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78  Oanal  st.

It  was  a  bleak  October  morning,  and 
Walter Crump,  cashier of the  firm  of  Cook 
&  Mason,  quickened  his  pace  as  he  made 
his way along  State  street  to  the  scene  of 
his daily toil. 
It was not that he  feared  to 
be late  that  Mr.  Crump  was  walking  fast. 
During all the dozen  years  that  he  had sat 
upon a high stool from eight o’clock  in  the 
morning until six  at  night,  Mr.  Crump had 
never been known to  be  late  for  his  work. 
A more methodical, careful man never hung 
over a ledger or balanced a cash book.

At  length  he  reached  the  well-known 
staircase,  opened the office  door,  and  stood 
still  for  a  moment  in  surprise.  Y'oung 
Carter,  the assistant bookkeeper,  was,there 
before him,  already at his work.  Mr. Crump 
smiled grimly.

“So  you’ve  made  a  beginning,  young, 

man,” he said.  “Well,  we’ll  see.”

Carter’s face  Hushed  a  little  as  he  bade 
the older man good morning.  The fact was 
that Crump,  who had married rather  late in 
life,  had  a  bright-eyed  daughter  named 
Anna,  with whom Robert Carter  had fallen 
Fery much in love. 
It was only on the pro- 
ceding  evening  that  things  had  come  to  a 
crisis,  and  somewhat  to  the  young  man’s 
surprise.  Mr.  Crump  had rejected the pro­
posed engagement.  He  did  not like young 
Carter, 
lie did not  approve  of  the  young 
fellow’s fashionably cut  collars,  nor  of  his 
scarf-pin,  nor of his cane.  Such things Mr. 
Crump considered were the signs of a frivol­
ous  disposition  and  unsteady  habits.  Nor 
did Mr.  Crump approve Qf  the  snatches  of 
comic songs  which  Carter  was  continually 
humming.  He  suspected  that  the  young 
man  frequented  variety  shows,  and  spent 
more  money  on  cheap  cigars,  novels,  and 
outings than was proper for one in his posi 
tion.  Besides,  Mr. Robert  Carter  was  us­
ually the last of all the  clerks  to  make  his 
appearance in the morning, and this was, in 
Mr.  Crump’s eyes,  a very bad  sign. 
It was 
plain to the  old  man  that  Carter  was  now 
making an attempt  to  earn  his  good  opin­
ion.

“Time will show—time  will  show,” said 
Mr. Crump, in rather an aggravating way, as 
lie  unlocked  his  safe,  and  set  about  his 
work.

Soon the other clerks began to arrive, and 
then came Mr.  Mason, the acting partner,  a 
tall,  pale  man,  with  long  black  whiskers. 
Mr.  Cook,  the senior partner,  only  came  to 
the office twice a week, to examine the bank 
book  and  see  how  things  were  going  on. 
Mr.  Mason opened the letters,  and  soon ap­
pealed  at  Mr.  Crump’s  desk  with  a small 
sheaf of them in his hand.  Thftse were let­
ters  in  response  to  which  small  sums  of 
money  had  to  be  sent,  and  it belonged to 
Mr.  Crump to  attend  to  them,  for  he  had 
authority  to  sign  checks  for  the  firm  for 
sums up to 8500.

Mr.  Crump first  made  a  list  of  the  pay­
ments he had to make and then went  to his 
safe for his check-book.  As he opened it to 
write the first check he was surprised to find 
that  the  counterfoil  belonging  to  the  last 
check which had been taken  from  the bool 
was not filled up.  He could  hardly believ 
his eyes.  Never in all his life  had he writ­
ten a check without first filling up the coun 
terfoil with particulars  of  the  amount,  the 
date,  and  the  person  to  whom  the  check 
was sent.  But his surprise  changed to dis 
may when  he  took  out  his  cash  book  and 
found that he had  only  drawn  nine  checks 
the  day  before,  the  counterfoils  of  which 
were all properly filled up,  whereas a  tenth 
check hail been torn out of the book.

For a moment he sat as if stunned.  Could 
any one have stolen  the  blank  check?  He 
always kept the key to  the  interior  portion 
of  the  safe,  in  which  he  kept  the  check 
book;  but  it  was  just  possible  that  some 
one might have got hold  of  the  key,  taken 
an impression of it in  wax,  and  had a false 
key made.  He had  heard  of  such  things,
He leaned his head on his  hands  and  tried 
to think.  When had he closed the safe last 
night?  About  4  in  the  afternoon,  before 
any one had left the office for  the  day;  for 
he remembered that he had  gone  out on  an 
errand  for  the  firm  shortly  after  4 o’clock 
and that  when  he  got  back  at  half-past 6 
everybody  had  left,  and  {he  place  was  in 
darkness.

If the blank check  had  been  stolen,  the 
theft must have been  committed  last  night 
—or  this  morning?  Could  the  safe  have 
been opened before his arrival?  He remem­
bered  Carter’s  unusually  early appearance, 
and threw a suspicious  glance  at the young 
man.

carefulness which the  cashier  had  so  long 
j enjoyed.  And  he  fully  expected  that  in 
I two days at most he would get a letter from 
Grand  Rapids  enclosing  the  slip  of  paper 
which had cost him  so much anxiety.

The next day was Tuesday;  and  accord­
ing to his invariable custom on  that  day  of 
the week,  Mr.  Cook made his appearance in 
the  office.  Business  had  not  long  com­
menced,  when everybody  in  the  establish 
ment  was  aware  that  something  unusual 
had  happened.  Mr.  Mason  was  closeted 
with  his  partner  for  a  few  minutes,  and 
then  went  hurrying  out  of  the  office,  re­
turning  with  Mr. Jeffreys,  the  manager  of 
the First National  Bank,  at which  the firm 
kept their account.

Then  Mr.  Jeffreys  left,  and  came  back 
accompanied by one of  his  cashiers.  Then 
a  bell  was  rung  and  Mr.  Crump  was sent 
for.

With a beating heart  and a cold sweat on 
his brow the  cashier  obeyed  the  summons.
“Bring  your  check  book,  Mr.  Crump,” 

said the senior  partner.

This  was  done,  and  a  tall  man,  whom 
Mr.  Crump had not noticed up to that time, 
stepped  up  to the  table  and glanced at the 
check book along with Mr.  Cook.

“I thought so,” exclaimed the  old gentle­
man.  “Here’s  the  place  from  which  the 
check  was  taken;  Here  is the counterfoil. 
The numbers correspond.  What made  you 
do it.  Crump?  You are the last man in the 
world from  whom  I  would  have  expected 
such conduct.”

“Do  what,  sir?”  faintly  uttered  Mr.

[ Crump.

“Do what?” echoed  his  employer  with 

contemptuous smile.  “Who did you get  to 
do this little bit of work for you?”

As  he  spoke  Mr.  Cook  tossed  a  checl 
across the table.  Mr.  Crump took it up and 
read:  “The  First  National Bank Pay Jos, 
Beckman, or  order,  Three  Thousand,  Two 
Hundred and Ten Dollars.  Cook & Mason.

He looked up bewildered.  The  tall  man 

in the frock coat watched him narrowly.

“Who is this Beckman?” asked Mr. Cook 
“I don’t  know,  sir.”
“You  don’t  know?  You  see  that  the 

check has come from  your book?”

“Yes,  sir.”
“Did you give it to any one?”
“No,  sir.”
“Did you miss it?”
“Yes,  sir;  I missed  it yesterday;  and 
wrote  to  Spring  &  Company,  to  whom 
had sent the one before  that,  thinking  that 
I had torn out two by mistake.”

“That  rather  points  to  his  innocence, 
whispered Mr.  Cook to the  tall  man  at  his 
elbow.

“It may be  only a  clever  plant, sir, 

turned the other.

“You did not  put  that  letter  among  the 
others to)be copied in  the  letter-book,” put 
in  Mr.  Mason.

Crump hung his head.
“Is the check—” lie began,  after a pause.
“Of course  it  is  forged,”  answered  Mr. 

Cook.

“And was it  paid?”
“Yes;  it was paid yesterday.”
Mr. Crump shuddered, took a long breath, 

and waited.

“Now,  Crump,  you  had  better  make  a 
clean  breast  of  it,” said  Mr.  Cook  after a 
few moments’ silence.  “Tell  us  who  this 
man Beckman is;  tell us where  the  money 
has  gone—it  can’t  be  all  spent  already— 
and it will be none the worse for you.”

Mr.  Crump felt a choking sensation in his 
throat;  but he plucked  up  courage  enough 
to  say,  “I  have  told  you  already,  sir, 
that I know nothing about it. 
It was  only 
yesterday  morning  that  I  noticed  that  a 
check had been taken from the book.”

“Why  did  you  not  mention  it?” asked 

Mr.  Mason

“I thought I had tom ¡tout  myself along 
with the one I sent  to  Spring  &  Company.
“But it  may have  been  torn  out  by  any 

one in the office during  the day before?”

“Yes,  sir,”  replied  Crump.  “I don’t see 
how any one could have got at the book,  for 
I am very careful;  but it is possible.”

“The thief has probably got a profession­
al forger to copy the signature from  an  old 
letter,” said Mr. Mason, taking  up the  slip 
of  paper.  “It  is  beautifully  imitated. 
I 
would not have detected it myself.”

“It is plain that  the thief must have been 
some one in the  office,  though  probably  he 
had an  accomplice  outside,”  said  Mr.  Jef­
freys.  “A stranger would not have known 
that the firm had so large a  balance  at  the 
moment. 
Is there any one of  your  fellow- 
clerks  whom  you  think  may have  had  a 
hand in  it?”  he added,  turning to the  cash­
ier.

Then a simpler solution  of the matter oc­
curred to him. 
It  was  very possible  that, 
in tearing out the last check he  had  drawn 
the day before, he had torn out two by mis­
take,  folded them up and sent  them  off  to­
gether.  This would, of course, account for 
the appearance of the check  book.  He  de­
termined to write at once  to Spring & Com­
pany,  to  whom he  had sent his last  check, 
and  ask  whether  a  blank  check  had  not 
been sent to them by mistake.

“No,  sir.”
“Is there any one  who  keeps  loose  com­
pany,  or  any  one  who  is  in  the  habit  of 
spending too much money?”
Mr.  Crump thought of  Carter,  and  hesi­
tated for a moment.
“Speak,  sir,  if  you  are  wise,”  said  Mr.
Cook sternly.
I  have sometimes thought that Mr.  Car­
ter spent a good deal on  dress,  and  so  on; 
Then the questi<$fr  arose—should he men­
but  not  more  than  many young men,” re­
tion ¡the  circumstance  to  Mr.  Mason?  On 
plied Mr. Crump.  But as  he spoke he sud­
consideration  Mr.  Crump  thought  that  it 
denly remembered Robert Carter’s  unusual­
ly early appearance on the preceding  morn­
was  not  necessary  to  do  so.  Mr.  Mason
ing,  and  a  suspicion  arose  in  his  mind. 
was rather a hard man to  deal  with,  and  a 
Without intending it he allowed his thoughts
confession  would  ruin  the  character  for | to appearln his face,  so that  his  protest^

“I  know  nothing  whatever  against  Mr. 
Carter”—had but little  effect.
Crump  was  sent  back  to  his  desk,  and 
Carter was sent for.  He came back  to  the 
clerk’s room in a state of great  indignation, 
having  strenuously denied  any  knowledge 
whatever of the forgery.  The  result  of  a 
consultation between the bank manager and 
the partners was that,  as  Crump could  not 
account for the loss  of  the  check,  he  had 
probably stolen it;  and that,  although there 
was not evidence enough  to  prosecute him, 
he must be dismissed at  once.  As  to  Car­
ter,  they determined to allow him to remain 
where he was,  and  keep  a  close  watch  on 
his proceedings.
Poor Walter Crump went home  that  day 
like one in a dream.  He was  dismissed  as 
the accomplice of a  forger!  And  he  could 
not  say that,  in the  circumstances,  he  had 
been treated unjustly.  The  check had been 
entrusted  to  him,  and  he  had  lost it. 
It 
was,  apparently, at least,  his fault that  the 
crime  had  been  committed.  He  almost 
wondered  that  he  had  not  been  sent  to 
prison.
When he reached his  own  house  lie  sat 
down in front of the fire without  speaking, 
and  even  his  favorite  daughter,  Annie, 
could not make him say what troubled him. 
How could he tell his children that he, their 
father, had been dismissed  from  his  situa­
tion on suspicion of having  robbed  his  em­
ployers of thirty-two hundred  dollars.
About 8 o’clock  in  the  evening  a  knock 
came to the old man’s door. 
It was Robert 
Carter.  Crump started to his  feet in indig­
nation.  Was  this  fellow,  whom  he  sus­
pected to be the real criminal, to  come  and 
gloat over him in his misery?
But  before  he  could  speak  Carter  had 
come into the room and  held  out  his  hand: 
“1 came to tell you, Mr. Crump,” said he, 
“how  sorry  we  all  are  in  the office about 
this.  None of us believe  you had anything 
to do with it, of  course. 
It  will  all  come 
out,  likely,  in a day or two.”
The old man stared at him  for  a  minute 
or two without speaking and without taking 
Carter’s hand.
“Go way!” he cried  at last.  “How  dare 
you come here to insult me with  your  sym­
pathy?  You!  I fancy you are the one who 
knows most about it.”
Annie turned from one to the  other  with 
bewildered,  terrified looks.  Fortunately she 
was the only other one of the family  in  the 
room.
“What is it,  father?” she  cried,  clasping 
her  hands.  “What  is  it  you  say  Robert 
knows more about than any one  else?  Oh, 
tell me what has happened?”
“Go to your room, girl,” said  her  father, 
sternly.  “There is trouble  enough without 
your meddling in it.  Stop,”  he  continued, 
as the girl slowly left the room.  “You  see 
that young man. 
I forbid  you to  see  him, 
to write to him,  to receive  any letters  from 
him.  He—you will know  soon enough.” 
“What,  sir!” cried Carter,  his  eyes  blaz­
ing witii indignation.  “Do  you  say that I 
—that I  took the check?  Why,  it  was  au 
impossibility,  even  if  I had  wished  to  do 
such a thing.”
“Leave my house,  sir!” was the old man’s 
reply,  as he reseated himself  in  his  chair.
He had by this time persuaded  himself that 
in some unguarded moment lie had  left  his 
" ey in the  safe,  that  Carter  had  taken  an 
impression of it and  had  a  false key made, 
and that lie had got  some  clever  forger  to 
imitate the firm's signature.  But  he  knew 
that no one would believe him, that appear­
ances  were  all  against  him,  and  that  it 
would  be  impossible  for him  now even  to 
earn his bread.  He looked  upon  Carter  as 
the man who  had  ruined  him,  and  in  his 
misery  and  unreasonableness  he  fancied 
that one of the young man’s  objects was  to 
throw suspicion upon him, to reduce him to 
poverty and make it  impossible  for  him to 
refuse  to  accept  him  as  Annie’s husband.
But in this the old man determined lie would 
never yield.
Carter protested once more against the in­
justice of the cashier’s  suspicions, and then 
left  the  room.  At  the  street  door lie  met 
Annie,  who was waiting for him.
“Oh,  Robert,”  she  exclaimed  in  a  low 
oice,  “tell me what has happened.” 
“Somebody  at  the  office  has  forged  a 
check for over 83,000,” he replied.  “It had 
been taken  from  your  father’s book,  anti 
and—he fancies I took it—I, who had noth­
ing to do with Ills safe whatever.”

time  to  reach  the  street  when  the  young 
man  left  his  desk,  went  into Mr.  Mason’s 
room,  entered  a  small  closet  in  which  a 
wash-basin was fitted up, ami  proceeded  to 
wash his hands.  This was  a  high  misde­
meanor,  especially  as  accommodation  was 
provided for clerks in  another  part  of  the 
building,  but Robert  Carter  preferred  Mr. 
Mason’s closet, and always used it when he 
had a chance of doing so.
On this occasion,  however,  he had  barely 
begun his ablutions when he heard the outer 
door of the office  slam, and  then  he  heard 
some one,  whom he judged  to  be  his  em­
ployer,  come into the  room.
Fortunately  the  door  of  the  closet  was 
nearly closed,  so  that  the  young  man was 
invisible  to  any  one  in  the  center  of  the 
room.
“He has only come back for his umbrella,” 
said Robert to himself;  “there is no need of 
niy moving. 
If I keep quiet he will be gone 
in a minute.  No!  Some one else has come 
in with him.  What shall  I do?”
Mr.  Mason had already closed the  double 
doors which led from his room  to  the outer 
office,  and Carter was screwing up his cour- 
age to the point of confessing his  presence, 
when the first words spoken by the stranger 
fell upon his  ear,  and  made  him  stand  as 
still as a . ‘one.
“You can take your choice, as  I  said  in 
my letter.  Hand me over another hundred, 
or  I’ll  turn  State’s  evidence.  What’s five 
hundred  dollars  out  of  three  thousand. 
I 
had all the risk,  ami you—”
Silence—will you?”  hissed  out Mr. Ma­
son,  in  an  angry  whisper.  “I  can’t  give 
you five hundred dollars,  for  I  haven’t  got 
it.  But I will give  you  one  hundred  now, 
and one  hundred  next  month.  After  that 
you can  ‘peach’ if  you  like,  for  you  shall 
get no more out of me.  Anything would be 
better  than  living  a  slave  to  a  man  like 
you.”
“Hand over the hundred  then,”  said  the 
other after a pause;  anti  then  there  was  a 
slight rustle of bank-notes.
“You had better leave the country,”  said 
Mr.  Mason  in  a  low  tone.  “The  bank 
cashier  who  cashed  the  check  might meet 
you in the street.”
“I’ll  take  care  of  that,”  replied  the 
stranger;  and after a  few  more  words  had 
passed the two men left the office.
All  this  time  Carter  had  been  standing 
half  paralyzed,  first  by  fear  of  discovery 
and then by astonishment.  But  he  under­
stood this much,  that this stranger  was the 
man who had cashed the  forged  check  un­
der the name of Beckman;  that Mr.  Mason 
knew it,  and  so  far  as  denouncing  him  to 
the  police  was  giving  him  the  money  to 
hold his tongue.  Yes;  and more than this, 
the stranger was threatening  to expose Mr! 
Mason.
What it could all mean Carter  could  not 
comprehend;  but he saw  one  thing  plainly 
enough.  The important point was  to  find 
out who this man was,  and  where lie  lived.
In  a  moment  Carter  ran  out  of the room, 
siezetl his hat,  and rushed down stairs.
lie  was  just  in  time.  Mr.  Mason  was 
leaving the foot of the stairs, going  up  the 
street,  while a  well-dressed  man,  who  had 
evidently just parted  from him,  was  walk­
ing rapidly in the opposite direction.  Carter 
followed the stranger  to the Palmer House, 
where lie took a seat in the  front  end  of  a 
cable car.  Carter sat down in the  rear  end 
of the car and watched the man intently un­
til be alighted and entered  an inferior-look­
ing house by means of a night-key.
“Ah!” said Carter to himself,  “I have yon 
now!”
He  waited  a  few 
moments,  and  then
knocked at the door.
It was answered by a dirty, ship-shod girl. 
“Does  Mr.  Williamson  live  here?”  in­
“No,  he doesn’t.”
“Wasn’t that Mr.  Wiiliamson  who  came 
in  just  now—Mr.  Williamson,  of  Benton 
Harbor?”
“No,  it wasn’t.  That  was our first-floor, 
Mr.  Cromer.  You’ve made a mistake.”
“So  I  have.  Beg  pardon,  I’m  sure”— 
and Carter turned away.
Carter  then  went  to  the  nearest  police 
station  and  narrated  his  discovery.  That 
night  Mr.  Cook  received  a  visit  which 
caused him some surprise—and  so  did  Mr. 
Cromer.  No sooner was the  latter  gentle­
man in the hands of the police  than he con­
fessed the whole matter.
Mr. Mason had known  Mr.  Cromer,  who> 
was a scoundrel with a  respectable  appear­
ance and a plausible manner, for some time, 
and  had  selected  him  to  be  his tool.  He 
had sent poor Crump out on  an  errand  the 
afternoon  before  the  morning  when  the 
check was missed;  he had come back to the 
office after the  clerks  were  gone,  and  had 
opened Crump’s safe with his own  key and 
abstracted the blank check.  This  check he 
had  himself  filled  up  and  signed with  the 
firm's signature in the usual  way,  so  there 
was little wonder  that  the  cashier  at  the 
Weeks and months went by, and the mys­
bank  paid  it  without  any  suspicion.  H e 
tery of the forged check remained unsolved. 
had,  no  doubt,  calculated  that  the  bank 
Mr.  Cook insisted that the firm should  bear 
would have to bear the loss;  but, as it  was, 
the  loss,  which  Mr.  Mason  thought  the 
he had cheated Mr.  Cook out  of  two  thou­
bank  ought  to  'repay,  as they were legally 
sand dollars,  for, as  he  himself  had  but  a 
responsible for the money.
third share in the business,  only  one  thou­
“No,” said the old gentleman,  “they may 
sand out of the three had to come out of his. 
be legally responsible, but I  don’t  see  that 
own pocket.
they ought to suffer.  The  check itself was 
Mr. Mason saved his  partner the  trouble- 
in our hands,  and we allowed a thief  to get 
of trying whether he could make him crimi­
a hold of it.  The bank  did  all they  could. 
nally responsible for what he had done;  for 
The forged signature is  so  like  yours  that 
when the police went  to  look  for  him  he 
no  one  could  tell  the  difference;  and  the 
had  disappeared.  Probably  lie  had  seen 
bank  cashier  tells  me  that  the  man  who 
Robert  Carter  following  his  accomplice, 
cashed it showed  him  letters  addressed  to 
and,  scenting  danger,  had  saved  himself 
himself as  ‘Joseph Beckman’  (the name  on 
while there was time. 
It turned out  after­
the check),  and showed  him  liis  card,  say­
ward that he had  been  speculating  largely 
ing that he was an attorney.  Of course  he 
on ’change and was sorely in need of money 
wasn’t.  The thing has been  most  cleverly 
to pay his losses. 
It was some  consolation 
planned,  and I am quite at  a  loss  to  think 
to  Mr.  Cook  to  think  that  his  dishonest 
who  put  that  poor  fellow Crump up to it; 
partner had not profited much  by his  theft.
but it seems to me we can’t let the bank suf­
As for Walter Crump, he was  offered his. 
fer.  We  cannot  afford  to  let  it be known 
old place,  with an apology and a  handsome- 
we  had  done  so.  No  other  bank  would 
present to boot;  and he still keeps the books- 
keep our account.”
which he had so  long  under  his  care.  He 
Of course poor  Walter  Crump  could  not 
has not quite overcome his prejudice against 
find  another  situation,  though  he  would 
Robert Carter,  and he always regarded it as 
have been glad to take the  lowest  place  in 
a hard thing that he should have to owe  his. 
au  office.  The  wolf  came  to  his  door  in 
reputation and deliverance  from  poverty to 
earnest.  Annie,  who had a situation in the 
that  particular  young  gentleman.  How­
city schools,  was the  chief  support  of  the 
ever,  as  things  were  he  could  do no less 
family;  and the  poor girl was pale and thin 
than inform Carter that he had done him an 
from long hours and scanty meals.
Injustice, and that he would be happy to see 
It was about  five  months  after  the  day 
him in the evening whenever  it  suited  him 
when the cashier was dismissed in  disgrace 
to  call.  The  color  came  back  to  Annie’s 
that  one  day  Mr.  Mason  left  his  office at 
cheek and the  light  to  her  eyes  when  she 
half-past 1, his usqal hour for going  out  to 
heard the good news;  and it was not many 
lunch.  Half-past 1 was also the time when
weeks before she became the promised wife
it was Robert Carter’s turn to go out for half  of the young man who discovered the secret 
an  hour;  and  Mr.  Mason  had  hardly had j of the Mysterious Forgery

“And do they imagine  it was-----”
Robert was silent.
“And you came here to say you didn’t be­
lieve it?  Oh,  how good of you!”
“But he thinks I am the thief.  You don’t, 
Annie?”
“No,  Robert;  I  am  very  sure  of  that. 
Only,  I  can’t  see  you  so  long  as  my 
father-----”
Robert’s only answer  to this was  a  sigh, 
and  with  a  hurried  good-by  the  lovers 
parted.

quired the young man.

is  a  livelier  market.  The  Chicago  labor 
troubles have affected  the factory by throw­
ing a large number of men out of work.

Stewart &  McLaughlin  succeed  Tomlin­
son & Stewart as proprietors  of  the  Eagle 
foundry  at  Allegan.  Mr. Tomlinson  will 
put in a feed mill and  continue  the  manu­
facture of honey sections, Wilder plows, etc.

STRAY  FACTS.

Bronson needs a bakery.
A fruit exchange  has  been  organized  at 

Benton Harbor.

Five large brick  stores  are  in  course  of 

erection at Dowagiac.

Fewless  Bros,  have  purchased  Jas. 

Broderick’s meat business  at Kingsley.

The new salt well at St.  Clair  is  500 feet 
deep and-growing deeper at the  rate  of  20 
feet a day.

A.  T. Fletcher, grocer  and meat dealer at 
Battle Creek,  has  been  closed  on  chattel 
mortgage.

Frank E. Austin,  of  Cass  City,  has  in­
vented a contrivance for pressing  rags  into 
square bales.

