite im­
possible to eliminate this speculative feature 
of trade in grain and provisions without ser 
iously,  and perhaps  fatally,  curtailing  the 
trade itself.  The vigorous  offshoot has en 
tirely overshadowed the  parent  trunk from 
which  it grew.  The  boy has outgrown his 
father,  and  dominates  the  “old  gent”  to 
carry out his own sweet  will and behests.

It cannot be denied that certain objection­
able  concomitants  have  arisen  from  this 
speculative trading, but how to remove them 
has not  yet  been  made  manifest.  One of 
these is fte  practice  df  dealing  in  “puts 
and  “calls,” which leads to  more of less ar­
tificial  manipulation  of  prices  in  order to 
“protect” buyers and sellers in  their specu 
lative ventures.  When  such  manipulation 
arrests the  natural  tendency  of  values and 
brings about a false  and  short-lived  move­
ment in an opposite  direction, it creates for 
the time  being  an  illusive  aspect of  trade 
that misleads and injures the simple-minded 
and  would-be  honest  operators.  And  all 
such losses or gains make legitimate trading 
more and more diflicult  and dangerous. 
In 
this way and by such  methods  all  specula­
tion inevitably tends to bum itself out like a 
volcano,  leaving only devastation and wreck 
behind.  As an example  of  this  effect one 
has only to read the  history of the rise and 
progress of mining speculation as carried on 
in former years at San Francisco and in oth­
er cities of the Pacific coast.

This brings us  directly  to the  considera­
tion of the  first  question  which  came  into 
the visitor’s mind,  namely:  Is the influence 
of this notable  Chicago  institution  wholly 
beneficent upon the  wellfare of  the city and 
its tributary territory? 
It goes without say­
ing that an  association  of  this  commercial 
character and magnitude would  necessarily 
be a power for good or evil.  Located in the 
heart of the city,  and embracing in its mem­
bership many of  the  most  prominent  citi­
zens, a continuous wave of  influence would 
naturally  emanate  from  its  presence  and 
daily  activities.  And  such  is found  to be 
the  actual  result.  There  are,  in  fact, but 
lew business men in  this  city or in the sur­
rounding  country  who  have  never  “tried 
their luck”  in  a  speculative  deal  of  some

kind.  Of course,  the vast majority of these 
entures have proved  unsuccessful  to their 
originators, but in these cases what was lost 
by one party has always been gained by an­
other,  so that the net financial result of  the 
different  transactions  has  been  a  simple 
change in the  ownership of  money.  Phys­
ically,  the result of this  business  has  been 
an undoubted loss of  nervous  tissue caused 
by undue excitement while  the  deal was in 
progress.  Mentally,  the  result  has  been a 
decided quickening  of  intellectual  percep­
tions  concerning  the  hidden  relations  of 
cause and effect.  Experience certainly keeps 
a dear school, but the  majority of  business 
men learn in no  other,  and  the knowledge 
thus imparted is  usually  found  to be of in­
calculable worth in afteT life.  Morally, this 
business has been the occasion of much pro­
fanity,  vain  regret,  and  keen,  biting  re­
morse.  Many  an  unlucky  speculator  has 
been led to curse the  day of his  own birth, 
as well as that of the business, and has been 
ready  to  declare  emphatically 
that  the 
Board of Trade and its operators were noth­
ing but a gigantic delusion and a snare.  All 
these,  however,  are  but  personal  results. 
Commercially and financially  the  Board  of 
Trade is a direct promoter  of  general  busi­
ness activity and  prosperity.  The  amount 
of capital  that is kept  in  circulation by its 
operations  is  enormous,  and  the  employ­
ment  it  furnishes  to thousands  of  traders 
and dealers,  here and elsewhere, contributes 
materially to the  sum  total  of  commercial 
industry.  This  country produces annually, 
on an average, about  450,000,000 bushels of 
wheat,  1,500,000,000  bushels  of  corn, and 
15,000,000 hogs, to say nothing  of oats,  rye 
and  barley,  and  these  immense  products 
must  be  handled  by  somebody.  To  take 
them from the producer and put them in the 
hands  of  the  consumers  requires  a  vast 
amount  of  money  and  an  equally  large 
amount of labor,  and were  there no organi­
zations  or  special  means  to  facilitate  this 
transfer enormous quantities of  stuff would 
inevitably be  wasted  before  they  could be 
marketed. 
In this way Boards of Trade all 
over the country are of great benefit  to pro­
ducers  and  consumers  alike,  as  they fix a 
price for the stuff and carry large quantities 
of it until it is wanted for use. 
In fact, the 
modem  system  of  commercial  exchanges 
could hardly dispense  with these  agencies, 
and as long as  the present agricultural pro­
ducts of the country  continue to  be  grown 
so long will there be a class of men who will 
organize and work  together in  buying  and 
selling them.

Hence it would be an  altogether rash and 
hasty conclusion to say that this notable in­
stitution of Chicago is  an  unmixed  evil so 
far as its influence  upon  the welfare of the 
city  and  country  is  concerned.  Certain 
branches of the business  could undoubtedly 
be lopped off with  advantage  to all parties, 
but these  features are of  the  nature of ex­
crescences or  fungus  growths  rather  than 
inherent and organic parts of its body.  The 
enterprise,  ambition and  go-ahead power of 
speculators are proverbial,  and if our Board 
of Trade should ever collapse or be oblitered 
(which  is  hardly  a  possibility)  it  would 
leave  a  large  vacancy  in  our  commercial 
life, and be justly regarded as an undoubted 
calamity. 
It  is  felt,  however,  by  its best 
friends and warmest  supporters  that some­
thing ought to be done to check the growing 
manipulation  of prices for sinster and spec­
ulative  ends,  but  just  how  to  accomplish 
this result is  at  present  an  unsolved prob­
lem. 
It may  be that  the  evil  in  question 
will in time correct itself by  bringing about 
a loss of legitimate  business to the  institu­
tion and,  in fact, such a loss is already quite 
severely felt.  Of course,  no  public institu­
tion  dependent  upon  the  patronage of the 
public  for  its  support  and  prosperity  can 
afford to carry on its business so as to mislead 
and disappoint and financially injure all out­
side parties who come  to it  for the purpose 
of buying and selling its stable commodities. 
Right here is the weakest and worst part in 
this institution.  The  increase and  growth 
of this method  of  dealing  with  each other 
and with outside patrons has  brought down 
upon the institution  itself  more  curses and 
stirred up  more  hostile  feelings  against it 
among  the  general  public  than  all  other 
causes and occurrences combined.

But  with  all  its  faults  and  excellences 
Chicago’s Board of Trade is here to stay.  It 
is,  and  always  will  be,  one  of  our  most 
noted  and  most  notable  institutions. 
Its 
palatial  mart  is  an  architectural  ornament 
of which every citizen is proud,  and its bus­
iness might be equally  a matter of  congrat­
ulation and satisfaction to one and all if the 
purely speculative part of  it  could  be kept 
within the bounds  of  strict honor and just, 
upright dealing.

Cream cheese is made in England  as  fol­
lows:  Take a quart of cream, or,  if not de­
sired very rich,  add thereto one pint of new 
milk.  Warm it in  hot  water  till  about  98 
degrees, add a tablespoonful  of  rennet,  let 
it stand till thick,  then break it slightly with 
a  spoon,  and  place it in a frame  in  which 
you have previously put a fine canvas cloth, 
press it slightly with a weight,  let  it  stand 
a few hours,  then  put  a  finer  cloth  in  the 
frame;  a  little  powdered  salt  may  be  put 
over the cloth. 
It  will  be  fit  for  use in  a 
day or two.

NO. 126.

Report  of the  N.  Y.  Dairy  Commissioner 

for  1885.

Dairy  Commissioner  J.  K.  Brown  has 
submitted to the Legislature a  report of his 
official  transactions  during  the  year  1885. 
The document  will  be  printed  for  general 
circulation.  There  are now pending in the 
courts in the State of New York upwards of 
one hundred and fifty cases of prosecution for 
violations of the  law.  The  most vexatious 
delays in that kind of prosecution, the Com­
missioner states,  have  been  experienced in 
New York City, while in Brooklyn the pros­
ecutions have been carried forward speedily. 
As  to the correctness of  the  milk standard, 
the  Commissioner  takes  the  ground,  war­
ranted by the analyses of specialists,  that it 
is practically impossible to find a cow which 
will give milk containing  more  than 88 per 
cent, of water,  or less  than  12 per  cent, of 
milk solids.  The  analyzers  obtained  milk 
from cows  in different parts of the State,  in 
every  desirable  condition  of  pasturage, on 
high land and  low land,  in  localities where 
the water differed,  from stall fed cows, pas­
tured cows, and cows fed  upon brewers’ re­
fuse and other articles of  food. 
In making 
these tests care lias  been taken  to have the 
milk  pails  entirely  free  from  water,  and 
agents of the department have watched care­
fully to see that the milk  which  was deliv­
ered to the experimenter  was  not  meddled 
with from the milking to the laboratory.  In 
every case such  milk has  been  found fully 
up to the standard. 
In  view of  the results 
obtained,  the  Commissioner  considers  the 
question of a milk standard  to be now fully 
settled.  The  amount  of  money  paid  into 
the State  Treasury'  during  1885,  for viola­
tion of the dairy laws,  was  §2,281.88.  Ac­
companying the report of the Commissioner 
are those of several of his  assistants in var­
ious parts of the State.  Assistant Commis­
sioner Yan Valkenberg gives  an exhaustive 
account of what  lias  been  done  to  protect 
the people  of  the  metropolis  from  impure 
milk and  counterfeit  butter.  He finds that 
there is no foundation  for  the  reports that 
farmers have been guilty of mixing oleomar­
garine  with  dairy  butter, and  selling  the 
compound as pure  butter.  He  also asserts 
that while the sale of imitation butter with­
in the State has been  materially reduced,  in 
consequence of the laws that have been  en­
acted  against  it,  the  sales  throughout the 
United States  have, since  1883, greatly in­
creased.  Assistant Commissioner Perry,  at 
Buffalo,  expresses  doubt  whether  there is 
another city in the State in which  the  peo­
ple  are  so  grossly  imposed  upon  by  milk 
dealers as the citizens of Buffalo.  Another 
sub-report is  rendered  by Dr.  R. D.  Clark, 
of Albany, who has devoted  his efforts dur­
ing the year  to  expert  work  in the depart­
ment.  He expresses the opinion  that oleo­
margarine  is  unwholesome  and  dangerous 
to health:  first,  because  it  is  indigestible; 
second, because it  is  insoluble  when  made 
from animal fats;  third, because  it is liable 
to carry the  germs  of  disease  into  the hu­
man  system;  and  fourth,  because,  in  the 
eagerness of manufacturers to produce their 
compound  cheaply,  they  use  ingredients 
whicli  are  detrimental  to  the  consumers’ 
health.  Commissioner  Brown,  discussing 
the oleomargarine subject says, that the an­
alysts  have  at  length  caught  up  with the 
manufacturers, and are  now able  to  deter­
mine quickly and  accurately the  precise in­
gredients in any new  composition.  His re­
port,  besides the above cited supplementary 
reports,  will  also contain  two  special  con­
tributions from  Dr.  Elwyn  Waller and Ed­
mund W.  Martin,  of  the  Columbia  College 
School of Mines, which will contain a list of 
the  materials  used  in  the  manufacture of 
oleomargarine.

Ohio’s law, relating to the  sale  of  bogus 
butter, has been under  consideration in  the 
Cleveland  Police  Court,  Judge  Hutchins 
presiding.  This  suit  was  brought  against 
one Simmons  for  selling  oleomargarine  in 
violation  of  this  law;  the  indictment,  it 
seems,  sets forth,  sold as an article of food; 
whereupon  the  attorney  for  defense  de­
murred.  Judge Hutchins sustained the  de­
murrer,  stating that the information was de­
fective,  in that it should have  charged  that 
the substance  was  sold  as  butter,  therein 
perpetrating a fraud,  instead of an article of 
food that might or might not be wholesome. 
In reference to the argument of  defendant’s 
counsel that  the  law  was unconstitutional 
because  the  New  York  Court  of Appeals 
had decided the similar  State  law  there  as 
void, Judge Hutchins said he took a  differ­
ent view. 
‘The  New  York law,’  lie  said, 
read ‘any article designed to take the  place 
of butter,’ while the Ohio  statute said,  ‘any 
substance  designed  to  be  sold  as  butter.’ 
There is a very significant  difference  in  the 
construction  of  the  two  laws.  The  New 
York law is prohibitory, but I hold that our 
own statute is not  prohibitory,  not  in con­
flict with the State or National Constitution, 
nor does it repeal or even  modify the  exist­
ing  statute  relating  to  the  subject.  This 
man may be prosecuted for selling  the  sub­
stance  as  butter,  but  not  as  an  article  of 
food, unless it can be shown to  be injurious 
to  the  public  health. 
I  therefore  sustain 
the demurrer and hold  that  the  law is con­
stitutional  and  can  be  enforced.”  The 
case will probably be  carried up by the but- 
termen.

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Sauerkraut.  100  K ent St.,  G rand  Rapids.

CLIM AX -

PLUG TOBACCO?
ZED T IN  7AC.

T.H F

P Ë K K I N S
'¡Stef.

W I N D   MI L L .

BwSB B E g  «

It has been in constant use 
for  15  years, with a record 
equalled  by  none.  W a r ­
r a n t e d   not  to  blow down 
unless the tower  goes  with 
it; or against any wind that 
does not disable substantial
farm  buildings;  to be perfect;  to  outlast and 
do better work than any other mill  made.
Agents  wanted.  Address Perkins Wind Mill 
& Ax Co., Mishawaka. Ind. Mention Tradesman.
Do not delay in ordering 

_ 

_ 

a case of 
SILV ER  

SPOON

BAKING

POW DER, 
The best selling scheme on 
the  market.  A  large  fine 
dish or pitcher given away 
with  each  can. 
Price, 
$7.50 per case  of  3  dozen.

ARCTIC  MANUFACTURING  CO., 
GRAND  BAPIDS,  MICH. 

Sold by all Jobbers. 

•

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

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

ROCS  CARS'?.

DRYDEN & PALMER’S 
Unquestionably the best in  the  market.  As 
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond. 
Try a box.
Jolm  Oau.lfl.old.,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids

A Million Dollars.

Millions of dollars would be  saved  annually 
by the invalids of every community, if, instead 
of  calling  in  a  physician  for  every ailment, 
they were all wise enough to put their trustin 
lolden Seal Bitters, a certain cure for  all  dis­
eases  arising  from  an  impure  state  of  the 
Blood and Liver, such as Scrofula in its various 
orms, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, 
Female irregularities, Diseases of the Kidneys 
and  Bladder,  Exposure  and  Imprudence  of 
Life.  No person can take these Bitters accord- 
to instructions,  and  remain  long  unwell, 
provided their bones are not destroyed by min­
eral poison or other  means,  and  the  vital  or­
gans wasted beyond the point of repair.  Gold- 
ed Seal Bitters numbers on its list of cures  ac­
quired a arreat celebrity, being used as  a  fam ­
ily  medicine.  Sold  by  Hazeltine  & Perkins 
Drug Co.
GUSTAVE  A.  WOLF,

A ttorney,

Over Fourth National  Bank.  Telephone  407. 

COLLECTIONS

Promptly attended to throughout the State. 

References:  Hart & Amberg,  Eaton &  Christen­

son, Enterprise Cigar Co.

TO THE  TRADE.
We desire to call the attention of the Trade to 
our unusually complete stock of
SCHOOL  BOOKS,

School  Supplies

And a G eneral Line of M iscellaneous 

Hooks, Stationery, Paper, Etc.

We have greatly increased our facilities for 
doing  a  General  Jobbing  Business,  and  shall 
hereafter be able to All all orders promptly.
We issue separate lists of Slates,  School  and 
Township  Books,  Blanks,  Etc.,  which  will be 
mailed on application.
Quotations on any article in our stock cheer­
fully furnished.  We  have  the  Agen’cy  of-the
REM INGTON  TY PE  W R IT E R

F or  W estern  M ichigan.

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

B aton & Lyon
DETROIT
FREE

PRESS

CIGAR.

10c Cigar for 5c.

Brown  Bros.

MANUFACTURERS, 

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W liip s cfc L aslies

DETROIT, 
M ICH.
G. ROYS  <&  CO.,
2  P earl  St.,  G rand  Kapids,  Mich.
STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 K ent Street.

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

CHEMICALS.

Orders hy M ail and Express prom ptly a t­

tended  to.

J X J X > I >   c f c   0

0

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE

. ,

And Full Line W inter Goods.
102  CANAL  STREET. 

____

ALBERT COYE & SONS
AWNUTCS, TENTS

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

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN 

73  Canal Street, 

Oiled Clothing, Ducks, Stripes, Etc.
-  G rand  Kapids, Mich.
GINSENG HOOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.
W E   L E A  D—O T H E K S   F O L L O W  
is  valuable.  The
y w f i e /1
G r a n d   R a p i d s  
Business College is 
practical  trainer 
and fits its pupils for the vocations of busi 
ness with all that the  term  implies.  Send 
for Journal.  Address C. G. SWENSBERG, 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.__________________
LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,

(Successor to P. Spitz,)

SOLE  AGENT  OF

Ferm.ent'am

The  Only  Reliable  Compressed Yeast. 
Manufactured by Rtverdale Dist. Co.,

106 KENT  ST., GRAND RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,

Grocers  and  Bakers  who  wish  to  try 
“FERMENTUM” can get  samples and full 
directions by addressing  or  applying  to the 
above.

A JOURNAL DEVOIE» TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Sia

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  17,  1886.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapid» October 8,1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard. 
Treasurer—Geo. B.  Dunton.
Annual Meeting—Second . Wednesday evening 
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday even 

of October.
ing of each month.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association.
President,  Frank  Hamilton;  Secretary,  C. 
Lockwood ;  Treasurer, J. T. Beadle.

B usiness  Men’s  Protective  Union 

Cheboygan.

President,  A.  M.  Wesgate;  Vice-President 

H. Chambers;  Secretary, A. J. Paddock.
Ionia  Business  Men’s  Protective  A s 

sociation.

President, Wm.  E.  Kelsey;  Vice-President 

H. M. Lewis;  Secretary, Fred Cutler, Jr.

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

TH F  REAL  REMEDY.

The  Detroit  Evening  News,  which 

nothing if not facetious,  thus slaps the face 
of the grocery trade of  the  country  in gen 
oral and Grand Rapids in particular:

The Retail Grocers’ Association of  Grand 
Rapids discussed selling  “eggs by weight, 
at their last  meeting,  and  “hucksters  and 
peddlers” will be the next subject.  Now,  i 
they will tackle “alum hi  baking  powder, 
“sulphuric acid in pickles,” oleomargarine, 
and  about  a  thousand  other  poisons  and 
cheats in daily  food,  and  wrestle  with the 
problem of eliminating  them, the retail gro 
cers may earn the thanks of a suffering pub­
lic.

Few papers  in the  country  take  greater 
delight  in  disseminating  scandals  and the 
particulars of uncanny  happenings than the 
Detroit Neivs.  When questioned regarding 
the propriety of making  such  publications, 
the News invariably replies that  there is al 
ways a demand for that sort of  information 
and that the  management  propose  to meet 
the  demand.

for 

clamor 

low  prices, 

The  grocer  stands  in  exactly  the  same 
position.  No reputable  dealer  takes pleas 
ure  in  selling  goods  which  are  poor  in 
strength or rich in adulteration; but the mo 
menthe attempts to sell only standard goods 
he is confronted with the  demand for cheap 
articles,  in consequence of which he is com 
pelled  to  cater  to  the  demand  or  suffer 
the loss of a considerable  percentage of  his 
customers.  The policy  of  most  grocers is 
to encourage the consumption of pure goods, 
but such advice is too often spurned by those 
who 
even 
when  they  are  convinced  that  cheapness 
is not  compatible  with  purity  and  whole 
someness.  The  grocery  trade,  almost as a 
unit,  throws its influence on the side of full 
weight, full count and full strength; but un­
til the people are  educated  up  to a  higher 
standard and come to realize the  utter fool 
islmess of purchasing  poor  goods, the  gro 
cers will be compelled to carry two qualities 
and ask two prices. 
Instead of  sneering at 
a class of men  who  are  doing  all they can 
by argument and example to bring about the 
desired reform,  the Neies  and  other papers 
of its class could be far  more profitably em­
ployed in pointing out the difference between 
pure goods and  those  which are adulterated 
and determining the  saving  of  money  and 
health  incident to  the  use  of  the  former. 
Such a policy  could  not  fail  to  redound to 
the credit of the newspapers carrying on the 
crusade and it would go  a  long way toward 
lightening  the  burden  now  carried by the 
grocer in consequence of ignorance  and stu­
pidity. 

______ ,_______

The  cheese  market  never  opened  more 
auspiciously than this  season.  The market 
is practically bare of the poor  cheese which 
tends  to  keep  the price  of  the  new  make 
down  in  the  spring  and  unless  a  foolish 
scramble  for  priority induces  the manufac­
turers to flood the market  with  hay cheese, 
the prospects are  that  a remunerative price 
will be  maintained  all  through  the  season.

The prospects are  that a  State  league of 
the retail dealers’ organizations of Michigan 
will be formed within the next three months. 
The idea of a  State  association  originated 
with Frank Hamilton, of Traverse City, and 
has  been  accorded  the  cordial  support  of 
T h e T ra desm a n for over a year.

Seventeen new creameries will embark in 
business in this  State  with  the  opening  of 
the  season  for  1886.  Such  a  movement 
toward centralized effort serves to show the 
tendency of the times  better  than  columns 
of written praise for'the  creamery  system.

Michigan ranks first in the  production  of 
salt, lumber,  iron and copper;  and the rapid 
growth  of  the  dairy  business  gives  good 
ground for the belief that  the  State  is  des­
tined to take front rank in  still  another  di­
rection.

Ionia is the seventeenth town in Michigan 
to present a  merchants’  organization.  The 
chances are that the  for nation of the twen­
ty-fifth association will be chronicled within 
the next three months.

Several new stores are to be built at How­

ell, besides private dwellings.

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Tlios. Keating  succeeds  Holland & Hart­
man in the  retail  grocery  business  on  the 
comer of East Bridge and  Clancy street.

Tuinstra Bros,  have  engaged in  the  gro 
eery business at the comer of Madison street 
and Fourth  avenue.  Cody,  Ball & Co. fur­
nished the stock.

John  Dykstra, of  the late  firm of Bottje 
& Dykstra,  hardware dealers at Grand Hav 
en, will shortly engage in the hardware bus 
iness on West Leonard street.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

A  company  has  just  been  organized  at 
Howell for the manufacture of wagons, and 
one is talked of for the manufacture of reap­
ers.

E.  D. Yoorhess,  of  the  Michigan Overall 
Co.,  at Ionia, was in town a couple of  days 
last week,  interviewing  the  jobbing  trade. 
He reports a brisk business and says the fac­
tory is running overtime to  keep  pace with 
orders.

T.  C.  Prout, formerly engaged in the gro­
cery  business  at  Mancelona,  was  in  town 
last week.  He contemplates the erection of 
a grist  mill at  Harrison,  Clare  county,  but 
has not yet  fuily  decided  as  to  the size or 
capacity of same.

A.  M.  Baker, grocer at  Concord, has sold 

STRAY  FACTS.

out.

Hauck  &  Fox  have  engaged  in  general 

trade at  Pewaino.

