Michigan  Tradesman.

VOL. 3.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGEN,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  28,  1886.

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Laundry Soap
OBERNE, HOSICK & CO.

MANUFACTURED  BY

CHICAGO,  ILL.

FXXTGXUS2S <ft SMITH
Boots, Shoes and Slippers

Wholesale Manufacturers

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(¡^"Michigan Agents Woonsocket Rubber 

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

O u r  S p e c ia l

Tobaccos.
3 butts
.36 
.33
.30

I butt. 
SPRING CHICKEN .38 
.35 
MOXIE 
ECLIPSE 
.30. 
Above brands for sale only by

Olney, Shields & Go.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
A Simple Cure for Dyspepsia.

Probably never in the history of proprietary 
medicines has any article met success equal to 
that  which  has  been  showered  upon Golden 
Seal Hitters.  Why, such has been the  success 
of this discovery that nearly  every  family in 
whole neighborhoods  have  been  taking it  at 
the same time.  Golpen Seal Bitters combines 
the best remedies of  the  vegetable  kingdom 
and  in  such  proportions  as  to  derive  their 
greatest  medicinal  eifect  with  the  least dis­
turbance  to  the  whole  system.  In fact,  this 
preparation is so balanced in  its  action  upon 
the  alimentary  canal,  the  liver, the kidneys, 
the stomrch, the  bowels,  and  the  circulation 
of the blood, that it brings about a healthy ac­
tion  of  the  edtire  human  organism that  can 
hardly be credited by those who have not seen 
the remarkable results that  have  followed  its 
use.  Sold  by  Hazeltine  A Perkins Drug Co 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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A g e n ts  fo r  a   fu ll  lin e   o f

S. ff. Venable & Co.’s

PETERSBURG,  VA.,

FLUG  TOBACCOS
NIMROD,
E.* C.,

BLUE  RETER,

SPREAD  EAGLE,

BIG FIVE CENTER

C L I M A X -  

PLUG TOBACCO? 
IgDTINTAC.

LUDWIG WINTERNITZ
Ferm entum ,

STATE  AGENT  FOR

THE  ONLY  R ELIABLE

Compressed Yeast.

ManYd by Riverdaie Diet. Co.

106 Kent  Street, Grand  Rapids, Michigan, 

TELEPHONE  566.

Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for 
their town on this Yeast by applying to above address.

PLUG  TOBACCO.
TURKEY .39
-35
Big 5 Cents, 

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D f t i a X y   ] With   e a ch   b u tt, f
All above brands for sale only by

BDLKUY.LEMOM HOOPS

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WHOLESALE  GROCERS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

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NEW  BRANDS
CIGARS

OF

Albert  Coye  &  Sod,
AWNINGS,  TENTS,

DEADER  IN

Horse,  W agon  and  Stack 
Covers, Hammocks and Spread­
ers,  Hammock  Supports  and 
Chairs, Buggy  Seat  Tops, Etc.

Send for Price-List.

7 3  C an al  St.
«TTXDID  tto  OO.,

OBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 
1 0 8   C A N A L   ST R E E T .___________

And Full Line Winter Goods.

W H IP S eft LASH ES

A T   W H O L E SA L E   ONLY.

Goods at jobbing prices to any dealer who  comes  to 
G>  RO Y S  c*3  OO.,

us or orders by mail, for cash.

Manufacturers’ agents,

ji Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
GUSTAVE  A.  WOLF,

A tto rn ey ,

Over Fourth National  Bank.  Telephone  407. 

COLLECTIONS

Promptly attended to throughout the State. 
llart&Amhcrg,  Eaton &  Christen­
son, Enterprise Cigar Co.

References: 

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

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

PIONEER

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 riiarantee 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 
give  the  fu ll  satisfaction  guaranteed,  we 
agree to repaint the building at our expense, 
with  the  best  iVliite  Lead  or  such  other 
paint as the oumcr may select.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drni Co.
EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

J E W E L E R .

44  CANAL  STREET,

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

JOBBER  OF

LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
P u re   A p p le   C ider & W h ite  W in e
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- 
Jutely pure should send  for  samples  of  my  goods,  or 
drop a postal card and I will call.  Telephone 566- 
1 0 6   K e n t  S t.,  G rand  R a p id s,  M ich.
GHTSBXTG BOOT.
We pay the highest price for It.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, «rand Rapids, Mich

FOR  SALE.

A Good Opening for a  Small A m out of 

Capital.

Parties  doing  a  good  general  merchandise 
business,  desiring  to  remove from the State 
offer their  entire  stock of  general  mereban 
dise for  sale  at  a low  price.  Have  the  only 
store in the town of  any  kind  and  post office, 
the entire trade of  two  mills  and camps  and 
part  trade  of  three  more.  Expenses  very 
Tight.  Have  done  an  average  business  of 
$2,000 per month retail for the past two  years, 
Have  no  poor  accounts to  sell,  nothing but 
bright, new,  staple  goods.  Will guarantee  a 
bright, active,  economical  man can  pay  for 
the stock in  one year.  Purchasing party can 
also handle shingles in connection, if desired 
It  is  really  the  best  business  chance  for  f 
young man who  is not afraid to rough it a lit­
tle that has been offered.  Terms strictly cash 
or good security on part  if  desired.  Address 

W. C. W., Box 889, Big Rapids, Mich

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  W ALL  PAPERS,

House Decorator and Dealer in

Room Mouldings,

Window Shades,
Artist Materials

PICTURES,

And  a full line of

Enamel  Letters,  Numbers  and  Door 
Plates, and all kinds of Embossed, Cut and 
Ornament/d Glass.

PICTURE FRAMES,
Paints, Oil & Glass.

Granello,

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

37 Ionia Street, South of Monroe.

MERCHANT 

TAILOR

LEDYARD  BLOCK,

1 0 7   O ttaw a St.

Suitings for Manufacturers,

Suitings for Jobbers,

Suitings for Retailers,

Suitings for Traveling Men, 

Suitings for Clerks,

A N D

Overcoats for Everybody.

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.

Money Rufunded.

The true remedy has at last been discovered. 
It was long known in his practice as Dr. Pete’s 
Lung Food for Consumption.  It is now called 
Dr. Pete’s 35-cent Cough Cure.  It is the safest, 
the surest and the best.  No other Cough, Cold, 
and Consumption remedy is half its equal.  We 
warrant it and will promptly refund the money 
paid  foa  it  if  a beneficial effect is pot exper­
ienced Dy the time two-thirds of  the  contents 
of the bottle is used.  Sold by the Hazeltine  & 
Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS,

20 and 22 Monroe Si, Grand Rapidi,' Miel

The Story of a Little Pair of Shoes. 

Walter Wellman in Shoe and Leather Review.
John Davis was a clerk in a boot and shoe 
store  on  West  Madison  street,  Chicago. 
John looked like an old man.  His hair was 
sprinkled with gray,  his manner was digni­
fied,.  his  speech  serious.  Promptly  every 
morning at seven  he  opened  the front door 
of the dingy little shop, carried out “the dis­
play,” unlocked the safe, got out the books, 
and puts things to  rights  generally for  the 
day’s trade.  All day long he  waited  upon 
customers,  if there customers to  wait upon. 
And when there were none,  he  sat down in 
his own chair in the back of  the store.  He 
did not read  books  or  newspapers,  saving 
enough of the latter to keep himself inform­
ed as to the  more  important  events  of the 
day.  He did not like to look upon the busy 
throng in the  street.  He  never made com­
ments upon passing individuals.  While the 
proprietor and the other  clerks  gathered-at 
the front  door to  see  what  was  going on, 
“Old John,” as  they  called him,  remained 
quietly  at  his  post.  There  he  had  been 
every day for  the  past  four  years.  From 
that seat he had jumped thousands of times 
to ' reach  for  the  green  boxes  containing 
shoes for  misses,  children,  ladies  and gen­
tlemen.  When not engaged about the store, 
or at the books,  there he  could  always  be 
found,  from seven in the morning until eight 
at night,  excepting thirty minutes for dinner 
and supper.  His comings  and goings were 
as regular as the striking of  the town clock. 
He was never late, never sick, never wanted 
a holiday,  never desired to  run out for  half 
an houl',  or go home  a couple of  hours ear­
lier than usual.  Old  John  seemed  like an 
automaton,  like a mechanical attachment to 
the shoe store that always did its work well, 
that was never  out  of  order,  and  that was 
as reliable  in  every way as  the  turning of 
the earth upon its  axis.  This  is  what the 
proprietor and the other  clerks  knew about 
“Old John” in the  store.'  Out of  the store 
they knew  of  him—nothing. 
In the  store 
he  was  a  puzzle;  out  of  it  an  unknown. 
Exactly at seven  he  appeared,  and  exactly 
at eight  he  went  away.  Where  he  lived 
they did not know.  Married or  single they 
could not tell.  No friends or  relatives ever 
called upon him, he never spoke of any.

John Davis was indeed  like a  mechanic. 
Yet his associates noticed two unmechanical 
traits in him.  He was  afraid of  little chil­
dren.  He shrank from them as if they were 
poisonous.  He was loath to touch their flesh 
or to permit their  golden hair  to  come too 
close to his face,  or  their  eyes to  meet his. 
Whenever a child came into ¡the store  “Old 
John” tiled to  serve  some  older customer. 
But when he could not escape  giving atten­
tion to the wants of the little one he seemed 
to shudder,  and then, conquering  his reluc­
tance by exertion of  will,  took  the  utmost 
delight  in  his  service.  No  father’s  hand 
could  be  gentler—no  young  mother  more 
tender with her month old first-born.

John’s other trait that  stamped him a hu­
man instead of a machine was  a  weakness 
for drunken men.  His anger or resentment 
was absolutely incapable of being roused by 
the rudeness of an intoxicated person. With 
such  unfortunates  he  was  always  gentle, 
and he was sometimes  called to  saloons in 
the neighborhood  to  protect  drunken  men 
from rough usage,  or to save them from the 
natural consequences  of  their  error  if  the 
police should but discover them.

One day there was something  like excite­
ment in the store.  The proprietor was anx 
ious and the clerks talked ominously to each 
other. 
It was after eight o’clock  and John 
Davis had not arrived.  He  was  more than 
an hour late.  Such  a  thing had  never be­
fore been heard of, and it was an event suf­
ficient to  set  all  tongues  wagging  and all 
heads  to  shaking.  But  at  length  “Old 
John”  arrived.  His  face  was'as pale as it 
could be.  His lips were closely drawn, and 
there was a tightening of the muscles about 
the lower jaw.  His eyes were nearer closed 
than usual,  and more  brilliant.  Somethin 
wRs the matter with  John,  that  was  quite 
aftarent, but no one could tell what it was 
Ire  bade  all  his  usual  monotonous  “good 
morning” as he entered,  and, observing that 
the store was ready for business and no cus 
tomers in,  he took his old  seat.  Every one 
was eager to know what had occurred so ex 
traordinary as to  account for  the tardiness 
and yet alhwere afraid to  inquire.  He had 
held them at arm’s  length  concerning him 
self for four years, and he  easily held them 
now.  His reserve was  an envelope through 
which  they  had  not  the  nerve  to  break 
They gathered in one comer to talk the mys 
tery over among themselves, and so when a 
customer happened to drop in it fell to “Old 
John to do the serving.  The customer was 
a little  girl  of eight  or  nine—a tall,  pale, 
lfjrge-eyed,  golden-haired  little  miss  who 
was  confident  of  manner  without 
im 
pudence, as if  even at her age she had seen 
some knocking about  in the  world,  acquir 
ing self-reliance  without  brazenness.  She 
drove straight at her point with:

“Please,  sir,  these  shoes  for  my  little 
brother  are  so  small  that  he  can’t  wear 
them,  and mother wants  them  changed for 
a size larger.”

“Old  John”  took  thè  shoes  without  a 
word.  Some  people  would  have  thought

that he took them roughly 
his way.

But it was only

“We can’t do it,” he said  bluntly,  as was 
his wont; but then noticing the cloud sweep­
ing over the  young  face,  he  added  gently, 
“these shoes have been worn, my little girl, 
you know  we  can’t take back  worn goods. 
I’m  sorry,  but you’ll  have to inn  back and 
tell your  mother  that  we  can’t  exchange. 
Perhaps  she  can  stretch  them  and  make 
them do.”

The little girl  turned  away.  She under­
stood the reasoning,  but she rebelled against 
the decision. 
It was necessity urging her to 
greater  persistency.  She  lingered  at  the 
door and allowed her  bright  head to  droop 
in meditation.  Presently she retnmed, and, 
with a tremor in her voice,  said:

“Please,  sir,  ’mamma  has no  other shoes 
for brother,  and no money to buy new ones, 
and these hurt  his feet  so they’re  blistered 
now,  and—and we—we  did so  want  to go 
out to the park to picnic  to-morrow.”

Here the trembling voice broke down, and 
the great sad eyes turned for a moment into 
springs.

“Well,  well,” said  John  Davis, carefully 
turning his back  toward  the  other  clerks, 
and furtively passing the ends of his fingers 
just under his eyes,  “well, well—let me see 
the shoes.  They’re not so badly worn after 
all. 
I guess  we  can  exchange  them  this 
time, just to please you,  little one.”

And “Old John” picked out the “size lar­
ger” of  baby’s shoes,  and  before  wrapping 
up  the  package  reached  into  his  pocket 
and pulled out a bank-note.  This was wrap­
ped up with the  shoes,  and  as the girl took 
the package the sudden transition  from dis­
appointment to  success  overcame  her  dis­
cretion.  She threw  her  arms about John’s 
neck and  kissed  him  heartily.  Then  she 
sped away as fast as  her  nimble feet could 
carry her.  “Old John” took  up the  soiled 
shoes.  They were for a  boy of four—little 
black things,  with  the  brown  soles  a  trifle 
soiled and scuffed.

“Oh, well,” said John,  as  lie went to the 
books and  charged  himself  with a  pair of 
shoes, “they say there’s luck in such things.
’ll see how it  comes out in my case.”
Then  he  took  the little shoes,  carefully 
wrapped them in paper  and  stuck them  in 
his overcoat  pocket.  At  night  he  carried 
them  home  with  him.  He  thought  of 
them often,  and occasionally took  them out 
and unwrapped  them.  He  liked  to  stand 
the  little  things  up  beside  his  own  huge 
shoes,  and smile  sadly at  the  comparison. 
At other times he would bring  out a photo­
graph and look  first at  it  and  then  at the 
little shoes on the bureau before him.  This 
made him more sad  than  ever, but it was a 
delightful sadness, nevertheless.  The little 
shoes  had  such  a  charm  for  him  that  he 
could not bear to  leave  them  at  his  room 
during the  day.

“I’ll carry them as a pocket piece,” lie said 
for luck.”  And  he  carried them.  There 
were hundreds of little shoes  in  the  store, 
many of them prettier than  these, but  they 
were  nothing  to  him.  They  were  mere 
tilings of  commerce,  while  these  had  life. 
They spoke  to him of  childhood,  of a gen­
erous deed,  of a warm,  thankful  kiss  from 
young lips.  They spoke  also  of  his past, 
but not so  bitterly.  They seemed  to  take 
the dross  out  of  his  sorrow,  and  leave it 
pure.

One  Sunday,  a  few  weeks  later,  “Old 
John” was walking  in  the  park.  The  lit­
tle  shoes  were  in  his  pocket.  He  was 
thinking of  them,  as usual.  All about him 
were bright children,  playing and shouting. 
He wondered where his own  boy  was—for 
“Old John” had a little boy of his own,  and 
a little girl,  too, whom he  had  not seen for 
several years.  His  was the  old  story—the 
appetite for  drink,  periodically uncontrolla­
ble.  He had given way  to i t  at  first reck 
lessly, and then it mastered  him and  drag­
ged him  down.  He was separated from his 
wife and children and was  an  outcast from 
home.  At  length  he  had  conquered  him­
self,  though the struggle was  even now and 
again and again to be gone over with. 
It is 
a warfare that never ceases  while life lasts, 
The morning that he  was  late at  the store 
he had been tempted.  The old passion had 
seized him,  and was determined to drag him 
to the nearest saloon.  He fled  to the park 
and with his face buried in  the  grass,  and 
the cool wind fanning his cheeks, he fought 
it out,  and conquered for the moment.  The 
little shoes came to him  and  completed the 
victory.

This Sunday “Old  John”  was very  sad 
He felt lonely, 
tlis wife  was  often  in his 
thoughts,  and  he  wondered  if  she  would 
forgive  him  if  he  should  go  back to  her, 
He  wondered how big his girl  was and  his 
boy, and if he could wear the little shoes he 
had  in  his  pocket.  While  his  thoughts 
were running on like this he heard a coiiver 
sation in the hushes by the side of his patli

“That’s the man,” $aid a young voice.
And the little girl  that  had  brought  the 
shoes to be  exchanged  stepped  out  shyly, 
evidently remembering the kiss her impetu- 
i ousity  had  led  her  into  giving  the  shoe 
clerk.

“Please,  sir,”  she  said,  “my  mamma 
would like to thank  you for  changing Bob­
by’s shoes when they were so dirty.”

“Old  John”—-he  was  only  forty,  and

NO. 136.

handsome at  that,  his  gray hair  being  the 
only sign of age—paused to hear the thanks. 
He was a man and  weak  enough to delight 
in such incense.

“So you knew it was  I all  the  time, did 

you,  Mary?”

“ Yes, John,  for two years we have  lived 
here,  I have known where  you were during 
nearly all  that  time. 
I kept watch of you, 
and determined that if  you  could—could— 
but you have,  haven’t you John?  And that 
is all  over  now.  The  children  have  seen 
you nearly  every day,  and  have  grown  to 
love you,  though  I  never  dared  tell  them 
who you were.

Coiispicuous  in  the  mulst  of  the  lunch 
spread upon the turf there in the shade was 
that pair  of shoes  that  were too  small for 
little Bob.  And how keen were  the  appe­
tites,  how bright  the  grass,  how  cute  the 
shoes,  how  joyous  the  laughter,  and  how 
happy the look  in the mother’s  eyes at tins 
family  reunion.

The West  Side  Grocer.

The  inshurance  man  was  around  last 
week and wanted  pa to  inshure  with him, 
but  pa  said  the  raites  were  too  high  for 
these hard  times  and  he  was  going  to be 
ekomical and  kaareful  and so pa  kanseled 
all liis policys  and  drilled  the clerks  as to 
what to do in lease of fire.

Pa bawt a lot of hoes  (not  garden  lioes) 
but hoes to  squirt thro,  and pa  hung em in 
a koil on a  stile in the bak  end of the  store 
near the highdrent.  Pa  drilled  the  klerks 
every evening  when the  store  was  klozed 
and instrukted  them  what  each  klerk was 
to do in lease of  a fire.  One  of  the  clerks 
was to buckle on the hoes  to  the highdrent 
and squirt at  the  fire,  another  was  to lok 
all the bilks  and papers  and  money in  the 
safe,  another was to  karry out  chests of T. 
and fine bottled guds.  Pa  was to  superin­
tend the whole sirkis and I was to keep out 
the way.  Pa felt more  and more tickled as 
time rolled and he saw that  his clerks were 
getting more and  more  used  to  the  nitely 
drill and knew jest what  to do  in kase of a 
fire.  Every time  the  fire bell  rung,  every 
clerk wud run to his post until pa told them 
the fire was nowhere near the store,  and  pa 
was rubbing  his  hands  and  kongratulating 
hisself bn his gud fire brigade.

One evening pa thawt  lie  would  put his 
fire brigade into akchewal praktis  and then 
he wud kno for  serten  whether the brigade 
was gud  for  anything.  So  pa  arranged a 
dog fight just back  of  the  store  and when 
all the clerks  were  out  hiking  at  the dog 
fight  Pa  got some shavings  and sprinkled 
a little carrysene on  it  and  then pa  teched 
r off and hollered fire  two  or  three times. 
The klerks  rushed  in and when  they  saw 
the blaze  they got  exsited  and  I  thot  the 
store was shurely going to burn.

The  skwirting  clerk  tuk  the  hoes  and 
ranked them  down  from  the  peg  on  the 
floor, and then lie  turned  pail when lie saw 
the blaze and rim  likethedevil and knocked 
over pa on the floor, and then the clerk who 
was to save the T. rolled a empty sugar bar­
rel over poor  pa and thru  a cake  of maple 
shugar at the fire with the  hope of  putting 
it out but  it skattered  the  fire  and  things 
went booming.  The clerk  who was  to lok 
all  the buks in the  safe  tuk a 10 dollar bill 
out the drawer and  jammed it in  his pistol 
poket and  lokt the  empty safe  up  in good 
shape and then he tumbled a lot of fine bot­
tled  goods  in  a  bushel  basket,  breaking 
every one of the  bottles  and  woimd  up by 
throwing a shugar skoop at the klok.

Everything was konfushen, the store was. 
filled with smok and pa  was  trying  to put 
the fire out.  People outside  was  hollering 
fire and some went in  the  store and helped 
themselves to sigars  and  smashing  things. 
Finally the Skribner street engine cum along, 
and skwirted water in the store and skwirt- 
ed all over pa and  in his  fase  and  blinded 
him so he had to git out too.  When pa cud 
tauk he  told  the  firemen  that  it  was all a 
goke but they didn’t stop till they wet every­
thing all up.  Pa sais the  dam age is abowt 
500 dollars and pa has got the stock iushur- 
ed again.

The Sugar-Maker’s Revenge.

Ike Sloan  was  a  farmer,  but  wasn’t ex­
actly one of the  type  whose  “critters” and 
vegetables always  bring  more money  than 
other  people’s.  On  the  contrary,  if  there 
was any difference  between  the  price  that 
he got for his products and  the market rate 
it was generally to  his  disadvantage.  One 
day on his  way  back  from  the  village  he 
complained bitterly to the people with whom 
he gossiped along  the  road-  that  the store­
keeper had abused  him most shamefully by 
giving him only nine cents  a  pound for his 
maple sugar.

“But  gol  dern  him,”  said  Sloan  with aft 
chuckle,  “I  got  even  with  him,  for  I  put 
more’n two dozen  bucketfuls of  water into 
the  sap before I b’iled it?”

If we assume  a  moderate area and depth 
of that portion of the  globe  covered by the 
ocean, the quantity of salt that it contains is 
estimated  at  six  times  the  volume  of  the 
Alps.  Unlike coal, the supply of  which is 
being  gradually  exhausted,  niariue  salt  is 
absolutely inexhaustible.

1

VISITING  BUYERS.

