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N O .   132.

CLIMAX-

PLUG TOBACCO?
KEDTINTAC.

Granello,
MERCHANT

TAILOR,

LEDYARD  BLOCK,

107 Ottawa St.

4DETROIT
FREE

PRESS

CIGAR.

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10c Cigar for 5c,

Brown Bros.

MANUFACTURERS, 

DETROIT, 

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MICH.

LUDWIG WINTERNITZ,
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T H E   ONLY  R E L IA B L E

Compressed Yeast.

M an’f'd  b y  R iv erd ale D ist. Co.

106 Kent  Street, Grand  Rapids, Michigan,

T E L E P H O N E   566.

G rocers, b a k e rs a n d  o th e rs can  secu re th e  ag en cy  fo r 
th e ir  toVfai on th is  Y e a st b y  a p p ly in g  to  .above address.

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All above brands for sale only by

WHOLESALE  GROCERS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

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PETERSBURG,  VA.,

PLUG  TOBACCOS,
NIMROD,
E.  C.,

BLUE  RETER,

SPREAD  EAGLE,

BIG FIVE CENTER.

Sweet 16

Laundry Soap
OBERNE, HOSICK & CO.

M ANUFACTURED  BY

CHICAGO,  ILL.

Wholesale Manufacturers

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Office  and  Factory—11,  13,  15  and  17 
Woodbridge street  Went.  Da t iers cordially 
invited to call on us when in town.

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Plug  Tobaccos.
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SPRING CHICKEN .38 
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Above brands for sale only by

Oiney, Shields & Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The Tower of Strength.

Golden Seal  Bitters, a  perfect  renovator of 
the system,  carrying  away  all  poisonous de­
p o sits, enriching, refreshing and  invigorating 
|  both mind and body.  Easy of administration, 
prompt in action, certain in results.  Safe and 
reliable in all forms of liver,  stomach,  kidney 
and  blood  diseases. 
It  is  not  a  vile,  fancy 
drink, but  is  entirely  vegetable.  This  medi­
cine has a magic effect in liver complaints and 
every form of disease where the stomach fails 
to do its work,  It is a tonie. 
it  will cure dys­
pepsia.  It is an alterative and the best remedy 
known  to  our  Materia  Medica  for  diseases 
.of the blood.  It will cure kidney diseases, ner- 
Ivousness,  headache,  sleeplessness  and  en­
feebled condition of the system.  The form ula 
ftf  Golden Seal  Bitters  is  a  prescription of  a 
most successful German physician, and thous­
ands can testify to their curative powers. Sold 
by the Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich.

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GUSTAVE  A.  WOLF,

Attorney,

Over Fourth National  Bank.  Telephone  407.

COLLECTIONS

Promptly attended to throughout the State. 
References:  Hart & Ambcrg,  Eaton <fc  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 

Books, Stationery, Paper, Etc.

We have greatly increased our  facilities  for 
doing  a  General  Jobbing  Business,  and  shall 
hereafter be able to fill 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  Agency  of the 
REMINGTON  TYPE  WRITER

F or  W estern  M ichigan.

E aton & Lyon
G. ROYS  CO.,

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

W llips c 

2  P earl St...  G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

Never to  our  knowledge  has  any  medicine 
m et with the success as  has  Golden  Seal  Bit- 
ters.  It  comprises  the best  remedies  of  the 
vegetable kingdom so as to derive the greatest 
medicinal  effect,  and  is  making  wonderful 
cures. 

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J U D D   c f c   O O - ,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE

And Full Line W inter Goods.

102  CANAL  STREET.

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  GRi

71  CANAL  STREET.

ALBERT  COYE & SON,
A.W2TX2TGS, TE2TTS

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HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS.

W H O LESA LE  D E A LER S  IN

Oiled Clothing, Ducks, Stripes, Etc.

73  Canal Street, 

-  G rand  Rapids, Mich.

GX2TSB2TG BOOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
P e c k   B ro s .,  Druggists, Grand Rapids, Midi.
ABTHT7B B. BOOD,

ATTORNEY,

C O M M E R C IA L   L A W   and  L O A N S , 

43 P earl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Refers by  permission  to  Foster,  Stevens  & 
Co.,  Peek  Bros.,  Nat’l  City  Bank,  Morgan  & 
Avery,E. A. Stowe. 

Telephone  call  375.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

JEWELER

44  CANAL  STREET,

MICH.
GRAND  RAPIDS,
W E   L E A  D—O T H E R S   F O L L O W .
is  valuable.  The
G ra n d   R a p id s  
Business College is 
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practical  trainer 
and fits its pupils for the vocations of busi­
ness with all that the  term  implies.  Bend 
for Journal.  Address C. G. SWENSBERG, 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
F a r e   A p p le   C id er & W h ite  W in e

JO B B E R   O F

V I N E G A R S   !
As  the  Vinegar  season  is  now  beginning, those  in 
need of  Vinegars  warranted  full  strength  and abso­
lutely pure should send for  samples  of  my  goods, or 
drop a postal card and I will call.  Telephone 560, 
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1 0 6   K e n t S t.,  G rap d  R a p id s,  M ich , 

The Drum-Beat of Trade.

He  is  a  jolly  good  feltav—the  “drum­
mer.”  His  rat-a-tat  is a reveille to many a 
sleeping  merchant.  He  beats tlxe long roll 
of the battle of business.

Generally,  lie is  young  enough to be full 
of enthusiasm—his blood  is  tonic,  and red. 
He is “on the road”—to  fortune.  He  will 
be  a  “Merchant  Prince.”  Hope  scarfs 
shoulders of every  cloud,  and dreams out a 
radiant  future  on  the  dreariest rainy day. 
He lias samples of various things to sell and 
to drink.  He means  to be honest—to  give 
value  received.  Building  up  a  trade,  he 
can not afford to leave any goods that won’t 
stand scrutinty  when he  has  gone; it’s not 
his  interest  to sell what  will be a  drug on 
the market.  He  is  coming  again,  and  he 
wants  a  good  report  from  his  customers. 
Do  not  comfound  him  with  mercantile 
tramp or  the  jack-peddler.  They  purpose 
but one visit.  The commercial traveler lias 
come to  stay.  Like  a  comet,  he  may de­
scribe a  large  orbit  before  his  return, but 
when he  comes  back,  lie’ll  have  “his  tail 
behind  him.”  All! he will a “tale unfold!” 
If  not  Darwinian—Spencerian, 
lie  will 
rattle  away on  his drum,  but lie’ll quicken 
the  stagnant  pulses  of  his  customer,  and 
make his heart pant for  new victories.  He 
chases away the army  of  hobgoblins which 
fear  conjures  around  him  in  moments  of 
hesitation  and  of  doubt,  and  makes  him 
plucky to  win  the  good  possible  to  enter­
prise and to  effort.

He is  the life of  many a  country  town. 
The  girls smile at him when “Cornin’ Thro’ 
the Rye.”  The old  chaps bid him a hearty 
welcome.  The church  choir and  collectors 
are glad  to see  him;  they  like his  singing 
and shekels.  Boniface brightens as he reg­
isters and calls for a favorite room, with the 
air of  a  lord  chamberlain  requiring  apart­
ments for a prince.

In half  an  hour  he  knows  everybody in 
the house,  has set things to rights,  and brib­
ed  the porters  and waiters.  He has warm­
ed into glorious  summer  the winter in  the 
veins  of  landlord,  servants  and  guests. 
“Take a cigar,” rings round,  while between 
every  finger  is  sandwiched  a  fragrant 
Havana.  What  a  bustle* in  the  “sample 
rooms”—dry  goods  and  wet.  The  bowls 
roll,  the  ten-pins  tumble,  the  billiard balls 
jingle,  the cobwebs are broken in the piano, 
and the  air throbs  and  thrills  with  song— 
operatic,  ministrel, choral and “gospel.”

On the cars  lie  unlocks with  private key 
the seats,  and takes  as much  room as there 
is*to spare,  but  is the  first to  bounce up to 
share with a stranger or surrender to a bevy 
of ladies.  He  likes a  parlor chair,  and de­
lights in a section,  but is equally at home on 
the wood-box or  perched  on  a crate  in the 
lie  can ride on  the rear plat­
express car. 
form or the cow-catcher, 
lie can run down 
anything  on  the  track,  and  catch up  with 
anything from  the  rear.  He  is  equally at 
home in the caboose,  mail,  express,  smok­
ing or  Pullman  palace car.  He  rides on a 
1,000 mile ticket, but  helps  every wayfarer 
—the  old  woman  with  her  bundles, 
the 
maiden with her bonnet-box, the octogenar­
ian with his carpet-sack.  He guys the dude, 
lays for the greenhorn,  but  is  the first man 
to resent a wrong  imposed on the ignorance 
or credulity of the helpless.  He is the ene­
my of sharpers,  the dread  of  train robbers, 
the  apparition of  a man  who  can’t keep a 
hotel.  When he writes business, stationery 
flies and Uncle Sam rejoices.  When he gets 
back to the store lie must let off steam.  He 
opens all  the valves;  and  lets  the  locomo­
tive whistle and  hiss.  He  comes in like  a 
cyclone;  wait  on him;  he’ll  soon  tell  you 
“how  it  is.”  The  bosses  marvel.  They 
wonder that they ever let loose such a whirl­
wind on their  unsuspecting customers.  He 
is a mighty blower.  After  a  while  he will 
begin to  decipher  the  hieroglyphics  of his 
order book—with many  a  running exegeti- 
cal comment. 
It  also  melts  the  lead  in a 
pencil by sheer friction to keep up with and 
record him.  His rhetoric  is  parenthetical. 
The fiver  of  his  talk  widens;  in  many a 
branching  stream  it  wider  grows; it flows 
over sand-bars, laps  among willows,  eddies 
in many a cove; but the deep channel  floats 
the cargo of business.  Before sundown you 
have all  lie lias  to  say.  He begs a  day or 
two  “off,” and before the time expires he is 
clamoring for samples  and  orders,  and pin­
ing for  “the road.”

Give  him  tickets  for  5,000  miles,  a free 
range,  samptes up to orders, and lie will go, 
and lie goes cheer  and  chasten,  and  when 
you hear from him there  will be packing to 
do  at  head-quarters.  Drays  will  jar  the 
curbstone and  rushing  trains will  bear far 
abroad the fruits of his travel.

The traveler  is  a great convenience.  He 
saves the merchant time and  money,  enabl­
ing him to buy as he needs,  and  diminishes 
the danger of  overstocking.  The merchant 
considers  his  purchases at  his leisure,  and 
can  consult  the  shelves,  books,  partners, 
clerks and customers as to demand, fashion, 
ability to pay,  etc.

He buys at home, and free  from the  em­
barrassment  attending  the  operations  of  a 
wholesale store,  and of dealing with a stran­
ger, and,  perhaps, in  the  presence of other 
merchants.  Becoming  familiar  with  the 
salesman,  he does  not hesitate to  catechize 
him  closely, and  ask, even, for  the benefit

of his  judgment  as  to  tfie  probable styles 
and market prices.

The  drummer  knows  that  his  interest 
hangs  on  retaining  the  confidence  of  the 
customer he lias gained,  and  the merchant, 
feeling sure of  this, they  confer  with each 
other—each  seeking  the  other’s  interest, 
knowing to conserve and promote that which 
is best for eacli and for both alike, is the aim 
and end of conference.

The village hotel,  and  those  who supply 
the  table,  get  the  benefit  of  having  the 
drummers as guests,  whereas  the  city hotel 
formerly had  the  profit of  entertaining the 
country merchants.  Many an interior town 
that, previous to the system of  sample sell­
ing,  scarcely supported a  poor  tavern,  now 
maintains  a  handsome  hotel,  mainly  pat­
ronized by commercial  travelers.  Credit is 
protected  by  short  settlements.  Formerly 
when a  merchant had to  buy a six months’ 
stock on one visit to the metropolis, a credit 
corresponding to the extent of  the purchase 
had  to  be  carried.  Bad  debts, slielf-worn 
and unsalable goods,  loss of  interest,  added 
cost to  the consumer and  peril  to the mer­
chant.  No prudent man  now need to over- 
supply  himself  so  as  to  incur  embarrass­
ment.

Required to  pay cash,  or  its  equivalent, 
the seller must  exact  similar  terms of  his 
buyer,  and the profit and loss account figures 
but  insignificantly  as  compared  with  the 
place it  occupied  formerly  on  the  ledger. 
Taking it altogether,  the drummer is one of 
the features of modem civilization,  ranking 
with the greatest inventions of  the century, 
with steam  transportation  and  cheap post­
age.

The  moral  and  social  effects  of  cheap 
postage are incalculable.  It lias strengthen­
ed family ties and conjugal  bonds—contrib­
uted mightily to  commercial  ideas,  and  to 
the community  of  principles  and  the con­
cert of purposes.  It lias made for the broth­
erhood of men,  and widened in many ways, 
the sympathies that  underlie interest in our 
own  common  humanity.  So,  the  commer­
cial traveler,  running to and fro has increas­
ed knowledge.  He  is  a Mercury of intelli­
gence.  Flying from  town  to  town he con­
nects places heretofore thought remote,  and 
puts them  on neighborhood  relations.  He 
carries with him the  ideas  prevailing in the 
towns lie visits,  tells of  their  vanities  and 
vagaries—their  fancies  and facts, their vir­
tues and vices,  and the tastes and talents of 
the communities w ith  which  he  meets and 
mingles.

He  advertises  the  latest  fashions  wher­
ever lie goes,  and is  blessed  by  the tailors, 
envied by the village dude,  and  worshipped 
by the  lovely maidens.  He is  an authority 
on the latest tiling out  for  church fairs and 
sociables, and gives the  cue  to every sensa­
tional innovation which  jostles the sobriety 
of country parsons  and  deacons, but which 
swells the purse of the ladies’ societies,  and 
heals with nitrate of silver the sore made by 
the feculence of sin.

In  fact  and  fine,  the  drummer  recruits 
business,  mounts the guard of  the" mart, re- 
eonnoiters  and  skirmishes,  and  rallies  on 
the  reserve—for,  when  oecason  serves,  he 
can turn his drum  sticks into a policeman’s 
club or a soldier’s arms.

The Patent Shark.

Geo. B. Grant in the American Machinist.

My  mail,  for  a  week  or  two  after I  re­
ceive a patent,  is a source  of  much  amuse­
ment  and  instruction,  and  leaves  the  im­
pression on my  mind  that  the  average  in­
ventor must be a  first-class  fool.  No  other 
explanation will account for the thriving ex­
istence and continued  support of  the horde 
of cheap swindlers and industrious humbugs 
who load me  with their  flaming  advertise­
ments  and seductive offers.

Most of these are agents for the sale of pat­
ents,  and, let them tell  it,  have most aston­
ishing facilities  for  exchanging  my inven­
tion for tens of thousands of dollars.  Their 
compensation  is  a  commission  of  ten  per 
cent, on  the  actual  sales,  and  a small ad­
vance  of  five  to  fifty  dollars  to  pay  half 
cost of getting out circulars and engravings.
Some have exhibition  halls in  the center 
of some great city,  where models can be dis­
played to the gaze  of  throngs of  capitalists 
who are in search of an outlet  for their sur­
plus  funds,  at  a  charge,  of  so  much  per 
month for  the space  occupied  and  the ser­
vices of the director and his assistants.  The 
cash  should  accompany  the  order  to  ex­
hibit.

A farmer in Canada  wrote  to  me, saying 
he had sent $30 to a certain company to ex­
hibit  his potato digger.  He  was  not  over­
run  with  orders,  could  get  no  satisfaction 
from the concern,  and thought likely he had 
been beat.  At the  given  address  I  found 
the exhibition  hall  in a  mean  fourth-story 
attic,  without a sign at  the  door or  even a 
line  in  the  directory;  but  it  was  full  of 
models in rows and piles,  covered with dirt. 
A  rascally-looking  fellow  explained  the 
matter by saying that  he had  done his best 
with the  potato  digger;  but  it  was  a poor 
specimen,  and there was  but  small demand 
for  potato  diggers,  at  best.  His  circular 
would  disgust  any  printer—mere  gutter 
snipes at ten for a cent.

But this  was an  exhibition  hall,  open to 
any one (who  could  find  it),  and his circu­
lars were circulars; the law was not broken,

and I left the company,  hard  at work at his 
desk, writing decoy letters  to new  victims.
A certain  “Patent  Exchange” named the 
sum my patent  would  fetch  for  each state 
right:  $8,000 for  Florida,  $15,000 for Ala­
bama,  and so on,  some  $75,000 in all.  The 
modest  sum  of  $8,  payable  in  advance, 
would  meet  half  the  cost  of  flooding  the 
South with my circulars, and the  Exchange 
would be satisfied with its  final commission 
of $7,500.  Merchants and ministers vouch­
ed for the  concern;  but  I  kept  the  patent 
and the $8.
Another is founded on broader principles. 
It is made up of thousands of  inventors,  all 
working for each other  on  the “united-we- 
stand,  divided-we-fall”  plan,  with a code of 
by-laws,  a  general  manager,  and  directors 
everywhere  from 
to  Hong-Kong. 
Membership  cost  is  small,  and  a  modest 
sum will reimburse the general manager for 
the circulars that are to  be  sent to all civil­
ized countries.

Iowa 

Very often the  concern  publishes  a  per­
iodical,  some  Scientific  Bamboozler,  Yol. 
XXVI.,  No. 763,  which  I  never  heard of 
before,  but  which,  nevertheless,  has a  cir­
culation which is something immense,  and I 
am furnished with a blank  order  for adver­
tizing my invention.

Others take the  shape  of  engraving  and 
publishing companies who  will  send  me an 
engraving of my patent  drawing for  a cou­
ple of dollars,  and get  out my circulars  for 
about  half  what  I  know  good  ones  cost. 
The engraving  is  sure  to  be  one  of  these 
“cheap  and  nasty”  photo  engravings, 
which excel only on the  specimen-sheets of 
their  makers,  and  the  circulars  would  be 
sure to kill the invention.
□About  the  cheapest  dodge  is  an offer to 
furnish  me  with  copies  of  my  patent, 
“printed from the  same  type as the origin­
al,” for about  twice  the  price  the  Govern­
ment charges for  the  same  thing,  which is 
itself about twice too much.

One  thing  I  notice  particularly,  and  it 
speaks volumes. 
I get no letters from Bos­
ton swindlers,  although Boston  is well rep­
resented  in the trade. 
I might  call  in  per­
son, and they much prefer that their patrons 
should remit by bank draft, or in some such 
way. 
If I was a farmer,  a  thousand miles 
away,  with a potato digger on my brain and 
a few dollars  in  my  pocket,  I  should  hear 
from Boston without fail.

Another set  of beats,  quite  as  dead,  and 
much more dangerous,  but  not as  transpar­
ent as the  patent  sellers,  are  some  of  the 
“no patent, no pay” class of patent lawyers, 
and it is  astonishing  wliat  a host of ex-ex- 
aminers,  eminent  lawyers  and  scientific 
experts are ready to act  as  my  humble ser­
vants,  as  long  as  my  money  holds  out. 
These men will examine into the novelty of 
my invention  gratis,  when  any  sort  of an 
examination is worth at least  $10; and they 
will guarantee to get  me  a patent or charge 
me nothing for their services.

The average  inventor  must employ some 
attorney,  for  he  is  promptly  kicked out of 
the Patent  Office,  if  he  applies  in  person; 
and as lie is  seldom  able  to  employ  really 
good counsel, lie  is  almost  always  sure to 
fall a victim  to this ingenius  trick.

The secret  of  this  really  able  racket  is 
that  any fairly  posted  lawyer,  or  any  ex­
thirteenth-assistant  examiner, who  lost his 
job when liis uncle  left  Congress, can get a 
patent with a  genuine  red  tape  and  green 
seal  attached, 4>n  any  sort  of  a  gimeraek, 
whether it is new or old,  useful or  useless, 
valuable or worthless.

The real patent lies in one or more formal 
statements or “claims,” and not in the spec­
ification, or  drawing.  The  government re­
quires the former to be novel,  in form if not 
in substance,  but  sets  no  such  limit to the 
latter, and  it is  an easy  matter  to so draw 
lip a claim that  it  shall  be  novel,  whether 
the invention  is or. not. 
If the  claim be re­
jected,  twist  it a little,  add  some  technical 
phrase  that  totally  destroys  its  value,  but 
which is pure Greek to  the  inventor,  and it 
will surely pass.

There are  thousands  of  patents  on  each 
of  the  articles  in  common  use,  the  plow, 
pump, car-coupler,  telephone,  etc.,  and nine 
out of ten of them have been forced through 
by cunning manipulation of  the claims. 
It 
would require a genius  to  invent a real im­
provement on the plow,  but any clodhopper 
can contrive a patentable variation  of  some 
detail.

These men make no  search and  make no 
charge for one,  for they well know they can 
dodge any  record  there  may  be;  and  they 
take no risk whatever  by  staking  their fee 
on the result.

As an experiment,  I copied an idea that I 
knew  was  sheer  nonsense,  from  a  patent 
not  five  years  old,  and  wrote  about  it  to 
several of the shysters.  Each one  “search­
ed  the  records,”  and  would  undertake  to 
procure me a patent “on  receipt  of the first 
Government  fee  of  $15  and  $5  to pay the 
cost of a  (one dollar) drawing.”

The only defense is to  let the advertising 
patent sellers alone,  and to employ as coun­
sel some lawyer who charges a fair price for 
his services,  whether  successful or not,  and 
who is not obliged to  motílate the patent to 
get his pay. 
If an  idea  is  unpatentable,  it 
is worth a large price to have that disagree­
able fact demonstrated,  and it is poor  econ­
omy to buy a chéap  patent,  and  then pay a 
heavy price to  dBvelop  its  utter  worthless­
ness.

Èlafe

Suitings for Manufacturers,

Suitings for Jobbers,

Suitings for Retailers,

Suitings for Traveling Men, 

Suitings for Clerks,

A N D

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

SUPERIOR  WORK  AND  THE  PROP­

ER  STYLE  FOR  THE WEARER.

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

.  Broken Down Invalids.

Probably never in the history of Cough Med­
icines has any article met success equal to that 
which has been showered upon  Dr.  Pete’s  35- 
cent Cough Cure.  Thousands of hopeless cases 
of Coughs, Colds and Consumption have yield­
ed  to  this  truly  miraculous  discovery.  For 
this reason, we feel warranted  in  risking our 
reputation and money on its  merits.  Sold  by 
the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Gfand Rap­
ids, Mich.

tisi

tsLasbcs

M erchants  Need I t  for M arking Signs, P la ­

cards,  Hoots  and  Shoes,  Crockery, Jitc.
C an bo used w ith  a n y  in k   o r  fluid  O ne  e a ch   o f  th e  
tw o d iffe re n t sizes o f P ens fo r  50c.;  th re e   fo r  60c.;  to ­
g e th e r w ith  C h a rts sh o w in g  th e  c o n stru c tio n   o f d iffer­
e n t sty le s o f le tte rs, d irectio n s, etc.,  se n t  p o st-p aid   on 
re c e ip t o f p o stal  n o tes o r tw o -cen t stam p s.
On re c e ip t of S i, I w ill sen d  w ith   th e   m a rk in g   se t  a  
p a c k ag e  o f po w d er t h a t  w ill m ak e  tw o  q u a rts  off m a rk ­
in g  fluid.  W in. T renkle, P ortville, C a tt.C o .,N .Y .

NEW  BRANDS
CIGARS l

OF

SUNSHINE,
STANDARD,
ROYAL  BIRD,
KEY  VEST,
LOVE  LETTER, 
BUNNY,
I  SHOULD  BLUSH, 
DICTATOR.
Coldwater Goods,

ABOVE  ARE  ALL

OF  WHICH  WE  HAVE  THE 

EXCLUSIVE  SALE.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A. H. FOWLE,
FINE  WALL  PAPERS,

House Decorator and Dealer in

Room Mouldings,

p 

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Window Shades,
Artist Materials
PICTURE FRAMES,
Paints, Oil & Glass.

PICTURES,

And  a full  line of

Enamel  Letters,  Numbers  and  Door 
Plates,  and all kinds of Embossed, Cut and 
Ornamental Olms.