S.  H.  Lasley  &  Co.,  general  dealers at 

Montague, have sold  out.

Hall  &  Strong,  grocers  at  Nirvana,  are 

succeeded by Hall & Farrington.

H.  H.  Parr, the Petoskey grocer, has leas 

ed the Park House at that place.

P. & A.  Steketee, general dealers at Hol­

land are succeeded  by A.  Steketee.
. John W.  Smith  succeeds  Joseph  Wyeth 
in the drag business at Three Oaks.

M. A. Potter, general  dealer  at  Oakfield 

Center,  has sold out to A.  D. Lashell.

F.  H. Randall succeeds Osbom & Randall 

in the grocery and feed business at Clare.

Geo. C. Merrill succeeds  Merrill & Bacon 
in the  machinery business at East Saginaw,
It was  reported that A. B. Foote has sold 
his general stock at Hilliards to Frank Tan­
ner.

Hugh  Loughlin  succeeds  Loughlin  & 
Schroeder in the hardware business at Fow 
lerville.

Kingsbury &  Hayden  succeed  Kingsbury 
&  Trowbridge  in  the  grocery  business  at 
Cassopolis.

Alban & Johnson succeed Alban «fcBegole 
in the clothing and  gents’  furnishing goods 
business at Ypsilanti.

Cassius M.  Dennis  succeeds the estate of 
Dyer Dunning in the hardware  and agricul­
tural implement business  at  Edwardsburg.
S.  C. Scott &  Co.,  druggists  at  Howard 
City, have  dissolved,  C. B.  Munn retiring. 
The  business  will  be  continned  by  S.  C. 
Scott.

Grand Haven Herald:  Bottje & Dykstra 
have dissolved partnership.  The  latter  re­
tires  and  will  probably  start  in  business 
alone in Grand Rapids  soon.

C. B. Johnson  and  L.  B.  Milliard  have 
formed a copartnership at Adrian under the 
firm name  of  Johnson  &  Millard  and  will 
engage in the drug business there.

Frank  Wilmarth  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  at  Petoskey  to  A.  Oberholtzer,  of 
Vlanson.  Mr. Wilmarth  will  continue  in 
the meat business at his old stand.

Wm. A.  Foster has purchased an  interest 
in the firm  of  Andrew  Foster  & Son, boot 
and shoe dealers at  Port  Huron.  The firm 
name will  hereafter  be  Andrew  Foster  & 
Sons.

Plain well  Press:  The  manager  of  the 
Norton & Wolff stock will close up business 
here the last of next week.  Carroll & Rob­
ertson will open a stock of  dry goods at the 
same location about March 1.

John Graham, who  has  been  engaged in 
general trade at Wayland for eighteen years, 
has traded his stock and store building for a 
farm near the village.  The name of ¿he new 
proprietor is Wm. H. Bartholomew.

Howard  Record:  We  are  informed that 
Gaylord & Pipp, of Pierson, will move their 
stock  of  goods  to  this  village and  occupy 
the rooms vacated by Collins, Robbie & Co., 
some time during the present  month.

Detroit News:  When  George  N.  Traver 
sold out his  Woodward  avenue  dry  goods 
store, J. K. Burnham & Co. bought the stock 
and sold an interest to Messrs. Day & Camp­
bell, Bumliam  &  Co.  remaining  as  silent 
partners.  They have now sold  out to their 
partners and the  firm  will  now  be  Day  & 
!ampbell,  instead of  Day,  Campbell & Co. 
Ionia Standard:  The Ionia business men 
ave completed the formation of  their  pro­
active association  and  adopted  a  constitu­
tion and by-laws.  W.  E.  Kelsey was elect­
ed president; II.  M.  Lewis,  vice-president, 
red Cutler jr.,  secretary.  This association 
is designed to operate for  the  retail dealers 
much as the commercial agencies do for the 

holesalers.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Wm.  Campbell, of  the  planiDg  mill firm 
of Merrill & Campbell, at Bay City, is dead.
A sash and door factory, to employ a large 
number of  hands,  is  to  be  built  at  Reed 
City.

Wm.  H.  Smith  has  purchased  the flour­
ing mill of Cole & Monroe, at Ravenna, and 
will add needed improvements.

The Elk Rapids furnace is  doing a  daily 
average now of 58 tons of pig iron—the big­
gest of any charcoal furnace in the world. 

Bode & Keeney’s new  sawmill  at  Ferry, 
hich was  furnished by W.  C.  Denison,  is 
claimed to be the finest running  miil on the 
lake shore.

The Michigan  Flooring  & Handle Co., at 
Summit City, has contracted to furnish 200,- 
000 chair  rockers,  and  will  put  m  a  band 
saw at once.

Jerome Dickinson will complete his shin­
gle cut near  Howard  City  in  about  ninety 
days, when he will remove his mill to Black 
Iioek, Arkansas, where he owns 4,000 acres 

Cyprus and oak timber.
It does not seem to be a certainty that the 
Grace  charcoal  pigiron  furnace,  at  Mar­
quette, will be  started up  immediately,  al­
though statements to  that effect have  been 
authentically  made  by  those  interested  in 
the management of the property.

The Oakland  Woolen  Co.,  of  Rochester, 
is succeeded by tbe  Western  Knitting  Co., 
of Detroit.

T.  R.  Lyons’  salt  well  at  Ludington is 
down over 1,450 feet.  A vein of petroleum 
was struck a few days ago.

John Borland,  banker  at  Imlay  City,  is 
succeeded by the Lapeer County Bank, with 
an authorized capital of 850,000.

C. H. Wharton has purchased  an interest 
in the meat  market business  of John  Yea- 
key,  at Wayland, and the firm will be known 
as Yeakey & Wharton.

Since August  1  last  it  is  estimated  that 
1,500,000,000 feet of standing  pine in Mich­
igan has  changed hands,  the  consideration 
for which approximates 85,000,000.

Wheeler’s shipyard in West Bay City has 
about  100  men  at  work.  There  are under 
construction two large lake barges and three 
tugs,  besides  considerable  repairing  going 
on.

A.  M.  Henry, attorney  for  Alger’s  rail­
road,  was lately in Alpena negotiating with 
the citizens there for  aid  to an extension to 
that city.  The  proposed  road  would  pass 
through the Hubbard lake region.

Youngblood & Yevia,  of  Muskegon,  are 
slab dealers.  They are bringing 1,200 cords 
of dry slabs  from  Evenwood  to  Muskegon 
by rail.  The slabs are cut into stove lengths 
and  then  shipped  to  Chicago  and  other 
points.

The Petrie Lumber Co.,  at Muskegon, has 
sold the schooner Ironsides to the Muskegon 
Tug  Association  for  82,500.  She,will  be 
placed in the Chicago and Muskegon lumber 
trade,  and will be towed  back  and  forth by 
a tug.

An enterprising individual recently put in 
an appearance at Reed City  and  announced 
his intention to start a starch factory at that 
place.  He was accordingly made'the recip­
ient of numerous favors,  which he  recipro­
cated by jumping his board bill and skipping 
to parts unknown.

A  handsome  young  farmer  lass  sold  an 
Ionia grocer several crocks of  beautiful yel­
low butter,  for which she received the high­
est market figures.  When  the  girl had de­
parted  and the  butter  was  more  carefully 
examined,  it was discovered  that the crocks 
were  filled  with  back  number  lard  over 
which a thin coating of  butter  was  spread.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

Haven.

Gus Bejreman, Bauer.
Mr. Wilson, Wilson, Luther & Wilson, Luther. 
H. W. Potter, Jennisonville.
C. Porter, Chauncey.
John Ball, Fremont.
J. Ackinson, Middleville.
Duff & McMurray, Ada.
Mr. Wabeke, Zeeland.
P. Hilton & Co., Ludington.
H. L. Walwratli, Nashville.
Wm. Borst, Vriesland.
G. V. Triphage,  Pewamo.
Alex Denton. Denton & Lovely, Howard City. 
W. C. Otto, Middleville.
C. Deming, Dutton.
Wagner & Wells, Eastmanville.
Mr. Daggett,  Buckley  & Daggett, Petoskey. 
Mr. Chapel, Mathews & Chappel, Hart.
Mr.  Dykstra,  Botteje  &  Dykstra,  Grand 
H. Baker & Son, Drenthe.
J. E. Rice,  Rice & Lillie, Coopersville. 
Moerdyk, DeKruif & Co., Zeeland.
M. Heyboer & Bros., Drenthe.
Jas. Wyngarten, Grand Haven.
W. 8. Goodyear,  Hastings.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
Darling & Smith, Sparta.
John Cole, Fremont.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Dr. A. Hanlon, Middleville.
J. N. Wait, Hudsonville.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
L. Perrigo, Burnip’s Corners.
L. K. Gibbs, Gibbs Bros., Mayfield.
John Danaber, Baldwin.
D. B. Galentine, Bailey.
Nicholas Bouma, Fisher.
A. E. Smith, Cadillac.
Phillips & Babcock, Allendale.
Forman & Aldrich, Lowell.
W. E. Woodruff, Saranac.
S. S. Morris, S. S. Morris &  Bro.,  Muskegon.
G.  H.  Wharton,  Yeakey  &  Wharton,  Way- 
J. J. Wise/nan, Nunica.
Mr. Fisher, Carrell & Fisher, Dorr.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
I.  J. Quick, Allendale,
H. M. Harroun, McLain.
Mr. Tannis, Den Hender &  Tanis, Vriesland. 
Mr. Spring, Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
B. A. Jones, Leetsville.
John Dursema, Fremont.
N. W. Crocker, Byron Center.
John Faraway, Beaver Dam.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
Mr. Roush, Reigler, Rousch & Co., Freport.
A. Purchase, South Blendon.
E. B. Lapham, Rockford,
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
Robert Minnie, Lowell.
C. W. Peters, Bangor.
Byron Me Neal, Byron Center.
Jacob Grutter, Grandville.
J. M. Friar, Berlin.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
A. L. Carpenter, Baldwin.
D. W. Lbattuck, Wayland.
Jerom e Dickenson, Belmont.
A. Norris, A. Norris &  Son, Casnovia.
T. C. Prout, Mancelona.
Frank Hamilton, Hamilton & Milliken, Trav­
E. D. Voorheis,  Michigan  Overall  Manufac­

land.

erse City,
turing Co., Ionia.

Furniture Facts.

S.  S. Black, of the  furniture manufactur­
ing firm of Black & Williard,  at  Buchanan, 
is dead.

Marshall Statesman:  Charles  N.  Cook, 
the  furniture  dealer,  has  executed  an  as­
signment  for  the  benefit  of  his  creditors, 
naming  Ezra  D.  Clark  as  assignee.  The 
full amount of his assets and  liabilities  are 
at present unknown.

TRICKS  OF  TH E  TELEPHONE.

A Popular Liveryman  Made the  Butt of a 

Practical Joke.
From the  South Bend  Register.

II.  C. Morgan, the  grocer  enjoys a  good 
joke as  well  as  anyone,  and  he  spares 
neither  friend  nor  foe  when  he  sees  an 
opportunity to get in a good one.  His most 
recent victim is Wm.  B.  Edmunds,  of  Put- 
nam & Brooks, candy manufacturers,  Grand 
Rapids.  This gentleman,  when in the city, 
makes his  headquarters  at  the  grocery  of 
Morgan &  Porter.  He  was  here  the  day 
after the recent  Studebaker fire. 
lie  step­
ped into the  grocery with  his  sample case, 
and after selling Mr.  Morgan what goods he 
desired,  he  telephoned  one  of  the  livery- 
stables for a horse and cutter to drive to the 
grocery stores  in  the suburbs  of  the  city. 
When the  horse was  driven up to  the door 
Mr. Edmunds,  “Taffy Bill,” as  he is called, 
stood in the door  in  conversation  with  Mr. 
Morgan.

“Great heavens! where  did  you get  that 
horse?” inquired Morgan,  as Edmunds step­
ped into the sleigh.  “Look  out the  crows 
don’t carry him off before you get back.”

Edmunds took up the  lines  and  away he 
flew up Washington  street,  at  a  gait  that 
fairly took the breath away from  him.  He 
was  just  beginning  to  recover  from  the 
thrust that Morgan had given him about the 
horse when he reached Lahey Bros.’ grocery 
on South Cliapin  street.  Morgan  watched 
the rig for a  block,  and  then  stepped  bad 
to the telephone and called  up Lahey Bros, 
grocery.

“Say,  Taffy Bill  is on  his  way up there, 
When  he  arrives,  feed  his  horse  and ask 
him where he got that  old crow-bait,”  said 
Morgan.

“Caw, caw,” issued  from  the  throats of 
three or four men who were  onto  the joke, 
as Edmunds hitched  his  horse  and  carried 
his sample case into  the  store.  Edmunds’ 
attention was attracted by the peculiar noise, 
but as he did not know any of the parties he 
did not think they were poking fun at  him 
“Well,  well;  if  here  ain’t  the  poorest 
horse I ever saw,” said  Fod  McCord to the 
party of  three or four  who  had  assembled 
about  the  sample  case  of  the  gentleman 
with the sweetened  name,  as  he stepped to 
the door to view  Edmunds’ rig.  “I am go­
ing to give him some  oats.”  And  he set  a 
box in front  of the animal,  took off the bri­
dle and poured a couple of quarts of oats in 
the box.  When  Edmunds  started  for  the 
grocery of Lahey &  Staples  on  South Wil­
liam street, his ears  were  startled  by a re­
petition of “caw, caw.”

When Edmunds  reached  the end  of  his 
second drive,  Morgan’s message through the 
telephone had preceeded  him, and he found 
that he was received  in  the same  manner. 
His horse was the butt of all kinds of jokes, 
and he soon departed, in not the best of tem­
per,  amid the “caw, caws,” of a large crowd. 
His next stop was to be on  South Michigan 
street,  and as he  passed  the house of No.  1 
hose  company,  the  boys  gathered  on  the 
sidewalk to give  him a cheer “as he passed 
by.”

When the irate  candy  dispenser  reached 
the .grocery  of  Reamer  &  Williams  and 
found a box of cut potatoes  set out in front 
of the store for  his  horse,  his  anger knew 
no bounds,  and  he returned to the stable to 
tongue-lash  the  man  who  had  given  him 
such a rig to drive  about  the  city.  He re­
turned to tell  his  grievances to  Hank Mor­
gan,  and when he found that man so full of 
laughter that he could not listen to his stoiy, 
he began to “smell a mice.”  When Morgan 
told him that the joke had  been perpetrated 
through the use of the  telephone,  Edmunds 
hastened to the livery-man  and  made most 
humble  apologies.  Cry  “caw”  at  Hank 
Morgan now and he turns red in the face.

Miscellaneous  Dairy Notes.

The Buchanan creamery  will begin  busi­

ness March 15.

Mr.  Seitz  has  operated  the  Royalton 
creamery all  winter,  with  profit  to himself 
and satisfaction to his patrons.

F. E.  Pickett has  been  elected  secretary 
and salesman and Ed.  B. Baker treasurer of 
the Coldspring cheese factory,  at  Hilliards, 
for the coming season.

The capacity of the Maple River creamery 
at Ovid is to be increased the coining season 
by the addition of another churn and the en­
largement of the refrigerator.

A Graafschap correspondent writes:  The 
prospects  are  that  Graafschap  will have a 
creamery.  M. Notier, who  will  embark in 
this  enterprise  provided  the  farmers  will 
give their  support,  was  in  Kalamazoo  last 
week to investigate the creamery system and 
was very favorably impressed.  If this comes 
about the firm of Notier  &  Lokker will dis­
solve partnership, and several other business 
changes will follow.

There was received at  Coldspriug  cheese 
factory,  Hilliards,  during  the  season  of 
1885,  1,081,150 pounds of milk.  There were 
made  during  the  flush  of  milk  seventeen 
cheese per  day,  averaging  about  forty-five 
pounds each.  The product has been mostly 
sold  in Grand  Rapids  at  a  gross  price  of 
89,206.69.  There were fifty  cheese  burned 
in Cincinnati, on which there  was  a loss of 
of 886.  The average number  of  pounds of 
milk for one pound of cheese for the season 
was  nine  pounds.  The  lowest  price  for 
which cheese  was  sold  was  six  cents, and 
the  highest  price  was  eleven  cents.  The 
average  price  was  nearly  seven  and  two- 
thirds cents.  The  lowest  net  price  to  the 
patrons for milk  per  month was 52% cents 
per  hundred  pounds  and  the  highest  was 
81.02  per  hundred  poltnds.  The  average 
net price to the patrons f^ m llk  for the sea- j 
son was nearly 69 cents.

The Dairy Convention.

There is no longer question as  to the suc­
cess of the second annual convention  of the 
Michigan Dairymen’s Association, to be held 
at Kalamazoo  this  week.  The  attendance 
will probably aggregate 400 each day, while 
the  display  of  dairy machinery and appli­
ances  will  be  the  finest  ever  seen in  the 
State.  The  following  is  the  programme 
prepared for the occasion:

TUESDAY  AFTERNOON,  FEBRUARY  16.
The convention will be called  to  order at 
2:30 p. m., when the  following  order of ex­
ercises will be held:

Address of Welcome—Col. Delos Phillips, 

Kalamazoo.

Response—G. B.  Horton,  Fruitridge.
Additional Responses—Vice-Presidents of 

the Association.

Annual Address of  the President—Milan 

Wiggins, Bloomingdale.

Appointment of Committees.

EVENING.

Music.
Paper—“Practical  Cheese  Making”—W. 

H.  Howe,  Flint,

Reading of Correspondence.
Address—“The  Holstein-Friesian  Cow” 

—Frank H.  Sweet,  Grand Rapids.

Music.
WEDNESDAY  MORNING,  FEBRUARY  17.
Paper—“Good Milk a Necessity”—Frank 

E.  Pickett,  Hilliards.

Paper—“Winter  Dairying”—L.  F.  Cox, 

Paper—“Farm  Creameries”—S.  J.  Wil­

i Kalamazoo.

son, Flint.

AFTERNOON.

Paper—“Twenty-five years Experience in 
Dairying”—Augustus Haven, Bloomingdale.
Paper—“Care  of  Milk”—T.  M.  Robe, 

Paper—“The  Jersey Cow”—D.  T.  Dell, 

Kalamazoo.

Vicksburg.

EVENING.

Music.
Paper—“Some Peculiar Phases of Cheese 

Poisoning”—G.  B.  Horton,  Fruitridge.

Paper—“The Dairy  Cow”—Frank  Rich­

mond,  Saranac.

Paper—“Cheddar Cheese”—W. II.  Howe, 

Flint.

Music.
THURSDAY  MORNING,  FEBRUARY  18.
Discussion—“The Best  Feed for Cattle.”
Paper—“The  Best  Rennet  and  Salt”— 

Jas. Skinner,  Davison Station.

Report of Secretary and Treasurer.

AFTERNOON.

Paper—“Book-keeping  on  the  Farm”— 

Prof. Parsons, Kalamazoo.

Election of Officers.

EVENING.

Music.
Address— “Tyrotoxican, 

Cause  and  rrevention- 
Vaughan, Ann Arbor. 

Music.

its  Nature,
-Prof.  Victor  C.

The Gripsack Brigade.

A.  S. Doak is  severely ill  with an attack 

of congestion of the lungs.

John  A.  Sherick now represents  Rindge, 

Bertsch & Co.  in Central Michigan.

Jas. E.  Day, representing the Musselman 
Tobacco Co.,  of  Louisville,  was  in  town a 
couple of days last week.

C. B.  Lamb,  the Plainwell trunk  manip­
ulator,  who was  one of  the  first  to steal a 
dog, writes T iie  T ra d esm a n  that the ani- 
mai is “doing finely.”

Frank R. Miles, formerly invoice clerk for 
Foster, Stevens & Co.,  has gone on the road 
for that house,  taking  the  C.  & W. M.,  L. 
S. & M.  S.,  G.  R.  &  I.  and M.  C.,  south, 
md the D.,  G.  H. & M., east.

Chas.  M.  Norton,  formerly  with  Du- 
chamie,  Fletcher  & Co.,  of Detroit  lias en­
gaged to travel for the Gunn Hardware Co., 
taking the Northern territory.  He will start 
out on his initial trip for the new house this 
week.

Geo. J.  Heinzelman,  for  several  years in 
the employ of Rindge,  Bertsch  &  Co.,  suc­
ceeds  John II.  Palen as traveling  salesman 
for that house.  His  territory  includes the 
C.  & W. M., north and south,  the D., G.  II. 
& M.,  west, and  Mackinaw  division of  the 
Michigan Central.

A new wrinkle among commercial travel­
ers is the  use  of  business  cards  bearing 
their  own  portraits.  The  theory  is  that 
when a salesman gives his card to a country 
merchant he  leaves behind  him  something 
which will enable the c. m. to recognize him 
the  minute he  steps  into  the  store  on his 
next trip.

“The old  adage  about  bakers  receiving 
the news of an advance in flour by telegraph 
and a decline by mule team finds a  striking 
coincidence  in  the  treatment  accorded  me 
by my house,”  said  a  well-known  grocery 
traveler the other day.  “If  sugar  happens 
to go up a sixpence,  the  house  sends  me  a 
half-dozen telegrams  to  as  many  different 
towns; but if the scales turn  the other way, 
I never hear of it until I get home Saturday 
night.  What I would like to see is to  have 
a house notify  its  travelers  of  declines  as 
well as advances by telegraph.”
Purely Personal.

Sid. V.  Bullock,  the  Howard  City  phar­
macist,  is now in the employ of S.  C. Scott, 
at that place.

Frank Hamilton, of the firm of  Hamilton 
& Milliken,  at Traverse  City,  was in town 
last Wednesday.

Edwin Densmore is  getting  out a line of 
basket splint  machinery for  R.  M.  Wanzer 
& Co., of Hamilton,  Out.

Oscar D. Fisher  is  in  receipt of  a  hand­
some fire  screen  from  Japan. 
It  was ac­
companied with the compliments of the Em­
peror, who acknowledged ovei his own auto­
graph that Mr. Fisher was the best tea buy­
er this side of the Pacific. 
$

!

The Decline of the Cheese Factory in Kan­

sas.

Prof.  E.  M.  Shelton,  who  is connected 
with  the  Kansas  State  Agricultural  Col­
lege, writes as  follows  relative  to  the  de­
cline of the  cheese  factory  in  Kansas and 
surrounding States:

Wherever I went I found  that the cheese 
factory had given  place  to  the  creamery, 
which seemed to  be  as  necessary to  every 
hamlet as the church or school-house. 
I do 
not propose here to  philosophize  upon  the 
causes which,  in  the  west,  at  least,  have 
made the history of most cheese  factories  a 
record of  dismal  and  most  expensive fail­
ures, but content myself with a reference to 
certain facts.  The whole matter is compre­
hended in a brief statement.  The American 
people love butter,  and they despise cheese, 
and with good reason;  for  the green,  raw, 
curdy cheeses which almost  alone  are  kept 
on sale in  western  markets  are,  with  Bo­
logna sausage and sauerkraut,  the  most in­
digestible  of  edible  things,  which  no  one 
can  persist  in  using  without  becoming  a 
confirmed  and  hopeless  dyspeptic. 
It  is 
useless for the dairy journals  to  urge  upon 
the  American  people,  as  they  do  so con­
stantly,  the  cheapness  and  great  nutritive 
value of cheese.  The average American  is 
wiser in his day and generation than the in­
terested advocate.  The  lesson to be taught
the true lesson—is, that  no  cheese ought 
to  be  put  on  the  market  before  it  is six 
months old;  and  that  well-made  and  thor­
oughly-ripened cheese is not only digestible, 
but an aid to the digestion of other aliments, 
—pie-crust, for instance.  When the Ameri­
can  people  are  taught  to  eat  thoroughly- 
ripened  cheese,  they  will  like  it  and get 
good out of it;  and a home  demand  for  the 
product will be created which  will soon put 
fire under the boilers of the now idle cheese 
factories and into the eyes of  their  owners,
I doubt not.