L.  M .  C A R Y .

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

<& LOVERXDGE,

L.  L.  1 ,0 V B R ID G E .

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

F ire and Burglar Proof

Combination and Time Locks,

Il M a Street, 

~ 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

✓

T. C. Prout, Mancelona.
Dan. B. Soper, Newayge.
Geo. Purdy, Prairieville.
Hunt & Hunter, Lowell. 
C. H. Adams, Otsego.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
S. T. Colson, Alaska.
L. Perrigo, Burnlp’s Corners#
J. R. Dibble, Burnip’s Corners.
C. Stocking, Grattan,
B. McNeal, Byron Center.
Walling Bros., Lamont!
F. B. Watkins, Monterey.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
E. Wilson, Hopkins.
J. B. Watson, Coopersville.
Severance & Rich, Middleville.
E. Carbine & Son, Hesperia.
N. DeVries, Jamestown,
S. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
N. K. Jepson, Clarksville.
L. Shrock, Clarksville.
Frank Alberts, Muskegon.
Mr. Hightower. Fogg & Hightower, Ferry. 
Andre & Son, Jennisonville.
C. Porter, Chauncey.
Irwin Hill, Hopkins.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
C. S. Comstock, Pierson.
Dan Lynch, Blanchard.
Chas. H, Deming, Dutton.
N. O. Ward, Stanwood.
M. M. Robson,  Berlin.
Geo. Cook, Grove P. O.
Joshua Colby, Rockford.
S. S. Dryden, Allegan.
B. H. Rose, Sherman.
J. W. Dunning, Hesperia.
J. S. Barker, Sand Lake.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland.
J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake.
Cole & Chaple, Ada.
Foreman & Aldrich, Lowell.
D. Wellbrook, Rockford.
J. C. Townsend, White Cloud.
J. E. Thurkow. Morley.
U. De Vries, Jamestown.
John Giles,  Lowell.
John Gunstra. Lamont.
A. A. McCoy, Traverse City.
J. H. Stevens, Muir.
E. H. Dakin, Muir.
Baker & Son, Grand Haven.
Wm. VanPutten, G. Van  Putten & Son,  Hol­
Thos. P. Mortenson, Upper Big Rapids.
M. P. Shields, Hilliards.
A. Purchase, South Blendon.
L. M. Wolf, A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
C. E. Coburn, Pierson.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
H, M. Harroun, McLain.
Geo. Eastman,  Robinson.
J. M. Cook, Grand Haven.
R. J. Side, Kent City.
B. Gilbert & Co., Moline.
Lyman T. Kinney, Woodville.

land.

Purely Personal.

Christian  Bertsch  is  in  Boston,  buying 

fall goods for Rindge,  Bertscli & Co.

E.  J.  Keate  will  shortly  take  a  trip 
through the Upper Peninsula  in  the  inter­
est of the Star Union.

Ferd.  B. Porch, representing Knowlton & 
Dolan, manufacturers of  flouring  mill  ma­
chinery at Logansport,  Ind.,  was  in town a 
couple of days last week.

An attache of  Cody,  Ball  &  Co.’s  estab­
lishment writes  The  Tradesman  as  fol­
lows:  “Please state that Walter  McBrian, 
after  borrowing  other  people’s  knives  for 
the past three  years, has  finally bought one 
of his own.  Whether  lie  paid for it, depo­
nent saith not.”

“Fermentum”  the  only  Reliable  Com­

pressed Yeast.  See advertisement.

MISCELLANEOUS.

low.  Location, the best.  New block, cor. Hall 

: 

J38*

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

and Division.  W. D. Brewster. 

fixtures in the growing part of city.  Rent 

■OR  SALE—A neat, now grocery  stock and 
IlOR  SALE—A general stock  situated  about 

twenty-two miles south on the L. S.  &  M. 
S. Railway.  Will inventory about  $1,500.  All 
new goods.  Address, F. B. A.,careTiiETKADF,s- 
man. 
TT'OR  SALE—At a bargain, a grocery and pro- 
Jt?  vision  business,  located  in  a  thriving 
northern county  seat. 
Ill  health  requires  a 
change of climate.  Inquire of A. T. Page, un­
der Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids. 139*
TT'OR  SALE OR  EXCHANGE—Two pieces of 
jT 
store property situated  on  a  main  busi­
ness street.  W ill sell  cheap  or  exchange  for 
stock of general merchandise.  Address Gerrit 
Yonker, box 1,790, Muskegon, Mich. 

IIOR  SALE—Grocery  stock  and  fixtures.

1  Stock fresh and in  good  condition.  Will 
inventory  about  $800.  Business  situated  on 
West  Side,  in  excellent  location.  Address 
XYZ, care T h e   T r a d e s m a n . 

138*

136*

137

136*

to  get  a  situation,  if  you have anything for 

cist.  Strictly temperate, can keep books 
and furnish good reference.  Address  box  40, 
Fremont, Newaygo Co., Mich. 

■ ANTED—Situation by registered pharma­
IF YOU  WANT—To get into business, to sell 

your business, to secure additional capital, 
sale or want to buy anything, advertise in the 
Miscellaneous Column of T h e  T r a d e s m a n ,  a  
twenty-five word  advertisement  costs  but 25 
cents a week or 50 cents for three weeks.
H E ST E E   &  FOX,

M anufactured by the

SM OKING  TOBACCO,
National K. of L Co-operative M acco Co.,
Arthur  Meigs  &  Go.,

R A L E IG H ,  HST.  O.

G RANS  R A PID S,  MICH.,

W holesale agents for the

S T A T E   O F  iMZOHIGLAJST.
This is the  only  authorized  K.  of L. 
Smoking Tobacco on the market.  The 
stock  of this  corporation  is  all  owned 
by the K. of L. Assemblies in the U. S., 
and every member will not only buy it 
himself, but do  his  utmost  to  make  it 
popular.  Dealers will therefore see the 
advisability  of putting  it ’in  stock  at 
once.  We will fill orders for any quan­
tity at following prices, usual terms:
2 OZ. 46;  4 OZ. 44;  8 0Z.43;  18 OZ. 42.
ARTHUR MEIGS & GO.,
Wholesale  Grocers,
SEED  CORN.

77,79,81  and 83 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

TO THE  RETAIL  GROCER.
B alding  P o w d e r
And a hundred per cent,  profit?  I have  made mine for 
years.  Twelve receipts, including the leading powders 
of the day, with full directions for  preparing,—the  re­
sult of 30 years* collecting,  selecting  and  experiment­
ing, sent for a $1 postal note.  Address

Why don't you make your own

C.  P.  B artlett.  Bald wins ville,  N\  Y.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

STANLEY  N. *ALLEN,  Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

O rders  b y M all and  E xp ress p ro m p tly  a t­

ten d ed   to.

AMONG TH E TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Vossen  Bros,  succeed  Julius  Vossen  In 

the dry goods business.

Reith Follett succeeds Follett & Dregge in 

the lumber and coal business.

J. W. Morrison has  engaged in  the  gro­
cery business at  West Troy.  Cody,  Ball & 
Co furnished the stock.

Oliver & Hilliards will engage in the saw­
mill business at Leroy.  Hester  & Fox fur­
nished the machinery.

A.  A.  McCoy has engaged in  the restaur­
ant business at Traverse  City.  John  Caul­
field furnished the stock.

L.  Smalheer has  engaged  in the  grocery 
business  on  West  Leonard  street.  Cody, 
Ball & Co. furnished the stock.

Thos.  P. Mortinson  has  engaged  in the 
grocery  business  at  Upper  Big  Kapids. 
Cody, Ball & Co.  furnished the stock.

W.  D.  Brewster  succeeds  Brewster  & 
Augustin  in  the  grocery  business  at  754 
South Division street, corner Hall street.

F. S. Antrim and J.  E.  Hartman  will en­
gage in  the  tea  and  coffee  business  at 97 
Canal street about  May 1 under the style of 
the Japan  Tea Co.

Eugene Klein, druggist at 34 West Bridge 
street, tvill remove  to  his  new  building at 
198 West Bridge  street, corner  Gold, about 
May 1.

J. C.  Shaw  &  Co., grocers  at  56  Canal 
street, will remove  to 79  Canal  street—the 
former location  of  Peirce  &  White—about 
May  1.

Olney,  Shields & Co.  have leased the sec­
ond floor of the Brown block, in which they 
are located,  and  will  occupy the same with 
their tea,  spice and canned goods stock.

A.  Vidro,  grocer  at  257  Fourth  street, 
will shortly remove  his  stock to the  build­
ing formerly occupied  by  Curry & Holmes, 
on  the  comer  of  Fourth  and  Stocking 
streets.

The Curry & Holmes  grocery  stock  will 
be disposed of  at  chattel  mortgage  sale on 
May 1.  There will be nothing  left for  the 
general  creditors  and  Clark, Jewell & Co. 
and  John  Caulfield,  who  hold  a  second 
mortgage, will  probably find  themselves in 
the same boat.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

H.  B.  Huston,  hardware dealer  at Chase, 

has removed to Almira.

H.  S.  Faust succeeds  John  Leinweber in 

the furniture business  at Caro.

Geo.  McKenzie succeeds  G. E.  Graves in 

the grocery business at Adrian.

B.  S. Iteed has moved his drygoods stock 

from Niles to New Carlisle,  Ind.

Dr.  G. W. Hoag has sold  his  drug stock, 

at Martin,  to  Dr. J. D.  Hamilton.

Holmes & Fuller succeed  Holmes & Wit- 

tenbrook in general trade at Caro.

Selig  Stem  lias  purchased  R.  Arthur 

Stone’s grocery stock at Kalamazoo.

W.  F. Sawdy succeeds  Sawdy & Declute 

in the hardware business at Bronson.

W.  P.  Andrus succeeds  John A.  Spooner 

& Bro.  in general trade at Cedar  Springs.

Eppink  &  Kohlman  succeed  Church  & 
Kohlman in tiie  grocery  business  at  Alle­
gan.

Davis  Olney  succeeds  Goodenaugh  & 
Olney  in  the  boot  and  shoe  business  at 
Ludington.

W. F.  Edgerton,  general dealer  at Grand 
Haven,  has closed out his stock  and retired 
from business.

W. L.  Wame &  Son,  druggists  at  East 
Jordan,  have sold their stock to G.  W.  Bea­
man, of Williamston.

Frank M.  Chase has sold  his  blacksmith 
and wagon  shop,  at  Boyne City, to  a man 
named Webster,  and will shortly  engage-in 
the hardware  business.

C. M. Woodard,  formerly engaged in  the 
drug and grocery business  at  Ashland, has 
purchased the general stock  of  F. E.  How­
ell,  at Kalamo,  and will  continue  the busi­
ness at tiie latter place.

Dr.  R. W.  Culver,  of  Battle  Creek,  who 
recently opened a drug store at South Haven 
without complying with  the State  law rela­
tive to registration, has been ordered to close 
by the other druggists of the place.

J.  R.  Price, the Benton  Harbor  druggist 
and  cigar and tobacco  jobber,  expects to be 
able to close out  his stock  within the  next 
three months.  He  contemplates  engaging 
in the wholesale tobacco  and cigar business 
at Chicago.

T.  C. Prout, formerly engaged in the grist 
mill business at Howard  City, but  more re­
cently engaged in  trade at  Mancelona,  has 
concluded to build and equip a roller mill at 
Howard City, having a capacity of fifty bar­
rels per day.  Mr. Prout was in town a cou­
ple of days last week, making the prelimin­
ary arrangements for securing the necessary 
machinery.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

A  washing  machine  factory  has  been 

started at Litchfield.

The Manistique mills have started up and 

will ran day and night this  season.

The Knights of Labor have  boycotted the 
Ovid Carriage Works and  the factory is mn 
night and day in consequence.

The Noyes Cart Co.  has  just  been organ­
ized at Kalamazoo with $10,000 to manufac­
ture this cart, the invention of Chas. Noyes.
I. H.  Lamoreaux,  of Otsego, has arranged 
with R.  E.  Werkman,  of Holland, to manu­
facture 500  of the former’s “Indicator” fan­
ning mill.

The Michigan Plow Co., at Three Rivers, 
has bought the Nye patterns, formerly made

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

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,  APRIL 28,1886.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

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

of October.
ing of each month. 

Traverse City Business Men’s Association.

President,  Frank  Hamilton;  Secretary,  C.  T. 

Lockwood;  Treasurer, J. T. Beadle.

Business  Men’s  Protective  Union  of 

Cheboygan.

President,  A.  M.  Wesgate;  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.

Cooley. 

Ovid Business Men’s Association. 
President, C.  H.  Hunter:  Secretary,  Lester 
_____________ ___
Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

IMPROVE YOUR OPPORTUNITY.
The present  sharp advance  in  sugars af­
fords grocers in  general  and  sugar  cutters 
in particular a  splendid  opportunity  to re­
establish prices on a  paying  basis  and it is 
to be hoped that they will  avail  themselves 
of the opportunity. 
It is very  much  easier 
to bear down than it is to  boost  up and the 
experience in this State has taught  the gro­
cery trade that more sugar  has  been sold at 
a loss than at a profit and  that  the  time is 
ripe for a change in  the  present  method of 
handling an article  which  is  conducive  to 
more annoyance than  any other  commodity 
included in a grocery stock.

Let there be  reform  in  the  handling  of 

sugar! 

________________

There appears to be no diminution  in the 
interest developed  regarding  dairy matters 
in this State and  the  creamery  agitation is 
certainly  gaining  strength.  Nearly  every 
creamery  supply  house  in  the  country  is 
now represented in  Michigan  and the num­
ber of  new  butter  factories which will  go 
into operation this spring is  almost without 
parallel.  Those  competent  to  speak  on 
the  subject  assert that  the present  activ­
ity in the direction of  the  creamery system 
will continue for at  least  two  years yet,  at 
the end of which  time  Michigan  will have 
fully four  hundred  creameries  within  her 
borders. 

________________

Tiie Tradesman  welcomes  letters from 
its old friends at  Cant  Hook  Comers  this 
week  and  trusts,  now  that  the  silence  is 
broken,  that communication from so impor­
tant  a locality  as  Soliman  Snooks’  home, 
may be more  frequent  than  has  been  the 
case during the past year.

No Creamery Butter For Him.

V entura,  Mich.,  April 24.

C. A. Stowe and Brothers

I dont want you paper eny longer at pres­
ent  My reason  is  this  you  are tring to cel 
out farmers  and  mack  companys  rich  for 
instant you cout butter rene  at 20 when the 
material is worth 6  seuts &  creainry  butter 
at 28 6cents when it is not  as  good as good 
dary buter  that you cout at 15  sents  youer 
dealers in town say  that  my buter  is  beter 
than the  creamery  yours  truly  G. W. Jos- 
celyn.

Tiie Tradesman has  no  extended com­
ment to make on the above  communication, 
which is given verbatim. 
It  quotes butter- 
ine the same as it quotes com syrup  or sec­
onds canned goods,  because they  are legiti­
mate articles of commerce.  So far as  “sell­
ing out  the  farmers”  is  concerned,  such a 
charge is to  diaphonous  to  be  entertained 
by a sane person for a single moment.

Mr. Joscelyn’s assertion that “dairy butter 
is better than creamery”  is  on  a  par  with 
his other  statement  and  stamps  him  as  a 
person who  is  unfortunate  in the  scope of 
his knowledge.

Miscellaneous  Dairy Notes.

The starting of a  creamery  at  Charlotte 
was a death blow to the  Ainger  cheese fac­
tory.
St.  Louis  is  marching  onward.  A  new 
cheese factory has been  added to her indus­
tries.

The creamery at Mason is expected to be­
gin operations by  May 1, with  the  milk of 
1,000 cows.

The first new Michigan cheese received at 
this market came  in from Lenawee  county 
to-day. 
It was  received  by Wm.  Sears  & 
Co.

Geo. Purdy is  endeavoring to awaken the 
fanners  around  Prairieville  to  the  advan­
tages of a cheese factory, and in case he se­
cures the requisite  number  of  cows he will 
put a factory in operation by May 20.

Good Words Unsolicited.

C. M. W oodard, (general dealer,  K alam o;  “I 

need T h e T radesman in my business.”

J. C. Stitt, general dealer, Dollarville:  “It is 
a good paper and well worth the money.”
D.  R.  Thralls,  general  dealer, Walton:  “If 
you ever stop sending Th e T radesman, I shall 
challenge you to pistols and  coffee.”

P. E. Hackett, general dealer, Wolverine: “I 
find it a very pleasant and newsy  sheet and a 
paper thatoevery  business  man  in  Michigan 
should have in his office.”

ff

at  Union  City,  and  will  manufacture  the 
plow at their shops in that  village.

Wm. Harris & Son, of  Chase, have  their 
new shingle mill about ready to run.  They 
have cedar enough  to cut  30,000,000  shin­
gles,  and say that they can  sell them  all to 
Grand Rapids parties.

Phineas Medalie’s  starch  factory at Cad­
illac is now an assured fact and will be built 
in time to use this season’s crop of potatoes. 
An outlay of several thousand  dollars is re­
quired for sites,  building,  machinery, etc.

The  Coldwater  Manufacturing  C<k  has 
commenced business, and  will manufacture 
base  ball  clubs,  Indian  clubs,  neck  yokes 
and  chairs.  Will  Atwater,  of  Coldwater, 
and J.  R. McNabb,  of  the  Detroit Bending 
Works, will have charge of the works. Paid 
up capital,  $10,000.

STRAY  FACTS.

Robert S. Jackson has  sold his  flour mill 

at Alaska.

H. V.  Rifenburg  succeeds  the Rifenburg 

Milling Co.,  at Charlevoix.

Julius J.  Howe  has  sold  out  his  livery 
business at Allegan and will remove to Cal­
ifornia.

D.  M.  Baker,  the  Adrian  lumber  mer­
chant, has bought  the  lumber yard  of  the 
late James M. Berry.

N.  B.  Clark has located at Cadillac to buy 
hemlock bark.  He  expects  to collect 1,500 
carloads  for  shipment  from  that  vicinity 
this season.

The  Petrie  Lumber  Co.,  of  Muskegon, 
has bought 13,500,000 feet of  standing pine 
in Roscommon and Crawford  counties from 
Louis Huldebach for $33,000.

T.  DeYoung and John  Meyers,  of  Chica­
go,  and C.  Christiansen,  of  Benton Harbor, 
have purchased the Benton Harbor building 
known  as the  “old  canning  factory,” and 
will refit it for a vinegar and pickle  factory 
and cider mill,  at a cost of $7,000.

C.  G. Bullard, one  of  the  largest  celery 
growers in Kalamazoo, says there will be 25 
per cent,  more celery  raised this  year than 
ever before.  Arrangements are being made 
with the express companies for better rates, 
so there is  every  prospect  of  the  business 
extending indefinitely.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Arthur  Retan,  formerly  of  Hudson,  lias 
gone  on  the  road  for  the  Sisson & Lilley 
Lumber Co.

Frank  E.  Chase  is  frequently  mistaken 
for a clergyman «since  he  bereft himself of 
his moustache.

Al.  Baker denies  the  report  that  lie  has 
leased Gould’s private car  in  which to take 
his wedding tour.

Calvin S.  Gray, of Benton Harbor,  is now 
on the road for  the Chase  Bros.  Piano Co., 
going wherever the spirit calls.

Ned.  H.  Knight, Michigan  representative 
for P.  Lorillard & Co.,  is  in  town  for  the 
purpose of painting the  city crimson.

Hub Baker, who was laid up witlirheuma- 
niatism last week,  is improving  and may be 
able to get out on the road again this week.
Jas. A.  Crookston came  home  somewhat 
under the weather  early last  week.  J.  H. 
Hagy finished up his trip on the Grand Rap­
ids & Indiana.

Ed.  P. Andrew recently  returned  from a 
trip through Iowa and  Illinois  in the inter­
est of  the  Diamond  Wall  Finish  Co.  and 
started out again Tuesday for a tour of Mis­
souri,  Nebraska and Kansas.

Geo.  W.  Haynes, for the past three years 
general traveling representative for Pelgrim 
&  Son,  the  Kalamazoo  confectioners,  has 
removed  to  Grand  Rapids,  taking  up  his 
residence at 495 Jefferson avenue.

Honest John Eaman the more or less rus­
tic emissary of the  Fuller  &  Fuller Co., of 
Chicago, put in an appearance Saturday and 
meandered around the  streets  Sunday with 
liis usual  complement of  hickory  shirt and 
stoga boots.

Henry Dawley now figures as a “frightful 
example”  among  the  unsolicited  recom­
mendations of a more or less  celebrated  In­
dian  physician.  The  peculiar  physical 
trouble from which he  was  relieved  was  a 
lame back, superinduced by lifting a carriage 
out of the mud on several occasions  during 
the “break up” a month ago.

Perley W.  Hall  first saw the light of this 
world on Benton Harbor  on  September  27, 
1862.  There he spent  his  boyhood and  at­
tended  school,  graduating  from  the  high 
school in the  spring of  4882.  He  immedi­
ately entered the employ of  John  R. Price, 
spendiug about a year behind  the  prescrip­
tion case.  He then  went  on  the  road  for 
Mr.  Price,  selling tobaccos  and  cigars stak­
ing  the  Lake  Shore  towns  and  all  »her 
available  trade  in  Southwestern  MiclWgan 
and  Northern  Indiana.  After  pursuing 
such a courge for about three  years,  he  en­
tered  the  employ—February  1,  1886—of 
Bulkley,  Lemon & Hoops,  with whom he is 
likely to remain for some  time.  His  terri­
tory includes the  Lake  Shore  towns  south 
of Hollaud,  and the Grand Rapids and Indi­
ana  as  far  as  Morley.  He  sees his trade 
every two weeks and would  be  welcome  if 
he made the rounds twice as often.  He has 
never had the  smallpox, nor  has  he  never 
robbed  a  Sunday  School;  but,  in  spite  of 
these disadvantages,  he  has  a  positive  ca­
pacity for effective work which  is  excdlled 
by few men in his line.  He is not married, 
but spends his Sundays in  Benton  Harbor, 
which may be something.

Best in the West.

Manufacturers’  Agents for

Saw and Grist Mill  Machinery,
Planers,  Matchers,  Moulders  and  all 

kinds of Wood-Working Machin­

ery, Saws, Belting and Oils.

W hile our stock lasts, we of­

fer to the trade FOR  SEED:
Learning Early Dent, Corn. 56 lb to bu. for $1.50
Red Blazed, 8 Rowed.......... 
1.75
Yellow Yankee, 8 Rowed... 
1.75

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GRAND  R A PID S, M ICH.

affi

F R E S H   M EA T S.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   5y%<&  714
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................  7!4@ 8H
Dressed Hogs.........................................5H@ 5$£
Mutton,  carcasses................................. 7  @ 8
Veal.-........................................................6  @7
Pork Sausage......................................... 7  @ 7H
Bologna...................................................  ®H@ 7
Fowls.......................................................13  @14
Ducks  ....................................................  
Turkeys  ................................................ 13  @14

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OYSTERS  A N D   F IS H .

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follow's; 

OYSTERS.

m

6a k Tn 6
POWDER

From the Ovid Union.

Those who read T he Michigan T rades­
man at this  place,  say it is  undeniably the 
best commercial paper in the West. 
It is a 
commercial paper of to-day  and  not  half a 
eenrury ago,  like  many  other  so-called pa­
It is a grand success financially,  too.
pers. 
Id 1 H>. cans, 50 caœ  .ina case, price 35c per $>. qr  $17.60  per  case.  W ith  every  case  we  give

New  York  Counts............................................. 40
Selects.................................................................35
Cod  .........................................................   @10
Haddock.................................................   @ 7
Mackerel................................................ 12  @12&
Mackinaw Trout....................................  @  7
Perch........................................................  @ 4
Smelts...............................................10  @11
Whiteflsb...............................................   @9

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

Depot for  Independence  Wood  Split  Pulley.  Large 
stock kept on hand.  Send  for  sample  pulley  and  be­
come convinced of their superiority,  w rite for prices. 
-  G rand  R a p id s,  M ich .
1 3 0  O ak es S t., 

Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

FRESH  FISH.

Ia  -m o t«

Bruce & flftebicines

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARM ACY.
One Year—F. H. J. VanEmster. Bay City. 
Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Three Y ea rs—James Vernor, Detroit.
Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach. Ann Arbor. 
Five Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.

Michigan  Stale  Pharmaceutical  Association.

OFFICERS.

Grand Kapids. 

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

.

Tuesday, October 12, 1886.

Grand Rapids Pharm aceutical Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9,1884.

OFFICERS.