S.  H. Perkins has  sold a half  interest in 
his  tin  and furnace  business at  Adrian to 
Joseph Baier.

Weter,  Fanning  &  Co.,  of  Richmond, 
mond, Macomb County, have  nearly 50,000 
dozen of eggs in pickle.

The Jackson Iron Co.,  at  Negaunee,  has 
a body of ore 100  feet  wide,  and  unknown 
depth.  This promises to be the largest vein 
of its kind ever discovered.

The Saginaw Yalley Salt Association pro­
poses to erect a building in Chicago for  the 
storing of salt,  which will require 1,000,000 
feet of timber and lumber.

Michigan  Match  Making  from  a  Grand 

Haven  Standpoint.
Grand H a v en,  May 17,  1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

Dea r Sir—I notice an article in the Cin­
cinnati  Enquirer  in  regard  to “Michigan 
Matches,” Robinson talking as usual, which 
needs  a  little  explanation.  He  tells  of 
their capital stock. 
In 1881, when they got 
through buying up “Tom, Dick  &  Harry,” 
they were incorporated  with  a capital stock 
of two and a  half  million,  or  thereabouts. 
The only important investment, as they call 
it,  is the Ontonagon lumber business, where 
they invested  one  and  a  half  million—as 
they say themselves—from  the  two  years’ 
profits,  after the last dollar  was paid on the 
mortgage on Clark’s match factory,  situated 
at Oshkosh,  which  occurred  in  December, 
1882.  Now  then  from  1881  to  1883  they 
had clear sailing,  as he calls it.  Now where 
does  the  twenty  or  twenty-five  million 
come in? 
I will leave  this  to  the  public. 
Now,  the next he tells is that at times  they 
put prices down to  cost,  in  order  to  drive 
out all competitors,  which means  that if  he 
had  succeeded  he  would  make  the  con­
sumers pay for  those  matches. 
I  say  the 
day  is  near  when  those  large,  red-tape 
match  factories  will  have  to  close  their 
doors  and  let  industrious  men  make that 
necessary article.  He talks of a  little  fac- 
in Grand Rapids. 
I don’t know of any and 
have  never  heard  of  any there.  But Mr. 
Robinson  has  forgotten  to  mention  the 
Grand Haven match factory,  which  has  al­
most the entire  match  trade  in  Michigan. 
This Robinson  says  himself.  I  put  prices 
where they are on sulphur matches,  and am 
putting in machinery for parlor matches  on 
a large scale,  when  I  shall  knock  at  the 
doors of the jobbing trade in Ohio and other

Retail Dealers  Exchange- 

As stated by T he T radesman  a  couple  places

We,  the undersigned, hereby join in a call | jng matches for twenty-five years. 
. 

of weeks ago, a project is  on  foot  for  the 
Robinson says  that  the  Diamond  people 
organization of a Retail Dealers’ Exchange,  puj.  prices  down  to  one  dollar. 
I  don’t 
to  be  composed  ot retail dealers  in  eveiy  ^ in k  the jobbing trade  will  give  Mr.  Rob- 
line of trade.  The movement  is  supported  jnson very much credit for telling what they 
by nearly every business  man  in  this  city  buy their KOodg for  He also says that  the 
and is  taking sliope  in  the following  form.  present supply of pine will suffice for  mak- 
I  don’t 
of business men tor the purpose of consider- 
, x
ing the advisability of  organizing  a  Retail  hesitate to sa>' for the  next  century,  and  I 
Dealers’ Exchange, time and  place of meet-  don’t need to  go  up  to  Ontonagon  either, 
ing to be given  by notice  in  the  daily  pa-  As long as I can get pine so  cheap  as  I  do
pers.
at Grand Haven,  I am not going  to  experi­
The object of the  organization  is  to  cor­
ment on strawboard matches.
rect the numerous abuses to which the trade 
is now subjected, to adopt a plan  for  gain­
ing reliable information as  to  the  standing 
of those with whom the members do a credit 
business and for  the  general  advancement 
of the business interests of the city.

Michigan Competition in the  Match  Bus­

F.  F.  Sommers.

Yours truly,

.. 

. 

. 

, 

iness.

Spring & Company,
F oster,  Stevens & Co., 
H ouseman,  Donnai/ly & J ones,
E.  S.  P ierce,
H.  Leonard & Sons,
V ossen Bros.,
E aton & Lyon,
P au l W.  F riedrich,
Stanly &  Sciiroeder,
J.  Min er,
J.  C.  H erkner,
A.  P reusser,
A.  May,
J.  A.  Stratton,
T homas & Crippen,
J .  L.  W ilkes,
Nelson Bros.  & Co.,
L.  B. Y an Leu ven,
Scott & W illiams,
Y oigt,  H erpolsiieimer & Co.,
J.  F.  F erris,
Cole & Brother,
Bra dfield & Co.,
F.  Granello,
Morgan & Avery,
Shriv er,  W eatherly & Co.,
W.  S.  Gunn & Sons.

Purely Personal.

H.  A.  Holmes,  of  the  Michigan  Dairy 
Supply Co., of Kalamazoo, was in town last 
week.

Herman Spitz, Chicago representative for 
Fleischman & Co., was in the city over Sun­
day,  the  guest  of  his  brother,  Ludwig 
Wintemitz.

J.  J.  Kissinger,  manager  of  the  “Fer- 
mentum” yeast factory,  at  Chicago, was  in 
the  city  a  couple  of  days  last  week,  the 
guest  of  his  State  agent, Ludwig Winter- 
nitz.

D.  C.  Leach,  of  Traverse  City,  writes 
T he T radesman that he has begun spring 
planting on his cranberry marsh at Walton. 
He has six  acres  nicely  sanded  and ready 
for plants.

Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.

A match is a small thing, but in the man­
ufacture of matches one of the great corpor­
ations of this country has grown up. 
It or­
iginated in the  combination  of the  leading 
match manufacturers.  The  capital stock is 
somewhere  in  the  vicinity  of  $20,000,000 
to  $25,000,000.  Last  year  a  dividend  of 
eight per cent, was declared on this capital­
ization.

The combination does  not  have  entirely 
clear sailing. 
It is  obliged at  times to put 
prices  down  to  cost  in  order  to  drive 
competitors out  of  the  business.  Talking 
with John ltobinson,  the  Chicago  manager 
of the  company,  he said:  “They have  got 
matches down  to a fine  point in  Michigan. 
They are  selling  three  boxes,  that  is  900 
matches,  for two cents.  There was a little 
factory started  at  Grand Rapids.  Matches 
were  then selling at $2.50 a case.  They put 
down the  price a little and we were obliged 
to  meet  them.  They kept  running  down 
and we kept meeting them until it got down 
to $1.25 a case.  Then we  took  the  initia­
tive and dropped  to $1.  The  retailers  had 
stocked  up at from  $1.25  to  $1.75,  which 
were thought bottom prices.  Now they had 
to get rid  of  the  matches  at  any sacrifice 
and  they  began  to  cut.  When  they  had 
slashed around to the dollar limit  one man 
who had been  losing  trade by the  drive on 
matches,  put his  down to  three  boxes  for 
two cents.  That is 96 cents a case,  or  four 
cents less than he can  duplicate  them  for 
The other dealers offered to  buy out his en 
tire stock, but  he  wouldn’t  sell.  He  saw 
his  trade  coming  back  with  the  sale  of 
matches at this price.”

A JOURNAL DB VOTED TO THE

lercantile and Manufacturing; Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  19,1886.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.

Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Ckas. 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. 
_____
Io n ia  Business  Men’s  Protective  As­

sociation.

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

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

M erchants’Union of Nashville.

President, Herbert  M.  Lee;  Vice-President, 
C. E. Goodwin;  Treasurer, G. A. Truman; Sec­
retary and Attorney, Walter Webster.

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

Oooley.

ESr"  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.
NO  WORK,  NO  CREDIT.

The experience of every  strike  has  been 
that  the  merchants  who  help  workmen 
through a period of labor trouble  invariably 
find themselves  “left’’ when work is resum­
ed.  This was the experience  of  the  Mus­
kegon  trade  on  the  occasion  of  the great 
strike  at  that  place  several years ago and 
the same was true as regards  the  strike  in 
the  Saginaw  Valley  last  summer.  Mer­
chants  who  sympathized  with the strikers 
and furnished them with the  necessaries  of 
life while they are out of  work  were  given 
the cold shoulder as soon as pay  day  came 
around again and the men were  able  to  li­
quidate.  Such injustice  caused  many mer­
chants to give up  the  battle  and  others  to 
bend  unwonted  energies  to  keep  on  their 
feet. 
In  the  event  of  a strike among the 
the  furniture  workers  of  this city,  the  re­
tail trade would do well to keep  these  facts 
in mind and govern themselves accordingly.

Is the jobber to blame for much of the  in 
discriminate cutting carried  on  in the  gro­
cery trade?  Such a question  may seem  to 
be without] significance, but  an  affirmative 
answer  is  by  no  means  as  ridiculous  as 
would appear at first thought.  No one will 
■deny the  statement that  those who  cut the 
most fail the oftenest,  and that the  number 
of  failures would  decrease if  jobbers  gen­
erally  would  refuse  to  compromise  their 
claims for less  than a  hundred cents.  The 
assurance of the retailer that the jobber will 
surely compromise,  no  matter how  bad the 
failure  or  how  reprehensible  may  be  the 
causes which  brought it about,  is  so strong 
an incentive to  dishonesty  that it would be 
impossible to  estimate  the  scope of  its in­
fluence.  The man who sells  goods at  cost, 
or less than cost, does  so  with  the express 
understanding that if  the  game is  a losing 
one he will  throw the  loss  on  the  jobber; 
and in nine cases out of  ten the  jobber up 
holds the cutter  in such  questionable prac­
tices by  encouraging  him  to  continue  and 
offering to sell  him  all  the  goods  he may 
need.  The  only  remedy  for  the  cutting 
nuisance lies in a reformation on the part of 
the jobber—a refusal  to  sell  goods  to any 
•dealer who does not insist on a decent profit 
and a refusal to compromise with any retail­
or who fails from selling  goods  too  cheap

The  outbreak  of  Anarchist  violence  in 
Chicago has affected very seriously the labor 
situation. 
It has tended to discredit,  some 
what unjustly, the  strikes for higher wages 
And shorter  hours,  as  having furnished the 
occasion for  violence  of  this  kind. 
It  is 
true  that  the  workingmen’s  associations 
have been  prompt  and decided in  their de­
nunciation of  the  murderous  policy of the 
Anarchists.  But the public remembers that 
up to a few months ago the Anarchists were 
allowed to carry the red  flag  in the genqral 
parade of  the workingmen,  and  that many 
acts of the strikers for  the  last  few weeks 
have been in the line of  the bomb-throwing 
which  cost  the  Chicago  policemen  their 
lives.  So  at  once  the  support  of  public 
opinion has been withdrawn  from the labor 
movement,  and  the  heart  has  been  taken 
out of the  movement  itself  in  a  great de­
gree.  The ugly acts of the Anarchists have 
held the  mirror  up to  the  passions  which 
have  had  much  too  free  play  among  the 
strikers.

T he T radesman is in receipt of the first 
delinquent sheet  issued by the  Ionia  Busi­
ness Men’s Protective Association, which is 
a  credit to every member  of  the  organiza­
tion.  The  Ionia  Association  goes  a  step 
farther than  any other  organization in  the 
State,  with  the  single  exception  of  the 
Traverse  City Business  Men’s Association, 
by  classifying  all  poor-pay  customers. 
Class  A  includes  those  “Able to pay,  but 
slow and  careless.”  Class B  is  composed 
of those  who are “Willing  to pay, but  un-

able  through  misfortune,”  and  Class  C is 
made up  entirely of “dead-beats.”  In  ad­
dition to the above  classification, the  num­
ber of times the person has been reported is 
also  stated.  The  first  list  contains  the 
names,  addresses,  occupations  and  ratings 
of  nearly  300  persons,  forming,  as  Secre­
tary  Cutler  tersely  states  in  another  col­
umn,  “The  most  interesting  and  highly- 
prized  thing  the  Ionia  business  man  has 
seen for many a day.”

Kalamazoo’s grocers are  to  be  congratu­
lated on the remarkable growth of their  as­
sociation, as well as  the  evidences  of  sta­
bility already exhibited by the organization. 
The success already achieved  by the  Kala­
mazoo  association  is  sufficient  proof  that 
the grocer movement has come to stay.

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITV.

Austin  Travis  has  moved  his  jewelry 

stock to Muskegon.

C.  R.  Shear  succeeds  Mrs.  G.  W.  Wil­
liams in the confectionery and  notion  busi­
ness on West Bridge street.

Frank Smith has  purchased  Jas. E. Bev­
ins’ store building at  Leroy and  engaged in 
general trade at  that  place.  P.  Steketee & 
Sons  furnished  the  dry goods  and  Cody, 
Ball & Co.  supplied the groceries.

Dr. R. A.  Shouten, who removed his drug 
stock from this cityjto Holland less  than  a 
year ago, has returned to Grand Rapids and 
re-engaged in the drug business  on  Charles 
street, just south of Wealthy avenue.

A.  T.  Kellogg, of  the  firm  of Kellogg & 
Wooden, grocers at Kalkaska,  has  purchas­
ed the Simmons & Connor  grocery stock on 
South Division street  and  added  a full line 
from the repository  of  Arthur Meigs & Co.
The Curry & Holmes  grocery  stock  was 
not  sold  at  foreclosure  sale  according  to 
announcement,  as Clark,  Jewell & Co.  and 
John Caulfield,  who are joint owners of the 
second mortgage, got  out an  injunction re­
straining the sale on the ground  that a por­
tion of the first mortgage was given without 
consideration  and  that  the  mortgage  was 
given by one partner to  secure  his  individ­
ual  indebtedness and  should  not bind both 
partners.  ________________

Local  cigar  jobbers  are  being  deluged 
with circulars from Eastern  cigar manufac­
turers announcing  the  termination of  their 
relations  with the  International  and  Pro­
gressive  unions.  The  manufacturers  all 
give as a reason  that  they submitted to the 
original demands of their respective unions, 
but that the exactions have lately become so 
numerous and tyrannnical that it is impossi­
ble to  concede  them.  The  jobbers  assert 
that  non-union  cigars  made  in  first-class 
factories,  are as a rule, better made, look bet­
ter,  afford a better profit and give better sat­
isfaction than the union goods.

around  the  state.

W.  E.  Converse, hardware dealer at Wes­

ton, has sold  out.

Bickford  Bros.,  hardware  dealers  at 

Capac, have sold out.

Wagar Bros., tobacco and cigar dealers at 

Charlevoix, have sold  out.

W.  C. Arnold has sold  his drug  stock at 

Ludington to  R. M. Keys.

J.  F.  Brown  succeeds F.  Shellman in the 

grocery business at Lakeview.

H.  E.  Cobb succeeds Clark & Cobb in the 

furniture business at Bay City.

Fildew & Son  succeed  Wilson  &  Fildew 

in the drug business at  St. Johns.

M. M. Giltner succeeds  Giltner & Shelley 

in the drug business at Grass Lake.

Stiles & Acker succeed E. U. Stiles in the 

hardware business at Vermontville.

J.  C. & W. W. Watts succeed B. F. Watts 

in the jewelry business at Ann  Arbor.

Norman  Weaver  succeeds  Weaver  & 
Yeagley in the grocery business at Hudson.
Jennison & Co.  succeed  Tousey  &  Jen- 
nison in the hardware business at Bay City.
McKeon & Daily  succeed  McKeon,  Her- 
rion & Co.  in the dry goods business at Bay 
City.

John Baninga will engage in the  grocery 
business  at  Muskegon,  locating  on  Third 
street.

Wm.  L.  Trevedeck  succeeds  Armstrong 
& Trevedeck in the grocery business at East 
Saginaw.

Cotharin & Son, boot and shoe  dealers  at 
Detroit,  have been closed out  under  chattel 
mortgage.

Thys Stadt,  the  Spring  .Lake  hardware 
merchant,  has  gone  to  Pipestone  county, 
Minn.,  to locate a new  settlement  for  Hol­
landers.

J. P. Visner,  of the late firm of Yisner & 
Dendel, general dealers at Hopkins Station, 
has removed to Allegan and  engaged in the 
lumber, wood and coal business.

J. C. McCowan has traded his general stock 
at  Hesperia  for  a  farm  near  that  place. 
The new owner is O. A. Matteson, who was 
formerly engaged in trade at Hesperia.

J. W. Saunders, formerly engaged in trade 
at Aurelius, has engaged in general trade at 
Paris.  The grocery stock was furnished by 
Robinson  Bros.,  of  Lansing,  E.  J.  Evans 
placing the order.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

The Jackson paper  mill  employs  thirty 
hands and the daily product  is  from  5,000 
to 8,000 pounds of paper.

Fell,  Hill & Co.,  Petoskey,  have  an  en­
tire new force at work in their shingle mill, 
the old men having struck for more pay and 
less hours, which was refused.

The  Greenville  barrel-  factory  has  sus­
pended work for thirty days or  until  there

F0Ï & BRADFORD

WHOLESALE

FULL  LINE  OF  ALL  STxAPLE 

PLUGS  KEIT  IN  STOCK.

Sole Agents for Celebrated

L.  O.  B.,  Amer^an  Field,  Pan- 

tilla, Our Nickle,  The Rats, 

Fox’s Clipper.

76 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

E x clu siv ely  W h o l esa l e.

Order Sam ple M  by Ma il.
MOULTON & REMPIS,
SETTEES, HOOF CRESTING

M anufacturers  of

TLmjA S W N T   v a s s s ,

And Jobbers in Gray  Iron  Castings*
54 and 56 North Front Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

WRITE  FOR  PRICE-LIST.

GRAND  RAPIDS
™  nun nuun n

SEED  MERCHANTS,

“ 

Office and  Warehouse:  71 CANAL ST.
Grand  Kapids, May 17,1886.

Prime........ 
20c ft lb 

Fair to Good (if in  stock) 

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

Dear  Sirs—Below  we  hand  you  jobbing 
prices for to-day:
Clover, Prime............................... 60 lb bu  6 00
“  Mammoth 
“  W hite..... 
“  Alsyke...................20c “ 
“  Alfalfa or  Lucerne20c '* 
“ 

7 00
“ 
12 to
“ 
9 00
“ 
12 to
Timothy. Prime...........................  45 73 bu  2 00
190
“ 
Bed Top....................................141bbu 
90
2 50
Blue Grass................................... 
“ 
Orchard Grass............................  
“ 
2 50
90
Hungarian  ...................................48 fi> bu 
90
“ 
Millet, common........................... 
German........................... 
1 00
“ 
75
Buckwheat................................. 
“ 
Peas, White Field..........................60 lb bu  1  15
Bye, Winter...................................56 lb bu 
75
“ 
85
Wheat,  Spring.........................tolbbu 
1  10
Barley. 
................................  79 cwt  1  50
Oats, choice white.......................32 tb bu 
50«
Corn, Early 8  Bowed Yankee.... »6 tt> bu  I  75
“  Learning, Early Deut........... 
1 50
1  75
“  Bed  Blazed......................  
Prices on Rape, Canary and  all  other  seeds 
on application.
The above prices are  free  on  board  oars 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  pieased  at  any  time  to quote 
you prices.
All Field  Seeds  are  spot  Cash on receipt of 
goods.
W. T.  Lamoreaux, Agt.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
or  50  cents  for three weeks.  Advance  pay­
ment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers be 
sent in care of this office must be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage, 
etc.
Sf»OR SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—Farm  of 1«) 
acres in southern  Michigan, 100 acres im­
proved.  Large  frame  house  and  barn,  and 
largo orchard.  Will sell  on  long  time  or ex­
change for a stock of boots and  shoes  or gro­
ceries.  Address  L.  B .  C.,  care T h e   T r a d e s­
141
m a n . 
JT'OR  SALE—A drug store.  One of the hand- 
somest drug stores in  the  State, doing a 
. 
splendid  business, in  a  town  of 13.000 inhabi­
tants.  Stock, etc., will inventory about 13,600. 
Average cash sales, $25 a day  and  increasing. 
No  paint  and  oils  carried  in  stock.  Owner 
wishes to go  into manufacturing  business at 
once. Address, for full particulars, Aloes, care 
Tr a d c s m a n  office. 
13Stf
IX)R SALE OR EXCHANGE—Two pieces of 
store property situated  on  a  main  busi­
’ 
ness street.  Will sell  cheap  or  exchange  for 
stock of general merchandise.  Address  Fred. 
142
C. Yonker, box 1970, Muskegon, Mich. 
BOR  8ALE—A  stock  of  groceries  and  fix­
tures  in  a  splendid  location.  Low rent 
and a good trade,  will sell for cash or trade for 
good City property.  Address  No. 10,  T r a d e s­
138tf
m a n  office. 
■OR  SALE—Drug  store  at  a  bargain.  A 
splendid chance for a man with small cap-
Box  1517. Mus- 
ital.  Address  Dr.  Z.  Mizner 
139*
kegon. Mich.
A (GENTS WANTED—For an  article  used in 
every house.  I can give a live man a good 
aying job in every town in the United States, 
'or particulars, address with stamp, A. Retan, 
148*
Pewamo, Mich. 
IT^OR SALE—Desiring  a  change  of  climate, 
.  on account of poor health, I will sell at  a 
bargain my stock  of merchandise,  consisting 
of  dry  goods,  groceries  and boots and shoes. 
Stock will invoice about $2,500.  I  will  sell  or 
rent store building on terms to suit purchaser. 
If you mean business, call on or address.  C. L. 
Howard. Clarksville. Ionia Co., Mich. 
142*
■OR SALE—At a bargain, a grocery and pro­
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*
SF YOU WANT—To get into business, to sell 
your business, to secure additional capital, 
to  get  a  situation,  if  you have anything for 
sale or want to buy anything, advertise In  the 
Miscellaneons 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.

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DISSOLUTION  NOTICE.
Notice  is  hereby  given  that the copartner­
ship  heretofore  existing  between  Pnebe  A. 
French and Sarah C. Marshall  under  the  firm 
name of P. A. French & Co. is this day dissolv­
ed, Phebe A. French succeeding.  All accounts 
due  the  late  firm  must  be  paid to Phebe A 
French, and all the debts  of  the  firm  will be 
paid by the said Phebe A. French.

P h e b e  A. F r e n c h , 
Sa r a h  C. Ma r s h a l l . 

Dated, Grand Rapids,  April 16,1886.

&

A g e n t s   fo r   a   f u l l   li n e   o f

i f . V enal & Co.’s

PETERSBU RG ,  VA.,

PLUG  TOBACCOS,
NIMROD,
E.  C.,

BLUE  RETER,

SPREAD  EAGLE,

BIG FIVE CENTER

Granello,
MERCHANT

TAILOR

LEDYARD  BLOCK,

107 O ttaw a St.

Suitings for Manufacturers,

Suitings for Jobbers,

Suitings for Retailers,

Suitings for Traveling Men, 

Suitings for Clerks,

AND

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

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS,

, 

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, I  „ 

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It struck me  in this  episode  there was a 
photograph  of  American  business  life  of 

W. T. Hess,  who has returned  from  the 
East after several weeks’ sojourn in Boston, 
thaj. i startling vividness.
New  York  and  Philadelphia,  says
„„.x 
everything  connected  with  the  hide,  pelt 
and tallow business is at a  complete  stand- 
still and is likely  to  remain  dormant  until 
xx, „j 
,, 
x ,  x.  x 
the present labor trouble is  settled. 
_____ t   t  , ______  
The Gripsack Brigade. 

I asked  Mr.  Robinson  about  the  match
ofanR  business with reference to the constant con
„n+n  sumption of  pine  and he said:  “We  have
pine enough to  last  for  twenty-five  years,
* 
It  is  located  in  the  Ontonagon  region.
Matches can be made out of  straw-board as
Irving W. VanZandt, representing  How-  well as pine, but there is  small inducement 
ard W.  Spurr & Co., of Boston, was in town  to  attempt  to  make  straw-board  matches 
last week, and put in a good  word  for  the  with such  competition as  that in Michigan.
grocer movement. 

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J. L. Rece, formerly with Moses Duquette, 

“Fermentum” the only reliable compress­

ât  Muskegon,  has  engaged  to  travel  for | ed yeast.  See advertisement
Hawkins & Perry.  He will make his head- I . 
quarters at Muskegon.

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S. W.  Bush, for some time past with Jas.
Craig,  of Detroit,  was in  the  city Saturday 
on his way to Chicago,  where he  is  offered
a position with a leading  wholesale grocery 
firm.

Harry  H. Pierce,  formerly  with  Foster, 
Stevens  & Co., but  for  several  years past 
traveling  representative  for  Noble &  Co., 
has engaged in the manufacture  and sale of 
lime on his own account,  with headquarters
at Toledo.______  

_____

An Echo of the Cartage Scheme.

Soottyille,  May 15,  1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:
Dea r  Sir—At  one  time  we  bought  a 
good many goods in your city, but the action 
of  your  wholesale  merchants  in  charging 
cartage  drove  our  trade  to  East Saginaw, 
where  they charge  on  neither  cartage  nor 
boxing small broken packages.