The  creamery  has  this,  to  the farmers, 
overwhelming  advantage  over  the  cheese 
factory,  that it leaves the skim  milk  in  the 
hands of the farmers,  who are thus  enabled 
to raise calves and pigs,  and good ones,  too.

Ionia Will Support the State Organization.

I o n ia,  Feb.  13,1886. 

Editor Mic h ig a n T radesm an:

D e a r  Sir—We  have  just  organized  a 
business  men’s  protective  association,  and 
to further  enlighten  ourselves,  I  have  re­
spectfully to request you to  forward  to  my 
address a copy of your constitution  and by­
laws,  rales and regulations. 
It is very grat­
ifying to me to note  evidence  that  there  is 
deep interest manifested by the  long-suffer­
ing retail grocers in Michigan, and  I would 
earnestly  pray, if  I  had  the slightest idea 
that a grocer’s prayer would be  heard,  that 
a State organization may speedily  be effect­
ed, believing it would result in  incalculable 
good,  and in the saving of tens of thousands 
of dollars  annually  lost under the  lax  sys­
tem of giving credit  to  persons  unworthy.
1  ours is a live city, embracing  within  its 
limits many of the best grocers in the State, 
and having an intelligent retail  grocers’  or­
ganization already in  the  field  doing  good 
work.  Why cannot your association  call  a 
meeting  to  be  held,  for  instance, May  15 
next in your city,  having for its  specific  ob­
ject the organization of a State “Retail Gro­
cers’ Association?”  I am sanguine the gro­
cers of the State would respond with  pleas­
ure  to  such  a  call,  and  that  good—great 
good, and only good—would flow therefrom.

Respectfully,

W il l ia m  E.  K e l se y , 

President I.  B. M.  P. A.

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Drugs Äflfoebicines

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARM ACY.
One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Two Years—F. H. J. VanEmster, Bay City. 
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—J ames Vernor, Detroit.
Five Y ears—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Aibor. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Tpar fill 
Next  place  of  meeting—At  Grand  Rapids, 

J ns* Vernor.

March 2,1886.
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

OFFICERS.

President-H . J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
First  Vice-President—Frank  J.  Wurzburg,
SeconddV^ce^Pre8ident—A. B. Stevens. Detroit, 
Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. 
Secretary—S. E. Parkell, Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—Jacob  Jesson,  Geo. 
Gundrum, Frank Wells, F. W.  R.  Perry  and
T^eal Secretary—Will L. White, Grand Rapids. 
Next  p l ^   of  m eeting-A t  Grand  Rapids, 
______________
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

Tuesday, October 13,1886. 

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9,1884. 

OFFICERS.

President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—H e n ry  B. Fairchild.
Board  of  Censors—President,  Vice-President
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm,  H. 
V an Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
„   r
Wm. L. White. 
Committee on Pharmacy—M. B.  Kimm,  h .  e .
Locher and Wm. E. White. 
.
Committee on Trade  Matters—John  E.  Peck, 
H. B. Fairchild and Wm. H. Van Leeuwen. 
Committee  on  L eg islatio n   Jas.  D .  L acey, 
Isaac Watts and A. C.  Bauer. 
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
November, 
Next M eeting—Thursday evening, March 4,  at 
“The Tradesman” office._________________

_  _ 

. 

.

.

D etroit Pharmaceutical Society.

Organized October, 1883.

OFFICERS.

President—Wm. Dupont.
First V ice-P resid en t—I rank Inglis.
Second Vice President—J.W . iLaUlwell- 
Secretary and Treasurer—F. W. R. Perry. 
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—A. B. bait-
Anmial Meeting—First Wednesday in June. 
Regular  Meetings—First  W ednesday  in  each 

month.

Jackson  County Pharmaceutical  A sso­

ciation.
OFFICERS.
President—It. F. Latimer.
Vice-President—C. D. Colwell.
Secretary—F. A.  King.
Treasurer-Chas. E. Humphrey.
Board of Censors—Z.  W.  Waldron, C.  E.  root 
Annual Meeting- FirstThursdav in November. 
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday  ot  each 

and C. H. Haskins.

month.

Saginaw  County  Pharmaceutical  So­

*
TEMPORARY  OFFICERS.

ciety. 

Chairman—Henry Melchers.
Secretary—D. E.  Prall.
M uskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.

OFFICERS.

President—I. F. Hopkins.
Vice-President—John Meyers.
Secretary and Treasurer—O. A. Lloyd.
Regular Meetings—Second and  iourth  Friday 
„   .  „
Next Meeting—Friday  evening, l<eb. 26.

of each month. 

. 

BOGUS  PATENTS.

A Swindling Scheme  Which  Agitates  the 

Philadelphia Drug Exchange.

From the Philadelphia Press.

The attention  of  the  Philadelphia  Drug 
Exchange was called at  the recent  twenty- 
fifth annual meeting to the  swindling prac­
tices of a  confidence  operator  upon  manu­
facturers of proprietary medicines. 
It was 
claimed that the alleged swindlers  provided 
themselves  from  junk  shops  and  other 
sources with empty bottles,  filled them with 
a counterfeit  decoction, and  either  secured 
labels  and  wrappers  from  the  proprietor 
under the representation of their need to re­
furnish damaged  goods, or, failing  in  that, 
bought some of the damaged  goods  fwm  a 
dealer,  stripped  them  of  the  printing  and 
sent back the lot as damaged stock to be re­
placed  by  an  equal  quantity  of  finished 
goods.  Upon these  representations  it  was 
decided to warn the trade  of  the  existence 
of such  operators.  M.  N.  Kline, of  Smith, 
Kline  &  Co.,  druggists, 309  North  Third 
street, was the gentleman who  made the in­
vestigations that led to the discovery  of  the 
operations of the swindlers.

“The principal dealer in this sort of thing,” 
said Mr.  Kline yesterday,  “is a man  named 
Albert T.  Fetter, who lias various addresses. 
Ilis last address was at 1233  Ridge avenue, 
where there is a beer saloon at which lie  re­
ceives stock,  but he is  living  under  an  as­
sumed  name  in  another  part  of  the city. 
His associate in the bogus trade  in William 
T. Totten,  wholesale and retail patent med­
icine  dealer,  at  673  North  Tenth  street. 
These people profess to be enemies  of  high 
prices  and  to  show  that patent medicines 
can be retailed below  the  bottom  prices  of 
manufacturers.  Dr.  Eccles  exposed  the 
same tiling before the  Brooklyn  Druggists’ 
Association.”

“What is the method of  operation?” was 

asked.

“This is the  way:  Fetter  writes  to  the 
manufacturer that he has a  number  of  bot­
tles of medicine on hand that  have  become 
damaged,  and requests  that  new  wrappers 
and labels be sent to repair the goods, or, if 
the manufacturer prefers,  he  offers  to send 
the bottles back to be rewrapped. 
In either 
case,  he gets a fresh lot of labels  and wrap­
pers.  Sometimes Totten conducts  the  cor­
respondence,  and in that case Fetter’s name 
Is never mentioned,  ‘a friend’ being referred 
to,  to  whom  the  goods  belong, or  as  one 
from whom Totten desires  to  make  a  pur­
chase,  provided they are placed  in  suitable 
condition.

After the labels and wrappers are secured, 
old  bottles  are  bought,  many  of them  se­
cured from junk shop dealers, and filled with 
a fluid to resemble the genuine article.  They 
are then provided with  genuine  labels  and

wrappers, and  sold  at  a  good profit much 
below the regular  rates.  When  the  manu­
facturer prefers, as he frequently does, that 
the goods to be rewrapped be  sent  to  him, 
the bottles,  stripped of  their  literature  and 
filled with the genuine preparation, are sent 
to him.  When the bottles are returned, the 
wrappers are used for the  bogus  medicine. 
In last May Fetter wrote this  letter  to  Dr. 
David  Kennedy,  proprietor  of  Kennedy’s 
Favorite Remedy:
Mr. D. Kennedy:
Re spe c t e d  Sik—Have written you three 
times for  two  dozen  wrappers, labels  and 
circulars  to  rewrap  that  amount  of  Ken­
nedy’s Favorite  Remedy,  and  have  not  re­
ceived them or heard  from  you  since,  so  I 
have concluded that some one  in  your  em­
ploy is stealing your mail and  that  my let­
ters have not reached you, so  I will register 
this. 
If you will accommodate me with the 
above, I  will  try  and  return  the  favor in 
some way, will also pay for above on receipt 
of bill. 
If you prefer,  I will send the goods 
to you to be  repaired.  Reference, William 
T.  Totten, wholesale and retail patent med­
icine  dealer,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Please  let 
me  hear  from  you  soon,  and  very  much 
oblige,

Very truly yours,

A lb e r t T.  F e t t e r. 

1110 Thurlow street, Philadelphia, Pa.

“Dr.  Kennedy replied to this that  the  la­
bels had already been sent, but had not been 
received,  and  he  feared  that  another  lot 
might share the same  fate. 
lie, therefore, 
asked that the damaged goods be forwarded 
to  him  by  express.  Fetter at once wrote 
that the goods should  be  expressed  on  the 
following day,  and said:  ‘Have washed and 
cleaned  bottles  so  as  to  save  time  and 
trouble in repairing them.’  The bottles were 
soon returned freshly wrapped.

“Dr.  Kennedy,  some time  afterward,  re­

ceived this letter:

P h il a d e l p h ia ,  July 20,  1885.

D e a r Sir—Have about live dozen of your 
Favorite Remedy in unsalable  condition;  if 
you  would  kindly  send  wrappers, etc.,  to 
put  in  good  order,  you  would very much 
oblige, or if you do not care to  send  wrap­
pers and would rather see the goods are gen­
uine,  will send them.  Please advise.

W il l ia m  T.  T o tten, 
Patent medicine dealer, 

673 North Tenth street, Philadelphia.

“In this case the same process was  again 
gone through with.  On the 8th of last June 
the following letter was sent to A. C. Meyer 
& Co., of Baltimore:
Sirs—A friend of mine has a little  lot  of 
Bull’s C. Syrup unsalable on account of lack 
of wrappers;  would you be  willing  to  send 
me wrappers or if so desired  will  send  you 
goods to reshape.

Thine,

W m.  T.  T o tten,
672 North Tenth street, Philadelphia, Pa.

“This  request  was  complied  with,  and 
afterward several lots  of  goods  were  sent, 
stripped of wrappers and labels, to  be fitted 
out  anew.  The  last  lot  was  returned  to 
Totten  unwrapped,  with  the  explanation 
that,  as the bottles had been tampered with, 
it was impossible to tell if they  were  genu­
ine.  A private mark was put on  each  bot­
tle,  however,  in  order  to  detect  fraud  if 
there should be any.  Subsequently some of 
the marked bottles  with  proper  labels  and 
wrappers were found in  the store of George 
B. Evans, to whom they  had  been  sold  by 
Fetter under an assumed name.  Fetter and 
Totten  have  tried  the  same game with  at 
least  Half  a  dozen  other  kinds  of  patent 
medicine, frequently with success.  Fetter’s 
excuse in most of these cases  was  that  the 
wrappers had been washed off  or  damaged 
through being kept in  a  flooded  cellar.  A 
deluge of water seems to have followed him 
everywhere  he went.  The statement about 
the wet and flooded  cellars is pronounced  a 
falsehood  by  people  with  whom  Fetter 
boarded.”

A  man  named  Crozier  indulged  in  the 
same  practices  here, but  has  departed  for 
New York, where he has been  arrested and 
twenty  bills  of  indictment  found  against 
him.

M ichigan Board of Pharm acy.
M u s k e g o n ,  Mich., Feb.  16,  1886.

A meeting for  examining  candidates  for 
Registration under sec. 5 of  “an act to reg­
ulate the practice of pharmacy in  the  State 
of Michigan” will be held by  the  Michigan 
Board of Pharmacy in the Board  of  Super­
visors’ room,  Circuit Court  building,  Grand 
Rapids, Tuesday,  March 2,  1886, at 9 o’clock 
a.  m.

Candidates  for  examination  will  please 

report at above rooms  at that time.

Blank forms  can  be  obtained  from  any 

member of the Board on application.

J acob J esson,  Secretary.

Som ething Lacking.

From the Wall Street News.

The owner  of  one  of  the largest  cotton­
seed oil  mills  in  the  south'  was  in  New 
York the other day, and  in  the  course of a 
business conversation the remark was made:
“Colonel now thatjeottonseed oil is used in 
lard, butter, olive oil,  paints and so on,  you 
owners of mills ought to be happy.”

“There is only one thing lacking,” replied 
the  colonel,  as  he  heaved  a  sigh.  “We 
want something to  adulterate cottonseed oil 
with.” 

*

A  Beautiful  Play.

Saloon Keeper (whose  place  of  business 
adjoins a theater, to manager)—Vot vas dot 
next blay von dot  pillpoard,  Mr.  Dropcur- 
iatn?

Manager—“Hamlet.”
Saloon Keeper—How  many  acts  Vas dot 

“Hamlet?”

Manager—Five.
Saloon Keeper (with great  satisfaction)— 
Five  acts  mit  dot  “Hamlet?”  Dot  vas  a 
peautiful blay.

Order a sample package of Bethesda Min 
oral Spring Water  from  Hazeltine,  Perkins 
& Co.  See  quotations  in  another  column.

N o Show  for the Creditor.

“Rather a strange thing occurred the oth­
er  day,”  said  a  jewelry  drummer,  as  he 
lighted a match on his pantaloons;  “I went 
to a town out in  Iowa  to settle  up  our  ac­
count with a firm  there  that  had been run­
ning  behind in their  payments.  The firm, 
composed of two  brothers, was  one  of  the 
largest in town, and  I  had  no  fear of trou­
ble, but when I  arrived  there I  found  that 
they had  dissolved  partnership  and closed 
business.”

“Didn’t lose anything, did you?”
“Lose  anything?  Should  say  we  did. 
One brother took all the stock  and  skipped 
East,  and the  other  took  all the  cash and 
lit  out  for  the  West.  What  shoiv  has  a 
poor creditor  got  coming  in  on  the  shank 
end of such a  dissolution  of  copartnership 
as  that?”

Before the Rise.

“What are oranges worth?” she asked of a 

retail grocer.

“Four cents  apiece, madam.”
“Isn’t that perfectly awful?”
“Oranges  have  advanced  madam.  The 
late  cold  weather  in  the  South has  had a 
disastrous effect on the new crop.  Shouldn’t 
wonder if oranges would  sell  for  ten cents 
apiece.”

“Then it would be a saving for  me to lay 

in my next year’s stock now.”

“It certainly wrould.”
She took  out  twenty-five,  saying  as  she 
w'ent out that  she’d  lay ’em away  for next 
Fourth of  July.

A Matter of Taste.

From the Philadelphia News.

Young  Mrs.  Yassarline—You  are  sure 
this is real English  breakfast  tea,  Mr.  Gro­
cer?

“Oh, yes,  we warrant it.”
“Well,  I’ll take a pound if  you  are sure. 
Our visitors «are from London,  and  I should 
be dreadfully mortified to give  them  Japan 
tea by mistake.”

The Drug Market.

Business is good and collections are about 
all that could be  desired.  Alcohol  has de­
clined 2 cents and citric acid has advanced to 
70 cents.  Other articles in the drug line are 
about  steady.

The increased use of  the  type-writer  lias 
given startling prominence to  the bad spell­
ing to those who use it.  You cannot with a 
type-writer, as you can with a pen, blur over 
the word you  cannot  spell. 
In order to ob­
viate this difficulty it is  becoming the  habit 
to write the word  “dictated”  at  the  top of 
the type-written letter.  This gives  the per­
son using the type-writer all the prestige of 
having a private secretary and  condones all 
eccentricities of orthography.

It  will  cure  you. 

The true remedy has at last been discovered. 
It is Golden Seal Bitters.  It  is to  be found at 
your drug store.  It  makes  wonderful  cures. 
Use  it  now. 
It  is  the 
secret of health.

RETAIL  DRUGGISTS

OF  THE  UNITED  STATES.

Gen tl em en—The  constant  call  for  a 
good and loiv-irriccd COUGH  and  CROUP 
remedy has induced us to introduce our Lung 
Balsam  in  three-size  bottles: 
Price,  25 
Cents, 50 Cents and $1  per  bottle.  The  25- 
cent bottles are put up  for  the  accommoda­
tion of all who desire simply  a  COUGH  or 
CROUP remedy.  Those desiring a remedy 
for  Consumption  or  any  Lung  Disease 
should secure the large SI bottles.
May we ask you who are not familiar with 
the merits of Allen's Lung Balsam to order 
from your wholesale  druggist  a  sample  lot 
of any of the sizes,  and  you  will  find  it  to 
give satisfaction,  and that those  once  using 
it will call for it again.
It is for sale by all wholesale druggists at 
popular prices:  $1.75  per  dozen,  small  size; 
$3.50  per  dozen, medium  size;  and  $7  per 
dozen, large size.
We hope you will consider your stock  in­
complete without  ALLEN'S LTJNQ BAL- 
SUM on your shelves.
J. N . H A R R IS & CO., Ltd., Props.,

CINCINNATI,  OHIO.

TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
MICHIGAN  DRUG EXCHANGE,
Mills &  Goodman, Props.

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
MICH.
IT'INE  STOCK of about $5,000 in south eastern 

‘  part of the State.  Must be sold by March 
1.  Will  exchange  for  farm   lands near some 
growing iake town or will sell atgreatdiscount 
For cash. 
___________________________
ANTED—Small  stock  of  $1,000  to $3,000, 
W
SMALL stock in growing town on D., G. H. & 

M. U. R. cheap for cash only.  Doing good 

near to or in Grand Rapids.

business.

OOD  LOCATION  on  Grand  Trunk  R.  R. 
v T   Stock  of  about  $1.500  can  be bought at 
liberal discount for cash.

G. R. & I. R. It., doing a large business can 

be bought on easy terms._________________

STOCK of about $4,000  in northern  town  on 
■   NICE choice stock of about $1,600 T., A. A.

& N. M. R. It. m ust be sold at once on easy 

terms.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Citric acid.
Declined—Alcohol.

Acetic, No.  8..........................
9 @ 10
30 @ 35
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)
Carbolic....................................
34 @ 36
Citric ....................................
70 @ 75
Muriatic 18  deg.....................
3 @ 5
Nitric 36 deg............................
11 @ 12
Oxalic......................................
10 @ 12
3 ® 4
Sulphuric  66 deg....................
52 @ 55
Tartaric  powdered...............
18
Benzoic,  English................... $  oz
12 @ 15
Benzoic,  German.................
12 @ 15
Tannic.....................................
AMMONIA.
Carbonate............................... *9> 14 @ 16
14
Muriate (Powd. 23c)...............
3 ® 5
A qua 16 deg or  3f..................
4 @ 6
Aqua 18 deg or 4f..................
BALSAMS.
40®45
Copaiba..................................
Fir.
P eru.........................................
T olu.........................................
BARKS.
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)..
Cinchona,  yellow..................
Elm, select.............................
Elm, ground, pure................
Elm, powdered,  pure...........
Sassafras, of root..................
Wild Cherry, select.. ..V.......
Bay berry  powdered.............
Hemlock powdered...............
W ahoo....................................
Soap  ground..........................
BERRIES,

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

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (13 and 25 lb doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 lb  boxes)...............
Lgowood, 48 
...............
Logwood, 4 s 
...............
Logwood, ass’d 
...............
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

do 
do 
do 

FLOWERS.

Arnica...............................................
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German.....................

27
37
9
12
13
15
14

12  @ 15
25
25

GUMS.

60® 75
Aloes,  Barbadoes............................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)..................
12
50
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
28® 30
Ammoniac.......................................
90
Arabic, powdered  select..............
90
Arabic, 1st  picked..........................
80
Arabic,2d  picked............................
75
Arabic,  3d picked............................
bb
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
25
Assafoeqtida, prime (Powd 35c)...
55® 60
Benzoin............................................
25® 27
Camphor..........................................
13
Catechu. Is (4 14c, 4 s 16c)...........
35® 40
Euphorbium powdered..................
80
Gatbanum strained........................
80® 90
Gamboge...........................................
35
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino | Powdered, 30c].....................
20
1 25
Mastic..............................................
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered  47c)...
3  40
Opium, pure (Powd $5 00)...............
30
Shellac, Campbell’s ........................
26
Shellac,  English.............................
24
Shellac, native.................................
30
Shellac bleached.............................
Tragacanth  ...................................... 30  @1  00

HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H oarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia.............................................................. 25
Pepperm int.......................................................25
Rue.....................................................................40
Spearm int........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................................35
T anzy................................................................ 25
T hym e...............................................................30
W ormwood...................................................... 25

IRON.

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

4 00 
30

65

LEAVES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25e)................   13  @  14
6
Sage, Italian, bulk (4s & 4  8,12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  @  20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
22
Senna,  powdered............................ 
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
16
Uva  U rsi........................................... 
10
Belledonna.......................................  
35
30
Foxglove........................................... 
H enbane........................................... 
35
Rose, red.............   ........................... 
2 35

LIQUORS.

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....................................135  @175
Gin,  Holland....................................2 00  @3  50
B randy............................................. 1 75  @6  50
Catawba  W ines...............................1 25  @2  00
Port Wines.......................................1 35  @2  50

MAGNESIA.

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

23
37
2 25
65

OILS.

35
1 25
1 20
1  50
6 00
8 50
1  60
2 00
35

Almond, sweet.................................  45  @  50
Amber, rectified.............................  
45
Anise.................................................  
2 00
Bay $   oz......................................... 
50
Bergamont.......................................  
2 50
Castor...............................................   174®  19
Croton...............................................  
2 00
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 $1 50) 
Salad, ’p  gal............................................  
Savm........................................................ 
Sandal  Wood. German......................... 
Sandal Wood, W. 1................................. 
Sassafras........ ..........................................  
Spearm int.......................: ..............  
@9 00
T ansy............................................... 4 00  @4 35
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10  @  12
W intergreen.......................................... 
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00).............  
W ormseed.............................................. 

do 
do 

65

POTASSIUM.

Bicromate.................................^  B> 
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 25c)...................... 
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
Prussiate yellow...................................... 

12@14
40@43
3 00

2 00
2 
1 00
90
1 90
2 25

2 75
1 25
1 30
4 50
8 00
2 75
1 00
4 50
7 00

2 35
3 50
2 00

ROOTS.

JT 

OOD  location on the Lake Shore in lumber- 

ing town.  Stock about $1,500._________

BARGAIN—Fine drug store in north-western 

Michigan, on  railroad, in  growing  town. 
Building for sale or rent on easy  terms.  Fine 
chance  for  physician.  Stock  about  $3,000; 
buildings, $3,000.  P art on time.  __________

BRINCIPAL drug store in western Michigan 

on Lake Shore R. R.  Stock  about  $3,600. 

$1,000  cash,  balance  on  easy time if secured. 

Good paying store.  Good reason for selling
"IT'INE  STOCK in western  Michigan  on  C.  & 
JP  W. M. Railway.  Stock worth about $1,500. 
Good location.
T IT E   HAVE  several  competent  registered 
W   pharmacists on our list and  can  supply 
druggists requiring  assistants  with  well  rec- 
omended assistants on very short notice.