Special attention given to House Decorat­
ing and Furnishing,  and  to  the  designing 
and furnishing of stained glass.

37  Ionia Street,  South of Monroe.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  31,  1886.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

President—Lester J. ltindge.
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.
Lockwood;  Treasurer, J. T. Beadle.

President,  Frank  Hamilton;  Secretary,  C. T. 

_  .

Business  Men’s  Protective  Union  of 

Cheboygan.

President,  A.  M.  W eigato;  Vice-President. 

H. Chambers;  Secretary, A. J. Paddock.
L uther Protective Association.

President, W. B. Pool:  Vice-President, R. M. 
Smith;  Secretary. Jas.  M.  Verity;  Treasurer, 
Geo. Osborne.
Ionia  Business  Men’s  Protective  As­

sociation.

President, Wm.  E.  Kelsey;  Vice-President, 

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

Ovid Business Men’s Association. 
President, C.  H.  Hunter:  Secretary,  Lester 

■Cooley.

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.  _____
FAIRNESS  IN  TH E  LABOR  ISSUES.
In the upheaval of labor interests and the 
manifestation of  their  strength when fully 
organized,  there  have  been  some  circum­
stances which  have  occasioned  regret  and 
unfavorable  comment,  yet,  on  the whole, 
the country has  contemplated  this extraor­
dinary spectacle with  wonderful  calmness. 
In nearly every  instance, except that of the 
unfortunate  and  too  precipitate  strike  on 
the southwestern railroads, there has been a 
good feeling between  the  parties in contro­
versy,  and  a  solution  has  been  amicably 
reached.

The natural and appropriate suggestion to 
all at the present moment,  must be to culti­
vate a reasonable temper.  The existing dis­
turbances should  not  imperil any public or 
private interests, and will not,  in all  probar 
bility,  unless the situation is  needlessly ag­
gravated.  The workingmen  who  have or­
ganized are not unconscious how much they 
will weaken  themselves by  taking a wrong 
position or making an  unfair  demand,  and 
they will in  the  main, we  believe, restrain 
themselves,  from  passing  over  the reason 
able limit. 
It is,  therefore,  for  the  other 
parties  concerned in  the  question that will 
arise,  to meet  them  with  candor,  seeking 
not to gain  an  unfair  advantage, or to tri 
umph by  harsh  means,  but to adjust fairly 
whatever  may  be  at  issue.  This  is  the 
more  demanded  of  those  wlio  claim  for 
themselves  intelligence  and  culture,  and 
who  have  had  the  opportunity  of  fully 
studying all  the  conditions  of the problem.
In the long  run,  we  do  not believe that 
this country will fail to avoid the rocks and 
shoals of  the  great  social  issues  that  are 
presented. 
It is  our  happy  situation that 
ih « e are  here  no  such  deep-seated  griev­
ances or  long-maintained  wrongs  as make 
the Old World volcanic.

The failure of  M.  B.  Wiseman,  the  Big 
Rapids  grocer,  relieves  the  retail  trade  of 
that town of the worst cutter that ever curs­
ed the place.  Although possessed of  limit­
ed means and meager credit,  he persisted in 
selling goods at cost or less,  apparently con­
sidering  sueli  a course to be an  evidence of 
smartness.  The final  wind-up  shows  that 
it  was  his  creditors’  goods  he  was  giving 
away—not  his  own—as  is  usual  in  such 
cases. 

_____

Kalamazoo grocers  are  the next to array 
themselves on the  side  of  progress and or­
ganization.  Thirty leading  representatives 
of the trade met one  evening last week and 
resolved to proceed  to  the  formation of an 
association for protective and defensive pur­
poses.  Kalamazoo is the twentieth town to 
wheel into line in this State.

The Gripsack Brigade.

W.  G.  Cathcart h as severed his connection 

with S.  A.  Welling.
“By Gee” is recovering  so  rapidly  from 
his recent illness that lie expects .to take the 
road again by May 1.

Gus.  Sharp  and  wife  gave a progressive 
euchre party  to  the  former’s  associates at 
Cody, Ball & Co.’s last Friday evening.

Dan Beecher  succeeds  M.  C.  Goossen at 
Bulkley,  Lemon &  Hoops.  He will  take a 
portion of the city  trade  and  the suburban 
towns.

Geo.  Shannon,  who  has  represented  the 
Hoptonic Co.  at Detroit for  several  months 
past, will  hereafter  travel  on  the  road  for 
the company through Northern Michigan.

Lewis  K.  Townsend,  for  several  years 
past with W. B. Tyler  & Co.,  at  Richland, 
lias gone on the  road  for  Telfer & Brooks, 
taking  the  territory  formerly  covered  by 
John McIntyre.

C. M. Falls, W. D. Downey, Sam. Hyman, 
and Dan. A. Cohn write Secretary Caro rela­
tive to the  kindness  of  Supt  Metlieany in 
furnishing them a special  train from Mack­
inaw City to Petoskey on the 36th.  Owing 
to the  inclement  weather  prevailing at the 
time, they  crossed  the  straits  too  late for 
the  regular  train,  but  Mr. Metheany’s  act 
•enabled them to spend Sunday at home.

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN   T H E   C ITY .

C. E.  Kellogg succeeds  Kellogg & Lange 
in the drug business on West Bridge street.
W.  O.  Lake  will  engage in the grocery 
business at Morley, purchasing his  stock at 
this market.

C. Gooderham, grocer at Enstey, has add­
ed a line of dry goods.  Spring & Company 
furnished the stock.

Rowe & Hammond have  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Petoskey.  Arthur 
Meigs & Co. furnished the stock.

Frank  E.  Higgins,  local  representative 
for Armour & Co.,  states  that  the  boycott 
on that house is having  no  visible effect on 
its trade in this territory.

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

W. B. Kelly has sold his  grocery stock at 

Muskegon.

has sold out.

have sold out.

H. Netzorg, general dealer at St. Charles, 

Kurtz & Co.,  general dealers at BlisSfield, 

Dennis L. Pendell, general dealer at New­

berry,  is closing out.

E. A.  Dennis  lias  moved  his drug stock 

from Armada to Memphis.

E.  Root  succeeds  Root & Aldrich  in the 

grocery business at  Allegan.

T. J.  Sherman,  general  dealer  at Royal- 

ton,  is going out of business.

Dr. J. W.  Pattison  has  moved  his  drug 

stock from Mecosta to Remus.

A.  C. Daniels  has  moved  his drug stock 

from Weston to Mitchell,  Dakota.

D. M. Patrick has bought the  drug  stock 

of W.  H. Palmer,  at Carson City.

H. G.  Stevens  succeeds  Geo.  Pilkington 

& Co.  in general trade at Portland.

John Donovan,  general  dealer  at Frank­

lin, has been closed under execution.

C. A. Thompson succeeds  Robt.  Piper in 

the boot and shoe business at Fenton.

T.  B. Bailey  succeeds  Bailey  & Osbom, 

in the grocery business at Manchester.

J.  E.  Cheney & Bro. succeed Ball & Hoyt 

in the boot and shoe business at Dexter.

Hovey & Critenden succeed A. J. Walters 

in the boot and shoe business at Weston.

Dr.  Clark and W.  A.  Plant have engaged 
in the drug business  at  Upper  Big Rapids.
Lightstone  Bros,  have  removed  their 
clothing stock from Vestaburgli  to Rodney.
Robert Blair  has  purchased  the  grocery 
stock  of  J.  M.  Carr,  Agt.,  at  Chippewa 
Lake.

W.  S.  Andrus,  of the  firm  of  W.  S.  An­
drus & Son, druggists and grocers  at Utica, 
is dead.

Waguer & Wells,  general dealers at East- 
manville, will  dissolve  April  1, Wells con­
tinuing.

Augustus W.  Huntley  succeeds  Richards 
& Huntley in the drug and  notion  business 
at Saranac.

Clias. Young  has  sold  his drug stock,  at 
Otsego, to Conrad  Bros.,  or  Jolm Conrad, 
late of Mt. Pleasant,

P. II. Fitzgerald has  moved  his stock of 
drugs and  groceries  from  Maple Valley to 
Coral,  and now  occupies  the store building 
of John Snow.

W.  N.  Shepard,  of  the  firm  of  King & 
Shepard,  who were  doing  business at Deep 
River and  collapsed  last  fall,  has secured 
control of the store again and is re-stocking 
it.

The Nashville correspondent of the Hast­
ings  Banner  writes  as  follows:  W.  II. 
Kleinlians,  of  Pontiac, lias bought  the  D. 
C. Griffith stock of goods  and  will run  the 
store hereafter.  He brings a clerk with him 
who  is longer than any  two yards of goods 
in the  store.  We’ll  match  proprietor  and 
clerk for  the  shortest  and  longest  pair in 
Barry county. 

______

M AN U FA CTU RIN G   M ATTERS.

Petoskey is to have an oatmeal and potato 

starch factory.

Capt.  J.  E. White  will  remove  his saw­

mill from Pentwater to Newberry.

E.  Hanley has closed  his  cigar factory  at 

Mecosta and returned to Coldwater.

,

T 

W.  L.  &  II.  D.  Churchill  are  putting a 
band saw into one of their mills at  Alpena.
Frank Lorenz, cigar manufacturer at Ish- 
peming,  has been closed under chattel mort­
gage* 
John S. Bannan,  of  Langston,  proposes 
to erect a saw  and  shingle  mill,  at  Tawas 
City.

13. J.  Albers  has  sold  his  grist  mill at 
Overisel  to  J.  Hoffman  and  G.  J.  Ny- 
kerk, Jr.

Maxon & Co.’s new hoop mill at  Au Gres 
has a capacity of  10,000  per day,  and starts 
up with 300,000 feet of  elm logs in stock.

A man was  lately  at  Alpena  seeking to 
organize a company for the  manufacture of 
paper pulp out of the  refuse of  the mills at 
that point.

A. D.  Hensel & Brother have moved their 
mill from Evart to  Chippewa  Lake,  where 
they have  3,000,000  feet  of pine,  1,000,000 
basswood, 300,000 asli and cherry and 3,000,- 
000 hemlock to saw.

STRA Y   FA C T S.

T.  A.  Price succeeds Price & Moria in the 

meat business at Mancelona.

A.  Phillips  has  removed  his  millinery 

stock from Bay City to Oscoda.

Wm.  Reeves  succeds  Reeves & Loose in 

the lumber business at East  Milan.

It is announced that the Calumet & Hecla 
Mining  Co.  will  raise  the  wages  of  their 
employees on May I.

M.  E. Jones,  late  of  Nassau,  N.  Y., has 
bought  the  H.  J.  Arnold  flour  and  feed 
stock at Muskegon.

Chas. S. Williams  succeeds  Stever Bros. 
& Williams in  the  agricultural  implement 
business, at Owosso.

Purely Personal.

Oliver G.  Brooks,  of the firm of Telfer  & 

Brooks,  is in Detroit,  visiting his  family.

Les. Freeman is more or  less happy over J 
the advent  of  a  nine  and  one-half pound ! 
girl.

O.  W.  Blain  has  gone  to  Memphis  and j 
New Orleans,  and will  be absent about ten 
days.

Gaius W.  Perkins  has  returned from his 
Eastern trip.  He left Mrs. Perkins at Phil­
adelphia.

H. D. Cushman, of Three Rivers, jobber of 
essential oils and inventor and manufacturer 
of  the  Cushman  Menthol  Inhaler,  was in 
town Saturday.  He reports the sale of his In- I 
haler as considerably in advance of his man­
ufacturing capacity.

Albert Retan,  formerly of  Grand  Rapids, I 
but  now  engaged  in  general  trade  at Pe- 
wamo, was a member of the negro  minstrel 
troop which recently gave an  alleged enter-  I 
tainment at Pewamo, and was subsequently j 
ridden out of town with rail accompaniment j 
at Muir.  Mr.  Retan  asserts  with  seeming
sincerityvthat lie  is  through  with the show j 
business. 
i

Furniture Facts.

L.  A.  Pferdestaller,  furniture  dealer  at 

Mt.  Pleasant, lias sold out.

The St.  Louis  Board  of Trade lias di^wn 
a check for §500 to  further the  interests of | 
the Taylor & Lake Table Co.

The  Coldwater  Manufacturing  Co.  has 
I been  organized  at  Coldwater  for  the pur- 
pose  of  engaging  in  the  manufacture  of 
[ chairs.

C.  E.  Judson,  of the firm of Robert Ham­
ilton,  tobacco  manufacturers at  Covington, 
Ky.,  and  W.  N.  Ford, Michigan representa­
tive for the same  house,  were ui  town sev­
eral  days  last  week,  introducing  “Trade 
Union” and “Labor  Union” plugs.

Oliver & Co.’s  new  furniture  factory,  at 
Allegan, will  be  30x80  feet in dimensions, 
and three  stories  high.  The  building will 
be ready for  occupancy  in  June,  at which 
time the  Messrs.  Oliver  &  Co.  will put in 
machinery suitable  for  the manufacture of 
chairs and extension tables.

Hides,  Pelts  and  Furs.

Hides are flat.  Pelts  are dull.  Furs are 
lower  and  dull.  Wool is  dull and lower. 
Tallow is weak.

Olney,  Shields  &  Co.  have just received 
1,161 packages of tobacco from one factory, 
which they claim is the  largest single ship­
ment ever made to this market.

The Alma Knitting  Co. has a  contract to 
furnish Ryan  Bros.,  of Detroit, with  1,000 
pounds of yam per week,  for one year.

Selkirk & Whitford, the  Charlotte jewel­
ers  who  assigned  a  few  weeks  ago, have 
compromised  with  their  creditors  at  33X* 
per cent.

Creditors of the late Lafountain & Loran- 
ger banking firm, at Monroe, have been paid 
a dividend of two per cent., making thirteen 
per cent,  in all.

F. J. Rossman,  who  recently  engaged in 
the hardware  business  at  Mecosta, lias not 
found the venture a paying one,  and is con­
sequently shipping  the  stock back to Stan­
ton. 

*

Miscellaneous  Dairy Notes.

The Peerless  Creamery  Co.,  at  Romeo, 
will begin operations May 1, having arranged
for the cream  from  600 cows.  The factory
has a daily capacity of  1,500 pounds of but­
ter.  S.  A.  Reade is  president  of  the com­
pany,  J.  F.  Pratt,  vice  president,  C. M. 
Tackels, 
treasurer,  and  S.  O.  Giddings, 
manager.

The annual  meeting  of  the patrons of I.
B.  Smith’s cheese factory,  at Wayland, was 
held April 37.  Allen Abbott was chosen to 
act as  chairman  and  C.  C. Williams offici­
ated as  secretary.  The  officers of the pre­
vious year  were  all  re-elected,  as follows: 
Secretary,  J.  W.  Humphrey;  Treasurer, 
Perry Dodge;  Salesman,  E.  P.  Ilersey.  C.
C.  Williams will  continue  to act as maker. 
The prospects for the coming  season are re­
garded as very favorable.

W. A.  Heartt  writes  as  follows  relative 
to  the  new  creamery at  Wahjamega:  “A 
creamery  is in  process  of  erection  at  this 
place,  with  the  intention  of  making  it  a 
stock  company. 
It  has  been  proposed  to 
name  it  the  Cloverdale  Creamery,  if  it I 
should so happen as to not conflict with any 
other already projected  in  the State.  Ours 
lias  been a wheat-growing  section  mainly, 
but the  prices  ruling  of  late,  with  partial 
failures  of  the  crop,  inclines  the  average 
fanner  to  favor  a  change  of  programme, 
which we confidentially  expect will become | 
popular,  as developed.”

Goss & Purdy write as follows relative to 
their new creamery  at  Morrice:  “We  no­
tice by your list of creameries  in  the  State 
that you omit  ours  at  Morrice,  named  the 
“Rose Leaf.”  We have our building nearly 
completed,  size 36x60 feet, and are purchas­
ing our machinery of D. II. Roe & Co., using 
the Wilhelm setting can, which we like very 
much so far.  We expect to be  ready to op­
erate April 15.  We are glad to note the in­
terest  taken  in  the dairy  products  of  the 
State.  As  those  who  have  handled  the 
farmers’ butter as it runs for the past twenty 
years,  we would like to  add  our  testimony 
with others that we need  a  reform  in  this 
direction,  and we think the time  is  not  far 
distant when the butter of the State  will be 
made by the creameries,  or the farmers will 
be compelled to make a better  article.  We 
are in need of a  good,  No.  1  butter  maker 
and would be thankful for the list you speak 
of that you will send out.  Would state that 
our creamery is not of stock company birth, 
but composed of private individuals.”

W .

Q U A N   &   C O .S

R U C K B O A R D   W AGON!

RETAIL  PRICE,  $30,

$60 per 1,000, 
W ith  750  Dorothy  Cigars  at 
And  750  Pansy Blossom  Cigars  at $35 per 1,000, 

Making; 1,500 Cigars in all.

W e w ill  give  free  a  N ew   S tyle  Buck- 
board W agon like above cut.  The W agon 
is  m ade  of th e  very  best  m aterial,  w ith  
im proved  springs;  handsom ely  trim m ed 
and varnished.  You g et th is w agon for a 
lim ited  tim e  only, w ith   $71.25  w orth  of 
Cigars.
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CHI CAGO,   ILL,

Terms 4 months or 4 per cent, discount for Cash in ten days.

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POTATOES,

GRAND  RAPIDS

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SEED  MERCHANTS,

“ 

. ............................48 B> bu

prices for to-day:
Clover, Extra recleaned................ CO ft bu

Office and Warehouse:  71  CANAL ST.
Grand  Rapids, March 30,188«.
D e a r   S i r s —Below  we  hand  you  jobbing 
7 00 
6 75 
“  Choice..................
« 50
“  Prim e........... . 
..
6 25
“  No. 3.....................
7 00 
“  Mammoth  Prime
0  00 
“  W hite....................30c $  ft
9 00
“  A lsyke................. 30c  “
9 00
“  AlfalfaorLucerne20c
...  45 38 bu  3  10 
Timothy. Prim e........................
3 00
“ 
Fair to Good..............
1 00 
__ 14 ft bu
Red Top..................... ..............
2 50 
BlueG rass.........................................
2 50 
Orchard Grass..................................
90 
Hungarian
90 
Millet, common..........
1  00 
G erm an..........
1  00 
B uckw heat................
1 35 
........ «0 lb bu
P e a s , W h ite  F ie ld .
75 
........ 56 lb bu
Rye, W inter................
1 00 
“  Spring...............
.......60 ft bu
1  21
Wheat,  Spring...........
.................................  $  cwt  1  75
Barley,
50
Oats, choice white.......................  32 lb bu 
Prices on Rape, Canary  and  all  other  seeds 
on application.
The above  prices are free  on  board  cars  in 
lots  of  five  o r   m o re   bags at a time.  Cartage 
on smaller quantities. 
We carry the largest line of Garden Seeds in 
Bulk of any house in the State west of Detroit, 
and would  be  pleased  at  any  time  to  quote 
you prices. 
„
All Field Seeds are spot  Cash  on  receipt  ot 
goods.
f . T. LAMOREADX, Agt.

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We make the handling of POTATOES,  APPLES and BEANS 
in car lots a special feature of our business.  If you have any of 
these goods to ship, or anything in the produce line, let us  hear 
from you, and will keep you posted  on  market price  and  pros­
pects.  Liberal cash advances made on car lots when desired.

Agents for Walker’s Patent Butter Worker.

EARL  8R0S.,  Commission  Merchants.

157 S. W ater St., Chicago, 111.

R e fe re n c e :  F IR S T   N A T IO N A L   H A N K .

Successors to Fox, Mosselman & Loveriflp,

W holesale  Grocers.
musselman’s corker plug and rum cigars.

AGENTS  FOR

T he best and m ost attractive goods on the m arket.

S end  fo r  Sa m ple  B u tt.  Se e  Quotations  in  P r ic e-L is t.

A  TICKET TO  THE DRAWING

-OF  T1IE

GRAND  OPERA HOUSE

F R E D . D.  YALE.

D A N IEIi LY NCH .

SUCCESSORS  TO

FID . D. YALE & CO.
CHAS. S. YALE & BRO.,
Bakins Poi tiers, Extracts, Mm
GROCERS’  SUNDRIES.
All orders addressed to the new  firm will re 

W H O LESA LE  M AN U FA CTU RERS  OF

A N D   JO B B E R S  OF

ceive prompt attention.

40 and 42 South Division St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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RANDOM  REFLECTIONS.

For  downright  foolishness,  I  commend 
the short-sighted  policy now being pursued 
by the  paint  and  oil  dealers  of  this city. 
The  corroders  have  agreed  on a system of 
prices and discounts,  whereby they agree to 
sell  lead at a uniform  price  of  seven cents 
per pound, and  instruct  the  retailer to sell 
it at not less  than  seven and one-half cents 
in less than 500 pound lots.  To those deal­
ers who purchase  considerable quantities,  a 
system of  rebates  has been devised,  which 
is made  conditional  on  the  dealer  selling 
lead at the prices  established  by the .corro­
ders.  Considering  the  small  margin  in- 
olved,  the  natural  supposition  would  be 
that every dealer  would  take  advantage of 
the prices  named  by the manufacturers,  in 
order to  secure  decent  profits  and  the re­
bates.  To  the  contrary,  however,  every 
merchant in  town is selling lead at an even 
seven cents, no matter how  small the quan­
tity sold.  An effort  was  recently  made to 
put the business on a paying  basis by circu-. 
lating a paper for the signature of those who 
would promise to live up to their agreement 
with  the  corroders.  This  paper  received 
the  hearty  approval  and  the  signature of 
every lead  dealer  in  the  city,  with one ex­
ception,  and  that  bull-headed  individual 
consequently put an end to all hope of legit­
imate profits for the coming season.

*  *  *

I shall watch the  outcome of  the boycott 
on Armour & Co.  with a great deal of inter­
est,  as I consider it one of  the  most unjust 
of the many unjust boycotts the  Knights of 
Labor have engaged in.  Briefly stated, Ar­
mour & Co.  are under contract to take a cer­
tain number of  boxes  daily  from Maxwell 
Bros.,  the  contract  not  expiring until next 
fall.  The box  manufacturers  having come 
under the ban of the  Knights of Labor, the 
latter  demanded  that  Armour & Co. cease 
taking  boxes  from  Maxwell  Bros.,  thus 
breaking their contract and rendering them­
selves liable to damages for  non-fulfillment 
of same.  Mr.  Armour’s  reply  to  this de­
mand was that  lie  never  had  yet broken a 
contract  and  never  yroposed  to.  The 
Knights, in making the demand,  place them­
selves  in a peculiar  position—one which is 
not likely to bring them friends.

*  *  *

Speaking of boycotting and the almost in­
numerable boycotts  now in  force,  suggests 
| the idea that it  will  soon  be  necessary for 
eacli Knight of  Labor  to carry a ledger un­
der his arm,  with the list of boycotted firms 
arranged  in  alphabetical  order.  This will 
enable him to refer to his  list  whenever he 
las  occasion  to  purchase ¿anything,  thus 
avoiding the  terrible  consequences  follow- 
the purchase of  an  article  produced by 
non-union  labor.  And  if  the boycotts in- 
rease in number  during the next month as 
fast as they  have  the  past  thirty  days,  it 
will be necessary for every Knight to hire a 
clerk to keep his list up with  the times. 
It 
might be a hardship  for a 81  a  day man to 
hire a  82  a  day  clerk,  but  such a course 
would be no more  unreasonable  than many 
of the demands now made  by the  Knights.

Novel  Business-Social  Organization  at 

Muskegon.