_ 

_  

. . .
_

President^Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. 
Board  of  Censors-President,  Vice-President 
and Secretary. 
, 
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
Wm.L. White. 
_
Committee on Pharmacy—M. B.  Kimm,  H.  E. 
Locher and Wm. E. White.
Committee on Trade  Matters—John  E.  Peck, 
H. B. Fairchild and Wm. H. Van Leeu-mn.
Committee  on  Legislation—Jas.  D.  Lacey, 
Isaac Watts and A. C.  Bauer.
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening m 
each month.
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
November.
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening.  May 6,  at 
“The Tradesman” office.

„   _ 

D etroit Pharm aceutical Society.

Organized, October, 1883.

President—Wm. Dupont.
First Vice-Pre6ident>-Frank Inglis.
Second Vice President—J. W. Caldwell. 
Secretary and Treasurer—F. W. R. Perry. 
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—A. B. Balt-
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June. 
Regular  Meetings—First  Wednesday  in each 

month.

Jackson County Pharm aceutical Asso­

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

and C. H. Haskins. 

,  „  

,

.

month.

Saginaw  County  Pharm aceutical  So­

ciety.

President—Jay Smith.
First Vice-President—WT. H. Farwell.
Second Vice-President—R. Bruske. 
Secretary—D. E. Prall.
Treasurer—H. Melchers. 
n
Committee on  Trade  Matters—W. B. Moore, 
H.  G.  Hamilton,  H.  Melchers,  Wr.  K.  Keeler 
and R. J. Birney.
Regular Meeting—Second  Wednesday after­
noon of each month.
Muskegon  D rug  Clerks’  Association.

OFFICERS.
President—John K. Meyers.
Secretary and Treasurer—O. A. Lloyd.
Regular Meetings—Second and fourth Wednes­
Next Meeting—Wednesday evening,  April  28.

day of each month. 

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The Adulteration of  Menthol.

From the American Analyst.

A fashionable remedy  to-day  is menthol. 
It is made from the leaves,  stalks  and blos­
soms of the mint family;  that is,  it  used to 
be; but the chemist  lias  laid  violent  hands 
upon  the  flowery kingdom  and  the  retort 
has begun to usurp the place of the flowers. 
To-day,  a considerable  portion of  the men­
thol consumed is  artificial  and not natural. 
Some  is  still  obtained  direct  from  the 
plants;  but  more  comes  through  a  new 
chemical  process  whicli  seems  to  utilize 
every menthylic molecule contained in  veg­
etable tissue.

The virtues of menthol were discovered at 
a very early  date.  The “medicinal  extract 
of mint  and  peppermint”  is  referred  to in 
the oldest Chinese chronicles  as a simple of 
great merit. 
It has been  used  by the Mon­
golian race and its neighbors from that time 
to the present date. 
In  every  Chinese gro­
cery,  the  world over,  it is  sold  in  delicate 
vials  to  Orientals  and  outside  barbarians 
alike. 
It is  no  stranger  to  our  ow n race. 
In the  culiuary sphere  it  appears  in  lamb 
and  mint sauce; it is the  housewife’s medi­
cine,  it is the  basis  of  “peppermint  sass,” 
pennyroyal tea and  hot  catnip. 
In confec­
tionery it  is popular  with  little folks,  who 
invest  their  spare  pennies  in  peppermint 
drops and  peppermint  cream. 
It  is found 
in  mint,  spearmint,  peppermint,  catnip, 
pennyroyal, and their many cousins.

Chemically,  it  seems  to  belong  to  that 
group of hydrocarbon radicals of which thy­
mol,  toluol,  and  their  analogues are mem­
bers. 
In  physical  characteristics  it  is  a 
white,  crystalline  solid,  with  a  strong but 
pleasant odor of  peppermint. 
It melts at a 
low  temperature  and  evaporates  with  an 
increase of heat. 
It possesses  strong  anti­
septic  and  disinfectant  powers,  and  it  is 
very poisonous  to  many of  the  lower and 
smaller forms of animal life.

Menthol,  in its action  on  the human sys­
tem,  is  a  sedative,  a  nervine  and  a  mild 
counter-irritant. 
It fs'used to advantage in 
in  cases  of  headache,  neuralgia,  rheuma­
tism,  toothache,  otitis,  sprains and local  in­
flammation.

It  possesses  apparantly  no 

injurious 
power upon human beings.  Thus  far there 
are no instances  recorded  in  which  its ex­
cessive use has been  attended with  bad re­
sults.  On the other hand,  all  observers are 
familiar  with  the  excessive  indulgence  in 
strong  peppermint  candy by  children  and 
even  adults, an  indulgence  that  seems at­
tended with less physiologic detriment than 
in any other form of confectionery.

Menthol occurs in the market in the form 
of a cone or a  pencil. 
It  is known  by the 
general terms of menthol, mentholette, men- 
tholine,  mentholia,  mentholic,  etc.  This

cone should  consist  of  pure  menthol  and 
should  be  snow  white.  Slight  irregulari­
ties in manufacture result,  at  times,  in pro­
ducing other tints and colors without chang­
ing  the  purity of  the  pencil, and  at other 
times in chemical impurities  without affect­
ing the natural hue.  Grosser  irregularities 
produce both discoloration  and  impurities.
The large demand for the new remedy, in 
both  the  United  States  and  Europe,  has 
drawn many chemists into the  manufacture 
of  cones.  An 
incomplete  enumeration 
shows thirty-two American and fifty Trans­
atlantic firms so engaged.  So many, in fact, 
have entered the  business  that  the  supply 
now exceeds the demand.  Competition has 
brought the price to the  lowest  figures con­
sistent  with  profit.  As  a  result,  many 
small houses  have  yielded  to  temptation, 
and  resort  to  adulteration  to  make  their 
goods remunerative.

The attention of  the  Analyst wras called 
to the subject  by receiving  for examination 
a “menthol cone,”  which we found  to con­
sist of wax,  sugar  and a  trace of  menthol. 
We purchased  forty samples  from  various 
drug stores and analyzed them with the fol­
lowing results:

Fourteen  were pure,  well made and snow 

white.

Eight were pure,  but  discolored,  the  dis­

coloration being chiefly brown.

Sixteen  were  adulterated,  or  adulterated 
and  discolored.  The  adulterants  included 
wax, tallow,  paraffine,  salicin,  sugar, suet, 
grape sugar,  starch  and stearine.  The pro­
portion of  adulteration  varied  from five to 
eighty per cent.

One contained two  per cent,  of  menthol 
and ninety-eight  per  cent,  of  foreign  and 
worthless materials.

One contained almost a hundred per cent, 
of foreign  materials  and  a  slight  trace or 
perfume of menthol.

Charles L.  Coffin, of Detroit, has conduct­
ed a similar  series  of  experiments,  where 
results were even less  favorable  than ours. 
He  reports  that of  twenty-two  specimens 
analyzed by him,  he found

5 to be pure and white;  1  to be  pure,  but 
brown; 3 to  contain  5  per  cent,  adultera­
tions: 3  to  contain  10  per  cent,  adultera­
tions; 7 to contain 20 per cent, adulterations; 
2 to contain 75 per  cent,  adulterations; 1 to 
be all  adulteration.  He  concludes  his  re­
port by saying:  “The average of  adultera­
tion is 20 per cent., with the exception of  a 
cone made in Baltimore,  which  is the worst 
adulterated in  the market, and a cone made 
at New York containing no menthol.”

Similar reports were  received  from  Pro­
fessors  Austin  and  Brown,  and  from  Dr. 
Atkins.  The adulterations reported by these 
different experts coincide  with  those found 
by the Analyst.  None of  these  are  injur­
ious  either  chemically  or  medically, when 
applied  externally.  Taken  internally,  the 
salicin, which  occurs  the  most  frequently 
among the various adulterants,  is  decidedly 
detrimental.  Chemically,  its  action  is  de­
leterious; while, physically,  it acts as an ob­
jectionable mechanical irritant.

The Spirits of Turpentine Market.

For some time past the market for spirits 
of  turpentine  has  been  gradually  growing 
weaker,  and it now seems probable that the 
day of  high  prices  is past, though it is ex­
pected that the decline will be gradual until 
the  middle  or  end  of  next  month,  when 
summer prices  will be  reached.  The  new 
crop is  beginning to come  in  more  freely, 
Savanah,  at present,  being the  principal re­
ceiving point, from  which  the  majority of 
supplies are being  drawn by the  other mar­
kets.  The position of the market  has been 
up to the present  time  somewhat  peculiar. 
Over-exporting  placed  London  in  posses­
sion of the bulk  of  the world’s  supply, but 
the near approach of  the  new  crop season 
robbed this unusual  circumstance  of  much 
of its importance and  leaves London with a 
much larger  supply than she  has  any  use 
for, and will no doubt have considerable ef­
fect upon the immediate  future of  the arti­
cle.  The  shipments to  the  other side at a 
time when the New York market was badly 
supplied .gave  rise  to  the  unusual  circum­
stances of the  importation from England of 
five hundred barrels two weeks  ago and the 
receipt of this  invoice  here  was  no  doubt 
one of the chief causes of  the  decline, or at 
least precipitated  it,  though  the  simultan­
eous arrival of  several  Georgetown  vessels 
was  probably the  chief  factor  in  bringing 
about the downward movement.

The outlook conveys  the  impression that 
after the middle  of  May  prices  will  settle 
down  to  the  neighborhood  of thirty-cents 
in 
the  Southern  markets,  sales  having 
been made  there  during  the  past  week at 
that figure,  against  thirty-three  cents  last 
year for  deliveries  during  June,  July and 
August,  while for New  York about  thirty- 
five to thirty-six cents are indicated, that be­
ing the basis of sales for the summer months 
made this week. 
It is too  early  yet to ex­
press an opinion regarding the extent of the 
crop, but  the  present  indications  are  that 
there will be plenty of spirits of  turpentine 
this season.

The Drug Market.

Opium and quinine are  steady.  Chlorate 
of  potash  is  advancing.  Carbonate  am­
monia, linseed oil and oil sassafras have de­
clined.  Cubeb berries have advanced.  Ger­
man  chamomile flowers continue scarce and 
likely to go higher.  The  stock of  oil anise 
has been concentrated in New York and the 
price is likely to go higher.

The Saginaw  County Pharmaceutical  So­
ciety  has  effected  an  agreement  with  the 
East Saginaw druggists  whereby the  latter 
elose  their  stores  at  9:30  p. in.,  Saturdays 
excepted.

Muskegon Drug  Clerks’ Association.
Muskegon,  April 23,  1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

Deak  Sih—The  M.  D.  C.  A. held  their 
regular  meeting  on  the  14th, all the mem­
bers being present except four.  Wm.  Welsh 
was admitted to  membership.  The subject 
of “Mercury” was continued from last meet­
ing and further discussed.  Mr.  Glover is to 
read a paper on the subject of “Belladonna” 
at the  next  meeting.  Mr.  Miller  and Mr. 
LeFevre were  appointed  to  prepare papers 
on “Acids”  and  “Alkaloids,”  respectively, 
the same  to  be  in  readiness  to be  read in 
four weeks from date of last meeting.  The 
regular semi-annual election of officers takes 
place at the next  meeting  and a full atten­
dance in requested.  The  meeting  falls on 
Wednesday April 28. 

0. A. Lloyd,

Secretary.

A Sure Cure.

From Puck.

“Are you the  proprietor  of  Dr.  Coffin’s 

celebrated consumption  cure?”
“Yes,  sir—the present one.”
“Then  your  name,  I  presume,  is Doctor 

Coffin?”

“No!  I  succeeded  him.  Dr.  Coffiin  is 
dead.  He died last fall of an incurable mal­
ady.”

“Ah!  I hadn’t  heard  of  it.  May I ask 

what he died of?”

“Haven’t heard?  He  died  of  consump­

tion.”

A Logical Sequence.

First peddler—What are you carrying? 
Second peddler—Patent medicine.
F. P.—Well, all right; you  go  ahead and 

work up the business,  and I’ll follow.”
S.  P.—Why?  what are you carrying?
F. P.—Gravestones.

At the recent meeting  of  the  Wisconsin 
Board of Pharmacy 58 per cent, of  the can­
didates were granted certificates.

“Fermentum”  the  only  Reliable  Com­

pressed Yeast.  See advertisement.

TH E   OLD  RELIA B LE

Perry  M is  Pain  Killer,

Established 1840.

All D ruggists Should Keep It.

PRICES  TO  THE  TRADE:

Small Size..................................   25 
Medium Size.............................   50 
.................  ........ 1 00 
Large size..
Killer.  Get the Genuine.

Beware of Imitations.  There is but One Pain 

Per Bottle.  PerDoz.
1 80
3 60
7 20

J.  N.  H arris  & Co., Ltd., Cincinnati, O.

Proprietors for the Southern and Western States. 

For Sale by all Medicine Dealers.

Allen’s Lung Balsam

The Great Remedy for Curing

CONSUMPTION,

Coughs, Colds, Croup,

And  Other  Throat  and  Lung  Affections.
ttTWe  eall  your  attention  to  the  fact that the  old 
Standard  Remedy,  ALLEN'S  LUNG  BALSAM,  is  now 
put up in three sizes—25 cents, 50 cents and SI per bottle.
Small............................................. $1 75 per dozen
Medium........................................   3 50 
Large  ..........................................   7  00 
J.  N.  H arris & Co., Ltd., Cincinnati, O.

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O u s l i m a n ’s

MENTHOL INHALER

A superior Remedy for the immediate relief 
of Neuralgia,  Headache, Cararrh, Hay Fever, 
Asthma,  Bronchitus,  Sore  Throat,  Earache, 
Toothache,  and  all diseases of the throat  and 
lungs.
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., j 
Jas. E. Davis & Co.,
John J. Dodds & Co.,
T. H. Hinchman & Co.,  J 
time he calls.

Ask their traveler to show you one the next 

Detroit,  Mich.

Mills &  Goodman, Props.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

1 

eral discount.  Good reason for selling.  Good 

YTI7 ANTED—Situations by registered pharm- 
t V  acists and assistants.  Also situation by 
young man of some experience but  not  regis­
tered.  Will work for very  small  salary.  Can 
furnish good references.

chance for physician.

in northern town.  Can be bought  at  lib­

Grand  Rapids.  General  stock  of  about 
$15,000.  Would prefer to sell whole stock,  but 
will sell any section separate.

portion of  State.  Surrounded  by  finest 
farm lands in Michigan.  Doing a  business  of 
$1,500 per annum.  Rare chance.

in southwestern portion of State.  Must be 
sold on account of other business; terms very 
easy.

■OR  SALE—Fine stock of $5,090 in southern 
I ¡'OR  SALE—Neat  and  clean  stock of $1,500 
Ir'OR  SALE—Desirable stock of  about  $1,200 
f 'Olt  SALE—The  finest  business  north of 
I ¡'OR SALE—Stock of $3,000 in growing town 
I ¡'OR SALE—Small stock and fixtures of about 
Ir'OR SALE—Very desirable  stock  of  $6,000, 
ALSO many other stocks, the  particulars of 

’  on the lake shore in midst of peach region. 
Will sell only with residence.  Doing  business 
of $10,000 per annum.

1  well located  in  Grand  Rapids.  Will sell 
whale stock on very easy terms, or  half inter- 
est/for cash.

'  $350 now boxed and stored in Grand Rap­

which we will furnish free on application.

ids.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanoed—Cubeb berries.
Declined—Linseed oil;  ammonia,carbonate; 

oil sassafras.

ACIDS.

Acetic, No.  8.................................... 
9  @  10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........  30  ©  35
Carbolic............................................  34  @  36
Citric.................................................  70  @  75
Muriatic 18 deg............................... 
3  @  6
11  @  12
Nitric 36 deg.................................... 
Oxalic...............................................   10  @  12
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................  
3  ©  4
Tartaric  powdered........................   50  ©  53
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz 
18
Benzole,  German............................  12  ©  15
Tannic..............................................   12  @  15

AMMONIA.

Carbonate................................ lb  12  @  14
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
A qua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
Aqua 18 deg or 4f........................... 

14
3  ©  5
4  ©  6

BALSAMS.

Copaiba............................................ 
Fir...................................................... 
Peru..................................................  
Tolu................................................... 

BARKS.

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

BERRIES,

.  38@42
40
1 75
45

11
18
13
14
15
10
12
20
18
30
12

Cubeb  prime (Powd 1  10c)............ 
@1  10
6  ©  7
Juniper............................................. 
Prickly Ash......................................  50  ©  60

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft dox 68). 
Logwood, Is (25 ft boxes)............... 
Lgowood, %s 
do 
............... 
Logwood, 14s 
do 
............... 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLOWERS.

27
37%
9
12
13
15
14

Arnica...............................................   13  ©  15
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
25
Chamomile,  German.....................  
30

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)__ *........... 
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
Ammoniac.......................................  
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
Arabic, 1st  picked..........................  
Arabic^d  picked............................ 
Arabic,  3d picked............................ 
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
Assafuentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
Camphor..........................................  
Catechu, is (% 14c, 14s 16c)............ 
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Galbanum strained......................... 
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, 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.............................. 
Tragacanth.................... 

 

 

60©  75
12
50
28©  30
90
90
80
75
55
20
55@60
25©  27
13
35©  40
80
80©  90
35
20
1  25
40
3  30
30
28
24
30
30  @1  00

HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES.

Hoarhound...................................................... 25
Lobelia.............................................................. 25
Peppermint...................................................... 25
Rue.....................................................................40
Spearmint............................................... 
  24
Sweet Majoram...........................  
35
 
Tanzy................................................................ 25
Thym e...............................................................30
Wormwood...................................................... 25

IRON.

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

LEAVES.

4 00
20
7
65

Buehu, short (Powd 25c)................   13  ©  14
6
Sage, Italian, bulk (%s&%8,12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   33  ©  35
50
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................ 
25
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
25
Uva  Ursi........................................... 
10
Bettedonna.......................................  
35
30
Foxglove........................................... 
Henbane........................................... 
35
Rose, red........................................... 
2 35

LIQUORS.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  ©2 50
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...............1 75  @2 00
Whisky, other brands....................1  10  ©1 50
Gin, Old Tom....................................1 35  ©1 75
Gin,  Holland 
............................2 00  ©3 50
Brandy...............................................1 75  ©6 50
Catawba  Wines................................ 1 25  ©2 00
Port Wines....................................... 1 35  ©2 50

 

MAGNESIA.

50

65

76

50
 

do 
do 

22
37
2 25

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz...........  
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............  
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution.... 
Calcined............................... 
OILS.
Almond, sweet.................................  45  ©  50
Amber, rectified.............................. 
45
1  80
Anise................................................. 
Bay f)  oz.............................  
Bergamont.......................................  
3 00
Castor...............................................   1 44©1 65
Croton...............................................  
1  75
Cajeput............................................  
75
Cassia...............................................  
85
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
35
Citronella............................ 
Cloves...............................................  
1  40
Cod Liver, N.F-.... 
.........$  gal 
1 20
Cod Liver, best......................... 
1  50
6 00
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Cubebs, P. &  W............................... 
8 50
1 60
Erigeron........................................... 
2  00
Fireweed........................................... 
75
Geranium  $   oz...............................  
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75o).. 
35
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries............................... 
2 00
2 01
Lavender flowers, French.............  
Lavender garden 
1  00
.............  
90
Lavender spike 
.............  
3 00
Lemon, new crop............................ 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s....................... 
2  75
Lemongrass...................................... 
80
Olive, Malaga...................  
©  90
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  . 
.... 
2 75
1 25
Origanum, red  flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1................ 
1  30
Pennyroyal........................... 
 
Peppermint,  white.........................  4 00©4 25
8 00
Roeu $   oz......................................... 
Rospnary, French  (Flowers $1 50) 
65
Sal®, $  gal.....................................  
2 75
Savjn................................................. 
1 00
4 50
Sandal  Wood. German.................. 
7 00
Sandal Wood, W. 1..........................  
Sassafras........................................... 
45
Spearmint....................................... 
©9 00
Tansy................... 
4 00  ©4 25
Tar (by gal 50c)   ............................  10  ©  12  *
2 25
Wintergreen................................. 
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00)....... 
3 50
Wormseed.......................................  
2 00
Bicromate................................ ft 
37©40
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
22
3 00
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
28
Prussiate yellow.............................. 
ROOTS.
Alkanet................................ 
20
 
25
Althea, cut.......................................  
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................  
17
33
Arrow, Taylor’s, in %s and %s.... 
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
20
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
35
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
20
10
Gentian (Powd  15c)......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)...........  11  ©  12
17
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
20
Golden Seal (Powd 25c).................. 
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
20
1  20
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
Jalap,  powdered............................. 
30
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............  
18
Licorice, extra select.....................  
20
Pink, true......................................... 
85
Rhei, from select to  choice...........1 00  ©1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1..........................1 10  ©1 20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes.................. 
2 00
2 25
Rhei, choice out fingers............. 
Serpentarla...................................... 
65
Seneka.............................................. 
60
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras................. 
40
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican.................... 
20

POTASSIUM.

12® 14

 

 

 

 

 

2

©

do 

6© 

SEEDS.

do 
do 

SPONGES.

MISCELLANEOUS.

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ... 
do 

Squills, white (Powd 35c)............... 
15
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)........  
25
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)... 
20
Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............... 
15
Bird, mixed in ft  packages.......... 
5  ©  6
Canary,  Smyrna.............................  
4  © 
ty
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  30c). 
15  ©  18
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................... 
1  10
Cardamon, Malabar........................  
1  25
Celery................................................ 
15
Coriander, Dest English................  
10
Fennel.................... 
15
Flax, clean............. 1.......................  
3%@
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3)4).................. 
4  © 
iy
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
7  ©  8
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
4%@  by
Mustard, white  Black 10c)............ 
10
Quince.............................................. 
75
Rape, English..................................  
6  @  7
Worm,  Levant................................. 
14
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage...... 2 25  @2 50
2 00
........ 
Nassau 
do 
do 
1  10
. . . .  
Velvet Extra do 
do 
85
ExtraYellow do 
........ 
do 
Grass 
do 
do 
........ 
66
Hard head, for slate use................  
75
Yellow Reef, 
................. 
1  40
2 30
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21) #  gat.... 
1 60
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s....................... 
50
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
12
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................ 
45
Alum ..;....................................  ¡jp»  2%@  3b
3  ©  4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto, prime............................... 
45
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........  
4%@  5
6  ©  7
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Blue  Soluble.................................... 
50
Bay  Rum, imported, best............. 
2 75
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
2 00
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................  
40
Beans,  Tonka..............................  
3 00
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00  @9 75
2 30
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................  
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)....................... 
50
Blue V itriol.................................... 
7
Borax, refined (Powd  11c).............  
9@10
Cantharides.Russian  powdered.. 
2 25
Capsicum  Pods. African............... 
18
22
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
14
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ... 
Carmine, No. 40............................... 
4 00
Cassia Buds...................................... 
14
Calomel, American......................... 
75
Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
5
Chalk, precipitate English...........  
12
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................  
8
Chalk, white lump..........................  
3
Chloroform,  Squlbb’s.................... 
1 25
60
Colocynth  apples............................ 
1 50
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
178
cryst... 
Chloral 
1 HO
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts.. 
1 75
Chloroform...................................... 
©  47
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ ..............  18  ©  23
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   13  ©  18
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................  18  ®  20
Cochineal......................................... 
40
Cocoa  Butter........ ...............  
 