33
 
35

A lkanet..................................................... 
Althea, out................................................ 
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .............................. 
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4 s and 4 s .... 
Blood (Powd 18c)...................................... 
Calamus,  peeled...................................... 
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..........................  
Gentian (Powd  15c)................................. 
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)............  11  @  12
17
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)..........................  
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
20
Ipecao, Rio, powdered........................... 
Jalap, powdered...................................... 
Licorice,  select (Powd 15)...................... 
Licorice, extra select.............................. 
Pink, tru e ..................................... 
fihei, from select to  choice..........1 00  @1 60
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................110  @1 20
Rhel, choice cut  cubes......................... 
Ethel, choiee cut fingers........ . 
2 25

 

1 20

2 00

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

 

 

65
60
43
20
15
25
20

SEEDS.

do 

1  40

2  ®

6 @

45  @

do 
do 

@  40 
15

63  @  65 
20  @  25 
18  @  23 
18  @  30

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

24®  8V 
3  @  4
45
44®  5 
6  @  7
50
2  00 
40 
2 00 
00  @9 75 
2 30 
50
6  @  7
10@12

15
5 @ 6
4 @ 44
15 @ 18
1 50
1 75
15
10
15
34®
4 @ 14
7 @ 8
44® 54
10
7d
7
14
25 @2 50

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............... 
Bird, mixed in lb  packages...........
Canary,  Smyrna..; .........................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery...............................................
Coriander, Dest  English................
F en n el..............................................
Flax, clean.......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 34)..................
Foenugreek, powdered..................
Hemp,  Russian...............................
Mustard, white  Black 10c)...........
Q uince..............................................
Rape, English..................................
Worm,  L evant.................................
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......3
........
do 
Nassau 
do 
. . . .
Velvet Extra do 
do 
Extra Yellow do 
do 
........
do 
Grass 
........
do 
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef. 
................
MISCELLANEOUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.19, #  gal....
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s ............. .........
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto  1 lb rolls............................
Alum .........................................  |)a>
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
Annatto,  prim e...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........
Arsenic, white, powdered.............
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s .
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans, Vanilla.................................7
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue V itrio l....................................
Borax, refined (Powd  12c).............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods. 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..
Chloral 
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform ......................................
Cinchonidia, P. & W ........ *............
Cinehonidia, other brands.............
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................
Cochineal.........................................
Cocoa  B utter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 lb box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prim e...............................
Cuttle Fisn Bone.............................
D extrine.......  .................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s .................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............
Epsom Salts (bbl. 1%).....................
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white..................................
Grains  Paradise........................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine. French  ............................
Glassware, flint, 70 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 dis__
Glue,  caim et..................................
13  @  17
Glue,white.......................................
16  @  28
Glycerine, pure...............................
16  @  20 
Hops  4 s and 4 s ..............................
25®  40 
Iodoform f)  oz.................................
40
Indigo...............................................
85  @1 00
Insect Powder, best  Dalm atian...
35  @  40 
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co„ boxes
@1  00 
Iodino.  resublimed.........................
4  00 
Isinglass,  American.......................
1  50
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................
10  @  15 
Lead, acetate....................................
15 
Lime, chloride,(4s 2s 10c & 4 s 11c)
8
Lupuline...........................................
1  00 
Lycopodium....................................
45 
M ace.................................................
50
Madder, best  Dutch.....................
124®  13 
Manna, S.  F ......................................
75 
Mercury............................................
60
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ oz
2 95@3 20 
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ........
40
Moss, Iceland...........................$  Jt>
12
Moss,  Irish...................................... 
Mustard,  English............................ 
30
18
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 fi>  cans........  
Nutgalls............................................ 
33
60
Nutmegs, No. 1................................. 
10
Nux  Vomica.................................... 
Ointment. Mercurial, 4 d ............... 
45
Paris Green.................................... 
17  @  35
18
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................  
2 50
Pepsin...............................................  
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Q uassia...........................................  
8  @  7
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W............lb oz
80  @ 85
Quinine,  German............................
75® 80
Red  Precipitate......................^  tt>
85
Seidlitz  M ixture.............................
28
Strychnia, cryst...............................
1 60
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
74  @ 78OK
Saffron, American.  .......................
OO2
Sal  Glauber.....................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................
10
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
9
Sal Rochelle................................
33
Sal  Soda.......................... .................
2  @ 2 4
76
2 15
Salic in...............................................  
90
6 50
Santonin..........................................  
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
38
75
4
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................  
48
Spermaceti.......................................  
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __  
44@  5
14
Soap, White Castile......................... 
17
......................... 
Soap, Green  do 
9
Soap, Mottled do 
......................... 
11
Soap, 
do  do 
......................... 
Soap, Mazzini........................................... 
75
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................   26  @  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................   30  @  32
50
Sugar Milk powdered.............................. 
Sulphur, flour..................................  
34@  4
3®  34
Sulphur,  roll.................................... 
60
Tartar Emetic..................................  
2  70
Tar, N. C. Pine, 4  gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin .......... 
140
Tar, 
pints in tin .............  
85
80
Turpentine,  Venice................$1 lb 
25
@ 9 0
55
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 
7  @  8
50
Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder..................................................60
Shield  Cylinder................................................... 50
Eldorado Engine..................................................35
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 30
Challenge Machinery......................................... 25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
55
Paraffine, 25  deg.............................................. 154
Paraffine, 28  deg................................................. 21
Sperm, winter bleached................................1 40
Bbl
Gal
Bbl
Whale, w inter......................................  70
75
70
55
Lard, extra...........................................  55
60
55
45
Lard, No.  1...........................................  45
46
Linseed, pure  raw ..............................  43
43
46
Linseed, boiled..................................   48
49
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   70
70
90
43
Spirits Turpentine..............................  46
50
23
28
N o .lT urp  Coach................ ...............1  10@1  20
..1  10@1  20
E xtra  T urp............................................1  60@1  70
..1  60@1  70
Coach Body............................................2  75@3  00
20
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1 00® 1  10
25
Extra Turk  Damar.............................. 1  55@1  60
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WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY  17,1886.

The Oleomargarine Controversy.

The oleomargarine controversy is at pres­
ent extended to most of  the  butter-produc­
ing countries, the dairy  interest of each  be­
ing anxious that  butter  substitutes  should 
be  so  amenable to the  law  that their com­
petition should be removed or  reduced  to  a 
minimum.  The dairy interest is engaged in 
agitating the repression of  the manufacture 
of butter  substitutes,  finding  most  of  the 
laws which pennit their sale for  what  they 
are inoperative in  checking  their  competi­
tion. 
It is argued by them that the interest 
represents an annual  product  of $500,000,- 
000, and is the largest, or one of the largest, 
interests in the country.  The manufactur­
ers of butter substitutes contend  that  while 
this may be true,  a very large proportion  of 
this interest is devoted to milk,  and  in this 
respect it is not  just to include it In the  es­
timated value.  It is also a question whether 
the value of  the  cheese  product,  which  is 
also included,  should not be  deducted. 
If 
it is, the $500,000,000 would  be  reduced  to 
about $150,000,000.  Arguments are also ad­
vanced to show  that  the  manufacturers  of 
oleomargarine are injuring our export trade 
in butter.  As  an  illustration  it  is pointed 
out that the exports of butter have decreased 
from 40,000,000 pounds in 1880 to 21,638,138 
pounds in 1885.  On  the  other hand,  advo­
cates of butter  substitutes  affirm  that  if  it 
had not been for butter substitutes the price 
of butter would  have  been  so  high  in  this 
country  as  to  render  exports  impossible 
Foreigners are producing  more  butter  and 
are at the same time consuming more of the 
substitutes, the exports  from  this side hav 
ing  increased  from  20,000,000  pounds  in 
1880 to nearly 39,000,000 in 1885.

In same instances  dairy  producers  them 
selves admit that the consumption of  butter 
substitutes is increased hy  the manufacture 
of poor butter,  the  consumer  preferring  a 
good,  sweet,  palatable  imitation  to  rancid 
butter.  Further, 
it  is  contended that  the 
substitution of the scientific preparation for 
the natural is not so serious  as  is generally 
believed. 
In  1860-70  it  is  estimated  that 
the number of cows per 100 inhabitants was 
27;  in  1880,  however,  it  had fallen to 23 
and is now  estimated  at  20.  While there 
had been a decrease in the number  of  cow 
the production of  butter  through improved 
methods  had  increased  so  that  the  con 
sumption  per  capita  increased  during  the 
same time from seventeen  pounds  to twen 
ty-seven and one-half pounds.  The  sound 
objection  urged  against  the  substitutes 
that they are invariably  sold  as butter. 
If 
they were  sold  on  their  merits,  as main 
tained by the  more  liberal  dairymen,  they 
would cease to be a competitive article with 
prime butter, thus enabling the dairymen 
they choose to make a choice butter to obtain 
a fair value for their product. 
In this cou 
nection,  it is argued  by  the  more  exactin 
dairymen that  such  is  practically impossi 
ble, and in confirmation  of  their opinion 
is maintained that most of  the  law's passe 
with this intention have proved more or less 
failures.  On  the  other  hand,  it  is main 
tained that the fault does  not  lay  with  the 
law, but  with  the  administrators.  Manu 
facturers of butter substitutes  do not desire 
to sell their product as  butter,  in  all  cases 
their  quotations  and  packages  being  dis 
tinctly branded what they  are.  They  also 
hold  that  prohibition  is  unconstitutional 
unless it can be proved  that  the product 
unhealthful.

At present  there  are  eight  states  which 

the 

have  passed  laws  prohibiting  the  sale 
manufacture, 
first  being  Missour 
Colorado requires a license to  manufacture, 
deal in, or import butter substitutes.  There 
are  seventeen  states  and  territories  which 
have  laws  regulating  the  sale,  and  elev 
that pennit the sale without any restriction 
New Hampshire  requires  all  substitutes 
be colored pink as a protection to consumer 
This idea of  color  appears  to  have  lately 
gained  advocates,  and  legislation  may 
expected in this direction,  many  advocatin 
that it shall  be  sold  without  color  at  all 
Against this it is urged that if it is offensive 
to color butter substitutes,  it  is  also  objec­
tionable to color butter,  and if  legislation is 
to be earned out against one,  it  is  equally 
just to include  the  other,  as  much  of  the 
genuine article is colored to a greater or less 
extent.

The consumption of butter  substitutes  in 
Great Britain is  very  extensive,  averaging 
probably  not  less  than  four  pounds  per 
capita;  and although there is a national law 
regulating  their  sale,  there  appears  to  be 
dissatisfaction with  it,  and  a new law  has 
been drafted and  presented  to  Parliament. 
It does not prohibit their  sale,  but- it com­
pels that they shall be sold  under a distinct 
name;  that the w ord butter shall not in any 
way enter as a compound to the  name,  and 
that they shall not be colored orange or yel­
low.  The penalties are severe,  and  ignor­
ance cannot be urged as an excuse. 
It  will 
be  some  time  before  legislative  action  is 
Wren upon it.

The English  language  consists  of  about 
38,000 words,  yet when a man is  pulling on 
a tight boot or waiting for his wife to  dress 
he frequently invents a few extra  works  to 
express his feelings.

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.Organized at  Grand  Rapid»,  February 25,  1885.
President—Milan W i g t f n s ,   Bloomingdale.
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe.  Capac;  F-C. 
Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A.  P.  Foltz,  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafellow,  Carson  City, 
W arren Haven, Blopmingdale;  Cha^ E. Bel­
knap,  Grand  Rapids;  L.  1 •  0°*» 
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John Borst, Vriesland;  R. C.Nas^HiBiards, 
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  lo st,  Clarks-
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand
NexlpMeeting—At Kalamazoo, February 16,  17 
Membership Fee—$1 per year.
Official Organ—The Michigan Tradesman.

and 18.

B U T T E R   T H A T   G L IST E N S.

It is  Considered  the  B est  Looking  B utter 

in the County.

F. J. LAMB & CO.,
Fruits,  V egetables,

WHOLESALE DEALEKS IN

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8 and 10 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich..

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  GIVEN  TO  FILLING  ORDERS.

Correspondence Altoona Tribune.

“Take  some  butter,”  said  the  farmer, 
“ Mrs. Brumbaugh makes the best  butter in 
the county.”  I took  some.  The roll showed 
care  and  glistened  like  glass,  and  tasted 
beautifully.  “What do they pay for  butter 
at Marklesburg?” asked  the  lady  in mono 
tone.  “I  think  25  or  30 cents.  “Well,” 
said the  fanner,  “I  get  40 cents. 
I  have 
got  an  agreement  with  two  families  at 
Huntingdon,  to furnish each  ten pounds  of 
butter a week for  two  years,  at 40 cents  a 
pound.”  Change  in  the  market  does  not 
affect us any,” remarked  Mrs. B-----,  slow­
ly speaking.  “You  see  the  glaze  on  that 
butter?” said the farmer, proudly.  “That’s 
what sells it  Huntingdon’s  big  folks like 
that shine. 
I never see any only my butter 
that  was  glazed.”  “How  is  that  done?” 
“Well,” said the lady,  “I an* not  averse  to 
telling,  now that we’ve made this two years’ 
agreement.  Formerly  my  success  was  a 
mystery to some, but  I  don’t mind telling. 
I go by rule,” she said, artlessly handling  a 
fork.  “My milk I set just two inches deep; 
my cream is just so  hot;  I  skim  the  third 
day;  I  chum  Friday. 
In  five  minutes  it 
I  then  wash  out  the  buttermilk. 
comes. 
It  stands  in  the  bowl  till  night. 
I then 
make  it  into  balls  and  then  stamp them. 
They  are  spread  in  rows  on  a wire cloth 
I’ have usually twelve 
slielf—and are done. 
pounds at a time. 
I  then  glaze  each  ball, 
as you see this one is, to polish them.  The 
way to do it is this: 
I take a pint of water 
and dissolve in it a teaspoonful of sugar. 
I 
have this hot.  My butter is on a wire shelv­
ing.  Then 1 turn it on each ball.  When it 
touches the butter it iust melts the  outside, 
and  when  it  cools it is just icy.”  This  is 
the  first  I  have  heard  of “glazed butter,” 
and when  I  saw  the  glassy polish  on  the 
rolls I resolved they were worth forty cents.

T he Farm   Dairy.

Cream needs  not  be  churned on the  day 
It  should  be 

it is  taken  from  the  milk. 
evenly ripe before it is put into the chum.

Butter tubs should be thoroughly cleansed 
and then  soaked  in  brine  before  butter  is 
packed in them.  This will prevent the but­
ter from absorbing taint 

The best yields of milk will be obtained if 
the cows are  allowed,  quietly,  to eat  their 
meals during  the  milking,  free from  noise 
and disturbances of any kind.

Dairy appliances  are  so  much more  con­
venient now  than  in  earlier  days,  that  the 
labor  is  much  reduced;  the  products  are 
greatly  improved  and  the  profits  are  in­
creased.

If cream is well stirred, after being taken 
from the milk,  so as to become  well mixed, 
and  then  put  into  the  chum  at  the  right 
temperature,  the butter will  not be trouble­
some to  gather.

The first point in a dairy is cleanliness, in 
the stable,  in the care of  the  cows,  in their 
food and water,  in milking,  in handling the 
milk  and  in  every  department  connected 
with the business.  The next point is to dis­
pose of all the unprofitable cows and supply 
their places with those that will  pay.

It  is  a  noticeable  fact,  says  the  U.  S. 
Dairyman,  that the majority  of  the butter 
premiums at the Dairy Exhibition of the Fat 
Stock Show went to farm  dairymen instead 
of to creamerymen.  Whether this indicates 
a decadence  of  creamery  interests,  as  pro­
phesied by  some  writers,  or  whether farm 
dairymen are giving more care  to their pro­
ducts than the  creamerymen,  we are unable 
to decide.

W inter Dairying.

After  several  years’  experience  I  have 
found whiter dairying far less  troublesome 
and fully twice as  profitable  as dairying  in 
summer.  As a rule,  the  dairyman  gets his 
herd  into  working  order  in  spring  and 
floods the market  with  butter  in  summer, 
when  lie  has  many  difficulties  to  contend 
with.  His shrewder brother  is  raising  his 
crops and is at work in the fields in  the  hot 
weather, while  the  cows  are  resting  and 
when  butter  is  dull  of  sale  at the lowest 
prices. 
In the fall  his cows come in and by 
October and up to May the dairy work  runs 
along easily with no trouble from overheated 
cows,  short  water,  and  no  interference by 
field  work.  The  butter  brings  a  double 
price.  Just  now  it  is  25  cents  a  pound, 
against 13 in July.  The  same  principle  of 
looking f(/r  the  best  markets  and  seasons 
for marketing,  applies to  fruit  and vegeta­
ble growing, which can be  made exceeding­
ly profitable in many places where now.it is 
never  thought  of.  Another  fundamental 
principle  in  this  regard  is  that  consumers 
often  rarely  realize  the  need  or desire  for 
anything until it is offered to them,  and this 
is to be taken advantage of by farmers near 
villages and towns who  never  think  of  the 
dearth of fresh vegetables  and  fruit  which 
exists within easy reach of their fields.  Pro­
ducing is but half of  the farmer’s business; 
selling is the other half, and perhaps of the 
greater importance.

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other  starch  in  the  market, and  all  we  ask  is  an 
order for a trial box of

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Peaches,  Apples,  Plums,  Cherries,  Apricots,  Figs, 
Dates,  Etc.  W e  are  sole  agents  for  “ COMMON 
SENSE ” Cigar, the best five cent cigar in Michigan, 
I. M. C., the best ten cent cigar in  Michigan.

CLAM,  JEWELL  &  00.

AMBOY  CHEESE-

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

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF
'OBACCl
PLUG  TOBACCO.

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

BED  F O X .................................................
BIG  D R I V E .................................................
PATROL 
.................................................
.........................................
JACK  RABBIT 
SILVER  C O I N .........................................
P A N IC .................................................................
BLACK PRINCE,  DARK 
................................
BIG  STUMP 
APPLE  JACK 
-

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

-
-

- 

-

-

-

-

FINE  CUT.

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

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

- 

- 

-

-

- 
2e less in  6 pail lots.

- 

-

SMOKING.

FINCKEE *  SMITH
Boots, Shoes and Slippers

W holesale M anufacturers

DETROIT,  MICH.

V

/

JgfT’Michigan  A gents W oonsocket R ubber 

C om pany..Jg2

Office  and  Factory—11,  13,  15  and  '17 
Woodbridgc street West.  Dealers cordially 
invited to call on us when in town.

GRANELLO,
MERCHANT 
! 

TAILOR,

LEDYARD  BLOCK,

I  107 O ttaw a S*t.
Suitings for M anufacturers,

Suitings for Jobbers,

Suitings for Retailers,

Suitings for T raveling  M en, 

Suitings for Clerks,

AND

Overcoats for EveryMy.

ARTHUR’S  CHOICE, LONG  CUT,  BRIGHT 
RED  FOX,  LONG  CUT,  FOIL 
- 
- 
- 
GIPSEY  QUEEN,  GRANULATED 
- 
OLD  COMFORT,  IN  CLOTH 
- 
DIME  SMOKER,  IN  CLOTH  - 
- 
2c less in  10 0 pound lots.

- 
- 
- 
AT.  OF  GRAND  RAPIDS,  IN  CLOTH 
- 

- 

.2 
.2o
.26
.27
.24 
.24

These brands are sold only by

A rthur M eigs & Co.

Wholesale

W ho 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  in 
the  city,  to  visit  our  place  of  business,  77, 79 and 
81  South Division Street.  It may save you  money.

PUTNAM &  BRUUKS
lesale laifaetnrers of

PURE  CANDY

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

/BANANAS,  FIGS,  DATES,y 

nsr-mts,  Etc.

where in this issue and write for

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices  in  Oar  Lots. 
We are prepared to male Bottom Brices on anythin! we dandle.
A. B. KNOW LSON,
W M. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Agents  fo r

FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC  WOOL­
ENS  AND  WORSTEDS,  THE  BEST 
MANUFACTURED.  FINE  AND  SER­
VICEABLE  TRIMMINGS.

SUPERIOR  WORK  AND  T1IE  PROP­

ER  STYLE  FOR  THE WEARER.

ALL  AT  PRICES  THAT  WILL  IN­
DUCE YOU TO LEAVE YOUR ORDER.

TIM E  TABLES.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  DIVISION.)
Arrive. 
Express...............................7:15 p m 
Mall.......................................9:60 am  

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 one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
Through  tickets  and  berths  in  sleeping 
coaches can bo secured at  Union Ticket office. 
67 Monre street and depot.

J. W. McKen n ey, Gen 1 Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

tMail..................................... J
+Day  Express......................D
♦Night  Express...................1<
I  Muskegon Express...............<
♦Daily.  +Daily except Sui 
Pullman Sleeping Cars  or 
Through  parlor  car  in  eha 
tendants without extra  cha 
1:00 p. m., and through coacl 
10:40 p. m. trains.

Leaves. Arrives, 
4:30 p m 
9:85 p m 
5:45 a m 
11:80 a m
night  trains, 
if  careful at- 
o  Chicago on 
):15a. m. and

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Arrives. 
Leaves.
7:30 p m 
Express.......  ....................... 4:30 p m
10:50 a m
E xpress.................................8:00 a m  ----- -  —
Ail trains arrive and depart from Union  De-
P The Northern term inus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made  with 
F. &  P. M.  trains  to  and  from  Ludiugton  and
Manistee. 

_

J. H. Ca r p e n t e r .  Gen 1 Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  M u l l ik e n ,  General  Manager.
Detroit, Maokinao  & Marquette.

Trains oonneet with G. It. & I.  trains  for St. 
i  Ignace, Marquette and Lake  Superior  Points,
|  leaving Grand Rapids at 5:00 p. in., arriving at 
Marquette at 2:05p. m. andJ5:30 p.m.  Returning 
leave  Marquette  at 7:00  a.  m.  and  1:40  p.  m., 
arriving  at Grand  Rapids  at 10:1 >0  a.  m.  Con- 
i  nection made at Marquette wit h the Marquette, 
i  Houghton  and  Ontonagon  Railroad  for  the 
I  Iron. Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.
I  Gen’l Pass. & Tkt. Agt.,  Marquette, Mich.
Detroit, Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

E.  W.  ALLEN,

GOING WEST.

GOING EAST.Arrives.
Leaves. 
6:85 am  
tSteamboat  Express..........
10:50 a in 
tThrough  Mail.................... 10:40 am
3:50 p m 
•¡•Evening  Express.......................3:40 p m
10:45 p m 
♦Limited  Express...............  8:30 p m
11:00 a m
tM ixed, w ith  coach............
1:10 p m 
! tMorning  Express.............  1:05 p m
5:10 p m
I tThrough  Mail..................  5:00 pm
I tSteamboat Express...........10:40 p m
7:10 a m 
I tM ixed....................................„
5:35 a m
j »NightExpress..................... 5:10 a m
!• 
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
i  make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
j  and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
The  Night  Express  has  a  through  Wagner 
I Car  and local  Sleeping  Car Detroit  to Grand
j Rapids. 
„   „  
. _  .
D. P ottek, City Pass. Agent.
I  Geo. B.  Ree v e, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

„  

GOING  SOUTH.