Yours truly,  ,

Rea der  Bros.

PARTNER  WANTED.

A  man  with  twelve  to  fifteen  thousand 
dollars to take interest in a first-class furni­
ture business,  well  established.  Good saw 
mill in connection with the furniture factory. 
Factory and mill situated  in  good  locality. 
Timber plenty and cheap.  Address

E. Howard, Gobleville, Mich.

FO R   SALF.

Saw Mill, Shingle Mill and 840 acres of timber 
land, situated in Osceola county.  The  land is 
estimated to contain 15,000,000 sningle  timber; 
550,000 feet green pine; 3,000,000  hemlock; 900,- 
000 red oak. birch and maple.  About  20 acres 
is covered with good cedar. The land is nearly 
all  suitable  for  farming  purposes.  Price of 
land and timber, $5 per acre.  Price of timber 
alone, $3 per acre.  The mill is  in  good  order 
and  is  now  in  operation.  It  will be sold for 
$1,600,  one-third  down  and  balance  on  time 
with  good  security.  For  fuller  particulars, 
call  on  or  address, W.  L.  Beardsley, Hersey, 
Mich.

i m p r o v e «

& 4K i N G
POWDER

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

Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

20  and  22  Monro«  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

G R A N D   K A P ID S ,  M IC H .

The Government Cannot be Sued.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Duine 8. flfoebicinee

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

Michigan  Stale  Pharmaceutical  Association.

OFFICERS.

Grand Rapids.

President—H. J. Brown, 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.

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,  _  

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. 
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,. 
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
Wm. L. White. 
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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 Leeumen.
Committee  on  Legislation—Jas.  D.  Lacey, 
Isaac Watts and A. C.  Bauer.
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
each month. 
^
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening ^  
November.
Next  Meeting—Thursday evening,  June 3,  at 
•‘The Tradesman” office.

D etroit Pharm aceutical Society.

Organized October, 1863.

OFFICERS.

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

ier. 

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, 

. 

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  C ounty  Pharm aceutical  So­

ciety.

,

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

OFFICERS.
President—Fred. Heath.
Vice-President—J. C.  Terry.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. B. Glover. 
Regular Meetings—Second and fourth Wednes­
Next Meeting—Wednesday evening, May 28.

day of each month.

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Hard on  the  Druggist.

From  the Drug Record.

A man afflicted with deafness took a  pre 
scription to a  Topeka  druggist,  who  filled 
it with care and  in  the  latest  style.  The 
deaf man asked the price, when  the follow­
ing talk occurred:  Druggist (leaning on the 
counter  and  smiling  in a won’t-you-pay-up 
sort of manner):  “The price is  seventy-five 
cents.”  Deaf customer:  “Five cents? Here 
it is.”  Druggist (in a louder voice):  “Seven 
ty-five  cents,  please?”  Deaf  customer 
“Well, there’s  your  five  cents.”  Druggist 
(in a very loud voice and very firm manner) 
“I said seventy-five cents.”  Deaf customer 
(getting angry):  “Well,  what more  do  you 
want? 
I just  gave  you  your  five  cents.’ 
Druggist  (sotto voice):  “ Well,  go  to  thun 
der with your medicine;  I made three  cents 
any way.”

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
Muskegon,  May 16,  1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

Dea r  Sir—A well  attended  and  inter 
esting meeting was  held  by the  Muskegon 
Drug  Clerks’  Association  on  Wednesday 
the 12th.  The  new  officers  were  duly in 
stalled  and  Jesse  Hoyt  was  admitted  to 
membership.  The  paper  on “Belladonna” 
was read by L. B. Glover and accepted.  E 
C.  Bond, and  Orien Hopperstad,  were  ap 
pointed to  prepare  papers  on “Potassium” 
and  “Alcohol,” rspectively, the  same to be 
read four weeks from date.  The paper read 
and other minor topics were  discussed  and 
the meeting adjourned.  The  next meeting 
will be held Wednesday,  the 26tli.

L.  B.  Glover,  Secretary.

In the Line of His Profession.

From the Philadelphia Call.

“Mr.  Porter,  you delivered my message?’ 
“Yes.”
“With what result?”
“He  knocked  me  down  for  my  impu 

dence.”

“And what did you do?”
“ I pht up with  it sir. 

of his profession, you know.”

“Why,  he’s no slugger?”
“No; he’s an auctioneer.”

*

It was  in the line 

The Drug Market.

Business is quiet and collections  are  cor 
respondingly poor.  Quinine, morphine and 
opium are dull.  Carbolic acid has advanced 
and higher prices are looked  for.  The  ad 
vance in cloves has been maintained and the 
tendency is still higher.  Oil  of  cloves  has 
advanced in  sympathy.  Other  articles  in 
the drug line are about  steady.

t

SODA  WATER  SYRUPS.

K alamazoo,  May 15,  1886. 

Be.

Gov-

Yours truly, 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

W hat  They  Are  and  W hat  They Should 
Dea r Sir—Can the  U nited  States
Now begins the season of the  year  when j  ernment be sued in any court of law? 
the apothecary burnishes up his  soda  foun-:  An early reply will oblige 
tain and lays in a  new  stock  of  handsome j 
O. K.  Buckiiout. 
tumblers for  his  clerk  to  experiment  with J  Neither  National  or  State  Governments 
and fracture, and when on stray comers the I can be  sued, without  their  consent.  This 
street peddler retails mysterious compounds  idea comes down from the old common law, 
of glucose  syrup  gorgeously  colored  with  which held that the  king was  the  law and 
anfiline  and scented  with  unpronounceable I tt*8* the king was present, in supposition,  at
every law court.  The  principle  was incor­
ethers.  Plain soda water  itself  can  not  be 
porated  in  the  laws  of  this  country  and 
adulterated;  but the  syrups can be with the 
found  lodgement  in  the  eleventh  amend­
greatest  ease,  and 
too  frequently  are. 
ment  to  the  Constitution,  which  provides 
Profit  and  loss  have  laid  their  hands  on 
that
fountain and syrup bottle,  and  in  many in­
stances to the injury of the  public stomach. 
Good  materials  cost  money. 
Imitations 
and adulterations  cost  far  less  and  sorely 
tempt  a  dealer  whose  daily  income  is  $4 
and whose outgo is S3.  This  will  be read­
ily seen when it is remembered that a large, 
if not the largest element of expense  in the 
soda  water  business  is  the  cost of syrups. 
These,  whether  made  by  the  dealer  or 
bought  from  manufacturers,  cost  seldom 
less than twenty cents and  sometimes go as 
high as fifty  cents  a  puart.  A  dealer  ex­
pends,  therefore, from one  to three cents in 
selling a glass of flavored soda.

Persons having claims against the Nation­
al Government can  have  them  adjudicated 
by presenting  them to the Court of Claims, 
at Washington,  and a similar  provision ex­
ists in regard to claims against States in the 
shape of Boards of Auditors.

The judicial power  of  the  United States 
shall not be construed  to  extend to any suit 
in law  or equity  commenced  or  prosecuted 
against one of the United States by citizens 
of another state or by citizens or subjects of 
any foreign  state.

To him comes  the  adulterator  and  offers 
bogus  syrups  from  three  to  ten  cents  a 
quart,  which  look,  smell  and  taste  about 
the  same  as  the  genuine  articles. 
It  is 
needless  to  add  that  one  dealer  in  two 
yields  to  temptation.  What  he  ought  to 
sell and what he does sell are well  illustra­
ted by the  subjoined  formulas.  One  class 
of these represents goods  such  as  are  sold 
by the best houses;  the other such mysteri­
ous fluids as are vended in  tenement  house 
districts.

Simple Syrup  (as it should be.)

Crushed sugar  10 lbs.  >........costs  35 cents
Water,  5 quarts......... )

Simple Syrup (as it usually is.)

xirUf0Se,i 
Water,  10 q ts..  )

P S”  I-...................costs  40 cents

Lemon Syrup (as it should be.)

Simple Syrup,  2 qts.  )
Citric acid,  U  oz...  >-........... costs 40 cents
Ess.  lemon, 2 oz---- )

Lemon Syrup (as it usually is.) 

Glucose syrup,  2 qts.  )
Sulphuric acid, % oz.  >..........costs  10 cents
Ess.  lemon,  1  oz.. ..   j

Vanilla Syrup (as it should be.) 

Simple syrup, 2 qts 
FI. extract vanilla,  1  oz.  )

...   {  >costs  30 cents 

Vanilla Syrup (as it usually is.)

Glucose  syrup,  2  qts.  ) ........costs  1Q cents
Ext. tonko,  1 oz..........)

Chocolate  Syrup  (as it should be.) 

Maillard’s chocolate,  8 oz.  )
Simple syrup,  3 qts......... >• . .costs 70 cents
FI.  ext.  vanilla,  2  oz........)

Chocolate Syrup (as it usually is.) 

German chocolate,  8 oz.  )
Glucose  syrup,  3 qts...  >
Ext.  tonka,  1  oz........... j

.costs 35 cents

Banana Syrup (as it should be.) 

Simple syrup,  2 qts.  }
Banana juice, 1 q t..  )

.costs  50 cents

Banana Syrup‘(as it usually is.)

Glucose  syrup,  2  qts.  j...........costg 8  cents
Banana ether,  %  oz..  \

Orgeat Syrup (as it should be.)

Vanilla  syrup,  1  qt..........[
Orange flower water, 3 oz.  f

.costs  32 cents

Orgeat Syrup (as it usually is.)

Glucose syrup,  2 qts........... )
Ext.  tonko, 1 oz.................. > costs 12  cents
Imt. orange flower oil, % oz.  )

Taken altogether,  most  of  the  imitation 
syrups  are  not  unwholesome.  They  lack 
the intensity of verdigris and are inferior in 
tonic properties  to  Paris  green.  Many of 
them,  however,  are  more  than  equal  in 
vitality to a young child and superior to the 
gastric  ease  preferred  by  adults.  This  is 
demonstrated by the death  of  one  and  the 
colic of the other. 
It is  also  demonstrated 
by the fact that in large cities the maximum 
of  soda  fountains  is  found  in  localities 
where the death rate  is  the  highest.  This 
strange relation was  stumbled  upon  by the 
New York  Board ^ f   Health,  which  up  to 
the time of writing has  been  unable  to  ac­
count for or change the fact.

But there are syrups in the market which 
are made from  the  best  materials  in  good 
workmanlike  manner,  and  are  good  and 
wholesome.  They can be sent  to any clim­
ate,  and are as fresh and  good on the Ama­
zon  or  Nile  as  in  New York or Chicago. 
They are made by all  the  first-class  houses 
of the country and can be  safely used with­
out examination or question.

Good Words Unsolicited.

C. Merry weather, grocer, Ishpeming: 

‘Your

paper is good.”

is a good paper.”

H. Van der Haar, meat dealer. Holland:  “It 
H. M.  Marshall,  general  dealer,  Lawrence: 

“I like your paper.”
good and valuable journal.”

S. Buckner, grocer,  Luther:  “I think it is a 

L.  O.  Johnson,  druggist,  Bellevue:  “Your 

paper meets with my approval.”

J. 8. Barker,  hardware,  Sand  Lake:  “I  do 

not want your valuable paper stopped.” 

Reader  Bros.,  general  dealers,  Scottville: 
“We can’t get along without The Tradesman.” 
C.  W.  Peters,  grocer,  Bangor:  “Like  the 
paper very much.  Would not do without  it.” 
Hatch  &  Baker,  hardware  dealers,  Lyons: 
“We have no fault to  find  with  The Trades, 
man.”
Mackinaw Lumber Co., lumber manufactur­
ers and general dealers, St. Ignace:  “We like 
it very well.”
Hopkins Mfg, Co., lumber  and general deal­
ers: 
“We  find  many  good  articles  in The 
Michigan Tradesman.”

P. Medalie, dry  goods,  Cadillac:  “I enclose 
one dollar because  I  see  the  great  necessity 
for just such papers as yours.”
Samuel A. Hewitt, general dealer, Monterey: 
“1 am well pleased with the paper and consider 
it  more  valuable  than  the  high-priced jour­
nals.”

“Fermentum”  the  only  Reliable  Com­

pressed Yeast.  . See advertisement.

“John,” she  said at  the  breakfast  table 
the other  morning,  “don’t  you  think  this 
oleomargerine is better than ever ?”  “I do. 
Yery likely the  grocer  has  sold you  axle- 
grease  by mistake.”

CUSH M AN’S

MENTHOL  INHALER

m m L

Neuralgia and Headache

Quickly Relieved by Cushman’sMenthol Inhaler

Menthol has attained deserved notoriety by external 
application, but it remained for the Menthol Inhaler to 
so utilize the valuable remedy as  to  get  the  full  me­
dicinal effects.  The  air  passing  over  the  Menthol  is 
completely saturated or mentholized, and  in this* high­
ly concentrated and minutely divided  state  is  applied 
directly to the delicate net  work of nerves  so  thickly 
distributed  throughout  the  nose  and  head,  giving 
quick relief from neuralgia and headache.

All druggists should  keep  it.  Retail  price  50  cents. 

Sold by all jobbers of drugs.

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 Bitters.  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  effect  with  the  least dis­
turb ance  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 ihat have  followed its 
use.  Sold  by  Hazeltine  & Perkins Drug Co., 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

TH E  OLD  RELIA B LE

Perry  Davis  Pam  Killer,

Established 1840.

All D ruggists Should Keep It.

TRICES  TO  THE  TRADE:

 

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

Beware of Imitations.  There is but One Pain 

Per Bottle.  PerDoz.
25  180
360
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 Oaring

C02TSUMF7Z0XT,

Coughs, Colds, Croup,

And  Other  Throat  and  Lung  Affections.
{3fW e  call  your  attention  to  the  fact that the  old 
Standard  Remedy,  ALLEN’S  LUNG  BALSAM,  Is  now 
put up lu three sizes—25 cents, 50 cents and $1 per bottle.
Small.............................................$1  75 
per 
Medium........................................  3 50  “
Large  .......................................   7 00 
“
J.  N.  H arris & Co., Ltd., Cincinnati, O.

Mills &  Goodman, Props.

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
MICH.
WANTED—Registered  drug  clerks,  either 
pharmacists or assistants,who are sober, 
honest,  industrious  and  willing  to  work on 
moderate salary.
I7VJR SALE—Stock of about $700  in  good lo- 
cation on  lake shore  and  railroad.  Will 
. 
sell at very reasonable price.
ITiOR  SALE—Fine  stock  of  about  $4,000 in 
’  Grand  Rapids.  Will  sell  for two-thirds 
cash and easy terms on balance if well secured.
I7VJR SALE—Stock of $7,000 in Grand Rapids.
’  well located and doing fine business.  Will 
sell on liberal terms.
ITiOR SALE—Desirable stock of  about  $1,200 
. 
in southwestern portion of State. Must be
sold on account of other business;  terms very 
easy.
SALE—The  finest  business  north of 
T70RJ?  Grand  Rapids.
General  stock  of  about 
$15,000.  Would' prefer to sell whole stock,  but 
will sell any section separate.
IT'OR SALE—Stock of $3,000 in growing town 
1  on the lake shore in midst of peach region. 
Will sell only with residence.  Doing business 
of $10,000 per annum.
IT'OR SALE—Very desirable  stock  of  $6,000, 
.  well located  in  Grand  Rapids.  Will sell 
whole stock on very easy terms, or  half inter­
est for cash.
« LSO many other stooks, the  particulars of 
which we will furnish free on application.
Dentist office  and  practice do­
er  annum.  No 
ing  business  of  $1,500  per  annum.  No 
Must be sold by

K or sale  ... m  

i

other dentist within 10 miles.
June 10.
w

Advanced—Carbolic acid, oil cloves. 
Declined—Oil  peppermint,  turpentine,  lin­

ACIDS.

seed oil.
Acetic, No.  8.................................  
9  ©  10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........  30  @  35
Carbolic.........................................  35  @  38
Citric.............................................   70  ®  75
Muriatic 18  deg............................. 
3  @  5
Nitric 36 deg................................. 
11  @  12
Oxalic............ ...............................  10  @  12
Sulphuric 66 deg...........................   3  ©  4
Tartaric  powdered.......................  50  @  53
Benzoic,  English.................. V oz 
18
Benzoic,  German.......... ...............  12  ©  15
Tannic...........................................  12  ©  15
Carbonate..............................#  B>  12  ©  14
Muriate (Powd. 22c)....................... 
14
j* qua 16 deg or  3f..........................  3  ©  5
Aqua 18 deg or 4f.......................... 
4  ©  6

AMMONIA.

BALSAMS.

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

BARKS.

38@42
40
1 75
45

11
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)........... 
Cinchona,  yellow........................  
18
13
Elm, select....................................  
Elm, ground, pure........................  
14
15
Elm, powdered, pure.................... 
10
Sassafras, of root.......................... 
12
Wild Cherry, select....................... 
Bay berry  powdered.....................  
20
18
Hemlock powdered....................... 
Wahoo..........................................  
30
Soap  ground.................................  
12
Cubeb  prime (Powd 1 10c)........... 
@1  10
6  ©  7
Juniper.......................... a ...........  
Pricklv Ash..............................   ..  50  ©  60

BERRIES.

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...  
Lgowood, V4s 
do 
.............. 
Logwood, )48 
do 
..................  
Logwood, ass’d  do 
.............. 
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLOWERS.

13

27
37)4
9
13
15
14

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

GUMS.

60©  75
Aloes, Barbadoes.......................... 
i '•
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)................. 
50
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).........  
Ammoniac....................................  
28©  30
Arabic, powdered  select.............. 
80
80
Arabic, 1st picked........................  
Arabic,2d picked.......................... 
70
60
Arabic,  3d picked.......................... 
50
Arabic, sifted sorts....................... 
20
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
50©55
Benzoin......................................... 
Camphor.......................................  
25©  27
Catechu. Is (Yt 14c, 
16c)........... 
13
35©  40
Euphorbium powdered................. 
80
Galbanum strained....................... 
Gamboge.......................................  
80©  90
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c)............  
35
Kino TPowdered, 30c].................... 
20
Mastic.................................................. 
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $4 60).................... 
25
Shellac, Campbell’s....................... 
Shellac,  English...........................
Shellac, native..............................  
20
_  30
Shellac bleached...........................  
Tragacanth...........  .....................   30  @1 00

HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES.

Hoarhound.................................................. 25
Lobelia..........................................................25
Peppermint.................................................. 25
Rue................................................................40
Spearmint....................................................24
Sweet Majoram............................................ 35
Tanzy........................................................... 25
Thyme.......................................................... 30
Wormwood....................... 
25
IRON.

 

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

LEAVES.

4 00
20
7
65

1 25
3 30

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)...............   13  ©  14
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s&Hs, 12c). ^ 
6
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   33 ©  35
50
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
25
Senna,  powdered.......................... 
Senna tinnivelli............................. 
25
10
Uva  Ursi.......................................  
Belledouna....................................  
35
Foxglove........................................ 
30
Henbane.......................................
35
Rose, red.......................................
©2 50 
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...................1 75
© 2  00 
©1 50 
Whisky, other brands....................... 1 10
@1 75 
Gin, Old Tom...................................... 1 35
©3 50 
Gin,  Holland...................................... 2 00
©6 50 
Brandy............................................... 1 75
Catawba  Wines.................  
©2 00 
©2 50
Port Wines......................................... 1 35
MAONESIA.
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz........... 
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz............  
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution—  
Calcined.......................................  

LIQUORS.

1 25

22
37
2 25
65

6 00

1 25

OILS.

75

dozen

Almond, sweet..............................   45  ©  50
45
Amber, rectified...........................  
Anise...... ....................................... 
1  80
Bay $   oz...................................... 
50
Bergamont....................................  
3 00
Castor............................................  1 44@1 65
Croton............................................ 
1
75
Cajeput......................................... 
Cassia............................................ 
85
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)......  
35
Citronella.........................  
1 50
Cloves............................................ 
Cod Liver, N. F ......................¥  gal 
1 20
Cod Liver, best....................... 
150
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
9 00
Cubebs, P. &  W............................. 
Erigeron.......................................  
1 60
Fireweed.......................................  
2 00
Geranium  ^   oz............................. 
75
35
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood................................ 
50
Juniper berries............................. 
2 00
Lavender flowers, French............ 
2 01
100
Lavender garden 
............  
90
Lavender spike 
............  
3 00
Lemon, new crop.......................... 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.....................  
2 76
80
Lemongrass................................... 
Olive, Malaga...........  ..................  
90©1 00
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  ............. 
2 75
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1............... 
1 00
Pennyroyal................................... 
Peppermint,  white.......................  3 90©4 00
8 00
Rose «gi oz...................................... 
65
Rosemary, French (Flowers $1 50) 
Salad, $  gal............... ................... 
2 75
Savin.............................................  
1 00
Sandal  Wood. German................. 
4 50
700
Sandal Wood, W. 1........................  
Sassafras.......................................  
45
Spearmint....................................  
©7  50
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

do 
do 

50

POTASSIUM.

Bicromate.............................. $  ft 
Bromide, cryst. aud gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 28c)............  
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk......  
Prussiate yellow............................ 

12@14
37040
22
3 00
28

ROOTS.

20
Alkanet......................................... 
Althea, cut....................................  
26
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.................... 
17
33
Arrow, Taylor’s, in Ms and Ms.... 
Blood (Powd 18c)...........................  
12
Calamus,  peeled...........................  
20
35
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered................. 
20
10
Gentian (Powd  15c)....................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)...........  11  ©  12
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached........... 
17
20
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)................. 
Hellebore, white, powdered.........  
20
Ipecac, Rio, powdered..................  
1 20
Jalap, powdered...........................  
30
Licorice,  select (Powd 15)............  
18
Licorice, extra select...................  
20
Pink, true......................................  „
80
Rhei, from select to  ohoioe......... 1 00  ©1 60
Rhel, powdered E. 1.......................110  ©1 20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes...............  
2 00
Rhei, ohoice out fingers...............  
2 25
Serpentaria................................... 
65
Seneka..........................................  
®0
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras...............  
43
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican................. 
20

 

 

HEEDS.

Squills, white (Powd 35c).............
Valerian, English (Powd 30c).......
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)...
Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............
Bird, mixed in ft packages.........
Canary,  Smyrna......... ..........
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................
Cardamon, Malabar.....................
Celery........................ .................
Coriander, Dest  English.............
Fennel.........................................

Foenugreek, powdered......
Hemp,  Russian..................
Mustard, white  Black 10c). 
Quince................................
Worm,  Levant.

SPONGES.

25
20
15
5  @ 6
4  © 4)4
15  © 18
1 10
i 25
15
10
15
3M@4  © 4)4
7  © 8
4)4© 5)4
10
75
6  © 7
14
.2 25  @2 50

 

 

©

do 

2  © 

do
do
do

do 
do 

MISCELLANEOUS.

50
24
20
12
1 10
50
65
110
8
3
50
60
14
15
90
45  ©  70

Nassau 
do 
Velvet Extra do 
Extra Yellow do 
do  
Grass 
do 
Hard head, for slate use...............  
75
1  40
Yellow Reef. 
............... 
2 30
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21) 1ft gal__ 
1 50
Alcohol, wood, 96 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s.....................  
50
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........ 
12
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........... 
45
Annatto 1 ft rolls.......................... 
Alum......................................  $lft  2)4©  3J
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c).............. 
3  ©  4
45
Annatto, prime............................. 
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........  4)4©  5
Arsenic, white, powdered............  
6  ©  7
Blue  Soluble.................................  
50
Bay  Rum, imported, best............ 
2 75
Bay Rum, domestic, H.,P. & Co.’s. 
2 00
Balm Gilead Buds........................  
40
2 00
Beans,  Tonka................................ 
Beans,  Vanilla.............................. 7 00  @9 75
2 30
Bismuth, sub nitrate.................... 
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).....................  
50
Blue V itriol.................................  
6©  7
Borax, refined (Powd  lie)............  
9@10
2 25
Cantharides.Russian  powdered.. 
18
Capsicum  Pods, African.............. 
22
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
14
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ... 
4 00
Carmine, No. 40............................. 
14
Cassia Buds................................... 
75
Calomel. American....................... 
Chalk, prepared drop.................... 
5
Chalk, precipitate English........... 
12
Chalk,  red fingers........................  
8
Chalk, white lump........................  
2
1  25
Chloroform,  Squlbb’s..................  
Colocynth  apples.......................... 
60
150
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 70
cryst... 
Chloral do 
]  90
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ... 
Chloral do 
crusts.. 
1 7»
Chloroform................................... 
@  47
Clnchonidia, P. & W....... *...........   18  ©  23
Ciuchonidia, other brands............  13  ©  18
Cloves (Powd 25c)..........................  20  ©  22
40
Cochineal...................................... 
Cocoa  Butter..................... .......... 
40
Copperas (by bbl  lc).....................  
2
Corrosi veSublimate.....................  
70
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list......
Cream Tartar, pure powdered__
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.
Creasote......................................... 
Cudbear, prime............................. 
Cuttle Fish Bone...........................  
Dextrine...... ................................. 
Dover’s  Powders.......................... 
Dragon’s Blood Mass.................... 
Ergot  powdered...........................  
Ether Squibb’s..............................  
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s............  
Epsom Salts (bbl. 1M).................... 
Ergot, fresh................................... 
Ether, sulphuric, U. S. P .............. 
Flake white................................... 
Grains  Paradise........................ .. 
Gelatine, Cooper’s........................  
Gelatine, French  .............. 
 