40
Copperas (by bbl  lc)....................... 
2
Corrosi ve Sublimate....................... 
70
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered....... 
©  40
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
Creasote.......;...................................  
50
Cudbear,  prime...............................  
24
20
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
Dextrine........................................... 
12
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
l  10
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................  
50
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
65
Ether Squibb’s ................................. 
1  m
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............
Epsom Salts (bbl. 1%).....................  
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine, Cooper’s..........................
Gelatine, French  ...............  ..........  45  _
©
Glassware, flint, 70 & 10, by box 60 & 10 less
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..................................   13  ©
Glue, white.......................................   16  ©
Glycerine, pure...............................  16  ©
Hops  %s and 14s.............................. 
25©
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo...............................................   85
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35 
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co., boxes
Iodine,  resublimed........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica..........................................
London  Purple...............................  10
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (%s 2s 10c & 14s 11c)
Lupulino........................................... 
Lycopodium....................................
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
Manna, S.  F ....................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz  2 35@2
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........
Moss, Iceland............................ib
Moss,  Irish.....................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, %d...............
Paris Green....................................... 
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................  
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia  ............................................ 
6  ©
Quinia. Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz  80  ©
Quinine,  German............................ 
70©
Red  Precipitate.......................$} ft
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst............................... 
Silver Nitrate, cryst.........................  74
Saffron, American.  .......................
Sal  Glauber.....................................
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst...............
Sal Rochelle.....................................
Sal  Soda............................................
Salicin...............................................
Santonin..........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]......................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__
Soap, White Castile........................
Soap, Green  do 
........................
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  do 
........................
Soap,  Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin..............
Turpentine,  Venice................$  ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........

d52
10
9
33
2  © 2%2 15
6 50
35
4
48
4%@ 5
14
17
9
11
14
26  © 28
30  @ 32
(W
4
3%@
3© 3%
602 70
1 40 
85
35
7  © 8
Bbl
Gal
75
..  70
..  55
60
55
..  45
..  41
45
48
..  44
90
..  70
..  47
52
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach................................... 1  10® 1 20
Extra  Turp..............................  
1  60@1 70
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 Turp.
PAINTS
Red Venetian.......................
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles... 
Ochre,yellow  Bermuda....
Putty, commercial................
Putty, strictly pure................
Vermilion, prime American.
Vermilion, English.............
Green, Peninsular...............
Lead, red strictly pure.......  .
Lead, white, strictly pure.... 
Whiting, white Spanish.
Whiting,  Gilders*...........
White, Paris American..........
Whiting  Paris English oliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  Taints —  
Swiss Villa Prepare»'  Paints.

Lb 
2© 3 
2© 3 
2© 3 
2%@ 3 
21£® 3 
13@16 
58©60 
16@17 
7© 7% 
7© 7% 
@70 
@90 
1  10 
1 40 
1 20® l 40 
1 00® 1 20

17 
28 
20 
40 
40
@1  no
©  40
©1  00 
4 00
1 50 
©  15

Whale, winter. 
Lard, extra....

1
©
©

12%@

do 
do 

OILS.

17 ©

70©

1 

1

2

OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

LUBRICATING.

Water White....................................................11%
Michigan  Test.................................................10%
Capitol Cylinder..............................................36%
Model  Cylinder................................................31%
Shield  Cylinder................................................26%
Eldorado  Engine............................................24%
Peerless  Machinery.......................................22%
Challenge Machinery..................................... 20%
Paraffine  .......  
20%
Black. Summer, West Virginia...................10
Blaok, 25° to 30°.............................................11
Black, 15® C,  T................................................11%
Zero.................................................................. 13

 

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

42 and 44  Ottawa Street and 89, gi,

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

E lept  Pharmaceutical  Prepara­

tions,  Fluid  Extracts  and 

Elixirs

GENERAL  W HOLESALE  AGNTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

W hiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Horse Brushes.

WE  ARE  SOLE  OWNERS  OF

Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Care

Which is positively the best Remedy 

of the kind on the market.

W e  desire  particular  attention  of those 
about purchasing outfits for new  stores  to 
the fact of our  UNSURPASSED  FACIL­
ITIES 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.

We 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.  W e CONTROL and are the ONLY 
AUTHORIZED  AGENTS for the  sale  of 
the celebrated

WITHERS DADE&G0.’S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour  Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

W H I S K Y S .
W e not only 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

J

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 asPatent  Medicines,

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

Mail  orders  always  receive  our special 

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drug Co.

A. MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E .  A .  STO W E  &  B B O ., P ro p rieto rs.

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

Telephone No. 95,

[Entered,  at the  Postofflce  at Grand Rapid#  as 

Second-claims Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY, APRIL  28,1886.

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

L IB E L — LIABILITY  OP  N EW SPAPER  V E N ­

DOR.

According  to  a  late  decision  of 

the 
English  Court  of  Appeal  the  vendor  of a 
newspaper,  in  the  ordinary  course  of  his 
business,  though  ptima  facie  liable  for a 
libel contained in it,  is  not  liable  if he can 
prove that he did not  know  that it contain­
ed a libel;  that  his  ignorance  was  not due 
to any negligence  on  his  part,  and  that he 
did not know  and  had  no  ground for sup­
posing  that  the  newspaper  was  likely to 
contain libelous matter.

PA TEN T— COMPENSATION  FOR  USE.

Where the owner of  a patented invention 
was a director and officer  of a  corporation, 
and the latter  appropriated  and  used sucli 
invention with his consent and acquiesence, 
the Supreme Court  of  Minnesota  held that 
the  owner  was  not  necessarily  precluded 
from  receiving  a  reasonable  compensation 
therefor by reason of his  relationship to the 
company; but  that  such  relationship,  with 
other  circumstances,  was  for  the  jury  to 
consider in determining whether the license 
to use  the  patent’ would  be  implied  to be 
used for or without compensation.  >

INSURANCE  POLICY— ALTERATION  AT  RE­

QUEST  OF  HOLDER.

A policy of insurance  on  a  boat  was is­
sued to the agent of  the  mortgagees of  the 
boat on account of one Martin and others as 
owners.  Subsequently,  at  the  solicitation 
of  another  agent  of  the  mortgagees,  the 
names of Martin and the others were erased, 
and that of one Garvey  inserted  as  owner. 
The New York Court  of  Appeals held that 
such alteration was not a tortious act on the 
part of the insurance company, and did  not 
constitute a  conversion  of  the  policy, and 
that the plaintiff suffered  no  damage  from 
the act complained  of.

SURETYSHIP— AUGMENTATION  OF  RISK.
A bond was given  to  the  exchange bank 
-of Canada for the  faithful  performance  of 
one Craig of his duties “as  an  employee of 
the bank.”  The bond was  given on the oc­
casion of  the  appointment of Craig as cash­
ier,  hut the particular nature of the employ­
ment was not mentioned jn the bond.  Sub­
sequently Craig was made successively man­
aging director and president,  and finally be­
came a defaulter.  The defalcation occurred 
after Craig’s  promotion. 
It  appeared  that 
a,s president lie had absolute control  of  the 
cash and hooks.  The bank  sued the surety 
on  the  bond;  he  defended  on  the  ground 
that  the  risk  had  been  augmented.  The 
Superior Court  of the  Province of  Quebec, 
sitting at Montreal,  held, Exchange bank of 
Canada  vs. Gault,  that  the  risk  had  been 
augmented,  and the bond invalidated.

WORK  DONE  IN.  BUILDING   DESTROYED  BY 

FIRE.

A firm of builders made contract to furnish 
and put in a building by a  certain  date cer­
tain fixtures.  Some  alterations  were made 
in the work by agreement after the contract 
was entered into.  After the date agreed on, 
but before the completion of  the  work, the 
building was accidentally destroyed  by fire. 
The Supreme Court of Missouri held that the 
contractors were entitled to recover for work 
done and  materials in  the  building at  the 
time of the fire.  The  court said:  “In  the 
case at bar the  fixtures  were,  it  is true,  to 
be put in place and completed  to  the satis­
faction of the  building  committee,  and  to 
be paid for  only  when completed;  but  the 
contract is based on the assumption that the 
employer would have the edifice erected and 
ready to receive the work.  All  this  was a 
condition precedent  to  the  performance of 
the  contract  by  the  contractor.  The  im­
plied contract on the part  of  the  employer 
was to  have and kefip the building ready to 
receive the fixtures  and  keep them  therein 
for sucli length of time as would reasonably 
toe  required  to  put  them  in  place.  The 
agreement to do  this  is  as  much a  part of 
the contract as if expressed therein in terms.

A  Michigan  Dairy  Board  of  Trade. 
Elgin Correspondence Hoard’s Dairyman.

famine little time ago  Secretary McGlincy, 
of the Elgin Board of  Trade,  received a let­
ter from a gentleman at Hudson, Wis.,  ask­
ing  what  steps  it  would  be  necessary  to 
take in order  to  organize a Board of Trade 
at that place for  the sale of  dairy and farm 
products.  He  also  received a letter  lately 
from Grand Rapids,  Mich.,  in regard to the 
organization of a  Dairy  Board  in the Wol­
verine State.  The Secretary replied, giving 
the  desired  information,  and  it  is not un­
likely that  both  points will  have a Board. 
Certainly Michigan should  have one,  as the 
production of  dairy  goods  in  that State is 
sufficiently  large to warrant a Board. 
It is 
the only true way to sell dairy products, and 
from the fact that all the Boards so far estab­
lished have  been  successful,  it would seem 
that there should  be  no  question about the 
advisability of selling in  this way.

^OWWTER^FgEEP/?nij

D I R E C T I O N S  

CHILLICOTHE  ILI.

We have cooked the corn in thia can 
sufficiently.  Should  be  Thoroughly, 
Warmed (not cooked) adding  piece ot 
Good Butter (size ofnen'segg) aud gill 
of fresh  milk  (preferable  to  water.) 
Season to suit when on the table. None 
genuine unless bearing the signature of

F. J. DETTENTHA1EK,

Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper w ith 

signature and stam p on each can.

OYSTERS & FISH,

JOBBER  OF

ABSOLUTE
SPICES. 
Warranted to  be Pure Goods,
TELFER  &  BROOKS
¥ M . SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids.

M anufactured  Only  by

B U T T E R  -A J S T ID   EGK3-S,

CONSIGNMENTS  SOLICITED,

117 MONROE ST., 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH, 

j

A gents  fo r

-AJ^BOYT  C H EESE.

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

JENNINGS’

Flavoring Extracts!
JBNNINGrS  &  SMITH,

MANUFACTURED  BY

Props.  Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

G R A N D   R A P ID S , 

- 

M ICH .

L. S. Hill & Co.
FishingTackle

A Specialty a t

Wholesale and Retail.

Dealers are  invited  to  send  for  our 
new Illustrated Catalogue for th e trade 
only.

Don’t  purchase your Spring Stock of 
Tackle  until  you  have  received  our 
prices, as we have m any new and desir­
able goods, w ith  prices  guaranteed  as 
low as th e lowest, on Rods, Reels, Lines 
and Leaders, Snelled Hooks and Hooks 
of  every  variety,  all  sizes  of  French 
Trout Baskets w ith capacity 6 to 25 lbs., 
new  Cane  Poles, Artificial  Baits, etc., 
and a general  line  of  Sporting  Goods.

Xi. S. XXXXiX.  <&  CO.

21 Pearl Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Golden  Seal  Bitters  is  meeting with grand 
success wherever used.  It is an article of great 
merit.  Every  family  should  have  it  in  the 
house.  It is the coming family medicine.

TIME TABLES.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  DIVISION.)

Arrive.

Leave. 

. 

N. Y.  N. Y.
Ex. and  N. Y. 
Mail.  Ex.
Mail.  Mail. 
a. m.  p. m.
p. m.  a. m. 
4:40  7:50Dp..Grand Rapids...Ar 9:50  7:15
9:07..... Allegan....................   8:32  5:58
5:58 
10:05..... Kalamazoo...............   7:30  5:00
6:55 
11:40..... White Pigeon...........  5:50  3:30
9:50 
a. m.  p. m. 
p. m.  a. m.
5:10..... Toledo........................11:15 10:40
4:15 
8:20 
9:30..... Cleveland.................  6:40  6:30
p. m.  a. m. 
a. m.  p. m.
2:40 
3:30..... Buffalo  ................... 11:55  11:55
a. m.
a. m.  p. m. 
p. m. 
5:40  8:00........Chicago............ Lv  11 30 
8:50
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at 1 p. m., 
carrying passengers as far as Allegan.
All trains daily except Sunday.

J. W. McK enney, General Agent.

Chioago & West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail.........................................9:00 am   4:30 pm
♦Day Express..................... 12:35 p m  9:25 p m
♦Night  Express............ ,....10:40pm  5:45am
Muskegon Express..............  4:20 pm   11:20 am
♦Daily.  +Daily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge to Chicago  on 
1:0Q p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.  m. and 
10:40 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

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

J. H. Ca r pen t er,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  Mu ll ik en,  General  Manager.

Detroit, Maekinao  & Marquette.

Going West. 
Going East.
7:30pm............Houghton..........  
... 8:30am
3:00pm ,D.......Marquette  ............ A,  1:00pm
2:05 pm, A .......Marquette............. D,  1:40 pm
10:40 a m ...........Seney...................................   4:50 pm
7:45 a m ...........St.  Ignace...........................   8:15 pm
6:15 a m ...........Mackinaw  City...........   9:30 pm
5:00 p m ...........Grand  Rapids..............10:30 am
Express trains Nos. 1 and 2 make  close con­
nections at Mackinac City with Michigan  Cen­
tral and G. R. & 1. R. R.
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. WATwON,
E. W. ALLEN,

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

Arrives. 

Leaves.
tSteamboat  Express.......... 
6:25 am
■♦Through  Mail....................10:40 a m  10:50 a m
■♦Evening  Express............. 3:40 p m 
3:50 p m
♦Limited  Express...............  8:30 pm   10:45 pm
■♦Mixed, with  coach...........  
ll :00 a m

GOING WEST.

♦Morning  Express.............  1:05pm  1:10pm
♦Through  Mall..................  5:00 pm  5:10 pm
♦Steamboat Express..........10:40 p m
♦Mixed..................................  
7:10 am
♦NightExpress....................  5:10 am   5:35 am
♦Daily, Sundays excepted.  ♦Daily. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
The  Night  Express  has  a  through  Wagner 
Car and  local  Sleeping  Car Detroit  to Grand 
Rapids.

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

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

Arrives.  Leaves
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 a m  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
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  5:05 pm   5:30 pm 
Mackinac & Ft. Ways e Ex.. 10:30 am   11:45 am  
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac. 10:30 p m 

GOING  SOUTH.

All trains daily except Sunday.

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS. 

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.
8outh—Train leaving at 5:30 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Michigan  Oentral.

♦Detroit Express.......................................6:00 am
♦Day Express...........................................12:45 p m
♦Atlantic Express....................................10:40 p m
♦WayFreight...........................................  6:50 am

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

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

♦Daily except Sunday.  *Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reachingthat city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. in.,and  Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaveB Detroit at 4 p. m. dally except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:35 p. in.

Ch a s . H. N o r r is, VBen’l Agent

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WHOLESALE

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In addition to a full line  of staple groceries,  we are the 
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Mail orders  are  especially  solicited, which  invariably 
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was  just discovered  under  the  south-west 
comer of the sawmill.  Great  Scott! ¡where 
Will this thing end?  We shall  all  be mur? 
dered in our beds. 
I must  lock  up and  go 
out to see what is going  on. 
I will try and 
keep  you  posted, but  if  anything  should 
happen to cut  me off  in  my  prime,  I trust 
that you will see  that  my  grave is  kept— 
hello! what is  that—a  big  yelling—I  must 
hurry out.

V ery Latest—Pshaw!  I am disgusted. 
It turns out on investigation that it was on­
ly  a  peach  can  filled  with  axle  grease, 
that old Sim  Brayman,  the  drayman,  kept 
under the mill  to  keep  it  away  from  the 
dogs.  All is quiet as I close my letter. 

Yours Laboriously,

Soliman Snooks,
G.  D.,  P.  M.  and J. P.

P.  S.—Since  writing  the  above  I  learn 
that Mrs.  Snooks—she that was the Widder 
Spriggs,  you  remember—has  writen  you a 
letter and  told  you  about  my  becoming a 
happy father. 

S. S.

WIDOW  NO  LONGER.

Mehitable  Spriggs  Married  to  Soliman— 

Advent of the Baby.

Cant Hook Corners,  April 25. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

Dear Sir—When  you  read  this  I have 
no doubt you will  be  surprised.  Yes,  it is 
me, or, more  properly  speaking,  it  is I. 
I 
thought you and our mauy friends who read 
Tiie Tradesman would like to know w'hat 
became of us.  Of  course  you  know,  Soli­
man and  I  got  married, and  I  made  him 
promise not to  write any  more, as it would 
take  up  too  much  of  his  time;  and,  of 
course,  I  wanted  him  all to  myself,  so  I 
hope you will forgive me.  Soliman is well, 
and  is  hard  at  work  on  a  new  fangled 
almanac,  whereby you  can  tell the  time of 
day,  what to  eat and  how  to  cook  it,  and 
lots of other  tilings. 
I  never  was a  great 
hand  at  astronomy.  We  had  an  election 
here the other day and Soliman  run for jus­
tice  on  the  Prohibition  ticket  and  Bilson 
run  for  justice  on  the  Independent  tick­
et.  Such  goings  on  you  never  saw  in 
all your born days.  First  Bilson  had a lot 
of hand bills printed and said a lot of  ridic­
ulous  things  about  Sol.,  said  he  was  a 
“chicken thief” and  that “the  first writ he 
would have  to  issue  would  be  on  himself 
for arson,  which  act  of felony  Snooks had 
committed by selling  whisky on  Sundays.” 
And then Soliman retaliated  by'saying Bil­
son could not find bondsmen in case  he was 
elected,  because  he  had  borrowed  all  the 
money there was  in  the district.  And  the 
speeches!  Soliman sat  up  all of  one night 
to study up a speech of thanks for his nom­
ination and when the time came all he could 
say  was,  “Fellar  citizens—I—I—I,”  and 
sat down.  And Bilson  got drunk by filling 
bottles of ginger beer  for  his  constituents, 
and came near  poisoning  the  widow Bats- 
woods, by giving  her croton  oil  instead of 
castor oil.

When election  day  came,  Soliman had a 
big wagon  going  up  and  down  the street 
with streamers  on  the  horses  which  said 
(the  streamers,  not  the  horses)  “Vote for 
Snooks,  the Honest Man:” and Bilson had a 
little colored boy going up and down with a 
transparency which  had  on  it “Bilson, the 
People’s Choice.”  Cass Bradford  was here 
and  distributed  samples  of  plug  tobacco 
and Will Drueke was  here  and  distributed 
his samples and—well,  Soliman came home 
ten  o’clock  that  night  in  sections.  First, 
his  hat—then his  coat  and  then  Soliman, 
overcome  by  the  weather—though  Bilson 
said it was Drueke’s samples.  Soliman was 
elected,  of  course,  and  now  let Bilson be­
ware of the strong arm of the law.  I under­
stand  Bilson  is  going  to form  a branch of 
the Knights  of Knife and Fork  here,  an or­
der that upholds the use of the knife instead 
of the fork.

I hope  you  are  soon  coming  down  our 
way, for I’ve  something  to  show  you.  A 
baby—Soli man’s and mine,  of course—boy— 
smartest child  you ever  seen—three weeks 
old—going to name him Soliman Sears Mills 
Snooks. 
I hope  he  will grow  up to be an 
honor to his  parents,  but  I am  afraid  the 
name will be too much for him.
Yours maternally,

Mehitable Snooks, 

(Mehitable Spriggs that was.)

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

The Old Man  Thawed  Out 
Out on Strike.

-All  the  Men

Cant Hook Corners,  April 25. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

Dear Sir—I allow  you will be surprised 
to get a letter once  more  from  this neck o’ 
the woods, being as you  liaint hall  none in 
such a long while.  The fact is,  I have been 
pretty busy with business  and as the world 
in general seemed to be  getting on  in good 
shape without  my help I  thought I  would 
not trouble myself.

I read T h e  T radesman  just  the  same, 
you bet,  and I am glad to see  that the good 
work of organization goes bravely on.  From 
all parts of our  State  the  word  conies, or 
ganize! organize!! for the day of  tribulation 
is upon us, when  the  dead-beat goeth forth 
up and down seeking  whom he may devour 
somebody.  Some  mean  cusses  call  us  a 
“ring,”  and  claim  we  join  hands  to  put 
prices up.  But all such claims are u n fo ld ­
ed and I have not heard of a case where any 
grocer or drug organization  have  taken ad­
vantage  of  the  people  by  putting  prices 
above where they ought to be.  No, we just 
simply  keep  from  cutting  each  other’s 
throats like we used to  by selling goods be 
low cost.  The gentle  public  cannot in rea 
son expect a grocer  to  sell  goods at a loss 
unless it is some such  tiling  as  granulated 
sugar, on  which,  of  course,  a  man  is  ex 
pected to lose from 75 cents to  two  dollar 
a barrel,  and try' and  make  the  loss  up on 
codfish and washboards.

Trade is a  little  off  at  the  Comers just 
now, on account of a parrellizing  strike we 
are having.  We was a gettin on tip top and 
trade was  just a boomin up every day when 
the strike struck us.  Potter’s slab conveyer 
first set the strike  a  goin  by demandiu  an 
advance to 75 cents a day.  The rest of  the 
sawmill men stood by him and when Potter 
refused to grant the advance,  the  whole .en 
tire six men marched out in a body.  Potter 
had to rake  out the  fire  his  own self  and 
lock up the mill.

The strikers marched to the grist mill and 
induced the crew of two to join them.  That 
night a meeting of  the  Millers’ Association 
of Cant Hook Comers  was  held  at  which 
Potter presided and  Joel S.  Pratt,  the other 
bloated capitalist,  was the body of the meet­
ing.  After  discussin  the  situation  from 
every  standpoint,  the  Association  resolved 
unanoinously to stand  out  and  close  their 
manufacturing institutions.  Potter said that 
lumber was a little  slow  now  anyway and 
he had a pretty  big stock  on hand  anyhow 
and besides he  had  only a few  logs  in the 
yard or anywhere to cut.

Pratt explained  to  the  meeting  that  he 
was in just about the  same  fix as  the gen­
tleman who  just  spoke. 
Inasmuch  as  he 
had over twenty-five barrels of flour on hand 
and only about  seven  bushels  of  wheat in 
the mill and  where  a nuther  darned  bit of 
wheat could be got  in the  county till  after 
harvest he did not know.

The  intelligent  reader  will  see  by  this 
statement of the case  that in  this strike,  as 
in those occurring in greater  financial  cen­
ters, the bloated bond holders  will  manage 
to come out ahead.

The next day after these events the hands 
in the cant hook foctory struck and the  old 
horse  that  turns  the  crank  died  of  wind 
colic.  So  there  goes  another  industiy  to 
smash!

I  don’t  like  to  see  these  labor  troubles 
myself,  but 1 must say that  it  is high time 
that such high  handed  corporations  as Old 
Potter, Joel  S.  Pratt  and  Jay  Gould were 
sat down upon and duly squelched. 
I can t 
help but sympathize with Mr. Gould though, 
because he  has  made  his  money,  I under­
stand,  in the same  way  that I  got my start 
toward affluence.  Yes,  I used  to  water all 
the old man’s cattle  when  I  was  a  young 
chap  of  sixteen  bright  summers,  at  four 
dollars a month  and  found. 
I never  have 
learned whether Mr. Gould  was “found” or 
not, but 1 rather guess not.
□Now, Bro. Stowe,  I look upon  this ques­
tion as being a  sort  of  a  grist  mill.  The 
capitalist is the upper stone and  the laborer 
is the under stone and the  upper  one  does 
the grinding and the under  one the  bearing 
and between the  twq  runs  the  wheat  and 
the wheat gets smashed all to flinders.