Leaves.
11:30 a  m 
5:05 p m 
7:00 a m
7:15 a m 
5:30 p in 
11:45 a m

Grand  Rapids &   Indiana.
GOING NORTH.Arrives.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 a m 
Ft.,Wayne &Mackinac Ex  4:10 p m 
G’d Rapids & Trav. City Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
1  Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  5:05 p m 
'  Mackinac & Ft. Way i eEx.,10:30am  
:  Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac. 10:30 p m 
I  Ail trains daily except Sunday.
I  North—1Train  leaving  at 5:05  o’clock  p.  m.
I  has  Sleeping  and  Chair  Cars  for  Petoskey 
! and  Mackinac.  Train leaving at 11:30 a. m. has 
I combined Sleeping and Chair Car Cor Mackinaw
]  ^ South—Train leaving at 5:30 p. m. has  Wood- 
ruff Sleeping Cur tor Cincinnati.

SLEEPING OAR ARRANGEMENTS.

C. L. Lockwood. Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Michigan  Central.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.

•(•Detroit Express....................................  6:00 a m
! tDav  Express..........................................13:45 p in
I »Atlantic Express...................................10:40 p m
j tW ay Freight..................................................  6:50 am
I »Pacific  Express..............................................6:00 am
i tM ail......................................................... 3:30 p m
! tGrand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:35 p m
!  Way Freight......................................................5:15 pm
| 
!  Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific
Express. 
,  _.  -
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
; Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
i  Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
I  avoiding transfers.
I  The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
|  Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit,
! reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:30 
I  a. m.,and  Boston 3:05  p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached,arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:35 p. m.

chas. H. Norris,  Gen’l Agent

I 

(Sroceries.

Grocers’ Association of the City of Muskegon.

OFFICERS.

President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Keift.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—W m. Peer.
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.
Board of Directors—O. Lambert, W. 1. McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B.Kelly, A.  Towl  and 
E.  Johnson.
Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—O.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman.  Garrit 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  D.  A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot,  R.  S.  Miner  and L. 
Vincent.
Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
and A. Towl.
Transportation Committee—Wm. B. Keift, An­
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of each month.
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, Feb. 17.
R ETA IL  GROCERS’  ASSOCIATION 

OF  G R A N D   R A PID S.

ORGANIZED  NOVEMBER  10,  1885.

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. J. Elliott, Henry A. Hydorn  and 
W. E. Knox.
Finance  Committee—W. E.  Knox,  H.  A.  Hy­
dorn and A. J. Elliott.
Room Committee—A. J. Elliott,  Eugene  Rich­
mond and Wm. H. Sigel.
Arbitration  Committee—Jam es  Farnsworth, 
M. J. Lewis and A. Rasch.
Complaint  Committee—J.  George  Lehman, 
Martin C. DeJager and A. G. Wagner.
Annual meetings—Second Tuesday in Novem­
ber.
Regular  meetings—First  and  Third  Tuesday 
Evenings of each month.
Next meeting—Tuesday evening, March 2.

MICHIGAN  DAIRIES.

[The following is believed to be  a  nearly 
complete  list  of  the  dairies  of this State. 
Those who know of others,  or  of  any  dis­
crepancies in this list,  are requested to make 
the fact known.]

CHEESE  FACTORIES.

Clark,  Baker  &  Co............................ Adrian
Alexander Lobban (Davison)............... Atlas
A.  P.  Foltz  (Richfield)......................   Atlas
Theobald  liottach.......................Anchorville
J. D.  Tomay..............................Anchorville
Hiram Barrows................................. Armada
Leopold Mayer..................................Athlone
E. F.  Preston..................................Bismarck
Warren Haven A Co............... Bloomingdale
Base Line Factory................... Bloomingdale
D.  Plum  (Waver!y)................Bloomingdale
Frank Wilinot (Scofield)........ Bloomingdale
Martin Wait & Sons............................ Butler
E. J.  Savage.............................. Coopersville
J. H.  Murdaugh..............................Croswell
James Skinner (Star)......... Davison Station
Jacob  Beller............................................  . ..  .Detroit
Iiegemnorter  &  Demstra................. Drenthe
Albert  Wilkinson..............................Dundee
Eagle  Factory....................................... Eagle
Allen Miller.......................................Eckford
Durfee  & Flinn....................................... Elm
Davis Wildy.............................................Elm
Wildy& Keaton....................................... Elm
M.  S.  Doyle...................... 
Elsie
W. H.  Smith  (Old  Fairfield)..........Fairfield
B.  E.  Peebles  (Peebles)................. Fairfield
Rufus Baker..................................... Fairfield
Theodore  Ilottacli.......................Fair Haven
Wm.  Allen..................................Farmington
Calvin  Lapham.......................... Farmington
Samuel  Locke............................ Farmington
Arthur  Power............................ Farmington
Asa Smith....................................Farmington
Daniel Richards  (Burton).....................Flint
H. Goliver.........................................Fostoria
L. Hubbenger..........................Fxankenmuth
G. B.  Horton................................Fruitridge
Otto Herder (Original  Fairfield).Fruitridge
James Webb................................... Goodsells
Peter  R.  Blake.........................Grand Ledge
Leslie Joslyn............................ Grand  Ledge
Frank E.  Pickett (Coldspring)___Hilliards
A. E. Chapman  (Springdale)........ Hilliards
Hoytville Cheese Co.......................Hoytville
Caleb Wollpert................................Hoytville
K.  B. Edgell (Springbrook) Hopkins Station
John  Elliott...........................................Iosco
Jas. A.  Dunbar  (Dunbar).................Jasper
B. Davis & Co.  (Amboy).....................Jasper
J.  Joslin.............................................Livonia
L. Joslin.............................................Livonia
Samuel  Wygeyr..................................Lowell
Lynn Cheese M’fg  Ass’n.....................Lynn
Frank  White.......................................Mason
A. J. Colvin  (Medina).......................Medina
P. S.  Lee......... ................................Morenci
Henry Pelgrim........................New  Holland
Walter  Boardwell................................Olivet
J. S.  Griswold.......................... Parshallville
V. P. Murray & S.  D.  Morrell........Partello
W. A.  Smith..............................Plank  Road
John  Varsen 
---- Plank Road
Raisin Union Cheese  Co. 
. .Raisin Center
Cheese and Butter  Ass’n.
---- Rawsonville
Fuller &  Gleason.............
......... Richmond
Peter Blake......................
....... River Bend
Wells,  Stone &  Co...........
........... Saginaw
G. W. Ward......................
....... St. Charles
J. Q. Walling....................
....... Salt, River
Davis & Brown.................
.South  Fairfield 
A. E. Johnson..................
. .Sparta Center
Stryker &  Dugan.............
................. Stark
M.  S. Doyle......................
........St.  Johns
Mrs.  E. F. Preston...........
........... Sunfield
Geo. Ward........................
............... Tyner
Tappan  & Shaffer...........
............... Vassar
H. W.  Dikeman...............
,. .Vermontville 
E.  J.  Sprague...................
Vermontville 
John Borst  (Fairview)........
. .Vriestond
Watson Cheese Co............................ Watson
I. B.  Smith..................................... Wayland
Geo.  Dunwell..................................Wayland
Leighton Cheese  Association........Wayland
L.  S.  Cobb....................................... Winfield
M. C. Haywood &  Co.......................Weston
P. C.  Ostrander  (Nile).....................Weston
F. B. Gurden (Riverside)................. Weston
Geo. Delano (Raisin  Union)............Weston
Davenport, McIntyre & Co................... York
Richard  Redhead  (Amber).
.Zeeland 
S. H. Oatman (Clover Hill)...
— Zutphen

Coldspring Cream & Butter  Co. .Northville
Patton & Harris..............................     .Ovid
Grant, Perkins &  Co.....................Ridgeway
People’s Creamery Co.........................Romeo
-----Seitz.......................................... Royalton
W. B.  Voorheis & Bro................. Tecumseh
Henry Chamberlain,
. .Three Oaks 
,. .Vicksburg 
.. .Whitehall 
White Lake Creamery Ass’n.
.. .Woodland 
Geo. M.  Davenport & Co.......
Queen City Creamery Co........
.. .Ypsilanti
m a n u f a c t u r e r s   o f   d a i r y   i m p l e m e n t s .
Delaware Co.  Creamer Co.. .Benton Harbor
J.  II.  Murdaugh.............................. Croswell
Buckeye Churn Co............................ Dundee
Flint Cabinet Creamer Co.....................Flint
Grand Rapids Refrigerator Co. Grand Rapids
J. Van Putten &  Co.........................Holland
Walter E.  Ames................................Hudson
Geo.  Sinclair.............................. Iludsonville
Creamery  Package  Co.....................Jackson
Michigan Dairy  Supply  Co....... Kalamazoo
Wilder Manufacturing Co................. Monroe
Morton Manufacturing  Co..................Romeo
Mich.  Dairy Salt Co.........................Saginaw
Ypsilanti Cabinet Creamery Co.. .Ypsilanti

Packing Butter.

Many dairymen and dairy women are often 
puzzled to know how to pack  butter so that 
it will have an inviting appearance, not only 
when it goes  into  the  hands of the grocer, 
but when it is sold to  a  customer from  the 
store.  Who  ever  bought  a small quantity 
of  butter,  say  from  one  pound up to ten, 
who did  not  feel  like  growling  when  the 
grocer cut it from a large roll,  or  dug it out 
of a tub in  small  pieces?  And how can  a 
grocer always guess at a given  amount?  To 
obviate this those who  make  butter  on  the 
farm should properly weigh it and make in­
to one-pound prints,  or even  larger  sizes  if 
in rolls.  Let the rolls be wrapped in clean 
muslin cloths,  the ends  nicely  drawn  over 
so as to make a neat  package.  Then fill  a 
large crock or tub with strong brine and im­
merse the rolls  in  it;  put  a  weight  on  to 
keep them from  floating,  and  when  ready 
for the  market  they  can  be taken out  and 
sent to the grocer;  wiio  in  turn can sell  it 
to his customers without  breaking  it all  to 
pieces.  The butter will not absorb salt from 
the  brine,  because  butter  and  salt  never 
make  alliances,,  (this  on  authority  of  an 
old buttermaker),  nor will  it  take up addi­
tional moisture.  Being completely  covered 
with brine,  it will not  be  influenced  by the 
air,  and will remain comparatively fresh and 
sweet  for  a  long  time.  The  lactic  acid 
would also slowly develop  under this treat­
ment,  especially if it be kept  at  a  reasona­
bly  low  temperature.  Another  plan  is  to 
thoroughly  wash  the  butter  while  in  the 
granular  form  with  brine,  and  when free 
from buttermilk place the granular butter in 
muslin sacks holding  two  or  more pounds, 
to suit the wants of customers,  and  put the 
sacks into brine,  as before stated.  Granular 
butter may be kept for  an  indefinite length 
of time if placed in a fruit jar. 
It has often 
been shown at fairs in this condition.  Put 
a quantity of«brine in  a  two-quart jar, or  a 
larger  one;  add  granular  butter  until  the 
brine begins to ran over the top;  let it stand 
a few minutes that  all  the  air may escape; 
then  screw  on  the  cover,  just  as  is done 
when putting up fruit.  This is a more  ex­
pensive way than  either  of  the others,  yet 
tiiere are plenty of people who  will pay  the 
extra price in order to get good butter.  We 
know of several dairywomen  who live near 
large towns who prepare their butter in this 
way,  having  customers  who  make  yearly 
contracts for it.  Not long  since  we  saw  a 
novel butter package,  which, were it not for 
the expense,  would  come  into general  use 
with  families.  The  package  is  made  of 
glass,  and  can  be  made to hold one,  two, 
live or more pounds. 
It  is  made  into  two 
parts,  fitting  closely  together,  and  when 
joined has a piece of parafine paper or label 
around it,  so as to exclude the air. 
In  the 
bottom there is a small hole,  which enables 
the customer to try the butter to see if it lias 
lost its flavor.  This  hole  is  also covered 
with parafine paper,  so as to exclude the air. 
The package  is  easily  opened,  and can  be 
used  as  a  butter  dish.  Farmers  making 
butter for regular customers  could  use  this 
package,  having it  returned  to  them  when 
empty.  This  package  has  not,  we  think, 
been much used in the  west,  and,  as it is  a 
late invention,  only  a  few have been used 
in the east. 
In  this,  as  in  other matters 
connected with the dairy,  care  adds  to  the 
profits.

The  Grocery  Market.

Business and collections are all that could 
be
expected,  considering  the  unfavorable 
weather of the past week.  Sugars are a trifle 
weaker, but  not  sufficiently  so  to  warrant 
any lower  quotations  than  those made last 
week.  Tomatoes  continue  to  advance,  al­
though those jobbers  who  had  good stocks 
on hand are still giving their patrons the ad­
vantage of lower prices  than they  can now 
be  obtained  from  first  hands.  Several 
authorities  assert  that  tomatoes  will touch 
Si.25 before  the  end  of  the  season, while 
others are inclined to the opinion that prices 
are now as high as they will go.

Lemons are in fair demand and prices are 
steady.  Peanuts and dates are again higher 
CREAMERIES.
and  advancing.  The  peanut  crop  is  now 
Wright, Snyder  &  Stutts.......
....... Alma
said to be much lighter than at first estimat­
H. F. Buskirk..........................
.. .Bradley
ed and as the farmers are still holding their 
......................................................................... .Buchanan
crops for higher  prices  it  is  safe to predict 
Cummings & Rockafellow........Carson  City
Centerville Creamery Co..............Centerville
a firm and  doubtless  higher  market  all the 
......................................................................... .Charlotte
season.
Chelsea Creamery Co.........................Chelsea
H. A.  Coe  (Crescent)................Constantine
Aaron  Clark.......................................Dutton
Hartford
............... 
...........................................................................Holly
Loyster & Co......................... 
  Hudson
Harris &  Son....................................... Ithaca
W.  N.  Camp......................................... Ionia
L. F.  Cox..................................... Kalamazoo
Farrand & Shank.............................. Lansing
Lowell Creamery Co...........................Lowell
Bray & Seeley. 
................... Mfc.  Morris
Brooks & Smith..............................Nashville
Michigan Dairy  Co........................Newaygo

Hides are  slow and dull.  Pelts  are fair. 
Furs are in good demand.  Wool is depress­
ed on account of the labor  troubles  in some 
of  the  Eastern  woolen  mills.  Tallow  is 
weak and dull.

Order a sample package of Bethesda Min­
eral Spring  Water from  your  grocery  job- 
*ber.  See quotations in another column.

Hides,  Pelts  and  Furs.

 

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7**

A New Test for Milk.

From the English Agricultural Gazette.

The well-known difference  in the quality 
of  pure  milk  enables  adulterators, when 
prosecuted  for  their  misdoings,  to  plead 
that,  although the  milk  may  be below  the 
standard  quality  adopted  by  the  aualyst, 
still the milk in  question  was  the genuine 
product of  the cow.  Hitherto no easy  and 
reliable means are known by  which  to  dis­
tinguish the water of  pure  milk  itself  and 
water  added  from  another  source. 
J. 
Uftleman,  in the Milch Zcituruj, believes he 
has solved the problem,  and proposes a new 
test for milk adulteration  to  determine  the 
presence of water added to milk.  He main­
tains that nitrates are present in  nearly  all 
waters, but that there are none in milk.  He, 
therefore,  proposes  a  delicate  and simple 
test for nitrates which,  on  application, will 
detect the  presence  of  added  water.  He 
places a quantity of  diphenylamine the size 
of a split pea in a crucible  and  pours  on  it 
25 minims of sulphuric acid  absolutely  free 
from the slightest trace of nitrates,  and stirs 
the mixture with a clean  glass  rod  until  it 
becomes of a pale rose color.  Three or  four 
drops of the respective milks are allowed to 
trickle down the sides of the capsule, which 
must be kept  motionless. 
If  much nitric 
acid,  he says, be present, there will instant­
ly form at the point of contact  between  the 
fluids  a  bluish  stripe,  which  gradually 
spreads throughout the whole. 
If the quan­
tity of nitrates be small  the  color  will  not 
appear for  several  minutes,  but  even  the 
slightest trace will sooner or  later  prevade 
the fluid with a delicate blue.  All this reads 
very well,  and the test  may  possibly  be of 
some utility  when  continental  waters  are 
used for adulteration, but  it  will evidently 
be of little use here in London.  Under the 
heading “The interpretation  of  the  results 
of water analysis,”  Sutton,  a  standard  au­
thority,  in his “Volumetric Analysis,’’gives 
a table showing the amount  of  nitrogen as 
nitrates or  nitrites  in  several  waters  that 
had been analyzed. 
I find  that it is nil—at 
the respective dates of  examination—in the 
artesian well,  Trafalger Square,  the White 
haven water supply,  the  River  Medlock  at 
Manchester,  and even in London sewage, in 
February  and  June,  1869.  The  average 
amount of nitrogen as nitrates or nitrites  in 
the water of the London water  supplied  by 
the Southwark Company in 1870, was 0.206 
in 100,000 parts and 0.247 in  that  supplied 
by the New River Company.  Now, even if 
a milkman adulterated his milk 10 per cent, 
from the waters of the New River Company 
and the Southwark Company,  the proposed 
test must be capable  of  detecting two parts 
of nitrogen either as nitrates or nitrites in a 
million  parts  of  the  adulterated  milk. 
I 
doubt if this is possible.  Besides color tests 
are not the most reliable.  However,  as  by 
the proper tests it would evidently  be  pos­
sible to adulterate London milk  with  Lon­
don sewage without  detection,  its  applica­
tion would be pf little  use  to  us,  whatever 
its merits may be,  in dealing with milk con­
taminated with German water.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

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BAKING  POWDER.

__doz.
__ doz.
... doz. 
__doz.

Frazer’s ................  
90| P a ra g o n .................1 80
Diamond  X ...........   (50 Paragan 25 lb pails. 1  20
Modoc, 4#doz.........2 50|Fraziers,25 lb pails. 1  25
Thompson’s  Butterfly, bulk........................   25
6 or 10 9> cans.........   27
34, 4 doz. in  case...  95
...195
>4,2  “ 
J. H. Thompson & Co.’s  Princess, 34s..........1 25
34s..........  2 25
Is............ 4 25
bulk.......  28
Arctic, 34 9) cans..............................................  45
..1  40 
..2   40 
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No.  2  H url...........
Fancy  W hisk.......
CommonWhisk...

Silver Spoon, 3  doz..........
BUTIN
Dry, No. 2............................
Dry, No. 3...........................
Liquid, 4 oz,.......................
Liquid, 8 oz.........................
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross  4  00
Arctic 8  oz......................................................   8 00
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   12  00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box................................  2 00
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Arctic No. 2 
3  00
Arctic No. 3 
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BROOMS.
No. 1 Carpet............S
300 
No. 2 Carpet.............2 50
100
No. 1  Parlor Gem..2  SKI
No. 1 H url................2 25
Clams, 1 9>  standards............................. . 
I  15
Clams, 2ib  standards...................................1 75
Clam Chowder,  39)......................................2 00
Cove Oysters, 1  9)  standards...........................1 15
Cove Oysters, 2  9>  standards.........................  1 90
Lobsters, 1 9> picnic...........................................1 75
Lobsters, 1 9) sta r.............................................. 2 00
Lobsters, 2 9) sta r..............................................2 90
Mackerel, 19)  fresh  standards........................l 10
Mackerel, ft 9) fresh  standards....................... 3 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  9>......................5 25
Mackerel,3 9> in M ustard................................. 5 25
Mackerel, 3 9> broiled........................................3 25
Salmon, 1 9) Columbia river............................ 1 55
Salmon, 2 9> Columbia river............................ 2 30
Salmon. 1 9)  Sacramento................................. 1 45
Sardines, domestic 34 s................................. 
9
Sardines,  domestic  34s.............................. 
15
Sardines,  Mustard  34s.................................  12
Sardines,  imported  34s...............................   14
Trout. 3 9)  brook.................................. 
  4  50
Apples, 3 9) standards.................................  90
Apples,gallons,  standards......................... :..2 30
Blackberries, standards.............................   95
Cherries,  red  standard................................. 85@1 00
Damsons............................................................. l 00
Egg Plums, standards 
Green Gages, standards 2 9)............................ l  40
Peaches, Extra Yellow.................................... 2 40
Peaches,  standards............................1  75@1  95
Peaches,  seconds.............................................. 1 50
Pineapples, Erie................................................ t 75
Pineapples, standards.......................................1 50
Q uinces...............................................................1 45
Raspberries,  extra..................................   .110

..............................1 40

CANNED ERUITS.

CANNED FISH.

CANNED FRIT ITS—CALIFORNIA.

A pricots......................................2 25 
Egg Plum s...................................2 10 
G rapes......................................... 2  10 
Green Gages.......*...................... 2  10 
Pears................ 
2 65 
Quinces........................................2  75 
Peaches........................................2 55 
CANNED VEGETABLES.

Lusk’s.  Mariposa.
2 00
1 85
1 85
1 85
2 25
2 25
2 20

Beans, Lima,  standard.................. ....  90@1  10
Beans, Stringless, E rie ................. ............  80
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked........ ........... 1 65
Corn,  Trophy.................................. ........... 1  05
“  Red Seal................................. ............  90
“  Excelsior............................... ............1  00
Peas, French................................
............1  75
Peas, Marrofat, standard............... ............1  60
Peas, Beaver.................................... ............  70
Pumpkin, 3 9) Golden..................... ...........   85
Succotash, standard.......................
..........  90
Tomatoes, Trophy.................................. 1  10@l 20
Tomatoes,  Hillsdale...............................1  10©1 15
Tomatoes,  Adrian................... 
1  10@1  15
Tomatoes, Three Rivers.........................1  10@1 15
Michigan  full  cream ............................. 11 @12
Half skim .’. ...............................................9 @1034
S kim .........................................................  5 @6
Boston.............
Baker’s ...........
Runkles’ ..........

CHOCOLATE.
........ 36jGerman  Sweet.
........ 38 Vienna Sweet

CHEESE.

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@2 00 
©   75 
@1  00 
@1  35 
@1  70 
@1 00 
@1  30 
@3  50 
@2 20

OATMEAL.
. .5 001 Rolled  Oats, cases
. .8 00 Quaker, 48  tbs......
..5  50Q uaker,60 9>s.......
..3 C(’|Quakerbbls..........
PICKLES.

Steel  c u t.............
Steel Cut, 34 bbl..
Rolled  Oats........
Rolled Oats, 34bbl
M enium..............
34 barrels
Small.
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,234 gross........   @1 85
American  T .D .......................................   @  90
Choice Carolina.......634jJava  .................   @6
Prime Carolina___
P a tn a .......................
Good  Carolina....... 5
Rangoon......... 534@5>4
Good Louisiana......5
Broken.............334@334

PIPES.

RICE.

SALERATUS.

DeLand’s pure........554 ¡Dwight’s ..............
Church’s 
Taylor’s G M.

■534ICap Sheaf__

34 Sea  Foam. 

54c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy...............
28 Pocket.........................................
1003 9)  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, 34 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................

SAUCES.

Parisian, 34  pints..................................
Pepper Sauce, red  small...................'.
Pepper Sauce, green  ..................... .
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................
Halford Sauce, pints............................
Halford Sauce, 34 pints.........................
Whole.
P epper.............
Allspice.

Ground.

SPICES.

STA RCH.

SUGARS.