Glassware, flint, 70 & 10, by box 60 & 10 less 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cajinet................................  12  ©  17
Glue, white....................................   16  ©  28
Glycerine, pure.............................  16  ®  20
Hops  Ms and Ms...........................  
25©  40
Iodoform <g)  oz..............................  
- 40
Indigo............................................  85  @1  00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35  ©  40
@1 00
Insect Powder, H.. P. & Co„ boxes 
4 00
Iodine,  resublimed....................... 
1 50
Isinglass,  American.....................  
Japonica.......................................  
7
London  Purpie................... 
  10  ©  15
Lead, acetate.................................  
15
Lime, chloride,(Ms 2s 10c & Ms 11c) 
8
Lupuline.......................................  
l 00
Lycopodium.................................  
50
50
Mace.............................................  
12M®  13
Madder, best  Dutch.................... 
Manna, S.  F ................................... 
75
Mercury......................................... 
60
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........^  oz  2 35©2 60
40
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s........ 
10
Moss, Iceland..........................ft 
12
Moss, Irish................................... 
Mustard,  English.......................... 
30
18
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........ 
23
Nutgalls......................................... 
Nutmegs, No. 1..............................  
60
Nux  Vomica.................................  
10
Ointment. Mercurial, Md.............. 
45
Paris Green.................................   17  ©  25
Pepper, Black  Berry.................... 
18
2 50
Pepsin............................................ 
Pitch, True Burgundy..................  
7
6 © 
Quassia  ......................................... 
7
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W.......... ft oz  75  ©  80
Quinine,  German.......................... 
70©  75
Red  Precipitate..................... ft 
85
Seidlitz  Mixture...........................  
28
Strychnia, cryst............................. 
1 60
Silver Nitrate, cryst.....................   74 ©  78
Saffron, American.  .....................  
35
Sal  Glauber................................... 
®  2
Sal Nitre, large cryst....................
10
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst..............
9
Sal Rochelle...................................
33
Sal Soda.........................................
2  @ 2)4
2 15
Salic in............................................
Santonin.......................................
6 50
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.........
35
4
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]....................
Spermaceti....................................
48
4)4© 5
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s....
14
Soap, White Castile.......................
.......................
Soap, Green  do 
17
Soap, Mottled do 
9
.......................
Soap, 
do  do 
.......................
11
Soap, Mazzini................................
14
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ...........................
26  © 28
30  © 32
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ...........................
Sugar Milk powdered....................
35
Sulphur, flour................................
3M@ 4
Sulphur,  roll.................................
3© 3)4
Tartar Emetic................................
602 70
Tar, N. C. Pine, M gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin.........
1 40
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
85
Turpentine,  Venice...............$1 ft
25
55
Wax, White, S. Sc  F. brand...........
7  © 8
Zino,  Sulphate..............................   7
Bbl
Whale, winter...................................  70
Lard, extra.......................................   55
Lard, No.  1.......................................   45
Linseed, pure raw...........................   40
Linseed, boiled................................  43
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........  70 
»0
Spirits Turpentine...........................   38 
43
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 5501  60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp..........f .......
70@  75
• ......
PAINTS
Bbl
Lb
Red Venetian....................
2© 3
1 \
Ochre, yellow Marseilles.......   1S£
2® 3
1%
2® 3
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.........
1%
2)4® 3 
Putty, commercial.................
‘J*
214© 3
Putty, strictly pure.................
*)4
13016
Vermilion, prime American.. 
Vermilion,  English................. 
58060
Green, Peninsular..................  
16017
Lead, red strictly pure........... 
7© 7M
Lead, white, strictly pure...... 
7© 7M
Whiting, white Spanish.........  
©70
Whiting,  Gilders .................... 
@90
White, Paris American........... 
110
Whiting  Paris English cliff.. 
140
Pioneer Prepared  F aints...... 
1 20@1 40
Swiss Villa Preparer  Paints.. 
1000120

VARNISHES.

do 
do 

OILS.

OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

LUBRICATING.

Water White................................................. 11%
Michigan  Test..............................................1096
Capitol Cylinder...........................................36M
Model  Cylinder............................................ 31M
Shield Cylinder............................................ 26)4
Eldorado  Engine.........................................24 M
Peerless Machinery.....................................22M
Challenge Machinery...................................20 M
Paraffine  ..................................................... 20)4
Black. Summer, West Virginia...................10
Black, 26° to 30°......................................... 11
Black, 15® C.  T............................................ 11M
j......................................13
Zero................. 

D IG   CO.
Druggists!

WHOLESALE
65

 

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 8g, 91, 

g3 and g5 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

Drugs, Me^ciues, GliBiiculs, 
Pits, Oils JarnislGS,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Slept  Bamaceitical  Prepara­

tions,  M   Extracts  aid 

Birin

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGNTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Pine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Hor|e Brushes.

WE  A RE  SOLE  OAVNEIiS  OF

Weatherly’s Michip Catarrh Cure

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.

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

WITHERS DADE & CO.’S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

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

W e are also owners of the

,1

T
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.

once,  greatly  encouraging  them,  and  they 
held on to a good  share  of  the  trade  that 
formerly  belonged  to  their  predecessor. 
Their  success  was  sufficient  to  cause  the 
older dealers to take steps to head them off, 
and the boys met each cut  by cutting under 
it.  And while the other  stores  only cut on 
a few things, the Slowens  got  their  backs 
up and cut  on  everything.  They  began  to 
draw trade from towns twenty miles  away, 
and did a very large business.
It seems to me that if I had started  busi­
ness with §10,000 in the bank it would have 
made me feel rather sore to  watch  that  ac­
count grow smaller. 
I would  have  figured 
to myself:  That deposit gives me credit.  I 
will buy on time,  sell  and  collect  to  meet 
my  bills,  but  I will  not touch that account 
unless I am obliged to,  and then I  will  pay 
back tbe amount the very first minute I can. 
But  the  Slowen  boys  did  not  figure  that 
way.  They were doing a large credit  busi­
ness  and  increasing  their  stock  and  their 
lines,  and they consoled themselves by  say­
ing that what  they  took  out  of  the  bank 
they  had  on  their  shelves  or  in  book  ac­
counts.
Both boys were married and each  bought 
a house for himself.  They were  interested 
in all public enterprises, and particularly in­
terested in politics.  If their old uncle could 
have  looked  at  them  from  his  place  in— 
heaven (surely no New York merchant will 
go to the other place!),  lie  must  have  felt 
that his bexuest was  bifhging  great  liappi- 
to them.

Warmed (not cooked) adding  piece ot 
Good Butter (size of hen's egg) and gill 
of fresh  milk  (preferable  to  water.) 
Season to suit when on the table. None
genuine unless bearing the figliature uf

CHIUICOTHE  ILL
a t   t h is e h 0.

▲  MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED  EACH 

W EDNESDAY.

E. A. STOWE A BRO., Proprietors.

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

Telephone No. 95.

(Entered  at the  Postofflce  at  Grand Rapida  cui 

Second-class Matter A

WEDNESDAY, MAY 19,1886.

City Clerks as Country Merchants. 

Wm. H. Maher in American Grocer.

I often recall my school  days  and  school 
mates, and  smile  over  the  ambitions  and 
ideas  that  we  boys  had. 
I  had  nothing 
either  in  myself,  my  relative,  or  my  sur­
roundings  of  which  to  boast,  but  nearly 
every other boy had someone possession for 
which 1 envied him.  Perhaps lie was more 
of a  favorite  with  the  girls,  or  liis  father 
was  rich,  or  he  had  relatives  who  were 
great  men,  or  other  parts  that  made  him 
popular.

I  remember  my  special  admiration  for 
Jimmy Slowen came from the  fact  that  he 
had an uncle who was a  great  merchant  in 
New York.  To be storekeeper in our village 
was  a  great  tiling,  and  a  position  that  a 
boy might look upon with awe;  but to  be a 
leading house in great New York was more 
than a badge of nobility. 
It cast  its  lustre 
so far that even Jimmy was lifted up  by  it, 
and when  he  quoted  his  New  York  uncle 
we boys felt that it was  an  honor  to  be  in 
liis company.

For years Jimmy and  his  brothers talked 
of the possibility  of  their  uncle  some  day 
remembering  them,  but not till Jimmy was 
thirty did  the  great  man  do  anything  for 
him.  Then he did all he could do;  he died 
and remembered them in  his will.

When  I  opened  my  morning  paper  and 
saw the announement of  the  death  of  the 
great  and  rich  New  York  merchant,  I  at 
once sent up a  wish  that  Jimmy  might  at 
last be benefitted;  and  later,  when  details 
of the will were given,  I  saw  that  he  and 
his brother were down  for §10,000. 
It was 
twenty years  since  he  and  I  had  been  at 
school together or had met,  but  I  doubt  if 
any friend near him was more sincerely glad 
for his good luck than 1 was.

The boys (we always think of our school­
mates as boys)  had been  clerking  in  a  city 
o f some 30,000  inhabitants,  and  their  first 
move after getting  their  money  was  to  go 
back to our old village ani negotiate for the 
purchase of a stock of general  merchandise 
there.  They  paid  a  good  price,  but  they 
were quite well aware of  that.  The  stand 
was a good one,  the  stock  was  in fair  con­
dition,  and they considered  a  few  hundred 
•^dollars as of small consequence.

h i  this  view,  too,  they  were  probably 
right.  Many men slip  up  on  the  purchase 
of a business  because  they  figure  that  the 
seller is asking a little more than  his  stock 
and fixtures will  inventory.  A  man  came 
to me for advice two  years  ago  about  just 
such a purchase.  He figured that  the busi­
ness was worth §4,000 as  it  stood,  but  the 
seller wanted §4,600. 
I  advised  him  if  he 
•was satisfied that  the  business was  a  good 
one, not to let a few hundred dollars stand in 
the way;  that he ought to remember that he 
was buying something that could not be  in­
ventoried,  and that had cost  money to build 
up.  He concluded he would hold off a  feW 
days, but the seller found a purchaser at his 
price.  My friend would have then paid the 
price,  but it was too late,  and the purchaser ! 
had the  best  of  reasons  for  being  satisfied! 
with his bargain.  Buying a  business is not 
it  is ! 
like buying a coat of a barrel of flour; 
like buying bonds for a life investment. 
If 
you have  proof  that  they  have  been  good 
dividend-paying property, the premium that 
you pay for them, if not foolishly high, is of 
little consequence.

But, aside from  this consideration,  which 
•was  a  sensible  one,  the  Slowen  Brothers 
had another argument,  and  that  was  their 
$10,000.  What  were  a  few  hundred  dol­
lars when they had §10,000 in the bank sub­
ject to  their  check?  They  looked  upon  a 
few hundred dollars as of small importance, 
-and  bought  the  business  on  the  seller’s 
terms.

The truth is that §10,000  is a goodly sum 
of  money. 
I  remember  once  in  saying  to 
myself,  and saying it  seriously,  ‘I f   I  ever 
get to be worth §10,000  I  shall  stop  work­
ing,  invest the money  at  10  per  cent.,  and 
with §1,000  a  year  live  a  very  contented 
and  easy  life.  At  that  date  money  was I 
loaned  readily  on  the  best  security  at  12 
per  cent,  but  I  thought  I  would  not  be 
greedy,  and so figured on the basis of 10.  If 
aome  one  had  kindly  died  for  my  benefit 
just  then,  and  left  me  §10,000,  I  would 
probably felt  as  my  friends,  the  Slowens,  [ 
did,  that  I  had  enough to last me forever.
But  I  started  to  tell  about  the  Slowens’ 
store.

The boys took great pleasure in changing 
the room so that it  lost  the  village  grocery 
look and took on  city airs.  Their  delivery 
wagon was bought in the  city,  their  adver­
tising  matter  was  after  city  fashion,  and 
they laid in a stock of goods such as the old 
village had never seen before.

Of  course, 

the  old  fogy  competitors 
sneered and ridiculed them, and  equally, of 
course,  the  boys  boasted  that  they  would 
run the old fogies out of  town.  Merchants 
know that there Is a class, larger or smaller, 
in every city and  village that  always gravi­
tates to the new comer.  Most of these peo­
ple have pretty good accounts  standing  un­
paid at the other  stores,  but  a  certain  pro­
portion of such trade is good  pay.

This  constituency  came  to  Slowens  at

BtlLKLET, LEMON A HOOPS,
W holesale  Grocers.

I m p o r t e r s   a n d

* S o le A gents fo r

Daniel Scotten &  Co.’s “HIAWATHA” 

Plug Tobacco.

Lautz. Bros. & Co.’s SOAPS.
Niagara STARCH.
Dwinell, Howard & Co. ’<§ Royal Mocha and Java.

. 

Royal Java.
Golden  Santos.

Thompson & Taylor Spice  Co.’s  “Mag­

nolia ” Package Coffee.
SOLE  PROPRIETORS

“J O L L Y   T I A O D ”  F i n e   C u t

Dark and sweet, with plug flavor, the best goods 

on the market.

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

Mail orders  are  especially  solicited, which  invariably 
secure the lowest prices and prompt shipment.  Satisfaction' 
guaranteed.

25,27 and 29 Ionia Stand 51,53,55,57 and 59 Island Sts.,

G rand R a p id s, Mlolx.

PUTNAM &  BROOKS
Wholesale Manufacturers of 

^  
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PURE  CANDY!

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

^BANANAS,  FIGS,  DATES,. 

N u t s ,  E to .

SPIOES.

ABSOLUTE
Warranted to hi  Pure  Goods.
TELFER & ERODES,

M anufactured  Only  by

46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids.

WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

A gents  fo r

A.MBOY  CHEESE.

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

In about three years from the date  that  I 
saw notice of their good luck, I found a line 
in  Dun’s  weekly  sheet  that  surprised  me. 
It read:
Slowen  Bros.,  general  merchandise,  as­
signed.
I was in  the  village  the  other  day and 
asked about  them.  Their  assets  had  paid 
31 cents  on  the  dollar,  and  the  two  were 
back in the city again clerking. 
I  hope the 
uncle does not know it.

TIME  TABLES.
Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
,, 
..................................9:00 am
iMail 
+Day Express.................... 12:35 p m
♦Night  Express........................ 10:40 pm
Muskegon Express..............4:20 pm

Arrives 
4:30 p 
9:25 p 
5:45 a 
11:20 a

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

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

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

J. H. Carpenter, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  MuiiLiKEN,  General  Manager.
Detroit, Mackinac  & Marquette.

Going East

Gr.°i?irWest- 
< :30 p m .......... Houghton................. 8:30 a
3:00pm,D......Marquette  ........... A, l:0Gp
2:05 pm, A...... Marquette............D, 1:40 p
10:40 a m ..........Seney...................................4:50 p ^ .
J:45am ..........St.  Ignace.........................  8:15 pm
6:15 a m.......... Mackinaw City............9:30 p m
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. & I. 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, Houahton 
& Ontonagon Railroad, for  all  Lako  Superior 
POM»- 
_ 

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

A. WATSON.
E.W. ALLEN,

,  „  

, 

Lake Shore A Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  DIVISION.)

Arrive.

Leave. 
N. Y  N  Y
Ex. and  N. Y. 
Mail.  Mail. 
Mail,
Ex.
p. m. 
a. m. 
gt m,
p . it7:1 
4:40 
7:50Dp..Grand Rapids...Ar 9:50
5:58 
9:07.......Allegan..................   8:32
5;58 
6:55 
10:05.......Kalamazoo..............  7:50
5:00 
9:50 
11:40.......White Pigeon.........  5:50
3:30 
a. m. 
P- ™. 
p. m.
a. m 
4:15 
5:10........Toledo.................. Til: 15
10:40 
9:30.......Cleveland...............  6:40
8:20 
6:30 
p. m. 
a. m.
a. m. 
p. m 
2:40 
3:30.......Buffalo.................. 11:55
11:55 
a. m. 
P- m. 
p, m>
a. m 
5:40
a ,  8:W...V.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. McKenney, General Agent.

Detroit, Grand  Haven A  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

. 

.  „  

Leaves.
.„. 
tSteamboat  Express......... 
6-25am
tThrough  Mail.................. 10:40 am   10:50 am
tEvemng  Express............3:40 pm   3:50 pm
♦Limited  Express..............  8:30 pm   10:45 pm
TMixed, with coach........... 
11:00 a m

Arrives. 

GOING WEST.

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

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

Grand  Rapids A  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

. 

. „  „  _ 

Arrives
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex  4:10 p m 
G’d Rapids & Trav. City Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  5:05 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Wayne Ex.. 10:30 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac. 10:30 p m 

All trains daily except Sunday.

GOING  SOUTH.

Leaves
11:30 a m 
5:05 pm  
7:00 a m
7:15 am  
5:30 pm  
11:45 a m

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS. 

North—Train  leaving  at 5:05  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Sleeping  and  Chair  Cars  for Petoskey 
and Mac kin«.  Train leaving at 11:30 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw 
City.
South—Train leaving at 6:30 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood. Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Michigan  Central.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

tDetrolt Express.....................................   6:00 a m
+Dav Express.................................  
12-45 o m
!w t l a ™tlc  E x P re s 8 ................................................ 10:40 p  m
_  
♦Paclflo  Express........................ :.......6:00 a m
........  3:30p m
tM a.il  ........................................... 
▼Grand  Rapids Express..........................10:36 p m
Way Freight................................... 
5’15pm
tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.*...........
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Oar  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:80 
a. in.,and  Boston 3:06 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily exoept 
Sunday with drawing room oar attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Baplds at 10:36 p. m.

Cha*. H. Norris, Gen’l Agent

Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper with 

signature and stamp on each can.

Successors to Fox, Musselman & Loveridp,

Amos S. Musselman l Go.
W holesale  Grocers.
m usselm an’s corker  plug  and  rum  cigars.
F. J. DETTENTHALER,
OYSTERS & FISH,

The best and most attractive goods on the market.

JOBBER  OF

S e e   Q u o t a t i o n s   i n   P r i c e - L i s t .

S e n d   f o r   S a m p l e   B u t t . 

AGENTS  FOE

BUTTER - A J S T D   EGOS, 

CONSIGNMENTS  SOLICITED,

117 MONROE ST., 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

■ A JS T O   N O T I O N S ,

83  M onroe  St.,

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

GRAND  R A PID S,  M ICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers  j  I  CJpnnioltTT 
( A ujJuuldllj.
American and Stark A Dags 

Wall  Paper! Window  Shades

M anufacturers’  P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Nelson  Bros.  &  Co.

JENNINGS’

Flavoring Extracts!
JENNINGS  &  SMITH,

MANUFACTURED  BY

Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

BUSINESS  LAW .

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

MEANING  OF  “ STOCK.”

“Stock”  includes swine,  according to the 
decision  of the Supreme Court  of  Iowa,  in 
the case of State vs.  Clark.

r  A TENT  C A S E S — AUTHORITY  OF  STATE 

COURTS.

A state court has  no authority to prohibit 
the use of  a patent  [lending  the action in a 
suit  brought thereon,  which  necessarily in­
volves the question of infringement, accord­
ing to the  decision of  the New York  Court 
of Appeals.

NOTE— SEALED  INSTRUM ENT.

The words “signed and sealed” at tlie<^*d 
of a note were followed  by the signature of 
the maker,  and a scroll  for a seal,  with the 
letters  “L.  S.” written  across  it.  The Su­
preme Court of  Georgia  held that  the note 
was a sealed  instrument  under  the  law of 
that state.

LARCENY—LO A N -M ISTA K E  A S  TO AMOUNT.
A curious  larceny case was  lately before 
the English  Court  for Crown Cases Reser­
ved. 
In this case,  Reg.  vs.  Ashwell,  it ap­
peared  that the  defendant  asked  a person 
for the loan of a shilling.  The person asked 
gave him what he supposed to be a shilling, 
but  which  was  in  fact  a  sovereign.  He 
changed the sovereign, kept the change, and 
when told of the  mistake*at first denied the 
receipt of the sovereign, but  afterwards ad­
mitted that he had got it and spent half  the 
money.  The  Court  held  that  defendant 
was guilty of the crime of larceny.

INSURANCE  FOR  BEN EFIT  OF  OTHERS—  

SURRENDER.

A person took out  three policies of insur­
ance on his own life for the benefit of his wife 
and children.  After  the death of  his wife 
he surrendered the policies, signing as guar­
dian of  his children,  all of  whom,  with one 
exception,  were of full age.  The New York 
Court of Appeals held that the surrenderee 
were void; that under the New York statutes 
the policies  at the  moment of  their execu­
tion  vested in  the  wife and  children; that 
the policies could  not  be surrendered with­
out  their  assent,  and  that  the  surrender 
having  been made without^that assent  the
children were entitled to recover thejamount 
of  the policies  unforfeited  at  the  time of 
the  surrender,  less2?unpaid  premiums  and 
interest.

TRADE-M ARK— “ ANTI-W ASIIBOARD”   SOAP.
Tiie  words  “anti-washboard,” as  applied 
to  a  manufacture  of  soap,  were  recently 
held  to  constitute  a  ^valid  trade  mark 
(O'Rourk  vs.  Central  City  Soap Company, 
decided  by the United States Circuit  Court 
for the Eastern District of Michigan).  The 
court said:  “As  a general  rule  there is no 
doubt that in order that mere words may be 
upheld as a trade-mark they must be purely 
arbitrary or must indicate the origin or own 
ership of the article or  fabric to which they 
are  affixed.  Words expressive  of the char 
aeter and  composition of  an  article,  or  of 
the name by which it is generally known in 
the  market,  cannot be made  the subject of 
monopoly  *  *  *  There  is,  however,  i 
class of  words which,  though  not descrip 
tive of  the  article,  are  suggestive of  some 
supposed advantage to be derived from using 
it.  or some effect produced by its use.  These 
have  been  ordinarily  though  not  alway 
uplielp as valid trade-marks.  *  *  *  The 
words  ‘anti-washboard’  are not  objection 
able  as indicating  the composition or  qual­
ity of  the article,  although  the  natural  in­
ference from thenris that  by the use of the 
soap the necessity of  rubbing clothes is ob­
viated.  Upon  the whole we  incline to the 
opinion that they are rather suggestive than 
descriptive, Und that  they may  be properly 
claimed as a trade-mark.”

RILL  OF  LADING  —   STIPTI.ATION  AS  TO 

AMOUNT  STATED.

A bill of lading contained a stipulation to 
the effect that the amount  stated in the bill 
should be  conclusive  as  between  the ship­
pers and the  carriers.  The  United  States 
Circuit  Court  for  the  Eastern  District  of 
Michigan held (Law vs. Botsford) that sucli 
a stipulation  was  not  obligatory  upon the 
vessel though  it might be  upon the  master 
signing  it  personally.  The  Court  said: 
“This is  certainly a very  singular  stipula­
tion,  and  was designed  undoubtedly to ob­
viate  the  difficulties  which  are  thrown in 
the  way  of  deducting  shortage,  but  we 
think tiie answer to it is  not a difficult one. 
It  is well settled  by the  case of  Grant vs. 
Norway,  10 C. B. 605,  in  England,  and the 
Freeman,  18 How.  182,  in tills country,  that 
the master has no authority to sign  a bill of 
lading for a cargo not  laden on board.  Now 
this is  nothing  more  nor  less than such  a 
contract. 
It  is  an  agreement  that  the 
amount named in the bill of  lading shall be 
conclusive upon  tiie  vessel,  though never a 
bushel may have been ladeu 011 board.  The 
master has no  authority to make  a stipula­
tion of this kind. 
It is possible it would be 
binding between the consignor and the own­
er of  the vessel if he  assented to it person­
ally, but  the power  of  tiie master  to bind 
his ship is  limited to contracts  made in the 
usual  and  ordinary  course  of  business.
*  *  *  His  authorty  is  to  sign  bills of 
lading of  the usual  tenor  and  description, 
consisting of a receipt  for the amount ship­
ped,  subject to  explanation,  and a  contract 
to  deliver in the usual  form  at the  port of 
destination.  Such  a  contract  the  master 
has undoubtedly  the  right  to sign,  but  he 
has no right to sign such contract before the 
oargo is laden on  board.

MATTINGS,

FULLER  &   STOWE  COMPANY,

D esig n ers

and Printers

O I L   C L O T H S

E T C . ,   E T C .

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

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, Mirh

Grand  Rapids,

M ichigan.

o. w .  b l a i n   &  co., Produce Co m isé
Furia  ad  lis tlc   Frails, M m   reptáis, Etc.

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  Ail orders filled at lowest market Drice  Corras 
NO. » IO N IA S L

pondence solicited.  APPLES AND POTATOES in car lots Specialties. 

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

GO  TO

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Figs, Dates,

ETC.

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TWINES,

CORDAGE,

WOODENWABE

Wool Twine, Binders’ Twine, Tarred  Felt, 

Tarred Board, Building Board, Etc. 

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M anufactured by the

SMOKING  TOBACCO,
National K. of L Co-operatire Tobacco Co.,
Arthur  Meigs  &

R A L E I O H ,   3NT.  O .