M u s k e g o n ,  March 29. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

D e a r Sir —Feeling it our duty to keep you 
posted with all matters relating to trade,  we 
would respectfully submit to you the follow­
ing minutes  of  a  new  society  recently  or­
ganized here in Muskegon and vicinity. The 
society  is  called  the  U.  T.  T.  P.  Associa­
tion,  and its workings, of  which  you  shall 
be kept-informed,  will explain  the meaning 
of this cognomen. 
It is composed  of  gen­
tlemen and their  families  who are engaged 
in  trade,  also  book-keepers  and  ex-book­
keepers.  The  first  meeting  for  organiza­
tion took  place  at  the  residence  of  D.  B. 
Squibb last Tuesday evening.  After the meet­
ing was  called  to  order,  which  is done  by 
means of the tea bell, the following  officers 
were  elected:  1).  B.  Squibb,  President; 
Miss J.  Squibb,  Vice-President;  Mrs. S.  E. 
Johnson,  Secretary;  Mrs.  L.  R.  Cfcoper, 
Treasurer;  Mrs.  D.  B.  Squibb,  H.  Cooper 
and  S.  E.  Johnson  were  made  honorary 
members.  The  question  under  considera­
tion for  the  evening was:  “Is Steve Sears 
the handsomest traveling man on the road?” 
The question  was  decided by the  ladies in 
the  affirmative.  The  next  meeting  will 
take place  at S.  E. Johnson’s  residence  at 
Lakeside.  The editor of T h e  T radesm an 
and the editors of  all other trade papers are 
cordially invited to attend.

Mrs.  S.  E.  J ohnson,  Secretary.

Better Let Such Men Alone.

Ca d il l a c,  March 17,  1886. 

Editor Michigan  Tradesman:
D e a r   Sir—Will  you  please  tell  me 
through your valuable paper, T h e T r a d e s­
m an,  of the  whereabouts  of  the  American 
Creditor’s  Association? 
Is  it  defunct  or 
does the manager get  all  the  notes for col­
lection  he  can  and  make  no  returns?  I 
would like to hear from Mr.  Marshall about 
§300 worth of paper entrusted to his care.
D r.  J ohn L eeso n.

Respectfully, 

©rugs 
STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
Twn Yoars_F. H. J. VanEmster, Bay City.
Three Y ears-Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Y e a r s —James Vernor. Detroit.
FivtfYears—Ottmar Eberbach  Ann Arbor. 
Six Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—J acobJesson.
Treasurer—J  as. Vernor.

Michigan  Slate  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
R ret  Vice-President—Frank  J.  Wurzburg,
SeoJmd'vdceîpresident—A. B. Stevens. Detroit, 
Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. 
Secretary—S. E. Fftrkdli  Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Com mittee-Jacob  ¿esson  Geo.

Gundrum, Frank Wells, F. W.  K.  irerry

l £ & s S r e S S - W ill L. White  Grand Rapids. 
Next  place  of  meeting—At  Grand  itapius, 

Tuesday, October 12,1886*
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. 

O R G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9,1884. 

O F F IC E R S .

President—Frank J . Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.

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CommRteeon  Trade  M atters-John  B.J?eek,
coH^ i S rco ^ £ S K o ! ? - 5 S !  
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A ^ r M i i u n g s - F i r s t   Thursday cveninE in
Nex^MaatiuK—Thursday  evening. April  1,  at 

“The Tradesman” office.

D e tro it P h a rm a c e u tic a l Society. 

Organized October, 1883.

O FFIC ERS.

President—Wm. Dupont.
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Salt

le g u llr  M eeSngs-First  Wednesday  in  each 

Meetimr—First Wednesday in June, 
___________ _

mouth. 
Jackson County Pharmaceutical Asso­

ciation.
O F F IC E R S .
President—It. F. Latimer.
V ic e -P re s id e n t—C. I). C olw ell.
Secretary—F. A.  King.

C.  E.  Foot

aS ÏÎS m^
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursdaj  oi 
month. 
______
Saginaw  County  Pharmaceutical  So­

ciety.

t e m p o r a r y   o f f i c e r s .

Chairman—Henry Melchers.
Secretary—D. E.  F r a i l . ________ _______ _
Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.

OFFICERS.
P re sid e n t-Jo h n  K. Meyers.
Ih^uffir^eetings—Second and "fourth Wednes-
Begul------- 
day of each month. 
Next M eeting—Wednesday evening, April  14.

B

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IN   T H E   SPR IN G .
In the Spring the poets’ fancy 

Toward The Tradesman gently turns;

In the spring the weary editor 

Stale MSS. sadly spurns.

In the spring from all the alleys 
Pours the winter’s vile debris;

Jn the spring the sportive drummer 

Dreams of coming jamboree.

In the spring the brussels carpet 

Falleth, falleth in its price;  •

In the spring the careful housewife 

Saith her old  one is not nice.

In the spring the credit merchant 

O’er his books swears dreadful swores;

In the spring the country grocer 

Fires the perfumed egg out doors.

In the spring the wily tradesmen 

Tell many gilt-edge tales;

In the spring their brightening faces 
Tell of increased “spot cash” sales.

in the spring the organ  grinder 

Brushes up bis last year’s tunes.

In the spring the clothier ditto 

His last year's pantaloons.

In the spring the bank clerk dreameth 

Over country maids  and tarm s

In tbc spring—but that s sufficient 

To tell gentle spring tim e’s charms.

Ada L. J ohnson.

Lakeside, Mich., March 24,1886.

Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.
M u s k e g o n ,  March 28,  1886.

E ditor Michigan Tradesman;

D e a r  Sib—The  regular  semi-uionthly 
meeting of the M.  D.  C.  A.  was held on the 
26th.  All the  members  were  present, ex­
cept four.  The paper effi  “Aconite,” by Mr. 
Terry, and the paper on “Mercury,” by Mr. 
Lloyd, were read and discussed. 
It was de­
cided to have  the  paper on “Mercury” read 
again at the  next  meeting.  On account of 
its officinal preparations being so numerous, 
more time was  needed  in  discussing them. 
As an amendment to Art. V. of  the Consti­
tution,  the  dates  of  the  meetings  were 
changed to the second  and  fourth Wednes­
days of  each  month  instead  of the second 
and fourth Fridays of each  month,  as here­
tofore.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held 
April  14. 

O.  A.  Lloyif, Sec’y.

Peppermint  Prospects.

II.  D.  Cushman,  of  Three  Rivers,  who 
handles  peppermint  oil  very  extensively, 
states that the prospects for tins year’s crop 
are by no  means  flattering,  as the roots in 
many localities have been killed by freezing. 
He says it is yet  too  early  to definitely de­
termine the extent of  the damage from this 
cause,  but every  indication  points to a con­
siderably decreased yield, as compared with
1885. 

f  ^ _______
The Drug Market.

Business is excellent  and  collections  are 
fully up to expectation.  With the exception 
of a slight decline in turpentine, the market 
is steady and without incident.

Mills & Goodman, Props.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

\ \ T ANTED — Thoroughly  competent  drug 
VV 
clerk.  Must speak German and  if  pos­
sible French.

ANTED—Situations by registered pharm­
acists and assistants.  Also situation by 
young man of some experience but  not  regis­
tered.  W ilW ork for very  small  salary.  Can 
furnish good references.
Stock of about $2,000  in central 
TX)R  SALE  _____________  -  .
ate on railroad can " 
JF  part of State on railroad can be bought at
great discount and on easy terms
O  TOOK of $3,500 on L. S. & M. S. R. R. for salo 
O   on easy terms.  Doing best business of the 
place.
QTOCK  of $1.500 on C. &  W.  M.  R.  R.  doing 
O   flue paying business.

STOCK of about $1,000 on D. 

Will sell for cash only.

G. H .&M.R. R

gTOCK of $1,500 in southern part of State. No

other drug store in town.

on two railways in central  p a rt.o f  State 

Must be sold on account of othor business.

;  northern  part  of  State, in town  of 2,000 
Doing  the  best  busimpss  of  the
inhabitants, 
place.

ITHNE  STOCK  of  $3,50C  on  two  R.  R.’s 
STOCK of $1,600 in town  of  3,000  inhabitants 
STOCK of $1,500 in Northern lumbering town 
■LSO many other stocks, the  particulars  of 
PIONEER

which we will furnish free on application.

Doing the best business of the place.

PREPARED

PAINTS

Order your  stock now.  Having just  re 
ceived a large stock of the above celebrated 
brand  MIXED  PAINTS,  we  are  prepar­
ed to fill all orders.  We give the following

G r u a r a n t o o   a

When our Pioneer Prepared Paint is put 
on any building,  and if within  three years 
it should, crack or peel off, and  thus fa il  to 
(jive  the  fu ll  satisfaction  guaranteed,  toe 
agree to repaint the building at our expense, 
with  the  best  White  Lend  or  such  other 
paint as the owner may select.

Hazeltine & Perkins Dm Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Ousliman’s

MENTHOL INHALER

.rat****?

A superior Remedy for the immediate relief 
of  Neuralgia,  Headache, Cararrh, Hay Fever, 
Asthma,  Broncbitus,  Sore  Throat,  Earache, 
Toothache,  and  all diseases of the throat  and 
lungs.
The neatest and most efficient way  of  using 
menthol.

Try Them.  They Sell Readily.

For Sale by
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,G’d Rapids. 
Farrand, Williams & Co.,"!
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John J. Dodds & Co.,
T. H. Hinchman & Co.,  J 
time he calls.

A8k their traveler to show you one the next 

t Detroit,  Mich.

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sWojplip

P rices, 25c, 60c a n d  $1 p e r b o ttle ;  $1.75, $3.60, $7 p e r doz. 

Immediately on  receipt  of  the  above en­
quiry,  T h e T ra d esm a n  dispatched a note 
to M.  S.  Marshall, asking him to call at the 
office  and  explain  himself  on  the  point at 
issue; but, for some reason,  he has failed  to 
avail himself of the  opportunity  so extend­
ed. 
Inasmuch  as  the  gentleman  failed in 
business  a  short  time  ago,  swindling  his 
creditors most outrageously,  T h e  T r a d e s­
m an would advise  merchants to  place their 
TAKEN  INTERNALLY reliev es th e   m o st  a c c u te   P a in s 
in sta n tly , affo rd in g  re lie f a n d  c o m fo rt  to   th e   p a tie n t 
collections  in  other  hands. 
If  he  is  base
su ffe rin g   fro m   P a in s  a n d   C ram p s  in   th e   S tom ach, 
,__ 
R h e u m a tic  o r  N eu ralg ic P a in s in  a n y   p a r t  o f  th e   sys-
enOUgll to beat his creditors  ne  might treat  tem ; a n d  in  Bowel C o m p lain s i t  is a  s o v ereig n  rem edy.
1  USED  EXTERNALLY  i t  is eq u a lly  efficacious, a n d   as
his clients in the same way.
a Liniment', nothing gives quicker ease in Bums, Cuts, 
Bruises, Sprains, Stings from insects, and Scalds.
13TD irections a c co m p an y  each- b o ttle.
Price, 25e, 50c and  $1 per bottle, 
dpld by all druggists.  Trade supplied by

Perry  Davis’  Pain  Killer!

Tamarack is coming  into  use to some ex­
It sells for 

A JUSTLY  CELEBRATED  REMEDY.

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tent in Ontario for dimensions. 
about the same prifce as spruce.

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS  DRUG  CO.

Ü !

It Altered the Case.

Minister (to deacon of the church)—I want 
to refer to a  matter,  dear deacon, that  lias 
been preying on my mind for some time. 
I 
am  sure  you  will  overlook  any  apparent 
meddling  in  your-  affairs,  knowing  that I 
only speak for your own  good.

Deacon  (cordially)—Certainly,  my  dear 

sir,  speak your mind freely.

Minister—I  understand  you  have  been 
speculating a good deal of late.  Now, aside 
from the danger of  such a  business and the 
consequent misery it may  entail  upon your 
family,  do  you  consider  it  just the  proper 
tiling for a deacon of the—

Deacon —Yes. 

I admit  that I have spec­
I cleared  85,000 only  yester­

ulated some. 
day on a wheat transaction.

Minister  (astounded)—No,  is  that  so? 

What’s wheat worth to-day?

The new bank  building  at Bad  Axe is to 

be of cut  stone.

Charlevoix  and  Manistee  are  to  have  a 

propeller line during the coming season.

A.  B. Wood, city salesman for  the Voigt 
Milling Co.,  is the  latest  crank who thinks 
lie can construct a perpetual motion.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Nothing.
Declined—Turpentine.

ACID S.

 

 

Acetic, No.  8.................................... 
9  ©  10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........   30  ©  35
Carbolic........................... 
34  @  36
C itric.................................................  86  ©  90
Muriatic 18  deg............................... 
3  ®  5
11  @  12
Nitric 36 deg.................................... 
Oxalic...............................................   10  ©  12
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................  
3  ©  4
Tartaric  powdered.........................  52  ©  55
Benzoic,  English....................¥  oz 
18
Benzoic,  German............................  12  ©  15
T annic..............................................   12  ©  15

AMMONIA.

Carbonate..................-..............¥  
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
.¿qua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
Aqua 18 deg or  4 f........................... 

balsams.

Copaiba............................................ 
F ir...................................................... 
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......................... 
Bay berry  powdered.......................
Hemlock powdered.........................
W ahoo.............................................. 
Soap  ground.................................... 

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Squills, white (Powd 35c)..........
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c).
Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)..........
Bird, mixed in 1b  packages.......
Canary,  Smyrna.............................. 
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c)
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................
Cardamon, Malabar.....................
Celery............................................
Coriander, nest  English.............
F en n el...........................................
Flax, clean.......................................... 
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3)4).................. 
Foenugreek, powdered...........
Hemp,  Russian.................................. 
Mustard, white  Black  10c)...........
Q uince..............................................
Rape, English..................................  
Worm,  Levant..........................
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25
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Nassau 
do 
do 
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Velvet Extra do 
do 
ExtraYellow do 
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Grass 
do 
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Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef. 
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.19; ¥  gel__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s .....................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto  1 lb rolls.........................
Alum .........................................  ¥  lb
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto,  prim e........................
Antimony, powdered,  oom’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 00
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol  ....................................
Borax, refined (Powd  lie).............
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..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform ......................................
Ci notion id ia, P. &  W ......................   2C
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   It
Cloves (Powd  23c)............................  It
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 3> box..
Creasote.......................... .................
Cudbear,  prim e...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
D extrine..........................................
Do’ver’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. 8.  P ...............
Flake  white.....................................
Grains  Paradise........... .................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s .................
45  ©
Gelatine, F re n c h ..................
Glassware, flint, 70 & 10, by box 60 & 10 less
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 dis__
Glue,  can n o t....................................   12 @
Glue,white.........................................   16 ©
Glycerine,  pure.................................  16 @
Hops  V4s and )4s.............................. 
25©
Iodoform ¥   oz.................................
Indigo.................................................   85
Insect Powder, best  Dalm atian...  35 
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co., boxes
Iodine,  resublimed........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
London  P u rp le..............................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride,(V4s 2s 10c & Vis 11c)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium....................................
M ace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................
Manna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph.,P. & W........¥  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................¥
Moss,  Irish......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 Jb  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, )4d...............
Paris Green....................................
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia  ............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P, Sc  W........... lb oz
Quinine,  German............................
Red  Precipitate.......................¥
Seidlitz  M ixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber.....................................
Sal Nitre, large oryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  oryst...............
Sal Rochelle.....................................
Sal  Soda............................................
Salicin...............................................
Santonin...........................................
Snuffs, Maceoboy or Seotch..........
Soda Ash  [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __
Soap, White Castile........................
Soap, Green  do 
........................
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do 
.........................
Soap, Mazzinl..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................  
Sulphur,  roll....................................
T artar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, Vi gal. cans  ¥  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin ..........
Tar, 
pints in tin .............
Turpentine,  Venice................ ¥  B>
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

70© 75
85oc
1  60
74  © 78
35
© 2
10
9
33
2  © 2V4
2 15
6 50
4
4V¿® 5
14
17
9
li
14
28
26  ® 
92
30  ©
95
3)4®
3)4® 4
3© 3V4
602 70
1  40RK
25
55
8
7  0
7
Gal
Bbl
75
.  70
Whale, w inter................
60
.  55
Lard, extra.....................
55
.  45
Lard, No.  1.....................
46
.  43
Linseed, pure  raw .............................   43
49
.  46
Linseed, boiled..................................   46
90
.  70
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained
50
.  46
Spirits Turpentine.............................   46
V A RN ISH ES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach..................................1  10@l  20
E xtra  T urp............................................1  60@1
Coach Body............................................2  75©3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1 00© 1  10
Extra Turk  Damar.............................. 1  55@1  60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 T urp.....................   70©

17 
28 
20 40 
40 
@1  00 
©  40 
@1  00 
4 00 
1  50

60
45@2 70 
40 
10

17  ®  25

10  ©

do 
do 

OILS.

do 

©

©

‘

PA IN TS

Bbl
. .   1«
..  1*
. .
..  2)4
..  2V4

Rod Venetian.........................
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles....
Oehre, yellow  Bermuda.......
Putty, com m ercial...............
Putty, strictly pure...............
Vermilion, prime  American
Vermiiion,  English...............
Green, Peninsular................
Lead, red strictly  pure.......
Lead, white, strictly p u re...
Whiting, white Spanish.......
Whiting,  Gilders’..................
White, Paris American........
Whiting  Paris English cliff. 
Pioneer Prepared  F aints... 
Swiss Villa Prepare»  Paints

Lb
2® 3
2©  3
2© 3
2V4© 3
254© 3 
13016 
53@6C 
16017 
7® 7V4 
7© 7H
@70
@90 
1  10
1  4C
1 20©1  40 
1 0001 20

©

OILS.

ILLU M IN A TIN G .

LU B R IC A T IN G .

W ater W hite....................................................12V
Michigan  Test.................................................10!S£
Capitol Cylinder..............................................36Jt
Model  Cylinder................................................31 Vi
Shield  Cylinder................................................26V4
Eldorado  Engine............................................24Vi
Peerless  Machinery....................................... 22Vi
Challenge Machinery........... ..........................20V£
Paraffine  .......................................... 
20V4
Black. Summer, West  Virginia— ..............10
Black. 25®  to 30®.............................................H
Black, 16® C.  T..........................................1154
Zero.......................................................... 13

B E R R IE S .

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

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
jogwood, bulk (12 and 25 H> doxes). 
jogwood, Is (25 B>  boxes)...............
.............. 
Lgowood, Vis 
do 
Logwood, J4s 
do 
.............. 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
.............. 
~luid Extracts—25 ¥  cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

27
37V<
9
13
15
14

Arnica.................................................   15  ©  18
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
2o
Chamomile,  German.....................  
25

GUMS.

60®  75

28©

»  
55@60

25©
35©
80©

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)..................
Aloes, Soeotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac.......................................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Yrabie, 1st  picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,  3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts........................
Yssafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin............................................
Camphor..........................................  
Catechu. Is (V4 14c, ¡4s  16c)........
Euphorbium powdered...............
Galbanum strained.....................
Gamboge.......................................
Guaiae, prime (Powd  45c)..........
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................
Mastic..............................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered  47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $4 60)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s .........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac,  native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
T ragacanth............  .......................   30
HERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

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

IR O N .

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

4 00 
20

65

©2 60 
©2  00 
®l  50 
®1  75 
©3 50 
©6 50 
©2  00 
©2 50

©

35 
50 
2  00 
2  01 
1  00 
90 
3 00
3 50 
80
®  90 
2 75 
1  25 
50
1 30
4 50 
8 00
65
2 75 
1 00 
4 50 
7 00
55 
@9 00 
©4 25 
©  12
2 35
3 50 
2 00
12© 14 
40@43 
22 
3 00 
28

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   13
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s & Vis, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   33
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tiunivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
H enbane...........................................
Rose, red.............   ...........................

LIQ U O R S.

O IL S.

do 
do 

M AGNESIA.

D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists' Favorite  Rye................ 1 75
Whisky, other  brands.....................1 10
Gin, Old Tom.....................................1 35
Gin,  Holland...................................2  00
Brandy...............................................1 75
Catawba  Wines................................ 1 25
Port Wines........................................ 1 35
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz...........
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution—
Calcined...........................................
Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber, rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay ¥   oz.........................................
Bergamont.......................................
Castor...............................................   17M
Croton...............................................
C ajeput............................................
Cassia........... ...................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella.......................................
Cloves...............................................
Cod Liver, N. F ....................... ¥  gal
Cod Liver, best.........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fire weed...........................................
Geranium  ¥   oz...............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75e)..
Juniper  wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
..............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new  crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s........ ..............
Lcmongrass......................................
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  .  . 
....
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  w hite.........................
Rose  ¥   oz.........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 60)
Salad, ¥   gal......................................
Savin.................................................
Sandal  Wood. German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ..........................
Sassafras...........................................
Spearm int.......................................
T ansy............................................... 4 00
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
W intergreen.................................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00).......
W ormseed.......................................
Bicromate.................................¥®>
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. b u lk ...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................
A lkanet...........................................
Althea, cu t.......................................   »
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in J4s'and %s—
Blood (Powd 18c)............................
Calamus,  peeled.............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  16c).........................
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)...........   11
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap,  powdered.............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, tru e .........................................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut  fingers........ .....
Sorpentaria....,.....................
Seneka............. }......................... .
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras............. .

POTASSIUM .

ROOTS.

arilla,  Mexican

WHOLESALE

93 and gs Louis Street.

IMPORTERS  AND  JOBUKRS  OF

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 8g, gi,

Druggists!
M iU M iM .C ta ica ls, 
Paints, Oils, Varnislies, 
id  Druggist’s 
Sites.

M AN U FA CTU RERS  OF

Slept  Pliaraaceitical  Prepara­

tions,  Fluid Extracts and 

Elixirs

•G EN ERA L  W H O LESA LE  AG NTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
T1IE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  TIIE

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manu­
facturers of Hair, Shoe snd 

Horse Brushes.

W E  A R E   SOLE  OW NERS O F

Weatlerlj’s H i p  Catarrh Cure

Which is positively the best Remedy 

of the kind 011 the market.

W e  desire  particular  attention  of those 
about purchasing outfits for new  stores  to 
the fact of our  UNSURPASSED  FACIL- 
riE S  for meeting the wants of  this  class 
of buyers WITHOUT  DELAY and in the 
most  approved  and  acceptable  manner 
known to the drug trade.  Our  special  ef­
forts in this  direction  have  received  from 
hundreds or our customers the  most satis­
fying recommendations.

W e give our special and  personal atten­
tion to the selection of choice goods for the 
DRUG TRADE ONLY, and trust we merit 
the high praise accorded  to us for so satis­
factorily supplying the wants of our custom­
ers  with  PURE  GOODS  in  this depart­
ment.  We CONTROL and are the ONLY 
AUTHORIZED  AGENTS for the  sale  of 
the celebrated

WITHERS DADE & CO.’S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour  Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

WHISKYS.
We not onlv offer these  goods  to  be ex­
celled by NO OTHER KNOWN BRAND 
in the market, but superior  in  all  respects 
to  most  that  are  exposed  to  sale.  W e 
GUARANTEE perfect and complete satis­
faction and where this brand of  goods  has 
been once introduced  the  future  trade  has 
been assured.

W e are also owners of the

,1

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

W e call your attention to  the  adjoining 
list of market quotations which we  aim  to 
make as complete and perfect  as  possible. 
For special  quantities  and  quotations  on 
such articles as do not appear  on  the  list, 
such as

Patent Medicines,

Etc., we invite your correspondence.
and personal attention.

Mail  orders  always  receive  our special 

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drug Co.

JENNINGS’

F l a v o r i n g   E x t r a c t s !
JEN N IN G S  &  SMITH,

MANUFACTURED  BY

Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co., 

ffBAWP RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

PUTNAM & BROOKS
Wholesale Manufacturers of 

N
/ 
PURE  CANDY!

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

14 NANAS,  I
NTi T ta

5,  FIGS,  DATES,, 

E to .

BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS,!
" W h o l e s a l e   G r o c e r s .

Importers  and

Sole Agents for

.Are Ton Going to 
SLelve a Store, Pan­
try oi* Closet ?

Daniel Scotten & Co.’s “HIAWATHA” 

^/¿7nch

Plug Tobacco.

Lantz. Bros. & Co.’s SOAPS.
Niagara STARCH.
Dwinell, Howard & Co.’s ^ ^ haandJava'
Thompson & Taylor Spice  Co.’s  “ Mag­

Golden Santos.

nolia ” Package Coffee.
SOLE  PROPRIETORS

“JOLLY  TIME”  Fine  Ou-tJ

Dark and sweet, with plug flavor, the best goods 

on the market.