P epper.......... ... .16@25!
Auspice........ __ 12@15
Cinnamon__ ....18@30
Cloves  .......... __ 15@25
G inger.......... ... ,16@20
M ustard........ __ 15@30
Cayenne  ....... ... .25@35|
Elastic. 64 packages, per  box.., 
C ubes............................................
Powdered.....................................
Granulated.  Standard................
Confectionery A ..........................
Standard A ..................................
No. 1, White Extra  C..................
No. 2, Extra C............................
No. 3 C .,.........................................
No. 4 C.t. ....................................
No. 5 c ............................;;;;;;;;;;
New Orleans Yellows.. .. .. .. .. .  !
Corn,  barrels  .............................
Corn, 34 bbls..................................
Corn,  10 gallon kegs.....................
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.......................
Corn, 434 gallon kegs....................
Pure  Sugar, bbl............................
Pure Sugar, 34 bbl.........................
Pure Sugar  5 gal kegs................

SYRUPS.

........   ©19
....10@11
....... 8© 10
........ 60@65
..........16@18

©   734 
©  734 
©6  81 
©   634© 6?á 
6  © 63s
6  © 6?a
594© 574 
594©  534 
534© 534 
534@ 594
24@28 
26@30 
@30 
30©31 
o0@31 
23@28 
25@30 
@1 50

Japan ordinary....................
Japan fair to good...............
Japan fine.............................
Japan dust.......................... .
Young Hyson.......................
GunPowder.........................
Oolong..................................
Congo............................•." * *
TOBACCO—FINE CUT 

......................15©20
..................... 25©30
..................... 35@45
...................... 15@20
..................... 30@50
.....................35@5U
...............33@55@6C
.....................25© 30
-IN  PAILS.

Dark American!
The Meigs..........
Red  Bird...........
State  Seal..........
Prairie Flower  .
Indian Queen...
Bull  Dog...........
Crown  Leaf.......
H iaw atha..........
Globe  .................
May Flower.......

■le67IU nderwood’s Capper 35
..62 'Sweet  Rose............... 45
. .50¡Meigs & Co.’s Stunner
..60 A tlas.......................... 35
. .65! Royal Game............... 38
. .60; Mule E ar.................... 65
..60 Fountain.................... 74
..66 Old Congress............. 64
. .65)Good Luck................
. .65 Blaze Away............... 35
..701 Hair Lifter................ 30
PLUG.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
or  50  cents  for  three weeks.  Advance  pay­
ment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers be 
sent in care of this office m ust be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage, 
etc.

IT'OR  SALE—Span of dapple greys, weighing 

3,000 pounds.  Age,  7  years.  Gentle  and 
accustomed  to  heavy  work.  Will  sell cheap 
forcash.  Address  R.  P.  Burdick,  68  Spring 
street, Grand Rapids. 

squares,) 3x3 for sale cheap.  Also  exten­
sion table slides, 134x3.  A.L. Spotford, Chester 
Mich. 

IpOlt  SALE—Dry, hard maple  table  legs,  (in 
17*011  SALE—The  font  of  brevier  type  for 

merly used on T he T radesman.  Tnofont 
comprises 222 pounds, with  italic,  and  can  be 
had for 30 cents a pound.  Apply  at the oiflee

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COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Choice  winter  fruit  is  in  fair  de 

mand at $1.90©$2.

Beans—Local buyers pay 50c©i90  $   bu.  for 
unpicked  and  hold  ordinary hand-picked  for 
$1.10@$1.25.

Butter—Michigan creamery is easy at 25@28 
Sweet  dairy  is  in  fair  demand and firm at 16, 
while old Is dull at 5@8c.

Butterine—Creamery packed commands 20c, 
Dairy rolls arc held at 14@15c and solid packed 
at 12@14c.

Cabbages—In fair demand  at $8@$10 $  100. 
Cheese—The  best  grades  of  October  and 

November make are  selling  at 11@1234. 

Cider—10c $  gal. and $1 for bbl.
Celery—20@22c $  doz.  bunches  lo r  Kalama­

zoo or Grand Haven.

Cranberries—Cultivated  and  wild  Michigan 
command  $1.75@$2  fi  bu.  for  choice.  New 
Jersey $2.25 ^  bu. box.

Dried  Apples—Quartered  and  sliced,  434c. 

Evaporated, 7c.

Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—Fresh  are 

and pickled are dull at 13@14c.

in  fair  demand  a t  18c, 

Honey—Choice new  In  comb  is firm  at  14c. 
Hay—Bailed is active and firm at $15 per ton 

in two and five ton lots and $13 in car lots. 

Hops—Brewers pay 8@10c $   9).
Lettuce—25c 3P 9>.
Onions—Home-grown, 75c $  bu. or $2.2$ $  bbl. 
Pop Corn—Choice new commands  234c  $   9> 

and old 3c $  9).

Potatoes—Burbanks command 50@55c.  Late 

Rose are in fair demand at 40c.

Poultry—Scarce  and  high.  Fowls  sell  for 
10@1034c;  chickens,  ll@1134c;  ducks,  12e; and 
turkeys, 12c.

Squash—Hubbard, quoted nominally at lc $  

9), although very little is moving.

Turnips—25c $  bu.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. 

Wheat—Lower.  The  city  millers  pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  85;  Fulse, 82c;  Clawson, 
82c.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 44@45c  In 100bu. 

lots and 38@40c in carlots.

Oats—White, 38c in small lots  and 33@35c  in 

car lots.

Rye—48@50e $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 ft cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $5.50 $  bbl. 
in  sacks and  $5.75 in  wood.  Straight, $4.60  $  
bbl. In sacks and $4.80 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 #  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $  ton.  Bran, $14 
V t«;,.  ?hips, $15 $  ton.  Middlings, $16 $  ton. 
Corn aad Oats, $20 ft ton.

COFFEES.

Green.

Roasted.

COFFEES—PACKAGE.

R io.................. ,.9@12 R io.................. .. 7@15
Golden Rio__ .......12 Golden Rio__ .......16
Santos............. .......13
Santos............. .......17
Maricabo........ .......13 Maricabo........ ........17
J a v a ................. .20@25
Java .................
.24@26
O.  G. Java ........ ........24 O. G. Java ........ .......28
Mocha  ............. ........25 Mocba............... ........28
100 9)s. 60 9)8.
............... 125Ü
12
12
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72 foot Cotton. ,,, 2 25
.  1  00 60 foot Cotton. ...2  00
..1  50 50 foot Cotton. ...1   75
R
......... 55

McLaughlin’s
Arbuckle’s  ...
72 foot Jute ... ..  1  25
60foot Ju te ...
40 Foot Cotton.

X .........................
X X X .................

CRACKERS.

CORDAGE.

5 p er cent, off in 1,0 barrel lots.

FISH.

Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth..................... 75@s0
Cod, whole....................................................   @5
Cod,Boneless..................................................5@63
H alib u t.........................................................11@1
Herring 34  bbls........................................... 2 25
Herring, Holland, domestic...................... 85®9i
Herring, Scaled........................................... 18®20
Mackerel, Pepny bbls.................................4  75@5
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, 34  bbls..................5 00
.......... I  00
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No. 3, 34 bbls...............................3 50
**  12 9)  kits...........................   62
“  10 
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Shad, 34 b b l.................................................. 2 50
Trout, 34  bbls.......................... ....................3 50
“  12 9)  kits..................... :.....................  70
 
“  10 
White, No. 1,34 b b ls....................................6  25
White, No. 1,12  9) kits.................................l   00
White, No. 1,10 9> k its.................................  90
White, Family, 34 bbls.................................2  25

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Jennings’ 2 oz........................... doz.l 00  1  40

Lemon.  Vanilla,
4 oz....................................... 1 50  2 50
6 oz....................................... 2 50
so z..................................
..3 50  5 00
No. 2 Taper....................
..1 25  1  50
No.  4 
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..1  75  3 00
Yt pint  round................
..4 50  7 50
1 
..» 00  15 00
No.  8...............................
..3 00  4 25
No. 10.............................
..4  25  6 00
FRUITS—DOMESTIC.
Apricots, 25 9» boxes.......................
©  25
Cherries, pitted, 50 9)  boxes..........
@ 15
Egg plums, 25 9)  boxes..................
©  20
Lemon  Peel.....................................
©  15
Pears, 25 9) boxes.............................
©  25
Peaches,  Delaware, 50 9) boxes__
© 2 8
Peaches, Michigan............................
@12‘A
Raspberries, 50  9) boxes.................. ...  ©  25

FRUITS—FOREIGN.

@  3n
C itron.................................................
Currants,  new..................................
©  7
Prunes, French,60s..........................
@ 1 5
Prunes, French, 80s..........................
©  10
Prunes, Turkey......................................  49s@  05
Raisins, Dehesia....................................  @4 00
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @3 00
Raisins, California  “ 
.......................  @2 30
Raisins, Loose Muscatels, new............  @2 00
Raisins, Muscatels, 10 9> boxes...........   ©  90
Raisins, Ondaras, 14s............................  @  13
Raisins, 
28s............................  @1234
Raisins, Sultanas,  new........................   @ 9j£
Raisins, Valencia..................................   @1096
Raisins, Imperials, 10 9)  boxes............  @100

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KEROSENE  OIL.

MATCHES.

Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.............................. 1 00
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor...........................1 76
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor.......................... 2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round.............................. 1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2...................................................... 1 00
Oshkosh, No.  8.......................................................1 50
Swedish............................................................   75
Richardson’s No. 8  square.............................100
Richardson’s No. 9 
do 
............................ 150
Richardson’s No. 734, round................................1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
do 
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Black Strap........................ 
15@19
Porto  Rico.....................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good......................................38@42
New Orleans, choice.....................................48©60
New Orleans, fa n c y .................................. 52@55

MOLASSES.

34 bbls. 3c extra.

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Musselman’s Corker.........................
Turkey  ..............................................
Big Five Cent....................
D ainty............................................ .
Splendid............................
Old Soldier.............................
Knife, single  b u tt..........................’
lots.....................
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Rum ..................................................]
Money......................................
Red  Fox.......................................
Big Drive..................................
Seal of Grand Rapids.................   ].'*
P a tro l.................................................
Jack Rabbit............................
Chocolate Cream.........................   ” *]
Nimrod................ , .........
e . c .........................................
Spread Eagle......................................
Big Five Center...........................   ” '
Parrot  ............................................... .
T ram w ay................................ ..***"*
B u ste r.........................................
Black Prince....................•..........] ] * * ]
Black Racer.....................................
Leggett & Myers’  Star......................!
Clim ax.................................................
A corn.........................................
Horse Shoe...............................

2c. less in four butt lots.

@30
©39
@35
@44
@38
@40
@50
@49
@48
@40
@44
@42
@44
@40
@40
@38
©44
©40
@38
©36
©33
@42
@44
©35
©35
@35
@39

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SMOKING

Lum berm an.......

D ixie......................... 28] Rob Roy..................... __
Old T ar...................... 40'Uncle  Sam................ 28
A rthur’s  Choice.......2
Red Fox.................
26  Railroad Boy.............38
F lirt.......................
281 Mountain Rose......... 18
Gold  Dust................ 26]HomoComfort..].
Gold  Block...............30 Old Rip......................
60
Seal of Grand Rapids  ¡Seal or North Caro-
(cloth).................25 
lina, 2  oz...............  48
Tramway, 3 oz........ 40] Seal of North Caro- 
lina, 4oz..................48
Miners and Puddlere.28 
Peerless  ....................24¡Seal of North  Caro-
lina, 8oz...................45
Standard ....................20 
Old Tom....................18: Seal of North  Caro-
Tom & Jerry ............24| 
lina, 16oz boxes...  .42
Joker..........................25 Apple Jack.........
...24
T raveler................... 351 King Bee, longe
, ,   __ 
------- longeut...2L
Maiden......................25 Milwaukee  Prize___ 24
Pickwick  Club.........40i R attler.................... 
28
Nigger  Head............28 Holland Mixed............16
H olland.................... 23 Sweet Lotus.................32
G erm an.................... 16 Conqueror...................23
Red Clover................32 G rayling...................   32
Good  Luck............... 26ISeal Skin..................... 30

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VINEGAR.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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American......................

Mayflower .................231 H iaw atha................... 22
Globe......................... 22 Old Congress...............23
Mule E ar...................23|May  Leaf....................22
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.......  @  72
Maccoboy............................  @  55
Gail & Ax’ 
@  44
Rappee.................................  @  35
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................   @  45
Lotzbeck  ...............................................   @1  30
Star brand,  pure  eider.......................
...  8© 12 
Star brand, white wine.......................
...  8©12
Bath Brick im ported..........................
96 
do 
75 
Burners, No. 1 .............................../...
1  00 
do  No.  2.....................................
1  50 
Condensed Milk, Eaglo brand...........
7  80 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 9) cans............. .............
15@2i
Candles, Star...........................................  ©12V4
Candles,  Hotel.......................................  
©14
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................  @80
F e lix ..........................  
1  25
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps...........................  @35
Gum, Spruce............................................   30@35
Hominy, $   bbl...........................................  @3 50
Jelly, in 30 9>  pails.................................4H@ 5
Pearl  Barley...........................................29i@  3
Peas, Green  Bush....................................   @1 35
Peas, Split  Prepared...............................   @ 
Powder, Keg..............................................  @3 00
Powder, a   Keg.........................................  @1 90
Sage  ...........................................................   @ i 8
Sauerkraut, bbls.......................................   @4 75
%  bbls...................................  @2 75

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FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides.................................... 4J4© 8%
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................  6*4©  7^
Dressed Hogs........................................... 514®  514
Mutton,  carcasses.................................  @  5U
Veal.................................................  8 @9
Pork Sausage......................................6V4© 7
Bologna...............................................e^@ 7
F ow ls.......................................................10 @10H
Spring Chickens..................................11 @11 u
Ducks  .......... ...................................  @13
Turkeys  ........ L .....................................   @13

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STICK.
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Putnam  & Brooks quote as follow s:
Standard, 25 9> boxes............................ 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 9)  pails......................................  @  9
Royal, 200 9> bbls........................................  @834
Extra, 25 9)  palls....................................... 10©1034
Extra. 200 9) bbls....................................... 9 © 934
French Cream, 25 9> pails.........................  ©1234
Cut loaf, 25 9)  cases...................................1234©
Broken, 25  lb pails................ *................. 10@1034
Broken. 200 9)  bbls............................................ 9© 93*
Lemon  Drops....................
............ 12@13
Sour Drops..........................
..............13@14
Peppermint  Drops...........
.............14© 13
Chocolate Drops............................
.................... 15
H M Chocolate  Drops..................
................... 20
Gum  Drops  ..................................
....................10
Licorice Drops.......................
................... 20
A B  Licorice  Drops.. 
.!]]"!]
....................12
Lozenges, plain.............................
....................J5
Lozenges,  printed........................’
.................. 18
Im perials.......................................
....................15
M ottoes...............................
...................15
Cream  B ar............................ ." . ..
............13@14
Molasses Bar................................. ]
...................13
Caramels.......................................”
.............18@20
Hand Made Creams................. . . "
................... 20
Plain  Creams........................... ]]”
...................17
Decorated Creams...................... .]
....................20
String Rock....................................
........... 14© 15
Burnt Almonds..........................
Wintergreen  Berries....................
..'.'. Y'..15
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain in  pails...............
...  @12 
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.................
...1034@11 
Lozenges, printed in pails...........
...  @1234
Lozenges, printed in  bbls......................
...U34@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails............. "*  *@1234
Gum  Drops  In pails.................................  ©7
Gum Drops, in bbls.......................... .. |  @ 53^
Moss Drops, In  pails.............
Moss Drops, in bbls  .............
Sour Drops, in  pails.............
Imperials, In  pails................
Imperials  in bbls..................
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FRUITS
Bananas  Aspimvall.............
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls........
Oranges, Florida....................
Oranges, Valencia, cases...
Oranges, Messina................ .
Oranges,  Naples....................
Lemons,  choice..................
Lemons, fancy........................
Figs, layers, m>w,  $  9>........
Dates, frails  do  ....................
Dates, J4 do  d o ........   .......
Dates, skin............................
Dates, Yt  skin..................
Dates, Fard 10 9> box ¥   9 >
Dates, Fard 50 9) box f) 9>...........
Dates. Persian 50 9) box $  9)__ '
Pine Apples, 
doz.....................
PEANUTS.
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Prime  Red,  raw  f)  9)..................
Choice 
do  .............
Fancy 
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Choice White, Va.do  ............. .
Fancy H P„  Va  d o ........
h .  p . V a...............................;;;;;;
NUTS.
Almonds,  Tarragona..................
Ivaea.............................
California........... .
B razils...........................................
Chestnuts, per bu .......
Filberts, Sicily.................
Barcelona..................
Walnuts,  Grenoble....................
Marbo............................
French..................
California...........
Missouri..............

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..5   ©  534 
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..  634© 6$£ 
..  534© 6
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..  16@17 
..15  @16 
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.. 1134@12 
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8  @11 
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..10  @13 
.9  @10 
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.6 50@7 00 
.3 75@4 00
.*3 50@3 75 
.3 75@4 00 
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Pecans,  Texas, H. P ................].
Cocoanuts, fl 100....................  _]
PROVISIONS.

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PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  iollows:
Mess, Chicago packing, new........................ n   75
Clear, short pork, Chicago  packing.......  12 50
Back, clear short cut, Chicago  packing.. .13 25
Extra family clear, short cut..................... 13 35
Clear, A. Webster  packer, new................   12  75
Extra clear pig, short cut................ . ".!!.".!l2 75
Extra  clear, heavy.......................................13 »5
” ” 13 50 
Clear back, short out.
r  ™  DRY  SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
gv
Long Clears, heavy................................. 
medium........ ..................... 
«it
 
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lig h t...........  
Short Clears, heavy...........
light.............................;;;; 
etc
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SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.
Hams, heavy.................................... 
“  medium................................. 
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fig h t.......................; ; ...........................
 

Boneless Ham s..................................... 
Boneless Shoulders.................................  
Breakfast  Bacon.................................... 
Dried Beef, extra q u a l i t y ! .................  ¿"*
Dried Beef, Ham pieces............. .... "105/
Shoulders cured  iu sweet pickle. . . . . . . . . . . .  6  3
Tierces 
30 and 50 9> Tubs 
..................
50 9) Round Tins, 100 cases!.!!.’.!!'.!.!. 
20 lb Pails, 4 pails in  case....... 
3 9) Pails, 20 in a case.................!!!!!’”  
5 9) Palls, 12 in a case...........
10 9> Pails. 6 in a c
e
„   . 
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 IDs__  
9 25
Boneless,  ex tra..........................................."43 gg
Pork  Sausage.......................
Ham  Sausage..................  ............  ...............
Tongue  Sausage.............!.!.!.!." .'..............
Frankfort  Sausage........ ".!!!!
Blood  Sausage............]]]]...............................
Bologna, straight.........." ] .............................
Bologna,  thick....................] ] '........................
Head  Cheese..................... !.'!!!!!.'!."!.............
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PIGS’ FEET........................
In half barrels........ 
In quarter barrels..........*.'. ’.! ! ! ] ] ] ]

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SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

LAIID IN TIN PAILS.

676
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HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

G reen__ $i 9>
Part  cured...  8
Full cured__
Dry hides and 
k ip s...........   8

HIDES.

ICalf skins, green

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@  8V4  or cured__   @tn
©  S9,t Deacon skins,
J  ^  Piece.......20  @50

SHEEP PELTS.

3.3

FURS.

WOOL.

Old wool, estimated washed w 9> 
©•>5,
Tall°w ......................................  .......... ::  @ 4
Fine washed $  9> 24@27|Unwashed.. 
Coarse washed... 18@22]
Bear.....................
F ish e r.................
Red Fox...............
Grey Fox.............
M artin................
M ink....................
Muskrat,  winter.
fall....
kits  ...
O tter....................
Raccoon...............
Skunk..................
Beaver,  ^   9>.......
Deer, $1  9>............

....1   00® 12 00
.......2  00@6  00
.......1  00@1 2»
.......1 00@1 20
.......  25© 1 00>
.......  05©  60
.......  10©  12
...... 
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8
...... 4 00@5 00
.......  10@1 00
....  10@1 20
...... 1  50@2 50
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OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

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OYSTERS.

„  
New York  Counts.............
F. J. D. Selects..................
Selects......................... 
.......................
F. J. D.............................   .........................
Standards
..................... !.!!" !!...................ia
Favorites   
Mediums  ........................................................  
j ,
Prim es..........................; ;;;;;;;;;....................  1|
Selects, by bulk................ . !.""..!................... 1  60
Standards, by  bulk..................... .. ." 
'i'ooffll  10
Shrewsbury shells, $   100, ; . . . . . . ........ 
1  Jo
Princess Bay  Clams, $  100............. ] ...........  »O
New York  Counts, $   100............. !!!!.!........i  40
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FRESH  FISH.
Cod  .........................................
Haddock.........................
Mackerel......................... ” !’.!" .
Mackinaw T rout.............!!.!!.!.
Perch,  dressed..................,*..................
....................... m
Smelts....................... 
W hiteflsh....................  .........................  u

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BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER.

H. F. Hastings quotes as follows:

Barrel,  42 gallons....................... 
a e<v
....................r'«*»
Half  barrel,¿¿gallons............ 
2’g5!
 
Cans,  10 gallons.............  
Carbonated, cases  50 quarts'. 
!.................7'no
100  pints........
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This water will be supplied to  the  trade by 
Rapids °le8a e drutror grocery house in Grand

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OUT  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

East  Saginaw.

The Jas. Stewart Co., Limited, has issued 
ii circular  to  the  trade,  announcing  an ad­
vance  on  salt  to  the  regular  Association 
price_75 cents  per  barrel—from  and after 
the 15th.  This is an advance of three cents 
-over  previous  quotations  from  the  same 
house.

Jackson,

J.  F.  Shaw,  who  holds  a  patent  in  the 
United States on  a  felt  boot,  has procured 
letters patent for the same from the Domin­
ion of Canada.
Dwight Merriman has purchased  the har­
ness stock of  A.  C.  Tinker,  and  took pos­
session of the same  on  Monday  last.  The 
price paid was 86,500.

M uskegon.

Corey & Co.  succeed  J. McLeod & Co.  in 
the grocery business on First street.
Henderson  &  Peterson  recently  made a 
shipment of flour to Alabama.
Mary C.  Leonard has purcliased the inter­
est of James Sliavalier in  the Ann of James 
Shavaller & Co., sawmill operators and gen­
eral dealers at North Muskegon.  The busi­
ness will be  continued  by  P.  P.  Leonard, 
Agt. 

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E l k  R a p id s.

Mason  Clark,  of  Traverse  City,  who 
bought C. A.  Newton’s  meat  market about 
two weeks ago, has sold  the  stock and fix­
tures to S. M. Chaffee, formerly manager of 
the market for C. A.  Newton.
Will and  Harry  Briggs  have  rented  the 
building formerly occupied by the  Progress 
newspaper and are fitting it up for a billiard 
hall. 
.
S.  Yalomstein is closing out  Ins  stock ot 
dry  goods,  boots  and  shoes, carpets, etc., 
preparatory to seeking pastures new.

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K alam azoo.

The Kalamazoo  Buckboard Co.  has  been 
formed for the  purpose  of  engaging in the 
manufacture of  buckboards of  a new  style 
and pattern.
Tne firm of Tyler, Turner  &Co.,  planing 
mill  operators  and  lumber  dealers,  has 
been  dissolved  by  the  retirement  of  Mr. 
Turner.  The latter’s interest has been pur­
chased  by Dr.  I. W. Fisk, and the business 
will be continued under the style of Tyler & 
Uo.