CRANI)  R A PID S,  MICH.,

Wholesale agents for the

S T A T E   O F   n S Æ IO H IG k A J S T .
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 w ill not only buy it 
himself, but do  his  utmost  to  make  it 
popular.  Dealers w ill therefore see the 
advisability  of  putting  it  in  stock  at 
once.  We w ill fill orders for any quan­
tity at following prices, usual  terms:
2 OZ.46;  40Z^44;  8 0Z.43;  16 oz.42.
ARTHUR MEIGS £ CO,
Wholesale  Broeers,
77,79, 81 anil 83 Sostb Division St, M  Rapids, Mich.

SPRING

COMPANY,

W HOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,

J.  T.  BELL  <&  CO.,

Saginaw  Valley  Fruit  House
And  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,

Dealers in all kinds Country Produce & Foreign Fruits.

Reference :  Banks of E ast Saginaw. 
CONSIGNMENTS  SOLICITED.

East Saginaw, Mich.
C A R ? <& LOVXRXDGS,

L.  It. L0V EK I06E.

L.  M. CARY.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

ip© and Burglar Proof

SAFE!

Combination and Time Locks,

11  Ionia M ,  

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

VON BEHREN & SHAFFER,
WHITE  ASH  OARS.

Manufacturers of Every Style of

STR YK ER , OHIO,

m

IPS*

Spoon  Oars  made o f Best Spruce Tim ber.

B0WIH6 SPOOK  PARS  FOB  BOAT CLUBS  MADE TO  ORDER.

2Dr\>  (Boobs.

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

The following quotations are given  to show 
relative values, but they may be considered, to 
some extent, “outside prices,” and  are  not as 
low as buyers of reasonable  quantities can, in 
most  instances, obtain  them  at.  It  will pay 
every  merchant  to  make  frequent  visits  to 
market, not only in  respect  to  prices,  but to 
keep posted on  the  ever-changing  styles and 
fashions, many of which are never shown  “on 
the road.”
Androscoggin, »4. .17  1 Pepperell. 104. ......19
Androscoggin, 74. . 1334 ¡Pepperell, 114.
22
Pepperell,  74...... .13  IPeqiiot,  74__ ......1434
Pepperell,  8 4 ........ .15  ¡Pequot,  84__ ......16
Pepperell,  9 4 ........ .17 
iPequot,  9-4___ ......18
Economy, oz.......
! Park Mills, No. 100.15
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
¡Prodigy, oz..............854
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
(Otis Apron............   8J4
Park Mills, No. 70. .12 
¡Otis  Furniture......834
Park Mills, No. 80.. 13 
¡York, 1  oz............... »34
Park Mills, No. «0.. 14
York. AA, extra oz.1234

CHECKS.

Plain.

OSNABURQS

Plaid.

m

PRINTS.

SILESIAS.

6%

534
734

BLEACHED COTTONS.

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

FINE BROWN  COTTONS.

Alabama...............  6%Alabama
Georgia............... •  8*4 A ugusta...............
Jewell  ...............
.  8 Georgia .................
Kentucky  ........... 84 Louisiana..............
L ane................... .  84 Toledo..................
Santee............!..
74
Avondale,  36.......
84 Gilded Age............
Art  cambrics, 36.. .  94 Greene, G  44 
. . .
Androscoggin, 44.
Hill, 44..................
Androscoggin, 54. .124 Hill, 7-8..................
Ballou, 44............ 54 Hope,  44...............
Ballou, 5-4............ .  6 King  Phillip  cam-
Boott, 0 .4 4 ......... •  84
brie, 44...............
9* 
Boott,  E. 5-5.........
Liu wood,  44.........
74
Boott, AGC, 4-4.
94
Lonsdale,  4-4........... 74
Boott, R. 3-4.........   54 [Lonsdale  cambric.1034
Blackstone,AA4-4.  634 Langdon,GB,4-4...  834
Chapman, X, 44__   534 Langdon, 46...........11
Conway,  4-4...........  634 Mascnville,  4-4........ 734
Cabot, 4-4
.  634 New York Mill, 44.1034 
Cabot, 7-8...............  6
New Jersey,  44....  8 
Canoe,  34.............   4
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  734
Domestic,  36.........   734 Pride of the West..1034
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  8 34! Pocahontas,  44__734
Slaterville, 7-8........  634
D avol, 4 4 ..................   8
Fruit of Loom, 44..  7341 Woodbury, 44___
534
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  634: Whitinsville,  44.» 
Fruit of the Loom, 
I Whitinsville, 7-8__ 6
cambric,  44.......11
Wamsutta, 4-4........  934
Gold Medal, 44..  ..  64 Williamsville, 36...  834
Gold Medal, 7-8......  534!
Crown................... 171
Masonville  S__ ...11
No.  10................... 11
Lonsdale......... ....  94
Coin......................10
Lonsdale A ...... ....14
Anchor..................15
Victory  O........ —   54
Blackburn............  8
Victory J ......... ....  64
Davol.....................14
Victory  D....... ....  84
London..................121
¡Victory K....... ....104
Paconia................12
¡Phoenix A....... ....194
Red  Cross.............   71
Phoenix  B....... ....I04
Mason ville TS.......   8
¡Phoenix XX___.  ..  5
Albion, solid..........534  [Gloucester.............§34
Albion,  grey.......... 6  Gloucestermourn’g.54
Allen’s  checks........534 Hamilton  fancy...  6
Ailen’s  fancy........ 534  Hartel fancy...........534
Allen’s pink,..........54  Merrimac D............ 6
Allen’s purple........534  Manchester............6
American, fancy_634
Oriental fancy.......534
Arnold fancy......... 6
Oriental  robes.......634
Berlin solid............ 5
Pacific  robes..........6
Coeheco fancy...... 8
Richmond.............. 534
Cocheco robes........634
Steel River.............534
Conestoga fancy_6
Simpson’s .............. 6
Eddy st o n e ............ 6
Washington fancy. .6 
Eagle fancy...........6
Washington  blues.  5
Garner pink...........534
Appleton A, 44....  6  [Indian Orchard, 40.  7
Boott  M, 44...........  734; Indian Orchard, 36.  6
Boston F, 44.........   634 Laconia  B, 74.. 
13
Continental C, 4-4..  63* ¡Lyman B, 40-in 
9
Continental D, 40 in 734! Mass. BB, 44.......  g34
Conestoga W, 44...  634 Nashua  E, 40-in....  73»
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  4% Nashua  R, 44........e£
Conestoga G, 30-in.  5  ¡Nashua 0,7-8......... 6
Dwight  X, 34........  434 Newmarket N........ 534
Dwight Y, 7-8.........54  Pepperell E, 40-in..  634
Dwight Z, 44.........   534 Pepperell  R, 44....  634
Dwight Star, 44—   6  Pepperell  0,7-8....  534 
Dwight Star,40-in..  7  Pepperell N, 34....  54
Enterprise EE, 30..  434 Pocasset  C, 44...... 6J4
Great Falls E, 44...  64jSaranac R..............6
Farmers’A, 44......  54 ¡Saranac E..............734
Amoskeag............ 7
Johnson Manfg Co,
Amoskeag, Persian  9
Bookfold............12J4
styles..................
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bates..................... 6
dress  styles.......1034
Berkshire............   6
Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow, fancy__
styles..................  6
Glasgow,  royal....  634 
White Mfg Co, stap 6%
Gloucester, 
new  White Mfg CojTanc 74
Plunket.................  734  Earlston..............  734
Lancaster..............   7  Gordon..................... 7
Langdown..... "...  7  Greylock, 
Renfrew,  dress__9 
Androscoggin,74..15  ¡Pepperell.  104__ 22
Androscoggin, 84.. 16  Pepperell,  114!!!!!24
Pepperell,  74........15  Pequot,  74..............16
Pepperell,  84........17  Pequot,  84..............18
Pepperell,  94.......19  ¡Pequot,  94..............20
Atlantic  A, 44......  634 Lawrence XX, 44..  64
Atlantic  H, 44........634  Lawrence XXX 40.  73k
Atlantic  D, 44......  534'Lawrence LL,44...  5
Atlantic P, 44.........  5  Newmarket N.........534
Atlantic LL, 44....  43k ¡Mystic River, 44...  54
Adriatic, 36............   734 ¡Pequot A, 44.........   6«
Augusta, 44...........  634|Piedmont, 36...........6
Boott M, 44............  6  ¡Stark AA, 44 .........   634
Boott  FF, 44...........634 Tremont CC,44....  43k
Graniteville, 44__54iUtica, 44..................10
Indian  Head,44...  64jWachusett,  44......   634
Indiana Head 45-in.1134|Wachusett. 30-in...  53k
iFalls.XXX.............1534
Amoskeag, ACA... 17 
“ 44..1234jFalls,  BB................1134
Amoskeag 
Amoskeag,  A.......H34 
Falls,  BBC, 36....... 1934
Amoskeag,  B........11
Falls,  awning.......19
Amoskeag,  C........1034
Hamilton,  BT, 32..  934
Amoskeag,  D........ 10
Hamilton,  D.........   934
Amoskeag,  E..........934
Hamilton,  H .... ...  834 
Amoskeag, F .........   9
Hamilton  fancy...  834
Premium  A, 44__ 17
Methuen AA.........H34
Premium  B........... 16
Methuen ASA.......1634
Extra 4-4.................16
Omega A, 7-8........ IO34
Extra 7-8................. 1434
Omega A, 44........ 1234
CCA 7-8...................1234
Omega ACA, 7-8__ 13
CT 44......................14
Omega ACA, 44.... 15
RC 7-8......................14
Omega SE, 7-8........24
BF7-8......................16
Omega SE, 44........27
AF44......................19
Omega M. 7-8....... 22
Cordis AAA, 32.......14
Omega M, 44.........25
Cordis ACA, 32.......15
Shetucket SS&SSW 1134 
Cordis No. 1,32.......15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 2........... 14
Shetucket,  SFS 
..12
Cordis No. 3........... 13
Stockbridge  A...... 7
Cordis No. 4........... 1134
Stockbridge fancy.  8
Falls, XXXX..........1834
Washington... ......44 ¡Royal  Globe..
....  44
S. S. a Sons__ ....  44 ¡Crown.............. ....  44
American  A.. — 144 Amoskeag...... ....144
Stark A...........
Boston...........
....  9
Everett blue.. ....12 Warren  AXA ....11
Everett brown ....12 Warren  BB__ __ 10
Otis  AXA......
....11 Warren CC...... ....  9
Otis BB...........
....10 York,  blue...... ....1 2 4
PAPER  CAMBRICS.
Man ville......... 44@5 S. 8. A Sons...... 44@54
Masonvillo__ 540.64 ¡Garner............ 44^54
Red  Cross......
....  64 Thistle Mills__ ....  6
Berlin............
....  6 Rose................. __64
G arner..........
SPOOL COTTON.
Brooks.......... __ 50 Eagle and  Phcenix
Clark’s O. N. T. ....55
Mills ball sewing.30
J. A P.  Coats..
....55 Green  A  Daniels.”  25
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 Stafford.......... __26
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 Hall A Manning . ...28
Charleston ball sew
Holyoke........... ....25
ingthread__ ....30

GRAIN BAGS.
..  .204
....  64¡Otis CC..........

standard............  734¡White  Manf’g  Co,

|  sty les................... 1034

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

SOFT  CAMBRICS.

TICKINGS.

---------

WIGANS.

DENIMS.

dress

7

CORSET JEANS.

7 Kcarsage......... __ 6Qi
Armory...........
Androscoggin ....  74 Naumkeagsatteen.  641
Canoe River__ ....  54 Pepperell  bleached 8Í
Clarendon........
Pepperell sat... ....  8
Hallowell  Imp. ....  54 Rockport......... __ 64
[nd. Oreh. Imp. ....  54 Lawrence sat... ___6  '
Laconia ........... ....  7

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 themoney 
paid  foa  it  if  a  beneficial effect is not exper­
iencedDy the time two-thirds of  the  contents 
of the bottle is used.  Sold by the Hazeltino & 
Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

(Groceries.

Grocers’ Association of the City of Muskegon.

OFFICERS.

. 

President-H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Rent.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—Wm. Peer.
Financial Secretary-John DeHaas.
Board of Directors—O. Lambert, w. L McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B.Kelly, A.  Towl  and
Finance Committee—Wm.  B.Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson. 
n  T arr.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—o.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. L McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman.  Garrtt 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  D.  A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot,  R.  8.  Miner  andL. 
Vincent. 
Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
and A. Towl. 
_  
„
Transportation Committee—Wm. B. Kent, An­
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of each month.
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, May 19.
B E TA IL  GBOCEBS’ ASSOCIATION 

,,
„   T- 

_   „  

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. 8. Harris.
Board of  Directors-Eugene  Richmond,  Wm. 
H. Sigel, A. J. Elliott, Henry A. Hydorn and
W. E. Knox. 
.  tt,.
Finance  Committee—W. E.  Knox.  H.  A.  liy-
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-
Reguiar  meetings—First  and  Third  Tuesday 
Next meeting—Tuesday evening, June l.__
Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association.

Evenings of each month.

. 

President—P.  Ranney.
First Vice-President—O. K. Buckhout.
Second Vice-President—Hu^h Bec’g’S. 
Secretary—M. S. Scoville.
Treasurer—J ulius  Schuster. 
Regular  M e e tin g s —S e c o n d   a n d   f o u r t h   lu e s -  

days o f each m o n th .  ________________

_

. 

, 

. 

, 

„ . _ .

march. 

the cry 

snare; 
beware. 

Soliloquy by S. Tuck.
From the Retail Grocers’ Advocate.
I was a big fool.  I knew I was caught 
By that musical box and those spices I bought. 
Every tune that it plays sounds like the rogues
, __,
The  pepper’s  most  dirt,  the  mustard  most
Why did I leave my good  judgement  to sway, 
And lead me to suifer, my trade to betray/
I  should have known better.  “Pure goods  is 
Of all my patrons.  Oh, why did I try 
To  get  something  for nothing?  It was but a 
.  T„.
I’ll  know  better  in  future, of such goods I il
Oh, why did I heed  not the Union’s advice,
To  march  under  its banner and deal in pure 
To shun all fine presents, offered but to deceive^ 
I  now  would  be  happy,  I  now  would  not
If theadviceI  had  followed  and  joined  that 
.
Of true-hearted grocers, the best in the land.
Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’  Association.
The regular semi-monthly meeting of  the 
Kalamazoo  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
which was held  on  the  11th,  was  well  at 
tended.  President  Ranney  presided  and 
Secretary Scoville officiated as scribe.

grand band 

spice?

_  . 

, ,  

.. 

, 

,

R. Arthur Stone tendered his resignation as 
First Vice-President, on account of his hav 
ing retired from  the  grocery  business,  and 
O. K.  Buckhout was promoted from Second 
Vice-President to fill the vacancy and Hugh 
Beggs  was  elected  Second Vice-President.
The Treasurer reported the finances of the 

Association in a  flourishing condition.

Several  grocers  stepped  forward  and 
joined the Association by signing the const! 
tution and paying the initiation fee.

President Ranney then  introduced Irving 
W. VanZandt, of Rochester, who addressed 
the Association at some length, detailing the 
growth of the Eastern organizations and the 
good results  already  accomplished  by con­
certed effort.  He referred  to  the  victories 
gained over the dead-beat and peddler  nui 
sances,  the  good  fellowship  following  in 
the wake of riper  acquaintance  among  the 
grocerymen,  and the necessity for organized 
opposition to the twin evils  of  the  trade— 
adulterated goods and  fictitious labels.  He 
asserted that a reaction  was  setting  in 
favor  of  pine  spices  and  unmixed  syrups 
and that the time was not  far distant when 
the consumer  would  refuse  to  be satisfied 
with  adulterated  goods,  no  matter  how 
cheap they were.

Editor  Stowe,  of  The  T radesman,  on 
being called on for a  few  remarks, referred 
to the recent organization  of  three  new as 
sociations in the State,  which  swelled  the 
total number to  twenty-five.  He  spoke 
the benefits to be derived from a State asso 
dation and bespoke for the State movement 
the same enthusiasm  the  grocers  have  ex­
hibited in the  local organizations.  He sug 
gested that the Kalamazoo Association create | 
a new feature in the  shape  of  a  Complaint 
Committee, to  whom  could  be  referred  all 
complaints against members for the purpose 
of prompt investigation and settlement.

President  Ranney  commended  the  sug­
gestion,  and the Association resolved to put 
it into practice,  selecting  as  such  commit­
tee Messrs.  M.  Desenberg,  W.  L.  Brownell 
and Romain Buckhout.

After the transaction of  the usual routine 
business, the Association adjourned, to meet 
again on the evening of May 25.
The  Grocery  Market.

Business  and  collections  are  both fairly 
good. Sugars have taken a strong downward 
movement,  which  verifies  the  prediction 
made by T he T radesman  two  weeks ago 
that the  staple would go  to  bottom  figures 
before  the advent of the usual  June  boom. 
Other  articles in the grocery line are  about 
steady.

Candy  is  steady.  Nuts  are  steady. 
Oranges  are  higher.  Lemons  are  also  a 
little higher. 

_______

oke the celebrated  “American  Field.” 

aoteaoents.

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.,
H awkins & P erky,
F.  J.  L amb & Co.,
Bulkley,  Lemon & H oops,
Amos Musselman & Co.,
Fox & Bradford,
O. W.  Bla in,
Ira O.  Green,
Moseley Bros.,
Bunting & Shedd,
Wv F.  Gibson  & Co.,
S.  C.  P eer,
Clark, J ew ell & Co.,
Cody, Ball  & Co..
J ennings & Smith,
J ohn Ca u lfield,
F red D. Y ale & Co.,
T elfer & Brooks,
E aton & Christenson,
Ludwig  W internitz,
Mohl  &  Kenning,
H azeltine & P erkins Drug Co.

' The  Sugar  Situation.

The future of this staple is still surroimd- 
ed by a good deal of uncertainty, no one ap­
parently possessing  faith  in  the  situation 
for either  a  rise  or  fall.  The  future  no 
doubt to a great  extent  depends  upon  the 
beet sowings,  and these at  present  are  still 
not  known.  Licht  says  that  there  is  a 
possibility  of  only  150,000  tons  increase. 
The majority of well informed parties place 
the increase at about  10 per cent., or a crop 
equal to 1884-S5,  which by the way was the 
largest ever known.  A good deal of uncer­
tainty  exists  with  regard  to  France. 
If, 
however, the advantages offered by the gov­
ernment with regard to the bounties may he 
taken as a basis of calculation,  the  yield  in 
that  country  will 
increase  enomously. 
French manufacturers of beet sugar  are  no 
doubt somewhat behind their German  com­
petitors  at  present,  but  the  large  induce­
ments now offered to improve their  method 
the new bounty will no  doubt  stir them 
On the same basis as the German  out­
up.
turn  the  present  bounty  will  amount  to 
16 per cwt.,  or within a trifle of the low­
est  market  price  recorded.  With  such  a 
bounty continued  for  any length  of  time, 
France would supply the 500,000  tons  now 
exported from  other  continental  countries. 
The statistical position is not as strong as 
was,  and  the  decreased  consumption  is 
being felt.  The stocks in Europe,  Havana, 
Matanzas and the United  States  at  uneven 
dates are 24,725  tons more  than last year at 
corresponding dates,  the stocks  in  Havana 
and  Matanzas  being,  on  May  1,  114,424 
tons,  against 77,944 tons  last  year, besides 
the stocks in other parts of the island being 
in excess of corresponding  date last 5 car.

Sugar  and  the  Strikes.

From the New York  Sun.

The  strike  at  the  Brooklyn  sugar  re­
fineries had the effect of advancing the price 
of loaf sugar in this  market  to  seven  and 
five-eight cents a pound,  and  other  refined 
sugars in proportion.  Had the strikers suc­
ceeded in obtaining  the  increase  of  wages 
they demanded,  and had  the  workmen  en­
gaged in the manufacture  of  the  materials 
and  machinery  used  in  sugar  refining  ob­
tained  a  similar  increase, the price  would 
probably  have  risen  three-eights  of  a  cent 
more. 
In this case refined sugar could have 
been profitably imported  from  Europe,  and 
the American refineries  would  have  to  be 
closed. 
It  is  no  wonder,  therefore,  that 
their owners resisted the proposed  increase 
of wages.  They might as well shut up  for 
want of labor as for want of custom.

This is only one out of many illustrations 
which might be adduced of the  complicated 
and delicate character  of manufacturing in­
dustry,  and of the  peril  of  violently inter­
fering with its development.  Any  attempt 
by either employer or employed to  obtain  a 
greater profit than is warranted by the laws 
of trade is bound to fail.
Ionia  Business  Men  Pleased  with  Their 

Association.

I onia,  May 12,1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:
Dea r Sib—I send you  to-day  a  copy  of 
our  delinquent  list,  No.  1,  issued  by the 
Ionia  Business  Men’s  Protective  Associa­
tion.  For an Ionia business man,  it  is  the 
most interesting and  highly-prized thing he 
has seen in  many a  day.  The  Association 
here is prospering  finely  and  is  generally 
pronounced  a  great  success.  Every mem­
ber—and  that  means nearly every business 
house  in  the  city—is  highly pleased with 
the working of the  Association. 
It  is  do­
ing  a  noble  work  here in Ionia.  Shall  be 
glad to exchange lists  with  you  hereafter. 
We have received several from you.
Yours Respectfully,

Secretary Business Men’s Association.

F red  Cutler, J r;,

Bangor  Ripe  for  Organization.

Bangor,  May 14,1886.

Editor Michigan Tradesman:
Dea r  Sir—I  would  like  some informa­
tion as to how to proceed to  establish  a re­
tail  grocers’ association in our village.  We 
feel the need of one here,  and  as  I  see  by 
T he  T radesman  that  you  have  taken 
quite an interest  in  this  direction  I  write 
for a form to commence operations with.
Any light you can give me on the subject 
will be gladly received.

Yours Respectfully,

Chas. W. Peters.

[Mr. Peters has been forwarded the neces 
sary  blank  forms  and  Th e  T radesman 
shall  expect  to  hear  of association No. 26 
within the next fortnight.]

Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Hides are quiet.  Pelts are lower and very 
dull.  Wool is lower and week.  Tallow  is 
quiet.

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

/ ‘Fermentum”  the  only  Reliable  Com 

pressed Yeast  See advertisemept.

While our stock lasts, we of­

fer to the trade FOR  SEED:
Learning Early Dent, Corn, 56 lb to bu. for fl.50
Red Blazed, 8 Rowed......... 
1-75
1.7
Yellow Yankee,8 Rowed... 

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GRAND  RA PID S, MICH.

FRED. D.  YALE.

DANIEL LYNCH.

SUCCESSORS  TO

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

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF

AND JOBBERS OF

ceive prompt attention.

40 and 42 South Division St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

BULL  DOG
Tobaccos.
TRADE  UNION

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LABOR  UNION,

The largest amount of good tobacco for the 

least money.

AND  EXTRA  GOOD

F I3 STE  OTJT S

These goods are all UNION  MADE,  and 
each box is duly  stamped  with  the  Union 
Liabel.  No scab 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  di­
rect will be filled promptly at prices quoted, 
and delivered to your railroad  depot free  of 
freight.

Bull Dog Tobacco Works,
Covington,  Ky.

For must Ironingnw  “ Electric Lustre*'I 
Starch.  It is all prepared for Immemat« f 
nee In O ne P o u n d  F acluure*. which | 
go aa farai two pounds of any otherl
Ask your  Grocer  for it.
Tie Electric Lustre Starci Co.

2 0 4  F ra n k lle i  8 t .,  M ew  Y o rk . I

JTOHXT CA-QXJTir.TJ) 

W holesale Agent,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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BAKING  POWDER.

promptly and buy in full packages. 

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

i Paragon............... 2 10
i Paragon 25 lb pails.  90 
Fraziers,25 lb pails. 1 25

DRIED  FRUITS—DOMESTIC.
Apricots, 25 ft boxes............. .............
Cherries, pitted, 50 lb boxes—
These prices  are  for  cash  buyers, who  pay |  Egg plums, 25 tt*  boxes.......................  ©
Pears 
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Peaches,  Delaware, 50 ft boxes....
@ 12*
Peaches, Michigan-------------
Raspberries, 50 ft boxes.....................   ©  -3
DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.
©   21 
Citron................................................
@ 7 
Currants............................................
@  14 
Lemon Peel.......................................
@  14 
Orange Peel......................................
Prunes, French,60s..........................-
...12* @
...  8*@
Prunes, French, 80s...........................
® 4V4
Prunes, Turkey................................
__  ®3  75
Raisins, Dehesia..................
,...3 00@3 20 
Raisins, London Layers......
....  ®2 40
Raisins, California  “  —
@200 
Raisins, Loose Muscatels...
©13* 
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s.........
Raisins, Sultanas...............
@10 
@10* 
Raisins, Valencia...............
@350
Raisins,  Imperials..............
MATCHES.
Grand Haven.  No. 8, square.......................1  00
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro...............1 20
Grand Haven,  No. 200,  parlor................... 1  *a
Grand  Haven,  No. 300, parlor................... 2 2a
Grand  Haven,  No. 7,  round....................... 1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2..............................................] 00
Oshkosh, No. 8.................................................. 1 60
Swedish........................................................  7*>
Richardson’s No. 8  sauare...............................1 00
Richardson’s No. 9  do 
............................. 150
Richardson’s No. 7*, round............................. 1 00
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
150
............... 
Black Strap............................................... ljj@2®
Cuba Baking..............................................25@28
Porto  Rico.................................................34@38
New  Orleans,  good............................ 
New Orleans, choice..................................48@50
New Orleans,  fancy..................................52@5o

Challenge..............  80
Frazer’s...............   90
Diamond  X ...........  60
Modoc, 4 doz......... 2 50
Arctic, *  tt) cans, 6 doz. case...........
...........
...........
..........
..........
Silver Spoon, 50 cans.......................
Victorian. 1 tt) cans, (tall,) 2 doz......
Diamond,  “bulk,” ...........................
Dry, No. 2........................................ doz. 
Dry, No. 3.-.................................  
Liquid, 4 ........................................ ^oz*
Liquid, 8 ........................................ doz. 
Arctic 4 o z . f...................................^  gross 3 oO
Arctic 8  ..................................................... .  00
Arctic 16 oz...........
2  00 
Arctic No. 1 pepper box......
3 00 
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.  4 00
Arctic No. 3 
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No. 2 Hurl............. 2  OOlParlor Gem........... 3 00
No. 1 Hurl............. 2 25 Common Whisk —   90
No!2Carpet..........2  50 Fancy  Whisk........ I 00
No.ICarpet..........2 751 Mill.............................. 3 75

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75 
.  1 40 
.  2 40 
•12  00 
.10 00 
.  2  00 15
25
doz.  45
65

CANNED FISH .