In addition to a full line  of staple groceries, we are the 
only house in Michigan which carries a complete assortment 
of fancy groceries and table delicacies.

tended  to.
| 
Mail orders  are  especially  solicited, which  invariably 
secure thejowest prices and prompt shipment.  Satisfaction 
guaranteed.

25,27 anil 29 Ionia Stand 51,53,55,57 ant 59 Mali Sts.,
The Peninsular

Grand Rapids, Mioli.

* ^pHE * ]f ENINSDLAR.

HAND

Peninsular Novelty’s Co.’s 

New Hand Button Setting Instrument.
The race can be detached.  3 go  with 
Save one-half the cost o f Ifasteners  by 

each instrument.
i using the Peninsular.

G. R. Mayhew, Grand Rapids, Mich.

F o r  Sale  by

Lease,

FA ST EN ER S,

PA TEN TED

i  FEB.  12,  1884. 
!  FEB.  2 4 , IS 8 9 .

PATENT

I f  so,  tend Jar 
prices  and  fur­
ther  information-
Eggleston & Patton’s
Adjustable RatchetBar
Bracket Shelving Irons
Creates a  N ew E ra 
in  Store  F urnish­
ing.  It  entirely su­
the  old 
persedes 
style  w herever  in­
troduced.

AND

n   Satisfaction Guaranteed

All

M

i t s

V f.
p* 

infringe- 
ment» pro­
secuted.
Knot to bo
had  from 
your local 
H ardw are 
D e ale r, 
send  your 
orders  di» 
red to
Torrance  &  Co.,  Trov,  N. Y.
STEA M   LAUNDRY

~iîïïndï~
« S a

43 and 45 Kent Street.

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

CHEMICALS.

Orders  by M ail and Express prom ptly at­

TIMETABLES.

Leave. 

(KALAM AZOO  D IV IS IO N .)

Lake Shore A Michigan Southern.
Arrive.
Ex. and  N. Y. 
N. Y.  N. Y.
Mail.  Mail. 
Mail.  Ex.
a. m.  p. m.
' p. m. 
a. m. 
4:40  7:50Dp..Grand Rapids...A r 9:50  7:15
5:58  9:07........A llegan....................   8:33  5:58
6:55  10:05....... Kalamazoo...............   7:30  5:00
9:50  11:40....... White Pigeon...........  5:50  3:30
a. m.  p. tn. 
p. in.  a. m.
4:15  5:10........Toledo........................11:15  10:40
8:20  9:30........Cleveland.................  6:40  6:30
a. m. 
p. m.  a. m. 
p. m.
2:40  3:30....... B uffalo.....................11:55  11:55
p. in. 
a. m.  p. in. 
a. m.
5:40  8:00........ Chicago............Lv  11 30 
8:50
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at 1 p. in., 
carrying passengers as far as Allegan.
All trains daily except Sunday.

J. W. McKenney, General Agent.

Chicago A West Michigan.
Leaves.
tMail........................................9:00 a m
+Day  Express......................12:35 p m
♦Night  Express.......................... 10:40 p m
Muskegon Express.....................  4:20 p m

Arrives, 
4:30 p m 
9:25 p m 
5:45 a m 
11:20 a m
♦Daily. 
Pullman Sleeping  Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge to  Chicago ou 
1:00 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.  m. and 
10:40 p. m. trains.

tDaily exeept Sunday.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Arrives. 
Leaves.
7:30 p m 
Express.................................4:20 p m
10:50 a m
Express.................................8:00 a m -------------
All trains arrivo and depart from Union  De­
pot.
The Northern term inus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made  with 
F. &  P. M. trains  to and  from  Ludington  and 
Manistee.

J. H. C a r p e n t e r ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  M c l l i k e n ,  General  Manager.

Detroit, M&okinac  A Marquette.

Going West. 
Going East.
7:30 p m ............Houghton :................... 8:30am
3:00 p m, D.......Marquette  ............A,  1:00 p m
2:05pm ,A .......M arquette............. D,  1:40 p m
10:40 a m ........... Seney...........................4:50 p m
7:45 a m ............St.  Ignace...................  8:15pm
6:15 a m ............Mackinaw  City.......... 9:30 p m
5:00 p m ........... G rand  Rapids............10:30 a m
Express trains Nos. 1 and 2  make  close  con­
nections at Mackinac City with Michigan  Cen­
tral and G.  K. & I. K.  11.
Connections  also  made  at  St.  Ignace  with 
steamers of the Detroit  and  Cleveland  Steam 
Navigation Company and all lake steamers.
At Marquette with the Marquette, Houghton 
& Ontonagon  Railroad, for  all  Lake  Superior 
points. 

Gen. Supt., Marquette, Mich.
Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, Marquette.

A. WATSON.
E. W. ALLEN,

Detroit,  Grand  Haven A  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.Arrives.

♦Steamboat  Express..........
♦Through  Mail............................10:40 am
♦Evening  Express............... 3:40 p m
♦Limited Express...............  8:30 p m
♦Mixed, with  coach...........

Leaves. 
6:25 a m 
10:50 a m 
3:50 p m 
10:45 p m 
11:00 a m

GOING  W EST.

♦Morning  Express.............  1:05pm  1:10p m
♦Through  Mail..................  5:00 p m   5:10 pm
♦Steamboat Express..........10:40 p m
♦Mixed..................................  
7:10 am
♦NightExpress....................  5:10 a m   5:35 am

♦Daily. Sundays excepted.  *Dailv. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for Now York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
The  Night  Express  has  a  through  Wagner 
Car  and  local  Sleeping  Car  Detroit  to  Grand 
Rapids.

D. P otter, City Pass. Agent. 

Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Grand  Rapids  A  Indiana.

OOINO NORTH.

Arrives.  Leaves
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 am   11:30 a  m 
5:05pm
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac  Ex  4:10pm 
7:00 a m
G’d Rapids & Trav. City Ac. 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
7:15 a m
M ackinac* Cincinnati Ex.  5:05 p m   5:30 pin 
Mackinac & Ft. W ayi e E x.. 10:30 a m   11:45 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.10:30 p m 

GOING  SO UTH .

All trains daily except Sunday.

SLE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

North—Train  leaving  at 5:05  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Sleeping  and  Chair  Cars  for  Petoskey 
and  Mackinac.  Train leaving at 11:30 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw 
City.
South—Train leaving at 5:30 p. m. baa  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

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

Michigan  Central.

D EPA R T.

♦Detroit Express..............................................6:00 a m
♦Day  Express................................................. 12:45 pm
♦Atlantic Express...................................10:40 p m
+W ay Freight........... .•.............................6:50 a m

A R R IV E .

♦Pacific  Express..............................................6:00 am
♦Mail..........................................................3:30 p m
♦Grand  Rapids  Express................................10:35 p m
Wav Freight......................................................5:15 pm

♦Daily except Sunday.  ‘Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Paciflo 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  und  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Psrlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. in.. New York 10:80 
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

A  M ERCA NTILE  JO U RN A L, PU BLISH ED   EACH 

W EDN ESD AY .

E.  A. STOWE  &  BltO., Proprietors.

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

Telephone No. 95,

{Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter .1

WEDNESDAY. MARCH  31,1886.

The F unny Clerk.
From the Grocer and Marketman.

The good  natured,  jovial  and  humerous 
clerk is always the one who lias about all he 
can  do  to wait  on  his  customers; we  call 
them his, because  they would  rather waste 
a half-hour waiting for him, than have any­
one else serve them, not even  excepting the 
boss himself.  Yes! and  we  have seen cus­
tomers wait  an  hour  and occasionally lon­
ger,  to have their favorite  clerk put  np the 
goods, so they  could  have  the  pleasure  of 
listening to his good natured rattle of  witty 
small |talk, while they,  the  customer,  were 
being  served.

But this clerk or salesman  is by no means 
the “Funny Clerk”  we refer to in the head­
ing of this article.  The funny clerk is quite 
another individual,  and  between him and a 
dead stock of stale goods we would prefer to 
get rid of the  funny clerk first.  The funny 
clerk is the new one  in a store, he is always 
a  new  clerk  and  when  there  is  nothing 
special  doing, you will find him sitting on a 
barrel with the other boys  gathered  around 
him,  and  you  may  find  the  boss  listening 
with the  rest, the  first  week  or  so, to our 
funny clerks,  “Did  you ever  hear  about?” 
“That  puts  me  in  mind  of—”  “But  the 
worst I ever.”  “Have  you  heard  the  lat­
est?” etc., etc.

For a while he is quite  a  lion  around the 
store,  the customers  laugh,  the  proprietor 
smiles, and the other boys retail some of his 
less objectionable sayings  among  lady cus­
tomers—all goes well enough until our funny 
clerk finds his budget  of  old and revamped 
yarns, jokes, and what-nots or bon-mots, or 
whatever you may call them, has been work­
ed over and off till  the  ominous  and dread 
word,  “chestnut” strikes his  ear.  Now be­
gins the serious fun for the proprietor.  The 
funny  clerk  has  a  reputation  to  support, 
and support it he will,  if  he has to starve it 
to death in  the  effort—he  succeeds  in  the 
latter usually.

Among a few  of  the  funny  things  that 
our funny clerk  now  begins  to  get  off,  is 
changing the spice caddies  on the shelf,  the 
flour  and  meal  barrels,  putting  a  pound 
weight under the  scoop,  laying  a  few bits 
of pale soap on the cheese  stand,  holding a 
scoop of salt to a customer who always tries 
a lump when  asking  to  see  your  A sugar, 
wets the crease in a paper  bag  just  before 
another clerk picks it up to pour granulated 
sugar in it  for  a  customer—the  granulated 
is in and out just as quick.

Then he  has  a  few  pet  questions to ask 
the  customer:  “What  kind  of  Japan  tea 
will you have, green or black?  Shall I grind 
it for you?  Matches, yes-mam;  what kind, 
blue head or red head or do you want  them 
for a  striking  team?  Corn,  yes sir,  what 
kind? green, canned or com beef? mustard, 
Yes how will you have it hot or cold? Syrup; 
yes indeed, Johnny,  how will you take it in 
a bag or  tied  with a string?”  But  enough 
of this,  which might do if not carried so far 
as to jump the “dock off.”

But our funny clerk has  a funny habit of 
calling  to  another  clerk,  “Say!”  just  as 
a customer, who is going out and who invar­
iably turns around  to hear  the funny  clerk 
add,  “George,  where  is  the  four  pound 
sugar  scoop?”  The  boys  laugh,  and  the 
customer knows all about it  and may never 
return.  He, our funny  clerk,  has nailed a 
counterfeit  dollar  down  at  the foot of the 
counter, just where the saw dust will partly 
cover it,  about  nine out  of  ten  customers 
stoop to  pick it up and  rise to  find a smile 
on the clerk’s  countenance.  The  customer 
feels pleased,  of  course,  so  much  so, that 
unless she runs a book,  you  may never see 
her again.

But to a finish.  The worst and most com­
mon transgression of  funny clerks 
is their 
habit of guying and  giggling  among them­
selves  in  the  presence  of  customers. 
It 
may be innocent enough and aimed at or in­
tended for each other, but  the customer not 
knowing  may  think  he  is  the  butt  of  the 
joke.

Take the question home, did you ever no­
tice  how  small  and  mean  you  felt,  when 
you walked into  a store  or a room,  and the 
clerks or the company  set  up a  giggle or a 
laugh?  And have you noticed that after an 
explanation was given that you did not feel 
quite sure, but what the laugh  was on you? 
In the store  a  strange customer  won’t ask, 
and don’t get an explanation.

Guying,  irrelative  or  ambiguous  conver­
sation or actions on  the part  of  proprietor, 
clerks or salesmen  in or  around a store are 
not only injurious  to  trade,  but worse, it is 
ill-mannered;  and  the  stock-in-trade  of  a 
blackguard,  who  will pose before his asso­
ciates as the funny clerk.

Favorable Conditions.

Customer  (to  bartender)—That’s  mighty 

poor  whisky.

Bartender—You  said  yesterday  it  was 

mighty good whisky.

Customer—Yesterday was  Sunday,  and I 
had to work the back  door  racket to get it. 
Any  whisky  is  good  under  such  circum­
stances.

D I R E C T I O N S  

W e have cooked the com  in this can 
sufficiently. 
Should  be  Thoroughly 
Warmed (not cooked) adding  piece  ot 
Good Butter (size of hen’s egg) and gill 
of  fresh  m ilk  (preferable  to  water.) 
Season to suit when on the table, «one 
genuine unless bearing the signature ot

o *

C H IL U C O T H E
AT  THIS

Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper with 

signature and stamp on each can.

CURTISS, DUNT0N & 00,

W H O L E S A L E

PAPER, W OODENW ARB,

TWINES,  CORDAGE,  ETC.

LYON  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Siprior aid 1-2 and 1-2 Binders’ Twine aad Wool Twine.
WM. SEARS & GO
Cracker  Manufacturers,

JOBBERS  IN

D R V   G O O D S,

83  Monroe  St.«

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers a Specialty.

F. J. DETTENTHALER,
OYSTERS & FISH,

JOBBER  OF

BUTTER .AJSTD EGGS,

CONSIGNMENTS  SOLICITED,

A g e n t s   f o r

AMBOY  CHEESE-

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

JOHN  CAULFIELD,

WHOLESALE

GROCER

Grand ZEFLa/pids, ZLAiolx

B.  LEIDERSDORF  &  CO,

MILWAUKEE, W IS,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  THE  CELEBRATED

UNCLE  SAM,  ROB  ROY,  MINERS  AND  PUD- 

DLERS,  RAILROAD  BOY  AND  HURRAH 

SMOKING;  COMMANDER  AND 

HAIR  LIFTER  CHEWING 

TOBACCOS.

J O H N   O A U L F I E I L D ,   w h o l e s a l e   g b o c e b.

Headquarters for above named brands at

The erection  of  a barrel  factory is under 
contemplation at Salt River, Isabella county.

117 M0NK0E ST., 

- 

GRAND EAPIDSj, MICH.

IMI

Primary  Causes  of Fires.

The Home Insurance Co.,  of  New York, 
has prepared  a  diagram,  graphically illus­
trating the  comparative  number  of tires by 
ascertained  primary  causes,  in the  United 
States  during  the  year  1885,  which would 
have been more  complete,  had the number 
of  degrees  assigned  to^Jeach Jcause  of fires 
been marked  on  the  rim  of the circle,  and 
not left to measurement or guesswork.  The 
diagram will  prove  useful  andante resting. 
It assigns  to  incendiarism  in  the'broadest 
sense about 107  degrees of  the circle.  De­
fective flues occupy 40 degrees.  Friction in 
machinery,  as nearly as can be estimated, is 
responsible for about four degrees of the cir­
cle,  while boilers and steam pipes get credit 
for a small segment of two or three degrees. 
Spontaneous  combustion  is  credited^ with 
about 10 degrees.  A  noticeable  feature of 
the diagram is the large  proportion of  fires 
occurring from  strictly  preventable causes, 
the major portion of which could  have been 
avoided by the exercise of ordinary prudence 
and foresight.

From a pamphlet  accompanying  the dia­
gram,  we take  the  following extract,  as in­
dicating methods of prevention:

To avoid  accidents  from  friction  of ma­
chinery,  high  grade  oils  should  be  used, 
with  self-oiling  bearings.  The  shafting 
should be kept true and in line.  All accum­
ulations of dust,  dirt,  flyings,  etc.,  should 
be  frequently  removed  from  bearings,  to 
prevent  undue  friction,  as  the  heat  thus 
generated may remain latent for some hours 
after the machinery has ceased running, and 
burst into flame when least expected;  hence 
all important bearings  should be frequently 
inspected during the  first  three hours after 
shutting down,  in  order to prevent  disaster 
from this cause.

To avoid danger of fire, steam pipes should 
never be  allowed to come into  contact with 
wood or other inflammable material.  When 
passing  through  floors or other woodwork, 
they should be provided with metaUcollars, 
having radial points or arms extending from 
the inside,  so as to form an air-space around 
the pipe.  When hung  on  the side-walls of 
an apartment,  they should be  supported on 
iron  brackets,  and  be  kept  free  from  all 
accumulation  of 
inflammable  material. 
When laid  near  the  floor,  as in dry rooms, 
the floor should be  covered with metal,  and 
the  pipes  be  raised  above it at least three 
inches,  and  be  laid in sections,  resting on 
pieces of  piping,  of  one  or  one  and one- 
fourth  inches  in  diameter,  thus  giving  a 
free passage of  air  under  the pipes,  at the 
points of contact with their  supports;  there 
should be sufficient space between each sec­
tion to  allow  ready  access  for  removal of 
waste,  (lust,  etc.  The  safest,  and  at the 
same time the most  satisfactory, method of 
heating by  steam  pipes  is to suspend them 
in iron stirrups,  at  a  point  some two feet 
below the ceiling.  When  so  arranged,  the 
heating  capacity  is not in the least  dimin­
ished,  while  cleanliness  is  conserved,  and 
the danger of fire  froin( anjaccumulation of 
combustible  material on the pipes is almost 
entirely  eliminated.

Nearly all  animal  and  vegetable oils,  in 
combination with  animal or vegetable fiber, 
will ignite  spontaneously  under  favorable 
conditions,  as will also lamp-black, charcoal 
and some kinds of  bituminous coal. 
It will 
thus be seen that  where  oilsjare  used,  the 
danger  of  fire  is  imminent,  and  the only 
safeguard is to at once burn all oily,  greasy 
or paint rags,  waste,  sawdust, etc., when no 
longer  needed  for  use.  They  should  be 
kept in metal receptacles, and removed from 
the building every day,  and never be left on 
floors,  under  benches,  etc.,  over  night. 
Painters’ overalls should be hung up in such 
position as  to  permit  a  free  circulation of 
air about  them,  as they  are  liable to ignite 
spontaneously,  if allowed to lie in heaps on 
the floors and benches.

Mineral or  earth  oils have not as yet de­
veloped this quality of spontaneous combus­
tion, but a due sense of  caution would sug­
gest  that  t^ey  be  treated  with  the  same 
rigid  care,  so  essential  to safety  with oils 
known to possess  this  quality of  self-igni­
tion.

Relegated.

“Say,” said  Mr.  Gritt  to Johnny  Smart- 
boy,  as  the  latter  was  sweeping  out  the 
office one morning;  “I wish  you would step 
here a few  moments,”

Johnny went  into  the private  office, and 

his employer said:

“You’ve  been  here  two  years,  haven’t 

you?”

“Yes,  sir.”
“1  thought  that  was  about  the  time. 
4 ‘Well,  it don’t  seem to  me as though  you 
•were doing quite as  well  as  you  ought 
I 
think you  ought  to take a  little  interest in 
the business,  which I am  sure  you haven’t. 
There seems to be  nothing  but your  wages 
to induce you to work.”

“J   know,”  said  Johnny,  “I  have  fre­
quently  thought  about  that  myself.  Of 
course I have  not  worked for  wages  alto­
gether,  and that  prospect  has  been all that 
has  encouraged  me  to  work  as  hard  as I 
have, 
llow much  of  an  interest  are  you 
willing to give me?”

“Of a what?” said Mr.  Gritt,  falling back 

in his chair.

“Why,  you said  something  about  giving 
me an interest in  the  business,  I thought,” 
said Johnny, faintly.

“I guess our interests  are  not the  same, 
young man.  You  make  them the same by 
the end of the week  or  leave.  Get  around 
an hour  earlier  every  morning  after  this. 
«Close the office door after you.”

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

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

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.
OIEUDEIR.  JA  CASE  OF

Leader  Shorts.

Leader Smoking

15c per pound.
16c per pound.
The B est in the W orld.

CLARK,  .TF.WF.TiT,  &  CO.
OLNEY, SHIELDS  à  CO.,
W H O L E SA L E

And IMPORTERS  OF  TEAS.

Our Stock is complete in all branches.  New, fresh and bought 
We have  specialties  in  TOBACCOS  and  CIGARS  possessed 

at latest declines and for cash.
by no other jobbers in the city.

SPRING  &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

ILAo-AApiri’s Peavey IPliag.

The P. V. is the Finest Tobacco on the market.

ALSO  SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

MSXTDEZi <& BROS.’  Celebrated  CIGARS,

Finer quality and lower prices than any handled 

in the market.

VISITING  BUYERS  ARE  CORDIALLY  INVITED  TO  CALL  AND  EXAM­
INE  OUR  STOCK,  AND  MAIL  ORDERS  WILL  RECEIVE PROMPT AND CARE­
FUL  ATTENTION.

5 and 7 Ionia Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

OIL,  CLOTHS

ETC.,  eto.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids,

Michigan.

For easy  ironing u t   “ Blactrlc Lustre’' 
Starch.  It  is   all prepared  for  immediate 
oae in O n * P o u n d  P a e k a u r e n , which 
eoaa far as two pounds of any outer Starch.
Ask your  Grocer for  it.
Thu Electric M re  Starck Co.

Franklin  S t.,  N e ^ f o r k J

J O H N   C - A U X i F I E I i D  

Wholesale Agent,

GltANI)  KAPIDS, 

-  

3

F0Ï & BRADFORD.

WHOLESALE

FULL  LINE  OF  ALL  STAPLE 

PLUGS  KEPT  IN  STOCK.

Sole Agents for Celebrated

F.  &  B.  Boquet,  Spanish  Fly, 
Pantilla, Rosa DeOro, Amer- - 

ican  Olub,  Jim  Fox 

Clipper, Moxie.

76 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Exclusively Wholesale.

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

Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

GUANI»  RAPIDS,  MICH.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY
E N G I N E S

From 2 to I5n Horse-Power,  Boilers. Saw  Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made  for 
Complete Outfits

IW,  C,  Denison,

88,90  and  98 South  D ivision  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

RINDGE. BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  AND  SSO E S.

MANUFACTURERS  AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

AGENTS FOR THE 

.

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

F. J. LAMB & CO.,
Fruits,  Vegetables,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

Butter, JUggs, Cheese, Etc. 

Wholesale Agents for the Lima Egg Crates and Fillers.

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

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF
T O B J ^ C O O
PLUG  TOBACCO.

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

- 

RED  F O X .................................* 
.42
BIG  D R I V E .................................................... .44
PATROL 
..........................................................40
JACK  RABBIT 
............................................ .30
SILVER  C O I N ..................................................42
P A N IC ......................................................................42
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
.35
BIG  STUMP 
.36
APPLE  J A C K ................................................. .44

- 

- 

- 

- 

 

2 c  less  in  orders  for  10 0   pounds  o f an y   one  brand.

FX2T23  CUT.

2 c  less  in  6  pail  lots.

THE  MEIGS  FINE  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor 
.62
STUNNER,  D A R K ..........................................35
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T .................................... .48
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT  - 
.40
FRUIT 
............................................................ .32
O  SO  S W E E T ..................................................30
SMOZXXTG.
- 
- 
- 

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

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

- 

These brands are sold only by

Arthur Meigs & Co.

Wholesale  Grocers,

Who warrant the same to be unequalled.  We guar­
antee  every  pound  t<#be  perfect  and  all  right  in 
every particular.  We 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.

Groceries.

Grocers’ Association of the City of Muskegon.

, 

President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Keift.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—Wm. Peer.
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.
H oard of Directors—O. Lambert, W. L McKen- 
zio, H. B. Smith, Wm. B.Kelly, A.  Towl  and 
» m i
E.  Johnson. 
Finance Committee—Wm. B.Kelly,  A.  Towl
and E. Johnson. 
,,  T  —
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—D.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman.  Garrit 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  1).  A. 
Iloelkins, J. O. Jcannot,  R.  S.  Miner  andL. 
Vincent. 
Law Committee—H. B. Fargo,  Wm. B.  K ent
and A. Towl. 
Transportation Committee—Wm. B, Keilt, An­
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of each month.
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, April 7.
BETAIL  GROCERS’ ASSOCIATION 

,,  _

.

OE  GRAND  RAPIDS.
ORGANIZED  NOVEMBER  10, 1885.