B e lla ir e .

William Ketchum, the ‘‘Old Pioneer drug 
store” man of this place,  is about to remove 
to East Jordan and open a drug store on the 
south side of South Arm.
The  warm  weather  and  gentle  spring 
rains  for  the  last  two or three  days,  have 
dampened  not only the  sleighing  hut busi­
ness in all brancees.
W. J. Nixon & Co. are talking of  closing 
out their drug business entirely in the spring, 
to make room for a stock of boots and shoes.
li. G. Brace,  the dry  goods  man,  when 
trade is dull ’livens up the town with his gen­
tle voice.
Many of the  business men  here  have or­
dered hand force  pumps,  to  use  in case of 
fire.  Ladders and  pails have already  been 
secured for the same purpose.
Traverse  City.

Among our prominent business  men who 
a *  absent either on business or  pleasure at 
present  are,  lion.  Perry  Hannah,  Rome, 
Italy;  Congressman  Moffatt,  Washington, 
D. C.; lion.  D. C.  Leach,  Springfield,  Mo.; 
C. M.  Wells  and C. A.  Crawford,  Los An­
geles,  Cal.; C. B.  Atwood,  Buckfield, Me.
Perkett  &  Lardie  bought  and  shipped 
2,800 bushels  of  potatoes  last  week.  The 
average price paid was 35  cents  per bushel 
The general  verdict  of  fruit  growers in 
this vicinity  is  that  no  damage  has  been 
done the trees thus far and  they  anticipate 
very little trouble,  although  the  crop  will 
not be heavy the coming season, not  having 
recovered from the severity  of  last  winter, 
The contract for  heating  the new  school 
building has been awarded  Sliriver,  Weath­
erly &  Co., of  Grand  Rapids,  for  82,850, 
Bonds to the amount  of  85,000 were  given 
to guarantee the successful  working of  the 
apparatus  for  one  year.  They  commence 
work at once.
The  Wolverine  Cigar  Co.  now  employs 
six workmen.
Garland & Hoard are the  new proprietors 
of  the  Central  House, they having  leased 
the same  for  five  years.  They  intend re­
fitting and refurnishing it  entire.
The late rains have made sad  havoc with 
the roads.

Ca&iiovia.

A.  Norris  &  Son  have  the  lumber  and 
stone on the  ground for  a  two-story  brick 
store building, 24x70 feet in dimensions and 
a one-story  frame  structure,  18x48.  Work 
on the buildings  will  be  begun  as  soon as 
the frost is out of  the ground.  The  stores 
will be occupied by the firm  with a stock of 
hardware, which will  be  put  in as  soon as 
the buildings are completed.
I.  II. Neff is finishing off  the third  story 
of his  new  hotel  for  a  skating  rink  and 
It will be  40x80  feet  in  di­
dancing hall. 
mensions.
S.  S.  Ilesseltine,  who  recently  sold  Ins 
furniture stock here to  Fred.  Hayward,  has 
purchased  the  furniture  stock  of  Smith & 
Ballard at Sparta, has removed to that place.
Some of our leading business men are con­
sidering  the  project  of  putting in a  stave 
mill,  utilizing the same power  which  oper­
ates the  saw  and  grist  mill,  when  not in
use. 
J.  L.  Norris  lias  the  material  on  the 
ground for a two-story cottage  residence,  to 
be erected  just west  of  A.  Norris &  Son’s 
store.
Dr.  C.  E.  Koon’s  fine two-story residence 
is nearly  enclosed. 
It  will  be  a  valuable 
addition  to  the  appearance  of  the  town 
when completed.
John Steams is preparing to  build a two- 
story upright  addition  to his  house  in the
spring. 
The business prospects  of  Casnovia were 
never better than at the present time.

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cord and seasoned from 25 to 50 cents higher.
N.  L.  Gerrisli,  an old gentleman well and 
widely known as one  of  Cadillac’s  pioneer 
lumbermen,  has invented  and  made  an in­
genious ticket case for  the C. & N.  E. Rail­
way office  here. 
It  is  so  constructed that 
only the end of a ticket can be seen project­
ing from  each  box and  when one  is with­
drawn another drops into its place by press­
ing a spring.
City Collector  Geo. Gillhooley was grant­
ed until the 20th inst. to complete his duties 
as tax gatherer and he reports that at the ex­
piration of that  time  there  will  be  less by 
8500 remaining  uncollected than in  former 
years.  This  certainly  is  a  “sign  of  the 
times” and evidence of  their  improvement.
Dr. Estelle Long has  opened  an office at 
her  father’s  residence  on  South  Mitchell 
street and will practice medicine here.

The Hardware. Market.

Business  and  collections  maintain a fair 
average.  The  volume  of general trade has 
sustained  a  considerable  improvement,  as 
retailers are  apparently beginning  to shape 
up their stocks for  the spring  trade.  This 
is especially true in  such  lines  as  cutlery, 
tools,  implements,  tinners’  stock  and  mis­
cellaneous shelf  ware.  Trade is  also good 
in builders’ supplies, but does not show any 
special improvement over last week.  Heavy 
hardware remains quiet.  Barbed wire shows 
no changes,  but is moving quietly, promises 
well,  and  is  steady  in  price.  There  is an 
unusual scarcity of new goods being brought 
into the market, and  no  important changes 
have occurred  in  quoted  prices.  Wrought 
steel butts are being offered at comparatively 
low prices.  Some  of  the  file  makers have 
advanced  prices  to  55  per  cent.,  but  the 
movement is  not general.

Horse-Power of Boilers.

The following  data for  rating  boilers are 

given to the Steam Users’ Journal:

With good natural draft flue boilers should 
have about 10 square feet of heating surface 
for the evaporation of 1 cubic foot of  water 
per  hour;  and  this  evaporation  per  hour 
may be taken  to represent one horse-power.
The coal required to  effect  this  evapora­
tion will  generally be  about 8 pounds, and 
the grate surface  provided for  the combus­
tion of this amount of coal per  hour should 
be about half a square foot.  Therefore, for 
each  horse-power  that  a  flue  boiler  is  ex­
pected to  develop  economically, the follow 

g will be required:
10 square feet of heating surface.
% square foot of grate surface.
1 cubic foot of water per  hour.
8 pounds of good coal per hour.

A Good Scheme.

r  Customer  (to  druglclerk  compounding 
prescription)—Fine  weather we’re  having 

Drug Clerk—Um.
Customer—Feels  a little like snow?
Drug Clerk—Um.
Customer—Drug business pretty lively? 
Drag Clerl
Customer- 

—Um-um.
What’s  the  matter with  you

(pointing  to  a  sign)—Read

got a pain?

Drug Cleri 

that,  sir.

Customer (readin 
insu res—accuracy. ”

the sign)-
Um.

‘Silenee-

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

E UST  C3-1IST E S

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
Gri6t Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made  for 
Complete Outfits.

w ,   O,  Denison,
-  MICHIGAN.
GRAND  RAPIDS, 

88,90  and 92 South Division  Street, 

W OODENWABE.

Standard  Tubs, No. 1...........................................7 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 2...........................................6 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 3...........................................5 00
Standard Pails, two hoop.................................... 1 40
Standard Pails, thi-ee hoop................................. 1 65
White Cedar, three  hoop  ..............................2  00
Dowell Pails........................................................... 1 »0
Dowell Tubs, No. J........................................... °  —I
Dowell Tubs, No. 2................................................7 00
Dowell Tubs,  No. 3.............................................. 0 00
White Cedar, No. 1.................................................* 50
White Cedar, No. 2................................................0 50
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes—  .................... 2  00
Butter Ladles........................................................1 *6
Rolling Pius...........................................................1 00
Potato  Mashers...........................................  75
Clothes Pounders................................................. 2 2o
ClothesPins..................  .................................  J»
Mop Stocks.............................................................J «5
Washboards, single.............................................. 1 7o
Washboards, double.............................................2 2»
Diamond  M arket.......................................  40
Bushel, narrow band...........................................1 60
Bushei, wide band................................................A *5
Clothes, splint,  No. 1......................................§ 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2......................................375
Clothes, splint,  No. 3......................................4 00
Clothes, willow, No. 1..................................... 5 00
Clothes, willow. No. 2..................................... 000
Clothes, willow, No. 3............................. ....... 7 00

BASKETS.

COOPERAGE.

Quay, Killen &  Co.  quote  as follows, f. o. b. 

 

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Cadillac.

STAVES.
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Win.  McAdie  &  Co.,  proprietors  of the 
Michigan Iron  Works,  have  completed an­
other butter dish  machine for  tiie  Mancel- 
ona Oval Dish  Co.  This  is  the  sixth ma­
chine of  the  kind  they have  made  for the 
Mancelona firm.
If the weather permits, J. G. Mosser  wul 
start his brick  yard  about May  1.  He ex­
pects to manufacture more brick  than  ever 
this season.
What is to be the finest  residence in Cad­
illac will be built  by lumberman Austin W.
It  will  be located at 
Mitchell this  spring. 
the head of Cadillac’s Euclid avenue.
L a rg e  quantities of stove  wood  are  now 
coming into market  and the best green  ma­
ple and beech bring frora  90  emits to »1 pm] Produce  barrels.

at  Grand  Rapids.
Red oak flour bbl. staves............... M  6 00® 7  00
M  5 00® 5 75
Elm 
White oak tee staves, s’d and j ’t.M  20 00@21 00 
White oak pork bbl. 
“  M  18 50@20 00
Tierce, dowelled and circled, set—  
15®  16
13®  13
Pork, 
.... 
Basswood, kiln dried, set.................. 
4®  434
White oak and hickory tee, 8 f’t.  M  11 50@13 00 
White oak and hickory **  734f’t.M   10 00®ll  00
Hickory  flour  bbl.......................... M 
6 60® 7 50
6 25® 7 00
Ash, round  “ 
“  ......................... M 
Ash, fiat racked, 634 f’t ..................M 
3 50®  4 00
White oak pork barrels, h’d m’d.M  1 00®  110 
90® 1  90
White oak pork barrels, m achine.. 
White oak lard  tierces.............../...  1 20® 1 30
Beef and lard half  b a r
r e l
s 75®  90
Custom barrels, one h e ad .....} .... 1 00®  110
Flour  b a rre ls.............30® 
37
23®  25

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COAL  AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS, 
A. B. Know Ison 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  bbl................
1 30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl—
Qjy. lotS 
.....1 00@i 10
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25®  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
1
3 50
Land plaster, per to n ............................ 
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
2  50
Fire bnok, per  M................ .................
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 oo
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$5 75@6 00 
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots..  6 00@6 so
Cannell, car lots................................... 
<©6 00
Ohio Lump, car lo ts ............... 
3  10@3 25
Biossburg or Cumberland, car lota..  4 50@5 00 
Portland  Cement...............................  3 50@4 00

COAL.

CORSET JEANS.
A rm ory..........
. .6@0^4
Androscoggin 
....  OH
Canoe River...
Clarendon.......
..5@5H
Hailowell  Imp .......b%
Ind. Orch. Imp .......5H
. .6®0J4
Laconia ..........

Kcarsage.................. 634
Naumkeagsatteen.  634 
Pepperell  bleached 834
Pepperell sa t..........834
Rockport.................6
Lawrence sat..........6
Conegosat...............5%

CHARCOAL  PIG  IRON.

John Otis, Mancelona, quotes  as  follows,  f o 

b, at Chicago:
No. 1 Lake Superior..................
..................... 23  00
..................
No. 2 
.....................23 00
No. 3 
..................... .....................23  50
No. 4 
................ .....................24  00
No. 5 
..................... .....................24  00
............... .................. 24  00
No. 6 

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AUGERS AND BITS.

BELLS.

BARROWS. 

Ives’,  old style........................................ 6Í860&10
N.  H .C .C o...............................................di8«»&10
Douglass’..................................................
Pierces’  ....................................................
Snell’s .......................................................
Jennings’,  genuine................ ...............dis
Jennings’,  imitation...............................disovWiiu
Spring....................................................... dis
„
„ 
Railroad............................. ........................^  a- no
Garden..................................   .................net °°
H an d ..............................................dis  $ 60&10&10
Cow.................................................... dis 
60&10
Call.................................................... dis 
30&15
G o n g ................... 
dis 
25
Door, Sargent.................................. dis 
60&10
40
Stove......................................................dis 8 
Carriage  new  list................................dis 
80
Plow  ............. ....................................... dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe...........................................dis 
75
W rought Barrel  Bolts........................dis  60&10
Cast  Barrel Bolts................................dis  00&10
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs................... dis 
60
Cast Square Spring.............................dis 
60
Cast Chain...........................................dis  60&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............dis  60&10
Wrought Square..................................dis  60&10
Wrought Sunk Flush......................... dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
F lush.................................................. dis  60&10
Ives’  Door............................................. dis  60&10

BOLTS.

*  

BRACES.

40
B arber...................................................dis$ 
Backus...................................................dis  50&10
50
Spofford.................................................dis 
Am. Ball................................................ dis 
net
Well, plain...................................................$  3 50
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 00

BUCKETS.

BUTTS. CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured...................... dis  70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........dis  70&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&10
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  60&10
Wrought Loose  Pin........................... dis  60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip ...........dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned...........dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d ................................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table.....................................dis  10&60
Wrought  Inside  Blind....................... dis  10&60
Wrought Brass.....................................dis  70&10
Blind,Clark’s........................................dis  80&10
Blind, Parker’s .................................... dis  80&10
Blind,  Shepard’s..................................dis 
70

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10............................................... per  m $ 65
Hick’s C. F ............................................  
60
G. D....................................................... 
35
Musket................................................... 
60

CATRIDOES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & W inchester  new listSO&lO
Rim  Fire, United  States......................... dis50&10
Central Fire*.............................................dis30&10

CHISELS.

Socket Firm er......................................dis  75&10
Socket Fram ing...................................dis  75&10
Socket Corner......................................dis  75&10
Socket Slicks........................................ dis 
75
Butchers’Tanged Firm er..................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firm ers................... dis 
20
Cold........................................................net

BUNN  HARDWARE

COMP ANT,

E xclusively W holesale,

Present to the Trade the

OF

Shelf  and  Heavy  Hardware

m SHOWN IN WESTERN B A N .

Our Stock Comprises Everything

Included in a First-Class 

HARDWARE  STOCK

COMBS.

COCKS.

COPPER.

Curry, Lawrence’s ..............................dis  40&10
Hotchkiss  ............................................ dis 
25

60
Brass,  Racking’s........................................ 
Bibb’s .........................................................  
60
B e er.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.........................................................  
60

DRILLS

ELBOWS.

Planished, 14 oz cut to size................... .$  ft  28
14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................  31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..........................   21
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................   19
40
Morse’s Bit  Stock................................dis 
Taper and Straight Shank...................dis 
40
40
Morse’s Taper  Shank...........................dis 
Com. 4 piece, 6  in .............................doznet
f.85
Corrugated............................................dis
20&10
3á&10
A djustable............................................ dis
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26  00.  dis
20
Ives’, 1. $18 00 ;  2. $24 00;  3, $30 00.  dis
American File Association  List........dis
Disston’s ...............................................dis
New  American..................................... dis
Nicholson’s ............................................dis
Heller’s ................................................. dis
Heller’s  Horse Rasps..........................dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

22 and  24,  25 and26,  27
15
Discount, Juniata 50®10, Charcoal 60. 

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

55&10
55&10
55&10
55&10
55&10
55&10

files—New List.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

12 

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

50

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

HOES.

HINGES.

HANGERS.

334
1034
834

HOLLOW  WARE.

Maydole & Co.’s ...................................dis 
25
Kip’s .................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s .............................dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...................30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
50&10
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track
60X10
Champion,  anti-friction..................... dis
40
Kidder, wood track........................... dis
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3............................dis
State............................................per doz, net.
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  434  14
and  longer.................................  ..........
Screw Hook and Eye,  34  .................. net
Screw Hook and Eye %....................net
Screw Hook and Eye 
..................... net
Screw Hook and Eye,  %...................net
Strap and  T .......................................dis
Stamped Tin W are....................................
Japanned Tin  W are.................................
Granite Iron  W are...................................
Grub  1...............................................$1100, dis 60
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 60
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 60
50
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings......... dis
50
Door, porcelain, jap.  trim m ings...........
50
Door, porcelain, plated  trim m ings.......
50
Door, porcelain, trim m ings....................
70
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain........dis
40&10
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.....................
50
H om acite.............................................dis
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis
Mallory, Wheeler &  Co.’s ....................dis
Branford’s ............................................ dis
Norwalk’s  ............................................ dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...................dis
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s ............................dis 40&10
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malléables  dis
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ........dis
Coffee,  Enterprise.....................................dis
Adze  Eye.....................................$16 00 dis
Hunt Eye.....................................$15 00 dis
H unt’s .........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

LEVELS.
MILLS.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

KNOBS.

NAILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

lOd to  60d....................  ..................... V keg $2 50
8d and 9 d adv...............................................
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv.......................................
3d advance....................................................   ¿50
3d fine  advance........... ’.............................. 
3  00
Clinch nails,  adv...........................................  175
Finishing 
Size—inches  f  3 
Adv. « k e g  
Steel Nails—2 65.

I  lOd  8d 
234 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

6d  4d
2 
134

MOLASSES GATES.

MAULS.
OILERS.

Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis  70
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring....................... dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled....................dis  50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.....................dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom ..............................dis  60
Brass or  Copper......................................•'••dj8  50
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s ...............................................  60&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................ dis  15
Sciota Bench.................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy...................... dis  15
Bench, first quality.......................... 
• • dia  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood— dis20&10
Stanley.
PANS.
....... dis 50&10
Fry, Acme.............................
....... diseo&io
Common, polished...............
.......V& 
6
Dripping...............................
RIVETS.
40
....d is 
Iron and Tinned..................
..,.d is 
60
Copper Rivets and  B urs...

PLANES.

Dealers visiting the  City  are  Cordi­
ally  Invited  to  Call  and  Inspect  our 
Establishment.

LUMBER, LATH  AND  SHINGLES.

The Newaygo M anufacturing Co,  quote f. o. 
b. ears  as follows :
Uppers, 1 iuch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 134,134 and 2 inch........................   46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 134, 134 and 2  inch........................   38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 134,134 and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet—   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   16 p0
No. 1 Stocks, 13 in., 20 feet........................   17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet..........................   17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........   11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet.........................  13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all
widths and  lengths..........................8 00®  9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 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
12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................
15 00 
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch...
12  00 
20 00 
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............
18 00 
evel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................
Bev
14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C 
9 00 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common....
Bevel Siding,  6 inch,  Clear.....................
20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 f t ............
10  00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
36 00 
Dressed [Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................
29 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................
17 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common.. 
14 00
Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2 common.... 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal. 
35 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..
26 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................
16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n 
14 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 In., No. 2  com’n 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
3  10 
1 X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............
3 00
■(XXX 18 in.  Thin......................................
( X X X 16 in.................................................
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in .............................
Lath  ......................................................  1 76®

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run..............................  @1« uu
Birch, log-run...........................................1« 0J@20 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.............................   @~5 00
Jg
Black Ash, log-run.............................  
Cherry,  log-run........................................25 00®3o 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2.........................  
®§o 00
Cherry,  cull..............................................10 00@12 <W
Maple,  log-run......................................... 14 00®16 00
Maple, soft,  log-run................................12 00@14 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2..............................  @18  00
Maple, clear, flooring.........................  @25 00
Maple, white, selected....................... 
@2o  00
Red Oak, log-run................................   @lo 00
@20 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2......................... 
Red Oak. No.  1, step plank............... 
®2o 00
@>2“  ”9
Walnut, log-run..............................  
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........................   @75  00
Walnuts,  culls....................................  @25 00
Grey  Elm, log-run................ : ........... 
@13 00
White Ash,  log-run.................................14 00@16 00
Whitewood,  log-run..........................   @‘~3 00

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 
9

Broken packs 34c $  lb extra.

ROPES.

534

SQUARES.

t in   p l a t e s .

12 50
15 00
16 50

t in n e r ’s s o l d e r .

Sisal, 34 In. and  larger..................................   834
Manilla.............................................................  l*>
Steel and Iron.......
Try and Bevels—

70
......................dis
20
......................dis
IRON.
Corn. Smooth. Com.
$2 80
.............. $4 20
2 90
..............   4 20
3 00
..............   4 20
3  10
..............   4 20
3 20
...............  4 40
...............  4 60
lighter,  over 30 inches

Nos. 10 to 14.............
Nos. 15 to  17.............
Nos. 18 to 21.............
Nos. 22 to 24.............
Nos .25 to 26.............
No. 27........................
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   lb.....................
In smaller quansities, $   lb...............
No. 1,  Refined......................................
Market  Half-and-half.......................
Strictly  Half-and-half.......................
Cards for Charcoals, $6 7a
10x14, Charcoal......................
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal.......................
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal.......................
IC, 
6
12x12, C harcoal................ ............   *
IX, 
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  5
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal...............................   7
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal................................  8
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................   lo
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  12
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal...............................  15
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  6
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  8
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal............................  10
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........................   12
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to 6 75
Rootffig, 14x20, IC..............................................  5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX .......................................   6  <o
Roofing, 20x28, IC.........................................  H  00
Roofing, 20x28,  IX .......................................   14  00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7  00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 11 00
LX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne............  14 00
Steel, G am e.....................................................60&10
OneidaJCommuntity,  Newhouse’s ............dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
Hotchkiss’  .....................................................60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Oo.’s ...................................60&10
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c ¥  doz
Mouse,  delusion..............................$1  5011 doz
BrigbfM arket........................................   dis  6734
Annealed Market..............................................dis 70
Coppered Market.............................................. dis 6234
Extra Bailing.............................................   dis  I,
Tinned  M arket................................................. dis 6234
Tinned  Broom...........................................TP jb  „09
Tinned Mattress........................................V B>  834
Coppered  Spring  Steel................. dis  40@40&10
Tinned Spring Steel....................................-dis  50
Plain Fence................................................V ® «34
Barbed Fence.............................................• •••
Copper................................................new  list net
B rass..................................................new  list net
Britrht 
.........................................dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes......................................dis  70&10&10
Hook’s  .................................. .........dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes..................dis  70&10&10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine........ ........ ............ •vv'!^8  „,,,59
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis  75&10 
Coe’s Patent, malleable..................dis 75&10&10

TIN—LEADED.

WIRE GOODS.

WRENCHES.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

MISCELLANEOUS.

BlrdCages...............................................
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  70&10
Screws,  new  lis t..............................jVVnn.mii«
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate.................... dis50&10&10
Dampers, A m erican................................     40*10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. .60&10&5 
Copper  Bottoms.......................................  
*8c

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock B ark-T he local tanners  are  offer­

ing $5 per cord delivered, cash.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.59®1.60  $   lb 

for clean washed roots.

Rubber Goods—Local jobbers are authorized 
to offer 40 and 5 per cent, off on standard goods 
and 40,10 and 6 per cent, off on second quality.

The following quotations are given  to  show 
relative values, but they may be considered, to 
some extent, “outside prices,” and  are  not  as 
low as buyers of reasonable  quantities can, in 
most  instances, obtain  them  at.  It  will  pay 
every  merchant  to  make  frequent  visits  to 
market, not only in  respect  to  prices,  but  to 
keep posted on  the  ever-changing  styles  and 
fashions, many of which are never shown  “on 
the  road.”
Androscoggin, 94 .17 Pepperell, 104... ...19
Androscoggin, 74 .1334 Pepperell, 114... . ..2 2
Pepperell,  74__ .13 Pequot,  74........ .. .H y»
Pepperell,  8 4.... ..15 Pequot,  84........ ...16
...18
Pepperell,  94__ ..17  ¡Pequot,  94........