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SNUFF.

VINEGAR.

Japan ordinary*........................................18@20
Japan fair to good.....................................25@30
Japan fine.............................................
Japan dust.................................................Uj@20
Young Hyson................... 
60@oO
Gun Powder..........................................••--35@5©
Oolong.................................................33@oa@6G
Congo........................................................25@30
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen......  @  72
Maccoboy..........................  @  55
Gail & Ax’ 
........................   @  44
Rappee..............................   @  35
Railroad  Mills Scotch........................   @  45
Lotzbeck  ............................................  @1 30
50 gr.
White Wine................................  08 
10  J
C ider........................................  08 
10
Bath Brick imported.......................... 
95
do 
American.......................... 
75
100
Burners, No. 1 ....................................  
do  No. 2....................................  
1 50
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand............  
7 75
Cream Tartar 5 and 101b cans............   15@25
Candles, Star.......................................   @J2*
Candles,  Hotel....................................   @14
Extract Coffee, V.  C...........................   @80
Felix......................... 
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.....................   @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.....................
Gum, Spruce.......................................   30@35
Hominy, 
bbl....................................   @3®
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails..............................   @ 4*
Pearl Barley........................................  **@ »
Peas, Green  Bush..............................  
®
Peas, Split  Prepared..........................  @ 3
Powder, Keg.......................................   @3 00
Powder, *   Keg...................................  @1 «0
Sage  ....................................................  @  16

MISCELLANEOUS.

1 25

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Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck..................................1 <*>
Clams, 2 tt). Little Neck..................................- w
Clam Chowder,  3tt>............................. 
- ip
Cove Oysters, 1 fi> standards.........................1 00
Cove Oysters, 2 tt) standards...................   1 m
Lobsters,ltt)picnic................................... J
Lobsters, 2 tt>, picnic..................................*
Lobsters, 1 tt) star...................................... %
Lobsters, 2 tt) star............................ 
 
Mackerel, ltt)  fresh standards................. j
Mackerel, 5 tt) fresh standards......................4 »5
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 tt)................300
Mackerel,3 tt) in Mustard...............................3 oo
Mackerel, 3 tt)  soused.....................................“ uu
Salmon, 1 tt) Columbia river...........................i 50
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river..................... ~ 3o
Sardines, domestic * s ..............................  
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Sardines,  domestic  * s ...........................  
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Sardines,  Mustard  * s ................... •.........
Sardines,  imported  * s .............................  J*
Trout. 3 ft  brook.............................  .....  4 uu
Apples, 3 ft standards..............................   75
Apples, gallons,  standards...................... - ¿0
Blackberries, standards...........................   J™
Cherries,  red standard.............................  «5
Damsons....................................................  ™
Egg Plums, standards 
........................... J
Green Gages, standards 2 ft.....................J
Peaches. Extra Yellow............................ ] ™
Peaches, standards.................................. *
Peaches,  seconds..................................... J
Pineapples, standards.............................. * •*{
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced...................*  w
Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated................~
Quinces....................................................A
Raspberries,  extra.................
Strawberries  ..........................

CANNED FRUITS.

.1 35 
.1 35

CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.

A pricot..................................|  

Lusk’s.  Mariposa. 
3 00

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Green Gages...........................“  J® 
Pears.......................................*50 
Quinces.....*........................... *50
Peaches..................................**»
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay............................ 3 00
Beans, Lima,  standard.............................  go
Beans, Stringless, E r i e . ........................  95
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked....................1 6o
Com, Archer’s Trophy...................................l go
“  Morning  Glory....................................» go
“  Acme.....................................................1 gg
“  Maple Leaf......................................  go
“  Excelsior...............................................] go
Peas,French....................• • •;................... J gg
Peas, Marrofat, standard, Erie................l  »0
70
Peas  ...........................   .....................
Peas, Fink, Dwyer & Co............. ........
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Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden.......................... 
Succotash, standard.............................. ‘
Squash ,,»•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Tomatoes, standard brands............... 1  15©1  2
Tomatoe
Michigan  full  cream..........................
Half skim............................................§  @lg*
Skim , ..................................................  5  @-6
Baker’s .................37*!German Sweet..........23
Runkles’ .................. 351Vienna Sweet  ..........22

CHOCOLATE.

c h e e s e .

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COCOANUT.

Schepps, cake box..............................   @^J,^
V48.......................................  @*°
Maltby’s 1 ft round.............................  @26
assort  ...
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@28
Manhattan,  pails.
@20

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Roasted.

Rio.................... 9@12
Golden Rio.............12
Santos....................13
Maricabo................13
J a v a ................20@25
O. G. Java..............24
M ocha......... .........25
c o f f e e  s-

'EES.
Rio.................. 7@15
Golden Rio...... ....16
Santos.............. __17
Maricabo......... ....17
Java................ 14® 26
0 . G. Java........ ....2 8
Mocha.............. ....2 8
PACKAGE.
60 fts 100 fts 300 fts
Dihvorth’s .................................  
13?»  13*
Lion  ...............................................  
13)4
T Y n  
13* 13
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Arbuckle’s  ................................ 13*  13* 13*
German........................................... 
13*
13* 13
Magnolia....................................13)4 
Silver King................................ 
-1
Mexican....................................16
60 foot Jute......   1 00  150 foot Cotton.  . .1 60
72 foot J u te ......  1 25  60 foot Cotton... .1  75
40 Foot Cotton.... 1 50  ] 72 foot Cotton.... 2 00 
X  XXX  $ ft
6*

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

CORDAGE.

»
...  0
$
5

5
7

Kenosha Butter....................... 
Seymour Butter.....................  
Butter......................................... 
Fancy  Butter..........................  4*
S. Oyster.................................. 
Picnio...................................... 
Fancy Oyster..........................  4*
Fancy  Soda.............................  4*
City Soda........................................  
Soda  .......................................  
M ilk............ ........................... 
Boston....................................  
Graham...................................
Oat  Meal.................................  
Pretzels, hand-made...............  
Pretzels...................................
Cracknels........................................... 
Lemon Cream............................  
Frosted Cream........................  
Ginger  Snaps............................   <*
No. 1 Ginger Snaps...................  
**
Lemon  Snaps.......................... 
Coffee Cakes...........................  
Lemon Wafers........................  
Jumbles................ 
Extra Honey Jumbles............  
Frosted Honey  Cakes............  
Cream Gems...........................  
Bagleys  Gems........................  
Seed Cakes..............................  
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Bloaters. Smoked Yarmouth.................••  ®75
Cod, whole..............................................3*@4*
Cod.Boneloss..............................................5@«*
H alibut.................. 
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Herring, round,  *   bbl...................... - 36@2*5
Herring .round,  *   bbl...........................-J 2o
Herring, Holland,  bbls...........................11 W
Herring. Holland,  kegs............................80@95
Herring, Seeded................ 
fO©?-
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, *  bbls.................5 60
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No. 3 ,*  bbls............................ 3 50
“  121b  kits..........................  62
“  10  “ 
...2 50 
50@3 7 
...  75 
...5 85 
...  80 
...  70 
...2 25

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Shad, *  b b l...................................
Trout, *   bbls.................................
.............................
White, No. 1, *  bbls.....................
White. No. 1,12 ft kits..................
White, No. 1,101b kits..................
White, Family, *  bbls..................
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

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4oz...................................... ¿50
6 oz......................................2 50
8oz......................................3 50
No. 2 Taper....................... 125
NO. 4 
........................1 75
*  pint  round....................4 50
....................9 00
3 
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' No. 10 ................................4 26

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1 40
2 50 
4 00 
500
1 50
2 76 
7 50
15 00 
1 65 
4 25 
600

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OATMEAL.

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PICKLES.

Steel  cut............... 5 26! KolledOats,Shields’3 25
Steel Cut, *  bbl__3 00 Rolled Oats, Acme.3 25
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Rolled  Oats..........5 75 Quaker, 48 fts.........2 25
Rolled Oats, *bbl..3 00 Quaker, 60 fts........2 85
Rolled  Oats, cases.3 251 Quaker bbls........... 6 2a
Medium..................................................  @5 00
*  barrels.................................   @3 00
Small.......................................................  @8 00
25@3 00 
Imported Clay 3 gross..............
@2 25 
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross.
@1 85 
Imported Clay, No. 
75®  90
American T. D.
Choice Carolina... 
Prime Carolina...
Good Carolina__
Good Louisiana...
DeLand’s pure__
Church’s  ............
Taylor’s G. M......
Me le

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RICE.
,6*]Java  .............
.5* P atn a............
.5  Rangoon........
.5  ¡Broken...........
iLERATUS.
.5* ¡Dwight’s ........
.5* Sea  Foam......
.5)4; Cap Sheaf......
is in 5 box lots.
BALT.

.5*@5* 
3)4 @3*

. gross..

FF

Dairy..........................

60 Pocket 
28 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.  hags....
American, dairy, *  bu. bags...........
Rock, bushels...................................
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags.................

SAUCES.

Parisian, *   pints...........................
@2  00 
@  70 
Pepper Sauce, red  small...............
@  80 
Pepper Sauce, green.......................
©1
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring........
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........  @1 50
Catsup, Tomato, pints........................   @  30
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ....................  @1 20
Halford Sauce, pints..........................  @3 ¡>0
Halford Sauce, *  pints....................... 
20
Acme,  bars................................3 751 Napkin.4
Acme,  blocks......  3 22 Towel.................... 4
Best  American....3 08 White  Marseilles..5 60
Circus  .................. 3 75|White Cotton  Oil..5 60
Big Five  Center.. .3 OOiShamrock...................3 30
Nickel.....................3 451 Blue Danube 
2 95
Gem........................3 35! London  Family— 2 60

SOAPS.

Ground. 

SPICES.

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SUGARS.

STARCH.

SMOKING

22@26
24@2
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22@26
24@28

Pepper...............16@25!Pepper................  @18
Allspice............. 12@15j Allspice..............   8@10
Cinnamon.......... 18@30!Cassia..................10@11
Cloves  ............... 15@25j Nutmegs,  No. 1..  @60
Ginger...............16@20!Nutmegs,  No. 2..  @50
Mustard............. 15@30; Cloves  .................16@18
Cayenne............25@35i
Electric  Lustre...................................  @3 20
Niagara,  Laundry................................ 3*@ 4
Niagara, gloss....................................   @5
Niagara, corn......................................  @ 6
Royal,  corn.........................................  @  5*
laundry...................................  4  @ 5
Quaker, laundry, 56ft..........................  @4 50
Cut  Loaf............................................  @
Powdered............................................  @
Granulated,  Standard........................   ©  9%
Confectionery A.................................   @ 6
Standard A..........................................   @6 44
No. 1, White Extra  C..........................  6  @6
No. 2, Extra C......................................  5£@ 5
No.SC...................... 
5*@ b%
No.4 C.................................................  5%@
No. 5 C..................................................5  @ 5*
born,  barrels  ............................  
 
Corn, *  bbls......................................... 
Corn, 10 gallon kegs............................. 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs..............................  
.Pure Sugar,bbl................................... 
1 Pure Sugar, *  bbl......................... 
 
Pure Sugar  5 gal kears........................  @1
TOBACCO—FIN® C U T -IN  PAILS.
Our  Leader.............33|01d  Time..................
Our Block............... 00 Underwood’s Capper 35
Yum  Yum...............25 Sweet  Rose...............45
Sweet. Rose............. 32 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
May  Queen............. 65IAtlas
Jolly Time...............401 Royal Game...............38
Dark AmericanEagle67l Mule Ear...................6s'
The Meigs................62 Fountain................... ’
Red Bird..................50 Old Congress............. I
State Seal................60| Good Luck................ I
Prairlb Flow er........65lBlaze Away.......  ... .1
Indian Queen..........60IHair Lifter................ i
Bull  Dog................*57 Jim Dandy................!
Crown  Leaf.............66 0ur  Bird....................!
Hiawatha................62;Brother  Jonathan...:
Globe......................65 Sweet  Pippin............
May Flower.............701
•Delivered.
Our  Leader.............15|Unit  ..........................
Old Vet....................30 Eight  Hours..............
Big Deal...................27 Lucky  .......................
Ruby, cut  plug...... 35 Boss  ......... ................
Navy Clippings.......26 Two  Nickel...............
Leader....................15 Duke’s  Durham........
Hard  Tack..............32 Green Corn Cob Pipe
Dixie.......................28 Owl.............................
Old Tar....................401 Rob Roy.....................
15*
Arthur’s  Choice...... 221Uncle  Sam................
Red Fox.................. 26 Lumberman..............
F lirt........................28 Railroad Boy..............
Gold Dust............... 26 Mountain Rose...........
Gold Block..............30IHome Comfort...........
Seal of Grand Rapids  I Old Rip.....................
(cloth)............... 25 Seal of North Caro-
Tramway,3oz........ 40 Lina, 2  oz....................
Miners and Puddlers.28 Seal of North Caro-
Peerless  .................. 24 
lina, 4oz.................48
Standard................ 20 Seal of North Caro-
Old Tom...................18 lina, 8 oz...................... 45
Tom & Jerry.......... 24 Seal of North Caro-
Joker...................... 25 
lina, 16 oz boxes— 42
Traveler................. 351  King Bee, longcut.. .22
Maiden.................... 25i  Sweet Lotus.............. 32
Pickwick Club........40 Grayling.................... 32
Nigger Head...........26 Seal Skin...:.............. 30
Holland...................22 Red Clover................. 32
German...................15  Good Luck................26
K. of  L...............42@46|Honey Dew..............2o
Quaker....................28iTrade  Union........... *36
Bull  Dog.................*36  Labor Union........... *30
Hiawatha............... 42  Splendid.................  Si
Jolly Tar.................32  Old Solder................. 40
Jolly Time..............32  Money......................44
Favorite .............4 2  Red Fox.................... 4*
Black Bird...............32|Big D rive............40
Live and Let  Live... 32: Seal of Grand Rapids 40
Punch.....................36j  Patrol....................... 40
Big  Nig..................37  Jack Rabbit.............. 38
Spear Head............39  Chocolate  Cream— 44
Old  Honesty.......... 40  Nimrod.................... 40
Whole Eartn........... 321E.C— •••••:..............¡J8
Crazy  Quilt.............32iSpread  Eagle............30
p  v  
.......................40'Big Five Center........33
Spring Chicken......38 P arro t........................ 42
Eclipse  ....................30 B uster......................®
Moxie.....................34  Black Prince.............35
Blackjack.............32  Black  Racer.............85
Hiawatha.............. 42  S tar.......................... 3®
Musselman’s Corker. 30 Climax  .................... 42
'Turkey...................39  Acorn  ......................40
Dainty....................44lHorse  Shoe..............86
•Delivered. 
2c. less in three butt lots.
SHORTS.
Our  Leader............. 16
Mayflower................23
Globe....................*.-22
Mule Ear..................23

Hiawatha................. 22
Old Congress.............23
May  Leaf................. 22
Dark ........................20

PLUG.

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

15
15

do 
do 

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes...........................   9  @ 9*
Twist, 
............................. 9*@10
 
Cut Loaf 
10*@11
MIXED
Royal, 25 ft pails................................. 9  @ 9*
Royal, 2001b bbls.................................   8*@ 9
Extra, 25 ft  pails..................................10*@)1
Extra, 200 ft bbls.................................   @10
French Cream, 25 ft pails.................... 12*®13
Cut loaf, 25 ft cases.............................  @12*
Broken, 25 ft pails............................. 10  @10*
Broken, 200 ft  bbls................................9*@10
Lemon  Drops............................ ............13@14
Sour Drops.............................................   @14
Peppermint  Drops...............................   @15
hocolate Drops....................................  
15
M Chocolate  Drops...........................  
18
um  D rops........................................... 
10
Licorice Drops.......................................  
22
B Licorice  Drops..............................  
12
Lozenges, plain...................................... 
15
Lozenges,  printed................... .............. 
16
Imperials..................................................  
MottoeB..................................................... 
_'earn  Bar............................................13@14
Molasses liar...........................................13@14
Caramels................................................  
18
Hand Made Creams................................ 18@19
17
Plain  Creams......................................... 
Decorated Creams.................................  
20
14
String Rock............................................ 
Burnt Almonds...................................  20@22
intergreen  Berries............................. 
15
Lozenges, plain in pails..................... 12  @12*
Lozenges, plain in bbls.......................11  @11*
Lozenges, printed in pails..................   @13
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..................   @12
Chocolate Drops, in pails.................... 12*@13
Gum  Drops  in palls...........................   6  @ 6*
Gum Drops, in bbls.............................  5  @ 5*
Moss Drops, in palls...........................   @10
Moss Drops, in bbls  ...............................  @ 9*
Sour Drops, in  pails...........................   @12
Imperials, in  pails..............................12*@13
Imperials  in bbls.............................. 11 *@12
FRUITS
Bananas  Aspinwall............
Oranges, California, fancy..
Oranges, California, choice.
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls........
Oranges, Florida..................
Oranges, Valencia, eases__
Oranges, Messina.................
Oranges,  Naples..................
___6 00®6 25
Lemons, choice....................
__6 25@6 50
Lemons, l’ancv.....................
....4 50©5 00 
emons, California..............
... .12*@16 
igs, layers, new, 
ft.........
....  7  @  7* 
Igs, Bags, 50 ft....................
• • •. 
t§) 4 *
Dates, frails do  ..................
Dates, *  do  do  .................................   @5
Dates, skin..........................................
Dates, *   skin......................................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ^   ft..................   @10
Dates, Fard 50 ft box ^  ft....................: 8*@ 1)
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $! ft..............  @8
Pine Apples, «P  doz..........................  2 25@2 50
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red, raw  ^   ft......... ...............   4  @ 4*
Choice 
d o ..........................  @5
fancy H.P. do 
do  ...........................  @ 5*
Choice White, V a.do..........................  5  @ 5*
i'ancy H P,. Va  d o ..........................6%@ 7
H. P.V a...............................................  © 6
Almonds,  Tarragona.........................15  @16
Ivaca...................................  @15
California.............................14 @15
Brazils................................................ 8  @9
Chestnuts, per bu................................
Filberts, Sicily....................................11*@12
Barcelona............................10  @11
Walnuts,  Grenoble............................14 *@15
French..................................   8  @11
California...........'................  @12
Pecans, Texas, H. P ........................... 9  @13
Missouri............................. 8*@  9
Cocoanuts, ^  100.................................   @4 50

“ 
“  Mar bo...................................
“ 
“ 
“ 

......2 50@4 00
......  @4 75
......4 25® 4 50

NUTS.

do 

“ 
“ 

PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing & Provision  Co. 

PORK  IN  BARBELS.

quote  as follows:
Mess, Chicago packing, new.......................10 25
Clear,  S. P. Booth.......... ..........................11 00
Short Cut, new..........................?............... 11 00
Back, clear, short cut................................12 50
Extra family clear, short cut....................J2 00
Clear,  A. Webster, new  ...........................12 50
Extra clear pig, short cut..........................12 75
Extra clear, heavy......................................12 75
Clear quill, short  cut................................. 13 00
Boston clear, short cut.............................. 13 00
Clear back, short cut................................. 13 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best.................13 25

0*

Short Clears, heavy................................... 

DRY  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy..............................  
6
6
medium............................. 
“ 
“ 
lig h t.................................  
6
6*
do.  medium............................. 
do. 
light................................... 
6*
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PLAIN.
Hams, heavy........................................  
  93£
“  medium..............................................10
light.................................................. 10*
“ 
Boneless  Hams, best....................................10
Boneless  Hams...........................  
9
Boneless Shoulders.......................................  6*
Breakfast  Bacon..........................................  7*
Dried Beef, extra quality............................10*
Dried Beef, Ham pieces............................... 12*
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle...................6*
 
Tierces  ..............................................  
 
30 and 50 ft Tubs..................... 
6*
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases........................  
0*

LARD.

 

 

 

 

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

20 ft Pails, 4 pails in case.....................  
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case...........................  
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case............................ 
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case................................ 

6*
7
6%

0*

BEEF IN  BARRELS.

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts...........  8 60
Boneless,  extra............................................... 13 00
Pork Sausage..............................   ..............
Ham  Sausage:.............................................
Tongue  Sausage........................................
Frankfort  Sausage......................................
Blood  Sausage.........................................
Bologna, straight.....................................
Bologna, thick.........................................
Head Cheese............................................
In half barrels............................................  3 50
In quarter barrels......................................

PIGS'  FEET.

1

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, Bides................................  5*@ 7*
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters.................8  @ 9
Dressed  Hogs...................................... 5*© 5%
Mutton,  oarcasses...............................  7*@ 8*
Veal..................................................... 6*@ 7*
Pork Sausage...................................... 7  @ 7*
Bologna....................................... 
6*@ 7
Fowls....................................................13  @14
TfcVtAlcft
Turkeys   
...........................,....12  @14

■ W E > £ L

6*

NEW   ADVERTISEMENTS.

OUT  AROUND.

_____  

suburban  grocer. 

ttvOR  RENT—A  seat  on  the  cracker  barrel 
r   barrel next to the stove in a country store. 
Last  tenant  occupied it  fourteen  years and 
often spoke of its easy spitting' distance  from 
the Are.  Address, B. Muslin, Lemont.
U'OR SALE—Two tons of scheme prizes by a 
If  not  sold  within a 
week, I will receive bids for their  removal  to 
the river.
»SITUATION  WANTED—At anything that re- 
*3  quires little labor and pays  big  salary, or 
will work less and take still more  pay,  as  em­
ployer prefers.  Address  Eight  Hours,  Grand 
'
Rapids. 
\\T ANTED—Billing clerk at a grocery jobbing 
>V  house.  Must be a boy of good habits, and 
without a bicycle or  girl.  One  content to  let 
the proprietor manage his  own  business pre­
ferred.
HR. O. B. CAREFUL has established an office 
at 7232 South Division st.;  a cure  guaran­
teed.  1 will pay half of the funeral  expenses 
where 1 am not successful.
W ANTED—A patent spanking machine.  Ad- 
”   dress,  with  full  particulars,  Soliman 
Snooks, Cant Hook Corners. 
__
"WANTED—A man who can lie faster than I 
can,  either  by  telephone  or otherwise. 
Apply to W. T. Lainoreaux. 71 Canal street.
TJ'OR  SALE—My  entire  wholesale  grocery 
a  
stock at only 500 per cent, above cost.  John
Caulfield.
tt»OR  SALE—The 
■E  Henry’s Corn Cure.  H. B. Fairchild.
T7»OR SALE—All  right  and  title to our enor- 
-U  mous  fertilizer  business.  Robinson  &
mous 
Hawkins.
"WANTED—A boycott.  Anyone  who will in- 
w  
terest  himself  in  our  behalf  and  get 
us  boycotted  will  be  liberally  compensated. 
Many Merchants.
X\TANTED—Another church to build.  Amos 
’ ’  Musselman.
WANTED—Small girls to teach parents how 
* ’ 
to briilg up daughters.  Apply at Female 
Seminary. 
____
SITUATION  WANTED—In  a  circus,  by  a 
^   young man who can  swallow  himself and 
leave  nothing  but  a pants  button  to  show 
where he stood.  Address U. BET.
QITUa TION  WANTED—By  an  experienced 

to  manufacture 

right 

boy.  Address Johnnie Fresh.

^

Apply at the milk depot.

sixteen
_____ssist in 1
Apply to Prest. G. R. & I.