T he  Retail  Grocers’  Association

The next m eeting  of  the  Retail Grocers’ 
Association  of  Grand  Rapids,  which will 
beh eld   on  April  6,  will  undoubtedly  be 
largely attended,  as  Samuel  M.  Lemon will 
deliver an address on the  subject of  “ Adul­
terated Goods,”  and other  m atters of inter­
est to the trade will come up for  discussion 
and  action.

T he attem pt to secure local legislation es­
tablishing a m arket  place  for  fanners and 
huxters has failed  through  the existence of 
a clause in  the city  charter,  providing  that 
nothing contained therein shall be construed 
to  prohibit  farm ers  from  selling  their  own 
products in whatever quantity or whatever lo­
cality they choose. 
In the light of this obsta­
cle, the Council very properly refused to enact 
an ordinance  compelling  farm ers  and ped­
dlers to resort to a common  m eeting  place, 
as the provision  in  the  charter  would pre­
clude successful prosecutions  for violations 
of the ordinance.  The Association will en­
deavor to secure the repeal of the obnoxious 
clause at the  next  m eeting  of the Legisla­
ture,  and in the mean time an  effort  will be 
made to increase the present peddler license 
to  §25 or §50 a year,  and  then  see th at the 
law is rigidly enforced.

_  

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,  W m. 
H. Sigel, A. J. Elliott, Henry A.  Hydorn  and 
The committee having in  charge the pro­
W. E. Knox. 
posed  agreement  relative 
to  the  sale  of 
Finance  Committee—W. E.  Knox,  H.  A.  Hy­
dorn and A. J. Elliott. 
.  ,
goods to consumers by  the jobbing trade,  is 
Room Committee—A. J. Elliott,  Eugene  Rich­
^ I meeting w ith a hearty reception at the hands 
.
mond and Wm. H. Sigel. 
Arbitration  Committee—James  Farnsworth,1' 
of the latter.  The names of those who have al­
M. J. Lewis and A. Rasch.
Complaint  Committee—J.  George  Lehman, 
ready signed the agreement will be found in 
Martin C. DeJager and A. G. Wagner.
another part of this week’s  paper.
Annual meetings—Second Tuesday m Novem-
Rcguiar  meetings—First  and  Third  Tuesday' 
Next meeting—Tuesday evening, April 6.

Evenings of each month.

.  „

_  

Collector Cooper  states  that  several gro­
cers are delinquent in  sending in their  state­
m ents of  account,  as  requested.  He  m ust 
have the statem ents in order to  enforce col­
lection,  and  will invariably refuse  to attend 
to m atters  not  put in  th at  shape.  Grocers 
should give this subject  early attention a»d 
report to 69 W aterloo  street.

Cholera Germ s in V alencia Raisins. 

Considerable  apprehension  has  been  ar- 
roused of  late over the  serious  illness  of  a 
gentleman who  was addicted to  the  use  of 
raisins,  with an  attack  resembling  Asiatic 
cholera,  the supposition  being that  the Va- 
lencias  put  up  in  the  cholera infected re­
gions of Spain  were infected with the germs 
of the disease.  The m atter was brought  to 
the attention of the State Board  of  Health, 
and Secretary Baker procured a  box of Va- 
lencias for the puritose of securing  a micro­
scopical exam ination  of  the  same.  A  re­
port having gone out  from  Lansing  to  the 
effect that the Board would  shortly  issue  a 
warning against the use of Valencia raisins, 
Th e  T ra desm a n 
telegraphed  Secretary 
Baker,  asking w hether the report was found- 
id on truth,  and received  the  following  re­
ply:
Michigan  Tradesman, Grand Rapids: 

L a n sin g,  March 30,  1S86. 

Certainly not before m eeting of Board  on 

iVpril  13.  Perhaps not then

H e n r y  B.  B a k e r.

T he  Grocery  M arket.

Business and collections are both satisfac­
tory.  T he  m arket  has  been  rem arkably 
steady,  no  changes of  any importance hav­
ing occurred.

Oranges  are  in  good  demand,  and  fair 
supply.  The  m arket  is  a  shade  higher. 
Lemons are firm  at last week’s advance,  and 
there are no  prospects  of  any lower prices 
’or some tim e to come.  Figs and  dates are 
steady.

T he  T raverse  City  B usiness  M en’s A sso­

ciation.

T r a v e r se Cit y , Mich., M arch27,1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman :

De a r  Sir —T he  Traverse  City Business 
Men’s  Association  held  a  special meeting 
W ednesday evening,  called together to hear 
the report of the Transportation Committee. 
A fter some  discussion  as  to w hat could be 
done  here 
regarding  m anufacturing  oat 
meal  and  potato  starch,  and  deciding  it 
could be done w ith profit,  the Committee on 
Transportation  reported  as  receiving from 
C.  E.  Gill,  General  Freight  A gent  of  the 
Grand Rapids  &  Indiana Railway,  a cheap 
rate of  freight  from  Chicago  to  Traverse 
City.  A fter discussion,  the m atter was left 
for the  Secretary  to  interview  every  busi­
ness man  in  town  and  get  his  ideas,  and 
consent, 
the  rate 
offered. 

C.  E.  L ockwood,  Sec’y.

if  possible, 

to  accept 

BULL  DOG

Tobaccos.
TRADE  UNION

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

LABOR UNION,

The largest amount of good tobacco for the 

least money.

A N D   EX TR A   GOOD

F I N E O TJTS

These goods are all UNION  MADE, and 
each box is duly  stamped  with  the  U nion 
Label.  No s c a b  work goes from  this  fac- 
Every employee  is a Union man anc 

. of L.
If your jobber don’t sell it, your order  di 

O U R   R O L L   O F  H O N O R.

We,  the undersigned wholesale dealers of 
Grand Rapids,  hereby  pledge  ourselves to 
the Retail  Grocers’  Association,  not to sell 
goods in our  respective  lines  to consumers: 

Oi.n ey,  Sh ie l d s & Co.,
H a w k in s & P er r y,
F.  J.  L am b & Co.,
B e r k l e y ,  L emon & H oops,
A mos Musselm an & Co.,
F o x  & B ra d fo rd,
O.  W.  B l a in ,
I ra O.  Gr e e n ,
Mo seley  B ros.,
B u n tin g & Sjie d d ,
W .  F.  G ibson  & Co.,
S.  C.  P e e r ,
Cl a r k,  J e w e l l & Co.,
Cody,  Ba l l  & Co-  
J en n in g s & Sm ith,
J ohn Ca u l f ie l d ,
F r ed 1).  Y a l e & Co.,
T e l f e r  & Brooks,
H a z e l t in e & P er k in s Drug Co.

Seconds B rands Packed  in  Baltimore. 

From the Baltimore Price List.

Below  will  be  found  a  list  of  seconds 
brands packed  at this  m arket  which go out 
under  fictitious  names.  Our  purpose  in 
keeping these  latter  before  the  public is to 
prevent unscrupulous  meddlemeu  from im­
posing them   on  buyers  as  standards,  after 
having bought them  as seconds:

Carroll Co.  Packing Co.
Frank Albert.
Brown,  Tatem  & Co.
Barnes & Connor,
II.  Byer—Cambridge,  •
------Beckwith,
Chesapeake,
Chester River,
Dexter & Co.,
C.  R.  Dayton & Co.,
Edwards & Perry,
Elder,  Brewster & Co.,
J.  Greenwood & Co.,
Samuel Hodges & Co.,
John Hall & Co.,
C.  C.  Lawrence & Co.,
Lord & W allis,
Marsh & Brown,
M.  M artyn & Co.,
Nunley,  Hynes & Co.,
Ross & Co.,
Stew art Bros.,
Stanley Bros.  &  Co.,
It.  Scott  & Co.,
J.  B.  Thomas & Co.,
T yler & Dolman,
J .  T.  W illiams &  Co.,
R.  W illiamson  & Co.,
P.  W heeler & Co.,
J .  W alker &  Co.,
H arry Webster,
McShowfaith & Co.,
Archer,  Allen & Co.,
Baker & Brown,
J .  M.  Berry,
II.  Brill & Co.,
Coltiugham Canning Co.,
J .  W.  Durham  & Co.,
W .  II.  Elmore &  Son,
John Fisher & Co.,
Griffith Preserving Co.,
J .  Jones &  Co.,
E.  II.  Lyons & Co.
L.  Lutz,
W m.  Maxwell,
W .  II.  Myer,
H.  Nelson &  Co.,
Russell & Bros.
John Sheppard,
Spencer W right,
Somers,  Foote & Co.,
V inton,  Baker  & Co.,
P.  W erner & Co.,
W ebster &  Co.,
Winfield & Co.,
W .  Young & Co.

It is Not Butter.

A  gentleman who  signs  him self  “A  Vic­
tim  of Store Butter”  sends in  the following 
pertinent enquiry:

I  would like to know if  the  product pro­
duced  by a dirty,  slovenly woman,  m ilking 
a half-starved cow,  in a greasy pail,  using a 
greasy m ilk pan covered w ith flies and their 
little  trade  m arks,  churned  in  the  dirty 
kitchen,  washed  with  unclean  hands, 
packed  in  mouldy  tubs,  and  covered  w ith 
an  old  shirt  flap  has  ever  been  named? 
Some call  it butter,  and it  is so  w ritten on 
my grocery bill,  but it is not butter.

“Silver King” coffee is all the rage.  One 
silver  present given  with  every  1  pound 
package.

'Notice is hereby  given  that  the  copartner­
ship heretofore existing under the  firm  name 
of Leach & Forrester, m anufacturers and deal­
ers  in  shingles,  is  this  day dissolved, W.  W. 
Forrester  succeeding.  All  accounts  due  the 
late firm m ust be  paid to the  said  W.  W.  For­
rester and all debts of the late firm will be paid 
by the said W. W. Forrester^  LEACH

Dated at Pierson, March 16,1886.

W.  W.  FORESTER.

M ISC EL L A N E O U S.

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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 
gent in care of this office m ust be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage, 
,  _______________________ _
etc. 

SITUATION WANTE D—A gentleman of con­

siderable  experience  in  the  retail  trade 
wishes to secure a position in some  wholesale 
or retail house.  Rest of references given.  Ad­
dress  J.  L.  Rece,  118  Barclay  street,  Grand 
Rapids. 

IT'OR SALE—Cheap and on terms to suit, store 

'  with  dwelling  attached,  in  the  liveliest 
manufacturing town of 2,000 population in the 
State.  Splendid opening for grocery  or  drug 
store.  O n l y  one drug store in the  place.  Will 
not rent.  For terms, etc* address  J.  VV. Her­
rick, Muskegon, Mich. 

IP'OR  SALE—General stock, comprising lines 

1  of dry goods, groceries, boots  and  shoes, 
hardware, drugs, etc.  Owner is postmaster, at 
salary of $300 per year.  Am doing a good pay­
ing  business,  but  compelled  to  close  out  at 
sacrifice, on account of ill-health.  Address R. 
B. Jennings, New Troy, Mich. 

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Ir>OR  SALE—Drug  store  at  a  bargain.  Ad- 

1  dress C. L. llrundage, 79 VV. Western ave., 

Muskegon, Mich.
W 7ANTED—To  sell  a  good  hotel  in  a  live 
W  
lumber town.  Will exchange for  stock 
of  merchandise. 
It  is  the  only hotel  in  the 
place.  Address “D,” care Tradcsman.  133*
F
TiOR  SALE—Drug store and  house  and  lot. 
For further particulars inquire  of  or  ad­
dress Box 172, Muskegon, Mich.  ______   132*__
I PARTNER  WANTED—A grocery  merchant.
with fifteen years’ experience  and  doing 
a business of $20,000 per year in oneof the best 
towns in Northern Michigan  desires a partner 
with  $2,000  capital.  For  particulars, address 
CB., care The  tradesman. 

Ïrvoit  SALE—The  font  of  brevier  type  for- 

nierly used on The T radesman.  Thefont 
comprises 222 pounds, with  italic,  and  can  be 
had for 30 cents a pound.  Apply  at the office.

132*

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Choice  winter  fruit  is  in  fair  de­

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT. 

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promptly and buy in full packages.
Frazer’s ................   OOjParagon  ..........-•••2 10
Diamond  X ............  60 Paragon 25 ft pails.  90
Modoc, 4  doz.........2 50|Fraziers, 25 ft pails. 1  2a
Thompson’s  Butterfly, bulk........................

BA KING  PO W D ER.

AX LE  GREASE.

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45
35
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CANNED FISH.

..  1 40 
..  2 40 
.•12  00 
..10 00 
..  2 00 
.. 
15

6 or 10ft cans..........  27
M, 4 doz. in case...  95
...195
J. H. Thompson & Co.’s  Princess, )4s..........1 25
* s ........ 2 25
Is............4 25
bulk.......  28

.doz.
.doz.
doz.
.doz.
1)  gross  4  00
..  8 00
.  12 00
2  00
3 001
4  00
Common W hisk—   90 
Fancy  W hisk........ I  00
.......3 50
Mill........

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Arctic, % ft cans, 6 doz. case............
............
............
...........
Silver Spoon, 50  cans.........................
Victorian. I lb cans, (tall,) 2 doz.......
Diamond,  “bulk,” ..............................
BLUING.
Dry, No. 2...............................
Dry, No. 3...............................
Liquid, 4 oz,..........................
Liquid, 8 oz.............................
Arctic 4 oz..............................
Arctic 8  oz............................
Arctic 16 oz............................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box —
Arctic No. 2 
“  —
Arctic No. 3 
“  —
brooms.
No. 1 H url................2 00
No. 2 Carpet.............2 25
No. 1 Carpet............ 2 50
No. 1  ParlorGem ..2 75
Clams, l B>, Little Neck.....................................1 30
Clams, 2 lb. Little Neck...................... 
Clam Chowder,  3 ft...........................................2 lo
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  standards...........................1 00
Cove Oysters, 3  1b  st andards....................  1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.  ...................................1  75
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic......................................... " 9”
Lobsters, 1 ft sta r.............................................. ~ 00
Lobsters, 2 ft sta r.............................................. 3 00
Mackerel, lft  fresh  standards........................1 10
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards....................... 4 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 1b......................3 00
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard................................. 3 00
Mackerel, 3 ft  soused........................................3 00
Salmon, 11b Columbia river.............................j 40
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river............................2 2o
Sardines, domestic M,s................................. 
"
Sardines,  domestic  V*s.............................. 
1"
Sardines,  Mustard  )4s.................................  L
Sardines,  imported  )4s...............................   "
4  00
Trout, i
CANNED FRUITS.
Apples, 3 ft standards................
Apples, gallons,  standards........
Blackberries, standards.............
Cherries,  red  standard...............
Damsons.......................................
Egg Plums, standards 
.............
Green  Gages, standards 2 ft......
Peaches, Extra Yellow.............
Peaches,  standards.....................
Peaches,  seconds........................
Pineapples,  Erie..........................
Pineapples, standards..................................1
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced.......................2 60
Pineapples, Johnson’s,  grated.......t  ........3  75
Q uinces.......................................................... * "
Raspberries,  ex tra.......................................J “
Strawberries  ................................................1  35
Lusk’s.  Mariposa.

CANNED FRITTT8—CALIFORNIA.

ft  brook...

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mand at $1.75.

Beans—Local buyers pay 50e@75c  $   bu.  for 
unpicked  and  hold  ordinary  hand-picked for 
$1.10@$1.15.

B utter—Michigan creamery is easy at 28@30. 
Sweet  dairy  is  in  fair  demand and firm at 16, 
while old is dull at 5@8c.

Butterine—Creamery packed commands 20c. 
Dairy rolls are 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)4@12)4. 
Q,]er_ N CW sweet commands 10c $  gal. 
Cranberries—The  Michigan  crop  is  about 
played out.  New Jersey berries are  slow  sale 
at  $2  per  bu.  box,  and  Wisconsin  Bell  and 
Cherry berries are in occasional demand at  $5 
per bbl.
Evaporated, 6)4©7e, according to quality.

Dried Apples—Quartered and sliced,  3@3!4c. 

Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—The  m arket  is  uncertain,  being  de­
pendent  almost  entirely  on  the weather and 
roads.  Local jobbers are paying  10@10)4c  per 
dozen and holding at 11)4 c, but  the  price  may 
take an upward  or  downward  turn  within  a 
few days.

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@10e 1)  ft.
Lettuce—25c $  ft.
Onions—Home-grown, 73c ^  bu. or $2.25 ^  bbl. 
Pop Corn-Choice new commands  2)4c  $   ft 

Potatoes—Buyers are paying 30c for Rose or 

and oid 3c $  ft.

Burbanks,

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GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. 

Pieplant—8c 
Poultry—Scarce  and  high.  Fowls  sell  for 
10@10)4c;  chickens,  11@11 Vic;  ducks,  12c; and 
turkeys, 12c. 
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys, $4 $  bbl. 
Turnips—25c $  bu.
W heat-N o change.  The city  millers pay as 
follows:  Lancaster,  85;  Fulse,  82c;  Clawson,
82c.
lots and 38©40c in carlots. 
car lots.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 44@45c  in 100 bu. 
Oats—W bite, 38c in small jots  and  b3@3oc  in 
Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 11 cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $5.50 ® bbl. 
in  sacks and  $5.75 in  wood.  Straight, $4.00  <p 
bbl. in sacks and $4.80 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  1? ton.  Bran, $);> 
¡a ton.  Ships, $16 $  ton.  Middlings, $1611 ton. 
Corn and Oats, $18  11 ton.

.„>✓ *.>-

F R E S H   M EA TS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
...  5  @7 
Fresh  Beef, sides....................
...  65-4©  754 
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters...
...  554©  594 
Dressed  Hogs..........................
...  654© 754 
Mutton,  carcasses..................
...  8  @9 
Veal...........................................
...  7  © 754 
Pork Sausage..........................
. . .   654©  7 
Bologna....................................
.13  @14
Fowls.........................................
Spring Chickens....................................14  @J5
Ducks  ....................................................
@14
Turkeys

OYSTERS  A N D   F IS H .

12

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH.

@10 
© 7 
@125 
@  7 
©  4 
@11 
©  9

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 
New  York  Counts..................................
H. F. H. &  Co.  Selects............................
Selects  . .. k...............................................
Anchors....................................................
Standards  ................................................
Selects, by bulk.......................................
Standards, by  bulk.................................
Shrewsbury shells, $   100.......................
Princess  Bay  Clams, $  100....................
New  York  Counts, T3  100.......................
Cod  .........................................................
Haddock.......................................
Mackerel?......................................
Mackinaw Trout....................................
Perch.......................................................
Smelts  .................................................... 1U
W hiteflsh...............................................
H A R D W O O D   L U M B E R .
lture factories  here  pay  as  follows
....... 
@13  00
.......16 00@20 00
....... 
@25 00
....... 
@13 00
.......25 00@30 00
.......45 00@50 00
@10 00
.......  
.......15 00©I7  00
.......12 00® 14  00
120 00
@25 00 
@25 00 
@18 00 
©22 00 
©25 00 
@55 00
Walnut, log-run 
1 - 
-
Walnut; Nos. 1 and 2 .......................  @75 00
Walnuts,  cu lls.............................
ou
Grey  Elm, log-run............................. 
White Ash, log-run . a-»** -  •— v  
™
Wbitewood,  log-run— ........... 
©-3 uo

Maple, soft,  log-run...
Maple, Nos. la n d 2.......
Maple, clear, flooring.. 
Maple, white, selected..

r-ruu..
. 1 and 2. 
, log-run. 
g-ruu —  
>s. 1  and

2 10
2 00
1 80
- 00
- 20
2 25

...3 00

A pricots..................................... 2 30 
Egg Plum s........................... 
2  10 
G rapes.........................................3 10 
Green Gages...............................2 10 
Pears............................................2 50 
....................... 2  50
Quinces .. 
...........................2  40 
Peaches..
CANNED VEGETABLES
Asparagus, Oyster Bay..................
Beans, Lima,  standard..................
Beans, Stringless,  Erie..................
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked........
Corn.  Archer’s Trophy..................
“  Acme............. ........................
“  Red Seal.................................
“  Excelsior...............................
Peas, French....................................
Peas, Marrofat, standard...............
Peas, Beaver................   ................
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden.....................
Succotash, standard.......................
Squash..............................................
Tomatoes, standard  brands..........
Michigan  full  cream .....................
Half skim ......................... 
•» —
S k im ........................................................  0
Baker’s ..................37)4 ¡German Sweet..
Ru ukles’ ................... 351 Vienna Sweet  ..
Schcpps. cake box.................................
Maltliy’s 1 ft  round.............
“ 
assort  ...................
“  H s.......................... .
Manhattan,  pails................
COFFEES

CHOCOLATE.

COCOANUT.

CHEESE.

.1 00
.1  20

. ..lB*@12i4 
. .. 9   ©10*4

@27 y 
@28 
@20 
@27 
©28 
@20

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Roasted.

COFFEES--PACKAOE.

.. 7@15
.9® 12 R io................
R io..................
.......16  *
3 old en Rio— .......12 Golden Rio...
Santos........... ........17
Santos............. .......13
.......17
Muricabo........ .......13 iMaricabo.......
.24026
J a v a ............... ,20@25 ¡Java...............
(). G. Jav a__ ........28
D. O. Ja v a ....... ...... 24
Mocha  ............ .......25 ¡Mocha...  — ........ 28
60 fts 100 fts 300 fts
13'4  12%
Dil worth’s —
13
I,ion................
13)4  1294
McLaughlin’s
.............  13% 13)4
Arbuckle’s  ...
13 
12)4
G erm an..........
13)4  14
M agnolia....... ..........................   14)4
..  1  25 172 foot Cotton ....2  00
72 foot Jute ..
60 t oot  J u te ... ..  1  00 60 foot Cotton ....1  75
40Foot Cotton. ...1  50 ¡50 foot Cotton . . .  1  60
X  XXX lift

CH ACKERS AND  SWEET  GOODS.

CORDAGE.

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854

Kenosha B utter........................
Diamond  B utter.......................
Seymour  B u tte r.....................
B utter.........................................
Fancy  B utter..............................  
S.  Oyster....................................
Picnic.........................................
Fancy  Oyster............................... 
Fancy  Soda.................................. 
City Soda....................................
Soda  ...........................................
Milk............................................
B oston.......................................
G raham ...........,..........................
Oat  Meal.......................,..........
Pretzels, hand-made................
Pretzels......................................
Cracknels..................................
Lemon Cream............................... 
Frosted Cream..........................
Ginger  Snaps............................... 
No. 1 Ginger  Snaps..................... 
Lemon  Snaps............................
Coffee  Cakes..............................
Lemon W afers..........................
Jum bles.....................................
Extra Honey Jum bles.............
Frosted Honey  Cakes............
Cream  Gems.............................
Bagievs  Gems..........................
Seed Cakes.................................
S. &  M. Cakes............................
Bloaters, Smoked Yarm outh..........
Cod, whole.........................................
Cod, Boneless.....................................
H alib u t............. ...............................
Herring, round.  54  bbl....................
Herring .round,  54  obi....................
Herring, Holland,  bbls....................
Herring, Holland,  kegs..................
Herring, Scaled............... ..............
Mackerel, shore, No. 2,54  bbls
12 to kits 
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........75@S0
........ 4@5
........ 5®654
........ 10@11
........ 2 25
........ 1 25
....... 11  00
.......... 80@95
..........22@23
..........5 50
..........I  00
...............  70
No. 3, !4 bbls...............................3 50
12 ft  kits...........................  62
..........................   55
Trout, V4  bbls...............................................*  ^
White, No. 1, Vt b b ls................................... «50
White, No. 1,12  to kits................................1 JJJ
White, No. 1,10 to kits.................................  W
White, Family, V% bbls................................-

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FLA VO RING EXTRACTS.

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............... $   doz.l 00
Jennings’ 2 oz 
.......................... 1 50
4 oz
6 oz..........................................'a bo
8 oz..........................................» 50
No. 2 Taper......................... 1  ¿5
No.  4 
........ t ..............175
yt pint round— ...................4 50
No.  8...................................... 3 00
No. 10.......................... 
  4  25
FR U ITS— DOM ESTIC.