Yes,  and by gratious, come to think of it, 
I guess us merchants are the grain.  I think 
some of our friends up by  the  big  bay will 
say I am correct  in  this  statement, as they 
“went through the mill” last year.

L ater—The  village  marshal  was  just 
in and reports that a can  of nitro  glycerine

JO H N   CA-'OXFXBXS 

W holesale Agent,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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

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And  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,

Dealers in all kinds Country Produce & Foreign Fruits.

Reference:  Banks of E ast Saginaw. 
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Fig-s, Dates,

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Manufacturers of Every Style  of

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Spoon  Oars made  of Best Spruce Timber. 

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Engravers and Printers

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Engravings and Electrotypes of Buildings, Machinery, Patented Articles, Portraits, 

Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice.

Cards, Letter, Note and Bill Heads and other Office Stationery a Leading  Feature.
Address as above
49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Successors to Fox, Musselman & Loveritlp,

Amos S. Mussulman  & Co.
Wholesale  Grocers.
musselman’s corker plug and rum cigars.
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Groceries.

Grocers’ Association of the City of Muskegon.

OFFICERS.

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President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Keift.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—Wm. Peer.
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.  _
Board of Directors—O. Lambert, W. 1. McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B. Kelly, A.  Towl  and 
E. Johnson. 
Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and K. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—O.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. L McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman,  Garrit 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  D.  A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot,  R.  S.  Miner  and L. 
Vincent. 
Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
and A. Towl.
Transportation Committee—Wm. B, Keift, An­
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of each month.
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, May 5.
R E TA IL  GROCERS’  ASSOCIATION 

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OF  GRAND  RA PID S.

ORGANIZED  NOVEMBER  10, 1885.

President—Erwin J. Herrick.
First Vice-President—E. E. Walker.
Second Vice-President—Jas. A. Coye.
Secretary—Cornelius A. Johnson.
Treasurer—B. S. Harris.
Board of  Directors—Eugene  Richmond,  Wm. 
H. Sigel, A. J. Elliott, Henry A. Hydorn  and 
W. E. Knox.
Finance  Committee—W. E.  Knox,  H.  A.  Hy­
dorn and A. J. Elliott.
Room Committee—A. J. Elliott,  Eugene  Rich­
mond and Wm. H. Sigel.
Arbitration  Committee—James  Farnsworth, 
M. J. Lewis and A. Rasch.
Complaint  Committee—J.  George  Lehman, 
Martin C. DeJager and A. G. Wagner.
Collectors—Cooper & Barber, 69  Waterloo  St., 
Eagle Hotel block.
Annual meetings—Second Tuesday in Novem­
ber.
Regular  meetings—First  and  Third  Tuesday 
Evenings of each month.
Next meeting—Tuesday evening. May 4.

Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association. 
President, P. Ranney;  Secretary,  M.  S. Sco- 

ville;  Treasurer, Julius Schuster.

OUR  ROLL  OF  HONOR.

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: 

Olney,  Shields & Co.,
Hawkins & P erky*
F. J.  L amb & Co.,
Bulkley,  Lemon & H oops,
A mos Musselman & £ o.,
Fox & Bradford,
O.  W.  Bl a in,
Ir a O.  Green,
Moseley Bros.,
Bunting & Siiedd,
W. F.  Gibson  & Co.,
S.  C. P eer,
Clark, J ewell, & Co.,
Cody,  Ball  & Co..
J ennings &  Smith,
J ohn Ca u lfield,
F red D.  Yale & Co.,
T eLFER & BROOK8,
E aton & Christenson,
Ludwig  W internitz,
H azeltine & P erkins Drug  Co.

The  Grocery  Market.

The all absorbing  topic  in grocery circles 
has  been  the  sudden  advance  in  sugar, 
amounting to about ^even-eigliths of a cent. 
The upward  tendency  is  due  in  part  to a 
shortage of the raw  product, but  was  pre 
cipitated by the striking of the  workmen in 
some of the refineries.  The average output 
of the refineries in the country is  about 24,- 
000 barrels per day, while  refineries  which 
represent 13,000 barrels  of  this  production 
are not  in  operation.  At  present  writing 
the indications are  that  no  agreement will 
be effected with the strikers during the next 
few days,  while it is not unlikely that work­
men in  other  refineries  may  follow  suit. 
Whether the strike  continues  as  it is or is 
augmented  by  the  cessation  of  other fac­
tories, refined sugar is  tolerably  sure of go­
ing higher.  Some  predict  that  granulated 
will  touch  nine  cents  in  New  York,  but 
T he Tradesm an  is inclined to the opinion 
that this prediction will not be realized.

Salt has  taken  a  sharp  downward  turn 
and is now quoted  at 66  cents  in  carlots at 
Saginaw.  Local jobbers  are  holding  at 90 
cents, at which figure  there  is  likely to be 
no undercutting.

The  jobbers  have  agreed  to  hold  paper 

bags at 30 per cent,  off list.

Some  of  the  starch  manufacturers  have 
advanced  starch  one-half  cent,  but  the 
movement is not likely to  become  general
Candy is  up about 1  cent,  in  sympathy 
with the advance in sugar.  Nuts are steady 
Fruits are active and lemons are advancing

Overworked Clerks. v 

From the Chicago Grocer.

The discussion going on between laborers 
and  capitalists  regarding  what  should  be 
considerated as a full day’s  labor  brings to 
the  mind of  the  philanthropist  the  over­
worked clerks  in  the  wholesale  and retail 
stores of this city.  Just before eight in the 
morning State street is crowded with  a hur­
rying, bustling  crowd  of  young  men  and 
women, who,  imagining  themselves  a  few 
minutes late, are endeavoring to reach their 
port without incurring  the  hostility of  the 
proprietor of the store.  This  crush  of hu­
manity can also be seen with less animation 
in  their  countenance  after  six  o’clock  at 
night,  when the over-worked, tired-out shop 
girl and poorly paid  book-keeper  strives to 
keep up  energy  enough  to  reach  home or 
their boarding places  and  get  something to 
eat and a chance to sit down.  If everybody 
who works  hard for a  living  is  entitled to 
mercy, certainly nine-tenths of these poorly- 
paid, half-famished individuals are.

There  are  a  good  many  country stores, 
particularly grocery  stores,  where  at  least 
one person works from seven  o’clock in the 
morning  until  nine  o’clock  at  night.  He 
commences in the morning  by sweeping out 
the store  and dusting,  then  turning  his at­
tention to doing up packages from the order 
book, and later in the day to the delivery of 
goods.  There are in every town many fam­
ilies who do not  order  their  groceries until 
six o’clock  in  the  evening,  but  the  goods 
must be delivered  the  same  night,  and  so 
after  supper  another  delivery  lias  to  be 
made,  and  by the  time  the  clerk  has the 
horse put up for the night, the store locked, 
and is on his way homeward  it is after nine 
o’clock. 
It is doubtful whether the country 
clerk suffers  more  from  his  daily  routine 
and longer  hours,  than do  the  city  clerks 
with their tedious and close confined labors; 
the fresh air  outdoor  exercises  of  the  for­
mer furnish  continued  good  health  which 
makes work more of a pleasure than a labor, 
but to the latter it is  constant,  hard, labor­
ious  work,  standing,  rarely  being  allowed 
to sit down for a single  moment.

Sayings of George Eliot.

When a man get»  a  good  berth, half  the 

deserving must come after.

By being contemptible we set men’s minds 

to the tune of contempt.

The most terrible  obstatcles  are  such as 

nobody can see except one’s  self.

Always there is seed being  sown  silently 
and  unseen,  and  everywhere  there  come 
sweet flowers  without  our  foresight  or la­
bor.

There is a power in the direct glance of a 
sincere and loving soul, which will do more 
to  dissipate  prejudice  and  kindle  charity 
than the most elaborate arguments.

Men’s  lives  are  as  thoroughly  blended 
with each other as the  air they breathe; evil 
spreads as necessarily as disease.

The  cat  couldn’t  eat  her  mouse  if  she 
didn’t catch it alive,  and Brotti couldn’t rel­
ish gain if it had no taste of a bargain.

The secret of  oratory lies  not  in  saying 
new things but in  saying things with a cer- 
tian power that moves the hearers.

We can  only have  the highest happiness, 
such as goes along with being a great  man, 
by having wide thoughts  and  much feeling 
for the rest of  the  world  as  well  as  our­
selves.

There are debts we  cau’t  pay like money 
debts,  by  paying extra  for  the  years  that 
have slipped  by.  While  I’ve been  putting 
off  and  putting  off,  the  trees  have  been 
growing—it’s too late now.

How to Make Business Good.

First merchant—Business  is  getting  ex­

tremely dull.

Second merchant—It  is,  indeed. 

I don’t 
know what we can do to  increase  our  cus­
tom.

“There is  only one thing I can thing of.”
“What’s that?”
“Get our stores boycotted.”

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

“Fermentum” the only reliable compress­

ed yeast.  See advertisement.

GRAND  RAPIDS

I

Short and  Interesting  Meeting  of the Re­

tail  Grocers’  Association.

There was a fairly good attendance at the 
regular semi-monthly meeting of  the Retail 
Grocers’ Association,  which was held on the 
20th.  C. Stryker was  elected a  member of 
the Association.

Samuel M. Lemon was granted two weeks 
farther time to prepare his paper on “Adul­
terated Goods.”

On motion of A. J.  Elliott, Wm. E. Coop­
er was  elected  an honorary member of  the 
Association.

Collector Cooper  reported  the  collection 
of §48 and read a list of the names reported 
since the last meeting.

The  Law  Committee  was  instructed  to 
prepare a memorial to the CSmmon Council, 
praying  that  the  peddlers’  license  be  in 
creased.

It was suggested that  as  peddling butch 
ers pay a license of §50 per year, the license 
for huxtere and fish  mongers  be  placed  at 
the same figure.

After  an  informal  discussion  on  several 
subjects of  interest to the  trade,  the  meet 
ing adjourned.  The  next  meeting  will be 
held Tuesday evening,  May 4.

Hides, Pelts and Furs.

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

SEED  MERCHANTS,

“ 
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“ 

“  Spring........................................ 

«  No. 2.......................................  
“  Mammoth  Prime................. 
“  W hite...................20c $  lb 
“  A lsyke.................20c  “ 
“  Alfalfa or Lucerne20c 
“ 

Office and Warehouse:  71 CANAL ST.
Grand  Rapids, April 26,1886. 
Dear  Sirs—Below  we  hand  you  jobbing 
prices for to-day:
Clover, Prime.................................. 60 lb bu  6 50
6 25
“ 
“  7 00
12 00
9 00
12 00
Timothy. Prime.............................   45 $  bu  2 10
“  2 00
Fair to Good......................... 
90
Red Top............................................14 lb bu 
2 50
BlueGrass............................................ 
“ 
Orchard Grass..................................... 
“ 
2 50
Hungarian  ......................................48 lb bu 
90
Millet, common...................................  
“ 
90
100
** 
“  German.................................... 
Buckwheat.......................................... 
75
“ 
Peas, White Field. 
..................... 60 lb bu  1 25
Rye, Winter...................................... 56B>bu 
75
1 00
Wheat,  Spring.................................60 ft bu  1 25
....*...........................   $  cwt  1  50
Barley,  ** 
Oats, choice white..................... 
60
Corn, Early 8  Rowed Yankee.....56. ft bu  1  75
150
1 75
Onion Sets, Red or  Yellow...........  
4 00
5 00
White  ......................... 
1 00
Onion  Tops,  Evergreen............... 
Prices on Rape, Canary and  all  other  seeds 
on application.
The above prices  are  free  on  board  cars in 
lots of five or more 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.
Ail Field  Seeds  are  spot  Cash on receipt of 
goods.
W. T. Lamoreaux, Agt.

“  Learning, Early Dent..................  “ 
“  Red  B lazed............................ 
“ 

.32 lb bu 

“ 

“ 

MOULTON & REMPIS,
SETTEES, ROOF CRESTING

Manufacturers  of

RHn

A n d  J o b b er s  in   G ray  Iro n   C a stin g s.

W R ITE  FO R  PR ICE-LIST.

64 and 56 North Front Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

j E p g j j j g

WHOLESALE

FULL  LINE  OF  ALL  STAPLE 

PLUGS  KEPT  IN  STOCK.

Sole Agents for Celebrated

F.  &  B.  Boquet,  Spanish  Fly, 
PantiHa, Rosa DeÔro, Amer-. 

ican  Club,  Jim   Fox 

Clipper, Moxie.

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

FRED. D.  YALE.

DANIEL LYNCH.

SUCCESSORS  TO

A N D   JOBBERS  OF

ceive prompt attention.

FEED. D. TALE & CO.
CHAS. S. YALE & BRO.,
Bakins Poilers, Extracts, Bluings,
GROCERS’  SUNDRIES.
All orders addressed to the new  firm will re­

W HOLESALE  MANUFACTURERS  OF

40 and 42 South Division St.,

BULL DOG

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICH.

- 

Tobaccos.

TRADE  UNION

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

LABOR  UNION,

The largest amount of good tobacco for the 
,

least money. 

A N D   EXTRA  GOOD

F IN E   OTTTS
These goods are all UNION  MADE,  and 
each box is duly  stamped  with  the  Union 
Label.  No s c a b  work goes from  this  fac 
tory.  Every employee  is a Union man and 
a K. of L.

If your jobber don’t sell it, your order  tU 
rect will be filled promptly at prices quotea 
and delivered to your railroad depot free  of 
freight.

Bull Dog Tobacco W orks,
Covington,  Ky.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  (TORRENT.

 

 

 

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CANNED FISH.

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BAKING  POWDER.

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.
Frazer’s................. 
901 Paragon.................2  10
Diamond  X ...........   60 Paragon 25 lb pails.  90
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50|Fraziers,251b pails.1  25
Thompson’s  Butterfly, bulk...................  25
6 or 10 lb cans....  27
(4, 4 doz. in  case...  95
...195
V4,2  “ 
J. H. Thompson & Co.’s Princess, (4s ..........1 5KS
is ........... 4 25
“ 
bulk.......  28
“ 
45
Arctic, % lb cans, 6 doz. case....................... 
75
.......................  
 
1 40
2 40
 
...................... 12  00
Silver Spoon. 50  cans....................................10 00
Victorian. 1 lb cans, (tall,) 2 doz..................2 00
Diamond,  “bulk,”........ t..............................  
15
Dry, No. 2..........................................doz. 
25
45
Dry, No. 3..........................................doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,......................................doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz....................................... doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................Tj)  gross  4 00
Arctic 8  oz...........................................................  8 00
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.....................................  2 00
 
3 00
Arctic No. 2 
 
Arctic NO. 3 
4 00
Parlor  Gem.............3 00
No. 2 H url.,..........
Common Whisk__   90
No. lH url.............
Fancy  Whisk..........1 00
No. 2Carpet...........2 50
Mill.......................... .-3 75
No. 1 Carpet...........2 75
Clams, 1 lb. Little Neck.....................................1 30
Clams, 2 lb. Little Neck.......................... 
2 00
Clam Chowder,  3 R>.........................  ..........2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 lb  standards...........................1 00
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards.....................  1 75
Lobsters, 1 lb picnic......................................1 75
Lobsters, 2 lb, picnic....................................2 50
Lobsters, 1 lb star.........................................2 00
Lobsters, 2 ft star.........................................3 00
Mackerel, lft  fresh  standards..................1  10
Mackerel, 5 lb fresh  standards..................4 25
Mackerel In Tomato Sauce, 3 ft................ 3 00
Mackerel,3 lb in Mustard...........................3 00
Mackerel, 3 ft»  soused.................................. 3 00
Salmon, 1 fl> Columbia river.......................1 50
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river....................2 35
Sardines, domestic (4s...................................  
8
Sardines,  domestic  )4s................................  
12
Sardines,  Mustard  )4s...................................  12
Sardines,  imported  (4s.................................   14
Trout. 3 lb  brook.................................—   4 00
Apples, 3 ft standards.................'...............  75
Apples, gallons,  standards..............................2 20
Blackberries, standards...............................   95
Cherries,  red  standard.................................   95
Damsons........................................................  90
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1 25
Green  Gages, standards 2 lb............................ 1 25
Peaches, Extra Yellow.....................................1 90
Peaches, standards........................................... 1 60
Peaches,  seconds.............................................. 1 25
Pineapples, Erie................................................I 50
Pineapples, standards...................................... 1 40
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced...........................2 60
Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated....................... 2 75
Quinces...............................................................1 25
Raspberries,  extra........................................... 1 35
Strawberries  ................................................1 35
Lusk’s.  Mariposa.
Apricots..................................... 2 25 
2  00
Egg Plums.................................. 2 10 
2  00
1  80
Grapes.........................................2  10 
Green Gages...............................2  10 
2  00
2  20
Pears... 
................................... 2 50 
Quinces'.......................................2 50
Peaches.......................................2  3o 
2  25
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.................................... 3 00
Beans, Lima,  standard.....................................1 00
Beans, Stringless, Erie...............................   95
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...........................1 65
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy.................................... 1 00
*  Acme........................................................ 1 00
“  Maple Leaf...........................................  90
4  Excelsior..................................................1 00
Peas, French.......................................................1 65
Peas, Marrofat, standard................................. 1 40
Peas, Beaver................................... 
 
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden....................................   75
Succotash, standard.................................75@1 40
Squash...........................................................  1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands............................ 1 15
Michigan  full  cream....................
Hall’ sldm............................................... a
Skim ........................................................  5
Baker’s ..................37*4 -German Sweet..
Runkles’ ....................35|Vienna Sweet  ..
Schepps, cake box.................................
)4s............................................
Maltby’s 1 0»  round...............................
assort  ......................................
14s..............................................
Manhattan,  pails..................................

....1 1 @12
<541014 
© 6

CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.

@2714
@28
@26
@27
@28
@20

CANNED FRUITS,

CHOCOLATE.

c o c o aN u t .

CHEESE.

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COFFEE

Green.

R io......................9©12
Golden Rio..............12
Santos......................13
Maricabo.................13
J a v a .................20@25
O. G. Java............... 24
Mocha  .................... 25
COFFEE s-

Roasted.
R io.....................
Golden Rio........
Santos................
Maricabo............
Java..................£
O. G. Java__
Mocha...
PACKAGE.
60 lbs 100 lbs ¡00 lbs
13(4 12X
Dilworth’s ................
.............  
13
Lion............................ ............... 
.............  13?á  13(4 1254
McLaughlin’s  ..........
. . . . . . . .   13%  13J4
Arbuckle’s  ...............
German..................... ............... 
12)4
Magnolia..................
.............   13(4  13(4 12(4
50 foot Cotton__ 1 60
60 foot Jute.......1 00
60 foot Cotton__ 1  75
72 foot J u te .......1
40FootCotton__ 1 50  172 foot Cotton.
00
CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

.............28

c o r d a g e.

13

x   x x x   $n>
6)4

5
7

8«

7)4

5
5
5
5

11)4
9)4

KenoshaButter......................... 
Seymour Butter....................... 
Butter......................................... 
Fancy  Butter............................ 
4)4
S.  O yster..................................  
Picnic..................................... 
 
Fancy  Oyster............................ 
4)4
Fancy  Soda..............................     4)4
City Soda....................................  
Soda  ........................................... 
Milk............................................  
Boston.................................................... 
Graham..................................................  
Oat  Meal................................................. 
Pretzels, hand-made................. 
Pretzels...................................... 
Cracknels..............................................  
7)4 
Lemon Cream............................ 
8)4
Frosted Cream..........................
7)4  8)4
Ginger  Snaps............................ 
No. 1 Ginger Snaps.................. 
7)4
Lemon  Snaps............................ 
12)4
Coffee Cakes.............................. 
8)4
1314 
Lemon Wafers..........................
11H
Jumbles......................................
12) 4 
Extra Honey Jumbles.............
Frosted Honey  Cakes.............
13*4
Cream  Gems.............................
13) 4 
Bagley8  Gems..........................
13)4 
Seed Cakes.................................
12)4
S. &  M. Cakes............................
8)4
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth..................... 75@s0
Cod, whole.......................................... 
Cod,Boneless................................................. 5@654
H alibut..........................................................10@11
Herring, round,  )4  bbl.....................................2 25
Herring .round,  (4  bbl.....................................1 25
Herring, Holland,  bbls................................... 11 00
Herring, Holland,  kegs..............................80@95
Herring, Scaled............................................ 22@23
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, )4  bbls..................5 50
..........l 00
...............  70
No. 3, )4 bbls..........  ..................3 50
44  12 lb  kits............................  62
44  10  44 
............................  55

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.............................  10  44 
44 
44 
44 

Shad, )4 b b l........................................................2 50
Trout, )4  bbls.....................................................4 00
............................................   80
White, No. 1, )4 bb ls...................................6 50
White, N o.l, 12 lb kits................................1 00
White, No. 1,10 lb kits.................................  90
White, Family, Y% bbls...................................... 2 50

44  10  44 

12 lb kits 

FISH.

4@5

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Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 40

150

41 
44 

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44 
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44 
44 
44 

Jennings’2 oz............................^  doz.l 00 
4 oz..........................................1  50 
6 oz..........................................2 50 
8oz......................................... 3 50 
No. 2 Taper.........................125 
No.  4 
1  75 
)4 pint round..........................4 50 
1 
No.  8...................................... 3  00 
No. 10 ..................  
4  25 
DRIED  FRUITS—DOMESTIC.
Apricots, 25 lb boxes.............................   @
Cherries, pitted, 50 lb  boxes................. 
,  @  12
Egg plums, 25 lb  boxes.........................  |3@   20
Pears, 25 lb boxes..................................   “ flb  lfi
Peaches,  Delaware, 50 lb boxes.......  @
Peaches, Michigan. 
@12)4 
Raspberries, 50 ft boxes.
®  23

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2 50
4 00
6 00
3 00
7 60
4 25
6 00

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.

MATCHES.

Citron.......................................... ..........  ®  24
Currants,  new............................ . . . —   @7(4
Lemon Peel................................. ..........  @  14
Orange Peel................................. ..........  @  14
Prunes, French,60s.................... ..........12)4®
Prunes, French, 80s.................... ..  .  ..  8)4®
Prunes, Turkey.......................... ..........  @4(4
Raisins, Dehesia........................ ..........  @3 75
Raisins, London Layers........... ..........3 00@3 20
........... ..........  @2 40
Raisins, California  “ 
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.......... ..........  @2 00
Raisins, Ondaras,  28s................ ..........  @13)4
Kaisins,  Sultanas....................... ..........  @10
Raisins, Valencia....................... ..........10?4@1034
Raisins,  Imperials..................... ..........  @3 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.........................1  00
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro................ 1 20
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor..................... 1 75
Grand  Haven,  No. 300, parlor.............
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round.......... .............1  50
Oshkosh, No. 2.................................. ............. 1  00
Oshkosh, No.  8.................................. ............. 1 50
Swedish.............................................. .............   75
Richardson’s No. 8  square............. ............. 100
Richardson’s No. 9 
............. .............1 50
Richardson’s No. 7)4, round........... ............. 1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
............. .............1 50
Black  Strap....................................... ..........15@19
Cuba Baking..................................... ..........25@28
Porto  Rico......................................... ..........34@38
Now  Orleans, good.......................... ..........38@42
New Orleans, choice........................ ..........48@50
New Orleans,  fancy......................... ..........52@55

MOLASSES.

do 
do 

)4 bbls. 2c extra.