QITUATION WANTED—By a  young lady  as 
O  stepmother.  Address Julia Thrasher.
WANTED—A young lady of refinement, with 
W  delicate nerves, to act  as  a  cashier in a 
saw-filing establishment.
WANTED—An  experienced  chalk-grinder. 
T  OST—A  light-brown  hair  out  of the mous- 
taehe of a young man  who cannot appear 
in society until it is found.  Leave in envelope 
addressed  “Dudelet,”  at  this  office,  where a 
suitable reward will be paid.
QITUATION  WANTED—In a church choir by 
a  young  lady  alto  singer, who will agree 
not to flirt with the basso  during  the  sermon 
or  wiuk  at  any  member of the congregation 
during prayers.
WANTED—A  young man to  travel with  an 
'*■  “Uncle  Tom’s  Cabin”  troupe;  must be 
able and willing to double, playing Uncle Tom 
and the Donkey.
WANTED—A  good,  honest  boy,  Sunday- 
"  
school  scholar  preferred,  apprentice  to 
an expert burglar.  Address T. Hief.
old  who
"WANTED—A  boy  sixteen  years 
’ ’  knows it all to assist in the  management 
of a railroad.
WANTED—A  man  of  fine  literary  attain­
ments to  clean  catch  basins.  Apply to 
Sewer Department.
WANTED—An  Irish  girl  to  take care of  a 
Chinese  baby;  musf  be  able  to  speak 
French and run a clothes wringer in  the laun­
dry.  Apply to OH KAY.
WANTED—Rig wages will be paid to a dumb 
' ’  barber.  Apply at once.
W"ANTED—A young lady to do the prelimin 
’ ’ 
ary chewing on spruce gum  for a  large 
family of female children;  must have a grace­
ful jaw movement.  Apply to A. H. Fateh, Bay 
View.
Xi'OR  SALE—Horse hair for birds’ nests.  Ap- 
-C  ply to W. G.  Hawkins.
tt»o r SALE—Right to  manufacture  and sell 
F  my improved car spring.  L. E. Hawkins.
W  ANTED—To know the whereabouts of my 
"  
■ ANTED—Place  to  give  a
minstrel  shov 
ce  rails  art
where bad eggs  and  fence  rails  are  un
known.  Address Albert Retan, Pewamo.
"WANTED—By a widower who was  talked  to 
W  death by his first wife, acquaintance with 
a  lady,  with  matrimonial  iutentions,  who  is 
dumb.

“troupe.”  Address James Fox.

The Lobban  Failure at  Davison.

H.C. Spencer,assignee for Alexander Lob­
ban,  the Davison cheese maker and farmer, 
furnishes T he  T radesman  with a sched­
ule of the liabilities and assets of the estate, 
from  which  it appears  that  the assets are 
sufficient to pay all debts in full.  The liabil­
ities are $10,400, of which $6,300 is secured 
by  mortgage on  real  estate,  and  $4,100 is 
unsecured, distributed among  the following 
creditors in the amounts stated:
.1161 
Mrs.  A. Eastman..
.  41 
G.  O. Torrey........
.  341 
I.  Torrey  ..............
.  565
Wm. H. Howe........
..................251
W. W.  Torrey.......
..................600
S.  Lobban
John Lobban................................................   W0
John Campbell.............................................   g’JO
O. C. Brassington.........................................
Hubbard & Wagar.......................................
Smith & Bridgman.......................................   <«0
R. E.  Farnam................................................   ?”
Begole. Fox  & Co..........................................   43
Mrs. E.  Annable..........................................
Mrs. E.  Lobban..............................................  «0
Geo.  E. Taylor.........................................• ••  1*»
The assets are $13,900,  of which  $11,600 
is in real estate and $2,300 in personal prop­
erty.

Miscellaneous  Dairy Notes.

A Shelbyville  correspondent  writes  that 
the prospects are excellent for the establish 
ment of a cheese factory at that place.

Walter  Bordwell  writes  T he  Trades­
man that  the  report  that  ho  has  changed 
his cheese factory at Olivet into a  creamery 
is untrue.  He is  operating  a  creamery  on 
the cream gathering plan  at  Olivet, but  he 
still continues to operate his  cheese  factor­
ies at Olivet and Eaton Rapids.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

O tte r   L a k e .

A heading  saw  in H.  C.  Hascall’s  head­
ing  factory,  operated  by George  Burt,  of 
this  place,  bursted  on  the  12th,  causing 
about $400 damage to the mill and  machin­
ery.  Fortunately, no one was  seriously in­
jured.
The new Garland House, owned and  run 
by W.  C. Cummingses landlord,  is helping 
our  town  considerably,  as it  is  newly fin­
ished  and  furnishes  accommodations  sec­
ond to none.

O tlsv ille .

M.  F.  Branch, proprietor  of  the  Branch 
Hotel,  recently burned,  will  soon  begin  to 
rebuild.
E.  S.  Suazy, the druggist, has commenced 
laying the foundation for  a  new  residence.

K a la m a zo o .

Geo. Hanselman,  jobber  of  fruits,  nuts 
and confectionery,  has begun the  manufac­
ture  of  candy  on  a  somewhat  extensive
Dwight Stone, of the Michigan Dairy Sup­
ply Co., has gone on  the  road  selling fruit 
evaporators for the Charlotte manufacturers. 
He is at present  in Illinois.
Rhodes  &  Dean  are  completing  a  six 
horse-power engine to be  placed  in  a  boat 
on West Lake and have just begun work on 
an  order  for  four  engines  for  New York 
farmers.
J. T.  Greenwood  has  invented  and  pat­
ented a novel one-horse cultivator which can 
be adapted to eight other uses  by means  of 
ingenious attachments.
Wm.  M. Woodard has sold  his  west  end 
grocery to Friend & Stimson, who  will con­
tinue the  business.
The Michigan Buggy  Co.  has  purchased 
a number of lots at  the  intersection  of  the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and Mich­
igan Central Railways  and  is  getting  ma­
terial on the ground for  the  construction of 
a four-story brick building,  60x100  feet  in 
dimensions.  The  structure  will  probably 
not be erected before  another season.
The Retail Grocers’ Association  is  doing 
very effective work in the  way of curtailing 
the dead-beat nuisance.  Several grocers re­
port  the  collection  of  claims  which  have 
long stood on  the  debit  side  of  the  profit 
and loss account and every member is warm 
in praise  of  the  advantages  derived  from 
concerted  effort 
the  reformation  of 
trade abuses and  the  creation  of  a  better 
feeling between dealers and between dealers 
and consumers.
Julius Bader & Co.  have  been  appointed 
Western  Michigan  agents  for  the  Foss- 
Sclmeider Brewing Co. and have put in  the 
necessary conveniences to handle the amber 
foaming liquid in a  jobbing way.

in 

VISITING  BI

.

,

The following retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
C. S. Brett, Brett Bros., Ashton.
G. A. Bottje, Grand Haven.
U. S. Monroe, Berlin.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
Chas. MoCarty, Lowell.
W. F. Rice,  Alpine.
J. Grutter,  Grandville.
Thos. Cooley, Libson.
Jacob Arnold, Fruitport.
Mr. Smith, Smith & Bristol, Ada.
M. J. Howard,  Englishville.
Stanley Monroe, Berlin.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
L. T. Kinney, Wood ville.
G. TenHoor, Forest Grove.
A. J. White, Bass River. 
C. O. Bostwick & Son,  Cannfmsburg.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
J. M. Wagcnaar, Zeeland.
A, Patterson, Dorr.
Wm. Taylor,  Fremont.
D. B. Galentine, Bailey.
A. E. Wilkinson, Saranac.
B. Kamps, Zeeland.
A. J. Elshof,  Grandville,
M. Hondorf, Holland.
J. Countryman, Sand Lake.
B. M. Noble, Shelbyville.
Geo. McMurray. Ada.
E. H. Stafford, Muskegon.
J. Grodema, Grafschaap.
C. H. Sweet, Ludington.
T. J. Smedley, Lamont. 
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
C. 8. Keifer, Dutton.
J. H. Loucks, Sylvester.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Mrs. E. Hoyle, Grove.
M. A. Potter, Jennisonville.
L. F. Davol, Boyne Falls.
C. Slaght, Mears.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville. 
Mr. DeKruif, Moerdyk, DeKruif  &  Co., Zee- 
E. C. Foote, West Carlyle.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
S. S. Dryden, S. S. Dryden & Sons, Allegan. 
John Cole, Fremont. 
_
Mr.  Teachout,  Teaehout  &  Roedel,  White- 
Mr. Hesseltine, Hesseltine  &  Son. Casnovia.
A. Purchase, South Blendon.
Wm. VerMeulen, Beaver Dam.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
Mr. Tanis, Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.
B. Gilbert & Co.,  Moline.
D. B. Galentine, Bailey.
A. W. Lindstrom, Hobart. •
D. Wellbrook,  Rockford.
John Smith, Ada.
W. P. Andrus, Cedar Springs.
H. Collner, Muskegon.
Wm. Black, Cedar Springs.
John Scholton, Overisel.
R. G. McKinnon, Hopkins.
Wm. Hudson, Vriesland.
Mrs. G. Miller, Muskegon.
J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake.
Michael Lutz, Caledonia.
A. C. Barkley, Crosby.
Miss C. F..Dewey,  Newaygo.
J. A. Shattuck, Sand Lake.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
E. B. Wright, manager West Michigan  Lum­
C. Stocking, Grattan.
B. E. West & Co., Lowell.
J. Q. Look, Lowell.
Sisson,& Lilley Lumber Co., Sisson’s Mills. 
Childs & Carper, Childs’ Mills.
Walling Bros., Lamont.

ber Co., Woodville.

cloud. 

land.

„  „ 

, 
„

„

Traverse  City.

A steam barge  and  three  vessels  are  at 
the mouth  of  the  Boardman,  and  a  barge 
and two vessels are  at  Greilick’s  dock,  all 
loading with square timber.
The  freight  depot  is  undergoing  some 
much-needed repairs.
Five hundred tons of coal for the Asylum 
are being unloaded at the docks.
Parker & Simmons have secured the  con 
tract of furnishing meat  for the Asylum for 
the next three months.

N ew aygo.

The  logging  train  of  Ryerson,  Hills 

Preparations  for  starting  up  the  brick 
yahl have commenced and  in  a  short time 
the busy hum of machinery will be heard in 
that part of town.
Co.  is making regular trips  to  their  camps 
at Pickerel Lake and logs are going into the 
river at a  lively rate.
The  Newaygo  Manufacturing  Co.  has 
shut down its pail and  tub  factory, thereby 
throwing quite a number  of men out of era 
ployment.
S.  D.  Thompson  is  out  with  a  new  de 
livery wagon.
Mrs. M.  E.  Dewey,  who  recently started 
in  the  millinery business  here,  has  aban­
doned the business and is selling out at cost.
It is a pretty good evidence of  prosperity 
when every mechanic in  town  is  busy  and 
there is room for more.
The building boom  exceeds  expectations 
and should it continue for  a  few  years  we 
shall apply for a city charter.
YVho is the enterprising  man  who  is  go­
ing to build a hotel at Hess Lake,  fix  up  a 
summer resort,  and retire in  a  few  years  a 
millionaire?

l i i g   R a p id s.

Col.  C. G.  Hudnutt has  contracted to fur­
nish twenty-eight  electric lights,  out of the 
thirty he is prepared  to  furnish at  present.
R.  A. Moon, the retired  lumberman,  is in 
Washington  on  his  wedding  tour,  having 
married Mrs. Josie Braman nee Gore.
H.  F. Btfrch is fitting  up  the old Magnet 
ofltiee building for his insurance office.
James  Donavan,  of  Quincy,  informs  me 
tha Lafora Baker has  sold  the most of  his 
lumbering business and is retiring  from the 
business.  He says  Baker  is  worth  half a 
million dollars.  Donavan  informs me  that 
he purchased the Ives’ block in  Chicago for 
$100,000. 
Ives was  to  pay  $150,000.  He 
says it is a line  investment, his  rents alone 
amounting to over $30,000 a  year.  He has 
been  living  in  Chicago  for  the  last  year, 
doing a real estate  business, and  claims he 
has  made  $15,000.  He  has  been  one  of 
Baker’s partners for a good many years.
Mr.  Marsh,  of  the  firm  of  Glidden  & 
Marsh,  who  is  in  company with  E.  Fran­
cisco in the manufacture  of patent hoops at 
Paris,  shipped  a  car  load  this  week  and 
have nearly another  carload  ready to  ship. 
Mr.  Marsh looks  after the  selling  and col­
lecting and Mr. Francisco,  an  old mill man, 
looks after the manufacture of the same.

G rand  H aven .

F.  F.  Sommers is  putting  up  four  addi­
tional buildings to his match factory, which 
will be used for  the  manufacture of  parlor 
matches,  and is  putting  in  three  new ma­
chines for  that  purpose.  The  factory will 
then have  a daily capacity  of  350  gross of 
sulphur and 250 gross of parlor matches.
The Stamped Envelope Demand.

C OUNTRY  PR O D U C E .

Apbles—Choice fruit  is  scarce, readily com­

manding $3 per bbl.

Asparagus—40c per doz. bunches.
Beans—Local buyers pay 50c@75c  $   bu.  for 
unpicked and  hold  ordinary hand-picked for 
$1.10@$1.15.

Beans—String, $2 per bu.
Beets—New, 70c $  doz. bunches.
Butter—Michigan creamery has put in an ap­
lb.  Dairy  is  in 

pearance, being held at 20c 
fair demand at 14@15c.

Butterine—Solid packed is held at 13@15c.
Cabbage Plants-40c $ 100.
Carrots—30c f!  doz.
Cucumbers—80c  doz.
Cranberries—Dull  and  featureless.  Those 
having any on hand  are  trying  to  unload at 
any price offered.

Cheese—April full cream commands 12c.
Dried Apples—Quartered and sliced,  3@34c 
Evaporated, 64©7c, according to quality.

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

bers pay e@10c and sell for 10@10J.ic.

lb.

Honey—Easy at 13@14c.
Hay—Bailed is active and firm at $15 per ton 

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

Lettuce—12c 
Maple Sugar—7@8c.
Mint—25c $ doz.
Onions—Green,  10c  $   doz.  bunches.  Ber­
mudas,  $2.75  $   bu.  orate.  Yellow Danvers, 
$2.50 $  bbl.

Pop Corn—Choice new commands  24c  $   ft 

and old 3c $  lb.
Potatoes—Practically  no  market,  buyers 
generally  refusing  to  pay  more than 25c  for 
either Rose or Burbanks.  New  potatoes com­
mand $1.75 $  \  bu. crate.

Pieplant—2c $ ft.
Poultry—Scarce  and  high.  Fowls  sell for 
10@l04c; turkeys, 12c.  Ducks are out of mar­
ket.

Radishes—2oe $  doz.
Spinach—80c $ bu.
Strawberries—$2©2.50 fi 24 qt, crate.
Tomatoes—Florida, $2.25 $  14 bu. box.
Tomato Plants—40c $  100.
Turnips—Out of market.

g r a i n s  a n d  m il l in g  p r o d u c t s .

Wheat—4c  lower.  The  city millers  pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  81;  Fulse,  78c;  Clawson, 
78c.
Com—Jobbing generally at 44®45c  in 100bu. 
lots and 38@40c in carlots.
Oats—White, 40c insmall lots  and a5@36c  In 

car lots.

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

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $ ton.  Bran, $15 
$ ton.  Ships, $15 $ ton.  Middlings, $16 $ ton. 
Corn and Oats, $17  ¥  ton.

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

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  $   lb  for 
clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Local jobbers  are 
authorized to offer standard goods at 35  and 5 
per cent, off, and secqnd quality at 35, 5 and 10 
per cent off.

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It appears  that  since  the government in 
1851,  began to sell  stamped envelopes there 
has been  a steady  increase  in  the  amount 
required each  year,  until  now  the Govern­
ment has for several years been selling more 
The  manufacture  of  alcohol  from wood 
envelopes  than  all  other  producers  com­
has  increased  rapidly  within a few  years, 
bined.  Last  year 279,000,000  stamped  en­
and it is said to  be used  largely  for patent 
velopes, worth $5,723,000,  were  sold.  With
bitters, ginger extracts  and other  alcoholic | every letting of  the contract  for fumishin 
compounds  whose  strong  flavor  makes  it  these envelopes  its &jze  increases  and  the 
unnecessary to use a better quality of spirits.  P^ce  of the  envelopes is  reduced.  Envel-
opes which In 1869 cost  $4.80 per 1,000 can
Wood  alcohol is  a daugerous  product,  and I now ^  jia(j for $U80 per  1,000, and the ex-
sometimes gives rise to serious disturbances j tra letter size that then cost $6 are now sold 
of the brain and nervous  system. 

for $2.40.

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

The furniture factories  here  pay as follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run...........................   @13 00
Birch, log-run........................................16 00@20 00
Ohio White Lime, p«r bbl......
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2...........................   @25 00
Black Ash, log-run...........................   @13 00
Ohio White Lime, car lots......
Louisville Cement, per bbl—
Cherry,  log-run.....................................25 00@30 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2.............................45 00@50 00
Akron Cement per  bbl..........
Cherry,  cull......................................  @10 00
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl.........
Maple,  log-run...................................... 15 00@17 00
Car lots 
........
.12 00© 14 00 
Maple, soft,  log-run.
Plastering hair, per bu...........
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2........................
Stucco, per bbl........................
@20 00 
Maple, clear, flooring....................
@25 00 
Land plaster, per ton..............
@25 0q 
Maple, white, selected..................
Land plaster, car lots..............
@18 00 
Red Oak, log-run...........................
Fire brick, per  M....................
Red Oak, Nos, 1 and 2....................
©22 00 
Fire clay, per  bbl....................
©25 00 
Red Oak, No.  1, step plank...........
©55 00 
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots.. $5 75®6 00 i Walnut, log-run 
......
@75 00 
Anthracite, stove ana nut, car lots..  6 00@6 «5 j Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2......
©25 00 
Cannell  car lots 
@13 00
OMo Lump. car iots........, .......3 10@3 25 j Gre^ Elm, log-run
B io88buS or Cum ber land, car iots'. '.  4 50@5 00  White Ash,  log-run..........................14 00fl6 00
Portland  Cement..............................   3 50@4 00 ¡ Whitewood,  log-run.........................  @23 00

1  00 
85 
1 30 
1 30 
1 30 
1 05®1  10 
25©  30
1 75 
3 50
2 50 
$25® $35
300

60 j  Walnuts,  culls....

...........-............... 

coal. 

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“JOLLY  TAR"  PLUG  TOBACCO.  B

LSY ,  LEMOXT  <&

GUNN  vs.

pany.

A  Card  Prom  the  &Aaan  Hardware  Com­

Grand Rapids,  May 17,1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman :

Dea r  Sir—In  your  last  issue  there  is 
reference  to  a  disagreement  between  this 
company and «Mr.  R.  B.  Sheeran.  Know­
ing that your  paper  is  read  by  many  who 
are  acquainted with him,  and  to whom  we 
are selling goods,  and hope to sell more, we 
will ask you to say, that while Mr.  Sheeran 
had a small working  interest  in  this  com­
pany,  and came with the  intention  of stay­
ing five years,  we felt  justified  in  forming 
a new company, with  him  out,  because  he 
was not competent to fill the position he oc­
cupied.  And this can be done legally.

Our  partnership  was  dissolved  by  the 
death  of  Charles W.  Gunn,  and  by reason 
of it we could have wound the  business  up 
entirely, had we seen fit.

Mr.  Sheeran has never  made  an  offer  to 
sell his contract for  five  thousand  dollars, 
and had he done  so  his  proposition  would 
not have been accepted.

Yours  respectfully.

T he  Gunn H ardware Co.

The Hardware Market.

Business and collections are fair.  Build­
ers’ hardware is in good demand.  Nails are 
without change.  Other articles in the hard­
ware line are about steady.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

E 3ST  G I N B S

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

i

-  n MA0*?

WM

W ,  C,  D on ison ,

88,90 and  92 South  Division Street. 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICHIGAN.
H E ST E R .  <Si  F O E ,
Saw and Grist Mill  Machinery,
Planers,  Matchers,  Moulders  and  all 

Manufacturers’  Agents for

kinds of Wood-Working Machin­

ery, Saws, Belting and Gils.

Depot for  Independence  Wood  Split  l ’ulley.  Large 
stock kept on hand.  Send  for  sample  pullev  and  be­
come convinced of their superiority.  Write for prices. 
130 Oakes St,, 
-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

OYSTERS  AM*  FISH.

F. J. Dettentbfiler quotes us follows:

O Y S T E R S .

FRESH  KISH.

New York  Counts.......... ............................... to
Selects............................................................35
Cod  .....................................................  @16
Haddock..............................................  © 7
Mackerel............................................. 12  ©12 4
Mackinaw Trout.................................   @7
Perch....................................................  @4
Smelts  ................................................ 10  @11
Whiteflsh............................................  ©  8

COOl RAGE.

Quay, Killen &  Co,  q u 

tt*  as follows, f. o.'b,

“ 

“ 

STAVES.
“ 
 

at  Grand  Rapids.
Red oak Hour bbl. staves............ M  6 50@ 7 00
M  6 50© 6 00
Elm 
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 on clod, set__ 
15©  16
” 
Pork, 
** 
.... 
12©  13
Tierce  heads,  square............. $  M  21 09@26 00
Pork bbl. “ 
............. V M  18 00®20 00
Basswood, kiln dried, set................  
4®  4H

heads.

*‘ 

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HOOPS.

White oak and hickory toe, 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, 6J4 f’t ................M  3 5»*@  4

BARRELS.

White oak pork barrels, h’d m’d.M  1 00© 1 10 
85©
White oak pork barrels, machine.. 
White oak lard  tierces..................   1  16© 1
Beef and lard half  barrel 
75©  90
......... 
Custom barrels, one  head..............  1 00© 1  10
Flour  barrels...................... — . 
30©  37
Produce  barrels............................. 
23®  25

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

Ijarbware.

BELLS.

AUGERS AND BITS.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

promptly and buy In full packages.
Ives’,  old style..................................... dis60&10
N.  H. C. Co........................................... dis60&10
Douglass’................ 
dis60&10
Pierces'................................................dis60&10
Snell’s ...................................................dis60&10
Cook’s  ...........................  
dis40&10
Jennings’, genuine..............................dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation............................dis50&10
Spring................................. .................dis 
40
Railroad................................................. $ 13 00
Garden.............................. :  ................net 33 00
H and.......................................... dis  $ 60&10&10
Cow................................................ dis 
60&10
3Ü&15
Call................................................ dis 
Gong............................................. dis 
25
Door, Sargent............................... dis 
60&10
Stove..................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage  new list............................. dis 
80
Plow  ..................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe........................................dis 
75
Wrought Barrel  Bolts......................dis  6Ü&10
Cast  Barrel Bolts............................. dis  603:10
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
Flush..............................................dis  603:10
Ives’ Door.........................................dis  60&10
40
Barber..............................................dis $ 
Backus.............................................. dis  50&10
Spofford............................................ dis 
50
Am. Ball............................................dis 
net
Well, plain..............................................$  3 50
Well, swivel.............................................  
4 00

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

BOLTS.

BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured....................dis  703:10
Cast Loose Pin, BerliD 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 
603c 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned.........dis 
60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped............................................. dis  60& 5
Wrought Table.................................dis 
10&60
103:60
Wrought  Inside  Blind.....................dis 
75
Wrought Brass.................................dis 
80&10
Blind, Clark’s....................................dis 
Blind, Parker’s.................................dis 
80&10
Blind,  Shepard’s.............................. dis 
70

CAPS.

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

 

 

CATRIDGES.

Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester  new  Iist50&l0
Rim  Fire, United  States....................... dis503:10
Central Fire...........................................dis30&10
Socket Firmer.................................... dis
53:10
Socket  Framing................................dis
"5&10
Socket Corner...................................dis
5&10
Socket Slicks.....................................dis
Butchers’Tanged Firmer................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers................. dis 
20
Cold................................................... net

CHISELS.

COMBS.

Curry, Lawrence’s...............  ...........dis  40&10
Hotchkiss  .........................................dis 
25
Brass, Racking’s................................. 
60
Bibb’s .................................................  
so
B eer....................................................   40&10
Fenns’.................................................  
60

COCKS.

COPPER.

, 

12 

DRILLS

HINGES.

ELBOWS.

HANGERS.

f il e s —New List.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

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

Planisbed, 14 oz cut to size....................381b  28
14x52,14x56,14 x60......................................  31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........................   21
Cold Rolled, 14x48.........................................  19
Morse’s Bit  Stock............................... dis 
40
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  >¿3:10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
dis 
20
Ives’, 1. $18 00; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00.  dis 
25
American File Association List....... dis  55&10
Disston’s ............................................. dis  55&10
New American.................................... dis  55&10
Nicholson’s..................................... ...dis  55&10
Heller’s .............................................dis  55&10
Heller’s Horse Rasps........................dis  553:10
Nos. 16 to 20, 
28
18
List 

22 and 24,  25 and 26,  27 
15 
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............dis 
50
25
Maydole & Co.’s.................................dis 
Kip’s ................................................. dis 
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s.............................. dis  40&1C
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel....................30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  50&10
Champion, anti-friction...................dis  60&10
Kidder, wood track.......................... dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3.......................... dis 
60
State.........................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4J4  14
and  longer..........................................  
3H
Screw Hook and Eye,  H  .................net 
10H
8^
Screw Hook and Eye %....................net 
Screw Hook and Eye  X..................... net 
7!4
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.«................ net 
74
Strap and  T ..................................... dis 
65
Stamped Tra Ware.................................  
30
Japanned Tin  Ware..............................  
25
Granite Iron  Ware................................ 
25
Grub  1........................................... $1100,  dis 60
Grub  2............................................  11 50, dis 60
Grub 3.............................................   12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........dis 
45
45
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings........... 
45
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings...... 
Door, porcelain, trimmings...........:___ 
45
Drawer and Shutter,  porcelain...... dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s....................  403:10
Humacite.................................. 
dis 45
LOCKS—DOOR.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. dis 
45
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s.................dis 
45
45
Branford’s ........................................dis 
Norwalk’s ..................................... 
  dis  45
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s....................dis  70
Adze  Eye..............................‘...$16 00 dis 
60
Hunt Eye...................................$15 00 dis 
60
Hunt’s............ ........................ $18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................. dis  50
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
Stebbin’s Pattern  ................................... dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine.................................... dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring..................... dis  25

LEVELS.
a TTfUllffl

MOLASSES GATES.