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
2  50
4 00
5 00 
1 50
3 00 
7 50
15 00
4 25
6  00

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Apricots, 25 ft boxes.............................   ©
Cherries, pitted, 50 ft  boxes...............   ©
Egg plums, 25 ft  boxes............. 0
P ears,26®> boxes............................ f.-  @
0
Peaches,  Delaware, 50 lb boxes....»., 
Peaches’, Michigan...........................
©  23
Raspberries, 50 1b b o x es..............!..

 oak, Nos J  and 2 . ' ! .‘! .' 
rect will be filled promptly at prices quoted,  j  ^
and delivered to your railroad  depot free  of  Red Oak’ No. l, step plank......
,  ,  . 
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freight. 
Bull Dog Tobaccp Works,
CODINGTON,  K y.

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay |  Lemon Peel 

FRUITS

©  24 
©  7
©  14
©  14

j  Citron 
. 
|  Currants,  new
.. 
.. 
Orange Peel.......................
.. 12'/»©
Prunes, French, 60s..........
..  8)4©
Prunes, French, 80s..........
© 4)4 
Prunes, Turkey................
..3 75@4 00 
Raisins, Dehesia...............
.3  00@3 20 
Raisins, London Layers.. 
@2 50 
Raisins, California  “ 
@2 00 
Raisins, Loose Muscatels 
©13V*
Raisins, Ondarae,  28s...
..10%®109i
Raisins, Valencia.............................
@3 50
Raisins,  Im perials............................
............1  00
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square..........
............1 20
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 g ro..
........... 1  75
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor.......
........... 2 25
Grand  Haven,  No. 3»0, parlor.......
........... 1  50
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round..........
.......1 00
Oshkosh, No.  2..................................
..........1  50
Oshkosh, No.  8..................................
...........   75
Swedish..............................................
........... 100
Richardson’s No. 8  square.............
........... 1  50
Richardson's No. 9 
.............
........... 1  00
Richardson’s No. 7)4, round...........
............. .............1 50
Richardson’s No. 7 
Black  Strap....................................... ..........15© 19
Pdrto  Rico......................................... ..........28@30
.. ..38042
New  Orleans,  good..........................
New Orleans, choice........................ ..........48050
New  Orleans,  fancy......................... ..........

MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

do 
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SNUFF.

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Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.
Maccoboy.......................
Gail & Ax’ 
.....................
Rappee............................
Railroad  Mills  Scotch....................
Lotzbeck  .........................................
Star brand,  pure  cider..................
Star brand, white wine..................

VINEGAR.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

do 

Bath  Brick im ported.....................
do 
American......................
Burners, No. 1 .................................
do  No.  2.................................
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand......
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 lb cans.......
Candles, Star....................................
Candles.  Hotel................................
Extract Coffee, V.  C.......................
F e lix ................ ..
Gum, Rubber  100 lumps................
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps................
Gum, Spruce.................................. .
Hominy, $  bbl...............................
Jelly, in 30 lb  pails........................
Pearl  Barley..................................
Peas, Green  Bush........................
Peas, Split  Prepared....................
Powder, Keg..................................
Powder, V*  Keg.............................
Sage  ...............................................

©  55 
©  44 
©  35 
©  45 
@1  30
.  8©12 
.  8© 12

1  25 

95 
75 
1 00 
1  50 
7  80 
15@25 
© 12)4 
©14 
©80 
@25 
@35 
30@35 
©3 50 
4)4® 5 
23Ü© 3 
©1 35 
© 3 
@3 00 
@1  90 
©  18

)4 barrels

bills. 3c extra.
OATMEAL.  .
...5 001 RolledOats,Shields’3  25 
.. .3 00  Rolled Oats, Acme.3 25
.. .5 50 Quaker, 48  fts........3 25
3 (K- Quaker, 60 fts........2 50
»¡Quaker bbls........... 6 00
PICKLES.
©5 00 
©3 00 
©8  00
25®3 00 
©2 25 
©1 85 
©  90

Steel  c u t..........
Steel Cut, H bbl 
Rolled  O ats.... 
Rolled Oats, Hbb 
Rolled  Oats, cases.3
Medium 
Small..
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross.......
Imported Clay, No. 216,2y% gross—
American  T. D....................................
Choice Carolina.......6541 Java  ..........
Prime Carolina...... 554  P a tn a .........
Good  Carolina........5  I Rangoon ...
Good Louisiana...... 5 
DeLand’s p ure........554! Dwight’s .......
Church’s  ................ 5)41Sea  Foam__
Taylor’s G. M......... 5541 Cap Sheaf—

... 5)4@5?a 
...3)4@3)4

SALEUATUS.

iBroken.

PIPES.

RICE.

)4c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

70

SAUCES.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................
28 Pocket.................................................
100 3 1b  pockets.......................................
Saginaw or  Manistee............................
Diamond C..............................................
Standard  Coarse....................................
Ashton, English, dairy, hu.bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags....
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy,  ¡4 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................
Warsaw,  Dairy, bu ...............................
Parisian, 54  pints..................................
@3  00 
©  70 
Pepper Sauce, red  sm all.....................
©  80 
Pepper Sauce, green  ............................
@1 25 
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............
©1 50 
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
@  80 
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................
©1  20 
©3 50 
Halford Sauce, pints............................
@2 20
Halford Sauce, 44 pints........................
Shamrock..............3  3i>|Aeme,  bars............ 3 75
Blue Danube.........2 95; Acme,  blocks........3 22
London  Family__2 601 Best  American___ 3 08
Napkin...................4  85 Circus  .................... 3 75
Tow el.....................4  75 Big Five  Center.. .3 90
White  Marseillecl..5 60 Nickel...........................3 45
.3  3.1
White Cotton  Oil..

SOAPS.

45

5  60! G cm.
SPICES.

Whole.

,16@25|Pcpper.................  @18
.12@15lAllspice...............  8@10
,18@30 Cassia..................10® 11
. 15@25 Nut megs,  No. 1..  @60 
,16@20 Nutmegs,  No. 2..  @50 
..........16@18
15@30 Clove 

“ 

... .25@S5|

Ground.
P epper.............
Allspice...........
Cinnamon........
Cloves  .............
Ginger  .............
M ustard...........
Cayenne
STARCH.
Electric  Lustre...........   ........
Niagara,  Laundry..................
Niagara, gloss.........................
Niagara, corn..........................
Royal,  corn..................... .
laundry.......................
Quaker, laundry, 56ft.............
SYRUPS.
Corn,  barrels  ........................
Corn, 54 bbls.............................
Corn,  10 gallon kegs................
Corn, 5 gallon kegs..................
Pure  Sugar, bbl.......................
Puro Sugar, 54 bbl...................
Pure Sugar  5 gal kegs...........
SUGARS.
Cubes  .......................................
Powdered................................
Granulated,  Standard...........
Confectionery A .....................
Standard A ...............................
No. 1, White Extra  C...........
No. 2, Extra C..........................
No. 3 C......................................
No. 4 C......................................
No. 5 C......................................

TEAS.

@3 20 
54©  4 
54©  054 
@ 654 
©  554 
©  5 
@4 50

22@26 
24@27 
©29 
1  35 
22@26 
24028 
@1  50

....  © 7
@7
. . . .   ©  6fs
—   ©  6)4
----  ©  6
—   5?a©  6
—   594©  5%
—   5*4© 53i 
...  594® 554 
....  554© 55i

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

M I X E D

do 
do 

..12013 
. .13@14 
..  @14
........15
........ 18

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows :
STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes............................ 
8t£@9
Twist, 
............................... 
9© 9)4
Cut Loaf 
..................... 10)4@11
Royal, 25 1b  pails............................ 
<a  y
Royal, 200 ft bbls.................................. * *
Extra, 25 1b  pails..................................... ! lO@IO'/9
Extra, 200 ft bbls....................................... g @  gyj
French Cream, 25 ft pails...............
Cut loaf, 25 ft  eases..................... ”
Brokqn, 25  ft  pails................
Broken, 200 ft  bbls.............. !!!!!!!
FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES
Lemon  Drops................................
Sour Drops...........................
Peppermint  Drops..............
Chocolate Drops................
H M Chocolate  Drops__
Gum  Drops  .........................
Licorice Drops........................
A B  Licorice  Drops...............” ”
Lozenges, plain...................
Lozenges,  printed...............
Im perials...............................
M ottoes............................
Cream  Bar..........................
Molasses B ar........................
Caramels..........................
Hand Made Creams...........
Plain  Creams..................... . . . . 
. .
Decorated  Creams..................
String Rock............................  ' ’ ’ [
Burnt Almonds...............
Wintergreen  Berries........... .
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain  in  pails................
Lozenges, plain in  bbls............. .
Lozenges, printed in pails...  '
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..........
Chocolate Drops, in pails..........!
Gum  Drops  in pails........... . . . . .
Gum Drops, in bbls.............
Moss Drops, in  pails..............
Moss Drops, in bbls.............
Sour Drops, in  pails........... . . .
Imperials, in  pails............. !!!!!!!
Imperials  In  bbls................
FRUITS
Bananas  Aspinwall.....................
Oranges, California, fancy. .*.
Oranges, California,  choice__
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls..........  ' ’'
Oranges, Florida................
Oranges, Valencia, cases.........
Oranges, Messina....................
Oranges,  Naples................ .
Lemons,  choice................
Lemons, fancy..................... !.'!!!
Figs, layers, new,  II ft.........
Figs, Bags, 501b  ...................
Dates, frails do  ...................  .  .
Dates, )4 do  d o ........... ..
Dates, skin............................. . . . . .
Dates, Vt  skin........................ . . .
Dates,  Fard  10 to box 1)  ft
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 1» ft__ .....
Dates, Persian 501b box 
ft. ” " 
Pino Apples, $   doz..................
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  1»  lb...................
Choice 
d o .......
Fancy H.P. do 
do  .......
Choice White, Va.do  ........... *****
Fancy  H  P„  Va  do  ..  .
h .  p. v a ...............................
NUTS.

.  14© 15
...im @ i2 
...10!4@ll 
...  @12)4
...1114@12 
...12  ©12)4 
....6)4  @7 
...  @ 5)4
@10
.............   y
.............12
...12  ©12)4 
..  10)4© 11

__ 
©6 00
__ 3 00@3 50
’.."..*4 5004  75
__ 5 00@5 50
__ 12)4@16
__   7)4©  8
....  © 4)4
@ 5

5  @
6*i@

do 

@4 00 
00@3 25

“ 

Almonds,  Tarragona....................
Ivaea........................... .
California.....................
Brazils............................................
Chestnuts, per bu................
Filberts, Sicily..........................
Barcelona.......................
Walnuts,  Grenoble.......................
Marbo..........................!
French..........................
California.......................
Pecans,  Texas, H. P .....................
Missouri.........................
Cocoanuts, $  100............................

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

.16  @17 
.15  @16 
.15  @16 
.  8  © 9
.11)4012 
@ 10 
. 14)4015
.  S  @11 
@12 
.  9  @13 
.8)4©  9 
@4  50

Japan ordinary........... ................................. 15020
Japan fair to good....................................... 25©30
Japan tine...................................................... 35@45
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
Gun Powder...................................................35@5U
Oolong.....................................................33©55@6C
Congo.............................................................25©30

TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN  PAILS.

Yum  Yum.........................................251 Old  Time.35
Sweet  Rose............... 32 Underwood’s Capper 35
May  Queen.................................. 65 Sweet  Rose.45
Jolly  Time.................40 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Dark AmericanEagle67| A tlas...........................35
The Meigs..................................... 62 Royal Game.38
Red  Bird...................50 Mule Ear..................... 65
State  Seal................. 60 Fountain..................... 74
Prairie F low er........65 Old Congress...............64
Indian Queen...........60|Good Luck.................. 52
Bull  Dog..................*57|Blaze Away............... 35
Crown  Leaf....................................66 Hair Lifter.30
H iaw atha....................................... 65 Jim  Dandy.38
G lobe.................................................65 Our  Bird.28
May Flower..............70|Brother  Jonathan. 
♦Delivered.

.28

SMOKING

Big Deal.................... 27¡Lucky  .........................30
Ruby, cut  plug....... 35 Boss  .............................15
Navy Clippings....... 20 Two  Nickel................ 24
L eader......................15;Duke’s  Durham......... 40
Hard  Tack.................32 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
D ixie............................................................ 28 Owl.16
Old T ar.........................................40 Rob Roy —  .28
A rthur’s  Choice......22 Uncle  Sam.................. 28
Red Fox....................26iLumb©rman............... 25
F lirt..............................................28 Railroad Boy.38
Gold  Dust.................. 26 Mountain Rose 
18
Gold  Block...............30 Home Comfort............25
Seal of Grand Rapids  ¡Old Rip....................... 60
(cloth)..................25 Seal of North Caro-
Tramway, 3  oz.........40¡ 
lina, 2  oz...................48
Miners and Puddlers.28¡Seal of North  Caro-
lina, 4oz................... 48
Peerless  ....................24 
Standard....................20 Seal of North  Caro-
Old Tom....................18 
li na, 8 oz.................... 45
Tom & Jerry ............24[Sealof North  Caro-
Joker.........................24 
lina, 16oz boxes....42
T raveler.................. 35 King Bee, longcut.. .22
Maiden..................... 25 Sweet Lotus................. 32
Pickwick  Club........ 40 G rayling...................... 32
Nigger  Head............26 Seal Skin...................... 30
Holland....................22 Red Clover...................32
G erm an....................15] Good  Luck................... 26

Quaker..........
Bull  Dog.......
H iaw atha...................42
Jolly T ar....................32
Jolly  Time.................32
F av o rite.................... 42
Black  Bird.................32
Live and Let  Live
Punch.....................
Big  Nig..................
Spear  Head...........
Old  Honesty..........
Whole E arth..........
Crazy  Quilt...........
P.  V........................
Spring Chiokon —
Eclipse  ..................
Moxie.........................34
Hlack Jack...............
H iaw atha................
Mus8elman’s Corker
Turkey.....................
Big Five Cent.......
D ainty..................
♦Delivered.

Leader .... 
Mayflower
Mule E ar...

PLUG.
.28,Trade Union........... 1
3«! Labor Union........... :
Splendid..................
Old Solder.................
M oney.....................
Red Fox....................
Big  Drive................
. .32lSeal of Grand Rapids 
36 Patrol.......................
37 Jack Rabbit........... ..38
44 Chocolate  Cream.. ..44
40 N im rod.................. ..40
321 E.C.......................... ..38
32|Spread  Eagle........ . .36
40  Big Five Center__ . .33
38 P a rro t.................... ..42
30  B uster.................... . .35
34! Black Prince.......... . .35
.321 Black  Racer.......... . .85
42 S ta r........................ .39
.30 Climax  .................. ..42
.39 A coriL................... ..40
351 Horse  Shoe........... -36
. .441
2c. less in three butt lots.
SHORTS.
,. ,I6| Hiawatha........... ___22
,. ,23¡01d Congress...... ...... 23
...... 22
...22 May  Leaf...........
...231
ü  U
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PR O V ISIO N S.

PO RK   IN   BAHKELS.

The  Grand Rapids Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:
Mess, Chicago packing, new........................ 11  25
Clear,  S. P. Booth.....................................  
25
Short Cut, new.................................. . 
11  25
Back, clear, short  cu t................i!!.'. 12 75
Cxtra family clear, short  c u t.....................12 00
Hear,  A. Webster, new  .......................!... 12  75
Extra clear nig, short c u t....................'.. .. 12 75
Extra clear, heavy......................................... j;j yq
Hear quill, short  cu t.......................... 13 25
iogton clear, short cu t..................!!II!!!!'. 13 25
Clear back, short cu t............................. . . . . 13 25
Standard clear, short  cut, best.. .. .. .. .. ..  13 50

DRY  SALT  MEATS— IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.....................
lig h t..................................  
Short Clears, heavy.....................$.........  
medium......................... 
’ 
light....................................  

5«
5K
“ 
tp4
do. 
614
do. 
6)4
SMOKED  MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PL A IN .
Hams, heavy....................................................   914
“  medium.......................................... !.  .  054
“ 
9*4
Boneless  Hams, best.......................................10
Boneless  Hams...............................................   9
Boneless Shoulders.........................................  6)4
Breakfast  Bacon............................................  794
Dried Beef, extra  quality.............................   9
Dried Beef, Ham pieces..................................11)4
Shoulders cured  in sweet pickle..................  6
Tierces  ....................................................  
30 and 50 ft T ubs.....................................
50 lb Round Tins, 100 cases.....................  

lig h t............................................ 

6*4
6,ls

LARD.

 

LARD  IN  T IN   P A ILS .

20 ft Pails, 4 pails in  case....................... 
3 to Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 lb Pails, 12 in a case.............................. 
10 ft Pails. 6 in a e ase................................... 

69£
714
7)4

7

BEEF IN   BA RR ELS.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts...........   9 00
Boneless,  ex tra..............................................13 00

SAUSAGE— FRESH  AND SMOKED.

Pork  Sausage..................................................
Ham  Sausage...................................................
Tongue  Sausage...........................................
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................
Blood  Sausage............................................v ,
Bologna, straight............................................
Bologna,  thick.................................................
Head  Cheese...................................................

P IG S ’  FEET.

In half barrels  ..............................................  3  75
In quarter barrels.........................................

COAL  A N D   B U IL D IN G   M A T E R IA L S.
A. B.  Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
l  00
85
Ohio White Lime, ear lots.................... 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
130
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
1  30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl....................... 
l 30
Car lots 
..................... l  05@1  10
Plastering hair, per bu .........................  25©  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 50
Land plaster, ear lots............................ 
2 50
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $25 © $35
Fire clay, per bbl..................................  
3 00

“ 

“ 

COAL.

A nthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .(5   75@6 
A nthracite, stove and  n u t, ear lo ts ..  6  c0@6
Cannell,  oar lo ts........................................ 
©6
Ohio Lump, ear lots............................3  1003
BJossburg or Cumberland, ear lots..  4 5005 
Portland  Cement.................................  3 5004

VISITING  BUYERS.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

OUT  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Owj 

Correspondents.

Stan w o o d .

B.  P. Harris is enlarging his store and in­
Henry Lammou has  purchased Jas.  Van- 

creasing its shelving capacity.
auken’s blacksmith and wagon shop.

A sh to n .

Brett  Bros,  have  about  700,000  feet  of 
maple, elm  and beech  logs on  hand,  which 
they expecLto cut into lumber during the next 
four montns.  They will  manufacture table 
and chair legs as usual this  season, but will 
not operate their handle lathe until the han­
dle market looks up somewhat.
The Ashton Lumber Co., at Dewing Siding, 
has about a million feet of hardwood and half 
a  million  feet of  pine logs  on hand, which 
will keep the  mill  humming  until  Septem­
ber.
A.  Purchase & Son,  who have  operated a 
sawmill  here  for  four  or  five  years  past, 
has sold  out  to  Prayer  Halladay,  who will 
continue the business, 
lie  has  about 400,- 
000 feet of hardwood logs on hand.

E a st S agin aw .

J. T. Bell,  our  North  Water  street  pro­
duce dealer,  is writing a series of letters for 
the  Courier  descriptive  of  his  recent  trip 
through  the  West.  They  are  very  inter­
esting.

E lk   R apid*.

Mrs. Winnie has  moved her stock of can­
dies and tinware into the Goldman building 
on River street  and  opened  a restaurant in 
connection.
S.  Spaulding  has  returned from Abilene, 
Kansas.  He  has  purchased  the  building 
formerly occupied  by Mrs.  Winnie  and has 
opened a restaurant therein.
The Elk Rapids  Iron  Co.  has  purchased 
the  large  steam  barge  Morley.  She  will 
carry iron ore.
The business outlook is  improving in this 
section.  Business in this  part  of the coun­
try has increased  about  one-third  over the 
same period  last  year,  and  the  indications 
are  for  a  first-class  spring  and  summer 
trade.

L a k esid e.

Messrs.  Fred  H.  Miller  and  Hugh  Rod­
gers have each purchased  a one-sixth inter­
est in the sawmill  of  A.  Rodgers & Co., at 
Lakeside.  The  amount  paid  by  each  for 
his interest was  $>10,000.  For  the  present 
the firm name will remain unchanged.  Mr. 
Hugh Rodgers,  who  is  present  manager at 
the mill, will act as general superintendent, 
and Mr.  Miller,  some  years book-keeper for 
€. J.  Hamilton & Co.,  will  take  charge  of 
the office work.  Both are young men.
Hunter, Tillotson & Co.  are now at work 
on an order for 25,000 boxes,  to be  shipped 
to  Honduras.  The  order  was  received 
through a San Franciso  firm and  the boxes 
will be shipped as fast as manufactured.

City.

The following  retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week ami placed 
orders with the various houses:
Wnu.  Vermeulou, Beaver Dam.
A. Purchase, South  iileiukm.
Jas. Toland, Roes.
F. Naragang, Byron  Center.
Mr. Tanis, of Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.
F. G. Richards, Kent City.
A.  & L. M. Wolf,  Hudsonville.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
Louis Kolketna, Holland.
C. F. Sears, Rockford.
Geo. Lentz, Croton.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
A. C. Barclay, Crosby.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
Paine & Field, Bnglishville.
M. J. Howard, Englishvllie.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannousburg.
Mr. Wheeler, Wheeler Bros., She’by.
J. W. Mead, Berlin.
Jas. Barnes, Austerlitz.
Wm. Karaten, Beaver Dam.
D. Ford, Horton’s  Bay.
M. J. & G. S. Bright, Holland.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
A. W. Blair, Dutton.
P. Hanson, of Hanson Bros., Morley. 
v 
Mr. Gibbs, Gibbs Bros., Mayfield.
Mr. Haynes, of  Mosher  &  Haynes,  Howard 
Silas Lowe, Burnlp's  Corners.
E.  Vanderveen, Holland.
A. J. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Win. Pipp, of Pipp Bros., Kalkaska.
F. L. Blake, Irving.
E. Conklin, Ravenna.
Mr. Darling, Darling & Roberts, Sparta.
H. T. Johnson, Saranac.
J. E. Rice, Rice k  Lillie, Coopersville.
J. L. Bartz, North Dorr.
M. Heyboer & Bro„ Drenthe.
Mr. Burton,  Myers & Burton, Alleyton. 
Colborn & Carpenter, Caledonia.
A. B. Scheid, Kalamazoo.
Mr. Polasky, Polasky &Scliacofsky, Kalama­
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
F. B. W at kins, Monterey.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr.
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Lilley P. O.
B. E. West & Co., Lowell.
R. A. Hastings, Sparta.
Dr. John Graves, Wayland.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
A. Shook, Coral.
C. E. & S. J. Koon,  Lisbon.
O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
G. P. Stark,  Cascade.
G. W. Warren, Big Rapids.
Beecher & Kymer, Elk Rapids.
J. Q. Look, Lowell.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
L. E. Paige, Sparta.
W. O. Lake, Morley,
S. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
N. DeVries, Jamestown.
Geo. W. Shearer, Cedar Springs.
Smith & Bristol, Ada.
J. Grutter, Grandville.

zoo.

Good Words Unsolicited.

lllej
_Big_Rai  _
lids:

W. A. DeHart, g 
“Like the paper.” 
Jill.  E.  Grand-Gii 
“Can’t do without 
A. S. Hobart & C 
Rapids:  “It is an 
Cal. L. Martin,  v

;ral dealer,  Vickery
M   a® 
n_
•d,  druggist,
•”J______
books and  crockery,  Big
ccellent p a p e r . ^   ^ ......
nager  Beech er_&_Kymer, 
druggists,  Elk  Rapids:  "I appreciate it high­
ly, especially"the druggists’  corner.  No drug­
gists should be without it.”

H artford .

The new opera  house to  be  erected here 
this  spring is already commenced. 
It is to 
be  a  three-story  building,  with  an  opera 
house in the upper stories and  three  stores 
in the lower story.
A new meat  market  has  started  in  the 
rear of M.  C.  Conklin’s  grocery  store,  and 
is run by him.
The  Kimball  Piano  and  Organ  Co.  has 
started a branch store here.
F.  Ingraham will  build a brick  store this 
spring.  Also L.  P.  llusen,  the  jeweler.