WIDE BROWN COTTONS.

CHECKS.

Caledonia, XX, oz.. 10 
Caledonia,  X ,oz...  9
Economy,  oz........»
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
ark Mills, No. 60. .11 
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
ark Mills, No. 80.. 13

iPark Mills, No. 90.. 14 
¡Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz............... 814
Otis Apron.............   814
Otis  Furniture.......814
York, 1  oz...............  934
I York. AA, extra oz.1234

Plain.

OSNABURGS.

Plaid.

6

SILESIAS.

BLEACHED COTTONS.

634 Alabam a................. 62£
Alabam a...............
83* A u g u sta................. 6%
Gleorgia................
8 G eorgia.................. 634
Jewell  ..................
834 Louisiana............... 6%
Kentucky  ...........
834 T ennessee............. 10
L a n e .....................
734 T oledo.................... 634
S an tee..................
Avondale,  36........   834lGreene, G  44 
.  . 534
Art  cambrics, 36.. 934 Hill, 44..................
Androscoggin, 44. 834 Hill, 7-8..................
634
Androscoggin, 5-4. 1234 Hope,  44............... 634
King  Phillip  cam
Ballou, 44.............
brie, 44.......  .....
Ballou, 5-4.............
834
Boott,  0 .4 4 .......... 834 Linwood,  44........
734
Boott,  E. 5-5.......... .  7 Lonsdale,  44........
734
Boott, AGC, 44__ .  934 Lonsdale  cambric, 10
Boott, R. 3-4..........  534|Langdon, GB, 4-4...  834
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  634 Langdon.  46........... 11
Chapman,X,4-4....  514 Masonville,  4-4.......734
Conway,  4-4........... 634 Maxwell. 4-4..............  8
Cabot, 4-4................ 634 New York Mill, 4-4.10
Cabot, 7-8................   6  INew Jersey,  4-4.-.  8
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  734 
Canoe,  34...............  4
Pride of the W est.. 1034
Domestic,  36..........  734
Pocahontas,  44___ 734
Dwight Anchor, 44.  8
Slaterville, 7-8........   834
Davol, 44...............  8
Victoria, AA..........9
Fruit of Loom, 44..  734 
Woodbury, 44........   534
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  61£ 
Whitinsville,  4-4...  634 
Fruit of  the Loom, 
Whitinsviile,7-8__ 6
cambric,  44........11
Gold Medal, 44..  ..  634 W am sutta,44........ 93£
Gold Medal, 7-8.......  534 Williamsville, 36...  834
Gilded Age.............   734'
Crown.................. ..17 Masonville TS__ .  8
No.  10.................. ..11 Masonville  S........ .1034
Coin..................... ..10 Lonsdale............... .  934
.14
Anchor................ ..15 Lonsdale A ..........
Victory  O...........
.  534
Centennial..........
Blackburn.......... ..  8 Victory J .............
.  6*4
Davol.................... ..14 Victory  D ...........
.  834
London................ ..1234 Victory  K ...........
.1034
Phoenix A ...........
Paconia............... ..12
.1934
Red  Cross........... ..  734 Phoenix  B...........
•1034
Phoenix X X .......
.  5
Social  Im perial.. ..16
Albion, solid....... ...534iGloucester..........
. .534
Albion,  grey....... . ..6 Glou cestermour n’g . 534
...534 Hamilton  fancy. ...6
Allen’s  checks..
Alien’s  fancy__ ...534 H artel fancy.......
..534
...534 Merrimac  1)........ ...6
Allen’s pink.......
...534 M anchester........ .. .6
American, fancy ...534 Oriental fan cy ......534
Arnold fancy__ . ..6 Oriental  robes... ...634
Berlin solid........
. ..6 Richmond........... ...534
Cocheco  fancy..
...634 Steel  Hiver.......... ...42£
Cocheco robes...
Simpson s ........... ...6
Conestoga fancy ...6
...6 Washington tancy. .6
Eddvstone.......
¡Washington  blues.  6
Eagle fancy.......
Garner pink......
...534
Appleton  A, 4-4__ 6?4|Indian Orchard, 40.  7
Boott  M, 4-4........... 6  [Indian Orchard, 36.  634
Boston  F, 4-4..........6314'¡Laconia  B, 7-4.......... 13
Continental C, 4-3..  634¡Lyman B, 40-in.......9
Continental D, 40in 734  Mass. BB, 4-4.........534
Conestoga W, 4-4...  534  Nashua  E, 40-in__734
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  434  Nashua  R, 4-4....... 6
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  5  Nashua 0,7-8.........534
Dwight  X, 3-4........   434 Newmarket N
"  
‘ 
_ 
534
Pepperell E, 39-in..  634 
Dwight Y, 7-8..........
534|Pepperell  R ,4-4....  534 
Dwight Z, 4-4..........
Pepperell  0 , 7-8....  534 
Dwight Star, 4-4__ 6
Pepperell  N, 3-4....  5
Ewight Star. 40-in..
Enterprise EE, 36..  434 Pocasset  C, 4-4.......534
Great Falls E, 4-4...  634 Saranac  R ...............6
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......5341 Saranac  E .................734
A m oskeag.............  7
Amoskeag, Persian  9
styles....................
B ates.......................6
Berkshire............. .  6
Glasgow, fancy__
Glasgow,  royal—   634 
Gloucester, 
new
standard.............   734
P lunket....................734
Lancaster...............  7
Langdown............. 7
9
Renfrew,  dress.

Johnson  Manfg Co,
Johnson Manfg Co,
Slaterville, 
dress
White Mfg Co, stap  634 
White Mfg Co, fane 734 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston.................734
Gordon......................7
Greylock, 
dress 

Bookfold..............1234
dross  styles........1034
styles....................  6

¡Pacific  robes....... ...6

styles  ...................1034

FINE BROWN  COTTONS.

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

PRINTS.

M  

I 

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Androscog
'epperell.

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.
:gin,7-4. .15  ¡Pepperell.  10-4......2 2
'gin, 8-4. .16 Pepperell,  11-4......24
7-4...... ..15 Pequot,  7-4........ ....16
8-4...... .17 Pequot,  8-4........ ....18
9-4...... ,.19 Pequot,  94........ ....20
HEAVY BROWN  COTTONS.

TICKINGS.

Atlantic  A, 4-4.......  634 ¡Lawrence XX, 4-4..  634
...  634[Lawrence XXX 40.  734 
Atlantic  H, 4-4.. 
...  5341 Lawrence LL, 4-4...  5 
Atlantic  D, 4-4.. 
Newmarket N ........ 534
Atlantic P, 4-4.
Atlantic  LL, 4-4__   434 Mystic River, 4-4...  534
Adriatic, 36.............  734 Pequot A, 4-4..........624
Augusta, 4-4...........   63» Piedmont, 36.......... 6
Stark AA, 4-4..........634
Boott  M, 44...........   6
6 J4 ¡Tremont CC, 4-4__ 434
Boott  FF, 44..........
Utica,  4-4................ 10
Graniteville, 44—
Wachusctt,  44.......  634
Indian  H ead,44...  634 
30-in...  534
Indiana Head 45-in. 11341Wachusett,
Amoskeag,  ACA... 12 341 Falls, XXXX......... 1834
4-4. .15 341 Falls, XXX............. 1534
Amoskeag
Falls,  BB................1134
Amoskeag,  A .........11
I Falls,  BBC, 36........1934
Amoskeag,  B .........10
Falls,  awning.......19
Amoskeag,  C.........10
Hamilton,  BT, 33..  934
Amoskeag,  D.......... 9
834  Hamilton,  D..........  834
Amoskeag,  E..
Amoskeag, F ..........  8  Hamilton,  H ------ -  834
Premium  A, 44__ 17  Hamilton  fancy
834
Methuen AA.........1134
Premium  B __
Methuen ASA.......1634
Extra 44____
Extra 7-8................. 1434 ¡Omega A, 7-8.......... 1034
Gold Medal 44........15  ¡Omega A, 44..........1234
CCA 7-8...................1234 Omega ACA, 7-8— 13
CT44...................... 14  Omega ACA, 44__ 15
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
RC 7-8.......................14  1
Omega SE, 44.........27
BF 7-8...................... 16
Omega M. 7-8.........22
A F44...................... 19
Omega M, 44.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32...... 14
Shotucket SS&SSW 1134 
Cordis  ACA, 32...... 15
Shetucket, S & 8W.12 
Cordis No. 1,32....... 15
Shetucket,  SFS  ...12
Cordis  No. 2............14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3............13
Stockbridge fancy.  8
Cordis No. 4............1134
G arner.................... 5  ¡Empire.....................
Hookset..................  5  W ashington.............4*
Red  Cross...............  5  Edwards...................   5
Forest Grove.......... 
|S. S. & Sons............  5
American  A ............ 17 I Old  Ironsides.........15
Stark A ....................21341W heatland..............20
B oston....................  634 ¡Otis CC................... 9
Everett blue.........1134 ¡Warren  AXA......... 11
Everett brown.......1134 Warren  BB.............10
Otis  AXA...............11  Warren CC..............9
Otis BB....................10  ¡York,  blue...............1234
Manville.............43£@5 |S. S. & Sons........4«@5
Masonville........ 4*S£@5 (G arner...............4&@5
Red  Cross.............   634 ¡Thistle Mills............6
B erlin.....................  6  Rose.........................  634
G arn er................... 7 
Brooks....................50
Clark’s O. N. T .......55
J. &P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 
Wiilimantle 3 cord. 40 
Charleston bai 
80
ing thread..

Eagle  and  Phœnix 
Mills ball sewing. 30 
Green  &  Daniels...25
Stafford..................25
Hall & Manning__ 28
Holyoke..................25

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

SPOOL COTTON.

GRAIN  BAGS.

WIGANS.

DENIMS.

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CLOTHIERS,
WHOLESALE 

MANUFACTURERS  OF  PERFECT  FITTING

Tailor  NÆelcI©  OloUhlng,
Mail Orders sent in care L.  W. A TK IN S will receive Prompt Attention.

AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

138 and 140 Jefferson Ave. ani 34 and 36 WoodMnp St., DETROIT.

GOOD  FOE  ONE  DOLLAB

TO  ONE FIRST DEALER IN EVERY TOWN.  THIS ADVERTISEMENT,  IF CUT 
OUT  AND  SENT  TO  US  WITHIN  THE  NEXT  THIRTY  DAYS,  WITH  AN 
ORDER  FOR  500  OF  “  W ARREN ’S  GRIP ”  CIGARS,  (PRICE  $35  PER M, DE­
LIVERED),  IS  GOOD  FOR  ONE  YEAR’S  SUBSCRIPTION  TO  THIS  PAPER, 
“ THE  MICHIGAN TRADESM AN.”  WE  SELL  THIS  CIGAR  TO  BUT  ONE 
DEALER  IN  A  PLACE.  SO  SECURE  THIS  PAPER  FOR  ONE  YEAR  FREE, 
AND  THE  AGENCY  FOR  THE  BEST-SELLING  5  CENT  CIGAR  ON TIIE MAR­
KET  BEFORE  YOU  ARE  TOO  LATE.

GEO. T. WARREN & GO.,  Flint,  Mich.
CUBTISS, DUNTON & C0„

FEBRUARY  1ST,  1886.

W H O L E S A L E

PAPER, W OODENW ARE,

TWINES,  CORDAGE,  ETC.

Suprior id  1-2 a i 1-2 Binders’ Twine aid Wool Twine.

LYON  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

RINDGE, BERTSOH & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

A N D

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

W e have a splendid line of goods for Fall Trade and guarantee our prices  on Rub­
bers.  The demand for our own make of W omen’s, Misses and Childs’ shoes is increas­
ing.  Send in your orders and they will be promptly attended to.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

H E S T E R   <&  EOX,

MANUFACTURERS  AGENTS  FOR

S A W  AITS G R IST  M ILL ACACHXXTEB.'S’,
Send for 
C atalogue 
ana 
_ Price:

A T L A S

ENGINE 
WORKS

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.f  U.  S
__________ M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O P  
STEAM ENG1MES&BOILERS
Carry Engines and Boilers in Stock 

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for  immediate delivery.

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

Saws, B elting and Oils.

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

and become convinced of their superiority.

W rite  for Prices. 

130  OAKES  STREET.  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

83  M o n ro e  

E LEONARD & SONS

G r a n d i   R a p i d s ,   M i e l i .
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50
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A   EZG  DEAL  X2T  O EO C SER Y .

7 in., .96;  1  doz. 8 in.,  1.40
60c;  1  doz. 24, 75 

5.40 per doz.
No. 2 Two Cone Burner 
6.30 per doz.
No. 2 Three Cone Burner 
Frosted Chim. for 2 or 3 cone burner  1.50 per doz. 
Plain Chim. for 2 or 3 cone burner 
1.25 per doz.
Assorted Crate KNOWLES,TAYLOR & KNOWLES, Thirds, Diamond K.
3.24
9 doz. 5 inch Plates
10.00
20 doz. 7 inch Plates
3.60
6 doz. 8 inch Plates
3 doz. Bakers,  1  doz. 6 in., .75;  1  doz.
3.11
3 doz. Bowls,  1  doz. 36, 50;  1  doz. 30,
1.85
4.00
1  doz. Covered Chambers, 9 
1.50
1-2 doz. Open Chambers, 9 
1.50 
6 doz. Fruit Saucers, 4 in.
1.60
1-2 doz. Covered Butters, 5 in.
1-2 doz. Covered Dishes,  1-4 doz. 7 in.,
1.70
6.60
2.20
-3 doz. Ewers and Basins, 9
4 doz. Scollop Nappies, 1 doz. 5 in., 60;-1 doz.
3.76
6, 76;  1  doz. 7,  1.00; 1 doz. 8 1.40 
1  doz. Platters 1-4 9,  1; 1-4 10,  1.60;
1.90
1-4 11, 2.14;  1-4 12,2.84 
24 Sets Hand St. Dennis Teas 
8.16
14 Sets Unhandled St. Dennis Teas 
6.24
2.00
$56.36
A Ml line of Bargain Counter Goods.  Send for Illustrated Catalogue.

3.20;  1-4 8 in., 3.60 

3.00
.25
3.20

Package, 

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PERKINS  &

SEND  FOR  PRICE-LIST TO

I 
i)  G-ranci HLapids, M ieli.

Nos.  122 and  124 Louis St., Corner Fulton,

W HOLESALE DEA LER  IN

Butter, Eggs, Pop  Corn,

Green and Dried Fruits,
• POP  CORN A   SPECIALTY.

Write me for prices. 

W .  T.  XiOXTG,  VICKSBTLRG,  M ICH .

O. W. BLAIN & CO., Proto
Foreign  a i  Domestic  Fruits, Seiitta  M etals, Etc.

-DEALERS  IN-

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled at lowest m arket price.  Corres­
NO.  0  IONIA  ST.

pondence solicited.  APPLES AND  POTATOES  in car lots  Specialties. 
P E R K I N S   <&
,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

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NOS.  122  and  124  LOUIS  STREET.  GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

B.  LEIDERSDORF  &  CO.,

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

GREAT  WATCH  MAÏER,

J E W E L E R

44  CANAL.  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

SAVINGS  BANK— PASS-BOOK.

A recent  decision of the New York Court 
of Appeals  is  to  the  effect  that  a savings 
bank passbook is not a negotiable paper, and 
that its  possession  in  itself  constitutes  no 
evidence of a  right to draw  money thereon. 
The passbook,  according  to  the  court,  im­
ports a liability of the bank to the depositor 
for the money deposited  and an  agreement 
to pay it at such time and in such manner as 
he shall direct 
In the case  referred to the 
defendant bank paid a  depositor’s money to 
a stranger  who had  possession  of his  pass­
book, and sought  to  justify  such  payment 
under a by-law,  printed  in the  passbook  at 
the time it was delivered to the depositor, as 
follows:  “All deposits and  drafts must be 
entered in the passbook  at  the  time  of the 
transaction, and all payments  made  by the 
bank upon the presentation of the passbook 
entered therein will  be  regarded as binding 
upon  the  depositor.  Money  may  also  be 
drawn upon the written order of the deposi­
tor or his attorney when accompanied by the 
pass-book.”  The court held that,  assuming 
that the mere  acceptance by the  depositors 
of a passbook containing a by-law regulating 
the  manner  of  making  deposits  and  pay­
ments  constituted  a  contract  between  the 
parties,  yet the by-law referred to could not 
be construed to justify a  payment to a third 
party unless  a  written  order  accompanied 
the passbook.

Ra k i K G
POWDER

This Baking Powder  makes  the  WHITEST, 
LIGHTEST and  most  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits, 
Cakes, Bread, etc.  TRY  IT  and be convinced, 
Prepared only by the

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Arctic Manufacturing Co.,
ABOLISH  YOUR  PASS  BOOKS.

GROCERS!

Start in the New Year by Introducing the

SUTLIFF

CUP0N 

SYSTEM.

The  only  Complete  Coupon  System  in 
existence,  making  business  safe  both  for 
the merchant and his customers.

A  OARI>.

In presenting to the trade my COUPON SYS­
TEM, which has been revised and  improved, I 
claim that I have the most complete, safe  and 
cheapest system  for  simplifying  business  on 
the  market.  Customers  can  send  their ser­
vants with the Coupon Book  to the store  with 
no  danger  or  discrepancies, as  by the record 
which is kept on inside covers, amount of each 
sale  is  recorded.  Ail  hooks  are  numbered 
when so’d, and when not paid for in  advance, 
are secured by note, one of which  is  in  every 
book.  Every Coupon has engraved  signature 
of the merchant,  together with the card;  cov­
ers have the merchant’s advertisement on, and 
their  size makes them desirable to the custom­
er  as  well  as  the  cashier.  As  they are now 
made the smaller numbers below the five cent 
can be  detached, same as the largerones, thus 
obviating the necessity of a punch and  stamp.
MERCHANTS  CONTEMPLATING  CHANG­
ING  FROM  CREDIT  TO  CASH, can still  hold 
their  old  customers  by  introducing this  sys­
tem, which I claim is  the  only  system  where 
both customers and merchants are  absolutely 
protected against all loss.  Send for sample.

J. H. SUTLIFF, Proprietor

ALBANY,  N.  Y.

STATUTORY  CONSTRUCTION— LEASE.
Where  a  firm  doing  business  under the 
the name of a  deceased  partner rented part 
of their  store  in  New  York,  the  Supreme 
Court  of Pennsylvania  held  that  the lease 
was not void under a New York statute pro­
hibiting the  transaction  of  the  business in 
the name  of a  person  not interested  in the 
firm.  The court  took  the ground  that  the 
making of the lease was not transacting bus 
iness within the meaning  of  the New York 
statute.  The court  cited  a  decision  of the 
Court of Appeals of New York,  in which it 
was held  that  the  object  of  the  statute in 
question was to prevent individuals engaged 
in business from continuing to use the name 
of a member  of  the  firm  with whom  such 
person had been associated after such mem 
ber had retired from the concern, or of using 
the name of a person not  interested in such 
firm,  and thus to  induce  credit  to be given 
by those trading  with  such  persons  and to 
impose on the public.  Quoting this opinion, 
the  Pennsylvania  court  said:  We  are  of 
opinion  that  in  leasing  this  property  the 
plaintiffs  were  not  transacting  business 
within the meaning of the  New York  stat 
ute.  There were  not  real  estate agents  or 
brokers  in  any  sense.  They  were  in  the 
millinery and  straw  goods  business.  The 
leasing of a part of  their  premises  was not 
even an ordinary incident of  their business 
it was done  because  it  happened  to  be va 
cant.  The act was  never intended to cover 
such a case as this,  and as it is highly penal 
we will not entend it beyond its plain object 
and meaning.

A Drummer’s Lively Trade in Kansas. 
“Travelin’?” queried the  elderly  passen­
ger, who  must talk or die, as he leaned over 
and looked into the  face of  a  young drum­
mer.

“Guess I am,” replied the young man. 
“Sellin’ goods?”
“Yes.”
“Where do you travel from?”
“Chicago.”
“Business  purty good?”
“First rate;  neVer  better. 

I’ve  just  had 
one  of  the  best  trips  of  my  experience. 
Took in orders  like  an  ice  cream saloon in 
August.  Collections are good, too, and there 
seems to be plenty of money  in the  section 
of country I’ve been in.  Everybody appears 
to be prosperous. 
It’s fun to sell goods in a 
country like that.”

“And where have you been travelin’?” 
“Kansas.”
“Kansas,  eh? 

I thought so.  That shows 
’em.  That’s just what I’ve  been  telling all 
the folks  down  to  our  place.  Prohibition 
means  prosperity.  When  a  community 
shuts up  the  saloons  an’  stops  buyin’  an’ 
drinkin’ liquor it gits  along  all  right. 
It’s 
whisky that makes the  hard  times.  When 
people give up their guzzling they have plen­
ty of  money  to  buy  boots  and  shoes,  and 
clothing and  groceries,  and  the  necessities 
of life.  By  the  way,  do  you  travel  for a 
grocery?”

“No,  sir.”
“For a boot and shoe house,  mebbe?” 
“No.”
“Like as not for a clothing concern?” 
“No’p.”
“What then?”
“A distillery.”

The New York  Dairy Market.

So far as butter is concerned,  it is entire­
ly a  weather  market.  Shipments  are  de­
layed and do  not  arrive  in good condition, 
which  makes  choicest  grades  in  request. 
Exporters  are  not  making  extensive  pur­
chases,  but the  market  is  likely to  remain 
with sellers  until  the  weather  moderates. 
Choice to  fancy  creamery  commands  31@ 
36c and state dairy is held at 23@25c.

The export demand  for  cheese  is limited 
and the Liverpool market has declined,  and 
is  cabled  dull  at  the  decline.  Canada  is 
pressing sales of stored cheese, which  more 
or less affects the whole line.  Home  trade 
Is  not  large  but of  steady volume.  Fancy 
full cream is in fair demand at 10@10Jic.

AND  10,  12,  14,  16  AND  18  FOUNTAIN  STREET, 

M ILW A UK EE, W IS.,

FRED. D. YALE. 

DANIEL LYNCH.

SUCCESSORS  TO

FRED. D. YALE & CO.
CHAS. S. YALE & BRO.,
Baiini Powta, Extracts, Bluings,
GROCERS’  SUNDRIES.
All orders addressed to the new  firm will re­

WHOLESALE  MANUFACTURERS  OF

ANI)  JOBBERS  OF

ceive prompt attention.

40 and 42 S(Mth Division St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

G R A N D   R A P ID S,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers a Specialty.

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 
I any of these goods to ship, or any Potatoes or Beans, let us hear from you, and we will 
I keep  you  posted on market price and prospects.  Liberal cash advances made on dried 
I fruit, also on apples in car lots.

EARL  BROS.,  Commission  Meschahts,

Refemoe—First National BaJk.

157  S.  WATER  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

MANUFACTURERS  OF  TIIE  CELEBRATED

Uncle Sam, Rob Roy, Miners and  Pad­

dlers, Railroad and Hurrah  Smok­

ing; Commander and Hair Lift­

er Chewing Tobaccos.

Headquarters for above named brands at

J o l l l l  

iQ p j . n l  -F I 

c l  y  W holesale  Grocer, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

JOHN  CAULFIELD,

WHOLESALE

GROCER,

G rand Fta/picis, AÆioli.