44 

44 
44 

30 gr.

VINEGAR.

MISCELLAN EOUS.

Lorillard’s American Gentlemen....... @ 72
Maccoboy...............
@ 55
Gall & Ax’ 
...............
® u
Rappee....................
© 35
Railroad  Mills  Scotch.............
«ft 45
Lotzbeck  ..................................
@1 30
50 tfr.
10
10

White Wine............................... ..  08
Cider ........................................... ..  08
Bath Brick imported............................ 
95
do 
American.............................  
75
100
Burners, No. I .......................................  
do  No.  2.......................................  
1  50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.............  
7  75
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 lb cans.............   15@25
Candles, Star..........................................   @12)4
handles.  Hotel.......................................   @14
Extract Coffee, V. C.............................   @80
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @35
Hum, Spruce...........................................  30@35
Hominy,  bbl.......................................   @8 50
Jelly, in 30 lb  pails.................................  @4)4
Pearl Barley...........................................2?4@ 3
Peas, Green  Bush.................................  @1 25
Peas, Split  Prepared............................  @ 3
Powder, Keg...........................................  @3 00
Powder, Yt  Keg......................................  @1 90
Sage  ........................................................  ©  18

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

1  25

do 

CANDY. FRUITS AND  NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :

“ 

RICE.

do 
do 

SALT.

PIPES.

SAUCES.

SALEHATUS.

“  H  “ 

FANCY—IN  BULK.

(4c less in 5 box lots. 

FANCY—IN  5 1b BOXES.

2  35
90
1  45
1  25
75
2 75
70
25
28
45
25

Steel  cut................ 5 25! RolledOats,Shields’3 25
Steel Cut, )4 bbl 
Rolled  Oats__

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................
gn Pocket
100 3 ft  pockets.......................................
Saginaw or  Manistee............................
Diamond C..............................................
Standard  Coarse....................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........
Ashton. English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, (4 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................
Warsaw, Dairy, bu.  bags.....................
.....................
Parisian, (4  pints..................................
@2  00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
@  70
Pepper Sauce, green  ............................ @  80
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............   @1 25
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 50
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @  80
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................   @1 20
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, )4 pints.........................  @2 20
Cut  Loaf.................................................  @  8t*
Powdered,..............................................  @  8)4
Granulated,  Standard..........................   7)4©  V i
Confectionery A....................................  7:ls@  7)4
Standard A..............................................  714®  7?*
No. 1, White Extra  C............................  @ 6%
No. 2, Extra C.........................................  @ 6)4
No. 3 C......................................................  @  6)4
No.4 C
0ríh
No.5 C.............
Acme,  bars........ ..3 75iNapkin................
Acme,  blocks__ .  3 22] Towel..................
.4  75
Best  American....3 08;White  Marseilles .5 60
Circus  ................ . .3 75| White Cotton  Oil .5 60
Big Five  Center. . .3 90iShamrock...........
.3 30
Nickel....'........... . .3 451 Blue Danube.......
.2 95
Gem..................... ..3 35;London Family..
.2 60

OATMEAL.
STICK.
3 00 Rolled Oats, Acme.3 25 Standard, 25 1b boxes.................... ........ 9 4@10
.................... ........ 10 @10(4
5 75 Quaker, 48 lbs... ...2 25 Twist, 
.3 (K-|Quaker, 60 fts... ...2 85 Cut Loaf 
............ ........ 11 @11)4
3 25; Quaker bbls....... . ..6  25
MIXED
Royal, 25 ft  pails..........................
@10
PICKLES.
Medium...................................................  @5 00
@9)4
Royal, 200 ft bbls....................................  
Yt barrels.................................  @3 00
Extra,25lb  pails...................................11  @11(4
Small........................................................  @3 00
Extra. 200 lb bbls....................................10  @10)4
French Cream, 25 lb pails.....................   @13
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Cut loaf, 25 lb  cases...............................  @13)4
Broken, 25  ft palls.................................  © ll
Importer! Clay,  No. 216,3 gross...........   @2 25
Imported Clay,  No. 216,254 gross.......  @1  85
Broken, 200 ft  bbls.................................10  @10)4
American T. D.......................................   75@  90
Lemon  Drops............................
. 13@14
Sour Drops..................
Choice Caroliifti......6*4!Java  ..................
....................14® 15
Peppermjnt  Drops...
Prime Carolina.......5l4|Patna....................... 5)4
....................  @15
Chocolate Drops........
Good Carolina........ 5  ¡Rangoon..........5)4®5?4
H M Chocolate  Drops
Good Louisiana.......5  I Broken.
i@3)4
Gum  Drops  ...............
Licorice Drops...........
DeLand’s pure........5(4 ¡Dwight’s ........
..........5)4
A B  Licorice  Drops..
Church’s  ................ 5(4jSea  Foam__
........ . *5/4
Lozenges, plain..........
Taylor’s  G. M..........5(4iCap Sheaf__
..........5)4
Lozenges,  printed__
Imperials....................
Mottoes.......................
Cream  Bar..................
Molasses Bar...............
Caramels......................
18@20
Hand Made Creams..................... 
Plain  Creams............................................  
17
Decorated  Creams.................................... 
20
String Rock...............................................  
15
Burnt Almonds......................................  20@22
Wintergreen  Berries.....................   ....... 
15
Lozenges, plain in  pails........................12H©13
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.................  
11)4@12
Lozenges, printed in pails....................
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................13)4® U
Chocolate Drops, in pails..................... 13  @13)4
Glum  Drops  In palls..............................
Gum Drops, in Dbls...............................
Moss Drops, in pails.............................   @11
Moss Drops, in b b ls.............................. 
<®iu
Sour Drops, in  pails..............................  @13
Imperials, in  pails.................................13  @13)4
Imperials  in bbls.................................11)4@12
Bananas  Aspinwall............................. 2 50@4 00
Oranges, California, fancy..................  @4 25
Oranges, California,  choice................   @4 00
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.........................
Oranges, Florida....................................
Oranges, Valencia, cases.....................
Oranges, Messina..................................
Oranges,  Naples....................................
Lemons,  choice........\ ...........................  @5 50
Lemons, fancy.......................................  
e 00
Lemons, California...............................4 50©5 25
Figs, layers, new,  $  ft..........................12)4@16
Figs, Bags, 50 1b......................................  754® «
Dates, frails d o .................................... 
Dates, H do  do  ....................................  ©  5
Dates, skin..............................................
Dates, %  skin.........................................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box f)  ft....................  @10
ft.....................  
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 
© 9
Dates, Persian 50 ft box ^ ft............... 
@ 8
Pine Apples, $   doz............................  2 25@2 50
PEANUTS.
Prime Red,  raw  ^  ft...........................   4  @ 414
Choice 
do  ............................  @ 5
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ............................  @5)4
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  5  @ 5)4
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ............................  6&©  7
H. P .V a..................................................  @  6
Almonds,  Tarragona........................... 15  ©16
Ivaca......................................  @15
California..............................15  @16
Brazils.....................................................8  © 9
Chestnuts, per bu..................................
Filberts, Sicily.......................................11)4@12
Barcelona...............................10  @11
Walnuts,  Grenoble...............................14)4@15
French....................................   8  @11
California.............................   @12
Pecans,  Texas,H .P..............................9  @13
Missouri................................8)4®  9
Cocoanuts, $  100....................................  @4  50

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Ground.

FRUITS

Whole.

SUGARS.

SPICES.

NUTS.

© 4)4

SOAPS.

do 

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8
8

TEAS.

SYltUPS.

STARCH.

TOBACCO—FINE C U T-IN   PAILS.

laundry.....................................   4  @ 5

Pepper................ 16@25;Pepper................. 4  @18
Allspice...............12@15! Allspice...............   8@10
Cinnamon........... 18@30;Cassia................... 10@11
Cloves  ................ 15@25!Nutmegs,  N o.l..  @60
Ginger................ 16@20!Nutmegs,  No. 2..  @50
Mustard...........  15@30 Cloves  ................. 16@18
Cayenne............. 25@35|
Electric  Lustre......................................  @3 20
Niagara,  Laundry.................................  3)4@ 4
Niagara, gloss.......................................   @ 5%
Niagara, corn.................  
@6(4
Royal,  corn............................................  @  5)4
Quaker, lauudry, 561b............................  @4  50
Corn,  barrels  .......................................  
22@26
Corn, Yt bbls............................................ 
24®27
Corn,  (0 gallon kegs...............................  
@29
]  35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs................................. 
Pure Sugar, bbl...................................... 
22@26
Pure Sugar, (4 bbl..................................  
24@28
Pure Sugar  6 gal kegs..........................   @1 50
Japan ordinary.............................................18@20
Japan fair to good........................................25@30
Japan fine...................................................... 35@45
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
Gun Powder...................................................35@50
Oolong.....................................................33@65@6C
Congo.............................................................25@30
Our Block................. 60|Old Time................... ___
Yum  Yum................25 Underwood’s Capper 35
Sweet  Rose..............32 Sweet  Rose.................45
May  Queen..............65 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Jolly Time................40 Atlas............................35
Dark AmericanEagle67 Royal Game............... 38
The Meigs................. 62 Mule Ear......................65
Red  Bird...................50 Fountain..................... 74
State  Seal................. 60 Old Congress...............64
Prairie Flow er........ 65|Good Luck................. 52
Indian Queen...........60; Blaze Away.................35
Bull  Dog.................... *57 Hair Lifter...............30
Crown  Leaf..............66 Jim Dandy.................. 38
Hiawatha................. 65!Our  Bird..................... 28
G lobe........................65|Brother  Jonathan...28
May Flower..............70! Sweet  Pepsin.............35
•Delivered.
15)4
Big Deal.................... 27 Lucky  ........................ J
Ruby, cut  plug....... 35 Boss  ............................ 1
Navy Clippings........26 Two  Nickel................ £
Leader......................15| Duke’s  Durham........ 4
Hard  Tack.........32 Green Corn Cob Pipe £
D ixie......................... 28,Owl................................]
Old Tar......................40 Rob Roy....................... i
Arthur’s  Choice......22^ Uncle  Sam.................. 5
Red Fox.................... 26 Lumberman............... S
Flirt.......................... 28 Railroad Boy................i
Gold Dust.................26|MountainRose........... ]
Gold Block............... 30 Home Comfort............i
Seal of Grand Rapids 
lOld Rip.......................(
Tramway, 3 oz.........40  Lina, 2  oz.................. 1
Miners and Puddlers.28 Seal of North Caro-
lina, 4oz................... 4
Peerless  ....................24| 
Standard...................20|Seal of North  Caro-
Old Tom.................... 18 
lina, 8oz....................4
Tom & Jerry............ 24 Seal of North Caro-
Joker.........................25 
lina, 16 oz boxes___ 4
Traveler...................36 King Bee, longcut.. .£
Maiden......................25 Sweet Lotus.................i
Pickwick Club.........40lGrayling......................i
Nigger Head................26 Seal Skin..................i
Holland.......................22 Red Clover................1
German.......................15 Good Luck................5
K. of  L...................... 42@46l
PLUG.
Quaker......................28lTrade Union.............*36
Bull  Dog...................*38 Labor Union............ *30
Hiawatha.....................42 Splendid................  38
Jolly Tar......................32 Old Solder.................40
Jolly  Time.....................32 Money................... 44
Favorite........................42 Red Fox...................42
Black  Bird...................32] Big  Drive.................40
Live and Let  Live... 321 Seal of Grand Rapids 40
Punch....................... 36| Patrol...........................40
Big  Nig....................37 Jack Rabbit.................38
Spear  Head............. 39 Chocolate  Cream___ 4-
Old  Honesty............40]Nimrod........................40
Whole Earth............32iE.C................................38
Crazy  Quilt............. 32]Spread  Eagle............. 36
P.  V ........................ 40 Big Five Center............3T
Spring Chicken........38 Parrot........................4£
Eclipse  ......................30 Buster........................35
Moxie........'...............34 Black Prince...............35
Blackjack................32 Black  Racer...............85
Hiawatha.........................42 Star......................39
Musselman’s Corker.30 Climax  ......................43
Turkey......................39 Acorn  ......................... 40
Dainty......................44lHorse  Shoe.................
•Delivered. 
2o. less in three butt lots.

(cloth)............ 251 Seal or North Caro-

SMOKING

SHORTS.

Leader..................... 16 Hiawatha.....................22
Mayflower...............23|01d Congress.............23
Globe.............................22 May  Leaf............ ..22
Mule Ear.................. 28|Dark ............................20

PROAISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess, Chicago packing, new..........................10 25
Clear,  8. P. Booth.......................................... 11 00
Short Cut, new.................................................n  00
Back, clear, short  cut.......................... !.... 12 50
Extra family clear, short cut...................... J2 00
Clear,  A. Webster, n e w ...............................12 50
Extra clear pig, short cut.............................12 75
Extra clear, heavy..........................................12 75
Clear quill, short  cut..................................... 13 ¿0
Boston clear, short cut..................................13 00
Clear back, short cut..................................... 13 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best................... 13 25

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

6
6
6)4
8)4
6)4
Hams, heavy..................................................... 9)4

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44 
do. 
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OH  PLAIN.
44  medium.................................................
“ 

ligh t................................................. 
 

 
Boneless  Hams, best...................................... 10
Boneless  Hams.............................. 
9
Boneless Shoulders...........................................6(4
Breakfast  Bacon............................................  744
Dried Beef, extra quality..............................  »
Dried Beef, Ham pieces.....................................n  14
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle...................6
Tierces  ....................................................  
30 and 501b Tubs......................................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases.....................  

tjii
6?»

LARD.

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LARD IN TIN PAILS.

201b Pails, 4 pails In case.....................
3 lb Pails, 20 in a case............................
5 1b Pails, 12 iu a case.............................
101b Pails. 6 in a case............................

BEEF IN BARRELS.

6)4

6Ai

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs...........   8 50
Boneless,  extra..............................................13 00
Pork Sausage...................................................
Ham  Sausage...................................................
Tongue  Sausage...........................................
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................
Blood  Sausage.................................. ..............
Bologna, straight............................................
Bologna, thick.......................... '......................
Head  Cheese....................................................
In half barrels...............................................   350
In quarter barrels....................................... .

PIGS’  FEET.

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COAL AND  BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Know Ison quotes as follows:
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................
1  00 
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................
85 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl...............
1 30 
Akron Cement per  bbl......................
1  30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl...................
|.................  
1  30
Car lots 
.................. 1  05@1  10
Plastering hair, per bu..
..................  25®  30
Stucco, per bbl................
..................... 
1  75
Land plaster, per ton....
.................. 
d 50
Land plaster, ear lots...,
2 50
.................. 
................ f 25 ® f 35
Fire brick, per  M...........
Fire clay, per bbl...........
.................. 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .95 75@8 00 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 00@6 25
Cannell, car lots..................... 
  @6 00
Ohio Lump, car lots......................  3 
io@3 25
Biossburg or Cumberland, car lota..  4 50@5 00
Portland Cement...............  
3 50@4 00

COAL.

 

 

OUT  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

J a c k so n .

W. Iioscoe  Dodge  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock to  Geo. Thurtle, of  Detroit,  formerly 
of this  city.  Roscoe  expects  to  locate  in 
Washington Territory,  and  will  Leave here 
for Seattle on May 1.
Mrs. Wynn Yates,  noe Hovey, is now the 
sole  owner  of  the  new  Brooks’  block  on 
East Main street.  When  she  married  Mr. 
Yates he presented  her  with a  deed  of his 
interest in the block and the  other day  she 
purchased  the  remaining  one-half  of  Mr. 
Brooks.  The block is estimated to be worth 
$25,000.

Saranac.

Strickland & Gloster,  meat  dealers,  have 
dissolved,  Strickland continuing.
E.  A.  Richards will get  in  his new  drug 
stock next week.
L.  E. Jones has  platted  his  eleven  acre 
addition to the west side  of  the village and 
has already sold several lots.
L ak e  C ity.

J.  K.  Seafuse’s new  store  building looms 
up above all others  and  presents a  citified 
appearance.  Geo.  B.  Howe,  of  Clare,  has 
rented and will occupy the  first floor with a 
stock of drugs and groceries.
The interior of the new  bank is elegantly 
finished in  Norway  pine  and  is the  finest 
place  here.  Cashier  Howard  Owens  has 
just moved his family  here from Mt. Pleas­
an t
A Mr.  Huber has  bought  Seafuse’s meat 
business and will  continue  the  business at 
the old stand.
Reeder & Heydon have  sold  their  livery 
to Wm.  J. Becker.
An unusual  amount -of  building  will be 
done here this season.

Cadillac. 

J
Wilcox  Bros,  will  shortly  open  a  new 
stock of groceries in the  store  just vacated 
by C.  R.  Smith.  The boys have a large and 
favorable  acquaintance  in  both  city  and 
country  and  will  undoubtedly  do  a  good 
business.
The foundry and boiler shops of the Mich­
igan Iron  Works, which  were  recently de­
stroyed by fire,  are being rebuilt.
Sampson & Drury recently shipped a car­
load of cant hook and peavy handles to Chi­
cago parties.
J.  G.  Mosser will start  his  brick  factory 
early in May and expects to turn  out a mil­
lion and a half this season.  He finds ready 
market for all he makes'.
Workmen are  busy putting  the old Saun- 
der’s planing mill  in  shape for manufactur­
ing the Climax window blind.
T raverse  C ity.

Ike  LaRue  has  severed  his  connection 
with D.  E.  Carter and returns to the Wizard 
Oil Co.
The Ladies’ Library Association  has pur­
chased  of  Hon.  D.  C.  Leach the  lot on the 
corner of Boardman avenue  and  Washing­
ton street.  The  consideration was  $1,300.
Large  quantities  of  potatoes  are  being 
brought into town.
Hannah,  Lay &  Co.’s  saw  mills  started 
up on Monday with a full  force of hands.
An immense  amount of square  timber is 
being brought in by rail from Kalkaska and 
large gangs of men  are  busy putting it into 
rafts preparatory for shipment to Europe.
An ordinance lias  been  passed  requiring 
ail draymen to pay a license hereafter.
The building boom was  never greater,  es­
pecially on the east side.
The second lecture of the  Business Men’s 
Association  was given  Monday evening by 
Rev.  W. G. Puddefoot,  who spoke on “The 
Labor Problem.”
The steamer Cummings  opened  the  sea­
son by carrying a large amount of freight to 
Northport and outer Bay points on the 20th. 
The Grand Rapids began  her season’s work 
on the 26th.
Caldwell &  Loudon  have  built for  Han­
nah,  Lay & Co.  a" hose cart carrying 350 feet 
of hose, and Mr. Germaine lias  organized a 
company of twenty drilled  men, who are to 
be in readiness to answer any alarm.
M.  E.  Haskell has  taken  the  agency for 
the Caligraph.
Mrs.  M.  B.  Schryer, of Mauton, has open­
ed a millinery store in  the  rooms lately oc­
cupied  by C. M.  Bell.

Culoma.

Coloma is a thriving,  enterprising village 
in Berrien  county,  situated  on the  bluff of 
the pleasant Paw Paw river, one mile south 
of the Paw Paw lake,  which  has become so 
noted for its fine fish,  and also as a summer 
resort.  As to our water and timber there is 
nothing in the State that can excel  us.  We 
are situated in the great fruit belt of  Michi­
gan and have all kinds of farming and stock 
raising as well.  Our farmers are of the best 
grade,  and well do  their farms  and  homes 
prove  this  statement.  Only a visit  to  the 
top  of  Luce  Hill  in 
the  suburbs  of  our 
village  is  needed  to  prove  this.  Look­
ing  in  any  direction  after  you  are  on 
top of the hill,  you can see as fine a country 
as ever any one saw. 
It  is  dotted  thickly 
with large farm  houses and  barns,  and the 
grazing lands are  stocked  with  fine horses, 
cattle,  sheep and  hogs.  While  the tillable 
lands are finely decorated  witli  many acres 
of vines, berry  bushes,  large  orchards  and 
green fields of wheat.  The  eye  can  pene­
trate many miles of such scenery  as this  on 
either "¡side.  On  the immediate north,  four 
miles  away  can  be  seen  the  bluffs  along 
Lake  Michigan.  From  this  hill  you  can 
look  down on the  small  village of  Water- 
vliet, can  see  the  depot,  schoolhouse  and 
even the  different streets.  This  is  one  of 
the  largest  fruit  shipping  points  on  the 
south end of the C. & W. M.  R.  R.  We al­
so have great advantages for manufacturing. 
The water power is unequalled in the State, 
and timber  is  good  and  plenty.  Our citi­
zens are full  of  life, energy  and  grit,  and 
any good  enterprise  would  receive  liberal 
support  All that our people could do finan­
cially, they would do.  We have good pros­
pects for another  railroad.  We  now  have 
the C. & W.  M.  R.  I t,  have a  fair prospect 
for  a creamery  and  a four-page,  8 column 
newspaper will be started the  last  week of 
April,  by  a  first-class  man  of  experience 
and vim.  Our town now has  the following 
kinds of  business  and more  coming:  One 
hardware store,  one jewelry store,  one shoe 
store  and  shoe  shop  connected,  three dry 
goods and grocery,  one grocery, one millin­
ery store  and  two  drug  stores.  And  one! 
large furniture store is  to be opened up this I 
spring by E.  A.  Ilill.  There are two hotels, 
two livery  stables,  two  blacksmith  shops, 
two  wagon  shops, two  cooper  shops, one 
beehive  factory,  two carpenter  and  joiner 
shops, one grist mill,  one  sawmill,  one box 
factory, one cider mill and jelly factory, one 
sorghum mill and boiler, two churches,  two) 
ministers,  one  school  house,  three  notary» 
publics,  two justices of the peace, one town- 
shin eierk,  one supervisor,  two doctors, one

meat market and one  eavetrough  manufac­
tory.  There will be one  more  cooper shop 
erected this summer.  There is now a large 
dry goods store building underway and sev­
eral  dwellings.  There  is  not  a  prettier, 
healthier and  convenient  place for  a town 
and  manufacturing  point  in  the  State  of 
Michigan  than Coloma.  Our people extend 
a general invitation to any and every one to 
come among us to engage in business or start 
some branch  of  manufacturing.  The invi­
tation is general,  and any inquiry regarding 
the place will be promptly  answered by ad­
dressing any of our business  men.  We are 
not in the woods nor  asleep, and  are  com­
ing to the front in  better  shape every  year 
and any one wishing to help up can always 
find a welcome.  The latch string hangs out. 
Come any time and share our  comforts.  A 
good  grain  elevator  is  one  of  the  things 
needed and will pay big money.

Newaygo.

S.  K.  Ribbet  spent  a few day in  Detroit 
last  week,  buying  goods  for  the  spring 
trade.
A.  Miller, for a  few  years  past  harness 
maker for  I).  P. Clay, has  moved  with his 
family  to  White  Cloud,  and  will  open  a 
shop there.
R.  Surplice has been making some needed 
improvements in the interior of his store.
Miss Grace  Glauville  succeeds  Mrs. Ella 
Taylor in the telephone office.
W.  E. Dewey is  temporarily  behind  the 
counters at Soper’s book store.
Owing to extremely  high  water, no  logs 
have yet passed this point.  The  solid  jam 
extends some six miles above here.
Work on the  excavation for  Gray’s  new 
block is being pushed forward rapidly.