T raverse  C ity.

Increase of business lias caused the Buffer 
Bros,  to add a car load of new machinery to 
their  Acme  Woolen  factory. 
The  ma­
chinery will be set up at  once,  and the mill 
run to its utmost capacity.
Hamilton & Milliken  have  sold to a Chi­
cago house, to be delivered as fast as made,
1,750 pairs of blankets,  manufactured at the 
Acme Woolen Mills.
Frank  Martinek,  who  left  here about a 
year ago to go into business at East Jordan, 
has returned  and  accepted a position in his 
brother’s jewelry store.
Capt.  Wilbur has been in town, perfecting 
arrangements for  the  running of the Grand 
Rapids.  Capt.  Robertson,  of  the  Lou A.
Cummings, 
is  also  here  fitting  up  his 
steamer.
The largest  single  shipment  of  fish this 
season was  made  tills  week, consisting of 
twenty-two tons.
The W.  U. Telegraph wires are  being re­
moved from the inland route from Elk Rap­
ids to Bellaire  vln Williamsburg  and Spen­
cer Creek,  and  are  to  be  replaced  at once 
with telephone  wires,  thus  connecting  all 
these towns with  Traverse City. 
i

O tter  Lake.

F. Wolf will  move his  stock of millinery 
and dry goods to Fostoria.
The  shingle  mill  of W.  A.  Wallace  will 
shut down for the season on the 28th,  as he 
lias no more  timber  at  present,  and  bolts 
are selling  at  such  prices  that  it will not 
pay to ship them in and saw them here.
George Atkins  lias  rented  the  Junction 
Hotel and will he  the  new  landlord there,
John Parks having retired to  private life.

His  W as  Not  a  Lactometer  Case.
A  resident  of  the  West  Side  was  com­
plaining to his  grocer  the  other  day about 
the poor  character  of  the  lacteal  fluid his 
milkman sold  him,  and  the  latter advised 
him to get a  lactometer.

“A lactometer! □ What’s that?”  he asked. 
“An instrument which determines if there 

is any water in the milk.”

“Well,  the  lactometer  wouldn’tJdo  rne 

any good.”
“Why?”
“What I  want  to  determine  is  whether 
there is any milk in f e  water he  sells me.”
Somebody lias  taken  the  pains  to figure 
out that the U nited States produces  enough 
lumber each year to  load  1,428,581 railroad 
cars,  each  carrying  7,000  feet. 
It is also 
said that this would make a train 8,500 miles 
long,  or about  one-third  around  the world!

W O O D E N  W A R E .

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, three hoop....... ....................1 65
White Cedar, three  h o o p ........ ....................2 00
....................1 90
Dowell Pails...............................
Dowell Tubs, No. I ..................... ....................8 00
Dowell Tubs, No. 2..................... ....................7  00
....................6 00
Dowell Tubs,  No. 3 .....................
White Cedar, No. 1..................... ....................7  50
....................6 50
White Cedar, No. 2....................
Maple Howls, assorted sizes__ ....................2 00
....................1 25
Butter  Ladles............................
....................1 00
Rolling Pins...............................
....................  75
Potato  Mashers........................
.!.!............. 2 25
Clothes Pounders.....................
....................  65
Clothes Pins...............................
....................1  25
Mop Stocks.................................
....................I 75
Washboards, single..................
....................2 25
Washboards, double................

BASKETS.

Diamond  Market.....................
Bushel, narrow  band...............
Bushel, wide band....................
Clothes, splint.  No.  1...............
Clothes, splint.  No. 2 .................
Clotn.cs, splint,  No. 3...............
Clothes, willow. No.  1...............
Clothes, willow. No. 2 .................
Clothes, willow.  No. 3 ...............

....................  40
....................1 (XI
.......................1  75
.......................3  50
.......................3  75
....................4  00
...................•. .5  00
.......................6  00
...................7  Oo

H S S T E E  

F 0 2 E ,

M a n u fa c tu re rs'  A gents fo r

Saw and Grist Mill  Machinery,
Planers,  M atchers,  M oulders  and  all 

kinds of W ood-W .orking M achin­

ery,  Saws,  Belting and  Oils.

D ig  R a p i d s .

John H.  Foster  will  build  a brick store 
building on Michigan  avenue this season.
The Odd Fellows will  build a three story 
brick  building,  25x100  feet,  on  Michigan 
avenue.
Geo. Bradbeer,  who  engaged  hi the book 
business here six months  ago, has made an 
assignment to  1).  F.  Glidden.
The balance of H.  Flynn’s stock lias been 
sold at auction by W.  D.  Robinson.
Capt.  Oleson,  who  engaged  in  the boot 
and shoe  business  here  about  a  year ago, 
has been  closed on a chattel  mortgage held 
by H. S.  Robinson  &  Burtenshaw,  of De­
troit.  S.  Anderson  purchased  the stock at 
about  fifty  cents  on  the  dollar.  Oleson 
thinks of  engaging  in  the  dry goods busi­
ness in the store lately vacated by H. Flynn.
M.  B.  Wiseman  lias  been  closed  on  a 
chattel mortgage tor  $500,  held  by Glidden 
& Marsh.
Wm. Vanloo, for many years  at the head 
of the Big Rapids  Furniture  Co.,  has sold 
his  stock  to  J.  G.  Martz.  The  present 
stockholders are J.  G.  Martz,  Corydon Ful­
ler, of  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  and a sister of 
Mr.  Martz,  residing in  Indiana.  Mr.  Martz 1 
contemplates increasing the  capacity of the 
establishment. 
In the exchange Wm. Van­
loo comes  in  possession  of  the  Furniture 
block,  now  occupied  by  Clough,  Pierce & j 
Co.  and J.  Stilwell  &  Sons.  M.  B.  Pierce I 
has engaged to travel for  the  new concern,  I 
and starts out this week.

A  journal  in  the  interests  of  carriage 
builders says  hickory  axles  have advanced 
20 per  cent, within a year,  while  good, dry
D epot f o r   In d ep en d en ce  W ood  S p lit  P u lley .  L arg e
in   s o n r r a   a n d   w i l l   n a tu ra lly   sto c k  k e p t on h an d .  Send  fo r  »am ple  p u lley   an d   lie- 
wooa m aterial  IS  scarce  au u  W ill  n a t u r a l l y   gom e co n v in ced  j>f th e ir  s u p e rio rity .  W rite  fo r p rices.
increase. 
-  G ran d  R a p id s,  M ich

1  130 O ak es  S t., 

TrlQ t o r i  ill 

DRV  GOODS  PRICE  CURRENT.
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 
m arket, 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.”

W ID E  BRO’
Androscoggin, 9-4.. 17
Pepperell,  7-4.........13
Pepperell,  8-4.........15
Pepperell,  9-4.........17

Caledonia, XX, oz. .10 
Caledonia,  X ,oz...  9
Economy, oz..........
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
Park Mills, No. 80.. 18

Plain.

Alabama
Jewell  ..........
Kentucky  ..,
L an e .............
S antee..........

8*

BLEACl
Avondale,  36........
Art  cambrics, 36... 
Androscoggin, 4-4..

Ballou, 5-4................  6
Boott, 0.4-4..............85
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGO, 4-4.........95
Boott, U. 3-4..........  55
Blackstone, AA 4-4  65
Chapman, X, 4-4___ 5)
Conway,  4-4..............65
Cabot, 4-4.................. 6!
Cabot, 7-8.................   6
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Dwight Anchor,4-4.  8 
Da voi, 4-4...............  8

Fruit of  the  Loom,
cambric,  4-4........1
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..
Gold Medal, 7-8.......
Gilded  Age.............

S IL
Crow n...:............... 171/
No.  10......................11
Coin......................... 10
Anchor.................... 15
Blackburn.............   8
Davol....................... 14
Paconia...................12
Red  Cross...............  7!
Social  Im perial__ 16
MasonvilleTS........   8

Plaid.

rN COTTONS. 
(Pepperell, 104........ 19
¡Pepperell, 114........ 22
jPequot,  74............. 1454
¡Pequot,  8-4............. 16
¡Pequot,  9-4............. 18
CK8.
¡Park Mills, No. 90.. 14
Park Mills, No. 100. 15
¡Prodigy, oz............. 854
Otis Apron.............
854854
Otis  Furniture.......
York,  1  oz............... »54
¡York. AA,extra oz. 1254
BURGS.
-
¡Alabama................
¡Augusta,................ 7
¡Georgia.................. 654
i Louisiana............... 654
¡Tennessee............. H54
¡Toledo.................... 654
J COTTONS. 
jGreene, G  4-4 
.  . 554
Hill, 4-4................... .  7
Hill, 7-8................... .  654
¡Hope,  44............... .  654
¡King  Phillip  cam
j  brie, 4-4.............. ..  954
jLinwood,  4-4........ ..  754
¡Lonsdale,  44........ .  754
¡¡Lonsdale  cambric .1054
ijLangdon, GB, 44.. .  854
jLangdon,  46.......... .11
.¡Masonville,  44__ .  754
¡¡Maxwell. 44.......... .  8
¡¡New York Mill, 44 .1054
1 New Jersey,  44... .  8
IPoeassot,  P. M. C. .  754
i(Pride of the West. .1054
¡Pocahontas,  44... •
¡Slaterville, 7-8....... .  654
i  Victoria, AA......... .  9
[ | Woodbury, 4-4.......
5S
¡Whitinsville,  44.. .  654
j Whitinsville, 7-8... .  6
i, | W amsutta, 4 4 ....... .  954
ijWiiliamsviUe, 36.. .  854
SSIAS.
:[Masonville  S......... .11
Lonsdale................ •  954
| Lonsdale A ............ .14
| Victory  O.............. .  554
| V ictory J ...............
.  «54
Victory  D .............. .  854
■{ Victory  K .............. .1054
¡Phoenix A .............. .1954
i I Phoenix  B .............. 1054
Phoenix X X ........... •  5

1054

dress

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM

FIN E  BROWN  COTTONS.

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

j Nashua 0.7-8........

....  6 Lawrence XXX 40. 

Johnson  Manfg Co,
Johnson  Manfg Co,
dress

new
...  7Vá White  Manf’g  Co,
...  * H Earlstou...
7 Gordon..........
...  7 G rey lock.
9
styles  .......
W ID E BLEACHED COTTONS.

734 Mass. BB, 4-4..........  554
OJ4I Nashua  E, 40-in__ 71Z
434{Nashua  R, 4-4.........  654
5 
6
4341Newmarket N.  __.  554
55a 1 Pepperell E, 40-in. .  634
5l/,{Pepperell  R, 4-4__.
654) Pepperell  O, 7-8.....  534
7 541 Pepperell  N, 3-4__.  5*4
4 341 Pocasset  C, 4-4__ .  6)4
6 541Saranac  R............. .  6
5541Saranac  E............. •  7)4

PRINTS.
..554 'Gloucester............. .554
Albion, solid.......
. .6  G lo u eest ermourn’g . 554
Albion,  grey.......
..554  Hamilton  fancy... .6
Allen’s  checks...
Ailen’s  fancy__ . .554|Hartel fancy.......... .554
.6
. .554  M anchester........... .6
Allen's purple....
American, fancy.
..554¡Oriental  fancy....... • 554
..6  ¡Oriental  robes....... .654
Arnold fancy.......
.  5  ¡Pacific  robes.......... .6
Berlin solid..........
..6  ¡Richmond.............. .554
Cocheco  fancy...
Cocbecorobos__ . .654 ¡Steel River............. ■ 554
..6  ¡Simpson’s ............... .6
Conestoga fancy.
. .6  ¡Washington fancy. .5
Eddy sto n e ..........
Eagle  fancy........ ... 5 
| Washi ngton  blues. 5
Garner pink........ ...5541
Appleton  A, 4-4__   6  {Indian Orchard, 40.  7
Boott  M, 4-4...........   7)4 Indian Orchard, 36.  6
Boston  F, 44..........65£¡Laconia  B, 7-4.......... 13
Continental C, 4-4..  6541 Lyman  11, 40-in.......9
Continental D, 40 in 
Conestoga W, 4-4...
Conestoga  D, 7-8...
Conestoga G, 30-in.
Dwight  X.3-4........
Dwight Y, 7-8..........
Dwight Z, 4-4..........
Dwight Star, 4-4—
Dwight Star, 40-in..
Enterprise EE, 36..
Great Falls E, 4-4...
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......
Am oskeag.............  7
Hookfold.............1254
Amoskeag, Persian  9 
styles..
dress  styles
B ates........
...  6
1054
..  0 Slaterville,
Berkshire
styles..........
6
Glasgow,  f incy
Glasgow,  roval. ...  iiyfc White Mfg Co stap 634
W h ite M fg Co fane 754
Gloucester
standard
Plunket..
754
Lh neuster
Langdown
lien Ire w,  dress
Audroscoggin, 74.. 15 Pepperell.  104....... 22
Androscoggin, 8 4..16
Pepperell,  11-4.......24
Pequot,  74...
16
Pepperell, 7-4..
...15
Pequot,  84...
...17
18
Pepperell, 8-4..
Pequot,  94...
Pepperell, 9-4..
20
...19
Atlantic  A, 4-4.......  654 Lawrence XX, 4-4..  6>4
Atlantic  H, 4-4.
Lawrence LL,4-4...  5
Atlantic  D, 4-4...
5  ¡Newmarket N........ 554
Atlantic P, 4-4__
4% Mystic River, 4-4...  534
Atlantic LL, 4-4..
754 Pequot A, 4-4............634
Adriatic, 36..........
6541 Piedmont,  3 6 .......  6
Augusta, 4-4........
Stark AA, 4-4..........  654
Boott  M, 4-4........
Boott  FF, 4-4..........  654;Tremont CC, 4-4__ 454
Graniteville, 4-4__   534 Utica,  4 4 ................ 10
Indian  H ead,4-4...  634W achusett,  44.......  654
Indiana Head 45-in. 11561W achusett, 30-in...  534
Falls, XXXX.......... 1854
Amoskeag,  ACA... 17 
Amoskeag 
44.. 12541 Falls, XXX..............1554
A ........ 11541 Falls,  BB.................1154
Amoskeag, 
B........11 
¡Falls,  BBC, 36......... 1954
Amoskeag, 
C........ 105*  Falls,  awning..........19
Amoskeag, 
D........ 10  ¡Hamilton,  BT, 32..  954
Amoskeag, 
E ........  954 Hamilton,  D..........954
Amoskeag,
9  ¡Hamilton,  H ............854
Amoskeag, F __
.7  ¡Hamilton  fancy...  854
Premium  A, 44.
.16.16
Methuen AA.......... 1154
Premium  B
¡Methuen ASA.........1654
Extra 4-4..........
¡Omega  A, 7-8.......... 1054
Extra 7-8........
.1454
.15
¡Omega A, 44.......... 1254
Gold Medal 44.
¡Omega ACA, 7-8.... 13 
CCA  7-8...........
.1354
.14
¡Omega ACA, 44... .15
CT 44 ...............
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
.14
RC 7-8...............
16
Omega SE, 4 4.........27
BF 7-8...............
Omega M. 7-8.........22
.19
AF 4-4..............
Omega M, 44.......... 25
.14
Cordis AAA, 32 
Shetucket SS&S3W 1154 
Cordis  ACA, 32
Slietucket, S Sc SW.12 
Cordis No. 1, 32....... 15
¡Shetucket,  SFS 
..12
Cordis  No. 2............ 14
¡Stoekbridgo  A .......7
Cordis No. ft............ 13
¡Stoekbridge fancy.  8 
Cordis  No. #............ 11
G arner.
Hookset...........
Red  Cross........
Forest Grove..
American  A.. 
Stark A ...........
B oston_____
Everett  bine.. 
Everett  brown 
Otis  AX A.  ... 
Otis BB............
Manville... 
Masonville
Red  Cross.
B erlin.......
G arn er__
Brooks..
Clark’sO. N. T ...
j . & P.  Coats.......... 55
Williinantie 6 cord.55 
Willimantio 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew
ing thread............30
A rm ory..................  7 
Androscoggin.......  754 Naum keagsatteen.  7
Canoe River............  5541 Pepperell bleached  8J4
Clarendon.............5@5% I Pep perell sat.........   8
Hallowoll  Im p........53S£ Roekport............. 654
Ind. Orch. Im p........  554 Lawrence sat.......8
Laconia....................  7  ¡Conegosat............ .  53li

GLAZED CAM BRICS.
........ 5  {Empire............
........   5  Washington..
........   5  Edwards........
........  
|S. S. & Sons...
........ 1454iOld  Ironsides
........20  ¡W heatland...
........  654 Otis CC..........
........ 1154 W arren  AX A
.1154 Warren  BB..
........11 
¡Warren CC...
........10  1 York,  blu e...
P A P E R   CAM BRICS.
• 454@634{S. S. & Sons.......4%@5
. .5J4@6}4 ¡Garner............. 5%@6M
........   654 {Thistle Mills............  6
........   6  ¡Rose.........................  054

........50 ¡Eagle  and  Phoenix 
|  Mills ball sewing.30 
Green  &  D aniels...25
Stafford................. 25
Hall A Manning__ 28
Holyoke................. 25

....  431Í 
5
...  6
....15
....20
....  9 
....11 
....10 
....  9 
....1254

iKearsage..............  7

SPO O L COTTON.

CORSET JE A N S .

GRAIN  BAGS.

TICK IN G S

W IGANS.

DENIM S.

M ISC E L L A N E O U S.

Hemlock Bark—The local  tanners  are  offer­

ing $5 per cord delivered, cash.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.59®1.60  $   lb 

for clean washed roots.

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

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AUGERS AND BITS.

Ives’,  old style......................................... dis60&10
N.  H. C. Co................................................dis60&10
Douglass’................................................... disdO&lO
Pierces’  .....................................................dis60&10
Snell’s*....................................................... dis60&10
Cook’s  ...................................................... dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine.................................. dis 
25
Jennings’,  imitation................................dis50&10
Spring.........................................................dis 
40
Railroad....................................................... $ 13 00
Garden.......................................................net 33 00
H an d ..............................................dis  $ 60&10&10
Cow...............................................
60&10
C all...............................................
3Ü&15
G ong................   .........................
25
Door, Sargent.............................
60&1Ü

.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis

BALANCES.

BARROW S.

BELLS.

BOLTS.

Carriage  new list....................... ........ dis
80
Plow  ............................................ ........ dis 30&lt
Sleigh Shoe.................................. ........dis
W rought Barrel  Bolts...............
60&10
.......dis
Cast  Barrel  Bolts.......................
.......dis 60&10
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs..........
60
.......dis
Cast Square Spring....................
.......dis
60
Cast Chain.................................. ........ dis 60&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob.
.......dis 60&10
Wrought Square..................... 9 ..'.... dis 60&10
Wrought Slink Flush................
.......dis
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
M ush......................................... ........ dis
60&10
Ives’  Door.................................... ........ dis 60&10
Barber .........................................
.......dis $
Backus.........................................
.......dis
Spofford.......................................
.......dis
Am. Ball....................................... ........ dis
Well, plain..................................
Well, swivel.................................
BUTTS, CAST.

40
50&10
60
net
............. $  3 50
4 00

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

Cast Loose Pin, figured............. ........ dis
70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed ........ dis
70&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis
60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint., dis 6Ü&10
60&10
Wrought Loose Piu, acorn tip.. ........ dis
6Ü& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned.......... dis 60&  5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
Wrought Table............................ ........ dis 10&60
Wrought  Inside  Blind.............
........ dis 10&60
Wrought Brass............................ ........ dis
75
Blind, Clark’s .............................
........ dis 80&10
Blind, Parker’s ..........................
........ dis 80&10
Blind,  Shepard’s......................... ........ dis
70
Ely’s 1-10......................................
Hick’s C. F ..................................
G. D..............................................
Musket.........................................

CAPS.

60
35
60

CATRIDGES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new listSO&lO
Rim  Fire, United  States........................dis50&10
Central Fire.............................................di630&10

C H IS ELS.

Socket Firm er....................................... dis
Socket Fram ing.................................... dis
Socket Corner....................................... dis
Socket Slicks......................................... dis
Butchers’Tanged  Firm er..................dis
Barton’s Socket Firm ers....................dis
Cold....................................... 
net
COMBS.

Curry,  Lawrence’s.............................. dis
Hotchkiss  ............................................ dis

 

75&10
75&10
75&10
75
40
20

40&10
25

ÈDITO  HARDWARE

COMP AIT V,

E xclusively W holesale,

Present to the Trade the

Largest aid Most Complete Line

O F

Shelf  and  Heavy  Hardware

EYER SHOWN IN WESTERN MICHIGAN.

Our Stock Comprises Everything

Included in a First-Glass 

HARD W A RE  STOCK

COCKS.

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

CO PPER .

D R IL LS

ELBOW S.

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

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... *1 a
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..........................
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................
Morse’s Bit  Stock...............................dis
Taper and Straight Shank..................dis
Morse’s Taper  Shank........................... dis
Com. 4 piece, 6  in.............................doznet  $.85
Corrugated.............................................dis  20&10
Ad j ustable.............................................dis  5£ &10
20
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
Ives’, 1. $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00. 
25
American File Association List.........dis  55&10
Disston’s ................................................dis  55&10
New  American......................................dis  55&10
Nicholson’s ..............................................dis  55&10
Heller’s ................................................dis 
55&10
Heller’s  Horse Rasps............................dis  56&10
Nos. 16 to 20, 
28
18
List 

GALVANIZED IR O N ,
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
15 
14 
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. 

files—New List.

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

dis 
dis 

12 

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

50

- 
13 
GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

HOES.

H IN G ES.

HANGERS.

Maydole & Co.’s .................................. dis 
25
Kip’s .................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s ................................ dis  40&1C
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel...................... 30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  50&10
Champion,  anti-friction................... dis 
60&10
Kidder, wood track........................... dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3............................dis 
60
State............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  454  14
354
and  longer.............................................. 
Screw Hook and Eye,  54  ...................net 
1054
854
Screw Hook and Eye %.................... net 
Screw Hook and Eye  34.................... net 
754
Screw Hook and Eye,  %...................net 
754
Strap and  T ....................................... dis 
65
HOLLOW   W ARE.
Stamped Tin Ware....................................  
‘30
Japanned Tin  Ware....................
Granite Iron  Ware.....................
Grub  1  .............................................. $1100, disCO
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 60
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 60
41
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings............dis 
Door, porcelain, jap.  trim m ings...........  
41
41
Door, porcelain, plated  trim m ings....... 
Door, porcelain,  trim m ings.................... 
41
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain..........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s .....................   40&10
Ilem acite........................... ...................dis 
45
45
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis 
Mallory, Wheeler &  Co.’s.................... dis
45
Branford’s .............................................dis 
Norwalk’s .............................................dis 
45
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  70
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s ............................dis 40&10
Coffee,P. S. &W.Mfg. Co.’sMalleables  dis 
80
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ........dis 
60
Coffee,  Enterprise.................................. ,.dis  25
Adze  Eye......................................$16 00 dis 
60
Hunt  Eye......................................$15 00  dis 
60
H unt’s .........................................$18 60 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS— DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

N A ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

MAULS.

I  lOd  8d 
6d  4d
3 
154
254 
$1 25  1  60  1  75  2 00 

lOd to  60d............................................$  keg $2  50
8d and 9 d  adv...............................................  
25
6dand7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance....................................................   1 50
3d fine  advance.....................................  
 
3 00
Clinch nails,  adv...........................................  1  75
Finishing 
Size—inches  j  3 
Adv. f  keg 
Steel Nails—2 65.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ............................. .......dis 70
Stebbin’s Genuine............................. .......dis
70
Enterprise,  self-measuring............. .......dis 25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.......... .......dis 50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent................. ...diseo&lO
Zinc, with brass bottom .................... __ dis
50
Brass or  Copper................................. .......dis 50
Reaper..................................... per gross, $12 net
Ol instead s ........................................... ....  50&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy....................... .......dis
15
Selota Bench....................................... .......dis 25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy............. .......dis
15
Bench, fl'rstquallty............................ .......dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. ...dis20&10
Fry, Acme............................................... dis 50&10
Common, polished............................. ...di 860Se 10
6
Dripping..............................................
40
Iron and Tinned................................. .dis
60
Copper Rivets and  B urs.................. .dis

RIVETS.