HOLLOW  WARE.

MAULS.
MILLS.

KNOBS.

HOES.

 

NAILS.

 

 

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

lOdto  60d.........................................$  keg $2 20
25
8d and 9 d adv............................................ 
6d and 7d  adv............................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv...................... 
75
3d advance................................................   1 50
3d fine advance........................................  3 00
Clinch nails, adv.......................................   1 75
Finishing 
Size—inches  j"  3 
Adv. f  keg 
Steel Nails—2 35.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.................... dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom........................... dis  50
Brass or  Copper.......................................dis  50
Reaper...................................per gross, $12 net
Olmaiead’s .......................................... 
  50&10

I  lOd  8d 
24 
$1 25  1 60  1 75  2 00 

6d  4d
14
2 

OILERS.

PLANES.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy..............................dis  15
Sciota Bench.............................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.....................dis  15
Bench, first quality.................................. dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__dis20&10
Fry, Acme............................................dis oO&lO
Common, polished.................................disOO&lO
Dripping............................................... ¥  2* 
6
40
Iron and Tinned..................................dis 
Copper Rivets and  Burs...................dis 
60

RIVETS.

PANS.

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

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

Broken packs 4c 9  3> extra.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

Sisal, 4  in. and  larger................................  84
Manilla........................................................   15
Steel and Iron......................................dis 
Try and Be vels.....................................dis 
Mitre  .......... 
dis 

70
60
20
SHEET IRON.Com. Smooth.  Com.

$2 80
2 90
3 00
3 10
8 20
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14................... 
$4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17 ................................  4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21................................  4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24................................  4 20 
Nos .25 to 26................................  4 to 
No. 27................................. .*.......  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, 
lb.........................  
In smaller quansities, $   1b.................... 
TACKS.
American, all  kinds...........................dis 
Steel, all kinds....................................dis 
Swedes, all  kinds  ............................. dis 
Gimp and  Lace.................................. dis 
Cigar Box  Nails............  
dis 
Finishing Nails...................................dis 
Common and Patent  Brads...............dis 
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks.dis 
Trunk and Clout Nails........................dis 
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails.......... dis 
Leathered Carpet  Tacks...................dis 
No. 1,  Refined.......................................  
Market  Half-and-half.......................... 
Strictly  Half-and-half.......................... 

54
6
60
60
60
60
50
50
50
50
50
45
35
12 50
15 00
16 50

TINNER’S SOLDER.

 

TIN  PLATES.

 

rates.

TIN—LEADED.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
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, 
7 25
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal..............................  8 75
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool.............................  10 77
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal..........................  12 56
20x28, Charcoal..............................   15 50
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal..........................  6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal..........................  8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal..........................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal......................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 6 75 
Roofing, 14x20, IC......................................  5 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
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...........  14 00
Steel, G ame.................................................603:10
OneidafCommuntity,  Newhouse’s..........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s..603:10
Hotchkiss’  .................................................603:10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s................................ 603:10
Mouse, choker.....................................18c  doz
Mouse,  delusion..............................$1 50 ft doz
Bright Market.....................................  dis  674
Annealed Market.......................................... dis 70
Coppered Market................................ dis  624
Extra Bailing............  
dis  55
Tinned  Market................................... dis  624
Tinned  Broom.......................................ftlb  09
Tinned Mattress....................................ft lb 84
Coppered  Spring  Steel................ dis 40@40&10
Tinned Spring Steel...........................  . .dis  50
Plain Fence........................................ 
34
Barbed Fence, galvanized................. 
. .44
painted................................. 3JS£
Copper............................................ new  list net
Brass............................................... new list net
Bright............................................dis  703:1Q&10
Screw Eyes.................................... dis  70&10&10
Hook’s .......................................... dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes..................dis  TOJGO&IO

WIRE GOODS.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

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WRENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled..............
Coe’s Genuine....................................dis 
60
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis  75&10
Coe’s Patent, malleable................. dis75&10&10

MISCELLANEOUS.

Birdcages............................................... 
50
Pumps,  Cistern.................................dis  70&10
Screws,  new  list....................................  
83%
Casters, Bed and  Plate...................disoO&lO&lu
Dampers, American..............................   4G&10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steei goods. .60&10&5 
Copper  Bottoms....................................  
19c

L U M B E R .  L A T H   A N D   SH IN G L E S , 

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co. quote f. o. 
b. cars as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch................................per M $44 00
Uppers, 14,14 and 2 inch..................... ".  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..........................................   35 00
38 00
Selects, 14» 14 and 2  inch........
Fine Common, 1 inch..............................   30 00
Shop, 1 inch.
20 00 
25 00 
Fine, Common, 14.14 and2inch.  ..
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 ant} 16 feet......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.......................  16 00
00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  I
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........
15 00
16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet........................
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet........................   17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet......   12 00
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.......................
14 00 
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.......................
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet......
12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.......................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 fe e t.....................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet........................   12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet.......................  13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all
widths and lengths........................8 00© 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ..........................  33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch.................................  27 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.......................  16 00
Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet..............  12 00
No.i
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet..............................   12 »
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch..............................   15 1
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch..............................   12 q0
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B.................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common....
900 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch,  Clear__
20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 ft...........  11 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed I'looring, 6 in., A.  B..................
36 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C........................
29 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..
17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 common__
14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal.
35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 1  oom’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  com’n  14 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional. 
I
l XXX 18 in. Standard Shingles............  3B0
XXX18 in.  Thin...................................  3«0
IX X X 16 in.............................................  2 75
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles............  
1 75
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in...........................   140
Lath  ................................................   1 75© 2 00

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H ID E S . P E L T S  A N D   F U R S.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green__filb
Part cured...
Full cured__
Dr}’ hides and 
kips...........

©  6  ICalf skins, green
7©  74  or cured__8  @10
©50

8  © 84 [Deacon skins,
6  ©   8 

$  piece......20

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SHEEP PELTS.
Old wool, estimated washed 
©22
Tallow..............  .................................  24© 3
Fine washed ^  lb 20@22 [ Unwashed..........   12-3
Coarse washed... 18®22[

lb....... 20

wool. 

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WOO DEN WARE.

Standard  Tubs, No. 1................................... 5 50
Standard  Tubs, No. 2................................... 4 50
Standard Tubs, No. 3................................... 3 50
Standard Pails, two hoop............................. 1 25
Standard Pails, three hoop.......................... 1 50 j
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes.........................2 001
Butter  Pails, ash......................................... 2 50
Butter Ladles............................................... 1 25
Rolling Pins...........................................................1 OOi]
Potato Mashers............................................  75j
Clothes Pounders.........................................2 26|
Clothespins..................................................  65
Mop Stocks....................................................1
Washboards, single...................................... 1
Washboards, double.....................................2 2]

BASKETS.

Diamond  Market.........................................  40]
Bushel, narrow  band....................................1 60'
Bushel, wide band........................................ 1 751
Clothes, splint,  No, 1................................... 3 50]
Clothes, splint,  No. 2....................................3 751
Clothos, splint,  No. 3................................... 4 001
Clothes, willow  No. 1................................... 6 00]
Clothes, willoi^  No. 2................................... 7 001
Clothes, willow  No. 3....................  
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PR iC E   LIST.  HOUSEHOLD  DEPARTME-ntt  ?  PART  5.

Terms Cash.  Thirty days allowed on approved credit.  One per cent, discount for Gash in Ten Dave  p - w  .  . 

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few more of the bargains which carefhl buyers are able to pick up in our stock.  We are p le L d  with th e’J T t  
lecting these goods in person many splendid articles will be discovered which cannot be suitably described^* a p p l^ te d tfL m  ir 
on application. 

continuation of our great  “Specialty  Department,”  showing a
se-
ppreciated if seen in type alone.  Duplicate Price-Lists of Nos. 1,2,3 and 4  sent

WOUld  r6mind  Oustomers  that 

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Perfumes, Hair Oils, Etc.

In  this  department,  we show only care- 
fuljy selected staple  goods,  large  bargains 
for the price,  and only those from  the most 
reliable manufacturers.

The  goods  are  put  up  in spaced boxes,
* containing one dozen bottles each, and break­
age among them is almost unknown.

26

Face Powder.

Gross.

3 60

$doz.

boxes..........................................   32

Cascarilla.  The large  size.  Round 
Rose  Bud  Combination.  Just  the 
thing for the complexion, spac­
ed box, three colors.................. l 00
Sperm Machine Oils.
Guaranteed  Best  Quality  and  not to
1 oz. size, 2 doz. in wood box...........  44
oz.  “  1  “ 
70

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Shoe  Blacking.

I doz.  Gross.

Shoe  Blacking,  “Bixby  No.  4.” 
Everybody knows this manufac­
turer.  Standard goods  and fin­
est quality.  Elagantly put up 3 
dozen  in  a  display  wood  box.
Sold only by the box..................
Ladies’ Shoe Polish, “Bixby’s Royal 
Polish.”  No shoddy or unknown 
goods here, 12 cartoon bottles in 
a wood box.  Sold everywhere at 
20 cents a bottle.  Sold  only by 
the box.  Our price 

.................  92

11  00

45 

5 40

$ doz.  Gross.

5 25
9 50

9 50

No. 2139.  The  Popular  “Shoe”  Co­

tos116...........................................  45 
  84 

No. 1801.  Same, only'largest size 
No. 791.  “Mirror”  Bottle  Cologne.
The  well-known,  largest  size,
nicely put  up.............................
“Fascination.”  A very large, fancy 
cologne.  Kid  covered  stopper.
A leader for a “quarter”........... 
“Sweet  Bye  and  Bye.  The old  re­
liable.  Patent  sprinkler  tops.
Put  up  in  attractive  boxes,  1
doz. each.................................... .. 2J

84 

l

“Forest  Flower.”  Standard  goods 
of the finest  grade.  This  is  no 
ordinary  “ten  cent”  line,  but 
purest and  best  cologne in the 
market.  Made by W. J. Austen 
& Co.  Is put up  in  three  sizes, 
one dozen  in box, and  price in­
cludes a cash rebate card in each 
box.

The regular 15 cent size we offer  at  92 
“  2 00
“  4 00
i 35

*  “ 
“ 
ium size................ 

German  Cologne, “Comings,” med­

25 
50 

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German Cologne, “Comings,”  large

size  .......................................... 3 00

Triple Handkerchief Extracts.  Six 
bottles  in  an  attractive spaced 
box,  assorted  6  finest  extracts 
as follows:  Wood Violet, Orange 
Flower, Jockey  Club, Rose Ger­
anium, Upper  Ten,  Lilac  Blos­
som.  This  incomparable  as­
sortment a t................................ 2 00

Hair Oils.

No. 2140.  “Boot” shape bottle.  Five

No. 1802.  “Boot” shape bottle.  Ten

cent Leader................................  45
cent Leader................................  84
No. 792.  “Mirror” Hair Oil............   84

The Drummer and the Fish.

Mucilage.

Mucilage, Wyatt’s, 2 oz. bottle, with 
brush,  nicely  packed, 3 doz.  in
wood box....................................   40

Mucilage, Bixby’s extra white, same 
size but the very finest  quality. 
Packed 3 doz. in wood  box........  46

4  75

5 40 

agniniiifii §i jiii

m m h J

Leonard’s “Silver Cream,” our own 
make, for cleaning Silver Ware. 
Put up in large 6 oz. bottles and 
has been sold by us for years.. .2 00

Toilet Soaps.

The best makes of soaps  are offered here 
at  our  usual  “way  down”  prices,  far 
below those of many other dealers,  and will 
repay a close examination.^

‘ Mikado.”

$ doz.  Gross.

This new and elegant line,  put up 1 
doz.  assorted  colors  in  fancy
box.  Kirk’s latest and  best__  39 

ROSEDALE. The lowest priced cake 
of  pure  milled  soap  known to 
the trade.  1  doz.  varieties  and
colors in a box...........................   35 

DAISY GLYCERINE.  A beautiful 
oblong cake of transparent gly­
cerine soap.  Pure and clear.  I
doz. in display box....................  39 

DELIGHTFUL.  A pure, milled, oval 
cake, packed six  in  spaced box 
and  each  cake  wrapped.  The 
only 5  cent  soap  put up in this
mann er......................*.............  39 

4 50

4 00

4 50

4 60

“Le Pages” Liquid Glue.  Genuine, 
Full  bottles,  with  brush.  Will 
cement  wood,  leather,  glass, 
marble,  crockery,  paper,  orna­
ments, etc., etc.  Always  ready 
for use.  Put up 1 doz. bottles in 
a beautif u 1 display box.............   85

9 50 
9 50

9 50

Toilet Soaps, Con.

Match Safes, or

Doz.  Gross.

BELMONT.  A perfumed oval cake 
in assorted  colors, and  consist­
ing of two each of the following 
Varieties in  each  box:  Honey,
Oat  Meal,  Windsor,  Palm  Oil,
Sulphur and Glycerine..............  40

WHITE CASTILE, packed 1  doz.  3 
in. square cakes in box.  This is 
one  of  the  best  lines  made,  a 
sure seller...................................
HUNKEY  DORY Shaving  Soap, 12 
cakes  wrapped  in tin foil,  in  a 
paper  box.  Extra  quality  and 
sure to please.............................  4

46

4  75

40

5 00

TURKISH  BATH,  OAKLEY’S,  a 
large oval cake, pure  and relia- 
ble...............................................  46 

0 50
Special “Ten Cent” Toilet Soaps

doz.  Gross.

IMPERIAL, a large square style put 
up  three  cakes  in  a box,each 
one  wrapped,  milled  and  per­
fumed.  This is undoubtedly the 
best  10  cent  cake  ever  put on 
the  market.  Comes  in  Honey,
Glycerine, Oat Meal, Elder Flow­
er and Bouquet..........................  75 

OAKLEY’S MAGNOLIA,  an  extra 
large, pure milled, oval soap, as­
sorted 12 cakes  of Rose, Honey,
Elder Flower, Magnolia, Glycer­
ine and Windsor in  display  box  70 

OAKLEY’S ELITE, one of  the fin­
est.  3  oval  cakes, wrapped,  in
display chromo  box..................   70 

SYLVAN  BOUQUET,  three  hand­
some oval cakes  in  box,the lot 
to be sold at ten cents complete.
Assorted  varieties  and  colors
per dozen  boxes........................   73 

KIRK’S  FLAKE  WHITE,  an  ele­
gant  cake  of  fine  toilet  soap.
Pure  white,  and  warranted to 
please, 3 wrapped cakes in box.  72 

VIOLET COLOGNE,  something  to 
sell  at  “Three  cakes  for  50 
cents.”  The most richly scented 
and  elegantly  put  up  soap on 
the  market.  Fine  enough  for 
Queen Victoria.  3 cakes in box. 1  75

g 50

8 00

8 00

8 75

8 00

30

GREAT  REDUCTIONS 

F R T T X T ' j A R S .

Gro-s. 

Mason’s  Porcelain  Lined

No Charge for Cartage.

Orders Solicited.

Write for Quotations.

Tooth Pick Holders.
I SARATOGA  HAT, a glass threaded 
hat as shown in cut.  Comes  as­
sorted in Crystal, Blue  and Am­
ber colors...................................  43 

HOBNAIL  HAT,  similar  shape  to 
above, but in imitation cut glass 
design.  Assorted in five  colors  75 
8 50
These are the leaders,  but  we  carry  half 
j a dozen or more other styles in stock, which 
should  be seen,  if possible.

Glass W ater Sets.

5 25

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A  staple  Summer  Line  of Presentation 
Per doz. 
6 50

Goods, useful and handsome.
No. 86 ROSE, as shown above, 4 pieces 
No.  110  RASKET,  Water  Sets,  5  pieces,
assorted colors, blue and  canary......
No.  86  SQUARE,  colored  Water  Sets, 5 
pieces, very heavy imitation cut glass,
blue canary and  amber.....................   12 00
flint glass, large crimped tray.
Engraved wreath, each.......................  1  50
water scene, each.............   2 50

DAKOTA  ENGRAVED, elegant  crystal 

POLKA  DOT,  light  blown  water  set, 5 
pieces, large amber  pitcher.  Assort­
ed color tumblers and bowl, 12 in.brass 
tray, each............................................  !  50

8 50

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Patented Jan. 6, ’76. 
P a t. A p ril 3 5 , ’S 3 .  4

The “Lightning”
Self-Sealing  Glass  Cover 
„  FROTT  JA R .
Uses  the  simple  principle  of the beer- 
bottle stopper.  Easy to seal, and the sim­
plest of all to open.  Only one  joint  to  be 
made  air-tight.  Every  jar  warranted. 
Write for quotations;  bottom  prices guar­
anteed.

“No,  I don't want any  fish” said a drum­
mer to the waiter,  “and  you’ll oblige me by 
keeping the fish as far away from  my plate 
as  you  possibly  can.  What  have  I  got 
against  fish?  Well,  I’ll  tell  you.  Last 
week I was up in  Northern  Michigan,  and 
one day was driving to a country town forty 
miles  from the  railroad to  collect  a bill of 
goods.  A  big  storm  came  up,  and  I got 
lost, and  drove  around  till  dark  before I 
found a place to stop.  Just at dark I halted 
before a  little  log  hut, the  first  house I’d 
seen since  before  noon, and  asked the wo­
man if I could get some supper  and stay all 
night.  She said  she reckoned I could,  and 
so I unhitched and prepared to stay.  Hadn’t 
had a bite to  eat since morning,  and was as 
hungry  as a  bear.  The  little  hut  wasn’t 
very inviting,  but  I saw a  big fish lying on 
a bench,  and  it looked  so toothsome  that I 
could hardly wait for supper to be got ready. 
The woman of  the house  scolded  her chil­
dren and about the weather and the logging 
snows, gave  me a  detailed  account of  her 
husband’s peculiarities and failings, and told 
me that  there was measles in  the family of 
her next-door  neighbor,  eight  miles  away, 
and she  was  sore  afraid  her  boys  would 
catch ’em.  She  didn’t  make  any move to­
ward the  fish though,  and it  seemed to me 
I’d starve if  I didn’t  get  something  to eat 
pretty  soon.  Finally,  however,  she  went 
i fish,  and I began to  feel better.  But 
lad the queerest method of cleaning the 
scales off a fish I ever saw.  She  took it by 
the tail and pounded it against the wall and 
the door-frame.  This  w’asn’t  very inviting 
to me,  inasmuch  as  the fish  had  evidently 
been  out  of  water  a  week  or  two,  long 
enough at  any  rate,  to  smell  rather  loud. 
But it wasn’t a  marker  to  what  followed. 
The  first thing I  knew she was  mad at one 
of the boys  for letting  the  dog  in,  and she 
grabbed  the  youngster  by the  nape of  the 
neck  and  drew  him  over  her  knee  and 
R anked him—with  the fish.  Nor was that 
all.f “The dog went  to smelilng  around  the 
pantry,  and  that  made her so  furious that 
she took after him  and raced him about the 
one  room  of  the  hut,  every  few  seconds 
giving him a slap with  the fish.  When she 
got through the scales were about all off the 
Ssh, and she lost no time in cleaning it, but 
rsome way or another my appetite seemed to 
Heave me. 
I  don’t  know  as  the  fish  was 
hurt  any,  but  I pretended  I was  sick and 
plunk off  to  bed.  1 don’t  believe  I’ll ever 
at fish again.”

III.  Never  trust  the  class  who live  by 
their  wits.  That  includes  the  curbstone 
brokers,  the  frequenters  of  bucket  shops, 
the men who have no office.

IV.  The  people  who  never  square  an 
account.  Those who habitually leave a bal­
ance  invariably  increase it and  finally for­
get to liquidate.

V.  The  sick,  infirm or  destitute  out  of 
sympathy.  The  store  is  not a hospital  or 
almshouse.  Give to the poor, but not credit.
VI.  The men who make their wives earn 

the most of the family support.

VII.  The lazy.  Men who lounge about 
town the whole or part of  the week are  not 
the sort that pay their store accounts.

VIII.  The reckless buyers.  Those who 
habitually  live  beyond  their  means.  The 
putters  on  of “style” regardless  of  conse­
quences.

IX.  Everybody  who  acts  on  the  idea 

that the world owes him a living.

X.  Anyone whose  habits wholly or par­
tially disqualify  him  for work.  The  men 
who  will  frequently  lose  a  day  to  play 
base ball,  go to horse  races,  on  picnics  and 
excursions,  are poor payers.

A  Light  Loss.

Gray—You  are  looking  very  sour  this 

morning,  Green.

Green—I’m  feeling  very  bad,  very  bad, 
indeed.  You see I forgot myself last night, 
was out with the boys  and  drank too much 
and lost—

Gray—Good  gracious!  You  didn’t  lose 

your wallet, did you?

Green—No, but I’m afraid I lost my char­

acter.

Gray—Pshaw!  Don’t  be downcast  about 
that.  It isn’t as bad as if you had lost some­
thing valuable.

W hat the Boycott Would  Lead To. 

From the Savannah News.

Indeed,  the boycott and strike are a worse 
form of tyranny than  are any of  the means 
employed by capital to  accomplish its ends, 
because capital does not attempt by violence 
and lawlessness to rob labor of its  freedom. 
When  labor  uses  the  boycott  and  strike, 
however,  it aims  not  only  to control itself, 
but to control  capital  by coercion,  if not by 
actual force.  If the boycott is carried out to 
its legitimate  conclusions,  It  will bring the 
business and  industries  of the country to a 
standstill.

Whom  Not  to  Credit.

I.  People dependant upon  the  profits  of 
keeping a boarding house.  If they own real 
or personal property to a fair  amount credit 
[judiciously.

IL  Avoid the new comer until his record 
tias been examined.  Ask  for  references  if 
> stranger.  Get his record.

Among the  New  York  millionaires con­
nected  with  the  grocery  trade  are  Pierre 
Lorillard  and  H.  O.  Havemeyer,  each  of 
whom are reputed  to  be  worth 86,000,000. 
John  and  Charles  Arbuckle  and  H.  K. 
Thurber  are  each  worth  about 82,000,000, 
and R.  M.  Colgate,  B. T. Babbitt  and |Geo. 
V.  Hecker  are  each  the  possessor  of  over 
81,000,000.

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POTATOES.  I  OLNEf, SHIELDS  &  CO.,

We make the handling of POTATOES,  APPLES and BEANS 
m 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 
irom you, and will keep you posted  on  market  price  and  pros­
pects.  Liberal cash advances made on car lots when desired.

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SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

Agents for Walker’s Patent Butter Worker.

And  IM PORTERS  OF  TEAS.

Reference:  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK. 

137 S. W a ter St., O liicago, n i ,

where in this issue and write for

j  Our Stock is complete in all branches.  New, fresh and bought 
j at latest declines and for cash.
We have  specialties  in  TOBACCOS  and  CIGARS possessed 
by no other jobbers in the city.
^ o -A J /p iz i’s   P e a v e y   FTm g.

EARL  BROS.,  Commission  Merchants. I
See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to male Bottom Prices on anything we handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON,
RIND6E, BERTSCH & CO.,  |f . J.  LAM B &   C O „
b o o t s  AND  s h o e s . Fruits,  Vegetables,

VISITING  BUYERS  ARE  CORDIALLY  INVITED  TO  CALL  AND  EXAM 
W1LL  KECEIVE PR<>MPT AND CARE-

MBXTDRX.  *  BROS.’  Celebrated  CIGARS,

3 Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Finer quality and lower prices than any handled 

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

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

Grand Rapids, Mich.

5 and 7 Ionia Street,

ALSO  SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

in the market.

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

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AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

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14 and 16 Pearl Street, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.
P E R K I N S   &
H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  1 8 2   a n d   1 8 4   LO U IS  ST R E E T .  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N . 

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE.

E .  IF"1 

T  i  T i 
Makes a Specialty of 

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Butter and Eggs, Lemons and Oranges,

Cold Storage in Connection.  All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention. 

No. I Egg Crates for Sale.  Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used.  80 cents each

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

07  and 99 Canal Street, 

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Grand Rapid«, Michigan

Butter, 

O lieese, Etc.

Wholesale Agents for the Lima Egg Crates and Fillers.

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

O R D ER

Our Leader Sxuohixig 

15c per pound.

Our Leader F in e Cut 

33c per pound.

Our Leader Shorts, 

Our Leader Cigars, 

10c per pound.

$30 per M.
TOx©  S ea t  in   tlx©  W o rld .

Clark, Jewell & Co.

SO L E   A G E N T S  F O R

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