East Saginaw,

Business is fairly good at this market and 
collections  are  away  ahead  of  what  they 
were  a  year  ago.  There  is  an occasional 
failure  among  the  small  fry  traders,  but 
with this exception there is every indication 
of a healthy summer’s trade.
The  Salt  Association  has succumbed  to 
the seductive influence  of Jim Stewart, and 
the  result  is  a  lowering  of  quotations to 
figures almost unheard of at  this  season  of 
the  year.  The  following  are  the  rulin 
prices for salt in carlots:
Fine, per bbl...................................................$  66
Packers,  “ 
....................................................   66
.................................................... l  15
Solar, 
" 
Agricultural salt, per ton.............................3 21
Bulk, fine, 
............................. 351

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The Hardware Market.

Light  hardware,  cutlery, 

tools,  imple­
ments and goods of  that  class  are  movin 
very fairly.  The same may be said of lawn 
mowers.  Tinners’ stock is in good demand 
in a small  way.  Heavy  hardware  is quiet, 
and  complaint  is  made  that  the  trade  in 
builders’ goods is  suffering  from the  labor 
troubles and is quieter  than usual.  Barbed 
wire holds  its own,  is  in moderate  request 
and unchanged in price.  There is some lit­
tle  recovery in  the  movement  of  carriage 
and wagon hardware,  which  is now reason­
ably satisfactory.  Wood stock is quiet.  In 
prices there is little that is  new.  Tacks re­
main unsettled, prices  being  made in a go- 
as-you-please fashion,  and concessions free­
ly given to  influence  purchases.  Manufac­
turers are steady on  screwrs, but  favors are 
given to  jobbers.  An  as  yet  unsuccessful 
effort has been made by  the  makers  to ad­
vance the ifrice on copper  rivets  and burrs, 
but dealers are selling at  old  figures.  The 
prices  are  firm.  On  picks  and  mattocks 
slightly higher  figures  prevail.  The  price 
of sand paper has been advanced.

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should  be 
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news  should  be  as  fresh  and 
complete,  its  editorial  discus­
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PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY
E 3ST GrI 3ST E S

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

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88,90 and 92 South Division Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

WOODENWARE.

V

Standard  Tubs, No. 1................ ...  ............. 7 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
Dowell Pails............. :................. ....................1 90
Dowell Tubs, No. 3..................... ....................8 00
Dowell Tubs, No. 2................   .. ....................7 00
Dowell Tubs,  No. 3.................... ....................6 00
White Cedar, No. 1..................... ....................7 50
White Cedar, No. 2..................... ....................6 50
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes__ ....................2 00
Butter Ladles............................. ....................1 25
Rolling Pins................................. ....................1 00
Potato Mashers.......................... ....................  75
Clothes Pounders....................... ....................2 25
ClothesPins..................  ............ ....................  65
Mop Stocks.................................. ....................1 25
Washboards, single.................... ....................1 75
Washboards, double.................. ....................2 25
Diamond  Market....................... ....................  40
Bushel, narrow  band................ ....................1  60
Bushel, wide band..................... ....................1  75
Clothes, splint,  No. 1................ ....................3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2................ ....................3 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 3................ ....................4 00
Clothes, willow, No. 1................ ....................5 00
Clothes, willow, No. 2................ ....................6 00
Clothes, willow. No. 3.............   . ............. ....7  Oo

BASKETS.

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  hero pay  as  follows
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run..................... .......  @13 00
Birch, log-run............................. .......16 00@20 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2..................... .......  @25 00
Black Ash, log-run..................... .......  @13 00
Cherry,  log-run.......................... .......25 00®30 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2.................. .......45 00@50 00
Cherry,  cull................................. ....... 
@10 00
Maple,  log-run............................
....15 00® 17  00
Maple, soft,  log-run.................. .......12 00@14 00
Maple, Nos. lan d 2..................... ....... 
@20 00
Maple, clear, flooring................ .......  @25 00
Maple, white, selected............... .......  @25 00
Red Oak, log-run......................... .......  @18 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2...............
@22 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step plank....... ....... 
@25 (X)
W alnut, log-run..........................
@55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2.................. .......  @75 00
Walnuts,  culls............................ .......  @25 00
Grey  Elm, log-run..................... ....... 
@13 00
White Ash,  log-run....................
....14 00@16 00
Whitewood,  log-run.................. .......  @23 00

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Even  choice  fruit  is  In  light  de­
mand  Jobbers  hold  the  best  varieties  at 
*1.75 ^ bbl.

Asparagus—*2 $  doz.
Beans—Local buyers pay 50c@75o  $   bu.  for 
unpicked  and  hold  ordinary hand-picked  for 
*1.10@*1.15.

Butter—Creamery is expected  to  put in  an 
appearance next  week.  Dairy  is  in  fair de­
mand at 14@15c.

Butterine—Dairy rolls are a thing of the past 
for this season.  Solid packed is held at 13@15c.

Cabbages—About out of  market.
Cranberries—Dull  and  featureless.  Those 
having any on  hand  are  trying  to  unload  at 
any price offered.

Cheese—April full cream commands 12c.
Cider—About out of market.
Dried Apples—Quartered and sliced,  3@334c. 

Evaporated, 634@7c, according to quality.

Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—In plentiful supply and weaker.  Job­

bers pay 9@10c and sell for 10@llc.

Honey—Easy at 13@14c.
Hofls—Out of market.
Hay—Bailed is active and firm at *15 per ton 

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

Lettuce—13c $  ft.
Maple Sugar—8@9c.
Onions—Green,  20c  $   doz.  bunches.  Ber­

mudas, *3 $  hu. crate.

Pop Corn—Choice new commands  234c  fi  lb 

and old 3c $  lb.

Potatoes—Practically  no  market,  buyers 
generally  refusing  to  pay  more than 25c for 
either Rose or Burbanks.

Pieplant—4c $  lb.
Poultry—Scarce  and  high.  Fowls  sell for 
10@1034c; turkeys, 12c.  Ducks are out of mar­
ket.

Radishes—40c $  doz.
Spinach—*1 $  bu.
Strawberries—*8 $  24 qt. crate.
Sweet Potatoes—Out of market.
Turnips—25c $  bu.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—No change.  The city  millers pay as 
follows:  Lancaster,  85;  Fulse,  82c;  Clawson, 
82c.
Corn—Jobbing generally at 44@45e  in 100 bu. 
lots and 38@40c in carlots.
Oats—White, 40c in 6mall lots  and 35@30c  in 
car lots.
Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay *1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—No change. Fancy Patent, *5.50 $  bbl. 
in  sacks and  *5.75 in  wood.  Straight, *4.60  $  
bbl. in sacks and *4.80 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, *2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, *15  f* ton.  Bran, *15 
$  ton.  Ships, *18 V ton.  Middlings, *16 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, *18  ¥  ton.

Ibarbware.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AUGERS AND BITS.

 

BELLS.

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

Ives’,  old style........................................dis60&10
N.  H. C. Co.............................................. dis60&10
Douglass’................................................... dis60&10
Pierces’  .....................................................dis60&10
disflO&lO
Snell’s ................ 
Cook’s  ............................ 
dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine................................dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation.............................. dis50&10
Spring.......................................................dis 
40
Railroad................ ............................  .....*  13 00
Garden..................................   .................net 33 00
Hand..............................................dis  * 60&10&10
Cow..................
60&10 
Call.....................
30&15
Gong...........
Door, Sargent... 
60&10
Stove...................
Carriage  new  list.................................dis
Plow  .......................................
...dis  30&K 
Sleigh Shoe..... 
................................ .. 
,a
dis
Wrought Barrel  Bolts.................. !..!dls  60&10
Cast  Barrel  Bolts............................... dis  60&10
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs...................dis 
60
Cast Square Spring.............................dis 
60
Cast Chain  ...........................................dis  60&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............dis  60&10
Wrought Square . 
............................dis  60&10
Wrought Sunk Flush..........................dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
_ F1V ^ ................................................. dis  60&10
Ives’ Door.............................................dis 
60&10

d]H
dì A
__ dis
,__ dis

BOLTS.

BRACES.

40
garher..................................................dis* 
50&10
Backus..................................................dis 
Spofford................................................ dis 
50
Am. Ball................................................dis 
net
Well, plain  .................................................*  3 50
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 oo

BUCKETS.

BUTTS. CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured......................dis  70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed____dis  70&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  60&10
Wrought  Loose  Pin...........................dis  60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.......... dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned.......... dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
............................................ dis  60&5
Wrought Table.................................... dis  10&60
10&60
Wrought  Inside  Blind....................... dis 
Wrought Brass....................... 
75
dis 
80&10
Blind, Clark’s  ............................. dis 
B;ind, Parker’s.................................... dis  80&10
Blind,  Shepard’s..................................dis 
70

tipped. 

CHISELS.

CATRIDGES.

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

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

per  m * 65 
60
60
F\re, £• M.C. & Winchester  new  list50&10
Rim  lire, United  States.......................  dis50&10
Central Fire.............................................. dis30&10
Socket Firmer.......................................dis  75&10
dis  75&10
Socket Framing............................ 
Socket Corner..................................... "dis  75&10
Socket Slicks.........................................dis 
75
Butchers’Tanged  Firmer.............. . . dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firiners........  
clis 
20
Cold.................................................  ..'..net
COMBS.
Curry,  Lawrence’s...............
...dis  40&10
Hotchkiss  ....................................... ...dis 
25
Brass,  Racking’s.....................
........  
CO
B eer....................................
........   40&10
Fenns’.........................................
........ 
60

COCKS.

12 

dis 
dis 

ELBOWS.

HANGERS.

COPPER.
14x52,14x56,14 xOO...........

13 
GAUGES.
I   HAMMERS.

Planished, 14 oz cut to size.......
........$ f t   28
........I...  31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........
...............  21
Cold Rolled, 14x48..........................
...............  19
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit  Stock...............
40
...dis 
Taper and Straight Shank........
... dis 
40
Morse’s Taper  Shank..................... ...dis 
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in...........
doz net  *.85
Corrugated.......................
...dis  20&10
Adjustable.................................
...dis  34&10
EXPANSIVE BITS.
Claris, small, $18 00;  large, *26  00.
20
Ives’, 1, *18 00 ;  2, *24 00 ;  3, *30 00.
25
f i l e s —New List.
American File Association  List..
...dis  55&10
Disston’s ...............
...dis  ññ&lO
New  American........
...dis  55&10
Nicholson’s....................
...dis  55&10
Heller’s .....................
...dis  55&10
Heller’s  Horse Rasps..................... ...dis  55&10
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 
is

GALVANIZED IRON,
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
14 
15 
Discount, Juniata 50®10, Charcoal 60.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..............dis 
50
Maydole & Co.’S.....................................dis 
25
Kip’s .......................................................dis 
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s............................... dis  40&K
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.  434  14
334
Screw Hook and Eye,  A  ............. .. .net
.net
1034
Screw Hook and Eye %.......................net
.net
Screw Hook and Eye  &.......................net
.net
TH
Screw Hook and Eye,  %............
.net
734
Strap and  T .................................
dis
65
HOLLOW  WARE.
Stamped Tin Ware.....................
30
Japanned Tin  Ware..................
25
Granite Iron  Ware....................
25
Grub  1...............................;..............*1100, dis 60
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 60
Grub3.................................................   12 00, dis 60
45
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings............dis 
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings...........  
45
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings....... 
45
Door, porcelain, trimmings.................... 
45
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.....................   40&10
dis 45
Hemacite..................................... 
LOCKS—DOOR.
45
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis 
Mallory, Wheeler &  Co.’s..................... dis 
45
Branford’s ..............................................dis 
45
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 
60
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ........ dis 
60
Coffee,  Enterprise..................................... dis  25
Adze  Eye..................................... *16 00 dis 
60
Hunt Eye..................................... *15 00 dis 
60
Hunt’s.........................................*18 50 dis 20 & 10

and  longer...............................

LEVELS.
MILLS.

MATTOCKS.

HINGES.

KNOBS.

HOES.

NAILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

MOLASSES GATES.

I  lOd  8d 
2A 
*1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg *2  50
8d and 9 d adv...............................................  
25
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance......................................................   1 50
3d fine  advance.............................................. 
3 00
Clinch nails, adv................................ 
 
 
Finishing 
6d  4d
Size—inches  j  3 
2 
1A
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—2 65.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ............................ ........ dis 70
Stebbln’s Genuine............................ ........ dis 70
Enterprise,  self-measuring........... ........dis 25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled........ .......dis
50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent......................disBO&lO
Zine, with brass bottom..............................dis  50
Brass or  Copper.......................................... dis  60
Reaper......................................per gross, *12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................   50&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................dis  15
Sciota Bench................................................. dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.......................dis  15
Bench, flrstquality......................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__ dis20&10
Fry, Acme 
dis 60&10
Common, polished.................  
dis60&10
D rippin g...........................................$ f t  
6
40
Iron and T in n ed ............................. dis 
Copper Rivets and  Burs..................dis 
60

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

MAULS.
OILERS.

RIVETS.

PLANES.

PANS.

PATENT FLANIgAED IRON.

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

Broken packs He $  &> extra.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

Sisal, H In. and  larger..................................   8H
Manilla.............................................................  15
Steel and Iron.......................................dis
.. .dis
70
Try and Bevels.....................................dis
...dis
60
Mitre  .................................................... dis
.. .dis
20
SHEET IRON.
Con
nooth. Com.
Nos. 10 to 14.............................
*2 80
>4 20
Nos. 15 to  17.................................j  4 20
2 90
4 20
Nos. 18 to 21.............
4 20
3 00
Nos. 22 to 24............................4 20
4 20
3 10
Nos .25 to 26..................................   4 40
4 40
3 20
No. 27 ..............................................  4 60
4 60
ver 30 inohes
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, ^  lb...............
In smaller quansities, $   lb........
TINNER’S SOLDER.
No. 1,  Refined...........................................
Market  Half-and-half............................
Strictly  Half-and-half............................
Cards for Charcoals, *6 75.

All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  1 

12 50
15 00
16 50

TIN  PLATES.

534
6

TRAPS.

TIN—LEADED.

10x14, Charcoal..................................   5 75
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal...................................   7 25
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal..................................   6 25
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal................................  7 75
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal..................................   5 75
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal....
IX, 
IXX, 
14x20, Charcoal__
8  75 
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool__
10 77 
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal..
12 55 
20x28, Charcoal___
IX, 
15 50 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal..
6 50 
DX, 
100Plate Charcoal..
8 50 
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal..
10 50 
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal 
...............................
12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plato add 1 50  to 6 75
Roofing, 14x20,  IC.........................................   6 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX.........................................  6 75
Roofing, 20x28,  IC.........................................  11 00
Roofing, 20x28,  IX........................................  14 00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne....................... 5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7 00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 11 00
LX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne............  14 00
Steel. Game.....................................................G0&10
OneidaJCommuntity,  Newhouse’s ..........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
Hotchkiss’  .....................................................60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s..............................  
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................*1 50$ doz
Bright Market.........................
............dis  6734
Annealed Market....................
..........dis 
70
Coppered Market....................
..................... dis  62}4
Extra Bailing..........................
.......................  dis  55
Tinned  Market................
......................dis  6234
Tinned  Broom..................
.......................$ f t   09
Tinned Mattress...............
.......................$  B) 834
Coppered  Spring  Steel...........
.dis 40@40&1U
Tinned SpringSteel................
..........dis  50
Plain Fence...............................
..................$   f t   ‘¿A
Barbed  Fence...........................
Copper.......................................
. new  list net 
Brass...........................................
..new  list net
WIRE GOODS.
Bright............................................... dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes....................................... dis  70&10&10
Hook’s ..............................................dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes....................dis  70&10&10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine....................................... dis 
60
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis  75&10
Coe’s Patent, malleable...................dis75&10&10
BirdCages................................................... 
50
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  70&10
Screws,  new  list........................................ 
$3%
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate.................... di850&10&10
Dampers, American.................................  40&10
Forks, hoes, rakes and ail steel goods..60&10&5 
Copper  Bottoms.......................................  
19c

MISCELLANEOUS.

WRENCHES.

WIRE,

  60&10

LUMBER. LATH  AND SHINGLES. 

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co.  quote f . o. 
b. cars  as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M *44 00
Uppers, 1V4,1H and 2 inch..........................   46 00
Selects, 1 inch................................................  35 00
Selects, 134, 1H and 2  inch..........................   38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch...................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch...................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 134, 134 and 2 inch...........   25 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet..........................   16 nO
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet..........................   17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 teet__ _  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet...........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet..........................   17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet............................  16 00
No.  1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet............................  17 i¥>
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet.......  12
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   14
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................   13
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  feet........  11
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................  VZ
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet........................  13 1
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00®  9
A and  B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  33
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  27
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  13 1
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................  12 1
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 1
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 1
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch...............   20 1
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B....................  18 1
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.................................  14 ;
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common__  
9 1
Bevel Siding, 6 inch,  Clear.......................   20 1
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 ft............ 
ill
*1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 I
Dressed Flooring, 6 in,  C..........................   29 I
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.. No. 1, common..  17 I
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 common 
  14 I
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. *1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 I
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 (
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 6 in., No. 1  com’n  16 ( 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 ( 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, *1 00 additional.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 ;
3 1
< XX X 18 In.  Thin...................................... 
{ XXX 16 in................................................. 
2 ;
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
1  ’
No. 2or 5 in. C. B. 16  in..............................  M
Lath  ....................................................   1  75® 2 (

HIDES. PELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

Green__ $  ft
Part cured...
Full cured__ 8
Dry hides and 
kip s...........   6

HIDES.

@  6  jCalf skins, green
i@  7H  or cured__ 8  ®10
®  8?4  Deacon skins,
$  piece.......20  ®50
@ 8 
SHEEP PELTS.

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WOOL.

FUUS.

Old wool, estimated washed $  lb........  @25
Tallow......................................................  3H@ 3fc
Fine washed ^ lb 24®25IUnwashed...........  
2-3
Coarse washed... 18@22|
Bear............................................ .
Fisher  .........................................
Red Fox.......................................
Grey Fox..................:.................
Martin.........................................
Mink  ............................................
“  Spring...............................
Muskrat,  winter........................
fall.............................
..........................
kits 
Otter............................................
Raccoon.......................................
Skunk...........................................
Beaver,  <gi  lb...............................
Deer, $   ft....................................
C O O PE R A G E.

100® 12 00 
.2 00@6 oo
.1 00@1 25 
.1  00@1 20 
.  25® 1 00 
.  05®  70 
■18 
14 
8
.4 00@6 00 
..  10®  80 
.  10@1  25 
.1 50®3 00 
..  10®  25

12®
6®

IIEADS.

STAVES.
“ 

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

at Grand  Rapids.
Red oak flour bbl. staves...............M  6 25® 7 00
Elm 
M  6 25® 6 00
White oak tee staves, s’d and j’t.M  20 00@23 00 
White oak pork bbl. 
“  M  18 50@20 00
Tierce, dowelled and circled,set.... 
15®  16
*• 
Pork, 
•• 
.... 
12®  13
Tierce  heads,  square...............$  M  23 0S>@26 90
Pork bbl. M 
...............$  M  18 00@20 00
Basswood, kiln dried, set.................. 
4®  4H
White oak and hickory tee, 8 f’t.  M  11 00@12 50 
White oak and hickory  **  7Hf’t.M 10 00@11 00
Hickory  flour  bbl.......................... M  7 00® 8 25
Ash, round  “  **.......................... M  6 25® 7 00
Ash, flat racked, 6H Ft.................. M  3 50® 4 25
White oak pork barrels, h’d m’d.M  1 00® 110 
85®  95
White oak pork barrels, machine.. 
White oak land  tierces....................  1  15® 1 25
Beef and lard half barrels................. 
75® 90
Custom barrels, one head...............  1 00® 110
30®  37
Flour  b a r r e ls......,..,.,................. 
Produce  barrels.,;....,................  
 

BARRELS. 

HOOPS.

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23® 25

2Dv\>  (Boobs.

The following quotations are given  to show 
relative values, but they may be considered, to 
some extent, “outside prices,” and are  not as 
low as buyers of reasonable  quantities can, in 
most  instances, obtain  them  at.  It  will pay 
every  merchant  to  make  frequent  visits  to 
market, not only in  respect  to  prices,  but  to 
keep posted on  the  ever-changing  styles and 
fashions, many of which are never shown  “on 
the road.”

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS,

Androscoggin, 9-4. .17  iPepperell, 10-4..........19
Androscoggin, 7-4. .13H Pepperell, 114........ 22
Pepperell,  74..........13 Pequot,  74................. 14 H
Pepperell,  84.......... 15 j Pequot,  84.............. 16
Pepperell,  94.......... 17 IPequot,  94.............. 18

CHECKS.

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. .13

|Park Mills, No. 90..14
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz............... 8)4
Otis Apron.............   8)4
Otis  Furniture.......8)4
York,  1  oz...............  954
York. AA, extra OZ.12H

Plain.

OSNABURG

Plaid,

¡Lonsdale,  44..

Alabama................   6HI Alabama
Georgia..................  8J4 Augusta...............
Jewell  ..................  8  ¡Georgia.................
6H 
Kentucky  .............   8H Louisiana
L ane.......................8H|Tennessee .
..11H
Santee
HlToledo....................  65£
BLEACHED COTTONS.
Avondale,  36.
8J4lGreene, G  44 
5H
Art  cambrics, 36
9H Hill, 44...
Androscoggin, 44..  7ii|H ili 7-8.......
Androscoggin, 54. .12H Hope,  44................ 6H
Ballou, 44.  ............  &HiKing  Phillip  cam-
Ballou, 54...............  6 
brie, 44.................9H
Boott, 0 . 44........... SHiLinwood,  44............  7H
Boott,  E. 5-5
Boott,AGC, 44.......9H!Lonsdale  cambric.10H
Boott, R. 34..........  5H|Langdon, GB, 44...  8H
Blackstone,AA 44.  HHlLangdon, 46........... 11
Chapman, X, 44... 
H Mason ville,  44.......7H
Conway,  4-4.
ÖH Maxwell. 44...........   8
Cabot, 4-4__
6H New York Mill, 44.10H 
Cabot, 7-8.... 
6  ¡New Jersey,  44 ....  8 
Canoe,  34...
¡Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7H
Domestic,  36..........7H Pride of the West.. 10H
Dwight Anchor, 44.  8 
Pocahontas,  44 ....  7H 
Davol, 44...............  8
Slatorville, 7-8........ 6H
Fruit of Loom, 44..  7H  Victoria, ÁA..........9
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  6%  Woodbury, 44........ 5H
Fruit of  the  Loom,
Whitinsville,  4 4 ...  6% 
Whitinsville,7-8....  6
Gold Medal, 44..  .
OH  Wamsutta, 44........ 9X
Gold Medal, 7-8__
5H Williamsville, 36...  8H
Gilded Age............
Crown.................. SILESIAS.
..1734iMa8onville S
No.  10.................. ..Il Lonsdale...
Coin..................... ..10 ¡Lonsdale A..
Anchor................ ..15 Victory  O...
Blackburn.......... ..  8 Victory J ....
Davol.................... ..14 Victory  D...,
London................ ...12341¡Victory  K ...
Paconia............... ..12 Phoenix A ...,
Red  Cross........... ...  734 Phoenix  11...
Social  Imperial.. .. 16 Phoenix XX..
Masonville TS........   8

...  9H 
...14 
...  6H 
...  6H 
...  8H 
...10H 
...19H 
...10H

cambric,  4-4........11

new 

dress

FINE BROWN  COTTONS.