PLA N ES.

PANS.

O ILER S.

B>

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

PA TENT FLAN1SAED  IRO N .

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

Broken packs 54o $  lb extra.

RO PES.

 

 

SQUARES.

Sisal, V4 In. and  larger..................................   854
Manilla.............................................................  15
Steel and Iron.........................................dis 
Try and Bevels................ 
dis 
Mitre  .....................................................dis 

70
,60
20
SH EET IRO N .Com. Smooth.  Com.
$2 80
2 90
3 00
3 10
3 20
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14....................................$4  20 
Nos. 15 to 17 ..................................   4  20 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4  20 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................   4  20 
Nos .25 to 26 ..................................   4  40 
No. 27 ..............................................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, ¡g  fi>............................ 
In smaller quansitles, 
lb..................... 
No. 1,  Refined....................................... 
Market  Half-and-half............................ 
Strictly  Half-and-half............................ 

554
6

12 50
15 00
16  50

T IN N E R ’S SOLDER.

T IN   PLA TES.

TR A PS.

rates.

T IN —LEA D ED .

Cards for  Charcoals, $6  75.
10x14, Charcoal...............................  5  75
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal...............................  7  25
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal..................... .-........  6 25
1C, 
12x12,  Charcoal  ..............................  7  75
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal................................   5  75
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal................................  7 25
IX, 
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal................................  8  75
1XXX, 14x20, Charcool................................  10  77
1XXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  12  55
20x28, Charcoal..................... ;........  15 50
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plato Charcoal............................  6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  8  50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal............................  10  50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........................   12 50
Redippod  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to  6  75 
Roofing, 14x2Q, IC.........................................  5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX .......................................   6  75
Roofing, 20x28, IC.........................................  11  00
Roofing, 20x28,  IX .......................................   14  00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terue.................  5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............7  00
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terue................ 11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne...........   14 00
. .G0&10 
Steel. Game.............................................
. dis  35
Oneida Communtity,  Newhouse’s __
Oneida Community, Ilawley & Norton’s. .6O&I0
Hotchkiss’  ................................................... 60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s..................................60&10
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c ^  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 50  doz
W IR E .
Bright  Market....................
............  dis  67 54
..........dis 
70
Annealed M arket...............
.............dis  6214
Coppered Market...............
...............  dis  55
Extra Bailing.....................
............. dis  C2V4
Tinned  M arket..................
...............09
Tinned  Broom....................
...............$  lb  8>/s
Tinned Mattress................
__ dis 40@40&10
Coppered  Spring  Steel__
...............dis  50
Tinned Spring Steel...........
Plain Fence....................................... ........$  tb  354
Barbed  Fence...................................................
Copper...............................................new  list net
Brass..................................................new  list net
B right............................................. dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes................ .....................dis  70&10&10
Hook’s ............................................dis  70&10M0
Gate Hooks and  Eyes..................dis  70A10&10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
60
Coe’s Genuine.......................................dis 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis  75&10 
Coe’s  Patent, malleable...................dis75&10&10

W IR E GOODS.

W RENCHES.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

50
BirdCages................................................... 
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  70&10
Screws,  new  list........................................ 
83K
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate.................... dis50&10&10
DamperB, A m erican.................................  40&10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods..60&10&5 
Copper  Bottoms.......................................  
19c

LUMBER,  LATH  AND SHINGLES.

The Nowaygo M anufacturing Co.  quote f . o. 
b. cars  a* follows:
Uppers, 1 Inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 1V£, 154 and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 154,1 54 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  80  00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   SO 00
Fine, Common, 154, 154 and 2 inch............  82 00
N o.lStocks,  12in., 12,14and 16  feet....  15 0Q 
No. 1 Stocks, 12In., 18feet........... 
16 ¿0

No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........................   17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 In., 12,  14 and 16 feet........   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16  00
No.  1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................   17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................   13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........................   14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  feet........ 
II  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet........................   13 00
Coarse  Commou  or  shipping  cuils,  ail 
widths and  lengths..........................8 00®  9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in
33 00 
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................
27  DO 
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths........................
15 00 
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............
12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet..................... t-........
13 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch........’. .....................
15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch....................¿L,.......
12  q0 
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.T\........
20 00 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................
18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................
14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common__
9 00 
Bevel Siding,  6  inch.  Clear.....................
20  00
10 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16ft............
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................
36 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................
29 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No.  I, common..
17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 common__
14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal. 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A.  B and  Clear..
35 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................
26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n 
16 01 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n 
14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............
3  10 
-{XXX 18 in.  Thin......................................
3 00
( XXX 16 in.................................................
1
No. 2 or 6 in. C.  B 18 in.  Shingles.............
No. 2or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.
1  40
Lath
1  75® 2 00

HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

G reen__ $  tb
Part cured...
Full cured__
Dry hides and 
k ip s...........   6

H ID ES.Calf skins, green
or cured__ 8
Deacon skins,
$  piece.......20

@ 6 
6® 7 
@ 8
@ 8 
SH E E P  PELTS.

@10
@50

FU RS.

W OOL.

@25 
@ 4

Old wool, estimated washed $Mb...
Tallow.................................................
Fine washed  S> 24@25|Unwashed. 
Coarse  washed... 18@22|
....1 00® 12 00
Bear....................................................
F ish e r.......................
.......2  00@6  00
.......1  00@1 25
Red Fox.....................
......1 00@1 20
Grey Fox....................
.......  25® 1 00
M artin.......................
.......  05®  70
M ink..........................
....... 
18
“  Spring.............
...  12®
14 
Muskrat,  w inter.......
6®
fall...........
8
kits  ..........
. . . 
2 
©  
O tte r..........................
...4   00@6  00 
. ..   I0®1 00 
Raccoon.....................
Skunk.........................
...  10®1  35 
Beaver,  $   lb
.. .1  50®3  00
Deer, $   lb ...............................................   10®  25

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C O O P E R A G E .

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HEADS.

STAVES.

Quay, Killen &  Co,  quote  as  follow 

at  Grand  Rapids.
Red oak flour bbl. staves.............M  6
.............M  5
Elm 
White oak tee staves, s’d and J’t.M  20 
White oak pork bbl. 
“  M  18
Tierce, dowelled and circled, se t.... 
Pork, 
....
Basswood, kiln dried, set..................
White oak and hickory tee, 8f’t.  M  11 
White oak and hickory  “  754f’t.M  10
Hickory  Hour  bbl.........................M  6
Ash, round  “ 
“  .........................M  6
Ash, flat racked, 654 f’t ................ M  3
White oak pork barrels, h’d m’d.M  1 
White oak pork barrels, m achine..
White oak lard  tierces...................  1
Beef and lard half barrels.............
Custom barrels, one  head...............  1
Flour  barrels....................................
Produce  barrels....................... .

BA RR ELS.

H O O PS .

s, f. o. b.

00®  7 00 
00® 5 75 
00@2 >  00 
60@20 00
15®  16
12®  13
4®  454
50® 13 00 
00® 11 00 
50® 7 50 
25® 7  00 
50® 4  00
00® 1 10 
90®  1  00 
20®  1  30 
75®  90
00® 1 10 
30®  37
23®  26

H. LEO N A R D  &  SO N S,  « f  M S J  1

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Assorted Package

 

 

“ 

round  bottom ....... 

“Common Sense” Stew Pans.

Fine Glazed Earthenware
12 Vi-gal. Milk Pans,  flat bottom ...........   6 
72
8  192
24  1-gal. 
“ 
12  1-gal. 
“ 
96
8 
Vi doz. 1-gal. Stew Pans, round bottom2  00 
67
Vi doz.  Vi-gal. 
1  60 
66
4  77
25
5 02
A  co m p lete  sto c k   o f  AKRON  OHIO  STONEW ARE 
c o n sta n tly  on h a n d .  W e a re  a g e n ts  o f A k ro n  S to n ew are 
A ssociation a n d  w ill m ak e  sp ecial  p rices in  c a r lo ts d e­
liv e red  to  a n y  p o in t in  M ichigan o r In d ia n a .

Package......................................... 

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One Crate Assorted

“Burgess  &  Goddards”  White 

Granite  English Ware, 

“Crown” Shape.

Diamond X.

2 
1 
8 
9 
4 each.
.07 

.09 
6 each.
.07 
“

4 doz. Plates, Pie....................................  18 1  ftv
T e a ..................................   58 2  32
“ 
4 doz. 
“  B reakfast.......................  69  7 69
11 doz. 
3 doz. 
“  D inner............................  80 240
ldoz. 
“ 
Soup.................................  69  69
6 doz. Fruit Saucers, 4 in ....................  32  19-
6 sets Handled  Teas............................  42  2 5«
18 sets Unhandled Teas....................... 
35  630
3
15 platters 7 in. 8 in. 9 in. 18 in. 11 in. 12 in.  2 54
27

3 
22 

3 
16 

3 
11 

16 Bakers 6 in.  6 in.  7 in.  8 in.
.17 

.12 

1 80

“ 

.12 

24 Scollops, 5 in.  6 in.  7 in.  8 in,
2 70
.09 
.17 
2 Covered Dishes,  7  in ................ doz 4  46 
74
85
2 
8 in .........................5 10 
36
1 Sauce Boat, 14c;  2 Pickle, 11c.......... 
4 Covered  B utters...............................3  83  1 28
2 Tea Pots,  24s..................................... 3 40 
57
6 Sugar Bowls,  24s...............................2  87  1  43
6 Creamers, 24s.....................................1 28 
64
3 Bowls,  quarts................................... 1  06 
27
pint and a half.......................  85  42
6 
6 
pint..........................................   71  35
6
4 
4 
24 Pitchers, 6s  12s  24s  30s  36s
.11 
.09 
.13 
4 pair Ewers and  Basins, 9s........... 8  08 
...........5  10 
6 Covered Chambers,  9s 
6 Soaps, 27c each; 6 Mugs, .07  each.. 
C rate.................................................  

4 14
2 69
2  55
2 06

6 
.22 

4 
.33 

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Lines of Crockery

Carried in Original  Packages  or  Repacked  to 
order:  Wedgewood  &  Co.,  White  Granite; 
Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles, White  Granite; 
T.& H.Boote.Boyal Semi Porcelain;Wedgewood 
& Co., Lustre Band; W. H. Grindley & Co., Dec­
orated Ware;  T. & R. Bootes, Decorated Ware.

2 50

53 55

The Square “Windsor”
D inner W  are.

Price-List on Application.

This new decorated pattern is the success 
of the trade  and  readily  retails  at  $48.50 
per set of 125 prices.  Positively the hand­
somest set on the  market.

ASSORTED  CRATE

“A. Meakins” Lustre Band Dec­

oration “Albion” Square 

Shape.
DIAMOND  L.

2

5 25

2 92

4 
.41 

3 
.16 

.57  6 30

9 in.
.33 
9 in.
.73 

4 doz. Plates, 5 in. or P ie...............   73 
4 doz. 
•*  6  in. or  T ea..............  89 
It) doz. 
“  7  in. or  B reakfast........ 1  06 10 60
in. or  D inner.............1  12  3 66
3 doz. 
“  8 
6 doz. F ruit Saucers,  4 in...................   49  2 94
2 doz. Soup Plates, 7 in .......................1 06  2  12
21 Platters,8 in.  9in.  10in.  llin .  12in.  14in.

2 
.14 
4 each.
12 Bakers, 7 in. 
.16 
6 each.
24 Scollops, 6 in. 
.14 

4 
6 
.33 
.24 
9 in.
8 in. 
.23 
.24 
8 in. 
7 in. 
.24 
.16 
2 each.
8 in. 
6 Covered Dishes, 7 in. 
.65 
.57 
3 90
6 Boats, 2 60;  4 Pickles, 1  95 
1  95
2 Sauce Tureens, complete........doz 9  75  1  63
4 Covered Butters, 5  in .......................5  85  1 95
12 doz. Individual  B utters..................  33  3 96
1
4 Casseroles, 7 in.  8 in.  9  in.
.81 
3 Tea Pots, 24s, 5 20;  6 Sugars, 24s, 4 39 
6 Creams, 24s.........................................1 95 
9 
6
36s
18 Bowls, 24s  30s 
1  30  1 08 
6 
3 

6
24 Pitchers, 6s  12s  24s  30s  36s
5  76
5 85  3 90  2 28  1  95  1  63 
3 pairs Ewers and  Basin, 9s............ 12 35  3 09
3 Covered Chambers,  9s...................7  80  1  95
2 Soaps, 41;  2  Vases, 41;  6 Mugs, 1  24 
2 26
24 sets Handled  Teas...............per set  65  15 60
4 sets Handled Coffees...........  
76  3 04
~2  50
97  14

C rate.............................................. 

3 
163 

1
.65 

 
.73 

1 93

“ 

6 

3 

2

2 92
3 49
97

2 92
3 5u

OIL  O-AJSTS.

Per doz.
3-gal. “Good Enough,” Tin........................12 00
....................... 15 00
5-gal. 
“ 
5-gal. 
Wood Jacket........ 18 00
“  
10-gal. 
........ 24 00
■H-gal. Glass Can, Tin Jacket.......................  3 00
1-gal. 
.......................  3 50
J4-gal, Tin Can.............................................   1  60
1-gal. 
............. - ...............................   2 00

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No charge for boxes.

Assorted Package

Glass  Standard  Lamps.

NO.  46.

V4 doz. No. 171 A. Stand Lamps.............1 00 
1  40 
V4 doz. No. 171 B 
Vi doz. No. 191 A 
1  10 
Vi doz. No. 191 B 
1 50 
Vi doz. No. 191C 
Vi doz. No. 191 D 
1  75 
Vi doz. No. 155 B 
Vi doz. No. 700 Low Hand Lamps..........  80 
1 doz. No. 702 
Vi doz. No. 85 Footed Hand Lamps__ 1 35 

50
70
 
 
55
 
75
..........  2 25  1 13
.... ....2   75  1  38
 
fcS
40
80
68

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Package.

Less 10 per cent on  $7 77........

8 27

7 50
4Vi doz. No. 1 B urners..........................  50  2 25
1  doz. No. 0 
*5
10 2o

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

Sold either with or without the Burners.

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W ho  Made  the  First  Barrel?

“  Amber 
Blue 
“ 
Crystal 
“ 

One Box Containing 
“
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No. 101 Hobnail Tumbler. 
No. 101 Hobnail Tumbler.
1V4 doz. No. 101, Canary Tumblers.
1V4 
1*4 
1V* 

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Total, 6 doz. @ 70....................4 20
Box...........................................  35
$4  55
Plain Table Tumblers. 
Plain Table Tumblers.
One Barrel Containing 18 dozen 
ASSORTED  COMMON  TUMBLERS.
4 doz. Plain *4  pint.
4 doz. 
“ 
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4 doz. Star 
3 doz. Fluted,  “
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3 doz. Panel 
1 doz.
18 doz. @ 30c 1 
Bbl  ...

star bottom.

.5 40 
.  35
*5

Half Gallon Water Pitchers. 
Half Gallon Water Pitchers.

25  CENT  BARGAINS.

ica.

The  “No.  100 Lace” Pattern.

“Empire,” 1V6 doz. in bbl...............per doz  1  95
“Patience,” Assorted.l doz. in bbl. per doz  2 25 
“Owl,” Assorted, 1 doz. in  bbl__ per doz  2 00
New Glassware fo r  Spring Trade 
New Glassware fo r  Spring Trade
Most Graceful and Stylish Shape in Amer­
80
Sets. Blue Amber or Canary............  each 
65
Sets,  Crystal...........................................each 
Sauce Plates, any color.........................doz. 
80
crystal..............................doz. 
65
Salvers, 10 in., any  color.......................doz. 6  (X)
10 in., crystal............................doz. 5  00
Individual Butters, assorted colors..........
Covered Sauce Bowls, any color...............
c ry stal....................
ILLUSTRATIONS  MAILED.
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TABLE SET

Of 9-D Pattern.

Extra Heavy  Flint Glass.
ASSORTED  CASK  NO.  9-D  WARE.
doz. 9-D  Sets..................
doz. 9-D Celeries..........
doz. 9-D Pitchers, half gallon 
! doz. 9-D Comports, 4  in—
! doz. 9-1) T um blers........
! doz. 9-D Goblets.............
doz. 9 D Comports,  8 in.
doz. 9-D Salver, 9 in .......
, doz. 9-D Salver, 10 in __
doz. 9-D Pickles.............
doz. 9-D Oval Berry, 8 in ..
, doz. 9-D Oval  Berry, 9 in ..
, doz. 8-D Bread  Plates.......

40

60 
1  00 
96

Package.

Less 10 per cent, on $8 20........

8 20

8 95 
82 
$8  13

Five and Ten Cent

THE  OLD  RELIABLE

MASON’S PORCELAIN CAP
Eru.it  J ars.

Bock Bottom Prices Guaranteed.

New  Packages  for  1886,  su­

perior to any goods now sold.

Illustrations  of  all  lines  of 
new glassware will be forward- j 
ed on request and we would be 
pleased to have  the  trade  call j 
and examine our new  goods  in j 
person when in the city.

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Patented  Jan. B,'7r. 
Ke-laaucd J  u n o 
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Pate A p ril 535, ’t - .

|  Barpiii Goiter Goods, 

I  Suitable for all lines,  th at m ay  be  retailed j 
j  a t the  popular prices  of  5c,  10c  and  25c, | 
j continues in favor  w ith  the  trade,  and  is 1* 
I a help  to every  m erchant who uses it.

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From the Scientific American.

Few inventions have had a wider or more 
varied usefulness  than the barrel;  few give 
such  promise  of  perpetuity.  Unique  in 
principle,  simple,  yet  singularly  perfect in 
plan and  structure,  the  barrel is little less 
than a stroke  of  genius.  Who  set  up the 
first one?  Who  first  conceived  the happy 
thought of making a vessel tight and strong 
out of strips of  wood  bound  together with 
hoops?  And when  and  where did he live?
No history of inventions;  none of  the en­
cyclopedias  in  our  great  libraries;  no His­
torian  of  human  progress,  so  far  as  we 
know,  gives any information on the subject, 
unless we accept the Roman  author,  Pliny, 
who mistakenly attributes  the  invention to 
the Gauls,  who  inhabited  the  banks of the 
Po.  We say  mistakenly,  since there is the 
best of good  reason  for  believing  that the 
barrel  was  in  use  long  before  the  Gauls 
took possession of  their  Italian home, per­
haps  long  before  the  Gauls  existed  as  a 
people.

The monuments  of  Egypt  furnish proof 
of the early use of  hooped  vessels,  though 
no date  is  given  for  their  invention. 
In 
one of the inscriptions copied by Wilkinson 
may  be  seen  two  slaves  emptying  grain I 
from  a  wooden  vessel  made  with  hoops, 
while a scribe  keeps  tally,  and a  sweeper 
stands  by  witli  a  broom  to  sweep  up the 
scattered kernels.  Close by an uttortunate 
is undergoing  punishment by  bastinado for 
short measure,  perhaps, or,  as Mr.  Wilkin­
son suggests,  for petty theft.  The measure 
is barrel-shaped,  and precisely like the knyl 
of  modem  Egypt. 
It  would  hold, appar­
ently,  about  a  peck.  Unfortunately,  the 
age  of  this  inscription  is  not  indicated. 
Measures of  that  sort  would seem to have 
been in  common  use  very  early in Egypt, 
though not  for  the  storing  of  liquids, for 
which  purpose  skin  and  earthen  vessels 
were employed.

At first thought, Egypt would  be the last 
place to look  for  the  invention of  hooped 
vessels,  its arid  climate  making it specially 
unsuited for  their  employment.  Possibly, 
however, that may have been the compelling 
cause of their invention.

Throughout the East the bamboo is largely 
used for  making  hollow  vessels,  a section 
of the stem through a node  securing a solid 
bottom,  and one between the nodes an open 
mouth for a natural tub or bucket. 
In well 
wooded  regions  nothing  would  be  more 
natural than the employment of hollow tree 
trunks for the  same  purpose, or sections of 
tree stems hollowed out by fire or otherwise. 
In  drying,  such  vessels  would  split  and 
spoil,  and it would  require  no great genius 
to repair them by means of withes or wood­
en bands,  the  primitive  form  of the hoops.
If the users of such natural barrels should 
migrate to a  more barren  region where tim- 
• was  scarcer,  economy  of lumber  would

be likely to  suggest  the  building of barrels 
from pieces  artificially  split,  in  short, the 
use of staves, by means of which the primi­
tive cooper  would  be  able to make  several 
barrels out of a block  that would suffice for 
a single dug-out.

But  this  is  speculation  merely. 

It  is 
enough to know  that  the  cooper’s art,  like 
the  potter’s,  is  one  of  extreme  antiquity. 
We had no suspicion of its age until we un­
dertook to tell who made the first one.

Points for Retailers.

Kind words are bright  flowers  of earthly 
existence.  Use them,  and especially in your 
business life.

Those who  believe  that  the  world  owes 
them  a  living  don’t  stop  to  consider  how 
many bad debts  the old globe has  to shoul­
der.

The old  proverb,  “Where  there’s  a will 
there’s a way,” should of times read,  “When 
there’s a bill to pay you are away.”

Live and act to-day; he who  spends  one- 
lialf of his time in enjoying  his  to-morrows 
will spend the  other half  in  regretting his 
yesterdays.

It  is  with  narrow-souled  merchants  as 
with  narrow-necked  bottles,  the  less  they 
have in them the  more  noise they  make in 
pouring out.

Some merchants  are  always trying to be­
gin at the top,  unmindful of  the fact that it 
is  all folly to shingle  the house  until after 
the cellar has been dug.

Borrowing  is  a  bad  thing  at  best,  but 
“borrowing trouble”  is  probably  the  most 
foolish investment of “foreign capital” that 
a business man can make.

Some merchants often  save at  the wrong 
place, while others  look after small savings 
and forget greater things.  Both are  penny 
wise and pound foolish.

Progress of the best kind  is  comparative­
ly slow.  Great results cannot  be  achieved 
at once.  To know how to work and to wait 
are the great secrets of success.

“Strike while  the iron is hot” oftentimes 
finds  illustration  in  the  fact  that  a  good 
many clerks and  salesmen  work best when 
the eye of their employer is on them.

“The truth always pays in the end” is an 
old saying,  and probably that  is the  reason 
why there is so little of it told at the begin­
ning of most business transactions.

If you are making  money  give  part of  it 
away—and  give  generously  and  nobly. 
There  are  enough  who  need  it.  Extend 
your charities according to  your prosperity.
Men of business  are  accustomed to quote 
the maxim that “time is  money;”  but  it  is 
more; the  proper  improvement of it is self­
culture,  self-improvement  and  growth  of 
character.
There is a  class  of  narrow-minded  mer­
chants who never get rich for want  of cour­
age.  Their  understanding  is  that  of  the 
halting,  balancing kind,  which  gives a man 
just enough light to see difficulties and start 
doubts,  but not enough to surmount the one 
or remove the other.

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

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Vegetables, Etc.

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(CREAMERIES.
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I  M O S E LE Y ’S

Have N o E q u a l on the market.  Adapted to  la r g e  & s m a ll 
d a i r ie s , families, factories, the crea n ^a lh erfn a   system , hotels 
etc.  Used with and without ice.  The “  H to d d n rd  ”  has patent 
skimming attachm ent.  Cream drawn off the milk. No possibility
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R as thick walls and double air space.  Has a P e r f e c t Refrigerator,

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O R E ’S   PYRAMIDAL  STRAINER
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liiitter  Workers,  Boxes.  Prints,  Dog  Powers  and  r? '  cry

KTODÜâKl) CREAMERY.

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strainer, 
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J.  T.  BELL  <ft  CO.,

Saginaw  Valley  Fruit  House
And COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,

Dealers in all kinds Country. Produce & Foreign Fruits.

R eference:  B an k  of E a»t Saginaw . 

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