Arnold fancy.. 
Berlin solid__

HEAVY BROWN  COTTONS.

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS,

standard............. 7H|White  Manf’g  Co,

Albion,  grey........... 6
Allen’s  checks.......
Ailen’s  fancy........

PRINTS.
5HiGloucester.............
6 G loucestermourn’g .534
534 Hamilton  fancy... .6
5 V4 !H artel fancy............534
53%Merrimac D........... .6
534 Manchester........... .6
,5V4 Oriental fancy.........534
6  ¡Oriental  robes.........634
5  jPacific  robes............6
6 Richmond.................534
.634 Steel River...............534
.6 Simpson’s .................6
Conestoga fancy
.6 Washington fancy.,.5
Eddystone..............6
.5
Eagle fancy............. 5
Washington  blue's. 
5
Garner pink...
.5341
I p
Appleton A, 44__ 6  ¡Indian Orchard, 40.  7
Boott  M, 44...........   7H!Indian Orchard, 36.  6
Boston  F, 44..........6% Laconia  B, 74.......... 13
Continental C, 4-4..  6H Lyman B, 40-in.......9
Continental I), 40in  7% Mass. BB, 4-4..........  554
Conestoga W, 44...  634 Nashua  E, 40-in....  7H
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  4% Nashua  H, 44........¿H
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  5  ¡Nashua 0,7-8..........6
Dwight  X, 34........   43i¡Newmarket N ........ 5H
Dwight Y ,7-8..........5H  Pepperell E, 40-in..  6%
Dwight Z, 44..........5H Pepperell  R, 44....  634
Dwight Star, 44__ GHlPepperell 0,7-8....  53£
Dwight Star,40-in..  7H Pepperell N, 34__ &H
Enterprise EE, 36..  434 Pocasset  C, 44.......634
Great Falls E,44...  6H¡Saranac  R 
6
Farmers’ A, 44...
Saranac E...............7J4
DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.
Amoskea 
........... 7  ¡Johnson  ManfgCo,
Amoskeag, Persian 9 •
|  Bookfold............ 1234
styles....................
¡Johnson  ManfgCo,
Bates.......................6
dress  styles.........10H
Berkshire.............   6
¡Slaterville, 
dress 
Glasgow,  fancy...
styles......................6
Glasgow,  royal__ 6H  White Mfg Co, stap  634
Gloucester, 
| White Mfg Co, fane 7H
Plunket..................  734  Earlston...............  7H
Lancaster...............  7  ¡Gordon......................7
Langdown.............7  Greylock, 
Renfrew,  dress... . 9   1  sty le s................ .1034
Androscoggin, 7-4.. .15  ¡Pepperell.  10-4...... 22
Androscoggin, 8-4...16  Pepperell,  11-4...... ¡24
Pepperell,  7-4...... ,.15  Pequot,  7-4..........16
Pepperell,  8-4........17  Pequot,  84..............18
Pepperell,  9-4...... ,.19  ¡Pequot,  94..............20
Atlantic  A ,4-4.... .  634¡Lawrence XX, 44...  6*
Atlantic  H, 4-4__ ..  634 Lawrence XXX 40.■  7Sí
Atlantic  D, 4-4__ .  52Í\Lawrence LL,44....  5
Atlantic P.4-4...... .  5  ¡Newmarket N .........  534
Atlantic  LL, 4-4... .  43£¡Mystic River, 44.., 514
Adriatic, 36........... .  734 Pequot A, 44........ ..  614
Augusta, 4-4............  634¡Piedmont,  36..........  6
Boott  M, 4-4.......... .  6  (Stark AA, 4-4...........  634
Boott  FF, 4-4........ .  6J4 Tremont CC,44.....  414
Graniteville, 4-4... .  54í ¡Utica,  44................,10
Indian  Head, 4-4.. .  6¡K¡Wachusett,  4-4...... .  634
Indiana Head 45-in. 11HIW achusett, 30-in...  534
Amoskeag,  ACA...17  ¡Falls,XXXX..........18H
Amoskeag 
“ 4-4.. 12H Falls, XXX............ 15H
Amoskeag,  A .  11‘4  Falls, 
BB.................11H
Amoskeag,  B ......11  ¡Falls,  BBC,  36.......19H
Amoskeag,  C......10H Falls,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  D........10  ¡Hamilton,  BT,32..  9H
Amoskeag,  E.
934
Amoskeag, F .......
¡Hamilton,  H............834
Premium  A, 44..
H am ilto n   fa n c y ...  834
Premium  B........
Methuen AA...........II34
Extra44...............
Methuen ASA.........1634
Extra 7-8........
....1434¡Omega A ,7-8......... 1034
.15  ¡Omega A, 44......... 1234
Gold Medal 44.
13
CCA  7-8................... 1234 ¡Omega ACA, 7-8 
CT 4-4........................14
Omega ACA, 44 .... 15
RC 7-8........................14
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
BF 7-8....................... 16
Omega SE, 44.........27
Omega M. 7-8.........22
AF44....................... 19
Omega M, 44.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32....... 14
Shetucket SS&SSW 1134 
Cordis ACA, 32....... 15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32....... 15
Shetucket,  SFS  ...12 
Cordis  No. 2............ 14
Stockbridge  A __
Cordis  No. 3............ 13
Cordis  No. 4........... 11341Stockbridge fancy.  8
GLAZED CAMBRICS.
Garner....................  5  ¡Empire .
Hookset..................  5
Washington...........   414
Red  Cross...............  5
Edwards..................  5
Forest Grove..........
S. S. A Sons............  5
American  A ..........1434Old  Ironsides.......... 15
Stark A ................... 20  I Wheatland...............20
Boston....................  634|Otis CC......................9
Everett blue..........1134 Warren  AXA..........11
Everett brown...... 1134 Warren  BB............. 10
Otis  AXA................ 11  Warren CC.................9
Otis BB.....................10  ¡York,  blue............. 1234
Manville........... 434@634|S. 8. & Sons.......4314@5
Masonville.......534®634 ¡Garner............. 5H@634
Red  Cross...............  634 ¡Thistle Mills...........   6
Berlin......................  6  Rose..........................   634
Garner.....................  7  |
Brooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. T....... 55
J. a P.  Coats.......... 55
Willimantio 6 cord. 55 
Willimantlo 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew
ing thread............30
Armory..................  7
Androscoggin.......734
Canoe River...........   534
Clarendon............5@534
Hallnwell  Imp.......5%
Ind. Oroh. Imp....... 534
Laconia..................  7

Kcarsage................   7
Naumkeag satteen.  7 
Pepperell  bleached 8)4
Pepperell sat..........  8
Rockpòrt................   634
Lawrence sat..........6
Conegosat...............514

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills hall sewing.30 
Green  a  Daniels...25
Stafford..................25
Hall a Manning. ...28 
Holyoke..................26

9H¡Hamilton,  D.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

SPOOL COTTON.

CORSET JEANS.

GRAIN  BAOS.

TICKINGS,

WIGANS.

DENIMS.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock  Bark—Local  tanners  are  paying 
*4.75  per  cord  for  old bark, and making con­
tracts for new bark on  the  basis  of  $5.50 per 
cord, delivered, cash.
Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  *1.75 
ft  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.  After May 1, the  jobbers will 
offer  standard  goods  at 35 and 5 per cent, q 
and second quality at 35,5 and  10 per cent, ot

Doz.  Gross.

Universal Flue Stop, (the pat. arms 
make it  fit  any  hole,) each  one
painted.........................................  80 
Same, only with pat. ventilator.......1 10 
Stove  Cover  Lifters,  coppered,  al­

ways  cool......................................  30 
Flat Iron  Stands, coppered.............   36 

950
12 00

3 25
4 20

32

3 25

 

Coffee Pot Stands, 
Trowels, for  flower  or  garden use,

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all iron, coppered..............   28
polished steel, wood handle  75
Match Safes, Twin,  decorated........  35

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The  Household, 
self 
closing,  sanded,  cover 
handsomely  decorated  45 
Iron, The Everlasting..  70

H a m m e r s .

Per doz.  Per pro.
Hammers, Full size adze  eye..........  90  10 50

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•*  carpenters,polish­

ed, good stock.......1  80
Tack, all  iron,  coppered  25 
  32 

“ 
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No.  35,  large  size,  wood
handle............................  43  5  00

2 75
3 60

*• 
*• 

Tack, No. 25, wood hand.,
with  claw.....................   42  4  75
Tack, No. 2, oval hickory
handle, heavy polished 
head, strong claw........  70  8  00
Tack  Claw, strong,  full  size...........   72  8  25

Iron Drip Pans.
Best quality iron, with Kings, 8x10.  75 
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9x12.  90  10 50
9x14.1 00
10x15.125
12x17.1 60

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Per doz.

Muffin Pans, 6 on sheet, extra heavy and

well made.........................  1 50
........  2 00
Pocket Monkey Wrench, full polish’d steel  2 00

same 

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Match  Safes, nickel, pocket, spring

cover............................  75
pocket,  the  Mascot,
hammered..................2 25
Brad Awls............................................   35
Screw  Drivers,  machine,  polished,
ebony  handle............  34
carpenters, polished, 
cast steel, strong and
durable........ ............  80
18 
..  30

Gimlets, metal head, assorted size. 

•* 
“  large sizes only,

“  wood 
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No. 80, Vulcan, the  strongest  made

best  material..  45
Iron Fire Shovels.
for the price.................................  88
Victor, 20 in. hollow  handle.............   75
No. 1 Spring Balance—will weigh up

to 24 lbs. by M  lbs.........................  80

No.  51  Spring  Balance—will  weigh 

up to 50  lbs....................................2 00

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Chandelier  Hooks,  No.  9,  2*4 inch,
with plate 
No.  13,  3)4  inch,
with plate 

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Zinc Machine  Oilers, No. 0...............  42 
No. 2...............  65 
Door Stops, 2*4 in., rubber tips.......  3C 
Mincing Knives, single blade—  v . 

double  blade........   85 
Hand Screws,  wood..........................   45 

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45  5 00

60  7 00
4 75
7 50
3 50
42  4 75
10 00
4 75

32 

4 75

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No. 0 Wire Bowl  Strainers...............
No. 2 
handled,
largest size  ..................................
Cake Turners, iron  hand., retinned 
wood handle,  Russia
iron blade..................
polished black hand, 
extra Russia  blade.. 
Cage Springs,  brass,  no  bird  cage 
complete without this  graceful 
attachment.  Should be in every
stock..............................................
Cage Hooks, Japanned  and  braced
screw .............................
swinging........................

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Guspadores.
No. 2. Darling, asssorted colors and 
the 

decorations,  made 
heaviest  XXX tin.  See  cut... .2 00 

of 

Doz.  Gro.

Cottage, regular goods, ass’d colors  87  10 00
No. 40, Daisy,  larger  size than  the**

Cottage, same  decoration...........1 50

Rustic, earthernware, hand painted,
Regular  price  on this, 2 25;  we
offer  at............................................2 00

Nickle, same size as No. 40.  Former 
price,  6 50  33  doz.;  knock­
ed down  to..................................... 3 75

Iron, porcelain lined, solid cast iron, 

assorted colors, largest sizes— 8 50

No. 2646 Tea or Coffee Strainer........  40
Hand. Tea or Coffee Strainer, black 

enameled hand.  A good article 1 35 

Sherwood’s No. 2 Lustral wire, hand, 

strainer.........................................2 25

Note our Special Low Prices.

8  oz.  ftetinned  Tacks,  in  patent

wrappers,  per  doz. papers........   14

10  oz.  Retinned Tacks,  in  patent 

wrappers, per  doz. papers........   16

4 50

5 00

8 75

Dust  Pans,  Japanned,  full  sheet, 
heavier and better than the one 
usually sold.  A great improve­
ment  ..............................................  80 

Dust  Pans,  one-half  covered,  ele­
gantly decorated on best quality
XXX  tin.........................................2 10

Crumb Pans,  same  decoration  and 
size,  for  use  with  a  knife  or
brush at the table.........................2 10
Toy Dust Pans, Assorted  colors__   33 
3 75
Crumb  Trays and Brush.
Full  size.  Warranted  all  bristles.
Bright  assorted  colors.  Each 
one wrapped.................................. 2 25

5 25 
8 00

9 00

9 50 
2 00 
3 40

5 25

9 50

Crumb Treys and Brush, Continued. 

Extra Size.  The  new  “Shell”  pat­
inches,  elegantly 

tern,  9x10(4 
decorated.  Former price, 1  00..4 20 

Hammered  Brass,  new  article, 

finest goods.................................. 7  50

Doz.  Gross.

The “ Acme” Egg Beater.  The best 
and most popular beater  on the 
market.  We have always  beeu 
sold  ahead  on  this  article, but 
have  stock  enough  for all  this
time...............................................   72 

Magic  Key  Rings, nickeled, combi­

nation lock, 1 doz. on  card........  45 

No.  5900  Key  Ring.  The  common 
steel ring.  1 doz. assorted  sizes 
on card...........................................  15  1  50

8 00

5 25

wSgfSl

No. 5566 Police Whistles.

48 

5 50

9 25

x a

p H i

Doz.  Gi

Electric Light Sifter and Scoop com­
bined.  Durable  and  used  by 
everybody,  ldoz. in box.  $  box 1  95 

Eclipse Sifter.  Same as above only 
smaller, handle  on  top.  These 
cannot be replaced at the  price  90 
Pudding Pans, oval, pieced, 4 qt.  . . 8 9
Milk Cups, pieced, 2 qts....................  75
Sieves, stamped  “Champion,”........   88
Molasses Cans, pint. Japanned........  89
Tea Canisters,  1 lb., Japanned........   80
Coffee  “ 
........   80
Milk  Strainers....................................  80
Ladles,  malleable  iron  handles,  re­

tinned ....................................  41
Ebony handle, retinned, ex­
tra strong bowl....................  75
Battles, ABC.......................................   18
Carpenters’ Plyers,  the  best goods

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Pincers...........................  34
Nippers  .........................  34
Compasses.....................   32
Pepper Boxes, Japanned, larg’t size  20 
Dredge  “ 
50
Flesh Forks, retinned, 14 in.2 prong  48 
85
Butcher  Knives.
A Bargain Here,  The  regular 1879,
6  in.  Butcher  Knife,  full  size, 
sold by the trade everywhere at 
125.  We quote at.......................   89

18 in. 3  “ 

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10 00

10 50

Cullenders, footed............................. 1  35
Tea Kettles,  1  X  extra tin, copper

Wash Boilers, 1 X  extra tin, copper

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bottom,  No. 7.............4  75
I X   extra  tin,  copper
bottom.  No.  8...............6 50

bottom,  No. 7............ 1150
1  X  extra  tin,  copper
bottom, No.  8............ 14 00

Alcohol  Pocket  Stoves.  Just  the 
thing  for  picnics  or  to  heat 
milk, water, etc............................2

OLNEY, SHIELDS  &  CO.,

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H. LEONARD &  SONS.

P R IC E   HjIST.  H O U SEH O LD   IDESF^R-TlsZCElSrT.  P A R T   2 ,

Terms Gash  30 davs allowance on approved credit.  1 per cent, discount for cash in ten days.  No charge for package or cartage on this line of merchandise.  You  can  save  money  by 
b u v in eth ese  rapid  selling «roods o f mla s th e  following “knock down” quotations will convince any careful buyer.  This is the second section of our reduced Spring Price-List, and will be  fol- 
If you did not notice our first list showing new and greatly reduced prices on tinware, ask us  for  duplicate.
lowed^by others S a c h ^ w ^ S lc o m ^ e te d !   Ctafrthis out and keep them  together. 

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No. 1 Pot Cleaners, wire. 
No. 2

Doz.  Gross. 
..  90  10 50
..1 35

Coat Hanger,copper wire.with brace  33 

3 75

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Scissors, full polished, 4 in. Made for

us only.................................  45 
full polished, 6(4 in.  These
goods tested by their sales  75 

A Unionist on Boycotting.

The last number of  the  American Qltuss 
Worker, of  which F.  M.  Gessner, not  long 
since secretary of the Window Glass Work­
ers’  Association,  is  editor,  contained  the 
appended editorial:

“The boycott is only on trial in this coun­
try,  and the chances are  that the  verdict of 
the  American  people  will  be  against  it. 
Nothing  which  gives  ignorance,  malice, 
hatred, blind prejudice  and dare-devil reck­
lessness such destructive power,  and allows 
the demon in  the  human  heart  to  disport 
himself and  laugh and  joy  at the  ruin  he 
has brought to others, without being respon­
sible, can find approval  among  right-think­
ing men.  The  boycott  kills,  destroys, de­
vastates, annihilates the business it has tak­
en years of  patient  labor (the same kind of 
labor  which  the  Knights  call  ‘noble  and 
holy’) to build up. 
If it is wrong to blow a 
few  bricks  and  stones  in  the  shape  of  a 
building into the air and far  away, how can 
it be right to destroy the business carried on 
inside,  which is  by  far entitled  to  greater 
protection,  and should  be held  more sacred 
than the dumb walls of inanimate brick and 
stone?  The total disregard of  the rights of 
others involved  in  the  boycott must  array 
against it finally  all  men  who love  justice 
and right.  To commit wrong and inflict in­
jury is not the best way to obtain the rights 
we seek.  We know well  there  is  another 
side to this  question.  We  hear  some  one 
say,  ‘We but imitate the example of capital, 
set in numerous instances.’  But  numerous 
instances do  not  establish  a  principle and 
make  wrong  right.  The  example  set  by 
capital,  if  wrong,  should  not  be  followed. 
At best that is only a coward’s reason which 
cannot rise above old  Adam’s ‘She gave me 
and I did eat.’  A man’s labor is his capital. 
If one is holy the other must be held sacred. 
By labor one  is enabled to feed,  clothe and 
care for his  family.  By  business  another 
portion  of  the  community  does  the  same 
thing. 
If  one  punishes  as  a  crime  the 
maiming of the human  body because it dis 
ables one from  effective  labor,  why should 
it not take cognizance of  the  crippling of a 
business  whereby  another citizen  gains  a 
livelihood?  A  man’s  business  consists 
largely of his good name,  of  the opinion of 
his neighbors, of  the  esteem in which he is 
held  in  the  community,  of  his  reputation 
and character.  To undermine that in a star 
chamber session of a  trades  assembly room 
by a one-sided  trial, from  hearing only one 
side,  and  that  necessarily  biased,  to  sit in 
judgment and give the accused no chance to 
make a defense, to decree that  his business 
must be annihilated,  and  he and his family 
reduced to beggary, or  make  such a servile 
public  apology  as  no  right-feeling  man 
would exact of another and  no self-respeet- 
[ing man would subscribe to, all  this  seems 
barbarous 
resembles the methods of the 
rude children of the  African  jungles  more

than it befits  citizens  of  a  republic.  And 
for what  offense  all  this?  For  exercising 
the  constitution  guaranteed  freedom  of 
speech and o f the  press.  For  holding  an 
opinion and  fearlessly  expressing  it.  For 
uttering one’s  honest thought, regardless of 
what others  say, think or  do.  For  think­
ing  different  from  other  people.  For  not 
being  a  straddlebug,  a  Janus-faced  every­
body’s man.  For believing there  are  good 
and bad men in and out of all  labor unions. 
For believing that a man has a right to work 
and earn  bread  for  his  mother, wife  and 
children even if he  does  not belong to a la­
bor organization.  For  trying  to  run one’s 
business, in which he has invested the hard- 
earned money saved  by ‘honest  labor’ as to 
him seems best.  For  selling  goods to cus­
tomers after  the  Salesmen’s  Assembly has 
rung the curfew.  The right of the  individ­
ual to avenge or  punish  another  is  denied 
by civilized people, and has been  delegated 
to 
the  properly  constituted  authorities. 
The  creation  of  a  tribunal  before  which 
men  are 
tried  for  pretended  offences, 
often  more  imaginary  than  real;  to  set 
up  a  lot  of 
judges  who 
think  they  have  a  right  to  banish  busi­
ness men from our cities, destroy their trade, 
embitter their lives, control  their  thoughts, 
prescribe their acts or force  them to  bow a 
vassal’s head to their self-constituted author­
ity,  is indeed  a  usurpation of  power which 
the American people once  denied to a king. 
The power of boycott is being abused, and the 
time is near at hand when  men  will  refuse 
to  obey  the  behests  of  such  committees 
which of late have declared boycotts for the 
most trivial grievances.  By  what  right do 
we practice that  which we  claim is  wrong 
if done by others?”

irresponsible 

Chalk  and  water  are  evidently  losing 
their prestige  in  San Francisco  as a substi­
tute  for  milk.  Chemicals  are  now  being 
brought into use for the  purpose,  as  a New 
York Tribune correspondent  in  the Golden 
City thus writes  his  paper:  “The  discov­
ery has been  made  that a  large  proportion 
of the  milk sold here  is made from  a mix­
ture of nitrate of potash,  glycerine and oth­
er chemicals.  This is an invention of a phy­
sician, and much  money has been  made by 
the sale of the spurious compound.  Expos-, 
ure has  hurt  the  vile  business  here,  how­
ever, and  one  of  the  principals  has  gone 
East to introduce the compound in  Chicago 
and elsewhere.  New Yorkers should be on 
the lookout, as it is Impossible for  an  ordi­
nary person to distinguish between the spur­
ious and genuine articles.”

Although  Winnipeg  is  the  headquarters 
of the  Hudson  Bay Fur  Company, it is al­
most  impossible for  a  stranger  to buy furs 
there.  The company’s agents  will not sell, 
and the only chance a traveler  has  to get a 
robe  or  skin, of any  sort  is  from  the In­
dians.

O. W. BLAIN & CO.,

-DEALERS  IN-

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled at lowest market price.  Corres­
NO.  O  IONIA  ST.

pondence solicited.  APPLES  AND  POTATOES in car lots  Specialties. 

H E S S ,
P E R  K I  IT S   <&
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  132  and  124  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 

WE CARRY A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE.

POTATOES.

W e m ake 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  m arket  price  and  pros­
pects.  Liberal cash advances made on car lots when desired.

Agents for Walker’s Patent Butter Worker.

EARL  BROS.,  Commission  Merchants
See  Our  Wholesale  Quotatiohs  else­

X 5 7 S. W a te r  St.? O liicago, 111.

Reference:  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK. * 

where in this issue and write for

_________________

Special  Prices  in  Gar  Lots. 
We are prepared to mate Bottom Prices on a n y tlp  e handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON
RINDGE, BERTSCH 4  GO,
BOOTS  AND  SH O ES.

3 Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich,

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

14 and IG Pearl Street,

Grand Rapids, Mich,

And IMPORTERS  OP  TRAS.

f

Our Stock is complete in all branches.  New, fresh and bought 

a t latest declines and for cash.

W e  have  specialties  in  TOBACCOS  and  CIGARS  possessed 

oy no other jobbers in the city.
A£o-AJ;piri’s  P e a v e y  IPluig.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOB

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

ALSO  SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

MEXTDSX.  e f t   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.

15c per pound.

16c per pound.

33c per pound.

Leader Fine Cut,  t

$30 per M.
Til©  B e st  in   til©  'W orld .

Leader Smoking,
Leader  Cigars,
Leader  Shorts,
Clark, Jewell & Co.,
F. J. LAMB &  CO.,,
Fruits,  Vegetables,

Dwinell, Hayward & Co.’s Royal Java Coffee.

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

B u tter, B gg0 , O lieese, E tc. 

m

W holesale Agents for th^L im a Egg Crates and Fillers.

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

